Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-08-14
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.

EDITORS CHRONICLE called to-day
to see Mrs. T.. M. Norris, who has
been laboring on this coast for nearly
a year as agent for the Tennessee Or
phan Asylum, located in Clarksville.
/ found her in bed--prostrated by rea-
son of her arduous and long continued
labors here, in behalf of the noble
cause she represents. I do not con-
slider her illness as at all serious, but
as the necessary exhaustion which
must follow such exertions as she has
made since her arrival in this city.
1 write to you that through your
paper the ladies in charge Of the Asy-
lum may know from q disinterested
party, what labors have been wrought
for them and the orphan children of
Tennessee; and, also, that they must
forego large expectations concerning
the future. fear this latter thought
is troubling Mrs. Norris somewhat !:
that is, she seems to be under the ap-
prehension that because of her pre-
Vious success here, the friends of the
asylum may be expecting large remit
tances from her hereafter-a thing
which 1t is impossible to realize. On
this subject have urged Mrs. N. to
dismiss all anxiety.
became acquainted with Mrs. N.
a few days after she reached here, and
on the following Sabbath cordially
recommended her mission of charity
to the benevOlence of my congrega-
ton Central Presbyterian). At that
time, scarcely any one supposed that
she would succeed in raising more
than two or three thousand dollars.
But We did not then know anything
of her wonderful persistence. 1 do
not know the precise sum she has for
warded, but it must be not far from
$4,000. The amount of labor she has
performed in order to secure this re-
suit almost surpasses belief. She has
visited nearly every important point
in this State, Nebraska and Oregon,
making her collections, however,
chiefly in California, where people
have met her calls with astonishing
liberality. have watched her as she
prosecuted her work, with feelings OF
the highest admiration. The physi-
cal eXertions she has made would
have worn out any half a dozen or
dinary women. And this has been
kept up without intermission. She
has seemed to have but the one OBJ
ject-money for the orphans-and this
she has pursued with q single eye
Hersuccess has been wonderful. With
any one else, believe it would have
been impossible. Her friends have
urged her repeatedly and strongly tc
tspnre herself, and take season. fOl
recreation. But this she would not
consent tOdO. She has held out much
longer than / thought it possible fol
her to do. She must nOtO stop. ]
think that she has gone over the field
and that, after short season of rest
she ought to return home. If she
were to remain here longer, it would
enly be to giedn the ground already
traversed. The orphans of Tennessee
will never know how much they art
indebted to this noble woman. And
/ sincerely think that the Directors o
the asylum ought to urge her to return
at once. She needs rest, for both
mind and body.
If this communication shall serve
to exhibit, ina clearer light than they
have been seen before, the self.sacri.
ficing labOrs of the orphans friend, il
will greatly crafty me, a stranger
but none the less an earnest we'll
wisher of the cause of humanity.
Very respectfully yours,
JNO. G.. FACKLER.