The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser., 1853-08-30
Business in the CITY.

, From the accounts said and sung concern
ing the prevailing epidemic" by the horror.
mongers of our godly city, it will Of course be
supposed by all outsiders that on everybody
and every thing
Black melancholy sits, and round her throws
A death-like silence and deadly repose."
The fact however is not so bad as might be
imagined. From sunrise till sundown Omni
buSses travel their usual outes for the accom-
mediation of passengers, and, if there were no
passengers, it will be readily presumed that
the 'busses wouldn't run. Again, on the bus-
ness streets draws are passing TO aud fro in
numbers, almost if not altogether rs great as
is usual at that season of the year. Builders
too, are at work on hundreds of stores and
dwellings which will be ready for occupancy
at the commencement of the next business
season, while all the wholesale and retail
houses Of the city are as usual opeu inviting
customers by a tempting show of wares. This
will perhaps be read with surprise by those to
whom the sickening accounts sent broadcast
over the country by the panic-press have been
construed and believed
We do not intend to deny that there is
sickness, and misery, and gloom in our habi-
tations, but what we do mean TO say is, that
the gloon is by no means as terrible, or the
prospect Of its continuance as disheartening as
the general tone of our city papers would lead
people in other sections Of the country to sup.
pose. And the reason Of this is easily made
apparent. Three moths ago there were in the
city 10000 people. This number was as
usual, greatly reduced in the early part of
June, as the more wealthy of both our accli-
mated and unacclimated at that period set
out on their Northern tours. 1t so happened
that successful business during the previous
winter, and unusual attraction at the North,
not to speak of the Great Exhibition at New
! York made the number Of our summer run-a-
ways greater this year than was ever before
known. As soon as the first few cases Of vel
low fever occurred, the runaway army receiv
ed new recruits, till the city was reduced to
little more than half of its ordinary winter
population All who feared the fever, and
were wealthy enough to travel, left and it
will perhaps not be considered an over-est
mat when we set down $4,000 as the popu-
lation of the city when the yellow scourge
commenced its ravages in earnest. OF this
$4,000 at least 10000 were natives Of the city
or accmated, and, of course, for themselves,
had no fears of Yellow Jack. 1t followed that
among the remaining $4,000 the pestlence
was to find its victims-and among these its
ravares have been truly fearful. Of the 25,-
600 of unacclimated, more than 5000 are al
ready sleeping the sleep which knows no
waking" another 5000 have recovered, and
still another 5000 are at present time sick.
This will leave but 10000 at all likely to he
attacked, and of that number perhaps third
will be entirely passed over. All old residents
know that these statements are founded in
reason, and they further know, that no person
can be looked upon as permanent citizen
of New Orleans until he has undergone the
acclimatibg process Hence it is, that all Of
the sixty thousand acclimated persons who
can be spared from the good Samaritan work
of watching over the couches Of the sick, and
attending to the interments Of the dead, are
busy at their usual avocationsr buying and
selling and getting gain, while they cast free
" of their substance into the urn Of Benevo-
lence. Will it be said that the 10000 who
have themselves paid the penalties of acclima-
ton, should meet the DEGREES OF the All-Wise
6 with a coward dependency and gloom p
Sbould they not rather meet them like men,
alleviate the distresses, as far as possible, OF
3 those upon whose brows the yellow fingers Of
the pestilence are placed, and keep their eyes
frmi and confidently fixed on the beacon
+ light of Hope! Those who recover from the
present scourge, will, we trust, be transformed
bv the stern babtism of accmation into wor-
tby citizens: and while we freely confess that
hundreds and hundreds of those who have
died were men, good and true yet is 1t at the
same time well known fact that among the
worthless, the dissipated and the vile. the fe-
yer has been most exacting and its victims
most numerous. Away then with despon-
dency! There is hope yet for the Crescent
CITY, unless the pretended exponents OF public
opinion. by magnifying the terrors OF acca--
nation, succeed in arousing the tlmidity ID
capitalists; in closing the foodgates OF emf
grafton from other States and from foreign
countries. and. in effeeting thousand Other
improbabilities, which, however, unIntended
their efforts appear designed to accomplish!
The above is from the New Orleans Tme
Delta Of the 18th inst, and the tone and in
tention of the whole article is apparent upon
the slightest examination. 1t was this paper
which denied the existence Of Yellow feVei
in the city, only few days before the Delta
boldly declared it was not only Epidemic
but most likely was worse than ever 1t was BE-
fore we have no disposition to deal in honor'
and constantly take the worst view Of the case
for the best possible view of ths condition o.
things in New Orleans at present and for some
time past is bad enough, Heaven knows
Equally as little do we like making hgn'
.,L;o,, so serious and @Yellog jack and