The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1872, Page 4

4 “SMALLPOX, Terrible Increase of the Dis- ease in the City, THE VIRUS ALL OVER THE WORLD. HINTS TO THE UNHAPPY. ‘How to Treat, Prevent and Kill the Loathsome Pestilence. ‘Oficial Statements of Health Officers. Dreadful Condition of the Small- pox Hospital. Opposition of the German Popula- tion to Vaccination. WHERE THE EPIDEMIC IS. How the Street Cars Generate Infection. That the loathsome and much dreaded disease, ‘the smallpox, 1s making rapid headway in tnis city, Is no longer @ matter of doubt or speculation, and the health authorities fully recognize the fact by THE BOLD AND ACTIVE MEASURES instituted to suppress the further growth of the Pestilence, if possible, From week to week, for fome months past, the virus nas gone on increas- Ang, until it has reached to alarming figures, as Bhown in the report issued yesterday by the Board of Health, When first the small- pox made its appearance this winter the city was in @ most unfortunate condition to ‘meet an epidemic of that terrible nature. Then the ‘Authorities were compelled to look on and see the Geastroyer do its deadly work without being able, to ‘Bny great extent, to check its progress, In conse- quence of this Inability of the Board of Health to Meet a food of pestilence like that which broke pon New York, the disease secured a firm nold in the thickly populated districts before the authorities Aere put into @ proper position to battle witn it for the lives and safety of the people. The principal ‘aimouity in tae way of preserving the population Pgainst this calamity was ‘ THE WANT OF MONEY. ‘The Board of Health had none, and the city cof- fors, to which they were compelied to turn for a» Bistance, were ina similar condition, The Vomp- ‘roller sympathized deeply witn the embarrassed {Board, but (urther assistance he was unable to give them. Aftersome time, however, suiliciont means Were obtained to enable the Board to do something Sowards tne preservation of the public health, and the Oght with tne pestilence began. A number of medical men were engaged to go about the eity and visit every house for the purpose of vaccinating the inmates free of charge, @na by this means make them impregnable to smallpox. This, after long experience, the Board of Health have found to be the most efi- Cacious means of securing the people against the Bttacks of the pestilence. In some districts this Plan worked well, but in others, either through the tubbornness of the people or their aversion to medical treatment, the disease went on increasing. According to the official records in the Bureau of the City Sanitary Inspector the German population Gre the most AjMicult to deal with, They persistently refuse to be vaccinated, and resist every effort of the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1872%.—IKLPLE SHEET. epidemic form in-various parta of the civilized world, Notwithstanding the efforts of health authori- tes i the Various Jocalities'where tt has prevatlod to arrest its pi it stilt continyes to find large numbers of unprote: victims. ‘The general apati prevalent among people of d.flerent natio: tea, induced by long exemption from any great epidemic ol this ) Nas produced ao indifference to ITS KAVAGES AND DANGERS, and an almost-criminal neglect in the use of the Sol sure preventive which nas proved wortay of e name, The gradual scepticism which, from various causes, has been growing in the public mind with reierence to the absolute protective value of vac- Cination Has contributed largely to its newlect, and in many piaces to its almost total abandonment, and, consequently, we are now becoming aware of AN ENORMOUS INCREASE in the number of victims annually destroyed or disfigured by tus loathsome pestilence. in the large cities of the Eastern Continent, in South America, the islands of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and North American cities, it has shown @ Constanly mereasing tendency to assume are Proportions during the last three years. ‘The Jollowing statistics already received from Various cities will show, by the death records of ihe year 1871, some of these facts. ‘Lhe following 1s & statement of the DEATHS BY SMALLPOX during the first nine months of the year 1871 in various places, with the population’ of each in round numbers aad the percentage for 1,000 of deaths to the population, (lt may safely be estimated that the deaths indicate about one-tourth of the total number of cases occurring):— Fer cent Population, No. Deaths, Pé1 1,000, 000 3,171 3.62 260" zi 250, 000 hanes} 1,801 3.63 380,000 210 +65 100,000 sa 6.62 Ioofou0 racy oo 874'000 fase 270 tesces 942,000 806 +85 * For tive months ouly. + For year 1871, These figures show that while this disease has, dur- Ing the past year, swept away its thousands in over cies New York has a death record of only 805 out Of & population of 042,252—a percentage of .85 per. 1,006 of its population, Jn the exhibition of this favorable work New York may claim, through ite health organization, to Uave accomplished what no other city or country hus ever done. Notwithstanding thé well kuown fact that it ts more directly exposed to the inroads of this and other BPIDEMIO PESTILENCES, being the great eutrepot of emigration, the grand gateway of the high roads of commerce, and so near, by the ald of steam, to ‘ail other parts of the. world, froin which the disease may be transported during its periods of incubation and distrivuted belore detection 18 possible, yet, by the use of such means as science and experience have shown to be effective in prevention and arresting its spread, has New York thus far escaped from THIS WIDELY DEVASTATING PESTILENCE. It may be satd, without fear of contradiction, that, never in the history of epidemics in any coun- try, has there been such thorough and systematic appliances instituted and carried to suceessiut issue as those adopted and applied by the Health Depart- ment of this city, Under the wise provisions of the laws of this State tls department has been enabied to apply Such measures as salitary science demands, BY its methods early information ts obtained of cases of contagious disease occurring within its jurisdic- tion, anu by the prompt, judicious and liberal appli cation of protective means, combined with sauitary cure of cases and sources Of injection, it has been unable to accomplish such results as prove to the ‘world that science does not stultify herself when she declares that pesillence should and can be con- trolied and stayed. The history of smallpox as it has occurred in this city during the past year and the methods in detail by which it has been controlled through the efforts 3 the Health Department iorm au insuructive jesson, About the 1st of January, 1870, the Bureau of Sanitary Inspection became informed, through the increasing reports of ouses from the medical pro- fession and others, that smalipox was becomin, aguin epidemic im its character, ‘ine Board o: Heaith immediately increased tke force of Assistant Health inspectors specially for the duty of OFFERING FREB VACOINATION to all persons needing that protecuon, This duty was continued until aearly every tenement ho! puvlic and parociital school had been visited, and the large number of about one hundred thousand persons had been vaccinated. This measure, in connection With the sanitary care of the cases as they occurred, had the effect of almost entirely suppreasing the disease, so that during the months of September and October the Bumber of reported cases reached the minimum, being as Jow as six per week, Duriog the yeur 1871 the number of cases known to have occurred in the city, by reports received at the Bureau of Sanitary inspection, in connection with the number o/ patients received at the Smuil- pox Hospital from other sources than the city irectly, Was 3,084 ‘The oMcial record of these is as lollows:— ADM1SS10N TO SMALLPOX HOSPITAL FOR YEAR 1871, From city....... 1,731 QuarantiLe direct. Other piaces beyoud city Luma, TOA. 5. 34sebs vadvs Fever oobt Isolated and treated in the olty..... Secreted and first reported as dead....... TOUAL....scscreeoserscsvcvcosetscecccssevses es 8,086 The total of aeatns tor the year as recorded in the Bureau ol Vital Statistics was 905, Therefore the percentage of deaths to all cases Banitary corps to put them in a state to meet the pestilence that is now DEVOURING THE CITY. Although the disease has extended over the en- tire surface of New York, and 1s not specially 10- cated to any extentor in any district, yet the returus Ofsmalipox cases on the books of tue Health De- partment show thata large preponderance of the @Micted are Germans. At the reguiar meeting of the Board of Health yesterday the City Sanitary Inspector presented a lengthy and comprenensive report on the subject, in which is shown the state of smallpox in all the Principal cities of the world, and the resuits srrived at in New York by tie work of the Health Department. The treatment Of the disease ts also discussed, as well as the Manner of preventing and poisoning the virus. These are subjects exceedingly useful to the public at large ana to a great portion of tho medical faculty, among whom a very wiue difference of opin- ton exists as to the various methods of treatment, Prevention and cure in use, In fact, it has been ascertained without @ doubt that methods of vac- Cination differ as much almost as the characters of the men who hold diplomas, Under such o State of things it ts of the frst importance ‘that the people should be thoroughly instructed on the subject at moments like the present, when THX AIR IS TEEMING WITH DEATH. ‘The Smallpox Hospital is an tustitution that year after year makes 11s appearance before the public im an unenviavie light, It 1s now ascertained from the report of the City Sanitary Inspector that @ large number of patients was sent there last year who did not belong to the city or county of New York or who had not been transmitted from Quarantine. To tnd out whetner these | pationts have been paupers. who were adinitted to the hospital and cared for by the city, or paid for the accommodation extended to them, the Board of Health is about to insutute an inquiry, This hospital ts under the control of tne Commissioners of Charities and Correction, who are never respon- sible for anytning, when it should really be under the direction of the Board of Healt. The whole subject of the Smallpox Hospital is now under con- sideration, and a report upon the vexed question wilt eo0n be laid before the public, trom which they ‘Will be able to judge of the style in which THE ABOMINABLE DRN ismanaged. On the suggestion of Commissioner Mannierre in the mecting of the Board of Health yesterday the advisili!ity of stationing a number of imspectors at the princip! ferries and railroad de- pots leading from New York to Jersey Is to be taken Into consideration. This, the Commissioner pointea Out, was absolutely necessary, as Jersey 1s teeming ‘with smallpox, and there can ve no doubt itis brought to this city every day by the railroaas ana ferryboats, This has becn suown conclusively by the report of the City Sanitary Inspector, and the Board intends to adopt some decisive steps to put a stop to it In the present state of DISEASE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, and more especially in the cities immediately sur- rounding New York, it 1s absolutely necessary to take measures that will in some degree mitigate the threatened evil, Brooklyn is in an alarming condt- tion; Jersey is even worse, and Philadelphia has been known to be ina most deplorabie condition. The means by which the disease is transmitted are 80 varied that no positive ruies can be laid down for the direction of we public, But one fruitful source of this aud other diseases is the tatreet cars, Dr. Stephen Smith said yester- Gay they are full of vermin of the most loathesome Gnd disgusting kinds, and @ general channel of tilenoe in the city, The Third Avenue and the town’! o- Thirty.fourth Street lines he men- pt a6 being particularly aithy and dangerous to THE SANITARY INsPECTOR’s REPORT, The following W thé report submited by the City Batiiary inspector for the ialormation of the tala 7 During the past throo years the smallpox has shown ! 1 appears to be 20.10, The percentage of deaths to cases treated at Smallpox Hospital was 20.46, there havmg been 2,498 treated aud 611 deaths oc- curring thereat, ‘thas there was @ much larger e peroen tans of deaths occurring among those 130) and secreted at their own homes in the city ts beyond quesuon true, but as no accurate statistics of the actual number Of cases SECRETED AND TREATED at their own homes can be obtained it becomes im: Possible to arrive at positive proportions, From the fact that 8o large a number (101) were reported as dead at their own dwellings, without mevical attention in many instances, it must be in- ferred that the concealinent in close rooms, without proper ventilation or medical treatment, could not but result in @ large death rate, The special methods of controlling and arresting the spread of this disease as employed by the Health. Department of this city may be descritéed uader the jollowing heads:— 1—How information 18 received of tts prosence. 2—The means employed in rendering persous un- suscepudie. 8—Lsovation. 4—Meuns employed to destroy the poison. Firsi—How inigrmation 1s received of the pres- ece Of ContagioNs disease, Secuons 122 and 123 oi the Sauitary Code require that such information be promptly torwarded to the Bureau of Sanitary Inspecuon. ‘To facilitate prompt gPporss of such the Board of Health have caused a blank form to be prepared end furnished to the medical profes- s190. . Second—The means employed in rendering per- sons unsusceptible, As smallpox appears to be the ouly contagious disease that 1t 13 possible to con- trol by preventive means, the Board, in the absence of compulsory law, has adopted the method of ofer- ing i1ee Vaccination by HOUSE TO HOUSE VISITATION, To every person Wao may be unprotected medical assistant health inspectors are appointed trom time to tume, ns Occasion requires, to perform tnis service. During the year 1871 over one hundred thousand persons were vaccinated by tbese means, As tote value of vaccination a3 a means of pro- tection the almost unanimous opinion of the best informed members of the medical professton is that when careiully and successfully performed itis ‘A POSITIVE PROTECTION to the individaal, and our experience during the DASt year Offers one Of the strongest prools of this truth—viz., in the fact that among ali of those suc cessfully vaccinated or revaccinated none have fallen vicums to this disease in any wile numbers pave been stricken with It who refused to be vaccluated. This fact. comes to our knowledge aliiost daily. With reference to this successful pro- tection much may be atcributed to the faot of using only iresi virus while in an active condition, being almost from arm to ai our practice bein to use the virus selected trom healthy inian oaly, within twenty-four hours from the time of takthg it from the arm. From the difficalty of ob- {alnivg & subicient quantity and @ regular daily Supply of bovine lymph, and from the ate ‘that the Mumited supply obtained at one time gave no better Tesullg as a prophylactic, we now rely upon Numanized lymph exclusively. The absolute protec- Yon affurded tw s0 large a numer ay our statistics Show is @ Convincing argument as to its inestimable value a8 @ breventive. The dimcuity of always big el iS eae ba Tacege virus on band ie 80 gi means should be e State for provided by the mnder tie eters AxerIretion, o e Charge of the Heaith Depart cultivation of pure bovine or. animal ‘vaccine, ava Connected therewith practical instruction should’ be he asto tue best methods for its plication, he importance of having pure lymph and uniforia Inethods for tts introduction mo the system cann t PeriroLs Tne: ale Operation, althougn com. ‘a » SLOuld 1orm @ part instruction of pli ace BVERY MEDICAL, STUDENT, Ly haan — to ve as many different methods Application aimost as there are the prutesnon.» aa Medical men in olation..-The Board of Health 1s em- powered by law to cause the removal of any persan sick with smallpox or contagious disease to !,oapital or place by It designated; thereiore it nas author ized its oblef oMoer, in his discretion, to cause: such removal whenever he deems it becessary, tinder Certain regulations. In pursuance of these’ Tegala- Uons, unless it appears evident by eurrounding cir- cumstances that ® patient 810K WITH THIS DISeAsR can be thoroughly Isolated so a8 to protect the pub- lio from any danger from 1nfection therefrom, he or she tg at once removed to the smallpox hospitak This 18 done by means of improved ambuiauces specialy provided by the Board and under the charge of persons especia:ly trained for that service. Those persons isolated a their Crd we are kept under tho supervision of @ medi albu . » WhO attends to thi a “ ENFOROING OF THE RULES adopted by the Board with reference to qnarantine and sanitary care, leaving the regular medical at- fenapus frog 40 big Special medicaleare of the pa tient. ‘The Boaru's officers, having only the duty of Qovecting we vabliq wram We soread of the iuleo- aon, have no responsibility in medical treatment whatever. THB DETAILS OF THE METHODS as Reeiormed by the Bureau of Sanitary Inspection with reference to the prevention and spread of the disease are as follows:—Health inspectors are on detail duty at the ofice daily. The moment a ca:0 4s reported an inspector visits it and reports througo the nearest telegraph station to the office, giving the diagnosis and the fact whether rem vo hos- pital ts necessary or not. If to be removed the am- bulance 1s at once despatched and THE PATIENT REMOVED. A member of the vaccination corps is now sent to the house and vaccination performed upon all the inmates, aud also every house upon the block, and the face of the opposite block is visited and vaccl- nation ofiered pried inmate, informing them of tho proximity of the disease, | ‘itnis rapidly secures, 83 far as posstbie, protection to those who may have been expo:ed to the infection. This direct application of prevention seems to have had the effect of preventing any exteuded centres of intec- tion from forming, and hence we find that the cases Teported coine from widely dispersed localities. rth—Means employed to destroy the polson.— For uhis purpose various disinfectants are employed. A card of instcuctions for this purpose is prepared and left witn the attendants upon each case. So soon as the Bureau is informed of the removal of sho patient from the sick room the work of fumiga- tion is performed by the corps designated for duty, and it 13 done in the following manner:— THE DOOKS AND WINDOWS being tightly closed, after the bedding and clothing has been suspended in some manner, su As to allow free access of the fumes, {rom one to three pounds Of sulphur are placed upon some metallic vessel, 80 as to avold the danger of fire, a little alcohol poured over it, ana then set on fire, the operator imme- diately leaving the room and closing the door tightly, 60 as to prevent the escape of the fumes 03 far a8 possibie, ‘This is allowed to burn out and thus liberate large volumes of the fumes of sul- phurous acid, alter two hours the doors aud win- dows may be THROWN WIDE OP: and the room thoroughly Vontiated, by the free'ad- mission of atr. Experience has taught us that these Means have proved, when thorouguly done, to have destroyed the infection waich has been im the spartment, CARBOLIO ACID AND SULPHUROUS AOID seem to have the property of utterly destroving the germs of this particulur poigon, while chlorine, 80 Much relied upon as a disimiectant heretofore, does net prove to have the same power. Experiments are being frequently made of the various substances for the purposes of disintection, as circumstances Vary, 80 that, those most eilicient and best adapted to the purpose may be used, When suctr facilities can be alforded dismfection of apartments and clothing dally be done by means of the spray atomizer, which literally fills the atmosphere of the room with @ fine cloud of disinfecting matertal, that may readily destroy whatever floating atoms of infectious matter may be present, MOREAU MOKRIS, M. D., City Sanitary Inspector. After the reading of the report by the Secretary it was referred to the Financlal Committee to report whether the 1unds of the department will admit of, having 8 number of copies printed for the use and information of the public, WRHEKLY REPORT OF TH SANITARY COMMITTHY, The following weekly reports from the various bureaus were then read and adopted:— The Sanitary Committee respecifully submit the following report for the week ending January 13, 123 BANITARY INSPECTION. The City Sanitary Inspector reports a total of 1,879 inspections by the Health Inspectors, as fol- lows, viz.:—Iwo public buildings, 732 tenement nouses, 86 private dwellings, 40 other dwellings, 5 Manufactories and workshops, 9 stores and ware- houses, 40 stables, 62 slaughter houses, 4 lard-ren- dering establishments, 12 manure dumps, 2 pork- packing houses, 2 head cleaning establishments, 33 sunken and vacant lots, 41 yards, courts and areas, 25 cellars and basements, 47 water pipes and drains, 188 privies and water closets, 10 streets, gutters and sidewalks, 7 dangerous stairways, 2 piggeries, 42 other nuisances and 99 visits to contagious diseases. ‘The number of reports received irom the Health In- spectors was 281, Durimg the week 27 complaints bave been received irom citizens and referred to the Health Inspectors tor investigation aud report. ‘ils report shows that DURING THE WEEK the alsinfecting corps have visited 87 premises where contagious. diseases were found, and have disinfected and iumigated 80 houses, sinks, together with clothing, &c. Forty-seven cases. of small pox were removed to hospital by the ambulance corps. His report also shows that 60 sinks aud cesspools have been cleansed and disinfected by the night scavengers, under permits OF THE BOARD, and 225 loads of might soll removed from the city. Permits uave been granted to 25 vessels to discharge soe: on vouchers from the Healta Oficer of the Port. ‘The vaccinating corps have visiied 13,724 families and 6 factories, and performed 7,230 vac- Cinations, Of which 916 were primary and 6,314 Secondary. ‘There have been also 1,780 cattle in- Spected at the market yards, of wiich 36 were found bratsed and 16 badly bruised, Tne following is a comparative statement of con- tagious diseases for tie two weeks ending January 6 and 13, 1873;— eee Diph- Smale Typhus. Typhoid, Scarlet, Morsles. therin, — por. January 6... 1 10 60 ty 4 January 18.. 1 n 18 8 The Registrar of Records reports as follows:— During the past week there were registered 475 deaths, being 23 less than for the previous week and 45 less than for the corresponding week of 1871. Zymotic affections occasioned 143 deaths; constiiu- tonal, 92; local, 179; developmental, 39, and violent causes, 22. ‘The fatal cases of smallpox tucreased from 15 to 20, those of mensles irom 2 to 5, those of scariatina from 14 to 29, those of diphtheria and croup together from 21 to 22, and those of typhoid fever from 8 to 6, TYPHUS FEVER hype 1death and whooping cough, 14 being In each imstance the same number a9 m the preceding week. Seven deaths were due to erye sipelas and 24 to diarrhcew! diseases, The mortality of phthisis pulmonalis decreased from 76 to 71, and tbat of the local respiratory atfectiuns from 83 to 69, The following were THE PRINCIPAL METEOROLOGICAL features of the week, recorded for this department at the Cooper Union:—Mean reading of barometer, 30,096; MAXimum temperature, 50 degrees; mini- mum temperature, 14 degrees; mean temperature, 83.61 degrees, being 4.15 degrees higher than for the corresponding Cele during the past ten years; mean degree of humidity, 59.43, The attorney reports as tollows:—Number of actions commen for non-compliance with orders or vioiations of health laws or ordinances, 60; num- ber of judgments obtained in pending actions, 18: Dumber of actions discontinued upon evidence of abatement ot ali cause of complaint, 34; number ot cowplainis by inspectors examined and form of order endorsed thereon, 165; nuniver of such com- pate ( spaimanan and returned for additional state. ment, Captain Yule, of the Sanitary Company of Police, Teports the following as the amount of meat, fish, &ec., seized and confiscated as unfit fur human food:—Uaitle, 3; sheep, 22; hogs, 26; veal, 4; veal (“bob”), 129; geese, 200; rabbits, beef (“cut”), 885 pounds; fish, 350 pounds, ‘The City Santtary Inspector reports the slaughter houses of tne city as being in good sanitary con- dition, with the exception of those situated at No, 514 West Forticth street (iront and rear), and owned by W. Murray aud F, Fisher. Frighiful Condition of Affairs in the ~maltyox Hospital. To THR Epitor ov THe HERALD:— As the oficers of the Board of Health nave no op- Portunity of seeing and knowing tne evils that exist in the Smailpox Hospital the perusai of your pages may enlighten them as well as an “Ignorant Patient.” The public hold the Board of Health re- sponsible for the care of persons affected with contagions; but from the moment patients so afilicted are removed from their homes and left at the “receiving room” at Bellevue’ Hospital ine Board of Health ceases to exercise any further power over them. Patients may suffor every neglect, en- aure every torvure, even die of want, yet the Board bas no right to mterfere, The law empowers tlie Commissioners of Oharities and Correction to pro- vide for the wants of all the inmates of the Fever and Smallpox Hospitais, and to them docs the Board of Health transfer tne unfortunate vicuums ef these diseases. Perhaps the present Legisiature ‘will remedy tnis defect in the legislation of the last one by giving the Board of Health control. of the hospitais alter tie patients are placed in them, as ‘Weil a8 the power to remove them from their hones for the sake Ol proiecting tbe community at large rom the contagion), and sending them, as they now entirely o of the pae of Bumeuity on Black. Weil's Island. if any member of the present Legisiature can read the statements of “An Oid Cinzen,” “A Fortaer Patient” and an “Ignorant Pauent,” which appeared in the HERALD at various times, and finish them oF with @ lance at some of bie facts which can be elicited Tom this ope, without using his best eforis to ef. fect a reform inthe management of the Smalipox Hospital, be wiil.certamly have a atouter heart tian any legislator of the Roman cra, The receiving (cor at Behevue Hospital measy about tweny y twenty feet. Into this from eight to twenty par ents are somet ances irom noon tl! night (without food) wal! ‘or the boat 0.convey them fo the hospital. ‘The seme bout 18 used, without be- ig fumigated, to revarn the convalescent patients to their Various destinations, as well as to carry the dead from the Smatlpox and other hospitais to the Potter's feid on Hart's Island, A small bit of sail oloth hangs irom tie upper deck of the boat enclos- ing the space whe Who often here the patients are placed, an Teach the hospital s0 um With the cold a to be atirely el pias. The dock 18 in such @ frightful condition that’ it bs impossive to and: whe patients Without endangering their lives b: drowning. The patients are Trequently dressed. 103 Aner depar+ ture from the hospital Some six hours before the boat arrives, While Waiting they wander through he lenual wards, lager! ver tbe bed of dome Core nce Ra or Reaudintagbe RBtA they hear the signal for the boat, whe: ih to the dock only to take the chair’ jue van ha by some hewly-arrived yiculm, and, When they fin! Teach tne city, carry anew the pesitience wo ol hers, The hos Dital Was built to accommodate sixty pauents, Avout gue hundred wud twouw now occupy thie building, where the ventilation cannot bé effected with sualecy to the patients’ lives. The windows aro 80 constructed that they fy open during & severe storm, derying all efforts to keep them closed; the are deluged with water, not rendered utterly impossible. The returns of deaths show that a largo per cent 1s the regult of bronchitis and pneumonia, con- Seaaiod alter the smallpox had apparently sub- The matron was dismissed on the charge of ‘“tn- terference with the medical discipline of the nos- pital,” which consisted in her “ordering beef tea for @ male patient” (who was too sick to swailow any- thing else) and “ordering a flaxseed poultice applied to the chest of a child” (who was suffocating), both of whom afterward died. The steward has 80 many duties to perform that fully half of them must be neglected. The nurses are all “old island bum- mers,”’ to whose tender merctes the “poor’’ patients may often look in vain for succor, unless the doctors are making their rounds, when they affect great assidutty and devotion to ail the patients, The doctors live a distance of feet from the hospiial, and as their visits are generally at stated hours the nurses are always at their posts to receive orders (which they carry Out OF NOt, as they feel inclined), walle the doctors cannot be ex- pected to remain and see them executed. One nurse 18 compelled to take entire charge of all the female patients during the night, These often num- ber many children and infants in their ranks, eight or ten of whom m: Possibly be wildly delirio and aitual n Werent arts. of the house; the children tearing he flesh from their bandas and faces, and the tender te walling for the nourishment that Infan' thi none but a mother oan give. Eight patients tre- quently occupy one room, which may have bat four beds in it, at the same time. The women detailed from the do the drndg- ery of the _— hospi in. @ room with the beds so closely packed together that to gofrom one tothe other it Is n to walk upon them. These women are also obit; Stl eat Se OUR aerate td washoi the ai often ‘ting: the hale toons: es a tog and the stench from ‘the clothes unbearable. Such strict goon nny has been enforced that the beds are now washed instead of being “burned with the straw!’ — even the straw is only “aired” and returned to the ‘Wards in the same bedtick several times belore it oes to the “‘oonfire,” uo disiniectant being usea in the laundry at any time. ‘The clothing ot those who die is distrivuted among the nurses and prisoners, the latter often going directly to the most susceptible pees in the city upon their release, thereby spread. @ the disease far and wide, VERITAS. on to sleep Smallpox in Westchester. Several cases of smallpox have occurred in Mor- ms.nia, Westchester county, within the past few ‘Weeks, the disease having proved fatal in some five oraix instances, During the present week a wo- man named Emma L. Hammer succumbed to the Pestilential visitation, while her sister, living in the same house on Union avenue, 18 at present pros- trated with the sane scourge, It 1s understood that @ number of persons in various portions of the village named are at present ‘sufferiug from the disease, but no aglow flag or other ominous symbol is dis- played to give notice of its presence, In addition to this latter some of the streets are in a shockingly filthy condition, aud the wonder 1g that the infection as not assumed an epidemic form before this, The town boasts a heaith officer, although it would ne dimicult to define his usefulness at this juncture. OUR NEW JAPANESE VISITORS. The Character of the Delegation—Their Ob- Jects—The Indemnity Quéstion—The Japa- nese In the United States. {From the Washington Qhronicle, Jan. 17.) In view of the approaching Japanese Embassy, which 18 expected to arrive in Washington about the Ist of February, we submit a few authentic par- Uculars respecting the affairs of that people in this country, And first, as tothe character of this diplomatic delegation. The name of the leading Ambassador 1s Iwakura Tomonel, Vice President of the Japanese Mimustry, and in reality the ruling spirit-of nts gov- ernment. He is about fifty years of age, and ts the oldest oMctal now connected with the public affairs of Japan. He does not speak fngiish, but in his native tongue 1s considered an ‘mpress.ve orator, celebrated for hw stroag common sense, his rare patriotism and — his indomitable will. He was credited with having done more than any other man to re-establish the govern- ment of the Mikado, ‘Three of his.sons have resided io this country as studeuts for several years. ‘Ihe second Ainbassador is Kido Takasuke, member of the Counch of State; the third, Okubo Tosnimicni, Minintee 6 Finance; the fourth, Ito Hirotumt, As- Bistant Minister of Public Works, who has been in this country before, where he has many friends, and firth, Yamaguchi Nawoyoshi, Second Assistant Minig‘or of Foreign Aifaits, These dignivaries will be accompanied by eight Secretaries and thirty-one attachés, making in all an embassy of forty-four persons, to whom may be added Mr. Oharies Wo!cott Brooks, the Japancse Consul, of San Francisco. The Embassy wiil also be accompanied by a number of commissioners and many private gentlemen, who, with a retinue of servants, will swell the Japanese delegation to about one bundred persons, Alter their mission to the United States has been completed the Embassy propose to visit England, France, Holland, and all the other treaiy Powers, and intend to return to thelr country by the middle or summer. Among the objects which they desire to accom- Plish are, first, tbe submission of certain proposi+ tions in regard to tne revision of the treaties now existing between vapan and varions foreign Pow- ers; secondly, to arrange for making the municipal laws ol Japan conform to those of cy, mations; thirdly, to acquaiut themselves with the castoms of the Western nations, with a view of recommending {ue adoption of such as might be suitable for tie opie of Japan, and fourtuly, to request the treaty Powers to postpone the revision of the treaties until some time aiter their return to Japan. But para. mount to all these objects will be that of increasing the friendly relations which now exist between Japan aud ali the nations of the West, tisalso undetsiood that the Embassy will en- deavor to have a tual settlement of the indemnity question bevweea the United States and Japan. By Many of the best minds in this country the idea that the four Powers, so called, should have de- manded an indemnity of $3,000,000 from Japan, founded upon nothing but preposterous claims, has been pronounced simply disgraceful. But their Teal object was to Obtain # tirmer foothold in Japan, Indeed, they suggested that if tue tate Tycoon Would open the port Of Simonoseki they would not demand any money; but that dignitary pre- ferred to pay the money, and did pay the iuaral- Ments reguiarly until he went out of power, Of the Whole amount of tne indemnity about one-half re- mains unpaid at the present time; and it 1s under. stood that the coming embassy Will propose to all the parties interested that, in lieu of pasing she balance now due, tie Mikado will deci Sinlonoseki an open port, and thereby comply with the origmat Wishes of the treaty Powers tuterested, It ts turther Understoud (hat i tails arrangement 1s concluded the government of Japan will appropriate the snore of this $1,500,000 to purposes of education in japan, ith regard to that part of the indemnity which has already been paid to the government ol the United States we may meation the following inte. resting particulars:—fhe total amount is about seven huudred aud fifty thousand doilars, and it has now been lying idle in the Department of State at Washington for about two years. ‘Tue fact that our governinent does not know what todo with tais tp) inclines us to tue belief that ib 13 hed by a sort of tenure that is not deemed exactly in keeping With the modern idea of Christian ctvtlization, Al any rate, we are pie: to learn that the subject hus attracted the attention of Professor Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, and that, In his official capacity, he nas sabmitted a proposiuion to Congress, asking that body for its consent to let the indemnity fund pe appropriated to the establishinent of a great educational Institu- tion in the city of Jeddo, in Japan, Hie plan is most comprenensive, and includes. the idea of giving instruction jn all the departments of Science and literature and the founding of a great national library. That the feelmgs of the Japanese AMiniater, Mr. Mori, should be interested in this scheme 1s quite oatural, and he has bveu assured of the friendly co-operation of the Secretary of State and many other men of infuence in Washington. From all the data before us it is now certain that the Japanese government has determined to adopt to the fullest extent the civilizing policy of the West- wa nations, and that so Jar as the civil government is concerned the United States will be we model by which it will be sought to make Japan one of the most prosperous and happy nations of the earth. Wi'h regard to the Japanese now residing in the United States we believe the number is about five hundred, all of them in djferent parts of the coyn- try, hard at work engaged in acquiring the very best possible education, We learn that in all our best schools and colleges y rank with the best stu- dents in ability aod attention to study, and that they are Tish ipttot ia, mded for their high toned ideas, thelr and circumspect conduct, ol several nese students into Academy, we can only say that it seems to us un- gracious, M nothing more, to refuse them admise sion, since the records of the War Department prove to a4 that many of the best officers in the army of the United States were partially educated in the Iil- Mary schools of France, paicas 4 UTIOA MURDERESS. Usica, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1872, Milton BH. Thompson, of this city, was this fore. noon shot through the nose and cheek, and H. H, Hail, a coal dealer, of Ogdensburg, was shot in the heart and instantly killed by @ woman giving the end gentiemaniy anners, AS to the proposition now pending in the Senate respectin; tna ad jon apa he at Point name of McCarty, from Albany, The woman McCarty got on the car somowhero near the head of Street, Thompson, and Hall (who was @ relative of Thompson) got on the car at Thompson’s residence. some words peteed between Mra, McCarty and Thompson, ‘hen the woman drew a revolver and shot at him, ‘ne Nall passed through Thompson's face and struck Hall in the heart. The latter jumped from his seat and fell dead on ie bottom of the SP tpore peo i wound 18 not considere? dangerous, woman is Under arresh LIFE IN LEIPSIC, A Glanco of Life and Customs in the Old Saxon City. Streets and Promenades—The Persons We Moct andthe Customs They Observe—Droscha and Droschka Drivers—Labyrinths—Summer Enjoyments and Winter Sports—Lessons in Cooking and Practice of Patience. LEIPSIO, Dec. 26, 1871. Generally Americans do not. remain long in Lelp- sic. They stay perhaps a day and a night; go to the theatre; drive to the old battle ground. which soarcely any one can tell them where to And; look at the houses where Schumann Itvea and where Mendelssohn died; enter the old Thomas church, say, ‘How very queer!’ and then leave Leipsic ‘with a light conviction that there 1s not much to be seen. It may be easily perceived that such glimpses are superficial, and that in this city, as possibly in all other places in Europe, the hotel views of life ‘would take another shade of color if drawn from ‘the every-day haunts of the people. LEIPSIO fe antique, quaint, mysterious, Leipsic is a prob- lem to be studied, which will prove @ source of interest to the merchant, as well as to the scholar or the artist. Some people exclaim, “Oh, Leipsic is 80 cheerful and clean!” They are, perhaps, here On @ bright day. That Goetne should have called it @ “little Paris” 1s a great wonderment to me; indeed, Ihave tried for seven months to see tue force of the comparison, and have falied. 1 cannot think it a cheerful place exactly; on tne contrary, one 1s some- times oppressed with the dull, dead quietness, which seems rarely disturbed. It 1s seldom one hears the children sing. in the streets, or the boys whistle; one never hears a hand or- gan except at fair time, and it is only then and uponmgreat holidays that the city seems lively. Yet there 1s continuaily a brisk, business- like motion in the main streets, and every day and every night one sees the immense work horses and Wagons, that are almost deadly in their weighty aspect; and the drivers carry always long whips, Which they use as though “the crack of doom” ‘Were really at the end, One scarcely knows where to retreat, sometimes, in streets which are in many parts of the ctty so narrow that the pavement has nu room fortwo. But they drive on, all the same, ‘ust ag THE DROSOHKA DRIVERS do, withanimperturable gravity wh'ch has never @ trace of anxiety. The word Droschka ought to be translated hack, but droschka can no more convey the meaning of a hack than it can of an easy carriage, Everything on wheels that is made in Germany 1s sure to be strong, huge or rather ungalaly. The seats in these droschkas are ever 90 high and stiif, and generally covered with red velvet, protected from dust by white tidies. Now, in the cold weather the drivers are wrapped in. large fur coats, which have such immense collars that they resemble confortable bears. They are not less funny to American eyes than those who drive the sleighs from a round seat behind, as in a coupé. With their long cloaks nearly touching the snow, they clear the road with whips which are long and sound like the report of ¢ gun, cusToMs, I see extremely heavy loads drawn by men and boys, and have noticed several times a rosy-cheeked girl pusning behind some such cart—where the fel- low evidently had too bard work, without ever looking back for a “thank you,’”” Americans may come here in thousands; I doubt if they could ever affect the manners aud customs, which seom as in- tereatingly fixed as the Rock of Gibraltar. In many respects Leipsic 18 not so cosmopolitan as many of the European cities, Why are so unyielding one cannot easily decide, Whether the people are too arrogant and proud, or too cold and indifferent one cannot answer with contain ty. x or wishes to live on top and not be much bothered about eating or drinking or ever Bi to anybody, cam assuredly be happy here; ‘With one provision, however—that he replies always to the “‘schin guten en of old women on the stairways, the sweet “Guten tag” of the children or the iriendiy “Adieu” which one hears Invariably, on Jeavin phopkeaper or iriead; every where berry in the banks and the Post office, The cheer- mess of that “Adieu” bites one on his way some- umes with a rosy sun of content around the hear and its semi-grow! reacts upon @ pleasan mood like all other rebuity which dampon blithe oa thle This das ara is ae al the lowost classes, jeed, the o1 radeness 1 have noticed has’ been among Engtek and Americans, Who dun’t trouble themselves to be poilte without sufiicient inducement, Extending all around THE OLD “‘STADT LEIPSIO’? 1s broad, finely adorned promenaas, the favorite walking place and resting place for all the emoth- ered natare which exists in the etages, In the sum- mer tume J was often vexed at heart because tnis promenade Was 80 beautiful. There were exqusitely arranged beds of flowers, charming seata near masses of tuxurious ithes, and shading the walks were hundreds of linden trees hang! fuil of the delicious blossoms which could not be bought in the market, und some of which, to my shame I confess, | regularly stole whenever a branch drooped. low enough, to the absolute horror of my German iriends; they are so honest I never saw achild even play with @ teaf, although 1t fs tohér- ent in humanity to wish most that which 1s denied, dhers are such extensive and beautifully kept Jawns near the promenade; there are such pic- turesque avenues aud such unstinted freedom and beanty that I was, envious of it all whenever I turned my feet homeward over the dove-haunted bridge, which leads to a dingy court, and tae worn ; stairs to my floor, LIVING, Of conrse, every one of the one hunired and seven thousand miubitants live or board in etages, and so far as Ihave peen able to judge the vest families | generaliy occupy the third story; poor didéiers and bachelors aud students must, sometimes mount another fight, but im these curious old houses that does not make much difference; Qnd 1m che more: modern shaped buildings outside ¢ Promenade that does not make much difference, eople who need iresh alr and amusement must go tothe Promenade or the Rosenthal to get it. Coming directly trom New York high pointed rools and these queer, black, old houses seemed exceed- Ingly ‘architectural and inconvenient,” Groping one’s way up and down avons Wyre worm danger- ously smooth with the Yeats made one Unink of dark stories; made one wish for a lantern; made one finally to bless wax matches, that, after: fuliilling their important misston, will ight one vu, eyen tour fights of stairs, afier seriouniy eottng used to littie aN ey such as. this, an adually getting weaned from those {ndeéscriba- pre, luxuries we have tn America, 1 gan enjoy the quaint beauty of the surrounding roofs, wich are filed with windows. In the Old market place they are strikingly. picturesque, for, besides the ancleut Court House, there are blocks of houses which are four and five hundred years old, They are gray, blackened with age, ana solid as the hills, LBIPSIO 18 FULL, tM boa The streets come togét! without particular order; the blocks are rg up seemingly anywhere and Fy here, gud the dark, mysterious “durch- ganga’’ lead in Gtrections, The old Letpsicers must bave been men, They were always saving time and exercise by way of these thoroughfares, which sometimes lead across a whole square in a serpentine Cut, or Into the court of some odd, ota puilaing. Uertatuiy they always lead peopié with big baskets and bundles away irom Ha? cere ‘01 hem Gru ane \obely aoe ae igs enterpristag Fes don sae a ooths. I w: close to & windo' and look into 2 blacksmith shop; In_another mint te. Ase 8 fleet white curtain and flames Inside, See an antiquarian waiking back and fro, in & queer long cloak and queer old cap, keep. ing guard over musiy OKs, Which cannot belleve will ever Le sold. Then I pause near a re- freshing picturs—a restaurant, where, true a3 Ile, T see &® company of men around a table drinking beer, thes as they did inthe theatres and operas; they look so exactly the same that Lexpect to hear drinking song, but go of with only ‘dcr Teuset'' echoing in my ears, Curious pictures In these durch gangs. Natural! TRE CITY IN WINTER. Leipsic 1s not so sorely ou ‘able in winter as in summer, bat very different, We co not go to the Rosenthal, whion 19 the Central Park; nor Led wondrous nightingale’s song; nor driuk Lohem! ber under tite old trees, hi Good Fava Ep ing the pape) {i No alan Rite eta ed in straw, and the girls do not look. half #0 in the noods which th ued three or now wear, tied jour ways around thelr heads, andiadies do not rink beor in the restaurants, Americans sneer at the German beer gardens. They ouly can appreciate them who the way wortd thas wstaliy goes. to the Rosenttial jay wor! in simmer Tonat now ecoutent with the diversions e@nolent rocking: husband and wife pie ail around look om arou! The why of the pon wherever is @ ‘br 108. ‘envies them th jolly sildes and screams, ‘‘Go once ont of the way | which we can no paruocipate. Bur it seems gorn people do enjoy some of the children’s for Lhave geen in the a The youuger means atch ca * see nat 1e him with reverence and admiration, for he was A] first really galtant and entire! erous: thi seen. The lotty om of maa to woman ts a Bt freak of the German nature. am amused at the evidences which [ see in the oungest boys. ‘These small fellowaexpect a lady leave the walk for them, and they tose tnels heads very proudly at the idea or EQUAL RIGHTS, even to play the violin, much less to atudy philoso, phy. 1have heard an American girl quite sun rebuked by a German lawyer for attemp' to paci his indignation and rigioule of the Ring affairs. The conversation always en with, “One doesn’t expect. ® woman to um derstand politics.” Opposed to this grand gu- Promaey, of the German gentieman 3 eautiful and natural acceptance of it by where so many are ju about we rights and. e Cay appreciate, 1 am illed with admuration for gentle creatures, whose greatest aim in life is te administer to the wauts and wishes of their hus bands, Acommendatory spirit 18 to be ob: frequently in some young ladies, who love more rence than they ever expect to receive; Dos this feelmg ony lurks within; their éducation bullt upon the other principal, 1 know of YOUNG LADIES WHO HAVE STUDIED UOOKING for eight months every morning irom eight unt® one, in the “Hotel Russie.” Por this accomplish> Ment one of the number, for instance, hud to pay, twelve thalers @month, and wear a calico Card @prop and oe. Paying this damsel @ visit, that grand kitchen one generally found her with & Spoon in her hand, learning to follow 1n tne atric! sense the instructions of the cook, Who 1s a periect Turk in his realm, What a wile that bright girl will make! I aiready to see Ate inant aimuers wiil prepare, and to taste the wonderful Strasbot ites. Besides her knowledge of all branches cooking she can talk French and English, m heaps, Of worsted work apd play Mendeissonn's music. She is a fair specimen of a German young lagy. ltis now THE JUBILANT CHRISTMAS TIMD, and, besides the blessed bolidays, we havesunshing, 1 aw just as thanktul for that as for the holidays, 108 we have had none since the last, which came on Reformation Day, One reads about mists, of course, and yet latways had a curious wonderabout “Mary's calliag the cattle home’’ and never going home herself. Now 1 appreciate Mr. Kingsley’s poetlo term, “The blinding must,’ tor 1 nave seen tt, felt it, walked in it, rebelled savagely against it, and funauy yielded to it with impationt deapondenoy. Ip vhe fate autunin this “nedcl,” as the Germans say, bewan to Sppear im the morning, and has by de Tees stayed ali day. It folded iself upon all the igh roofs, iron gratings and deep-set windows} sollened the outlines of towers, turrets and gables; darkened sulil more the streets and courtways, ani Perced) through every crevice of stone walls, even one’s with its cold dampness, So gray, 80 melanoholy 18° this mist that ine spirits.are de- pressea by it. Only in the colcest of frosty days does one feel disposed to admire the persistent ‘‘nebel,” for tuen every branch upon the Promenade ia Mnely set with crystals, yen before the show gleamed still brighter upon the houset they were whitened with the irosty mist—all the little carved angels’ over the oldfashioned arches and doors; all the curious tigures. underneath the angels, all the ornamental vines and flowers carve over, around and underneath the angeis, glistene With the new Dreath that hud frozen itself upon the work done by human fingers ages ago. Can the holidays reasonably be jealous of the sunshine, be- fore whose enlivening rays thts elf of a nevel haa Vanished? The inost umportant street in Leipsio is the “Grimmaische.” Here ate the finest proms, which pay the highest rents and have the m fashionable and costly articles, Some of the win- dows are arranged with really artistio vaste, and are the heart sludies of many a clerk, Ofthat 1 am certain, having 1aughed times without number at their outdoor inspection and their runniog back Wo adjust the ends of an exquisite shawl, Tides of people are continually coming and going througa ‘this narrow sort of a Broadway— STUDENTS, who wear jaunty colored caps and who behave vel ‘well in these days (there are now over two thonsan in the Unversity); countiess pupils of, the famoug Conservatory, who always carry portfolios or ang woman, Coming from @ lan inaties pasteboara-covered pieces {zom Kiema Library, always look us if they had practised all day or hi just shivered into mortal fright by the maledic« ons of some barvarous proiessor. . Twelve and ‘three tn the aiternoon are the fashionable hours tor walking in the Grimmaische, but 1 am.only occa sionally startled by the sight of a dainty bonnet or & fashionable costume, and always nieet proiession- al-looking men in long and vastiy-becoming coats, always jostied by the ceaseless current worku en, pensant women and errand boys. AS the end of this street is the spacious ‘avausTus ter @ fine, open square, entirely unbroken, except bj op shade trees through the centre, the lampposts an 0 One side & covered well, This 1s said.to give the best drinking water in the Lh and long years aga peasen women used to sit on little stools ail around he well and sell glasses of the water for a few fenigs—hence the brown cover over it The uildiags around the Augustus are all fine— the University, which well repays one for a visit; tho Museum, in which are stored some insarentind Thava old paintings, and, besides sens and hote the fine new theatre and the Post Office. seen most splendid operas in that and many @ comedy in the Poat Office. 1 plead ity to uae righteous to swear in building, althongh, in sober judgment, I am bound to assers that thelr pro are’ strictly nonorable and Draiseworthy. THE VALUE OF PATIENCE. But if any ‘Wishes to know the fall or patience let that person undertake to send Package to America, or, indeed, anywhere out o! Leipsic; let that person £0» towards time for the all to close, all anxiety for the package to go, and \hen count she times it 18 necessary to go aad come before the bundie is ‘fast enough.” done up in Daper it must nave linen; if sewed in all corners it Must have sealing wax; if tied with cord the ends must be fastened with whatever sealed the corners; the contents must be declared by a veritable mer- Chant, and an envelope. Allpacters ARRON Ts lower for letter, like the package, and 8ei open with the same identical seal. Ifthe bundie ever gets off that person may be thank(ul; ana if, added to the feel- mgs mentioned, there are not some theatrical and Tampageous reproaches against the government that person should again be tnankful for a ve Christian temper. is the it pride, a Mweilas the great popular re- le, as wellas the sort, of the calm and liberal minded Leipsicers. Bus 0 the pleasures of this charniing place one must levole more than the closing words of a letter. Here, not only in the incomparable music of the QGewandhaus orchestra, but tn the invariably fine sinaing and a one understands the meaning r) Vics jungton terms “a clean drame- tic " , PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Discussion om Course of Studies—The Cou mittee’s Report Adopted. The Commissioners of the Department of Publie Instruction met yesterday afternoon in special ses- ston. Communications were received from trustees of Various wards In regard to teachers’ absences, fur- nishing, 40, Aninvitation was received trom the Grammar School Princtpais’ Association inviting the members of the Board toa lecture to be delivered January 18, at @ quarter to four P, M., ia Grammar School No. 40, The Association of Primary School Teachers called the attention. of the woard to @ memorial lately presented, in which it was claimed that the salaries of primary school principals should equal the salaries of the principals of female grammar schools, on the ground that the duties of primary Schools areas Onerous as those of grammar schools, And thatthe former are not only a training place for pupils, but of poor teachers. The memorial was referred to the Committee on Bylaw: Ee) A resoluti tl reguiar 0 of bua Ee yet bnee EC pose of Board, tr, ross, the Chairman tr of the Committee on Course of Studies, began the discussion. Mr. Gross, ae Gey LF rx fen © CO reeal he" “ Woxamined: into the course of that carly as studies and in July tollow! On motion or Comunisaioner ‘ood ea of the re. rt tponed tothe second regolar meeti Pe veptent r. In the meant Mr. Wood and Mae Sands presented @ second ‘The consideration x) postponed until November, O88 showed that the regutar committes "ee conguited nearly thirty teach and that ti vai comics had only consulted two. At th jose of Mr, G) wi ted to woceps ig 0 Deing satisted with this the vote eee pig red, and the Comm rs defend his side ii the question, Bu} Gaurd Pitched into ie ‘The discussion des consisted of criticisms and was in @ degree personal, ere i See nat An Ma and rr, before Board and the report of The cominities proper, ing whieh Mr. Gross is chairman, was adopted. then aqjourned. POST OFFIOE FRAUDS IN NEW JERSEY, The January term of this Court commencea yesterday. In the course of his charge Judge Nixon, Of the Promenade, and especially that part back of the New Theatre calted the **Schwanentetcn.” Where the beautifai fountain aad majestic swans attracted fend of nursery ene babies and loungers in the months tere 1s ror fovea ‘A‘CARNIVAL OF BKATING, and it is oharacterisuc skating. There is nothing stylish or fantasdo in cyan hed striking costumes, no shouting or racing at such speed as threatens all mortals near. They sland so straight and glide along ‘and quietly as birds on the wing, While deleene's ‘Lorelel’ favuers yual allnding to the Post Office frauds, read that portin of the statute that prescribes shea, the offenaers, and satd:—“Every perdu ta New dor Sey connected with the Post Oitice Department of ine United Siates, at places where money order oitices have been establisied, 1s amenable to the prove sions fot this section, and, if in your investigation you find that any one thud employed has violated fhe law a aur rary Peroulars enumer ‘ated, it will ur RY Cac twee one by indictment ‘|