The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

711 E CATTLE DISEASIS Ifv AMERICA.

The Times' correspondent writes :—" The ex-
citement regarding the cattle disease has consider-
ably abated, although it still lingers auout New
York, and has appeared in some new localities.
Where have been additional importations of the pest
to New York city. It appeare I at Boston a few
Jays ago. It is now reported at the towns of
.lug-Sing and Amenia, in New York State, and has
attacked the native cattle at Paris and Dundas, iu
Canada. Its appearance at the latter places is
ascribed to the transmission of Western cattle to New
York, along the line of the Great Western Rail-
way, the disease being communicated in passing
to the Canadian cattle. The Canadian Board of
Agriculture has appointed a committee to proceed
to the Western States and investigate the disease ;
and the New York Board of Commissioners, having
(men convened by Governor Fenton, has published
elaborate rules for the inspection and treatm.-mt of
infected animals. Similar measures have been taken
in Massachusetts. The American journals, con-
irary to their usual habit, do not make much
of a sensation out of the matter, hence the
absence of great popular excitement. The beef
market, however, continues very dull, not-
withstanding the repeated assurances that there
is nothing now to be feared, and mutton is decidedly
in the ascendant. On Wednesday, August 19, the
New York Board of Health were notified of the
arrival of sick cattle at four different points, and it
was discovered about the same time that an in
fected herd had quietly arrived a few days previous
and been offered for sale in small lots. There is a
fear of a serious outbreak of tit) diseas in a
few days, as it has been ascertained that the
eeriod for the development of the fatal fever is
irom ten to thirty days. There is nothing later
from Chicago respecting the disease there, but h
is announced that the Board of Health of that city
gas decided to establish a cattle quarantine. As
to the nature of the diseasi there is still much
uncertainty. Whether it be the Spanish fever or
not, whether it be true or not that Texan cattle
sent north in summer communicate the disease,
while those transported in winter communicate no
iufec.ion and remain healthy themselves, few people
now accept Professor Gaingee's theories as correct.
It is now known that cows, calves, and bulls are at-
tacked by the disease alike, though mulch cows are
most liable to it. ' • A Western journal further states
that, when the fever is virulent, under certain cir-
cumstances it will attack sheep and horses. There
is danger in handling the carcases of the in-
fected animals, as the virus may be communicated
to the human body, through a scratch or sore.
rwo cases of serious illness have occurred at
Amenia, New York, in this way. The only disin-
fectant that can be depended upon in the cattle-
yards is carbolic acid, but no remedy is found for
the disease. All, or nearly all, of the cattle in which
the symptoms are developed die iu spite of the most
careful treatment. No statistics of the general
mortality have yet been published. It is stated
that in Central Illinois 3,000 cattle, valued at
$120,000, have perished.
The New Orleans Crekent, talking of the excite-
ment there concerning the Texas cattle disease, says
—" The truth is, the iutrodurtion of these cattte
has been deadly to nothing in the West but the
profits of Western cattle-raisers." Its remedy for
the disease is, " Get rid of Radical despotism."
There can be no doubt as to the sanity of the editor
of the Crescent. The Chi,la brings news that the
malady is spreading throughout the country.

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