Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-09-23
The, Cholera i'm Constantinopie.

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London Times:
August 2.-Signs Of sickness, death
and panic are multiplying fast. i ne spur
of fear has conquered The spirit OF nam
mon. The Bunrse is closed. The b.
zsars are shut up. Business is nearly al
stand sill, and the merchants have shu
themselves up in their country seats
You see women unable 10 resist the tascl
nation of fear looking eagerly ont OF lheh
windows, and pedestrians shrinking osct
and putting their hanIkrrchleis TO lhei
noses as the collins 20 past. Bodies oI
those scarcely dead are thrust INTO cOtiins
and hastily hurried off Tor burial. Yoa
call al a shop. The master or enc OF his
hands is grosnlng in bed. You 90 10 visit
friend; he has just been buried. Pro-
cessons of over worked priests fill The
streets and pray for the cessation OF The
pesIiience. Five hundred at least died al
Slambcul yesterday. In the papers the
total number of deaths is stated 10 have
been 800. This Is wholly untrue,
August 3-Another sct OF the tragedy
is being performed. The Sultan has given
orders that all classes are 10 make merry,
so bad brandy, raki, and Turkish music
are the orders Of the day. So with the
unceasing tramp of the hamals, carrying
the uesd, The streets reSound Win The
twanglng, drunken rouIs,
and bowling. For the last few days the
weather has been almost unbesrsble.-
The sun rises red hot. The wind neither
brings freshness nor the night GOODNESS.
In the sun the glass is al 1873 deg, and IN
the coolest room in the house, So deg. Al
G aleta il ranges from 90 10 90 degrees
After a seepless night. | rise with hardly
strength TO dress. More lying bulletins.
Two hundred and seventy stated TO have
died before Yesterday. believe under
state the lumber when say one ,houasnt
die Gaiy. cannot shut my eyes to the
truth. Here are two facis:-The young
gentleman 10 whom | alluded as having
adopted strongly stringent diet as pre-
cauionary measure OF salty went to make
a call. Two persons had just died IN the
house. He rushed away to another.-I
There were three dead there. Coming
back he met the dead cart with al least 10
bodies inside. The same day an Eng
lishman saw a number of corpses buIed
in an adjoining cemetery. He counted
100. learn that six medical men have
succumbed to The disease.
August 4-There is the greatest diff
Guilty in finding medical men. bad &C.
rasi n to 90 for one yesterday, bn, there
was none to be found in GaIela for love or
money. BY the merest luck | mot with
one al Pera. The doctors are overwork-
ed, and they slut themselves IL, and say
they are "no, at home" As 10 myself, |
am as well as usual. don't fear. | cal
fruit in moderation, and bath, IN defiance
Of the doctors. This is good lme for
making some curious studies in human
nature. Some of those who have studied
Remains book, and are convinced OF he
ruth of his arguments, now crowd into
Christian ciurches in abiect terror, and
make no, very successful attempts al
Drawing. Others who have led lives OF
gaety have now assumed the garb OF purl-
lans, and denounce their ielIow-sinntr- as
the cause Of the pestllence. One poor
creature who had been thus assalied saw
90 past with quite hunted look IN her
Every one is complaining
Of domestic miseres Of a minor character.
Servants leave and no fresh ones to be
obtained. Hamals are departing in hun
dreds.
August 5-The cholera has assumed
most irlQhlful proportions. Two lhous'
and at the very least persisted yesterday.
The papers, Of course, still conceal the
truth. The chief Of the municipality I'M
avowed his ri 1T TO do so. ]
seem TO be living in The plague Of Lon
don, so much do the general features OF
the times begin TO resemble those narrated
BY the Pepys. The lille cemeuy behind
US is foil OF corpses, buried only fifteen
inches under TIE soil, and The muncipali-
~ has forbidden any more buria!- there.
Yesterday two large barges as high as a
first floor window from tie ground we're
taken TO the Golden Horn for burial. On
The same day several hundred were thrown
into the Bosphorous. Medical men.
" neither from fear or avarire, refuse to al
Tend The poor, and thus thousands perish
for want Of little prompt assistance. Ev-
cry one who can scrape little money TO.
yether is leaving the place and passenger
boats sink 10 the level Of their decks with
The loads Of passengers.
The United States Consul al Constan.
linople. writing TO the State Department,
under date Of August l4Ih, in speaking Of