The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-08-31
NEW oRLEAN IS, Aug IS, 1866

NEW ORLEAN - aug ~ A1
Editor Clarion So cha nged and duh Is
this city that / hardly belleFed was :"
Nav Orleans. When walk ing out on 81
Charles street last night, I barely met q
corporal's guard Of pedestrians from royu.as
n Gravier streets. The que stion naturals
suggested itself what had become OF tne
busy throng You usually meet upon tnls
GREAT thoronghfare, and what has causeu
theiI absences The answer Is soon fnrIlshou'
the cholera the cholera that dfeaolul
pestilence of Asia, that walketh ike thiei
In the night" is abroad IN this CITY, anu
though so far its are rayages prinelpaliy
confined to the lower classes-the negroes
who are huddled together in novels Without
proper food and proper sanitary reglllatiohs'
the confirmed dissolute and inebrate VINO
will not take care of themselves, ana Inc
reckless, who rush headlong into the COZ"
embraces of the fell destroyer through giato-
nv and other incorporate abuses yet, III mas
given no bond TO stay its progress. no one
feels secure here so everybody thai
could get away have done 80 thousands
went North, while the summer resorts
are redundant with the upper ten oil Ne"
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 Gottig, has near one hundred falniiles
| from New Orleans boarding in 1t. Yet after
all, the cholera is not so bad as represented,
and, it is steadily decreasing But, the yell
low fever is here also of this nothing IS
said, however, probably not to frighteh
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 canse, for the city is
| disgustingly filthy.
Strange as ii may sound 10 Your readers,
notwithstanding the unprecedented exodus
from the city and the continued erection OF
new buildings there none for rent. All
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 as the contract is signed by the build
er Old citizens who are thoroughly con
versant with the city, say the like has never
heen 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
n house and he had decided To do so These
great changes are explained as originating
from these causes, to-wit a steady influx OF
northeners and foreigners, an influx of plan
| ters and their families, who having lost THEN
slaves and stock aud come here from neces
sity, i'll some cases for safety, and finally, a
! tremendous influx of negroes from the whole
Mississippi valley.
| Provisions are abundant here everything
cheap, but the very fact of sickness prevail
| ing Ito the extent it does, and the tenn
population, has caused quite stagnation in
the markets-they are comparatively desert
ed Butchers, and vendors of fruit, fish and
vegetables all seem to be in bad humor
The cry of water, water is very great here
Though skirted by the great Mississippi
there is a continual complaint Of the city
affording no water for cleansing purposes
| foriputting out fires, etc The water works
erected over thirty years ago, entirely
| inadequate TO the wants of the city, and
though new water works are i'll progress OF
construction, no effort appears to be made
toward finishing them.
| The amusements are soon to Iesume for
the next season. Duprey * Benedict's min
| strels open next week at the st. Charles
Theatre, aud in four more days the Spanish
Circus at the Academy of Music, and the
Strakosh Opera Troupe at the Opera. The
amusements of the next season, it is said
! viii surpass those of the last
Yours truly,
ORADIAH