Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-12-03
FIRST EDITION.
NEW YORK.



whitened the surface and put the finishing
mourning contrast Oh the dead black draperies
of the City Hall front.
Death has INDUCED bis preference for bright
targets within few days, and has seemed to
delight in surprises Sudden deaths in high and
low stations grow remarkably frequent. It
seems as If dropping dead from heart disease,
III particular, were characteristic infirmity of
the modern American. Some case of this kind
shows itself in tile papers somewhere, almost
daily. Acnrious coincidence occurs in our vital
statistics. The number of deaths reported il
the city last week was exactly the same as the
week previous -52l. With the beginnings of the
cold weather-the most serious of which, aud
full blown boreal too occurred here ON Sunday
nglt-small pox, as usual, increases, and ex-
cites the usual desperate yaccinating raids on
the tenement houses and public institutions
Both have broken out in the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at l62nd street, overlooking the Hudson
rivera great modern stone mansion, OH one OF
the most salubrous and select eminence in or
around New York-and in less than a week there
had been eleven cases of smallpox and six hum
dred of vaccination. This has stamped out the
more dreaded aud infectious evil there. There
are n hundred cases in the smallpox hospital on
Blackwells Island, and the only reason why
there are not more is that the hospital is not
larger. And yet, not one in hundred persons
would know there was such a thing as small pox
in the city. were 1t not for the newspapers.
have seized upon this letter with the rest. more
startling eYept has hardly ever shocked the city
than when at noon on Monday, ltd Mayor was
struck dead in the city hall, while attending to
official business. The universal tribute to his
memory s that he was an honest man. This
not uncommon virtue has been made 80 re-
markabe in public station by the operation Of
the electoral machine which seems to have been
invented to shake up rogues to the top. that to be
called honest i'll office ID the next thing to canon
all 1..a.
heartily paid both to the office and tue virtue of
the deceased mayor, there is also disposition
to do critical justice with personal gentleness,
which is just what is wanted but not to be had,
for living public men,
The trouble with Mayor Havemeyer was an in
ordinate and arbitrary egotism. Egotism is the
trouble with everybody, but it works in diferen t
ways. In Wm. NJ. Tweed, it worked in the di-
fection of material pleasure and power out of
other people materials In Mayor Hayemeyer it
worked in the direction of having his own will at
the expense of other peoples Wills. The vast
aesthetic difference iii favor of the latter tendency
creates the illusion that ii in vastly better NOR
ally, which ii il not II in the essence of tyran-
ny, and tyranny il robbery if not of the meanest
yet of the worst kind, although it always thinks
no well of ITSELF and enjoys certain fallacious
respect from Others
The rides of the new Mayor-elect about the
suspended public works, bouleyards &c., and
the profound Impressions made by them or his
lluublHb ilillu hh ftBlsleItu DY bne bell-hcbnB
repOrtonal Indicator, foreshadow movement, or
at least bllncombe in the direction of public
employing for the laboring classes this winter
he much missed corporeality of our ex-Boss
in coming to town tomorrow, not clandestinely
or by conniyance this time but in a habeas cor
pus coach and six, which his lawyers confidently
expect to drive through the meshes Of the law.
II is feared that Judge Davis strained the mesh
Oh overhaul, when he gave the great thief twelve
sentences under one indictment.
ptf,
of Ishmael in this city, if one may judge from
the appearance Of the street boys in the Boys
Meeting of the Rivington street and other lodg
ing houses of the Children'z Aid Society. You
zee them listening to addresses like rows of
young deacons rather than devils, with washed
faces, smooth heads and straightened hair.
Sunday School teachers at the Five Points, and
one of the same in Riyington Street Of whom
have vivid remembrance now thirty or forty
years old, would have given much for few bot
ties of Mr.. Braces Hair Stralghtener. The
whirling spirals in which those boys used to go
over the desks and each other to the
street door whenever they judged there
was no more fun to be got out of the Sunday
school, were bewilderng to the brains of the
poor teacher left blooming alone in the crimson
Of modification. Their mpsh kinks have been
aAtonishingly taken ont of them since then. The
secret OF the mistake cannot be exactly stated,
but ii consists largely Of bread and butter, hu-
man nature and the love Of God. There are a
| lew 1911 SEE 10 Dhubel Cuhll lub -'COullcI
in the down town newspaper offices but 1t is
now in full proof that the street Arab can be civ
| iZed If caught young and il the q. A. Society
lives in MIR. Brace and his co-adjutors decade or
two longer the mocking little demon of the gut
ter VIII survive, as all Institution only IN story.
| An admirable kind of vent for any vein of &C.
centricty in the street boy which may prove too
refractory for the civiliZing processes of the
lodging house, will be the new schoolship for
naughtycally disposed boys, which will be
| tna naA adj Of ri NJ r..
ucation in January-the ship st, Mary detailed
| for our accommodation by the honorable, the
obligng Secretary of the Navy The ritual OF
| the navy is to be practced on board as far az
possible, and the leading aim of the disci-
| pline will be to make good sailors and
| gunners for the merchant and naval
service. 1t will not reach as deeply OIL
or broadly as could be desired, however, until
| the system is enlarged and lowered to boys oi
| twelve The present limit is to be fifteen.
Mercantile liberty and enlightened self-interesi
| will be likely TO push the system onward when
once well started. The training system foi
officers adopted not long since by one of oul
| great steamship companies indicates the need
| that il felt in the merchant marine for school
for sailors, and the liberal means that would
wait ON any practical effort to supply it.
| Shooting at noise is the latest and sharpesi
practice for target companies in the suburbs.
The marksman is bhndfoded, armed, whirled
about and ordered to fire at target indicated
done by flesh and blood, but by spiritual ol
mechanical agency lndlfferently, and the rest OF
the company drop on their bellies at the word
"iire. The idea originated [ believe, in {
German and gallon OF lager.
The New York press unanimously condemn
the Trtbalies tremendous " beat on the post
master generals report, AZ an unjustifabl'
species Of enterprise. In fact, they lack wordl
to characterize it, and copy the stolen documen
| in mournfu silence. There is not ano her pape
in the city that would thus surreptitiously pub
sh an official document which it could not la,
its hands on.
IL is one of the most curions freaks of the
whirligig of time that ex-Mayor Hall figures a
eonsel for the Police Commissioners agains
Strakosch's antisabbath injunction, and is t.
assist the District Attorney if hear alright, OF
the trial of the notorious Paul Falk for Sunda.
liquor and theatrical traffic. 1t was Mayor Hal
who told an uproarously applauding crowd o
the unlicensed that for his part when he wa
District Attorney he never could find time to at
tend to the prosecution of any of the numerou
indictments Of that kind that were always ON fill
in his pigeon holes. But o. K. himself beat
Time az a whirligg for at this same moment h
is also counsel ON the opposite side /. Q. agans
the license law in the bucket shop cases patron
lied by the German liquor dealers protective AT
sociation. DELAWARE.