American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-02
From the New World. I

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THE important question is, not that we die, but
how we die"
The Hospital at New Orleans, during the
prevalence Of an epidemic, presents sight be-
yond the power of description, and of which
oar Northern friends can form an imperfect
idea. The invalds are chiefly strangers, far
from home, kindred and friends. Upon their
entrance through it's massive halls, and into
its sombre cells, their names are recorded upon
the books of the institution, with the place Of
birth, time of arrival, Sc, and their departure
from thence is as scrupulously noted The
fatal word, DEAD, opposite many of the names
meets the eye of the viso or, and calls up feel
ings in nowise calculated to render his solourn
there one of mere pleasure or amusement; it is
10 fact, visit to a charnal house, where death
revels in his majesty of strength, and makes
the human frame the scene of his banquet song,
the music of which is,
'tThe groan, the knell, the pail tAe bier"
Death becomes familiar amid such scenes,
and tine heart callous to his power; they look
upon it as one of the privileges of human ma
ture, and as "flife without it were not worth
taking 1t is indeed here
1.-THE poor the prisoner, and the mourner
Fly for relief, and lay their burdens do,r.'
The writer Of this has frequently looked over
=, the book Of entry, and among the recorded
names he has recognized many who have LETT
their peaceful homes and 'ain firesides' to sa-
4isfy either rowing disposition, or avoid man g
inhumanty to man, which in northern cities
pursues the poor and necesstous even to the
prison walls, so as to glut the tender merces
Of creditors with the knowledge of their VIC
TINS incarceration; and for what? Ay, for
whati Simply because the poor wretch can
not pay him few dollars-a debt incurred un-
der an accumulation of mlseries, for the pay
ment of which he had asked the regaining of
health and a prospect Of employment. With a
prison in the perspective, a "Christian land
lord" in front, threatening him with instant
seizure, the heart.broken creature flies from
his home, his family, and his friends, and finds
a resting place in the 'city of the dead" The
widows son here breathed his last, while she
mourned his absence-net his death; her letters
remained at the post Office, and she censures
him in her silent hours of grief Tor his neglect.
But she excuses him on the ground Of youth,
and smiles in her widowhood on the hope-Et-
tie dreaming it is but hope deferred, melting
even in the ray in which it ghtters."
The lover, too, sleeps in death; and the mai
den, in her far off home, dreams of Joy and
hope which can never be hers. One name "a
will only disappear when the mirrored surface
is broken and recorded things washed out by
the stream of Time, leading as it does down TO
the ocean of Oblivion. The name of Hugh
Reinegle Is engraved on piece of marble in
eAhe American burying ground, New Orleans,
erected to his memory by one who loved him
,hvDg, and mourns him dead Peace to his
ashesl
Many blooming cheek has faded, many q
bright eve grown dim and lustreless, many a
Joyous heart has fallen beneath the Upas breath
Of the iend of the South.
What contrast there Is between the sum
4 mer and winter of the South: the first which
in other cl,mes is all sunshine and Joy to the
young heart, is there all gloom and SORROW
There winters are the sunshine and spring O
the year.
But let US return to the Hospital. The read
or must imagine to himself long room, OF
each side of which, extending the whole length
is range of single beds; on each one, (Which
is frequently the case during an Epidemic lie
him picture victim lying in all the agonio
Of mental and physical sufferng-let him alsc
imagine the effect of the disease upon the in
mates, which, according to their different con
stitutions or the nature of the attack act il
different ways. One in the last gasp of dealt
vomts up the dark PARTICLES, formed by NOR
4 s,tifitation, and which is termed ''bIack vomit
II His eyes are fixed, his senses gone, his limo
wrthing. Another raves in frenzy, wild, tear
ing the bedcothes in pieces, and, rolling OF
ON the floor dies ere the attendants can re
place him. Let the reader picture such
scene, and he will form tolerable idea of TIN