Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-04-05
M I 8 C e L ny

PROGRESS OF THE CHoLERA.-A let.
ter from M. Tricoupi, the ambassador
OF King Ohio, to Lord Palmerston has
just announced tho terrors of freeze at
the approach ofthe cholera. Quaran.
tine, cordons, and all the usual and
wholly impotent precautions are provi-
ded, and the ships and travellers of
Italy are warned off the coast of the
Hellenic kingdom. OF all diseases
this is the most extraordinary. Ca.
PRECIOUS, yet constant /; partial, yet fl.
nally universal /; slight in some parts
OF It's progress overwhelming in 9th.
ers /; passing through all climates, in
~ffuenced by none a winter epidemic
IN one land, a summer scourge in ano-
Their Selling alike on every country
and on every species of population /;
sometimes yielding TO the most trivial
remedy, sometimes battling the most
approved. Utterly defying all system.
attic cure, it remains nov, after half.a.
dozen years ofits traverse through the
world, the same mysterious, resistless,
perpetual moving calamity. A map
Of the cholera would comprehend al.
most every region of the civilized
world. But the strange diversity of
its course alone would make it memo
rable. Beginning in Central India,
pouring over the range ofthe Himma.
lah into the wild plains to the north,
and terrifying the hordes Of T~artary.
Then shaping its course to the west.
ward, and destroying all within that
course, TO the head of the Caspian
Turning thence more directly on Eu.
rope, and falling on St. Petersburg,
Moscow, and central provinces of Rus
STA, it paused for a while within the
Russian Empire, as if to give time for
Western and Southern Europe to pre-
pare. Then suddenly spreading along
the northern shores of Germany, and
consuming the squalid population of
their commercial cities, it came unac.
c%ountably among ourselves.
Its visitation in England was remar-
kable for its mildness, forit Limitation
to peculiar districts, and for its singu.
lar capricious seizure of Individuals
At Newcastle, while it fell heavily on
one-third of the town, the other two
districts comparatively escaped. In
London the seizures were chiefly in
the narrower parts of the city, and the
suburbs stretching along the river side.
The only characteristic of the disease
yet distinctly ascertainable is, that il
exists with almost unfailing power in
the vicinity of great rivers. Beggary,
squallidness, nakedness, and intoxica.
ton are all in danger of attack but
damp and discomfort in the neighbor-
hood of great rivers appear to render
its ravages almost inevitable.
From the north Of Germany it divi.
ded into two branches, one taking its
course to England, and one sweeping
to the south-the central provinces Of
Germany suffered heavily, and Vien-
ma lost a vast number of its poorer pc.
pulation. From Vienna, again return
ing to the North, and crossing the
Rhine, it entered France, passed thro'
the provinces with comparatively slight
mortality, but fell upon Paris with re-
doubled venom. The mortality in that
capital was unequalled within a few
weeks twenty thousand died. The
disease then seemed to pause. II sud-
denly started up in America transfer
red zone knew how. After ravaging
the United States, it crossed the Lakes
and the st. Lawrence, and spread ter.
ror through Canada. From Canada