The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-09-06

THE CHOLERA.-Ine camp OF reuerai
soldiers has been moved several miles fur
tber from the city. That it had occupied
was itself a mile and half outside the
corporate limits. At this new camp there
;s not n doubt but that the sickness, caused
mainly by the excesses the former camp
Afforded the opportunity to indulge, Will
be abated promptly. a..
This CITY was never so healthy at TINS
season of the year, according to the unani-
mons testimony of physicians and cltlzehs.
The Board of Health have found no occa-
sion to Justify them even in making report.
There is absolutely nothing in their possess
sion to base report upon; and we are as
sured that as soon as information such as
may render it proper is received, reports
will he regularly made. No year passes
without more or less of cases OF vioieh'
cholera -morbus, growing out OF lndlscre-
ton, and terminating in collapse closer!
resembling cholera. There IS no reason
to believe that epidemic cholera has ap-
peared in this city. We repeat that f'ch-
n,ond enjops freedom from disease necer
kno,cn before at this season Of the gear.
THE RICHMOND WHIG AND THE CHOLERA.
A paragraph, evidently intended to be Sc
ycrcly critical and intensely cutting, ap-
peared in the Wing of yesterday in relation
to paragraph headed "Cholera in the
Federal Camps-Latest," which was pub
lished in the Dispatch of Tuesday last. :,
In the paragraph referred to we stated
that within forty eight hours there had
been at Camp Jackson .forty-eight cases OF
cholera, of ,rhich eight had terminated "a
tally and we also stated distinctly that
there had been no cases of cholera what
ever except those in the Federal camps.
From the statement of General Granger,
published in the Dispatch of yesterday, 1t
will be seen that within the torty-clght
hours referred to trenty, tre cases Of cholera
did occur, and Mat elereu Of them prored
fatal; and thus it appears that, far from
making any exaggerated statement, we had
reported three dedths less than had actually
taken place. We desired that the public
should know and understand that the dis
ease was confined to the military camps !;
that it was in all probability caused by the
careless habits of the men and we would
suggest to our courteous and cutting con-
temporary that, in accusing Us OF creating
panic amongst our citizens" and OF "dc-
stroying the little mercantile business that
is left here" and in advising us to "look
for ourselves" he has preferred charge
which cannot be sustained, and given a
word of advice which is entirely unneces-
sary. If, indeed, the Wing had "looked
for itself" as it might have done had it
travelled in the hot sun to Camp Jackson,
il would not have been incumbent upon
it to delay until to-day the publication OF
that official report which is to show every
thing except that eleven men did die with
cholera, as announced in this paper.
Our people are not like our contempo-
rary. They are not easily scared, and we
do not believe that the truth will ever cause
panic in the minds Of the citizens of
Richmond. They bore with calmness and
patience the trials and dangers, the threats
and privations Of four years of war; they
sustained the horrors Of the night of the
evacuation with a fOrtitude that did honor
to their name and race and they are not
now to he driven to frantic desperation by
q statement that some few Federal soldiers
have died with cholera in the United
States camps. On the contrary, the pre-
sence of danger will give them fresh vlgor
and determination and If the cholera does
again make its appearance in force in our
midst, we are confident that it will neither
"cause a panic " nor "destroy theS little
mercantile trade that is left here"
Our contemporary, to use his own
words, is demoralized," or he would not
call ga gentleman connected with the
Medical Directors office" questionable du-
MOrity, although our contemporary OF
course knows more concerning the relia-
blity or unrcliability of members of the
medical profession than we can hope to
do. When our contemporary became so
demoralized as to doubt the veracity OF
doctor, it is not astonishing that he
should make so fierce an onslaught upon
our meek and inoffensive selves. He knew
not what he did, and we forgive and are
sorry for him.