Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-14

make reply in the coming issue of the Ned ScdE Record Dr. Bliss has also written non- professional story of the last days of Presi- dent Garfield, which will appear in the De cember number of the Century. This treats the subject without discussion and introduces several heretofore unknown incidents.
 The Department of State has received an instructive statement from Consul Heap at Constantinople in reference to cholera and the sanitary measures proposed to counteract it. He says the Sultan called the Council of Health together and decreed that all vessels from Alden with passengers or freight from Mecca and other infected places be subjected to long quarantine outside the Dardanel1es at point to be designated by the council. Constantinople, says MT. Heap, is in 8 bad sanitary condition. Filth in vast, sickening quantities, the accumulation. of years, lies rotting beneath the rays of the sun in the heart of the most densely populated districts. From its favored position, it's immense water frontage and the rapid current of the Bos- phorus, it ought to be one of the best drained cities in the world. On the contrary 1t is the worst, and it is doubtful whether the author ities will be able to place the city in such condition as will prevent an epidemic of cholera in case the disease makes its appear ance What has been said of the condition of Constantinople is true of all the cities and towns of Turkey. Many of them, indeed, are in even worse condition, and when the PeSt1leuco sGdFIS on US m8rcn uOrGQWarQ there will be no lack of food upon which it can feed and grow.
 Reports to the contrary notwithstanding, one of the Presidents most intimate friends states to-day there will positively be no changes in the Cabinet before December, unless, indeed, in the case of the Attorney Generalship Mir MacVeagh came on from New York to participate in the Star route conference to be held probably to morrow. and he will no doubt bring the matter to the attention of the Cabinet at Tuesdays meet ing The form of indictment is expected to be agreed on soon, and as the matter will probably rest until the Guiteau case is well under way, Mir. MacVeagh, it is under stood, thinks he can as well be spared now as at any time. Ex-Senator Howe is not as strongly talked of for the place now as for merly, but Hon. Emery Storrs, of Chica go, 1t IS said, will soon appear where MaeVeaghs name now stands Secretary Blaine will stay as long as wanted and some of his friends say that Frelinghuysen asks to be ex cused, and that certain influences may yet induce the President to keep Blaine at least little while longer than at first intended. In the line of appointments the report circulated yesterday that Elihu Root. of Chicago, was to succeed Colonel Corkhill as United States attorney for the District of Columbia is to day given as fact, and no one can be found who IS willing to contradict it. Colonel Corkhill says if it is so he does not know it. The fact that Root was in consultation with Judge Porter to day adds weight to the announce ment as the President is known to have said that he desired Judge Porter to have more capable assistance in the Guiteau case.
 Health Officer Townsend, of the District of Columbia, in his annual report for the past year endeavors to counteract the exag gerated reports concerning the unhealthy climate of Washington. He maintains that New York, Brooklyn, Baltimore and Pitts- burg show an increased death rate, while Washington's rate has decreased. He calls malaria a. ''fashionablen disease, which exists very often only in imapination