The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-02
Tho Cholera.


| Inc great sconrge of humaniiy-a sconrgo moro
awful than AtiIa and his Huns--more terrible than
the eruptions OF a vocano-moro devastating than
the throes Of an earthquake-the great scourpe OF
the Cholera Is at this moment advancing towards us
WIN silent but indomitable upidity If we NAV be,
ieVe the intelligence received almost daily from IN,
frontiers OF the Russian Empire It's course il de.
scnoed as being northwestery and il is said TO hay,
already penetrated the interior of Europe. God de-
lend us from the agonies which desolated the work.
| in 1922
! The Philadelphia American says: The above from,
the London Sun of October ID the opening of /,
| pretty long leader couched in language of similar
character, expresses the feeling, almost amounting
TO panic, with which some of oar European contem-
poraries seem disposed regard the continued pro
gress OF the Oriental pestilence which threatens a
renewal OF the calamites Of 1872 The Choefa is,
IN fact once more in Europe, sweeping, with all its
ancient sowness of pace but breadth of devastation,
along Its accustomed path, from east to west and
as we have every reason to suppose that 1t will pass
over Europe, and, ultimately, disregarding the bar
rer OF the Atlantic reach our own shores us in 1882
we have looked over our foreign files for notes of ts
progress such as must naturally interest the Ameri-
can readers.
| The last intelligence that we have from England
shows that the Cholera is already ut Riga, on the
Baltic which seems TO be the most eastery point II
has reached, and through which il extends in line
S.S.E. through KieH (Kiew) to Trebizond on the
Black Sea, and further south, through Asiatc Tur-
Key into Persia II made its first appearance In IRE
| bizond on the Sth of September, and in Riga ON or
before the lZth. Thirty cases were reported in Ire
oizond on the llth, described us not "being very
viruent." About the same number of cases, daily
are reported at Erzcroum (near Trebzond) whcru
one-third the cases were fatal. The mortality in the
Russian towns is stated at two-thrds the number OF
cases. The disease had not reached Constantinople
where 1t was, however, almost daily expected Ia ia
tai case had occurred on the steam packet Sultan,
| coming from Trebizond,) and where quarantine OF
observation had been already established Rigid qua-
rantine regulations had been instituted at Genoa and
| Palermo; and they were talked Of at Malta and Mar
seilles
| 1t is impossible TO diyest the mind of awe, and
even terror, while broodng the anticipated ad-
vent OF dreadful epidemic, in which 30 many will
apprehend the direct Judgment of God upon an age
| OF light and wickedness. But the ignorant suffer
with the wise and the wise called upon and per-
United to lessen the aiiction which would otherwise
fall upon the masses with unequal weight Expert
ence has already proved thar the resources of science
in Europe and the United States are competent to
the successful resistance Of the East Indian plague,
whose ravages were lessened, and in many instan.
ces, prevented during its former visitation fifteen
years agoi and now, with better knowledge of il
than was then enjoyed, we have every reason to be-
ieve that, should it visit again. it will present few
| of its former terrors.
| Nor is there, Perhaps any occasion to expect that
its passage to the New World will be speedy one.
Looking back the records OF Its former occurrence
from which we may compute its rate of travel we
find that it made its appearance in Eastern Russia
in the fall Of 1890; at Moscow, for example, on the
18th Of September.
1t was not until thirteen months afterwards that it
reached England, tit broke out at Sunderland on the
18th of October 1881 and it was not until the sth
of June, 1882, that 1t appeared Quebec, upwards
of twenty months after its appearance in Moscow
Anticipating for II similar rate Of progression now,
| (and experience shows remarkable uniformity, ge-
nerally speaking in its advance) there would seem
little occasion to expect its appearance in England
before next OCTOBER or in America before the sum
mer of lS49.
Science and benevolence, however, arc now busiy
engaged in watching its steps. Governments and
municipalities stand in readiness to prepare at mo-
menrs warming for Its approach, and we may expect
It's coming hereafter should it come assured that il
cannot take us by SURPRISE and equally assured that
all the resources Of knowledge and humanity will be
| in requistion 10 deprive IL OF its dangers