New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-26

l. there any land but Ours on the face of this
blessed old earth whore the gTOtesque spectacle
could be presented Of two or three frantic and help
less public officers running about IN search Of some
outside power TO restrain the authorities Of great
trading city from wautonly filling up their own har
Dor and blocking the approaches % thor own
wharvesY That is the edifyng scene which may
now be witnessed in the City Of New-York. 1t
has been the pleasing custom of our official scayen-
gers for years past scatter boat loads of garbage
over the waters of our beautiful bay. and to strew
the carcasses of dead animals the rotten refuse Of
the cutters and markets, and remnants of bedding
infected with the germs of disease and lively with
yermin on the smooth sands to which people of the
metropolis resort for bathing. Every imaginable
device has been tried for the stopping Of this nui
sance but in vain. The picture Of New-York har-
bor as ono approaches il by sea a clear day-the
low-ying beaches bordered with the swollen corpses
Of dogs. whose stark legs are projected in bold
lief against the horizon, and the dancing waves
tossing pestiferous and sinking oAal against
the ships Prov as she forces her way into the foul
ports one never to be forgotten. But of late
city government has made the wrong several de-
Qrees worse. Under the auspices of the Police Com
mIssoners dumping ground for street refuse has
been established Just in the Swash Channel, by
which large vessels are accustomed to enter and
leave the port. The closing of the channel, of
course can only be question of time, and of very
short time too If the practice is suffered TO
tinue We have a Board of Commissioners ap-
pointed expressly to watch for encroachments upon
the harbor, and they do watch pretty sharply. but
having observed the wrong they are powerless to
apply the remedy The police ought to arrest the
offenders, but the guilty scows are the scows OF the
police themselves. The Pilot Commissioners stand
at the gates of the harbOr aud call to people in
Washington to come in here and help them. They
applied first to tho Light House Board, and the
Light House Board answered that it had no power
and was, in fact, about to apply to them on the
same business. They went to the Secretary of the
Treasury, and the Secretary referred them to the
Revenue Marine. Next they tried the Secretary Of
War, and il he cannot help them we presume that
they will 90 through all the departments and bu-
reaus of the Government until haply they find some
Federal functionary with authority to prevent the
people Of New-York from destroying their own
haTbor.
II il said In Massachusetts that General Butler is
going to enter at once upon most vigorous can
yass He will stump the State in his own behalf,
going even into the Out-of-way towns which are
not usually canyassed He expects to be aided In
his efforts to middle the public mind by Ewing
and Voorhees, and as many other lights of the gym
nastic school OF finance as he can obtain. Kearney
is not mentioned in the list which confirms the
report that the General has had full as much of
his help as he desires. A Greenback bureau IS to
be established to flood the State with misnforma-
ton. The whole campaign viii be n novel sight
for Massachusetts,, but 1t is looked upon with the
same feeling that would be called out by now
variety of circus. Butler is the only man who
even pretends to see a shadow of a chance for
success, and he probably confesses, when he holds
n private consultation with himself that it ID an
exceedingly sickly shadow.
II the late Mr.. Samuel Wood, who made futile
attempt to found College Of Music in the CenNal
Park, by means of will over which heirs, lawyers
and other people are now quarreliing. retains any
interest in the affairs of the mortal sphere, he must