Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-21

6. twill put an end to the cruel practice Of
quieting the groundless fears ola whole neigh
sbourhood, by removing the poor sho are affected
BY the fever from their houses, and conveying
them, half dead with disease and terror, to a so-
hsary or crowded hospital.
z. BY deriving the fever from our own eli
mate and atmosphere, we shall be able tofforesee
rs approach in the increased violence of common
diseases, in the morbid stase of vegetation, in the
course Of the winds, in tie Diseases Of eertdin
brute anialss, and the increase of common, Of
the appearance of uncommon insects.
&. II belief in the non centagion Of the yellow
fever, ana lis aene,al prevalence from putrd ami
nal and vegetable matters only, is calculated to
lead rs TO crain or cover marshy grounds, and to
remove troln our cities all the sauces ut impure
air, whether they exist in holds of sb,ps III docks,
cutters andeonsnon sewers, or in privies, CADETS
yards and cellars, more especially during the e,s-
istcnce Of the Signs Of nal!gnait constitutions q
the air mentioned under the preceding head -
BY these mems e believe the assertion is, not TOO
bold onel the yellow fever might be as eff ttuat-
~ annihuated as the small pox will probably soon
be by vaccination. A fever, the same in its eau
ses aud similar TO it in many ofts symptoms,
thar is the plague, has been extirpated by ex-
traordnary degrees Of cleanliness, rom the cries
of Holland, Great Britain, and several other parts
of Rnrore.
You ws!l perceive from the facts and reafon-
irgs contained IN this letter, that / have rehn-
eu,sbed lie opinion ublished in my account Of
the yellow tever in the year 1898, 1894 and
1877, respettlngi its contagious nature. was.
NJ st7d by Dr. Linning, and several other West
lndia wrlserS iii ascrihing much grester extent
TO tie excreted matters in producing the disease
than have since discovered TO be correct. Yon
viii perceive, likewise, that have changed my
opinion sespsc cling the manner that the plague IS
propagated. | once believed, upon the au,hori-
ties OF travellers, physicians and schools OF medi
cine, that it was highly contagious disease, &C.
nerated chiefly by ln,asnla from living but diseas
ed bodies. | am nov satisfied that is not the
case. Il the oHsprisg, ike tie yellow fever,
OF ,exhalasious from pusrld vegetable and animal
matters but from the greater number Of people
who ale depressed and de5ita,ed by poverty and
famine /; and who live ia small and filthy huts in
the cities of the Ottoman Empire, than in the
cities Of the United States, l believe it II be
more frequently communicated from an inter
course with sick people by the morbid excretons
of the body, than the yellow fever is In our coun-
try. For my change OF opinion. UPON this sub
itct, am indebted to DIR. Caldweli's and Mr..
Webster's publications. upon Pestilential Diseas-
es, and 70 the travels OF Matt, and Sonnin into.
Syria aud Egypt ] reject, Of course, with The
contagious quality OF the plague, the ideas Of it's
ever being imported INTO any country SO as to be
come epidemic, by means OF knife cases piece
Of cotton, OF bale of silks, with the same decisi
on that do all the improbable and contraditfo
~ reports Of an epidemic yellow fever being i'm.
rsed IN sailors iacke,,s or in the tilnbers
and sails of a snip that had been washed by the
salt water, ana tanned by the pure air of the
cean, for several weeks on her passage from the
West ladies to the United States.
in our Irish papers we fad the following &C.
count of Holton the rebel chief. From gentle
man Of intelligence just arrived III the Eagle, We.
learn that many people view this circumstance
with an eye OF suspicion, and regard Holton as
an emlssary employed Uy government as decoy.
(Pbjladelp6ia Papfr.J
Fran lie BelfaF Nequ, Le.ter-.4ug. so.
"Secrets as are at all times the Fl st movements
of treason and rebeons and however ambiguous
be the words and actions Of the infatuated indiv
duals who are guilty. Of these crimes, experience
still shews that they cannot escape the notice OF
wise and vigilant government, the prompt ano
decisive measures of which SITS :reaso1 at def !
ance, aid must ultimately bang destruction Or
tie nlisereants who prouiote II. Alter the late,
failure Of the attempt which rehelous faction
made in Dublin on the evening Of Saturday tbs
23d of July, and tie Indignation at such oeeed
ings so-generaly expressed by the loyal and well.
disposed 10 every town and hamlet throH ohout the
eounyry, it Is scarcely to be believed that any OF.
their party could yet entertain the most distant,
hope Of ever succeeding III their rebeious pur-.