Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-09-13

The following account of pes,l,D,.
and mortality, in the State of Ge,,a;s
is evidently highly colored. The stvI,
of the article is almost too poetical -
matter of fact, and IT is to be hopsd H.,
the fears o! the imagination of the W.
ter have led him into exaggeratiop.
From The Warrington, Geo. ".Ne1vs.D of NJ, 10
The death inflicting fever, which :,
present RACES in this place and the ,ur.
rounding country, is, the mortality o.
Savannah in the year 1870 exceptsS
withouta parallel in this State. In ma.
ny families there is not left une. M.
touched of disease, to administer to =.
mother. Our enterprislDg and humane
physicians are nearly broken down with
excessive fatigue, or sinking ,themselve,
before the ravages of the distemper. IA,
truth, our boast of salubrity Of climate
may not now be uttered. Our yalles,
are no longer t~enantable, and our plain,
melt to the burnings of a malignant
sun. Our mountains are climbed by
contagion- our rills and fountains i'm.
bibe its pernicious influence. Neitbe,
in The cottage, in the grotto, nor in tia
grove, have we refuge from the shaft
Of pestilence. The young, the middle
aged, and the aged, alike ia II the victims
OF its power. Our houses arebung with
mourning; our hearts w%ith'sorrow; and
our grave yards are literally witho ut a
place left in which to consign the dead!
One who is mt an eyewitness of Tia
fact, can scarcely imagine the immense
number of persons who daily arrive al.
and depart from, this city in steam
boats, and the vast quantity Of produce
that's shipped from u wharyes, and
conveyed to market by steam and wind.
Last Sunday evening, within one hour,
there arrived six steamboats, with pas.
sengers, and three of these also bavlng
in tow two barses each, with freight
and passengers. Together they must
have landed some fourteen or sixteen
hundred persons. There were never
more sloops than at present employed
on the river, and they all go hence full.
ly freighted-.4lbany Daily .adr.
Natural Curiosity There is left al
our Office, (says the Charleston Gag.
etc. foi the public inspection, a squash
of enormous size, measuring in diane
ter one foot eleven inches and a quarter.
and in circumference five feet eleven
inches and a quarter, and weighing "a
pounds. This extraordinary produc.
ton is the growth of Nh. Archibald NJ.
Lellanc's Plantation in ST. James, San.
tee. -
Large propo' toned LGdiss.-The Ma.
tional Gazette, says, very amusingly,
that the company at the Springs 'com-
p!rises, in large proportion, ladies Of
conspicuous beauty" If they are large
they must necessarily be conspicuous.
This "laIge proportion doubtless comes
OF their shipping such INDUSTRIOUS quaint.
ties of salt and water-seventeen tum-
blers for instance before breakfast.
We fear the article of the Gazette will
deter a great many ladies, averse to the
em6onpo,nf, from visiting the springs
this season. The Gazette further com.
plains, that the principal Hotel, Con-
gress Hall, is not properly supplied and
administered" We had unde rstood
there was a zeal of electioneeriDg at the
Springs, but had no idea there was a.
Administration there.-lProp. Gaz.