The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-16
:. MoULTRiE HIMSELF AGAIN.


OF lovers which are good, and all the tender pro-
testations Of affection, which are, comparatlyeiy
speaking, better, and all the - well all the kisses
which are. superlatively speaking best, there is
nothing that can compare with the exquisite pleas
ure derived from a renewal ofan engagement when
had been broken Off o. circumstances over which
neither OF the lovers had any control Now, where
as, the engagement between the NEWS and irs cor
respondent was dissolved BY corraspondingiy ur-
controilablc circumstances, Moutrie at least 's
made most overwhelmingly happy by virtue OF IT'S
renewal and resumes his letters with the greater
satisfaction on account OF very full heart and .
pocket not quite so uncomfortable plethorie.
All hail, then tony old friends, the readers OF the
News all hail to those who were kind enough 10
express regret at Moultre's temporary disappear
ance under cloud, and who, I hope, Will be KIM
enough again TO rejoice with him til at the sun
| shines once more upon the day which Deholds MN
pen in hand at the good old work of posting them
on the news comprising all the events social, po-
itical commercial, financial, local. serious ana
facetious, that lave transpired, do transple anu
NAV transpire in and around this great busy,
bustling metropolis Of the Western hemisphere
By strange coincidence 1 am brlmtul OF ra'her
interesting matter with which to begin my hrst re-
newal note, or should say, renewal letter; TOR on
receipt last night. Of the welcome Intelligence
that The NEWS is open to me, as all print was oPen
to SIIAs WEoo, had just returned from Vislt 10
the public institutions on Blackwells .sland, LII
company with a party Of ladies and gentlemen
from Charleston, who will naturally have some Gu
riositv to see what have to say about the sights
we saw The visit included personal inspection
of the Lunatc Asylum, Aims House, Work House
and Penitentary and l propose not to give you
guide book account Of these places, but simple
recital of the most prominent features thereof' IN
my own loose, running, careless STYLE In tne
Work House and Aims House, there Is notnlne
worthy of special note, except that they are SUD-
stantial and well constructed edi6ces. regulated
and arranged with scrupulous regard ior the
comfort of the unfortunate inmates, and with the
floors and every portion of the building the very
ouintescence of cleanliness and order. Add TO
this the novel sight of ward for babies, VINO are
rocked to sleep by other than mothers hands
| as these Door little ones Heaven help them, are all
| motherless, or what is even worse, abandoned by
their natural guardianship with the circum
stance that the .1ounds are most beautifully lalo
out, one walk running through grove Oh weeping
willows, being quite as beautiful as any promenade
in the Central Park, and enough will have been
said of these.
If men and women with minds diseased can
possbly be made comfortable, then can the poor
lunatics in the asylum on Blackwels be said to be
comfortably fixed, and yet, poor creatures 1t must
move q heart of hardest adamant to look upon
their haggard faces and vacant countenances IN
which the light Of reason has gone out forever, or
Gickers with sickly and unwholesome glare that
tells of the mental wreck in them, ard suggests
thousand causes for these 'minds distraught"
Every phase and species Of this dire afaction can
be seen in the asylum-~here In the cells with wan
faces and glarins eyes peepine through the bars
of the heavyiron grating is madness in every form,
and here again at the rude dining table Ito which
some of the potter maniacs invited MoULTRlE'
sit the unfortunatos partaking Of soup () unlike
DELMoNICo's and bread harder even than the heart
of him who could look unmoved upon the sorry
picture Here madness iii every stage and form,
the harmless and idiotic maniac seated upon the
floor, Of slowly promenading along the broad pas
sage way, with stolid look and meaningless stare,
as of one who had lost something, he knows not
what and searches in vain for that which never
can be found Here the melancholy wretch with
ewes ever downcast, and look that betokens the
death of hope, which from the PANDoRAs box In
his crushed heart has fled in horror chased there
from by the morciloss hand Of wan despair: here
| poor young girl deceived ruined and abandoned
| by some fiend in human shape, OF whom she
| raves from morn till night, and AGAIN from
| night till dawn and who, perchance, as she
sits in her lonely col walks abroad in the gay city
opposite, with head erect respected By society De-
cause he has not defrauded man of his gold, but
only robbed poo: woman Of her virtue, her hsp-
piness, and her mind. Here facetious manlac
who amuses himself and others by the most extra
ordinary antics and contortions Of his features
that can be conceived, and which, from their yer!
absurdity and grotesqueness, provoke smile even
while the heart of the beholder is panied and sad
dened as, spite OF the ludicrous grimaces, no dc
tects an air of vearness and misery that tells OF
heart agony that no pen can picture. But, Oh!
most terrible sight Of sll-sec there behind the
iron grating of that darkened cell the ra7i-.g mad
man, mis- muscular arms closely pinioned 10 mis-
side in the folds of straight jacket his eyes glare
with the savage ferocity of the starved panther
| the foam bursts from his mouth, from which the
| blood trlckleS, as III MS ueuZI ue LAS DiltSh
| tongue and then with frantic wells and fllghtui
burst of laughter attempts i'll vain to break the
chain that binds him, and by which he is prevented
from dashing out his brains against the soiid ma
sonry of his dungeon floor. But why dwen upon
| this painful picture? Let mo rather rotate such
! incidents as tend to show that IN His superaoan-
| dant mercy and goodness the Al-Wise Creator can
even ,ouchsafe happiness to him whose mind mas
been completely wrecked. l was Yesterday
personally introduced to number Of in
sane ladies and gentlemen in whose. mad
ness there is 80 much method that they
are beyond all doubt much happier than
| they could possibly ever have been before thelr
minds wera wrecked One of these mono-na-
that the great end and object for which he has
been placed in this sublunary sphere is to prevent
his fellow-men from ever succum6ng TO an attack
of Asiatic cholera. On the middle hnger OF his
right hand this philanthropic madman wears
brass ring artistically enveloped III frame Work
| of dirty cord You nave but to shake hands with
him and touch the corded ring, and there can De
no remote possible chance OF your ever taxing
your departure from this terrestrial globe Gy any
of tine cholera routes. Moultrie shook hands with
the cholera, but not choerc man, about fifteen or
twenty times, and was much pleased ana amused
at noting how happy the poor iunatic seemed TO
| of the Asiatic disease after this stomachic pre-
yentiye, YOU must never more believe the Word OF
mocn-struck philanthropists.
NV peSt introduction was to the queen OF
| Heaven" who seems, however, TO nave tshel1
wrong train AMI gotten'into the other kingdom by
stake: for She holds forth in the mad house ito
which viii department the ladies' Of cqr party could
not be admitted, as many of the lunatics indulge
IN naughty anguage not to speak ofcsrtsn t7 pan
tomic performances more eoSeetonss1MH 0s ever
informed rlR,r me that in addition to the duties
annertaining alr to her celestial office, she also
fIls the position of matrcn of the'establishment,
with eGureGns %st fbad ffd11sSs Sepd and be
I1,;+ted into the asvlum as an inmate, she would
ti sindlv use her influence in behalf of the speedy
that nothing would connee 50 materially h { to my
5 s nS %anS IS ho hs hopp e DGa
tSet aaccented With pleasure her generous oe
t5Ss herenpon mon succeeded in rendering "one mole
,,nfort1lnate" inexpressibly happy ,....