New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-21
LKTrkR FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. December l6, 1873.

NEW YORK. December l6, 1873.
EDITOR REPUBLICANS:
The decision In the United States gu
preme Court yesterday against the Union
Pacific railroad levels railroad corporations
to an equality with the common citizen.
The above named company set up that
they were rriers for the national govern
ment, such q conveying mails and troops.
etc, and accordingly refused to pay a State
tax to Nebraska for their property in that
State, and appealed to the United States
Supreme Court for protection. The deci-
sion that the claim ss invalid is highly just
and creaitable to the court. The Union
Pacific Company has already been paid in
advance by the national government more
than it will ever realize. The company
should no moro be exempted from the pay
ment of taxes to State in which it's prop
erty IL located merely because it carries the
govern ment's snails than the thousands
upon thousands of citizens in the country,
who are also letter carriers for the same
national government, should be exempted
from paying taxes in the States where they
severally reside. The decision will settle
several other cases originating in other
States against the same company. and will
prove caution to other railroads, working
national government subsidies.
New York ia undergoing a new sensation
in business. The "holiday season has
opened up in gorgeous and substantial
array. The stores from one end of Broad
way almost to the other are displaying
christmas and New Year presents" and
taking advantage of the unusually fine
weather, the people crowd the stores and
prOmen AIDE the streets to buy and behold
the magnificent display of rich and beauti-
full goods. This trade, during a season iike
this, is chiefly devoted to luxuries: all sorts
of articles, not really needed in a ma
jority Of cases, are purchased to give away
in acts Of courtesy, and very large number
Of such gifts are useless. But notwithstand-
ing the merchants and traders make little
fortunes out Of their tinsel goods, the news
papers thrive upon the traders festival,
who are providing out much important
news every day with their elaborated ad-
vertisements. The money aud stock mar
kets are more healthy, and better feeling
pervades the city and yicinity than has OK
listed since the panic.
There is to be NO war Uith Spain. She
cam not afford to fight the United States
orsr Cuba: it is too long reach. CASTELAR,
must remain at home, repsl the Carlists
from Cart agena and receive the promised
recognition by all the great European pow
ers of the existence of the republic of Spain.
1t will prove wiser achievement than
could have been any attempt to combat the
United States in defense Of Spanish assas-
sins in Cuba. News from Washington to-
day assures US that ''the terms of the proto
col will be carried out faithfully and peace
fully" 80 much for the "'ounce of proven
ton" manifested in the War and Navy De-
now whether the ironclad Arapiles is block
AIDED at Brooklyn behind d sunken coal
barge or not, SO far as Cuba is concerned.
But she will soon be released fro M the dock,
where che has been suffering like a fish QUE
of water. and will hasten to the aid of the
Spanish republic in Service before Carsa-
gena.
Henry Wilson, Vice Yresidens OF che
United States, passed through this city yes
terday for his home in Natick. He informed
the writer that, while he retained as much
good health as he had acquired up to the
meeting of Congress, his physician and
friends advised that he should not invite a
return OF the disease which threatened him
so recently; that he should not attempt to
participate in the exciting scenes of the
Senate, but vacate the presidential chair of
| that body and Hetire to amo4e quiet abode
and obtain real rest for the brain. Vt has
been ascertained that tie paraytic stroke
which the Vice President received last fall
ruptured blood vessel, and that He flow
of blood affected the brain by making
Judgment near it, and that while the
treatment administered to him has tended
to remove most Of the dangerous OBJ
struction, it has not wholly been accom-
plished. To excite brain under such cir
| cumstances would sndanger the patient.
So, after attending the funeral of the Ia
mented Agassiz at Cambridge, on Thurs
day, the Vice President will visit water
cure institution in the interior of this State
where, in addition to the water treatment
| rubbing, a process applied after bathing OF
wonderful effect, from which the Vice
President has already received great
benefit. If the winter proves too severe
for him in the interior while receiving the
hydropathc course, he will proceed to
Florida and pick oranges, and snuff the
fragrance of their groves.
Death has overtaken some our best people
of late. The news of the less of the steam
ship Vile du Havre was narrowing to many
of our best families. Hale, the early cham
| pion OF freedom in the Rational councils, has
just gone, after much suffering, to his long
home. Nelson, late Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court died On Sat
| urday, and will be buried on Tuesday from
his late residence in COoperstown, New
| York, the most learned :jurists and lawyers,
| and the highest officials in the State and
nation attending his funeral. On the same
| day the funeral of the great naturalist
| Agassiz, will take place at Harvard College,
where he was so highly regarded and
beloved by professors, students and citi-
zens. His death seems like world wide
calamity. He had but just initiated, on
Anderson's Island, in Buzzard's Bay, his
great work of q scientific search and analy-
| sis Of the earth's surface, which, if pursued
| by him in person, would unquestionably