THE RUSSIAN PESTILENCE.

Some information respecting the Russian Residence, called

 the Cholera Morbus.
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the IhOltra MOfbus.

 Erhact otfa ieter 10 Dr Fehr Pa8caM, of

 NEW YORK, dated Paris, Nov. 8, 1880.

 l have as yet received but incomplete infor- nation repecting that terrible disease. The Emperor has offered an immense premium (25, ,000 florins) for the best work on the sub ject, on the nature of the deadly poison and the manner in which it could be so rapidly propo- gated through the most distant regions A medical commission is already made up and departing to inquire into the matter. From all that can collect, most disastrous affection Of the kind ravaged or years ago many of the islands in the Indian Ocean, especially one of the Philippines and Manila. would pre- sume that its virulent elements arc contalned exclusively in a horizontal column of gaseous strats of clouds propelled by the winds, but maintained by their specific gravitation at a moderate height. These remaining unmixed or diluted, are, according to the disposition or earthly surfaces, high or low, mountains or plains, and stagnant waters, Sc. which more or less will attract the injecting molecules, and must fix the disease among the breathing animals, at the same time, although at great distances from each other. It is also proba- blc that the higher points above, which soon- est attract the clouds, may become the earlier focus of the pestilence than the lower ones, the soil of which, are frequently of a contrary nature. The march or progress of this fatal Cholera Morbus from the most distant clmes, and through separate focuses at divers fixed degrees of elevation, and within period of d few years, seem to justify and authorize our conjecture.

 gret much that the Russian Autocrat has been in such haste to invite medical or philosophical inquiries to furnish him with ob- servations and facts, by the allurement of the most splendid premium, which will most as- suredly bring on some premature work, and not giving time to other theorists and medical practitioners from different nations, who have witnessed and attended numerous prevalences of this terrible malady in India, Tn the Orien- tai Coasts of the Pacific, and other parts of Asia. Their studies, therefore, and practical experiments, so important to determine the symptoms and nature of the pestilence, and chiefly to ascertain whether or not the viru- lent elements of this Cholera Morbus Can, like that of the Small Pox, regenerate itself at each focus where it has prevailed, will all probably be lgst. r. $, C,