Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-08-16
ALBANY.
PTIlI.ADEF.pHIA


In Powehkeepse, the cholera has made and 10 maxi
ing considerable ravages We learn that the business
part OF the village almost deserted and that the IN
i,aaa.s have fed TO the country. In the poor house
for nine days, from Aug Sd to ll,h, there had been
iO2 cases. aud &c deaths. There were at the break.
ing GU, Of tho disease 900 inmates. They have been
removed from the poor house, aud kept in shan
ties, short distance from a.. ~
In Sing Sing prison. aP TO the llth inst. there had
been 262 cases and 81 deaths. Total number ct pris
oners about 900. The work is suspended, and the
diet Of the prisoners in some measure changed from
what il has hitherto been.
In Norfolk and Portsmouth,, Va. considerable n-
Grease has taken place in the number Of cases and
deaths since our Ias-nor is the disease much con
fined the black population at 6rst In Whining
ton, Dei.l7 or 10 cases, and or deaths In Baxi-
more, 4 or S deaths. s
In Rochester, up 10th inst. l55 cases, d deaths
In Buffalo, about the same. In Syracuse. the disease
is subsding In Brookiya the mortality s siil eonsi
derable. In Montreal and Quebec, there appears to
be cessation Of the disease; the contrary, il is
attended with greater vruIence and mortality.
BY the last mail learn that there have been sew
eral cases CticG. which place had hitherto escaped
We learn by Tuesday nights stage, tina. there had
been two cases Of cholera 10 the alms-honse, Neso-
Har<n. One case had before appeared in the city the
past week. In Sasgatnek, II eases and 6 Deaths
Daring the past week we hear Of no other cases in
this state.
From Bostoa.- There was great excitement at
Boson on Mopday the 6is inst. on account Of great
and sadden sckssss g hs Stale Pri:on
eacrs were takeO8N A. the last dates not pTisoner
had died, and the sick generally convalescent.
was noIcnger suspected 20 be cholera. but disease
produeed Nv some bad article Of food, by poison
pnrposey gnlnsed into the food. The panic had sub
sded.-N. HareR Reg. fA
There are a good many reports and stories about
ahis sickness 1t the State Prison. Alter il pretty
satisfactorily ascerained that the disease was not The
chOera, were taken 10 ascerain what sOas.
1t having been believed thai ergot spurred rye
mixed with the foar, analysis Of the bread was
had bHt no poisonous substance disclosed. Oae wri-
Ter in Boston paper suggests that the whole
"'eht have been fegDedshai she prisoners, knowing
that II the choiera broke ameng them grea.
e'iemens souId be produced and they might perhaps
nc liberated OF at least removed from the prison 10
more airy saatieu and thus have the means Of escap
Jag. This siovy % however too absurd Cor the slight,
credeaee-and though the AFFAIR 10 yet enveloped
in mystery. is geaerally believed ihas the food was
poisoned. Ga the day in which the disease broke
in the prison, and about the hour appears
ny ihe following letter fom Dr. Howard = che editor
ofths Messenger, maiady similar in character broke
out in the House efIndussy South Boston. disan,
Ghost slFes miles from the prison. IN the Hoass Of
Indusry NOR il the Prison, mat death oecrys9-and
abe alarm has since subsidized:
Having learned that il 10 currsnily reported that
see malignant cholera pEevailRg at the House Of
Anaas a. SOatb Boston. and thai several deaths had
occurred there, deem e any dDty to faEnsh the pub