Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-11-13
Affecting case or n lost Young
Girl.

A writer in the Duly Times gives the
| following particulars OF the case Of All et.
| ring young wemsn, whom he found III The
| prison hospital OH Blaekwell'e Island.
She was OF highly respectable family,
and was girl Of noble beauty But in
All evil hour the sedueef estne-=and In
time afterwards he cast her Off And then,
| by her ewb pride and desperation, she
had been driven TO crime. The late facts
| IN her history are striking and are worth
| brief narrative.
From the very first she had gained at
the hospital a singular interest with those
who attended her. Her disease was one
Of the most painful possible, yet she never
| in the EXTREMIST spasins uttered any oafis
seieus complaint or groan. There seemed
All nbflinehiDg courage and hsfoistn 1t,
her; or All indonitabe purpose to bear. az
Of one perhaps who was making an atone.
| ment for wrong but an occasional out.
burst Of passionate1 feeling would disclose
her nature. The physician Of her ward,
to whom she had become much attached,
had OCCASION one day to reprove her ior
something, She received il with her usu.
al Indifference, but In coming back al hour
later, he found her in such all hgony OF
tears and grief, IA with her disease--a
heart disease=4=aided TO the usual disorder,
to cause her life to be in danger She
could be Induced to say but little Of her
past life and there was such firmness
aud natural dignity about her. that few
wished to ask hel questions. One night,
however, In her deirium, the agony OF
heart could not be held in, and she raved
hour after hour Of happy old scenes. Of
loved ones disgraeed. Of The mother 1eton,
she hilted" When sane again che was
the same quiet, uneomplainng, nnnoved
person.
There WINS nothing that pleased the
physicians more ia her than her truthful.
ness, They could always depend on her,
and on several occasions Of difficulty In
the ward, she confessed her own mistake
or fault with perfect opehness.
As she knew those attending her more
intimately. she revealed more Of her past
| life. Of which 1t IL not necessary here to
spesk, except TO say, that her sin seems to
| be as much at the doors Of harsh and inju.
die,ous friends as al her own. Her course
| In crime had been short, and to herself in.
| finitely disgusting aud suspect would
have been gladly ended in the grave. To
me she once sHid, II thought to revenge
myself on others, but only injured my.
self" and aftera ards, no one Is to blame
but myself; IL had not loved him better
than myself, should not lave been here.
Yes, and love lim STILL
One night in fearful paroxysm, DR.. O.
who attended Iei, thought che was going
to die, and said few words to her of re-.
pantauee and Of the love Of God. She
| was perfectly conscious What is re-
pentanee to me 7" she replied bitterly.
II, would be all folly. That God should
love me -
| When she recovered from these spasins,
she devoted herself to the other patients |;
aud one night entirely contrary to orders
sat up till morning, taking care OF one OF
the nurses.
She had gradually recovered, and at
length one day presented herself 10 The doc.
tors for permission 10 leave. They remon.
strsted long with her; they showed her
how, with her heart disease, 1t would be
impossible for her to do much sewing; that
she was too delicate Tor hard work and
she would he forced 10 prostitution ngain
| in order to live. She understood it all, but
she was determined to go. They offered
i her place as nurse, which would at least
support her. She refused. One Of the
tloctofs, who had treated her with great
kindness, and on whom she had seemed to
lepend, now took her aside, md held a
/ long aud earnest conversation with her.
He Appealed 10 old feelings, spoke OF pa
rents aud sisters; Of the loving Kindness
Of Christ which she was rejecting Of the
Eternity which, with her complaint, might
be so .lear Of the tremendous chances.
|, had no effect. Desperation appeaied
to be goading her on. The world had
thurst her out, and she would defy the
world. lie asked her if she believed these
things to be true which he had been. say
ing.
"Yes, TO"
/ q" How can you avoid thinking Of them
hereafter, then =
81 shall make myself forget them;
can stop the thoughts
He then offered her money enough to
support her for some weeks, II she would
go to the " Home" or look out for place.
She would make no promises.
lie theft put the money at her own dis
posnI. aud would leave it to her honor to
use 1t. She would not accept it. and went
off in the same proud, defiant way.
However, the kind words, so usual to
the ears Of the prostitute, were not with
ont fruit. She went to her old hannts in
the city, and then, without passing night
there, directed to the Home" but there
was again attacked by paroxysm and,
az she was not fit subject for the charge
Of this institution, owing to her weakness,
/! she requested to be sent back again TO the
Prison, Hospital. Under the care Of these
kind, Christian men. the !ong-steeled heart
seemed 10 soften again; there were some
| in the cold, prond world who cared for the
outcas. woman. She seemed inclined to
accept respectable place in the building
1 as nurse. and to spend there the few bitter
DAYS left to her. It was hoped. too, more
and more, that the words Of the Bible
| might find lodgment in her heart; and that
the Love Of Him who had SO terlderly Ia
ken up the repentant prostitute and adul.
tress, might reach even her. AT length,
in one of the changes of her disease. she
became suddenly worse, and her physician
thought she could live but few days. Il