The New Hampshire Gazette

Thursday, October 18	16 deaths.
Friday, 19	19
Saturday, 20	39
Sunday, 21	20
Monday, 22	27
Tuesday, 23	23
Wednesday, 24	15

From the Cincinnati Chronicle, Oct. 26.

THE CHOLERA.

This dreadful disease is still working death and desolation among us. It has been pursuing its victims with steady and unrelenting step since its first entrance amongst us. They have been selected indiscriminately from all classes. Neither age, sex, color, or condition, has exempted those who have been seized with it; and its grasp has been, but too generally, the grasp of death! Many a happy family, who have retired at night, in the enjoyment of health and domestic peace, have, before the next night, followed some one of their number to the narrow house of the tomb! Many wives have become widows, and children have become orphans. We have heard much of the desolations which this frightful disease has made, but not till now, have we seen the marks of its footsteps.

Although the majority of those who have died with it here, as in other places, have been from the lower classes, and many of them dissipated, yet several of our most respectable citizens have fallen:—among whom are Rev. Mr. Harris, of the Baptist Church, and Rev. Mr. Boyd, of the Methodist Church; Dr. Buch, Mr. Kemper, Mr. Grant, Mr. J. W. Picket, and others. Many are seized suddenly, without any premonitory symptoms, though in most cases, the individuals are unwell for several hours or days before the attack. Our citizens are nearly all more or less affected with disease. Indeed, we scarcely meet anybody in the street, who does not narrate to us, either his own indisposition, or that of some member of his family.

If ever a disease may be called a visitation of God, surely it is this. In its history and progress, it is perfectly anomalous. The laws by which other diseases are governed, seem to be entirely disregarded by this. As its nearest approach to our city, previous to its breaking out among us, was several hundred miles distant, we felt a temporary security, expecting that when it did visit us, we should be admonished of the time, by its gradual approach. We supposed, if it approached us from the East, it would first visit Petersburg, and the towns up the river; or if it came from the West, it would have first visited St. Louis, Louisville, &c. But, instead of this, it broke out so suddenly among us, that we were unwilling to believe it was here, till we had but too certain and painful evidence of its presence.

In this place, we believe it has thus far been characterized by peculiar malignity,—the number of deaths, in proportion to those who have been attacked, and in proportion to our whole population, being greater, we believe in a given time, than in any city which it has visited, if we except Montreal. As yet there seems to be no sensible abatement of the disease. The reports of the Board of Health, we have reason to believe, are not a fair indication of the state of the disease, as some of our physicians do not report to it.

The following is the number of deaths of Cholera, reported each day for the week ending the 24th inst. by the Board of Health, viz: