Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-20
rhs Fpidsmio-Its Victims. Rto.

| les, or--heaven An allwise and over
ruling Providence, so inscrutable in His
decrees DEGREES 80 distinct and differ.
emily ordered from those of pigmy man
-willed is otherwise, and they remained
unscathed Since that epoch until the
present period the saffron-hued slayer
his remorseless, his blood bedabbled
hands-has taken heightened holiday
from his work Of severance, ofsorrow and
of death Unhappily for the unaccli-
mated and all others new to our latitude,
the opinion widely prevailed here that
fever had fled from our borders and
would never again become epidemic;
hence that no apprehensions need be en-
tertained as to permanent residence AS
q sequence of 50 comforting an hypothe-
sis, numbers during the summer months,
have tarried in the city instead of, as
heretofore, winging their annual fight,
similar to the migrating birds of pas
sage, to northern and more favorable
and secure lands. Had the authorities
or the successors of Gen. Butler with all
his errors) pursued the same sage and
sanitary course that he had inau.
gursted here, and excavated our
clogged and filthy canals, our
foul and fntid dykes and drains, and
cleansed and purified as thoroughly and
as hygienically as he did our highways
and our byways, we would not have been
in the very inviting condition that we
were in August past and are to day
for the advent and reception, and sojourn
of our once intimate acquaintance,
yellow Jack. To this neglect in no
partial degree, are our citizens now
indebted for the poignant aspect of mat
ters in the emporium of the South. The
sable. plumed and slow.moving hearse--
the sad, the solemn, the aweinspiring
ocession-bereaved and fearful rela-
tives, and sundered and mourning friends
the hurried rattle of the professionally
driven doctor cab-the fear,marked and
anxious features of those who have been
tempted to remain among us-the stolid
and surpliced priests-the solemn mise
rere in our churches, and the draping in
the habiliments of woe the wall of the
sanctuary. Yes, two or three clergymen
of the old, the hopeful, the all.inspiring
faith have succumbed-have rendered
their adios to earth and sped to the abode
of eternal tranquillity-the mansions of
the pure of spirit and the blessed of God
the home of the angelic host, of the
seraphim and the cherubim. They died
of yellow fever-probably contracted in
the administration of their holy functions
by the couch of the ailing, the afflicted
and the departing.
was present at the requiem services
in St. Mary's Church for one of the rev.
erend and revered gentlemen-:he young,
the athletic, the gentle, the good Father
Rudolph. He had been but three months
in New Orleans, yet in that brief time his
excellent qualities and pious zeal had
secured for him loved position in nu-
merous hearts. Several of the pastors of
the different Catholic Churches we're
present at the sad ceremony, chanting
hymns, ,doleful in their re. echoing melody,
adown the aisle and vostibule, the choir
occasionally responding, and the organ
sending its devotion awakening peals to
heaven. thought, as the defunct priest,
in his clerical robes, lay extended before
me, calm and serene as an angel from on
high, how lonely he had died; how es-
tranged from his relatives how far re-
moved from the land of his nativity the
home of his early boyhood, where the
murmurings of the classic Rhine had
often broken upon his ears, as each tiny
wavelet, dancing, perhaps, in the moons
lustrous light, rippled musically by him.
Near his couch, as the sands of life ran
out, the loved mother who bore him,
stood not, nor by her soothing tones,
and her wellknown and matronly voice,
alleviated the rackiug pains of burning
fever. His father Where was he
when this son of his was in the death
throes, and the gurgling, choking sounds
in his throat heralded speedy dissolution2
No fond sister bathed his throbbing,
his aching temples, nor uplifted, from
his broad forehead, the matted hair, sat.
urated in the sweat of the death agony.
No well remembered brother (of child
hoods sunny days., grasped him by the
elammy hand, pressed it to his lips, and
by his presence awakened fast fitting
memory and reminded him of the long
agol No wife. Wife, The devoted
priest of Catholicity knows no wife. He
is solely welded to his faith, allied to his
flock, and consecrated to his God And
far, far away, from father and mother,
sisters and brothers and relatives, he
frequently dies
The hearse Of Father Rudolph was
followed to the cemetery by lenghthy
procession of the members Of the Soci-
ETY. of ST. Joseph (male), and the Sisters
of st. Anne. "Slow through the church
yard path his remains were borne to
the tomb; the Vicar General and at
tendsnt priests, with heads uncovered,
in the scorching MONDAY sun, hymning
the de profundis and other psalms. His
corpse deposited in its final resing place,
the females of the Society of St Anne, |
in soft and seraphic strains, introduced |
the litany aad thee kuelt them down |
and prayed for his souls repose.
At periods of epidemic, during my |
many years residence in the Crescent |
City, how many of the selfimmolaling |
ministers of the CatholicityI have known,
who, by the humid pallet of the fever |
contracted the germs Of the |
disease inhaled the pestiferous breath
Of the expiring, as they bent over their
PROSTATE forms, when imparting to them
the rites Of the Church and the consola-
ton of religion, and soon after yielded
up their lives TO their Maker. Bot do
they, at any time, shrink from the per
formance Of such hazardous dutes Do
they fear infection and death-endeavor
to evad0 the one, or Gee from the other
No emphatically, no When, in al,
the priests Of the city we're nearly all
ailing, dying or dead, the sanity Bishop
Blanc issued an order requiring the
clergymen Of the different parishes
throughout the State 20 quickly
repair to the city and fulfill the fune-
lions Of their holy Office; at the risk of