The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-11-12

Important from Jamaiea-Ravages of the Cholera, &C..
The steamship Cherokee, Captain Windle, arrived at
New York on Friday, from Chagres, with two millions
: We are Indebted 10 DR., Berry. the surgeon Of the
steamer Cherokee for full file OF California papers, and
also for copy Of the Kingston Morning Journal Of the
30th ut two days later than those received by the
Georgia
For the twenty.four hours ending on the 2sh ult.
there at Kingston fifty three new cases OF cholera
and thirty DEATHS at Port Royal, twenty new cases
and eleven deaths. For the twenty four hours ending
on the 29th there were at Kingston twenty-five new
cases and thryfve deathshe returns. however. being
Incomplete at Port Royal eighteen cases and three
deahs-making the total Of deaths since the disease APP
peared Kingston three hundred and thirty and at
Port Royal one hundred and eighty-one The disease
was very fatal at st. Cstharines and other places The
authorities in each place were doing their utmost to arrest
The New York Evening Post has some further details,
communicated BY passenger on the Cherokee relative
to the cholera:
He that in the burial ground Of Spanish Town
the OF government OF the island-twen-fye bodies
left Sunday before last upon the surface oil the ground
being impossible induce TO bury them The
finally offered their freedom to the convicis Of the
FOR The deceased some Of them accepted the Offer but the
most Of those who did died shortly after OF the cpl
:. On the morning the Empire City sailed DR..
Campbell, prominent physician in Kingston, stated to
that dreadful the cholera in Jamaica,
he believed destuctiveness had only commenced.
The disease had been particularly destructive In the
in one week AZ the first appearance the disease the
patients fingered usually from twelve TO ften hours; bn
the frequently proved fatal in quarter OF
hour.
" There is grea, scarcity Of medical men The few
who rssde there exhausted with their labors. One
physician made eighty calls In single day There Is
hope entertained that New York will send out ply
scans by the Several Of the profession have
fallen victims either the disease overcxertion and
exposure. Among the number we sorry to have 70
mention the OF DR.. Palmer, OF the most emnen,
ply scians upon the island. He quite well a, night
and died before morning.
Just before the LETT intelligence received
Kingston that the epidemic had broken In the ti
regiment stationed at New Castle, about eight miles iron
Kingston In the mountains, and that fourteen had
proved fatal The camp Is about 1000 feet above the
level the sea- and selected for ts heahiness
temperature varying from ~ to W degrees
Fahrenheit la the warmest IL was supposed tina
the firing Of artillery might affect the atmosphere favor
ably, and all the vessels Of war In the harbor Of Kings
ton were kept firing all day. but without any effect
Il was proposed the day tho steamer LETT to iumigaie
Kingston BY kindling fires in each street This
doubtedly donewith what effect shal learn till the
arrival OF the next steamer.
The disease IL spreading the island and carrie,
with II terror and distress Our informant states that al
most the last he leaving the island was Col
Harrison our venerable consul in Jamaica, who regretted
that did not Perm, his leaving also"