The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1868, Page 4

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Seven piysicians sat in consultation apon the health of the Prince Royal of Belgium, Their unanimous opinion is that his illness is “very serious.”” The churches generally were opened yesterday for the fall and winter seasons, The congregations were unusually large and quite fashionable. At St. Patrick's cathedral Rev. Father MeGean preached the sermon and ¢ ied high mass. Rev. Dr. iated at orge’s church, in Stuyvesant The new Catholic charch in Pitt street was crated by Archbishop McCloskey. Rev. Henry ‘ard Beecher’s Plymnou jurch Was not opened, owing to extensive repairs being executed on the building. Rey. ng, Jr., continues his open air services, and preached yesterday afternoon in Houston street square. The prayer meetings at John ‘tyng Allen's were largely attended by fashionably dressed people, and an outdoor meeting was held in the aternoon MISCELLANEOU:. The State Commissioners to investigate the cattle disease have made a report, The disease, they state, originated with the Texas cattle, and ts seriously aggravated by driving or transporting. It is not necessarily fatal to the cattle, The preventive measures taken have #0 apletely suppressed the marketing of infected cattle that the Coummissioners think the meat now sold is healthier than before the outbreak of the disease, secre! ard makes public the change in the Cuba tions concerning passports, and also the fact that passports issued by so-called passport agents in seaport cities In the United States are re- Jected by the authorities in Cuba, evea when vised by Spanish Consuls, | The Faliure of Reconstruction. The recent action of one branch of the Georgia Legislature, declaring colored citizens ineligible to office and vacating the seats of twenty-five negro members, is only one out of many illustrations of the total failure of the ; radical policy of reconstruction, both as a means of restoring peaceful civil governments | to the ex-rebel States and of strengthening the republican party through the instrumentality of the Southern electoral votes. Since the adjournment of Congress it has been growing more and more evident every day that four or five of the seven rehabilitated States are more likely to cast their majorities for the democrats than for the republicans, while the increasing instances of violence and lawlessness recorded by the press indicate that the policy of Con- gress has not proved a panacea for all the evils under which the South has suffered since the cessation of the war. Indeed, from the fact recently been peaceful and civilized commu- nities, as compared with Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama, radical reconstruction is rather a damage than @ benefit to a State. This is certainly an unfortunate result after four years of Con- gressional tinkering and patchwork, aud affords a poor return for the millions that have been added to the burdens of the people in the effort to engineer the nets and negro votes, It is not surprising under the circumstances to find the republican organs and politicians advocating the early reassembling of Congress to review its work; but how is the mischief to be remedied in the short time intervening between the latter end ofSeptember and the November election? So far as Georgia is concerned the case is full of embarrassment and trouble for the radical doctors. When the apprehension of a negro stampede over to their old masters first fell upon the republican party it was proposed that the right to vote in the Presidential elec- tion should be taken from the people of the South and vested in their Legislatures chosen under the reconstruction programme; but in the case of Georgia even this policy would be useless, as the Legislature itself has proved politically unreliable. Some republican organs have suggested that inasmuch as the fourteenth constitutional amendment provides that ‘‘no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States,” the action of the Georgia Legislature is in conflict with the organic law. But here again a difficulty presents itself; for if exclu- sion from office because of color is ‘beyond doubt an abridgment of the privileges and immunities of the colored people,” and there- fore unconstitutional, then all State restric- tions on the colored vote, including the property qualification in New York, must in like manner be adjudged in conflict with the constitution and null and void. Yet another proposition on the part of the disappointed that Virginia, Texas and Mississippi have | it may be inferred that | conquered Southern territory into the Union | as radical States by the aid of national bayo- | The Pacific Railroad and the Next Fourth of July, The announcement that the goverament commissioners have accepted another section again of the marvellous rapidity with which its construction is advancing. This new sec- tion extends nearly a thousand miles west | from Omaha. At the present rate of progress on both of the eastern and western divisions of this undertaking of world-wide ag well as national importance it is not impossible that the whole stupendous work may be completed | by the next Fourth of July. It will certainly: | be completed by the Fourth of July in the following year, 1870, What an unprecedented celebration of that memorable date it will occasion! The most glowing rhetoric of all former Fourth of July orators must “pale its ineffectual fires” before a plain statement of | the history of this undertaking—of the perse- verance, energy, skill and the vast expense of toil and treasure with which it has been con- | ducted, and especially of its inevitable and momentous consequences, Some of these consequences begin to be | clearly foreseen.. Our own incalculable agri- cultural and mineral wealth will be developed an amazing degree by the Pacific Railroad. Hundreds of new cities will spring into exis- tence along its lines. It will work the final solution of all our Indian difficulties, It will accomplish with the Mormons what Congress has failed to do, bringing to bear upon them | a resistless Gentile pressure which will compel them to give up polygamy or give up their homes. Even the great American desert may eventually become habitable and populous. The old system of travel and commerce will be revolutionized. New York already controls | the great transatlantic ‘route of present times. | The railroads leading west from this city, ‘‘con- verging upon the termini of the Pacific lines, continue the world route of the incoming era | to San Francisco, and there, through the | Golden Gate, we grasp the wealth of Eastern Asia, whence the first great world route started.” By the Pacific Railroad Hong Kong via New York is only forty days distant from London. The prediction has been made that by it will be effected the transfer of the world’s commerce to America and the substitution of New York for Paris and London as the world’s exchange. By it New York will command two oceans and mediate between Europe and Asia. The Pacific Railroad has been fitly called the world’s great highway. The success of the existing Atlantic cable and its temporarily defunct brother has given ample encouragement to Atlantic telegraphic enterprise. There is no reason why we should not have ten cables in place of one. It is a simple question of enterprise. If the Atlantic cables have paid—and all the world knows they have paid—why should we not have more, and why should not all European nations having a western seaboard exert themselves to multiply connections between the Old World radicals is for Congress to declare that if the colored members of the Georgia Legislature are not entitled to seats the ratification of the constitutional amendment by that State was illegal and insufficient, and hence the @ate is not entitled to representation in Congress or toa vote in the Electoral College. But by what process is a State to be turned out of the Union when she is once in it? Congress has spent four years in endeavoring to get the Southern States reconstructed ; but by what right will it undertake to expel a State from the confederation after she has taken her place side by side with her sister sovereignties ? The fact is that the business of reconstruc- tion has been from first to: last a mass of blunders, folly and wickedness, It was botched by President Johnson when he made his pro- visional governments without calling Congress together and acting in concert with the law- making power. It has been muddled by Con- gress ever since the radicals hit upon the policy of Africanizing the South and securing its negro votes for their party. The people are heartily weary of it, and the best thing Congress can now do is to leave it alone and suffer it to work out its own results in its own way. One of the principal objections to the success of the democratic candidates in the ap- proaching election has been the knowledge that they would sweep away all that has been thus far done towards reconstructing the Southern States and commence the labor anew after some fashion of their own. It would be a suicidal policy for the republican Congress to meet now and attempt to disturb their work, badly as it has been done, and to reopen the question of reconstruction for the sake of saving a few electoral votes here and there to their candidates. They had better leave the matter in the hands of General Grant and the voters of the loyal States. The people do not relish the Con- gressional policy, with its hordes of ignorant negro electors and its disfranchisement of white men; but they believe that the Southern and the New? There is a definite answer to these questions. Money is wanted in the first place, and enter- prise in the second. Great Britian is the commercial centre of the Old World, and Great Britain bs very properly taken the lead. France, occupying the second place, has re- solved to have a cable for herself. Im. the course of another year France will be, in all probability, in direct telegraphic communica- tion with New York. This is as it ought to be, and we rejoice in the prospect. It will not be wonderful, if the Brest cable shall prove a success, to find France becoming more than a rival to England. France has now her line of ocean steamers of the first order which are *being amply encouraged, and there is no reason why France should not have her independent line of communication by telegraph. None of the Northern Powers except Sweden has the advantage of seaboard as France and England have; but Sweden, not being a commercial country, lacks at once needed wealth and enterprise. In the south Spain and Portugal occupy favored positions, Both have interests inthe New World and both have a right to attend to these. Spain is for- tunately or unfortunately in the background, and is sadly wanting in the enterprise which once made her great. Portugal is altogether a more hopeful Power. Acting in concert with her big son or daughter—which you please— Brazil, she has been able to start and to main- tain a highly respectable line of Atlantic steamers, Steam communication, it appears, is not sufficient to satisfy the progressive spirit of Portugal ; and we rejoice to notice that under the name of the ‘‘People’s Cable” there is rea- son to hope thata fresh cable is likely at no dis- tant day to connect the United States with the port of Lisbon. We need more lines. In time we will have them. It is for our interest and for the interest of the Old World that we | should have them. At the present moment | telegraphic communication across the Atlantic States will speedily aynend the constitutions to themselves good, sound and beneficial sys- In a conve! jon with the HERALD correspondent during a stage coach ride in Virginia recently, ¢ ral Lee stated that wn’ the democracy were sue- cessful in the Pre al election the country would be ruined. General Santos Acosta, ex-President of Colomt who headed the movernent which resulted 1m th He is ountry, position of Mosquera, has arrived t this city. necredited as Minister of Colombia to th A strong determination is evinced by certain manufacturers in New Jersey to resist the operation of the new law for the prevention of boiler acci- | dents. “they claim that it was a job fotsted through the Legisiature by interested parties in New York, and that the preventive measures directed by it ara | Jess effective and more expensive than those gow in | use, The reign of ruManism has been inaugurated in Newark, N.d., and assaults on officers have become very 1ent. Three separ hts, in all of which Officei« were severely handled, occurred there yes- terday, sud another affair assumed such a riotous aspect that the Mayor was called on personally to restore order. Most of the liquor saloons were open during the day, although the protibitory law is still | on the statute book. A milkman’s horse and wagon were precipitated into a cistern full of w In Prince street, Brook lyn, yesterday, and the horse was drowned. A gang of Yorkville roughs were yesterday sr. raigned before Justice Kelly, of the Fourth District Police Court, on a charge of making liquor saloon corner of Seventy-sixth street and Third avenae. According to the affidavit of the pro. | prietor they robbed him, pillaged the place, destroyed the furniture and then set fire to the premises. Pai! was required of each to answer the charge at the Court of General Sessions. ‘The inquest on the body of Harry Lyon, who was killed in his store, No, 91 South street, on Friday evening last, was held yesterday afternoon by Coro- her Keenan and a jusy, who found that the deceased | died from a pistol shot wound at the Gands of Rov ¢rt Hopson ¥ descent on a tema.of government, and they have confidence that General Grant will protect all citizens in| | their rights, North and South, white and black. | | 'This is the safety of the republican party, as well as of the country, and the less tinkering Congress does between now and the day of election the better. If General Grant is to be successful at the polls it must be in spite of the | radical Congress and its policy, and not | through any aid it ean extend to him. | Axorner Peace Assorance.—The Covsti- | tilonnel, a semi-official journal in Paris, has taken to echoing the Moniteur on the peace Of course this does not alter the case | in the slightest degree—does not make war one whit less probable. French journals, official and semi-official, are all of them faithful ser- vants of the government, They do as they are | bid. What has Prussia to say about the peace prospect? The world generally would like to know. Prussia has not yet given any distinct utterance on the subject; and so long as the government of King William keeps silence the silence must be considered ominous, The entente cordide said to exist between France and England does not throw much light on the situation, If Napoleon m s war with any of the continental Powers it is manifestly his duty to court the friendly alliance of England. In spite, therefore, of this latest peace assurance Whe situation is as warlike aa eves question, that have been forced upon them and secure | | is wholly inadequate to existing wants, We | need more cables, and as we wish the Brest so do we wish the Lisbon enterprise success, A Call of Duty for Mr. Bergh, The work of reformation in dance houses, dog pits, cock pits, bagnios and like immoral resorts having commenced on the square by the “conversion” of the Wickedest Man in New York, and the conversion also of his pest house of impurity into a very Solomon's temple of prayer and faith, it is now the acceptable | time to carry on the good work. The parsons | and philanthropists must see that the door is open to them and charity beckons them in. No more idle sermons nor dull platitudes of | Speech or writing will do. They must accept | the invitations tendered by John Allen and | Kit Burns and enter the bagnios, dog pits and | gambling saloons, They must confront the | Devil boldly in these places, whether he appears | in the shape of John Allen's seductive nymphs | or Kit Burns’ thoroughbred rat terriers, But | there is an especial call for Mr. Bergh which he cannot refuse to answer. To be con- sistent in his missiog for the prevention of | cruelty to animals he must accept the eour- teous invitation of Kit Burns and deliver an of the Union Pacific Railroad reminds us | NEW YORK ‘HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1866 to respond, so that we expect to find him in | the course of 2 day or two haranguing Kit | Burns’ customers and melting the stony heart of that eminent killer of rata and biter of dogs’ tails. Revolutions never go backwards, and it will not do to let the moral revolution commenced in John Allen’s dance house end there, Every dance house, gambling saloon and bagnio in who have converted a John Allen and touched by the force of his example the canine con- science of a Kit Burns. Mr. Bergh is the man to begin the crusade. Let him be the Peter the Hermit, with top boots and switch in hand, whose eloquence is to issuefrom the dog pit in Water street and rally round him all the white cravats and lank petticoats of the pious for a grand onslaught upon the gam- bling houses, dance halls, drinking places and “Black Cgook” theatres in the city. The Burlingame Mission—Sull More from the British Press, We published on Friday an indignant blast from that portion of the British press opposed to the Burlingame mission and treaty. But it appears that such papers as the London Times, the Spectator and the Saturday Review are not to have it all their own way. The London Standard, which is a warm supporter of the Disraeli administration, ‘cannot share the jealousy and suspicion with which the London Times regards this treaty.” It sees ‘nothing which shows that the United States has ac- quired @ monopoly of privileges. Nor does the treaty give any evidence that China is fos- ering itself on the rock of sloth and stagna- tion; but, on the contrary, it gives proof that the Chinese are preparing for an advance.” The Pall Mali Gazette, too, deprecates the hostility manifested to the treaty, and the at- tempt of its contemporaries and the foreign merchants of China to muddle the matter. It says:—‘‘Here in England we are not taken by storm. A liberal interchange of opinions between the Embassy soon to sail from New York and the representatives of the English government will demonstrate that changes in the positions of Great Britain and China are demanded by the times and will be beneficial to both.” These are sensible and liberal views of the mission and treaty, and, considering the source from which they come, indicate that the Disraeli government will not be the instru- ment of that old force party which do not want to treat the Chinese as an independent and equal nation, but which would keep up their system of coercion at the cannon’s mouth. These views agree, too, with the ex- pressions of Lord Stanley, made some time ago and soon after the Embassy arrived in America. Still the British government will meet with formidable opposition should it de- cide to accept the treaty made with this country or a similar one from a wealthy and influential party both in England and the East. The old India and Chinese merchants have considerable power and will make ‘a desperate fight for their privileges and the ancient system. But Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stan- ley, and the administration generally will probably view the matter in a broader light |- and see the necessity of acting in concert with the United States in reversing the former policy towards China, and in placing that country on the same international and diplo- matic footing as the great nations of the West “hold to each other. In fact, England cannot well do otherwise. However, the mission has stirred up a lively controversy among the Eng- lish, and we shall watch the result with great interest. The Demoralizati of Political Parties. It is one of the most deplorable phases in our history that our political parties have fallen into the deepest slough of demoraliza- tion, Asthe country has kept in the van of the world’s progress in all the marks and tokens of advancing civilization, so, in proportion, have political parties been retrogressing, throwing aside all pretence of that patriotism which was once the pride of party struggles, all decency in the debate of public weathnaa all regard for private character, and ignoring, with a scoff and a sneer, the very semblance of public virtue. If we look at the speeches of the politicians, with few honorable and rare exceptions, we find personal abuse substituted for argument. Language that would disgrace the wranglers of a fish market is the finest order of speech employed by the orators, What, for example, could be more indecent than the language of a republican member of Congress (Ignatius Donnelly) in Minnesota the other day, if we except the words of the same “honorable gentleman” on the floor of the House during the last session? Then, if we look to the party organs we are treated to the very essence of vulgarity and vitupera- tion. They seem to have learned nothing from the lessons of the last forty or fifty years, They have forgotten that the political history of that time teaches that personal. attacks always react upon those who indulge in them, and ‘that the best abused candidate is most generally the successful one. But, apart from the bad policy of this kind of writing, the public gense has a right to revolt at it and pro- teat thi newspapers which are converted into channels for the flow of vile and infamous lan- guage shall not enter their households. One democratic organ, said to be controlled by a corps of Mantilinis, vies with another graced by the inelegant pen of a “Brick Pomeroy” in the contest for such stained and tarnished laurels as may be won ata tilt of vulgarity and vicious phraseology. The lead- ing organ of the other party, having exhausted nearly all the offensive epithets which it could heap upon the rival candidates, has become stale in the repetition of the obnoxious phrases. The ingenuity of the writers ap- pears to have ran dry. It is disgraceful that a political campaign involving #0 many grave issues, which embrace the first inte- rests of the country, cannot be conducted in a spirit that will not shock public decency and bring discredit upon the country. The Reciprocity Committee at Halifax, It seems that Ben Butler and his committee address in the Water street pit upon the ques- tionable morality of rat killiag, so that the disturbed conscience of Burns may be eased ; for does he not say that if Mr. Bergh convinces him of his errors he will sell ‘the finest ratters out’ and “burst his pit?’ Here is a call of | duty to which Mr, Bergh positively gaangs fail | have arrived in Nova Scotia to take soundings | for a new reciprocity treaty with the Dominion | of Canada; but they have apparently touched | at the wrong point and ata most unfortunate period for opening negotiations with the Do- minion, because Nova Scotia repudiates any | woion with the Dominion just at this moment | this city should be visited by the pious people , more vehemently than »ver. The Attorney General, Mr. Wilkins, declares that sooner. than coalesce with Canada Nova Scotia will | appeal for aid to another Power, or, in plain | words, will annex herself to the United States. | This is the best treaty that province could make with this country, for then the reei- procity of interests would be complete. If | | Butler’s mission could succeed in bringing the | whole Dominion to this way of thinking it might be of some value. In this connection it may be stated that the ramors of negotiations between Mr. Seward and Mr, Thoraton, the British Minister, concerning a new reciprocity treaty with Canada, have no foundation in fact. The subject has not been broached at all, and the British Minister is of opinion that it will not be opened up during the present critical condition of affairs in the British colonies, The Cost of Elections in England, Tt may be useful at the present time to re- flect on the enormous cost which will be involved in England in making an appeal to the electors. In the published official return of 1866 it is stated that the cost of the last Parliamentary election in the three kingdoms amounted to about £2,000,000, The return, however, was defective, as it contained no reference to the expenses of eleven boroughs and three counties in England, one county in Scotland, thirteen counties and three boroughs in Ireland and four boroughs and one county in Wales. The unsuccessful candidates havé made no return of what money they spent. The totals, as given for each kingdom, are as follows :— England. Ireland £604,178 Scotland 69,372 Wales £A9, 1 £739,844 It is calculated that over £300,000 was spent in order to gain the representation of one hundred and forty-seven counties in Eng- land, making the average over £2,000. The average cost of three hundred and twenty English borough seats is estimated at £950 ; Treland, £700 for counties and £630 for boroughs; Scotland, £1,075 for counties and £770 for boroughs; Wales, £800 for counties and £300 for boroughs. To these returns must be added vast sums spent in bribery, frequently exceeding by ten times the amounts set down in the official papers. At the last election Mr. Millbank, who was placed at the head of the poll for the North Riding of York- shire, certified that his expenses exceeded £13,000; and it cost the late Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness £7,000 to contest the city of Dublin, which he successfully did in 1865. The return makes a statement which is curious, if true, that the member for the borough of Downpatrick was fortunate enough to get into Parliament for the small sum of £1 10s. Happy member! It is well ascertained that the outlay of Lord Francis Conyngham, youngest son of the Marquis of Conyngham, in contesting the county of Clare in 1856, was little short of £10,000, The White family, of the county of Dublin, of whom the head is Lord Annaly, have spent at least £200,000 on Parliamentary contests in several counties in Treland. Telegraphs, in and to China. There seems to be a general movement to connect China with the Western nations by the magnetic telegraph and: “to introduce this great agent of modern civilization into that empire. The East India Telegraph Company, incorporated by the State of New York and having its headquarters in this city, is first in the field for establishing telegraphs to connect the large ports and cities of China with each other. It has the privilege from the Chinese government for this purpose. Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is the president, and there are associated with the enterprise some of the best business men in the community. The project is to lay a succession of cables along the coast from Canton to Shanghae, con- necting besides these two cities Macao, Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy, Foo-Chow, Wan-Chu, Ningpo and Hangtchean. The line will be nearly nine hundred miles in length. The population of the cities to be connected is about six millions, and the people are the greatest traders and may be classed among the most enterprising people in the world. No doubt this will prove a most profitable under- taking and lead to an extensive system of telegraphs in the interior of the empire . We learn, too, that a powerful and rich company has been formed in London, with Cyrus W. Field. as the controlling man, to forma continuous line of telegraphs from Eng- landto China by the way of the Mediterra- nean, Egypt and India. This company has purchased the cable line from Malta to Alex- andria, and is about to relay the cable in deeper water. From this fact and from the fact that the company has almost unlimited means at its command there is little doubt of the project being carried through. But there is a much better route to connect China with Europe, and especially for a connection with America. Thatis by the way of Alaska and the Aleutian islands, Will not our gov® ernment and capitalists seize the oppor- tunity to turn the communications and trade with China in this direction? Will they let the English be first in the field and monopolize all the advantages? Let some- thing be done at once. Let the government give what aid it can, and let the work be com- mitted to those who have the means and ability to carry it through. Tureats or A Negro Insvregotios.—The savage threat uttered on Friday last by Pinch- back, the mulatto who was recently installed into Mr. Jewell’s place as Senator from the Second district of Orleans parish, Louisiana, is a startling confirmation of the barbarity at- tributed to the negro when his head is turned and his vanity is swollen by the perilous pos- session of power, The flendish spirit which kindled the horrors of St. Domingo blazes forth in Pinchback’s lurid prophecy of ‘the dawn of retribution,” when ‘‘ten thousand torches will be applied to this city,” and New | Orleans “will be reduced to ashes.” Nothing can exhibit more clearly than this dreadful | threat the utter unfitness of the class of which | Pinchback is a type to be “Senangs” and) rulers in the land. peice. Onions as TB ten | ayainst epidemics are recommended by’a correspond. ent of the Scientine American. If sitced and kept in a sick room they will ®bsorb all atmospheric poison, They should he replaced by a tres one every hour, 1 noticed that in the room of @ smallpox patient | they blister and decompose with great rapidity, but ONtONS vs. etchant eeneeerereeet THE CATTLE DISEASE. Oficina! Report of the attic Disease by the Commission of the State to Inquire Into Ita Origin and Charueter, The undersigned Commissioners appointed under the act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed April 20, 1866, (oF the prevention of the spread of rinderpest and other infectious diseases, having, siuce the publication of their regulations.om onthe 18th August, had aa opportunity of seeing many cattle sick of the Texas cattie plague, and of learning rauch respecting ita history and the cir- cumstances attending its manifestations, and know- ing the atixiety of farmers ip various parts of the State to obtain taformation respecting 1, have deemed it proper to communicate the following facts for the information of such as are interested in cat- Ue and beet: — 1, How the Disease is Communicated.—We have not heard of a single case of the disease having beem taken any anunal that has not been ia contact with Texas cattle or wich their excretions, We have had authentic evidence that Texas cattle that have passed over road, dropping their excrement thereon, have communicated the disease to native cattle that passed over the same road forty-eight hours atterward, We have no evidence whatever that native cattle aflicted with the disease have in any case communicated it to other native cattle; at the same time we have not felt at liberty to act upom the negative testimony, but in our quarantine regu- lations we have acted as if the disease could be thua communicated, Sick and healthy animals have been rained together at several o! ous quarantine .yards, and in no case have the healthYanimais yet developed the disease. 2. ‘The disease is aggravated by motion and ameli- orated by fresh air and repose. We have abundaat evidence upon this pot, which is entirely satisfac- tory to us. Wherever cattle have exhibited the enr- liest symptoms of the disease and have been taken from the cars and allowed suitable food and drink with rest and fresh air, they have invariably re- covered speedily, while those which have exhibited the same fe ytegeed and have gone forward in the cars from sixty to one hundred miles further have rapidly developed the disease in its most malignant form, and it has been necessary to send them to the bone boiling establishments, It is therefore decidedly for the interest of the drover to withdraw tlie cattle from the cars at the appearance of the earliest symp- toms and subject them to the hygienic measures above spoken of. r 3. The Earliest Symptoms of the Disease.—The first symptom of the disease in all the cases observed by us and by our assistant commissioners ts an ap- arance of languor and weariness, which is unmis- jakable; the head droops, the ears hang down, the eyes are staring. This sometimes occurs when cattle are territied, but the stupid stare of the cattle affected by the disease is very different from the furious stare produced by terror, The back is arched, strong efforts are made to dung, which are often ineffectual, the Sroppings being usually dry, scanty and stained with blood. These symptoms are in- variable. The urine is generally dark brown im color, and commonly called “black water.” This symptom is not, however, always present in the earlier stages of the disease. The coat is generally rough, the hairs standing almost erect. The horns are hot, the nose dry, a frothy drool from the mouth; flies settle m great numbers upon, and the animal rarely makes an effort to brush them off. These latter symptoms are not invariable, especially the roughness of the coat. In cases of doubt the most reliable distinguishing mark is UDADIN Oy afforded by the thermometer. If, in connection with the before named symptoms, the thermometer, introduced into the rectum for two to three minutes, shows a temperature much higher than one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, the animal may be safely pronounced to be suffering under the disease. In some cases it has gone up dug degrees Fahrenheit. 4. How the Meat of Diseased Animals May Ra Distinguished.—The fat has a deep or high colored greenish yellow appearance, and has not the firm resistance of health. The lean meat is of a brown- ish mahogany color, and on being cut into has @ pe- culiar sickening odor. Sometimes the superfictat muscles have the natural pink red tint, but the deep seated muscles, and especially the intercostal muse cles (those between the ribs), have the dark brown color and nauseous smell. 5. Disinjection and Disinfectants.—Carbolic acid is an absolute and perfect disinfectant. {[t not oniy destroys the odor but kills the virus of the disease. We advise all farmers and drovers who have reason to suspect that their cattle have been exposed to the infection to sprinkle the substance known as “heavy oll,” which contains about ten per cent of carbolic acid, abundantly about the yards where they are cohtined, and to put some carbolic acid into the water they drink, the proportion of one part of the pure acid, with thrice its own weight of sal soda, to one thousand parts of water. 6. The Disease is Not Necessarily Fatal.—Severat cases have recovered under our immediate observa- tion that have exhibited unequivocal indications of severe disease, at Providence, Communipaw and the National Drove Yards. Insome instances the diseased cattle have been pastured where they have had access salt marsh » for which they have exhibited a decided fondness, abandoning the upland pastures and confining themselves to the salt marshes, aud it appeared to accelerate their recovery, Im other instances, where such facilities could not cou- veniently be had, salt was liberaily supplied and @ recovery was manifest. Diluted carbolic acid used aa a drink has appeared to act beneficially; but we do not wish to speak positively with respect to these apparent remedies. One of the cattle which had been very seriously diseased, but was convalescent, was slaughtered in our presence. The fat had nearly recovel the normal color; the lean meat sttil retained much of the characteristic brown color of the disease. The viscera showed unmistakable marks of recent disease, but were rapidly healing. We barely allude to this most interesting ‘disease in this place, ieaving full details for description by our actentific associates, 7. We have reason to believe that our Assistant Commissioners have been very faithfal in executing our instructions. We hear from every point that the movement and marketing of infected cattle is effectually stopped. Our Assistant Commissioner Dr. M. Morris, acting in conjunction with the Board of Health for the Metropolitan district, has been in- defatigable in devising and executing a series of measures which, it is believed, will effectually pro- tect the citizens of the Metropolitan district frou the dangers of diseased meat. {n fact, we have no dount that the meat now sold in the markets of that district is far more sound and healthy than it was even before the outbreak of this disease, 8. The committee for scientific Investigation under the Metropolitan Board of Health have caused au extensive series of researches, under the supervision of Dr, E, Harris, of that Board, in regard to the chemical, microscopic and chief pathological char- acteristics of this disease, and also caused most accurate drawings to be sketched to illustrate the pathological changes in the several organs and Tissues that are chiefly aifected. These, when pul- lished, will present an exhaustive exposition of ail phases of the disease and give peculiar satisfaction to the public generally as well as to Cael men. . c! J. STANTON 1348, State Cor New York, Sept. WATERING PLACE NOTES. A grand entertainment will take place at Kathleem Villa, near Bath, the residence of Mr. and Mra. Barney Williams, on Thursday evening next. “Help yourself, Phil! An angel spoke, Mulligan.” ‘That the moon exercises @ powerful influence om the craniums of love struck and other noodles is n»w an established fact; but the moon that the fushionabie people of Long Branch patronize is a scorcher. A correspondent, writing from the roof of the Stetson House, says:—“The young moon gave @ timid, shimmering light, intermitted at intervais by ditting ciouds, and through their gauzelike meshes the silvery light was but dimmed, not obscured.” A “wandering correspondent,” wri of the Canadian village of Magog, at the foot of Lake Mem- phremagog, says:—‘‘The tog river runs th the village and empties into the lake just below. Magog river was not—a few months at least—a tributary, but the outlet of Lake Memp! aio its waters, which turned the mill wheels in agog village, ran rapidly toward the St. Lawrence, it mi be wandering with the wandering coi dent, Two well known citizens of Toronto, Mr. Stewart and Mr. Nichol, had a narrow escape for their lives on Lake Simcoe last Monday. It appears they were ing in # log canoe from the mouth ot the est Branch of Holland river to Moore's Hotel, Jersey, and when opposite the restence of Coroner ‘Terry a sudden gale swamped them. The boat filled, bat by bongs, to it they were enabled to reach shore, after being in the water half an hour. A jealous Yankee complains that New Orleans ia furnishing “champion heart breakers’ to the North« ern watering places. A tax should be levied on the presumptive Southerners and B. B. should be lax gatherer. The wafer business continues to fourish in Sara~ toga in spite of the spirited opposition it encouniers from the friends of the Bourbon family. The de~ mand for the water, in lined casks for retail and ti bottles for family use, has been beyond the ability of the works to supply. Orders for more than one hun dred cases are now unfilled. The company propose to double the capacity of their works by the erection of new bottling houses this fall to enable them to answer all calls. A new ornamental canopy is also to be erected over the entrance to the Spring to accommodate the hundreds of daily visitors frou the various hotels who wish for the water as tt lows pure, “The water cure's no new invention,” said old dame Podson; “it’s as old ay the deluge, ard even then it killed more'n it cured.” i New York at Long Branch is gaid to be “noisy, fussy, fast and flashy." Tae Victoria Falls, on the Zambesi rivet, tu Soutie Africa, completely eclipse Niagara, betng 1.900 yard@ wide and 400 feet deep. Niagara is ouly 1,000 yada wide and 150 feet deep. : Repvetion of Force at THE TREASURY.—About the latter part of the month there wilt he quite a heavy eduction of force in the various bu. reaus of the bony tthe prevent seberop: “ tiona being inadeqtal © preset ce, nmoumber tobe ‘uistutssed has not yet been determined upon, though itis thought about two hundred wilt be dispensed with, certainly not les than one hun. | dred and twenty-five, & large number of whom are fomate clerk’, The reduction will be tn every burean will prevent the spread of the disease. ‘Their vppli- cation has algo proved gifectual ta gase of snake bites, be atnong those eiaployes in the department an¢ Bs > Wrsrling on Star, Sat, @ wito ace tgs Want etl)