The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1872, Page 3

~-HIPPG-MALARIA, Th¢ Gontinuance of the Critical > Conditlod of the Tor- 4 tured Car Horses. WHERE ARE THE POILOZOOISTS 2 The Epizootic Extending to Human Beings. New Mysterics of the Mali- cious Malady. Can Any Good Come Out of Canada or Cuba? THE SPORTING STEEDS. The Epthippic in New York, Brooklyn, Newark and Elsewhere. Yesterday the equine distemper was as widely Prevalent asever. There were no instances dis- covered where it had been entirely cured, but there are many where it had resulted in death to ‘the noble beasts, octasioned by reckless and sav- age usage. Weakness, weariness and pain in the ear horses rendered the least enforced exertion a ernelty greater than the human tortures of the Mid- @ie Ages and the horrid fates of the victims of the @uto da sé, The railroad companies began to run their care early in the morning, not attempting allof their usual trips; but before noonday they ‘were obliged to withdraw part of them, s0 many horses were there who were unable to endure the manatural and heartless ordeal, THR CONTINUED LESSENING OF THE VEHICLES @f public travel caused the number of passengers @neach to be doubled and tripled, and the poor, Sweltering, staggering steeds were racked and strained time and again in almost vain struggles with their infamous burdens. The Third avenue Mine first had one half of its cars running, but after- ‘wards lessened the number, as if, at the eleventh hour, they recognized the folly of murdering their Deasis, but had not the courage to stop the last Means Of trave}, but acquicsced to the destruction of a few of their horses to save the many. Undoubtedly there is = great profit in this fiendish practice. The immense tide of people who give their fares to the conductors Pay from their pockets to the company for the pe- ‘cuniary loss of horsefiesh, and there will be enough of a “margin” left for the compensation of the em- Ployéa, besides something for the stockholders. They are innocent, of course, of the killing by slow torture of their helpless beasts. A sacrifice of cach sorry steed in his turn will effect this charming re- sult fora time; but how will it be when the last Borry steed has ‘‘kicked the bucket” and departed this life to more peaceful routes where the crack of of the driver's whip and the sharp, angry lang of the conductor's bell is never heard? Tn that horsey hades may the “‘epizoot”’ never more ‘vex him ; but now in this nether world the horrors ofa horseless existence are little less than fright- fl. However, the gleam of the dawn arises in the Jantern of hope that.was held out yesterday by. Alderman Conover, whose proposition to empower the Mayor to permit the use of dummies to prope! ‘the passenger cars in the streets was, for a won- es, eeneibly adopted by the Board of Aldermen, WHERE ARE THE PHILOZOOISTS ? ‘The cruelty to their norses thet is practised by the railroad companies of the city is strikingly con- trasted with the kindness and just care and pride ‘which the best of our livery stable men take in the treatment of their own. It is gladly noted that they are generally improving. Yesterday was a @hange from the lugubrious damp and overcast ‘weather of the-last week, and the sunshine pour- fg down upon the afflicted city with its gleaming, piercing points of glowing gold begot NEW LIFE AND SPIRIT Mmeeven the veriest jade that plodded the streets. Up town the horses were taken out from their sta- ies, wrapped in blankets, hitched to carriages and slowly and carefully driven, and the mild exercise @a them great good. They returned from the eparkiing air and the sunshine with clear and brightened eyes and brisk, springing steps, while ‘their fellows of crueller fortunes, who tottered de- fectedly along before the crowded cars, drooped their tired heads and moved with the creeping gait Of misery, or were lashed Mhto a vaulting step that vacked their frames and caused them at times al_ most to lose their weak footing upon the slippery cobbles. Among all the stables visited since the beginning Of this equine malady that owned by Messrs. Garri- gon & Kenyon, at the corner of Forty-seventh street and Broadway, has presented the most pleas- §ng appearance of perfect order and careful pro- vision for the comiort and health of the animals Kept within. The blooded stock who are kept here, velonging to well-to-do gentlemen, have all been agected, but not one of them has reached the dan- gerous stage of the disorder, Mr. Kenyon’s noted Bambictonian mare, THE BRIDE OF THE WARD, @escended from Bellfounder, isa picture of per- fect condition, despite aslight touch of the ca- tarrhal symptoms, Her coat is sleek and shining, and her eye, that true index of the health of a horse, is as bright and mellow as that ox-eyed Juno ‘of whom the blind Greck sang. Mr. Garri- gon’s Lady Anna, a tall, black mare of fleet build, fe doing admirably well, and so is Thoroughbred, ‘who belongs to Mr. Smith and is kept in the same stable. She hasa more perfect shape than any other horse on the tarf, and looks now as bright, BU] and lively as if she did not have the t;”? but she is slightly affected. Mr. D.C. Osmond’s Jenny, & dark tnut colored Cana- dian, With a wealth of sha: hair on her neck, and who is out ofsome celebrated stock, has no present gigns of the malady and it is probable that it will Bot trouble her any longer. Mr. Bonner’s stables are still doing well. Peerless and Pocahontas are in excellent health and spirits. The recipe which was ee on Saturday as being recommended by lacked one explanation, which it is now proper to give, as without it anignorant nse of the remedy might lead to dirastrous results, The powder formed by the mixture of tartar emetic and nitre ‘tm the quantities stated is to be divided into twelve | had only one of which is to be given during a AN OLD BACKWOODS REMEDY. An old and curious remedy, used long ago in the backwoods, is that with which Harry Hiil, the well- Known veteran sportstoun, has treated his horses gipce they baad wy Bein abr qj bt has [Sg be sugce 5 hay} placed in a bag and ove | Sen Is poured & guantity ot yine- . Thebag is fastened tot he héadstall of (be fo as to cover his nose and mouth com- Petey, and the aromatic fumes arising from brick penetrate the nostrils and have tie eficct of Racal tia 9 the malaria and soothing the irritated and inflamed membranes of the throat, Moscow, the pretty little roan mare, was sort of medicine and is almost recover she was driven siowly on Sunday ai looked bright and well. Curiosity was also touched with ‘the scourge, but she, with the rest of the stable, is @oing finely. ‘The newest phase of the tribulation of the equine wace is that it has been TRANSMITTED TO HUMAN BEINGS, Rumors of such events are going the rounds of blic discussion. Several men in Brooklyn, who we worked about the sick horses, are said to have the malady, and one gentleman who frequents Jersey Courts has it £o badly that it ie feared it ‘wilt attack the prisoners and thy2 iorestall Jersey fustice. On mules and dogs the infection first began, And, jasi, the vengeful arrows fixed in ma: Pope said that this happened centuries ago, £0 that we are sarcly going k to the primeval ages. Uf this be trne, and the malady is go easily caught, avery Man who has a horse now may find hima Tartar, like that of Mazeppa —— In truth, he was a A Tartar of ihe Ukraii and hence perhaps a different bit of horsefesh Bu than . TUR FATALITY OP THE DISEASE @ shown in the following report, by the police, of Fi | Pent Precinct NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OUTOBER 29, 1872—TRIPLE SHEKT. number of horses that have died since its frst pearance here :— lust Precia Dead horse at Pier No. 3 East River, on of canal ~ horses at No. 4 Desbroxees street ay ; in rear $f | No, 96 Mulberry ” “Bik Brecimer stead ez - hd : me MEE vont far TF ‘eee Frecieet ae in front of No. 44 Wooster Ei Precinet—Dead horses in front of Nos. 946 and iy rd purest, Ro. $3 East Houston street ‘aud No. iat teenth Dead hi No. 225 De- Jancey street, No. Water stree and No. 98 Gheney et. Fourteenth Precinct—Dead horses in stable, corne Prince and Crosby streets perenne horses at No. 1 wi Twenty-fourth strect and No. 900 West Hixteenth street Seventeenth Precinct—Dead horses at No, W2 First avenue. hteenth Precinct—Derd__ horse: Ne st eekresnn Dreeh Dead haes A eat Ne East Eighteenth street, and No. 262 East T-venty- lo. second Nineteenth Precinct—Dend hi Fifty- eighth street, between Third and Lesingisn & ao we 'recinct—Dead horses at 461 West Fortieth Twenty-first Precinct] h East . PA = a ef Dead horses at 325 Thirty- Twenty-second Precinet—Dead horse at 975 Sixth ave- nue, bis West Fifty-sixth street, 519 West Filly sae street aimee gy nied Pee eet Ninety-third ‘thir ‘recinct—Dead it ty street, Between Second and Third, avenu . ses * art wenty-seventh Preeinet— : press stabie, 9 Church strect. verre Sree Twenty-eighth Precinct—Dead horses at 517 Washing- n street, ‘Twenty-ninth Precinet— r eeeniy ninth Procine’ Dead horses at 153 West Thirty. hirty-first Precinet—Dead horse north side of Sixty- seventh street, between Ninth avenue and Boulevard. ‘Thirty-second Previnet—Dead horses at lot bounded by Sixth and Seventh ‘venues apg 1840 and 136th streets. The horses of THE FIRE DEPARTMENT and of the Department of Public Worl all of which are sick, are not improving very rapidly. Ominous predictions are made py some persons that the trouble of the horses will last throughout. the Winter. A disease similar to it exists in Cuba, which, aiter a short duration, turns into running sores outside of the neck over the throat, and can- not be cured in many months. The animals are said to die yery rapidly from this phase of the affiction, PUBLIC FEELING senterads throughout the city was strongly derl- sive of the inhumanity of forcing sick steeds to work, and the petty arrests of cartinen and vend- ers which were Made, while thousands of car horses were tugging their lives away, dragging selfish people behind them, with no remission of their toil, filled minds and hearts with indignation, One poor man_ was brought before tke Justice of the Peace at the Tombs by Mr. Bergh, who, with an air of ry triumph, a saw him duly consigned to acell. But the strect cars rolled —_ incessantly with their pon- derous loads until the horses sometimes gave out from exhaustion and sank by the road side. Two or three such incidents occurred between Harlem and the City Hall yesterday, and were witnessed by hundreds of pitying people who yet were ready enough to ride m the cars when it came to their turn and forgot their humane scrupics in face of the terror of a long walk. Broadway, the Silent Highway. Broadway at Fulton street is usually a danger- ons spot, The jam ot stages, coaches, cabs, drays, Nght wagons, trucks and spring carts, together with the turmoil caused by the confu- ence of the termini of eight or nine street railway companies, renders it a place not of meditation or of prayer. The figures of the big-bodied policemen in blue, who are in- cessantly on the move, lumbering to and fro, here with a timid widow, there with a hoydenish girl in tow, like a small boat hanging from the stern of a sugar lighter; the oaths of the stage drivers, the shouts of colliding cartmen and the infernal din that lasts from eight o'clock of the Morning until six o'clock of the evening, in June and December, when the apple blossoms begin to blow and when the snow covers St. Paul's spire; all this picture is only equalled by one other in the world, and that is the scene on London Bridge dur- ing the same hours of the day, when the traffic goes roaring to and fro between the Middlesex and Sur- Tey banks of the muddy Thames, Broadway is an ocean. All atoms are Jost in its heaving biliows, all individuality is swallowed up in its roaring mouth, Bismarck himself would be stunned by the din. Gravelotte was nothing to it; the wild scream of the breakers on an iron coast is akin to it, The hurlyburly of clerks, of merchants, of draymen, of pediers, of drivers, of politicians and of whiskey bummers goes on like a tide going out tosea. It is repeated day by day, and its re, sistless impetuosity seems eternal. Up town sends forth at early morning all those who have rested over night and who have breakfasted comfortatig-aiter dawn. And those who have not ‘vreakfasted and who have no place to buy their meas over night are compelled to beat the unfeel- ing 8.ones of unpitying Broadway as well. When the lunch hour has passed and when the business of the day is at Its zenith, then comes the greatest rusn of all. ‘The American people are given to hurry and to confusion. At noontide and at eventide Wall street pushes forth its thousands of excited busi- ness men, who dart hither and thither in search of conveyances to carry them to the brownstone fronts up town from whence they came at morning, ‘nis is the every-day picture in Broadway, from morning tall night, din, hurry-scurry and Babel tongues of all nations. Fut now it has changed. ‘The men seem despondent, for horses are scarce and the epizoot has struck business blind and severed its arteries. It is motionless, dumb, para- lyzed, and the shock which it has received is greater than can be seen on the surface, Instead of the great jam at Fulton and Wall and Cortlandt streets, which always is to be seen at those points, there seems to an ominous quiet. The policemen have not used their whistles to urge drivers for neari: @ week. The driver finds space on all sides. He js not urged on either side. He does not find a pole sticking in him from behind, nox a load of hay or brooms threatening to topple over on nis head, on his right, nor a hogs- head of sugar ready to roll off adray in front and smash his horses’ legs to jelly. The writer, at Spring street yesterday, walted for fifteen minutes, by the clock in ‘Tiffany’s old bullding, and but elghteen vehicles pass, five ing ep por stages. Partofthese eighteen were going up, part of them were going down Broadway, Usually a couple of hundrea vehicles woula pass at this given point during the same time, and from the nostrils of seventeen of these horses these flecks of foam depended, show- ing the agopies they were suffering. The police- men of the Broadway squad, under the command of Tony Allaire, were visibly affected with the epi- zoot. ‘This word, be it known, has passed into the vocabulary of Americanisms. ‘The policeman wore a sad expression, but had no discha and needed no mustard embrocation to his chest, At Canal street the cars were stopped, and those who waited for transportation waited in vain. The intersection of this street with Broadway seemed completely clear. Any part of Sixth avenue, below Thirty-fourth street, is generally more crowded than was Broadway yesterday at Canal street. Every horse that passed looked wan and hectic, and jean as Don Quixote. They also moved at a funeral pace—the horses’ heads downwards—and when the r animals came to a slippery place they stumbled and sjid as if they were about todrop | on the cruel stones, The wide, oper: space around the statue of Wash- ington, at tnion square, looked as if it were a de- serted platz in a third rate German city. The cal mien at the usual stand were conspicuous by their absence. A few were standing around, but their horses would have been glad had they been placed in their little beds. Around Madison equare and in the vicinity of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the Hoff- man House the politicians had great dificulty in getting a cab to take them on their errands of in- trigue, and at Thirty-foarth street the lookout was yery dismal jor man and beast. Here and there a stage or a dray crawling | along, the driver disheartened and the horses | dying by inches, Where are now the ents of the piilantbropioal philozooist, Bergh, and where are is efticient mouchards’ They are like the cabmen, conspicuous by their absence, it would seem. Broadway is like @ deserted street, and if some- thing of a remedia) nature does not soon transpire grass may yet grow in the streets, and the marble ples of Broadway may become tenantless, like the palaces of Tyre and Sidon, Along the Docks. Down town in the narrow streets bordering on river's biink the scene is most appalling. Walk- ing from the South ferry, which has almost a de- serted appearance, round South sireet by that | elbow of the East River known as Coenties slip and up as far as Pike strect, the change noticeable in the trafic was wonderful to behold, There were not even horses to load and unload cargoes from the vessels to the dock or from the dock to the vessels. ‘The large piles of merchandise that are usually to be seen on the sidewalks, and which block them up and impede pedestrianism, were not visihie to any one that had eyes. The little narrow courts leading off South strect, which are usually choked with trucks, were clear to al corners, and the docks . themselves were blank and dismal. In conversation with many downtown merchants our reporter ascertained that business had come toa bag ti standstill, and that it was impossible to get truckmen, as their horses were either sick or dying, and those who horses, for which they had puid from two hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars apiece, refused to imperil their safety unless such © large compensation was given them per load as =6would = place the merchant's profits on gross amount to a merely nominal figure. One four merchant told the re- Dorter that le had an order to pend 3,000 barrels oF col remov with overwork. At the Jower wher toe is usually unde ot wig 54 Havas Sitak anchor to les of cotton, are sold by auction In & closed alto- trade haa nearly traders are end of Wa! hed 5 Dry ecens, and dolfara’ Warch bt @ thousand ba! few momen ther, to appear in seyeral.of these hardy and healthy animals were to be seen yesterday yoked together and drawing pees loads, Lrwewiie | like giants. Thousands of raught oxen could find employment at this moment, if some large stock raiser would only send them into the city and sell them even at advanced prices, The epizoot make all mankind akin, it is evident, Car Stage Stables. BLEECKER STREET RAILROAD STABLES. The foreman of these stables ig a middle-aged man, & native of New Jersey, who has been all his life in care of horses. He knows little of, and cares leas for the precepts of the schools, He has not lost ahorse during the prevalence of the epizootic. This fact—considering another, that the stock were in very bad condition, and the stables are merely shanties, and the worstin the city—speaks vol- umes for his good sense and discretion. He gives little medicine, but plenty of bran in their eut feed, and bathes their throata frequently with liniment. The only medicine administered in the feed is nitre. The horses were better yesterday than any day previous. The stable doors have been Kept open and all the ventilation possible given to the animals. Every horse used previous to the attack has been used since it appeared, There are 400 horses, but some of the number have been lamed, The company run forty cars, with an appor- tionment of sixteen horses to two cars, BELT LINE RAILROAD STABLES. At the foot of Forfy-second street, North River, are the Belt Line stables. The foreman, as usual, is missing when inquiries are made. There are 450 horses in these stables, and 200 are sick from the epizootic. Eight of these are lying on their sides— one of them, apparently dead when the HERALD re- porter first entered, is panting and gasping when he leaves, They are all forced to perform their alj lotted task. No information could be obtained as to the course of treatment adopted at these stables, NINTH AVENUE RAILROAD STABLES, At the Ninth avenue the entire number of horses (925) are now on the sick list, though only 260 are in the hospital. One died this morning. The foreman says they are better to-day, on ac- count of the clear weather; but also states that in his opinion they shonid take of! all the horses till the epidemic has lost its violence, He thinks now—-though he did not on Saturday night—that all the companics would have saved money had they ceased operations when the plague first bean its ravages, Haif the number of cars only was running on this road yesterday. TENTH AVENUE RAILROAD S'ABLES, Of the 207 horses in these stables, all of them suf- fering from the epizootic, none have died, ‘the treatment is eclectic. Those most dangerous here- tofure are now getting better. ‘The remedies include tar water, fumigation with tar and the ad- ministration of nitre. The twenty cars on this line run over four and one-half miles ol road when in operation; but no cars have been run since Sat- urday night. The foreman says ‘if people will have mercy on the dumb beasts the disease will be eradicated.”” He says he has been a stable boss for twenty-eight years, and remembers everything from the time of the “black plague,” yet nothing to equal this in extent and virulence. EIGHTH AVENUE RAILROAD STABLE. The condition of the horses here is unchanged. One only has died, though cight were reported in @ dangerous condition on Saturday night, Seven trips only are run, and half the horses are not worked, ‘The cars will run only seven trips to-day. SEVENTH AVENUE RAILROAN STABLES. Mr. Forshay, President of this company, states that only forty cars are running on Broadway and twenty on Seventh avenue, ‘The same gentleman says that positively all the cars will be stopped to- day. He has not seen the directors. ‘The have made themselves scarce of late. Most of the horses in each gang are reported by the stablemen as eating at least two-thirds their usual allowance. SIXTH AVENUE RAILROAD STABLE3, Half the cars on the Vesey street line, and half these running to Broadway and Canal strect were running yesterday. ‘The directors have not decided whether or not to run to-day. One horse dicd night, and the stock is grad- growing weaker. Mr. Bidgood says that neither this company nor any otter can continue to fun a’ few cars with & decreased number of herses longer. Those who would ride on five cars will crowd upon four, and the horses used being all sick will suffer from er Sunday ually more than those in the stable will gain fom ~ loads rest. Thus the only remedy is rest for all ailkes THE TWENTY-TAIRD STREET STAGE STABLES, are in the same condition as they were yesterday and Saturday. The care taken of the horses has told in favor of the owners as well as the animals, and this Ime may be expeeted to resume business in a day or two with full forces. FOURTH AVENUE STAGE STABLES are running thirty-eight in place of filty stages. The stock is in the same condition as yesterday, FOURTH AVENUE CAR STABLES, This line rans now only ten cars, making only five trips each. There have been no deaths at this stable, and the horses are in about the same con- dition as yesterday. They expect to draw off thar cars, not because they are obliged to, but because they think it politic. MADISON AVENUE STAGE STABLE. Forty-five of the eee stages in this line are running six trips per day in place of scven as here- eeere: Two horses are expected to die in these stables, FIFTH AVENUE STAGE STABLES. There are only thirty-five out of the sixty-five stages of this line running. They make six trips instead of the seven heretofore run, The average condition of the stock is precisely the same as in yesterday's report. THIRD AVENUE RAILROAD STABLES. Half the cars were yesterday removed by this line from the streets, Two horses died since ten o’clock on Sunday night. They anticipate no further spread Of the discase and that it will not become more virulent or result in more deaths. SECOND AVENUE RAILROAD STABLTS. The condition of the horses in these stables is im- proved since yesterday. They are running filty Jess trips than usual. EQUINE INFLUBNZA IN BROOKLYN. lnc ath Tne news from the sick stables of the Charchly City yesterday was by no means of a.nature calcu- lated to encourage the hope that any immediate improvement in the condition of the ill-fated beasts of burden was to be expected. The “bark” of the horses was constant, and the nause- ating symptoms of the distemper proved in many instances terrible, indeed, for even the hardiest of stablemen to en- dure. Death made his advent in several stables, relieving fifteen stalis of their poor suffer- ing occupants. Ere these lines are in type, many othere horses will have passed off into oblivion and down the Bay to the rendering establishment on Barren Island, It is safe to say out of the 12,000 horses in the city of Brooklyn there is not a single one that has not been attacked in some degree by the “curse of Canada,” as the influenza is fre- quentiy termed. ‘it’s just like what we would get trom Canada,” exclaimed a Celtic truckman, who stood idle in consequence of the sickness of his beast; ‘we never did get anything that was good from that side. Now they send their cursed dis- temper, depriving us of our horses.’ ORURLTY TO ANIMALS. The horses run on Sunday by the Brooklyn City Railroad Company at long intervals sufered more intensely than if the trips were regular. ‘They were compelled to carry great loads, winle their panting breasts, drooping heads, foaming months, watery eyes, trembling limbs and running nostrils all proclaimed the heartlessness and brutality of the mcn who could thus mercilessly drag to death weir suffering beasts. In very many instances humane people walked jong distances rather than add tothe burden of these car horses by their weight. The Fifth avenue road made their usual number of trips yesterday. ‘This line did not run a singie car the day pre. vious. The De Kalb avenne road was in operation yesterday, the horses having enjoyed rest on the Sabbath. On the Court street, Flatbush, Fulton avenue, Coney Island, Nostrand avenue, Myrtle avenue, Greeipoint gnd other routes the edie Were Yun at about ten minutes’ interval, THE STREETS PRESENTED A DESERTED APPEARANCE. As far asthe eye could reach sometimes nota horse could be seen. Go-carts and ‘shanks’ mare’’ were, however, in the greatest demand. Grocers, butchers, milkmen and all. other tradespeople were compelied to bear their own wares, ‘Tis will have an excellent effect in teaching these people to better appreciate the substantial assistance derived from the horse. They will in the future be, as it were, better equine economists. People are be- ginning to seriously question whether they, too, are not more or less affected by tuis distemper, Colds in the head and feverishness are very gen- eral, and there are thousands now playing the light catarrh. Sore threats, too, are self-solicitous. revalent, and the sick are growin, Reveral coal dealers have taken advantage of the searcity of horses and have, raised the price of their coal $1 perton, The stopped runping on all the lines at sexe oO’ glock last night. EFFECTS 61 ALADY 1N WILLIAMSBURG. The citizens of Williamebarg did not fally realize the disadvantages attending the malady until yes- terday, Hourly trips only were made on the lead- ing railroad lines during the day, and after six o’clock in the evening travel was entirely eus- Beane, The Southside Railroad Company's pot, foot of South Eighth street, en- cumbered with goods that cannot be deivered, 8 all the company’s express horses ave unit for service and no-others can be obtained. Merchants refused to take orders that coukl not be by pon ge ocery men and butchers re with the essentiais dinner until the dinner hour had expired. 4 nigg. payed. thelr usual receipts from hicles, and the S#tli< Sect ye pre the on appearance, Up to exc’ 2. M; Only three fa cases had been Feported. ao EQUINE MORTALITY IN WESTCHESTER, Sclivered failed to a good There seems to be no abatement of the horse pes- tilence throughout Westchester county, where the disease, is many places, is assuming @ virulent form. Im Morrisania a brewer's horse died om Sunday evening, having been taken with the prevailing malady only two days previously. Another valuable animal suc- cumbed to the epizooty at the same place yester- day. The cont jon has now reached White Plains, where the owners of livery stables have, im some instances, almost their entire stock rostrated. Sg spies Nig ee lave broken out al Fleetwood Park, where some flity per cent of the trotting stock now in the stables are reported to be affected with the initial same tomne Of the disease, Tie Mexican mus- tanga, brought last week for exhibition cn whe mae are ajso said to be affected with the mi l. EQUINE INFLUENZA IN NEWARK, + ‘The disease is slowly spreading, althouch as yet no fatal cases are reported, and many of those horses first attacked are now recovering. The streets yesterday looked quite deserted, the local trafic being thinned out visibly. A few horse cars were run, One surgeon is treating 250 cases, There are, altogether, prostrated in Newark about one thou- sand horses. In Orange the disease 18 also spread- ing bs 9 Tapidity, though no fatal cases are reported, A boat has commenced running from Newark to New York to accommodate mei chants, THE HIPPOZYHOSIS ELSEWHERE. pM EE SYS At Albany and West Troy. ALBANY, Oct. 28, 1872. ‘The horse disease is on the increase here. The American Merchants’ Union Express Company have notified the public that they cannot call for goods, ana that delivery will be irregular and un- certain. The horses attached to the Fire Depart- ment are also avected. In some of the livery stables all the horses are prostrated, The strect, cars have been reduced to one on some of the routes; and cn one route all the horses have been withdrawn, ‘The Watervliet Turnpike Railroad Company’s horses, 125 in number, are all sick. ae epidemic is also largely prevalent in West ‘Troy. Towing Stock Affected at Oswego. Osweao, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1872, All the horses in the towing companics’ stables are aflected with the distemper, and rates for tow- ing bave advanced ten centa per mile. Boats that were loaded on Saturday had not left here up to this morning. The weather to-day is pleasant. Buffalo Almost Free of the Epizootic, BurFAla, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1872, ‘The horse disease has so far abated that to-day the streets have assumed their usual business ap- pearance. The weather is clear and bracing. The street cars have resumed regular trips, and the thorough{ares are alive with teams on ordinary business. Abating in Rochester, RocueEsrsEr, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1872, This is the eleventh day of the horse discase in this city. Ninety-five per cent of all the horses are affected. A few have recovered, and less than a dozen have died. A rain storm of three days’ dura- tion increased the violence of the disease, but the fair and cool weather of to-day has improved the prospect. About one-third of the canal horses are Suilering, and a few boats are detained. All the fire department horses are sick, and the steamers are run by hand, One of the horses died op Satur- day night, Horse Cars and Stages Stopped in Water- town. WATERTOWN, Oct, 28, 1872. The horse disease is rapidiy spreading in this locality, In some of the livery stables every horse is sick, The stages on some of the routes have stopped running to-day. Diseased Horses Dead at Lockport. Locaporr, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1872. Six horses have dicd here of the horse disease and other fatal cases are feared. The Discase Extended to Binghamtcn, BincuamTon, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1872. The horse disease has reached here, A few cases have occurred, and two or three express wagons have been taken off, A Few Casces in Paterson. Paterson, N. J., Oct. 28, 1872. The horse disease has broken out in this city. So far only about twenty cases are reported, and the horse railroads and express lines have suffered no inconvenience. Large quantities of freight are accumulating along the Erie Railway on account of the want of norses to remove treight in New York, uF The Disease Reached the Quaker City. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28, 1872, ‘The horse disease broke out here to-day. Twenty cases are reported at Frea’s stable, in Cherry street, below Fifth avenne; eleven cases in the ad- joining stable and five horses belonging to Francis D. Kramer & Co, are affected. Simple remedies are veing applied. All the horses have heavy coughs; swoilen and bloodshot eyes, accompanied by swell- ing in the throat. Four cases are reported in one of the railway stables, Twenty-five cases are re- ported in Camden and several im Chester county. An Alarm Occasionced in Washington. WASHINGTON, D. O., Oct, 28, 1872, The fact that several horses afflicted with the prevailing disease have been hurried hither from the North produces alarm lest it may be communi- cated to horses generally in this section. No other cases, however, have been reported. All the Horse: ick im Norwich, Conn. Norwics, Conn., Oct. 28, 1872. Nearly all the horses in this city are disabled. The street cars have stopped running, the trans- portation of freight has almost entirely ceased and the Express Company's carts are drawn by hand. The few horses on the streets arc, without excep- tion, affected. The Disease Spreading in Rhode Istand. _ ProvipEnce, R. I., Oct. 28, 1872, The horse disease has become almost universally prevalent here, probably not one-quarter of the horses being tree from symptoms of the disease. A few cases have resulted fptally. Animals slightly ailing are worked moderately, thus preventing the suspension of trafic. All the Fire Department horses are sick, A Serious Condition of Affairs in Boston. Boston, Mass., Oct. 28, 1872, A mecting of the boot and shoe dealers was held at the Shoe and Leather Exchange this morning to confer as to the necessary steps for the delivery and receipt of goods during the prevalence of the horse epidemic. Satisfactory assurances were given that the needed means of transportation jad been secured. With better weather to-day @ number of horse teams have been brought out. A large number of oxen from the country have been engaged by the trade, and the merchants and their clerks will furnish what man power will be needed to supplement these. travel on the Metropolitan route was partially re- sumed this orp. four horses being put to each car and making a Iimited number of trips. Some of the South ton cars are being drawn by con- ductors and drivers of the company, The fare charged was twenty-five cents, amd the car was well patronized, Hangor, Me., Visited. Banaor, Oct. 28, 1872, The horse disease is spreading rapidly, and the larger proportion of all the horses in the city are more or less affected. EXCITING FOOT RAOB IN TRENTON. The announcement that a foot race would come off at Quintin’s racing track, East Trenton, on yes- terday afternoon, between two well-known pedes- trian celebrities, had the effect of attracting a large crowd of sports thither to witness the contest. Among them were noticed some of the most prominent betting men of Phila- delphia, Now York and Newark, and a gay sprink- ling of the sporting fraternity of Rhode Isiand and Horse car Connecticut. The race, wi en was for $500, and ib, did not the distance 100 yard Reka ane ae racing attire at the a fal stare, 4g got h @ little Ahead, but he finally gave way to ‘who won by two feet after a ver: a favor of Mi aL ing contest. The betting was all in ton, who was the favorite, the odds of ten to séVél being laid on him. A considerable amount of money cha hands. E. D. Moulton, the winner, belongs to Philadelptia, while bis defeated com- petitor baile frem Newark. THE JERSEY BANK ROBBERY McWilliams and Doyle in Their Quwn Defence. a The Chief Recltes the Story of His Escape and Wanderings. A Gentle Admonition to the Press. Guy SABE PROCTOR IN COURT AGAIN. The Long-Looked For Letter Read in Court. “GOODBY, FCLICE DEPARTMENT!” Tampering with the Jurors—The Attorney Gen- eral Offers Proof—Address of the District At- _ torney—The Grand Tournament To-Day. The trial of Chief McWilliams and Detective Doyle was resumed at Jersey City yesterday. ‘The cross-examination of the Chief was contin- ued, as follows :— Know a man named Saunders; he keeps a lager beer saloon in North Bergen; have had a conversation wath him about this trial; he came to me and said he had grcat many friends on this jury; ho spoke to me about it on Thursday or Saturday ; lie did not suggest any name to me; don't know whether he called on any of the juror @espatch shown). this Gespatch: js in my handwriting; it Was sent toa man named Haley, who irequents a gam- bling house in West Houston sireet; don't know who keeps the house. The despatch was read, as follows :— “Jersty City, Sept I, 1872, “Joun Hauey, 11 West Houston street, New York “Mlect mo at Taylor's ac eiht to-night, arti) Te MewILLIAMS.” ht t WARD Evidence continued :—laley is a professional ‘gambler that house ig the-resort of ail the thieves in the country } on the morning that, Doyle called on Mrs. Devereux she gave him a letter to Wintleid; told Doyle she was a bad he should have nothing tod fo with her Twent il three times; went one day toree Buinsted and the burglars; Tsaw Denning and told him it he had done ashe promised he would not have been there; by this T meantthe promise he hed made me at the ferry to clear cut of the citv; he wanted me to tell Barney Aaron to cone and see him; this was on the first Sunday After they were confined; Mrs. Devereux said that Cum- min in Dreaking into the First National aped_on the night the thieves were ike Murray one night at the corner of Broadway ; he REPS A GAMBLING NOUSE near that place; he wanted me to jump my ball, and I sald would rot'in State Prigon, bofore 1 would cheat my bondsmen out of adoMar; at the time I saw Di ning in Jersey City last April be told me he lived in Jersey City, and T warned him not to do any work over here; 1 kncw at that time he was suspected of complicity in the Nathan murder, did not know whether he was connected with ‘THK SCHULER DIAMOND ROBBERY ; saw him often in company with thieves, and I think I saw his name in one oi the papers. 'Q. Did you not think it was yi he lived in Jersey City? A. No; could find out. Q. Is it posstide thata notorious public character of that kind can come in and out and his whereabouts not be dis- covered by the police? A. Well, I don’t suppose any man in Jersey City xuw that man til he was arrested; I was rotty familiar with the arrangement of the houie ad- joining the bank; 1 used to go into Mrs. Beemer’s to see her daughter and anotier young lady who visited them; Twas under the impression that the bank could uot be broken into, because A NOTORIOUS BANK ROBBER, named Charley Adams, who was in Jersey City about Jour years ago told me £0; he said it was one of the safest be ‘8 in the countr; @ bought the place known as the Grinnell House, corncr of Warren and Grand strects. Q. Did you béliove the testimony of a bank robber like that on the question of the safety ‘of a bank? A. Well, did not pay mueh attention to if, for he was uot talking exactly to me at the time; got information of MR. SANDFORD'S DESPATCH in Philadelphia between five and six o'clock In the after- noon; Warren sent a despatch to Edmondson, telling him to have me come home nnnediately; did not get infor- mation of that till two o'clock on the following day; the burglars had been arrested in the meantime. Q. Did you over tell any of the police to ook out for Denving aiter you saw him near the ferry? A. 1 spoke only to Doyle, telling him to look out for him; I gave him a deseription of the man. Did Doyle ever anty to find ont where i don't know how I report? A. He said he never met him; the engagement that I had in. PI prevented me from coming back when I heard M ‘sill’s despatch was that I was to take a ride 0 Park next day; 1 was also to go to the wigwa with Silvey to tho house of Mrs. Potts, on detween Arch and Market streets, about cle the forenoon ot the Sth of October; stayed the: four in the alternoon ; spent my time playing Mis, Bllvey two other ladies; I bave an ebjéclion (0 tell the names of those ladies,’ for I don’t want their ea sent all over the country; cannot tell whevier it by the Hudson River or by the Harlem Railroad; ¥ went to Albany after my RAOAPE FROM THE DEPUTY SHERIF: left Jersey City by crossing over the Pavonia ferry : Thad read in the papers that evening that Doyle was drresied, d It occurred to me that I would be arrested too; I se about devising means of escape, for I made mind 1 would not be locked up that night; thought of Jumping on the train at the depot; the officer arrested me on Washington street; after he ar. rested me it struck me that he had no right to do so; afer getting away from him In Cooper Hall 1 went up to Jer- ‘avenue, crossed the Pavonia ferry, went up to, Four t h street and Broadway, where I hired a carriage to take me to the Forty-second street depot; I made a call between the ferry and Fourteenth street; ticket for Toronto by way of Niagara, when I got.as iur as Burling. took up & paper and saw areport that I had wed my mind and uded to Ko on to At thé Tremont House : sent a despatch reply telling me to come back; I came nam was my first E i, ‘g. Did you tell any officers of the bank that you did not know any of the © burglars? A. I said 1did notknow Proctor or F Se ‘0! ‘Who told you that these men complaineg abont your | He A. Mr. Winileld puting f00 stiict.& watch over them DEFECTIVE FARRELLY AND CAPTAIN 1 my object in going to Montreal was ‘o see @ man naincd Hopkins, who is on bad terms with Denning, and Lw:nted to get soine Information trom him as to whether Denning had anything to do with 000; got the intormation regardivig Hopkins from a of $40,000; got the informa: jopkins from sr oetaes Seok, Who Keeps © pince. near Jeflerson Scott was'iormerly a detective in the Third pre- cinet, New York; I had no evil intention in going away ; Would not do such a th . Q. Give us an explan ne DI A. A man lost his wate! it; I de- he name t' to ex. pose him, but I have no objection to wriie his name jor the information of the Attorney General. COMMENTS BY THE PRESS. At this stage counsel for the defence drew their heads closely Cie and perused eagerly the re- wtof the trialin Sunday’s Heratp. They then eld a consultation, and Mr. iamson arose and addressed the Court as follows :—-. May it please the Court, there is one matter 1 would like to speak of before we proceed any further, anc that isthe manner in which ‘these proceedings are’ reported 01 re of the man ag I do not we for the press. in my hand @ paper which contains an objectionable paragraph, and I desire the Court to read ft. Lhave no desire to censure any of the gentlemen present, but simply to point out the impropriety of such remarks. ANY COMMENT, SUGGESTION OR OBSERVATION gn the conduet of counsel in the cage is highly improper. There are certainly some remarks in Now York papers that ought not to have been made. Twill not read the paragraph complained of, but will hand it to the Court. The paragraph complained ofreferred to the sud- den disappearance of Mrs. Devereux, and counsel took particular exception to the query, “Was she spirited away ?”” Jus Depue—The Court made some remarks about this matter on the first day of this trial, i PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE to publish a fair report 01 the proceedings, and the Court do not desire to exercise any restriction in this matter. The Court hope that there will be no further occasion for reference to this subject. They have no doubt that the paragraph complained of was the result of inadvertence. DISTRICT ATTORNEY GARRETSON (addressing counsel for the defence) Why don’t you show the report of the first day’s proceedings in the ——? We have had much greater reason to complain of that. ‘The sheet complained of by the District Attorney is the organ of the Jersey City Ring, DETECTIVE DOYLE ON THE STAND. John Doyle, on taking the stand, AI nine years old; was born in the police in 1461 as patrolman; eight years; was sergeant atrolinan seven or ant im udson River police for years; Was detective about eighteen months resent department; know Denning Proctor yy sight; never saw them before they were never met Denning by night in Jersey City to talk with him; never told the Chief I met him; did not meet Denning between the 12th and last of ay last; was sick at that time with smallpox about three weeks; on the night of the arrest Twas in several places; went home avout eleven o'clock ; was in Lange’s saloon 'that night; Was there between’ nine and ten o'clock; went there from the station house; was in the latter place at roll call; was in Lange's about five went to Cooper's Hall; then to Melaughlin's oyster saloon the avenue; diin’t see Denning that night, or Mr. Saudford either, ¢ despatch to Abern was shown to witness, wh said :—Thi A otmy handwriting, and } received thet ans er a ); the Chief told me to send the despatch ; was intre ye to Ahern rr or fen months ago; did not ‘NM r locked be AF see him day whenT sent the despatch t know whethe: xpected a despate! he letter addressed to Denning, and saying Mose is going to act wrong, was tome by Mrs, Devereux; I received it jn her parior ‘ork; put itin my pocket; sho asked me to give ‘infleld to send into the jail; received an envelope from Winfield ; gave it to Mra. Devereux on the cross- walk in the court yard on the Friday morning atter ; did not see the comtents of the letter; vever read it; Mrs Deve- reux never told me its conients; never saw it before; was over to Mrs. Devercux's house ; the Chief sent me over; me the order on Wednesday night, before T went over; he wild me she was to (elf letter where Cummings was; in the penk robbery; test for New ork W0) loc) or a ‘Vhat halt tes Same; the did. ot, 100k. Hk re inj she said yes: went Pebt up stairs and came down with ® i aD: magsage t ar Sol but that Devereux was | ‘The State would 3 taking a bath; she came down in asked me to come up stairs, where no one could hear our conver. 0 a bedroom; she sald « lettor wasto come fram the jail c acd news of Cummings, | had not yet arrived it d mae ome xe aise theres ief sent me this wasin a front room; I over * asked me if the f did not put up this job; I answered no, RE was m 37, he was as tric as steel to ‘ue bank folks and would not da anything of that kind; she said this was her brother’ first offence and she was ver sorry; don’: think she anything about me being in fhe fot ‘Chief told me to te her if she got an order from her brother she could get the furoiture ptured with her brother and two Sara unks 5 said she wanted the tools too; told her she Lond Dok get them; did not say anythin: about any amount of inoney the Ohief was to get; heard MeDon- ough’s testimony; ‘tin the room over ten minutes; she said she w: showed me ti 3 had it lon't Know the name of the Snstrumen ¢ to look at the flowers on - iow sill; the took @ gla: of brandy; + ‘she coul 3; asked m a down stairs into the parlor; inthe ei Seer eane HH on the table I think; di or trouse aa stayed down stairs about five minutes: fixed up and we went out together; wi seve enth avenue: was not in Broadway with hers parted n¢ Frank” MeDonoush, ‘of Hoboken, ‘ha Donough, of Hoboken, ‘hav him,” but “hee didwt look ke, the. man T ascd: to Know; have talked with the burglars since the Rave been jn jail; with Denning and Proctor: aske them who th ‘th man in the robbery wa: he eonnin, Jaid on the bed in his cell with a newspaper over his facey and would not talk to me; never spoke to him before: did not give him any handcni keys; never talked wit any of them about 4 means of escape for them; tiever, talked to Foley in jail; had no more than one talk witht! Denning; never spoke to any of them about any koys never told the Cher that before their arrest knew the men; never reported to him that an attempt way to be’ made on the bank; didn’t know anything about it; was never tokl by the Chiet to goto New York and tell’ Den- ning the Chief wanted to see him. Cross-examined by the Attorney Gencral—Vhis Is my, memorandum book ; that despateh is in my handwriting { don’t know the “rank” mentioned in the nemorandum ok. Q. Look at it and tell us to whom that Frank refers. Do You know Frank Glover?) Ae Yes, but f dou't understand fo Whom this Frank alludes: (pausing thoughtfully) itis memorandum about something or other. Q. What was the object, of your asking Ahern to an- swer?_ A. (Along pause.) Can’t tell; don’t recollect now; don’t remember what object I had in placing this address ‘on the despatch. Inspector Dickson testified in regard to the visits’ of Mrs, Devereux to the station house. Mr. Hoffman, who was counsel for Proctor at the late trial, testifed that Ahern and another man, whose name he thinks was Swayne, calied on him,; in order to procure an examination for the burglaré aiter their commitment, Mr. Winfleld also testified in regard to his cone versations with Proctor in the jail and which relate® to the trial of the burglars, Police sergeant McKeag deposed that when Chief, McWilliams catne back from Philadelphia he shoo hands with him and congratulated him on the ood job the police had done in overhauling the rerun: “For,” said he, “if they had burst thas wank, GOODBY, POLICE DEPARTMENT.” Richard J. baile tostified. that—he visited Doyle’ while the latter was coniined to the house vy smail- pox, about the jatter end of May or the beginning of June. Dr. Lutkins testified that he paid two visits to Doyle, who hat a very light case of smalipox; the last visit was on the 15th of May, and he told the patient to stay In the house two weeks, On cross- examination he stated that he did not know! whether Doyie remained in the house as directed 3) he ordered hin to remain in the house not on ac-; count of any danger to himself, but for fear he should infect other persons, The defence rested their case. THAT IMPORTANT LETLER ADMIPTRD. The Attorney General then had Proctor placeaf on the stand. He was told to read to himself @ letter purporting to be & copy of one written by) him to his sister and see if it were a correct copy. Proctor, after his handcufs were removed, took hi seat with the utmost coolness, looked at the ra and the lawyers, and then surveying the crowde court room compoeed himself as ii he were the onl tenant within the walls, ¥ ing the letter his broad, massive brow ex torted the admiration of hundreds, many | whom involunturily exclaimed, “What @ pity such a@ man should be consigned to the abode of th most degraded wretches!” He replied clearly that the copy was correct in substance and that the Tecumseh referred to was Chief McWilliams, “M. 8.’? referred to Marshall Cassell, an attorney-at-law, and he declined to state what individual was protected by the mystical letters “H—e.” The Court having heard the evidence establishing the correctness of the copy, ordered the letter te ba. read, Itis as follows:— You had scarcely got down to the Sis, when Iwas told that Mra. J Mr. Winfield bat told her that he, Windell, h drawn from our case, assigning as a’ reason tor his doing so that ho hal received too litt'e moncy to inake it au object for lum to continue in the case. 1 think you had better see hin in nee to the as: nit he made any threa hdrawal. pel, it necessary, | the ease, and w ile he was read has made a yer-like thr Mat we ave apprised of it, For Don’t mention the souree from which you obtaned your information, us ght curtail, i eniirely eut offy t ot ¥. r ing fi el! My. 8. that he will in the 10 m1 ng alone than by molesting him, See Mr, Winteld 6 form me of what 3 J, PROCTOR, source. more by letting littie H Tell him J will Hx all that when out. Your way betore Tuesday, 20 as to It CHARLI he rumor amounts to, Faipay Evening. y asions in Chicago; that in habit of «peakin us sionals and hard case when anybody asks him about us. OMicer Jtomaine hag quarrelled with nd Mrs, Jones, and 1 believe Ro- maine will | ve and another man be put im his y puta right m Ber et the note see y be verified. wit ‘Bring Mrs. it he is back. Mrs. Devennvx, 212 West Forty-third street, New York. Sarurpay MORNING, TAMPERING WITH THE JURORS. The Attorney General asked to lave the mag Saunders, referred to in McWilliams’ testimony, placed on the stand, Since the case for the Sta ‘was closed the counsel for the State received m- formation that an attempt had been mare to influ- ence a juror in behaif of the defendants, and this, he contended, was ANOTHER PROOF OF GUILT, connect McWilliams with thif Man Saunders on McWilliams’ own testimony. Mr. Williaineon objected streuuousty to the intros duction of this evidence us an aitempt to frighten the jury into a verdict. The Court decided that this evidence came under the rule of original matter and would therejore be excluded, District Attorney Garretson then arose ani spoke to evidence tor the State. In the course his address he laid great stress on the remarkable words of Chief McWilliams, “If they had burst th: bank spotty Police Department.” He could noé mean that the whole police force would be dis- banded, but that he would himseif go into some other business. The speaker had spoken about one hour when he was interrupted by the adjournment. He will resume hig address this morning. ‘To-day will be the great day of the trial. The Attorne General will measure a lance with the ex-Chancel- lor, and where steel clashes with steel some BRILLIANT PLASHES will assuredly follow. Fach knows and estimates the power of his rival, and it 18 satixfactory to the public to know that the interests of the State and of the accused in this most extraordinary case are entrusted to such hands, Pubiic interest im the War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIKF SIGNAL OFFICE! WasulneTton, D. C., Oct. 20—1 A. M. Synopsis sor the Past Iwenty-jour Hours, The barometer has continued to rise on the Lowe® Lakes and in all the Atlantic States, with northerly to easterly winds and generally clear weather. In the Gulf States northeasterly to southerly winds and partly cloudy weather; from Michigan to Kentucky and thence northwesterly to Wisconsin and Jowa southerly to easterly winds and generally tair weather. High soutieast winds, cloudy weather and low barometer are re- ported from the Northwest. Auroras are visible at Milwaukee and Rochester, Pronapilities, For the Lower Lakes, and thence over New Enge land and the Middie and South Atlantic States, high barometers, northeriy to easteriy winds and partly cloudy but generally clear weather: on the Gulf southeasterly winds and cloudy weather; in the Northwest low barometers, brisk nort jterly to southeasterly Winds and tireateniig ther, @x- tending to Lakes Superior and Michiga; d to the Lower Ohio valiey, with Jight southeasterly winds, Warning signals remain at Duluth, and ard ordered for Chicago, Milwaukee and Grand Haven, The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature jor the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Uudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 18th, 1872, 1871, 1872, 68 O88 49 «3:30 P. M. 47. 6PM 8 60 47 9 PM. 40 4 WPM 45 ge perature yesterday. 50% Average temperature for correspond @last year, ans 49 A FREIGHT TRAIN RUNNING INTO A RIVER. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1872 A freight train on the Pittsburg, Cincinuatt and St. Louis Railroad ran off the track into the Stillk water River, near Covington, Ohio, yesterday, kin ing & brakeman named john’ Thompson, uu injure ing (he engineer and