The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-18

left to its natural effect, makes all the
world kin.
The matters we wish particularly to
notice are: 1st, The statement that the
public offices here at sbe Capital of
Mississippi are closed, and their oeeu-
pants gone, ought to have been qualified
bv the mention that the medical author
tiles who are charged with the protection
of the public health induced the officers
in common with other citizens who could
do SO, to depopulate the town by leaving
their places until the crisis was over
that this is an ordinary precaution
against the spreading of the disease but
they all did not leave. At the time the
letter was written Col. Falconer. the
Secretary of State, was in his Office,
where he remained until called away to
wait upon the sick of his own family
and home in Holly Springs. Maj.
Wall, Commissioner of Immigration,
has remained, and is the efficient Secre-
tary of the Howard Association.
Whether the Governor whose action is
characterized SO disparagingly, left on
account of the yellow fever we cannot
say, but we do known that he promptly
came to Jackson upon the solicitation of
citizens who desired e conference with
him and that he is to be found at the
Executive Office every business hour in
the day. ID 1t is harsh to say that our
stores " are closed when more than
enough Of them have been constantly
open to do the business they are per-
mitted under the quarantine regulations.
True. one drug store locked its DOORS"
(for business reasons which we have
understood had no reference to the
yellow fever) but three others-more
than sufficient for the wants of the
community-have been accessible day
and night. Sd. If our physicians
"have Weakened" we who have been in
constant intercourse with them, have
never discovered sign of it. We never
saw men more firm in their purpose to
discharge the responsibilities of their
calling and resolved to confront its dan
gers. 4th, The allusion to the physi
clans of Vicksburg does not convey a cor
rect impression of the facts. AS body
they have borne themselves coura-
geously, faithfully and unselfshly. If
there be an exception it only makes the
rule more conspicuous The eloquent
epitaph which a contemporary suggests
for the tomb of the lamented WHITE
HEAD might be claimed for any of his
profession in that heroic city. 9Th. The
same might be written of the clergy at
almost every place that has been visited
by the fever. With perhaps a few ex-
ceptions they. have stood to their posts
and administered to the physical neces-
stiles and spiritual need of the sick and
the dying, and many Of them have fallen
in the discharge of the sacred offices of
The death of poor DR.. Nc
Campbell at Grenada, after he had ex-
hausted body and mind, literally worn
himself out, in attending the sick, is an
answer TO the statement in reference to
the clergymen at that place, and there
may probably be others who have fallen
upon that stricken field and whose names
ought to be linked with that of McCrack-
en-, to whom tribute 10 less just than
beautiful is paid. But. why multiply
words, when the very thoughts that sug-
lest themselves to ourselves, will natu-
rally rise in the minds of others
p. S. We had just finished writing the
above when the following tribute came
20 us in the Prentiss Pleader, to another
christian Martyr" who laid down his
life at Grenada, the Rev. J. G. Hall.
His devoted wife, the companion of his
early manhood and of his declining years,
preceded him only few hours to the
grave:
We n ust not omit to mention the name of
Rev. j. q. Hall, an aged Baptist minister Of
Irer ada whose locks were whitened by the
rostS Of seventy five winters. He devoted
he s-.nset OF his life as he had done the
lOonday of his manhood to the good of his
ellowmen. His name is recorded on the
oil of Christian Martyrs.