The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1870, Page 4

4 INDO-EUROPEAN RAILWAY. Rapid Revolution of the World---The Impulse from Asia to the Antipodes. Great Britain Dozy Over the Great Enterprises—The Pacifie Rafl- road and Suez Canal, Vue Euphrates Railvod Survey in the Time of William the Fourth. Vast Projects—cro3ss Europe to Con- stantinople and Thence to India. Routes, Difficulties ef Nature, Means of Work and Caieulati n of Profits. London to the Per- Stephenson’s Pia Bosphorus, As ON, sian QGuif and india. ike TO INDIA IN WINE DAYS. How You Travel and What May be Scen by the UWay. uy the Baropean mail at this port we have the following special comamun gation from the far on the subject of railroad progress, in the present hat quarter of the world, It is one of the most animated, accurate and inspirit- tug contributions which has been made to the “go- <1’ and material progress of newspaper litera- lure of tieday, The writer points eut how the in- creommunion of the peoples of the world may be completed and the inhabitenis of Europe, Asia, und for the future, Africa and the antipodes be made not only to speak NEW YORK HERALD, wintge of those | European portion, or2,157 miles, at sbiriy-Ave miles yeur readers with a complete aie vant \d in order, an hour, in aixty-one hours and twenty minutes; the PT ia DISADVANTAGRS—CKESNEY’S Asiatic portion, or 3,833 niles, ab parts fy fo hour, BOHEME OF A RAILWAY. in 128 rs), Or, in round days, eigh! twentys Stations, Distances, Time, | four hours stoppages, and you have nine days for the London— Hours, | total distance from London to Bombay. bor the Paris 10 European portion, 1,632 miles, or from London to Marseliles 19 | Vidi, in Roumelia, may be said to be completed; Suedta, ut nay, since they are actualy at work between Temes- Biredjik. 3 | var, Aarianople and Constantinople, why may we Baghdad. 16 not’ say that the entire European line is ready? Bussorah. oi¢ | Thea we have 2,157 miles of the line accounted for, Bushire 8 | Outof whe Asiatic portion there are 803 mies com- Bunder Al 1534 | pleted and contracted for, 401 miles being in run- Aurraches 26 ning order, 812 miles contracted, There thus re- Bombay .... 264 | mans 3,035 miles—tuat is, tho distance between the Totais,. +s 6,022 Dig Thus you have 6,022 miles to be traversed in n da But of that distance there 1s 1,170 ron by steamer, in 117 hours, or five the remainder of the distance, except the twenty-ve miles across the Briush Caannel, will be by rail, occupying six days, Five thousand and ivonty-two inilea seems an iinmense distance; but We tuust not forget that 1,195 miles are by sea, that 1,650 miles (thus:—From London to Paris, 324; Mience to Mareeliles, 535; Kurrachee to Hydrabad, 109 miles; Abnedabad to Bombay, 383 miles) are already completed and running, so that there are alles of raliway to be construe’ r AND ENTERPRISE, Wirlisit accuse Americans of leving “immen- aciove of immensity is the secret of our We accustom eurselyes tw leok with un- eyes alany and every project, however c when we are cailed to perierm it we ckon up, mathematically, the distance cost, and then set to work, ‘instances—the hung Of the rebellion with 1,590,000 soldiers; the traction of the Union Pacutic, 3,500 miles in leugih; tae Chicago tunnel under the lake; the Hoosac Tannel, tae removal of the great hotels trom thelr foundations, &c. Now, if we had to con- struct these remaining 3,477 miles ef the Inde-Euro- pean Railway, we would naturally inquire first at is the payaion. nature of the countries throug! which they will have to run?’ Secondly, the’ cos, We would then find that between Suedia and Bired- jik there ave two ranges of mountains, one of which is the Kurdish range—but then the distance in ap airline, aecordmg to Chesney, 18 only fifty miles-- thatthe couniry between Biredjik and Bussorah is an undulating expanse of sand-ciay, similar in con- tour to our plains bevween Omata and Larainie, and vis ip length is 760 miles; that between Busso- rah and Busbire, across the Kerun river, through the Dorghestan district, ranning south of Huidian und the chalky olitts of Djebet Kalaat, is also very Jevel, and this for a distance of 250 miles; that be- tweea Bushire and Kurrachee, which crosses South- eastern Persia and the southern coast of Beloscius- tan, is one immense stretch ef sand, crossed by about @ dozen narrow ranges of soft rocks, Which might easily be pierced by tunnels of no great length, and some of them, as at Guadour and Lin- gah, and Buuder Abbas, might easily be circum- vented by short detours (this distance ts 1,100 niiles); that between Hydrabad and Alemedabad the dis- tapee Is almost evenly divided among huls and Scince flats for a lengub of 3i2 rales. i NATURAL DIFFICULTIES. However, to be literally accurate, we will say that out of the #477 miles, 477 mules will consist of a mountainous couniry, the remaining 3,000 over iow and gently unduiwing expanses of sand aud vom- minuted rock, COST OF THE WORK. Now let us glance at the cost of such a railway. On tke Great Indian Peninstiar Ratiway, there 1 portion of it called the “Ghui (nt incl! (which & to each other py elect but to join hands per- almost dally, by steam travel on the ocean and the irom rail. India in Nine Days—How You iravel and What Can te See BaGupand, Sept. i4, 1870, “The world rolls round !" said Galileo; “The world is round, circumstances vary every hour,’ re- sthe philosopher, as he sits thoughtfully in his nfortabie armenair in bis study; ‘The world roils und!’ shouts the smaller fry of people. ‘That tiny spheroid in space called earth certainly re- yolves, I would fain believe that the “world” rolled round—that is, the world of ideas and enterprises, of quickening energies and industrial projects. The enteral continent, as an indu bitable fact, is morally reyolviug “every hour,” every minute. Indeed, it revolves so rapidly, and changes its means and me- hods s@ fast, that there are many nations extant who have not learned as yet how to calculate and take nove of these r_volutions. Bat the antipodes wreatastand stl, though some writers say that ‘ney do move. Burlingame not long ago told us tatChina had shaken of her lethargy and was May revolving forward 80 fast—well, faster than we «moranit had any idea of. IL would advil people wo think seriously before they ult such startling things, however. As for the over antipodes, England, did not a Boston Philosopher say of tae English, “hey have a wou- deriu) heat in the pursuitef a public aim?’ and “On every path of practical activity they have.gone even wihthe best.’ I would respectfally suggest that the above quoted sentences be revised, What influence laps Britannia into uns fatal drow- sitess which betokens the death inevitabley How isitthat John Ball is drifting towards the terra woynita of seediness and forgetfulness? *Practi- cai activity! Splendor of God,” as the Conqueror William would cry out, did not America teach Eng- jund that the Pacific Railway could “be done,” and Was it pot “done” despite the “impessiples” of inglish journalists’ Did nob the French prove to them, contrary to all their predictions, that the Suez Canal was a possibility, and did it not become ‘An actual fact, of Which the English are not slow to avail themsely Did not America teach England what monitors and rams and torpedoes were? Does nol Russia teach her how to conquer and turn a grievous calamity into a lasting blessing? Does mot Prussta teach her the arts of war, of conciliation und government, economy and polity? TH# EUPHRATES VALLBY EOAD PLAN. Years before the project of the American Contl- nentat Railway had been conceived a “Euphrates Valiey Railway” scheme was discussed in the money woaris of London. Tuen, in 1865, the “Union Pa- cilic” was a myth, as yet untalked of. Fifteen years have rolled by, and lo! without the aid of Aladdin’s lump, magic or Fortunatus properties, passengers ieaving New Yerk arrive at San Francisco within tive duys, as per railway bill. What tas peceme of the Euphrates line? They are still talking of itin London and Calcutta, but they say that there is now a betier chance of it bemg constructed than ever; uxt there is some great person prepared to launch the prospectus; thai the Indian governmeut 18 pre- pared to doa very Bandsome thing in the way of subsidy; that the English government will also prea rent the company with money, credit and unlimited patronage; finally that the Sultan has offered of his own free will to construct the whole line from Con+ stantinople to —, it 1s not yet decided where, wut the above long paraphrase nas prepared your readers for what is to follow. YIRSP SURVEYS—OOLONEL CIRSNEY’S COMMISSION. enant Celonel Francis Rawdon Chesney was iby King William Fourth to explore the of the Euphrates, and to “determine the of if generally,” also to put this route practically to the test; more partica- larly, as his Majesty observed, “on account of the manifest advantage which it presentea of involving ijetle more than one halt of the length of sea voyage compared with that of the route by the Red Sea.” Colonel Chesney succeeded very well in bis task, but ‘he five bulky volumes which have been his pro- ucts prove that not much can be accomplished by transtt across the mountains from Alexandretta to Biredjik, thence down the Euphrates to the Perstan Gulf and India, In this era of swift locomotion, steambeating up and down the Euphrates will not do atall, The Suez Canal route 1s @ far better one and safer. A few years later, or about sixteen years ago, General Chesney proposed to cennect the Mediter- ranean seaboard with the Persian Guif by means of anirou railway. Sir John MacNeill and Mr. W. Yr. Andrew were alsoof the opinton of General Chesney, ‘Tals scheme, backed vy such influential men, was agitated along time; but capitalists, though Mr. Andrew was an able man, and could speak and «ite eloquently, failed to be persuaded that it would be very remunerative. ‘here was @second scheme broached by a Mr. Latham, bus this was only an attempt to modify Tuat of Chesney, The latter proposed to start a iine from Suedia (ancient Seleucia) at te mouth of ihe Orontes te Aleppe, thence to the Eupurates, aod folowing the course of that river via Baghdad to’ SHussorah or some point near it hereafter to be de- cided, The tormer proposed to start from Alexan- dretta, threugh whe Belian Pass to Aleppo and Buedik and aieng the Euphrates tw the Versian tithe ACROSS BUROPE TO CONSTANTINOPLE AND THEN TO INDIA. ‘The third, and most viganue and best In the end, was that proposed by Sir Macdonald Stevensoo In 1455, viz: from Calais, on the nortnwest coast of France, oy @ ine Of continuous raiiways diagonally across Burope to Constantinople, theuce in alengeliy diagonal line via Afum, Karan, tiesur, Diarbeksr, Saghaad, Bassora, Bushire, Buuder Abbas, to Kur- rachee in India, Your cerrespondent, having travelled much of this latter route, feels coniident im M3 abtity to discuss the advantages of each of thy three routes, and will gow set about presenting 1s ten 0 jong, the railway ciimbs upwards of 1,000 feet im that short distance, passes throug thirteen Lunnels, 2,502 yards long, and over 741 yards of viaducts, one vi Which cost £60,000 or per mu almost neediess for me to state th need be no such expenditure as this on any part of the Lado-European line via the Euphrates. ‘The ave- Tage cost of ra:iway lines through India may be said to be £12,000 per mul¢, equal to $60,000 of eur money, But those who have been in Indiu are well aware how the Indian oilictais squander the revenues, and how higa priced everything has become in consequence of Ulls example of the gevernment., Except the go ernment of tae Abbaside Khaliphate at Bagda none Was ever 50 guilty of such riotous waste ol pub: lic moneys as the milttary government of judia. ‘Thoreiore, the cost per mile must not be reckoned from an Indian vie We shail be within reason- able iimits if we calculate the constructien ef 3,000 miles of the Indo-European single line ab £5,500 per mile, and 477 miles at £10,000, and the aggregate cost of ihe line at £21,277,000, or $106,395,000, equal to the cost of the Suez Canat. WOULD IT PAY? ‘Tnis is the next question, Would the earnings of the passenger and freight trafic on this line be equal to tae interest that couid be verived from such capl- tal? Investments im british consols return three per cent interest per annum, if this sum of —£21,800,000 was funded — gavern- ment security tne annual interest on at at Uiree per cent would be £659,000, Meney is easy in London at five, five and @ half and six per cent inte- rest. At the latter rate the aggregate interest would be £1,278,000. It 18 an immense Sam, Is itnoty But do you think it cannot be covered? Let us make comparisons With some Engiish itnes already con- structed:— THE PENINSULAR RAILWAY IN INDIA, In 1827 the Great Peninsular Rallway of India, on. @ length of 1,231 miles, reporied gross receipts for one year of £2,012,530, Which ia equivalent to per mule. On’ the Indo-European, length—that is, irom London to Bomba ecolpts per mile £1,635, the cotal or gross sua Would aunount Co £5,684,500 in one year. Ln the same year on the Madras Railway, a f 615 miles, the receipts were £678 per mile, or £2,357,406, This lat- ter sum Would not pay at ail for the Judo-Kuropean, Railw: The Briush government subsidizes wie | Peniusular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company | to the extent of £460,000 per annum. Over 1,000 | passengers, outward und homeward bound, travel | every year between England and India, who pay | £50 each, or altogether £1,200,000; a190-60,000 passeii- gers, who average £40 each, or altegether £2,000,0.0. ‘hen from Alexand 4 lo Bombay, after deducting the fares between Kngland and Alexandretta, so inuch dusiness at the same Talo 4s obiuias on the st r serv would stand this: British government, carriage of maiis Fifteen thous t class pussenge: Y—were the (throngh) at £50 SY se. 760,000 Filty thousand second, taird fours Class passengers (through) at 1,500,000 British troops, 14,000, at 210... 150,000 ‘Total. + se eseoe see 700,000 ‘These tigures oniy include, fer tnrough passengers. and government subsidy, takmg for our criterion the numper of passengers who travel between Kug- laud and India per Peninsular and Oriental line, Atwhat sui shall we state the proceeds derived from through passengers by the cheap lines steamers, the Bombay and Bengal line, the Mes: gerias Imperiales, Mare Fraiseret, peére et ils, the Rubbatius line? Suppose we sav—ior atl pas- sengers bound to Australta, China, Ceyiou, Potnt de Galle, Hangpot who would take Uckets to nm Railway, TRADE DEVELOPMENT, ‘ailic to be from the % Cities and towns through which the lido- ropeah must run, from Kurrachee, Gwadur, Bun- der Abbas, Muscat, Luigah, Bashire, han, Bender Dileur, Hiudtau, bas, Mohammeran, Bussorah, Baghdad, Anah, Veir,JRakha, Orfa, Bired- jik, Aleppo and Aiexandretiay What suall we value the proceeds frem the cotton, the optam, the BiIX, the spices, the tobacce, the wool, moluir, tal- jJow, fruits, honey, galls orpimeut, wax, gums, maize, wheat and bari the “products of Mesopotamia, Southern Persia and Northern Syria? What shall say, of all the imports aud exports to and from Engiand and India. which weuld be sent by ral? Bat J desist just here to describe ta brief Mr. Latham’s scheme. THE SECOND SCHEME. ‘This differs but litte frem that of General Chesuey. Mr. Latham proposes to fun the line from Alexandretia instead of Suedia, to Antioch, Aleppo, Biredjik, across the Euphrates to Orfs, Mardin, Jezi- reh, Mesul; theace down south along the Tigris (to- stead of the Euphrates) to Bagdad, and so on to the Persian Guif or Kurrachee, as the company would decide, His peolect invclves an extension of 320 miles more than Chesney's, and mstead of going direct from the Mediterranean seaboard to india by the shortest and most feasible route, takes a detour eastward in order to draw the trade from the great centres of Asia Minor. As a commercial under- taking Mr. Latham’s scheme is much be eomn- mended over General Chesney's, while the delay iu Use direct transit would be but half a day, THE THIRD SCHEME, that of Sir Macdonald Stephenson, is by far the best plan for ail couutnes concerned in it—for Eng- land, France, Prussia, Austria, Turkey and India— commercially and politically. All nations regarding the diffusion of civilization and the growtn of com- mnerce with favorable eyes must feel convinced that this scheme offers double advantages over any other. As J have travelled ever the major part of this route L spall be able to describe It more intelli- genily. Steplenson proposes to run a ine from London to tne Bosphorns, thence across Asia Minor to the Persian Gul, and India if necessary > £300,000 5 “y | situate at che base of Erdijes Dagh, formerly known Bosphorus and Kurrachee—to be constructed, CASH ESTIMATES, ‘The cost of the line fairly calculated would amount oan Miles. Cost per Mile. Cost. u tangipople to CrNauatas esse UO £20,000 2,800,000 Kutatia 90 30,000 2,700,000 Aleppo... 000 7,500,000 Kurrachee. 6,600 12,155,000 Totals......<4++ 8085 £24,055,000 T0 INDIA IN NINE DAYS, Lf ever the English desire to be able to run to India within nine days they must acquaint their minds with the fact that the Jade-Buropean will be a costly aduir, They must not regard the disiance to be trae versed by the line but se outlay, and the remunera- tive dividends to be derived from the capital ex- pended. They must giso become famuiar with ‘immensity, and shirl ning ifthey wish to be cogarded a8 a progressive pasion. They have a vast empire 1a * ib, Which Dave conquered and rule, which may be in great danger some day, but which at present pays them £60, 000 revenue per annum, and to wiich they expert something Mke £70,000,000 ef manufactured goods every year. But what is the sum of 000,900 tor 3,035 miles of rauway, compared to the gigantic outlays made on British ines, such as the short Metropolitan ime under London, or the Great Western Kailway, or the London and Northwestern’ Whatis sach a sui to the British goveramenat and British capitalists? England spent £40,000,009 in the Crimean war to prevent Russia from absorbing European Turkey, Can she not expend £26,000,000 to msure the safety of her Indian empire, to prevent another recurreuce of Russia®Q invasion ef Turkey, to bring the invalu- able preducts of India within nine days’ of her shores? [snot the British government and fa j Engiishman mterested in the consummation of tis railway project DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTE, Thave followed sir Macdouald Siepkenson In his outline ef the reute to India. Perhaps a few more details concerning tt will net be amiss here. Wien this emipent man first projected the scheme (he first section of this line had not beeu broached, but his large wind had concelved it as not only possible but neceggary, and as a thing Inevitable. That be Wag riguMve perceive by the fact that an Austria baron has obtained the concession, wnd ts busily at work to connect Vienna with Constantinople via Temesyar and Adrianople. In unis issue we have nothing further to do with vcd rt of the line, ex- cept to hope that its construcuion wil) be speedy. Let us devote a little space towards @ description of | the route to India. Fron Consiantinople we cross the Bosphorus—a narrow neck of sea water which connects tle Medi- terranean with the Euxine—te uebaze, a town on the shore of the Marmora, thence over @ bare coun- try suudded with uo very high hills, to isinidt, a t e hours’ jourp by horse, or fifty miles trom inople. im Ismidt wo travel over a fine plain, ciove te Lake Szbandja and skirting tue Guek roay @f Mountains, urrive at Ispik, the ancient Y a (0! celebrity), aud rounding the travel over an undolating nalevel plain to breussa, capiial ‘ ancient Bitiyia, aud now chief tewa of a pacoa- | ic. Broussa boast S and with reason, of possessing the most beautiful pla in the world. In ali wy travels | never saw prettier scenery, richer soil and Such a Wealth of roral charms as m_ the vicinity of Broussa. From this city— now refer te my notes made of a journey | undertook In this country four years ago—the railroad must start east, cresslug the Northeasteri prolongation of Mount Olympus, which rises to a height of 400 feet above Broussa plan it then skirts the nurthern face of Mount Olyipus or Kechiech Dagh, St passes tne sweet del! ef Aksu, and through a@ detile in the mountains caused by the Guek rive ‘assing Aksen we Come to Dinegol and surmount @ plateau-like country, wich ts very bare and ragged, and has an altitude of 5,600 ieeCabove bxceplng a few valleys of Ho great depth untry is generally level until we reach Kuta- hia—aucient Coyceum—a hirge wwn-eemmaniing a very large trade, sibuated on tue slope of a hill surmounted by a strong old Tarkish castle, wiilt a magnilicenl platu siretching in front of t rom Kutaiia vo Atium-sara-Hissar the road in some places Is very bad, bat, bawpily, short, and this is only wien Cressiag the jeresi-e ad hemhts or che Siourad. mountains. 13 very xirange ane wild scenery abeut het en we ascend to a& waving plateau. in which tuere are plenty of opper- Uunities to make raliway work easy. ‘The forests of Mourad imeuntatns will supply ues enough of pine, ash and oak for the whole leagth of Lie lime from Broussa to the Persian Guif, wile tue woody slopes of the Olympian heights are aconsideration, Aflum- Kara-Hissar, or the “Black Castle of Opiuu’? will taks Junction, ( way frou Smyrnn Koula and a) knee) bere With ‘uropean. The railway already runs to Rassaba, having cost upwards of £15,000 per mule, the county betug very 1 From. Atium-Kara-Hissar, z &% leugthy we come to Bolawadua or Bulayadeen, then Jeaving Enur Dagh to our left we cross the marsit | japds of Lake Ebergeul lo Ak-chebr, & Very large town of commercial importance, situated “at the foot of che northern face of the Sultan Dagh. There are several ruins of aauiqalty in and al» val tae forks are sad desy relics of the classical ag Leaving Akebebr we bave a stiff! bit of ground if we jollow the high way; bat by sk Sultan Dagh northerly a lt we have smo i we come tolighan, a town situ at the sonthe; eimty of the Luke lighun, Thence it pro gun Kuan and Yorzan Ladick, and ancient Lao diicea: thence over @ ridge or two of hills past 5is- meh to Koma, ancient Icentum—b Tien Of 40,000-—mostly ergaged m of carpets and leather, and Uc cult fruit rees and corn, | Krom Aniegol we Have followed a sontheast course | Os far as Konia, 19 erder to draw the yaluahle trade | of the large towns ov thai route, From Konia we Strike & norticust re a great plan to Ak-serd r py i | tea ta rich vaite over a rather rugged | country to Sey ; then following the windings | of acurvaat and pictnreagne ravine past Urgont, and.ever an intervening llly spine of iusalt to Kal | 1g 2 popiite | buracuure m of opintiy Situ saria—ancient Cresaria, This town, peepled by 20,000 Tarks, 3,000 Greeks and 10,000 Avimenimns, 18 | as Mount Argens, which has an ‘altitace of 13,500 feet above the sea level, It 14 one oF the most Ime | portant cities of & Minot, ani is the capitaror a } | pachalic. ; | _ From Katsaria to Maractt the road will take a | sowticasterly course, and to listunce beyond Tomardazi there are ne gr Jous for the navies; then we come to (ite uMANtia, OU Whose course the work wil be enough until we strike the road wich leads over the Kozan moun. tang into Hadjeen and Kermes, botn very opulent and populous villages. From Hadjeen to Kermes, Zeitoon and Marach, lics an extremely wild, pit- turesque and mountainous country. Ou this por- tion Of the lige we cross Uhree ranges o! rountains— } the Kozau, Baradeen and Akhur, but on aa air Une | fortunately this section ig not over eighty miles in length. Though the engineers would be much wssisted by the numereus ravines ana gerges, especially bY he lengthy gap toade in ihe mouutains by the river | Djikan, or Jaigan (anclently ’yramus), to within & few miles of Marach, tn fay £25,000 per mile. UbiTy 1S a sue wonderiully formed wounisins, deep gorges, plea- \ sant delis, water courses Whicu haye ciett thetr Way through mountain barriers of limestone, | basalt, trap aod shu There is an abundance { of wood, ash, juniper, tir, pine, oak, elm myrtle, clesimut, arbutus and wild fruit ur the whole face of this wild uatural secne forever clad in verdure. ‘Tie; } ramifications and divergent groups from the | Taurus range, Wich stretches ding | Asia Miner towards Erzeroum trom haramanta. The tphabitants are hurd mountameers, ferocious and bigoted, | ANCIENT GERMANICA, From Marach, which has a population of 10,000 souls-formeriy knowa Germnanica—we strike along # rich plain thirty miles jong, across a com- paratively ievel country to Aintab, a tewn of seme 40,000 people. This latter towm is situated Ina very lovely plain, Woody and teeming wiih vegetation. it has a very dine castie, and the hills which enclose the piaiu are very picturesqu Alntab ts one ef the ‘eat centres of the American missionary enter- prise. Thence to Aleppo, over a conntry very like & Plateau tntersected py some ambitious aud desolate Tidges aad siudded With isolated nulls, presenting 10 great obsiacles to rapid railway constracuon. Aleppo, tWeugh situated tn an ungrateful spot, 1 yet a large city, witta population numbering be- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2! } Asta | boast the grand ruggedness of Scotland, with he: It receives the commerce of the Tigris from the sub-eutrepotn of Diarkekir, in Kurdistan, and Mosul (Nineveh), tn Aare and of the Euphrates, which runs through Mesopotamia and Eastern Syria. Lt extends its comme! influences ag tar east a8 Hamadan, Ispahan and Shiraz and west and south to Damascus and Central Arabia, 70 THE TIGEIS, From Baghdad southward the railway must run through @ very preductive country along the banks of the Tigris to pamsora, § aren and important town situate on the bauks of the Shat-el-Arab, midway berween the junction ef the Tigris aud Buphrates and the Persian Guif, founded by the Caliph Omar, the population of which 1s between 30,000 and 40,000, consist Arabs, Turks, Persians and Armenians, besides several merchants from India. Following the course ef the Shat-el-Arab as low down as Mohammerah, it would then turn east through the Dorghestan (an imundated district ofien) for Dorak, the chief town of the Chaab Arabs; then continuing its route over the same swampy 6, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. ot ideas; been so succosstul in gheir evil arts that they have stamped out of Engitalmen all originality and spirit? It seems so. And, like the hero who sighed for other worlds to conquer, this trinity have directed vigorous our- solves, “Americans are, as we ail know, lovers of humanity,” is the latest malicious cackte of a Satur. day journal which generally writes na hazard way, always virulent and mean; and soon the whole swinous tribe of the lesser liguts of Bohemian, “slap- dash” and erratic literature will hurl their) anl- madversions against us with the above latest albe utiered by the pernicious Saturday journal. But we Americans, fond of looking at ancient Englund with favorable eyes, if we are let alone, will be large minded enough not to heed these blas- phemons sneers at righteous purposes aud noblest ‘aims of humanity, and would commend tn friendly spirit every British capitalist to continue the race In commercial enterprise so featly begun between America and England, and, above all means, to push onthe Indo-European Railway, that it may redound district southeast would reach Hindean; thence skirting the cRalky biuits of Northern Lehroni would run over perfectly level land, teeming with rass and vegetation and studded with the ruins of former cities, passing Bender Deelem, Boirat, Hoo- sar Gunaweh, Bender Reeg, Shah-guduck to Bushire, ‘The railway the whole way from Moham- merah to Bushire need not cost more than £4,000 per mile; for labor is cheap, the region is close to the sea shore, und 1s Mostly Mat and under cultiva- tiou. BUNDER ABBAS AND KURRACHER, From Bushir> to Bunder Abbas aud Karrachee the railway would skirt the eastern coast of the Per- sian Gulf, Which is mainly a series of sandy waves, intersgeted by ers biuits of gypsum und lime- stone, m!xed with basalt. ‘Thus we have travelled over 3,05 miles —hat 1s, from Constantinople to Kur- rachee, and are well acquainted now with the na- ture of the countries which must be traversed by the Great Indo-Luropeau Katlway. ‘That the work is feasible we baay uccept as proved; the next queation is, WILL IT PAYY—TNE ECONOMIES OF THE PROJECT. ‘Yo answer whch I must refer you te the foliow- iT br stutistice, Wien T nave taken pains to as- certain: — Constantinople mas a popmlation of 1,200,000, and imports Britisa mMerchaudise to the vatue of £53,270,000 fer anni. Broassa has a pepulation of 109,000, It is the cen- tre of & district yielding On an average 900,000 pounds of silk, of the value of £922,500; but in some years yield Is valued at £4,200,000, It also exports 7,000; cotton, £1,400; opium, £12,000; cloro- fron, £50,000; wime, £20,000; hides, 220.000; sailed ave , £120,000; sundries, £45,000. ‘Tetal, 21,198,000, . Kutabia possesses a population of 35,000; it is the centre of a rich agricultural district, which Is also most populous. Afium-kara-hissar, poputation 20,000, in a very wealthy district, exporte considerable opium, corn, hides, horsehair, cotton, madder, bones and wool. Good roads converge here, leading from the popu- lous northeastern section of Anatodia, from Angora, Sivri-hissar, Eski-chenr, Isbarta, Bourdour, Kas- saba, Sanduklu, wil great towns, averaging a popu- lation of 25,000 each, Then itis to be, in acouple of years or 80, the terminus—of which it ought to have been some time fthe Smyrna, Cassaba, Koulah, Ouchak and Banuz Ratlway. These cities and towns have an aggregate popujation of 320,000. Kouia, population 40,000, chief town of the Kyalet of Karaman. its plain ‘oduces traits, gtain aud fax. The town manufactures carpets, and prepares Cotton, Icather, weol and hides. Com- murications ure facilitaied by pretty good roads with the populous towns of Bei-chetr Karaman. Kaisaria, chief tewn of the Kaisar district, popu- Intion 46,000, Caravans bring the produce here from the richest pertion ef Asia Minor—viz., the region around Sivas, which tewn is but 100 miles off; also from Tokat, one of the most important places; also from Yozgad and Khanzir. Marach, population 40,000, has roads leading to the neighboring great towns ef El-Bistan, Behesnt, Malate, ~~ Kbarpout, Diarbekir, Adana = and ‘Tarsus, This town itselt tmperts British goods, to the value of £22,000 per amnum, even with tho very bad road which Jeads to it from Iskanderoon (Alexandretta). ‘The towns wiuch I have named pas in the aggregate a population of 200,000, and import foreign goods such as cotion twist, calico, prints, musiins, Imen, woollen and cotton goods, and copper to the value of £250,000 every year, Atntab, surrounded hy 320 villages, which, with its ‘OWD, possesses a DOpulation of 114,000, The country produces corn, millet, rice, lentils, sesame, olives, gali nats, scammony, tobacco and wax. It imports 2,500 bales of English goods, valued at £54,000, every Year. Seventy miles east of Aintab 1s Orfa (ancient Edessa), a lwwn of 50,000 Inhabitants, which tm- ports £200,000 value of foreign goods. One hundred to the glory of their name aud the success of their country. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Delaware to Go Out of Commission—Ex- amiuation of Midshipmen for Promotion— Movements of Officers and Ships. ‘The frigate Delaware, Commander Earl English, Nying the dag of Vice Admiral Rowan, yesterday discharged her powder and shell and@ will to-day proceed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Her stores will be removed at once, and when the work is com- pleted the ship will be put out of commisston, after & cruise of more than three years in a trying climate. The Soard of Examiners sitting at the Naval School, Annapolis, © examine midshipmen for pro- motion to the rank of ensign have completen tuetr labors, The standard of proficiency was placed high, and the examination was. conducted with strictness, thouch with the greatest fairness. Nearly two-thirds of the class failed te come up to the standard fixed by the Board, and consequently failed to pass. Promotion in thesecases is postponed untill another yearly examination comes around, when, 1 found qualified, the midshipmen will be promoted. As there seems to be an tnclination on the part of Congress to cnt down the number of offl- cers in the higher grades it is perhaps as well that the standard ef proficiency should be elevated, in order that only the best oiticers may be advanced tn the lower grades, which wili in time save © gress the trouble of interfering. In the olde times midshipmen regarded themselves extremely fortunate if they were promoted to the grade or assed midshipmen after six or eight years’ service. Promotion 1s more rapla now, and, perhaps, not too fapid; but icis just as well that the young officers rove themselves competent in the ‘lower grades before they are elevated to those higher. It 1s, however, understood that the Board of Examiners, which has just adjourned, will be ordered to assemble again to give the young gen- Hemen anviber chance, and if they fail to satis! the Board of their proficiency they wil! be put bac! one year. The following officers have been detached from the Marine barracks, Brooklyn, and erdered to oter stations:— Captain H. B. Lewry, to Philadetphia. > First Lieutenants Lyman P. Frenci, te Boston; Frank D. Webster, to Portsmouth. First Lieutenants Benjamin R. Russell, to Wash- ington; Stephen W. Quackenbush, (o Norfolk; Ed- ward Mcvauley, to Wdshington. Obief Engineer Clark Fisher bas reported at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for duty connected with ex- periments in steam, The gunboat Pawnee, witose machinery and boil- ers have been removed, saila about the middie of December, from the Norfolk Navy Yard, for Key West, where she is to be ased as a hospital ship. Lieutenant Cemmander DeWitt ©. Kells has been de- tached from the receiving ship Vermont and or- dered to assume command of Ler. The corvette Severn will tow her to Key West, POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Politics in New Hampshire. ‘ The Lancaster (N. H.) Republican says the ques-* tion of whe shall be the next republican candidate for Governor is exciting some attention in political miles cast of Orfa, and thirty miles southeast of | circles, though not so much as is usual ata time so Diarbekir, is Mardin, baving @ population of 15,000. One hundred and fifty miles southeast of Mardin 18 near the date of assembling the nominating conven- tion. Several gentlemen of high character and great uncient Nineveh, called Mosul at present, a largo | @bility are named for the position, and apy of them city, whese population is variousiy estimated at of this pari of Kurdistan, Armenia and Azerbijan, in Westera Persia, such as Bitlis, Van Urumtan, would doubtless do honor to the between 70,009 and 100,000, But all the great citles | service to the State. Kut, with osition and great respect for these aspirants, we doubt whether the State can afford to Jose the service of so able a financier as the present ‘Tabreez, Mouch, Nisibin and Jezireh, must be ted | Gayernor, Mr. Stearns. by this line with British goods. Aleppo, the chief town of a pachalio and tha metropolis of Nerthern Syria, has # population ot 400,000, Naving Rearly 6,000. sheps. It manu- Jactures goods to the extent of £692,000 annually, Busso@.h, baghdad, Mosal, Mardin, Diarbekir, Ma- rash, Orfa, Amtab, Kilbs, Idlib, Kiha, Vau, Tifa, Kars, Erzgroom, Sivas, Q@uzun, Tokat, Trebizond, Malaue, Letakia, Constantt le, Brousss, Sinyrua, Tarabolus, Damascus, Mecca, India, England, France and Austria supply its capacious marts. Aleppo im- ports from Enugiand £600,000 in manufactured geods, and exports abroad £200,000 1n wheat, barley, mil- let, sesame, galls, cotton, wool, flour, mnadder, scam- mony and gums. When the line is completed it must be the entrepot of the whole ef Syria, of the popuious cities of Haman, Home, Da- mascus, Beyronut and Jerusalem, and the cities of the Seacoast via isganderoon, @ busimess which must involve the transportation of £4,000,000 worth of goods, besides bumerous pugrims from the heart of inor, Baghdad, chief city of a pachalic, and metropo- is Of Mesopotamia, or El Jezireh, bas a population of 70,000, This city iinports goods to the value of £5,000,000 for liself and the up-river places, together With Bussorab, the latter place taking as much as £525,000 from India. Notwithstanding it has & smatier population than several cities in Asia Minor, such as Sulyrne, Damascus and Aleppo, as & cenire of trade it is second only te Smyrna, which has a population of 200,000, The whole of Persia and Kurdisian, Turkey, Arabia, Eurepe, Egypt and In- dia suppiy its bazaars. Another greut source of revenue besides the transportation of the most valuable goods will be from the thousands of Had+ jees flocking towards Mecea by way of Bagdad, Which is onty @ distance of 700 miles, *‘measured,” as Gibbon says, from the Interior of Asia Minor and Kurdistan. We shail then see Bagdad resume its ancient opwence and grandeur, like w regenerated pheentx. The days of Mahadi andj Haroun a) Ra- schid will be repeated Gorgeous barges and hoats ‘Will Hoat again on the bosom of the golden Tigris, kiosks und palatial serals will gleain as in che days of old on Us banks clad with verdure and palm, and travellers will be merry as they make ex- cursions to Babyion, Accad, Palmyra and Nineveh over the time when evil days were ever the land and no European @ared te cross the desert expanse. PROOFS AND LOGIC, Bat do you not think that I have proved sutictent- ly that this ratiway will de amply supperted even by the bye trafic whicu must transpire between the Bosphorus und the shores of Oman’s Sea’ Do you not think that the 15,000,000 people whose ceun- try Will be crossed by the great ratiway are able to support it? Ido, and I kuow it. Asia Minor is the Switzerland of the Asiatic Contineat, lant aware, but its valleys and plains are rich beyond imagina- tion. Eyery product that conduces to the support, comfort and Juxury of mankind 1s supplied tenfold in this Wonderful land, As for scefery, there is ne country ib Europe iit to compare with it; 1t possesses the physical characteristics of each and all; it can in Southern Amatolia: 3 and Clear streams, Cappadocia, now Eastern Anaielia, will present you Will the beuuties Of English vales and her rounded hills; the champagnes of france are seen over again in the platusa adrodnd Sivas; the forests of fir, pine and juniper of Scandinavia are alse vislble on tae grandly lofty mountain ran, of Taurus; Vie Swiss Alps—except the Glaciers—have their simiitude in the mountains of Armenia; the dun expanse of the Therian Peninsula may be viewed also between Tokat and Erzeroein; the Lappiest phases of Lal, the lovely scenery slong the stores of Marmora; the wildoess of nature witnessed in Mor tenegro has notuing to compare witit that of Kar: mania; tue genial fertility of Prassia is exceeded that of Centra) Anatolia, Where vegetation 1s spo: taneously productive witheut waste of human ene gies; tue orehards of Sicily must yield m plenituc and’ sweetness to che famongs Iriit tree groves of Smyrna and #ronssi; Sicily bas her buna and Naples its Vesnyius: Anatolia has her volcanoes of Koula and Konia; Lisbon has its (earful earthquakes, Smyrna and Aleppo have theirs ern France is visited by luundations sometimes, so is the Bagudad pachalic: Germany and Austria have their Riine and Danube, Asia Minor has its Euphrates and Tigris; Greece and Reme have their classical antiguilies; has not Asiatic Turkey ns Ephesus, its Troy, its Sardis and Mound of Alyattes, its feonium, its Antioch, its Paimyra, its Edessa, tts | Damascus and Palestine?’ But itis needless to euter further into comparisons, for i could prolong them indefintiely, and for everything in Europe t coutd | shew an equivalent wp Minor Asta, | WHEN 18 IT GOING TO TAKE PLACE? | But when ts thts rait cotion of the Indian empire | withthe Briush kimgdom to transpire’ When is | Asia to be married to burope by bonds of civiliza- tion’ “Soon,” they say. ‘Sometimes.’ we also | hear. When shall the 380,000,000 of Europe be ab two barter their manufactured essentials‘in an ex. Pediat Distances. Time. \ tween 70,000 and’ 100,000, 18,000 of whow are Gnris- Londor. ‘ as Ba Hours. \ taus, ‘The country around Aleppe is similar to that Via Strasbourg to Basle a around Jerasatem Im aspeci, the former possessing Zurieb Us | peme few advantages over the iniver. Munich by THE OOUNTRY ROUND ALREE TO, 235 | From Aleppo commences a country which, thuagh | offering nothing to the agriculturist, yet invites a 5% | railway over it by ifs extreme superiictal level. You ° emerge from the desviate and stony country that, s lies bet wi Aintal apd Aleppo inte tha desert 5 Where roams the Bedouin undisturbed, by civiliaa- 3 | tion orjawe, Arriving at Balis you stand on the 4'¢ | banks ef the Bupbrates—the great river, Hence, 1% | sonthward, cutting of seme ef the bends of tho rj river, as far a8 Baghdad, one Can caeose-@ perfectly Kutahla ate oe # | level'country, meeting with nothing more jormida- Afium Kara-fitssar. 6 2 bie than sand, clay dupes, comminuted rock Konta « 160 § mounds, and here aud there a low ridge ef soft Akserat . 85 rock, By fellowing the Buphraves, you pass im re- 90 view @ continuous succession et mud viit seme- wo 2'< | times dignified with the pretentivus serat ef & 6 2 ‘Turkish cairnacaun, and that noblest specimen of 40 4 Saragenio architeeture—the mosyue, with 13 ele- 70 2h¢ } gaut and alenver minarer. 55 2 THE EUPHRATES, 5b 2 At Aft the rafiway would cross the Kuphrates, and 0 24 ; alter following w# left bank ws far as Kaha’ab Le ah Felendja would shoot off obtiqnet, Toss the nat- 160 5), | pow desert and marshy sire w ine city of Buavorah 290 934 | Baghdad, on the Tigris, Bushire. 350 ni BAONDAD. Bauder 350 wy, This is the capital @f & pashulic, and boasts & Kurrachee 150 25 population of between 60,000 and 80,000. Tt is also Bombay... . 805, 2644 | the caplial of the country known w Scripture 7 readers as Mesopotamia, Itis the great emporium Total... 893; | of the Orient, draming an area ef 200,000 square a seeseceesees 6,995 1 ‘Thus 6,000 malies, say, wil be rap Ln 492 hours (the 200, uiies of Wade end comuacrce without a comucitye peditious manner for tne raw matertals and spices of the 500,000,000 of Asia ¥ By and by, is our answer. There are able men agituitng the question every day in London, Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. The world 18 anxiously Waitmg to hear of tue birth of Unis latest prodigy which the nineteenth contury civilization nas conceived, But | wonder if the once mighty energies of the great mother of Saxonmations are prostrate? Ls the present political insignificance of Kngiaud to be the harbinger of her commercial decrepitude, as in the case of Greece, Carthage, Rome, Venice, Spain and Holiand? Ii not, why this delay? Was it not Ruskin who satd that “ibe purest uopulses and the noblest purposes had been oftener stayed by the Shy voller base name or false allegation: Is this rally to India a Quixotic project? “Humility of mind depauperates the spirit,” said an old Knglish ecciestastic. Have Englisa journailsts, critics and aristocrats, who, for the last century have— under the name of Quixotism, than under | judge Political Contest in Utah. It 1s stated that General George B. Maxwell, tne Gentile candidate for Congress from Utah Territory, who was defeated by the Mormon (William H. Hooper), does not propose to let the matter rest ‘where it is. Maxwell is a profound hater of the Mormon ideas of polygamy and unio ef Church and State, and, being a lawyer by profession, proposes a contest for the seat claimed by Hooper. Congress will have a pice question to decide when Maxwell vs. Hooper 1s reached. The decision will involve the question of how far a citizen of the United States becomes disqualified fromm hoiding office by the practice of polygamy, in violation of law. Politieal Notes and Comments. Senator Trumbull] approves General Graut’s ad- ministration. The Senator was nursed as the leader of the proposed revenue reform party. ‘The Amador (Caltforata) Ledger (republican) pre- fers John Currey a8 a gubernatorial candidate. Senator Maclay, of Santa Clara, has aspirations for Lieutenant Governor on the democratic ticket; and Manuel Torres, @ native of California, has strong hopes of being the nominee for State Treasurer on the same side, The San Francisce Pioneer (woman's suffrage organ) endorses Philip A, Roach as the ‘most popu- iat” candidate among the democrats. The contest is likely to be decided on election day, if we may adopt a familiar quotation, Sans peur, sans Roach | Aaren F. Perry, of Cincinnati, is aaded to the list of aspirants on the radical side of the house for Unitea States Senator from Oblo, In place of John Sherman. The Speaker of the Peunsylvania Senate has or- dered an election to be held in the First Senatorial district, embracing a part of the city of Philadelphia, on the 20th of December to elect a Senator to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Watt. As the majority in the Senate will depend on the result of this election, it will be warmly contested. ‘The Border Times, ot Weston, Platte county, Mo., hoists the name of 3, Gratz Brown forthe Presidency in 1872, Election 1a North Carolina to-day, to fill a vacaney in the Fourth Congressional district for the Forty- first Congress. Joseph [olden ts the republican and Jobn W. Manning, Jr., the democratic candidate, SHE DOCK DEPARTMENT. The Comui mers of the Department of Docks heid their regular weekly meeting yesterday. ‘The petition of H. Hastor? to erect platform foot of SIxiy-second strect, Hast river, was granted, pro- vided he pays $100 yearly rent, The petition of the Harlem and New York viga- ton Company to erect a bailding sonth side of 130th sireet, Hariem river, was granted during pleasure of Board. Pier No. 33 East river was ordered to be widened on easterly side at an expense net to ed $2,500, provided the Lorillard Steamship pany pay $1,000 addilional rent per annum. The slips between piers Nos. 4 and 5 and between piers N 5 and 6 East river were ordered to be dredged seven feet at low water ab bulkhead, flitecn feet at end of pier. ‘The owners of pler No. 3 were ordered to dredge ¢ slip adjeining the pier to same depth as above. ‘Yho owners of te tern half of pier 23 were or- dered to dredge, Department of Docks to pay one- third of expense. Jo relation to the application of Courtland Palmer for permission to butid a bulkhead on his property, between 125th and 127tn streets, Harlem ri the department cannot at present consent to grant the permission, owing to their surveys and pians not belng completed. Numerous applications for per- mits for different structures on piers and bulkheads were received aud referred to Executive Committee, A Vary RARDENRD StyxeR.—Wilson, the mur- derer of Warden Willard, has written a letter to jailer Fenn, of Hartfe! which he tells why he gave ap his attempt to starve himself to death. He says:—if you would make an estimate ef your probable income for the next year you must not in- clude 4 fee for tue hanging ef dames Wlison, for that is something you will never get. Not that it would be any pleasure to cheat you out of anticipated pro- fits, but there are thosé who Would consider it a feast to see my neck brokeg; but that 18 a sight no Mortal man will ever see, “They dare not put me vo death withont 4 trial, aud if 1 was fairly tried and condemued, I would never atiowed any one the sat- isfaction of seeing me hanged, ‘The censtituuon ef Counecticut says I must be tried by an impartial ju ly jury stated under oath that they were not inpartial; heuce the verdict aud the sentence based upon it Is null and void, But the ruling of the using vo allow me to show the tion that caused the alleged murder—rendered potn the verdict and the sentence clearly iilegal. My long fast was pot broken because 1 was hungry—\ had passed that place—but because I got a new idea, aud Such a one as Would never have been born of a fall ‘empty headed @ de dams clique rete ane adou revolution destroyed it by the blade of the guillotine—been so persistent in their sneers and witless gibes against human energies, novjo oiferts, g00d purposes ayy stomach. When ® man has fasted nine days the grossness of Is Datural Condifion is worked off, bis brain then either gets fuddied or he sees things with @ spiritual cleargess yeyo@a the ken of sensual THOT Alay, ” THE MAIDEN MISER'S GOLD. Tho Bone of; Contention that Lochy Ostrom Left Behind Her—A Whopping Slico Wanted by a. Lawyer—Twelve Thousand Dollars for Consultation Focs— Other Lawyers Sustaining aaae: by: Evidence, Pouaukgersre, Nov. 25, 1870, ‘There are prominené lawyers here to-day from almost every county om fhe Hudson river to give testimony relative to Join 2. H. Taliman’a claim against the estate of Lochy UNtrom, Poughkeopsie’s deceased maiden miser, Mr, Taman is a promi- nent lawyer of this city, and during Lochy Ostrom’s life time managed all her business. Now, that Loohy i dead, he inakes the extraordinary claim of $12,000 against the estate for legal services rendered the defunct miser, Precisely the grounds ow Whiok that claim. 1s based have already been given in geati- mony before Calvin Frost, of Peekskill, the referee. Several witnesses testified that Lochy visited Mr? ‘Tallmap’s oftice daily for anuuber of years, remain- ing in consultation with him from firteen minutes to two hours five or six times a day, to the exclusion of other clients, Three of Mr. Tallman’s clorks testt- fled to Lochy’s visits occurring dally through a period of cight or ten years, and at each time she de- manded exclusive attention, John Gatfney testified to her visits to Tallman’s office, and also testified to a conversation he one day had with her, He asked her WHY SHE DIDN'T GET MARRIED, when she made a good many excuses and told about her ‘sparking’? days. She sai@ she hadn’t much money, and no friends but Mr. Tallman and Mr, Wheeler, and what she had they would get after she wasdead. Mr, Tallman’s team took her out riding once in a while, perhaps once or twice a week, Wit- ness used to take her potatoes and cabbage from Mr. Tallman’s. Walter Farrington, who has an office adjoining Mr. Tallman’s, testifled that Lochy visited the lat ter once or twice @ day; sometimes three times & day; Lever content to have any one to do her busl- ness but Mr, Tallman; has known persons to walt half an hour for her to get through. All the above evidence was brought to establish the fact tat Lochy did encroach upon Mr, Tall- man's time daily for a number of years, and the evi- dence to-day was brought to’ show what that time ‘was worth. WHAT ULSTER COUNTY THINKS. Charles A. Fowler, Surrogate of Ulster county, testified—Have practised law over seventeen years; have read the minutes of the testimony given in Mr. Tallman’s case before the referee; if the intestate consulted the plaintif five or six times a day im his oMce apd occupied from fifteen minutes’ to two heurs’ time at each interview for six years, those services would be worth from five to ten dollars tor each consultation, and if they were of more than usual tmportance two hours’ time would be worth more than that—probably twenty-five dollars each; some weight would be given to tne importance of the case; 2 fair charge for unimportant consultation would depend upen the time consumed; if two hours, them not less than ten dollars; perhaps TEN DOLLARS AN HOUR, however, on an important consultation; if the dé. ceased’s consultation was upon th > subject of in- vesting her money, $25,000, | would charge five or ten dollars each; twe hours’ consultaion on any matter would be worth ten dollars; any consulta. tion, even if it does not consume over five minutes, ig worth five dollars if it is worth anytning; there are some consultations for which lawyers do not habitually charge; litigated cases are among those; T have had the management of estates worth $25,000 or upwards for ever six years; I have never had such a client as Lochy Ostrom ts said to have been. \ Mr. John Thompson (loquitur)—Nobody else, I guess, except Mr. ‘Tallman. Witness continuing—I never knew a lawyer to charge by the hour—at least a respectable practi- uoners I never knew a lawyer who did all the busi- ness lo¥'2 cilent who charged for every consultation; I coneeras in the testimony that Lochy Ostrom never Di y litigated business; speaking as a lawyer, aud Knowing what I do of the servicesren- dered Lochy Ostrom, I may say that such services by the hour as a general thing, not customarily; | iave not estimated such services by the hour; lawyers do not ordinarily charge in that way. Oy weiraT COMATMBIA COUNTY THINKS. Cornelius Esselatyn, of Hudson, Columbia county, testified—Have naan atiorney at law since 1855; I cannot differ mat ly from the last wituess; con- sultations are worth from five to ten dollars each; there are Charges a iswyer can make under five dol- lars; when prices get dawa to three dollars for con- sultation we don’t charge anything; if consultations are In refereiice to investments it Would necedsai require other services outwide et the office, examine ing 1ecoras, &c.; therefore the party lowning’ the money imposes a good deal of. responsibility apon. the attorney; if she goes to an attorney's office and takes up his time she onght to pay for it: if a person. occupies an attorney’s time upon any subject that person takes the responsibility of paying for it; if L thought the person was a good client and would far- nish we considerable business I could TOLERATE THE BORE and charge for sthe time; if Lechy Ostrom visited Mr. Tallman and consumed his time, to the exclu- sion of other clients, she should pay for it; it is worth from $300 to $500 per year to take care ef an estate worth $25,000; I wish it tobe understood ia this that J do not include the time occupied in daily cousuitation at the ofice; if an ignorant, miserly ‘woman came to ine over and over and over again to consult on one Bigee of business all the time, and I had the general management of her affairs, I'would regard it as my right to charge her from five to ten dollars for each consultation; I think time money; our firm, for this kind Of service, generally send in a bill once @ year, nut waiting six years; some lawyers might let such a bil\ run fifteen or twenty years, but we weuld not; I don’t think it is customary for lawyer to notify a cliext every time they make a charge against him. WHAT ORANGE COUNTY THINKS. Thomas George, of Newburg, Orange county, County Judge, testifed—I think the con- sultations mentioned were worth from three to five deilars per hour; if a party had 25,000 in my hands, which I was -managing, would allow & reasonable amount of consuita- tion free of charge; I never did bnsiness that way; it ts net customary in our county w charge the Jender of money if there 1s nothing more than law business connected with the loan; the drawing of the papers and seaching the records comes out ef the borrower; it Lhad to pay the taxes and examine the suftictency of the security, I should charge the person loaning one per ceat upon every loan made during the year; if @ person calls on me upon bust. ness connected with a loan five or six umes a week, aiter I had already had reasonable consultation w the subject, t would charge from three to five dollars for each consultation; & day’s werk for a lawyer ought to amount to a ceriainsum of money; I don’t give any epinions on the street; sometimes my bills are leas than three dollars. WHAT A NREWBURG LAWYER SAYS. J. Halleck Drakes, of Newburg, was the next wit- Tess, fe testified to bemg a lawyer since 1859; he aiso believed in charging irom three to five dollars an hour, in proportion to the time occupied for con- suitation; it they were visits of friends! ip then no charge; fora reasonable number of visits l make no specific charge, but charges en masse; haven’t hardly Kept an account within the past year; 1 try to charge all us nearly alike as possibile, but am gen- erally governed by the time consumed in consulta- tion; for taking care of an estate I charge oue per cent upon the principal and disbursements; we do business too cheap in Newburg; | wouldn’t give over five or six interviews in relation to the matter Without additional charge, WHAT AN EX-CONGRESSMAN THINKS. Ties L. Beale testified to being a lawyer since 1850; he hud seen Lochy Ostrom in Mr. Tallran’s ofice on two or three occasions, I remaining in an- other Office till she leit; on one of those occasions she stayed haif an hour; she was a singularly appear- ing woman, and lasked who she was; I should say thateach consultation she had with Mr. Tallman was worth from five to ten dollars; it would make some difference as to the amount of busimess he done for her, although I should either CHARGE HER FIVE DOLLARS OR NOTHING, except for litigated business; I have had considerable expenence in loaning money prior to 1866; if my cleus should inquire about the loan, responsibility of parues, character of securities, &c., | should charge him five dollars if the censuitation occupted twenty minutes; Mf the Consultations were repeated four or five times a week { would charge the same and so inform him; a fair charge for taking care of a $25,000 estate would be $600 per anamm; within my knowledge or my clientage there are a class of per- yous who visit my oMice frequently aud ask ques- tious Whom I do not charge. WHAT MR. TALLMAN DIDN'T ANSWER. Jonn P, H. Tallman, sworn—Have you ever been paid by any one Jor services fer which this suit pas been brought? Objected to, and objection sus- vained, On What agreement or understanding with ‘or deceased were these services rendered? Objected to, and objection sustamed. . Here the se was adjourned till Mond a enante ber :8. During the examination Allard sit a and John Thompson appeared tor Mr. ‘Talinan. while Judge Caaries Wheaton and Will Se ett nton represented Walter D. Wheeler, the CE ee of LochyOstrom’s estate. Ei. Orumihey apheat for unknown heirs, During the proceedings the counsel for Mr. ‘Tallman offeted to prove that Lechy promised to. pay Mr, Tallman Jiberally for servi rendered her but the opposition objected. A WEDLOCK RaiLnoap TRAIN Down Sourn.—A youthfal runaway couple trom ‘Troy, Ali were joined in wedlock in this ony, yesterday. Tived on the morning train. The completion eno road from Troy 18 of immense benefit to those Ton contemplate matrimony without parental saneriy, We happened to be tn Justice Charles Cole! a the office yesterday morning when he perio “74 ceremony over two Russell county Ala OUT (Fda) SUM NOV, Sle