Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-07-08
E..,I Enee,s = the Late Excessive Heat.


we published yesterday morning, IS really appaI-
ing and suggestive of serious inquiry and seasonal
bic precautions against the possible recurrence OF
such facilities yet again during the present sum
mer.
Tt will have been observed that the victims
of the heat of Wednesday almost entirely from
that class of people whose daily routine is hard
labor in the full blaze of the sun, rendered doubly
powerful by the reflection from the brick walls and
pavements bv which they were surrounded. And
another suggestive fact is that the sufferers in ques
ton, with here and there an exception, were from
Ireland The first precaution, therefore, we have to
recommend is to the employers of these outdoor la
borers in view of still another such terribly hot
visitation as this last Let the outdoor laborer
have respite of additional hour or two, or even
three hcnrs in the hottest part OF the day and 1t
can be allowed on no other TERMS it were better to
make up the deficiency in the evening or in the
morning, for we presume that labor is pretty gener
ally regulated in this city by the ten hour system
By going to work an hour two earlier, and by
holding in the afternoon an hour or two later,
two or three hours. iud;cously, to abOers and en-
ployers might be deducted from the heat of the day
At all events this rule might be applied to consid-
cradle saving of life during these occasional par
oxysms of dreadful heat, which seldom lasts longer
than two or hree days without creating the reliev
ing elements of thunder storm.
But the fact that nearly all the recent victims from
coup de Soen were foreigners, and mostly from Ire
land, should admonish their countrymen that the
all times, without acclimatiOn. The mild summer
of Great Britain and Ireland is the mildness offspring
compared with the last three days in New York -
Not even the native of the heart OF Germany can
work with impunity for five six hours in the sum-
among bricks and mortar with the mercury above
ninety degrees Our immig grant laborers should re-
member this and beware, or all things, when over
heated, of drinking too much cold water WhateV-
or may be the virtues of the Maine Liquor Law we
undertake to say that to man exhausted by his Ia
! ~ a, ool an.
gerous than the plain Crotch qualified with little
brandy notwithstanding that hard drinking is GER
| tain destruction. When n sense OF exhaustion to
the laborer in the is coming on, the best course
is perhaps to knock off and rest till reaction has
taken place. Nor do we believe that suspension
of the incessant smoking. which is practsed among
European born laborers, would be at all to their
disadvantage. A man with pipe in his mouth
from morning till night, from years end to an
other, hardly possess the vi igor and elasti
city in his nervous. system the man who smokes
! not at all The volumes which have been written
by men of science upon this subject confirm on the
strongest proofs this view of the perncious effects
of ihveterate smoking.
We throw out these hints for the benefit of al
they may concern. Certain it is, that with proper
precautions the part Of laborers and employers
there would be few, if any. deaths from coup de sol
ell, even with the thermometer at ninety-hve de
srees in the shade, as it stood for hours or
Wednesday last--N. Y Herald.
"nIay You Die Among Your Kindred"
: Soon after the declaration of peace between tn
United States and Mexico, passenger OF
steamer from New Orleans to Cincinnati. Tn
cabin of the boat crowded with officers, and TIL
deck with privates, who had served in the war
They the miserable remnant of large bod
of brave men. who had devoted themselves to tn
service of their country. Their comrades slept il
soldiers graves in a foreign land They had gon
out to fight the battles of nation, and laid thei
bones beneath the walls of Chepul,epec and Perote
E on the plains of Buena VISTA the hillside of Che
. rubusco. 1t the fortune of war and CRATE
ful country should embalm their memories in it
great heart of hearts
! Those who returned from the hard fought battle
p of Mexico who had passed through the perils c
siege and storm, and the more terrible onslaught
deathly climate, were scarcely more fortunat
than they who soldiers bier, and left thei
: bones to bleech on the blood stained PLAINS Dis
ease had fastened its nsidous talon upon them,
! they at the mercy of the destroyer.
- Among the common soldiers, who were piled ava
. like logs by the engine and boilers the main dec
- of the steamer there was scarcely one who bore nc
: the seeds of disease and death in his frame. The
. pale: emaciated-litterally appearing to fas
o one foot in the grave We conversed with one who's
. cheek-bones protruded through the skin; who wa
. without exaggeraton, nothing but skin and bone
+ He assured that his bones, and those of othe
- prominent parts of his body were bare. He ha
- slept, the passage from Vera Cruz, on the bal
y. planks of the vessel. Probably he long ago wer
down to his grave. No better typifcation of tt
= horrors of war could be found, than this man
When the steamer had passed Memphis, II
weather. which had been oppressively hot, sudden
changed. The change was heralded by a seve
4, tornado, which tore up trees by the roots, al
7. blowed the boat ashore A COOL northerIy win
r, sprung up which produced very marked effe
upon the poor, sick soldiers. Many of them we
e suddenly and violently seized after the boat ente
Ell the Ohio, with an alarming disease. The boile
ID deck resounded with the groans of anguished su
ferers. and the horrd cries of the deljrious. TIL
e day, three Of them died. The uomHo, or yeIo
L. fever, which they had brought in their veins fro
r the arid plains of Mexico, had done its work
J. sight of the native hills of the victims Home WI
ID at hand, and they who had passed through the pc
r. lis of war, famine and disease, died alone, eve
s while the arms of affection were outstretching
IS eufold them.
p 1t was sad-that sudden dasbing down of the c,
if of Joy! The loved ones at home, to whom the cor
e ing of the wanderers had been announced, we
al doomed to cruel disappointment. Others died
J. the channel steamer wendell her way through Il
10 green hill
If We buried them at midnight. The kind inte
E. ton of the officers to convey their remains to CT
10 Clnnati, and give them the honors of martial bu
J. al, defeated by the rapid process of decomp
10 sition. The steamer hauled up by the ri7
10 side and shallow grave followed out, in viii
A. the bodies Of the brave soldiers were placed
Mt prayer was said, no solemn dirge rose on mdnie
y air for the repose of the departed.
n Not drum heard a funeral note'
1t was the saddest funeral we ever attended-sa
because the hand of affection had not layed the
vered brow of the dying men sad, because in t
H. midst of the land in whose they had died
~ loved had cosed the eyes of the sinking sniff
as ers. Home, with wife, chldren-all that rende
s. home the sanctuary of the affections, was almost
sight of their longing ewes hit thew closed tbo,,