Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-06
THE CHOLERA,
Its Appearance i'm France and Snaiu.

Cholera is still prevalent in Marseilles and
its neighborhood. Large fires are kindled in
the streets OF the towns and villages at night
to purify the atmosphere, and at the village of
Cabnes it is said the disease was entirely ey-
PEELED by this means. SO many persons have
lelt Ioulon in consequence of the appearance
Of the cholera there that it is stated there are
now but four thousand inhabitants in that
large town. At La Seyne, another important
place In the department, the people are threat
ened with famine, most of the butchers and
bakers having fed
CURIOUS REGULATIONS
The Courier de MarseiAes relates cnr;ous
story: g A noble lady, owner of chateau
not far from AK, has been taking against the
epidemic certain precautions of which she had
little need, considering the distance of her
residence from infected places and the salu-
brous air OF her fertile valley. Her property
is surrounded by wall with which town in
the middle ages might well be content. The
gates have loop-holes, and armed peasants.
sharing the terrors of their mistress. keen a
constant guard. Things are managed as at
Messina and Palermo; whenever anv impru-
dent person knocks at the gate, he may have
the satisfaction of seeing through the loop
holes number OF guns pointed at him, and of
hearing rough invitation to pass on. Letters
directed to this antique manor-house are pick
ed up with a pair of tongs, and fumigated.
Near the gate there is pavilion where rela-
tives and friends pass quarantine and it is
only after repeated publications that they are
admitted into the chateau
IN SPAIN.
A Madrid letter of the 18th ultimo saws -
Cholera has carried off several persons of dis
tlnction at Valencia. The wife of the CAPTAIN
IS lndisposed at the present moment. The epi
demicnow prevalent in several towns of the
Peninsula, has not yet made its appearance in
Madrid. The sanitary authorities of the capi-
tai are actively engaged in carrying out preven-
tive measures, and recommend to the inhabi-
tants healthy system of nourishment, the best
that Their means will allow, dwelling also upon
the necessity for keeping all the rooms of their
houses well aired. By royal decree, no leave
OF absence is to be granted at present, under
any pretaxt whatever, to the officers of the
charitable establishments throughout the coun-
try.
This measure is taken on account of the
distress prevalent among the poorer class in
the towns visited by the epidemic, occasioned
by the stfgnation of trade and the want of
employment consequent upon the very gen
eral emigration of those whose means enable
them to fly from the infected locality. Under
these circumstances the charitable establish
ments are taxed to the utmost extent of their
resources, and their working staff has been
reinforced at Barcelona and other places BY
volunteers who have nobly devoted themselves
in various ways to the relief of the sufferers.
The Epoca says 1t is by no means certain that
cholera has made It's appearance at Seville
Some cases have occurred at Trlana, but these
are attributed to some travellers from San
Reque."
The following is from the Gibraltar Chronicle
of the 18th ult:
'We are sorry to learn from ST. Rogue this
morning that cholera has descended suddenly
and severely upon the town. Six persons sue
cumbed to the disease yesterday, and many
others have been been attacked by it. The
opinion so generally entertained that the pro-
pagatior of the disease depends upon certain
atmospherical conditions seems to receive con-
frmatiOn from the fact that simultaneously
with its appearance in st. Rogue, it has re-
ceived greater development in Gibraltar.
The Ravases of the Cholera.
Foreign mails received at the State Depart
ment yesterday bring further intelligence rela-
tive to the ravages Of the cholera.
The United States Consul at Port Malone,
writing under date of September 18th, says
that the cholera at Palma, Mayorca, has car
ried off many people, and there is no diminu-
ton Of the disease. a panic prevails there.
The cholera has also appeared at Cuidadela.
1t is now admitted that about seventy pilgrims
died of cholera at quarantine at Fort Malone,
and others of various diseases.
The cholera is represented to have broken
out west of Port Malone, but thus far this
scourge seems to have been confined to the
great channels of human travel and the marts
Of commerce. There is no information, how
ever, that it has appeared in the interior of
Spain.
The Consul says that, from information re-
ceived at Port Mahone it is believed that the
scourge will again visit the West, and that in
formation has also been received there that
the Russian pest, which was thought to have
disappeared, has broken out in Liberia. The
accounts of this pest are frightful, beyond
anything heretofore known.