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[[double line]] St [[double line]] [[line]] The Steamer Bulletin [[double line]] FOR THE STEAMER OF OCTOBER 19. [[double line]] Copies of the STEAMER BULLETIN can be obtained of the California and Pacific News Company, 81 Nassau street, New York; and of August Brentano, 708 Broadway, New York. Also at W.L. Jackson's News Depot, Howard Hotel Building, Aspinwall, N.G [[double line]] To our Readers. Owing to unavoidable circumstances we are compelled to issue this number of the [[italics]] Steamer Bulletin [[/italics]] on a smaller sheet than usual. [[double line]] Progress o the Russian-American Telegraph. [[Oct. 1 [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] We are possession of very gratifying news concerning the favorable progress of the Russian-American Telegraph enterprize. The Western Union Telegraphic Company's bark [[italics]] Clara Bell [[/italics]] has arrived from Glujiga Bay, at the head of the Okhotsk Sea. Her outward voyage was performed by way of Petropolovski, where she found orders to proceed to Glujiga, which had been selected as the base of operations on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea. The company's steamer [[italics]] George S. Wright, [[/italics]] carrying Col. Bulkley, the Engineer-in-chief, arrived at Petropolovski on the 24th of July, and sailed on the 6th of August for Anadyr Bay and Norton Sound. The Russian corvette [[italics]] Variag, [[/italics]] 17 guns, which had been assigned to the service of the telegraph company, was at Petropolovski on the arrival of the [[italics]] Wright [[/italics]], and her captain reported at once to Col. Bulkley for orders. The [[italics]] Variag [[/italics]] sailed on the 7th of August for the mouth of the Amoor by way of Ghijiga and Ochotsk, having on board Count P. Anossoff, Russian Commissioner to the Telegraph Company, and Thos. W. Knox, American journalist with the expedition, who proceeds overland from Nikolaeffsk to St. Petersburg. The [[italics]] Variag [[/italics]] reached Ghijiga on the 15th of August, and sailed four days later for Ochotsk. Maj. S. Abasa, Chief of the Asiatic Division of the Russo-American Telegraph, has established his headquarters at Ghijiga. During the past winter he explored in person the route between Ghijiga and Ochotsk and determined the position of the lines for that distance. Capt. Mahood explored the route from the mouth of the Amoor to Okhotsk, and joined Maj. Abasa at the latter point. At the same time Capt. Kennon made a survey from Ghijiga to the shores of Anadyr Bay, and located the route of the telegraph. Thus the whole distance from Behring Sea to the terminus of the line at the mouth of the Amoor has been explored and the route selected. In the region around Ghijiga working parties are busy in the preliminary work, and will have a considerable quantity of poles ready by the end of summer. From Ghijiga to Okhotsk and the mouth of the Amoor the line mostly follows the valleys behind the coast range of mountains, but in some places follows the shores of the Okhotsk Sea. Timber is abundant on the most of the route, except in some places where mountain ranges are crossed and in the region immediately around Ghijiga, where polls must be cut on the Ghijiga river and rafted as near as possible to the places where they will be used. Along the whole route, wherever laborers could be procured, they have been engaged in the work begun. The natives throughout the whole region have shown themselves entirely friendly. Capt. Macrae and St. Arnold traveled two months among the Tehuenties, and were kindly treated during the whole time. Maj. Abasa and Capt. Kennon traveled among the Koraks on their route from Petropolovski to Ghijiga, and found them well disposed. The Koraks have offered to be ready with their dog teams, to assist in transporting material whenever desired, and have contracted to supply any amount of reindeer meat for provisions. Maj. Abasa has purchased dog teams in Kamschatka and among the Koraks, and established fisheries for the preparation of a large supply of dog food. The Government officials have been prompt in affording every assistance to Major Abasa and his subordinates without waiting directions from St. Petersburg. Count Anossoff has issued orders to all the officials to render any desired service that may assist the completion of the line. As soon as the necessary material is received and distributed, the work will be pushed with great rapidity. [[line]] The Death-rate of Children Reduced One-half. [[line]] Od the 23d of August, the [[italics]] Bulletin [[/italics]] first called public attention to the fact that still-slops or swill was being extensively used in this city in feeding milch cows. On the 18th of September the order prohibiting the practice finally passed the Board of Supervisors, and a day or two afterwards received the signature of the Mayor and became a law. The number of deaths in the previous week, of children under five years of age, was 25. In the following week, when families were avoiding milk and many milkmen had discontinued the dangerous custom, the deaths declined to 17. In the week ending September 29, the caution of the public and the comparatively few instances of the use of swill being persisted in, reduced the deaths of children to 15. A week later the vigilance of the police and the first arrests had shown even some of the most obstinate ranchmen that the Order would not be allowed to become a dead letter, and the death of young children declined still further and numbered only 13. This day the Health officer reports the same low number for the week ending October 13. The discussion of this subject, therefore, appears to have contributed to saving the lives for 42 children already, and the last two weeks the saving has been at the rate of 12 a week. That this change is not owing to any great alteration in the general health of the city may be gathered from the fact that the deaths from croup and diptheria are the same in this week's report as in the fatal one first named, and last week's report showed one more. The deaths from diseases which might be directly caused by bad milk from September 15th to October 15th by the weekly reports were respectively, 14, 10, 10, 4 and 3; from croup and diptheria, 2, 4, 1, 3 and 2; from other diseases, 9, 3, 4, 6 and 8. There never was an instance of a social reform bringing about a more unlooked for and immediate good than the agitation of this milk question--and the records of the Health Office are a better justification of the course of the Board of Supervisors than the testimony of all the scientific men in the world. [[line]] FIREMEN'S ELECTION.--The Exempt Fire Company have elected the following officers: President, John Short, Sr.; Vice-President, M.E. Fitzgibbon; Secretary, William Martin; Treasurer, H.R. Reed.
