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The New York herald., 1868-04-08
BONHD OF HENTTH,
BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS,
NcW Xnuu Aprtl IsGQ

Yesterday
METROPOLITAN BOARD or HEALTHY
BUREAU Of VITAL STATISTICS, \
NEW YORK, April :, 1868.
In the week that ended on saturday. the 4th inst,
there were 463 deaths in New York, Including 80 In
Brooklyn population, exclusive OF the deaths In the
county institutions. The mean temperature 40 ue-
grees Fahrenheit. was seven degrees warmer tnah
that of the previous week. The tOta mortality was
less by II in New York ana by l3 III brooklyn
There were only 50 deaths by scaratina ana measleS
in the two cities "a decrease OF IL in the week.
New York lost l2l infants under one year Oh age.
and this was eQua, to 2613 per cent Ol the tOtat
number of deaths OF all ages Brooklyn lost 10
nraings of like tender age or precisely onefourth
OF NIL the deaths IN that CITY, Childhood IN is llrst
Ave wears Is accredited with 40 per cent Of the total
mortality In New York, and with only 4S.57 per cent
I'm Hrooklyn The latter city Is apparently gaining
upOn New York IN its relative salubrtty this spring.
The zymotic diseases In Brooklyn are charged with
onjy i3b7 per cent OF the total mortality there, while
in New York they caused nearly ~ per cent OF the
total list OF deaths. The Coroners made returns
upon 33 deaths, IL Of which were by vio-
lence-4 being suicides, by poison and I
by drowning. There Is most culpabe neglect
in the public exposure and sale of posons
in these cities. II Is not the most unworthy or
human lives which are thus sacrificed. They are
worthy guarding and saving. The number OF violent
and unnatural deaths II so great In New York that
their causes should be very thoroughly scrutinized
not few OF them can be prevented.
The death rate the past week In the metropolis
compares favorably with that Of the CHIEF cities VI
Europe for the second week in March. biyerpOoi,
Edinburg and Vienna had higher rate tnan was
In the last named city the rate went up 10 the enn
nous figure OF W in 1000 of the population weary
OF M per 0oo T.. HARRIS.
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the PUBLIC HEALTH.

Tie following weekly report OF The Registrar OF
vital statistics was submitted the Board of Health
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claimed to belong to base bali club and after few
hours detention were released
mayor Heath and Chief Of Police Williamson
ohclias OF New Orleans, appointed by Sheridan,
nave had disagreement, Williamson having refused
10 order certain disposition Of his force intended,
ne says, to influence the political contests which
were directed by Mayor Heath, and being suspended
from Office by the Mayor in consequence. General
buchanan interfered yesterday and restored william
son to his position.
The New York East Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence, meeting in the Summerfeld Methodist Epis-
copal church in Brooklyn, reached the sixth day Of
Its session yesterday, and the business transacted
was OF considerable interest Reports were read by
the elders upon the condition OF the churches under
their charges, the valuation OF church property,
salaries paid &c Resolutions were adopted to the
effect that the present Conference concurs with the
General Conferences OF 1860 and 1864 in their deca
rations In regard to the lay representatives
singular accident occurred yesterday morning
at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twentyrst street.
Brooklyn, by which two men, named Rudolph Pouch
and Joseph Freisch lost their lives. They were at
work upon two small frame buildings, and in re-
moving some braces the buildings fell and crushed
them to death.
The investigation OF the Gould contempt case in
connection with the Erie litigation was resumed yes
terday before referee, when the examination Of
Mr.. Horatio Otis, secretary to the company was con-
tinued. The case was further adjourned till Thurs
day next.
An investigation was held yesterday in the Four
teenth ward homicide. The victim was a man of
twenty-five and the accused is boy of fourteen 1t
appears that the deceased took umbrage on Monday
night at something the little feOw-whOse name is
Tony Branagan-had said to him, and struck him
once or twice, whereupon Tony stabbed him with
his penknfe, severing the walls of the heart and
causing death almost instantly. The jury rendered
verdict accordingly. During the investigation the
boy almost wild with grief at the terrible deed he
had committed, sat next to the father of the de-
ceased, an old man, who m0aned and groaned, rock
ing himself to and fro over his bereavement.
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We publish to-day reports of the growing
wheat and other crops in various parts of our
widely extended country. Although rather
early to form a positive estimate of the ulti-
mate amount of production, sufficient indica-
tions are afforded to warrant the belief that the
abundance of the yield of breadstuffs the pres
ent year will exceed that of any previous year
for long period. The past winter has been a
remarkable one, so far as the winter planted
cereals are concerned. Notwithstanding the
long and biting spells of cold weather in some
parts, the snow defended the roots of the grain
from sudden and sharp frosts, and when the
genial rays of the spring sun, accompanied by
the warm rains, came, the snow was gradually
melted and the young shoots began to sprout
and grow until they finally became, as it were,
frost proof, and are now beyond danger. In
other parts of the country, particularly the
West, the winter sOwn wheat was somewhat
damaged, but in these localities the farmers
have planted goodly exten of spring wheat,
which at last accounts vas flourishing in
an, unexampled degree. The floods and
other phenomena usaalk attendant upon
the breaking up of hard winter
have had but trifing eject, comparatively.
upon the river bottoms, whre the spring cereals
are in the highest degre of vegetation at
this season in the West, In some parts of
Western New York thereare complaints even
of too plentiful lack of water; so there
need be but little apprehGsons of the planted
seeds or the young sprous being drowned out
Throughout the South and Southwest the
wheat fields have been tessed with favors to
an extraordinary extent The papers in Ten
nessee already boast 0 champion stalks Of
wheat, and are exulting n the hopes of an un-
precedented harvest. IN Missouri we have
reports of wheat being ,owed in the ratio of
ten acres to every one acre planted last fall,
while the amount of lad given up to tobacco
is diminished Louisiaa papers give glowing
accounts of the produtiveness of vegetation,
and pronounce the hdications surprisingly
favorable for bountifo yield Of all the staples
of that luxuriant regiot We repeat, that it is
rather early to be able tprognosticate what the
seasons products may ,ventually be, bat suf-
ficient is known to put ne people, the consum-
ing masses, on ther guard against the
periodical cries of croxers and the schemes
of spectators upon he baseless plea of bad
crops.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21
A Cause of Hard Times

A Girard (Illinois) correspondent OF
the Chicago Tribune, Radical paper OF
the strctest sect, inspeaking of the hard
times, says:
81 will add another reason Of the ex-
isting hard times, and that is the euor-
nous tax heaped upon us. '
There must be remedy found, and that
remedy must be speedily applied, or our
country will be completely ruined. While
men are following party demagogues,
who are grinding them to death with
every conceivable extravaganza, they are
blindly led to ruin"
The remedy for oppressive taxation is
to greatly reduce our standing army and
nayy-abolish the Freedmen's Bureau
let the Southern negroes earn their own
living, instead of subsisting at the nation s
expense--the payment of the five.twenty
bonds in, greenbacks, thus saving to the
people an immense interest which we are
now paying upon them in gold-all Of
which greatly impoverish the people.
This is the plan, aud the only plan, which
will materially tighten the burdens of
the people in respect to taxes.-Ndsh-
piIle Gazette.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21
Sound Doctrine.

A committee of the Adams county
(Mississippi) Democratic Association
has issued an address to the people Of
that county, which concludes as follows
Protesting against all that has been
done, or may be done, by the called
Convention of the State of Mississippi,
now in session, we have abundant evi-
dence, in the action already had, that
neither the best interests of the State,
the rights of its citizens, nor the well
being of society and perpetuity of free
institutions, are in safe hands admins
tered by it. We counsel no factions, no
violent or unlawful action, but that in
obedience to, and in conformity with,
the laws still vouchsafed Us by those
who, in some instances, have ignored all
law, we organize and act for the protec-
ton of our dearest interests, our loved
ones and our homes.
This address is signed by Josephus
Hewett, Esq, Gen. W. I. Martin, Col.
John s. Holt, Col. G. M. Hillyer, s. L.
Guice and T. c. Pollock, Esqs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21
Romance Of a Couple ofFadsd Letters.
n NJ. 1


In a past generation now almost for
gotten, although IL Immediately preceded
this, a gentleman Of some wealth and
high social position INDUCED in an in
trigue with married lady, and many
love letters passed between them. The
lady, II is supposed, destroyed those she
received, but the lover strangely pre-
served his. True, he hid them away,
where he might well suppose they would
rot unknown TO the rest Of humanity,
aud having so hidden them he went
his way, growing old, and atlast sick
ened and died, as we oil will grow old
aud sicken and die, whether we have
compromising love letters hid away or
not The property in which he lived
was sold in time by his heirs, and its
former occupant almost forgotten, when
an event occurred that brought him back
to unpleasant remembrance.
A servant, passing down some steps
that led to the basement cellar, saw q pa
per lying on one of those steps, He
picked it up and put it away, almost with.
out examination. The next day he found
another The day after one more APP
pehreu' ne tueu iUOhcu iutV 'hehii o"Ni
finding them letters, gave the papers to
the owner Of the house, who found them
to be letters from lady now dead, but
we'll known to the old Knickerbocker So
ciety of New York, addressed to the for
mer occupant and owner Of the premises.
Where did they come from, aud how was
it they should appear so mysteriously !
An investigation took place, and revealed
| the existence Of these letters under one OF
the cellar stairs, and through a crack,
caused by q shrunken board, q letter
would slip out on the old stairs being
shaken.
1t would have been well to have burned
the old, half faded breathings Of guilty
passion; bat, unfortunately, enough had
been read by the servants to do the mis-.
chief. The revelations are said to be
startling. A lady, whose character had
stood beyond impeachment, who had
gone down to the grave in the odor OF
sanctty, was found to be guilty Of the
deepest household treason, and children
were branded with illegitimacy who have
held their heads high in the social world.
The yellow, half faded, silent letters came
out in the glare of day with their damn
| ing record.
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he had witnessed the wrathful aud un.
deiberative tone of both Senate and
House when any party edict, or view of
the majority was called in question, con-
stitutional or otherwise. He had seen
the faintest opposition to extreme mea-
sures met with the instant passage of un-
constitutional laws. He had seen the
faintest murmur of free speech " from
Judge Field met with a summary COM
mittee of inquiry, with the view of i'm
peaching him; and having seen all these
things, could it not have occurred to him
that his own Generals Office might be
torn from him, and he reduced in rank,
by the same Congressional vengeance, if
be faltered in adherence to the legislative
power2 The Pagan dashes his idol in
the mire, il it fails to meet his own views
of right aud wrong. So Congress seems
capable of degrading all the idols of the
Republican party save the negro, which
may happen in the whirl Of events to
come athwart its passion. Albany ar
ffIS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

Nh JoHx n. BRADLKY, for several
years publisher Of the Boston Daily
Mail. died recently in San Francisco
from starvation. He was found dead in
a scantily furnished room His garments,
insufficient to pro,ec, him from the cold,
we're worn threadbare, and his form was
ltienuaied almost 10 skeleton. he was
hurriedly inferred at the city expense
before any one who knew him knes that
be vas dead. San Francisco journalists
propose 10 have the body disinisrred that
Il may be placed in a more suitsble rest
ing place
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

1t has been suggested at Washington
that General Grant will soou be arrested
and tried by court martial for military
insubordination. This ought to be done,
and the President has the legitimate
power to order it done. We hope that he
has the nerve to order it done. We dc
not see that any great amount of nerve
is needed in the case. No court martial
composed of honorable officers can pos
sibly fail to convict Grant if he shall be
put on trial. The second.of his late let
ters to the President would be all the
evidence needed.-LouispiHe Journal
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The Established Church-Reported Defec'
tion of the Bishop of Oxford.

From the New York Express, February 15.l
In our religious compilation elsewhere
will be found mysterious paragraph
from the London Weekly Register, the
principal Roman Catholic organ in
England, foreshadowing forthcoming
conversion to that church, which would
cause a greater sensation than any simi-
lar event for long while. Conjecture
was rife, Immediately on the publication
of that announcement, as to who the
eminent person could be, and there was
not wanting intimations in some Of the
secular journals that he would in all
probability be found among the royal
family ITSELF
By the steamship Minnesota, which
arrived here this morning, hewever, the
mystery would seem 10 be explained.
The Cork Examiner Of the lst instant
says: "There seems TO be a general
impression that the individual referred
to is the Bishop Of Oxford, DIR. Wilber-
force, whose sympathies with ritualism
are we'll known. We understand that a
private letter has been received in this
city, stating distinctly that DR.. Wilber-
force has entsred the Catholic church,
and that the fact is TO be announced in
London to-day. This being the fact, the
assertion Of the Weekly Register that
the coming accession 20 the church is
the most important one since the con
version Of DR. Newman and Archbishop
Manning, is fully borne out Beyond
all question, DR.. Wilberforce is the
abless and most distinguished man in
the Church Of England"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21
Imperial Style sprouting at Washington
Correspondence of Chicago Times.l

Correspondence of Chicago Times.l
Gen. Grant has ordered detail of sol.
diers to officiate as body guard at his
receptions. They are picked men; not
quite up, as yet, it is true, in discipline,
uniform and equipment, to the Cent
Gardes of the Emperor Napoleon, or
even the so-called Household troops OF
"our good cousin Victoria" But we are
young empire as yet, and age will
necessarily bring with it those artistic
tastes in politics, as we'll as general cul-
ture, which must one day place us in the
front rank Of nations that have acknowl'
edged the imperial purple. The younger
branches of the Generals family, | also
observe, go about the city escorted by
squerries. So, you see, we are gradually
more and more aping the style and taste
of the old world despots. / remember
the time when old President Taylor used
to 90 to the market here and purchase a
milk COW, and help the man to drive
her home, too, if she was contrary. Now,
the city is filled with carriages
decorated with coats.of-arms, bogus
and genuine; with the drivers seat
covered with immense hammer cloths, as
yet unornamented by the gilt coronets of
the nobility the seats in front and the
dickeys" behind occupied by servants,
black and white, in every shade and de-
scription of livery. But the latest form
in which military rule presents itself is
the clause surreptitiously slipped into
the appropriation bill by L. B. Wash
burn, and which provides that the po-
lice force of the capitol building shall be
composed of officers and soldiers from
the regular army, under the command OF
a military engineer. The number is
moderately limited to forty; but OF
course the number can at any time be
increased indefinitely under the plea OF
military necessity" Even if there
we're not purpose in these innovations
upon republican simplicity, the whole
thing is so utterly inconsistent with the
genius of republican institutions as to be
revolving to every genuine Republican.
Certainly, the days of republican sim
p1icity are fast passing away. Mr..
Washburn's plan for the Pretorian
Guard was squelched for time on the
plea that it involved matter of inde'
pendent legislation in the appropriation
biK There is no doubt, however, that it
will be again revived at an opportune
moment
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21
Proposed ohangein the Management Of the
Tennessee Penitsntiary.

Some days ago we alluded to the bill
offered by Senator Lindsey to repeal
the law leasing out the penitentiary. We
understand the proposition was merely
the initiative to decided change in the
administration of the affairs in the insii-
tuition, and did not contemplate the vio'
lation of any contract Whatever change
might be effected was TO be consistent
with the interest and honor Of the State
and the rights Of the lessees. In this
view Of it, we were gratifed at the step
taken by our Senator, for certainly 1t is
the interest OF the State that there
should be different management from
what exists under the law as it now
stands. We learn from members Of the
Legislature, and from others informed
on the subject, that the penitentiary as 1t
is managed under the law proposed to
be changed, costs the State from $40, 900
to $50, 900 per aEnum. The salaries Of
the warden, three directors, clerk, chap
lain, physician, guards and other en-
ployes, amounts annually to over $50, 600,
which is paid out of the State Treasury.
The amount received by the State for the
labor of the convicts is not sufficient to
feed and clothe them. and the deficit,
amounting to from $30,009 to $4,000,
has also to be drawn from the State
Treasury. Surely if this sum, amount
ing in the aggregate to from $40, 900 to
$50, 900, can be saved to the State, the
change ought to be made at once. The
Indebtedness of the State is large, the
taxes burdensome in these unprosperous
times, and it is the duty the Legisla-
ture to economize and lessen the taxes OF
the people and sustain the State credit.
We are informed that the entire man
agement of the penitentiary can be
changed and the whole of this enormous
and useless expense be avoided, and the
State saved that amount lfit true, as
we have heard, that the lessees are will
ling to take the penitentiary as keepers
for a term of years, and clothe, feed,
supply, and guard the convicts, and save
the State free and harmless from all loss,
charge and expense, subject to the su-
pervision of inspectors to be appointed
hy the Governor or Legislature, and
employ physicians and ministers to at :
tend them in sickness and give the con-
victs moral and religious instruction at
the cost of the keepers, certainly 1t
would be to the interest of the State to
make such change. By this mode the
penitentiary will be made self-sustaining,
the State will have nothing to pay. and
will save annually about $75, ,000. Mash
pille Union and Dispatch.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

The Cologne Gazette has over two
thousand subscribers in France, although
the French government suppresses its
copies at the post Office about twenty
times month. Grardin says that that
is probably the very cause of its COM
paratively large circulation in France.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

Yesterday the loyal indemnity bill was
passed on its final reading-the Senate
amendments being concurred in by the
House. The bill provides for the ap-
poiutment of State commissioner to
audit the claims at salary of $4,000 per
annum, and three commissioners for
each county, who are to receive SO per
day when employed. When the claims
are audited to be presented to the Cen
eral Government with hope of settle.
ment therefrom. .-Nashoille Union, 18th
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21
Fred. Douglass to the ColOrsd People.

In recent speech in Akron, Ohio, to
the colored people, Fred. Douglass said
slavery was destroyed not from principle,
but from policy.
Exactly so, Fred, and il is a wonder
that you and your darky brethren did not
find il out long ago. 0fcourse there was
no principle in it. The Puritaus have no
principle in anything
They went into the abolition business
as they start factories, run distilleries. and
practice pious fauds generally = for
profit aud gain.
They saw that they could make some
thing out Of il, and they went in.
And they will stick 10 the darky Just
so long as they can make the darky busi-
ness psy, aud when they can't, then
they'll drop the darkyl-La Crosse Dem
ocrdt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

In chastising a girl of large dimen-
sions a school-teacher had his hair dis
turbed and his face scratched. The
girls father now gives him the choice Of
leaving the village, being prosecuted or
taking thrashing. The teacher has not
yet been able to make up his mind.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

A WESTERN editor remarks that he is
glad to receive marriage notices, but
requests that they be sent soon after the
ceremony and before the divorce is
applied for. He has had several notices
spoiled in this way.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

DICKENS has headed off the ticket
spectators in Hartford, Connecticut
Dolby's sub-agenis had managed to get
hold of two hundred of the best seats
Dickens being informed of this, tele-
graphed to have the night for his reading
changed, and the money refunded for the
tickets sold for the night FIRST appointed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

tbs Ssugerties New Jersey Tele-
graph says: "The Miss Stockton who
dances and sings in the White Farm, at
Niblo's, is a native of this village" 1t
adds: "Saugerties can claim the honor
of having the best shaped limbs now on
exhibition in New York city,"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

AN Indian canoe from Alaska, made
of the hide of sea.lon, has been de-
posted in the Smithsonian Museum,
Washington. 1t is about twenty feet
long, and intended to be used by only
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21
Receivers Sale.

I WILL, ON MONDAY, PATH INSTANT,
on the corner OF Jefferson and Front streets
sell 20 the highest bidder, that valuable Bank
ing House and Lot, on The corner OF Jefferson
and Front streets, known as the Franklin In
Surance Company's Banking House..
Terms Of Sale-One. third cash balance in
sirsnd twelve months, with interest; also bond
and Good security. and a morteage on the pro,
perty until the purchase money is paid 1 VIII
also sell al the zane time and place, that large
Fire and Burglar Proof Safe also. the counter
and fixtures and al Of the Office Furniture.
Sale between 10 an. and y o'clock m.
n. B. The above property can be bought 81
private sale II desired.
1fN L R. MEHCEH. hcTelrer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

The eternal fitness of things is we'll
maintained in the title of whisky shop
just opened inst. Louis, the Hellery."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-21

CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN has sent three
beautiful works of art to the Boston
Music Hall.