Show A GHASTLY anticipation THE present year has been thus far so fruitful of disaster that even the dreaded earthquakes being so frequently reported scar scarcely eely cassion oc comment according to the sanitary era bra of a recent dete still another danger is impending and ione one that never foils falls to strike terror to the hearts of all wherever it rears its horrid front the era says asiatic cholera it is now generally believed by those best able to lodge judge seems more lib reach akis continent during the coming summer than at any period for a number of years past shenew orleans medical and surgical journal says step by step the cholera is creeping through south america gathering force as it marches beginning in I 1 buenos ayres by the latter dafie r part of december it had crosse the argentine republic and gained foothold foot hold bold in chili A telegram from Panama dated march ath tells us of its ravages in that state and we in may I 1 catch a hint of their extent from the al fact act that it has already been proposed that the nation concede a pension to the families 1 who may die attending cholera patients t should the plague reach the isthmus and mexico there will be small hope of the city escaping and the flood gates of new orleans once passed cassed tie mississippi Valle yand I 1 indeed n the whole country maybe may be inundated with the disease before there is time to realize the danger i fitful dumois rumors of the plague in M mexico ext and lower california have been flying back and forth too probable precursors at least 01 of facts annals of hygiene the official organ of the pennsylvania state board of health says it would seem that we have now more reason to tear fear the advent ot of the cholera than at any time previous since tho the commencement of the present epidemic hitherto we have been separated from the disease by several thousand miles of water now the case is very different 0 during the past winter the disease has been slowly creeping creeping creep up the american Ameri call continent it is rea really yon on our shores and it is therefore difficult to understand how any system of quarantine can caa keep it away from us 11 any people in this region who maybe may be predisposed edis posed to indulgence ja in gloomy anticipations will probably take a grain of consolation from the assertion which has frequently been made that the climate of this part of the country is decidedly unfavorable to the existence of asiatic cholera germs |