Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-25
Affecting Incident.

The Courier of Sunday morning relates the
following affecting incident: ION Monday
last gentleman coming into the city from
Osvka, found himself sitting UiSd-uiS with a
company of strangers in whom he became in
terestcd. On inquiry, he found the party
consisted of four youths from Kentucky, GO
ing to New Orleans to seek their fortune
Are You not afraid of the lever? T" said our
friend. 1--WE did not know the danger when
we started" was the reply. II advise you"
said our friend, Z" to take the return for
Jackson, or you will doubtless be occupants
of our grave yard" They came. Our friend
followed them to their boarding house and
watched their fate. Three IF them have been
buried ; the fourth cannot survive.
Incidents like the foregoing are not unfor-
tunately, rare. They occur during every
epidemic, and will, we suppose occur during
every succeeding epidemic for all time to
come. Even sadder incidents are frequently
brought to the attention of the actively phi
lanthropic and benevolent Married people
with their children, wholly raw and unaccli-
mated. from the North and West, often come
here during the heighth of epidemics for the
purpose of lettering their fortunes--at least
we can imagine no other motive. The father
takes sick and dies. The mother takes sick
and dies. The children takes sick also. aud
perhaps one of them RECEIVERS, aud becomes a
signed, if not claimed by distant relatives. to
some one of our many excellent philanthropc
institutions. or to take the precarious and de-
moralizing chances of the streets. Sometimes
the father dies and leaves helpless widow
and large family of children to buffet against
the storms OF Il hard world. Sometimes all
die. Not long since married couple and
two children arrived from the West In four
DAYS ali were taken; and although every at.
tention was paid them. not a week elapsed
before all were carried to the cold and silent
tomb by plying strangers! What a lesson
what Il cOmmentary-this ought to bel
Still these lessons are without effect. In
vain does the daily press beg the wholly I'M
accTimated to stay away. In vain does tn,
Associated Press telegraph all over the Union
warning strangers to remain where they ar,
until the danger has pass In vain does the
Howard Association telegraph again anC
again to the same purport. Hundreds anC
hundreds have come hundreds have died, and
hundreds and hundreds will come, to shart
the same fate only to be succeeded by reck
less thousands. But for the ingress Of multi
tudes like these the fever would have ceased
to be epidemic two weeks ago, and those ac
customsd to the climate from this and the al
jacent States could have visited us with en-
tire IMMUNITY. AS long, however, and unit
heavy iro>ts and freezes, as the cold Nortt
and bleak West continue TO supply fresh sub
jccts in abundance, we need not look for {
final subsidence OF the epidemic. We ought
to have quarantine to compel the all
sence of fresh, healthy, unacclimated stran
gers. They nourish the fever, stop business
and put our people to the labor and expens,
OF nursing and burying them. Instead of do
ing any good they kill themselves and injur,
us.--N. o. Crescent, OF. 20. .a