The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-08

asses and ] death at Walker Colllery dur
,g the two preceding days
iSignedl WIN. MAcLEAS, Sec.
London. Dec. 81. Accounts from Alex
,ndrin, to the end of November, state that
he Cholera Morbus had entirely subsidized
n Egypt, and the inhabitants mad every
where resumed their accustomed ayocations.
FRANCE.
Riot al Grenoble. The Paris papers con
tain accounts of tumult which broke OUT
in the manufacturing and populous ci'y OF
Grenohle, on Sunday. the 18th Decenher.
Though unlike in its origin, and, luckily IN
its results, 10 the Lyons affair." THIS dis'nF
bance resemhled it, in some degree, ID the
facility with which the rioters were able 10
accon3plish wha, they pnrposed doing, and
the backwardness of the National uoaId 10
onnose them. The cause of the complaint
was an alleged misconduct on the part o.
. collector of the assessed taxes, who had
overchurced and otherwise oppressed the
poor there.
HEREpITARY PEEIAGE ABOLISHED IN
FRANCE.
! Joudon Dec. 80. An Hereditary feer-
ace has ceased to exist IN France,-in INA,
| countrv which is within three hours sail
/ n
mention that the question was brought TO
conclusion on "Wednesday evening, Dec.
I 28l when the entire law was put to the vote,
and passed Ivy Majority of 33, the num-
her for the abolition being 1C3; against 1t
20. The final settlement Of this great
question has created, comparatively speak
| ing, hut little sensation in the French capt
tai for it had long since been determined
| bv the people that the hereditary peerage
s,lonld go; consequently the majority IN Ia
yor of the ministers was looked on merely
as Il matter of course.
Rtor AT ABEsrErS. The Aberdeen
Jou, nal gives the particulars OF the destrnc-
ton. bv the mob, of an anatomical theatre.
in St. Andrews street, in that city, on Mon
day week. 1t appears that since the thea
ire has been opened, the lower Glasses IN
Aberdeen have looked upon it with suspl-
cious eye, in consequence OF its beng
7 known to be the continual receptacle o.
: lead bodies; hut on the morning IN ques
$ ton, a dog in the hack ground, belonging IL
! il, having dug up the remains Of dea'
: body, mob gradually collected till th'
n oumlcr amounted 10 nearly 10000. A or,
$ was raise.i of 80 burn the house down will
d the Burking shop" Shavings, fir, tar har
l. refs and slaves, were quickly procured am
IS lighted and within five minutes the bacl
ii wall fell Gown with tremendous crash
e MIR. MAR. a surgeon connected with TIT
70 theatre narrowly escaped with his lie iron
e The infuIiated mob, and two students, VIII
It were recognized, did not escape but WIT
II difficulty. The building was completed
= destroyed, and had not the mob been KEEP
a in check ny the sight of the military, VIII
= were called out, other acts OF violenc
would no doubt have been committed.
y, , Cosr OF THE POLISH CAMPAIGN. 1t re
n suits from official data, that the losses {
c the Russian army, either on the field OF bal
u tie. or in lazarettos and hospitals, hay
y amounted to 10000 men. In this enumeI
: alton, the capture of Warsaw alone appear
!, to have cost 30,640 lives!
- THE CAoLERA. The following urtiri'
:. which we extract from the last number {
- the Boston Medlral and Surgical Journa
you'd seem 10 Indicate that disease, yer
:. nearly approa ching the Indian Cholera, fol
n, merly existed in New England;
as In the history of disease in this eountr.
rs we recollecI hat one that appears to bef
20 any analogy, either in its general mode {
NJ
ell clearly indirated in its treatment, to III
he present Cholera OF Europe. The diseas
to to which we refer, is the spotted ftrer whc
ID. prevailed in the State of Maine, in the ye;
he 1914. Itssymptoms were more various tina
those Of cholera, anil its fatal issue was n
10. quite SO speedy. But the attack consiste
is in the main. in sudden departure of ii
ew blood from the sutfnce, and nm appallr
nd. prostration of the pcwers of life. Hayir
aI heen an eve witness to this epidemic, it h;
q been recalled to our mind by every histol
9 we have read of the symptoms Of choler
en- We nave seen persons, in the iullness
IN health, suddenly fall under its blow. appa
he emily lifeless and the sudden and obstina
RI, codness of the surface, in all cases, game
rh- for the disease the popular name Of The co
of plague. In no disease have we seen
off marked effects from different modes
DIV treatment. Purgatives and venesectiC
he were generally followed by fatal results
2 where caloInel was given, the unhappy su
On fereI often died whilst under its operation
mi and in spite of most forms of treatment, i
= ravages were unparalleled in that part
10 1.-The countrv. 1t was at length disrovert
cb that treatment, irom the FIRST most tho
he oughly hlogistic-siimuant internally al
ed externally with an unsparing hand-exeI
W. ed an entirc control over the disease. TIL
he practice was pursued, with marked and Il
ter most uniform success, by DIR. Page of Ha
nv lowell, by that man of Ross, whose bene
as ence will never be forgotten by the hu
he dreds of his townsmen, TO whom it has ev
cts been literally extended. In the small TOW
he of Wiscasset, containing about 1900 i
be habitants, two or three, (equal 10 sixty
tn. day in BOSTON, we're dying daily of this eE
nd demic, until DR.. P. was persuaded 10 viz
mp the place and after the day he entered Il
ec- town, and introduced the mode of trea
hin ment that had been so successful at HON
not an individual died Of this disease.
THE CHOLERA. We learn that at mee;iI
Of the Couuseors of tho Massachusetts Met
"S' cal Society held in this city oil Wednesd
CT last, Il Committee was appointed, consisting
cm Drs Jackson, Warren and Hayward If BostO
Is, Perry of Stockbridgc, Green Of Worceste
Wyman of CharlestOwn, and Person Of Saler
ast 10 inquire iuto tho character, &c, of u
ad, SpasInndic Cholera, now prevailing in var!o
iaI parts Of Europe; with authority 10 publish Il
n result of their investigations at the expense
the society.-BostOn Ceatinet.
9s.
n. THE CHOLERA. Letters from Smyrna 10 Il
% 4th November report that tho Che lera had col
~, siderably subsidized The whole number
Nv deaths, in its progress, is stated at from
5000.-Ibid.
%. Far. On Tuesday evening, Of last wee