Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-23

to bestow censure-and, as if anxious ,..,
should not give enough, we generally be ,r' We
measure. When we are so selections N ! @s
by reproach, from folly, vice, and crime ue's''
not be equally disposed to stimulate to v;r. way
heroism, by freely bestowing the well. alG
plaudit? Gould l suppose that, in anv I fu.
equally dangerous emergency, the oppoT,nn a.as
have seized of bearing my feeble testmouU;i
favor Of those worthy persons, would be my. "a
of exciting others to emulate their heroic va. sas
it would afford me the highest consolation ,I'ae
ever experienced. nave
The Rev. Henry Helmuth's merits ara rs /
most exalted kind. His whole time, dur;O, "
prevalence of the disorder, was spent in ,has ns
Torrance of works of mercy, visiting and ~ per-
ing the sick, comforting the afflicted and fe slF''
the hungry. OF his congregation, some hupdraIs
have paid the last debt to nature. since rbs IS.
lignant fever began, and believe he a,s,J ia,
nearly the whole of them. To so MANY d, ol4fl
was Sc exposed, that he stands living m;,:f
of preservation. The Rev. C. V. Kea,;na "s
Rev. Mr.. Ustick, and the Rev. Mr.. Mo-
have been in the same career, and nesouI,
their duties to the sick with equal fdeliv ,'g
with equal danger. The venerable old t;5 y @a
Samuel Robson, has been like GOOD snsS a.
defatigably performing, in families WHERE %. M
was no one person to help another, even The NJ
NAL Offices of the kitchen in every par, q, I
neighborhood Thomas Alibone, Lamber "
mer, Levi Hollingsworth, John Barker. Ham,
Paine, John Hutchinson and great numbers :,
others have distinguished themselves by the kind
est offices of disinterested humanity. M,orn.
Miller, Samuel Coates and other good CITIZEN.
in that time of pinching distress and diRcnt1
advanced sums Of money to individuals vho:.
resources were cut of, and who, though sccU,.
toned to life of independence, were absolurv
destitute OF the means of subsistence And !,
the widows mite has been mentioned in yrD
ture with so much applause, let me add that,
worthy widow, whose name am grieyed CAM
not mention, came to the city hall and Oh, 4
her means, which are very moderate. oss,J
the committee twenty dollars for the relefOf II, i
poor. John Connolly has spent hours besde,S,
sick when their wives and children mad abando.
ed them. Twice did he catch the disorder
twice was he on the brink of the grave. which
was yawning to receive him-yet, unappaed By
the iminent danger he had escaped, he again r..
turned to the charge. | feel myself affected 4.
this part of my subject. with emotions which !!
fear my unanimated style is i'll calculated to trans:
fuse into the breast of my reader. | wish him
to dwell on this part of the picture with a de.
gree. of exquisite pleasure, equal to what feel
in the description. When We view man in thr
light, we loose sight Of his feeblenes, his imper
lection, his vice-he resembles, in small de.
gree, that divine being, who is an inexhaustble
mine of mercy and goodness. And as human
being, rejoice that it has fallen to my lot to- b,
a witness and recorder of magnanimity, which
would alone be sufficient to rescue the characte.
of mortals from obloquy and reproach.
The novel of Arthur Mcrvyn, by C B. Brow.
gives vivid and terrifying picture, probably not TOO
highly colored, of the horrors Of tbs, period.