The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-21 00:00:00

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Total in eight months ... 135,159 113,799
Decrease in 1865... ... ... 21,360
There are several causes for the decrease of emigration
this year, dependent to a considerable extent upon the
war. The great cost of living here in the latter part of
last year, and in the earlier part of this year, was one of
the reasons. The high price of exchange was another;
for a considerable proportion of the immigrants were pro-
vided with tickets paid for by their relatives here ; and
the steamship and packet proprietors have in most cases
made their rates to conform to the gold standard. Many
of the passage tickets that were sent to Europe have been
returned unused to this country. Still another obstacle to
emigration was the action of recruiting agents, who, under
false pretences, induced newly arrived Irishmen and Ger-
mans to enter the army. The greater part of the emigrants
come in the early part of each year. The arrangements
for departure are usually made in winter; the preparations
are then completed, and-as soon a,a.theFPring storms ET?

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over, so that a voyage in sailing vessels is endurable, the
embarkation begins. The months in which the largest
proportion of the emigrants sail aro March and April, and
the arrivals are greatest in May and Juno. A vessel sail-
ing before April is frequently two months on the ocean,
and nothing is therefore gained by so early a start. The
emigrant waits for genial weather and a pleasant voyage.
There is every reason to expect a heavy emigration next
year—if not an amount of it unparalleled in recent years.
The unofficial advices received by the agent of the Com-
missioners of Emigration, Mr. Casserly, indicate that a
vast number of emigrants expect to be on their way hero
next spring."
Crimes and accidents continue to be numerous.
A case of " lynching" is reported at Knoxville,
Tennessee. The Chattanooga Gazette says a diffi-
culty occurred at Knoxville on the sth, between W.
S. Hall, a clerk of the Circuit Court at Knoxville,
and a young man named Baker, late of the rebel
army, resulting in the death of Hall. Baker was
committed to gaol, but the citizens got him from the
Sheriff and hung him.

A very excited state of feeling exists between the
whites and blacks in Chattanooga.

Among the most conspicuous of the accidents was
the blowing up of a train by an ammunition car. It
occurred on the North-Western railroad of Tennessee.
The train consisted of eight cars and passenger
coftehes and there were nearly 200 persons on board.
Tffe two foremost cats contained powder, shot, and
shell, and, it was supposed, sparks from the loco-
motive communicated with the powder through
cracks in the car, causing the explosion. Seven
persons were killed outright, and nearly all received
more or less injury-. The fireman was killed, the
engineer badly injured, and the conductor slightly.
Among the slightly injured was Mr. Van Valken-
burg, Assistant-Superintendent of Telegraphs. All
the cars were blown to pieces except the two in rear.
The engine was badly wrecked. The concussion
was terrific, and shook the buildings in town like
an earthquake.
The telegraph to California is once more in work-
ing order ; there are no Indians on the route, and
no further troubles from that source are anticipated.
News is expected of a battle between General Con-
nor's forces and the Indians, in or near Big Horn
River, a branch of the Yellowstone.

The attack is mostly insidious, the animal appearing at
the outset to be but little affected. The eyes retain their
brightness often to the termination of the illness. The
appetite is generally diminished, but rarely lost, excepting
in advanced stages of the disease. A short, dry, husky
cough is one of the earliest symptoms; it continues through-
out, and is easily excited by nloving the animal, especially
if such movement is sudden. '1 here is rarely any discharge

from either the eyes or nostrils. The breathing is greatly
increased, and becomes painful as the disease advances. A
dull sound is emitted ou gently percussing the side of the
chest over the diseased lung. Firm pressure applied to this
part will also cause the animal to shrink. Thero is little or
no alteration in the local evacuations, excepting in the last
stages of the malady, when a diarrhoea comes on. The
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to the last hours of the illness. In milch cows the milk
is lessened ; but the animal will frequently yield a fair
quantity to the very last. The affected animal will some-
THE MOUTH AND FOOT DISEASE.
premonitory symptoms, excepting
in very rare instances. The animal frequently smacks its
lips, and shows by the movements of its tongue that the
mouth is the seat of suffering. The saliva flows freely from
the mouth, and accumulates also as a frothy fluid around
the muzzle. An examination of the mouth shows the
existence of largo blisters on the tongue, and often on the
inner part of the upper lip. They are few in number, and
always white in colour. The animal seldom refuses food,
but rolls it about its mouth, and often drops instead of
swallowing it. There is little or no disturbance of either
the breathing or pulse, nor is the temperature of the b.dy
altered. The evacuations are also natural. In many in-
stances the feet are affected as well as the mouth, and blis-
ters will form between the toes, causing the animal to walk
tenderly, and-frequently to ettclrup ono foot after the
other and shake it, as if to dislodke something which was
producing pain. In milch cows the-teats are occasionally
affected with blisters, especially at opening of the milk duct,
which lead on in this situation to soros and crusts, and pre-
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farm, as well as among the cattle.

The preceding description of the most prominent symp-
toms of these several affections will, the committee hope,
so far guide the agriculturist that he may at once be
enabled to decide on the nature of the disease ; but in any
case in which a doubt may exist, he should lose no time in
calling to his assistance the professional aid of a veterinary
surgeon.

The committee would further observe that they have wit-
nessed with satisfaction the formation of mutual protection
of compensating societies in some of the counties in which
the disease has broken out. Such societies must prove im
Portant auxiliaries to the means employed for suppressing
the disease by inducing persons to give immediate notice of
its appearance, and by doing all they can to carry out the
rules and regulations herein named, as well as the several
Orders in Council which have been issued by the Govern-
ment.

In conclusion, the committee have to state that although
strongly believing that it is to preventive, and not curative
means the country must look for the extermination of the
cattle plague, they have not neglected the important subject
of combating the disease by medical treatment. In con-
junction with the Royal Veterinary College measures have
been adopted by which diseased cattle are admitted into
the infirmary of that institution for treatment. Hitherto,
the results of medical treatment have nowhere been so sa-
tisfactory as could be wished ; but should a successful mode
of treatment be discovered, the same will immediately be
made public. Another and a very great advantage arising
out of diseased cattle being brought to the college is, that
means are afforded to veterinary surgeons—who arrive in
London from all parts of the country, and even nom foreign
States—of seeing the disease in its several stages, and also
of being present at post-mortem examinations,and learning
from the professors the whole of the details of the treat-
ment which had been adopted.