Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-23
NEWS AND Gossip.


sfectual manner for reopening It is suggested
in communication to the National Intellisen-
cer that very little required 10 place it forever
beyond the possibility of danger from gases such |
as those which have proved SO deleterious. 1t |
taking up all the cellar and kitchen |
floors, first being prepared with dogs and sticks |
to kill the rats which may be found secreted |
under them; after which the space between the |
joists to be filled with earth and rammed, and !
muriatic acid and salt used as o fumigator. &c.
We highly approve of the hotel being thorough.
ly cleansed and purified; after which, if kept
so, we guarantee the healthfulness of the loca-
ton The difficulty existing there has long been
understood; ancient carelessness and neglect
have caused all the distress, which proper at
tention and common sense would have obviated.
Ii the hotel had been erected without cellars,
the usual receptacles for filth, sickness would
not have been engendered from noxious vapors
No argument will avail to convince the public
that any other cause than that of filth created
the difficulty. If travellers, on entering hotel,
perceive offensive and disagreeab,e odors, they
may consider it as warning not to tarry
there; hotel keepers will then find that it is to
their interest to keep their houses clean and
pure.
Disagreeable odOrs are often unjustly attrib-
uted to coal gas, and thus injurious and more
deleterious gases remain unnoticed. The odor
of coal gas is useful as a warning that pipes
leak or jets are not closed, which, if permitted
to continue, would fill the rooms and cause ex-
plosion if fire should be brought in contact.
Gas pipes can be kept in order by good work
men, and no Odor will escape except by care
lessness; therefore, when an hotel is habitually
offensive from gas, it may be suspected that it
is Intentionally made so to hide the ef1uvium
arising from filth. If the above suggestions are
attended to by travellers, they will have pure
and agreeable air, wholesome food, and the
comfort to which they are entitled. 1t is to the
travelling public we may attribute, in ameaslre,
the carelessness and inattention of hotel keep
ersss They should only patronise such as are
cleanly in all their arrangements, particularly
the kitchen; and where their comforts are prop
erly cared for by the domestics. The eomfortsof
an hotel greatly depend on the host being
thorough man, who understands his business
and will see that proper attention is received
by the patrons Of his house. Should he be in
experienced in knowledge of what the public
expect and are entitled to, they should pass by
his house and seek another.
The GENERAL MAIL AGENT FOR THE South
AND WEsT.-The Nashville (Tenn.) RepuJIi-
can Banner (opposition) says
I'VE are pleased to learn that our contemporary
OF the L MON x American, Maj f.. G. Eastman,
has been appointed General Mail Agent for the
South and West. This is a new Office created
by the present Postmaster General, and its duties
as we understand, are principally to examine and
superinend the various mail routes. and see that
they are arranged so as to most fully accommo-
date the people. Maj. Eastman is abundantly
competent to the duties of the office and can add
much to the efficiency of the service by thorough
ovsrhauling of the mail routes and connections
I'VE learn also that Col. Barclay Martin of
Tennessee, succeeds DR.. VIM. Murphy as special
mail agent for the West Mr. George NJ Bright
takes Col. Martins place as agent for Kept,,cky
. and Tennessee
MAJOR Eastman is an eiere of the old Tsle.
graph printing Office in this city From one of
its composing stands he went to Tennessee. and
came back to Washington as a clerk in the Office
Of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, rising to
become its Chief Clerk, and making most
efficient and deservedly popular one He re-
signed that situation at the close of the Polk
Administration, and, returning to Tennessee,
became the editor of the Nashville Union, and
is now one of the most influential public men
in the State, as well as one of its most useful
citizens. His high character Is the result of his
own exertiOns and merits His many friends
here rejoice at his success in life, and to them
nothing is more gratifying than to find, as they
do, that the opposition press Of Tennessee unani-
mously join the press Of his own party in award
ing praise to the Postmaster General for CON-
ferring on Major E. the honorable and respop-
sible position that gentleman now fills.
WHIPPING THE DEVIL AROUND THE Srrup-
The English-thOse conscientious haters of ala.
very. 1t will be recollected-are the carriers of
the Coolies to the Chincha islands. the West
Indies and wherever they may be sold into
practical slavery to an advantage. The value
OF their anti-slavery professions is aptly Illus
trated indeed in the facts stated in the follow
ing brief extract from letter in the Journal
of Commerce, setting forth the condition of the
Coolies in Cuba, brought there in English ships
so crowded and SO maltreated on the PASSAGE
as that as many lin proportion) die, as of negro
slaves On the middle passage in African
slavers
l." In conversing few days since, with gen.
tlsnian Yeo has spent some months in Cuba
a
large plantation, the following remarks were
made "0'0
=. They work about 500 slaves on their plar,,a
on,-about two-thirds negroes, and one-tbird
coolies; but the latter a poor get One negro
VIII 90 as much work as two coolies The Latter
are feeble and soon broke down. They have to
y, Yep man constantly behind them, with whip
70 keep them awake. They fall asleep at their
WORK, standing up, OF anyhow Generally they
are worked about eighteen hour. out of twenty
four. The coolies cans stand il: they are a,,y,y
sleepy. "A healthy negro stands it pretty wei.
never heard OF any coolies getting their liberty
after their time Is out. Perhaps there NAV he
some but they don't generally live so long.
Ihey Ole on In two or three years and thew are
not good for much at any time
KASsAs,-This mornings mail brought us
the following letter which we commend 10 the
consideration Of our brethren of the Southern
press. We realize the soundness of its advice
to the Southern press-the pressing necessity