The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-26
REPUTATION OF INJURIOUS REPORTS
ABOUT PENSACOLA.

PENSACOLA, Sept. ~, 1873.
To the Editor of the Bulletin
| The old proverb which says, If man is going
down bill, each one he meets will be sure to give
| than it has been this summer with Pensacola
personating the Old Man. 1t seemed that our
best efforts to succeed constantly being fore
stalled by accidental and unintentional causes
through the agency OF some few persons who
seem to make it their special business to difuse
| and propagate the impression that yellow fever
crisis and has existed at this point during this
entire summer, simply Tor the love Of spreading
news. ~
II is bad enough to have been afflicted two
summers in succession without trying to make
the outside world believe by misslatements that
are, for third time, visited by this tropical
tyrant. You must surely recollect the tenor OF
the numberless kilograms sent from the Navy
Yard to Washington daily, when the yellow fever
was at Barrancas and these kilograms are, unin-
tentionally, calculated to impair future pros
pects. You may ask, Why? Because the Navy
Yard and Barrancas, to one unacqualnted with
this locality, are inseparably the same:
The excitement due to this cause had hardly
subsidized when something fresh presented itself
whereby the public mind could bs alarmed and
excited. refer to the outbreak of the fever at
Powels, of which more will be said hereafter.
l noticed telegram sent few days since by
Com. Cooper, commandant at this Yard, to the
Navy Department at Washington, IN sending
which he was, no doubt, actuated by the most
philanthropic motives. quote: "Yellow fever
is raging il Pensacola Bay"
You will observe by reading the rest of this
telegram that it was sent to the department. for
permission to aid the sufferers, and while, as l
have above stated, Com. Cooper was actuated in
taking this course by the best of motives. and
with the charitable and commendable view of re-
lievlng these distressed people (at Powells), he
has evidently forgotten that the report that yell
low fever is in Pensacola Bay conveys to the
minds of the public, who do n It care or haven't
interest enough to inquire how many settlements
there are on the bay, that if yellow fever is on
the bay it must necessarily be at Pensacola, or in
very close proximity to that place.
For the benefit of your readers, and with
view to correct the very erroneous impression
that has gone abroad to the effect that the Navy
Yard, Barrancas and the settlements on the Bay
and Pensacola are one and the same, will ex-
plain the geographical position of the two places
where yellow fever has appeared this summer
Barrancas, the headquarters of the United States
army in this section, is situated about two miles
west of the Navy Yard and nine or ten miles from
Pensacola. Powelrs, the place "on the Bay"
where yellow fever has also appeared this sum-
ner, is settlement Of some fifty six per-
sons, situated not on the Bay, but on Yellow
River, thirty or forty miles east of Pensacola and
several miles away from any town or settlement
whatever.
You see very plainly now how easy it would be |
% free this town from the damaging effect the |
belief that we have yellow fever here necessarily
entails, when few words as to locality, ETC., |
would set matters right. OBSERVER.