New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-09
FROM BOSTON.


BosroN, june 2. 1859.
The special session of the Legislature has lasted
. week, and the Committee appointed to consider
the subject Of the cattle disease have net yet got
ready to report. They have, however, diligently
improved their time, aud have obtained what III
formation they could from the persons Who seemed
to know most about the matter. 30 do not lhih
the delay is TO be regretted. The Cattle C"ninis-
sioners have been represented ut me hearings p}
DIR. George b. Loring and thu Hon. Aniasa walker;
principalE by DIR. Joring. The Doctor is n man of
ability, and combines the important qualifications
Of good farmer and We'll educated
physician. He is perhaps rather too strongly
welded To his theory but IN his capacity of Com
missioner seems n fair-minded as well as a capable
man. Mr.. Walker and Mr. Lathrop, his col
leaques substantially agree with and sustain him.
A number Of the Boston physicians and some of
them eminent in the profession, such as Dr. Jacob
Bieelow, DIR. j. b. s. jackson, and DR.. Harry /.
Bowditeb, have attended the sessions for the pur
pose Of investigation, aud Drs. Bigelow and Jackson
have given testimony. DR.. Bigeow is evidently
very incredulous to the contagious character Of
the disease, ard his testimony, which was as good
az a medical lecture, contained many quizzical
marks about the superstitons OF old times relating
to ePidemics, which Mr.. Lcring did not seem to
relish. Dr. b. said he should not consider the con-
fagious character Of the disease established until
some of the diseased cattle were removed 10
district not infected, and then some
healthy cattle placed within reach Of the supposed
contaeion Ifthey took IT and died he would be
disposed TO yield his opinion DR.. Jacksons teSti-
mony did not hear, bit think he was less in
credulous. The evidence, 80 far as it goes, Is
mostly in favor Of the cOntagiousncss OF the disease,
but it is quite incomplete. The physicians ask for
q scientific investigation The Commissioners do
not object to this, if it does not interfere with the
active efforts which they wish TO have made TO ex-
frpate the nuisance. And as We hear almost
every day Of some new real or supposed of the
disease, il is probable that the Legislature will be
disposed to accede to the demands Oi the farming
community. The farmers and the soldiers general
~ get all that they ask for in the way of legislation,
though most if not all Of the money expended upon
the military system might prcftably be transferred
to the farmers. great public benefit would
thereby accrue, and the public burdens would not
be increased.
Mr.. +. w. Bird of Walpole appears before the
Committee demonstrating against appropriations Of
money for stopping the spread Of the disease the
grounds, mainly, that not enough is known of it
to justify procedure upon any particular theory as
10 ifs character or as ~ The best mode of stopping
its ravages and that it s departure fran the
proper province Of legislation to tax the whole
people for the protection of any single interest.
Mr.. Bird is thorough believer in The Gjobes motto,
the authorship of which belongs, | believe, 10
William Leggett, viz: that The world is governed
too much" He is free-Tader, and an anti
restrictiOnist in most things. John A. Andrew,
esq., has been present AZ the hearings at the request
Of Mr.. Bird and Of the physicians, and has helped
in the investigation. He made short speech at the
close of the hearing Tuesday. pleading for scien
tic investigation. think the Committee viii report
III favor of pursuing the policy of extlrpatiOn 10y
slaughtering aud will perhaps give authority to the
Commissioners in certain eases to isolate diseased
herds and perhaps to try some experiments. They
will probably also deem IL best to recommend
statute giving greater powers to the Selectnien of
towns relative TO the transit of cattle The House
has ordered the printing of 10000 copies of the evil
denee taken before the Committee, so that what
little we find out about the malady the people of
the other States will, TO extent, have the ben
eft Of / hope we shall be- able to increase our
title TO the public respect by finding remedy or
preventive for the DISASTER for unless the importa
ton of cattle is substantially stopped do not see
how we can ever be considered free from danger
And, on the suppoSition that the disease is a
contagious epidemic, the difficulty is perhaps still
greater.
We have had ratification meetings of all sorts
except the Democratic. This class of politicians
End nothing yet 10 ratify and many of them fear
they never shall. The Douglas men have grand
demonstration tonight, the purpose Of which is 10
put down our three Whitney, Gushing,
and Butler. 1t viii be an immense meeting have
no doubt, but VIII not prODaply nave any influence
ON the vote of the delegation ut Baltimore. Is it
secret or not that Judge Nelson of New York, one
of the Justices of the Supreme Court Of the United
States is the man the ntiDOuglas men are looking
tot Gen. Gushing referred to him a year ago,
when he said TO a certain person that the Demo-
cratic candidate was then selected, but nobody
could guess his name in trying fifty times. New
York is now considered hopeful State for some
reason or other. Perhaps, however, il is only con-
sidered less hopeless than others. When the great
North West is formally abandoned 10 its fate the
Democratic party may fairly be considered on its
Last legs
The friends of Bell and Everett have held their
ratification meeting. The Union meeting of last
Fall is reckOned TO have nipped the John Brown
treason in the bud, and l suppose the speeches of
Messrs Henry and Hilard, and the letter of Mr..
Everett have fixed the flint of sectionalism for al
coming time. If our Sumner, and Wilson, and
Adams are continually endangerng the existence Of
the Union By their sedItiOus speeches in Congress,
we have orators at home who can apply the remedy,
and The genius of country, holding IN one hand
Summers speech, and in the other Eyeretts letter,
may say, with Cato:
my bsne and sntdotc ere both before me.
Til IN d moment brings iIe to an end,
But this informs me shsli never die"
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