The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-08-24

The contagion in penetrating TO inc "ea't =,
- course of the Volga, which spreads ITS nav
;gahle waters over the most populous provinces
Cons,derable havoc made among the Cos
sacke Of the Don The capitals Of the several
districts between that and Moscow were raw
, .red in succession. In this city the appear
tance of the destroyer was announced the 2oth
of September, having travelled from Asiraean,
a distance of nine hundred miles, in less than !
three months.
In Moscow. energetic measures were instant !
. ~ in sttuted by the government to afford every 4
assistance to the sick, and to oppose the pro-
gress of the maady. The city was divided IN I
10 forty-seven departments, completely insulat- /
ed one from the other by barriers and guards. /
, Restrictions and precautions heretofore found
serviceable in neutralzing or excluding the
contagion of Egyptian plague, were rlgldly
enforced upon all ranks OF the people. The I
18th of October, twelve days after the invasion,
two hundred and sixteen cases OF Cholera had
, occurred and of these seventy-six were fatal
:, The mortality, however, exceeded even the pre-
ceding proportion with the extension of the dis.
case. By the 10th OF November, FIVE thousand
five hundred and seven cases were returned,
land the deaths amounted to two thousand nine
hundred and three, or more than malt.
By letters of a recent date (Januarv, 1881
we learn that latterly the malady lad greatly
declined in Moscow, but that it had appeared
TO a limited extent among the troops marching
to the reduction Of Poland. Report says that
it was carried thither by some regiments which
the necessity of the occasion had summoned
from the provinces previously infected.
Before closing the account of the progress OF
Indian Cholera, and in order TO submit TO I
GLANCE the magnitude of the evil, we shall point
out the geographical limits oil ITS past career
qn the various directions along which il has been
propagated. From Bengal, its aboriginal prov
ince, il travelled sOuthward to Maurtius and
to the island of Timor, near New Holland :
'.eastlrard 10 Kuku choton, Chinese town sit
-uated east of Pekin; nOrthtcGrd to the frontiers
of Siberia and 10 Astracan; 1oestloard TO the
city of Moscow portion of the globe, in ex-
tent, about equal to seventy degrees of latitude
and one hundred degrees of longitude"
Since the publication of the article from
which the foregoing is extracted, the Cholcrs
has spread into Poland and is advancing still
further towards the West.
An ISLAND OF Ice From Calls new move
of Boyle Corbet, we have extracted the follow
ing interesting sketch Of an encounter with al
Island of Ice:
"a fresh breeze came sharply from the north
and cold, that The sailors said it must b.
blowing from an iceberg. We saw nothing, al
though the moon was high; but, at midnight
one of the deserted a Frightening along III
northern horizon, which left no doubt of tn
fact. At last, the brightness began to assum
outline and features, and the wind rose a
piercingly and rude as December, while tn
enormous mountainous mass was EVIDENT
nearing. By its apparent extent, the captai
coBjectured we should pass to the wiRdward G
II without difficulty but il came nearer an
nearer, the feeling of danger mingled with tn
chillness Of the wind, and we beheld with aw
and establishment many streams of beaatifr
water leaping and tumbling from the cliffs an
peaks, as it drifed in the sunshine towards u:
The wind, as the iceberg approached, sacker
ed, and we saw with the telescope, on poin
that projected from the side huge white bea
couchant, which, the sailors sad was watchn
for fish RIO sight could be more solemnly i'm
tpresslVe than the evidently advancing mass 4
last It came so near that we feared it would b.
impossible to escape.
The vast peaks, cliffs and pinnacles, wer
like gorgeous city, with all its temples an
palaces, shuddering if shaken by an earth
quake. The waters dashed from terrace to tel
race, and every point and spire glitterin
and cleaning with countless flames kndled b
the sunshine. Terror confounded every o
board. huge mass, which projected far nlof
and almost already overhung the ship, was see
to tremble ; and, with crash louder than thur
der, it fell into the The whole dreadfi
continent, for such it seemed, visibly shool
The peaks and mountains were shattered wit
indescrbable crashing as, with a sound
mighty that it cannot be named, it sundered
if several islands had separated and we sa
through the dreadful chasm a ship under fu
sail beyond, coasting the weather side. Sti
the different masses foated in view and a
day long we had our eyes fixed upon Them {
they appeared to recede-fearfu that anotht
variation of the wind would bring them agui
around u.s..