Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-06-21
THE CHOLERA.
JOHN PHILIPS, Secretary.

From The New York Enquirer Of Monday. J
The latest accounts which have reached us iron
Montreal are Of Friday morning last. The death
on the preceding day were estimated, ACCORDING
to information derived from three gentlemen
Zone of them resident Of this city,) at from I.
10 100. No official statement ut the disease hat
been published since Wednesday afternoon-th
one then printed announced that from Sunda.
night there had been o. cases in Hospital, z
deaths, and II remaining. Subsequent otncia
publications had been expected at Montreal wit
much anxiety, but none had appeared; IN thei
absence the ravages committed by the dlseas
must be conjectnred, but our informants stat
that these are fully equal to any thing that Cal
be imagined. From one Of them we learn, tina
on Thursday morning, from the time oi lbs rls
ing until midday, he saw fOrty-ive persons burr
ed in the Catholic Cemeiry, and the other states
that the estimates Of deaths were said to be found
ed on the burials. Dr. Caldwell, an emlnen
physician in Montreal, stated to our informant
that on Thursday he was sent fo- by al least 5OC
persons. Two persons died on that day at TIT
door of his house, and three others fell down vi
the sidewalk near his house while endeavorin'
to yet there for the purpose Of obtaining ad''c
from him.
On the state of Quebec we have been able t
learn nothing further definite. A person from
thence, at Montreal, stated, that when standIn;
in the streets of Quebec, the Yellow Flag, SIC
nal of the Cholera, could be seen from very ma
nv Of the houses.
AT Lapraire, there had beeh deaths OF Cho
lera. Canadians. At st. Johns, one case, bu
the attack was very Slight and the person recoV
cred. AT Pattsburg. there had been one case
supposed at first to be Asatic Cholera. but 1t al
,erwards proved merely case OF common Cho
lera. The death at Whitehall. there is ever.
reason now to believe, was not Cholera
The disease prevailed almost entirely amongs
the emiprants and Canadians who WORK on n
along the rives---,H=t few females were attacked
and death sci A. Chf1suad, when it did pro-.
fatal. with Nsry @II,li'y. A hearse driver il
Montreal, who conveyed the corpse of a bake
to the grave, was seized with the disorder. an
died before he could be taken home. The ~ise
and children of the soldiers Of the 18th Reg. sta
toned at Montreal, had been sent to the barrack
at Laprairic. The garrison at Quebec, 1t wa
also understood at Montreal. had partly LETT III
former place, and were marching to more health
quarters.
Three deaths had occurred among the soldier
at Montreal. The Americans who we're on bu
siness at Montreal had mostly LETT there on WED
nesday. as we'll as many families residing there
Almost every individual carried about him me
dical prcparation to take in case ut an attack
II the disease did not moderate, the merchant
of Montreal contemplated packing up their good
and stopping all business on Monday, (to-day.l
The Phenix steam boat from St. Johns, bein,
the last of which any of the passengers have ar
rived here, while coming up the Lake met tn
Franklin returning with her passengers to Bur
ljnpton. Those passengers on board the Pheni
who were residents of Burlington were allowe'
tn land there. but no others. half mile betor
she reached Whitehall, the Phenix was boarded
by boat, having on board Justice OF The Peac
with six armed men, who examined the passen
gers aud allowed them all to land except tn
emgrants who were on board, about dozen u
number. a passage boat was lying OH VIII
about thirty emisrants, who were also not allow
ed to land at Whitehall; but our informant heart
that they had proceeded about mile from una
place and got on shore there. Previous to TIT
arrival at Troy, the Canal boat was VISITED ny
medical man. The passengers from Montreal
who arrived here last night, underwent no othe
examination on the journey.
Ii is worthy Of remark that the Carricks, TIT
vessel which it was supposed brought the dIsor
uer 10 QueUcCs dithouoh o"S "Ao $500
deaths in the FIRST part Of her voyage, had none
for month previous to her arrival, and then the
Health Officer at Quebec, reported there was ne
disease on board. That the disorder flrst ap
peared among the etnigrants in that place, there
can be no doubt; but it is far from certain thai
it first exhibited itself among the passengers o'
that vessel. 1t is very certain that it was taken
to Montreal by the emigrants who LETT Quebec
in the steamboat voyageur. The batteaux men
at Montreal. refused to carry any more emf
grants from that place to Upper Canada. and the
hands on board the steamboat John Bull. which
plies between Montreal and Quebec, refused to
work that vessel to the latter place.
Since writing the above. we have learned that
a passenger from Quebec states the whole num-
Der of cases which have occurred there, up to
Wednesday night. was two hundred and fifty.
In reply to many anxious enquiries on the sub
iect we are happy to have it in our power to state
that the medical profession in this city is folly
alive to the importance of investigating this all
enerossing theme, and of adopting such measures
as may make the public acquainted with the best
mode Of encountering and, if possible, prevent