Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-26
THE CHOLERA AT NEW YORK.

The arrival at New York of the steam
ship Virginia, of the National Steam Navi-
cation Company's line, on "Wednesday af-
ternoon, with cholere on board, is already
known She arrived off Staten Island at
five o'clock. and was boarded at the quar-
antine or upper landing of the island by the
health officer. After careful examination
of the vessel and of the passengers, thirty
seven Of whom had previously died, and an
other dying while the officers were on board,
the disease was pronounced marked Asiatic
cholera.
The vessel was then ordered to the lower
quarantine, near Sandy Hook but it had
become late and the pilot took the respon-
sibility of remaining till morning At
quarter past eleven o'clock in the forenoon
she went down the bay Her presence
within three quarters of mile of the Staten
Island shore created much exciteme mt
among the inhabitants. No communication
whatever was allowed between the vessel
and the shore. Arrangements are making
to remove all the passengers from the ship
tomorrow morning. There is said to be n O
immediate danger that the disease will
reach the city from the vessel.
THE VIRGINIA AND HER PASSENGERS.
The steamship Virginia is new propel-
ler of 2,876 tons burden, and is one of the
finest vessels of the line to which she be-
longs. The passengers numbered about
one thousand and eighty when she sailed
from Europe and according to her regis
ter it is reported her commander, Captain
Prowse, was authorized to receive one or
two hundred more She was, however,
well crowded, the steerage passengers
Comprising all but fourteenl occupying
two tiers of decks. They are in a cleanly
condition.
A large proportion of the passengers are
Germans it is supposed they brought the
cholera on board, and the mortality has
been greater among then than among the
Irish and English passengers
ORIGIN OF THE DISEASE.
| The Virginia sailed from Liverpool on
the 4th instant no cholera is known to ex-
ist there. The German passengers had, it
is said, been at that port only day or two
previous to their embarkation and depar-
ture and there was no sickness that was
noticed among them. At Queenstown,
Ireland, more passengers were received,
making the whole number reported
1t did not appear that there was cholera
on board, until the 18th inst, when the YES
sci was eight days out from Liverpool. On
that day a man who had had the diarrhma
suddenly grew worse and died. 1t is said
the diarrhoea had existed without any symp-
toms that were regarded as alarming, from
the day of the departure OF the vessel
When the man died the ships surgeon
doubted whether the disease was cholera
but on the same day two other passengers
were attacked.
Afterwards the epidemic extended an
on the passage the number of the sick wad
over one hundred-exactIy how many, hows
ever, is not reported by the ships officers
They say the whole number is certainly
less than two hundred.
1t is mentioned as a singular circum-
stance that the cholera broke out on the
Virginia in about the same place on the
ocean at which the passengers of the steam
ship England another of the National
Steam Navigation Company's vessels
afterwards detained at Halifax were at
tackled. This is important, as it tends to
confirm the theory advanced by few per
sons that certain states of the atmosphere
sometimes round IN belts, are peculiarly
adapted for the development of cholera
At present there are twenty-one or TWEEN
ty-tWo of the Storage passengers (tho dis
ease has not reached the cabin passengers
Frustrated with cholera Eleven of them
are marked or doubtful cases, and three OIL
four of these are in state of collapse
Nearly all the other passengers are report
ed convalescent though there are indica
tions that more of the passengers will be
attacked The mortality, it will be seen
has not been heavy,
There Is no panic on the Virginia, and
no fear whatever is manifested The steer
age passengers, who are of the ordinary
class of emigrants, are quite cheerful; they
have good attendance, and it is not expec
ted that many more of them will die