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The dead bodies of the suffocated coal miners in the Avondale mine were found yesterday all in @ fheap in an inner corner of the mine, where the un- @appy men had tried to shut themselves in from he noxious gases. Work was immediately com- ‘anenced to get the bodies out, and @ jury of inquest ‘was empanelied and passed upoa each body as it ame forth. Most of them, eo far, appear to have ‘qnet death calmly and without much agony. : Miscellancous, Ashort Cabinet meeting was held at noon yester- day. General Sherman has been directed to act as Sec- fetary of War unti General Rawlius’ successor can be appointed. Vice President Colfax, on bis arrival at Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday, was received with great enthu- giasm. A public reception was held in the evening. Chief Justice Chase bas postponed further pro- ceedings in the matter of the habeas corpus petl- tions of Brown, Wood and other Texans on trial before military commissions in Texas until October, ‘when the decision in the Yerger Mississipp) case will act as a precedent for all. Senator Fessenden died yesterday morning st Portland, Me. The funeral of Secretary Rawlins will taxe place to-day and the pageant will probably be one or the Most imposing ever witnessed in Washington. In this last moments the Secretary seemed to confine Dis thoughts to the President, his family and Cuba. Mrs. Grant visited Mrs. Kawlins at Danbury on ‘Tuesday. The amount subscribed for the widow in this city now amounts to $39,000. The Vermont election for State officers on Tuesday a@hows a faliiug off of 13,000 from the vote cast last year. The republican majority is about 20,000, The Benate is unanimously republican, while the House 1s believed to be 200 republicans to thirty democrats. The result of the San Francisco munictpal election fis still m doubt. In the Second ward the recount gives Freeman, independent, for Mayor, an in- crease of 143 votes and McCoppin, democrat, one vote. The election in New Mexico, on Monday, resulted in a triumph for the republican ticket and the re- ‘arn of Chavez, as delegate, to Congress. General Canby’s proclamation naming the officers elected at the late election in Virginia and convening the State Legislature will be issued to-day. It will call the Legislature together on the 5th of October. Governor Walker will be Installed, however, within two weeks, Governor Wells’ resignation being siready in the hands of General Canby. The Legis- lature will do nothing more than ratify the fif- teenth amendment—probably not even elect its own omMcers—put will immediately take a recess until Congress has passed upon the State constitution. The Mississippi National Republican Convention met in Jackson yesterday and nominated Judge Louis Dent for Governor. The resolutions were mainly in reference to local topics, such as schools and the immigration of capitalists, and not a word ‘was said about endorsing the administration of General Grant. An important case, involving the validity of mar- riage between a white man and an Indisn woman in the Hudson Bay Territory, is before the Montreal courts. What adds additional interest to the case is the fact that the snug sum of $300,000 depends upon the issue. ‘The banking house of L. A. Benoist & Co., one of the oldest in St, Louis, suspended payment yester- day. The mati coach from Helena, Montana, was robbed by four road agents, on Monday, of $30,000 in gold, A bronze statue of Queen Victoria, to be erected in Montreal. has been received in that city, Itis to be unveiled by Prince Artour. Rich surface diggings have been discovered in Arizona by & party of emigrants from the White Pine region, Nevada, Henry 1%. Moore, owner of the Kutherfurd Park @New Jersey) Hotel, shot and killed himseif at his rooms in the hotel on Tuesday nignt. He was worth about $200,000 and leaves a family. Joseph Snyder, the murderer of Mr. Carter at Fatr- mount Park, committed suicide tn his cellin Phila Geiphia yesterday morning by holding his head in a bucket of water. The tron works at Allentown, Pa., are reported to have been burned on Tuesday night, involving a loss of $300,000 and the withdrawal of employment from 1,000 men. The City. Inthe Board of Health yesterday the reports of Sanitary inspectors relative to tenement houses were received, The Sanitary Vommittee, in view of these Teporta, recommend that an overseer or house- keeper should be employed by the owners for every, house wherein there are ten families or more, : ¢ such @ provision is required by the public ith. Mr. Mullett has returned to Washington, and states ‘that he has completed arrangements to insure the Gapid erection of the New York Post OMice, Henry M. Wood, ® salesman at Bosworth, White & Belcher’s, on Canal street, and Mrs. Myra W. Bushnell, a milliner at No. 36 West Kleventh street, were arrested yesterday, charged with defrauaing he Canal street frm. Wood, it is charged, had sent (rs. Bushnell, who dealt with the frm, a much Spree Semens 900s than see hed oreervt, Aian._ 8 Le without charging them io the bilL Both were held HERALD ington; Colonel A. Barton, of Tennessee; Colonel E. 8. Turner, of Washington; Colonel F. E. Camp, United States Army, and Colonel &. H. Dane, of Boston, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. of the United States Army, and Major H. K. Drake, of the United States Army, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Sullivan, ex-United States Minister to Colombia; Colonel E. Harrison, of Alabama, and Major John McUlintock, of the United States Army, are St. Nicholas Hotel. Syracuse, and Colonel Hildt, of the’ United States Army, are at the Hoffman House. of Florida, and Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ton, and Warren Delano, of Newburg, are at the Brevoort House. endon. Hurlburd, Comptroller of Currenoy, Professor George Thurber, Passaic, N. J.; Judge J. J. Monell, Newburg; Edward Buckley, Birmingham, England; J. Donesi, Italian Legation, and General W. B. Hazen, of the United States Army, are at the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. for trial. Sheridan Shook with the frauds complained of. Matteson and Abrahams are apparently the only ones implicated. In the case of Oharles Thompson, said to be a no- torious forger, who was tried for frauds in the Gen- eral Sessions yesterday, he was debarred from tes- tifying on his own behalf because he was an ex- convict, He was sent to the State Prison for two years. ‘The steamship Hansa, Captain Brickenstetn, will sail from the Bremen pler, Hoboken, at two P. M. to-day for Bremen, via Southampton. The mails will close at the Post OMice at tweive M. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, will leave pler No, 8 North river at three P.M. to-day for Charleston, S. C. The steamer Columbia, Captain Van Sice, will sail at three P, M. to-day from pier No. 4 North river for Havana, The mails will close at the Post Office at two P. M. ‘The stock market yesterday was better and prices active. Gold fell to 1343, rallied to 13534, and closed Onally at 1354. John Hickey, a shoemaker, became involved in an altercation with some women at No. 10 Roosevelt street, several days ago, and was severely kicked in the abdomen by a Mrs. Margaret Henderson. Last night he died from rupture of the bladder and Mrs, Henderson was arrested. Theresa Brauning, a little girl of three and a half years, was pushed off a stoop at No. 431 West ‘Thirty-ninth street, on Monday evening, by a lad of eight years, named Louis Ulrich, and died in con. vuisions on Tuesday evening. The boy Ulrich was consequently arrested and committed to the Tombe, although it is not alleged that he intended to take the life of the child. The Coroner's jury in the case of Mrs. Brown, the negro woman, rendered a verdict yesterday that she came to her death by poisoning with arsenic, aud her husbana is found accessory to the act. Brown was committed, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel E. B. Birchard, of Wisconsin; Judge H. B. Harvey, of Troy; Oolonel Thomas Evans, of Wash- Major 8. 8. Webb, of Ohio; Colonel F. L. Gunther, Colonel Devin, of the United States Army; General at the General H. A. Barnum and Colonel A. J, Smith, of Governor Walker, Colonel Purdy and Major Pool, Commodore Alden, Samuel Frothingham, of Bos- Colonel Robert L. Banks, of Albany, is at the Clar- Cleon Rangabé, Chargé a’ Affaires for Greece; Mr. Kortwright, British Consul at Philadelphia; H. K. Washington; Albemarie Hotel. Prominent Departures. A. Van Vechten, for Albany; Colonel E. D. Mor- gan, for Newport; Lieutenant Rockwell, for Cleve- land; J. T. Burden, for Troy, and Mra. General Rawlins, for Washington. Napoleon’s Health—Critical Position of France and of Europe. The reports circulated in Paris and London yesterday relative to the actual condition of the health of Napoleon, and transmitted to us by the Atlantic cable, are, as will be seen in our columns to-day, contradictory. His Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers held at St. Cloud, but postponed his visit to Paris. One despatch says his health is ‘“im- proved,” another intimates that he was not seriously ill at any time, whilst a third informs us that he is “much improved” in condition. That he is invalided is, however, certain. It said, indeed, that his system is just now in a state of ‘‘stagnation” of the vital force rather than one of convalescence. The Emperor of France is in his sixty-second year. Though this is not an age that suggests the close of a career where there is robust health or where life has been passed with tem- perate regard to the requirements of nature, it is a great age at which to bear severe disease. Age is so important a point in view of disease that many maladies, always curable in the prime. of life, are always fatal at sixty. Napoleon was, perhaps, never richly endowed with vital force, and the store he had has been sadly encroached upon by a life that in many viciasitudes has naturally yielded much to the temptations of the senses; nerve and brain also bave been somewhat overwrought of late years, and now, with less elasticity than the majority of men have at his age, he finds his system torn with the oft-repeated agonies of disease certainly incurable and now appa- rently well nigh beyond all control. His position is very grave. Nelaton apparently refuses longer to be responsible for his Majesty's condition. Ricord has been called, and it is reported also that advice has been sought among the great doctors of Germany. Finally, however, there is a limit to the utmost that science can do in keep- ing our physical machinery in operation; and we may fairly infer, from this sudden summon- ing of all advice that may have a possibility— even the least chance—in it, that his Majesty touches that limit. We see also that the Empress is kept within call. There are criti- cal moments in the history of dynasties when all depends upon presence at the capital; and it is apparently recognized in the Tuileries that one of these may be near. If Napoleon should die with Eugenie at Constantinople some one else might be regent, and in that contingency the chances of the Prince Imperial ever to come to the throne would be smaller even than they are. Napoleon's life is at this moment the most important of any in Europe, for his death, and his alone, may convulse the Continent. We have seen a Czar pass away and his place taken almost without the consciousness of his subject empire. If Prussia should change rulors it would be only a change of place for the national portraits, Other changes would be most apparent in the almanac of Gotha, All these nations accept the fact of a reigning Syagsty ; France does not; but her eternal Proton is that she will tolerate no dynastios | that she is not the property of any family; shat she cannot be degraded to an heirloom, but ia for- ever the mistress of her own dostiny. If she accepted the empire, it was with Louis Napo- leon as Emperor, and his very recognition of her right to choose, while it indicated on his . Assessor Cloveland appeared before District Attor- ney Jackson yesterday and stated that bo did not intend in his afMidavit gon Tuesday last wo charge tended to fear, became ‘the empire. has been that the power thus gained would be passed down to his son. nation will yield to that idea or insist upon its own. Will not the nation instinctively revert to the idea of the republic and repudiate the claims of a pos- sible tyrant in his minority? All the indica- nation, in this age, accepts the dynastic idea, it will only be in the rare case where the suc- cessor may be an intelligent and even able man. and apparently by natural taste, and his recent declarations in favor of liberalism are so much in keeping with his whole career that they are-not accused of even an electioneer- ing insincerity. Europe may be congratulated upon the hope that the presence of this man in France affords her. glad to have been so trusted.” confession; but he says, and not at all satisfied that if in a higher place I could do any better than those now exer- cising executive functions.” it, means that the Chief Justice is so well aatis- fied with General Grant that he (Mr. Chase) retires from the field; others.” In short, he gives up the White House part a true perception of the only basis of a Conflicting Statemonts About Chinese Policy throne in France, will be held as committing even him to her right to choose again. France cannot be bound by any law, by any constitu- tion or agreement written on paper or cut in brass; neither can her own sons ever be for an hour depended upon as an army to sustain any system, order or idea that is once repu- diated by the national impulse. She is the enfant terrible of nations, She will blurt out her thought anywhere, and, whether in word or act, will recognize no conventionality that contravenes her sovereign and absolute will. How can a dynasty be made to stand in the presence of such a people? No man can count upon the life of the Emperor for a day ; no man can count upon the permanence of the present order in France for a day beyond his death, and with that order gone what hurly-burly may not follow?, Napoleon has just disturbed Germany very greatly by his propositions to give greater freedom to France. How much more, then, would Germany be dis- turbed with the French people suddenly taking to themselves all the freedom that others oovet? With a tumult in France how the pre- sent organization in Spain would melt away. There is no house in Europe in such order that it might defy the chances of this possible crisis, There fs one peculiar hope for order in France and Europe, and that is in Prince Na- poleon. When France last had the oppor- tunity to freely express her own will the re- public was set up. Louis Napoleon, acting on the not unreasonable assumption that the re- public was tending to a reign of anarchy, gratified his personal ambition by pulling it the other way, and the republic, instead of be- coming a chaos and a butchery, as he pre- His hope The conflict in be whether the one man’s France, therefore, will tions are that France is eager to try again the solution of that problem from the considera- tion of which she was rudely thrust away by the ‘2d of December.” many interests, no doubt, will endeavor their utmost to sustain the claim of the Prince Imperial, and in this conflict there is the highest probability that Prince Napoleon may stand forth as the grand compromise candidate, uniting in his own person the best that might be claimed, equally by those favoring the republic and the dynasty. On the other hand, For he: is the best Bonaparte of them all. And if such a He is also a republican by education Cmur Justios Caase’s Wirnprawat.—In the published letter of Chief Justice Chase on the Presidential question we have hia retire- ment from the field. Hesays ‘“WhenI was younger, and thought that if largely trusted by the people (the White House) I could do good service to the country, I should have been An honest “Now I am older, This, as we take for, he continues, ‘I am more than content. My hopes are in ae a delusion and a snare; and he don’t be- lieve in any of these Chase movements; it amuses him to hear of them, and he hopes that no friend of his will give any countenance to such absurd nonsense, for he is done with politics. All of this reminds us of Horatio Seymour, the great decliner; but in this case we think we have a declination that will stick. Even go, then, let it be. Tue Proposep Harvarp Dinner.—We are glad to perceive that, in accordance with the suggestions already made inthe columns of the Heratp, the Harvard crew are about to be entertained on their return—which will occur in a few days—in a right royal, or, what is better, a republican and hearty fashion. The Harvard boys have done well. Full credit has been awarded to them by the British press, ex- cluding, of course, the almost incomprehensi- ble letter of Mr. Willan, of ‘the Oxfords,” the inspiration and object of which are not quite clear. Now we shall see what a whole hearted reception they will get here, under the patron- age of the New York boat clubs, who have taken the matter in hands. The intention is to entertain the Harvard representatives of American oarsmanship at a grand dinner at Delmonico’s as soon as they are safely landed here—say on Monday or Tuesday next. The affair will doubtless be conducted in the full spirit which animates brethren of the oar, nor will it be wanting in that national feeling which recognizes the merits of the muscle as well as the brain of our representatives abroad. The bostmen know how to do the thing properly, and we leave it in their hands, assuring them the full sympathy of the public. A New Wnhiskey Rixa.—Rumors are afloat of a movement among members of Congress to raise the tax on whiskey. This is a dodge for a big whiskey speculation; but as the Trea- sury is working the present whiskey tax very neatly we hope the President will put his foot down against any change, Prince Artuur Comina Over THE Bor- pER.—It is given out that Prince Arthur, “moved by the expressions of friendship and good will trom the American newspapers,” has resolved to pay a visit to New York in the course of the winter. What say the belles of Gotham ? Would they not like to see him, and “Kise hit for bis mother?” __ Taz BrooKiyn Parers axp THE Uston Ferry ComPany.—Of the two twopenny local papers over in Brooklyn one is owned entirely by the Union Ferry Company and the fingers of the other it has in » vise. Tho Death of Senator Fessendow. While yet engaged in affectionate regrets over the loss of General Rawlins, late Secre- tary of War, in the prime of his years and his usefulness, we are called upon to announce the death of a distinguished veteran in the public service in another fteld of labor, Sena- tor Fessenden, of Maine. We give elsewhere, in these columns, # sketch of his life and pub- lio career. He leaves a good record behind him as a learned and able debater, a clear- headed and independent thinker, an indefati- gable worker, a statesman of high calibre, an earnest politician and an honest man. He will stand in history particularly distinguished for his labors in the financial department of our public affairs on the Committee of Finance, in the Senate, and as Secretary of the Trea- sury in a very critical financial period, under Lincoln’s administration, Here his physical strength was found unequal to the exhausting work required of him, and to recover his health he was forced to resign, But he did much to put the Treasury Department firmly upon its legs, while confessing he was unequal to the magnitude of the task. As one of the seven republican Senators who voted ‘not guilty” on the impeachment charges preferred against President Johnsea, Senator Féssenden lost caste with the radical leaders and the great body of his party. This was so marked that it involved an active move- ment among the republicans of Maine to super- sede him in the Senate, and the effect was doubtless to weaken still further a constitution long ago undermined by @ chronic disease. And yet the Senator had reason to plume him- self upon his vote on the impeachment as the crowning act of his Senatorial career, in view, as a simple juryman, of the facts, the evidence anf the law, regardless of party edicts, party necessities or party denunciations. He has left a good name to his family, his State and the country ; and the Legislature of Maine will be fortunate if it shall fill the vacancy in the national Senate which his death has created. pedt to witness a reconciliation which Fenian- ism or Orangeism could never accomplish, and which would yield to Ireland a harvest of tranquillity, prosperity and peace. and the Chinese Embassy. Mr. J. Ross Browne has created a great noise and discussion about Chinese affairs and the Chinese Embassy since his imprudent and anti-American letter to the British merchants in China was published, It appears, too, that he is determined to follow up this hostility to China and to American interests in China, for we see by a telegram from Washington that he has informed the State Department that no con- cession has been made by the Chinese govern- ment to any treaty Power, company or indi- viduals granting any privilege for the con- struction of telegraph lines within the limits of the empire, and that, so far as he knows or be- lieves, none is contemplated. If Mr. Browne means that no written charter has been granted, he may be right, perhaps; but he ought to know that the Chinese govern ment, in conced- ing the privileges for steamboat navigation, for other enterprises now being carried out in China, or for telegraph lines, gives only ver- bal or informal concessions, and not written charters. He ought to know that great progress is being made and many enter- prises being carried out under such verbal con- cessions. He seems resolved to find objections to everything and to’ throw obstacles in the way of American enterprise, Mr, Burlin- game, as well as his English and French secretaries of the embassy, said over and over again while they were here that American companies could lay telegraph lines along the coast of China, and urged one American com- pany, the East India Telegraph Company, to go on with its projected work without delay. Concessions for telegraphs in the interior may not have been granted yet, but, as Mr. Burlin- game said, they would come in time. Has Mr. Browne or his friends failed to get jobs through imprudence and want of sympathy with the Chinese? It looks very much as if his picture of the Chinese and Chinese affairs was made under the influence of disappoint- ment. His return to America is certainly for- tunate, for he has proved himself unfit to represent this country at Pekin. We hope the President will make a careful and judicious choice of a new Minister for China, No mis- sion is more important than this at the present time. Our country is regarded most favora- bly by the Chinese government, and in view of our future trade and relations with China we ought not to lose the prestige we have gained. Let some statesman of ‘experience, broad views and thoroughly American in ideas and tone be appointed forthwith. It is too critical period to leave the United States un- represented at Pekin, but no one should be sent who is not a statesman and American to the core. The Telegraph as a Financial Agent. Of all the surprising effects produced by the magnetic telegraph, none are greater or more important, probably, than the revolution it is destined to make in the ‘financial opera- tions and affairs of the world. A great change has taken place already ; for where five or more per cent used to be demanded for bills of exchange on the transmission of money between one part of the country and another, or between different countries, before steam power and the telegraph quickened communication, much less is now charged. But we are only in the beginning of this financial revolution. It is only a quarter of a century since the first tele- graph wire was put up, and only a few years since ocean cables, connecting one country with another, were laid. When the telegraph system becomes extended and improved, and communication facilitated and cheapened, as will soon be the case, the whole system of ex- changes and monetary operations must be revolutionized. The new invention of‘automatic telegraphing, to which we have referred on several occasions, and which, it is said, ‘will multiply communications eight times or more over the present mode of operating, is destined to produce extraordinary results. Indeed, it would be presumption to make any prediction as to what future inventions or im- provements may do in facilitating and cheap- ening telegraphic communication. The time is coming when all the large mone- tary operations of the country will be regu- lated, probably, at this commercial and finan- cial centre, from day to day, just as the transac- tions of the city banks are adjusted every day by the Clearing House. Tho effect of this will be to lessen considerably the necessity for currency. Transactions here to the amount of « hundred to a hundred and fifty millions a week are ad- justed each day bya balance of one to two millions of currency. Apply this principle and system to the whole country—and it can be so applied by the use of the telegraph—and we | shall understand how little currency or money comparatively will be needed. If we estimate the financial operations of the country at five hundred millions a week—that is, upon the basis that those of New York amount to about a fourth of the whole—from five to ten millions only would be required to balance the account daily, Ofcourse we do not take into ac- count here the currency needed for small change in the little every day transactions of trade. Still the volume of circulation must become much less through the extended use of the telegraph and a general clearing house system for the whole country. In view of these great changes, then, how important it is that the telegraph should be under. the control of government.. A mighty agent like this, which is destined to operate so universally upon the business, property, condition, intercourse and social life of the entire community, must not be left in the hands of a monopoly or private corporations. Congress should without delay take control of the telegraph system through- out the whole country, and manage it as the post offices are now managed, for the good of the public. Overhauling the Revenue System. We published yesterday an account of the arrest of certain parties in this city, ex-revenue officers, charged with fraudulent transactions in regard to the public moneys received from internal revenue sources. With extraordinary clemency the United States Commissioner be- fore whom the charge was made held one of the parties to bail in the sum of five thousand dol- lars, whereas if the charge preferred be proven the loss to the government may be estimated by hundreds of thousands of dollars, We have also published accounts of the attempted assagsination of a revenue officer in Philadel- phia because he was unpurchasable by the whiskey ring, absolutely refused to wink at frauds, and by his resoluteness saved con- siderable sums to the national Treasury. We likewise show to-day by statistics that the amount of whiskey produced and accounted for during the year 1868-9 exceeds that of the previous year by nearly forty millions of gal- lons, demonstrating the fact that the revenue from this source is largely augmented as well by the reduction of the tax on the article as by the rigorous enforcement of the revenue laws, All these things indicate that the trickery and dishonesty relative to revenue returns and in re- gard to the faithful execution of the revenue laws—which were allowed to pass almost unno- ticed by the late administration, or were white- washed over by Congressional investigating committees—are being ripped up and exposed to the gaze of the people by the energetic measures of the administration of President Grant. Andy Johnson was too much absorbed in his quarrels with Congress to pay attention to the internal revenue system of the country, and to the gross corruptions that pervaded it in nearly every branch. Villany that was then concealed is now being unearthed, Let this good work go on. The people will ap- plaud it and profit by it. The fruits thus far are sufficient to warrant and to encourage fur- ther and equally as decisive action as that which has marked the recent proceedings of the revenue officer who has taken the initiative in one of the districts of this city, as well as in the prompt and liberal reward offered by the government for the apprehension of the assas- sins of its faithful officer in Philadelphia. We trust the administration of President Grant will proceed in this policy of uprooting the abuses of our internal revenue system and in bringing the authors of them to justice, be- lieving that it will result in increasing the re- ceipts and reducing the expenditures of the government and thereby give satisfaction to the people, A Grent Dragagiste’ Fair in Chicage. In connection with the first annual meeting which the American Pharmaceutical Associa- tion has ever held in the West there is now im Chicago a splendid exposition of chemicals and chemical and pharmaceutical appliances. All the large manufacturers in the principal cities of this country are well represented, Philadelphia taking the lead, ‘both for excellence of arti- cles and variety of assortment,” and Chicago, New York, Boston, Cincinnati and St. Louis respectively following suit in the order in which we have placed their names. Leading houses in England, France and Germany are also represented. The Western druggists will be bewildered by this display of pharmaceutie preparations. But the unbounded stomach of the Western people has become so accustomed to swallowing everything in the way of drugs and patent medicines that it cannot be alarmed. The American people in all sections of the Union will not be cured of dyspepsia as a national disease until they shall cease bolting ill-cooked food, drinking bad whiskey, chewing and smoking tobacco to excess, straining and wasting their brains with overwork and dosing themselves to death. Meanwhile, if they will persist in devouring all sorts of compounde, whother magisterial or not, it is of great im- portance that such an association as the ene now assembled in Chicago should do all it can to protect the public stomach agalast adulterated and deleterious drugs, and particu- larly against the fatal consequences of culpa- ble carelessness and ignorance on the part of druggists’ clerks. The Pharmaceutical Con- vention at Chicago is attended by delegates from all parts of the country, and the favora, ble influence of their concerted action in regard to these and other points affecting the general health should extend throughout the United States. The appointment of a government commis- sioner for the inspection of imported drugs and medicines has already resulted in their becom- ing comparatively free from adulteration. At first the scientific physician who was appointed inspector found it necessary to condemn and destroy almost all these importations, but the heroic remedy which he applied has well nigh cured the evil. Some of our druggists, how- ever, are in the habit of purposely adulterating certain powerful medicines of which poison is an ingredient, and selling them to purchasers who are not supplied with a doctor's prescrip- tion. This is dangerous, and sometimes it ie fatal, for a medicine which, if unadulterated, would be efficacious, is thus, simply as an inert substance, a cause of delay. Precious time is lost before needful medical aid is summoned, and the patient dies. It is within the province of the Board of Health to make atrict investi- gation into the adulterations to which medi- cines, as well as milk and whiskey and kero- sene, are subjected. A recommendation to this effect might come with a good grace from the American Pharmaceutical Convention at Chicago. The Avondale Colliery Calamity. _ Our latest despatches from the scene of the Avondale colliery calamity bring sad reality to the fears all along entertained as to the safety of the two hundred or more miners, men and boys, entombed within the mine at the time of the breaking out of the fire. The noble and self-sacrificing efforts made by the companions of the men in the pit to rescue, if possible, the doomed ones from what was from the first conceived almost inevitable death has only proved how well grounded those anticipated fears were. After unceas- ing and almost superhuman efforts, and a dis- play of individual heroism that lends to the terrible tragedy a feature peculiarly its own, the Golgotha of this mine of horrors was reached, when it was ascertained that not one of all the persons there at work before the breaking out of the fire was alive—not one “eft to tell the tale.” The reports that have reached us from the scene, and which we pub- lished yesterday and again in this morning’s edition, are mournfully concise and graphic. Every step taken and every act performed in the effort to rescue the unfortunate miners is minutely described, and these our readers have and will follow with absorbed and sym- pathetic interest. But the result, as before intimated, is that all within the mine at the time of the accident have perished, and thus the worst fears of all are unhappily verified. This most sad event has shrouded the rela- tives of these victims of colliery mismanage- ment in mourning and lamentation and great sorrow, and has besides cast a gloom upon the whole community far and wide. In their great grief the relatives, the widows and orphans, may be beyond immediate consolation, but what- ever assuagement is within the power of the humane and sympathetic ought to be liberally extended. A beginning to this end has been already initiated in this city, and we are glad to see that one of our public institutions—the Stock Exchange—at a meeting of the board yesterday afternoon, donated the sum of five thousand dollars for the relief of the widows and orphans of the deceased miners. This example will no doubt be followed by all the public institutions in this city, and their donations will assuredly be supple- mented by liberal contributions from all classes of our citizens. The catastrophe itself will hold a prominent placeone not to be equalled, it is to be hoped, in long years to come—in our annals of disasters, Let the liberality of our people be commensurate with the sad event, A Party Maonine In Pottapetpaia.—tiq reference to the appointment of election officers by the Aldermen for the Fourth ward of Phila- delphia, the following remarks are reported: — Alderman a can never go there; I ‘will bet $100 conmearn ‘Jonas —We will have to move the ward Alderman, MoMoLiIn—When = day of election comes we will crowd the piace wit a, The CHalR—Alderman, you should Pe erg of Jortaerman "MoMUETIN--On clestion Gi y aon's tat them go in; there will be murder if they And more to the same effect. Such is the development of party tactics in the City of Brotherly Love. It points to ‘‘cracked crowns and bloody noses” on election day; for Mo- Mullin has said it. The Irteh Church Question in Ireland. Contrary to general expectation the Trish Church question in Ireland has not been re- ceived with that enthusiasm by the people which its advocates fondly hoped. From what we can learn by the expressed views of our special correspondent in his interviews with the peasantry throughout the country there are no expressions of joy at the dises- tablishment of the Irish Church. On the other hand, the Protestant portion of the people are displeased and discontented by the measure, They consider that the government has acted in bad faith with them by robbing, as they term it, the Church which they and their fathers worshipped in. Good, however, may result from all this, The Catholics are unsatisfied, the Protestants discontented; but there is an evident disposition on the part of both to bury the recollections of the past, and in the place of the bitter hostility that for years has arrayed the two sections of the country against each other a feeling of harmony and friendship will be supplied that must prove a benefit to this unfortunate island. Religlous differences and their attendant evils may with such a anion be entirely dissipated. Let the orange blend with the eraen, and we may ex- Ar Last.—Signs of the ‘‘closing out” of the long dry season. Important Ff Tror—The report that Gea- eral Grant does not like the new Southern con- servative party. Our opinion is that as this new party swears by his administration he likes it much better than the late Southern Andy Johnson do nothing democratic party. Five THOUSAND Six HUNDRED AND THIRTY.— This is the number of the Jewish civil year which commenced on Monday last, dating from Adam and Eve, Our Hebrew citizens have been enjoying themselves hugely, too, in their New Yoar festivals, and it is well; for this, after all, is their promised land, flowing with milk and honoy, and New York is their New Jerusalem. po andl aesinndeie Persorep War Wivows.—There is no ex- cuse or justification for perjury in any case; butit is much more a matter of surprise than of very severe condemnation that only three of the vast and melancholy army of war widows should have been charged with trying to defraud Uncle Sam. How happy Unole Sam would be if as few in any other class of war gonaloners on hig bounty were guilty of a, Pastime vor Loarers—The inscriptions on the board tence around the site of our new Post Office, ’ |