The Arkansas banner., 1849-01-30
Correspondenes q tAe Banner. THE AsIATIC CHoL ERA
sr REV. Joax SswLANp MAFFIrr.

 and ;mmcssuraby less fatal than the Cholera of ls3l-3. Its course both in Asiaand Europe. during the last year. was mercy wi,ea cOntrasted with the terrible energy of its destruction of lsst And so tt has teen tm tho United Stsses.
 The difference win hc appreciated by recur ring to few brief "reminiscences of its first visit to our continent It first struck our shorcs In the summer, at the city of Quebec soon after, il ap- pesred with awful virulencs in Montreal. The city of New York sent commission of her most eminent physicians to study the epidemic and the cure in Canada. While they were absent, cases were reported on the line of canal connecting the waters of ChamplaIa and Hudson. The commits sioners hurried back. The Cholera was ia New York before them. In their report they detailed symptoms marking the awful haste and progress of deaths doings-they knew of no cure.
 The panic In New York was tremendous, Tons of thousands fled, and slong with them some vete- ran physicians W rho could not bear to combat death tn his most incxorable and terrific form. Several cholera hospitals opened by the city authorities --the principal being in the Park, in the cditice formerly used the debtors jail but then vated and prepared for the record office. The numerous rooms were changrd to hospital wards, and men, bearers, perambuIaied the city by night and by day, carrying filters to bear all who might be seized to the hospitals. The narrow filters covered with curtains, that passing spectators should not be shocked by the ghastiy countenauces and contortons of the sufferers. IL was not mon to hear the shrieks of some one struck down by the invisible arm when in the streets, and the hurried tread of the literbearers to the spot and the celerity of their transit to the hospital. gave awful token of the uncertainty of human life. By ordinance of the city the wearing apparel of the dead was burned in the hospital yards just as day was breaking. They would be thrown upon a wood fire, and the towering smoke would rise heavenward, the carts of the dead would roll off containing, in their covered incIosures, the dead bodies of those who had died in the night Just as the pale dawn was struggling for the mastery over the gloom, the citizens in Chatham street, the Bowery, or East Broadway would be startled from their sumbers by the peculiar, heavy, dull, jolting s1und of the dcod carts over the payements and at o'clock thousands would gather in the Park 10 hear the report of the Board of Health, which was daily read in loud voice from the steps of the City Hall; after which. the crowd would disperse in solemn and profound silence.
 The recent visitation of the Cholera, in neither the old or the new world, has caused any such ruvages-produced no such panic and terror Like the ancient plague, it's viruehce have be- come exhausted, and pious hope would humb!y trust in the Providence of merciful God that He has put bounds to the destroying angels course, and that it's mission of vengeance is drawing 10 close. Yet let meu rejoice with trembling, the Almighty can command agents of vengeance and punishment worse than the Cholera; and while with grateful and pleasing emotions, the folding up of that black wing of terror, yet let exultation be tenn pered with holy awe and reverence, poor nor taIity can never be exempt from dissolution in some form other, until death itself shall de-i,s sting be torn from its raveaous jaws and the grave be swallowed up in victory: The holy Apostle Paul, warmed into christian triumph with the thought of Christs conquest mortality, breaks out into the glowing apostrophe: "Oh death. where is thy sting! Oh, grave. where is thy yictery!''
 Avaunt that dreaded Asian ghost,
 Of buried realms, vampire black,
 Whose giant stride alOug our coast
 Lef, graves in every frozen track
 Once had it power to him sscribed = Who stood on land and rolling sss,
 Aad, in a voice of thunder, cried. = That Time should be Eteraity
 Once, when it breathed, the dust returned
 To dust. from the dust il cams
 By him pale millions were innrned.
 Who hold the keys of death and hell.
 Once, on the winds eareering sweep
 Der valley sweet, CT mountain air
 It's breath made countless orphans weep,
 And raised thy maniac waI--despaiI
 Once, in an hour, widowed heart
 Would cease to mourn, and cease to beat--
 And deadly foes, who died apart,
 Met at the awful judgment seat
 Once, its chill frost on beauty $ form,
 Like Alpine ice, on blossoms lay--
 Freezing to stoae life's currents warm
 And leaving naught but biackened clay.
 Now, Heaven he praised, the paisied hand,
 The dotsge, weakness, and the years
 Of that which terrified the land.
 Inspire our hope--dispel our fears.
 Aysuat thou spectre of the gravel
 Thyself has, now grown deadly old
 Thy airy courscrs cease to rave
 Der realms ia desola,ion cold!
 h some lone section of the sky
 Where swings in light geldea saa,
 The angels dig lhy grave on high,
 And God proeiainrs thy mission done
 Die. thou eeslIoyes. like thy slaa,
 Strswn far and wide aud shore.
 On mouniala blssk, or yeriani plpin;
 Dieand re visit earth no more.
 
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