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6 THE QUESTION OF THD ORIEN? in the Solu- | 'snes into cnaos, ostensibly bent on producing tne | horses in half an hour; but the Ambassador ts left | to Sorrow that he will also bebold the trustworthy man's face no more, Wheu negotiations have arrived at this stage the consul puts on his gola laced cap once more and stalks of with a terrible frown and interpreter to the local pacha. “GOD BE PRAISED,” SAYS THE PACHA. | “What brings your consolar transparency bere again’? Lo! the trader who sold you stx pome- | gr@mates too dearly has been bastinadoed; your Dipl Th | taflor is in yal; the man who makes your shoes is Turkish ljomacy— © | in fight. What can I do for you next?” Russo- P The consul states his case; the pacha smiles and ; claps hts hands; a silent secretary, who looks like Ozar’s Side of the Case. | @balf animatea gingerbread image, answers the | summons; the pacha puts bis signet ring rubbed The Euphrates Valley Railway and with India ink on @ etrip of paper, which is, in Its Outside Tributaries. The Groat Powers’ Interests tion of the Eastern Question. — | Highway Travel as It Is and | as It Should Be. | fact, s warrant for the apprehension of a criminal, and two hours afterwards the original lout who | has been playing all those tricks in biding comes forth to the daylight quite ready for the road. Viswna, July 25, 1874 THE AMBASSADOR There {s still & good deal of romance in Eastern | May now start forthwith if he likes, and is gener- wravel. Unless Baron Reuter and M, de Lesseps ally eager to doso after this preliminary experi- wuceeed, very quickly, in dommg wonders, which ence of Asiatic bargaining, A contract is, there- some peopie think they will never do atall, an | fore, drawn up in the usual form, describing ail american, who, unfortunately for himself, should parties to 1t in fowery terms, and away he goes, yet sent on diplomatic business to the Shah of With two tents, a dozen servants and his forry Persia, would find himself very much in the same | horses in single file, They pass into the clouds position as one of the ancient patriarchs; and if | over the range of mountains known as the Kara- he possessed his serviceable imagination, he might | Kapan or the “Black Biter,” and are henceforth easily fancy himself a personal friend of Noah, | lost to the world of newspapers and opera houses, There would only be one thing to break the iilu- | At Erzersum the Ambassador and his suite may won, and that woula be the general use, indeed, | get some /amous shooting and may say goodby to the far too general ase of firearms. In all other | plates, dishes and roast meat at the houses of a respects the inbabitants of Central Asia have | couple of European merchants who are settled made no progress in what is called civilization, | there. From Erzersum to the frontier of Persia An Ambassador of any Christian Power, who should | they come upon much the same state of society as leave Constantinople for Teheran, would pass | that which existed in the time of the Crusades. warough nearly every atage of the social history of Every man they meet is armed to the teeth, and the world upon his way. He would start irom the capical of the Ottoman Empire, which is now @ sort of Anglo-Franco-Greeco-Italico-German city, | and might there take his farewell look at modern | ing to swoop down upon its quarry. times. He would, indeed, be conveyed by a steamer | mse ere Sue seonts: or advanced: guaads ot rouber trom the Bosphorus to old imperial Trebizond, but | ¢ = oy | ports, Woe to the weak caravan which is worth what asteamer! The pagsengerson it would be | lundering and is ili guardea., Alvng the Turko- dark-browed, truculent feilows, keeping guard | Persian frontier the right of private wariare is over their shield, Om the summit of every mountain or a high hill which looks over the road_ will | mally recognized, and bands 1,000 stiong are WOMEN, CLOSELY SHUT UP wandering about to do battle with each oiler, a3 and jealously velled irom prying eyes. He would | be accompanied by dancing dervisher, howling | the Percys and the Dougiases, of England and Aspos Scotland. At the first Persian village all this 1s Gervisnes, Greggs eee eka ihe | changea to the pomp and splendor and the stern break his head on the smallest pi + overnment of the Elizabethan era m Britain. in a constant state of ripeness for a row. These he Ambassador Mav imagine himself good people would be perpetually flopping down His! 4 CONTEMPORARY OF SHAKESPEARE. on al! fonrs and gesticulating wildly over a yard ig carried by pack horses as in Tur- key, but the men-at-arms of the crusading epoch and ahalfofcarpet. Some of them would be fire worshippers, who believe in the personality of the | Chevy Chase, and the perpetual strife between and the Percys and tne Douglases have been leit behind here. In their place he meets with stately lords, such as Suffolk and Leicester, who come out | sun, Some would be Shiites, who hold | to meet him in proud array, clothed in silks and peculiar opinions about Aly, and are an | satin with their very horses’ harness of bur- of Mohammedans. Others | a!shed gold. Palaces are thrown open @r nis re- anorthodox sect | ception, and there is an exchange of princely gilts would be open worshippers of the devtl, and very Dorwean host and guest. Tnis state of tings lasts awkward customers to meet with when the Am- | till Teneran, Where he meets with 9 magnificent wilds of Khoordnistan, At Trebizond the only |.tnat he has passed a pieasant time in bis tents. traces of civilization he would be able to discover | He will remember many an agreeaole reverie be- | sjde his watch fire, tulied by the tinkhng of belis would be several wrangling consuls playing at on the necks of his beasts of burden. He will diplomacy in high and mighty ways at $2,000 @ | think torever afterward, at stray momenta, of the year for dignity money. There are about halfa | wild ducks which he shot on the banks of the Eu: dozen of them, and the oldest inhabitant cannot | bivers which bounded the Garden of Kdep. He remember that he ever saw two of them on ami | will recollect the delicious Hass he took ip eariy 1 rms. 1 cottages about the | morning, when the deep stillness around him was sig tioned ire oun hy ai bg rf 3 | only broken by the tinkling of his horse's curo- Size of @ coach house, surrounded by pleasant | chain and the cry of the sand grouse, He wiil call gardens, and each of them reigns despotically | up to bis memory days of happy idleness, en- over a Rayan servant and a fewtowls. That is the | real extent of their dominion; but they are awiul swWeetmeats, milk and cream, wita tal loaves of potentates in their own eyes, and a few years ago | sugar, upon their heads, oe ed roae RY eis a 2 | hundred horsemen to pay bim honor. By ana by, pce sg peepee maha recipes | when back in the nome iand, ne will oiten renect down to dinner tili his housemaid, the Ray T- | on that bright, gay-colored liie, which seemed all vant, had blown a trumpet; and when a Prince, sunshine and flowers; but when itis over he will who is an authentic cousin of the Queen of Eng- | also, perhaps, smile a the Lehi el eine | ree and four mouths in travellin land, went to dine with him, vhis consolar digni- | Wa® Detween three and four Mont J y insisted upon being served first at his own \ — is = in Pap Tage th oth Shop tbe table, “because,” said he, “1 am Her Majesty’s | Which precedes the dawn. Yet alittle walle an 2 the iron road will take away the last halo of Tepresentative and the living iaw of Engiand—that | romance irom Oriental travel. rerhaps there will is to Bay, | Rot much be ined by the new system which te ALL THE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT, | about to be inaugurates; but hitherto we have M4 | known very little of the treasures of the East, and are united in my pewon.'' The ordinary costume | soon whatsoever it may contain worth the world’s of a consul at Trebizond begins at the top, and poeaetlints byt Red ged to a ee tel id wonder at the Asian mystery and feel surprise consists of a wonderiul goid-laced cap, such | toat commerce has not made quicker strides in worn by the porters of Italian hotels; a coat Dro- | this direction will do well to consider the history fusely frogged, like that which distinguishes the | of locomotion in order that they may thereby ar- Polish retugee of melo-drama, and jacs-boots of | Tve at a clear understandiny of the past and pres- | ent state oi kastern countries, and that they ma, patent leatber. In this strange and martial attire | see what are the reasonabie prospects which will he struts about, with nis head in the air, and ts am | be openedto extremely troublesome person to offend; for his | he unassisted labor of man was the most ideas of bis own importance are Daged upon afoun- | primitive mode of transport, and /ollowing this, in dation quite as substantial as it is surprising. | order of importance, came successively the work The capituiations, or, im other words, the | 9 the auimal, the wagon, the rowboat, the sailing | vessel, the sidewheel steamer, the screw steamer, treaties, made by Turkey with the Christiam | and finally the raliroad, with its locomotive an Powers during the last one hundred and | Ms train. Each innovation gave rise to an im- Mense L..crease in trafiic, much im the same way ity years have conferred quite an amazing | gg science assumes larger proportions with each autvority upon foreign consuls, and they are | progress in tne discovery of new means o! ob- enabled to decide every case in which a subject of | servation. The transportation of fifty pounds weight, at the their own country is concerned by rule of thumb. | rare of twenty miles a day, is the fair itmit of a They are generally a set of poor, weak-minded, | man’s cartyingpower. Alrican travellers—speke, ignorant men, who got their appointment | Grant and Stanley—tell us that the maximum jul khan sent gaudy servants, bearing tras of TRADE AND ENTERPRISE. work | carrying power ‘of negroes was limited to Heaven knows how, and who know no more | anowt "seventy pounds, and that a man of jaw than of the doctrines of Coniuctus; so loaded wouid travel occasionally thirty but if @ shipmaster or a traveller fails to | Miles. But tie human laborer, uniuke expensive, Slodern sorew steamers run from six- teen to eighteen mijes an hour, they require less coal aud are toleraply independent of coaling sta. tions. The speed of an ordinary freight train in Kurope is about ren miies an pour. It generally coniprises from thirty to filty cars, each capable of carrying, on the average, about ten tons. Pas- senger trains do avout forty miles an hour, and it is geucraliv conceded that more than lorty-eignt trains cannot run over a double track oi rail per day. In Grawing a line between the means of transport, the carrier, the animal and the wagon hay be classed as purely terrestrial; whe rowboat as sumewhatdependent on the land, inasmuch as it keeps near the shore; the sailing vessel as purely maritime; the steamer ag somewhat tere Testrial, owing to its dependence on coaling sta- tions, whereas, in its turn, the raflroad is purely \errestrial, PROGRESS IN THE BAST. From the period when intercourse sprang up between Kurope and southern Asia the movement was catried on exciusively overland. Toe trame extended steadily iu a direction East to West, and, naturally, the enc ors of toe pioneers were dl- rected toward favoring the shortest route, Sub- | sequently, however, they iollowed tne line along the beast of burden, can dispense with the torma- show a soficiently awe-stricken respect for their | tion of roads; nor does he require the removal of official attributes, itis certain that the traveller | obstacles which could not possibly be faced by the H v | animal. With the mereased employment of the ee ee cee byt bitter | fatter there grew up a necessity lor tie creation of sortof repentance. he consal cun fine orim- | roads, and it became possible to transport much prison him as soon as one whois quick of speech heavier buraens than by pure human agency. The : “sack ” Bu horse can carry fiom two huadred to two hundred could say “Jack Robinson. hk i the bhp aad Airy pours at the rate of twenty t twerteye & man of the world, who takes the consul at his | tive miles per day; the camel tour hutidred at the own valuation, listens to his stories as to the dears Fate of Swonty! miles & aay, ora inghter burden = " : . | Inuch longer distance. To the wagon the road is a hess of vegetables and the insuMiciency of Com | crit greater necessity; on a good Toad a horse can sular salaries, he will find tat august magnate | draw nearly five times more than it can carry, aad almost as useful as 4 /aquat-de-place. Moreover, ignt, 4 " wei consuls, even at Trebizond, however high and | THE nowsOAT mighty they may be in their demeanor toward | ts a mode of transportation; but it lacks the valgar, prudently bow down to an Ambassador | rag & ee og ars men cannot pasate, = ae P | an is limit to force necessarily curtatls the from their own conntry when they know he 18 | lenorh of the oar. The height of a boat is imited, going to his post, though they may not show him _ to ailow the oars to dip readily into the water, thug the same atiention alter he has got into @ scrape agar gg flat onions ie alee cee lon 2 er ‘ , load, But these circ vA and been tecalied. The Ambassador, therefore, had ycejegs for service in the open sea or in deep nar- better employ their services at once, and will fud | bors. The sailing vessel can carry any load, and, them very necessary in hiring horses for his jour- | if propery built and rigged, may Make a hundre y. In order to proceed | miles aday and more. Thus it is that man can bad Latah | carry a weignt in nearly any direction. The beast FROM TREBIZOND TO TEHERAN, | o( burden is guided by the rising or falling of with @ moderate amount of vaggage, he will re- | the suriace; the wagon must keep to the more mire about forty mules and ponies, and must go | OF, less levelled road; the rowboat, must hug the qv g €° | coast, the sailing vessei shun the land. Prior to through Many curious ceremonies before he gets | the imvenflon ol sails by whtch side winds were them. The consul will probably bring to him in | Made available transatlantic voyaces were out ol eve Q the question. Their invention offered the oppor- the dusk of the evening a tall, shambling lout who | tani y, and with ft commenced the “age of dis- looks like a brigand out of work; and then the | coveries” tnaugurated by the Portuguese, bargaining will commence. In the first piace the THE SIDEWHEEL STEAMER, 5 being absolutely independent of the wind, may out always wants $60 in gold to get his horses | choose the shortest track irom port to port, but, yatof pawn. Perhaps the Ambassador will give to equalize the Lr papi fl the retard a 79 ‘his money without much haggling and suggest t4g0 Is derived only by a wind irom behind. he " average speed, theretore, is Hmited to about mat the horses shall ve ready for his inspection | tweive miles ap hour; besides. transportation oy the next morning. The lout then touches his {ores steamer is comparativeiy expensive, and neces- head, growis “On my head be it your effulgency:” ‘#itates irequent calls at coaling stations. The wakes screw steamer, making {ull use ol javerable winds, ve bas left at the dooriu order that be may mark 448 respect ior the “Sabib” by appearing bareioot in his presence; and then vanishes into the dark- ness. Of course, next morning there is no lout, and there are no horses. The consul puts on bis gold laced cap and walks about all day long in search of them, but the iout is lying some- where as close a8 a partridge on a hot day tn Sep. tember, and is nownere to be found. Two days, siterwaids, however, a reverend old person turns op in a parti-colored beard, which is painted a oright scarlet upon one side and left white on the other. Me knows the lout; they have been friends from childhood, and he is ready to explain every- thing. The truth is that the lout is afraid to go to Persia; he owes money there, be owes money everywhere, and isa most respectabie man. he way to get over every diMicuity will be to pay $200, gold, before starting, and then the horses, which belong, it seems, to a joint stock company of louts, will be driven in some day next Week | the coasi untli Mnally the trafic between the exe from the neighboring villages. This littie matter | treme West and the far Bast became exclusively being satisiactorily arrauged no more ts beard o¢ | MMitime. But the many changes wrought by the application of sicam lave seriously alfectea tae the jout or his vene Sicam vessels ble friend, One day, bowever, revations between bast and West, somebody, who seems to have anvecult knowledge had the tendency to favor @ mixed Aoi bouts, e t as it were, and the creation of rail- of their whereabouts, is accidentally met within Toaas must of necessity gradually cause the market piace behind some watermelons, and he further revolutions. The steady movement volunteers iniormation that the lout Isa victim [rom east to west doubtiess marks the attempt of to his own f00d-Yeartedness, and that he cannot undertake #0 distaut a journey at’ the price he asked, because More tian hall o! bis horses having been recently stolen at Hrzersum will be intalkoly pelaed by their owners wien he returns thither. jerring the seat of empire from Kome to Constan- tinople as reme jolly, Butnow that movement is evidently checked, if Indeed Dot re+ Versed. it develops pretty clearly the near ap- proach of a period wien the line of trafic between Burope and tie far Kast wil Le again overiand, ‘There is, nevertheless, a trustworthy man whotnas | The Cape route has been abandoned, comparatively, got horses and will go at once for sufficient pay- te. ia ment; and he, the speaker, is that trustworthy man. Possibly an agreement is made with him on most of them carry a sword, a spear and a | be seen perched a horseman, like a bawk prepar- | ‘These horse- | in the old border days there was tne fignt of | phrates, that is fabled to have been one oF the | hivened by quaint ceremonies, when some power- | go @ longer distance without rest. As regards | lumbering plunge to his slippers which with a more thorough use of steam power, 1s less | Constantine to check the onward course by trans | ’ NEW YORK HERALD, MON DAY. AUGUST 10, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. tm favor of the Suez route. The latter will be su- poregces, by the Bepprenes valle, (ann pen nnd anally @ Russians will triumph in bringing the traffic Overland through their newly territories. Ther» exists but ‘one possi to arrive at Tr) exisi ve at & tical solution of the matter kuown as the stern question. and that ts to provide for the Sick Man an elixir by means of which he can take out a pew lease of le. That elixir has to be ad- ministered in the pe of financial credits, on the strength of which funds can be seoured for the construction petwork of railroads, whereby modern civilization may 0 the regions of the fnr East. The Sreation of we A GRAND TRUNE LINE, connec! Western Europe with Central Asia Aen ar cea Neat aoa wi t to check exiath state ot Derderian. vm tne Ottoman Empire. @ proposition embraces nothing new. But the question is, Who will provide the oon That commodity a “Santon nw “ a, ma oro estern Europe lave assumed @ habit of meeting the question with | bas @ pet scheme involving nothing less than the creation of an air line establishing uninterrupted communication by railroad irom the British Ch: 1 Fersiad gulf. Traversing France itzeriand, the line to emerge at a point nea Lake Constance, running over trian territory from Feidkireh ‘through the valley of the rivers Save and Drave to Novi, thence to Sophta and | Adrianople to Constantinople. From the Bospho- rous the line is to be continued through the VALLEY OF THE EUPHRATES, teenanenng. at Bussorah in the Persian Guif. The distance ofan air line from London te Constanti- nople is estimated to comprise avout 1,600 miles, and the distance irom the Golden Horn to Bus- sorah nearly equals that mileage. At the rate of twenty-five miles per hour—thus making ample allowance for stoppages—the journey migiit be ac- complished irom London to Bussorah in about 130 hours. The sea i eed from Bussorah to Bombay comprises about 1,800 miles, which, with steam at the rate of about twelve knots per hour, would ansorn about 150 hours, thus completing tue total rom LONDON TO BOMBAY in about 280 hours. Austria is willing to sacrifice hesitation or indiderence; use they do not fancy Turkish securities. Hankers do not cherish very fondly the idea of lending money to a govern- | ment which may or may not pay it. The Turkisn | Sultans have always had hazy ideas of finance, | aud they sre absolute masters of the position. ‘This reaily reduces the consideration of ‘Tuikish Joans to one of doing private accommoaation bills, on personal security. Money enough might be | ; found for railways; but when it was found there is | | @ strong probability that much o1 tt would be spent | on nonsense gimeracks. That indinerence | thus created in the financial mind as to turkisn | loans and the wanton waste of time resuiting | Mhereirom, has proved a fertile source of | profit to the Russians. The delay has | | enabled them quietly to go ahead, and in their | | Onward marca they have succeeded in firmly es- | tabashing @ powerlul infuence through Central Asia. ‘The Russian influence has wrought tmpor- tant changes, and these changes are calculated Seriously to injure British interests in the prov- inces of Upper India. Yet Engiand giides along in @supreme state of inanity or semi-unconscious- | ness of the danger: ‘The Penny. of ber ction, if usted in, involves this—that England incurs a great risk of ult | mately iosing lat portions of | tory, and the only wav in which she can lessen | that danger is to promoie the construction of AN IRON ROAD TO THE PERSIAN GULF. But that project will require an entire change of | | front in poacd’s policy. Following the precepts | | of the late Lord Pannerston, who was sometimes | Mistaken as to the interests or his country, for he ‘was rather a ready tuan a far-signted statesinan, | | England pines held toa maxim which had the | eflect of keeping the Sick Man ina state of de- | bility and of creating around him a stagnant, un- bealthy armosphere. The trmmediate consequence of this treatment of disease has been that, in en- | ure absence of progress and civizanon, capital | did not dare to seek investment in Eastern euter- | prise. Russia, on the other hand, has persistently and successiuily pursued a track diametrically op- posed to British policy. With unmitigated energy, at an immense cost to the national treasury, apd | witn no small sacrifice of Nie, the Muscovite has | | sown in Central Asia the seeds of civilization. The | | seed rooted. The plant is showing early signs of | Ife; bloasoms are coming out, and in due course of | time iruit will ue gathered. Wuile that process 1s in course of development the British plant 18 her Indian terri- | washweing away, and uniess a skiliul mode of penaing quickly invented 1t will die ont, and no uinaD power can restore & dead thing to lle again. Tnis may appear, at first, a very vroad as- sertion and require elucidation. Persons familiar with the Kast are awure that throughout those | vast regions over which England exercises em- pire her power ts maiply dependent on the moral | Strength and efliciency o! AN ARMY OF CIVIL SERVANTS, scattered over the territory in small detachments. ‘That army, joined to a small contingent of persons Tesident in India lor purposes of trade and com- merce, constituted the pillars which supported the political structure. It is necessary to add tnat.the total number of Europeans in India scarcely ex- ceeas 200,000 persns. Nevertheless, the superior- | ity and energy of the Anglo-Saxon race makes nu- | merical strength of smal importance compared with the moral influence which the white man ex- ercises over the native mind, Unhappily for Eng- | land that moral influence is on the wane. Up to @ certam period ‘within the last decade or two the British army of civil ser- vants was composed almust exclusively of veteran otiicers; of men wiiling to devote a life- ume to the interests o1 the country. The journey | around the Cape consumed several montis, and | those who accepted civil appointments in india knew Jull well that tuey wouid be removed fora | | lengthy period trom all !ormer associations. Tnere | were no avaliable means to rush back to the oid | home alter a lawsuit or @ sweetheart. Therefore, | on reaching the Indian shores men get to work | with a will to create a new and permanent habita- tion; as @ rule they succeeded in the task. Acclima- tization seemed comparatively easy, because they had either to make up their minds to remain in India or to give up tne spiendid reward | of a lucrative and honorable career. ‘Tue | sternest and most dogmatic Englishman was re- | conciled to trials of endurance and privation | | directly his practical commercial nature was satis- | fled that they were profitable. Becoming familiar | with the peculiarities and intricacies of the char- | acter of Eastern lite, and deriving not only intense | enjoyment from his own superiority, but many | solid advantages irom it, he learned to like the | Indiwns in his heart, whatever be might say against | them with his tongue, and not seldom he fell into | Many Of their ways in dregs, habits and manners, | He became extremely lond of tobacco and ladies; ne adorned his person; he was uospitable, mag- nificent, lavish, vindictive, cruel, arvitrary and sententious; but he nearly always contrived to piace himself in a position which en- abled bim = to befmnend the native Indian, | and the Jatter jound he had a revertionary | interest in providiug comiorts for the European | | resident who paid him ten times better than a | Nawab and never took away wnat he nad once | given. Thus years and years rolled on, during which an intimate rejationship grew up. Out of it | arose a spirit of zealous co-operation, which in | reality constituted the chierl strength of Britisn Tule, and which gave CONFIDENCE IN THE FACE OF DIFFICULTIES, All tnat has changed. The wonders worked by | steam and electricity have entirely revolutionized | Indian society. The innovation has rutned the oid | artay of civil servants. The journey tormerly occu- pied ‘several months. Its cost was such as | to make a youug cadet wink, and he spent his time in taking a last farewell of old | associations, saying @ sad goodpy to bottied | orter, tight bouts, trousers ‘straps and rmouth bloaters, all so dear to his Briush heart. ‘rhe same journey 1s now perormed in a jew | weeks. It forms part of the educational tour of | young men, who take their prejuaices and sup- plies with them and are in constant communica. | ton with thetr maiden aunts by wire, while the mere cost of travel forms but a very smail item. | Under these circumstances Europeans are no | longer subject to tne privations whica a prolonged residence im India ouce entailed upon them, Moreover, it seems as if the present generation has | grown somewhat effemina‘e since modern ideas | do not permit a man to expose himscit for a longer | Period than three years at a time to the dangers of a tropicai climate. Thus the old staff | of Anglo-ludians—if still in existence—has nar- | rowed down to # very small number, and tue young recrutts, who have replaced those men, are doing their utmost—unconsciously— to vreak Important links in that strong chain which riveted the natives to British rule. Tne short duration of the present term of service aiso affords Enghisn ojticers no oppor- | tunity cf gaining a thorough knowledge of men or things, The majority of them return home | without acquiring even a superficial acquaintance | with the native language; few, indeed, make any } attempt to master its dificuitics, though the | Orientais are so deeply influenced by skilled tal. ‘The changes iu tne administrative routine, lke- | wise, are rapid and constant; there is neither time nor Opportunity to cultivate mutual good will. Thus a wide gulf has been created between the | governing classes and the governed. The men of | the old school If they were not loved—for LOVE FORMS NO PART of the composition of the native mind—were, at all events, feared and respected. It is not so With the new comer; upon him the native looks a8 an interloper, for whom he jeels neither fear por | respect. Tnat the moral condition of Indian so- ciety bas uncergone a remarkable change becomes | especially apparent from the proceedings in the | Englian Givorce courts. {he prayers twerein | offered up for the dissoiution of mariages, emang | ate, in very many cases, irom Europeans who re- | side or have resided in British India; and tms fact | favors the impression that the appreciation in which the white man’s Virtues are by tac nae | tive 1s probably but too well gronnde However | so delicate a question may be decided, the truth | cannot be disguised that Europeans in tie norte. | ern provinces of India are in coustani tear of their existence. i! we now return to contemplate THE RUSSIAN SIDE OF THE EASTERN QUESTION we shail tind several aspects of it deserving imme- diate attenuou. Russia has veeu disappointed in | the utmost development. Independent of fiscal advan: | taken their bagy the advantages possessed 4 the transit route through Vienna and Pesth, From the latter city the connection with the Turkish frontiers is now made at Bazias. Buta glance at the map suffices to show that the line traced by Count Beust runs nearly straight across the Continent. In & pamphlet printed for private cirenlawion the views of Count Beust have been developed in a@ very incid manner, and it is surmised that the mission to England held at present by the Austrian states- man 13 0 close connection with the promotion of his grand scheme. The pamphlet reierred to has been written under the Inspiration of the ex- Chancellor, and allusion is m: to the fact tuat jrom the reign of Frederick the Great down to the present period there has been an evident desire to impede rapid transit through continental ku- rope, ‘fo keep roads in @ bad and tmpracticable condition was considered a great feat: and that policy 1s even cherished by ratiroad managers to this day, 1n order to delay travellers and compel them to expend money at hotels and elsewhere for the benefit of certain favored localities. Count Beust, it 18 contended, has tuliy recognized the evils arising [rom the present pernicious system, and he jeels anxious to bring all his influence to bear on the subject of establishing an efficient through traitic to Constantinopl Consideriag, says the writer of the pamphlet, which in » the political change rope, it must be admit red that there is no time to be lost in the execution of th Texpress tho fullest conviction that the road to Constantinople, with an eventual continuation to Bus- sorah, or, in @ Word, the establishment of an Indo-Euro- pean high embodies the only means whereby to secure the salvation of Austria and to consolidate her future prosperity. To Austria it is a question of im- mense importance, perhaps it is @ question of her ver, exisience, to open a road in that direction and to give it Ges the political importance accruing to Austria is of value the greatness of which it would be difficult to d fine; it would involve a Kuropean necessity. COUNT BEUST leaves us to infer that the much vexed question of Roumania would never again be heard of. Russia would have no further occasion to look the Danube; while Austria would be contented to remain eventuaily an Inland State (Bimnenstaat), it the bighroad to India be carried through Aus- strian territory. He strongly animadverts on British rule in India, and Count Baust is not a man who uses hard words without reason. TUE GREAT MOUNTAIN TUNNELS, Closely connected witn these ludian matters are, of course, the tunnel schemes: Mourt Cenis, Saint Gothard and Simplon, which are part of the great case of France aguinst Germany. The latter got hold of the whip handle by acquiring the Alsatian railroads, domiuating Luxembourg and intimidat- ing Belgium, thus keeping open a road irom the Cuannel via Ostend or Antwerp to Brindisi THE WOODHULL AND OLAFLIN DEPARTURE, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I desire to correct one statement in your account in the HERALD of this morning, The statement to which I refer 1s this:—“The counsel for the plain- tif, James W. Stillman, accepted the verbal bond of the counsel for Woodhall and Clafin, Colonel Charles W. Brooke, for their appearance when the case came to trial.” The true account of the mat- ter 18 as follow: ‘Mr. Brooke came into the Sherif’s office, and, after some consultation with nls clients, informed me that ne had a professional engagement which would prevent him from im- Mediately optatning bail for his clients, but that if 1 would consent to wait till Tuesday he would hold himself personally responsible for their Bppear ance on that day, at which time the requisite batl wouid be turnished, or 1n default thereof the de- fenaants would be remanded into the custody of the sheriff, I replied that I had no personal feel- ing in the matter; that all I desired was to protect the rights of my client; but that 1 did not consider sucb @ proceeding as strictly regular. He assured me, upon bis honor as @ lawyer, that his clients had no intention of leaving the city; that they had ze Of the steamer and had re- turned their tickets, and that they would promptly surrender themselves if vail was not secured fae ing Monday. As this was the first time 1 had ever met Mr. Brooke 1n a projessional way I desired to accord to him the courtesy due to an honorable member of the profession, and so I finaliy con- sented to the proposed arrangement. 1| think that in justice to myself the above statement should be mae public. JAMES W. STILLMAN, New York, August 9, 1874, ANOTHER BROOKLYN HOSPITAL, Laying of the Corner Stone by Bishop Loughlin. The corner stone of St. Catherine’s Hospital, on Bushwick avenue, between Maujer and Ten Eyck streets, Brooklyn, Eastern District, was laid yes- terday aiternoon. The Right Rev. John Lougolin, Bishop of the Diocese of Long Island, omciated upon the occasion, and was assisted by several priests, among whom were Vicar General Turner, Rev. Fathers Malone, McDonald, Mai, Nevins and others. The Bishop made a brief address, con- gratulating the German Catholics of the new Ro- man Catholic parish, which worship in the church on Montrose avenue, upon the cuimina- tion of this their latest noble work. The idea of establishing this _ hospital suggested itselt to the pastor, Rev, Father Mat, some months ago, and contributions were received toward the lurtherance or the object in such libe- ral proportions that the site jor the building was purchased and the erection of the structure com- menced. Tne edifice, which will be constructed of Philadelphia brick and brown stone trimmings, Will be in the form of a Greek crogs. It will be 182 Jeet in width and 100 feet in depth and 40 teet at eitherend. The cost will be about $100,000 and it will accommodate 250 patients. ‘he instita- uon Is tu be free to persons of all creeds and na- nonalities, and is to be supported by contributions. There was a very Jarge tarnout of the German Catholic societies in honor of the event yesterday, NEW JERSEY POLITIOS Active Preparations for the Campaign in Hudson Coanty. The rush of candidates for local oMces in Hudson county, N. J., 18 beyond all precedent. One would Judge from this swarming of patriots, armed to tie that we are on the eve of some terrible crisis. There are no fewer than eighteen candidates jor Sheriff, eignt for Register (the most lucrative ofMice) and twelve for County Clerk. For Governor the county is unanimous for Judge Bedle on the democratic side, while the repubilcans are div- ided. George A. Halsey holds such a sway, however, that he ts counted as the coming man. The deinocratic choice for Congress will be Attorney General Gilchrist, who rendered such eminent services in the prosecution of official delinquents, He 1s now at the acme of his popu- Jonn R. McPherson was at first spoken of, but his adherents preier taking chances for the office of United States Senator, aithough McPher- gon 18 reluctant to accept any oftice just now. Among the candidates for the State senate Charies H. O'Neill, Leon Abbott and Delos Ek. ver. There will be a lively contest for members of Assembly in the Second, Fourth and sixth dis- tricts. There is great room for improvement in the mental calibre oO! the latter representatives. ‘The name of Hudson county was a byworu at tbe Jate session of the Legisiature on account of the busoonery displayed by one of the members. This sighed before it passed the fouse, her hopes 0: waking the Baltic Sea a Russian lak ‘sNe successive victories of German arms have | checked her ambition; but she is bound to satisfy this craving lor a seaboard in anotuer direction; | and that Engiand is utterly powerless to interfere with her progress in the regions of the Black 5ea | Has been proved to demonstratton, Therefore | | Russia holds in the hollow of her hand the desti- | nies O(lran aod Persia, Bat the Palmerstoniaa | policy above mentioned has made a wide aud | muddy ditch trem Constantinople to Teheran, | | im hopes that it ay = serve as Py | barrier against Ss to approach the | Northern provinces h India, the narrow minded {aliacy tuvoived in that policy has ex pioded, ‘The march of events, indeed, nas proved more poweriul tian British egotism; aaa when- ever Engiand awakes to tis truth the probabili-+ | ties are that the regions reierred to will be turned | Into @ Vast rac se, With & Winning post | erected on the shores of tie Persian Gui. tn that event Lae Muscovite, owing to a superior cou! traioing, stands a fair chance; but We | Jockey Will nnd strong b 8 in the great finan. cial centres of Western Europe, The race Will open to ail comers, bat tie Huai struggle rests be- | | tween Russia and bnvland, Other nations, no ever, Will undoubtedly enter the arena im due time, and the most prominent competitor will be | Aus Having endeayored to give an ontline of the position of Russia and Engiand, it becowes neces | sary to describe THE GROUND OCCUPIED BY AUSTRIAN STATESMEN. | pay. The prominent candidaces for Register on the democratic side are J. B.C! nap, Join Garrick, Alderman Cable and George W. Cassedy. The County Clerksmip calls forth dames M. Branu, Henry Gaede, Emil Steger and ten of twelve others. The foliowing gentiemen have announced them. selves a3 candidates jor the Shrievalt Martindaie, Johu Alien, A, PB. O, J. Donovan, J P. Hi. Nugent, 0. J. cr and Klive, ex-Aiderman » ad Six others, THE DAWES FIGHT IN WASSAOBUSETTS, [From tne Springfield Datiy Union.) Ifdemocratic and “independent” brag and bint would elect 4 member of Congress from this dis- trict to succeed Mr. Dawes, Mr. George M. Stearns, ofChicope would not only have been chosen by this tune, but would bave been on his way to Washington to take his seat and begin to draw But, unfortunately for his hopes and for the great expectations of the democrats, the people are vo have a hand in deciding who shali represent | them in Vongress; and though they are obliged, to their great regret, Co take some otier man tian Mr, la. | Dawes, it is by no moans tikely that they Will go | to the democratic party for a sticcessor. We have no doubt pow, and Haye not nad auy, that the party which has been jortunate enough to keep the services of Mr. Dawes for so long a time will | Count Beust, the late Chancellor of the Empire, name the man to succeed him, with jealousy towards tue ports on the mouth of | of the arrest of Woodhull and Clafin which appears | teeth, or in the pockets, for tneir country’s defence, | individual carricd a bill to the Governor to be | veland, David Hatia- | THE THIRD TERM. Responses to the Whispers from the ’ Capital by the Sea. The Press on the President’s Three-Term Aspirations. Grant Shipped to Salt River. {From the Fall River (Mass.) News—repubiican.) And now comes a howl from some mysterious source that the President has “‘veen and gone and doue 1." He is claimed to have entered intoa combination to run tor the third term, and scare his enemies to death by a union with the liberal party and the Southern democrats on the platiorm of specie payments, civil service retora, universal amnesty (which means to let Jef Davis have @ chance to get back to Congress) snd opposition to the Civil Rights bill, &e. © * * It would be a nice combination for General Grant to find himself shipped off to Salt River by lightning express In Navember. are, mee be does Bot know any bet- at region let him go and tr! its beauties. ty More of a Sphinx Than Ever. [From the Buffalo Courier—democratic.} Some time ago Grant announced himself as about to try to ‘‘unload” the republican party of some uf its more obnoxious efements. If the New Yore HERALD's Long Branch correspondent * * * is to be beiteved, these elements are now endeavor. ind to unload Grant. He has ceased, it would seem, to be useful or ornamental an adjunct of the loyal party, and is more of a sphinx than ever to its leaders. ‘this being the case it will be good news to them, if true, that the repudiican ‘old man Of the sea’ 1g about to step down irom the party’s shoulders of bis Own accord, albeit tne other party that 1s to take him up remains as yet in the realms of the Invisible. The Despair of the South. (From the Petersburg Index—conservative demo- cratic.] As deeply as we regret the advocacy of the claims of General Grant fora third term, we still more deeply regret the teeling of utter despera- tion and helplessness on the part of some of our people which has given rise to such an idea, It is the last resort of men who belleve that principle has no longer apy power upon the minds of men; that right is an empty word and expe- diency a panacea, It ts the taking from the hands of the people (where it belongs) the power to better their con- dition and placing it tn the hands of one in whom their misiortunes, thoagh mainly caused py him, have strangely given them faith. In discussing this subjeot it is pertinent to in- quire whether or not there exists any cauge jor tne feeling that has called up to our view so mon- strous a sight as Grant three times a President. As far &3 one not in the far South, where Grantism seems so ri'e and tull of life, can judge, there exist there no evils tor which the people of that section are not in some degree responsible, Though deso.ated by four long years of war, and the whole labor system of the country changed, they seemed never once to have felt the turce of such clauges, and to have looked immediately for a prosperity which only time, assisted by the most determined eitorts ot the people themselves can bring. Instead of looking to their lands an theit own tabor lor assistance, they rushed at pnce to seize the broken helm Of politica to guide them through their trouble, and, failing in this, they see no otner hope and toolishly yield to despair. Such @ course is unworthy of Southern men, and when coupled, a8 now asserted, in iaith with Grant, it sadly reminds us of the ignorant Reople of Liha) Who in their troubles, thinking the Will do them no harm, offer their prayers and sac- Tifices to the devil. It 1s @ matter beyond doubt by the instances of Virginia aud Georgia that wherever the Southern pecple have quietly accepted the situation and looked to their own efforts for prosperity they have not failed. ‘There is no royal way to success either for ap individual or a nation. No legislation, ro legisia- tor or other man in power, can by law or torce | bring prosperity upon @ land. Such a result 1s | only caused by the spontaneous workings or soci- | ety. We earnestly believe that one twelvemonth, | duving which ail’ national pulitics were forgotten, and every effort of the Southern people used to Promote their material Rosen, would accom- plish more good for our unhappy brothers than | the elevation of any man im the nation to the Presidency. We do not deny that, with an upright, honest President the Southern people would have a vet- ter chance for the improvement of their condition than they now bave, of which chance they can only reap the benefits by combining with it their untiring efforts for such an improvement. In biindly following any one man as their prophet they are following a “pliot who keeps his promise to their ear and breaks it to their hupe.”” Most fatal, we predict, will oe the results of a policy which favors a coalition between Grant and the South, The Soutn does not admire General Grant; tn trath, it bates him, and that too tor good reasons, To support him would imply the contrary. A policy jounded in falsehood must bring disaster as a returm. Toe South needs no such artificial | Means for 118 improvement. The agitation of | such & nen er, distracts its attention from its | proper objects. How much better would it be for | Our country if its citizens, casting aside all such | “sick man’s dreams” of a third term or an empire, would go carnestly to work duilding manuiac- tories, Making crops and inviting foreigners to come and settle in our country. Quickly then Would the discontent now 80 prevalent disappear, and in Its place would come peace and prosperivy, | and that which is greater than either, manly | reliance on their own efforts, | itis vainly talked that the South has pothing to lose by the election of Grant, and Uae dd much | to gain. Upon what such an assertion. upon what such a hope is founded, we cannot conceive. We are not of those who despair o! any good being lefs in tbe American sysiem of republican government; We believe that there is mucn about | it rhat merits our admiration and care. It holds | all that is lett of that liberty lor which we and our Jathers be'ore us fought and _ straggied, It is our sacred duty to keep It and im- | | Prove it, and surely this can never be accom. | pee by honoring such a creature as Grant, lack with remorse and regret will be the day when | the South lends its aid to the elevation ay this man to the Presidency, discarding ana mning by ae ae act all political principle, honor and onesty. The Third Term. (From the Richmond (Vs.) Vispatch—conservative democrat.] The public had become somewhat tired of this phrase, we suppose, but the NEw YORK HERALD’S Long Branch correspondent has given it iresh in- terest by reporting what President Grant is said | to have communicated to a liberal republican from the West. This Long Branch interviewer may be shooting out of a “long bow,” but we apprehend we shall not soon know any better; for, as a friend says, General Grant will hardly deny the accusa> tion if anybody were to charge that he had poisoned his mother. If ne is correctly reported by the letterin the Heratp, which we pubfished | yesterday morning, “tne great silent man” was for once in quite a talking mood. Take the reported interview with the liberal repuviican as we be it will create a stir, and add much to the excitement and the manwavres in the political arena. it will increase party con- | Jusion, and cause mucn uncertainty and inde- cision among politicians, Speaking ior the present, we are not clear what is best, and we remain uncommitted. That the | Presidential term wul be extended by some one at a | time not far in the future, we seel satisfied. Every | country has aforded an example of thts. This | government is too strong to ailow for any great | period the principal oficer of government to be dis- placed, and succeeded by another every Jour years. | The motives tor nolding on to power Will be too strong, and the head of the government will be too well sustained by tne autnority he wields, and the patronage he controis, to allow the term ot ofice to be limited by mere custom. Puolic opinion will be unabie to keep a check upoa per- sonal ambition thus powertully lortitied, Ic 18 theretore to reflective minds absurd for people to say that there never will be a third term or that the Presidential office will never be ex- tended. We cannot hope tor any such exemption | lor Uii8 Country jrom the fate of all nations, ‘The Presidential oilice must at some time be extended and the ruler of the country will possess and excr- cise & power that will as inuch exceed that exerted by the jederal President since the war as that power has exceeded tue simple powers ot Prest- dent as defined and exercised by tne frst Presi- dents of the Union, Entertaming these opinions, we have felt no great and undying respect for one ancient usage rT renk 80 Dy just as sacred discarded and | trampled toto the dust. And we have said that for a reaily good, honest, impartial and wise Presi- dent we Would be happy to see the old custom RL aaa by his re-election any number of ‘This 18 What we believe would be the best for the country. We kuow that the Presidential as, irants, who are numerous, and their friends will fight @ hard figat ior the “ancient custom," and that be- cillse they want to getto the White House they Will make loud projessions of a veneration jor the “ancient custom,’ which they do not feel. But in Spite Of ail this there will be a fight before long for the third, and possivly, the fourta and ith terms, | _ We have never mtimated a disposition to support | General Grant, and we shall by no means do 80 now, But we repeat what we have olen said, that if the country could get a weer or fora third or fourth term tt would de better of than wt } OF ine Preetdendat canons eer our veara nM af the 'y Sour We hupe the aiscassion will proceed. [t stirs the expectants and sets new sails tO catch popu Jar currents. It will pale to purity the political atmosphere aud reform the public policy with @ better regard for the general welfare got Jess for the spirit of tanaticum and dictates of bigotry it 0 and sectional malice. The Seuth an: the Third Term Quess tion. (From the Boston Globe—admintstration.} While there have been many rumors and speco lations of newspaper correspondents regarding ¢ movement in the South in favor of the election o President Grant toa third term, there has been little evidence on the subject coming directiy from thos¢ who may be regarde«! as leaders of the ex Conted- erate elem Generai Paul O. Hebert, for sev. eral years Governor of Louisiana, in the old before ibe T, & fellow student of General Gran at West int, and one who distinguished himself while there far more than the present incumbent of the Presidential. chair, @ galiant oMicer in the Mexican war and the con. mander of the Uonfederate forces in Louisiang when they surrendered, in 1862, may fairly be re garded a3 at 1 ® fair representative of the views and wishes of class, He writes @ letter to the Naw YoRK HERALD, In which he does not say directly that there is any movement in the South in favor of the re election of Grant; but he does intimate that such @ movement would be likely to find support. Tbe Globe here quotes from Governor Hebert’a letter to the HERALD, and remarks:— Whatever may be thougnt of General Hebert’s opinion of General Grant and his ability to bring about the era of good feeling and united prosperity between North and South, nis representation of what the South needs will receive the hearty ap- proval of all thinking men. The o1 reat ques- tion with the people there, he says. is “their peaca and their material reconstruction,” The ques- tions which divide parties in the Nortn concerning the tariff, finances or foreign relations are as “dus! 1 the balance in comparison With the vital domestic tranquillity and thetr pecuniary rehabilie tation.” If the people generally in that section of the country have reached the conviction thac their first ond greatest duty is to obtain peace and re- butid their industries, it is @ cause Of congratulas tion to the whole nation: put they should give proof of their conviction by prone local quar rels, by throwing uway their old prejudices: inst the negro and against Northern enterprise and capital, and by devoting themselves to the worg which they long to see done. It depends mainly on themselves, and the national administration, whatever its character, can do little for them. Sam Bowles and General Hawley Speak. [From the Hartford Ff elias repube ican. Do we understand the Harttord Courant to deliberately express the opinion that any honest democrat ot fair abilities and reputation could beat General Grant for the Presidency in 1876 !—Springfeld Republican, You may underatand that the Courant deliber. ately expressed the opinion that if General Grant accepted the ‘‘liberal” programme reported as his by the New YORK HERALD, he could be easily beaten by a fairand honest democrat. Further, ‘we have hever considered the nomination of Grant by the ed eke: party for @ third term among the possibilities. BROOKLYN. James MoDermott, aged three years and a-half, fell from tne second story window of No, 132 Third avenue, yesterday, but, strange as it may appear, his injuries were Very slight. Yesterday Ann A. Breakey, fourteen years of age, stepped on the fire escape on the second story of her residence, No. 178 Johnson street, when tt jell to the sidewalk, a distance of thirty feet, car- ryiog her with it. The unfortunate girl received injuries of a fatal character. \Willam Graham, aged two years, and whose parents reside at No. 6 Fleet alley, was run over yesterday by one of Fred Haggerty’s ice carts ‘and instantly killed. David Mann, the driver of the cart, was arrested and locked up to await the result of the Coroner’s inquest. A fire occurred at an early hour yesterday morne ing, at Nos, 254 and 256 Nassau street, occupied ag aturning mill, of which Ebenezer Smith is the proprietor, The fire department were prompt in: afriving upon the scene, but were unable to save the structure from destruction. The building and a large portion o1 the stock was consumed. The loss on buildings was $2,000, on stock and mae chinery $6,000. Insured for $1,000 im the Globe Insurance Company. The fire communicated ta Lnree brick tenement houses, Nos. 258, 260 and 262 Nassau street, owned by Mr. Romsell. These structures were damaged to the extent of about $1,000, ‘There is a policy for $7,000 on these builde ings in the North American Insurance peetpes.. The brick tenement houses, Nos. 211 and Hudson avenne, were damaged 10 the extent of $600, The fire 1s supposed to be of incendiary origin, and Marshall Thorne 1s investigating the case. LONG ISLAND. Afarmer named Johnson, of St. Johnland, Friday last shot two dogs which were chasing sheep, and upon examining his flock afterwardg found that five or six had been killed and a nuo® ber of others badly bitten. ‘The United States steamer Bluelight, commander: L, A. Beardslee, in the service of the Fishery Come missioners, is now engaged in examining the baya and inlets at the cast end of the isiand, with the jurpose of obtaining information regarding the habits of all the fisn frequenting the waters there, ‘she Steamer was in Greenport harbor last week. ‘The great clam bed discovered some time agq at the mouth of Glen Cove harbor has attracted @ large number of enterprising bay men, who have been industriously cogaged in dredging it. oP. to Saturday last trom 36,000 to 40,000 bushels had been secured, which have been sold at the Glen Cove docks for eighty-eight cents a bushel and 11 New York at ninety cents, The bay men are e: making irom $8 to $10 a day. The Board of Health of the town of Brookhaven have adopted stringent ordinances against alk manner of nuisances contiguous to dweilings or highways, and have taken measofes to prevent the spread of any contagious disease. They have alsa passed a Dog law, which directs all dogs to be muzzled becween the 1st of August and the lst of October, the penalty otherwise 1o the ownera being $25 in each case. Aletter received at Greenport from the friends of Rose Fennell, whose body was found in the Sound at Inlet Point a week or two ago, gave ine formation that she had a sum of money sewed up in her garments. Coroner Skinner, therefore, dug up her remains on Saturday, and fonnd in tne binding of her skirt £4 10%—two and a half sovereigns in gold and a drat for £2 The money was taken in charge by the Coroner, and the body was reinterred, She came trom North Vassalvorough, Me., and was on her way to rope, having secured a passage on board the National steamship Italy. “NEW JERSEY. The body of @ woman named Augusta Muller was found floating in the Passaic River, near the New Jersey Steel Works, Newark, yesterday morne ing. A certificate of burial was granted by tn County Physician. A fire was discovered early yesterday morning in the boiler room of White’s Edge Tool Works, Commerce street, Newark, which, before It could be subdued, resulted in a loss of about $1,500, Tog canse o! the fire is unknown. ‘The construction of the new ship canal in the Erte. basin at the Long Dock, Jersey City, has been poste poned in consequence of the refusal of the Boar@ of Aldermen to grant the necessary permission, All the members of the committee are in favor of the project except the member irom “Horseshoe.” The construction of this canal would give imme. diate employment to 1,000 men. Mr. Ruch, @ member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson county and Chairman of the committee to investigate frauds on the part of certain members of that body, has prepared a duplicate of his report, to be presented to the Grand Jury. This report was virtually smothered at the latest meeting of the Board, a proceedin, oul to anything ever accomplished by the Boar: of Public Works. Saturday evening. while three young ladies. one of them being a daughter of Dr. Jackson, a wel known veterinary surgeon, were proceeding home ward along @ much frequented thoroughiare of Newark, they were stopped by three men. Betor¢ toe frightened damsels could give an alarm, one of the rufians snaten ortemonuate irom the hand of Miss Jackson and all three quickly disappeared | in the darkn ‘The taieves were chased when the roboery perceived by a gentieman near by, but they succeeded in escuping. A youth of seventeen summers, named James 7. sherry, presented a check on the lirst National Bank for $65 at the shoe store of Thomas B. Blacks burn, No, 597 Broad strect, Newark, on Saturday evening, and requested that genuleman to take $44 out Of it, an Ainount Which ne owed Jor artcles ene and retarn to him the balance in cash, rhe lad aiso showed Mr. Biackburn a letter pur. porting to be from his guardian, L. McCaan, of Hoston, mentioning the check, and requesung him to pay the indevtedness of $44. The merchauty suspecting fraud, retained the eneck, made im quiries concerning the matter, and, finding that the paper was worthless, handed the yoatofal forger over to the police authorities, The ofender 48 at present im cusioay,