The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-11-24


We observe that many papers. both north
and South ars turning their attention q
subject of quarantine as connected with
yellow Fever Asit an interesting mat
ser We extract to-day. Two articles one from
go New York Express and the other from
she Mobile Herald and Tribune.
Tie Express says
he u1ility Of quarantine regulations We
may rernefk BIZ Che way Il beginning u be
fell g recognized ia portions ol lhe Southern
sountry where il has hitherto been tab0oed
% looked upon as but little better than an
absaKaity; and We are moi incrednl0us that
The tIme nillcome when the benefits defi-
Fed from that arrange vii considers
ed ege 4 New Orleans IS not altogether
d our counkt men there not
shut their eyes to the advantages 0f the
system there Is every reason to believe that
they would have been spared the yellow fe-
yer mortality of the two summers past.
They are acquiring an experience nov that
may enure to their future benefit perhaps;
but for that experience now they have paid
and are paying high price in the damage
that IS done to their business affairs. togsth-
er With The frightfui sacrifice of human life
1.-The invariable penalty Of q yellow Fe-
yer.
We have had occasion during the last
summer to show from the Southern papers.
the efficacy 81 quarantine regulations
keeping the epidemic al bay and to show
also chat without quarantine yellow fever
will run its course and have It's victims
et another demonstration of the truth is be-
fore us in the fact that the health Of the city
of Natchez has all along been uninterrupted
AT Natchez however strict quarantine regu-
lations were maintained and the measure
met with favor from the journals there
and indeed from nearly al Glasses. Had
ne press of Yicksbure been equally vigilanf
"a sonn1l12 Ae aiafn Na AAHi41 apea ms
autsl ilies Of chat to establis j
regulations NE should be spared the neIan-
choly duty of recording the ravages Of this
scourQe IN Vicksbdrg and ] Jickson The
evils en- tailed upon both places By this neg
lect are now past remedy--tle fever IS nas-
lter-and hundreds Of families have been
driven from their homes to eek shelter ii
out-houses and deserted cabins in tae IA
Joining woods. Instead of an active ia
trade 10 which Yicksburg is even nor la
Eteresled than Jackson We hear 81
streets and closed doors and the moaoloag
is only broken By the rnnnbging Of the
d the rapid driving Of box cart laden
With bedding, cooking utensils and lhe
Little toa heals bound ne piney
woods
lis perhaps proper while aoting the
Mobile Herald's article to observe that the
quarantine regulations were not enforced
there until some time aftsr they we're n
Natehez notwithstanding Mobile was earlier
exposed 70 the Introduction han this CITY, and
that even hsh enforced they we're not by
any mea hgsnt as those Of Nalchez.
Daily communication vas at no time cut of
between New Orleans and Mobile excepting
that the introduction Of these already sick
was forbidden, Visitants from New or
leans il il health we're permitted to arrive
at al times; and The result was doubtless
that many such we're taken sick with. the f.
yer after their arrival, At least such Is our
Impression As compared with the regu-
llatioas ofNatchez those 81 Mobile were only
half Quarantine.
The Herald states
4tis TACT 81 some importance that No.
bile and Natehez under quarantine laws
have escaped the yellow EeVeE atchez en-.
!. tirely and Mobile substantially 50. Itis Al,
80 . little curious that Natehez adopt
led the laws At any early date and enforced
them With rigor sae las hot solitary
lease Of Yellow Fever The laws wers
adopted later il Mobile and we're not 81
vigorously enforced and Mobile has bad
e lev cases of tie disease
The facts are used to orindieate the vir
tues Of quarantine. There is. however, d
important link of the chain absent ii shl
case ol Mobiles and it is this; the ely hai
had, and now has lhedistempeE Whatc
ses ne have are sulficientt 70 show that therl
IS 90 value II quarantine here for one mai
supposa that the disease can be kept ou
lby law when oncs admitted, the law ca
hardly control 81 other words for con
tagian, fifty and We have had that g
my ne As good thousand
Il Natehez there has been 20 case quar-
Eantine having been there 50 vigilant TIE
Inc inpol ion of the disease could o.
car
Yieksbure. Jackson plantations on 50
ppi have been afflicted u
There M no quafaa me ol mons earl
enen Keep Sc infection fron those