The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-04-29
'CORRESRONDENCE.
4.EI"rER FROM NEW Y0RK.
Correspondence of the Potter Journal.
New YORK, April Il, 1853.

NEM LINN; Nl'lAl -AJ LSoS'
What an instructive field of research
must be the physiology of the human
pocket. a mysterious sympathy seems
- exist between that cuticlish organ and
the central seat of life, which has been
treated of nowhere in medical jurispru-
lence. [ wonder that some enterprising
anatomist, with microscope to eye and
scalpel in hand. urged on BY that daring
spirit of exploration in untrodden fields
which has won SO many realms to surgi-
cal science, does not leave aside for a
;yhile his inquiries into the structure and
functions Of sacs and cells beaeah the hu-
man skin, and turn his attention to the
phenomena manifested in this wonder, t,ul
becretory gland Of the outer humar in
tegument. | wonder that some bold ex-
plorer, with an eye single to science, has
hot long since dissected the pocket, probed
its seat of sensation, laid bare the delicate
network of nerves that rau1ify from the
purse to the person, and defined the mus
cles that contract the whole system and
force the blood back to the heart on the
instant of any suddenly discovered deple-
tion in that kecnly sensitive part. ] mar
vel that our medical libraries do not con-
fa;a at least one volume setting forth the
results of investigation in this inviting re-
gion of anthropological science. Sudden
yacuum and collapse Of the pocket How
terrible the commissions that follow so crit,
ieal . cavingin. The stomach, now, is an
organ that must always be kept to GER
tain degree Of repletiop to insure fail
health and happiness, but sudden disgorg
ing frqm that vital organ does not proceed
Ait. to tRe hazard Of human lifc-op The
contrary, it often gives the patient mani
fest relief. Throw up even the bile, tC
say nothing of the roast and the toas
which cause stomachic distension, and ;
Hush ofjoy often sqf'uses the eoqntenance
But the pocket, however overloaded
Cause an unaccountabIe and unlocked fo
|. nary red ness in that organ, and autter
palpitation aud panic seize at once the cit
SdcI Of life. | have been painful wit
Eess to two tortures Of that kind, and
would as soon accept an invitation to pre-
side at the official tapping of the jugula
of the next French conspirator as witnes
the agonies that flow FROM a tapped pock
Ct,
On ? train from Cincinnati to pentra
Kentucky, one day last fail, the jollies
passenger that ever paid fare kept hi
part qf the car IN roar with his mcrri
ment and jokes. Even such fragment
pf his stories as reached my own ear abov
the rail clatter drew the resistless laug
in spite Of me. He was a prosperou
stock -drover, aR4 his expberance withou
doubt had its soprce and supply in
sGeket full of 81 300, with which he va
going to decimate the cattle on 2 thousan
hills and embark them for Cowes and
market" But suddenly, unaccountahly
in the twinkling Of an eye, the :" tin" b
game intangible. The skill Of pickpocl
ct in the crowd at the last station had pr,
yailed over affection, gratitude and all tn
Jays ghich bind purses to pockets, an
the cash a3gld no longer be considere
isin hand Pat al events not in his hanC
BIT diqp't his hand, or rather pair (
thqm-and such hands too powerfl
Enough to fell an ox-didn't his hanc
make at the rate of sixty dives a minut
into every pocket in evrey garment o
big psrsou, in the vain hope that eom
b9y the missing treasure would sir
ttSetf back again as mysteriously as it went
And then his cheek blanched, his tongi
uttered iEcoRerent rawlings, and his e,
&gndered under seats, over seats and id
AH gorts of impossible places, but the mo
ey h2a gone to that bourne from Yhic
no change ever returns. | saw him Il
next day at Lexington, ard the starch
rtory-telling had gone CLEAR out Of hin
The melancholy of Falstatf's ''gibbed cat
gas no touch to the sadness that pervads
every feature Hamlet, too, remembers
me to exclaim-" Alas poor Yorlcl
Where be your gibes and Jokes no"
tEhers your nmbJls and flashes Of msrr