The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-07-31
correspondence of the YOrkville Enquirer.
THE CHOLERA.
CHATTANOOGA, July 9th, 1873. .

Twenty seven coffins in one day! Does
that startle YOU, reader? Yet this little city
is so scourced with that dread disease, Asiat'c
cholera, that the undertakers sent out twenty,
seven cofins last Thursday. Friday, there
were fifteen deaths Saturday, twelve; Sun
day, sixteen; Monday, fifteen; Tuesday ten
and several new cases to-day, mp to this WITT
ting. -,
This fearful death-rate has sent chill
through every heart. Business is pretty
we'll suspended. Fully half the population
have left the city, and most ofthe remaining
halfwould ifthey could. Among the lamcnted
dead is John G. Gallaspie, one of the
wealthiest and best-known citizens.
Men die in four, five and six hours after
being taken This is the main reason why
the disease is so dreaded. People have 3
horror of the King of Terrors at best, and
when he comes with such sudden tread he is
doubly terrible. There is no time to prpare
for death as regards the future state; no
time to arrange ones business, or hardly TO
bid ones family adieu. Death from cholera
is so sudden and so terrible that men often
forsake their dearest friends who are taken
with it, intent only on saving thor own|
lives. IA
At the Red House here, last week, the
colored dish-washer was taken at four o'clock
and died shortly after dark. That night
about half the servants left in fright. Often
men wha have faced tempests Of ball aud
bullets upon a hundred hard-fought fieldsj
will run like sheep when the Asiatlc cholerr)
appears.
Bad as the disease has been here, it was|
even worse in Gallatin. There six per cent.
of the population died in month Gal
latin is in Sumner county, thirty miles north,
of Nashville. on the Louisville road. IT is a
place of some three thousand inhabitants.|
The surrounding country, for fifty miles, IS
high, rolling, we'll drained and healthy in|
tho town. nor near it, there are no stagnanq
pools nor sluggish streams. | should judge
It to be fully as healthy a place, ips tIl5
respect, as Yorkville.
But the cholera Travelled from Nashyill6t4l
Gallatin on the wings ofthe morning Lac
the people fed, leaving less than 6ltcen hulIs
dred in town. Yet of these fifteen hun 4;
one hundred and two haye'died Aud4h
fearful death-rate in < country town: ~
.sszassssss=Asa,sby =
Who will account for il
Among the country people about Gallatin
there is panic They come to town not at
ALL When the towns people 60 TO the coun-
try for supplies, bacon for instance, the conn
trayman hangs piece on the gate-post and
retires while the purchaser takes it and
leaves the money. But despite all precaution,
the scourge has spread into the country be.
yond Gallatin and Nashville, and taken off
many although raging with much less violence
than in the centres of population.
At Nashville the disease is slowly subsid-
ing, the daily death-rate varying from five
to twelve. The scattered citizens are return
ing, and every train goes in full. The danger in
that those who remained through tall, living
on hard ham and dry beard, will, with the
decline of the disease, 60 into vegetables with
such vim as to raise the death rate again.
This is not the Nashville view, know;
they are all in a high state of hope there;
but stranger things have happened Th'
deaths in Nashville, in June, were about
five per cent of the population in the city.
This is a very unhealthy exhibit.
At Memphis the disease has about exhaust
ed itself. It was not half as bad there as in
Nashville. Indeed, it will take Asia itself
to show anything equal to the death-rate in
Nashville in June With the population re-
ducod to twelve thousand by fight, there
were near seven hundred deaths