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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

Alderman Sauer introduced very impor-
tant and interesting subject to the Board OF
Alderman yesterday, in his resolutions re-
speeding the widening and improvement OF
the streets of the city below Houston street.
Under the charter there is Board OF Street
Opening and Improvement, composed OF
the Mayor, Comptroller, Commissioner OF
Public Works, President of Public Parks
and President of the Board of Aldermen,
which has the power and authority to lay
out, widen, straighten, extend, alter and
close streets and avenues or parts OF streets
and avenues below Fifty-ninth street. Al
derman Sauer's resolutions contemplate in
structing this Board to complete plan Of
city street Improvements below Houston
street, including project for widening the
streets bordering the two rivers and submit
ting the question as to whether the work
shall be undertaken at once to vote of the
people in the next election.
There is no doubt that the improvement
and widening Of downtown streets are much
needed and must one day be undertaken if
New York is to avail herself of her natural
advantages and attract to her port the COM
merce Of the world. Whether or not the
people are now ready to bear the necessary
burden of taxation for such purpose is
question that could not be better settled
than in the manner proposed. New York
might be benefited by the temporary rule OF
o Haussmann, and at all events the widen
ing and improvement OF some Of her down.
town streets may one day become matter
of necessity. Time will change the bust
ness centres and alter the principal features
of the city beyond doubt, but the lower end
Of the island will continue to be Of CONNER
cial importance long alter the busy docks ex-
tend up town and line the banks of the i'm
proved Harlem River, and we shall even
then need wider streets than we now enjoy
between Canal street and the Battery.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Mr.. Coshlan has been very successful In San Fran
CISCO
Mr.. ]. B. Atwater will take his benefit at Wallack's
tonight "Tho Stranger" MISS Lctte Allen appear
Ing as Mrs Halter.
ID Murska rs expected In New YORK about tho LIST Of
September and will begin her tour, the
direction OF Mr.. DE vivo, about the middle of that
month.
"Evangeino" win be performed At the Fifth Avenue
Theatre night for the benent Of Miss Rose Temple,
and on saturday tor that OF MT George knight, who
Will also play tho farce OF "wsston. the wakisk"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20
The West street Freight Line Project.

The West street Freight Line Project.
The Board of Aldermen yesterday ap-
proved, by the very decisive vote OF eleven
to four, the report of the majority of the
Committee on Streets, Aldermen Phillips
and Slevin, adverse to the proposed ordi-
nance granting privilege to the several
trunk railroads TO use the Belt Horse Car
line as steam freight railroad between the
hours of nine o'clock in the evening and six
o'clock in the morning. Alderman Cowan
made very earnest speech in opposition to
the report, contending that it would greatly
relieve the commerce Of the port and tacili-
tate the moving and handling of freight if
the railroads were allowed to run freight
cars to receiving depots and warehouses on
the east side of the city during the night.
The objection urged to the scheme was that
to use the Belt line for the transportation
and delivery OF any considerable amount of
freight would practically block up West
street, at oil events during the even
ing, night and early morning, within
which time an immense amount of
traffic and travel enters and leaves the CITY
by the North River ferries, docks and piers,
all Of which would be seriously interrupted
by the proposed use of the Belt rails for
heavy freight trains. AS freight car car
rying ten tons could not be unloaded and
reloaded under one hour it was argued that
to move and deliver one thousand tons of
freight over the line within the specified
hours would, of necessity, block up the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

thoroughfare, even if the rails could be
freed from freight cars by six o'clock in the
morning. The experiment was considered
too doubtful to justify its trial. An elevated
freight line built all around the city would
be free from the objections urged against
this questionable scheme of relief, and the
Board of Aldermen should follow up their
veto of an insufficient project by striving to
promote the more comprehensive and un-
Objectionable plan of an elevated line OF
freight railroad along the two rivers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

ANOTHER BAND OF MARAUDRRs SAID TO BE IN
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF GENERAL ORD
TO CHASE THEM ACROSS THE n1vER-wzERz
ARE TREvINo's YoRcEs?
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD
SAN ANTONIO, Texns, July TO- IS77.
There is no doubt that another party of Indian
raiders from Mexico in Texas They have beeu
seen in the hills north oil Fort Clark but cannot DO
tackled or pursued until they abandon impene.
trable cedar brakes. General Ord has given due
notice his troops and the citizens 10 be the
lookout. Indications that the Indians viii At
tempt to pass into Mexico below Fort Duncan.
wHERE ARE THE MEXICAN TRooPs9
As yet the Mexican authorities have Informed
General Ord at point the Rio Grande the Mex
can troops who are punish raiders stationed.
Unless otherwise instructed from Washington, an In
vasion OF Mexico with large scout probable. Gen.
crai Ord and the Mexican authorities consulting
over tho wires Tho Eost reliable information CON-
corning the location tho troops the other
side OF tho Rio Grande shows that Generals Trcvio
and Naranjo arc looking more to their personal and
political interests to The contingency Of intercept
ing tho raiders from Texas.
ANOTHER INVASION
Escobedo and Valdez. Lerdo's men, bsvemesrty ocm.
pleted their arrangements to over.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20
Illicit Distining In the Sou tn

A foolish attempt is made by some Of the
partisan journals to represent the, Illicit dis
filling Of whiskey in the mountain regions
Of North Carolina, Tennessee. Alabama and
Georgia as evidence of Southern democratic
hostility to the federal government. The
truth is that this unlawful distillation of
whiskey is an entirely bipartisan enter
PRISE The farmers of the mountainous
country spoken Of have been for long
time the enemies of the federal revenue
officers if this antagonism is more decided
OF late it is probably because, under the
new administration, the excise laws are
more faithfully executed than before. But
these farmers very generally vote the re-
publican ticket the mountain districts in
the Southern States have been ever since
the war, and were even during the
war, the republican strongholds United
very well that in Selling distilleries
they distress republicans oitener than dem
ocrats and no one acquainted with their
work has ever pretended that when reve-
nue. officer was shot at or resisted it was
because of political considerations.
In North Carolina m ingenious attempt
was recently made to drag the federal Off
GERS into the State courts. 1t has failed be-
cause the State judges (democrats) decided
that they could not interfere The govern
ment has had difficulty ever since the war
in collecting the excise duties and prevent
ing illicit distilling in the mountain regions
of the Southern States, and Southern repub-
lican politicians have mourned over this rs
one Of the difficulties they had to contend with
in keeping the mountaineers faithful to the
republican party. But when election day
comes the illicit distillers generally vote
against the lowlands, which are democratic.
1t is an old story.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

The HERALD special newspaper train to Sara
toga, Sharon and Richtield Springs, Luke Lslsene
and Lake George and all Intermediate poissts, ria
Hudson River, Albany aud Schenectady, rms
ere,y Sunday during the summer season. Ne,cs-
dealers mast send il their orders direct to the NEW
YORK HERALD.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

The REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION in Penn
sylvania has been postponed for u week to give
the managers little time to look around. The
machine does not appear to DO running Us
smoothly as in the olden days.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was rather quiet and lower in the earlier
dealings but improved at the close. Gold
declined to 1O5h, at which it closed. Gov
ernneht bonds were a fraction lower. Rail
road bonds were generally firm. Money on call
was easy at IL 2 per cent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

The AVERAGE OFFICE-HoLDING politician
dies hard. He cannot understand the civil SER
vice rules, and it has been found necessaryzagan
TO tell him that he'can only vote, write or.make
q speech. Probably he will understand it this
time
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

Our STORM WARNINGS have again proved
successful in England The accuracy Of their
fulflmcnt astonishes the natives in that tight
little island.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

ANOTHER EFFORT is to be made to bring
tho unlicensed keepers of sailors boarding
houses to punishment. 1t is to be hoped these
harpies will not slip throughsthe meshes of the
law this time.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

From omr reports Ibis morning theprobabiHties
are that the srea0er in New York today wlI be
cooler aud cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly scah
morning showers aud brisk Westerly scinds, fol-
lOtced bv clearing lccdkkey,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

days past large number of miners have been
herocally fighting fire in blazing mine three
hundred feet below the surface of the earth. As
the woodwork supporting the roof is consumed
the peril Of the daring worlingmen becomes
apualling
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

CHICAGO would not, of course, allow st.
Louis to get ahead of her in bank panics, and SO
got up one Of her own yesterday. There was a
run on several of the savings institutions, and
finally the thirty day rule WINS wisely enforced
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

TIE INDIAN WAR.-It looks as if some one
had committed a blunder, if not crime, in
dealing with the savages now the warpath.
They seem to have been pretty badly treated all
around and the subject ought to be rigidly in
vestgated and the guilty parties punished.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

Coal PROspEcTs.-No conference has yet
been held between the representatives of the
coal companies. One OF two large sales willisoon
take place. and there is no expectation of u rise
III price. Ii leading coal dealers and
miners, whose views are elsewhere given, arc
correct, these the latest points of interest in
this branch of trade. and they rather en-
cOuraging than otherwise to consumers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

LERDos FOLLOWERS COLLECTING AN ARMY ON
AMERICAN SOIL IN ORDER TO FIGHT DIAz.
GALVESTON. Texas, July 10, 1871
A special despatch to the Meas, from San Antonio
last night, says General Pedra Valdez arrived by
Eagle Pass stage this morning and will FRI
day. lie has 900 General Naranjo, on the other
sido. has l6o -men, 10, Of whom viii Join Gestfaf
Pcdra Valdez he crosses, which will DO In
six DAYS.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

An EXODUS OF CoLoREp PEOPLE to Africa is
by no means improbable. Several meetings on
the subject have been held recently in different
parts OF the country, and one is announced in
this city next week, mt which Frederick Doug
lass will give his views. Tho late Mr.. Sumner
had an idca that the colored race would work
out its highest development in the West India
Islands and found there black confederation !;
but it may be that Africa is the promised land.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-20

The WEATIiER-The area of lowest pressure
has moved slowly over the lake region and is
now central in Upper Canada. The attendant
rains have been chiefly on the southern and
eastern margins, and have prevailed over the
Middle and part Of the Eastern States, the lower
lake region and the st. Lawrence Valley. Heavy
rains have also fallen in the Gulf States. The
area Of low baromcter-that is, below the meal,
of thirty inchcs-cxtcnds over the whole territory
east Of the meridian Of Omaha to the Atlantic
coast and some distance into the ocean East
ward and westward of this area the pressure is
high, with two centres of high pressure in the
West. one southwark of the Platte Valley and
the other in Manitoba. On the eastward the
centre Of highest pressure is about the mid
Atlantic and on the thirticth parallel OF ati-
tudc. The low area described extends from the
Gulf of Mexico northward into Labrador The
Slowncss OF the movement of the depression is
due to the resisting volume of dense atmosphere
in advance of it; but this already exhibits evil
denccs of yielding and the relative progress of
the depression will increase during tomorrow.
The winds the coast were brisk during
yesterday, while those in the West have
been high, as we announced. The tenn
perature has fallen at all points except on the
eastern margin of the depression. In the West
IL IL very low. A severe ''norther' may be ex-
pccted on the Texas coast this evening or to-
MORROW morning, with general fall of tenn
persture in the Southwest The weather in New
York to-day will be cooler and cloudy or partly
eloudy, possibly with morning showers and
brisk westerly winds, followed by clearing
weather.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12

body else, and had no money laid by, and
suffering is the result.
This is true Of everything; consump-
ton was reduced one-half in six months,
and production had to suffer. In view of
all this what is to be done? The first thing
is for everybody to help everybody else as
fur as he can. There is compensation
in calamity. The first lesson taught is
retrenchment and economy. Away with
shams and false pride. Welcome the true
pride and dignity of owning what you
have and earning what you get. Let en-
ploymcnt be diversified so there will be
f>od for all mouths-not too large pro-
duction for healthy consumption. If we
could equalize production and produce all
we consume, panics would be at an end.
In view of what has been done in Penn
sylvala and Observation-Disclosures and
violence which it has taken the force of
the nation 10 suppress we must stop and
reflect, if this is allowed to go on where
the rights of labor and property-which
represents labor done-will be.
He did not condemn strikers; it was a
right of labor to stop work, or 10 combine
and stop work if they think the pay too
small; but when he takes arms 10 compel
another to stop, or the employer to pay
more, he is assaulting his own liberties rs
well, and every ones else. The rights of
violence are only the right of loss, of dis
order, of anarchy and ruin.
He spoke of the loss New England had
sustained by emigration, of the thousands
poured out west and south, so our popula-
ton had scarcely increased or our wealth
grown greater, but it has carried wealth
where it has gone, the wealth which comes
from the church and the school, the wealth
of well-ordered society, Of morality, the
wealth of being proud of being working
people, where the largest liberty brings the
largest order, and promises future of
,uch liberty secured by the largest regard
or law and order.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12
3oftrg.
BURR BASKETS.

Daintier workmanship never was seen,
Tinted in purple, and white. and pale green
Never asilversmith, cunning and wise,
Fashioned casket of rarer device.
The spirits of sunshine, of air, and of dew,
Worked on the burdocks the long summer through
And when the last burr stood erect in its place,
They fringed out its dress for finishing grace.
Never u prettier workshop was seen
The piazza, framed in with Its clustering green
The bells of the factory, hung overhead
Morning. glories, in chimes, of white, purple and
req.
The young basket makers are all SO dainty of touch
They make, and they mend and they alter much;
They consult, consider, they deck, and they trim,
And fashion the quaintest of handle and rim.
Little Dimpe, the baby, his hands running over
With heads of the swee.scented red and white
clover,
Cooling softly, and phtting each flower in its plade
Piles up his wee basket with perfume and grace,
" Now baskets baskets o baskets for salern
A chorus of voices rings out on the gale;
And the sweet little merchants march forth to sell
The wares they have woven so daintlly we'll
" birds will you have some burr.baskets to hold
Yourdear little eggs Of azure aud gold?
Baskets, o flowers, to catch the cold dew
Honey. baskets, o bees, all ready for you'll
" Burr baskets for thmbles and spools of threadl
Fine baskets of green and purple and redl"
And the work of the children, the long summer
day,
For the KISS Of a mother is bargained away.
Mrs N 4. Morse in September Vide Aodke,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12

LOOK TO YOUR Ice PoNDs.-There is n
prevalent notion that ice purifies itself by
the process of freezing This is not based
on trustworthy scientific observation, and,
indeed, is not true. In the recent annual
report of the State Board of Health of
Massachusetts are given the details of an
outbreak of intestinal disorder, clearly at
tributable to the contamination of impure
ice. The malady broke out last summer
in one of the principal hotels at Rye Beach,
N. H., and, while not attended with fatal
effects, extended to large number of peo
pie. After long and unavailing search,
the cause of the trouble was found in the
pond whence the ice used in the hotel had.
the winter before been taken. The outlet
whereby the body of water emptied itself
had become INSTRUCTED, so that the water
was nearly stagnant. At the upper end,
where the feeding brook entered, and over
space five hundred feet long by one hun
dred and fifty wide, had accumulated n
homogeneous mass of putrescent matter,
composed of marsh mud and decomposing
sawdust. This foul matter, held in suspen-
sion in the water, was conveyed by cur
rents and winds to every part of the pond,
and an analysis of the melted ice showed
it to be heavily charged with such impure
ties. 1t is obvious, from this. that the
same care given to wells and other sources
of drinking water should be given to
bodies of water from which the usual sup
ply Of ice is gathered.-ScientifG Anlcri-
can.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12

CORN FoDDER.-It is difficult matter tc
cure corn-fodder properly, so it will store
for winter use. The stalks retain then
water with much pertinacity, and when
the material is piled, and the circulation OF
rr prevented, fermentation is aptt set in
and mould usually appears The fodder
becomes mouldy.
The best method in our experience, is
to cut the corn and stack it, and to leave ii
thus in the field until dry enough to lay in
thin layers on top Of the hay in the barn,
OF it may be stacked by leaving an open
ing in the center of the stack, and when
of sufficient height may be covered by
Matching, or by IL rude shelter of boards
If but slightly mouldy, the COWS relish
it, and it does not seem to do them any
harm. 1t is not well however to calculate
IN having this mould, because if we at
tempt to have some, we shall obtain too
much. The best we can do, we do get
some, and as long as we cannot help our
selves, we are willing to be comiorted by
he thought that the little we have is rath-
er beneficial than otherwise. One thing is
quite certain, mould is better than fermen-
alton. Hence when storing keep the fod-
der in thin layers, so the air may have all
he access that our space for storage will
tdmit Of
Corn fodder is valuable feed, and If
used in connection with II nitrogenous
food, as cotton seed meal, gives results
which admit of very favorable comparison
with those produced from good hay, using
the prices of each as basit of compari
son. We consider corn fodder, of the kind
and curing that we advocate, worth Sixty
per cent as much as hay, weight fer
weight. AS we fed our cows exclusively
IN corn fodder and Hungarian grass last
wint /, that is for the fodder ration, we
think our opinion is justified by expert
ence. Scientific Farmer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12

A word of practical application. Ashes
are useful for any crop, from roots to fruit
On newly seeded grass land they often
work wonders. They may be used as Il
top-dressing or put in the hill or plowed
u narrowed under. They are excellent
for composts also. Here in Connecticut
where guano, phosphates, fish, and the
ike, can be bought very cheaplv, many OF
he best farmers prefer to use ashes, even
when they have to pay twenty cents per
bushel or more for the leached. And
where. us in some places l know, guano
oSts $1,000, good snperphosphate
$4,000 or $4,000 and bone about as much
per ton, and ashes are only - to Is cents
per bushel, should advise the use of ashes
by all means. OF course. for forcing ear
y crops, guano, phosphates, and other
quickly acting fertilizers, when used in
mall qualities, may pay better. But,
generally speaking, at such prices as the
,bove, ashes will be lar preferable for a
standard manure,-PrQf. 44ttoater in Agri-
eHlturiSt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12
The Fairs.

Our readers will find full reports of such
fairs as we can attend, giving preference
to those in those counties where our paper
circulates most, and it will be our aim to
make these reports valuable to those who
like ourself are working farmers, and may
not be able to attend. To that end we
shall make mention of such stock, tool>
products, etc, us we think will be of in
terest and value to our class and witt
such conclusions as We shall arrive at by
careful attention and candid, impartial in
vestigation. Ii onr readers are satisfied
that our efforts are in the right direction,
we hope they will encourage the publishers
by trying TO make the number of our read
ers greater.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-12

Philosophy protests against the strained
and artificial attitude which the horse is
compelled to assume, and which most GER
Lainlv lessons his power of drawing
reights. Humanity and common sense
protest against the intiiction of this con-
,tant gagging strain upon the sensitive
mouth of i'm animal whose mouth is used
by the driver rs tho principal means CT
guiding and directing him. Nor can any
9ne who has any knowledge of or pleasure
IN the study of animal forms feel other
wise than gratified at the free and uncon-
strained attitude ola horse driven without
bearing-reins. No good coachman uses
bearing reins for horse from which he
desires to get the full amount of work, or
which he desires to leave at ease. Their
is, indeed, merely senseless
fashion, which has absolutely nothing to
recommend it, and in favor of abolition
there are reasons so many and decided that
we hope that not many years will pass be-
fore they are not only disused but forgot
Medical Journal.