New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-26
tFor the Crescent
OUR MOBILE CORR ESPtsNDENCE,

/ .5atr MOBILE, January "a, 1866.
Mr.: Etitor-Since the commencement of col 4
weather the mortality among the negro popula-
tion in and about this city has been very great.
In addition to their suferings from lack Of food
ana shelter, this small pox broke out among them.
and has for some weeks past ragged with fury
that threatened determination should it continue
to increase. The amount Of mortality reported
by the civil and military sections affords no salts.
factory data to calculate the number of desths.
They report for the past week thirteen deaths by
the disease, two Of which were or white persons !;
but these are only the cases Of iaterment by them
If it were possible to ascertain the number thrust
into holes anywhere to get Them out of the way
regardless of the Freedmen's Bureau, and the
number that lie unburied in the fields and woods
about the city it would be seen that small pozs
epidemic of unusual malignity prevails among the
blacks There are many cases among the whites,
but probably not more than five per cent of the
whole, and with them it assumes a decidedly
milder type. A physician informed ne that he has
fully one hundred cases, but the proportion of
whites he did not state.
A hospital for the treatment of the negroes at
tackled by this foul disease has been established
somewhere down the Bay Road, and1 we learn
that the 6 fast crabs who were in the habit of
airing themselves on that pleasant drive are not at
all in favor of the arrangement: l recommended
one of them to demonstrate with the officer who
controls the desnies of that phlanthropc institu-
ton, but he shook his head donbttully.
When the Frances was coming up the bay the
other afternoon, a row occurred between two of
her deck hanks--white and black--in which the
latter was stretched upon the deck with broken
head. The other negroes took up the quarrel and
threatened the white mans life, but the mate Or
dered them aft and some person in tine cabin sup
piled the white beligerent with pistol, when he
set the darkies at defiance. They, however, de-
clared their intention to kill him when the boat
should reach the city, and when it touched the
wharf he started up town at rapid rate. His
antagonist was on the watch and went after him
at full speed, with regular Dahomey yell, fol-
lowed by the whole pack. There was not a very
wide reach between the fugitive and the leading
pursuer, but as he reached a corner, a boy who
had probably observed the race from the levee,
and understood its meaning, drew a pistol and
bazed away at Sambo, shooting him through the
leg T,;. ~. =, o.s ). a..
OF the pistol the others scattered like flock of
blackbirds and disappeared The wounded negro |
was taken to the guard house, bleeding like sac
rIfce, and was speedily conveyed thence to the
for the Freedmens Bureau, like the victims Of the
pirates, tell no tales but the surgeon who exam |
med him soon after the bullet struck him, stated
that large artery was cut, and he was of opinion
tnat aid could not be obtained soon enough to save
his life. ...,e5.or.sr Nd
he question of city improvements, and of |
amending the city charter has exercised the minds
OF men of public spirit for time past, and the |
municipal boards have length voted some I'm
important change of the charter. They also voted
an appropriation of $500 to send Mayor Withers to
Montgomery, for the purpose suppose, of OBJ
tanning the consent Of the Legislature to their
action. s.,-.f-F 7.s s.e 7 "
Business in general does not seem to have fallen
oil from its best stages two months ago, and cot
ton continues to come in, by railroad and river,
quite briskly. =5fy'-srr -. G. w. s.