The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1872, Page 3

‘Deed SACKCLOTH AND ASHES. Boston in a Peniten- tial Mood. Solemn Services and Timely Ser- mons in the Churches. “GOD ADVERTISES HONESTY.” A Remarkable Scene in the “Old South.” PROMPT ACTION OF THE CHURCH MILITANT, i An Organist and Choir from the First : Regiment of Militia. CONDITION OF THE BURNED DISTRICT. ‘Whe Temporary Post Office Swamped with Let- ters—A Quantity of Valuable Silverware Re- - covered—The Losses of Harvard College— Identification of Human Remains. Boston, Nov. 17, 1872. An even week has passed since the great cala- mity, and although the excitement has subsided in Part, yet there is little else thought or talked of, Thousands and thousands of strangers have been in the city to-day, and the burnt district was for the frat time thrown open, only the points where dangerous walls are left standing being guarded, All the churches in the city were crowded to everfowing, and probably there was not a single sermon but had reference to the great-fire. The most sad, solemn and impressive were the closing services in the ‘Old South,” the edifice where the fire was stopped, and the safety of which ts re- garded as the salvation of the western and north- ern part ofthe city. More than two hundred years ago @ congregation assembled at the corner of ‘Washington and Milk streets for the purpose of engaging in divine worship, and for more than one hundred and fifty years the weekly assemblages at this corner have been enclosed within the same walls as those which to-day interwitnessed the gathering of martial men to listen to the last re- ligious service in the Old South. For day's past, as Ihave telegraphed you, this church has been made THE IEADQUARTERS OF THE TROOPS who have been engaged in the work of guarding the burned district. They have slept upon the floors and in the pews, and desecrated its sacred precincts with tobacco juice, and games of poker and high-low-jack, Martial law has superseded the law of the Gospel, and the authority of the Major General in command has ruled supreme. To-day, however, inasmuch as this will probably be the last week of tne service of the church mill- tant, and because of the fact that next Tuesday the United States authorities ‘will take pessession of the building for the purpose Of converting it intoa temporary Post Ofice, it was deemed expedient once more, and for the last ume, to hold religious services in the sacred edi- Ace. Rev, Dr, JM. Manning, pastor gf the church, Qonsented fo direct thé ‘éxercises, and Rev. Dr W. 4H. 4H. Murray, pastor of the Park street church, volunteered his assistance. Next came the question of providing an organist atid choir for the occasion, The hour at which the i@ea was conceived (three o'clock), rendered this a dificult task. Nearly every organist in the city was employed elsewhere, and vain scarch was made for musical talent. . A MUSICAL COMPANY, Finally Captain William B, Sears, of Company 0, First Regiment M. V. M., Claflin Guards of West Newton, was appealed to for advice. He called his men 1m line, and after stating the nature of the emergency, requested that all, if there was an organist in the Company, or any singers, they should march three paces to the front. All but fourteen of the fifty-six privates stepped forward atthe word of command, andit was found that five of them were capable to fill the position of or- ganist. A selection was made resuiting m the choice of John Tucker, and a choir of twenty Picked voices. This done seven companies of the regiment marched to their seats in files, and as- sumed a reverential aspect. The old church never presented a more singular spectacle. Aside from the solemnity of the occasion, the antiquated sounding board, the chandelier, with its shades like weiss beer glasses; the officers, in gray and gold fitting to and fro; the soldiers, gos- sipping with one another under their breath; the grim-visaged police officers, with occasionally a petticoat here and there, combined to render the picture an odd one to witness. a THE SERVICES commenced at half-past four o’clock. Rev. Dr. Manning, after an affecting allusion to his long pastorate inthe parish, and the fact that never hereafter would these walls re-echo to the sounds of divine worship, spoke of the necessity of each giving his soul to Christ. The calamity of the past week had taught us all that nothing could be de- Pended upon but the will of the Almighty God. Men were finite and God was infinite, and His ‘mercy was our dependence, while His justice was the end of all things. The choir sang the hymn, NEARER MY GOD TO THEE, Tr which an address was delivered by the Rev. ro. H. Murray, * ia © ote We do not need a sermon to-day, he’ said; the | fuins before us are a sermon by themselves. It is Mot necessary that Ishould cite to you a text of Scripture and preach a discourse therefrom. Every brick in these eighty acres is a text, and the lessons etal than et by you all. But there has GREAT GOOD FROM THIS CALAMITY, It has taught us the love of neighborhood of each Other. Selfishness araws lines between men. It igxiles each from the other's heart, It is com‘ort. ing to know, thet, and t6 fealize that by the pub. Uc opinion of Boston, universally expressed, self- love is a thing entirely to be forgotten in this ca- lamity. A man who seeks to build up a fortune on the top of another's misfortune is an extortioner and a thief, Call such men what you please, give them what rank im the mercantile community you can, they are bypocrites. What we need now is sympathy; sym- pathy is better than money, prosperity is much More vaiuable than the pecuniary means with which to acquire it, and we think that in our- selves lies a sentiment which will achieve the healthy state of the public welfare which is needed ‘without any help from abroad. GOD ADVERTISES HONESTY by individual examples, The eyes of the mercan- tile classes of the world are upon us, They realize the fact that whiic we appreciate the importance Of all that we have lost we are happy in tho con- sciousness that we still preserve our honesty. No fegal quibble prevents us from paying our notes, Gnd no desire to aggrandize ourselves urges us to @ccept help which we do not need. In some g@ense, too, our exampie will frighten other cities from wrong doing. If the merchants of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago should some day be visited by an infliction like this, they will femember our course of action and onr strict ad- hegion to the right, and go themselves aud do likewise, WE ARE DEVOUTLY GRATEFUL for whatis leit to us, Our heartnstones are intact, our homes are perfect, our wives and children are icft to us to protect and care for. Be- fore the air surrenders forever the tones of thanksgiving which have otten been heard in this g@anctuary we want to remember these facts anu these causes for praising God. We want to thank Hiw Jor the past and for the glorious hope of im- . NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. gOrtality Mm the Mature. In ashes we come, and in @ackcioth and with bowed heads ‘bended knees we wish tosay, “O Lord Foy‘eul be aane'™ The services were concluded the singing of * eetaon BY REV. R. L. COLLYER. Rev. Robert Laird Collyer, of Chi reached to @ large regation at the Rev. Edward E. Hale’s church, ing as his text the twenty-second and twenty-third verses of the thirty- chapter of Exedus:— rite while my glo % drt ustalcgee ever nu ey Sor Pett thee with my hand while I pass by. And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parte; but my face shall not be seen. eae He dwelt at considerable length upon me- diate wo! d meaning of the text. The cleft of the ; wag close, marrow, dark, when dovered’ by Lord's hand, and in that confine the blackness ‘#4 opp. apive and the waiting seemed interminable; but the hand was at length removed and tg nes rent Moses beheld the glor of ike iced in a streamed in an Lord. So nations and individuals are cleit of a rock, and all seems desol: gloom, ruin and utter hopelessness; but there comes at last the hght brighter than was ever known before, and the blessing and ge)dness and the glory of the Lord is seen. When our country was in’ the depths of war, we wondered in our hearts if there would ever be an end to it; but the end came, and then we knew that when it was the darkest the Lord was nearest, and, in this day, said the preacher, we are in the cle{t of the rock in the dark seraignt place, and all the light there is lies benind. was A FIRE ANGEL that came; but we say that it was a fire flend. It ts so hard to see God's and there is no person who will not sce God’s blessing in it if he will only look with confidence, Boston can arise through it all to a glorious resurrection, for moshing has been lost that may not be replaced if hope am courage are not lost, SERMON BY REV, DR, NBA 18, Rev. Dr. Rollin H. Neals, of the First Baptist church, Somerset street, took his text trom Jeremiah, viii. He said :—“These words of the prophet were utterea in view of the man, calamities that came upon the people of Israel, resulting in their final subju- gation and captivity, It is not in my heart to a ply the language of the text to our citizens. No tine to censure when ia trouble, faint and trembling, stunned by the shock they have re- ceived, and scarcely Knowing what they have suf- fered. The excellent spirit which has thus far been manifested, the cheertulness, the courage and hope everywhere expressed, we must all approve and rejoice in. The firemen who labored so nobly to stay the flames are entitied to unqualified thanks, The city government in all its departments did their duty the best they could under the circum- stances, If some mistakes were made they will be readily excused, owing to the excitement of the moment and the fearfulness of the hour. We shall never forget or fail to remember with grati- tude tne kindly voices of sympathy and good cheer which come to us from other places, THE WORDS OF IENRY WARD BEECHER were prompt and characteristic last Sunday night. It was an inspiring theme to him, and had the full sympathy of his hearers, Then, too, the voice irom Chicago; how strange, and yet how good! One hundred thousand dollars which had been raised for themselves and which they still needed, but thinking their benefactors were now suffering more than they, ‘They must send it to us.” Our own citizens, nen in Whose wisdom we have con- fidence, we have reason to believe, are taking judi- cious and effective measures to meet the present exigencies and provide for the future prospects and saicty of the city. The State and national overnments have generously volunteered to favor our merchants and prominent business men in their enterprise ene contemplate for the good of the city; and, notwithstanding all this, there is some occasion for the words of the text, “I harkened and heard, but they spoke not aright. No one repeuted him of the evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into battle.” I hope good sentl. Maents will be uttered from the different pulpits to- day; but it seems to me that thus far there has scarcely a right view been taken of THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD in this great calamity, The immediate causes of the fire have been very properly inquired into; the narrow streets, the high buildings and the Mansard roofs criticised and condemned as they should be; but there is a disposition to feel satisfied after unding out the immediate cause ofa calamity. There is a sensitiveness against moral lessons, as if they implied that this calamity was a ipagment of God, like that which destroyed the old world and overthrew the cities of the plain, ‘This does not necessarily follow. Physical calamities are not always proportioned to the moral deserts of those who suiler them. The great WHEELS OF THE UNIVERS! jd move with. beneticial exactness, and do not turn aside a hatr’s breadth to spare @ yood maa or to crush d mad. Nevertheless the wi not God are inscrutable and past finding gut, The wheels of Pro- Yignee are full of eyes, indicating infelligencé and design, and any circumstance which occurs in our history is designed to do us good. Itis to be re- garded as the voice of God to us and charged with some legons of wisdom ef encouragement, coun- sel or admonition, wh! ich e do well to heed. The lessons of prosperity are obvi though more likely to be unheeded than of aMiction. God’s mercies are designed to incite gratitude to the bounteous Giver. Another design, and, as a general thing, the real effect of these great calami- ties is to make men sensible of their ordinary mer- cies. Many of our citizens, I am happy to say, have not suffered loss and they fecl grateful, and even they who have suffered think of what is ieft, ‘They are thankful their health and youth and manly vigor may be still left. They did not know till now how many blessings they enjoyed. These great calamities show people as they are—without the special GaAs ar ion of race as they are likely to remain till the judgment day. ‘he skeletons ex- humed from THE BURNED CITIES OF POMPEIT and Herculeaneum are specimens of the diversities of character made manifest under a common catas- trophe. “The miser was found clutching his gold,”” “the mother with her infant to her breast.” In a word, God’s providence, whether of aitliction or blessing, do us good or otherwise, according as we have a heart to improve or abuse them, The praves of each one should be, “Lord, give me a heart that shall be submissive and grateful under all thy doings,” When gladness brings my fayored hour Thy love my thoughts shall fill; Resigned when, storms of sorrow lower, ‘My Lord, l méet thy will. SERMON BY THE REV. DR. §. K, LATHROP. Scarcely had the'services of the Old South So- clety, in the Freeman place chapel, been conciuded, than at twelve o’clock those of the ancient Brattle square began, the pastor, Dr. Lathrop, preaching from the text, Mathew xxiv., 39—“And knew not until the flood came.” Such calamities, he said, as the one that had just visited us was con- tinually occurring, and the questions arise, What are we to think? What are we todo? To the first query, he sald, he would prefer to regardit as a punishment inflicted by an angry God than take it as an indication that there is no God. It is not Brae bn for us to say that these laws and accidents of nature, on the whole, do more good than barm; but we must think that through and above and in the midst of it God's providence is with us for ovr good, andthe good it has already accomplished shall show out on THE MORROW AND THE FUTURE ofour city. Ifwe think of this as an order of a wise, gracious and blessed Providence it will bring us submission, patience and trust. If we think of it thus we will immediately go forth with energ: and make the arid desolation smile again wit commerce and industry. He pitied the cant and bigotry that could Polis ty Ik a8 jude. ment upon our good anc onest ‘city. pid myst be energetic; not listless and indolent. We must not regard the ones to whose hegilge ce the digaater Was owing, 60 as to havé fé fégard for thése who suffer, but investi- gate fully aud impartially. Finally, we must re- member that while man may lose his property by accident, he can never losé his soul by accident, and we must look forward to laying up treasure hereafter. Os meme na ehint BREE « THE REV. DR. WERD, SWAWaMOT CONGREGATIONAT. At the Shawmut church, on the corner of Brook- line and Tremont street, the congregation was large and the ey, Dr. Webb preached a sermon from the text, Amos vi., 3—“Shall there be evil in & Cy anid the Lord has not done it??? ‘the introduction was a sort of Lindi | of the two sides, On the dark side, the losses to the city, Church and persons. Besides, these things were cited a8 examples of the losses, while on the bright side it was stated that we have no homeless families to pro- vide for. Our homes nave not lost anything ver: dear, and then we have men in this city who wiil grapple with the problem and shape the history of the future. The following points were then made :— First, that calamity, chastenings, &c., are from God; second, that calamities are from God through His laws—which he illustrated in various ways by showing that when we see anything done we always long to detect the cause, and that the fire occurred by natural laws, which had been violated. So let us look to the cause of the calamity and correct it. The third and last point was that, more strictly, religious ca- lamities, &c., are from God, through’ His righteous laws, for our good. Our tendency here is to make ourselves secure. Hence our vaults, securities, in- surance and other things; but God does not like it, and hence our disaster, which 1s for our good SEARCHING FOR BODIES IN THE RUINS. Among the many labors of love which are being carried on in the burned district is that which em- braces the turning over of the ruins for the pur- pose of ascertaining the whereabouts of persons who when last seen were witnessing the fire probably. Just how many have perished will never be known, for many were strangers here. To-day, for instance, three bundies of bones, which, when sorted out, proved to have once composed the bodies of two individuals, were disinterred from the ruins of Walker's carriage bazaar, on Federal street. Nothing about them goes to indicate who or what they are, and their identity will never be discov- ered. From the store of Edward Hixon & Co. to- day there were taken portions of three distinct bodies. Two of them have been shown to be the foreman, William Farry, and assistant foreman, Daniel Cochran, of Washington Hook and Ladder Company No, 4, of this city, while the third 1s in such a condition as to render it unrecognizable. The remains of such bodies as have been identified have been delivered to their friends, and the others are in charge of the City Undertaker. Every pos- sible endeavor is being made to explore the ruins Sullicicutly to take therefrom al) bodies which are beneath; bnt s/t can scarcely be ho} of them will be in a condition to be The Temporary Post Office Swamped— Harvard’s Loss by the Fire—A Valu- able Lot of Silver Recovered—Recovery of the Remains of Captain William Farril, Bostor, Nov. 17, 1872, Washington street is now open for travel and Other streets in the burned district will probably be cleared of débris during to-morrow. A small military guard is sti!l on duty. Thousands of peo- Ple visited the ruins to-day. The Post Ofice in Faneuil Hall is 80 6 ped with mails that they are obliged to send ge amount of matter to other offices for distribution. Harvard College has lost so heavily by the fire that it asks for $50,000 for immediate use and $200,000 for rebuilding. A VALUABLE DEPOSIT. The most interesting locality among the ruins to-day, and one to which hundreds were attracted by the operations there in progress, was the rear ofthe store of Messrs, Shrieve, Crump and Low. Beneath the sidewalk was a brick vault fifteen feet long, ten feet wide and ten tect deep, which contained between $75,000 and $100,000 worth of silver, including the altar service belonging to Trinity church, a portion of the sacra- mental silver of the Brattle square church, a ser- vice of silver presented to Colonel William Aspin- wall by the merchants of London, whose names, in- scribed thereon, included those of George Peabody, Baring Brothers and others; a pitcher presented by Daniel Webster to Peter Harvey and other me- mentoes, besides silverware belonging to the firm, The were placed there after the fire was got under on Summer street, the vault being considered the most secure place im the neighbor- hood, When the building was blown down by the explosion of gas at least two hundred tons of gran- ite were piled upon the top of the vault, But upon opening the vault the sacramental silver presented to the Trinity church by King George the ‘Third, the Brattle square church pitcher, bearing date of 1704, the Webster pitcher and other silverware were brought forth in good order, In some parts of the vault exposed to the hottest of the fire articles were melted. Later in the afternoon search was continued under the sidewalk, with the hope of finding a service of siiver which had been sent down to the workmen on Saturday to be cleaned, but with what success has not transpired, Shortly after finding the remains of Cochran to- day the Soay of Captain William Farril, of the same company, Was exhumed, and identified by a gold chain belonging to his wile. Michael Cudd y has been missing since Saturday night, and was last seen at the falling of the walls on Summer street. ‘This forenoon William Kelly had his right leg broken by the falling of a wall which he was en- gaged in removing. THE HIPPO-DROPSY. How the Car and Stage Lincs Suffer= The Cause, Overwork While Sick— Private and Livery Stables—The Dray- men and Milkmen Losing Many Horses—A Successful Remedy. The last phase of the horse disease is begining to alarm owners, even more than did the epizoo- ty afew weeks since. The symptoms are more deadly, and, it is feared, that fully fifty per cent of the horses attacked will finally succumb under its ravages. Horse doctors agree that it is one of the Worst possible forms in which disease may attack 4n animal, and that cure is a matter of great doubt and uncertainty in any case, It is generally agreed that the main cause of the present (deadly disease is the manner in which horses were used while they were suffering trom the previous catarrhal affection, as only those seem to be attacked Which were roughly used at that time by their owners. The dropsy seems to have left alone the horses which before were su mitted to a thorough course of treatment and entirely cured, while it attacks those in which the germs of the disease had not been thoroughly eradicated. This neglect has allowed what was before a compara- tively innocent malady to develop and strike down the horses which were supposed to be out of all danger. ite This is especially exemplified tn THE STAGE STABLES, where the horses were driven without mercy throughout the whole of the epizootic period and made to perform almost their regular and very hard work. In these stables about fifteen per cent of the whole number of horses have been attacked with the dropsy in @ more or less virulent form, and it is not too much to otf that at least séven per cent of the whole will ultimately succumb under its influence. Of all the street lines the {wenty-third street ling fecms to be the freest ‘om the new malady, and this is owing to the fact that the hofses were not driven for the first few days after the hipporhinorrhea made its appear- ance in this city. The same may be said ofthe car lines. The Third avenue, which ran (and ifdeed was obliged to run) a certain complement of cars, used all its horses more or less when they were in @ diseased condi- tion, The result is that im many cases the epi- zooty has turned to dropsy and the company it is very probable may lose not far from 100 horses be- fore the discase shows symptoms of abatement. At present fully eighty of their-animals are more or less attacked with the dropsy and more will fol- low. The Second avenue line begins also to feel the effect of the new malady. The Bleecker street line will also lose a number of horses from the dropsy, and has lost some already, about cight, it is believed, from the dropsy purely. The Broadway line has now seven horses affected by the dropsy, and the Sixth avenue line nine, The Fourth ave- nue line has been comparatively free from the dis- case, and as this line only ran ten cars during the epizootic period it is another proof that the dropsy only attacks the horses which were overworked before. IN_ LIVERY STABLES. As faras the ITeRALD reporter could ascertain the dropsy has affected about two per cent of the animals previously afflicted, and very few deaths have occurred thus far. Those who will suffer most, no doubt, from the disease will be the dray- men and such who were obliged to use their horses before and overworked them while the disease was in their systems. Of these probably ten per cent will die. The milkmenare also just now feeling pie cuece of their previous hard use of their anl- mals, IN PRIVATE STABLES the only cause to be given for the appearance of the dropay 1s the fact that owners used their horses before they were completely recovered from the coughing and throat disease, Thus Mountain Boy and others were carried off. The only case of a valuable horse being attacked is that belonging to Peter B. Brey a rateren ceruae horse, which is now so low that it cannot recover. The remedy which seems to have been moat suc- cessful for the dropsy thus far is complete rest and the use of the following recipe:—Two eggs, one ounce of spirits of turpentine and two ounces of sweet oil three times a day, * Epizoott Dropsy in Troy and Columbus. TRoy, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1872. The dropsy has attacked the sick horses here and the disease is worse. CoLumrrs, Ohio, Nov. 17, 1872, Fifty cases of the horse disease have occurred in this city. THE BANGOR INSURANCE COMPANIES, Assets and Losses by the Boston Fire=— The National in the Hands of a Re- ceiver. ef tv Bancon, Me., Nov. 17, 1872. The following are the assets and losses of the various Bangor insurance companies:—Bangor, assets, $255,000; losses, $60,000; Eastern, assets, $546,000; losses, $150,000; Union, assets, $550,000; losses, $150,000; National, capital, $200,000; lesses, $166,000, Except the National all these companies’ losses have been made good by the stockholders, The National is in the hands of a receiver. DISASTROUS FIRE IN GEORGIA. SaVannall, Ga., Nov, 17, 1872. The business portion of the town of Abbeyville, 8. C., was destroyed by fire to-day, Loss $50,000; partly ineured, THE ARMY OF THE OUMBERLAND,. Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 17, 1872. The Army of the Cumberland meets here on Wednesday next. The indications are that the attendance will be large. Generals Sheridan, Hooker and Melgs, Governor Noyes, Senator Morton and other distinguished persons have an- nounced their intention to be present. Tag Roap To InpIA.—Speaking ef the Euphrates Valley line, the Levant Herald announces that the Grand Vizier has commissioned M. Pressel, the well known engineer, to undertake the survey of the ground for a line of railway from Dip on the coast of Syria, to Bagdad, and a preliminary step has already been taken in the lespatch to Tripoll of two experienced engineers, Messrs. ‘Tchernik and Schutt, the former of whom took an active part in the pioneering work of the Rou melian fine. The object is to obtain an accurate pro- fessional pak of the route devised by the Grand Vizier, in substitution of the lines Fey oak pro- josed for connecting the Mediterranean with the Persian Guif, The line now suggested by Midhat Pacha will cover a distance of about 550 miles, commencing at Tripoli, on the Syrian coast, pass- ing by way of snr ie and crossing the Euphrates, thence traversing Mesopotamia and the Tigris and terminating at Bagdad, where it would meet the Persian Gull line. ay originally planned. as.” | WASHINGTON. A Kiowa-Comanche Business Arrangement. THE VACANT MAJOR GENERALSHIP. Glimpses of Points in the New Policy of the President. “LET US HAVE PEACE” ONCE MORE. The Cost and Present Condition of Our Harbor Defences. LAWS GOVERNING THE ARMY. American Inventors and the Vienna Exhibi- tion—A Treaty To Be Made with Aus- tria—The Government Collect- ing Criminal Statistics. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 1872. A New Departure by the President—Sec- tienal Differences To Be Done Away With and the South Conciliated—The “Let Us Have Peace” Policy To Be En- forced. The important subject of the relations of the gov- ernment to the Southern people and the treat- ment of the reconstructed States has, since the election, been canvassed carefully by those who are speculating on the future policy of the adminis- tration, Gentlemen who enjoy excellent oppor- tunities for learning the news and temper of the President are confident that the rigorous régime of the past is to be henceforth discarded for one more generous and conciliatory. It is certain that the President's attention is much given to the best modes of effecting such a result, and it is believed that he fully coincides with the idea thrown out by zealous supporters of his administration at this city—namely, the time and the circumstances of the recent election are propitious for reviving the same era of good feeling as was inaugurated by Mr. Monroe’s administration after an election by a similar overwhelming majority as that just given. Itis reported that in a recent interview with General Sherman the President stated that he should devote his best efforts to reunite the North and thg@Bouth, and similar sentiments are said to have been uttered by him ina conversation with Judge Alexander Rives, of Virginia, an original Union man and friend of his administration. The President's attention has been drawn to the sharp features of the Ku Klux legislation, and it was stated the other day bya member of the Cabinet that the President would like to see those laws modified and all ‘eatures repealed which were not uniform in their operation over the country as soon as he could be satisfied that there was full protection for life and property in the Southern States. The same gentle- man was ‘confident of the President's friendly feelings towards the Southern people and of his desire to re-establish good will and cordial relations between the estranged sections. The precise mode of giving effect to these views has not been determined upon, but that something will be done seems highly probable. The policy of a general amnesty will probably be endorsed in the Presi- dent's message and passed by the two-thirds vote, It was remarked by a prominent friend of the Presi- dent on yesterday that there was no reason whatever in perpetuating these disabilities, as they only served to irritate, and the South could elect, if disposed, worse men than these now under disabilities. Itis the opinion of well informed Southern men that the South, so far from making any factious war upon the administration, would meet any advance more than half way, and that an entire reconstruc- tion of parties at the South would be the conse- quence of such a conciliatory and liberal line of policy by the President. That this policy will be op- posed by the ultras of the North is certain, and also that It will be resisted,by the carpet-baggers who desire to perpetuate the present sectional dimcul- ties. The idea mects with favor that the surest Way to flank such evil-disposed persons would be to make the Executive appointments in the South from tne most conservative and moderate men of both parties who are sincerely in favor of the new programme of peace, and who desire good order, along with a reform of the extravagance and cor- ruption which have plunged so many States into bankruptcy. Estimates for the Forts and Batteries in New York Harbor=—The Present Con- dition of the Defensive Works. From the report on the sea coast defences of New York city it appears that the modifications of Fort Schuyler, to conform that work to the requirements of the modern defensive system, have so far pro- gressed that the north front will be completed during the present fiscal year and the northeast front be taken in hand immediately thereafter. The estimates for the next fiscal year are $100,000, or $15,000 more than the yearly appropriation granted last session. The fort at Willett’s Point, which unites with Fort Schuyler in defending the entrance to the port by the East River, requires to be put in a better state of defense now that the Hell Gate obstructions are in a fair way of removal, and $100,000 are asked for in consequence. This is regarded as a favor- able site for the erection of the scattered earthen barbette batteries that are a prominent feature of the pew defensive system, aud two of those batteries, of two and six guns respectively, have been completed, and a part of a large battery of ten guns has aiso been finished up for service. Another six-gun battery will shortly be completed, and, when funds are provided, the construction of others will begin, An appropriation of $76,000 was granted at the last session, which, with the balance from former grants, has paid for the work already done, which also includes a large magazine to hold 250,000 pounds of cannon powder. Extensive re- pairs and modifications have been completed at Fort Columbus on Governor's Island, including a new six-gun barbette battery. An appropriation of $70,000 for the coming year is wanted by the engineer in charge. At Fort Wood, on Bedloe’s Is- land, defending Sew York, Jersey City and part of Brooklyn, but little has been done the past year, and the estimate for the coming year is but $49,000. On Fort Hamilton, down the bay, and its outlying batteries, $40,000 was appropri- ated for the present year, and $50,000 is asked for go on with the work, The mortar battery, in- tended to play upon the decks of hostile ships while entangled in obstructions or dragging for torpedoes, is about completed. At the new Fort Tompkins, on Staten Island, commanding the Nar- rows, much work is nearing compietion. Thirty thousand dollars is the estimated sum which, with the balance of the $83,000 last appropriated, will carry on the construction during the next year. The glacis gun battery tothe northof the main work and the glacis mortar battery to the south are finished. Battery Hudson and the North Clift battery are almost finished, and the modification of the South Cliff battery is shortly to be com- menced, At the fort at Sandy Hook it has been necessary to build two jettees of sheet piling for the protection of the site from the washing of the waves, and a beach Is rapidly forming. These com- prise all the important operations of the past year, Great Father's Talk No Heapee Gooul— Indian Like Hunt, Steal and Take Much Scalp. Information has been received here from the commanding officer of the military department of ‘Texas to the effect that the Kiowa and Comanche bands who have been depredating so extensively in Northern Texas, and whom the Indian Bureau has been hoping to get upon thelr reservations in the Indian territory this Winter. according to the arrangement made with the chiefs lately here, have entered into a treaty with the Lipans and Kickapoos across the Rio Grande, by which they secure the privileges of the market the latter- named bands enjoy in Mexico for the plunder they themselves gain in their frequent incursions across the boundary into the stock-raising districts of Texas, It is feared that the facilities thus gained by the Kiowas and Comanches for the purchase of arms and other contraband supplies, and -the gale of their stolen goods, will render them indifferent to the persuasions and threats lately resorted to to get them permanently upon their reservation, unless the Mexican government should develop unexpected power as well as the will of control over their own bands, The Vacant Major poiniment to be It is believed by the friends of the several candi- dates that the appointment of a Major General to succeed the late General Meade will be made early in the present week, according to the President's general habit of disposing of his appointments as soon as he determines upon the proper persons to receive them, so as to avoid the unfue multiplica- tion of candidates by delay, and to relieve himself from what he has confessed to be the most vexatious of the cares of the Presidential omce. The Secre- tary of War is not a candidate, and the mention of his name is unauthorized in connection with the Major Generalship. General Burnside, who is im- mersed in civil affairs of his own, ts not understood here to be acandidate for any office, and it ts cer- tain that his name receives no serious considera- tion by the President or General Sherman, Gene- rals Howard and Canby, who are brigadiers now, are regarded as candidates, and have been recom- mended as such, but the former has no expectation of the appointment, and the latter has made no application himself direct or through others, As already stated tn these despatches the real candi- dates are General Terry, of the line, and General Meigs, of the staff, both having General Sherman for their friend, American Inventors and the Vienna Exhibition—Proposed Treaty With Austria, Many fnventors of the United States have ex- Pressed their reluctance to contribute to the Vienna Exposition for the reason that, owing to the stringent character of the patent laws of Austria, American patentees would have no remedy against the appropriation of their improvements by per- sons of other nationalities without compensation, In order to overcome this difficulty our govern- ment yesterday prepared the project of a treaty or convention between the United States and Austria in order to secnre in that country the right of American inventors to the same extent that Aus- trivn inventors are protected in our country. It is the design to lay this proposition before the Austrian government at the earliest practicable period, and tae telegrapn may be used to facilitate the negotiation, Should this measure be consum- mated, our government will propose to the various nations of Europe that some international arrange- ment be made to secure the rights of inventors of the respective countries under similar circum. stances, The Laws Governing the Army. General Sherman has under examination a com- pilation of all the laws and provisions of the con- stitution relating to the military establishment of the Union, explained and interpreted by a great number of judicial and executive decisions and opinions founded upon the constitution and laws, and with several chapters devoted to the relations of military oMicers, in the performance of duty, to the civil laws and authority of the country, as well as a chapter on the Indian question so far as it af- tects the army. Tne work has been prepared by Colonel Robert N. Scott, of the staff of the late General Halleck, for the authorized use of the army, 48 soon as the General-in-Chief shali sanction its introduction, The Department Reports, The only report of any head of a department completed is that of the Secretary of War. The others are in a state of forwardness. Nearly all the reports of the chiefs of bureaus have been sent tg the public printer, The Government Collecting Criminal Statistics. The Attorney General has addressed letters to the Governors of States and United States District Attorneys requesting them to furnish the statistics of crime under the laws of the United States and as far as practicable under the laws of the several States during the year 1872, which facts will be in- corporated in his annual report to be sent to Con- gressin the latter part of January. Cadets at Annapolis. There are now at the Naval Academy 221 cadet midshipmen fn the several classes and thirty-one cadet engineers, The Horses Mastering the Epizootic, The horses generally seem to be improving. About two-thirds of the usual number of street cars were on the several tines to-day, and, except the discharge from the nose, all the horses appeared to be well. Internal Revenue Receipts. Internal revenue receipts yesterday, $310,207. Total for the month, $4,888,264, Total for the year, to date, $49,372,923, Weekly Currency Statement. Amountof fractional currency received jrom the Printing Bureau during the week..... + $1,199,80 Shipments. 692,000 Shipments of United States note: . 1,685,500 Securities held by the United States Treasury in trust for national banks as security for circulating notes.. 385,377,400 And for deposits of public moneys. . + 15,703,000 National bank currency outstanding OMUMGssssd sss tavlicrgs ass syacbscsss Sk1QUOIE0 Fractional currency redeemed and de- stroyed during the weeK..........0..+ 774,300 Balances in the Treasury. in The following are the Treasury balances at the close of busines yesterday :— Currency $8,621,196 ‘oi... 72,997,543 Inciuding 21,654,000 Special deposits of legal ten re demption of certificates of deposit..... 25,730,000 ENGLISH RAILWAYS, A Financial Review of the System for the Last Twenty Years. [From the Pall Mall Gazette.) There are no exponents of the development of the country’s wealth in recent times more striking than our railway statistics. For twenty years we have been sinking from £14,000,000 to £15,000,000 of hard cash annually in the railways of the United Kingdom, The figures for these years, 1952-1871, are before us. In 1852 the whole capital raised upon shares, debentures and loans by the va- rious companies amounted in actual money to £264,166,000. By 1871 this sum had increased to £552,680,000, From the savings of nineteen years upwards of £283,500,000 had therefore been invested in these undertakings. In the earlier year we 7,336 les of permanent way. By 1671 the total length was 16,376 miles. The cost per mile of railroad in 1851 ‘was £33,283; but land, wages and commodities gen- erally rose in value between that time and the present, and railway construction became more costly. In 1871 the average cost of the lines then Open was £35,044 @ mile, or £2,661 more than in 1851. Some account, too, should be taken in this rison of the circumstance that latterly the ve been more driven into towns than for- ‘i thus @ greater proportionate cost has accrued. {n 1861 the total receipts which the com- panies gathered from all sources were £15,710,000; nineteen years of enterprise more than trebled the sum, the receipts in 1871 amounting to £48,892,000, The receipts per mile in the earlier year were £2,141; in the latter £3,063, exclusive of miscel- laneous receipts in 187l—an increase of £022, or forty-three per cent on the average mile. The num- ber of passengers conveyed in 1851 1s put down at 89,102,000, But here the figures are of the most irregular and indeterminate value. They simply represent journeys. The man, for example, who travels from Westminster to Victoria counts for one, just as he who travels from London to Edin- burg ceunts for one. Bearing this in mind we may coliate the passengers in 1851 with those in 1871—namely, with 375,220,000, Hence more than fourfoid the number are conveyed now who were carried twenty years ago. Season ticket holders are not reckoned in these figures, The receipts per train ao 1861 were 6s. 2d.; in 1871 they were is. $d. Last year the gross receipts from pag- senger trafilc were £20,622,000; from goods trafic, £26,485,000; from miscellaneous sources, £1,785,009 ; making a totai of £48,802,000, From this, forty- seven per cent, or £23,153,000 had to be taken for working expenses, leaving the net receipts at £25,740,000, This may be called half a million ster- ling a week—the net earnings of the railways of the United Kingdom. The net receipts in the same year were equal to £4 138, per cent on the paid-up capital 3 ORNICEPHALZYMOSIS. Hens, Chickens and Turkeys Perishing! with a Mysterious Disease. Desolation and Despair Among: the Barnyard Pets. Mansard Roofs Appearing on the Egg Providers. Swelled Heads on the Thanksgiving Gobblers and Henfluenza Devastating the Chicken Coops. No sooner has the fatal epizootic began to dee cline than we have another disease, which is even’ more dangerous and speedy in its DESTRUCTIVE ATTACKS, All over the United States the chickens and hens! and roosters are dying in thonsands from a sick-{ ness which strikes them in the head, and in from/ ten to eighteen hours the fowl is dead. It is a sort| ofchicken chills and fever, and the unfortunate! fowl first catches a cold or influenza, which grad-| ually grows into a diptheria; a slime begins to be! emitted from the beak, and this is followed by STAGGERING FITS on the part of the chicken, hen or rooster, until at/ last the fowl gives its last kick and lies down to die, In Washington Market, on last Saturday, there’ were hundreds of fowl exposed for sale which were’ unilt for food, A HERALD reporter visited several CHICKEN BUTCHERS and poultry men who do business in the down town markets, and questioned them in regard the chicken disease, The first poultry man he sawi Was not very communicative. “What do you think of the chicken disease? Are( there many of the fowls dying ?”” POULTRY MAN—Oh, there is always chicken® dying, just like men and women. You don’t BELIEVE A CHICKEN can live always, no more than any other animal or bird, do you? HERALD REPORTER—Well, have you any sickt chickens yourself? Have you any fowl for sala that have died of the disease—that is what I desire to know ? PouLTRY MaN—Some of the chickens and turkey@ that I have sold for the last three or four days had been sick, but i THEY WERE KILLED BEFORE the disease developed itself, and Iam sure that they were as sweet meat as any tobe found in) Washington Market or anywhere else. You sea fowl have risen since this’ sickness has begun t spread, as it makes chickens and turkeys ver, sick. The ducks have not been touched yet, and it is not itkely that they will CATCH ANY DISEASE, I refer particularly to the wild fowl; they are ® much hardier bird than any domestic or farmyar fowl. Canvas back ducks are used to the mos stormy weather and are always in the thick of it, particularly the CHESAPEAKE BAY FOWL, , who are always safe to cat in season. Some of tht woodcock and park partridge have been bad thi season, and quail have suffered. A desert chickem is worth twenty-five and @ good turkey is wort twenty-six cents a pound just now, but if thi: disease grows any faster and spreads like th horse disease domestic fowl will go as high as ora ® pound, and even then they will en- re UNFIT TO EAT, no matter how they are cooked. HERALD Repor’ER—Is there any particular’ method of cooking a chicken that is only slightly, stricken with the disease that will render tha fowl safe for food ¥ POULTRY Man—Well, if T HAD A SICK CHICKEN I would wring its neck as soon asI saw the first symptoms and pluck it, and, after ReneS would make a fricasee of it. Hot boiling water wiil purify almost anything in the way of a dead cars cass, excepting a pig Which is taken with the wornt disease, and there is no cure for that. Herat Rerorter—How do you suppose thid disease has taken root or originated? POULTRY Man—Weil, | think that it comes from THE BARNYARD FOWL eating the oats and seeds in the offal of horses whe, have had the horse disease more than anything else, HERALD Reporter—And is it the custom with poultry dealers in Washington and Fulton Marketé to sell fowl that are known to be diseased to pure chasers? POULTRY MAN—As far as that’s concerned we can’t do better, Suppose I have A CRATE OF FOWL ; sent to me by the farmer who lives along the Hud< son River and who raises poultry by the thousand. 1 get bis fowl dead, and generally pay cash down om the nail for the poultry, as they are perishable stock. What can Ido? If the fowl are bad it is certainly not my fault. I don't give them the chicken disease,| and I am not a chicken or A TURKEY DOCTOR. If the fowl are sick I am not supposed to know it, and [ think it is the business of the Hoard of Health, and not my business, to inspect the fowl and sco whether they are fit to be eaten or not. A gentleman named Pierson, who has a “hen factory” in Union county, New Jersey, and has o1 hand some two to three liundred chickens who ar kept BUSY LAYING EGGS, had a conversation with the reporter. He ing formed the latter that he had heard of the diseas among the hens and chickens, but that none o: his towl had been attacked this season, although many were sick last year, when they were take! with what is known as the “roup,” a diseass well known to clucken raisers, This complaint, he said, Was very SIMILAR TO THR “ROUP,’? ‘ and arose from colds contracted, The head began’ to swell shortly alter the fowl waa taken with tha disease, and a very oifensive slime was discharged from the mouth—a thick, rony matter. Death by, the old-fashioned “roup”’ is slow, the disease runé ning for eight to ten days before death ensues. Any person who eats of a chicken aMicted wit. this complaint 1s certain to be sick in a few hourd alterward, having a LOATHING SENSATION AT THE STOMACTE that is very disagreeable to the person who {: taken sick. Mr. Pierson states that he treated hi: chickens successfully for the “roup” by salivatin, their throats with lard or butter and pepper. The the chickens were to be cared for by placing then in a warm piace and protecting theza from coid an exposure. esterday there were hundreds of sick hens and CHICKENS ON STATEN ISLAND, at Castleton, New Brighton, Tottenville, Por Richmond, Princes Bay and other towns on th island, At Bayonne and Pamrapo a great man. hens and turkeys were taken with the new an fatal disease. In Dutchess county there are thou. sands of sick hens, and if the disease spreads muc! further the farmers will have TO START HEN HOSPITALS i on a large scale. In Yorkville and Harlem thd disease has begun to appear ina virulent formy and one man in 119th strect had twelv sick chickens on Saturday which were ail affected with the staggering fits. The publi should be very careful as to the kind of fowls the. have placed before them on the table at present, a: sick poultry are not safe food, and will, if eaten, most probably cause a DANGEROUS CONTAGIOUS disease. The disease among the hogs some tw: ears ago Caused sickness to spread among huma Beings, and ina work by Kamon Paez it is state: whole shoals of fish in the South American water: appeared in a rotting condition from some pesti- lential disorder that was fomented from the nome c \ of the deep. At present it cannot be denied that the prospe for THANKSGIVING DINNERS { looks very blue. Only to think of it! If the supp! of turkeys is shortened by this hen disease, wha will New England do, and how will the Puritans t their dinners on that day? Every housewifa in the land is interested in thts chickea disputes and the stands of poultry in WASHINGTON MARKET \ and Fulton Market will be carefully scrutinized t day, and everything from to-day until Thursday, the 28th of this month, on which Thanksgiving oc-| curs, to see if the fowl are fit to be eaten, Th Board of Health should take instant action if desire to prevent a rinderpest among human be ings as fatal as that which travelled ALL OVER GERMANY AND RUSSIA ' @ few years since. The great question now i therefore, Shali we have @ turkey or chicken dis< a that will do away with our Thanksgiving din< ner There are two or three undoubted signs at the diseased fowl which will be at once noticeabi to those who are about to purchase chickens 0! turkeys. The BREAST TAS A DARK COLOR, 5 betraying a tainted or mortified state of the flesh, and the neck is also very much discolored. The skin fs Ce drawn as the top of a drum and th head is swollen, in some instances, to twice o} three thines the size of an real, OR HEALTHY FOW In all cases there should be a rigid and careful ind spection betore @ purchase 1s made, aud much \ trouble and sickness will be avoided,