The Arkansas advocate., 1833-08-21

ana New Franklin; but no deaths af the ia!eef' and but two at the former town: that ot John Lee, and a servant of Mrs. Doh kblns. The disease also prevailed at Roche 1port, about Ii miles from Columbia. on the Missouri River. Mr. Lemon Parker. merchant of that that place. died in iz hours after being attacked; and his wife, and his partner m trade, Mr. Knox, were also iii.
 ST. CIIARLEs, July 3otli, 1858.
 slnessls. Editor8:-July, 1883, has been te St. Charles a distressing month. Till then, the cholera delayed it's approach, but only delayed, to strike more heavily; nor has It come alone: Its companion is, if pos slble, more stubborn and fatal than itself. It IS the congostive fever. How many nave been attacked no one can teil.- There is scarce a single family in the village, or three miles around it, which is at present exempt from disease. sItis an ordinary5oc- cuffence, to see every member of the fami- y stretched upon the floor in one room slck A number have died for want of medical aid. Had 1t not been for the pro. vldential arrival of several physicians from other places, the distress would have been. ncaleulable. It will be several years, I fear, before We can recover the shock. We have lost many, among whom were our best inhabitants. The number of deaths within tour weeks past is upwards off sixty. The temperate, the cleanly, and the excellent, have been taken away. The incorporate have scarce been touched.
 Atpresent our village is nearly deserted it is difficult to get any thing to eat-no- thing is doing, except dealing in medicine. We have no idea when the scourge# will be removed. Soon, however, there will be none left upon whom to#spend it's fury. In the Catholic burylng ground there are be- tween 40 and 30 new graves-Protestant, about 20. lis perhaps remarkable, that only two negroes have died during the whole month. in the town alone l2 1ami- lies are completely broken up. On sun- day last there were four burials in the Ca tholic burying ground. The atmosphere is so strongly impregnatod with disease that you may literally smell death in the streets. .''-Repabliean.
 AUGUsT GA detachment of United staes. Dragons, under command of Lieuts. D. Perkins and c. c. Davis, araiv- ed at this port on Sunday last, in the steam boat Peoria, from the Illinois. river, and im- mediately proceeded to Jefferson Barracks. They number seventy-onea men, recruited at, and mostly of the city of New York; We understand that they are fine looking, intelligent young men, of respectable trades and professions in the city from whence they come; and must add respect ability to the army, and reflect credit upon the officers commanding.
 The detachment was about twenty-five days in performing the trip from New York, via Buffalo and Chicago, to this city; and have reached their destination in good health, notwithstanding the unfavorable time at which they travelled. The result of the trip offers practical argument ill favor of the route, as being most adyanta- geous for the. transportation of troops, as we'll as preferable for emigrants destined for the west.--ib.
 Healh of the eity.-It gives us much pleasure to announce, that within the last week (dllring which the warm weather mo- derated very much,) the health of St. Louis has been nearly restored to its usual good state. The cholera is now seldom seen by the physicians, and cases of bilious fever have become rare. A little care in the treatment of disease in its first stages, and less heated atmosphere than prevailed for the last two weeks of July, will insure the restoration ofhealth. The cholera, we un- derstand, has prevailed generally in this county, with more or less fatality. From St. Charles we arc without further intelll- genee.--ib.