Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-30
The iflyanc4pf the Cholera. I

we buUfMlI oEf%1 EDrOu&tAtP8ts na bActi@A I
of he pa0zressDf the cbe5era thus far |
acr0ss Europe The first noteworthy |
remark concerning the outbreak 10 found
10 papers Of July 3, where appeared a
paragraph dated Florence, June IL, 70
the effect that IN consequence Of infor-
nation received by the ministry that
cholera IL prevailing in Egypt. precau-
tionary measures have been ordered in
regard TO all vessels arriving from ERyp-
tian ports. This was @ mere general
prscsution, bat in q week more we read
that the disease continued its ravages
In Alexandris The deaths up 10 June
~, number one thousand and thirty
four, and twenty thousand inhabitants
are said 70 have left ihe city. Later ed
vices up TO June %, reported continued
ravagss both at Alexandra and Cairo,
bat the epidsmic was thought to be as
summing less Alarming type.
On the 9th IL was reported that the
number Of deaths at Alexandra on the
18th was hfty-fve, and a. Cairo on the
18th forty-three, but that tbs disease was
seaaihly abating 10 that vicinity. Four
days later, the United States Consul at
Palermo, Sicily, reported that the direc-
TOT general had ordered the exclusion Of
all vessels arriving from Alexandria
and Malta, and that TIERS was consider
able panic in Palermo, bat az yet no
cases OF disease except 10 one instance
man who was landed from Alexandria,
sick, bad died.
The I'd ofAugust brought news that the
cholera had almost entirely disappeared
from Alexandria, and that II was then In
creasing in Constantiuople.. A week
later the Abatement in Alexandria was
confirmed, bot the disease continued to
spread 10 Constantinople, the deaths av-
eraging fiffy per day On The 18th lhir-
~ cases bad been reported at Valentia, on
the eastern coast Of Spain, and IL has
also appeared in camp at Gibraltar.
The next sdyices, printed q day later,
reported the disease in Italy. IL was at
Ancona, a town on the Gulf Of Venice,
in about the same latitude as Florence.
The deaths on the 4th OF August there
we're thirty four; and about this time the
State Department was advised by the
Consul at Port Nah tn, Island OF Minor.
ca, that 10 had received Official notifca-
ton Of the appearance Of the cholera on
the Spanish coast.
"A LondoH correspondent reported Au-
gust ~: The cholera il carrying Of
eight hundred 10 ono thousand per day
ut Constaulinople. II ia at Malta and
Ancons, and IL said TO be spreading in
Italy. There is report Of its appear.
ancs at Marseilles The same mails
which brought this letter brought infor-
nation OF continued fearful raYages at
Ancona, City Two aeaths having occur
red there on the 9th OF August, and
seven hundred and eighty one in ell up
10 the 18th. The London Times Of An
gust 10, in an editorial commenting al
some length upon reports thus far re-
ceived, and upon o meeting. recently
held ia London 10 coneider the subject,
said $ There exists unquestionably at
the present mome nt nearly all the symp-
toms by which cholera has been gener.
ally preceded. The disease il travelling
in the same sort Of epidemic waves as
have former marked its approach.
From Alexandria II has moved forward
to Constantinople, Malta. Ancona, Va.
lentia aud Marseillea, and quarantine
regulations are proving as Intellectual as
usual. The time Of year in which Il
thraaiena US agrees with former ~experi-
ence. The great outbreak In 1882
began BY q slight attack in the autumn
OF the former year the disease subsidized
during the winter, and reappeared in lis
utmost violence in the following spriag
and aammer." PSI ans ~
On the 18th Of August the United
States Consul NJ Port MAhon wrote
"Should the advance Of the disease con.
tinue for the next twenty days, il must
be looked for in England" On the sob
of August, twenty-nine deaths were re.
ported IN Maraeilles; on the following
day, thirty eight September 81, lhe dis.
ease In Narcotics was reported on the
increase. The latest advices are from
the Consul a, Port Mahop, who tells us
that the prbsince Of Palermo, Sieily-a
province Of which but little has been
said IN this connection---coniaiue City
thousand Inhabitants, but that this num-
Der had, by disease and fight been re-
duced to fifteen thousand, while upon
thisreu1nant the cholera wee doing ;ts
work at the rate OF one hundred aud fifty
day September 26, fifty.three cholera
deaths occurred at Toulon, and the latest
report 10 that one death aud several
cases occurred at SouthamptDu on the
18Th III thia be 40, the disease has MI.
ready crossed the British Channel; and
thus the grisly record ends for the pres
ent. 90
Let the peculiar manner in which the
cholera has been travelling during the
summer be- noted. From Egypt to Con.
aiaptinople, from Cons.antinople to NAL
Il, Palermo. Valentia, and Aneoua, ra.
Rins with greatest fury atthe last named
place; thence leapingthe Mediterranean
to Marseilles and Toulon aud now (as
rePortedl appearing on the coast Of Eng-
land dying out at one place and reap
pearing at another farther westward.
parsaing peraistensly its allow aud resist.
slehs march IL anybody thinks winter
W an eeertuat barrier, let him remember
that the cholera season of 1852 began
With . slight attack in the autumn of the
former year, subsiding during the winter,
aud reappeared IN its utmost violence in
the sprinR and summer Should not our
citizens. aud public authorities remember
thAt this civ has no guAsaAsy against q
visitation of cholera2 Is it not time 10
think of precautions--to begin our pre-
parations for the black death9-N T.
~ - aa1al Z -L2sl u
The most brutal aud emaculats
piece Of copperheadism which we have
heard OF since the surrender Of Lee,
comes to us from St. Louis, some of