Daily National Intelligencer

FROM THE TRUE AMERICAN.

MAD DOGS.

While on the one hand we would not excite unnecessary alarm, so on the other we should be criminal to neglect those warnings which are justified by existing facts, and necessary for the public security. Two persons have already fallen victims to the bite of mad dogs—another is stated to have been bitten, yet are our streets infested with 10,000 of these useless and dangerous animals.

A gentleman was at our office on Friday evening, and mentioned the following affecting circumstance. About a month ago, a little lad was returning from school when a small black dog snapt at him and wounded the end of his finger. The scratch was scarcely perceptible. When he went home he mentioned the matter, but no alarm was excited. A few days after however, he was taken ill, and a physician sent for. The horror excited by the presence of water left no room to doubt of the fatal character of the disease. The lad himself was soon sensible of his situation, and aware that he could not survive. Yet he had his senses so perfectly, and his affections were so strong for his brothers and sisters, that he divided his toys and play things among them, and bade them adieu. It is enough to say that he died; how, is too dreadful, too agonizing to tell.

The writer was relating the accident at Mr. M'Calla's on Saturday, when a gentleman present mentioned that he had a short time ago lost a fine horse, by the bite of a dog. His rage was such, that they were obliged to shoot him. Another person instantly stated, that a bull, which was driven into the city that day, was seized with every symptom of madness.

The dreadful fate of poor Bennett at Frankfort must, we presume, be fresh in the recollection of every person. Is it necessary that other victims must fall? Or, are the dogs more valuable and precious than the lives of our fellow citizens?

The remedy is too obvious to need suggestion. Public opinion must unite to fortify and aid the arm of the civil authority, and the city must be freed from the danger.