The New York herald., 1871-09-25

Inc NUMBERS unuer treatment In tnese Blk Gays
were respectively S24, 3l0 305. 293, 2sS. 277.
The intelligence received from the interior is, as
usual Of no very recent date; but AZ the above OIL
been infected though the old ones are somewhat re-
lieved, the sub)oiDed reports may be assumed to
give substantially correct idea Of the actual state
OF things. In the central provinces OF the empire
nearly one-halfo those attacked die. The province or
Posad has asout drteen cases and seven deaths
per day; the villages OF the Svenigorod district are
IN are plight ana n the P9do % district TIC ners
OF dead and assistance has to be sought from neigh
boring localities. Icherneva, for instance has seen
town OF KOoma from June to July 2e. had 432
cases and 1y2 deaths. Matters are nearly equally
%. had 745 cases aad 32s deaths, to which hgures
the one district OF Borof contributed respectively
til August a. lS5o persons were attacked At @ IN that
province, OF whom s97 died. From Tua we have no
news except that the disease dimiBishes In the dis
trlct OF veney, but increases in Epiphany
The South displays the same sorry spectacle. In
hotDed Of the disease; 22s6 persons were taken
aIi and l,4l0 died there between August and 10.
me norn, neigh6orng ds.rct OF Sovocaopersk from
deaths TO the fatal returns; that OF BOhr0vsk 500
cases and Sos deaths from August to 13; that OF
Iadonsk 400 cases and 20 deaths from July q to
August l6 The district of KOrOshansK, IN the
adjacent province OF Kursk, from August to l6,
counted iO9cases and SO deaths. The city OF Char
kon, to the south OF It, registered ~ cases ana SS
deaths on the 23d OF August, so cases ana 27
deaths on the 18th Of August. Kiev long wrestled
with the plague before succumbng to 1t; from the
27th OF july the day OF its outbreak, to the 2Oth
OF August, there were only 80 cases and 13 deaths
IN the city; but the three following days showed
sudden increase. being marked by So cases and 23
deaths. After this matters became rapidly worse
and worse. On the Goth as many las persons
We're seized and 5s bnried on the l7th. 1853 and
66; on the morning OF the 2sth, 2S9 were in the
hands OF the doctors. AS though one plague were
not enough 1t is officially. declared that the Neshinsk
district or the province OF Kiev as well as the ad-
joining province OF Tcherngof, being visited by
the Slberian cattle plague, and that the disease Is
TINS Time the more dangerous as has Injected man
likewise, In the military camp ut NicolaieH 20 SOL
diers have died out OF 81 seZed. 1t that this
camp, as well as another in the neighbOrlng
Turning farther east and north the gloomy picture
remains still the same The BOrlssOglebsk district,
IN the province OF YarOsav, had cases and 6S0
deaths between August IL and 10; the PoshehOnsK
district IN the like period, 4l2 cases and 1877
deaths Samara where 80 villages In the district
OF Bugurusav have caught the infection, re-
cords CORDS, 80 per cent OF dead among those
treatment, which had gone down TO 274 by August
TO- on the 10th Jumped up to l, 1876. OF whom 27s
died. And what is Of most Importance to Europe
the western regions are no less tried. Whole vii.
!ages In the district OF LldSk, province OF Wilma
have died out. Tne Goretzkl ana OrshansK in the
province OF MOhiev, had about 100 dead IN the rst
fortnight OF August and the province Of SuwalkI
formerly called AugustOvO) which borders on
Prussia, gives but too many proofs OF the taint.
Une more remark Will complete this catalogue OF
horrors. AS usual in Russian epidemlcs, drunken-
ness. the habitua vice or the country has received
q fresh Impulse from despair. Imagine a stricken
village with priests running about TO console the
dying while the living resort to the bottle as their
idea OF relief.