The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-28
From the Post Extra, Of July 20.
EAST TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA
RAILROAD

EAST TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA
RAILROAD.
Below will be found Card from Maj. G.
WALLACE, President of the Railroad Com
paDy, in reference to the running of the
Road, and the panic which was created by
the many ill-grOunded and imprudent reports
put in circulation about disease lately exist
ing at Loudou, and which was thought BY
some persons to resemble Asiatie cholera
For the last ten years the papers Of some
other sections have been filled with, in most
cases. hOrrifying and greatly exaggerated ac-
counts of the ravages of the disease, and
the public mind kept constantly in an un-
easy state, ready for panic and a stampede
upon the first indications of the approach of
malady bearing the faintest resemblance In
its attacks, progress, and termination to the
much dreaded scourge. Hitherto East Ten
nessee, with its green and rugged hills, its
mountain torrents, crystal rivers, and health
giving, life-restoring mineral waters, has
, been deemed inaccessible to Cholcra-but
the spell has been broken, confidence impair
ed, and reports have gone out that we are
not only in danger from the approach of the
pestience that walketh in darkness and slay-
eth at MONDAY, but that it has actually effect
ed Judgment in our midst We asseverated
in our last paper that the reports were most
shameless fabricatlons that there were no
real grounds for the alarm and panic which
was prevailing, that not a solitary case of
Asiatic cholera had occurred, that upon
rigid enquiries we were satisfied nearly all the
deaths at Loudon from the disease said to
resemble Cholera could be traced to the i'm
prudence of the patient, or want of atten.
ton, and that there was no more danger to
be apprehended to persons passing through
that town than there was eight months ago
when the streams were locked in an icy EN-
brace and vegetation clothed with the white
mantle of winter. Upon further inquiry and
more reflection, we take this occasion to rel
terate and repeat what we said before, that
we do not believe q single case of Asiatic cho-
lera has occurred at Loudon or any where
else in East Tennessee; and that whatever
disease did prevail at that town it has now
abated, and if there ever was any danger
there it has disappeared, and that persons
may visit and pass through the place with en-
tire safety. We speak earnestly and sincere
1--WE have no private interests to serve at
Loudon, and could have no motive for mis-
representing the facts. We wish to correct
the groundless reports that have been put in
circulation, and if possible head off with the
plain truth the immense fabricatons which
are frightening the people from their proprie-
ty and spreading paEic and alarm through all
the surrounding country. The public, at
home and abroad, may rest assured that
should Asatic cholera make its appearance
in East Tennessee, we shall not hesitate to
announce the fact, as we are not afraid to
discharge our daty as journalist, whether
that duty leads us along the beaten track
pursued by the alarmed majority or dead
against it.
The following is the Card of the President
of the Railroad Company. If our cotempo-
raries in Georgia and South Carolina will CO.
py it into their columns they will serve the
travelling public and place us under special
obligations:
EAST TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA RAIL ROAD.
The travelling public are hereby assured
that the present running Of the Passenger
Train on this Road ,oiH not be changed with
out notice.
Passengers will not be required to remain
over night in Loudon.
While b,give the above assurance it is
proper to State that do not believe there is
now any cholera at Loudon. Ny business,
however, is TO protect The interests of the Com
pany aohich lido best by caring for The oeyfare
Of lis operatives and the travelling community
and not any particular locality on The line.
The steamer tennessee" will resume her
regular trips between Loudon and Knoxville
as soon as she can make her landings with
out producing panic. There has not been
case euen of diarrhGa on her this Summer.
The report that cholera has been or is now
at Montvale Springs is false
c. WALLACE, President
East Tennessee d. Georgia Railroad.
Knoxville, July "a, 1854.