Southern Christian Advocate

FEVER IN KNOXVILLE, TEN.

We learn from the South Western Christian Advocate of the 13th ult. that the town of Knoxville, Tenn. has been visited with fever to an extent never before known there, insomuch that Friday, the 7th, had been set apart by the civil authorities as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. The proclamation of the Mayor appointing the fast day, was dated the 4th.

The S. W. C. Advocate states that there had been some three hundred persons sick with the fever at one time; and that several among the most worthy and influential of the citizens had died. Who could have looked for such a visitation at such a place! And still how hard it is to make some people believe in the providence of God. Second causes satisfy them, and they will search no further: as if they were unwilling or afraid to find themselves in the hands of the Almighty. Not so with the pious. To them it is a solace of incomparable sweetness, to know that the evil no less than the good in this life, is dispensed under the hand of our Father in Heaven.

We find the following names among the deceased as recorded in the Advocate--Dr. Wm. Trigg, Dr. James King, James Kennedy, Mrs. C. Morgan, Miss Catherine Morgan, Miss Mary Jane daughter of H. A. M. White, John Bucky, Mrs. Hannah Landrum, Mrs. Boyd, William Gill, James Ramsay White, Miss Rogers, and Miss - Bales. The kind of fever which had thus fatally afflicted Knoxville is not mentioned.