The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-06
THE CHOLERA.

Our marine intelligence announces
the arrival at this port on Friday, OF the
steamer ATLANTA, from London, OCT;
| 10, via Havre Oct. IS, with five hundred
and fprty-six passengers. Why is TINS
circumstance alluded to editoriaiiy!
From day to day, vessels frem LONDON
and Havre, and from all parts of the
world. enter this harbor, fulfill their
errands, and go forth again upon the
high seas, without eliciting further
comment than the mere routine notice
of their arrivals and departures. Why
should the ATLANTA be singled out for
especial mention among the many hum
dreds of ships that crowd our waters ?
The answer is one well calculated to
disturb the tranquil mind of this COM
munity; one that we record with regret
and anxiety; one that, nevertheless, If
it be accepted as warning, andawaken
the public attention to the encourage
ment of cleanliness, temperance and
precautionary measures, may have its
value in the midst of the alarm that 1t
will naturally occasion. The Atalanta
has brought the Asiatic Cholera to our
shores.
Dir. Walser, who boarded the vessel
Immediately after her arrival, ascer-
gers stricken with the pestilence, and
that eight others had persisted during
the voyage and were buried at sea. The
scourge made its appearance two days
after the steamer had left Havre, at
which port, probably, the infection was
brought on board. The Atalanta was
Immediately ordered to quarantine in
the roads near Sandy Hook, and every
precauton was taken to prevent COM
mnnicatiOn with the adjacent shores.
The Health Commission, upon receiv
ing the, report of DIR. Swinburn, the
Health Officer, assembled without de-
lay to take into consideration the fear
full visitation. The Mayors of Brooklyn
and Jersey City were in attendance, to-
gether with several members of the
medical faculty. The proceedings of
this meeting include the adoption of a
memorial to the President, requesting
the appropriation of portion of the
Government property at Sandy Hook
for the establishment of suitable quar-
antine ground to meet the anticipated
emergency.
The action of the Commission has
been prompt, but it is startling to reflect
that it was urged on blythe actual pres
ence of the pestilence. There is much
| to be done before this city and Others in
this vicinity, over which the cloud is
lowering, can be put in q condition ia
vorable to the checking of the advance
of the unwelcome visitor. We depre-
cate panic, which would be in Itself an
| invitation to the malady but we hold
| it our duty to confess that there is dan
ger, great danger, which can best be
mitigated by extraordinary exertions in
| ~ thavorrh1xy onh na.
pecially those districts that, by reason OF
some attributes, are adapted to the pro-
pagation Ofthe disease.-N. YNeps 4th.
| THE New YORK FIDDLERs ON A
STRIKE.-The members of the orches-
| tras attached to the different theatres In
New York have been demanding for
| some time past an increase OF salary,
| which the managers have refused to ac-
cede to. On Wednesday night the per-
| formers, in pursuance of the decision of
the Musical Protective Union," desert
ed all the theatres, except Niblo's where
an orchestra is essential to the Ravel
performances now being given there,
and the Old Bowery Theatre and the
Academy of Music, where the musicians
had been engaged by special contract
Their absence was supplied in most casea
by the substitution Of the pianO-fOrte.
Some time ago the orchestral players at
the theatres received nine dollars a
week; through combined movement
they afterwards obtained twelve, and
subsequently fourteen. When the man.
aeers acceded to this last demand, it is
said that it was the understanding that
this was to be the fixed price hereafter.
Now the performers, In the midst of
the season, ask an increase from fourteen
to twenty dollars per week. The man
agers have turned off the old fiddlers and
procured new Qnes, of which article
there is an abundance.
THE LATE WILLIAM VINCENT WAL
LACE.-The death of William Vincent
Wallace is not altogether unexpected.
He has long been i'll, and when we
heard that he had gone to the south of
France we had misgivings, for there is
| a fatality about the south of France that
seems unerring. Here he was attacked
with kind of pneumonia, and on the
| I2thoOf October died at the Chateau de
Bagen, Haute GarOnne. Mr.. Wallace
was born in Ireland, and at the time of
his death was in the 50th year of his
age. His father was a band-master,
aud he soon became so apt in music that
tatfifteen he could play on every iHstrp-
| ment in the orchestr9. AT eighteen he
began giving concerts in Australia, and
continued to do SO in Europe and South
America. Mr.. Wallace composed many
pieces for the piano-fOrte, even after he
was afflicted with blindness, in lS49.
Mariana" very charming work.
B. |H D. n r. H