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Louisiana has 10000 horses,
10000 mules, $1,000 Mich cows
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6s,soo sheep and 222,6oo hogs
All these are less than is possess
ed by any State South, save South
Carolina and Florida.
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surface of 66:2 per cent of the
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Sabine Of Is per cent or 51,2l4
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The New York herald., 1877-07-09
That Mexican Map.

People who believe that our Mexican map
is "inspired" by the administration, and
that every meridian and parallel of latitude
marked On it are really lines of policy, will
be pleased to see it in our columns again
this morning. 1t is not surprising that our
map has attracted great deal of at
tention. HERALD maps never fail to do
so, but this particular HERALD map is
one about which the air is filled with
surmises, conjectures, guesses and all
the different processes by which people
try to materialize facts ont of ghostly un-
certainties. Although this is immensely
amusing we must be permitted to state that
behind it there is mysterious something
about which we cannot give any informa-
tion, no matter how much it may be de-
sired. The HERALD never reveals it's sources
of information. They are as numerous as
they are reliable, and we satisfy the public
demand for news very fully when we give
the news without describing how we get it.
With regard to our Mexican map we
are perfectly willing that our readers
should believe that it was ''inspired" from
high places. Inspiration is always good
word to use. 1t is euphonious and elastic,
and fits the affairs of county rs neatly as
it does those of continent when occasion
requires. BY the way, 1t is proper 70 re-
The New York herald., 1877-07-09
MILK and Disease.

One of tho important observations in
medicine, which within the reach of ply
sicians for ages, has only become of practi-
cal value within short time, is that of the
relation Of disease in q community to its
milk supply Ever since it has been ac-
knowledged that the presence Of typhus or
typhoid fever was evidence of faulty
hycienic conditions, physicians, enei-
neers and builders have exhausted their
ingenuity in the endeavor to hunt
down the poison and destroy it at its source.
They have overhauled the drainage, regu-
lated the relations of the closets with the
sewers, secured perfect ventilation and q
supply of pure water, and yet the disease
has ragged with undated fury. Why !?
Simply because while they were defending
the supposed approaches against an in
sidious enemy that enemy was con-
stantly let into the house by an
unsuspected passage. The innocent
milkman was leaving it at tho door
every morning regularly, hidden from
ordinary observation in the milk that
was to make palatable the coffee of the
adults and to be fed without change to the
children. This is part of the history of
London. Proper vigilance gave the people
pure water; but the cows drank from con-
taminated sources, were afflicted with
fever, and the milk taken from
them gave the fever to those who
used it as certainly as any ordinary
poison added to it would have produced the
acknowledged symptoms of that poison.
This was the case with cows in country
dairies, watered from polluted streams,
with all the opportunities that air, exercise
and good food gave tor their systems to re-
sist the pollution. How must it be- then,
with COWS kept in such horrible places as
the distillery stables that are their common
habitations near this city? In these stables
the COWS rot away with putrid diseases
while standing in their stalls, and orc
The New York herald., 1877-07-09
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.

General George B. McClcilan's article on "The War
in tho East" and Judge Jere Back's theees ON 1.-THE
Electoral Conspiracy" have occasioncd an unprecs-
dencd sale OF the last number Of the North Americda
5cr,e,c, which yesterday reached Nth edition.
julius Hawthornc's novel OF "Garth" srikos the Lon
don academy possessing something Of the dreamy
grace, dry Now England humor, and weird and lurd
memories that characterize Nathaniel Hawthornc's
writings.
magnificent work in chromo-lithography on the
Cathedral Of Cologne, by f. Schmz, Is now issuing a.
the K0ln press.
DR.. c. T. williams, OF London, writes q useful boot
on "The Influence OF Climate in the Prevention and
Treatment Of Pulmonary Consumption"
One of the best and most instructive books Of ths
year is Mr.. j. Paterson's "Commcntares the Liberty
OF tho Subject and the Laws Of England Relating u
Security OF the Person, In two volumes.
Mr. J. A. symonds has written two moro admirable
volumes on the "Rcnasssnce in Italy," which are
devoted to the hno arts and revival OF learning.
The New York herald., 1877-07-09

mark that all good things are inspired by
superior intelligence. The Mexican map IL
good thing, one of those that the HERALD
always manages to get hold of, and therefore
the public are justified by appearances in be-
lieving that the map is inspired. Cortina
will, when he sees it republished, certainly
believe in inspiration. President Diaz will
be impressed with the same idea when the
HERALD of this morning reaches the palace
at Mexico. But as Diaz inspires things
himself sometimes he will regard our map
with the complacency which superior intel
ligence exhibits toward that which it be-
lieves it understands Our article descrip-
tive of the Northern States of Mexico, pub
lished in other columns to-day, will assist
the reader in estimating the value of that
large extent of territory to Mexico and to the
United States.
The New York herald., 1877-07-09

milked until they die and while dying; and
the milk taken from them in the last mo-
ments of their ezistence-in the very agony
of DEATHS sold by ruthless wretches for
ordinary use in city homes. Virulent
poison is thus sold MS food, and the enor-
nous infant mortality of the warm
weather in this city is almost accounted
for by the consideration of the rapid de-
velopment under high temperature of dis
ease producing germs in this product of
horribly diseased animals. No punishment
and no public reprobation is an adequate
corrective to the crime against society, per-
petrated equally by the keepers of
these distilleries, the owners of the
cows, the dealers in the milk and the
health authorities, that. through indiffer-
ence or criminal connivance, permit
the sale of such an article in city commit
ted to their care. In its bold exposure of
this source of pestilence the press has done
and will fearlessly continue to do its part
in defending the people. Will the legal
authorities and the people themselves in
the jury box do theirs? We hope so. But
we shall have an opportunity to judge of
this in the forthcoming tyial of the indict-
ment against the keepers of the Blissville
utoh1oc
The New York herald., 1877-07-09

Columbia's challenge to doubly victorious
Harvard for an eight-oared race next sum-
mer, time, place and distancc to be at the
latter's option, will doubtless be enrly ac-
cepted. With q year to get ready in, and
several well tried old oars in Columbias s
boat, it will be in no way odd if this
contest should go long way toward
taking place, in the public interest at
least, on q footing with that of Har-
wards struggle with Yale Nor would
this be more than Columbia deserves; for if
her short but brilliant record has been
marked by one Characteristic more than an
other it is that not of withdrawing from an
association where she was uniformly beaten,
but of going at every crew willing to row
English, American or anything else. and SO
earning reputation of which New York is
naturally proud.
Indeed SO valuable On experience was it
to Harvard in many ways when she recently
rowed Columbia four days before her race
with Yale, and SO thoroughly did it point
ont what might be expected of each man in
the severer struggle that, as a pure matter
of policy, Yale ought to negotiate a
similar match with Columbia for 1878,
to be rowed shortly before her Harvard
race. What would be far better yet, and
would put both Harvard and Yale where
they ought to be to insure their old place
as oarsmen in public esteem, would be to
open the door to both Cornell and
Columbia in their own race. Then
these four eights rowing abreast on
suitable track would make magnificent
contest, far surprising in interest any
other boat race of the year on either
side Of the Atlantic Such course would
settle conclusively who were the best stu
dent oarsmen of each year, thing which
the narrow and selfish policy of this year
has wholly precluded. This suggestion can
be entertained now with much less risk
than at almost any time before, for the work
of Harvard's eight the other day makes it
reasonably probable that, with even an APP
proach to hard work during the next twelve
months, Cornell would have formidable
task next SUMNER even had she Ostrom and
all his famous men. II Yale does not change
her stroke, as doubtless Harvard hopes she
will not, then there would be four distinct
styles of rowing seen in the exciting race
which We propose.
The New York herald., 1877-07-09
The Wnr.

The news which appeared in the HERALD s
special dispatches of yesterday that Bjela
had been occupied by the Russians is con-
This indicates that the line of the
Jantra has been secured to that point
although the statement that Tirnova is
still held by the Turks, if borne out by
facts, shows that the Russians are backward
in their movements. This would in great
bridge behind them. AS Western Bulgaria
is swept clean of provisions they can
not go far from their Roumanian
base of supplies. Some wonder is
expressed that this single bridge is not
broken by the Turks; but the reasons which
held good for their allowing it to be built at
all are by this time reinforced by other rea-
sons for letting it alone. The abandonment
of the Montenegrin campaign, with q loss
of eleven thousand bashi-bazouks, will be
good news to those who have watched with
admiration the heroic struggle of the hand
full of mountaineers The great numbers
in which the Turks were hurled against the
mountain fortresses of Montenegro show
that Abdul-Kerim hoped by striking a
heavy, hasty blow to be done with that
principality before he was called on to face
the Russians. The withdrawal of Suleiman' s
army means that the Russians have to be
met and the black mountaineers have not
been subdued.
The campaign in Armenia has few new
features. The Russians are reforming
thoir lines and the Turks are con-
tinuing their ''offensive-defensive" in
manner that betokens their sup
plies to be shorter than their cour-
age. The old Russian line was north
and south; the present line, with the
right in the Olti Valley, stretches to the
southeast. The bombardment of Kars con-
tinues
The New York herald., 1877-07-09
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

An unpublished mass BY Mozart has been dis.
covered.
States hts homo
Tho Kellogg opera season In New York opens In Do
cembcr, when "Aiia," "Lohongrin'' and paul and
virginia. will be presented
A little fellow, only five years old who 10 said to
read accurately and play with grcat expression
and who can analyz and the notes In the most
complex chords ihcy struck" Is aston.
ishng the Australian public.
Frauien Matniida Cottreiiy, the iavorite ssubrctn
actress, will not play In New York. She
Is about 10 leave for San Francisco upon starrtnt
tour whence she will Chicago for the winter
season. Several German ladies havo pontodiy OK.
pressed their appreciation OF this deserving actross
IN farewell letter accompanied By q valuable d.
mond soltsira
The New York herald., 1877-07-09

mercy to expect from the machine politi-
clans, who will do all they can to hamper
and annoy him and who will never forgive
him, and his only course is to steer cour-
ageously ahead. Those who know him best
feel the surest that he means to do this. He
deserves and ought to be made to feel that
he has the confidence and support OF
all friends of this reform, in both parties
II he seems to any one to move
a struggle of extraordinary difficulty before
him. He is, in fact, breaking down vast
and thoroughly organized conspiracy
against the people Look wherever one
pleases. and he cannot help seeing how COM
pletely bound together are the politicians
in Office. In Wisconsin the State Conven-
ton could not even be called, except by
postmasters inIRennsylvania many county
committees of the ruling party are made
up, as our correspondents have shown,
entirely of postmasters and other federal
offce-holders In Maryland, in Tennessee,
in many other States it is just as bad. The
people no longer control their conventions !;
the Omce-uOlucrS mdhe Jue uOuiiuosAoho,
put forth platforms which pretend to speak
the opinion ofthe party and control the whole
machinery. so that the voters are allowed
no privilege except to obediently ratify at
the polls the will of their masters, the
ofice-holders. Under this system, per-
fected during eight or twelve years, the
republican party has continually lost
ground, and from q mere party standpoint
the Presidents policy is wise and necessary.
But it is still more necessary, to save us
from repetition of the shameful and dan
gerous excitements of the local canvass, to
make our politics decent, honorable and
safe for the country
Therefore all who wish we'll to the coun-
try ought not only to support the Presi-
dent in his reform policy, but ought to
urge him to the most positive and cour-
ageous assertion of it.
The New York herald., 1877-07-09
BAYARD TAYLOR'S MISSION.

WASHINGTON. July 8, 1871
Inquiries Mt the State Department. fail to elicit posi-
tive confirmation of the rumor that Bayard Taylor hat
been offered an appointment as Minister to Russia
Belgium, but there 70 be sufficient ground fol
believing that no is authorized to mako o choice q
either of those positions His appointment as Minister
to Russia would DO In tho nature Of diplomatic pro
motion ana a return his former field Of diplomacy,
as ho wns appointed by President Lincoln to the post
ton Of First Secretary Of Legation a St Petersburg In
April 1862, and from September Of that year twhcn
Minister Cameron returned tho United States until
May, 1868, acted charge dafTAres with crcdt
to himself and the entire satisfaction OF the Depart
nent of Stata
The New York herald., 1877-07-09

The WEATHER.-Thc depression of Saturday,
which then WINS central between the Upper
Missouri and the Upper Mississippi rivers, has
now moved into the region north of the Canadian
provinces, and is advancing toward Newfound-
land in an easterly direction. The barometer is
low over the Eastern and Middle States. the
lake region, tho Ohio Upper Mississippi and the
Missouri valleys and tho Pacific coast tits also
below the mean in the Western Gulf States, tho
depression remaining almost stationary, while
that of the northern regions is making rapid
progress. The centres Of highest pressure are
west OF the Lower Missouri and cast OF and
partly over the South Atlantic coast; but the lat
ter area Of high pressure will movc into the
Atlantic today, while the first named will
udvance 20 tho Mississippi Valley and tho
lakes. Rains have fallen in advance of tho
western area Of high pressure and the Southern
,,,.,,rcssion. rs well as that in the North. The
,,,nperntrrrc has risen very generally, and cx-
cen; il, the Northeast and ia the far West Is
l,,a.,. uarticurly in the ~. Lawrence Valley
lJ,ko,n. lie isotherm of 20 degrees cx-
,,drd only Nova Scotia and part of Lower
.,,,.,.,,,. The weather in New York to-day will
,.. ,,,rily cloudy and cooler, possibly with 90
ls.onml rains.
The New York herald., 1877-07-09
The Montan. and Idaho Indians.

Tho Montana and Idaho Indians.
General Howard and Colonel Whipple are
doing good work in Idaho. The hostile
Indians who recently attacked the settle
ments and massacred numbers Of citizens
have been surprised and seventeen killed.
General Howard is on the trail Of Chief
Joseph, and the Nez Perces are likely to be
entrapped in the mountains. This is encour-
aging news, for it relieves the settlers of that
Territory from great danger. Yet at the
same time that Idaho is reported safe we
hear of new troubles in Montana. Our cor
respondent at Helena, in an interesting let
ter charges that the Flathead tribe have
been plundered for years by the agents, that
the government has not kept faith with it,
and gives facts in support of his assertion.
The result is that the Flathead Indians are
discontented and disposed to unite with the
Nez Perces in war against the whites. It is to
be hoped that this may be avoided by q
juster course adopted by the new agent, but
that an outbreak Of the kind is even possi-
BILE is a disgrace to our Indian Department
1t is no wonder that the Indians resent by
force the wrongs they suffer by fraud. There
sponsibility of these continual disturbances
in the Territories does not wholly lie with the
red man, but with the white agents, who,
having goaded him into war by robbery,
compel the army to drive him again into
submission. So long as this policy of
plunder continues Indian wars will be
hydra-headed, and as fast AS one ends
another will begin. There are few Of our
national evils which more deserve the seri-
GUS consideration of the administration
than that of bloody, expensive and un-
necessary strife with the Indians in the far
The New York herald., 1877-07-09
A Portrait OF Tweed.

Agentleman who for some years was prom
inently connected with the defence of Will
lam M. Tweed paints in other columns q
"Boss" which presents the great criminal
in far different light from that in which
the majority of his old followers have been
accustomed to see him. The popular i'm
preston of Tweed is that if he was great
robber he was generous with the money he
made in dealing with those who were
associated with him in crime; n genial,
princely host who gave magnificent
entertainments OF Greenwich; man
whose word was as good rs his
bond; q sincere friend where he professed
friendship; frank in his dealings with men;
bitter hater of cant and hypocrisy. The
gentleman referred to dispels all these illu-
sions From close intimacy and long
experience he assures US that Tweed is
cold, selfish, sordid, untruthful, pompous
and tyrannical. Even when he was at the
height of his power he had neither friend
nor following except those his money
made for him. Throughout his career he
uAWbyb uuu OA0 OOJ0Ct iA VACWs hhu eAuo wa
his own interest He loved money and
made it in every way he could. When he
helped, as he could not avoid helping.
others to make money, he always endeav-
ored to get it back in some way. The hotel
venture Of his son was inspired by motives
Of this character. 1t was to be the Tam
many headquarters. The extravaganza and
dissoluteness Of his henchmen were to be
turned to his benefit and the benefit Of his
family. This is o new and unenviable light
in which the dethroned Boss is placed, but
it is borne ont by the facts. Even now,
when he is supposed to be spending ex-
travagant sums on his counsel and in his de-
fence, he is as mean and close listed with
them as it is possible to be. He is incapa-
BILE of gratitude, and the stories about his
poverty are wholly without foundation. If
the portrait be true good dead Of sympathy
has been wasted on Tweed.
The New York herald., 1877-07-09

Mn. THURLow WEED believes that the work
of reconciliation between the South and the
North is matter of waiting and rather slow
growth--an opinion in which the majority Of
people, North and South, will agree with him.
He is willing to give the policy of the admins
tration fair chance, and does not see his way
clear to approve what may be called the Blaine
policy, which means an indefinite postpOnement
of reconciliation between the sections. The
Woodstock demonstration is evidently great
disappointment to its authors. 1t means war,
and between peace and war all sensible people
can have only one choice.
The New York herald., 1877-07-09

THE PORE CELEBRATED MASS YESTERDAY,
the HERALD special despatch from Rome in
forms 49, This, we take it, is very satisfactory
evidence that His Holiness did not die OH Satur-
day. What put forth on that day in the
shape of q "strong rnmor' from London
il, therefore, better characterized as a baseless
invention. Given a very old man, in whose
existence the greater part of the civilized world
is Interested, and you have fair sample of the
game that hard up rrimor-monger loves to
hunt. Hunting His Holiness to kingdom come
is not, however, q very successful pastime if We
may Judge by the number of times the hounds
have been in full cry only to find that they had
been following a herring when they thought
they were running the Pope ''to EARTH" Long
live Pope Plus!