New-York daily tribune., 1862-11-07
PROM FLORIDA.
Sanitary Condition Of the Ninriic'h New
York VoIuuteers-Inhu Of the
Citizens Of Key West-Disloyulty OF the
.lsI..
Wealthy Cinsses.

! Correspondence of Tie n. Y. Tribune.
| HzADqrAKTER, ep1n RRGisrs-. n. Y VI
| kLT WEST, Els-, Oct 70, 1867
| Knowing tlst there are many anxious hearts in
your city that would be glad to know the present
state Of the health of car regiment, have to re-
cues; Of you TO give this Place in your columns.
Yesterday, had the honor 70 accompany Col. Nor
gsu in the usual Sunday morning INSPECTION OF the
hospitals. The cleanliness and order was all that
could be dcsifed, in tho wards, Kitchens, store-
roons, and grounds Of those buildings set apart for
our sek. j, is gratifying to know the ample pro-
vision made by tie Government and the generosity
of our friends for cur tick comrades, aud the com
forts that they may enjoy when these places are in
he charge OF kind, faithful nen.
The state of our sick list calls for our grateful
thanks to the Lord our God In the Post Hospital
we found eight patients. and none of them confined
70 bed, four only Of them belong to the 9Oih. Two
months ago in three wards Of tie hospital, we had
over co nen in bed at one and the same Tine. In
the Randolph Hospital ten men, three only Of these
confined 10 bed, and they are IN fair way OF re-
coyery. We have bad ~ many 2j men in this
hOspital at one tine. Fort Taylor HOpial, nine
ulen, five in bed aud all recovering Barracoon
Hospital elOsed no patients From this you viii
learn that our present sick list Il small, and we
have had no new cases OF yellow fever for many
days and with the cold weather we are now having,
are firm in the belief that, through the nercy Of
God, the epidemic is gone. Bat would have no
stranger on account Of what have written to leave
New-York for Key West before the lOth or 18th
November.
We have learned much by this sickness with
which we had 10 contend, and not the least ID the
knowledge of the true character oil TIE nhabitants
Of this islsnd-uumistskably in sympathy with our
Il. gl.s1 - -,
and our cause / believe that three.fourths Of the
people here would at least be perfectly recOnciied
and resigned 10 the will oi God should it please him
70 lay The whole regiment-yes, aid every other
Union regiment, III the oubt.
have had opportunities Of knowing this, as i
have been on several occasions commissioned by the
Colonel 10 procure articles and help needed before
and after our recent eickness. Allow me, even at
The risk OF being tedious, 10 parcularize here We
have in this city class OF persons known
"COnche." They are the natives, children Of
persOns born in the Bahama Islands, and Sa,d 10
be tho descendants Of the tories Of South Carolina
during our revolutionary struggles. This cas, COM
pOseG perhaps obe-haH the entire population OF this
island. They all ignorant, clanuish set, making
rather precarlous living by fishing, spODging, aud
wrecking. They are mostly members OF tie Metbo-
DIST Episcopal Church South, and have all taken the
f oath Of allegiance" and yet we are IN bounds OF
truth and Christian chGIiLy when we believe and
tsro assert that teD-twelths OF them never lad or
felt one puIsdtl0n OF honest Union sent ibeLt.
There ls scarcely family among them tnat II not
represented in the army OF the so-cslled Z. b. A.
IL is in the church attended by these persons that
prayer for the tick soldier is frowned down. These
are the persons that positively quit making straw
hats when they were told the solder would buy
them, as they had been ordered TO do, as "a sanitary
measure. These are the persons TO whom i applied
through their pns'or to come ana nuree our sick,
while our unaccimeted solcieI-nursos were being
stricken down by the disease; ahd though liberal
wages were off red, and even that we would em-
plOy them on their own terms, sfter three weeks
during which time were cut down three
and loIr day., decided they bad 10 time to nurse
the tick or save human lie, and not one man OF
woman came TO our help, Dor did their ministers
visit either officer private while sick; aud when,
~ military necessity, We called and obtained
negro hel, 70 nurse our sick dIg our graves, aud
peform The dradgery OF the gainson, thcse persons
iet quito ind naDt at our interference with tbe ne
gofs. Ttcje meu gfe The tools Of snoLler class,