“Man’s Inhumanity to Man.”
On Tuesday last, a colored cook on a propeller at Chicago was seized with cholera. He was put into an express-wagon and sent to the Marine Hospital, but was refused admission, and the driver told to go to the health officer. Here he was also turned away, and sent to the office of the county agent, who, for the lack of a certificate, declined to receive the sick man. From thence he was driven, in his dying condition, again to the health office, where an order was at length given to take the pauper to a county physician for examination. Upon this errand the driver started, but had not gone far when, turning to ask how his patient felt, he discovered him lying speechless, stiff, and dead. For four hours he had been carried around the city in search of a place to die, and at last died, unknown to any one, in an express-wagon. It was ascertained that the deceased was an escaped slave, who had served two years in the Federal army, and had been three times wounded.