The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-10

The reports from the public institutions marked thus
arc for the Y hours preceding l2 N. to-day.
CHOLERA CASES -A man named Hugh Collins, took
sick of Grand street and Bowery, about o..
clock on Sunday evening. He was taken to his resi-
WEE saw stree, oy ene police on
the Centre street Hospital On enquiry, ascertain
ed mat the day before he was guilty OF drunken de-
bauch Three fourths Of all the arise from in
temperance.
IN BROOKLYN.
Board Of HEALTH July o. ls49.
During the last tive days. cpl emic Ohio.
lers have been reported to this office; four them
proving fatal viz Andrew Levy, aged 20, Nostrapd
avenue; Peter Miller, (colsred) aged 45, Flushing
avenue Ann sAdams, aged q. Division street; and
Patric Ennis, aged five years Bond street,
CHAS s. j. GOODRICH, Physician Of tho Board.
IN OTHER PLACES.
The Natehez (Slss) correspondent Of the Phiadel-
phia Inquirer Of the 9Th inst under date Of the 25h
ut says - This sconrge has produced and is still
producing frghtful havoc among the people; some
plantations the loss has been per cent on Others So
and many So and very few less than Is per cent
The total losses the plantations Of myself aud fam
lyin Stack Island Reach amounted on the 22d
lo3 OF the cholera II IT will stop there will have
farcd better than great many hers 1t has been in
my place for 62 days. very unusual period At Mrs.
4. Minors place below Baton Rouge, it appeared in
March, and remained four days carried of II
of go 1t appeared again the 18th of June, and up
to the 2lst (nine day the number deaths reached
79-mAking total loss OF 100 out Of 30 On Mier's
place. the deaths 80 out Of So; Phillips "a out
Of o. Briscoe Is out Of Is; on rs out of
220 The disease to be spreading all over the
country; and increasing In malignity aud violence
have lost Stack Island Reach SO to 30 OF the best
men and women But the pecunary loss Is .
bagatee, compared with tho suffering in feeling at
parting with slaves endeared to me by long Ownership
and whose faces were ~ familiar to n my chill
dren The disease is of the most magn Type more
than half died in less than eight hours from
symptoms good many OF them In three to three aud
a half hours, and several in less time WITHOUT dis
charge either way Those who have escaped the cho-
lera have been afraid to work their people and their
crops little better than those who have had cholera
The St Louis (Mo) Ne,o Era, Of the Goth ultimo,
says-we yesterday noticed the death, under obi
tuary head, of MIR. Robert Ransom Of this city for
several years past the book keeper of Mr. w. s. OIL
man, Of our most excessive grocery houses Anew
weeks since he the head of "A family consstipg OF
wife four children step. sister In the full en-
joyment Of healthal of wh-m people tho City OF
the Dead Father mother children and sister ha We all
been swallowed up in death each In their turn beinx
swept off by the pestileuce that destroyeth ut
day Mr. Ransom was the las, Of his family aad grief
within few short days doubtless prsdsposed his sys
TEN to the attack that finally carried him OF tie
q devout and exemplary Christian; a kind oblging,
hospitable neighbor. aud worthy citizen His loss,
and that of his entire hsusehod will be sensbly felt
by large circle Of friends and acQuaintances this
city, we'll as from Illinois from whence he removed.
The Organ Of this morning gives .ther instauos,
not unlike the one above RELAXED and still could
tsd II the least pains taken to collect the facts
The mentioned in the Organ Is olisws-A Ger
had buried in succession his wife and four chill
dren, he With two helpless infants being all that
lett Of happy and industrious though poor family
circle II WAS the mour aful story ssan-anothsr
Of his innocents had been claimed by its Maker The
necessary papers were made out and handed to him;
manly oittude, struggling with natures fpndness for
all he loved torn from him gave way aud the big
tears .adfu look all from mas rolled
his cheeks unchecked as he exclaimed You have
got them all from me but that perhaps youll have
to morrow He came the day That ons-the
last one-had followed the othersto better world and
he scarcely conscious of his actions stAlked forth
Twin preventative Of death.
The st Louis (Nio) Reri.he Of the Goth ult SAYS -;
Major Belger. Quarter Master A., arrived in this
city Last evening from Fort kearney Island
the ratte lie states that the whole line Of travel
over which tho emigrants have passed IL literally
strewed with graves This but the ming OF the
end Suffering such as the world has rarely known
is yet to overtake these devoted Adventures
Bishop Polk Of Louisiana has lost twenty three no
groes by cholera
The Board Of Health Of Columbus, Ohio. on the 5th
instant reported cases Of cholera and deaths for
the preceding as hours