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WHIG TICKET. FOR TRFASURER, HARRY T. HAYS, of New Orleans. FOR AUDITOR, JOHN E. KING, of St. Landry. FOR SUPERINTENDENT, A. H. LAMON, of West Baton Rouge. FOR CONGRESS-Second District, T. G. HUNT, of New Orleans. WHIG CENTRAL STATE COMI3ITTEE. Orlaans-lstdistrict, H. M. Summers; 2d, A. .1. Wedderbarn; 3d, C.M. Waterman; 4th, M. E. Edwards; 5th, Joseph Lanata; 6th. Louis Surgi; 7th, Thos. W, CoUles; Sth, J. P. Dela. barre; 9th. Wm. L. Bugs; 10th, John A. WVat kins; 11th, John M. Burke; right bank, A. B. Segeur. Plquenin-J. B. Wilkinson. St. Bernard-Jacques Toutaut. .efferson-Ferens Gardsre. St. Charles-Wm. R. Taylor. St John-A. Boudonsqui'. St. Jamrs-Alfred Roman. Aserentioo--L. D. Nicholls. Assrmpt~-!io-C. Barillean. La!ourcte Interior-R. P. Dardenne. Terreionne-J. Aveock. 5.t. Marry--F. D. Richardson. St. Martin-Alexander Declouet. St. Laindry-A. DOprd. LfayJette-H H. Wileoxoan. Vermilion-A. Nunez. 13erville-J. L. Petit. East Baton Rouge-F. D. Conrad. West Baton Roune-J. V. Duralde. East Fdiesiana-D. C. Hayden. Wrest Felician--Robert I. Barrow. Pointe Coupre-A. Provosty. Wnsiianton-Nicholas Edwards. Lixvigoa-s-George McMichael. St H·ana-Hezekiah Thompson. St. Tammans/-J. Evans Concordi--D. L. Rivers. Tes.as-John Routh. Mzdisoa-W. S. Scott. Czrroll-T. Anderson. Catakoula-Samuel Bowman. Fraklin--C. E. Ramage. JTackon- M. MeCCranie. M.rekausw-R. B. Todd. Uraion-W. C. Carr. .aldwaell-J. Stringer. Ouahkita-T. C. Scarborough. Avoyelles-Adolphe Coco. Rapides-Octave Ogden. N.aterkoekesr-Samuel Clark. .D Soto--amuel Carruth. Bossier-Robert J. Swazey. Claibdrne-B. Egan. Cadd.-W. R. Douglass. Celeasien-A. Pujo. Candidates for Office. For State Senator. lIr. dlitor-Please announce that Judge W. T. PALFREY will be supported for the State Senate at the November election by MANY VOTERS. o- YMr. Editor-You will please annonee that I am a candidate for the State Senate at the next November election. H. C. WILSON. For Representative. l Mr. Editor-You will please state that if DR. ETHAN ALLEN and MR. ROBT. B. BRASIEAR will consent to run for the Legilatk.re the will receive a large support from Tas PAxxsH. ---o- -0 Mr. Editor-Please announce that MR. AL. FRED C. WEEKS is a candidate to represent this Parish in the Lower House of the next Le gislature, at the urgent request of SEVERAL FRIENDS., -0 [Q7" At the earnest solicitation of many voters in this parish, MR. ANTHONY W. BAKER has coasented to submit his name as a candidate for a seas in the Lower House of our next Le gulature. * -o 1p7' We are authorized to announce Mr. THOMAS WILCOXON as a candidate for a'seat in the Representative Hall of the next Legislature. For Sherifl. 0- We are are authorized to announce the name of W M. F. HAIFLEIGH. as a candidate for rdefetion, for the office of Sheriff. -0 For Clerk. [G" We are authorized to anfoance Mr. J. VICTOR FOURMY, ae a candidate for rIlee tnth for the office of Clerk of the 14th Judicial District Court. For RecoIder. Mr. Editor-Please announce in your paper that Judge J. A. DUMALRTRAIT, will be auppored for the office of Recorder, at the No vembeseleetion, by MANY VOTERS. For Assessor. 7l We re authorized to announce WIL SOpR'KERALL as a candidate for Pariah Au. er at the ¶ovember election. -0 For Parish Constable. SWe are authorized to aseouee'R. JOSEPH GAUTREAUX as being a eandi dat f the ~ice of Constable of the 7th ward, ,t the eection in November next. --0- SThem Editor of the Baaae wifl please aneoonce that BENJAMIN F. HARRIS is a oandidatefor the cace of Cog~nace of the 7th ward. and thit at the ensuing election a Noverm ELat .tt he will reoeive the csrdial support of *t THE PEOPLE. ."Imi mia :. mmm m m .m AUCTION SALE. f? $AT TRDAY, tbe 1st of October nett, - ~,Ul be sold at auetion, by reqaest of Widow Si. p ,atoot, the following animal,, beldngin to !. L Patout, Yr., at present absent: 71 wi of .wle h e ltave calves of the present - ye, and 2 of the previous year. three years ol. itwo yenctha Slancrisaa hors. hCred horses. 7' Terss nad. known Ia dsy of eae. N. L. PROVOST, Aactioeae* s ,anmaseta, Sept. 185. *?ahb ~ 1 at 8ale. `il`e sold on reasona.b I Cttu tbt well knowa pro situated in the town of Faakisuu. la Mary, State of Lenisi. ana, known as Go Hos teL" ad ooc" p ed by J. C. GordI forthe last iten years. The lot has a frat oft7l.f.0 o Main street, run uing back 400 feet to thek you Teche. The are airy s-ad comidiacs, -nd is ere iisalsa hlag ga-rden in a of el timaatls, with .lenms, orange, p pea and ather frait trees. For far 35aaithe NT; wi aIti t rNAtB&N BE&IK. and far S k ta L- BBONC Dr·'gtoie, L B. BROWN &t Co PLANTERS) BANNER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, BY THOMAS F. JOHNSON UDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. 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His receipts will be regarded as payments. His offices are-BosToN. Scollay's Building: NEW YORs, Tribune Buildings PHILADELPHIA, N. W. corner Third and Chest nnt streets. -RANKLIN, THIIRSDAY, SEPT. 8. a We Are requested to state that on Sunday morning next the Arch bishop of New Orleans is expected to officiate in the Catholic Church of this place, on which occasion the sacrament of Confirmation will be administered service to commence at half-past 9 o'clock. fip" Many of our subscribers are in debted to us for over two years. Our only authorized collector (Mr. T. Emile Charpantier) is now travelling round, and they will confer a favor by settling immediately. Individually these ac counts are trifling, we admit, but in the aggregate the amount is considerable, and would enable us to discharge a goodly portion of our own indebtedness. Neglecting to settle up proceeds from thoughtlessness with some, but there are others who never intend to pay, if they can avoid it. Many, again, reside at a distance, -beyond the limits of our collector; but surely they could remit the amount, even in their currency, at our ri-k, through the mail, by taking the postmaster's receipt. Will they do so, and confer an obligation ? We have also on our books many accounts for le gal advertising of two years' standing and upwards! These should have been cash payments, and because we did not exact this, they should have been the more promptly paid. W. We have had no mail since Sat urday last, consequently our columns this week lack our usual epitome of general news. No mail was delivered here on Tuesday evening, the mail boat having passengers on board who re fused to conform to the requirements of the Health Ordinances of the parish. Consequently, she could not obtain the necessary certificate from the exam ining officer, and those in command re turned to Donaldsocville. to enter a pro test against the proceedings. ii: A meeting of the citizens of the town of Washington, in St. Landry, was held on the 29th ult., to examine into the rumor prevalent in the parish that yellow existed in that town. The resuft ot the investigation was highly satisfactory, and showed that the town and neighborhood was never more healthy and free from disease than at the present time. I---t- MuaDEa.-The St. Landry Whig of the 3d inst. says that on the 21st ult. a man by the name of Nicholson killed another, named Nichols, at the mouth of Bayou Rouge, in the parish of Avoy elies. The same paper also mentions that a murder was attempted on the 26th ult., at Belle Cheney Springs, in that parish. A man named Bogans, from Alexandria, in this State, fired two pis tols at another, named Moriarter, with. out the slightest provocation. They had been gambling, and Bogans lost about $55. Moriarter refused to con tinue the game, as he had his business (being bar-keeper) to attend to, where upon the other abused him in unmea sured language and fired as stated. The shots proved harmless, and Bogans retreated midst it shower of decanters and the like. Slaves are commanding very high rates throughout the southern States. Three were recently sold in Virginia at $1250 each, one in Charles top at $1580, and similar prices are ob tained elsewhere. In our own parish, some months since, at a judicial sale, a negro in no way remarkable was ad judicated at $2300! A high price, in deed. Is any slave intrinsically worth even half that amount? We very much doubt it. - - - 4 . .. .. 07" "I guess you mean to bring up that 'ere fellow to be pretty sharp at a bargain," said a funny fellow to a wo mat, who was todikng and singing with all her might tpa little responsibility. "Why P she- inquired. "Because you keep bawling 'Bay low, baby ! buy low, baby ? into his ear all the time." CLOSS 8 uya..- r AtGpenwoodQ La, the qeties. 4t Jima. a. No Liceaae was 4,oid.din favor of the atter by a majority of em. vot ! Fr the APlaster s'Banner. Quaratlfae in Yellow Fever. Does the establishment of quarantine regulations prevent the introduction and spread of yellow fever in a corm munity? And will the most efficient, enforcement of the same protect Frank lin against the ravages of that epidem ic? I answer, emphatically-no! for the very good reason, that such laws never did, and never will protect any city or community against yellow fever. And why? Because yellow fever owes its origin to local causes-to miasmatic effluvia, exhaled from masses of filth containing putrid matter, generated under a high range of temperature. and not, as some suppose, to contagion . I admit that an efficient quarantine may protect a community against a contagious disease, such as small pox;! but it can no more protect us against yellow fever than it can against bilious, remitting or intermitting fevers of our country, for these are just as contagious as yellow fever. I am aware that in thus discussing these questions. I am occnpying. as far as the community is concerned, disputed ground ; but that, so far as the most en lightened of the medical faculty have decided, I am sustained in the positions I have taken by a large majority of the most eminent medical men of our coun try, and I intend in this communica tion to introduce such facts, in the his tory of yellow fever, as it has appeared from year to year in certain portions ofj our country, connected and uncon nected with quarantine regulations, as will, in the minds of some, at least. ap pear conclusive, that yellow fever s not imported into our country, but is of domestic origin. That it has originated in New Orleans, in Natchez and else where in our country, and, that the same causes operating in Franklin ate as likely to produce it there as in Newv Orleans or Natchez. That it never spreads in a pure atmosphere, because a certain amount of filth, in a state of decomposition, acted on by a hot sur., is necessary to generate yellow fever. That it is not contagious, and is never communicated from one individual to another, as is small pox, measles. &c.. and that consequently, quarantine regu lations, as attempted to be enforced in our parish, are not only useless and un necessary, but. that while they impose t upon the whole community a very i heavy tax, they subject the travelling portion of our community to the great est inconvenience, greatly endangering the lives of those subjected to quaran- t tine, by confining them in as hospital or a steamboat, among the sick and dy ing ! A,-r^ :. tk. - I I _ -- -- I -. - --. 0or iS 1oi5 all :11e estraoiusnment 01 quarantine laws in a community too often throw around that community a false and fatal security in leading to the neglect of suitable health regula tions in towns and cities, and thereby allowing that amount of filth to accu mulate which is necessary to generate the disease. Again: the enforcement of such laws as aimed at in our parish, is a virtual blockade of the Bayou Teche, and if continued for any length of time, would have the effect of raising provisions to San Francisco prices, for already flour has sold in Franklin at over $12 per barrel! while it is only worth 85 in New Orleans. Yellow fever has prevailed epidemri cally in New Orleans four times since 1840, viz: in 1841, '43, '47 and '53, and sporadically every year intervening more fatally in 1847 than any year pre vious, and doubly more so in 1853 than in 1847. In speaking of its history in New Orleans and on the coast, I shall confine myself to that period embraced within my own recollection and knowl edge of the disease, and the-efore shall go no farther back than 1840. What was the condition of New Or leans in pointof cleanliness in 1847, pri or to the breaking out of the epidemic ? The report of the Board of Health shows that the city was in a most miserable hygienic condition; that the summer was unusually warm, and that the largest amount of rain fell, perhaps ever known in a year-the greatest part during the hot months of May, June, July and August. So much rain, such a filthy condition of the streets, and, in deed, of the whole city, gave rise to the most terrible forebodings! Too well were the fearful anticipations of the public mind realized. The yellow fever appeared in the Charity Hospital first, early in July, and on the 2d of August it was declared by the Board of Health epidemic! And now as to its origin in that year. What report made the Board of Health after an inquiry into its character and origin ? Meeting of tke Board of Heale, July 12, 1847. * * * Five deaths from yellow fever have occurred in the Charity Hospital, and two or three cases are still nnder treatment in that insti tion. They appear to have originated in the city, and no facts have come to light to prove any con nection between these cases and the fever pre vailing at Vera Cruz or other foreign ports. (signed) W. P. HORT, Chairman. A. HESTER, Secretary. Here, beyond a doubt, the epidemic had its origin in the city, and was the most fatal of any that ever visited New Orleans up to 1847. It raged until late in the fall, and on the 18th of October it was declared no longer epidemic by the Board of Health. Three thousand persons are supposed to have fallen vic tims to the epidemic during that year! Itf as many contend, yellow fever is imported into New Orleans annually, on vessels arriving from infected ports why did they not have it as an epidern-I ic in 1848? The chances for importa tion that year were quadrupled what e they had been before or since!-for. - be it remembered, that peace was de clared between the United States and' Mexico in the spring of 1848; that our armly to the number of more than 20,000 returned from the seat of war, during the months of May. June and s July, passing in most instances through Vera Cruz, a city known to be the fa vorite abode of yellow fever! s Many of them contracted the disease. ; some died on the way over, but most of them that fell victims to it reached New Orleans first, and in most instances died in the hospitals and hotels of the city. And yet with all this material for the infection and inoculation of the city, they failed to get up an epidemic in 1848! Vessels containing the re turned soldiers ran in most instances directly to the wharves of New O leans and Lafayette and discharged their sick ; aind dying into the very heart of the city ! What think you of this. infection ists, contagionists, and quarantineists? The sanatory condition of New Or leans in 1848, compared with 1847, was vastly different. From neglect to clean the city irk 1847, they learned the fatal lesson, which has again been taught them in 1853, and for one year they re membered it! The city was clean in "48 compared with what it was in '47. The local cause which gave rise to yel llow fever had been removed, and hence the failure of the disease to spread and become ep idemic ! What was the condition of New Or leans during the past summer ? Worse than it was ever known before-1847 not excepted ! In many instances du. ring the very wet weather in June and July the most public streets became impassable! The gutters were filled with mud and filth and stagnant water from one end of the city to the other. The Street Commissary was presented and fined in the Recorders' courtsof the city, in no less than four instances in one day! The daily papers complained that in addition to the ordinary filth of the streets, dead dogs, cats and other I animals, in a putrid condition, were kept lying for days in many of the pub lie streets ! It was remarked by per- I sons from our parish who visited the t city during the time in question, that there was a foul stench which met them C in every street and part of the city, ( such as they had never noticed before. What was the sequel? Alas! we all know too well. Let the 5000 victims that perished between the 1st of August t and the 1st of September answer the question! A mortality more fatal than that which ever desolated any city or people, has taken up its abode in the ' devoted city of New Orleans! I come now to speak of the yellow fever as it ap- eared in the town of Franklin in the summer of 1839. It t has never appeared there epidemically since. I am awa e that much specula tion exists in the community at present as to the origin of the disease at that time, and as yellow fever had never before nor since, so far as I am inform- C ed, visited Franklin, some extraordinary cause was eagerly sought after, to give t origin to the disease. t It is contended by many that the dis ease was imported that year from New Orleans, in the body of a corpse. while being conveyed on a steamboat through our parish, to be intered at Newtown or St. Martinsville. And in proof of this, it is said, that those individuals who went on board the boat while she was lying at the wharf at Franklin. were the first to take the disease and (die. Admit, for the sake of argument, the fact-does it follow necessarily, that they received any inoculation from the corpse? By no means; for if they did, why did not the persons who went on board the boat at Pattersonville, at Centreville, and other places along the route contract the disease and die? Will it be contended that the people of Franklin are more susceptible to inocula tion than their n hbors ? For it will be borne In min hat the corpse was not exposed in Franklin any more than it was at Pattersonville or Centreville. Again: I have heard it stated-but cannot myself vouch for the truth of the statement-that the corpse was en closed in a metallic coin, and, of course, hermetically closed-and this placed in another coffin of wood! And if this statement be true, all speculation as to inoculation from this source falls to the ground at once; for about as much smell could escape from a corpse under such circumstances, as would be ex pected to arise from a box of pickled lobsters. But how did the yellow fever get to Franklin in 1839 ? With all due defer ence to the views of those who believe the epidemic of that year imported, I beg leave to offer a different opinion, and shall, as briefly as I can, state some facts in the history of the fever, upon which I base the opinion that the dis ease was notimported, but that it origi nated in the town of Franklin, as it is likely to do again, whenever the same causes are brought to bear within the limits of the place, and no quarantine measures which can be enforced at Berwick's. Bay or the mouth of the Teche, can add one particle to the pro tction of Franklin! It will be recollected by those who resided in Franklin and the neighbor hood in 1839, that a very large quantity of rain fell during the summer months; that the heat of the sun was very great; that a short time before the epidemic broke out in Franklin, the streets were in a perfect mire from one end of the town to the other; that the gutters were full of filth, mixed up with mud and stagnant water; that the back yards were equally filthy-and all this was for many days left exposed to the action of a hot sun. This state of things gave rise to the epidemic, and many of the best citizens of the place fell vic tims to yellow fever. Compare the condition of Franklin at present with what it was in 1839, and mark the contrast! Now her streets are dry and clean, her g-tters drained of stagnant water and limed, her side walks paved with shells, and in all re spects she presents a clean and healthy appearance! In fact, she was never more clean. never more healthy, and so long as this state of things is allowed to continue during the summer and f. ll. just so long will Franklin remain as free from the epidemic of yellow fever as any other portion of our parish. It is folly to contend that yellow fever is more likely to be imported by steam boats or passengers coming from New Orleans into Franklin. than it is into Pattersonville, Centreville, or other places along the Teche, where such boats land to dic!charge hteight and pas sengers; and if it was imported in 1839, in this way, is it not strange that it was not brought in-the same way every year that it prevailed as an epidemic in the city. and that our whole country has not been inoculated again and again? If yellow fever be contagious-and if not. then are all quarantines in refer ence to that disease the most complete humbugs of the age-for importation and contagion are as inseparable as the Siamese Twins-one being annihilated. the extinction of the other necessarily follows. Why did not the disease spread when introduced into Franklin in 1839 beyond the limits of the town ? and why was it that Franklin. alone of the whole parish of St. 1lary, equally ex posed to inoculation, suffered by the epi demic? We know that many persons after contracting the disease in Frank lin, were removed into different parts of the parish; were closely nursed by members of their family until their cases, in many instances, terminated in death; and yet, strange to say, and fa tally for the advocates of contagion, no member thus nnrrin ever contract- t ed the disease, unless they had exposed i themselves to the common cause in Franklin! This was the case with Mrs. Fisher who took the disease in Franklin. was removed to the plantation of her father, Col. Dancy, and died, nursed by the family - and yet no other case oc curred at Col. Dancy's. The same thing occurred in the case of Mr. Car lin, of Bayou Sale, whose disease ter minated fatally! and, if necessary, I might add others. The same thing has rccurred again and again at Baton Rouge, at Natchez, at Vickburg, and other places, where patients have been removed out of the infected districts, in to healthy ones, and no person exposed to the body of the sick has ever, so far as I have been able to learn, contracted the disease ! How do the contaginnists and quar antineists account for the exemption of Franklin from yellow fever in 1841, '43. and '47, when it prevailed in New Or leans more fatally than it did in 1839? Then, as in 1839, the intercourse be tween New Orleans and Fianklin was uninterrupted! Steamboats receiving freight and passengers at the wharves of the city, came directly to the port of Franklin and discharged the same upon the wharves of the town! We heard nothing during those subsequent three ye&rs of '" quarantine regulations" in St. Mary ! and yet, during all that period, Franklin and our whole parish remained entirely exempt from yellow fever poison ! What has been the effect of quaran tine laws upon the Mississippi river, where the same have been enforced ? Natchez, the head-quarters and hot-bed of quarantineists-the only city which boasted loudly of amn efficient quaran tine-the first town of the coast to or ganize-has been the first placeout of New Orleans, to fall a victim to the ra vages of yellow fever ! It breaks out there six weeks after the rigid enforce ment of quarantine regulations! and we now learn from the New Orleans papers that this famed "City of the Bluffs," which a few weeks ago threw around herself her cherished bantling. the quarantine, and, in her false and mistaken security, bid defiance to the approach of yellow fever, is the first victim to the monster-is thus early abandoned by her people, who have fled to the hills beyond the limits of the town, and in many instarces are dwell ing in camps and out-houses! the mor tality in town being nearly equal to that of New Orleans, when compared in po pulation! Baton Rouge, the beautiful capital of our own State, for the first time (so far as my knowleage extends) to attempt the establishment of quarantine regu lations, is 'be second place at which the yellow fever makes its appearance on the coast! What security did they find in the establishment of a quaran tine ? In three weeks from the time that the Town Council appointed their health officer and erected an hospital for the protectionwi e sick, if any, who might come within the provisions of their quarantine laws, the epidemic s makes it appearance-not at the hospi tal, but in the very heart of their city ? I Donaldsonville, Plaquemine, Waterloo I and Bayou Sara-all nearer New Or. leans than Natchez-towns that have not attempted the enforcement of qua. rantine regulations thus far-all remain exempt from yellow fever, unless it be Ssome case landed from a passing steam - boat. And let me here ask one question, wI hich the friends of quarantine laws I may answer if they choose. If, as they contend, yellow fever is contagious, or I even infections, and can be transmitted by steamboats running from New Or leans and landing at other towns and cities, why does not the yellow fever prevail at all the towns on the coast as high as Natchez and Vicksburg which are unprotected by any quarantine regu lations, as often as it does in the city? And why is it that Bayou Sara, Baton Rouge, Plaquemine and Donaldsonville -towns that lie within six, eight, ten and twelve hours' run ot the city, at which the New Orleans boats land al most daily during the prevalence of the epidemic in that city-should only have been visited by yellow fever once or twice each within the last twelve or fifteen years. while New Orleans has been the subject of that epidemic five times within the same period, and has been affected sporadically almost every other year? These, to my mind, are questions which should engage the se rious attention of every man who is an advocate for protection by quarantine. Dr. Cartwright, an old and eminent physician, now of New Orleans, but for meily of Natchez, in his history of yel. low fever, which nearly depopulated Natchez in 1825, says the disease com menced in the filthy part of the town, under the hill, and from thence extend ed back into that portion of the town on the b'uff. That it originated there, in the neighborhood of an old warehouse containing a large quantity of spoiled pork and other filth, is unquestionable. Near this warehouse was also an old flatboat, containing a quantity of rotten corn, which had been sunk in the wa ter, and now that the river had fallen, was exposed to the summer's sun. Dr. Hicks, of Vicksburg, in a letter to Dr. Fenner, of New Orleans, on the subject of epidemic yellow fever, as it appeared in that place in 1847, says the disease originated in Vicksburg, and in reference to contagion says: " In 1837, when the city of Natchez was laid waste by its devastating influence, nu merous cases, in every stage of the dis ease, from the initiatory symptoms to the black vomit point, were landed from boats, and ushered into crowded and filthy boarding-houses [at Vicksburg], with ten or a dozen in a room, and in not a single instance did a nurse or an attendant become affected with the fe ver, though many of those landed died of black vomit," and in no instance did he witness any disposition to contagion. Dr. J. B. Porter, sorgeon in the United States army, whose opportunities for in vestigation have been very great, be ing attached to the southern branch of the army, and stationed a while at Vera Cruz, in 1847, says in a letter to the same, published in the sixth volume of the New Orleans Medical Journal: "I do not believe in the contagion of yel low fever. I have never seen a single circumstance which would seem to prove contagion." Dr. Porter witnessed the yellow fever in Mexico, at Jalapa and Vera Cruz, and also at San Angus tine and other places on the coast of Florida. Dr. Thomas D. Mitchell, of Transyl vania, formerly of Philadelphia, in an article in the May number of the New Orleans Medical Journal. on the ques tion, "Why has yellow fever ceased to visit Philadelphia ?" contends that the disease was never imported into, but originated in Philadelphia; that when Philadelphia numbered in population only a few thousand, when she had built no wharves along the front on the Del aware. and when the filth of the city was allowed to collect and fill up the gullies in that neighborhood, and that portion of the city was unpaved, and when it often took a pretty good male to haul a single barrel on a dray, in consequence of the mad and mire in the streets, that then Philadelphia was subject to severe epidemics of the yel low fever; but that since the city has been extenlded over this portion, along Water street, for miles, the gullies filled up, the streets all paved with stone, and brick sidewalks, wharves built and kept in the cleanest possible condition, nn vast piles of filth kept to be acted on by a hot sun, the city has been entirely exempt from the epidemic of yellow fever. The first time the yellow fever ap. peared in Savannah, Ga., was in 1817, and was produced that year by the opening of a rice field in the north-west. Five days after the field was drained the wind changed from south-west to north-east, when the yellow fever im mediately broke out fatally! But why multiply instances going conclusively to prove the domestio ori gin of yellow fever; for if we find that the disease does origiane in New Or. leans, in Natchez. in Savannah, and other places nearly in the same latitude with Franklin, it is certainly as likely to have an origin in Franklin, ander the circumstances I have detailed above,