Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-09-14
Tile CHOLERA

The cold comes, and the cholera GOES Tic accounts
from the North and West generally concur in auhorizn
The conclusion that the pest Is declining an will hardly
survive the first frost. This will be source OF uniyersa
satisfaction 1t is true that the disease has not been a.
extensive in its ravages this summer as on two or three
of previous visits but its positive attacks have been
perhaps more malignant than ever. No progress has
been made towards unfolding the mysteries of the scourge
We remain as ignorant before OF causes of the dis
case and the means of cure still employed almost "a
varied as practitioners numerous. Its law Of move.
men! seems to So. all explanation by science at def inco
IL has been far more irregular its course this year than
ever before Jumping apparently randum hithor and
thther instead OF regularly travelling from place to place
All explanation Of disease consists in connecting or per
ceivug connections 10 time or place with two or more
classes oil circumstances, with of VIII oh we are al
ready familiar IT, without any exception wherever tho
cloea III tue ts APPEARANCE dense cloud hung over the
che spot, to that We should attribute the disease If BY
chemca test We could always detect peculiar agent
~ tue atmosphere where cholera prevailed We should
that was it, No such perceptble circumstance al
ways accompanies the existence OF choea and II Is the
absence OF any sucn circumstances which constitutes the
present pinfu mystery ia which tho disease is
The disease has always committed its chief rayapes
among those in low and weak condition OF body aud
mind This has characterized il from rs origin The
bulk OF tho population of Asia being crowded into
ADD cities Is very poorly fed aud the people among
whom has made tho greatest havoc-the Hndoos and
Closey pfchcu, and i've on lew hand
ul' OF rice, few vegetables tia, would not sustain
an American child The milady proves more extensively
al Ei5tern countries in proportion to the number of
Inhabitants OF towns attacked than il ever has in more
civilized lands During the past there Ia va been
10 this city about nineteen hundred deaths from cholera
but they have occurred almost entirely among the Door
foreign population, the lowest aud dssipatsd of
our own And 30 through the country. Some terrible
examples there have been Of the young and tho vigorous
being s victims, but those exceptions aud the rule
mas been that the disease has seized the encebed 10 body
and .be weak ia mind. Il has taken hold Of the low
spirited aud the unfortunate has spared the
ana the enjoying. Somebody has said and We are very
much Inclined TO agree with him. that the best sanitary
regulation s abundance. The Cholera additional
tG'nmony against that depressed aud degraded position
OF the poorer stratum OF society which IL thought by
some persons TO be tho order Of nature IL tells us that
Tue spur TO enjoyment that successful obedience 10 the
command which every on feels and tries 20 obey" be
happy make yourself prosperous live comfortably In
Ine snd which the Lord ha, given youis gud1nce to
AVOID disease, well continue and improve the
species Abundance of food, therefore, temperate and
eheefl ives cleinlnos which s nett to goiness free
ar and light OF tho sun nourshmen enjoyment virtue
are Smongthe best prevenhVos Of cholera.