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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-23
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
IMPORTANT MEETING YESTERDAY.
Communication from Mayor Hall in Relation to
the New Observation-Disclosures Of An
other Investigating Committee.
Tho regular weekly meeting OF the Board was
held yesterday. There was full attendance, Presi-
cent Oocarsne In the chair.

Tho regular weekly meeting OF the Board was
held yesterday There was full attendance, Prest-
oent O0carane In the chair
THE COMMITTEES.
Tho PRESIDENT said that he had been 30 engaged
since his return from Albany that he was not in
position to a1aounce the committees OF the Board,
but would do 80 by the folio wing day Tuesday.
1t was agreed to authorize the Chair to hand the
list Of the committees when ready to the Clerk and
Chat they be read The next meeting OF the Board
u CoxnUNIcATIoN FROM THE MAYOR.
Tho CLERK read the following message from the
MAYORS OFFICE, NEW YORK, Jan. g. 1871.
~ Wi sss By
every be ins this majority 1 win
Mayor, ss'.sss. sssesssfaiy recommend; e
duly appcia..s g draft and to the Lssl.ls,s
~ ::Sss.sd iss ssass
che Iss!sl..u.c the subleo. Of charter smendment
sLs Lsssaiars more earnest hearing Than that honorabs
osisa ssaous sD be aso added that
ss q qrS
years; another snen,ber been Chairman Of Com
Ssnss. Of sSs late one wSo has sen
Departments Education another attached TO the De.
% ii n hsa o
another been for fifteen years not only
Sssls ~ eness oosds on municipal affairs there
Other Aderme and Assistants wo although never having
svy:s ana them have a. pnsase
consp'euo. .tded the commercial and material develop
from nd,sdus nonts view and because practical
ssDss.ss thus svas that yx S Sdy sfGad ms act as
IL was proposed that committee OF 1ve be ap-
pointed OF which the President OF the Board should
be one, to tAxe action In reference to this recon-
mendation. and that the committee report to the
Board before they proceed to Albany.
Alderman VANCE was Of opinion that week
was not sUmceat to enable q committee to ascer-
gam what the people OF New York wanted in the
shape Of charter, and he deprecated hasty legisa-
fion. He wished that the Board should take week
TO consider ID. and he moved as an amendment chat
&he resolution 3ay over.
Alderman C0NOvER said that the resolution pro-
posed that the committee should report to the
Board, and public discussion would cnsue.
Alderman VANCE wished the committee to report
q charter, QUE aot until May next.
Alderman C0NovER said that Ii the Board were to
express any OsJanton at all iC should be done before
the Legislature adjourned and not afterwards.
The question: to postpone was lost, Alderman
Tne resolutssn appointing committee OF i've was
lowing the committee; The President Aldermen
C0n0ver, Falc0ner, Martin and Van Setback.
CORPORATION PRiNTERS
Alderman CoNOvER proposed the f0llowing:-
a,ed and sppclel printers 70 the CORPORATION IN eS anc
plead Of the New York Printing Company or their assigns
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14

THE HEAT AND THE CoMET.-The cheated
term of the last two days has been almost as
fierce as that of July, which for one week in
this city swelled our weekly death roll to 1859.
II is so unusual here to have the mercury up
among the nineties In the middle Of August
that we cannot resist the suspicion that Pro-
lessor Plantamour's invisible comet has some
thing to do with this extraordinary heat To
be sure Professor Hough, Of the Albany Dudley
Observatory, says that Plantamours comet is
o myth, that none of the regular astronomers
in either hemisphere have seen ''the critter,"
that no such fiery visitor is expected by them
In August or September, or until good while
after the Presidential election; but still some
struggling comet, invisible to these learned
astronomers. may be the occasion Of this
terrible heat. But whatever the cause or
causes, day or two of such heat as this Of
yesterday and the day before, occurring in
August, Is certain TO bring on as in this case o
succession of thunder storms over the whole
region affected, whereby the earth is watered
and the air Is purified and cooled. We are
speaking Of the country east Of the Great
Plains, for west Of them the conditions Of the
weather are completely chanGfd
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
Affairs I'm the Island Of Cuba-Ouf
Havana Correspondence.

Three articles for which the United States
pays annually vast sums of money are produced
in almost unlimited quantity in Cuba. Sugar,
coffee and tobacco from ''the ever-faithful
isle cost our country annually fifty mill
lions of dollars in gold beyond the products
we send there for exchange. She is rich
besides in all tropical fruits and has other
attractions which make her desirable to any
Power whose head is 'level." She lies ct our
door. No wonder we are interested in her,
and that among the HERALD correspondence
from all quarters Of the globe the letters we
constantly publish from Havana should be full
Of peculiarly interesting matter. We printed
recently most admirable letter giving
striking picture of Cuban affairs and
the sentiment Of our Spanish neighbors
towards our people. The United States
government Is considered the chief sup
port of slavery and Spanish rule in the
island and, though the royal organs system
atically represent the insurrection as practi-
cally stamped out" yet our correspondent
leayns from trustworthy private sources that
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
MONTHLY FOB AUGUST.

This popular magazine opens with capital ar
ticle ON yachts and yachting from the pen Of VII
liam q. Shanks II is not intended to convey tho
newest point in the battle between keel yachts and
centreboards or any other moot question among
yachtsmen, but chats nom an outside stand on the
rise and progress OF the healthy sport In
general. Several well-executed woodcuts give
an additional interest to the paper.
The graphic art" is also indebted to
the engraver, the illustrations being very fnc.
One never tires Of that head Of Christ, engraved
In continuous ling BY Claude Mellan, or Of Raj
mondi's "Luoretia.n The letterpress. by Ben
son J. Losing, is highly instructive. Tbs
study Of languages 70 discussed b
q. r. Comfort with z strong pleading
for the modern tongues. short child's
story, by Hans Christian Andersen, Is as simple
and touching as his stories usually are. w. L. Al
den discourses learnedly about canoes, and with Q
thorough contempt for the ancients, who are cal
ways robbing us Of our best ideas" A sketch
called "Shane Finagles Station" is disgraceful
and ignorant caricature Of religion. With this OK
ception, the number is generally above the average
Of the monthlies, and evinces determination to 10
excelled by nothing In the market.
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the insurgents hold large portion Of chs
island, and that they are actively seizing every
opportunity to assail and cripple their enc
miles, often gaining important victories.
Bridges are burned, military lines of commu-
nication stopped, and the royal forces con-
stantiy harassed in their expeditions, their
officers shot and their trains captured. Evil
IDENTIFY Spain is not able to promise herself
soon the successful suppression Of this for-
midable and long-lived instruction, which
may still end as q revolution in the defeat Of
her armies and the expulsion of her officials.
If President Grant would. even at this late
day, adopt the views of his late Secretary Of
War, the lamented General Rawlins, he might
as the savior of Cuba. add largely to his own
popularity and win the applause and affection
Of people whose heroic struggle for indie
pendence and freedom entities them TO generous
Consideration.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
THE NEW YORK HERALD IN ALABAMA

From the Eutaw Wing and Observer, August 81
This greatest newspaper OF America comes regu'
larry to our sanctum and most welcome VISITOR 1t
is. From its columns we gather news from every
portion of the globe whether habitable or inhab-
TABLE From the jungles of far-on Africa, from the
snow-c plains OF Russia, from the impene-
trable swamps Of South America, from the Ice
locked harbors OF Greenland as we'll as from the
more civilized portions Of this mundane sphere,
its vast army OF correspondents, with their busy
brains never tire Of sending us the latest details
1t Is perfect book, irom the pages Of which we can
CLEAN everything worthy Of note now going on In
this busting world. Politics, literature, science,
everything finds place in its columns, and II our
readers wish to keep thoroughly posted let them
subscribe to 1t. Besides ali this, 1t ID now an inde-
pendent sheet-not for Grant, that Is certain, but
with strong leaning to Greeley.
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PAGE.
acknowledgements.
3-Advertsements- East African slave Trade
It's Chief Market To BE Closed by the Joint
Action OF England and America-D0ct0r Liv
tngstone-The Catholic Uni0n-A Murder0us
Acknowledgements Work Yesterday-A Man
and Horse Killed by Lightning-Death on the
4-Editorals: Leading Article, ''The Commerce of
New York-Grain Trade-HoY to Maintain
for Augustine Fifth Avenue Journal--THE
NEW YORK HERALDin Alabama-The Weather
As IN Tta06isSSsyAA Sad
S-The Alabama Claims-Cable kilograms from
England and spain-:Mexico: The Presidential
Cuba-A Cuban Conspiracy in Montreal
Yachting-The Cruise Of the New York Yacht
Club-Greeley at Gorham: The Chappaqua
Hero Among the White Mountains; Signif-
cant Reception MISCELLANEOUS Political Tele-
grams-The New Dominion: The French
1risa-AAngelO.saxOn Civil War in Quebec-Bus
GA Plague Stricken Ship The scourge Of the
Tropics In New York Bay; Yellow Fever on
Alleged Political Conspiracy-The Political
Headquarters-The German Democrats
sSss Campaign
neutrality-suspicious. In Westchester Coun-
ty-Long Island Affairs-The Deadly Heat
Suicide, Which STABBED ed in the Cheek. '' "
T-Advertisements
s-Barnard's Impeachment: Continuation of the
Being Tried by the Bar Association of New
YOrk-The Custom HOuse-New York Courts
De Lunatic0 lnquirend0: The Cases of Teresa
Drew and Rosa McCabe-The Way Of the
Transgressor-Broo&lyn Atrairs-A Brutal
Father.
e-De Lunatico Inquirendo Continued from
Eighth Page)-Financal and Commercial
Continued Nrmness In Prices OF Wheat and
Flour; Cotton Dull and Easier; Sudden De
cline In Gold, the Premium Going on from
116K to 114X: Foreign Exchange Easier, with
Pressure OF Bills on Amsterdam; Money Q to
Per Gent; Stocks Feverish and Unsettled,
with Western Union as the Pivot Of Specula-
ton; Governments Quiet and Steady; South
ern Securities Dull and Railway Mortgages
Unchanged The Days Business at the Sub
Treasury; Our ExpOrts-"P0or jack" An
other Reported outrage at Sea by Tyranni-
cal OMcer-Marriages and Deaths.
Hottie Ku Klux: What Colonel Whitley Says
About the Albany Prisoners; He Recommends
Twenty-FOur to Executive Mercy-News from
Washington-Aace and O'Baldwin: The
Champions Of the Manly Art Arrested in
Baltimore-A Pittsburg Failure-The Negro
POsoner-Army and Naval Orders-A De
tectve Detected-The National Game
Havana Markets-Shipping Intelligence
Advertisements
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14

Mr.. GREE1EY's New HAMPSHIRE SPEECHES
are short, sharp and to the purpose, inasmuch
as in them he carefully avoids the main ques-
ton which, some people say, has carried him
to those explorations of the White Mountains,
and leaves his delighted hearers under the
soothing impression that this is not the year Of
Presidential election. If all our candidates
for political preferment would only follow this
pleasing example of ignoring the subject and
talking about everything else, how happy we
should all be. And yet we are half inclined to
the idea that General Grant, in declining on
his summer travels to make any speeches on
any subject, throws quite as much light on
the Presidential question as does Mr..
Greeley with his sprinklings Of ''soft sawder'
on the New Hampshire blarney stone.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
THE FIFTH AVENUE JOURNAL.

The Fttyh Auenue Journal is the title Of an Illus
trated weekly which Is working assdu0usly for
front place among the pictorial press 1t processes to
be "a mirror of art literature and society,"" but has
drlfted into politics. II we may Judge by its llustra
lions for last week. The Woodchopper Of Chappa-
qua appears to be its favorte; and while he Is rep
sented with swallow-tsi coat on his back, smile
on his face and wood In his hand. General Grant
is portrayed looking-well, like another candidate
on Presidential ticket. sketch entitled Grants
Dream After Hearing From North Carolina" il
simply odious in drawing and design, and has lost
whatever point the sketcher intended by the ma
jority for Caldwell It's best efforts those of Mr.
Belew, whose colored caricatures Of men of tho
day evnce artistic training and keen sense Of tho
aatirical-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
The Spanish War Steamer and tho
Yellow Fever.

Some unnecessary alarm was created yester-
day by the presence of the Spanish steam ram
Numancia in our harbor, having among her
crew several cases of yellow fever. The
vessel which is of immense size, seven
thousand tons burden, and drawing
twenty-eight feet of water four feet
more than the Great Eastern, came hither
from Havana, leaving there, it is stated, with
no sickness. On the trip quite q number of
her men who had been newly shipped became
i'll of yellow fever. Lack of water in the Lower
Bay makes it unsafe for her to anchor below
the Narrows, she having barely q foot to spare
in crossing the bar at high tide. In view of
this fact the Health Officer allowed her to lie
abreast of the Clifton House, Staten Island,
midway between that place and the Long
Island shore at Bay Ridge, full mile distant
from any land A Quarantine flag in her rig
ging duly warns all to give her wide berth
Her fever patients, except some innoxious con-
valescents, have been removed to the hospital at
West Bank, where they are treated apart
from all others. Every necessary precaution
seems to have been taken to prevent the
spread Of the plague, and no fear need be en-
tertained that it will be communicated to the
inhabitants on either shore. Had the vessel
been an ordinary merchantmen, and able to
lie in the wide Lower Bay, due regard for the
safety of two millions of people in New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City would have for
hidden her passing the Narrows; but her
great draught and courtesy toward the Spanish
government overruled the objection to her
entering the Upper Bay. In this connection
it is thought strange that her commander had
not steered to the deeper harbor of Ports
mouth, where she would have run no risk of
touching bottom, and where higher latitude
and cooler winds would naturally have sooner
checked the ravages of the disease. As she
came to our port our Quarantine authorities
were bound by courtesy and humanity, as
well as by prudence, to treat her as they have
done, giving her stricken seamen all the bene-
fits the best medical skill and hygienic pro-
visions admit. 1t is confidently expected that
a few days will suffice to cure those now i'll
and clear the ship of the infection.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
AFFAIRS IN UTAH.

Indians killing Two Herders and Steal
ing Their Cattle-A General Chase to
the Mountains.
SALT LAKE Cry, August IS, 1872.
despatch from Fairview, San Pete county, says
the Indians attacked party Of herders, shot two
men and wounded many others with arrows. The
settlers turned out and had fight with the Indians
who retreated toward the mountains driving o lot
Of stolen horses. The pursuers pushed on to
Thistle Valley and succeeded In recovering the
horses and herd.
The Central Pacific Railway Comrhny are pro-
jecting to build road from FOans to fintic II Is
expected that the road win be completed within
the year.
The Union Pacific proceeds at once to iron the
grade previously made from the alr line to Coal
ville thereby furnishing outlet for the vast coal
and silver deposits OF Parey's Park.
Reports received from different sections OF the
and no grasshoppers have a. yet appeared.
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enabled to pass down TO Oswego. whence the
distance by canal navigation is only two hun
dred and four miles to Albany. against three
hundred and ffty-two from Buffalo This
enterprise is set on foot by the Governors of
several Western States, and is the expression
Of the Western wish to facilitate by all praot-
cable means the transit of freights between the
populations Of the States and the metropolis.
New York should promptly respond to this
action of the West. or she runs great risk
of allowing vast and profitable trade to
lapse into the hands Of our sturdy northern
neighbor
But. besides this formid able rivalry by
Canada and the ST. Lawrence. some of our
ambitious Western cities are preparing to
establish direct trade with foreign countries.
st. Louis, particularly, has been moving for
that object The Board Of Trade Of that city
has had the matter under consideration. 1t is
believed that by using the cheap water oommu-
nication of the Mississippi, with certain GLASS
Of vessels adapted to the purpose. the trade of
the vast grain and corn growing region of the
Western States can be concentrated at st.
Louis. The great cost Of transporting such
bulky produce by railroad to New York seems
to favor these ambitious rival views And, in
fact, this cost now is almost prohibitory to the
trade Of the most western States. Then,
again, our merchants have been too slow to
perceive the enormous and unnecessary expense
here Of handling, storing and reshipping
produce. New York, il is true, has advan-
tages which no other city can claim. 1t has
the capital to work with. 1t is the great
shipping mart of the country. The fleets
Of vessels that bring merchandise from
Europe and all parts of the world
want return cargoes and want to
take them from the place where they
discharge the imports Still greater and
cheaper facilities are needed to bring the prod
uce of the West here and for handling it when
1t arrives. We need warehouses close to and
railroads along the docks in connection with
the railroad system Of the country, so that
grain, corn and other bulky materials could be
readily shipped without expensive carriage and
handling. But the great want is freight rail
roads exclusively from New York to the heart
of the West, on which produce could be car
ried at less than half the present cost Our
canals may still be useful, but nothing short Of
freight railroads can answer the rapidly grow
ing demands of commerce with the West
Nothing but these can prevent diversion Of
q considerable portion of that commerce to
other channels. Our merchants and capital
lists do not lack enterprise and sagacious fore
sight usually; but in this they have been too
slow. We recommend the Chamber Of Com
merce Board of Trade, and business men
generally, of New York, to seriously consider
this matter and to take new departure There
must be new appliances and facilities to meet
changing circumstances and the growth of the
country.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
The nast African slave Trade.


We publish on another page an interesting
account of the probable speedy closing up of
the chief market of the East African slave
trade, whose horrors have been SO wildly
brought before tho notice of the civilized
world in the letters of Stanley and the
dispatches of Livingstone The Queen. in
her propagation speech, assured her people
that steps had been taken "for dealing more
effeotually'' with this infamous commerce, and
it will doubtless interest Americans to know
that among such ''steps'' the promised CO.
operation of the United States government is
a very important feature. A quarter of q cen-
tury ago Muscat then under the sway of q
wise and enlightened ruler, obtained certain
concessions with reference to the transport of
slaves from Zanzibar TO Muscat in the body Of
treaties with England and America. These
have since been found to practically give
trade in human flesh and blood which has
fourished for many centuries between the
east coast Of Africa and the adjoining Asiatio
countries. Il is now proposed TO secure the
amendment Of tho treaties in this particular
or to at once declare their abrogation
Probably the Sultan Of Muscat will accept the
milder alternative but if he prove obstinate
and our treaty with him be nullified, we shall
lose but little Our trade with Muscat is
chiefly confined to the importation of dates,
and as we have to pay for them in hard cash,
not In goods, owing to the ever-increasing
poverty of his people, the balance of trade is
very decidedly against u.s. But no matter
how great the cost might be, the sense of
justice of the American people would still
demand the adoption of any measures that
may be necessary to secure the suppression Of
this terrible crime of human bondage.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14

A Coon Word FOR THE JAPANESE. Our
Japanese friends have formally hidden us
good-by. They have sailed for Europe.
In Europe, as here, they must learn many
things. Here they profess to have learned
much. If in Europe they go on learning as
they have learned here, we predict for Japan q
happy and prosperous future. Unless we
mistake, Japan, through the United States, is
TO re9epeyate Eastern Asia.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14
OBITUARY.


Advices nom Europe report the death OF N.
Kaiser a celebrated astronomer ana professor at
the University Of Leyden. Professor Kaiser was q
sayan of the most distinguished merit, and man
Of untiring industry In his pursuit Of scientific
li0htpnment.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14

KMa AMADEUS, SPAIN AND SLAvEnH-
Amadeus denies that he has signed decree
providing for the gradual abolition Of slavery
In Cuba and Porto Rico. The document
which he has signed is simply code of rules
providing for the enforcement Of the law
passed by the Cortes in 1859, making prepare
tions for the emancipation Of slaves in
Spanish colonies. We are glad to find that
things are 80, and not otherwise. The gain,
II there be gain, is o gain to the Spanish
Republic. It is proof that Spain, after all,
Ia not so bad o. she seems, and that some
memory remains Of the year of the Revolu-
Hon. Spain is the one European Power
which stands by slavery, and, not strange to
boy, Spain is the one European Power which
needs and is without European sympathy. If
Amadeus can make an end Of slavery through
out tho Spanish dominions the world will have
one reason TO respect Spain; but twill not fail
TO do honor and mete out o fair measure Of
Justice 10 ths Young King.
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A SAD ACCIDENT.

WHEELING, w. Va, August 10, 1877.
A natboat, with seventeen persons on board, was
swamped at the foot Of wheeling Island this after
noon by the swell OF o passing steamer. Jacob
Watson and his two sons and two persons whose
were saved,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-14

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS ARBITRATION CoURr
will reassemble in session in Geneva to-day.
Many of the arbitrators and counsel reached
the Swiss city last night. The sitting will, it
is said by the people outside of the door of the
Council hall, be protracted and the proceed
ings of much interest We are told again
about the question Of "due diligence" on the
part of England, and also about a new
expert in law pleas drafting from London;
but we hear nothing as to what the American
people may reasonably expect in the shape Of
compensation for the great damage which was
inflicted on their commerce and mercantile
marine by the British built cruisers.