Spirit of the age., 1861-04-24
cation and News of the Day
- IE1et5 NORTH CARoI.INAs APRIL "a. 1861.

for herself and children from kind Chris
tian lady in that neighborhood asked
myself if that could really be the same Bel
la once so proud of Willie, and so attached
to hm-him, whom she once considered
undetermined, generous, intelligent young
man, now lying ead,-she telling me so,
evidently without the slightest emotion
Poor fellow he died the death of a drunken |
pauper-that once Aourishing young man /
and the woman he once adored, so divested
of every natural feeling, telling, without the
slightest respect or compunctlon, that sne
had locked her door and left his dead body
there The thing was truly sickening to con-
template hurried away
A few Saturday nights ago, took walk
through the more crowded parts Of the city,
/ saw much to cause sigh for poor human
nature. Every one is familiar with the sight
of intoxication, street bawling, and general
disordliness. Here was penny theatre, in
to which some of the youth of the Cowgate
the Canongate, and st. Mary's Wind were
| trying to procure admission. Their peculiar
slang and dialect would at once inform
stranger that they were familiar with vice
and crime. A woman in juggler's robes, and
in a disgusting state of intoxication, held
board in her hand which intimated that " To
night, Lafin' Gas" would be performed and
admission Prise / pennie.' | was standing
looking at this extraordinary sight, when a
man rushed past, and a woman pursuing
him might and MAN, while policeman
stood looking half amused, half wondering
at them, till they were out of sight. Fur
ther on was another penny theatre, more dis
gusting still in its details than the former.
Farther on again, young man. evidently q
mechanic, speaking, not preaching, very
pnalx 10 ~ tod OF
rem. The lad had evidently good sense,
strong faith, and warm heart May God
bless him! AS / was SO far on the way,
thought would try to find out Bella, and
see how she was living. She had told me
she lived in Mines Court, and thither ]
went. AT the foot of miserable, dirty,
dark stair-from which unpleasant sounds
} of quarrelling and fighting were issuing
stood two idle, bold cold-looking women
Qor the night was intensely frosty. | asked
one if she knew where Mrs. Rived
'Whas she ? replied the woman, as she star
ed at me with most disagreeable curiosity
as if she would follow up her question with
AN wha are yeg told her she was /;
widow, and her husband was plasterer.-
She's dead replied the woman. Do yor
know what was the matter with herT Din
{ ma KEN" Do you know what has become
I OF her children 'Dlnna KEN. My ram0l'
for night was finished. Never did SCI
f more acutely the bitter cruelty of our whole
e sale and legalized system of murder; neve
did pray more earnestly that the abomina
S ton of desolation might be overturned ant
7 swept clean away from the face of the earth
e Sadness filed my heart that night.
e On the following Monday I went to c.
otroos, - the k4a-i1ose of -ecins5 if the she
where Bella first procured her poison wa
still In existence. Yes; there it was. Tn
d publican had his old signboard renewed, an
e a handsome one in its place-that nam
i which many poor victims shah curse. Ii
: was in what some persons would call -four
ishing way, and reaped goodly share of tn
$ wages of iniquity. Reap on publican! rea
/ on. Soon the weight of your gains shal
!, sink you, if you repent not, into an abys
: more fiery far than your own fiery poisonl !
r Ali. Weekly NeDs