Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-06-05


appear fully satisied.-COr. N. Y. Tribune.
The CATTLE DIsRAsE.-The extraordinary dis.
ease prevailing among the neat cattle in Massa-
chusetts has reached magnitude, and is threat
enlng serious consequences in the spread of the
epidemic to other State, that may infiict a seri-
Gus blow upon the agricultural interests of the
whole country. The spread of the contagion in
Massachusetts, aud the failure of the first effort
made for its extirpation, has occasioned so much
alarm there that q special session of the Legis-
lature has been called in order to clothe the
Commissioners with additional powers and to
make larger appropriations to meet the expense
occasioned by the slaughter of infected herds
The danger is increased by the fact that the
alarm it has occasioned has induced many cattle
owners to sell their stock at reduced rates, and
the cattle thus disposed of find their way into
adjoining States, where the cortagion may pos
sibly be carried and whole districts ravaged by
the disease, until it becomes, as has been the
case in Europe, general cattle plague. From
some facts collated in reference to the subject
We learn that the contagion was first introduced
into England by the importation of lot of calves
from Holland. Starting from this point, slowly
at first but more rapidly as more means for its
propagation were offered, it spread over the
length and breadth of the land, destroying hund
devastating effects with almost unmitgated Sc
verity-down to 1854 5. Notwithstanding the
deep and painful interest which this disease ex-
cited, and the efforts made by the Govern ment
TO stay Its raVages, it was ascertained by one oil
the Commissioners appointed TO investigate the
matter, that in Nottinghamshre alone forty
thousand head of cattle persisted in six months
and in Cheshire upwards of thirty thousand in
the same space of time. In one year. the third
of the existence of the disease, one hundred and
thirty-fve thousand pounds sterling were paid
oui OF the pubic treasury as recOmpense for
the cattle killed according to the prescribed
orders During the year eighty thousand head
OF cattle were killed because more or less infected
and nearly double that number died of the dis
ease. The prompt action of the Government,
although it did not eradicate the disease, yet
much diminished its ravages, and undoubtedly
shortened the period of its sojourn in England.
La 1857 over fourteen thousand head of cattle
were slaughtered or died in only forty-three vii
lagos in Holland, causing distress among the
peasantry OF laIneDtable nature
THE JAPANESE RESCUED FROM Tue New YORK
ALDRRMEN.-The example afforded by the ere
ception" of the Turkish Admiral aud of other
distinguished official personages from abroad las
not been lost upon the authorities at Washing
tor, and therefore the sole charge of the Japan
So0 HilHStcfS, Wull0 Iley remain III tbs country,
has been given into the hands of Naval Com
mission appointed by the President The mem
bers OF this commission are Captain Dupont.
Commander Porter aud Lieutenant Lee. Under
the Presidents authority, they will conduct the
Ambassadors to the most important cities in the
North and East, aud will direct their movements
In each place. The japanese will be nominaly
the guests of the city where they may be So
Journlng, but Captain Dupont and his associates
Will maintain the same surveillance over the
Embassy, as if they had never left Washington.
The municipal authorities will thus be practi
cally ignored. The New York Herald approves
OF the course pursued by President Buchanan,
and adds that sit would be an odd ides of hos
pltaity, indeed, to consign the guests of the ma
ton into the hands OF such scurvy fellows as are
elected to municipal offices in any of our large
Cities" and so commends s'most heartily the
plan which has been arranged at Washington,
and by which the japanese will be saved an i'm
mense deal of annoyance
The Herald advises "the New York Aldermen
and their friends to get themselves moderately
clean, to keep as sober as possible, to mend their
manners and improve their grammar-so that
they may make as favorable an impression on
the Embassy as possible. They cannot expect
to be Chesterfelds, of course, but they can be-
have themselves so as to display decent regard
for the proprieties of life. Perhaps it would be
good thing for them to try it, just for the
pleasure attendant upon the experience of nov
ell sensation" This is queer advice to address
to the governors of metropolis" and an I'm
pire City,"