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Epenton, N. C.—During the week ending the 31st alt. only 3 deaths—no new cases. Ferry Island, near Charleston, N. C.— Nov. 10th, 6 cases; 2 deaths. On the 1]th, 4 cases; 5 deaths. On the 12th, no new cases or deaths. Cincinnati, Nov. 8th.—47 deaths the last week, of which 19 of cholera. New Orleans.—Nothing that we have witnessed in the United States has equalled the mortality prevailing at New Orleans, when our law accounts left there. Duing the week end ing the Ist, the number of interments are sup posed to exceed one thousand. On the Ist Nov. 177 deaths—on the 2d, 170. The bodies were brought to the graveyards in such rapid succession that it was found impos sible to dispose of them during the day, and many were left for burial on the succeeding day. ‘The papers continued to complain loudly of the want of management on the part of the city authorities, and the filthy condition of the streets. Some of the physicians contend, too, that the disease which carries off so many is not the Asiatic cholera, but the common cholera morbus of the country, aggravated by the unfa vorable state of the weather! By others it is called the ‘‘cold plague.”’ The Courier of the 2d instant, says that ‘the rich and the poor, the temperate and the intemprate, equally fall victims to its baneful influence.” The yellow fever prevails, but only in a comparatively lim ited degree. From Our Correspondent. New Orteans, Nov. 2, 1832. 8 o’clock P. M. I wrote to you two or three days since, advising you of the then melancholy state of our city; and presuming it may prove satisfactory to you to know the worst, address you again hastily on the subject. Since day the disease has spread to an alarming extent, and I have reason to believe that SIX HUN DRED human beings have gone within the last three days. ‘The Major part are slaves, or people of dissolute habits; but such is our dreadful state, that we can not get people to bury the dead. The city is now one cloud of black smoke— burning barrels of tar, and firing off can non, having been resorted to from one end of the town to the other. It is im possible to describe the panic which pre vails; for, although I consider the disease to be subsiding since yesterday, the fact of 200 corpses lying within gunshot of the city, unburied and in a state of pu trifaction, alarms all of us. As regards the disease, we are all becoming ac quainted with the proper method of treat ment, and have the fullest confidence in being able to conquer it. In my own family I have had two cases—servants— and have, in the absence of my physician, got them safe through, so far. Contra ry to everything we ever experienced here before, the shipping continues com paratively healthy. . Whilst all people connected with the Bakeries are dead or dying, and tomorrow we shall be with out bread, except those who have been fortunate enough to secure a barrel of biscuit. ‘To add to our misery, the stock of rice in the city is not equal to a week’s consumption; but, thank God, that of flour is considerable; consequently, if we can only get it made into bread, we shall not starve. I repeat, the disease is more mild, better understood, and we have fewer subjects. It has subsided some, and must continue to do so. I consider that our present alarming situa tion must be mitigated,so each we can et the dead buned, for which purpose all we exertions are making. —V. ¥. Com. Another letter says:—“For the last four or five nights, there have been from 20 to 50 left unburied. A new plan has been adopted for interring the dead, viz. digging a ditch, 50 feet long, 4 feet deep and 7 feet wide; to contain from 100 to 150 bodies, where the coffins are laid two tier deep; the bottom tier across the ditch, the top tier fore and aft; the first tier are all under water; they are then covered with mud, 18 inches to two feet from the surface. There can be seen in the graveyard one or two hundred coffins at one time uncovered—as they do not cover them until completely filled. Ma ny poor families are swept off entirely. I am aware of two families, one of 12, the the other of 11, who have all died, and several composed of 5, 6 and 7 persons. The sickness is worse than any season ever before known. In 1822, the greatest number of deaths in one day was 42; and that is considered the worst year ever
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Annapolis, Maryland, US
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