The Arkansas banner., 1850-07-16
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 The fsilowiag eRlsae. lsom letter 10 the Chris. tian Advocate. wIiiieh by ]. MoRn,s PsAsk ssa@es's ehapaaia at Rio de Jsasiso. GSSasshes moss eo@-
 pe,e aasrs,ivs o the rsogssss Of the yellow Gevsr
 at that place, tsn ws have before ssea. 1t s dated April ath.
 IL made its 6fst appeaFaaee ia thia port about the midsiie oi DeeembeF last, and when atrlved hess, the i2lA OI JansAry. T was prevailing to . great extent among the Swedish, DAEish and Ger mAa shipping. Ia short itne It sptsad 10 the Eax lish. AmsIican, And Anally to all ia pnft. On the last of Janaasr, Government appropriated old eoavent one Dt the islands in lns bay, to hosp,tai. but almost every sailor taken efe dled Its ravages among ssa.sA have been dreadtui. Per haPs n ne psIt, sor aseay yease, has inc yellow fe yer ragged with greater vtoteaee. Many vessels have been iefl Vnisssy assolase. Nas oae escaped, but masseT snd etsw. hsss Pesished! la several n- stanee, the captain, and his wiIe and chltea have a sesn swept away, asai heIiieE hashsaas wtte, chi.dssa kRew tss late ol each other ,iii they me, h slern.ty. At tiaaes. fvt ens vessel port hss been exempt from sickness amd death. Ard whese vessel came in with al on board weii, ia low days most if not all, have been taken down with the fever, and m week perhaps not one soul left on bOsr:- Al other timfs, whss vessel has lost its crew a part. or in iuil, and new has been obtained, and she has gone to sea sith all board we'll after six or eighi days she has returned. with captain and cfIicers dead, and sometimes part ot the Thts has been the case in several instan- ees. Hence it has beea considered sinsost as dan gernas going 10 sea as remaining in port.
 There are not sramea enough here ia health io man hsif the vessels noS ia post. Nav4I vessels have hkswise suf red. and many aI their officers and men have Perlshed. The Lexiaglon, new ln pot, has lost several ne, besides seventeen al thus moment sick with th- fever. The canta,n and one other officer the ony officers able to do duty IL is stated that out of eighty cus,om-hoase otc~fs, who visit vessels and aer guards" ony eisat are iet 10 do thls york; hence the great det, ntion win which vessels raeeI in diseharsing cargo &c, is a, present unavoidable.
 It IS thought by that this dreadful fever has beeh brought here from The ct Atrca by saveIs It 50, t Is an awful retr,bagion No language can detail the horrors Of that inbuna trade and few per- sons kno" the extent 10 which H IS carried on tn these seas, or the c0untenaace gwen 10 1t by some persons in these ports. A noted slave-des Cant B-, long engaged in this wicked traffic, dled . few days since . most wrrtched death. A number ot Americans now here have been and are still en- gagged in this dreadful business-the slave trade.
 Il IS impossible that city of such crowded build- ihgs, narrow streets, dense and squalit ation As thai 0f Rio de JsneiTo, texeepnx its sabu,b.. whefe every abomlnabie nuisance is committed not ony Tn private houses, sores and shops, but tspe- ciay in the streets, pablic squares, by the side of houses, stores, public buildings, even d~iing the grounds and walls Oi chafches, cony enis, kc flns the afr with an sfilayla most offensive by day, and utterly intoleta6ie at night should long some sweeping epidemic. Heace the fever, which inr a long tim. seemed confined to the shipping, broke out sn the euy. and commenced iss iftxhftul work cl deAih among sis population. Al &sss ;s eh-Ay confined to the more commercial part of The town, bat tos some weeks past has been extending over the entire city, and now part is exempt. Several phy sicians have died, and others are sick A num- Der of large mercantile houses are closed not clerks enough leit to transact the business Sickness and desth hass ia every strses, and almost every house store sud shop. The high and low, fiea and poor, isI sliEs. victims io iiiss inexorsbe dssiroyeT ~
 The people are panic stuck. Governms nt al. lows no report. But the aggregate saount ot mo- tsiiy is estimated at 30a deaths daily. 1t has been from l50 to S10 daily for tWo or three weeks past, according to the best information l have been able to obtain. Government has prohibited the sinx of ehuIeh bells, likewise the interment of the drai as heretofore. in the inches of the churches and other public buildings.
 Cool weather is now approaching, and speedy abatement ot the fever is confidently expected In- deed it's thought to have reached s cisis, and day accounts are more favorable. With rna6y, how ever, t IS matter Of doubt whether the change oi season in this climate ls sufficiently marked to au- ihofze the belief that the epidemic wiil be entirely arrested from this alone. As little oF no pfe. caution has been deemed necessary in this city to prevent aa epidemic heretofore, so even now no general efTt has been pat forth either to prevent these practices which tend to disease cleanse the city from already accumulated corruption. Change of season may mitigate it's severity, but practical reformation s indispensable to exilhguish the epi dsInie.