Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1878-09-17
THE SOURCE AND ITS RELIEF.


bbls. of Family Flour, and one box of Tea
twenty-five dollars, the proceeds of the en-
tertainmcut given by o. S. Long, Esq, were
also turned over to the committee, and thir-
ty dollars, collected at tho Post Office, were
sent to Baltimore by Mr.. Leisenring
ing in all sent from here about 500. In
addition donation eff S3O.15 from citizens
of Leetown, is acknowledged through the
Baltimore San, and other contributions have
probably been sent from the county of which
we have not learned.
AS the Baltimore Sun says, at is hoped
that with the advancing season the crisis has
been reached and passed of the highest NOR
talty from the dreadful scourge in the South.
Vet, with the absolute poverty from the de-
struction Of all employment for the masses in
the stricken cities, there is much yet to be
done in the way of relief, not only for the
sick and those who have lost household MEM
bers, but for thousands Of others.
1t has been estimated that over a million of
dollars in the way of relief will be needed to
furnish provisions aud medicines, and pay
nurses and physicians and helpers of all
kinds in the stricken cities, before heavy
frost subdues the malignity of the fever
The cost is enormous, and those who have no
conception of how so much money can be le-
ultimately used my learn it from Col j. NJ.
Heating, al indomitable editor of the Mem
pass Appeal who, in the midst of sorrow
and suffering, has stood by his people in
their afll elton, and on moro than one occa.
sion has had to do all the editorial work,
most of the reportorial work, set type, read
proof and make up the forms of his paper,
now printed half sheet. No later than
Monday last he gave description of the cost
from day to day of maintaining and minis
tering to the sick and the impoverished in
that city. He said:
ITO lose over twelve hundred men, women
and children in twenty>seyen days out of
population of $4,000, white and black, and
to be expanding over $4,000 for twelve
hundred nurses and forty doctors, and for
medicines and food for more than 5000 sick
and 900 indignent, is to us a sad reality,
enough to move even stole to tears. But
besides this there comes the tales of individ>
ual SORROW; of whole families swept away in
,
OF nurses dying at their posts, of priests and
ministers and good sisters following those
they succored so fast as to appal the stoutest
heart and give us pause amid the general
wreck and ruin. No pen can do these scenes
and sights justice; no tongue exaggerate
them. Fear sits on every face
and dread on every heart. We work, not
in the shadow, but in the very face of death
We meet him on every hand and at every
moment in the names Of his victims and in
the desolaton he has spread about u.s."
Ten thousand dollars day is the cost of
the epidemic in Memphis alone we add
to this the cost in New Orleans, Vicksburg,
Na,chez, Grenada, Canton and other places
along and near tho Mississippi, and remem~
Der that the fever, which made its appear
arce in July will continue until some time
in October, there can be no difficulty in un-
Outstanding the urgency of the appeals that
are made to the charitable in other cities, or
to understand the profound and reverential
gratitude of the sufferers for the relief that
has been given them, and which finds this
vent through the columns of the Appeal -
"We pray blessings upon the generous who
have helped US in all the States; we pray
for the safety of those who have come among
us to nurse the sick and minister to the dy-
ing, and VIC ask that the names of the women
and the men who have laid down their lives
for US shall be handed down forever as among
the brightest and the best of earth"
The following acknowledgement has been
received for contributions received by Mr..
Leisenring, at the Charlestown Post Office,
for the Yellow Fever Sufferers:
MAYORS OFFICE. BALTIMORE,
September 10th, 1878.
B. F. Leisenring, Esq, Charleston, ". Ia:
Mayor Latrobe returns his sincere thanks
to you, and to all who contributed, for the
$50 90 received to-day for the yellow fever
sufferers in the South. He will take much
pleasure in forwarding the generous contri
button. Very Respectfully,
GEO. SAVAGE, Secretary.
We have been kindly allowed to make the
following extract from letter written by
young former townsman to his father, L. NJ
Aisquith, Esq, of this place:
Bolton, Mss, Sept. 7, 1873.
Dear Pa We have had general STAN
pede in our town by the appearance of Vel
low Fever. There are eleven cases here, and
one death this morning. 1t is impossible for
any one to write the sufferings of the Vicks-
burg people. Vicksburg will average about
two hundred cases per day and about sixty
deaths they need Doctors, Nurses, Money
and Supplies-and I fear in few days we
will be in the same fix. l will stand my
ground
Your affectionate son,
W. L. AIsoUITH.
Hon. b. f. Martain will speak in Shep-