Don’t you think there is some bad disease about? says a third, and before long, the interrogatory assumes the shape of a declaration, and if not explained, and in less than a week, half the people of the town are sick, through fear that they may be worse. What is Mrs. Toddle running about the street for? says one. I expect she has gone to enquire about the school mistress. Says another. I expect the school mistress will run away with that fellow yet, says a third, (she ran away once herself.) And before the week is out, the whole neighborhood is in a panic, for fear the school mistress should run away, and their dear daughters be corrupted, by her example—while the innocent subject of their fears is attending to her duties, all unconscious of the commotion she has occasioned. PANICS AND PANIC MAKERS. In great commercial cities, a panic is a different thing, and first indicates its approach in a different way. The subjects to which it generally points, are politics, and money, chiefly the latter, and never the first, except as it may have a bearing on the last. Like great and pestilent diseases, it generally has premonitory symptoms, which commonly exhibit themselves in plethora, and a wasteful indulgence in luxury. And like those diseases also, it never attacks or alarms those of regular habits, and an equal mode of living. In the city there are regular panic makers! some of them work on their own account, as Donald said he fought, when it was found that he had killed more of his own clan, than of their enemies—and some of them work for hire, as the penny-a-liners do, in fabricating marvellous stories; and hence the opportunity and inducement for making panics in the city, far exceed those in the country. Political panics, and money panics, are like electric bodies, one is positively charged, the other negatively, and the effect of this kind is, that when they approach each other, they produce an explosion, like the breaking of the Banks, &c. These are properly termed compound. A simple panic is more harmless, and like the Simoon, if a man can stand still, and hold his breath, it will pass by without harming him. There is also another kind, called natural panics. These are such as sometimes happen in churches, theatres, &c.—and, although they have nothing to do with the subject about which I am writing, yet a description of one of them may aptly illustrate the reasonableness of the others. NATURAL PANICS—A RUSH.