The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-09-02
From the N. o. Delta, August goth.
Ehe Yellow Fever in New Orleans

HOW ITS V lCrIMS ARE BURlED.-ln The Gene.
terry of Vincent de Paul, which is situated on
Louisa street, in the third district. .has been The
burying place of large number of The victims
OF yellow fever this season. This is accounted
for from the fact that the disease has been pre-
vailing in greater degree in the third dis
trict than in any other portion of the city,
The cemetery is divided into two divisions, the
lower one OF which is almost destitute of vaults
and tombs, and those inferred there are placed
in dry weather, about foot under ground, the
dirt thrown on top not more than covering the
coffin. Since the recent heavy rains, the whole
place is flooded, more or less, and looks more
like swamp than cemetery. The spade hard.
ly breaks thr ugh the sod before the water shows
itself, and the negroes gouge out as much earth
as they can for the water
Several graves were open yesterday as we
passed through looking like oblong mud pud-
dies few moments afterwards the remains
of some poor individual were brought in, and
left to the negroes to inter Placing the rough
coffin on hand car they carried it short dis
tancc, and placed it by the side of hole, and
then made preparations for placing it in its last
resting place. The head of the coffin was let
down into the water, but Of course il would not
sink, and Immediately rose to the surface 1t
was thrust down several times rather roughly to
endeavor to make it adhere to the soft mud at
the bottom but it invariably rose again
At last it was showed in, ana the spade of
OF the negroes held it until the other threw in
large quantities of hard mud, which served as
u weight to keep the head down. One of the
negroes then, while the other kept his spade on
the first end, lowered the foot and sank it in
the same manner, kicking in some mud with
his feet, while his spade kept the coffin down
The whole OF this sectloY of the cemetery is
filled with new graves, aud presents the appear
ance OF newly plowed field. The stencil i'll
some portions is hardly cndurable, coming as it
does from the shallow graves of water
The New Orleans Crescent says:
The fever this year, we observe, is unusull-
ly severe on young people, Every other funeral
we see down town, the coifil aud Grape are
white. Passing lot of women, yesterday, we
heard one say, it's awful bad among the young
| folks | knew a splendid girl that hicd yester-
day only sixteen years old
"The different Benevolent societies are ma
king every preparation to attend to the fever, if
! il gets within their ranks. One of them, the
| Spanish Benevolent Society, has lost several
m mbers by the fever, and Others by other dis
eases they having no less than % buras since
/ the sickly season set in, The Howard ASsocia
tiou have gone bravey to work whether their
! calls have been heavy or not, We are unable To
! say, They have secur d portion of the Luzcu-
! burg Hospital for their use in the 81 district
where the fever is worst.
"The weather continues abominabiy hot, and
uncomfortable, though we have at times good
Whit of breeze, good shadow of thunder cloud
! aud an occasional outer edge of sprinkle of
rain, We have had considerable thunder within
the last Uay or two, but no rain to speak of
a French ship was towed up the river and
landed at one OF tha third district wharveS ON
\ Saturday night, She hal quite numb~r ot
\ Fench immigrdnDS on board who, in their joy
at nearing the land of freedom joined heart aAd
soul in singing the anti-Napoeonic hymn
known as the " MarSellaise" They kept on
sing after the ship was made fast A police
officer, going on board, stepped up to them, ans
said to them in their own language Gentle
men, don't sing so loud there are great man,
sick people about here, for the yellow fever i
very bad This was the first the immigrant l.
knew OF the fever being in the city, and they a
once stopped singinS--incon,inentl wilted-
with feelings which may be better imagine,
than described Among the passengers wer
{ eleven Catholic priests aud four nuns, who ex
:, pressed not a title alarm saying that as the
, had come over by invitation of the Archbishop
/ they tet il would BE- his duty to send them bac
or to SOM othr place of safety as soon as pos
Sibe, This is certainly bad time of the yea
for foreign immisrouS to land in New 0r,eans,