New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-25
SPRING DAYS IN QUEBEC.


EURoPE-PREVALENCE OF sMALL-Pox-A HERO OF
BALAKLAvA
IPROA An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT TIE rRIDuSEl
QUEBEC, May r." 1t is said that prayers
to be offered the churches throughout Canada for
the abatement Of smallpox" So reads item in one Of
papers from the United States. do not know of any
greater test Of the efficacy OF prayer than this would be
ii one judges Of all Canada by Quebec as q sample.
say thousands of prayers have been and will Still
offered for the abatement Of this terrible scourge but
'hose less happy people who have less faith In simple
faith" sigh yanly for works well prayers Here
FOR the last six months the city has submitted quietly to
the disease, and far except in few individual cases,
nothing has been done to get rid OF It, The Marine Hos
pal is open to smallpox patients, and the best possible
is given them. believe. Still II Is an almost IN
credible fact that this city Of 10000 inhabitants
there is not ambulance or hospital carriage IN
which TO patient to the hospital
from his home boarding place. Consequently
when physician il called TO SEQ
sick man who is supposed to have merely fever. and
discovers smallpox ts form, and advises him To
he taken at hospital friend rshes out and
calls close carriage covered sleigh After the driver
deposited his passenger at the hospital door he re-
to his stand. and hour two Later Is called To
take party Of friends ball party In their airy
dresses the ladies draw close around their bare necS and
the warm fur robes in which so short time before
the poor patient had sought warmth This practice alone
enough to keep the disease spreading from house 10
house, and then when knows of the almost super-
sttiOus prejudice many Of the people here have against
vaccination, and also the careless way in which the
family washed often houses where the disease
really exists. with injected clothing rule the en-
tire washing Of Quebec s done in the country by people
no make their BUSINESS wonder that the doc
find il hard 70 get control Of the disease, or that one
Il much cheered by the knowledge that prayers are
10 offered all the churches it, abatement. With
religious Thought, cannot but regret that this
interesting item which have quoted does not read.
Vaccination 10 be compulsory; infected clothing to
be washed separately and hospital carriages are to be
established all over Canada"
Nayiraton between Montreal. Quebec, and the ports
below il more resumed. The rivers II. Lawrence
and - Charles free of lee with the exception Of here
and there beated cake which wandcrs in hewicrred
fashion in and ont With the tide, and even they are vast
Ing away rapidly that to-day they scarcely he dis
ngushed from the white caps with which the east wind
has deckec each wave There il something ndes rDaDly
exhnaraiing in this renewal Of life, for you must know
that the pulse Of Quebec beats fully with the incoming
waters Of the ocean Already her beautiful rivers are
crowded with white Sails and the blue waters reflect
clouds Of and smoke. Last Sunday many an anX-
ions made happy by the sound Of the two guns
the signal OF an approaching mail stcarer.or Il was
the announcement hat the on- looked Tor and alInos.
deSua!Trd of POlYur-.In cniei.ng me pOr'. AZ
noon lay alongside her wharf. and her pas
nearly were hrrync ashore ate their imprsOn-
mcnt of "A days Those who crossed on her VIII nave
stock OF cebound stories which ought To content ana ot
them for the OF their lives. and doubt tAry
Viii care 10 add 70 Il by any more cxl"rl' nee
N a fed Of ice. on the 18th ~ April soon after pa snS
Cape Raw they encountered the first Ice Of any cGne
quenc,. which they managed - get through ard the
steamer kept cutting Lcr way h0newaId uhtu re
3Oih. when the lie became 80 .hlck thdt me cou no
longer make her way tiroush H. After Da-KhS , ,wo
blades o; the screw III" vessel was stoppen me hIt,
banked aud the situation viewed rs philOsopAc.y anu
cool even under these exciting cFrum iiIe'' 'Ihce ue
mercury danced around IN the n"ghhorho0d Z" zero for
the next days. The ouilooH was any hIng Dut
cheerful ~ Inc cicar Diue cc-.r"ll "a " - "a
furfur Stretched aS FIR away as UP eve rpuu ttch
BIT provisions plenty. and no INN, dIa'c danger
iagin- ~ n IN the face so All names were c'!'eI ana
happy. max occasional excursions oui on tie ana
urr, OF a s voyage Tie arrival the Polynesiau and
several other steamers. eate cnd very JUSTLY nose
Interested ~ tIc navigation OF lie - Lawn nee rome
tor 10 shows that skin and are not lacking IA the
Allan Linz. TO when they belong. IA
the Fnday Asylum vi the benevolent institutions Of
the city. ~ cour,r night tel you much about me
sted more perhaps than the institution aud -
poor old inmates WIS ID. sir"ard 81 lie Asl Pr,
E!charson. whom found 20 be- ~ the very lew VINO
lived 10 tell Of The famous charge 81 IN" lsh br-aue
BalAdAva. He is ine solderly -ocSlng man, per-
Il % ~ "r Oh he tad Wien the order
prepare tor battle, and We tAorgn II was Only
going 10 be skIr;nlsh but" and he ued away VIII
~ wish You would tell me all about it." said
Thee !, noting can TEL e1gep VIM. sNay y',rb
Knows ne answered flliig Di'h lht" MAJ 'li'lVc
hi dangers iiy field and food.
But you must have been wound ii - asked persua-
siVciy.
Yes" he said. showing up his right sleeve and show
ing me a long, ugy scar, got mat. ana thesr on my
face pointing 10 his forehead And then he went on 10
describe tine battle preiacng II with the remark tat
lie could probably told 1t all better II he had nos
been H. for you can't ten yards ahead 81 you IN
such charge account Of the dust anu smoke ana
crowd" But spite Of bis doubts hr made VIVID pc
ture Of the dreadful night, telling how they crowded
upon each other with horse and cannon ana how the
"horscs fought well rs the men did" ramplnS TIE
enemy under their feet. and charging furOsy every
where. q" Ienny>0 says there were
Cannon night II them
left Of them,
but that does not describe IL all There were cannon
everywhere there were arms enough 20 have Killed
10000 men II there had been that many OF Ms some
times there would be- three four Russians striking at
one and not only that. but they Killed each oher
II the confusion"
OF all the fearful bunders" for which some one is
answerble during our war none Of them will compare
with the which made the narrow ryine OF Baa-
klava immortal; and never, suppose, iid ROWING
nights loo6 down upon such scattered bloOdstdned,
-ladOwy filed back last the mus when smut
IL the little plain toward the sep