The Delaware herald., 1854-05-03
Communications.
Correspondence of the Herald.

MEssRs. EDITORS Il wish to correct an
error in your paper of the 10Th inst. I am rep
resented as saying that one of the delegates
from Queen Anne's County, run away, and the
other voted against the bill. I said this, that
one did not vote for prohibition, and when the
final vote was taken the other was not there
Idon't pretend to know whether he ran away
or not. l only say he was not there. If Mr.
B. voted for prohibition then l misrepresented
him, and ifDr- F. was in the house when the
final vote was taken, ask his pardon for say
ing he was not there.
Respectfully &C., S. NJ. COOPER.
P. s.-Does Mr.. B. say there was no agree
ment upon the part of the candidates not to
pledge? | do not understand him so, and if he
says there was no agreement of the kind among
them then they have been misrepresented
S. NC
o. Mr.. Brady, says he had no agreement
with the candidate.
| correspondence of the Herald.
I SMYRNA, May 1, 1854.
MEssRs. EDIToRs 81 have been highly ora
titled by the action of our commissioners, in
ordering the sidewalks of the town paved
and ali obstructions removed Lherefrom, and
nope the work so nobly begun will not stop, but
go on, until we have, not only unobstructed
streets and sidewalks, but pure and wholesome
air to breathe, just as God intended we should.
If it be matter of Importance that the con-
! venlence of passers along our thoroughfares be
attended to, that the polish of their boots be not
dimmed with mud, of how much more impor-
tanee is it to the well being of society that
those nuisances whose pestferous eminations
and nolsome odors pollute the atmosphere, should
be speedily and forever banshed beyond the
limits of the town Al refer to the pig-stveS
with which almost every yard or garden is
adorned.
am no alarnst; nevertheless, | know that.
as the warm season approaches, diseases of the
Dowels--dI0rrh9G, dySentery, cholera nnOrLus,
and that great destroyer of children, cholera
tHfGntum-will come also; and, Judging from
the past history of that terrible scourge the
Cholera of Asia, we are not entirely sure that
during the coming summer, it may not paw us a
visit: for it is a notorious fact that every yeaI
adds larger number than the preceding to the
lists of its victims. have spoken only of dis.
eases of the bowels, whilst there vet remains
the whole catalogue of maladies comprised
within that class denominated fevers, all O.
Gts
) and therefore to be stunned, more particularly
that most fatal of all, the yeIIoto (euer, which
made such havoc in the southern and south
western portion of our country last summer
} and which prevailed to a considerable extent
even so near us as Philadelphia itself: anC
: have we any assurance that we may not hay,
r a visit from it this season ourselves! And doe
not the bare possibility of such an occurrenc,
show the wisdom of SO purifying our town as tc
: render it as little liable as possible to such ;
t catastropheq
4 Disease and death revel in filth, and as ma
y tural consequence, where the latter mos
abounds the more victims the former finds.
= The history Of most, if not all, the great cpl
> denies which have visited the world, prove
r conclusively that the dirtiest and most crowde,
Z portions of cities and towns have furnished tn
q most victims. During the "great plague" O
London, which occurred in 1886 and continues
until 1915, in the narrowest, and, consequently
most crowded and filthy streets, it ragged wit
Q the greatest virulence. Shortly after the sui
sidence of the epidemic " the great fire. occur
!, red, which laid that part of the city in ashes
after which, it was built with wider streets
r since which time London has been free iron
t plague. SO, also, of yellow fever, which ha
d always first appeared and fourished, to create
/ extent, in 6lth and an impure atmosphere tina
leans of the past year, il is a matter of histor
that, in that portion of the city inhabited for th
most part, by German and Irish laborers, who's
d habits were notoriously negligent and filthy
r. and who were utterly Indifferent TO all thos
precautionary measures which, even the mos
3 limited knowledge of the laws Of health woul
y seem to suggest, the disease made its first az
e pearance, and, for time, the work of deaf
!, was confined within that particular district, bu
>, it gained strength by what it fed upon, unit
= the four districts were grasped into its deadl
T embrace. In Philadelphia, last summer, th
IN disease made its appearance in the lower pa
o of the city, but from the precautionary measure
in taken by the Board of Health, ii was confinC
: within very limited district, "bounded /
. Union street on the north, Second street ON ii
le west, Almond street onthe south, and the Del
OF ware river on the east, embracing an area
I'd not more than 800 yards in length, by 200
. breadth, neighborhood by no means dense
populated; but in many places the houses a
confined and filthy"
he DR.. Rush, in speaking of the yellow fever
he Philadelphia, Of 1903, says there were, +
,e several weeks, two sources of infection, vi
80 erhalation and contagion; t.rhalation infect
% at a distance Of three or four hundred yard
ea eontagiOn infected only across ihe street"
We The fever of Malaga, of lS03 first spre
M through the district Perchel, which consists
narrow, filthy and offensive lines" Dr.O'H'
- loran. says Cspeaking of the cpideinics of Spa
of 1s21): sail the towns and cities which 81
fered from yellow fever, were, with the sing
ce exception pf Cadiz, filthy in the extreme,
Dr.. gustingly So Everybody knows that :
he typhus fever which, a few years since, alnt
no decmated ireland, found its victims in the abod
of wretchedness and want, where filth abour
ed, and where human beings, hogs and COY
AN dwelt under the same roof q
There ara cases, well authenticated, on