New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-26

who are ready to acquiesce IN his nominaHon'
already made by the General himself and his
friends. As rule, conventions are called 10
nominate candidates, not TO ratify nomlna-
tons. The plan of personal convention has
one merit, however-that of frankness. Those
who 60 know what they are going to-which
cannot always he said of well-meanng per
sons who reach an ostensibly popular conven-
ton, only to find that it should have had q
personal label on it, after the Butler plan.
The tales they tell of Lcadville and other
mining centres of the West have made a re-
markable sensation throughout the world, ana
it may almost be said that people are swarm
ing to those regions from all the corners OF
the earth. But after all only part oI inc
great current of humanity when is moving
westward now is drawn toward tile Mines
The larger part of it is attracted by the eA-
uberant fertility of the soil, the health ana
independence of an agricultural LIE, ana ohe
passion for ownership OF a bit OF land-thlngs
which have for cOol-headed men charms as
allurinp TO the imagination the prospect OF
Sudden riches to he got from the mines. IHE
TRInIrSE poInted out last January how large
the rush of new population to the unoccupieu
lands was then becoming. AS many as
$4,000 900 acres of new land had been SOFA
70 settlers during the single year OF 1878, ana
the emigration had reached proportions never
before known in history. lt had amounted In
1873 possibly to half a million people. a
dispatch from Washington, printed to-day
shows that the sale of new lands is still going
on upon large scale. Six million acres have
&c;
1879, in homestead entries alone, showing
that there has been no falling of this year.
This eagerness TO occupy new farming lands
beyond the Mississippi is as gratifying as 1t
is full of promise for the future Of the country.
Still another case of transported yellow
fever, brought here from Memphis, has shown
itself in this vicinity. This time the disease
has alighted in an unfortunate neighborhood
in the city itself. A party of eleven refugees
from Memphis reached this city on Tuesday
morning, and took rooms in Harlem tene-
ment-hOuse, where one of their number,
woman, fell sick of yellow fever the same
day. Yesterday she died, and yesterday, also,
two other members of the party showed
symptoms of the same disease. The prompt
removal of the entire company to Quarantine,
and the diSinfecung measures that were taken
by the authorities probably removed all danger
of the disease spreading, though the nature
of the ground where the house stood is such as
would aid IN diffusing it rather thanin checking
it, Fortunately there is less danger than usual OF
any transmission of the disease owing to the
moderation of the Summer heat. But the safe
rule is for the officials to conduct themselves
as if every precaution were needed to ward OIL
actual peril. There has been an evident
QuIckening Of cOnsciences in this respect. 1t
Is now announced that very strict quaran-
tine will be enforced in future, and
curiously enough the law which requires
the Quarantine Commissioners to approve
the Health Officers permit allowing a
vessel to pass Quarantine, was complied with
yesterday for the first time. Residents of the
city need have no fear of yellow fever, but
at the same time it is highly desirable that
they shall not be called upon to run any UNI
necessary risks.