The daily republic., 1853-08-23
New Orlcans--Ncws Of the Aid from
the North.

| From the New Orleans Courier of tho 10th We
cut the following, which accompanies the publica-
| ton Of the list Of contributions at New York and
other places for the relief of the sufferers at New
Orleans: a ~
| GENEROSITY OF our Fellow CITIZENS IN THE
lNoRrH.-The liberality with which citizens Of
New Orleans, now in the North, and of those
whose permanent habitation is there, cannot bo
too warmly extolled, and will never be forgotten
by those whom it was intended to benefit. The
telegraph announces that the sums subscribed in
the city of New York, for the relief of the sick in
this city, amount to $4,000. The telegraph also
announced, that besides large sums subscribed by
the citizens of Philadelphia, the municipal coun-
ellis of that city appropriated $9 200 for the same
glorious purpose. In Baltimore, the sums given
by the citizens amount, in the aggregate, to
5000. We have not heard from Boston, Charles
ton and other places north and south of Baltimore
We entertain wel-founded hopes that the inhabi-
ants of those cities will not be behind any others
in liberality. The suffering sick of New Orleans
need it all; and besides the sick, there are thou
sands Of persons in the midst of who are in need
of assistance. These men and women who
are convalescent, and not yet able to work for
their subsistence; families of women and children,
whom death has deprived of their husband and
father, and who are left destitute of all means of
support; then, again, there are hundreds and hum
dreds of children who, being bcreaved of father
and mother, are thrown helpless orphans upon the
charity the world.
In nearly all the cases of sickness that fall un-
der the beneficent care of the Howard men, the
patients have no means of procuring medicine and
food, and these must necessarily be procured
through the funds of the Associations. Taking
into consideration, then, the convalescent, tho
helpless, the destitute whom the epidemic has
thrown upon private and public charity-knowing
also that many adult persons of both sexes, who
are quite willing to labor, are unable to find
employment in consequence of the cessation, in
other kinds of business calling all these things
to mind, one may easily perceive that neither the
resources of the corporation treasury nor the
funds of private individuals, still remaining in this
city, will suffice for the relief of the distressed OBJ
iects that make such imperative and irresistible
appeals to charity and humanity
1t requires great expenditure of public and
private funds to sustain the Charity Hospital
alone. The forlorn sick there received at
tended by physicians and nurses of experience
and skill, with kindness that never ceases or re-
lakes while there is life in the sufferer. The num-
Der of the cured, as stated in the daily reports
attcsts the efficiency Of the mode of treatment ap
piled to them. This institution is supported
chiefly by funds appropriated by the State Legis-
lature, and not one in fifty who there seek relief
is native or a citizen Of Louisiana. The average
number of the patients in that hospital in sickly
times is about seven hundred. In the cholera
that prevailed two or three years ago the number
was upwards of thirteen hundred. Forty mine
ftieths of these patients thus supplied with food
and medicine are strangers, who have no claims
to our charity but those which all Of us owe to
each other as creatures of the same Omnipotent
Being whose first command, as revealed to us i'll
his book, is to Iope another.