The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-19

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PEELED to quarantine boats arriving with emigrants
tbs high time that some rules were enacted fol
the protection Of these poor people. They are now
crowded on the decks Of boats, without any of tn.
comforts Of life, and exposed to the weather ant
the night air. No wonder many Of them die
The authorities here ought to take up the subjec
at once. The Federal laws regulate the number
Of persons for each ton Of the ship, the size Of the
berths, the quantity Of provisions, etc. But wher
they are landed here, the law no longer protect,
them. More Of the emigrants die on the voyag,
from this city to St. Louis, than from Europe t.
NewOrleans. This should not be. Humanity a,
well as expediency, calls for prompt action. We
publish the documents issued by the Mayor Of St
Louis:
| From the st. Louis Republican, 10th inst.
Additional Quarantine Regulations.-We in
vite the attention Of officers and owners Of boats
in the New Orleans trade, to the stringent regu-
laton adopted by the Board Of Health, in relation
| to the number OF emigrant passengers on board
said vessels from New Orleans. The Mayor, it
will be seen, is determined to enforce the regula-
| ton, and those who know him will not hesitate
about believing that he will do it. The health d
| this city, and Of the whole country connected with
it, requires that it should be strictly executed and
if passenger-brokers in New Orleans, and the
masters Of steamboats, will wilfully endanger the
general health Of this city, and that Of the people
all along the Upper Mississippi, Missouri and
Iowa, let them take the consequences.
st. Louis. Mo-; Jn.s. 10 iSi
HGr. q: y; Crosswdn, MAYOR City NsT Orleans.,
DEAR SIR-I feel it again my duty to address
you on the subject Of emigrant passengers placed
at New Orleans on steamboats, directly from the
vessels in which they arrve in numbers far beyond
the capacity of the steamboats, to accommodate
them with any regard to their health or comfort.
The necessity of some quarantine regulation at your
city which would compel emigrants to be put
ashore for several days-long enough 10 thoroughly
cleanse their persons and baggage, before they are
permitted to leave for the Interior, il would SEEM
has been sufficiently demonstrated by the expert
enee ofthe last two or three years.
But in the absence of any establishment of the
kind, the city authorities of New Orleans might
serve the cause of humanity, by using some effort
to prevent The overcrowding of efnigrants on the
decks Of steamboats, and earnestly beg of you to
lay the matter before your Councils. From three to
fve hundred passengers are frequently crowded on
one boat, and great part of the deck-room at the
same time filed with freight. The mortality that
ensues is frightful, and our Board of Health, to
prevent its recurrence, have passed resolution
requiring the Mayor to detain. at the quarantine
station, any steamboat having more than twenty
deck passengers for every hundred tons register Ii
nothing more can be done, the promulgation OF
this regulation of our city at New Orleans by the
authorities. may be useful.
vay ResDsctfaly, L. M. KENNETH. Mayor.
MAYoR's orEtcr. st. Louis. 10th June. 1851
JMessrs. Converss & Ksnne.t, Ns,o Orleans
GENTLEMEN - Our Board Of Health YESTERDAY
passed a resolution requiring the Mayor to de-
tain at the Quarantine station, any steamboat
coming from New Orleans, having on board a
larger number Of deck passengers than twenty for
every hundred tons register the full period of time
permitted by ordinance" The great mortality on
some of the boats recently arrived amongst the
unfortunates their crowded decks compels us
to take this course for their and our protection.
If the masters of steamboats, will not be influenced
BY humane considerations to have proper care for
the health and comfort of deck passengers, we
must force them to do so, in the observance of
United States law on the subject, by our municipal
equations. A days detention at Quarantine will
verbalance the profit on an extra hundred passen.
'ers-and in case Of much sickness, boats NAV be |
etained five days, or even longer.
You will oblige me by having notice of this re-
ulatlon generally distributed in your city, BY
andbils, and will do service to your friends by
rging upon them the necessity of conforming n
ty of st. Louis.
l.. M. kENNETT. Mayor.
MAYORS Orr1cE. June 10, 1851. II
The Quarantine Officer Station Arsenal Island.
DEAR SR-The Board of Health, at its meet.
I, $500 PasseI lhe ioHoWing resolution
49, ny sle D'aru oi neaith' that the
ming from NewQrleans. which mar have ,aors
- Of i. yeo;s,rv Of tonn.as - he one nanaieo
s.a,.;. S.s.:S l.onse, - nc eetaihed az the v
ii hn a.J;nanean 'Ao iun peiiod u TIME author- f
In accordance with this resolution, desire that t
u will detain at the station, any steamboat hav.
3 larger number of deck passengers than {
enty to the one hundred tons, Especially if there
ouo DC sicAneSs, Or snouid nave been great NOR
ny on ooard) untll the order OF the Board Of
os;.;s, VI Pe.',' ioni me shal Dc ootainea au-
,;gran,. receu,i,, arr;u ~ INC NC . aIaay ol lne
IT'S Of the CITY, and the authorities are determined
rictly to enforce regulations against boats bring
crowds o. emigrants, without regard to their
'''A y Rs.nsc,snIv NJ u.
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Insecurity Of Property Governor Quitman, in
IS speech here on Monday last, referred to a feel
Y u, 1 ,a somewhat prevalent IN the commu-
IN and rsn,ovsl nf nsonars,, f cnu ~ s.ie emiga
Dnsequence of that feeling. We heard n GOOD
ID democrat who has heretofore supported but
as now quit Quiman and Qutmansm, speaking
Tha ' r sau1ec, somewhat IN me following style
= off their nronerty IN aneoun, "S ,h;a anu oay
low wanted to ask him this question: When
hey leave. where do they go toe Why, to Lou.
mana, 70 Texas, to Arkansas. This shows that
icy oe. ,s oaer states saie. iof heir property to
ouih Carolina ton farcs slavsbo o5 sa.le way 10
hey don't feel secure in their slave nronerv
Though they're such powerful southern righIs
eople over there. This shows yery clearly. to NV
ind that this southern rights excitement tends To
ake people afraid for their property, and especially
IF their slave property and that men of pronerty
el safer almost any where else than in Mississinni
nd South Carolina, where this excitement IN goip'
Il. Think thev had better drv Il nm" IKoscn,sLo
diss) Chronicle, l4th inst.