The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Hexap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. mevertes: communications will not be re- ee PHILADELPHIA OFFIC 0.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. — = AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. CONCERT, at & pyMonns oanpEy, FIFTH AVENUE THRATITe, DAVID GARRICK, at 8 P.M. Sothern. WALLACK'’S PHEATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLLAK. a6 8 P.M. Mr. on. Mra, Flor. enee. BOWY. CUSTER AND M115 aV’ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ateP.M, TIVOLT THEATRE, VARIETY, AT 8 P.M. THIRD AVENUE TUBATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. UNION SQUARE THEATER TWO MEN OF SANDY BAR, at 8 P.M. THRATRE COMIQUE, VARIETY, at 6 P.M. i BKOOTIVS THEATRE. ro ig oa at 8 P.M. Mr. Bangsand Mrs. Agnes Wood's MUS f THE ICE WITCH, at 8 P.M. M oat? P.M, PARISIAN . VARIETIES, ater. Mw. TRE. RELSY, at 6 P.M. MINSTRELS, BAGL BURLESQUE, COMKD KELLY & atsP.M. CHATEAU MABILLE. VARIBTY, at 8 P. M. BROOKLYN THEATRE, KISSES, at 8 P.M. Miss Minnie ’almer. YMPIC THEATRE. AMA, at 8 P.M, ow VARIETY AND DK. KEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPT From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy. During the summer months the Hrnaup will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of iwenty-five cents per week, free of postage. Tuere Is Mucu Compiamt of robberies on some of the steamers between this port and Havana. Passenger steamers ought to pro- vide precautions against robberies of the kind reported, or at least care should be taken to discover and punish the guilty parties. His Honor Justice Kasmime is a queer judge. Yesterday he made an order that all officers having complaints to make in his court should stand at parade rest while do- ing so. Why a Tombs justice should re- quire a technical rather than a mere respect- fal attitude in a complainant is one of those things which even a Tombs lawyer cannot comprehend. Supaz Caszx's Testor, in regard to the difficulties in obtaining information relative to cotton claims from the bureau of the Treasury Department known as the Cotton Bureau, reflects much discredit upon the department and makes a complete investiga- tion of the whole question indispensable. If there has been fraud in these transactions, as is broadly hinted, the country desires to know it. Massacnuserts Poxtrics are becoming lively. There is opposition in the republi- can ranks to the renomination of Governor Rice, while the democrats are undecided whether to nominate Mr. Charles Francis Adams or ex-Governor Gaston. As republi- can succes is almost inevitable, unless an unlooked for opposition to Governor Rice should be developed, the question of the democratic nomination is only important for its effect outside of the State. Tas Rowixo at Puiapetrni to-day promises to be very interesting, as will be seen from the programme which we print elsewhers. Much was expected by way of comparison from the international regatta, especially comparison of the strokes in the four-oar races, but about the only thing which has been determined is the fact that the English, as well as the American crews, row as many strokes to the minute as pos- sible, in order to obtain swiftness in an emergency. How to Sze tux Exuirrion.—A good many people can spare time and means for but a brief visit to the great Centennial show, and are forced to be content with three or four days ora week there. A correspondent else- where gives some useful advice to such per- sons; he tells them what they may judiciously skip, and how to make the labor of sight see- ing a pleasure; and he suggests that in even so short a time as three or tour days visitors may enjoy a great deal and master the most interesting parts of the show. Tae Weatnen.—As announced in yester- fay’s Henatp another area of low pressure is | spprosching from the westward, and we shall again experience somo days of warm weather during its passage. At present this area is central in the territory between the Missouri River and the Northern Mississippi, and may pass from the lake region into Can- ada without creating a serious atmospheric disturbance in New York State; but we are inclined to believe just now that is track will be more to the southward, and conse- quently we will be likely to feel its influence on Tuesday next. In the mean- time the temperature will rise and the winds shift to southeasterly and southerly ts. From the conditions prevailing on | the Gulf const we infer that a severe storm, probably a cyclone, is progressing in the Gulf of Mexico. Althongh the force of the | wind in the southern latitudes is not very remarkable its variations of direction are certain indications of a disturbance some distance tothe southward. It is probable the news will be received from Florida during to-day or to-morrow of astorm in that State, To-day the weather in New York will be warmer and partly cloudy, The Firm Attitude of Mr. Seymour Democratic Choice of Evils. A large proportion of the democratic press—by the inspiration, as it is to be pre- sumed, of party leaders—advises the run- ning of Mr, Seymour in spite of his inflexi- | ble refusal to be a candidate or to accept the | office. Of all possible methods of extrica- tion from the present demoralizing situa- tion this is the weakest. We are confident that this desperate purpose will not be per- sisted in. It isa freak of political lunacy. It sets the moral sentiment of the State at defiance by indorsing the brazen frand which was practised on the State Conven- tion and rubbing in the affront offered to Mr. Seymour. Both the affront to him and the fraud on the Convention consist in the interception and dishonest suppression of communications which he tried to make and had a right to make to that body while it was yet in session. Je was one party and the Convention the other party to a proposed arrangement for putting his name at the head of the democratic ticket. The act of the Convention in nomi- nating him after his reiterated and well known refusals to be a candidate was no breach of courtesy to him or of obligation to its con- stituents, because it immediately adjourned until the next day for the avowed purpose of affording him an opportunity to reconsider his decision and the Convention an oppor- tunity to make another nomination if he re- fused to yield. Up to this point there was no flagrant violation of trust or courtesy, since the rights both of the candidate and the Convention were recognized—the rights of the candidate by appointing a committee to wait on him and ask his acceptance, and of the Convention by interposing a delay long enough for enabling it to receive his answer and decide what course it would take in the event of his refusal. The whole question was left open for such fur- ther or different action as might be deemed expedient after hearing from the candidate. His right to refuse was respected ; the right of the Convention to be informed of his attitude was recog- nized; the further right and duty of the Convention to make another nomination if he declined were also acknowledged. Mr. Seymour may have been unduly pressed ; but still, as his liberty of action was respected by the appointment of a committee to ascer- tain his final decision and the adjournment of the Convention to act upon it, there was nothing very objectionable in the stress of importunity. In judging of what came to pass within the ensuing twelve hours no heavy censure should be visited on Judge Gray, the presi- dent of the Convention, for suppressing the despatch sent to him by Mr. Seymour at midnight on Wednesday. That despatch was indeed emphatic 7 but it was sent seven or eight hours before the committee ap- pointed by the Convention were likely to reach Mr. Seymour's residence, and there might have been a possibility that they would prevail on him to change his mind. While there remained a hope that he would yield there was no bad faith in withholding his despatch. A candid public opinion will exonerate Judge Gray. If the final report of the committee had been truthful he would have escaped all censure. But the dishonest action of the committee admits of no pallia- tion. Not one of the whole ten ‘left Saratoga to discharge the duty with which they had been intrusted. They hoodwinked the Convention into the belief that they had waited on Governor Seymour and procured his acceptance. Instead of going them- selves, as was expected of them, they sent two unscrupulous and irresponsible men who did not belong to their number, and arranged with them as to the form of de- spatch they shouldsend. The next morning the Convention received a despatch in the form collusively agreed on, and, on the strength of that dishonest and collusive message, the chairman of the committee stood up in the Convention and told a plump and deliberate falsehood, He assured the Convention that Mr. Seymour had accepted the nomination, and on that lying statement the Convention completed its business and. adjourned. Had the Convention known the truth it would have made another nomination. It was for the frandulent purpose of depriving the Convention of its right of action that this gross, wanton, shameless and deliberate deception was perpetrated. It was a grace- less insult to Mr. Seymour, whose messages to the Convention had been intercepted and suppressed, and an impudent frand on the Convention, whose confidence was abused toentrap it to adjourn on false information. This unabashed imposition, by which the Convention was tricked out of its right of choice and prevented from revising its action of the preceding day, was so egregiously dishonest and scandalous that no person can support or defend it without making himself a particeps criminis. If the democratic party insists on running Sey- monr in spite of this exposed and unblush- ing fraud it will deserve the scorn of honor- able men. Every democrat who insists that Seymour shall be run in spite of the falsehood by which the Convention was entrapped into adjourning without making another nomi- nation makes himself ‘tan accomplice after the fact” in one of the most disgraceful political frauds ever practised in this coun- try. Whoever insists on running Mr. Sey- mour in spite of his stubborn rejection of the nomination indorses the shameless false- hood and fraud by which the Convention was led to adjourn without revising the ten- tative action of Wednesday evening. Why did the Convention adjourn for twelve hours after nominating Mr. Seymour? Why did it not proceed to complete its ticket on Wednesday evening? Why did it send an imposing committee to Utica? For no other conceivable purpose than to acquire authentic information of Mr. Sey- action on the next day. If he declined they expected to make another nomination. | They failed to do so only because a false and lying committee abused their confidence. If the consequence of this reck- less and insulting deception is permitted to stand the whole democratic party become indorsers of tho falsehood and accomplices in the fraud. If it makes this hazardous | experiment it will be swept away like chaff mour’s acceptance or refusal as a basis of | -NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. in a whirlwind. Instead of pocketing this gross insult, instead of condoning this fraud, the democratic party must exhibit the natural indignation of honest men against rogues who attempt to swindle them out of their rights and degrade political con- ventions into a swindling farce. To be sure, the reassembling of the Con- vention will be attended with dangers. There might be a disposition on the part of some of its members to wash a great deal of dirty democratic linen in full view of the public; but even this would be a lesser evil than an indorsement of the fraud and false- hood perpetrated on the party by its faithless committee at Saratoga We do not deny that it happens in pol- itics, as in private life, that false steps seem to create a necessity for others. But this is amistaken calculation. If a man be over- taken in ao fault the wisest, as well as the most honest course, is to make a frank con- fession and do better for the future. This is more emphatically true of political par- ties, whose follies cannot, like those of in- dividuals, be veiled from observation. It is always wise to do what is right and calmly await the consequences. This is especially true of the democratic party in this unfor- tunate crisis. It is not the party at large, it is not even the Convention, that is to blame for the falseheod and scandal that threatens tobe so ruinous, but only a small knot of intriguing individuals, The right thing for the party todo is to repudiate these trick- sters and act on its own honest views, If the Convention whose confidence was so shamelessly abused should be reassembled and put back in the same _ posi- tion in which it would have stood if Mr. Seymour's refusal had been honestly communicated last Thursday it would probably act with moderation and discretion if all the recent candidates for the Governorship would make an unqualified withdrawal. If they return to reassert their claims there will of course be a grand wash- ing of dirty political linen; but if they all stand sloof and insist on the nomination of an entirely new candidate the Convention may go smoothly through its work on re- assembling. Any respectable new candidate on whom Governor Tilden, Mr. Seymour, Mr. Kernan and three or four other leaders can agree may easily be nominated within half an hour after the Convention reassembles, and even if he should be a weak man (for which there ig no necessity) the party would be in a far better condition than it could be by making itself an accomplice of fraud and falsehood by keeping Mr. Seymour in the field against his consent. The Irish Team. The arrival in New York of the gentlemen composing the team and reserves of the Irish team, announced in our columns to- day, is an event which will be hailed by all lovers of the noble sport of long range rifle shooting with sincere pleasure. The history of the two contests which have taken place in 1874 and 1875 between the representative marksmen of Ireland and the United States is filled with so many pleasant incidents, the record of so much genial courtesy and warm- hearted interchange of good will and regard between the two countries, that we must rec- ognize in the return match which is to be shot at Creedmoor more of an occasion for the further cementing of an international friendship than one in which a rivalry in skill is to be revived. If there was any room for doubt on this score the friendly expres- sions uttered by the Lord Mayor of Dublin toward this nation and its institutions, on the oceasion of the departure of the Irish riflemen, would be sufficient to convert the most cynical of mortals into an ardent be- liever that words are more than combina- tions of articulate sounds. Nor were the departing marksmen less hearty in their ex pressions of regard for the land they were about to visit, for their captain and spokes- man, the gallant and patriotic Major Leech, tells the world that it is as much to do honor to our nation on the occasion of the Cen- tennial as to win a victory for Ireland that himse!f and his companions cross the ocean. ‘he names of nearly all the gen- tlemen of the Irish party are now familiar to our readers) We have so frequently chronicled their achievements at the butts that Leech, Rigby, Milner and Johnson are as well known to fame in America as Dakin, Fulton, Bodine and Gildersleeve. As to the new members of the Irish team who visit this country for the first time, we can only hope that the impres- sions produced on their minds by our efforts to welcome them becomingly will prove strong enough to induce them to repeat the visit many times. The close contest at Creedmoor in 1874, the sharp work at Dollymonnt last year, which compelled our men to put forth their best efforts to win the match, and the subse- quent victory of the Irish team at Wimble- don in the contest for the Elcho Shield, lend to the coming match at Creedmoor all the charm of uncertainty as to the result which will make it one of the most exciting con- tests of its kind ever waged. We have al- rendy noticed the excellence of the marks- manship of the Scotch and Australian teams, and we are certain that our Canadian neigh- bors will cover themselves with honor, so that the grand Centennial match will, with- ont doubt, attract all the interest such an event should awaken. When the Canadian team arrives the contending forces will all be present. . Then we shall be better able to judge of the respective merits of each team, and can more correctly estimate the odds against ourown men. To our Irish friends we offer, in the expressive language of their country, ‘‘Cead mille failte”—a hundred thou- sand welcomes-—and wish them a good place on the record after our American team. Tue Coat Trovstrs.—All the endeavors of the coal monopoly to continue its plunder have thus far come to naught. As the vari- ous members of the great conspiracy to keep up prices could not agree—and therefore | conld not continue to rob the public—some of them turned with a desperate resolution to rob at the other end of the line. Ifthe public were out of their reach at least they had the miners in acorner. If they could not extort from one they could squeeze the other, and so defend their threatened profits in some degree. But, contrary to their ex- | pectations, perhaps, the miners accept the | reduced wages. If this is not contrary to the expectation of the great producers it is at least contrary to all the gloomy prophecies they have lately made, which assumed that the lower prices of coal and lower wages would result in extensive strikes, inter- rupted production and higher prices. As yet that danger is not apparent, for the miners shrewdly judge that low prices will make a demand that will keep the mines steadily in operation, and they hope to make more money with regular employment at low wages than with higher pay and the frequent holidays enforced upon them by the tactics of keeping up prices by arresting produc- tion. The Bulgarian Atrocities and Eng- Msh Policy. The whole trath about the Bulgerian atrocities was long withheld from the world, but the part of it already revealed almost ex- ceeds belief. If we are to believe the reve- lations of the London Daily News, which we reprint to-day, the Turks are capable of any barbarity. Even Sitting Bull would be ashamed to commit the horrors which Achmed Agha and his band of bashi-bazouks committed at Batak. These demons made war not on armed mea, but women and chil- dren. Babies wero carried on their bayonets through the streets. Young girls were kept for days to witness the slaughter of their friends—to submit to no fate even worse than death and to be massacred in the end. Such barbarities wero never before enacted in any land under the sun. It is impossible.to conceive of a soldiery so degraded as to be capable of enacting them. Yet all the horrors which this story relates wero committed by the Turks upon the defenceless inhabitants of Batak—old women and young girls, and even babes in their mother's arms. We sincerely believe that the picture which we reproduce this morning is not over- drawn, and being true it imposes a duty upon the European Powers which they have never seriously contemplated—the oblitera- tion of the Ottoman Empire. If Moham- medanism promotes such ghastly horrors it must disappear from the world. A creed which recognizes universal massacre as part of its plan of salvation cannot be allowed to exist. In the present case it would not have lasted so long if England had not defended and promoted it, and these atrocities would never have been com- mitted if the Turks had not felt that the English infidels would defend them, right or wrong. In sending a fleet to Besika Bay Mr. Disracli took no precautions to prevent the horrors which followed this act of un- necessarily friendliness toward Turkey. Now that the truth is becoming known Lord Beaconsfield suffers from the heedlessness of Mr. Disraeli, and the tory Ministry can scarcely fail to fall before the heart and con- science of England. At no time has the support of Turkey been congenial to the English mind. It was a policy of state- craft at all times offensive to the people, and now that the atrocities which this policy has encouraged have been revealed the impression it is making is profound. No Ministry could long withstand the public indignation which has been created by these revelations. Mr. Baring and Sir Harry Elliot are both accused of withholding the truth, and it is even hinted that Lord Beaconsfield was careless in ascer- taining it. The press has taken up the sub- ject and is dealing the Ministry many heavy blows. Indeed, so great is the feeling ex- cited by these revelations that Lord Beacons- field’s:downfall is not improbable, as much from his jocose method of dealing with these horrors in Parliament as because of the blunder of his Ministry in supporting the Turks with an English fleet. These atroci- ties arp in themselves a sufficient reason for the extinguishment of the power of the Porte, and the sooner it is done the better it will be for the rest of the world. Rapid Transit. Will somebody tell us who owns the city of New York? Is it the property of the tax- payers or of the railroad and other corpora- tions who live and fatten upon the taxpayers and make them uncomfortable while they live on them? A very large part of the working people of New York are vitally and directly interested in securing cheap and rapid communications with the upper end of the city. All the taxpayers of the city are equally interested. Rapid transit means comfort, low ‘rents, fresh air to the me- chanics and laborers of the city, health and clean living to their families, decrease of taxes to the overburdened taxpafers, rapid and large increase of the city’s revenues, enlargement of the area which can be used for the purposes of commerce and industry— in fact, it means health and prosperity to the city of New York. Oh, but it would offend the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company! What a dreadful thing! Of course we cannot have rapid transit. Porish the thoaght. Let us give up evgry- thing to please the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company. Our working people, by hun- dreds of thousands, demand rapid transit ; but the Sixth Avenne Railroad Company ob- jects; so give it upat once. Why should the rights of mechanics, the health and com- fort of women and children, the benefit of taxpayers, the prosperity of New York be considered when a railroad company ob- jects? And what is this great corporation which bars the way of half a million of people to the upper end of the island? It isa com- pany which has for years used the people's streets for its private purposes and gain. It is a company whose track rans over prop- erty which belongs not to it but to the tax- payers of New York. Suppose the taxpayers should resume possession of their property, as they have an undoubted moral right to do. If s company uses your land it must pay or leave, Why not? At least it ought to be a little modest, apd not run to a convenient court with objections which work grave moral, physical and pecu- niary injuries to a million of people. There is no sense in that. We need rapid transit and must have it, and if the Mayor was the defender of the city we should have it. As it is, a single street railroad company, which has Inid its rails upon the streets owned by the taxpayers, coolly sets them and the whole people at defiance, and for its own sclfish profit actually stops the advance of the city of New York! Yellow Fever. - There was a death from yellow fever in Brooklyn a few days since, and a permit was given for the removal of the body for burial through a distance of nearly three hundred miles in this State, with all the dangerous probabilities that are associated with such a transit and with the certainty that if the coffin should be opened by design or acci- dent on the route or at the end of it, and that opening shogld coincide with a tem- perature fitted to propagate the poison, an epidemic would be the consequence. Ap- parently the physician who attended the case, and who made ont the certificate of death, was aware of the nature of the dis- ease, for he reported it correctly in his direct relations with the Board, where his responsi- bility is distinct, but he disguised the casein making out the certificate of death upon which a permit for removal was to be applied for. This certificate was apparently made deceptive with deliberate intention and out of regard to the wishes of the friends of tho defunct, who were aware that they could not obtain permission to take the corpse on such @ journey if the nature of the disease was known to the health authorities. Therefore the disease was put in the certificate, not by its accepted name, but under cover of aname derived from its presumed pathology. ‘This physician therefore defeated the intention of the law by an evasive return, and endeavors to defend his act by such lame subterfnges as the pretence that the name yellow fever is at best only accidental. If there is no law to punish this sort of delinquency our health codes are defective. The Sermons Yesterday. The warm Angust days, with their ripen- ing heat, have passed away, and the harvest stands ready to be gathered. The laborers are hurrying back to the fields and vineyards to collect the golden fruits of their toil of the springtime before the chill winds can harm them, and to prepare the ground for the reception of new seed for the coming year. This will serve to illustrate the con- dition of the religious, a3 well as that of the material, world to-day, fora perusal of our church reports of yesterday show that the pastors pre hastening home from the scenes of their repose by the seaside and on the mountains to resume their labors in the vineyards of the Lord. The poor we have always with us. We have no occasion to chronicle their coming and going, except perhaps when they first appear in our midst and when they leave us forever. But the wealthy, like the delicate birds of passage that come to our woods and fields in tho springtime and depart again to their tropi- cal homes at the first breath of approaching winter, come and go with the seasons. Just now the time of fashionable migration has begnn, and rustling silks sweep the long vacant church aisles and pews, and the broadcloth of well-to-do religion may be seen at all our churches. So pass the shadows over the dial. Men and women, rich and poor, come and go like the buds and flowers of spring and the sear and withered leaves of autumn. Father McCauley at St. Stenhen's church and Father Quinn at the Cathedral preached impressive sermons on the miracle of the leper, and argued in favor of the necessity of purification from the leprosy of sin by the aid of faith in God's goodness and of the sacraments which He has instituted. At the Thicty-fourth street church the Rey. Carlos Martyn spoke on the subject of public worship, taking as his text the words, ‘‘We will not forsake the house of our God.” At the Eighteenth street Metho- dist Episcopal church the Rev. W. F. Hat- field showed how grateful and cbedient man should be for God's overshadowing care. Dr. Clapp, at the Broadway Tabernacle, en- couraged his hearers in persevering in their efforts to win the crown which Christ prom- ises to His followers, and at the Church of the Holy Trinity the divine sentiment, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” was elo- quently dwelt on by the Rev. Mr. Tyng, Jr. Dr. Wilson, at the Asbury Methodist Epis- copal church, spoke on the unity of the faithful in Christ and on the changelessness of God. The Rev. Mrs. Anna Oliver, at the First place Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, preached a statistical sermon on the ‘Condition and Needs of Brooklyn and New York,” and presented a startling array of facts and a still more formidable one of figures in support of her statements. Mr. Talmage preached a characteristic ser- mon, full of religious chaff, but with some grains of truthful sentiment scattered through it, on his return to his pulpit. A Visrr to Heit Gate while the prepara- tions are being made to demolish the for- midable reef at Hallett’s Point is well worth the time and trouble expended. In view of the destruction of this impediment to navigation being fixed for an early day we have received from General Newton, the engineer, a very full ex- pression of opinion, which we print elsewhere, concerning the effects likely to be produced by the explosion. Nervous mortals who own real and personal prop- erty within the circumference of a mile from the centre of explosion are dubious as to the result of the big blast, and munifegt considerable anxiety as the day draws near when Hallett’s reef shall be no more. But General Newton tells us with all the calm contidence of a scientiffe man that there is no danger. A curious thing, however, may happen, and he warns us in | time about it. Although no cuts or bruises may be suffered by the residents of Astoria, yet, unless they leave their dwellings during the explosion they may each have a piece of | plaster on their heads. Ceiling plaster, of | course, Anotuen Comnustinte Towyx.—St. Hya- einthe, Quebec, met its fate by fire yes- terday, and its site is now marked by heaps of smouldering ashes that were once wooden houses. Our special despatch from Montreal States that over five hundred buildings were destroyed and twenty-five hundred persons | Fire | rendered homeless by the flames. engines have been sent from that city to the scene of the disaster, but little ean be accomplished by their means except, perhaps, to cool the ruins in order that some property might be saved. The spread of the fire over such | ble character of the buildings. There wae@ perfect calm prevailing at Quebec and its vicinity at the hour the fire must have been making its rapid progress, hut at Montreal the wind velocity was seventeen miles per hour. St. Hyacinthe being situated about thirty miles east-northeast of Montreal it will be safe to infer that a moderate wind prevailed there at the time. Of course the fire created violent air currents when once it made any headway, but wooden houses and fences must be recognized as the chicf cause of the disaster. The Centennial and Health. In another column we print one of many communications we have received on the subject of the effect of visits to the Centen- nial upon the health of the visitors, It is a topic to which we call attention, because we the Public | do not feel at liberty to ignore it, and because, also, we are of opinion that its proper consideration will not do any harm to the great enterprise, while it may impress upon the public mind some few neces sary precautions, and, what is perhaps of even greater importance, may in cite the Philadelphia people and the managers of the Exhibition to endeavo1 to remove such of the causes of disease as are within their reach. Many who visited Philadelphia in the summer and reached their homes on their return exceedingly ill could perhaps fairly attribute their derange- ments to: the exhaustion due to the intense heat, which was more severely felt at the Exposition grounds than elsewhero—as if that spot were in the focus of the great burn ing glass into which the {rnament seemed converted. With the cooler weather thal source of trouble is removed. There is little donbt, however, that the greater num- ber of cases of illness brought from Phila delphia are due to malaria; and this cause of trouble is most to be apprehended in the pleasant autumn weather. In this we de not refer to cases of typhoid or quasi-typhoid fevers brought from the militia camps of the grounds near the Centennial, They are due to causes that always prevail in camps—the exposure, the transition of temperature from night te day, the indifterence of large bodies of men to personal cleanliness and the utter absenct of an efficient camp police. The water of Philadelphia is bad—perhaps malarious. The city is full of odors which suggest that the sewers are ineffective. Indeed, though Philadelphia is famous for its cleanliness, and though it is as clean and trim super ficially as a Quaker dame’s cap, its filth ap- pears not to be carried away, but only to be thrust into the corners, there to reek unseen and poison the air though hidden. But the air of the worst corners in the city is mild compared to that which may be smelled at certain points in the Centennial grounds. At the grounds also the water is bad, and the whole district is apparently malarious, It would be well for visitors to note the pre. cautions suggested by the communication above referred to. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, “Duke” Gwin has arrived in Valifornia, ‘The Turks have destroyed the bridge of Banja Hares are being shot, aside from grouse, tn Scot land. The original Master Humphrey’s clook is at Hartle ool. Four quarts of milk are required to make one pound of cheese. The leaves in the Berkshire Hills are becoming yeb low and cere. J.C, Flood, the Big Bonanza fmancier, has arrtvod im New York. Some ono said that if you lanced Andy Green bv would bieed ee water, English sportsmen are introducing cormorant fish ing and hawk hunting. It was tue wife of a ragged bummer who sald at mid night, “It 1s nover too late to mend.”” Springfleld Repudlican:—'Boston, with ja population of 342,000, has 25,215 of the ‘illiterati.’”” Ben Butler says thero is no doubt of his election um less the democrats nominate Sitting Ball, Le Pett Jowrnal, ot Paris, vow returns its circula tion as 400,000 a day, “the largest circulation in thé ‘world.’ An Irish Jady who drove into the country said that she took such a long, keen smoll that the flowers came | up by the roots, M. De Boutilon, in “The Hand of Ethelberta,” being asked, ‘What is tho good of ancestors?” replies “They lay down wines.”” The coach from Londo to Dorking has suspended, and the horses have been sold for thirty to fitty guineas at Tattersali’s, The Earl of Shaftesbury has offered twelve prizes for the best donkeys, which makes the thirteenth of the staff of the Chicago Tribune feel bitter. Clara Louise Kellogg recently at the commencement of the Maine agriculiural College asked whether boet vines have to be trimmed in the spring. It isa fact that savages who live on plain, simple fare, do not attain so great an average age as the civil ized people who indulge in ricb cookery. Engleh correspondents criticise the American tasu which permits a young lady at a boat race to chat with ‘a young man with only a preceh cloth on, ‘A Moscow journal thinks tbat Russia is better pre pared for war than she was in 1853, because reform is government and society has awakenod a feeling of citi. zenship among all classes of her people, Nothing will surprise a married mau so much as to go home and see bis wi limping round the house with her little too bandaged, saying that sho doesn’t see why he has to keep such an infernal edge on his razor, “So,” said a lady recently to an Aberdeen merchant, “your pretty daughter has married a rich husband,” “Well,” slowly replied the father, “I believe she has married a rich man, dat I understand he is a very poor hasband.” ‘A boa constrictor having seized a young man in its folds in Lyons, the victim's sister threw a pailfal of water down the serpent’s throat and saved her brother, A pail of water should be kept handy in all well regulated households. Between 1865 and 1875 Fall River, Mass, by reason of its cotton manulactories, trebled its population, and Mr. Bowles says that the danger of hasty growth of a city of undiversilied industry is the aceamulation of poverty and ignorance. George MacDonald, the “goody” novelist, ways that the elder Hamlet is tho most interesting character next to bis son in Shakespe and that his dramatic influence, especially in the scone between Homiet and his mother, is undorestimated, Mr. Lamar bas declined the invitation of Leland Stanford and friends to visit the Pacific Coast, Messra Gordon, Ransom and Reagan will probably go, The idea on the Pacific side i* not so greatly political as it ys to affect legislation about the Central Pacific Rail road. ‘The conching ploasure has reached Chicago, A four- in-hand coach leaves tho Palmer House every day at tou A. M. ond five P.M. for Hyde Park, and leaves Hyde Pork ateight A. M. and three P, M. It is ran by Mr. Benjamin Ransom d la Dolancey Kane, and 1s as well patronized as Mr. Kane's coach, A little mies, writing to her father on tno first day og herenirance at boarding school, says:—'Phe first evening we have had prayers, and then singing, aude passing rouud of bread, whieh 1 did not take, be cause, Not being contirmed, I thought I had no right to take communion, Afterward I learned that 1 had lost a large area is clearly due to the inflamma- | my supper.” \ .