The Stark County Democrat

YELLOW FEVER.—Mr. Ferd Haack, of the court house, stopped the scribe on Tuesday and said he had just received a letter from Wm. R. Smith his son-in-law, in Topeka, Kansas, which said, that owing to the influx of southern negroes every day, the yellow fever, in its worst form was introduced in that fair prairie land, and a perfect stampede of settlers was the natural consequence. According to our southern dispatches, it is true that the dread disease is rapidly spreading, and it is a deplorable calamity that the northwestern gardens of the Union are to be ravaged by the pestilence. It is to be hoped that the report may not be quite so bad as stated, as Kansas is, usually, a healthy state.