National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-09-22

In tne years from 1871 10 loSS tno
cholera, which had first left its home Of
centuries among the marshes of the
Gangcs in 1917, passed through Central
Asia to the northwest and reached Oren-
burg, on the eastern borders Of Russia.
To reach Moscow occupied thirteen
months, the disease appearing in that
place in September, 1880. In nine
months afterwards it arrived ut st. Peters
burg, June, 1881. In the same year it
spread over Central Europe and appear
ed in England, Sunderland, in October.
In the next January 1882 Edinburgh
was visited and London in February.
1t reached Paris in March, and thence
spread through France. The terrible
disease first appeared on this side of
the ocean at Quebec, on June s, 1882.
Within two days it appeared at Mon
treal, and on June u at New York,
Curiously enough, there was no evidence
of its presence at any place between
these cities. From New York the dis.
ea,e extended to all points of the com
pass to Philadelphia, Rochester and
Albany in AUGUST; as far west as Gin
cinnati, and south to New Orleans IN
October. We had another visit in 1884,
but since that time cholera has never
been an epidemic in the country, though
in had appeared ut various places as an
endemic, and in 1S4s-49 it travelled
from New Orleans up the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers to the lakes and Canada.
1t is a subject of discussion whether the
| disease OF 1S4S. 40 was the true Asiatic
cholera, most authorities agreeing that
it resembled that disease, and might
have been mild type of it, 1t is some
consolation to MS, and, we fear, a source
of DANCE -ous carelessness on our part,
that the cholera revisited Europe in the
years 1885, 1896 and 1897, without
crossing the Atlantic. This year in
February, few slight cases Of cholera
were reported at Moscow. Early in
March the disease made rapid progress
at st. Petersburg, assuming an epidemic
form: during the last weeks of April
and the first weeks of May its severity
at the Russian capital decreased. As
the warm weather began it again be-
came more virulent. In the middle of
empire, in Tamboy, Jareslay, Novgorod
and Olopetz At the last accounts re-
ceived from Russia the violence of the
disease seems to have diminished i'll
most parts of the infected districts, ex
cept at Moscow, at Borissoglevsk and
Kirsanoy, within the government OF
Tamboy, and in some districts within
the government of Vlaclimir. There
have thus far it is said, been over seven
thousand cases in st. Petersburg five
hundred at Cronstadt, the port of the
great city one hundred and six eases
were reported in two days at Riga, the
maritime outlet of Moscow and there
have been twelve hundred at wilma.
The epidemic has now reached Ham
burg, which Is such an important ship
ping port that it may be chosen by the
cholera rs its place of embar'i alton fol
America. Hamburg is two hundred
miles west of Stettin. Altoona, which is
a port on the Elbe, about ten miles be-
low Hamburg, in the Duchy of Holstein,
has population of about 10000. At
this place sixteen deaths from the chol-
era have been reported. In K9nigsberg
there were three hundred and twenty
nine deaths during the week ending
August 20 Ol IleSe one HuHuIe1 anu
twenty-seven were children. On the
9th there were one hundred new cases,
with twenty nine deaths in K1nigsberg ;
and on the 2Sth there were eighty new
cases, with fifty deaths. The discase
is spreading rapidly in Eastern Prussia,
and with violence. The last news from
Gumbinnen, place sixty-six miles from
Knnirsberg. saws that out of popula-
ton of 40 in the little village of Chino
chon there have been seventy-nine cases,
with forty-six deaths. With this great
enemy marching toward us and threat
ening us with the terrible experience
which followed its similar threat in 1881
and 1882, every possible means should
be taken to avert the threatened danger.