Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-13
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Speaking Of the Substances which sustain life, the
books inform Us that viii sustain life longer than
sny other one substance reported Of persons
surviving for egh. days on water alone while five days
are the utmost extent to- which life has been sustained in
it, absence This may be explained by the discovery
which science has recently made and 10 refuAon otthE
tmehonored saw, that dust are" to wit; that three
fourths Of the individual consists Of water, and
oaly onefourth Of subiances not reducble to water.
TIE object Of generous eeva;ine, game-coek diet is
TO correct this sqaeous preponierDoe which s greatly
aggravated BY sudden rights acting pOOrlyed
situations Asat,c cholera is nothing but disturbance
Of the equilibrium established by nature, segegating and
revolving into their original elements the various aque-
oas compounds; thus in very short time, reducing
body that weighed $50 lbs to 40 lbs Fear all know,
exerts powerful agency in producing Of cholera;
aud acting permanently Emphatic constitutions, it
renders the disease chronic among people Of that
sable temperament Hence the nvincbls prOcvity to
aqueous formation, which the smell of gua-pOuder in
sanity produces upon the Yankee race. Avery striking
Illustration of ths scientific truth vas supplied during
the Mexican var, by Col wynkOOps Pennsylvania Req
ment At the order TO charge, the whole regiment lin
GLIDING the ColoneD suddenly seized with chOlsrSie
spasms and the extraordinary feat vas then and
there performed in the presence Of the two armies ever
Witnessed in the annals Of var.
A. 10 the effects of tho emotions upOn vitality. the
poets make frequsns mention of persons dying Of love-
O. the want OF Il; and instances numerous aud
vsllattsst "a of persons dying in PArOIisn Of rSs
Whether love OF hate be the quality that imparts more
ygor and better reps enna has been determined
nv moralists; but common observation suggests that
the mAu who loves iniiscriminAely, every body and
every thing is very apt to be .vaddler and aiHsat;
be the good Aater can at least boast the endosem sut
for responsibility, OF the great mOrslist Sam. johnson.
Bat We wander. 1. is a popular saying, that care
killed cat; an animal according to the same suthO'i
w. e. doved With nine lives Nov. the great question
j. can sI.aps Kill Yankee If sorrow, preying upon
tie ssnsiOfes of Giuslkin, eItnguishOd nine feline
vpIdes al once, what should MOI the unheGrd of pol
tonery Of Yaakeedom entail upon tAAt degraded race
judas Iscariot committed baseness and through shame
hang himself l. well done OF judas; bat is there
MT oas among the twenty millions Of Yankees as honor
awe and hgh-mindsd as Judas IscAriot' When
haudarDof the first button Pefpsta.ss an unsuceessf
vainy, he batcbGrs bis own household and then 6eb-
cratsy performs the "hArs-karri" upon himself, b.
ofring his own entrais obation to the internal
Dstes Are the Yankees sun even below the standard
OF honor that prevails among 10 rAteahng Ionloosans
We feel after f,shiou, intense Interest In the
reputation of the Yankees. Tly live on the came con-
uncnt with as they ne door neighbours; and
their fame good bad, will in spite OF u.s. more or less
minge with aud colour our W. We are interested,
also in their having good GOV ,rnment free, civiIng
ana elevanz Institutions But hs viii not be possible
under disgrace which, il tamel, submitted to, will
tingush every sentiment o, homo aud place them out
OF the pale of redemption. Fire cod sword-A general
and widespread extermation would entail less mis-
chief thSn such intense iafAmy II they have not the
s,nsibiy to appreciate it, so much the worse They
viii sink int0 the most los thsoms baFbarlsm known to
humanity Some ingeni us writer has suggested, that
blrbarsm is in all cases lposed upon nAaoas as pun
shpIent for wilflly dis egarding the commands and
wlatouy abusing the mer ,es, OF God. There ia paus
bity in the suggestion ID the horrible fate seems i'm
m;uent 10 the Yankee matt IN.