Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-02-17

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BILE instrument of bringing the matter before
the people, shall feel that have done
nothing more than my duty.
Il Subscriber.
THE CHOLERA.
The spread ofthe Cholera is the feature
OF greatest interest in the Foreign News
by the North America, the heads of
which we gave on Monday. 1t will
be observed by an extract we give TODAY.
that this frightful pest has broke out a.
bout Newcastle, with malignity and
fatality, exceeding the experience of any
part of the Continent. 1t is a singular
circumstance that at the same time. il
should be raging with the utmost vehe-
mence, at points so remote from each 9TH
er, and differing in every circumstance
OF climate and locality so absolutely, as
Smyrna & Newcastle 1t appears indeed
independent of all climate and circum-
stances-to be equally at home in every
region and every zone-on the banks of
the Gauges, the Caspian, the Nile, the
Mediterranean, the Vistula, 81 the riyu-
lets of England. The London faculty.
at first predicted that it would be subiH-
gated by the moist and varying climate
OF Great Britain. Vain hope! They now
say 1t is to pervade the earth and be
dornesticated in every region, on the same
principles as the Measles and small Pox.
Weshall have it then. Both epidemic
and contagious, it moves ON the wings Of
the wind; as inexpficably and mysteri-
ously.-WMg.
The london Sun of December 29th,
says---The latest accounts respecting the
Cholera are most frightful--most appall.
ing The plague is travelling the North
with giants speed, and more than a
giants energy. Young and old---the
feeble and the strong dissolute and
the abstemious---a fall before it. It is
now at the gates of Edinburg at Had
dington, at which three deaths have al
ready taken place. But at Gateshead
the mortality is terrific. The pestilence
RACES in every quarter Of that town, and
the inhabitants are completely panic
stricken.---The fact is, the Cholera is
one of those inscrutable distempers
which set all speculation at defiance.
and place the Ignorant and experienced
on the same level.
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We observe in the last Washington
papers correspondence between ex-
Secretary Branch and Mr.. FORSYTH, of
a waTIike character. The former called
on The latter to explain passage in his
speech on Mr.. Van Buren's nomination.
in which the "ex-Secretary" who gave
certain information to Mr.. Poindexter.
was described "as the volunteer repeat
er Of confidential conversations with the
Chief Magistrate" Mr.. Forsyth disa-
vowed all intention to apply that remark
to Mr.. Branch--and the affair terminal.
ed without an appeal to pistols.
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The London Morning Herald ofDee. 81
has this paragraph We understand that
the question ofthe boundary line between our
North American colonies and the United
States is likely TO be amicably arranged.-
1t is said that the Americans are willing n
give up all claim 10 the country bordering on
the st. Lawrence.
DRBADTUL EXPLOSION IN Cor.
MINE.--Tbe late English papers give the
melancholy particulars Of an explosion ofin-
Aamable gas in a coal mine, near Wigan. bv
which accident % Of the operators. viz. %
men and boys, and women and girls, were
killed. BY this sad calamity IL widows and
30 children we're left to deplore the loss Of
their husbands and fathers.
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The Mayor Of New York has ordered that.
in consequence Of the spread OF the Cholera
in Europe, all vessels arriving from ports ia
the Mediterranean, or tho Western Coast
OF Europe, including those Of Great Bri-
tam, shall anchor at quarantine until exam.
ined by the Health Officer.
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Two Individuals white and black mar
-froze to death near DanyiIe, on the Roam
oke, in the late severe weather: at which
Time also, the thermometer stood at the al
most incredible Joint Of l5e below zero,
near Nashville; the instrument belongingto
Professor Hamilton, Of the University.
-s9o--
The assassin Of Cspo dTstras, President Of
Greece, has been executed.