The New York herald., 1878-09-12
AID FROM OTHER CITIES.

CHICAGO, Sept ii, 1873.
The receipts from yesterdays great picnic over
$4,000 and tho entlre amount goes TO tho afflicted
Southern cities. Tho total amount raised here to
noon to-day and regularly reported in s57.s3s.
CAIRO, Ills, Sept. IL, 1878.
Mayor Athey, Of Covington, KY, has sent a con-
trbution OF $3.50 10 tho City National Bank here for
distribution Hickman. KY, there being express
or teiegraphic commrncation. Messrs Holiday
Brothers sent tteir tug cownstoday with donation
OF 100 sacks Of nour on their ewn account
PnlLApELpHIA sept H. 1873
Tho receipts TO day Tor tho benefit Of the yellow
sufferers In the south W the Cizcns' Commit
tee footed up S6.l7s, which, Win she $4,000 pre-
viousiy acknowledged, makes total OF $63, 400.
Archbishop Wood, who acknowledges to-day tho re-.
ospt OF 81 800 from hts diocese fer tho susrers has
churches to be continued untl the cessation Of
pcstiiencc.
Theatre this Afternoon. where Mtss Rpse Ey,inge
played Tor the benent OF the yellow Fever Tand.
About $500 was raised.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE PoRT OF
NEW YoEK-pR. vANDEEpoEL ON THE ITAL-
IAN INrKEDIcrIoN.
The two or threo yellow fever patients at Quaran.
tine Hospital, Dix Island, are rapidly regaining
health They still weak, and 10 is deemed one OF
the errors Of the treatment Of cases OF the kind to
allow tho pai,oEts too much liberty until they arc
physically eestored When relapses eusue the cases
frequently prove fatal No cases are
reported, aud no infected vessels have ar
rived within the past twenty our hours.
Tho steamer Hutchinson has lighters alongside dis
charging her cargo at Upper Quarantine Tho City of
Vera Cruz and the San Jacin,o are At anchor there
preparatory to dischsrsng Most of tho other vcsses
comprising large feet have bean allowed to depart
with clean bills Of heath.
THE ITALIAN QUARANTINE.
"what 90 you think, Doctor" asked the HERALD
reporter yesterday, "of this Wholesale Introduction
oil American by tho Italian authorities be-
o, the existence OF yellow fever 10 Of
Southern scsportsr"
"Shot can you oxpects" replied the Doctor, with
his usual emphasis. "You can't teach tho Italians
anything on this subject Italy, like Spain, Is be-
hind the world a hundred years on tho question OF
quarantine discipline. They remain SO and have i'm
proved in respect, but very slightly. for that
period. The term quarantine originated In Italy aud
means forty days detention at the pest house. 1t
came from tho old plague times when ono
town Guaranteed against another BY IT'S pros
ent operation ~ keeps tho cargoes OF vessels
from being broken up ior an unnecessarily
protracted period Ny experience rs that tbo sooner
n cargo rs broken up tho sooner you destroy tho
germs Of disease that may DO contained In IT, rasc
Tor ex,Inpie q cargo of sugar which Is likely TO ior
ment II kept too long confined IN hot atmosphere.
nero the germs oi malady exist they act like yeast
make the whole cargo iermeDt. Wherever there 10
heat ia sucn cases there Is fermentation. which Is
Of matter. The Italians, believe, sllii
maintain their old system of forty days
quarsn,ine; a. any rate ~ Is o. much longer dura.
drawback com nierce Under such a systom the
commcrcs OF new YORK could not exist"
'Shoud the government take any measures regard
ing this Italian quarantinc?"
'rnat ~ n matter for the government itself to de-
termlne. have doubt the govern mcDt Is alive to
M pur OF subject. and under
ought TO be done.'
AN APT COMPARISON.
"About the exclusion 0i all American r0rts whether
the lever exists or notYn
sThis only shows the ignorance OF tho Italian gsv.
ernmcnt IL docs not prshcDd the vast extent ot
our country. How different is cur own action. There
Is tho island of Cuba, with ITS numerous trading ports
ony four OF the whole humber com. under INC ban OF
sagua and CeBfucgos IL would have been Ridiculous
have included tho ports or tho whole island
quarantine restriction for many OF thcm are not at
an injected. The epidemic IS moderating IN all tho
places namcd, bot do net dcem It prudent TO alter
Tho quarantine regulations respecting vessels oomiag
IS tho least infested Of any oil them"
about vessels coming from Rio do JansIro aud
other ports In Brazili"
with the exception OF Bahta. which lics about
two days steamDg north Of Rio, havo not been
obliged 10 quarantine vessel from that quarter thfs
summer There 10 NO necessity for quarantining
vessels from Rio, for when II Is our summer IL 10
.ne, sneI o. ans wsen our Writer ,e S IS 'ner ssy
ing had yellow lover on board during tho
passage but no attention was paid 70 tho f,ot
because tho vessels rived here In winter, when
had Iears OF the Introduction OF tho fever ms
epidemic During The SIX summers have had charge
OF the business very few vessels from Rio have been
duarantinod at this port"
rus PoKT ESDANGKRRD
ain general terms, regarding the hsalthfoinsss OF
this porty"
''You canpot express II In terms too strongly. I,
has never been in better sanitary conditon. And TO
recur 10 the Italians. they are badly damaging their
own commerce by including the port OF New York or
sny other Northern port IN their Wholesale inter
diciion. In these days OF teegrapning. whsn positive
facts can Dc obtained by the Italian Minister within
hour seems Incredible that plumbers OF this kind
shoud occur IL seems like gong back to the Middle
Ages Tor any government At this day dong what the
Italian has just done in regard to the exraordnary
perod vi ouarsntin,nn vessels from American ports