Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-08-26
THE CHOLERA.
Whence if Comes, and the Country
.. IL has 1ravcrsed.
THE COURSE OF THE CHOLERA AND ITS PRE-.
SENT LOCATION ....

THE COURSE OF THE CHOLERA AND ITS PRE-.
SENT LOCATION. .. ....
That it is spreading is undoubt tily the
fact First appearing in the ncighlorhuod
OF Mecca, with such tiruence as to carry off
thousands Of the religious enthusiasts who
resort there in obedience to the tcncts OF
their barbarous faith, it seems TO have
spread itself out, rs great bosom, advanc-
ing north. thus far, to Aleppo, Its left career
ing along the eastern border Uf the Red
Sea, while the right touches towns as far
east as 3agdad. The right has not, accord
ing to our latest advices, advanced, MS yet,
any farther than Constantinople, which is
the sentinel city between the two continents
of Europe and Asia but the left has swept
across the Red Sea, skirted the borders of
Mount Sinai, passed over Cairo and Alex
andria, and, breaking away from the right,
hurried along the northern coasts of Africa.
until 1t has reached Gibraltar and Valentia
the former the sentinel city between Eu-
rope and Africa. Thus from two points Eu-
rope Is attacked-trom Gibraltar and Con
stantinople, meDacing Spain, Austria, and
Italy Immediately, and the rest of Europe
IN prospective. Indeed, into Italy the de
stroyer has already advanced, for we hear
II II ut Ancona, an eastern port of Italy
and one OF its most important cities-situa-
ted on the Adriatic coast. The city is one
Rome, and within fifty miles oi Pairs ~,
railroad. 1t is in Manchester, England, too,
and many have fallen victims.
AT Alexandria and Cairo the cholera
RACES, and the Turkish authorities have
ordered all vessels to Symrna, or any other
town ON the coast (Mcditttrranean,) to go
Into quarantine. Gases have occurred in
smyrna, but they were, perhaps. more SUE.
pected than real. Since the quarantine
has been established hut three persons have
died at ConstantiDoplc of the disease, and
they were proved to hare eaten no less thaa
.Hue ra1 eucum6ers, at one meal" .H. .
1t is now favorite theory with the ssrans,
both in England and France, that the cattle
distemper" is the origin and twin scourge
with the cholera. This distemper first made
its appearance in Egypt in the summer OF
1864, with such effects as these ="
In the course of few months there died
in Egypt eight hundred thousand oxen and
as many sheep, goats cames, &c, Three
fouTths OF these animals were thrown into
the Nile, whose water is here IL. onIy
dunk Tor, with the exception of the Foun.
Egypt. In the month OF October the dogs
of Damietta could cross the Nile without
wettng their paws, over bridge, formed
py tue corpses Of cattle. Agents of the
lsthuius OF Suez fund it impossible to pre-
vent the fellahs from choking their fresh
water canal with dead animals The Egyp.
tan Government not having itself taken
measures in this respect, their authority WAS
paralyzed, and the fellahs preferred aees-
siopally receiving few blows to digging i
hole tor the burial of animals that died ot
disease.
- Since then the same disease has made its
appeaafance in England. and has been, as We
all know very fatal in the grazing and dairy
sections OF the Island. 1t is a curious fact
that wherever this dstemper has appeared,
tue cholera has followed quickly. Man.
chester and Ancona are both proofs of the
fact Thus the scourge to animal and man
seems to he one and the same disease, only
n,anifestine itself differently ip the widely
different organizations.