New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-21
to be more successful in dealing in the same
way with the Socialists We fear not.
THE FROST At LAST.

Cheering intelligence comes from several
of the fever-stricken regions of the South
and Southwest At Memphis, on the night OF
the 18th inst, there was heavy black
FROST with q considerable formation Of ice. At
certain points in Louisiana, at Jackson, Miss. at
Mobile at Chattanooga, at Vicksburg the same WIN
try forerunner has been welcomed. 1t is certain,
therefore, that the of the plague this year
at least, has nearly come tn an end. The killing
FROST of the poet in this case Is kindly and cura-
tive. The blessed seals" which closed the pesti-
lence and which were broken with such dire result,
will soon restrain it again. Fugitives will return
deserted homes and empty streets will again be oc-
cupied sundered families will be reunited; the hum
of industry Will be beard. and hardly anything
will tell of the ravages Of the destroyer
save the long rows of new-made graves, aud the
still IDOuTnful cOuntenances of the beTeaved Again
1.-THE solemn train of care" will "plod on" and
leach one, before will chase his favorlte phan-
tom" AS we think of these happier days in the fu-
ture, the sense Of their serenity is intensified by
thoughts of all which has been suffered during the
long months Of sickness or Of exile. For 1t is not
only IN places Immediately subjected 20 this vista
ton that there has been distress and apprehension
Here IN New-York, SC far away from the fever. how
many have been waiting nervously for intelligence
from those whom thew left behind them fearing to
look INTO the morning newspaper hlidlu W OPoh
letter. trembling as they rapidly glanced at a tele-
glaml Had he faen-the father, the husband or
the brother, who, brayey remaining at the post
Of duty, insisted upon sending away from
him those dear ones whose presence would
nave soothed, whose mlnIstratiOns wOuld have nit
Igated the agony Of his last houTsf We fix our
thoughts upon tho centres Of su1eIing-we do not
remember how it may have spread all over the
country. or how many Of our more fortunate people
may have had reason to bewail the yellow tever
season Of 1873
There are lands from which malignant fevers, en-
gendered in fostering swamps and stagnant lagoons
under the fierce beat Of trop. cal sky. are
never OF hardly ever, absent. There are countries
in which the luxuriance of nature is perpetual
poison. No cool autumnd days come 10 their hot
cities or swelteunR plantations No annual
Winter restores their wasted energies or puts
new heart INTO their labor. Every night
death stalks through the thickeniug mists and
enters at the Opel windows. To our happier latI-
tude are granted mOoths and in some cases years of
IMMUNITY from many dangerous diseases. Winter
is always near enough t. awaken confidence and to
inspire hope. How eagerly the signs of its approach
have been wal ed Tor in the South need not say.
1t could not come TOO soon. Though it might Kill
crops, what were they to the livee VI meni And
now that il is almost there the best Of physicians
We can remember gratefully how has also brought
to u.s. from year to year, fresh energies and reviymg
strength. and filled all our borders with q vigorous
and muscular and work-oving population.