Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-14

General for the State. Judge Deade-
rick has been made Chief Justice by
the Supreme Bench.
WE reprint the following from
the Memphis Appeal at the request
of citizen of Memphis now in
GAINESVILLE:
Memphis people visiting Boston laugh at
the reports of the panic which the Associated
Press has sent north. They say things are
not nearly so bad.
The above, from a Boston paper,
was sent to one of the telegraph
operators employed here by the
Western Union telegraph company,
and by Mr.. CatrOn, the local agent
of the Western Associated Press, to,
whom he gave it, was handed to us.
We would give worlds, had we
them to give, 10 know the names of
the Memphians, who absenting
themselves from their homes from
fear Of the fever, mock at the pangs
and sufferings of 5000 sick, laugh
over the 1900 dead men, women
and children, who sleep in Elm
wood and Calvary cemeteries and
POttersfeld, and deride the needy
widows and orphans, and hungry,
unemployed labOrers, who clamOr
for the food dOled out to them
day by day, the charity of the
Memphis people who enjoy Boston
and laugh over press reports, but,
thank God, of millions who never
saw Memphis, and many who
never met any Memphians, but
who are moved by the plain, I'M
vanished statements of Mr.. CatrOn,
who to our knowledge, has always
been under, rather than over the
mark. Memphis people visiting
Boston may laugh, but we, who are
here, are daily, hourly, iii tears, for
the manly men and sanity women
many of whom might have fed,
but who preferred to share the fate
of their humber fellOW-citizens, and
have fallen in the cause of humanity.
But there must be some mistake
about it. Surely there is not one of
all the thOuands Of Memphians who
are safe from the peStilence that
takes its hundred per day or more,
who would laugh over the reports
even though they were exaggerated,
which they are not. Surely there
is not one so lost to shame, to the
cOmmonest decency, as to laugh
while all the world is serious over
our sorrow, and the open hand of
charity ministers to our wants from
all parts of the earth. To loose over
twelve hundred men, women and
children in tweaty-seYen days, out
of a population of $4,000, white and
black, and to be expanding over
so, 900 for twelve hundred nurses
forty doctors, and for medicines and
food, for more than 5000 sick and
ten thousand INDECENT, is to us a
sad reality, enough TO move even a
stole to tears. But besides this there
cOmeth tales of individual SOrrOWI
of whole families swept away In a
week, leaving not even one of the
name; of nurses dying at their
posts, of priests and ministers and
good sisters following those they
succOred so fast as TO appRll the
stoutest heart and Hgive us pause"
amid the general wreck and ruin,
No pen can do these scenes and
sights Justice; no tongue exagger-
ate them. Lisping childhood,
hOary and venerable old age, the
vagfant and the merchant, the man
of God and the unbelieYer, all are
taken, all are claimed alike by the
awful pestilence. 1t thins all ranks,
and brings sorrow to the mansion,
the cottage and the cabin. The cry
of the fatherless is heard every hour,
claiming the pity, the sympathy
and the tears of the most hardened
veteran. In this office, as we write,
there are but two left of all who a
month ago were employed in the
editorial, counting and composing
rooms, and our pressman Is down
with the fever. Strangers to the
Office, as to the business, are at
tending to our affairs, while the
only editor left on duty alternates,
through sixteen hours q day, be-
tween his desk and case, EhiS is
our personal measure of the dread
full epidemic. and surely this is a
sad one. 1t has moved us to tears
many a time the past ten days,
although we are not used to the
melting mood. Our experience is
enc we will never forget, and it is
a common one. The fifth epidemic
we have passed through, this sur
passes them all in the horrors 1t has
uncovered, Parents have deserted
children, and children parents,
husbands their wives, but not one
wife a husband. Men have dropped
dead on the streets, while others
have died neglected, only to be dis
covered by the death-spreading
gases from : their bodies. Little
children clamoring for the food she
could no longer give, have appealed
TO the dead mother, who gave up
her spirit as she gave birth to her
last in the agony Of fever. Minis
tiers Of the gospel carrying messages
Of peace, hurTying from house 10
house, have had their weary feet ar
rested and their work stayed by the
peStilence, that walks in MONDAY
as at night. The priest, admins
tcrinC the extreme JUNCTION, and the
bride Of Christ, wiping the death
dSmp from the forehead of those
whoSe friends and kinSolk are far
away, are almost parslyzed in the
sacred art sad de even before we
4 know they are sick. The business
O. the hour i the Succor o. the SICK,
the burdal 81 the dead and the care
&C the uee3v living. The last words
. Cs thaSc who are wei. arc at nicht
tSucW7eli> 20 the dead. and the r1rS1
On TIRE -lC-uE-c he lives and 'atao
tsS GEet e. AL dsy. and every hoslT
~ ttre s-Sy. tsl5S question i repeated,
F-t TIE ts7zrt s-csers 81 the rVEso-ts.
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