New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-28

larceny. He was not dismissed from the charge, for
the very good that there was no such charge
against him We regret the mistake, and hereby
apologize for it, 1t is part of business to make
men out worse than they may really happen to be.
HEALTH OF THE CITY-Tbe following is the report
Of the Charity Hospital, for the week ending at
o'clock last evening
Dicharged Is yellow feyerj 329
Died, d25 yellow fever ............. ..,...T TgS
Remaining lel dSeasesI
The deaths by yellow fever at the Hospital for the
twentyfour hours ending last evening" numbered 20.
The number for the week. 125, shows an increase Of
16 upon the previous week.
The Board Of Health report the number Of deaths
by the fever throughout the city, for the tweHtyfour
hours ending Thursday noon, at G3. From last Sun.
day morning at 6 o'clock to Thursday noon-four
days and six hours-the total deaths by yellow fever
were 24O small increase upon the number for the
previous four days. The weather has been variable;
intensely hot and for the last few days rainy. The
fever is now making its way in all parts Of the city
where unacclimated people reside, and in many in.
stances is of very malignant type.
Yesterday we went to some considerable trouble to
satisfy ourself of the truth of the rumors so freely
circulated for a week or past and acting 50 prel.
dicaly to the butchers and consumers of fresh meat
the rumors that there had been several deaths from
black tongue in the lower part Of the city. Nobody
we will state is buried in any of our city cemeteries
without certificate from the Physician Coroner or
Street Commissioner, as the case may be, stating
what disease or accident caused death. All the
burial certificates furnished by the Sections to the
Board of HEALTH and from these the weekly reports
are made out Yesterday we visited the office of the
Board of Health and inspected closely the returns for
tnei last two weeks. There was no death recorded
by any such disease as the black tongue And if
there had been any such death, we are sure it would
have been reported,
There have been number Of deaths by malig-
nant disease called pe1nicious fever which by most
people is apt to be mistaken for yellow fever and
when treated as such is sure to result fatally. From
all that we have been able to ascertain upon inquiry
among physicians and among the people engaged in
spreading the black tongue alarm, we believe that
the deaths gnOranty attributed by outsiders to black
tongue, from the short duration and fatality of the
sickness have been the result merely Of pernicions
fever.
It would be well for people, when they hear of a
sudden death by some malignant disease to be sure
what the disease is before they begin talking about
it. The idle stories about black tongue have done
and are still doing much damage in the city-iniur-
ing the butchers in their trade, restricting timid
people in their diet, and raising the prices Of all
kinds Of food supposed to be free from the black
tongue influence.
HARD TINES IN Our TowN-There has not, in the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant been such hare
times at present. as in respect to the scarcity ant
cOstliness of market provender. For some time past
owing to the crevasse overdows, and sickness among
the market gardeners there has been an unparalleled
scarcity of vegetables in the markets.
The ordinary vegetables of this region, Of course
are daily to be seen, but in such small quantities anf
at such high prices that poor people, as a genera
thing have had to ignore them entirely. The escu
ents such as radishes celery, lettuce, cabbage, ETC.
are daily cleaned out of the markets at the most ex
orbtant prices, by that class of people who must
have such things at any price. For instance, little
runty heads of cabbage now sell at forty and fifty
cents each, and the other escuents in proportion. Il
Is some comfort to note that potatoes, though by nc
means cheap are still not held at exorbitant rates
and that the great and peculiar vegetable of this
region, the okra, (soul Of gombo) is the one excep
ton to our complaint, being both abundant ani
cheap. In fruit there is the usual full supply; tht
apples of the Great West and the pantains Of thu
West Indies being the most abundant, and conse
quently the cheapest.
The alarm which has been aroused by the preva
lence of the black tongue among the cattle through
out the country east of usthe disease being as neal
as the other side Of the lake-has had q most serious
ettectupon many of our consumers of meat. The gno
rant and superstitious classes of the community wht
have not sense enough to know that all the beef porl
and mutton sold in the New Orleans markets, come
from the North and West of u.s. that is from kentucky
Illinois and Missouri, and from Texas and the Alta
kapas country-shun fresh meat as they would a poi
soned sausage. For few days this had the effect
making beef, especially, cheaper than usual but a
the alarm continued, many Of the butchers stopped
bringing beef to market, and now there is almost
beef famine. Yesterday morning. in the FrencI
market-the chief market OF the city-some twent
orthrty of the prominent beef stalls were vacant an
many Of the others had beef in such small quantte
that the unterried beef eaters had to scramble for
and pay the most ridiculously high prices. A state
affairs like this is to be lamented but it can't be he'll
ed It has had the effect Of raising the price of al
kinds of salt meat and salt fish, at retail and as 70
the fresh fsh-there being no black tongue reporte
as yet among the fnny trbes-they are grabbed u
daily at the highest prices Redish cut into steaks
brings in twice as much as its own weight of bee
would in ordinary seasons little bits of croakers nu
more than two mouthfulls each, are offered four 0
five on string for quarter and even the smalles
sized crabs are considered cheap at pcayune apiece
Poultry is correspondingly high chickens rangin
as high as a dollar apiece, and eggs as high as half
dollar dozen.
This looks like bordering upon famine; yet thel
is not the least danger of any such visitation Brea
and potatoes are reasonable in price andrice and re
beans, and molasses, and olra and plantains, al
cheap A collapse of the pockets in laying in CRU
may be easily remeded by a change Of diet. Still
there is more or less of inconvenience if not suffering
in foregoing the ordinary Injuries of the table, an
we may truthtuly say that, 50 far as market supple
are concerned, there are hard times in our town.
FATAL ACcIDENT.-We heard last evening that
drayman, in the employ of Paul Cook d Co.. ha
fallen from his dray and been run over and kille
We did not hear where the accident occurred, or an
thing about the man, further than that his name WI
Patrick.
A jolly Row,-seyen or eight sailors had a iol
round in Natchez street, yesterday afternoon. III
play of the mauleys was beautiful, and there we
some heavy falls 1t was said to be about piece
tobacco. A large crowd assembled to see the fu
and no one seemed to enjoy it more than b
policeman who stood by, in a state of the mo
heavenly repose, Alderman Yennard also had
view of the fight, But the sight of the happy polio
man excited him SO much more than the fight, th
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