Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-10
THE CHOLERA.
BaLrImoRE, Sept. z.


1t will be seen that the number OF deaths by
Cholera is still on the increase. The report
from the Health Office for the last twenty-four
hours S, ending at 10 o'clock this morning, pre-
sents SIS deaths, So white and 90 cOIoured per-
sons.
1t is with feelings of the most melancholy re-
greet that we have to announce the death OF Pc
TER H. CRUISE, ESQ., who was associated with US
in the Editorial management OF the Patriot -
Yesterday through the day he attended TO ms du'
ties in the Office with unusual cheerfulness-but
last evening, he was attacked with the prevailing
disease, anu expired early this morning.
We are summoned. this morning to the per-
Torrance of a melancholy duty. in recording the
death of PETER H. CRUISE Esq. one of the edi.
tors of the PATRIOT of this city. and formerly, for
a number Of years, associated with the editors OF
this paper He died of the prevailing disease.
early yesterday morning, after an illness OF a
few hours. So far a. we ian learn. the immedi-
ate source Of the attack was slight, very
slight irregularity Of diet.-irregular only be.
cause of the presence of Cholera in the city. A
peach or two, eaten on the previous evening, Is
assigned as the proxi,na.e cause Of sudden death,
to one temperate and prudent 10 all his habits and
pursuits. aud apparently secure against the at
tdCkS VI tHt peSulcuScf 81 idI az SdtC anu SU-
cumspection could guarantee security. Yet a
moments deviation, an mprudrnce scarce worth
remembrance in ordinary times,-acting upon a
frame naturally delicate, has proved suddenly
and fearfully mortal in its effects. In few
hours. between the setting and the rising SUM- the
work of death is done; the daylight which left
him at evening in the full enjoyment of health. high
hopes. vigorous intellect. and warm and &C.
nerous heart, dawns upon his lifeless re'nains:-
silence and gloon, 0vershadow a wide circle OF
attached and ad'nirng friends, and society grieves
for the loss of one of her most rising and esima-
BILE members. Such is the effect OF a sing blow
Of the Great Destroyer which is stalking through
the land. Terrible indeed, and inscrutable is
his march. Well may such calamity as that
with which the unseen enemy is affecting our
country and by which the lamented Cruise has
fallen, touch the feelings with awe and call up
in all bosoms, the most solemn medltatlons upon
the frail tenure by which we hold T" this breath
ing life within us.'' And we'll may it be made
to the living lesson profitable to their hearts
and lives, bearing those blessed fruits which adj
versity brings to the soul moved by the sense oil
impending evils for itself, and soflcned by the
memory Of departed friends.
Ii is scarcely necessary. in this community,
were it possible, with the announcement OF his
death so fresh upon us. for US to pronounce la
bored euiosium upon Mr. Cruise. HIS retiring
manners and transformations mode of life have
not concealed his merits from the public know
ledge. As gentleman in the truest sense Of
the word, pure in mpral-, high in principle. and
courteous in manners. an enlightened and capa-
BILE editor. ripe aud varied scholar. an exem-
plary citizen in all the relations Of life, he has
been we'll known and highly appreciated. The
breath of reproach never reached him, land his
friends. and they are very numerous, have
proud consolation in the knowledge that he has
gone from among us, IN the midst Of aprofession-
al career which necessarily brought him more or
less into conflicts of opinion with others. pro-
fesson which his fine taste and eminent talents
were calculated to adorn, without leaving SIN
Gle enemy. This is a tribute to his virtues which
speaks volumes of praise. 1t is brief tribute
which we. perhaps more than most others, are
bound to paw to long tried friend and most able
coadiutor Five years of close and cordial inter
couf sc with him in this establishment have given
US ample opportunity for knowing thoroughly all
his fine qualities and admirable powers. Though
scarcely able to do justice to our feelings, we
have thought it a duty to accompany the an
noancement of his early and sudden death, with
this brief and unsatisfactory notice
TBak. finer.