Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-11-22
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER az, 1899.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
CHARLESTON, Nov. Is

We are authorized by the lntendant to state,
that the news FROM Folly Island continues TO De
favorable. The physician reports that no new
case had occurred for the last "a hours-there
hadbeen one death; the individual had been SICK
for 8 or 10 days. All the individuals at Morris
Island are in health, with the exception ~ one
of the Guard, who had been sick, and Is now
convalescent. II IS also probable that the pas
sensers and crew Of the brig .7rnefsa' VIII de'
part from Folly Island Tomorrow or next day.
Mortality in New Orleans. The accounts
from N.w.Orleans continue to be Of the most APP
Mailing character. We received but one paper,
The ATsu, of the Sd inst. By last evenings mail,
hut letters received in this city and Mobile, give
the following particulars: Interments from Fri
day. Goth uit to Thursday, lst inst 1910 4
communication from the Mayor, to the authori-
ties of Mobile, dated Cd, states that the whole
surface Of the city has become prey to the dis
order, aud that il proves particularly fatal to the
colored population. Gen. Farrow died on the
slst ult. after hours illness.
A letter received in this city, dated Sd inst.
saws" Death and destruction are staring US IN
the face at everv step. feel like man IN
dark pathway, filled with pits and snares, and
he knows not but every step he takes ~iN launch
him into one. The public prints give you no
idea Of the distress that prevails here; write
strictly within bounds when mention that 1900
n, rspn. have been buried from Sunda, morning
last to the pre- sent moment. In fact. 1t has been
compured bv many, that il has averaged 900 per
day This statement, believe me. is true.
From the number Of collins needed, some
are merely square sugar boxes. saw on ihurs.
dav in 5 trenches, abUut l20 collins not yet CO.
yerad: [ was there for haiti an hour, and IN that
time i.,hink there were at least 90 collins brought
in, some on drays. carts, and some even borne
on the shoulders Of Individuals"
Another letter, from a gentleman who wa >
a passenger in the Aspasia, from this port states
that he arrived ON the Sd INST. after very b0is-
ferrous passage. and found himself surrounded
on every SIDE by pestilence and death. The day
We arrived two hundred and tweve deaths occur
red. Only think of the horror OF casting scores
of human corpses, unconfned aud unburied, IN
to the grave yard, Just as scavenger would emp
ty his cart on the green. This is indeed the case
here"
Another letter informs US, that many persons
are buried in the swamps and woods in the Vici-
nity. of whom no account is taken by the sex.
tons. All appear to agree that there are more
than two hundred persons per day carried oh by
all diseases. Public meetings have been held to
take measures for mitigating distresses OF emf
grants, aud others who,Iequire assistance; anu tor
one or two DAYS there was a continual hiring OF
cannon and burning OF tar, 10 eudeavor to PurI-
fly the atmosphere.
Fire.-To add to the distress Of this Inflated
city. fire broke on. on the night OF the 81 inst
in Dumain st. between the Levee add Charities
street, which destroyed four three story brick
dwelling houses, before 1t could be subdued
TCaariesfon Courier.
An extract OF a letter from New.Orleans, da-
ted the Sd instant, states there were on the Sc
coud inst ITO iRterments, aud great many not
reported, being buried IN the night in the vacant
lots about the city. The negroes on the Planta.
tons, it is added, are dying fast also the Cattle.
Bread is said to be very scarce, and the people
running all over the city to buy il. most of the Ne
gr0rs belonging to the Baker shops being sick,
one Baker losing Il IN one day.
From The Ne,o Orleans Emporium Of Noe. S.
The people are in a state Of suffering. deSpond.
ency and excitement. unparalleled in the history
OF the city Death on the pale horse" for the
las, ten DAYS has been rapidly engaged in the
ind, :, r,n,nate work Of slaughter. Not less than
e,gh,sen hundref individuals have persisted since
thu commencement Of the disease. Abuses of
a mast 6aprant character exist, which no effort
of The proper authority seems to cOrrect. and un-
less ,peed, measures are taken forthwith to pu-
rify the atmosphere ut the cemeteries, worse
scourye than ever visited the human race will add
its horrurs to the pests Of yellow lever and chole-
"a with which we are so sorely afflicted.
MoB1LE, Nov. 6.
The New Orleans Courier OF the Cd says
ave have been informed BY gentleman who
arrived here this morning from Mobile. that the
ehoiera was raging in that place." The story IS
q sneer fabrication. Mobile was probably never
NOR. exempt from disease a' this season OF the
year. We have neither cholera, nor malignant
fevers, OF any description, have we had
any. during the summer or autumn. The public
NAV reiv implicitly on our giving the earliest no.
tice Of any malignant disease, with which this
City may visited
The accounts from New Orleans shew no abate-
ment in the virulence or mortality Of the Pesti.
lenee Extracts from the papers OF the Sd instant,