The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-07-22
Cholera.
IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK

IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE 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 to st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS June 9Th, I949.
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 10 California. We
were fortunate in making our arrangements al
Independence, and left there in good health and
spirits on the 18th April. Two other compa-
nes, one from N. Hampshire an the other from
Western New York, left at the same time,
we jourDeyed 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, &c.
&C., and such was the absence of mind or
fright, that before anything was done for him
he was in convulsons, 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 Pills on speculation, gave
the patient dose of nine pills, and in thirty
minutes after five more, and he was saved 800
By this time the two other companies came up
and Joined US, and now the cholera made its ap-
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 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 return home
and two more Of our company sold out with me
and we retraced our steps to this place, compa-
nies 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 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 al 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 Brandeths pills TO last
us for quarter OF century at least.
| Yours truly,
| PHILIP d. ScHAFFtR.
| As the above letter comes TO us with genuine
name attached 10 it. and as the writer is known
TO us as gentleman formerly resident o.
New York, we would be acting unjustly did W,
deny its publication. This, however, W.
wond have done had the letter not come, as il
did, directly 10 ourselves as a matter of simple
correspondence from source we could not ex.
peel Of any sinister motive. We would, in ordi
nary circumstances, be slow to publish CORES
pondence containing aught either to the iniur,
or aggrandisement of any party. DIR. Bran
dreth's pills are well know as most excelIen
me dicne but we must confess that VIC hav,
hitherto been rather incredulious as Il
the propriety Of their use in cases of cholera
But this letter spenks for itself, and we publisl
it as matter Of duty, and without DR.. Bran
dreth being aware OF its existence.--EDs SUM-
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Portsmouth, May 27, lS50.--Sm2