Whole Xo. 432. Tarborough, (Edgecombe County, JV. C.) Tuesday, October 2, 1832. Vol IX JYo 6. The "North Carolina Free Press," liY GEORGE HOWAUD, Is published weekly, at 7-ryo Dollars and Fifty Carta per year, if paid in advance or, Three Dol lars, at the expiration of the subscription year. For any period less than a year, Twenty-Jiire Cents per month. Subscribers are at liberty to discontinue at any time, on piving notice thereof and paying arrears those residing at a distance must invariably pay in advance.orgivea responsible reference in this vicinity. Advertisements, not exceeding 16 lines, will be in serted at 50 cents the first insertion, and 25 cents each continuance. Longer ones at that rate for every 16 lines. Advertisements must be marked the number of insertions required, or they will be continued until otherwise ordered, and charged accordingly. Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid, or they may not be attended to. From the Baltimore American. History of the Cholera. It is not uni formly admitted to be true, that the Cho lerathe name by which the pestilence is properly known, although said to have none of the peculiar symptoms of Chole ra proper is a new disease within the present-century. The physicians of In dia who have treated of it, found records of its existence at very remote periods. It was at Bengal in 17G2, and carried off 00,000 persons, and returned aain in 1781. It was in Madras in 1774at the Mauritius in 1775, and at Arcot in 1787. It is also said to have appeared in the epidemic form in England, in 1GG9, and 1G7G. However the identity of this disease may be settled, the present Cholera made its appearance on the 28lh of August, 1817, at Jessorc, n town situated north east of Calcutta about 100 miles. In September it reached Calcutta. During the year 1818, it spread in different rections from Calcutta; northward to Del hi; westward to Bombay, which it reach ed in September, 1818; southward to Ma dras, which it reached in October, 1819; and eastward along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, to the kingdom of Arracan, where it arrived in the commencement of 1819. The whole of the Peninsula, con taining six hundred thousand square iniles, was thus traversed by the Cholera in about a year. Its progress eastward continued to be rapid. From Arracan it extended to Siam, and after destroying 40,000 persons in Baka or Bankok the capital of that kingdom, it passed thro' the peninsula of Malacca, successively visited the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, and in 1820 reached Canton, and ravaged the Phillippine and Spice islands. In less than two years it had urns traversed and ravaged a space in Asia, not less than 1,300 leagues in length, and 1,000 in breadth, or nearly led districts, there are found narrow delayed upon the extreme boundaries of uiai continent, and with every facility for us introduction across an imaginary boundary into Europe, especially thro' the Mediterranean ports. Yet it was not until 1830, seven years after its appear ance at Astracan, that it passed over from that point into European territories. In July, in that year, it attacked Astracan severely, and passing along the Don, the Dnieper, and the Volga, into Europe, spread with amazing rapidity, traversing a space of sixteen hundred miles in a lit tle more than two months. Its gradual advance through Europe, since its intro duction into Poland by the Russian army, in 1831, is well-known. It has finally reached some of the busiest and most populous points on the western coast of Europe. The history of the Cholera thus far has shown that where it has once attacked a place it establishes itself permanently, and becomes an epidemic, re-appearing at intervals with violence. Up to May, 1831, a period of fourteen years, G5G ir ruptions of Cholera had been ascertained. In India alone the number of irruptions has been 433. Calcutta has been attack ed every year; Bombay twelve times; Ma dras nine times, &c. M. de Jonnes esti mates the mortality, in India, at 2,500,000 annually, or 35,000,000 for the fourteen years! The lowest calculation gives eighteen millions for Indostan, and about thirty-six millions for the rest of Asia and Europe being more than fifty mil lions of deaths in fuurtcen years, from one fatal disease. Wherever the Cholera has appeared, it has seldom destroyed less than one-third of the deceased. In India the propor tion has generally been one half. Not uhfrequently three-fifths, two-thirds, and six-sevenths of the infected, perished. We have heretofore remarked upon the caprice with which its ravages have ap parently been directed, the mortality un der precisely similar circumstances, va rying in a manner yet unexplained, and apparently unaccountable. Its caprice of movement is not less re markable. The reports of the India Medical Boards state that the disease would sometimes take a complete circle round a village, and leave it untouched, pass on as if it were wholly to depart from the district. Then after a lapse of weeks, perhaps months, it would sudden ly re-appear, and scarcely touching the parts formerly attacked, ravage the spot which had so recently escaped. It is al so stated, that in the very centre of infec one hundred square miles. Its western progress towards Europe continued with various rapidity. From Bombay it proceeded, in 1821, in one di rection along the coast of the Gulf of Or mus, and the Persian Gulf, attacking the islands also; crossing the Arabian sea, it appeared on the opposite shore, and fol lowed the coast there up to the same gulfs, on the Arabian side. Passing up on both sides in Arabia and Persia, it at tacked Bassora with great violence, car rying off 15,000 or 18,000, or more than one-fourth of the population, in fourteen days. Soon after it separated into two branches, one of which ascended to As trachan, a large and populous town situa ted at the mouth of the Volga, on the nor thern shore of the Caspian Sea, which it reached in September, 1822 and by the other, passed through and ravaged Ara bia, -Mesopotamia, and Syria, to the shores of the Mediterranean, in Novem ber, 1322. In seven months the disensn had extended itself over a vast extent of territory, with undiminished violence and rapidity, and as early as 1823. it tablished at two points on the frontier of During the entire period of from 1824 to 1830, Asia was annually subjected to the ravages of the pestilence, which thus .... - i . . . - - - and tWCIltV millions nf nntr.hns. nnrl strinoc rf tt-wltf,? :t J l . - - V 1 !' J ) IIHU which the disease lias never penetrated. Other caprices have also marked its ca reer. In most cases of eruption, it has been found to increase with the advance of summer, to decrease or disappear as the winter advanced. In Russia, the re verse look place Cholera invaded1 Mos cow in the dead of winter, with the ther mometer 16 below zero, and spread as the weather became colder. In general, it has been most fatal in hot moist places, the banks of rivers, and the sources of miasmal vapours. On the other hand, it has attacked with great vi olence places the most remote from such influences. Arabia destitute of water, was fearfully ravaged, and villages at the foot of the Himlaya mountains, eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, Were also fearfully visited. It has generally attacked the filthy, and those who live in crowded and unclean habitations. It nevertheless originated in a country where frequent ablutions are not only a pleasure, but a religious duty. mm . If spread in India over the province of 1 I .1 Caucasus, wnere mere are out eigni in habitants to a square league, as well as in Hindustan, where there are 1,200 in habitants on an equal space. For these details we arc indebted to articles in the Foreign Quarterly Review for October last, the Westminster Re view for the same month, and the Lon don Quarterly for November. OTIri the recent work of Bell & Con die, on Cholera, it is stated, that between the years 1346 and 1350, it was estima ted that one-half of the whole human race was destroyed by pestilential diseases. In Spain, during a period of onlv thrpn years, two-thirds of the population were carneu on. i uent nine-tenths-of the world lived in filth and poverty, which, at that day, as now, render individuals peculiarly obnoxious to disease. .llal.Re". Cholera Statistics. The first caseof Cholera that proved fatal in Norfolk, was that of a colored man belonging to Isaac Talbot, Esq. he sickened onthe 24ih July; the second occurred with another or tne same gentleman s servants, two days after, who. also died. From the occurrence of the first case, to the day the Board of Health published their last report (Sept. 11,) Is eight weeks. The whole number of interments in Potter's Field, (the common burying around for whites and blacks) during the above pe riod was 397, as reported by the Super intendant of the cemetary. In other pla ces of burial (for white persons only) 56. Total, in 8 weeks, 453 deaths of all dis eases. Probable number from Cholera, allowing for the average mortality at oth er times, about 400, or a fraction' more than seven per day. Norfolk Her. The Cholera, We extract the follow ing from the popular instructions res pecting the Cholera: What are the best means of preventing the attuek of Chole ra? I would say entire abstinence from spiritous liquors, using port wine in mo deration, when any symptoms of oppres sion or sinking occur: avoid all green vegetables and unripe fruits, which are exciting causes; keep from the streets during the heat of the day, and never walk in the sun without an umbrella; and above all, avoid crowds and impure at mospheres. Let the clothing be flannel, to keep up an action upon the skin, and let a belt of the same material be worn. Temperance in every shape is the great preventive. We may ask who are its victims? I answer the intemperate itj invariably cuts them off. It is a mista-i ken notion that stimulus is necessary; wine may and does do service, while we are under the influence of this poisonous atmosphere; but spiritous liquors as a preventive always do harm, and hurry the drinker to his fate. Early hours are im portant, for the exposure to the night air generally brings on the attacks. Per sons are taken more often at night than during the day. The premonitory symptoms of Cholera are 1st, an uneasiness and "upturning" of the bowels, with some heat and burn ing In the upper part of them, or in the stomach, which is sometimes compared to the rushing of the blood to those parts, or to electric sparks, which are followed by pain and heat 2d, extreme heaviness and weakness; greater than in any dis ease, except apoplexy 3d, a discharge from the bowels without pain, and al most without the volition of the patient, of a white watery fluid, which is peculiar to this disease, and may always be known by the appearance of whiteish sralutinous particles floating through it. The latter sign almost unilormly precedes an attack. and if attended to earlier, fewer persons would be found in the collapsed or dan gerous state. But this peculiar diarrhoea does not occur except where the disease really exists, and is easily managed by all judicious physicians. It should, howev er, be recollected by all, that it will not do to trine with it, tor when ir that stale, a single dose ot oil, salts, magnesia, &c. has been invariably found to hasten rap idly the collapse. Medical advice, in this premonitory stage is all important. The treatment in the next stage which is characterized by oppression of the stomach, slightly impeded respiration, vomiting of the white rice water fluid, described above, hideous aspect, slow ness of the circulation, coldness of fore head, tongue and extremities cramps in the toes, legs and hands livid color of the face, and mutled appearance of other parts of the body but little can be said that can be useful to general readers. It will therefore, be best to remark that here prompt medical aid is all important, and that by energetic and judicious treat ment with mustard plasters, hot applica tions, calomel and opium, &c. adapted to the exigencies of the case, many are prevented from running into the collap sed stage, which is a state so nearly re sembling approaching death that as yet no regular treatment from which any cer tainty of success can be expected, has been adopted. As to the all-absorbing subject of pre vention, it would perhaps be worse than useless to reiterate the measures already proposed and published in every news paper. I will therefore simply remark in the language of a well known author, that "those who do rot dread an attack of an epidemic disease, and who yet ex ercise sufficient prudence in avoiding unnecessary exposure to the predisposing and exciting causes, may justly be consid ered as subject to comparatively little risk. a7At the Fall Term of the Superior Court of Chatham county, recently held in Pittsborough, William Little, a free man of color, was tried for grand larceny and sentenced to be whipped after the execution of which sentence, he was sold, pursuant to an order of the Court, for the costs and charges of the prosecution. This is the first enforcement of the act of the last General Assembly touching the prosecution of free persons of color, that we have heard of. Suicide. The Hillsborough Recorder says: Mr. Henry Faucett, Sen. of this vi cinity, committed suicide on Saturday morning last, by hanging himself. The unfortunate act, we understand, waa committed tunder a depression of spirit occasioned by the apprehension of want. Indian War. The editor of the De troit Journal, who through the politeness of Governor Cass, has had access to the last despatches from 'the seat of war, furnishes some information upon ludian matters which give a new complexion to the affairs which have lately transpired upon the frontier, and tend to show that t ..f ..... . hostilities in the nrst instance were preci pitated, it not commenced by the whites. Colonization Society. Five hundred pounds sterling have been contributed in England to the funds of the American Colonization Society, through E. Cres- son, the Agent of the Society, now in rLnjnand. The colonists at Liberia have been ob liged to take up arms to chastise the ag gressions ot the native kings or more particularly the Dey chiefs, who threat ened, took captive and wounded such of the colonists as tell into their hands. .At length they became so audacious as to organize measures for storming and bur ning Caldwell and MilUburg, which wag only prevented by a rapid march of 270 men under the command' of Captains Stewart, Weaver, Brander, Nixon and Lieut. Thompson, into their country and the storming of their fortified town. Lieut. Thompson was killed and a few assailants wounded and fifteen of the aggressors were killed. This occurred onthe22d of March. The Dey kings immediately sued for peace, which was es tablished on good terms for the colonists. Clf you a gentleman would know, Tis he whose deeds proclaim him sp

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