New-York tribune., 1872-11-08
vrwvoRK DAILY TRlBuNEs FRIDAY NOVEMBER s. 1877"

Board have done not little to elucidate
the mystery.
Tn 1857 cholera burst with great virlhence
upon the multitude of pilgrims gathered to-
petber at Hurdwar, n sacred city on the northern
banks of the Ganges, to take part in tho great
religious Hindoo fair which is annually held
there. Northward marched the returning
multitude whose homes lay in AfghaDistan
and Cabool, and nortbward went the pesh-
lence like a shark in their wake. 1t crossed
the five rivers it mounted the afghan steppes,
and it continued it's ravages in 1868 and 1859
throughout the hills of the Caucasus ana along
the shores of the Caspian Sea. But what
means it found to pass thence to distant
Kiev it is still our task to show. There were
formerly but two channels along which inc
traffic between Persia and Southern Russia
flowed. One follows the waters OF the Caspian
and terminates at Astrakhan; the other runs
from Tabriz through Turkish territory to Ire
bizond, and thence by the Black Sea. Along
the latter route cholera has never spread into
Europe, and facts proved that in 1869, at any
rate, it had not extended into Russia by way
of Astrakhan. II has come to light, however,
that the trans Caucasian trade has lately been
drawn by Russian enterprise into totally diff
fercnt and new line of rOute--a route crossing
by way of Tiflis from Baku, harbOr on the
southwest banks of the Caspian, to Poti on the
Black Sea. The railway from Poti to Iiilis Is
already open, and the remainder of the line
to Baku will very shortly be at work. Such
are the facilities which Russia affords for en-
couraging traders to adopt this line OF conImu-
nication that the two previously mentioned
rOadways have already been more than half
abandoned and commerce will soon lind ITS
advantage in fOrsaking them altogether. BE
that rs it may, steam vessels run direct from
Poti to Odessa, and from the latter port to
Kiev is but n few hours journey by rail. Here,
then, we have the probable way along which
some chance passenger took the cholera with
him to Kiev AScertained cases have estab-
lished that the disease may be conveyed long
distances in an undetected form. The steamer
England, in 1865 took it from infected dis
tricts in Germany, by wa. of Hamburg, and
she was already half way across the Atlantic
ere any symptoms of the malady were disc0v-
cred on board. The same thing happened to
tho Virginia, when she had been fully SIX days
at sea. Facts like these prove that, even when
the disease appears in the interior of n cOun-
ITY, at u uSblnCt lIOnl lhC iNSiVh hhNiN Az -
prevailing epidemicaly, and though separated
from that region by an intervening sea, we
must bo cautious before we assume that the
malady has not been imported if the seat OF
the outbreak can be shown to be in free com
muncaton with the coast and with the in
fected region.
This is question that is not without per-
sona interest for us. If any of our readers arc
uncoavinced that this is 80, they will cease to
doubt when we remind them that so recently
as the 10th of October 1871, an ill-fmnished
emigrant ship sailed from Stettin for New
York, touching at Copenhagen and Christian
sund. A weel, after she had quilted the last
| named port cholera appeared among the pas
srngers, vino numbered CD. She put into
Halifax on Nov. 8, and the disease was by her
agency introduced into that city, and carried
thence to a village twenty-five miles to the
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