The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-09-08
Yellow Fever in New Orleans Nor.
tality among the Young.


Our dispatches, published daily, keep
yellow fever in New Orleans. The
agent of the Southern Aid Society in
that city, writes:
The yellow fever commenced its rsva-
ges here about the middle of June, first
among the sailors, but has since been
gradually spreading through the CITY,
In a postscript he says: The Angel of
Death is in our midst; the pestilence is
increasing, our hospitals are fast filling
up. Pray for US. lie relates the fol-
lowing incident: 81 called to see q Ger.
man family in a back yard; found the
mother and four children sick with the
yellow fever and lying upon beds of
shayings. Two little girls of the same
family administered to their necessities.
provided watchers for the night, and
next morning sent them to the Charity
Hospital. The father had previously
died--the mother and two children are
since dead, while the other two little
girls are there with the same disease"
The New Orleans Crescent says:
1.-THE fever this year, we observe, is
unusually severe ON young people. Eve
ry other funeral we see down town the
coffin and Grape are white. Passing a
knot of women, yesterday, We heard one
say: "It's awful bad among tho young
folks--I knew a splendid girl that died
yesterday, only l6 years old"
The different Benevolent Societies are
making every preparation to attend to
the fever, if it gets within their ranks.
One of them, the Spanish Benevolent
Society, has lost several members by
the fever, and others by other diseases,
they having no less than twenty-five
burials since the sickly season set in
The Howard Association have gone
brsvely to work; whether their calls have
been heavy or not, we are unable to say.
They have secured a portion of the Lu-
zenberg Hospital for their use in the
Third District, where the fever is worst.
AS to the weather, it continues abom-
inably hot and uncomfortable, though we
bave at times a good Whit of breeze, a
good shadow of thunder cloud, and an
occasional outer edge Of sprinkle or a
rain. We have had considerable thun-
der within the last day or two, but no
rain to speak of.
A French ship was towed up the river
and landed at one of the third district
wharves, on Sunday night. She had
quite q number of French Immigrants GU
board, who, in their joy at nearing the
land of freedom, joined heart aud soul in
singing the anti Napoleonic hymn known
as the "Marsellaise." They kept on
singing after the ship was made fast A
police officer, going on doard, stepped up
to them, and said to them in their own
language, 'Gentlemen,d don't sing so loud;
there are a great many sick people about
here, for the yellow fever is very bad -
This was the first the immigrants knew
of the fever being in the city. and they
at once stopped singing--incon:inently
wilted-with feelings which may be bet
ter imagined than described. Among
the passengers were eleven Catholic
priests and four nuns, who expressed not
u little alarm, say ing that as they had
come over by invitation of the Archbish-
op, they felt it would be his duty TO
SEND them back or to some other pace
of safety as soon possible. This is GER
taiuiy a bad time of the year for foreign
immigrants to land in New Orleans.