The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1871, Page 6

6 N EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ANUSEMENTS THis AFTERNOIN AND EVENING, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twonty-fourta stroot.— Tur New Drama oF Divorog. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad: way.—WRGRO AOTS—BURLESQUB, BALLET, £0. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broacway.—Tux Bauier Paw- Toxine oF Lumrry DuMPTY. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and U3th street.— A CunIovs Cage—A GaMB OF SPROULATION. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Brondway, corner 30th st. —Perform- ances aftercoon and eventng—THE OcTOROON. Png THEATRE, 24 st, between Sta and 6th ava ~~ — THEATRE, Bowery.—HrLrP—A Favorite ‘ARC ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street ‘road- way.—Puima DONNA FoR A Nigute ess NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Tux Starrs OF NEW YORK GRAND OPERA Setar} corner of Sth av. ana 23d st.— EILrEs Og8, Matinee at 13s, STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery——Orrna Srason—Tuk MaGio Fiure. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Orzna--Dox GIOVANNL LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. 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Paar, 1—Adver'isements, Z—Advertisements, 3—Yacniing: The Third International Race: The Livonia ‘ins, After a Tough Race, by Fifteen Minutes and Five Seconds; Ashbury Again Protests—?rospect Park Fair Grounds: A Large Attendance and Fine 1rottng—News irom Washington—Natioaal Insurance Con- vention—The Pacific Ooast—Ku Kloxing in Mississippi—St. Luke’s Home—Another Explo- sive Compound—Karthquake Shock in Maine— Foreign Scientific Items, 4—Cnicago: brian Description of the Destrac- tion of the Unity that Was; The Loss $475,000,000 and hwo Hundred Lives; The Red March of the Flames; fhe Reign of Ter- Tor After the Ruin; Aid for the Sufferers, S—The Northwestern Fires: Heartrending Narra- tive by an Eye Witness of the Williamson's Mills Conflagrations—New York City News— Jersey's Latest Mystery—The Newark Trag- edy: Fourth Day of the Trial of George Botts for the Murder of “Pet Halsted—Protestant Episcopal and Bapust Missionary Conven- tions—Around the City Hall—Department of Docks—The Coton Aqueduct Laborers—su- perintendent Macgregor’s Report. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “Financial Distur- bances and the New Agents Regulating Them’'—Personal —_Intelligence—Amusement Bagiind Tue ch Relief 1, y-Englan: Tue Chicago Re {ats Sl] Open and the Charity of the Nation Acuve—the Shanta ‘n France—The Famine in Persia— Organization of the German Pariiament—Land- ing of Troops at Havana—Mormon Troubles— The President in Maine: Further Ceremonies at the Opening of the European and North American —_ Railroad—Miscellaneous _Tele- te Ae eeak Staitio Notes—Foreign ‘ersonal Gossip—Views of the Past—Business Notices. $—The Lawless Lowreys: Exploits of the Most Extraordinary Gang of Outlaws Known to Crime; Kobeson County, North Carolina, in Anarchy—Lynch Law in Tennessee—Proceed- ings in the Courts—The Trenton Banker, Mr. Swayze, Acguitied on a Charge of Forgery— Tne Trial of Brigham Young: Federal Autho- rity vs. Polygamitc ‘Theocracy—Board of Heaith—New Orleans Intel hgence—sentence . ass Defaulters—Naval Intelli- o—Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—City Government—Marriages and Deaths—Adyertisements, 40—Egypt's Example: The Khedive’s Exemplifica- tion to the Orient—Political Intelligence— Shipping Intelitgence— Advertisements, 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements, Crssion OF JERSEY TO PENNSYLVANIA.— The legality of the sale of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, commonty known as the State of New J-rsey, to John R. Scott, of Pennsylvania, has been affirmed. Thus is New Jersey relieved of what was at once her glory aod her shame, BEBALD. Tor Triat or Hawerss, the Mormon polyg- amist, on a suit brought by his first wife for adultery with his other two wives, is progress- ing. It bids fair to be very bestial in its de- velopments, and so far, at least, it will serve to show up polygamy in its true light to the decent people of the rest of the world. Tor Caprors oF THE Horroy, the Glou- cester schooner cut out from Guysboro, N. S., are still enjoying themselves over their ex- ploit; but according to our Washington despatches‘the two governments are keeping very cool and calm o¥er what is such an excit- ing topic to the fishermen. Eagland and Amer- ica evidently do not intend to be driven to war with each other by the nonsensical blus- tering and filibustering bravado of either Gahermen or Fenians. “Poor Parrs,” Too.—The most tonching of all the movements for the relief of Chicago is that of “‘poor Paris,” still strurgling to get on her feet from her late terrible scourges of war, revolution, sieges, bombardments, in- cendiary fires and all the horrors of the Com- mone. How small are the sufferings of Chi- cago compared with the calamities of ‘‘poor Paris!” and yet she, too, comes to the relief of Chicago. There ia nothing to compare with this in the history of mankind. ‘Poor Paris"—delightful, geverous Paris—with all (by faults we cannot help but love thee still, Tae Hatstep Murper Triat in Newark, in which George Botts, who killed Pet Hal- sted, is the defendant, will probably be con- cluded to-day. One noticeable feature of the scene in court yesterday was the’ great array of women among the spectators. It isa sad commentary on the delicacy of American women and the culture and good taste of | the national Anances brings trouble upo NEW YURK HEKALD, ee TORK RRLEY FRIDAY, OOTAIERE DOs LIER Toros coer cs Ld PPT OCTOBER 20, 1871. Finacial Disturbances and the Now Agents Regulating Them. In former times, before the magnetic tele- graph, railroads and steam power came into operation, a financial crisis in one country, or in any particular locality, generally proved very disastrous there before the rest of the world could either know of it or extend relief. Knowledge then had not taken wings, and travelled only a few miles an hour by the old mail coach. That other mighty agent of our modern civilization, the press, then spoke only in short paragraphs and slowly. Now, the current events and the financial affairs of all civilized countries are spread before the people in full detail each day, and at different times of the day, as regularly as are the morning and evening meals. Such a catasirophe as the Chicago fire in times past would have proved much more disastrous and have caused a far greater financial distarbance. Apprehension, and that sensitive timidity wich is cbaracter- istic of the money market and credit, would have produced the worst effects before all the facts could have been known. In- surance companies, banks and other busi- ness establishments involved would have been overwhelmed before they could have made arrangements to sustain their credit and to bridge over the diMlculty. Not only have the telegraph, steam power and the press promptly carried reltef to the suffering and given an example of humanity and of the brotherhood of nations unknown previously, but they bave had the most important effect, as well in diffusing the burdens, in regulating the financial consequences and in averting an immediate crisis, All commercial cities, countries and business communities generally have an interest in Chicago, and they are co- operating thro zh the, rapid communication of Intelligence tc to pi event, as far as possible, the serious pine 2 results that might have fol- lowed. It is the same under other circumstances and casualties, These agencies are tending to equalize values and conditions and to bring promptly the money power of one nation or locality to relieve the necessities of another. A financial pressure is felt in New York, and instantly, by means of the telegraph, means from different sections of our own country or from abroad are brought to overcome the diffi- culty. The credit and commercial resources of a people are known at once and temporary relief is afforded on these. Bank or money exchanges are instantly regulated according to the circumstances, ani the flow of specie or commodities restores in time the equilibrium. True it is that know- ledge is power in the financial and commer- cial, as well as in the moral and political, affairs of the world. ‘The balance of trade is better maintained than formerly through the agency of the telegraph, for this gives instant knowledge of the supply and demand. There must be a constant tendency to reduce the per- centage of exchange and to equalize it between commercial nations and different sections of the same country. The effect of this will be to make great revulsions more and more un- likely and less disastrous. We do not lose sight of the fact, however, that overtrading, extravagance and excessive | speculation result in financial disturbances and distress, nor that the mismanagement of the people and retar e green ory, 0! the | couniry. Much as the consequences may be mod@ified by the a; encies to which we have referred a nation has to pay the penalty for its ignorance, recklessness and extravagance just as individuals have. If we continue to get deeper and deeper in debt to Europe, par- ticularly for those luxuries which are consumed and leave nothing behind, we must be more or less at the mercy of our creditors, True, it may be to their interest not to press us too hard and to keep us swimming along, but they can keep us poor—keep our noses to the grindstone, to use a familiar expression, and American society that all our sensational trials are nowadays resorted to by many women of respectable station, who brave all the inconveniences and discomforts of a crush- ing crowd (0 hear the disgusting develop- ments sure to be made in such cases as the present continue to absorb the available means drawn from our industry. The republic under these circumstances is in much the same condition that the rich agricultaral South has been ia relatively to the commercial North, and that all purely agricultural countries must be in, The South, with its surplus products of cotton, tobacco, rice and other things worth hundreds of millions a year, has been always poor and mortgaged to the capital of the commercial North. The whole country occupies much the same relative position to Europe. Then, again, we are not such pessimists as not to see the astonishing resources, recupera- tive energy and great future of the country, The time must come when this republic will be the centre of wealth and financial power— when New York will become what London has long been to the rest of the world. A great deal of the British and other foreign capital that comes here, and which for the time augments our indebtedocss and drain of specie to pay interest, will remain permanently and become a portion of the na- tional wealth. Apart from that which is con- sumed in luxuries there is much that goes into improvements, in railroads and other things, which, of course, enriches the country, Foreign capital invested here in this way is a positive and permanent benefit, and, in the end, will probably draw many of the capital- ists themselves hither. The state of society in the Old World, the revolutions that are pending there, and the growth of the United States in wealth, refinement, greatness, and in all the elements of a higher civilization, will attract both capital and capitalists. It is not boastful to say that this republic is destined to become, at no distant period, much what ancient Rome was to the rest of the world— the centre of movement and power. No one can contemplate our varied and boundless re- sources, the industry, intelligence and am- bition of our people, the vast area of our ter- ritory, lying midway between Europe, Asia, South America and Australia, with a seaboard of some ten thonsand miles, and the rapid de- velopment of improvement and population, without coming to that conclusion. It will not be long before we shall be in instant tele- graphic commuoication with all parts of South and Central America, the West Indies, the populous and rich countries of Asia, and that great Anglo-Saxon empire growing up in Aus- tralia, This, together with the telegraph cables to Europe, must make the United States in time the centre of intelligence, commerce and financial operations, But for the nreaent tima and the immediate future something should be done to improve our financial and commercial situation. The greatness that awaits us may be retarded, in spite of the nataral advantages we possess, unless we show more wisdom in the manage- ment of our affairs, A great deal, no doubt, depends upon the conduct of the federal gov- ernment. Production, and, consequently, the export of products, which would tend to equalize the foreign trade, without such a con- stant drain of specie, are checked by exces- sive taxation and high prices. The govern- ment at Washington has been pursuing a damaging policy to the best interests of the nation by raising enormous and unnecessary revenues. There was no necessity to raise an enormous income with a view of paying the national debt at the rate of a hundred millions or morea year. The credit of the govern- ment did not call for this, and, indeed, it is doubtful if its credit has been improved by It. Then such vast revenues, besides oppressing the people and crippling industry, have stimu- lated extravagant expenditures, corrapt jobs and general demoralization, The Secretary of the Treasury end the party in power seem to have but one object in view, and that is to make political capital ont of liquidating the debt. Mr. Boutwell neither eaw nor seemed to care about the ultimate consequences of such a ruinous policy. He only looked to the effect politically for the time being. If the deluge should come after he would not care, so long ashe could attain the immediate ob- jectin view. The debt could be better paid hereafter, when the country will be richer and more populous. Itis good medium of investment for institutions and aggregated capital that need such a safe and permanent security. In every way it it would, be Detter to leave the debt sions And to take the barden of taxation from the people, Unfortunately, we have a Congress as stupid as the Secretary about Gnancial matters. If that body would reduce taxation to the lowest point, build ap our shipping interests, abandon its policy of protecting a few manufacturers at the cost of the mass of the people, and stop extravagant expenditares, we should soon approximate specie payments, prices would come down and exports would increase. What we really want to bring about this necessary reform in our financial policy ate abler men in tie ad- ministration and in Congress. The small politicians that rule now are too much im- bued with the war ideas and extravagance under which they came tothe surface and into power, The North Carolina Outlaws. The letter from our correspondent in North Carolina, to be found in another columa, dis- closes a condition of affairs in that State most disgraceful to the authorities at Raleigh and the general government. In Robeson couaty for eight years past a band of outlaws, num- bering not more than a dozen, have been mur- dering and robbing at will, in defiance of the local and State authorities, Intrenched in a swamp they bade defiance to the forces sent azainst thew, and actually langhed at the United States troops. Two companies of the latter recently joitied the State forces in an expedition against the murderers and failed miserably. The Lowrey band hold its position, and, in fact, the couaty. It being clear to the citizens that nothing is to be expected from the troops, it is now determined to use Ploodhounds, Now, we cannot Wt believo that the distrust of the militaty is well found- ed. A commander of troops, on an expedition against an armed force, who would let his men wander from camp without their arms, permit the “enemy” to enter that camp at night and stay long enough to engrave his name on a rifle stock, write an insulting letter and go away unmolested, is scarcely calculated to inspire confidence. And we are assured that all this was done, But the most extraordinary cir- cumstance connected with this disgraceful business is that the commander of the State troops met the chief of the murderers with ‘‘a flag of truce,” and actually entered ee negotiations with him for ‘‘a treaty of peace.” We hope this is an exaggeration, but if it be true, there are no words in the vocabulary strong enough to denounce the action. If the troops could not find the path into the swamp by which the outlaws so often emerged, surely they could have shelled the villains out of their hiding place or starved them into submission. This should have been done if it took all the soldiers in the South to accomplish it. It is a dangerous thing to acknowledge, as North Carolina virtually has done, that contemners of the law are stronger than the law. The Crops in Ireland. The news we receive from our special cor- respondents in Ireland, as well as the infor- mation otherwise obtained regarding the con- dition of the crops in that unfortunate country, is not at all encouraging. The prospects are gloomy enough to justify the anticipation that the poorer classes, especially those in the country districts, will suffer severely during the coming winter. The yield of the wheat, oats and barley crops has decreased, and comparison with that of last year shows that the diminution will be considerably lower than what was expected. The turnip crop has also fallen off. To swell, as it were, the miseries of the Irish tenant farmer, to add to bis misfortunes and render his difficulties more perplexing, the potato blight has again visited his fields. In the south it is estimated that one-third of the yield will prove bad, while in other parts we are told that from one-half to two-thirds of the present crop will turn out unsound, This is a melancholy record, and the facts we record may be productive of new troubles among the poorer classes. A plenti- ful harvest brings peace and happiness to the cotter’s home, but with short yields and dis- eased crops discontent and disturbances are likely to follow. Mes. Fair's Case, on her appeal for a new trial, is to be heard on the 24th inst. in the California Supreme Conart. The elections, upon which that lady seemed to depend for a fair trial, have resulted in deposing the party dominant during her previous trial, and the Supreme Court has been made republican in part by the election. Of course we do not see that politics can affect the case at all; but since Mrs. Fair thinks so, it is satisfactory to know that one of her objections to a trial bv that Court is removed, The Organization of the Houso Commit- toes—Importance of the Question. The announcement in the Heratp some days ago in regard to the organization of the leading committees of the present House of Representatives has evoked a very general discussion, and the programme laid down in our special despatch has been controverted by a number of newspapers and politicians. Avvenerable contemporary declares that the Committee of Ways and Means will have a decided majority of outspoken revenue re- formers, while the journals in the protectionist interest are equally clear that only high tariff men will compose it. All are united in op- posing Mr. Dawes’ appointment as Chairman, some taking the ground that that gentleman would hesitate in accepting the place because he would thereby incur the enmity of Judge Kelley and General Garfield, and others assert that Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, will be the coming man. Pennsylvania is very willing to sacrifice Mr. Dickey’s advancement to the Chairmanship’ of the Committee on Appropriations if she can thereby secure the control of the revenue and the manipulation of the tariff question, and Garfield would gladly see Shellabarger shelved if he could stand in the shoes once filled by General Schenck. Nobody is satisfied, as it was not to be expected anybody would be, and the only effect of the quarrel, if it goes on as it has begun, will be to make Speaker Blaine adhere to his original determination. Alt least one journal is apparently satisfied with the Speaker's programme, and it, strange to say, isthe organ of General Butler. Con- soling itself for the fact that the Essex cham- pion is to be compelled to take a ‘back seat, it boldly declares that “where McGregor ails 1s at the head of the table.” This is such a charming way of | making ihe best of an un- pleasant situation that we commend it alike to the revenue reformers and the protectionists, and ask them to possess their souls in patience while Mr. Blaine is tempering the character of the committee with non-committalism. After seeing what he has seen in the past few days he will be more likely than ever to adhere to his original programme, and insist upon making Mr. Dawes the leader of the House. Looking at the matter calmly and carefully we are brought to the conclusion that the Speaker’s programme is a political necessity. There are three vacancies in the committee as before constituted, occasioned by the absence of Schenck, of Ohio; Allison, of Iowa, and McCarthy, of New York, from the Forty- second Conzress. As the committee now stands Hooper, of Massachusetts, has the strongest claims to the chairmanship, but it would be mere madness t6 put him at the head of the committee. It is seriously questioned whether Dawes has the ability to lead the House, but Hooper’s inability to do it is scarcely a matter of doubt. And, after all, this idea of the leadership of the House is, to a great degree, fictitious. Who was the leader when Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, was Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means and Thaddeus Stevens Chairman of the Com- mittee on Appropriations? What grounds are there for assuming that Mr. Shellabarger would make a better leader than Mr. Dawes? The Massachusetts Congressman has filled more important places than the venerable member from Ohio. The one was for a long time Chairman of the Committee of Elections, and at Stevens’ death he succeeded to Stevens’ place. The other has never been ghairman of any Important o committee. Whea Mr. Shella- barger was in Congress before he was a member of the Committee of Elections, and now the absence of Mr. Paine, of Wisconsin, will open the way for him to become its chairman; but, argue it as we may, there seems no escape from the conclusions at which the Speaker has arrived, and which have already been announced in the Heracp. His programme is one that was forced upon him by the existing state of the country and of parties and interests in Congress, and should he attempt a modification he would drift from the waves of an open sea to the breakers upon the shore. We take it, then, that the committees of the Forty-second Congress will be something like this:—Chairman of the Committee of Elections, Mr. Shellabarger; Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Dawes; Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, Mr. Dickey; Chairman of the Committee oa Banking and Currency, Mr. Hooper; Chair- man of the Committee on Naval Affairs, Mr. Sargent; and Chairman of the Com- mittee on Commerce, Mr. Lynch. Gar- field and Hooper, and not Dawes and Shellabarger or Dawes and anybody else are clearly Mr. Blaine’s Scylla and Charybdis, and the best thing ho can do with them is to compel them to ‘‘swap horses,” putting Gar- field in Hooper's place on the Committee of Ways and Means, and Hooper in Garfield's place as Chairman of the Committee on Bank- ing and Currency. By this means he will come as near harmonizing all the opposing ele- ments with which he must contend as is pos- sible and be able to untie the Gordian knot of organization without absolutely cutting it. The wise organization of the committees of the House is more important now than in any previous Congress, The administration wants an organizatioa as nearly in harmony with it as possible, But we have a shilly-shally Pres- ident on the questions of protection and free trade, and the standstill of both the revenue reformers and the protectionists requires such a Committee of Ways and Means as Mr. Blaine designs to form—one that shall be for protec- tion at the same time that it is partly astride of the free-traders’ fence. Mr. Dawes is just the man for the emergency, and Kelley and Garfield will be compelled to sit dowa with him, and they may bite their thumbs ia peace or in anger, as they prefer. Much as we desire it we despair of this Congress rectifying the finances of the country, and we are accordingly reluctantly constrained to regard Mr. Blaine’s programme with more favor than we should otherwise give it. It is a necessity, and there ig the end of the matter. Mr. O’Conor Has Acoerrsp Governor Hoffman's invitation to prosecute our city pec- ulators. Very well; we hope now that he will begin with the ch’ef sinner, Slippery Dick Connolly, There is nothing like beginning a thing right, Strike down the leading spirit of corruption, and the fall of the others will be easily secured, i? of f —TRIPLE SHEET. A. Bonnpartist Alarm ta Franc®s We print this morning a most significant cable despatch regarding the actual condition and immediate prospects of France. The gov- ernment bas issued orders to the commandants of the military and naval posts on the coast of France, warning them to keep a careful watch on the movements of all suspicious or sus- pected persons, and to be ready by prompt ac- tion to suppress any disturbance. The gen- erally supposed reason for this course of con- duct on the part of the government isa dread of a Bonapartist descent on the French coast, and a not improbable coup d'état. There are those who laugh at the imperialists and pooh- pooh their chances. It would be more wise to grieve that France is so weak, and, if the reader will, so demoralized as to be prepared for the restoration of the empire. It is noto- rious that the imperialists, in spite of the re- cent elections for the General Councils, are fullof hope. It is known to some that the Empress Eugénie went to Spain for purposes political, and that her mission has not been altogether unsuccessful. It is known that Paris growls because it is without the advan- tages of acourt. Itis known that the debt with which France is henceforth to be bur- dened is great beyond the possibility of en- durance, and that many of the French people are of the opinion that the empire alone can make the burden tolerable. It is also known that the literary men and journalists, in the agonies which are inseparable from impecu- niosity, if they do not sigh and pray for the restoration of the empire, at least regret its fall. Onthe whole, we do not much wonder at the action of the French government; for @ Bonapartist rising is not at all, things being as they are, an impossibility, In spiv of the unexpected collapse of the empi‘re, and all the miseries which have followed, the French people do not forget that the empire gave them twenty years of uadtaiipled prosperity. Quarantine Regulations—Necessity for Their Strict Observance. Only a day or two since we had to record the death of a passenger from Key West at the quarantine station, off Staten Island, of yellow fever, and yet the vessel on board of which he was brought certificates from phy- sicians that the diseags did not exist at that port at the time of her departure. [Here is another case that readers it necessary for us again to call attention to our quarantine regu- lations, and to show how extreme vigilance should be used in the examination of all cases of sickness that exist, or that may have oc- curred on'board of vessels coming from ports known to be infected, or that may have been so. It is well established that in too many in- stances every conceivable trick and subter- fuge is resorted to in order to pass a vessel from an iafected port through the hands of a quarantine physician, Dsaths that may have occurred on board from malignant diseases prevailing at the port from which she sailed are charged to other than the true cause. A case of genuine yellow fever wiil be repre- sented as having been nothing of consequence, and one of Asiatic cholera will be stated to. have been no more than a mild case of cholera morbus. It is very hard, we will acknowledge, that vessels have frequently to be detained so long a time in Quarantine; but what is this detention in comparison to permitting a large city and the surrounding country to become in- fected with disease of dangerous character? Asiatic cholera Bo x tow prevailing i in its most ar’ freqaéntly ar- Is it reasonable or just riving therefrom. that they should be permitted to proceed im- mediately to the wharf and discharge, even if there have been no cases of sickness during the voyage?’ We will take a cargo of rags coming from one of the infected ports, for in- stance. Why is it not more than probable that some of them have covered the bodies of those who have died of cholera? The health officers should be sustained and all quarantine laws and regulations at every sea- port should be carried out to the letter. These latter cannot be made too stringent, and there should be no relaxation of them in any way— no favors should be granted to any one, no distinction whatever made, no chance what- ever given for the introduction of disease, when human care and foresight can prevent it, Tse Bangor CelebvrationThea European and North American Railroad. The great Bangor celebration of Wednesday last, at which President Grant, Lord Lisgar, the Governor General of Canada, and numer- ous other distinguished officials ‘‘from both sides of the line” assisted, was in honor of the United States section of the European and North American Railway to the New Bruns- wick frontier. Thence they have a road in operation to St. John, N. B., and thence to Shediac Bay, on the Northumbarland Strait of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the strait which separates Prince Edward Island from the main land. From Shediac Bay the road, passing round the heads of both {branches of the Bay of Fundy, takes a southerly direc- tion to Halifax, N. S.; but south of Shediac Bay a small section of the road remains to be completed; for otherwise the Bangor celebra- tion would have been carried through in a long train or two to Halifax, This short gap will shortly be closed up, and then from New York, nine hundred and forty-four miles, we shall have a continuous line of railway to Halifax, which will shorten the transit time between New York and Liver- pool at least thirty-six hours, or two business, days. Hence the title of ‘‘The European and North American Railway” given to this line from Bangor eastward is not inaptly applied; for it will absorb a very large proportion of the passenger traffic of the Atlantic steamers in both directions, and will make Halifax an important half-way house to travellers from all parts of the United States and the New Dominion bound to Europe, and to travellers from Europe bound this way, or southward even to New Orleans, or westward even to San Francisco, The road will bo apt to make & prosperous city of Halifax, and will contri- bute immensely to the development of New Branswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia—fields, forests, mines and fsheries—in bringing their products so much nearer to the markets of the United States—coal, codfish, mackerel and potatoes, But the European and North American featares of the road will be the shortening of the time between New York and Liverpool two or three daya- MITC SN PALE TP Sg CERRO Rg MR TP yr gy ote 8 tee RAEI RT SE RT Rights in Exypt—The Viceroy’ Roforms, That Ismail Pacha, the present ruler of Egypt, is a bold man very few persons will! care to gainsay. By his very daring he attracts attention, gains respect, and helps to elevate the country he rules over in the eyes ofthe world. For an Oriental he is really « live man in the fullest sense of the term as it is understood in this country, Since the open- ing of the Suez Canal he has been more than ordinarily active in pusbing forward improve- ments, correcting abuses and abolishing the numerous evils existing throughout Ezypt. All these, however, are small in comparison with & movement now under way, by: direc. tion of the irrepressible Viceroy. ‘His latest scheme is nothing less than the establishment. of schools for the education of females, Tho: veil is to be dispensed with, and European’ customs, so far as they relate to the improve- ment and development of the young females of his dominions, are to be introduced. Of course, there will be an awful row in the Egyptian camp when this other innova-' tion of the Khedive comes to be put into force. It is not to. be supposed for a moment that the customs of centuries are to be overthrown because of the desire of one man, ‘e feel that most of the old fogy Mussnlmans will regard the action of their chief with holy horror. This, however, will not influence Ismail Pacha to abandoa what is really a grand undertaking, and a movement worthy of the age in which we live. The em- ployment of American officers in the Bzyptian army was a matter of surpris2 to the Orientals. The Sultan of Turkey partook of the excite~ ment, and the action of the go-ahead Viceroy, somewhat alarmed him. Since then the ruler ot Exypt has been introducing other moderna im. provements, and under his wise and vigorous goverament the country is rapidly advancing. This last scheme, relative to the education of women, is certainly one of the boldest’ contemplated, and cannot be too highly com- mended. Wesee in the recent moves of the Khedive, by giving greater liberty to his people, by improving the condition of Ezyp- tian women, by the encouragement he lends to all scientific enterprises, by stimalating commercial schemes and helping to develop the resources of the natlon, a desire to elevate E:ypt to a position of importance among the countries of the earth, The Suez Canal brings Egypt in close connection with the nations of Southern Europe, and the rail- road projects and coast improvements now going on under the direction of the Khedive's government will help to draw the East still closer to the West. Ismail Pacha fis an ob- servant and wise ruler, and possessed of daring sufficient to carry into effect, innova- tions which would cause less courageons men to hesitate and stand still. Tue Firgs IN THE WESTERN ForREsTs, wo are glad to hear from an eyewitness, have been greatly exaggerated, and that they have not been so extensive and destructive as ta disturb the general prosperity of the country. The proclamations, however, of the Governors of Michigan and Wisconsin establish the fact that, while hundreds of lives have been lost by these fires, thousands of people, including many helpless women and children, are left homeless and destitute, and in need, not so much of relief for their immediate wants, aa for their necessitics for the long winter that is jngt before them. The generons contributioos of our ‘citizens, therefore, for the benefit of those unfortunate people will not be lost; for the Governors of the States concerned will see to it that these moneys are not misapplied or wasied, = he ae Es ’ Latest From Persta,—Our latest advices from Persia coafirm all that has been hereto- fore reported of famine, pestilence, insurrec- tions, hostile invasions and all the sufferings, horrors and confusion attending them in that unhappy land. The worst of it is that the goveroment, in the midst of these overwhelm- ing distresses, appears to be not only unable in any way to relieve its suffering people, but powerless to maintain its authority against domestic foes or hostile invaders, It will be one of the wonders of the world if Russia, with this inviing opportunity, shall decline to walk in and take possession of the lands of the grand old empire of the Medes and Persians. SinautaR CorncipENors.—The story about the recovery from the ruins of the Chicago fire of a Bible with all its leaves burned ex- cepting a chapter of Lamentations in which reference is made to an isolated city, and so on, is all very well for the time being; but like most “singular coincidences” it should not be repeated too often, Like that cele- brated Phoenix which has risen from its ashea from time immemorial, such coincidences are » ‘played out.” Tue Trrat or Wri1aM Rupp for the mur- der of his wife, by throwing her out of a third story tenement house window, is now in prozress at the Court of General Sessions. Tue evidence shows that the act of murder was most horrible, one witness testifying that the accused had seized his wife bodily and shoved her out of the window, breaking her hold on the sill as she clung there with her flagers for dear life. The trial is not yet ended. AN Onp Saw Regatizep.—According to cable despatches the old saw of the ‘Dutch taking Holland” has been realized. The in- habitants of the Hague have risen agatnst the Ministry. Personal Intelligence. Governor Hofman yesterday arrived ac the Cla- rendon. General George B. McClellan is domiciled at the New York. Recorder A. Pollok, of Washington, is again at the St. James. bishop Young, of Florida, a among the lace arrt- vais at the Coleman, Viscount de Valevurt, of France, is staying at the St. Nicholas. Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo, is registered at the Hoifman, General Albert J. Myer, of the United States Army, is at the Firth Avenue. General R. D. Johnston, of North Carolina, 13 quar- tered at the St. Nicholas. Judge Clayton, of Misatasippl, is domiciled at the Grand Central. Henry ©. Kelsey, Secretary of State of New Jeraey,. ig at the St. Nicholas, Colonel E. B, Royston, of Raitimors, ts stopping a the Grand veutrade