Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-09-30
From the N. Y. Tribunc.l
FROM COSSTA ANEBNOPEE.
CnNsTANr1NnpI-E

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| CoNsTANTINorLE, Aug. 23, 1865.
Constantinople has thrice before been vi
slted by the Asiatic cholera, but the iorme
vlsltations have been of small Importance II
comparison with the present. .'j
| Fifty days have passed since its first al
| thcnticated appearance in the city, and no
less than fifty thousand persons have bee,
| swept into eternity by its ravages. 1t reach
ed its hight about August 6, when i is sup
posed that the deaths were not less thar
three thousand day for sevesal days
The published report of deaths in th
city has never reached this point, but it i,
known to all that to prevent general an,
uncomfortable panic, these reports hav,
been deliberately talsitied. j have mad,
careful Investigations upon this point, anC
am able to speak without fear of contradic
ton. Take single day for example, since
the decline has commenced. On August IL
the bthcial returns, as actually made to thu
Grand Vizier and as registered in his Office
show the deaths on that day to have oeer
1859 six times the number reported il
the published bulletins.
These published statements make thc
whole number of deahts only about $4,000
At the rate of August IA this would give
10000 as the real number of deaths, bn
this estimate is too large. Since the mum.
bcr of deaths has fallen below thou
sand a day, the ratio has been very
| much less.
Fifty thousand is a fair estimate. includ
ing all quarters of the city--the militay gar
! rison and the naval contingent. More thar
one hundred thousand persons besides have
fed from the city. This number of deaths
in addition to those who have fed, in
population of million, has changed the
| city from busy mart of trade to a city OF
I bn oyl lit, hn. g.,
! been swept off in day, and hundreds OF
houses left tenantess. | know several Eng
lish families whc:e the father and all the
| children have died within week. l know
of family which consisted of grandfather,
/ his son, his sons wife and four children. No
cholera had appeared in their quarter OF tho
city; but suddeAy 1t came, and in two days
! left the old grandfather the sole living rep.
resentativc of the family. Certain quarters
have suffered so severely that the surviving
inhabitants have left their houses, their ur.
buried dead everything not easily moved
and have fled IN dismay to open fields
beyond the city.
AT certain points dead bodies, in some
cases uncolned and naked, have been liter
ally piled up by scores waiting transports.
I ton to the burial places. One of the
cholera hospitals on the old city wall next
the sea had q slide arranged down which
the dead bodies were shot into boats TO be
buried in the sea.
Two weeks ago one could not go into the
streets without meeting dead bodies h""-
of to burial, end littcrs with those struGN
down in the streets at every turp. E''H, -,
oo'uch nN'~ was Cu'el"a WIN po"'s' 81
ing each from one to 90 dead bodies. lhost
were dreadful days-enough to almost ove!
whclm the calmest and most fearless man.
The very sight of all tie mourning aAd ter
ror-of all the dead and dying, for whom
YOU could do so little-was enough to crust
the heart Things are better now. III
deaths do not probably exceed 500 day
and men are opce more beginning to breath
, freely-to look about them ana see VINO Ii
gone and who is left.
Only one death has occurred lh the LatP
American colony here. The youngest sol
of the Rev. Mr. Washburne died two week
ago after few hours illness.
7 The American missionaries have devoted
| themselves to the cars of the sick and Gyini
among the the poorer classes, ana undo
! their treatment hundreds of lives have beer
I saved. While the average mortality III IL
J city has been about G5 per cent of thos'
l attacked. under the treatment of the Amer
) can missionaries the mortality has rot eX
L ceeded .fre per cent or setting aside 81
: those lithter cases which might be classe'
+ as choleIne The mortality under thei
Il treatment in these fully-developed cases ha
r been only fifteen per cent. 1t is belleVe'
e that this is a greater success than has eve
Z before been attained III epidemic cholerf
u | presume hat they will publish their meti
: od of treatment for the benefit of Others
b think indicated, in a previous letter. IN
general way, what this method IS.
The cholera has not followed any know
laws ia its progress here. 1t has been III
posed that it avoided high and airy local
ties, but here it has ragged with the greats
~ severity in @ome of the highest, best vent
SC lated and most c!eanly quarters of the olt,
while in previous epidemics not sing
u case had occurred.
Of Another singular fact is that the mortalIt
u among the Europeans has been much grea
'd er since the decline Of the diseaGe than
e. was at its hight
< Another fact is. that those who have iit
IN from infected districts, in perfect healt
n have generally been attacked With diseas
III soon as they reached their new and belo
1S shat healthy place of refuge.
ST It is said that the swallows and sever
a other kinds of birds, deserted the city
re the commencement of the epidemic, and
ng only now beginning to return-and belle
al this to be the fact.
40 1t is also said that the gliding on
nc carques in the Golden Horn aud Bosphor
ms has tarnished, especially in those localit.
where the cholera has ragged most severe
N, There has been nothing, strange, porte
q tous or awful in the aspect of the heqye
nr- or the state OF the weather dunng the eplt
DIS mic. On the contrary, the Summer h
been delightful, have never know
up more perfect weather in Constantinol
Ter For two months before the cholera cal
he the health of the city was better than IT !
i've been for wears, and the weather has rema
sh- ed the same during the epidemic that 1t
zen before.
hi have carefully read the description
ish the cholera in "Wood's Theory and Praci
IS a Of Medicine" and it is wonderfully corr
a although the treatment of the disease Il
led recommended is not as whole the
IRE which should recommend. ! would
- give calcmel until after the disease :
mastered. Nor would l adopt any on
, a. the COURSES there suggested in brief, as b
,,ar @ ing found advocates in various quarters.
au-
n is New USE FoR CATERPILLARs.-Wor
ion in iron, when they wish to weld JOINT,
,eo. borax as flux. An intelligent gentiei