New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-08
VOL. EEE. NO. ass.
connection with this huniliating subject which
to-day we have no leisure for pursuing

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to-day we have no leisure for pursuing.
We had hoped TO have enriched our notice of
Mr.. Kendall's Narrative with choice extract or
two, which would give our readers some idea of
the quality OF the work and sharpen the appetite
tor tho remainder: but we find the first almost
impossible, and the last quite unnecessary. We
shall therefore content ourselves for the present
with the following passage, taken at random,
which depicts the intense sutierings of the Expe
dlton, on certain occasion, for want of food,
and describes graphically, and from the authors
o,on experience, the sensations OF Starving to
Death
+" Here a scene of feasting ensued which beggars
description. We had been thirteen days upon the
road, with really not provisions enough for three,
and now that there was an abundance our starving
men at once abandoned themselves TO eating-pcr-
haps should rather call it gormandzing or stuifing
No less than twenty large, fat sheep had been pur
chased and dressed, and every ramrod, well
every stick that could be found, was soon graced
with smoking ribs and shoulders, iiyers and hearts
Many made themselves sick by overeatng; but an
attempt to restrain the appettes OF hastared men.
except by main force, would be the very extreme Of
folly. Had the food been any thing but mutton, and
had we not procured an ample supply OF salt from
the blexcans TO season x, our men might have died
! OF the sureit.
g have never yet treatise dissertation
upon starving to DEATH can speak teeiingly OF
nearly every stage except the last. For the first
days through which strong and healthy man is
doomed to exist upon nothing, his suferings are,
perhaps, more acute than IN the remaining stages
he feels inordnate, unappeasable craving at the
stomach, night and day. The mind runs upon beel,
bread, and other substanuals; but still, in great
measure, the body retains its strength. On the third
| md doy but On
incessant craving gives place to sinking and weak
ness of the stomach, accompanied by nausea. The
unfortunate sufferer still desires food but with loss
of strength he loses that eager craving which is felt
| in the earlier stages. Should he chance TO obtain
morsel or two Of food, was occasionally the case
| with us he swallows it with woish avjdifv:
but FIVE minutes aiierward his suierings
intense than ever. He feels as If he had swallowed
living lobster, which is clawing and feeding upon
the very foundation of his existence. On the fifth
day his cheeks suddenly appear hollow and sunken,
his body atenuated, his color an ashy pale and his
eve wild, CLASSY, cannibash. The different parts
| of the system now with each other. The som-
ach calls upon the legs TO 60 with IN quest OF food
the legs, from very weakness, refuse. lhe sixth
day brings with it increased suffering, although the
pangs of hunger are losti overpowering Ian
gour and sickness. The head becomess giddy-the
| ghosts of well-remembered dinners pass In hdeous
procession through the mind The seventh day
comes bringing increased lasstudc and further pros
traton of strength. The arms hang listlessy, the
legs drag heavily. The desire for food is still left,
70 a degree, but it must be brought, not sought
The miserable remnant olife which still hangs TO the
sufferer is burden almost too grevous to be borne;
yet his inherent love of existence induces desire
still 10 preserve it. if can be saved without tax
upon bodily exerton. The mind wanders. AT one
moment he thinks his weary limbs cannot sustain
him mile-the next, he is endowed with unatu-
raj strength and If there be certainty OF reilei be-
fore him, dashes bravely and strongly onward,
wondering whence proceeds this new and sudden
impulse.
| Further than this my experience runneth not.
| The reader may think have drawn fancy sketch
| that have colored the picture too highly: now,
while sincerely he may never be in situation
10 test its truth from actual experience, would IN
all sober seriousness say to hn, that many oil the
sensations have Just described have myself cXpe-
rienced and so did the ninety-and-elght persons
| who were with me from the time when we first en-
tered the grand prairie until reached the flock OF
| sheep, TO which more pleasing SUBJECT Will now
| return.
Mon IN ST. LOUISA mob ragged IN st. Loms
on Sunday last in the vicinity of the medical de-
partment of the st. Louis University. 1t appears
that small vault, used by the medical school,
and containing the remains Of several human be-
inps, was found uncovered, presenting most re-
volving sight. The railing around 1t had been
broken down, and a portion of one of the bodies
/ dragged out and thrown upon an open lot adIon-
ing. This, carly on Sunday, drew an excited
crowd. The vault was covered by the police and
onened acain by the mob Between | and
| O'Clock P. NJ the building was attacked with
stones One person was arrested whom the crowd
| ATTEMPTED in vain to rescue. Five more were
then arrested and sent to the calaboosc. Three
military companies were ordered out, which greatly
excited the mob Speeches were made by MIR.
N1cCown, Judge Mullanphy, the Mayor, and MIR.
kayser On proposition OF the latter gentleman,
committee of II were appointed TO guard the
building, and the mass adjourned to the court
house, and the Mayor withdrew the military and
released those under arrest. The building was
eventually given up to a part OF the moo' who de-
mo!ished the skylights, windows, and whatever
else could be destroyed After the meeting in the
court -house, however, most of the multitude re-
tired. The affair was to undergo an lnveshga
ton on Monday Louisville Jour, March l.
NJ A disease is prevailing to considerable cX-
tent in Frankfort, Ky. much resembling the
smal!-pox-although several physicians there have
published a card in which they state their belief
chat it is not that disease. The following pro-
ceedings in the Legislature, now IN session tlere'
have reference TO this subject:
tIons from Contagious disease smallpox said 10 De pre-
vang In ths he sadthe members had rig nj 10 p9.ct
his resolution effect that the door
Keeper should hut door, and admit none bur those VINO
had bus mess within ,.. -, o,,. ,rs n,.srs
aud from Mr. SPEED that the members pro-
ect Themselves hy putting nis ter on hsir HoSe$ re-
solution was adoptrd-yes 3S. nays ai
n; Jacob Drummond, Esq, has been noml-
mated by the Wings of Bangor, Me-, for Mayor
election llth INST
~ The New-Jersey Assembly has passed
resolution to adjourn on the l4th INST