The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-08

and forty.four in his deliberately chosen, steadily
retained Pennsylvania homo.
Ny son. Arthur Young (Pickiel born IN March.
son and daughter. sevsraly born in 1888 and ls41.
scarcely opened their eyes TO . world which they
entered bat to leave. Physically, they were re-
variable for their striking resemblance IN hair
snd features to their fatner ana motner respec'
Arthur had points Of similarity to each Of rs,
but with Q decided superiority, a. whole, to
either. looked in vain through Italian galleries,
two year; af e. a. S,,n ss beauty not
physical merely, but visibly radiating from the
soul. His hair was of the finest and richest gold;
"the sunshine of picture" never Rlorihed his
equal AMI the delicscy OF his complexion at
N. P. Willis, who had traversed both hemisphere
without having his gaze arrested by any child
who could bear comparison with this one. Yet
be was not one of those paragons sometimes met
with, whose idest chatter would edify Sunday
school-who never do or say aught that proprety
would not sanction and piety delight in-out thor.
oughly human, and endued with love OF play
end mischief which kept him busy and happy the
livelong day, while rendering him the delight ana
admiration Of all around him. The arch delicacy
wherewiih he inquiringly suggested, when once
told story that overtaxed his credulty, :"
spose thatIain't lie ~ was characteristic Oh MS
nature. Once, when about three years old, nav.
ing CHANGED to espy my watch lying on q sofa o.
i Vas dressing one Sunday morning, with no third
person present, he made sudden spring OF sew.
eral feet. caught the watch by the chain, wniried
il around his head, and sent 1t whizzlng against
the chimney, shattering its face into fragmenl,ts'
show could you do me such injury! !" Cause
was nervous he regretfully replied. There
were ladies' then making part Of our household
whose nerves were source of general as well as
personal discomfort, and this was his atsestauon
of the fact.
There were wiser and deeper sayings TREASURED sure.
hey zen IRON sss i've Who Remember the grace
full esiety wberewith be charmed admiring circles
assembled at our house, and Of two or three
larger gatherings of Social Reform In this CITY,
and at the N. A. Phalanx In New Jersey ana l
think some grave seignors, who we're accustomed
10 belp rs enjoy our Saturday afternoons in our
rural suburban residence at Turtle Bay, were
drawn tbither quite as much by the admiration OF
the son as by their regard for his parents.
Meantime, another daughter was given 70 u.s.
| and after SIX months, withdrawn and stii an
| other born, who yet survives; and he had run lar
| into his sixth year without one serious illness.
| His mother had devoted herself to him from
his birth, even beyond her intense conservation to
the care Of her other children had pe,er ,bst
an animal was ever killed to be eaten; had
watched and tended him with absorbing love, till
the perils Of infancy seemed fairly vanished; and
we had reason to hope that the light Of our eyes
| would be spared TO gladden. our remaining years.
I Il was Otherwise decreed. In the summer oil
1919, the Asistic cholera suddenly reappeared IN
our city, and the frightened authorities ordered al
| swine etc., driven out of town-that Is, above
| Fortieth street-whereas our home was aoou
Forty eighth street. though no street had yet beer
cut through that quarter. At once, and before
we realized our danger. the atmosphere was pol
luted by the exhaiations of the swinish muititud'
thrust upon MS from the densely peopled hive
south of u.s. aud the cholera claimed its victims D.
scores before we we're generally aware OF II
| presence.
Our darling was among the first attacked at
A. M. of the 18th Of July, when no medical attend
ance was at hand and our own prompt, unremitte
efforts, reinforced at length by the best medica
skill within reach, avaied nothing to stay the fur
of the epidemic, to which he succumbed aoont
P. M. of that day-one of the hottest as well
quite the longest, have ever known. He was en-
trey sane and conscious till near the last insist
ing that he felt little or no pain, and was well
save that we kept him sweltering under clothin
that he wanted to throw of, as he did wheneve
he was permitted. When at length the struggl
ended with his last breath, and even his mothe
was convinced that his eyes would never agai
open on the scenes of this world, knew that th
summer of my life was over, that the chill breat
| of its autumn was at hand, and that my futui
course mast be along the downhill of life.