Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-09

The sanitary situation has undergone
but little change in the last twenty four
hours. The mortuary reports show
lthirty-one by yellow-fever to forty
three of yesterday. The late frost
has operated favorably in check
ing to some extent the contagious
ness of the disease, though, as was to
have been expected, the sudden lower
jag of Il e temperature proved fatal to
those already stricken with the
fever Slight as was the frosty
visitation il has wonderfully inn
proved the morale of the city,
sad infused hope aud confidence where
all but despair was broOding before. In
this respect its coming has not been
without virtue, and if it would but con-
tinue its nightly visits there can be no
doubt that, with the precautionary
and sanitary measures being taken
throughout the city, the pestilence
would gradually yield to its searching
and purifying power. At the very worst,
there cannot many days intervene until
We have a frost penetrating enough to
destroy the malsdy. We again
direct our readers attention to
the absolute necessity of cheerfulness
and courage st this time. 1t is needless
for us to say let every man and woman
do everything within his or her power
to diminish the chances Of spreading
the disease. And in this instance as in
ali others, home is the proper place to
begin. Let nothing be permitted to re-
maUI near a dwellinghouse offensive to
the olfsctory nerves. Remove or deo-
6crize it. 1t would be good plan to
make a habit of deOdorizing impure
places every morning, and while the
physical publication is going on, let the
mind rise up strong and cheerful to meet
the inevitable situation in which we
are placed. Courage, we repeat, is half
the battle, and cheerfulness is in itself a
prophylsctic. We do not mean the un-
natural and excessive excitement be-
gotten Of intoxicating drinks, nor the
beartless levity which speaks the va
cant mind, but that temperate cheerful
ness which will inspire strength and
confidence in the delicate and timid.
Such moral atmosphere will enable
one the better TO discharge the duties
Of the sieKroOm, and must strip
even the pestilential death of
much Of Us horrors. In hours like
these the HOblest instincts and impulses
o man sre appealed to. In the presence
of death he is elevated to higher plane
of moral existence, and nowhere is cour-
age more knighuy and more christian
than in the company of the king Of ter
rr,rs. 1t is better to go to the house of
mourning than to that of mirth, and if
there be any truth in that doctrine which
is at last dearer and better to man than
wealth, and power, and earthly honor,
he who waits by the bedside of the sick
and dying, and ministers to them
in the last trying hour reans
a reward, which will 60 with
him through life as an ever-present
blessing, making him nObler, better,
and happier man. The recording an
g'l sets down every act of loving kind
ness, and blessing waits to fall for ev-
cry good deed upon tie head of him
who does it. Let our people remember,
too, the many warm, kind, and sympa-
thizing hearts that are beating for them
all over this, our glorious country. Ave,
far over the Atlantic in the cities of the
British Is.e, on the continent of Europe,
the tender sympathies of our
race come 20 Us with acts and
words of kindness, bidding us
be Of good cheer. We are not forgotten
in cur sorrow. In little while, too, the
pesulence will be gone, and light will
come joyOusly into the dark places of
our city. There are happy days in store
for US vet.