Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-04
NEW ORLEANS.
The CIeanest City in Americs ---
No Yellow FeVer..-NO
Scare.
Correspondence Courier JournaI.l

Correspondence Courier Journal
NEW ORLEANS, July Boron tile
number of passengers on the train
going to New Orleans, you would
never dream that it is midsummer.
and the tide of fashion setting the
other way. The train was filled with
well dressed men and women, the men
evidently being business men and the
ladies highly respectable. 1t was sur
pTlslng to see SO many people going
TO New Orleans, when only ten
days ago there was raised the CRY OF
yellow fever, SO we'll calculated to
alarm the timid. But this annual CRY
is like the howl of the bloody shirt, it
does not scare half so badly as it did a
short time ago, and people are begin
ming to understand that it is often a
trick OF trade, to frighten merchants
and drive them to other and more
northern markets. The Courier
journal has been highly applauded
down here for its conservative course
IN regard to the late scare about the
bark Excelsior.
THE CASE OF THE EXCELSIOR
Is an exceptional one. She was forty
odd days out from the Rio remained
at quarantine twelve days, and did
not have case of sickness until after
her arrival at the wharf in New Or
leans. IL is believed here that the
sickness was not genuine yellow fever,
and there has been none resulting from
those cases developed since she was
ordered back to quarantine. The
cargo OF coffee was put in a
bonded warehouse, locked up. and
laily fumigated with burning sulphur
aud no one allowed to approach except
acclimated persons. The fumes of
burning sulphur are utterly destruct.
i've Of all insect and animal life; moth.
ing can resist it. The most vigorous
man, the strongest animal and saurian
would not survive three minutes il
exposed to its influence. What, then,
may be thought Of the little micro
scOplc gem of that zymotic dis
ease, when brought into contact
with the irritating gases of burning
sulphur, day after day and NIGH
after night, and without any
admixtures Of fresh atmospheric air?
Such is the fact in regard to this fu-
uigating process going on at this time,
around that cargo OF coffee. Not a
sack of it has been sold, and will not
he for many day. The sick man,
who was sent to the hospital, was
promptly isolated and no one allowed
to approach him except acclimated
persons, as physicians aud nurses
Fifteen days have elapsed since his
death, aud there has not been sign
or symptom Of disease resulting
from him. The time has passed
aud everybody now feels secure. He
was one Of the men who descended
into the hold of the ship and helped
to shift the cargo. There was a guam
tity Of offensive biIge water in the
hold, and it is believed that these
three cases Of sickness originated
from inhaling the efiluvia from it, and
not from any fomites brought from
Rio among the coffee sacks. 1t is o
known fact that coffee is a good disin-
fectant, and would probably resist the
concealment of contagion among its
bagging or the contents of the sacks.
AS it is, now that the scare is all
over, New Orleans is to-day the clean
est and healthiest city in America.
The cutters are flushed every day
with fresh river water, and are filed
with streams of pure running water.
| There is no visible green vegetable
fungi, no scum, no stagnation, no
offensive effiuvia, or miasmatic ex.
halations. All exorementitious matter
is dumped into the Mississippi river
from steamers that convey it far below
the city. 1t is cooler to day than in
cities in the latitude OF Louisville and
Cincinnati, the thermometer indioat-
ing the maximum at 81 degrees at the
hottest period this summer. l haz-
ard nothing in saying that New Or
leans is the cleanest and healthiest
city in America. You can see at a
glance that the people are not alarm
cd nor agitated with the expectation
, of an epidemic this season. The
Wholesale trade is better than it has
been at any time since the war during
! midsummer. The shipment of graft
continues unabated, and finds no diff
Guilty in getting sufficient tonnage fol