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The ndis Case.

At the time of Carruth's death, in October
last, we commented on his case in these
columns. We then pointed out that the un-
fortunate event was the consequence of
medical incapacity, of gross ignorance and
malpractice. His chance for life was lost, as
we then showed, when his medical attend
ants permitted the wound to close while
still suppurating; or when, with the wound
closed and with symptoms of cerebral COM
preston staring them in the face, they failed
to open the wound and let out the pus that
was the sole cause of those symptoms-a
practice nationally clear and established as
correct by similar case in the practice OF
DR.. Detmold, of this city-for then, to quote
the article we printed at that time, "The
accumulating pus, pent in, excavated nearly
whole lobe of the brain, incapacitated the
essential organ for its function, and nec-
essarily caused death" At that time
we regretted also that a man so
capable as DIR. Gross, of Philadelphia, had
been excluded from the case, and we ex-
pressed the opinion that the result would
have been different if that surgeon had been
left in charge, because he ''would have pro-
vided for the discharge of the results of sup
puration, for the outflow of that which,
being pent in, became at last the real cause
of death" In the testimony given on the
trial of lands by DR.. Gross and other
medical experts this view Of the case is so
fortified by authority that it cannot be
shaken. 1t is established that while physi-
ologically the cause of death was the
pressure of the pus, this was preventable
cause, and the cause, medically speaking,
was the failure of the practitioner in charge
to let out the pus, as DR.. Gross declares he
himself would have done. DR.. Ingraham
swears that one month before Carruth's death
he gave the opinion that death from COM
preston would inevitably take place if the
wound was not opened 1t is, therefore,
testified and shown that death resulted from
another cause than Landis' shot. What is
the legal effect of this evidence? In
the general presumption of the law it
is held that the assassin is respon-
sible for whatever takes place in consequence
of his act, and certainly the doctors could
AOb HaNO oul uSb ehS1i plOOoo iAtO VIC NlCIiHl .
brain if the skull had not been previously
perforated by the bullet. But there must be
some reasonable limit to the effect of this
presumption. For every necessary or in
evitable or natural consequence of an assas-
sins act it is fair and reasonable to hold him
responsible, and that test applied here would
acquit the prisoner, for the death was neither
a necessary nor natural result of the injury.
On the part of Lands an important step was
taken toward preventing the evil result when
he sent DIR. Gross to see Carruth. Gross
was excluded, other capable physicians were
excluded, and the man died Now, who
causes mans death in these circumstances,
the person who has given wound not neces-
sarily fatal or they who exclude the ply
sicians who could save the mans life?
The New York herald., 1876-01-16
Locomotive Abominations.

The miseries of street car travel just now
are much enhanced by the cold weather,
which induces the passengers to close all the
means Of ventilation. AS consequence the
unfortunate mortal seated in q car crowded
with passengers standing and sitting, all
packed like sardines, runs a chance of
asphyxiation before he reaches the end of his
journey Let sanitarian attempt to open a
window and he becomes the enemy of every
rheumatic or asthmatic individual in the car
and the apertgres are Indignantly closed and
the foul process of suffocation goes on. 1t is
wonderful how complacently the public
submits to this disgraceful crowding. In
Paris the conductors steadily refuse admission
to the omnibuses if all the seats are filed /;
but here, where there is no law to prevent
overcrowding and apparently no public
spirit to put stop to it, the companies
make the public injury their profit Viewed
from the hygienic point the evil is far
greater than from that of comfort. The law
regulates the transit of cattle, but not of
human beings The scenes bordering on
brutality and full Of jndecency which the in
terror of crowded Third avenue car generally
presents call for some remedy. Who will
proceed to apply it? We have observed
recently that the Greenwich Street Elevated
Railroad, with its single rail, has become
utterly inadequate to the traffic its quick
transit attracts. In the afternoons pas
sengers are seen packing the cars as closely
as q Third avenue director could desire.
At the stations between the Battery and Hous-
ton street it is almost useless TO take ticket
for an up train at the hours of returning
from business, as the cars stopping there are
crowded to their utmost capacity when they
stop at the platform, and nobody gets out
This company opens its extension to Fifty
ninth street tomorrow, but this will only in
crease the public inconvenience in the direc-
ton we have named. Now, we are thankful
to this line for showing to capital that rapid
transit is profitable, but we protest against
its cars being turned into miasmatic
generators on the Third avenue horse car
principle. We observe that the latter
line has recently constructed few we'll
lighted and fairly ventilated cars, but they
are also made to hold more standing passen-
gers, and are thus quickly reduced in this
cold weather TO the fetid condition of the
stufiest little collins on the line. The pub
lie does not bear the overcrowdinG with good
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sp.in,. Rolana cor Our Ollvsr.

The silence Of our government regarding
the contents of Mr.. Fish's circular note to
the European Powers remains the more sur
prising as, day by day, we gather portions OF
that document from the various capitals OF
Europe. But we have something for Mr..
Fish in our special dispatches from Madrid
which will astonish him-namely SPANS
takes is likely to throw the American note
out of court in Europe, and so Spain may
play directly into the Presidents hands If he
is anxious for war. The statement that
Cubas trade with the United States is greater
than ever before is meant to counteract
the Presidents complaint of losses to our
commerce. The statement that Americans
have lived in Cuba engaged in business and
made fortunes there, is to defeat the plea
that our citizens are in jeopardy there What
happens to native Cubans, it inferentially
argues, is no concern of ours. But IN the
final clause of the Spanish note will be
found its strongest point-namely, that all
Just claims which America has brought
against Spain have been adjusted or are In
course of judicial adjustment This argu-
ment is very ingenious, and leaves it very
difficult to force q quarrel upon Spain by
mere diplomatic means.
The long course of extreme forbearance
and moderation which Mr. Fish has dis
played to Spain now returns to plague him.
We have no doubt that Spain, by quoting
from his own notes for the past five years,
can utterly confute him and laugh him
out of court The old-fashioned diplomacy
which delights him is here all against him,
and it leaves the question naked for the
President to handle in very different man
ner if he SO desires We have had adjust
ments," but not settlements, with Spain.
There was diplomatic patch up
in the case Of the Virginius, but no
satisfaction" Diplomacy has nominally
refined all the difficulties of our relations to
Cuba out of existence, but they remain for
all that fresh enough to be used by bold
hand Still, Spain has gained such an ad-
vantage in the diplomatic contest that it will
require roughshod work to put her in the
wrong, The Spanish note leaves the ques-
ton of war open, but it somewhat effectively
disposes of diplomatic reasons for conflict,
and puts the last touch of ridicule to the en-
deavor to make it a European question.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16
News Pulsations from London.

Our London cable letter this morning
is especially interesting. The modern
Babylon, like an elephant, has the
power of picking up a small fact
as well as an important event, and
solemnly and impartially performing the acts
of deglutition and digestion M. Taine, in
his delightful ''Notes On England, has noted
this, and is grimly amused at the way hairs
are split between grave elucidators
and morose commentators The Queen
may open Parliament, with the Prin-
cess Of Wales, we hear, on one side,
and the standing of American bonds on
Change comes from another quarter The
Daily Telegraph dry nurses the Prince of
Wales for seeing the Nautch girls exhibit
their Oriental voluptuousness and thinks
he should be visiting hospitals in
stead, while the Times wags its head
wisely over the growing seriousness of the
Eastern question. The sardonic and high
toned Saturday Reciep tosses Boucicault in a
blanket for daring to embark in theat-
rical politics, but the kindly and
elegantly grave Spectator pats Dions
Shakespearan cranium and says he has
done much for the Irishman on the
English stage after all. The Illustrated
london NetoS calls the HERALD to its aid in
vindication of the authenticity of its sketches
on the Deutschland as she lay in the grasp
of the wreckers. Offenbach fares badly
in London, and the "Timbale dArgent"
meets the same condemnation from the
English that its naughtiness met here.
From Olympia we learn the news has come
that some magnificent Greek marbles have
been found to reward the deep-seeking
German arch@ologists. Trade troubles,
theatrical items, information from
the troubled East the condition of the
money market, and, lastly, the unfragrant
Emma mine, which, it seems, is seeking
fresh Victims go to make up a wonderful
budget of news that was London's last night
and is our readers this morning
The New York herald., 1876-01-16
The Spring Elections.

Ever since the misgovernment of this city
became a public scandal the republican
party has been identified with the endeavors
to find remedy for the evil. 1t has made
many endeavors perhaps honestly intended,
to remedy the gross corruption but it has
been charged that the republican anxiety to
legislate rogues out of Office was not separable
from the desire to put republicans in their
places. But the party thus by the policy of
many years committed at least to the pre-
tence that it wishes to see this city honestly
governed is now in power at the State capital.
1t has majority at Albany, and, under the
recognized principles of government by
party, is responsible for the legislation of the
winter. 1t is demanded on the part of the
people of this city that the opportunity be
given them to rid themselves by election of
corrupt government. Last fall the people
rose up to fight their own cause at the polls,
and redeemed the courts from the domination
of the secret society that made and unmade
judges, not from any view of the public
interest, but from considerations Of the
control that Tammany politicians could
exercise over their action on the
Bench. From tile shadow of that
tyranny every judge was redeemed by the
viet5Ey Of the people. Now the people wish
to have the same opportunity with regard to
the officers charged with the administration
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humor, but though surliness 10 each othei
and discourtesy to women are but too COM
mon, the million or two of passengers never
let their indignation at the companies go
beyond a growL We want rapid transit
badly, but comfortable and healthy transit
is just as much needed. Can the companies
stihe legislation on this point as effectively
as they induce the passengers to stife each
ofher2
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ANOTHER MUTNoUs SCENE on an American
ship is reported from England. The riot in
this case seems to have arisen from shipping
q drunken crew. The master of the Caravan
was wrong in attempting TO put TO sea with
his men in such beastly condition as the
despatch describes, but we fear the habit of
taking crews in any state has made master
mariners callous to the probabilities of q
knurderous unity among the maddened
wretches Seamen out of work are probably
scarce on the Mersey, but delay of single
tide would probably have obviatod -
xnutinv.
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The HERALD BY FAST MAIL TRAINs.--Ne,os-
dealers and the public throughout The States Of
.Ne,o York, Ner Jersey and Pennsylvania, as
,rea as in The West, the Pacific Coast The North,
The South and Souh.,oest, also along he lines
Of he Hudson Riue, Nelo York Central and
Pennsylvania Central Railroads and d,eir con-
nectionS, ,oH be supplied ,oih The HERALD
5ree Of postage. Extraordinary inducements
offered 10 necsdedlerS By sending tier orders
direct 10 this office.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

BISMARCK AND DENMARK. .--Advices from
Copenhagen contradict the report that the
little Northern Power intends to sell the
island of ST. Thomas TO Germany, but inti-
mates that the idea of trading it for North
Sleswick was once entertained The aban-
donment of this idea was very sensible, for
while Denmark would lose ST. Thomas ire
coverably Bismarck could help himself
again to North Sleswick whenever he felt
the land fever coming on him.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

The CENTENNIAL RowING CONTESTS. The
London sporting paper, Belrs Life, gives us
what appear very good reasons why the Eng
1ish and Irish universities cannot be ex-
pected to send crews to compete in the inter
national college boat race if the date remains
as at present fixed. We commend the matter
to our aquatic brethren of the colleges, and
trust they will leave no stone unturned TO
secure the presence of crews from Oxford,
Cambridge and Dublin.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

LIBERTY OF THE Press is in its extreme in
fancy in Germany. The select committee of
The Reichstag has resolved to oppose the
government plan, which would deprive
those accused of press offences of trial by
Jury. This is small beginning, but one
must begin somewhere.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

EaYPT.-Our Paris correspondent on New
Years Day telegraphed that the Khedive
was looking about for something else to sell
after his canal shares, and despatch from
Alexandria now informs us that he has found
something vendable. He wants English
capitalists to buy the Egyptian railways.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

THE MAccLEsFIELD WEAvERs, the North
Wales colliers and the Amalgamated En-
gineers are all in difficulty with their en-
ployers, and so the great fight between capi-
lal and labor sweeps on in England, reaching
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY. The bank state
uent of the week was encouraging. Stocks
Rdvanced and were strong. Gold moved up
30 113. Money on call loaned at and per
cent Investment securities were firm.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

From our reports This morning the probdbiH-
lies are that The 'oeather to-day ,cM be ,oarmer
and cloudy, 1cih rain.
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ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.

THIRD AVENUE THEATRE,
Shsd @yeRps between rhirteth and Thiryst streets
r,,,,s .,r.., ,... TIyoLI TrT.5 TMEATEE, S,rrv
wALLACK's THEATRE.
bat T. NJ closes ut 10 as p NJ Mr.. Lester wallaek
COLOSSEUM
from P. NJ to p. NJ and from so P NJ. to i0P. NJ.
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
Sixteenth street. Broadway.-yARIETY at p. NJ
BROOKLYN THEATRE.
MSsanston street, Brookyn-oAsrE' at r NJ H. j.
r-,av., ns UEIoS s9g4RE g.E5gE MICHEL
OLYMPIC THEATRE
No. GA Broadway-YARIETi, at 2 NJ
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twenty eighth street, near Broadway-PIQUE, at p NJ
TONY PASTORS NEW THEATRE.
Nos. SIS and 5s7 Broadway.-yARIErY GsPM
PARK THEATRE.
81 BUSINESS at : ? n john Dillon. 49, 49,
EAGLE THEATRE.
Broadway aud Thry-third street-vARIETY. at P. NJ.
BowERY THEATRE
eowery.-THE PHOENIX, at s P. NJ. Milton Mobiles.
LYCEUM THEATRE
Fourteenth street sixth avenue-French Plays-IES
pOAESTIQUES Ut 8 p. NJ.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS
New opera House Broadway of twenty ninth street.
lt 6P M
WOODS MUSEUM
Broadway of Thirtieth streetACROSS THE CON
lINENT at p NJ; closes 10 :45 +. NJ. Oliver Doud
byron. Matinee at 7. NJ.
GLOBE THEATRE.
Nos 72S and 730 0Broadway-VARIETI. at 8 +. NJ
BOOTHS THEATRE,
Twenty third and sixth avenue-J ULIUS CESAR,
lat L. NJ. Mr.. Lawrence Barrett
THEATRE COMIQUE.
no. 514 4Broadway-VARIETY, at x 2. NJ.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

TIE EASTERN QUESTION. The opinion of
the London Times, that "no Minis
terial decision can avert the in
evitable fate of Ottoman misrule," is
one we have often expressed. That
the delay in a temporary settlement
may force Servis and Montenegro into the
fight beside Herzegovina is not improbable,
and it cannot be safely affirmed that
Austria would not hail that event with
Joy. The reported concentration of troops
in the south of Russia would show
that the Gar intends making the
Crimea base of operations against
Turkey, in case the fight assumes anything
like large proportions. In any case he
wants to be ready for emergencies.
England seems practically out of the
Turkish question proper. She has
her hand upon Egypt, and that is all she
would be likely TO claim in the dismember-
ment, which Andrassys note cannot stay
forever.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

The ENGLISH BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY
into the disgraceful doings on the bark
Island Belle discloses a strange arrangement
by which one man is nominal and another
real captain. This is intended to circum-
vent the law which requires the captain to
hold q certificate. The death of the man
Lewis was not commented on in the finding
of the board of inquiry; but seaman's life
may be small to them beside an attempt TO
dodge the Shipping act
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

THIRD AVENUE THEATRE,
Third avenue, between rhirteth and Thrtyhrst streets
4ANORAMA. p N.
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VOLUME xLI...................... IL
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TIE PUBLIC, it seems, has, after ALL some
rights which the horse car companies snow
ulouphs are bound 10 respect
The New York herald., 1876-01-16
TRIPLE S III e E T.

NEW YORK, SUNDAY. JANUARY l6. 1876.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16
Our Paris Cable Letter.

The gay life of the French capital has not
bubbled so much at the surface during the
past week as is its won't The coming
elections, doubtless, act as discouagingly
on it as the cynic Tennyson sings of would
on the poets fountain if the worldly man
went near it. Even in politics, however,
gay Paris must have its little joke,
and NJ Duval, with his gallant
six hundred cabmen riding down. with
republicans to the right of them
and republicans to the left and in front Of
them, to restore the Empire, is sufficiently
comical to tickle the strikers" of our own
elections, who often ride off with great
show in one direction, hoping some
body will think it worth while
to pay them to drive off in the opposite.
Then, too, the gandinS are off skating on the
lake in the Bois de Boulogne and will return
in good time with good words opropoS
deS pdtinS We cannot, moreover refuse q
laugh to the saucy and wilful little Lucca,
who, with her successive husbands,
her sweet will over Europe in defiance
of Mr.. Gye, who, having failed to enmesh
her at Brussels, now hopes to bag the plump
little woman at Vienna She has slipped
through the fingers of great many man
ayers in a great many European capitals,
and wherever she goes the public always
takes her part against the manager she de-
serts They win by it, and this suggests a
thought for our young poets, who
may symbolic her in the form of bird
that can always win its welcome with it's
notes. The gift of song is divine, and hence
the people of any city will pardon the fly
away foibles of the songstress, if they only can
catch little of her melody when she hops
on their twig. We are to have Rossi, but not
until next September The American prize
play project has bsgged FIVE good dIamas
and that is something American colony
gossip points to wedding breakfast.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

GLOBE THEATRE.
Nos. 72S and 730 OVERWHELMINGLY. at 8 p. NJ
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

TIvOLI THEATRE.
Eighth street, near Third avenue-YARIErY. at sP NJ
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

wALLACK'S THEATRE
fRroadway and Thirteenth street-MARRIED IN HASTE,
bat L. NJ closes ut 10 as p NJ Mr. Lester Wallaek
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COLOSSEUM,
Thirty-fourth street and Broadway.-PANORAMA. Open
from p. NJ. to T.. NJ. and from 80 r NJ. TO 10 r. NJ
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WOODS MUSEUM
Broadway, of Thirtieth sreet.ACROSS THE con
lINENT. at = Z. NJ. closes at 10 As Z. NJ. Oliver Dou
byron. Matinee at = Z. NJ.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

THEATRE COMIQUE,
NO. 514 4Broadway.-vARIETY, at x p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16
NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

BOOTHS THEATRE,
Twenty third and sixth ayenue.-JULIUS CESAR,
lat 5 L. NJ. Mr. Lawrence Barrett.
The New York herald., 1876-01-16

PARTISAN VARIETIES.
Sixteenth street. BroadWaY.-NARIETY, at 5 p NJ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-25
LITERARY NOTES.

The long -delayed volume by Mr.. Drury
,,,nr,, on the European bronzes In the south
KensiSgton Museum may be shortly expected.
II ia said that Wagner was so much de-
,ntd with the Life OF schoPeDhauer lately written
hv m English lady, that he presented her WIN ueAe'
for the performances OF Bayreut'
n. Whitaker will publish the American
aton of the Christian Evidence Societys new volume
.Tbe Credentials of Christianity" preface was writ
ION for il by tie chairman OF the society," the Earl o
narrowly, X. G.
The "NO Name Series is the latest. Under
,his heading Roberts Brothers announce number OF
hooks In l6mo shape lat 81 each), all by wclknowm
authors hut to appear anonymously, so that guessing
81 TO authorship VIII be in order. =" Mercy PmorleK
Choice" win begin the series early next month.
Besides the life Of Servetus by MIR. K. Wills,
which is announced publication, another contribution
10 the history of the Reformation will appear this Au-
tumn in London, a "Life Of Bernard'no Ochno, some
time Capuchin monk then an exile rom tay ioI hs
faith, prebendaTy OF CanteIDufy IN I5e ariS w. VI
Edward W. and once more an exile under Queen Mary
Hiss Helen Zmmern is to translate IL rom the DeIn'h'
The Essentials of English Grammar Tor
The Use OF Schools is the fruit of both Prof Whitneys
enera linguistic studies and Of his experience as an ex-
n,iner In the English department in Yale College IL is
intended to teach the groundwork or the EDSsn IAN
rIaoe scentfcally and thoroughly 10 prepare
CHM Bros of Boston VIII publish 1t about the first OF
September.
Mr.. F. E. Warren of st. Johns College,
Oxford has in preparation for speedy publication a
sranslation OF the "Catholisches Rtuale the rtuai
1ubished by the Old Catholics The offices are taFen
from the Roman Manual but one service lconhrmatlohl
is from the Pontica. The work represents al! III 6 1i9
Catholics though they have other publications III pro-
gress, and among them a revived Mssa-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-25

The cable advices to-day were of no very spec'ai
Importance. There was rather feyerish tone "
the London market for United States securities oo
cause of the hitch IN Washington regarding the nc"
refunding operations. Old 1868 are 1902 siN'y
sevens down to 1921. ten-forties to lo'' anu NC"
five per cents steady at 1878. British consoiS weis
steady at 96lsa96la for both descriptions L n
common fell to l2li, preferred closing at IL ~
spite the panic in Portugal and the fact that Lonu.
has been called upon quite literally for aid, mon.y
continues exceedingly plentiful, lending III the ous
side market at per cent. The minimum ra'e =.
discount 40 the Bank of England remains w. .a
managers at the regular weekly meeting 'oo..
making no alteration in it. The stateilsu' sor
less favorable one-a loss Of E711.OOO bui"on ~
the week. the proportion of liabilities to resci,~
which was last week $685. being now COS po1 soS"
The sum of $4,000 bullion was taken iron . 49,.
Bank o. England ION balance" to-day. Inc w. IA
ton Of silver Is 5l%d. United States nss wv