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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

It is too much the custom in this country
to disregard danger, and to run risks until
some sweeping calamity comes upon us
and arouses us to precautionary action,
which, after all, is too often spasmodic.
In many of the affairs of life we neglect to
lock the stable door until after at least one
steed has been stolen, and even then as
soon as the memory of the loss passes
away we are very apt to mislay the key.
Our excursion steamers leave their docks
Sunday after Sunday with decks danger
ously and illegally crowded, and indulge
i'll trials of speed with rival boats in viola
ton of the law. After the inevitable disas-
ter invited every seventh day has occurred
and many lives have been lost the law will
be respected for two or three weeks the
boats will 60 out not dangerously
overcrowded, and their speed will
be such as the regulation pre-
scribes. But by the time the fourth
Sunday arrives the accident will have been
pushed out of the public mind by other
events, and the folly and recklessness to
which il was attributable will be renewed.
In our State Prison system it seems the
height of stupidity to allow two or three
hundred stalwart convicts to work together
in foundry, where tools are at hand that
can readily be made deadly weapons of as
sault in fight, and to set only half dozen
keepers over them MS guard. The danger
of such policy came near having q tragic
illustration in the exciting affray ut Sing
Sing on Friday last. Had the convicts
once realized and tried their strength the
result might have been terrible.
A coinmendabe economy has been en-
forced in our State Prison management un-
der tho new constitutional system OF n single
head, but it is to be hoped that the desire
to save expense will not induce the Super
intendent to risk the peril of an insufficient
force of guards over the convicts. For an
hour the violence of q single prisoner
threatened to lead to general revolt, the
end of which no one can foresee, and moth
ing is more certain than the fact that had it
occurred the lives of the keepers would
have been sacrificed. There were not
enough of them to resist the large body Of
half insubordinate convicts they were
called upon to face. AS it was, the COOL
ness, courage and determination OF the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

1t is curious to observe that any unusual
excitement at once shows itself in such q
table as this, because it creates an addi-
tional demand for the Sunday HERALD.
For instance, on Sunday, March 16, the
circulation jumped to LA, 400, and on Sun
day, June %, to 129, 800. Both these papers
we find on referring to the files contained
accounts of pedestrian matches, the earlier
of Rowell's and the later of Weston's, and
it would seem that the interest taken by
the public in these athletic trials decreased
between March and June, as was but
natural, the public mind turning to other
matters.
OF the present sheet we print $4,000
copies, an increase of 10000 copies since
the first Sunday in January.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

in that they are importers of paupers.
Unless the children brought over by
them are promptly rescued their igno-
rance and helplessness soon become
the least of their faults; they are taught
every vice by which any money can
be made and are hardened, finished GRIM
inals before they reach their majority. The
prosecution of brutes like Nuzzo is an ex-
cellent work, but not thorough enough in
in the country should be kept under close
espionage, and the laws against beggary and
vagrancy promptly enforced, without watt
ing for particularly engaging cases. In no
other way can the padrone be discouraged.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
Income Tax.

Do democrats really believe that it is an
objection to Mr.. Ewing as Presidential
candidate that he has expressed himself in
favor of the re-enactment Of the income
tax2 Inasmuch as one journal extensively
accepted MS the exponent of democratic
principles has declared that this fact is fatal
to him, we must suppose that this is an adj
mitted democratic theory. And yet what tax
is likely to be more universally popular
than one that spares the poor man and
does not hurt the rich one? Nine-tenths Of
the voters of the United States would be
untouched by properly drawn income
tax T; and if anybody supposes that our
rich men-our Astors, vanderbilts, Fields,
and so on-will be against it, he has only
to remember how many of these have no
income. Rich men who have no in
comes will, of course, not be taxed, and
why should they object3 Therefore rich
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

If a man severely injured by frost in some
far away northern cline should hasten by
boat and rail to milder regions, and in the
course of his fight reach this city, his
arrival here would not cure him of the
injuries tho cold had already inflicted, and
in the heat of our summer weather he
might die of the consequences of those
injuries to vital organs which the
cold had brought about. But such a
death would not furnish any ground
for the opinion that other people who had
not visited northern regions were likely to
be affected in the same way-that frost bite
was to become epidemic here in July. Yet
people who believe that there is danger of
yellow fever in the city because refugee
in Memphis has died here give their
minds up practically to just such
a belief. Joanna Bremen caught the
yellow fever in Memphis, came away
with the disease in her system, and her
arrival here did not prevent the full conse-
quences of the derangementso of that disease.
Her northern journey could not save her.
But even if we suppose that the elements
from which the disease could be reproduced
were brought in her person or her gar
ments, these elements do not find here the
conditions in which they can thrive. If
the hot period we had several days since
were on us now as ordinary weather; if a
temperature like that should persist for
thirty days, then the yellow fever might
spread. Otherwise its spread is simply
impossible.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

We are informed that Mr. Bennett disclaims the
credit of stopping the runaway. announced in
yesterdays Sayatogan. He says 1t gallant act
and the credit for it belongs to Mr. Clarence Dins-
nore.-Saratooian.
From the New York World of yesterday
Under regulation of the Police Cornmssio
has hs Of
the Mr. %s %
fore bring charges against Captain Williams of the
~
Crime After one house had been the other
which be entered found closed Mr.; whitney.
once and eployment to be of remarkably ru.tfu and
each other in order convey a@sky al tho Of
will the unsuspicous hypothesis Of MI Whitney.
SS
for 70 II he that he did know Of
giving his information to the keepers Of the other
phrase to the sq,piesp Of being
bor o his hp NOT
ten that this particular aborer hired and in
for PURPOSE sY Hiding whcsr
obligations imposed Captain Williams BY the salary
which the city pays him should not be held by the Com
Of which may open to him any Of income
Comment is unnecessary.
From the New York World Of yesterday
Mr. whitney suggests that the gambling Of the
with each other Would It we'll inquire whether
they may be in telephone communication with the
station house
U. s. Grant, Jr., is in Quebec.
Chief Justice Daily is at Newport
Secretary Evarts goes to Newport next week..
Mr.. Stanley Matthews is at Mt. Washington.
Mr.. Blaine has given up the idea of going to Ohio.
Senator Thurman aud wife are at the Isle Of
Shoals.
Mr.. Beecher will lecture in st. John. n B.. this
summer.
Sir John A. Macdonald sailed from Quebec for Eu.
rope yesterday by the steamer Sarmatian.
ExCongressman N. p. Banks, Of Massachusetts,, Is
announced to speak at o Connections temperance
gathering.
Ex-senator Ramsey, OF Minnesota. exchange
says, "a bland smile, and is popular with
elderly ladies'"
Congressman Frye and Reed and ex-Congressmeu
Hale and Peters. of Maine, all anxious to sue
coed Mr.. Hamlin in the United States Senate.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Z. Douglas. Colonel q.
wynne Finch. Captain and Mrs. McCuloch sailed
for Europe the White Star Britannia yes.
terday.
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Selby Smyth left
Ottawa yesterday morning a visit to the Gov
ernor General and the Princess Louise In tho cita-
del OF Quebec.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

1t will be seen by these comparative ta-
b]es that the circulation of the HERALD has
had steady increase during every month
of the present year over the corresponding
months of last year. July is well known as
the dullest month of the year. We have no
doubt that the HERALD's circulation will
run Up to 120, 900 during the fall and winter
months.
We present also table of the circulation
of the Sunday HERALD for every Sunday of
the nreSant YEAR
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
What Mr.. Hugh Hastings Thinks.

We print elsewhere the report of con-
versation with Mr.. Hugh Hastings on cur
rent political topics. Mr.. Hastings shows
in what he says his usual clear-headed
comprehension of political facts and move
ments. He remarks, for instance, that if
General Ewing should carry Ohio his
chances for the Presidential nomination
would be not merely fair, but good.
We agree with him in this, but we
cannot for the life of us see why,
if Mr. Foster should be elected in Ohio,
his chances of q Presidential nomination
would not also be good. The cases are pre-
cisely alike. Mr.. Hastings makes the very
good point that General Ewing is as we'll
known as Mr.. Hayes was when he became
Governor of Ohio; but Mr.. Foster, we add,
is as we'll known as General Ewing.
Is it possible that Mr. Hastings devotion
to prominent gentleman now travelling
abroad blinds even SO clever man, and
disables him from seeing that what is sauce
for Ewing will be sauce for Foster?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

real worth were quoted last year coed
deal below their value. As confidence re-
turned these were quietly but rapidly taken
up, and those who bought these securities
below their value have realized. and LETT
them now in the hands of people mainly
who hold them as permanent invest
ments There is, therefore, no specu-
lative movement in solid securities ;
and the specializing class. whose necessities
compel them to balloon and kitehying
business, have perforce begun to manipu-
late lot of mining stocks, just as ten or
twelve years ago they were able to create
rage for petroleum stocks, in which great
numbers of innocent'and credulous people
lost their savings. 1t is against such VEN
tures and against the spirit of speculation
which they breed, that we warn our
constituents at this time. Let them keep
their money, or, if they wish safe invest
ment, buy carefully selected real estate.
The man who owns land will in the long
run surely gain experience teaches
this; every growth Of the community puts
money in his pocket The man who buys
stocks, on the contrary, is at the mercy of
others and is pretty sure to lose. Or. let
them invest in government securities,
which are absolutely safe, and to keep
which is patriotic. Or in sound and solid
railway bonds, where they will receive a
moderate but secure interest.
What is needed to prevent a check to the
rapid revival of general prosperity is eau
ton. We seem to have just now the whip,
hand of Europe. England and Germany
are forced to be heavy customers of
ours; let us not forget that for people who
have anything to sell rich or pros
porous customers are the first neces-
sity; and manufacturers, farmers and
merchants will do we'll to remember
also that it is easy to overproduce,
and that they ought to measure the ca
pacity of. their markets with great care.
Just now, for instance, there is prospect
that we may sell ut good prices all the
wheat we shall have to spare; but if every
body thereupon rushes into wheat growing,
of which there are some signs already
in the far West, our farmers may
next year find the market glutted and
themselves heavy and general losers through
their imprudence We cannot in the long
run benefit by the loss or mpoverishment
of others and American producers Of all
kinds need to be very careful lest the pres
ent abnormal year shall operate as snare
to lead them into serious trouble.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
The Smith Murder in Jersey City-A
New Trial Granted to the Accused
Persons.

The Smith Murder in Jersey City-A
New Trial Granted to the Accused
Persons.
Jersey Justice will be none the worse
esteemed in the country for the decision
yesterday handed down from the New Jer-
sey Court of Errors and Appeals reversing
the judgment of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer in this case and granting new
trial to Mrs. Smith and Cove Bennett. Our
neighbors over the river have always felt
what we regard as just pride in the
determined way in which their courts
deal with crime and in the absence
from their administration of justice
of that sentimental spirit which
tends too much to regard outrageous crimes
as eccentricities or weaknesses to be WON
dered over and pitied; but while they have
taken just pride in this feature OF their
government they can hardly desire the
spirit of severity toward criminals to be
pushed to the extremity of judicial muir
der, and are to be congratulated that the
Judgment now rendered spares their justice
a reproach of that nature. BY the report
of the decision, which we give in another
column, it will be seen that the new
trial is granted strictly on account
of words used in Judge Knapp's
charge to the jury. Undoubtedly" says
the Chief Justice, referring to point Of
Judge Knapps charge. ''this judicial expo
sition of the case put this defendant in
great peril. And what was the judicial
exposition" thus referred to? Il was that
portion of Judge Knapp's charge in which,
as we have hitherto said, he argued the
case against the accused in which he did
not state the relations of points of testi-
mony to points of law. as judge should
state such things, for the instruction of
the jury, but seemed to descend
from the calmness of the Bench
and emulate'the passionate eagerness of
prosecuting attorney to secure, not justice,
but conviction. 1t will be remembered
how in that spirit he treated a part of the
theory of the defence as Mrs. Smiths
story, and held her responsible for allega-
tons that were strictly the testimony Of
another person. "There was no evidence"
says the present Court, ''that she had ever
made such statement" The impeachment
of Judge Knapps record in the case
now made by the highest Court in
the State is explicitly the same as that
made by the HERALD ut the time. Again
and again we declared the charge to be i'm
proper and outrageous. and not merely a
reason for setting aside the whole proceed
ings, but fact that ought to make such
result inevitable And now the trial is set
aside on that very ground that the Judge,
by improper, inaccurate and unjustifable
statements to the jury, prejudiced them
against the prisoners and put the accused
persons in peril not justified by the tes-
timony.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Stocks were
fairly active, and for some leading shares the
were dull and rates unchanged Governments
were quiet and steady, and railway bonds were
strong and in great demand. The bank state
ment favorable, showing an increase OF
nearly IS, 600 900 in the surplus reserve.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

THE WEATHER.-The area of relatively low
pressure that developed much energy ON the
Middle Atlantic coast on Friday and yesterday
has passed away to- the eastward, and the me
neurological conditions throughout the country
are beginning to become more settled There
is, however, n very large area of depression
over the lake regions, and it is moving slowly
toward the Atlantic in n southcasterly direction.
Its course is influenced altogether by the tongue
of high pressure that precedes it aud is at
present over the New England States and
Nova Scotia. The barometer is rising steadily
throughout the West and Southwest, owing to
the northern movement of the zone of high
pressure. This rise will cease this afternoon
and another gradual fall take place, as there is
a depression moving eastward from the Pacific
coast over the extreme northern sections of the
country The eastern margin of this depression
will reach the Northern Missouri Valley within
the next twenty-four hours. Very heavy and
continuous rains fell in the Middle Atlantic and
New England States Precipitation was also
general, but not 80 heavy throughout the South
Atlantic States, the central valleys and lake
regions. The weather in the Northwest
was generally fair and in the other districts it
was cloudy. The temperature slightly in
the West and Northwest, remained nearly
stationary in the Gulf States and fell elsewhere.
The winds were from fresh to brisk in the lake
regions and from fresh to light in the other sec
tions. Several electrical disturbances passed
over the South and Middle Atlantic States. In
the latter district they were most destructive.
The weather over the British Islands is fine,
but there are indications of change
The wcal her in New York and its vicinity to-
day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy,
with showers in the morning, followed by clear
ing. Tomorrow it promises to be warm and
fair possibly with occasional showers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

THE FOURTH AVENUE ELEVATED RAILWAY
project is droppedby the Commissioners because
''the only parties who can comply with the con-
dtions prescribed for the grant of that fran
chise do not intend to avail themselves of it,"
Isn't it rather late, the course of proceedings,
for this discovery to be made
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

A QUARTER OF A MILLION free baths, not in
GLIDING those taken surreptitiousIy from the
ends piers, We're INDUCED in last week. The
headaches, drunkenness and fighting these have
prevented cannot be stated in figures; but,
nevertheless, such has been the effect of the
opportunity to be clean.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

COLONEL "BoB' ISGERsoLL comes to the
defence of the Jews against Corbin with that
energy which he displays in whatever he does,
and the point of inconsistency that he makes
against Christians in their actions toward the
Jews-that they have worshipped the dead and
prosecuted the lvng-is one of the best things
that the controversy has brought out
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

VIRGINIAs MOUNTAINS are fine things to
rhapsodize about, but when they manipulate
meteorological movements so that there is not
rain enough to forward the tobacco crop the
smoking and chewing public are not to be
blamed for forming their own opinions of noun
tains in general
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

SINFUL GAMES of American shippers are an
noying Spain and her colonies, particularly
Cuba, and if the circular letter which our Secre-
taries of State and the Treasury have issued to
collectors is not promptly noticed we shall prob
ably have new season of bowling about Span
ish tyranny and arrogance.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

We present below a table showing the
average daily circulation of the HERALD for
the six months last past, and for the un-
finished part of July, together with a state
ment of the average daily circulation during
the corresponding months of last year.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

CAPTAIN BOGARDUs, in his challenge published
to-day, naturally thinks that he has gone abroad
often enough to shoot matches, and that it is
time for some Of the Englishmen who would
like to beat him to come here to do it.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED tons of fresh meat
either alive or in refrigerators left this port for
the British Isles yesterday-enough to give q
full meal to every adult Britisher-and this was
but n single days shipment. No wonder the
English farmer makes wry faces when he looks
toward the West
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
QUADRUPLE SH E EFT.
NEW YORK, SUNDAY JULY 81 1879.

The probabilities that the aceat1er in Neac
York and lis rici'aity todayscU be slightly md'mer
and partly cloudy, NTH showers an The morning,
toiloiced by clearing Tomorrow ii promises to
be ,oarm, and fair, possibly aciM occasional
ebOnesc
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

THE DRY FIGURES which the Bureau of Vital
Statistics furnish upon our foreign commerce in
the year just past are susceptible of consider
able life mt the hands of any one who will con-
slider them for u little while.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

ENGLISH PEOPLE who grumbling about
the kind of weather the HERALD sends over to
them would have been delighted to know what
altogether miserable weather New York endured
Yesterday.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

Mr. SANKEY, the religious singer who has
been at work in Europe nearly year without his
old partner, Mr.. Moody, tells in another column
Of his foreign experience
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY JULY 81 SHEET

and poor alike will favor the tax, and the
rich and poor taken together will carry the
country by large majority.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

CANADAs HUNGRY INDIANS are said to be
starving yet loyal. Ours are seldom loyal even
when well fed, and every one but the authorities
knows why.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
WASHINGTON. July 2G.

WASHINGTON. July 20, 1879.
The United states steamer Tallapoosa reached New
London, Conn. yesterday. from Washington. and
left there this morning on her way north.
ASSIGNMENTS DUTY.
Ensign Benjamin Tappan is ordered to temporary
duty ON board the receiving ship Franklin. at Nor.
folk, Va.
Chief Engineer william j. Lamdin is ordered to
hold himself In readiness for orders to the the Shen-
andoah. and fleet engineer of the South Atlantic
station.
Ensign Lyman Arms is detached from tho recev-
ing vessel Passaic aud placed on sick leave
Ensighs George O. Foulk and Walter Mclean from
the Alert and ordered to the Asiatic station.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27
THE CONSTELLATION AT PORTSMOUTH.

PORTSMOUTH. N. H.. July 20, 1879.
IL was the United States ship Constellation. and
not the Portsmouth, which arrived of this harbos
Thursday night. She Loss two anchors
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-27

We are informed that Mr.. Bennett disclaims the
credit of stopping the runaway. as announced in
yesterdays Saratogian He says 1t was gallant act
and the credit for it belongs to Mr. Clarence Dins-
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