The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-06-10

with impOrtanate tenants from
among the wealth and aristocracy
Of the republic, and in scores at cas-
es are receiving as much as $3.50 to
$500 per month for their squalid
abodcs. Families who lived in su-
.perb style two months ago are now
covering among the huts on the
plains and sleeping on beds laid out
upon the floor Of earth.
In Buenos Ayres itself panic, ter
ror and fear have exhausted them
selves, and matters have settled
down to almost a stolid resignation.
This owing largely 10 the fact that
those who remain are the poorer
people-those who have not the
means to leave, perhaps-and the
public commission, a philanthropic
association organized for the emer-
geney, is now proposing to send
away from the city, on the railroad,
BY force if necessary, such as are
not yet Effected By the fever. This
public commission embraces some
500 members, many Of great wealth
and good position, and is deserving
of enduring honor. Several of the
members have already been sacri-
feed TO their self-imposed duty, but
the work is carried on nevertheless.
The commission has supreme control
over everything in the doomed city,
and has just proclaimed d feast for
twenty days, which will end on the
LIST of May. This has been resolved
upon to prevent financial disaster or
embarrassment among the CONNER
cial houses, consequent upon the to-
tai stagnation Of business. Of
course, all notes, drafts, bills of cx-
| change and maturing commercial
paper OF every description, are in
allegiance during that time, and the
proclamation Of the f%east,in fact, pro-
hiblts business or labor Ct every
kind.
Tie Origin Of he Ferer.
like many other things is a question
upon which there is much division
Of opinion, but all are agreed upon
the assertion that to the Bucnos
Ayreans themselves is attributable
the blame for wide-reaching destruc-
ton. BY some persons it is said
that the fever owes its existence to
the sdladcros, at Barrancas. These
sdtaderos are q collection Of gigantic
abattoirs or slaughter houses, on the
borders Of the river Riachuclo, n
few miles south by east of the city.
In these establishments arc slaugh-
tered the gigantic herds Of cattle
which supply q large part of the
world with dried and "jerked' beef,
bones, hides, horns and tallow.
AS to the blame everyone who ha,
ever been in Beunos Ayros must re.
alize where it belongs. The city i.
built on the fiat shore OF a vast Riv.
er, itself notable for the deposits il
carries to the.sea, and which discolol
the ocean Tor many leagues. The
city is without any system of drain.
age whatever, aud for two hundred
years nearly, the inhabitants have
buried all filth, garbage and refuse
matter Of every description beneath
their houses, This was done by
sinking b~ell-shapod wells to q depth
Of fifteen or twenty feet, the sides
being Strengthened with rude brick
work. These were reached by small
openings at the surface several feet
in depth, and through these aper.
lures the filth was deposited in the
ccsspools below. When the sinks
became full the mounth was filled
up and q new cesspool was dug else,
where. This system prevailed every
where throughout the city, and to.
day the foundation or site of Buenos
Ayres Is honcy-combcd by these
filthy traps. For some years past
it has been n matter of considerable
difficulty to obtain safe foun.
dations for large new buildings,
and this trouble was only recently
experienced in tapping for founda-
ton for the proposed new clut
house. To opon these ccsspools and
rid them Of their contents would be
a task Ina would throw the cleans
ing Of the Augean stables into the
deepest kind of shade, The city
w~ouldhavc to be uprooted almost to
effect 1t, and leaving out of the ques-
ton the gigantic expense it would
involve, the health Of the city would
at any time be i~mpcroled by the
operation. There is no city in
South America that is in all respects
cloanly, but the unhappy Buonos
Ayreans are to-day rcaping a terri
bic punishment for their supreme