The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. PROS ti es AL JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD Pree cents per copy eur, five dollars fo for three Buy peri Bee ot ‘ EKLY HEBALD—One doltar por year, free of post- every day in the year, ded.” Ten doltars ner Hare aud Bitty dollar per month for nduy edition included, York or Post 0 ean he procur Money remitted ender, In order to insu Hon dubseribers wishing their addiess changed must. give their old as well us their new addres: All business, news letters or tele; recy phic despatches must rly seated, returned. PHILADELPHIA “OFF Loxbox" “OFFICE QE TUE NEW YORK BERALD— SAbLas Oerice NO. Subscriptions and advertisements will be sorwarded on the sume terms as in New Yo AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S—Srri ACADEMY OF ML GRAND OPERA HO! WINDSOR THEATER GERMANIA THEATRE—Dan Recistaasor avy Ruisen, UNION SQUARE THEA’ Tax Baxxea's DavcurER. THEATRE COMIQUE—MuuticaN Guanp Bau. NIBLO’S GARDEN—Btack Cnoox. BOWERY THEATRE—Victins aud SoLoy SuiNGLE. MASONIC HALL—Tux Mipgats. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS—His Mcp Scow. TONY PASTOR’S—Prvavyone Buntesque, TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaun ae NEW YORK AQUARIU: ep Ripine Hooe AMERICAN MUSEU 1OSITIES, BREWSTER HALL—Papustutasis TRIPLE ) SHEET. Pixavore. NEW T You, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1820. fies are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy, with light rains early in the morning, fol- lowed by a clearing. To-morrow it will be warmer ond partly cloudy or fair, possibly with occasional light rains. Y Wait Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock mar ket wus fairly active and still feverish in tone. Government bonds were firm, States steady and railroads strong. Money on call Jent at3a4 per cent, advanced to 6 per cent and closed at 3 per cent. ‘Tue Shoorme of a negro by a student of the University of Virginia shows that there is life in the old land yet. Tammany wants the election laws repealed. The existence of ‘Tammany is one of the strong- est reasons in favor of keeping them on the Btatute books. Tne Mexican Vererans are in fresh trouble about their pensions. The campaign for their little stipend is immeasurably harder work than all their battles in Mexico. Tur New “West Swe Marker will be a freat conyeniencee to the farmers of Li Island. It is expected that it will be ready for occupancy the 1st of May. Miirary Men will be interested in the text of the findings of the Reno Court of Inquiry, elsewhere printed. The accused officer is ac- quitted of all tho charges against him. Seconp AVENUE promises to bear away the palm in regard to rapid transit luxuries. The one hundred and fifty palace cars ordered for the new line will be the finest yct built. AccorpixG to a decision in the courts yes- terday the wee sma’ hour between midnight Sunday and one o'clock Monday morning is ex- empt from the operation of the Sunday law. Tue Russran Navy has obtained a valuable acquisition in the new ship Zabiaca, built for that government in Philadelphia. In her trial trip yesterday a very high degree of speed was attained, and she is thought to be the fastest cruiser afloat. : Wire tne Leaping Tuorovcurarss of the city are comparatively clean the obscure side streets are in a most horrible condition. In an- other column some of these places are specifically indicated, and the attention of the Street Clean- ing Bureau is invited to them. The weather will begiu to get warm in afew weeks, and at this season of the year, above all others, every precantion should be taken to prevent the epread of disease and death. The first step in this direction is to clear off the winter's accumu- lation of pestilence-breeding matter, Turn out the broom brigade at once. Tue Weatner.—An extensive depression ad- vanced over the central valleys from the north- west during yeaterday, and last night it was over the lowerlake and St. Lawrence Valley districts. The pressure is not yet very much below the mean, but it 1s likely to decrease steadily as the disturbance neurs the ocean. During its east- ward movement the depression’s influence was felt over a large area, owing to the great differ- mee of temperature in the bodies of atmosphere shat preceded and followed it. The great con- jrasts of temperature which occurred in the Cen- tral Mississippi and Ohio valleys caused a general fall of rain iv those districts, although the pres- sure was considerably above the mean. Rains were also numerous in the lake regions and cast- ward to the Atlantic coast, and in the New Eng- laud States the low temperature caused them to changeinto sleet or snow. Another depression is approaching from the regions of Northern Texas aud New Mexico and will probably reach the central valley districts early today. As yet it does not give indications of developing a ceutve of disturbance of very great energy, but when itseastward movement becomes retarded by the high area in advance the gradients for south- westerly winds will become steep. The winds have been brisk over the lakes and on the Middle Adluntic and New England coasts. In the other districts they have been geverally fresh. The fell decidedly in the Middle At ow England States yesterday morn- ing, but @ steady rise soon followed. It has risen iv all the districts except the Northwest, where it is falling slowly. Reports from Culi- fornia say that the rainfall in the interior of the State has been exceedingly heavy. In the Rus- siau River Valley, six inches fell during forty- eight hours, causing grent and damaging tloods, All the rivers ave reported to be very high. The storm centre has passed over the British Islands and the barometer is rising, accompanied by cooley northwesterly to westerly winds. The sweuther in New York and its inity to-day will be cool and partly cloudy, with light rains eurlyin the morning, followed by a clearing. To-niorrow it will be warmer and partly: of fair, possibly with occasional light rains. | merce, NEW YORK HERALD, How Our Foreign Trade Is Tajared. Mr. Wilson, United States Consul at Brussels, recently made a report to the State Department, which was published in the Henatp on ‘Tuesday, wherein it may be seen that our trade in provisions with Eu- ropean countries is endangered by the same enemies that have already done so much to harm the trade in live cattle. ‘Lhese ene- mies are dishonest merchants and incapable or dishonest inspectors. There are men in all lines of business who cannot be con- tented with the legitimate profits arising from their trade, but must seek additional gain by dishonest practices. If the evil they do could be contined to themselves it would not be of much consequence. A man who cheats those who deal with him is soon found out and driven to other resources for aliving. But the knavery of a few causes suspicion of the many and thus brings honest traders into discredit. When it becomes known that swindling is practised in the shipment of American provisions buyers naturally become alarmed, the interests that are affected by the import trade are not slow to spread the contagion of suspicion, and the honest shippers, exporters and dealers, having only legitimate profits to depend upon, are the most seriously in- jured, Any prosperous trade commonly suffers in the same way from similar causes. It may be remembered how great a clamor has been raised in England from time to time over the dishonest practices of British mer- chants whose commerce was mostly with far away peoples who had no other remedy than to eventually refuse to buy British goods and turn theirattention to the better American article that happened to be bandy. It was the Hindoo or the Rus- sian or somebody in the South Seas that was to be the victim, and these people, it was assumed, could never get back at the British trader in any'way, even it they knew the difference between a good article and a poor one ; and on reason- he like that they were cheated beyond all imaginable limit in dry goods, hardware and other commodities. British critics of this dishonesty have sometimes said that the growth of the American trade was based on this British failure to do justice by customers. That is not accurate, but a great part of our success in the world has come to us in that way, certainly. When it was found that the English traders took advantage of the simplicity and help- lessness of their distant customers to prac- tise all manners of cheats and frauds upon them under the mask of legitimate com- merce it was natural that the victims should look elsewhere for such necessary supplies as they needed and eagerly avail themselves of the opportunity of trading with any nation that would treat them with fairness and honesty. Still the desire tobe protected from the tricks of the British ex- porter would not have brought customers to our doors had we not been in a condition to compete with the English manufacturers and to offer other advantages to purchasers besides those arising from more honest and upright dealings. So that, while the British traders would have found American traders more than a match for them in a fair, equal competition, there can be no doubt that the dishonest practices of the former hastened the decline of their commerce with such people. And now a similar evil is growing in our commerce. Our vast traffic in provisions, in dead meat and live animals, in food supplies of every kind, is to become, rightly managed, the greatest traffic in the world. In every country these important products are wanted, and the people can afford to pay the prices at which we can afford to sell, No other country has such facilities for this production. If we can succeed in establishing a character for honesty in our dealings, and can by the quality of the food supplics we pour into Europe prove that the integrity of our ex- porters is backed up by capacity and vigi- lance of inspection, we are certain to ex- tend this already vast traffic and to com- mand the provision markets of the world. The importance of this to a nation whose growth and wealth depend on such trade, and whose vast acres and fertile soil are capable of supplying two qontinents with food cannot be exaggerated. Yeta fow dis- honest, unscrupulous men can inflict a serious blow on our progress in this direc- tion, That they are ready to do so, and to sacrifice the reputation of our whole ex- porting business for the sake of securing illegitimate gains for themselves, cannot be questioned. A reputable American consul tells our government that he has be- come convinced by actual examination that frauds calculated to seriously injure our commerce are perpetrated by the ship- pers of our food products, He was himself disposed to regard the seizures of alleged diseased American hams at Brussels aos prompted by a desire to drive such articles out of the market, but an inspection made by himself convinced him of the correct- ness of the statement that they were unfit for human food. His in- quiries have led to the cunviction that the evil is not an isolated one; that sometimes through carelessness, and oftener by design, the meats and grains exported from the United States are not of a proper quality. As our grain at least is principally sold by sample the vic- timized purchasers are certain to mako complaints loud enough to be heard and to affect our whole trade. No such practices can exist without bringing discredit on all American exports in the shape of food, All buyers will naturally be cau- tious about buying American hams, for instaace, after the story of the hams condemned at Antwerp. But it is not only in hams nor only at Antwerp that this evil is felt. Dishonest exporters, sure of a foreign market under the cover of the good character of our trade earned by up- right dealers, will put in rotten goods of any sort in their greed for gain, indifferent to the fact that they do not so much plun- der a foreign buyer as ruin o great com- It is the same with the trade in cattle, as was pointed out in our letter from St. Louis yesterday, and in the one from Chieago, These accounts show how crip- lowly | pled cattle are tad up in swill stables, and then smuggled in with Vevax harde and FRIDAY, sent here to be shipped as cattle fresh from the Plains. Every one of those stables is a hotbed of cattle disease—it cannot be other- wise—and evowy animal that passes through them has the disease or the seeds of disease in its system. And yet they pass inspec- tors and all, and get out of our ports with clean health bills. Our foreign trade in live cattle and provisions is in peril, and can only be saved by the organization of an effective inspection of exports. An inspector of ex- ports appointed in fact to protect the good character of our commerce is logically the friend of the foreign purchaser, and there- fore the enemy of the seller if that seller is dishonest. He should be in a position to act with judicial impartiality in the per- formance of his duty, But he is not in such a position. He is the associate and in many instances the employé of the ex- porter whose goods he is called upon to condemn if they are not up to a certain standard of excellence. How farcical in- spection is that fact alone willshow. One of these days, when the United States Con- gress has leisure for the performance of its proper functions, it may profitably give its attention to this subject. Indeed, the extra session rendered necessary by the deter- mination of the democratic members to force by revolutionary proceedings the repeal of certain laws objectionable to their party which might just as well have been repealed next year as this year, could not do better than take up and consider the suggestions made by our Consul at Brussels for the remedy of this serious evil. He thinks that government inspectors ought to be sta- | tioned at every custom house of the United States, whose especial business it would be to examine all oux food exports, before shipment for foreign countries, and certify to their fitness and quality. Whether this would meet.and cure the evil we are not prepared to say, but the subject is one of far greater importance to the public in- terests than a majority of the matters to which Congress usually devotes its time. The “Ruler of Yale's Meteorologee.”’ In the year A. D. 1866, and to be particu- lar as to dates, on the night of the 14th of November, an event took place in Europe which brought glory to science, by the ful- filment of an astronomical prediction re- garding the metcoric showers; gave the Herat» an opportunity of utilizing with effect the facilities for gathering news af- forded by the Atlantic cable, and caused ao scientific donkey to doff his borrowed and long worn lion's skin and bray a loud noteof protest against the meteors and the Heratp’s enterprise, The person who so distinguished himself had, up to that time, held some rank as an oxpert in scientific matters, but was always noted for enormous conceit tem- pered by intellectual dyspepsia. Nearly al- ways dealing with things that were differentin their nature from what he conceived them to be the deductions of Professor Loomis, “ruler of Yale's meteorologee,” regarding general scientific principles, and even particular scientific facts, have been based on a nar- row conservatism which was no longer and broader than his own very limited percep- tive and analytic powers. For this reason, in November, 1866, he made public a de- nunciation of the Hznaup’s special cable despatch announcing the meteoric display in England, and - called it “spurious” on the strength of his inflated opinion of his own power to predict such astronomical occurrences, The facts were, however, that the meteors appeared where he said they would not and did not appear where he said they should. To the confusion of this asinine professor of astronomy and ‘ruler of Yale’s meteorologee” the mails brought the English papers filled with accounts of the meteoric shower corroborative of the Henaxv’s cablegram. After this Professor Loomis subsided for awhile, and possibly devoted his hours of occupation to the work which we then sug- gested to him—namely, the cultivation of cabbuges. But now and then his gonius for blundering asserted itself with superior power, and he would abandon his innocent occupation—which may have been the cul- tivation of cabbages—for other fields, where notoriety at least was to be won, even at the sacrifice of the last rags of a reputation for common sense. On the strength of having compiled in a period of scien- tific fever s book on meteorology, which for want.of anything else worth reading is accepted in some schools, and, we believe, unfortunately, at Yale, Professor Loomis has been posing for some time as an authority on meteorological ques- tions. It he ever learned anything from the sources of information whence he drow his book material it must have fermented badly, for the knowledge, such as it was, has been spoiled for all practical purposes. The latest effort of ‘‘the ruler of Yale's meteorologee” is to prove—all out of hisown head, too—that only one storm in nine will reach the British Islands atter crossing the Atlantic. This deduction he makes after a considerable amount of “figuring” on tho ocean charts for 1874 and 1875 of Captain Hoffmeyer, of Copenhagen, who does not believe in the recognition of the direct transatlantic passage of storms at all, We print to-day an urticle from the London Sunday Observer, if which Professor Loomis opinion is quoted as important in settling the value of storm warnings from this side. Comparing the statements of Loomis, based on charts which Hoffineyer has confessed are too imperfect for a critical .examination of the question, with the measure of success that has attended the Henatp weather service predictions dur- ing the past two years, it will be found that ‘the ruler of Yale’s meteorologee” has excelled all his previous attempts at stating things exactly as they aro not. To prove this we havo examined the Henaxp predic- tions by the evidence furnished by the official meteorological bulletins published daily in England and France, and with the following results:-+Out of fifty-nine warn- ings sent to London between February 14, 1878, and February 14, 1879, 71 per cent were completely fulfilled, 10 per cent were fulfilled im nearly every particular, 11 per cent were fulfilled in many particulars and 8 were not fulfilled for the regions pre- dicted. The value of all the fulfilments amonnta, therafore. to over 99 nar nent. MARCH 7, 1879.—TRIPLE The Legal Tender Test Case. It was a curious statement which we pub- lished yesterday from our special cor- respondent at Washington presenting the motives and the steps which have led to the agreement between Mr. Chittenden and General Butler to make up a case for test- ing the constitutionality of the issue or reissue of legal tender notes since the close of the civil war. Not the least interesting part of this communication consisted of the letters exchanged between Mr. Chittenden and General Butler on the subject. We are not of those who expect any im- portant results from this singular proceed- ing. The ground of our distrust is the un- certainty whether the federal courts will entertain such a suit. It will bea mere moot case gotten up for the sole purpose of testing the constitutionality of a law. Both parties to the agreement seem well enough aware that the courts would dismiss a fic- titious case,, Mr, Chittenden says in his letter, “I propose that we soek a suitable test case, which, of course, must be a real one.” General Butler says in his reply that he is willing to argue the question before the courts “in any manner that a case may be made—of course, an actual case.” But can an actual case bemade? Areal case im- plies actual parties in interest—that is to say, parties who have a private stake in the result aside from the general interest which they share with the whole country in the de- cision of an abstract constitutional ques- tion. The Supreme Court never decides a constitutional question for the mere sake of deciding it, but only as a necessary means of administering justice between liti- gant parties who have some other interest than tho decisiofi of an abstract point of law for the general benefit of the public. We doubt whether the Court will enter- tain a suit foisted upon its'attention for the mere purpose of’ getting a decision on an abstract legal question. There is a strong presumption against the case being what-Mr. Chittenden calls “@ real one” and General Butler ‘an actual case,” in the avowed object of the parties, - Neither of them has any real interest in jeopardy for which he seeks the protection of the courts. What they con- template is a purely fictitious suit, which is yet to be invented, and which would never be sought from the ordinary motives of litigants. Another presumption against the genuineness of the case is the fact that there can be no real conflict of interest between a party who offers to pay a debt in groenbacks and a party. who refuses to accept them and demands coin, ‘There is not the slightest shade of difference between the value of the two, On the face of the transaction it isa mere mask for a suit having another’ purpose. A court can easily test the reality of the case, The creditor who refuses to receive five thou- sand dollars: in greenbacks when tendered by his debtor’ thereby forfeits his claim if the greenbacks should be adjudged a legal tender, or if (which would amount to the same thing) the Court should refuse to en- tertain his stit, Willany craditor take this risk in good faith? It is competent for the Court to ascertain whether there is a secret understanding between the parties that this torfcit eiall not be exacted, and if there is such an understanding the: suit will, of course, be treated as fictitious, If such a test case as is proposed should be entertained the substance of it might seem somewhat shadowy to the judicial mind. It is simply whether the greenbacks issued or reissued since the close of the war aro to be regarded as a new creation of that species of paper money. The amount authorized previous to the close of the war has not been exceeded. What has actually happened is that defaced or wornout notes have been replaced by others since the war as wellas during the war. Had the original notes been printed on a more durable ma- terial there would have been no place for the curious question which has now been raised. Is the mere substitution of fresh notes for wornout ones a new creation of paper money? This is the real question on which this test suit is to be brought. The substitution bears some analogy to the recent issue of duplicate bonds to the Man- hattan Savings Bank, which creates no new debt, but only acknowledges an existing one of which the evidence has been lost. An Accident on the Metropolitan “L.” We earnestly invite the attention of the “L” companies to an accident which oc- curred yesterday on the Metropolitan “L,” near the Twenty-third street station, and which illustrated, happily without loss of life, the danger that would attend the uso of crossings on the rapid transit roads. Tho engine of a train broke the connecting rod of the driving wheels and smashed the sleep- ers or ties so completely.that they ‘fell on Sixth avenue. Before the damaged engino could be removed several trains had come up behind it, and the road was blocked for somo time, Now, let us suppose that this accident occurred at the Beaver street junction, or, still worse, at the pro- posed Chatham squaro crossing, and on that part of the crossing which would effectually block all the roads—that is to say, on the down track just below Division stroct. Before the wreck—for there might be a great deal of it—could be cleared away the roads north and south would be crowded with trains, all of which would have to pass the damaged crossing before any resump- tion of regular running could be possible on cither road. Those trains so delayed might be crowded with passengers anxious to got home or to their places of business, and es the means of leaving trains are lim- ited &t present to the station platiorms it might be necessary to call out the nearest hook and ladder companies of the Fire De- partment to rescue people, as from a burn- ing building, from the rapid transit trains. We do not care to contemplate. what the consequences would be if the track was so injured by an accident as to throw the train off. Indeed, that is a rather remoto risk that is ran by travellers on every surface as well ns elevated railroad. A broken con- necting rod can break a guard rail as wellas atic. But the delay, contusion and alarm that would follow such an accident as that which occurred yesterday, if it happoned an tha (Chatham sanara arnasiny or tha SHEET. Beaver and Pearl street junction, should be considered by the “L” companies ‘before they endanger public safety by construct- ing on such plans. King Cetywayo, of Zuldland. The cable news from London published in this morning’s Hzsatp would appear to intimate that the English government is fully aware of the difficulties to be en- countered in settling the Zulu war. King Cetywayo has shown a military cunning-a, knowledge of the mili- tary. weakness of English methods of wartare against savage peoples, worthy of no littleadmiration. The English military authorities have apparently need to take Charles Rende's advice earnestly to heart. ‘People who go to war,” says that distinguished novelist, ‘should immedi- ately rub up their wits; they should cudgel their brains a'bit, grudging so base an en- emy the life of a single British soldier and the tears of those who moan for him.” The ingenious novelist asks why small balloons are not provided the urmy for reconnoitring purposes, so that the savage lairs could be easily discovered? Bat the gentle Zulu is, perbaps, quite cunning enough to hide even trom the telescope of.a mili:ary balloonist: for he loves the depths of the forest and the shadows of the night better than the open, where his lighter colored foes would have the advantage over him. Admitted that balloons might be very useful to the English forces in Zulu- land, of decidedly greater advantage would be a commander-in-chief with more military capacity than Lord Chelmsford has so far shown himself to have. Of this the English War Office authorities seem to be quite well aware, but the cable has not yet informed us who is to be Lord Chelmstord’s successor. The name of Major General Sir Daniel Lyson has been men- tioned, while the correspondent of an English provincial journal speaks of Sir Garnet Wolseley os the future com- mander-in-chief in South Africa, yet a later despatch says that Lord Chelmsford is to be kept in his command. With a prop- erly organized force it is not probable that King Cetywayo will, in the end, prove victorious. Large forces of the Zulus have, in the ‘past, been defeated by ao mere handful of Boers, and a repetition of the Isundula disaster is scurcely to be feared. Nevertheless it would be well for the English commander to keep in mind the fact that he has to deal with a very doughty monarch, the chieftain of a war- like race that boasts of more than one leader of extraordinary prowess. King Cetywayo makes his uncle King Chaka his avowed model, and the latter occupies an important place in Zulu tradition, having been compared by various writers to Alexan- der thé Great, to Napoleon I. and tho great Frederick of Prussia. ‘Lhe nephew has now won for himself a fame almost greater than his uncle, for he has succoeded in inflicting a defeat on the English forces very similar to that which Arminius, the leader of the Cheruskean and the German tribes inflicted on Varus in the Teatobury’ Forest. He is evidently a dusky foe not to be despised, and we shall follow the story as it comes to us of his resistance to tho English forces with considerable interest. Queer Justice and Queer Morality. . By gross carelessness, to put the case in its best aspect—gross oversight on the part of the Judge, and gross oversight of the prosecuting officer—two men were on Wednesday dischargéd from the hands of justice who had bronght into the city eleven cows, seven of which were in the last stages of pleuro-pneumonia, They had bought these cows for eighteen dollars apiece, knew that they were not healthy, knew that their act was unlawful. ‘They probably in- tended to sell these cows to be slaughtered for beef. Yet these persons ara dismissed because it appears the Judge misunder- stood an important point in the case, and the prosecuting officer neglected another important point It would be just as well to give complete immunity to people ready to spread this diseaso to its utmost and to feed the people on diseased meat. But the story of these cat- tle involves a piece of queer morality as well ags.a piece of queer justice. They were sold by Mr. Judson, of the Gramercy Park Hotel. He know their condition, as the price indicates. Was he willing to save the small sum for which he sold those dis- eased cows at the risk of being a party to a transaction in the sale of diseased meat? One who keeps a hotel ought to be in- terested in the suppression of that traffic, Another School Inspector Speaks. School Commissioner Watson should be on the alert for the corrupting influences that are abroad and trying to impose good air upon the lungs of bad little boys and girls, The trouble has broken out in a new place. Dr. Enderman, whois neither a re- porter nor a patent ventilator man, has been reporting to the Board of Health tho condition of the public schools, and he finds professional reasons for disliking the air of tho rooms as much as the little vic- tims and the Hinatp do. His table of comparative air space, temperature and impurity of air in certain schools is very suggestive to scientists, parents and under- takers, though whether it will be equally so toa body of men who know and care so little abont ventilation os our Board of Education do is quite o different mat- ter, Perhaps the Ventilation Committco of the Board may be interested to learn that the only school upon which both Dr. Enderman and the Heratp inspector re« ported—-Grammar School No, 18—stands equally bad in the estimation of both gen- tlemen. The Henaxp said of it that were it not for cccadional changes of classes the air would be intolerable ; that the alternations of heat and cold were dangerous, somo of the pupils shivering while others were roasting ; that it was pitiful to see the chil- dren seated near the radiators ‘‘with their countenances flushed with the dangerous rise of temperature, inducing irritation of the brain and depression of tho nervous system.” Dr, Enderman says nothing, but | offers some terrible figures from which we learn that the proportion of the deadly car- bonic acid gasin four of the five rooms, upon which be renorta waa oreater. considering |. breathe, the few moments, the rooms had been oo- cupied, than in any other school of which he reports. One per cent of carbonic acid gas in atmospheric air is extremely dam gerous to human health. What is to be said of twice as much, which was detected in these rooms when they had been occu- pied a seant half hour, with the polluting operation to go on for several times as long before dismissal? Another room ds ine dicated in which the air space per indi- vidual is about or not quite that of the Black Hole of Caleutta, yet either by acci- dent or design has air which is better than would be expected, although far from fit to What is the new Ventilation Com- mittee, of which so much was promisedand expected, going to do about Dr. Endere man's revelations? What it has done through its chairman, ex-Mayor Wickham, is to secure the passage of a resolution direct+ ing the teachers to take the temperature of their respective rooms three times a day and record the same upon the blackboards, Has somebody told the ex-Mayor that the purity of air depends upon its temperature, oris this only a new illustration of the Board's consistency to its dreary, murders ous policy of “how not to doit?” * PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, O'Leary, heel thyself. Are the vivandiéres brigado dears? Spring is here and the organ grinders are in bud. ‘The mule is the bird that makes the shoe fly, Fiddles and mortgages. aro now mate in Now Jersey. Lbyron’s statue is likely to be erected in St. James’ Park, London, Mr. George 8. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Sir Henry W. Becher and Lady Becher returned to the city yesterday from Niagara Falls, and are at the Brevoort House. Senators Henry B, Anthony and Ambroso E. Burn side, of Rhode Island, and N. P. a, of Colorado, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotet.” ' London World has little faith in the religion of men who, condemned to be hanged for monstrous crimes, talk as if La were the pets of a prospective paradise, Now that Princess Louise has been the means of making Canadian customs popular in England tho annexation of Canada to the United States seems to have been postponed, Mr. W. A. Croffut, of the Graphic, will this evening lecture in Science Hall, Eighth stroet, before the Liberal Club, on ‘oust Rat and Nankeen Breeches; @ Plea for tho Chinese.” ‘Tho Rev. FF. Emerson last night resigned his pastorate of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, Hartford, Conn., because of a change of opinion se his part on the question of baptism, Labouchero says:—"My recollection of Bismarck, however, when I usod to see a good deal of him at Frankfort before ho was a great mau, is that ho was & very gross foeder; indeed, I once saw him dovoura fish that smelt so high that it almost made every one else in the room sick. And then his hands were always filthy and be used to paddle them in his plate in a most unpleasant manner. . Except for these pe culiarities he was a very agreeable man, talking, itis true, thirteen to the dozen, but with a sort of clever, reckless, dsre-devil air.” Mrs. Bayard ‘faylor and her daughter arrived in New York yesterday. Mrs. Taylor .is im ill health from the loss pt her husband, Ex-Minister Ran- croft was among the first of Mra, Taylor's friends who sorrowfully welcomed her. Tho remains of Mr. Taylor will arrive next week. It wus not so very long ago when the writer, in a Fourth avenue car, was an unwilling hearer of a conversatian’ between Bayard Taylor and William Cullen Bryant, in which the two pocts were commiserating each other upon the posuible degth of another poet whom we shall not name, ‘The two agreed that their follow poet soon must die, and that his loss wonid be great to them. The fellow poet still lives and both Bryant and Taylor have gqne. London 7ruth:—*A run on a bank is not altogether a public calamity. To hear the sorrowful and con- temptuous talk of banking people when referring to the things they have to endure one would think these banks did not pay ten to twenty per cent div- idends every year, precisely because the public knows better than to ran upon them. No well man- aged bank succumbs without reasop, ond a run is not # reason for succumbing, for @ really strong bank can always fortify itself in timo. I leave out of the question a general krack, as our German friends call it, But in ordinary times a strong bank’ can always withstand a run anda weak one cannot. Iwish there had been a run on the Glasgow Bank before it managed to advance so much of its cus tomers’ money to insolvent connections of the di- rectors. An occasional run is better protection te the public than a periodical balance sheet,"* CLARA MORRIS' REVENGE. SHE INSTRUCTS HER HUSBAND TO “POUND” & PASSENGER AT OMAHA—*‘HIT HIM TWICR, PREDDIE”—FREDDIE H(TS HIM TWICE. (BY TELEGRAPH TO TR HERALD.) Omana, Neb., March 6, 1879, Among the overland passengers from the West to- night were Clara Morris, actress, oud Frederick Harriot, hor husband, on their way East. Tho train stopping for some time, Mr. Harriot was in his state- room conversing with your correspondent, when Mra, Harriot called him to her berth, and, pointing out » fine looking man on the platform outside, uttered several words in a low tone. Mr, Harriot at once walked out upon the platform, and, stepping quietly up to the man, btruck him on the breast, The policemen and passengers crowded, about the as- saulted man and asked the moaning of the blow. ‘The latter suid ho did not know his assailant. As this momont Mrs. Harriot stepped to her car win- dow, threw it up and shouted :— “Hit him twice, Freddie, hit him twice; I told you to strike him twice,” Mr. Harriot then struck the man before him other sharp blow with the flat of his hand, which resounded throngh the depot. The assaulted man then removed his cap, and, step; forward to Mra, Harriot, said, “There is sumo e here, madame; I know neither you nor your husband; what does eioe bawed io i trect car in San Francisco,” “You me in a 6! car said Mrs. Harriot, “I was never in San Francisco in my life,” was the answer. bod pee threatened to arrest Harriot, but the as sauited man gave them no oncouragement, and all the partion wore ayain allowed to take thoir seats in train, Returning tohia sout Mr. Harriot said to your corre- spondent: net is a fellow connected with a dre matic paper who has assailed both my wife and my- self through its columns and in anonymous letters, , He was an enemy to my wife in Cloveland several years ago, when she first went on tho meno, and did ail he could to injure her. He has tollowed her oo lace to place, Mul severat times insulted ie@ mot hee not long ayo in # street car in San at ads vowed to her, aud sent her « note next day referring to the bow and saying ho knew somo iets derogatory to both my character and that of m: wife. I have no secrets that 1 want kept quict, meovt this fellow occasionally, and this isnot t the first time I have pounded him.” Men here who know the assaulted individnal say Mr. Harriot mado & mistake; that the man he anded” cannot possibly be the person who in- salted his wife, STRUCK BY THE CARS, (bY TELRORAPH TO THE HERALD.) Porrsrows, Pa., March 6, 1879, About four o'clock this afternoon John H. Noble and Willi KE. Bailey, cach aged about soventeen years, pupils of the Hill school, were walking on the track of the Heading Railroad at this place whem they were struck by the rear portion of a moving freight train, which was at that time making 4 flying shift, Providentially they were thrown to enother track and eseapod being run over. The young men were carried to the school and physicians were sum- moned, Bailey is considerably seratehed and bruised, while his companion, Noble, is more seriously hurt, having sustained severe internal Injurion, Dr, Frank B. Keller, the attending phynieian, reports Noble’s condition as quite serious to-night, The parents of§ of both Noble aud Dailey reside at Morrie