The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-07-15

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DESTRUCTION offhe old Morgue.
A Paris correspondents of Northern paper
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q Last @.week the Did aorgpe, that souvenir of
so much tragedy and wretshedncss, had the;
pickaxe laid at its roof. They. had bnt a new
Morgue, with modern ixings, in the rear of
Notre Dame Cathedral; an old, grey, low, gro
tesue charnel was adjudged to disappear. How
: like Q haunted thing it seemed, standing bare.
amid acres of ruins. A thousand spectral hands
held ii up invisibly. In and out, in and out,
when trains of wreck and lived being, some
gashed and bleeding some dripped with the
rivers coziness, some black and grinning, and,
bursting with death: See the old clothes futter
above the slab Of zinc, and round about the
many baubles aud the tools of ife-the boys
playthlng, the cyprian's tattered silks, the. in
strUments of the house breaker, The. seals and
tarnished watch. of the gentleman. All this
time the water dips, drips, Grips, upon the cold
forehead OF the invisible inmates, as they stare
50 CLASSIFY at the skyHght with their naked.
arms stretched ont SO rigidiE, while the throng
Of gay laughing folks look through theswindOw
panes perpetually--wome with babies many
young larks with dogs, coqRettish little grsettes
upon tho arms Of their tenth ansant proud la
dies who;step from their carriages to see what
some time they shall become. That old <Mor-
que shall be the novelist's library and ipspha-
ton for long years to come. Among the ia
NOUS places destroyed BY the builders, has been
s Papiu Blanc, which figures in Sues "Myste.
ries, s,of Paris" so prominently.
This was a low wine shop not far from the
Morgue, and close to the Palaids de Justice.
N stood upon narrow street, in labyrinth
locality, and was the resort of thieves and cut
throats, who made it the scene Of bloody or
tries. The sewers ran Beneath the house Lead
ihg to the Seine, and il is said that victims
were often hurried through the black passage
at midnight and tossed into the swift river.
When these old places are about 20 be thrown
down, thousands of people visit tbem The
grand barracks thatis to be built upon the site
of the Morgue is bare to its foundation now;
the sewers are exposed and it easy to peo,
pie the old place with ghostly things, for it was
truly dark and tangled before. The new Nor
que is sprucea ard faring like a bran new coffin.
It will hold dozen bodies; the river washes
It's base upon two sides, and "a fine skylight
lights up the faces Of the naked dead. There
arellarge window panes between tire subject
and the spectator, which give to the heinteriorof
the case watery appearance, as if its inmates
were lying on the floor Of the ocean. There is
little modesty in the exhibition. Almost any
day one may see there the round limbs and bo-
som Of some girl or woman, thus glaringly ex-
posed to profane eyes. For many years to
come the New Morgqe will be "a feature in Par
is scenery. -
!, The wire used by Grants telegrap6ists i
constructed on the principle of the Atlantic ca
BE- No posts are necessary; it being perfectly
insulated. It unwound from real and laid
on the ground, and thus connects each, corps;
of the army with headquarters, so that ,orders
are instantly transmitted from one end Of the,
lines to the other, without loss of time, and
withouta risk Of having codriers killed by
sharpsheoters.'
Loss OF, A YANKEE GUNBoAT.-The new guns
boat Leander, on her way out from Philadelphia
to joiu the blockading squadron off Charleston,
was lost upon Cape Lookout shoals on the night
Of the 18th ult. She was in charge Of crew,
of twenty men; mine Of whom were drowpedyor
died, exhaustion.