New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-07
The oholeraat Barbados.


date, July a. The West Indian Of that date
says: e ''t ~ =
We have now had the cholera in Bridgetown
for over six weeks. 1t commenced on the 18th
of last month, fortunately just as the reapine OF
the sugar crop was at its close. Never haYng
had any experience of it before in the Island,
the public and even the medical men were slow
to believe that the deaths that occurred were
attributable to the invasion Of this dreadful dis
ease Of the existence of which in any part of the
West Indies there was no report except in the
distant Island of Jamaica, where it had suddenly
appeared some few weeks previously in Kingston.
The only communication that had since taken
place directly between the Island of Jamaica
was by one Of the mail steamers, the Derwent,
which arrived in Carlisle Bay from Jamaica, by
way Of st, Thomas, Oh the 21st, a week after the
first cases that had occurred in Bay street; SO
that they could not be traced to any infection
brought by this vessel, though it is said that
several of her men have died of cholera on the
way up from Jamaica, and among them two
natives of this place, whose clothes were brought
on shore. If this is true, and the woman who
undertook to wash the clothes took the infection
and died, it was only spreading the disease fur
Their, and perhaps adding to its virulence; it can
not be said to have originated it in Barbados
A gentleman Gone Of those who have been most
active in visiting the houses of the sick, one of
the city clergy tells US, that having taken par
ticular pains to inquire into the origin of the
disease, he found it had first broken out in q
wooden hovel in Jemmotts Lane, leading into
Bay street. near the General Hospital, occupied
by woman who was in the habit of buying fly
ing. fish and cooking them for sale. Just about
this time it is notorious that large quantities of
these fish were sold in the mornings after they
were taken, almost in a putrid state, along the
Careenage; and this woman, no doubt, had
poisoned herself and helped to poison others, by
means Of these putrid fish. Even before the first
cases occurred, we had heard persons complain
ing of the sale of these fish, in decaying state,
IN the wharves in the mornings, at such rate as
TO induce the huckster women to buy them, and
cook them for food, to the great danger Of the
health of those partaking of them.
The total number of deaths in the city and
parish Of st. Michael for the last six weeks,
from the cholera, exclusive of those who were
buried at st. Matthew's, st. Barnabas, and pri-
vateiy, perhaps 100 more, may be reckoned to
| be 4,678
As soon as the epidemic appeared in the gar
rison, measures were taken for the encampment
| Of the troops; the Royal Artillery were sent out
| to Gun Hill; detachment of the 9th, and Of
| the Black Troops, were put under canvass, tenn
porarily at the Naval Hospital, and the Both at
Britton's Hill, where the whole garrison will be
| deaths up to yesterday amounted to 2l7, Of
| which 101 were blacks, and 116 whites.
In St. James it appeared at an early time at
PayDes Bay, where it was most probably car
ried from Bridgetown, and nearly cleared out
all the families living there, from sixty to seven.
| ~ persons in all In the other parts Of the
parish at Porters and elsewhere there have
been TIA deaths, the bodies taken to St. Alban's
chapel yard, What appears singular, we have
1 hanr lofa Il he Irlfh o HILL
Town, place by no means more healthy thar
| others in which the disease has been most fatal
Speights has not escaped altogether like Hole
/ Town. but considering the population, there
have been fewer deaths than might have beer
expected. That the number of cases that have
terminated fatally has been fewer than in othel
places, is to be attributed to the timely ar
rangements made by the vestry and parishion
ers, for visiting from house to house, and sup
plying the sick with medicines and other neces
| sary relief. On Sunday the mortality increased
to IS; yesterday to II, and the total number o
deaths in the parish is said to be about 100.
In ST. Lucy's the disease was propagated b,
the prisoners dismissed from the jail, who seen
| to have taken the infection in its most virulen
| form, for scarcely any of them escaped VIII
came out with it upon them. One of them wen
to Checker Hall and died there, as well as tn
members of his family living in the same house
VINO LOOK iTOm nlm duOluef, we are
went to Spring Hail. and spread the infection il
| the negro yard of that estate, where it carries
off 70 people. and 10 at the adjoining estates
Mount Poyer and Spring Garden, belonging t
the same owner, P. L. Kinds, Esq
st. Andrews was infected in the same way b
one of the unfortunate Jail birds. 1t first ap
peared near the school house; then it got int
Belle Plains and Walkers, and travelling up int
the country to Bawdens, where it carried Of
80 laborers. 1t was also very bad at Morga
Lewis, and in negro village (called Shoreys
between that estate and Over-hill The mum
Der of deaths altogether cannot be far from zoe
We are unable to state with accuracy the to
tai number of deaths throughout the island frol
the epidemic up to the present moment, but
cannot be far short of 900, which would b
nearly per cent of the whole population.
Our night editor, who fell asleep for a fe
minutes over an indecipherable piece of manu-
script from the telegraph Office closely resen
bling, to his contracted optic nerve, hieroglyp
les upon Ceopatra's Needle, thus narrates th
incidents of voyage he took during tina
period
He started from the sanctum window-fift
story of the Journal of Commerce Building
q canal boat bound to Egypt, with Prince Pas
kiewitsch as captain, and Louis Napoleon Ell
gagged in securing knives on the cabin hatcf
| why nc betiul uEaWluB oic poCte W ohic SSA'
brated Bulls Of Bashan, driven by swallow
tailed monkey with sorrel head. Arrive
there with double eagles' head downwar,
flying as a signal of distress at the stove-pil
head, he was received with open arms and tea
Of joy as big as a school boys marbles, by tt
statue Of Memnon, who, in compliment to b
arrival executed one Of Jullen's bravuras
the Chinese gong He was invited to supper I
Sesostris-and such supper! She engulf
the thickest end of the Oasis at q morsel, al
concluded the entertainment by picking b
teeth with the apex of the lesser pyramid. 1
he returned to the boat, select cohort of muir
mics were practicing calisthenies and back-sor
ersets on the beach, under the superintendent
of the editor of the Freeman's journal, viii
Cleopatra accompanied the evolutions with so
susanna" and Mark Antony on Chatha
street tripod, wearing cut-straw overcoat, W
perspiringly belaboring q tamborine.
Our friend returned to his post on skates, al
was awakened by sepulehral groan from t
s3050,'' but which afterwards proved to be Il
insatiate cry: :" More Copy!" So the MS W
delivered to the tender mercies of the printer
/ We do funny things in our sleep some times
don't we' journal of Commerce.
How TO JUDGE A HoRsE.-A correspondent
the Prairie Farmer, contrarily to old maxim
undertakes to judge the character Of q horse
: outward appearances, and offers the followi
suggestions as the result of his close obsery
p ton and long experience