The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-11
Total for the week. :. ..l23

From the foregoing it will be seen that Tuesdays
in'erments out number thoec Of any day Of the sea-
son, AID we suppose of any day in the history Of
Savannah. The weather has been for several days
quite warm. and being dry also, is any thing else
than propitious.
The Augusta Sentinel Of the 7th inst. says:--It
WI be seen by the drugs Of tue City Council,
that one thousand dollars has been placed at tue
disposal OF the Mayor # Savannah for the sufferers
by the epidemic nov existing in that city. This is
comm ndable act on the part Of our City Council,
and Will meet the APPRECIATE of every good citizen
But this is not all tsat ,ould be doue by Augusta.
Our CITY IL free from disease, while sister city is
suffering from the fell-destroyer. Let publ,
meeting be called, and committees appointed for
tie different wards, and there will be no Difficulty
in sending q couple Of thousand more for their
relief.
CHARLESTON s.C.-PR0GREss OF THE DISEASE.
The Charleston Mercury, Of the 7th inst, says:-
The report OF the City Register sho ss great in
crease of mortality during the "a hours ending last
evening, Is deaths from yellow iever having Oc ur-
red. We do not suppose that the average increase
is to lie estimated by this comparative advance on
preceding reports, but the disease is now eneray
diffUsed, anr the whole unaccimated pOoulstion
may be con'ideied within its inf hence. Nor can
we expect any sensible change, except from the
oinihut on OF subjects aud the gradual ascendancy
OF the Influences OF the cool weather.
In the meantime, whatever can be done by the
uDtbing labors of our physicians and the human.
ty of our people 20 relieve the suffering and danger
Of the sick, We are sure will be faithfully per-
formed
In this connection, We suggest that al necessary
parade at funerals, aud especially The calling out
OF militory companies, should b. dispensed with.
We recognise the generous motive that prompts
these last testimonials Of respect to the DEAF but
In gu time 1t is still more the living and the suf
ferug than these who have passed beyond the
reaca OF our aid, that demands our consideration;
and the funeral march that accompanies the human
dust to its final resting place, may from sym oathy
become the prophetic messenger of death to the
week sufferer on his bed Of pain.
| HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS.
After summer " ich, as regards health, saws
the Pc0yune Of tie Sd inst, we can conscientiousy
proI ounce as favorable as any which we have ex.
peril need for the past eight years. we have now ar
rived at the falike weather of the passing season;
and We have in it for nothing but graduation
and thapkfunefs. We seek not to disguise the fact
that there Is yellow fever in the city: ia from it.
Dun city iutegs nee regularly contains the weekly
returns OF the actual number Of cases which have
p owed fatal dmire the past week. But We feel it
DUTY to assure our fellow citizens andeades abroad
that the disease has been confined within the mar
rowest possible limits; that in private ractce there
has been few any cases whatever that may with
propriety be distinguished from the ordinary catar
logue Of mortal diseases; and that in the better
sort OF private practice have been unable to as
certain the existence Of scarcely single case.
They are certainly most unfortunate features in
the nomy Of our CITY, that the period frequently
selected for em'grating to it Is i'll judged, and that
the majority OF those coming to 1t are after their
arrival, utterly regardless Of all the conditions that
arc corcItidA BUG pEebcLVdlOn Oh tnelr Qe8 ltQ.
Yet it seems destined continually to suffer nom
| those evils
DuiDg the present season we believe ourselves
justified In saying that, with but almost the smallest
possible number Of exceptions, has scarcely one died
from yellow fever who has no.at once labored under
the disadvantage Of having arrived here almost i'm
mediatsly before the summer heats il not actually
IN the very height Of their prevalence--of having
been utterly without the necessary Information and
Judgment to enable nm to guard against the conse.
quent impending dangerS-of having been In
such state Of necessity as would have prevented
| the timely application of such knowledge had he
possessed it-and Of not having been conveyed to
our noble charitable institutions till it was far be.
| yond the reach of human power to save them.
This may be melancholy, bu. to the best Of our
Knowledge II Is true; and we feel perfectly justified
In pronouncing our city at the present moment, as
has b en- throughout the season, one Of the very
healthiest in the Union. And 80 may it please Pro
violence to keep it, The number of deaths in the
Charity Hospital during the past few days, Is may
be seen from our returns, has materially decreased
The following is the report of the Charity Hospi
tai for the week ending on Saturday the I'd inst, at
| p. NJ
| Admissions. .........,........3 06
D'soscA 5Sr'. Sc4