The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1865-11-01
NUMBER 45.
The Cholera.

Eyer since early Spring, we have been
reading, says the EdgefeTd Advertiser, the
fearful ravages of cholera in Egypt Fur-
! key, and along the shores.of the Mediterranean
Sea. And now, on the arrival of every
Steamer from Europe, We are informed thai
this fell and mcrciless destroyer of the htl-.
man family is rapidly progressing Westward:
It is already raging in Italy, in the South Of
France and in the East of Spain. Considering
this fact, and in view of the immense and con-
4 Slant intercourse, between Europe and Ame-
rica, who can say that this dread plague may
not very soon make its appearance on our
shores? And should it do so, itwould not be
for the first time;'ln 1881 and 1882 itpre-
vailed to a large extent, and was attended
with terrible mortality; in Caoada and the
Northern States Not, however, with the de-
! vastating malighity that characterized It In
| the Ga countries This r1aiady had reached
Aneona, an important city Of italy in;July
last . A traveller may easily reach Paris
from Ancona in two days. Or from Mari
settles and Toulou, where it is sweeping of
hundreds daiy,:a traveller may reach Paris
in one day ; on the following daE he may be
] in London; in eleven days more hemay be in
| New York; and in two days more he may be
walking the streets of Charleston, S. G. We
may well say of the cholera when in Europe,
:s'Thou art so fa., aud yet so nearl"
At intervals of from thirty to fifty years,
| The old world has been ravaged by the cholera
ever since the earliest ages. In:the year,.
D. 542, during the reign Of Justinian, Empe:
ror of the Byzantine Empire, it broke out and
! prevailed for calamitous period of ffty-fwo
/ years. Such was the universal corruption of
the air that the peStilence was not checked
or a,leyiated by any difference Of the seasons
In time, its first malignity was abated and
! dispersed, &but the disease alternately Ian.
! guished and revived and it was not till the
end of fifty two. years that mankind recover.
led tkeir. health or the air resumed its pure
and salubrious quality, No facts have been
preserved to sustain an account, or even q
conjecture, of the numbers that perished in
this extraordinary mortality. We only find
that, during three 1noaths, five, and at length
ten thousand persons died each day at Con:
stantinop that many cities of the east were
lleft vacant, and that In Several districts Of
Italy, the harvest and vintage withered on
the ground. The triple sconrge Of war, pesti.
Icnce and famine afflicted the subjects Of Jus-
tinian; and his reign is disgraced by. d visi;;
BILE decrease of the human species, which has
never been repaired in some of the fairese
countries Of our globe. = .E;z.
/ The Iestience now raging with such Eios
lence in the cities on the Mediterranean coast,
and making such rapid strides Westward is
believed by some to have been brought froER
Asia by Mahometan pilgrims returning FROM
Mecca and Medina in Arabia. But far
greater n1raa6er of people believe the catiss
sEkof thes3ortaaty is to be found in the cattle
distemper which ragged in Egypt Rst year. In
the course of few months, during the fall
/ of1864, there died in that country, eight
hundred thousand oxen, and as many sheep,
goats, camels, and other animals. Three
fourths of these dead bodies were thrown into
the Nae whose water is the only drink for
man or beast in Egypt And at the same
time that this modern plague commenced its
raTages in Ancoua, Italga pestilence was
raging AMONG the cattle of that country. And
at this very day, such a pestilence is raging
among the cattle in certain parts of Russia:
Sotae idea may be- formed Of the destruc.
tiireness:s and malignity of the cholera now ex'
listing on. the Mediterranean, when We record
the fact that, on the 26th'June, last, nine hun
dred human beings died in Alexandra, Egypt.
1T sngroaches like an infuriated storm the
I oak built man; it falls with equal violence
upon the innocent child; it stops not at the
seintinel.gparded palace 1t walks boldly into
The senate chambers of empires: I.
Wise men Of every age agree that great
plaques are apt to follow great RarsS where
+ vast number of animals Of different kinds have
been slaughtered or improperly baticd ); OF,
as is often the case, not buried at all g. =
Having. informed ourselves concerning shs
J cholera. or plague in the old countries, let US
>,nnnl attention to our own laws. Let us ask
4 ourselves if we have no danger to fear from :
plague. We'bave just passed through a war al
whose. magnitude was, and still is, the won,
! derrof natfoas. II that war an innumefable
: host of men and beasts were killed and
thou thousands IN upon thousands'Of them to this day
sa,,,ain rot4ing but few inches under ground
at least not 50 deep but that ss the "a ses $
way through the thin crust Of earth, and then
I I'y spread into the drifting air above, We have
4 bsen told .agaal and again that after heavy
rains, rains @ one night night in walking over "a -attie~
sd Sec the limbs pr9tEodns 0oE above 6s the a3 sur;
ai, .aI, ,bo cad result. During this war. there
!. has has bee been enough blood shed upon the Repub;
ii' lie Of America to make a. long, wide and deep
fiser 1iS e.: This blood vas not buried, Soldiers
do do no not bury blood; that they leave as ann; an in
dell;ble mark of their victory OF defeat, Blood
= -. - 1ar1 essance OF animal life, when