The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-21

-Over $4,000 Cases and $4,000 Deaths
i'm Six Months-Midnight Meeting in a
Cemetery, Etc. Etc.
Florence (August 81 C0r. London Daily NelUs.
From a report on the cholera lately published,
we find that the cases from January to July this
year have been as many as SO, 376, followed by
1854 deaths. The Sicilian provinces have been
the most grievousy affected by the malady. In
GiTgenu l6,Ol4 cases are reported, and 1910
deaths; in Bari (Neapolitan provinces), II, ,l16
cases, and 64l2 deaths, at Caltanisetta (Scilian
prOvinces), 7l9l cases, and 4llo deaths In a
word, we find that death followed the at
tack in above halt the number of cases.
Not one OF the forty-nlne provinces
of Italy has been spared, though in some citles
such as Florence, only couple of cases are re-
ported. But another alarming symptom--a
symptom OF moral disease quite as melancholy
as the physics malady-has been observed
throughout Italy, especially in the Calabrias
and Sicily, though even the northern provinces
are not free from ts contaglon. This symptom
is the dread of poison the belief in its presence
through various maevolent agents and noXious
influences. In Sicily this dread greatly excites
the minds of the suffering population, and adds
to their calamitous state. A thirst for ven.
geance upon the soldiers, who are supposed to
be in some mysterious manner connected with
the cholera, is felt by the people. The unre.
mitting zeal and kindness of the officers and
men IN the care OF the suffering and sick have
done nothing to calm the popular feel
ing. Even when they are assisting the
sufferers, they are regarded with hatred and
y,
Some instances of this may be cited. At Mehill
near Syracuse, such was the excitement of the
populace, owing to their belief that poison had
been administered by agents of the Italian Gov
eminent, that a large meeting was held in the
dead of night in the public cemetery, at which
it was resolved 'that all the Carabniere and
Italian agents resident in the place should be
killed for spreading the cholera" The plot
was fortunately revealed by woman to one
of the intended victims, who telegraphed
the news to the authorities of an adjacent
city; and company of rifles was sent to
guard the public safety, But the panic shows
itself In every form. Some days ago. on the
arrival of the mail train from Catania, where
the disease is prevalent, at Calata0iana, about a
hundred armed men were waiting at the station,
and they peremptorily commanded the driver
to go back at once without staying an instant.
In vain did the officer in charge of the mail,
who happened to be the only traveller in the
train, entreat for permission TO leave the post
bag at all events. He was not listened to, and
the train returned whence it had come. Catania
Itself presents miserable spectacle-disease,
suffering, misery, and terror are seen under
every possible form. Very few shops, not more,
1t is said, than ten in a hundred, are open. All
who had the means of escaping have already
abandoned the city; proving dogs and sickly
m nave E1Sn ne place almost entirely
not entirely tree from the common terror and
delusion The condition OF the city is so sad that
the whole active work OF life Is performed by
the soldiers, who too frequently fall victims to
their arduous and overs strained labors They
nurse the sick and bury the dead, and in return
for their services are frequently repulsed by
the suspicious inhabitants, who often refuse
food and medicine IRON their hands, revile them
with their dying breath, and perish fully
believing they have been poisoned. The agita-
ton is indescribable throughout the country.
At Bagnara, in Calabria, where cholera is
making fearful ravages, an exciting scene
lately occurred. Four 1nfrmary servants from
an adjacent city, who came TO AID the SICK were
believed by the people of the place, either
through something unprepossessng in their
appearance or unusual in their dress, to be
cholera agents. A popular tumult was the con-
ers;' away with them;" "0ut, OUT" and such
was the fury displayed that, in spite of the
strenuous arguments and explanations offered
to the people by the public authorities, it was
found necessary to send the poor fellows away,
though they had been specially requested TO
come, and there was of course urgent need of
their services. A strong escort had to guard
them from mischief on the road. Similar cases,
though less violent in the north than in Sicily
and the Neapolitan provinces, are, however,
reported in the vicinity of the polished and
enlightened city of Milan ITSELF Women opp Ose
the removal from their homes of cholera pa
tients INTO the hospitals through fear of poison.
In fact, in the northern provinces, as every
where else, there is general tendency to attri-
butte the malady to individual malignity rather
than to any natural cause. Bergamo, Brescia
Cremona, and Como are sorely afflicted.
The Mllanese sanitary commission service has
been carried on with great efficiency and ASST
| duty, and the clergy have been indeiatigable
in attending on the sick. All, however have to
| struggle against an amount of blind ignorance
| and prejudice, which sadly reflects upon the
| intellectual condition of Italy. The subject of
| cholera is at this moment so absorbing through
| the country, and the noble devotedness of the
| Italian soldiers and officers in the service of
| humanity has been so much talked OF, that,
besides an order of the day signed by General
Revel, to those brave men, expressing the graft
| tude of the Government for their behavior, a
| vote of thanks to them has been passed in Par
| lament.
| One Hundred and Ninety Deaths Daily
in Palermo.
NAPLES, August 9.-Cholera is making terrible
ravagcs at Palermo. The average number OF
deaths is 100 daily.
Royal Victim.
The cholera has found a Royal victim at
Rome in the person of Queen Maria Theresa of
| Naples, who died on Thursday. Her Majesty
| was the daughter of the Archduke Charles, the
| celebrated leader of the Austrian army during
| the wars of the French Revolution and of Bona
| parte. She married Ferdinand III of Naples.
| In 1887, became widow in 1859, but continued
| to reside with her stepson till the ex-king was
| displaced by Garibald. One of the daughters
| of the late Queen is the second wife of the pre-
sent Archduke Charles of Austria, brother to
the Emperor; another daughter Is married to
| the Archduke Charles of Tuscany.
The Cholera at Warsaw-Three Hun
dred Cases Day.
The cholera is said to be making alarming
nrooress az Warsaw. As many as 800 eases