The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1875, Page 5

THE SUEZ CANAL, Particwars of the Great, gritish Ter- rota eas ad The Political Results Which a May Ensue. TURKISH INTERESTS IN THE BARGAIN, “Will England Uphold or Desert the Sick Man? Loxpon, Nov, 27, 1875, The news of the purchase by the English government for £4,000,000 of 177,000 shares in thé Suez Canal was made known to the country yesterday morning, and created an excitement among all classes such as has not been known for many years, It was as great a sur- prise to England as it appears to have been for France, Germany and Russia, though very naturally the an- ouncement created very different feelings in the minds of the different peoples. The English, so long thescorn of European statesmen, taunted with their indifference to foreign politics, their selfishness to all tnterests that do not concern their mercantile prosperity are now very justifiably proud of the energetic action taken by the Ministry, which once more asserts the right of England to protect herself and to assert the position she means to occupy as the expected solution of the Eastern question, No one expected such quick action and clear headed statesmanship; no one thought for & moment that England would be the first to indicate 80 decidedly to the European Powers her intention of casting her influence and authority in the scale in favor of Turkey and taking, ag \t were, a vital interest in the existence of her old ally. For {t must not be supposed for 4 moment that, in laying her clutches on the Suez | ENGLAND INTENDS TO RESIGN TURKBY to a fate she has so well deserved; rather the measure she has taken proves that she will endeavor to main- tain Turkey in her present position, if only for the purpose of having an ally and a friend to help her pro- tect her GREAT HIGHWAY TO URR INDIAN EMPIRE, For some timo past the officially inspired journals, more especially the Pall Mall Gazette, have been sound. Ing the public as to tho feasibility and probable ad- vantages of annexing Egypt to the British Empire, though the idea did not take any very firm root Nevertheless, it was evident that, in case the European Powers should have pushed on the dismemberment of Turkey by force England would at once have taken possession of Egypt for her sbare of the spoils, But England has no desire to see Turkey driven out of Europe; has no destre to see Russia commanding the gates of the Borphorus, and Russia not wishing to see @ Sclavic Provinces annexed to the a AUSTRIAN EMPIRE. There seems every reason to beheve that the Eastern | wound would be patched up once more, to break out again ata later date, as usual We have etill to sce, however, whether or not this step on the part of Eng- Jand will not provoke Russia to action. The telegraph ia silent from Russta this morning; but only a few days ago a Rossian journal, in discussing the view put forth by the Pall Mall Gazette as to the importance of Egypt to England, ‘begged to ask whether Russia, Austria, Italy, France, Greece and Spain, surrounding, as they do, the Mediterranean, have not a right, too, to vindicate their | interests on the Nile ?”” replies thas:— “The answer is short and simple, They have a per- fect right, England, in vindicating her own interests on the Nile, vindicates their mterests, too, Our inter- ‘ests differ trom theirs in degree only and not in kind.” THR CLEAREST EXPOSITION OF Now the Pall Mau Gazette | ‘Awill gratify the country not onty ‘NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1875.—TRIP —— > on account of the promised, but because tt ad ultimate material advan' poe meet 4 gives assurance that we eh ee ‘THE SATURDAY REVIEW says:—There can be no question that Parliament will ratify the action of the Ministry, and all that remains to do Is to anticipate and face the cunsequences of the baaanaae UKSTION OF THR HOUR, ™ Q) The great question now is; What will be the result of this daring step on the part of the English govern- ment? Will not great Ci yntal Powers accept England’s inivetive as a bint for them to proceed in the work of annexation? The dark rumors of the past few days seem tw take on a semblance of reality in view of the revealed facts; the steady marching of Russian troops toward her southern fronticr, the silent prepara- tions for times of trouble which Austria bas made, and, more than all, the despatch of English troops and ships in the direction.of Malta—all these things lead us to the view that the cloud which has been so long seen hover- ‘ng on the Bastern horizon is visibly grow- ing + in size and density, and laden with destructive fire. Some Berlin days ago ao to the English public RUMORS OF WAR have been in active circulation in Berlin in connection with preparations for war, The rumors are based upon an alloged letter from an English statesman (whose name does not, however, appear), in which the words “imminent” and Horraaaniel were ap ied $0; she supposed preparations. The language of the iY Eoaee pectin to imply, howeeee (differing in this from the Morning Post), that England, in taking the step she has, has at the samo time taken care to insure her own safety in the matter, WHAT WILL THR KAISEKS BAYT “We shall goon hear what these emperors think of the purchase, Perhaps they may not much regret it, They could not in any case control Egypt, as between them and Egypt lie a sea on which the English navy can act ingcly. They only lose what they could not have got, But they may hold that this loss entities them wo claim what they would like to have. In dividing the spoils of Turkey they well know that they will Have | to reckon with each other, but they will expect not have to reckon with Kngland, They will say that Eng- land has got what she wants, and now they must havo what they want, The field of plunder may seem open to them and the Eastern question to have entered in a new phase. Even, however, if this be so, it docs not follow that the English Ministry ‘has been wrong. It may have been seen too clearly that the end of Turkey is not distant to be willing to hesitate, and it may have thought that to let it be Kuown at the outset wnat it wanted, to petit, and to get it in an apparently legal way and without asking any une’s leave, was the simplest, cheapest and honest- esi course, But here, again, is must be said that to take such a course was not @ light matter, and that what bas been done hag made the immediate future an anxious time for statesmen as well as for financiers,” From the above you will perhaps gather as good an idea as it is possible to give of English feeling on the subject of the purchase. As to the result this purchase will have on the future of the Oriental qnestion this cannot yet be ascertained. Doybtless this step taken by Kngland must hasten events though we might well ask the question in Mr, Disraeli’s own words, “Is it a leap in the durk ?” telegram announ that CUBA. EUROPEAN OPINION OF THR GREAT SPANISH- AMERICAN DIFFICULTY—THR WASHINGTON AND MADRID CORRESPONDENCE—WHAT THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH PRESS SAY OF THE ANTILLES IMBROGLIO. Lonpon, Nov, 27, 1875, In reference to Cuban affairs 1t ts remarkable how lite reliable information is to be gleaned from the English journals, Up to a few days ago there had nov been a line about the difficulty between Washington and Madrid; and we conld not, of course, understand the excitement which has apparently been prevailing with you nor the reasons causing the preparations for possible conflict, The Daily 7elegraph of this morn- ing, however, touches the Cuban gubject both in its Madrid and Paris telegrams, The latter reads thus: ‘The Journal des Débats refers to correspondence from Cuba, published by another paper, and says:— and humanity. Unable to repress 1) rection by means of a regular army, the Spanish govern } ment employs Carlist priyoners to do the work. These un- forsunates are at times shipped in a mauner which recalls the cargoos of ebony during the most prosperous period of the slave trade, But this is nov ‘ntire brigades have been sent so Cuba composed of thieves and vagabonds taken from the various prisoms. Thus 105 were furnished from the visona of Toledo, 220 from Saragossa, 60 from Burgos, Ga trom’ Cartagena, 40 from Candin, and finally. 229. con victs were taken froin the Bagnio of Ceuta. Of the massacres committed by these noble warriors the most borribie ac- connts ure rendered. Children were carried away at the end of bayonets and the ike Unless these horrors cease Spain will forteit all claim vo the sympathy of other nations, I learn from other sources that much of the foregoing embodied in the claims brought forward agaist Spain by the United States. Large numbers of these convict Soldiers find means of escaping from Cuba, and iniest the neighboring shores of Floridaand other States of the Union. The American Minister hus repeatedly and energetically provested aguinet Cuba being turned into a penal colony, and complained that its proximity had become a source of alarin and annoyance, I have hikewise learned, on good authority, that the presence “Having now ® national stake, a bond fide | Of 80 Many miscreants on Cuban Soil leads to other rial {1 in E it will ie serious conflicts, There are, as ts well known, wany material tnterest in Egypt, !t wi e open tO US tO | aysentees among the Cuban planters. Some are Span- take measures for the protection of that stake and | tards, others owe allegiance w the United States. It is interest such as may be best calculated to meet any | 0 easy. matter to tind among these convict soldiers and every danger that might menace them." More sagacious still {s the view promulgated by the Post, that friendship with Turkey means assistance tn India. Tne danger to England in her Indian territory “ts more from within than without Surely, the case has never been put in a clearer and more telling fashion than this, None of the Lonaon dailies speak out openly on any possible desertion of Turkey, though the general feeling points in an opposite direction. The news of the purchase of the canal did not have the effect of checking the DECLINS OF TURKISN SECURITIES, Indeed, they have fallen rapidly since, @ fact which | eppears to show but little confidence among money men in England’s intention of supporting the decaying Empire of the Caliphs. The Pall Mall Gazette says:—‘‘We doubt not, more- over, that when the stop just taken by the British government comes to be calnily considered by foreign na- | tions ip the light of tho existing Europoan situation they — ‘will Qnd !t reassuring rather than the reverse. It ought ‘to be reassuring, both as marking in a way too plain to be mistaken the limits of our policy with regard to | Egypt and as testifying to our desire to pursue that England’s views and her present position tn regard to the Eastern question 18, I think, to be found in the editorial colamns of to-day’s Morning Post, which must be looked upon as, at least, inspired The writer eays:— that many of these absentees are wanting in patriotism. A small number of dollars suffices to procure an affidavit that @ certain proprietor bas aided and assisted the rebela The aflidavit once procured ‘a court. martial 1s held, and in one breath the party thus tmplicated 1s accused, judged and condemned to death. Condemnation, of course, is followed by confiscation. The Spanish government, in. reply to remonstrances against these summary proceedings, hae invariably asked time to introduce reform. After much wran- gling tt turns out from the note which has just been gent from Madrid that nothing has been ceded to the United States, saving that in future the accused may invoke the aid of counsel! before the Cuban courts mar- tial The note, Iam informed, covers upward of forty Pages, ot the uaual polite verblage. The Spanish gov. ernment points to the fact that in one or two cases it ordered restoration of contiscatea plantations, but as in all these cases much ume had been wasted in nego- Viations the magnanimity of toe Madrid government proved unavailable, inasmuch as in the meantime the property had been leased or sold, and the Cuban authori- ties declared themselves unable to comply with the or- ders sent from Madrid. Some time ago, in conversation with General Sickles, I had the foregoing statements substantially confirmed; he tolling me, if 1 remember rightly, that he bad applied, when Minister to Spain, an He tea aatenpase a gt Lpeagengs ip at three distinet umes, to push claims of the nature de- bs Mel ai invbicellb Lp Bobin to eiacen tical | scribed, 1t appears that American citizens have been eg ay ie ghee gabon eravely chosen vo elect by ue- | heavy losers by the arbitrary mode of proceeding, and gotiation and purchase an object which wo might, at me time later, have. beoa compelled to effeet vy | BF the want of energy ¢0 sanction or enforce measures something very like force, Recent events and recent rumors—tor the moment much exaggerated, no doubt— have shown that atany day we might find ourselves In the midst of European complications, and confronted by the immediate necessity of securing our route to India at any cost and jn any way, That we should have | MR. CUSHING'S NOTE. ‘The Madrid telegraphic correspondence to the same Journal on the same date 1s equally noteworthy :— The reply to Mr. Cushing lett two or three evenings ago by special messenger via England. The note was very voluminous. So far as can be learned, Spain prom- men ready to swear, in the most barefaced manner, | focounized and acted upon thie necessity we all know, | jay, 1 bas, as we pointed out the other day, been long | known and counted upon as almost the one element of | certainty in the Bastern question in every Cabinet and | capital in Europe.” THE ENGLISH MINISTRY HAVE MADB 4 GREAT COUP im this. latest business transaction. The Times reco; izes in the purchase the hand of Mr. Disraeli, The Yelegraph vbinks, however, that the “patriotism of the English nation will, beyond all question, recognize in this act of Lord Derby a mark of sagacity, which adds 10 his old reputation for prudence new proof of political | courage.” It ts probable that the work is the result of ‘the two heads—-of Lord Derby’s political foresight and | _ DISRARLPS PINANCIAL AQUMEN. ‘The Saturday Review sees in the business “Mr. Dis- racli’s own style of gorgeousness. In «moment he (nterferes in the East, commits his country to a new adventure, be bandies about his miljions like half. | nce. He gives awards on the golden lions of the hrone of Judah, and bidsa Viceroy draw at sight on Bidonia for £4,000,000. ‘To have lived w make a duke, which was the dream of Vivian Grey, is nothing com- pared with having lived to realize the magnificent visions of Coningsby.” The Pall Mali Gazette, how- ever, sees rather the hand of necessity than of Mr. Disraeli, and this view of the case is probably the cor- rect one, for ‘the bargain had to be settled at once” or never, “It was a question of a few days, almost of | . hours.’ | ‘TRE KHEDIVR’S WANT OF Caan, | Pen days ago the British Ministry were informed in | @ confidential manner that the Khedive was in pressing | need of funds with which to meet impending engage- ments, in bis need he had determined to sell tho | 177,000 shares out of the 400,000 issued, which he pos. wested of the Suez Canal. The Khedive intimated his | decision to two parties—to M. de Lesseps, who imme. | diately announced himself as a possible purchaser, and | immediately received the support of two financial sources in Paris, game offers to the Rothschilds, or through them to the English government, and, as the Daily Telegraph re- marked, ‘‘The Khedive himself preferred to transfer the ‘canal to that gov- | the strongest cormereial | e ernment rue for pores itopen as a free passage for the | whole world. he Ministry saw the opportunity, with | e single condition that a decision must be tm- mediat i made. The felegraph, evitently well in- formed, then goes on to state how the transaction was carried out:— “Parliament was not sitting, though, bappily, the Cabinet councils were being held in their usual course, No government before had ever thus invested national money simply because no previous government ever found national interests so euddenly implicated. In strict politics it was obviously irregular, and by the Light of wise policy it was just as clearly all-important, History had prepared Ubi wherein @ govern- ment, afraid of its plain duty or too hatr-splitting to decide upon tt, would have woo surely put the splendid , chance aside and have given us hereafter, perchance, fome loug-winded ex fications in poor exchange for the hold wo shall now have of the shurt cut between Europe and i” So now is only needed THR GANCTION OF PARLIAMENT to the purchase, and Engiand’s, or Queen Victoria's, position as the commanding sharebolder in the Suez Canal will be an accomplished fact. And the announce- ment of the purchase has caused such a universal feel- ‘Ing of joy and pride tn the Rnglish breast that thore ts Bo doubt but that Parliament will seal what the Minis- try, ‘with an audacity not often associated with the ets of a British Ministry,'’ has done, «HAR Reh Ag 5 aad ” SPRGESWRGN” Ka Mah Tineke. OMA? FART AINGTIGAR SQRHle AB RORAIDI, ises reform in the matter of contiscating property, but declines to adbere to the terms of her treaty of 1795. Spain, therefore, means to continue to try by court martial all Americans who are unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of the Cuban authorities. There bas been much delay in the matter of transmitting the note, owing to the changes in the Ministry. The origi- pal document was drafted by Seflor Casa Valencia, completed by General Jovellar, and finally signed by Sefior Calderon. ’ ing the military outlook a high authority assured me last night thas the army conceutrated about Navarre and the Basque Provinces numbers neaciy 150,000, independent of garrison troops. Barly in December a decided move fs to be made, and tt is fully expected that before the close of the year the war will ‘be at an end, THE VIRGINIUS CASK. An incident connected with the Virginius affair hi come tomy knowledge which tends to show that the matter has not been placed on the shelf. Mr. Layard, reeeny returning from England, where he had been on leave, passed through Bilbao on his way to Madrid. He thers paid his respects to the local military and civil authorities, but entirely ignored General Buricl, the Captain General of the Province. Under the appre- hension that some mistake had occurred somewhere, General Buriel resolved to call on Mr, Layard. On reaching the hotel of the latter the General sent.in his card, which, however, Mr. Layard refused to Subsequently, on his reaching Madrid, the Minister Stave interrogated Mr. kb when the Jatter firmly declared that he bad felt no {nelination to ieecive General Bartel, explaining at the same time unreservedly bis motives, The Minister, so report says, expressed much astonishment that » | diplomatist and he representative of England should have refused to recognize a Spanish official, But Mr. It is now evident that he made the | Layard remained tirm. replying that he had no official | business with General Burt nd that, prompted by the feelings of an Kuglishman, be had abstained from shaking hands with the person who was responsible for | the massacre of the passengers and crew of the Virgin- | jus, The fact is that, although the Spanish government stands pledged to punish General Buriel and the naval officers implicated in the Virginius affair, all these men have been promoted and decorated. Engiand cannot take action alone, since she ts not the only party inter- ested, Repeated promises have been given to the United States to try the offenders by court martial. The gov- ernment at Washington accepted thg promises by way of satisfactior 4 it would seem invidious if Kngland took the initi in demanding the punishment of General Burtel aad his accomplices. THR SPANIAKDS UNKABY—CAICULATING THE GMANCES | OF WAR, | ‘That Spain ts not very easy in her miad, viewing the | Prospects of a war with the United States, may be | gathered from a fact learned yesterday from an officer of the English navy and a well known Arctic explorer. This gentleman told me that he has been asked by an official of the Spanish government, if in cage of war with the United States, he would be willing to take charge of @ privateer for the purpose of preying upon American commerce, The English naval officer re- Jected the offer with disdain, The incident proves very clearly, however, that the first result of » war with Spain would be the Mtting out of @ fotilla of pirates INTERNATIONAL PIGEON MATOH. GRAND CONTESTS TO COME OFF AT MONACO— THE PRIZES, CONDITIONS OY THE MATCHES AND MEMBERS O¥ THE COMMITTEE. According to special advices by the last mail from Europe we learn that the annual international pigeon tnatches will commence at Monaco on Tuesday, January 18, 1876. THE iT DAY, The first day, January 18, there will be a contest for the “Grande Poule d’kssai,” for an object of art, added to a pool of 75f. each; to the second, 35 per, cent; to the third, 15 per cent, taken from the entrance money. Five birds each at 26 yards, Two birds missed in suc- cession disqualifies, . THR SECOND DAY. . On Saturday, January 22, the ‘*Prix d’Ouverture”’ will-be shot for, This prize will consist of an object of art and 2,000f, (500f, of which goes to the second) added to an entrance fee of 100f.; the second will re- ceive 85 per cent; the third, 25 per cent; the fourth 15 per cent, of the entrance money, Conditions:—Five birds at 25 metres—about 27 yards, Two missed ln suc- cession to disqualify, ‘THIRD AND FOURTH DAYS, On Tuesday and Wednesday, January 25 and 26, the “Grand Prix du Casino” is to come off. The prize con- sists of an object of art, valued at 3,000f., and 20,000f, in money added to 200f. entrance fee; the second will re- ceive 4,0001. of the prize and 25 per cent of the entrance money; the third 2,000f. and 26 percent; the fourth 2,000f. and 15 per cont, Twelve pigeons—Five the first day, at 28 yards; sevem the second day, at 29 1-3 yardg, Four pigeons missed disqualifies the contestant, YIPTH DAY. On Friday, January 28, the “Prix de Monte Carlo,” grand free handicap, will be sbot for, The prize con- sists of an object of art and 3,000f., with 100f entrance foe added; the second will receive 750f of the prize and 35 per cent of the entries; the third 600f and 25 per cent; the fourth 250f. and 15 per cent Three birds each, Two misses to disqualify. SIXTH DAY. will be contested for. This will be for an object of art and 1,000f. The conditions of this match have not yet been published. CONDITIONS. Those having the right to participate in these | matches are the members of the Cercle des Patineurs, } Paris; of the Hurlingham Gun Club, London; of the Cercle de PUnion, Brussels, and all persons pre- senting a letter of recommendation of a member of the committee, ‘The rules followed in réYerence to the shooting will be those of the Cercle des Patineurs, of Paris. The committee will appoint sub-committees and Judges, whose decision will be final, Subscriptions for the Prix d’Ouverture and the Grand Prix du Casino will be received by letter, addressed Secrétariat de l’Administration, Monaco, up to Tues day, January 18, atten o'clock In the evening, Per- sons not belonging to any of the clubs above named most send their entries signed by a member of the committee, Subscriptions accepted after this date and Just before the commencement of each match will be 251. extra (which will go into the general fund). Let- ters should contain the amount of the entrance fea No. 10 is the largest calibre allowed. THE COMMITTEE, The names of the committeo are as follows :— Comte Hallez-Claparede, C, Livingstone. Buc de Castries. G. L. Lorillard. Due de Vatlombrosa Prince L. Esterbazy. A. du Bos Prince Ch. Egon Fursten- @. Brinquant berg. Robert Hennessy, Prince A. de Chimay. Duc de Hamilton. Marquis Ph. de Croix. Sir Frederick Johnston. Comte de Galve. Sir Charles Legard. Baron M, Baracco, Sir William Call. A. Varocque, Reginald Herbert. G. Besana, D, Treherna Baron Podesta, RIFLE SHOOTING. Company’s badge came off at the 100 yards range of Mr. Homer Fisher's, corner Broadway and Warren street. times; 82 calibre rifles used. ' The ‘| by F. rst badge was woi | H. Holton, 38." ‘The second badge was won by Mr. D. Le e8t was manifested in the match. THE RIFLE ON LONG ISLAND. noon on the association's range, near Jamaica Mr, William S, Elmendorf was the successful competitor by & score of 59 out of a possible 75, 200 yards, off hand. badge bas now became his personal property. rauge will now be closed for the season. PEDESTRIAN CHALLENGE. On Saturday, January 29, the ‘Prix de Consolation” | Yesterday the first competition for the Union Metallio GRANT AND THE SCHOOL QUESTION, OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON @H& SECTARIAN ISSUE IN THE MESSAGE. The President’s views on religions and school ques- tions are regarded as those of a bold, cunning, ambt- tious man, seeking bis own honor and preferment at the risk of a religious war.—New York Express (dem) ‘This crusade 1s made for the woret party purposes. — New York Express (dem) Like all who play on the harp of the demagogug, be finds tuncless strings and jarring notes however skil- Blaine Blaine on the sectarian {ssue he has unbalanced himself, and will fall between the upper and nether millstone of the arrayed sectarianism he seeks to in- flame for a national conftict.—Pkiladelphia Times (ind.) ful the touch, and in bidding “00 desperately to out | LE SHEET. THE SUNNYSIDE DISASTER, THE STATEMENT OF ONE OP THE SUFFERERS. Jobn D, Lawson, of No, 87 Greenwich avenue, who ‘Was on board the Sunnyside steamer at the time of ber fatal mishap, makes the following statement:— I foe) that nothing should be said again’! the captain or crew; they dad all in thelr power to sive us, Tam aware, from what I saw, that the extreme coldness of the night, together with the ico, prevented tem from doing what they otherwise would tike w have done, From the position which I occupied on top of the gilt | Dall over the pilot house, 1 was able to see and hear everything thai passed; and what I had to witness was | heartrending., When I went to bed about nine o’clock, | everything seemed to be all right 1 think it was | about two o'clock in the morning whon they knocked at my door, telling me to get up and come ' A discussion of the issue as one of national moment by the President in an annual Message borders on im- becility, and will be charged to the third term night- | mare that settles so awkwardly in his concluding para. | graphs.—Philadelphia Times (ind.) Of this fummery he will be himself ashamed tn the contest of 1876.—Philadelphia Times (ind.) ‘The purpose of tho President to raise the so-called “schvol issue” for securing his own third term, which | was apparent in his Des Moines speech, is more clearly manifest in the present Message.—New York World (dem.) ‘This is a congenial topic to him, and affords proof that this thorny subject will be incorporated into the next | national republican platform and play a part in tho coming Presidential campaign.—New York Sun (ind.) tional amendment, Under pretenco of settling the school question an unintelligible and unnecessary med- ley is proposed. —Albany Argus (dem.) When the war upon religious instruction finds its ended in Great Britain—in a bold assault upon all true education, This is the real scope and effect of Grant's amendment,—Albany Argus (dem.) It (Grant’s amendment) proposes to establish by constitutional edict ‘religious indifference” in the schools of the country, It proposes to interfere with | the indefeasible rights of the people and to force tho notions of @ minority upon the churches of tbe coun- try.—Albany Argus (dem.) The “demagogue” ts revealed still more conspicu- ously by contrasting the portion of the Message relat- ing to schools with the paragraph relating to the taxation of church property. The danger is to be averted by a sweeping constitutional amendment, How 1@ the evil t boaverted? The ‘‘demagogue’ does not tell us!—Albany Argus (dem.) He lays his irreligious hands upon the schools of tho country.—Albany Argus (dem.) He threatens religious indifferentism by constitu- tonal edict, —Albany Argus (dem.) He undertakes to assume to bo master of the con- science in the. matter of education.—Alany Argus (dem.) ‘The truth is Grant is infatuated with the idea of a | “third term.” He wishes to write his name higher | ne knows no other way to do it than to agitate the | country with unnecessary strife, He has made him- self the exponent of all that is tangible with regard to the school question. If the republican party wishes to his dangerous amendment,—Albany Argus (dem.) NON-SECTARIAN SCHOOLS. CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS—LETTER FROM TH HON, JAMES G. BLAINE, The following letter was written by Mr. Blaine toa prominent Ohio gentleman just after the late election im that State, It is printed now with at least the im- plied assent of the writer:— Avavsta, Me., Oct. 20, 1875, late campaign is liable to break out elsewhere; and; occurring first in one Stateand then in another, may keep the whole country in a ferment for years to Come, This inevitably arouses sectarian feeling and leads to that bitterest and most deplorable of all strifes, the | gurite between religious denominations. | me that this question ought to be settled in some deti- nite and comprehensive way, and the only settlement The “demagogue” appears in the proposed constita- | yard sight to sea ‘The wreck was sinking deeper ail | logical culmination in this country it will end where it | | than Washington’s and Jefferson's and Jackson's, and | My Dear Sm—The pablic schoo! agitation tn your | It seems to | out It have taken me about three | minutes to dress, urd upon getting out of my state- | | room I saw everybody running hither and thither. I once ran down vo the baggage room and got hold of. | some small things belonging w roe; then J went to the | after part of the lower deck and there saw the water | coming in very fast I next ran up stairs and heard | some one say, ‘All for the pilot house,” 1 went up as | | fast as 1 could, and to get there had to walk through | the water in orderto get in. I then ran to the lifeboat; | came to the pilot house and saw who ladies get in. It | was umpossible to keep the men out, I did nottry to | goin, but threw my things on the top of the pilot house and climbed on the top of ik [perceived that | some of my things had fallen through, but without | being able to rescue them I climbed to the highest | part of the boat left out of water. It is my impression that, I sat there fully three hours; but during | this “time I dared pot move, and 1 dons think | that I cofld have stood it many minutes longer, as [ was numbed with cold, I witnessed the lifeboat ‘start for the shore, and saw when it was upsot. That was a | this time, and as we were about to give ourselves up to | despair I saw a small rowboat coming toward us | called out to the man in it, and he answered, say!o; that be had but one oar, and that the sea was heavy, | asked him how many persons bis boat would hold, and he said seven, I informed him that that was all we had | on our end of the wreck. Upon hearing this he got | his boat close to the steamer, and took off a young lady’ named Miss Hayward, whom Mr. Daffy bad placed in the remains of the pilot house, together with five men. I slid down into the small boat, and we were all taken | ashore. We experienced much difficulty in getting up the bank of the river, Upon reaching the shore we met Mr. Sloane, who had alamp with him, He took the lady to his home, and I helped my two friends, Mr. Dufy and Mr. MeGuirk, We met with very kind people at West Park, who treated us well, or all of us would have died. THE SEARCH FOR THE BODIES, Poucuxsrsix, Dec. 8, 1875, The grapplers to-day succeeded in recovering the body of Samuel Rutledge from the water at the Sunny- | side wreck. The body of Mrs, Stewart was also brought to the surface, but it slipped from the grapples and went down again. It will probably be recovered to- morrow. ‘Tonight the bodies of Bridget Do ur, Willlam to New York in coffins on the steamer Joun S Has- brouck. The body of Mrs. Haywood was semt toNew York by rail Captain Teson and Colonel Wolcott, of the Sunny- | found and sent to their friends. “MALPRACTICE, NITRATE OF SILVER AND DEATH —HOW QUACKS KILL UNSUSPECTING PEOPLE. Yesterday morning, at half past eight o'clock, Mrs, | Eliza Conway died at No. 64 North Moore strees Had continue that agitation it must take Grant again with | this death occurred in ordinary course possibly nothing | dependent, and the relations to each other of ¥ | more would have been heard of {t than what ig usually contained tn the short, stern obituary notice But especial investigation, It” Would be o difficult | matter to ‘surmise premature grave through the well intentioned but faulty treatment of even the best | Any one at all acquainted with the elements | of medical science knows what a stumbling block tho prognosis and diagnosrs of the various diseases are; im what a kaleidoscopic manner the symptoms cross and intermingle, so that until the disease positively declares Itself, it is the hardest thing in the world to distinguish between the premomitory, symptoms of smallpox, | ments Honest medical men will tell us that, even in | the case of the most experienced practitioners, the | Materia Medica as applied to discase, leaves the pa Howard, George Green and Susan Rey were forwarded | } aide, will remain at the wreck until all the bodies are | there aro facts surrounding this death which call for | how many people go to a | physicians, | typhus fever, typhoid fever and other acute derange- | ‘The terms of the match were ten shots off hand, first | badge to highest score; second badge to tenth best, and third badge to twentieth best; badge to be won three ackofen, Kighth regiment, who scored 42 points; | joint product of Jefferson and Madison, proposed in | upon for a tumor in the breast. | 'T. C. Banks making 41; Samuel Wilson, 40; J. H. | 1799, declared that ‘Congress shall make no law re- | happened to be astmall portion which ulcerated for Stearns, 29; J. L. Marvin, 38; J, Woodward, 38, and F. Beckwith and the third by C. H. Webb, Those present | were nearly al! habitués of Creedmoor and much inter- | that can be final 1s the complete victory for non-secta- | thologist groping in the dark, Surgery 18 a diferent rian schools. Iam sure this will be degianded by whe | matter. A limb has to be cut off, and itis possible at American people at all hazards and at any cost. | once to detect the skill or clumsiness of the operator, - The dread of sectarian legislation in this country | The poor woman whose death is bere recorded ha has been felt many times in the past. It began very for some years past, been the clinical patient of Dr. | early. ‘The first amendment to the constitution, the | Buttels, of No. 41.St. Mark's place. She was operated In the cicatrix there specting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the | Wantof proper nourishment. This was of about the | free exercise thereof.” At that time, when the powers | 81z0,0f half # dollar. It continued this for some time, of the federal government wero untried and unde. | but fave no trouble, There is, however, no man or veloped, the fear was that Congress might be tho | woman living who cannot understand the poor woman’s The fourth contest for the gold badge of the Jamaica | Rod and Rifle Association took piace yesterday after- The Markham B. Stokes offers to walk 500 miles, for | | source of danger to perfect re:igious liberty, and henca ‘AS no indica- | all power was taken away from it At the same timo the States were lett free to do as they pleased in re- gardto “an establishment of religion,” for the tenth amendment, proposed by that eminent jurist, Theophi- lus Parsons, and adopted cotemporaneously with tho first, declared that ‘all powers not delegated to the | United States by the constitution, nor probibited by it to the States, are reserved to the’ States respectively, | or to the peopie.”” can, therefore, if they desire it, have an established Church, ander which the minority may be taxed for the erection of church edifices which they never enter and for the support of which they do not believa ‘This power was actually exercised in somo of the States long ulter the adoption of the federal constitution, and, although there may be no positive danger of its re- ‘As Mr, Elmendorf had won the prize twice betore, the | _ 4 majority of the people in any State in this Union | | anxiety to have this macula removed, ton of @ malignant character presented itself Dr. But- tels advised her to lot it alone, ler anxiety got tho | better of her judgment, poor woman, and she one day *| from Sweden. Three points may be adverted to tn this singular ad- vertisemeut, The peculiar appropriateness of the name | Linguist for a quack; the universal range for the use of | lunar caustic in the diseases mentioned, and the deh- | cate intimation that the doctor's reputation yas above | challenge or reproach by being "Over the @hdies’ Di- rectory.” Now this Swedish expert was retained and under- stood so much of the pathology of a pectoral ulcer | consequent upon the excision of a tumor that he at | once began treating it {n the same way that he would | have treated corns or warts or anything elze of the n | vival in the future, the possibilit: of*it should not be | sort He succeeded so well th in a short $5,000, against Daniel O'Leary, to begin in this city oD | permitted. The auspicious umerte guard against an ; time he had established a sloughing sore | the 24th inst, He states that he has placed §1,600— | Gyil is when all will unite in preventing 1h | as large as the top of an ordinary hat; | part of the stakes—in the hands of 0, H. Barker, and | — And in curing this constitational defect all possibility | and, uot content with this emineutly —scienulo | he asks O'Leary's answer throagh the HxRaLb. REORGANIZING A RAILROAD COM- PANY. Several of the principal holders of first mortgage six per cent bonds of the Chesapeake and Obio Railroad | Company, who have beew for some time deliberating | on thesubyect, have issued a circular containing a plan | for the purchase and reorganization of the road. A foreclosure suit 1s now pending against the company, | and the bondholders propose to buy in tbe road. | ‘The following aro the present liabilities of the com- an we bonds of the Virginia Central Ratl- secured on portions of the ortg | road Company | _ road between Richmond and Covington, ..$1,18,000 | Catholic, to Jew and Gentile, leaving the religions faith | | Past due and unpaid interest thereon, gay... | 100,000 Other bonds of the Virginia Central Railroad | _ Company secured by charter....... 187,578 | | Past due and unpaid interest thereon, say. 23,000 | Chesapeake and Ohio six per cent tirst mort- | gage Bonds, including those hypothecated as collateral t0 loans. .........ceeceee0s +4415, 000,000 | Past due and unpaid interest thereon to No- | vember 1, 1875 seeeee 2,260,000 Chesapeake and 0 rtgag | bonds outstanding, Including those hy- pothecated as collateral to loans............12,131,000 | Past due and unpaid interest thereon to July NY SVU. via et eeek Pua onveny pal ++ 1,008,840 Coupon failing due thereon January 1, 1876. 585 Unsecured floating debt, about. | | Capital stock tseued........... 15,900,000 ‘After buying in the road new first and’ second mortgage bonds will be issued and first and second pre- ferred stock. The latter aro to be used to pay the tn- | terest on the present six per cent first mortgage bonds | and on the present seven per cent mortgage bonds, | Those bondholders who refuse to join are to be settled with according is parchased. @ following are the terthis of proposed change of | stock with the present holders:—Each holder of the present six per cent first mortgage bonds to receive in exchange therefor ninety per cent of the principal of the bonds held by him in the new first mortgage bond: ten per cen} im the new second mortgage bonds, an for the past due and unpaid mterest from May 1, 1873, to the date at which the new bonds will commence to draw interest first preferred stock. Kach holer of the Present seven per cent mortgage bonds to receive in exchange therefor twelve and one-bal. per cent in the new first niortgage bonds, seventy and five-gixths per cent in the new second mortgage a the re maining sixteen and two-thirds per cent [n second preferred swock, and for the past due and unpaid inter- est from July 1, 1873, to the date at which the new bonds will commence to draw interest second pre- ferred stock, WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN JERSEY. Director Halstead, of the Board of Freeholders, at Jorsey City, has refused to sign the resolution ap- pointing a jailer to take the place of Mra Jones. The new appointee, Mr. Nathan, declares his intention, in cage the Director approves his appointment, to levy a force sufficient to take the jail by storm. Mrs, Jones, and, te engaged in preparations to resist sitively that she will not on the oth any attack and declares surrender the keys to Nat Court of Errors and Appeals be rendered agi A BLOODTHIRSTY VILLAIN. Some months ago Mr, Quiggs and bis wife, of thia city, visited Guttenberg, N. J., and while returning on tho Bull’s Ferry road, toward Weehawken ferry, they met a@drunken watchman employed at the abattoir, who, after insulting Mrs, Quiggs, Set two bulldogs upon Mr. Quiggs, when the brutes bit him terribly about his Jegs and body. 18 i alloged he also fired a pistol at t} retre: couple A warrant for his arrest waa isened whose chief would be furnished with commission to ephart and he has finally been captured by by J Constable Donahue and been placed under bonds to ap iM tier of hurtful agitation on the school question should ve ended also. ‘Som let the old Jeiferson-Madison amend- ment be applied to the States by adding the following | to the inhibitory clauses im section 10, article 1, of the federai conatitution, vin : ; No State shall make any law respecting an. es | of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise ther | money raised by taxation in any State, fi the public schools or derived from any public fund therefor, thall over be ander the control of say religious sect. noF sects or denominations. 4 This, you will observe, does not interfere with any Stato baving just such a'school system as its citizens may prefer, subject to the single and simple restriction | that the schools shall not be made the arena for secta- shall any money so raised over be divided between religious | result, proceeded to excoriate and excarnificate the | Shoulder and a portion of the wack. There is only a certain amount of flesh on any human being, and, as a consequence, the poor woman had many of Ler muscles and bones laid bare under this deleate treatment Na- | ture succumbed in the fight with caustic and the good woman «died at half-past eight yesterday morn- the support of | Ing. At the time when Mr. Lingujst began treating, or | Philadelphia cheaper to th | rather malureaung her, sue was {b comparatively good | health, suffering but.littie from the ulcer, but as waa | Yery proper, natural and womanlike, wanting it healed, | When it was discovered that the charlatanigm of Mr, | Linguist had placed her life in peril, Dr. Buttels was at once called in, but it wad | too late, In the indignation of an honorable physician, | Dr. Battels at once applied at the Tombs for a warraat grave | espied tho advertisement of a soi-disant doctor, baiting | Tian controversy or theological disputation. This ad- | of arrest against the Swede Linguist, but was informed” | Justment, it seems to me, would be comprehensive and | that no such action could be taken ‘until the Coroner's | ; conclusive, and would be fair alike to Protestant and and the Conscience of every man free and unmolested, | Very sincerely your G. BLAINE, PUBLIO SCHOOL MEETING. The next convention of the Teachers’ Association of the Second Commissioner district of Queens county will be held in the public school building at Jamaica, on Saturday next, 11th inst, commencing at ten o’clock | AM. The subjocts to be discussed will be those taught {n the public schools, and the exercists will be varied with vocal and instrumental music, HOM@OPATHIO MEDICAL SOCIETY. Theannual meeting of the Homeopathic Medical Society of tho county of Now York was beld last night | at the Ophthalmic Hospital, corner of Twenty-third | street and Third avenua Tho report of the various special arrangements alter the road | committees showed tho institution to be in a prosper. | | Ous condition, The recoipts for the year just ended re $369, of which $159 were now ov hand, The ro- port of the Secretary called attention to | the fact that the Electric Medical boll od | of this county granted liceucea to persons who have been rejected as incompetent by other medical bodies, which ts a violation of the statute. The subject was relerred to the legislative bureau of the society for investigation. After the transaction of some uninterest- ing routine business tho following oflicers for the ensu- | ing year were elected:—President, Dr. E. M. Kellogg, of | No. 20 East Nineteenth street; Vice President, Dr. John ©. Minor; Secretary, Alfred K. Hills; T Henry | C. Houghton; Librarian, Alfred Wanstail, The follow. Ing gentlemen were elected Censors:—C. A. Brown, | Alexander Berghans, F. & Doughty, William M! | Guernsey and J. A. Terry. Twenty-three delegates to the State Society were then appointed, and the meeting adjourned. | ELECTION OFFICERS TO BE PAID. | | The Comptroller will to-day commence the payment | of the inspectors, poll clerks and landlords of the | | lection, beginning with the Firat Assembly district, A WANDERER’S RETURN. The announcement was made at the Mayor's office bene bae that His Honor the Mayor was en route for ome and would probably be at his desk this morning, A COURAGEOUS WOMAN. A aneak thief entered the residence of Mrs, Schumann, on Pearsall avenue, In the Greenville district of Jersey City, yesterday, and told her that he bad been sent by her husband to convey to him his best coat, pants and vest, Mrs. Schumann declined to placo any confidence in tho fallow and ordered bim to leave the house, Ho became exasperated and struck her twice in the face, A large dog camo to the reecue and fastened bis teeth in the scoundrel’s leg. Mra. Schumann took advantage of this assistance, and ycwedeod to club the Intruder, why pada Ma eagana 7 orsuad by the daw | jury had rendered a verdict in the case, The reporter next waited upon Coroner Etckhoff, who | informed him that as it was Coroner Kessler’s week on duty, he proposed to take no action in the matter, but Was sure that full justice would be meted out by his colleague, | takes the matier in hand. Mr, Linguist has several | other patients under treatment. He only needg his | Caustic, just ag the tailor only needs his needla Much indignation has been aroused at) the sacrifice of this | poor woman's life at the hands of an ignorant quack, | aud great sympathy is felt tor all connected with her, WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH. The regular quarterly meeting of the General Com- mittee of the Western Union Telegraph Company was heid yesterday at the office of the company. President Orton presented the following report:— Executive Ovpict Westers Union TRuxGRArH ComPANy, New Yoru, Deo. 8, 1875, To rrr Dieecrors :— The Executive Committee submit the following state Ment concerning the operations of the company for the current stx months:— The gross receipts for the | quarter ended September | + $2,671,805 93 | 1,762, “6 Net profite...... ie $900,153 48 The gross reseipts for tho current quarter ending De- cember 31, inst, (estimat- ing the December busi- ness), ai $2,528,160 26 Expenses. 1,604, Net profits Total profits for the half year ..... ‘The amount required for two quarterly dividends of two per cent each, is... Deducting which from the profits for the half year leaves @ balance of.. Deduct for six months’ interest on the bonded debt and for Sinking Fund cruing ,during the same period... Leaves a net balance of, | The excess of net profits for | balf year over the same period for | 1874 1s, | In view of the foregoing | Committee recommend the adoption by the Board of Directors of the followin, x Resolved, That @ dividend of two per cent from the new ings of the three months ending December 31 be and same is hereby declared payable on the 10th day of Jane next. Hesolced, That for the purpose of such dividend the stock books bé closed at three o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th inst. and be reopened on the morning of the 17th of Jan- wary. The committee also report that @ further rednetion of tho expenses of the company fs to be effected by carrying out a plan recommended by the Presiden whereby the compensation payable {o all officers an employ és of the company, in excess of the of $600 per annum, ts to bo reduced, on and after the Ist day January next, on a sliding scale, from twenty-five to e per cent WILLIAM ORTON. President Thas the case wil! havo to rest until Coroner Kessler | Pais NEW YORK TRADE. ' Meeting of Merchants and Shfppers at the Chamber of Commerce Yesterday. —— ARBITRARY RATLROAD MANAGEMENT. Correspondence, Speeches and a General Business Conference. On Tuesday the New York Cheap Transportation As sociation held an trportant meeting in reference to the threatened loss of trade of this city, A report was made to that body from the Committee on Claims and Grievances which set forth that discriminations were made against New York by the railroads in favor of Boston and Baltimore, In order to more fully con+ sider this grave question“it was agreed that a meeting! should be held the next day—yesterday—at the room: of the Chamber of Commerce, in order that the ree} sentatives of the various mercantile interests shoul be heard in reference to this {mportamt subjech Ac: cordingly at two o'clock yesterday afternoon a lar; number of influential merchants met at the Chambei of Commerce and an exhaustive and earnest a} cussion took place, Among tho gentlemen present | were Mr. F, B. Thurber, Colonel B, P, Baker, | Messrs) John Henry, Kemp, Lees, Hazard, Wat | rous and others of the Cheap ‘Transportatio! Association, and Messrs. ©. ©. Dodge, Smith, & A, Low and B. G@. Arnold, representing various mercan. tile interests of this pork Mr, Arnold, of Arnold, Sturgis & Co., took the chair and ‘called the meetin, to order, Tho President said in effect that New Yor! railroads were discriminating against New York 1 favor of Boston, ‘We all know,’? he said, ‘how th railroads of Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia pi tect*the interests of their cities, We fail to compr hend here why the large interests of our merchant are sacrificed tothe lesser interests of other cities.j Where is tho remedy? We must seck one, Ina interview with Mr. Blanchard, of the Erie Railwayy yesterday, that gentleman expressed himself as being’ fully alive to the grievances complained of, and said his company were ready to remedy them as far as layy | tn their power, * | Mr. Thurber then addressed the meeting, saying:. | have studied to some extent the questions involved and | would beg to present some views.and a correspondence, with Mr, Wiltlam H. Vanderbilt, the Vice President of | the Hudson River road. The gentleman then read @ lengthy correspondence between the New York Cheap, Transportation Association and Mr, h ging ins i which the latter gentleman firmly—even satirically— refused to see the committee, and suggested tbat an; | communication they bad to make would be cousidered,| | if properly presented to the heads ot the department having control and cognizance of the abuses spoken of. , The committee complained that the railroads in fixing | the taritfs from the different seaboard cities to the Wes& | on the basis of mileage made the rates to competing | points from Philadelphia ive cents more per 100 pounds: than from Baltimore; five cents more from New York than from Philadelphia and five cents more from Boston | than from New York. Mr. Thurber went on to say | that “the invariable disadvantage to New York of so-4 called firm rates I believe is accounted for in the forma- are, ffer< ent roada which make up the several through lines! | operated between tho East and West, Of the three | trunk lines, Erie, Pennsylvania and New York oe | tion of the through railroad ines upon which wa he di the last named only has rail connection with Boston, t compete, on an equal footing, with the Canada line fo: Boston business, The Boston and Albany road holdin, the key to the situation 1s necessarily vested with tb | rate making power, the New York Central and connect: ig roads to Chicago and St. Louis being obligated t prorate any tariffs the receiving road may find it neces- sary to make, So long as the Canada line matntains at independent position (and any other course is inconsi: tent with its interest, and, therefore, practically impo: sible), the New York Central cannot consisyently in. clude Boston business tn its combinations with the other trunk lines,” a | after reviewing the question the speaker con- tinued :—‘*We can thus see that the great remedy fo: the competition of this one Canadian line of railroad ist the means of giving Boston reasonable rates of freigh' and breaking up the combination of all of the othe great lines from that point to the Wagt We can se from this that if New York hada trunk line of railroa honestly buiit and operated in the interest of the com} merce of the respective sections which it would con- | ect, that our great city would be benefited to an e: | tent that is almost beyond computation.” ‘ A case in point of hardship to. @ merchant was hero{ presented, which represented the actual state of thoy unequal and unjust working of the discriminating, freights between Boston and New York :— | A Western dealer ordered a quantity of soda ashi through a New York broker, The price of the ar-. ticle here was 2 cents per pound, gold, Freight from New York to destination, 41. cqnts per hundred. Im Boston the article was held at 2 1-16 cents per pound, | gold, Freight from Boston to destination, 21 cen per bundred, The 1-16 cent per pound, cost of v article in Boston over the price in New York, amoun to 644 cents per hundred; but the treights from Bae Lg being 20 cents per hundred less than from New ores there was a difference of 13% cents per hundred im favor of making the purchase in Boston, This differ= ence of itself was a handsome profit, and itis unnec« essary toadd the soda ash was booght in Boston, alm though the price of tho article was less here. Mr. Lees, the Secretary of the Transportation Asso- ) Ciation, here arose and raid something about J. Proctor Knott's theory of the centre of the universe—referring. to the humorous Duluth speech in Congress a few years since—Mr, Lees asserting his belief that | THK CENTRE OF THE WORLD | wag at present at Forty-second street in the Grand Cen~ tral depot, At this point the gentleman was imter~ rupted by the President, who suggested that the discus- sion was taking too wide yang Mr. A. Smith then a dresten the meeting stating that there were @ good many things injuring the com— merce of New York beside the railroads. ast year his houso had sent goods from Boston, Lowell and Lawrence, and found it impossible to move them fro | this city on account of the horrible condition of the | New York streets. Another merchant had told him, | his experiences in effect that he could ship goods from West from Europe, on ac count of the convenience which the Pennsylvania Rallroad gave to tmporters and shippers; their steam. ers landed goods right at the wharves, and they coul save cartage, as the goods went West in bond and as the cars were on the wharves. The speaker did not deny: that commerce ts leaving ua, but he said that we should | look uot only sharply after the railroads, but a good d more sharply after the scoundrels in our corrupt city, government, . Mr. QC. Dodge briefly addressed the mecting, saying, | that tm the handling of through ocean freights from Europe itundoubtedly cost the merchants at least thirty-three and one-third percent more handling im this city than it could be done for in other cities, Mr.) , Dodge compared the merchants here with those in other places and suid we should all pull together irrespective of party lines. Mr. Dodgo then read a series of resolu~ tions fo be added to thoae presented by Mr. Thurber, which were finally adopted. The resolutions looked te | A MASS MEETING OP MERCHANTS | at an early day in order to impress upon the railroad equity toward, magnates the necessity of a policy o! New York ehippera. | _ In the course of the debate it was elicited that the, | Tates on first, second and third class freighis West were nearly 100 per cent {n favor of Boston. The | President explained that perhaps this . discrepancy might be accounted for by the fact that the freights tm | and is, therefore, the only one of the three abl “Boston were boing carried on old contracts, made whem rates; | the railroads were ‘‘cutting’’ | Would continue until January, Colonel B. P. Baker then ac | regard to the histo bef grain roads, showing how Baltimore was taking the trade o} | our city on account of the liberal policy of the Balth: moré and Obio Railroad, The waker urged the ne- ' cessity of @ doable track freight railroad around the city, as the cartago across tho town was equal to the, | freight charges from Cincinnati to Now York. ‘ | Mr A. A. Low said there seemed to be some di | agreement as to the facts of freight discrepancies, and, | therefore, recommended the appointment of a coi mittee to ascertain and Lge the facts; yet tne gor | man mainly coincided with the efforts of the parti who wero agitating these matters, but considered thay our troubles primarily came from our insular position, ‘The classi cation or freight was then discussed byt various members and @ uniform aa warmly recommendod. reste The Secretary (Mr. Kemp) then read a communica. tion correcting @ statement in regard to the Pennsyl- vania Railroad competing for freight at lower raicg trom Boston, This was addressed torte Committee ou | Claims and Grievances of the Cheap Transportation Ase sociati ind was only received asa matter of privilegay this probably tay vators by the rail. | Th tat h BIDS ACCEPTED. The proposals from Messrs. H. K. & F. B, Thurber a Co., Fits & Au and RM. Masterton to furnish supplies to the Charities and Correction Commission were accepted yesterday, THE “NEWARK AQUEDUCT, | The Aqueduct Board of Newark are about to apply to the Legislature for authority to issue $600,000 ad« ditional bonds for the further extension and improve. ment of the works, Mr. Jerome B, Ward, engineer of ‘bo Board, stated toa Hxrato reporter that the pro« posed improvements at the low service resorvo! which was built upon an old constant source of 0 oes will cost a largo sam of money, bul the most economical $100,000 will be required ba ben 18 but the the privile; f issuing bond: in the \4 Bo uv do not wish mre w y sum of 000, becau: tho Legislature every Ume thew mao, g litle money, { {