The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1874, Page 5

a HAWAII. Election of a King of the Sandwich Islands.. piviD KALUKUA PROCLAIMED, Queen Emma’s Adherents om the Rampage. The Parliament Howse Attacked, Gutted, Fired and a Member Murdered. American and Englich Marines Landed and Quiet Restored. San Francisco, Mareh 17, 1874. ‘The steamship Mikado brings intelligence from Honotalu that Prince Kalakua has been elected King of the Sandwich Islands, tosucveed Lunalilo. ‘The elections, #0 far as the mere casting of the ‘Votes was concerned, paases off peacefullye David Kalakua Proclaimed King—Vio- lent Demonstration by the Adherents ef Qucen Emma. San Francisco, March 17—Evening. A serious riet was threatened at Honolulu when ‘the election of Kalakua was made known, A mob ‘attacked the Court House; but the men from the United States steamer Tuscarora: and other war ‘Vessels landed and quiet was soon restored. No bloodshed was reported. Rictous Acts by a Royalist Reactionist Mob—The House of Assembly Fired and \ @ Legislator Killed—Quiet Restored by American and English Bayonets. | deemed that au fort Should be inade in some di- San Francisco, March 18, 1874, Advices from Honolulu to March 8, later than the frst reports to band, show that the riot by the mob of Queen Emma’s adherents, when they | earned of the election of Prince Kalakua, was | More serious than at frat stated. When the announcement of her defeat was ; made the mob attacked the House of Assembly, | Beat several of its members—one of whom aiter- | ‘wWara died—tore up seats and desks and set fire to the house, wnen ‘the United States and British | marines landed and dispersed the rioters. THANKS TO THE FRIENDLY FOREIGNERS, W. L. Green, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ten- ered the thanks of the government for the timely Interference of the marines. THE MINISTRY. Berman Widemes is now Minister of the Interior and Judge Hartwell Attorney General. HE LIVE OF THE MONARCH STILL IN DANGER. ‘The King is still threatened with assassination. THE HAWAIIAN THRONE. wae Two Aspirants for the Sandwich Islands Crown—Sketehes of David Kalakua and Queen Emma. ‘There were two candidates for the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom, made vacant by the recent death of Lunalilo—David Kalakua and Queen Emma. All that relates to the Kingdom is of the Geepest interest to the United States. Gibraltar 4 not more the key to the Mediterranean, nor the island of Cuba to the Gulf of Mexico, than the Sand- wich Islands to the natural defence of the North Pacific, Owing to their locality and the course ef the winds that prevail in that quarter of | the globe they are the stopping place for vessels Passing from Continent to Continent across the Pacitic Ocean. They ure especially resorted to | by @ great number of American ships, and the number of American citizens settled there exceeds early that of all otber foreign nationalities com- bined. It is natural, therejore, that the political concerns of the group which is the nearest in the Pacific Ocean to our shores should #e carefully ‘Watched. The death of Lunalilo was not unex- pected, and tt was known that the election of his successor would devolve on the Parliament. Sketches of the two candidates who lately held the fleld are herewith givén. DAVID KALAKUA. David Kalakua, the success{ul candidate for the throne, though not of the royal Kamehameha | @tock, was in rank fully equal to the late King. He ig about forty years old, and has held many high | offices of State. He was a member of the House of Nobles and was at one time Chamberlain to Kame- hameha V. Intellectually he is very much inferior to Lunalilo and far less qualified to perform the duties of aruler. David received a good common achool education. He is identifed with what is | called the party of reaction; he is firmly opposed to any interference with the independence | of the Kingdom, and consequentiy is against annexation to the United States, This fact, Bo donbt, makes him popular with the Batives and sults the views at present of the great body of toreign residents. David is descended from the celebrated Keiwikel-Wikau, one of whose privileges was to have lighted torches carried be- | fore him in the daytime. His grandfather, Kama- Dawa, expiated, in 1841, on the gallows the crime | 1 murdering his wife by poison. Kamehameha TIL, who entertained strong friendship tor the criminal, manifested great refactance in allowing the sentence to be carried out; but Captain ‘Wilkes, who happened to be at the islands at the tame with the vessels of the United States Explor ing Expedition, was consulted on the subject, and advised that the law should take its course. | David is married to the widow of the uncle of Queen Emma, but has no children. He is an ex- ception to the great mass of his countrymen in being temperate. He has a younger brother much his superior in capacity, and who 1s likely to be the successor of David if he survives nim. QUEEN EMMA. Queen Emma, who was, and remains, a con- tesiant for the succession, is the widow of Kame- hameha IV., who died in 1859, The lady is well known In the United States, having travelied through this country in 1865. She also visited England, where she was received with marked @istinction, the effects ot which seem to have im- pressed her mind must favorably in regard to everything British. Her Majesty’s mother, Fanny Kekela, was the daughter of the famous English- man, John Young, the right-hand man of Kame- hameha I., and whom the conqueror delighted to honor. Queen Emma has, consequently, one-fourth Engiish biood in her veins—the remaining stream beidg bigh Hawaiian. Young married the high female chic! Kaoneha. As a child Emma was adopted by Dr. Rooke, @ physician re- | siding in ihe islands, an both he | education and natural disposition is well | adapted to fill high stations With grace and dig- nity. She was married in June, 1856, and in May, 1658, uve birth to @ son. This event was con- mdered auspicious as promising to continue a Fogular succession in the family. The child, wno died young in the succeeding year, was prociaimed heir tothe thrope, and the Queen Consort named regent durig ii8 minority in case 0! @ vacancy. At is now ciuimed that the ‘late King Lunalto ex- | Pressed a strong desire that Emma should be his successor, but he negiected or refused to name her or any other person in his will, which he had the | Jegul right to do if he were so disposed. The Queen hus muny cariest supporters, and probably ‘would have reached the throne without «imeulty had sie married de be? that was urged) the late ruler of the islands, Her strong predisposition tor English interests operate move or less against her claims, MUSTORY OF EVENTS AND FORECAST OF cCoNsE- URN QUENCKs, ‘The deatn of Lunaliio, King of the Sandwich Islands, revived once more a question in which tne United States has a very deep interest. The archi- Dellago, of Which Oahu is the myst imporsany | were satisfied with all this, provided a treaty of | ot | the shore a sh ; cano Mauna Lo: | that the anctent priestuood had over the Hawa- | ble to think that the iast hours of the monarch NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARUH 19, 1874——FRIPRLE SHEET. io ‘consequence of Honotatn, ite chfef sea- port, being im sense the metropolis of the and being also the great entreport between Tre bpposite’ shores of the Pacific Ocean —Callfor- on one and australia, China and Japan £. we ie) ary oe tf uy aon 2 t be claimed as mac! pony id no mong “omb Queenstown, oF an ong, Ny Gibraltar is reckon the “Unitea States has taken opportunity to declare that the Hawatta up should never pass under the con- trol of a European government. The lave Secre- tary Seward faid it down not long before he left the’ State Department that the dwich Islands came under the operation of the Monroe doctrine, and a general notice wae given by that eminent man to Eng! and France to keep hands off, Since then Germany has ee 4 Ri) wnenel ot ae ministering upon the assets of the puppe' ing dom and.ita rapidly disappear Native populs- tion, but the pretensions of the Teutonic Empire and its Chancellor have not yet obtained any great weight in Englisn, French and American councils concerning the Clusters of islands that Oook and Vancouver ered. AMERICAN PACIFIO OCEAN POLICY. Our State Department has kept watchful eyes upon the Hawaian Islands, and now, as there is a contest for the throne, the United States fi promp peared ai joluiu, The late Kt was treldat io English interests, and ‘Queen, Emine ig a sincere admirer of English customs and pre- serves a grateful recollection of tne courtesy with Which she was treated in that country. The Union Jack 1s hate tn Honolulu, and it t well 10 bring to recollection that the commander of Her Majesty’s stir Peon im December, 1872, had many interviews | with the Queen Dowager, #0 'as to induce her to take measures against the American annexation party, to which the Jady was very willing to lsten and advance her views. General Schofield and Admiral Pennock. who were on the spot, had the imterests of the United states tn sale kéeping, ‘They well knew that Lunalilo ‘was @ mere Instrument in the hands of his keep- | ers; that no confidence was reposed in him, and | that the country was without ahead. When the | Yate King ascended the throne there were several parties who did not ueem him a proper person jor the station. The young man was undoubtedly popular with his fellow country- men, but there were none so blind as not to see that he was without either mental or physical qualifications to prove @ success, The best that cuuld be said of him was that he was a gentieman, and free and eagy in his manners, and that it was hoped he would prove capable to transact busi- ness. It was admitted that he was adatcted to in- temperate babits, and to suc an extentas to have necessarily excluded him from all public empioy- ments and placed him in torced idleness, Mr. Whit- ney, an American, long resident in Honolulu, became the champion of the King. The islands | were far irom prosperous. The whaling fleet had | entirely leit them. The sogar planters, many of whom were in debt, were becoming more deeply involved by reason of the low price paid for that spmmonts m oan ee 9 cules market for e islands; a culture of coffee, once con- sidered a staple, tailed. THE ISLANDS are not fitted for 35 < fenerai agriculture, and it was recuon to lilt the country up, It must be said taxes Were not high. The public debt 13 only $350,000, and is owing to residents, It was incurred ior valuable improvements that were absolutely ne- cessary. But the cost of keeping up e trunipery Court, an expensive Judiciary Department and other silly but expensive surroundings to a King’s wousehold, required a very consider- abie outlay, Nevertheless, the foreign residents reciprocity could be made with the United States, And it Was @ year ago @ common expression to hear in the isiands that reciprocity or annexa- tion were alvernatives. 1t was even then proposed to send a deputation of Ministers, or the King himself, to Washington to ask for such @ wreaty. THE PEARL ISLAND BAY CESSION. The proposition to cede Pearl Island Bay was heid open up to a few months since. Admiral ¥ennock, General Schotield and General Alexan- der, who were at the islands a year cun- sider it one of the finest harbors in the world, It 1s 80 Well protected ag to make its waters as Smooth as a Millpond. and can be easily converted into a strong place. There is, however, a bur, or coral bank, at Pear) River, or Ewa (which is oniy ten mules from Honolulu), covered by twelve eet water, that it would require an outiay of $1,000,000 toremove. The point bas been and now is elther reciprocity, FREE TRADB OR ANNEXATION, Reciprocity, it is stated, would pest suit the men Of property. It wouid save over $600,000 annually 1n duties to the island; it would enbance the value of plantation lands, and would cause a flow of capital mto the country. It is lurcher stated that it would make tne rich richer, and would warrant them fin spending $200,000 in @ jobby fund in | Washington in order to have the Senate ratiy @ | reciprocity treaty. Tnis latter view may seem strange as coming all the way irom Honolulu. It may have originated trom Enghsh or French sources, but there 1s afact very established in American foreign policy—namely, tnat the sand- wich Islands must remain independent or become American territory, THE LAST OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGS. Lunalilo may be considered the last of the Ha- Wallan monarchs. ‘there may be a successor chosen under the auspices of the natives, or Eng- lish or American setfiers; there may be annexa- tion to the United States eran Kngiish protecto- Tate such as formerly existed; but nothing’ can check the rapid wasting away of the population, who numbered half a million when Cook discoy- ered the group, and are now no more than 40,000, ueen £ WhO many a tte and gft bas been | ken of as cing about to (L.arriedl to the late ruler, and Mrs, Bishop, an American lady, with others, have been candidates for the succession. ‘The tather of the last beep a New Yorker, and the principal banker on the idlands; he was also a member of the late King’s Cabinet. As there is no Salic law in Hawaii, there is no obstacle to prevent either reaching the throne, Jt was ireely stated up to a lew days belore the death of the | King that it was ms intention to marry Emina, but the American missionary influence was against snp eee ee that strongly ; oppo! ery Yecently the reciprocity treaty an: savored the Bominance of the iust decaying nauve population. | ‘the late King positively refused, though often | Tequested, to name lus successor. He Was in- | fluenced, it 1s said, by superstitious views and con- sidered that any s7eps on his part to provide (ora person to take his place would only hurry on his | death. David Kalakaua, the “neir apparent,” was | advised not to make any effort tosecure the throne. | Lunalilo tried to get the throne, and succeeded, and was prayed to death by his enemies. | The next one that tries will meet with the same Jate, aud the next, and so on, until there are no more chiefs left. “Now, if David will only wait,’ said David’s supporters, who were awaiting Lunalilo’s death‘‘ne is young azd strong, and can afford to do so—he can by aud by take the crown and THE FRATHERED CLOAK OF ROYALTY and wear them without any opposition.” Tne mar- riages of the ruling family, it would not be proper omit stating, have not always been happy. ahe second recognized King and mis wite died in kngiand, and it wil not be forgotten that when Kamehameha IV. was travelling in tne United States he was treated, unintentionally, with indig- nity by a waiter on a Long Isiand steamer, in con- sequence of his color, ‘The Princess Victorta, & sister o1 the reigning monarch, not many years since absented hersei! irom a Chlistmas dinner table in the royal palace at Honolulu and caused the banishment irom the kingdom of an Irish gay deceiver who carried on business as an auctioneer at the capital. * WHERE THE KING DIED. Lunalilo, a victim to intemperance and disease, died at Katlaa, the amcient home ol the kings of Hawai. At thig piace are the remains of the old Jort puis by 6 rst Kamehameha, Back {rom | stance, on the slope of the vol: are several ancient temples, among which is conspicuous the Tempie of Ami, one of the anctent priests. Lunalilo, weak and | bent down with sufiering, taough sill a young Man, sought this place to pass his last moments. The Temple of Amt is a rude platform of smooth java rock, on Which are erected cight altars, one tor cacn of the islands, and tne whole surrounded by @ massive wail, DOW in ruins, The rocks of which the whole ts bulit have been brought wito imm-nee labor from miles distant, and the struc- ture stands as a monument of the absolute control Man people, ‘These ruins near the seashore are In- teresting a3 evidences of the reign of the first Kamehameha, and though now in the last stages of decay still exhibit traces of their ancient strength and extent, TRADITIONS OF THE PLACE. Near at hand, across a small cove, lined with canoes, stands the house where the lace ill starred King breathed his last. Queen Emina, the widow of the Jourth Kamehameha, and Ruvh, the su ot Lunatito’s predecessor, who is aiso Governe: of Hawail, lived in the same butiding. There 1s nothing in the locanty to recommend it to the royal family as a home save the purity of the air and the traditions that cling toit. it i remarka- Just deceased were occupied in arranging a union With Emma, who has been very many years In the matrimonial market, and wucse personal attrac: tions are very iar from being considered 1n- different. The presence of American and Engiish ships of war at Honolulu leaves en- tueiy at rest any danger o1 disturbance in the Kingdom, ‘The Legisiature was elected on Monday. February 2, and at that time tuough it was known the King’s physician bad deciared there was no hope of his recovery, enure apathy existed 4s to WRO should be elected in we king: dom; the natives were totally indifferent. ‘The Alerican oftictal representatives will have to play an smiporane part in the event ol revolution- ary, though doubtless bioodless, measnres being attempted. Queen Emma would be a mere trib- utary. thougn @ very innocent one, to Bnland, and Mrs. Bishop would certainly be unsatisfactory to the natives. The native chiel will probaoly be proclaimed King by the Pariiament elected on the 2d or February tnst.. but an American pro- tectorate of the islands is certainly very near at hand. TRADE WITH CALIFORNIA. The cultivation of sugar has increased enor- mously during the past twenty years in the Sand- wich Istunds, Chinese labor has been introduced to aid in the development of this interest, and the planters have iound in California @ ready market for the sale of the commodity. For many years past the Pactic States have been consumers of Hawaiian sugar, and very extensive establish- ments have iound a profitable business tn refining it. Hides, coffee, fruit, and other articles are also Smong the exports which are pald for in partie | is seventy years of age. | THS INEVITABLE RUIN WHICH AWAITS TI manufactured woollens and cottons, liquors, boots |, and shoes and furniture. The steamships plying | between San Francisco snd Australian ports make Honolulu a worene Place for coaling and trading purposes, and it now appears the whaling inter- ests, depressed for a long time, are le yen A The commercial relations between Hawait and Callfor- nia are intimate and extensive, and are closely guarded by our government. Vid Kalakaua Would not be unacceptable to the United States as King, but there are some grounds to think that either of the females mentioned would not be so Shilsctare to this country if elevated to the rone. CUBAN AFFAIRS IN THE CITY. Arrival of General Rafael Quesada— Speedy Action Anticipated—Bright Hopes for the Future—The Quesadas | and the Cuban Agency, Brigadier General Rafael Quesada, brother to Major General Manuel Quesada, late agent abroad } for tne Republic of Cuba, arrived tu this city on | Sunday last, and received yesterday a representa- tive of the HgraLp, General R. Quesada left New Orleans on the 11th inst., where be has been for some time. During last sammer Manuel Quesada sent his brother to Northern Mexico for the purpose of in- voking aid from the federal or some of the State governments of that Republic. it was thought when Brigadier Quesada went, that his}well known influence with @ large number of Cuban sympa- thizers in the neighboring Republic would enable him to enlist there @ strong force of Mexicans to embark in the war against Spain. A distinguished Mexican guerrilla General, Aureliano Rivera, ex- pressed his readiness to assist the people of Cuba, and said he would EMBARK WITH FROM UNE TO TWO THOUSAND MEN as soon as transportation could be turnished. The loss of the steamer Virginius deprived Gen- eral Quesada of the means by which he hoped to carry out this formidable undertaking. The fall of the much lamented President Cespedes involved | that of his agents avroad, the elder Quesada and Mr. Carlos del Castille, and the fhstalment of the | present Cuban agent, Mr. Migue! Aldama, in office. For these and other reasons the enterprises o1 the younger Quesada failed in the South. Brigadier Quesada states that ne is anxtous to embark without delay for the theatre of war. He is in communication with the men in the field, and feela confident that never at any time since the commencement of the struggie have the patriots been ina better condition, He claims that they have assumed the offensive, and thinks that but for the want of artillery, Calixto Garcia and Maximo Gomez would now be im possession of several Spanish strong- | holds, In support of this theory he cites the state of siege in which the insurgents are keeping Manzanillo and Puerto Principe, and the sack- ‘ng 0} the former city a8 well as Nuevitas and Santa Cruz, The General has every reason to be- jieve that the organization, discipline and arma- ment oi the Cubans never were in a better state. The only drawback appears to be a want of arms and ammunition to place in the hands of multi- tudes of willng men who are waiting for a chance to use them with effect. The late decrees of Captain General Jovellar, he thinks, will hasten tne solution of the Cuban question, Since the outbreak of the war, five and @ haul years ago, no less than nine Captains General have been sent out by Spain, each succeeding one of whom was expected to put down the rebellion ; and now, in the last days of Jovellar’s reign, he finds himself WORSE OFF FOR MEN AND MONEY THAN ANY OF HIS PREDECESSORS. During the days oi Castellar @ small blink ol nberty giimmered through Spain, and among | other reiorms inaugurated was that of cur- tailing within something like constitutional limits the absolute powers of the Captain General of Cuba. Jovellar came into power under the new liberal! régime, but soon tound that with- out jormer despotic powers he could do noth- ing, and demanded to have them pack again as a coudition to nis remaining in office. One of the first acts of Serrano’s irresponsible government was to restore dictatorial power vo Joveliar, who immediately ;procsened to exercise it py proclaim. ing the tsfand in @ state of stege, ordering a heavy draft among the volunteers and able-podied men im Cuba, and finally setting his agents to work in squessing a forced loan of $10,000,000 from the people the island. These look lke energetic, if Not prudent, measures; and the slaveowners see that Joveliar, despairing to Bef Teiporcements of men or remittances in money from Spain, 18 RESOLVED TO “PLAY ALL FOR ALL” in the game of war. This desperate play does not suit the slaveowners, who Wauttime. ‘They want 10 procrastinate and keep matters as they are now, since it is impossible to improve them. Hence Meesrs. Zuiueta, ‘Herrera, Pinto, and the Test of the negro seliers and volunteers, not wish. ing to risk thelr heads or Jose their slaves, sent | over to Madrid an ve diene lor the appointment of Genera! Don José de la Concha as Captain 5 eral. And it would seem that the Havana ring have BNcéceded. Now Concha (the Marquis of Havana) He 18 po longer the vigor- ous, active ofice® wlio so cruelly executed Lopez, Crittenden, Steadman and a host of others in the Jort of Atares In 1862, The supporters of slavery and unconditional Spamish rule know this very well, but they think tuat almost any new course Will be the means Of staving off for awhile longer HELLISH INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY. Meanwhile the volunteers will not volungeer nor be draited, but, when tney can dq Le prefer paying $1,009 exemption money to facing the hardy mam- bvises in the busu. fleeing irom the draft, and, to cap the climax, gold has gone up like a rocket, the Vuelto Abajo Das been invaded, plantations are burned, the negro2s rush Over to the insurgent ranks, Casttl- Nan blood flows amatn, and the country is in a con- dition of chaos, Such, in brief, is General Quesada’s picture of the condition in Which public affairs are now situated in Cuba. He predicts the end to be near, and thinks that if General Concha reaches Cuba, he will be the last Captain General of the island. While saying this, General Quesada also admits the possibility of the war's continuing for a year and a half or two years more, but avers that.the patriots are ready Jor even so vnlooked Jor a turn of events. General Quesaca is neutral as between hig brother's partizans and the party now represented by Mr. Aldama. He has offered his sword to the present agent of the Cuban government, and asserts his readiness to lead an expedition .o the isjand at any time. ‘The General has already landed three successful expeditions at difierent times in Cuba, and thinks he could run in another. He states tha: the people 0 Louisiana are very enthu- Silastic in favor of the Cuban cause, At this stage of the conversation a well known Cuban who was present remarked that had Ratael Quesada gone m command of the Virginius expe- dition, be Would have landed 1t in safety, Vice President Aguilera and Quesada are on good terms. The latter recognizes the tormer as constitutional Vice Presideut, but cannot look upon him in the lignt of President until he returns to Cuba and places himseli at tne head of the gov- ernment tnere. Keference was made to the sacrifices of the poor exiled Cuban workmen uuring the last five years, when « gentleman, Who has been conspicuous ior hed services rendered to Is country’s cause, said :— “Itis well Known that there are about 2,000 Cuban cigar makers in the United States, These men pay each on an average $10 per month to the agency, irrespective 01 who may be at the head of affairs. In the five years that have last transpired they must have paid in some $1,200,000, 1t seems vhat this immense sum ougnt to defray the ex- penses of several large expeditions, without in- cluding a vastly larger amount that has been coi- lected among the Wealthy Cubans, from sympa- thizing outsiders and accruing out of the sale of bonds; yet in the face of all this itis @ tact that only smajl, isolated enterprises have been despatcned to the shores of Cava. Mr. Frederick de Arnas, the well known Cuban | journalist i writer, thinks—as do anuamber of others—t there is still a reasonable ground for hope that ex-President Cespedes is still alive. The news of his death comes ima very questionable shape from Havana. The Spanish journals in Cuba | state that the body broaght into Santiago was that | Ola stout, bald-headed man. Cespeaes was neither one nor tue other. He was a very spare, low-sized man, and wore his hair rather long, having no signs of baldness. The only thing found on the body that could 1D any Way identily it with Ces- pees was a sock bearing the initials “C. M, de ©,” ut that might be accidental. General Quesada states that be has obtained, on Jegal grounds, a divorce irom his wile, aud witn her consent; also that the proceedings in connec- tion witn their ultimate separation were made somewhat notable by the denunciations of a cer- tain Mr. Lacosta, of San Antonio, Texas, who is the nearest male relative of Mrs. Quesada. ELECTRIC SIGNALS FOR FERRYBOATS, It seems strange that the ferry companies tail to make use of that which at a smuli expense can prevent the loss of lives and much property—the electric light. In the Stevens Institute one of the most splendid batteries tn the world Is to be found, whose light can penetrate the densest fog to a dis- tance of more than half amule. By fashing a sim- Har one on the approach of boats the pilots could readily make the siip without the vexatious delays and dangers caused at present. It is not impro able that the business head of Mr. Shippea will soon perceive the economy Of using sucii a light, at least on the Hoboken sice of the river, RIVERSIDE AVENUE, ‘The President of the West Side Association has addressed a leter to Hon. William B, Woodin, the | chairman of the Senate Committee on Cities, in Felation to the bill for the improvementof River- side avenue, He objects to the work being done by the Department of Parka | merely Both Spaniards and Cubans are | THE HORSE MYSTERY. The Spread of the New Oisesse—The Equine “What Is It !”—The Distemper In the Livery Stables—The Disorder Among the Truck Horsese—New Facts and Theories, The new horse disease is extending its sphere of operations, and is becoming a greater mystery than ever. The horse doctors, who do not agree a8 to their comprehension of the matter, are pur- suing the usual tactics of their profession, prac- tised also on men or horses, of denying the ex)st- ence of anything which they do not understand. They do not understand the prevalent horse disease, aNd 80 they deny it altogether, or where | they cannot absolutely deny, they ignore it or | | state of uuexampled prosperity. ! soon after that event the great mass of mechanics poob-poon it, One horse doctor answered the HERALD repre. sentative that it was simply the usual spring sever incident to this time of year. Another aoc- tor asserted that it was only the “pinkeye” in a moditied form. A third said that the seat of the disease 18 entirely in the stomach of those affected—a species of indigestion. Only one had ' the frankness to own that the complaiut puzzled | him, and he did not know that anybody “exactly understood 1." The horse doctors differ also in their prognosia as well as in their diagnosis, Some of the pater- nity declare that the disease is of an essentially mild type, rans its course in a very few days, never kills, really amonnts to nothing ut all, and that the horse does not suffer at all; that it feels duil, Janguid, under weather, rather sleepy, rather digpirited like a ward poliician “between elections.” Other coctors, however, insist that in tuts disease the horse sufers tntensely with an aching patn alvernaung with colic spasms, and that it haa already proved 1D Many instances Jatal. One prominent horse doctor insista that the disease is a form of lang fever. Another is equally certain that it 18 a case of catarrhat fever. Tus latter opinion is rapidly gaining ground and finds the | Inany advocates among the Owners of the horses | affected who are having their animals treated tor this complaint, The number of horses affected on the Seventh avenue and Broadway citv raulroad line has dim- iuished somewhat during the last two duys. ‘The horses affected have on this ne been worked throughout their sickness, but only to a limited degreC, making only one or two round trips a day during their liness, The situation on the Third avenue, the Sixth avenue and the Eighth avenue | lines remains about the same. A representative of the HERALD has vistted va- rious Of the livery stables in the city during the past two days ana has ound that une disease has spread among them, and is increasing, rather than minishing. the stabie of Mr. Beck, No. 87 Wooster street, has been “gone through with,” as he expresses it, with the disorder, the majority of mis horses having been seriously afected by it, though they nave all recovered. ‘There the horse: verely alone ;” everything has been trusted to na- ture; nothing has been done by the doctor, and the vis medwatric nature has been vindicated triumphantly. The stables of Mr. Crow, in Sullivan street, have also undergone the visitation, though toa com- paratively light degree, have experienced the disease, Nesbit & Ruden. whose stables are in Washing- ton street, have been large sufferers; the majorit, of their horses having been severely attacked. In this estaviisbment the characteristics of ca- | tarrhal fever have been strongly marked. ‘The stables 01 Jarvis & Co., in Jersey City, have also suitered, all their horses having been attacked. Numerous other instances could be cited. In tact, out of twenty-one establishments visitea only two have been found to be comps. from the disorder, In the stables No, 517 Wasmngton street a Father peculiar case has occurred. A horse, one of the best in the stables, has been attacked twice by the disorder within a period of two weeks, The first time the animal was sick for six days. In the second cage the attack lasted for half that period. 1n this instance the horse seemed to suf- fer almost precisely as tf adected with quinsy sore throat. He reiused ood altogether, avoided water, but did not lose flesh. In every case Dut this the an- imal affected became very thin, but in this instance the horse was alter the second attack even fleshier than at frat. ably stiff; he was unable to move. it was as if he had been stricken With rheumatism. He did not seem to suffer any, but was throughout the at- tacks as inanimate as a log. ‘The horse the day or the night before is periect- | ly well; when the next feeding time comes he will not eat; he wil! not drink; his lower hind iimbs swell more or less; his loins contract and the dis- order is tn full force, til at last 1t ceases almost as suddenly and seemingly as causelessly as it ap- peared, One strange fact has been verified by experience during the last few weeks. The disorder attacks only horses of a certain age, Young horses and horses below eight or nine years are compara- tively unaffected by it; and females ure less sus- ceptible to it than meles. it of sixty-three Ser lorty-one were eleven were over » ars of age. Out of sevei ome a steotea on the Eighth avenue line fifty-two were over twelve years of age, and none Oj the balance were less than seven years, Out of the first sixty-three above mentioned forty-five were males, and of the second set of Seventy-one there were fiity-four males, thus serv- ing to show the correctness of the general deduc- ns. Mr. Beck, who has been all his life a horse jockey, insists that in Che majorit is simply a very bad cold, owing to the sudden and great change im the weather, from an open and intld winter to the intense cold of last week. He holds that chest protectors could be ren- r eleven years o! age and dered avatiable, though others differ altogether , : oe | in England and Germany for more than par in j from this opinion, | In all cases, so far, the kidneys have been af- | fected and the loins have been constricted; there | nas been @ shrinking of the lower parts aud an | inclination on the part of the animal tolie down. | Nitre and saltpetre have been given in ali cases | With advantage. | _ The real nature of the disease still remains, if Not absolately a mystery, at least decidediy an un- settled point, and its iuture seems to be equally | | uncertain. Some say that the worst is over, while others, equally experienced, affirm that the worst 48 yet to come, and that the new disease is yet des- tined to become as widespread, if not as destruc- tive, as the epizootic. DR. PORTEOUS? CHURCH MOVEMENT. Meeting of the Committee Last Night— Reports of Progress by the Sub-Com- mittees, The committee of fifteen (less two) who have undertaken to organize and found a Protestant Episcopal church in Brooklyn for the Rev. Dr. Por+ teous, met last evening at the residence of Mr. Foote, in Vanderbilt avenue. Mr. Crozier, the | chairman, presided. ) reported the results of their investigations and | labors, The Committee on Location have secured the Academy of Music for morning services About twenty horses | His joinis, however, became remark- | ses affected by the disor- | of cases the complaint | FREE BANKING 0B EREE FOOD. To Tax Eprror ov Tus HERALD :— Your noble bumanity, now so much needed and 80 gratefully acknowledged by an unemployed and star Pot Mmduces me to believe that the same el 6d benevoience will prompt you to promote the ends that will restore employment to these suffering thousands when you are convinced of the truth of such propositions as may be laid before you, 1 will briefly lay before you a few facts and logical deductions that may point to a proper, suitable and permanent remedy for the evils that are upon us. You know that up to the time of tho failure of Jay Cooke & Co, manufacturing and al! other pur- suits in which human labor is required were mn a You know that and laborers were thrown out of employment, not by the failures of employers, but because the money or bills to pay for labor could noi be ob- tamed. Here then, just here, appears the point or chief and mosi palpable eause of disaster, to which all should turn their eyes and attention before jook- ing for any otber. Mev, women and children were thrown out of employment and left without the means to provide themsctves with food because money could not be obtained to pay them Jor cacl day’s labor, ‘These peopie are now in want of em- Ployment from the same cause, and many, very many, are indebted to your active sympathy ana money for their lives. Beyond the sutfering of these pour thousands tie) many other grievances borne by our people iu consequence of the sudden stop put te well paid labor. ‘This condition of aifairs has now continued more | thanseven months, and the unempivyed have been estimated at 2,000,000 of persons. If this be so tuen this estimate makes an absolute loss tu eacil la- | borer und ineonunic of 170 days, The value oi this labor, if we estimate itat $2 aday, umounts to $340 for each person. The aggregate for the 2,000,000 will thus be SIX HUNDRED AND HIGHTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! This ts a frighttu! sum for the laboring poor and the nation to lose. This loss must continue to work out a0 iminense amount of misery and crime. Une-half or Oae-quarter of this great sum is large enough ‘to strike with wouder and horror the bardest heart tn the land, and arouse a sympathy for the oppressed and indignation against the authors o: this great crime. Here lies the cause of stagnation io trade, the small eollections, pros- | pective and present embarrassments, suffering have been “let se- | \ and starvation, more than all the disasters We are now Witnessing ana will witness many months yet to come. CRUELTY OF MEKCHANTS AND STATESMEN, How do our merchants and statesmen meet and answer this great and appalling fact wach we ask lor the restoration of the Ine biood of business to | NS normal condition? Their reply is, ive gold for currency!” ‘We ask for bread; they give usu stone.” ‘We ask tor fish; they give usa ser- pent.” This is the humanity and wisaom that now controls and oppresses us. We call jor a restoration of the Free Banting ; Jaw, winch Congress unwigely took from us and made # monopoly in the hands of a ‘ew favored persons. We, therefore, charge all the calamities Under which We are now suffering, upon Congress. In the presence of the cause and appalling couse- quences that are here recounted we ure met by a cry of “inflation! inflation!” And from the unreason- ing opinions found in the columns of many papers We are unable to learn what remedy they propose for the present evil. We say that when currency 4s abundant Jabor 18 well paid; that when money is scarce and dear the laborer starves. They an- swer, “Contraction; no inflation.” We say we want paper money. ‘they answer “Gold!” We ask for employment. ‘hey say, “Money is too scarce.”” TRE HISTORY OF FREE BANKING. I will now return to the cause of this trouble. We established free banking in this State In 1838, This law remains upon our statute books. Did you ever bear any one make complaint agaiust it? jas there been any cause to ask tor its repeal? Has there been any “inflation” of the State cur- rency before 1t was taxed out of existence? This law of our State was wisely made the law of the Unton in 1862. It was made “tree,” but unwise men caused the aggregate amount of capital to be limited to $300,000,000. This they call iree bank- ing. After the whole amount had been taken up by banks in different parts of the Union the exi- gencies of lavor called ior an increase of currency, and Congress, our wise and Itberal Congress, very kindly allowed the people to increase tne mo- ROpoly LO $350,090,000; but they annexed a condi- tion, ‘The secretary of the Treasury was ordered to withdraw $50,000,000 of legal tenders. Here was a Gah age practised. ne law gave only $45,001 to the volume of bank notes aad too Jrom circulation $50,000,000 of “legal tenders.” | Instead, therefore, of an increase 01 $50,000,000 of there was a0 actual decrease of 000,000, Your paper has shown by statistics that the currency im our country 13 less per capita than in England, France and Germany. we hear or 6¢e in every paper but the HERALD tuat our currency is “inflated.” INFLATION DEFINED. On the question of “inflation” 1 must call your attention to a lew facts. The word “inflation,” that 18 50 Sip) tly used in the press, means, if it means anything, “a bladder filled with wind or gas, 4 prevepsion, a worthless thing.” Does this currency Gescripe correctly our bank note’ This note is | secured by a deposit in the national treasury of gold bearing government bonds. The Treas- urer delivers to the vanks notes for circulation, to the amouus o1 ninety per cent ol the face of the bonds. Are these bonds worthless, “inflated’’ things? ‘These bonds now seil in our market and old. . Thus the Treasurer of the United States hoids in his possession a sdurity for every bank note that ‘will sell for $110 in gold to redeem every $100 of bank notes. Is this worthless *‘inflated” paper ? ‘This “inflated” paper is not money. It is simply @ high order of credit. No one ts compelled to take it any more than he would be compelied to accept in payment a nore of Mr. Astor, itis the most periect credit that has ever been invented. Would you limit Mr. Astor to an issue of certain number of notes on the that they will produce “‘inflution?? Mr. Astor, backed by his hundred millions of property can make avery note, But such a note 18 not so periect a security as tne bank note, secured by a special H pledge; and by a regu- lation among the banks Mr. Astor’s notes would not be received in payment tor an indebtedness. The several sub-committees | and Dr. Buddington’s church, on Clinton | | and Lafayette avenues, for evening service, | The inaugural services will take place on Sunday evening next at the Clinton avenue | Congregational church, The style and title of the new enterprise is to be “All Souls’ Protestant Epis- copal chureh,”” The organizers, who are fatthful to the Protestant Episcopai Church, do not intend to set up for themselyes unless compelled thereto by the contmuea hostility of the Bis'iop of the diocese. | They will obtain the endorsement of three bene- ficed clergymen, with which, according to canon | law, Dr. Porteous can demand recognition. If the Bishop refuses to recognize him then the Church will carry its grievance before the Diocesan Com- | mittee. “It that body shail sustain the Bishop's position there will then be nothing left but an in- dependent attitude for All Souls’ church. ‘the Committee on Music have interested Mr. Goodwin, the Presiden: of the Handel and Haydn society, Of Brookija, who will provide the new | church with a voiunteer choir, some of whom, as Mr. Gordon himsell stated to the committee last night, will eventually identify themselves with the | new movement, Mr. Morgan, the organist oi the Ciinvon avenue church, has consented, tempora- | rily, at least, to ig dis the instramental accom- paniments to the choir for the services in that The hymns to be used have | churets. selected Jrom the “Songs of the Sanctu- | ary,” used in Dr. Buddington’s church, and | wit be published in pamphiet form of | eight pagcs and distributed to the congregations, | The cominittee intend to have good music, but not | to make that the great featre of their service, So tar as practicable congregational singing is to be encouraged; but chants and solos will aiso ind an appropriate place in the services, and to aid it the choir ts to be provided with church music books. It was decided to take up the collections, atter the sermon instead of before, so that the financial! interests of the charch may not Interiere with the spiritual This is in consonance with Dr. Porteous’ wishes also. Six ushers, who are also to attend to the collections, were appointed last evening. The members of the committee present last evening—Messrs, | Crozier, Kempton, Herries, Blanvelt, Foote, Yaylor, | Crombie, Hallock, Sinclair, Young, Hazelton, | Lownsberry and Archer—paid one quarter o! their | subscriptions In advance, so as to put the organiza- tion on a sure footing, A finance and an adver- | tising committee were appointed last evening. Mr. Kempton ts the treasarer, It was decided tor the present not to effect @ permanent organiza- tion until the church can do so according to the | statutes in sach case made and provided, which | will be in a few weeks. is to meet at Mr. Hallock's pouse this evening, and on Friday evening the choir will practice in Dr. Buddington’s church and on Saturday at Mr. siade’s. Dr, Porteous met the committee later | Jast evening pnd Wag pleased witb their antion, | | been | The Committee on Music | | Utica State Convention to secure the nomination ‘Therelore this “ioflaied’ bank paper 1s more val- uable than any other except the *coined paper” of the government, Js it a possible thing to bave too much of this bank paper? THE WAGES OF TOIL. I will now call your attention to the action of our currency. Bank notes and legal tenders are chietly used for paying labor. hese bills, thereiore, rep- resent the quantity and value oi the labor of our country, and they follow labor and trade to every pluce on the Continent, There is a flux and reflux of currency in all towns and manufacturing centres, controlled by the amount of labor and merchantable productions, The sales of tie products of labor bring back money from the mart of trade, and tt is then paid to the laborer in small sums. These rewards of labor generally tind @ naturai deposit in the pocket of the small or retail trader, and irom him they go to the jobber and importer in our jarge cities. the current goes, circles and returns, according to the great law of supply and demand. Ttan employer atany place is notable to get currency for his manufactured article he cannot pay his work- men, tis workmen cannot pay their store buils, the retailer cannot pay the city mercuant, and thus depression in trade may be traced directly to | the want of currency in the hands of employers to pay the producer, This chain of resuits is upon us now, and this is the cause that calls for your en- | larged venevolenct CURRENCY MUST EXPAND WITH LABOR. The business of banking resembles the blood, its causes and effects. The blood ss the life of the natural body, as the currency is the life of the body of producers and consumers. The blood musé expand and increase with the growth of the body and the currency must expand and increase with the number of laborers and the amount of tramMc. If you stop the blood in a limited degree you im- poverisa tue body and frequently bring on par alysis, So with the currency. The increase or de- crease strengthens or injures the body politic. The volume of currency must increase with the num- ber of persons employed. The money that will pay for the labor of 100 men is not suMeient tur 1,000. Banking and currency, therefore, are part and Parcel of all industries and must be allowed to ex- pand and contract according to the great law of supply and demand ‘This business when left free will increase and de- crease in its volume and profits in the same way, ana Will pay no larger reward for the money and labor employed than the average of any and every other business, We come back to the evident fact that the in- crease of the blood or currency having been forct- bly limited, and the body or business having grown up to the linttt, she natural body and business of the country must supmit vo paralysis, bis paral- ysis. 18 upon us and will dwar! if not kill us unless the restriction ts removed by an act of Congress. Thereiore I say we must ha’ FREE BANKING OR FREE FOOD, THE DEPAULTER PHELPS, The Case Put Over Until the May Term. ALBANY, N. Y., March 18, 1874. The motion made yesterday in the Phelps case for a postponement of the trial until the next Oyer and Terminer was granted and the case put over to the May term. During the argument Mr. Hadley intimated that $10,000 of the $15,000 whch it is al- leged Phelps misappropriated was used at the of a certain State oficer, by direction of an oMmcer having control of the State tunds, superior to Phelps. It was admitted by counsel for the defence that Mr, Raines was not the party referred to, ‘This cause is enough to produce | And yet | al pretence | ‘hus | oe eee A MONSTER STEAMER. Ads Successfal Launch of the City of Peking at Chester, Pa. A Six Thousand Ton Vessel for the Pacific Trade. CONGRESSIONAL IDLERS PRESENT, Curarer, Pa., March 18, 1974. To the launching of the great ship, which was Successfully effected here to-day and the partica- lars of which appear tully below, was attached more than ordinary significance. But a few years | ago such an event would have been impossible, and the triumph of this afternoon is all the more | worthy of note because being a circumstance of such rare occurrence, Our commerce was inaugn- rated in 1776, butit virtuahy ended in 1862, We had no navy a6 the opening of the war, and from our merchantmen we were forced to copstruct On naval ships Wt cost @ ) greal deat of nyney; but it did more, tt desiroyed our gomumerce. At the close of | the war we converted our naval ships back | to merchantmen. This also cost a great deal of | money, and this/aise did more—t reatly destroyed | the ships thems¢ives, and for our commercial rela | tions left us destitute of even the agencies for re« spectable commercial competition. Nor ts this all, | for in the conversion and reconversion just four | times as much money Was spent as it would have cost to have butita good navy at the ontset, VISITORS TO SEE THE LAUNCH. As the hour neured noontide the crowd increased, until within the boundaries of the company’s do- | main there seemed to be gathered a mighty army. As yet the special train from Washington and New York had not arrived, but on the Delaware ‘The revenue cut- | tug after tug came steaming up. ter, the tug Pilgrim, from the ~Phila- delphia Navy Yard, the steamer Jersey Biue and twenty or thirty other vessels | whose names in the foggy distance were indiscern- able, rocked to and iro on the waves, with their decks and rigging black with human jorms. On board the tug Pilgrim there was music and merry making, uniformed men and tidily attired women, treading the rapid measures of the waltz, while | on the shore gradually and gradually every stand | point became a hive of men and women. Op the piers, on the balconies, on the wharves, on the submits of factories and Lousetops, there seemed tobe notan inch of space which was not oc- | cupied. Down the shores of the Delaware, along | the streets of the village, in the yards, and in fact everywhere, people were jostling each other, and complaining because they had not room to be comfortable. Then the special trains trom New York ang@ Washington arrived. This was but a half hour prior to the launch. The cars from Washington brought with them Senators Cameron, Ramsey, Norwood, Howe, Bogy and ex-Senator Cattell, along with several others, There also came Con- gressmen Sawyer, Barry, Young, Page, Houghton, Eldridge, Wheeler, Schofield, Curtia, Copurn ana Harmer. From the Naval Department at Wash ington your correspondent recognized Rear Admi- ral Reynolds, Commodore Jeffers, Chief Engineers Hanscon and Wood, and Second Secretary of Mr. Mr. Robeson, Smith, The New York special train brought with it many of those mterested in the Pacific Mail line, namely :—President Sage; Vice | President Hatch, along with J.C. Wyman and many hundreds of distinguished citizens from Boa- ton, Providence, New York and intermediate points, The naval department of New York was repre- sented by Constructor Hanscon, Chief Engineer Shock, Chief Engineer Henderson and Chief Kn- gineer Sewell, the Navy Department of Phgladet- te was representea by Commandant Mullany, lonstructors Edward Hartt, Steele and Farness. A SUCCESSFUL “FLOAT.” It was only afew moments after the arrival of these parties that the launch was tnumphantly made. Meanwhile innumerable boats spotted the | Delaware in the contines of an exceedingly large } area, and all of them were ornamented with the | flags and colors of all nations. Every tug and | steamer seemed to have a band of music on board, \ and, in a word, the scene was lively and interest | ing beyond description. The de lena tio! of both | houses at our national capital w. On board the mammoth ship, along with many other partie: of disuaction Rote. So large was tha crow. upon the brave veseci that only a few more soul e possibly been crowded upon her decks. ‘Om the mimic masts of the iron stp floated the American flag, the Union Jack and the emblem of the Oriental realms, At preciseiy one moment past one o'clock in the afternoon the ‘shores’? were knocked aside, every wedge had been driven home, the hawsers were Cleared, and that immense mass of iron began to move. A slight tremor ran along her long and graceful lines, an awiu! sus pense rested upon the muttitude, but the next in- stant the destined Queen of the Pacific sought her natural element without an accident or with- out a delay. A shout went up trom the people; there was a series of wild hurrabs from the men andthe clapping of hands and waving of handkerchiefs from the laéies—not trom thoge men who designed and built the ship, but from every sou! upon the stocks, wharves and housetops; {rom the steamers, row boats and tugs, who beheld in this glorious launch the revival of an almost dor- mant American industry and the excellelice and supremacy of American skill. No sooner tad tue | vessel buoyed itself upon the tide than the young- est daugnter of the builder of the ship, Miss Emma Roche, breaking a bottle of wine across its bows, christened it “THE CITY OF PBKING.”* There is the vessel arp with the tide of the Delaware, She is the largest snip that has ever been constructed upon any Continent save one, and that one, for commercial or practical | purposes, proved alailure, She is graceful, com- modious and buoyant, and all her itnes rua in the direction of the most perlect RRL pee In the designing, the conception, building and cumpietion of that ship no one has plied his hand who was not | an American, 1t is an American ship, and none | but Americans have constructed her. Her fength | is 432 feet, her depth 38 feet 6 inches, and her beam 45 Jeet. Mer tonnage is about 6,000 tons. She 18 rigged with four masts, full ship rig, with fore and ait er masts. She has been built for the Pacific Mail line, plying between China and San Francigco, and sue ture | nishes accommodation for tully 2,000 passengers, Her maciinery will be built at the Morgan tron | Works of New York city, and will consist of double compound engines, high pressure cylinders, 51 | inches in diameter; iow pressure cylinders, 88 | tuches in diameter; stroke of pistons, 44 inches; high pressure, 4,500. Her propsiier is Hirch’s patent, diameter 20 feet, 3 Inches; pitch, 30 leet; revolutions, 65 per minute, | Her speed will be 1515 knots per hour, Her botiers are ten in number; length, 10 feet 6 inches; diameter of 13 Jeet; pressure, 60 pounds per square inch. THE FEAST OF RBASON, After the launch the parties invited, consgituting several thousand in number, partook of an Piegant collation served in the immense mould loit, in which there seemed to be noend of cold meats, salads, wines, whiskeys, brandies and cordials. Among the most remarkable speeches made upon the occasion was that of Senator Cameron, who | was vehemently cheered as he came lorward, and | who confined hits remarks to the triumph of the hour and the possibilities of American shipbuild- ing in the future, Many Senators present made eloquent addresses, and then the pioneer in the revival of the industry—Mr, Roche—delivered a few earnest and interesting words. He said that ‘as far as bis capital or influence was concerned he would devete both to the construction of American ships, and that although he was an old mau he yet hoped to see belore he died every American mail carried upon the bottom of an American snip. The return homeward was rendered pleasant by | Stories, speeches and songs. Every one seemed to feel pieased with the success, A JERSEY BLOPEMENT. | The Latest Sensation in Trenton—Two Families Made Sad. Last Sunday night George W. Wheeling, a dealer | in human hair, eloped from Trenton with a widow named Smith, Wheeling has two children, the | eldest being five years old and the youngest one month. He lived with his wife up to Stinday last, The fair Venus who stole away his heart this time is a daughter-in-law of 8. B. Smith, a banker in | Trenton. Her husband, Ellis B, Smith, died a short time ago. When Wheeling was about to elope he posted a notice on the door of his store that there Was aceath in the family, and he informed his wie that his mother haa just died in Baltimore, He carried off with him about $2,000 worth of his best stock and @ gold watch belonging to Mr. Hartley, & saloon Keeper, The widow took with | her, in bonds and money, about $1,800, the pro- ceeds of the sale of her household effects She took with her her boy, eight years of age, but she did not Jeave in the same train with her ad- mirer George. Her maiden name is Post and she isa native of Trenton. Tye balance of Wheeling’s stock Was attached yesterday for a sum of $800 by Mrs. isaac A. Donn. His wife’s maiden name 18 ae and she belongs fo a higaly reapectabie fe