The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-07

in its success, and is exceedingly popular with
the Scholars. Qualified by a collegiate educa-
| ton to superintehd the curriculum of the in.
| stitution, he has devoted time and ability to
its course of study and its plan of discipline.
| He is no politician, and has therefore been
| defeated by inconsiderate action; but when
the merits of the case have been laid before
the members of Select Council we do not
! doubt but that they will do justice, not to Mr..
Lex, but to the institution, by reelectng him
! to the post he has so long and ably occupied
The Threatened Cholera and the % Cir
CnmIOcutiOn Ollice.''
WE have from time to time, for the past two
years, directed public attention to the neces
sity of purifying the city, in view of the posi-
BILE arrival of the cholera. After incessant
! labor and daily repetition of the danger, both
in season and out of season, the newspapers
of the city secured an appropriation from
| Councils to effect the necessary object, and
had plan adopted which, by its admirable
workings, did much to save our city from
the plague last summer. We take no credit
to ourselves for the persistency with which
we urged the reform; we did but speak the
sentiments of our readers, and it was their
influence, not ours, which gained an unwill-
ing appropriation from Councils. Once
more the summer is upon us, once
more the cholera is not unlikely to
visit us, and again we have been calling for an
cleansing of the city. So far we have been
calling in vain. 1t seems that our worthy city
fathers think they know more about hygiene
than the doctors who compose the Board Of
Health, and have, accordingly, refused to en-
trust any funds to them to carry out the object
for which the Board was created. The ques-
ton came up yesterday in Common Council,
where a peculiar discussion took place on
some peculiar resolutions introduced by Mr..
Hancock. This extraordinary document we
give entire, hoping our readers can make
something out of it, by discarding all gram
matical construction, and like judges in
equity, seize the spirit of the matter, but
avoid its sentences-else Cretan labyrinth
is spread before U.S.
z,Whoeas, The newspapers of the city, Board OF
| sundry uncalled-for and malicious attacks on the
atom to the Board Of Health for sanitary purposes
and where's appropriation OF s67 400 iOds MADE to
Sa s 6s os' year aHd whereas these Councils are not
Sy e Ss bsevo hey the Wishes Of
their constituents, and are better able to undersand
Board 10 expend said money judiciqusy; ana 6eley,
had better attend to his duties Judge instead Of
STOPPING to berate body OF men, ana interfering In
Seclion /. The Select and Common Councils Of the the
and the same hereby appropriated 70 pay for the
y OF IN View Ge Of he Of
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wards be and they are hereby empowered to examine
and report the same to the lieutenants Of the differ
ent police districts who shall report the same TO the
same, and the incurred shall be paid out Of
Section g. Warrants for said appropriation shall
drawn by the Mayor in conformity with existing
Now, a more cruel and unjustifable assault
or series of assaults on Lyndley Murray can
not be conceived than the preamble to these
resolutions. We really do not know whether
$67, 400 was or was not appropriated. In fact
we know nothing from the wordy preamble
except that Mr.. Hancock thinks that it is all
right, provided he introduces the word 'said"
before every noun in his composition. If that is
the only requisite, the preamble is a model
document.
In the first place, we oppose these resolutions
| III tOtOs we w uOt tuluh our OOuuCllS are u
Judge as to whether the attacks of all the
newspapers, and Board of Health and Judge,
are ''uncalled for and malicious" The num-
ber of these attacks is presumptve evidence
that they are just 1t seems to us that the
Council is like the Irishman who said that
the whole regiment was out of step with him.
The attacks en- Councils are just and called for,
and by the members intermeddling in affairs
which concern them not, such as health and
hygiene, they make themselves ridiculous.
Their only duty is to appropriate the money
called for by the proper officers and not to sit
in Judgment on men who know more of sani-
tary wants and general literature than a regi-
ment of the Common Council combined. The
Board of Health was created by law for the
special purpose of looking after the sanitary
wants OF our city 1t is composed of educated
and honest gentleman, and in it's hands we feel
that money is much more secure than it would
be with any agent selected by party cancus
In regard to Mr.. Hancoek's insolent remarks
about Judge Read, we esteem them not only
out of place but disgraceful, and the Council
should have vindicated its self-respect by
tabling at once any resolution rejecting on a
high judicial officer of the Commonwealth
The interest in behalf of the public security
manifested by gentleman of such high stand
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