Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-01-19

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capable Of any thing beyond pretty noll, ,
and initiating the sounds of the passins
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Tsras.-The New York Journal of Com
merce publishes the following extract of a
letter. dated at Galveston, Nov. l8.
Galveston has been visited with an ow
9 td tornado, and Houston with that which is
much worse, desolating sickness Hun.
drds have died 1t seems as if Texas had
met with blow that will bring her almost
back to her situation before the War. The
ornado was about four weeks since. L.
brought the sea in so much, that it filled the
i |lav very full OF water and then the wind
shiNed in different direction, and blew so
hard, that it drove the sea down again, SO
Il hat it almost inundated the whole large is
i and for forty miles in length and breadth.
Eou cannot have any idea Of the distress
here is here at this time At the east point
here was large dOrli6catien, with a great
bMy large cannon balls. which is all level
With the sea, and in fact is a good share of il
nder water; the coldiers' barracks are all
E,uicd away; the custom house and all The
principal buildings were laid level and
lifted Of; the Army have all lett Calves
bn; the Navy are lost, every vessel and
eyen fine vessels some from Connecticut,
zee driven high on the shore. The land
eing low some are up the distance of sew
al rods The captains having stripped
benz, and turned them into boarding houses,
I'D one large brig is now used for the Gus
Pm House. They have on board these old
recks, one dollar and half per day for
pard There is nothing here-the Govern
enl works are all destroyed, and about all
provisions, and every house. 1t looks
retched to see on the beach the large can.
CM wing half buried under the sand
nce the gale, they have not done any
ng at all-even sarcd nothing. They
en q be clear discouraged.
soldiers and seamen, and poor people, are
ing around spon the beach, with nothing
al-the mosquitoes will all but eat them
alive. When we landed from the boat,
going along the beach to the custom
a'e' and looking at the vessels, we passed
humber that were almost dead, lying on
bare grouad, scks and not able. to raise
n'rlves up looking yellow and deadly;
ia little iarther on, we came TO a mound
earth, By the side of the road, where
ne had been three, four, and in some pla-
use, buried in bunch side by side, just
der the surface. No one to take the least
e. but lie and die right on the ground
screws Of vessels wrecked cannot get
ay-'hey wish 10 get to New Orleans bat
Y no money, You cannot think nor con-
now awful it isl There is nothing to
aeI The Mexcans now from coming in
@MS'ng the whole Island but they have
al their Navy in the same gale, and
plO do any thing. The Island was very
! 50 !!1lrOnged before this-they had got a
ala out, and lots sold high, but now
d 'nng is destroyed. 1t fairly strikes
\ WIN horror 10 think Of ii. They told
0 70 board OF some of the wrecks, that
u thought nothing Of finding some dead
1t ' morning BY the side of the paths
d nave nc money to buy any thing with
e " catch wild game and fowl, which is
6 "'E get They seem to lose all ambi-
n ihose that are here can do nothing,
Is |'y nave sent down the coast for two
d "N ana my soldiers to be put on here
a aGu build up the fort in new place.
4 "'Gness at Houston has abated very
1t They tell me that the sickness has
70 ,'''y been amongst the dissipated part
- community. They have INDUCED
s sS so long in their bad habits, that
~ ""alIy became sots and exposed their
10 .u ine hrst class have been very well
y I".y you see that the disease has
d. M; N,Su universally prevalent Congress
e. O, n, RISEN We expect to go up the bay
b, 'TUw to Houston. think, BY what
" lave seen, that the people here are
Oh %aO'en'-the land is good, and ifthey
.. s. JACK and labor, they might live
I'D IT, pu' The people on the bay cannot get
al "sy came there in vessels and are
% O.. and stay here in hopes Of getting
70 IVY" 60 TO the States-and so you
M s "e lallen in with great many suf-
USour,-Dr Fisher, in the last num-
as sr ~I medical and Surgical Journal, re-
lus mothers and nurses, when
10 ton 1'led with that dangerous disease
DO ts 20 apply Immediately. until med
'ei n, n oe obtained, TO the throat and
or w.' VI The chest, sponges or napkins
wO O "a'er as hot as can be borne, and
pu hs' ~ 50 that the water may not ooze
be ~" r. The remedy was first sugges-
ion "a oeiman physician, and has been
10 wnn decided and uniform sue
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