Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1837-05-17

and falling on St. Petersburg, Moscow,
and the centra! provinces of Russia, it
pa used for while within the Russian
EN- pire, as If to give time for western
and southern Europe to prepare. Then
suddenly spreading along the northern
shores Of Gernany, and consuming the
squalid populstion Of their commercial
cities, it came unaccountably among
ourselves.
It's visitation in England was re-
markable for It's mildness, for its limi-
tation to peculiar districts, and for its
singularly capricious seizure Of indi-
vidua!s.--A. Newcastle, while it tell
heavily on one thirI Of the town, the
other two districts comparatively cs-
capped. In London the seizures were
chiefly in the narrower parts Of the CT
ty, and the suburbs stretching along
the river side. The only Characters
tic Of the disease yet distinctly ascer-
ltainah,e is, that it exists with almost
unfaii;ug power in the vicinity Of great
rivers. Begg4ry, squalidness, naked
ness, AMI intoxication are all in dan
ger Of attack. But damp and discom-
fort in the neishborhood of great riv-
Iers appear to render its ravages almost
inevitable.
| From the north Of Germany it divi-
ded into two branches, one taking the
course TO England, and one sweeping
to the sou,h--,i.e central provinces Of
Germany suffered heavily. and Wen
ma lost a vast number of its poorer pop
ulation. From Vienna, again, return
ing to the north and crossing the Rhine,
it entered France, passed through the
|provin :es with comparatively slight
mortality, but fell upon Paris with re-
doubled venom. The mortality in that
capital was uncqualled; within few
weeks twenty thousand died. The dis
ease then seemed TO pause. It sudden
ly started up in America, transferred
none knew how After ravaging the
United States, it crossed the lakes and
the St. Lawrence, and spread terror
through Canada. From Canada it made
its way through the forests, and de-
stroyed a portion of the Indian popula-
ton, which might have seemed TO de-
fy the infections Of Europe in their UNI
fathomabie schedules. But the cho-
lera was not to be escaped, ardthe NOR
tality was deeply felt among the thin
ned tribes Of the vast country stretch
ing in the rear Of the United States.
Thence, by sudden spring, it fell np-
on Mexico, the Havannah, and the
Spanish settlements south of tie line,
finally wandering away into the deserts,
until life went out, and disease could
be seen no more. 1t then crossed the
Atlantic again, and threw Europe into
new alarm at disease which thus see
med to be marked for the percnniel
scourge Of the earth.
but its visitation, as it passed along,
was now slight, until it reached the
confines Of Mahometanism.-1'h it
swept all beforcit, as If kindIed from
some new furnace Of wrath-it devas-
tated Egypt by thousands and tens Of
thousands From Egypt it assembled
to Constantinople. There it r:valled
the plague. Multitudes persisted. It
then partially returned t. Russia and
Germany. In the Polish war, il fear
fully increased the miseries Of that time
Of Indebtedness and blood. Constan.
tine, the archduke, closed his half in
sane and tyrannicalI life by IL: and Die
bitsch, the famous passcr Of the Balkan,
with large share ofthe Russian army,
were carried to the grave along with
him. spain, Portugal, and Italy still
had escaped, aad the world was asking
by what means this singular preserve
ton was effected, when the cholera
broke out in L 'sbon from Lisbon it
passed. to Madrid, and from Spain to
Italy. In italy i, is now raging The
east coas. has been seized within these
few months, and Greece, the nearest
shore, is;rcmb!ing ly adopting measures
Of precsution. Bosnia, and the wild
country bordering on the north of her
kingdom, is already seized, and thons-
,ands are pcrishing dav by day. When
the science ana comforts Of civilized
countries have bsenso Intellectual, what
resistance can be made by theig ,orance
end wretchsdness.of bsrbarism. The
disease VIII take its way through the
wilderness, and beyond the confines
Of man.
In this sketch, which Of course has
merely traced the leading lines of its
progress, we have a view Of The most
extraordinary operation Of human NOR