Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
w WASHINGTON, Feb. q.
THE RTNDERpEST.

THE RINDERPEsT.
The Star says: Thomas ii. Dudley, ESQ, United
States Consul at the port of Liverpool has transmit
ted to the Department Of State elaborate account
OF the rinderpest. now raging IN England, The de-
spach is accompanied by cOpiOuS extracts from Eng
hsh papers in reference to the plague, and contains
much valuable information to farmers and grazers Of
this country.
The despatch has been referred by Secretary Sew
ard to the Agricultural Department. The Consul
says that the belief to be gaining ground that
vaccination preventive, is a failure; neverthe-
less there are writers said c be goad authorities on
the subject, who affirm that vaccination, properly
peItormed coners protection; One Of these writers
a Mr.. T0llemache, says that the animals should be
vacclnated in five six places, t. thoroughly
impregnate them with the virus. He also thinks
that owing to the great demand, much of the matter
used in vaccination was impure and worthless.
The Government has, at length, taken hold of the
matter and Is importing vaccine virus from France.
The Consul states that the plague is not confined to
England alone but 1t prevails upon the continent in
Belgium, Holland, Prussia, seme of the German
States and in part of Russia The plague has almost
disappeared from Edinburg. either exhausted itself
or has been stamped out, bat before it had run its
course eJour-hs 9 al hS coocq I" Eaigbgra haze died
auth it. or been (ted. eIhe disease is increasing at
fearful rate The reports for the week ending Janu-
ary announced ,I45 new cases. being an increase of
Der of eases reported is To- 4O Of which l4l62 have
EPIDEMIC AT THE WASHINGTON AsyLUM
During the past week many of the inmates of the
aims and workhouse have been taken i'll with
disease of malignant character, and it is said that
about forty down with it. The diseaSeis thought
by some to be the spotted fever" which in nearly
every instance terminates fatally in some sections of
the country; but thus far at the asylum there have
been but few deaths. One of the fatal cases was
that OF 4. /. Harrington, who is well known in this
city, aud who died there on Thursday. The pbys-
clans have not yet decided as to whether the disease
is malignant typhus or spotted fever but they are
agreed that it is Of contagious character also of
the opinion that the presence of the disease is at
tributabe in measure to the over-croWded condi-
tion of the Institution.
SMUGGLING IN FLORIDA.
An officer of the customs, from the Florida district,
day utna tnt
him with the progress Of the Government agents in
Florida in suppressng The smuggling that has lately
appeared in that region. Large quantities of goods
have been seized, and many persons engaged in
smuggling brought to justice, most of whom were
well-known blockade runners during the rebellion.
MEDICAL REPORT OF FREEDMEN'S BUREAU.
The following extracts from the report of DR.. Caleb
W. Horner, Chief Medical Officer of the Freedmen
Bureau will prove very interesting proof of the
the Bureau in the health of those under its
Number Of white refugees under medical treat
ment from the organization of the Bureau up to De-
cember 81 1865 was 630 of which 304 died being
per cenage of OS of the whole number under treat
ment. The per centage of deaths up to Septemb Der
80 1865 was %; in October it 90; in November
it was O9 and IN DeceH.5e-i it .02. The number
of freed people under medical treatment from the
ganization of the Bureau up to December 81, 1855
was 9O522 of which S37i died. being per centage oI
90 of the whole numb Der treated The per centage o
deaths up to September 1863, was *: in DC ober
1865 it was Gi9. The reports embraces patients treat
ed in hospital visited IN theE or quarters by the
medical officers OF the Bureau. Many thousands Q.
prescribed for at the numerous dispensaries
not included.
The Sunday Chronicle yesterday contained the fol-
lowing dispatch from this city, with startling head
| lines, such as The Baltimore rebels redivvus y
| Their meeting to sustain President Johnson "The
ned rebel soldiers cheer for DaTs and Johnson
| "Irnion antidote on Thursday next.
Baltimore, Feb. THE call for the mass meeting
here on Monday night to enuorse the policy of the
President, is signed by those who served N tne reoe
army. Not five men who voted for Abraham Lincoln
have allowed the use OF their names. The custom
house and postofce are the ehiemovers in the mat
ter. j. hewitt Steele who addressed the rebel moi
w. Crsfeld who denounced Lincoln in 1867 and has
| acted with the rebels since, also appears.
"a mass meeting will be held at the same hall on
Thursday night to endorse Congress- The call is
signed by the Lincoln electors and many prominent
Unonists. Senators Fessenden and Cresswell. Gen.
| erals Schenck and Garfield Representative Francis
| Thomas and John L. Thomas, and the Hon. Johr
! W. Forney, have been invited
| THE returned soldiers of Lee and Mosby have
been cheering Jefferson Davis and Andrew johnson
for the last two days. There is but one sentiment
among Union men-to stand by Congress"
| GIRARD's SEcRET.-Stephen Girard. than whom NJ
shrewder business man lived, used to say in hi
old age:
| Il have always considered advertising lberally
and long to be the great medium of success in bust
| ness. and the prelude to wealth. And | have mad,
it an invariabe rule, too to advertise in the dulles
times well the busiest long experience having
taught me that money thus spent is well laid out:
| by keeping my business continually before the pub
it has secured me many sales that would otherwis
| have lost"
| William Cullen Bryant, who is now owe
seventy years DID, retains the usual vigor of his in
telect and still walks with sprnging, elastic step
At distance he strongly resembles Prof. Stowe al
| though he is much smaller and far more active, Hi
beard is long and grey his forehead is wide and low
| erng, his eye is expressive and vgilant. Thoug
| he has been hard worker in the various fields i
| which he has been employed. he yet bears all hi
| weight of years lightly as a flower"
Mr.. Bryant has risen slowly. Though his yout
was precocious it was some time before his talent
produced anything that rewarded him largely in
| pecuniary sense. He has known what it is to trea
| the thorny path.
-Spurgeon's last sensation was to appea
in his pulpit on Christmas day, with crown on hi
| head and palm in his hand. The Londoners wer
much shocked thereat; but then, what cergymen ar
there who do not appear in their pulptS with crown
on their heads and palms in their hands2
"A Paris letter in a London journal says
Rather good thing was uttered here the othe
| night by clever actress. A very old man havin
died. his old and attentive servant died the next da
Depend upon it, his master rang for him. was th
| remark"
The high price of gas is driving the pee
pie of Lynchburg Va, to the use of petroleum as
substitute. The NsVs says that the rush for lamps
so great since the rendering of last months gas bill
4 that It Is With difficulty the demand can bs met