The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-18
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From the Rochester UnionI.
| INTERESTING LETTER PROM an EpIscoPALIAN
CLERGYMAN ATJAcKsoN, NIssIssIPPI-THE
RAvAGEs or THE PEAGUE IL NEIGHBoRING
CITIES.
Just now your letter encouraged and
helped u more than W can tell. We are
all bowed down under the mighty hand OF
God, and crying 70 him to have mercy upon
/ u. the yellow fever is no stranger to Us,
and is not usually dreaded: not 50 much as
! typhoid fever, maarial iever. scarlet fever
or smallpox, and not near sO much as
cholera. But this year the yellow fever has
assumed a new character. 1t is malignant
as never before. Many physicians pro-
nounce it not the yellow fever buta
vIRULEST PLAGUE
under the form of the yellow fever. Chill
dTen have always before been exempt. but
this year the fever visits them eSf ecialIy.
Negroes have neye never been much subject
to IL This year they were peculiarly at
tackled. Usually but few die, most recover.
This year it is reversed, and in some places
all die who are attacked. Usually it avoids
clean places. This year no cleanliness and no
dtStHfecttOR guards against It. Usually il
avoids old inhabitants ana accllmated per-
sons. This year it attacks Unfortunately.
Usually it runs niEe davs. This year some
tunes not as many hours. and three days
seems its linn I. Usually il begins in
September. This year in July, and there is
no special reason either in the weather
the atmosphere that we know of to cause
this unusual deafness.
Poor Grenada two weeks ago was
flourishing little town of 1900 people. Now
il is almost
BLOTrED OUT OF EXISTENCE.
1t was pretty place, full of flowers, with
many pretty houses, nicely kept grounds,
many happy families, and full of generosity
for when the fever became bad in New
Orleans and the people there began to seek
refuge, and were quarantined cut OF many
places. the people OF Grenada held meetings
and sent an invitation to New Orleans tell
ing the panic-strcken people there to come
to them. They opened every house, pro-
vide1 against eXtOrtIon. and subjected them
selves 10 crowdIng and ali annoyance, not
for profit, but for humanity. The yellow
fever had never visited Grenada, and they
were confident it could not gain a foOthold
among them. But Que Sunday morning
they were struck as if by lightning. Before
Monday morning many were dead. On the
next Sunday there Were but fourteen well
white persons left, and now but five or six.
Even the nurses and physicians sent from
Memphis and New Orleans fell victims, and
some of them, though long accustomed to
The disease, fled in terror. Many died
through lack OF attention. In two houses
close together, lived two families, one of sew
en- aud one of nine persons. Some were taken
sick, then others, and finally all of both
it too late to do more than close their
eyes and bury them. One gentleman living
in Holly Springs heard that some of his
fathers family were sick and fastened to
them. There were eleven in that family.
Before o'clock the next day he had laid out
seven with his own hands without help.
TEE NEGROES
suffer terribly. Sometimes they are taken
sick on the stree t, and turn and lie down
on the nearest porch and die there They
viii not help each other. The brother
fors1 kes his sister, and the wife her hus
band and children among them. Those
among them who are well suffer from
hunger. They are labOTers and mechanics. |
and depend upon their daily wages But
all work is stopped all stores closed. In !
trouble they always turn to the whites. and
never in vain. The Howard Association |
supports them, nurses them. and buries |
them when they will do nothing for each |
other.
Among the few left in Grenada is Rev
w. c. McCracken, deacon, in charge of the |
parish there. Honor his name, for, young as
he is, he has done and is doing noble and |
glorious work there--the
ONLY CLERGYMAN,
believe, who has the courage to stay and |
do his duty; and it is 20 small thing when
every one-every one-in Grenada taken
with the disease has died. Even the great
plague in London was not so virulent as
this, for large proportion then recovered.
In Vicksburg the disease is rapidly
growing worse. One great trouble is that
SOME OF THEIR PHYSICIANS FLED,
by the execrations of the people,
and several more were taken sick with the
disease soon after il appeared. This leaves
them without doctors enough to care for
the sick; many, therefore, are dying there
from lack OF medical attention
1--WE are amazed at its skipping us gin
Jackson.) Ii was the awful fate of Grena-
da that
FRIGHTENED ALL
and drove people away in thous-
anas. All who could leave have gone away
from Jackson, for there is no reason, save
the mercy of God, why we should not have
it. As it is, we are expecting it every week
almost every day. Below there is fever
in almost every town from New Orleans
up, and many cases back in the country as
far as eight or ten miles from the railroad.
A bove US, north. Canton, our nearest neigh
Dor, has it badly, and it is scattered along
clear up to Grand Junction, where the New
Orleans and Chicago Railroad crosses the
Mem phis and Chattanooga.
"More than this, we always do have it
when New Orleans or Vic sburg have it
before the middle or last of September, so
the State and Federal offices have all closed.
Judges, Chancellors, Clerks of Courts. rev.
enue officers, Auditors-all have lied. Even
he Governor, though appealed to to stay,
has
IGNoMINIoUsLY GONE AWAY.
The stores are closed; even one drug store
las locked its doors and another is on the
point of doing so. None are here save the
few whose duty keeps them or who are too
'oor to go away and there are good many 5
If those. / think some of our physicians {
rave weakened very much during the last s
week. The Secretary of the Howard Asso-
,iation has turned
RECREANT
o his duty, resigned, and gone away. But ]
ven such person is excusable when we
hink of the awful fate of Grenada and the {
apd strides the fever is making in Vicks- G
,urg, and the almost certainty that in few {
lays or more at most it will be here. S
Last Sunday | had services at 10 o'clock,
With about thirty persons present. 1t was q
cry solema-litany and communion. | an e
ounced that so long as or were present I
would administer the Eucharist, and We
one of US know what a day may bring
orth, but our Lord would always redeem p
lis promises and meet us in His temple. l
Fged them all to come weekly, for should y
ne be stricken down it would be a comfort | -
, nave had our Lord at such frequent in
ervalS. As for me, am afraid of the fever, &
t course, as every one must be who has .
oted its awful malignity this year, especi-
lily as have never had it, and am, there IL
1re, one OF its a.
FAvORITE SUBJECTS; T
ut God is stronger than the fever, and he
lid "A thousand shall fall beside thee +
al ten thousand at thy right hand, but it h
Iore than fear the fever, and should He
lease to take me away | can trust Him A
18th my wife ana children. 50, though l
ar the pestilence, shall yet go among it
you can understand the APP
aren't contradiction"
A young lady sends US the foregoing n
with the following letter: T.
c., Mss, Sept. Is, 1873. es
EDITORS CLARION: Enclosed please find Ia