The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-04

thieves, and in part poor whites and neg roes
made thieves by opportunity. The Com
mercial Hotel was closed. The rail-
road trains going ont were barely able to
carry ali the passengers, but the trains GO
Ing in nearly empty. Places of amusement.
schools, and many stores were closed. The
worst was dreaded.
However, the Memphis authorities acted
with good sense. They h d used every
Sonable means 10 keep the fever ont and
now that il had got in in spite of them,
they came as near as possible to moving
the infected parts out of the city The dis
ease was all III northwestern section.
large number of tents were obtained from
tile Caited States Government, and a SUI
bugban encam pmenJ was made in a salu-
brious suburb. Those of the residents of
the infected district who had not already
gone away were sent to this camp, and led
at the city's expense. Not soul was left
in the yellow fever neighborhood, except
the officer who went to disinfect the houses.
But the camp was not established without
opposition. The spot selected WAS five miles
south of the city. DR.. y oil went there With
the tents and several assistants. He was at
once surrounded by mob OF negroes, who
drove him back 70 the citv. They dislked
the invasion by q possibly fever bearing
rabble. On The following day, the Doctor
returned with two military companies at
his back, and the encampment was made
without further trouble. These measures
were effective. and Memphis may Keep the
scourgc under until frost, when the danger
viii be past. The dea rate, about twenty
a day at the highest was reduced by Tues
dag to about half that number, and the new
eases were fewer than on any previous day
since the fever gained a foOthoid in the city.
The police force has been trebled. a few of
the bolder refugees have returned, Villages
ia that region 10 longer exclude persons
who come from Memphis, and the panic is
sub~idlng a little.
The disarrangement of business in the
South has extended to that of gathering Of
news, and an adequate idea Of the situation
largely be left to the reader. In Vicksburg,
the deaths have been from twenty to wen-
ty-five a day, and the disease is on the in
crease. jackson is almost depOpulated. the
the residents having fled at the outbreak.
Little news can be had from Texas. Louis
vile, Cairo. Little Rick and ChattanoC "a
are cities of refuge. their hotels being filled
with fugitives. The authorities of those
places are watchful, but do not try TO hinder
the entry of well travellers from any direc-
ton.
The up-gong steamboats, on the Missis-
sjppi are practically blockade runners, for
AT many points they are stopped and in
Spected by health authorities. The business
o carrying infected persons is lucrative,
and the risk is taken by many captains.
Numerous steamboars are lying by the way.
having been stopped by who found patients
aboard, and others have defiantly made the
passage. The steamboa John Porter, with
ic dispatches gave warning of her approach,
and she was not permitted to land until she
got to GalliOpilis, Ohio. There she made
fast to Il wharf, and the crew went ashore,
intending TO escape. The Mayor called to-
Gether some cOnstaDleS. and drove the
strangers back to the vessel, but they refus-
ed to move away. The engineer and pilot
declared that they would not let the steam
boat stir. Thirteen persons on her were
down with the fever, and all that could be
a m iaf a stn a ~ hplOW
the city. Physicians and nurses were sup
piled, and the John Porter is now pest
house.
The Memphis Appeal of the 25th, gives
the following account of the progress of
the disease down to that date;
The first case, reported on the 1st inst,
and which was sent to the quarantine he's
pital, proved fatal on the 9TH, by which we
had the second case, reported Oh the 4th.
On the 9Jh, we also had one case reported,
and the same on the 10TH On the 18th the
second death was announced, and the panic
commenced On the 18th, we had seven
new cases and two deaths reported, by
W hich the panic was greatly accelerated.
On the 18th, 20 new cases and deaths were
reported; on the 10Th, 81 new cases and
deaths; on the 10th, 20 new cases and
deaths; on the 18th, % new cases and ID
eeaths; on the 18th, 10 new cases and IL
deaths; on the 18th, II new cases and IA
deaths on the 20th, Is new cases and 6
deaths; on the 2lat, 80 new cases and IL
deaths; on the 22d 80 new cases and 10
deaths, and on the 23d (yesterday,) 46 new
cases and 10 deaths.
DR.. Vaudeville, of the Howard AsSocia-
ton. New Orleans, who was called to Gre
NADIA, gives the following report;
DR.. Vaudeville, of the Towards, who left
Grenada Wednesday night, says the disease
prevailed eleven days before its real charac-
ter was discovered, and that physicians
undertook to cure it with calomel, in suffi-
GENTLY large doses to salivate. and quinine,
administered during delirium Nourish-
ment-certain death To yellow fever patients
was allowed in too liberal quantities, and
two young ladies are mentioned as having
teen murdered-One with cup of strong
Coffee and the other with a tumbler of milk
punch. Although extremely malignant,
the only new phase he discovered was dis
position of the fever to return on the fifth
day. This, he says, can be readily checked
by three grain doses of quinine administer
ed once every three hours. Among the ne
groes, it is peculiarly fatal, but a hospital
has been established, and 100 tents furnish
ed by the War Department erected. The
Secretary of the Board of Health stated to-
day that the epidemic had reached its thir-
5y-seventh day of its existence, and in his
opinion. the crises and maximum virulence
of the attack has been already passed.