The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yonx Hrnarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, day in the year. Four conts per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or ono dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphio despatchas must be addrossod New Yoxe Hoenawp. Rejected communications will uot be re-— turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be ieceived and forwarded o the same terms as in New York, VOLUME XI AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTBRNOON AND EVENING, | a ROBINSON HAL’ L, West six ntrect-—Lnglich Opera—GIROFLE: UikOPLA, M | BUM, | Bi 3 sucht SHERIDAN & Broagtesy, corner, of ne NON eR MS | closes at 10:45 P. M. Matinee at2 P. M. fren’s matinee wt PARK THEATRE, VARIETY, at SP. dM, ;,closes at i BROOKLYN. 15. M, METROPOLITA West Fourteenth street. Mt OF ART, WAM toS P.M Pa SATRE, | Broadway. —EMERSUN’S CALIFORNIA MINSTRELS, ats OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway. —VARISTY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Maunee at 2 P. mM FipTu AVENUE THEATRE, Twonty-olghin street and Broadway —THE BIG PO- NANZA, at 8? M. ; closes at 10:3) CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERE, at 8 P.M, OUITAN THRATRE, | No. BB Broadway ARIBTY, at 8 P.M. WALL. AG) Broadway. —THh Fakarne, ~.at8 P.M; closes at 10:40 ONC Mosre Harrigan and Hart | TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, ‘JUNE 9, 1875, From our rezoris emorning the pPobabilities | are that the weather to-day will be clear or | partly cloudy. Persons going out of town for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Hznarp mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srnzer Yusrenpay.—The stock mar- ket was tame and uninteresting. Thechanges were unimportant and unsoggestive. Gold | was steady at 116j. Bonds and foreign ex- | change were firm. Tar Ascot Races in England began yester- day, and the stakes were won by Organist. The turf season seems to have brilliantly be- gun in England, France and America. Tux Recarra of the Williamsburg Yacht | Club took place yesterday and was an interest- ing event, though the wind was generally light. The prizes in the different classes were won by the Victoress, the Sorceress, the John | M. Sawyer and the Pigeon. Cant Scuvnz m Bratm.—The banquet given to Carl Schurz in Berlin last night was attended by many of the distinguished Ameri- | and several of the eminent | cans now ab: officiais of the German Empire. The Ger- | mans evidently appreciate the abilities of Mr. Sehurz better than the Missouri Legislature did, but not more than do the American pecple. | Anrmuizer Practice tor the season was began yesterday by the National Guard, with | results clsowhere recorded. Our State artil- lerists chould remembor the value of practis- ing not merely as smatenrs, bot under condi- tions resembling as cicsely as possible those which exist in actual war. Oniy by such tests can real progress be made. Buoo is becoming notorious of late for | murders, and to-day snother shocking event is recorded—the assassination of a respected and aged gentleman by a burglar whom ke | was trying to seize. Mr. Shute was 1 last ht, bat wounds are considered mortal. The assassin is taought to wounded, and lis arrost is likely to be efocted hi be Tor Deecaza Tatar. —Mr, day concluded his iong speech, whi and devoted himself pr Evarts yester- pied cight days pally to comment upow Mr. Beecher’s letters. Mr. Beach will begin the ff, and as his side of This morning argument the story able to ¢ a3 the season ad- vaneea. Gilmore seom to have taken possevsi in a musical point cf view, for the summor, their cone | certs aro rowded. A half dozen tfnl resorts in different yurated on a grand esatul. mors of 4 parts of scale, + ina’ Jznome Pang.—The second day's racing of the epring m of tac American Jockey Club at Jerome Park proved to be as attractive and eujoyable as on any previous oceasion whe i te racing association flung their | broeze and invited sil comers to witr cit sports. There were five ov 4 mile race, gal- two mil ern borse Balls the struggle for < winner being Oiitiy fillies on the turf to-c of one mile snd a half, easly wu approachable Springbok, and the steepiechasc, in whieh, after an exciting contest, Viavulo crossed be- neath the string chead of his compctilors. pruilished every | for this work of destruction, and at the same | | | himselt, | | occupied parts of his estates ; | value of his property and the grandeur of his | all his debts. | many of us find it a monotonous business, | to recover the NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, The Nard Times=The Prospect Ahead. Nations are like families and individuals in | this, among other respects, that when they have danced they must pay the fiddler. Suppose the case of a man who had by a long course of skilfully directed industry and pru- | dent investment acquired an estate as great a6 that of Mr. A. T. Stewart or Mr. William B. Astor. Then suppose that one day, ina fit of indigestion, he should set fire to one-third of | his houses, lay waste a quarter of his farms jand leave another quarter uncultivated, | Suppose him paying workmen a large price time beginning to live at an extravagant rate Then suppose, when the work of destruction and dilapidetion was complete, when he had seriously impaired his fortune | and his income, ho should suddenly take it into his head to excetite a great number of magnificent but xeediess and unprofitable improvements, mostly in the outlying and un- building new and expensive roads which lead nowhere, and erecting costly houses for nobody's occupa- tion; and that he shonld in the meantime not only keep up the extravagant and waste- | ful style of living, but neglect his business, let his clerks abandon their duties, his stew~- ards and managors cheat and oppress his ten- | ants, lose bis customers, and suffer other mer- chants to take his place in the market, All | this Mr, Stewart might do, and he could go on doing it for several years, with great ap- parent glory, prosperity and comfort. Ho would be employing a larger number of men even than while he was in bis most really prosperous days. His income would be Jessened, but he could borrow money on his estates, and when lerders became alarmed he could pay his workmen with due bills for a while. When, the fit of destfuctiveness having exhausted itself, he began to plan and execute costly roads and other so-called improvements on his outlying estates, his credit would doubtless rise again, tor capital- ists would be dazzled by the real and solid enterprises, and would be slow to distinguish between useful and useless improvements. Great changes, - giving employment to numbers of men, take captive their imagination, and no doubt Mr. Stewart, having sunk half his fortune in acts of destruction and waste, would, in the opinion of most men, “enter on a new career of pros- perity’’ when he began to build unneeded roads and tenantless houses. They would hasten to lead him money, especially it he offered to pay heavy discounts, and in the state of madness we are supposing, no doubt he would, on balancing his books at the close of the year, regularly thank Heaven that he had been able to borrow money enough to pay In fact, however, he would also have been borrowing money to pay much of the interest on his debts, and when his creditors discovered this they would suddenly button up their pockets ; to use the cant of the streets, they would ‘‘shut down on him.” And thereupon not Mr. Stewart only, but all the laborers he had been employing on useless works, would begin to groan under the bur- den of ‘hard times.’’ We beg Mr. Stewart's pardon for using his name to illustrate a course of folly of which he is incapable. What he would never do, that it is which we American people have been doing since 1861. We have destroyed, we have Inid waste, we have neglected, we have lived extravagantly, we have projected magnificent bat often unprofitable improve- ments on our great property; and we have borrowed money, paid our workmen in prom- ises, tolerated unfaithful and oppressive stewards, suffered our clerks to cheat us and idle away their time, let @ar trade slip away into other hands and turned up our noses at the rest of the world, becaase it continued, in an old-fashioned way, to revolve but once in twenty-four hours. We have certainly hada long and :nagnificent carecr as borrowers and | spenders of other people's savings, and if we had all died three or four years ago we might | have gone to glory firmly persuaded that, in the eloquent words of Mr. Jay Cvoke, “a national debt is o national biless- ing,” and the more you owe the richer you are. Unfortunately a good many of us have survived to suffer a sad disillusion- ment. For twelve years we danced, and now for tbree years we have been paying the fiddlers; and we are not done yet with that disngresable afterclap. Naturally a good this of paying old scores. Some despondent | souls are rendy to give it up ses bad job. Many dolorous persons imagize that “the bottom is out of the kett'c,” and that we shall or next to never, zecover our former prosperity. They seo only prolonged, inter- ninable stagnation, just as there were per- uring the war who could never seo any probable vr victorious end to that struggle. | Happily such persons do not make up any | considerab rt of the American people. The fact is, we have been very silly, very wasteful, very extravagant, very imprudent; tut we have still left an immensely greatand rich estate, which yields us even now an iacome so large that we need not despair of quickiy mastering our troubles. Let us seo what Mr. Stewart would do had he really run through tho mad carcer which | we have ventured to supposefor him. He would begin by rigidly economizing in his | never, personal expenses; would dismiss uscless servants and slop all needless outlays; he would next drop out all unfaithful and idle clerks is stores and warshouses and re- store a salutary discipline aud attention to business there. Iie would take every means trade which his rivals had won from him. He would get im os quickly as possible the due bills and other floating in- debted which, be would kaow, must con- stantly impair bis credit and embarrass his efforts as long as they were left afloat He would see to it that his forms were well tilled; that his stewords did not rob or oppress the laborers; that his workmen in every department were busy and happy y, and then he would yo on with good courage, very sure that with industry and economy he must soon 2 bis torn condition. ‘For,” he would | my real wealth is still gre: my estate *, but has been mism it needs nily good management to enable ne to live as I iormerly did.” Well, that is our national road to better times, and the only ons. If we follow that | \ we canmot hela bnt recover anr proaveritv. | have to wait a while. and that in a vory short time. In point of fact, we have already made important steps toward it, Personal and business indebted- ness has been immensely lessened in the last | three years. Farmers and planters owe but little money. Thoy are generally poor; but a good crop, sold at~ fair prices this year, will make them prosperous, Of our business complications the greater part has been straightened out by the Sheriff or by private arrangement between debtor and credi- tor. An immense, an almost incredible amount of our accumulated capital of the savings of the people during many decades has been either lost or as good as lost, | being temporarily unproductive ; hence new enterprises Ing and speculative improvements get no encouragement. But any one who carefully looks over the country will sce that really sound and valuable enterprises which can be carried on with moderate capital and will bring moderate but also quick returns do pot lack support. Our condition just now is that of a man who has a handsome income and lives in a small house. Such a man has not long to wait before he is master of the situation. He is already prosperous. And so is the country at the present moment. It is substantially ina sound condition. It could bear losses to-day tar better than three years ago. It is richer now than it has been since 1861. A bad crop would distress us less this year than it would have done in 1871 or 1872. We have put a stop to the outgo, and our in- come is so great that only prudent economy and sound business management are needed to bring us back to a wholesome prosperity. It will be some years before we are ready to enter on another carcer of wild speculation, and those who understand by prosperity notions of living at the expense of others will For them the times will continue to be hard; but for legitimate in- dustry the present promises to be the last hard year, and if we could be sure of certain wholesome and needed reforms in the govern- ment, which would give rest and good gov- ernment to the South and a sound currency to the nation, our period of hard times would be substantially at an end. A Centennial Clergyman, Among the centennials which are now, and with much propriety, the fashion, we find not only those of events but of individuals. The oldest clergyman in America, Mr. Boehm, yesterday was complimented in Jersey City by the celebration of his hundredth birthday, and what made the proceedings at the Metho- dist Episcopal church more impressive was that the venerable preacher still retains his faculties and pronounced the benediction upon the congregation. The old men there seemed young to this senior of the Ameri- can Republic. The scene reminds us— and yet with a marked difference—of the description which Cooper gives of the appearance of ‘‘ITamenund of many days’’ in the council of his chiefs. ‘They were all aged,” says the chronicler, ‘but one in the centre, who leaned upon his companions for support, had numbered an amount of years to which the human race is seldom permitted to attain. His frame, which had once been tall and erect, like the cedar, was now bending under the pressure of more than a century.” The same reverence the Indian tribes felt for the famous chief, as he recalled the vagne past, was felt by his children in the faith for this Christian father, who remembers the birth of the great Church which now extends over a continent, and can recall the time when New York was but a village and the populous country around it an almost unbroken forest, The Senatorial DiMiculty in New Hampshire, The Superior Court of New Hampshire, in @ communication signed byall the judges, have declined’ to pass any opinion on the question submitted to them by the House, a decision which will increase the respect felt for that tribunal by all intelligent minds which have had occasion to observe its char- acter. The constitution of the State bas or- | dained a tribunal for determining the right of | members of the Legislature to seats, but that tribunal is not any of the ordinary courts of judicature, In that State, as in all the States, each branch of the Legislature is the supreme | and final judge of the election and qualifica- | tions of its own merabers, and no judicial court has any shadow of jurisdiction over such cases. We do not suppose that the members who submitted tbis difficulty to the Supenor Court imagined that the Court had any legal au- thority to decide it. It was, of course, referred to them merely as arbitrators, but the Siate constitution does not empower the Legisla- ture to reter to arbitration the questions which it requires the two Houses to decide. Court has wisely abstained from pronouncing a decision by which nobody would be bound, It is a fundamental principle of good govern- ment that the iegisiative, judiciai and execu. tive departments be kept distinct, and that each be held to its separate responsibility, without intrusion into the domain of the others. An intelligent public opinion will approve of the respect which the highest court of New Hampshire has paid to this im- portant principle, and indorse its refasal to make a decision which it has no authority to | enforce, and which would be as void in law as if pronounced by any other three citizens of the State. The refusal ot the Court to in- terfere leaves things as they were. ate having admitted the two democratic Senators to seats when a quorum was present its decision will stand and there is no author. ity to reverse i The Colorado Beetle. In another colamn will be found an excel- leat account of this destructive insect, written | by Mr. Charles R. Dodge, onc of the capable entomologists of the Department of Agricul- ture. All persons interested in the culture of the potato will recognize the importance of spreading among the people at the present timo whatever knowledge of this parasite science possesses; for by teaching the farmers to immediately recognize their enemy and by what means to fight him weenabie them to save their crops, and, moroover, by teaching them how to know the destructive beetle from the comparatively harmless insects that very closely resemble him, we may avoid the spread of needless alarms, We commend this essay--as succinct as it is come plete—to our farmer readers, and beg to sug- gest to readers in the city, who are less in- | tareated in the growth of the potato than im The } ‘The Sen- | therefore | its price when grown, that they may possibly do a service to themselves and the public in this connection if they would cut out the little article and send it in a letter to their farmer | friends or relatives in the country. Wickham on His Winding Way. We trust His Honor the Mayor will recon- sider his rashly conceived and hastily ex- pressed resolution not to accept the hospitali- ties of the Lord Mayor of London. The more we think of the opportunities for distinction | thus thrown away the more we feel that His Honor is insensible to the highest advantages of his station. The Mayoralty of New York is an ornamental and not a very useful office, | more particularly since the Governor bas | adopted the plan of quietly docketing mu- nicipal measures in some dusty pigeon hole. He may review St. Patrick’s Day processions and Knights Templars and German target companies, and make dinner addresses about the glory of New York, but so far as any useful purpose can be served, in either the way of reform or administrative service, the Mayor might as well be in London as in New York. Simce we have made the Mayor's duties ornamental let us keep him in orna- mental occupations. He isa handsome man, and would win the smiles of youth and beauty as he slowly paced up Guiidhall arm-in-arm with the gowned and wigged Lord Mayor. He knows the philosophic value of a good dinner, and could teach our English brethren capacities in the sauce and salad and mixed drink line which Gondon epicures have never dreamed. Who sings a sweeter song or tells a brighter story? Which of our orators can fly the eagle to such a beight without losing him in the empyrean ? Which of our public men has so much Cen- tennial eloquence? If it came to bearding the British lion in his den, and tramping upon his tail until he howled, we should prefer Mr. Morrissey. But this will be possible also, as Mr. Morrissey could be in the municipal train. Think how the embassy would celebrate the glory of New York! Imagine our handsome Mayor parading down Pall Mall, carrying the American flag high in the air, with Patrick j Sarsfield Gilmore in the advance playing Yankee Doodle! Then, arm-in-arm, Disbecker and Green—Disbecker, the inventor of the Garbage balm of a thousand flowers, and Green as the watch dog of the treasury, suffer- ing from hydrophobia. Then would come Judge Quinn, viewing with alarm the growth ot the German power, and Judge Friedman, gazing with astonishment upon the increase of the Irish power in this their votive land. After these the police surgeons who have made the precious discovery that health comes trom dirt and nastiness, Then we should have E. Delafield Smith, with his head under his arm, and behind him the four bosses of our city politics—Tom Murphy, John Morrissey, Tom Creamerand John Kelly. When we think of these illustrious citizens, descendants of Irish kings and now exercising royal rights in New York, we can weil conceive the im- pression they would make upon the awed Britisher. After these monarchs of the new dynasties there could be some representa- tives of the past—Bailey, the old revenue collector; Ingersoll, and Keyser and Garvey, and John McBride Davidson, the safe mar, and other informers. We do not know if we can spare poor Boss Tweed, but if such were possible he would make a profound impres- sion. We can very well spare Jay Gould, and now that Uncle Dan and Uncle Dick have both retired <rom business, if these three financiers care to go abroad and to remain, to make a ong, a very long, stay and enjoy themselves with British capital ia the British capital, we shall welcome their departure with band and music. If the Mayor could induce Beecher and Tilton to go also to assist Moody and Sankey in their work that would be a comfort. There is no reason why the trial should cease. Judge, jury and all could take comfortable | passage and keep on trying the case as they | sailed. We are willing to trust Mr. Evarts to | speak untilho reaches Fastnet. Wo have had six months of our daily scandal; it has been meat and drink, dew and manna, and in the interest of international harmony we are willing to sbare the blessing with our | cousins. The more we dwell upon the oppor- | tunities now before the Maycr—the comfort | of the trip, the honors that awnit him, the speeches he can saske, the songs ho can sing—the more we think of the good he can do in his mission, the more urgently we entreat him to reconsider his decision. Let him go by all means. He need not be par- ticular about the southern route, the further | north he goes the better. The one thing his | party need never fear is ice, neither in this world nor ony other. Tilden can manage it, as he does now, and at a pinch review the irish processions also. By all means let the Mayor go, and with the suite we have indicated. If on his return home he could go far enough north to reach Disbecker to anoint the Pole with his balm of a thousand flowers from the Harlem flats—he would achieve the most brilliant result of his administration. Red Abortive Visit—Our In- dian Policy. No regret should be felt at the obstinate re- fusal of the Sioux chiefs, in their late visit to | Washington, to sign a relinquishment of the | treaty by which they hold their present terri- tory. We hope this failure may put an end Cloud’s | Washington to negotiate with the government. The time has come when the Indian tribes should be no longer dallied with and bar- people who reside on our territory, they must be subject to our laws. No other raco is permitted to visit the federal capital to ar- range the conditions on which they wili yield obedience. Neither whites nor negroes as- sert any such privilege, and their pretensions would be scouted as insnferable if tuey did. For all other classes 6! our population, except the Iudians, Congress pass-s such laws as it deems just and expedient, and enforces obe- | dieace. The time bas come when it must | make its authority felt by the Indians in the same absolut» manner. ‘They must no longer be permitted to judge tor | | themselves, but the government must | indge for them what laws and regulations li be binding on their race within the limits of the national jurisdiction, ‘The In- As for the Mayoralty, | ‘the Pole and could leave his retinue as a! | colony—Green to tax the Polar bears and | JUNE 9, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, dian laws ought to be just, humane and con- siderste; but the superior sense of Congress must decide what these laws shall be, and they must be enforced with a firmnexs, de- cision and vigor that will convince the In- dians of the futility of resistance. This inevitable change in our Indian policy is imposed by the force of circumstances, and if the government has not yet quite grown to it it will very soon. A good beginning was made in 1871, when Congress passed the law forbidding the Executive to make any further treaties with the Indian tribes. The newspa- per correspondents at Washington during the visit of Red Cloud and his associates seem to have forgotten this important statute in their perpetual use of the word ‘‘treaty” as applica- ble tothe proposed arrangement with the Sioux chiefs. The act of March 3, 1871, declares that ‘no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be ac- knowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty.” This great step toward a fun- damental change in our Indian pol- icy has made, as yet, but little impression on the public mind, because it is prospective im its operation and leaves existing Indian treaties untouched. The act expressly pro- vides that ‘no obligation of any treaty law fully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March 3, 1871, shall be hereby invalidated or im- paired.’’ The government must, of course, keep faith; but if the old Indian treaties could be annulled the field would be clear for a new and wise Indian policy. Provision has been made by Congress for terminating existing treaties with any tribe which com- niences hostilities against the United States— a wise and provident enactment, founded on a principle of the law of nations, by which subsisting treaties are annulled be- tween States at war. If the Sioux chiefs should excite their tribe to hostilities when they get back their treaty will be as dea’ as if they had signed a relinquishment during their late visit. ‘The statute here referred to was passed in 1862, with a view to prevent the Indiaus from fighting in the interest of the Confederates ; but this acci- dental origin does not impair its valne for present purposes. Its language is, ‘‘When- ever the tribal organization of any Indian tribe is in actual hostility to the United States the President is authorized, by procla- mation, to declare all treaties with such tribe abrogated by such tribe.” If the Sioux chiefs go home and stir up hostilities they will as effectually annul their sreaty as if they had signed a relinquishment, without gaining the advantages which the govern- ment offered them in compensation. We hope the government will avail itself of this means of abrogating Indian treaties as fast as occasions may arise, and when the existing treaties are out of the way it will be at full liberty to deal with the Indian question in a manner adapted to the extension of our set- tlements into the great Western regions where the red man held unmolested sway twenty years ago. How to Treat Pablic Nuisances—A Little Good Advice, There never was a city so beridden with its officials as the city of New York. Those whose business it is to see that the public service is tree from abuses are generally the first to introduce them, and when the people are awakened to any one of the evils an official denial of the existence of the wrong is the first result of the discovery. This was notably the case in regard to the filling of the Harlem flats. When the Hzratp pointed out this terrible abuse Commissioner Disbecker flatly contradicted us. Evidently he expected his bold words to be accepted as the truth and that his shameless conduct would go un- challenged. He and one or two of his asso- | ciates even went so far as to hold the fear of dismissal over the whole body of police sur- geons to coerce them into making a report to sustain his position, though it was subversive of the fact. ‘This document, so disgraceful in itself, was published as an official denial of all the charges, and but for the exertions and courage of General Smith it | might have been accepted as a proof of Dis- becker’s rectitude. The new Commissioner | was not a man to cover over @ great wrong, even when it was perpetrated with the con- | in the Board, and he first induced Dr. Fetter to tell the whole truth in regard to the matter. In a report to the Police Department, which | we print this morning, Dr. Fetter reiterates | the facts to which General Smith first gavo publicity. These tacts not only demonstrate all that we have said in regard to the filling | used and its danger, but clearly prove that the Street Cleaning Bureau was systematically engaged in planting a pest bed almost in the | heart of tbe city. The conclusion seems | inevitable that this work, so heartless and so iniquitous, was done for the profit of other and this much at least seems certain, that not more than one report of the money received for | street dirt was ever made to the Comptroller, We also print reports from Dr. Francis A. Thomas, Dr. Hamilton Walker and others, some of them going even further than Dr. | persoas besides the contractors; to the foolish practice of Indiau embassies to | gained with, but governed. Like all other | “ | well as professional skill, be is especially well | | Fetter in denunciation of the wrongs com- [mitted upon the people of Hariem. Dr. Walker declares that, whether countenanced | by the Police Board or not, the manner in which the salt marsh was filled was an out- rage on the community, and Dr. Thomas, years and wko is a man of much practical knowledge, also sustains this view. Dr. | Thomas lives in the neighborhood of which | he writes, so that by personal observation, as | qualified to express an opinion on this sub- | ject. Many of the police surgeons who con- | curred in the report of the special committee | did so without making any personal examina- tion, and it will be seen that most of these now take entirely different ground. Neither the Polico Commissioners nor the Board of Health can any jonger bave an excuse tor not dealing sternly and effectively with tho nui- sance, and, thongh Dr. Waiker doubts whether disinfection is possible, it has become a necessity. ‘The noxious gases and noisome vapors which have resulted from the foul matter used | as (o make an epidemic not only possible, but | | vrobable, unless speedy efforty aro adopted to sent or under the direction of bis associates | who has been a police surgeon for many | | as filling impregnate the air to such an extent | prevent disease, Witn such weather as we have had for the Inst fortnight every day adds to the danger. In another week it may be too late to guard against the enemy to life and health which has been so recklessly brought to the doors of a large part of our population by their official protectors and guardians. If anything is to be done to protect the commu- nity it must be done speedily, and it is due to the public that the work of disinfection shall be done effectively. The difficulty is in dealing with so large a mass of deleterious matter. So much gare bage has been dumped into the Harlem flata and now lies there decomposing that only the most thorongh treatment will meet the exi- gencies of the case. Many plans are sug. gested; but among the moat feasible, op~ parently, is the use of coal tar as a disinfeote ant. If this article possesses the qualities attributed to it and claimed for it the whole region now infected with malarial diseases— the result of the foul exhalations from the garbage beds—may be made safe and whole some in a week. The substance is very cheap, and fifteen years ago was regarded as useless for any practical purpose. Since then it haa been much utilized, however; and if it really possesses the disinfecting qualities that are claimed for it no time should be lost in cov. ering the pest beds with a thick coating of coal tar, and then the whole district should be filled with four or five feet of pure loam or sand. No moro street filh ings, even if they are free from garbage, ought to be sent tothe Harlem flats in the condition they now are. Only that which it in itself a disinfectant, loam or sand, should © be used in barying the iniquities of the Street Cleaning Bureau afid the contractors, anda thorough disinfection of the unhealthy fillings should be made before they are covered with pure earth, ‘The plan to which we thus call attention is that suggested by Dr. Thomas in his report to the Police Board. His suggestion is so simple and inexpensive that there can be no excuse, in view of the danger which is im pending, for not applying it. If the coal taz possesses the disinfecting qualities which Dr. Thomas avers—and there need be na doubt upon this question—the unhealthy substances which now threaten the health of the city should be satu- vated with it at once, If it will not fully auswer the purpose some other disinfectant must be found; for, while there can be no doubt that the deleterious matter ought to be removed altogether, it would be unsafe to attempt its removal, at least at this season, In our efforts to prevent an epidemic we must not altogether overlook the cause of all this trouble or the men by whom it was pro- duced. The filling of the Harlem flats is nuisance. It is the duty of the Grand Jury to indict nuisances. Let the District Attorney have those by whom it was created indicted and tried for their offence. Mr. Delaficld Smith, the Corporation Counsel, has ex pressed a willingness to aid the people in this matter. Here is his opportunity. Let him see to it that the contractors and officials whe were engaged in creating this nuisance are made to suffer for their wrong by means of a civil action. If they are pursued and pun. ished in both the civil and criminal courts there will be fewer offences of the same kind in the future. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. »plendid burgundy this year. ‘The Inter-Occan says ‘the defence has exerted its best Evarts,’” Major John J. Upham, United States Army, is at the Giennam Hotel. ‘They celebrated Mesmer’s birthday in Paris with a banquet and @ ball. Sergeant Bates is another great soldier not mom tioned in Sher: "8 DOOR. Ex-Governor John U. Brown, of Tennesse, is residing at tne New York Hotel. Congressman George A. Bagley, of Watertown, N. Y., 18 at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr, Robert H. Pruya, of Aloany, 1s among tue late arrivals at tue Fifth Avenue Hotel, Naval Constructor R. W. Stecie, United States Navy, 1s regi at the Union Square Hotel, Jt would appear that the Washington hotel keepers are content to get along sans Sioux-ct, Lieutenant Commander Charles F. Scnmita, United States Navy, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, Congressman Glivert C, Walker, of Virginia, has taken up his residence at the St. Nicholas Hotel, ‘There is @ prospect Of agreat harvest in Hun- gary, but in Russia tae Mise 18 1083 Satisiace tory. Mr. Thomas Dickson, President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, is at tne St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr, Goorge Smith will take another trip te Mesopotamia, this time at the expense of the Britian freasury. Sate Treasurer Wiliam Morrow and Comp- troller Joum C. Burch, of Tennessee, are at the | Fuh Avenue Hotei. Gouncillor A. P. de Carvalho Borges, the Brazit- jan Minister, arrived from Washington last evea- ing at the Albemarle Hotel. ‘Tremendous times in Dublin for the O'Connell contenniai. It comes on the Sto, 6th and 7ta of August, for he had three birthdays, One Jacob Dunning sued the Denver Zrthune for $100,000 damages jor alleged defamation of charage ter. Result—Plaintid non-sulted, with tberty to pay costs. During the year ending April 1, 1875, there were | exported from France to foreign countries 18,345 bottles of champagne. France nersel consumes 3,000,000 bottles, Secretary Delano yesterday sent to the Prost dent the name of Goveruor Axtell, of Utah, to be Governor of New Mexico, and tnat of J. P. @mery, of Tennessee, to be Governor of Utah, vice Axte:L Prince Bismarck will, on the advice of bis modt cal attendant, pass in futare his periods of ieave in a warm climate. He intends, tvereore, to pur | chase property in Southern Germany, but will not sell his estate at Varzin. | Jef Davis says for the South:. “We can proudly | polut to a record which shows @ strict adherence | to the tsages of war between civiiized mations," ‘This shows how completely poor old Jef has for- gotten all about Andersonville, At the request of Professors Ranke and Goese brecht, the Prussian Lieutenant General veo Troscki bas undertaken to write the bistory ot the military sciences for the great work origin ated vy King Maximilian Il, of Bavasia, “The [im tory of the Selences in Germany.” | In Mississippi some active politician lodged a bullet in the brain of ® negro sheriff. He haa, perhaps, heard of Carruth’s case, and so put hu shot in the other way—sending it from the front of the head backwards; but in spite of this pre caution the cullud passon still lives, Woy aeem amiss The veecner Kiss And over it Make & Wry Mouth? Mis churen’s name Impiies the same | Preaching aud practice Piy-mouth, | Philadelphia Bulletin, Lastoul’s appeal in regard to starvation im Cab edonia is simply an outcry against the discipl jound necessary. Tie military commander nas ordered that the convicts who reiuse to wore svall onty receive im fucure 4 ration composed of bread, vegetables, Oil, vinegar and sali. About | fifty-seven prisoners are affected by this ruigy | But they will get emough to eat when they oboy i orders,