The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-01 00:00:00

THE CATTLE DISEASE IN AMERICA.

In New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and many other
States, alarm prevails regarding the m lady which
has attacked the cattle ; and measures have been
taken by the local authorities to eradicate the pest.
ft is not the hinder-peat common in Europe, but a
l'eXan fever carried north with the herds from the
Lone-Star State. Though not the some it is equally
Czttal, as the ravages in lir3iana and i where
it first appeared, prove. Vast herds have lately
been driven from Texas into moving by
e:isy stages over Vie prairie 4. The native stock
tppear to have picked up '.he disease from grazing
on th grouril over which the Texan lierdA had
passed. da-s is the ordinary limit, and
nearly all the ca,.es are fatal, and attended by loss
of milk from Vie fiat in the cows as yet only
attacked, by terrible emaciation, by violent in-
onmation of the bowels an" kidneys, and
occasionally by pustulent eruptions, and by great
discharge of water and mucus from. the mouth.
Campaign County, Illinois, the great rendezvous
where 30,000 cattle graze, is in trouble, as there the
scourge is mainly felt. The MisSourians, with rifles
in hand, deny the right of passage to the acenmulat-
ing herds from Texas and the Indian territory,
who threaten to force their way, and the Go-
vernor has issued a proclamation to the belli-
gerents to keep the peace. From Illinois the disease
has spread in every direction, and cattle are merci-
lessly slaughtered, as was the case in England a short
time ago. The Pork Packers' Association of Chi-
cago appointed a committee, headed by Professor
John Gawgee, lately of the Albert Veterinary Col-
lege, London, to report on the disease. The Pro-
fessor says the complaint is that called the " darn"
in Aberdeenshire, and that it has occurred in
various parts of Europe. As yet it has been con-
fined to cows ; even the calves sucking their
affected mothers do not contract the disease,
which has a local origin, and is not of the true
type of plagues epizootics. The examinations
after death show a greatly distended bladder, filled
with dark-coloured water and coagulated blood ; on
the body are immense quantities of ticks and lice
such as infest Texan cattle. Professor Gamgee
considers there is no danger from drinking the milk
or eating the ir sh of the diseased cow, but cases
are reported of sickness, and even death, among
persons who became inoculated with the virus, or
who used the milk even before disease appeared.
Mary agriculturists fear that the disease may be
propagated indefinitely and become epidemic, and
this is supported by the fact that the Western cattle
after contracting the disease from the Texan herds
have themselves communicated it to others.

MISCELLANEOUS NE IFS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

j Fifty additional miles of the Union Pacific Rail-
road are finished, making 750 miles from Omaha.
It now seems probable that nearly 1,000 miles will
be in running order before the close of the year.
The elegant drawing-room cars now building
by and for the Boston and Albany Railroad are
nearly completed, and one of them will soon begin
its trips. One is to leave Boston for Albany on the
8 o'clock train in the morning, and the other will
form a portion of the express train from Albany to
Boston ; each one passing over the whole distance
of the road in a day.

THE SNOW PROBLEM ON TEM AMERICAN PACIFIC
RAILROAD.--It was reported last winter that the
sheds built by the Pacific Railroad Company to
protect their track from the deep snows of the Sierra
Nevada mountains were crushed by the weight of
snow that fell upon them, and thatsome other method
of protection would have to be devised. It seems,
however, by a letter in the San Francisco Bulletin,
that this plan of shielding the track has not been
abandoned. The company are now engaged in erect-
ing sheds over the cuttings and the other exposed
points. They are of heavy timber framework, with
pointed gable roofs, and look as if they could with-
stand almost any pressure of snow. Nearly forty
miles of the track will have to be thus covered, and
the quantity cf timber required will be enormous.
Not less than 22 saw mills, most of them worked by
steam, are run night and day, employing nearly
2,000 men ; and yet they do not work up to the
needs of the company. In a few weeks 28 mills
will be running. It is estimated that it will require
no less than 800,000 feet of lumber to construct a
mile of sheds. So great is the demand that the coun-
try on both sides of the track is being rapidly de-
nuded of its forests.

A new magazine, called the "Overland Monthly,"
has been started in San Francisco, under the edi-
torial care of Mr. Frank Bret Harte, well known as
the author of the " Condensed Novelists."

Judge Alexander Walker, of the New Orleans
Times, is writing a history of the war from the
Southern point of view.
Nip-and-Tuck is the name of a comic paper just
started i❑ Schenectady, New York.
General J. J. Reynolds his assumed command
of Texas, which has been male into a separate district.
Charles Anderson, a noted English burglar, who
has figured in some of the most daring robberies in the
United States, was arrested on the night of the Bth inst.,
at Windsor, Ontario, with Frank Reno, the last male mem-
ber of that notorious family.

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It is noticed in America, as in England, that
many editors have died within the last few weeks. Be-
sides General lialpine, Mr. Brewster, of the Portsmouth
Journal, New Hampshire, Mr. John Wilson, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Mr. R. G. S. Andros, formerly editor
of the New Bedford Gazette at Berkeley, Massachusetts,
are among the list.
The lion. Moses Wingate, of Haverhill, now in
his 99th year, was born Oct. 25, 1769, and is the son of
William Wingate, the grandson of the Rev. Paine Win-
gate, of Amesbury, who was born September 10, 1703,
ordained at Amesbury June 26, 1726, and died Feb-
ruary 19, 1786, aged 83, having been in charge of that
parish sixty years. Mary Wingate, sister of this reve-
rend gentleman, was the mother of Timothy Picker-
ing. The Hon. Moses Wingate is a nephew of Judge
Paine Wingate of Strathatn, N. 11., who was born, 3,fa.y 14,
1739, and died March, 1838. The family has been re-
markable for longevity, and has been prominent in the
social and political life of Massachusetts and New Hamp-
shire for a century and a half. _ _

Mr. Seward has returned to Washington from
Auburn, having taken leave of the Chinese Embassy whom
he went home to entertain.

Judge-Advocate General bolt being away on
vacation, General Dwyer's court-martial is postponed
till his return. General Ho xard, of the Freedmen's
Bureau, on his tour of observation, has been in Columbia,
South Carolina, where ho addressed the coloured people in
the Representatives' Hall. The bureau for Maryland,
Delaware, and the district of Columbia, has been con-
solidated with head-quarters at Washington and the
General in Charge. General Ellis Spear, of Maine, has
succeeded Judge B P. James, promoted examiner-in
chief in the Patent Office, as principal examiner in the
class of railroad and civil engineering.

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