The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-11-20
The Cholera.

The Great Scourge Of humanity-a scourge
more awful than ATILLA and his Huns-m0re
terrible than the eruptions Of volcanoes-mor
devastating than throes of an earthquake-the
Great Scourge ofthe Cholera is at this moment
advancing towards us withsilent butindomlta-
BILE rapidly, If we may believe the intelligence
received almost daily from the frontiers ofthe
Russian Empire. Its course is described as
being northwesternly, and il is said to have al
ready penetrated into the interior Of Europe
| COP defend us from the agonies which desola-
ted the world in 1882! @
The above, from the London Sun OF Oct
Cd, the opening Of a pretty long leader, couch
ed in language Of similar character, expresses
the feeling, almost 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, sweep
inc. with all its ancient slowness Of pace, but
breadth ofdevastation, along its accustomed
bath, from east to west: and, as we have every
reason to suppose that it will pass over Europe
and, ultimately, disregarding the barrier Of the
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 Eng
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landshows that the Cholera is already at Riga
on the Baltic, which seem to be most east
ernlv point it had reached, and from which il
extends, in a line SIS. E. through Kieff, (Kiew0
TO Trebizond, on the Black Sea, and, further
south, though Asiatic Turkey, into Persia
Il n1ade it's first appearancein Trebizond on the
9th of September, and in Riga on or before the
18th. Thirty cases were reported in Treblzond
on the lIth, described as being ''not very viru-
About the same number Of cases dali
", are reported at ErzeOrOOm, (neat Trebi-
zohdA where one-third the casos we've tata-
The mortality in the Russian towns is stated
al two thirds the number Of cases! The dis'
ease had not reached ConstantinopIe, where it
was. however, almost daily expected, "a fatal
case had occurred Oh the steampacket Sultan
coming from Trebizond0 and where a quaran'
tine Of observation had been already estaoliSn-
ed. Rigid quarantine regulations had been
Instituted at Genoa and Palermo, and they
were talked Of at Malta and Marsellies.
II ii impossible 70 divest the mind Of awe,
and eyen terror, while brcoding over the an
ticipated advent Of a dreadful epidemic, in
which % may will apprehend the direct iudg-
ment Of God upon an age Of light and wicks
edness. But theignoraht suffer with the wise,
and the wise are called upon, and permitted 70
lessen the affection which would otherwise
fall upon the masses with equal weight. Ex-
peFience has already proved that the resources
Of science IN Europe and the United States
are competent 10 the successful resistance OF
the East India plague, whose ravages were les
sensd and;in many instances, prevented, dur
its former VISITATION, fifteen years ago; and
now with abettcr knowledge Of il than was