The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-11-05
WHOLE NO. 1854.
tract SO rich in timber and mineral wealth
that IT has not been unaptly termed the
Denmark Of America"
The ChoIern.

"oIc teIIlDl6 tndu tue eruption
OF volcano-more devastating than the
'hrOes ofan earthquake Gre Scoutge
ot the Cholera is at this moment ad.
vancing towards us with silent but In.
domiiabIe rapidity il we may believe the
intelligence received almost daily from
frontiers Of the Russian Empire. Its
course is described as being northwest.
eriy, and 1t is said to have already pene-
trated into the interior of Europe. God
defend US from the agonies which desola.
ted the world in 1892"
The above is from the London Sun Oc.
tober I'd, the opening of pretty long
leader couched in language Of similar
character, expresses The feeling. almost
amouniing TO panic, with which some
OF our European contemporaries SEEM
ed disposed to regard the continued
progress of the Oriental pestilence,
which threatens a renewal Of the ca
lamites OF 1872. The Cholera is, in
fact. once more in Europe. sweeping,
with all its ancient slowness Of pace, but
breadth of devastation. along the accus-
toned path, and, as we have reason to
suppose that it will pass over Europe,
and, ultimately, disregarding the bar
ners ofthe Atlantic, reach our own shores
as IN 1899, we have looked over our for
Ieign files foi notes ofits progress, such as
naturally interest American readers.
The last intelligence we have from
England shows that the Cholera is at Ri.
ga, on the Baltic, which seems to be the
most easterIy point it has reached. and
from which it extends, in line S. S. E..
through Kief (Kew,) to Trebizond on
The Black Sea, and, furthersouth, through
Asiatic Turkey, into Persia. 1t made its
hrst appeara ance in Trebiz0nd on the Sth
of September. and in Riga on or before
the 18th. Thirty cases were reported
in Trebizond on the 11th, described as
being mot virulent" About the same
number of cases, daily, ale reported st
Erberoum, (near Trebizond) where one
third the cases were fatal The mortali-
ty 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, Ia
fatal case had occurred on the steam pack
ct Sultan, coming from Trebizond) and
where quarantine of observation had
been already established Rigid quar-
antine regulations had been instituted at
Genoa and Palermo, and they were talk
ed Of at Malta and Marseilles.
1t impossible to divest the mind of
awe, and even terror, while brooding over
the anticipated advent of dreadful epi-
demic, in which so many will apprehend
tho direct judgment of God upon an
age of light and wickedness. But the
ignorant suffer with the wise, and the
wise are called upon, and permitted to
lessen the affliction which would other
wise fall upon the masses with equal
weight. Experience has already proved
that the resources of science in Europe
and the United States are competent to
the successful resistance of East India
plague, whose ravages were lessened,
and, in many instances, prevented, du.
ring its former visitation, fifteen years a.
go; and now, with a better knowledge of
it than was then enjoyed, we have eve
Try reason to believe that should it visit US
again, it will present few of its former
Iterrors.
Norris there, perhaps, any occasion to
expect that its passage to the New World
would be a speedy one. Looking back
to the records of its former occurrence.
from which we may compute its rate Of
travel, we find that it made lis appear.
ance in Eastern Russia in the fall of
1880; at Moscow, for example, on the
2Sth of September II was not until
thirteen months afterwards that it reach
ed England, (it broke out at Sunderland,
Oh the 2Sth of October. 1881 y and it was
not until the Sth of June, 1882, thai it ap-
peared at Quebec, upwards of twenty
months after it appeared at Moscow
Anticipating forit at a similar rate of pro.
gresson now, land experience shows a
remarkable uniformity, generally speak
ing, in its advance. there would seem lit
tie occasion to expect its appearance in
England before next October, or in A
merica before the summer of 1S49.
Science and benevolence, however,
are now busily engaged in watching its
steps. Governments and municipalities
stand in readiness to prepare, at mo-
ment's warning for its approach; and we
may expect its coming hereafter, should
it come, assured that it cannot take us by
surprise, and equally assured that all the
resources of knowledge and humanity
will be in requisitioD to deprive it Of its
dangers.--PhH North american.
AN AFFECTING INcIDENT.-Pa Passing