The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston nd Bleecker st8.—ALabbIN—SINBAD THE SAiLOR. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5i4 Broadway.—Vaniery ENTBRTAUNMENT. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Beiixs or tax Kitcaey. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince Houston sts.—Tux Biacn Oncor. me, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third 6t.—Hauntxp Houses. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th irvin: _ Us Morte Crvine. Break ene tevins Diaoe- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hi Bowery.— ‘Yanuery Exrentavonent. dima n ald MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Tux Houncnpack. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Across tux Contixent. Afternoon and evening. B ‘8 THEATRE, anno NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, 14th street and 6th av.— Norre Dany. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Varisty Entertanocnt, BOWERY THEATRE, Bonsai. and Twenty-third st— Bowery.—C vriosiry—Littie PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Cunrnat Park. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Hanpy ANDY—BakNxy THE Baron. BROADWAY THEATRE, 725 and 730 Broadway.—Orena Bovurra—La Fite pe Mapamx Ancor. me . GERMANIA THEATRE, Mth strect and 84 avenue.— Was Gort Zusaumun Sout Der Mens Nicut SCRKIDEN. ROBINSON FALL, Sixteenth Manionetres, Matinee atS street.—Tux Rorau BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty. . corn Bixthav—Nnceo Minsrasuey, oon? et Ot “if ° HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Bi yu— Bax Fuancraco Minstaxue oom oe INSTITUTE FAIR, 8d av., between 63d Afternoon and evening. AMERICAN I and 64th streets. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad Way.—Science anp ARr. DR, KAHN’S MUSEUM, No, (8&8 Broadway.—Scrence anv Art. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, Sept. 26, 1873. | THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Wo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. AFTER THE SHOWER! THE STOCK EXCHANGE PREPARING FOR A RESUMPTION! NO MORE BOND PURCHASES! CURRENCY WANTED BY THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE! THE SOURCE FROM WHICH IT MAY COME! FOREIGN EXCHANGE UNDER A CLOUD! THE OUTLYING CITIES AND TOWNS BADLY DRENCHED—FovrTH PAGE. BPECIE PAYMENTS PREDICTED BY AN ENGLISH JOURNAL AS A RESULT OF THE PRES- ENT CRISIS IN FINANCE! HEAVY SHIP- MENTS OF BULLION TO AMERICA—SEVENTH PacE. BOW WE WERE WRECKED IN 1837 AND IN1857! THE ANALOGIES AND THE LESSONS OF FINANCIAL STORMS! WHAT CONGRESS SHOULD NOW DO—FovurtH Page, FINANCIAL STATUS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE! THE CLOGS IN THE BUSINESS WHEEL AND HOW THEY MAY BE REMOVED! PRICES OF GULD AND SECURITIES— ErauTn Pace. BUDDINGTON AND PARTY ON THEIR WAY TO AMERICA! THE TIGRESS CONTINUING THE SEARCH AMID THE ICE—Seventu PaGE. BIORMY SESSION OF ERIE STOCKHOLDERS IN LONDON! PRESIDENT WATSON SAYS $30,000,000 IS WANTED IMMEDIATELY FOR IMPROVEMENTS—SEVENTH Pack, & RUPTURE PROBABLE BETWEEN SPAIN AND GREAT BRITAIN! THE CAPTURTD FRIG- aTES MUST BE IMMEDIATELY RESTORED— SEVENTH PAGE, PORTUGUESE REALTH AUTHORITIES ENFORCIN A QUARANTINE UPON ENGLISH VE! LS— PERSIA’S FIRST RAILWAY BI N— SEVENTH PAGE, RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY IN FRANCE TO BE EARNESTLY COMBATED BY THE RePUBLICANS IN THE ASSEMBLY! THE QUESTION UF NEUTRALITY—SEVENTE Pace, ia AUSTRALIA ENCOUKAGING IMMIGRATION—IM- PURTANT GENERAL NEWS—SEvESTH PGE. NEWARK CITIZENS FIGHTING AGAINST COR- RUPTION—THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS— POLITICAL GLEANINGS—TuinD Paces. DAME FASHION’S CROWNING GLORIES! OPEN. ING DAY CELEBRATED WITH THE USUAL SPLENDOR BY THE MODISTES! WHAT THERE JS NEW IN STYLES AND FABRIOS— THIRD PAaGB. NEW YORK JUDGES ON THE QUESTION OF THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP! THE CLAIMS OF MR. EVARTS AND MR. O’CONOR! THE PRESI- DENT'S DUTY—Tuirp Pace. INTERESTING SESSION OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESAN CONVENTION—TOUCHING RE- NUNCIATION OF THE WORLD- Firti PaGE. GOLDSMITH MAID DEFEATS JUDGE FULLERTON FOR THE $3,000 PURSE AT POINT BREEZE PARK—TIENTH PaGR. YOUNG BRUNO AND WINTHROP MORRILL, JR., CARRY OFF THE 2:31 AND 2:27 PURSES AT PROSPECT PARK—EXCELLENT AQUA- TIC STRUGGLES ON THE HARLEM—FirTi Pace. THE ALDERMEN LOOKING AFTER FERRY EXTORTIO HEATED DEBATE OVER THE POLICE JUSTICES! CHARGES OF BRIBERY—E1antu Pace. SUMMARIES OF LEGAL BUSINESS—THE DE- PARTMENT OF DOCKS—A CITY MARSHAL ON TRIAL—FirTH Pace. Rs, ROBERTS AND THE bABIES—KINGS COUNTY FRAUDS—Fovrtu Page. Toe Question or A Restonation or tun Frencn Monancay.—This most exceedingly delicate subject is looming up prominently in the French republican territory. The conserva- tive members of the National Assembly helda meeting in Paris yesterday. It was claimed, during a discussion of the matter of the future of the government, that the royalists would have a majority of twenty in the Na- tional Assembly in support of their plan for crown restoration, The republican legis- lators have become slightly alarmed. They remain firm in their devotion to principle, however; so that the most exciting de- bates will certainly occur when the Parlia- ment meets. The republicans will pro- immediately after the reassemblage of the Assembly, the adoption of a declaration against the infringement of popular sover- eignty. Should this declaration be rejected they will resign their seats. France is rapidly approaching @ most eventful crisis in the history of the nation. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. tenets ieee Seater The Republics Mottoesi—-The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved—The Credit of the Nation Must and Shall Be Saved. M Forty years ago there was a “‘risis’’ in the affairs of the nation. For weeks the skies had been overcast; the air had been oppressive; the rumbling of distant thunder had made itself heard like the threatening growl of a wild beast prepared to spring upon its prey; the lightning had at intervals flashed angrily through the clouds. The indications of a coming storm were unmistakable, yet the people disregarded the omens and continued on in the gratification of passion and the en- joyment of pleasure. One day the tempest burst over them in all its fury. Its pent up forces were let loose to sweep over the land, and the governmental fabric seemed to be shaken to its foundation by their unrestrained violence, Then a ‘‘panic”’ seized upon the people, and their alarm be- came as extravagant as their former indiffer- ence had been indiscreet. The bond of union seemed to them to be a worthless parchment, because one desperate State, for its own pur- poses and in pursuance of its supposed in- terests, had declared its determination to dis- regard the laws of the general government. No path out of the danger was visible to their eyes; they groped about in the darkness and shouted for help, although ignorant of the direction from which it was to come. It did come, suddenly and effectively. The son of the Waxhaw pioneer, whose mixed Scottish and Irish blood had united in him those quali- ties of obstinacy and enthusiasm to which a border life had added indomitable courage and iron will, was then the Chief Magistrate of the Republic. Conflicting interests gathered around President Jackson and sought to infiu- ence his action. The friends and accomplices of the nullifiers,even then indulging in the seductive dream of a slave confederacy, were eager that he should hold off his hands. Their violent political opponeuts were as anxious for the adoption of measures of extreme severity. Partisans were striving, each in his own way, to make political capital out of the crisis, and while the interests of cliques and factions were actively pushed the safety of the nation was disregarded. Up to that point in his history the character of Andrew Jackson had been variously interpreted. His friends had been loud in praise of his firmness; his enemies had insisted that he was a despot in theory and in practice. The announcement of that doc- trine, from which dates the birth of Cesarism in America, ‘‘to the victor belongs the spoils,”’ had divided the nation into the two agitating elements of the ‘‘ins” and the ‘‘outs,” and had impressed the latter with the idea that the national government was their natural enemy. It had done more than this; it had foreshadowed in the thought of prudent men those bitter political struggles which have so frequently scandalized the nation in more recent years, and had induced a doubt of the unselfishness of Jackson’s patriotism. But suddenly the President loomed high through the gloom and took the proportions of a giant among pigmies in the eyes of the world. In one immortal, monumental, ringing sentence— @ sentence that has passed into history asa proverb, never to die while the Republic has an existence—he electrified the country, checked the sinister designs of adventurers, cowed the rebellious, reassured the wavering, and brought back the people to a sense of duty and honor—‘“‘By the Eternal, the Union must and shall be preserved !” These memorable words mark an era in American history. They allayed the angry passions of the hour; they bore good fruit in after years when the demon of civil war fas- tened his bloody grasp upon the throat of the Republic. ‘By the Eternal, the Union must and shall be preserved!’’ The inspiriting words, as they issued from the firm lips of Andrew Jackson, gave assurance to the agitated country that the danger immediately threatening was at an end, and propared men for the iron will with which the Pregident sub- sequently resisted the assaults and struggies of a monster moneyed corporation. The power of the United States Bank in those days was equal to that of the great railroads at the present time. Nicholas Biddle was the Oakes Ames of the hour. His political influ- ence reached from end to end of the country; his gold subsidized Congress; he held the lobby at his command ; he stretched his long fingers into the Cabinet and his long arms into the Treasury. But the President, whose glowing words had killed the serpent of nulli- fication, was not to be overcome by the cor- morant of moneyed monopoly. The re- newed charter was vetoed; the government deposits were withdrawn, and the monster whose stride had been over the Union fell to the earth, writhed for a while on the soil of o single State, and died. ‘By the Eternal, the Union must and shall be preserved!’ To the music of that immortal sentence, more ring- ing than the bugle call, the “boys in blue,”’ at a later day, mustered in the valleys and in the cities, on the Western prairies and in the Eastern mountains. It was their cheering hope in the hour of darkness—their rallying cry on the field of battle. It helped to win the victories that have crowned General Grant with such undying fame. During the troubled days of the last two weeks we have had our premonitions of a tempest in gathering clouds and distant mut- terings, and the storm has finally burst over us with startling violence. The crashing of the thunder and the flashing of the lightning may have occasioned a terror greater than the real danger warranted; but, as the bolts fell and the electric fluid burned, the dismayed bystanders could searcely pause to mark that ruin and destruction only came to those whose unsheltered position and wilful recklessness had exposed them to extraordinary dan- ger. It was not the hour for calm reflection; passions were aroused and fears were excited as they were in the days when a sister State stood in sullen rebellion against the laws. The gamblers of Wall street, like the nullifiers of South Carolina, paid no heed to the honor and the safety of the nation ; their own selfish ambition or avarice was their only care. President Grant suddenly found himself surrounded by cir- cumstances very similar to those which encir- cled President Jackson forty years ago. Each had his personal friends who were the enemies of their Gountry—men of intense selfishness, rapacity and political dishonesty. Andrew Jackson had fed and fostered the democratic spirit of South Carolina, and when her curty sons broke out into treason against the government they fondly hoped that the Presideut would aid them in their rebellion, or at least remain passive while they planted the seed of disunion in the soil of the Republic. President Grant had personal and party friends among the speculative houses which had obtained a rank growth in the hot-bed of political profligacy, and when the inevitable crash threatened to carry them down all those who had been rushing blindly on in the mad career of stock gam- bling and wild speculation _ believed that, to escape from the ruin which threatened them, they had only to appeal to the Presi- dent for government aid. As Jackson was implored to spare Biddle’s bank, of forty years ago, so Grant was importuned to save the mushroom, buchu bankers of yesterday from the consequences of their own incapacity and dishonesty. He had only to open the Treasury vaults, to pour the forty millions of reserves into the speculative pool, and his friends would be saved and the balloon of Wall street inflation would for awhile be kept afloat. But as Jackson gave the country a proverb when he thun- dered forth his immortal words in the ears of the nullifiers, so Grant uttered a scarcely less memorable sentence when he met the piteous appeals of the mushroom banks and their gambling adherents with the declaration, “The credit of the nation must and shall be preserved.”’ The one killed nullification; the other has destroyed buchu banking and ir- responsible speculation. It only remains for President Grant to main- tain firmly the position he has taken, The fate of Wall street gamblers and political bankers is immaterial ; the preservation of the national credit is of vital importance. Let the caldron of ‘the street’’ seethe and bubble as it will, so long asthe government securities remain firm and the commercial interests are un- harmed. There will be little sympathy for those who fall into the boiling liquid and disap- pear from view; the country will be the safer and the more respectable for their de- struction. Their growth has been sudden, their presumption offensive, their example contaminating, their influence evil. Their final exit is a public blessing. With them will depart all danger to the solid interests of the country, still unharmed, and strong in the reassuring words of President Grant—‘‘Tho credit of the nation must and shall be pre- served.” New York Republicans on the The Back Pay and ‘Trausportation Questions. The resolution of our late Republican State Convention on what is familiarly known as the ‘back-pay grab” betrays a labored at- tempt to satisfy the public opinion on the subject, without treading upon the corns of any of the members of either house concerned in the scheme. The New York republicans ‘do not charge this wrong upon either party, although it was supported by a larger relative proportion of the opponents than of the friends of the administration, and although among those who promoted it and those who were conveniently absent when the votes were re- corded were several members of the small tactions, who had recently deserted their party under the pretence of unfounded charges of republican extravagance ;'’ but still, while they do not accuse any party, the New York republicans are in favor of a law refunding to the Treasury all the ‘back pay’ not cleimed, including that left untouched, and our Senators in Congress are requested to introduce and urge a bill to this effect. This is something, but it has been extorted by public opinion. It is a reluctant con- cession, and it does not cover the ground. Precious little of this Congressional back pay not covered into, but not as yet drawn from, the Treasury will be found there with the pas- sage of this bill. Nor is the simple recovery of these small sums a matter of any moment. The offence to the country lies in the corrupt- ing and fraudulent example of the members of the two houses in voting themselves an extra allowance from the Treasury after being paid under a contract for the Congress at the close of which this scheme was pushed through, This is not the first, although itis the worst, of these back-pay bills, and the remedy against any further stealings in this shape can be reached only through an amendment of the constitution. All such half-way temporizing expedients as that proposed by the New York republicans are mere electioneering de- vices, and practically can serve only as a tub to the whale. On the transportation question the republi- can party of New York speaks more to the purpose than on the back-pay fraud in its Utica platform. It says that ‘‘it is essential to the prosperity of the State of New York, and especially of her commercial metropolis, that all lines of communication with the pro- ducing States of the West and the South should be available for uninterrupted and ad- equate transportation at minimum rates,” and so say we all; but, then, we are told, as a fore- shadowing of the policy of the republicans, that the coming Legislature in this view, as a paramount duty, should act for the public relief, and that Congress should put forth all the power it may wisely exert in this direction, not forgetting the claims of such lines as our Erie Canal. i We attach very little importance to this cautious appeal to Congress. It is but a glit- tering generality for electioneering purposes ; but this ‘paramount duty” of onr Legislature, as we understand it, is a pledge from the republicans that if they secure the Legislature in our November election they will no longer be the instruments of powerful railway cor- porations, but the faithful servants of the people on this vital matter of transportation. Experience has taught us the folly of relying upon party pledges ; but, as the time is at hand when there can be no further treachery to or trifling with the people on this question of cheap transportation, we dare say that every candidate for this coming Legislature will be compelled on this test to show his hand in advance of the election. We commend this course to the electors of every Assembly dis- trict in the State. Tue Kino or Itaty ww Bentix.—It is, we notice, the general feeling in Europe that the visit made by the Italian King to the Austrian and German capitals means the continuance of peace—a peace policy on the part of Italy, Austria and Prussia. It may also mean that these three Powers have agreed on a general policy in regard to the next Papal election. France, strange to say, begins again to give the nations trouble, Wonderful France! Buchu Banking—The Quacks of the Financial Family. It must be a profitable business for a brief period, this manufacture of buchu. We read the signs of its prosperity on the broad faces of rocky projections along the banks of the rivers and on the sides of railroad cuttings. We are told on board fences, on neglected walls, on the fronts of unfinished buildings and on the edges of the flagstones of its innu- merable and unfailing qualities. We learn of its wonderful cures of all diseases and of its magical effects upon the constitution through the medium of paid newspaper puffs, dis- played advertisements and shabby pamphlets. To be sure, whether it comes in the forms of pills or liquids, of plasters or embrocations, buchu is short lived, probably because people discover the fraud and stop the supplies. Yet, while your buchu vender lasts he lords it with the best in the land, puts on the airs of a baron, becomes as pompous as a million- naire and as patronizing as the mock duke in the play. He boldly proclaims his nos- trum the best in the world and pockets the pennies of fools with an air of condescension becoming a prime minister or a Crédit Mobi- lier Congressman. When he explodes he goes up in a balloon—sometimes to one place and sometimes to another. There is a financial buchu as well as a medi- cal buchu, and their qualities are identical. Your Jay Cookes and Clews are your genuine buchu bankers, the charlatans of the financial family, and they are familiar with all the tricks of the trade. Talk to them about the solidity and respectability of the regular prac- titioner! Stuffand nonsense! They know how to letter the rocks and paste the walls and border the gutters, They are up to a move or two in securing newspaper puffs. They understand the value of large type in advertising their universal remedy. You can’t teach them anything about the language of the ducks—quack ! quack! quack! Here is one of the advertisements through the medium of which your buchu bankers attain eminence and accomplish success. Its promises are certainly of a most tempting character. How can a man with money in his pocket resist its appeal? ‘The buchu bank has the honor to present to the publica new and most desirable issue of government bonds, to be procured only at the buchu bank. The advantages of this investment are such as will excite astonishment; particulars at the buchu bank, The demand for these bonds has been wonderful at the buchu bank. If the public desire to secure any number of the very few bonds that have not already been bespoken by foreign houses of eminence and prominent capitalists, they must apply early at the buchu bank.’’ Here is another sspecimen of financial buchuism: —‘‘The buchu bank, hav- ing consented to bring to the notice of the public the subject of the new loan about to be negotiated by the North and South Pole Railroad Company on their seventh mortgage bonds, now begs to offer these bonds to cap- italists on such favorable terms as can only be obtained at the buchu bank. This popular line of railway, which has been warmly favored by Congress, extends over sixteen thousand miles of fertile country and has already twenty-five miles of its road com- pleted. Its seventh mortgage bonds offer a safe and profitable investment for large and small capitalists, and can be procured in any amounts on early application to the buchu bank.” Glorious in the conspicuousness of large type and followed by flattering notices of the buchu financial institution and its wonderful success in placing loans, what wonder if these quack advertisements gull the people into the belief that buchu banking is an astonishing success? What wonder that politicians kiss the shoe-buckles of the buchu empiric and regard him with all the rev- erence due to wealth, whether it comes from broad acres or buchu? As we have said, buchu is short-lived be- cause its humbug is soon exploded. The failure of Cooke, Clews and the other financial quacks only comes later than might have been expected, for people think more of their money than of their constitution, and are more prompt to discover the charlatan who would ruin their bank account than to recognize the quack who would ruin their health. Besides, some of the buchu bankers have had to deal with the cool, cautious and sensible financiers of Europe, who can smell buchu at a great dis- tance, and who have laughed at its venders and“beaten them at their own game. Hence,. the wonder is not that the buchu banks have failed now, but that they did not fail long ago. It would have been better for the reputation of the nation if they had been sooner wiped out of existence. At home they have been dragging into the vortex of ruin thousands of victims who have been foolishly misled by their glitter and display. In Eu- rope, where American credit and honor should be especially cherished, we have found them lying in wait for such unsophisticated Ameri- cans as might happen to fall into their hands. for plucking. Their false pretences have been almost amusing to read. Their general failure, commencing with the upstart house of the Cookes, is a public advantage, for it restores strength and safety to the sound in- stitutions of the country. The component parts must now fall away, and nothing will remain to Jay Cooke but his empty pack. He must go outof the buchu business and retire with his brother financiers of the same school. Let them depart in peace, They desecrated the national credit instead of sus- taining it, and the country will be more pros- perous and more respectable without them, We understand that, in anticipation of the arrival here of the British sovere now en route, arrangements are being made for the prompt melting and assay of these coins in gold coin of the United States. The réason for this conversion of the imperial sovereign into the almighty dollar is obvious, for with exchange at one hundred and five the sove- reign is worth but four dollars sixty-six and six-tenths cents, while in New York it will he received at four dollars eighty-six and six- tenths cents, » profit, after deducting insur- ance and freight, of not less than three and one-half cent ‘on the dollar. Previous the financial crisis of 1837 tho Henatp predicted that it must come, because business men were paying from one to one and a half perysent a month for money. ‘The speculative failures of last week wero in some degree caused by the payguent of like exorbi- tant rajes. The Crop Prospect. The gratifying information has been ob- tained from the Department of Agriculture that the aggregate crop of wheat in the United States this year is larger than in 1872, and that the quality is generally superior. The details of the prospect in different sections will prove interesting both to the people of these sections and to the merchants, who will know where they can best make purchases ; but the fact above stated of the general prospect will interest the whole country. The yield per acre is about the same on the whole as last year, but the area under cultivation is much larger. This, of course, will furnish a greater supply tor the market. In the culti- vation and quality of the crop in Min- nesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey there is decided improvement. Llinois, Iowa and Michigan will have an average yield. California and Indiana are less favored. The Southern States fail of making an average crop. That is tobe accounted for, probably, by more of the soil and labor being devoted to growing cotton. The Department makes a very useful remark that where the grain is deteriorated or deficient in yield it is owing generally to careless husbandry, and that the records of skilful culture show that, in many cases, the yield has been double. Education in farming, then, brings its reward. In view of the short crops in Europe and the demand there will be for our breadstuffs, the financial difficulties of the country are likely to find relief from our agricultural prospects and resources. The Excitement in France—A Crisis Threatened. Now that France has got rid of the invader by paying the last franc of the war indemnity, and that she is again feeling her strength, she finds that a new question is at the door de- manding solution. The present uncertainty has become painful—such is the feeling more or less expressed among all ranks and classes of the people—and the general desire is that the provisional government should now come toan end. MacMahon, it is said, is one of the most anxious that immediate action should be taken in the matter. M. Rouher, the most capable man in the ranks of the Bonapartists, differs from many of the stanch adherents of the Empire, and is disposed to act with the royalists. This looks as if there really was a split in the Bonapartist ranks. The Bona- partists, if they act as a unit, hold the balance of power. If the Bonapartists divide the roy- alists, especially if M. Rouher goes with them, must win as against the republicans. The Right proposes to call a grand meeting on an early day. This meeting may open the ball. It may be a very long ball, but it may also be @ very tame one. Rouher knows that for the present there is no chance for the Empire. The failure of the monarchy might be as con- venient to the Bonapartists as the failure of the Republic. Not much can be done for the Empire until young Napoleon is of age. The Croton Bug as a SBeautificr. “Is ita fact,”’ asks a correspondent, ‘as you have asserted, that dealers in Circassian and Georgian female slaves in Egypt feed their victims on roaches in order to make them plump and beautiful?” In answer we will quote from a well known magazine the language of a correspondent writing about the ‘Egyptians at Home.” He had seen a dozen of these mountain women sitting on shore, where they had just landed from a ship. They were pale, thin, rough-skinned, tawny-haired, unkempt, in coarsest attire, and were in pursuit of fleas. He expressed his disappointment to an Egyptian dragoman standing near, who, with a graceful wave of his hand, replied, ‘Oh, Effendi! could you see these women three months hence you would say that the Prophet had fitted them for heaven. Good mashed beetles (genus roach and Croton bug) and generous pilaf shall make them plump; the daily bath shall give their skins the hue of ereamy milk and their joints the suppleness and grace of the gazelle. With new health, their eyes shall sparkle with mirth and be be- dewed with tenderness, the rose shall bloom on their cheeks and gold shall gild their tresses. God is great!’”” And, he might have added, “mashed beetles are the profit of the harem traders.’’ The Egyptian beetle, then, being established as an article of food from which to manufacture beauties for Oriental seraglios (and it is chronicled in very profane history that the solution of pearls which Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, prepared for Marc Antony was only intended as a sauce piquante tcr the beetle hash with which she regaled her Roman lover), it becomes an interesting question of inquiry to ascertain how far our domestic favorite, the Croton bug, being of the beetle tribe, can be used in the same vategory. The supply, as we have already explained, is inex- haustible ; but we fear the quality is scarcely high enough. Although covering and devour- ing almost everything that comes in its way, even to boring into clamshells, our bug has not yet reached that degree of unctuous fatness which would render it a merchantable article in the Egyptian market. Still, there is no knowing what time and eulture may sccom- pish. In the meantime, suppose that our native Croton bug should actually become a necessity for the toilet of American ladies, would that circumstance not provea dead shot against their propagation—the bugs, we mean—a matter that agitates the minds of thousands of good housewives in this city? In that event the orison would rise from every hearthstone, in imitation of our Mohame- fan friends—‘Allah! Mash Allah! Mash the infidel Croton bug,’’ Our correspondent may rest assured that the beetle is used in Egypt for the purposes mentioned. ‘Tae Frvanctan Issoz mm Our APPROACHING Fatt Evxcrions.—We hear some mutterings from the political horizon that this financial trouble in Wall street, small as is its effect upon the substantial business interests of the country, is to be turned into political capital by tho democrats against the party im power, in the work for our approaching October and November elections. The occasion and the temptation will be too strong to be resisted, and our Democratic State Convention, which, a few days henec, will meet at Utica, will probably make this financial flurry the basis of its electioneering plan of operations. It | is probable, too, that the intervention of this new sensation may materially derange the calculations of our shrewdest politicians tds. adh 2 9 “ot Se ee SR ke elections ; for, under this sudden excitement, they may fall like a wet blanket upon the republican party. Tae Frsr Sop or rue First Ramwar ot Pgrsta.—The remarkable work of turning the first sod of the first railway in Persia has been accomplished at Reshd, a town, the capital of the province of Ghilan, on the shore of the Caspian. Few nations have. experienced so many remarkable changes as Persia, but the event which we record by cable to-day is the most significant and hopeful of any which is told of in the history of her national career from ita very first point of inception to the time of Cyrus the Great, and thence to the occasion of the Shah’s visit to the outside nations. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Lew Wallace is in St. Louis, Minister Jay arrived in Paris from Vienna on the 8th inst. General Joe Hooker yesterday arrived at the Astor House, Premier Gladstone will probably visit Ireland this autumn, Miss Fanny Gray, of Indiana, has become Grayzy from novel reading. Colonel C, L. Best, of the United States Army, is staying at the Grand Hotel. General E, W. Serrell, of Fort Montgomery, is registered at the St. James Hotel. Commodore Middicton, of the United States Navy, is at the Sturtevant House. The venerable ex-United States Senator Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware, is dangerously ill. Judge I. S. Watts, of New Mexico, and General G. M. O'Brien, of Kansas, are at the Astor House. General John 1. Averill, member of Congress from St. Paul, Minn., 13 at the St. Nichoias Hotel. The prettiest girl in Fort Scott, Kan., is a clerk in a butcher's shop. She is not expected to leave Scott free. \Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister at Wash- ington, attended divine service at Christ church, in Hudson, N. Y., on Sunday last. Mr. Charles Reed, member of the Imperial Par- hament and chairman of the London School Board, was in Quebec, Canada, last week. Mr. D. M. Burgess, of Havana, is at the Union Square Hotel. He goes West in a few days, but shortly returns to the Cuban capital. Hans Christian Anderssen has returned to Copen- hagen from Switzerland, where he has been un- successfully seeking better health, He is stil suffering. The Shah has somewhat lessened the value to blooded people of the decoration of the Order of the Lion and the Sun by giving it to a juggler; but he has only shown its real value. Ex-Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, W. I.—the mas- sacre man—is living at Rosebank Strathyre, Bal- quhidder, Scotland, where he passes bis time im following the art of Isaak Walton, Sir Charles Lyell is residing at Neuchatel, Swit- zeriand, from where he is Visiting the sites of lacustrine dwellings, and making other studies of the geology of the surrounding country. The Reverend John H. Finnegan, 8. J., formerly Vice President of St. John’s College at Fordham, sailed yesterday for France, where he is to con- duct a Jesuit university during the next year. The trial of William Moore, for the murder of & msn named Devanny, has gone on so long at Mary- borough, England, that, except the Judges, law- yers and prisoner, everybody has forgotten it. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, who is now in this city, intends to supply the public of his native place, Dunfermline, Scotland, with baths, at an expense to himself of $25,000. We suggest that soap may be wanted also, Consul General Torbert, of Havana, took his de- parture yesterday from the Hoffman House for Philadelphia, where he intends to participate in the:ceremonies of the dedication of the new Ma sonic Hail. One of the daughters of Eng, an own brother of Chang, and the two composing the Siamese twins, was recently married to a deaf mute in North Carolina. The bride is also deat and dumb, Here’s a chance for Darwin. ‘Two women will occupy seats in the next Wyom- ing Legislature. There may be an appropriation for certain low-seated chairs needed should the new members bring their cherubim to sing anges songs for the bachelors of the Red Cloud Territory. An immediate contrast in the English Probate Office :—John Stuart Mill, philosopher, died worth £14,000; Benjamin Grigsby, potato merchant, of Shoreditch, died worth £320,000, The philosopher was perhaps surprised at baving so muon to leave; the potato man probably regretted having so little. Archbishop Manning 1n his letter to Cardinal Cullen, announeing his inability to he present at the dedication of the Roman Catholic cathedral of Armagh, Ireland, said he believed that Ireland is in a happier condition in re- gard’ to religion than any other country, and that the country was never in 80 good & condition materially, and was never so influential in the British Empire and in the world as at present. “But,” the Archbishop goes on, “when I look upon foreign nations, and I may say a!so upon England, | see cause for grave foreboding.”’ DEATH OF THE ONONDAGA OHIEF. Syracusg, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1872. Captain George, civil ana war chief of the Onbn- d@aga nation of Indians, died on the Onondaga Reservation, nine miles south of this city, last night, aged seventy-eight. Captain George was with General Scott at Lundy's Lane, and was bearer of despatches to the Onondagas for rein- forcements. OT late years he has deen the re nized head of the rempants of the six nations. Hi tuneral will tako place at the Reservation to- morrow afternoon. Bishop Huntington will om- ciate, LOUISIANA ANTI-KELLOGGITES.. New ORLEANS, Sept. 25,, 1873. The Committee of Seventy has adopted.a resolu- tion, calling @ mass Convention of the people of Louisiana in New Orleans on November 24. The people of all the parishes, irrespective of party, opposed to the Kellogg government, are earnestly invited and requested to join and partictpate im the election of delegates to the said Convention. ‘The objects of the Convention are to consider the political situation in Louisiana, to institute measures looking to the ameiloration. of the con- dition of the people, and to memorialize Congress jor reitet. M FIRE IN SCHOOL. New Haven, Comnn., Seps. 25, 1873. ‘The Seniors’ House of the Episcopal Academy, at Cheshtre, was burned this morning, but all the other academy buildings were preserved. No one was injured, Most of the articles belonging to the boys were saved. The townspeople have opened their houses and the pupils are well provided ior. ‘There will be no interruption of the school what- ever. The principal, Mr. 8. J. Horton, insists that no boys will be called home on this account. I[im- mediate measures will be taken to have the house, rebuilt, tls ae A LIBEL SUIT. A Managing Editor Arrested—He Gives Ball in the Sum of $10,000. New Haven,.Conn., Sept. 25, 19u3.. During the raonth of August there appeared im the columns of the Union an article relative to a $1,100 diamond pin, which had mysteriously come into the possession of one Hiram L. Hall, As 1% alleged a Mrs. Frances D. Beecner was alluded ta im the articie in not very complimentary terms, She, claiming to be tnjured in ¢haracter by the sentiments expressed, claims dam: in the sum of $10,000, and brings sutt to recover. ‘The writ o! attachment was served and the arrest of Mr. Troup made be Sherif stevens yes~ terday afternoon. . James Gallagher, Known as the “Old War Horse,’ became his bondsman in the sum required, ‘The case will be brought for trial before the Superior Court, Oetober term, in this etty, Mr. James Baboock has been secured as counsel for the prosecution. YACHTING NOTES. The following passed deta me yesterday :— Yacht Phantom, N.¥.Y.C, Mr. William Osgood, from Staten island for New London, to go inte W Yacht Karolina NeY.¥.C., Mr Kent, from New York for Northport. Yacht Madeline, N.¥.Y.0. Mr. Voorbis, from New- touching the resulta of these approaching | port tor New York. LY