The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1875, Page 4

4 RAILRO!D WARS, The Interests Involved the Pending Struggle. in ITS CAUSES AND PROBABLE. RESULTS, Cheaper Management of Transporta- tion Lines Needed. ———_-—_——. NEW YORK--BOSTON—BALTIMORE. Necessity of Improved Termi- nal Facilities. OUR WATER FRONTS. The Harlem River and Hell Gate Improvements. Ib bas been noticed that railroad wars, like la- borers’ strikes, are most apt to occur when business isdall, When trade is ively and times are pros- perous the great railroads have enough to do ana each 18 satisfied with its share of tramMe and readily works in harmouy with its competitors, But when, a3 has been the case during the past eignteen months, the traMec 18 extraordinarily small, each strives to get all it can, and hence come, lirst, Saratoga compacts for “a square deal ail round ;” next, evasions by those who are most eager to secure business; and then suspicion, recrimimation, and at last open war. Thisis the briet history of the present troubles, in which the public take permapsa less painful interest tnan the stockho.ders, who see dividends fy further and jurther away as races are lowered, AKE THERE MORE RAILROADS THAN ARE NEEDED? here ig a leeiing among many railroad men tuat we have overbuilt ip Eastern as well as West- ern railroads, Parliy, bo doubt, this arises from the present siagnation, which depresses men’s h partly tt is due, however, to tue tact that within (he last year the Baltimore and Ohio road has completed 4 new connection between Chicago 4ud the seaboard, It ts said in raiiroad circles that even with prosperous times there would now be sharp competition for traic between all the trunk lines, as it would be tne desire of every company io carry all its capacity admitted. it 1s a significant Circumstance bearing upon this question, that the Peunsyivania Railroad Company have resolved bot at present to extend their system any iurtber but to work im the direction of improving terminal facilities and imcreasing the economy of manage- ment. The dulmess of trade is weil shown by the tonuage report of tnls company; its capacity Was imcreased during the last year about twelve per cent, but the tonnage actuaily carried Was 500,000 tons less toan in 1872, That is to say, it could have carried twelve per cent more and it did carry over eight per cent less. Of course, tue Tevival of business will rapidly make up tuis de- crease, but all the trunk lines will have to make Up similar losses, and the new line, tue Baltimore and Coicago, will strive for a share of trafic also, CAUSES OF THE WAR, The present raiiroad war, so far as its origin lcs in causes outside of tne insufficiency of busi- bess, arose Out of a mutual jealousy between the Penusyivauia Central and the Baltimore and On10, which to@ certain extent cover common terri- ‘ory. The Baltimore and Obio people agsert that their fault was @ refusal to subscribe to the Sara- toga compact, and they add that mr. Garrett was ready to maintain the races fixed by the Saratoga comumiisaioners to Philadelphia and New York, but Would not agree to Jet any one but himself ix rates to Baltimore. On the other side, it 1s said that the Baltimore company was jealous 0! Colonel scott's encroacimen oa the Cumberland coal elds, and his suc. cess in tapping the Southern trade, through Washington, Bach side claims to have suffered More, and the public, which reaps a temporary aod perbaps doubtiui advantage irom tue low Fates Wich resuit from the dispute, has little in- terest in the details of the quarrel, because it has mo ;ower to interlere. Cvlonel Scott apd Mr. Garrett Will have to settie their affairs, aud wul ho doubt do so before jong. It is an unpleasant quarrel to both of them and to all their stock- holders, Astor New Yorkers, the quarrel does bow Ubreaten them with harm. Both and all the Touds seek their business in New York; Mr. scott ludkes Lis repoit to Puiiadelpbians abd Mr. Gar- relt to Hallimoreans, but eacn finds in New lork fis Most important customer ana depends upon New York Jor bis most importan: trafilc, as is stioWn vy the fact that no sooner did Colonel Scott ceuy tue Balumore and Onto Raliroad access to the New Jersey roads tnan Mr. Garretc hastened 10 pul on @ line of freight steamers vetween New York and bis own city. STRENGTH OF THE RIVALS. Nor 1s it of muen practical importance to discuss the Question WUO Oi Lhe combatants bas tne great est Huancial strength, The Baitimore and Onio boasts Of & surplus of $32,000,000, Dut the Peansyi- Vauia Poad reckOus iS Surplus at Over $55,000,000, as lo both cases these amuunts are maimty in- vesied lu subsidiary and counecting lines, tue lus does Dot represent oF mean casu in band; OO. 1S it probable (hat tue war will go OM to such extremes (ual either party wil lave Co pieage its prope pay the cos!, Again, the Buitimore aud O10 peuple say that thelr wali capital gives theta 4b udVantage im the confict, but the reno- Syivaniaus ineet This by tae asserciun toat they have iat greater carrying capacity than tneir Oval; (hal ioer ine Puus threugh a more popa- ous 40d fertt region, and that the mere lucal trafic of the PegusylVvanta road is a great element Ol streDgtn to it, Whied User mVdl iacks or Las Dotto neal ly so great an extent. But no War was ever secuied by demousirations of the means uf the combatants, and the roads, ip this case, fs ID previous troub.es Of a stinilar kipd, will Ggut Gut they yet (ured, or uptli the revival O1 busi Less gives (Hem all enough to do. NEW LINKS OF INTERCOMMUNICATION. Meauume it looks a8 U, Woe Mr, Garrett is Very (uoroughly @.Vertising vis Dew Chicago cou- Bec lol, the public May ve beuelted vy the strife be basieuing to compietion of # vew connect- lng ling Which wili give the Penusylvabla oad in- dependent access to Baitumore, 40d (be uew une a Toss New Jersey, over which peroaps (he Baiti- nore abd Obie road wil endeavor to reach New York Without the belp Of tue New Jersey Kall- road. ‘These (Wo new links Cannot but weip New York, because ‘bey will, When compleced, give us, iu cOunecuon With the existing lines, @ new surougli route soutnward, NEW YORK'S INTEREST IN THE STRIFR. Phe natural advantages of New York, ita sale Aug broad Harbor, $0 easy Of access, und iis mag. uidcent inland Water communications, east and north, added to its giewt wealtn, give us advan- tages over ail other ports on the Atiautic side of the Continent, aud see us a eusy pr inence. Baitimore and Boston strive by caresul Mauagewent to secure & slice o/ tne of whe West: aud as toe country grows D qouot they Will take more ana more in quantty, though bot @ greater proportion. But ali the oblier ports are subsidiary to New Yo k. dbus, when a cargo 0: collee is \anded at Baiumore, it is genera ly owued in New York, and tue progta of tue venture come to vuis city. {8 RAILKOAD COMPETITION FOR THB PUBLIC GooD ? Pe need lear uo permanent or serious joa [rom the competition of rival railroads. Kaliroud men, i) weuerai, discounienance competition and Le- eve it (9 be LbJUrOUs to tue public us Well as Lo (uelse.ves, abd (Hey say toat such ap agreement by Lhe Saratoga compact, If it were accepted by he trunk lines, Would not create higu rat because great Corporasions tear 0 wear puvud odium vy high charges, and vesides pave dis- covered (hat exorbiteut rates are always toliowed Ly wasteiui aud @Xtravayans management. |t is suded Lhat (he Saratoga Compact joked vo wh corporations regard @% 0} {he utmost cox quence—permaneuce; and, jor tae resi, Was an ecort by Corporations (GO BLOLISH Various agen fod Commissions and Work Upon 4 hore econ ical Uasis. OD the Other side, it is agsertea # single independent iine Would always pro ct the public imterexts oF a toreat of Competi- tion if general rates should become tvo bist, Gud that im ralircads, ain other interesis, com- periion Will array itseii in tae long (uO 80 as to bepeut the publiG WikuvUt Lujuring stockBoiders, because (ue desire Jor a sale Margin OF profits wil viwWays rule even the Most smoitivus competiior aod Keep bia within boun fo Us, Who think o! the general ;BLerest and Lot of tuat of particu hig ast VeW appears Co be soL 1. jo tue ot Case, for istauce, ho Gouvt some errungewent Will presenliy be wade between the Conutending Hpes; but tue Baitimore and Ob Toud, o# 18 Mebagers assert, Wil Lot consent at uy Wme to bind iteel! to ab agreement us to rates | a year, and se bd to the other companies, itis evident that t compe led to ect more rividiy he pubic better, i orde of business, whieh wil cer- a general pubic, sserted, for instance, by tne Balinore | and Obto managers that they are not josing by the present low rates; thut they can carry freight irom New York tu Chicago, inciuaiug suipment by Sea and Randiing at Baitimore, for sixty cents the ndved pounds and not iose money, ald thar the se 0 raMc ugder ihe iow rates does alurm them or aftiict them, as they are oniy iy cars WhiCh Otherwise they Would have had | forun gail fuil or one way empty. New York is concerued, 4 our m gods more cheaply apd satisia | Buluamore road than over tue Erie, Central or rno-yivanis. (hey will do so. We d@ not believe tin the long run the Baltimore road wil be Now, So far as chants can sip etordy over the e to carry more cheaply ana satistactorily for us. Mr. Garrett ts an adie wan and | he bas made bis road very suug, dub Mr. Vanderbilt and Colonel Scott are able men also; Gud if the present trouble jeads them to | Turn thetr attention strongly aud permanently in the diection of economy—il once wey give their Whole minds to this matter and abolish merchants’ expresses, fast Ireight lines aud all other inside rings and methods by which officers and directors get ric in tue by ways of rauroaning at the joie expense of stockholders and the puble—we do not fear for the result. The New York and Penvsy!- vania Central are maguificent roads, and their Managers are quite abié, if they have to, to carry for us as cheaply and to accommodate us even better than Mr. Garrett, ECONOMY OF MANAGEMENT NEEDED, great railroad problem nas Row apparently reached that stage Where economy of management is to carry the dag. Wasteiul ways are no longer suie, and espectaiy the shrewdest ralroad men begin to see that terminal ities require more and wore io be looked to, The cost of banding (reigit ata railroad terminus may wake a Vital digercnce in its power of compeung profit- ably with other lives, The net prout of a raliroad enterprise, thougu It may be summed up by wil ons, 1s like the net profit of a sugar piantation, made Up o! very smal. details. A ceat a pouna on freight rolls up a prodigious sum in the course of may make a diference of profit or ample sows how great an economy may be made at the pome of handing freight ata Fatiroad terminus. One of (he mat- ters in dispute between Ovionel Scott and Mr, rett is the charge mae by tue former tor diing Bastimore and Onio freayght at New York, This is said to ve ve cents per pound, and the Baltimore and Ohio inauagers say tat at Bald more they actually hauale eight ior ball acent a pound, and could do all thac the Penusylvania road uid for Unew in handling freight at the ter minus lor @ cent a pound. TERMINAL FACILITIB If this statemenc made by the Baltimore and Omo managers 1s correct, or nearly so, 1t shoWS source Ol Weukness lu the iines centring at New York, Wuich \hey Will be compelled to remeay, And Wiile the managers of the Pennsyivauia, New York “Central, brie and other hoes are already busy improv.ng these terminal tacilines, itis Well 10 remember that tue Basumore and Ohio people have at Locust Pot, on the edge o1 Baltimore, already in operation a very extensive abd aduiravly actanged system Ol p. rugning oul to deep Water, With two elevators of a com. bined capacity of over two muilion bushels of ruin; also, standing in deep water and iu course ©) COUSITUCHIOR, tWO iarge Siorebuuses jor cove und Sugar. Ail the arrangements here are for te mist econowica’, EXpeditious aud safe handing of ireight. In Boston they are Just now agitating @ plag Which, if carried Gul, as 18 probame, Wil give to that elty even better terminal iaciiiies than those of tie Baltimore road. because 1a Bos- tou they propose to accommodate at @ single loss. Kuta singe e centre not one road, but ali tue im- portant freight lines which meet at that port, Boston already taps our trade at Albany, aod the compieuou Oi the Grand Trunk line co pels Mr. Vanderbilt to give to the Bostonians ireight rates over nis road which are more lavor- @div in fact tuan Lhose be gives to New York, The pian KUOWD as tat of the boston and North. Western Raliroad proposes, by a suort conuecting line With sufficient tracks, to tapall tue rouds Which run ito boston and lead them ail to a com- mon Centre at deep Water, where cars and ships may be brougat togetner unger sheds and with the most exieusive conveulence of storage and the greatest ecunomy and safety in hundting goods. For tusend ft is proposed to utilize a pact of the Flats, @ territory how owned by the State and needing tu be ied in vetore 1t can be used jor the purpose of piers, docks and ware- houses, This piau bas been oelore the Legislature this Winter, aud 1% has the Javor of most ul the Jeading mercaauts and capitalists of Boston. It Wil probavly be successiuily carried out, and will, when competed, give to tue port of Boston very important advaptages. THE DULY OF NEW YORE. It 19 in the direction of greater economy and convenience ip banding freight at tue terminal statious that we in New York fs fe 0 100k; lor herein we have been negiectiul, It jact that the cust of a single Cartage, with ita incidents of loss and eXposure, iust us a great part of our coffee trade, wich went to Baltimore, where the cars are run dowu to tue coffee ships. rouds centring here are already making costiy and elaborate preparations in tlis atrection, but the City itseli has Giteuer Lian uot paced obsiruc- tious in the Way. We do not make nearly the use We Ought Of Our Magnificent Water front, and a great deal of our commerce is carried on in The rail- | Cumbrous enu costly manner, wita lutinite waste Of time aud loss trom exposure, THE HARLEM KIVER IMPROVEMENT, First and foremost we ought immediately to connect the North and Kast rivers by completing the Harlem improvement. No more important Work tuan (nis can be done ior the commerce of New York. Au immense coasting and river tratiic, Wiich now lumbers the lower wharves anc sips, Where it 1s Jostied by other busiuess, would at ouce ceutre @t tne upper end of the isiand, where the grain oi the West, coming down the Hudson 1m cana: boats, Would be excuanged lor tne Osh aud otuer products of the East, vrougut 1D Coasting Vesseis througu Long Isiaud Sound, In the t Laver tuis great and tnportaut part of our commerce could be accommodated and vacilitated in such a manuer that it wouid no Gouvt ravicly and greatiy increase. Tue Harlem Improvement bas beea too .ong uegiected, and Gemauds attention as One vi tue Most important economical measures vor the protection and ine crease of our commerce, THE WATER FRONT, Then the cliyougnut to iusist upon a vroad, roomy street on eacu river frout, whica should be Vigliantiy guarded against obstructions. Lie present streets frontng on the two rivers are ucterly inca, aole of carrying the business whicu seeks them; and Darrow ag they are they are @ucumvercd with str raliruads, — Sup- pose these streets made twice as Wide as they HOW are, Which tue Cily, oWhing Lhe water irout, cau du; suppose the hors lroad companies Which now use them compeiled to rase their wu twenty jeet iu the Mit, oF to the neight uf the Greeawich Street Ral.road; suppose tue street Crossings at the lertics to be by foot vridges @bove (he street level, and, tis Gone, our water iront Wou.d Fé so CouVebieutily wccessivle tbas a Vast aud necessary economy must ensue, Not only this, but the rapid transit question would ve partly solved, and at nu expeuse to the city, for surely the city las & Tivut ty require that the reet rairoads shail ve noisted up outol the way, dd the présent eievated railroad fas proved toat this piau ts feasible aud ecoLoMmical. BUt iv 1S possivie to have uot only an elevated Passenger road along tue Water front, ut an ele. Vated ‘reigut road, Sco a read, Coumecting (ne Batiery vy botu sides Of the city Wita the Hariem be , Would rapidly Chauge tie Wuow C aracter Of our water front and piove, we veiicve, aa im- portant means of ecouomy, it suoud have Sidings counecied with the piers, aud other sidings (0 Warehouses, aud by its means tye transportation 0: goods’ from satp to s:ore aud back Would be mumensey ‘lacilitated, such a Toad, 1 tt Were HOw cowpieted, would put a check to extensive luprovements in New Jersey, ior it would bring o our own wharves the important @ which is yearly crossing ‘he river the whole coasung trade removed the Hariem River and these jactittes, we Jor ali the ships and st sould ave wWhurt room wers Whicd are ROW com pelled lo sees Jersey City aud Brooklyn vecause we do not offer them a coinmodatious. Aud with an elevated ireight road connecting the woarves With tbe Wareouses aud with tie railway ter- miul We shoud be auilo waudie ireighe wih such econumy ul time and cust ana With such com- Plece wuards agaiuet los irom (hell and exposure Unat We suould tempt commerce constantly tv our wuarves. We uo not need costiy docks like those o/ Liver- pool, Loudon aud Havre; wor our barvor is well NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, EW YORK CITY. ~hirtientiveae The police made 1,500 arrests during the week. There were reported 604 deaths, 449 births, 99 marriages and 51 still births during the week. The Association tor the Relief of the Poor of the Tenth Ward distributed rations to 260 families in their store, No, 104 Allen street, last Saturday. The folowing ts the weekly report of the Loard of Excise for the week ending March 27, 1875:— mber Of applications lor licenses granted, 9: total amount received for sume, $5,200, James Scott teil in the river at tne foot of East | 110th street last § turday night, was rescued by a watchman, removed to Ward’s Island Hospital and died soon alter, An inquest will be beld on | the body, James Purcell, residing on Forty-fourth street, | bear Ninth avenue, attempted suicide by cutting bis throat wich a razor while under the influence Qi liquor yesterday alternoon, The wound ts Lot dangerous, He was removed to Bellevue Hospital. Jonn Lawler and Mary Ann Lyons. both living at No. 140 Muiberry street, had an altercation in thetr residence yesterday afternoon, during which Lawler cut Mary Ano across the hand witha knife, inflicting a severe wound. He was arrested and locked up. A first clase sparring and gymnastic exhibition will occur at Turner Hall, in East Fourth street, on Thursday evening, April, It will be for the benefit o| Projessor John Long, who is the tutor in tne manly art ol a great number of aluienc young members Oo! the Stuck and Gold excianges. Ou Wail street there 18 an enthusiasuc desire ex- | pressed tat the exhibition shall be one of the most interest kind which has @ver occurred im thts city, Early yesterday morning George Marrett, @ Watchman at pier No, 33 Rast River, and George George Jacobson, a Sailor belonging to the steamer Eleanor, lying at the above pier, became engaged ih an altereanon and eaca pounded the other Vigorousiy WIth a club, DOLD sUstaiuing at the ters Diiuation Of vuerr batile severe scaip Wounds, A patrolman the Se aftray by marching the combatants to the station house, Wuere @ police wouuds, BROOKLYN, There are 612 convicts in the Kings County Penitentiary. The arrests by the Brooklyn police last week numbered 390, Work on the East River Bridge will be resumed during the present week. The body of a drowned man was found bya boatman in the river, loot of Van Brunt street, on Saturday, Deceased was about 60 years of age, tive feet eight inches, and Was very well where It awaits identificauion. During a dispute which arose on Saturday night between Mathew Small, of No, 78 Dikeman street, and J bn Dawson and Ausey Meyers, on Walcott Street, the former procured a ciub ana beat bis antagonists severely about the head. Yhe prisoner | Will be arraigned velore Justice Deimur to-day. Betweeu one and two o'clock yesterday morn- ing Patrolman Close, of the East New York sanad, found a man lying in the hallway of a tenement house, on Bay avenue, near ShefMleld, bieeding from several severe Wounds about the head and neck. The man, whose name 18 John Pobelitz, is twenty-six years of age, {8 @ laborer and was in the employ of Samuel Rapelje, of New Lots, He refused to give tne police the name of his as- Suilant, but the autnorities obtamed certain points of miormation irom. other sources which jed vo the arrest of Herman Scnroeder. ‘The pris ouer, Who 13 thirty years of age, 1s a working- Inan, adimits having ‘inflicted the injuries on Povelltz, but claims to have done so solely 1n seli- defeuce. Tne doctors at tne County Hospital, Flat- bush, Where the Injured nun was removed, con- sider fis condition to be critical. There are twelve gashes, made with @ larg? pocket knife, on the face and neck of Popelitz, and bis nose is almost severed Irom his lace. LONG ISLAND. Governor Tilden has appointed as wreck. Masters, to fill vacancies in SuMolk county, Jason Hearit, of Amityville; Indwell 0, Smith, of Bay shore,’and William B, Howell, of Centre Moriches, All the bays and harbors on the north side of the isiand, wes: of Greenport, are still flied with ice, and it will take several days of mlid weather to | cleac them. Tne ice in Northport Harbor ts Teported Lo be still about ten incnes in thickness, There are @ great number of small crait biocked 1n at Huntington and Oyster Bay harbors. Numerously signed petitions have been pre- sented to the Suffolk county Board of Supervisors protected, and the rise and {ail O tides is BoC sul- Hiclebt to incummode slipping, Tue many plaus wuick have beeu oroacbed, iookimg to stune or iron piers, are Leediessly expeusive, Our preseut Whaives are abundautiy good if kept iu re- pair. If tue city Would sell them or .em on long leases, subject only to its own police rigbt of seeing toat they were it Gud kept, it woud derive au ita- < irom ‘ue, avolish 4 source of | encourage private enterp ise aod commerce. Ii, taen, it would aliow the uu! an elevated .reigut railroad, sucu described, i¢ Would, Without expend. af, give Us the proper and full use oO: our nt batural advantug vis Dot eXcravagaul to say tuata weil planned Systeui of Cievated ireight Fauroads, capavie of counectiug tue Wharves and piers directly with the eht allroad (ermivai sations aud wit st Warehouses, Is un ubsulute Hece sity Lo York, And #Ucb u Froud need wot cost y acent of mo for we do not doubt that € Capital could De got fo build it aud to ran under tue proper restiictions as to rates aud ent it wouks ve one Of the most ines in the world. iw Stior right ui Way, abd ruld d fom the eb Wicka.m cuuld do no gre then to wppoimt @ commiss to nim Wiat we ng aud tren report to iis We Lave Lamed to pew dra ts # construction of tal pou a@ well uatured piau y aaVautag speed and sa.¢ interests to t 80 Vani What We Can ho ionger we @ pilav; but Our natural duvantages are so great that with @ Well jormed plun private capital would easily and prolitabiy ao aii that is Deeded to Diace us uMce more ta reiatiog to (he olher com: Werciai ports wiere the Completion Of tue kite | Gaba YUt us, Leyoud tueir pussine Competition prayiug ior the repeal of the Easthampton Fisnery act, passed by the Board in 1854, giving to that town exclusive privileges in the escalop isneries, ‘They will command tne eariy attention oi the new Board, to be elected at the April town meetings. Some time on Saturday night thieves broke into the store of Mrs, Eliza Edwards, at Sag Harbor. They jound only seventy-one cents in the money drawer, but gol a valuable gold watch. Probably disappoluted a tue small amount of their booty, they smashed the giuss iu tne showcases, twisted Uhe metai Tames out o1 shape, trampled riboons Under fuot aud did considerauie other damage. Notice of appeal in the Kelsey cases on the ques- tion o! change of venue having been served upon District Attorney Tuthill, of Suffoik county, it is understood that Mr. Tutalll, with Wom ex-Attor- ney General Baciow 18 associated, proposes to bring on the appeal some day this week, i! possi- bie, in order that @ decision may be reached in Ue, 11 in his favor, to Mave the cases brought to trial at tne coming term oi tue Cour: of Oyer and Termmer, Waich willcommence at Riverhead on the Zorn Of April. it is Unuerstood further that the District Attorney has some important testi mony to produce at tue trial. The murder Of Milton Miller, the lone fisherman ot Greeaport, which toox place last August, nas Again been brougut to mind by the discovery of the gun known to have belonged to the uniortu- hate man, and which Was supposed to have been carried away by Whoever Was gulity of his murder, it was tound in an oid unoccupied house at some little distance irom the ope occupied by Muller, Standing against the wall of # ball room and covered with aust aud cobwebs, Muler was in the habit of going to this house anu storiug bis ne's, &c., und doubtless ieit the gun wuere It was ound. ing to elucidate tue mystery of his death, WESTCHESTER. A marriage took place at Yonkels recentiy be- tween @ youth O/ sixteen and a girl of filteen, The juvenile pair were united by one of the resident c.ergymen aud with the ui consent of their re- spective parents. According to the annual report of the Health | Officer at Yonkers, just published, the mortality in that city during tue past year has been at the ex- traordibary light rate of eleven in every one thousand jersous, At an adjourned meeting of the Boara of Super- visers, heid iv White Plains on Friday, the special committee on matters growing out of the Anuex- ation act reported that they had dratted a bill tor the settiement of the questions involved and had jorWarued it to State senator Robinson, aud that it vad been imtrouuced and reporied’ irom the committee to Wulch it bad beeu reierred, Alt Uhe transaction of some other unimportant bus! nega Lhe Board adjourned sine die. ANOTHER POLICE CAPTAIN RAIGNED, AR- CAPTAIN WILLIAMS CHARGED WITH TAKING BRIBES, Another scandal in poiice circies wili be officially brought to \ight ext ibursday aiternoon at Po- lice Heacquarters. ‘This time the accused is Captain Wiliams, of the Fourth precinct, formerly Of the Eighth, who, it will be remembered, brought upon himseli $o much severe criticism jas sum- mer by the hostile and obuoxious course he adop- ted toward the Koard of Education when re- quested by that body to ‘urnish information rela+ tive to cercain houses of iil-iame adjoining a schooiuouse in his precinct. The complainant is Superintendent Walling, who has presented to the Board of Police Commissioners char,es gud specifications against Williams, based upon iniormation received from a Lousa Smith, keeper 0! ao alleged house of Ll fame, The speeifica Uons set orth thar ihe defendant, wae Captain 1 toe Eigath precinct, in toe month of June last, accepted irom the sala Louisa smith various Vaiu- vie presents, among Whicu ure the jollowing:— Six pocket babukerchie!s, Vaiued at $30; & Wo) headed cane, $25; pistol, $.0; @ par of sippers, $10; @ Velvet vest pattern, $17, aod & Hall dozen pair of #ocas, $4. itis (urtaer set forth that when Miss Smith ceased tu give Cuptain Wiliams auy inure presents he (Wliliams) bad her arrested om w charge of keeping @ disorderly Louse aud she Was arraigned beture Justice Siummer, at deverson Market Po- lice Court, A copy of the charges aud # ons has been served Opos Captain Williams aud the trial is set dowo wor tue let Of Avril at | two P, ud best attended dispiays of its enth precinct ended the | surgeon dressed their | a. The body was removed to the Morgue | There 18 nothing in the circumstance tend- | /' NEW BOOKS. MARCH 29, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, | The Latest Published Works of Fiction. | oman A GROWLER’S SNEERS. | Literary Pabulum from Boston Bookshelves, | THE SINS OF THE FATHERS. | “I mever read novels nowadays,” said a friend | of ours, “for they are merely sugar-coated pills. ‘The novelist cares little for the story, he 18 80 tn- tent upon Ventilating an opinion or @ theory.’ | ‘This friend 13 @ chronic growier, and we seldom | pay much attention to his remarks; bat, just to | | Prove him right or wrong, let us run over this pile | of new books while he stands ready at our elbow | to parry and thrust. Here ts Farjeon’s last | “Love's Victory” (Harper & Brotners). ‘The title indicates that a true and unadulterated love story | lies between 1ts covers, It is a book of only some Seventy-five pages, yet it has plenty of material | for @ much larger volume, Richard Barton, the | hero, is tue son of a supposed convict, who has made @ fortune in Australia, When he dies he | declares his innocence to his son, and tells him that one Charles Davidge is ‘he guilty man, and that be must make it "ts life-work to prove him so and thus clear his father’s name. Richard comes to London Jor that purpose. He has great wealth | and is 800n the courted of society, | “Pul number one,” sneers the Growler, ‘for does the author not give us @ column or 80 of mor- | alizing on the subject of money as the ‘open | | sesame?’ to everything 7” | | Richard is really @ splendid fellow, and would | bave gotten along well enough witnout the aid of | | Money. By good luck he Wins the iriendship of | Mr. Arastrong, ab American, buton the other hand | Mr. Armstrong wins the girl tnat Richard loves. | Neither man suspects the state of the otuer’ | affections until one eventful night when Arm- | | Strong hears Richard bidding farewell to Laura, | who is engaged to the former. In the mean time ) it had been sound wut that Richard’s father was a | convict, and society, which at first so gladly ex- | tended its hands to him, now buries them deep in its pockets as he passes by. The thing is to tind Davidge, an almost hopeless task, as he bas | no clew to the man. But mesmerism comes to the Trescug. Davidge is found in @ most unexpected | quarter, and while under the influence of @ supe- rior mental force makes a clean breast of it, to the cousternation of his friends, among whom he has | been known by another name and in a) very differen’ character. The innocence of Rich- | ard’s father is proven, which 1s, of course, a source Of much joy to the young man, but his sweetheart Was still another's. And Dow comes the victory. Armstroug, when he overheard the | Conversation between Richard and Laura, made | up his mind to @ course of action immediately, and when the Davidge affair was setuled he handed his betrothed over to Richard, who she Was really in love with all the time, And Richard took her with becoming gratitude and humility. | lt seems more like 4 victory of iriendsbip than love, for did not Armstrong sacrifice everything on the altar of iriendship ? Can’L you see the author’s drift? whispers the Growler at our side, “It is to prove that the sing of the fathers shouia not be visited upon the children, and that circumstantial evidence should nOt transport @ man to Australia.” | Both of which are morals that might be lived up | to wita profit, NOT SO BAD 4S IT SEEMS, From the preiace of ‘Holden with the Cords” (E. P, Dutton & Co.) the reader is led to expecta | learful dose of tract and sentiment. The writer, alter commending the idea of a religious novel to , the reader, and predicting that the great novel ot the world will be @ reugious novel, modestly | | says, “Let me humbly heip to prepare the way | fort.” The reader is agreeably disappointed, however, for theology is not thrust at him to the extent he ‘4s prepared for. The svory is really interestung, and it is very easy to skip the sermonizing if you do not like it “This fellow 1s honest,” says the Growler ; ‘now for his sermon— story, [should say.” Itisastory of blood, notin @ murderous sense, but the blood that comes of gentle birth, Bergan Ariingis the hero, He isa very good young man, and wins the hearts of the Jadies by telling them that they shall be remem. bered tn his prayers. He comes froma long line , of Bergans, of Bergan Hail, a family of Southern aristocrats. But this branch of the family has degenerated and reiuses to keep un the old tradi- tions. Young Arling mortally offends his uucle, | Major Harry Bergan, because he will not consent to become a drunkard, and prefers to earn nis bread by the labor of his orain. Under the very nose of is uncle Harry he tacks up@ tn sigd bearing the inscription, “Bergan Arling, At- toruey at Law,” wich acts as a red Hag to the old geutieman, Another uncie, Goulrey, bali-vrother Oi and enemy to Major Harry, also represents tie | Teligious element, out lacks a Cnristian spirit in | Dis intercourse with Aring., Dr. Feix Remy | Tepresenis science, He is the opposing torce to everything that is good vr hovorapie. ‘tue Doctor has @ uisagreeable habit of putting poison in a man’s lea when be Wanis to wet rid of nun. He is a clever man 1 hig Way, and delights io nothing so much a3 OVerlOroWiDg un Obstacie. He wants to marry the gir! whom Ariing loves be- | Cause she is an heiress, and ue succeeds to a cer- | Win extent, He robs the malis, lorges wuila, Kuis | his enemies aud rides rougbshud over everytuiug that iuterieres With bum. Hut in the enu he reaps Wuat he has sown. ‘Inere ure (WO skeptica! youug ladies introduced into t story, Astra Lyte | (suggestive of Astral Light) and Godiva Phane | Tuew hearts are like adamant to ali Cormtian iu- fluences tor atime, buch hus Leen vignted, aud, | | sirange coimcidence, by the same man, Bergan, | however, pours the Oil of als goodness into tue Wounds and they are tiealed. His own scatned heartis disu Maue huppy in the sequel. Certainly | | the author 54s pained tue saints io more atirac- | | lve culors than the sinners. | “Again 1 um right,’? says the Growler, ‘sor What is this but auotber history of the conflict be- | tween religion aud science, resulting in tue tri- umMph Oi (be jormer!” A SAD STORY. | There i3 a retresuing favor vi sali air about that charming little novel “ue Harbor Bar’ (Mac: | Milian & Co.) One hears tue splash of the waves upon the snore and sees the broad-shouldered Bulors abd their buxom wives and sweethearts, as tuey work about Coew boas ur sit quictiy on | We Leach mending their nets after @ successiui Baul of fish, The scene is laid ata fishing town on the north @ast coast ol Scotiand, among te plin out picturesque inhabitants Of that region, Elsie Mas son, the daughier Of & cruelly deceived maiden, 18 tue neroive ui the stury, and Jamie Storm, te son of tue o.d fisherman Bendie, is tue bere. Not | Withstanaing ber birth blsie 18 @ great favorite @bd gves by (he fame ol “ibe Fiower ot Iunan.” | There is no plot ol any consequence im tue story. | Tue great charm o! the book lies in the writer's cleVeruess at describing scenery and incidents. She has a trutuiui way of descriving the sea- laring men too, Which is very taking and lie like. kise is an excellent character aud | Jamie 1s tu every Way worthy of her. Tue story 01 their sort iove jie 1s prectily told, and the sad death O| Jam aud is jather and brotiers is touchingly described. We can readily pictu e the scene Ob tue beach, the joy oi the Women Wio BAW their OWn husoauds, Drotuers and aweetiears among the saved, aud ihe agony of those who Strained their eyes imvain ior a sight of dear faces, ‘Lat crnel haroor var to Wreck the lives @ud hopes of those brave young hearts! Al, who Would love @ Sealariug maut | Toere are two parts to this story, and Mona Monro, Wom Lhe reader at first thinks Wil be tue beroime, is only of minor tmporiauce, | Tne Growier nas iorced us to uamit thas tt would have heiped the (ory Ii the discussions of | the Athanasian creed had Leen omitted, THE TITLE LELLS THE TAL | “Too Much Alone” (kstes & Lauriat) carries its moral im its name, and 1s @ Warning to ul hus. bands that they sliowd heed. Bad treatment is hot the only thing to wean a Wue’s alfections irom her itege lord, Here was a man, Maurice storn, a better than wom it woud be hurd to find, ‘He married the girl Of bis choice and they baa a lappy Loheymoon, but he Was so absorbed in sume Ciemical process that be was working Out that his Wile Was soon leit to ner own devices to kill ume. Only home &t meal times, and then but to bolt aud be off again; out ul miduigut aud UD at dawn, It Was siiul! satisiaction thas ois wile had in His society, A villain Was his Intimate iniend, Goidou Gienarn by hawe, Woo hated Lis Irienu's wie, DeCause be thougut that ane took lis Ilud Of Of His Inventions. A “reat mistake thal. Maurice did jove fis wie, aud slowed nis gevolion by patung her on and telling ler to keep Up & good hear, lor Would soon De rici ina smiled up at her husband a8 & good wife should; butiu ver iomost heart sue Would have been Vetter pleased | bad be given more Of Bis Ume and iet tue | the | Money go to the dog: | and he telis her bis plans, | he vegan to hace. | such @ | which will probably They had enough to be | happy on, But Gienarn, Mauriece’s evil genius stood ever at his elbow to urge lim on, aud the wife Was lelt too much alone. Of course, What else could Le expectea? a young bachelor, With plenty of tine 4s well as money, appears upon Scene, He only sees the fair’ Lina to love bi but, being an honorable man, he does not conless his iove even to himself, sMuurice is delighted to ind so nice & young man to take his wife around wnd show her the toousand and one attentions that te has not the time to vestow. Lina is a young thing, not twenty yet, atid London, With its many attractions, les al unopened book betore her.” With uervert Clyne to guide her band she Ils the clasp ana peeps in delighted Wud WAT she sees. ime passes along pleasantly enough now. Clyne drops im to ainuer, 1a 10 lunch, lakes ber to church; they ride, Walk and talk together by the boar, Sti: Lina loves her husvand dearly | oe has never had one uniaithiul thought toward m1 | Maurice buries himself deeper and deeper in his business, feeling perfectly tree, BOW that his | wife bas & companion tp her golituue. He is the kindest of husoanus. “Ol course,” says the Growler, “they are Just the ones who never see anytoing amiss in their | own homes.?? | At last the crisis comes, An intimate friend | telis Clyne that he 1s the cause of Mrs, Stora’s name being ligntly spoken 0}, and that he snould leave her Mf he bas @ particle of mauuood in ms composition, And there’s tue rub! Clyne ac- knowledged the truth of all his iriend said; but could he give up Linat His bad angel triumphed, and he said that ne could not, Lie straintway goes to her, avd for the first tune whispers words of love and begs wer to dy with bim from her un happy home. Ste listens tremblingly to what ne Das to say aud bursts into & passion of tears. All seuse Of right aud honor is drowned In (ne food, and she couscnts to his plans. Woat is the hus- band done that he does not hear the mutcerings of the storim about to burst over his heady Unex- pectediy he enters the room, saying that ne 1s not Well and will immediately retire 1 his wie and guest will excuse him, The wile, catching at a straw, begs that ue Will let uer bathe his bead or prepare a composing draught jor tim, No; rest was all he wanted. “Don's come with me, dear; 1 don’t want any- thing.” Aicer te retires sue returns to her lover, She wust meet pim that very night, and they will fly together to tue enas of Ue world; and he leaves her with @ Kiss, In the de. bour of the night sue comes, siawly and teariully, aowa the siient stairway, across the loncly hali aud with trembling fingers ‘draws tue | boits ana bars and looks out tno the cold, wet | street, Something starts up iria tne woorstep | and fees before her, Whatis it? Alas! a poor, | lost creature, in rags and misery, thrown upon | the World. phe sees her own Jute im that oi the | girl before her, turns vack horrified and 1s saved. Do we blame her tor her almost crimimal weak- ness’ Yes, ol course we do, and we biame Ulyne | and we blaine ber husband. The. sins 0: Ouission are Oiten as terrible in their results as tose of commission. i Maurice Sworn had purposely done ashe did he would have been # rascal of the deepest dye; but ue Was periecly innocent O} any Wroug, und had he been told now his wile ielt about bis neg.ect he would have been utte:ly sur. prised, The world is jull of Maurice Storns and Herbert Clyues, and the Lina Storms do Dot ail escape the Nunes. A MODERN MEPHISTOPUELES. ‘The Growler will have a bard time to point a moral iu “Checkmate” (stes & Lauriat), uoless it be the very vid one that murder willout, Mr, La Fanu has fougat shy of religious or scieatific dis- cus-lons and plunged at once luto nis story. Wal- ter Longciuse is the central figure “around whom the others move as puppets in a haud | organ. He 1s a pale, thin-lipped man, with “cagaverous aspect and broken beak,” waoose | eyeurows curl sacunicaliy upward and whose laugh ig holioW and cold, No Oneim London kuows any- | thing of his antecedents; he came tuere without | | any introauction, save that of beiag & millionaire and lavish with Wis money, His sinister counte- nance is seen at all pubic and private gatherings, and, though people shrug their shoulders and ask | Unanswered questions concerning Lim, be 1s al- | Ways invited uu | always on band. Mr. Longeluse 18a Very intelligent man and avery agreeavie man, and there 18 a sorto, devilish fascluation | #b UC Dim that is hard to resist. Like many Jess intellectually tavored men, Mr. Longciuse sails in love. krow tue crown O1 his head to the soles of | hus boots be ls permeated with the divine passion, But, alas! the giri oe loves bas long ayo chosen tor herself ani her bearc 13 in the keeping of & young and iandseme cousin. Alice Aruea, for That 18 ber nae, bas heard ugly hints tirown out against Dir. Loagciuse, aud even i she bud not loved her cousin sae cuula notlove him. He has aiways, Rowevdr, been the kind, attentive gentieman in ner presence, and let us. believe that, bad sue listened to Dis suit, he might have become a better man. due Growler incerrupts us to say that he does not see why yougg ladies should make relurm | Schools of themscives lor any rascal who Wishes $0 save Limseli by uwing in the shadow of toeir | wings. Alice became terribly airaid of Longcluse, Wher- ever she went Bis burning eyes were Oxed upon her, and when he go: her alune he would pour | out tne torrent of his passion, so that sue | trembied at his approach. Her brother, a mis- | eravie gambier, made Lougciuse lis euemy, wnich indiscretion he gouu bud reason to repent; for | ‘this Mepiustopheles began to lay nis traps, into | tue worst of woich be tell, As ve had loved Alice He swore he would make her his whe, but oy her quick wit and the help of her | Maid she escaped frum his clutches. Longeluse | was playing &@ deep game and was nov to be toiled, | Let us look back over a few years. There was @ murder in tue Arden family. Young Harry Arden Was Murdered at his jatner’s gate one wight, When on nis way home irom tne races, witu a pocket jJuil ol winnings. Tue old housekeeper hau seen the fuuldeed committed, and fad even tried to | ull tue murderer down by hanging On to bis coat ails. She bad seen him tui in the jace, which she never jorgot. ‘Ife duy she first lata her | eyes on Longcluse she tell almost jainting upon a | chair, Yet, Upon Clouse eXumination, there was | nothing allke about the laces ol the two men, Tue murderer Was a bewutilul man, with a delicate Greek nose, « smuli, Well-shaped moutn, grace- luily arcued cyebrows and w slightly receding chin, § Longciuse, on the other hand, had a par- Tot nose, jarge mouth, eyevrows that puinted up- Ward ai tue euds anu prominent lower jaw, alto- gether not a handsome Jace and totally dissimilar + to that of Harry arden’s muraerer. And here comes the science or quackery. Lonycluse and the murderer of Harry Arden were one aba tue sae. but how tis transtormauon? For turee moniis he placed tamselt under the Nauds oi a skiliul quack 14 Paris, who periormed Various surgical cperations upon tis: handsome countenance which completely disigured him and Wrougut such a change that his most intimate Iriends would uot wave kKbown hiw., He might bave goue unharmed (hrouga the worid had it Lot been tuat the doctor who operated upon hls lea lures told the story and appeared against him. Lougelu-e Was arrested aud cast into jail, where he cueated the gallows by taking poison. Alter his death it transpired that be was guilty of many other murders and crimes innumeravle, A smart Mau and a great villain, but he was checkmated in theeud, Anigniy exciting story has Mr. La Favu woven out oi tis material, oue which, for the sake 01 the reaaer’s peace of mind, should not be Feud late at night. | ‘The Growler stuiles @ smile of triumph a8 we lay the last book back upon the tabie, “The sugar was thick, but the pill was there,” be remarks quietly, but in nis most irritauing tone. LITERATURE IN BOSTON. Boston, March £7, 1875, | Within the past two weeks matiers in the pub- i | ishing line have considerably brightened, and | the various Orms ars beyinning to stir themseives | @ littie more vigorously than Of lave. J. R, Osgood | & Co, issue “Castle Nowhere; a Collection of Lake | Couutry sketcnes,” by Constance Fenimore Wool- son—a Volume iong promised, and by those who know the lady and her writings eagerly expected, | Several, ti pot ail, of these sketches have ap- | peared in the different magaziues, and have been | widely copied by the diferent newspapers | throaghout the Country, Miss Woolson is a grea niece of the distinguished novelist James Feni- more Cooper, and inherits—if there really is | thing as inheriting mental qualt- | ties and characterisiics—a fair share of | the peculiar talents of her ancestor. Like | him, sue selects the forests and wild regions of the vorder country for the scenes of tier tales, and the rough, half civilized den- izens of tnose localities for the larger part of the actors in them. “Oak Kidge—an Old Time | Story.” by J. Emerson Smith, 18 announced by the sime firm, to appear onthe 20th, It is a | story in which the ordivary novel reader will dejigut, /ull of mystery ana suspected crime, and | rich in dramatic situations, The opening scenes | are jaid in Maino; the story shiiting supse- | quently to England, and closing finally im the locality where it began. The piot a9 fashioned | Qiter those of Wilkie Collins and the interest in | | the narrative weil sustained, “Periect Love Casteta Ous Fear,’ is the title of @ novel announced by Messrs. Lee & Shepard, | see the light the coming week, In many respects it is the novel of tae season, The author, Katharine Sedgwick Wash- | burn, has already gained a flattering reputation as the author of two successiul romances, pub- | lished by the same firm, The present is a much | More finished periormance., It is evident that | much Care has veen given to It; still, tt would bear pruning. Lhe reader who dislikea digressions and sentiments, and reads only to “see how it comes out,” will be apt to ge: impatient over some O! the paged, and yet its plain to see that these are the very places over Woich the author , lingered tue moat lovingly, and strove to do her best work. Ihe plot is by no means a complicated | one. Geatrice Sinciat’, & coquette, as ali veautl- | Tul Women are, alter a series oO: conquests and en- | Gagements, nds at last the maa whom she truly | loves, and breaks of her iatest eugauem to | | Catholic Churen grafted her power on tne heart: | without | ds the slavery of ihe mind. | Was an appeal to Parliament to extend authors' bind herseté to him, subsequently marrying tim. The discarded lover, an Itallan count, secks Ler aiter her marriage, while she is travelling i Italy on ner bridal tour, and insists avon an inter- view in the temporary absence of her bu® band. He holds her letters to nm, and demands as their price a kiss Terriuled by bis threats to deliver the letters to ber bus band, whom she has kept in projound ignorance of her former entangiement, sie grants nim the Kiss. The act 18 seen by the husvand, whe has uvexpectedly returned home, She Snds that ne has Witnessed the meeting, and, over come with terror, remorse and shame she flies from Rome, and, reaching Paris, takes passage to New York, her former home. Here she Jails dangertoualy ill, but 19 found at last, throuzb the intervention of her friends, by her husband. An explanation is had, and she fiually recover, the result being, 43 usual, that “they live nappy ever after.” An extract or two may serve to give some idea of Mrs, Washburo’s powers. Her characters are fond o! discussing questions of morais and philosophy, even the lovers, of wiom there are three separate pairs, and really these passages are not tue worat part of the book, Here, Jor instance :—~ “I thought,” said Laura, in her most suave man- ner, netted at Mr. Leign’s becoming,u however indirect a way, an ally of Beairic:, “that the true genius of writers consisted 10 their entire aoan- donment of the prejudices of birth, agnoaion, plice and private ieeing, and in the power ol completely throwing one’s self out of one’s own personality into the characters, lives and passions of joreign patures,”” Mr. Leigh began to feel the Gelicate scratch of the finely pomtea claw under the velvet. ‘lt Would,” she continued, “seem very strange i dhakespeave had mase Romeo, a passionate 300 of the South, to express pimself like acold Eng lish striping. He would then have parted with Juuet, giving her a hearty kiss, telling her to be of good ¢cueer, that (hey should meet shortly, and inthe meanwhile to eat and sleep weil! And Otveild, Instead of smotnering Desdemona, would have gone out to smoke 2 cigar, lave come 1D san in & bad humor, and have locked pimself 10 his library for tne nignt—voila tout,” Again bere ig a bit of sentiment neatly ex pressed :— in times past women must have had wonderfa veauty. The ancients immortalized them ant worshipped them as goddesses, and even the of men vy subsuutuung lor idols the idolatry of a woinuu, It Was, perdaps, unconscious, but it was @urand tribute to your sex. It 18 strange that there Have veen lewer yreat women than great men, What isit that ts wanting? Is it physica! force ? Men, When they Have left names bend tucm, have carved them on the rock of ages: women have put written theirs on the shuting sauds of time and the Waves of Ile have wasned them away. Woman’s greatness seems to buve been iuspiration, man’s has been wrought out With the chisel of thought and labor, OLD AND NEW. Our other Boston magazine, Old and New, has taken 2 new lease of life since it came under the auspices of Messrs, Lee & Shepard. Why it was taken from Roberts Brothers none but the stock+ | holders seem to know, but that it has gained in rep. utation sad has a stronger hold on the pubiic favor 1g @ fact not to be questioned. The Rev. E. E, Hale remaina its editor; the magazine would lose its peculiar flavor if it should lose Mr. Hale, and it is that flavor which gives it its great charm. Since the change 0! publishers it has been reorganized and one or two new departments instituted, the most important and the most ably conducted of which velng that relating to art. Tnis department is in charge of Miss Helen M. Knowlton, a pupil ol Hunt's, The firm of W. F. Gill & Co, have just issued two books, one of which 1s creating considerable ex- citement in this city, from the fact that certain ol its readers profess to see, In the characters of some dozen or more ciergymen portrayed, portraits of just a8 many incumbents of our own city pulpita. ‘Ihe author, who conceals himself behind a nom de plume, has @ hearty hatred for shams and theo logical affectations, and deals heavy blows right and left, The attack is made in the form of a novel, if anything without a plot can be cailed a novel. In his preface, the author says:—‘Vice puts a 1ool’s hat on Superstition’s head, and Re- ligion herself invites us to deride the follies of the day even as in olden time she made Elijah laugh at the prophets of Baal. The latter are no more, but those of Mammon are now at the altars, ana tt 1s well to mine their temples.’’ The other publica. on, to which we alluded, is a print from Gard- ner’s celebrated work on ‘Longevity; or, the Means of Preserving Life atter Middle Age.” The London Lancet and other English medical journals warmly indorsed the book on its appearance, and it will doubtless meet with equal approbation here. The latest number of Gill’s select novels is @ translation of Belot’s ‘La Femme de Feu”? (“The Woman of Fire’); 9 taking title and an equally taking story. A TRIBUTE TO THE JEWS. Mr. George Wilkes, in the last chapter of his essay on Shakespeare from an American polat of view, has the jollowing remarkable tribute to tbe Jews i-— Beiore closing this chapter I may add that there 18 anotuer interior proot of Shakespeare's Roman. ism in the bitter hatred which he repeatediy ex- hibits to the Jews. This prejudice does nut exist among Protestants; at any rate, not smo the Protestants of the United States. On the contrary, the Jews wmingie with us any social disadvantage; and, ior my own part, I have never heard of any historical, etonological or moral reason why tuey suffer the least discount in any equitaole estima tion, They certainly are the puresc race known to the world; and this purity could not Have oeen preserved Wituout great traits of character and great sacrifices, They are notoriously brave, jor the proofs ot their courage are stamped upon every age, from the battle. field to the prize Ting; thelr women are proverblally virtuous abd beautiial; an intense interior pride keeps them from ever blileting their poor upon apy public charity, and the wou. der is that under the excessive prejudice Which the society of all Christian countries has ta- Tremittingly eXercised against them they remain such uselul, tnodfeusive, law-abiding citizens, The world 1s not at all indebted to Willlam Shakespeare jor what he has done to contribute toward this narrow, grov- eliing and coniemptivie redection upon the Jews, | and, least of ali, Suould he be respected fo, itin America. Less, than atany time, to-day, Prej- udice is the very meanest torm of slavery, for it one black, sprivelling biot has recently been exuded {rom the national conscience. Surely, there can be no excuse for allowing even a shaJow of tis other to remain, One object of Mr. Wilkes’ argument is to prove that Shakespeare waa a Roman Catholic, and nia treatment of the Jews, as represented in the char- acter of Shylock, 18 cited ag @ proof, If this argu. | ment 1s true, that tue plays have the internal evidence of Catholicism im their author, then the Baconian theory 13 disposed of, for Baconis known to have been @ Protestant, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Undaunted by the maxim that ‘he who manages his own law case has a jool for a client,” @ London publsher advertises a twelfth edition of “Every Man’s Own Lawyer,” headed In staring capitals, “No More Lawyers? Bills!” Mr. Cariyie 1s outina letter in behalf of an amendment of the jaw of copyright, which reminds us that ove of the philosopher’s earliest utterance: rights to sixty years, and cut off the stealing of the publishers, “Alter sixty years,” said the sen- tentious Thomas, “they may begin to steal.” Under the title of “Pius {X.; the Story of His | Life, with Glimpses at the National Movement in Italy,” Mr. A. O. Legge bas givea two large oo avos to the Englisn pubiic. Some of the sparkling criticisms of tue late Sainte Beuve on the literature of England will be translated under the title of “English Portraits.” Mr. Thomas Frost has written @ book on “Circus Life and Circus Celebrities,” svon to de pud.isned 1a London, Father Jonn O'Rourke bas written an elaborate history of the great Irish famine of 1847, witn notices of earlier Irish famines, which makes @ book of 600 pages. Y That learned and eloquent historian, M, Fus! de Coulanges, bas published tne first partof hit “Histoire des Institations politiques de Vancienne France.” Tnéophile Gautier’s book on *Constantinople,” which displays ail the Characteristic picturesque ness of bis style, Will be published in English by Henry Holt & Co, Miss France: Cobbe's “Hopes of the Human Race Here and Hereafter,” veing her latest | voiame of ays, Will be reprintea by James Miller. ‘The hopeless variation of tie Englisn language in Engiand is well iliustrated in the Rev. W, D. Parisi’s bew ‘Dictionary of the Sussex Dialeot ad @ Collection of Provincialiams,”