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Year: 1878

The article upon gangs, in another
column, contains much curious informa-
tion for the police officials who assured the
HERALD reporter that New York was entirely
destitute of such associations. Our repre-
sentative did not see the gang rob, outrage
or murder any one, for his visit was made
by daylight, but there will be considerable
unanimity among readers as to what is to
be expected from crowd such AS this one
is described to be. Even their wonderful
song is so full Of suggestions that many
reader may unconsciously find himself
giving more attention to its moral indica-
tions than to it's art. noted English
critic has lately said that morality is the
bane of American poetry. We hope that
when consulting files of the HERALD he may
fall upon this fragment and discover how
terribly he has wronged US. This is not
the only gang OF which the HRRALD's
readers have heard of late, and it is
astonishing that the police officers con-
suited can have been so forgetful.


1t is an almost everyday occurrence to
hear of robberies and assaults by these





city promise to become moro perilous than
the Western Plains when the Indians are
on the warpath. When any of the leading
ruffians are captured we are sure to learn
from the watchful officers that they are well
known characters. Yet their arrest before
their unfortunate victims ara robbed, out
ragged, beaten or probably murdered seems
to be a piece of police strategy never
dreamed of. 1t is all nonsense to pretend
that the police have no power to break up
these gangs and to arrest their felon lead
ers. 1t is their duty to protect life and
property, to prevent suspicious persons
from lettering on the streets, and, under
the Habitual Criminals act, to put known
and once convicted criminals in jail.
Every outrage and crime that is committed
by these gangs" every insult offered by
them to citizens on the public streets, is an
evidence, not of the insuficiency of the
law but of the incapacity of the police
What is needed in New York is not captures
after crime has been committed, but arrests
that will prevent the commission OF crime
The notorious thieves and rowdies who are
suffered to infest the streets night after
night in ''gangs" ought every one to be
locked up in Jail as suspicious char
acters. Until this is done no citizen
will be able to walk the streets in entire
safety either by day or night. For months
the HERALp's Complaint Book" has drawn
attention to the doings of these ''gangs" in
different localities, but the police seem to
pay no heed to the information to be gath
cred from these communications. 1t is pos
sible that their inactivity may be attributa-
BILE to something worse than carelessness
At all events it is certain that the force is
rapidly becoming worthless, at least as in
struments for the prevention Of crime.
Year: 1878

The summer is now nearly over, and,
thanks TO the natural advantages of the
city, to the pure air that comes to us over
the bay and to the surrounding resorts by
seashore and river, New York has enjoyed
healthful season, Notwithstanding the
trying weather. We may the better learn
to appreciate and be grateful for these
blessings when we hear the terrible cry
that comes to us from suffering cities like
Grenada, Miss, where, we are told, s'the
town is O graveyard" and the living are not
sufficient for the task Of nursing the sick and
burying the dead. Such Affections are hap
PLY unknown in New York. They have been
sometimes invited by uncleanliness and
neglect of sanitary regulations, but our nat
ural advantages seem to be sufficient to defy
these dangerous allies of pestilence and to
keep the city tolerably healthful even in on
exceptionally hazardous season. few
weeks continuance of prudence in living
among all classes and of the aid which has
been generously extended to charitable ex-
cursions and country homes for the desti-
tute, will leave us with fair record for
year which threatened to yield good har-
vest for death and which has, in some lo-
calities, been marked by unusually severe
epidemics. ~


There is plenty of room for sanitary i'm
provcment in New York. The neglect of
street cleaning in the poorer districts of the
city, where cleanliness is the most needed,
has added largely to our summer bills of
mortality. Crowded, badly ventilated ten
ement houses have done their fatal work
among the poorer classes. Insufficient
drainage and rotting garbage have brought
up our death rate above that of less favored
cities. Ii these evils could be removed and
we could introduce intelligence and effi-
cheney into the public health department
we might have the healthiest city in
the world Even as it is, as we have
said, we have cause for deep gratitude for
the blessings we do enjoy, and the feeling
cannot display itself more appropriately
than in a generous extension of relief on
the part of those who can afford to be
charitable without noglecting the golden
adage toward the afflicted cities whose
homes are now desolated by pestilence and
whose "towns are oraveyards."
Year: 1878

American exhibitors at Paris seem likely
to make up an extremely handsome list of
prizes awarded in severe and just compe-
tition to the skill, dexterity and genius
shown in the products Of this country at
the worlds fair. Our agricultural imple-
ments, our rifles, our steam driven ma
chinery, our tools, our sewing machines,
our watches, our canned fruits and meats,
and that latest Of American discoveries, the
telephone, are to be especially honored in
judgments that have been framed after the
examination of all that has been done in the
same way in all other nations. It does not
surprise us to find our countrymen thus
successful equally as inventors and me-
chanics, for we. knew before their
real pre-eminence in ingenuity and skill;
but it is pleasant to find that these are
recognized and rated at their just value in
foreign lands upon q comparison with oil
that the world can display to dispute with
them the palm of victory. No country in
the world is so fertile as ours either in far
reaching inventions or in the contrivance
and construction of machinery by which
great inventions can be made available for
tho use and profit of humanity. Labor
saving machines are q direct psoduct of
genius applied to conditions found espe-
cially in America, where, despite all that
is said about overproduction, there is
population rather larger than that
of. France, distributed in country
with ten times the area of France.
Our reapers and mowers are the result of
scarcity of labor. They enable one man to
harvest what twenty could have harvested
before and even with this economy in
labor labor is scarce In this country this
very year. With hundreds Of idiots howl
ing in every city about hardship and want
there is labor for oil not too lazy to take
hold Of it Our sewing machines are an
other response to similar demand. 1t is, in
fact, q general character of wide range OF
American inventions that they tend directly
to make man or woman in great degree
independent of outside help. Our canned
meats make country people independent OF
market, and our canned fruits and vege-
tables make everybody even Independent of
summer. 1t is the large range OF their
Year: 1878

Our letter from Helena printed to-day
gives an interesting resume of news from
that point touching the acts and apparent
intentions of some of the savages in whom
the interest of the public is deepest. Every
body, we are sure, will be delighted to hear
how happy the Indians are in Canada; how
passionately fond they are of their White
Mother, and with what touching demon
strations they rejoice in the presence OF the
gentleman who commands her forces near
them. Indeed, the story told in our letter
of the welcome of the chief Long Dog to
Major Walsh gives q fine and telling glimpse
OF the aboriginal style in manners, and
excites our admiration of its pictur-
esque style even when it does not
lead us to forget the less agreeable relations
that may exist between the same parties one
of these days when Long Dog gets uneasy
and wants to vary the monotony of his
friendship by little fun on the warpath.
It will be seen that there are indications in
the letter that Red Clouds choice Of the
reservation for the settlement of his people
on the Upper Missouri was made with a
view to the concentration of the various
fragments Of this warlike tribe in the neigh.
borhood of the present resting place of Sit
ting Bull. By this arrangement the tribe
will conveniently straddle the frontier. and
add new complication to the already great
difficulties of dealing with them when for
some reason or another they shall again get
in warlike mood.
Year: 1878

TnE WEATuER.-The area Of low pressure
that on Wednesday lay over the northern lake
region has made very little progress toward the
ST. Lawrence Valley There has been general
rise in pressure throughout tho whole depression.
The area of high barometer, which extended along
the Atlantic coast, has moved toward the West
and retards the rapid movement of the advancing
depression. Rain has fallen in all the districts
except the Southwest. The winds have been
from light TO fresh in the lake regions and the
Northwest; elsewhere they have been light.
general fall in temperature has taken place
throughout all the sections, except in the Middle
Atlantic and New England States, the Gulf dis
tricts and the Northwest. where the rise has
been very slight. Indications still point to the de-
vclopment of high winds on the Middle Atlantic
aud New England coasts. The weather in New
York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and
partly cloudy or fair, possibly with occasional
rains. Tomorrow it promises to be cooler and
fair
Year: 1878

The passage of number of excursion
trains over the New York Elevated Railroad
from Hanover square to Forty-second street,
yesterday afternoon, gave the residents
along the Bowery and Third avenue and the
public generally practical evidence that
rapid transit on the east side of the city is
in part an accomplished fact, and that within
the next two or three weeks they may ex-
pect to see the cars running regularly, at
least as far as the Grand Central Depot.
This is an agreeable outlook, as far as
it goes; but it is to be hoped that
on the east side,~ as on the west,
there will be no cessation of activity and
energy until rapid transit as the people un-
derstand it, as the interests of the city de-
mand it and as the corporations enjoying
the franchises are bound to supply it
rapid transit from the Battery to the West
chester border-has been secured.


The passage of the trains over the Bowery
and Third avenue yesterday excited as
much notice from the street car and
other horses as from the people along the
route It seemed as if the startled
animals of the Third avenue line were as
much averse to rapid transit as the directors
of the company in whose service they earn
their oats, judging from the startled looks
they gave the passing trains and the restive-
ness they exhibited under the putting noise.
1t was easy to see that they had not been
used to the Sixth avenue road where their
associates have learned to jog steadily along
and to pay no more attention to the noisy
rushing masses above their heads than to
the flies that buzz in their ears. The Third
avenue animals will, no doubt, soon get
into the same placid condition, just as their
directors have become mildly reconciled to
the progress of the age. There is differ.
ence Of opinion among those who Witnessed
the trial trips as to the comparative noise
on the Third and Sixth avenue roads The
general judgment is that the Third avenue
line is by no means SO noisy as the Metro
politan road, and yet that it makes far more
din than is necessary and will need i'm
provement in that direction.
Year: 1878

By the law which the German government
will request the new parliament to enact it
will be made a crime to endeavor to change
the present organization and system of
society in the sense advocated by the
Communistic and socialistic theorists of the
day. Associations for the furtherancc of the
plans of such theorists will be declared
illegal and may be dissolved by authority,
and printers, booksellers and innkeepers
prevented from pursuing their vocations
and be expelled from the towns in which
are their homes. Appeal from the courts
in these cases can only be made to tri-
bunal created by imperial authority in
accordance with this law and therefore
presumably organized to condemn. People
are apparently not forbidden by the law to
dream on the destinies of man or theorize
on his relations to matter or to the infinite.
Perhaps 10 forbid Germany to theorize and
dream would be to touch o point beyond
the limit of its amazing patience. But any
step that tends to give reality to the dream
OF the philosopher, or of the beery spouter
who fancies he is philosopher, any COM
munication of the theory that makes others
participators in it, will subject the dreamer
to the rigors of the statute. No doubt that
in the Reichstag, as newly constituted and
supported by the ultramontane vote. the
government will be able to get this bill
through, and then in one great country au-
thority, with enormous force at its dis
posal, will be face to face with quasi
revolution based on the discontents and
real miseries Of the people. One result of
the attitude thus taken by the government
will be to convince the people that socialism
thus resolutely kept down would if not
kept down prove real benefit and remedy
for all the ills and evils Of life. It will,
therefore, deepen, very likely, the aspira-
ton for profound notifications in the rela-
tions Of the people to the government and
to one another, and, as the government
cannot always continue the combination
that now gives itpower, it seems to be using
its present opportunity principally to make
the trouble more difficult to deal with when
the ultimate day of reckoning comes.
Year: 1878

As the seasons are this year exceptional
in SO many other points it was to be pre-
sumed that they would prove exceptional
in the dissemination and severity both Of
epidemic Qnd endemic diseases in all cases
in which these are in any degree dependent
upon temperature or other meteorological
as we'll as theological conditions. Even
the strictly malarious maladies, as expe-
rienced in the Northern States, have, under
the influence of the deranged seasons of the
past few years, been unusually widespread
and tenacious, so that our physicians
are commonly forced to conviction,
long since accepted in Italy. that the
relation Of these disorders to marshy
districts is only accidental. In the
spread of the yellow fever to points on the
Mississippi which it has not reached before
in many years, md in the appearance that
it is already epidemic there, we see one more
result of the disturbed relations Of heat and
moisture which have made 80 many other
troubles; but there are other facts that are
also of importance in this visitation. What
ever be the subtle poison upon the presence
of which the fever depends it needs cer-
tain degree of heat to give it activity, which
it finds in Mississippi and Tennessee; but
it also needs germ of the poison to initiate
its development. With these supplied
the fever will prove oil the more
virulent at any given point where it may
rage on account of its not having ragged
there for some years previously. 1t is one
of the diseases which people commonly do
not have q second time--that is, by having
had the fever person is protected from it
generally, though not absolutely, for the
future. But, unlike other diseases
that have this popularity as to per-
sons, yellow fever acts the same way
within certain limits as to places. Its
occurrence seems TO exhaust that on which
it feeds, and accumulation Of this material
gives il new vigor in another year. The
Mississippi towns have had their respite,
and we fear, must pay for it tliis summer.
Yellow lever is not certainly without some
malarious elements in its history, but there
are striking differences between it and that
class of fcvers, Of which immunity to the
person is one; and as it is thus related to
the class OF diseases that are consequences
of poisons bred from animal emanations IL is
more than likely that the way in which the
negroes have lived in the Southern towns
since they were freed will prove of some
account in consideration of the causes Of
this visitation.
Year: 1878

within our limits. An irredeemable and
inflated paper currency forces New York to
remain merely the commercial metropolis
OF the United States and to strive in
losing fight with number of rival cities in
the interior. 1t cripples the city and pre-
vents it from taking the next and i'm
mediately necessary step in advance.
While we tolerate an irredeemable
paper currency New York must remain only
one Of several commercial centres of the
United States. Only when we attain once
more currency recognized by the whole
world can We make New York what it must
be or decay-the commercial centre OF
large part of the globe. Then only can we
hope to see our warehouses once
more filled with the worlds products,
our wharves crowded with ships drawn
hither because here they can get car
goes for any port that demands
them our merchants and bankers manag-
ing and controlling the transactions of half
the world and reaching out for their share
OF the other half; our skilled artisans
and industrious laborers busily employed
in handling goods, building repairing and
loading ships; and our hotels and seaside
resorts crowded with the business and pleas
ure seekers, not of our own little popula-
ton of forty-eight millions, but of all the
countries on the earth.


New York cannot stand still. It cannot
afford to be commercial Little Peddling-
ton. It must prepare to take the next
step-to seize large share. its proper share,
of the worlds business. To condemn it to
on irredeemablep currency is to prevent
this and strike fatal blow at its prosperity.
Year: 1878

adaptability to human wants that gives our
inventions success abroad and let it not
be forgotten by those who want to organize
society into sort of gigantic State prison
that all this is the result of free labor and
competition that gives the amplest play to
talent and skill
Year: 1878

ACCORDING TO THE REpoRTs of the Agricul-
tural Department the extreme heat Of July in.
jurcd to some extent the spring wheat of tho
Northwest. In the East the condition Of the
crop is far better. In the Province Of Ontario
the crop this year is the largest ever thrcshed
there
Year: 1878

THE LOG OF THE NAUTILUS, the little ship
that has recently succeeded in crossing the At
lantic, will serve to give an idea Of the perls
of the voyage and Of the sutferings of the hardy
brothers who manned the frail craft. 1t is
else where printed.
Year: 1878

Ii THE COMMITTEE appeintcd by the Syracuse
Greenback Convention to reconcile the rival
factions in this city will try the harmonizing in
auence of their favorite paper there can be no
doubt of their success. There is an immense
amount of harmony in a thousand-dollar bill.
Year: 1878

Representative Schleicher, of Texas, has received from a responsible citizen of Corpus Christi letter in relation to the recent outrages by Mexicans in that State, of which the following is an ex- trnct Ere this you have heard of the terrible outrages and murders com mitted by Mexicans in Indian garb in Webb, Duvall and surrounding counties. Now as you know me to be just to all, and that 1 have lived in the counties of San Patricio, Live Oak and Neuces for thirty years, and have been through all the troubles of the frontier, you know that I will say what Is true. To com mence have never seen suca whole sale slaughter. They took little boys from seven to twelve years old, and two men on horseback would hold them up by their hanGs, while third would take out their entrails. The men they would shoot aud then take out their entrails. This was seen by women and men who were hidden in the bush, and we found their bodies. The killed amounted to about seventy five men and fifteen chil- dren from seven to fourteen years of age. This raid was made to secure horses for the Mexican Army, and am told by good authority that all the raiders re- ceive is the money they can get with other valuables, and $1 head for all the horses they can take safely over the Rio Grande. think they must have crossed over the river with about 500 or 600 head of saddle-horses. There were about forty-fve raiders-about tweHty-six in the party that did the most of the killing, about ten in the one that was below San Diego, and eight or ten in the one that crossed about Eagle Pass. When I say 500 or 600 hundred head of horses, mean the number that was taken by the party that did the most of the killing. The party that crossed the Rio Grande below Rio Grande City had about 15C head of horses. I do not know how many horses they crossed about Eagle Pass"
Year: 1878

English table cutlery is virtually driven out of the American market, our own manufactures being fully able to compete with foreign goods ill this class both in quality and price. It is only a few years since table cutlery was not thought good unless it bore the English manufacturers trade make. A core spondent asked a manufacturer why it was that while we excelled England in cuttlery, we could not in razors. The reply was: "Now there is chance for somebody to sit down and invent some machinery to enable us to overcome the hand-grinding of England. There is no machinery with winch razor can be

 ground'fne enough, and England'sc cap labor enables her to waste great deal of time and labor upon razors. Should we go to work and do as she does-we understand how to make razor just as we'll as England-we would have to pay a great deal for the manual labor that must be bestowed upon 1t. She gets that labor cheap, while we must pay high for 1t, and so we can not compete with her in razors. Wherever in our line the question of machinery comes in we beat her when we come back to manual labor the high prices we pay our people at once discouraged us. l tell you, sir, this question of labor must be settled if the industries of the coun. try are at all to have fair show in the markets of the world. But, then, as ] said before, some one will soon invent 6 labor-saving machine for this grinding of razers, and then Sheffield will get an. other blow" s-t...... f.. .-,... ... ..v.,,.rI.
Year: 1878

Alderney COW, or the grade with as much of this blood as may be.

 Now as to the value of superb arti

 ole of butter, that aae aalus ultra of the churn, it is always worth all that the market will command. It can scarcely be estimated at its real value in dollars and cents l.; it is the product of the high est agricultural art; it is the perfection and sum total of all excellence. This result can only be reached by the seleo- tion of the finest and fittest breed of COW, by kind care, generous and judi cious feeding, perfect manipulation of the milk, the cream and the butter, by positive cleanliness and by proper mar

 ketlng. Perfect butter comes only from perfect management. I shall be most happy to contribute something towards a consummation so desirable, and know of no way better than that of association on similar plan of cheese factories by which skilled experts can bring perfec- tion of management with all the details essential to the production of a perfect article of butter. On this plan alone can 1000, 100000 pounds of the best butter be made, adding to the wealth of the country $2OO, 100000 annually. l am not too sanguine {! s..G... s ."
Year: 1878

President Heath read paper before the American Farmers Club, entitled q Butter: What it is, How to Make it and What it is Worth," which elicited some commendation and discussions. The following is tNe substance of the essay:

 The dulcet cream in churns revolving rolled Till firm the fluid fixed and took the tinge of gold;

 If good the butter, gold will line the purse, If bad or bitter, no profit, but curse.

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