New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-22
THE STRIDE OF pEsT1LENcE,

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~ ~ Puoiisn oetom an account oi tne raging
al Enma5,n pgs.,s'e VI piague' Hhicii visited
-. - - Po ao h'''' siA 'Sh.uries ago, anu
90, @ oe"'ii anu ueeo,a'ioh IN us Train
10 . iuiiui toooiu' pul VIII pe reau WIN SIN
I'M in,eies. ~ au;
oe ~ .,s,, ae e suuJeGt' We are reminded
VI 'ho ,heoi VI III. oanies Aperhethy, OF Ulas-
onoa " nd i%u a mtnoIe aI years ago. Mrote an IN
~ iuduie "oih' tie ooJest oi
W. Ti,irn was 70 pte'ei Una. III every case Whefe
!; ,,IJ hn " 1ne pias9e las oeeh hhoWn'
..ss.oai. :. oo ,aoeo " Ieaf' .nu cor
- 80, 4 - 4'noSn ~. hpeIhe.ny
"as dilouieu, ihusheo ae anu sheereu at Iof ms
laine' we .ons aso his theory anu suo
mas taught US that IL Is 10
'e ,iipiS,'iy .h; relieu oh' ,oo,
. - sAis oouneiy m the year ioo-. we were
.n.o sV'se u uileAaInplee. panic py lts
IL. aioe vi oul euoIes' ihs u.ihost eAci1e,
that tba 0,oe e,oh of ~, snn Mals pre.ehueu
,,,1 ,tle Wv n''.on VI ehe zen monster uisease'
80, ~ ~ 90 anu us.ho.iy n,arheo'
i.a d. -. as una. Vi an N
~ WIZ s9 49, Y
h,I tha Iaornod daptore Tho consec7,anoa ~ &c
~ nrr, tbrovn 14o sto+ -
fearful and fitful exeitement-tbousand fed in
a single day-physicians abandoned tbe;r no
tients. and elergvmen nrecintoteiy ou;t tba;r p%
fiocks to escape to the mountains as nlocas
of refuge. Whilst this state of alarm ax;stod
the common thorouobfares of tho c;ty we've
barricaded and blocked un-bosnitals ware 90
tablished in almost every word Of tho o;tv ;nto
which hundreds and thousands. the vicfims of
fear and panic were thrust to die. Had thew
retained their eouanimity and placiditv of tenn.
permanent. thew had been left strangers 10 Dis
ease
In the year 1876. somebody predicted inas.
much as the season opened with unusual heat
that the Asiatic cholera would visit ms agoin
Some other somebody endorsed the nrediction
People siekened in the obscure and loathsome
sections of the CITY: and some wiseacre uove II
as his opinion that they died of Asiatic c6olera
Seth Geer was called on to renort on tho snb b;ect
He said tba the defi1nct did not die of chojero
but something very like if ssVnrv lilo q
wbalew After few dovs ha dacided tbot tba
sc sAsiatic cholera asphixod" was among ms At
the instant, although there has not IN intelli.
gent man in the CITY, who could place the least
confidence in Seth Geer's opinions. n terrific
panic ensued; in less than months time. the
weekly bills of mortality were swelled to fifteen
hundred deaths, In the course of three months.
upwards of ten thousand people were hurried to
their graves throuob Seth Geer,s ranort ond
the operations of the gallipots. II is to he
hoped that the people of NewYork will never
again be driven into a similar state of follv and
infatuation. But. we nroceed IN our extract
THE BLACK DEATu.-This pestilence. which
received from the Northern nations of Eurone
the significant appellation of the Black Deoth.
and which was termed by the Italians the C,.eot
.9fortalitv, La Mortalega Grand had Mt tba
period Of its invasion of Enolond devostot tod tbe
whole of Asia, the greater mart of Africa and
South and Central Europe; and subseouentlv
its influence extended over the North of Eurone.
and probably also Greenland-for it Is to the
ravages of this plague that the compJete dest,uc-
ton of the first Norwegian Colonies in Green