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x THE WAR IN THE EAST, SEVEN SMALL FORTS CAPTURED BY THE MONTE- NEGRIN ALLIES OF THY HERZEGOVINIANS. A Ragusa, August 22, 1875. A number of Montenegrins who joined the Herzego- vinian insurgents have captured seven small forts around Gasko, Duga and Nistki, near the Montenegrin frontier SPAIN. ABREST OF CARLIST OFFICERS ¥OR CONSPIRACY AGAINST DON CARLOS, SANTANDER, August 22, 1875, It is ramored that serious disturbances have occurred ot Estella, and that the arrest and incarceration of Gen- als Mendiri and Mogrovejo and other Carlist offivers ‘was because of their complicity in a plot against Don Carlos, GERMANY. IIBEBTY OF THE PRESS ASKED FOR BY A CON~ GRESS OF EDITORS, Bremen, August 22, 1875, A congress of German journalists opened here to-da; Resolutions were adopted asking imperial legislation in behalf of liberty of the press to publish truthful reports of public proceedings of law courts, and of granting im- munity trom disclosure of the names of contributors, SWITZERLAND. ‘THE NATIONAL COUNCIL RESOLVED TO SUPPRESS CONVENTS AND SISTERS OF CHARITY. Gexnva, August 22, 1875. The National Council has passed resolutions for the suppression of convents and sisters of charity. A CONFLICT WITH BURGLARS. Puuapenrma, August 22, 1875, Recently two robberies were committed in this city, and officers have been on the lookout for the thieves, This morning Officer Kerbaugh met three men and followed them threo miles to Springwoods, in the Twenty-fifth ward, and found a bag of silverware which had been stolen. Ho attempted to arrest them, when they resisted and one of them pulled a revolver on him, He drew his revolver and struck Jim Lloyd in the hip, whereupon he tried to throw his revolver to the others, but did not succeed, when they escaped, Lloyd was arrested, A bullet hole was found in his leg, which he had re- ceived in a late encounter while attempting to rob a house, This evening Officer Kerbaugh captured an- other of the gang, and late to-night he was on the track of another one. je TEI OES Rk THE CROPS IN KENTUCKY. Lovisvinen, August 22, 1875, To-morrow tho Courier-Journal will publish crop es- timates from all sections in Kentucky and the tobacco counties of the adjacent States, showing the average and condition of tobacco compared with 1873, tho , product of wheat and other small grain, and the supply of fattening hogs on hand, The largest tobacco crop ever known was planted, but subseqnent misfortunes reduced it to prospectively moderate yield, perhaps a hght average, if future conditions are favorable, The returns cover the territory which produces about three- fourths ot the vcrop of the United States, The original average of corn was very great, and notwith standing the weather damages a ill crop is predicted. Wheat is about a half to two-thirdserop, rye about the fame, and oats are damaged much more than any other crop. The hay crop is largo. A DROWNING ACCIDENT, Newrort, August 22, 1875, Assad drowning accident occurred on the beach hero to-day. John Coffea, aged seventeen years, in company with some other boys went in bathing at ten o'clock this morning; a half hour later his companions who had left him in the surf were coming back, when they found his clothes, and of course knew that he was dro The place where he went in was quite a distance from the beach proper, hence proprietors of the bathing houses were not on the lookout for him. The body tame ashore at half-past ttree o'clock this afternoon, His father, mother and sister being quickly on the spot were wild with grief. ‘A Coroner's inquest was not deemed necessary. TWO YOUNG MEN DROWNED. Srrivavieip, Mass., August 22, 1875. Threo young men named Thomas Grady, Frank McGuire and Robert MeGowan, aged about twent three years, were capsized while rowing on the Con- hecticit river, at Holyoke, this afternoon, McGuire only rearhed’ the shore, the others being drowned, fhe body of McGowan was recovered, OLD ORCHARD CAMP MEETING, Onn Oncnann, Me., August 22, 1875. Tho meotings of the National Temperance Camp Mecting to day were attended by 7,000 persons. ‘The features of the day were addresses by ex-Governor Per hain and Miss Willard, of Chicago, SUICIDE IN LOUISVILLE. Lovisvinue, Ky., August 22, 1875, W. H. Morris, brother of Rev. J, C, Morris, a promi- nent Methodist clergyman, committed suicide to-day by taking Jaudanum. Iraca, August 22, 1875, ‘Tho honso of Governor Weller, just sonth of Ithaca, was burned at three o'clock this afternoon, The cause of the fire is unknown, The loss is about $7,000, aud the insurance supposed to be $3,000. A FIRE IN IOWA, Cueaco, TH, August 22, 1875. A special despatch to the Times from Burlington, Towa, says that Cook's shinglo and barrel stave factory was burned this morning. Tho loss is $15,000, on which there is no insurance, Cmcaco, M., August 22, 1875. ‘There was frost at various points in this Stato Inst night, Frost in the vicinity of Freeport, IIL, severely injured corn, potatoos and other vegbtables, MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. Orrick or thm Cine Stgxat Orricen, Wasuixuros, Monday, August 23—1 A. M. Probabilities, For New England, the Middle and upper Atlantic Btates light rains, with cooler weather, northerly to sasterly winds and rising barometer, For the Gulf States, Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, | partly cloudy weather with casterly to southerly winds, vo decided change in temperature and high barometer, possibly followed by local rains near the Gulf coast, For the Lake region, the Upper Mississippi ana Lower Missouri valleys, clear or fair weather, low but slowly | tising temperature, easterly to southerly winds and falling barometer during the day. | The Ohio River and the Mississippi, as far south as | Memphis, will fall slowly. The Mississippi remains itationary at Vicksburg and Helona, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, The following record will show the changes in the Yemperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com. parison with the corresponding date of last year, as in- ficated by the thermometer at Hudnat's pharn Uxnaty Building AST4, 1875, AM. Ce OAM. ij 9A. M. 68 72 | QM a | Averag ure yesterday Average temperature for corresponding date last year. ESCAPE OF ‘edibeiaety i Yesterday morning, “Bally” Henry and Thomas | in the House, | | | DESPERADOES. dix, two negroes who were confined wf Detention as witnesses against Morrell, the wolored man who on the 18th of July ‘an “a muck” on Thomy street, and fatally | itabbed another colored man named Sorrell, wer Yom the breakiast table, Search for them was hade, a generai alarm — being sounded in the qty, and at half-past cght o'clock in the morning Dix was captured at No, 18 York, streot, Ab neo'clock In the morning “Bally” Henry stabbed t man and woman, named Wilson and Maria Robinson, No. 109 Thompson street. At one o’clovk this morn- ing be was arrested in Hoboken, Ise j cars that were known to be on their wi NEW YORK HERALD, BEECHER. Preaching Regeneration Un- der Cover of Canvas. A HAPPY HOUSEHOLD, A HUMAN HEAVEN. Beecher Repeats the Words of Paul, “We Have ’ Like Passions with You.” A DEFINITION OF TOTAL DEPRAVITY. Ministers, Like the Rest of the World, Live in Glass Houses. Twin Mocntain Horse, N. H., August 22, 1875, The extensive preparations which were made for the multitude that it was expected would come together at this place to hear the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher preach this morning were fully justified by the demands of the occasion, Even alarger number were present to-day than on last Sunday. The mammoth tent, which has veen obtained ftom Boston by the Messrs. Barron, proprietors of this house, and which was yesterday raised on the lawn a few rods from the hotel, being 125 fect in diameter, is capable of seating some 4,000 people, It was so full that many persons crowded the aisles near the preacher and stood around the edges of the tent, There were thirty-seven cars that brought to the Twin Mountain House their Joads of human freight. These came from Portland, Me.; Burlington, Vt.; Plymouth, N. H.; White River Junction, Vt; Lancaster, N. H., and the Fabian House, There wore 188 vehicles from the neighboring towns and hotels not on the lines of tho railroads, The benches in the tent were built of heavy planks and were placed as closely together as comfort would allow, 80 as to make the most of the available space. A broad and strong platform had been erocted, on which Mr. Beceher stood, and which, as the ground ascended in front of him, brought him nearly ona level with the majority of his hearers. About a dozen, or more, ushers, most of them from Plymouth church, Brooklyn, who were appointed to meet the exigencies of the occasion, gracefully performed the duty of seating the audience, There being no organ or piano on the spot, the singing was admirably ompanied by White's Boston Band, to whom the guests of the hotel are daily laid under obligation for enlivening music, The most picturesque and beautiful scene was presented on every side by the adjacent forests and mountains. A. lovelier day could not have been wished for, and preacher and hi seemed to enjoy the inspiring influences of the natui beauty by which they were surrounded. In the con- gregation were many clergymen and men of distinetion, from various parts of the country, who are spending their vacation among the moun- tains, The regular hour for service here is eleven o'clock, but to-day the exercises were postponed until twelve o'clock, as the long trains o¢ y from Portland and Burlington did not arrive until that time. Tho tedium of the hour which intervened was relieved by the singing of several hymns and by the walking about, at the suggestion of Mr. Beecher, of those who feared that they might find it wearisome sitting until the close of the meeting. During the interval a choir was improvised to lead the singing, with Mr. 8. L. Parsons, of Brooklyn, N. Y., as conductor, In his request that competent singers would come for- ward to the platform Mr. Beecher said:—*It is the duty of all who can sing to do so, and thus contribute to the common service in this tabernacle, for we are a multi- tude in the wilderness, and we are holding taberna services.” On the arrival of the last train, at the sound- ing of the. horn which had been agreed upon as tho signal forcommencing the services, those who had left the tent returned there, The regular exercises of the morning began with the singing of the first four gtanzas of the hymn commencing Up to the hills T1ift mine eyes, In announeing this hymn Mr. Beecher said:—“T ask youall to join in the singing. That is a part of wor- ship. You have not come together from curiosity; you have come together to worship and to partake of the joy of Christian fellowship; 80, then, let us all have part and lot in the service of God among the mount- ains.?? ‘THE PRAYER. The following allusion to tho assembly and to tho occasion occurred in the prayer which he now made:— “Thou hast invited us to come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain merey and find grace to holp in time of need, Is not this morning a time of various needs with this great congregation? Grant that the breath of the mouth may blow away all unworthy motives. Grant that the warmth of Thy face may arouse in us all dormant affections. Grant that we may enter into fellowship with each other in the blessed service of praise toward God and in all the efforts which we shall make for instruc- tion.” Before the singing of the next hymn beginning What sinners value I resign, Mr. Beecher announced that Mrs. Mary A, Livermore, at his urgent request, bad consented to discourse in the evening upon the subject of the “Moral Elevation of Woman,”’ during the hour usually devoted to the ser- vice of social song. In making the announcement he spoke of this lady as one who is honored wherever she is known, THE TEXT, He then said that he would speak from the passage contained in the third chapter of Jobn and the seventh verse—Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” The discourse developed as follows: THK SERMON, Almost all the sects of religion that are separated from each other Wy doctrinal peculiarities are made separate by some peculiar mental philosophy, You will find that in the process of time the childron that are born holding their parents’ peculiar dispositions still go on in their sect from the force of education and of- habit, Men of one peculiar type of charactor have personal afinities with what are called Calvinistic doctrine, and men of a different type of feoling and understanding affiliate more readily with the social sects and are more liable to embrace the Arminian doctrine than the Calvinistic. Men of a certain worshipping nature wh soul demands of them an expression of reverence and awe tend almost always to organize themselves on some church form that shall — represent theso cle. ments, ‘and so, although there are many found’ in each of the sects who do not belong to them, the great truth remains that all the cardinal sects of Christendom are organized around a psychological core or tendency; not that th hold it, but that they hold so much of the truth as is consist- ent with a certain mental conformation, You will find therefore, that under certain circumstances the great operative doctrines wh ve been preached have been in the direction of the sovereignty everything else been — subordi: one “great conception. Men have not ont: as all should do, to teach the word of God; have the motive power of their life’ exercised fn exalting Him in bumbling men, in showing not simply that God is supremo and sovereign,” bat that His law as representing» Him is the’ most precious thing in the universe, and that it were better for the whole race to be swamped and to be destroyed than that one jot or tittle of His law should perish, CALVINISM--NEW ENGUAND STYLE, ¥, When you bring this view into a community like New England as our fathers ‘brought it there, you o bear in mind that it isa doctrine which is ne held by men cramped and coutined by political cireumstances or by old and hereditary inst tutions, and that it naturally is undergomg modification rising ‘1 from the ¢ eter of the times a If there t thing that is charac nd it is y 4a, ngleied was a HON We and as) snmonwealth and adem very. beginnt as itwas given to } inthe early days to contend against thi hy for the suke of ‘vindieat ing the essential worth of men and the inalienable rights of the individual citizen, it could not bo otherwise, for hy el A the dignity and the prerogatives of every man, they must frame their re ligion accordingly. The when they caine to | preach high Calvinistic tines they felt” that there was something they felt that they could not one day declare against hierarchies and agwinst rigorons churches, and assert. that men were equal, that each man had in him a kingdom, that every haman being wag crowned with immortality and thai he had nights which no king nor horesiarch nor bishop nor any tribanal on earth could with impunity despise, They felt that they do this and then turn around next day a God had a right to tread anybod was xi, that men had on and that therefore they but to standstill, =~ and stake =o what they could got, That doctrine became inconyenieni, and little by little Calvinism in New England took on nid not preach that y under foot beeanse He rights before God had nothing to do | rious statements ax to the MONDAY, not so much by abandoning eld doctrines as | by neglecting them; not 80 much by, changing their philosophy as by putting the emphasis of their preach- ing on some other point in the ne of Christian doe: trine, And when the shift was made the point selegtod Was that of the new birth, and the New Enj preachers from an early day have made the emphatic point in this seheme to be the necessity of being born again. This is the plyotal doctrine, having implications in every direction and giving emphasis and color to al- most every side of Christian theology. So, then, I sup- pose, in Your youth you have heard as many sermons ‘on the subject of regeneration as upon any other topic of religious doctrine. Regeneration is of transcendent importance. It is a truth not less true and not less es sential than the most vigorous preachers have repre- sented itto be, It may be that it has been stated with- Out skill; It ‘may be that it has been encumbered by misconceptions; it may be that it has assumed such a place in the scheme of Christian doctrine that it has out some other collateral truths which sbould haye been preached more, No matter what the infelic- ity may have been, aud no matter what obliquities have adhered to it, it is’ still true that there is not im the whole range of Christianity a point, a fact, a doctrine, more important than this; “Ye must be born again. That which is ‘born of tho flesh 4s flosh, und that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Unless ye are born of water and of the Spirit ye shall not see the kingdom of heaven.”” A TEST—"WILL IT wast??? Mr. Beecher said he proposed to make some familiar remarks upon this great theme, the new birth, and that he hoy not only that. they would be profitable to those who had never made a pro- fession of personal faith in Christ, but that they would seareh and try the hearts of those who had long sup- posed themselves to be living in Christ’s spirit, *‘for,”? said he, “there be many who wear Christ’s name, but who wear nothing else that belonged to Christ. He then proceeded to inquire whether it was necessary that men should he born again, whether there was any reality that ever took place which led to the supposition that men are born again, whether it was true that this ney birth was mstantaneous, and whether men ‘could live thirty, forty, fifty, sity years, or more, and then, by a flasi of’ the Divine power, be th in’ a moment, so that, though yesterday y were sinners black,‘ to-day they were Baints, Is that which passes for conversion genuine? Will it wear? Will it wash? He said these were all questions of a practical kind and that he shared them? He did not desire to repel men from inquiring into them, or any questions that the most active und searching in: tellect could dictate, but he invited thei, and that the Scripture teaching Would bear any amount of inquisi- tion on this point. TOTAL DEPRAVITY—AN EXPLANATION, As to the need of a new birth, the question may be resolved mto another form. ‘Are men good enough t ‘Are they on the whole good? Could they uot be im- proved a good deal? Is it safe to leave one’s money un- guarded and one’s doors unlocked? Is nota man’ that is good, just, truth-speaking, upright, as much an ex- ception as steeples are exceptions in a village? Are not mendepraved? Whether they are totally depraved or not depends upon the meaning whic ut upon the term — “totally,” Tt it . stood as signifying absolute quality and. quantity, men are not totally depraved; but if it is un- derstood to imply that men are not edu morally infirm and liable to sin in the exere 3 particular faeulty of their minds, then they are totally depraved, Considering man as an individual, as a Rob- inson Crusoe alone on an island, is he competent to take care of his own body? Ax men ‘go are they capable of that’ Do th know how to take caro of their brains, their longs, their stomach, their structure that God has given them’ Ifan engineer running a locomotive were as ignorant of it as men of the machine which they are running on the track of life he would be discharged, More than half of the race die in infancy, and the lite of the race isonan average less than thirty-five y though man was evidently made to last at least a hw dred years, Two-thirds of human life is squandered the world oyer because men do not even know enough to take care of their bodies. Then how much do men know about their dispositions? Consider them in the family, whieh is the best place in human society, and which is the nearest rep: tation that we have of the heavenly state? How many households are there that may be considered as an organ, every pipe of which is musicaland in tune with every other pipe, so that all the time the experience of the various parts is that of sweetness and cheerfulness and helpfulness and sym- pathy and giadness? In how many households is that the case beiore breakfast as well as after breakfast, aud when they are tired as well as when they are rested ? HONKST—A PLOUGUMAN AS GOOD AS A MINISTER, The preacher went on to consider the character of men in the larger relations of business in all depart- ments of industry, and asked whether it was found that the best heads carried the best hearts, and that tho strongest men were the most humane? In this con- nection he intimated that 1t was not safe to trust’ men because they belonged to any particular class in the munity, Said he, “The man who follows the plough is no better than the hat- ter, and the hatter is no better than the man who pursues any of the various mechanical trades, and the mechanic is no better than the merchant, and the mer- chant is no better than the doctor, and the doctor is no better than the lawyer, and the lawyer is no better than. the intnister.’? We all live in glass houses, and all are in- debted to the Apostle Paul, who said, “We have like passions with you,” and that which Was true of the apostles has “descended through a straight and unbroken line to all the ministers of our day. In other words, when you come to test men. b; their competency to take care of themselves they co down under the examination. Fart on he spoke of the still higher relations which men sustain to the State and to the laws of the land and represented men as citizens to come far short of perfection, and asked if it was not fatally true that the popular spirit of our people was to a large extent tainted with ‘the ideas that each man had a right to pluck as as he could from the commonwealth, and whether there was any one thing about which men were so in- credulous as that? The next relation which he consid- ered was that of the Chureh, and he inquired whether the Church Jife was the pattern life, and said, while there a great many members of churches who were excellent people and might in a limited ‘sense be regarded as models, he was sorry to be obliged to say that religion had been about as bad as any institu- tions that the world had ever seen. True Christians had been the best of all the earth’s possessions, but the or- ganized Christianity of the globe had been worse than imperial Rome and worse than savage hi! In consid. ering, more particularly near the end of his sermon, the nature of the new birth Mr, Beeeher characterized itasa gradual development, and said that n had made the great mistake of supposing that it was i stantancous, or, rather, that they had_misunderstoc the meaning of instantaneousness. This point was explained at length, and clearly and. happily illustrated, by comparing the’ development of the soul from the moment of its new birth to the unfolding of a child from the moment of its entrance into Jife. A child, he said, was not fully born until he was a year, five years, ton years or fifteen years of age, The law did not recognize a man as completely born and fit to be ii trusted with anything like civil liberty and responsibil- ity until he was twenty-one years old, In closing he earnestly exhorted his heare’s not to’ ignore this im portant truth of the new birth and their great need of it, Mr, Beecher seems as hale and vigorous as at any period of his lite, and to-day he spoke with great appa- rent ease and ina voice so strong as to make himself plainly heard at the remotest parts of the vast tent. ‘Alter the prayer and singing which followed a collec- tion was taken toward paying for the tent, which, it was stated, would cost ubout $600; $120 were raised. ROWING MATCH. At soven o'clock yesterday morning a rowing match took place at the Battery, The contestants yere Daniel Griffin and George Humphries, who competed with Mare tin Gerry and Richard Hennessy. professional oarsmon and the latter amateurs. ‘The course was around Governor's Island, and the stakes were $50 aside, Mr. Patrick Collins was referee, — Gerry and Hennessy distanced their opponents, the latter coming to the winning post at a steaily gait, Tho referee still retains the money, as both parties claim fouls, and they will row again next Sunday morning, The time cot sumed was 2lmn, 408, INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR REGATTA, Sanarooa, August 22, 1875, Richard Neville has been chosori as referve and starter for the International Amateur Regatta beginning here on Tuesday of the present week, The Duquesne crew, of Pittsburg, Pa., started for Saratoga last night, and will enter in the four-oared race. Among the contest- ants are some of the best oarsmen who bave pulled in college races—Eustis, Gunster, Ostrom, King, Downs and others, It is unquestionably the strongest repre. sentation of amatenr oarsinen ever assembied on any water, and the varions contests, particularly that for | tho single seul championship, have excited deep in- terest, Mr. Courtney, of Union Springs, seems to be the favorite, THE SUEZ CANAL | VISCOUNT DE LESSEPS’ COMING REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF THE WORK, (Paris (July 28) correspondence of London Times. } Tam enabled to give your rs an analysis of the report which Vicompte Ferdinand do Lesseps will shortly present to the general meeting of the bondholders. It will be remembered that M. J Lexseps’ recent negotiations at Constantinople respect: ing the canal dues were stiddenly broken off, and va- ve lately appeared in the English and foreign press, THe BOC ig divided into four parts, The first or financial MEST tement is to the effect that in 1874 the real expenditure was 17,500,000f and the receipts 26,300,000f, Interest will therefore be assured to the shareholders, The second part treats of the way in which the canal and the ports are maintained. The J is kept in a good navigable state, but no improve- nt or novelties will be introduced into t system, he part of the report referring to the working of the canal shows the inereasing development of traflie, The ships which pass from the Mediterranean. to the Red and cice versa are every day of larger size. The official tonnage at present in use is incorrect, and the conseqnence is, says M. de Lesseps, that no control is | possible, and most ships are freighted to “double their registered tonnage,” ‘tof the report is devoted to M. Charles de Lesseps’ mission to Constantinople, The aim sgotiations was, on the part of the Suez Canal apany, to find some’ means of reconciling the inter. costs of the mercantile marine with the interests of the Ottoman Goyernment and of the Suez bondholders The last px The two former are | AUGUST OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE Secretary Fish’s Report on Our Foreign Relations, INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES. How Much We Give and How Much We Receive. Wasnixcroy, August 22, 1875, ‘The following is the letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a report upon the commercial relations of the United States with foreign countries for the year ending September 30, 1874, which has just been printed:— D#PARTMENT OF STATE, Wasnineton, Jan, 27, 1875, Sin—In compliance with section 208 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 1 have the honor to sub- mit & report upon the commercial relations of the United States with foreign countries for the year ending September 30, 1874 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. To begin with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ac- cording to ‘nt advices that country does not appear to have recovered from the financial “panic to with T had occasion to refer in’ my last commercial report, ‘The value of the imports into the Empire is reported ax having amounted, during the year 1873, to 570,623,963 florins, this amount being a decrease of 42,809,790 florins from the imports of 1872. On the other hand, the exports for 1873 amounted “to 424,123,015 florins, or 39,516,226 florins in excess of the exports of the preceding year, BELGIUM, The returns of the commerce of Belginm state the aggregate value of the imports and exports of that king- dom for the year 1873 as 4,589,700£ By comparing this amount with the commerce of previous years it appears that the trade of Belgium has considerably more than doubled during the decade ending with the above mentioned year, The imports from the United States for 187% ‘were valued at 135,400f,, being an increase of sixty-eight per cent over the imports of 1872, Tho exports to the United States amounted to 16,300,000, or thirteen per cent more than those of the previous year. DENMARK, Theuccompanying statements relating to the com- merce and navigation of Denmark, translated from ta- bles in the official report of the Danish Bureau of Sta- Ueties, give the yalue of the imports into that kingdom during the fiscal year 18734 as 115,364,448 rix dollars, and the exports for the same period as 85,525,515 rix dollars. The trade with the United States appears to be m- considerable, The returns of vessels engaged in the for- eign trade show that 21,278 vessels of 993,320 tons entered and 21,092 vessels of 416,610 tons cleared at all the ports of Denmark during the fiscal year 1873-4, being a gain of nearly 3,000 vessels and nearly 200,000 tons in the entries and of 4,000 vessels and early 129,000 tons in ert Shennan, during the five years ending with FRANCE, For the reasons stated in my last report the prepara- tion of the French annual returns of commerce and navi- gation has been considerably retarded, the latest re- ceived at this department being for the year 1872 1 transmit herewith some tables derived from those re- turns which, although they do not embrace so recent a period as might be desired, may be interesting as show- ing the rapid recovery of’ Freneh commerce from the injurious effects of the Franco-German war. In the year 1870 the aggregate value of the general imports and exports of France amounted to 6,953,300,000f, a figure which, in 1872, increased to 9,258,200,000f,, ex- ceeding the value of the imports and’ exports of any former year, and being 1,632,000,0001. above the average vulue of the commerce of the five previous years, It appears, from a reference to the statistics of former periods, that the general commerce of France has nearly doubled within the fifieen years ending with 1872 The Consul at Marseilles has transmitted to this department, in aavance of the official annual returns, a statement in which the total imports into France for the first eight months of the year 1874 are valued at 3,102,188f., against 2,515,584f, for the corresponding period of 1873, und the exports at 2,518,558f, against 2,026, 082f. in 1873. The aggregate tonnage of vessels entered into and cleared trom French ports during the year 1872 is stated in the official table of navigation as having amounted to 11,891,000 tons, being an increase of 1,457,000 tons over the navigation of the preceding year, ’ From the report of the Consul at Marseilles there appears to have been a further gain of 553,000 tons in 1873, and during the first eight months of I874.a yet further increase of 475,000 tons over the corresponding period of the previous year. *Sttio imports into France from the United States amounted, for the year 1872, to the value of 210,700,000. and the exports to this country to 42%,800,000f, the lat. ter being more than double the former, and the total of both exceeding the amount tor the preceding year by 93,600,000f. ‘The declared value of the exports from the Consular districts of the United States in France tor the year ending September 30, 1874, is reported as $59,006,287. Tho aggregate tonnage entered from and cleared for the United States in 1872 amounted to 701,928 tons, being nearly 200,000 tons in excess of the year 1871. Of the vessels entered and cleared with cargoes in 1872, 229, measuring 170,189 tons, carry the American flag, GREAT BRITAIN, The Jatest official statements of British commerce ree ceived at this department, made up for a period of twelve months, are for the year 1873. From these re- turns it appears that for that year the total value of the imports into the United Kingdom from foreign coun- tries and British possessions amounted to £371,287,300, and the total exports from the United Kingdom to £310,004,700, Compared with the trade of previous years the value of the total imports for the year 1873 was greater than for any former year and exceeded the imports for 1872 by nearly £16,600,000, while the value of the exports for the same year fell short of that for the preceding year, which showed the largest annual expor- tation ever made, by more than £3,500,000. Of the ex- ports referred to eighty-two per centum was the produce of the United Kingdom, the remain- der foreign and colonial merchandise. From a review of the general commerce of Great Britain and Ireland for the fifteen years ending with 1873 it ap- pears that the fluctuations of the imports, as well as of the exports, were considerable during the first eight years, but that since 1867 both the inports and exports, with the exception of the last year, have constantly in- creased, and if the aggregated value of the imports and exports for 1873 be compared with that for 1559 it will be found that the annual commerce of the British Isles has more than doubled within the last fifteen years, Passing froin the general commerce of Great Britain to her commercial relations with the United States, it is observed that the official returns state the imports into the United Kingdom from this country for 1873 as hav- ing amounted to £71,471,493 and the exports to this country to £36,698,424. “In the year 1859 the exports between the two countries’ were in favor of the United States by nearly £10,000,000. ‘This difference {nereased in 1861 to so great an amount that the exports from the United States more than quadrupled those from Great Britain; but the diminu- tion Was equally rapid in the following year, and in 1865 the balance of trade was in favor of Great Britain by over £3,500,000. In 1866 this again turned in favor of the United States until, as has already been remarked, the exports from the United States to Great Britain are not far from double those from that kingdom to the United States, The monthly returns of British commerce received at this department point to a still further increase in the imports, but a decrease in the exports of the United Kingdom during the year 1874, ‘om these returns the imports into the British Isles for the ten months ending October 31, 1874, appear to have amounted to £311,282, 500, against £307,822,270 for the corresponding period of 1873, and the exports for the same period Lo £202,859,400, against £216,016, 700 in 1878. he number of vesvels entering ports of Great Britain and Ireland during the year 1878 was 64,494, measuring 21,864,957 tons, and the humber cleared 69,581, measuring 575,020 to Nearly two-thirds of the aggregate ton- nage of vessels entered and cleared carried the British tug: A comparison of the number of vessels entering British ports during the year 1873 with the entries of previons years shows a gain during the tive years end. ing with 1873 of nearly 6,000 vessels, this increase co! sisting almost entirely of steamers, the gain m the number of sailing vessels being comparatively. trifling, ‘The number of American steamers entered during 1873 wi 11 against none in the previons year, 1¢ return of the exports from the port of London to September 30, crease of $7,481,470 from the exports of 3; indeed, a decided decrease in the exports to the United’ States is noti with very few exceptions, at all the ports of the United Kingdom. during the period stated. The cause assigned for this decline, by the Con- sul General at London, is in a large degree the advancing condition of manufactares in this country, From the accompanying statement of the imports and exports of Canw taken from the report of the Canadian Commis- sioner of Customs for the tiseal year ending Jane 30, 1873, it appears that the aguregate exports for that year amounted $89,780,922, being an increase over the” ex- rts of the previous fiscal year of $7,150,250. Tho value of the goods imported for consumption during the year referred to was $127,514,405, exceeding tl value by $19,805,478 In regard to the commerce ja with Great Britain the United States, the rt from which these statements are derived contain rep the following remarks The collec! rade of Canada in imports and exports with the undermentioned countries during the fiscal years IST1-2 and 1872-3, as exbibited im the following Statement, establishes a steady maintenance of our com. moreial relations with the mother country and large! increased merce with the United “States, With Great Britain the inerease of 19.35 per cent, noted in my last report as representing our trade with ‘that country in 1872 over 1871, bas been more than maintained, the increase being 20.5 per cent in 1873 as compared with 1 With the United States, however, the percentage of increase in 1872 over 1871, which was only 10.19 per ent, is shown to have risen in 1873 over 1872 to 24.9 nt, With reference to the commerce of Canada with the United States it may be added as appears from the statement that, while during the year ending June 30, exports to the United States exceeded the mer- dise iinported from this country for consumption $600,000, in 1872-3 the reverse was the case by $7,180,000, The number of seagoing vessels that enivred and cleared from ports of the Dominion during the year ending June 30, 1878, is stated as 21,597, meastiring 6,085,535 tons, ugainst ‘20,256 vessels, meas. uring 6,946,704 tons, in 1871-72, The return of ships 23, 1875.—TRIPLHE SHEET. | built in Canada during the fiscal year 1873-74 shows an increase of only two in the number out of 26,315 tons in the measurement of vessels built in the preceding year. The imports into British India amounted during the year ending March 31, 1874, t 900,000 rapees, being an increase of 13,300,000 rupees over those for the Tesponding period of 187 The exports of India roduce during the same period were valued at 11,144,194 rupees, more than 3,000,000 rupees less ‘than those of 1872-73. NETHERLANDS, No later official report of the imports and exports of the Netherlands has been received at this departinent than the statement transmitted to Congress with 1, last commercial report, Some tables, translated fro the official navigation returns of the Netherlands for the year 1873, show that the total number of sels entering ports of the Netherlands during that year was 4,762, with an aggregate measurement of 2,968,404 tons, As compared with the entrie: 1872 this was ade crease of 300 in number, but an increase of 200,000 tons in the total measurement of entered vessels, and the returns of previous years indieate that from’ the year 1848 to the year 1873 the number of vessels annually ar- riving at ports of the Netherlands increased thirty-seven per cent, while the amount of tonnage of such vessels ‘was more than trebled, SWEDEN AND NORWAY. ' The total imports from the United States into Sweden ‘ind Norway amounted during the year 1873 to $9,888,178, and the total exports from that country to the United States to $3,154,937. The imports from ‘the United States for the’ first six months of 1874 are re- ported as amounting approximately to $3,281,969, and the exports to this country during the same period to $832,618. The tonnage of Norwegian vessels is reported as hav- ing increased by 54,400 tons during th equal gain was anticipated for the following y "A re- markable increase is uoticed in the carrying trade with the United States on Norwegian vessels, This trade rose in value from 822,000 specie dollars in 1865 to 4,303,000 specie dollars in the year 1872, TURKISH EMPIRE—KGYPT. The entire exports from the port of Alexandria for the year ending Angust 31, 1873, amounted to more than $66, 700,000—$170,000 more than the value of the exports for 1872 The ‘imports for the same period are ceeding the ™ stated as over $32,400,000, an amount e importation of any previous $2,900,000, The imports from the United sisting almost wholly of petroleum, amounted. ¢ the period above stated to nearly $370,000, and slightly | exceeded those for 1872, The dii exports from Alex- andria to this country are insigniticant. MOROCCO. merce attention was directed rease reported in the export. trade of uring the year 1872, The report of the Con- than Tn my last report on to the ire Sul at Tangier shows an even greater gain in the exports of the Empire during the year 1873, Upon refer- ence it will be observed’ that during the last named year the value of the exports from Morocco “amounted to $7,767,380, which amount, if compared with the exports’ of 1872, shows an increase of $1,213,185, The report from Taniier furthe cates a remarkable development in the export tr Morocco during the yeurs 1872 and 1873, amounting in the latter year to double the average value of the eight years preceding 1872. The import trade experienced a shght decline, attributed to the unsettled state of af- fairs which lowed the dece of the Sultan, y NTINE REPUBLIC The value of the imports into the Argentine Repub- lie for the year 1873 amounted to $71,065,199, being an increase of $13,756,712 over “the previous year. ‘The value of the exports from the Republic for the same year was $45,869,314, a slight gain over those for 1872, “The Jatest returns show that nearly cighty per cent of the commerce of the Argentine Republic i8 with Europe, and the rest chiefly with North and South America, CHIL, ‘The returns of the Chilian Burean of Commercial Sta- tistics for the year 1873 show a continued increase in the commerce of Chili. © total Imports for that amounted to 37,928,427 Chilian dollars, a 34,657,028 Chilian dollars in 1872, and the tofal expo to 88,510,271 Chilian dollars, ag 122,460 in 18 If the trade of Chili for former years be considered, it will be found that the sggregate value of imports and | exports iner during the decade ending with 1853 60.8 per cent; during that ending with 1873, 53 per cent. Moreover, if the entire period of thir ars be considered the aggregate trade will be found to “have increased considerably more than fourfold. The chief feature of Chillan commerce in the year 1873 was the unprecedented amount of coin and bank notes ex- ported. The former amounted to 2,023,052 dollars. THE UNITED STATES OF COLOMBLA. The total imports into the United States of Colombia amounted, during the year 1873, to $24,038,844 and the imports to $10,477,631. The value of the exports to the United States, for’ the same period, was estimated: at $1,316,498, KCUADOR, The entire exportation of native produce from Guaya- quil, the chief port of the Republic of Ecuador, is Te- ported as having excveded in value $5,500,000 during the year 1873, being an increase of $1,600,000 over 1872. ‘The revenne ‘of the Custom House for the same period was returned as $1,672,657, or a gain of $80,000 over the revenue of the preceding year. Upon reterence to the returns of previous years the annual revenue at the Custom House of this port appears to have more than trebled within the twelve years ending with 1 BRAZIL Attention is invited to two despatches from the Minister, at Rio Janeiro, relating to certain changes im the Brazilian tariff, and especially to the reduction of duties upon various articles of commerce between the United States and Brazil. CENTRAL AMERICA, The aggregate value of the imports into the States of Central “America for the year IS73 is stated as $10,967,483 and the exports $10,628,422. Of these amounts $3,991,030 for the imports and $710,580 for the exports represent the commerce With the United States, It ap- pears from the preceding data that while the yolue of the total export trade of the Central American Siat for 1875 excecded that of the total import trade by sixt five per cent, the exports to the United States tor that year are estimated at more than five times the im- ports. The aggregate trade with the United States for 1873 showed an increase of $931,768 over that of 1872. CHINA, Acopy is herewith transmitted of a despatch from the diplomatic representative of this government at Pekin, vsing a copy of the “Returns of Trade ut the Treaty Ports”? tor the year 1 I appears from these returns that the value of the net imports into China during the year referred to amounted to 73,992,903 tacls, and. the exports. to 77,540,919 taels, a decrease in the former of more than 800,000 taels and in the latter of more tl 6,000,000 tacls from the previous year, reducing the balance in favor of the exports from’ 8,890,000 taels to 3,540,000 tacls in one year, The imports into China from’ the United States, which have during late years sutfvred considerable decline, amounted in 18 271,168 tacls. nin. these imports w the ten years ending with 1873 is reported been very great. Their value for one of the ferred to rose to as high a figure as 1,542,001 exports to the United States for the’ same year some- what exceeded in vate 5,400,000 taels, Thi are reported as having fluctuated within. t itied between 6,316,130 and 13,279,988 A decrease is announced in the importation of opin at the ports of Tientsin and Hankow, and is ascribed chiefly to the increase in the cultivation and manufi ture of the native drug in the country beyond these ports, The estimated amount of opium grown in China is stated as being somewhat greater than that of the imported article, an estimate which makes the yalae of the opium consimed in the empire during the year son of the opium trade with the tea trade discloses the fact that the value of the opium imported into China from India in 1) is to that of the entire export of tea from the former country during the same p im the ratio of 12 to 13, which oceur in the new edition of the “Consular Regn- lations” respecting the commercial reports of consuls. It is hoped that the instruction to prepare reports for the year ending June 30, instead of September 80, will enable the department to furnish later information from the more distant consulates than has hitherto | been practicable, I haye the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, HAMILTON FISHEL Hon, Jaanis G. Buarxe, Speakor of the House of Repre- BeLIatives, AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION, A special meeting of the American Temperance Union was held yesterday afternoon at Robinson Hall, Sixteenth street, It was well attended and was | presided over by Mr. J. B. Gibbs, Mr. B. E. Hale, of Brooklyn, spoke of the ravages of intemperance in this community, which he depicted us of so fearful a charac- tor that no man or woman with eyes opened to the facts could fail to be startled by them, The only way, he thouzht, of stopping this vice was by recognizing the liquor seller as a criminal, and dealing out the law to him without stint, but he failed to seo an expression of opinion among the people of this city favoring prohibition, The formation of this ety Was then dwelt upon; at first they had only th: more than sixty. Its principal object was to close up the hquor shops on Sunday, ‘This organization has al- ready secured the revocation of 250 leonses since its inception, The breaking up of these places was a part of the Christian faith, and to spread this faith success. fully these grogshops must be demolished and public sentiment must be educated. The Excise law had among its provisions one stating that every liquor seller must have a good moral erhood were not going to attack them on this point, as it is supposed they must have characters above suspi the cion, Another provision was that for license fee of $50 the liquor dealer must not | sell to a minor or a drunkard, and must | close his place on Sunday, and it was this latter con- dition the society was endeavoring to enfor sneceeded in doing this it was a great step toward the low bucket shops and liquor saloons in the city, In closing his address the speaker said that if these men would give up their ungodly calling the soetety would find them something else to do, nt give up liquor selling they would be punished with all the | rigor of the law. Mr, John Martin, of Brooklyn, the last speaker, made ‘a fow brief remarks on the closing of what he eatied the “mammoth drankery of the United States’? by a little messenger from his city, and the meeting then ad- journed. YACHTING NOTE, Steam yacht Lookout arrived at Portland 22d inst | whien th 1873 to have amounted to 25,000,000 tals. A compari. | od nearly | In conclusion I beg leave to refer to the changes | churches in the brotherhood, but now there were | aracter; but the broth. | gint to which they attained, a weeding out of all the | | Itthoy | PRINTING of ity | ra find it t 7 sisson finan nies nipiiaaeeipeesiiietiaes le OVERCROWDING STEAMERS, UNITED STATES INSPECTORS DETERMINED 11 SUPPRESS THE PRACTICE—THE ROCKAWAR BOATS OVERHAULED. So great has been the negligence of steamboat man. agors, and so numerous of late have been the accidents which have happened to excursionists up the Hudsor and down the Bay, that Mr. Addison Low, Supervising Inspector of steamers, yesterday sent a special agent upon every excursion steamer ng between here and Rockaway Beach, Low began his investigations im the best possible field, for it will be remembered that numerous com. plaints have recently been made to the effect that these boats are usually greatly overcrowded, and that they hive been regutarly carrying hundreds of pas- sengers more than the law sanctions, All these reporta have been corroborated, not only by the passengers en route, but also by several painful accidents that have occurred. Mr. Low took with him yesterday Messrs. Alexandei Caldwell, asststant local inspector of boilers; Jerry Simonson, inspector of hulls; J. B, Webb, assistant inspector of hulls; Mr. L. Brainard, of Albany, another inspector of hulls; Mr. James M. Anderson, of the New York Custom House, and Mr. G, W. Thateber, employed in Mr. Low's private office, OING DOWN, The gentlemen mentioned above were detailed to all the different steamers which yesterday made trips to Rockaway, the names of which are as follows:—Tho Noversink, the William Cook, the Nellie White, the Americus and the General Sedgwick. Previous to going upon these different boats each one of the inspectors was furnished with a statement con cerning the number of passengers every steamer was by | law permitted to carry, and was also ordered to report to Captain Low the number actually carried by each vessel. Captain Low went down to Rockaway in the versink, and upon his arrival there reported to his aids, as soon as their respective steamboats an |, that the Neversink did not have more than the mber of passengers, and each one of the in- the same concerning the boats upon 4 journeyed. Captain Low said to the writer, who accompanied him yesterday “The great trouble is not on the down but on the return trips. 1 don’t want to put these steamboat people toany trouble, but I am determined to see that no boat comes here to Rockaway, or returns back to New York, with mora than her allowance of passengers.” THE RETURN, The General Sedgwick, the Americus and the Nellie White lay side by side at the lower landing, and the rush of people bound homeward was tremendous, An in- spector counted the number going on board the Sedg- wick, andas soon as the “legal number” bad walked upon deck he ordered the gangplank to be pul and also informed the Captain that he must ste: riv regular n spectors: rectly to Brooklyn and stop at no ather landing, Had not the inspector been thera the Sedgwick would have taken an additional number of engers on board, and would have alsa made all her regular landings. ‘The inspector on the ame thing, as did also the inspectors on board the Nellic White and the Neversink. After these steamers had gone there was only one boat | the William Cook—to carry the remainder of peopla to their homes, She was tying off Wainright’s rl, and the people left behind by the other steamers made'a grand rush for her decks. In size she is more than twice as large as any of the other boats, and cam accommodate a great mahy more passengers. — Captaim Low and the Heraup reporter returned in this boat, ‘The former stood at the foot of the gang plank befora the vessel started, personally counting the passengers who came on board. LEFT BEINND. After the regular number was on board Captain Low ordered the gang plank to be pulled in, and hundreds were lefv standing on the pier, Supposing that the William Cook would certainly make her regular landin; at the pier a little distance above, this crowd (it must have numbered 1,000) made a rush for that place, and its constituents indulged in superb foot races along the beacl The races were in vain, however, for the steamer did not stop as advertised, and she made no pause whatever until she reached Brooklyn. Thus about 1,000 people were left behind, many off whom were so’ poor that they did not have enough money to pay the fare on the railroad, and certainly not enough to pay for their lodging over night. Of coursa this crowd was indignant at the managers of the steam- ers who sold them their tickets, and who, after pledging their word, did not furnish sufficient boats to brin them in safety back to their hom Mr. R. Cornel White, the lessee of the steamers, was on board the William Cook, and no doubt the words that reached hit ears from those hundreds left behind was anything but pleasant to hear, Pin the table below the first column of figures ropre- sents the number of people the respective boats are al- lowed to car law, and the second column repre- sents the namber each had on its Jast, dnd oonso- quently heaviest, return trip:— Diy Lave. On Board + 1,000 Today, Neversink. Willia Nellie Americus... . General Sedy . . is The inspectors will continue their inzestigations cach week until the managers fulfil their obligations and pledges to the public. It is stated by some that the Neversink went back last night to Rockaway to bring up the passengers left behind by the other steamers, OBITUARY. Henry H. 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