The New York Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL | 24, °1878—QUADRUPLE SHEET. HR. SETH GREEN ON FISH. How the Rivers, Brooks, Lakes, Ponds and Bays of the United States — Are Stocked with Small Fry. “| Want to See Every Lake in the Union Become a Fish Pond.” Trout, Salmon, White Fish, Shad, Bass and Pike. “HOW I FOUND SETH GREEN.” A Drive to the State’s Waters. Seth Stops Up in a Tree Two Days to Observe Salmon Spawning. THE CHEAPENING OF OUR DAILY FOOD. ‘What was done with the common tomatoes, potatoes onions and hundreds of other vegetable productions which, as wild, were worthless, may In a higher degree be carricd into effect with fish.’ Wild rice scarcely pro- duces enough seed to continue the supply, but protected, developed, it feeds a tenth part of the world. Fish nexlec lestroyed, poached, wasted, ean soon be annihilated, Their re iy maintain a certain cquilibrium ; s roduction gan oniy incline that towards destruction and the entire class will quickly disappear, Treat them like wiid animats and they will inovitably be extermn- ated; domesticate them, as it were, encourage their owth, by putting them under healthful influences, pro- t them from unreasonable disturbance, let them breed in peace, guard the young from injury, ‘assist, them by artificial aid, select the best varieties tor artificial waters and we will soon augment the supply as greatly as we do ‘with either lund animals or vegetables.—From a sp Hon. R. B. Roosevelt. RocHESTER, April 22, 1873. “I want to see every lake in the Union become a fish pond,” Mr, Seth Green said to me this morn- Ing. ‘And,’ he continued, “as there are 647 lakes in the State of New York, just see the waters we might stock with the people’s food.” “Such a provision would give a lake full to about every six thousand of our population ?” “Yes; those bodies of water are small, but abun- dantiy able to support any demand that may be Made upon them.” FORTY YEARS IN THE HARNESS. “Then you are thoroughly in earnest Mr. Green. You propose to make fish culture a national busi- ness ?”” “Certainly. Here 1 have been nearly forty vears Of my life a piscicuiturist, and I am convinced that the old fishermen know literally nothing of the rationale of their art. Fish culture is a subject developing day by day, A few yearsago the vast spawning operations now practised by me at the State hatching house, at Caledonia Springs, were unknown. Even now general ignorance prevails mong the craitsmen. When I. went down tostock the Connecticut River with shad, THE YANKEES Stood on the banks of the stream and laughed at me, The fishermen derided me because I told them that I was going to cheapen fish; the boys hooted at me, and accidentally on purpose they would let a shad fallon me. Thus I became a mar- tyr. These pleasant little episodes made me langh at first; but at last I got ured of the circus; but it wouldn't adjourn. Time rolled on and shad fell fm price because the spawn had proven fruitful, and they became so plentiful tiat the market values fell srom $18 and $50 a hundred to as low as from $3 and $18 a hundred |” “Yes,” added Mr. Cooper, one of the former Com- missioners of the New York State Fisheries, and ‘who was present in the room, “Seth knows more Bbout fish culture than any man in the world, He is thoroughly practical—an angier by nature, @ good shot, fond of the bush and forrest, always lingering about vrooks and streams, turning over Btones and finding what there is new in our creation. If he comes upon a bug generally un- known, lie cau tell you its habits, age and ways of Multiplication, He has been a close observer!" I glanced towards MR. SETH GREEN to survey him more critically after this brief description of his character, He appeared to me about fifty-five years ofage, His frame is stout, but not lai und he has the carriage and ways of @man who las spent much time in the delightful solitudes of angling. He does nothing enthusias- tically; never makes a statement without qualily- fing it; but will talk fish to you until you ieel the Bculessgrowing on your back. You have half a mind, when surveying Mr. Seth Green, te consi- der him Mr. Shad Green, to look ior his gills and fins. He reaily talks well, and, so to speak, rather humanizes fishes as he proceeos to recount the routine of their lives, their nourishment, domestic intercourse and final maturity. Here is a man ‘Whose knowledge of the piscatorial world is vast, and who from boyhood to the present hour has never Ceased to labor for the advancement of ish culture—a inan who may be said to have produced more animal life than any one living in the world. Rochester vas always been his home, and every citizen knows Seth and honors him as one of Ko- chester’s worthy sens, It is fortunate for the State and Union that Mr. Green is Superintendent of the Fisheries, ior, besides possessing the qualities I have named, he dves not believe in mere tancy culture like trout spawning—a luxurious ang bigh- toned pastime—but in filling our lakes and rivers With millions and millions of fish ior the benetit of our miilions and millions of people. We talked long avd earnestly upon this subject, and Mr. Green said :— “I am constantly trying BOLD EXPERIMENTS. For instance, 1 placed im the Genesee River in 1871 over fifteen thousand young shad, with the object of seeing if they would live tn fresh water ‘Without going into sait water, as their natural babits incline them. They did live and thrive, and June, young shad were caught at the Mouth o: tl mesee six imches long. Se up to this point the experiment has proven a success. We intend to keep on finding out the nature of all fish and if they cannot live in other climes and localities than their own just as well as man “But, strictly speaking, all fish are local. They @o not migrate +” “Yes, that istrue. When I used to fish in Lake Ontarie 1 would exhaust one locality, absolutely catch ail the ish occupying and dwelling within a certain square. Tht iisuing grounds then became | destitute, But when { removed my nets further Gown the shore, say eight or ten miles, I found that fish were as plenitiu! as ever.” “You mean w “Certainly, whit rapidly. It is nov the quantity of » being reduced b; ceive that it will not take long to completely ex- % FISHY? are being consumed very mated that every four years lity per cent. You thus per- Qaust all our waters. If some movement had not been made, and if other movements were not in contemplation to spawn and multiply, America Would svon have none of the tribe. It is too bad when we have thousands and thousands of miles of Tivers and brooks, and vast lakes, tu say nothing oe or a ie that we pete rhe , tf ts e ‘ure, the greatest fish-rais: eople in ‘the world.” bhi re ns CHEAPENING FOOD, = At would cheapen all kinds of food, it seems to “Obvieusly. Ifyou get all the people of America eating shad, wuite ish, saimon and bass, and if wR breed these fish so thatit only costs the trou- le to seine them, then a most important and nu- tritious articie 01 food is on the table for a mere song, People will cat tah instead of beef. Beef ‘Ddeing in smali demand will thus cheapen, and so ‘will all other meats in comparison. Now what does this ali mean? It means the elevation of the | laboring classes. It telis one that he can go to yonder lake or brook, catch his fish and have them ‘on hus table, Socially aud morally fish culture is a Dlessing and @ boon to toiling humanity. J am sur- eae that people do not see the economy invoived it. “ But I suppose that some notion of its benefits is getting abroad?” EDUCATING PISCICULTURISTS. “In this way 1 am educating men in my employ in the art of spawning, and by and by we Will have & profession oi experts in the country. Every man cannot be a pisciculturist. It requires many qualities and long experience.” “That is preven by the number of gentlemen in this region Whose trout ponds have Jailed, I sup- sce fish in our great lakes is | them wrimont ssucgoas, There was a general ex- Citamens ali over New York yes Gy oS bendy ikea it becaase "it was to be profitable and be- cai it ‘was to be a neat, ating When the reader remembers that one 1emale trout contains 16,000-ova, almost every one of ye the present process o: impregnation, can be ele. into-a One, delicious tbree-year old Eom ‘worth $1 in the market, wilt one the fingncia! attractions thereof. Mark we! tT say “can be,” not ‘“are;’ for bad water and local disturbances may give the trout the disease of the gills, or if r ing hatchea |the young are not properly ted and “sized,” Will either die or be consumed one by another. Let Us suppdse that @ nian Is a) perfect trodt cul- turist; ttrat hehas a Hifi Agere never ceases to teed a brook matchiess in ita ool yaers. ite swilt stream, itsintertinking: and pebbled bot- tom. By turning loose 100,000 of the young, whioh, if he should not choose to raise, he can buy for $50 a shousand or a sum fi of Sh.oh0, eter three ye yr 4 $100,000 wort! oicest of table dainties: ‘No one, of course, can hope for such an absolute result from any system of ponds, for trout iced on their kind, when tie larger takes & mean advantage of his size, Still an approach can be made (0 theae, Be ~ CAL TA SPRING Temarkapie- lystenpe, It; would seem that Pi dence made rook for the express site of a State hatchmg house and then created Seth Green to become its uitimate master. The water bubbies up (rom the earth and never freezes, not even during the coldest weather. A DRIVE TO THE STATE RESERVOIR. “Come,” said Mr. Green, “let’s go out on the ‘Wide Water’ und see one ut the State tishin insti- tutions,” Then we began to descend through the splendta marble corridors of Powers’ million dollar building—the pride of the Rochestrians. ‘Truly it is a noble edffice, and though al! Rochester might burn Vo \ers coud fiddie, tor his structure is salamander-clad. Mr. Powers, later in the day, explained the construction, and I mentton this facb. for: the benefit of the New York municipality anc zinger-bread architects in general. Mr.Green and | walked ucross the street im quest of a car- is cannot be hatched artificially as yet, but we do not know when some process may be discovered. PUBLIC BENSFACTORS, those men who are not only eminent in the tural science but beneiactors of their Trace, a8 shown in laboring soni 1 pe good of the greatest number, | icel Mention the ame of the Hon. Robert B. elt, His speech in the ot» Representatives, om May 13, 1572, deserves to be engraven in characters of triple stedl.on the recerds of the uation, Compared with the odious trash des} our unlettered legislators to their deluded ite this bril- fro. employ "thelr woalth and ‘study who. y we ease in study- ing Sroblemns other than of private aggrandizement and public vast jortune, his clear, pow and his intimate » With bis practice o} piscicuiture, Mr. 9 labors can be found .coursing through ‘she: t rivers of America, sparkling ip her ht and bea! animation and the iniand seas of our continent, What * distinction cau honor the name of the rer ition that be is: ofour dat bread? What. nobler je di than to have it said of him the depth of bitter Winter he travels-in Ss shoes across the tntie iry+ in foresteuouad, takes. thee up, people je> irys in yi peo) thereabonts may reget tase obits ‘Tom their acres nor kill in, woods? Let th people appland him such as he. loratio Seymour, a8 one of the. co sioners, deserves Seth Green and Mr. to the “% rs yan} paral oe 20 0 to for peoly bg an fin 4 ay arac! ve achieved ior 1 une of service he is not Sertorea the Unit States, “ne pau, aabapoaiy not oat this topic at it real ani sesh, ‘tance. Con- cerning, a8 It does, the nou! t of at least thirty millions of consumers: Saadcgres I dare not write, With a little public spirit d federal patron- axe, we can. divert to other ‘purposes $200,000, 000 that. we annually overspend on our stomachs. We are coming to cheap living every day; the wortld is riage} to drive over the ice to the hauling-in holes, , Where they were seining bass, pike and many species oi coarse fish. “Take my carriage, Mr. Green! I know you!” Seth looked sharks, “Take mine! I've driven you before!” Seth Looked crocoailes. e “Take mine !”? “And mine |"? “And mine!’ and Seth put on his flercest pisca- torial visage, dove through the crowd and finaily jumped into a carriage, and we went out oi Roches- ter belund a pair of sharp-shod horses. We talked of Rochester a8 the capital of our State’s agricul- tore, as the metropolis of American. nurseries, and then as the fin--cal city of our State, Our ob- jective, the “wide water” of the canal, is simply’ a deep and wide pond in the flow o1 the’Erie Canal, When the water was drawn oi! in jormer years it Was found that the fish trom Luke Erie settled in this reservoir, and when in the Spring the ice melted and the water evaporated, immense quantities of fish rotted in the sun. To utilize tiis depository, it was taken by the State, a net was stretched across the canal below tle wide water; and then during the Winter holes were cut in the ice; the nets were set. Every day quantities of biack bass, white bass, Oswego bass and pike were taken out and assorted. As we arrived on the ice the men were just hauling in the nets. A fair supply was ob- tained. ‘fhe bass are generally assorted in their own Jamilies, placed in boxes, which float about in @ space cut in the ice. When appications are made jor bass they are sent to all sizes and 1,000 are always ready at the “wide water.” They are splendid specimens of their species—these bass. BASS, “It is now only fourteen years,” said Seth Green to me, “that fourteen bass were putin the Poto- mac River by an Englishman, and to-day it is the greatest bass stream in the world. See how they multiply. Another case: Only twenty-four, were put in a lake ta Orange county four years ago, and now over @ ton oj bass has been taken out.’ “What do you cail the mature age of the fish, say i all spectes, Mr, Green?" “All tish—there are exceptions—arrive at ma- turity, our genus homo twenty-one, when they rhe three years of age. They should be eaten then, HUDSON RIVER SHAD. “Shad, it seems, are troubled a good deal by the Hudson fiver fishermen ?”” “Yes. That is an evil that can only be stopped by legislation, and I think in time the Legislature will pass a bill requiring the fishermen along the Hudson to draw in the nets from Saturday night to Monday morning, in order that the shad may run from the sea to their spawning ground without being trapped. As it is now all the shad are being seined, and it will not be long belere the supply will be exhausted, The fishermen are too greedy and unrestrained’ by any thought of the future, They are ruining the fisheries v1 the State.” When we returned to the city Mr. Green handed me we following circular, which will be interesting at large:— Honan sary wR, Utica; Epwanp M. Surri, Rochester; Kouent B. Roosevest, New York, Commissioners of Fisheries of the State of New York. * DIRRETIONS. In delivering spawn and living fish from the State hatching house the following rules have to be obeyed ex- acuy:— ‘ oy public waters, and no private ponds, can be sup- plie The impregnated spawn of salmon trout and white fish canbe sentin Octoher to such places as have conve- niences for hatching it Living salmon trout ana white | ‘can. only clivered at” Caledonia; and all persons wanting living flga of uny kind must send & man Jor thein, as there are 646 lakes in this State, not w speak of streams and rivers; and the micans at the dis- posaT of the Commissioners are too small to justity the Atwmpt to deliver fish at the expense of the state. To AVoul jeaiotsy and, dissatisiaction no exception will be made io this Tule, The expenses of the person coming for the tish will be. fifty cents at Caledonia and $2 at ocliester, besides their tavelling expenses. Young white fish are in condition to transport from the Ist 0 the th of February; salmon-trout, trom the uth to the ah, Oswego bass, strawberry” bass, White bass, rock bass, black bisa, perch or waileyed pike ad bull: heads, cai oe delivered at Rochester at any time during the Winter. “Appileation to be miade at 16 Mortimer Feet. Milk cans are used for carrying white fish and salmon | unding barrels, or other | trout, and milk cans and for carrying ocher kinds of clean barrels, are suita fish. A tive-alion milk can will hold 2,000 white ash or 1,000 salmon trout, or 1rom twenty to one'hundred of the other iish above Named, according to their size, Al! communications Must be addressed to the under- signed and must describe particularly the waters to be stocked, giving their names, locations and sizes, and stating 'wheiher the ponds have rocky or muddy bot toms, or have eel grass, flags and pond lilies, ‘The wall- eyed’ pike, rock bass, white bass, black bass, white fish and salinon trout aro suited to clear waters with rocky bottoms, where the crawilsh is to be found, aud Oswego bass, h, strawberry bass and bullheads will pay live with tlags and pond lilies, It should kinds of fish are found in the lake. itis almost useless to stock rivers which overflow their banks anc food much extent of country, as the fish are stranded by the receding waters and get into pond holes, where they perish in dry weather. All tish should be deposited as near the head of the lake as possible not go Into the outlet before they become familiar the waters. The young fish should during the night, when most large iish do on muddy Botto: be not feed, a | Will tind hiding places before morning. GREEN, Superintendent, ~Y. SETH office 16 Morti pomee hours trom 7 to 8 A. “Mr. Green, I have heard that you went out to California.” TAKING SHAD TO CALIFORNIA, “Yes, I went out there and took with me 15,000 young shad and turned them loose in their rivers delivering mto the Pacific, It was a great labor to transport them over the Pacific Kailway—so many changes of water and so little of it along the route; but I worked with my own hands and succeeded in | getting through. This is the first time shad have ever been sent to the Pacific coast. Letters from California inform me that they are doing well. So 1 have been at work ali over the United States car- H ba bundreés of thousands of small fry to stock the waters of the country. My experience among the Yankees was not so pleasant. What do you think of New Engiand generosity—the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire cach made a special appropriation of $50 to pay my labor and expenses in making a per- fect success in shad hatching; and they sent en- voys who came to offer me tne $200! set loose 16,000,000 in their Connecticut River in one year,” “How, then, do you sum up the general result of your labors 1” A PRW FIGURES, “Shad have been cheapened all over the coun- We are stocking streams, lakes and ponds by day, Orders are coming in from all parts f the Union and we are satistied with our work. We encourage tishing with the hook and seek to | discourage nets and seines. Politics have lett us | alone and we have left politics alone. We have | put 92 bassin Brant’s Lake, Win Tinxedo Pond; ou black bass, 60 black pike, 400 rock bass in Cone- sus Lake; 100 Oswego bass and 400 rock bass in Schuyler Lake, and also %,00 white fish; 10,000 white Hh in Oneida Lake, and also 10,000 salmon trout; 3,000 white fish, 1,000 Oswego and black bass, 400 rock bass in Hatch Lake; 3,000 salmon trout in Eaton Reservoir, 1,000 bull heads in Chau- tanqua Lake and 400 gold fish in lrondequoit Bay. These are only afew examples takew at ran- dom. If shad hatching few entries will show the operations at Mull’s Fishery in the year 1872:— May 10—Caught 126 shad; 7 ripe; 160,000 spawn; ‘water 61 and 62 degrees. May 20—Caught 123 shad; 9 ripe; 200,000 spawn; ‘water 61 and 64 degrees, * * * * * * * Junn 4—Caught 103 snad ; 14 ripe; 230,000 spaw turned loose 190,000 young shad iry; water 61 de- grees. HATCHING hardly needs any explanation here,'yct the marvel- lous discoveries that have been made in ali the pro-, cesses of Incubation should be remembered by the reader. The female 1s taken wien Ls and her spawn gently removed by pressure and placed ina Uh pan containing cold water. This spawn is then imprernated by exuding tl IK the male by the same process, after which the eggs are placed coming to it; butit is a weary while to await the complete ed 2D of @ great and day-by-day shifting agricultural system, Still we must wait. Not go with Hg The spawn of 10,000 fish will 80 overstock our aS'h, our lakes, our bays our brooks that in Ave years those reservoirs Tun- ning watera, now destitute of their own natural Occupants, would satisiy Mr, Seta Green's biggest conception of a fish barrel. THE HERALD’S: JOURNALISTIC TRIUMPHS, [From the Reading (Pa!) Times, April 22.) The New York Henatp-of Sunday. contains 120 columns, eighty-three of which’ are advertise- Ments, The HBRALD {s certainly one of the livest institutions in the world, and is constantly sur- prising its readers by ite undaunted enterprise and prodigious-achievements. {From the Sacramento Record.} Itis worthy of note that on March 80 was printed the largest regular issue of an American daily Paper—to wit, a quadruple sheet, with supple- ment, of the New YoRK HERALD. This publication contained 108 columns of printed matter, of which sixty-seven columbs were advertisements, {From the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal, April 13.) * * In some important respects the Naw YORK HERALD is the greatest newspaper in the world. It occupies a position where it can afford to be per- fectly independent, and. to be the champion of the people against every kind of wrong. The influence such @ journal is capable of wielding is beyond computation, {From the Portland Argua, April 22.) The New York HERALD (sunday) tsgued a quin- tuple sheet, containing eighty-three columns of advertisements and thirty-seven of news and editorials, It is very evident that merchants in that city have faith in printers’ ink. and the result shows good judgment. It ts an established fact that the man ‘who advertises most gets rich the soonest. [From the Rochester Democrat, April 22.] Quintuple sheets make their appearance from the New YoRK HERALD office pretty nearly every Sunday now. The last one has 120 columns. Of these eighty-three are advertisements, leaving thirty-seven columns for news and editorial mat- ter, We must either cut down our exchange list or drop the HERALD, Liie is too short to permit of entire justice to these quintuple documents, {From the Staunton (Va.) Spectator, April 22.) The New York Hera.p of Synday, another quintuple sheet, beat the Baltimore and Richmona papers of yesterday and gives us! later news from all parts of the world, which we make use of in this issue, Our exchange with the daily HeRatp 18 worth the balance of our city exchamge Rst, and We could not do without it, It succeeds and ought to, for it is first and foremost in the newspaper world. {From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, April 10.) For the first time since its establishment the HERALD on Sunday last appeared in quintuple form, and contained one hundred and twenty columns, of which seventy-eight were devoted to advertisements and forty-two to news and miscel- laneous matter—all fresh, and arranged in the most attractive shape. This certainly isan achieve- ment in American journalism of whicn that paper { has abundant reason to be proud, and we put it on record with feelings of sincere professional gratifi- cation. The HERALD, as a newspaper, leads all its contemporaries in this country, certainly, and, in our judgment, cannot be matched even across the water. {From the Prince Albert (Ontario) Observer.] ASTONISHING SUCCESS IN JOURNALISM. The New York Daily Heratp of Sunday, 6th in- stant, is now before us, displaying proportions almost miraculous, Only think of it! a one hun- dred and twenty column paper got up day after day. If the labor and expense of running this gigantic sheet be enormous, as they cer- tainly are, the income is still more astonish- ing. The value of the advertisements in the copy belore us will reach the enormous sum of $20,000. Twenty thousand dollars a day for adver- tising alone is something handsome, If to this we add the subscription for the paper we shail have an amount worthy of the great enterprise. The sub- scription will amount to $4,000 every day, or $28,000 every week, so that while the outlay is great the income is much greater. (From the Kokomo (Ind.) Democrat.] The New York HexA.pD is not only the news- paper of America, but of the world, Even “The ‘Thunderer,” the London Times, cannot exhibit the energy, enterprise and ingenuity that charac- terize the HERALD. The appliances of modern American journalism, as to news gathering, is ingenious, daring and wonderful. I is no longer ® gigantic undertaking for a news paper ‘commissioner to interview crowned heads, penetrate the heart of Africa, ascend the North Pole, and make a “big talk’? with Captain Jack. All that fire, water, earth, air, steam, elec- tricity and brains can be made to do, the modern reporter can do. The Henan outstrips its contem- poraries, and takes the belt for the ustful and novel in journalism. Not satisfied with the most exhaustive and careful reports of the late Atlantic | disaster, a HeRALD reporter donned a diving suit and explored the wreck at length. {From the Atchison (Kansas) Champion.) A MAMMOTIT PAPER, A few days ago the New York HERALD, for the first time since its establishment, appeard ina quintuple form, containing 120 columns, of which seventy-eight are devoted to advertisements and forty-two to news and general intelligence This event is unprecedented in the history of joumalism in this, and, we believe, in any other county. * was the | St newspaper ever issued, The sver- tisements were all fresh and nearly all brief 1otices of a few lines in iength, paid for at the rae ofa dollar a line, The receipts trom this sourct were enormous, The news included intelligence from all parts of the world and presented a marwilous detati of current events, This issue of the HmRALD, we have no doubt, contained more matter than two or three books of several hundred pageseach; as the type was all very small, It was a wonder in a wooden box, and a stream of spring water is made ass over them constantly. After three montis the eggs have become tiny trout, but they are sull burdened for thirty days by what Is called the uinbilical sack. They are then’ fed, sized and gradually matured, Saimon are hatehed in the same manner. “Do you know,” said Seth Green, se. “Oh, it is perfectly natural thet trout ponds should fail. The water may ve bad; their owners Biay not be expert or assidvous enough, and many of the seemingly unimportant details may be over loeked, whereas they are o/ vital consequence,” TROUT COLTURB IN WESTERN NEW YORK, Your akg a found on inguiring through- out Western New York that many gentiemen had dudulged in trout cuiture—I might ~~ most of as we Were driving back, “that ] stayed up in & tree two days to see two salmon spawn in 1838, and 1am probably the only man mm the world who has Seen that evolution? How characteristic of the man! Shad aro hatched in one week, and require nothin but a plain box with a wire bottom, rs inetined ‘S the surface that a constant oe of the water is going on. Mr. seth Green invented this system. Bass, and, indeed, all memvers of the porch femuly ful example of the growth and success of journaly (From the Jacksonville (Fla,) News.] A GREAT JOURNALISTIC TRIUMPH. The most astonishing event in the progress 0! modern journalisn is the issue of a quintuple edi- tron by the New York Heratp on the 6th instant. ‘This mammoth issue contains 120 columns, of which seventy-eight are de- voted to news. and general intelligence. One hundred and fifty thousand copies were printed, and so per- fect are the press arrangements of the HERALD that only about two and one-half hours was 0oc- cupied 1 striking off. The impression of this great mass of typ?, amounting to more than million ems, was agid at the fabulously small price of five cents per copy, thus securing to the purchaser @ volume of information fora mere trifle. The HER- ALP May now be regarded as the very frst of all journais in the werld, for no other newspaper has exhibited‘ {f@ ski!i and enterprise in o.taining news and {ts wonderiul dispatch in bringing it betore the public. (From the Now England Farmer (Boston) .] What'would'old Ben Franklin have said in his day toamok @Sriumphof journalistic enterprise 45 shown in the Naw Yore Heratp of last Sunday? Nothing could” more fSréibly show the great ad- Vance ‘atid improvements in sclence and the arts than @ comparison’ between the New England Courant of 1722 And the mammoth sheet before us. ‘Twenty pages of reading mattér, including news from’ every quarter of the habitable glove, and from some of the planets, 1f we count in tne mete- ‘orologi¢al information, advertisements, markets, financial and commeretal intelligence, comments upon current topics, £¢., &c., &., till we have mat- ter enough to M's bulky volume, Of the 120 columns Of taatter seveuty-eight are advertise- ments, the largest "@mount of advertising ever given in any one ‘teste of any paper. The enter- ‘prise of the Heard has become proverbial, and it is evident thatthe present’ management ts deter- mined that it shall lose none of the prestige earned for it by the foresight and energy of tts founder. (From the Boston Daily Times.) The New York Henaup has accomplished an- other feat in practical journalism quite equal to its enterprise tn the elds, ofexploration and news. One peculiarity of the HERALD Is that it issues {ts dally paper every day, which most other daily pa- pera that we know of do not—4. ¢., it issues the daily paper on Sunday as on all other days; not a Sunday paper as such, uora weekly paper as such, but ita regular daily issue. The HERALD always dasues a double sheet, very often a triple skeet and drequently a quadruple sheet, but never until Sun- day @ quintuple sheet. On that day its regular issue comprised five sheets of twenty newspaper pages, seventy-eight columns of advertisements and forty-two columns of reading matter, making 120 columns, in a single daily issue. No such en- terprise is known before’ in history, and one pleas- ant feature about it is that the Hexatp claims this, as well as its other famous exploits,as a new triumph of American journalism. Thre circum- stance will give occasion to a new chapter in Mr. Hudson's excellent and comprehensive history of journalism, for which also we are indebted to the New YORK HERALD school of journalism, [From the Columbus (Miss.) Index.) A WONDERFUL JOURNAL. The New York H#RALD of the 6th instant was a prodigy of business and enterprise. It was a quin- tuple sheet or twenty-paged, of six columns each, making 120 columns of reading matter and advertisements in all! Seventy-eight of these columns are filled with solid adver- tisements, The whole paper counted 1,000,000ems, aterm which our readers may not know means the space in a line of type occupying that filled by the letter m, which is nearly square. The space of 1,000 of these ems explains the printer's phrase, “by the thousand,” showing how he is paid for his labor. The price varies according to the character of the type, matter and locality, but the curious can form an idea of a printer's work by being told that he earns fifty cents for every eight inches of the type in which this article appears, which is 1,000 ems. Weill, we make the calculation, supposing that the cost of composition on this number of the HERALD is about sixty-five cents per 1,009, One million ems would be $650! This, besides the greater aggregated expenses of the presswork, folding, stereotyping, mailing, carrying, &c. The edition, numbering nearly one hundred and fifty thousand, is printed at the rate of 1,000 a minute on five Hoe rotary eight and ten cylinder and two Bullock presses. It takes about two and a half hours to ran off the entire edition. Every type is stereotyped in metal, and all this immense amount of work has to be repeated every day! (From the Hillsborough (N. 0.) Recorder.] Whatever may be said of the New York HERALD, its energy and its talent cannot be denied. With- out doubt, in the first of these qualities it is tne foremost journal in the world, and none have ever approaciied it; while in intellectual power, in saga- cious speculations upon the events of the day, in full and varied information, it has few rivals to fear. But it is in its energy and enterprise that it is a wonder. ‘he cost or trouble to obtain information 18 absolutely disregarded, that it may stand foremost in the spread of news. It sent @ messenger into the interior of Alrica to seek out the long lost Livingstone, It has 1t correspondents in the interior of Cuba, bat- tling with the jealous hostility of the Spaniards, that the world may obtain just information of the struggling patriots. It has its lines of despatch steamers, that the tidings from abroad may be an- ticipated by its indefatigable news gatherers. It has its independent lines of telegraph, that it may sustain a special branch of newspaper reporting, which the HERALD has built up—Marine Intelli- gence. lt has its correspondents scattered broad- cast over both Continents, men of culture, em- ployed at great cost, that its readers may know what transpires through the world, whether within or beyond the confines of civilization. The friends of humanity will thank the HERALD for its lively interest and active exertions on the occasion of the late Atlantle disaster. Knowing the terrible anxiety of friends to obtain tidings 01 the wreck and to be assured as to their presence or otherwise on board the til-fated ship, a full list of the passengers was obtained from across the ocean, making up the full list of 953 names, And in everything connected ‘with that disaster—in information from the scene of the ca- lamity, in the detalls of the wreck, in the rescue ofthe survivors, In investigation into the causes ofthe catastrophe, in feariess criticism and bold denunciation of guilty parties, the Heratp has earned itself an obligation of gratitude from the civilized world, and a character for munificent generosity and intelligent liberality which can never be liquidated, THE HERALD AND DON CARLOS, eee (From the Hartford Courant, April 22.) The interview came to an end about one o'clock simultaneously with @ package of cigar- ettes. The Prince once more expressed his “ex- alted consideration for the Hk&waLp,” and the representative dep&rted. The conversation was very interesting, and the discovery and interview of the secluded King are additional preof of the increasing industry and energy of the HERALD ia making itself the greatest newspaper to be ound in the world, THE HERALD AND THE MORMON PROPHET, [Fro .° St. Louis Republican.) Brigham .vang is @ modest man, alter all, and not insensible to shame. In his letter to the New YORK HERALD he preposed to leave the judgment of his labors and their results “to futurity.” Any otner father would have said “to posterity,” but Brigham was ashamed to use the werd. {From the Hudson (N. Y.) Star.) Brigham Young has; in the columns of the New York HERALD, told the stery of what he has done and what he hopes todo. The statement {s such a one as might be expected from the chief of the Latter Day Saints, and just at this time, when pub- lic attention is directed that way, it is an impor- tant contribution te the topics of the day. THE YOUNG INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE. A meeting of the above committee was held yes- terday in the chamber of the Board of Aldermen. Supervisor Billings, the chairman, announced that he had received a note from Mr. Doxter Hawkins, who was at Albany, saying that he could not ap- ar until Friday, The investigation was there- ore adjourned until that day at three o'clock, | when the inquiry would, it was announced by the to advertisements, and forty-two | cbairman, go on peremptorily. A CUBAN BANNER RAISING. Ceremony This Afternoo! im Murray Street—General Darr’s Sympathy for Down-Trodden Cuba. Few Americans have made more strenuous efforts to bring about the enfranchisement of the oppressed Cubans, and the recognition of their belligerent rights by this government, than Gen- eral Francis Darr, formerly of the United States Army. The Cubans in this city naturally are grate- ful to Mr. Darr for his efforts, and one of them, an eminent patriot and artist, has Prepared a large oil painting on the subject of slavery in Cuba, which Mr. Darr has decided to suspend as a banner across Murray street, in the immediate meghborhood of the pier of the Long Branch boats, The time fixed for the ceremony is three o'clock, and it is expected that a large num- ber of Cubans and colored men will be present. DESCRIPTION OF THR PAINTING, On the left hand side of the picture, which is about eighteen feet long by twelvein breadth, ia stationed one of the Havana volunteers belonging tothe notorious Fifth regiment, which body will ever be notorious in the annals of Cuban history as having been the corps which caused the massacre of the eight students in Havana in November, 1871. The volunteer’s untform is very simple, sae sisting of plain pants and blouse, ro which latter appears a belt, with the regimental figure 6 on the buckle plate. His headgear isa Panama hat, with the regimental cockade on the left side. In his rignt hand, witha firm grasp, he hoids.an iron n, Which is attached to the neck Of an Old slave, who appears while kneeling on the ground the incarnation of human misery. Tne victim of man’s inhumanity to man is pleading with the energy of desperation to a beautiful god- dess of liberty, waicn ia here typical of Columbia, Powerless to aid him, on account of the Spanish government, she holds out her hand to the pros- trate slave in friendly recognition of his down- trodden condition, while the volunteer, with @ look in which batred and fear predominate, surveys the useless pinged apparently rejoices in his inas- c tership, kground is a sugar plantation, witn bolling houses, with its large, ack chimneys, while the slaves?’ quarters are also shown, Judged asa ‘hele the portrayal of the fugnte slavery under which Cub: icture is a most graphic stem of tyranny and groaning, and is an eloquent exposition of the appeal lately made by the Cuban Anti-Slavery Association of this city, of which Mr. Scottron 13 bresident, to the people of the United States, to ct Cuba to obtain her liverty the bands of cruel iards, FREEDOM 10 FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND SLAVES, The picture is to be suspended to the banner bearing the following inscription :— ARON OODIOO RE NNOOD Tue REPusLIC OF Cuba mourns her chil- dren slaughtered by American rifles, and ae- mands from the countrymen of Abraham Lin- coln justice and:fair , also belhyerent Fh and consequent freedom to 500,000 slaves. The Stars and Stripes and the lone star flag of Cuba will also be dung to the breeze. THE HERALD COMMISSIONER'S REPORT ON CUBA. {From the Rochester Democrat, April 17.] The HERALD of yesterday publishes a long letter from O'Kelly, which certainly contains material enough to hang him. It gives what is substan- tially a manifesto of President Cespedes to the world, aggravating the wrongs of Cuba and the crimes of Spain, and setting forth the resources of the rebels and the weaknesses of the gov- erment. We have seen heretofore no such clear Statement of the condition of affairs in the unhappy island; and the political effect will aoubtless be so powerful tnat the Spaniards will be unwilling to regard its publication as a piece ef HERALD enterprise. If the state- ments put into the mouth of Cespedes are authen- tic he is well fitted for the leadership which he holds. He is, evidently, a clear-headed politician as well as an enthusiastic patriot. Cespedes sets the Cuban force at from ten to twelve thousand men, but acknowledges that it fluctuates with every vicissitude of fortune. O'Kelly is a fine looking, dashing young Irishman, who has served in the Legion Etrangere of the French army, meet- ing with many perilous adventures in Mexico, and atterwara taking active part in the Franco-Prus- sian war. It israther a pity that a young fellow of such ability and pluck should stand in danger of meeting with the fate of a spy. As he is stilla British subject England will nave to bestir herseif in the matter. The Fate of . O'Kelly. (From the Paducah Kentuckian.) A special commissioner, Mr. James J. O'Kelly, who was sent by the Nzw YoRK HEKaLp to Cuba, has been captured by the Spaniards, We do not, however, believe that ne will be badly treated. Mr. O’Keily did not go to Cuba asa partisan, but simply toget at the facts in regard to the condition of the island and to let the world know what was veing done to suppress the insurrection or to make it a success, If the Cuban government dares to harm Mr, O’Kelly we shall urge it upon our people to go over to Cuba and avenge his wrongs. If the movement was started enough brave men could be enlisted to go to Cuba and wipe out the Spaniards mavery few days, The editor of the HeRatp has given Captain Gen- eral Ceballos due notice that Mr. O’Kelly must not be shot or badly treatedin any way. This was right, and now if he dares to injure Mr. O’Kelly let him take the consequences. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. ee Grace Greenwood lectures at Association Hall on Savurday on “Yankee Character and Humor.” A concert by Mme. Maria Salvotti will be given at Robinson Hall, in Sixteenth street, this even- ing. A music dealer in Glasgow announces in his win- dow 4 new sensation song, “Thou Hast Loved and Leit Me for Eighteen Pence,” Miss Sara W. Barton, an American girl, now studying music in Florence, ts to be prima donna in Warsaw, Poland, the next Winter. Mr. Theodore Moss wil manage the Summer season, &3 usual, at Wallack’s, opening with a new drama, by Mr. Boucicautt, An amateur operatic entertainment ts to be given at Robinson Hall next Monday evening, in aid of the “Home for the Aged and Destitute Blind,” M. Sardon is occupied in writing a comedy to be entitled “Les Merveilleuses,” and he has also proimised to the direction of the new theatre of the Port Saint-Martin a grand historical drama, enti- ted “Le LX. Thermidor,” for the opening in Sep- ‘tember. y At the Jewish Reformed synagogue in Berlin, on March 23, a rare event was solemnized—namely, the marriage of the celebrated and faverite pre- mitre danseuse of the Imperial Opera House, Mile. Ton Kitzing, and the rich banker, Mr. Louis Phi- lippl. This is the second of the Kitzing sisters who has, on account of marriage, embraced the Jewish faith, her elder sister, Minna, having mar, ried one of the Gerson Brothers, the merchant princes oi Germany. Music teaching pays, after all. The beautiful and charming Princess Theresa, oi Oldenberg, broke an engagement of marriage with the hereditary Grand Dake of Saxony-Weimar out of a desire to wed a young ana handsome music teacher. The Emperor of Russia—in whose army the father of the Princess serves as General—was, in consequence, asked to elevate the music teacher to the dignity of a baron, The newly-made baron, after having been supplied with the necessary means te live according to his dignity, has been ordered to leave St, Petersburg. What the lovely princess will doremains to be seen. M. Cournier, a member of the French Dramatic Authors’ Society, claims one-half of the rights and privileges of Sardou’s “Andrea,” alleging that in December last he communicated to M. Montigny, the manager of the Gymnase, a piece entitied “Le Médecin de son Henneur,” and that by the indis- cretion of that gentleman the incidents had become known to M. Sardou, who founded on them the present comedy. M. Cournter seems to have over- looked the trifling circumstance that M. Sardou’s play was produced at the Union Square Theatre in this city on the 17th of September, 1872, under the name ol “Agnes.’! Join McDermott, the fireman on hoard the steamship City of Merida, who was terribly injured by falling through a hatchway, subsequently died in the Centre Street Hospital. He was a resident of West Haven, L. L, where he has leita widow and several cuiidrens | \ LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. BLANCHARD JERROLD’S series of “Days With the Best of Good Company,” viz., English suthors, is to be reissued on this side the water by Shepard & Gill. The first, “A Day With Charlies Dickens,” is about ready. Mg. Layarp finds time, amid the distraction of Spanish politics, to cultivate his old studies, He has contributed to tne last number of the leading literary journal of Madrid, the Revista de Espefia, an article on the painter Velasquez, written, of course, in the Spanish language. It has been re- ceived in literary and artistic circles with much approval. “RYTHMIC ALGEBRA,” is the title of a new Eng- sh treatise on rhyme, in which the attempt is te be made to put the art of rhyming upon a strictly scientific basis, THE CIRCULATION of London newspapers ts stated a8 follows:—The Daily Telegraph, 170,000 copies; the Standard, 140,000; Datly News, 90,000; Echo, 80,000; Times, 70,000. The morning and evening papers together give a sum total daily of 569,000 copies, . Dr. Enitesr Kuwy, of Leipsic, is preparing for publication a work on Pali grammar. A Work oF 4 sensational character is announced to appear shortly, under the title of ‘“uvrea Posthumes de Napoléon Ill,” The Count de Ia Chapelle, who has already written several, papers on the disastrous period of 1870 and 1871, is te su- Perintend the passage of this new work through the press, Y No BioaRrapay of Henry D. Thoreau, the natural- istic philosopher; the Oriental Yankee, the prose poet of “Walden” and the keen analyst and critic of religions, literatures and arts has yet appeared. But William Ellery Channing proposes to print @ memorial of this departed thinker, under the title of “Thoreau, the Poet-Natnralist.”” Joun LEESTER’s “From the Atlantic to the Pa- cific,” being a practical guide-book to the Pacific, will be issued by Shepard & Gul, of Boston. Mr. Lewss, author of “The Life of Goethe,” ia about to finish @ work of general philosophy, that he has long had in hand, to be entitled “Problems of Life and Mind.” THBRE 18 SOME prospect that the first volume of the revision of the Appletons’ “American Qyclo- pedia” will be issued in May. Tus Ant Papers, by Mr. B. Atkinson, that ape peased in the Portfolio, Saturday Review, and else- where, including an article on Thorwaldsen, will be reprinted by Messrs. MacMillan, under the title of “An Art Trip in Northern Capitals.” AN ENGLISH LaDy residing in Paris, Miss Anna Blackwell, has printed a pamphlet entitled ‘Spir- itualism and Spiritism,’’ which contains some strange revelations of the intercourse that goes on ‘between those highly-favored beings (mediums) and the world of disembodied spirits, é WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, notwithstanding & very earnest application of friends, will not bind himself to write his biography. Jupas Ropert B. WARDBN, late of Ohio, and now of Washington, is engaged in preparing a work on “The Life and Times of Chief Justice Chase,” which May appear before the close of the present year. THE PREFACE of the ‘“Oyclopmdia of Cookery,” by the late Alexander Dumas, declares that M. Du- mas “conceived, in a happy moment, the purpose of concluding his series of 500 volumes with a com- prehensive treatise on eating, which should leave no room for another work on the same lofty sub- ject.” But, compared with previous writers on the same subject, M. Dumas appears to disadvan- tage. Neither so suggestive as Brillat-Savarin, nor 8o judicious as Grimed de la Reyniere, he is leas discerning and enthusiastic than Caréme, less in- ventive than Francatelli and less skilful than Soyer; altogether lacking the genius and thought- fulness of Dubois, he wants the conscientious ac- curacy of Acton. But if the shortcomings of the work are conspicuous, it must be conceded that it is readable. THE Saturday Review thus characterizes Mr. James Grant's pretended ‘History of the Saturday Review,” published as an appendix to his ‘History of the Newspaper Press’? :— Although we cannot pretend to be an authority as to the private affairs of other people, we happen to know something about our own, and we now say that there is hardly a single statement concerning eurselves which is not wildly, and, to those who know the facts, ludicrously and incredibly inac- curate. Mr. Grant promises to resume in a future publication his offences against the recognized decencies of English journalism, He says:—“It is high time that the mask should be torn off the visages of the Saturday Keview gladiators,” and “1 feel called on, in justice to myself, as well as in the neral interests of literature, to let the world ‘how who are the chief anonymous would-be assas- sins of the reputations of authors in that journal.” Meanwuile he defers the charge of this duty until he has “obtained the information” of whicn he is “in quest.” We can awatt with tolerable equa- nimity the furtner exhibition of Mr. Grant's talent for ignorant blundering. He has evidently been mercilessly hoaxed—not for the first time in bis life—y some person or persons unknown, and he is laying himself out to be hoaxed again, NEW PUBLICATIONS REOEIVED, From Sheldon & Com“A Fair Saxon,” by Justin McCarthy; “A Paradise in the Pacific: A Book of Travel, Adventures and Fact in the Sand- wich Islands,’ by William R. Bliss, From A, 8, Barnes & Co.—“The Nature and Utility of Mathematics, with the Best Methods of Instruction Explained and Llustrated,” by Charles Davies, LL. D, From T. B, Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia— “Lord Hope's Choice,” by Mrs. Ann S, Stephens. From tne Catholic Publication Society—“The Nesbitts; or, A Mother’s Last Request,” by Uncle Paul. From Harper & Brothers—Robin Gray,” @ novel, by Charles Gibbon. From Loring, Boston—‘‘Artiste,” by Maria M. Grant. From William Wood & Co.—‘The Educatioual Year Book, 1873." From Scribner, Armstrong & Co:—‘Orley.” By “Lindon ;” “Siam; the Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is.” By George B, Bacon, From Claxton, Remsen and Halelfinger, Phila- delphia:—‘‘ Tides and Tendenctes of Religious Thought.” By J.L. Dudiey; “An Exposition of the Prophecies of the Apocalypse,” By Rev. Jas. do { Pui, A.M, From J. B. Lippincott & Co,, Philadelphia:— “Pascarel; Only a Story.” By Ouida. From Wm. White & Co., Boston :—“ Biography of Mrs. J. H. Conant, the Word's Medium of the Nine- teenth Century.” By Allen Putnam, SENATOR O°BRIEN’S CLaims, “© - a ‘Will Messrs> Van Nort and Stebbins Ac cept the Appofmtment as Commission- ers to Adjust the Claims? A HERALD reporter went to Commissioner Van Nort and Park Commissioner Stebbins yester- day to ascertain If they intended to accept the ap- pointment as commissioners to adjust the claims of ex-Sheriff O’Brien. Mr. Van Nort was not in town, but Mr. Stebbins assured the reporter that he “was as ignorant about the matter asa new. born child.” He said tnis could scarcely be calied an appointment, as the bill had not even passed the Assembly, and might be materially al- tered before it ever reached the Senate, Whem asked whether he would accept the appointment he said “he could not tell whether he would accept the appointment in a matter about which he knew nothing.” The reporter asked him if he was @ friend of Senator O’Brien, and Mr. Stebbins meee that he “had exchanged the courtesies of the lay with him.’ He begged to be exc as he had to attend to some very im- portant business before leaving for Philadel- oe. and the reporter left to call on Sheriff rennan, The Sheri said he knew nothii in regard to these claims, but the Under-Shert Mr. Joel Stevens, with whou the reporter also conversed, thought that Senator O’Brien was en- titled to the money under the law allowing the Sherit! fifty cents for each commitment. The claims are very large, and will prob: bly exceed one hundred thousand dollars. The Comptroller will; probably refuse to pay the money, even if the bill should pass; but the bill provides that the paymens of the claims, When they have once been audited by the Commissioners, Inay be enforced mus, ‘The original bill named Willtam 0. Andersen, Henry H. Anderson and Corporation Counsel Smith as commissioners, but the first. two pave been withdrawn, and those of Messrs. Nort and Stebbins substituted, Mr, Barker, the Deputy Commissioner ot Public Works, told the reporter that Mr. Van Nort knew nothing of the appoint. ment when he left town on Tuesday evening. It seems, thereiore, that neither of the two gentle Wack bed authorized the usa of their names, 4 Dg ET ree TEES AE CD