South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-03-25

CeS, dIlQ CTlcu I1duuS OH SIT! lie then
began to sue humbly for the privilege
ofkissing her very softly on one check.
80 yes, you may kiss me as much
you please" said she-but mama SAYS
you must keep your hands off,
Boston Pearl.
BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.--D
cEMBER NuMBER.-We have received from
Coale & Co. the lastreprint of Fosters edition
ofthis periodical-most of the articles are ex-
cellent. From the sketches entitled "The
World we live in" we copy an interesting
account ofthe Cholera.-Balt Chron.
PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA.
A letter from M. Tricoupi, the am
bassador Of King Ohio, to Lord Pal
rnerston, has just announced the terrors
of Greece at the approach of the chol-
era. guarantees, cordons, and all the
usual and wholly impotent precautions
are provided, and the ships and tray
ellers Of Italy are warned off the coasts
Of the Hellenic kingdom. Of all dis
eases this is the most extraordinary.
Capricious, yet constant; partial, yet
finally universal; slight in some parts
OF its progress, overwhelming in others,
passing through all climates, influenced
by none; winter endemic in one land,
summer scourge in another; Selling
alike on every country and on every
species of population; sometimes yiel-
ding to the most trivial remedy, some
times battling the most approved. Ut
terly defying all systematic cure, it re-
mains now, after ha!f-a-dozen years of
its traverse through the world, the same
mysterious, resistless, perpetual NOV
ing calamity. A map of the cholera
would comprehend almost every region
ofthe civilized world. But the strange
diversity Of its course alone would
make it memorable. Beginning in
Central India, pouring over the range
Of the Himmaleh into the wild plains
to the north, and terrifying the hordes
of Tartary. Then shaping its course,to
the westward, and destroying all with
in that course to the head Of the Caspi-
an. Turning thence more directly on
Europe, and falling on St. Petersburg,
Moscow, and the central provinces of
Russia, it paused for 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-
countably among ourselves.
Its visitation in England was remar
kable for its nildncss, for its limitation
To peculiar districts, and for its singu-
lafly capricious seizure of individuals.
At Newcastle, while it fell heavily on
one-third ofthe town, the other two dis
tricts comparatively escaped. In Lon
don the seizures were chiefly in the
narrower parts Of the city, and the SUI
burbs stretching along the river side.
The only characteristic of the disease
yet distinctly ascertainable is, that it
exists with almost unfailing power in
the vicinity of great rivers. Beggary,
squalidness, nalledness, & intoXication
are allin danger Of attack. But damp
and discomfort in the neighborhood of
great rivers appear to render its rava-
ges 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 Vienna
lost vast number of its poorer popular
ton. From Vienna, again, returning
to the North, and crossing the Rhine,
it entered France, passed through 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 dis
ease then seemed to pause. ltsudden-
ly started up in America, transferred
none knew how. After ravaging the
United States, it crossed thcaE YES and
the St. Lawrence, ,aatAepread terror
through Canada. Ssih Canada il
made its way thHl the forests, and
destroyed a portieb Of the Indian pop
ulation, which might have seemed to
DEFY the infections of Europe in theiI
unbelievable solicitudes. But the
cholera was not to be escaped, and the
mortality was deeply felt among the
thinned tribes of the vast country street
ching in the rear of the United States
| Thence, by a sudden spring, it fell up
on Mexico, the Havannah, and the
C.on;eb eat4larnents south eff the line,