Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-03
of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHATTANOOGA.
CHATTANOOGA, June 70, 1878.
THE CHOLERA.

LETTER FROM CHATTANOOGA.
CHATTANOOGA, June 26, 1873.
THE CHOLERA.
During this month that dread scourge, Ash
attic cholera, has broken out at several points
in Tennessee. l know there is diversity of
opinion among the medical fraternity as to
whether the disease is really Asiatic cholera /;
but US it kills a majority of those it attacks, it
matters little by what name it is called. The
disease by any other name would be as hard.
was in New Orleans few weeks ago and
the cholera was there at the time. The deaths
from it averaged twenty-five a week. ex-
pected nothing but that it would become very
violent as the city is not the cleanliest. But
the law of disease no man can understand. 1t
often passes the weak and lays hold of the
strong, leaving the unfortifed and storming
the fortified. New Orleans, so inviting to
disease, as it blisters under tropical sun, es-
capes, and the healthy city of Nashville, on
the Cumberland, falls prey. Of all the ci-
ties in the South we should think that would
be the last one to be scourged by the cholera.
It is situated on the Cumberland river, large,
pure stream from the mountains; the surroun-
ding country is rolling, we'll drained and
healthy; and there is an absence of that which
we would regard as inviting to cholera. But
it camein.i its might and destructiveness, and in
month Nashville, the gay capital Of a great
State, is reduced to mourning. The pestilence
walketh at monday through her streets, and
one funeral cortege follows close in the wake
ofanother. The grim monster, Death, holds
high carnival and takes to his bosom whose
ever he wilt; the young and the old, the high
and the low, the rich and the poor. Upon
every street are the symbols Of mourning, "for
there is not house in which there is not one
dead"
Friday of last week was the Black Friday
of Nashville. In the history of the city there
has never before been so many deaths in one
day. The number of burials was eighty-two!
Saturday there we're ffty-eight deaths, Sun
day forty-two, Monday thirty-6ve, and Tues.
day thirty-two. This shows gradual falling
off, and there is hope that the worstis reached.
Twelve thousand people, or about half the
population, have left the city. These are scat
tered through the surrounding country, and
by this means the disease has been carried to
Gallatin, Shelbyville, Lebanon and other
towns adjacent. Within radius of hun
dred miles of Nashville, there have been about
one hundred deaths from cholera. In Nash.
Vile, within two weeks, there have been near
six hundred Deaths At this rate it will not
take long to considerably thin out the remain.
ing population.
It matters not whether the disease is Asiat-
ic cholera or cholera ofsome other description,
it is malignant and deadly. 1t usually car
res off the victim within twelve hours of the
first attack.
The disease did not appear in this city un.
til a few days ago. Just as the Chattanooga
ins were congratulating themselves upon ex-
emption from the scourge, it came, and has
carried off about dozen victims, principally
colored.
This created a panic and thousands are
leaving the city. They fly to the woods, to
the mountains, anywhere for safety. The
panic is foolish, for it is not likely that the
disease will make much progress here. The
cityis scattered over good extent of country,
pretty we'll drained and moderately clean.
We cannot get the advantage of death by
running from it. Itis upon every mans track
and will pull him down sooner or later, whether
in the form of cholera or some other. But is
human nature to put off the evil day as long
as possible, and while time lasts people will
flee from cholera if it approaches. 1 do not
agree with Shakespeare when he says:
"Ah what a sign it is of evil life,
Where deaths approach Is seen 80 terribe'
With the exception of Chattanooga and
Greenville, there has been no cholera in East
Tennessee. In Greenville there have been ten
deaths. 1t seems to have originated there
from man having over-heated himself and
then eaten very heartily of cabbage. This
shows that cholera is in the atmosphere, and
carelessness will bring it out. MEMO.
UNcoNsTITUTIoNAL1TYo OF THE TAX SALES.
A case of considerable Importance has just
been decided in the Third Judicial Circuit, by
Judge John T. Green, in which the recent act
of the Legislature "to provide a summary
mode for purchasers of lands at tax sales be-
ing put into possession" is declared unconsti-
tutional and void. The circumstances of the
case are as follows: Certain lands of Mrs.