Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-09-05

The Newark Daily Eagle, under the above cap
ton, has the following:
It is quiet plight. The Compostors have
gone home the 8" inside form" OF the paper is
ready for the Press another twenty four hours
labor is over. AS soon as the thoughts which
lust now occupy our mind shall have been COM
nitted to paper, we, too, shall be on our way
home, leaving the FRESHMAN and Feeder TO enjoy
the 'smr SCOT tEgtGtG try 'StaSou-veIy cOO''
when compared with the weather OF last wee e.
The change, however is most grateinl. IL wa vas
hard work some nights since TO attend 10 our Eul-
torial duties, with the thermometer ranging oe-
tween eighty and ninety, and scores OF mosquitoes
singing in our ears. But when we reflect no"
much better off we than the Editorial lrater-
nifty in New OTleans-where funerals meet the
eve at every turn the victims OF tie peStiIence
are borne to their last resting place-we cease to
complain.
1t is dreadful scourge, tEiS yellow fever. 1t
was our fate once TO pass summer i'll the social
led "Crescent City" during the prevalence OF the
endemic. 1t is true that the mind, IL not the
heart grows callouS after while-the frequent
REPETITION of the same thing day after day produces
Indifference; aud gradually, almost lmperceptlbly,
we learn to speak of the dead and Gying with.a
CalmreSS which afterwards we can scarcely real
ize was exhibited at the time. Toward the end
of the season we, ouTSelf, took the lever. toEtu-
nately, the attack was slight, and we soon recov-
cred; but large. number oil our acquaintance leII
before the Destroyer.
There was one whom it was hard to convince
that his end was near. We remember the alter
noon which decided his fate on earth. He was
comparatively free from pain, and expressed 10
those around him the conviction he felt that he
would recover. He was married man and
father. His wife and little ones we've IN + mia
dephia, and has fist request was to communicate
to them the prospect oil his (as he lmaglhed)
speedy convaeScenCe. Soon after the Doctor
came in and examined his patient. He soon Turn
ed away and with a Saddened look told the nurse
he could do no more-that the relief which the
sick man felt was the very worst Symptom-ll
was proof that modification had already commence
ed. 1t was hard for his friends 10 believe this
He looked so much better.
But if it was hard for US to realize the truth OF
the Doctors statement the reader may imagine
how much harder it was to make our friend be-
lieye that corruption had even then claimed him
for its own. At first he smiled at the thought OF
dying. "Why," said he, al feel quite refreshed"
We told him that he only deceived himself and as
a last act of friendship the Doctor placed in his
hand letter from his wife. He read it calmly,
refolded it very carefully, and pressing it between
his hands gave way to tears. In l6 hours from
that time our friend was followed to the ProteS-
tant Burying Ground i'll what was then called the
Second Municipality.
The cry for peCuniaTy aid which now comes up
10 us from New Orleans will not be diSregarded.
Already some sixty thousand dollars have been
contributed for the relief of the destitute and the
suffering in the Inflated city. II IS an appeal
made TO us in the name of humanity, and it goes
directly to the heart. Let him who fancieS he
cannot afford to give "much,' transport himself
in thought TO the scene of pestience. Let him mag
inc himself among strangers-on his dying bed
"no friend near TO wipe the cold sweat from his
brow, or the tear from his eye; no SympathiSing
heart to receive his latest aspiration; friendly
hand 10 feel his dying grasp Oh that all of us
would think of the duty we owe TO our fellow
men when we see them in suffering, i'll sonow, in
distress.
We should give, ''not grudgingy, but cheer
fully, every man according 10 the measure where
with God has blessed him. We should feel the
weight OF the considerations we have urged when
we sit down 10 our own smiling board with health
and peace and cheerfulneSs and plenty gathering
around uS-remembering that "He will not hold
him guiltleSS who turns his back upon his brother
i'll affction.''