Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-04-29
From the Philadelphia Press.
THE RUSSIAN PLAGUE PREDICTE

Il Is affirmed and almost universally believe in Eu-
rope, that the Plague or dreadful epi1emc much re
semelng IT. rage IN ~: PeeIsoaFs' ana has Aie4dea
aoug the valley the Tstlll between Poland aud East
Prussia The deaths had leen zoo out OF ~ 900 cases
and there was an average Of 100 new cases day At
Moscow, precautionary mea mes had been taken b. the
police who daily inspected the food and residen es Of
the poor. u had been suggested that compel ned
c. Off should he sent from England stud the dis
b-to' the medical students from France, who had
undertaken 10 investigate IT, forty had persisted. The
dilael pupils of the eye caThunces and pes ilentiAl
bubos which the characteristics ofthe disease when
il destroyed Ole hundred thousand persons in London IN
the year 1900 in a few months and which are its char
aceristcs at all times and in all places The British
Ambassador had teeTaphad from St. Petersburg on
the 5tl April the fever il COntag and in Eng land
is called the relpsng famine fever also the remit
tent or bilious typhoid fever. II unknown in Rus
STA until eight months ago" On the Otler hand, 4
London phys clan, connected with fever hospital, has
ten 70 The Times that the public need be under
little apprehension TO the import atom Of the Russian
epidemic into England The more formidable Of the
two diseases composing il is there already. During
tie list three years true typhus has been prevailing
among the poor of London to an extent rarely if evCr
beiAre known II will re remembered how ever that
medical doubted for long tina whether the chol.
e,a which reached undsr and, (also from RUSSIA in
the autumn Of 1881 really the Sporltic or the As
ti--.he Ia ter being the appalling eStience which was
devastating through the United tates il 1882 g. A.
any rate. Sir George Grey the Home Secretary found il
necessary % the British Parliament tha he was
taking precautionary steps TO check # possible tie
Introduction Of the d sease into England.
10 would appea that tins disease or sOme other ear
tu epidemic has long been ant!c pated in Germany
The first Nap leon who very superstitious man
grel men have been 3nl are paced great reliance in
the predictions Of the celebrated Mademoiselle Lenor-
mand we'll known professional prophet in Paris for
nearly forty years and also the cOnfdante OF b wife
whose Life Memories Hstorques It Secrets de l'Impe
ratrice Josephine" in three volumes SVo) she publish
ed in 1929. At the Congress Of AK la Chapelle held
in 1918 when Napoleon was captive in ST. Helena,
this same LenOfmand attracted much attention among
the S0veregns and succeeded in par culsry interest
ing the Emperor Alexander Of Russia, who indeed had
a strong tendency TO mysticism and pietsm, viii was
ostered by his friendly intercourse with Madame Kru
dener, religious visionary as well as an avowed seer
Lenormand and Krudener not only told fortunes hut
predicted boldly and largely TO the events of nations
and cannot be denied that tier mysterious sentences
had weight with the masses, particularly in Germany.
In 1853 small pamphlet was published in Germany
protesting 10 conta series OF prophetic revelations
found among the papers of Eenormand who had died
ten years before at advanced age. Il i. notorious
that this publication excited great attention and obtain
ed large ere lence throughout Germany Il announced
among other events that IN the year 1853 there would
be European upon Russian SOIL upon which the
eagle and the leopard would closely hug tie bear he
elder Napoleon always having declared the leopard rot
the cn the symbolic animal Of England that after
peace had been restored the eephant Nndia would a.
tempt 10 Tample down the Leopard England but would
not succeed; that following the between Russia,
England and France, would be an immense emigration
from Germany TO the West united 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 they hac not left their fder land
,lat after he C had cGTiuy rage for four Jcars
pea would De restored and remarkable prosperity en-
sue and that about the time the war in The West
ended q fearful sickness commencing in Russia, would
extend across the Baltic, ISOLATE Germany. cause i'm
mense mortality in England and thence simultaneously
spread TO the and to the west This prediction Ger
mans in this country believe be now in its last stage
Of iuh.iment. Il is al least, remarkable.