The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Register

NEW ORLEANS.

The Louisiana Advertiser of the 9th, ult. contains the following remarks:

The Yellow Fever still rages throughout our devoted city with more malignity than has ever been witnessed by the oldest inhabitants. Active manhood furnishes a majority of the victims, yet neither age, sex nor color, are exempt from the attacks of the fell destroyer. The commendable prudence of a portion of the unacclimated, who were here at the commencement of this afflicting visitation, induced them to leave the city, and seek an exemption from disease at the different healthy retreats within fifty or sixty miles of us: but enough remain to swell the daily bill of mortality, and give visible proof how short is the preparation, how sure is the journey to the grave. We doubt not our duty in warning strangers, we mean those who can remove at a small sacrifice, of the danger which they seem to court, of the anxiety and pain which they must awaken in their friends, here, or at a distance by remaining amongst us. It is the lot of the writer of this paragraph, to hear daily or hourly, the jests and scoffs of the healthy and athletic—the next morning's sun breaks on them a fevered mass of disease—another finds them much better, and to the enquiries of friends, the attendants reply, "he is nearly well, more frightened than hurt," &c.—the third day's sun sets on a new made grave, which upon enquiry, we hear contains the remains of the scoffer, the wilful tempter of his fate. Our levee and streets present a cheerless sight the former has but four or five square rigged vessels at it, and the latter are deserted by the brisk, bustling men of business, who gave animation and importance to the city, and have succeeded to a few scattering saunterers, or slow gaited merchants, or lawyers, who have become inert from the want of employment.

The following extract from a letter written by La Fayette to the late Gov. Reed of Pennsylvania in the year 1780 now becomes interesting. Speaking of the arrival of a French army he remarks:

"It is from me, on the moment of their arrival, that the French Generals expect intelligence, and you may guess that pacquets will be by them immediately dispatched to Europe. —An army that is reduced to nothing, that wants provisions, that has not one of the necessary means to make war, such is the situation wherein I have found our troops, and, however prepared I could have been for the unhappy sight by our past distress, I confess I had no idea of such an extremity. Shall I be obliged to confess our inability, and what shall be my feelings on this occasion, not only as an American soldier, but one who has highly boasted in Europe of the spirit, the virtue, the resources of America? Though I had been directed to furnish the French Court and the French Generals, with early and minute intelligence, I confess pride has stopped my pen, and notwithstanding past promises, I have avoided entering into any details till our army is put in a better, a more decent situation. We have men my dear sir, we have provisions, we have every thing that is wanted, provided the country is awakened and its resources are brought forth: that, you know can't be done by Congress, and unless the States take the whole matter upon themselves, we are lost. You will, both as a soldier and a politician, easily foresee that this crisis is one way or other a decisive one, and that if proper exertions are made, we may expect every thing that is good."