Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-10

sent to tow TOR assistance, but they arrived
at so late Bn hour, and were So much ex-
huus,ed by the long pull. and finding besides
that no assistance could reach the place IN
time 10 save the buildings, determined not
to return until day light.
The Tribune says the mob numbered l.
600 persous. The inmates of the quaran-
the were in 4 ssate of great excitement,
f.arinq that the mob intended to take their
lives. DR.. Bissel The resident physician, in
bis excitement, put a musket TO the head OF
one of the hsrbor pulice aud came near
shooting him. The doctors have all fed ;
where, il ID not known.
THE QuARAsTINE HcRRoRs.-The New
York Tunes gives The following account oil
the sick persons turaed out Ut the burn
ing Quarantine Hospitals:
.,3ur reporter succeeded in etfecting an
entrance into the enclosure where the pa
: tien. $. turned out Of doars by the conha-
gratiln q, were lying Oh the grass, There
were iorty-sour male and femaie patients
there and in The small boat-ihle Cinderella
at the wharf. OF these, twenty three
were yellow fever patients, three or four i'll
with the etiall pox, and four or five afflicted
with the ship fever. Drs. Rissel aud Wax
ser hadcha-ss: Of tl:s.n. AM VIZ, SAil24sly
administering TO their wants. Neither of
these gentlemen had slept much if at all,
rdIring fhe precedeing forty eight hours, and
the care with which they still attended those
under their charge was creditable to them,
The exposure to the clear dry air, the Doc
tors said, was rather beneficial than other
@wiee to mos, of their patients, and they were
~ - of IL
but those on board the Cinderella were IN
that early stage Of yellow fever in which
draughts of air are by no means beneficial TO
them and what would be done with them they
did not know.
The Casileton Board of Health had re-
commended that the patients be removed to
an cid barn adjacent, but the physicians
thought that their incarceration in 1t would
be certain death to sotue OF their patients,
andsthe latter begged that they might be
permitted to remain where they were rather
than go there .NNene OF the patients we-e
ina dying condition. a
The scene WINS altogether one which a
4snember of this community might well blush
30 witness. Persons afflicted with maladies
of a dangerous character. were here house,
Z lees and unsheitered, and without even the
omm utensils for couking their food and
that inthe midst of n community which is
called .scivilized." The patients were liv-
ing ON bread and cold yictuals. Coffee boil
ed over the 800 tons of coal which are still
burning near the green, WAS served around
in pals. At one end of the enclosure a
rude canvass roof had been tackled on to the
fence, and covered the more feeble patients
but the rest were entirely unsheltered. In
zone corner of the grounds stood a bier with
ntllos remains of the patient who last died oil
~yel.ow fever, and the hue of elc countenan-
.ces of many of those who lay on the grass,
@gaye evidence that the game pestiferous mai
aady afflicted them. Around and about
were The trunks and chests of the poor
creatures.
ARRvAL OF THE POLICE AND a SIX PouNDEk
- QuAARANTIsEsS. f. Friday P. NJ
The steamboat DR.. Kane has Just arrived
from the city, with 100 policemen and a
~eixpounder. They have also tents for the
sick, OF whom there are fifty, who have been
exposed to the wind and sun during the day
and are now under a drenching rain. Mr..
Dilks, the second assistant engineer of the
steamer Philadelphia. lies dead of yellow
fever, among thems He died this morning.
Drs. Bissel and Walser are dev oted to the
sick, tending and administering to their
wants constantly, they themselves being
nearly exhausted from want of sleep, ex-
citementsaRd exposure. 15a
Three sick men from the ship Liberty,
from New Orleans, are lying on the pier,
there being no shelter for them.
Health AND WEATHER AT New OR-
EEAss.-There were 4o2 yellow fever deaths
AtsNew Orleans last week. an increase of
30 on the previous week. Speaking of :he
weather there the picayune says:
Stealning hot, exhaustingly hot, ferociouS-
ly hot is the morning we are just closing
with the prospect of still hotter afternoon.
a lazy lubberly shower has fallen, but only
to furnish the banquities and pavemeu,s
with water enough to, create a murxy, SUI
airy vapor bath for the whole city, which
stews and swelters as helplessly in il rs a
kitten in aPerdido street kennel on a dark
aight. And yet our great thermometer
down below marks only SS degrees; and we
begia TO lose all faith in it. But MS another
an a slightly hotter apartment marks only
80 degrees. we do not quite feel like at
lacking the former as really contributing TO
OUT own iAistfg. ots what 10 quite as oah'
trying to deeiege rs into the belief that the
heat 10 not SO siekeningly oppressive as we
feel il.
The list Of American vessels that cleared
srom Havana ia 1857. for cargoes of slaves,
amounted to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of
which were successful. Nine ofthe twenty
three on a second trip were captured.
&
An attempt to sink an artesian we'll at
Columbus Ohio, has developed a fact in ge-
sology which il new to the devotees of that
science q'hs well has already reached the
depth of 4 ,7oS feet, more than 1000 OF
which are throngh solid limestone.
DR.. ChaEles lStearns of New York is
Claimant Of the discovery of biphosphate OF