Washington telegraph., 1852-10-13
Cholera I'm Poland.

The steamer Pacific brings further accounts of
the ravages of this disease in Poland. The New
Prussian Gazette has the following from Warsaw
of the 2Sth ult:
"a bout five hundred have died in the hospitals
here, and the total number Of those who have
been carried off by cholera is probably greater
than 10000. Cars. wagons britschkasard convey
ances OF every possible kind, are perpetually con-
veylng corpses to our burial grounds The pest
RACES most horribly among the lsraeites. In one
ortnlg ght--namey from the Sth to the 22d of
August-1,G62 Jews have been buried From
Posen we read In the same Journal" Forty three
persons have died here yesterday August 31St,
there are 405 under medical treatment. The
wife of the Commandant, General Tctzen, was
one OF the fated victims of the pest:'' Sotne
deaths are said also to have occurred on board
vessel al Hamburg.
The accounts of the cholera from Posen still
continue alarming: On the lst. 81 persons were
attacked: of whom 50 died; in Jarocin. in popp-
atlOn OF 2l}0, the number of deaths to the }0th
ut were 2lO During the past month it had been
Impossible to collect the taxes the funds of the
municipality are exhausted, and there were no
means OF furnishing attendance for the sick, or tn
bury The dead, and for the latter duty no one could
be procured without Immediate payment The
disease had appeared IN Schrimm and Namslau fin
Sllesla1 where IT had already existed, as liz the
Grand Duchy of Posen, no decrease likely to be
pcihiditiii Cdii ot IcpoTleu.
In Warsaw on the 29th there were seventy
nine cases, of which thirty-six were fatal;
five hundred and thirteen still remained under
treatment. Two of the most distinguished names
in Polish literature had fallen victims to the dis,
ease, Adrian Krzyxnanowski and Felix Beat
kowskl. both Professors in the University of War
saw. Since the appearance of the epidemic, it
was supposed that more than four thousand per-
sons had died in the hospitals. To convey the
dead to the burial grounds every kind of vehicle
was put In requisltlon-carts, wagons and brtsch-
kas. Parties OF sappers were ordered to the Po.
wenzker church-yard and the Jewish burial
ground, to dig the graves. The pest has ragged
with peculiar severity among the Jews. In tfeir
burial place. says one account, il was frightu to
see the number of new made graves; in the night
between the 2lst and 22d ult., alone, one hundred
and slXty-two corpses were buried; in those two
days together, three hundred and fifty died. As
on the Sabcath no Jewish burial can take place.
all were deferred till night, but on the Sunday
morning sixty bodies still remain unburied, and
more were constantly being brought to the ground
The help of the military was therefore called in
and the interments were obliged to be made with
out ceremony. The Jewish population exclaimed
against this PROCLAMATION of their religion. and to
prevent it men of all ranks volunteered for the
labor. tfs
They say that since the earliest ages. each
corpse has been washed and buried in separate
grave; and they would not allow the ceremony to
be omitted, or that all the corpses should be thrown
into common trench. By the voluntary aid
thus afforded by the people of all conditions with
out any distinction of rank or wealth. the required
forms were observed, and the Jews state that all
their faith have had separate grave. In fifteen
days 1862 Jews were swept away by the disease.
Private accounts states that the deaths have ex-
ceeded tie number stated in the official report.