The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-06

From Our 0,Un Correspondent.

tary matters to fear that we should not alto
gtther escape. 1t appears that some cases of
yellow fever occurred at Governors Island, aud
that on the LIST of October all the infected
there-sixty in number-were removed to the
West Bank Quarantine Hospital. All such bed
ding, clothes, and other articles as could posi-
bly, have become infected were also taken to the
steamer Illinois, in the Lower Bay, and burned.
Those places upon Governors Island where the
fever had occurred were vacated, fumigated,
disinfeced, and cleaned, aud provision was
made for the removal day by dav, to the Quar-
antine Hospital of all cases. The strictest
investigation has discovered that in this city all
cases of yellow fever were absolutely
restricted t" persons who had visited Governors
Island nurses or mourners or who had
left In island while the disease was spreading
there, and who had come to this city. Since
the welfth of September there have been in
New York city ten cases of yellow fever in all.
Sew of the infected persons were those who
had one to the island nurses mourners;
the naming three were soldiers, who had left
Governors Island after the fever had begun its
devas alton there. The cause of the fevers
breaking out is attributed to certain infected
vessels hiah had been permitted to land pas
sengcrs, aud to lie at the Brooklyn docks, at
various o''ts between Empire Stores and
Hamilto Ferry. Some infected article thrown
overboard from one of these ships has probably
be IN washed ashore at Governors Island. There
is no reason for believing that even
amorg the few cases of yellow fever
which have occurred, the disease has
been Of type other than the mildest.
Still, for a week past, vessels infected with
yellow fever have constantly been arriving at
Lower Quarantine. The vessels come from
New Orleans and Havana, and a great neces-
sity still exists for taking great precaution lest
generally known, it would be seen that all sum
mer lorg we have been peculiarly exposed to
infection. This exposure was due to the
cupidity of New York merchants and ship
owners whose trade interests bring them into
communication with the infected ports. These
merchants and ship-owners have endeavored
to back themselves with the support of one or
two newspapers, and have done all in their
power to break through the enforcement of the
Quarantine regulations. In the middle of
August, for instance, although the city knew
nothing about it, yellow fever broke out
Governors Island, and had it spread in the
city, the merchants and ship-owners would
probably have been to blame more than any
one else would. But although the cases which
during Il G last two three weeks have oc-
Cured in New York city were mild in nature,
this description does not by any means apply to
the entire batch of cases that we're removed from
the island and taken down to the Lower
Bay. Some of these were of the most mali gnant
type the horrible black vomit taking place just
before death ensued. Such facts as are known
prove that the disease propagated in this
country by various vessels that had evaded
quarantine and that the fonaite or poisonous
principle, was probably conveyed to Governors
Island by the ebb-tide that washes that shore of
the island near which the fever first broke out
Ony short time before the outbreak, nun-
Der of barks, brigs, and other vessels were lying
at some Brooklyn docks, in the very face of the
fact that they were known to have had, during
the passage, cases of yellow fever on board.
When these facts are borne in mind, and realized
as facts, thoughtful man will feel that he can
not be too thankful that the Board of Health
did, fer once, act energetically, and that the
hand of the fever was stayed.
FipdinR Ones Level.
With many writer's on religion it is a favorite
theory that every man was sent into the world
for the purpose of performing mission that no
other man can perform well as he can. This
theory is plausible, and it ascribes convenient
and benevolent character to the Being who is
responsible for our having been sent into the
world. Neither am 1 prepared to argue that
the assumption is not a correct one. All that
say is that 1t seems to have one or two weak
points For instance, how many people work
as luOuSl tuey Wcre iulultlbS mlSSlOu! 10
not ask how many people work as though they
were conscious of having mission, but how
many work as If they had one? Consider the
thousands of disappointed, poorly-paid,
hard-workng, and ground-down young
men and women in New York
who are compelled to work for employers
whom they cannot but hate and despise. Has
each of these people missions? And if so, has
he found it? And if he has not found it, would
it not be better to have been sent into the world
purposelessly than for the sake of accomplish
ing a work which one is forever disappointed in
finding? In the few shining or moderate sue
cesses we recognize people with missions; but
take the people whose lives laborious and
painful failures and what shall we say of the
mission theory then?
Grand Opera House Gossip.
Gossip about the Grand Opera House is, from
the nature of the case, gossip about the Erie
Railroad Company, and gossip about either
necessitates mention of that indisputable noto-
riety, Mr. James Fisk, Jr. OF one offense, how
ever, can never with justice be accused. 1t
cannot, with TRUTH be said of me that ever
wrote paragraph about so vulgar article of
jewelry as a diamond-pin while making men
tion of Mr.. Fisk's shirt-bosom. No; leave that
for writers whom shining stone dazzles, and
the lustre of whose lucubrations is due entirely
to the theme of which they treat. To 60 back
to the Grand Opera House gossip, however
Fisk's attentions to the new opera-bouffe
soprano, Montaland, are as notorious as his at
tentions TO one or two of the soprani of Mr..
Batemap's Opera-bOuffe troupe were. The stO-