New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-23
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| That u.s. the blindness or insanity or whatever you
please to call it, Of unacclimated people rushing into
tie city to ill the supposed vacancies Of the dead.
The anxiety Of people at the North and West to
come here and take the places which they suppose to
be vacated upon every recurrence of yellow fever
epidemic has in the course Of years cost thousands Of
valuable lives. It is madness which the city press
has combatted from year to year, but we regret to
say to little or no purpose, 50 far as present appear.
ances indicate.
1t should be known that the average population of
New Orleans is about $50 600 In winter is greater,
and in summer less. Ofthe 10000 three fourths or
fonrfths are acclimated the largest share of these
being creoles Of the soil who are not only proof
against yellow fever, but far more competent than
those from other quarters for such cangs as are most
largely rushed for-clerkships, book-keepersmps,
etcfor the reason that all of them are fluent IN the
two great languages Of the place. French and English,
and many of them just as fluent in Spanish and Ger
man besides At all seasons of the year, large num-
bers of these young gentlemen are out Of employ
ment, and always on the alert for openings. What
then can be the chances Of young stranger from an
other part of the country ignorant of French, and
liable to yellow fever Slim, we should say, very
slim indeed
We make these remarks because lately large num-
bers Of unacclimated people have arrived in the city
and nearly all OF them seekers Of dead mems shoes.
They do not know that the great bulk of the NOR
tally is among poor foreigners, aborers mechanics
of the humber class, etc. and suppose it is use
less to endeavor to make them know it, Still, we
will do it, or repeat the attempt at least as far as in
our power lies.
AS an instance that New Orleans has within her
own broad skirts enough people to take care of her
concerns without aid from other quarters bad the
fever may be- we will mention that few days since
gentleman advertised in this paper for book
keeper, to assist him in closing up the books of an
estate a small and transient job, for which only
small compensation could be given This was all ex
pressed in the advertisement, Yet, the day after the
advertisement appeared, no less than tpcentrt,r0
answers were left at this office for the advertiser
all were, as we have since heard, New Orleans gen
tlemen of the first capacity, backed BY tirstclass
references.
In regard to strangers coming into the city, we
are advised Of numbers coming in every day. from
different directions, Night before last an upriyer
steamer brought in upwards of two hundred passen
gers, all unaeemated and nearly all Of them, as we
are credibly informed asprants for dead mems shoes
This is sad thing TO record. We are advised Of nu
merous cases Of fever among recently arrived people
and at this season the fever is short and severe in
course with fresh subjects. Instead Of finding empty
shoes waiting for them, the chances are that these
people will leave their own shoes empty, and add
their bones to the Wondering heGatombs Of their
predecessors in the like folly. For healthy person
Of another climate to come here at season like this
when the yellow fever Uius is at its very worst is
chance Of taking the fever ana half chance Of
death.
1t is well enough for our accljmated citizens to be
returning to their homes hut to the unacclimated we
say, stay away Stay not only till the papers tell you
the fever on the decrease but stay till they tell you
the fever is extinct.
nat at the Union "nd Governor Wise.
1t strikes us that the following little article from
the Vernon Jackson parish) Times of the 10th inst,
deals some stunning blows at Governor Wise of Vir-
ginia, and the Washington Union. Cornelius Wen
dell is the proprietor of the Union and John Apple
ton, Assistant Secretary Of state, has the reputation
Of being the principal writer for its editorial columns
At all events, the Washington States-a Democratic
journal-Charged such to be the case few months
ago plainly and plumply and the charge never has,
to our knowledge been disproyed or even disputed
by the Union. Hence we imagine tits reasonable to
presume that the allegations Of the States were
founded in inconmovertibIe fact.
With the remark that the Vernon Tines is one of
the staunchest and ablest of the Democratic journals
published in North Louisiana, we submit the article
referred to
A STIR IN P0LITICs.-SOme Of the leading Demo-
cratic organs in the Union are persistent in urging
an untimey issue upon the members of their party,
in declaring the unftness of Senator Douglas 10
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