The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1875, Page 3

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS Father Walker’s Denunciation and What the People Say. "LETTERS PRO AND CON. —_-—___ Does This “Jesuit” Express the True Catholic Opinion? To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your editorial in to-day’s issue on Rev. Father Walke: ttack on the public schools, 1 am sure, | Speaks the sentiments of converts and right thinking American Catholics and other members of the faith who send their children to the pubiic Schools, These continued ana uncailed-for at- tacks on the pubiic schools will eventually keep | Sway converts and otuers from the church. No Catholic or Protestant parent would send their | chilaren to immoral public schools if they knew | it, and no Catholic obtld going to a public school can be influenced or drawn irom its faith unless | ‘he parents themselves are neglectful of their own dot; \d for what reagon are these attacks | given and the parents threatened with a reiusal of the sacraments of the Church if they persist in senaing their children to the public schools? I for one send my child to those schools, and at the same time give my support to the sch tached to the churches, and | will not submit to Unreasonable law if that 1s to be the new or estab- lished law ol the Church, Such iaws might be en- forced in European countries, but never in the United States, Ii there was | bigotry preached iu the church there would be more prosperity. 1 would like to ask Rev. Father Walker and the Catholic clergy which are the most damaging to the faith—the public schools or the rum noe ? Yours truly, LLB. New Yorg, March 15, 1875, 1 SEND MY CHILDREN, AND WON’T BE DAMNED, Makcu 16, 1871, To THE EpITOR OF THE HERALD:— In the HERALD of this morning I have read with surprise and pain the sermon of Father Walker yesterday in St. Lawrence’s church, denouncing | Catholics who send their children to the public | schools, and for so doing threatening them with | death and damnation, and calling such Catholics pothouse politicians and poor, ignorant [risb em- igrants, who perjure themseives in becoming citl- zens, With all due respect to father Walker, I | am an adopted citizen, not perjured and not | afraid of going to hell for sending my children to the public schools, I snow as good Catholic | priests as he 1s, and far more reasonable, in this | city, who nave laid the foundation of their knowl. ecge and virtue in the public schools, and many more who are converts, and nnished their | education before being converted. ‘They are at present pr.ests of ihe Church, and might be poor pothouse politicians, ana perjured emi- grants, were they to take the counsel 0! such ex- tremists ag Father Walker and omit attending school. 1am a poor, uneducated man myself, but confident that education enables men to know nd love God and also enabies them to guara their rights, whother, spiritual or temporal, from such men as have been instrumental in making irish. men both poor and ignorant and wanderefs all | over the earth. Ignorant men, whether they be | Irish or not, are more easily defrauded than intel | ligent ones, and iar more easily kept in awe by Men who will admonish others to be poor while they use all means to avoid it themselves und will protect and pray for the rici while they very often contemu and discountenance the poor, I ama Cxthono and will continue to hope in the goodness and mercy of God until I do more than endeavor to have my children educated in the public schools, Bespectiully, A LAZORER, ees WHAT MASS DID HE GO TO? To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In looking over the columns of your paper this morning my atiention was called to @ sermon which was attributed to Father Walker, one of | the ofMciating clergymen at St, Lawrence's church, in Eighty-fourth street. 1 felt indignant that the HERALD, which always sdherés 86 ‘Mujey fo fhe truth, shonla have been go basely Geceived as to have published a fictitious sermon, and to have added an editorial which, to say the least, reflects very unjustly upon Father Walker a6 an enlightened Christian. I was present at the | Sermon delivered by the reverend gentieman and listened to it very attentively, and, with bundreds of others, can assert t not one word of the sermon a8 published in the H&RALD of to- day came from the lips of the preacher, nor was it the tenor of his discourse. In speaking of the collection for the benefit of the parochial schools Father Walker said ‘that the education of Cathulic children im Catnolic schools was some- thing greatly to be desired.” That was the sum ‘and Suvstance of his remarks in connection with the educational question. Not one word about the public schools, not one word of the scathing denunciation which your reporter ascribes to tue erend gentleman, the sermon of the day being | upon a theme from the Gospel. | shail not attempt any explanation o1 this injustice. You will, per- baps, comprehend the whole matter, low, Mr. Editor, ] am sure, not as @ favor, but 88 aD act Of justice, that you will accord this com- munication a place in your columns, since tt can- not be your intention to assist in an unprovoked attack upon @ faithful and worthy pastor. lgW YORK, March 15, 1876. JOHN E. McGLYNN, THE POPS Ig NOT HERE YET, To THE EDiToR ov Taz HeRALd:—, New Yorm, Moron 15, 1875. You deserverto be complimeritea by every tair minded person for your masterly editorial on Father Walker for tie “Atrack on our public schools. QUE Public sche%is are not to be ruled by the | Catnoli “4y or any other particular sect. As Fatber er thinks parents are guilty of dam- Mation for sending their children to our public schools, would 13 not be well for him to remember tnat this is @ free country, and we have no Pope, that everybody (even Catholics) will not think as he does, and every fair minded person will feel like damning Kim for daring €6 ‘strike such a useless blow schools. He calls our schools but thank God there are not of bis kind in this part of the world em ‘Popish schools," as he would like to be. He es to live to bee Catholic *Parents refused the sacraments 6f the Church tor sending their children to our public schools. may live to see it; for his Church has the right to | build any number of scpools for ita own use, bys | he will never liye tO Bee our public schools cén- trolied fied any Pope, priest or reverend. He, in- stead of causing his core ee: to believe our schools curse, has show the world his real ‘uner mah, which savors of bigotry and not of freedom of speech and couscience, and if he could have bis own way he would have the social affairs of this community more mixed than the affairs of bis own Oburch in Italy nave been. Hoping you wili excuse me jor intrading on your valaabie space, I remain one of your readers, ARE THE JESUITS RESPONSIBLE FOR WALKER? To THz EpIToR oF THE HERALD:— In looking over the HERALD for to-day (Monday, March 15) I observed among the religious notices quotations from a sermon preached by a priest of ‘he Romish Church, wherein he anathematizes the public schools of this country as damnable, gud parents who send their chiidren to them like- wise, In his vehemence he delegates to himself a Dower that can be vested in no mortal—trom the Pope in the Vatican to the meanest priest who helps to make up this so-called Church of God! If these schools are, as he states, “nurseries of vioe,’? why, in the name of virtue, need these ten- onscienced Romanists send their children to them? As-for howling about the injustice of their baving to contribute to the maintenance of these schools, they came to this country knowing ber rules, and 1p their oath of citizensmp (f) to abide by them; so there injustice in contributin, wa tax for pubic good, which, despite all that this riest or a legiop of priests affirm, these public aools are—ingcitutions of lasting publio benefit, this worthy gon of tue Churcn aud her adher- ‘nts foc) that their children are from the teaching these schools being made meet partakers for @ regions of darkness they would do wisely and to revurn to their native lands and there their offspring ‘meet ‘takers for the in light” Tne Americ in pis large- seartedness, has allowed the alien too many priv. leges. The hand oJ Jeliowship has been extended © men Who have abused the kindness, and who, Vith this priest, stand to nis ace and how) about their rights, Let them return to their native land ynd there sing that song. nis priest, I see, 18 ken of a8 u Jesuit. thought the ‘Order of was more careful In training ita sons. This fon of the Uhurch should moderate the “ran- vour of the sche as becometh a priest, or, as he yomes irom the ‘Ould Uounthry,’’ where the are of sbilleiah and shamrock so green” and ween Pat,’ the whiskey, worshipped, it may fas mised from Inflammatory tone of hia uage toat he is given to taxing too many raps o’ whe crates” 9p & Sabbatb marnin) NEW YORK AERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET dlissid words! Yours afore he goes to spakin’ thim truly, NOY A ROMANIST, WHAT A PROTESTANT BOY THINKS, To THE EDITOR OF THE H#RALD:— If you wil Kinaly permit bim, a Protestant schoolboy would like to express publicly tnrough the medium of your wide circulation bis thoughts concerning Father Walker’s base attack on the most use!ul of New York’s institutions, her ‘‘pub- lie schools,” aud I ask, are there not in our city to-day Men and women as good and pure in every respect as any that the Catholic parochial schools have ever seut forth tololiow in the footsteps of flim they profess to serve, or intrigue and quarrel for the Jat political offices Father Walker speaks oi? Lec nim come forward and say to What nation, | religious belief and class of! people the majo ity Oi Our Worst criminals belong? Are they Rot Trish? And a8 an Irishman and a@ Catholic are almost synonymous, are they not Catholics? The drish race 18 Doted for its wit, Irish who come to this country have but little, if any,.education, showing plainly the deficient edu- cational system existing in their own, Why 18 it sot sit mot because they are so completely under the control of the priests, whose alm seems to be to keep them in ignorance, that they may the more easily extort irom, by threats of damnation or promises of salvauon, as may best suit the cage, the money that snould go to- ward the support of themselves and families, Father Walker say: “The great effort of the enemies of God’s holy Church in these days 18 to get coatrol of ibe education of the youth;” and, to my mind, he is mghi, ior the greatest enemies Goa’s holy Church ever had ale those same priests who stand between the uneducated confiding Catholic and his God. They nt the Bible ex- cluded trom the schools because 1t teaches that it 18 not to any earthly medium, but to God’s only agent, His son Jesus Christ, that we should go to seek Our relief ‘rom our joad of sing. “Til tares the land, to hastening ils a prey,” Where Catholicisia prospers and Protestantism decay. YOUNG AMERICA. New York, March 15, 1875. THE GUARDIAN ANGEL OF EQUAL BRIGHTS. To THE EDITOR OF THE HeRALD:— Allow one of your readers to express a thousand thanks to the HERALD for the rebuke given to Father Walker jor his expressions of woe, con- demnation and almost anathema against the pub- Mc schools and public education. The HBRALD is the only guardian angel of equal rights, not only for the American people, out for tne world at large. rogress and intellects if the clergy of the oman Catholic Church or the ‘ministers of any other take or have the power to damp and condemn every man, woman and child wno dare not be- lieve what they teach and preach? At present we are commanded or taught more or less what to e&t, and Ui the truth or falsehood could be properly established the peuple would be asked to have no conscience or rights of their own, and to puta check to every thought, feeling and actign, whether moral, political or soctal, if it be not pre- viously tuught or sanctioned by @ spiritual ad- viser. This doctrine has costa great amount of treasure and biood, and no nation bas ever lived in peace that tolerated or protected suco senti- ments. I remain, respectfully, &c., » Peeve’ CONSTANT READER, New York, March 15, 1875. COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK MEETING OF THE COLLEGE TRUSTEES. The trustees of the College of the Uity of New York met in the hall of the Board of Education at four o’clock yesterday afternoon, Present— Trustees Baker, Farr, Kelly, Man, Halsvead, Wetmore, Patterson, Klamrotb, Trand, Jenkins, and General Webb, President of the College. Judge Neilson presided, A resolution was adopted requesting the Oomp- troller to pluce to the credit of the college the sum of $60,000, subject to the usual drafts, Upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee it was resolved that the petition of the members of the Phrenoscosmian Society for the sum of $200 for the purpose of holding their twenty-third an- niversary be granted. A resolution was also adopted that the Chairman of the Board be AUthorized to receive the sum of $5,000 bequeathed by Ephraim Holorook tor tue purchase of books tor the college library. City Chamoeriain Tappan transmitted a com- munication to the effect that the Comptroller nad transierred to nim the balances to the credit Ve Vollege of the City of New York as iollo L | een = oe B82 OF against which the warrant of J.& M. Kedian (34,225 10) hag becom charged. Ordered to be printed. A resolution was adopted authorizing the Qh man and Secretary of this Board to sign warrant Jor the payment of the unpaid salaries of the secretary, accountant snd assistant to tne secretary for the years 1873 and 1874, to be paid Out of the balances Of the funds for those years laced with the Chamberlain to the credit of tis joard. A report was received from the Executive Committee on the resources and payments for the Uollege o1 tne City ot New York for toe year 1874:— RESOUROES. Amount of fand provided b the amended act passed May 1, 1872, retained yy the Comptroller .§150,000 ‘AYMENTS, os? salaries of the faculty, tutors, Janitor, Books and supplies for pupil Beientific apparatus, &c... Repairs anu alterations of builaings and new furniture,.... Printing Register, & Public exhibitions, & Fuel and gas.. Insurance on ($50,000)... 142,261 A Total... oH Ordered to be printed. A resolution Was adopted authorizing the Chair- man and secretary to draw warrauts in paymen of the claims for the year 1874, The trustees then adjourned, All the teachers of toe public schools were paid yesterday their salaries for the month of February, | The whole amount disbursed was about $220,000, FORMATION OF THE EARTH. PROFESSOR DOREMUS ON THE ‘‘ AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE MOSAIC AND SCIENTIFIC AC- COUNTS OF THE CREATION,” A large and inteflectual @udience was assem- bled in Association Ball last evening to listen to Professor Ogden Doremus’ lecture on the “Agree- ment Between the Mosaic and Scientific Accounts of the Creation.” The lecture 1s not a new one, but ia one of a series that were delivered some years ago, and which at the time createa consid- erable public interest, The aim of the lecture was to show that science and religion agreed per- fectiy with each other as to the man- ner of the creation, and, as a conse: quence, that God was the great Creator of the universe. He argued that the roundness of the earth and its irregularities of suriace demon- strated that it was once fluid and that the same argument stood good as to the other heavenly bodies. He said that by heat solids were con- verted into liquids or into gases; that the gascous state was the most chaotic, and if the atmosphere Of the earth was originally gaseous the imponder- able forces must have been “latent.” He proved this by experiments with liquids to show their globular form when supported against the force of gravity. He then explained the nature of gases, demonstrated ther weight by a mammoth balance, by the revolution of ao overshot wheel, &c.; showed their varied colors of red, orange, yellowish green and bluish. violet, and explained the way they were obtained. He then demonstrated what is known as the chemical aMuities of the gases, and gave various experiments showing the resulis that ensued jrom the exposure of dentoxide of itrogen to the air, the active combination of oxygen and bydrogen and chiorine and hydrogen, He next illustrated the evolution of imponderabi: forces when gases unite, ag when they comp! into solids and liquid He told ‘how tne solid, liquid and gaseous forms depended upon the temperature; such as rendering solids liquid and gaseous by heat and converting the gases into liquids and solids by cold. His experiments to prove this were very beautiful, such a8 the liquefication of sulphurous acid; showing how snow cam be produced by the evaporation of the gas in a red-boe silver disn; making laughing gas ltqaid and solid, The demonstration of “extremes meeting’ —tue freez- ing of mercury and the ourning of charcoal in tue same gas,and the freezing of mercury in @ red- hot platina cracible--was also an ood rd td at tractive one, and drew jorth the plazdits of the sudience. THE POPE. HIS HOLINESS’ OONDITION OF HEALTH. {From the Cork Examiner, March 4) According toa Roman teiegram to the London Standard there are again disquieting reports about the Pope’s health, ané the correspondent believes them to be trustworthy, His Holiness, he says, becomes daily more ianguid and more averse to motion. Tbe medical men talk of slow and gradual paralysis, yet he continues his re tone and audiences, ands those who see and him come away with the iwpressign tnat hi Jovking well, yet most of the | What would become of our liberties, or | faith or sect should under- | are & = THE CELEBRATION. ROUTE OF THE GRAND PROCESSION IN HONOR OF 87. PATRICK—DINNERS, BALLS AND BE- LIGIOUS SERVICES. All the preparation and anxiety as to the suc- ces Of the St. Patrick’s celebration of 1875 end vo-day in @ grand procession, several ainne! nd numberless balls. Physically faded, the proces- sionists wiil find comfort in stretching their legs under groaning matogany while complacentiy watching the agonies of the drowning shamrock. ‘rhe glorious legends of the Emerald Isle ere her faithiess sons betrayed her whl be mingied by gas- light witn tresh issues of to-day and Irish hopes of the future, The procession, which will be one of the largest | New York has ever witnessed, will be participated in by the following organizations :— Ancient Order of Hibernians (thirty-three divisions). Ancient Order Hiberniaus, No. 3, Westchester du three divisions), Ancient Order Hibernians, No. 1, Queens county. Emerald Beneticial Association, Parent Branch, No. 1. ranstiguration R. C, Men’s St. James’ R, les KC. 7, is Holy Innocents’ R. C. St. John the bvaugelist R. C. St. Michae.’s is. 0. I. A, Father Mathew U. B.. A’ B. Pather Mathew U. B. T. A. B. Society Young Men's rather Mathew Branch No, L Father Mathew 1. A. B. Society, No. 2, Father Mataew T. A. B. Society. No. 3. Father Mathew T. a. B. society, No. 5. St. Patrick's Mutual Alliance and Benevolent Associa- m. ‘< The procession, after ‘orming at Twenty-third Street and Second avenne, will move at une o'clock P. M. precisely, when the signal gun will be red. As soon as the Inilitary, under command of Colonel Jamex Cavanagh, shall have passed the rignt of the civic vodies each society in its oraer will jail into column and proceed down Second avenue to Second street; up Second street to the Bowery; down the Bowery to Canal street; through Canal street to Centre street, to the east gate of the Oity Hall Park; through the Park, where they will be reviewed by the Mayor and Common Council; thence up Broadway to Union square; round Washington’s Monument; down Fourteenth street to Ninth avenue;up Ninth avenue to Thirty-iourth street ; along ‘hirty-fourth street to Second | avenue; down Second avenue to Twenty-third | street; up Twenty-third street to Third avenue: down Third avenue to Fourteenth street and Union square, and there dismiss. | This route, which was decited on some time since, will be adhered 10, notwithstanding the op- | position of Police Commissioaer Voorbis, who yes- Broadway. ‘The Knights of St. Patrick wi!l have a patriotic reunion at the Sturtevant House which will sur- Pass all its previous hospitable eiforts, ‘Toe Friendly S Meet to discuss sentiments and drown the shamrock at the Hoittman House, There will be the usual services In the Catholic charches of this city. o'clock A. M, ‘The panegyric of tue Saint will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Duffy, of St. Joseph’s church, In Brooklyn Dr, McGlynn lectures at St. Anne’s laney occupies the pulpit of St. Francis de Saies With a lecture apropos uf the day, THE DAY IN JERSEY CITY. The parade to-day in Jersey City will be most imposing. The Father Mathew and Young Men’s societies, Bumber about 6,000 men. All tne societies of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will parade. The line will form on Jersey avenue, right resting on Newark avenue, and will move at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, In the evening the Knights of St, Patrick will banquet at the Philadelphia Hotel. The guests number many prominent citizens from New York, Brooklyn and elsewhere, as well as Jersey, ‘the Friendly Sons o! Ireland will dine at Taylor’s Hotel. Several Irish societies on the services will be held in all the Catho! es, The Very Rev. Canon Moynihan, of New Orleans, will preacn in St. Patrick’s, and tue Rev. Mr. Welsh, of Mount Holly, in St. Mary's, | MR. BRIGHT ON MITCHEL AND HOME RULE. The following letter has been received by the Rev. T, O'Malley in reply toa note addressed by nim tO the Right Honorable the member Jor Bir- mingham :— LONDON REFORM CLUB, Feb. 25, 1875. DEAR SrR—1 thank you jor your letter and the little book on ‘‘ Home Kule on,the Basis of Federal- ism.”” I buve read the book. Shall I teil you what I think of two Irish plans on thie Irish question ¥ Tae ** Mitchel plan’’ 1s easy to understand, and if Ireland were unanimous and strong enough tt migit be attempted and might succeed. I[t very simple, and under the conditions | have mentioned it 18 not, or would not be, imprac- ticable. But the conditions are wanting, and, therelore, there is this fatal objection to it—that it ig impossible, and only men partly mad or wicked will urge Irishmén {0 attempt it, As to your federation plan—the nome rule scheme, of Which you are evidently proud to be thougnt the father—it 18, In my opinion, quite ag ossibI6é as the other, and ust say it seems to be far more absurd, look at it only {oF @ Moments es wonder that any man or number of en, should imagine or think seriously of é¢l scheme. How mapy “ome”? rolers, how many men of faith ard’ thete in Irelana? Certamly not more than a million. If I give you tour muiilions of the disatectea— home rulers, repealers, Irish republicans or other antagonists of Great Britain—and this is more than you can fairly claim—they will give you only one million of men, and of these not one- balf bave any knowledge of public affairs. And yet you propose, in order to allay the discontent | Of this part of your population, not on!y to make a revolution in Ireland, but to do the same in Engiaad and Wales and in Scotland! Britain nobody Wants two Parliaments of Lords and Counmoys—nobody wants a toy. lppen at Bok geee oe yet, you propose, with & t gy enthusiasm, to iorce pon Englanad aod W @nd Scotland these additional rep- resentatiy9 id legislative bodies, in order yo Bi pty ea or to balance the creation and establishment of like arrangements in Ireland! Surely so absurd and monstrous a& proposition was never before neard of. You propose that twenty-five millions in Great Britain Bball, in @ manner, turn everything among them — everything to which they are accustomed, and with which, in the main, they ore satistied—up- side down, in the hopeless heel ag allay the digcontent of @ portion of your people never having been abe to make a clear statement of its grievances, and being, as you must feel totally unable to agree In any remedy for them. do not enter into any examination of the details of your little book, or I migut point out many in- accuracies into Which you have falien, I confine myseli in this reply to your letter to the main jJeatures of the two plans for the regeneration of Irelapd. I pelteve them both to be impossible, but Your plan of home rule seems yo me emi- nently childish and absurd. I must ask you to forgive the plain speaking or writing o! tiis letter, but I am unwilling to leave you in any doubt of my views even after] have send me. Since I have taken auy part in public lite Ihave thought mysel! and have intended to be one of the fast friends of Ireland, and I think now that 1 have never veen more go than lam at this mement, Iam, very Jaithiully, yours, JOHN BRIGHT. Rey. THADDEUS O’MALLBY, No. 1 Henrietia street, Dublin. THE BJFROST. ABRIVAL OF A NOVEL SWEDISH STEAMSHIP AT THIS PORT—DESCRIPTION OF HER. Considerabie interest has been excited among the Swedish residents in this city, by the arrival here of the Swedish built ircn steamer Bjfrost (Rain- bow), which is the first steamer of that kind which ever came here from Gothenburg, in Sweden, She is now lying at the Columbia stores in Brooklyn. She is built of the very best quality of Swedish char- coal made iron, while ber ribs and beams are of pure steel Commander Oscar W. Wettergren gave the writer last night tne following details concerning hia vessel:—She was built @ year ago at Lindhol- men, near Gothenburg, and is of 1,390 tons gross burden. She is brig rigged, has five bulkheads and two decks. Her engines are of the compound type, of 150 horse power, Mer furnaces only con- sume about fiiteen tons of coala day. She is pro- vided with five lifeboats, two of which are self- righting, and all of the most approved Swedish modeL The Captain spoke with great entnusiasm of the fine make of his engines and also of his recent passage of seventeen and a haif days trem Newcastie, in England, to this port, three daya of which, he alleges, he spent in # borricaue off the American coast. WOMEN AMONG THE CREW. The crew numbers twenty-iour persons, four of whom are Women, who work wader the orders of the “restaurateur,” or olief steward. One of the women is empioyed in the cabi stewardess, and the others a8 cooks and assistant cooks, Tn and the sauo: liking together are labie +0 dismissal upon arrival in port, and the severest discipline iu this respect is maintained. The oer, tain is & competent engineer, having passed his examination as chief eugineer according to the «hay | dn Great | gn order suspending him and vay mare Lady and while these two august bodies are singing | and declaiming the glories of the “Green Isle” | the Sixty-ninth regiment and its numerous friends | will be waltzing to Irish music at Tammany Hall, | A solemn Pontifical hign | mass will be celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal | Mcvloskey at St. Patrick’s Catheural, on this day, | | the Feast of St. Patrick, at ten minutes of eleven on “The Saint and His Work,’ while Father De- | will march in procession and will | Heights will hold balls aud Teunlong Religious | ic ch thereby to | read the little book you have been kind enough to | terday, in Board meeting, opposed the marcning of the civic bodies through Canal street and | | weigher | Tomlinson claims first money for Bul The Bjfrost formerly plied pool and Gothenburg, and bas made the passage in pinety-six hours. She velonus to the Sirthiod Association, oi Gothenburg, which has a fleet of steamships named principally ater Of Swedian mythology. The Bjirost is now loading 60,000 bushels of grain for Europe, THE TENSILE POWKR OF SWEDISH IKON. AS an illustration of the pay tensile power of Swedish iron, which 1s used in the construction of the Bjfrost, it may be mentioned that at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. the prow of @ steamer, the Blekinge, was exhibited which was turned into a semi-circle after having struck the rocks Lead on, TROTTING TROUBLES. MEETING OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION—FIRST DAY'S PRO- CEEDINGS. Ab adjourned meeting of the Court of Appeals of the National Association tor the Promotion of the Interests of the American Trotting Turf was held at the Everett House, in this city, yesterday. ‘The meeting attracted a large attendance of tur!- men, Many of whom nave cases on the docket for examination and decision. ‘The following mem- bers were present:—Colonel U. W. Wooley, Cin- cinnati, Ohio; C. J, Hamlin, Buffalo, N. Y.; Gates H. Barnard, Troy, N. Y.; George Sturges, Phila- delphia, Pa.:; Edwin Thorn, Milorook, N. Y.; Will- tam Edwards, Cleveland, Obto; Qvlonel A. 3, Russell, Milton, Mass., and Thomas J. Vafl, Hart- ford, Conn. in an executive session held during the morning Colonel Wooley wag | elected chairman, and at two o'clock the doors Were thrown open, when business commenced. Upon reading the docket there were found to be 1) cases that were filed in July, 1874, and contin- ued to this term; 96 fled »n December, 1874, and continued as above; 11 filed between December and February and 19 filed since February, making 137 cases in all, To these may be added a few others recelvea yesterday or to be handed in, of which notice has been given, which shows the extent of the business to be disposed of. The foi- lowing cases were called and given attention :— No, 348. C. B, Phipps, Coateville, Pa., va, Kastern ‘Dutchess Association, New York.—Appeal trom an order suspending him and his bay mare Sadie for non-payment of entrance fee. Mr. Bartram, President of the Association, appeared for the respondents, advising that this sus- | ension had been in force since 1873, and eing revived 80 unexpectedly there was not suii- cient time for them to bring the case belore the board as they desirea, Mr. Bartram wished to procure witnesses, and therefore called for a post- ponenens. Acceded to, the Case going over to the tverin of the Board, 0. 428, James Collins, Morristown, N. J., vs. Orange County Pleasure Grounds Association, Middletown, N. Y.—Application for removal of penaity of suspension imposed upon him tor non- | payment of entrance money. President Sprague | temporarily reimstated Collins, July 27, 1874, upoa | an affidavit attesting that his only connection | with the entry was 1n driving the brown geiding | Asa, and that Mr. George Hedden was the owner | and the person in whese name tue entry was | made, Oovllins appeared and atfirmed the state- | ment, whereupon the case was referred to the ex ecutive session. \O. 232. N. G. Ray, Knoxville, Ps., vs, Oneonta Union Agricultural Association, Oneonta, N. Y. Application for removal of suspension imposed upon him and roan gelding ry Ray for non-pay- ment of entrance money. J. H. Phillips, of Graves- end, L. L, appeared for Mr, Ray, testifying that the entry Was conditional, the arrangement being that if the gelding was in condition and could get to the track and trottea the entrance fee shoulu be paid; otherwise not. The association deny this statement. Execulive session of the board. No, 236. J. R. Tomlinson, Newtown, Conn., vs. Eastern Dutchess fee Complaint alieging frau: lation, Amenia, N. Y.— ulent entry of bay mare Beauty aud cation for change in the award of premiums.—Mr. Tomlinson submitted affidavits | claiming that the mare Beauty trotted in tae 2:50 and three minute purses at Amenia, June 24-25, 1874, receiving first money in both races, to which she was not entitled by previous record. To sub- Stantiate this assertion, he declares she trotted at Rochester tn 1872 to Wagon, in 2:35. Thus Mr. Dawes tn premium the 2:50 parse, he Ain Won, seoou and second money, and ip the three minute race Bg Baving won nN 4 money. Breede aésaion. . 266. E. OC. White, ‘atertown, N. Y. (ex Pepallentetn elt protest alleging fraudulent | entry of black mare Christine Nilsson at Toronto, Ont.—Mr. White appeared, and the case was con- tinued to the Mav term, he, in the meantime, to furnish afiidavits substantiating the charges, No. 285. U.N. Pratt, St. Louis, Mo., va. John F, Jarvis, Troy, IL, and Neison Movtgomery, Ka. | wardsvilie, [.—Complaint alleging fraudulent entry of a brown mare called Flora, and claim reward under rule 15.—Mr. Jarvis appeared, and yy afidavita submitted that the previous record aryed Riga! jora Was erronéous, Ih the fall Of 1874 she trotted on the St. Francis Fair Grounds, Farmington, Mo., three times around a one-third mue track, Bot ienced; that the drivers were not a, and only eight minutes given between heats, Flora did not finish firstbut was given one heat because the horse that was to the iront had inaulged in 100 much running. No time was hung oat, but the heat was trotted in 2:45. Subsequently Flora was entered at tne Western Fair Grounds Association in a 3:50 purse. Hence this gomplaint, ExeopHye spuato 5 No. 296. William Mack, Daibuty, Conn. (ex parte)—Claim tor reward, under rule 16, for tur- ishing information that the black stallion W. H. Ripley had been sraudulentiy entered at Cuba, N. Y., under the name of Passaic.—Executive ses sion—decision ge a emo the decision of the Board in case No. 355—(Valley Point Agricuitural ong lechanical Society, Cuba, N. Y., complains allegin, peice entry of the black stallion W. H. Ripiey,. No. 801. Rochester Driving Park Association, | Rochester. N. Y., vs. Simon Butts, Greece, Monroe county, N. Y.—Application for a decision concern- ing an alleged record of tne bay gelding Jimm, Mr. Butts appeared, and Ciaimed that tie asso- citation had acted under a misapprenension., The race in which it was charged that the gelding as above had trotted Jimmy was notin, and that the enly contest in whicn he participated was a team race lor gentiemen over the same track. Execu- tive session. No, 329, P. W. Fleming and Thomas Trimble, New York, vs. Kingston Driving Park Association, | Kingston, Ulster county, New York—Appeal from Trimble.—Mr, Theron Johnson appeared and filed poiderite, when the case was laid over for action jn executive session. No. 335. Aug. R. 8, Foote, Washington City, D. ©. va Massillon Driving Park, Massillon, Onio—Appeal from an order expelling bim.—Mr. Foote appeared and advised that at the time of the race in Massilion, August, 1874, he had not owned the mare Silver Maid for more than ao month, haying disposed, of her to parties in Phila- delphia. Execative aedsion. No, 349, Rhinebeck Driving Park Assoctation, Rhinebeck, N. Y. vs. P. Waterson, versey City, N. J.—Application jor decision as to alleged fraudu- lent entry of the bay gelding Arthur Boy, alias Boy.—Benjamin Mace callea up this case for the purpose of ascertaining certain facts. It trans- pired that the bay gelding Waterson was trotting all over the country last season as the “Boy’? ‘as Arthur Boy, as was thought, and that since the case Was flied Waterson has solid nim to Com. modore Vanderbilt, who bas, nO doudt, retired him from the turl. ‘The Board, at this juncture, adjourned until this morning at balf-past nine o'clock, IMPORTANT TROTTING PROGRAMME, THE PURSES AND DAYS OF THE EASTERN SPRING CIRCUIT AGREED UPON, An adjourned meeting of the stewards to ap- prove of previously made arrangements tor tie Eastern Spring Trotting Circuit was held at the Everett House last evening. The following gen- tlemen were present:—Robert McCay, Point Breeze Park Association, Philadelphia, Pa.; Pascal ©. Burke, Prospect Park Fair Ground Association, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Burdett Loomis, Connecticut Stock Breeders’ Association, Hartford, Conn.; D. F, Longstreet, Narragansett Park Assoctation, Providence, R. 1.; D. W. Beckier, Beacon Park, Boston, Mass., and George H. Batley, Mystic Park, Boston, Mass. After @ jull interchange of views the 10) MINT our was adopted, which calls for $12,' irom each association, in the amount of purses to be maue up aud meetings of Jour days each. Point Baexze Park Association—May 25, 26, 27 ana 38. —Entries to close May 17. Prospect Park Fain Gxoonp Assoctation—June 1, 2, 3 and 4.—Entries close May I Connworiout Sr0ck BusxDuns? Assoctation—June 8, 9, 11.—Entries clore May 31. | wesc peccasionJune 1 16, 17 and —E 1 3, x qiuagon PanaJie %, %, % and 2.—Entries close ¢ 7. ‘ Werte Parg—June 29 and 30, July] and %—Entries close June 7. No. 1.—Purse of $1,000 tor 2¢. to second, $1u0 to third, lass ; $600 vo fret, $300 b —Purse of $1,000 for 226 class; to second, $160 to third. $000 to PEE F430 SECOND DAY, No. 3 —Purse of $1,500 {oF 2:81 class; $900 to first, $450 cond, $100 to third, te eee nse of $2,000 tor 2:32 class; $1,000 to Arst, $70 to second, $200 to third. ‘THIRD DAY, No, 5.—Purse of $1,000, for 2:40 class; $600 to first, $300 to second, $1v0 to third, No, 6 —Purse of $1,600, for 2:24 class; $900 to first, $450 to second, $150 to third. rourtm pay. No. 7.—Purse of $1,000, for 2:34 class; $900 to first, $150 to second, $150 to third. No. 8 —Purse ot $1,500, for 2:29 class; $900 to frat, $40 to seoond, $100 to third. All these purses are for trotting, mile heats, best three tu five, in harness, and wil be con- ducted under the rules of the National Associa- tion, Entrance ten per cent of purse. when eight or more horses start, t will be 160 yards. Heats in cach day In heats, PIGEON SHOOTING. MATCH OF ONE HUNDBED DOLLARS DECIDED ON LONG ISLAND. A large number of the pigeon shooting fraternity agsembled at the grounds of the Long Island Shooung Club yesterday afternoon to witness a contest between the weil known snots Mr. Tone Broadway, of New York, and Mr, Humpbrey Hartshorn, of Brooklyn. The match was for $50 a side and the birds, the conditions being 25 birds each, 21 yards rise, 1) 02. shot, 80 yards boundary, trap and handle for each other and Long Island rules to govern, The pigeons, as a lot, were very fair, Mr. Broadway proved the winner, killing 23 out of 25, while Mr. Hartshorn killed 17 out of 24, giving up at this stage of the game. SUMMARY. Grounps oF TUR Lona IsLanp Snoortna CLUB, NEAR East New York, L. L, March 16, 1875.— Match ior $100 and the birds; 25 oirds each, 21 | witharawai of certain goods sent by foreignersg yards rise, 14% 0% shot, 80 yards boundar: and handle for each other, abd Long Isia: to govern, Tone Broadway—1 1111,10111,11111, 11111, 11011, Total, 25; killed, 23; missed, 2. Humpurey Hartshora—11101,11011,11001, 01110,1101, Total, 24 (and retired) ; killed, 17; missed 7, CIVIL RIGHTS IN ARKANSAS. LirtLs Rook, March 14, 1875. The Civil Rights bill has had little eect in Ar- kansas. In fact, we have had a stronger bill on our State statutes since February 25, 1873, That bill provides that all steamboats, railroads, stage coaches or owners or managers of any pub- lic conveyance shall not make any distinction between persons applying for transportation, an- der a penalty of “not Jess than $200 nor more than $1,000, or imprisonment uot less tnan three nor | more than twelve months for each offence.” The same rule is applied to all hotel keepers, restau- Tants, saloons, theatres, pubitc schools and in fact to all public places, All aiders and abettors are rendered equally liable with principals. Suits can be Droughs In the circuit courts of the Stato, and all executive oMcers are made Mabie to pen- alties for not bringing suit under the act, and, be, sides the criminal proceedings, the party claiming to be injured bas nis remedy in damages. This law has been a dead letter on the statute books, no colored man in the State having ever attempted, even while the State was uuder republican rue, to take advantage of it, The passage of the Civil Rignts bill by Congress has not made aripple upon the political surface here. Inthe capital, where many of the leading colored men live, no effort has been made by any of them to take advantage of the hew enactments in their favor. The only instance that has occurred in the State where negroes proposed to enter into places not hereto- lore opened to them was in Helena, where four negroes went to @restaurant and demanded a meal. It was refused, and one of the partie: who was a journeyman barber, was dismissed his employer, upon the petition of some of the white citizens, As far as practical effect in this Stare is concerned the Ctvil Rights bill is a dead letter. Public opinion will not permit its en- forcement. The United States Judge of this dis- trict, H. ©. Caldwell, while a Northern man and heretofore @ republican, calling himself go yet, is eager ae @ democrat, holding democratic ideas. The United States Marshal is a Southern man and has the Suuthern idea on the subject, so that if any negro were to attempt to take advantage of the provisions of the bill every obstacle Would be thrown in his way. I do noi, however, think thas a case will be made, and should any attempts be made on the pepading. hotels by negroes the proprietors would dodge the issue if possible, and if Unally jorced upon them, would resist the law and trust to the law being declared unconstitutional. Pubiic opinion would force this course, a8 the people here consider that the bill 19 intended to bring about social equality, and will not submMl; to 18. CIVIL RIGHTS AND BILLIARDS. Two colored men named Harry Deyo and Onque, the former a tonsorial artist, entered the billiard room attached to Mr. Katzenbach's hotel in Trenton, N. J., on Monday night last and ordered the person in attendance, another darkyy to show them @ billiard table on which they could enjoy themselves at a game or two of billiaras, The attendant refused to comply with thelr request, which caused the two “‘gentiemen of color’? to become very irate and disorderly, In the meantime Mr. Katzenbach, who had been sent for, arrived on the scene and commenced to expostulate with the sports on the unreasonablenese of their de- mand. They refused to be appeased, ana ‘naisted On their cjaima under tne Civil Rignts law to be accommodated. Uitimately they were ejected irom theroom, not, however, unttl they threat- ened to have recourse to the law to obtain re- dress for what they designated a gross insult against their atanding as respectable citizens. They intend to bring thetr case before United S'ates Commissioner Shreve at Trenton. The afair has created @ goog deal oi gossip and some excitement, THE BROOKLYN MALPRACTICE CASE. | CONTINUATION OF THE INQUIRY TOUCHING .TEE DEATH OF MI8S ANTONETTA FENNER. Coroner Simms last evening resumed his tnves- tigation touching the death of Antonetta Fenner, an unmarried woman, twenty years of age, who died on the 7th inst., at her parents’ residence in President street, froma the effects of an operation which she nuderwent at the hands, it ts alleged, of Catherine Maxwell, of No. 114 East Tenth street, New Yors. The Coroner’s office was crowded by Irtends of the prisoners and witnesses. John M Betts, the alleged betrayer of the deceased, waa in attendance and was represented by counsel: Mrs. Maxwell, who is seventy-six years old, was in the room adjoining the court, and Colonel Charles Spencer looked aiter her interests, There were several young women present who came to testify for the prosecation. Captain Ferry, to whom is due the credit of working up tne case, closely watched the proceedin gs. The first witness called was Mrs, Emilie Betts, | sister-in-law of John M. Betts. She testified that she saw Miss Penner at the Eastern Hotel twice in company with Jonn Betts; ancther gentleman was with her; didn’t know whether she came to the hotel alone or not; both times deceased was incompany with anotber man; saw her in the dining room and in the ladies’ parlor; did not know or hear that there was any intimacy between Miss Fenner and John Betts; first heard of her death the day alter it took place; received that information (rom the newspapers; never knew deceased hau remained over night at the hotel. James C, Betts, a brother of the prisoner, Jobn, testified that he is part proprietor of the Eastern Hotel; knew deceased by sight; had seen ner talking to his brother; heard some one speak dis- paragingly of her and toid Jonn of ft; ne latter appeared to be annoyed and told witness that she was a respectable girl, that he livea in the same house with her father several years ago, and knew her when she was @ little ‘girl; witness never heard there was any improper intimacy existing between them; saw her in the restaurant io com- any with lady acquaintances on several occa- ions. John Vesser testified that he kept a saloon stand In the hotel; had frequently seen Miss Fenner there; had seen her passing the door daily and repassing; dia not know ol any improper intimacy between Mr. Betts and Mies Fenner; first heard of her death on monday morning following the day of her death; John Betts cailed witness? attention to it, saying, “That party is dead,’ meaning Miss Fenner. Daniel Bellow, a boy who waters the stage horses at the foot of Whitehall street, testified that he had twenty or thirty times pvrought mes- sages (letters) to and from Mr. Betts and Miss Fenner; the last letier he brought the lady was a week before her death; witness only saw her at the hotel twice; on one occasion he brought bera letter, and she told him that sue was going..o a pall with Mr. Betts, and that she would meet him between eight and nine o’clock; brought her a package ou New Year’s evening irom Betts; usually delivered the letters to Miss Fenner's sis- ter, though he sometimes gave them to her mother. Dr. Nathantel Wood testified that he attended Miss Fenner, in consultation with Dr. A. W. Ford, on the 3d or 4th of March, and saw ber daily up to the day of her deatn she died of utero-periton- itis, caused by an abortion produced upon her; inflammation of the womb and bo) was the cause of death; the operation, she said, was per- formed by a woman in New York, and that the Operation was procuced with instraments: a lady friend, she sald, accompanied her to the house, but was notin the roonr when the operation was eriormed; the operator enjoined secresy apon er, telling her that it would be equal to twenty years tor her if he was found out; the woman told deceased she had been forty years in the business, aud in that time @ case had “never gone back on her; before operating the woman gave her a drink Of some iiquor, and alter the operation she drove away down town in @ car- Tage with the lady friend; she saki she bad paid $40 for the operation; she did not suswer my questions ag 10 names, but said she bad told her mother all. Mrs. Annte Jackson testified that she ts the granddaughter of Catherine Maxwell, the prisoner; she resides in Boston eleven months out of the twelve; her grandmother's business 18 that of midwiie; she also ra — 4 i 4 sth; did not keep furnished room never knew of Mrs, Maxwell being arrested on charge. The Coroner at this point adjourned the inquest be \rovied alternately, Til tole evening at wx O'GlOGk- | | c | where the course of 8 CENTENNIAL NEWS, Are Goods at the Centennial Liable to Seizure? Exhibition MORE CENTENNIAL CURIOSITIES, The financial agent of the Centennial in this city was greatly exercised yesterday over the cable despatch stating that the German news- papers were warning the German pubiic that! their goods might be tiable to seizure in Philadel-. phia if the Centennial should prove bankrupt, Is/ will be remembered that at the first London Ex-! hibition there was considerable trouble about the! but it may be authortiatively stated that the American laws preclude the possibility of any similar diMculty. The agent, when questioned im regard to tms subject, declared the statement of the German papers to be preposterous. The Cen- tennial, he said, was @ corporation, and as such its property would be liable to seizure for its deots; but the goods exhibited would not be its property inthe eye of the iaw. Io order to re- move all doubt as to this General Goshorn already procured from the Attorney General of the United States a written decision on this ques- tion, and this decision has been cabled to the prin- cipal European capitais for publication, The Attorney General decides in unequivocal terms that goods sent either jrom foreiga countries oF from any part of this country for exhibition are not liable to seizure if the Centennial becomes bankrupt. His opinion is as follows:. ATTORNEY GENSRAL WILLIAMS! OPINION, ARTMENT OF JUSTIC K. INGTON, Nov. 27, 1874 Hon. C. Deano, Secretary of the Interiot bin—i have the honor w «cknowledse receipt of ‘our letter ot November 4, 18/4, ana the papers transmit~ d therewith, to wit, copies of the toliowing docu. ments:—A letter addressed to the Secretary ot : tate, of date of 16th of September. 1874, by Baron schwarz Sen- born, Minister of Austria, Hungar: etter a idressed. to the Secretary of the Interior. dated November 4 1874, by Hon. Alfred T. Goshorn, Director General of the In- ternational Exhibition, 1575, and communication from on. John G. Shoemaker. Counsellor and Solicitor tor the Centennial Commission, addressed to the Director General of the Exhibition. ‘These papers all relate to the subject of your letter and to the question upon which. you request of me an expression of opinion, ‘That ques- Hon is, whether the goods of foreign exhibitors sent to the International Exhivition, to be inaugurated at Phil- Adelphia, May 10,1876, “will be free from seizure by the creditors of the United States Centennial Commissio: and Centennial Board of Finance.” so that they (tho foreicn exhibitors), may not lose their property, of have difealty in “removing the same.” The laws which have been passed concerning the “International Kxbi- are:—The acts of Congress. approved March. 3, 6 Stats., 470). aud June 2, 1872; (1 Stats., 202), also, Acts of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, passed June 2, 187i, (Laws of leunsylvania for 171, pase S11), and March '2/, 1875, (Laws of Pennsylvania tor 1573, page 66). Upon'a caretul reading of these statutes, I tind {fn them wo provision giving to the Centennial Commission, or to any corporation or association o ersons, connected with the management of the exhi- ition, Any property inferest im the goods of the exhibi- tors. “these persons ana boates corvorate will have no ownership in the goods, Tuey will be at most, deposi- tories or bailees, having the temporary custody of the Boods lor we purpose of the exhibitors. ‘The relations of ail parties to the goods, upon their adimusion to the exhibition, will be governed by the laws of the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania. In that State, as everywhere. it is true generally that the property of one cannot be taken for the debt or lability of another. There wust be in the debtor own- ership, or an estate in the thing, to enable the creditor to execute his process upon it The law of Pennsylvania ts very careful to protect the rights of persons to their property which is in the hands of others, and holds only that which the debtor owns answerable tor his debts, ‘The reports of her highest tribuaal abound with cases, which, under @ great va- riety of circumstances, show the prevalence ot this feneral rule. That Court has decided that a sherif! is liable in damages, as @ tresspasser at the sult of the real owner, for levying an attachment upon goods in the possession of another and making a return upon the writ that they were “attached,” although there was no “manual handling” of the goods by the sheritf no moval of them. Other cases, showing the strictness of the rule, are :—Spaugler vs. Adams, of Martin 16 serg. and . 68;'Com vs. Watmough. har. 116; Bunk vs. Jones, 42 Penn,, 536—same case, 4 Penn., 253. Under the law of Pennsylvania, as shown by these easos, it is very clear that the goods ‘of the exhibitors will be tree from all lability to seizure upon demands against the com- mission, for which no superior lien can be ciatined. ‘The classes of obhgations for the satistaction of which liens attach to real estate, and sometimes to the personal | property found on it, are taxes, rent and the claims of mechanics, matertal, men and iaborers, upon buildings or structures to (he erection of which they have con- tributed skiil, materials or labor. By the law of Penn- sylvania, the personal property of the tenant or occu- pier of ‘real estate upon which taxes are assessed is hable to be distrained for those taxes; but the goods of others in the possession of the tenant and found upon the premises are exempt 2d, Brightly Purdon's Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania, 137); section 9 of the tax laws; see Moore vs Marsh, et. al. 6) Penn, 46). As to rent, it 1s well settled by repeated decisions of the Suprene Court of that state that the goods of strangers in the possession of the tenant are Drivileged from seizure for rent due upon the premies the tenant's business must of necessity give him such possessions. For the benetit of trade and for the public convenience and advantage, the goods of third persons put in the way of businesd upon rented premises are protected trom distress for It publio than unjust Mkt be seized for the duties of those througn whose hands, in the current of the world’s business, it must pass. (Brown vs Sims. 17 serg. & R., 138; Riddle vs, Weiden, 5 Watts, 9; Cadwalader va Tindall, 20 Penn, 2; Brigys vs. Large, 30 Penn, 237). In Brown vs. sims it was said by QOmef Justice Gibson that “the right” to Gistrain the property of a stranger “rests on no prinetple of reason or justice,” ana that the exceptions would im the end eat out the rule. The principle uvoa which he rests these exceptions—viz.: the public con- veaience and advantage, 1g present and domimant the case under discussion. It is for the convenience an 4, I will ad@, for the good name and hi of the whole nation, dut particularly of the city of Philadelphia and the Commonweaitn of Pennsyi- vanis, that the propery of all exhibitors, especially those from abroad, shouid be free trom all Habulil the debts of those who are to control and bxhibition, whether those debts be tor taxes, reut any obligation Whawoever. The ciauns ol chanics, material, men and laporers, who con- tribute ski, materiais and labor in the erection of age. the buildings, can be made liens upon them; but those fiens cannot be extended so as to attach the Kouds Placed in the buildings. | (sections | Zand 18 of the Me- chanics’ Lien, act2, “rightly’s Purd, Dig. p. 1 wards lability for rentand taxes) [have the question as it the ground on which ¢ ings are to be erected tor the Centenuial Exhi- bition and the buildings also were suvject to iaxation, and the commission having the control of the exhibition a \enant owing rent to the owner of the premises; this is, however, far irom the fact, The ground is public roperty, owned by the city of Philadetpuia and ts no Pouderstand, subject to taxation, Ittreety. is tendere by. that municipality to the use of those who, by law, will manage and control the exhibition, an they are not considered to be in we situa- tion of tenants owing rent toa landiord, For the reason ab-ve set forth I, am clear in the opin: jon that the goous of those who shail appear ax exhibé itors at the International xhibition will, under the laws of Pennsylvania, be entirely tree from tiability to seizure for any debts, claims or demands whatsoever against the Centennial Commission or an: rate body, person or association of perso with said Exhibition. Bot conceive of any irom this source of the loss of their goods by toreizn ex: hibitors, nor of any dificulty they will meet with in re. movin eir property. ‘ery respecttu' vour ob gheerrany, GSORGE ih. WILLIAMS, +8 Attorney General. OPINION OP THE LEGAL ADVISER OF Fuk CENTEN< NIAL, iy other corpo: ha Puitapetrmta, Oct. 10, 1874. Hon, Atrrep T. Gosnorn, Director General;— Six—In answer to your communication. Inclosing and asking a legal opinion upon the following extract of a letter from His t:xcellency the Austrian Minister, viz, :— “Whether in the event of the failure of the ixhibition pecuniarily: event which it is hoped and expected will not occur—the foreign goods sent to the Hxhibition will be neld free trom seizure oy the creditors ot the Centennial Exnibition Commission and Committee, go that the forcign exhibitors may not lose their property or have difficulty 19 remeving the same? [ would state that act of Congress. approved June 1, IS72, provides th ‘all Ce ah pan ee ante Bs ag ‘powe of the entenaial Intern 1 shal be subject to the laws thereot.”” The offices of th Commission and Board of Finance are jo the State o} Pennsylvania, There al: the appheations for space and privileges to exhibit are and must be made, no charge or claim being incurred therefor. 1 il be, live. ed to the Exhibition Mm tha z mission or Board of Finance have any ownership or property in them, they remain the property ot t owner, and are deposited under the regulations of the Commissions to which the owners agree. The law of Pennsylvania ty well settled that goods thus deposited and placed on exhibition are tree trom seizure, and are not liable for the debts of tne person or corporation thus receiving them. The butldings are erected upon grounds already be- longing tothe public: they are subject to no rent or taxation, and are, therefore, exempt trom that class of superior liens, The buildings, to Wilt be 8 United states bonded warehouse, in which ail foreii for exhibition only will bé entered and allowed fo've eturned tree of du ry Cannot imagine the possibility of such a claim being made, and am clearly of the opinion that, if made, 16 utter! Migheres's SHOLMARER, Connsellor and om for the a Commission, We concur in the toregoing opinion, Hens M. PHILLIPS. BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER Ocroser 13, 1874. THE CENTENNIAL MANAGERS THANK THE HERAT St, NicuoLas Hori } New YORK, March 16, 1875, To Tu# EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— On behalf of the Centennial managers I must thank you most cordially tor your editorial of this morning. You b shown the coming celebra- vion in ite moss attractive light. No true iriend of the etre cree Fed nd fe a i eee je and pocke' ches oF failure orthe c celebra\ nen BY have Fie? ae ep significance you foreshadow. raly, your ovedient servant, WILLIAM BIGLER, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes tn the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding date of last ear, as indicated b A emg at Hudouls cy, HeRALD Bul - warmacy, Hanigrd, 18h © 3h iterday. “ for corresponding Average temperature yest average temperature date last year, 4158) bi)