Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-08-21
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New OrIeanaG correspondence.
New UaLEANs, Aug.,17l85

MEN ORLEANS, AuS., q, ioio.S#
Ncusr have | seen poor New Orieansiook
| SO dull and miserable as at pfesent,,and YET
people have notsstopped going away. All
| who are liable to the fever, and many VINO
are uot-ot course | mean such only, as have
the means, to traYel< are huFryi1g OIL IN dit
| ferent directious1 and still the fever increases.
| The whole number Of deaths for the week
| ending on Sunday, the 18th, was 457 against
--for the week proceeding, Of which 286
were from yellow fever, against 40 for the
| week before. It isa noticeable fact also that
| Of the total number of persons who died OF
| the fever last week. 1853 OF them were natives
of the United States I do not imagine that
the increase VIII continue much longer, how
ever, bat its quiet ravages are fearful at pres
emit. The muff1ca drum neournfully reseunds
in all di:ectious-the hearse and the sad pro-
-cession tell the rest of the tale. All that IS
left of a human being, who but d few short
days ago, moved proudly on the earth, lson
its way to its last testing place, meath the
n,ournful shade OF the cypress. The Spanish
| Benevolent Society have already buried be-
tween twenty and thirty Of their active
| members.
I am personally acquainted with two ex-
c~eIlent subjects for the epidemic, who cannot
very we'll leave here: and. who are most
thoroughly alarmed. One u fthem in paTtlcu-
lar is in, a state OF trepidatiot, which at
times, it Is impossible for me to refrain from
enjoying with a keen zest. He eons'itts the
mirror at least three hundred and fifty times
a day to ascertain the color OF his face, and
seems to take a fendish delight in asserting
that he is an excellent subject for the disease,
and that it would play the d~-l with such q
| system of his, and so indeed it would. Ii
| Yellow Jack should take hold OF him. he
| would find hin, about two-thirds killed with
| fright. and would thereftr re have an easy time
OF il The Board of Health, who are a set
of grannies, of no more use to the city than
II duplicate a~ppenAage to a canine, have not
vet opened their official mouths They have
not said sporadic or epidemic ohcesSand it IS
| perhaps as we'll that it is so. The PeayHne
had a particularly appropriate and sensible
a ticle ON the. definition, or strict meaning OF
the word epidemic, and cited the VARIOUS
| ideas which it conveyed to different people.
! them 90 in what scale they will. We know
that the scourge is traversing our city, and
rapidly gathering in victims: and we can only
hope that the fIerceness Of its course may
soon abate.
1t is a melancholy fact that almost, if not
every vessel! heard from, that has sailed
from here within the last four or i've weeks.
has been compelled to put into some port in
consequence OF sickness and deaths from
yellow fever. which would break out after
the vessels had got to sea. I also notice that
two cases had been put off BY STEAMBOATS, at
Natchez, and that the authorities had estab-
lished a rigid quarantine. 4 quarantine at
Natchez. may prove of some b%eneiis, because
yellow fever is not ind ginous to the place.
but the Ne| Orleans quarantine is one Of the
Ylost enormous aud expensive humbags that
ever originated with a set of Legislative
pumps since legislatures have been known.
1t isan incubus upon commerce, and is worth
nothing ont to line the capacieus pockets OF
those who are appointed to putt through
Statistics published by DR.. McFARlANE in
the Deta OF Sunday morning, which cannot
be controversial. show clearly that from as
far back as 1916. New Orleans has suffered
considerably more from yellow fever cpl
denies when a system OF quarantine was in
operation, than when it did not. Quaran-
tine has for many years been 4 rich theme
for our legislatures, and has frequently been
abandoned, and as o.ten revived after a
lapse Of several years, however, in some in
stances. [ trust that the legislature at its
next session will see the futility Of keeping
up a system which has never given the
slightest showing Of doing any good, which,
with all its ramitcatious, entails a vast ex-
| pense upon the city, and irficts an@onerous
tax upon commerce.
Notwithstanding the ~lateness of the seas
on, and the prevalence of yellow fev.r,nnn-
bers OF boats continue to arrive and denart,
and a considerable quantity Of cotton, tobac-
| co, and other produce has been landed on our
levse within the past week. But a few more
bales OF the great staple. it is said, are yet to
| come in. - eQ - ~
The Great Southern Yacht Club ha ging been
iii for a long time Of a s%urlelt, as | have heard
it said, of fshy aristocracy, another club has
been formed, called the Crescent Yacht Club.
and they give their first regatta at the Lake
end Of the new Shell road, on Monday next.
which will serve to anuse the ean't-get-