The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-06-10
Cholera.

CQOl6Ids
IMPORTANT coRREsPoNDEYcE OF THE NEW YORK
SUN.
Dreadful ravages of the cholera among overland
Emigrants TO Califorua..--Suffering and
sickness -Brsndeth's Pills in cholera RE-
turn. OF Enigrants 10 st. Louis
ST. Louis June 9th, IS49.
MEssRs BEACH left New York city ON the
18th M arch last, as one Of company of forty
eight persons, 10 rendezvous al Independence,
Mo. and proceeded thence 10 California. We
were fortunate in making our arrangements at
Independence, end left there in good health and
splr,Is on the 18th April. Two other compa-
MES, one from N. Hampshire an the other from
Western New York, lett st The same time,
we iourpeyed OIL in company for the first six
DAYS after that we lett them behind, as they
had OK teams, which are bad travellers.
The secon week out we were alarmed at
the appearance of the cholera, as one of our
number was suddenly taken with vomiting &c.
&c, and such was the absence of mind or
fright, that before anything was done for him
he was in oonvulsions and died in few hours
after the first attack The next day another
was taken and one Of our number, had laid in
some Of Bra deth's Fills on speculation, gave
the patient dose Of nine pills, and IN thirty
minutes after five more, and he was saved -.--
By this time the two other companies came up
aud Joined us, and now the cholera made its ap-
pearance in earnest. The first day !here were
five taken, the mex, seven, and the third thir-
teen, and soon we had hospital in the wilder
ness, and our only physician cabinet-maker
| with Brandeths Pills and strange as it may
appear, we only lost two others beside the first
| one taken and they took no less, than 33 of
Brandeth's Pills, concluded TO retu home
/ aofo N sold t,.,.I,
and we retraced our steps to this lace, compa-
nies that passed us lost many OF their numbers
especially here spirits and brandy were used
and laudanum administered. All our men
took wrs pills and some crust tea, saw no less
than OF company bu led in one grave, The
suffering of The men on the plains is awful.
Since have been here, y 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 not
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 oil a century at least,
i -sr- Yours truly,
| PHILIP ID. ScHAFPvR.
tAsthe abovelotter comes TO us with genuine
name attached to it. and as the writer is known
| TO us as a gentleman formerly resident O
|
deny Its publication. This, however, W,
wonld have done had the letter not come, as i
did, directly to ourselves as matter of simpl
correspondence FROM source we could not ex
peel OF any sinister motive. We would in ofdi
nary circumstances, be slow to publish cores
-ponnence containing aught either to the iniur,
or aggrandisement Of any party DR.. Bran
dreths pills are well know as most excelIen
medicine but we must confess that wc hav
hitherto been rather incredulious az :
the proprie,y Of their use in cases OF cholera
But this letter spe ks ivr itself, and we publls
it as matter OF duty, and without DR.. Bran
dreth being aware oil It's exslence.-EDs SUM-
For Sale by the following Agents.
J. Lodwck & Son, Portsmouth,: Kyle & Johr
son, Hanging ROCK, jus. Burgess. Haverbill
VIM. Brown, Sciotoville, b. Johuson, Burlington
J.&A P,octur Quaker-Boltom, q. B. 'Dur
ham, Piketon; C. M. Martin, Jackson;F. 81
D,Campbell, Chlllicolhe, etc.
Portsmouth, May n, lS50.--8m2