Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-27
.YEILoW FIEYER .AT Sew .oRI.Eahs


the week ending at on the Goth, at 5S4 of which
], 1866 were from yellow fever. The report exhh;t.
an increase of deaths over the previous week Of 90
from the fever, and this notwithstanding the ~
stantly reducing population, The total numb, -
deaths for the past four weeks from fever was 6ea
The weather was unusually wet and the antbo.:
ties in hope of staying the dreadful ravages had a,
dered tar barrels to be burned at night and CAM
to be fred 'u
The Howard Association was exertine itself 70 u.
utmost to relieve suffering and to bury the 5.-s
New York has contributed $50, 600, and PbiladonI:
Baltimore, Richmond, Petersburg, Charleston .nd
other places smaller sums, to be applied to the relief
of the suffering in New Orleans
We copy from the New Orleans Crescent Of ~.
18th the following sketch of the horrors of the n
thence
"DowN AMONG THE DEAD Men. To verify thar.
horrible reports of the doings of the dead rn y
other day visited the cemeteries. In every t ue
were long professions, tamping the solemn 10y ne'
of funeral marches In the countenances of odS rse
passengers were the lines of anxiety and oref a
many door was festooned with black and Whit lu
ings the voceless witnesses of wailno and ofaoS
On the one hand Slow y swept the lono cortooo We
the wealthy, nodding with pIumes and Dr. 80 III VI
prancing horses, rejoicing in their funeral von;toc
on another, the hearse of the citizen soldier nroo
kn1o
ly and followed by the noisy tread of mon ~
arms, while there again the pauper was trundlpd q
long to his long home ricketty cart with o r.
for driver, who whistled as he went, and sworo
careless oath as he urged his mule OF spawned bos
to trot making haste with another morsel contr:
buted to the grand banquet of heath. Now amOnr
the steeples heard the Ginning of the bells 90 q
Ghoules up there mngling their hoarse voices &c IN
chorus of graduation over the ranks of fallen Nor
atty. Anon from some lowly tenement trilled fo
L., slof0 &l,~rf i
while from the corner opposite burst the song ofsOm
low bacchanal, mingling ribaldry with sentiment or
swearing prayer or two, as the humor moved him
The skies wore delusive aspect. Above was ali
cloudless sunshine, but little in keeping with tbe
black melancholy that enyeloped all below. Ont
along the highways that lead to the cities of the dead
and still the tramp of funerals knew no cessation
Up rolled the volumes of dust from the busy roads
and the plumes of death carriages nodded in SEEMING
sympathy to the swaying expresses of the swamp
enveloped in their dun appareling of Yeeping moss
fit garniture for such scene
AT the gathering points carriages accumulated and
vulgar teamsters, they josted each other in the
press mingled the coarse jest with the rbad oath mo
sound but of profane maledicton and of rioous mrh
the cang of whip thongs and the rattle of wheels
At the gates, the winds brought intimation of the
corruption working within. Not puff but was laden
with the rank atmosphere from rotting corpses In
side they piled by ffties, exposed to the heat
of the sun, swollen with corruption, bursting their
cOuln uQS, anu SunQoT1nS, as physical effort
the ligaments that bound their hands and feet and
extending their rigid limbs in every outre attitude
What feast of horrors Inside, corpses piled in
pyramids, and without the gates, old and withered
crones and fat huxter women fretting in, their own
grease, dispensing ice creams and CONNECTIONS and
brushing away, with brooms made of bushes the
green bottletiies that lowered their dainty inha
atoms from the green and fostering corpses Mammon
at the gates making thrift outside by the hands
of his black and sweating minions that rendered
hoV fO of
or of idle spectators, who, inhaling the
fumes of rottng bodies already heaved the gorge"
while within, the King of Terrors held his Satur-
MALTA, with crowd of stolid laborers who, they
tumbled the dead into ditches knocked them about
the mazzard," and swore dread oaths, nterminged
with the more dreadful sounds of demoniac jolity.
Long bitches were dug across the great human
charneL Wide enough were they to entomb legion,
but only fourteen inches deep Collins laid in them
showed their tops above the surface of the earth
On these piled dirt to the depth of foot more
put SO loosely that the myriads of flies found entry
between the loose clods, down to the cracked
If the collins, and buzzed and blew there their O0ar
reating each hour their new Matched sWarms.
But sound was there of sorrow within that
vide Gehenna Men used to the scent of dissolution
lad forgotten all touch of sympathy. Uncouth Ia
orers, with their bare heads, stood under the broi
ne heat of the sun, digging in the earth and as
non they would encounter obstructing root
lump, would swear hideous OATH remove to anoth-
r spot, and go digging as before. Now and then
be mattock or spade would disturb the bones Of
ONE former tenant of the mould, forgotten there a.
hid the armies of the accumulated Victims and the
turdy laborer with gibe, would hurl the broken
'agments on the sward, growl forth an energetic
~ and chuckle in his excess of glee. Skull bones
Tere dug up from their long sepulture, with ghast-
ess staring out,
q From each Iacklustre, eyeless hole
Zithout elicitng :. Alas, poor Yorick," and with
My an exclamation from the digger, of Groom for
our betters ~
Economy of space was the source of cunning cal
ulation N slowing away the dead men. Side by
de were laid two, of gigantic proportions bloatd
y corruption to the size of Iitans The central
rojectons of their cefhns left spaces between them
their heads and heels. This was too much room
be filed with earth. How should the space be
ayed? Opportunity the material is at hand, for a
art comes numbering in, with the corpses of mo-
Ter and her two little children Chuck the children
the spaces at the heads and heels of the Titans,
nd lay the mother by herself, out there alone! A
omrade for her will be found anon and herself and
abes will sleep not the less soundly from the un-
onted contact
The fume rises up in deathly exhalations from the
hecatombs of fast coming cOrpseS
len wear at their noses bags of carnphor and odor'
is spiees-for there are crowds there who have no
usiness but to look on and contemplate the vast
of the dead, They don't care if they
e themselves-they have become so used to the
eek of corruption. They even laugh at the rotings
the skeleton Death, and crack Jokes in the horTld
mosphere where scarcely they can draw breath for
tterance.
rs per hour to assist in the work of intermenL
agger under the sitting fumes, and can only be
ept at their work by deep and continued potatons
the +" fire water" They gulp deep draughtsE@
e stimulating fluid and reeng to their tasks, HOla
cir noses with one hand while with the otherthey