Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-09-09
From the NsiY. .Tribune.
nVAa Ch 20 .

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AT this momeut all Western Asia and
Southern Europe are, panic-stricken by the
terror Of sudden death. That strange curse.
which. rs the Red Deatb, the Black Plague,
the Yellow Fever. has so often swept like .
ire around the world, and all ito Proiean
forms is still one Pesliieuce, has again aris.
en- as swift and as strong as of old. The
Cholera has unexpectedly sevealed itself in
the East, sud forEthe ahird time begins its
terrible VI s-ward march, ,lsa 'ds9r74
Egypt, breeder Of so many mcesters, 10
the mother of this. Centuries of dirt and
degradation have rooted the plsgue so
firmly in Egypt, that its retarn every ten
years is as certain as the dailyrising Of the
sun Nile, with his ioveraowing waters,
cannot cleanse the laud. Eren the religion
of Mohammed, has become the protector Of
disease and this year the cholera fret ap.
peared among that immense throng OF
Pilgrims which annually journeys through
Egypt 10 Mecca and Medina. These poor
people,live ia dirt for athough the law Of
the Prophet requires frequent ablatious,
they seem no cleaner for its observance
than the. Arabs in the desert. who, for
want OF water, perform the sacred washings
with sand In three days the Cholera slew
four. 70 six thousand pilgrims 10 Mecca snd
,Medina. 1t pursued the survivors on their
bomeward flight, aud the stagnant canals,
the crowded roads, were stsewn with tho
dead, 1t caught the Egyptian Arabs 10
their hu,s Of mud and straw decimated
the dirty towns and villages, aud finally
entered EAlexandria and reigned there In
triumph. In Cairo upward OF four huudred
people perished in one day. 4 Thus 1t raw.
aged Egypt ill about the middle, of July.
when the mortality, though still great,
seems to have decreased OF it's course
since, 'we-.are not fully Informed, but Il
seems to be spreading along the Aediterra.
mean coast; it bus penetrated Sicily,
established itself in Cons,antinople, and 10
already as far west as Ancons, Italy. ~
Western Europe is alarmed and on the
defensive. But it is hard for the police of
an empire to arrest this invisible murderer,
which has all the poverty, crime, filthiness.
aud reckiessness or the world for its &C.
completes. Eugene ,Saebin bis greatest
novel refers forcibly TO the apparent pro-
gress of the Cholera, at the rate of o mans
daily march. Bat it will travel faster ia
1864 than it did in 1881. The Cholera Is
mot blown about on the winds. 10 pas
hses from man to man; the ship sails with it
over the sea the steam cars speed it over
the land; il crawls along the sewerage,
aud creeps from street TO street with the
beggar. II is this mode of transmission
that makes is progress SO dicult to stop,
vet because of this it Is not useless to try the
eGect'of all sanitary precautions. " If.this
pesiileoee were poison 10 the air, We
might abandon all hope of-coBtrolling it,
and idly await, like the Mohammedan fatal
list, the mysterious punishment of God
Bat We know, whatever be its primal cause
that it originates in countries which are the
sewers Of the world; that everwhere filth
and foulness are it's sllies, and clsanli.
ness its greatest enemy. Our duty is there.
fore plain. II Europe cannot stop the pes.
tilence-and precedent gives very little rea.
son to suppose 1.-THE Cholera may reason.
ably o expected in America in the Autumn
or Spring " f''' 's't-.m 7a' .auH