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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
Tho War I'm Spain.

The situation in Spain-if the changing
condition of affairs in that country can be
classed as o national situations described in
the HERALD special kilograms from Cartagena
and Lecumberry. 1t is gloomy report. It
tells of Parliamentary disintegration, insur-
rection against the Republic, mutiny at sea,
desertion from the army, municipal alarm and
the probable interference of foreign Power
for the preservation of order. President
Salmeron procurement of a ban of piracy
against the naval mutineers excited vast
amount of democratic feeling in opposition
to the Cabinet, both in the capital
and at Cartagena. It had the effect,
Notwithstanding Of keeping number
of other national vessels with anchors down,
and thus, perhaps, has preserved for season
the legitimate traffic of the high seas free from
the assaults Of privateers. Weare assured, how
ever, that the Prussian frigate Frederic Charles
has gone out in pursuit of Spanish war ship
which is already rowing under control of
rebellious crew. The German authorities are,
as we are led to infer, acting vigorously, both
on shore and on the high sea, with reference
to these latest Spanish complications. and in
this may, perhaps, be. eventually found
point of issue of the present complica-
tons in Spain. A Hohenzollern crown
may appear on the Iberian Peninsula.
Besides oil this disintegration the Cortes is
divided by political irritation. A party
minority has seeded from the legislative hall
and declares its intention to form the nucleus
of q second Cortes at some point distant from
the capital An army colonel has gone out
from Madrid with the avowed personal inten-
ton of creating an insurrection in the prov
ince of Jaen. This is coming very and danger
ously near to the system of the Mexican pro-
vincial guerillas. Will the people endure it?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

THE KANSAS AND VRGNIUs. are glad
to learn by our dispatches from Washington
that the conduct of Commander Reed,
of the United States steamer Kansas in
conveying the virginius to sea from Aspinwall
is approved by the Navy Department The
circumstances of the case, as we pointed out
the other day, were such that the action
OF the gallant American Commander
could scarcely fail Of obtaining official
approval The papers of the virginius were
correct, and, that being the case, the duty of
the Commander was plain. Nevertheless, he
Is entitled to much credit for his prompt and
manly action in protecting the American flag
from insult.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
w It'll SUPPLEMENT
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
To-Day's Contents Of the
Herald.

'CESARISMl WHAT REPUBLICANS SAY AND
DEMOCRATS PROPOSE ABSENCE OF
HEALTHY SIGNS FOR THE REPUBLICr-
EDITORIAL LEADER-FoURTH PAGE.
ALARMING CONDITION OF SPAIN! THE REvO-
LUTI0NARY SPIRITS THREATEN THE MAD
RID GOVERNMENTS SALMERON'S PROCLA-
NATION AGAINST THE PIRATES AND THE
PRUSSIAN NAVAL ACTIONS CARTAGENA
IN A TURMOIL-FIFTH PAGE.
HERALD SPECIAL TELEGRAM FROM DON CAR
LOS HEADQUARTERS THE FORCE OPER-
ATlNG AGAINST PAMPELUNA TO AWAIT A
JUNCTION WITH DORREGARAYi FRENCH
RECRUITS AND THE BARCELONA GEN.
BARNES BLOCKING TO THE BOURBON
STANDARD-FIFTH PAGE.
WAR ON wITCHCRAFTl THE QUAKER CITY
ARRESTS AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE
WITCHES DAMNING EVIDENCE OF THEIR
GUILT THE CURSES OF THE "BE-
TRAYED" HERALD DISSEMINATION OF
THE NEWS-FIFTH PAGE.
FREEDOM IN KHIvA THE KHAN ORDERS
THAT ALL SLAVES SHALL BE MADE CITI.
lens OR RETURNED TO THEIR NATIVE
STATES-FIFTH PAGE.
THE ENGLISH CROPS DAMAGED BY SEVERE
STORMs-IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS
FIFTH PAGE.
THE SOUTHWESTERN SAvAGES EFFORTS TO
GET THE KICKAPOO THIEVES FROM
MEXICAN SOIL OPPOSED BY THE GREAS.
Frs THE INDIANS IN TEXAs-FHTH
PAGE.
DESPERATE RIOT AT LION PARK A POLICE
SQUAD SET UPON BY ARMED "KNIGHTS
OF CULUMBIAl" THE ROUGHS ROUTED
TENTH PAGE
THE GORDON RUMPUs IN MANITOBA ANOTHER
M
TEREsTING BASE BALL MATCH-TENrH
PAGE.
IRISH ORANGEMEN HONORING THEIR CANA
DIAN BRETHREN-IMPORTANT MEXICAN
TARIFF CONCESSION-FlFTH PAGE
an UNSURPASSED RACE MEETING AT SARA.
TOGAi BRILLIANT ATTENDANCE AND sU-
PERI CONTESTS! AN ACCIDENT-TROT.
TING AT THE CATSKILL PARK-TnIRD
PAGE.
YACHTING PLEASURES IN THE SOUND THE
BROOKLYN FLEET AT STONINGTON
ANOTHER REGATTA-THIRD PAGE.
NEwFOUNDLAND AND AMERICAN FISHING
RIGHTS WHY THE ISLAND WAS EX-
CLUDED FROM TREATY PRIVILEGES
THE JERSEY BANK CASE-THIRD PAGE
ARMING THE BLUECUATsl WHAT is THOUGHT
OF THE MATTER IN THE DEPARTMENT.!
COMMISSIONER DURYEE'S vIEwS-MU.
NIClPAL NEWS-EIGHTH PAGE.
EUROPEAN CHOLERA PRECAUTION THE GER.
MAN REMEDIES FOR THE EPIDEMICl ITS
CAUSE AND LOCATION-SNTH PAGE.
GOLD DOWN TO 1l5h MONEY PLENTIFUL |
STOCKS STILL AGlTATED-THE CITY
HEALTH WAR-NNTH PAGE.
LICENSING LIQUOR DISPENsERSl AN EXCISE
OFFICIAL SAYS THE LOW GROCERIES
AND DANCE HOUSES WILL NOT HAVE
THEIR LICENSES RENEWED-EIGHTH
PAGE.
PRIVATE APPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC STREETS!
JUDGE MCNEIL ON SHED AWNINGS
GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS-EIGHTH PAGE.
THE SwOOP OF THE HEALTH ASSYRIANS ON
THE WASHINGTON MARKET FOLD THE
MARKETMEN COMPUTING DAMAGES-A
MYSTERY OF THE RIvER-SrxTH PAGE.
WESTERN CREDIT MOBILIER LAND RAKE
THE BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANIES AZ
FAIRS-EIGHTH PAGE.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

PRUss1AN CAPTURE OF SPANISH MANOR
WAR.-The very latest kilograms by cable
from Europe announce that a Prussian frigate-
of-war has captured the Spanish insurgent
mutineer iron-clad Vigilante, and offered to
surrender her to the Madrid government
authorities. This is really friendly duty,
not only to the Spaniards, but to the civiliza-
ton and commerce of TIE world. A
Hohenzollern candidacy for the crown Of
Spain looms up contemporaneously with the
act of imperialist philanthropy. How is
this?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
New York and the Centennial Ex-
position.

New York and the Centennial Ex-
We are glad, indeed, to observe that the
project of great Worlds Fair to celebrate
the centenary of American Independence, and
to be held in the city dedicated to liberty by
the fathers Of the country, meets with growing
favor. The plan to be adopted for the build
ing is, of course, something deserving of the
greatest care, but it il secondary to the neces-
sity of q widespread, hearty interest in the
work, and proper, substantial support in
carrying the project into material shape.
Philadelphia need not in any wise lose heart
over her great enterprise. There will be no
moro necessity for any fears for the result than
there should be for the success of a subscrip-
ton to rescue the famous bell from a creditor
if the city were unable to meet its debts. This
is, of course, only for the sake of illustra-
ton, and would more. we fear ap-
ply to our own proud city than
to Philadelphia. The support of the
Centennial Exposition appeals to the entire
nation. When we reflect upon the variety Of
climates, races and products which that
term-the Union-covers, and when we see
the cradle of all the freedom and glory from
which our progress has developed, we must
agree that to Philadelphia alone is the honor
due Of celebrating the first century of our ma
tional existence. New York is no small vii
lage, with village aspirations or village jeal-
ousies. 1t will support its neighbor to the
end in the project she has SO spiritedly under
taken.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

The SARATOGA RACES begun yesterday, Tom
Bowling carrying off the Travers Stakes in
addition to the other splendid victories he had
won this year. This race had long been
topic of conversation among the fashionable
people at the Springs, and the result cannot
fail to make the meeting brilliant one.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

SEVERE THUNDER STORMS descended upon
the western and northern counties Of England
yesterday, and from the heavy cumulous
clouds which floated over this city IN the after
noon, and from the oppressive heat OF the
day, we thought we had the right to expect
glorious downfall verv soon.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

CHOLERA IN EURopE.-The special HERALD
correspondent writing from Munich, supplies
our readers with very interesting synopsis Of
a carefully written pamphlet on the nature and
treatment of cholera for the popular comprehen-
sion, by the celebrated DR.. Won Pettenkofer.
There are many points in this letter which
we commend to the consideration of the Board
of Health.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
THE sEvENTY-FIRsT NEW YORK REGIMENT.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, July "a, 1879
The seventy-nrst regiment N. Y. s. N. @. arrived
in this city this evening and are the guests
OF the Second Connecticut. They were es-
corted by the Second from the boat
through the principal streets Of the city to the
Union Armory where a collation. was served.
The streets were splendidly Illuminated, and
the reception was as cordial as the
most friendly relations OF the two regiments would
warrant. Tomorrow both regiments will enjoy
clam bake on the West Haven shore, to be fol-
lowed by dress parade in the City Park In the
afternoon.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
COLLISION IN THE RIVER,

The steamer Kongsverre collided with the canal
boat Athaus, Captain Potter, at an early hour
yesterday morning, causing the latter to sink. The
canal craft, which was loaded with cargo Of jute,
lying at the wharf in front OF Harbecks stores,
Brooklyn, and the Captain and family were sound
asleep when the collision occurred. They had
barely time to escape to the shore ere the canal
boat went down.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

CEsAR1sM is frightening certain members of
the French Assembly. "Dictatorships," says
E. Ernoul, 'are the daughters of license"
and "tyrannical republics are sure to beget
C@sars." Imperialism is growing in favor in
France. To us in the young Republic of the
West the words of the French Deputy are not
without deep significance.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
DEATH OF Ex-QUARANTIEE COMMISSIONERS
COBB

Ex-Quarantine Commissioner william A. Cobb
died at his residence on Myrtle avenue, near Tomp
kns. Brooklyn, yesterday. Deceased, who was
seventyfour years OF age, filled the ONCE OF Quaran
tine Commissioner under Governor Fenton. AT one
time he was member of the Board OF Assessors,
ana was also President OF the Fulton Fire lnsur-
nce Comnanv
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

The RAT Hunt among the ruins of the
Washington Market booths yesterday was rare
sport to the boys. These rat hunts should be
continued from day to day till all the malari-
GUS nuisances infested by the rats are abated.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

The RIOT AT LION PARK in its results fur
dishes good moral: that, when no fighting is
required, men who play soldiers should keep
the peace.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
DROWNED IN THE SURF.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July "a, 1873.
James Thompson, aged twenty-five years, a sim
gle man from Philadelphia, was drowned in the
surf here to-day. Three other persons were res
cued with great difficulty
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
THE ITALIAN SLAVE CHILDREN.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, July "a, 1873.
Judge Harrison, accompanied by Secretary North
rop, went to Meriden to-day and made contract
with DR.. Hatch to board and educate the four Ital-
ian slave children at the state Reform School until
the trial OF Glione In october.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

'SEE, THE CoNQUERNa HERO CONES !"-
The hero Gridley, crowned with laurels, and
charged with sweet perfumes, from the sack
Of the Washington Market booths
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

LET THE COOP WORK PBocEED.-The sue
cessful onslaught on the Washington Market
booths may be ''glory enough for one day, }"
but it is hardly enough for two days. A good
beginning amounts to nothing if not followed
to good ending
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
In Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, July "a, 1873.

LOUISVILLE, July "a, 1879
The cholera seems to have entirely disappeared
from the interior OF Kentucky In the towns recently
af1licted. No deaths have been reported In any OF
them for ak DAYS
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25

GonDoN GoRDoN continues the lion in the
great sensation of Manitoba, and those now
happy provincials have our permission to keep
IL up.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-25
THE CHOLERA.
In Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, July o. 1879.
There were no deaths from cholera reported TO-
day. The weather Is clear and hot.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28
The Egyptian Pasha.

The late Consul General of the Uni
ted States at Cairo, George Butler, says
of the PasAa of Egypt: Said Pasha is a
person Of culture, speaking French
| with ease and English little fully
educated at the Polytechnic School in
Paris, and wearing the dress OF Chris
tian people. He is shrewd and rich
merchant, and not soldier by propen-
sity +; and his income and the luxury of
his court exceed the tales of Haroun al
Raschi,l's splendor. He has an in.
come of $110,000,000 per annum, or
more than half as much as the whole
annual expense of the United States
Government, inclusive of the cost of
the public debt. To keep our $4,000
or 10000 of1iceholdera, our army, our
navy, do the public building, &c, &C.,
requires S17,O0O,000 a month. And
Said Pasha, who has no more subjects
than there are citizens of New York
State, has, by Mr.. Buffers careful esti-
mate, between $4,000, 600 and $40, ,0OO,-
600 month, or above $500, 900 a day.
He has twenty seven palaces, all the
corporate property-or that which with
us would be controlled by corporations
in the country, and no laws whatever
but what he can think of or Will from
day to day. He has four wives and a
vast harem, and, being an unwise bus
band, does not know all his own child
ren yet he is temperate and prudent,
and still he is not happy. He wants to
be a king; but the domination of
Turkey sits upon his dreams like the
gobbler on the full boy after Christmas
dinner.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28
A Chapter on Oysters.

The oyster, when spawning, does not
cast its eggs like other fish, but dis
solves, as it were, part of its own
body, which passes off in long, slender
threads, as fine as n spiders web, upon
which are congregated millions of little
eggs, not visible to the naked eye, but
which, when put under powerful
magnifying glass, astonish the beholder
by their number. 1t is estimated that
about seventy per cent. of the spawn is
destroyed by fish, and about ten per
cent. from other causes, leaving twenty
per cent. to find their way into market.
These little seed cling to whatever
they touch, generally old oysters and
the many little shells one often sees
clinging to large oysters are but the
growth of these seeds. When oysters
have spawned in clear space, and free
from fish enemies, their growth is very
rapid until they attain the size of a
quarter of dollar, and it is at this
period of their existence that the oys-
termen take them for transplanting.
The shells are very thin, and the inside
meat scarcely larger than a shirt-but-
ton, and having the rest of the shell
filled with a milky fluid, which, in
time, forms the body of the fish. Oys-
ters, after they are transplanted, are,
with few exceptions, not fit to eat
under three years. 1t might be sup
posed that the oyster, with its hard
shell, was free from danger, but such is
not the case. He has two deadly ene-
mies--the star-fish and the borer. The
former will fasten an the mouth of an
oyster, and in q short time suck the
life out of him. The other, with his lit
tie saw and gimlet bill, bores through
his shell, and, once through, the oyster
is soon destroyed.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28
The New England Indians.

The Penobscot Indians are anon,
the few relics of the red men in New
England. They maintain their distinc
tive traits and appearance, and although
their reservation is surrounded by vii
lagos OF white men and thriving farm
communities, they make very little pro
gress in civilization. They are grad
ually melting away. For many year,
they have occupied small island in the
Penobscot river, twelve miles above
Bangor, where they are visited during
the summer by many curious travellers
In the warm season parties OF them
rove about the country, camping nea,
cities and villages for many days,
making and selling baskets, slippers
and small fancy articles of wood, in
which they are expert. But they never
apply themselves regularly to agricul-
ture or numbering, which are so univer-
sally the occupations of the people in
their neighborhood. Some of them
have exhibited considerable ingenuity
and ability in various ways. The Soc
calexs and Swassian families have long
been known throughout the State as the
representatives of their tribe, and have
shown some shrewdness in their nego-
tiaticns at Augusta, where the tribal
delegate has about the same functions
as territorial delegate to Congress.
The legislature, we believe, still con-
times its annual appropriation to the
tribe.
Although these Indians are idle and
dissolute III business affairs, they have
given remarkable evidence of energy
and industry in the amusements in
which they indulge. They are expert
and exceedingly ambitious to gain APP
plause in the use of the birch canoe.
Many of them have learned the games
of the whites. For many years one of
them used to spend much of his time
in Bangor playing checkers, and there
were few who could outplay him. He
was cool and uuexcitable, never quar-
relied or complained when beaten, and
often won by wha i7 known in war as
bulldog tenacity and stoical indifier.
ence to the applause or disapproval of
the spectators.
The day is not far distant when the
Penobscots will be known only in story.
The days when Molly Molasses and the
Joes and the Sochbesins used to go
about the streets of Bangor with their
small wares and their jokes, will live in
the memory of many when there shall
be no Penobscot tribe. Although it is
apparently the destiny of the red man
to die out before the march of the white
man, in this case it may be truly said
that rum is their most formidable ene-
my, for the Penobscots are the most
systematic violators of the Maine law.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28
Present Duty.

The way to make easy times is as
clear as daylight.
Let every man or woman who owes
money pay it at once, if it is possible.
Be willing to make sacrifice in order
to meet promptly all your engagements.
Stop grumbling at the faults or mis-.
takes of others, and attend faithfully to
your own affairs.
Deal fairly, leniently, and cheerfully
with all persons who owe you or are in
pecuniary trouble.
If you are out of debt, thank the
Lord ; and then go around among your
friends, and enemies too, if you have
them, and render them all the assis-
tance in your power.
Don't hoard your money; but loan 1t
or use it to relieve the needy, on the
same principle as you would give bread
to the needy in day of famine.
Do what you can in every way to re-
ieve pecuniary distress, to check the
current of financial embarrassments and
restore public confidence.
If you are bank officer or director,
don't be cross minute. Smile, as q
Christian duty, from morning till night.
Give an encouraging word, If possible,
to all, and by all means strain every
nerve 10 help all Who need it,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28
The Late Mrs. Lee.

The late Mrs. Gen. Robert E. Lee
was the only daughter of G. w. P. Gus
tis, Esq, of Arlington, who was the
youngest child of John Parke Custis. a
son of Mrs. Washington by her first
husband, and an aid-de-camp to Gen
eral Washington at the siege of York
town. His two youngest children, one
of them the father of Mrs. Lee, were
adopted by General Washington. g..
w. P. Custis was brought up at Mount
Vernon, and remained a member of
Washington's family until the death of
Mrs. Washington, in 1902, when he went
to reside at Arlington, an estate of 1000
acres in the neighborhood of Washing
ton, which he had inherited from his
father. He erected the mansion known
as Arlington House. He was married
in early life to Miss Mary Lee Fitzhugh,
of Virginia, and left an only daughter,
who became the wife of General Robert
E. Lee. The late Mrs. Lee was a lady
of exemplary religious and domestic
virtues and unassuming and gentle in
character. She was between sixty and
seventy years of age at the time of her
death. .-BaItimor Sun.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28

philosophical lectures, popular treatises
and school-books, sermons from the
pulpit and parental teachinrs at the
fireside, have all taken the fact rs fixed
that the sun is distant from The earth
ninety.fve millions Of miles.
Let us now return to the necessity OF
perfect observations being made on the
approaching transits of Venus in 1874
and 1882. DR.. Hooker, in his address
to the British Association four years
ago, remarked that "while fully ad-
mitting, and proudly, as every scien-
tifc man ought, that astronomy is the
most certain in its methods and results
of all sciences, that she has called forth
some of the highest efforts OF the intel
lect, and that her results far transcend
in grandeur those of any other science.
/ think we may hesitate before we
therefore admit her queenship, her per.
fection, or her sole claims to interpre-
tation and to prophecy. No science is
really perfect certainly not that which
lately erred two millions Of miles in so
fundamental datum rs the earth's dis
tance from the sun.
No doubt similar views are held by
ullu lIlt Iutt tuuuOt Dc ucuIeu
that astronomers are now generally
agreed that the hitherto received value
of the suns distance ought to be con-
siderably modified. The theories Of
astronomy, however, are less in fault
than the incorrectness of heavenly OBJ
servations, whenever such a mistake is
made. That errors are almost unavoida-
ble--even with the utmost care, when
the gaze is directed into the star-depths
will be manifest, if the reader will
remember that four millions of miles
of the suns distance from the earth are
represented by the angular measure
ment of three-tenths of second of an
arc or the apparent breadth of hu-
man hair one hundred and twenty-five
feet distant.
No solar phenomenon has ever been
awaited with such interest as is that
which is to occur December 8, 1874.
If the observations which will be made
upon this transit of Venus should be
successful or, in other words, if the
actual distance Of the sun from the
earth be accurately ascertained, it will
be the noblest triumph which the hu-
man mind has ever achieved in the do
main of physical science.