The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1870, Page 5

, ” BROADWAY. History of Its Widening North of Thirty-Fourth Street. The Report of the Commissioners to be Presented to the Supreme Court To-Morrow. Over Six Millions Involved in Assessments aud Damages. Why Property Owners will Resist the Con- firmation of the Report. To-morrow, Monday, it is expected that in the Su- preme Court Chambers, before Judge Cardozo, the commissioners for widening Broadway from Thirty- fourth to Fifty-ninth street will formally present their report with a view to have it brought up in court at anearly day for confirmation, Probably more than seven-tenths of the owners of real estate between Twenty-third and Eighty-sixth streets and West of Fifth and Sixth avenues respectively, are deeply interested in this Improvement. Most of them have employed counsel in order to resist the confirmation of the report of tho commissioners Bnd to secure its modification on what they consider a more just and equitable basis, The array of legal talent wili be quite large when this report, to bo presented to-morrow, will be reacned for consideration by the Court. Such being the case, and the amount in- Voived, bothin the assessment of special taxes for benefits accruing and in the award for damages, ex- ceeding the sum of BIX AND A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS, itis of interest to the general public to present in the following a short, concise, truthful history of this improvement; of what had been done; how it ‘was done; how Broadway is to be hereafter between Thirty-fourth street, and the Central Park, and what the objections are which the owners of contiguous Property, as well as of real estate comprised within the area of assessment as prescribed by the Legis- lature, urge against the confirmation of the report of the commissioners, HISTORY OF THE WORK. On the 17th day of May, 1869, the Legislature, then in session, passed an act known now as chap: ter 890 of the laws of 1869, providing for the widen- ing of Broadway from Thirty-third or Thirty-fourth Bireet to Fifty-ninth street, at its intersection with Eighth avenue. Tie Commisstoners of tre Central Park, as they existed under the “old régime,” be- fore the complete change of the city government last spring, were authorized to lay out this widened Broadway—it was to be 109 feet, except where Sixth and Seventh avenues intersect it. where it might be Made more than 100 feet wide, They were to have duplicate maps prepared of their plan and aupli- cate copies of thelr report, and file one in the ofice of the Street Commissioner and one in that of the Register of Deeds, within four months from the passage of the act. This done, the Coun- gel to the Corporation was to apply to the Supreme Court for the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment—as provided for the open- Ing of streeis, &c., in the act passed April 8, 1807, which has been in force ever since, and wader which all proceedinzs for opening, widening er extending Btreets have been conducted from the time that James Kent and Robert Fulton were members of a Commission to lay out the streets aud avenues of iy, ie ork, Wiose report was finally approved These provisions of the act of 1869, referred to as chapter 59) ot that year, were all complied with, ‘Tae then Commissioners of the Central Lark went carefully to work, prepared their plans, maps end reports, and filed them, as required, Within the time specified. ‘Thereupon the Counsel to the Corporation, Mr. Richard ©’Gorman, appeared before the Supreme Court Chambers, Judge Caraozo presiding, the necessary preluninary steps having been taken, and moved jor the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment under the act of April 8, 1407, The motion was grante and the following named gentlemen were so ap- wnted by the Court:—lhomas Murphy, the preseut Jollector of this por harles G. Cornell, the prede- cessor of Wash. McLean in the Street Commi sioner’s Office, and James 8. Hennessey, Collector Murphy served on this commission until very re- cently. A few weeks before the lust election, owing, it 1s said, to his rupture with Tammany and his arrangements wiih the “Young vemocracy,” he seems to Lave conciuded to disconnect himself entirely with municipal af- fairs and tue party coutroiling them, and he re- signed his place on this Broadway Commission. The Court betug nowutied of the tact of his resigna- tion, appointed Joel Fithian in his stead. The act ol 1569 made it the duty of the cemmissioners to present tneir final report of assessments and awards Uo the Court for condrmation within eight mouths | from their appointment. But the work being cnor- mous, the tine was found to be too short, and the Jast Legislature extended it w twelve mouths, which term 1s now about expiring. 3 THE WIDENED BROADWAY. According to the plans of the iute commissioners of the Central Park, the widening of Broadway, under this act, begins on the west line of Sixth ave- ue at a point 86 lect 1. inches south of the southerly Une of Thirty-fourth street. 1t runs thence ina north. erly direction, reaching @ point on the southerly line of Thirty-fourth strect distant 26 feet 9% luches ‘West irom the corner, cutting off a triangular plece of ground and turning it into Broadway. From this it the west line o1 Uls new Broadway will bo nearly 26 feet (the exact distance being 25 feet 11%, Inches) west of the present west line of Broadway, Wa pointdn the biock between Forty-second an Forty-third streets, and 63 feet south of tue southerly Mme of Forty-third street. All of this block novi of thia point and between Broadway and Seventh ave- Bue, being an irregular shaped quadrangle, will be Jeyelled and added to the public place now formed by the intersection of Broadway and Sevenil avenue. From Forty-third street to Forty-eighth street the West line of Broudway will correspond with tue ‘westerty line of Seventh avenue to Forty-tlfth street, and thence of Broadway to Forty-eighth street. The buildings on the present block petween Forty- sixth and Forty-seventh streets and Broadway aud Seventh avenue will also be removed and the und added to the public place above referred to, e east line of this public place has also been rect- fied and straightened, taking irregular pieces of ground called “gores” frow the blocks abutting on the east line of Broadway and Seventh avenue, be- tween Forty-fourtii and borty-sixth streets. A large new Iron building, now being erected on the first of the last mentioned blocks of ground, has already aajusced its frent to this new rectified ine. The @ast line of the new Broadway, irom Thirty-fifin street vo Forty-third, runs along with the present Ine, and no changes are made here, From Forty-elghth street to Mifty-ninth the dim- culties of locating this new Broadway aud of making @ just and equitable “assessment aud award’ greatest. The Commissioners of the Central Park were ordered by the act of 1869 not only to ‘widen’? Broadway, but to carry it up to Fifty-ninth street tn 28 straigit a line as possible. ‘Those acquainted with Broadway i this‘ section of the city well Know the many “elbows!’—not “of the Mincio’—which 1b makes, first at the crossing of Ferty-ninth sireet, ain at Fifty-second, at Pilty-third and at other streets ligher up. Here, then, the uew Broadway at various poipts cuts deeply toto the present batit up blocks, ‘hus, for instance, at the corner of Filty- wecoud sirect the entire width of the pres ent Broadway—seventy-two feet five incles— will be closed, and the easterly line of the new Broadway will be the west- ony line ot the Broadway as it now exists, and the new westerly line will be 190 tect further west, taking the entire depth of a building Jot for the use of the sirect. This is an extreme case, but now east and then again west the new Broadway cuts tuto the several blocks to various distances from five to forty feet. WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH THE CLOSED PORTIONS OF OLD BROADWaY? The act of the Legisiature of 18¢v, already repeat- edly referred to, provides for the disposition of those parcels of ground now lying in Broadway and to be Closed and the puvlic use thereof abandoned, on the principle of “riparian ownership. ‘That is, the owner Of ground acutting on a street owns the fee to the middie of the soreet, subject to the servi- tude or easement—the public use of its surface for @ strect. Tis servitude or easement being abandoned by the public, the reversionary interest of the abutting Owner revives and the possession of the land reverts to him, subject to an equitable com- sation to the public—in this case the city of New ‘ork—Jor tbe value ef the easement or servitude thus abandoned. Many ofthe owners of lots front- Ing on Broadway, north of Forty-eighth street, are in Uuis situation and will receive an addition te their ‘ound in front, extending the whole width of their rentage into tne present street and towards the middie ef it, a distance ranging from parts of a foot to turty-five fect, These have been assessed for the value of the easement, and upon paying the ameunt to the City Chamberlain for the use oi the #inking fund they will be allowed to take posses- ion. Some of the owners of ground now fronting on this section of Broadway are, however, in an embat- rassing situation indeed. The city takes their en- tire lot for the pew Broadway, and they cease to be sbatting owners, But they retain thoir reversionary NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. interest {n that part of the present Broadway front- img thelr expropriated los up to the middie of the street In such cases the law provides that the owner of the locon the opposite side of Broadway may acquire this reversionary toterest of lls vis-a- vis, and take possession of that strip and jom it to his owa land by paying therefor # eam, to ve fixed by the counnissioners, to the Clty Chamberlain for the benefit of the reversionary owner, in addition to ‘the assessinent to be pall nto the sinking fund for the right of the city to the basement. Jt 18 this com- Plicaved condition of atiairs wuich has created con- siderable uneasiness amoag the holders of up-lown Broadway property, between Forty-oicuth and Fifty- ioth streets, aud many of the con'estants of the report base their objecttons on tis ground, THB ARLA OF ASSESSMENT. ‘The law cited above provides for an assessment of the costs Of tnts Vast improvement upon property which, in the opinion of the commissioners, 1s bene- fited by it; but li fxes certain Iiniis, beyond watch the assessment shall pot extend, ‘THis ls termed the “area of assessment,” and the commissioners have jaihfully kept within the limits fixed by the law; but at the same time they hare taken lu the whole of this area, The property thus assessed 18 bounded a8 follows:— From Twenty-third to Thirty-fifth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. From Thirty-iiftn to Forty-fifth street, between Sixth and Eighth avenues, From Forty-tifth to WVifty-fitth street, between Sixth aud Ninth avenues, From Fifty-fiftn to Eighty-sixth street, between Sixth and Eleventh avenues, ‘the total amount of these assessments is $3,682,187; the total awarded as damages for pro- perty taben 18 $2,804,470—leaving a surpius or @X+ cess Of assessments over damages of $637,717. HERE COMBS IN THE GREAT CONTEST. Tt 1s claimed Ly the contestants that some of tho awards for damayes are excessive, While others are wholly inadequate; that by reducing the oue to a fair standard gnd increaslig the others to a reason- able sub & geveral increase of the awards of about fiiteen per cent would be reached. At the same time the contestants, it is said, will insist that a general reduction of the assessments should be had of at jeast thirty-tiree percent, if not forty-five per cent, This claim of a reduction in the assess- ment will be founded upon the following considera- ons:— First, it 13 said, the commissioners admitted the principle of assessing public property as well as that of 1ndividuais, by imposing an assessment of about ten thousand dollurs on that part of the Central Park lying between Seventy-seventh and’ bighty- first slreets and Eighth and Ninth avenues. ‘rhe principle being thas admitted, all that part of Cen- tral Park south of Highty-siath street and west of a line continued from the middie of Sixth avenue, the contestants clatm, should also be assessed for this garooament te the amount of at least $260,000 or . Nextit 1s claimed—and the claim is apparently sustained by a reference to the law—vbat the city at iurge should bear at least one-third of the cost of this improvement, The act authorizing the widen- ing and straightening of Broadway provides that if, in the opinion of the commissioners, the city 1s gen- etally benelited by the work they might assess on the “Mayor, Aldermen and Commonaity” ef New York an amount not exceeding one-third of the wholo cost of the improvement, and by a general law, passed three days later—to wi, on the 20th of May, 1869—commissioners for widening, opening or extending streets are authorized to impose one-half of the cost upon the city if, in their view, the improvement be of general benefit to all, And for such assessinent the city 1s to issue “city improvement stock,” to run for twenty years, An annual tax to be raised to pay the interest and create a sinking fund for tue payment of this stock, ‘The contestants fn the present case are not willing | to oppose the improvement per se, They appear to be satisfied with 1ts necessity; but they are said to insist that it isa work which will redound to the benefit of all the mbkubitants of New York, no: only for the present, but lor the future also, and that hence it is unjust to make the owners of property within a limited area pay for the whole, while the entire city wiil reap the advantage, Jor this reason they claim that for at least one-tuird of the cost of the improvement the city should issue tts “improve- Inent sieck,” and thus reduce the assessment on In- dividual owners by at least one-third, If not more, It is On this question of redneing the assessment, and aiso of reducing some Of the awards of damages aS excessive, and increasing Others as inadequate, that the great contest wiil be made in tue Supreme Court, whenever the report, expected to be formally presented to-morrow, shall come up for confirmation, THR COMMISSIONERS SAID TO BE YIELDING, ‘tenu.ed argiunents of counsel have already been heard by the commissioners om these various points of odjection to their report. And yesterday it was rumored that the commissioners, having tae power to amend thetr report before presenting it to Une Court, were inclined to yield and to make a gen- eral reduction of the assessinents, averey ng, on the whole, irom twenty Lo twenty-five per cent. If this should be the the contest expected in the courts Will probably be less flerce or persistent, MISCELLANESUS FORSIGN TEMS, A large rice crop is expected in Burman, India. Two French balloons, containing five passengers, have been captured by the Germans and taken to Versailles, A new dioptric revolving light will be put up on Savage Island, at the entrauce to the port of Akyab, on the Ist of Maren next. The Dublin reeman’s Journal announces the suspension of Webb, Bewley & Co., shipbuilders of that city, With liabilities amounting to £160,090, ‘rhe hotels in the Piazza di Spagna and about those quarters in Rome are getting crowded, and tourists throng the Pincio aud are busy sight-seeing, Appointments in the Financial Department in Burmah have been competed for by native Burmese lads, educated wt scueols in that country with marked success. The Shanghae (China) auramn races were to taxe place on the 2d, 3d and 4th of Novem! There were tobe six races each aay-all for ponies; aud | on each day a steeple chase for horses. In Cochun-Caina @ second list of subscriptions for the wounded and for the families of those Killed in battle during the Bbeas War amounted to 22,0421, on the 28th of September. Among the subscribers ‘are many Annamese, Another French ofiicer, General Bisson, has mado acontribution to the history of the surrender of Mets, He aflirms “ihatthe generals of divisions were never consulted wader any circumstances, but were only summoned to be wold of decisions already come to,!? A great part of the county Fermanagh, Iretand, has, Nevember 8, been necded by mountain tor- reats, which in some places carried large rocks along in thetr course, and deposited them on the cultivated lowlands. A great extent of cereal crops and potatoes has been destroyed. The English government, through its Consul in Seville, bas presented twe magni ficeat breech-load- ing revolvers to the two Guardias Civiles, Matees darzuela y Kios aud Juan Paez Casada, who suc- ceeded in capturing the brigauds whe carried off the Messrs. Bonell, from Gibraitar, The German soldiers now, November 8, in France and fit for service number 690,000, while there are 160,000 horses. The daily requirements of these | forces are 250,000 loaves ef bread, 185 oxen, 400 cwt. of bacon, 540 cwt. of rice, 160,000 quurts of braudy, and 40 cwt, of coflee, 68,00v cwt. Of hay, anu large quantities of oats and straw, At the concluding sitting of the Irish Church Con- vention, held-on the 4thor November, the Lord Primate read @ letter from the Arclibishop of Can- terbury, stating that he intended to confer with bis right end brothee of York, England, “as to What steps sould be taken to afd the Church tn {reland when that Church took up its new position, lu the beginning of the ensuing year.” Carl Vogt's lirst letter on the proposed annexation of Alsace and Lorraine having called forth a host ot rejoinders in the German press, he now retarns to the charge 1n another commumeation published in the Zagespresse:—“Alter exhausting every possible argument,” he says, “in favor of aunexauon, peo- ple never fail to enun ¢ the sovereign absurdity that our adversaries Would have done as much.” The English Poor Law Board has under constdera- tion a polntof importance vw the unfortunate wae refugees, Hrench and German, who crowd London, | A West kind Union, which is attected to a large ex- | tent py this new clement, submitted to ive Board the leilowing quéstion:—“Whether these refugees are eligibis for admission inte the workhouse as paupers, or are they to be simply considered eligivie for adunission to the casual ward ?"7 A Ningpo (China) correspondent writes on Sep- tomber 16:~Asort ofclan tight occurred here a few days ago between some Foukien aud Hankow men. No one, however, was Killed, and only two mon badly hurt, though the row occasioned some ex- citement. 1 do net think there is any serteas foun- dation tor the rumors that have been renewed lately of @ probable attack on foreigners, for 1 wink the people he re well disposed, and that the officials do nut Wish to make trouble, ‘The splendid Spectacle of the Anrora Borealls gave rise (0 & most Ertraordinary scene at Caltantsctta, | in sicily. Ou perceiving tue unwonted appearance of the sky, tie lababitants rushed out of their houses mm wild dismay, trembling and shrieking, | Some threw up their hands im despair towards the bloodred heaveos, Implering mercy and forgiveness. Others leaped about the streets with vielent gesiicn. lations and cries of “Phe ead is ceme |" or feil apon their knees, beating thelr breasts and conte: sing their sins aloud, Advices {rom Siam of the 22d of September report from Bangkok fs lollows:—The weather and rice prospects ave good. The rains have been constaut and unobjectionaably abuadaat in Bankok for tie purposes of successful paddy cultivation, There has been ho of raimfall in other vicinities, Advices from Wat Bote, a great rice rowing dis- trict 1n one of the Eastern provinces, show that the people of that Jocality complain of toe muci Tara; Vat the rice plants do not grow up fast enough for the increase of water, Archbishop Manning has just preached a charity Bermon at Warwick street Chapel, London, in aid of the poor schools of that mission, After describing the various wants of the sclools ne proceeded to say that the importance which attaches to bringing up Catholic children in their own iaith was sufficienuy Cleyr to ail. Catholic children, he satd, wauted to be taught their faith in the words and ‘under the guidance of Catholic instructors. ‘+A specific, dis- Unct, doctrinal teaching was indispensable to their Beeps bringing ™D, ins a general education would bocause their religion wag exfentially dogmatic”? | twenty miles away by the Christian | Gulf, attended by an enormous retinue. THE HAJ. The Pilgrimage of the Shah to the Shrine of Kerbola—The Legend of Hosein— Hajees and Haj-Life. The pilgrimage or ‘naj which the Shah of Persia has announced his intention of making to the shrine of Hosetn, at Kerbela, brings strikingly before the notice of the world one of the most interesting of Moslem legends, In the dim past of the seventh century, and only @ short half century after the eyes of the Prophet had been sealed in death, occurred the tragedy tbe Memory of which the Shah 1s now about to plously recognize. At his death Mohammed, out of the nine children that had beeu borne to him by Cadijah and the Egyptian Mary, left but a surviving daughter— the sainted Fatina—whom, with paternal fondness, he had named as one of the. four perfect women who had ever existed—thus placing her upon an equality of dignity with the sister of Moses, the mother of Jesus Christ, and his first wife, Cadijab, This daughter married Al, who lives in Moslem annals as the Lion of God, Mohammed, up to the very moment of his decease, declined to name @ successor to the Qaliphate, and he had scareely been borne to the tomb when his followera began to quarrel among themselves as to who should ascend the throne that had been founded by the Apostle of God, Many of the Mussuimans were in favor of All, but Abubekir was finally selected, He relgned but two years, and bequeathed nis scepter to Omar, Omar, after a relgn of twelve years, perished by the hand of an assassin. sy tbls time the claims of All to the Caliphate, springing from lig personal integ- rity and holiness, his early and devoted adhesion to Islam, and more than all, from his alliance by mar- riage with the very bleod of the Prophet, had come to be regarded by many of the Mussulmans as sacred, But the intrigues of All’s enemies elevated Othman to the throne. In these internal divisions was the seed of an undying feud, which soon cuiml- nated 1n bloody strife among ve faithful, and which has ever since divided the Moslem world into wo bitterly hostile sects—tho Shitves and the Soonnees, ‘The former believe in the divine justice of the claims of Ailand Of the offspring which the daughter of Mohammed bore to him to the scoptre of Islam, All Persians hold to this creed, The Turks, on the other hand, are exclusively Soonnees, and refuse to credit in any way the superior sanctity of All, All, having succeeded Othman, died in the fulness of years. Shortly after his death Yezld, by the intrigues of Amron, was proclaimed Caliph, but Hosten, tne son of All, tempted by tho promised allegiance of 140,000 Mesopotamian Mus-' sulmans, determined to contest the throne. At. tended by his women and chiidread he traversed the desert of Aravia, and at last reached Kerbela, a few tiles frem Cufa, on the banks of the Euphrates, He had already ivarned thatthe insurrection which he was to have neaded had been suppressed; but he had pushed on with the uuthinking gailantry that distinguished his house. On the treeiess plain of Kerbela he was suddenly sur- rounded by @ body of 6,000 horse, “In conference which he liad with its leaders, he learned that the only means of saving his life was to surren- der unconditionally as @ captive. To this condition he indignantly refused to assent. All through the mght before the attack, of which he well knew his lite was the chief aim, he prepared himseif by prayer and meditation for the thrust of death. With char. acteristic generosity he tinplored his friends to leave him, but they ananimously refused, In the morn- ing he mounted his horse, a sword in ene hand and the Koran in the other, and headed his scanty band of fol owers, Who numbered in all but seventy-two, ‘The enemy advanced, but one of their chiets, with thirty adherents deserted to tne side of Hosein, in spite of the hopelessness of his cause. One by ono the followers oi Heseia were siricken down, uauil at last he was hieraily Jeft alone, His sister Fatima then rushed from the tent and implored the leader of his foes to spare the life of a descendant of the Prophet. But her enirea'tes fell upon ears steeled to every feeling of generosity or pity, and Hoseln was mercilessly murdered by three and thirty thrusts of lance and sword, and his lifeiess corpse defied hy the feet of his assailants, His head was carried to Cufa, and the Goveruor of the towa struck the cold Invath With @ suck, “Alas!”’ cried an aged Mussul- man, “On these lips bave I seen the tips of the Apos- ue of God,” ‘This is the story ef Hosein. The Persians have, since his murder, commemorated its anniversary by a solemn fast, and for twelve hundred years have regarded a visit to the site of his tragic end as an act of religious duty. Unfertunately, Kerbela has always been within the Turkisn lines, and the Per-_ sians have had to pay a fixed tax jer the right of going there. The exact site of the massacre is covered ‘with what is sald to be, after Mecca and the mosque Of st, Sophta, the hand- somest of Mosiem faues. Its gilt domes, hashing m the flerce light of an Arabian sun, tay be seen puigrim to the Tower of Babel or te Birs Nemroud, but none but a Moatem; with one or two exceptions, bas dared to visit it. Of late years the moderation of the Porte has re- duced thé “hai! tax to a bagatelle of twenty-five Plasters, or a silver dollar, and the stream of pilgrims: has ever been growing larger. Kerbela is only seventy miles from Bagdad, and that city !s there- fore the last haiting place of the hay ‘Yhe City of the Caliphs never holds less than 5,000 of these pious wanderers, and just befere Uairam, the great Mobaminedan festival, itis filed with | 40,000 or 60,000 Persians, The hajees nearly ali | travel on donkies or mules; only the poorer sort | make shift with horses, which are injiniiely less well | quaiified to bear the Bardshtps of # thousand miles’ journey. ~ No more curious scene can be im- agined than the road between Bagdad and | Kerbela, crowded for perhaps thirty or forty | intles will hajees, either going or returning. Every class of Eastera life hobuobs together with the easy familiarity of “Arabian Nights” society. ‘he mass of pilgrims plod steadily aiong at a walk, the man { seated upon the top of his baggage on the back of a mule gravely sinoking seveel or loud!y reciting, in nasal accents, tue daily chapter of the Koran, and followed by a@ second animal, laden with @ curious couple of wooden cages, bulan- | cing each other, and containing each favorite wife. Some elements of the crowd, | however, are more striking. Old men, with limbs | already shaking in the throes of death, and with | eyes from whieb the light of earth is fast fading; fakeers, grimy with the dirt and animat iin the verniin of @ three years’ pilgrimage, with rdand | hater upkenspt aud featu fixed in the rigtd lines ofreligious fanaticism; rich men, with long reti- nues of armed followers and eunuchs aud concus | bines, and an endicss tram of sumpter mutes, and | occasionally the swarthy face of a Hindoo or Malay Mosiem-—these now and then catch the curious eye of the Christian waytarer. .The pilgrim life of these nomadic salzts must be, however, one of the brightest episodes 1n their earthly career. So far as @ spectator can judge they are ali perfectly happy, lodeed, the fresh air, the ample exe the novelty of continual change and the consciously being in the path of heaven, may make them. yell It is not difficult, after having watched these Mussulman palmers, to understand the readl- ness with Wluch the Christian slaper of medieval times undertook @ long and periions journey to Rome or tne Holy Sepuicnre. ‘Phe present Shan 1s currently reported in the East to be a semewhiat lax Mussulman, and perhaps his pligrimage 1s intended to Increase his pepularity by covciliaiing the religions prejadi of tis subjects. But whatever-may be his motive for making the La), It seems,pretty clear that fs Sultan intends to i. prove the occasion by a display of the most impos- ing and lavish hospitaiity, down from his capital to ne Shah will come hore of the Persian Arrived at Bushire he will deliver himself into the bands of the Turkish authorities, who aye Lo havea large steamer, the Babel, & ve that, vader another name, at one time formed part @f the mail feet of an Kag- lish company between Panama and Australia, wait- ing to receive him. In this he will be conveyed as far as Bassorah, at the mouth of the Shat D (as the river formed by the junction of the ‘Tigris aud Euphrates 1s named), and then, having been trans ferred to a smaller steamer, he will be carried up the Tigris to the City of the Calipis, He wil there be welcomed by Milhad Pacha, who has received orders. to spare no expense in wortilly entertaining his Kingly guest. After a brief stay im Bagdad, and a visit to the shrine of Moosa ei Kadem, oniy three miles ay the Shah will, ina couple of days of hard néimg, reach te goal of his weary journey, staying over the night, provabiy, at Kian Alahaville, # Landsome caravanseral, erected by the ple oue of ms an- psivrs vil ths hig road, about forty miles from Pag- dad, forthe accunimodation, Without charge, of the hajees of ali time. ‘This visti of the Shah bas great polttical signia- | can For a thousand years the Persians have at short intervals endeavored to possess themselves of Bagdad, which, of course, in so sparsely peopled a country as Turkey, includes the compara- lively adjacent shrines of Mesled Hosein and Meshed Ai, Only a lew years ago the shah was credited with the desire to renew this app perpetual feud, and he certainly reached Ute port of & diplomatic squabble about the boundary line of the two countries, which at one tine seemed Mkely | to end in blows, but which was happil, arbitration a couple of years ago, This pilgrimage shows that Persia acquiesces in the right of the Sul- tan to hold these Shute shrines—a right whi the extreme toleration of sentiment with which tb has been exercised the opinion of the whole world sauc- tions. A Yacut VoyaGe To ArnioA.—A small yacht, measuring ouly about twenty-six {cet from ead to end, has left Bristol, England, ou a voyage to the coast of Airica. She is fiteen tons barden, aud left Bristol with a cargo of ten tons of salt, about elgnt hundredweight of pig iron for ballast and two or three casks of water asd provisions. She 1s com- Manded by Vaptain Langdon, in additien to whom there are the mate and twe men on board. She is | turned, and those whem we ART NOTES. Artists aud Their Studios. ‘The majority of artists have now returned to the city and have resamed their winter labors ander the inspiration of the reminiscence of summer studies, One vory gratifying feature 18 quite noticeable in visiting the various studios, and that 13 the exeel- lence of much of the work accomplished, Thts, how- ever, 18 general but not universal, In soveral cases afew poor scrawls poked away in @ corner repre. Sented the lavor of long summer mouths amid na ture’s most Inspiring scenes, Artists aro proyerbially lazy, However much any one may protest against Qn individual application of it to himself, each Will, no doubt, admis the general truth of the assertion with that pleasing mgenuousness with Which We are all ready to admit faults of which we Suppose ourselves tahocent, especially if they be of our neighbors, Au artist would reocive, no doubt, with becoming artistic contempt and conscious superi- ority, the statement that everything depends on the Dumber and fidelity of his studies, and yet no insig- nificant proportion practically tgnore the fact, It is to this negiect asa cause, we may owe the melan- choly results in the way of square yards nonsense patched together; one may at any time wade through In any one of our second rate picture shops, and even 4n places where ignorance, personal Influence and betty jealousy would not be supposed to combine toretard the interests and progress of American art, The more an artist studies, not only the more perfect and trathfal ts his work, but the more does he become imbued with the true fecling and spirit ofnature, He mounts from the study of the indi- vidual and the particular to an understanding of the general and the untversal. He who has learned much begins, He is ever ready to learn more, Tho artist, however, who 1s satisfled with himself has learned nothing. He never will learn, Honest and true painters are open to convictiou and per- suasion, These lead inevitably to improve. ment. It 1s only in the presence of conceited ignorance that we may fold our, hands in the resignation of utter hopelessness. As a rule the ablest of our painters are those who have stu- died and worked the hardest and still study and work much and well, To be sure, many of our Jeast successful and most bungling painters have work enough in all conscience, such agit 1s; and they trumpet and blazon their trumpery about with the proverbial pertinacity ef those obliged, in the absence of their trumpeters, to perform that office for themselves, The study, however, and the qua- lity are both wanting, which, of course, give the chief value to the work. It 13 a time when one can- not be too exacing in regard to finished pictures, and we have, therefore, laid more s'ress on studies and sketches, for the making and collecting of which in the relaxed demand for other work during the summer months every opportunity is afforded. Tenth Street Stadio Building. 8. RB. GIFFORD has two works, into which he has Infsed all of the wonderful poetic feeling and delicate sense of the beautiful for which he is so remarkable. We have but few artists who enter so fully into the spirit and so truthfully translate the peculiar features and teaching of thetr subjects as Mr. Gul ford. In all the Venetian views we have seen by this artist there ig te same union of the splendor of the past with the melancholy, dreamy poetry of the present, which 18 so pre-eminentiy character- isto of the place. In his treatment of atmos- phere and of water there is that same soft, tremu- lous glow, whether In sunlight or twilight, which one can feel better than express, and which no one can ever fail to recognize and appreciate. One of the pictures represeuts the church of Santa Maria della Saiate, with the group of palaces on either side of the Canalazzo—a soft gray mass of baild- ings—half shadowy, standing out against a lumi- nous sky, and rising from the rippling waters, which redect both sky and buildings alike in their darkling depths, The other isa group of gay celored fishing boats, standing in the clear waters of tne lagoon, which melt away in distance till a fatat white line of snow-capped mountains only separates Wem irom the evening sky. he BIERSTADT. This artist has a number of finished pictures Which, on another occasion, we shall Lope to notice at length. CASILARR, This artist has some exquisite sketches with the impression of careiul finish and study, and without tne feeling of labored execution—an Impression which no ordinary artist can produce, A view Irom the Genesee Valley is still on the easel. The sub. ject is exquisite in its simplicity. The foreground is careful and true. The trees are a study, each complete in itself. There is @ certain tendency to pre-Raphaelltism, Which shows mest conscientious study. fis distance 1s modulated and harmonious. The picture, as a whole, tells the story of quiet peace and repose which generally pervade this painter’s work aud render them so charming alike 1o thé @ttist aud the unicarned in art. M. F. H. DE HAAS. Mr. De Haas has # scene, the subject of whichis in part taken froin Montauk beach, Wulch 13 a varia- tion from his general style, and is, we think, in some Tespects one of his cleverest productions. A group of bathers are enjoying the breakers, and another group, on the beach, i8 enjoying the scene, The broken crests of the breakers are light and gracefal, and form mest pleasing lines, The waier 1s we rendered, transparent and fuil of color. The sky, the clouds of which are, perhaps, somewhat Miatorical value which cannot be too highty appre- ciated, in view of the gradual absorption and Gikep- pre of the negro race among us as @ distinc ve feature of our life and time, J. 1, PYTCH, This is another artist who deserves great credit for a surpriging nomber of sketches aud studies from the Adirondacks, Many of them are well studied and exceileut, Several of his forest studies tn particular are quite accurate and Characteristic, He bas Mmproved bis style, it would seem, by a broader and more comprehensive treatment. which show more of the deeper understanding of the thor ough artist, TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK, Two trots came off yesterday afternoon at the Fleetwood Park in presence of about 200 spectators, Who appeared delighted with the sport. The first Face WAS & good one and created considerable inte. rest. Lively betting was indulged in on the result, It was a match for $1,000 between John Lovetvs chestnut mare New Berliy Girl and Mr. Feek's bay Mare Kitty, milo heats, best three in five, in harness, New Berlin Girl was the favorite before the start at 100 to 20, and continued to advance im favor afer every heat, until, before the start for the fourth, one or two very enthusiastic gentlemen offered 100 to 6 on her winning the race. Kitty won the first heat, but that was by an accidental break on the part of New Berlin Girl, Kitty trotted very fast at the early part of the heats, but died away toward the end from want of condition, The second race was for a purse of $2450, mile heats, best three in five, for which there were four entries. These were Peter Manee’s chestaut mara Rosa Lee and Mr, McRoberts’ bay gelding Rob Roy, in harness, and Mr. Malls’ chestnut gelding Jack and Mr, Goff's black gelding Gaslight, under sad- die, The saddie horses were both distanced the first heat. Rosa Lee won the purse in three straight heats. There was not much betting on this race, Rob Roy being the favorite before the start. He did not trot as he has done on previous occasions, and it was thought by many who were not interested pe- cuniariy in the race that it was not tatended that he should win the first two heats. When the effort was made to win the third neat he could not do tt, ‘The difference in the time between the first and third heats was twelve seconds and a quarter. Tne track was in very fine condition, but the Weather Was Very uncomortabie during the aftec- noon. ‘fhe foliowing are the detatls of the trotting:— THE FIRST TRO FLEETWOOD Pank, Nov. 19.—Match $1,000; mile heats, best three in five, in harness, Jolin Lovett named ch, m. New Berlin Girl. wee J. Peek named b, m. Kitty. TIME. i arter, Half, First heat ha nu Second he: + 36 1:16 ‘Third heat, 36 1:145 Fourth heat 1:1 8:37 First Heat.—Kitt pole, She had a trife the best of ine send- and going around the turm she trotted New beriin Girl of her feet. ‘Ine latter lost four lengths by the break, and Kitty went on steadily to tne quarter pole, passing that point tn thirty-seven seconds. Golng around the lower turn hitly was taken in hand, and New Berlin Giri closed up to her wheel. Kitty was half a jJength in front at the half-mile pole in i:l% She opened che gap up the backstretch to a length and a half, but as they passed the three-quarter pole New Berlin Girl was at her wheel again, A smart strug. gle ensued froin there to vhe stand, both mares being under the whip up the homesifeich., At the drawgate they were nearly on even terms, but as they came to the score New Berlin Girt broke up, and Kitty won the heat by @ head in 2:37 4. Scond Heut.—The horses gou away on even terms, but Kitty, with the inside, drew away a@ lengit around the turn, She broke up son afterwards, but did not jose by the accident, She trotted very fast to the qual pole, passing there two lengths abead in thirty, seconds, On the lower turn New Berin Girt made a skip, but she trotted better after- wards, and closed up to Kitty's shoulder at the hait- mille pole. ‘This point Was passed in 1:15. Goln, along the backstretch Kitty shook New Berlin Gir olf, and Was a feagtt ahead of her about midwa: up. At the turee-quarter pole Kitty led haifa length, An exciting struggle ensued as soon as they entered 5 PEACE AT ANY PRICE. Enthusiastic Mass. Meeting at Cooper Institute, The International Bocicty for the Abolition of Standing Armics—Speoches by Preai- dent Sarges, Mr, Drewry, Mrs. Blake and Others—-Scenes and Inoidenta, The great hall of the Cooper Imstitate, which 88 often resounded with the tones of belligerent orators, last nignt echoed to the acclamations of lovers of peace av any price, The bali was about half filled. Contrary to all expectation the majority present were meu, On the platform, however, there was @ goodly display of chignons, The ladies were of the strong minded order aud the men near and aboat them of that curious class of long-hatred advocates of everything but decency in dress and deporument to be seen at every meeting where two or turee women are gathered together to advocate the cause of female sutrage. A large force of police was dis Poel throughout the ball, but whether to overawe the ladies or intimidate the long haired of the other 8eX On the platform and in the ball could not be ascertained, The proceedings were exceedingly eu- Viustastic, and notwithstanding the fact that tere were half a dozen nationalities represented, includ. ing German and French, there was no dis\urbauce worthy of special mention. Mrs. Bluke, who was one of the speakers, was en- thuslasitealy applauded and made a decided in. pression. On the whole, the meeting ot whe Inter national was a success, and as a protest against war deserves the notice which is given iu the following graphic report:— Mr. SAkoRs was called to the chair at eight o'clock, and made due acknowledgment of the honor of which he was the smiling recipient, He said be Was giad to ind such @ vast multitude assembled to protest against war aud the war, to malnta:n free against despotic rule, to assert tL of man against the “rule by the grace of God.” As @ Prussian, he asserted, in the face of the present war, that there was something higher than patriotism, and that was hamanity. eve all, Nan Was alike the world over, and each had, or ratherr should have, the same privileges and nghts one as the other, The chairman then mado the same remarks in German and French, whic vere loudly applauded by a portion of the audience and slightly hissed by auother portion, SUMNEWS CORDIAL SYMPATUY. Mr. Gregory then read a letter from Charles Sumner, in which the Senator replied toan Invite. tion to attend at the meeting by declining to be present, owing to circumstances over which he had no control. Mr. Sumner in the le: extended his “cordial symp: KING WILL Anotier letter wa in which ke calied sia an “unne William as a “p this new title of his Majesty tion. ‘The aadience was evidently not of oae opin- ion about the King’s piety or scotadrelism, and for a time applause and hisses mingled quite Treely. Thea , however, Won the day, although the inued to make themselves heard every once 11a while during the reading of the letter. ihe CHAIRMAN then read the followiug resolutions, Which were adopted:— We, citizens of the United States ot Amerida, assembled s meeting tor the purpose of expresstax our oplulon rd to the present Luropean war, do deciare as fol- hy” to the anti-wa MA “P1005 SCOUNDEE! sread from one & il. ayward, the invasion of France by Pras. and desiguated King ” The reading of .used quite @ seasa- nasty”? Que, Whereas the war forced on Germany by Louis Ni after the capture of its originator at Sedan, a ment of the repul "@, Coast ty the homestretch, which resulted in New Berlin Girl Winulng the heat by two lengths, Kitty giving it up before reachtug the score. Tune of the beat, 2:36, Third Heat fing start, and the horses went away rapidly, Kitty being the quickest in her motions went tothe frent, but broke soon after- wards. She kept the lead, however, gnd passed tho quarter pole two lengths in front in thirty-six seconds. New Berlin Girl then broke SP and before she recovered Kitty lett her feet and fell in the rear. At the half-mile pole, which was passed in 1:14), New Bertin Girt led four Le ey! and she was all of that distance in front at the three-quarter pole, From there to the end New Berlin Gir} trotted very easily, a8 Kitty seemed to be pumped out and shortened her stride very muc| New Berlin Girl won the heat by ton lengths in i Fourth Heat.—The mares were sent away head and head, but New Berlin Girl drew away around the turn, and led two lengths to the quarter pole, ta thirty-six nod a balf seconds. On the lower turn Kitty broke, and jell off four lengths, At the half- mntle pole New Heri Girl was five lengths ahead, in 154;. She then broke up and Kitty took the lead, (i passed the three-quarter pole one length in ad- vauce. Kitty, however, was very tived, and New Berlin Girl soon overtook her aud came home a win- ner by half a length in 2:37.34. TH D Thor. Same Day.—Purse $250; mille heats, best three in ve P, Manee entered & m. Rosa Lee, in har- ness ae W. MecRoveris ¢ K, under sad Gaslight, under First heat. Second heat. Woo dispersed, 18 nevertheless very geod. Some of the cloud banks are espectally well treated and full of character im form, A yacht at sea, and @ pirate e&kiff about to board a vessel tossed on a high sea, are two works both treated with much power and comprehension, Phe former is a very exceilent effect Of a rolling sea, und a briluant, broken sky, in the rendering of which this artist is always particularly feiicitous, In the pirate skiff the light qm the wat emis at times too bright, and the color too pure for so cloudy a sky. J. Ge BROWN. ae Two excellent scenes in child life represent the latest works of thls artist. In one a child—standing nuptoe, with a ceil in one hand and the othe ying With @ stream of water running from a et into a sort of sink—he has been particularly essful. ‘The gencral feeling and treatment is sprightiy and natural. ‘The effect of jight and shade 1s strong and well rendered. Mr, Brown's color in Uns cage, however, as in ochers, is, we think, some- What too obtrusive and crude, and modulated into jess importance would be far more pleasing. He nters 80 thoroughly into his subject that the spec- ator cannot but be affected to a degree with his honest feeling and enthusiasm. VAN KLTEN has made a number of pleasing sketches in Connec- cat, There 1s a quiet, subdued feeling threughout much of his work, and especialiy in tue color, which at times reminds one of some of his distinguished countrymen lanascape painters, “Sunset After a Shower’? ts a work which is well Managed and has much of the truth of nature in ti. There 1s a se- riousness in the tone of many of the Northera paint- ers which forms a not unpieasing contrast to the vivacity, and, at times, almost recklessness ef mod- ern colurists, fa Bu B. W. PERRY has a hew work on une of tiose characteristic scenes of New England itfe and character in which he is always very happy. lu many respects it is a satis- factory work. One might desire @ jittle more tree- dom in the drawing and treatment of the figures themselves. The grouping and composition are ex- cellent. A litle stitfiess may be requisite to the subject, but we think 1 carried rather too far, I interprets, generally, the spirit of tus sub, fully, and’one 1s carrled on insensibly sonew the feeling which Inspired the artist himself, L, THOMPSON. We saw what the Itailans would call a very svozzeilo of General Scott In this sculptor’s The Ogure is diguified, and with as much grace of drapery as the unttorm of the United States army, With @ very trifling liberty om the artist's part, would cilow. There 1s much of the life and fire Which characterized the distinguished General in jess advauced life. A very charming little ig re of a child playtng with a shell had been somewuat idealized from Life as a likeness. It is a very grace- ful and easy work, animated with the freedom and action of Lie, Most of the other artists in this building have re- ere #ble Lo see had Work a8 yet scarcely suilicieuUly advauced to permit us to notice, CONSTANT MAYER. This painter is just completing a portrait of two young tadies, which is full of spirit and is as pleasing as a pleture as it is excellent asa likeness, Another work scarcely begun ts to be called “The Osphan.”” Those familiar with this artist's previons works—"The Witen’s Dangnter,” “Consolation” aud “Good Words’’—will recognize the same pathos and vein of sad feeling which characterize them all, The ideas, which are ail pretty much as yob that their is open to criticism, are good--neither strikingly original nor in any way very remark. able, It ts scarcely desirable, considering the ever- changing moods of these to be pleased, to adhere too Closely to any one line Of subjects, though of all those which awaken and appeal to the sympathy are perhaps the ones least likely to pall, Mr. Mayer is &n arlist Who throws so much feeling in his work that it reality alone would do much for tt, aud the {umpression a% times of a brighter Pig | which Would reileve the too seriot ‘aracter of his work Would give an additional charm te many without depriving it of any of its value to others, BUCHSER, ‘This artist has returned irom the Shenandoah with & portfolio fuil of sketches and studies. His excel- culter-rigged, and if favered with good weather, will, it Je sald, make her voyage in about six weeks, lent and truthfnl scenes of negro life and character Doeseas, apart fro thelr intrineic mer certain Turd heat "4 rirst Heat. lead, Rosa Lee second, Jack third and Gasilght fourth, The saddle horses botu broke up soon afterwards, ond fell irre- trievably benind. ob Rey led two lengths to the quarter pole in forty-four seconds, Kosa Lee second, the others nowhere. Rob Key tuaiuisined his lead around the jower turn, passing the half-mile pole m 1:26. Wacn Rob Roy and Kosa Lee reached the three quarter pole they Were close together, and they then both broke up, and when they recovered Rosa Lee outfooied Rob Roy, aud beat lim howe two lengtha in a Second Heat.—The horses got away well together, bat Rosa Lee svon took the lead aud went to t quarter pole one length im front in forty second She then broke up, aud Rob Koy went to the fron He led around the lower turn and passed the half mile one length ahead in 1:22. Kob Roy thea broke eral Umues and Resa Lee led him ten lengths at the taree-quarter-pole. She kept that distance in iront, and wen the heat in 2:52%, Third Heat,—Kob Roy had nearly a length the bes the stari, but before he reached the turn Rosa L assed him, and, leaving him two lengths behind, was at the quarter pote in thirty-nine secotids. Rob Roy shut up the daylight on the lower turn, but he soon alterwards broke wp, and Rosa Lee was three lengths ahead at the hali-mile pole in 1:19, Going up the backstretch the mare broke up and Rob Roy showed in front for a short time. At the three-quarter pole they were bead and head. As they swang Into the homestretch both of them broke up together, and Rob Koy again got in front, A very excellent struggle on the part of the mare bronght her to the score a whiner of the beat and race by two lengths in 243%. = iiateaettaoeee 1 CLUB SWINGING OVER THE RIVER. Another Police Sergennt in Trouble in Brook. lyn=He is Fined Bitty Dellars for Clabbing a Mom Another case of oMcial clubbing has been wiped of the calendar of one of the police courts of Brodklya by the conviction of the official who used the baton. The case in questton was that of James Giddings vs. Sergeant E. O'Brien, of the Fourth precinct. The plaintu® accused the sergeant of having assaulted, clubbed and arrested him on the night of the 27th of last mouth, and made an amda- vit that he had committed no offence which would render him at all Hable to the treatment he received at the hands of the sergeant, Yesterday the sergeant was taken before Justice Riley, of the Fourth District Court, when the case was examined, Considerable testimony was elicit- ed, and 4 Was shown that the sergeant had acted in an unwarrantable manner; at least the Justice took that view of it, and gave the sergeant the choice of paying & fine of fifty dollars or going to the Penitentiary for the short term of six montns, The ‘Merits of the case will be looked into by the Police Commissioners next week, and if they find that tho sergeant was justfed in his course will make an effert to have the decision rever: According tw the story of the serg mie, he heard an unusual noise in a place in Hud- son avenue, near Myrtle, which is kept by Mr. Giddings, on the night in question. On approaching the place he says he heard the ery of “Murder |? and found a nomber of personsin the place engaged in a free fight. He attempted to ar- rest one nan, whom he suw beating another over the head with a bottle, but Mr. Giddings taterfered and threw lum {nto the street. He then called for faasistance, and efiicers McKenzie and Van Brunt came up. ney. then arrested Giddings aud locked him up. The following day he was taken bejore Justice Riley and discharged. Next week Sergeant Thomas McKee and officer Dennolan are to be tried before Judge Walsh ona charge of clubbing Alexgnaer Stewart, to the Ninth Peril ‘without provocation. The police force of and therefore a just one (applause and binw ean its brute) contiuance las d into aw arimocracy azaiuet democracy, of despotism aga rep abl canis, and especially against the repubite established now {n France ; and whereas the annexation of a verritory, without the consent of Its population, {sw crime against human rights and inmult to the civilizution of our century duty of the moral aid diate cessation; and whereas the war between p: which is danctioned and regulated by oar present loteraa- anal laws, is ng unreasonable wad Mnmorai as tie duel bo- tween individuals; and whereas its total abolition take place by the establishment of true demo [eaiths, founded on the volldarity of all nations e, bet ‘Hérolved, That we condemn the continuance of the war tthe French republic as highly unjust and only pro Interests of despotisin (applause aud hisses); it heartily sympathize with our u fhere and siners in France and Germany, equally mutter ing by thie unjust war, provoked ‘only for tha benetts of despotic rulerw; shat wo stigmatize the — enfore anvexation of Alsace and Lor Taibo as an act of barvarous and tyrannical Injiis! t Wwe appeal to ull trae minded citizens to demand o! the gov. eroment of the United States to use fis whole infaence in favor of the republic in France, to aot in the spirit of the Declaration of American initepeadence and thus ald to put an end to this cruel war; that we ask the goxerminent of the United statew fo propowe to the suropean Powers an | to press vigorously the abolition of the wtanding armies and the estay'islinent of a permanent Luter: national court of arbitration; that we urgeatly invite thosa who are in favor of treadom, @yuailty wd eteraal paace to Join iw brotherhood which will Insure tris #olC-goverament to wll nations, in order that they may no longer Loieraie the Tule of ® few monopolists and speculators, Wao always fi- clipe to dexpotiam and even support it; and be ft fartly Resolved, Ibat we appeal to all true citizens of the United States to convene in mass meetings and give heir assent ta these or similar resolutions, and that a copy of the same be ut to the Congress of the United states and to the legisla tive bodies of all nations, “PATRIOTS OF THE WORLD.”” Mr. DREWY said, aliough the press of this city had almost unanimously declared tor war during the past week, that not a man dared to raise his Voice against the passage of the resoiutions jusi read. ‘The “internationals” were true patriots, not patriots of @ particular country, but patriots of the world, (Applause.) Nature never made boundaries to divide nations, and men had no ryht te make them by force, He believed a time would come when men could live without war, Even Americans could live now without it i) they were allowed to. Peoples did not seek war; Li was the leaders, princes aud kings Who pusted them to war. [te had some figures of timporiance ta subinit, among them the debts of the vatious na tions of Europe, the amount per capita whien each . mdividual owed somebody else, The number ob soldiers in Europe was five millions one thundred and fifty thousand, That was quite enough. ‘The time would come when their children would be taught net to want to be soldiers; wien Ifa king wanted Lo Hyghlt would be tod to go aad fight himself, The speaker then went on to caicuiate how much stand!ng armies had already cost burop THE LOSS NATIONS HAD ENTAILED anproductve labor,” &e. Wh t was wanted not armed peace, bul peace without arms. tiovals were not optimisis, Who believed e hing that is is right,’ bub who kuew that there was much in the so-called civilizaiten of modern umes that should be reforme Sianding armies should be abolished and existing goverte The ireelom of thought, of the yer classes, which now prevail In Harries, could be traced, point to point, from outrage and perseciitions and wrongs of long ago. Governments begun tyramuy and fore mast end in lverty and serence, aad kipgerait ould HO Longér hold power on earth, Th AIKMAN then arose and satd:—“Ladies and gentieinen—Let me introduce to you one of those parts of humanity who most suffer from war, vrs. Hlake.” This bungling of ideas was greeted with the most uprourious shouts of laugiter, duriug which the chairman endeavored to reform bis intro: ductory sentence, FRENCH Vs. PRUBS E. I12, BLAKE spoke al great length about (he suier. ings of humanity from war. She aliuded to King Wiliam when he was Prince, and at if Germans did not remember when, in 1545, that same King— then not yet a king—had, by bivodshed, suppressed the peoplé’s aspirations for hberty. flere an old Frenchingn and a Prussian, who were “t together in (he audfence and who had been chaMitg one another the eucire evening, vegan a little dispnte on thear own account in a loud tope of . Cries of by was T THEM ovr I arose upon all sides, mingled with erles of “No, no The police were about to interfere, wien tke old Frenchman, true to his natural instincts, waved his haud with ali tue grace of & Chesterteld to Mra, Blake and exclaimed, “Your pardon, madame, iny feelings got the better of me!’ The audience 4 thts approvingly to the echo, aud quiet Was restored, then went on atiength to show how War, Which she had no voice In maxing. fof men who fell on the bat’ tlefield, with the cry of victory ringimg in then ears, lo homes desoiate, and those who sorrowed were wore). If woucn had @ vote in making laws it was certain that they would be peacemakers the world oy were then made by severat other speeches parties, aller which the meeting adjournes THE NATIONAL AIR LINE RAILROAD, The directors and friends of this road held a meets ing lately at Treaton, and on Friday a large party proceeded over the entire rouie between Treaton and Elizabeth in conveyances, The engineers of the road accompanied we party, and on their return to ‘Trenton Ponisi Morning reported that the route which ben i Moser ~~ a Satisfaction. a fe a 'y along the valley from the poinw Inaleated. There are few engineering ‘dineuities to rooklyn appear to be gaining g notoriety fer club- bing people, and if the practice is Well kept up the Geihog Oity af Churches may give piace to tl be encountered, and the couniry is extensively na ent Along the way the party were joined Wd jarmers who are faverably disposed to the and every where they met # weicome