The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1874, Page 4

BISMARCK. The German Chancellor’s War Against the Papacy. ——— PREPARATION POR A PRUSSIAN SURRENDER ee Impending Return ot Na- poleon IV. WHAT WILL BECOME OF MACMAHON ? Brvssexs, March 7, 1874. fam able to announce to you, on the faith of in- formation obtained from a high and trustworthy source, that the war between Prince Bismarck and the Catholics is drawing to an end, which, I may say, may be retied on to the letter, though My NWS Was Nos Meant to be pndlished, and is of the sort which, when printed, is liable to official denials most categorical, Tos news may be oMectaily denied, bat events will justify its accu- racy. Briedy, my information is thus:— VAENOR BISMARCK FRELS THE CATHOLICS ARE TOO STRONG FOR HIM. He fears that a projongation o/ his struggie with tem may lead to a disraption of the German Em- pire, and he has resolved gradually and quietly to Jet hostilities drop, He will not pubiicly retreat from any of the positions he has taken up, and, to all outward seeming, ¢ utions and perse- Cutions of insudordinate priests may continue With unabated r some time Younger; nstead of p ing the Catholics Deyond the borders of Germany and insisting on the French government seconding him in nia anti-clerical poticy, as he did when, be demauded ‘the suppression of the Cnivers, Prince Bismarck Will let France Decome a land of refuge for the Jesuits and priests expelled from the Empire. Tue German ambassador in Paris wiil bave ructions not to demand the expuision or moiesta- ton of clerical refugees from Germany, and af- nnhinderea and unnoticed to their own country. In fact, if they are orderly their retarn will be winked at; they wil find themselves in the same po oD us they Occupied in Prussia before the late autiCatholic laws were enacted, and, as these 1ws will be tacitly suffered to fall into abeyance, the battle between Bismarck and the Papacy will remain a drawn one, Bismarck retatoing the out- ward appearances and credit of a victory. This, however, is but one part of the German Chancei- lor’s scheme; for, while ready to let tne Jesuits muss themselves in France, be is resolved to guar- antee himself against their being able to guide the policy of the Preach goverment, and for this pur- pose he will abet and is abetting at this moment THE RESTORATION OF NAPOLEON IV. The imperlal régime ts the only one which can keep the clergy under subjection in France. Mahon’s governinent, being largely dependent jor its existence on tae support of the clerico-royalist party, is of necessity much infuenced by the priesthood, and is not a government to Bismarck’s liking. Napoleon IV., on the contrary, would be surrounded by clever men like M. Rouner, M, Magne and M, Droagyn de Lhoys, who are inno sense bigots and who would revert to the tradi- tional policy of the Bonapartes toward tue Catho- Ne Churen. Besides, an Impertal régime ts that Under which France Would be most likely to keep | the peace toward Germany. Napoleon IV. and his advisers would not readily forget the catas- Trophes of 1870, and might be trusted to adopt toward the government of Berlin a conciliatory a@nd even obedieat attitude, such as would never be maintained by eltuer a royalist or a repubiican government securely establisned aud disposing of @ reorganized army. Prince Bismarck, tueretore, aees in the restoration of Napoieon IV. a doubdie prospect of PEACE AT HOME AND PRACE ABROAD. If it be cousummated the Germans will be under no necessity jor plunging into a new war with France, as they would inevitably be compelied to @ before jong if the semi-clerical government of MacMahon and De sroglie lasted or were #uv- ceeded by one having the Count of Chambord, tue Orieans Princes or Gambetta at its head, They Wul, on the other hand, be able to reduce their armaments and spend more on their schools aud Scientific institutions, which nave suffered con- siderably from the bloated war budgets; and, in short, they would be tn @ position to embark on the Tecuperative policy of quiet and economy, which Prince Bismarck knows beter than any man to be Reedfal ior the cousolidativn of the Empire. AT HEADQUARTERS, Isend you this letter trom Brussels, where the headquarters of the Bonapartist propaganda a: established, It is here that are printed all the Bonapartist tracts, pamphiets, circulars and mani- festoes that are being lagnched over France by tue supporters of Napoleon IV.; and several of the promiment men of the imperiaiist party are here Bt this moment plotting the demonstrations that Bre to be organized in honor of Napoleou 1Y.'s majority. I advise you to attach no lmportance to the rumors which have been circulated recently as to the young Prince’s unwillingn to come for- Ward as a pretender for another twelvemonth— that is, until his studies are terminated. He uim- self may be unwilling; but I know that Prince Bismarck is anxious—and, indeed, so far as in him hes, determined—that the restoration shall be ac- complished as soon a8 possible, and at the fitting Moment he may be trasted to help the Bonapart- Jats by raising some “DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT” ‘Which will compel MacMahon's Ministers ana then MacMahon himself to resign, I donot pretend that the Bonapartists are acting in collusion with the German government in the conspiracy fos te “a acal conspiracy—to compass Mac con's over- throw, put che position is as follows:—MacMahou 1s not liked by the republican party in France, and he 18 uulsurusted by most of the royalist majority, Who brought him to power. Now. the republicans @re gathering in strength at every election, aud in Proportion as the royalists see their mujority de- Cline they are growing more and more clamorous that the government should abet them in their schemes for a royalist restoration. They are @ very hot-headed party, and are ren- dered more so by the knowledge that unless they do something to eifect a royalist restoration while the present Assembiy lasts their chance will be Mone, for at the next general election they will be In @ hopeless minority, What they really wisu is shat MACMAHON SHOULD STRIKE A COUP D’eTAT gund declare the Oount of Chambord King of France, or, failing that Prince's willingness to Cept the tricoior flag, establish the Count of Paris as Regent, They have over anu over again tried to edge on the Marshal to do this, and are edging him now, but the Marshai declines. Meanwhile the repubiicans, a8 above said, ure gaming in ‘rength every day, aud soon the Marsha) will Stand tn this dilemma:—Either he must cast in wis lot with the republicans and choose himselt a Cubi- Net out of their ranks, or he must subinit to be dic- tated to by the royalists. I he refuses either al- ternative (he royalists will, in all probaoluty, over- throw the Duke de Broglie, who is obnoxious to them, and try to force upon the Marshal a Cabinet composed of theirown men. But tien will be the time for £ interference, The French, an- happlly jor thewseives, are still keeping their frigate, the Oren in the waters of Oivita Vec- Chia. tor the par; CONVEYING AWAY THE POPE if he should waut te 2 Ro The Duke de Broglic wished to call back this rigate, but t Foyalists in the Assembly would not allow him, Mud atany moment the Itaian government, tg under instructions from ve the Orenoque a casus belli. n, may make of They wouid say, f the Broglie Cabinet were replaced by a royalist and wir ntane Ministry, that the salety of italy Was lmperilied, and send an ultimatum demanding ‘the immediate withdrawai of the Urenoque. This Ultimatum would have to ve compied with, Frauve ia 20% prepared to co to war with Lemly about the Pope, the less so as there would be a fear that Prossia might side with the Italians; but, on the other hand, a Cabinet which tamely accepted an ultimatum from Italy would be ex- dimiculties and would have to resign, But this party and leave MacMahon bat two choices, either to govern by the help of the republicans, or to order a plebisettum, to the end that France might once and jor all decide her own fate and set up, u she pleased, A THIRD EMPIRE. MacMahon is not the man to hesitate a day be- tween two such choices. He has no belief in re- publicanism, and would never assist in establish- ing a régime which mast soon or late bring the radical party into power. Some time ago he was a royalist, and if the Count of Chambord’s ob- stinacy had not rendered @ royalist restoration impossible, he would have gladly helped to en- throne the chief of the Bourbons; but, as Henri V. is now definitely out of the question, MacMahon would preier imperialism to the Republic, and he @ time these exiles will be allowed to return | Mac- | would take care that the plebiscitum, con- | ducted under his auspices, should lead to a Bonapartist victory. Bismarck would much faciittate that end by threatening im plain terms that if republicanism prevailed Germany would feel bound to occupy six French depart- ments, 80 as to protect herself against those polit- ical fits and starts which must always be expected in France when the republicans or radicals are at the helm; and in the result there is not a doubt that France, weaned of ali these crises and excite- ments, which paralyze her trade and keep her con- tinualiy on tenternooks, would summon back Na- poleon IV. by a substantial majority. PEACE TO EUROPE, ‘This, then, is a summury of the events which may be shortly Wituessed in France, thanks to doubt that uf they bode peace for Germany they also promise peace to Europe; for if France and Germany are kept, by the restoration of Napoleon | \ IV., from going to war again, other nations may go | about their business in security. To return, bhow- gotten that the secret of these impending changes is that Bismarck feels that he has committed a blunder in doing batule with the Papacy, THE CATHOLICS ARE TOO STRONG FOR HIM, Tt shows great statesmansiiip on his part to have made this discovery and to be so promptly desirous of acting on it; for im his struggle with | the CatMolies Bismarck was backed up hy two thirds of Germany. A less astute Minister might | have been stimulated to persevere by the en- couragements of public opinion: but Bismarck has Dad the shrewdness to see that the encourage- ments of amass of men projessing all sorts of heverodox religions, but virtually owning no re- lngtous belief at all (for Protestant Germans are tn | the bulk sceptics), Was no counterpoise to the im- | placable enmity of 15,000,000 Catholics, auimate: with 4 common purpose, and not to be diverted from | it by persecutions, however strenuous. These 15,000,000 Catholics would have ended by dismem- | bering the Empire. Bavaria is Catholic, so are Wurtemberg and Saxony, so is Aastria, and so also are the populations of Prussian Poland. It is not to be expected that these States would have long submitted to see Prussia pursue her policy for crushing the religion to which they are devoted, and one day Bismarck might have found arrayed against him a coalition of all these Catholic Kingdoms, who would have allied themselves with France, while Denmark started up and attacked her old enemy in flank, In fact the new Empire stood In serious danger, and Bis- and providing against it while it was yet time. He had taken up arms against a Power which does not fight with weapons forged by human hands, and, like many other statesmen before him, he has found out that THE CHURCH IS A TERRIBLE FOE. | As Cardina: Antonelli is reported to have said to a Prossian envoy, “What matters your jaws waoen We bave an army of 50,000 priests garrisoned on your soll and sworn to obey us alone. You know | the value of discipline, and our priests will with- stand you like ope man till they prevail.” They have prevailed, and. once again, itis a fortunate thing jor Germany that Bismarck should possess | the rare Jaculty of knowing when he is beaten. | THE SOUTH OYSTER BAY MURDER. | Thomas W. Jones Honorably Discharged from Custody. The examination of Thomas W. Jones, of South Oyster Bay, charged with tue murder of bts hail- brother, Samuel J. Jones, on the 27th of last June, Was continued and concluded belore Justice Sned- eker at Jamaica yesterday, Tue attendance was quite large and included a considerabie number ot the lady relatives and friends of the accused man, including bis wife and eldest daughter, neither of whom had previousiy appeared at the eXxamina- tion. District Attorney Benjamin W. Downing ap- peared for the people and Judge Hagner for the deience. James M, Seaman was called as the first witness, and ideutiGed an account book as being in tne handwriting of the prisoner, the intention of the prosecution being to establish a similarity between It and the handwriting Of the anonymous letter. Mr, Hagner 4 wo this line of testumony, and cited authorities to prove that it was not com- petent; bus it was nally admitted. Mr. E. &. Moore aud Justice sonu N. Brincker. hott w ailed, as men familiar with bandwrit- ing, to give their ideas regarding the points of similarity between the anonymous letter and the postal card note, but neither could give more than @ general impression. larity was shown to be quite remarkable, bat either could give @ positive opinion that they | were both written vy the same person. This testi- mony Was alee onjected to by Judge Hagner, bat the Objeciicu Was fually waived, iter we murder re e been executed Jones the Stated tuat it Was Supposed his brother lad —o a will, but that it couid not be jound aiter is deat Baylis testified as to the finding of a ol Keys 1h & secretary drawer iu the murdered man’s room. His evidence Was similar w that of Jackson Jones. Murgare’ suiovey, Peter's Gaughter, was calied to vestiiy rding the ire hear the railroad track on th g velore murder. She was post- tive tuat i occurred about half-past seven o'ciock, Sud tia! sue saw Samuel Joues eugaged m putting 1 OUL 4nd Aiverward gomg toward his house; she did not homas Jones at ali that day Phe proseeution here rested, and the defence culled ot Withess, Who at Ohce exploded the devective’s (heory of the abonymous lever, This Wituess Was Abralam Southard, of Freeport, wo testified tuat he was the author of tue letier, Which he recoguized sen to tue Amityville Post Office in an euveiope directed to the /ostmaster. He had a a of it, Which he kept for some time, Dut fin ore up and threw in @ barrel among other Waste papers. Since the arrest of Thomas Joues he had Wualed Jor t 3 in the barrel and fouud two oi produced. He identified them vy ce whe i had maue wit ne meut, he was vy it might do lum ecution having thus been upset, for the honorabie “iach st Whom, as = a BOT 4 ScInUila of evidence bad been pro: District Attorney Downing admi No evidence of guilt on apd thought that Hts Uilied 1h granting an honorabie Justice suedeker *aid tuat the position taken by tue | no evidence had pee ant, aad that coudiuonas au The detendant wa @ Crowd OF Felatives and \ lends, arts Congravulations Upou be Mm. de 18 UhUerstuod thet hip o 0 upporiunely aiseo 4b 4.0), wed Cue VUUE! the tue anonymous ed, Were prepared [0 y 1 keys found th the se ‘ tury drawer Were proved to ft no jock ans Jones’ house Or about Ms premises, Ott mM having made @ toorough trial of them oa Wedves. day winough the result Of this examination proves couciusively tuat vetective Payue has been at Work in tie Wrong direction, some hints have been given to tue authoriies Whiea May yet prove BR. ib the ve: NR Ob hae dy sheky oe posed to the indignation and contempt | of the whole nation for having «rag the honor of the country into such | resignation would also shatter the whole royalist | Prince Bismarck’s agency; and there 1s not a | ever, from my starting point, it must not be ior. | marck has been truly Wise in detecting the peril | In some instances the simi- | ? THE MOIETY ABUSES. | —---- —-~— | Ex-District Attorney Davis on the Evi- dence in the Phelps-Dedge Case—Self | Exoneration from the Responsibility | | of the Prosecution, WASHINGTON, March 19, 1574. Judge Noah Davis made an elaborate statement before the Committee on Ways and Means to-day giving his knowledge of and connection with the | Phelps, Dodge & Co. case, At the request of the Custom House authorities he examined the docu | ments and the statement laid before him by Mr. | Jayne and gave his opinion that it was a case that | justified further examination, He then arranged with the authorities that the application fora war- Tant to seize books and papers should be brought | directly to him, but should be kept under his con trol and should not be served unless the frm should refuse to exhibit their books ana papers aller | an interview with them, Obtaiuimg the warrant the next morning, he went to the Custom House, | when Mr. Dodge and Mr, James came there, and be stated to them the nature of the charges ani satd the evidence laid betore him justified the invest gation. They expressed great astonishment at the | charges, aud declared their entire innocence of any fraud and want of knowledge of any violauion of the statute, They said their books and papers were at the service of the government lor any examination they might loose to make. Judge Davis said the warrant should not be served, but he wouid keep it within his own control, and that Mr. Jayne and other per- sons connected with him would go to the store and receive from the firm such books and papers as night be requred, (hey assented to this and Mr. Jayne went to the store for the purpose men- tioned, Mr. Jayne read them the statutes which he alleged they had violated and the jorm of the ouths, and stated to them that in taking the oath in that form the person who made the entries had committed perjury, and showed them the penal- ties in sueb cazes, buc did not make any treat except such as mucht be implied from what he ha | done. On the 80rh of December he was sent for by Mr. Jayne to come tothe Astor House and there | found Mr, Jayne and the counsel of Pheips, Dodge & Co. OTIATING A SETTLEMENT, | Mr. Jayne sald a proposition had been made Which Le could not accept; according to the Judge’s recollection about §150,000, Mr. Jayue said he had sent for the Judge to inquire in wat | manner the matter could be closed up at once. | He said to them it could only be done by suit for the specitic sum and the payment of that amount | in tui, but suggested that there might be a basis | of settlement on the articies alieged to be actually | adected by the alleged traud. Mr, Jayne was tien | requested by counsel tor Phelps, Dodge & Co. to | ascertain the Vaiue of such articles, He did so and | reported the sum to be about $260,000, Jayne re- | | ported to counsel for the firm,and after consultation with their clients they came to the conclusion to | pay the amount to close the matter atonce. It | | Was arranged to do this on the evening of Decem- ber 80. The next morning Judge Davis had an ap- pointment with Mr. Bliss in respect to cases then | on the calendar for trial, and of which Bliss would therea(ter have charge, During the consultation he received 4 note from Mr, Jayne, requesting to | see him, HIDDEN MOTIVES, At the close of the consultation he said to Mr. | | Bliss:—“I am now going down to the Custom House | to close up, a8 I suppose, the heaviest case that has ever arisen in this district, the arrangement lor | the settlement of which was made last night, and it was to have been set- tied then, The services of this office have all been rendered, and I supose I am as much entitled to tue fees as if the services nad been rendered six months ago; but rather than you should think [have neglected other matters jor the purpose of hurrying up the case, to get a large fee just at the close ot my term, I propuse you go down with me and participate in closing be case, and take one-half of the fee.” Bliss was | much surprised, and said, aiter afew moments’ | pause, “Judge, ‘since you have made that prop- osition, I teel bound to teil you that the case will bot be closed up to-day, L was informed iast night What took place at the Astor House, and | was at the Collector’s house tila late hour, and I kuow it 1S not to be settled to-day. They wave been play- ing doubie with you. Somebody—1I will not teil | you Who—has been carrying water on both shoul- | | ders, i think I won’t go down with you.” NO VERDICT FROM A JURY. Mr. Bliss then lefttne office and Judge Davis | repaired to the Custom House. He went into a rovim in the Naval Oftice and jound the Collector, Surveyor, Navat Officer and Jayne together. Jayne said Le wished to ask Judge Davis about decisions taade construing tue statute of forfeitures. Judge | Davis said, “lam ready to give you advice, but I | Wish it to be understood, beiore dving so, that I Will have no lees aud no part of fees in this case. | ‘Lhe fees, if any, are to go to my successor whether the cuse ls settled to-day or hereafter.” He then answered the questious asked, and said that the | case, 1D his opinion, was one im which no jury wouid ever give a verdict unless by special direc. | tion of the Court; that counsel jor Phelps, Dodge & Co. were pressing the settlement, and if they looked to their own interest they hud better accept a compromise. He nad no | ebnsultation with Mr. Bliss in relation to the case | or the jees other than the one in his oflice. tie never spoke to him about the character of the case nor as to dividing the fees, except as above stated. He had not at that time any knowledge | oridea that Bliss knew anything of the case or _ bad claimed to have any interest im it whatever. | | | Judge Davis said that Bliss on that morning (De- | cember 80) had privately taken the oath of office, Which fact was Wholly unknown to him. The cus- tum had been for the retiring attorney to appear | court to present the commission of his | sor and to move that he be sworn No suit was ever commenced by | Judge Davis in the Phelps, Dodge & Co. | case. No money was ever paid to him, He had | received no money directly or indirectly, by or through any one. A jew days alter Judge Davis retired trom the office of District Attorney | Mr. Didge called at is house to have some con- Versation about the case. Judge Davis could not say anything as counse! or attorney, but he would say to him, as he wouid to bis own brother, that, THEY OUGHT TO CONTEST THE CASE and fight it out to the end. Mr. Dodge at that tume explained to Judge Davis the reasons that induced them to let the settlement goon. When Mr. Douge requested Judge Davis to write a letter he looked furcher into the case and became more fully satisbed there had never been any imten- tional irsud. Jndge Davis proceeded co show how the error Was committed in the luvolces and en tries, and the effect of the law and decisions of courts Mm such cases, Making suggestions as to _ the proper mode of ascertaining actual intention to detraud to be determined by a jury, and where actual iraud was found by a jury the Secretary of the Treasury should have no power of revision. ‘The statement, of which the above is @ mere no- tice, is to be continued to-morrow, GALLANT RESCUE AT SEA. Testimonial of Honor to Brave Men. A correspondent sends us a full account of a re- Markable rescue Ol a shipwrecked crew at sea by a party of seamen belonging to the Cunard mail steamship Algeria, who volunteered for the ser- vice, under circumstances of exceptional danger and dificuity. On the 26th of February the Algeria, which 18 commanded by Captain L. Lott, being on her homeward passege, fell in with the Norwegian schooner Foidin, bound trom Callao to Queenstown jor orders, Seeing that the schooner was dis- masted ani fiying signals of distress | Captain Lott gallantly determined to go to | her rescue, waic * accordingly did, after shortening ‘sali, in the very teeti of the storm | and against @ bb yY beam sea, A nearer approach to the Wreck showed her and her crew to be in @ very deplorable pught. The only spars vit standing we tue joremast aud Joreyard; ery sail had a biown away, and the ill-iaved Vessel lay utterly heipless im the trougn of the sea, With & prospect of being at any moment en- gulled by the angry Waves Which battled round ner, Captain Lott made a eali upon bis crew Which Was promptly responded to, and in @ sur. prisingiy dries space No, 6 lifeboat was ready in the sings, With a gallant crew o/ seven seamen in | commend oF Mr Wiliam Ff, Bart: oiicer of the Algeria, Seizing | moment, the captain gave the ower uway,”? and tne lifeboat vy of brave men was the next midst of a terrilic sea, bound upon to fancy with luteresi the movements , every eye on board ud heartielt were p to Heaven for toe rescued men Kol the Algeria, | GALLANTRY AND its Liessing and 11s hep, fs were placed in saiety ou the de PROMPT ACKNOWLEDG HUM The cabin passengers sembled in the d rd the steamship @s- ve sale eveuug aud (ou tor tae brave lelliows Who jow ment Waiery grave. In 1 Was distriv- Loti, WhO was re- ts, Uhos:—Mr, Wo. | Was pre with £40, | eter watch with a suitable | ol the crew received as | boalsWain’s mate, £75 am Moore, £5; Edward ), £6; Thomas Leadon, | F. third ote a curono om, apd ine ¥ Ulam n Ham)son, er tne pr jou Laird Odleer Hartiord re- | torned than ef and boat's crew, io @ few wel Pia As, | Ub tue 44 OF March TAR KOVAL HUMANS SOCIETY acknowledged I tvnous action by present wg Capt Lott ana Mr, ord witu medals; the Jormer gold and the \atier siver, and @ vote O! thatks os tu yon vellum. {be rest of the boat e B each £1 and silver medal. The eiauce of tue £100 was | aad Sita | patients recover. Se a NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAKCH 20, 1874.—TRIPLE What the Doetors Say of the New Dis- casemAt Least One-Tenth of Horses in New York Affected—A Widely Pre- valling EpidemieWhat the Sporting Men Say—Some Lnteresting Facts—Are We to Have a Morse-Plague? Out of sixteen stables, large ana small, private and public, vietted by a HemaLp representative yesterday, all but three had been attacked by one or more cases of the new complaint. Anxious to get at the root of the matter, the HeeaLy representative, after his tour of inspec- tion through the stables, called at the office of Dr. Copeland, the veterinary surgeon, and asked for bis Views concerning the new horse disease and for any new facts in relation to it, According to this gentleman a disease precisely similar to that now prevailing among the horses of New York broke out among the horses in Great Britain in 1837. Just a8 now, so then the eyes began to swell, the horse lost fesb, refused food and drink and was unable to work, At that tune bleeding was in vogue, and every horse affected by the disorder was subjected to this treatment, | which, in the majority of cases, kilied the patients. | But now, a diferent treatment being pursued and the horse being leit to mature, the majority of the According to the doctor the disease itseli is now a peculiar kind of infuenza. If the horse 1s left alone the disease will run its course with saiety; but if during its course the animal is exposed to draught, or if it is “worked,” then the most serious consequeuces will ensue, Several deaths have already occurred, not from the disease itsell, but from exposure and from overwork. Several of the city railroad companies have ignored the existence of the complaint in their Lorses and bave lost a number of animals im Cousequence, As for the nuiaber of horses alfected at the present time, the doctor assured & representative Of the HERALD that it was much larger tuan Was generally supposed. “Il have been paying, of an average,” said the doctor, “WIPTY PROFESSIONAL VISITS A DAY jor the last two weeks, and all my cases, with but three exceptions, . have been cases of the prevailing complaint’’—this pecniiar infu- enza just alluded to. Other horse doctors ure equally busy, and the doctor gave ite as his deiiberate opinion that at — least | one-tenth of the horses in the city were affected | by the disease. Nor ts it confined to car horses or | to truck horses, Several cases of fine stock being | aflictea by the ailment Lave aiready occurred, It | takes horses of all conditions, and seems to be in- dependent of the usuai sanitary conditions, Tne doctor algo insisted strenuously that the disease was INFECTIOUS in its nature, just as was its analogue in 1837. The history o/ the present disease, as Weil as its plie- | homeda, attest its infectious cuaracter, it broke | out on the Ist day of February in # horse ou the | Tenth Avenue Railroad line; then attacked a Reap pearance of the London Pest=Ear- Splitting Horrors on the River=The Pie asures of Water Travel Around New Yor k—Bells Ringing, Whistles Blow- ing and Boats Colliding. St. F'atrick must have been mightily displeased. The frst thing heard yesterday morning alter waking by people within earshot of the rivers was the «tiscordant clanging of the numerous and many toned tog bells at the ferry landings, with the be-rrible accompaniment of steamboats scream- ing ‘tt, bewildered agony. From long before day- breait those ear-torturing sounds were kept up wtitil about half-past three o’clock in the afternoon, when tbe sun won a brief victory over Tus fogship and rendered the eyes of pilots and ferry masters of some use to them, The clear- ing lasted about an hour and the fog resumed its sup! ©macy as if with a ferocious determination to reta Da it, The shrill whistles blew again for bare life:cad “the bells went a-ringimg for Sarah” or wha tever the expected boat's name was. It would be sMiperfluous to speak of the wretchedness of peo), who do business in the city and who have bee driven by @ long course of municipal misgov- erniment to reside beyond the surrounding waters. They simply endured what they alwys have to sutfer when their eiforts to 1@ach their workshops, stores and offices are inp er jed by the elements affecting travel by water, For Gue ten thousandth tine tie now alinost de- spair cry went up irom a hundred thousand lips, “Give us the bridge; or, give us rapid transit aud dot us live in New-York, where we beiong, and Wheare neither ice nor fog can provoke us into pro- fami ty’.”” HO'W THE PERRYBOATS CONDUCTED THEMSELVES, Fc ferry travel was, indecd, very provocative of stroDg language yesterday, though ali the jerry com ¢ wiles did tae best they could uuder the damp- eal Wf circumstances and took considerable risks— as oi2dch and as many as were consistent with o due .egard ior human liie—to make good or rea- sonevle time. ‘the Long Island Railroad boats troia James slip to Hunter's Point sent all their pas “ongers across by the Thirty-iourth street ime uutd ihe last two trips were due in the aller hoon, and these they made in safety. Phe othisr loug-voyaging boats irom Koosevelt street to Wil 4 amsburg ceased running at two o’ciock A. M, At if've iu the morning tuis line rap again, DUL Was cou qveled to “haul of"? alter one wip and couse run U ing till Dine, Wien 1t resumed and continued run 0 ing during the day on flaw tine. Bi 1ts detayed $eugers crossed a8 usual on tie line from South futh street, Williamsburg, to Grand street, at this .side, beionging to the same company. The Haricm boats aid not venture out until three o’c. ck iM tie aiteruoon and ceased runung atsix. At thie Pulton jerry jour boats always run during the <iay, butone of them knocked’ off yesterday id jelt the other tnree to work tue route, | Wall street boats made ther trips every twenty minutes, iustead of ten, as usual, The South and Hamilton ferry boats, which usually run every ten minutes, avecaged three trips au hour yesterday. ‘The dtsven island south shore outs ade all their number of Lorses on that line; then seized horses ou the Eighth avenue line, and even reached tiose | on the Sixth avenue road, As regards the probable future of the disorder, | the Doctor thinks that it will become worse belore | it gets better. He calculates that the disorder will spread over tue city and affect to a greater or | less degree all stables, unless, indeed, there should be a Change to fine weather, in Which case ike dis- | ease Wouid probably disappear, Other veterigary | surgeons agree with the general principles and | ideas just stated. Dr. O'Shea, Dr. Budd, Dr. Grice, | Dr. Farley and others, though differing as to the | precise nature of the complaint, yet agree that the | disease partakes of the nature’ol a severe cold, that it is infectious, that it must run its course, that it is spreading rapidly, and that rest and na- ture are the great remedies. Dr. Buid has treated | | the disease in the stables in Washington street as @ Varicty of CATARRHAL FEVER. Dr. O'Shea has treated the cases in the stables of Sullivan street as for a cold, aud the other doctors wve Varied somewhat; but the profession are at | last thoroughly awake to the fact tuat there is @ disease, and they agree in the inain details of its treatment. Among sportung meu the disease has | not yet attracted much atteution, as iew of the racing stock have been at all as yet affected. | Join Chamberun is firmly convinced that the | disease wil be confinea to “low ciass horses,” an | opiuion in Which ne 1s jomed by many other horse- men, Berthol!, the veteran roadinan, has bis | theory oi the disorder, which is, that it is wholly | caused by the pernictous custom of “salting tie | tracks,” @ custom in Which tue city car companies | persist, spite of the ordinances upon the subject. He holds that no horse can endure the etfect of this detestuble custom jong, and expresses himself to the effect that if THE CAR COMPANTES were to lose half their horses it would “serve them right.’” Wayne Hovey, who bas written con- siderabiy on the horse, holds that the present ais- order is probably the beginning of an epidemic Wiich will ere long astonisu even the New Yorker ; | While, Oh the otuer hand, Bidgood, who has been | With horses all nis life, and is DoW in charge oO! several hundred antmais, many of whom are ran down With the disorder, msists that ‘or all the world it is nothing but a coid,” though even he grants that it is “an uucommon coid.”’ And taus the matter stands at present. 'The Horse Disease in Brooklyn. | The railroad authorities assert that there Is 10 | danger Oi the sickness amony tue horses becoming epidemic. They say that it is simply influenza, caused by sudden transitions in the condition of | the atmosphere from heat to cold. Oi late the City | Raiiroai Company has purchased a large number of horses, and they-have got to be acclimated be- | tore permanent health can be assured them, The | Geatlis among the horses in the Third avenue sta- | bles last month were only twelve. | A WHOLE CITY INDICTED. Newark Arraigned for Maintaiaing Dise gracefal Streets. ‘The last Graud Jury of Essex County, N. J., not | only indicted “Boss” Stainsby, Joe Young, Chief of | Police Rogers, Street Commissioner Sullivan and | several contractors and inspectors, but the Mayor and Common Council besides. Tue indictment | Against the latter is different from those against the former in that one is comparatively a mere | form, whereas the others are very seri- ous matters—aileged conspiracy to defracd | the citizens, Yhe Mayor and Common Council are indicted for not keeping Bloomfield avenue, near the town line, m proper repair. The accused will pigad through the City Counsel, bat hot till the next term. It is a startling fact in tuis connection that although millions upon miliions of dollars have been expended during the last 1ew years in Newark jor street improvements there is scarcely a well paved street in the city. The main thoroughiares are in a disgraceiul condition, THE GBEAT BOND FORGERIES, Joseph F, Franklin, the bond forger, was indicted | yesterday. Shortly after the indictment of McKay had taken place yesterday by the Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions, for sending alleged forged letters to the Stock Exchange, it tran- spired that fifty-two indictments had been found against Joseph F. Franklin, broker, of No. 112 Broadway, on a charge of torging New York Cen» trai aud Buffilo, New York and Erie Railroad bonds. Franklin 18 now in custody JERSEY WOMEN AND, SENATORIAL SCALP, | ‘The women suffragists of New Jersey are on the | warpath, At the convention held in Newark on | Wednesday night they went roughsiod for Sena- tors Matt. Carpenter and Frederick T. Freling- huysen. Mrs, Blake savagely attacked the latter for luis course regarding the women of Utah, and | declared that he had done all in his power to disiranchise them, With the “golden era’? prophet in her mind’s eye, the lady udded that was ‘a Want of conscichtiousness” ib our politics which women alone could supply. | Mrs, Dr. Mix addressed herseif in the same mid | and gentle way vo (tbe President pro tem, of the United States Senate. him as “Matt Carpenter, steepe ing over the Unired states Senate.” She aiso calied upon er brother-sisters to repudiate Senator Freling- huysen, because of his treachery to the cause, Resolutions were adopted petitioning the Legisia- ture {o grant Woman sullrage, aud regretting Mr. Frejinghuysen’s deiection. DEAiH IN THE GLASS, The Brooklyn Coroners credit rum with $24, being the proceeds of inquests held yesterday upon the bodies of two female victims of intem, peran Ann Reynolds, a middie aged woman, died irom the effects of aleovolle sumuiants at the City Hospital, Margaret Kineatly, the ether sub- Ject, died trom the same cause’ at her residence, | No, 374 Baitic street. Intemperance, the Coroners | assert, has done much towards increasing their | business within the past few days, | | THA MURDERER DONORUB RESPITED, Avnurs, N. Y., March 19, 1974. A stay Of proceediags has been granted in the case of Donohue, and ue has been respited until the 24th of Ap LOWENST2IN ATTEMPTS 10 ESCAPE, ALBANY, N. Y., March 19, 1 Lowenstein last night attempted to escape trom the jail, He picked the lock which secured the bar in position on the snacters of the window, | ‘The bars Were cut and he bad opened the siutce OTe Le was disvover When tue bar had vee Agius BeCtsed Le tureasened CO set the Jali on dire, | adj mi: tri pfs regularly and on time, but their pilots were coil pelled to exercise great cauton. ‘fue north slore bouts slacsened considerably ou their trips, and the bowt that was to start irom pier No, 15, Nerf River, at ball-past six last eveniug had not reii¢ hed there until long after tuat hour. On the Noth River similar delays occurred in the running of jie jerries. The Dey street boats extended the filt 6 en-minute trips to yoyuges ol hall an hour, the Co. ti iandt street boats irom ten to wwently minutes, ant similar delays and disappolutments were ex- peith enced by all the lines crossing the North River. THE ACCIDENTS. Cé€ course there were some accidents, but it is Mmu¥ Vellous Lo think how sligut aud jew and iar be- lwesen they Were, Te ferry boat vomoua, woich jet’ New Brighton, S.1., at uali-past six m the mo Maing, came 1uto collision witu a brig, whose ani or and chain she carried away, Uroke her own rai Wag aud did hersell some other repairabie dam- agew. Near the landing of the Cortlandt street Jeri’, on the Jersey side, a tugboat ran down a | Tow ljoat, the sole Occupant Of Wuick succeeded in sWihiuupg ashore, The Fulton ierry ierryboat Wi- noruyran into the canalboat James Cuimpuell, at two o'clock yesterday alternoou, and stove in the side of the latter, wiach was towgd to Martin’s dock, Where she sunk. ‘the terry0Oat was not in- Jurec.. Another lerrypoat struck abd sunk the Sco W lying beside thé New Lurk pier ot tae Hast Rivet'c briage. Avout ten o’clock in the morning Uie iterryboats Hudson City anu v. 8. Gregory col- lided on the North River, Tie end oi the ladies’ cab tiof the Hudson (ity was carried away, the Gre g ory sustaining bui slight injury. NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. Sweeping Rallroad Legislation—Jay Gwuid and His Bankrupt Railroad— 8 md News for the People of Jersey City. O we blow at the proposed People’s Alr Line trom Nevr York to Philadeiphia was struck yesterday in the ‘New Jersey Senate. The bill alluded to in Moitiay’s HBkaLD empowerlug the New Jersey Cen tial to increase their capital from $10,000,000 to $20, 1920,000 Was pussed. An excellent amendment, offe ted by Mr. Sewell, providing that this corpora- tiom should pay to We State $250,000 for lands un- der water held by it, Was voted down by 6 to 16 Seweil was aided by Cutler, while Stone, Taylor and ‘dopper stood fast by the railroad fag. A second biow in the interest of monopoly was aimed atthe act incorporating the New Jersey Ship Canal Company, but it was passed toa third reading. Sewell moved to suspend the rules and put the bill on its final passage, but this was lost by 9to)z. This was a ruse on tue part of Tom Scott’s vatant general to Kul tue bill, The amendments wis by the Senate comuuttee were rejected. The Pevw.sylvania Ratiroad monopoly is aetermined io fight this bili to the bitter end; as it iougnt the National Ravroad juto its grave, Reiniorcements were sent on by Tom Scott irom Philadelphia aur- ing the week. Mi. Hopkins presented a report to the Senate fro the Committee oo Raliroads and Canals in relation to the New Jersey Southern Railroad. 1b sets i0rth, among otuer matters, the following: Naat, from the testimony given before that committee wv Weeks ayo by Jay Gould and others that tuis ra | rows was managed | ckiess, Wasteiul aud extrava- gant manner, large amounts having been expended jor pu poses not contempiated by the charcer—such as the Cou struction and equipment of railroads out of the Sta the purchase of hovel ac Long Branch, the buying ol unnecessarily expeisive steamboais, Which were run at aN eqiormows Cost—us a result, the corporation is prac- tically insolvent, with no ‘interest paid on bonds, no <ivivends w siockaulie vibe of the rauroad are arise jrou its overut vat jailed to make ay annual | as required by law, aud the payment of the state iax | under its charter not comphed With. A portion of the Toll mig stock has been removed to another Stare, and the stev ar boais sold. ‘The report further states that the capi- faleot. the road in 1s73 was $12,316.00, and the taxes | due’ the State, with accrued ‘interest, $201,000, and | that steps have veen (mien for ‘its collection. | The Long Branch re Railroad (an ad: | junct, of the New Ji rh) have never paid | the assessment on ‘Ul and it is theretore void. and inoverative nvestigation, the | states, has inade man necessity tor Sor 4 | ton fequiriny railroad companies to turnish ann slatttaenis and pay sucn taxes as imposed on them, whicli ena the comrmuttee report? a bill and ¢é: 1e Tec amend its passage, ke TRENTON, N. J., March 18—10 P. M, BY @ concurrent resolution of both houses it was rest ved to prolong the session irom to-morrow | mill the 27tueinst, Rate's bill, for the restoration of the territory of Wee awken to Hoboken, passed the Senate after | @ fain C opposition, The: Wasuburn charter for Jersey City wi taken Up id: the House and passed, as amended by tue | | Bene, THE LATEST POLICE OUTRAGE, Offivers Fitzpatrick and Touhey Sent to the Tombs. Yesterday morning Captain Gunner, of the Nine- teens i precinct, brought belore Coroner Kessier Patroimen Hugh Fitzpatrick and Joun ©, Touney, Who 4 tand charged witha committing a brutal aud UnW.& crautabie assault upon Mr. Joseph Koiman, Of No. 407 Kast Forty-sixtu street. Captain Gun- her Was ioruded with a police surgeon's certiti- Cate, ‘vnich went to show that Mr. Koi was notin any danger from the effects of Ms imjurie aud ive Ked fur # display 0! leniency towards tue w cuseo, oficers, Wo had had no opportuaity vo say a word ia their own behail. Corouer Kessler, howe er, in the absence of a certificate from t physi? ian in atvendence upon Mr. Kollman, de- Cliueu taking bail for tue prisoners, and commitied them 10 the Lombs Ull this aiternvon, when the case \W iil be heard, At (i meeting of the Bo. day a (ternoon passe i — Kes of Police held yt following resolution was the Is ed, That the Superintendent issue @ log @ carerul oxdiminacon of ai premy 1 its Tevuived to provide and keep tka Writh ume whi tacit provided ts is re aired or VS o| the Sanitary code, such reports to be bin) (¢ “Gidtely Wansm ted uy the Capluing to tae suDer inrend VA, aud by aim lala betore the cour oF Police, A. POLYGAMIST IN PHILADSLPRIA. PHILADBLPBLA, arch 19, lets, Wilf m R, Chew has been arrested ere, Chiryed ‘with alt arming three wives all of Whom are Uvind |. | rated with red velvet, on wile ©) on tae ribbon round thet tual altendauce to scatter viol to | La tor=Relicf for Jersey City and Hobo. | THE ROYAL BRIDAL Reception of the Duke and Duches: of Edinburgh in England. HOW LONDON BROUGHT MARIA HOME On the Pier Amid Soldiers, Aldermen, Do teetives, Royalists and Roughs. Lonpow, March 7, 187% Not for me the uprising at a preposterously early hour this morning, the hunting for a cab to take me to the station, and the fighting into a trato crammed with clamorous cockneys, all bound te Gravesend, I had taken time by the forelock, had gone out of town over night, and when I arose thu morning it was in a pleasant chamber of the now historic house, Where but a few years ago the greatest of England’s modern fictionists lived and died, and where his son still administers grace jul hospitality. At eight A, M. the sun was sbin- ing strongly, the birds were twittering loudly, and one would have needed all the slothiuiness of Dr. Watts’ sluggard to have remained any longer in bed. GAD'SHILL PLACE is but five miles from Gravesend, on the high roaé leading from Rochester, looking on to which over the hoar, frost-sprinkled, broad lawn I find signa of the forthcoming festivities. A troop of yeo- manry, in blue and silver noliorm, with bearskia busbys and wiite shaving-brush feathers, mounted on stout nags, and with bits and sabres clanking, trot by. Then follows a snug family party—# tradesman’s, probably—in a four-wheeled chaise; then a lot of people ina van, then a tour-in-hand drag, covered all over with swells in long, tawny mustaches—officers from Chatham garrison. By the time I had dressed and breaklasted and was by the side of my host in his phaeton the road was as crowded as is the way to Kpsom on the Derby Day; but we rattied on merrily, and scarcely bad occasion to draw reim until we entered the old town of Gravesend. THE DECORATIONS. Gravesend was simply unrecognizable. It te usually a very unpleasant little town, full of drunken sallors and fresh shrimps and cockneys out fora holiday. The architecture of the low brick houses 1s of the meanest and squalidest Brit ish order. But to-day it had blossomed oat in the most extraordinary manner, Ail the balconies of the houses had been covered with crimson cloth, mottoes in English and Russian (it was half stm pected that Gravesend, being a great Hibernian colony,the unreadable mottoes were really in Irish, but it looked to me very like what I had recently seen in St. Petersburg), bidding the happy couple welcome, were ubiquitous. Venetian masts with connecting links of artificial flowers lined the road side at tervals, and there were more tri- umpbal arches than one could have im agined could have been crammed into so smali @ space, All the shops were shu the church bells were clanging irom the steeples, Open balconies, prettily adorned, had been erected in front of all the public buildings and at the cor+ ners of the streets, and these were filled with well dressed Women and pompous old gentlemen, who were taking the opportunity of finishing the pe rusal of their morning newspaper. Gravesend is close to two or three military stations, but it has Yarely seen so many uniforms or such variety; for not merely were there my Iriends, the yeomanry, | but volunteer rifle regiments, in dark green and dark gray; marines marching at quickstep, with their splenuid band, and a squadron of pussara daguiny at a hand gallop through the little town, on tier Way to the pier, Where they were to form the escort. IN THE STONE JUG. It will ve necessury ior me to go about without let or hindrance, even when the varriers are ciosed at hall-past tea. And Witt that ovject in view J present myseifat the police station to ootaina pass such as 1s always given to representatives oi | Uhe press. On iny arrival i find vie little station | crammed with a Very motiey and ili-looking crowd, ) who are being nuddied mto a corner und bie goo searched by tae constabies, While their Lames an wudresses are taken down by the sergeant, Sev. eral London detectives, 80%.e in plain clothe: some in rough disguises, are standing by, an along them 1 fina my acquaintance, inspector Sayer, Ol scotiand Yard, who tells me that thesé are London pickpockets, aud that there are “croops ul them cojming down.” Later ia the day lagaii meet the Inspector, Who menuous that | there are already thirty-lve birus in bis cage. ON THE PIER. ‘The streets had been cleared by this time, aud 1 Walked ticougia two rows of doubtiess apprecia- (tive people to the commeucement of tue pier, | where | was stopped by several portly gentiemen | in biack Velvet gowns and bearing Wands, who, oD glaucing at wy puss, courteously permiited me to | proceed. I thougnt, by the by, Lbat tue gentiewian | Who examined tue’ ticket lovked at me rather | curiousiy, aud that alter 1 bad passed I was ratuer Stared ulter vy Huln und some itiends to whom he Spoke. ireceived this, however, asa tribute tu ly popularity; buta little |me atferwards, hap- |} éuimg mysel to look at tne ticket, Lsaw written in ink ou its back the word “detective,” and I consequently feit somewhat smadl. la the large | space ivonting the entrance to the pier wua | gatuered togetoer a mouicy company. Here were tue royal Calrluges, each with iour magnificent | horses, with postlious in dark biue und | outridérs in scariet, With a crape band around the | leit arm, the Court being in wourmiug ior some | Gerwau prince-kin. Here Was the squadron 01 Dus | sars diawa up i avubie line auda battalion of 100¢ | ironting them; here, capering about on high met tied chargers, Were generals und staff oficers, aud here Was tue Recorder, in ais huge, fuli-bottor | while Wig, with the manuscript of an address 10 | his haud, which he was uot aliowed to deliver, and | which was to be “taken as read.” BUNTING. ‘The entrance to the pier was beautifully deco- im gold ‘letters, were the words, “Kent Welcowes her Bari and lis Bride.” and the pier itsel, Wiica 18 a covered 1D | structure, had 1:8 Noor covered witi crimson baize, | and itsell divided ito two large partitions, witha broad path vetweea, Waich partiuons were tilled With raised seats yccupied by Well-ressed ladies and gentiemen, ‘Ine sbrui sound of youthful | voices trom the otner end of the pier came irom | some hundred littie girs, who, ail beaatiiully dressed ake, in a Kind oj ieminine sailor's garb of white serge, edged With biue, aud «itu daria? THE ARRIVAL, | ‘The royal yacht Victoria aud Albert, which nad | arrived in Gravesend reacu early iu the moraing, | pow dropped down from her moorings until she arrived opposite tue pier, A barge With the royal ensign Of Hugiand fying from the stern was im- | mediately manued, iuto which the royal couple descended, aud precisety at five nunutes to elevea o'clock, aud the thunder irom the tron-clads Audacious and Duuean, the yards of which were luanued, the Duchess of Kdinburgh set her {oot on Wal may be metapuorically called tue soil of her future home, but Woat was in reality the crimsoo baize covering the “dumumy lighter’ at the end o1 tae Gravesend pier, Lnere TO KRECKIVE HBR w, Prince Arthur, in bis usual rifle unvorm; Lord sydney, the Lord Lieu tenant of the county, looki more pompous and indated tian ever since he as been raised Jrom @ Viscount to au Karl, and jolly Lord Allred Paget, Wao lad been sent down by the Queen, to hele he is cuiel equerry—always red-laced, caeery an cen THE BRIDE. | dhe Duchess of Euinburgi was dressed entirely in white, with @ White bonnet, J imagine sue must have been jatigued with the journey or suffered from seasickuess, as she did not look heariy so Well 4% SiX Weeks since tn St. Petersburg, She seemed strange, too, and took tue bouquet’ oifered her by the alayor’s daughter Wivu ratuer an embarrassed alr, Then, leaning on tue arm of tae Duke, who Wore bis Ravai wnilorm, she passed up we pier, bowmy tiuidily on eitner side to the Welcome Ol the people. After she had ae she was, of course, lunineciately discussed y were her brotuer-in-la ‘ai, aud f am «ivaid the yeueral veruict as te her luoks was apytuiag but iuvoravie. 1 heard yonounced “quite plain; aiso ‘pale nd pasty looking,” abd lo be Wauung in manner. | Comparisons, too, were instituted ovtween her aud the Princess OF Wales, 01 Wiica the poor ithe nouvelle marice bavuraily go. We worst. THE DEVARTURE FOR LONDON cortége drove turough the streets, amid onl- ‘eal Cheering, to the raiiWay Station, Where the; eutered the royai saloon carriages, waich hi been sent down to meet tem, aud where | looked my last at tue having, however, the pleasure to see dr. Napier broowe, tie Lunes Correspondent, bn Hd vetWeen Cue diver and pioker om the gine. THE SLOOK BXOHANGB LETTER, Rdward D. C, Mekay, who is charged with wriv ug tue letter to the New York Stock Exchange, purporting to ve signea by the President of the ren Upton Telegraph Company, on the 17th of Peoraacy last, inoreasiug tts stuck irom $41,07 to Sooo ree eater imdivted by the Grand ar ee ayee i ora we i