The Arkansas banner., 1849-07-24
The Cholera ai Paris.

we irafh rom the ldte European tateulgencc that this scourge rages in the French capital with aa intensity unequaled by any of the ravages it has committed in cities. The Paris correspon- dent of the New Orleans PIcayuae, alluding to the panic and destruction accustomed by this merciess disease, says:
 ''I cannot pretend to give you one-half the stories told a relation to this terrible visitation, have 1 time to relate what has fallen under my own observation. But that you may form idea of it's violence. 1 will give few incidents. The funerals have taken place by night well as by day, and the ordinary hearses having been found inadequate in numb rs, every species Of vehicle has b-eu brought into requisition. Even the roi- t3res Ge deeHageEenfs, ordinarily used to transport furnitae, have been used to carry the dead to their last resting place, and in some instances half dozen rude collins have been seen slowed away in the wagon. At the cemeteries, great at times the press, that long queues were formed of the dead us we sometimes see of the living in front of the theatres, when any extraordinary per formance is to be given- Hundreds have been thrown into trenches without collins The churches meanwhile, have been crowded, and the clergy have been busy night and day in performing the last holy offices of religion over the bodies of the de- parted. A friend describes the following strange chain of incidents he himself witnessed iH the church of St. Louis d'ABtin. Seeing marriage party enter, the bride, beautiful girl of some eighteen summers, he himself went in 10 observe the ceremonies Near the centre of the altar the marriage party took their station, on the right a christening was occupying the attention of por- tloa of the priests, while on the left were three collins which the last prayers of the church being said, And before the marriage VOWS We're Plighted and the party ready to retire, they found their egress almost blocked by the Bum-
 Der of dead bodies which had been brought in during the ceremony. Another friend of mine visited me few days since in a voiture. On the way an ac-
 guaiatance of the driver came rushing up aad told
 him that his wife was dying with the cholera. Of ! course he was allowed at once to start of, and my
 friend procured another vehicle. In less than half
 an hoar afterwards, however, the new driver was himself taken down, and was obliged to have re- Course at once to medical ad"'
 "The different foreign legations were beset by { persons anxious for passports-the Prefecture of ! Police was thronged with multitude, ciamorous l for permission 10 leave the infected city. Heed- 1 less wbither they went, they seemed only anxious
 to get out of Paris They did not stop to inquire
 whether the destroyer had reached the neighborng towns or villages: they never beiho1ght them thai
 they might be taken down in the rail dilii-
 genees; 10 get away from Paris appeared 10 be the end aud aim Of thousands, regardless of conse. | qnenees. Like frightened horses they only wish. ! ed to ruu-run anywhere, though lie depended alone upon locomot!oa. Could the statistics Oi
 deah be duly recorded, il would be found that hun
 dreds have lost their lives within the last fortnight 1 from fright alone-or what amounts to the same 1 thiag, iH fleeing 10 save themselves"
 1 Uader later date, he writes:
 ] ''-The cholera would appear to have now passed 1 it's greatest term of intensity in Paris, since the 1 sth nit, .he day of the great storm, the number o
 cases has rapidly declined, both in the hospitals
 in private houses. The number of deaths that q ID 1 oniy 6l2, and since ,heA has very eOnsiderab, :, l decreased.''