New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-21

az the normal state Of mankind, and the payment
debts as q disesse that occasionally broke out
In this strange scene, and with theee strange spsc-
ter, fitting about him, Arthur Cennam looked % -
he psrpetiaiions. as L they were part Of dresm.
Pending which the long-inlis'ed Tip, with awful
enjoyment of the Snuggsrys resources, pointed out
the common kitchen fire maintained by subscription Of
coselans the boiler for hot water supported IN hfe
manner and other pr.mises generally tending 70 The
deduction that the way 10 be healthy, wealthy, and
wise, was to come TO the harshasea.
The two tables put together IN corner ven, ~
length Converted into a very fair bed; and the sHan-
Ger was lef TO the Windsor chairs, the presdentiA
tribune. the berry atmosphere, sawdust, pPe-hghts
spittoors ard repose. But the last item was ooe.
long long in linking Itself 10 the rest The noyeHy on
the place the coming upon il without preparation, me
sense of being locked up, the remembrance OF thst
room up stair Of the two brokers and above al OF
the retiring childish form, and the face in which be
now Jaw years of insufficient food If not of wan, ket
him waking and unhappy.
Specuations too, bearing the strangeet relations to-
ward the prison, but always concerning the prison. ran
like Nightmares through his mind while he lay awake.
Whether cofius were kept ready for people who might
die there where they kept, how they were kept,
where people who died in the prison were buried how
thew were taken cut, what ferns were observed,
whether an mplacabe creditor could arrest the deed
As 10 escaping what chances there were OF escape
Whether prisoner could scale the walls with cord
and crarple how he would descend upon the other
side: whether be could aIgh on howetop steal
down staircase. let himself out at door, and get
lest in the crowd As to fire in the prison, II one were
TO break out while he lay therei
And these involuntary starts OF fancy were aner oil,
but the setting of picture in which three people kept
before him. His father with the steadfast look with
which he had died. propheticaly darkened forth 70 the
portrait; his mother with her arm up warding OF bis
suspioion; Little DON'T, with her hand on the de-
graded ann, and her dropping head TUNED away:
Whati If his mother had an old reason she well knew
for softenng to this poor girl What II the prisoner
now sleeping quietly-Heaven gran, tl-by the night
Of the great Day Of Judgment should trace back nis
fall to her What any act Of hers and OF bis fathers,
should have remotely brought the gray heads OF
those two brothers 80 low
swift thought shot into his mind In that long i'm
prisoument here, aud in her own long confinement 70
her room did his mother find balance to be struck
adm that Twas accessory to that mans captivity.
have suffered for it in kind. He has decayed IN biz
prison; in mine. l have paid the penalty.
Wien all the other thoughts had faded out, this one
held possession of him. When be fell asleep, she cana
before him in her wheeled chair warding him of with
this justification. When he awoke, and sprang ny
causeessly frightened the words were in his ears a. i
her voice had slowly spoken them at his pillow, e
break his rest: He wthers away in his prison.
wither away in mine; memorable justice lie done wha
do owe on this score!"
lend OF PART H.