The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-09-06

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Ehior Clarion So changed and dull il
this city that hardly believed was IN
New Orleans When walking out on st.
Charles street last night. I barely met
corporars guard ofpedestrians from Poydras
10 Gravier streets The question naturally
suggested itself what had become Of the
busy throng sou usually meet upon this
great thoroughfare, and what has caused
theii absence The answer is soon furnished,
the cholera the oholera that dreadful
pestience OF Asia, chat walketh like thief
IN the night is abroad In this city, and
though 80 far IT, are rayages principally
confined 90 the lower olasses--the negroes
who are huddled together in novels without
proper food aud proper sanitary regulations
the confirmed dissolute and incbriate who
will not take care Of themselves, and the
reckless, who rush headong into the cold
embraces of the fell destroyer through gluto-
ny and other incorporate abuses yet, 1t has
given no bond 10 stay its progress No one
feels secure here, so everybody that
could get away have done so thousands
went North, while the summer resorts
are redundant with the upper ten OF New
Orleans, One establishment alone, the
Central House" at Magnolia, which is kept
in most admirable style by that excellent
merchant and estimable gentleman, Mr.
Henry G0ttig, has near one hundred families
from New Orleans boardingiu it. Yet after
all, the cholera is not so bad ~ represented,
and, it is steadily decreasing. But, the yell
low fever is here, also Of this nething isl
said however probably not TO Brighten
country people from coming hereof course
it is not in an aggravated form yet and may
not get so this season, but it will not be for
the want of sufficient cause, for the city is
disgustingly filthy.
Strange as il may sound to your readers
Notwithstanding the unprecedented exodus
new buildings there are none for rent. Ali
the stores ON prominent streets are contract
ed for anew by their present occupants al
though their present leases do not expire
until the LIST of October or LIST November
next and new houses are engaged just as
quick ~ the contract is signed by the build
or. Old citizens who are thoroughly con-
versant with the city, say the like has never
been known before. And then TO make the
matter worse, rents have advanced in every
instance from % to 100 per cent. just as the
landlord felt upon the subject. A gentle
man told me yesterday that with two years
of the rent asked him he could buy himself
a house and he had decided TO do so. These
great changes are explained as originating
from these causes, to-wit: steady influx of
n0rtheneIs and foreigners, an influx plan
ters and their families, who having lost their |
slaves and stock and come here from neces
sity, in some cases for safety, and finally, II |
influx of negroes from the whole |
valley.
Provisions are abundant here, everything
cheap, but the very fact of sickness prevail |
ing to the extent it does, and the tenn
porary absence of so large portion of the !
population, has caused quite a stagnation in
the markets-thcy are comparatively desert
cd. Butchers, and vendors of fruit, fish and |
vegetables all seem to be in bad humor.
Tho cry of water, water is very great here
Though skirted by the great Mississippi
there is II continual complaint of the city
no water for cleansing purposes,
out fires, etc. The water-worlts,
'rected over thirty years ago. are entirely
inadequate to the wants of the city, and
hough new water-works are in progress of
construction, no effort appears to be made
.oward finishing them
The amusements are soon to resume for
he next season, Duprey Il Benedct's min
trels open next week at the st. Charles
Theatre, aud in four more days the Spanish
circus at the Academy of Music, and the
'trakosh Opera Troupe at the Opera. The
of the next season, it is said
viii surpass those Of the last
Yours truly,
OBADIAH