Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-10-12
CHOLERA.


This disease does not excite 20 much terror as
it did 90 It's Hrst appearance in-th'' country
The following vivid description OF its ravases at
St. Charles, is from the St. Louis Republican.
This closes upon our devoted village. 4 s,xty.
DAYS .reisn Of terror Destruction spread her
evi, wing; death followed in the train; and now
we nav the last tribute to the memoTy vi the de-
parted slain. One hundred, from Thousand,
have paid :. the last debt Of nature !" we look
upon the past-its recollection arises like .
dream of the morning--a dream OF sickness.
CONSIDERATION, horror, death. We look around
Us for those who but few days ago were the
object Of our love, the joy OF our heart-out we
see them not. The kind neighbor-tbe sober
citizen-the fond associate--the devoted frienu
the wife Of our bosom, who shares win Us
the joys Of happier days. the love OF younger
Years, the associations OF HES changing scenes
the mother who matured US from the lniants
cradle, through all the long years OF childhood
and youth, and VAS just contemplating our en-
trance upon 8. life's vast THEATRE" with the fon-
des. authorizations uf full recompense for all the
| love, and care. and solicitude which were spent
in the training of her first born son. The sister,
whose little fond attentions to q brothers COM
furt, had endeared her to our heart, even beyond
brothers. love, whose superior intelligence, and
surpassing loveliness, had made her the admired
of every circle. The brother, with all that ten.
deruess, that affection, that maniness. which re-
commended him to the friendship OF all;-and
the man Of God, too, who has often dropped the
tear of sorrow over the impenifence of men, VINO
has heaved inanv secret signs because we DID
not love our Saviour and set out for heaven-ali
all have bad Us long farewell. Aud when
the eager inquiry rushes across the bosom. ere
memory wakes herself-Where are they! Re.
collection makes the drrafy response-they
sleep in the graye,-their d~elIns.place Is
Eternity.
have Just returned from the different places
Of sepulture. 1t was melancholy visit
may not repeat II soon When the sudden e.
Election arose. that before me were rmtomb"d the
friends OF nv youth-the parents OF younger
years. and the associates OF ripper sge-tnat all
their deeds of kindness and Of love were ended
that could not tell them how much loved
them still. and that for all those deeds of kind
ness and Of love could make no fond return, re-
GREETED tor a moment was not lald beside them.
and win item, 'nioutderng to -my- mother earth.
turned away from the melancholy spot, and be.
held 10 the midst OF iitue th,Cket, a lonely
grave-it was the tomb u: its deserted
situa lion accorded but too closely with his own
lonely condition. But few years since, he lett
oil the fond endearments Of a fathers home, and
after crossing The broad Atlantic, sought in the
great valley of the west that iiberty which IT,
rants bad always denied him. and which the
country Of Washington could only give. lie
loved his adopted country mure than the land
which gave i,im birth. Our Laws be respected,
our institutions he admired, and anticipated IN
few years, the realization Of ,ha. happiness Which
secure. But disease came. he was stranger
there waited al his sick couch no fathers care,
or brothers. 10, e.-no mothers tear dropped up.
on his weary pillow -.ho sisters smIIe lighted up
his hasgard counteuahce No! he had none Of
these to bring INN comfort on dying bed: and
when he died, nuDe shed for him q iear-no
fricadl y moprurr followed to his grave-and lar
from father, mother. sister. friends. stanger ia
a strange land, he lies forgotten, and he wastes
unwept.
Wandering on, saw the father, thr mother
and the little infant, all laid side by side in the
cold embrace Of death. No more to live or
love- till the last resurrection. Sill further on,
aud there slept together, the husband, the wife,
the mother. the father, the daughter, the sister
all in one little group; no mnre to wake. I'LL
Gabrielle trump shall rouse the sIumbering dead.
There too, friend laid BY friend, and neighbor
fast b. neighhor slept, to wake not again, until
they wake to sleep no more.
Death and tine grave known no distinction. -
There was the lady IF Fssh,on-once she NOV !
ed 10 ell the sho~ Of dress and pride Of con.
scIous besu's-the stately step-the lofty mein
the piercing eye-the coral Iip-the ruddy |
cheek-the lii, forehead and the raven rnsIet,
oil onc- were her's-but alas. now Wondering
alt; and at small remove there slept the
mental slave, OH the same damp couch. And !
the enemy, too, rrposcd in the very busom OF
him, upon whose character he once sought to fix
dishon0r's stains, ard whose very existence he !
would cheerfuily have blotted fro n the EARTH
But they rest together. TIL the Great Judge Of all
shall summon them to trial. Aud not far hence, l
saw the mothers grave. and at her side there
slept three darling children. She will press
them no longer at her bosom-no more imprint
spon their infant lips affections kiss-No! pu-
trefaction wastes that mothers bosom now, and
those infant lips DOW feed the Ioathsome grave
worm. They will return to US no more, but we
will soon 90 to them: for