The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Having read an account in your paper of
the 4th inst., in which you state that Miss Burdett
Coutts had sustained a loss of 19 cows out of 20
that were attacked by the prevalent destructive
disease, in describing how they were attacked you
mention that it was by a great discharge of mucus
from their mouths and nostrils, and a running from
their eyes.

This brought to my recollection a circumstance
that occurred on board a sloop of War, in the Me-
diterranean, on the coast of Syria, in 1827, viz. :
That we received on board some sheep for the
officers' mess, and that they were all attacked in
the same manner as described relative to the cows
aforesaid. It so happened that a marine on board
came to me, as senior lieutenant, and said, " If,
sir, you will please to order me some vinegar and
salt, I will cure the sheep."
The vinegar and salt were given to him, and after
he had mixed them together in a bowl, he rubbed
their faces with it with his hand, but more particu-
larly their noses and mouths, after which he allowed
them to drink a little of the vinegar and salt out
of the bowl, which they did very readily, and it
certainly cured them.—l am, Sir, yours truly,

_
JOHN MONDAY,
Vice-Admiral.

24, Torring-place, Plymouth,

7th Sept., 1865.

THE CHOLERA IN TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 31.
For upwards of a week a regular diminution of
the prevailing epidemic has been clearly perceptible,
after a terrible increase had taken place during the
Greek fasts, but mainly among persons of that na-
tion. The cause of the increase will be perfectly
intelligible, if it is remembered that during the fasts
no other food than decomposed or decomposing sub-
! stances, such as caviare, dishes prepared with oil,
olives, salt fish, &c., is allowed to be consumed. In
some Greek quarters the number of the dead rose to
so great a height that the gravediggers were notable
to perform their duties, and registration of the num- I
ber of deaths was abandoned. It was singular that,
in consequence of putrid infection, the symptoms of
the disease assumed a clearly typhoid character, such
as rarely previously has been the case. The
Patriarch immediately gave permission that more
appropriate food might be consumed during the
fasts, but the fanaticism of the Greek population
was so extreme that his right of even temporarily
suspending so time-honoured an institution was
vehemently denied. Fanaticism in Smyrna was even
more rampant. In that city the archbishop was
nearly torn to pieces when he read the Patriarch's
order. Fortunately the fasts are now at an end,
and the epidemic has also greatly abated. It still,
however, makes numerous victims in the Jewish
quarters and in the Fanar, as well as in various vil-
lages along the Bosphorus.
Having now to some extent recovered from the
universal panic which has prevailed, the Turkish
public is beginning to look about it and count the
losses which have been sustained. The Maronite
bishop, who arrived here from the Lebanon with
Daoud Pasha, is among the dead. The Kasnadar
ilista, i.e., Mistress of the Robes in the Sultan's
palace, and several ladies of the harem, have been
dcaer:eiaesd off ; a
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palace. The Court has in consequence dispersed
in all directions, the Sultan having taken up his re-
sidence at the Ildis Kiosk, in the neighbourhood of
Ortakoi; The gross total of the dead is said in the
official reports to be 41,000, but the bulletins
published are all far too low. There have been days
upon which the number ranged from 1,500 to 2,000.
A report of the Sanitary Intendant Marchand
states that the cholera is now at Kustendje, Sulina,
where 96 deaths have occurred, Trebizond, Sam-
sun, Salonichi, and Bagdad, whence it has spread
to BLithire, Shiraz, and Ispaban.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
(Via Roches Point.)

NEW YORK, AUG. 29, Evening.
The district attorney has entered a prosecution
for forgery in the people's name against Ketchum,
alleging that no private complainants were willing
to prosecute unless compelled.
Wirz's counsel again abandoned his case on ac-
count of difficulties with the court, but at the pri-
smer's earnest solicitationitheyresumed the defence.
The military authorities at Raleigh, North Caro-
lina, have refused to deliver to the civil authorities,
on demand of Governor Holden, three citizens
arrested for outrages on negroes, alleging that the
civil authorities neglect to take cognisance of these

outrages.

Montgomery Blair has made a speech accusing
Messrs. Seward and Stanton of encouraging and
sympathising during the latter part of Buchanan's
administration with the leaders who had dragged the
country into rebellion.

Railroad accidents involving serious loss of life

continue to occur.

Heavy frauds have been discovered among the

army paymasters.

The Shenandoah has burned the whaling ships
Heiman, Isaac, Howland, Nassau, Brunswick,
Waverley, Martha, Congress, Favourite, and Cov-
ington, and has bonded the James Meury, near
Beluing Straits. She was last seen steering towards
Lawrence Bay. Two Federal ironclads left Aca-
pulco during July to capture her.

The North American Hansa and City of Wash.
ington have arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Gold, 1448 ; Exchange on London, 17 ; on Paris
3.58/ ; Stocks quiet ; New York Central, 321
Illinois, 1221 ; Erie, 866 ; 5-20 Bonds, 106.1.

NEW YORK, AUG. 30, Noon.

President Johnson has issued a proclamation re-
moving the trade restrictions with the Southern
States on all articles previously declared contraband
of war, subject only to such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

Mr. Davis will be tried in a United States circuit
court ; probably, at Norfolk, Virginia, Chief Justice
Chase presiding.
The South Carolina planters complain that the
negroes refuse to work unless under military com-
pulsion.

The cotton crop is not expected to give more than
half the ordinary yield.
It was rumoured from Havannah that the Spanish
steamer overdue from San Domingo had been seized
at Samance by the Hayti revolutionists. --- -

NEW YORK, AUG. 31 (Evening).
Trade restrictions with the Southern States in a:
articles contraband of war nave been removed.

The Shenandoah continues to capture whalers.

A Union mass meeting has been held at Rich-
mond, when resolutions were passed to express in-
dignation at the suspicion of the Northern press and
people that the Southerners were insincere in taking
the oath of allegiance, and to express their loyalty
to the Government, and also their acquiescence in
the result of the war, including the abolition of
slavery. It was also recommended that similar
meetings should be held throughout the South.
E. B. Ketchum has been committed to the Tombs
prison.

The prosecution of Mumford has been abandoned,
and he has been discharged.
More friendly feelings are reported to exist be-
tween the Federal and Imperial officers along the
Rio Grande.
The Africa has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, AUG. 31, Evening.

Money easy. Gold, 144 k. Exchange on Lon-
don, 157 k ; on Paris 3.584. Stocks slightly firmer ;
New York Centrals, 93k ; Illinois, 124 f ; Erie,
86.1 ; 5-20 Bonds, 107 ; cotton steady ; middling
upland, 43 ; flour and wheat dull ; corn heavy ;
provisions dull ; coffee and molasses steady ; sugar
quiet and unchanged ; petroleum quiet ; crude, 32;
refined, 53k.

The Royal Mail steamship China from Boston
and Halifax arrived at Queenstown at 6.40 a.m.
to-day (Sept. 9), with 155 passengers and $7,796
in specie. She landed 122 sacks of mails and 18
passengers, andproceeded for Liverpool immediately.
All well.