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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
4 CHANCE FOR GOOD ADMINISTRATION.

4 CHANCE FOR GOOD ADMINISTRATION.
Now that the germs OF the yellow fever con-
tagion are IN the air, aud may be developed
under the unwhOlesome conditions of mid
summer life in the Metropolis, it is well to
remind the Board Of Health that recent legis-
lation has left them no excuse for inaction
The Tenement-House Act gives them full
power to protect the health of the 100000
families who live in tenements, good, bad or
Indifferent on Manhattan Island. The pres
ent system, with its foul rookeries, It's under
ground plague-spots, its reeling drains, its
dark entries and bedrooms, and its over
crowded floors, can be rendered tOlera-
bly, habitable, if this sanitary measure
the best our city has ever had-be rig
idly and at the same time intelligently
enforced. One section provides for the thorough
lighting and ventilation of the halls and
entries, and another eflectually prevents over
crowdng by empowering the sanitary officers
TO reduce the number Of occupants so that
each shall have at least 600 cubic feet of air
space and 80 square feet of surface. In these
and other respects the worst evils of the tene-
ment-house system become under the new law
nmsances which can be abated under the di-
rcctlO0 OF Ile DOdIu VI lltdItH' anu III tHcy
can be, they must be abated. The public does
not happen to be in a mood to be trihed with
this Summer. The sanitary corps which is to
inspect this class of houses during the next
few weeks seems to be a picked body of men.
1t must do its work with discrimination and
thOrOughness.
If anything was lacking in the old law, it
has been supplied; but a new spirit of
efficiency and intelligence in its admnistra-
ton is far more important than the revision
of the statute itself. The evils of tenement
house life cannot be legislated out of exist
ence. Daring the last thirty years there have
been various acts of Parliament in relation to
the housing of working people, and yet the
actual results in London have been exceed
ingly unsatisfactory. In the course of twenty
wears the population of the city increased
from 100000 to 100000. and yet the
house accommodation was only One-fourth
greater. Over-crowdiDg is becoming more
and more of a curse each year. Although old
houses are constantly being pulled down and
model lodging-hUuses are occasionally going
up. the population is compressed within mar
rover limits and the Seven Dials point I'M
erringly to wretchedness, dirt and crime.
There is law enough there, but the local
authorities have been timid and back
ward about exercising their arbitrary powers.
So, too, in New York, the fault has always
been in the administration rather than i'm
the law. Is it to be SO during this Plague
Summerl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
GEyER1L EWING'S SOPHIsTRIEs.

The Republicans have fairly opened the
campaign of 1879 in the speech of Secretary
Sherman. The Democratic party is as fairly
represented by the speech of Mr.. Ewing, not
only because he is the chosen representative
of that party In the most important election
to be held this year. but because he is the
man above all others whose course in Con-
eress has given form and expression to the
will of the Democratic majority i'll that body.
General Ewing speaks with authority, as the
immediate standard-bearer of his party /;
but he speaks with authority not less
as the real leader of his party in
Congress on all questions of a financial char
acter. If there has been INDUCED by any
Democrat hope that General Ewing would
be silent or guarded in the expression of his
opinions on such questions, and would thus
enable his party to make its fight mainly on
other issues, that hope is destroyed by his
speech at Lancaster. He opens the campaign
at home, Just as he has described it in less
formal utterances elsewhere, by declaring that
the main question upon which the people are
to decide is in regard to the financial policy
of the Government. Some Democrats receive
his declaration with chagrin and some
with 1OQlKUullOu. Dub uOb Oht VI lUtUl
can deny that Mr.. Ewing was selected TO lead
his party, in its most important struggle this
wear. because of his financial opinions and
record, and not one of them can deny that he
does represent the intentions and beliefs of
his party, as those have been shown In many
votes in Congress, at least as fully as Secre-
tary Sherman represents the intentions and
beliefs of the Republican party.
General Ewing assails resumption, and still
insists that it is sham and a failure, for
reasons which less sincere and more cum
ming politician would not have stated so
bluntly. In substance, he says that the pub
I" lie debt of the United States Is far greater
defective burden on the people than il was
"before the first dollar of it was PAID; that
although we have had gold resumption for
six months, the money actually current is
"nO greater now, if as great, as 1t was one
cor two years ago.; and that there has been
no real relief for debtors, for he says:
Every little debt you owe still nettes you. Every
large debt still you with the loss OF your home.
your farm your factory your store Every tax you
Day calls for labor product than before Wages
do not ncrease labofers still hunt for employers IN
stead OF employers hunting for laborers and II Is
last becoming apparent that the condition OF things last
year and the year before Is 10 become the permanent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
nAKOTA nIYORCE LIZ.

A recently reported decision of the Dakota
District Court is well adapted TO cause extern
sive fitting of disallected spouses to that Ter
ritory, and to stimulate the desire, already
keen, among the friends of pure and stable
marriage tie, for some comprehensive improve
ment of the law of divorce. The hero of the
narrative is the same Mr.. Vosburgh who at
tanned notorety in New-Jersey, year or two
ago, by his trial and acquittal on the charge
of attempting TO poison his wife. Since that
trial ne has moved ~ Dakota, and has ap-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

thus promoting Mr.. Potter to tho Governorship.
Mr.. Potter is poor judge of tally # he docsn,t
recognize its true flavor in that sort Of talk.
Is the National Democratic party going TO FOLLOW
Ewings example and enter the campaign groanno
because the Republican party has secured Resnmp-
tion and return of prosperity That is the height
OF stupidity
Senator Kirkwood declares that the extra session
developments have aroused the Republicans of
Iowa that an old-fashioned majority will be rolled
up there this Fall. The Greenback organization
has ceased to be large enough TO be Of much ac.
count.
Ewing admitted in Columbus just before dis
charging his opening gun. that the fight, at present.
was pretty even thing, and that n blunder might
ruin either side. If he waits few DAYS TO hear tho
echo from that gun, he will be able to admit that he
has made the blunder which has ruined his side.
He has cut off all hope of sympathy aid from the
Eastern Democrats, and has whlned fOolishv
about Providence aiding Sherman and Resumption
as to sicken even his followers in Ohio.
Ex-senator Henry s. Lane. sometimes called the
father of the Republican party in Indiana, thinks
Sherman is now far ahead with the people as a Re-
publican Presidential candidate. and he is quite SAN
guine he will be the nominee. Sherman has taken
all the blame for the hard times which preceded Re-
SUMPTION and Mr.. Lane believes he ought now TO
have the credit and reward of the prosperity which
ioiOWeu H. III uOtS uOI yet the noun
natiOn, he thinks the chances favor Vice-Presdent
Wheeler, man who has no enemies and who is
known by many and by all favorably.
Senator Matt Carpenter who was said to have
independent procvlties when he reelected to
the Senate has developed into thorough stalwart.
He wrote to the Wisconsin Republican reunion that
sit was never more essential to the public welfare
than 1t is now that the Republican party should
maintain the ascendancy in the administration of the
Government II it was a duty to put down the
rebellion, il is equally duty to keep it down. IL
we were bound to preserve the Union at the risk OF
so many lives and so much treasure against armed
treason, equally bound to protect 10 from
insldious revolution in civil Administrations That
is the creed of the Republican party of to-day as 10
burns ia the hearts OF a Solid North.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

Publicity and perseverance have triumphed
again in resisting the encroachments of corpora
tons upon our principal streets. The scheme
TO confiscate Nassau-st. and lower Broadway
was defeated by the same steady protest IN
the newspapers that has now put an end to
the project to coniiscate FOurth-aye. The
matter is placed beyond the reach of any
doubt this time by a letter from the Rapid
Transit Commissioners. 1t was their persist
ence alone which gave the scheme any ap-
pearance of life, after the decisive vote In
the Board of Aldermen, and they now an
nOuce in a letter to the Mayor that they
consider the Fourth-ave. route as virtually
"abandonedn They base their action upon
the belief that "the only parties who can
"cOmply with the conditions prescribed for
" the grant of that franchise do not intend to
laval themselves of itn BY" these partes,D
as the Commissioners state, is meant the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
road. 1t is an open question, to be sure,
whether this letter has any official standing
after the vote in the Board OF Alder
men but whether official unofficial, it
means the downfall of the Fourth-ave.
proiect. One important street has been
rescued 1IOm dCJudl spOlldtiOH1 anu OhC
beautiful park from sad Disagreement. 1t is
now proposed 10y those who believe that the
present Commission has ceased, legally, to live,
that new Commission shall be appointed to
Law out the Westchester routes. Should this
plan be carried out, it may afford an Oppor-
tunity to do away with the road through
Fifty-ninth-st. proposed by the Stebbins
Commission. An elevated road running along
the lower boundary of Central Park, disturb
ing its quiet and marring the landscape,
would be even more Objectionable than a
road along Union Square. The Stebbins Com
mission was appointed to lay out routes in
the annexed districts let us hope that the
new Commission, if there is one, will do the
work it was asked to do, and no anore.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-An the great Powers to be rep
resented on the Egyptian Financial Commlssion'
- Several Paris streets have been renamed.
60 Mr.. Finigan, an extreme Home X has
been elected member of Parliament En-
mis-. Ireland - The Archbishop of Paris
has protested against the French Education bills.
- The Gar continues to consult Count Schou-
valof on important questions - The Daily
Ne,rs Q1ondonl announces the resignation of the
Hon. John Welsh, United States Minister to Eng
land on account of domestic bereavements
DOMESTIC There have been twenty-seven new
cases of yellow fever and thirteen deaths in two
days Secretary McCrary refuses TO send tents to ST.
Louis and Nashville; Mr.. Casey Young thinks the
epidemic is waning. - DR.. Cox, Secretary OF
the Commission to Melbourne, has started for Aus
tralia. go The balance of trade for tie
fiscal year ending June 80, 1879, was
S2G4, coo $50 in favor of the United States. 80
Secretary Sherman made speeches IN Waterville and
Bangor, Me-, on Saturday, and was entertained in
Bangor Yesterday. 80 There have been heavy
rains in Virginia and Pennsylvania. 60 Mr..
George b. Durfee. treasurer of mill at Fall River.
has lost $4,000 by speculations in cotton.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-A new trial has been or
dered for Mrs. Smith and Covert d. Bennett. -
Two men were run over and killed by train on the
Manhattan Beach Railway last evening. 60
Several drunken brawls on Saturday resulted seri-
ously if not fatally. - The Rapid Transit
Commissioners have abandoned the Fourth
ave. route. - Gold value of the legal-tender
dollar C4l2l2 grains) SOL cents. GO Stocks ac-
tive and higher for few dull and steady for the
remainder, closing irregular.
1HE Manufacturers local observations in
dicate clear and partly cloudy weather, with
slight chances Of light showers. Thermometer
yesterday; Highest 950; lowest. 700; average
500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
Jnoes 10 AopernsrmenIs.

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columns.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
4 BUSINESS REVIEW.

The returns of the foreign commerce of the
United States, for the full fiscal year ending
June 80 are teegraphed from Washington.
In spite of the large decrease in exports of
merchandise since January l, the total for the
year exceeds that of the previous fiscal year
by $17,625, 6S3. The largest aggregate Of
exports in any twelvemonth was in the calen-
dar year 1873, namely, 1928, 350,359, and
the aggregate for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1879, embracing but half
of that calendar year, is $69S, 334951-
about $25,OOO,OO0 smaller. There is also a
small decrease in the amount Of foreign ex-
ports, which is $12, 093, 792, against S14, 1885,
49S in the previous fiscal year. On the other
hand, the amount of imports increases $S,-
74O,609 in comparison with the previous
fiscal year, and $13,979,55S in comparison
with the calendar year 1873. The records of
merchandise movement for the three periods
of twelve months each, ending June 80, 1873,
December 81, 1873, and June 80, 1879, COM
pare thus:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

Just of the kind that were needed in the hot
beds of Greenbackism, and have undoubtedly
done good. The shortest way to the CONVEX
sion of honest Greenbackers is to show them
clearly the honest truths of finance, and this
is what the Secretary has done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

Among the curious incidents connected with
the murder of Bolender, the German candy
maker, is the statement of his employer
that priest refused 10 perform the burial
service without a handsome fee, because
Bolender, though a Catholic. was to be buried
in Protestant ground.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

The resignation of Minister Welsh, officially
reported from London, creates an important
vacancy in the diplomatic service. 1t
should be added also that it terminates a
diplomatic career which has been brief but
very creditable both to the country and to
Mr.. Welsh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
E,oess ekps s257 SD ga 500 27e 5Oos2el $50 COZ

The tendency during the last half year has
been strongly toward a decrease in value
of exports, mainly through fall in the prices
of important products, and toward an increase
in the quantities and values of imports. But
this change has not thus far been sufficient to
produce any unfavorable effects, for, during
the six months, the decrease in exports in COM
parson with the first half of 1873 has been
only 5000 1880, and the increase in inn
ports only $13,979. sos, so that the excess of
merchandise exports over imports for the six
months is $115,O11, 547, against 1885, 654,-
$50 for the first half of 1873. If no recov-
cry were to be expected, an excess of exports
amounting to $230,00O,000 in year would
be sufficient, but the recent change in prices
of leading products, and the condition of for
eign markets and crops, warrant the expecta-
ton that the domestic exports will greatly in
crease in quantity and value during the next
six months.
The specie movement during the fiscal year
has been insignificant; the excess of exports
over imports has been 81, 703. Gal, against
$3,91S,Sl1 during the previous fiscal year.
During the calendar year 1873 there was an ex-
cess of imports amounting to $4,000, 543.
In view OF the fact that the production
of American mines has been from, $780,
000, 600 to SOC, 100000 yearly in excess OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

Persons Tearing torn for the season, and Sam
mer travellers, can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
mailed to them, postpaid, for 81 per month, the
address icing changed as often as desired.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

A Washington dispatch conveys the news
that the grave of Brigham Young, who left
somewhere about seventeen widows, seems
utterly neglected. 1t is possible that the
privilege of being One-Seventeenth of a
widow is even less precious in the eyes of
the Mormon female than that of being one
seventeenth OF a wife.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28


The removal of Lieutenant Governor Letel-
lier. of Quebec, establishes an important pre-
cedent, which will affect materially the polit-
ical system of Canada The refusal of the
Home Government to interfere, and Its tacit
intimatiOn that the GOvernOr-General ought
to follow the advice of his Ministers, are
tantamount to declaring that England mas
ceased to NEEDLE with the governmental
affairs of Canada, and that appeals 10
the Crown in such matters VIII DC
treated with Indifference, If not with as
favor. As regards the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS po-
sition, the removal of Mr.. Leteller proclallnS
that Lord Lorne and his successors are TO oe
as submissive instruments to the Will OF far-
lament as a British sovereign. Henceforth
each Viceroy will be expected to do as MS
Ministers direct, and will be regarded as an
irresponsible agent in carrying out their
schemes. The Premier not the Governor
General. is now the actual ruler OF the DO
minion.
The decision of the New-Jersey Court OF
Errors and Appeals, granting by an over
whelming vote a new trial to Bennett ana
Mrs. Smith, is undoubtedly severe reflection
upon the Judge who presided over the trlai al
which they were convicted. The Court bases
the order for new trial upon single error
in the charge to the jury-an error, at the
same time, of great importance to defendants
on trial for their lives. In substance, the
error consisted In persistently ascribing to
Mrs. Smith "a story with reference to GER
tain circumstances considered in the evidence,
which she at no time asserted, and which
could only be drawn from her statements by
implication. The Court finds in this looseness
of speech, so rarely heard, fortunately, upon
the bench, and SO entirely foreign to all the
accepted notions of judicial exactness, an
error in law. With tins decision no one can
quarrel, as the interests of justice clearly de-
mauded a new trial. 1t may be that Bennett
and Mrs Smith are guilty of the crime of
which they have been convicted, but the exc
cution of their sentence would have been. I'M
der the circumstances, an unjust punishment;
and the law can better afford dozen failures
than one such success.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

MIR. Sankey's return from Europe on Satur-
Fday, and his reception i'll this city by his CO.
laborer, Mr.. Moody, gave an opportunity yes
terday for their public reappearance i'll the
work TO which both have devoted themselves.
Mr.. Moody's sermon was characteristirally
PLAIN and direct, and many availed themselves
of the chance to greet the two revlvalists.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

Secretary sherman's work in Maine ended
OH Saturday with speech at Bangor, In which
he covered substantially the same ground as
IN his notable speech at Portland, but laid
greater stress on some points indicated in tie
dispatches. Mr.. Sherman's speeches have been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

If it cannot be said that the later reports
from Memphis are encouraging, it is at least
true that they present no new element of dis
couIagement. There is no increase in the
daily average of cases, which is in the neigh
borhOod of ten or twelve. and it is even be-
lieved by some that the fever is waning. 1t
is too soon to count upon any such result, but
If it should prove to be the fact, how thank
full the South should be for having had so
thorough scare.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28

A staff correspondent who has been study
ing the opinions of Pennsylvania Republicans
upon the Presidential question reports that
the leaders have no candidate for compli-
mentary vote and no definite intentions re-
specting any candidates. 1t is just as well
that there should be lull in the Presidential
business, if possible. The campaign has been
going on pretty steadily now since June, 1876,
and this would seem TO be an appropriate
time to get little breath.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-15
YELLOW FEVER.

a Great Deal More Talk Than Fever.
MEMPHIS, July H. Noon.-No new cases are
reported. Mrs. Tobin died this morning and
was buried. This leaves but one in the city
sick with fever, Judge Rays son, and he is re-
ported dying. Local stations along the Mem
phis q Little Rock railroad have notified the
Memphis authorities that if no new cases are
developed by tomorrow the quarantine will be
raised between Memphis and Lonoke, Ark,
which is q miles this side of Little Rock.
The weather is very warm.
MEMPHIS July 14.-John b. Il. Spauldinc.
telegrapher, died this afternoon of sunstroke
Deceased came from Baltimore last summer
as volunteer during the epidemic. The fol-
lowing was telegraphed to-day to every station
along the lines of four railroads leading from
the city:
No new cases since morning of the 10th.
Fever confined to six sporadic cases. Peonle
returning. Persons from adjacent towns COM
ing in. Twice the usual number of passengers
by Brownsville accommodation train this
morning
(Signed) ID. III. COLLINS,