Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-10-25

We copy the foIlaa5ae from the correspondence
Of tue Hgas JoarHgi. Il seems a. though the
statement must be greatly exaggerated, far we
have met With nothing IN the foreign files. or IN
the letters Of the various correspondence 10 con
firm the tale of horror The Journal yoBche-
for the credibility Of it, informant bu, the new
i 90 terrible We cannot but hope it will be found
T. be greatly magnfed:
''onc hundred aud fifty years since more or les :
the Infection 81 the plague brought To TIN
city from AcAandfin. ia chest II clothes. liat
ef london persisted with this fearful contneiau.--
The bodies were carried out and buried ia deep
pit IN tho" fnld- which uoW liz under Argyle
street aud IL immediate neighborhond. This
plague. il i aid. has now been turned mp by the
spade.and ha- begun 10 ravage London. lmPos
-ibe this mnY seem. the surgeons and phys
eians say positively thai London i not -uiiering
much from the cholera. Int il is contagious dis
ease which has broken oat in this ncghborhood.
aud that II j. tapdy spreading
Il would appear that in cutting sewer through
Argyle street. u carried rather deeper thuit
ordinary and HAT bones 81 The old victims Of thu
fearful disease were turned up hy the w"rklneh.
mauY Of whom were taken i'll aud died suddenly.
Ghiidrrn.ai-o. Who bad COME and played with thc-e
bone. sickened aud persisted Moreover. il wa
noticed that those who camcin contact with either
the workmen OF children sickeucd y died ia most
cases within "A few hour. Tie disease increased.
Clever physicians sand that ii was decidedly not
the cholera.
a.. he di-ea.en now spread- rapidly and ina week
from tho time al which it broke out. II had con
ptetcly ruyugcd the streets in soho Il liz immcdi-
at vicinity 4 nj the present moment Poland street
Areyle street, and othcr-. are closed against adj
pa-ser-- Half tie shops IL Regent street ar shut
mp. Tie remainder are rapidly closing. IT twn
o'eIpek iu the day, scarcely dozen person- muy
b. mel within TINT great thofougbinre. In those
streets which the disease il most speedily depop.
aIa,ingtla dcad bodies are placed IN III" open All
TINT life las departed from them,
great l. the fear Of epntaeiun. have recnIn two
instances. bah dozen bodice being carried Of
in bnck sncks. like bales Of goods. for burial
Yoa viii easily Judge how great fright thu
lia- crehted. Every one Who is able To- do
has tied. London. generally At this time jul
Complying. j, now half depupalated. Three day.
.iuce. William Vincent Wallace ran away. II,
l. not man easily FRIGHTENED. Ask Inn an,
he will cerruharHte what have told you. rs h.
NUT now bc IN New York. business i at
eample stand still. Nothing is being DONE
Amu.e Ont, for the lWe haYe completely closed.
Physicians say HAT this j. undoubtedly tn,
plague. The symptoms occasionally vary from
those which are report cd 10 have aec"mPanle'
II when IT. m the reign ot Charles H.. swept oi
one hnf Of London No medical moan- hnyc
vet ayailed to stop it. 1t is ptorngated by con
tapion, and is siugulasly speedy III ii~ effects.
surprising even the speed with which Ia" eholen
on it, first appearance lew it- victims