Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nic in 1849.—Business Abandoned, Churches Closed, Streets Barricaded, Cities Deserted.—Proclamation hy thePresident of the United States.—Tlie Virtues, Passions, and Vices of Human Nature St
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nic in 1849.—Business Abandoned, Churches Closed, Streets Barricaded, Cities Deserted.—Proclamation hy thePresident of the United States.—Tlie Virtues, Passions, and Vices of Human Nature Strikingly Illus-trated.—Tens of Thousands Swept at Once from tlie Face of tlie Eartli.—Various Eras of AmericanEpidemics.—Wide and Ghastly IJavages.—Self-Preservation the First Law.—Social Intercourse Sus-pended.—Ties of affection Sundered —Parents Forsake Children.—Husbands Flee from Wives — RichMen Buried like Paupers—Money and Rank Unavailing.—Rumble of the Dead-Carts.—Activity in theGrave-yards —They Look as if Plowed Up.—Women in Childbirth Helpless.—Their Screams forSuccor.—Care of a Lunatic Patient.—Tlie Tender Passion Still Alive.—Courageous Marriages.—Death in the Bridal Chamber.—Anecdotes of the Clergy.—Crime, Filth, and Disease.—Quacks andNostrums Kife.—The Celebrated Thieves Vinegar. * Bring out your dead 1-CRT OF the Dead-Caet STRPCK WITH THE CHOLERA. UAKER order, cleanliness, and temperance, so characteristic of the city of brotherly love, did not save Philadelphia from being vis-ited, at an early period after the founding of the republic, by one ofthe most direful scourges that ever was known in the western was the yellow fever, or plague, in 1793, an epidemic which,from its remarkable nature and development, is entitled tothe first mention in an article like this, and reminiscences ofwhich — deeply interesting and indeed in some instancesalmost tragical—will be found in the highest degr
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