New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-21

MORBID NERvousNESs.-Th morbid nervousness
Of the present day appears in several ways. It
brings sometimes to that startled state, that
the sudden opening OF a door, the clash Of the
falling fire irons or any little accident, puts him in
fiutter How nervous the late Sir Robert Peel
must have been when, q few weeks before his
death, he went to the Geological Garden, and when
monkey suddenly sprang upon his arm the great
and worthy man tainted Another phase of ner-
vousness is, when a man is brought to that state
that the least noise or cross occurrence seems to
Jar through the entire nervous systemic upset
him. as we say; when he cannot command his
mental powers, except in perfect stiffness, or in
the chamber and at the writing table to which he
is accustomed when in short, he gets fdgety
easily worried full OF whfms and fancies, which
must be INDUCED and considered, or be is quite out
of sorts. Another phase of the same morbid con-
dton is, when a human being is oppressed with
vague, underlined fears that things are going wrong,
that his income will not meet the demands upon it,
that his chds lungs are affected, that his mental
powers are leaving him--a state of feeling which
shades rapidly off into positive insanity.
Indeed, when matters remain long in any Of the
fashions which have been described suppose the
natural termination must be disease of the heart,
or a shock of paralysis, or insanity in the form
either Of mania or idioey. Numbers of common
place people who could feel very aeutely, but who
could not tell what they felt, have been worried
into fatal heart disease by prolonged anxiety and
misery. Every one knows hew paralysis laid its
hand upon Sir Walter Scott, always great lastly
heroic. Protracted anxiety how to make the ends
meet, with alarge fanlily and an uncertain ineomes
drove Souheyfs first wife into the 1unatle asylum,
and there is hardly more touching st8ry than that
of her fears aud ferebodngs through nervous year
after year. Not less sad the end of her over
wrought husband, in blank yacuty, nor the like
end Of Thomas Moore. And perhaps the saadest
instance of the result of an overdriven nervous
system, in recent days, the end of that rugged
honest, wonderful genius, Hugh Miller.
IRecFeatlons of a Country Passun-
TIE PORE CENTURY AGo.-He (the Pope) rides
along the streets in q very large, old.fashioned
coach, drawn by eight horses, the caachman and
postillions the horses, with full bottomed wigs,
without their hats-yery ridiculous figures. All
the people he meets fall down upon their knees
The first time met him get out of my coach to
bend my knee, as was bid. He gave me his bless
ing, and signihed he would waive compliment fer
the future we never willingly put ourselves in
the way of meeting him. During the year there
several of the converts open for the entertain
ment of poor pilgrims they fed for three days,
that being the time necessary to perform their de-
votions. As they walk barefoot, they are FIRST
carried into room to have their feet washed and
plaistered if necessary and then set down TO long
tables where they have soup fish and salad. The
ladies of the first fashion, as proof of their hu-
them. My curiosity carried me there one night ;
but they, snpposing came there with some pious
design, as as the pilgrims were set down to a
/ table, laced bib-apren was brought to me, and a
| adle put into my hand. Two men brought in a
/ it might not dirt us; and / and two more ladies
the priests carried It about and waited upon them