Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-08-24

So
I We publish in another column telegraphic des-
patch dated New Orlesrs, August 17th giving brief
account of the terrible of the yellow fever at
that place. The epidemic appears to be on the in-s
crease. The Bulletin of the 18th says:
Cup to the present date the official returns give
for the present epidemic season 2039 deaths from
yellow fever, and 1747 from other diseases, making
total of 5785 from the 2Sth of May to tn. 10th of
August. The daily reporting commenced on the 9th
July The most fatal day we have yet had, was on
the 9Th inst, when the total deaths were 299, of
which 268 were of yellow fever"
The papers relate many distressing scenes The
Orleanian says:
'"The Howard Association as matter of imperious
necessity, and for the preservation Of the health and
lives of the two devoted gentlemen members of this
association In the third district must partially fnot
wholly relieve them of their unceasing labors and
enfeebing and sickening toll by adding to their
bers. Not moment are they disengaged Mr.. Wand
gr endeavors to keep the books and records of the
lntlrmary and they numerous to stay the plants
of the needy and register the deaths For this busy
work, the clerk should be done Charley Whitall,"
man kind of heart, is the Inspector, is physician,
is nurse IS every thing; and never before and we
have witnessed him in many trying ordeal of chol
era and fever and death-have heard him speak
despondingy or complain ofinability, until last
ing He looked, too, disprited and broken down.
1t was long after midnight on Thursday when
passed the lufirmary, and there watched the good
Samaritan. We inquired of him last evening how
long he had arried in the hospital and he answered,
somewhat sadly, all night but these scenes are be-
You'd endurance! and then he related to circum-
stances thrilling in detail. Twice through the night
he had to aid in securing strong men, frantic with
burning fever, by tearing the sheets and binding
them with strips thereof to their cots. A lay
stretched on the floor of the ward in the last throes
OF the death agony, who had been discovered with
her husband, both stricken) in remote and out
OF the way place, where nature had partially per-
formed its functions in the delivering her of child
and she was taken to the Howard Inlirmary to com
plete the operation and die, suppose her hus-
band has, ere this"
A Correspondent of the New York Tribune says
AT the hospitals the suffering is very great and
it is wonder that any recover. In one room Wis
tied there about forty females They placed
in cots on either side of the room with just room
enough between the cots for the attendant to give
the poor sufferers their medicines. On cot was
a mother VINO had just died of the black vomit; in
the next cot the daug liter not only suffering with
the fever, but what must she have suffered in her
mind on seeing the lifeless body of her mother! On
another cot was young woman from Tennessee, (the
only American in the hospital) She had Just been
received and in the first stage of the disease On
one side of her was a woman raving mad, with the
black Vomit and AaShed dozen to her cot. On the
other side the mother who had just died. Icon
cluded the poor Tennessee woman would soon die
after witnessing such In another part of the
room were two sisters. One was doing very well,
the other had the black VOmit. On another cot
three children, whose parents had already died, and
could not but think that it would be better if the
poor children should follow their parents to the spirit
world.
In the room below were about forty men in the
various stages of the disease There some three
four tier of cots in this room. Many of the suf
ferers had the black vomit, others raving and
dashed down to their cots Some grooming,
others cursing and few quiet How any OF
the patients get WE'LL surrounded they
with the dead and dying, and obliged to every
dead body it is removed, is truly surprising. No
doubt many die from fright, and others, matter
how calm they may be, must lose ali hope and give
up in despair. As life is out Of the body,
they put into rough box made by the prisoners
of the workhouse. This box is painted black with
lamp black. The Corporation cart backs up to the
Hospital, the boxes collins taken into them
say from three to four at a load-and they thus
taken through our streets, without a cover to
the cart or anything covered over the coffins."
New ORLEANS. The New Orleans Delta ofthe 4th
inst, soiliquizes thus over that now deserted and
dreary metropolis:
"fhe slips all gone, and here and there solitary
steamer whose struggling passengers seem almost
aid to land find ample berth at the deserted wharf
No cabmen to mportune you for fare for their calls
to the grave The very horses have mclal-
cholly look they follow the dreary hearsc its
way to city of the dead. In the streets, but
short time ago so bright and gay silks and sat
ms sparkle in the garish sun''-mourning has ia
ken their place, and the sparse promenaders move
long though afraid ofthe echoes of their foot
steps. Catch if you the whispering words of the
passer y:-sicEy-dying,-d These the
words on every lip OPERA music, dance, seem sac
rligeous now"