The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-03-16
The Cattle Plague IN England.

plague, Of which one hundred aud nifty
thousand have died or been killed. The
disease is deemed SO Indignantly fatal
tina, if one of herd is attacked, the own
err at once kills the remaining cattle and
sells the beef, because the cattle may be
healthy to day and diseased tomorrow
1t must therefore be borne IL mind tina. the
number Of cattle which are daily destroy
ed must be enormous. There is iraminen.
apprehension that nearly all the cattle OF
England will be killed-those which are
not diseased, for the good beet, and those
which are attacked, from fear that the
pest will spread farther. In consequence
of the alarm among the butchers good
beef sells in London for sixty cents per
pound in gold, Or for ninety cents of our
currency. There would be s9uall among
our !aborers were they compelled to pay
ninety cents per pound for their meat
Nearly every laborer's family would have
to give up the use Of fresh meat.
The rinderpest is becoming a serious
political question. The laborers are nat>
urally disconnected with the famine
price of meat, and as the extension Of the
suffrage TO the people is now being dis
cussed, the aristocracy naturally fear that
this discomfort will breed a revolutionary
desire for change. High prices naturally
produce disconten. against the govern
ment, especially when labor has not ad
vanced correspondingly. 1t is hence that
the people are much acerbated against the
government, as they are convinced that
the rinderpest might have been kept out
of the country, if proper system of re,
strictions on imported cattle had been
adopted.
1t is also now stated tina, inoculatior
fails. AT first it appeared to succeed, but
subsequent trials prove it TO be worthless
against the infection. We still believe
the pest to be a species of small pox, fol
inoculation has been found to be the best
remedy, though it cannot be said there
exists much OF remedy, since ninety
per cent Of the cattle attacked are quite
SUE 10 die. A gentleman who recently
returned from England to this city, says
1t would be impossible to portray the
alarm among the farmers of England
They positively seemed to think they
would lose all their cattle incubation
was the remedy most resorted to, but
thew performed it in such haste and with
so little certainty that the matter. they
used was not of the right kind, that they
were experimenting bIindly In England
most Of the herds are owned by farmers
who do not own the land. As a conse
quence, when the farmers lose their cat.
tie by the rinderpest-they lose their all
Many Of these men, a few months ago
were substantially wealthy now they
are as utterly poor as If the desola,ion O.
civil war had spread through their couu.
try The saddles. feature of the whole
calamity is that no one can see an end to
it, until all the cattle are destroyed. Thus
far the pest has been excluded from Ire.
land, by rigid system OF restriction. 1t is
already in the South Of Scotland, bu,
there it has not proved quite so fatal as
in England. 1t is ravaging Belgium
Holland and Germany, but is not very
destructive in France The French man.
age the diseased cattle with moro skill!
and it therefore aggravates John Bull, II
see his French neigbbors getting through
their troubles more lightly than be does
1t is marvellous that the skill of all the
greatest physicians of Eng land have fail
ed to discover a remedy for this appalling
plague Mil Vas.
England deserves no sympathy from
mankind in her hour Of distress. Her pco
pie, during the great famine in Ireland
were wont to make sport and jjbe apc
jeer at the starving and houseless poor
Of that country, now let them enjoy thei'
famine.