New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-17

IHE FEVER at VICKsBURG.--The Wing OF the
18th inst. says:
The pestilence is still dong its work in our
midst, and causes many an earn.st and sincere
prayer to be offered up by the convaleseents, as
we'll as by the few yet liable, for such asrnos-
pheric change as will utterly drive its desolating
breath from our city and suburbs. The Sexton
| reports six deaths within the city for the two
days ending yesterday noon--a very large num-
| Der, when we consider how few there are now
liable.
| The same paper has the following item:
| One day last week an Irish woman living
| near the river, above the Saw Mills, borrowed a
baby of dutch neighbor to go begging with.
She succeeded in getting nine dollars from one
house. She depicted her desolate home and suf-
fering children with such force that one Of the
contributors visited her house on the following
morning and discovered the fraud.
THE EPIDEMIC AT NATcHEz. Free Ira
der Of the 1lth inst. says:
Our streets begin to assume an appearance Of
animation. Either the cool and pleasant wealth
er which has prevailed for some days past ortht
want of subjects to be attacked has almost en-
tirely banished the yellow fever from Natchez
Our physicians have very few new cases, and
do not apprehend any revival of the disease, un-
less it should be caused by the return, before
more decided indications, of person who have
been absent during the epidemic
For the week ending yesterday at u o'clock
fifteen deaths are reported by the Sexton, only
twelve Of which were cases Of fever occurring
in the city. This compared with the report Of
the previous week is encouraging indeed
We cannot say that we are gratifed to hear
of the determination of many friends to return
to town now, as we do not believe that they car
rely upon present appearances as any certain
Indication Of security. They had better remair
awhile where they are
THE FEVER AT WASHINGTON, MIss.-The Nat
chez Free Trader Of the 11th inst, has the fol
owing:
At last the pleasant little village, the resor
of so many of the citizens OF Natchez, has beel
visited by the yellow fever. All had hoped tha
it would escape, but to say that it has not ap
peared there would be to doubt the scientiti
attainments and professionable integrity Of sev
eral prominent physicians
On yesterday we learned that most of tn
merchants from Natchez who had sought tempo
rary locations there were preparing to return
town, and that a general panic had occurre'
among the population. The number of cases O
J fever there were variously reported here yester
day at from seventeen to forty-the former esti
mate is, doubtless, nearer the truth than an
other.
The FEVER IN ALABAMA The last Blu lie
j Clarke county, Standard has the followin
r concerning the yellow fever;
The yellow fever has extended farther int
the county than ever before. In our neighbol
ing town of Grove Hill, in Clark county, or
. deaths have occurred. Grove hill is higl
healthy region We heard of a case the othe
day which occurred in Clarke county, Mssi
|, sippi, region of country remarkably health
and free from water courses or malaria. III
= epidemic this year has come like freshet-i
unusual overflow coming out into the hills lii
back water.
THE FEVER IN FLORIDA. we WEI
disappointed in the hope expressed last weel
: that the epidemic had its last victim among u
: our obituary head shows, nevertheless, a lart
decrease We believe there is one case ye
u about which some slight apprehension is fel
d All of the recent cases have readily yielded
s medical treatment and careful nursing, exec
e the one alluded to.
'e We are now in October, and it is not unreaso
IS able for US to suppose that the weather nv
1t continue to get cooler and cooler, until a fir,
'r shall come, (Which may be about the 10th, I
full of the MOON and destroy every seed Of
ct disease, if it does not entirely disappear befo
We have had no new case since Sunday, and
40 may have no more. Let us cheer up, and this
.;o God that the calamity which has befallen us
~ a community was no worse.
,, This morning we count four whites un
medical treatment The blacks, we belle
with one exception all able to be abo
= Not death has occurred among them. "
y kulla Times, October 8.
LATER FROM LIBERIA.-The Maryland Colol
zation Journal has advices from Cape Palm
;, to the 1st of July Henry B. Dorsey, prom
!, ing young emigrant from Baltimore, had die