Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-02
THE FEVER'S PROGRESS.
THE OUTLOOK NOT so FAVORABLE.
Thirteen New Cases and -Four Deaths, in
Memphis, Yesterday-ActiOn Of the
Committee fSafety in Reference
to the Refractory Negroes.
Memphis

Memphis.
MEMPHIS, August Mime new cases
were reported to the Board Of Health
this morning, among the number being
Rev. Father Doyle, pastor OF the St.
Bridget Catholic Church. Four adj
ditional cases, not reported in the above,
are reported of persons residing beyond
the city limits. Three deaths have Oc-
Cured since last night. Weather clear
and warm.
MEMPHIS, August -Four new cases
were reported to the Board OF Health
this afternoon, Rev. Father Fahey, as
sistant pastor at st. Patrick's Catholic
Church. at the corner of Linden and DE
Soto streets, being one OF the number.
One additional death has occurred:
Mitchell Escozo, residing at the corner
OF Sixth street and Broadway, in Fort
Pickering. Among the contributions
received to-day was 500 from John B.
Drake, proprietor of the Grand Pacific
Hotel, Chicago. At full meeting of
the committee of safety, held this after
noon, the following public declaration
was unanimously adopted;
WHEREAS, the committee OF safe
" and official representatives
OF the taxing district have
been informed through the public prints
oi resolution OF number OF citizens,
chiefly, ii not altogether, OF the cOlOred
race, to reject our plan for the common
welfare, and their purpose To appeal to
the property owners OF the city and TO
the public at large to sustain them in
this course; therefore, be it
RSDlrtd, That we fully concede to
these people the inalienable right OF
thinking and acting, under the law OF
the land, for their own good.
>. That at the same time this COM
mittee is constrained 10 testify that in
our plans we are sincerely seeking the
safety of all our people, present and abb
sent, white and ColOred.
3. That i'm forming camps we are act
ing under the advice and with the ap-
probation OF official representatives OF
Tennessee and the United States, and
that We have the approval of the state
and National Boards OF Health in seek
ing To check the progress of the fever by
withdrawing the population from the in
iected localities.
4. That only by the means OF camps
is it possible for us to guard against the
great evil of people intruding into the
city to draw ratiOns. Our men are too
tew To guard so wide an area as that
covered by the town, and when the pcO-
pie thus come into the infected locality
they will carry the seeds of the disease
with them all over the land.
,. That in forming as in carrying
into effect these plans, we make no UNI
Just Determinations against the colOred
men of our regular police force now put
on night duty, One-third colored
men. All of the detail made of vOlun-
teer companies for daylight service are
cOlOred men; all militia as yet, placed
by the Governor under the command OF
Col. Cameron, are cOlOred men, and the
same supplies are dealt out by our COM
mittee in charity to the sick in cOlored
families as in white families, the books OF
the committee being evidence of the fact.
Two representatives, COlOred men, Cap
tains Glass and Brown, have seats in
this committee.
6. In submitting such facts to the
Judgment of the absent property owners
and to the general public for their guild
ance, we further testify that in making
their choice between cur policy and that
of the malcontents, they must assume a
grave responsibility in keeping human
life exposed for long months to great
peril; they must count upon wasting
great proportion of their charity on idlers
who sneak into town from adjacent
points, and they must not be surprised
ifnumbers OfthOse now engaged in relleV-
ing want and suffering shall despair and
abandon their arduOuS work and leave
a misguided people tO their fate.
= In thus expressing our minds un-
der a sense OF duty TO the city and To
the public, this committee would not
wish to utter one harsh or angry word
against people misled, us We believe,
by ambitious and uniformed leaders,
who seem to prefer their own eXaltatlon
or profit To the best interests OF their
followers.
The following resolution, offered by
Captain James Glass, cOlored, was
adopted:
Rcsolr,d, That the colored people be
informed through the papers that when
ever they choose TO form camps under
the regulations already prescribed out
side of the infected localities, they be
supplied on Col. CamerOn's requiSitiOn
Just Us they are at Camp Marks; pro-
vided they be within reach of the COM
missary depot OF Camp Marks.
Cincinnati.
CISCINNArI, August l.-Of the five
Mcmphians under treatment at the yell
low fever hospital, all are recovering,
and are considered out OF danger.
st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, August NO boats from
below Cairo haxc arrived at the quar-
antine, and no new cases have occurred
there Mrs. Brandy and her children
are rapidly recovering, and will be al
lowed To depart in a day or two. Vim.
Martin, who was sent down from the
city yesterday, is much better.
New York.
New York, August l.-Chas. Otto, OF
the steamer City of New York, and
VIM. Kennedy, OF the steamer Morro
Castle, have been sent To the quaran-
tine hospital sick with the yellow fever.
San Francisco.
SAN Francisco, August 1.-The ship
Templar arrived last night, lGl days
from Rio Janeiro, where she put in for
repairs on the voyage out from New
York. While in Rio Janeiro the Captain
took the yellow fever, but recovered.
Nine Of the seamen died in port from
that disease. Quarantine officers took
charge OF the vessel, destroyed the bed
ding and carpets, disiniected the ship
anil took her Ia Ouarantinp