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The New York herald., 1879-08-04
The Mayor ana the Commissioner.

In the Mayors Office to-day there is likely
we hope not of the ridiculous scene, that
marked the opening proceedings in the
charges preferred against Police Commits
sioners Smith, Nichols and Erhardt some
months ago. From the foreshadowing
of Mr.. Wheeler's defence, published in
another column, it appears that the
Commissioners legal advisers are resolved
to test the question of the legality OF the
former refusal to allow the arraigned off,
GERS to appear by counsel should the Mayor
adhere to his past ruling on this point. In
that event an application will bemade to
the Supreme Court for a mandamus re-
straining the Mayor from taking any
further steps in the trial of the charges
until the rights of the accused officer have
been settled by a judicial decision.
1t is probable. that Mayor Cooper will
render these proposed legal proceedings
unnecessary by so far receding from his
former position as to admit Mr.. Wheeler's
right to be heard through counsel after he
has made "a formal reply as public officer
to the questions put to him by the Executive
touching his official conduct. The Mayor
will certainly avoid controversy on this
point if he is wise, and will at once proceed
with his case against the Commissioner,
allowing the latter all the legal rights he
can claim. 1t is evident that the sufficiency
of the charges, as form ulated by the Mayor,
must turn upon the questions first,
whether the funds collected from the men,
bers of the police force for cloth for their
uniforms can be considered in any manner
as public moneys which the Com
missioner receiving the same was bound
to pay over to the city treasury; and next,
whether the advanced price charged for the
cloth, under authority Of the Police Board,
was a fee or perquisite intended for Mr..
Wheeler's use and emolument in violation
of the charter. Unless one or other of
these propositions can be established
the charges as made by the Mayor
will stand chance Of failing. If
the Mayor had ken a plain, common
sense course and arraigned the entire
Police Board for conduct unbecoming pub
lie officers in compelling the members of
the force to purchase cloth from them at a
higher price than they could procure it Of
the merchant, the result might have been
less doubtful.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
An Italian Quarantine.

The announcement is made that the
Italian government has directed quaran-
tine against vessels from the United States
on account of the existence of yellow fever
in this country. Last year they did the
same; but upon representations made
through the diplomatic authorities the
action was modified. Apparently it only
needs to call the attention of Italian
officials to the fact that the presence of
yellow fever at Memphis has no more rela-
ton to the health of city situated as New
York is than the presence of the plague
on the African coast would have with
any Italian city. They seem not to
understand this, nor to care to inform them
selves in regard to it but they are capable
Of understanding it if it is pointed out,
and our representatives, diplomatic or
consular, in that country must be in some
respects delinquent unless action of this
sort is actually taken against their protest
Especially is this true in view OF the expe-
rience of last year There may be just now
some points in our commercial relations
with Italy ON account OF which that gov
ernment is not unwilling to seize upon any
prelext to stop the traffic in American
goods, rs the English government seized
upon the case of some diseased cattle to
stop a trade with this country which was
ruinous to British land owners. II there is
any point of that nature behind this
Italian quarantine we ought to know it.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
Well Paid Labor.

Mr. Stoughton will, perhaps, have to be
counted in the number of reformers who
have assisted little in proving that a
diplomatic system is not a necessary part
of the present relations of great govern
ments. He says that the actual intellectual
labors Of a Minister to Russia from this
country will mot occupy week in year.
For that weeks work, therefore, the govern
ment pays the sum of $17,5OO, which
is more than it is worth. But the
ex-Minister is Of opinion that the social
duties of Plenipotentiary are very impor-
tant, because it is through the performance
of these that he acquires the knowledge
which will enable him to easily settle diff
culties should difficulties arise This theory
of our diplomatic expenditure, therefore, is
that we are sending number Of men to
school ut the national expense-sending
them to school that they may learn an art
which it is very unlikely they will have any
occasion to practise. But when did an am
bassador ever prevent war?
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

will speak at Cherryfeid. Me-. Wednesday even-
ing.
The Duke of Beaufort and Mr.. e. A. sothern at
the Gramercy Park Hotel.
"AIrs. Bonaparte's Life aud Letters are published
in England by Sampson Low Co.
The Chicago Tribune knows that the Sherman
boom is very popular. In fact. children cry for it,
1t was Jerseyman who asked why Sankey was
always running for Vice President the Moody
ticket.
Among the ladies who Will ballot the school
question in Wyoming this year very few will cast
their maiden vote.
General Butler is a cruise on the yacht America
off the of Labrador. and will not return before
the LIST of September. fty fatffIs
Mr.. r. II. Stoddard. speaking of N. p Willis
Biblical poetry. says that 'he sauntered about the
sacred places in domino. which was mistaken for
the prophetic MANTLE"
Long Island boy told OF his companions
that his mother did not the slipper on him to
any great degree but that he was frequently beaten
when she played the rubber.
The tramp does not walk up to your barn aud say
"Could you give me an hours worky' He taps
lightly the parlor door and says. between his
lsps. "will breakfast be on the table in few min
utess and put four Jumps of sugar in my Coffee
Mr.. r. W. Loughery. editor of the Marshall (Texas)
Herald, writes letter to the Albany Times. saying
that many of the crimes committed in Texas
done by men who have lived very little while in
the State. and in fact cannot be said to belong to
Texas Currie he says. was armed because he was
special railway detective.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
Nihilisna on the Volga.

We print this morning an interesting
letter from Saratoy, on the Volga, the cap
ital of the province of that name. Our cor
respondent writes from the hotbed of
Nihilism in South Russia and gives us
some idea of the immense amount of
dissatisfaction that exists among the
peasant populations, among the so
called Dissenters, and especially among
Cossacks dwelling on the borders OF the
Volga. 1t will be remembered that in April
last large number of the Cossacks Of the
Don we're in open rebellion and inflicted
serious punishment on imperial troops sent
against them The Cossacks of the Volga
are apparently ready to emulate their
brothers of the Don whenever the
time shall have arrived. Nihilism is not
dead; in fact, 1t has hardly commenced to
live, and is gaining strength and conf
dence with every fresh act of persecution
on the part of the government At pres
ent, it is true, we see only the darker fea-
lures of Nihilism acts OF incendiarism,
murder and vengeance-but when the
character and high standing OF the men
and women who lead the movement are
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
The Naughty Khedive.

An interesting letter from our cores
pondent at Cairo gives us some racy gossip
about the dethroned Khedive. Ismail
Pacha was an extravagant old gentleman,
who, while worshipping European models,
had loving hankering for the forms
and traditions of the Orient He loved
to pose as the first European Egyp-
tian, but could not renounce the vani-
ties and pleasures of the Mohammedan
cultus. So much so that when he left
Cairo it took sixty viceregal carriages to
convey his wives, their female attendants
and slaves to the depot, ten men-of-wars
boats to embark the fair travellers at Alex
andria, and the baggage filled lighter OF
hundred and fifty tons burden. OF course
Ismail had to pay heavily for his house
hold joys, as the letter of our cor
respondent shows. Even the matter
of handkerchiefs alone must have
been an important one in the viceregal
petty cash expenses. The three princesses
enjoyed an income of half million of dol
lars yearly but, on the other hand, they had
gems and diamonds galore, SO many in fact
that the lord of the harem was at one time
cogitating during his financial troubles
about raising a paltry little five million
dollar loan on the jewelry of his wives
alone. 1t seems when we read the letter
about the extravagances of the modern
Pharaoh that Ismail must have had
some presentiment OF coming evil when
he married off the more ugly and unin-
teresting members of his harem during
the past winter. But it was, to say the
least, very hard on the lieutenant colonels
and majors and other higher officers who
had the wrinkled castaway beauties thrown
at them so unceremoniously. Doubtless
the ex-E Ehedive feels relieved now that he
has only his three princesses and forty
other ladies with him. In the bosom Of
this interesting collection Of wives and
odalisques Ismail Pacha intends to spend
his declining years at Rhodes.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
Journeying i'm Asia.

England is evidently becoming wiser in
the carrying out of her plans in Central
ASIA She is becoming Russianzed: She
is locking up the frontier of Afghanistan,
so that the willy Russian shall no more have
the opportunity OF whispering soft nothings
into Yakoob Khan's ears. Poor old Shcre
Ali was lost to England by not attending
to these very necessary precautions.
The only way for Russia to reach
Yakoob now, if she wants to, will
be to go around by way of the
passes, through which, doubtless, whole
company of emissaries could 90 unchal-
lenged. Even the pious pilgrims who go
annually to Mecca are prohibited this year
from crossing the land of the Afghans. The
special correspondent OF the HEn.LD suffers
with the Mohammedan pilgrims. But for
all this he sends us very interesting itine-
rary oil the journey from Mazar-i-Sheriff, at
which place he was the last European to
arrive, as far as Cabul, gathered from the
stories told by the members OF General Ros-
gonoffs mission. This record will be ap-
preciated by geographers at its true value.
He gives us very interesting descriptions of
curious scenes and remarkable PEOPLES. and.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
The Isolated City.

What is an epidemic? Health authori-
ties and official doctors at Memphis are
cudgelling their brains to satisfy them-
selves with definition of epidemic dis
ease under cover of which they may still
refrain from declaring the fever epidemic
in that city, as if their ridiculous declara-
tion would make things either better or
worse, or as if u declaration which plainly
ignores notorious facts possessed any scien-
tifc or other value They had determined
that ifthe deaths from fever for the week just
ended exceeded the deaths from all other
causes then they would declare the
fever epidemic; otherwise not. Deaths
from ali other causes together were in
excess of the deaths from lever; there
fore the disease was not declared
epidemic. 1t is evident that this makes the
existence of an epidemic disease dependent
upon the activity of other diseases. If
there happen to be one or two deaths less
from acute disease then there is an epi-
demic; if one or two more, then there is not
an epidemic. Thus u hundred persons
might die from fever in one week and there
be no epidemic. and ten deaths might con-
stitute an epidemic in another week if in
this other week only nine died from all
other causes together In point of fact the
yellow fever wGs practically declared cpl
demic in Memphis two weeks ago, as we
noted at the time. On June 10 the corporate
authorities officially recommended that all
persons should leave the place who could get
away, set ON foot measures to remove those
who had not the means to leave, and an
nounced the intention to depopulate the
place if possible. That was the loudest
conceivable declaration that the theory OF
sporadic" cases was no longer tenable, and
that the very air was fatal and now, after
fourteen days, the steps then taken toward
the end so announced have LETT in the place
only u sediment Of population Z; ali the
communications are cut; the city is iso-
lated from the world, save by the connection
of the telegraph, and the doctors are dis
cussing in what circumstances they shall,
can or may declare that the place is in
| tected with epidemic disease.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

THE WEATHER.-Thc meteorological condi-
tions have again become very unsettled west of
the Mississippi River. The rise that took place
in the barometer on Saturday throughout the
West and Northwest has been succeeded by "a
very rapid fall, and now the pressure is below
the mean except on the Western Gulf coast
The disturbance that was moving over the lower
lakes has reached the coast line and is now
passing into the Atlantic off Nova Scotia. The
pressure is highest over the South Atlantic
States. Rain has fallen in the Northwest, over
the lakes and in the South Atlantic and Gulf
States. Thunder showers were also expert
cnccd in many sections of the Middle At
lantic and New England States, but no damage
from them has yet been reported. The tempcra-
ture fell suddenly in the Northwest during Sat
urday night, but il recovered again somewhat
yesterday afternoon IL rose In all the other
sections of the country except over the northern
portion of the lakes, where 1t varied but little.
The winds have been fresh in the central Val
leys and over the lakes and light elsewhere. To
Judge from the present indications the depres-
sion in the West will develop energy as il moves
over the lake regions aud the precipitation will
be great Tornadocs and electrical disturb
anccs are likely to be developed in the
central valley districts and nortlwestward
to the Platte during the next few days.
The weather over the British Islands is sultry
and threatening The weather in New York
and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly
cloudy, possibly with rains and temporary fall
in teIuy crnture. To-Inorrow il will be warmer
,uid cloudy, with thunder showers.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

taken into consideration it must be ad-
mitted that the Russian government
has to deal not merely with visionaries or
dreamers, but with vast people who have
gradually become keenly alive to the fact
OF their degradation and oppression. IL Is
with no spiSit of hostility to Russia
that these impressions are recorded. The
NATIONS of Europe that have become great
have had to pass through their periods OF
purihcation and enlightenment. and Russia
is apparently about to pass through hers
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

THAT WE CAN SUCCESSFULLY compete with
John Bull on his own soil is shown by the fact
that preferred rates are given to American beef
and corn several of the English railways be-
cause the latter convey larger bulk than they
get from the English farmers. The subject has
been brought TO the attention of Parliament
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

The probabilities are that The aceothef ~ Nec
York and its ricinity today wW be rd'm and
partly cloudy possibly wiM rains and temporary
fall IN temperature Tomorrow IL wiH De raaner
and cloudy. scM Munder shorers.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

"BALD-nEADED TYRANTs" was the curious
text of n Williamsburg parson, but in his cata-
logue he wisely omitted to embrace the fair
sex. Perhaps it was owing to fear that he
might become prematurey bald himself.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

THE ITALIAN MURDERER mt last appears to
have accepted the situation. S>afwhile it is
gratifying to observe that "a number of charita-
bic persons are taking of his unfortunate
wife and child
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

WITH FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE
visiting Coney Island every week, what As to be
done with the garbage and waste material that
must necessarily accumulate : 1t is question
that concerns the health of the locality.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

THE DISCHARGE OF SAILORS who arrived ut
Wilmington, n C., from West Indian port.
infected with yellow fever. and allowing them
TO scatter through the country, an act that
deserves the severest condemnation. They
should have been quarantincd.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

THE Poor ATTENDANCE mt the churches
yesterday illustrated the saying that "God
made the country, but man made the town.
The camp meetings were thronged.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

ANOTHER CASHIER has been discovered to be
defaulter and allowed to ''resign" his position.
But will he be prosecuted Too much immu-
nifty from punishment has already been enjoyed
by this class of gentlemen.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
MUSICAL Delights AT SARATOGA.
icy TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. |

SARATOGA, N. ", August 3. 1879.
The Litta-L ,zzarini- q ottschalk Concert Company
gave concert in the Congress Hall concert
this evening. Mllc Litta rendered the "Polonaise."
from "AIignon." and Away Down ON tho Suwanoe
River to the delight Of fairly good audience. Mr..
Cottschaik sang f'La Rcmeaux,' aud In the duet
from "Martha" won, with Signor Lazzarini, we'll
anerited applause
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

No ONE KNOWS how to create and utilize n
sensation better than the eccentric Brooklyn
dominie-Talmage. His English tour promises
to be ripe in experience and sovereigns
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

SINCE THE DISASTER at Clayton general in
spection of the st. Lawrence steamers has been
ordered. As usual the stable door is locked
after the horse has been stolen.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

CERTAIN CONNECTICUT CLERGYMEN are en-
deayoring to prevent steamboats, from running
on Sunday. If they would apply some of these
blue laws to their congregations society would
be much more grateful
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

PATRoLLING THE RIVER FRONT with steam
launches furnished with powerful rejecting
lights is one of the excellent ideas suggested by
an old police official.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

THE POLICE DEPARTMENT requires overhaul
ing. 1t is full of barnacles and the sooner they
are removed the better.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

SECRETARY SHERMAN aired himself ut Coney
Island yesterday aud ventilated some of his
opinions. He believes the Presidential issue
will be the financial question
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

WHIsKEY yesterday again played its part in
couple of stabbing affrays that are likely to
prove fatal.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

The YAcHrsMEN of the Atlantic Club who
sailed westward on Saturday enjoyed the pleas
antest part Of their recent cruise.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

THE METHODS OF THE MORMONs in Georgia
do not furnish the slightest provocation for the
recent murder of an elder in that State.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04

permitting us to get glimpse at the palace
of Yakoob Khan glistening in the sun, closes
a very interesting letter.
The New York herald., 1879-08-04
w ITH SUPPLEM EN- T

NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 4. 1879.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-20

out" or words to that effect, John F. Coyle
was examined at length; he said he went to
Florida during the election of 1876 upon re-
quest made him by Colonel FELTON,; Edward
cipher key; was to send his dispatches to
Henry Hayemeyer; instructions were to
go to-, Florida and aid the Demo
cfsts there IN ceeatning An the sevi-
defray any expenses requisite for that pur-
pose, and to aid them IN any way he could /;
was authorized to employ money, limited
in amount by his own judgment and
discretion; expended and authorized ddn the
obtained through drafts on Cooper;
number % Of the cipher meant Edward Coop
er, vide dispatches, e" 1 have drawn on 90 for
so and -so;" had DESTROYED his key: the dis
Woollev and Coyle" was mistake. as he and
Woolley never had any transactions together
tt at required money. In reply to question
600 proposition made him, witness stated that
it was made to him by Alexander Thier, q
gentleman to whom Mr. Hewitt intro
duced witness before he left Washing
ton; Their said to him that the Return
ing Board could be bought for $2O0, 200,
but as he had received telegram from New
York cautioning him to have no communica-
tion with the gentleman to whomhe had been
introduced in the National Committee room,
so he paid no attention to him. Witness
stated that his knowledge of Governor Tilden
and of the affairs of the canvass would make
him positive that Governor Tilden did not
know anything of these dispatches. Woolley
once asked witness If he had authority to
draw any money, and being informed that he
had for all legitimate purposes, Woolley
then asked witness if he felt authorized to
draw considerable sum, think he mentioned
$50, 1000; informed Wooney that under some
circumstances might be authorized to draw SO
much. Thomas c. Dunn, now residing in
Boston, and in November, 1876, one of the
South Carolina Returning Board, testified that
the testimony of Smith NJ Weed before the
subcommittee in New York as being one of
the Board who made negotiations with Hardy
Solomon for the sale of the Board, as entirely
fslse as concerned himself. .~-.r5 81. ,,.t-
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A Remarkable Case of Fasting

ON the I'd day of January, 1879, Mr..
Cornelius H. Sebring, Newfeld's Com
missioner of Highways, missed from
his hog house six-months'-old shoat,
weighing about 100 pounds. The ami
NAL having access to q small yard out
side, he (Mr. SebriHg) had no doubt
that the shoat had found means of
escape and had wandered off. He ac-
cordingly made inquiries among the
neighbors for his lost pig, but no trace
Of the porker could be found. He gave
up the hunt and made calculations that
he was out IS one pig" Thus the mat
ter ended, and nobody was aware of the
whereabouts of Mr.. Pig until twenty
six days after its disappearance (the
28th of january. On that day Corne-
lius and his brother happened in the
pen, and hearing strange noise COM
ing up from under the floor out of Gu
riosity they instituted a search to learn
from whence it came, and to the sur
prise of the two brothers the lost pig
was there found hidden away under the
pen, where it had remained since its
disappearance, twenty-six days before.
Upon investigating how the pig had be-
come imprisoned they found it had
squeezed through under the sill of the
pen and there had remained, without
food or drink until its discovery by its
owner.-Ithaca IN. r. Journal.
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Another FOOlhardy Fellow.

LEWIS G. GOLDSMITH, a Danish sail
or, about forty years of age, who served
in the Union army and navy in the re-
bellion, proposes to sail across the At
lantic from Boston next summer, ac-
companied by his wife, in boat eight
cen and one-half feet long, on trip
around the world. He will go to Co
penhagen, Norway, Sweden, by the
North Sea to Scotland, by the Mediter-
ranean to Alexandria, through the
Suez Canal to Alden. across the Indian
Ocean to India, through the Straits of
Malacca, thence northward to Singa-
pore, Hong Kong and Yeddo, and final
~ across the Pacific to San francisco,
which he expects to make in the fall of
1881. From the Golden Gate he will
come East to Boston by rail. The boat
is now being built by w. B. Smith at
City Point. 1t is eighteen and one-haf
feet long, six feet beam, with three feet
depth Of hold, built of oak and hard
pine planking. 1t is SO constructed as
to be boat within q boat, having nine
air-tight compartments or chambers on
each side, and will float the craft even
if the boat ships a sea and is filed with
water. It is sharp at both ends, has a
shifting bow-sprit, and by unique ar
rangement is so constructed as to
"bail" itsef.-Bostoa Transcript.