New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-10-25
BARN ABLY RUD E.
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CHAPTER LXy.

had no parallel in the endurance, even OF those
who lay under sentence OF death.
When the ro:c.s FIRST assembled before the
building, the murderer was reused from se~p-it
ssch slunbers as his may have that blessed name
by the roar OF voices, aad the struggling ct
great crowd. lie started up these sounds met
MS ear. and, sitting on his bcdstead, listened.
After shor; interval of silence the noise pu'st
out again. Still listening attcntively, he MADE OUT
in of time, that the jail was besiessu ~
furious multitude His guilty conscience instant!
arrayed these men against himself ana Dfousu'
the fear upon him that he would DC s'''s'pu ou''
and torn TO pieces. -.
Once impressed with the terror of 'hls Concert
every thing tended TO confirm and strengthen IT.
H;s do,ble crime. thu circumstances under which
:, had been committed the length Of time that had
ELAPSED. and its discovery in spite Of all, made
him. as it were The visible object Of the Almighty
wrath In all the crime and vice and moral gloom
of the great pest house Of the capital ne stood
alone marked and singled out by ms great guilt.
Luccr among the devils The other prisoners
were "a host hiding and sheltering each othe.-a
crowd like that without the walls. lie was one
man against the whole united concoursc single,
solitary lonely man, from whom the very cap;ives
in the jail fell Of and skunk APPALLED,.
II might be that the intelligence OF his capture
having been brued abroad, they had come there
street; it might be that they were the rioters,
and, in pursuance Of an old design, had come to
sack the prison But in either he mad ne be-
lief hope that they would spare INN. Every
shout they raised and every sound they made, was
blow upon his heart. A. the attack went on, he
grew moro wild and frantic in his terror tried
pull away the bars that guarded the chimney and
prevented him from climbing up: called loudly on
the turnkeys to cluster round the cc.! and
him from the fury OF the rabble or .,I, him in
some dungeon under ground matter Of what
depth, how dark it was, loathsomc, OF beset with
rats Or creeping thingi, that it hid him and wa
hard to find.
But no one came, OF answered him. Fearful,
even while he cried 10 them, Of attracting attcn-
ton. he silent. BY and byo he saw as ne
locked from his grated window Il strange elin-
mcring the stone wall, and payencnts of the
yard. Ii was feeble at first, Il came aud went
though some officers with torches were passing
TO and fro upon the root Of the prison. Soon it
redeemed, and lighted brand, came whirng down,
scattering the ground with fire, and burning sui
lenly in corners. One rolled beneath wooden
bench. and set i; in Il blue another caught wa
ter-srout, and so went climbing up the wal. lcav-
ing long straight truck of fire behind it. After
time slow tnick shower OF burning fragments
from some upper portion of the prison which was
burning nigh, began TO fall beisr,, the door Re.
membcring lhn, it opened outward lie knew tina;
every spark fell upon the heap, and in the nc, los,
It's bright life, and died an ugly speck OF dust and
rubbish helped entomb him in II living grave.
Still, though the Jail resounded with shrieks and |
cries for hep-though the fire bounded up rs if
each Separate flame had had Il. tigers life, and
roared as though, in every one, there We're i hun.
CRY voicc-though the heat began grow intense.
and the air suiocating, and the clamor without In
nd and roCh
one rnerciless element was every moment more ex-
tremc-stiil he was afraid to raise his voice again.
lest the crowd should break in and should OF their
own ears or from information given them by the
other prisoners get the clue to his place of con.
fnement. Thus fearful, alike of those within The
prison and those without; of noise and silence;
light and darkness; OF being released, and being
left there to die he tortured and torment
ed, that nothing man has ever done to man in tho
horrible caprice OF power and cruelty, exceeds his
self-iniicie,l punishment,
Now, now The door down. Now they came
through the Jail, calling 20 each other in the vault
ed passages Gushing the iron gates dividing yard
from yard; beating the doors of cells aad wards
wrenching off bolts and locks and bars; earin.
down the door-ports To get men out; cndeavorir..
10 drag them by main force through gaps and win
dows where child could scarcely pass; whoop-
ing and yelling without moments rest; and run
ming through the heat and flames as if ihev were
cased in iacta BY their legs, their arms, the
hair upon their heads, they dragged the prisoners
out Some threw themselves upon the captives rs
they got toward the door and tried to file awny
their irons some danced about III IN with fen
lied JOY, and rent their clothes and were ready.
as II seemed, to tear them limb from limb. Now
II party OF II dozen men came dancing through the
yard INTO which the murderer cast fearful chances
from bis darkcncd window; dragging prisoner
along the ground whose dress they had nearly torn
from his body in their mad cagerncss To sat him
free, and who Was bleeding and sen>crss in their
hands. Now score OF prisoners to and fro.
who had lost themselves IN the iniricaces Ell the
prison, and bewdercd with the noise and .
glare that they knew not where TO turn or what 10
do and still cried out for help as loudly as before
Anon some tanlished wretch whose theft had been
a loaf OF bread, scrap of butchers meat cams
skuking past, bare. footed-goiug slowly away be.
cause that Jail, his house. was burned not be-
cause he had any other or had friends to meet, or
old haunts to revisit any liberty gain but lib
erty to Starve and die And then knot OF high +
waymon went uooplns by, conducted By the
friends they had among the crowd who nuiilei /
their letters as they went along with handker
chiefs and bands OF hay, and wrapped them up in
coats and cloaks, and gave them drink from bot
ties, and held it to their lips, because OF their hand
cuts, which there was no time to remove. All this
and Heaven knows how much more. was done
amidst noise, hurry, and destruction. like no.
tang that We know OF, even in dreams; which
seemed for ever on the rise an never 10 decrease
Tor The space OF single instant
he was still looking down from his window upon
these things when Il band Of men with torches,
ladders aNcs, and many kinds of weapons, poured
INTO the yard, and hammcring at his door. inquired
there were any prisoner within. He LET, the