The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-08-31
The pesti,ence at New Orleans.

The French columns OF some OF the New Orleans pa
pers sometimes contain pictures and descriptions such
are no 70 b. fund in the English pages OF this char
acter is the following, which The Philadelphia Bulletin
translates from the New Orleans Courier de la Lous.n
alt with profound feeling OF sadness that We look
back and unIo before the gloomy picture OF the week
just closed. Nothing 10 diversity the sad spectacle with
which our eyes are saddened; not one bghi color 10 n
l,eve the dak back ground; not ray OF the 10
brighten this OF desoation.
" The deserted city wears the appearance OF city oil
death No more hne equipages make the pavemens re-
echo ard deposie before The brilliant shops and elegant
stores thronss OF womer, young, gay, and adotsd,
bre alhing happiness and health Alas happiness gay
ely, freshness, and youth have ID Tar iron Misery
ard disease these are all that are before u.s. Instead
brilliant apases, we see moving slowly towards the
field Of rest the dead carts and gloomy vehicles, which
longer escorted even by ministers oil religion OF BY
friends. People die without and in silence, with
out the crowd knowing who has been Gu, on IRON ts
living; the dead have not even names, only NUMBER
made in adding to the death ist published every day
Far from wesrying itself by lis frequent bows h'
scouge seems every day TO acquire new strength lbs
Inquire OF The deaths remains the but the proportion
between The figure and the oPuiation has increased
DEPARTURES death, and the experience OF The maady W
great number have contracted the circle IN which the ter
rble monster which desolal,s our city may move; bot
every day he makes his usual feast and The immoaons
will only when The victims shall taH.
"In presence of such caauiiss hIds sort oil con
ISOLATION in contemplating the noble acs OF charity which
ii gives birth 10. Among all the associations which have
exhibited, since The epidemic began all that Is sublime
humanity and religion, the Howard Association mast Be
mentioned. We have followed some Of the members Of
This society, and by them have formed opinion
the others One the BILE dens where lbvs
heroes OF charity penetrate; must the msery and
wreichednsss from which they rescue hundreds OF unio
tunaie creatures 10 transport them 10 the hospitals they
have provided must follow them 10 the horrible holes
where die without phy scisns, nurse, medIcin',
without glass OF water TO appease devourng ihfii
must have gone with Them their pious vIsilaoDs
order that, howe disastrous The epdemt
Is, ii would commit si greater ravaxes but for ID,
ZEAL the courage the interchangeable cosstsncy of htn
Samaritans.
Men for the most part habiiuated to life OF saS,
they given ny their bones and the comforts o Their
domestic circle 10 take their post at The pillow oil suffer.
ing and what suyefingt The mLst rcpUgnant duties,
the mos, ablect abors check them In holy
zion. Al The OF Victor and Marigny streets there
is house which the pssser-by looks At with sAddeos
eye and from which are Constantly heard cries and
groxns OF agony Before this house every morning stand.
death cart, which never returns empty. The load
which il brings ID The dead OF the day. The house I"
Of The hospitals established by this society IN our
q There two men who have famlies and busne. TO
Tor. but whom shs not name iof fear OF wound
ing chs sacred modes'y which always Surrounds true
charity. have fixed their posts. The pcsiilent stmos
pbere OF The house OF death the only they breathe
groa u.s. complaints and cries The only sounds they
hear gref and agony the most terrible The only sights
their accustomed eyes have seen for month. In ibe
midst this they live night and day. and know that
since the 2Is' OF last month these two men have noe
SLEPT one whole n'gl not indeed Tour hos,s ::dss as.
worn out with fatigue. had for the most part left Their
posts hut these went bravtly to work ; running
%. to u. 0s my we're 81 ss.
mere ready or more gentle. Then, when il neces
sary 10 carry new vicms down TO the chamber OF the
dead. was they. who bore them 'hnhss in their arms
We have spoken fthese two men he cause We know
them more particularly. and have witnessed Their pras.
worthy devotion but we know II The sane iime thai
they repesen, only the general spiri that snmses zoe
whole society; We know that in other parts OF the cry
This association exhibits Hike prodaies OF charity. b.
sides the hospitals which has furnished has ras'd
an establishment which will he tooching proof OF us
provdeht care Succor necessary only for INC
'ck, but for other unfouns,es Forevety iaher, every
mother that died. there .ft three orphans
deprived OF the first cares which their age and weakness
claim. The Howard Association has provided for thsm
An orphan asylum has been. by their care, esabshrd
the hrst district Ia proportion death furnishes he
hospitals. The asylum fills NJ. and To-day II contains
iS'y-two children made orphans by the yellow ev't
et us ever keep in remembrance the oil these TWO
men, who have renewed, during ,hi. epidemic. the no
Her acts in the life OF ST. Vincent de Paul