The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1873, Page 8

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TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- M mand 3d avs.—LaicuTk CavaLientn, &c, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— IKNCE AND ART, QUADRUPLE SHEET. = ona —— = New York, Sunday, June 15, 1873, WHE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. {To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. PrTHE MEXICAN BORDER QUESTION! THE GRAND PROJECTED LOBBY SCHEME OF ANNEXATION”—TIFLE OF THE LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—EIGHTH PaGE. 8 CARLIST VICTURY NEAR OYARZUN! BISCAY INVADED BY THE INSURGENTS! GOVERN- MENT N&EDS AND CHURCH POLICY! SE- NOR SALMERON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE CORTES! BARCELONA'S “CITY FATH- ERS” DENOUNCED AS THIEVES—NINTH . Pages, gwo VESSELS TO BE DESPATCHED IN SEARCH OF THE POLARIS! CAPTAIN TYSON AND EIGHT OF THE RESCUED SEAMEN TU ACCOMPANY ONE OF THE SEARCH PAR- TIES—NINTH Pace. AIERS AND THE FRENCH RADICALS HAND IN HAND! PROSECUTING THE COMMUNIST LEADERS—NInTH PaGE. CONTINUED SEVERE ILLNESS OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR—COMPLETE CONVALESCENCE OF PIO NONO—NINTH PaGE. Qvanmovs CONFIRMATION OF THE PROPOSED SCHEME OF ATLANTIC CABLE CONSOLI- DATION—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— Nintu Page. & GLOOMY VIEW OF THE VIENNA WORLD'S FAIR! THE PEOPLE DISCOURAGED AT THE PROSPECT—Nintu Pags, Q@RRIVAL OF THE ALASKA FROM CHINA AND JAPAN! CHINESE COMPLAINTS UF .20HN'S PERSECUTIONS IN CALIFORNIA! A JAPANESE FINANCIAL CRISIS—NintH PacE. BaLLoon VOYAGES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC! PROFESSOR WISE THINKS HE CAN CROSS TO EUROPE IN SIXTY HOURS! HIS THEORY—NINTH Pace. @ FINE RACING DAY AT JEROME PARK! SU- PERB TURNOUT OF BEAUTY AND WEALTH AND FASHION! LOVELY TOILETS! THE NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 187%3—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The Mexican Border Question—The Grand Projected Lobby Scheme of Annexation. An intelligent traveller from Mexico, who has resided two years in the State of Cohahuila, has communicated to the press, from St. Louis, some very interesting opinions on the Mexican border question. He thinks there will be no trouble between the two countries on account of Colonel McKenzio’s recent pur- suit of the thieving Kickapoos across the Rio Grande and his chastisement of the band on the soil of Mexico, but that the Mexicans, following this precedent, may, in their mili- tary operations, get into the habit of disre- garding their boundary, and that these pro- ceedings on both sides may eventually result in war. Such a contingency, however, would be hailed by many as desirable, because a war with Mexico must result in another large ces- sion of Mexican territory as one of the inevita- ble conditions of a treaty of peace. But, peace or war, this observing traveller from Cohahuila says that efforts are being made by some of the leading parties on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, which may lead to negotiations for another transfer of real estate to the extent of four or five hundred thousand square miles to the United States, and upon a plan which will enable Mexico to pay her debts. This plan has been developed in the Mexican Border Joint Commission appointed to investigate and report upon the claims of citizens of the United States against Mexico, in consequence of losses of property from depredations by robbers from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and the claims of Mexicans to indemnity for spoliations by raids from our side of the river. It is reported that in comparing the claims presented on both sides there is a demand on ours for twenty millions of money in excess of the budget of Mexican claims against us, and if this is not sufficient for the purpose the sum can be conveniently enlarged to twenty-five or thirty millions. The annexation scheme involved, therefore, is exceedingly simple. Our government is to assume the payment of this money to our claimants, while Mexico is to settle the little bill with our government in a cession of territory. This magnificent project embraces the Mex- ican frontier States of Tamaulipas, New Leon, Cohahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Lower Cali- fornia, and the arguments already thrown out in its favor are plausible and fascinating. It is contended that this cession of territory to the United States will be fruitful of immense advantages and benefits to both the high con- tracting parties—that we shall gain half a dozen new Territories, rich in the precious metals and in large areas of fertile soil still undeveloped, and that, with the general ac- quisition a railway of less than a thousand miles will enable us within our own jurisdic- tion to connect the Gulf of Mexico with the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. Mexico, on the other hand, from this arrange- ment of reciprocities, it is pleaded, will be relieved not only of her border troubles, but of the fighting revolutionary factions of said Northern States. She will doubtless gain, too, as a goodwill offering, a much needed supply of ready cash for her exhausted treas- ury; and, with the extension of our railway lines southward from Texas to the frontier of Durango and from California to Sinaloa, all her products, mineral and agricultural, will find a ready market, and she will be enabled, moreover, without expending a dollar from her treasury, to secure for herself a railway system which will consolidate the Republic in connecting the capital with its extremities on VICTORS AND TIME MADE IN THE FIVE CONTESTS—TROTTING AT SMITHTOWN— Firtu Pace. (INTERESTING RACING EVENTS IN ENGLAND! THE BATH AND YORK MEETINGS—FirTH PaGE. QUBA LIBRE—NEWS FROM WASHINGTON— TWELFTH Page. fERiovs RIOT AMONG THE CHINESE CUTLERS AT BEAVER FALLS, PA.—NINTH PAGE. BELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY! FASHIONABLE ECLINE FUNERALS, TE N METHODISM EATED OF BY ERAL RELIGIOUS NEWS—RABBI HULBSCH ON SANCTIFIED ENJOYMENT—Sixta Pace. HINA FAVOR “BARBARIANS! THE AU- DIENCE SSTION AND FOREIGN DIPLO- MACY! AN AMERICAN SHIP BURNED AND HER CREW BUTCHERED—A HAWAIIAN EDEN TO BE CEDED TO AMERICA—TurR- TERNTH PaGn. QIFE AMONG THE THIEVING GYPSI A HERALD MAN PAS; A NIGHT WITH THE NOMADS OF AMERICA! CARRYING OFF CHILDREN—TENTH Pace. POLITICAL JUDGMENT ON THE APOLLO HALL MOVEMENT! VIEWS OF THE MAYOR, JOHN FOLEY AND LEADING ALDERMEN. FAIRS IN THE MUNICIPALIT OUTRAGE—TORTURING A ENTH PAGE. @INANCIAL ND COMMERCIAL NE B S—A SAILOR KILLED WITH A | BRICK—A MURDEROUS MADMAN—E:Ey- ENTH Pack. @HE ANNEXATION OF ISLAND TO CANADA! FARMERS’ PARAL PROSPECTS OF TH PRINCE EDWARD A HARD FIGHT! A SE! RESOURCES AND ISLAND—Tenru Pace. Tae New Spanish Feprra, Government thas added to its programme the separation of Church and State. Since the downfall of Asabella the Second this is the most sensible piece of news we have had from Spain. It comes to us, however, as an afterthought. It Mnight be well if it could ; but we doubt much (whether the new federal Republic can fight @own the Church. Spain experiments too fuch. This last does not promise so much Bs perbaps it ought. A Trrascny Crisis avy Ins Cune ry Japan. — ‘The Japanese Ministers of Finance—there fre two of them—have resigned. The gen- @lemen feel out of sorts with the governing power. They are of opinion that the nation fis going ahead with too great rapidity, and Bhat the executive pace is unhealthy, They | ave issued a manifesto in which they get forth very many figures and much personal Beseveration in support of their allegation. The Mikado regards them either as official Boreheads or fossils, It is thought that His Amperial Majesty will forward to them his gracious permission to commit hari-kari, This is regarded asa great stretch of royal @ondescension. If the statesmen don’t like the system, why, they can leave it and thus be permanently quieted of all future trouble con- cerning it, With their ‘heads off’ officially pnd their abdominal viscera neatly sliced they every side. Such are the arguments advanced in support of this plausible annexntion scheme. But where are the parties who are to carry it through? They are as yet in the background; but in due season they will show their hands. These interested parties are, first, citizens of Texas and others, as claimants against Mexico; second, the Lower California land and Colo- nization Company; third, parties connected with Mexican railway, telegraph and mining projects; fourth, a legion of unscrupulous and deep designing politicians, and fifth, the active and convenient mercenaries of the Washington lobby. The Texas claimants are interested in the project because it promises them liberal indemnities in cash for all their losses, and largely increased prices for their lands, horses and cattle. The Lower Califor- nia Land Company are interested because it promises them great returns for their so far profitless venture. Various railway pioneers are deeply interested because this proposed annexation, if consummated, opens the doors to their several enterprises. But we have ale- gion of vigilant and designing politicians who are or will be most active in pushing forward this annexation project because of the immense field for offices, patronage, speculation, spoils and plunder it reveals to their longing and admiring eyes. Let us assume that we have- annexed the Mexican border States from Tamaulipas to Lower California. There are six of them. Their first condition in the Union will be that of the apprenticeship of the Territories. Each of them will require a Territorial government, with its Territorial officers, executive and judicial, appointed by the President, and its Territorial Legislature, elected by the people, to be manipulated by these aforesaid officers. In the outset each of these Territorial estab- lishments, for public buildings, schools, Indians, highways, post offices and other things, will require generons nursing from the national Treasury and generous appropriations of lands and bonds to sid in great railway undertakings. ‘The politicians in charge will take good care of all these things, and Con- gress and the administration will be liberal in the building up of these new Territories on a good foundation for their party purposes. When advanced to the full feather of State sovereignty each of these new States will be entitled to @ member for the national House of Representatives and two members of the Senate, And here, looking to the Senate from California to Kansas, we know sothething, from our dearly bought experience, of the costly and demoralizing political bargains, intrigues and conflicts through which a Territory, in its transition to a State, must inevitably pass. “Where the carcass is there will the vultures be gathered together,” . We have now upon ourhands the Territories of Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Washington, to say nothing of that outlying Arctio empire ‘will have gone to glory and never seck a Fetarn to mundane power ! % known as Alaska. Give us the six more pro- | posed on the Mexican border, and Congress will be a8 powerless in the hands of this aug- mented Territorial lobby as it has shown itself to be in the grasp of the Orédit Mobilier managers. It was recently given out from Washington that President Grant had ex- pressed the opinion that the extension of our frontier southward would be governed by the extension of our railway system; but if half that has been reported of this Mexican scheme of annexation be true, the extension of our railway system southward awaits the extension of our frontier. We had supposed that Gen- eral Grant had had enough of annexation in his St. Domingo venture, during his first term, to last him through his second; but if from many idle rumors we may extract a grain of truth, there is danger that he may be led astray by this Jack-o’-lantern Mexican annexa- tion scheme. We would warn him against entering upon any such perilous enterprise. The project is sufficiently plausible to be dangerous; but it may be and should be firmly resisted. All that we really want in territory we have; and all that we can gain by continued annexations we can secure by cheaper and safer methods. Our “manifest destiny’? is not the absorption of the Continent and its islands and its diverse races and languages, but the strengthening, right and left, of popular ideas and institu- tions, in view of covering the whole Continent, North and South, with a chain of independent republics, acting as a confederation in sup- port of each other against all disturbing forces. Our annexations have surely cost us wars enough, and blood and treasure and po- litical corruption and .general demoralization enough, to warn us against the continuance of this ‘manifest destiny’’ of disorganization and dissolution. Let us, at least, labor to se- cure the redemption of our national debt, and law and order, and confidence and harmony in the States and Territories we now possess, be- fore we proceed to add new eloments of ex- pense, corruption and discord to our existing party trials and conflicts of factions and races. Let President Grant be admonished that if the tax-payers were not prepared for St. Domingo they are not yet sufficiently relieved of their burdens from the war to run the risks of ‘another slice from Mexico,"’ Navigation of the Air—The Proposed Balloon Voyage Across the Atlantic. The proposal of Professor Wise to cross the Atlantic in a balloon revives the long mooted question of the practicability of aerial navigation. One element—water—has been brought into tolerable subjection for safe and speedy transportation, and now an important experiment is to be made to control the air for the same purpose. A sudden fit of economy on the part of the Boston City Fathers, after the last fire, prevented the projector of the transatlantic balloon from carrying his enter- prise into effect. He accordingly appeals to New York to aid him im the undertaking. His opinion, expressed in an interview which wo publish to-day, is that an easterly current prevails in the upper atmosphere of sufficient force to carry a balloon not only across the ocean, but even around the globe. He says that “sailing in the air will have to be learned just as was the navigation of the sea.’’ Itis cer- tain that such a mode of transoceanic travel can only be tested by actual experiment, and plausible reasons are given to prove its practi- cability. It should be of sufficient interest, therefore, to our capitalists to induce them to assist in the building and equipment of an air ship suitable for the purpose. A great déal of money is expended in experiments which pre- sent less chances of success than the one in question. A committee might be appointed of responsible citizens to raise a fund necessary to defray the expenses of the proposed voyage and to see that the projector carries out his promises of penetrating ‘‘that silent sea’’ which overhangs the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. Our knowledge of this upper aerial ocean may be very briefly stated. Setting out from the equatorial parallels, towards either pole, there unquestionably exists a very decided air movement far above the sea level. On the Ist of May, 1812, the island of Barbados was suddenly obscured by a dense cloud and its surface quickly covered by a shower of ashes from an eruptive volcano, and this proved to be the volcano of St. Vincent, more than @ hundred miles to the westward. As the northeast trade wind had been long and steadily blowing at Barbados in full force it was clear that the erupted ashes, shot from the seething crater above the mov- ing surface sheet of the trade wind, had en- countered an aerial river rushing in the oppo- site direction, When, onthe 20th of Janu- ary, 1835, the fiery furnaces of the volcano Coseguina, lying in the belt of the northeast trade winds, belched forth their dreadful masses of flame, lava and ashes, the latter were borne ina direction just contrary to the sur- face wind and lodged in heavy showers on the tree tops of Jamaica, lying eight hundred miles to the northeastward. The return trade wind which in both these instances trans- ported the volcanic dust in the Atlantic was noticed by Commodore Wilkes on Mauna Loa, in the Sandwich Islands, at an altitude of nearly fourteen thousand fect, in the shape of a succession of violent and hurricane-like southwesterly gales, extremely cold ; and Pro- fessor Piazzi Smyth also observed the same, with the appendant clouds, on the Peak of Teneriffe, sailing with great velocity fifteen thousand feet above the ocean. It is also well known that the red dust which often falls on ships’ decks near the Cape Verde Islands and in the Mediterranean has been traced by the microscopist Ehrenberg and found to be the silicious skeletons of animalculm from the clouds of South America, thus further proving the existence of such an upper wind. The velocity of this sublime aerial stream bas occasionally been determined by observations on the high cirrus clouds to reach one hundred and twenty miles an hour; and Mr. Glaisher, who met it at ten thousand feet above the sea, (and called it a ‘true aerial Gulf Stream’’) found it three thousand feet in thickness, and moving with a velocity of seventy or eighty miles an hour. These facts all countenance the Boston acro- naut in the expectation of meeting a swift and propitions current for his voyage. But it must be considered these are all detached and frag- mentary observations, and prove no perma- nent current. Professor Piazzi Smyth found the current at times reversed on Teneriffe, and records an instance during his short stay of a heavy northeasterly gale. Tho most powerful ond regular currenté of the aqueous ocean aro often brought to a standstill and not unfre- quently turned back. It is also a serious question to be solved whether any aeronaut can live for three or four days, in a protracted voyage, at an elevation of fifteen thousand or twenty thousand feet above the sea, in a bal- loon moving with tho terrific speed of seventy- five or o hundred miles an hour, Still these questions cannot be solved except by experiment; and if the experiment is actu- ally to be mado we wish it all success and a tich harvest of meteorologic lore. Thiers and MacMahon—The Prospects of the Republic. One of our nows items this morning is to the effect that ex-President Thiers is likely to go over to the Left and fight his last fight openly in the interest of the Republic, This news, however, must be received with some caution, In this connection, it is said, Thiers since his retirement has had frequent interviews with Gambetta. We can well an- derstand how M. Thiers should be angry with many of his old friends. For two years he kept all the factions at bay. He was sus- pected in the beginning of his day of power of favoring the House of Orleans ; he ended by openly declaring himself in favor of the definitive proclamation of the Republic. His final effort in favor of the Republic, or, rather, in favor of the continuance of his own power, brought about his downfall. Thiers, no doubt, meant well, but hoe miscalculated. Since his retirement he is reported to have said that he would no more actively take part in French politics, and for the reason that party govern- ment in France was no longer a possibility. We are not disposed, however, to think that M. Thiers will keep silent longer than is necessary. It was acoalition of the Bonapart- ists, the legitimists and the Orleanists which brought about his downfall. In spite of this coalition M. Thiers might still have been in power had it not been for the defection of M. Turget and his republican friends, on whose votes Thiers confidently counted. If Gam- betta and his friends will come to terms with Thiers the little man may yet rule the Assem- bly and be the strongest man in France. Much, of course, depends on what the men now in power mean and on the manner in which they may seek to carry out their pur- pose. Itis not our opinion that MacMahon has any intention to play false. It is unde- niable, however, that the Bonapartists are the leaders in the monarchical coalition. For the last ten months at least they have been able to do very much as they thought fit with the conservative majority in the Assembly. On that now famous night when Thiers was compelled to succumb to the vote of the Right it was well known at Versailles that the Bonapartists had obtained a pledge from their legitimist and Orleanist friends that the Duc d’Aumale should not be appointed in the place of the deposed President. MacMahon is a good man and a true, and will, no doubt, do his best to preserve order; but he may find his task beset with great and serious difficulties. Should Thiers and Gambetta go hand in hand the monarchical coalition will have need to fight hard to win. All things indicate that by the time France is rid of the German invader she will be ready to decide authoritatively on her own future form of government. For the present no man can tell what the decision will be or how much it will cost. The Spirit of Our Religious Contempo~ raries—Pious Views on the Walworth Parricide. Sparkling among the religious efforts we find to-day on our religious table one of the finest little paragraphs we have recently seen in a column of the Church Union. It is as fol- lows :— We had to remain in New York over last Sab- bath, and found ourselves after breakfast in conver- sation with a very prepossessing gentleman whose acquaintance we had made at the hotel, ‘Well no, he was opliged to us, but he thought he would not accompany us to church. The fact was pe did not understand the Bible, and he did not Deheve any one else did; its best friends were all at log- gerheads about it; men equally educated and equally sincere came to entirely different conclu- sions as to its meaning, so that there was no satis- faction in his attending service, and he would pre- fer to stay and read the morning papers,” The Church Union has an insight into the forthcoming political situation in the city, and probably it can tell as soon as any other reli- gious paper how the: victory, will be next No- vember. Gathéring from our pious contemporaries what their opinions are in relation to tho recent horrid Walworth parricide, we find that the Christian Leader (humanitarian, Baptist organ) speaks as follows : — This young man, whe derives his name from one of the ablest jurists this country ever hoasted; who numbers among his relatives eminent clergy- men, proiee and offictals; whose family friends in- clude the most influential names in the State, and who has himself been reared amid the cultivated and refining asso- ciations of the best society, stains his hands with a crime as wicked and foolish as any in the cata- logue! What do you think now? asks the smirk- ing Sadducee. Well, we think here is a sample of the superiority of Sadduceeism to sentimentalism, It is evident young Walworth was no sentimental- ist. (He may turn into one under the pressure of guilt and misery.) He held no fine theo- ries of the sacredness of human and his notions of the rights of who did him any wrong were not the least bit tainted with magnanimity. He was as promising a product of the school which delights in calling it- self “firm and inflexible” as any Sadducee could wish to meet. Something which he had been taught to call “houor” was very much dearer to him than anybody else’s life, It is clear no disciple of Piero Luca had spoiled this high-bred chivalrous young man, ‘“Humanitarianism” had been kept ut- terly away from him. He was a choice specimen of the undefiied youthful Sad- ducee. We trust the brethren of the In- telligencer and the Nation and the Liberal Chris- ttan will not fail to mark the moral of the lesson they have lately shown so much Roman virtue in inculcating. It will save columns of denunciation to them to keep it before the people that Frank H. Walworth, like Edward S. Stokes, was no “senti- mentalist.” The Observer gives ear to the “Ringing of God’s bell."’ It is a very pleasant article, and there is more, it is to be hoped, coming from it. The Evangelist (Presbyterian) says, in con- nection with the Walworth parricide: — We have no word of palliation for it, although the trial will bring to light facts of which few ou\- side the family circle were aware. But, whatever these may be, or however exasperating, obnoxious, reckless and violent the conduct of the father, this forms no apology for the commission of a deed so tragic and so terrible, It may well be that the father himself is largely responsible for that per- versity of views and character on the part of the son which impelled him to commit the crime. It may be that his retribution has been fairly challenged by his own misconduct, but only an inconceivable rashness and the strongest moral obliquity could have led to an act which aggravates @ thousand-fold the suffering and anguish of that unhappy home. Mr. Walworth has been for many years an adherent of the Koman Catholic Church, although he openly repudiated the late Vatican decree of the Pope's tnfallibility. As an author he was @ man of some repute rather than reputation; but had he been spared his past career would have inspired no confidence that he would ever retarn to that path or early training from which he had wandered so far away. ‘The tenor of the remainder of our religious correspondence and tho opinions of our re- ligious exchanges assimilates with the ex- prossions above given. Thera ia in the re- ligious community, as expressed through their organs, a sincerely felt horror at the crime committed by young Walworth. The American Soldier. The letter of Edmund Yates on tho Austrian parade, published in yesterday's Hxnatp, calls attention to the great distinction be- tween the American and European armies, which is still further illustrated by the speeches of General Sherman and Secretary Belknap at West Point. In a country like Austria, where a standing army of eight hun- dred thousand men is maintained, the drill of every soldier can be perfected, and on parade each battalion and regiment in every arm of the service displayed as parts of a nicely ad- justed machine. This cannot be the case with us, as we maintain no standing army ex- cept the small force engaged in Indian fight- ing. Hence we must logk to the officers—-the graduates of West Point—and the military spirit of the people for proficiency in time of war. In every war we have kad sinco the foundation of our Military Academy wo have had abundant occasion to be proud of the men it has given to the army. The Sccre- tary of Wir may well point to the respect that is paid to the memory of General Canby and tell the graduating class that each of*them will find it grateful to know that the people will commend the earnest man wherever he is found. ‘And General Sherman struck the key- note which should guide every American officer when he told these young men, just en- tering upon their military career, that the soldier should discard all idea of the pursit of wealth, There was scarcely an example of a West Point graduate being charged with cor- ruption during the war. It is this which has hitherto made our army of officers so proficient in time of war, and if the simple ad- vice of the General of the Army is followed we shall never have occasion to regret that we have no well-drilled force of nearly a milion men asa burden upon the people,-or to fear that in case the people are again compelled to fly to arms they will not have officers to com- mand them worthy of the name of the Ameri- can soldier. Great Asiatic Plague Medical Meteorology. The tidings that have already reached us of the arrival of the Asiatic cholera in the Lower Mississippi Valtey should excite immediate at- tention and stimulate us to the most exhaus- tive sanitary precaution. The uncertainty which attends the march of this pestilence and our ignorance of the geographic belts which it will devastate are among the circumstances that lend terror to its approach. Until 1850 the cholera had steadily and persistently re- fused to cross the Equator and invade the Southern Hemisphere, and confined its ravages to the populous zones which gave it birth. It was first observed, as an epidemic, in the month of May, in Bengal, in the year 1817, although it had existed from time im- memorial. Strange to say that, although its progress was first northward, it afterwards took a direction contrary to that of the mon- soons of India and overspread the southern and southwestern districts. Its first landing on our shores was simultaneously at New York and Quebec in 1832, whence it rapidly spread along the chain of the St. Lawrence Valley and lakes and by ship from New York to New Orleans. From the delta of the Mis- sissippi it took its way up stream to St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, and having then, seemingly, recruited its deadly power and malignity, crossed the Alleghanies to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. It was remarkable that, although it had reached Quarantine previously, its chief virulence was manifested after its recurving through the Mississippi Valley and its rearrival at New York. But once at New Orleans it shot across the country to Texas before it became epidemic at the Crescent City; and from St. Louis it stalked westward to Fort Leaven- worth, Independence and Fort Laramie, near the Rocky Mountains, and attacked tho In- dians before it had reached Belleville, within ashort distance of the city. It seemed to overleap points contiguous to the scenes of epidemic as if borne by some powerful im- pulse. And, after sweeping the vast conti- nental basin from the Rocky Mountains to the Alleghany summits, it was arrested by the The and Its +) sea; for it hardly affected the Atlantic sea- board lying under the shadow of the highest ridges of the Appalachian chain. These facts have led to the belief that the medical geography of the disease locates its expansion along the great sweep of the equa- torial current of moist southwest and south- east winds. It is known that these humid winds, supposed by some to be the deflection of the trade winds into the Mississippi Valley, penetrate to high latitudes in the central part of our Continent. Volney first pointed out this deflection as beginning in the Bay of Honduras and attaining a southeasterly direc- tion at Vera Cruz. Redfield thought that ‘it was to this southerly and southeasterly wind the Mississippi Valley owed its fertility. Mr. Blod- get also determined that southeasterly winds prevail in this section, and suggested that they might be due to an impulse not wholly at the coast, but in the interior. It has been ascer- tained that at Natchez the winds are mostly southeasterly; and, accord- ing to Dr. Engleman, from April to October, south and southeast winds prevail at St. Louis. During the celebrated cholera epidemic of 1854 it was found that southerly winds and calms prevailed. The extension of the disease to the cities of Mexico and Texas, its ascending above the sea to Chihuahua (five thousand feet high), and to a still greater elevation in the district of Paso del Norte on the Rio Grande, its invasion of the west and the Plains and its actual exten. sion to California at the very time that the Southern States almost wholly escaped it, are all circumstances confirming the beliet that it follows the equatorial air currents. As the latter are known to reach the loftiest moun- tains tops, sothe great epidemic, unlike the yellow fever, is known to disregard altitudes and has raged at times with great violence on the snowy slopes of the Himalayas and at Erzeroum, in Armenia, six thousand one hun- dred feet above the ocean, It was long since remarked by an eminent physician that the fountain-head of all sani- tary and epidemic science was in the applica- tion of meteorology. It has been conclusively shown that the recurrence of yellow fever, in a series of years from 1793 to 1851, has never been known when the average thermometer at three o'clock waa under seventy-nine dearees ee Ee during the Summer, and that the oxtent and virulence of the disease was proportioned to its oscillation above or below that point. ‘The calms of the cholera Summer of 1854 im England, and, conjoined with this fearful at mospheric stillness, the seemingly intermina- ble moistness that overhung the ill-fated island, were phenomena which historically marked the epidemic, and as the wind rose the discase began its retreat. It has been se- riously and strongly argued that tho cyclical changes that occur on the solar photosphore, and the accompanying periods of maximum sun spots, by affecting the oceanic evapora« tion and temperature of the earth, underlie the various epidemic cycles; and somo of the most eminent scientists of Europe and America, reasoning upon these premises, predicted, nearly two years ago, the frequency and malignancy of the cattle and horse epi- demics of last Fall and Winter. We throw ont these suggestions in the earnest hope that they may lead to a more rigid quarantine of our seaports, to a more unflinching, exhaustive municipal reform in the cleanliness of our cities and sanitary pro- vision for the public, as also to a more com- prehensive and philosophic investigation of the medical geography of the greatest of all pestilences, which, as yet, has defied the ut- most power of science to analyze and elude. Lying for Lovo—The Now Marriage Act. The light which displays Cupid as a por- jurer is by no means a new one. He haa appeared under that aspect ever since he first sprang, rosy and naked, into Greek mythology and shot his arrows at his own blind random. He is an irresponsible elf, with eyes and con- science equally bandaged, with no more care for than knowledge of the havoc he inflicts, But it seems that our legislators have lately been letting a new ray into the light in which this reckless heart-halver is usually seen. The new Marrisge law, for instance, authorizes clergymen to administer oaths to all parties seeking to be married. Such parties are to be required upon oath to testify as to age, ree sponsibility, residence, and other interesting and highly important facts, and if detected im wilful misropresentation (not to use a shorter but more picturesque noun), are liable to the pains of perjury. It this is not a blow at all the romance and sensibility of love before marriage and runaway matches we should like to know what is. Take the case of a mature siren of forty eloping with a dis- criminating young gentleman twenty yeara her junior. There is hardly a disinterested | heart so hard that will not concede the lady's right to fib like—like forty, let us say, when sheand her cavalier arrive at the parson’s parlor. We all agree as to a woman's prerog- ative to make herself as young as she can; and when appearances are against her (and whem a maiden lady has reached the age of forty no appearance is likely to be so much against her as her own),.we all respect the woman who can lie with an imperturbability which trang- figures her for the moment in the eyes of the beholder, and as really takes ten years off her shoulders as though she had dipped in the fountain of youth. An artistic fib, under these circumstances, is as good a cosmetic as Oriental cream, and infinitely better than the bestinvisible wig that ever lent glory to a virgin brow. Cases are easily imaginable in which it would not be so difficult to satisfy minis- terial scruples in regard to the responsibility of the lovers. There are numerous instances in which the elder of the parties, rather than not get married at all, would be quite willing to vouch not only his own responsibility, but that of the other as well. We have little doubt that the spinster aunt described in ‘Pick- wick,” rather than have foregone matrimony altogether, would have assumed every respon- sibility that could have been demanded for the faithless Jingle equally with herself. To what extent lovers will evade this cruel Marriage law, and steep their souls in per- jury rather than relinquish one jot or tittle of connubial sweets, remains, of course to be seen. But if our lawmakers could go one step further and prevent the per- juries that are daily and daringly and notoriously being committed at the mar- riage altar, to the knowledge and gossip of the world, and to perpetuation throughout the whole portion of married life, more would be done than we have the faintest reason, even in our most ecstatic visions, to expect. When™ Isabella’s brothers murdered her lover Lo- renzo, we all know how, according to thegentle legend of Boccacio, so exquisitely spiritualized by Keats, she buried his remains in a pot of sweet basil, over which she wept her ravaged life away. But to-day Isabella and Lorenzo seldom fall in love, and when they do Lorenzo is simply paid his salary and discharged, with icy civility, and Isabella is led up to the altar and given to some octogenarian Croesus, who promises to love, honor and cherish her, and whom she promises to love, honor and obey. And so the perjury is naturally spoken, and the biggest lie on earth seals the basest bar- gain ever made ‘neath heaven. It is against a perjury like this that we should like to see our lawmakers lift their hands, if there was the slightest chance that they could do anything toward removing it. The Proposed Amendments to Our State Constitution. Under a law of 1872 Governor Hoffmam named a commission to revise the State con- stitution and propose amendments. Com- posed of active business men from both parties, and of various occupations, its de- bates were practical, intelligent and ex- haustive. Its work was concluded by a report embracing several propositions for such changes in the organic law,as in the judgment of its members are requisite to give the Empire State the fullest benefit of self-govern- ment, These proposals, having been discussed. by both branches of the Legislature, have in the main been approved. They must yet, in accordance with the constitution as adopted in 1846, receive the approval of majority in both houses of the Legislature to be elected next November, and, if they secure this, they may then be submitted to the vote of the people in November, 1874. When approved and ratified by the affirmative vote of a majority of those qualified to vote for members of the Legislature they will become part of the State constitution, Substantially the changes are as follows:—The old restriction of colored voters to those having property worth two hundred and fifty dollars, overruled by the change in the federal constitution, is removed; bribery and attempts (0 influence voters by money gr other value