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The New York herald., 1877-10-08
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tho following Americans registered at tho HERALD
Bureau In Paris on Saturday.
+. C. Cosby and family, Now York, Hotel du Palais
Royal.
henry Hcisscnbuttcl md family, San Francisco,
Grand HOTEL
H. NJ. Houston and vito, Providence, r. l., No. 81
Ruc Monceau.
W. s. Carpenter, New York, Hotel du Palais Royal.
Dr. c. N. Hoagland and family, San Francisco Hotel
Athen6e.
William B. moore. United states Navy New York,
Hotel du Palais Royal
Miss Emma Howard Columbus, Ohio. No. So Boule-
W. B. Hollns, Brooklyn, Spendldc Hotel
c. s. Brainord wife. San Francisco, Hotel Atn-
en6c
Miss Fannie Smith,, Brooklyn, No. 81 Boulevard
Haussmann
j. II. Cowcn, Natchcz, Miss, No. o Ruc Castigionc.
Z. 0. Perrin, Brooklyn. Hotel du Louvre.
A. r. Merrill, Hotel Brighton.
e. Willard Roby, Brooklyn, No. q Ruc Luxom.
bourg.
James Bovorldge and wife, San Francisco, Hotoi
Athen6c.
DR. w. G. wallach Brooklyn Hotel do France.
Tweed once said that no stolc nothing. and people
believed that no did. Now he says no was an awful
thief and thcro are people who believe that no was
not.
Florida people eating wild turxeya
Gail Hamilton has almost rested herself
Goodc IS gong TO talk IN the Ohio campaign
The Post once weathcrcock seems to bo nckIc
In North Carolina apples arc two cents a busheL
Nebraska City has postmaster named Schminckc.
Conxling did accuse Curtis OF wearing q chom,-
loon.
English military recruits aro hereafter 20 DO taught
cooking.
Wonder II there any yellow fcver In tho Florida
exchangcs'
Chief Justice Waite was In tho city yesterday, on
hts way to Washington.
Ex-Cadot Flipper Is corrugating the hearts Of the
dusky madens of Atlanta
sehor Don j. N. Mata, Mexican Minister At Wash
ington, is at the Everett Houso.
Dr. Peagallo dismissed by the Pope for telling
about the corditon ef His Ii Honess' health
Jersey is still dealing justice. II you commit man.
slaurhter you are sent to jail for ninety days
New Orleans Pcayine :-"Amusing exercise Is good
In It's way, but you can't earn bread with foot
ball"
London Atlenoum:-"It seems that In some Gor-
man schools day Is granted each week TO the Older
boys to be their special studies. There
be better sign OF q healthy Lore Of work than
The New York herald., 1877-10-08
Figures Worth Studying.

The story published in to-day's HERALD
in relation to the fees of the New York
coroners will renew the regret generally
felt by our citizens at the failure in the
Executive Chamber of the bill passed by
the Legislature last winter regulating the
Coroners' Office and reducing its expenses.
It seems to be quite unnecessary that the
business done by four coroners should cost
the city ninety thousand dollars a year.
Aside from this there are evidences
of very loose and irregular manage
ment in the Office. The coroners
are paid by fees, and it is remarkable
that every year the number of inquests
upon which payment is made by the Comp
troller exceeds the number duly registered
and reported by the Board Of Health by
from two to five hundred, with the single
exception of the year 1874. That year
Comptroller Green caused every inquest
which the coroners claimed to have held to
in that year and that alone the number re-
turned by the Board of Health agreed with
the number paid by the Comptroller. It is
significant, too, that the expense of the Of
fee has swelled from fifty-fve thousand
dollars in 1868 to nearly ninety thousand
dollars in 1876.
Massachusetts, last year abolished the
Office of coroner. and the example might
very we'll be followed in this State. There
is strong suspicion that exorbitant fees
are not the only or the most Objectionable
feature of that Office as it exists in New
York. This suspicion may be unjust, but
at least, the Office has too little response
bility and is too free from check as it
now exists. There can be no objec-
ton on the part of honest officials,
in that or any other position, to
have wholesome safeguards thrown about
their duties, and certainly there ought to
be no question rs to the advisability of re-
ducing the expenses Of an Office which pays
tour incumbents ninety thousand dollars q
year for comparatively light services which
could be nt least as satisfactorily performed
for third of that amount. It is to be
hoped that the figures given in our columns
will be accepted as proving the necessity
for the passage, at the next legislative ses-
sion, of bill regulating the Coroners' Office
and for the Executive approval of the law.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

among the States. Now, railway transpor.
tation is commerce, equally with carriage
by vessels. Commerce, moreover, is not
traffic alone; it includes intercourse. The
safe transit of passengers is as much within
Congressional regulation as is that OF mer-
chandise. These points are fully estab-
lished by decisions of the Supreme Court.
And the Court has also held that the power
is not confined to regulating what is done
on the water, or in the course Of naviga-
tion, but extends to anything done on land
which obstructs commerce among the
States; and any offence which obstructs
commerce, although committed on the
land, may be punished by Congress.
These principles clearly warrant Con-
gressional protection of railroads and their
trains against mob violence; for as the
railroad traffic is now organized and con-
Quoted it is eminently the means and
mode of traffic and intercourse among the
States. Moreover. Congress has passed laws
involving these principles the law Of 1866,
Furnishing negligent transportation of nitro
glycerine, and the law Of 1873, Furnishing
course of railroad transportation. It is too
late to say that railroads cannot have the
protection of federal law against mobs,
excepting. indeed, such roads as may be, in
oil their business, wholly isolated within
single State and unconnected with any
transportation from one State to another.
Open discussion is good for the souls
of Congressman. It arouses the mental
powers, quickens the circulation, stirs the
liver, enlivens the spirits, gives the report
ers employment and makes the common
people think that. after all, something is
really about to be done. Oh, by all
means, let us have debate upon the project
of national protection for our railroads.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08
Is tho city In Dangers

At an early hour yesterday morning the sky
on the east side of the city was Redeemed by
the reflection of what was evidently large
fire, and many persons who happened to see
it concluded thatit was in the city, and were
almost panic stricken by the apprehension
that it might turn out to be another Chicago
calamity. 1t proved to be on the other side
of the river but the fear it excited was
novel thing in New York, where we have
heretofore had confidence that our excel
lent Fire Department could at all times
secure us against the disastrous spread Of
confagration. The alarm was due to the
knowledge that our water supply is wholly
inadequate to the suppression of a fire that
might once take a firm hold in any of the
combustible portions Of the city. AS they
watched the glare in the sky men thought
of the thin stream Of water that comes
drbbllng through the pipes in the second
stories of buildings, and dreaded fate for
great part of New York similar to that
which has attended Boston and Chicago.
We arc in a most dangerous position
in regard to our water supply, and to
trife with the situation now is to court
calamity. 1t is outrageous that city like
New York should be LETT in such q condi-
ton, when comparatively trifing expendi-
turo would insure us water enough for
population of two or three millions and
enable us, with an active efficient Fire
Department., to render the spread of fire
almost impossible. Our citizens probably
have but little idea of the danger they are
now in. In order to get anything like
| good force into the mains it would be
necessary to use pumps at the reservoir,
and then there is the risk that the pipes
might not stand such pressure as would
be applied to them. The inconvenience
| experienced by the insufficient flow is only
a small part Of the evil. There is the dan
ger of sickness from the want Of proper
washing out of the drains and waste pipes.
Above all, there is the peril of fire. The
engineers of the Fire Department have
long since warned MS that there is not q
sufficiently strong supply in some of the
most hazardous districts to give the depart
ment chance Of struggling successfully
with FIRE if the flames should once get the
mastery, especially if q storm should prevail
at the time We are now in much worse con-
dition than we were when this warning was
uttered. II is q picayune and may be a
fatal economy to hesitate about placing the
metropolis beyond the risk OF water
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

thia or course sehoolboys would dsvoss the day
TO cricket"
Wo learn from exchange that the Massachusetts,
democrats have got the inside this time Yes inside
OF half the votes
Norrisown Heraid:-" The punetuasing proof reader
Is the man OF tho period '-NSv YORK HERALn. That
10 comma u faax"
Mr.. Alvey A. Adse, recently United States Charge
d'Anaircs at Madrid, arrived from Europe In the
steamship Germanic, and is at tho Coleman House.
Here Is description BY Miss Pearson OF female
medical student with the Russian army -rhe sents.
mon with her wcre surgeons on their way 70 Join
some ambulance. The lady wore her hair
short and parted on one side; spoctaolss with gold
rims: black tunic beited In round the waist and
short black skirt snc smoked cigars and seemed
hail fellow woll met with all her companionsn
"grecn" New Jersey girl OF fourteen read novels.
She away from home, lived In Brooklyn, dined at
Fulton Market captured through the means q
a letter which she Charity pulls down the cur
tain but wisdom meditates tho subject OF some OF
the conditions OF thought concerning high school girls
OF whom away, hoping to join variety
troupe. call herself "Edna c. Lemezz" and have tho
knowledge life which lcd her however jestingy) to
write that sho had met "a married man with lots OF
tin" Teachers should nnd ont what is being thought
well as what is being learned by their high school
utrlg
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

famine, no matter what may be tho cost.
We can draw our supply from three or four
sources if we are wise enough to do so, and
then we shall not have to depend on any
single source of questionable capacity. The
subject is not one to be trihed with, and the
Board of Aldermen, the Mayor and the
Commissioner Of Public Works should
unite promptly and earnestly in an effort to
rescue the city from its present perilous
position.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN reports that
tho troubles in FL Paso county, Texas, are en-
tirely confined to Mexicans living there, and
that the Mexicans proper arc in no way con-
cerned in them. If this be the case tho out
break is, of course stripped of all international
complications, and no apprchensons need be en-
tcrtained Of foreign difficulty. Mr.. Forster, q
member of the firm in this city who own the salt
works, confirms in another column our dispatches
printed yesterday in regard to the origin of the
disturbances.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08
THE TELEPHONE.

At tho end OF tho regular concert at Gilmore's
Garden last night Mr. L. IL Johnson repeated his
telephone experiment between shors and The Western
Union Building, Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Tho
exhibition was quite satisfactory, Miss Kate B.
choir, Camden, N. j., snging tho ''Swect By and
By," Mr.. William Northcots paying the same
cornet solo and Mr. William A. Brisco, TENOR of st.
Stephens Church choir, Philadelphia, singing the
"Exc's Lament" Tho instrunonts woro in excellent
order and the transmission Of the tuncs vesy distinct
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

THE SERMONS YESTERDAY werc of varied
and interesting character and entirely free from
Sectarian bias or animosity. Mr.. Beecher ap-
pearcd for the first time since the close Of his
vacation, and DR.. Hepworth preached on the
experiences Of his European trip. All the
churches were well filed, and our readers will
find in other columns reports of the discourscs
in some of the principal pulpits belonging to
different denominations.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

WoRKMEN have been endeavoring to raise
the wrecked steamer Massachusetts, for the last
twenty-four hours, but tho result of their labors
thus far leaves it in doubt whether their efforts
will be successful or not. With favorable
weather she may possibly be saved, but in tho
event Of q storm her total destruction would be
inevitable
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

CONGRESS will assemble this day week. The
deserted capital is already beginning to fill up,
particularly with candidates for the handful Of
Offices in the gift of the now House. The local
ity argument in the selection Of doorkeepers is
one Of the amusing features of the contest.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08
A National Law for Railway Mob,


AS the great American debating society
will soon convene the suggestion of topics
for discussion may now be considered in
order. We suggest that some of the amiable
gentlemen who charge themselves with ar
ranging work for Congress introduce bill
to punish obstructors of railroads.
A bill to Iepress railway mobs will be an
excellent subject for debate in Congress, be-
cause almost every member can air his pet
views. Constitutional lawyers can read
long citations; the protectionists and free
trade men can bring forward the paternal
and the non-interterence theories Of govern
ment; the State rights men will find oil
their old speeches come in use; subsidy
hunters and land grant grabbers can spread
themselves upon the great topic of our rail-
way system and the duty of government
to foster and protect it. In short, everybody
comes up in Committee of the Whole.
One great speech against the bill will be
that what the American people want upon
business matters is not more laws, but
fewer and better ones. This is sound doc
trine, but the friends Of the bill will turn it
to their advantage, for they will show that
there are at present probably thirty odd
systems of State laws upon this subject of
obstructing railroads A law of Congress
would dispense with oil of these, would SUBJ
stitute ono uniform code applicable to the
whole country in place of a confused variety
of laws which now exist. Take the case Of
q railway train which leaves New York city
for the West. 1t runs. perhaps, for few
hours in New York State and under the pro-
lection Of the law Of New York. That
is q good law; it gave the State pence and
safety in last summers troubles, and our
people are proud Of it and Of its en-
forcement. But its influence expires at
the State line. The trnin will run
onward into Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, and ut each invisible boundary line
it will come under a new system of law for
protecting it from violence. railroad trip
from the Atlantic to the Pacific runs under
O dozen systems of law, unless, perhaps,
some Of the States through which 1t runs
may have no law at oil in its behalf. Now,
there is no reason nor use for such COM
plex, heterogeneous condition of things.
One law and better one is precisely what
the bill in Congress would accomplish.
Moreover the experiences of the summer
have shown that for the enforcement Of the
law, whether State or national, the depend
ence of the people in any extended emer-
gency is upon the federal authorities and
forces. A United States law would receive
prompt and uniform enforcement by the
power Of the United States directly, with
out being dependent SO much upon the
varying temper and views of State authori-
ties
Another great speech against the bill will
be that it is nm unconstitutional invasion
Of State rights But here, again, the friends of
the bill will have the best of the argument.
Congress has power to regulate commerce
The New York herald., 1877-10-08
WITH SUPPLEM ENT
NEW YORK, MONDAY. OCTOBER S. 1877.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ADvERTIsERs.-To
insure The proper classification of advertisements
Il Is absolutely necessary that they be handed in
before eight o'clock erc,y crening.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

TEMPERANCE SOCIETY in the District of
Columbia wants the whiskey punch adopted
there. 1t must be contemplating the payment
of the national debt.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

From our reports this morning the PROBABILITIES
sre that the uealtey ~ Ne,o York. and lis vicinity
today ,ciA be slightly ,carner and cloudy or partly
cloudy, ,rith rain toward night.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

MARYLAND, which feels sighted by the Presi-
dent and Cabinet, will be soothed this week by
Presidential visit.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

TIE WEATHER.-From the Mississippi Valley
eastward the pressure rises very rapidly to the
area of highest barometer over the Middle and
New England coast States. Yesterday morning
tho pressure attained to over 1880 inches,
which is among the highest records for the year.
Two small depressions moved eastward and
northeastward from Nebraska and Texas re-
spectivcly, and now united in the Missis-
sippi Valley, forming a shallow baromotric
trough, which extends from the upper lakes
to the Gulf This depression may de-
vclop into a storm of some energy.
Rain attended both dcpressions during
their progress and now prevails along tho whole
eastern margin of tho area Of low barometer.
Tho Texas depression was the most energetic
and now dominates that Of Nebraska within the
srca. 1t was accompanied by thunder storm in
thc Southwest Owing to the relative positions
Of the areas of high and low barometer the
winds prevailing in all the districts east
of the Mississippi are southcastcrly and
easterly, with cloudiness extending to the
northern Middle States and the lower lake
region. The following winds behind the low
area are horthwcsterly with clear or fair weather.
The drift of the area of high pressure is north
easterly, in the track Of Thursdays great storm,
which it follows as a natural consequence. From
this fact we expect that heavy gales from
the northwest to the southwest pre-
vailing in the Atlantic immediately after
the storm, and which will do much damage
ON the European coasts. The temperature
throughout tho country is comparatively low,
but has risen slightly in the Eastern and far
Western districts. The weather in New York
and its vicinity to-day will be slightly warmer
and cloudy or partly cloudy, probably with rain
Aeward night
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS will fail in their
duty to the public and to the respectable men on
the force if they neglect to investigate the brutal
case of clubbing elsewhere reported. Mink, the
guilty officer, if the opinion of those who know
him is to be relied on, is not fit to wear the uni
form. The Justice before whom he appeared
with his prisoners told him so adding that he
tremblcd whenever nc saw him In court. This
Is severe condemnation, especially so ns it comes
from o magistrate who is necessarily familiar
with the rougher and darker side of criminal
life. 1t is to be hoped the Commissioners will
not allow the charges against this very inhuman
so-called guardian of tho peace to be smothered
The New York herald., 1877-10-08

THE YELLow FEVER is unfortunately on tho
increase at Port Royal.
The New York herald., 1877-10-08
The Three French Manifestoes.

As the day for the French elections ap-
proaches anxiety for the result naturally
rises high in France. The leaders on both
sides have spoken. The dictatorial address
of the Marshall President was answered
from the grave, as 1t were, in the
clear and logical address of Theirs,
and now the foremost republican of
France, Leon Gambetta, addresses the
electors. The brief cable summary which
we publish elsewhere of course fails to do
Justice to the splendid rhetoric in which
that master of debate clothes his arguments |;
but we have enough to show that his cour-
age and devotion are unshaken by the prose-
have aimed at him.
The address of Marshal MacMahon, which
curiously opened by saying that he would
leave Frenchmen free to vote as they pleased,
wound up in series Of threats which meant
that if they did not choose his candidates
he would rule France in his own
way and through his own instru-
ments in spite of the people. To
the famous phrase of Gambetta at Lille
that the Marshal must "submit or resign"
the latter plainly replied that he would do
neither. At last, then, the issue was Joined.
Everything that full control of the elective
machinery, of the government patronage, OF
the courts, of the press censorship could
bring to the aid Of the government candi-
dates has been used with relentlessness and
vigor. 1t is questionable, however. whether
these engines of power will accomplish
their object. The pitiless logic of Theirs,
which holds up the enemies Of the Re-
public-the legitimists, Orleanists, Bona
partists and clericals-as ''happy family"
ready to fall at each others throats, if the
decision of the future Of F rance be left to
them, will probably 60 further with the
French mind. "France has not perished,
says M. Theirs, 'but three monarchies have
persisted" Well up to the standard of the
address of Theirs is that of Gambetta.
As the time is shorter, the conflict nearer
and the man younger, its tone is sharper,
its language bolder than that of the late
ex-President. It offers no compromise. It
looks the gloomy future which De Broglie
and Fourtou are preparing full in the face.
It will be noted especially that Gambetta
reiterates what he said at Lille, what he was
prosecuted and convicted for saying and what
the Marshal wrote his address to answer
namely, that when France has spoken there
will be no alternative but to submit or
resign" Terribly in earnest, he says that
'the country shall know how to make its
will prevail over powerless and incorrigi-
BILE minority" Between the threats Of the
Marshal and the unyielding confidence Of tho
republican leader there are gloomy possibil-
tiles ahead. It is evident that the republi-
cans are taking the buttons off their foils.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-02-03

disscntion, fcnented djscord. mi,
back and Win, at cvcy ston "a
Ic12, le74 and le7G, and now a. ~
victory ach ieved. proves to tb.''
pigeon ]iverrd political Thinkers ,I''
bold action ard dore have >uccecd.,
notwithstanding the enemy and t,,;;'
w}'ines, they come forward to dictas
who should govern tit teyrito>.
brave men have won. Vas ,h,,
ever any thing more inSuljinolv ~.
sum p:uous. These "a,lvisersr 90,
rest assured that they are not beedea
for our cause does not rest upon such
a weak basis a. the Recognition n
the claims of that hungry horde Of M
litical imheci|es known as "Couserv..
tive n0odlrs.'