Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-09
FROM THE WEST,

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and is now in Cincinnati, which forcibly express
e, from actual experience, the dangers and dif-
equities that beset the emigrant across the noun.
tains in these Cholera times. The letter is dat.
ed at Cincinnati on the a5th uIt After narrat-
ing his journey as far as Uniontoyn, in Pennsyl-
vania, the writer proceeds:
.sAbcut s miles before we got in Uniontown,
we passed the last Of the Alieghanv Mountains
This will make the whole distance across them
more than 100 miles. Sunday morning, lett
Uaiontown. l2 miles from there we came TO.
Brownsville: here our stage was carried across
The. Aionongaheia river in q scow, and one Of our
passengers took the steamboat for Pittsburg, for
fear of the Cholera in Wheeling. One Irishman
and mys self were all the passengers, then, for
Wheeling. gave him the address OF some Of
INV friends, 10 use, should ] fall victim to the
Cholera, aud he gave me the address Of his al.
40. This being the Sabbath, we met with great
number Of farmers. with their families, repair
,nc to the hoGse Of God We arrived at Wheel
ipg at T o'clock. 90 miles from gUniontown.--
Wheeling, presume, is not 50 large as Aexan-.
ira: it's a long Town, situated close BY the side
Of the Ohio river, with very high hill behind it.
The streets appear very fithv in many places,
and not half paved. l vent TO bed very much
discouraged in consequence OF the steamboats
being afraid to visit Wheeling. No boat had
been there for several dsys-the river failing We
~ fast. The next morning. l was told that on
the preceding day there we're new cases and 6
deaths By Cholera. The people were INDUCING
hone. prior to this, that the disease would soon
leave them, as there had not been more than or
s cases per day for sMne DAYS previous. went
I'D through the tosn;--evefy thing appeared
gloomy; more than one half the stores closed;
business very much at stand; very few to be
seeo walking the streets. After breakfast took
ramble in one Of the grave yards: saw near
hundred new graves: il was sight that affect
cd me very much.-ss All! how uncertain is hu-
man lfe.'' Bridgeport is small town. (oppo-
sile Wheeling. in Ohio containing about 200
inhabitants. The Cholera broke there week
or two since, and so or 40 persons died in two
days. The Inhabitants all abandoned the place,
excep, six who renamed to nurse those that we're
sick The whole number of deaths by Cholera
in Wheeling is said to be aboutl20 la the eve
ming, the Irshman ~ho came on with me left
Wheeling for Zanesville, in Ohio That night,
latter having spent a day that appeared longer
$4,000 --a-i--.I,------
in sight from Cincinnati saw the Captain,
who told me he should 90 down the next evening.
This was slad tidnas. The next day. 10 A NJ :,
the Lady Byron STEAMER came down from Pitts
burg. bound dosu the river. / started in her
s"rC;ne;nn,,; I can assure YOU that wa. ne.
w. 80 Glad IN aet out of any pi-ee that was
ss.. 81 w,s IN ae,-vur-6f Wheeling. We
nss.ra Marietta that night, about IL o'clock
Our boat stopped at a great many places to land
and receive passengers. We Came to Matsviiie,
Ysn,ucky. Thursday tpnrning o'clock went
mn and saw tina, the tosn was deserted by near
iy all its inhabitants; not more than one STORE to
ten Omen: the whole number Of deaths by Chole-
"a Asrno case had occurred since the 10th inst:
IN. wbole ponalat,on $500; abou, 5000 Of those
had left the place. Maysvie is very hand.
some town-some fine buildings, and the streets
better paved than IN any other city or town that
ihsye seen in the United States. We arrived
in Cincinnati the same evening a o'clock, per-
fnrmine the whole route from Wheeling in so
hours-distanee 400 miles. When arrived
here Twas very much indisposed from drinking
the river water that evening, and the next day
tim SATURDAY, moroing awoke with very
h;sh fever on me, and a distractng headache