The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-07
WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatches TO tie Eventno Telegraph.
WARRINGTON. March
Tho Rinderpest mn.

The Rinderpest Hill.
The bill to amend an act to prevent the spread
of foreign disease amongst the cattle OF the
United States, approved in December last, has
passed both Houses, and having been signed BY
the President, is now q law. It's provisions are
as follows:-- EO
That the importation OF neat cattle and the
hides of neat cattle from any foreign country
into the United States is hereby prohibited,
provided that the prohibition shall be suspended
as to any foreign country or countries, or any
part OF such. country or countries, whenever the
| Secretary of the Treasury shall officially deter
| NINE, and give public notice thereof, that such
| Importation will not tend to the introduction
or spread Of contagious or infectious diseases
amongst cattle in the United States; and the
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized
and empowered, and It shall be his duty, to
make all necessary orders and regulations to
carry this lawInto effect or to suspend the same,
| as herein provided, and to send copies thereof
| to the proper officers in the United States and
| TO such officers and agents of the United States
in foreign countries as he shall judge necessary.
| The second section provides that the Presi.
| dent of the United States, whenever In his judg-
meut the importation of neat cattle or the hides
of neat cattle may be made without danger of
| the introduction or spread of contagious or in
| fectious disease amongt the cattle of the United
| States, may by proclamation declare the provi
| sons of this act to be imperative, and the same
| shall be afterwards imperative and OF no effect
| from and after thirty days from the date of such
| proclamation.
| The second section provides that any person
convicted OF a wilful violation of any of the
provisions of this act shall be punished by
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or
imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by
both, at the discretion of the Court.
Evidence Required.
The Second Controller of the Treasury has in
structed the Second Auditor to require OF all
claimants for arrears OF pay or bounty for de-
ceased soldiers of foreign birth, and who repre-
sent themselves as only brothers, sisters, or
widows of the deceased, duly authenticated evl-
| dence from the genealogical tables of their
native place, before their claims be allowed.
MO Suit Against General Mussey.
The District Attorney for this District has been
oldered by the Treasury Department to com.
mence an action against Erieader-General r. D.
Mussey, late Private Secretary to President
Johnson, to recover the sum of $2sOO0, which,
it is alleged, was distracted from the sum ad-
vsnced him for recruiting, and for which, it is
claimed, he has failed to account. III
Central Pacific Railroad Bonds. ~
In pursuance of the report of the Commits
sloners and Chief Engineer of the Central Paci
! fc Railroad OF California, the Solicitor of the
Treasury has submitted the opinion that the
Company is entitled to bonds to the amount
of $64O0Oo, the sum allowed per mile being
$1,000. Hls N,r
| F' Substantial sympathy.
Another contribution from the Birmingham
| (England) Association, benevolent society
formed for the purpose of supplying, as far as
possible the wants of the destitute freedmen of
the United States, was to-day received by Gene
raj Howard. The invoice referred to consisted
of clothing, and amounted in value to over $1,000
The money value of articles heretofore contri-
buted by the same Association is over $lO 600, all
of which has been donated since the termination
OF the Rebellion.
| Maryland DevIItry. r! u
| Well-authenticated reports have recently
reached General @. II. Howard, Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the Dis,
trict of Columbia, Maryland, and several of the
eastern counties of Virginia, to the effect that
certain unprincipled and, of course, unautho-
rized persons are engaged in transferring freed
men from Baltimore and vicinity to Annapolis,
where they are, by some process unknown, dis
posed of to their employers at $40 per head.
These scoundrels doubtless operate on the minds
Of the freedmen by holding out false induce
ments, and stringent efforts are being made by
the Bureau to ferret out and bring them to JUS
| tice. M -
| West India Telegraph.
Senator Morrill,, of Maine, reported from the
Committee on Commerce to-day the bill incor'
porsting the International Ocean Telegraph
Company. Itgives to the company the sole and
exclusive right of laying working, and main
tanning telegraph lines and wires nom the coast
OF Florida TO the West Indies.