The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1873, Page 3

EMS Louise Muhliback on the Famous German Watering Place. ‘GRAPHIC SCENES FROM HISTORY. ‘Eugenie of France and Marie of Russia. 6JE NE WENCANAILLERAI PAS,” ‘Miss Muhlbach’s_ Interview With the Kaiser. ‘SPEAKING TO BENEDETTI “EN ROI.” The Historical Scene at Ems Accu- rately Described. PILGRIMAGE TO THE MEMORIAL STONE. Kaiser Wilhelm at the Waters—His Flir- tation With a Young Girl. The New York Herald of May 2. ‘The German Emperor’s Opinion of That Issue. Ems, Germany, July 18, 1873, Aletter from Ems! Who would have thought a Jew years ago that Ems, this littie and pretty, but dull, spot in the green Lahn Valley, would become @ place of note, celebrated not only on account of ‘its springs and their efficacy, but that it would be the spot where one of the greatest and most im- portant events of history would be enacted, Just. @s nobody becomes celebrated in the world all at once, 80 Ems ascended, as it were, the ladder of fame. At first 1t was the baths and springs which brought the small unknown place into renown, but then that was only medical fame. Childless woinen Whispered to each other biushingly of the extraor- inary results attained there. ; THE EX-EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH AT EMS. But there came a day when the dawn of historic celebrity appeared behind the green mountains, ‘This was the day on which the Empress Eugénie ‘@ppeared quite suddenly and unexpectedly in Ems. Did she, also, perhaps intend testing the eMcacy of the springs? No; the beautiful woman had no ‘Maternal longings, and why should ske have such @esires—the Empire had an heir, The reason why Eugénie left her capital so suddenly was quit? dil- ferent, The short-sighted people, the political meddiers, believed the tale that Eugénie had left Paris and St. Cloud in a fit of melancholy, and that this melancholy “+ was the result of the Emperor's habits, which gave her cause for jealousy. ‘hus it was said that Eugénie had come to Ems to drown in the green ‘waves of the Lahn her rage at the faithlessness ot her husband, But the Empress looked anything but sad; she had brought her sweetest smile and her most ravishing toilets with her; she charmed everyone with her amiability and her utter disre- gard of etiquette. The ladies sympathised with the unhappy love which she hid so well under rouge and poudre de riz, and knew not in what “way to express their devotion. The gentlemen were conquered by the beauty, the grace and vhe pecu- Yar fascination possessed by this woman, who from her mother had inherited the fair skin of Lreland, and from her father the bright, ravishing eyes of Bpain, while from her new country, France, she had adopted the clegant manners of charming savoir Jaire. Only very few knew the real ‘this sudden and astonishing journey of the French Empress. Only the most intimate and initiated whispered to each other that, instead of having quarrelled with him, the Empress lived in the greatest friendship with the Emperor, and that it was at his express wish that she had come to Ems. hus already at that time dark clouds began to appear on the political hori- Zon, and the farseeing Napoieon knew that these clouds were the forerunners of a great and disas- frous storm for France. FRANCE HAD LOST PART OF HER PRESTIGE, she no longer occupied the first place in the great Tace of politics, nor was the post of arbiter in all political affairs, @ post of honor which she had so Jong occupied, any more conceded to her so unre- gervediy. The other Powers made private and public treaties among themselves and were seem- ingly unanimous in wishing to exclude France from these. It was arranged that at this time the Prussian, Austrian and Russian rulers should mect in Ems with their wives, and France was to be excluded from this reunion, And so the little comedy ofa Jealous Empress was enacted in St. Cloud, and the Empress of the French came to Ems in order to enact the loving and jealous wile secking quiet- bess and rest. But if the whole world believed this ruse, there Was one woman who divined the real reason, and ‘who, wrapped in ner high and exclusive dignity, ‘Would not be duped. This woman was y THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. , Apartments were already prepared for her in te Hotel Zudenvier Thurmen, when all at once She Emperor, who had already arrived, received & telegram from Darmstadt, where the Empress was staying with her family, saying that she had suddenly been taken very ill, The Em- peror immediately left tor Darmstadt, exactly the day after the arrival of the Empress of tne French, Naturally the Queen of Wurtem- Derg, who had expressly come to receive her imperial sister-in-law, also left Ems for Darmstadt, and the Queen of Prussia, who had been expected to take part in the reception of the ‘Bmperor of Russia, had written to countermand the apartments which were being prepared for her. All this was said to be on account of the sudden illness of the Empress of Russia. Thus #he Empress of the French was ALONE IN BMS, wemired and gazed at by the visitors, but still ground of | Mone. artnet ume tne Bm Of France intro- duced @ new fasbion—that the long parasols, such as she used in her intain parties—a fashion which has been adopted since by ladies generally. ‘THE INVENTION OF THE OF RUSSIA. But the Empress of Russia invented a new word and gave the world a new verb to conjugate. It ‘was said by the initiated that the Empress, in her delirious ravings, said :—“Mol je-m'irai pas a Ems. Je ne m’encanaillerai pas.” Phe journals took bold of this new verb with idity; the comic papers, especially the Berlin deradatsch, con- Jngated and illustrated it for-fgonths. This was the coinmencement of political gelebrity for Ems— this was the dawn upon which followed, in 1870, the full blaze of by IMMORTAL POLITICAL FAME. Here on the 13th of July was played the first act of the tragedy whieh astonished the world, and in Whose train followed such biboay scenes and which cost so many téaré, and of which we do not yet know the last aot, t It was here in Ems that the French Ambassador, Count Benedetti, so deeply offemded the King of Prussia by his utter disregard of all politeness that the latter lost his accustomed kindness and had to speak to the Count “en roi.” They met on the promenade near the “Kurhaus,” and the King, while nodding to the Count, said, gaily, “All differ- ences are settled now, as I have just received the news that the Prince of Hohenzollern has dis- tinetly refused the crown of Spain, which had been offered to him.” But the dapper little Count did not share the King’s gaiety. On the contrary, he made a wry face, and, taking up the conversation, declared to the King that “his government could Not be entirely satisfied with this decision as re- gards the crown of Spain, but would insist on Jurther guarantees.” “What kind of guarantees?” demanded the King, with astonishment, and assuming a proud attitude, “My government can only accept that as asum- cient guarantee when Your Majesty yourself shall give a solemn and distinct declaration that neither now nor in the future will you permit anyone of the princes of the house of Hohenzollern to be- come a candidate for the throne of Spain.” THE KING DECIDES, “That I cannot and will not do,” replied the King, earnestly. Thereupon Benedetti answered:. “Sire, 1am commanded by my government to demand this guarantee of Your Majesty.” “Then I have nothing more to say to you; we are atan end,’ said the King, and, turning his back upon the French Ambassador, he continued his promenade, followed by his suite, These are the real facts connected with that grave historical in. cident which led to the declaration’of war. “And that other incident? I asked yesterday the Count Lehndorf, the aide-de-camp of the Em- peror, “that other incident, which’ has so often |, been referred to “What incident?” “Well, that scene which followed the conversa- tion on the promenade, and where the French Am- bassador, while waiting in the ante-chamber, was met by you, the door half open, and when you told the submissive Benedetti, ‘I am desired by His Majesty to inform you that he has nothing more to say to you,’ whereupon you hurriedly slammed the door.” “NEVER OCCURRED.” “That scene which you speak of,” replied Count Lenndorf, with a smiie, “is an invention of news- paper writers. The incident of such a breach of politeness never occurred.” Yet these very words which it was said were spoken were repeated in all the newspapers, and were sold in photographs and poems. At the time this scene was spoken of I doubted its veracity, for I know that Count Lehndorf is not only too much of @ gentleman, but also too kind-hearted and urbane a man to speak to any one in a rude, impolite manner, THE HISTORICAL SPOT. The spot where the conversation between the King and Benedetti took place has since been marked by a few patriots. 1 cannot say marked by @ monument; that appellation the thing ts too in- significant to deserve, and patriotism did not spend too much money on it. Tarrived here just on the 13th of July, and you can imagine that I lost no time in visiting this ““me- morial,” as I bad been told that a demonstration would be held there. A small demonstration it was, a8 small as the memorial itself, which isa block of stone about half a metre square, and on which is engraved, almost illegibly, “July, 13th, 1870, 9:15 A. M.”’ Patriotic hands had decorated the stone, in honor of the anniversary, with a laurel wreath, in which was a smailer one of for- germe-nots. THE PILGRIMAGE, It was an animated pilgrimage to this stone, and the beautiful ladies all laid their morning gifts of their admirers, the fine bouquets, in the middle of the wreath, until the insignificant stone be- came a really magnificent monument—a monu- ment of sweetiy smelling flowers—and which would have greatly pleascd the august personage in whose honor it was done, had he come to see it; but he came not, Count Lehndorf had, in pursu- ance of a wish expressed by some ladies, spoken to him of the proposed demonstration, but he gently shook his head and replied :— “I will not go. There are many Frenchmen here, and I do not wish to hurt any one’s feel- ings.” A veritable imperial sentiment, fit for such a conqueror, and which best snows his modesty and his kindly demeanor. Early next morning we went TO THE SPRINGS, inorder tocompare the Ems of to-day with the Ems of other years, with the Ems of vogue la galére, which word was formerly used by gay and spendthrift cavaliers, by the beautiful women of the demi-monde and by rich old Russian ladies who crowded around the roulette and rouge et noir tables here and in Wiesbaden. But now, above all, we wish to see the Emperor, the Em- peror who is staying in Ems for the waters, What @ crowding and jostling in the dingy old hall ana on the place before it! Hundreds and hundreds pass and repass each other, every one with his glass and the restless, inauisitive and vacant stare on the face, which seems to be innate to all persons one meets at watering Places, and which is now still more often met with since the peculiar charm which drew so many ad- venturers of both sexes to German baths exists no more, But all at once the scene changes, and every one assumes more interest and life as one whispers to the other, “THR EMPEROR 18 COMING,” and yet every one immediately tries to look uncon- cerned and as if nothing unusual was coming; for it is well known that the Emperor is unostenta- tious and does not wish to be remarked, and he is best pleased when he is allowed to pass unnoticed and when he is not saluted, Two gentlemen pass through the crowd, and, as M by magic, the place before the spring is cleared, 8 also the place be‘ore the stand of the glass dealer, for it is there that the Emperor's glass is kept. The smaller one of these gentlemen—ihe gentleman with the gray overcoat and the white hat on his white hair, with the gay and kind look, with the clear eyes under the white eyebrows— approaches the girl who is waiting for him. He carries a freshly culled bouquet of roses in his hand, and, while taking from the girl lis glass, he, kindly nodding, says to her: “Please take care of these roses for met”? Upon which he goes to the spring, where he has his glass filled, and which his aide-de-camp hands him, A FLUTTER AMONG THE LADIES. How many brilliant and envious eyes now regard the girl whose face refects the pleasure she feels, and the proudest princess and countess envies In this moment the daughter of the poor glass dealer? The Russian Princess Z., whose enormous diamonas in her earrings attract so much attention and are so much admired, would willingly sacrifice those gems if the Emperor haa given those roses to her In one respect the Emperor is like the Pope Pius 1IX.—all women, high and low, old or young, love, admire and worship him. The Emperor does not Know nor suspect the envy and rivairy his recent slight action has excited, and leaves the Pump Room in pleasant conversation with his companion and crosses the place on his way to the colonnades. These colon- nades are now perfectly empty, which just re had offered the public a welcome retreat from the heat of the glaring sun, but the Emperor walks there and they leave it clear for him. But outside the colonnares, to which lead two steps, the guests promenade about, and look as if they did not know the Emperor was there, while in reality they only have eyes for him. I naturally follow in the crowd, walk under the trees along the steps that lead to the colonnades, for Count Lehndorf, who yester- day was kind enough to visit me, had asked me, carelessly— “Are you not coming on the p romenade to-mor- row, about half-past seven o'clock, when the Emperor usually takes the waters?” LOUISA MULBACH’S INTERVIEW WITH THE KAISER. Of course I came to see the Emperor, who, when he sees me, advances a few paces to mect me, and speaks to me so kindly and graciously thatlam almost inclined to cry for very joy. In the course of conversation the Emperor asks me whether | have come to Ems to take the waters, when | honestly tell him thatI have come to see the Emperor, as the proprietor of the New YorK HERALD had requésted me to go to Kms to tell the HERALD all about the Emperor, The Emperor smiles kindly and listens to my account of the great American paper, and thanks me for the copy of the edition of the 2a of May which I had sent him, and which, he assured me, had interested him greatly, By the by, 1 must tell you that on my recent visit to the Imperiai palace in Berlin I found this same copy of the 2d of May, to my great joy,on tne Emperor’s writing table in the celebrated “Corner Room.” But now enough for to-day; to-morrow I witl teli you more of the Emperor and his sur- roundings, and of the general doings in Ems, LOUISE MUULBACH, PERU. pseu EEE, Government Deerce Reguiating the Ex- portation of Salipetre. Lima, July 13, 1873, The following is a translation of a decree which was issued yesterday by the government respect- ing the restriction to be placed on the exportation of saltpetre, and which is of great importance to mercantile mterests in the United States, MANUEL PARDO CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF PERU. In accordance with the Acts of Congress of the 2ist January and 23d April of this year I decree— First—The restriction on the exportation of ni- trate shall take effect on the Ist of September next, Second—From that date the administration oi the estanco (restriction) will pay 2 soles 40 cents for every quintal of nitrate in sacks placed along- side of the vessel in ports Iquique, Hisagua, Junin, Patillos or Molie, if its quality is proved by anaiysis to contain 95 per cent of pure nitrate, Third—the price will decrease in the following Tato: For nitrate having 94 per cent of purity, 1 per cent. For nitrate having 93 per cent o, purity, 4 per cent. For nitrate having 92 per cent of puri.y, ¥ per cent. For nitrate having 9 per cent of puricy, 13 per cent. For nitrate having 92 per cent of purity, 19 per cent. No nitrate will be received with @ greater loss that 90 per cent, Fourth—Ii 96 per cent be reached, 2 soles 47% cents will be paid per quintal. If more than 96 per cent, 2 soles and 60 cents will be paid. Fith—Four milion five hundred thousand quin- tals is the quantity fixed for exportation for the year ending August 31, 1874. Sizth—In order to determine the proportion which will correspond to every producer, in the total quantity to be purchased by the estanco, the Preiect oi Tarapaca will name a commission, to be composed of five manufacturers, who will report twenty days after their appointment concerning the number of producers and the capacities of each establishment, and accordingly will fix the poe of nitrate to be furnished annually by each manufacturer. Those producers who may not be satisfied with the report may make their complaints before a new commission, formed by the Preiect of Tarapaca, the Collector of the Port of Iquique, and @ third person to be named by these two. The decision of this commission shail be final and without appeal. Seventh—The estanco will not than 375,000 quintals per month during the first six months. After that period the quantity will be determined, but the yearly limit of 4,500,000 quintais must be adhered to, hth—The price which will be required by the estanco ‘or its nitrate will be, during the months of September, October and November next, 2 soles 65 cents net per quintal of 95 per cent value. Aiter that time the price will be 2 soles 75 cents per quin- tal. The public will be advised with sixty days? notice oi the prices to be fixed thereafter. Ninth—Producers may export on their own ac- count, paying an outward duty of fifteen cents per quintal the first three montns and of twenty-five cents for the ensuing three. Sign manual of the President. The Minister of Finance, LA JARA, Lima, July 12, 1878, A BROOKLYN LADY DIES OF EXHAUSTION, Newauna, N. Y., August 4, 1873. At Marlborough, Ulster county, on Friday last, Mrs. Kellett, of No. 125 Smith street, Brooklyn, died from the effects of the heat. On Wednesday she arrived at a Summer boarding house in that town, where she bad spent the warm season for several years past, and was enjoying her usual good heaith, On the day following she, in com- pany with some of the othef guests, went out for a drive, intending to come to this city, eight miles distant, The weather was intensely warm, When the party had driven about a quarter ofa mile Mrs, Kellett complained of a sensation of numbness and immediately sank into an unconscious state. The party at once turned to Marlborough, and medical help was summoned; but she was not restored to conscten- sciousness and died on Friday morning, as stated. Her husband and mother were expected up trom Brooklyn on Saturday night to spend the Sabbath, but received on Friday by telegraph the announce- Mmenth of her sudden death. Deceased was about thirty years of age. ALLEGED KU KLUX RAIDERS, CINcINNNTI, Ohio, August 4, 1873. 1t is reported that the Ka Klux in Owen and Henry counties, Kentucky, are getting very bold, They re- penny visited a Louisville packet with the evident intention of doing mischief, and were only deterred by the threats of the officers of the boat, who were well armed, urchase more . NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST .5, 1873—TRIPLE . SHEET. CANADA’S DREAM. the Family Nations. Entering TAPPING THE SOURCES OF IMMIGRATION. | Is There an International Hare and | Tortoise Match to Come Of ? THE CANADIAN PACIFIC ROAD. - beat aS AN UNEXPECTED PARADISE. More Rapid Transit to Hong Kong. MONTREAL, August 2, 1873, While the self-confident hare fell asieep in the | race the steady plodding tortoise leisurely touched | the goal. A question forces itself upon me, “1s there @ national hare and tortoise match in pro- gress on this Continent?’ And, if so, “is the nim- ble-footed hare napping in the expectation of an easy victory in consequende of having had tne for- tungof a long start in advance of her competitor ?”" These interrogatories never troubled me until my base of observation was changed from the United States to the Dominion of Canada, and lest | there be some who may carelessly misconstrue my application of the familiar fatie, I will remark that I find no such evidences of rapid progress in Canada as would justify an attempt to cast this | country (Canada) in the role of the hare. There is no rush, no hurry to get somewhere else before anybody else on the part of the Kanuck people ; yet they are quietly taking very long strides up the pathway of empire, and they may, one of these days, earn sor their country a better reputation than that of being merely the great refrigerator | for the family of nations. It is astonishing to find how rapidly the snows and ice with which ignorant geographers have screened half the continent melt away before the blazing sun of reportorial inquiry and turn into endless miles of navigable streams and lakes, avail- able during a season full as long as that enjoyed by the boatmen on the Hudson and on Lake Cham- plain, that it easily touches filty degrecs below on the banks of the Ottawa, and congeals for sx months in the year just north of Lake Superior and in that remoter northwest locality where Lord Gor- don’s body-snatchers have lately procured invoiun- tary. board and lodgings for themselves. Until Waddington made public the report of his explo- | rations across the Continent, along the belt of country lying between the fitieth and sixtieth par- allels of north latitude, the London clubs and the British Parliament, to say nothing of the impe press, knew jess of the physical aspects and capa- bilities, and of the climatology of British America, than they did of the Ujiji suburbs fore Stanicy’s return from his polite on the obscure celebrity, Dr. Living- stone, To Americans the same region has, except among a few scientific men or asprinkiing of no- madic trappers and a chance missionary, remained virtually a terra incognita down to the present time. The popular impression has, however, been dispetied that the chilled innabitants of unsunned latitudes below Hudson Bay and long Lake Winni- peg dieted necessarily on relays of very cold victuals, topped off with unlimited quantities of | ice cream, the whole rendered guipabie by an oc- casional variation resulting trom the capture of some very green seal, thoroughly iced before being hampered. Nothfng that the outside world imagined of this newly penetrated district is true, it seems, On the contrary, the reverse of alierro- neous specniations is being ably demonstrated to exist, if not throughout the whole northern con- tinental expanse, at least over a wide territorial area from the great lake borders to the Pacitic coast. It was “nominated in the bond” of Dominion, that @ railroad to the British ports on the Pacife | Ocean should be buiit within ten or fifteen years after conlederation, at the urgent demand of British Columbia, and, in preparing to fulfil the contract Canada has discovered (it almost amounts vo a discovery) what was only vaguely related be, fore, that the centre of her continental possessions is the most fertile, even for cereals and grasses, in | all North America, The reports of the government Statisticians in relation to the immense valieys watered by the Red and Saskatchewan Rivers have quickened public ambition, and caused a gen: eral stampede from the old humdrum traditional poly of doing everything for the greater honor and glory of England. The belie! is gaining that the Canadian Nortnwest is a finer grain, pasture and timber region than any that the United states can show, and the consequent cry is, “Let us de. velope our Own resources, tion. Let us follow the flourishing lead of the Union. Let Mother England flirt with the Shah and | fret about her then in India. We have the ma- terials ior a first class State right at hand, and we may as well go into the government business on our own account.” Accordingly the Canadian tortoise has entered itself for the race ior the championship of the New World a generation hence. REFITTING WITH MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. Tweaty years ago the locomotive nade its début in the province Of Untario, and the first screw steamer irom Liverpool entered the st. Lawrence. ‘Twenty- was commenced, which was completed in 1860, when the #rince of Wales inaugurated the Victoria Bridge. Seventeen years ago the now powerval | fleet of steamers known as the Allan Line was and Liverpool. The first telegraph wires were stretched over colonial territorics in 1846, In i869 the imperial government began work upon the Intercolonial Railway, irom Riviere du Loup to Haiifax, and the year lollowing surveys were made | for an iron highway to the Pacific turough British territory. From this it appears that the people of the pres- established to ply between Montreal and Glasgow | ent Dominion of Canada have only begun to enjoy | ¢ the benefits of the world’s modern imnprovements | within the last five and twenty years, while during | inl! twenty years of that period the loyal popuia- tion participated only in such public enterprises as received the sanction of a home government alike ignorant of and indifferent to the necessities of its cis-Atiantic colonists, With confederation, in 1s67, the first spark of ambition was kindled in the adian breast, and the dream of a great na- tionality presented itself to the popular imagina- uon, in 1860, when the United States claimed a popu- lation of over 23,000,000, and had taken rank among the first Powers of Christendom, there were scarcely more than two million subjects of the British crown in all North America, A computation for 1874, based on the Dominion census of: 1870, shows # Canadian and Provincial population of about five millions, demonstrating that while the States have not quite doubied their population in the twenty-three years now ending, the increase in the Dominion ior the same length of time has been almost three-fold—a ratio of growth that ‘if maintained to the close of the century will insure the establishment of a traly poweriw nationality along our entire Northern frontier. TOUTING FOR MIGRANTS. ‘As only 450,000 emigrants settied in Canada be- tween the years 1861 and 1871, the probability of the high rate of increase being continued is rea- sonabie, for now the government is taking the most active measures toinduce the Lol ag elt and operatives of Northern Europe and the Britisl sto locate upon its vast domains along the lake borders and throngh the fruitful valley of the Saskatenewan, Colonization agencies are being established in Ireland, Scoviand, Engiand, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, the Germ: Empire, France, and Switzerland, and by personal effort, well ag by the clever use of printer’s ink, the prospective advantages to health and pocket obtainable in @ land of surpassing agricultural and minerai wealth, and under a government republi- can in everything save the name, are systemati- cally pictured to the millions, whose one prayer is that they may s00n be able sail for America. The iadian has learned something from his Yank eighbor in the art of adroit advertising, and 18 inning to test It on a very extended scale, The plan pursued by the Uttawa govern- ment will soon correct the prevalent erroneous notions, entertained im the United States almost as of | Because in Saratoga the thermometrical | mercury finds its way down to thirty degrees below | zero in mid-winter, it has been popularly argued | | jal | Let us foster emigra- | ix fears ago the Grand Tronk Railway | cireajation, I find close comparisons instituted pe- | tween the United States and te Domimon in all | | Particulars and it is, perhaps, unnecessary to add | that tie advantages of soll and climate are shown to | | be chiefly north of Boston, New York and ‘Chicago, | Indeed, recollecting some intolerably heated terms, 1 was not prepared to dispute the official announce- ment that “New York has a semi-tropicai climate” any more than T could the geographical fact that the *>outhern portions of Canada are in the same latitudes a Corsica and the northern provinces of Spain, Italy and Turkey, extending as far south | | even as the latitude of Rome,” or the other less | pleasing redection that the bulk of the territory of | the United States lies within nearly the same | | Parallels of latitude as the Great Desert of Sahara and is comprised within the “region of Summer droughts,” Colored maps,in which Canada is dressed | in decp green, suggestive of fields and forests with verdure clad, while the United States are ex- hibited in a splasi of mud-brown, statistically typical of the arid, sterile character of the soil and of the vast amount of desert included in our pos- sessions, are placed within easy reach of the in- tending emigrants, aiong with the information that “the United States having reached the West- | ern limits of arable iands, iminigration, an agency | so etficient in their increase in Wealth and popula- | fon, must now turn more towards Canada.” ‘ihe fact that the natural increase of the American population has been since 1860 only about eleven per cent, while in Canada it is more than twenty- ; two per cent, is also well advertised to the | Europeans, beside the assertion that “Maine and New Hampshire have diminished in population es the whoic of New England is nearly at a stand- still.” Coupled with the assumption that the flood of emigration is about to overflow the Dominion and Jeave the Unton high and dry with a non-multiply- ing population, 1 find that the Canadian govern- ment chews the following sweet morsel o! pleas- ing intelligence :— The Bureau of Statistics (Washington) values every emigrant at $80) to this would add $350,100,000 to the wealth of the Kepublic in 1809 frou this valuation e money brought by each immi- OW in thé last fifty years, during which there have becn 8,000,000 of immigrants to the y States, ‘This sum equals half the value of all the real estate in the Republic in 1800, as given m the census, ‘The money and material brought by the immigrants, the sums invested by ioreigners in Various ways, the money borrowed by States, companies, &c., make, by a caretul computation, another eight thousand millions and more, taken chiefly trom fngiand, and added to the weaith of the Republic since 1820, To turn this stream of wealth from its accus- tomed channels to the virgin regions of the newer country one inay well imagine is the longing of Canadian statesmen. | COMMENDABLE ENTERPRISE, | Hence it ts that some ten thousand miles of new rail- way communication are authorized to be added to | the nearly jour thousand now in operation, Hence | the determmation to go connect the magnificent | natural waterways of the country by the finest sys- tem of ship canals the worid has ever secn, to afford seagoing vessels the opportunity of pene- trating injand to the very heart of the Continent. ‘The lesson taught by the States has beeen learned by the Canadians, that the emigrant population | will follow wherever the locomotive and steamboat willlead; but the day has gone by when ptoncers locate Westward and patiently await the arrival | of the cars to put their farms or their | milis in communication with the purchasing world. ‘The most of the railroad lines to be built will be | completed in irom five to ten years, and then the | previnces of Quebec and Ontario will be as | thickly gridironed as are New York and Pennsyl- | vania to-day, while lines will be constructed all | | along the northern borders of Huron aud Superior, | o ARENS, as leeders lor the great trunk line to the Pacitic. THE ROUTE OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC ROAD, ‘The legaly ordained starting point of the vs u Pacific Railroad is from the south shore sing, Wich lies in longitude 80 degrees west Jrom Greenwich and between the | forty-sixta and iorty- nih parallels oi north lati | j tude, ‘Lhe probabie terminus westward will be at & point on Bute Inlet, on the Gulf of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island, 250 miles north oi the port o: Victoria, At Lake Nipissing the line will connect with the present Canadian sys- | tem of railways, and its proposed extensions to | r Bay and shippeyan on the Guill o1 dt. ence, and perhaps across the islaud of New- foundland, 80 as to instre an all rau communica. | ton trom the Paerfic port to the Atlantic seaboard, at a point wituin a jour or five days’ sail of the irish coast. } ‘The line will pass around Lake Nipissing to the | north of Superior, thence northwesterly to Mani- | toba, voucuing Fort ry at about rhe tiueth el; thence northwesterly Uurough che Sas- kKatchewan Valley into British Columbia, via the Yeliow Hea Jaune Cache, longitude grees, iutitnde 68 dogrees, and finaily across the Clilcotin country, via North Kraser River and Forts George and ‘Chiicotin to Bute Inlet, or whatever terminus later surveys may disclose to be most advantageous. tne highest elevation to which the :oad will have | to be curried ts over the retlow Head Pass, winch 1s 3,760 fect above the sea level, ‘ihe Union Pacitic traverses the Rocky Mountains (Bridger’s Pass) aban altitude of 7,ou4 feet, and surmounts Sher- man Summit, Biack Huls, which is 8,242 leet high, | while the Central Pacitle rises irom 4,000 to 7,000 Jeet in its passage over the | natural inquiry Whether the advan alone—not includin, Krant—and $5, 0,0 creased rigors of a loag Wint 01 the locomotive 18 fully antic in Mr. Alfred Waddington’s rey practi- | cability of an extr northern route betwe | oceans, He says 2 a general rule, ti | Canada is easily removed by the snow-pioughs, which are used both there and in the Easteru states, and the trains run regularly ail Winter, with tne | exception of an occasional snow storm. ‘But as we get jurther into the interior the thickness of suow continues to diminish with tue decrease of atmus- pheric moisture, till, im the plain of tie Suskate | ewan, it does not pack over lourteen inches thick, | | wud then evaporates quickly; and even in the ; Yellow Head Pass, im the ‘hocky Mountains, it | berely aitains from two to three icet. In aduition | to these iacts the isothermal lines which run in @ | ) West-north west course across the Continent show | | an increase in the mean temperature on the va- | clue coast equal to fully cieven degrees of latitude | as compared with the Atlantic, while the range | o: the thermometer becomes less and the Winter | | dud Summer temperatures more equavle. Thus the | Thea annual temperature at Cumberland House, in jutitude 04 deurces, longitude 11 degrees 40 | minutes, is only one degree lower than that of ‘foronto, ten degr: more to the soutu, but also forty-two degrees more tothe east; aud in Vice | torma, Vancouver island, where suow tarely fails, ‘andthe arbutus grows in the op | to the size of a tree, the cumate closely re Uhat of Nantes or La Rochelle, France. tn short, if the trams run all winter in do itd yortiort across the We | Continent.” Concerning the fitness of the country | for settlement, the same observer reports that from Ottawa to Nipigon Kiver, 765 miles, ihe a very desirable plum and “clayey jevel.”’ ext 245 mies, between the Nipigou and Winnipeg rivers, is composed partly Of #ucian rocks and 1s comparatively sterile, although interpersed with cuitivable tracts of great fevuuty. kuarther west | 1s the fertile pelt, stretching away north for & thousand miles, and Which has becom | 48 @ “paradise of ferulity.”” It is remarked tiat | “Its climate 1s more suitable to the eungrants irom ada, Tn portion of the | Nortuern surope than that south of Missouri Kiver, Where Summer droughts are common, tu- gether with excessive Wiuter colds and Winter snows. In British Columbia there exists a large tract of fine country along te Upper Fraser; and | Jurther west the proposed line traverses the great Chilcotin or central plain of the province, a iuxn- riant garden, full of agricuitural and pasturai wealth, and containing over twenty milions of acres, bWo-thirds 0: which are fit tor cultivation.” From ail this it appears that there are no | engineering difficulties to speak ot along the sur- Veys made, and tuat the general ciaracter o1 te country will invite settlers throughoat nearly the Whole Width of the Continent. Moreover, coal Cx- | ists in abundance at Bute Inlet and at Haltax, so | that the eastern and western termini o! the | route willeaci afford the best factiines for the | steam marine. There is no coal near San Francisco. ir the natural advantages of the Canadian route prove to be superior to tuose Of Our own traus- tiueptal highways the world at large will soon out, It would really seem as if obstruction nud irom suows was less to be teured via the Yellow Head Pass ove the iocay Mountains than through Bridger’s Pass and uver the Sierras, The | Canadian eng:neers do not estimate tor snow | sheds even at the greatest eievations of their route, While itis well Kuown that oh protec- tions against the action of the avalanches are necessary at points on tne Centra! Pacine. TIME AND DISTANCE TO bE SAVED. As the sbortest sailing circie across the Atlantic is from Liverpoo! to Quebec Via the Siraits of Kelle Isle, 2,502 miles, 80 the shortest jocomouve cut across the continent is by yearly the same parailel of lautude—the fiitieth. From Mattawa, on the Ottawa, near the initial point of the Pacilic road, to Bute Inlet, over the surveyed route, is 2,450 miles, From Quebec to Mattawa, by the present circuitous route, 1s 448 miles, which Will be reduced to 826 at least by the constroction of the North Shore and Ovtawa River roads. The total distance trom Liver- pool to Bute Inlet is therefore 5,277 miles, and from Liverpool ,to Victoria, Vancouver Island, 5,527. From Victoria to Yeddo Is 4,200 miles; Victoria to Hong Kong, 5,700 miles; Victoria to New South Wales, 6,720 miles; Victoria to Auckland, New Zealand, 6,105 miles. To exhibit the possible pas | in distance be- tween Europe, New York and Eastern Asia, the following tabie will prove serviceable :— | there | the schooners of the New York or 3 wn aint eT RED irno aie i between Liverpool and the same China port, via the Mediterranean and Suez Canal is now thirty- seven days, still aix days longer than will be re- quired to reach the same point by the Canadian route. The circuit of the globe, touching at London, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco or Victoria, and New York or Montreal, can be accomplished probably in les? than seventy- five days, where eighty days is now the least allowance. It 18 impossible at present to determine whether any American route to the kast can hold prece- dence after the Russian and English overland sys- tems through Asta to the same objective commer- cial points shall have been developed; bat the chances are at least fair, or, with the mtroduction ol a swifter class of ocean mail steamers, the At- lantic and Pacific waters willeventually be bridged, over an aggregate course of 8,000 miles, from England to China in twenty days, aud we need allow only five days for the trans- eontinental trip between the seas. In all their calculations the Canadians have kept in view the fact that New York will be brought three hundred and fifty or four hunired miles hearer to the Pacific by their line than at present. Moreover, as the Canadian Paciiic will be provided. with branches conrecting with Lake Superior, it is assumed that a good share of patronage trom the American lake ports will be extended to it, That the road will be bulit is not doubted here, in spite of the political scandals connected with its inception, It is everywhere recoguized as being more essential to the growth of the Dommion than were the Union and Central Pacific Railroads to the States. It is the ope key to Canadian wealth and possible empire. No,other will uulock the gate of fortune which the people are clamoring to enter, YACHTING. Cruise of the New York Yacht Squadron— Programme of the Trip—Martha’s Vine- yard to be Visited—The Races at New- port—Prospect of an Enjoyable Season—General Orders Nos. 1 and 2 Yachting has now become the main feature of each Summer's amusement. Instead of seeking the discomforts of a seaside watering place the pleasure-loving yachtsman betakes himsel! to hia graceful, floating cottage and becomes the perfect embodiment of quiet, aristocratic leisure, His yacht is at once his Summer villa and his racing stock, All her linesare lines of beauty, and the interior decorations are all such as belt the home of a gentleman of refinement. The cabin is in itself a gem of comfort, and the choicest bachelor’s hall does not outshine it in the number of bronzes or paintings. ‘There, too, are the decanters and the box of cigars, and it is but the work of @ moment to summon the steward, who, in a very few minutes, transforms the cabin Into a dining hall of the cosiest sort. Then, when the shades of evening come, the yachtsman reposes on the soitest down and is rocked to sleep in “the cradle of the deep.” Utterly sans souci, the life of a yachts- man on the annual cruise is one of the most re- freshing and invigorating nature. It is in happy | contrast to a satlor’s toils before the mast, and, | although the hours are rung, the yachtsman stands no watches, THE COMING ORUISE. The date of the most important ting event of the Summer rapialy approaches, ie following: orders, to-day first given to the public, explain GUNURAL ORDERS NO, 1 Yacw c New York at . PuAGsHTT ALARM) New Youn, ath, 18/3. cordance with article V. of the coustituton, the undersigned, in the absence of tne Commodore and Viee Commod axnuines Command of the squadron W, B. Bend is appointed Ficet Captain, He will be obeyed and rv ected accordingly Ghd L Ina New York The squadron will rendez: the Ith instan Captaiun will report on bowrd the flagship at seven o'clock . M. iy order ot the Rear Commodore. W. Bb D, Pleet Captain. UP THE SOUND. The yachts will, as for years past, rendezvous at Glen Cove on next Monday, Whence they will sail on the following morning tor New London, It is highly probable that the fleet will not come to anchor off the Pequot House, but they will proceed up tothe city, Altera day's stay the squadron will leave for either Newport or Vir Haven, It nas been serivusly urge many yachtsmen that a pleasant — tion” mignt be given to the crui arranging a scrub race from New London to the Vineyard Sound Lightship, A season of rest and prayer could (hen be taken at Vineyard Haven over | Sunday, after which the squadron could return to Newport on Monday evening. The plan of THE KEGATTAS AT NEWPORT has not yet been arranged, and will not be until the meeting on Monday evening next on board the flagship. That there will be races lor two cups, val- ued $500 each, presented by the Commodore, is ho question. Tne course will be 1 Duuplings to Block Island jerry and ret is barely possible that the race trom Reet Lightship to Sandy Hook and return ui be sailed during the cruise, ‘The gr portion of the schooner yachis belonging to the squadron Will eugage in the cruise this season. ‘Tne sapplio is in Europe, and the Dauntless and Piautom will not be entered. The schooners Alarm, € Mumbia, Dr luicr, Magte bier and ‘i away on th squadron. udnaught, Kleetwing, yd Madge, mudeleine, Hesomte, al Wave’ will start. sloops now Brooklyn and Atlantic will all join the Yachting Notes. The yacht Palmer, N.Y.Y.C., M. Stuyvesant, from Newport jor New York, passed Whitestoue yesterday. Gy cht Peerless, A.Y.C., Commodore Maxwell, wport for New York, 18 at anchor off Witte: “A STRANGE SEA STORY.” Reported Sinking of an Unknown Yacht by an known Steamer Be= tween Point Judith and Wateh Hill, R. L=The st Not Believed by Yachtsmen in New York or Elsewhere. A strange bat unfounded ramor pervaded the city yesterday afvernoon and evening, which created the utmost excitement in yachting circles. The rumor was to the effect thacone of rooklyn Yacht, Club—it was not known for certain which— had been run imto by some anknown Soand steamer petween Point Judith and Wateh Hill, K., and that the vessel had disappeared instantly with ali on board. The story was brought by Rear Gommodore Robert Dillon, of the Brooklyn Yacht Cinb, to this city. This gentleman informed a reporter that while his boat, the Kate, was iying off Newport on Sunday he aaa otaer yachtsmen were hailed by a boatman who came from the town and sang ont that the captain of a Newport pas- senger steamer, Which had arrivea in that morn- ing, reported having ron down and sunk an unknown yacht in the Sound during a dense fog on Saturday night, between Watch Hill and Point Judith, ‘the mysterious boatman forgot to iniorm Mr. Dillon what the name of the steamer was, a8 also the name of the captain who commanded her. The suppositious captain, as per Mysterious boatman, stated that the unknown steamer had struck the unknown yacht arid- ships, knocking the masts out of her and sinking her instantly, whereuoon the mysterious steamer hove to and remained in the neighborhood jor an hour or more afterwards, bat fina ly was compelled two leave without finding any trace of the lost vessel or crew. 4 Mr. Dillon stated that he could not vouch for the truth of the statement of the boatman, but that he related it as he bad heard it trom that per- sonage. A HERALD reporter calied at the ofice of the Narragansett Steamship Company last night, and endeavored to giean tidings of the reported dis- aster. The officials were im utter ignorance of any accident ieaidtes Tad lace, and said that if either the Bristol or the Providence hat been concerned in the accident they would have been made ac- quainted with it by telegraph. There are two other passenger steamers running to Newport—the Jane Mosely from Greenport and the Sunshine irom New London. Neither of these vessels have offices in the city, but it is highly im- ‘obable that any accident could have occurred, as Miles, Miles, Liverpool to Qnebec... 4,502 Liverpool to New York 2,98) Quebec to Victoria... 3,025 New York to Nan Fran- cisco (Union and en. Vietoria to Hong Kong 5.700 —— | tral Pacific Railroad) 3,961 TOU). ..eeeceeerees 11,227 San Franciseo to Hong Kong ++ 68% TOAL. 6s sseeeeee es ABTS —Difference in favor of Canadian route from Liver- ool to Hong Kong, compared with that by way of ‘ew York and San Francisco, 1,948 miles, TIME ‘Be MAIL TRANSIT, Days, Days. v« & Liverpool to New York Mi 5 New York toS. Francisco 6 18 San Francisco to Hong Kon a Liverpool to Quebec. Quebec to Victoria. Victoria to Hong kK Total. Total... 37 Difference in favor of Canadian Pacific route from eaten to Hong Kong, com by way of New York and Sap nel generally as throughont Europe, concerning the climate, soil, capabil and commercial status of fhe Gandia Dominion,” THE SUPERIOR CLIMATE. bamphbie te desiened for European Although apparently feasible with favoring weather and fvet ships, it must be remarked that communication between Liverpool and Hong Kong via Sap Francisce has never yet been re- Guced to leag than jorty days, The running ume jar as they are concerned, without an authentic account of the collision being reported at the omce g beng Western Union Telegraph Company in New ‘ork. ‘The reporter called at the rooms of the New York Yacht Club, Madison avenue, last night, and inter- viewed Mr. Minter, the Secretary, and other yachts. men who were on deck. The idea of an accident of the kind reported was poo! johed by these entlemen, though they advanced the opinion that t Was possible a tug might have run down some small sailboat, of which many cruize in the vicinity. Up to a late hour Jast evening no intelligence was received relative to such 4 disaster, and the proba- bility is thas it had its origin tn the lertile brain of the boatman who reported it, or A NEW HAMPSHIRE PRO ae FESSOR, ConcorD, August, 4, 1873. Professor J. H. Pearl, Principal of the State Nor- mal School at Plymouth, died there to-day, aged forty years.