The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1867-11-01

equally Irlghiul' In that city 200,are
daily prostrated, of whom 25 per cent
die. From the 1st to the 9Th instant,
245 persons died and on the 10th, it
was estimated that between 1000 and
5000 were i'll of this fearful malady.
During the twenty-four hours ending
on the 18th, at 6 a M, there were 68
deaths. Special Agent E. W. Sher-
burne, of the Treasury Department,
was of this number. On the 18th, M
to 6 a. m. there were 46 deaths and the
plague was reported as spreading into
the interior or country towns of Louis
lana. On the 10Th up to 6 a. M, there
were 45 deaths +: on the goth. GG and
on the 2lst, GA. The average mortal.
ity' from the plague, in this stricken
city, is over go deaths daily.
The army and navy have suffered
heavily from the fever. A humber of
valuable officers of the army have
fallen, and many men many others
are still PROSTATE under its malignant
attacks. Others were struck down,
but have recovered, or are now con.
valescing. General Mower who tenn
porarily succeeds General Griffin in
command of the Fifth Military Dis.
trict, had desperate struggle for life
against the plague ,fend; he long lin
gered seriously i'll, with his recovery
very doubtful But the death Of the
gallant Griffin, at Galveston, was
loss to the army truly lamentabe.
The Navy Department has received
intelligence of the deaths, by yellow
fever, at New Orleans, of the f0llow-
Ing named officers and seamen Act
Ing Second Assistant Engineer, Jas.
Eccles, of the q. S. steamer Glasgow,
at Pensacola, Florida ; GeorGe Green,
landsman; Geo Franklin, school-mas-
ter; Francis McGuigan, lahdsman !;
VIM. Russell, ordinary seaman; John
Williams, ships cook; Bernard Hop.
kins, steerage steward; John McDon-
aid, ordinary seaman; J. G. Martin,
landsman r. Z. Beatty, ordinary
seaman Andrew Hickey, coal heav-
er Harvey Worthen, seaman: Tbos.
Smith landsman; r. B. Johnson, first
class fireman; John Smith, landsman;
J,P. Penhalloro, captains clerk A.
A. Franzen, acting ensign James
Murphy, ordinary seaman; Joseph
Sanches, seaman: and John Laporte.
These we're of the U. S. Steamer
Mahaska alone. AT Galveston, and
other ports along the Gull, ds well as
at New Orleans, the navy has also
lost heavily in officers and heh.
The precise oFigin or cause OF the
breaking out fthis malignant scourgo
at this time, is not known. Its first
appearance has been traced to Indian
ola, Texas, but it is believed to have,
as heretofors, ehigrated hotthward
frGtn Mexico. 1t has not appeared at
Havana as yet, but its tracks as thus
far developed, has been from Vera
Cruz to Indanola; thence to Calves
ton and Houston thence to New Or
leans, to Pensacola, to Key West, and
to the Dry Tortugas. Mobilo, this
far has singularly escaped. In anti g,
cipation, however, of its being assail-
cd by the, pestilence, Gen, Spinner has
transferred all the public money in
Mobile to repositories in other cities.
The march and the'ravages of this
yellow fiend are truly appalling. No
pen nor language can paint the dis
tress, the wretchedness, the misery
which stalk through tho beleagured
cities, nor the consequent despondend-
ency-the almost despair-0f their
afflicted people, 1t is hard, says an
exchange, to imagine half city laid
on its back, and tended by another
half convalescent. Nor is there any
hope of immediate escape. No hu-
man agency, says an old citizen OF
Texas, can at present stay It's rava.
ges. Nothing but the frost will check
its sweeping malignity; and as this
cannot be hoped for, in the infected
districts, before tho latter part of Oc-
tober at the earliest, many weeks
must elapse before it can be conduer.
ed. Id the meantime many of our
people in northern cities are actively
engaged in collecting the means oI
alleviating some of its horrors by pro
viding every possible comfort for the
afflicted. Great Republic.
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