New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-27
Terrible Sickness, Perhaps the Plague. In
t3ala adE e ssa.u-r London = N -.

a letter from Paris, dated Oct. I'd, mentions
that Mr.. Buchanan, the American Minister 70
England, was about visiting the continent,
partly. on account Of the extreme unheaithl1nVess
Of London. This unheal thiness. # the follow
ing Communication, which appears in the Home
. Journal, is to be believed is caused by the
PRESENCE Of The Plague in the British 1aetropo ~
Ills The editor of the Home Journal says y
comes from q ssliterary friend,' ssandla ssman
of veracity, = ana therefore publishes it, while
q confessing that it appears more than pro.
bable the sudden outbreak Of . severe yisitas
ton Of Asiatie cholera, with that slight var iety
| in its symptoms which is not infrequently OBJ
served may have given rise to an impression, On
the part Of those who we're scourged with it, th at
the Plague, which had been buried for the best
part of two centuries, was again sdecimatlne
I them: sgae s.3Es4 tiial 41i5 10 tTo
am at present running away from London,
and, Whati more, though mot much given to
] fright, I am running away because l itam liter
l,,;.- scared out Of it. The fact Isl although
nms A~nrn the careful manner in which the
faess1a ~ ~ 60 suppressed here, you will Mt
aesaiis % ~ are asa efit that the q Piagne''
present hear but little ol5 asGi stshas commenced
IN IIomsa,nng Ionaon very much ikey1s soy this,
ond I,,os,;l ;li 4 1ASi1 @ @V1h y9 eyes as tesS,
let me assure you that l am saying nothing
Wnlch y not strictly true. aisls sslp III as3sSs
t.J one hundred and fifty years since, more or
less, the infection Of the plague was brought to
TINS city, from Alexandria, in chest of clothes.
- N, " Pefis1eo With this fearful con-
"; ~ pouies were earfied out and buried
| asSp pl's N snose neius Wnlch now lie under;
M 81 ~ y ss.eee "a any .ss lmmeaate neghporhood
-, .n'I IL piag y y said, mas nowsibeen turned
" ~ X sie space, ana mas begun to rayage
a,n..aoa .hpYsslpls as tnls may seem, the
gsons anu spnyslolans say positively that
an 40 Ao' saherihg nash 1fomIhe choiera;
1lat isls y courageous disease which has broken
@ ous egnpofhooa, and that ut IS rapidly
r.. Is, s af. nm sf,.,5ft,8Ea,.}s5s 5.sH
:. appears enat ts IN cuttng sewer through
Argyle s'feee, u was carried rather deeper than
Az " @lu .na. pones oi ene oid WORMS of
.n,s iearlul alsease ~ were turned up ny the work,
VJh I'LL many @ Vi @. Mnom were taRen ~ ana died
sauoemniy. m w Gniidren' M gre also, who had come and
ptayeu win s tnese bones, sckened and persisted,
moreover ~ was notlced th at those who came IN
oohsacs WIN eitner . tne WorKmen Or ehlidren,
slckened a. anu alea, IN most cases within few
we ilon, w utne az Whien y oroKe out y
naa domplleeteiy rayaged the streets II Soho and
1,s lnediate yieinity at the present moment,
foahd street. argyle street, ana IS, others, aTe
Gioseq W agaiHst all passers Han the shops IN
hegeht 5, ssrset @ are smut qp. me remainder are
raploly closing, AT Q CLOCK m the aay scarcely
q dozen persons may DC met with IN that great
bodies are placed in thesopen air. Immediately
that life has departed from them, go greassi il the
fear Of contagion:z have seen in two instances
Gh Ga = aa aoAsf poales carried On IN SACKS
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