Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-16
SICKNESS AND MORTALITY.

| SlChNESS AND
| COLUMBIA, PA.)-A Telegraphic despatch dated 12
o'clock yesterday at Columbia says: "The cholera still
RACES here with great vruence. Up to this morning
there were seventytwo Deaths and forty cases to-
day All business continues suspended; not store ia
to be found open. TWo-thirds of the population have
gone leaving probably not 1000 inhabitants in the
place The mortality and distress appalling Aper-
feet panic exists Many Of the best citizens falling
victims"
CHOLERA IN EAST TENNESSEE Chattanooga Ad-
vertiser of the 7th instant says at is with great sor
row that learn of the raging Of this fatal disease in
the upper and lower portions of East Tennessee We
letters from Knoxville of undoubted authority
in which deporable picture is given Of the exist
ing epidemic and its fatality The citizens flying in
all directions, and is quite impossible procure
veyances escape the town. price is demanded and
given by those anxious to leave One letter to Dr. Bell
of this city, states that six to eight daily
In Madisonve it is very bad but to what
i definitely informed An unusual degree Of health
\ still remains to Chattanooga and vicinity
An extra from the Office of the Knoxville whig
than confirms what is above stated the
4 cluding paragraph
'The picture here is of gloom the greatest
sternaton prevails. The city is abandoned night and
day they flying in every direction The hotels
closed The stage in with the mails and returns
to the country Immediately. We have scarcely help
enough to lay the dead and bury them Business Of
all kinds is suspended Our publishers have left town.
and no other paper be got out. If able,
have hands, we will hereafter issue an extra"
| New ORLEANs.-At the Charity Hospital in New Or
leans there ortyone deaths from yellow fever for
the period commencing at P NJ. the Cd instant and
terminating at l2l P. NJ. on the 9Th instant.
BosroN, SEPT 1.-THE wife and daughter Of the Hon
NATHANIEL BORDEN, Of Fall River Massachusetts,, died
Of cholera between Saturday morning and Sunday night
| SAvASsAH.-The number of interments at Savannah
on Thursday and Friday were forty Thirty-three
of them were persons who died of yellow fever.
| Sickness THE SUsouEHAsNA.-An the towns along
the Of the Susquehanna river have been suffering
very much from sickness The Lockhaven and Sunbury
papers attribute the sickness at these two places to the
Of drainage of low and marshy places in the
| vicinity.
The CHOLERA AT MARTINsBuRG-This dreaded scourge,
readers have been informed appeared with alarm
ing severity in Martnsburg Virginia, Friday last and
has taken off in brief period twenty nine of its inhabi
tants This, however, in population Of twenty-five
hundred, is but little than per centum. COM
have been appointed to take note Of the progress
Of the disease to report Of destuton, employ
nurses &c., and see to the burial of the dead The Ga
of Wednesday gives the following list Of deaths
six o'clock on Tuesday morning:
a % M Turner. Mrs @ pa % nt. q Jacob
hia Miss catharns iIomTS Mrs Meisrs Nc
ntire; Mrs M ). Hess consort % Of David Hess
o Der ,e 70 Morrison Mrs Mrs Gass 1 James
Raenhal Mr. Longhammes child Mr. UnderOnk
Monday STtoe 11NIrs John Weller, Weller,
s Mn shu
cooper iSckhammer IT. seary's child. ~
Five slaves also died during the same time The phy
sicans represented digent and the spot work
4 ing night and day with the sick and dying.
s CorbHpIA, lPA.)--Aa despatch dated at ON
IA asH iasfant snys . There VeES ne $Esnd
hffy dsaths Of cholera yesterday. The disess& y SSH
raging but not so extensively to-day. Tar bas been
burnt in various parts or the preventive in hope
Of purifying the atmosphere The distress and suffering
are beyond description For the want Of and
endants the dead cannot be buried fast required
1t is estimated that out of population of 5000 only If
teen hundred remain The latest accounts by telegraph
represent the sickness to be abatng Yesterday
! ing there were but few
/ 1t is stated that physicians from Philadelphia have
discovered that the principal Of this aicon at
Columbia may be attributed to the condition of the
vor While those who used water from that source have
perished by DOZENS those who used spring have
not been affected This is important discovery, and it
should lead to investigations elsewhere. The air wa
breathe and the water we drink should be pure
possible.
i SAvANNAH.-The deaths at Savannah Saturday last
were S3. On Friday they numbered 20, and Thursday
29-mostly from yellow fever The city has been DESERT
ed by many Of its inhabitants. Dr. WLDMAS, whose
name is familiar to readers in connexion with his
specific for yellow fever Dead and both Dr. ScHLEYs
are dead. The two Mr. BURRouGHs are also dead s. T.
CHAPMAN ESQ., editor and proprietor Of the Savannah
Courier," died Saturday and r. B. HILroS, ESQ.,,
principal editor of the Savannah Georgian" died on Sun
day. Many physicians sick among them Drs wEsr,
WELLS, WAYNE, ELLIS, ARNOLD, Sc. Nearly oil are worn
and their brethren in the country going to their
assistance All the hotels and Of the drug stores
have been closed. In Broughton street. from Roche's
hotel Bull street. only four stores exclusive Of drug
stores, open.
/ telegraphc despatch dated on he 10Th states the
number of deaths on Monday at forty-six. 1t adds:
i "The panic prevailing is indescribabe All who can
leave are doing as rapidly possible and popula
ton is decmaed though the number Of deaths in
creasng Ten bodies lying unburied, there being
sufficient hands willing to undertake their burial The
condition of affairs is horrible in the extreme"
New ORLEANs.-The deaths by yellow fever last week
at New Orleans two hundred and eightyseven At
the Charity Hospital the deaths from yellow fever for the
week ending the 11th were 125.
GALVESTON, (TExAs) )-The latest accounts from Gall
state that the yellow fever is steadily increasing,
and the panic is great that the citizens flying from
the scourge in every direction.
CHOLERA AT Sr. JOHN, (N B. )-0ne thousand of the
people of the city of ST. John New Brunswick have died
of cholera in period of time Seven hundred and
fifty orphan children, left destitute and without friends