The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-08-19
THE YELLOW FEVER IN NEW.
ORLEANS.
Its Terrible Ravages-disreputabIe Com
duct of the Common Council.

Correspondence fthe N. Y Tribune.
NBW-oRLEANs, Saturday Evening, July g. isss.
You have no doubt noticed that all c,tv
papers have been for some time engaged in =
discussion as to who is to blame for tho
present state of the health of our city, and
all have come to the conclusion that the
present Council are to blame. The Board of
Aldermen and their Assistants are nearly all
Democrats, and were elected as a Reform
Boari. Their neglect has been most
shameful; and although the press and people
are down upon them, yet they have done
nothing The Upper Board adjourned until
the third Tuesday in October, but were called
together again yesterday by the Mayor, in
order that they might do something to ston
the dreadful progress of the Epidemic, which
is now killing off its hundreds. At the mee-
ting last night it was long time before the
Board of Aldermen could get a quorum.
When they did get one, Aid. Burke offered
resolutions for the establishment of Board
of Health. 1t was voted down. Mr., Converse
then offered resolution to employ not ex-
ceeding one thousand men for fifteen days tn
clean the streets and lime the cutters of every
inhabited street. This resolution was opposed.
on the ground that the remedy came too late,
and Mr.. Burke asserted that 'the Council by
sits culpable negligence to take proper mea-
"sures to preserve the health of the citv.
"should be held responsible for the lives of
those who had fallen by fever" On the
resolution being voted down, Mr.. Converse
offered another to purchase three thousand
bbis. lime for lining the cutters. This was
voted down, and resolution to purchase one
thousand bbls. was carried, and sent to the
Board of Assistant Aldermen (then in session)
for their concurrence, but they voted It down:
and thus ended the lime business. ..
Mr.. Converse then offered resolution
that the Street Commissioner employ twenty
six additional deputies for one month to visit
and inspect every yard and privy and vacant
lot in the city. This resolution met the same
fate as the others. Mr.. Converse would not
give up the ship; he was determined to do his
duty, as also was Mr.. Burke-the only Wings
in the Board-and Mr.. Converse then offered
resolution placing $4,000 subject to the
order of the Howard Association Associ.
alton which Is doing much good in their at
tention to the poor. This was also voted
down. The next resolution was to give the
Police Committee power to appoint Board
of Health. This was also voted down.
The next resolution to employ eight carts
to carry the sick to the Charity Hospital was,
for wonder, agreed to; also a resolution
was passed to employ two men to remove
dead dogs, cats and other uermin from the
Third District to their last resting-place.
One Of the Aldermen then left the Board, and
broke up the quorum. The course Of action
of the Assistant Board was on par with the
Upper Board, and thus have our Council ad-
journed without doing anything for the bene-
fit of our suffering city. Our Council act
like boys, and some of them, in fact, are but