Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-03-21

Brutality to Poor Patients-Death in the Jury
New Laws for Juries, Judges and Public
Proseoutors-A Tragic Night Scene on the Riv-
er-Protection Of Poor Children.
New YORK; March 10, 1872
ERIE.
The qualified impressions Of King David and
| Sir John Faistaff, concerning human veraci-
ty, appear to have settled into unqualified con-
victions in the modern Manhattan mind. 1t was
remarkably significant, the strong suspicion Of
collusion with Jay Gould on the part of such
men AZ Dix, Sherman, Barlow and their colleague
| % which nothing but their instant putting
| through of the bill for new election of direc-
| tors could silence Character is evidently going
| by the board as a qualification for public trust.
A little more of the free partizan use of the In
| vestigatng Committee will wipe out character
/ as an element Of personal power We shall trust
our highest representatives just as far as we can
/ throw church. Let the exclusion of Atlantic
/ 4 Great Western directors from the dictatorship
of the Erie road, although personally offensive 70
[ some OF the gentlemen to whose courage and
| conduct we owe great deliverance, ,is perhaps a
prudent precaution on the whole, and can do no
| harm. General Dix, for instance could not be
| in any event regarded as more than provisional
| president. He has just what is wanted for the
| temporary emergency = character-and IN the
deprecated condition of that antiquated article it
| seems that the new Board has none too much
| for the emergency. But for running the great
road younger and altogether different man is
necessary.
CRY NOW ARISES
| And it ought to be irresistible for shipping
| and furnishing the choked-off railway robber,
Jay Gould. The damning evidences that were
| enough to loose his grip ought to be enough to
| clean him out Of his plumber and put him in
| Sing Sing. 1t is to be hoped that no compromise
has been made to forestall this result. The loss
| Of Fisks ffty-eight ounces Of brains is thought
| by some to have broken Gould and avenged the
| murdered man of his treacherous confederate.
| But the transfer of Fisk'e vice-presdency to
| Archer, without whom the decisive meeting of
the Board could not have been, was the pivot Of
| the struggle. 1t was the breach through which
| the captors stormed the post. Fsk's iifty-eght
| ounces were all audacity and executive impetus,
and would undoubtedly have made terrible
! fight in the Grand Opera Houee but they could
not have saved the robber chief after his walls
were preached. Talk Of collusions why the very
| Sun shameless tool of Gould d Fisk, as it was,
could not find word or hint to utter on the
day after the fight Its truculent bullying voice
was silent as Tommy Lynch and his bravos. A
day more and it found breath for last elegac
office in praise of the vigor and success of the
late administration. They have left splendid
| road as well as a magnificent debt to the re-en-
tering proprietors. The circumstances.of Gould'a
| final resignation director, illustrated mega
| lively the uses of character which no degree of
| public degradation can ABOLISH. Inc new DOhfu,
of course, found themselves in want Of money,
as the first fact. Fact second directly proved to
| be that no money could be had until the Board
was purged of the suspicious presence OF Jay
| Gould. His resignation was therefore requested
and obtained. As he is said to own 81, 900, 000 4
Eiie Stock, and to represent US much more, he
has substantial q. e. selish) reasons enough to
desire and promote the success of the road in
whatever hands. Great activity in the stock
prevails, and it is said to be going into English
49, 10 tNpp pda Of hn
ing already there.
SUICIDE AND HYDRoPHoBIA
Appear to be epidemic among children the pre-
sent season. In and near this city there have
been succession Of shocking cases in each Of
these kinds the past week. 1t is terrible mys-
terry, how unnatural crimes and diseases develop
in groups at certain periods-or IL II merely FOR
tuitous coinci lencei THERE'S some temptation tC
assert that this March weather is enough to give
people hydrOphobia and to make dogs commit
suicide. But | believe the true Buckleian theory
has not yet been developed to the point of ac
counting for these baleful agglomerations. A
kindred phenomenon, the exasperating conca
tenation of carts in street procession, impenetra
BILE al the scales of Behemoth, when you wish tC
cross to the other side, have investigated anC
solved 1t is due to two causes First, whenever
passing or pausing obstruction at a street cor
ner arrests one vehicle approaching it at right
angles, the arrested vehicle gives those behint
it time to come up, and thus waiting line o
shoal of vehicles is formed, long in proportion
to the time of obstruction. When this line il
liberated and moves on the companionable dis
position Of that interesting animal, the horse
induces every quadruped in the line, howeve
lazy, to tread up close to the preceding vehicle
stimulated further, occasionally, by choice pick
ings of hay straw, grain, flour, salt or fruit, iron
the load in front. Now, applying these princi
pies to moral and physical condolences VIII
may not the common current OF any given ten
dency, say suicide, which if left to itself woul
I = 4. AaNu a.
at one period by some common obstruction, an
So when released, break out in voey Ii W
can discover what common causes may operat
q pecuialy at certain periods, to make switchmel
8 and engineers attentive to duty, or make wea
a iron hold out or to restrain servants from light
ing fires with the kerosene can, or to keep dog
/ in good spirits and an equable frame of mind, c
, | to suppress any one of the ferocious lusts an
, passions of men then we may calculate on tn
corresponding irruptions of smash-ups, expl'
sions, fires. mad dogs rapes, robberies and mul
ders, that must follow the breaking of the dam
l commend this suggestion to the savans {
> there be any) Of social science.
THE BATTLE WITH SMALL FOX
Has been fought litteraly at increasing disadyai
tage and will continue to be until the disc lvel
4 of a better prophyao;ic than vaccination, an
A the adoption OF less brutal safeguards again
infection than those now in llse. Great oppos
i tion to vaccination has been met with especial
r among the Germans. How far it may have il
a tluenced the German common mind Is doubtful
. but it is fact that two Of the most eminent
4 German physicians, (WOlf is one-I forget Il
l. other) have given ont their convictions, as Il
a result of forty years separate investigation
v the worlds experience in vaccination, witho
) any knowledge of each others inquiries or co
clu-ions, that vaccination has caused an amou
OF mortality through constitutional diseases i
toduced or aggravated by it, to which the ra
ages of small pox are trihe. The medical pr
le fes ion are divided, therefore, on the questit
l. of vaccination, even as n matter of private a.
10 vice to their patients, and much more, on takiI
iIe the responsibility of a determined enforceme
1t of compulsory vaccination. Compulsory he
" pital treatment also, is extensively eyaded al
l.; always will he, with the humane connivance
D. many physicians until hospital treatment ceas
n to be the brutal abuse which 1t generally is
lr present A suit has been brought against Il
~ Brooklyn authorities for the death of patio
who was torn from kind and careful nursing
home exposed to severe cold by long ride