The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-06-24
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1854.
The River Cholera.

Inc htNci Shoiei"'
There has been quite too much said in some
OF the papers in regard to the few cases of sick
ness and death. which have originated from i'm
prudence on board the boats trading to our
city from below. There has also been more
absurd ccnsure given and foOlishness manifest
ed by some of the more nervous and panic
stricken citizens, than one would find among a
people Invested of the presence of such persons
in full seige Of epidemic cholera. And again,
there are some persons in certain parts of the
city who have lied about sickness in other pre-
cincts of the corporation-licd for sordid money
getting purposes, and for this contemptibly mean
act deserve the cxccration of every true friend
of st. Paul. We presume these latter persons
to whom VIC refer are the same individuals who
few days since would, had they dared, have
mobbcd one of the health officers for taking a
poor unfortunate sick stranger from the streets,
and placing him under cover upon his own
premises. They and those who on Friday broke
out in terrible wrath against the humane and
truly Christian act ofthe Mayor, when he en-
dcavorcd to shield a poor dying mortal in his
last moments from the inclcmency of driving
rain storm, arc just the men We would like to
see confined in q quarantine Jail, should st.
Paul ever be visited with an epidemic. We
should certainly, were we to be on the board
of health in the time of so great calamity,
go in for removing them beyond the city
corporation limits, as the most infections agents
to promote disease that could possibly be dis
covered in the list Of such grievances.
Four sporadic (not spasmoiic as We inadvcrt-
antly had it on Saturday. cases of cholera broke
out on board the steamer Galena, on Friday
morning at four o'clock. 1t is true the unror-
tunates all were attacked with this species of
disease, and it is another melancholy truth that
they have all since died. But this is the end of
it. No citizen has been attacked, and no symp-
toms Ofany such sickness remain in the CITY.
We presume almost any of US can get the same
disease and die as suddenly, if we do the same
simprudent act that these sufferers did-make
an evening rcpast of Holsters, sardines, and
stale pine apples, and drink two or three GAL
lens of iced river water, in some instances mix
cd with rot-gut whisky, sour beer, or counter
felt brandy. The man who died at the Market
House on Friday, ate, we are told, at supper on
the previous evening whole pineapple. No
thing short of the stomach of an ostrich could
stand such test, unless accustomed to such
diet after long training under more favorable
circumstances of weather and situation.
The Royal Arch and Nominee were I'D on
Saturday both crowded with passengers, but
both exhibiting clean bills of health. We can
only attribute this favorable fact to the more
wholesome diet set before their passengers.
We hope other officers of boats will be as care
full as those of the Royal Arch and Nominee.
We repeat, there is now no sickness in the city.
and none Likely to occur of general nature, if
people will only take care of themselves