The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-08-23
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There ar persons 10 be found every where
who are mere inclined to enquire alter aud
propagate news ,ehefher true OF ialse) than 10
attend to their own concerns. TO the indus.
try OF such may probably BE- ase1bed The va
sious extraordinary reports which are IN CIR.
cnlatiou respecting The health d Tho people oil
tie Big Lick, and In is nciFbbothood. u Is
currently said, and by good many implicitly
believed thai mos, malignant fever prevails
there, Of which people die daily. Upon ira.
vellers these accounts have strange ELECTS
Few venture to- 6ass 10y the place, and they
with fear and trembling, and with pennsroyal
atthpif noses Many who designed 10 visit
the Botclouff Springs, have been turned from
their course ihro' dread OF infection. Some,
III. s,ad, have had 50 reverend care for their
health. aud to have been 70 thoroughly alarm
cd, as TO liaye SCRUBBED about passing From
Bufords to Fncasile, though the nearest ar.
proath on that route 10 .te Lick would be .
or 10 miles, with q rough aud mountainous
country Intervening These things would be
well fitted 90 excite laughter, did they moi OPP
crate rs direct injury 40 deserving indiyid-
uals The simple truth Is that moi c solitary
CASE Of malignant fever has occurred thisyear
attbe Big Lick grin itspeghborhood. Sieve.
raj cases of common ugue mud fever, and some
ofordinary bilious ftses, have appeared in the
neigbborhood, two of which las, having ter.
minated fatally from'tire notorious neglce, or
Imprudcnce of the patients themselves, hove
probably given rise, in some degree, 10 the.
i#se aud malicious reports IN circulation
At The Big Lick, property so called, the resi-.
denee Of MIR. Pate, but single case Of disease
OF any sort has occurred np 10 this time, and
that was slight attack of nguc and fever, Of
which the subject "a black NAM wo, well In
le.s than week Such ard so slight is the
foundation upon which the lovers Of Tho mar
gai'ous and the terrible have built their strue.
ture Whateysruiloton it may please pro,i.
dcnee to bring on the people thereabouts, they
must bear II bit II Is rather hard for themto
be thus devoted TO destruction by idle gossip,
and TO be made to die even before they ore
sick The lever which prevailed among item
last summer and fail, was indeed sufficiently
faial, but II was not peculiar 10 the Big Lick
having appeared, during the sume period, in
almost every state 10 the union, aud in plnces
which had before been cooked upon us healthy
The mortality produced by that, however
augmented rs II was by the novelty of the
disease, evento medical men, was NOT half so
grtat as rumor made IT, Since then, several
oil rs supposed exciting causes have been re-
moved, and although il may return, Uor who
can look into diur,ty y certain il Is, il has no,
come yet But il the plague itself, in Its worst
form, existed at the Lick, il could hardly affect
any body nj si3e Rotetourt Springs, unless tho
poison tool a longer flight ttan WIS eyer yet
heard OF. They are at least sfx niles apart
With the high, dry, aud wooded country called
the Barrens between them. The writer Of this
calnmunication knows how ,ardily reiutation
pursues ialsshood, TO expect il 10 produce
much effect. lie will only add lest some one
should be ineliHsd 10 suspect bis motives, that
he has hot the slightest interest either in the
Springs or the Big Lick, and that he writes
merely asa LOVER OF TRUTH.
OF the same nature as the above, Is a report
which has LATELY gained considerable ground in
The adjacent country, md which, we under.
stand, continues 10 spread, that Lynohburg has
hesn VISITED by the yellow fever, We only
perform our deity in contradicting the report
Several cases of bilious fever have occurred,
but only one person, as far as we arc acquain,
ed, has fallen victim 10 it. We hope Chat
persons will not be deferred from visiting and
passing through this place, in Consequence 81
such reports, ~hish originate in fear, aud n7e
frequently spread by malice Lynchhurc Is a,
healthy now, ms fer as We can understand, as
II generally has bcen at this season of Che
year The case in which death ensured. ~,
have heard. ,origiadied down the country
We coIieeise il our duty, as public journalist,
to eounierset the effects tlat snch a report is
calculated 10 produce and We should nc, on.
on the same principle, and publicly proclaim
I'LL any danger existed
TO NE Editors Of the J1rginian
GEsrIEnEs-l picked up "A few dnvs mas,
fragment OF II number of the Lyn,hbura
Press, which, By some Subjects IN 4, -