Tri-weekly journal., 1847-11-11
THE CHOLERA.

THE CHOLERA.
The following article exhibitingth progress
thus far of that scourage of Nations, the Ash
attic Cholera, and forecasting the amount of
danger to be apprehended from its coming, if
come it does, will be read with interest:
The Great Scourge of humanity scourge
more awful than ATILIA and his Huns-more
terrible than the eruption of a volcano-more
devastating than the throes of an earthquake
the Great Scourge of the Cholera is at this mo-
ment advancing towards us with silent but in
domitable rapidity, if we may believe the in
telligence received almost daily from the from
tiers of the Russian Empire. Its course is de-
scribed as being northwesterly, and it is said to
have already penetrated into the interior Of
Europe. Con defend us from the agonies
which desolated the word in 1892!
The Philadelphia American says-The above,
from the London Sun of October ID, the OPEN
ing of pretty long leader couched in language
OF similar character, expresses the feeling, al
most amounting to panic, with which some of
our European contemporaries seem disposed to
regard the continued progress Of the Oriental
pestilence, which threatens a renewal of the
calamities of 1872. The Cholera is, in fact,
once more in Europe, sweeping, with all its
ancient slowness OF pace, but breadth of de-
vastation, along its accustomed path, from
east to west and, as we have every reason to
suppose that it will pass Europe, and ultima
tey disregarding the barrier Of the Atlantic,
reach our own shores, as in 1881. We have
looked over our foreign files for notes of its
progress, such as must naturally interest Amer
lean readers.
The last intelligence that I'VE have from Eng
land shows that the Cholera is already at Riga,
on the Baltic, which seems to be the most cas-
tcrly point it has reached, and from which it
extends in line S. S. E., through kieff, (Kew)
to Trebizond, on the Black Sea, and further
South through Asiatic Turkey into Persia 1t
made its first appearance in Trebizond on the
9Th of September, and in Riga on or before the
18th. Thirty cases were reported in Trebizond
on the 18th, described as being not very viru-
lent. About the same number of cases daily,
are reported at Erzeroum, (near Trebizond)
where one-third Of the cases were fatal. The
mortality in the Russian towns is stated at
two-third the number of cases. The disease
had not reached Constantinople, where it was
however, almost daily expected, "a fatal case
had occurred on the,,steam,pa Sultan, COM
ing from Trebizond).and where quarantine Of
observation had deem already established. Rig
id quarantine relations he'd been instituted at
Genoe and Palermo; and they were talked of at
Malta and Marseiles
1t is impossible to divest the mind of awe,
and even terror, while brooding over the antic-
| ipated advent of dreadful epidemic, in which
so many will apprehend the direct judgement
of God upon an age of light and wickedness.
But the ignorant suffer with the wise, and
the wise are called upon and permlttep to les
sen the affection which would otherwise fall
upon the Masses with unequal weight. Ex-
perience has already proved that the resources
of science in Europe and the United States are
competent to the successful resistance of the
East Indian plague, whose ravages were les
sened, and in many instances, prevented, du-
ring its former visitation, fifteen years ago;
and now, with better knowledge OF 1t than
was then enjoyed, we have every reason to be-
lieve that, should it visit us again, 1t will pre-
sent few of its former terrors.
Nor is there, perhaps, any occasion to ex-
pect that its passage to the New World will be
speedy one. Looking back to the records of
its former occurrence, (from which we may
compute its rate of travei,) we find that 1t
made its appearance in Eastern Russia in the
4 fall Of 1880: at Moscow, for example, on the
28th of September.
1t was not until thirteen months afterwards
that it reached England (it broke out at Sun
derland, on the 28th of October, 1881 } and 1t
was not until the 9Th Of June, 1882, that it ap-
peared at Quebec, upwards Of twenty months
| after its appearance at Moscow. Anticipating
) for it similar rate of progression now, (and
: experience shows a remarkable uniformity
generally speaking, in its advance,) there
would seem little occasion to expect its appear
ance in England before next October, or in A.
raerica before the summer of 1919.
Science and benevolence, however, are new
busily engaged in watching its steps. Gov
emments and municipalities stand in readiness
to prepare, at a moments warning for its ap
I proach and we may expect its coming here
after, should it come, assured that it canno
take us by surprise and equally assured that al
> the resources of knowledge and humanity vii
I, be in requsition to deprive it of its dangers.
IMM1GRANTs.-13, 900 immigrants arrived a
the port of New York during the month of DC