The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-10-22


lof any kind is inflicted; the lunatic is always
treated as patient, aud never as an offender
When he becomes so outrageous and violent that
his presence can be endured no longer he is put
into room with padded walls and floors where
he can do himself no mischief, aud where his
rage is allowed TO exhale. Even the strait lack
ct is unknown here.
E.l said that the demeanor of all the patients
with whom the asylum was swarming was peace
able. There was one exception. On entering
one OF the wards, a girl of an earnest and deter
mined aspect, as soon as she saw Dr. Conoly
began to scream violently, and spring towards
him, thrusting aside the bystanders by main
force. Two of the female attendants came i'm
medately up aud strove to appease her, holding
Eer back, without severity, as a mother would
restrain her infant. saw them struggling with
her for some time; how they finally disposed Of
her ! did not observe, but her screams had ceas-
ed before we left the ward.
Among the patients was one who, we were
told, was remarkable for his extravagant love
of 6nery, and whose cell was covered over with
glaring colored prints and patches of colored pa
per ornamentally disposed, He wore OH his hat
a broad strip of tarnished lace, and had decora-
ted his waistcoat with several perpendicular rows
ofpearl buttons. "You have made your room
very fine here" said The doctor.
eyes," said he, smiling and evidently delight
ed, "but, my dear sir, all is vanity--alI is vanity,
sir, and vexaton Of spirit. There is but one thing
that we ought to strive for, and that is the king
dom of heaven"
AS there was no dsputing this proposition, we
passed on to another cell, at the door of which
stood tall, erect parsonage, who was busy with
a pot of paint and a brush inscribing the panels
with mottos and scraps of verse. The walls of
his room were covered with poetry and pithy SEN
tences. Some of the latter appeared to be of
Ibis own composition, and were not badly turned /:
their puVport generally was this that birth was
but trivial accident, and that virtue and talent
were the only true nobility. This man was found
wandering about in Chswck, full of plan for
educating the Prince of Wales in a manner to
enable him to fill the throne with credit and use
fulness. AS his name could not be learned, the
appellation of "Chswick" was given him, which
he had himself adopted, styling himself Mr..
"Chlswlck," in his notices, but always taking
care to put the name between inverted commas
AS we proceeded, man rose from his seat and
laying both hands on table before him, so as 10
display his fingers, ornamented with rings made
OF black ribbon, in which glass buttons were sell
for jewels, addressed DR.. Connolly with great re-
spect, formally setting forth that he was in great
want of new coat for Sundays, the one he had
on being positively unfit to appear in, and that a
better had been promised him. The doctor stop
ped, inquired into the case, and the poor fellow
was gratited by the assurance that the promised
coat should be speedily forthcoming.
In his progress through the wards DR.. Conol-
ly listened with great patience to the various
complalns Of the inmates One of them came
Iup and told us that he did not think the methods
of the institution judcious. "The patients,'' said
he care many of them growing worse One IN
particular, who has been here for several weeks,
can see is growing worse every day." DR.. Co
molly asked tho name of the patient--"I cannot
tell, said the man, "but can bring him TO YOU"
"Bring him, them" said the doctor; and after a
moments absence he returned, leading up one
of the healthiest and quietest looking men in
the ward. ''I1e looks better, TO be sure" said
the man, "but he is really worse" A burst of
Laughter from the patients who stood by followed
this saying, and one Of them looking at me
knowingly, touched his forehead to intimate thai
the objector was not exactly in his senses.
In one of the female wards we were introdu-
ICED as gentlemen from America, to a respectable
looking old lady in black, who sat with cruch
Iby her side. "Are you not lawyers?" she ask
led, and when we assured her that we were only
Yankees she rebuked us mildly for assuming
such disguise, when she knew very we'll that
we were couple of attorneys. "And you doc
tor" she added, 81 am surprised that you should
have had any thing to do with such deception"
The doctor answered that he was very sorry she
had so bad an opinion of him, as she must be
sensible that he had never said any thing to her
which was not true. "Ah doctor,'' she rcioin-
ed, "but you are the dupe of these people,"
i 1t was in the same ward, | think, that a we'll
dressed woman, in bonnet and shawl, was pro-
menading the room, carrying bible and two
smaller volumes, apparently prayer or hymn
books. "Have you heard the very reverend Mr..
|-,i in --- chapelp she asked of my
travelling companion--I have unfortunately for
gotten the name of the preacher and his chapel
On being answered in the negative, "Then 90
and hear him." she added, when you return TO
London" She went on to say that the second
coming of the Saviour was to take place, and the
world 10 be destroyed in very few days, and
) that she had commission 10 proclaim the APP
Iprbach of that event. "These poor people," said
she, "think that am here on the same account
as themselves, when | am only here to prepare
the way for the second coming" .l
Sim thinking, please yer honor, that it is
quite time was let out Of this place. said
Voice as we entered one of the wards. DR.. Co
molly told me that he had several Irish patients
in the asylum, and that they gave him the most
trouble on account Of the hurry in which they
we're to be discharged. We heard the same re-
lquest made in the same brogue by various other
patients of both sexes. ~. sea ba,E. a.t
/ As left this multitude of lunacs, promiscu
Iously gathered from the poor and the reduced
class, comprising all varieties of mental disease,
from idiocy to madness, yet all of them held in
such admirable order by the law ofkindness, that