Ponola [sic] weekly register. (Ponola [sic], Miss.) 1843-1843, 1843-03-15
From the n. o. Picay,
4 night in a Coffin.

OCT VdSSdSC ITOiiI ANeW UT W tillS place
The night was beautiful, and the gaNaD,
vessel ploughed her golden path over
The bosom Of the star-stubeu sea. az
gracefully as the belle when she trips the
ball room floor. One old lady, after
with the blue waters for a.
bout an hour, broke out in a phrenzy Of
gratitude after the following manner
''Wcll,' said she, looking obIiquely at
the swelling sails, 81 don't believe that
wee'r agolng more than two hours
knot this blessed knight but only 10
think Of the goodness of Providence, in
maxim this great big sea and putting
salt in it TO keepIt all the time fresh"
This philosophical observation caused
Il general laugh, and Socrates in petit
coats played the snarling cynic during
The rest Of the evening. group ofus
were gathered around small table in
the genilemen's cabin, each one telling
his quota of "hair breath 'Scapes," and
adventures by flood and field. We were
then in the Gulf Stream just abreast Of
Havana, and that fact being casually re-
marked, one Of the passengers who had
not smiled during the evening, took his
cigar out Of his mouth, AID said he
"wished to contribute his share TO the (
amusements of the evening"
"Silence Attention ALL, was the cry
ain 1897, business called me to the
city we are just now passing. | had
been there not more than three weeks,
when found myself attacked by that
most dreadful of all scourges, the small
pox. had every attention that care or
the kindness OF strangers could bestow
but in spite Of all, at the end OF five
days, the attendant physician gave nc
IN for lost. Until this time haN never
thought Of death, but when this ln,eIl.
cence reached me. chung more eager
ly to life than ever. The million ray;
Of the thoughts that rushed with the'
swift wings through my bcwlderd
: brain, formed one grand focus. and that
y was life And | had rightto life, gen
; ,lemen. for but few months before
> had married Il young girl, and she and
her aged mother were entirely Deepen
dent upon me for support. On the eve
ming Of the sixth day, recoIIect 'ha
j dreamed Of my wife and home, and
/ that was dear TO me. Then | sunk ID
to a sweet sleep, and then existence seen
IL ed 10 be b.oltcd from my mind. l@'
e was a sensation that recol'ect, hove
IS yer, and that was a feeling of darknes
], All was a black, monotonous void, aA
d the first return Of approaching IIle"a
n made known TO me by GOODNESS M
4 seemed to enter every pore OF my 81
o. tenn. ! opened my eyes, and my n'i
p thought was that | was blind, lOf
oil knew thai this distressing afilictlon IS :
= ten the product of this disease. Luz
RS | threw my arms upwards, and ITO
e. some obstacle they were again thr0'
heavily upon my breast. felt enco'l
passed on all sides by warm, mo-
tie wall Of wood-suddenly all my sens
came 10 me in their full vigor-i rec"
nd lected that had smelt something !"
IS that which I then inhaled whene'c
m stood by the dead-the big ofOP' /
W. nerspiration stood upon my brow y
in N instant the horrid thought ha'p
, a upon me, that I ,cas in my eepn' i
au- God may have sinned but lha' !
Sc. ,honobt was awful enough to have
naid life of crime Perhaps |
IVY in my grave-dOwn deep in the gro.
isy and recollec,ed that heard oil
the being buried in pits--laid cross"ss
,e,c,bwise of each other, and tha''
ice ,bey had decayed, their bones were
). g., manure. A thousand such thou'I
TO as these flashed quicker than the
ming across my tortured BRAN aD'
, Of one mad shrek sprang uPwar0S
yer there was ligh. F! .e
ass 81 looked around and in mop'
two | discovered that was IN :"
or Candles were burning on the de0
wn- alterpice. and pictures Of the Cfus
and the Virgin and her child 'n'
$ on scrip,ural incidents hung upon = ~