Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-09-23
TUT ICJJOW CIIIZcn,
J. DOWNING, Major.
I'd Brigade, Downingv lille Militia

this head for several days, but think at this time
a paragraph would not prove undressing. par (
iicuaTly TO our friends at distance. We cannot /
now say il is healthy, we have been doing for
several weeks past. Cramped down by no com |
binations, or other controlling influences, We shall
on sh's subject, as VIC intend to do all others,
speak out the truth without fear. We have it
from the best Of that the deaths daily arc
from IS to 100 persons. The disease with which
they die is generally fever. 1t is a city disgrace
and crying shame, that we have no board Of
health to report the mortality among our inhabit-
ants every day. Without you travel yourself to /
the different grave yards, and make personal en-
quirics, you can arrive at accurate know ledge
Of the number daily inferred. 1t is painful in the
extreme ofhearng men eating hearty breakfast
in the morning and being called ito their last home
before the sun sets the same day. Since some of
the city papers have thought proper to proclaim
all is well, and to declare the people fools and cow
ards should they become the least alarmed in re-
gard to the health Of the city. take il upon our
modest selves to assure the people, at home and
abroad, that New Orleans, at this time, is very
sicky, and too much care cannot be taken to
guard against the dangers Of death around U.S.
This Is no high wrought tale to alarm, no croak-
ing, as some men more fond of sport than truth
might call it. We have seen and heard tell Of
too many strangers dying suddenly with the
curse and scourgc now affecting our city, not to
know there is danger, and very great danger 10
the unaccimaied and imprudcnt. Too often arc
we summoned to close the eyes ofdeparted friends.
TO forget duty and act the base part of a false
psj;ev. hy GN"cs~I:se sA- s~.sI. We no aiar-
mists, and we Will be found among the last of,hc
corps who willing to excite a panic and make
our population believe thew are all going to die.
No, tar, t.ir from it, We are not afraid our
selves, for having gone through the process of
1 acc!'nltion. We arc prepared to our chance
for life and death. But to- those unused to our
climate, and those at n distance, it is the duty of
the press to declare the truth.
/ How very contradictory the statements
that not more than 100 die in the course Of n
week and that that number die daily! The LAT
ter statement rs true, for no ono who will visi,
the grave ytrds and sec the number dailv buried
can dispute the fact that the deaths daily in tb.
city, at present, average, il they do not exceed
! one hundred There can he no doubt but that We
have established the fact that the city is sick.y,
! and that he who asserts otherwise, departs from
the truth.
We might extend this article and sneak Of o,r
banks and the business Of the CITY but as there is
nothing doing we have nothing more to saw
September 2.
There was great change in the weather las,
night. Cloth coats, closely buttoned, were very
comfortable this morning. The sickness Of the
. city increases, and those who were getting bette,
: yesterday, are worse to-day, on account of the
" weather We again admonish the people to be
. careful, and those at a distance to STAY where
! they are, and not approach New Orleans INIT
they advised satisfactorily Of healthier times
September 5.
!. "a poor fellow, named McGuinc. was foam.
r dead in yard in front Of Office this morning
He had died sometime in the night, and was tn,
prey OF rats. We never saw a more horr;bI,
!. mahylcd body. The nose, lips, cheeks, eyebrow
!. were all eaten away. The inhumanity Of ,hoe
! who knew Ofhi situation is criminal to the las
!. degree. He was boxed up aboIt IL O'Clock, an
: car,ed OF to his long home"
:. A Duel IN EMuRvo-Under this canton. N
. Pennsylvania Inquirer Of Monday, has the 70
:. lowing
: :. ''Oar Washington correspondent has given u
. the particulars Of an unpleasant affair betwee
!. Col. Webb, of the New York Courier and Eooui
!. er, and Mr.. Gholson, Of Mississippi. VERY shar
: words had passed between the two eentieme,
:, and it was feared that challenge would ensu,
!. We withhold the particulars for the present, a,
!. prehensive Of unintcntional misrepresentation.
:, A correspondent Of the Baltimore Gazette. WI
:, ting from Washington City on the llsh inst al.
!. takes the following notice Of this articipated d
= ell
n s1Within the last few days, We have come We
+ nigh having DUEL the parties which, had the
met, would have been the Hon. H. 8. Gholson
., Mississippi, and Col. James Watson Webb, Of ii
., New York Courier and Enquirer.
I. in few words. On Thursday last whilst the
be- lection Of public printer was before the Hous
Mr.. Wise, Of Virginia, made an assault on the q
nj ministration members, and charged them with b
ds ing colIarod; with having been s'marted a,
ay numbered " and, in the same breath asserted, tn
Ter the Press a the country was not independent,
nd mad been bsibcd and bought up by the admin
Mr. tratiou.
When he had taken his seat, Mr.. Gholson
. M,ssass'Pp', rose to reply. He defended the .
80 ministratioa, and in doing 80, replied to the
ks marks Of Mr. Wise, by referring to the celebrat
ed Ioen made oy the bank Of the United States
"a, Messn. Noah and Webb, which he urv
OF was m videace Of the corruption Of the oppo
rn ton.
m hso happened, however, that Mr.. Webb y
= was in Washington, was not then in the Hou,
bat when he was informed tfmt Mr.. GhoIsoo b
- referred to him, he addressed a note to dat %
to tleman. coocued IN very irf1taoae sermSn 10
~ Mr.. Gholson replied, in \ so,c, whic twas