New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-09-01
Baltimore Letter.

THE EPIDEMIC AT NEW ORLEANs-THE CHOLERA
HEREABouTs-cHuRcH DEDICA TIoN-HEALTH OF
MISREPRESENTATION sToCK--DULLNEsS, ETC
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BALTIMORE, August %,
The continued accounts of the excessive raw
ages of the epidemic in New Orleans are received
here with the saddest emotions. Apart from
| the national sympathy which 50 mournful an
occasion awakens, many of our citizens have
friends, relations and intimate acquaintance in
your city, for whose fate they are naturally
solicitous An aged and estimablc gentleman
Of my acquaintance has promising son, just
arrived at mans estate, who holds . clerkship
| in a large commercial house in New Orleans,
and who has heretofore resisted the strongest
| importnnitiss to induce him to fly from the
danger that surrounds him. The Borrowing
father, who views his son almost already num-
bered among the dead, visits me every evening
20 obtain the latest telegraphic intelligence, his
anxiety not allowing him to await its appear
ance in the journals of the next day. Each
days intelligence, however, but adds to his ap-
| prehensions and sends him to his home bur-
dened down with the fear that the next an
nouncement will proclaim the death of one on
whom his hopes and affections are SO greatly
stayed No doubt there are many such case.
| throughout the land.
| Diseases Of the cholera type seem to be en-
circlng our city, though, as yet, the city itself
and It's immediate vicinity preserve their usual
good health. Williamsport, Emmetsburg, and
various localities in Charles and Anne Arundel
counties, in this State, have all suffered severely
/ this summer from sporadic cases Of the cholera,
aud now il has manifested itself at Cumberland,
where the deaths, in proportion to the popula-
Il .. .ts,s. No. iaao hac hnap
produced, il is supposed, by deposits Of filth left
by late freshet by which the town was inun-
dated, and II is to be hoped will disappear with
i the removal of these local causes. Some Of our
| own physicians, however, are Of opinion that
we may expect visit Of the cholera before the
season is over Whether their opinion is well
founded remains yet to be proved. My own
conviction is that the disease is essentially one
that belongs to restitution and filth, and that
the present clearly condition of Baltimore, with
her well-clad, well fed, and prosperous popula-
ton, will afford it but little foothold.
Our Catholic population were all on the gui
rfre yesterday, ON the occasion Of the dedication,
/ with all the imposing ceremonial, of the Church
| u the new chapel Of st. Agnes, at Catonsville
large procession of Catholic societies, with
banners, bands of music, etc, marched to the
location 10 witness and participate in the cere-
m0Hies, and thousands of others done the same
In a more quiet and less ostentatious mode.
Coming in some Of the societies were attacked
hy rowdies, and one Of their number stabbed.
The parade with music and banners on the Sa b.
bath, aud FIR a religious purpose, is very dis
tasteful 10 the Protestant community, but cen
tainly did not justify resort to rufiian violence
| The health Of eur city continues unimpaired
The deaths for the last week number but 1852,
or 8 less than the previous week. or this num-
her we're caused by suu-stroke, Is by dysen-
terry. and 81 were of children under five years
Of age.
/ Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stock, after hav-
ing touched the low depth Of $50 per share,
| sl00 par. } Is again recuperating, and an ad-
vance has been made on the faith of the large
fall business il is expected to do Its entire
| management is, however, so essentially old fogy
and inefficient that any great expectation is
sure Of disappointment. AT least, so | think.
There is scarcely a sign Of the breaking up
| II the summers dull illness, which is now running
late into the season. Many Of our active busi-
ness men are still away, and though large
travel Is daily PASSING through the city it ]:
composed mostly Of plea sure seekers who merely
glance at Us as they go by. The continued anC
eKhausting heat is probably the cause, but new
ertheless some Of cur business men begin to hav
| long faces about IT, OBSERVER.