New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-05

religious rites the Coast in order to exercise the
fnny demon but tho gathering at place Of so dense
a throDg OF human beings rcdoublcd the fury OF the
pestilence, and the mortality was frghtful The same
year the island Of Sumatra devastated. and so Ter
rby did the disease ravage the Capital that the King
fled to the mouth of the river where he formed camp
But the angel of Death followed them thither; ana De-
fore the year was out had tapped his black wings over
forty degrees of latitude and fifty of longitude.
In1s0 the Cholera inspired the inhabitants OF Manila
with 40 wild terror that they broke out in an insurec
ton in which many Europeans and great nupiDef VI
natives persisted.
In 1921 il appeared at Juggurnah on missionar!
expedition So furousy did it rage among tho heathen
during the annual monstrostics in honor
bo there were not left naniacs enough to drag the car
of the idol around the temple and that year not
dsvotee en;oved the luxury OF being crushed under It's
wheels.
The same year the scource invaded Bassora on the
Persian Gulf and slew 1000 out OF population oi
81 ooo Thence IL passed TO Bagad and destroyed one.
third of the population At Shiraz. the mortality was
awful; Batavia lost 1000 Inhabitants, and the entire
island Of Java 10000 The scourge traversed forty
three degrees of latitude and seventy Of Longitude
sweeping and garnishing the unciean places
In 1922 the progress of the pesence was In the d.
rection of Europe The Prince Royal Of Persia, hay
ing attacked the Turkish army saw his own army, o
few days after the victory, swept away by the epidemic
In 1898 the Omnipo,ent Scayenger swept the Birman
Empire and not even the OF the heir to the crown
WON as an amulet around the meek. awful enough
TO arrest his progress diminish the number Of its
victims In China also the disease ragged everywhere
Gin consequence Of the innumerable canals" and a
population the sands the seashore. The Russian
authorities urged the MaDdarns to adopt preventive
preseryative measures; but the Mandarins (scfpos'
sessed philosophers replied that the deaths would al
low room in the world for those who survived;
and besides that the Cholera chose its victims from
among the filthy and the incorporate, and that no
person Of courage who lived with moderation and clean
liness, would die oft Tie Emperor, they declared,
had said to his subjects, Do not believe that the dis.
is stronger than yourselves. II only kills tho scared
people" Sagaoious Emperor.
The same year the Cholera marched northwsrd far
as 0renbourg on the confines Of Asia and Europe,
where arrive yearly. from China and
Hindostan it also made It's appearance the Eastern
shores Of the Mediterranean and created lively alarm
in Europe.
In ls2J the Cholera returned TO Bombay, and com
PEELED the authorities to build hospitals and burn great
quantities of wood tar and gunpowder.
In 1S27 the epidemic again attacked Calcutta. and
this time horses cattle elephants, swine and dogs
shared the fate Of human parahs. The Hindoos at
tributed the prolongation and universally of the
scourge to the anger of the God of the Cemeteries
provoked by the absence Of human sacrifices. AT
Paloal a Hindoo woman resolved TO burn herself on
the body of her husband who had died Of Cholera but
the Raah refused patronize permit. the per
formance. The widow however, urgent in her
suit and declared that the pestlence would in
i've days If she allowed to sacrifice herself" The
Raah Welded and the woman burHed-but> il made no
difference TO the Cholera.
In 1880 the epidemic prevailed all along the shores Of
he Caspian Sea- and on the 9th Of July appeared at
Tins, the capital of Georgia nearly depoprlaing II
Dy death and flight. Impatient OF the limits within
which had hitherto been confined. it had the year
,efora/ crossed the Ural Mountains. which separate
Europe from Asia. On the 10Th OF July ii reached As
rakhan at the mouth Of the Volga and thence spread
p that river reaching Nisohnei Norgorod about the
nst OF August On the 18th OF September 1t appeared
i Moscow. where il created senseless panic. and
o. 600 persons fed the city in few days The con-
formation was general throughout the Russian Empire
md the Car offered reward Of $4,000 rcubics for the
,et dissertation on the nature causes prevention and
,urc of Cholera. A Council OF Health was convened
II Moscow composed Of ply sicans from Paris, Berlin
5ottineen and other cities.
In 1891 It appeared at ST. Petersburg-on the goth OF
June-havinc previously visited Archangel, Warsaw,
Riga. PolanCen and Danizic. The Car retired IN
lisnay from the imperial city, and surrounded himself
md his conrt with Gordon milhoire. permitting no
,pnroach from without IL May it broke out in Mecca
,rnonr the innumerable pilgrims to the shrine, and
aLated" thousands upon thousands OF the fouest OF
hose mons nusances with whom "it is point of
religion that no pilgrim shall change his clothes during
he whole period Of his pilgrimage, and that each pill
yrrn SHAH sacrifice at least one sheep and leave the
,kins and ofrll TO rot under an Arabian sun"
Berlin was visited by the Cholera in the last week OF
auqust and from the lat Of September TO the middle of
December when il Rad nearly disappeared, the number
n cases was go of which moro than half died. On
the 10Th of August the seourge entered Vienna from
HUNGARY in defiance Of double Gordon, though the
authorities refused 10 recognize its presence until the
,s.b Of september. by which time it raging with
violence. Ii was remarked that in Vienna, the Cholera
DESTROYED more Of the nobility and people Of the higher
classes than at any other time or place; and here,
likewise was mos. extraordinary fatality among
nhvseians. and other attendants upon the sick
The Cholera also prevailed this year Q5J) ct Con
s,sntinopie. The Turkish Government declined to
establish quarantines but distributed gratuitousy,
the Empire small pamphlets giving his
tory Of tie disease and tie most approved methods OF
prevention and treatnent. Their good sense was ie-
ysrded with q mild visitation
"On the Goth of October the Board of Health Of
Sunderland in England, Officially announced the pres
once of Cholera in that town. few eases had been
noticed in August but it did not prevail epidemieay
until the las, of October" On the 9th Of January it
orneored in Edinburgh and soon afterward reached
where contrary to all expectations its rayages