Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-10-07
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SICKNESS IN NEW ORLEANS.

The following is al extract from The
report of a missionaryefthe Southern Aid
Society in New Orleans, for the month Of
August -
About the middle Of June the yellow
fever made It's Appearance IN uur CITY. Of
a very malignant type. 1t has sincebeels
gradually spreading in various dieccsiDns'
taking one aud leaving auDtfer, often sin
the same household IN other fu~cati0lns
all Who were sal1ects lay prostrate.-
Many of the Creole population have heen
numbered with the dead, which is an ur
usual feature in The disease. We can on
~ say, God is in our midst. teaching us
the breyity of life and certainty Of death.
The average number who die daily has
now reached one hundred about one
third as many as died in August, 1858.
1 could give you many instances that
might interest you and excite your sym
pathics, but am totally incapable of plac
ing on paper what has been constant,
passing before nine eyes and ears. Tears
have often flowed freely by day aud by
night. When passing through the wards
of the immense hospitals, now full to over.
flowing, feeble hands are raised to call
me to the bedside of those whom | have
previously visited. sAD0
The other day when l entered the fe.
male department of the Charity Hospital
to hear the fate of a mother aud six chill.
dren whom | aided to be placed there, |
passed the door of a pay ward, in which
at a distant part of the room a skeleton
of a hand was raised, l passed in that
hand grasped mine tight. She asked me
If | remembered her. | told her, not dis
tinctly. She said her name was Shepard,
that l gave her Bible W years since
and prayed with her, which was the
means o.. her conversion. She was about
to depart and be with her Saviour. The
following week | called she was gone /;
another occupied her place. Another
morning | spent at the same hospital,
when twenty dead bodies were carried
ont before half-past twelve o'clock. In
the bosom of one was found attract | had
| given him the previous day.
A little Ger.aan boy died as | was told,
grasping a Testament in his hands which
| had given him some time previous
These facts encourage us to labor on a
little longer. When we have dole all we
can do in the cause of our Master, we
must confess that w are Improbable ser
wants. | might relate many, very many
incidents that have transpired during the
past month, but will not take up your
time. Seyenty-two Bibles and over one
hundred Testaments in seven languages,
have been distributed among the desti-
tute /; rising, of twelve thousand pages of
Tracts haye been distributed in seven Ian
guages. Prayer had been offered among
the sick in some Roman as well as Prote-
slant families. The judgments of God do
not often bring men to repentance. The
wicked wax worse and worse. BIntemper.
ance, Sabbath Dissertation and vice of
every kind, prevail to all alarming extent
among US. Great credit is due TO the
Young Mems Christian Associations,
with a large number of noble women, who
are ~canvassing every part Of the city, to
relieve the sick and suffering at this time.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER, on board the steam.
er J. @. Swan, near st. Louis, Sept. IA.
Whatever my hand found to do, l did
with my might until the 7th inst, when |
found myself PROSTATE under constant eff
fort early and late among the living and
the dead. Many days Ihayennt stopped
to take minutes by the way side, except
to note a large proportion Of the calls ]
have made, which amount In the aggre-
gate to nearly eight hundred, besides
spending many days of overwhelming
scenes in our hospitals and prisons. /
have seen suffering and despair depicted
upon the countenances of more than tive
thousand individuals, Of all nations, pros
trated upon beds of sickness have heard
the groans and shrieks Of many, very
many, struggling with the King of Ter.
rors have been privileged in many in
stances to soothe the suferings Of a dying
mortal and direct him to the Lamb, OF
God which taketh away the sins of the
world. We haye found whole families
Frustrated with the pestilence that walk
eth in darkness" Ill vro