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Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia
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Letter from New Orleans on Sept. 13 reports the ship Fidelia's long passage through the Gulf and Bahama; the city recovering from a milder fever with few severe cases; abundant sugar crops, cotton damaged by rot, and flourishing tobacco and grain in the Western country.
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"Our city has for some weeks past been sickly, but the fever which prevailed is now assuming a milder character." Very few of the late cases are marked with any degree of malignity.
"The sugar crops promise to be abundant. In the cotton, the rot has already made considerable ravages, and the extent of the injury cannot for some time be ascertained. Our advices from the Western country are, that the crops of tobacco and grain are in a most flourishing state."
[N. York pap.]
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Primary Location
New Orleans
Event Date
13th Sept.
Outcome
fever assuming milder character with very few late cases marked by malignity; sugar crops abundant; cotton damaged by rot, extent unknown; tobacco and grain crops flourishing in western country.
Event Details
Letter reports Fidelia's long passage swept by Gulf current and through Bahama; city sickly for weeks but fever now milder; sugar crops promising abundance; cotton rot causing ravages; Western country tobacco and grain in flourishing state.