The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-05-13

OF speedy death. His voice was 20
husky that he could be hardly heard, as
I in reply TO question he answered that
he ''bad not slept a wink during the
night" He had served for three years
under the starry banner, only leaving
| the service when that banner foated
over the whole country.
Near him were two other consump-
tive patients. Their cases were hope
less. The doctor in charge of the com
pany told us that he had not expected
them to live through the night, and he
entertained notthe slightest expectation
of their reaching Washington. They
were lying on mattresses thrown hastily
on the floor. ay ,flaH
Not far from them were six lunatics,
reason gone from them forever. One
of them was clad in only a single gar
ment, her head and feet both bare.
And on either side of them were idiots
poor, senseless, unthinklng. One
of them was also deformed in fright
ful manner, and unable to move She
was an octoroon, with large liquid
eyes, and beautiful hair. But in her
eyes was no reason, and her hair was a
mass of matted curls. Constantly
through those curls she was run
ming her fingers, the nails of which
had not been cut for many day, striv-
ing to protect herself from the vermin.
The spectacle which was seen, as, at
6 o'clock, the order was given them to
"pack up their duds" and get into the
transportation wagons which were to
convey them to the Little Miami depot
can never be forgotten. A procession
more sad, more pitiable, more sicken-
ing, has surely never walked the streets
of any city. But as if the scene was
not horrible enough, there was added a
display of brutality that almost sur
passes belief
AS the paupers were placed in the
wagons, the unusual sight attracted a
large crowd. In it there were boys on
whose young faces were the marks Of
passion and hatred and malice. There
were men, too, hard as flint, brutal in
appearance, at whose faces one would
involuntarily shudder. This mob grad
ually began to laugh at those who were
entering the wagons. Into the last
wagon there were conducted only two
persons, one an old crazy woman whose
form was distorted in grotesque and
horrible manner, and the other an old
man 80 years of age, whose head was
bent, but not alone by the weight of
years or sickness, for during 76 years
he had been slave. With that hatred
of her own race-which was one of the
most saddening effects of the slave sys-
tem-the woman began to pour out
abuse on her companion. He bore it
all unmoved. But the rabble, catching
her words, taunted her with them, and
mockingly threw them back in her
teeth. rsO One man, an Irishman. with
one eye gone, and on his mouth run
ming sore, called her ga nagur," and
again and again threw back to her her
words that "if there was anything she
despised it was a half-made nagur."
Fortunately this awful exhibition of
a brutality worse than the brutality Of
the brutes, closed soon, the wagon
driving away.
The paupers were driven down to the
depot, and at 2 o'clock Saturday morn
ing started for Washington.
And now, does any one wish to know
why this journey was made7 on whom
the responsibility rests for this exposure
of the sick and dying7 This part Of
the storyithe following dispatch from
Louisville will tell