We are sorry to report that the cholera is epidemic in our city. The first case that came to our notice was on our own boat ten days since. Noticing that one of our men was not rowing, we stepped aft to enquire the reason. appearance of the man is indelibly impress-us, as he was the first one we ever sav with real cholera. His face was badly drawn and he looked more like a corpse than a living man, The muscles of the feet were also drawn, his toes being drawn back, and the muscles of the legs were tightening so fast that the patient kept thing up and down, fearing to be still lest ie should soon not be able to rise. 'The doctor pronounced the case cholera at cree. Fortunately we were near home, and remedies were administered in time to save his life, and he is now fast recovering. 'The disease' has spread day after day until yesterday, when the number of cases was said to be somewhat less. It is very fatal and most cases very quick, some patients dying in two hours after being taken. The official has put out a proclamation forbidding the people to throw unsavoury articles into the canal, and urging them not to eat raw fruit or cucumbers. The streets and canals, however, lack a3 much as usual of being clean. Our foreign doctor has posted notices at the city gates and other public laces emphasising the importance of cleauthe people that he has remedies which, if ines in food of this tne, and notifying taken in time, may cure the disease. He invites any who are sick, whether rich or yr, to send for him at once. The trouble is that the people usually wait till they have exhausted all Chinese remedies and had the case in the hands of the Chinese physicians, before they are willing to have the foreigner darken their door. In such cusses, of course, it is too late. It was reported that, there were fourteen deaths in the city on Monday night, and that in twenty-four hours there had been more than twenty deaths. It is impossible to give accurate figures, but there must have been more than forty deaths from the disease. The Chinese have put lime in front of their houses in many places in the belief that this will keep out the "cholera spirit." We trust that the scourge will soon stop ana that none of our foreign community will contract the dread disease.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.