Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-07-17
Cholera Record.

accounts Of themortaltyat Barbadoes. The num-
her oil burials in the new burial ground OF Bridge
town, amounted i'll one day 10 244; and up TO the
18Th ult., no less than 2,107 human beings had fall
len victims in that city 10 the pestilence. The,
following additional particulars gathered from
the papers OF Barbadoes: y
In the garrison of ST. Anne there had been Sd
deaths, and in the suburbs of Briigetown Ia
Just beyond Black Rock. IN II little vlioge called
Panes Bay, there had been SO dea,hs-,here were
seven deaths i'll other parts of the parish, making
in all Go for the whole parish.
Inst, oseph's the only district attacked is that
OF BatuSheba and Crab Hole, where the disease
had seized with great violence upon the class OF
poor whites. many of whom reside III the vicipily.
There had been los cases up 10 the morning of the
18th at o'clock, and &c deaths, of which "a were
Whites In st. Andrews, IN the neighborhood Of
The Parish Church, sixteen deaths reported.
Abel Clinkett, ESQ, and (for 80 years. sole edi-
tor OF 'rhe Barbadatian," has died of the disease.
Mr.. Drinan, the editor of the Globe, was barely
convalescent. The sub editor OF the "LibeTar'
was down with the DISEASE. A half sheet only of
the Liberal was iSSuen OH the l4th ult. In allu-
ding TO the disease and the circumstances of the
reduced size OF his paper, the editor says, "under
these cIrt umStanceS we know not how soon
may be obliged To suspend our issue altogether.-
There is but SlGge hand III our Office besides the
foreman"
OF the $50 prisoners confn. in the Jail. only 10
survived, aud these the Governor very hunanely
ordered 10 be released.
The shipping at Barbados was healthy. A large
vessel had left there for Damerara, but returned 10
port in few days, The cholera having appeared
on board aud two or three deaths enSuetI.
The remedy found most efficacious cam
ph0r, which administered to person when fist
seized, two drops on bit of sugar, i'll lea spoon
ful OF water, as recommended 10y the HomnopathS
very often was sufficient 10 arrest the disease. At
a later stage 1t was more obstinate, aud more rem
edies were resorted 10, but by no means with The
same success.
The Governor Of Bermuda had issu. his prnca-
nation ordering strict quarantine.
The Kingston papers also filled with
counts OF The cholera mortality in Jamaica. AT
OF. Diablo there had been IS deaths. AtSturge-
town (Parish OF 81. Ann,) so deaths, at Salem, 20
deaths. AT Marte0gue, The public schools had
been closed.
In The district of Nanchional there were ten
deaths in few llonrs, The report affords most
deplorable picture OF the state OF things ,here.-
| 1t says:
"Not solitary case has recovered, although they
werr treated according 10 the circular of the Board
OF Health. There has been some 10 or Ii cases,
all of which Terminated fatally, some within few
hours. We are wIthouta medical man, and in this
awful state God only knows what will become OF
us No provision for the poor, no coffinS, no one
10 superintend the burial of the dead, no grave
dIggeTs; thus bodies have been compelled 10 re-
main above ground"
In the lowet part of ST. AIMS Parish the Jour
NIL thinks the deaths have been equal in number
10 those which occurred on lis last visitation. II
IT has been fatal 10 several p-rsoms in the neigh-
borhcod of Moraut Bay.
Rev. David Kerr, minister Of the Wesleyan Mis-
slOnary Society, was among the victims at ST AIMS.
Mr.. Kerr was one oil the oldest W tSleyau mission
ares in Jamaica.
The disease seems TO battle and set nj naught all
the wisdom and experience of the medical faculty.
Remedies that weIe eiIicacouS Ill former cases
represented rs impoteni now. Among the Ieme-
dies which have been successfully lIied however,
in Kingston Is sea water. II has been admins
tered IN frequently repeated doses of ounces 10 pa
| tientS III an advanced state ut cholera with re.
markable effect.
1 ToLrDo, omo.-rhe ''role'lo Blade says that
that city has cen much exaggerated, and that 1870
deaths only have occurred frum it since the LIST of
April. The Blade says
So exclusively has the cholera prevailed among
/ foreigners who defed all matt raj laws, and all or
binary precautions; among ignorant, Incorporate,
reckless and migratory m-n, that among the Whole
| 100 which place the number Ot deaths by
cholera, but eight have died of whom we had
| heard. We have inquired of Older citleEs fam-
iar with the population, and have found no one
who knew more Than that number OF victims.
| CuIcAco papers Of the Sth inst, speak OF the
prevalence of the epidem;c 10 an alounng extent,
T; though they deny the exaggerated stories of from
/ so TO 200 deaths day, which have been sent a
broad. ThA Board of Health refuse TO make any
publications. The disease wo:st among the
emigranis who arrive there by hundreds every day.
James Fl. Collins. Esq, very highly esteemed
lawyer OF Chicago, died OF Cholera at Ottawa on
the 18th. &c. Clark, merchant Of Chicago, is
among the victims. A private letter dated Chica-
so, July Stl, says:
'"fhis morning news came from Ottowa that Mr..
lamI S H. Collins, who attending court there,
had died last night The Intelligence appail-
ing to his family. servant giral was lying dead
in the house when the news came, aud MIS. Col
Inns Is so ill that they have not ventured 10 tell
her. great many persons have died OH M!cki-
gan Avenue, near the old garrison, where now is
the Genital Railroad Depot. HoIdes OF emigrants
come i'll there on every tram, and in almost every
ore there are some dead of cholera ship lever,
and often some die soon after leaving the cars and
| before they can be conveyed to the Hospital. In
the sheds and Offices OF the depot, the shore
OF tie lake, numbers are lying sick or dying The
city is crowded with strangers, chiefly Southern
els travelling north. The weather has been for
weeks excessively hot and dry, aud n north wind
or ram earnestly prayed for to check the pro-
| gress of disease
| The Boston Journal learns that the cnolera is
prevailing at Richmond, Me-, and is creating quite
a panic among the inhabitants. Twenty six
deaths have occurred in that town iout of popu-
Iation of Two three thousand) since the Fourth
of July. Six of these deaths in family
| (rish) and are decided to have been caused by
ship fever. The remainder are said 10 have ben
cholera cases. Many of The inhabitants were lea
wing town, and business was generally suspended,
particularly in the ship-yatds. where scarcely fifty
men remained at work.
CAUSES OF THE OBSTINATE DEFENCE FoRrI-
FLED CITIES BY THE TURKs.-A very simple cause
explains this obstinate defence of fortified cities
by the Turks, it is NECESSITY. The whole male
inhabitants capable OF bearing arms are airayed in
the defense of the place. city of $4,000 riti
zens will array walls 10000 warriors, each
of whom, trained from infancy 10 the use of arms.
and splendidly equipped with his own weapons Of
defense, forms at once valuable soldier. They
fight desperately, because, like the citizens of the