Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-26
WHOLE NO. 120.
The Cholera.

1.-The Great Scontge of humanity-a
scourge more awful than Atilla and his Huns
-inore terrible than the eruption Of volcano
more dcvasting than the throes ofan earth.
quake-the great scourge Of the cholera is at
this IN a advancing towards us with s-
lent but indomitable rapidity, if we may be-
lieve the intelligence received almost daily
from the frontiers of the Russian Empire
its course is described as being north wester.
ly, and it is said to have already penetrated
into the interior Of Europe. God defend
us from the agonies which desolated the world
in 1897
The above, from the London Sun of Octo-
Der 20, the opening of pretty long leader
couched in language of similar character, ex-
presses the feeling, almost amounting to pam
ic, with which som of our European contem-
poraries seem disposed TO regard the con,in.
ued progress ofthe Oriental restilence, which
threatens Il renewal of the calamities ofIS3l-
3. The cholera is, in fact, once more in Eu-
rope, sweeping, with all its ancient slowness
of pace, but breadth of devastation. along its
accustomed path, from east 10 west; and, as
we have every reason 10 suppose, that it will
pass over Europe, and, ultimately, disregar-
ding the barrier ofthe Atlantic. reach our own
shores, as in 1882, we have looked over our
foreign files for notes of its progress, such as
must naturally interest American readers.
The last intelligence that we have from
England shows that the cholera is already at
Riga, on the Baltic, which seems to be the
most westerly point it has reached, and from
which IL extends, in a line S. S. F., through
kieif (kiew) 10 Trebizond, on the Black
Sea, and, further south, through Asiatic Tur-
key, into Persia. 1t made its first appear
ance in Trebizond on the 9Th Of September,
and in Riga on or before the 10th. Thirty
cases were reported in Trebizond on the llth,
described as being mot very virulent." A.
bout the same number Of cases, daily, are re.
ported at Erzeroum, (near Trebizond.) where
one-third the cases proved fatal. The NOR
tality in the Russian towns is stated at two
thirds the number of cases The disease had
not reached Constantinople, where it was,
however, almost daily expected, Ga fatal case
had occurred on the steam packet Sultan,
coming from Trebizond,) and where a quar-
antine of observation had already been estab-
lished. Rigid quarantine regulations had
been instituted at Genoa and Palermo; and
they were talked of at Malta and Marseilles.
Nor is there, perhaps, any occasion TO eX-
pect that its passage to the New World will
be a speedy one. Looking back to the re-
cords of its former occurrence, (from which
VIC "'oy '"ih Pu'o IT'S idte " iaNel,) We hhu
that 1t made its appearance in Eastern Rus
STA in the fall of 1880; at Moscow. for exam
pie, on the % of September. II was not un-
til thirteen months afterwards that it reached
England, (it broke ont at Sunderland, on the
2Sth of October, 1881. )and it was not until
the 9Th Of June, 1882, that it appeared at
Quebec, upwards of twenty months after its
appearance at Moscow. Anticipating for it
a similar rate of progression now, (and eN-
perlence shows a remarkable uniformity. gen.
orally speaking, in its advance,) there would
seem little occasion TO expect its appearance
in England before next October, or in Amer
lea before the summer OF 1919.