The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-08-23
Interesting "reminiscences Of the
IS Fearful Ravages of Cholera.

Fearful Ravages Of Cholera. :
In 1917. al Jessore, town situated 70
or 80 miles east Of Calcuits. Asiaiic Chol.
era destroyed one.ten,h Of tho entire pop.
ulation.
In the town of Benares, the holy city
of the Hindoos, $4,000 persons died in
less than two months. The deaths in one
single district Of Hindostan proper, q.
mounted to $4,000.
The English. army, under the command
of the Marquis of Hastings, suffered mos,
severely. The several divisions were en-
camped upon the banks OF the Sinde,
and their con dition is thus forcibly por.
trayed by DR.. James Jameson, who was
an eye witness: ..h was here the disease
put forth all its strength, and assumed its
most deadly and apalling form: the cid
and the young. the European and the
native, the fighting men and camp-follow-
ers, were alike subjec! to its visits; and
all equally sunk, in few hours. under
its most fearful grasp" Nearly 5000
were cut off in one fatal week.
The inhabitants of the town Of Bankok,
in the Kingdom Of Siam. suffered most
severely. Here upwards Of 10000 were
cut off in few weeks.
The mortality in the city Of Muscat, in
Arabia. was truly frightful; for 5000 died,
the majority OF whom were not sick above
two. hours; and we are told "that the
living did not trouble themselves to bury
the dead, but sewing the bodies up in
mats, turned them adrift into the har-
bor."
The chief post-towns along the Persian
Gulf were iearfully rayished, particularly
Bassora, where nearly thousand died
daily for fifteen days.
Al Bagdad 80, 900 human souls perished
in short time.
In Paris its mortality can be judged
of, when it is stated that between ten
and eleven thousand perished in less than
a month.
In fifteen years from the irruption Of
the malady in the Delta Of the Ganges,
it spread over Asia. traversed Europe,
and commenced the work of death upon
The banks of the ST. Lawrence, without
any mitigation OF severity.
On the 9th of June, 1889, the disease
broke out among the Canadian French
in the town of Quebec, where in less than
three months 2 1000 perished.
Itappeared in New York on the Gath
Of June, 1889. and in less than three
months 5000 persons died. On the 9th
OF July the first welEmarked case was
reported.
II ragged with The greatest violence a.
mongst the inmates Of Arch street prison
and the Philadelphia Aims House. From
the 9th TO the 10th Of August 722 cases
and 287 deaths occurred.
The disease ragged with great violence
throughout the valley of the Mississippi,
particularly among the black population.
During the year '32 the disease appear
ed in its most appalling form at CanPeche,
in Spanish America. In one month 4.0OO
out OF population Of 10000 fell victims
to the scourge. In one day 400 were
buried.
Cholera has gradually difused itself
over the world, overcoming all obstacles;
il has traversed the Chants and the eau.
casus-the sandy deserts of Arabia and
Persia-the Indian and Atlantic oceans.
Il has existed under the most various
conditions Of elevation and soil-terl1-
perature and moisture: at the level OF the
sea and at Napaul, at q height of not
less than 5000 feet above it; on the bord.
ers of the ocean and in the centre Of ths
Continent; during the Summer heats of
the torrid zone, and the rigors Of Rus
sian Winter; on the arid soil Of Arabia
and Persia, a. well as in the marshy
deltas Of the Ganges and the Nile. It
has made its wsy against, the winds in
Europe, and the mousoons in the Indian
Ocean Ii has desolated small villages
and populous towns-the thinly inhabited
provinces of the Russian Empire as well
as The densely peopled district Of Bengat.
It has spared neither sex nor age. 1t
attacked the same individual twice or more,
and persons affected with various dis.
eases as well as those in robust health.
II has numbered among its victims per-
sons Of all classes, and almost Of every
nation.
How strange and erratio is this terrible
destroyer Of human life. II appears in q
moment when least expected, and de.
stroys in an hour, as it were. almost the
entire population of q joyous and happy
people. Is it the retributive hand of
an outraged but just God?
o. The Loaisyiils Journal notes Of.
fers to sell two or four thousand hogs. for
December delivery. at 81 cents off the
boofs, but there are no buyers Al this