The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-05

The Galveston, Texas, papers give a Mel
ancholly account of the prevalence of the
Yellow Fever in that city; the following ex-
tract is taken:
The street scenes at night are suggestive
OF anything but the prevalence of most fatal
epidemic in our midst. At an early hour tn e
negro harlots appear in great numbers, es-
pecially on the most frequented thoroughfares.
They are most impudent. and disgraceful in
plying their avocation and often the street
resounds until a late hour of the night with
their drunken reyelry. The white eourtezans
are equally numerous and impudent, and as
they often travel in hocks with their darker
of sin, the scene presented is a
strange one indeed. Then come the midnight
brawlers from the late tayerns some reeling
along the sidewalks, and others in carriages,
the dismal rumbling of which must make
most discordant music in the ears of the sick
and dying. And so the night wanes in de-
bauchery and SIN, while on every hand are
houses of sorrow and suffering, hearts of sad
ness and eyes OF weeping.
We noticed yesterday the hauling of sever
al loads Of eoflins through the streets, L.
cord-wood on carts. This is altogether wrong.
We see enough at present to intimidate the
timid without unnecessarily creating unpleas-
antly rememberances.
Among the incidents noted yesterday was
that of lady who, having been four days
sick Of the fever, and almost without hope
of recovery, gave birth to healthful child
q son we believe. Both died subsequently,
The scenes during the day are suggestive as
welt as melancholy. Yesterday | counted
eighteen funerals from my window, and the
day before fifteen. Two have passed while |
have been writing his.correspondence. Some
Of the streets are almost deserted and in may
others one can only see pale-faced women
and anXious-eyed men, hurrying to the near
est ice dealers or drug store for comforts for
the sick. many of the store keepers take ad-
vantage of the panic and charge the most ex-
orbitant prices for the comm0nest necessities
of the sick room. | heard of an old reprobate
yesterday who charged a poor woman for
some orange leaves which grow in luxurious
abundance in his own garden
Later accounts speak of the disease in New
Orleans:-
The yellow fever has assumed an epidemic
form in Galveston, Indianola and other Texan
gulf ports; while in New Orleans it is raging
bevond precedent since or during til e war In
Galveston in one day last week there were
800 cases, one fifth Of which resulted fatally
and in New Orleans the disease has attacked
persons in every grade of life, generally prov
ing fatal to the unacclimated, and has been
accompanied by the most malignant of fatal
indications-the terrible U0n1it0. Recent arri-
walls from that section bring the information
that the newspapers there do not register all
of the deaths, and confirm the report that the
majority of Northeners who have settled there
during and since the war, are either dead, sick,
or fleeing North. The fact that the municipal
authorities removed by Sheridan did not pro-
vide the usual precautionary measures last
spring, is given by well informed persons as
the only reason for the extreme violence OF
the scourge this season, as the city is in an
extremely filthy condition.