Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-03-06

Small Rar.--Soine t4n days asS piu.y OF V esi !.
tennessee indians, six seven in number passed
trough this City, where they said some days,
81 their return home from Washington. One of
he number sick when in this place and after
MS arrival in the aeghborhood of the Black Hcth
coal pits above this in Chesterfield was confined for
some days in vacant house in that ncighborhood,
where the Uh6le party took up their abode, awaiting
his recovery. ucrc we understand, curiosity led
numbers OF people, white and black, to Visit them,
before any surnse that the disease of the sick
Indian was the snail poc. How this suspicion first
We do not learn, but we understand from HUI
marc gentleman in the ne @hborhood who is our au-
bority for this whole statement that the opinion of
the physician who examined the patient Vas conf
IDENTITY pronounced to that effects the whole face being
covered with deep pits.
The Indians left the house where they had taken
up their abode, before their companion had recovered
IN consequences of alarm, inspired is supposed Iv
the owner, who very unnecessarily showed his mun.
and thereby lutimating presume, 10 these poor
children OF the forest. his purpose Of eyprn,t them
BY force When they dccampel, tlcy wrapped I'D
their sich friend in blankets, placed him in tb,
woods where the could shine upon him. and
icit him, having done the best they could for
him, to take his chance. lie was ounin this sit,s
ton, treated with the utmost humanity BY the kind
people of the nciehborhood and we are truly roa sod
to learn is II 4 fair way to recover Search was
made fo9 his companions, and they were found some
COO yards of in the woods, seated in a circle. o,d
sewing their garments. Asst was apprchenjeJ that
they were all infected viii the fatal disease, ana il
permitted 10 GO through the country would spread ii
as they Went the humane gentlemen of the 1,cirbhor
mood immediately determined to build them = lint n,
the woods, where their wants could be s,IDpied md
their sickness ministcrcd to. 70 This The Ins,,s
consented md aided in n,arknr s,itable .o,.
for the hut But whcE their humane bcnefactor~, -,
turned with force and materials fer the purpose Inc
poor indl1n were gone, havn.it is thought rsco,-
strucd the so!ictudc manifested into purpose Il de-
c"yll'g thcm to their distinctions the man with his
grn' no doubt running i'll heir heads. 80 trace Of
them could be dscovercI bQt they lave since ba,n
heard OF Mt Goodies bridge on the Appomato..
1t Is possible wc hope Tint tho disease Of the s;.
man may not be the small pUx, Notwithstanding the
confident opinion Of his Phyaicaa to the contrary.
But with os:ibility existing that it vas. every
precaution o'ght instantly to he taken ly the author
''ies' ny me faculty and by the humane whefesoorer
'AcS Indians bare passed, to prevent the spreading of
inns most terrific OF al Diseases. The Indians relate
That one ofther number died in the neghborhood oe
Fredericksburg: on their way from WASHINGTON TO
Hc"inond, which mention hat ni;r friends in that
quarter may be on their guard. The man now sick
III the neishborhood of Black TTch was sick whilst
nc was IN Richmond and if his disease he fb small
poX il is rot to 10 dn,btod that t!,a IT, e, ti, T.
been communicated. We observe that III, small nv,
exists at Pittsburg, and this ron ors the cogactrra
probable that these Indians nassca that ,rav n
Washington, and either cauc, it tIw7,. or y-ff -
there.
Neare sensible that alarms Ike this, 10 present
ard aaFion5 injury to the interests Of the places
where the disease is suspected TO he; bit it L s,5rcI,
better for tho pecuniary Interests the community
to suffer for time from false aarns than that tb.r
live Should be put in hazard b. fiura 20 corr,,.
nicaie intelligence which might save them. Duran
thority FOR tie above fact moreover 50 nfell;rent
and every wy respectable that we feel constrained
10 lear mat Tie harm isnot without apprehension
The Indians lot she coal pits on Tnesduv.
l'ignia S1H"ep.r.-'Plia first No If III. .~qr,
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