The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-10
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WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUG. 10, 1850.

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WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUG. 10, 1859.
THH DEAD ALIvE--A Tery Singular Ca~.-
We condense the following particulars from
the February number of the London Lancet ):
Miss Amelia Kinks, aged 10 years, had been
complaining Tor some time Of great lassitnte,
s1rsn ana loss nss o. sPpe,ts she gradually
medicine. Her friends continued 10 watch her
night after night, hourly expecting her death.
and on the 18TH Of October she did apparently
(Which was promised sign for her mo.her -,
know that the hour of her departnre had
Ssolne,l turned ner head little TO the light
arSppea Spa 6as ner jaw and died, a: we thought.
grave linen; the Jaw was tied in \ I'm rdrar.
chief, the arms crossed in due fashion over the
Dreast and copper closed the eyes. She was
enel &c cIss,ea into an adjoining room and laid
OUT In her winding sheet; in the course of q
Jew honrs she appeared stifr and cold. The
aeath was at half-pa 3, A. NJ AtgA. M.
neT grandfather went into the room to take a
hsaxssd ,ooa ~ me corpse and last kiss Of his
auiSering OF the eyelids. He at once impaired
the iact and his misgivings to the parents; they
put NO iaith in them. The old man, however,
NOT satisned, called upon the medical attend.
ant. He also observed the tremmiousnes of
the eyeiid; ana placing stethescope over the
neart, heard its pulsations, feeble. but never.
tneiess distinct. He then watched the chest;
IL conld De seen moving, but so gently as to be
almost imperceptible. She was now removed
to warmer room, frictions and warmth were
applied to her person, and in about two hours
She told her friends that she had heard A.,
that they had said; she knew that her bodv
was being prepared for interment; she heard
the tolling Of the passing bell, saw and felt
ner grandfather's agony, but could make no
sign.
Alta p. NJ, the following day. she relansed
into the same cateleptic state and remained in
1t six hours. She took no food and req ested
,hat none might be given, as she meant to take
ner next meal IN heaven. For whole week
she took no food, but lay perfectly qniet with
eye-lids firmly closed and jaws clenched. She
was coaxed and threatened, but all TO no pur-
pose. The doctor then gagged her, and, forcing
a tube down her throat, poured liquid food
into her stomach. At this she commenced
moaning, and continued it night and day for
ten days or more.
This was kept up for while, until the doc
toT, losing all patience with her obstinacy had
the fluid food administered to her in another
and less agreeable manner. On the second
trial OF this method, she, by signs, begged it's
dlscontinnance, and seemingly offered to take
food by the mouth. But when it was offered
she again refused. Food was now placed
within her reach, and an opportunity being
given for her to steal it, it was found to disap-
pear every night. She was watched, and it
would raise herself in bed, look carefully
round to see if she was watched, step nimbly
to the closet, and examine the food, taking
mouthfui at the time and conveying the re-
malnder to bed with her.
During all this time she would remain an.
parentiy dead-that is, motionless and speech.
less, and with scarcely perceptible respira-
tion The girl still continued in this condi-
ton on the 4th of last December.
YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE GYMNAsIUM-The
Scalpcl, an expositor Of the laws of health.
edited by Edward II. Dixon, Of New York,
has spicy article, entitled "The Hypocrisy
of Gymnastics" He SAYS:
1t has filled us with horror to see proposal
| TO add gymnasium TO every public school in
this city. A boy, until he is fourteen, or even
more, wants no exercise beside the plays he
| gets up with his associates in the open air he
will exercise from his natural impulse. and in
the most rational and natural manner: so you
need only give him a dry piece of ground. and
| place to swim in in summer, and plenty of
| Ice and snow in winter, and then leave him
| alone with his mates.
| Boys from eight to twelve years old who
work In the gymnasium regularly, "a bad
nabit, often develope their muscles to hide
ously ugly degree Instead of the soft plump.
| juicy outline of youth we have the skinny
| oyer-worked, hard and dry outline of an old
man, induced by over-exertion at an age which
does NOT demand violent exercise of any kind;
besides this, we think such processes are apt
to retard the growing of boys, and will ulti-
mately destroy their carriage and figure when
| they become men, Our readers NAV have oh.
served the same thing, in the dissected ap-
pearance OF legs of some of our juvenile dan
| GERS
Excessive exercise besides injuring the men.
| tai faculties OF man, has the tendency to iniure
| the equal circulation Of his blood stunid
clownish, young fellow, who had for the last
| eight months undergone the most painful and
exhausting exercises of the gymnasium for
hye or six hours every day. complained to me
of the smallness of his legs. On looking mt
him, saw what afterwards discovered to he
prevalent among acrobats and members of the
circus-a great falling Off in the flesh from the
knees downward, and from the elbows to.
ward the fingers.
LETTER FROM JUDGE DoUaLAs-Ith has been
stated that Judge Douglas has written letter
to John L. Peyton, Esq, of Staunton. Va. in
relation to the question of naturalization and
the African slave trade. The letter is quite
brief, and is substantially as follows:
There can be no difference in the degrees O,
protection accorded by government to native
and naturalized citizens. Our Constitution
recognizes no difference in this respect If ,
person can expatriate himself from forei Or
government, and swear allegiance to this, ant
still owe anything to the foreign power, he i.
in the singular and incredible predicament O
owing allegiance to two countries without be
ing entitled to the protection of either. n,
would accord the fullest protection to all oul
citizens.
In the convention the Constitution was ,
creature of compromise, and the African slay,
trade was the subject; South Carolina ant
| Georgia wished to continue it, Virginia Penn
sylvanla, New Jersey and New York wished
it terminated; New England was passive il
the matter; South Carolina and Georgia finall,
carried their point of continuance ill the veal
ISIS, with the understanding that it shoult
then end. 1t therefore became the vital com
promise of the instrument, and must be helf
as sacred as the instrument ITSELF In thi,
| view Judge Douglas declares himself to h.
| irreyocably opposed TO the re-Opening of III,
African slave trade.
DIsAPPOINTED ExPEcTATIoNs,-A lette,
from King and Queen county, Virginia, say.
that the farmers, on threshing their wheat
find that it falls short fully one third of tn,
expected yield. Another letter from Lon,
Creek, Louisa county, Va, says:
"1t is the opinion of all that the wheat cror
| will fall short at least one third of what was
expected before it was threshed We have had
| no rain to do the corn or tobacco any good foI
eight weeks, until last evening. 1t is now inn.
possible that we can make more than half a
crop. The fact is, sir, that, at the present
prices for wheat, great many of us intend to