Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-11-20
laf taa1-a Tile cholera Il Ia Cd, vlsa

/ eisHt siUwbess Of pace. but breadth Of DE-
vhstation, along its accustomed palh, from
ehst TO west and g. wa have every reason
10 suppose That Il will piss over Europe
and, ultimately, disFssafdih9 The barrier Of,
The Atlantic, reach gttf W shores, AZ Ia
A1eg3, We have lpbHsd over our foreign flesI
for notes 5f lts progress, such as mdsi ta
%llrally interest the American READERS,
The last intelligence that We have from
England shows that the Cholera is already
at Higa, - The baltic, which seems 10 BEL
1.-THE m9st e]astefly point Il has reached, andI
Through which Il extends In q line g g. Et
Through kibH tkia@) To 1'fsbia8hd, on the
Black Sen, ard further south, through Asia Il
tic Turkey into Persia. II made its first
appearance In. Trebizhnd on the 9Th 0fI
September. md in Riga oH or before the
18th. Thirty eases wBfs reported IN Tfe.I
sbi1and 10 the 18th, described a. not hbsihFI
very vifUleht." About The sat1e number
Sof cases, daily, are reported at Et1pf6ttm,
tnaaf TFsbiavad.j where one third the
lenses wsfe fatal The mortality IN the.
4Hussiah towns Ia stated Al two thifls the
number Of eases. The disease had not
sreaehsd C~ehslantlhoplb, where Il was
however, almost daily expected, IA fatal
Cease bad occurred On the steam packet
asnltat, coming from T'fetizond.) and
where a quarantine Of observation bad
been already established, Rigid quafan
tine regulations had been Instituted At HHs
heR and Palermo aud they we're talked Of
at Malta aud Marspiiies.
1t IL impossible to divast the mind Of
fave, and even terror, while bfo1ding over
the anticipated advent nc dreadful ppide.
mic, III Which 80 many will arprsbsnd The
difett Judgement Of Tod upoh an aes Of
liEht ard wie#einrss. but the ignorant
suffer with the Wife. aud The wise afs rail.
I'D tip6h and permitted 10 lessen The afiiies
libh which would otherwise fall Upon lhe
masses with unequal weight. Experience
has already proved that the researches o.
aseiphce III Bitops and the United ftlates
3are competent 10 The successful r~ssista nee
If The East Indian plague, whose raysges
were IesseBed, and, in many instances,
ptevehted. during is former visitation. hE
teen years ago and now, with n better
knowledge of II than was then enjoyed, we
have every reason to believe that. should il
risit ne again, IL will present few u liz
Iformer tFrfors,
II Nor is there, perhaps. any occasion "a
#rtrert that lie passage to The New World
will he n speedy one. Looking hack 70
f{tlip ~frfhtiB Of its former occurrence. frfam
which Ws may compute its rate 8r travel
we find that If made its Appearances in
Eastern Russia IN The fall Of iea6 NJ Mns
COW. for example. IN the 29lh Of Sept,
II was not Until thirteen tnonths ahef.
wards thai ii reached England, IL bro
bui Al Wonderland on tho 9th Of October,
1891. J and It was not until the eth IF TDnF,
il las2, that It appeared nt OHrtrf. upwards
Of twenty months after its appearance In
Moscow, Anticipating for It a similar fafe
If progression now. and experience shows
a remarkable uniformity, generally speak
ing, in ito advance there would septn little
occasion 10 expect IL appearance in En-.
gland before neEt October, or In America
before the simmer Of tB4D.
Science and henevolenes. however, nrf
now busiIy engaged in watching its steps
Governments and municipalities stand II
readiness IN prepare, al n moments warn
ing, for he approach, and we may expect
It's t]ofnin1 hereafter, should Il rome. aasur.
ed that II cannot take lie by surprise, ant
equally assured that all The rBspaters o
knowledge and humanity viii be IN req1i
. ton TO deprive il Of liz dangers.