Alexandria Gazette

A Well-Merited Compliment.

The Times and Transcript. (California,) in speaking of the ravages of the cholera on board the steamer Uncle Sam during her recent passage to San Francisco, pays the following sterling compliment to the Sisters of Mercy

In the midst of all this scene of sorrow, pain, anguish, and danger, were some four or five ministering angels, who disregarded everything to render aid to their distressed fellow creatures, The Sisters of Mercy (rightly named,) whose convent is immediately opposite the hospital, as soon as they learned of the state of things, hurried to offer their services. They did not stop to inquire whether the poor sufferers were Protestants or Catholics, Americans or foreigners, but with the noblest devotion applied themselves to their relief. One sister would be seen bathing the limbs of a sufferer; another chafing the extremities, and the third applying the usual remedies for the disease; while others, with pitying faces, were calming the fears of those who were supposed to be dying. The idea of danger never seemed to occur to those noble women. In the performance of the vows of their order they heeded nothing of the kind. If any of the lives of the unfortunate people are saved, they will in great measure owe their preservation to these ladies.