The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-22
Fer. WORTH Ksowlse.-In noticing the


ers $500.
F.crs WORTH KNowING.-In noticing the
ea,.li,v of dysenteric diseases this summer among
,hs negro population, we have already stated that
the cause could be readily traced to imprudent eat
inc and drinking, In almost every instance. Take,
for ex AMPLE the teamsters on the streets, who re
ceive their board money once q week. and let MS
sse how they demean themselves. When a days
work begins they seek their breakfast at some dir
~ cook shop, where spoiled meats are served them
cbeap. and then until late hour in the afternoon
thew continue to load their stomachs with cheap
and noisonous liquors At night another meal Of
had food is taken, the usual dose OF whiskcy put
mon il and this course Is continued from day TO
dsy. the negroes being constantly exposed to the
sorching rays of the sun, until the system becomes
deranred the constitution gives way. diarrboea su
neryenes, and for want of timely aid, death ends
The scepe The same remarks will apply to por-
ton of the white laborers, among whom cholera is
said TO have existed. And these cases are seized
upon by panic makers to break down the business
al The city frehten travellers, and give the enc
mics of Richmond a bone to pick, to her disadyan
fage We have watched the progress OF disease
closely since the first of June, and it there have
been ten deaths OF prudent, temperate per ons by
Cholera in this city, since that time, we have been
unable to hear of them Indeed. we doubt whether
fire deaths have occurred with total abstinence
PERSONS
A gentleman of our acquaintance, who transacted
business on the Basin in 1S4S when cholera was
he kept list of the the 'south side" and
assures US that out of the forty deaths that
occurred in one neighborhood, there was not one
sober, temperate person. He therefore attributes
the cholera to the of bad liquors; and as farther
proof that it is fatal with that class oil persons,
states that although the Sons of Temperance num-
barred fftce, hundred members at that time, but
two of that large proportion OF our population died
with cholera.
Such facts are valuable to the owners and hirers
of negroes who should spare no efforts to do away
with the cause of disease, as far as they can.
We are gratited to learn, from all sources, that
red within the past As houre, and it may not be an
uninteresng fact to the panicmakers to learn. that
not a negro was buried at the Shockoe Hill Bury.
ing Ground last Wednesday, that he'd died of cho-
lera.
OWNERS OF SLAVES, who are in the habit
of writing passes, will gain important Information
from reading section of law which Is published
below. No master has right to give his servant a
general pass to procure work and receive pay for
it. and no man has a right to employ a slave for
any purpose without the written consent of the
owner If masters 80 far forget their duty as to
violate this law and their slaves escape to the North
the fault will be their own. Within the past week
two servants have been arrested at Rocketts-one
of them on board of vessel bound to New York
with general passes to do as they pleased If either
or both of these fellows had escaped to the North,
the police OF the city would have been strongly cen.
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would have belonged to the owners themselves
The vigilance of the Mayor and his officers have
prevented an escape for many weeks but it is i'm
possible tor them to see and know all that may be
going on, and unless owners will conform to the
law of the State, they must expect losses In more
ways than one. All such cases coming under the
eye of the Mayor, we feel assured, will be sent to
the Hastings Court, where the master will be forced
to pay heavily for permitting his slave 60 at large
The section of law alluded TO, reads thus:
"AnY person permitting a slave under his con-
troll to 60 at large, trade free man. or hire him.
self out for the benefit of any person whatever,
shall forfeit not less than ten more than thirty
dollars. And if the person 30 permitting hold the
slave personal representative, guardian, curator
or committee he shall pay the fine out of his own
estate, and not out OF that held by him as such fdu
ciary"
The law then goes on to say that any person
may, and officers shall, with without warrant
arrest any slave, as to whom tere is violation of
hepreceding section, and carry him before Jus.
tice, who on due proof OF the fac shall commit him
to jail, unless his master other person give
recognizance, with good security for his forthcom.
ing, to abide the result of the prosecution
In connection with this law, an ordinance of the
city requires that slave shall have written pass
at night to 60 but to place; and if that pass is
designed for more than one night, then the name of
the proprietor of the house to which the negro has
permission to go, must be written upon the back of
the pass, or it will be of no avail We invite the
attention of owners of slaves to these facts with
the assurance that whenever any ofthem a detec.
ted with Illegal passes they will be arrested by the
police, and the master made to suffer for his illegal
act.