Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-08-07
From the Philadelphia Inquirer Of august 9.
HEALTH OF THE CITY

From the Philadelphia Inquirer of August g.
HEALTH OF THE CITY.
IwENTy-oNE new cases of Cholera, and eight
deaths were reported by the Board of Health yester
duy--The increase is very slight. Very little pan.
&c exists IN the city, and few persons are leaving
town. Business is going on as usual and conf.
dence seems to exist III the public mind that the
Epidemic will pass over us, striking down fewer
victims among tho temperate and prudent classes of
the community, than did the last visit of the III.
huenza.
We would not venture to advise those who re-
quire relaxation from business and who have
oeen IN the practice of passing few weeks of ev.
cry summer season in the country, to abstain from
the indulgence the present scason-but the ex-
ample of the citizens of New York who absented
themselves on the appearance of the epidemic
and returned before it had utterly Disappeared and
hence became victims of the disease should in
huence the conduct of our own citizens. Thus
those who are disposed to fly, should determine, if
they leave us, to keep away until our atmosphere
becomes perfectly purihed otherwise, their flight
and premature return, instead of acting as pre-
ventive, will only serve TO render them more liza
BILE to imbibc that which they must desire SO anxi.
ously to avoid.
From the N. Y. Courier 6, Enquirer of Angus. 4
The Indian Erpedition-Gen SCOTS Command
we are happy TO announce the return yesterday,
OF Col. fwIggs to this city in state of conva-
iescence' The account which he gives Of the
ravages of the Cholera among the troops. and the
consequent dispersion of General SCOTS command.
is lamentabls. Never perhaps did officers and
men embark In an enterprise with the same enthu
siasni, and never certainly, did the same number of
men traverse the same extent OF country in the
unprecedented short period which thew occupied in
moving from Norfolk, Baltimore and this civ to-
Detrot- They arrived at Detroit full of hope and
anxious 10 reach the scene of operations; when the
pestlience made its appearance among them
oghted the fair prospect of active service in which
they had induged-carried hundreds of them to
untimely graves,-and dispersed the entire COM
mand.
Colonel Twigg's detachment consisted of 9Os
recruits, and Payne's, Writings and Brooks com
Panies OF artillery making in all $50 rank and file
THESE men embarked at Detroit on board the
Henry Clay for Chicago, but in consequence oftle
ravages of the Cholera, were landed at Fort Ora
tiot, which is situated at the outlet of Ike U,ro
oU miles from Detroit. In less than ten DAYS DR.
Everett, Lieut.. Clay and fourteen of the rccruit. |
died at The Fort. One hundred and nm fire desert.
ed, Of whom it is estimated that Mt lc,s, ,b,t,,
have died;-leaving of the 2OS but 80 at the ,ms
Col. Twiggs left. OF the three companies of ar |
hllcTy, fDentysiJ died, and t,oenty deserted Tins
were the $50 of which this command consisted ON |
it, arrival at Detroit, reduced to 1876 in about 10
lays.
Colonel CUNNING, of the ID Infantry. with Ran. |
som and HoFmans companies 80 men from Fort |
Niagara, encampod at Spring Wells, four mjIes
south of Detroit. Of this number twenfy.one have
lied and four desertcd reducing this detachment
10 SIS.
Colonel CRANES Detachment of Artillery.
consisting of go men, accompanied by Gen
,ral Scott and his staff embarked on board
ne Steamboat Sheldon Thompson, and arri-
red at Chicago, with eighty cases of Cho.
era on board having lost several soldiers on
he passage. At the last accounts nearly all the
Ulcers and men had been attacked more or less
Nth the disease, and Lieuts. McDuAie and Csusta.
us Brown, "a graduate from West Point in June
sst, and not the son Of the late General Brown
ogethcr with ffty.i0e privates had fallen victims
o the disease.
Capt. LYoS's detachment, consisting Of his and
apt. FRAzER's companies of artillery. NINETY men y
nd had arrived in safety at Maclinac
Major THo1PsoN's detachment consisting of his
nd Capt. CoBB's Company of the I'd Infantry
ighty men. had marched across the country from
Detroit and would probably arrive at Chicago in
welve days.
BY letter which VIC published on Monday dated
Iaena, July l4th, we learn that it Gen. Scotps
ltention to march with his command across The
ountry to Fort Armstrong, on Rock Island; but il
iii DO perceived by the foregoing particulars that Of