Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-21
NEW ORLEANS AND NATCHEz.

NEW ORLEANS AND NATCHEZ.
The annexed paragraph. is from the Portland
Daily Advertiser Of Tuesday. and is written oy
the Editor Of that paper who is on a tour OF oo-
servation.
Cholera in New Orleans. -our correspondent
from New Orleans informs Us, that win the au-
vance of warm weather, the Cholera Is increas-
ing in that city, but is as yet chiefly conuneo 10
the unguarded, the exposed, the feeble ana 'e
intemperate. 1t creates no alarm, no sensation,
no disturbance in business. and nut niue CONVEX.
sation. The boatmen on the leyee, the squdiio
French and the grossly careless, are as yet the
only victims. The newspapers make no report
If i. and the people take but little note OF It,
n IL nm, now At all alarming but it is not IN
nrobatIe. that in a city 50 filthy, and with such
a population, il may, by and by, inspire a por-
tion of its former terror, though it can never be SO
fatal as it has been, without depopalating this Ill.
starred city.
We find the following article in the Natchez
Courier of the 25lh of April.
Public Meefiag.-The meeting of the citizens
Of Natchez which was held on Monday last, was
decidedly the largest that we remember ever hav.
ing Witnessed in this city. The Citizens met
for the purpose Of expressing their indignation oil
an act which we have noticed in another article
under the head Of - Outrage" aud to devise some
means 10 nrevent a like occurrence from again
happening to the disgrace OF the city and OF our
Laws, and also to quell the alarm and great ex.
citement, caused by the circulation of exageera'
ted reports IN both cry and country, of the Choi'
era, by a simple and plain statement OF lacts as
thew really exist. Ii is known and indisputable
fact, that the Cholera has re. aPpeared IN New
Orleans, Ia what extent, having nothing before
US from the authorities o! that city, we are unable
To determine; but we do know, that scarcely a
boat arrives from that Port. without more Or less
sick on board, with that disease. Among other
passengers there had been, during the previous
week. many negroes, some of whom nave died
OF the Cholera, perhaps eight or ien-but not a
single case has originated here, nor has any one
of our citizens been attacked, that we have been
enabled to learn. We have understood, that il
has been currently reported in the country. thai
- the Cholera was killing the people so fast in
NatchpL, that they had not time to bury them,
but were compelled TO throw their bodies into
the Bayous."
Omrage.-Considerable excitement was crea.
ted in Natchez, Miss. on the Goth ult. by the
discovery vi tHt U'u'NS W SS'S'ai W. 81 ~ Wv
Bayou, in the rear Of the city. The first body
found was that Of a negro girl apparently from
Is to 90 years of age. thrown into one ct the gui'
lies leading into the Bayou. and but partly cov.
cred over with loose dirt. While the coroner
was employed in holding the inquest, a further
search was made, aud other graves ut they be
entitled to the nancy were discovered. Two
other bodies only we're brought to the view OF the
coroner, both having the appearance OF being re-
Gently inferred. 1t was tSoughtadvisable to sui
fer the rest to reman undisturbed on account OF
their decayed state. and the supposed danger at
tending an examination to the health OF the jury
and the large concourse Of citizens present. The
body of a child about eight months old was also
found. which had been placed in a hole, and had
been washed out by the rain, as it ran into the Ba'
you. The verdict Of the jury was. that the cause
Of the death of the persons referred to. was un-
known, and that they were drsposited in the Pla'
ces where discovered. BY the negro traders,
number of whom were in the neighborhood OF the
city with several hundred slaves. This VIOLA
ton of public decency was perpetrated to save
the expenses of burial, and justly excited the in
dignation of the citizens.