The New York herald., 1866-08-30
AFFAIRS in NEW ORLEANS.
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our NEW ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.

Health Of tho Crescent City business, Amuse-
NEW ORIsAxs, August II. 1865
HEALTH THE orrY.
Wandering about TO and fro In the North are crowds
Of people who either live here or want to come here and
who may look 70 tho HsRAID correspondence for facts
Tho oAAclal report yesterday forty ono Of
cholera-nncteen whites and twonty.two blacks OBJ
mention OF yellow fever but there beyond
all dispute few In the hands Of private practi-
tonenI There is also slight increase Of what here
called "pcrnicious fever" Considering tho extremely
dirty state OF streets and CUTTERS tho heat Of the
weather. and the enormous numbers Of negroes In ath
and want packed like sardinss in small houses In the
streets, is marvellous there deaths
than we have There Is general epidemic and among
the old residents like myself alarm Cleanliness nutr
tious dict and avoidance Of decayed fruits diminish
tho risk OF cholera; and for yellow fever most have
had 1t. or born hcrc and do not foar IT, Az tho
present date this tho exact state Of public health hero
but by the time this reaches you and is published very
likely thero will be worse state of affairs. am In
cncd TO expect It, and advise all unaccmat ed persons
70 stay away until October by which time tive shall
what We shall sco" sharp controversy Is going
to whether two cpdcmics like cholera and yellow fever
can prevail simultaneously In the place, whether
ito express 1t as heard 1t "pui" last night 'wonr
safest plan Is for those upon whom the call Of business
is not imperative to keep away from this city. This
advice may not be paaable many my acquantances
who very anxious TO buslness commence, but u
Is honest and founded upon long experience OF August
and September seasons There may DO no epidemic. I
think there will bc none; but M business cer
,any viii not be Of much account prior to October
is safest keep out OF Now Orleans For those of
who have faced tho cpdemics OF the last twenty years
IA different thing and chances with choiorA
who having rcsidcd here for the years. when
thcre were no cpidcmics, are nosy and valorous let
those latter gentry be warned BY tho experience Of 1889
when they died by hundreds.
BuAxn~ PRosprCn
Rents enormous and the question Of how to pay
them will give some mon the "pocket cole +" before
the season s over There was last year great gap TO
be niled with supplies OF all sorts In the States
upon for this The entire cotton crop OF this year win
not exceed million and half bales, and whatever Part
Of may como TO this port will constitute the real bas:
essbshed dry goods houses that are carefully posted
about their customers they wiz probably make money
The fancy and fashionable dealers will nced great
caution order 10 avoid ruin Let mo tell you that tho
whole chaaer OF the profitable business OF this city has
been utterly broken mp and changed by the abolition Of
merchants that once 20 peculiarly distinguished this
mart Is extinct "Factors spaper is myth loans on
counts deiuson and on, Of tho debris Of the past
son and winter viii probably witness the Inauguration
with rs ce9n on hand foi loar ys.rs and the wants Of
like period v bs supplied could not be otherwise.
No doat utt, VII bs money made here the the coming ona
hazard, 10 be dcslded upon 81 prompt judgment
A. The daily speouIaons Of this d",, sason tn fQld
and cotton ,het " up and down, fesB5hdpg V the 10
lssnpr- vIoTr5ss, and constitute gsnbI'ss Is much a
P'sy IIy psnk: Z. -
~.s-@- ANrsyNrSrs MO
"ouo,ati,pss duil." No theatre open. An Ice crcam
ds1 a o. rS SS9 n.smc ss'
meter stands IN The evening eighty degrees and mos
qaitoes 10 bs caught IN bsndislA The refuge ol
sweltering humanity Ia usually Ice cream saloon on
Canal street or "Trip 20 The lake. for a1sh dinner.
Said dinner rarely tried twice BY the same person.
Tie restaurants charge like the Grays at Waterloo
and throw In headaches from badS liquor N extras
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