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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Rejected communications will not be re- turned. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Centres and Currents of Traae— The Transportation Question—New York and Her Rivals, While the whole country is interested in the question of cheap transportation between the interior and the seaboard the farmers of the West and the merchants of New York have the deepest interest. The farmers, because they have an enormous surplus of produce that cannot reach a market in consequence of TOE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the | the high rates of freight, and our merchants, year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription | because outlets of trade are being developed price $12. Volume XXXVIII.... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, lith street and 6th av.— Notne Dann, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaaierr ENTERTALYMSNT. BOWERY THEATRE, Eowery.—Hanpsomms Jacn— Manxep ror Lirs, MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Hauer, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vagiety ENTERTAINMENT, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st Bex MoCuttovea, Afternoon and evening. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth strcet.—CoLuezn Baw. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Orara Bovrre—La Granpe Ducnxsse. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, and Bleecker sts—Sinnap THe Sa1LoR THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanrery ENtexTAnMEnt. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway—Tux BEL. between Houston Union square, near ov tux Kircuen, in other directions that may affect the pros- perity and progress of this commercial me- Pee eevee NO. 258 tropolis, In this matter the interests of the farmers and our merchants should be identi- cal, but if tho farmers can find a cheaper out- let for their produce, and, consequently, a readier and better market by Canada or any other route, they are not likely to come to New York to sell, and would buy most of their merchandise, probably, where they might find the best market for their produce. New York, through its capital and established trade, has great advantages which cannot easily be overcome, but in the end the cheapest and most favorable routes of commerce will be adopted. It will not do, then, to be idle and indifferent, or to depend either upon the prestige of the past or present commercial supremacy, while rivalry, with decided local advartages, is springing up. The meeting at the Cooper Institute on Wednesday evening showed that the merchants of this city have got some idea of the import- ance of the subject and a necessity for action. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Brack Croox, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third st —Wanveuine Jew, BOOTHS THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st— Rir Van Winkie. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall— Money, ROBINSON HALT, Sixteenth street—Tax Roran Maxionetres, Matinee at3 BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner €th av.—Nicno MinstRe Cy HOOLEY’S OPERA HO San Francisco MINSTRELS. , Court street, Brooklyn.— ASSOCIATION HALIM, 234 street and 4th avenue.— Tux Romance or Orrics. BAIN HALL. Great Jones street, between Broadway and Bowery.—Tnx Pirerim. CENTRAL Cox- cunts. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 84 av., between 634 aud 64th streets, Afternoon and evening, YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- NCR AND ART. PARK GARDEN.—Svuumen Nicuts’ NE’ way.—s DR, KAUN’S MUSEUM, No, 668 Broadway.—Sciznce axp Art. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, Sept. 15, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE CENTRES AND CURRENTS OF TRADE! THE TRANSPORTATION QUESTION! NEW YORK AND HER RIVALS"—LEADING EDI- TORIAL TOPIC—SIXxTH PAGE. A BATTLE IMMINENT BETWEEN THE SPANISH REPUBLICAN FORCES AND THE CARLISTS AT VERGARA! THE LATTER WEAK IN NUMBERS, BUT STRONGLY INTRENCHED— SEVENTH PaGE, TURKISH PRECAUTION AGAINST THE CHOL- ERA! FRENCH STEAMERS QUARANTINED— SEVENTH Pace. YHE BOURBON SUCCESSION IN FRANCE, IN THE PERSON OF LOUIS SEVENTEENTH, TO BE PROSECUTED BY M: JULES FAVRE! ASAD YET REMARKABLE HISTORY! IN- HUMAN TREATMENT OF THE SELF- STYLED DAUPHIN—TarIrD PaGs, YELLOW FEVER SPRBADING! TERRIBLE HAVOC BY THE EPIDEMIO—TENTH PAGE. NEW CLEWS TO THE TAR-AND-FEATHER OUT- RAGE AT HUNTINGTON, L. L! MORE OF TUE REMAINS TO BE SOUGHT FOR! FACTS THAT WILL STARTLE THE COM- MUNITY—SEVENTH PAGE. PRESIDENT GRANT’S APPOINTMENTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AROUSING HON- EST INDIGNATION! THE COMING COUNCIL WITH THE REDSKINS—SEveNTH Paces. AMERICAN ARRESTED AT CARDENAS, CUBA, CHARGED WITH UTTERING COUN TERKFEITS—SEVENTS Page, OF THE WHEAT AND SOME CHAFF FROM THE SERMONS YESTERDAY! AN EXCUR- SION TO HEAVEN! SUBURBAN SERVICES— FOURTH Pace, VACANT CHAIR! OPINIONS OF PROMI- NENT MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK BAR ON THE QUALITIES NECESSARY IN A CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE MERITS OF THOSE WHO ARE OR SROULD BE ELIGI- FIFTH PAGB, EXICAN WAR HEROES’ ANNIVERSARY— ART MATTERS—Tuirp Pace. AQUATIC STRUGGLES! COMING REGATTAS AND NEW COURSES—Tgntu Pace, THE JERSEY TAXPAYERS AND THE LATER TAMMANY! VENALITY “WORSE THAN HIGHWAY ROBBERY”—Targp PaGE. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT OF THE AMERI- CAN MONEY MARKET! DEDUCTIONS FROM THE ERE PANICS OF 1837 AND 18671 | BUST OF THE PAST WEEK—THE FATAL CAR HOOK AGAIN—Ercutu Pace. A REVIEW OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS— TUE FEDERAL OFFICES—Firtn Page aN ALL THE ‘Tae Stave Trape my Britisn Vessers con- tinues, in spite of tho much vaunted humanity of England. It is not long since that we were informed of this nefarious business being vig orously prosecuted on the Pacific Ocean by Englishmen. The trade was in islanders of the Pacific and for British colonists of Aus- tralasia, Now we leam by telegram from London of a case of slave-trading and its con- quences that are horrifying in the extreme, A cruiser had captured in the Indian Ocean a slave ship which bad taken three hundred slaves on board, out of which number two hundred and fifty had died! True, it is not saidin the despatch that the slaver was a British vessel, but from what had lately oc- curred on the Pacific it is fair to presume she was. While the government is to be com- mended for its vigilance in pursuing tho slavers, it is evident that British traders caro more for making money than for humanity or the public sentiment of the world. “A Lrrruz Mone Grapg.’’—One of the Most interesting features in the celebration to- ‘day of the anniversary of the surrender of the Mexican capital to the American forces under General Scott will be the presence of the , famous Bragg’s battery, which did such grand Service at the battle of Buena Vista, and which Gave rise to the well known saying attributed to General Taylor, “A little more grape, Still, it was evident the commercial classes and wealthy citizons are not aroused as they ought to be. Thero was a great parade of respectable names and large business firms to the call for the meeting, and it was said five hundred millions of capital was represented, yet the assemblage was not a remarkable one, the hall was not full, nothing practical was devised, a few tame speeches were made upon “glittering generalilies,"’ and the whole affair seems to have been engineered by a few old fogy politicians, This is not the way to meet tho issue that is looming up all over the country or to secure the commercial supremacy of New York in the future. Let us hope, however, that this was only the commenceient of a greater movement, and that the business men and capitalists generally of this city will yet show more earnestness. The farmers’ granges, which have risen up rapidly and are increas- ing in number and influence daily, have forced this question of transportation upon Congress and the politicians, and the latter, seeing tho power of these organizations, are on the alert to make political capital out of the movement. A committee of the United States Senate was appointed to investigate and report upon the subject, and this committee was at the Cooper institute meeting on Wednesday night, and has since been taking testimony in this city. So far the evidence, as published, is from the freighting companies and agents and those in- terested in the railroads, andis one-sided. Tho gentlemen examined frankly acknowledged that the screws were put on the farmers and country merchants whenever there was a pres- sure for forwarding produce. In other words, the freighting companies and railroads impose the highest rates they can when there is a chance, This is the very state of things the farmers and merchants justly complain of, and for which they are seeking a remedy. The whole country, as was remarked, is in- terested in this question of cheap transporta- tion; for whatever promotes trade, stimulates exports and increases production adds to the national wealth - and well-being. We have always, particularly in the West and South, a superabundance of products of the soil, and the more of these we can send abroad the less gold will be exported, the more will the balance of trade be in our favor and the better every way will be our financial condition. As tho farmers prosper through finding a market for their produce, which implies cheap transportation to the seaboard, more mer- chandise will be imported, and thus the trade of New York and other cities will be improved and the revenue of the government be in- creased. Commercial movements, as well as the good condition of the national finances, depend greatly upon the prosperity of the farming interest. Ifthe farmers are cut off from a market by insufficient means of trans- portation, by exorbitant railroad charges to pay interest on fictitious capital, by forestallers or combinations to realize enormous profits, or by other causes, the whole commercial and financial interests of the country are injuri- ously affected, and those of New York partic- ularly, because this city is the centre of com. merce and finance, We do not suppose that Montreal, Portland, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or any other place is going to supersede New York as the great commercial emporium of the American Continent. However much trade may be in- ereased in any of these cities, or their direct trade with the West be promoted through opening or extending lines of railroad and canal communication with that section, the result would be beneficial to this city. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad or Canal may be extended so as to tap the vast trade of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys; the Pennsyl- vania Central, with Tom Scott at its head and with all the stupendous railroad combination under him to assist, may make connections to the Mississippi and beyond, to the Gulf of Mexico or even to the Pacific, and lines of steamships may be started in connection with these enterprises; yet all these will be only feeders to the commerce and financial power of New York. The more Baltimore and Phila- delphia may profit by these internal improve- ments and connections the better it will be for New York, The same may be said of other commercial cities. To some extent, however, we must except Montreal. That is not in the United States, is under a different revento system, has some peculiar advantages, and, under British patronage, rivalry and jealousy, is making extraordinary efforts to draw the trade of the West down the St. Lawrenco and from New York. Vast capital ig being used for that purpose. The construction of costly docks and great expenditures in enlarging the Welland Canal show the aims of the British government and the colonists. If a ship of a (housand tons or more can go from Chicago or any other port of our great interior lakes to Montreal and reship her cargo there at small expense, or go even to Europe without breaking bulk, every ono must see tho ‘Captain Bragg.” Hore is Brage’s battery, but where is ‘Captain Braga himseli?"’ advantage of this cheap water route. The only way te check ‘this impending | rate of mortality. rivalry {s either to draw off the trade by the way of Lake Champlain and the Hudson, or to open greater and cheaper facili- ties by the Erie Canal and freight double track railroads between New York and the Far West. These improvements would also pre- vent much of the direct trade being diverted by the way of Philadelphia, Baltimore or other points in the United States, But, apart from these works, much may be done in this city to lessen the cost of handling produce and merchandise. Cartage and trans- shipment, with expensive dues and commis- sions at this port, swell the cost on produce unnecessarily and very injuriously. Then there is not shipping enough for a healthy competition, or even to carry the produce in the market or that would come to it. Our shipbuilders and merchants should build more vessels, and Congress ought to give all the encouragement possible to shipbuilding. Above all, a wide ship canal, of the greatest depth, with o system of docks and basins, should be made between the North and East rivers through Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River. The whole railroad system centred at New York, and even from New Jersey, by a bridge across the Hudson, should be brought to that point and in connection with the shipping. Prod- uce and merchandise could then be trans- ferred at little cost from railroads and canal boats to ships and from ships to the railroads. Warehouses might be constructed at the water's edge, the same as at the docks in Lon- don and Liverpool, and the railroads could load at the spot, Such improvements, to- gether with those projected on our river front, on both sides of the island, and others now being executed at the upper part of the city, would soon make New York the pride of the country and the world, and would go far to perpetuate its commercial supremacy. In- stead of speechmaking twaddle we want work, great measures and a liberal expenditure of money. These necessary improvements in the commercial metropolis are intimately con- nected with the question of cheap transporta- tion and a ready market for the produco of the West. The of the Expedition. We published a few days ago the interesting tidings of the progress of the English yacht Diana, on her North Polar exploration via Spitzbergen. The Diana is a powerful screw steamer, specially fitted to battle with the Arctic ices, and is under the command of the veteran explorer, Mr. Leigh Smith. At the last accounts, dated July 4, the Diana was in the very bay where Parry left the Hecla, in 1828, to make his celebrated treadmill jour- ney on the ice northward, and where Mr. Smith was then awaiting the close of the icc- drift season to force his way, if possible, to tho Pole itself. This daring endeavor is one of the most promising now in progress to enter the mys- terious region of the Arctio basin. Spitzber- gen may be regarded as a narrow neck of land between two great oceans—the Circumpolar and the Atlantic. On the western side the great Polar, or ice-bearing current, descends to lower latitudes, while off the eastern coast the warm drift of the Gulf Stream water distinctly reveals itself to the thermom- eter. Ships which have been beset in ice between Spitzbergen and Greenland have been found to drift to the southwest at the rates of 182 miles in thirteen days, 120 miles in four- teen days and 1,300 miles in 108 days—ie., at an average rate of about 12 miles a day. Early in July, as during the winter and spring, this icy water maintains the frigid conditions over Northern and Western Spitz- bergen; but the summer sun soon after be- comes too powerful, and the temperature rises very high, On the 16th of July, 1861, Blomstrand found the mercury over 60 de- grees Fahrenheit in that high latitude, and by the last of July or the 10th of August the weather is usually warm, and, what is more for the explorer, the liquefaction of the ice is nearly over, and the seas are comparatively open. Parry declared, after having been baffled in July, 1828 (by the ice on which his sledges travelled moving southward as fast as he moved northward) that on the 10th of August the seas were iceless, and if he had only waited till then to make a ship voyage he believed he could have made the highest latitude attainable. There can be little doubt that if the great navigator at the close of the ice-drift (which had previously baffled and worn him out) could—say on the 5th of August, 1828—have stepped on board a power ful screw steamer like the Diana, he would have met little or no ice obstruction, and, so far as ice-drift was concerned, might have steamed in a few days to the Pole itself, in the interim of the complete breaking up of the old ice and the formation of the autumnal ice. Ho might, indeed, have encountered land a few hundred miles north of Spitzbergen, but he would have had one or two weeks to cross it by sledge before the new ice of September sealed up the seas behind him and cut off hia retreat southward. What Parry could appa- rently have done go easily with a steamer, and “what he himself declared he could have easily done, in 1828, if he had known that the ice- drift is over in August, it seems highly proba- ble Mr. Leigh Smith will now do. The high latitude attained by steam in the Polaris (higher than Kane or Hayes ever attained by sledge journeys) would argue that “the con- quest of the Pole’ is reserved for steam, Progress Diana Arctic The Yellow FevermAn Appeal from Shreveport. The rumors which for some time past have been in circulation regarding the existence of yellow fever in the Southwest, it now appears, have been too well founded. It is now ad- mitted that it prevails in certain portions of the city of Memphis, and at least thirty per- sons in that city have fallen victims to the fatal malady. At Shreveport, La., the disease seems to have broken out with great violence. Most of the telegraphic operators have been stricken down by it, A panic has fallen upon the people, and the little town is deserted. The Mayor of the town, in a telegraphic despatch to Washington to Senator West, says :—‘‘The poor are nearly all on our hands. No money in the city treasury, All pecuniary aid will be thankfully received, Fever in- creasing.” A later despatch states that there are six hundred persons sick, and that up to this time one hundred and forty-six unfor- tunates have died, The sudden change in the weather from heat to cold has increased the A moro alarming state of thigns can hardly be conceived. We call upon the public to come forward at once to the relief of these unfortunate people, We do so with the full conviction that the response will be prompt and equal to the occasion. With Chicago and Boston fresh in our momories, we cannot believe that Shreveport will be left one day without relief. From Mobile we learn that the Advisory Board of Health has instructed the Mayor to issue a proclamation quarantining New Orleans, so far as local travel is concerned. This example should be followed at once wherever there is any possi- bility of communication with the infected dis- tricts. Our local boards of health must take action at once, for the public will not hold them guiltless if the disease should find its way into New York or any of tho neighboring cities. a The Ministers’ Messages. Two Sabbaths would seem to be too many on a stretch for the ministers to hold up Jesus and his salvation and nothing else to dying menand women. Last Sunday our sermon budget contained specimens of the doctrinal, pointed and practical sort. We cannot so heartily endorse the doctrines or sentiments of those which we lay before our readers to-day. It is not the best way in the world, even for a Frenchman, to stand up before a Huguenot congregation and abuse the Pope and the Catholic Church, and predict a repetition of the scenes of anarchy and disorder in this country that have mado France a hissing and a byword among the peo- ple. Converts are never gained nor are thoy retained in that way.. We have no more fear that American Catholics will massacre their Protestant fellow men than we have that Prot- estants will slaughter Catholics, Nor havo we any fear that our institutions aro to be overthrown or injured by the arrival of sixty nuns and as many Sisters of Charity and twice or thrice as many Jesuits in ono week, If Protestantism is not as inherently strong as Catholicism, if it has not as much vital truth in it as Komanism, let it go under. The truth will live and grow, no matter under what name or form, and we are much more contentious for the truth, wherever it is found to exist, than we are for the forms and con- ditions under which it may exist. If our French brother and all others of like tastes will therefore preach the truth in love, they will be more likely to accomplish something for God and religion than they will by abusing men and women who are at least as sincere and eamest in their belief as those who do abuse them. These remarks will appear the moro perti- nent if the reader will turn from the sermon or conversation, as it may be called, of the Rev. Dr. Verren in I'Ezlise du St. Esprit to that of Rev. Father McCready in St. Stephen’s church. Here is a sermon {ull of practical thought, of scriptural doctrine, of exalted sentiment—sin as opposed to holiness, man, the sinner, arrayed against God, the beggar raising his hand in rebellion against the Benefactor who supplies that hand with all the blessings of life and health. Can any- thing be more ungrateful, insulting, malig- nat? We should, as Father McCready sug- gested, shrink from the very idea with fear andhorror. And who shall recount the terrible effects of sin, not only in the life to come, but here and now? These were the thoughts pre- sented by Father McCready, and which his hearers should ponder well in their hearts, and give over their resistance to the Divine will and commands henceforth and forever. If our own sense of honor would not lead us to render gratitude to God, to be obedient to tke heavenly calling, Christ's love for us as manifested in His holy life and in His vicarious death should draw out our sincerest gratitude, our intensest love. Mr. Hepworth therefore sought yesterday, by contrasting the Saviour's unselfish love with the highest manifestations of that passion among men, to win Yor Jesus the love of some who heard the Word. Mr. Talmage delights in pictorial representa- tions. They are probably natural to him; but men of strong and fervid imaginations are apt sometimes to be a little extravagant, Mr. Talmage is, of course, no exception. And when, in his picturing of the bliss and glory of heaven, he makes the angels rejoice when o Christian is by some fatal accident brought into their midst, he is illogical as well as extravagant. We don’t sympathize much with any minister of religion who thinks thathe cannot exalt heaven enough unless he belittles earth, There is no need of it. This world is good enough. It serves the purposes of God for most of us, but not one man in a million would desire or wish to stay here forever, We are all longing and looking for something better, however well satisfied we may be with this world. But until men can be led to see that there is a better it is not natural for them to give up the good they enjoy of all their labors in this life. Nor shold they be ex- pected to do it. Very pertinent, indeed, was the remark made by Dr. Cuyler yesterday, that we find more things burst than cotton balloons. Christian professions are exploding. How many of them have exploded within the last year or eighteen months all over our land? How many outwardly godly men have been found wanting in integrity when the tempta- tion took them at their weakest point? There is only ono remedy, Dr. Cuyler thinks, for in- sincerity, and that is, to seek from God reality. Itis harder to be a genuine hypocrite than to be a Christian: Of course it is; and those who try it know it is so. The claims of African evangelization were presented in Plymouth church yesterday by Rev. Mr. Streebie, who declared that the col- ored race in America has increased more than half o million since the war closed, This, if true, is bad for the old pro-slavery argument that freedom would prove the destruction of the negro; but it is good for the negro, and, if Mr. Streeble’s conjectures are good, for Africa also, Dr. McGlynn, of this city, preached at the dedication of St, Joseph’s church, Jersey City, sermon on the nature of the Church, her stability and the ever-abiding presence of the Lord Jesus Christ with His people, and be- cause of this presence and the power which it imparts the Church must teach all nations, And as @ means to this end such edifices as the one dedicated must be built. We aro prepared to learn that on sucha chilly day as yesterday there was a small attendance at the sea-stde chapel of Long Branch, ‘This, however, did not hinder Rev. Mr, Livpincott from preacbing about the Great salvation and telling the silk-robed dames and their mil'ionnaire busbends tha there is no royal road to heaven, and that if they ever get there they must go by the very same gate and along the same narrow way that their servants and their maids enter and travel. It may be humiliating, but it is true, and there is no escape from it if they desire to get into heaven at all. The other road is broad, but the end leads to the pit. Mr. Culver, of Poughkeepsie, presented some sirong arguments in favor of the Biblo in the schools of this State, It is, he said, the fundamental law of this Christian land, and as such should have the protection of the State, Religion and morality being essential totho best citizenship, the State should fur- nish these, and tho Bible, being the best text book of religion and morality, should be in the schools and be taught to the children and youth of the land. A. sermon on this theme and at this time Mr. Culver deemed to be called for, because in his city “the Bible is banished from the schools and Jesuit servants are appointed teachers, and the Protestant citizens aro with- out redress.” In answer to the question, Have Catholics no rights? he declares fearlessly that when the Bible is at stake they have no tights which the American people are bound to respect. But, Brother Culver, when the Bible was chained to a desk in a monastery it made its own way out into the world, And, now that it is out, it is too late to chain it again. We don’t believe there is any danger, Have faith in God. Another Royal French “Claimant” for the Dauphinate. Among the sad riddles which history has left us, that of the fate of the Dauphin of Louis XVI is of the saddest. The case of the Tichborne claimant, at present being tried in England, presents many interesting features ; but the quarrel for the estates of the old county family is a small one beside that which a well-supported pretender to the direct suc- cession from the beheaded King could create. One of the lawyers in the early stage of tho Tichborne case, when the claimant first turned up, stated his surprise that there had not been “a crop of claimants’’ long before. With the crown of France as a bait, and the old cape- tian line of kings behind, it is little to be wondered at that many pretenders were found. Among these, most of whom are long since dead, was one who was known in the respect- able business of watchmaking as Naimdorf, of Spandau, but who afterwards styled himself Duke of Normandy, after the style and title of the little Dauphin who was handed over to the tender mercies of Simon, the cobbler, after his kingly father and queenly mother had been slain upon the guillotine. In another part of the Henarp a résumé of the case will be found based upon the pamphlet of the Count Gruan de la Barre, who stands in a literary sense sponsor for the Pretender. But Naimdorf, or Capet, or Duke of Normandy, as he may have been, this Pre- tender died in 1845, and his children are now the claimants to the position which the Count de Chambord at present holds—namely, head of the Bourbon family and (by divine right) King of France. His case, to be pushed before the French Court of Appeals, will be cham- pioned by the able advocate Jules Favre, and the claim receives the countenance also of Louis Blanc. If it comes into court, and is not smothered, as cases often have been in France, it will eclipse the Tichborne case, as the High Sheriff Tichborne at the death of Elizabeth was snuffed out with a baronetcy by King James I., whom he proclaimed. This is said to be a favorable time for the trial, as it is very doubtful whether the privilege of being head of the Bourbons is worth much, The surroundings of the case are romantic, and we may expect much learning end ingenuity being brought to bear on their development, Tue Senate Transportation Commrrrez is about to take a perambulating tour in the western part of this State and over other parts of the cotutry. Judging from the synopsis of the evidence taken here, as published, it does not appear that this committee has accom- plished much. The arguments and statistics furnished by the railroad and freighting com- panies and their agents and advocates are one- sided and bewildering. We hope the Senate in appointing this committee had the honest purpose of probing the evil that undoubtedly exists and of applying a remedy, but we are not without fear that the object is more to appease and delude the Western farmers and others who are moving for cheap transporta- tion, We advise the committee to ascertain how much fictitious capital, over the actual cost of the railroads, the people of this coun- try are required to pay interest on in the shape of freight charges and passage rates, for herein lies the greatest amount of the evil. Goop For THE Repvsricans—The renewed | and bitter war between the democratic factions of Apollo Hall and Tammany Hall. It is not exactly in this case according to the proverb that when rogues fall out honest men get their dues,’ for the republicans are about as bad as their opponents; but it is a fact that by the quarrels and rivalry of the democrats the re- publicans are likely, though in a minority, to keep control of this democratic city. What do these hungry politicians care about principles, of which they talk so much, or of the welfare of the city? Tho scramble for office and the spoils by these corner grocery politicians is disgusting to respectable people. When will our best citizens do their duty and rescue this metropolis from these schemers and spoils- men of both parties ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. . eee pean Mrs, Edwin M, Stanton is convalescing. The Countess De Dion ts at the Clarendon Hotel. Reverdy Johngon is a guest of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel F. @, Stewart, of England, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General A. P. Field, of New Orleans, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. William G. Fargo has been elected President of the Samana Bay Company. Governor R, W. Furnass, of Nebraska, Is domi- ciled at the St. James Hotel. Rev. Alexander Bennett, of Scotland, is sojourn- ing at the Sturtevant House. Charlotte Cushman is at Lenox, Mass., the once favorite residence of Fanny Kemble Butler. Inspector General D. B. Sackett, of the United States Army, arrived yesterday at the Filth Avenue Hotel, A French lady, hearing that @ tunnel cost 5,000 francs a yard, importuned her husband to buy her @ dress of that material. Mr. Bragegy. Me Pu WADIA & Brijish Naval Re- serve to be formed fronf the Nova scotian other British North American mariners, : After sixteen years of poverty and toil, Mrad Knight, of Milwaukee, has dtscovered im a 714 drawer & $10,000 11fe policy leit by her nae : The Rev. George Rose seceded from the Churcts( of England and has been baptized by Mr. Spurgeon, The recent Bennett judgment made this Rose discent. ; Charles Macatester, of Philadelphia, has presented to the city of Minneapolis, Minn,, a gift of property wortn $100,000 or more for educational purposes, ‘The police of Algiers have sent notice to Parts and the principal towns of Europe of a great rob-; bery of jewels at Bona, to the prejudice of a lady of high rank in the French African colony. Bishop Ketteler, of Fuida, Germany, has refused: to obey a citation from the correctional police, and declared that he recognizes no other chief than the Pope and no other authority than his, The Rev. Isaac Goddard, curate of the Catholie chapel at Chiselhurst, England, has received a special blessing from the Pope for his sermon preached on the Jéth ult, the day of the Féte Napoleon, The St. Louls Globe states that General James Shields, of Carrollton, and Colonel A. W. Doniphan, of Liberty, Mo., have been invited to deliver ad- dresses at the convention of Mexican veterans om October 8 Mr. Alfred Smee, of the Bank of England, pube iishes that country cats will not drink Londom milk. Some London commenters on the story re- marked, S-mee-yow, and others said it lacked-all: the elements of truth. It has been incorrectly stated in some of the newspapers that the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland will be held at Pittsburg on the 17th of October. This is a mistake, The meeting will take place on the 17th and 18th of the present month. Rey. J. H. Chapin, Professor of Geology and Miu- eralogy and Financial Secretary,of the Lawrence University at Canton, in this State, has just re- turned from @ six months? tour of Europe, in which he has visited every nation and its capital, save Spain and Portugal. The King of Dahomey died last month. The dew ceased monarch was not loved by his subjects, hence there were no “vain regrets” at his death. And for the same reason only twenty-four women. were immolated on his grave, instead of several thousand, that are usually required on such an 0o casion, JEWS’ CHARITY. Consecration of the Jewish Hospital In' Philadelphia—Imposing Ceremonics-= $15,000 Subscribed om the Spot. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14, 1873. The Jewish community of Philadelphia has been/ on @ pilgrimage to-day. Old and young, rich an@ poor, orthodox and reformerg—all went to see the new Jewish hospital, to witness its consecratiom: and offer their mite at the shrine of Charity, They came by horse cars, by steam trains, in carriages and stages, not in procession nor led by ecclesias- tical functionaries, but impelled by the deep inters est which they all seem to take in the noble instt~ tution, initiated, maintained and supported by them. The consecration of the new hospital hag been the talk here for weeks, and as early as eight o'clock in the morning the visitors or pilgrims commenced to arrive. The cision of proper commencea at noon by the recitation of the evening prayer at the chapel attached to th institution. It was intonated by Rev. Mr. Frankel,: the oldest Jewish precentor in the city, and hig voice was tremulous with emotion when he chanted for the first time in the sacred hells dey voted to charity the sublime words of the Hebre \ Prayer. He was assisted “by his colleagnes, the cantor and offictating clergymen in the various, synagogues. To each of them some part of THE CONSECRATION CBREMONY ‘Was assigned by the recitation of special prayera for the government, the institutions of the country,’ the inmates that are tobe the beneficiaries of the ine stitution and those that labored in its erection and support. Alter the services the crowd dise persed among and the bulidings and grounds, and not afew visited the altar, where the GOLDEN BOOK OF LIFE had been opened for the inscription of the visitor's. name, with such a contribution as eaeh felt ine clined tomake. This book had been donated by L. Morgenthau, of New York, who had presented similar books to the charitable institutions of New’ York and Baltimore. The list of subscriptions wag peaded by the directors, who subscribed the mags nificent sum of $6,700; others followed, with sums varying from $25 to $500 each, and over $15,000 was subscribed before the ceremoniesended. By three o'clock nearly 700 persons had filled the beautiful lawn which stretched at the rear of the buildings, where a platform had been erected for, the speakers. THE SECOND PART OF THE CEREMONIES were opened by an eloquent prayer delivered by Rey. S. Morris. He was iollowed by Abraham 8, Wolf, President of the Board of Officers, who for- mally delivered the ground and buildings to Mr. Moses A. Dropsie. He stated beens na inasmuch, as their labora were ended, everything completed, the building as well as the interior arrangement, he delivers it into the hands of the representative of the whole association. Mr. Dropaiey in reply, sald :—This is an elegant testimonial of the zeal, energy and devotion of the directors and of tre liberality of the people. It has been completed in the best style which science could suggest to do most eifective service in the noble work to which it 1s henceforth to ba devoted. There ig also atcached to ita home for aged and intirm Jews of Philadelphia, This spot will be for generations to come a@ shrine of piety. and veneration.” THE JUDAIC IDEA OP CHARITY. Tne next speaker, Rev. Dr. Hirsch, dwelt upow the sonar ea of charity aud the character with which Judaism invests it, The question was asked why a Jewish hospital was necessary. The city of Philadelphia possessed @ large number of charita- ble institutions. No distinction is generally made there in the admission of those that appiy. Because only in a Jewish hospital can we give to the Jew what is more precious to many—the love and sympathy of a brother in faith. A Jew does not fulfil his religious duty if he merely contributes his money towards the relief of the sick, visit them, nurse them, encourage them. Whatever opinions one may entertain of the Catholic Church, radically as people may differ with its tenets, tha world must admire the unselfishness, the devotio; of the societies laboring for the relief of the Sic! gn einless—the heroism of ju08é Sisters of fercy that ‘give ‘ole life to hamonity, And ‘as a mother generally loves that child be: € which gives the most trouble to bring up, so the love bestowed upon the sick is much more intense ‘Tuese persons, actuated by religion in the performance of these noble acts, try not only to assuage the physical pain, but to take care of the soul. Hence it Is gates natural that they spare no efforts to convert those handed over to their tender charge to such views as, in their opinion, secure them also a shelter in heaven. The pa- tient, filled with gratitude, can do no less than yield, even if he suffers excruciating pain. Taking care of our poor, We must Vg es not only for their bodily welfare, but thelr eternal salvation, and, though nos making converts of others, wa must provide a sheiter or our sick and shieid them ainst THE WELL MEANT ZEAL OF RELIGIOUS MISSIONARIES. We may open the doors of this institution to Members of other creeds use We make ne proselytes. Judaism honors the convictions of others. According to its teachings every man ts endowed with the heavenly I reason and his acts will be jocged before gccerding te the efforts made to the best of hisability. A Talmudist said that to every man the path ts open to heaven. He can itit himself up by the strength of his own conscience. Even the worship of an idol means the worship of the Creator of the universe, accord- ing to thé understanding of the idolater. The rabbies should visit the patients, console them, pray with them. pet every Israelite should do that, Phd without a rabbi religious functions can tr. formed with the same efficiency. We have inscribed on the hospital that 1¢ shall be OPEN TO TUB SICK, BEGARDLESS OF CREED, RACE OR ‘OLOR and we mean that Fr one’s religions conviction shall be interfered with. Ha members of other creeds that come in here shail ask for the religious conaolation ot their own faith, their request shall be complied with, ‘The reverend doctor concluded with an effective appeal ou behali of the pages of the Goldea Book of Life. Mr. Ellinger, of New York, was then introducea, who, in behalf of L. Morganstein, formally de- livered the Golden Book to the proper oMicers, and on making some brief remarks he pointed out that THE DONOR OF THR BOOK had carried out in practice the unsectarian profes- sions made here, His first donation was to @ Catholic church in Germany, his next to 4 Prot. estant church, and since he started at the New York Charity Fair the idea of the Golden Book, more than a thousand dollars had been sub- scribed by this means, Rev. DY. Justrow also addressed the assembly, and was iollowed by Rev. cee Jacobs. The building will be open for the inspection ot the public for two more days, and it is expected that a very Legit will be bag A those amxions to perpetuate their namaq Goldgn Book of Lie, wa He must