Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-08
MOnounauia.

In the annals of mental disease there is no form so curious. perplexing and often ludicrous as that known by the name of monomania.- The subject often converses rationally on all subjects save one or two, but on those he Is ir- rational and absurd. In some instances there is melancholy tendency to cherish gloomy forebodings and to imagine evils at hand that have not or cannot have existence.
 Amusing instances of the strange fancies of monomaniac may be found in the Gazette for the last two or three weeks. The afflicted editor is in great trouble as regards the nominee of the democratic convention to be held in Charleston.
 Our readers may remember the story of the girl who was found on the bank of the creek, crying as if her heart was broken. Upon be- ing repeatedly asked what was the matter, she sobbed out "I was thinking if Sam and were married, and if we had little baby and if the little baby lived to be able to walk, and if it should come to the creek, and if it should fall in and be drowned, what would do?"
 So the Gazette indulges its gloomy fancies in this strain.
 "lf the Charleston convention should not nominate member of its party, if it should go to the ranks of the opposition for a nominee and if the convention should nominate black republican, or if it should nominate man who was not sound on the slavery question, what would become of us al?"
 Then he goes on to ask others what hey would do, evidently anxious to coat tail some- body out of this hypothetical difficulty. A while ago, this monomaniac took it in his head that all the politicians were wrong and he, alone was right. He absurdly insisted that all the abolitionsts who voted against the adms- sion of Kansas with a slave constitution, were fools, and that to have voted for it would have been anti democratic On the other hand, the administration in urging it upon Congress and the united southern democracy in voting for it were all wrong as it was a sree-soil measure.- In fact, the men of both parties, according to the Gazette, are blind, stupid and cannot see an inch before their noses. He believes there is vast conspiracy among the people of the other States, to deceive and hocus the people of Arkansas. When, last winter we earnestly watched the fight between the democrats and black republicans and saw the victory tempo rarily lost, because of the alliance of know nothings with the black republicans; when every paper letter and person from abroad rep resented that the democracy was urging the passage of the Kansas bill, the Gazette man tells us that it was not so According to his version the black republicans were urging the admission of Kansas and the democrats oppo- sing it.
 So ever now, when in Indiana Mr. English is nominated and supported by the democracy and opposed by the abotionists, who have a celebrated free-soier named Wilson, running against him, the Gazette tells us that English is the free -soiler and of course Wilson must be the democrat. This case presents the singu- lar fact that all things are reversed in the mind of the subject just as in the cameras used by the daugerrean artists, the object or person is represented upside down.
 That phase of the disease which persists in miscaling persons and things, or seeing them occupy the positions of their adversaries is more amusing than dangerous In time the patient may be cured of that. But the disposition to look gloomily into the future should be checked. His friends should endeavor to keep him from attempting to lift the veil that hides the future from us. It may result in settled despondency. True, the phantoms that he conjures up are monstrous impossibilities, but to mind diseased like his, they assume shape and form and haunt him as fiercely as if each had corporeal existence, "a al mobilization and name."