New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-31
Yellow Fever at Pensacola.

A letter from Pensacola, dated the nine
teenth instant says:
Several new cases of yellow fever have
made their appearance In our harbOr.
While there is perhaps no just cause at
present for alarm, it can not be denied that
the increase in the number of cases among
the shipping, and the now quite evident in
efficiency OF quarantine regulations as at
present enforced, create considerable excite
ment in our city. 1t is true that no case
has occurred on shore since the death that
/ reported as occurring at the Marine Hos
pital q month ago, but if communication is
allowed between the shore and the quaran-
tine station, it is only question OF time
when the disease will reach the city.
The present is the situation UP to the
hour of writing. There are four vessels in
quarantine, namely: the British brig
Marion, American brig Alice Tarlton. NORTH
German bark Laura Nina, and Spanish
bark CastropOl. There are seven cases of
fever reported on ethe brig Alice Tarlton.
One imam has died on board the Spanish
bark Castropol, but how many Others are
i'll on her am unable to learn. Five of the
stevedores engaged in the late disturbance
have been arrested, and released under
bonds to keep the peace. 1t seems among
their other otfenses, they were guilty of
great inhumanlty to the sick. One doctor
had allowed the stevedores to occupy an
unused building belonging to his depart
ment, but the number of sick increasing on
his hands, he notified the stevedores to
leave the building, SO that it could be made
available for its legitimate uses. They not
only refused to move out, but threatened
that if the sick were landed from the ship
ping they would force them to be left on
the beach to live or die as it might please
Providence. And the stevedOres carried
their point.
A sailor escaped in boat at night from
the Alice TarltOn and went into Pensacola.
The next morning he was arrested, and he
is now in Jail awaiting punishment and the
development Of fever in his case, if he has
it. The mayor, Disguised with the conflict
of authority, resigned on the fifteenth in
slant, and the position is occupied for the
present by Mr.. Putnam. Affairs at quar-
antine and in the city are not at all satis-
frctorily adjusted, and instead OF having
the official machinery running smoothly be-
fore the fever strikes us, there are grave
apprehensions of a complete breaking down
at the most critical moment.
The quarantine physician has returned
to the quarantine station where some of
the troublesome stevedores are yet lying in
the hospital buildings The doctor on his
appearance in town after having been
driven away by the stevedOres, was arrest
ed flor returning to the city from Guaran-
tine without authority. SO it is said, and is
now under bonds. The deputy United |
States marshal, II. c. Campbell, who ar
rested the stevedores, came near being
arrested himself for having visited the !
quarantine station and returned immediate |
ly to the city. Altogether things are gen
orally mixed, and the situation grows more
/ forgot to say that as one the |
vessels is from AspinwalI, an attempt is
being made to create the impression that |
most of the cases are Chagres fever, but |
as the other vessels in quarantine are from |
Rio and Bahia Honda the attem pit |
is failure.