The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1827-07-28

cemeteries now brcatnr chnkcd, and there WAS
no morc room il the streets and market places.
Houses got cheap and graves were hard to
come by. The great t'us,e which had been
hastily opened, and consecratcd, at the back OF
the Spr'lale st. M.rtino. ran over with bodies
from all ranks, aE2s. and conditions, which.
night after night, were east promiscuousl y INTO
it. Aud to quote the words used hy writer of
the time in describing the >ti,c Of Florence, at
IL" close of the ,ly-an.5at for fault Of mat
ter to e, u;rpIl-" VI Uyt} M,;s u.s. less, strength
gone; glory ,ullic1 tile buried; honors were
forgotten; grcatncs, Inundated dignity scorn-
'd--Ard, of the good and evil, equally persisted
the memory"
In the description Of passions, the author is
peculiarly happy, VIZ:
8 Farther yet wouli the enumeration have
gone. but that noise, as If Of lousrning bolts
and bars II the hospital, Interrupted X In the
next moment, one Of the MESSY folding doors at
tie great entrance was 1ons open; and, right
hand and left, from it, farthrl extremity, as far
as the eye could see. down to that very door
the commons coIGdc, Of the house. appeared on
each side, closely set pallets. i.ycIy bed was
occupied doni'I,, and even trehly; or Father.
the whole range Of hct!s-f1r each Touched the
other-svaS torrrcA into ono great littrr crowd
ed with >,ll.rr1r,, IN all monGs. aud in AL Stage
Of disease. Su!r-thry might ne living or t!Iry
m'%ht DC dT2d-all that could hc seen was a
strange. shaprlo~- lump, rolled II tic NrctcIcd
bed clothes! Others covered up in hood, AND
caps, incapable of speech. stared from the pill
lows, with their CLASSY eyes aud ~|lH>tly faces
that the Viewer sl.rank to look On thcin! Same,
furious aad strong in agony. sat in tlrir beds
bolt nprl-h'-ra, my, tossing tErl arms. and
muttrrln4 horrI inprcrnriom~- hdcaus objects
Of misery The most cariul Of All were Tie
most htalthv-ho-n whom t:!ev called the on
ValrsrrntS; Ani who -,lided about in their long
white. shroud Ike hospital gowns AID dresses ::
looking and moving like creatures emerged
from iii" %rarc-o1en more appalling to nature
than those nlio were ready to descend into it,
. A'ar;rr, ambition, terror. NAV have mercy:
but there Is one passion luIks within the human
breast. whose very Instincts MURDER Once
lodged within the heart for i;ir il puI-s-ascen-
dtnt and alone, sport, il tie solitude Ike an
antIr ilend il feeds On l'fcd and rivers woul. {!
not safe its appetite. Ali,ris strongest in worth
and vaior stoop to meanness and disgrace be
fore it The meanest snui-the wcahest-it can
give courage to, beyond tie daring of despair :
What is the sting which no balm can as,uagc ,
What is the wound that death alone can heal :?
What is the injury that-pnre done-can never
be repaired Whose is the sword that when
once drawn, the scahbaIl must be cast away
foreter o-Nhcn is it that man has no ear hut
for the tale that falls like noulten lead upon III /,
hraln-no eye out for the plncked out heart OF
him he hates no hand but for that clutci-that
one last clutch-which earth may not resist
that gripes his dagger? Who is it that bears