The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-17
THE DAILY DISPATCH.

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TExAs--The question of amending the constifu
ton of Texas viii be decided largely in favor oi
amendment by the people.
Ameeting was to be held in Galveston ON the 5th
to take into consideration the proprety Of adopting
some quarantine regulations to prevent the intro
duction of yellow fever intothat city from New Or
leans
The Houston Telegraph states that the crops
throughout Texas had greatly improved with the
late rains and were very promising.
The construction of the telegraph line between
Galveston and Houston, was somewhat delayed by
rains and other causes; but would be soon fin
i.hed
Lieut. Stevens had increased his force upon the
Colorado raft, and its removal it was hoped would
soon be effected.
The death of Gen. Lamar was generally regret
ted His name has been identified with the history
of Texas from its first settlement to the present
time.
Col Butler, a Kentuckian who lives on Cibolo, has
some twenty acres in hemp, and he pronounces it
far superior to any thing of the kind he has ever seen
in Kentucky
Capt Ogden who arrived at San Antonio on the
18th ut reported that the United States Indians or
dered out of Texas had all been removed except
the Delawares, who remained with the Chickasaws,
under agreement-the Chickasaw and Delaware
chiefs being responsible for their good behavior.
MExIco.-The New Orleans Picayune ofthe 10th,
contains some Mexican news which is not ycry in
teresting, however The dates are from the city
of Mexico to the 21st, and Vera Cruz to the 27th
July.
The only interest the compilation from these
dates possess, is with regard to the opinions and
movements Of the press. A new paper has been
established in Mexico called the Eco de Espana.-
The Orden has savage article upon the American
press, which it characterizes utterly venal, and
conducted with the sole view to profit without the
slightest regard to private feelings social conside
rations public tranquility; and Mexico and Spain,
| and all that is Mexican Spanish are said to be
the especial marks at which this prostitute press
directs its ''envenomed shafts" So far as selfish
in the press goes the Orden of course is very
free from suspicion, the government has ordered
all public officers to subscribe to it. Its motives are
| therefore above reproach.
| Santa Anna and Carrera, President of Guatama-
la have interchanged compliments and official re-
!! cognitions of each other.
| There had been several cases of Cholera, in the
| city of Cordova, Jalapa.
| The government has called for an exact return
| from the states of the number Of foreigners that
are residing in them respectively
The President has provided the necessary resour-
ces for the introduction of water from the river Ja
mapa into the city of Vera Cruz.
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THE FEVER IN NEW ORLEANs.-The New Or
leans Pieayune atates that the increase of deaths
| for each week for three weeks was in ratio of
threeeighths. This ii thinks cannot last long The
Oldest physicians of the city think the epidemic will
cease its ravagesby the end ofthe present month
e. its extreme severity will cease, though the di
sease willlinger until late in September
| UNBuRIED DEAp-The Crescent of the 9th
| makes the following statement:
On Sunday afternoon information was sent to tbs
Mayor that numerous dead bodies were lying OF
the ground in the Lafayette Cemetery, unburied
for the want of force to perform the work of sepul
ture. The Chairman ofthe Committee on Cemete
ries, Mr.. Kurshedt, appointed by the Board O.
Health repaired to the spot about dark Near thert
he found the 'chain gang" which had been employ
| ed from early in the afternoon in the work of bu
rial, coming away, having been unable to inter al
the bodies. He prevailed on then, by promises o
extra pay and supper, to go back and resume tn,
| work. On arriving at the Cemetery, he found sev
enty one bodies laying piled on the ground swoller
| and bursting their cofins, and enyeloped in swarm
of flies. The chain gang was set to work buryins
them, and by half past three O'Clock yesterday they
were all inferred. Orders were given we hav,
been informed, by the competent authority that n,
more bodies should be sent TO that Cemetery yes
terday. One cause of the pressure ON this Cemete
; ry was, as we have been informed the impassab
state of Louisa street. leading to the burying groun
of St Vincent de Paul, where there are sixty grave
| dive op1l Off, in of =
difficulty of getting to them. 1t is also reported tina
the why burial could not be procured in tn
/, Lafayette Cemetery, was because the Sexton re
fused to pay more than twenty cents each for die
ging the graves. This official gets dollar from tn
: Corporation for each body buried, and if from
nisgard motive he failed to have the graves dug
: meet the requirements of the times, he deserve
the most unreserved censure of the community
The eburials have heretofore been made in thi
Cemetery in such careless manner alone to pre-
: duce pestilence. Thetops ofthe cofins have bee
sunk no lower than to aleve with the surface of tn
ground, and then covered over in the manner q
potato ridges. In this situation they subjec
TO be exposed to the washings of heavy rains an
g the sun acting on the putrid corpses Within the
were liable swell and burst the collins thus tain
, ing the atmosphere with a putrescence sufhcieI
alone to generate plague.
This was the state Of things when several person
in the neighborhood, inhaling the rank efuvia, il
| formed the Mayor of the fact, who immediatel
took active measures for having the graves covere
with eighteen inches of additional earth. Order
: have also been issued to the Street COMMISSIONS
to send bodies to Potters Field or to ST. Vincent
Paul, and the gates OF the Lafayette Cemetery No.
have been closed for the present, except to bodie
coming from the Fourth District.
4 The Mayor, we understand, has taken the n
sponsibility Of applying remedies to meet the ex
0 | gencies of the times
The Petersburg Express states that Mr.. SPoTT
WOOD HUTCHINSON, of that place, made narro
|; escape Sunday last from being killed. He was in
suky driving along the plank road, when his hor.
+ | ran away-he was thrown out and eonsiderab
bruised; but the horse continued furiously onwar
4 disengaging himself from the sulkey and runnir
: as though a nest of yellow jackets was after hin
which indeed did get after him in the woods al
a stung him awfully.
d ThePetersburg Express disowns the statene
Z about the firemen of Richmond going over there
the 18th. We may be mistaken; it may have bet
J some other paper that made the statement; but '
certainly thought was the Express
There are two winds at Charleston-one bringil
a pest, and the other carrying It'll away. The easts
| " wind brings swarms of little mosquitoes, whi
: are said to bite without singing; and the soui
3 ern breeze sweeps these little unrnusical bloc
It suckers away. The visitors at Sullivans Islan