The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-10-01
\ Constantinople correspondent,

A Constantinop]e correspondent,
writing on the 23d ult., to the New
York Tribune, says thes number of
deaths in the Turkish capital, during
the fifty days prevalence of cholera,
were not less than fifty thousand,
though the official return Of the Turk
ish Government largely under-s stated
them. Only one death has occurred
among the American residents, that
of a little child of the Rev. Mr..
Washburne. The average mortality
was sixtyfve per cent. of those at
tackled, while of those treated by the
medical. me;l of the American Mission
only fifteen per cent. died The
writer says the chcic1a followed no
known laws, raging with the greatest
severity in the highest, best venti-
lated, and most clean1y quarters of
the city, where in previous epidemics
! not a single case had occurred The
mortality among Europeans was much
greater after the disease had begun to
decline than during its height. Per-
sons who had fed from infected dis
i tricts, apparently in perfect health,
have generally been attacked as soon
rs they reached their new places of
refuge. The writer adds:
cit is said that the swallows and
several other kinds of birds deserted
the city at the commencement of the
epidemic, and are only now beginning
to return-and believe this to be a
fact. 1t is also said that the gliding
on the caecques in the Golden Horn
and Bosphorus has tarnished, espe-
cially in those localities where the
cholera has ragged most severely. The
summer has been delightful I have
never known more perfect weather in
Copstantinople. For two months be-
fore the cholera came, the health of
the city was better than it has been
tor years, and the weather has re-
NAMED the same during the epidemic
that it was before. I. have carefully
read the description of the cholera in
woods Theory and Practice of Me
dicihe, and it is wonderfully correct,
although the treatment of the disease
there recommended is not, as whole,
the one which l should recommend.
The whitewashing of the most emf
nent wretches who have been gibbet-
ted in chains by history for many
centuries, is now the favorite occupa-
ton of the historian. Richard the
Third, King John, Caligula, Nero,
the Borgias, and Benedict Arnold,
have all, within the last decade, been
honorably acquitted of the false ac-
cusations which have SO long tarnisheal
their illustrious regulations, and they
now rank among the most Christian,
honored and enlightened gentlemen
of former times.
Louis Napoleon also, in his history
of Julius Caesar, has just put the first
coat OF whitewash upon Cataline, and
expects by the time the royal author
reaches the third volume of his work.
to turn the tables completely upon
Cicero, that malignant calumniator OF
the most ex 'nplary young Roman of
his day. Cain and Judas Iscariot
are, we believe, the only remaining
gentlemen of nnenviable distinction
whose characters have not felt the
beneficial effects of this whitewashing
process; but the learned German,
who, in a late work on "Moah and his
11naes," has triumphantly vindicated
the characters Of the ''sons of Anok"
and of the inhabitants OF Sodom, in
tends taking Judas IN hand as soon
Is he can collect tAe documents bear
ing upon his case.
Dinner is said to be the most i'm
nortant event of the dau A Linn,s