Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-08-30

THE Sickness AT Nav JELEANs-Tne telegraph an
nnnnees the death at New Orleans. by the prevailing e
'denrc, OF Col. VIM. K Steuart formerly of Baltimore
md at one time Lottery Commissioner for the STATE of
Maryland, but who mas resided for some wears past in
New orleans, where he was largely engaged in planting
aud mercantile interests
Thc deaths in New Orleans for the 81 hours ending NJ
o'clock, a. m. the 10th inst were PA of which lSi
we're OF yellow fever. The whole number of ntermeuts
tor the week ending 2Uih l53i of which SOP were
oy lever and "a reported unknown, 90 of which nre sup
posed TO have been by the fever which would make the
"hoe number oil deaths by that disease 365 being
highest in any week since its first appearance
An impression prevailing in certain quarters that the
epidemic which now RACES carully in New Orleans i
dereht disease IN some OF its aspects from the yellow
lever 10y which the city has hitherto been visited We pub
iah the following private letter from distinguished
physician, who has long resided there to show that such
not the
Nav ORLEANS, Aug. 20, 1858.
There is no peculiarly in the epidemic this
IL Is much more extensive because it, long absence had
luet people into fatal security and caused them to be
eve that the city fast getting rid Of the yellow fever
Consequently the breaking out OF the endemic found four
times many unacclimaed persons here according to
tue ratio Of the inhabitants any preceding epidemic
Nearc IN gloomy state, with prospects equally gloomy
before us No natural cause check the pestilcnce b,
me want OF subjects to act upon, the occurrence Of
heavy frost TO annihiate the Infection The weather ha.
been so wet that all unpived streets are npssabe
fCo.."
The New Orleans press has suffered severely from the
scourse Several oGthe most influential editors aud re-.
PoFeTs are already among the dead and many others
LAST accounts were anguishng upon beds of sickness OF
those connected with the Bulletin Office wothirds are
down with the fever, while the Picavu.c has scarcely an
edtor eft they having quit the city for healthy quar-.
ters Ihc Delta Office has lost of its compositors
Oetlvius Casly and Thomas NcElroy the latter native
| Of Pennsylvania.
Altogether, the place to have become "ci,y Of
desoaiiOn, valley Of gloom aud sad will be the recol.
ecohs oil those who survive unscathed by the pestcncc
letter dated New Orleans August 5, published In
the Catholic Mirror states that nearly all the unacclmal
Catholic Priests have had the fever and have recovered
aud That two Sisters OF Charity, four Of the Christian
pSU'uers nave ded leaving but one Of the latter Til,
following postscript, howevcr is added:
Aug l9.-The Christian Brothers are all dead Tbe
schools broken up for the time; but the ladies OF ST
vincent dc Paul have turned it uto an asylum and te
ooa,d OF health sending all the orphans to them"
The New FORK Journal Of Commerce says:
Several persons in this city who left New Or
leans a. late a. the 18th inst They describe "a of a
occurrence scenes OF distress in that PLAGUE stricken cl
when one can scarcely consider real Death oycrtake
oOt passengers ~ the streets. Many have been seen
cross TO the shady side Of the street and throw
on the pavement already sinking almost a soon "A aken
under the Influence OF the destroyer Persons have beef
hhp"" TO get into an omnibus, and be taken dead u
esh bound on their arrival the place Of their de tina
ton. IL thought by many that IL was brought from
tue cost OF Africa in SLAYER Rio and thence nm cot
shp ifom Rio 20 New Oleans. The vessel that intro
duced n distributed death among all who were engaged il
or about her Many be ieved the calamity would hiv
neet avoided 10y strciCr quarantine regulations Mucl
confidence hs1 been begun TO bc clt IN the silubnty
Ne" orleans. Since 1917, there has been no alarm il
regard to the health Of the city. But To- In less than TIVE
months ~ great city almost depOpulaed and deco
itri by The sudden invasion OF prsusncc The h-tor
Vi plaques iurus O. few parallels hi- Wlcl our in
Orrlnts lcit ll2h lust H estimated that above 30
900 nncrlmntcd persons remained 10 the city A. mos
"i the deaths occurred among this class easy p cicu
/ ito tue rate Of mortality among them, when 300 die,
daily. About 100 days. at this rate would extnguish t
/ whole unicc.imhted population.