The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-11

ty engendered in this case no doubt by fear
Our own quarantine is bad enough and re
diculous enough, but the Board of Healtl
that would dare to pass resolution of tn
character or tenor of that passed by the wise
acres of Pensacola would be jeered by tn
newsboys.
That resolution is an insult to the intelli
gence Of the age, and. unless speedily re.
scinded, will make Pensacola marked
town-a town to be Stunned. If ships from
all ports declared infected be compelled to
wait in quarantine till Jack Frost comes to
annihilate Yellow Jack. we fancy that the
latter will be but little less frost-bitten than
the commerce of the town.
Apropos of this subject. we clip the follow
ing from the Florida Weekly Express, of the
7th, published at Pensacola:
QUARANTINE steamer with cargo of
1900 bags of coffee is now on the way from
Rio Janeiro to New Orleans. Five thousand
bags Of this cargo have been sold to arrive
Mobile Tribune. Aug. 4.
Mr.. E1itor-I respectfully request the pub
LEGATION of the above notice, and ask if it does
not suggest to the Board of Health an inquiry
as to how the city of New Orleans disposes of
vessels arriving from infected ports. If the
steamer from Rio Janeiro was destined to
Pensacola what would become of the vessel
and cargo?
According to the Quarantine regulations
here as she would be from an infected port,
her cargo or ballast would have to be dis
charged at the Quarantine Staten, could not
be brought from the CITY of Pensacola but
could go to Mobile or New Orleans after dis
charging she would be fumigated, if no sick |
ness had been on board she would be allowed |
to come to the CITY but if she had sickness she |
would be stationed in Quarantine until frost, |
unless she preferred to leave this for another |
port How can we expect to become a great |
city? MERCHANT
Wien the Captain of the Won Moltke
earned Of the extraordinary decision of the
authorities at Pensacola, he Immediately set
ail for New York, cursing the town, and es-
'ecially the quarantine, which had cost him
$1,000. 1t was certainly very hard lines that
he Won Moltke should have been mulcted in
he sum of $1,000, and then compelled to
gave port in ballast, the only alternative
eing to stay at anchor till frost, or until the
arnacles had eaten her hull and the rust her
nchor chains.
The same issue Of the Express, in which
as published the action of the authorities in
egard to quarantine, has a leading editorial,
rging the people of Pensacola to help them
slves and not forever remain supinely relying
pom the culture" and "natural advan-
ges." That is good advice, but we fear it
lis upon needless ears. For nearly half !
,ntury Pensacola has been dreaming of {
rilliant future, and her inhabitants have D
ever tired Of descantirg upon her really
sautiful bay, "where the navies Of the world G
ay safely ride at anchor" but the glorious s
me- that was to come has somehow proved G
ignus fatuus, Turing the hopeful and ease !.
wing people on only to deceive.
Strangely enough, however, experience in Q
cir case has not been good teacher, for G.
ey are as hopeful to-day as they were half P
injury ago, and believe in the future of their
tie city by the sea as firmly as in the rising O.
the sun. How much they have learned by G.
8 rough experiences Of the past may be "
terred by their last quarantine regulation. al