New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-22
A Sad NaYYNfiYe.

The Eveasvslle J0srsal lind has the bloEing
tragic account Of 4 recent adventure Of traveller
near the confluence Of the Ohio and Mississippi:
While travelling couple weeks since, ne head
from the lips Of friend Of the most heart rend-
ing recitsls we have listened 10 for long tina
He was put of from q steamboat AZ OF near " OIL
Inland, about twenty FIVE miles below the mouth
Of the Ohio, FIR tie purpose OF collecting de9'
from q man living about i've niles oA'x N the
country, on the Missouri side, We think. With
carpet bag in bis hand, he had followed narroF
path about three miles when be came across :
mail cabin. Yet cabin would not describe Toe
place Of habiss,ion for such il proved 70 be. IL gus
a little dilapidated shed with no boards on one SIDE
and great crevices on the other sides Rnd Ia toe
roof n would have paused Il By. bal noans ron
the inside told that It was occuPied. wishing TO
INQUIRE bis road be stopped, and stood before ina
open side Of the shed, and gazed upon spectacle,
which, as ne said, vas present before ms eyes
DAYS AfterE ard and haunted bis sleep. We de-
scribe what he saw, Is be tod rs only saying that
strange as the story may seem, i1i rehence can DC
placed upon his words
There was not a bed CT chair in the shed, bat
stretched upon the bare ground lay the BODY Of
youugish looking woman, who had evidently J1st
died Her form was almost perfect skeleton, yet
the face was that Of refined and beautiful woman.
On her breast lay An infant OF about Six months Q,
age with its mouth 70 the breas. OF its mothsr, and
dad. And sitting 10 in a corner OF the shed, and
staring the traveller in the face With glazed eyes
vas what be thought another corpse, but HE was
vet in il. The figure We that Of girl aooa. ten
wears old She could not rise 10 her feet, and yer
abe was not sick She was literally dying OF star.
ration By the side Of the womsn. aud cluPing
her haud. Law man covered with blood and appA
rently in a dying state. Add TO this the nth Of
the room and the half naked condition Of the sui
ferers and we wonder not that the scene long
haunted the observer. He went in. The girl
could not speak, but the man cried " water In
feeble voice. and pointed to the glr as II 70 a.sact
the strangers ate ntion 10 her The traveller, Mr..
j. OF Cincinnati, fastened away, taking with him
tin PAN and says he never ran harder in his HE
than he did about half mile 10 stream be had
passed.
On his return. he found the man sill alive, and
gave him water, which be eagerly drank. tie
could then speak in Whisper He pointed to the
sirl and said-"she's starving" Mr.. j. gave the
Girl some water which appeared 70 revive her, a1d
she tried 70 talk. but could not With much dif-
fculty be learned from the man that there was
house about mile distant, to which be harrlef-
On mis- arrival there he found only negro. Wnle
getting some provisions and Fastening back with
the man, the latter informed him that the cholera
had broken out in that neighborhood, and the FAM.
~ owning him had left for the time being. he said
tie little girl Of the shed had daily made her ap-
pesrance there for provisions until about three
days bsck-thkt the man and woman had been
sick tor long time, &c. On tneH return tue nan
was DIV ing and lived but an hour. the little girl
was revived by food, and before they took her
away, could talk. She said she had been sick her.
self and could not walk to the house for food and
that her mother died the day previous, and the
baby about the same tlme-aLd that her iasner hai
tried to kill himself when they died. 1t was hor.
rid. The child was taken TO the house, and the
rest of the unfortunate family buried. The child
aiterwmd stated that her name was Mary vii
hams and Mr. j. thought from what be could
gather, that the family had formerly lived In New
Albany, but in what New. Albany he could not as
certain, more than az the child said, there were
great many houses there, and 1t was evidently
New. Albany, n. Y. The negro said the family
had been there several weeks, and came directly
after his master had left. As there WAS not
family in the neighborhood the person having gone
whom Mr.. J. wished to see, the girl who was sick
and exhausted, was left with the negro, who prom.
isei faithfully 10 attend her, Hsf hevst Yesa bar
little hopes Of her recoyeIy horrible tale Of reality
than this.