Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-07-13

ly among those who were left in charge of
their masters houses. Relations and some
times acquaintances would attend one ano-
Their, but many died unknown, and unla-
mented. AT the corner of--street and
Broadway, respectable. family removed,
leaving man servant in charge OF the house:
after some days it was noticed he did not APP
pear in the street as usual, it was supposed
he had shut up the house and fled in day
or two atter,a person who had charge OF a
house whose windows looked into the yard
of said house, observed the man sitting in a
sort OF arbour or summer house, he suppos-
ing the man had returned, took no more no.
tlce till next day, when seeing him still sit
ting for hours in the same position he gave
the alarm, the door was forced, and the man
found dead, partly undressed In.this, and
subsequent levers, cats, and in some cases,
dogs were thoughtlessly left shut up to die a
cruel death-the streets also were swarm
ing with furnishing animals, whose piteous
howlings added much 10 the distress of the
few inhabitants who were unable TO leave the
city. In these times that tried the souls as
well as the bodies Of men, | saw parents fly
from their sick children, and children from
their parents, husbands from their wives, but
never, except in one solitary instance, did
see woman desert her husband in distress.
She, fo-be sure, was married TO great lump
of a fellow, old enough to be her father
rather sloven, and apparently proper sub
.jeCt for the yellow fever. As soon as he was
fairly reported, she snatched up her youngest
child, got on board ofa potatoe sloop at Peck
slip, and never stopped till she got out at
Stoning ton lighthouse, or somewhere down
east-ior in few days thereafter received
letter from her; wishing TO be informed if
her husband was dead.-From the tenor OF
her letter, | expect she was wolully disap-
pointed when she received my anSwer-( for
he lived TO lay her head very quietly in.the
grave about three years after She was
real Yankee, but did not think she was a
daughter of the Puritans. rather suppos-
ed she must have sprung from them lang sid
ed, corn-fed wenches and whale killing sal
lors who peopled all that country round
Cape Coda full account ofwhich you will
find in Knickerbocker's History Of that pc
riod.
p. S. 1882, June 18Th, the signs of the
times induced me 10 search up my manu-
scripts. A morning paper exhorts his readers
to arm themselves against fear-fear in ma
ny is constitutional, they cannot help it but
| think if the Printers and Doctors continue
their alarms and nostrums for one week long
er, we will have amongst US the worst ofall
diseases, viz: the reign of terror. 1t is Just
now as it was in August 179S-one came out
commenting beef and bread, another bread
and milk for diet, some were flooded with
the vinegar offour thieves, while multitudes,
were stuffed with Dr. Angelis's, anti-bil-
Gus, anti-yellow- fever pills : many thought
very many, tortured their frames with mod
icine, preventives, preparatives, and terror,
till they were so reduced as to fall an easy
prey to the first attack. Fear is infectious,
and those who are already afflicted with this
worst of epidemics, will do well for them
selves and neighbors TO leave the city imme-
diately, and il the disease does appear among
us, would advise, (from former experience
all who have the means 10 leave the city at
once. With regard to eating, drinking and
exercise, have found that the same mode
ration which kept my head cool and feet
warm, was the cheapest and surest prevent
i've. cannot see, for my part, a cause suffi-
Gent for so great fear. Let him who can,
prepare for flight, and for those whom impe-
rlous duty may prevent-let them only be-
lleve in a particular Providence-Death's
shafts may fly thick-but their aim is direct
ell by Omnipotence. When the man drew
the bow a: venture, the unerring eye ofhim
who alike views the fall of the sparrow and
The crash of an empire, directed the shaft it
entered between the joints of the harness, the
proud mortal sunk down in his chariot At
best there is but step between us and death
The bursting Of a boiIer-a state from the
roof, or crumb of the food that we swallow
can do deaths business as quickly as the
Cholera. A. b