Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-06-11


On the Sd the Board state that whether the NOR
taIty among us has been greater or less than in other
towns oil similar population, (say 700O) the Board
deem 1t useless here to inquire They trust il will
soon be their pleasing duty to to the pub
lic, the entire disappearance of the Epidemic "a
Lady OF Wheeling gives the following melancholy
description of its desoations on the LIST inst TO her
friend i'm Washngton
"Alas! my dear friend, the Cholera has again made its
appearance In this place. IL OIL the 18th OF
May From that time up 10 the present time il has been
very bad Ii said by the people here that is worse than
il has been in any other place broughout the limited
States according TO the number of inhabitants Since the
10th OF May, there have been seventy odd funerals the
most OF them OF cholera. There as high as twenty
dead in town to-day and last night | will tell YOU
The names OF some of them that died of the cholera Law
yer Robinson, old Mr. Duly, old Capt Coyle Hence
Hamet little Peat Haynes, Jacob Bently, and his only
son, lad twelve years old, and many more little bows
Alexander Mcconnell, old Mr. Lamb his daughter Mr.
Clark, and young lady that boards with them Old
Mrs Lamb is also dying. Miss Hetty Warden and her
sister Polly; old Mrs Hicks and Lawyer Robnsons only
child, Mrs. Ryey, Mrs. Robinson. Oh I cannot tell
you any more Old Noah Zane is lying at the point of
death with it, he cannot last long One of the men that
robbed the bank buried to-day and another sick with
IN jail. Every body looks disheartened many of the
shops and stores are shut up today Several blacks have
died with IT, Ii is reported spreading through Ohio
at Mount Pleasant and St. ClairsviIIe"
Among the deaths reported by the Board of
Health, we find the respected name of Noah Zane
one fatal case had occurred at Washington, Penn
ssyiyanla-supposed to have been contracted at
Wheeling.
With these several warnings ringing in our ears.
IS IT not the duty of the Atlantic Cities to prepare
against the fatal enemy? We were almost thrown
off our guard during the last year. by the delay which
preceded his approaches: "Thrice he shook his
dart, and thrice delayed to strike" But when the
blow was struck, how fatally did it sound throughout
our City! The long spell of wet weather, which
has visited US during the present spring. with the
quality of decayiDg vegetable matter which it has
affected, renders it in measure necessary for
us to attend to our Diet, and particularly to our
Houses and Streets-These warnings have not been
lost upon otbers-why then upon us?
tits high indeed, high time Gays the Baltimore Ameri.
CAM mat our own authorities active in adopting such
sanitary regulations experience has shown TO be eca.
cious not TO avert The approach OF the pesence 10 mi
ugate lts ravages thorough cleansing Of the CITY moi
only OF tie public streets and horougres but the lanes
alleys and yards is the first indispensable step 10 be taken
We hope Immediate attention will be paid TO IT, re-or.
gsnz'on oil the committees might be advisable and such
oher preparatory measures taken that should the cholera
reach U.s. II may create sudden alarm or find us I'M
warned AT all events so favored by Providence
as 10 escape, the precautions will satisfy the public mind
city" '"''''' - WIZ
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT
we understand, that the SchuyIkl COMPANY. which
mas opened water communication from the coal mine
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