Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-06-30

Sill the question must be asked healths TO be en-
daueered re lives to be sacrificed, by the neglect OF
the proper airy and bygenic preventvesf We bavs
already sufficient predisposng causes CT dsease The
ehanReable climate, and the extremely sudden altera-
tons in temperature which experience in this liti
tude are sufcient to aggravate them, and to uge by
every means the necessity for prop6Jlactlc measured
We do not care TO oduge for moment al Anticipation
of the endemic horrors which years ago have ragged in
the cities of the Union both North and South and which
moved down the ranks of humanity jus! thoroughly
as the blight devasates the vegetable world. Besides,
are our hospital heroesthose wno have well nigh per-
shed by the sword-to bs completely cut of BY the
pestilsnce limo other cim II this city had right 10
protection they have Let. then, those who enjoy the
privilege aud the right to rectfy the unWhoesoms state
of the city awaken from the sthargY IN which they
seem to have been plunged, and engsg, strenuously
and at once 10 the promotion OF this, sanitary meas
ures which they ough. long ago TO have adopted IL is
only thus can hops to stave of the indignant dis
ease which Is surely stalking upon u.s.
DIsLoYALrY TO OLD ABE IN KENTUCKY.
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writes
thatthe rebel ladies shoWsred flowers and all sor Of
good things upon Morgan rebels but abused the Union
oldierS :. This corIespode,t adds
When Gen. Barbridge left Oynthiana he ordered the
Mayor to bury the dead on both sides. Esl
As soon Dr. Train, the surgeon in charge, learned
tue pursued by the Mayor, he ordered them 10
dinter Che bodies a1d bury them in another part OF tho
Cemetery This the Mayor did nos do, and the sur
geon leaving the post soon after the wounded having
been removed, no one has enforced the d.mend
brought the Mayor to task for his studied insult to the
Union dead The city authorities Sho guilty Of this
outrage Perry Wherritt Mayor of Oynhians, TN
the following Sec sssonists who compose the majority
of she Council: Leon Cuson, 0kley, s. Wthers w.
| L. Rorthcutt, r. O. Wherrt
INTERFERING WITH INLIsrNESr'.
Negroes VINO tried to enter the Uaon army, AID
were eced for unsouudness have been severely pun.
isbed BY their rebel master Anoog well aulhentcae
cares wo note the following Eel Ashbrook, OF Oyn-
hilna had some slaves VINO came to Oosington to en-
lis Ole Of them was rel .ctcd. Captain Wilson, then
iu command al Covington, ordered him to be return
to his master. When Ashbro,k reached Oynthans be
put the slave in jail and ordered the 'or 10 give him
oerta number of ashes daily until further ordere.
Th, iilor John Bruce, whipped him two days success
sVey, aud on the third day notified hbrook that if
hs whipped the slave again h, afraid he would die.
i. T. Martin took back OF his negroes under sim,
liar circumstances, and whipped him almost to death.
Cynthiana is to-day the headqcarter for skulkipg
rebtl Scouting parties have developed the fact that
Waldrots mil miles vest of that place, Is a reoe
rend zFou, aad that the gang now in Tfmbe county,
short time sgO there having been collected from
the debris OF Aorgan's fo:css, aud still threaten de-
| scent on stations below Falmouth, on the Kentucky
Csntrs when they ttuk the Union guards may be
weak The reliance of the U Mt lana rebels upon ich
gaDgi makes them bell and defiant, taking from the
| hospltal the rebel wounded to their hOmes The
rebel women, who received Morgan with chses,
fully insult United States officers and sNd ers on the
streets 1t ia useless to talk of conciatng such per-
Tney are rebels at heirt and, in FACT sp:e.,
remaining behind becaule Lhey better serve the
rebel cause, hoping to drive true Union from the
soil Of K,ntucky L. is but q meagre trbit, 10 the
Union men and Wom,n Of Cynthiina to cay that their
devotion 10 their Government at the peril of midnight
assassination, In the midst Of msraudng cut -throls
and with The flames consuming their homes, has not
been surpassed. When the bullets whslled in tie
streets I'D the town given to horsans gang,
when rebel women were dulk NTH exultation, the
UniCn women OF Oynthiara did their Whoio duty to
their wounded aud dying defenders Il rests with the
military authorities to decide whether they shall b.
driven from thu homes now by rebel terrorism ,nd
premium ba psid to treason, or no. If ever traitors
deserved the iron hand OF ju tce laid upon lem with
no abatement, the rebel oitzsns Of Cybt Iaa hsvs
merted il, and the loyal men OF u;k, and Oil,
whose sons have bspiized the bills OF Jyn,hsna>wth
their blood expected it to fs.l tter;ly audnt once