Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-09-29
GNasbinaton Sfntinel.

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rapidly abating in New Orleans, it is growing
more fatal and general on the coast and the
lower Mississippi
The death of Mr.. Hill took place on his plan
tation. He was a man as much noted for his
wealth as his charities Ii was he that was
about to build a Methodist tabernacle in New
Orleans at a cost Of Sl50,000. From a brief
memoir of Mr.. Hill in the Picayune we make
the following interesting extract:
This lamented citizen was a native OF Hall
fax county, N. c., and was born in 1897. His
parents of English descent, were hard-working
people in moderate circumstances. When the
boy was FIVE years old his father died. The
mother married again, and the family removed
to Williamson county, Tennessee, next to the
Chickasaw Nation.
"Young Harry here went to plain, old ia
shoned school for two years, and that it appears,
is all the schooling he ever had. His good ma,
ture and quick nature soon found him place
in country store. On the death of his em-
ployer, he settled up the estate, and though very
young, achieved the task so well, that the rela-
tives of the deceased placed him in business on
his own account. In seven years he realized
handsome fortune. In 1927, he married; in
1928, he removed from Franklin to Nashville,
entered into commercial and steamboating bust
ness with William Nichols, and prospered.
"In 1882 he commenced business in this city
with n and j. Dick. In 1897 the house hay
ing very wide connexions, failed, in company
with 50 many others. Mr.. Hill devoted nearly
seven years following to the settlement of the
country business of the firm, and at the end of
that time the liabilities, several millions of dol
lars in amount, were cleared off in full and the
| house enabled to resume business with a large
capital. Mr.. Hill and Mr.. James Dick--than
whom two more attached friends were never
seen-abored together until lS47, when MIR.
Dick having accumulated fortune, retired.
The firm was then Hill Mclean d Co. Two
other partners entered the house, and its bust
ness became, if possible, still further extended
In 1851, having experienced heavy losses,
the firm suspended temporarily The sensa-
| ton throughout the west was intense, as thou
| sands were involved in the business of the
house. Mr.. Hill used his private means, as
sumed all the liabilities of the firm, released his
partners, pledged his property, and in five
months paid of the debts, restored the credit
Of the house, and assumed its entire control.
Since then he has prospered, and died, in the
midst Of a career of active and enlarged bene-
violence, at the head of the most extensive cot
ton factorage business in the United States,
and one of the largest sugar and cotton plan
ters in the south or west"
| At Port Gibson. at the latest accounts, there
| were five or six deaths from yellow fever with
| in one day. 1t attacked black and white indis
| criminalely, and was usually attended with
| black vomit.
On the 18th instant, there were % deaths by
yellow fever at Vicksburg, in a population which
| is estimated at only one thousand. This is the
| heaviest proportionate mortality which has yet
| occurred anywhere during the season. The
| Whig of the 18th instant, says:
1The fever has been, within the last week, not
only an epidemic, but is becoming if it has not
already become So u pestilence of most fear
| full character. 1t is now more general and fatal
than it was in lS4l 1t selects its victims with
out distinction. The old and the young, the
rich and the poor man in the fullness of his
strength, and woman i'll the pride of youth,
| beauty and loyeness, are alike its victims. 1t
spare no ages, sexes or conditions; not even the
1 negroes, who have heretofore escaped. There
| is scarcely tenanted house in the city not af
| ficted by the visitation to some extent"
| At Grand Gulf the disease was raging with
similar fatality The deaths, it is estimated,
were equal to ], 100 day in New Orleans
| There were at the last account about hundred
sick, with only one doctor and great lack of
| nurses.
At Vidalia the fever had been very bad, but
only thirty persons were left in the town.
i At Natchez the disease was declining. A
| strict quarantine was enforced and no one was
permitted to enter the city.
At Plaquemine, Bonnet Carre, Bayou Sara
and Baton Rouge, it also prevailed fatally At
the last named place nine had died of it in one
family.
| At Covington, Madisonville, Pine Grove,
Lewisburg-plac on the lake-the disease was
prevailing more or less fatally 1t was also carry
ing off large numbers in the Louisiana parishes
of St John the Baptist and st. Charles 1t was
attended by black vomit in nearly all cases.
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