Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-09-20
TnE CHOLERA.

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| The accounts from tie North and West gen.
orally concur ID authorizing the conclusion
that the pest Is declining and viii hardly sur
viye the first frost. This viii be SOURCE o.
universal satisfaction. Ii Is true that The
I disease has not been SO extensive in its raVa-
ges this snmmer, as on two or three oil it'
/ pregious visits but its positive attacks have
/ been, perhaps, more malignant than ever =
I No progress has been made TOWARDS unfold.
/ ing the mysteries Of the scourge. We remain
as ignorant IS before Of the causes Of tho dis,
case: and the means Of cure still employed
arc almost as varied as practitioners are uu-
meroas It's law Of movement seems to sci
/ all explanation by sisnce at defiance. 1t has
been far more irregular in its course this year
than ever before, jumping APPARENTLY ~ ran
dom hither and thither, instead Of regularly
travelling from place 70 place. AL czplaaa-
! ton Of disease consists in connecting or per-
ceiging connection in time or place With
two or more classes Of circumstances, With one
| Of which we are already familiar. II, without
any exception, wherever the cholera made its
appearance, a dense cloud hung over She spot,
TO that sc should attribute tho disease Il
dy chemical test. we could always detect
sora aeeuliar aren't in the atmosphere where
cholera prevailed, we should say tibet was its
cause, No such preccptiole circumstance al
ways accompanies the existence OF cholera,
and tits the absence Of any such circumstance
which constitutes the present painful mystery
in which the disease ia shroueed.
The disease has always committed its chief
ravages among those in low and weak con-
dition Ct body and mind. This has caarac
terzed it from its origin. Tho bulk Of the
population Of Asia, being crowded into Gowns
and cities, is very poorly fed, and tic poo-
pie among whom it has made the greatest
havoc-the flindoos and the Chinese are
closely packed and i've ca few handfnl!s Of
rice, or a few vegetables, that would not sus-
tain an American child. The malady proves
more extensively fatal in Eastern countries,
in proportion to the numoer CT inhabitants
of towns attacked thsa it ever has IN more
civilized lands During the past season there
have been ia this city about nineteen hundred
deaths from cholera, bit they have occurred
almost entirely among the poor foreign popu-
lation, or the lowest and noss dissipsted Of
our OWL. anu 80 thtOas5i @a0 CVuiti y
Some terrible examples there have been Of
the young and The vigorous being Its victims
but these were exceptions. and the rule has
been that the disease has seized the enieahled
in body and the weak in mind. Il has taken
hold On the low-spiyited and the unfortunate;
il has spared the prosperous and toe euioying
Somebody he's said, and &c are very much in
clinea to agree with him, thai the best SAM
tary regulation IS abundance, The Cholera
seems an additional testimony against that
depressed and degraded position of the poor
or stratum Of sociesy which Is thought by
some persons to be the order Of nature. It
tells US that The spur to enjoyment, that src-
cossful obedience to tho command ghich every
ore feels and tries TO obey--''bo happy make
you7self prosperous, i've comfortably in the
land which TIE Lord has g;7en you--isa guild
anoa 10 avoid disease, as we'll as 10 continue
and irproYo TIE species. Abundance Of food
theroforo, temperate and cheerful lives. clean
liuess, which is nozt TO go3iiness, free Ell and
light Of the sun, nourishment, enjoyment, yir
sao, arc among the best proyenliges Of ohol-
ora.--N T. Courier.