272 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
rendered wild and delirious by becoming for a time a great com- 
mercial center, and awoke to find herself only weakened Ly the 
dissipations which the great carnival had caused; while England 
was humiliated by an award which compelled her to pay heavy 
damages for injuries we suffered from the rebel cruisers which 
she permitted to be fitted out in her ports. The two countries 
are bound together by the strongest of ties—blood, language, 
mutual dependence, religion, literature and law—but the love 
and respect of children for their mother can be greatly impaired 
and even turned into hate. It should never be forgotton, how- 
ever, that the British Queen stood faithfully by the Union in the 
days of its sorest peril, and that the great body of the British 
people were also with us. 
The yellow fever prevailed at Nassau in the years 1861, 1862, 
1863 and 1864, and resulted in the loss of many lives. 
The statistics of crime, disease and death, during this period 
in Nassau, clearly prove this bad business to have been equally un- 
favorable to sound health and good morals. There were commit- 
ted to prison in the Police Court in Nassau in 
1861 acevescesnsersenesanes Males, 375, Females, 189. 
186) 5 bsccvscecenscts scenes “  §23, as 223. 
1863; ovscscssseveacdicsssnes “689, «189 
1864, sesiccessrdvasceceneds «891, «221 
There were tried for the more héinous offences in the General 
Court in 
1861,..........17.—Convicted, 13, Acquit‘ed, 4. 
186262 66cecss: 34.— +e 22, re 12. 
1833, .........€2.— ee 59, “93, 
Widjarasaei— § 5, “Oh 
