The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-26

essS" ECvCE IN Now Oft6R04.
The deathsin New Orleans last wech from yellow
fever, we're 3io. Of which IS occurred on SATURDAY.
letter from the New Orleans agent of tho South
err Aid Society. received 10 Boston, has the follow
ing relative to the fever in that city:
THE yellow fever commenced Its ravagss her,
ABOUT the middle of June, first among the saiIors
bnI has since been gradually spreading through
the city" In q postscript he says:-s.fhe Anse
OF Death is IN our midst; the pestiience 10 incress
ing our hospitals fast filling up PRAY for ms
ne relates tbs following incdent:-"I called to sec
a 1erman family 10 back yard; found the mother
and four children sick with the yeIlsw fever and
lying upon beds OF shavings. Two little girls d
the same family, administered to their necessjties
l provided watchers for the night and next morn
ing sent them to the Charity Hospital The "a
theT had previously died--thc mother and vo chit
dren are since dead while the other two ,i,,Ia
gr!s are there with the same disease"
The New Orleans Crescent Of the 10th inst
says:
The fever, by all the indications, and such an
thentc returns as We can get, increases steadily
the Third District being still the most afic ed par,
OF the city. The fever this year, we observe. il
unusually severe on young people. Every other
funerai we see down town, the coffin and Grape
We heard one say-f'lt's awful bad among the
Young folks-l knew splendid girl that died
yesterday, only sixteen years old"
The Delta of Friday last has the following sick.
oniDg picture:
st Vincent de Paul Cemetery, which is situated
on Louisa street. in the third district has been the
ourying place of large number Of the victims ot
yellow fever this season. This ia accounted for
from the fact that the disease has been prevailing
in a greater degree in the third district than any
other portion ef the city. The cemetery is divi-
Iuto two divisions, the lower one Of which i. al
most destitute OF vaults or tombs, and those in.
TERED there are pl.ee., in dry weather, about q
foot under ground, the dirt thrown on tor not
more than covering the coffin. Since the recent
heavy rains. the whole place is flooded, more or
less, and looks more like swamp than like a Gem
etery. The spade hardly breaks through the sod
before the water shows itself, and then the ne.
groes gouge out as much earth as they can for the
water.
Several graves were open yesterday as we passed
through, looking like obl0ng mud-puddles. A fow
moments afterward the remains of some poor in
dvdual was brought in, and left to the negroes to
inter. Placing the rough coffin on hand-car they
carried it short distance aud placed it by the
side of hole. aud then made preparation for
placing 1t IN its last resting place. The hea, of
the coffin was let down into the water but, of
course, 1t would not sink, aud Immediately rose to
the surface. 1t was thrust down several times
rather roughly to endeavor to make it adhere to
the soft mud at the bottom, but it Invariably rose
again. At last it was showed in, and the spade OF
one of the negroes held it until the other threw
in large quantities of hard mud, which served as
weight TO keep the head down. Que of the ne.
ffst end, lowered the foot and sank it in the same
msnDer, kicking in some mud with his feet, while
his spade kept the coffin down. The whole of this
section of the cemetery is filled with new graves.
aud presents the appearance of newly ploughed
field. The stencil in some portions is hardly en-
Durable coming. as it does, from the shallow
OF water.
CHOLERA IsFASrUM The present is the season
OF the year when this maady is fatal to great uu m.
bers of young children. Statistics show that the
most dangerous time of lite is from the sixth 20
the twenty-fourth month Of the infants exi.tence
Few cases occur before the sixth month and the
number decrsaBes again before the third YEAR -
0ut OF 1875 children, who died Of cholera pfnntpm
la New York in 1854, only 161 we're over two wears
Of age. One ct the principal causes is the un-
wh. lesome food with which children are often
supplied, after being wesned. Cholera ipf,ntnm
i. mainly produced by a heated atmosphere. IN
wholesome food, want of ventilation and the lac X
# proper advice as to its treatment 1t appears
in three forms, in order, follows /: The fremont
tory. which is always durable; the cholera proper
which is generally cursble; and the after sickness,
which is invariably fatal. The best rule that car,
ne observed as to the treatment is that eyerr az
we're diarrhoea of child 10 the summer season No
matter how healthy the child may appear in other
respects must be regarded as the frs. stage of the
cholera infsptum," and the attendance of com.
aetent physician must be obtained TO give advice
,uch ss the exigencies of the case demand and
such a. can never be obtained from medical hooks
or from the qCacK doctGrs VINO at present reap
such golden harvests among the poorer classes a
the population.
Tae life ofall children depends upon the care
aud prudence OF their parents; and the health o,
she very young is contingent upon the health oi
he mother. So far a. weekly children own their
imperfect constitution to the lack of vital forc-
Inherited from their parents, generations must
pass away before the evil can be remedied But
when the little ones are already in the world. il
IA an imperative duty SO to care for them that
their hereditary weakly tendencies may be over
come. The great hygienic Influences In doin z
.tis are free aud pure air and water and whole
some food.
There are two things which our overinduyence
regards rs poor fare, which really the most pro-
psr food for shildreu-bread and water These a
child prefers, till his natural TASTE is spofed
Milk. when pnre, or only reduced with water, il
sery usefut; hut we suspect has hsen over estim.-
ted article Of diet. The child who drinks
cows milk in great quantities ought to have as
much sir and exercise as a calf to manage it.
FROM SOUTH AMERICA We have ady;ces fron,
South America, dated at Buenos Ayres on the 9th
Of July nine days later than the news received by
way of England. The papers contain some faaer.
esting items as to the progress of affairs in Para
quay and hontevideo In Buenos Ayres the minis
terial crisis was ended by the acceptance Of the
portfolio offoreign affiirs by Colonel Mitre The
late arrangements for the liquidation of the Eng
lish loan were looked on with much satisfaction
and the most happy social results were algured in
consequence. Six per cent bonds to the amount OF
twelve millions of dollars were to be Immediately '
of Buenos Ayres celebrated the event of the birth
tha Drtp of an xrtfh