New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-18
HELP HOR NEW.ORIHANs.

No one who, since the breaking ont OF the yellow
Fever at New. Orleans has perused the graphic and
feeling letters of our Correspondent at that place can
Deed any additional stimulus TO help the noble philan.
tbropists of the Howard Association with all the leans
at his disposal more terrible picture of human suf
erDg has rarely been presented, and the bsneyoence
which remains unmoved before the disclosures of the
letters published yesterday aud day must be hteess
ndted Certainly there an eccas on when the
condition Of City and its inhabitants more powofaly
appealed to the sympathy Of every generous heart Ia
of any ordinary disaster people are wont to
give freely great cOnnagratioD, destructive food
any other calamity within the usual range Of expe
reDce, does Dot call In vain and ourselves have by
many persons been recently made the grateful amoners
of their charity toward some Of the most frendess,
weak and desolate among the outcasts of NeE-York.
But there something in the pesence and its victims
at New Orleans, which than any of these things
touches the heart with pain and pity. 4 great aud
brilliant metropolis the scene Of light hearted gaety
and frank enjoyment, suddenly oyerhung with the pail
Of death. Fatal disease lays low its hundreds
daily, and every moment has a wider and
wider sweep. The living move in terror or resort
fant dissipation lest the turn should be theirs
The Hospitals crowded that the patients cannot
be properly cared for, and alarm at so much death
around them defeats the cure Of those who might else
be saved And mos shocking Of all, the very dead lie
unbured on the ground adding new corruption TO the
already poisoned air, for want Of hands 10 inter them
Ia sOdreadiul condition Of things seems impossible
30 hesitate and whoever give anything should do so
promptly Donations may either be forwarded directly
Mr.. D4Visn. who think is the Treasurer of the
Howard AssOcintl0n. or may be handed over 20 the
Relief Committee in this City, which consists of DR..
Hawks, Woodruff and Frost We shall be happy 70 act
as the SCENTS Of Transmission 10 either and will take
charge of any sums, large or small, that the humane
may desire 10 contribute.
We learn from the stst snent Of the Relief Commit.
tee psbshed in several of the morning journals that
uptO Tuesday above tweny-three thousand dollars had
already been forwarded from this city Il is consde-
rabe sum, bat BY no means wha, NeE-York should
provide in such case and We trust is vii be very
largely increased.
The Committee, in Publishing their reports. have
taken 10 Withhold them from our columns. though
correspondence had furnished the earliest and fullest
details Of the pes,lenee that have appeared in the
Northern press On Dquring the reason of thi. uuu-
sual sad surprising exclusion We have learned that II
was because Tie Tribune vas esteemed BY the Com.
mittee TO be an Abolition Journal There certainly is
reason 10 reere, the choice as members Of such
body Of men who could carry a eon-enptible party /
prejudice 70 such extent and NANTES. it In 50 su.
wsy. occasion which ought Is-her 70 rouse all
parties into ole common public movement Of humanity
and good works. Perhaps these gentlemen we're no,
sEaTe thar in Os.rAcising The Tribune, hey NOT
merely eIpress-very inOPPOrtunely, We Ihink-their
private dislike OF IT, but also ostracise from the priv,
ege Of aiding the suffering and smoothing the pillow of
the dying very large Of citizens, By no means
cold in heart niggard in sympathy and practical re-
Lief to the unfortunate But do not care further to
pursue the discussion Of act Of mental weakness
aheh prOvokes aTye Of language quite foreign to the
purpose Of these lines. The Committee are We doub,
lot, welmesnng gentlemen not accustomed to msnage
ubic affairs and not well acquainted with al the lead
fg !ourrasof &c Cil! ard their rsls,.s 70 ths con-