New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-30
blest man among us may reach the highest
places, by honesty and hard work.

places, by honesty ana nara WORK.
Our correspondents letter from the
mining regions, which will be found
on another page, dates from SILVER
Cliff. one of the mining camps that
seem TO grow up in night Silver GIN less
than two years ago contained one
house, now 1t has 5000 inhabitants, ana
this is not by the claims OF the nhapi-
tants, but according to the census returns.
Our correspondents pleasant account OF the
stage-drivers describes class which the To-
comotive will one day extingush, along with
the buffalo and the Indian.
Even our Puritan ancestors could hardly
have found fault with the sport of the bull
fighting as il is to be inaugurated IN tins
city tomorrow afternoon. The bulls nave
been carefully selected for Their moral quail
ties. They are only feTOcious enough to be
amusing, and they are amiable and we'll
bred enough always to pause this side of
bodily injury to their opponents in the arena.
They are believed to be dignifed but
sprightly, and to combine with the strict rec
tiude of the bovine family the humorous
characteristics of Artemus Wards kangaroo.
The bull-fghters are not to hurt them nor
to oe hurt by them. At least this is under
stood to be part Of the compact with the
public. And to enforce it Mr. Bergh VIII
be present with n large stall of policemen,
ready to swOop down into the arena IL the
feelings of any bull are wantonly injured.
Could there be higher tribute to our clvlll-
cation than this touching reformation, in def
erence to American prejudlces, of the sport OF
bull-fighting And if any scofier doubts
whether bull-fght which is as highly moral
as one of Mr. Barnum's two-headed babies OF
infant elephants will be found intensely
exciting, let him be asked whether one OF
Mr.. Barnums moral shows ever failed to draw.
While the testimony taken in the two in
vestigations of the Seawanhaka disaster,
which are proceeding simultaneously, has not
so far, produced any new explanation OF the
disaster, it has revealed nothing which tends
to throw discredit on the employees or the
owners OF the boats, with perhaps one
exception. The evidence seemed to show
cOncluSively that there was no explosion or
the boil, rs. All agreed that no escape of steam
or water was seen, and that the engines con-
tinued 70 work until after the boat was
beached Captain Smith has no theory OF the
origin Of the fire, but the engineer VINO
prOnounces it an unavoidable accl-
"dent," only the second instance Of the
kind in all his experience of thirty
four years, believes it was caused by flames
bursting out of the furnace door, which were
hot enough to ignite the woodwork twelve
feet away. The sole cause for censure which
the evidence thus far diSclOses is found in
the statement of one of the deckhands that
the crew were never drilled in working the
hose, were never instructed what to do IL
case OF fire. and never were told that hle-pre-
servers must be distributed IN case Of accl-
dent; also that there were no lfe-preseTvers
on the lower deck, which made much trouble
None of these things should have been
true. Perhaps this Is as good a time as any
to ask how many ste ,mbOat crews have been
subjected, since the Management and Sea-
wanhaka disasters, to drill in the handling oil
life-boats and RATS, and Of file-apparatus
and generally in the duties to be performed
in case of accident. The Captains are re-
specially requested not TO speak all at once.