The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-07-08
Cholera.
Cholera.
IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW ,


IMPORTANT coRREsPoNDEScE OF THE NEW YORK
Dreadful ravages of The cholera among overland
Emigrants TO California; Suffering and
sickness -Brandeth's Pills in cholera IRE
turn Of Emigrants 10 st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS June 9th, I849. r
MEssRs BEACH: left New York city on the
18th March last, as one Of company of forty
eight persons, 10 rendezvous at Independence,
Mo- and proceeded thence to California. We
were fortunate in making our arrangements at
Independence, and left there in good health and
spirits ON the 18Th April. Two other compa-
MES, one from N. Hampshire an the other from
Western New York, left at the same time,
we journeyed on in company for the first six
days after that we left them behind, as they
had OK teams, which are bad Travellers
The second week out we were alarmed at
the appearance of the cholera, as one Of our
number was suddenly taken with vomiting, Be.
&C., and such was the absence Of mind or
fright, that before anything was done for him
he was in commissions, and died in few hours
after the first attack Thenext day another
was taken and one Of our number, had laid in
some Of Brandeth's Pills on speculation, gave
the patient dose Of nine pills, and in thirty
minutes after five more, and he was saved --.-
By this time thetwo other companies came up
and Joined US, and now the cholera made its an.
pearance in earnest. Tho first day !here were
five taken, the next seven, and the third thir.
teen, and soon we had hospital in The wilder
ness, and our only physician a cabinet-maker
with Brandeths Pills and strange as it NAV
appear, we only lost two others beside the first
one taken and they took no less, than 80 of
Brandeth's Pills, concluded TO return home
and two more Of our company sold out with me
and we retraced our steps to this place, compa-
MES that passed us lost many of their numbers
especially where spirits and brandy were used
and laudanum administered All our men
took was pills and some crust tea, saw no less
than 8 Of company buried in one grave, The
suffering of the men on the plains is awful.
Since have been here, 8 more Of our com.
pany have returned here, and among them Sav.
age who had the pills. He sold out his pills to
other companies at 81 per box /; SO he has MT
lost anything after all, Wee pect that our entire
company will be here this week as we have had
enough Of California and Brandeth's pills to last
us for quarter of acentury at least.
~ Yours truly,
PHILIP d. ScHAFF' n
As the above letter comes to us with genuine
name attached to it. and as the writer is known
W uh db Bcuucmun iOTiuoTiy TeBluent oil
New York, we would be acting unjusiy did we
deny its publication. This, however, we
wonld have done had the letter not come, as il
did, directly to ourselves as matter of simple
correspondence from source we could not ex-
pecl Of any sinister motive. We would, in ordi-
nary circumstances, be slow to publish CORES.
pondence containing aught either to the injury
or aggrandsement Of any party. DR.. Bran.
dreth's pills are well know as a most axcellent
medicine but we must confess that wo have
hitherto been rather incfedulious as to
the propriety Of their use in cases Of cholera,
But this letter speuks for itself, and we publish
it as matter of duty, and without DR.. Bran
dreth being aware Of its existence.-EDs SuN.l
For Sale by the following Agents.
]. Lodwick & Son, Portsmouth,; Kyle & John.
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Portsmouth, May 27, lS5O.--Sm2