Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-08-26
LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS.

INCIDENTS AND PRoGREss OF THE Pes
rGLENCE.-We have the New Orleans papers
of tire 9th, the latest due. They are replete
with such shocking incidents as the follow
ing from the True Delta:
On Sunday afternoon and yesterday there
was much excitement throughout the city in
relation to the shameless exposure of large
numbers of uninterred bodies in many of the
cemeteries particularly in the Lafayette Gene
try, in the Fourth District, where some sixty
odd collins were, it is said, on Sunday after
noon, scattered indiscriminately in and around
the grave yard, and undergoing rapid de-
composition. The laborers employed to dig
the graves struck for higher wages, and sub
sequently refused to work for any price,
The negroes of the chain gang were next
pressed into service, and they, when night
approached, ceased their labors. AT this
stage of the affair, Mr. Kursbecdt, one of the
most indefatigable members of the Board of
Health, assisted by few others, succeeded,
bv holding out the inducement of liberal pay
aud furnishing the negroes with such eata-
bes and drinkables as they thought proper
to call for, IN getting them to resume work.
BY yesterday morning the greater portion of
the collins were placed beneath the earth
The excitement caused by the state of af-
fairs at the Lafayette Cemetery was much in
creased by the report, that in Potter's Field
the old system of digging graves was aban-
doned as obsolete, and a number of horses
and ploughs were set to work to furrow the
field; that the cofins were placed in the fur
rows ledgewise, we suppose) and partially
covered with the plough, as farmer would
4 ridge Of sweet potatoes.
In the local intelligence of the same paper,
same date, we read
We learned last evening that sufficient
number Of men had been employed during
the day to get all the bodies in all the ceme-
teries underground. For several days previ-
Gus bodies had been accumulating at 50 rap
ID a rate, that graves could not be furnished
Tor them at nightfall, and until the next NOR
ming they remain by dozens in the grave
yards, nburied tanting the air for rods a.
round with Presidential odors On Sunday
evening tie number of the unburcd was
greater than ever, though the chain gang
had been employed during the day in the
digging Of graves. Five dollars per hour
were offered, but even at that rate men could
not be employed, for the swollen dead were
bursting their coffin lids, and the stencil was
sickning in the extreme.
Among the deaths reported the last three
days in this city, we regret to notice that of
Miss Apponlina Ludlam, the accomplished
gultarist.
The n. 0. Delta gives an awful picture.
It says:
The Levee presents a scene of awful desc
lation. The hustle on the warf is hushed-
the animated crowd has departed, and no man
knows whittier The ships are all gone and
onlya solitary steamer, whose Struggling pas
sengers seem almost afraid to land, finds an
ample berth at the deserted wharf. No cab
men there to importane you for a fare, for
their call, are now in the grave. .Stck-dy-
~g-dead-these are the words on every lip.
Opera music, dances, seem sacrilegous now
New Orleans %.
Number Of intermeuts to-day were 27O,
including $40 of yellow fever. Total of week
1850 Of fever; deaths yesterday 200.
Health at New Orleans.
New Orleans, August 5.
The total deaths, yesterday, were 1872, of
2od were of yellow fever The total deaths
the past week, ending Sunday evening, were
1882, of which 1869 were of yellow fever.
The total deaths, the past "a hours, ending
this evening, were 2l5, of which 1877 were of
yellow fever. The disease is as bad as ever.
The weather is untavorabe.
BY telegraph from New Orleans, under
date of Sunday, we learn that the deaths of
yellow fever on that day reached 200, and
that thestore ofKendalI Voc n Co. was bum
ed on Sunday, causing heavy loss.
LOUISVILLE, Aug 18th.
Private dispatches from New Orleans state
that being unable to bury all the dead the
past week. one hundred twenty-five dead