Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-24
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ALABAMA.
MONTGOMERY, ALA, April II, 1877


By an excellent arrangement of the railroad
time tables man can leave New Orleans at
six o'clock in the evening, and be in Mont.
gomery by eleven, A. NJ, next day. The
distances three hundred and twenty-five miles.
I remained in New Orleans nearly week,
enjoying the soft April hreezes, and eating
green peas. Its pleasant place TO live dur.
ing the winter and early spring, but not all
the year round. New Orleans is not healthy
in the summer months, and all the medical re.
ports and doctors certificates that can be pub
lished will not make it so. In fact, through
all the seasons, there is more or less fatal fe'
yer prevailing there. The other day I was
walking on the wharf with friend, watching
the unloading of the fruit ship from the India
Islands. He introduced me to fruit dealer
We passed on and thought no. more Of it.
Next morning at breakfast my friend asked
"Do you remember the gentleman intro
duced you to on the wharf last evening"
II do" T.;
wei, ne Is Qeau. -
"Dead! You don't say so" ..m
eyes, he was taken with fever at FIVE o'clock,
died at midnight and will be buried this morn
ing" "r, .... .~..~
was shocked, but my friend told me that
such sudden deaths from fever in New Orleans
were not unfrequent, any season. Yhe low,
swampy character of the country, the malaria
in the atmosphere, and the heat, all predispose
to fevers of all types, some Of them sudden
and fatal. .. ,,... .....
In previous letter, I said something Of the
political situation at New Orleans. It is bad
enough. There are two governments, and two
sets of officers "ruling" the State. McEnry,
the Democratic candidate was rightfully elect
ed Governor, but the Radicals claim that their
man (Kellogg) would have been elected if all
had voted for him who wanted to !; and upon
this slim pretext, they inaugurated, and pre-
vailed upon the President to recognize, the re-
suit of their works. The idea Of declaring a
man elected to Office on the ground that he
sooaM have been elected if all had voted for
him who wanted to, is one Of the most absurd
ever promulgated in American politics It
comes under the head of something new under
the sun.
The two Legislatures have adjourned, after
each electing Senators. But none ofthe Sem
ators were able to get their seats at Washing
ton, Congress wanting more time to Investigate
into the merits of the strange muddle.
The Kellogg Legislature is called, at New
Orleans, the bayonet Legislature There was
much rejoicing when they disbanded and went
home. Ifhalf the reports about the body are
true, half of them ought to be doing service
for the State in another institution, where the
inmates dress in uniform-striped pants and
pea.colored jackets One Of the last acts of
the bayonet Legislature, was to vote them.
selves thirty per cent additional to their sal
aries, to cover depreciation in Treasury war
rants. The meanness Of this will Be under.
stood, when we reflect that the depreciation of
warrants is owing to the recklessness of the
Legislature and their Radical predecessors.
Fortunately, the Treasurer would not pay the
extra compensation, and the courts sustained
him upon the ground that the law was uncon-