The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-05-27

Cholera.

IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK
Dreadful ravagesof the cholera among overland
Emigrants to CaiiforDa.. Suffering and
sickness -Brandeth's Pills in choiera--.-Re-
turn Of Emigrants 10 st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS June 9Th, I649. \
MEssRs BEACH left New York city on the
18th March last, as one of a 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 10Th April. Two other compa-
MES, one from N. Hampshire an the other from
Western New York, left at the same time,
We jourpeyed on in company for the first six
days after that we left them behind, as they
had OK teams, which are bad travellers. ,a
The second 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 convulsions, 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 Brandeth's Pills on speculation, gave
the patient dose of nine pills, and in thirty
minutes after fyem and he was saved.--
and Joined ns, and now the cholera made its ap-
pearance in earaest. Tho first day there were
five taken, the next seven, and the third thir.
teen, and soon we had u hospital in the wilder
ness, and our only physician a 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 80 Of
Brandeth's Pills, Iconcluded 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, more Of our com.
pany have returned here, and among them Saw
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 thisweek as we have had
enoughof California and Brandeth's pills 10 last
us for quarter Of century at least.
r. Yours truly,
PHILIP d ScHAFFtR.
las the aboveletter comes to us with genuine
name attached to it. and as the writer is known
TO us as gentleman formerly a resident of
New York, we would be acting unjustly did we
deny its publication. This, however, we
wonld have done had the letter not come, as it
did, directly to ourselves as a matter of simple
correspondence from source we could not ex-
peel Of any sinister motive. I'VE would, in ordi-
nary circumstances, be slow to publish cores.
pondence containing aught either to the injury
or aggrandisenent Of any party. Dr. Bran
dreth's pills are well know as a most excellent
medicine but we must confess that We have
hitherto been rather incredulious as to
the propriety Of their use in cases of cholera,
But this letter speaks for itself, and we publish
it as matter Of duty, and without DR.. Bran
dreth being aware Of its existence.--EDs SUN.]
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