The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-07

Liverpool. The captain does not ueny Cnh.
Mcduigan never left the snip Wnere ne y, WE ~
employed by Pashley as a Waterman unlit Is
was sent 20 the Charity Hospital. not tha hoI ~
that Nh. how Richardson had fallen sick Will
yellow fever .,
mission could have arrived at Such o collclu-
sion? The commission nentRSned Mcuuishn
ID tie fyst death from the fever, but not the
frst caae. ana that 1t was not the first cast
viii soon be proved. But what L. most aston,
i4hlag il that the commission could have
given It's decision on such slender, 1liHSy
lusGequate testimony, on the authority OF
such a rebuttet, stupid witness, and in the
fAcs of tho deposition OF the captain nf IN
sEip. For what purpose iS the boy Richard
son mixed W il the affair II not Tor the pur-
pose Ut showing more suspicion On that Shpt
Why Is it asserted aud OIL whose authority
Or testimony that Michigan had never lett
the ship, and suppose 1t had been thus, IL
there no other manner IN which man may
be infected than by the fever virus supposed
to be contained In the Northampton Such
manipulatiOns are too lean; they are un-
worthy of the commission.
The question now presents Itself for the
FIRST time" continues the commission, "did
this lever originate III the Northampton
From the tenor Of Pnshley's evidences ana
analogy we have on different ships there
would De nothing unwarrnnted by precedents,
ia regard to the outbreak Of yellow fever on
shipboard. from foul holds or decaying mat
ter. LII we could trace step by step all the
cases to the ship Northampton we might
make presumption Ia favor OF this opinion
with something OF the aspect Of truth. But
unfortunately we cannot. For we shall pres
emily show that almost cOincident i'll time,
but quite distant In place. with the death OF
Mctiuigun other cases OF genuine yellow
fever were seen by competent observers, ana
that they had no communication with the
NnrthHIutpn other HtljDUtnK,
How desperate must Il clse be which IS
principally based and supported by sllch r.
butted witness being called In again anh
again? That yellow fever could becreated by
foul holds or decaytng matter ID o mere a.
sumption it would be- difficult for the commits
sion 10 prove. Tie virus Of the fever may be
kept alive in It. but originate, never. win
the "other cases. the commission can only
denote the cases on the ship Augusta. Of
which we will soon speak, or three others, 10 DC
mentioned later, but which will turn out mere
mistakes. With reference to the cases OF the
Augusta they were near enough to the North
ampton to have even Infected McGulgan
Though thers WIS another Injected snip
wherefrom the crew OF the Augusta traced
the Infection. AMI which vessel WAS still
nearer to the Northampton aud to Nc.
Gugan. That the latter had died far away,
at the Charity Hospital, Is true, but entirely
irrelevant, since the question here to be ar
became infected. Finally, that these Other
cases" had no communication "either with
the Northampton or other ships Is more
than the commission Is entitled to asseverate
al opinion which 1t IL totally incapable OF
vindicatinR.
"On the seventeenth of May the ship Au-
gusta, direct from Bremen. with over two
hundred emigra1ts, sixty-six days on her
voyage out, passing MS Tar south Of Cuba a5
the Northampton north, takes her pOaitt0,
near Mis.iatter ship. The remark OF ships
having ssed 50 many miles from the island
of CuDa had better have been left out. II il
rs bad Us suspe ting the Cape Verde Isles
Of injecting a ship III anchOring there.
"Unlike the N northampton, however, she was
taken In tow at the mouth OF the river, n com
pany with the Camboden Castle, an English
vessel direct from Kingston. Jamaica. This tat-
ter ressel mhite III thu port, lost her captain ann
sesen Of her cre,c (i,,ctudiag the mate) or yenou
feper. She recruited there, underwent u lu5
trafOn, and WAS sprinkled with lime before
departing for New Orleans. During the voy-
age up the river there was free intercommu-
nication between her decks and the passen-
freely intermingling. 1t does not appear in
evidence that any oil the Augusta crew went
below decks on the Camboden Castle, nor that
she had fruit, or any other freight, In fact,
besides her ballast
We have now arrived at the most essential
part of the report, in which we will have to
make some important corrections. The free
intercommunicatlons between the decks OF
both ships, crews aud passengers freely inter
minRling," mad merely an existence In the
lively imagination OF the commission. No
interminglug whatsoever took place, at least
not on the side OF the passengers. Not sin
gle immigrant entered the Ca0lbOden Castle,
and whoever knows the difficulty TO execute
this manRuvre, having TO pass the toWboat,
and who is besides acquainted with the unob-
trlsive modest character OF the German i'm
migrant, will be convinced ia advance that
mono OF such visiting took place. But diff
ferent thing Is it with sailors, and though the
report does not admit that any Of the crew 81
the Augusta had UO,ie bGtOr decks of the Cam
b oden Castle, nevertheless three OF that crew
the cook and two SailOrS-Went on board Of
the Camboden Castle. That In order to be-
come infected II should be necessary to go be-
low decks and that an Infection In no other
way could take place, considered Of 50 small
importance that | would not even have put
that question II the knowledge OF it had not
come accidentally by conversation with one
OF the sailors. The English vessel had 10
fruit" The mention OF this strikes me to b.
very singular. Why that statement2 The
three Of the crew OF the Augusta who Went
on board of the CambOden Castle for the sole
purpose Of obtaining some fruit, or fresh veg
etableS did not get any. Still they did not
aboard of their unhappy vessel the germ o.
death. These three sailors were the Identical
men who fell the first victims in that terrible
epidemic. Two Of them died; one only re-
covered. That this Important TACT nhd Deen
overlooked by the commission, as we'll as by
DR.. Fenner who made an otherwise exhaus-
tive examination, may be explained by their
incapability of speaking the German Ian
guage. a proof how neat DR.. Fenner came
to discover the real source of the fever may
be seen in his statement: "The disease made
its first appearance among the crew OF the
ship Augusta" But let us follow the report
Or the com mission.
ION the seventeenth Of May" the report
says, 1.-THE Camboden Castle was dropped 81
pest ~ in the neighDorhood OF the Niagara
Saxon and Harvest Queen, while the AuguSta
was carried some thirteen wharves higher uI
ane dropped aeas enough Tie sAiP Northanp.
ton to have sickened one OF her crew, vino be-
comes i'll and DR.. Schuppert, German ply
siciau, attends, who pronounced the case tc
be one OF gastre- duodenitis. After fifteer
days illness the man RECEIVERS, and during
tli.ossonvalescence becomes qsoite yltloW. Be
tvTs8l this and the twenty seventh another OF
the crew, John Rear, sickens and dies will
black vomit on the tnirtieth- On the twenty.
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