Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-10-29
SEVEN THOUsANDPAUPERs IN MEMPHIS
FrightfuI Picture of suffering and Sor-
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There were twenty-nine deaths vester-
! day, twenty-one Of them from yellow fa-
yer and eight from other causes mo do,,
| before, there We're thirty deaths. twenty,
! seven from yellow fever and three f,,cn,
other causes. So the situation is uncbonr.
ed. Including those being cared for Inv th q
! Towards, and the various other relief or
ganizations, there are over twelve hundred
persons under treatment for yellow fever
ana there are two thousand and twenty
families drawing rations from the relief
committees commssary. Each family nv
eragtng three persons, makes total. ex-
elusive OF the orphans, who are otherwise
being cared for, and exclusive of families
under the care of the Odd Fellows and
Masons, of six thousand and sixty persons.
IL is safe to say, putting all together. that
there are not less than seven thousand
persons to-day, in Memphis, wholly de-
pendent upon such assistance as the chart
tably-disposed throughout the Union can
give. The frost Of last night may kill i'm
part, or altogether the epidemic which has
swept away so many, but it will not cure.
but rather aggravate the condition to which
so many industrious, honest people have
been reduced. Those at a distance will
scarcely be able to credit the figures we
give above. They will hardly be able To
realize that over One-siXth OF our popula-
ton, according to ths United States census
OF 1870, or one-ninth, according to the re-
cent school census, Is so reduced i'm for
tune as TO be compelled to ask relief
ana these, most of them, among
our hardest worhing people. But
so it is. Already mach of the nancy
received here has been exhausted. and
much of the supplies sent forward by the
government, and rs we cannot count with
safety ON the subsistence of the disease
before the middle of November, the new
year Will be upon US before we can be said |
TO have squared our accounts, discharged |
most of our needy to work, aud svstema- /
tlIed the dispeusatiuu of the charity of our |
friends. We shall therefore need all the |
AID we can secure for the Howard associa-
Jon, but particularly for the citizens ex-
1cutlEe committee upon which falls the
burden of caring for the poor We hone.
men, that the generous and good hearts |
nat have so nobly supported us throagh
his trying period of epidemic, full of |
gloom, y strain upon every emotion and |
'ense, and almost crushing, so overwhelm-
ng 10 its weight of woe, will still uphold
Is and stand by us until the cup has passed,
end the weary days and nights of agony
IRE over. What these have been, let the
lgures in our 'death-rolP' teIl--one thous-
md four hundred and forty-three deaths
lnce the fourteenth of September.
In speaking Of the prospect of its abate-
nent the appeal says
Our changing climate, and the appar-
ut reluctance of autumn to take its leave.
ave more than once batlled our hopes, but
We look for the beneficial results from the
eavy frost of last night. We have reason
0 believe that a series of cold nights will
)llow in succession that of last night. kill {
lg, as we must hope, the contagion of the
estilence in the atmosphere. 1t should '
OF be forgotten that our own efforts at !
leanliness and thorough disinfection will /
e necessary even after frost has come to {
nable us TO destroy the pestilence. I
The AgaIaRchc of the oath saws:
"We should not fail to put on record tho
!ct that during the epidemic, the schools
the city being closed, some Of the teach :
g have devoted themselves, without fee a
reward, to the work of relieving the :
eedy and nursing the sck.n :
Friend S. G. Hurlbut, of the Shaker 7
ttlement at Uniontown, Kentuky, ar a
we'd in the city yesterday, and informed
that his mission is to procure fifty or n
hans. They will be raised by the good
eople of his sect, and never want for the II
ecessities of life, while, if left TO the char "
y of the world at large, there can be no n
uniting for morals or future. We hope IL
me of our over-burdened societies will
We Friend Hulbert's opposition favoral 9,
e consideration" -