Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-05-18

that soweth unto the Spirit, shall of the
Spirit reap life everlasting. AeaIcoLA.
From the Christian Spectator.
From the able and interesting work, bearing the
above title, and published by Messrs Howe and
Spaiding, of N. Haven, we extract the following
history of the awful death of an unfortunate fe.
male. Those who may read it, we trust will be
convinced of the importance of securing for that
trying moment, when flesh and heart shall
fail," I" that peace which passeth knowledge.''
.New-Haven Journal.
The posver Of Conscience, exempliffd in
the death Of an unfortunate Female, in
PHILADELPHIA.
sin the months Of February and March,
1919, Mrs. S. was repeatedly and ur.
gently requested, to visit woman, said
to be extremely low and unhappy and for
very special and important purpose,
anxious to see Mrs. S. For reasons which
the sequel will disclose, the latter could
not feel willing to 60, until she was told,
that il she did not go, the woman, though
10 dying condition, would be brought TO
her door. These tidings inspired Mrs.
1S. with the fortitude to endure an inter-
view with a person, of whom she could
scarcely think without horror. On Fri
day, 10Th March, she went in pursuit of
her habitation, which she was told, was
somewhere in Little Water near South.
street. She came to the house, liz the
cellar OF which she lay and with pal
pitating heart, entered the chamber, where
poverty, disease, and distress, presented
themselves in mien, never seen, and
scarcely conceived of before. The dying
woman, stretched on a sqnaid couch, and
almost literally imbedded in filth, was al
tended by sympathetic female, and a
little boy, one of her own unhappy off
spring. As soon as she saw Mrs. S. she
said, i did not expect you would come to
see SO miserable d wretch as / am : and
then covering her face with the bed
clothes, she wept for considerable time.
: Why do you weep, SO p Mrs. S. in
quired. She replied, that she saw in
Mrs. S. the image of her father, and tina.
itwrung her heart to think of him. How,
said Mrs. S. did you happen to know
where reside ? She answered, that she
was up Chcrry-Street, Oh a visit to some
OF her acquaintances, that paper was
thrown in the door, giving information,
that a rev house for worship was to be
opened at Wagner's Alley, and inviting
the neighbours TO atte5d THAT she with
several OF her associates, went the first
evening it was opened. was,' she add
eds much intoxicated, but had not been
seated long, before I became perfectly So
ber.* / sat hear the door; the moment
you came in, saw you ; my eyes we're
fastened upon you. Horror, in an in
slant seized my soul. | had supposed
you we're dead, and the sight of you re-
called to my mind the injuries 1 had done
you. Your minister began to preach, and
every word struck me as dagger, to the
heart. | attempted to 60 out, but seemed
rivited to the spot. / attempted TO speak
10 you, but fear prevented me; and fol-
lowed you home.' 1t was in this way she
learnt where Mrs S. resided.
This awful night, was the end Of all
peace to this poor woman. She went on
to state, that the agitation of her mind
threw her into violent fever, which,
along with unintermitted horrors of con-
science, had induced consumption, and at
length brought her to her present wretched
situation.t She then told Mrs. S. the
cause of her anxiety TO see her, before
she left the world. I thought said she,
if | could only see you, and obtain your
forgiveness for the injury and disgrace
have brought upon your family, it would
smooth even the path to hell. O madam,
my breast has long been stranger to COM
fort. Once l could drown my sorrow
with Iiquor-but now it has no effect.
Death, hell, and judgment, lay before
me-
&C She disclosed 10 Mrs. S. with view,
as will be seen, to more extensive dis.
closure, her career Of crime, from its
commencement to its clOse.--She was the
only child of respectable parents, who
| lived 10 one Of the Southern cities. Her
father was a minister Of the gospel, and
was most tenderly attached to his daugh-
ter. Deprived of her mother by death,
when she was but seven years old, she
was placed under the care Of an affec-
Tomato aunt, who spared neither expense
nor pains, to give her an accomplished
education and fit her for refined and poll
ished society. AT the age Of fifteen, she
returned to her fathers and to please
him rather than her God, she soon after
made public profession OF religion. She
was young lady of extraordinary beau
Whether this alteration was the result Of the
exercises of which she goes on to speak, or was
produced Immediately by that Providence which
appears SO conspicuous and awful. in what sue
ceeded, is uncertain to the writer. The first