The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-19
From ths NesO England Palladium


arge portion Of Asia, is fast spreading into
Europe. Fears are entertained, and not
without reason, that it may extend to Amer
lea. Providence seems to have directed
that the human race, at stated periods,
should be visited with pestileEce. The
eholera morbus may succeed to the office of
the plarue and the small pox. Whether
this disease he contagious or not is disput-
ed, and is of little moment: for certain it is,
that it has been propagated by the move
ment of large bodies of men from the in
fected districts into those whence it had
been unknown. If Russia should prose-
cute a war against France, the pestilence
which she will carry into western Europe,
will he more terrible than her arms; and
will, perhaps, greatly facilitate her designs
of conquest. The following account of the
progress of the cholera morbus is from the
late French papers:
1t appeared in the Bombay army, in 1918,
from whence in 1919, it spread to the Isle
of France and Madagascar. In 1891 it ap-
peared Mt Bussora, from whence it spread
by the Euphrates to Syria it diminished
in violence for three years, although it
spread along nearly the whole Of the north
ern coast of Africa. In 1923 it appeared
on the borders Of the Caspian Sea, and
made dreadful ravages at Astracan, spread
ing from thence into Central Asia, whence
it was supposed to have been brought by
The caravans, which generally consist of
three or four thousand men and camels !;
hut this suppostion, NJ. de Humboldt proves
by facts, could not have been the case. In
1929 it broke out on the Persian frontiers OF
the Russian Empire, from whence it spread
into Georgia, where in one city of 10000
inhabitants only 5000 escaped.
On the 3lst July, 1880, it again appeared
at Astracan, where 81, 900 persons died,
from whence it extended into the country
of the Don Cossacks, and arrived at Mos
COW, having spread over 46,500 square
leagues of country. The official bulletin
published at Moscow states. that from the
28th September to the 18th October, one in
three Of all those attacked died. 1t is also
stated, that it has recently appeared in the
neighborhood of Constantinople: it was at
Odessa on the 18th October, from whence
it is feared it will gain Greece, Italy, and
the southern parts of France, though its eff
fects are suspended by the winter. The
present conduct of Russia in marching
large bodies of troops from countries infect
ed with it to countries that are not, is much
to be deprecated and more especially as it
is historically known that it first appeared
and was propagated in India by Lord Has
tings's army.
The following description of its ravages
in Astracan, is from the pen of missiona-
ry residing there, the Rev. Mr.. Glen, to n
friend in St. Petersburg:
According to the best accounts, when
the disease was at its height, the number
of funerals, on one particular day, was 500
and another 460. More than 1000 were
buried about this time in large sand pit
for want of graves which could not be dug
so fast as required, nor at rate that the
poor could afford twenty-five roubles be-
ing demanded for each. Such a time was
never before seen in Astracan.
Onthe roads leading to the burial grounds
which are out of the city, scarcely any
thing was to be seen from morning till
night but funeral professions.
During its progress more than sixty Off
GERS, from The Governor, the Admiral of the
Fleet, the Rector of the University, and
downwards, fell victims, to it; and the num-
Der of the dead of all descriptions, in the
city alone 1.-THE resident population being
not more than 100000 is calculated at COCO
besides 1000, OF, as some say, 1000 of those
from the interior Of Russia, who were pass.
ing the summer here, and who fed to the
towns and villages up the Volga, in hopes
of escaping it. Ofthese, forty were found
on the road side unburied, on the first three
stages, until notice was given of the cir.
cumstance to the commanding officer ofthe
district; but the greater part of the fugi-
tives who fell victims to the disease met
their fate on the Volga.
Nearly 10000 left the city, it is said, in
great confusion; and being i'll provided
with food and other necessaries, were re-
duced to indescribable harhshiDs on their
passage up the river, as the Calmucks, on
its banks would have no intercourse with
them. 1t is said that in one or more oil
these boats the people all persisted from
the cholera, and having none left to man
them, were at last carried down the stream
with the residue of the dead on board. In
other cases the ravages on board these
boats we're dreadful"
In various other places the ravages OF
the disease have been appalling. The lat
Moscow are to the 9th November.
HOUSE OF REFORMATION. A person liv-
ing not thirty miles from Boston, hearing
that one of his neighbors had killed an OK,
and thinking that piece of the surloin
would make good Sundays dinner, called
a companion and proceeded, after the fami-
ly had retired to rest, to the barn where the
OK hung suspended, with stick between
the TANKS, in the usual way. 1t was agreed
that he should mount the cross stick and
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