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4 CO CARDINAL M’CLOSKEY, ——— Eminence on a Visit to Cardinal Cullen. Tlis An Interesting Conversation with a Herald Correspondent. ITALY AND THE POPE. Difficulties Between the Vatican and the Government. | Desi, Nov. 9, 1875. ‘The stay of Cardinal McCloskey in this city ts so short, and there are so many objects of interest which claim his attention as a Catholic prolate, that his time Is fully occupied and no leisure is left him to pay or to receive ordinary visits. Nevertheless, His Eminence ‘was pleased to make an exception in favor of the repre- sentative of the Hrna.n, and sent bim word last night that he would be happy to see him this morning. NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NUVEMBER 24, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. PROCESSIONS PROMIMNTED, “Is there any interfereace with the public perform. ance of religious ritest’” “In what way do you mean?” “For instance, processions." “Oh! Public processions are not allowed at all, ex- cept small processions, such as at funerals or the like.” “Is this owing to the action of the government or to the precaution of the ecclesiastical authorities ?’’ “The government does not allow the processions, through fear of disturbance, You probably know that the pilgrimage processions are not allowed. The pil- grims may, indeed, come to the churches, but it must be in a quiet, informal way, and not in large crowds. In fact, all external appearances and signs of religion are visible as little as possible, and are becoming gradu ally fewer and fewer, You know that at the corners of many of the streets there were images, statues or pic- tures of saints, of the Blessed Virgin or our Lord: Many of them have been removed. Some were broken or defaced by malicious people. Oue, for instance, which was at the American College, was injured by stones thrown at it, It was repaired and a wire screen has been now placed in front of it, Many other itm arly injured, have been repaired, and similar pre- | ; caution has been taken.” “HOW WiLL IT ALL ND?" “God alone knows!” ‘Then, after » pause, “There is one thing, however, to ve said, The young peoplo may suffer, and undoubtedly will suffer, for the pres- ent, from all this, But the older generation, they who have the faith, who have been instructed, and know their religion, and have grown up in the practice of it, they will be actually benetited by it, A little persecu- tion does us all a great deal of good. It braces men, it Eccles street, where Cardinal Cullen lives, is in the ortheastern portion of the town, not far from the city | boundary. At its extremity is placed the fine general | hospital of the Mater Misericordim, which has been | erected within the last fifteen years, exclusively by | voluntary subseriptions, There is an annual govern- ment grant, out of the funds voted by Parliament, in aid of some of the Dublin hospitals, but this one, be- ing under denominational management, receives no ald from that source, and depends for its maintenance on private benevolence alone, Most of the houses in Eccles street date back to the middle of the last century, when the presence of her native Legislature made Dublin the fashionable as well as the administrative capital of the country. The house in which Cardinal Cullen resides is considered here to be a good, substantial one; indeed, itis rather above the average of such houses in this city. Upon arriving I was at once shown to the draw- {ng room, a simply furnished apartment. The chief ornaments were some Italian religious paintings and some objects of religious art, among which one or two Magnificent books connected with ecclesiastical cere- monial were conspicuous. THE CARDINAL'S APPEARANCE. Cardinal McCloskey at once came to me, with that native politeness which instinctively inspires promp- titade and punctuality where the time or interests or others are concerned. It would be an impertinence on | my part to describe to the readers of the Heraup the familiar features of the Archbishop of New York. But they will be glad to know that he is in good health and does not seem tired or worn after all his rapid journey- (ngs. From some of his remarks it is quite clear that the affairs and interests of the Empire City occupy the foremost place in his mind. THE POPE AND ITALY. After a few preliminary remarks on both sides I {nquired about the health of the Pope, The Cardinal teplied that His Holiness was in excellent health; in deed it was marvellous, considering his great age and the many trials and afilictions he has seen and still suffers, His spirits are excellent; there is no sign of decay or flagging visible about him, “Ia it likely that he will ever come to any terms with (he Italian government ?” do not think so, I should say he never thinks of fuchathing. He feels on the point precisely as he txpresses himself in those little speeches which he vecasionally makes to persons received in audience.” “Did ygu perceive much change in Rome ?”” “No. You may not be aware that I was in Rome last fear. “But since the time of the Vatican Council ?” “Yes, there is change in the outward appearance of the city. Certain new lines of streets are being dened up, certain buildings have had their occupa- ion completely changed.”” “Among the inhabitants is there much change visi- We in the habits and views of the people ?”” “Yes, I regret to say there is considerable change— tmong a certain class. Do not misunderstand me, Priestsand other ecclesiastics may go about in yral without danger of molestation. But that relig- ous atmosphere which pervaded Rome, and which made be the city that it was, is quite gone. There are no longer the outward signs with w hich every visitor in former times was familiar, For example, when formerly ‘s beggar asked you for an alms, it was invari- ily with gome pious speech, as per Lamor di Dio ffor the love of God); per la Madonna (for our Lady). (nd when you dropped into his box, or placed in his band your benefaction, however small, # was always thankfully acknowledged, with the addition of some vious prayer for the benefactor. All this has disap- peared. You are asked stdrdily; and, whatever you tive, you are likely to be asked for more, or rated for tot having been more liberal. I speak only of Rome, { believe things are not so bad in other places, But is easy to understand how such consequences must bllow from the position of Rome. Itis the centre, into which the elements of all kinds pour, spread- tug their evil practices and irreligious notions, Nor | is it easy to see how any improvement is possi- vile. The government have laid their hands on the Schools, and have quite seized upon the education of the rising generation, duct and superitendence of education has been taken out of the bands of ecclesiasti¢al persons, but it is in” tended that religion shall be utterly excluded from the Schools, and the name and knowledge of God quite ban- Ashed from the minds of the young people.” CATHOLIC SCHOOLS NERDRD. “Will anything be done to meet this position of af- “fairs?” “They must set about establishing schools.” “Then this is permitted by the extsting laws?” “Oh, yes. There is legal equality. Where Prot- estant and Baptist schools are allowed perfect treedom 1t would be hard that Catholics sould not be allowed to establish Catholic schools, and this in the city of Rome. ‘Of course, I do not now refer to university or coll 10 education, or to higher education of any kind. There fs no freedom of instruction in this; the State bas monopolized it all But freedom is permitted for the lower class of schools. The Catholics may establich them for themselves. But they will have no aswist- ance from the State at all. They must support them themselves, And this is the difficulty, For, as per- baps you may know, they are not wealthy, and they bave not the means of doing much.” THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT AND THR misiTors. “Some troubles have arisen, I believe, in some parts of Italy, between the government and the bishops.” “In some parts of Italy the bishops have been called ‘apon by the government to surrender their residences. 1t is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the way in which the poor bishops have been treated in many places. In the first place all the ecclesiastical property bas been seized upon by the government and converted into public funds. The interest only of this converted property is payable to ecclesiastical persons, and this very interest is itself taxed thirty per cent. What do you say to that? But this is not all, In several places the bishops and other ecclesiastics have not only veen stripped of the revenues and property which the piety of former generations bad provided for them, but they have even been robbed of the interest which was assigned to them by law out of the State funds, which had been substi. tuted for their property. They were reduced to a posi- tion of starvation. The Holy Father came to their relief, and out of his own funds furnished them with the means of living. But the government bas come down on them even here. It compels them to make a faithful return of their means of livelihood, from what- ever source derived, and actually compels them to pay a tax of thirty per cent on the miserable pittance which they receive from the bounty of the Pope.’” SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES. “How bas the law of military service worked with respect to the seminaries and ecclesiastical colleges!" “Vory badly, In fact, it has seridusly diminished the number of students for the priesthood, Its ten- dency would be, as far as possible, to extinguish them altogether, It is quite intelligible that those who sim at the overthrow of religion should desire to suppress {ts soldiers and officors, and the first step in this diree- tion is to cutatf the supply.” It is not merely that the con- | gives them a healthier tone, it makes even the timid more courageous, and causes them to be more assertive of the truth, At frst, when the Rovolution came, it utterly surprised them; they were stunned; they did not kuow what to door where to turn; and, ac- cordingly, the enemies of religion had it all their own way. But now the others are beginning to understand | their situation, and to feel that they must help them- selves. They feel they must do as Catholics have to do here and in America. They must make use of their position and turn it to account. ‘We are novices,’ they | say; ‘we have everything to learn, We have to begin now what you have been always engaged in doing.’ They are now beginning to take partin the municipal elections,” THE ELECTION TROUBLES. “I thought the Pope was averse to peeple having anything to say as to the elections ?”” “Yes, to the elections for government offices, because that would imply an approval and acquiescence in what has been done. But this 1s not the case with respect to he municipal elections. Taking part in them implies “ no ratification of the past; and it is ot great importance that they should join in those munictpal elections, be. cause the municipal councils have the administration of | the schools, With respect to the elections for the | Legislature opinions are divided, Some contend thay | no good Catholic can lawfully have anything to say to them; others maintain the opposite view. The Pope does not at present approve of any one taking part in | such elections. Of course this is not the case with | gard to the old portions of the Kingdom that camg rightfully to Victor Emmanuel. Hero there can be no doubt that every one is justified in taking part in the | elections in those provinces. It ts only with respect to the other parts of Italy that it is held not to be right “CRUCIBLE” A. Oakey Hall Leaps from Forum to Footlights. He Embraces the Theatri- cal Profession. THE NEW | BLAY. Views of Messrs, Hull and Stuart on the “Cluster of Dramatic Brilliants.” A report having prevailed in the clubs during the past week that Oakey Hall was about relinquishing law and politics to re-enter the profession of literature and the dramatic one, @ Herat reporter called upon that gentleman concerning the matter. Reporter—It is said that you are about to leave the forum for the footlights. Are you at liberty to talk about it? Mr. Hatt—I should prefer to have events speak for themselves and that third persons should discuss such personal matters. But it is of public record that last May my late iaw firm dissolved by limitation and that Thave since been winding up the legal affairs of which Thad especial charge. There are medipal considera- tions as to health which enter into the result, THE CONTEMPLATED CHANGE, Rerorter—I suppose no one could go through the perplexities and harassments of your last two years of Mayoralty and the ensuing one without the great strain on nerves and brain finding a reaction? Mr. Haut (after a pause)—Well, it has been thought best I should no longer encounter the diverse compli- cations and worry in behalf of a hundred clients which ‘a lawyer in full practice must assume, or which a poli- tician also does when caring for the confusing demands of other people and in trying to protect very important interests. 11s best sometimes to stop where you can and when, by so doing, there is reasonable insurance of future comfort We have a legal maxim, obsta principiis—resist beginnings. During my brief carcer I can recall Clinton De Witt, David Graham, Nat Blunt, Curtis Noyes, Van Buren, Brady, &e., &c., who kept on the legal treadmill long after they were told to quit or take it easier, My old friend John Graham, too, until quite recently, has been laying off under medical advice, but bis clients are glad to see him again among them. A STRONG DISUKK TO MEDICINE. Rerortke—You are not under medical treatment ? Mr. Hatt (laughing)—Oh, no, It is because 1 don’t propose to come under it that I quit when the first slight warnings come. And, as my worldly circum- stances compel me to adopt some other calling, and or proper to vote or otherwise interfere in the clec- tions. But my own opinion is that they will have to | come to this also, and make full use of the privileges allowed them by the law, Poor Victor Emmanuel! There is a good deal of sympathy with him. He has faith, and he knows the wrongfulness of what is being done, He knows his own throne is in a tottering con- dition, The radicals have no sympathy for him, for they well know he is pot on their side,” THB EX-KING AMADEUS. “The Crown Prince is @ person of different views ?"” | Oh, yes, he is; Amadeus is generally liked; he is | considered a good young man.” Here it was announced that Cardinal Cullen was wait ing to take Cardinal McCloskey to visit some of the | public establishments of the city and neighborhood, so | our interview was concluded. The Cardinal took leave of me in a very friendly manner, i VISIT TO THE ROMAN CATHOIC CATHEDRAL, The midday service yesterday in the Roman Catholic Cathedral was specially interesting by the presence of two cardinals, an event unparalleled in Irish ecclesiastica, | annals. Cardinal McCloskey reached Dublin so late on Saturday evening that no arrangements could well be made as to his movements which would admit of their being made known to the pubile. Many persons in Dub- hn did not know of his arrival till this morning. Be, | sides, it was not unreasonable to suppose that after the | | very rough passage he had had toendure His Eminence | would prefer remaining at home. However, when, | about ten P. M. on Saturday, he learned that Cardinal | Cullen had engaged to be present at the | high mass in the Cathedral, the Cardina; } Archbishop of New York at once declared his | | wish also to assist at i, A sort of rumor got about on | Sunday morning that the American Cardinal would be | present in the Cathedral, The result was that vy | twelve o'clock a great congregation filled every part of | the church. It was clearly fortunate that more authentic publicity had not been given of the novel solemnity, otherwise the crowd. would have been ex- | cessive. As it was, the congregation surpassed that present on the occasion of the O'Connell Centenary, THE PROCESSION, At twelve o’clock the procession issued from the side chapel of St. Kevin and wended its way up through the nave. The two cardinals camo last, walking to- | gether; the visitor, however, occupied the place of | honor on the right. On arriving at the altar they knelt | together on prie-diewx prepared for them, and after a short prayer they ascended the platform at the gospel side of the altar, where usually the throne of tne Archbishop of Dublin stands. Put on this occasion there were two armchairs placed there, and Cardinal | MeUloskey was conducted to the upper one. All | | through the mass the usual signos of precedence | were given to the distinguished visitor, Thus | he blessed the incense and the deacon before | chanting the gospel. He also received first “‘the kiss of peace,”’ which was sent before the communion by | the officiating clergyman. At the conclusion of the | mags the officiating clergy retired and the Cardinal of | New York ascended the altar, and gave bis solemn | | benediction to the congregation in a most impressive | | | | | ! manner, which quite awod the vast assemblage. After the mass the procession was again formed, re- turning to the side chapel by the way it came, As it moved down the nave all eyes were fixed on the n Cardinal, whose appearance was a marked to that of Cardinal Cullen. ‘Though only six is junior, yet Cardinal McCloskey looked the rman by faily twelve years, ‘TUR TWO CARDINALS remained for a tew minutes im the presbytery in Marl- | | borough street, then they drove away in Cardinal | Cullen's carriage to Eccles street, the crowd whieb bad | gathered in the street cheering. Many were the in- | quiries made of each other by persons of all classes as | to the birthplace, age, appearance, &c., of the illus | trious stranger, All seemed animated by feelings of interest greater than would have been shown in the case of another visitor, however distinguished, and with an affectionate respect. From the remarks one | could easily overbear it was plain that next to bis Irish descent the great recommendation of the stranger to | their good wishes was the fact first that he was an | American, and next that be was Archbishop of New | York. | SOMETHING NEW IN THE SCHOOLS, ‘The old Grammar Scnool, No, 38, in Clark street, near Broome, which was enlarged, refurnished and | thoroughly renovated during the summer vacation, gave a reception yesterday morning, both to show th | improvements of the school and the fruits of the m | tary drilling which bas been bestowed upon the schol- Ameri ex | ars of the first and second classes during the past | | month. There was quite an assemblage visitors | | present. The exercises consisted of choruses Bed school, evolutions by the military clase, solos jas ter John McCord, and a number of addresses the visitors, Of the driiling it is difficult to with | too much praise. ys are provided wi wooden | maskets, which they handle wi imity. CHEATING A RAILROAD COMPANY. Alderman Richardson, President of the Atlantic Avenue Horse Railroad, Brooklyn, some days since procured the arrest af Amasa Armstrong, Henry Bopp and F. A, Douglass, conductors, charged with eheat- ing, by means of bogus bell punches, which sounded the bell, but punched no holes in the “ slip. The examination was finished yesterday, when Justice Waleh eld Bopp and Armstrong aud discharged Doug- regularity and unan- | of the British Legation at Paris, tha my health one that shall be in consonance with my taste and which will bring no complex worry, I embrace the dramatic profession (in the hopes it will embrace me), and at the same time 1 hope to ride Pegasus a bit. I have been for twenty yearsan honorary member, and all the professionals and managers have from time to time favored me with their friendship and experience. Not omy with the drama theoretically, but with its mechanism, I have been for years entirely familiar, Revorten—What are your particular plans? Mr. Haut (smiling)—Perhaps you had better learn those from my collaborateur, William Stuart. Let me | give you a card to Lim. NEVER AGAIN! Rxvorter—Then you also quit public life? Mr. Hani—tI did that three years ago, Circumstances compelled me to be an humole ally during the late campaign. But never again, under any circumstances, As the Hutchinson Family used to sing of Napoleon at St. Helena, ‘He has fought bis tast fight; no sound can awake him again.” si Rerortek—This is not, then, a sudden resolve? Mr. Hati—Oh, no. The step is the result of a year's deliberation and preparation. RxrorteR—It is suddenly made known. Mr. Hati—Oh, no; friends have long known it, I think I can claim Soucicault as my godfather in the undertaking, and so long ago as last February, He was to have entirely written for me a piece, but en- | gagements to others prevented. MR. STUART'S STATEMENT, Our reporter, in accord with Mr. Hall’s suggestion, then calied on Mr. William Stuart, whom he found at the Park Theatre engaged in some manipulations of the “Mighty Dollar.” On presenting his card Mr, Stuart at once said that it always gave him pleasure to afford | any aid or any assistance to any member of his own | order, and if in this instance he had delayed doing so it was simply awaiting the permission of Mr. Hall, Revonver—Mr. Hall is, believe, now associated with you? Mr. Srvart—Yes. Mr. Hall has been associated with me, in anticipation of the production of Crucible,” since the 16th of September last, When the theatre ‘was first conceived Mr Boucicault was to have been united with me in its conduct and its interests. Cir- cumstances, over which neither of us had control, but fraught to me with the severest hardships and trials which any manager ever encountered, or I could have encountered, but for the enduring kindness of Mr. Riggs and the gallant sustainment of my gentle seignor, Major Macombe prevented that union from Unding ful- filment, But these baye happily passed away, and £ can aflord to forget the gloomy past in the pleasant | present, in which I find Mr. Hall by my side. We have been for many years warm personal and also literary friends; have been in the habit of discussing together what we were about to write, or had written, and with one or two other men of bright repute in letters acquired a mutual admiration. Out of this bas grown our union; out of this has come “Crucible.” “CRUGICLE” A CLUSTER OF BRILLIANTS. Rerorter—May Lask by whom it was written, Mr. ‘Stuart ? Mr. Srcart—Well, it is best defined as a dramatic collaboration. It isnot asolitaire. It is a cluster of brilliants, It was read yesterday. The artists were ia ecstasy over it, Rerorter—I presume it will be powerfully cast? Mr. StvarT—I have done everything to render it go, You see by this letter from Mr, She ment with Mile. Duqu ted such a s in Paris for several seasons in the part of dumb boy, if I desired to complete it, for a somewhat similar part im “Orucible.”” But owing to the delay I had supplied her place with a beautiful girl, demi- French, petite and of most eager brightness, Miss Marie Louise, It will also introduce to the New York public Mr. John Dillon, who enjoys the rare privilege of hav- ing bis genius admitted by all his brother artists in bis own day, The rest of the company huve been selected from the very best the country could afford. } Reroarer—What do you think of MK. HALL AS AN ACTOR’ ; Srvart—Well, Mr, Hall ought to be an actor, at this part For the part is Oakey Hall himself, But then, af advocate is necessarily an actor, He is always representing another character. 1 remember going with Boucteault once to eee Mr. Hali defend a German for firing at a doctor who bad ill-treated his crippled child; and when he held up the child, at the | close of his speech to the jury, and the httle thing said, with tender but tutored syllables, in the words of ‘Tiny Tim, “God bless you ail!’ Boucicault turned to me, and, with genuine rapture in his impassive cheek, exclaimed, “That fellow is a great actor.” Thén, actors who might ordinarily be jealous of a map like Mr, Hall, are sure to surround him with their good | will, He bas been in constant companionship with them, has ever sympathized with their feelings, and done to many among them acts of unbought kindness who cre beyond belief, Mr, Hall seems to mo to unite the two | qualities, “nascitur et fit.” ‘Then the play is a great acting play, full of situation, here @ bright bubblo of farce, there of comedy, with a current of deep pathos running beneath. Jn many in- stances I have bad to present pieces contrary to my literary Judgment to meet the public taste, In this in- stance I hope at ouce to cultivate alike popular passion and refined taste. You must promise to come and seo th the Gret might, | of opening to science and commerce that portion of the | Robin, of Milibridge, Me., trom Hoboken’ for New Bed- | deeply indebted to Captain George W.’ Fifo, keeper of | | have both been kind and humane 1m thetr attentions to GRAU AND ROSSI. WHAT THE MANAGER HAS TO SA¥ ABOUT THE ARTIST. Mr. Maurice Grau gat m his casy chair yesterday, when a representative of the Hexato called upon him, “Mr. Grau,” said the reporter, “you have doubtless seen Rossi’s letter in today’s Herauy, Would you favor the public with your opinion regarding it?” “I do not wish to speak of this matter, It is a mere busivess transaction which has not as yet been defl- nitely settled.” “But,” urged the reporter, “it is a matter in which the public have become interested, and when they read this letter they will look to you for an explanation.” “I do not wish to cause Rossi any trouble,” remarked Mr. Grau, “if 1 can help it, 1 promised the poople of New York that I should bring him before them, and I have never yet violated my pledges to them. 1 feel that I have their conttdence, and that they put a proper construction on my action in this affair, Rossi entered into a contract with me to appear. He has violated that contract, and Tam sure that [Nave never made any representations that would retlect too severely on b T simply stated my position to the public as ny obligations compelled me to do.” “Do you admit the statements Rossi makes in this letter?” asked the reporter. “TL aamit,” returned Mr. Grau, “haying ac@epted his offer of 30,000 francs, provided he agreed to play in America under my management gnly, and until such an agreement is made this affuir cannot be settled. I am ina way responsible to the public for his appear: ance, and I shall have him if he appear at all."” “What do you think about his illuess and the doctor's certificate ?”” was the next question, “The illness can be litle more than a pretext, Here isatelegram dated Octover 4 which will throw some light upon this illvess of his,” The reporter read a telegram from Rossi stating that his Othello had been a marked succes, and asking Mr. Grau in his goodness of heart to postpone his engage- ment two. weeks, ‘How,’ asked Mr. Grau, “how could aman act be- fore large houses as he has been doing If this sickness were an actual fact? There is a doctor's certilicate, too. Well, they are cheap ail the world over, and it strikes me as peculiar that this doctor, who is the bearer of so many distinguished honors as his titles tend to show, should be a namesake of Rossi’s con. dential servant, Ihave written to Rossi, and would not care about baving this matter acquire too much publicity before hearing from him.” WEST INDIA PICKLES. THREE MONTHS’ CRUISE OF THE YACHT JOSEPH- INE. A perfect dy! of tropical dotight is a little book with the title of “West India Pickles,’’ which has just reached us from the publishing house of George W. Carleton & Co. It is not a book of travel, but simply & succession of jottings of a winter cruise in the tropics. Last year the yacht Josephine, of the New York Yacht Club, skirted the islands of the Caribbean Sea with a little party of pleasure seckers on board, and one of these, Mr. W. B. Talboys, kept a journal of the voyage. ‘These metmoranda—for even in their printed shape they are little more—came to the notice of Mr. Carleton, THE FRONTIER. The Sufferings of the Texan Frontiersmen. A BORDER WAR. The Raids and Robberies of Mexican Banditti. GRANT'S THIRD TERM CARD. Is the President Contemplating a Mexican War? THE TREE BORDER BRT WHEN TEXAS AND MEXICO To tHe Eprror ov TH8 Heranp:— The recent exciting and important intelligence from the Texas border will probably direct public attention to the fact that alarge tract of valuable territory be- longing to the United States has been for some time left alinost without protection against the invasion of a foreign enemy, and that a large number of American citizens bave for years held their property and thoir lives at the mercy of marauding bands of foreign rob- bers and cutthroats. Wo have really been for years in a condition of warfare all along the line of the Mexi- can border, and.although constant appeals for pro- tection have been made to the general government, both by prominent citizens of Texas and by the Execu- tives of that State of every shade of politics, the people have been left to shift for themsolves, and scarcely a preteyce has been made to guard the soil from the fuvading bands. The indifference manifested by the general governinent In the matior has dxcited & fooling of indignation all through the State, This feel- ing was intensified a short time ago when the Secretary of War threatened to withdraw the fow United States troops now in the border country, because the present Governor of Texas refused to set at liberty three negro soldiers of the federal army who were held on due pro- cess by the courts for criminal offences against the laws of the State. THR UNPROTKOTED CONDITION OF THE BORDER. The frontier of Mexico, bordering on the Rio Grande, extends nearly 1,000 miles along the State of Texas. For nearly the entire year this river ts fordable. At himself a noted West India tourist, and at the pub- lisher’s suggestion the neat and unique litte book before us came to be published. It is utterly without pretension, and as the places visi by the Josephine were mostly outside of the usual sorts of travellers, the book bas au interest of its Sailing from New York on the 7th of November, 1 the yacht first made land at Aguadilla, in Porto Ri November 17, The voyage was an exceedingly roug! one, and the pleasure of this part of the trip is best di scribed in the words of one of the sailors, as a sousit sea broke over the vessel:—‘I hope you be a enjoyitig of yourself, sir.” And the annoyances experienced at the hands of the Spanish officials at Aguadilla were scarcely a relief from a boisterous sea. From this port the Josephine wert to Santa Uruz, where the yachismen found a profuse hospitality, but were com- pelled to eonfess that if the rum was agree- able it wag also ‘insidious’? St. Thomas was | the next place visited, and here the pleasure scekers | encountered the inevitadle “Snowball,’! accursed of | travellers, who olfered to become their guide, philoso- pher and friend, as he had been of every man who ever visited the harbor and city of Chariotte-Amelia, | ‘Thence the Josephine skirted the Leeward, comtouly | called the Windward Islands, touching at Saba, Guada- | loupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, and | #o on to the famous Spanish Main, After visiting Laguayra and Caracas the homeward voyage was begun, the yacht lazily danciug over the Caribbean Sea to St. Domingo, and sailing thence to Santiago de Cuba and Havana, This story, told with directness and without attempt at adornment, will interest all readers to whom glimpses of tropical life and manners and customs are entertaining, and: the book has a valuo beyond this in the insight it gives into life at sea ona | pleasure yacht during athree months’ cruise in the American tropics, EXPLORATION OF THE AMAZON. Professor James Orton, of Nassau College, proposes avn early day to make an exploration of the Madeira and Beni Rivers (branches of the Amazon), with a view | South American continent, ‘To facilitate the proposed expodition, the Chamber of Commerce has addressed the following memorial to the Secretary of the Navy. Further measures will be taken by the Chamber in connection with the American Geographical Society of this city to secure the necessary support to carry forward this expedition. Hon. GrorGe M. Roneson, Secretary of the Navy :— Sin—I'be Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York respectfully ask your attention to the public importance of a full exploration of the region watered by the largest branch of the Amazon, the upper Madeira, under the direction of Professor James Orton, who has twice explored this portion of the South | American continent. This region has an area of | intervals the floods swell the waters soas to preyent the crossing, but at all other times the river offers no pro- tection whatever %o either nation, and can be crossed and recrossed by maranding bands at their will, [tts simply a line of demarcation, and might almost as well be staked along an open plain for any barrier that it {fers against the invasion of the soil of either country the people of the other, Ever since the close of the xican war depredations have been committed on the property of American citizens in Texas, and many hun- dreds of lives have been sacrificed in the effort to resist the raids of the Mexican robbers. Sometimes these banditti havo swelled their incursions into the proportions of a war, as in the well remembered Cortina and Heintzleman campaign, when the notorious Mexican brigand took possession of a large portion of our frontier, and robbed and mur- dered our citizens wholesale; and again under the extended raid of his rival, Vidal, who, as he prom- ised to prove a bolder robber than his former chief, was shot by Cortina’s order, At ali times there has been a regularly organized system of raids into Texan territory, and three months have never passed without some robbery or murder, or both, on an extensive scale, It is certain that with such a neighbor as Mexico it is impracticable to suffer the Rio Grande to continue as the boundary between the two nations, and the sooner this is understood and acknowl- edged by our government the better, TH IMPORTANCE OF (SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. very important section of the country. The cattle growing increases in {mportance every year, and would to-day be much greater than it is but for these Mexican troubles, A good portion of the supplies of meat, hides, tallow, &c., comes from that part of the State, and the industries ot the people are crippled by this unnecessary and unfair warfare on the frontier, For years we have submitted to these evils without finding remedy, and have thus suffered a rich country to be only partially productive, and an industrious, enter- prising population to be impoverished and murdered by foreign brigands, These are not exaggerated state- ments, as the records of the department at Washington will show, and it is now about time that the outrages should cease, and that one of the most promising States in the Union should be freed from a condition of affairs so deplorable and receive the protection to which she is entitled. Diplomacy has been tried and has failed to accomplish any beneficial result. Other and more effectual modes of settlement cannot be much longer delayed. THE BAD FAITH OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT, The Mexican government has acted in bad faith with the United States. The head of the banditti of the border is the notorious General Cortina, Experienced, brave, unscrupulous and ambitious, he ts just the man 400,000 square miles, It is bounded by the Andes on the west, by the highlands of Brazil on the east, by the | waters of the Paraguay on the south and by the basin ofthe Amazon on the north; and is known in geo- graphy and commerce as Madeira Plate, This large portion of our neighboring continent forms, in fact, the heart of South America | With vast. navigable rivers, immense plains of tropical fertility and wooded mountain slopes for centuries celebrated for their varied natural wealth and situated 1,000 miles nearer New York than Lon- don, it is an attractive field for American enterprise. But this region has not yet received the thorough ex- | ploration which it needs for the advancement of geo- | graphical science and commerce, as well as for the de- | yelupment of civilization in the New World. The United States, by comparative proximity, is more in- terested in this work than any European’ nation, and | should now take the lead in extending our knowledge of acountry which must prove an important auxiliary | to American trade, The enormous supplies of timber, valuable both for construction and ornament, of drugs, | especially including Peruvian bark, peculiar to this fa- vored locality, gums, textile materials, precious ore and minerals which bere abound, should lead a power. | ful and enterprising nation like our own to explore, without delay, this rich tropical domain, and to bring ity varied products within the reach of our merchants. It is of the bighvst practical importance that the direct navigation of the Amazon and its tributaries, by avotd- ing the cireummavigation of Cape Horn, willsave not less than 100 days in the length of the voyage and the time of the transportation of these valuable products to the city of New York. We need pot dwell upon the ue nee of fully unfolding to the civilized . natural history of this hitherto sequestered | on of the globe, eed with w cessity of @ proper survey of on, the Cham Yi er of Commerce re- | Spectiully request your favorable action in tacititating by ail proper 1 proposed expedition. I have the honor to be, very respectiully, your obedient ser- vant, MU D. BABCOUR, ? nt, Derem Isuanp Licwenouss, Noy. 21, 1875. To Tax Eviton ov tte Hetauy:— Knowing your kindness of heart in always being ready to assist those who solicit your aid, und more especially under the following circumstances in which we are placed as wrecked seamen, and our not knowing how to return our sincere heartioit thanks to our kind and noble benefactors only through the columns of your valuable paper, we, therefore, trust you will oblige us by inserting our report, which, no doubt ere this, you have heard of—the wreck ofour vessoi, the schooner ford, with coal, on ‘Whale Rock, West Narragansett Bay, on the night of the 18th of this month; therefore | it is searcely worth while to repeat it; but we are very Dutch Island Lighthouse, and also to his estimable lady, who have done everything in their power to | rolieve our suffering and grief, We lost everything, ex: cepting a few articles of clothing we stood in. They our comfortand te and tibet fy ously with ali we needed. We aro still at their lighthouse, and not knowing how to reach our homes, when Captain Fife kindly offers to provide us the means, saying if wo cannot return the amount he is sure to obtain from Him above, who provides for us daily, and by ing this grateful favor we can only offer our sh to himself and family lege your benevolence. And, no doubt, cognizance will be taken of this charitable action of Captain Fife by the Lighthouse Establish- ment, who, we can justly say, they have a good and faithfu! servant in him. Pardon us for intruding on your columns, We a ae respectfally, FREDERICK B. SPRAGUE, Seaman, CHARLES W. GRAIG. gloward, to make and matutain a border warfare of this descrip- tion, He holds the ignorant and theivish Mexican pop- ulation between the mountains and the river in his hands. They swear by him, depend upon him and do | He organizes their raids, appoints their | Under | his bidding, leaders and manages the sale of the plunder. the remonstrance of the United States government he was recently subjected to a nominal arrest by President Lerdo; but, in fact, he was only politely notified to appear at the capital, and when there was treated with all the honors of @ distinguished chieftain. The Heraxo ts correct in its statement that President Lerdo is disposed to court Cortina, with the object of gaining his support inthe approaching election, While Cortina is at the City of Mexico his orders are sent to his followers and the raids into American territory are continued. While | professing friendly relations with our government, President Lerdo is in truth intriguing for another term for himself, and if he can obtain this at the expense even of a war with us he will not hesitate to pay the price. At all events, he is surrounded by corrupt men, who would not object toa war asa means of enriching themselves, and he is playing with fire by trackting with the robber chief whose acts are hostile to the nited States, who believes in his right to prey on the Americans and who is every day making war almost Inevitable, WHAT TEXAS 18 DOING. What Toxas intends to do for her own protection may be gathered from the recent action of Captain McNally, She proposes to protect herself if the United States government will not protect her, Governor Davis, a | republican, made application to the President for did and his appeal was disregarded. Governor Coke, his | democratic successor, has made @ similar appeal, and it is unheeded. Captain McNally, who is under thirty years of ago, energetic, cool, brave and possessed of wonderful physical endurance, was appointed, first by Governor Davis and afterward by Governor Coke, to take. charge of a company of rangers and do police duty on the frontier, In the lave war ho prival mand, and won the fanre of John Morgan in the Trans. tered the Confederate army as a | Mississippi department, Ho has already pursued into Mexico bands of thieves, recovering the stwlon prop- erty and showing no mercy tw the robbers, His last sploit proves of what stuff he is made, and shows that he will not hesitate to “carry the war into Mexico” on every occasion. Captain McNally some time ago vi ted Washington and had an interview with President Grant; hence it is tolerably certain that the govern- ment bas been previously advised of the course the Texan ranger chief intended to pursue, DORS PRESIDENT GRANT MEAN WAR WITH MRxICO? It has been shrewdly conjectured by some well in- formed Texans that President Grant does, in fact, de- sign making war on Mexico if it should become neces. sary, but intends to select his own time for bringit matters to a crisis. Of course no war can be mado without Congress, but a glance at the facts of the case will show that he may glide into a war with Mexico in @manner that will compel Congress to act in unison with the President, Jt is believed in many auarterg in ‘That portion of Texas lying along the Rio Grande is a | but soon obtamed a sort of {ree lance’ com- | avaao vam the fresidential card to be played by Grant is this ry Mexican war tramp, It 18 argued that the War Department has suppresed the intelligence of the Mexican outrages as far as pos- sible, 80 that they may be crowded fresh om the pub lic mind through the administration organs on tho eve of the republican Presidential nominations and pe used with the Centennial furor to demand the nomina- tion of the great captain of the nation for a third term. Texas is a democratic State. Suppose a conflict should come between the citizens of that State and the suppose Cortina, put in command by Lerdo. should invade Texas, not with his robber bands, but with a regular army’ Where, in such a case, woula the democratic House of Representatives be found? General Grant courts the money power and counts on its support, A war with a European Power, invited by the President, would be ovjectionable to the moneyed powor, while a war with Mexico, for which Grant would not be seem)\nagly responsible, would find capita! still on the side of the aspirant for a third term, These are the thoughts that have long since oc- curred to the minis of intelligent Texans who are con- versant with the situation. They believe that the President, aware of Captain MoNally’s programme, has no objection ty its prosecution, provided tle evisis is reached at the moment desired by Grant, For this Opinion they believe they find confirmation in the re- port of General Ord, and in that commander's sug- gestion ofa change of border. It is cortain that the citizens of Texas will secure a better natural protection for their frontier if permitted to do 80, even without the aid of tho general government, With 70,000 population they gained their independence and the recognition of the great Powers, as well as that of the Napoleon of the West, Santa Anna, With 2,500,000 of people they claim to be fully able to hold the terri- tory necessary for the protection against invasion. WHAT SHOULD BH THE BOUNDARY. For it is certain that the Rio Grande cannot continue to divide the two nations, Texas will no longer sub mit to live with a thougand miles of frontier open to such a people as the Mexicans and to such bandits as Cortina and his followers, The Sierra Madre must be the barrier between us and our unreliable neighbors, and then the mountain passes can easily be guarded and depredations stopped. We must follow the mountain line through the States of Tamauli- pas, Nuevo Leon, Chihuahua and Cohahuila, }aud probably through Sonora and Lower Calilornia, ‘This will give us a strip of due country about one-third the size of the State of Texas, including valuable mining privileges, which will pay for any expenses the Mext- cans may by their lawless and hostile course impose upon us, Let us change our border line, even though the time and manner of doing it may be chosen by President Grant and may be reserved as a third term card, The border will be won, even though the Presi- dential trick should be lost. Let us hope that the Herap will give us its powerful aid in securing this protection to Texas, FRONTIER, POSTAGE ON BOOKS. Aconference was held yesterday in the Post OMice, between Postmaster General Jewell, Postmaster James, with his chiefs of departments and a number of New York publishers, in reference to postage on books. ‘There were present:—Mr. Harper, Mr. Farrelly, Secre- tary of the Publishers’ Board of Trade; Mr, Appleton, Mr. Sheldon, Mr. Smith, of Scribner's Monthly, and Mr, Blakeman, of Ives, Blakeman & Co. They asked that bound books should be sent to any distance by mail for half acent per ounce, as provided under the old law, and not as at present charged—one cent per ounce. Postmaster Jewell thought 1t would be forthe in- terest of the government to foster centralizauon in literature, The postal laws should facilitate the uso in different sections of the States of the same educational books. He believed there should be a national school literature, and was framing the new postal law with that intent. He stated that bound books could be sent to and from Europe at lower raves than from New York to Chicago. ‘The Postmaster General said in reply, {t costs 33 | cents forevery pound of matter sent to San Francisco, 33 cents to New Orleans, Ll cents to St. Louis and 6 cents to Chicago, The department loses money on such matter, while it makes money on matter sent by sea, On eighteen sacks to San Francisco, by rail, we get $66 and pay $600. Mr. Farrelly urged that bound books be rated at 8 cents per pound, and transient periodicals 1 cent for each four ounces. Several hours were consumed in the discussion, which was concluded by the Postmaste: General saying that he would carefully consider the points laid before him, but with a deficiency of $5,000,000 in receipts as against expenditures of the de. partment, he doubted if any law wo reduce the rates of Postage could be passed. THE CUSTOM HOUSE. Special Treasury Agents Russell and Bibbins, ov Colonel F. E. Howe's office, yesterday setzed a quantity of cigars secreted on board the steamship Tybee, from St. Domingo. They will be handed into the seizure room of the Custom House to-day. It is stated in the Collection office that few of the prominent officials of the Custom House will go ta Washington on the occasion of the funeral services ot the late Vice President, but will be present upon the occasion of the body passing through this city on tts way to Boston, No official letter has been received as yet by the Colicetor concerning the matter from Wash. ' ington, The Custom House will be closed on the day of the interment, save from nine to ten in the morn ing, when vessels will be entered and cleared. The appraisement of the large amount of fraudulently entered beads now in the seizure room has been for some unaccountable reason delayed; but it ts believed that tho appraisers will commenco thotr task next Friday, The Custom House officials of all grades are in great trepidation concerning the recent order of Secretary Bristow to reduce the expenses fifteen per cent for the seven remaining months of the present fiscal year. A BRIGHT CENTENNIAL IDEA, | Aries, Ala., Nov. 18, 1875. To toe Enrror or THR HeRaALD:— ‘The Centenmal will soon dawn upon us, thereby calling forth our every effort and energy as Americans to display to the civilized world the unexampled prog- ress and prosperity that have attended us for the past century. As freemen, conscious of our station and rank among the nationalities of the earth, we should, nevertheless, while competing with them in all branches of art and literature, endeavor to eclipse them allin an undivided love and patriotism for our govern- ent. min what form or manner can it be more fitly achieved than that of uniting as one people, with one voice, and nominating for President and Vice President “William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston,” both gentlemen of merit and worth, tried and true in every phase of life, and with vigilance and care would guard sacredly our every right and interest as their own, ‘To say such a ticket would be successful or such a nomination would be acceptable to our land is a mere waste of words. The nation would rise with one ac cord, and if in any quarter visible there appeared a dis- cordant voice, would apply its magic touch, transform. ing it into Sweetest symphony. Then, and not tll then, will come our “political millennium.” Why not, then, let it come? Ob, that every political lender in our land could stop but for a moment and behold with enraptured vision that beautiful picture that Heaven, with outstretched hands, is offering us and begging uf to receive it, They would cease to do wrong and learn te do good; for such an act there certainly would issue pardons for all misdoings, and what a glorious account would our visitors give on their return to foreign landst “There is no such land as America and zo people liks Americans.”” We are a great people. We know it, and why not realize it? NEW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, A large number of florists and horticulturists met | yesterday afternoon at No, 12 Cortianut street for the puspose of taking steps toward the organization of # horticultural association, for the general advance ment of the trade, Among those present were R. B. Parsons, of phn L. Lj; Pever Henderson, of No, 25 Cortlandt street; John Cadness, of Flushing, L. hi J.T. Lovett, Secretary of the New Jersey Horticultu Society; John Henderson, of Flushing, L. 1, and others.’ Mr, Willam Isennett acted as chairman. Alter some unimportant discussion it was resolved to ‘a committee of five to draft bylaws and a con- for the new society and also to nominate offi- cers, to reportat a meeting to be held two weeks hence, Tho’ committee appointed consisted of Peter Hender- gon, William Elilot, John Henderson, W. J. Davidson aud James Fleming. The meeting then adjourned, RAILWAY MORTGAGES, A meeting of the first mortgage bondholders of the Eastorn’ and Western Division of the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway Company was held yesterday ag Messrs, Jacquollin & DeCoppett’s office, in New street, After discussion the plan lately submitted, whorein the junior securities were recognized, was, on account ot ‘the want of co-operation on their food rejected, aad it was resolved Lo proceed immediately with a strict (ore- closure of the mortgages on both divisions for tha benefit only of tho first mortgage bondholders. Messrs, Isaac Sherman, Charles Moran and R. C. Martin wore appointed a committes to draft the plan, Messrs, R |G, Martin, Henry DeCoppett and John 3, Barnes wero | appointed a committee to carry the same into effect. This action if successful will cut off the second mort- | gage and consoldidated bonds as wall aa the floating | debs and stock, | | | appoint stitution