Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-04-26
The Russian Plague Predicted.

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The Russian Plague Predicted.
1t is affirmed, and almost universally be-
lieved in Europe, that the Plague or
dreadful epidemic much resembling 1t,
RACES in st. Petersburg, and has extended
along the valley of the Vistllla, between
Poland aud East Prussia. The deaths had
been 1000 out of 10000 cases, and there was
an average ofl00 new cases day. At Mos
COW, precautionary measures had been ia
ken by the police, who daily inspected the
food and residences ofthe poor. 1thad been
suggested that competent medical officers
should be sent from England to study the
disease, butof the medical students from
France, who had undertaken to investigate
it, forty had perished. The epidemic isnot
the cholera, but the Plague-known by di-
lated pupils of the eye, carbuncles, and pes
tilential bubos, which were the character
nod ,ss,.e Of the disease, when it destroyed l00,-
wy persons IN Lo1don, in the year 1865. in
few months, and wllcII ,..a iyS cbo roo,or
istics atall times and in all places" nho
British Ambassador had telegraphed from
st. Petersburg, on the 5th of April, "the
fever is contagious, and in England is call
ed the relapsing or famine fever; also the
remittent, or bilious typhoid fever 1t was
unknown in Russia until eight months ago."
On the other hand, London physician,
connected with a fever hospital, has written
to The Times that the public need be un-
der little apprehension as to the importa-
ton OF the Russian epidemic into England.
The more formidable of the two diseases
composing it is there already. During the
last three years true typhus has been pre-
vailing among the poor of London to an
extent rarely, if ever, before known" 1t
will be remembered, however, that medical
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cholera which reached Sunderland (also
from Russia), in the autumn of 1881, really
was the Sporadic or the ASidtic-the latter
being the appalling pestilence which was
so devastating through the United States
in 1S32-3. AT any rate, Sir George Grey,
the Home Secretary, found it necessary to
assure the British Parliament that he was
taking precautionary steps to check, ifpos-
.sible, the introduction OF the disease into
England. .
Itwould appear that this disease, or some
other fearful epidemic, has long been antic-
ipated in Germany. The first Napoleon,
who was very superstitious, as many great
men have been and are, placed great reli-
ance in the predictions of the celebrated
Mademoiselle Lenormand well known as a
professional prophet, in Paris, for nearly
forty years, and also the confidante of his
wife, whose Life (''Memoires Historiques ct
Secrets derImperatriceJ Josephine" in three
volumes, Svo.) she published in 1929 At
the Congress of AK la Chapelle, held in
1918, when Napoleon was a captive in st.
Helena, this same Lenormand attracted
much attention among the Sovereigns, and
succeededin particularly interesting the
Emperor Alexander, of Russia, who, indeed,
had Il strong tendency to mysticism and
pietism, which was fostered by his friendly
intercourse with Madame Krudener, re-
ligious visionary as well as an avowed seer.
Lenormand and Krudener not only "told
fortunes" but predicted, boldly and largely,
as to the events OF nations, and it cannot be
denied that their mysterious sentences had
weight with the masses, particularly in
Germany.
In 1853 small pamphlet was published
in Germany, protesting to contain a series
of prophetic revelations found among the
papers of Lenormand, who had died ten
years before at an advanced age. 1t is no.
torious that this publication excited great
attention and obtained large credencv
throughout Germany. 1t announced,
among other events, that in the year 1853
there would be an European war upon Rus
sian soil, upon which the eagle and the
leopard would closely hug the bear (the
elder Napoleon always having declared the
leopard, not the lion, was the symbolic ami
NAL of England that after peace had been
restored, theelephant India) would attempt
to trample down the leopard (England),
but would not succeed that following the
war between Russia, England, and France,
would be an immense emigration from Ger
many to theWest Omitted States), for many
years; that the emigrants would prosper in
their new home, but time would come
when civil war would make them desire
that thew had not left their f1de,- LdnJi.
that, after the civil war had fearfully ragged
for four years, peace would be restored,
and remarkable prosperity ensue; and that,
about the time the war in the west had end-
ed, fearful sickness, commencing in Rus
sia, would extend across the Baltic desolate
Germany, cause immense mortality in Eng
land, and thence simultaneously spread to
the eastand to the west. This prediction
Germans in this country believe to be now
in its last stage of fulfilment. 1t is, at least,
markable.-FOrney's Press.