The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-11-25


and the dog,fsh is being thrown
ashore. Wen have all the water
here in q moment. Wen all be gone
--goone-g.o.n.e forever"
listened to this, and much more,
Some one Of the children suggested
that perhaps it was trs~; that the pa
pers told Of the excavations and ex-
tentions at the Battery, and that may
be, the lower part Of the city had
slid into the water, and the people
received Sodom-like fate
"Where did you sleep last night3"
! enquired.
''ln town, sir-town, sir-run all
the way here, sirP'
"What's your name?'
"Voorhies, sir" y
"Where do you live?' a n
81 did live at Mr.. Stevens's, corner
Of South street and Peck-slip-a lodg-
ipg-house, But it tools gone, sir; gone
swallowed up-aH the dodgers
drownedP
"Irdeed! But how could they have
been all drowned, and yop here?"
Not disconnected in The least, he
replied, II run, sir-run for my life!
And there-there, o, see-see-it's
after me again!' 0 .a.
And he started for the road, as If
a deer pursued by a whole pack Of
hounds TO re-enact the same scene,
and tell the same wild incoherent tale
elsewhere, no doubt. ea,
Do you catch the cause of the mans
frenzy, reader? If not, ask those.
who have suffered, before him the
horrors-the indescridable horrors
of delirium tremens, or mania -potW
commonly called "the man with
the poker" That was the cause Of
his strange and startling imaginings
-chimeras Of the brain deranged,
shattered, ruined for the time-ay,
and ruined hopelessly, and speedily
terminating in death--terrible death
if relief does not come through
sleep, which DR.. Dixon has aptly
styled "the repose of the mind"
Let us hope that he has procured sleep
ere this; and in the meantime, let the
Gothamites congratulate themselves
that they have been swallowed up by
only an imaginary earthquake. us
SEoUEL.---I communicated the
startling facts ofthe foregoing sketch
it is faithful to every symptom of the
awful case it describes, showing how
true it is that facts are frequently
"stranger than fction"-to friend
connected with the New York Nation
| al Democrat, in which they were pub
lished on the day after the occurrence.
/ But feeling satisfied without some in
| quiry as to the reality and identity
\ Of the persons designated by name,
and anxious to learn the fate of the
rum maniac, if possible, proceeded
4 . "..5
to the south corner OF South street
and Peck-slip, where | found-con-
trary, somewhat to my anticipation,
in view of the mental delusion com
mon to delirium-that the reference,
as well as the names, was correct;
and, further, that l had been adver-
tising moi only clearinghouse" but
a drinking-house also! s
H / inquired for Mr.. Voorhies, and
learned that he had recovered, par
TALLY, from an attack to which he was
not, alas! stranger. 1t seems he
had walked, if not ''run all the way.
as he asserted--about six miles!--
from an imaginary earthquake. q<
/ One Of the bar-keepers had read
the account in the morning paper, but
another had not. The latter proceed
ed to read it in my presence; and, as
he read, he laughed unconcernedly
over the wild sayings Of the very
victim Of his own death-dealing busi-
ness! for such was, in part at least,
Il ,~:tLo,,A Io,.It .nouv UoorhiaS GCtho