Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-13


respectable citizens are already enumerated
among the victims. Phil. hlQ.
We learn with deep regret that JoHNC. BRowN,
ESQ. President of the Kensington Bank, and one
of the most respectable and temperate citizens
of the Northern Liberties, dIed on "Wednesday
afternoon last of the prevailing epidemic. lie
had been suffering Tor some days under severe
diarrhua. and imprudently neglected to take the
proper measures TO prevent its increase. lou
New York. August 8.
The Epidemic. Its cause OF sincere thanks
giving and consratulation that the ravages OF the
cholera are suDsiding in this metropolis. 1t has
been fearful time-a short period Of terrible re-
buke, full of mournful history. Long to be- re.
membered, this season will rise OF the recolec-
ton of the present generation in after years, I'M
less it should be obiterated by more terrible In
Hictiun.
Ma, a sensation it would have created, had
some revelatiun been made to the citizens OF New
York. al the first Of July, that before the end OF
tha mgnth two thousand then in health-a NUN.
Der sufficient to crow d the Chatham street chapel
tn overilnaing-should in addition to the usual
deaths be numberedwith the pale inhabitants OF the
the world before the food! IL would have most
thriiling-a tremendous annunciation Yet we
have sustained all this calamity; we have literal
Iy seen thousands falling on our right hand aud
on our left.
What hand shall write all the affecting and
soul-touchIng incidents of this bfief season OF
farewells and adieus! We can scarcely conceive
of scene so moving to the afiect'ona,e heart As
that described in our last Messenger, in the obi.
tuary notice Of the Rev. Mr.. Hinton, who. with
l.. .,bl
grave. The delicate and beautiful emotion of
heart which prompted the beloved wife, when in
the asones of death, to return her wedding ring
to the dear one from whom she receive ed it's
too holy and sublime to be fully appreciated ex-
cept by kindred minds. This act was most So
Tenn and precious farewell Its language was
this:-rake this token. the dearest gift that was
ever committed to my keeping by earthly hands
have kept it in my hours of joy and sorrow,
aud whenever looked upon it a food of love
and refined affections would rush upon my heart.
The death chill is now upon the hand which il has
adorned. These eyes cannot longer rest upon
it and see its pure. yet simple brightness. re-
turn it to thee, the dearest object of my earth.
ly affections, with all its valued associations ]
60 where earthly ties are changed to more holy
intensity-where all is spirit and the bright en-
pire Of unclothed thought and mind. Idrop the
ring in my upward flight. l could not carry the
most precious gems Of earth any further. l be-
qpeath it to one who may longer tarry, as my last
token Of unchanged and undying Iove-farewell!
Well might the affectionate husband, as he re-
ceived the expressive token. have bowed as he
did upon his bed, and prayed that as they had
been IN life they might be undivided in death!
He took the ring which is the last Of earthly
things from which wife may part, and as 1t
touchinsly spoke Of thousand tender scenes
of duty dune-of life ended-the mystic ring
welded him to the dead, and it was the token of
reunion-the dim pledge of joys too bright to be
Swallowed BY earthly symbols-too pure to be
longer enjoyed beneath the cloudy atmosphere of
time:
Her spirit fingered but moment in the
clouds. and her CON Panion for time joined her
for eternity.
Since The abo,e was written, we learn, the
last memDeI Of the late Rev. g. l.. Hinton's ia
mily is no more. HIS infant son Howard, aged
seven months. died Oh Friday evening Of dropsy
in the head His remains were inferred in the
grave OF his parents, ST Andrews. Harlem.
Badgers Messenger.
Lntemperance and The Cholera We have al.
ready mentioned the remarkable fact that Of GOA
Cholera patients admitted to the Park Hospital
down to a certain date, 1913 were incorporate. -
We can now add. from the best authority, that
OF all the patients admitted to Corlaer's Hook
Hospital down to the present time, four jffihs
we're Incorporate; and that while. Of the collaps-
ed cases, only IS per cent of the temperate pa
tients have died, Il per cent Of the incorporate
have died. Consequently, mure than nine fenfhs
OF the deaths at this Hospital, have been Of in.
temperate subjects.
-, To illustrate the character of great many of
these patients, we will mention an incident Of We.
~ recent occurrence. A female vagrant was
discharged from the Hospital. cured, on We'd
lesday forenoon. In the afternoon she was seen /
'eastly drunk. The next morning she was .
brought back to the Hospital under another at.
ack Of Cholera, and before noon was corpse.
The whole number of persons carried of by
Cholera in this city, since the LIST Of July, &C.