Litchfield enquirer., 1854-10-26
The Platus in London.


 We copy tie k'linwlng extract From the
 Hume Journal. ln rrlssian m tllie bc0uSee ol ll,e human race. which ai vsri0ns peri. ods oi the worlds history has swept like
 the bes0m Of destruction over the Old
 World. The Journal vouches isr the
 credibili,y or ils correspondent, but the
 news is SD terrible II'a, we hope il will be
 found tO be exag9eratsd.
 One hundred snd liliv years since. more Or less, the inieciiOn nf the plague was
 brought lO lhs city from AIexsndria, in chesl 0fclotlirs. Hslf"l Lnndon pcriahei
 with this lrarful comlagi,n. Tue b0dies were carried out And buried in deep pits in those fields which now lie under Ar9yl.. street and it's iInmed,a,e neipl,borhOnd. Fhis Plague, ii is sait. has now been iprnCd up hy the spade, aud has begun 10 r6vage London. lmpossitle ss lhis may seem, the sHr.seOns and physicians say Fpnsilively that Londan k nni suffering much from the cholera il,si ii is a cnnra- giouS disease which has hrnken out in il.ix neighborhOOd, ,aHd that il is rapidly spread> ing.
 l, would nppesr that in cutting sewer ttrOugl. Argyle slreet,ii was carried rather deeper tllan ardiiiary. ati.l iiai bbiles of tue o:d victims uf lllls iliil disease wefe ,urued up by li,e wtrknen, many Of whom weIe taken Ill and died suddenly. Ch,ls dren. also. wh0 had rome and played with ! these h.nes, sickenrtl and perislicdl Alure> over, Il sas llsilced ,i,ai those M h,1 came iii contact with either ihe wOrkn,en ar Echildren, sickened aMd dted in usnst cases
 within few hours. Tue disease increased. I-CIever physicians sad that il was dcci- drdIy nni tie ciiDleIa& The disease now spread Rapidly. aHd in week ii0m the tune a, winch II broke oui, il had cni,:> p!e'ly rava1rd the streets m S0!o and it's immediate vicinity a: the present mannenl Poland s'rrdi. Argyle street, and others, are closed agains, all Passers. Half the shops in Regent stree, are shut up. The remainder are rapidly closing. Ai iwo "'ciork iE the day scarcely dozen persons
 may be me, wiIh tn that grea, :Ilnrough- fare. ln tl,isc streets which the disease is nnos, speedily depi,pulaIin1, inc dead hmh> les are placed in the open air, i,nned; a,ey that life has departed from Item. SD gsea,
 is lt,e fear ol c,.iaLm,n. have seen m two iusIaHces. bali tl"zen t,"dies being carried of in black sacks, like ba.es 0i goods, far burial. You will easily judge how great irigh, this has created. Ev- cry one who is able io do so, has Red Londcn. generally n, ,,h,s time just emp,y> irg, is now half depnpU!aird. Three days since. William Vncem Wallace ran away.
 He IS not man easily frightened. Ask him and lie will cnrrobnraie wiat | have
 i"d you. as he must now be in New York. -Business IS al complete stand siil'.
 Nothing is doing. AunuscnIeE,s for the Iiiue have comp'elely cAised.
 | Phvsrians say that shis is undoubtedly the Plague. The 1syinp:o.,s occasionally vary from ih.se whici, gre reported so have accompanied il, when il in the reigu nf Charles II. swept off one hatUi L"ndon. No med cal means have as yet ayaied n. si"ph. U s prapo9ared by c.m,a gsOu, a#dis Sidsuiarly speedy in it's effrc's- sufpass'f,g even ihe speed with :yi,ich the cholsrs, of it's frs, "ppcarat'cts slew it's vic,infs.