The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

RAVAGES OF THE YELLOW FEVER.

THE DEATHS ON BOARD THE MAGDALENA.
Madame Carregeot, the Mexican passenger who
died on board the Magdalena of yellow fever, was a French
girl of about 22 ?ears of age. A young Mexican merchant
met her in Faris, and becomine enamoured, took her about
two months ago to the city of Mexico to his friends, with
the intention of marrying her. His friends, who are of the
highest respectability, objected on account of her inferior
rank and character, and sent her to Europe. They, how-
ever, treated her with great kindness while she was with
them, gent a person with her to take care of her as far as
Vera Cruz, paid her passage to Southampton, and gave her
3,500 dollars. It was understood that she received that
money 4 cash, and when she died her boxes were examined
and it was found that the money was in the form of
• draft on one of the first Mexican mercantile
houses in l'aris. It was discovered by her papers
that Carregeot was an assumed name, sad that she had an
extensive correspondence with the frequenters of theatres,
and many of the gay ones of Paris. Mr. Stautiu, or Halm,
or Stahu, for his name is spelt all three ways, who also died
onboard the Magdalena, was connected with one of the first
hardware establishments in the city of Mexico. He was
excessively nervous, and would often rise from table on
'Ward ship, quite annoyed and displeased when the yellow
fever was spoken of slightingly or jokingly. Mr. Spantin,
another of the victims on board the West India packet, had
been storekeeper on board the Great Western steam ship,
and had ran away and settled in Navy Bay, and there, in
the midst of the orgies of that place, one of the most de-
moralised in the world, he fell ill, and was coming home as
• distressed britir.h subject. Amongst his papers were
letters from some Southampton clergyman who, it appears,
teak interest in his welfare, and tried to reclaim him from
his vicious career.

Persons afflicted with the yellow fever are as yellow as •
guinea. The black votait (the usually fatal symptom of the
fever) is a substance discharged from the stomach, some.
thing like what is called coffee grounds. Persons have
been known to recover after the black vomit. During the
fever the 'valeta becomes delirious, and conceives unna-
tural antipathies. Oftentimes during this state the body
becomes black, and decomposition commences. A horrible
circumstance is connected with the illness of an officer
whose death in the West Indies, from yellow fever,
was recorded ye,terday. He was a very fine, strong,
young man. During his delirium he took a vio-
lent antipathy to a medical gentleman, named
Jelly, who out of kindness volunteered to attend
him in his illness, and with his arms perfectly
black from incipient decomposition, he arose from his bed,
and squaring away in a fighting attitude, struck the doctor
down with a terrible blow.

Commander Langton, the Admiralty agent of the
Magdalena, describes many of the incident' on board
the packet on her homeward voyage as very
distressing, a person with whom you bad dined with, or
spoken to, one day, would be struck down, and you would
be called upon soon afterwards to hear the funeral service
read over the lifeless remains of that person, or accidentally
see his or her coffin thrust out front the stern hold, and all
the clothes, and everything likely to retain infection,
thrown out afterwards. Commander Langton came up
from the Gulf of Mexico to join the Magdalena. He had
been left ashore three weeks at Tampico, owing to the
weather, and was present in that city during the revolu-
tion. During his voyage home in the Magdalena a sea
came over the stern, and carried him from the binnacle to
the forecastle. His escape from death, or drowning, was a
miracle, and it was a marvel how he was carried by the
funnel mast without being dashed to pieces. Oa his arrival
at Southampton he found his commission as commander
awaiting him. By his promotion he retires ftom the mail
packet service. lie has been connected with the port of
Southampton ten years, where he was highly respected for
his intelligence and gentlemanly conduct.