Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-23

A REVIEW Of the situation will not bring
much comfort b the readers Of the APPEAL.
at home or abroad. The steady increase
ia the number Of new eases OF fever has
rendered u necessary Tor the board Of health
to advise every body that can to leave
the city, a. the only means Of shorten
ing the visit Of the terrible disease.
Fifty cases and ten deaths is the
report which we have to contemplate this
morning. Not By many degrees as bad as
the reports that reach US from New Orleans,
Nicksburg and Grenada, it is still sufficiently
30 TO warrant physicians Of experience in
urging general hsgird. That this advice
will b. followed We have some doubts judg
log by the number that have awaited theu-
selves OF the 10 lcGts of Camp Joe William
If II is not, and the disease spreads in
epidemic form beyond the limits Of The IN
iected region and the morality reaches any
thing like the igures of 1873, the people will
have but themselves to blame. such a
course, It Will be seen by our Geographic dis
patches, has been recommended as the only
possible means Of saving Grenada from COM
plete depopgllti)n. There the disease has
become 50 vIru.ent as to attack the colored
people by the hundred, so that class
hitherto regarded as exempt from the scourge,
are paying tribute % death IN proportions as
large as that which has almost decima,ed the
whites. The story from this literal grave
yard, as told by our special correspondent,
stag2ers belief, and cannot fail 10 arouse
universal apprehension. The dead it is
recommended, shall be buried IN the nearest
ground, and the sick increase in such numbers
as to deyoiye the wo.k OF burial on l very
few. Not 81 sickening, but very nearly as
bad is the story we have rom FIck burg,
where there are, according to the lowest esti-
mate, over three hundred sick, and
a rate Of mortality that indicates n
poalble repetition of the scenes at Grenada,
uales the people leave the city. New Or
leans Nynishes, to, most startling figures
one hur'ccd and flty-eight new cases and
sixty -eigSA, deaths This is a great increase
on the res>Sts Of last week, and would
seem 80 streushen the conviction fastening
itself u many A;nds that it may become as
BAD as IN 1919 when the deaths averaged
200 per DR. and amounted to
y o'd tor the season Of $500. But
0,'des thse places, hese are others sorely
9i'cted-Ieither with tse disease and the
An,w,hat Iolov,s ia it, tr,-,. mp with panir
out 81 auprens.-.LL. ladnced
S one or two Gases. Cantoa and Port
Gibson are OF the first category. i both
the fever has made and is making rapid
lnroads on greatly reduced popuiat ons, at
their best very small, the deaths being
in alarming proportion. jackson fall with.
IN the second category, and 50 does Helena
where there was yesterday a regular SIAM.
pede. Holly Springs, brave and hospitable
although called on to nurse three refugees
is not IN the least alarmed anC
maintains an equilibrium, Of which eve
since the advent OF the curse she mas givel
the highest proofs of the possession. Por
Eads continue 10 Furnish her quota iron
greatly diminished numbers, and Morgan
City has Just been enlisted for the war. Ho'
Mobile, Natchez and Galveston nave escaped
the two former especially, we cannot tell, bu
we know II Is the heartfelt desire of ali WI
suffer that they may continue the favorites ,
fortune, and b. spared from visitatious the
know how 10 measure and 10 fear.
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