Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-18
THE YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS.

/ AT the last dates the Yellow Fever was making
great ravages in New Orleans, the deaths by il,
of the present very reduced population of that city
amounting to about one hundred daily. The fol
lowing article on the subject gives one vivid pic
ture of the state of the city:
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL J" OF SEPT. 8.
AS truthful chroncers, however painful the task imposed
it proper that should give truthful picture posi-
BILE of the scourge which, present. like the besom of de-
sucion, sweeping from amongst the Of then
last cold resting place the high and the low the old residents
and the stranger those struggling with ndgence and those
eveling in uxuythe daily laborer and the gentleman
easehe prudent, the abstemous and the disspatedhs
pious and the reckesshe pure and the defedyouh and
age-the homely and the beautiful ALL without distinction
of class falling beneath the attack or feeling the inu.
ence of the invisible enemy hoverng with yampireke
wings In midst and poisoning the air which nhaIe
Acquantances sinking around whom have known
for years. and who thought themselves proof against the IA
taty of attack We shake hands, it wee to-day with
with whom ntimate--the sun sinks and
rises againand he is rolling agony his sick bed and
in few hours carried off his eternal home The
the closed door and the shrouded knocker tell that death
Within and that there is mourning where yesterday
business and excitement
The press has been particularly distressed in the
WHICH cHppieu III
ease The Times has been peculiarly unfortunate likewise
the Bee and the Bulletin in the former deaths have
occurred connected with Office have felt the hand
Of the and terrible destroyer and several still suf
fering.
will be observed that among those OF foreign birth the
epidemic has been most destructive and among the Irish and
German residents the shafts of death have flown tckes
this class of our population, ortyfour recorded
having been inferred in the cemeteries yesterday, and
the month which has just passed nearly six hundred deaths
are registered and doubtless many unknown. Dread
fu fatality Where is the end of all this dire and mean-
choy desructiveness' and who, pointing to that
pected end will live unscahed
Our weather very changeable, which augment
the ravages of the epidemic The morning dawns with cool
and delightful southern breezes the approaches the
meridian the heat becomes clouds then gather above
US, the wind changes to the northwest and cold showers
drench streets, which followed by
than in the forenoon and then the night with its damp and
chilly airs such has been the aspect of weather With
like climate we cannot expect, though may hope, fall
ing off in the number and viruence of epidemcal
Such has been August.
September has just set in II month which has hh
ero during the prevalence Of disease been particularly fatal
AT Its advent already than the average deaths
have been recorded 1t would cheer many heart its
last fading rays which herald the approach Of that mantle of
white which Is the prestige of health and vgor But in the
melancholy hours OF time like this bring philoso-
ply, with its calm resignation, ad-vewing desruc
ton with serenity and equanimity of mnd-the best OF
does-go in fearessness and cheerulness with daily
avocaons, resolving to do duty stricken friends
and TO ourseyesookng at the present dark and poenous
armament but Of those clouds in the passage Of life
which destined to behold, and perhaps fall amidst the
mournul hurricane that follows and sweeps fair cities
and happy homes