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Show M'-inns, with iho pestilence :uul tln'iinanrialp.uiic I -nth upon her nt una1, lias heen forced to endure more teri-iule hardships than any of her slain- eitics. Tin' innl.ility of the mer-chiinl-s in id phuitii-s to pay their hands, lias brought to the city hundreds hun-dreds of negroes from the plantations, iiH-iea-ing the spread of the disease, and adding to the cmhurrnssments of the situation. The trecU are deserted, and the puhliiution of the niortimry lisis lias frightonixl thousands of people peo-ple from the place; while the city government gov-ernment seems palsied with tear, mid Minitary precautions have been almost wholly neglected. 1 hiring the lust two works of September over three hundred hun-dred deaths were reported, and at least half as many are estimated unreported. un-reported. The disease id almost entirely en-tirely eon fined to the poorer elas-KH. who are uimble to obtain means to enipluy physicians ami nurses, and scarcely know from one day o llit; next where Lheynre to find food. |