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4 endeavored to make them useful by way of an | enema, Dut With Do better success, Subsequently e tried to inject the remedy into the sys! by an endermical application. At ali these triais the pazieut was thrown into such violent paroxysms of choking that the strength of four strong men was all too little to restrain him. Dur- ing all the time the secretion of salv was enormous, and the patient would spit it across the room in streams with the jorce of an | engine. He was conscious and had full possession | Oi his mental faculties, so that he airected the ar- | rapgement of his affairs. His tamily were all suminoped, I wished to bring other physicians, | but he had the extremest horror of being made a spectacie, 80 BO Other doctor was calle - 4 | my friend Dr. Creamer, whom I brouglt. » | Butler wrote me @ request to give Im relief even by d-ath. He periectly understood his condition | and ali he attempted to do. Dr. Creamer sug- gested that he had seen it stated bathing waa used With benedt in Russia in this disease. But how could we put him to a bath when the sight or men- tion of water threw him into spasms ?”" RerorTeR—I have lately seen an offer by a New Yorker to absuiutely cure every case of hydro- phobia gratuitously, no matter ia what desperate stage, if he should be given entire charge of the case. DocroR—That was, of course, intended as an ad: | vertisement. The true philanthropist who kuew a | cure jor hydrophobia would at once publish it fuily, 80 a& to give tre world its benefit. Our | profession has no secrets. 1t would be criminal to withnoid such knowledge from the community and | thus preveut the saving of life, INOCULATION BY CATS. Is there s malady, communicable to human be- | neporren—There have been statements of hydro- | ~HYDROPHOBIA. Scientific Views of Professor | Butler’s Death. POISON OR IMAGINATION ?| ‘The Great Dog Fancier’s Opinion | Five Years Ago. DR CARNOCHAN ON CANIS RABIAS. The Story of an Expert—An Invariably | Fatal Disease. ings by enraged, excited or diseased dogs, and phobia cases irom the Beare cat. Have you any which is dangerous or ever fatal? Public opinion | !0/ormation on that score’ Doctron—VYes; the last case I saw before Mr. But- answers tnis query promptiy in the affirmative. | je T'was called ior cousultation tn ® case 0 & result Of that public verdict may be seen in our | asthma by a physic an in a Village @ few miles municipal ordinance which condemns to death the | | out of Brooklyo, some ten years ago. We found nt looking elderly woman, | iriendless cur or the strayed spaniel which may be | fs Desens a jseetlige nares applied the | | apparently in sound health, brought to the pound under the stimulant of @ | usuai tesis, without developing any symptoms of money bounty. Putin spite of the common belief | the disease named, I expressed bapa od coe | doctor assared me sne was subject to | of poison in the saliva of a !urious dog, the contrary Gar tee cnet i Opinion is held by some, and those persons who the most distressing paroxysms of sudocation. L | have the largest experience of canine life and | at once thousht o1 hydrephobia; and, asking if she had ever been bitten, sie answered nat | disease. Among them may be named Professor Francis Butler, late of Peck slip, probably the best she had some weeks obelore been bitten in the hand by a littie kitten they had in the house, known dog-iancier in the world. who died during the present week in Brooklyn, a victim of the but the kitten was not mad at all. She did not know what became 0. it, lor it run away, and was | lost. The Lite got weil right away almost. 1 te-ted her with a glass o1 Water; she couid not swallow e dl iH acrop ol it, and Iknew all about the as:hma. Samiadig Troge:, exiabencey ne Caneled as SMD | Or acts ae NMDluAL tie (cemnoteae late" that ane the figment of a disordered imagination, wis tne victim of feline rabies. When Isaw her @ giving way to an ignoble and baseless fear. Dr. Butler, who was some sixty-five years of age, was of Englisn birth, His education was Mberal, and, being fond of the study of languages, | he became a proticient master of the leading ‘modern tongues. On coming to this country, thir- ty-Six years ago, he made the teaching of lan- | suages his profession, and was engaged in that calling for several years in Brooklyn, He was ‘Iways peculiarly fond of dogs. Tms fondness seems to have almost grown to a craze. He be- fieved in dogs, would go any distance to seea rare | Fpecimen, and give almost any price to become ita | said to Lis wife, | | “OH, I AM IN HRAVEN!”? | pwner, He bas been Known to pay $1,000 for 9 | 1 Gescriped the beauty of the foliage there, and canine treasure and to esteem himself fortunate | was evidently out 0: pata and in a temporary con- in his investment. His fancy Jed him, some twenty dition 0: happiness. We repeated this three times, ‘years since, 10 open the store in Peck slip so *Pplying forty grains inf ail, and to the end, though “ " death could not lo ger be posiponed, it was ireed vamillar to New York dog fanciers. Since its es- f)om those feariul exhibitions of pain whicn bad gablishment he has travelled the world over in | before characterized the progross o/ the disease. I value | hope that this suggestion o1 the extreme struggle earch of peculiar and valuable breeds with which | our ina te erlies Dar fied anys thapalein 0 a improve his stock. He went every the eariier stages, lead to some means of breaking ear to Europe, and was intending to make his _ the heretotore certain latativy of hydrophoola, PORTEB—' ci death 10 this dis- , egular Visit there within a few weeks, At nis | , hB{ORTeE—Wnat is the cause of death In I tore and at his Brooklyn residence, corner of Bre- | jocror—Exnaustion from suffocation. That the ‘ bac and Prospect streets, where he occupied a | disease 1s not a creature of the imagination 1s ap- , the next day the disease was Iully developed, and she d ed soon aiter, glad to escape by death fiom | the horrors of this most heartrenuing ailliction. A RAY OF HOPE. REPORTER—Do you see any reason to hope that medical science can ind any alleviation jor these suuerings ? | Docror—Yes; there 1s 1n the experience of Mr. But.er’s case just the gieam of ope. Driven to desperation by witnessing bis agonies on Tuesday evening about eight o'clock, I placed a biister on his breast, waich took effect at once and removed about two square inches of the skin, On tais de- nuded suriace I dusted ten grains of the sulphate of morphioe. ‘This had not been done ten minutes before he showed signs of opium delirium, aud parent irom its deadly end, but when you nave large area, he had constantly hundreds of dogs in | POTh"caeas stated use be ng cured they have simply ‘trainlog or under medical treatment. From the | not.been hydrophooia, 11 a drop of water cau be eXteut of his operations and the soundness of his introduced by the throat into ‘he stomach tuere is ‘judgment he had !ong been considered the highest no hydrophobia. The water test 1s, so far as my knowledge goes, an uniailing one. The ciosing of uuthority and the leading man & the dog breeding, training and nealing business. the throat is from bervous action, no douvt, but PROFESSOR BUTLER ON HYDROPHOBIA. during the paroxysms it is just as real and as efiective as though the orifice were sealed up. About sy years ago this community was vio- | What the Late Dr. lently excited about mad dogs and our danger | z | Assistant States. | irom their presence. A Mr. Ludlam had perisned | Yesterday, a Heraup reporter called at the dog under this dreaded disease. Many men of influ_ | establisument of the late Dr. Francis Butier, at nee gave the community their views on the sub- No, 3 Peck slip, who bas lately fallen a victim to ect, Amomg others, Professor Butler wrote the hydrophobia. Several dogs were in the rooms, HERALD a letter, which is reprinted herewith. It | bearing a disconsolate look and drinking copious ‘will be seen that on the 2lst of February, 1869, Dr. draughts of water from buckets which were | Butler, who had had more experience of dogs and placed within the limits of their chains. In the their aiiments than any other man among us,held | window stood the stuffed Siberian bloodhound { firmly to the belie that persons who go tntospasms | weil known to all passers by in Peck slip. Mid the ‘of terror at sight of water do so, not from an in- | yelping of the dogs the reporter obtained the fo!- | soculated disease by the tooth otarabid member of | jowing statement from the assistant of Dr. ‘tue canine race, but irom the workings of fear | Batler:. magiaing @ puison in the veins which has no ex-| My name is Thomas ¥. Kane. Ihave been for | tence in fact, He adduces cases of persons who | several years connected with Dr. Butler, and Iam | ‘have taken hydrophobia irom dogs whose subse- | going to carry on the business with one of the | quent health proved them sound at the time of the | members of his family. Dr. Butler told me that | supposed inoculation with virus. Moreover, he be- | ne believed hydrophovia existed among dogs, but ‘ieved that persons even if actually aMicted with pe did not think that he could suffer from that ihe malady, which he considered exceedingly | qisease if bitten by @ rabid dog, He looked upon rare, ifit existed at all, could be certainly cured | nimself, I think, a8 invalnerable, fur he by simple app lications 01 caustic and salt bathing. | had been bitten hundreds of times by dogs | He esteemed it his duty to disabuse the public of | supposed to be mad. fe used to say always “Give tne hideous prejudice which itheld against poor | tne dogs plenty of water and keep them cool, and Ga cruci word, aud ‘Nunted through the hot | Bot too much meat, Give them light 1ood—pienty | streets with yelis and stones till they fellexhausted | of bread and milk, and meat but three times a in some bari tibet reg to die oral | week.” Last Saturday he complained while sit- and excessive effort. “Give e r wel a rest,” Says this iriendly writer, “he wants 4 | ing here of aulness, and put his band to his chest, good food, shelter and pienty of water to be a | He never, until the last day o! his life, would admit trusty companion and valued iriend of man.” To thatit was hydrophobta. He told me 20,000 dogs had Dr. Butler's care the lovers of dogs committed passed through lis hands und hardly any of them their pets when they showed signs of illness. In | had ever had the uydropnooia, and none of his men this way he received @ Spitz six weeks ago. |}; Meougit oF Buck Gtniee ae ioe “snap” was sick. Dr. Butler attempted to relieve Tooter had or thoug! hing as hy« HOW HE MET HIS DEATH. him by 4 mouthful of Common salt, which, in hs hands, had oiten worked wonders for dyspeptic | with reference to the dog that bit Dr. Francis dogs. It did not suit “snap’s”’ palate. He seized | Butier, It was a very iarge Spita dog. His owner lus triend by the thamb and inflicted a seVere | said he nad swallowed two wooilea stockings, and wound. He was secured. The wound wasatonce peeved that it would choke Dim to deati, and s0 cleansed apd pou'ticed. An assistant, in taking he brought him to Dr. butler to be doctored, the dog to Dr. Butier’s Brooklyn place, by Roosevelt ‘This was about six wecks ago. How he came to Street ierry, Dad the misivrtune to let the bratees- pe pitten was in this fashion:—After the man cape from bis covered vasket. He ran yelping and | prougat him i chained him in the middle rvom, foaming among the trighteued boat load of passen- | which we use for sick dogs occasionally, Mr. gers as they were landing, bit an unknown man, and | putier was opening his mouth, giving bim a was killed by @ policeman. Dr. Butler knew there | nanafui of table salt to make the doy vomit, and I jwas ho danger of hydrophobia, He treated his | heid him by the ears. While Dr. Butler was giv- wounded tuumb attentively and with skill. Na- | ing nim the salt he pit him on the thump, and he ture smiled on his endeavor and it was soon said, “He’s got me,” and I threw him down to healed. Dr. Butier was not well. For years he | gyoid his biting mé aso. The same evening, had been @ prey to indigestion, and it was DoW — hetween five and six o'clock, the dog was taken tormenting him. But as ior the dog bite, that was | py me to Willlamsourg, to go to Dr. Butler's farm, a mere notning—a forgotten trifle. He bad been | where he has always a large uumber of dogs for | bitten counties times betore. , treatment, On the boat he bit this great piece “NO WATER FOR ME.” | out o: my pants, pointing toa hole in his nether Last Monday morning Dr. butier sat down to 1s | garments. had also bitteu some one on the breakfast, jeeling in better health than he had oat, @ young Jeliow, about sixteen years of age, been jor along time. A cup of tea being hanued | jooxing like @ cierk, He screamed terribly. Per- him, he noticed a strangely disagreeable feeling jays the cloth saved him, as bing through it may of choking, and was unable to swallow it. He pave tuken the poison of the doz’s tecth. then asked lor a seidliiz powder, which, whea | aiter he had bitten the young man [ chained Francis Butler’s being breught, caused @ recurrence Of hin, to the anchor on the ierrypuut. At Wiiltams- the choking, and was instantly rejected purg a policeman came on voard and borrowed a with uncontrollable aversion, r. Butler | pase bail bat irom a lad, and with one biow beat fiso complained of a pain in the back oi the neck | @t the bese of the brain. His wife, who is a iady of culture and good judgment, at once sent for the family physician, Dr. rrancis M. Loretie, of No, 529 Grand street, Williamsburg. On his arrival Dr. Butler said to him that he thought be had taken | ynderstandings with Mr. Bergh about trimming , coid; he nad pains, he said, iu his head and neck. | gogs’ cars, | He alluded to the doz bite, but said, “Oi course, | “Sr Shutier told me that he was a native of you know that has nothing to do with this trouble, | gtroud, in England. He was one of the best and | Which evidently comes irom my getting @ cold.” | yindest meniever knew. He never allowed oue The Doctor though: best to acquiesce in the pa- | of nis dogs to be maitreated, aud everybody re- tient’s view, and to treat the matter as being UN- | gpected num. conhected wita any notion of canine origin. He | THE FIRST SYMPTOMS, asked the sufferer to drink a glass of water. This The first symptoms of disease appeared last being brought, Dr. Butler seized it with both hands | Monday moroing, when Mr. Butler was drinking and put jorth a muscular six foot man’s full | fey, and be experienced @ severe nervous t' strength, in the desperate endeavor to please his | ing, He spose to bis wife about it, but soon took old iriend the physician by giving him this | g second cup, with similar erfects. He thereupon simple proof of the absence of hydrophobia. | gaid he would go Into the garden awnile and 8 e if In vain, No effort was able to carry one drop of he could nut ‘work it off,” but ielt no better; the crystal liquid to his stomach. The attempt | concluded he would not go to New York that day; caused a violent paroxysm of the suffocating sen- | had a constant tendency t» choke; could not get sation, and evidently caused the patient dire dis- | gir, and rushed trequentiy to the window as tI to tress. “Aifecting to think nothing of it, Dr. Lorette, | prevent strangulation. At the same time he was Whose experience had shown him the same unmi® | juily aware o1 his condition, abd assured lis tawily takable symptoms be ore, treated it as of no con- | that, though he “suouldn’t yet well,” they uecd the dog’s brain in. [then vook of bis chain and left him on the deck dying, I suppose the deck hands threw him in the river. BUTLER AND BERGH. Mr. Butler in years gone by has had serious mis- | going on | they are inthe system. To be sure, [ don’t veny curred at various periods and in various places. The first was in St. George’s Hospital, London. A child was attacked, having been bitten by a dog in the croteh between the finger and the thumb. He died. Tne secund gase was that of a man who, in letting his pointer loose aiter being chained up, was bitten very slightly in the arm above the wrist, and was at- tacked with bydrophobia, from which he died. The third case was in New York, and the fourth was the recent case of Miss Ada Clare, who was bitten tn the nose by her lapdog, and also died in the greatest suffering. This latter case, which created some excitement at the time, he person- ally attended, and, thereiore, knew all the particu- lars of. It was about four weeks alter the bite that the lady first showed active symptoms of the disease and gradually grew worse, It was only | during the last hours of the disease that he (Dr. Carnochan) was catled in to attend. Though sal- fering terrible agony the patient knew him per- fectly well and begged of him to bleed her death in one of her intermissions of consciousness. He told the doctor tn attendance that he wou!d recommend TINCTURE OF CALABAR BEAN asaremedy. This suggestion was acted upon, and the sufferings of the patient immediately became less, There is no doubt that this medicament is especially good during bydropaobia, and had it | been administered sooner during this case he be- lieved that it mignt possibly have been eMcacious 1n curing the patient entirely, At the time he was | called in, however, there was no more hope, and Ada Clare was doomed. In this case, as in every | other he attended, the symptoms of the discase | were clear aud distinct, and there could be no | doubt as to what it was. They were precisely the | same as in the tiree other cases ho had sceu. Rerorran—it has been denied by some that hy- | drophobia existed. Dr. CarwocHan—I know it, and during the past few weeks since the subject has been agitated I | have seen the statement made in some paper. But | this is wrong. I will stake my professional repu- tation upon it that hydrophobia in itseif is us clear and distinct a disease as typhus fever, ‘here can be no coniounding it with tetanus or lockjaw, though a great maby have held that the two were the one and the same disease, There are two great divisions between them, Tetanus affects the nervous system, and, through ft, the spinal cord. | Lockjaw, on the contrary, affeets the blood, and, | through i, tae brain and the uprer portion ot the spinal marrow. Tetgnus, through the nerves, affects the muscular action through- out the body. Hydrophooia, on the con- | trary, only affects the muscles eof the | throat and respiratory organs, and does not reach to other portions. anus draws the musc'es into all manuer of positions, sometimes drawing the body back so that the head actually touches the hecis .rom behind, as tn the case of a son oi Mr. Sistere, the banker, whom I attended, Hydrophobia never has any such effect as this, but merely has its action upon the throat. Tnence comes the peculiar snapping which looks like a disp: sition to bite. A species of viscus forms in | the throat, and there is 4 CONSTANT MUSCULAR MOVEMENT of the mouth to make it come up and spit it out. Ths has the appearance of biting. Of course, when the brain turns and the patient becomes violent and attacks whoever approaches him, the same Movement o1 the mougy ebntinues apd oe bite takes place altogether an: volition gr pie part or ‘Tnere fs alas Chis ifnportant aiference between nydro- phobia and telah, thet weiie eas first Las ERS | ur to six wéeks In developing, the lit- teats Bore sian three weeks irom the recep. tion of a wound causing the disease. Generally, tetanus takes piace three or four days after tae wound; but, if there 18 DO symptom of it for six weeks, the person may make up his mind that he will pot be attacked. With hydrophovia 1: is seldom that it shows its active symptoms in less than four weeks or more than six, though the prelimtnary symptoms any hare been for some time unnotided, because that there are caves which may be develosed ater ears, but they wre unusual, Indeed, I have never | nown of one. But it 18 explatnabie on the theory | that, though the virus, or poison, was in the blood of the person, no particular incident has happened to draw it forth. An unusual heating of the blood, @ scratch or any occurrence of tie kind, might then bring it forth into activity, just as in syphil.s, when often a mere cold wilt tring into being something that was never suspected before. Rerortesk- Mr. Bergh and many others seem to | be oj opinion that hydrophobia 14 not likely to be any more prevalent in hot weather than in cold, What is your opinion concerning this? Dr. CARNOCHAN—My opinion on this point is, | that trough hydrophobia may be no more catching | in hot weather than in cold, that heatis very apt to produce rabies in the dog—at all events, mor 80 than cold weather, The sun beating down on dog’s head may derange him and so alter the te: Peratare o! his biood as to cause such A REVOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM that madness is the result. I knew a case of a dog which was tied up in a spot.where the hot sun | beat down upon him and leit fhere unintention- He became mad. Mr. Bergh secins to insist in spring, when the blood of ail animais (our- selves included) becomes heated, hydrophodia is more likely to cecur than ip any other sezson of the year. While the fact that tna heating of the blood = might @ cause for | rabiaa, itis equally true that the stmmer heat | succeeding this period of danger may be ikely to still further derange the system of tle beast, so that 1 tnink summer the most probable season for hydrophobia. I hope you understand that rabias or the rabies isthe disease in the diy which is called hydrophobia in tne man, simply from the Supposed objection to water. Yet it is certuin ‘that may persons are bitten by dogs which suifer from rabies and never become hydropiovic, But this is owing to accidents. Some systems repel the disease, and then again a persoa may be bitten through the cloth, and this may divert the virus. In each of the four cases I have known the bite was on the niked feah. No doubt tne uaulortunate Francis Butler, who was quive an eminent man in his way, bad been bitten | hundreds of times, and possibty o'ten by rabid | dogs. and yet he was never attacked with hydro- ps And yet at last ne received the fatal bite. ‘his singuiar man tad many theories concerning hydrophobia, and yet he was a victim o/ it iumseif. REPORTEE—D» vou believe the popular fear of hydrophovia justifies the meagures that have been taken to secure dogs and put them to deatn? Dr. CAkNOcHAN—I certainly do not. Itseems in- human and cruel to pat all these net death, and especiaily in the singularly ineffe¢tive way. | whieh has been adopted, the dogs in somednstances coming to liie after tue operation. It seems to me that if there Is telt to be a necessity for auytuing 01 this kind let tiere be some kind of | A QUARANTINE FOR DOGS, | as there is for humans, where the dogs may be | kept plus the hot weather and until the popular fear of Nydrophobia 1s allayed. The fa¢t that of all the doga captured and killed at the pound not one has been rabid 13 the best argument against this stup d system. Muci as I know of hydropho- bia the present manner o/ capturing oud killin, dogs 18 a very poor one, jooked at from any poin Oo; view, To be eure, the veith of Butler is a bad thing tor the dogs; but when you consider the much greater risks he ran than anybody else there 5 really nothing surprisipg in it, Quite otherwisa, iD fact. | A HERALD reporter called later upon Dr. Parker, ip Twelith Btreet, to ascertain his views; but tho fact of his being in the country lastevening made this impossibie. A Dog Fancier’s Story. John Peach, of: No. 299 Wallabout street, Wil- | liamsbarg, Is 9 dog iancter, and to a reporter of the | HERALD, yesterday, he said:—I am a dog fancier. | 1 have been bitten by rabid dogs, and if a dog bites me thatl think isin that condition I suck Out the poisoined blood, or get a friend todo so | for me if I vannot reach the wound myself, This | is good for rattlesnake bites or poisoned srrows. | Isold@ bull terrier to the captain of a ship and he bit him through the lip, and the captain sucked. his lip and pulled ali the virus out. This was turee months ago, and the captain is alive to-day, If there ever was & mad dog that was one, He | seldom fail to produce tae desired convalescence, | ously. | dogs, of ali breeds, sizes and generations, yet have i wisn all such were) with @ chain, collar and staple. | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1874.—TRIPLE inhuman and onapar with burning witches in Massachusetis, A DOG WHO WILL NOT BE CAPTURED. In 111th street, between Taird and Fourth ave- nues, there ex & handsome mast, named “Bud,"’ who lives a Bohemian lue, and will not enter a house under any pretext whatever. Dog Stealers attempt to lassoo him almost hourly; but he stillenjoys his independence, and dreams not of Marrivtt, the dog executioner. The Late Dr. Butler on Hydrophobia. By a singular coincidence the files of the HERALD give the world the mature opinions of the learned dog fancier, as communicated to this paper five years ago, in allusion to public excite- ment consequent on the sad death of Mr. Ludiam. ‘The letter reprinted beiow was published in the Hgxavp of Feoruary 21, 1869, and, in view of the Sad late of the author, will doubtless be read with interest, THE LETTER. To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— As there exists tn the pubic mind much of doubt, fear and misapprehension with regard to the causes, 2YM toms, preventives and cures of the so-called ieariul matady, hydrophobia, 1 deem it not amiss, through your kind permission, to tender a few remarks on the subject for the benefit of the community. ‘These 1 will condense into four heads—causes, symptoms, antidotes und cures. first—The causes are almost as various in the “genus canis’ asiu tae “genus homo.’’ Among these I would enumerate indigestion, internal ob- structions, eXposure to the sun and to the latense heat of fire, fon! meat or undigested matter putri- fying in the stomach; mats of hair, &c., diocking the p.ssage vo the mato canal; splinters of bone Sticking in the throat, stomach or intestines; lack Ol waier, sudden irigits, and, perhaps, the most feariui of ail, & e radies, engendered by the worry and exci"ement, overstraining and exhaustion of natural passion, rawpant and raving, yet unap- peuscu. Numerous instances of this have come under my notice, where an vverexcited quadraped | ais ressed in nerve, vo ly and bone, then peired, driven and consequently hali crazed, has become @ prey fo the cudgel, the brickbat or the gun; while the poor brue only required rest, shade, peace and a pail of water. sSecond—>ymptoms. The symptoms of so-called Madness are uot always similar. Sometimes su!- lenness of movement, wild waudering of the eye, disordered appetue, devouring of textile faprics, gnawing of the chain. Dread of water L have never hoticed—ratver the reverse. Lockjaw is not .n- common, producing insatiable hunger and con- sequeut Jerovity, Coatinued costiveuess’ tends to disurder tae whole nervous fabric. Distemper | often has the sae effect ior @ season. Thira—Vue Antidote. Feed the dog moderately on wholesome lood, Give suillcient exercise. Keep oim away tron the tire and out of the street aione, lest the disease be increased by irritation among other dogs. Let him have ad abundant | suppiy 01 fresi water and do not place bim where he cannot find shade, Fourth—Tue Cure. There are namerons grades of lightheadedness in the canine species, irom the SHEET. not be misunderstood by him who has been accus- tomed to scan the ordinary movements of his favorite, The decided change should not be disre- garded, and whenever any suspicious indications Present themselves the animal should be securely chained or confined. Ido not mean by this that a suspected Individual, who has already become the subject of a marked change of demeanor, should BE EVEN TRUSTED WITH HIS MASTER'S FINGERS, but that he should be go collared and chained as to annibilate ali chance of injury. The eye will generally denote the disposition; therefore, where suspicion existe and beiore the hand be ex- tended to touch the animal he should be play- fully spoken to by his master, who may gently and jocosely present him sume object attached to the end ol @ stick, whico will be @ Jair way of testing his feelings. He should be excited by nis usual watchword that he may afford an opportunity of noting nis actions, usual and water should be placed within his reach; in fine, eve:y precaution should be observed, for, although cases of hydro- Phobia are happily rare, the bare idea of it, as the old lady remarked, is no joking matter, Thus, snould there be anytht amiss, a great deal of uneasiness may ve avoided, Soine of the causes _ madness in dogs 1 have found to “be the follow- — WHAT MAKES MADNESS IN DOGS? Exposare to the sun, without the power of re- treat; unwholesome food remaining undigested in the stomsch; heat, excitement and lack of nourishment, accompanied vy continued worry- inys, peltings and driving; thé constant wear and tear of the whole nervous system, produced by fleas being allowed to accumulate; the bite of a rabid dog or venomous reptiles; bores or any foreign substance stuck in the jaw or throat, Some years ago | had three cases of uecided madness— two caused by the bite of venomous reptiles; the the third by @ sunstrok securely chained all the patients and marked their daily progress. The two bitten subjects grew worse anu worse, tilll relieved them by a mercitul death; the third by my throwing cold wa- ter on her three or sour times a day, and Reoping her in the cool shade with little hght giadu: recovered, and aiterwards produced several litters of puppies, one of which just livea the banks of the Mississippi. Neither of these dogs refused to drink, but the two former had iost all power of swallowing ior some time previous to myceate oying them, ‘abies caused by venomous bites (or objects sticking in the throat or jaws) is perhaps the most. incurable, as it i# by no means advisable ior tne inexperienced to risk an operation at an advanced stage ol the inflammation. | believe many cures might be etlected, if the animals were only kept salely bound in the shade and constantly cooied witu water; 1 mean when the cause may be iodi- gestion. over excitement or sunstroke. When an animal has been bitten by another kaown to be mad, Iconsiderit the salest method to destroy him; although, € have koown many jogs which have never been affected by the bite, wuust otuers have become its victims, Dipping in salt water, three times following, each time keeping the patient till ue is nearly ex- slight fil to the “raving maniac.’ ‘The best remedy 1s fo produce as far as possibie a thorough and sud- | den change in the system, by Cleansing the stomach | by vomitives and the bowels with puigatives. In all cases | have 1ound common tadle salt the most speedy and effective, witu which his mouth should be filled, A second dose 18 seldom necessary to purity the stomach, Saturating the wuole body | WL. gajt, by Keeping the animal waolly immerse in a full saltwa er solution until he is almost be- yond recovery, then reanimating by rubbing, will | even in cases of severe Sip or temporary insanity, With regard to persons bitten, an immediate dp- Plication of wet salt (a.ter sucking out the wound thoroughly) and applying caustic, if at hand, or | outing ous ihe part, li advisaole, Keeping tne bite | thorduvhly safuraked for twepty-four nours, I con- Sider ah excellent reuedy. Or, if there were cause | enough to warrant it, the patient might be im- Merseu in salt Water till @ reaction coud be pro- | duced in the atte by restoration, alter a sousing | bordering on drowniog itseil, I believe tis operd- | tion migut be effectual where the malady had fully | declared itself, as by this treatment | have beeu | emuuently successfal in curing demented animals themselves. Above all, the person bitten should, | as much as possivie, shake off all toolish excite- ment, and should be discouraged by others to run into avy nonsensical lear. Fortunate, indeed, it ig that cases of real hydrophobia are so tew and far between. ‘Lhe record telis us there was not @ single case in London last year. Tue majority of those wno have lost their lives } through the instrumentulity of some innocent curs, | Mainly tndueaced by their uaturally excitable or excited systems, nave deen victimized by their own deluded impressions. I have witnessed sev- | €. al cases iilustrative vi this fact. One individual, who Was bitten by @ poor, innocent viack ani tan puppy which had aever vetrayed any symptoms of | rabies, immediately alter the occurrence took | notion tuat he must £ mad, and persisied in tt | and kept h.s word, saw nim @ corpse; he nad | died raving. Anotner was bitten by a decidedly | Tavid dog; but Leng fully convinced that nis pains had no connection with the bite and feeling satis- fied the dug was nov mad, he speedily recovered. I have aiso Known many who [ believe might have goue mud had they not been satisiied that the ani- tnuls which had bitten them nad been destroyed, ; Which every reasoning man must know can have | no physical influence whatever on either the bite | or the biiten, Several of these duomed innocents 1 bave nad in my possession aiter the occurrence | Without ever discovering the faintest taint of | “aberration of mind.’’ Nevertheless, for the ben- efit of those who tnemseives are “light headed” on this subject, all saspected animals shouid be kept in a plaice of periect security. Let such people not forget the saying of tne old lady:—*“Put the guo | down; loaded or not loaded, if it were to go off 16 | might kill a body.’” Growing dogs and dogs that have been long con- fined, being overjoyed with their liberty, are very liable to fits, more or less severe. But they bear no resemblance to hydropiubia and need not be | dreaded, Yet, as no foreign substance appears to | @.rce with our “circulating medium,” bites of all | kinds are better avoided. I kuew a wealthy gen- tleinun years ago who died @ horrible death tro: hydrophobia, He had been bitcen filteen yea betore by his hunting dog, @ perfectly sound anl- mal. The gentieman himself never dreamed oth- erwise at the time. However, @ strange idea en- | tered his brain, alter loug years, that thut vite would make notn mad, and the (dea did, not the bite. 1 raised a pup irom the same dog long alter, proof positive oi the non-existence of hydrophobia in his sire, The majority of so-called cases of rables are easiiy cured, and gency Yield to powerful doses oi common salt, I have had three cases of raving madness in my own kennels, (but not bydropho- bia). One, @ valuable Siberian bloodhound siut, who aroused me tn the middle of the night, tearing and gnawing the fences and howling most hide- | 1 succeeded, however (without danger to | myself), in giving her several doses of salt, which | caused her to throw off lull two ounces of matted hair which I aiterwards discovered she had grad- ually devoured with ker meat, which was con. stantly thrown into her bed when she was shed- | ding her coat, Futeen minutes alter sne was as | gentle as a lamb and 18 now living. Another, a bull uog, with the same symptoms, was taken tn | the saue way. I cured him by the same means; | his pains were removed aiter casting Out au enor | mous rat, which he had swallowed only a tew hours previously. Another, with precisely similar sy voms and similar treatment, threw up & muss of Pees flesh and was immediately relieved. Many have cured irom the madness of suostrokes by shade, retirement and cold water. Yev these have hothing to do with bydrophobia, as generally un- derstood; but, as | beiore intimated, “the antidote | is better thun tne cure.” ‘There.ore the best sale- guard with suspicious dogs ts a strong cliain, staple and collar until all doubts are set at rest. I have been bitten olten enough by hounds wito “fignty imaginations,” without the least fear or dangerous resuit. I have had in my possession over 10,000 had but one case of unmistakade hydrophevia Which was brouglit tome tor treatment. As he was a powerful brure 1 had him weil secured (as 1 | He chopped down hal @ pail oj water. I made no | attempt to cure him, but caretully watened his | guawings and ravings till, perfectly enervated and prostrate from sheer exhausuon, his puise grad- ually grew fainter and weaker til it ceased to oeat, lcould write @ voiume on this su t, but your FRANCIS: BUILER, iuable space forbids. Nisw Youk«, Feb. 20, 1869. From the Late Dr. Francis Butler's Work on the Breeding. Diseases dc. of Dogs, Published in 1870. It 1s somewhat diMcult to define the varied ni symptoms of hydrophobia, Incautiously to at sequence, endeavoring to soothe the doomed man, He wrote a prescription, directing its aaministra- tion a8 8000 as possible, aud assuring the stricken dog fancier that he toped to see him better at his next call, leit the room. Mrs, Butler he told her at once to make the re- vuisite arrangemeuts, for her ausbana’s dreadfal vom was imminent and beyond the power of lical skill to turn aside or postpone. . that hour til Tnesday night ali that be done was ess#ayed to counteract rasp oi the slayer which at freqnent inte! “mented that stalwart man with the sens: suffocation, as (nough a hand were tightly about his throat so as to totaily preclude oo, At nine o'clock Tuesday eveniug the abeliever 11 hydrophobia aied from the bite id dog, after tortures tac most poignant of a ature is susceptivie, Dr. Lorette on Hydrophobia. porter of the HERALD visited Dr. Lorette and 1 hie attention to the views of the deceased eman on the “so-called fearful malady,’’ as he ed it. The Doctor said he was well aware Dr. Butler’s ideas on that subject, as ney had been long time Irfends. He was a man of fine natural powers and bighbly educated, sician considered the enthusiasm oi the | opi nis reason, apparent all wog fancier biassing Lrongh the letter. fovtod tes and could assent to nothin: » had adopted in Dr. Butler pes eTnere was really no treatment. What could ies when every door to the oda Wig” ra of course [ tried my best to t eMcacious anodynes, but not iminister the mos ‘stomach. ‘Then we stem Was barre’ ‘i drop cvuld be ger iute be Taking occagion to see | gz in their | t m4 t. When asked about the treatmen peed rr case Dr. Lorette | foamed like a devil, and wanted to bite every one. | | not be alratd of him; he “would do them no tempt it, might perhaps arouse fears, where there | harm.” The dar) was ‘Se aan be el To satisfy the captain I killed the dog with s ham- | existed no cause for alarm. For the consolation of fpeedily arrived, and 8 er - mer. Lknowaman named L Covering iru '&® temporary spasm” (waich an named Larry Wizen, member | the nervous, however, 1 may say, however, com- | OfNo, 15 Truck, in the old Fire Lepartmemt 04 | mence by assuring them thata mad dog 1s indeed a he had a fight with 4 “gentleman” of No. 47 Hose, | very rare exception, and that pernaps not one in Who bit two of hia fingers, and Larry had | g thousand accused of it may be pronounced guilty, hydrophobia. His fingers were amputated where gvery iil vred, street roving, bone grabber, every ivariaoly returned tf any fluid was brought near), soon entered into intelligent Conversation, talking over turee-quarters of am hour. ‘ihe patient then appeared flighty, exclaiming, There 18 & mad Gog in my breast—take tum vat!” He also imagined he was making @ dog trade for 150 he was bitten by the doctor. The fignt dog despairingly seeking his master, every canine on now “geen Sit iS laxee quanuty ta the was in avenue D, near Third streg iM | ing fit, every poor beast, overcome with neat and | garden, To produce more composure the pnysi- Midsummer aboot 186s, and Larry Wa8 | igtigue, every affrizaied quadruped seeking reiuge | Slane administered a blister aud chloroform, | About ten o'clock Tuesday evening Mr, Butler remarked that it was “growinz dark,” although | the room was well lignted; but seemed quite cheer- | ful unui a few minutes later, when he quietyy sid from the chair in which be was siting, and died, the physicians expecting, until the last inoment, | that the end would be a spusm. THE FUNERAL. Subseqnentiy smothered to deatn by nis Menas When he vecame mad irom hydrophovia, {have been in the dor business abont thirteen years, aud Nave never seen, except this, a case of hydpuplo- Dia Irom a dog bite. Avout two years ago man | from his merciless pursuers, in fine, every favor- ite who may portray a certain strangeness of de- meanor, must of course be mad. In the last ten not had 4 single case of hydrophobia | died in Brookiyn, I Lelieve, in years I have Lthink trotuiug at the a vat a aan OF | among an average stock of sixty or seventy dogs, What 1s dangerous. Toe only cure is sucking /OU% | ander my OWN eye, nor a solitary case among | Lbave been bit many tines: ty more kept for me by others ; WHAT A MAD poo 18, some twenty or thirty Pp 7 The faneral will take place next Sonday aiter- noon at two o'clock, from his Jate residence in | I look npon a nind dog us a dog that will dis- | although I nave had many, which, had they falien | Wiluamsburg, ab the corner of Prospect and Bre- | tant to you tor three or jour days and won't gotlee | under the public notice, would no doubt have ex- | men streets. The Bus|.wick avenue cars pass the et ae BL eyes Will iouk bloodstiot too; thm De. | cited the usual and | ¢ & block's distance, ‘ants To keep out or Lhe way, and « ie pena | go in the street, unytning tugt ry wy Pe ALARMING BCHO OF MAD DOO! MAD DOG! Interview With Dr. Carnochan, wil ‘wares They uever make any noiwe. #he! ‘A vacant, wild and sullen expression of the eye; A Henatp reporter called upon Dr. Carnochan at | firtner back i thee te ted ren ohana | ents to and fro, apparently withont an ob- | his honse in Sixteenth street, This eminent sur- k alone this thing happens, Doge watt Wy | fect; marked uneasiness in all his movements; | geon and physician has the reputation of being pain. "Dope ns ‘pamiou. A slut hardly ever goes | constant changing trom place to place; a dispo- md. Dogs pine, ery, sque: tg * Dr. Butler lov ed his four | particularly well acquainted with hydrophobla 10 | Herween vaeir tc ae whee oer oleae eet 418 gition to snap at the slightest approach of annoy. ali its various forms, and there.ore the visit. POLICE SURGEON D. MACDONALD!S OF EXON | ance; an unwillingness to quit his retreat or to Dr. Carnochan stated that he was very well ac- iene Pie Olener in cola weather thiM iM | gome at his master's call, &c.—these are symp quainted with bydroptiobia, having seen four dis: | gyit (yore wisi wun lb es Boara of Bee toms of hydropnovia, Yet ail these may exist in | tinct cases of it during bis medical practice. ‘This now. “Ail you have ty doo make a don gowad 18 | aiiferemt animals and not one of them be border- was an unusual number, because these cases of Pye bes pin, pelt, ®onoy aud put « rope round ing on madness. Neverthetess, there is, @ ter all, which he spoke were genuine cases and not mere | wren pad hoon ine | bt ig eee et ire | @ certain something in the pliers ict | c. e! 7 be “r DO dae ny o8 an lor cen y ea at shoul i | suppositions o/ the disease. ‘hese four cases Oo- i tuiuk the preseut tacugure of destroying dogs | animal with the symptoms of ravu hausted, has been thougut to take such an effect on the system as to annihilate the veuomous power. True, I remember a case in England where two dogs were bitten by a mad dog, within five minutes of each other, One was @ poimter, which was pluuzed in galt water almost to death, The other dog remained unnoticed and unattended to, and went raving mad and committed feariul ravaves, while the potnter never showed the most remote symptoms of hydropnobia during the re- Maining years oj its life. I have seen at South- ampton, in England, people almost ducked to deafi to avoid the consequences of the bites of | trad dogs, and this was considered an all-suMicient | sa.eguard. : But Iam rather slow at hasty inferences in the matter of mad dogs, With regard to the pointer, his system might not have betn as suscepribie of absorbing the virus as that of tis unlucky neighoor; neither might he have been as severely bitten as his unlucky neighbor; and, as ii 18 well known tnt all 8 will not be aifected by bites of rabid animals, pointer might Mave non-absorbents. With reierence to the persons alluded to, they might have been bitten either by an imaginary mad dog or by one whose nervous system alone was under temporary derangement. THE BITES OF REALLY MAD ANIMALS differ widely in their poisoning pdéwers, and in miany cases | imagine the danger would be very trifling. The venom issuing irvm a reully corrupt | system ae differ widely in virulence from that produced by simple wervo is excitemént. f{ have oiten been bitten by dogs labéring under tempo- rary derangement, and mad to all intents and pure poses a animals unconscious of their acts may be termed insane), and I certainly have never felt any iear and but ilt'le inconvenience from it, Bat | the bite o! a really rabid animat who the dis- ease festering in his whole i:ame isvat ail times to be dreaded, Neither the fits in distemper nor ordinary fits should be mistakel {or hyd ro- phobis. ‘They bear but little resemblance to it ‘ita in rabid animals are preceded by different pre- monitory symptoms, and are generally the sequel of @ train of incoherent, ex*raordinary and unreason- able performances, in all fits, however, the animal snould be handled ver cansiousiy, as his uncon- ciousness may result in inficting injury where none was intended, and bites are at all umes more or less poisonous, A PERSON BITTEN BY A MAD DOG should have the wounded parts immediately taken out by a skilful sargeon, and the sore should be afterwarde thoroughly burned out with lunar caustic. I would also recommend the application of @ dozen leeches to the neiwnboring parts and a soft poultice to encourage the flow of blood toa limited extent, while a bandage be tiea above the woand, to lessen the circulation, till the operation be terminated. Cooling aperient medicines can- not be amiss. The treatment, however, should be regulated through the advice of @ skiltul practi. tioner. DEDUCTIONS FROM THE FOREGOING. From what I have seen anu heard 1 have some little faith in salt water ducking, and would cer- | tainly try it, us it would not be likely to do any injury. Do not wait Jor a doctor to cut out the bite, if he be far of, and you have judgment enough to operate without cutting an artery. Hydrophobia signifies a aread of water; but it MO proof of canine madness that a dog should re- fuse co drink; neither is it a test of his sanity if he should drink to the full. Mad dogs when vot ex- cited by glaring objects oiten drink freely to assuage the fever raging within, but in their fighty paroxysms they shan all dazzling objects Which flash on their disordered vision. “A Plea for the Dogs.” To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— In the minds of many citizens of New York and elsewhere the crusade against our faithful com- panions, “the dogs,’ seems cruel and unjust. All honor to Mr. Bergh and Recorder Hackett, who, I sincerely hope, will carry the day against prejudice and misrepresentation and win a grand buttle for the honest canines to the discomfiture of “bum- mers and thieves.” Hydrophovia 1s a bugbear in America. If an un- fortunate dog, gone frantic by latigue, thirst, heat, want of food, or all combined, rushes down the | sidewalk a thousand people, with nothing better to do, follow the poor vrute until he ‘alls panting on the ground, when two policemen bravely despatch him with their revolvers or clubs, As @ resivent of the United States for some years, 1 hope, above Many otuer more personal Wishes, that ‘it will never be said by foreigners that the Americans are a cruel and ungenerous perfluous wrath upon dumb and inoffensive ant- mals. As to the cruel method of despatching our helpless friends, I need only refer to the last few copies of the HERALD, Hoping you will kindly Give this short protest @ place in your valuable paper, Lam yours respecttully, RP. “Jast Go For the Canines.” To THB EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— In reperusing your vaiuable journal of the 11th inst. my eyes were attracted by “Kesponaibility for Hydrophobia.” signed ‘Justice.” learnestly beg @ small space in your powerful and widely read journal to add a few remarks on his very important subject. “Justice” is right when he says that the owner of the dog should be held equally responsible with a railroad corpora- tion or @ steamboat company for all or any damage that may befall a person or persons througn any act or want of proper care on their part to protect the public or private persons from injury causea by their own misdeeds, What is more barrowing or horrible to the hapless victim than the bite of a dog, with the certainty aimost of prematurely ending bis days with hydrophobia? The owner of the offending dog should be held rigidly to ac- count, and that, too, inthe light of a murderer. The canine mans,’’ nor are they necessary to the salety or weibeing of society. ‘They can only and justly be regarded tn the light of a luxury, and a dangerous one, too; and people keeping tiem should be made to smart for their misdeeds, Should a pet bear or any other naturally ierocious and savage animal escape from the custody of its owner and cause damage to neighbor or stranger the law would hold the owner 01 the same to @ strict account. | avitity, uf the injured pany should prosecute, and in this case the owner of the canine should be heid under the charge of marder, in the event of & person bitten. except tn the case o: illegal trea- a ing. ‘The keeping of dogs being essentially a uXury to the owner of tne same, while at the same time the dog becomes a dangerous nuisance to society, there ougnt to be created a law that Would impose not less than $1,000 tax per head for the privilege of keeping @ dog, ond all iic a curs to have @ certain duly prescribed around their necks as an evidence oi their right to their existence, and ali dogs not so licensed to be destroyed. A law of this character would quickly reduce the number 0; canines to @ minimum, and thus greatly enhance the saiety of the public, wh le at (ue same time those who would persist in Keeping & “poodie” would be doing a good service toward sustaining the finances ol the city. Our friend Mr, Bergh, aud that certainly intelligent Doctor to the contrary notwitnstanuing, imstanc exist wherein the dog hag rendered valuabie se Vice; but such tustances are ew and far between When compared with hosta of innocent victims who have been untimely sent out of this world With that most horrinie of all diseases, hydro- phobia. Mr, Kditor, you would be performing an f course, I saiely and | long enough to be swallowed by an alligaror on | elonged to tie Class of | ople, Who visit their su- | are not & Necessity to we “nu- | essential service to the community tf you were, te use & popular phrase, to “nist go for the canines, RO BONO PUBLICO, TWO CHILDREN BITTEY py A MAD DOG —_—_—_— About one o'clock yesterday arernoon two little children, named respectively Anna and Charles Stukey, who live with thetr parenw tn Turd ave nue, near 167th street, were bitten by a mad dog in the street near their house. ‘The si unlortupate little ones attracted paeeepecr pe of the neighbors, who turned Ou en masse to kil the dog, but Omecer Pope, of the Thirty-third sue me arriving on the scene, shot the animal eee any one else was injured by Dis poisonous fangs. HOW TO PREVENT MYDROMoBIA, orem {From’ the London Globe.) A means of preventing hydrephobia has been suggested by @ veterinary surgeon of Pris, it hus been proposed that the tecth of doge should be blunted so that when any animal was attacked with rabies possible to communicate the disease to other animals or to human beings, The proposal was made some little time ago, and in the nan. time M. Bourrel, its author, has been diligs wy making experiments in order to prove tts prac. cability. To-day, at a meeting of veterinary sur, geons, the means whereby the blunting of the teeth is to be effected are to be practically tllum trated, Several objections to this ingenious device for rendering mad dogs harmies¢ have already been put forward. It has been urged, for instance, that the operation would ruin sport- ing dogs, who woula be no longer able to follow ; Scent. It is slso contended, and with more force, that dogs with blunted teeth would be unable to eat their food, ant although, according tb a writer in a French paper, “the consideration 1s of smali impor- tance compared with the possible suppression of rabies among dogs,”’ still, if dogs are to be permit- ted to live at all, some kind of comfort and ease must be allowed to their existence, On the whole, | it seems very doubtful whether it would not be | better to kill tne animals outrigh: than subject them to this kind of inconvenience, THE DOG KILLER AT REST. Arata al ae al There was a truce for the dejected denizens ot the dog pound yesterday. Mr. Marriott, the off- cial suffocater, under the watenful scrutiny of the officers of the Society ior the Prevention o/ Cruelty to Antimals, gave Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart, with all their cantne comrades in confinement of low and high degree, one day's respite, though he announced most doggedly that he would strangle them every day, in spite of Mr. Bergh or the gen- tleman in black. One officer was on duty at the pound to warch Mr, Marriott’s proceediugs irom daybreak, and later in the day he was Teplaced by two, who propose to see fair play for the devoted dogs and to stand no oul proceedings in the matter of their taking od. hey uliege that somebody has bungied and that th» Oilicial suifo- cation has been but partial, so that the dead dogs have returned to yelping life after rime been | delivered as offal to tue manure scows, and have Tun away up the wharf hovling and ready to be | again seized and impounded at fifty cents each dead-alive deadhead, and again earn fees for the oficial slayer, to the detriment of the poor taxpayer Ee his corporate eee AS i oe scaitot of. nui: Wwe epresent y Mr. Bergh’s so- ctely. 160 Irdsn dozs were ta.en in yester- day, mostly valuable 1oo<:n; oolmals who mi gue be expected to bring fair prices they were Bet up for sale. It was Observed that those for whom there Was no room in the pound were poor starve- lings tor whom fity cunts would be @ world too much even in a Chinese town, But this might all be scandal against Mr. Marriott. No doubt he takes such dogs as come while he has room, aad, tf let alone by Mr. Bergh’s'subordinates, Will asphyxiste batch each cay and maxe room for all tilleitier tae streots are swept of the loose Osh of the doz race or tili the money supply 1s stopped, so that no more are offered. Still there are hundreds of hounds who look hungry aud migat be expected to vite anything which might oer tod, It is to be hoped mauy handreds of these will find their way to the happy hunting gorae Ol dead dogs through tae medium oj Mr. ‘riots gas tanks, ART MATTERS, “The Court of Death.” Under the striking title of “The Court of Deatn” Mr. Peale has painted a very large allegoitcal Picture of human life. The work is not a’ new one, but it returns to challénge public attention after so long an absence that it comes with all tae” freshness of novelty to the present generation, “The Court of Death” was first introduced to the public about 1820, and the attempt of an American artist in that carly period top fot a picture cbv- ering 30) Jeet of canvas’ naturally attracted’ a | good deal of attention, ‘the work, too, in some ré> spects, is respectably done, anu considering the* State of art in America in 1845, it re- flects very much credit om the artist. It does | not, however, possess much claim ou the score of artistic execution Or originality o: conception, as those acquainted with the galeries of :urove will at once perceive. At the time of its production, however, people were not so well acquainted with the foreign galleries, and tne artist no douvé | Teaped @ yood deal of praise to whic he was uot strictly entitled. The painting of many o/ the figures 1s fairiy done, and the whole composition gives proof of aspiration towards a high ideal in art. It is worthy of remark that the ciass of American artists to which Mr. Peale belongs has died out, Noef rt is now made in oar studios to Illustrate grand themes, the ariists con tenting themselves with transcribing some | bit of nature, and never venturing beyond som | simple genre subject. In the pursuit oi technical Merit idealistic art is forgotten, and the arust— the creator—sinks Into toe mere copyist. Tne Court of Death is at present on exhibition Leavitt’s Art Gallery, in Broadway, and it pos esses considerable interest as a means of com- parison between the ars conceptions of the eariier days of the young repuolic, and the pro- ductions of the later period, wheu we have reacned &@ degree 01 prosperity scarcely hoped tor, even in the days of great expectations. It will be seen | that though we have advanced in technical merit, in many instances that our present art belongs te @ lower order of thought. Snedecor’s Gallery, im Winslow Homer has at last hit on a subject ante able to his color pecultarities, It represents twe | boys seated in a boat on a river, and is strongly and naturally treated. The muddy white o1 the river and reddish gray of the clouds are well handled, and we forget the absence of feeling for color in the drowsy daylight effect of the sunmer’a day which the artist has admirably caught, mong the works by American artists ‘esiding abroad which are in this galery and deserve Special mention are “Moorish Horsem_n,” by G. ‘ashington. It represents a cavalry charge made in the Moorish manner and is full of spirit. **i'he Old Mill in the Mountains,” dy Du Bois, shows @ quiet corner tn the mountain valley, where the old rustic looking mill has been consiructed to catch the mountain stream. It is admirably painted and shows the healthy influence toe French schoot 1s exercising over American art students in teach- ing them to avoid mere minuti@ and devote them- selves to the broad essential truths which impart | force and solidity to a composition, Among the many foreign pictures a sheep sudject by Sckenk deserves notice. UNION HOM OBPHANS, Festival of Ellsworth Post, G.AR., No. 67 Fortune favored the gallant comrades of Bils- worth Post, No. 67, Department of New York | Grand Army of the Republic, in their first fesitval | It was held yesterday at the Bellevue Park, on the banks of the East River. The day was charming— bright, clear, with an Invigorating breeze blowing down the pleasant river. The festival was for the benefit of the Union Home for the children of soldiors and saliors Killed in the war. A very retty sight, indeed, made the children trom the Union Home, who were there present—the iris, with their snow-white dresses and taste- fully trimmed hats; the boys in gray untiorm, and the fine band, in dark biue, witn red Jacings. Dancing was vigorously carried on, and every one, oung and old, appeared brim/ul of satisfaction. ‘he exertions of Mr. Jacob Knobioch, commander of the post, and his most active stat on the Noor and reception cominitiees, could not and did not tail in making every one present enjoy \nemseives tothe utmost. At hall-past five the young folks irom the home formed into line, headed. by the Union Home cadets, the band pia: national airs, and, aiter a jew turns round the paviliol Proceeded to the upper apartment to partake reiresiments, The lesuvities in rhe evening Were contidued until a late hour with unabated vigor. CORONER'S INQUEST. Coroner Whitehill yesterday held an inquest tn the case of George Baroni, the Italian, who waa run over by an East New York car on Broadway, hear Fourth street, Williamsburg, on Sunday night lasi, and who sulfered ampucation 0. both lexs tn the Kustern District Hospital. After hearing a large amount of evidence the jury rendered @ | Verdict of accidental deata. it would te im. |