The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-09-07
The Fever a. New Orleans
The Picau,tne Of tbe l7lb saws:

The Rtcdytile oil the~I7ln says:
AFTER repeated disappoinlmen's % OUT
hopes and calculations, in reference 10 the
s~dbsidence ofslhe dreadful scourge, which
has been, for the last fourteen weeks, de-
regulating our city, we can perform the
grateful Office Of announcing 10 our friends
abroad, thai there is a very percepilble
change for the better in our mortuary re-
ports, as well as in the condition and nun
Der of cases R88
1.-The total Of deaths forihe "a Hours
ending yesterday al o'clock Az M were
1893, against 80 for the "a hou $ previous
and for The same lime here wass decrease
Of, SO yellow fever deaths. We learn
from anumber OF our physicians, llsi there
is a marked d~imiaulidn Of cases III private
practice, and from personal observations,
we know tina, in the Charity Hospital there
has been a gradual dacrease for several
days past twill be seen from the follow.
ing abstract Of ne admission in the Inirm,
aries under The control Of The board Of
Health and Howard Association, that the
decrease has been uniform.
BALTImuRG, FRIDAY, scpD 2, 1859.
New Orleans papers of Saturday last
are received. The fever was s'iil Ierli
aing, both in ,he aumber N asesand ma
iignity. The weather continued Fyorahtr,
and COINCIDENCE II the Abatement If lie sp-
ide,nic was increasing Oily, The Dr3o
had Inst three composiiors. cne prssna1
and one reporter, by the lever, and NJ,
BrDan, one Of its editors, was blind fron
the same cause. The fever was sill in
creasing at NatcheE. : Four deaths from
The fever had occurred al Pensacola Navy
Yard on the 25th-among them Lieut.
Hanson, one Of the Gardiner Mine Com
mission.
Seven teen deaths from the fever occuret
at Mobile on The 18th Of August,
The Portsmouth, Globe of Yesterday
say three slaves are missing BY lh ir own
ers in that place. II was believed they
had secreled III ourselves IN hoard the Brit
ish ship Samuel, which lGh for ST John
on that morning. aud a st'amel VIA. abou
b e'ng sent 10 overhaul the ship
AWFUL SnIPwREoK-Loss OF THE BF
NEssREE AND 900 LIyRs, on THE CoAsT o
HINDosrAN!-The following are the pa
t%iculars Of the terrible catastrophe, hilhei
TO but just alluded to, by telegraph
The Nessree was an English vessel, so
tons burden. partly manned by an Eur
pean crew, aud tor some years has bee
trading between BOMBAY aud the variou
ports on the caast Of Arabia. Early
April she was chartered to convey a nun
Der of pilgrims (who were returning. ate
a heightened pilgrimage through Arabia,
India) on a voyage TO Bombay. She vi
fued up accordingly, and, on taking b,
departure. had, besides the crew, no few,
than 400 people on board; also valuab
cargo, The catastrophe happened on Il
night Of the l7lh Of June. The evenlr
previous the captain sighted Bombay, y
soon afterwards the weather set IN THE
with rain, and heavy squalls blowing 3
the land, amid which the ship got her ri,
der unshipped. AMI in consequence, b.
c lame unmanageable,
The passengers, ascertaiaine the per
lous position OF the vessel, and that 81
was driving ashore, became frantic, ana .
tempted 10 esclpe by tho boats. The a
tempt as may be imagined, proved fala
A Tremendous rush instantly capsized the
and at least 80 persisted. The deslrucli,
of the III lated vessel soon followed, Shou
ly after mid nightshe struck, and the ne
minule her mlsIs, with az least l00aoft 4
unhappy creatures cIimging to The rieriu
gave way aud tell overheard, The oec
pauts were either crushed to death
persisted by drowning. In the course
a few hours the vessel entirely broke .
and The whole OF The remaining passe
gers and crew were plunged IN AMONG u
I, breakers. GreaC sacrifice of lie lullnwe
0ii Of, The $50 SOULS who were alive d
; night previous, adj, with the exception
o. persisted The 81 survivors we
washed ashore on fragmenls Of d
wreck What renders the tcalastrop
worse ID, that no list OF record {
: isis from which could be, gathered \
! names Of The su6erers,oplogwhal place
q India they belonged. The spntwltsre 4
vessel vas wrecked was near tiibsb