Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-17
AN AFFECTING NARRATIVE.

AN AFFECTING NARRATIVE.
The Columbus (Ga) Citizen relates the fol
lowing:
Mr.. Moore and wife; his son in-law, Mr.
Crute and wife children and grandchildren
to the number Of fifteen, whites and about
sixty blacks, left New Orleans for Galveston on
one Of the steamships, some time about the last
of January or first of February, in company
with over four hundred other emigrants On
arrival at Galveston, MIR. Moore's family took
up their line of march for Grimes county,
where he had planting interest, and whittier
his son, George Moore, IT., had preceded him
q year ago.
After passing Houston, the cholera broke out
among the negroes, several of whom died on
the way to Grimes county, and several more
after their arrival in the neighborhood. The
disease was thus communicated to the white
family, Of whom, fifteen in number, all were
attacked but Mrs Crute and infant child and
of all attacked, on the 9Th February, the last
date cf the letter Of Mr. Barnes twelve had
died, or all but lad. OF the negroes, fifty ont
of the sixty had been attacked with the dis
ease. of whom about twenty had died at the
time of writing and the disease had communi
Gated to the family Of negroes who had previ-
ously been in Texas one of whom Yves dead
and the disease still unsubdued
The following extract from the letter Of q
MIR. Barnes, gives picture Of the death-bed
scene of that Inflated family.
@The family were living within two miles Of
me, where James Moore and George made a
crop last year. have been among them more
or less from the time of their arrival, Ia week
ago,) and, sir have witnessed the most heart
rending scenes that have ever heard of and
God forbid it should ever be my unhappy lot
to witness the like again.
4 aThe white family were all confined in log
house on the place above mentioned about l6
by Is feet, but well finished and tight; and
yesterday my heart was made to bleed, indeed,
at the awful scenes around me. | was request
ed by Moore to write his will, and drew near
to where he was lying to give him my undi-
vided attention while he Was performing this
important duty and Immediately after 1 be-
gan 10 write, he said to me, condense the
matter as much as possible, for my time is
short;' and true il was though his mind was
clear and collected he grew worse very fast
and more than once asked me to condcnse,'
and the doctor told me to do what did quick.
ly--and Just here the groans and CALCULATIONS
Of dying grandson (some IL years of age)
we're uttered in tones too tender and pitiful to
be UNDECIDED by any in the range Of his shat
tered voice, and among these cries was re-
quest of his mother to pray that ] may die
easy = and again, Oh mother, meet me in
Heaven s0h mother, write 10 my aunt in
Georgia, am going to Heaven; All Of yen
must meet me in Heaven; Mother are all my
little brothers and sisters gone to Heaven but
me sAll but my baby son. We'll, ma,
Won must come, and father, too
"The strain was kept mp for more than an
hour; and beside this, there lay two SOM, one
on each side Of dying father, writing with
the agonies Of cramp, peculiar to cases just
before going into collapse and now and then
would come up the deep and fervent prayer
from an old sainted mother and lamentations
that would not fail TO bring tears from stran-
gers eyes. Imagine the groans and half.sup-
pressed prayers Of q daughter, whose father,
brothers, and child, were all dying around
her, and she no hope left but that herself, her
mother, and her husband, would soon be
graphing with that monster which could not
DO stayed and you will have u faint idea Of
Mrs. Crntes situation ut this jnncturc."
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OBIo.-The following is the list OF speakers
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Carter, Of Massilon, o. Hon s. P. Chase, Uni.
ted States Senate; Hon John r. Hale, New
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United States Senate.
The Courier and Enquirer says that the in
surancc in London on house property is
eighteen pence to the hundred pounds in New
York, it Is five timcs as much London has
one hupdrsd and nine fremen; New York
three thousand London has twenty square
miles TO be protected New York, ten. Lon
largest in the world London has water on
ono side New York has water on all sides
The appropriations aeked for public improve
menss al the present session Of tho Legislature
Of Pennsylvania exceed $6OO0,O00.
large quantity Of gunpowder, intended Cor
the Emperor Of kussis, WAS lately seized ON
shipboard at London