The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-02
Last Nights Dispatches.
Yellow Fever.

MEMPHIS, August -Four more new
cases were reported to the board of
health this afternoon. Rev. Father Far
ley, assistant pastor at ST. Patrick's Cath
olic church, at the corner of Linden and
DeSoto streets being one of the number
One additional death has occurred, Mitch
ell Escozo, residing at the corner of 9th and
Broadway, in Fort Pickering. Among
contributions received to-day were $500
from John B. Drake, proprietor of the
Grand Pacific Hotel. Chicago
At full meeting of the Committee on
Safety held this afternoon, the following
public declaration was unanimously adop-
ted:
WHEREAS, The Committee of Safety
and official representatives Of the taxing
interest have been informed through the
public prints of the resolution of number
OF citizens, chiefly if not altogether of the
coiored race, TO reject our plan for the
common welfare, and their purpose to ap-
peal to the property owners OF the city and
to the public at large to sustain them in
this course; therefore be it.
ResolUed, That we fully concede to these
people the inalienable right of thinking
and of acting under the law of the land
for their own good.
Second, That at the same time this COM
mlttee is constructed to testify that 10 our
plans We are sincerely seeking the good of
all people, present and absent, colored and
white
Third, That in forming camps we are
acting under the advice and with the ap-
probation OF official representatives of Ten
nessGe and of the United states, and that
we have the approval of the State and Ma
| ton a Boards of Health in seeking to check
the progress of the sfever by withdraw
ing the population from the infected local
ities
Fourth. That only by means of camps
is 1t possible for US to guard against the
great evil OF idle people first intruding on
the city to draw ratlons. Our men are too
rev to guard so vide an area as that COW
cred by the town, and when the people
thus come into the infected locality they
will carry the seeds of disease with them
all over the land.
Fifth. That 10 forming, as in carving
into effect these plans, we make no unjust
discrimination against the colored men of
our regular police force now put on duty.
one third of whom are colored men. Ali
of the detail made of the volunteer compa,
nies of daylight service are colored men;
all the militia as yet placed by the Cover
nor under the command of Col. Cameron
are colored men, and the same supplies
are dealt out by our committee on charity
10 the sick in the eolored families as IN
white families, the booking of oul
committee being evidence of the fact
Two representative colored men, Captains
Glass aud Brown, have seats 10 this com
mittee.
Sixth, 10 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 our policy and tha
of the malcontents, they must assume
: grave responsibility IN keeping human
life exposed for long months to grea
peril They must count upon wasting
great proportion of their charity on idler
who sneak into town from adjacent points
q aud they must not be surprised
. numbers of those now engaged 10 reliev
ing want and suffering shall 10 despai
= abandon their srduous work and leave
: misguided people to their fate.
Seventh. In thus expressing our mind
. under a sense of duty to the city and I
lEG puDlICs tue HOuiO uDt Wis
" to utter one harsh or angry word agsins
a people misled, as we believe, by amb
# tious and unintormed leaders, who seer
n to prefer their own imagined exaltatio
+ or profit to the best interests of their {;
v lows.
il Tho f1llowing resolution offered t
e Capt. James Glass, colored, was adopted
ReSoIued. That the colored people
Informed through the papers that whel
ever they choose to form camps under II
~ regulations already prescribed, outside
O the infected localities, they will be su
8. piled by Col Cameron just as they are
,e Camp Marks, provided they be with
s. reach of the conuissarV depot OF Cau
IT Marks,
~ Chief of Police Atheys daughter I
e, mains 10 critical condition,
i ST. Louis, Aug. mo boat from belle
rs Cairo arrived at the quarantine to-day,ar
10 no new cases have occurred here. Mr.
ne Brady and her children are rapidly reco
o. erlpg aud will be allowed to depart in
in day or two, aud VIM Martin, vho "
o. sent down from thq Q,,g Iesierday,is mu
V. bettag.
= CINCINNATI, Aug, 1.-Two of the Fl
80. MemphiaDs under treatment at the yellC
A fever hospital are recovering, and are &C
n sidered out of danger.