Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-25
EVENING STAR,
LOCAL LNTELLIGENOE.

seTery upon the report or the committee
upon the National Hotel endemic.
A city, he thinks, armed with a sanitary
police might reasonably expect from that bodv
somewhat more activity than has been dis.
played IN producing "brief report" affey 20
much hardness In action. Instead of in;t;a.
ting the movement to examine into the can.e,
Of the endemic while il existed, the guardian ms
OF poohc neaitn wait to be aroused by the
stimulus Of outside pressure, and vhen :,nrs'
ed commence the examination when thu a.
ease has passed away. Should yellov f.vs,
happen TO spread in our city next summe,
such committee might possibly Inform The
public Of the means Of prevention in the fall.
Inc result OF this Hardness Of action NAV be
fatal to public health. = ~
he contends that the committee wa. M,
sufficiently early in the feld, and tn at the re.
port does not bear within itself the logical cor.
rectness, which the present condition OF medi-
cal science demands
ne asks If the committee will affirm that
gaseous emuvia viii produce serious DISCHARGES
OF eenoiera character and leave such large
amount OF prostration Afterwards If the
committee admit this, it will be something
new and worth taking q note of" if thew
do not, the position they have taken Is incoI-
rect and cannot be sustained
Tne noxfous gases of sewers are nitrogen
suiPhuretted hydrogen, phosfuretted hydro,
gen, bisulphuret of carbon, carbonic aid ana
ammonia. Now, not one of these act as an
irritant on the alinentary canal; they act on
the cereoro- spinal nervous system, producing
asphyxla primarily and nausea, pains in the
chest, and titanic convulsive movements seo.
ondarily We are in no ignorance of the train
OF diseases which follow sewer gases-disease.
eases, with adynanic types; but not snv sucb
tram OF symptoms as evidenced in the en-
denIc intsstinal irritation common at the Ma.
tional. -
The cause Of the disease he thinks Ia an vet
undiscovered, and the evil of directing atten.
ton to Conditions not capable of prod1 cine il
Is to draw away the mind from the nrons,
pursuit Imperfect sewerage Is mot defect
OF the National Hotel only, but OF the whole
city, from the avenue down to the canal. itself
indus OF disease; and those localities should
more or less be affected If il were " noxious
miasma" from sewers. There il still some
hidden cause, which spite Of good sewerage,
may yet arse when the hotel is again filled,
unless examined and rooted out previously.
Ihn question-tha esnSe-still hidden not
outstanding the statement of the committee,
should be Investigated further. The summer
Is at hand, and what was confined to the Ma
honal may become metropolitan OF all causes
Of disease the metecric causes are the most
dihcult to determine they are fugacious and
elusive, and therefore the necessity for further
examination presents itself as far as it can be
carried ont. The valuable time for OK amins-
ton, the period Of the disease, has gone by:
the little which remains to be done should be
flashed at once before the warmth of summer
approaches.
In conclusion, he says the object of his let
ter u not to assail the committee personally.
but to show that the evidence they had to
deal with was partial and defective; that the
conclusion which they draw from the evil
dence is not fairly deapced therefrom that
any recommendation based on this will only
ha afeaa ~
as regards the action Of the committee, the
cause Of the endemic has still TO be written,
ABOUT 0BNBusEs.-Vsnderwer yestsr-
day placed upon the avenue six new and very
handsome omnibnses, named the "Anscostia,"
Minnesota, "Gen. Henderson," 'Phil OF
terbsck," 'Rob't D. Clarke" and sLsm.
Gaddis-"
They are to run for the present between 9Th
street and the Navy Yard until the eigh teen
are completed for the W ar Department line
Believing as We do that better managed
line OF omnibuses cannot be found in the Uni
ted States than this, which, for some six wears
nas been under the personal supervision of
Mp. Vanderwerken, Zone of the most expert
eneed and pains taking omnibus proprietors
In the country We cannot but think that the
fault finding upon his line is unjust, and
moreover, ungratefnl.
Few people, We imagine, have an adequate
requisite 70 conduct such an enterprise prop
erly, and as TO the monstrous profits Supposed
70 be realized, we venture to assert that hun-
dreds OF our citizens are getting larger re.
turns from investments Of few hundreds in
some small business than Nj Vanderwerken
with his eighty or ninety thousand dollars
sunk In omnibuses and horses. Not unfre-
quently be is called upon to sustain some such
loss as thaesome four years ago, when In less
than ninety days he lost 81 500 worth Of horses
Of CHAMBERS. 80 $500
No reasonable man, We think, can complain
Of paying six cents for o ride of two or three
miles, and all past experience has shown that
line cannot be sustained at less fare. If
the drivers ever las complained) manage TO
get seven cents fare in making change, We
presume they do so to get even with their ''no
change" and Give cent? customers Mr.
Vanderverken, however, does not recognize
this mode Of balancing accounts, and now that
Il has come to his knowledge, has given strict
orders to his employees not to go mill be-
yond the regular fare
UNITED STATES PoLIcE REPoRrs Before
Justice Dom
Laura Turner, (colored,) was arrested by
Officer kemble charged with stealing from
Mrs. A. N Maddox q bed comfort, pair of
blankets, Counterpart, two sheets, and a
pitcher; also from Eli Duvalrs family four
dresses. The above goods, upon q search of
the premises, were found and identified by
the owners After an examination the ac-
cused was committed to Jail. There are still
I'VE silk mantillas at the Justices office not
identified
Lorenzo Brsnnan, (colored,) was arrested
by Oheer Kemble charged with being cor.
cerned With Laura Turner In stealing the
goods Of Mrs. A. N. MADDOX. After exsmin-
alton the charge was dismissed.
Charles Cooper and his two sons, Shsdrsch
and Edward, lcolOred) we're arrested BY on
Ger kem6le charged with committing an as.
sault and battery on . woman named 6eorgi-
ana Chinr, (also colored.) After examina alton
each gave security in the sum of s1e0 to keep
The peace. Carrington for defence
Biddy Wineberry, wife of Geo w. Miller,
uas arrested By Oficer Yeatnsn en- argsd with
having broke the head Of her liege lord II
appears that the pair have been msu and wife
from cause the husband became jealous Of his
better half, and insisted tn at one of THAR ale