The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-20
Tbe Cholera in Constan,iuoDle,


The following are extracts from letters
from ConstantiuoPle, published in The
Times:
Aug 2.-Sigus of sickness, death and
panic are multiplying fast. The spirit OF
fear has conquered the spirit of mammon.
The Bourse is closed. The bszaars are
shutup. Business is nearly at stsndstill,
md the merchants have shut themselves
up in their country seats. You see women
unable to resist the fascination of fear look.
out Of their windows, and pedestrians
shrinking back and putting their hsndker-
chiefs to their noses SIS the coffiins go past.
Bodies of those scarcely dead are thrust in
to collins and hastily hurried off for bur
| ial. You call at shop. The master or
one of his hands Is grooming in bed. Ycu
go to visit a friend. He has Just been buried.
PROFESSIONS of over-werked priests fill the
streets and. pray for the cessation of the
pestalence. Five hundred at least died at
Stamboul yesterday. In the papers the to-
tai number of deaths Is stated 10 nave been
800. This is wholly untrue.
Aug. 3-Another act of the tragedy is
being performed. The Sultan has given
orders that all classes sre to make merry,
so bad brandy, raki, and Turkish music
are the orders Of the day. So with the
unceasing tramp of the hamals, carrying
the dead, the streets rssound with monoto-
nous twsDging, drunken riots, and howl
ing. For the last few days the weather
has been almost unbearable. The sun
rises red hot. The wind neither brings
freshness nor the night coolness. In the
sun the glass is at 1889 and in the coolest
room in the house, $50. Al Gslstea il
ranges from 900 to 92o. After seepless
night, rise with hardly strength to dress.
More lying bulletins. Two hundred and
seventy stated to have died before yester.
day. l believe 1 under-state the number
when say that 1000 die daily. 1 cannot
shut my eyes to the truth. Here are two
facts The young gentleman to whom
alluded as having adopted a strongly
stringent diet as precautionary measure
ef safety went to make q call. Two per-
sons had Just died in the house. He rushed
away to another. There were three dead
there. Coming back he met the dead cart
with at least 100 bodies inside. The same
day an Englishman saw q number of
corpees buried IN an adjoining cemetery.
He counted l20. learned that six medis
cal men had succumbed to the disease.
Aug. 4.-There is the greaest difficulty |
L
go for one yesterday, but there was none
to be found in Gslata for love or money
By the merest luck met with one at Pc |
ra- The doctors are over worked and they
shut themselves in, and say they are f,not |
at home" As to myself l am as well as
usual don't fear. eat fruit in mod. |
GRAFTON and bathe, in defiance of the doc.
tors. This is good time for making some
curious studies in human nature. some of
those who have studied Rensn's book, and
are of the convinced of the truth of his ar
guments, now crowd into Christian church
es in abiect terror, and make not very tuc.
cessful attempts ct praying. Others who
have led lives of gsiety have now assumed
the garb of puritsns and denounce their
as the cause of the pestilence.
One poor creature who had been thus as
sailed saw go past with quite hunted
look In her cOuntenRnce Every one is
of domestic miseries of a mi
nor character. Servants leave ami no
fresh ones are to bs obtained. Hsmsls are
departing in hundreds .-
Aug. 5.-The cholera has assumed most
rightful proportions. Two thousand at
he very least persisted yesterday. The
1spers, of course, still conceal the truth,
The chief of the municipality unblushing- I
y svoWed his right TO do so. seem to be
living in the plague OF London, go much do
he general features of the times resemble
hose narrated by the Pepys. The little
emetery behind us is full OF corpses, buried
My fteen inches under the soil and the
municipality has forbidden any more bur-
als there. Yesterday two large bsrges /.
8 high as first floor window from the ;
round were taken to the Golden Horn :
or burial On the same day several hum ,,
red were thrown into Bosphorus. Medi-
al men, whether from fear or avsrice re-
use to attend the poor, and thousands per. :
h for the want of 8 little prompt assist =
nee. Every one who can scrspe a little
loney together is leaving the place, and :
assenger boats sink to the level of their :
scks with the loads Of passengers. :,