Washington telegraph., 1850-09-18
A HORRIBLE PIcrURE.-We copy the following
horrible recital from late Evansville al a. lIonrnal

A HORRIBLE PIcrURE.-We copy the following
horrible recital from late Evansville, Na journal
Ut is almost toe horrible story for belief:
While travelling a couple of weeks since, we
heard from the lips of friend, one of the most
heart-rending rectas we have listened to long
time. He was put off from a steamboat at or
near Wolf Island, about twenty five miles below
the mouth Of the Ohio for the purpose of collecting
d debt from man living about FIVE miles back in
the country, On the Missouri side, we think
With carpet bag iii his hand, he had followed
narrow path about three miles, when he came
across small cabin. Yet 'cabin" would net de-
scribe the place of habtation for such it proved
to be. 1t was little dilapdated shed with no
boards on one side and great crevces OF the other
sides aud in the roof. He would have passed it
by, but mo ans from the inside told him that it
occupied. Wishing to inquire his road he stopped,
and soed before the open side of the shed, and
ga Zed upon a spectacle, which as he said, was
present before his eyes. days afterwards, and
haunted his sleep. We describe what he saw, as
he told US, only saying, that strange as the story
may seem, full reliance be placed upon his
words
There was not bed or chair in the shed, but
stretched upon the bare ground lay the bofy of
younglsh looking woman who had evidently just
died. Her form was almost perfect skeleton.
yet the face that of refined and beautiful
woman. On her breast lay an infant of about six
months Of age, with its mouth to the breast Of its
mother, and dead And sitting up in corner Of
the SHE'D, and staring the traveller in the face with
glazed eyes, was what b. thought another corpse,
but life was yet in it The figure was that of
girl about ten wears o!2. She could not rise to
her feet, and yet she was not sick. She was
literally dying of starvation. By the side of the
woman, and clespihg her hand, lay man covered
with blood and apparently in jyin, state Add
to this the filth OF the and the half naked
condition Of the sufferers, aud We wonder not that
the scene long haunted the observer. He went n
The girl could not speak, but the man cried
''water" in feeble voice, and pointed TO the girl
as if 10 attract the strangers attention to her.
The traveller, Mr. j., of Cincinnati, hastened
away, taking with him tin pan, and says he
never ran harder in his life than ne did about
half mile to "a stream he had Passed.
On his return, he fosnd the iaan still alive, and
gave him water, Which he eagerly drank He
could then speak in whisper. He pointed to
the girl and said-"she's starving" Mr.. j gave
the grl some water, which appeared to revive
her. and she .ried to talk, but could not With
much difficulty he learned from the man that
there was a house about mile distant, to which
he hurried Ga his arrival there he found only
negro. While getting SOM provisions and hasten
ing back with the man, the latter inform msd him
that the cholera had broken out in that neigh
borhood, and the family owning hra had left for
had daily made her appearance there for pro-
visions until about three days back-that the man
and woman had been sick for long time, &c.
On their return, the man dying, and lived
hut an hour The little girl revived by food,
and before they took her away. could talk. She
said she had been sick herself and could not walk
to the house for food. and that her mother died the
day previous, and the baby about the same time
and that her father had tried to kill himself when
they died. 1t was horrid. The child was taken
to the house, and the rest of the unfortunate family
buried. The child afterwards stated that her
name was Mary Williams, and Mr. j. thonght,
from what he could gather, that the family had
formerly lived in New Albany. hut in what New
Albany he could not ascertain, more than as the
child said, there were great many housrs there,
and it evidently Albany, ~ 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 nelghborhood the person
having gone whom Mr.. J. wished TO see, the girl
who was sick aud exhausted, was left with The
negro, who promised faithfully TO attend her.
Yet there We're but little hopes Of her recovery.
II has never been our misfortune TO hear more
horrible tale of reality than this.