The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1872, Page 3

BOUIN INFLUENZA Condition of the Horses of the CHURCH-GOING AFOOT. Bick Beasts Staggering and Pani- + dng with Pain Before the Burdened Street Cars. THE DRIVE TO DEATH. The Cruelty to Animals That the | : Pails to Perceive. WHE STAGE, LIVERY AND PRIVATE STABLES, & Herseless Metropolis—The Means of Transportation and Travel Seon To Be Disabled. Lane a Howling Wil- Harlem i derness. An “oid Boy” Unbosoms Himself ; in Pathetic Periods. ‘The pecullarities of the equine disorder, which is pe'movel afd so startling, are to-day further de- veloped and better known than they were yester- @ay. The mode of treatment and cure wl have been thoroughly learned by the time the plague has | ceased, so that in case of future attacks in this city | ‘mo such great danger need be apprehended as 1s | mdéw imminent. The first condition, so say the most authoritative horsemen, required by the afflicted animal is perfect rest; then such food and medicine as have been generally used and are recom- mended by the’ best horsemen, laxative and soothing remedies, with counterirritants applied tothe throat. The great mistake made by the owners of stock has been to work them until the trouble reached a serious. stage, when first they | took sensible warning of the loss of which they | ran the risk. Wherever the dictates of humanity and real knowledge of horsemanship were obeyed the animals are reported to be improving rapidly; |, mone have died and all are confidently expected to | Zecover. But THE RAILROAD STABLES / present pitiable spectacles indeed. In scvera; of them. there are numbers of horses that bave been worked to the wery point of death and are only given | the rest that they should at first have had when ‘they are'no longer able to stand up in the harncss. ‘The picture is by no means flattering to the hu- manity of modern civilization, and produces a sick- ening sengation in the breast of every one who Jeels the least sympathy for these poor dumb Deaste who have performed our service so long and so well There is SOMETHING HEROIC im their endurance and fortitude, by the compul- sion of mature mute and uncomplaining, bit by the strength of heart, which can be found even in a beast, steady and unflinching. The intuman and grasping avariciousness of corporations who can trade in the very death of their horses, fear- ‘mg the pecuniary loss which would be occa- stoned by treating them as manly benevo- fence would suggest, adds to the temporal convenience of the public by affording them facility Of travel about the city; but from all that could be Jearned yesterday it does not greatly please them, but, on the contrary, excites unmitigated expres- sions of disgust and actestation. A money-making community is not necessarily one composed of ghouls and fiends, and Mr. Bergh’s clever silence and inactivity at the present time may not meet ‘his anticipation of escape from popular censure, When his fanctions were comparatively useless, jand when their exercise was really but little re- they were quite often made manifest; but. , When the worry and of four thousand street car horses that are afflicted by the weakness occasioned by this m: t epizootic are REMORSELESSLY DRIVEN NIGHT AND DAY, ithe exemplary philanthropist of extraordinary powers has not stepped forward in his character of umanitarian, but seems wholly unconcerned and lamaware of any neglected duty. The remarkable ‘moral which enforces the fining of poor ‘ wi solitary ay be slightly ch d by the wear of their harness on their backs, id which defies the public opinion of a police court filled with ragged and vulgar spectators, has mot yet been exhibited in this instance, where the millio people of this city are interested and here a narrow and mean mind might dread some di robation from the masses if the com- les of travel were entirely stopped. Mr. ergh misunderstands New Yorkers or e! judges by himeeif, we _ ope vad FF spon cope met rday was indignation ai cruelty b raliroad companies and of PITY FOR THE FOOR BEASTS. inthe aiternoon the great Bergh de Burke might have been seen riding down the oughfare of Broadway, seated in a barouche ch was drawn by two horses, while a third was d, esoh of which Was somewhat affected with the The men on their lonely posts opped and stared at the astonishing cle, land small boys who were endeavoring to turn onest pennies'by the pedal art of boot-blacking, it the corner of street, shouted derisively, hile @ gentlemanly by-stander repeated the lin “O consistency, thou art ve ‘The great street was almost silent as the Dp jades of Herculaneum, deserted and lifeless, ly there were here and there, at distances, peo- ble who were siowly strolling along; but not’ more shan one or two vehicles could be seen between i Hall and Grace church. That tashion- not very crowded and waited at the portals, but the Tistocratic worshippers floated jorgeous cloud at sunset NEW YURK HMKRALD, MONDAY, OUTOBKR 28, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. @ragged ‘em thousand persons, who ys stopped. Twelve horses were in a very dangerous and not expected to survive; and ONB DIRD ON SATURDAY NIGHT with the worst phase of the disease—inflammation of the lungs The superintendent, it may be stated, does not think that it is right to use any of his horses, but he does it in obedience to the orders of the President, The effect of withdrawing from the business of the road only a few of them is liter- ally to murder. those that remain at work, it being, ashe states, @ fact that, if there were only one car on the whole lime, all the people in the street would attempt to ride on it at the same time. The horses of condition THE NINTH AVENUE LINE, which is owned. by the same company, are said to be improving very much. All of them were idle yesterday, but.the intention was expressed by the superintendent of using nearly all of them The treatment used bere is the administration of the following Brescrt Spirits p! 2 iv (ounces) Belladonna .% iv (ounces) In one given an hour belore the ‘and in the evening the dose is Tepoataa the same length of time afterward. Belt Railroad jials said yesterday that all their stock was improving and they were runni forty-eight which is only about one half their usual number. Two different stories were told at the stables of the Broadway, Seventh Avenue and Broome cerock Company. A tall oMicial, whose expression pompous and sententious, satd that eo ne their cars except thoae of the me street line, which were always idle on Sunday. tj that they underwent no danger of loss ofthe lives of their horses. When about leav: fe that many of the horses were He thought that thay 0 aght not to work at all, or and was surprised that mike company yeste: morning had not issued the order to suspend bi ness till they should recover. ‘The public ex- pected it,” he said, ‘‘and were prepared to walk to- day, and would not have murmured if anep. had Oak ore to, because they are full of pity for e The Sixth Avenue Company used thirty-one cars esterday. Their horses were no better, and they ad several cases in which there is One horse died yesterday and one on Saturday e horse re There were rumors in the avenue that some horses had fallen in the street from overwork while hav- ing the disease, but the story was denied by the men at the stables. The superintendent at- tributed the deaths that have occurred to lun, fever, the last phase of the malady. The horses 0! THE STAGE LINES are not greatly changed in the condition of their health. One at the Fifth Avenue stables and two others belonging to other Cr yt died yester- day in the advanced state of the disease; but the rest were said to be feeding better and many to be improving a great deal. About two per cent of the horses are expected to die, but the rest will prob- ably recover without reaching the dangerous scene in which the lungs are affected. The general in- tention to-day is (the weather permitting) to re- sume many of the trips, but the opinion was ex- pressed yesterday by one good horseman that such @, course will hasten what is yet sure to occur before the calamity is over, and that is the total stoppage of all the public means of conveyance. By Wednesday it 1s expected that this will happen, and most of the companies are willing to acquiesce in the humane suggestion if only the rival lines of travel would also agree init. On THE FOURTH AVENUE RAILROAD estorday only four cars were run, and these on|, in order to meet the trains arriving at the Gran Central Depot. In this neighborhood last evening there were no cabs or hacks to be seen as lar as the eye could reach. Passengers walked along the sidewalk with heavy travelling bags in their hands, and paused lo} and anxiously at the corners, waiting vainly for some vehicle to appear to bear them in glory of return home to the bosoms of their families; but none came. Through all the streets of THE EAST SIDE the throngs of people who were promana say, with the Bbpe of enjoyment of the sweet evening air and the calm, cool twilight, were at, and the Second Avenue, East way, Dry Dock and Third Ave- nue cars bore up and down immense loads of selfish human flesh. the latter line especially were there scenes of a sad nature. Only about half of the cars were running, but these went at a little less than the ordinary speed and the unfortunate steeds were pressed 80 at times by the drivers, who yore ba penal § wurn ong by the conductors, that ey a p to escape Ever Wag, ita. watts SLIUNSaeRMEN Weert Reece ra, and cry mtly no ible room it more in the crowned cars, the bell as rung angrily by the conductor if the driver did not Spaly te brake. The newcomers squeezed themselves into very tight places for the sae of the ease of a standing ride, thoughtless of the mis- ery which they causedby their indulgence in the juestionable I a One of the over-burdened cars on Saturday night started for the Harlem Bridge at nearly sx o'clock, just as the shades of it were faliing fast. Before it had the len; of five blocks every seat was filled, and the other space was oc- cupied by persons who were standing. The horses, who had been driven all the way from Yorkville to the City Hall and back to Harlem, when they were again at the depot were taken into the stabies dripping with sweat and panting for their lives. THEY TREMBLED AND TOTTERED with weakness, exhaustion and pain. Another team was attached to the car and it was started anew; but they had also been worked previously during the d: and were not fresh in spirits or in appearance. y started tne heavy car with difi- culty, and then were u to the speed of seven miles an hour, The iver was not an unkindly looking man, but was silent and sullen. To men of his clase, even though of a rough mould, it cannot be pleasant to drive almost to their death the animals with which they have been used to labor night and gay, and with which they feel the fel- lowship of toil, Invariably they let them lag behind the vaulting ambition of the conductors, which seeks to overleap itself in the zeal with which they serve the mercenary interests of the Third Avenue Railroad Company. The principle upon which that corporation is working since the advent of the epizootic seems to be similar to the old one of making @ sacrifice of blood to mitigate the anger of the 8, But in this case it only in- creases the calamity and the punishment of inhu- manity. By the time the car had reached Canal street one of the horses was ‘ting violently for breath. foras fast as" passengers dropped by the waysid ras fast as ri ie others got on the atone. ‘of the platiorms. e speed was so rapid that his breathing could not be heard except when the car was stopped, but then the sound which it made was very loud, and the frame of the animal shook with the effect of his agony. When going HE SWAYED AND STAGGERED from one side of the track to the otner, but never flinched, even when, in the effort to start the heavily-weighted wheels, his iron-bound hoofs struck fire trom the stones or slipped upon the rails, The City Hall was reached by ti car at a quarter past seven, and it immediately started on its return. The upward load was even greater than the downward one was. At the corner of Twenty-sixth street the heroic horse DROPPED DEAD on the pavement. Another inciaent of this kind occurred at the corner of Twenty-eighth street on Saturday night, the dead animals remaining in the street until yesterday morning. In Harlem yesterday the number of visitors from was great, and most of them rode ap on like the Ee silver lining of happy smiles, or ot 4 the ird and Second avenue cars. In a private ip of wealth, or the caer indifference ‘ite the massive St. Nicholas Hotel team before a hackne; siowly along, and the hars! hard, rough Eraok Of thet hots Woon. eit choed aimost dismalty from the 10 town ferries, and Occasionally of a sol- mile on ite way to ood or ry; but even the sidewalks fed the usual throng, and apparently the ma- of the people must have stayed at home, the chambermaids of the hotels, before missed tholt “Sunday ous” ‘The Street Car Teams and the Stables. ‘The Eighth avenue was a picture less pleasant the cold solitude of Broadway. [tis 4 STREST OF MOTLEY CHARACTERISTICS, all the featares of every other thoroughfare. metiey stream of homanity on a Sunday after- ‘flows through it, and the counter currents in- ‘pass each other with a sort of lazy, languid ‘that speaks of the indefinable view which eo American takes of the gteat y Of rest and his isck of special interest in any- except the present. In the middie of the ‘the fat, ugiy-looking cars were dragged along PANTING TEAMS OF HORSES aT A SLOW WALK, re stopped @t every beck of a lazy man or ‘who wished to ride. Every coign of vantage valgar vehicles was taken up a8 @ spot stand. The interior was full of ladies, ren and men, aud the platforms swarmed with n tined humanity. The steeds in front, whe car’had been stopped to allow some fresh ser to cling to it, would straggie despair- rly and strain every muscle beiore thé wheels be started afresh, and then moved ira way to indicate that every step they took painful. Pauting jocessaptiv. and trembling stable in 128th street two horses died on Saturday night of the horse P ie; two others met with the same fate in 119th street; one in 126th street and one in 123d street on the same day. Another horse in the stable in 128th street mentioned above died yesterday Raorning. ‘The condition of the horses IN THE UPTOWN LIVERY STABLES is generally improving where they are treated with care and judgment. The fast n are doing Mr. Hill yesterday drove out his r of Lady Thorne, to ex- ht touch ef the disease. Spot, who also had it, is ‘Tne conclusion arrived st throage an inspection of the stables yester: ig that only carelessness of keeping and inhumanity of usage, or the vious resence of some other disease, can to the Be anlar ane gemeaest 2's tis. The curious indie of the day at Old Bull’s Head, in Twenty- sixth street, of ns of horses being walked through the streets snugly clothed in warm blan- kets, and they seemed better for the exercise and for the breath of fresh, pure air, The E in Harlem Lane. Who has not seen Harlem Jane in ail its shining glory of a Sunday afternoon? To all New Yorkers who fancy being known as “fast men” this Hariem lane has, In ts history and its accessories, a mar- vellous attraction that years cannot pale, and that, in its reckless and everchanging, dashing, riotous. life, is not equalled by any other picture on Man- hattan Island, Old sports, who own horses and who have only one object in life, and that to drive behind a step- ping mare at a two-forty galt, will speak of Harlem lane ag they would of a bottle of rare wine, or of a fragrant Westphalia ham, or of a musty cheese, green as verdigris. The mad pace that many thou- sands have gone at up and down the lane, and the suppers that bave been eaten at Florence's, and the Piper Heldaick that has been drunk—oceans of it— at Bertholf’s! Ab me! 1am what is called an “old boy” now—one of the forty-two fellows, just a littie geaty and a little wii at the knees—but 1 never ‘will forget my first ride in Harlem lane, before the Central Park was laid out, and when the Harlem Nats looked like a wilderness in miniature. Trotting ‘was @ sport then, and the boys were fond of seeing ® good match fora heavy purse; but now times have changed, and! can’t recognize anything in the lane that I used to know and recognize in those young days, when the smile on a woman’s lips was more precious than a coffer of precious jewels, and then one didn’t have the dyspepsia, and didn’t feel too stiff to get out of a road wagon and fasten the lines if they slipped. I see there is the Old Powder House on the hill, at the end of the Park, just as it was twenty-fiVe years ago, when Dan Webster was giving jaw to the Austrian Ambassador for that plucky thing done by Ingraham in the harbor of Smyrna, and it looks down as calmly and as peacefully as it did that terrible night under the waning moon when George Washington, with his broken and dis. pirited army, retreated before the victorious Brit- ons, and, reaching White Plains, was again de- feated the next day and had to retreat again. Yes, the Old Powder House is just the same as before, and while even the land thereabout and the very eternal rocks themselves have changed and bear the marks of improvement the Old Powder House is etill there, like a vigilant sentinel, to tell its story—a story 100 years old and full of glorious memories. But now we have a “horse disease,” and no one knows when it will end or where it began, and I suppose no one will ever know. 1 Grove up to the Lane two or three Sundays ago. I always give my mare Biddy an airing on Sunday— it does her good—as I can’t exercise her much during the week, for a man who does a business of five to ten thousand dollars a week in front of a meat stall in Washington Market can’t have much time to air a fast horse in working hours, and I don’t like to let Biddy cram herself with feed too much, unless I can work it off once ina while. 1 have been going up and down that Lane for thirty years, and it seems to me just like home when I get to the corner at Seventh avenue, which, by the is now laid out like a smooth board for a mile L left the mare at Myers’ at tne Park andI thought I'd take a look: at the Lane from the hill where the Powder House looks out picture, That’s the best ee to look at this Shomonatane of horsemen and horses and teams. I took a seat with my back against the wall of the old ruin and began to look about me. 1 yeied out a cigar—a real Partaga—no Con- necticut fillings for me—and lit it. Lord bless me, what @ number of whizzing wheels and what a patter of horses’ hoofs in the broad causeway below me! Why some of the wheels, nicely polished and gleaming like swords’ points, revolve so quickly behind the dainty bits of horseflesh that I could not compare them to anything in the world but a See woke ene by a stree! Le gyno of fly mi W! ang—away she goes iy tuat’s the Commodore, with his white tie, white whiskers, erect Sears and magnificent pair, nent driven dike a hail storm before the wind. An there’s Dan Mace—and I’m a straight-out if there isn’t Bonner and Peerless! They talk of Rotten Row and Longchamps, but Pll back Harlem Lane against any of those foreign parts for tiptop horse nesh and high old driving. The Lane is black with crackers, from the Hambietonian to the pony spinning along with its pretty little basket carriage and its pretty. little 1 , Warmly wrapped in a palmieaf shawl, The teams are out in thou- sands. Just look at them as they whirl out of the smooth road in the Park, belte1 on both sides by young timber, the green leaves of which are turn- ing to golden brown, and purple, and amber dd scarlet! The cool October day creeps on ce, and the little sparrows fly in and out the branches above and below me. The weather is crisp, and the sunlight, here in shadow and there in molten gold, makes the scene, with its figures of men and horses, seem like @ page from astory of fairy land. Swarms of tashion- ably dressed ladies are ascending and descending the steps leading co the verandahs of the hotels, where refreshments may be had for man and beast, aud parties of threes and fours are getting in and out of open carriages, and now and then some of the squads who have been indulging too freely in the juice of the grape elevate their voices in the unison of some merry chorus. Go it while you are young, 1 say, for when you are old you can’t! There is nothing like a drive behind a pair of fast horses to open the chest and clear the lungs for man or woman. And particularly, does not a pretty girl like a drive on the or in the Lane, with poe good supper at Florence's on the way out, or at Stet- son’s coming home? There goes an upset! In the jam and press some wild young fellow has been speeding @ gelding against his neighbor’s roan, aud there 1s a sudden collisionand a smash; the wheels become mixed up inextricably and tne two rivals are spilled all over the well-paved street, They are picking themselves up now, and they look savagely at each other for a moment, a shout of laughter greets the two from the hotel piazza, and, thinking better of it, they shake hands, make it u and go in and take a drink. I feel a little cram} too, and J think a drop of brandy and water would not do me any harm and a run up to Fiorence’s, 80 peepee Ti shake =P, my old 1842 bones and give dy & spin after the oats she has eaten. I give Myers’ boy half a dollar. He says, “Thank for. sir.” Iask the policeman at the Park gate ow Many teams have passed to-day and horses through the Lane. He answers, touching bis cap, “About three thousand ;" and getting the blanket over the lower part of my legs I am of, Biday letting herself out like a streak of lightning: The boys on the hotel stoop sing out at me, for they know the old man (I’ve dandled some of them on my knee when Hiram Woodruff was a gay lad) “Go “4 Pop,” and in @ minute they can’t see anything but the dust behind Biddy’s hoois as we spank along the road. Well, that was the last ride I had until yesterday, and since then poor Biddy has got the “epizoot”—! think that’s what the HERALD calls it. I went to her stable on Saturday and I found her hud- died up in @ mass, like @ bag of potatoes, and the poor beast was all in a shiver from her mane to her knotted tail—I always keep her tail braided, like the hair of a Touns, school rl. was mighty afraid, tell you, to see the little mare in such a con- dition—her nostrils in a foam, like a washer- woman’s tubon a laundry day; sol washed her mouth out with a dipper of hot rum and water, gave her some hot mash—she didn’t want to eat— and rubbed her chest with some good English mus- tard, and the little girl begun to warm up, and licked my coat sleeve out of pure gratitude. Bergh orno Bergh, I believe in treating a horse like an infant; they don’t cry so much, and they are so willing to do their work when you call on them. Biddy got better, and [ thought I woula take her out in the Lane yesterday, as she had been hou! so Jong. sol essed her up and put her in the wagon and I took a.drive ges the Park for exercise. Bat I was ashamed that I did not see one else driving beside ae From the time [left Fitty- ninth street until I got to Stetson’s, in the Par! Biddy didn’t have a chance to try her speed but once, and that with some one who was kgs | an Abdallah m: very fast, too. She was al blanketed to kill. I had a brush with her, and she gave ey the by in no time and as she left me her driver sung out, “Goodby, Pop; take care of yourself, or the epizoot ‘ui get you.” There it was again. Epizoot, it seems to me every one has got epizoot on ihe brain. Not another horse did I see until I got to Stetson’s, sol thought I'd go in and ask about it; and I jumped out and went up the steps, and as east the dining room I met Radford, and I said to him “What's the matter, Radford—where are all the horsemen to-day? What’s become of the crackers— I don’t see any driving in the Park?” “Why! bless me!’ answered Radford, “don’t you know that they have all got the epizoot? The epi- zoot is ruining our business, too. Only four . bn —-4 steaks called for all day Sunday—' ik of at “Epizoot have they? Well, broil mea chicken, and telltne pomeey maar warm, fori don’t want any ¢ ber Mes . Ican tell—and send Bas ines ier's poe ute nt aba in a mi rs, , hey! welll suppose there are. worse things than the epizoot, only a man must not let it trouble him too Bach pa mi © tht make his hair gray. So here led chicken and them French the rascals are rans like new Treasury Soya" my dinner Biddy was brought to the door, and I got in and drove per until she thought that I was going to stand her on her head; for somehow or another the epizoot nad set mo thinking, and I didn’t feel right. Think of @ man driving in the Park and not meeting a soul for a mile but a policeman and one Abdallah mare. To be satuted by every policeman, too, and to be looked at suspiciously, as if I had no business to be dri’ Biddy, whom they all looked at narrowly, as if they expected her to discharge from her nostrils—when every one else was at home—and all on account “of the epizoot. ‘The chicken wasn't so good after all, and I think that the waiter must have dropped some ares, into the when he took the Heidsick off the ice. Att Park gate the policeman touched is Biddy and — se “Good afternoon, sir; 1 hope Biddy hasn't got the epigoot ; she looks out of condition, sir; better take care of ‘her, sir; there’s no one here to-day, sir; only twenty horses have 'd throu; the gate during four hours, and the Sund: 8 that were here f told you that 2,000 double oe im ahd out in four hours j It seemed as if it were imj ible to get away from the confounded epizoot. I looked up and down Harlem lane, and ie readers of the HERaLD will hardly believe me when I tell them that at five o’clock yesterday Geeta nee there was nota horse or horseman in Harlem lane. were all deserted, the bar keepers alone remaining, and re- or eae Re ay a jece le 9 Point View House, and two men were eating raw 0 at These were the only people ol in Harlem |: 968 foriorn German stapding with the ex: front of a ‘ove story frame house, with a flock of behind him, who tendered mea for my ¢! quite fraternalty, bY feit so miseri and so omg that the sound My voice was @ boon that made quite thank- ful. ‘Mt all come of dem t in doze horses. No to-day, mein e] Gott,” he sighed. 7 who is a Platt Deutschman, said, ‘I feels 80 cee S srtuke some pranty and wasser. Och das e I thought Ihad got eno of the spizoot for that locality, and I started Daddy of . There was one pidated eoach in the beautifully paved Seventh avenue, andi met a man driving @ dog counne. looked as if he wanted to have some one tell him the way. I thought to if, “epizoot— clear case,” and drove on, At Bertholf’s there was not a lounger on the piazza, and not a horse to be seen, even under the sheds, More brandy and water and more condolence. The bar- keeper said:— “Mr, ——, this is toobad, My arm is stiff for Want of exercise, I havn't mixed but three drinks since morning, and only three horses have passed here. They are all sick, and I believe——” “Hold up,” I said, “this is wretchedness—! know What you are going tosay ! 1 know all about it,” 4 The shades of night were falling fs Ei aeereeniea With pully nostril big as mice — “And epizootic,” screamed the frantic barkeeper, and I was of ane. Sixor eight teams haa a ut the horses were all blanketted and none of the drivers seemed to have time to talk. They were afraid their horses would catch cold and they did not wish to have them stand etill, even to get a drink or a cigar. ‘And 80 I hurried home from Mavomb’s Dam, and dreve back @ sadder and a wiser man, only glad that Biddy was free of the epizootic. The lane was xen lonely, and the hotel keepers looked at me wit! blank astonishment, wondering why I dared be out with my mare when only twenty or thirty per- sons had ventured to drive, where it is usual to see as many hundreds speeding their horses, Yester- day was the shabblest Sunday Harlem lane has ever known, or I hope will ever have again. THE LARYNGITIS IN BROOKLYN. Disappointment of the Church-Going Community—Travel Suspended. Travel in Brooklyn yesterday was virtually sus- pended, for on some of the car routes no cars were run, and the few which were run on others was far from supplying the demands of the public, Al- though notices of the fact that the cars would not be run had been given, yet it would seem, from the number of people who appeared upon the street corners and WATCHED ANXIOUSLY FOR THE COMING OF A CAR, to convey them to their various places of worship, that they had taken no notice of the warning or had any sympathy for the poor horses. No cars were run on the Atlantic and Fifth Avenue lines, and the people residing in that section of the city were naturally greatly disappointed at not being able to reach their favorite churches, Nearly all the horses, no matter for what busi- ness they were used, WERE UNDER TREATMENT for the prevailing malaay with which they were afflicted, The day was devoted to the nursing of the poor beasts, who, if able to talk, would express their grateful thanks for the kind treatment. Only four or five cars were run on the Green and Yates Avenue line,and they could not accommo- date half the 2 people who were anxious to ride, Half the usual number of cara were run on the Fulton Avenue line, and those were crowded to their utmost capacity. Several which came down the avenue were not only filled inside but were crowded on the top. Only ten cars were run on the Myrtle Avenue route, he consequence was that hundreds of people were unable to ride and were GREATLY DISAPPOINTED. It was the same on the Greenpoint, the Vander- bilt Avenue and Coney Island roads. Only half the number of cars were run, The undertakers found great diMculty in obtain- ing @ suMcient number of coaches to convey the mourners at funerals to the different cemeteries, and in some instances double the usual amount Was charged for carriage hire. It was stated by the stablemeu that there was an improvement among the horses, and that the disease would soon be cured. Many of the horses which were first prea with the distemper are now able to be riven. THE MALADY IN WILLIAMSBURG. The Superintendent of the Cypress Hills and East New York Railroad found it, necessary to suspend travel on that road yesterday, and at five o'clock last evening the usual tripg of the Cross-Town road were suspended. The Grahd street road was en- abled to run ‘their cars regularly during the day, but drew off, @ number during the evening. THE STREET CARS STOPPED IN NEWARK. The trouble among the equine race of Newark has assumed a most serious phase. Yesterday the horse cars on all the lines belonging to the Orange and Newark Company, which includes the Belle- ville, Broad street, Littleton avenue and Orange street cars, failed to run, owing to the illness of the company’s pacers and trotters. As a result large numbers of people left their church pews vacant, thus proving what the Hekaup said when it inaugurated the Sunday horse car movement—to wit, that the horse cars on the sacred day would be, in some measure, handmaids to religion, ‘The horses affected with the mysterious disease have only the cough, and it is hoped that prompt treatment will save them from the running at the nostriis. Only one beast has reached that State. The company will run cars to-day for the accommodation of the laboring classes, in the ieruiagend evening, The horses of the Irvington and Mulberry street lines were not sick enough to interfere with their usua) Sunday trafic As it 1s with the horse car company’s equines so it is with those of private individuals. The disease is rapidly spreading, though no death THE DISEASE ELSEWHERE. saat Wasnington Not Attacked=—A Suspected Case. WaAsHINGTON, Oct. 27, 1872, The borse disease has not made its appearance here so far as the livery stable keepers know. The horses of the Peruvian Minister, which have just been brought here from New York, are reported to have the symptoms. The British Minister’s horses arrived Pay A afternoon, but having been sh mm Boston by water before the disease made its appearance, no fear is entertained of their arene the contagion. In Baltimore extraordinary care is being taken with the animals in drawing the cars across the city from the Camden to the Pratt street stations, re reported, The Discase Abating in Boston. Boston, Mass., Oct. 27, 1872. All horse railroad travelin Boston and vicinity was suspended to-day. Rain continues, andowners of horses unattacked by the distemper keep them sheltered for safety, and the horse is just now a rarity in the streets. Many of the animals first attacked are said to be convalescing, and it is be- lieved that we have got about over the worst of the visitation. Portland's Prancers Sneezing. PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 27, 1872. A visit to the livery stables to-night shows nearly every horse sick. Probably nine-tenths of the horses in the city are affected. No horse cars have been run to-day, and a dozen horses have not ap- ion upon the streets. The horse car company as some forty or fifty horses sick. The Epihippic at Poughkeepste—The Oxen as a Substitute for New York. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1872, The horse disease has reached this city. In one stable of twelve horses eleven are down with it, ret, however, the disease is confined to that stable, H. G. Eastman, Mayor of Poughkeepsie, telegraphs as follows Povorxgersts, N. Y., Mayor's Orrick, Oct. 27, 1872. If the extent and eg continuance of the horse plague warrant the freighting interests in New York in emplo; oxen to move their mer- chandise I have no doubt that a hundred, or many more, pean of Dutchess county oxen, with drivers, sent By from this city on short notice, that would satisfactorily take the place of horses in hauling large trucks and freight wagons; and I believe that such an ai mnt could be made tion, "My. servioes this matter are grateously . My 8 in matter at the disposal of those taterested. bianca H. G, EASTMAN, Syracase Still Suffering—Oren Taking the Place of Horses. SyRacuss, N..Y., Oct. 27, 1872. The horse disease is spreading rapidiy in this city. Nearly every horse in Syracuse is affected. The cars on two street ratiways have discontinued running, and the other lines run_cars Q Several ‘deathe courted Senterday, fae eens r Ox goods to the reign on in conveying their nneeeneiveneenetii, Us > STABBED IN THE ABDOMEN. PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 27, 1872. A man named Sewall Thurlow was seriously, _ tt Me ech fatally stabbed in the abdomen, t Nort , Friday 5 as — Ca , night, by John Farweli. Far- WASHINGTON. Do the President and the Secretary of State Agree on Foreign Policy ? SOME EVIDENCE PRO AND CON. The Public Debt and Treasury Statistics. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 1872. The President and Secretacy Fish on Cuban and Mexican Matters. The recent editorial utterances of the HERALD on the foreign policy of the administration have stirred the diplomats in Washington, especially those re- ferring to Cuba and Mexic), The Spanish Minister, who is not easily frightened, was startled, when he read the President's opinion of Spanish rule in Cuba, 8 expressed on his endorsement of Mrs. Dutton’s appeal in behalf of Dr. Houard, her brother, and printed in these despatches. This,in connection with the expected retirement of Secretary Fish, has made the Minister very anxious to learn what might possibly be the President's course if the present Secretary of State should resign. Senator Harlan, who is named second on the Committee on Foreign Relations, claims to have interviewed both the President and Secretary Fish, and as the result of the conference says that “in relation to all the questions that are likely to arise out of our relations with Spain, Mexico, Cuba, &c., there is perfect accord between the Pres- ident and Mr, Fish, and there is no Probability whatever, whether Mr. Fish re- mains or retires, that General Grant will wish to “push things’ toward a protectorate in Mexico, or the settlement of matters in Cuba, any faster or further than he has done during his pres- ent term, He does not recognize it to be the duty or province of this government to intervene in the quarrels of its neighbors or assume the role of arbiter unasked. While he may wish that Cuba could have peace and a republican form of govern- Ment, and might even wish that Spain could sce it to be her interest to acknowledge the independence of Cuba, he does not feel called upon to cut the Gordian knot that has kept the Mexican government in hopeless bondage through tong and weary years of unrest. He is not unmindful of his duty to protect our rights and interests on the Rio Grande, and will move as far and as fast as a just regard for a weak and un- fortunate neighbor will permit. In all this he has had an adviser and co-operator in Secretary Fish, who has kept pace with his own wishes and policy. Those quite as well informed as the oracle of the Foreign Relations Committee know that the Presi- dent has been guided more by the policy of Secre- tary Fish than by his ownsjense of justice and right, and the President in yielding to the ar- gument of his dipiomatic adviser was only carrying out the determination made at the beginning of his administration never to interfere with the business of any of the departments. The Presi- dent writes his own Messages, and in his last in- corporated substantially the sentiment expressed on the endorsement of the letter of Mrs, Dutton, After reflection, and just before copies were made for Congress, he concluded to strike out the severe sentences. A few days after the as- sembling of Congress the intelligence of the Massacre of the «students at Havana was re- ceived, and Secretary Robeson was requested tosend @ monitor to Havana immediately. The State Department was not consulted, and the com- mander of the vessel was ordered to protect Ameri- cans at all hazard. It was the policy of the ad- ministration in the beginning to keep alarge naval force in Cuban waters, but at the request of Mr. Fish the force was dispersed, on the plea that so many war vessels in time of peace might appear as @ menace to a friendly Power. The altering of dates to despatches to disguise the tardiness with which the State Department moved in the Houard matter, the expressed sentiments of Secretary Fish that Congress had better pay more attention to legislation and less to the affairs of the State Department, are now spoken of among the friends of the President in connection with the Houard matter as the best proof that the President and the Secretary have not been of one mind in regard to our policy toward Cuba. The only thing Mr. Fish sets forth as a triumph of his administra- tion of affairs of State the Spanish Claims Commis- sion, organized for the settlement of claims of Americans despoiled of their property inCuba. The Commission, after an existence of over one year, has not acted on the first case, and 18 as far from a decision to-day as it was twelve months ago. Official Hints Upon the Public Debt. Judge Richardson, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will soon have ready his volume of “Practical Information Concerning the Public Debt of the United States, with the National Banking Laws, for Banks, Bankers, Brokers, Bank Directors and Investors.” Among other information he saysi— Two hundred thousand dollars of the five per cents have already been negotiated, but as yet none of the four per cents and four and a half per cents have been issued. These are the only loans now offered for sale by the government. All others, having long since been closed, are being reduced as rapidly as the surplus revenues, the money obtained from the sale of the new bonds and the coin in the Treasury wilt permit. The reduction of the public debt for the three years last past, has been at the rate of about Carrhae mprbey year, and the proceeds of the sale of the funded loan, which can be used to redeem the five-twenty bonds and not to increase the public debt, have still further reduced the amount of is bearing six ver cent interest. Of the numerous debts matured prior to the year 1837, there are still outstanding and un- claimed of the principal $57,665, and of ali loans heretofore matured, the amount which had not been presented for payment September 1, 1872, was $6,170,675. Itis probable that some part of the bonds and other evidences of these outstand- ing balances have been destroyed by fire, ship- wreck and otherwise, and by reason of the death of the owners or other causes. All knowledge of the existence of the indebtedness has passed away from those who might be entitied to avail themselves of the claims. As to coin or gold certificates, the amount that may be issued is lim- ited only by the wants and ability of the business community and the requirement of the law, that they shall not, at any time, exceed twenty per cent beyond the amount of coin and bullion in the Treasury. Under the head of “Fractional Currency” the Assistant secretary says: With in the $50,000,000 limited by each of the Acts of 1863 and 1864, the amount kept in circula- tion is determined wholly by the wants and de- mands of the public, who, it appears, require fractional currency in the proportion of it one dollar to each inlabitant the country, ‘The foamy in Fern bode 4 Bove ae a ' rtion, mal proper allo and Rostroyed sows, and when it falls much below, a scarcity is sensibly felt throughout the country. Under the head of “ sistant Secretary says:— The construction of the Treasury Department, contemporaneous with the issue of the bonds, seems to have been that when not otherwise ex- pressly provided in the bonds t! ives, both the principal and interest were Lm benno in coin, and this construction has been strictly followed and maintained by the government by the prompt and faithiul payment of every such bond in coin at ma- turity. And the question has been further Bag —— tions of the government for moneys received and disbarsed on authorized warrants within the fsca{ Year, including the receipts from loans and pay- ments on account of the public debt. Another Inter-Oce Isthmus Row ‘The result of the recent survey of a route front Brito to Lake Nicaragua has developed a line ong miles shorter than that of Colonel Childs’, having, on the whole, much lesa excavation and much less need of heavy culverts. It is found thaq the surface level of Lake Nicaragua is 106 feet be< tween the mean height of the high and low tides of the Pacific Ocean. The popular error as to thd difference of levels between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has no foundation in truth. Mineral Wealth in the Indian Country4 The scientific and exploring expedition whic! left Washington last May, under command of Cok nel W. . McCarty, of Texas, for the purpose of ex- ploring Northwestern Texas, has returned, after successful trip of five months in the Indian country. Copper ore has been found in large quantities of a very superior quality, having assayed as high eighty-four per cent of copper, the remainder bein; silver and other matter. The coal discovered also of a superior quality, resembling the best Pennsylvania anthracite, The Great Southe Pacific Ratlroad and the Pacific and Great Easter! Railroad pass through or near these banks. Col nel McCarty is now fitting out a more extensi expedition, to penetrate what is known as -th “Llano Estacade,” or “‘Staked Plains,” and thene through the eastern mountain range of Northwest ern Texas, and will leave New York about the 1st of November, . : Naturalized Citizens Owning Americam Ships. In the case of Captain Trotter, owner of thi steamer Forest City, of Erie, Pa., the ‘ireasury partment decides that under the act of March 27% 1804, he has forfeited his right to ownership, be! @ naturalized citizen and having absented himee! from this country for oyer two years. The Depar ment decides that his domicile in Canada does not however, affect his right to command her as ai American citizen. This is the first case on recor: in the department involving the right of a natural~ ized citizen to ownership of an American bottom, Safety Valve Experiments. : ‘The Acting Secretary of the Navy issued an orde! on Saturday requesting all officers on duty in th department to attend the experiments with safet; valves at the Navy Yara in this city on Monday, under the direction of the Steamboat Division of the Treasury Department. The object is to ascet tain what modifications are required to the present Steamboat law for the safety of life and property. Cases Before the Southern Claims Commission. The following cases were before the Southern Claims Commission yesterday :— Hon, Balie Peyton, of Gallatin, Tenn., a distine guished member of Vongess during Presiden# Jackson’s administration, His claim is for nearly $3,000. General George P. Este, of Washington, testified as to his loyalty. Mrs. Charlotte E. Read, widow of John D. Ready Falls Church, YVa., who was taken from his housa in that village during a midnight raid of Mosby's guerillas, and carried thirteen miles from his home, where he was shot, his body being recovered anal brought home by his little daughter, ten years old,) assisted only by her aunt. The claim amounts to nearly $5,000 for property taken by the Uniom army. Resignation of an Internal Official. Collector Gray, of the Twentieth Internal Revenu@ district of Pennsylvania, has resigned. Troops Quartered in Alabama. A despatch recetved from Montgomery says that troops are being quartered throughout Alabama. On inquiry at the War Department it is ascertained) that not more than two companies have been dis- tributed at three or four points in that State. The New Federal Buildings at St. Louise The Acting Supervising Architect of the lace yesterday opened the bids for furnishing the stone be used in the construction of the new government building at St. Louis, Missouri. Some twelve on thirteep proposals were received, specifying witly great minuteness the various prices at which tha numerous sizes of stone required would be furnished, most of them being for granite or sand stone, witly one for marble. The award will not be made pub-' le for several days. The Annie Dean Scandal. The morning papers, in detailing the circums stances attending the sad death of a womai named Annie Dean in this city, relate cireums stances to show that there is no (ruth in the state- ment she made to the woman in whose wretched! hovel she died. As toher having been discarded because she married her father’s coachman, and having the name “Dean,” she sought notoriety in) borrowed capital, though with a different given name, to the detriment of a respectabie family | now living in good circumstances. | Tonnage Dues on the American Lakete The Secretary of the Treasury will probably re¢ commend the abolition of tonnage dues on vesselal engaged in trade on the lakes between the United! States and Canada, thus assimilating that tramc to the coasting trade proper, on which tonnage dues! were abolished two years ago. The reason assigned for the proposed abolition of tonnage dues on the lakes is that the levying and collection of the dues is a matter of some annoyance to the vessels, with- out yielding any revenue of consequence to the government. The Secretary is also in favor of abolishing a number of ports of delivery om Western rivers, rendered useless by the shifting of trade. Local influences in Congress. will undoubt- edly be arrayed against the adoption of his recom: mendation® Discriminating Duties. , The State Department has informed the French, Minister that the act of the French government im imposing discriminating duties on foreign bottoms, bringing merchandise to the ports of France from other than the countries to which the vessel belong makes it necessary for the President to en-, force the act concerning maritime reciprocity. The proclamation requiring the collection of a dis criminating duty on French bottoms coming from other than ports of France direct will be issued om | Monday or Tuesday. A National Bank Liquidating. The Marshaltown Bank of Iowa, mentioned im these despatches as having violated the National Banking act, wiil go into liquidation. The Revenue from Tobacco. The returns at the Internal Revenue Bureau ob receipts from the sale Of tobacco, snuff and cigara, during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1872, wer@ only $200,000 in excess of the previous year. Thi is accounted for by the antictpated change in tha Revenue law toward the close of the last session of Congress, and which went into effect on the Ist of July. Large quantities of smoking tobacco werd Canal Revenugd t pro- | forced on the market to get the benefit of the in-~ crease on class sixteen. Otherwise the receipta from tobacco might have been less than for the vayment in Coin,” the As- | fiscal year ended June 30, 1871, National Treasury Balances. The following were the Treasury balances at the close of business yesterday :—Currency, $4,139,804 5. coin—including coin certificates, $22,714,000— $77,496,816; special deposit of legal tenders for re- demption of certificates of deposit, $23,400,000, Internal Revenue Receipts. Internal revenue receipts yesterday, $383,682; for, the month, $7,924,554; for the fiscal year to date, by I lation, s0 lar as subsequent can emfec it, by the passage of a law which was the first t of meral nature by President Grant act of a ge’ ss the Presiden . days after his tn: an emphatic e on of the sentiment of the people of the country, uttered by a new ress then recently elected and just commencing first session. It has heretofore been stated that the issue of the reserve of $44,000,000 of United States notes is left to the Secretary of the Treasury, and several | instances are given by the Assistant Secretary where the privilege has been exercised. Treasury Figures from the Last Fiscal Year. The total receipts of the government for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1872, as per report of the United States Treasurer, were :—$709,888,629; balance in the Treasury, June 30, 1871, $10,917,477; unavailable, $10,240; total, $619,825,340. Total ex- Penditures, $713,260,077; credited as unavatlabie, $13,730; balance in the Treasury, June 30, 1872, $106,551,661, The above represents all the transac, $43,103,449; national bauk notes outstanding at this date; $942,370,190, 4 FIRE IN POUGHKEEPSIE. Povanmnrsix, N. Y., Oct 27, 187% At half-past eleven o'clock to-night the frame block at the corner of Union and Market streets was dentrorea by a The ever floor was ocsu- as law 01 ui A) was a yurned that 10 Te) . has Rot yet been ascertained, COLLISION ON THE READING RAILROAD. The Engineer Jamps Off and Is Milleds PHILADBLEAIA, Pa., Oct. 27, 1872. This morning a passenger train on the Reading Railroad, near Bridgeport, ‘collided with a coal train running in the same direction. Bdw: a engineer, jumped from the engine and was k Rovouner casualties occured, “the injury tO. th¢ trains was of a trifling cuaracter.