Smyrna times., 1878-08-28

tions already made may be taken as an in
dication, the next House of Representa-
tives will be largely composed of new men.
In the one hundred and forty Congressional
districts, nearly one-half of the whole num-
Der, in which nominations have been made,
two hundred and twelve persons have been
put forward as candidates for election, of
whom only fifty-seven are old members.
OF these thirty-two are Republicans and
twenty five are democrats.
THE result of the German elections leaves
parties in the new Parliament very much
as they were in the old. The Liberals,
with the discontinued factions behind them,
are still in majority. The Socialists,
though they have lost power in Parliament,
have made better showing in the lists of
voters than ever before. So far from being
able to carry into effect the violent measures
introduced in the last Parliament, which
were entirely destructive of the liberty of
free speech, Prince Bismarck will content
himself with moderate changes. Socialism
looms up more dangerous force than ever
in the Empire.
The YELLOW FEVER ScoURGE.-Accounts
still continue to reach us of the frightful
ravages of the yellow fever among the cities
along the lower course of the Mississippi
river from Memphis southwark. At Vicks.
burg, Memphis, Grenada and New Orleans
the epidemic showed up to Monday no
signs of abatement. The malignant type
of it leaves but little hope of conquering ii
until its devastating course is stayed by the
return of frost or the migration of the in
habitants, which, happily, is being effected
to a large extent. The percentage of deaths
in the number attacked is said to be much
larger than usual, some putting it as high
as sc per cent. and none lower than 25 pei
cent. 1t continues to increase in fatality
where it already exists and is rapidly ex
tending in the Mississippi Valley. In New
Orleans the total number of cases to date i:
over 2,200 and the deaths $50. AT Mem
phis there were sixty-one new cases anC
twentysix deaths. Nurses are urgently
need in Grenada. In Philadelphia two
cases of yellow fever have been discovered
and prompt measures have been taken t.
prevent contagion. Jackson, Miss, il
virtually under martial law as precau
tionary measure. Large subscriptions hav'
been made in many cities, and Monday up
wards of $4,000 were raised in New Yorl
alone for the benefit of the plague-strickel
cities.
The postmaster at Grenada, Miss, write
to the postofice department: "YoI
can never realize the situation here
Nobody comes here. The world has re
fused shelter to our unfortunate refugees
Business houses, banks and schools al
closed. No signs of business except anon
nurses, doctors and undertakers. Gu
white population is generally 1900 to l ,40(
it now numbers not more than 300, an
there are the sick, nurses and doctors"
The great trouble seems to be for want c
doctors and nurses. The negroes who hav
been heretofore to large degree exemp
are dying in large numbers. Business i
all the infected districts is completely par'
lized. Fifty years ago the cities of Bait
more, Wilmington and Philadelphia wer
as liable and suffered as severely as thes
cities above named do to-day. The eXeml
ton since then, apart from our more nortl
ern latitude, has been due to the improv
ment in our sanitary regulations and I'll
prompt way in which, upon the first a
, pearance of cases of high bilious type, IL
patients have been removed, disease inve
tigated and stamped out. In all cite
whether at the South or in any other pa
of the Union, where cleanliness exist
. yellow fever can find no abiding plac
! NewOrleansis especially open to the scourg
because the underlying soil is constan
moist from the percolation through it
: the water from the river, and the draina
IS back into Lake Pontchartrain is sluggi
# and imperfect. But even New Orleans CT
u be spared the worst effect of the disease
d the city is kept in as clean condition
e the health officers can make it. This is
( necessity that has become the more il
II perative since the large influx of negro
}; into that city from the plantations, and t
Is filth and squalor in which they too oft
live. The worst quarter of Memphis, VIII
o it was last attacked, was the negro quartz
ia which was then undrained, and even M
70 has many fever breeding places. The eau
" of the terrible devastation of Grenada "
d the sewer, that was found on examinati
to be choked with fostering carcasses
It cats and dogs. When a single case
N yellow fever occurs in such places and
,r an atmosphere suited to its propagation,
to spread from house to house and its VII
q. lence is tempered or increased by the lesi
DC or greater amount of fuel it finds to fe
Iv on. In cleanly, well-drained cities there
NJ little to fear. Charleston, Mobile a
# Savannah are examples of this at this tin
II and when the disease strikes a particu
20 district of city the instant removal of
n patients into the open fields at a distar
- from the centre of population is the b
= safeguard against its spreading into otl
- and ordinarily helthier parts of the city.
IN The PoTTsVILLE ExPLosIoN.-A spec
dispatch from Pottsville, Pa, August q
saws: DUPONT & Co. have given not
ng that they will make good all losses susta
m ed by the explosion Of their powder ma
u zine, which occurred here last Saturd