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this morning Halifax II il stated that this amount
has been here for the purchase Of sterling ex-
change.
Rates for sterling exchasne have advanced very
materially within the past Day two and the supply
pressing upon the market has become much reduced.
We quote the best bills on London at 64 AK per cent
premium II this advance continues or is sustained
it will cheek after time the importation of specie:
but bills have already gone out, purchased at low
prices to extent sufficient to guaranty an importa-
ton of from three to five millions Of the precious
metals
Tho earnings of the New York and Harlem Railroad
Company for the first fifteen days in April eths year.
amounted to S4574 10, against s1o045 81 for the
responding period in 1S4s showing this year an in-
of S3,e2s 20, equal to thirtythree per cent
The value Of merchadise transferred from the 60
warehouse of this district other
during the first quarter Of 1s49, S19l $780, Value
received from other districts during the period
S66,531. Value Of merchandise remaining in
house, at the close of the first quarter of 1S49
$4,000 654, with duty accruing of Ss74;271.
The relaying of the track of the Hudson and Berk
shire railroad has had very favorable effect upon the
business of the company and has been of great ad-
vantage to the city Of Hudson. 1t is said to DO
the best roads in the country far the track
is concerned The and running machinery of the
company Of the first order and any amount of bust
ness Offering be dispatched with promptness 1t is
a very cheap road for its length and we have doubt
its earnings the first year will be sufficient to give the
| stockholders q small dividend.
1t will require most extraordinary legislation the
part of the home government to enable the Canadas
their provinces in this country to compete with the
United States. So long determinations were mad
in the British tariff in favor of colonial produce trans
ported in Britishlvessels long labored uxder dis
advantages; but when the government of Great Britain
obliged to open her ports and remove all restrc
lions upon foreign breadstus, the direct trade with
her North American colonies began to Decline and tho
carrying trade fell into the hands of the Ameri-
In consequence of this, thesproducers and ship
pers of Canada have been unable to compete with tho
producers and shippers of this country and doubt
great object of those in England in favor of mod
flying the navigation laws Of Great Britain, Is to in
crease the of the St Lawrence so that the
feights Montreal and Quebec will rule low at
any port the United States and give the producers
of the colonies outlet for their breadstufs &c. and
the benefits of foreign markets. equal to those enjoyed
| by their Yankee neighbors
| The annexed comparative statement exhibits the
quantity Of certain articles imported into Canada BY
| sea, in each Of the past eleven years.
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THE WEEKLY HERALD.
c Weekly Herald will be published at O'Clock this

CONTENTS:
Very Late and Highly Interesting Intelligence from Cali
forna Full Details Of the Important News from Europe
received by the Steamship Europa State Of Affairs in
Canad the Latest Advices from San Juan dc Nicaragua
the West Indies Yucatan and Mexico the First Annual
Dinner Of the American Dramatic Fund Association Letter
from Mr. Fry containing curious Opera Dsvsopn"~
together with the Public 0etnoA ~ AVS
rev York; Account of the Murder of Mother Twin
Daughters by the Husband and Father Wilmington Mass
Funeral OF the Rev. Dr. Power in this city, Authentic
cuars of the Suerings of Col Fremont and his Party
Editorials Commercial and Shifpng Record the Latest
Telegra .hic Advces, &C., &C., &c.
Annual subscription, SO single copies sixpence.
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The movements in these articles for the year 1913.
compared with the previous Qeaving out 1sl7, that
being extraordinary year for shipments Of bread
stus In consequence of the famine in Europc) veays
appear to have been limited 1t will be seen that tb,
shipments of flour in 1s4s less than in any pre-
vious year since lsl and of wheat and less than
any year since 1s4s Ashes have fallen OFT largely the
exports in 1s4s having been less than in any Of the
previous eleven years.
The shipments of timber from Canada Ia each of In.
past four years distinguishing the quantity of each
description were as annexed
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Affairs In Canada:

MONTREAL, April 20, lS49
second meeting Of the British American League
was held last night. officers were appointed and an
address to the people of Canada was adopted. The
address however, does not give general satisfaction
There has beex freshet ut Three Rivers. All the
bridges between that place and Quebec have been
ried away and the streets have been nayigated by
canoes.
from Upper Canada Navigation is open to Quebec.
In the House Of Assembly last night nothing of i'm
portance was done.
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left in the undisturbed practice of the mysteries
and denominations of their superstitous worship.
Protestant England has had an eye open only to
the riches of India Benevolent Christian societies
have. indeed annually sent numbers OF young
preachers and their wives to perish on the banks
of the Ganges; but the government has guarded the
heather temples and taken care of the idols. Not
so will Russia enter this great field of conquest.
The crescent will give way to the cross. Mahome-
tan mosques will become Christian sanctuaries.-
The imposture of the Prophet will be succeeded by
the true faith, and the way opened up for the ult
mate subsection of the whole region over which the
ancient eastern Roman empire extended, to the
sway Of Christian civilization.
There is much grandeur in the prospect which
this view of the Russian policy unveils With
whatever alarm, then, the course Of Russia may
strike the supporters of other European dynasies,
we can no reason why the subjugaton of
Turkey to that power should be regarded as ca
lamtous to the interests Of liberty and civilization.
1t would be at once an imposing and gratifying
spectacle to behold the ancient abodes of learning
and refinement in the East-trom which we de-
rived the first elements of our system of civliza-
tion-re-conquered from the disappearing Turk,
and freed from the corrupting and debasing In
fuences of Mahometanisn. AS for the dangers
which may threaten popular liberty from the
vast accesslons to the power Of the Rus
sian empire which these Eastern conquests
would produce, we do not fear them. AS in
Rome 1t was esteemed the mark of a good
citizen never to despair of the republic so, in this
latter day of more perfect light and liberty, we
shall not fear for the permanent stability of those
great principles of civil and religious liberty before
whose conquering progress the aespotisms of ages
are crumbling away, while kings and princes, a
bye-word and mockery, are calling on the noun
tains and the rocks to cover them. This grand
movement of Russia towards the East, is but one
step towards the emancipation of that region of the
globe from the worst species of thraldom. 1t will
pave the way for the restoration of the ancient By
zantium to more than pristine spendor, and the es
adjustment, one day, of far more glorious EN-
pire than even that of Constantine the Great
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Steamer Burnt-COttOn Crop Destroyed-An
Ascending Merchant, &c.

New ORLEANS, April 10, 1S40.
The steamer General Pike, from Cincinnati, bound
to this city, burned yesterday fifteen miles above
The frost in the vicinity Of Vicksburg on the 18th,
was so that the cotton crop has been destroyed
by it.
AMIR. ]. w. Fumes hitherto highly respected mer
chant, has absconded, leaving his creditors minus
$4,000.
Sales of cotton for the week have amounted to $4,000
bales Prices unchanged since the niagara.
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NIarkefa.

BALTIMORE, April 70, 1919
Flour-The inspections for the week have amounted
to 10 900 bbs The market is steady but not active
Sales bb Howard street at 81 25 and City Mills
is held at 81 371no sales reported Sales of rye at
So S7s and meal 50 6a)a per hb Sales OF whis-
molasscs at 2sc Coee-Sales of OGo bags Rio at 7c
and 1000 Lagrayra at 6ac 6ysc Provsions-Salcs Of
pork $l 25 and prime at 81 mess beef at $l3
con-Hog round 4kc. 47Sc.; hams 7c &C.; sides &C.;
shoulders Sc Cotton-Sales Of Upland at o'!c Beef
Cattle-On the boot, at SO a71ae hogs at 20 70 20
81 1. ner loo Lbs
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TELECRAPHIe INTELLIGENCE.
A fairs In Washington,

WAsHrrcror, April 90, 1892. M
The White House open to-day, but there not
many ysters. There but few office -seekers here
Just now-the work of rotation having been suspended
in the large Offices until the return of Secretary
Ewing from Ohio.
Ex-Governor Young appears to have the best chance
at present for Collector of New York.
Col Benton and lady left Washington this evening,
for the West
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-Sugdrs--
Refined. MuscOyn do e.
IYhikcy

IL will be seen that with the exception of manufac
'ufod tobacco and SALT there falling of in tho
importation of every article in the list compared with
1S47 This is attribute to the importations Of 1S4T
having been in Of the actual wants of the
country.
The importations into Canada In ADDITION to those
by sea, in each Of the past two years, were as iSl
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-21

ArRrL Decentralization Mount one of the crew
Of the American ship Sultana arrested and COM
mitted for exaination on charge Of larceny on the
high seas-Helcn Feukesa German woman, arrested
last evening by of the officers Of the 9th District,
in the Of passing counterfeit ten cent pieces the
Five Points He brought her to the station house. from
which she transferred to the United States
thoritics.
Discharged C hristian Peterson, Of the Of
the brig Harriet Of Hamburger, arrested and i'm
prisoncd, charge Of dcsertion writ of habeas
corpus issued. upon which he was brought before
Iulre Nnlann. and discharged.
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ANOTHER ExpREss.--The last express, with the
Niagara's news, reached Granville Point distant
from Halifax upwards of one hundred and forty
miles, in little more than ten hours, although the
roads are described as having been exceedingly
bad, and the last half of the distance performed in
very dark night, with the rain pouring in torrents
The steamer Herald was in readiness to receive
the papers, and started, Immediately on receipt of
them, for st. John, b., from whence it was tele-
graphed through to New York, and was published
and read by thousands in that city and vicinity in
less than twenty-four hours from the time the
steamer from England communicated with the
Cunard wharf in Halifax. We are delighted to
learn that the whole of the stock of the British
North American Electric Telegraph Company has
been taken up. OF the Gl6,000 required, EI0,OO0
have been subscribed in Canada--the remaining
portion principally in this city. 1t is presumed that
the enterprise will be completed previous to Sep
TENDER ensuing. 1t will then remain for the New
Brunswick people to connect ST. John, and other
localities in that province, as may be desired, with
Amherst through which this precursor of the Great
Trunk Railway will pass The days of running
expresses by means Of horse flesh and horsemen
are, indeed, numbered. The advancing spirit OF
the age has touched these North American. pro-
vinces with its magic wand, and we may surely be
allowed to hope that renewed life and vigorous ac-
ton will henceforth characterize our existence as
colonists. --haitfdr Courier, Arn a.
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Appointments by the President.

WARRINGTON, Aprll 70, 1919.
Jacob B. Moore, of New Hampshire (who was dis
missed from clerkshp under President Polk has been
appointed Postmaster at San Francisco California and
Agent Of the General Post Office Department, for the
Territory eff Oregon
Richard c. Washington, of Kentucky, has been ap-
pointed to a $l4O0 cerkship in the Post Office.
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MAILS FOR CAsADA.-A private correspondent in
England informs that after the l4th instant, the
mails for and from Canada, conveyed by the British
mail steam packets, will be transmitted to Montreal
through this country. He also says that the post
age TO New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and other
parts of British America Canada excepted, unless
sent via Halfax) which was formerly one shilling
and two pence, will be reduced to shilling.
Newspapers from and to Canada, passing through
the United States, will be charged one penny each
on delivery This is important information to
those interested
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-21

Posi- OFFICE ARRANGEMENrs.-We are in hopes
that the new administration will set things to
rights in the post Office, and that the time is
hand when not only will our subscribers receive
our paper regularly, but the Offices throughout the
country will be cleared of all who do not attend
to their duties, or who have habit, as some of
them have been proved to have, of disregarding
the rights of mevm and futni.
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Severe Gale OH the Coast.

BALTIMORE, April 20-P. NJ
The Norfolk mail steamer, which arrived this morn
ing reports having encountered gale on the
Chesapeake on her trip to this city.
The steamer Constitution. from Philadelphia, en-
countered the whole of the terrible storm of We'd
nesday last arrived here safely at 10 O'Clock last
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The DIPLOMATIC SMUGGLING CAsE.-Wnh de-
sire to do justice to all parties, We insert commu-
nicaton in another column Of this days Herald,
relative TO the recent smuggling case In Sweden.
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From BRrrrsH GUIANA.-We have received the
Royal Gazette, published at Georgetown, to the l7th
ult., inclusive. Ii contains no news.
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Effects Of the Cold Weather Mt the South
Immense Damage to the Cotton and Grain
Crops, Fruit, sc.

WARRINGTON, April ZO Io4S.
The Charleston papers received by the southern mall
this afternoon announce the almost entire destruction
of the cotton crop in the States of Alabama, South
Carolina, and Georgia, by the frost The wheat crop
and fruits have also suffered severely The late storm
and cold weather to have extended through the
whole country.
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General Leslie Coombs and Mrs Coombs have ar
rived ut Washington, and are stopping at Willard's
Hotel Commodore Parker has also arrived, and Ia
stopping at the hotel General j. g. Swift is also
on a visit to the seat Of government.
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POPULATION OF THE MINNESOTA TERRITORY Iii is
at least 10000 at present. and before the close of
the year it is expected to exceed 30 Co., Our friend
Gov. Ramsay will, we learn, set out for his new du-
ties in week or two, taking the Federal city in
his route. Washington Wh'g,
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Murder and Suicide.

PHILADELPHIA, April ~, 1917
Andrew j. Higgins mate Of the schooner Falcon, was
committed to prison to-day charged with the murder
of Godfrey Davis of the saers the 18th Of last
March, while at sea- The deceased it is stated became
unruly and a scuffie in the of which the
mate struck him on the L, causing death the fol-
lowing dayl
A man named John d. econ, aged rs years, commit
ted suicide to-day, by hanging himself in the cellar Of
a house in Perry street
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371s per 100 lbs.

FROM THE Rio GRANDE.-The steamship Globe,
Capt. Ellary, arrived this morning from the Brazos,
having left there on Sunday, the 9Th inst BY her
we have received the Brownsville american Flag
of the 4th inst and 18th ult.
The cholera has at last disappeared from Mata-
moras, having previously left the Brazos and
Brownsville. The Flag of the 18th has this para
graph
at is with deep feelings of qualification that we
announce that the cholera has within the last few
days nearly disappeared from our neghboring city,
Matamoras. There are few places that have suf
fered so severely from the dreadful scourge. The
number of deaths is computed at about one thou
sand, which is about twenty-five per cent of the
population"
nounced the death of the following persons On
the 9th of March, John Kinney, native of Bristol
Bucks county, Pa; on the 2lst Samuel O'Neale,
native of Florida, and John Burns, OF the State of
Kinney, on which they died; on the 10th, Richard
Schuyler, of West Troy, New York, aged %; on
the 23d, Jane E., wife of l.. w. Powers on the
3lst, Margaretta Devine, and on the I'd April, Mrs
latter the wife of Thomas Devlne; on the 10Th
March, p. p. Schuyler, of West Troy, New York
and on the oath, Robert r.. Graham, of North Ar
gyle, Washington county, New York.
The Flag publishes the following letter from
an emigrant en- route to California
MONTEREY, Mexico; March 7, lSi9
We have got along so far; had fine grass and an
excellent road to Chna-from that place good road
but no grass. The internal custom house here has
been abolished, and wagons passing are not stop
ped, as understand-ours have not come up yet.
The principal stages below are Palo Blanco, Cal
letano, Torrecillas, La Coma, Ell Lobo, FL Toro,
China, Elevanito, San Diego, Cadaretta, Monterey.
w. $. McMURTRY.
From the Flag of the 18th ult. we Gull the SUBJ
joined =
Within the past week about one hundred and
twenty California emigrants have arrived, procured
outfits and have gone on their way rejoicing in
their golden prospects. They are made up of COM
panies from New York, Massachusetts and Alaba-
ma. The facility with which this class of travel
lers can procure horses mules, wagons, provisions,
&c, necessary for SO long journey here, clearly
indicates this as the most eligible point for procu-
ring these requisites which not afforded by any
other Of the numerous overland routes.-N o. Pic,
Apri(l2
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THE STEAMSHIP llERMANS, Captain Crabtree,
wen, TO sea yesterday afternoon, with about forty
cnbIn rnssengers.
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Notice to Advertisers.

The double sheet Herald will be published every
Tuesday morning, and advertise ments will be received
till 0 o'clock on the previous evening.
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PuNcrUALlrY.-Th news by the Europa was due
at New York on Thursday, and was published in
the Herald on that morning.
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ARKANSAS ELECTION. returns from thirty
seven counties give Wilson, the wing candidate
for Governor, a majority Of 49, II is yet difficult
TO tell who is elected
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Court Cniendar-ThIs Day.


COMMON PLEAs-Part 1st.-Causes to be taken up to
be tried without jury Part 2dNo "a, 10, H. 40, A.
"a a oQ
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APPOINTMENTS AT WAsHNGToN.-We are in
formed by private dispatches from Washington,
that there is coterie of wing politicians there
from Albany, whose object it is to procure the post
Office, probably, of Albany for one of their friends.
1t is also SAID that something peculiarly rich in the
shape of charges against the character Of some one
or more Of the candidates for that office, will be
made, and if possible established to the satisfaction
of the appointing power. These charges will EN-
brace something more than fidelity, competency and
fitness. The departure of Mr. Ewing for Ohio leaves
undecided any important removals until his
return. When he reaches the capital again, we
understand that the coectorshp and post office of
New York will be disposed Of.
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Salt bushels, 1910 633,846
Goods paying ad. val. duties. f3s3,7s1 S541,243
These imporatons principally through the ports
of the United States and the receipts Of teas, manu-
actured tobacco, coffee, and salt, by this way were
greater than by
We nothing in these returns showing any inn
provement in the import trade of Canada According
to the value Of goods entered paying adj volore duty
there has been very great falling off in this part of tho
foreign trade of the country The inland importatidn
has fallen off, compared with the previous year. 80 far
the quantity of the articles enumerated were con-
cerncd but there appears to have been S4S an in
in the value Of goods imported paying valo-
duties. The aggregate importation in 1S4S was,
however, much less in value than in 1S47 as appears
by the annexed statement -
VALUE OF GOODS IMPORTED INTO CANADA
1S47. 1848
Goods paying specific duties. .1OS2 9O3 s9297S
Do. ad valorem duties ,27l2944 65S2O
Total currency. ........ .f3,795,S47 f295S798
This shows falling of in year Of fs37 04o equal
to nearly twenty-five per cent the bulk of which
of goods paying ad valorem duties.
The export trade Of Canada by for several years
past exhibits very great fluctuations, will be
by the annexed comparative statement Of shipments
in each Of the past eleven years
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Yearly Value

| The above table is copied from returns publish
ed in the year 1873 which are official, and can be
| relied upon. Now, when we consider that this land
was originally taken frem the Irish, being portion
of the original confscations-and when we consi-
der, also, that these immense sums are annually
taken from Ireland, and that these church dgnita-
ries are forced upon the Irish peope-we would ask
what becomes of the question, "Why should Eng
land feed the starving lrish!" The above men,
toned incomes, must be recolleced, exclusive
and independent of the ''fixings attached to each
office, in the shape Of domains, rectories tythes,
&C., and are gathered from property to which the
present owners have more moralr right than have
the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
Allowing the yearly rent of the entire lands to be
collected at the same rate that above mentioned
and we will have total of one million, six hun
bred and eighteen thousand, eight hundred and
four pounds. To this we might add the income of
one hundred and sixty-eight rectories and globes,
scattered throughout Ireland and the result would
pie in the time Of need. We have not the data be-
fore us, showing the gigantic confscatons of Irish
landed property that have been made by England;
but whole counties have been confscated at
sweep, and bestowed on Englishmen. To such an
extent was this vile robbery perperated, that there
are few estates in the country the possession of
the descendants of the rightful owners.
In the face of these things, we hear continually
of Justice to Ireland but not word of the injustice
which has been perpetrated on the people of that
country, and continued through successive ages,
until nine millions of people have been reduced to
such misery as to depend upon one precarious root
for subsistence. Who should feed the starving
Irish, forsooth
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The Trial of Vcnder, for the Murder OF Mrs.
Cooper.

BALTIMORE, April 70, 1913
The trial Of vender, for the murder of Mrs Cooper
again occupied the Court to-day The courtroom was
crowded A number of witnesses have yet to be ex-
amined and it will be several days probably before the
case Is submitted to the jury.