The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-09-30
From the New York Times
The Harvest Of Death.


The Harvest Of Death.
The plague has sbsisd al New Orleans simply for lbe
OF fresh victimA The scclimaied and unaccmated
population who remained summer have been deci-
mated by the fever The victims from the latter must
have averaged nearly quite Eve from The goth
July the a4h September the latest date from which
we have islsgraphie advice The fever patients we
should reckon out Of every three OF the unacc
mated These fearful calculations but the bills OF
mortality and The hospital record Of patients dismissed TO
convaiesceDce the grave, for the last months will
bear them out.
The destroying angel after hovsring over this devoted
city for prolonged Of epidemic has passed 10
the nelghboring and plantations Louisiana 10
the city OF Mobile. in Alabama and the towns and VII
lagos Of Mississippi So wide spread Of the yellow f.
has been known its previous history in this
country. The me lancholy advices from its more recent
ravsges the interior Of the South render it NOT i'm
probable ina, il may pass to higher Ia,,udes, if
arrested by early frost
The condition of things in Mobile. according TO lite linn
ned population, has been almost If not quite IA bad as
in New Oeans And strange TO say, the resort
OF its citizens six miles OF town, Spring Hl vii
lage high ground. and hitherto remarkable for free
dom from all diseases has been invaded BY the
epidemic. No location " Thin range of The Gull ooas,
appears have been entirely safe Pensacola on the
Gull. and several towns on lakes Ponchar,rain and
Borgnc, have been visited with fever Convalescents
IRON the city have relapsed 10 the country and died
The mortality Thbodesux. in Louisiana, is remark.
able This is the parish town OF L, Fourche on Bayou
La Fourche-A old place settled by Creole French. and
before. within recollection troubled with
yellow fever epidemic. The Bayou. our northern
readers Will understand. runs from the Mississippi river
TO The Gulf eighty OF one hundred miles above New
Orleans It's banks lined wiki sugar plantations
thicky ibe itself The parishes Tcrebonns and
La Fourchc Interior among the ws2ithiesi in the
STATE the population Creole. and. of course. thoroughly
acclima,ed.
Nachez. Grand Gulf and vicksburr. Nissssippi. all
on the river, Pom Gibson, back OF Grand Gall; Jack
son. the OF State government hack Of vicksburr
and Yazoo Cis. the Yazoo river. empiying The
Mississippi. few miles above vioksburx. have all been
s6lictcd-eome OF them now. learn by telegraph
and through private SOURCES, sadly afflicted These
stances. above Naicbez unexampied The lands
comparatively high al Grand Gulf and Port Gibson and
quite 40 IN what known the Walnut Hills sur
Of the river abov. New oreans in latitude "a deg 20
location. Tree from violen, diseases Of any type it's
ter surroundings unimportani; its population oi
the best cass II 10 now, was, late Friday 23d
instant plsguessr,ckes and almost deserted town
The fever broke with sudden vioienceso cases in
dsy--supposed have originated with q party Of Ger
man lsborers who had fed from New Orleans to find
refuge IN the interior.
Where the fen DESTROYER 10 to be arrested s Impos
sbe now TO predict The approach Of cold weather, and
the appearance Of hard ro~., viii stop ir where
the want of SUBJECTS has NOT already done The prob
ability is. that when all the statistics OF mortal
ny zlorg ihr river will be correctly known.
A. the repeated Of The Asa,c choera 10 the same
section. hundreds OF cases, terminating IN DEATH ny
of exposure and the deprivation Of all comfort and
attention. we'll medical advice have doubtless &C
Cared and report made OF the fact With the black
population yellow lever not fatal a. The cholera
They are less sssoephIs i,s attacks than the whites
whsss the the in cholera sssscn. IN New
Orleans the black and qusdrocn women are the beM Of