The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-08-22
rom New Orleans to the various points:
The following are the quickest trips hereto
fore ever made from New Orleans to Natchez:

Natchez, II 80
| The following are the quickest trips hereto
fore ever made from New Orleans to Natchez:
J. NJ. White, in 1914 90 hours 40 minutes
J.. NJ. White, another trip 10 IS :.
Sulta-a, 10 so !"
Magnolia, Oct. 1851, 10 so i"
Reindeer, May, 1852, 30 %
Eclipse, May, 1852 q 25 "
Eclipse. May, 1853, 10 so Z"
A. l.. Shotwell, 10 s. q"
Natchez, July 1855, IS 50 /"
The Princess is undoubtedly the fectest
steamboat in the world. She is owned by capt.
Holmes, who also, together with captain Leath-
ers, owns the Natchez and the CD, jr., and has
the contract to carry the Red River mail from
the mouth to New Orleans
Then. Orleans Hospital Gazette for August,
in its article on the health of the city, says that
the yellow fever has steadily increased since
the 25th July. So far, fully nine tenths of
those attacked are recently within nine months J
from cold climate; a large number are recent
immigrants, and a number are foreigners who
have been living in the northern and western
States, who have recently come to the city,
and among these is noticed by far the greatest
mortality in proportion to the number attacked.
The cause, the Gazette leaves for others to de-
termine; though the editors are inclined to at
tribute it to the irregular habits of the ndivid
uals-they, by their own confessions, proving
the irresistible impulse of every western young
man to ''get on SPREE as soon as he lands,
and can attack Of yellow fever based on ntoxi
cation is about as little amenable to treatment
as patient in the collapse stage of cholera"
Indeed experience proves that it is almost i'm
possible for ''hard drinker' to recover from
an attack of yellow fever. 1t is not believed
that the horrid scenes of 1853 will be reenact-
ed this year. The Gazette says:
owe have noticed fact this season, which
although nothing new, is certainly very inter-
csting Several persons who passed safely
through the epidemics of 1858, 1854, and were
then unacclimated, .have had the disease Sc
verc]y within the past three weeks. One man
is worthy of especial notice in this place He
acted as nurse in the hospital during the sum-
mers of 1853 81, and passed unscathed; and
this season the poor fellow died of black vomit
on the fifth day of the disease. . During the
past two months we have had a considerable
number of cases of typhoid fever Although
our physicians are by no means unacquanted
with the disease, still it is something unusual
to have it existing here to the extent it has lat
terly. We hear Of its prevalence in various
parts Of the southern country too, and the facts
tend strongly to impress us with the belief that
further acquaintance with this disease will be
forced on us: it really seems to have been ora-
dually travelling towards us for several years
past Our mortuary statistics show that not a
few deaths have been caused by the disease in
| the past month";
| We have one great consolation at least dur
probability of the yellow fever being imported
| from below.
LIE Progress, French journal, published in
New York, gives the programme of Mile Ra-
chael's (the famed French tragedienne forth
coming professional visit to the United States.
She is to be accompanied by a large retinue of
male and female artstes, servants, ETC., and is
to give two hundred performances, for which
she is to receive the sum of $4,000. This
engagement far exceeds the one entered into
between Jenny Lind and Barnum, and the spe.
culation will prove complete faiAre. The day
has gone by, we hope never to return, when 6
highly pulled foreign actress, danseuse, or sin
GER could accumulate large fortune, in few
months, by exhibiting their persons before ar
American audience. Such humbuggery will
not now succeed.
On the It'll inst, at Portsmouth, Virginia
there were 10 new cases of yellow fever and
deaths. A panic existed among the citizens
but is was believed that the disease had reach
ed its eliminating point Eighty deaths hae
occurred since the fever first broke out
| There appears to be an unusual amount o
= sickness-yellow fever cases-on board of th,
steamers bound from New Orleans to the Obi,
and upper Mississippi. 4=
The city authorities of New York have give,
notice that all vessels arriving at that port from
: Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, will be quar-
antined, owing to the prevalence of the yello,
fever at the latter towns
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) The New York Express lately saw lump c
; pure silver, weighing twenty-five pounds.
! was taken from the mines on the isthmus c
Panama.
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w. The fall trade for dry goods, it is reported
has opened unusually brisk at New York.