The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-04
COLJJlMBI S.~G.
Saturday Morning, October 4, 1873.


The SoouRaHs.--The reports OF the
-scases cs The ye!!o# fever il sh-sy.-
poTt Louisiana, continue to ba of q
melancholy character. Already more
than 400 Of the small community have
been swept away, and there are now at
least 700 sick OF oil ages, requiring
constant and skiIlfnl nursing. These
facts are stated in an appeal from the
Howard Association, which has opened
al orphan asylum in Shreveport. and is
feeding about two.lhirds of the resident
population. II there are fewer deaths
aud new cases than there have been,
the fact is assigned to the terrible cause
that there are fewer people. The COM
mittee report that their resources are
nearly exhausted, the wealthy broken
down, the poor threatened with starva-
tioE, the sick and dying about to be
deprived Of tho ooramoneat comforts.
There are also 100 people, including
many women and children, left without
employment or the means OF subsist-
ence. The destitution ia said to be as
heart-rending as Tho disease itself.
Hence an earnest appeal is made to
other sections for aid. The develop
ment OF the disease this year in the
Southwest appears to extend over q
wide area, and yet we hear less of it at
New Orleans than almost any other
point. At Memphis, it has been severe,
and from thence through nearly all the
country to the Southern coast line, it
Aas shown itself to more or less de-
gree. Along the line of the railroad
below Montgomery. Ala. coming up
srom the coast, more than half the
population were ill of the fever. The
disease originated in Pensacola, aud
thence orept up along the line of the
road: Tho residents of Infected los.dli-
ties harried away as fast as possible,
and the Pensacola and louisville and
the Mobile and Montgomery roads we're
filed with the fugitives. In conse.
quenco OF this hegira, and because of
the fact that many of the fugitiyes had
stopped in Montgomery. the Mayor OF
shat town issued proclamation, to be
in torce until revoked, refusing all per-
sons permission to stop in the city who
may have come directly from New Or
leens, Pensacola, Mobile or Pollard, or
from the Gulf coast of Texas, and from
places along the Red River. Shortly
afterwards the disease broke out in
Montgomery, and the citizens in turn
fled. "A subsidenoe Of the disease may
now soon be expected. but at Shrsve-
port there is evident great distress from
the work OF death already executed.
The Southwest has been scourged this
year, frst by the cholera, which was
more than usually virulent. and then by
the yellow fever. What Nashville suf-
fered from cholera, aud more, Shreve-
port has suffered from the fever. The
New Orleans Picaynne Gays;
''Late ndvioes from Avoyelles and ad.
joining parishes are of rather O gloomy
nature. It seems that in some sections
of those parishes, the caterpillar has
nearly destroyed the cotton crops, that
the sugar crop has been very much in
jnrea by rain, that the stubble was not
worth cultiyating, and that, to cap the
climax Of all calamities, sections of these
parishes have been afflicted by sickness
that has, in some instances almost
amounted to pastilence. In the little
post Office village of Evergreen, in
Avoyelles, we are informed by letter
that there have been over twenty-five
interments during August and one half
Of September. This village has not ap.
parently over $50 Inhabitants. Some or
the most prominent citizens have died
in that neighborhood, and well-known
planter has lost all four OF his ohil-
dren."
The LAST OF TIE MoDoos Captain
Jack and his principal warriors were e1-
ecuted at Fort Klamath, Oregon, yester-
day, The President interfered at the
last minute and commuted the sentence