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The New York herald., 1874-11-27
The Rights OF Newspaper Correspond
ontu.


The indignities offered to the correspond
ents Of the HERALD and Times at Fontarabia
and the attempt to place the London bureau
Of the HERALD under the surveillance OF police
detectives at Prince Bismarck's instigation
are very properly receiving the condemnation
Of the press Of all countries. Such acts are
singularly out Of place in this age of intelli-
gence and thought. But they may not be
without compensating results. One of the
subjects suggested by the Emperor of Russia
for the consideration of the proposed confer
ence at ST. Petersburg on the international
usages of war is that Of the status of news
paper correspondents accompanying armies in
times of var. The Emperor desires that
certain rules shall be adopted to define
the privileges, responsibilities and obli-
cations of correspondents Of the press,
and that within these limits the correspond
ents shall be regarded as non-belhgerents, fol-
lowing the army for legitimate purpose and
entitled to safe conduct and protection. The
Sovereign Of one of the greatest Powers of the
world thus shows his sympathy with the
progress and enlightenment of the world. No
one can fail to be impressed with the contrast
between the Emperor's position and that Of
puny nation like Spain, which is ever ready
to vent its malice against newspaper corre-
spondents and to commit such petty outrages
upon them as its courage will permit
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Thanksgiving Day. We have our official fam
tasticals. of whom poor old Mr. Havemeyer is
. grotesque type, and our financial fantasti-
calls, like the unhappy Comptroller, who leads
US into all manner of absurdities and blocks
the way OF progress. Then there are social
fantasticals and literary Mntasticals, all Of
whom are nuisances to decent people. 1t
would be fortunate if we could get rid of the
whole tribe as easily as we escape from the
buhoons who disgraced humanity on the
streets Yesterday.
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The Thanksxiving Celebration.


Thanksgiving Day was celebrated yesterday
with so much enthusiastic unanimity that We
infer the Rev. Mr.. Frothinghams sermon last
Sunday, condemning its observance as gro
tesquely ridiculous, made but little impression
on the public. Indeed, without any personal
knowledge Of the matter, but simply on
a prio1 grounds, we are quite sure that it
made as little impression on Ny. Froth-
ingham. We presume that he enjoyed his
Thanksgiving dinner all the moro for his ser
mon, for it is an idiosyncrasy with this emf
nent clergyman to repudiate and oppose au-
thority, and no authority can be to him higher
than his own. Having ridiculed the observ-
ance of Thanksgiving Day, consistency re-
quired him to observe it, and we have no
doubt he was consistent.
But if he did not celebrate this joyful festi-
val millions of others-and in this city hun
dreds of thousands-indubitably did. The
American people have not a surfeit OF holi-
days, and the few they do possess they are
wise enough touse. They were, first of all,
thankful for one OF those golden days which
come seldom at the close of November-blue
skies and blue waters, and cool, sweet air,
tempered with the warmth Of o cloudless sun.
Whether this delicious day was special
gift Of Providence to grateful humanity
or the result of natural laws they did
not pause to consider, but were thankful
without particularly caring why. Nor was
this general joy confined to individuals and
families. New York is generous city giving
largely and freely, and one Of the most pleas
ing features Of the day was its celebration
at all our charitable institutions The
report which we give of these fes-
tivals, which the poor prize so much,
but family indicates the delight which
attended them. The churches had special
services and the theatres gave extra per-
formances the capital jokes about Turkey
and the Porte were made simultaneously
at innumerable tables, and have not
seemed funnier at any time within
the past thirty years. Nothing marred
the pleasure of the day but the
consciousness that it must soon end and the
painful experiences of . few persons who had
indulged too freely in the good things before
them. But these unhappy individuals will be
thankful to-day that Thanksgiving Day is
over, and have simply postponed their graft
tude to the time when they get well.
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Musical and Dramatic Notes.

strakosch don't like Brooklyn, because they
won't support opera over there.
Robertson's comedy of Society" has been re-
vived at the Prince OF Wales, London, with MIR.
Hare as Lord Ptarmigan.
Marion Sackett, who made successfu! debut In
the LADY of Lyons" in this city, is hard at work
studying new melodramatic part expressing
the passion Of heartDroken love.
A drama, IN three acts, called "Faits Divers"
produced at the Cluny Theatre resulted In dis
astrous failure. The author, NJ Manuel Is q very
young man.
The spanish stage is to furnish the coming nov,
elty at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Mr.. DAILY,
having already rsnsacked the French ana German
theatres, has discovered genuine surprise In Q
new play which lately created sensation In
Madrid.
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FANrAs1cMs.-Groups OF "fantasticals'
were to be seen yesterday in different parts Of
the city, dressed in all manner of absurd and
grotesque costumes, males and females,
always dirty and not always sober--a poor
burlesque OF carnival. Here and there they
attracted crowds, excited jecrs and laughter
and obstructed travel but they soon passed
out OF sight, to the qualification Of respectable
people, and were forgotten. "Fantasticals, +"
however. are not confined to the mummers Of
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THE JURY in the Washington safe burglary
case spent their Thanksgiving Day in state
Of grateful incarceration, expressed by psalm
singing and card playing. At last advices
they had gone to bed without much prospect
OF soon agreeing on q verdict.
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THE TROUBLES IN THE Coal REGIONS =
The causes of the recent troubles in the coal
regions of Pennsylvania are explained in let
ters from the Mayor Of Scranton, Pa, and the
president of miners association in that
locality, which we publish to-day. The ter
rible distress and poverty in which hundreds
Of families find themselves at present there
can hardly be overestimated
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An ANCHOR TO THE WNDwARD has been
dropped by Spain in treaty with Dominica,
providing for the perfect neutrality of that
Republic in reference to the island Of Cuba,
which means that St Domingo is not to be-
come rendezvous for Cuban filibusters.
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II he Is Wise he WIN choose the higher and
nobiar one, throw politics to the dogs who
seem now to usurp all political opportunity.
and make The Press an independent news
paper.
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A BRIGHT, BIAc1No AND BEAUTIFUL day th,
great body of the people of the United State
were given yesterday for Thanksgiving.
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A Coon ExAMPLE.-After a session of seven
weeks the Vermont Legislature, having finished
its necessary work, has adjourned and dis
unraed
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snoapwAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT
PRoPRIET0R

THE DAILY HERALD, Published er1y
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From our reports this morning the pro5a1ltie
are that the ,cedther today ,oaa be clear.
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Iron AGAINST IRUN AeAN.-The Carlists
They are evidently stronger than they have
been represented to be in the reports from
Madrid
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]. LOUIS AGASSIZ,
the celebrated naturalist, was born In thi
house,
May %, 1907


NJ Simonin, an acute observer. who recently
visited this country, read . paper on America
before the French Society OF Political Economy ae
Its last session. One OF hts observations indicates
that an instrument now familiar with US. has not
yet found It's way to France "By the side OF q
BANKERS table q band Of paper constantly rolls
from little reel and falls into basket belo Y,
like stream OF running water, ana on this, as is
passes out one sees printed, one after another,
the market rates, the changes-even the daily
news"
In the memoir OF Stanslas de Girardin, who
owned the domain CT Ermenonvlle, there Is an
account OF q visit to that place Of the first Napo-
leon. At the tomb OF Rousseau he said, as re.
counted In the memoirs, "It would have been bet
ter for the repose or France II this had never
existed" "Wnyr' said De Girardin che pre-,
pared the Revolution" said Napoleon. at seems
to me-" said the proprietor, that is not for you
to complain of the Revolution" "WeLn SAID
Napoleon, .the iuture will know II 1t would not
have been better for France that neither Rousseau
nor my self had ever existed" He was then First
Consul.
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save his fame and to Identify himself with al
reforms, and more especially with the reform
in our civil service.
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HE DEsTrrUTIoN IN NEBRASKA from the
ravages Of the grasshoppers extends, it is said,
TO twenty thousand people, and Kansas has
nearly forty thousand shorn Of their supplies
BY clouds of grasshoppers. Kansas, however,
has still comparatively an abundance Of corn,
wheat and bacon, while Nebraska, with her
much smaller population, is short and calls
for help for her thousands Of industrious peo-
pie on the verge of starvation. The neighbor-
ing States should be drawn upon by the State
authorities for its immediate necessities, and
ths State itself should meet the emergency,
aud without further delay.
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A SrSoUIAR DYING REQUEST. prophesy
that man will die with his shoes on has
been for immemorial time euphemistic way
Of saying that he would be sure to be hanged.
Perhaps it was to refute such predictions con-
cerning himself, regarding them more in the
letter than the spirit that half-breed mur-
derer who was hanged at Cheyenne lately
asked permission to take his shoes of, as his
dying request. The consolation he desired
was granted, Of coufse, but to the unpreju-
diced person it must appear very slight.
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AMUsEMENTs TO.NIGHT.
ROMAN HIPPoDROMg,
twenty sixth street and Fourth avenue and
evening Al and $
n.... ryy yALL.cS,s IL. THEATRE, AZ y ..
10 psM Mr.. Boucicauit
NrBLo's GARDEN,
HHr,Hssdwsy H,s s" essssss Prince aud Houston sree.-
BECOME pJn ekkK A. sssdsSst x.es..
FIFTH AvESuB THEATRE,
= Fanny Davenport Mr.. Fisher. ''''' " " -
ROBINSON HALL
sixteenth street. between Broadway and Fifth avenue
BRYANTs OPERA HOUSE,
Wert Twentv-third street near sixth avenue. NEGRO
IiNsrRELsi &c, at r. ~; closes st 10 p NJ Ian
sowery gLEDkRniUss At s p NJ Lima xayr.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
10 2ol Bowery.-yARIBTY ats p. NJ; closes at 70 p u
san FRANCISCO MINsrRELs,
MiNsrRELsf. stsP n closes atop N.
cSsyAs sT a.s. so,1 5aEArnE
GLOBE THEATRE
Broadway-vARIETY At r. NJ, closes at 10 30 P. n.
LYcEuM THEATRE
5ssi saa sin at itA Iss
Emily soldene.
Fourteenth strest-ULrlMo at r. ~
wooD,s MUSEUM.
cEoSE closes Il Al % S.ne. IS
METROPOLITAN THEATRE
ra Sss Broaaway.-vAkIEff, at z. ~; closes at
OLYMPIC THEATRE,
80. GA 4Rroadway.-vARiErY. atsr. NJ closes at loas
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
csook ass siss' NJ; close. s%s ,s1if Al II '
PARK THEATRE
sHs e. sT'R's s S
Mr.. John I. Raymond
rs ss.s. ss.sAff a
sTEIswAY HALL
OLD FOLKS CONCERT atsP.M
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Fourteenth street-opens at 10 A. NJ. closes atsrM
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
UNCLE TOMS CABIN. aisP. NJ Mrs G. c. Howard.
No. 54 Broadway at sP NJ closes At 10 20
ASSOCIATION HALL
READINGS, atsP.M Professor Roberts
BOOTHS THEATRE,
sSTSfT en- Eess and 5istP y Ne
New York, Friday, Nov. az. 1874.
=---- -----==--
From our reports this morning the PROBABILITIES
are thdt the ,cedther today 1A be clear.
A BRIGHT, BEAcINo AND BEAUTIFUL day the
great body OF the people of the United States
were given yesterday for Thanksgiving.
A Coon ExAMpLE-After session of seven
weeks the Vermont Legislature having finished
its necessary work, has adjourned and dis
persed
Iron AGAINST IRUN AGAN.-The Carlists
have resumed the bombardment of Irun.
They are evidently stronger than they have
been represented to be in the reports from
Madrid.
An ANCHOR TO THE WrNpwARp has been
dropped by Spain in a treaty with Dominica,
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New York, Friday, Nov. az. 1874.
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

General II. H. Baxter, Of Vermont ia s0journing
at the Brev0ort House
congressman James Wilson, OF Iowa. Is staying
ct the st. James Hotel
Nine. Audral, q dauphter NJ Roger Col,ard has
just died al her home In France.
Congressman william LoughrldUe. or Iowa. Is
registered at the Grand Central Hotel.
Mayor N. F. Graves. Of Syracuse, is among tho
latest arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
London is crowded with sovereQns and en-
presses. The only Queen not there is Victoria.
Captain John Mrehouse, OF the steamship City
OF Montreal, is quartered at the New York Hotel.
Lieutenant W. M. Savage, OF the British Navy. ia
residing temporarily At the Grand Central Hotel.
Mr.. CONN., Receiver General OF Nova Scotia has
been seriously i'll at Digby but is now Gonzales
cent
Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, daughter OF President
Grant, Is expected to arrive in Paris on Monday
next.
Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, OF the United
States Supreme Court arrived in this city yesser-
day and is at the Albemarle Hotel,
Congressman Lyman K Bass and his bride ar
rived In this city yesterday from Buffalo and took
up their residence at the st. James Hotel.
All our vanilla VIII one or these days be made
out OF rosin as two French chemists have discov-
cred a method for this strange extraction.
Professors George 3. Day II. B. Herrick and
Ezra Abbot, members of the committee engaged
In the revision OF the Bible, are at the Everett
House.
Hair dealers who buy In the French provinces
the abundant tresses OF the country women pursue
. trafic that is something dangerous. Recently
cOuntryman. whose wife had sold her HAIR,
caught the buyer and shaved his head.
In Paris proposition Is anoat to make the medi-
cal school national establishment In the sense In
which the Polytechnic School is, or as our West
Point s-to make the students completely subject
TO the constituted authorities and lodge them In
the ediflce.
One OF the Bohemians OF the Paris Bourse re-
Gently gave dinner to some friends at his own
house, and In the course OF the dessert, by dig
traction, put spoon In his pocket, whereup0n
the oldest man present said gravely my friend,
you forget that you are not at restaurant"
The Duke de Mouchy, just elected to the French
Assembly from the Department OF the Oise, is Of
the Noailles family and the husband Of the
Princess Anna Murat. he Is th1rty-three years
old. chevalier OF the Legion OF Honor, Grandee OF
Spain and hereditary Grand Cross OF the Order OF
Malta. He sat in the Assembly previously for one
term.
There is Q man in Parls who wants 5, 900 francs
to use In commercial and scientific operation.
and he advertises that for this sum ne will place
himself in the hands OF any physician or surgeon
as q subject for any experiments though death
may be the possible issue. Every member OF the
similar chance.
by four In size was placed on the front OF house
in the village OF MOtier, Switzerland. 1t bears this
inscription:-
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BOOTHS THEATRE,
corner Twentvthrd street and sixth enue-RfP vAN
WINKLB, at r. n. closes AT 10 Az y. NJ Mr. Jefferson
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N1BLO,s GARDEN,
broadway. between Prince aud Houston streets
fHE ROBBERS, at IS r. NJ
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ROMAN HIPPODROME
twenty sixth street and Fourth avenue.-Afcrnoon anc
evening Al 2 aud s.
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wALLACk,s THEATRE
Broadway THE sHAUGHRAUN, at s r. NJ; closes At
40 A. Mr.. Bouclcault
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twenty ghth street and Rroadw way.-THE HEART OIL
MID LOTHIAN. At y. NJ. closes at 10 30 r. u. Mis-
Fanny Davenport Mr.. Fisher.
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BRYANT's OPERA HOUSE,
Wet Twenty third street sixth avenue.-NEGR(
AlNsrREi.sY, &c, at r. A. closes st 10 p. H. Dai
r-yauI
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ROBINSON HALL,
Sixteenth street. between BroAdway and Filth avenue
Variety, atsP. NJ.
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ASSOCIATION HALL.
READINGS, at s r. NJ. Professor Roberts
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BROOKLYN ATHESRCM
BECOME DULL CARR Mr.. Frederick Maccape.
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THEATRE CoMIQUE.
No. 54 4Broadway.-yARIETY at r. NJ closes At 10 "a
y
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
10 20l Bowery.-YARIBTY, At p. NJ closes at 70 P.
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san FRANCISCO MINSTRELs,
Broadway, corner Of Twenty ninth street-NEG
iINSTRELsY, At > =. n. closes at To- N.
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The working classes of this country have in
herited personal rights which the nobility of
other nations do not yet possess. Their per-
sons and their homesere sacred. They have
no fear Of arbitrary arrests or domiciliary
visits. They know, as the Lord Chancellor
has Justly reminded us, that the administra-
ton Of law in this country is pure, and that it
is no respecter of individuals or classes. They
know very we'll that their industry is unfet-
tered, that by the law of this country they
may combine to protect the interest of labor,
and, as the Commander has well re-
minded MS, they know that, though it Is open
to all of them to serve their Sovereign by land
or sea, no one can be dragged from his craft
or his hearth to enter q military service which
is repugnaut to him. In other words, in
England no man would be dragged
from his home by any process of arbitrary
arrest" as nobleman like Arnim had been
dragged, and no Englishman could be taken
from his freside and compelled to give the
best years of his life to the army, as is the case
with every German. These are the calm but
necessarily biting words of the English Pre-
mier. They tell us what Disraeli thinks Of
Bsmarckism, and they have further empha-
sis from what he says about France. IL can
not" he says, refrain from expressing my
belief that in this country generally there is
an admiration of the elasticity which France
has shown under her almost unheard-of dis
asters; and have such confidence in the
wiae forbes n m ncp a nd the Urudeut uaOnaniYn-
ity which her present rulers have shown. that
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BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
JNCLB TOMS CABIN, Al 8 r. NJ Mrs G. Z. Howard.
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
street-opens at 10 A. M closes at5P. n.
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sTADT THEATRE
Gowery -pIE rLEDkRMAUSS, at p. N. Lima xayr
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ACADEMY or MU.IC,
Irving piace.-PHILHARMOSIc REHEA RSAL. at 20
r. n. LOHENGRTN at s +. NJ; closes AT ii r. Al Nile.
lhanI
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PARK THEATRE.
Broadway, between twenty first and Twenty econd
gtreet-GILDRD AGE. at sP NJ closes NJ 10 50 2. Al.
Mr John I. Raymond.
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LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth street and Sixth aveuue.-LA FILE DE
MADAME ANGof, ats r. ~; closes At l0E r. n Mss
Emily Soldene.
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Annual Mootiag Of the Stockholders
ofthe South Carolina Railroad Com
rany and ofthe Southwestern Rail
road Bank.
CHARLESTON, S. c., March 1G, 1871.
TNHE Annual Meeting of the Stock
holders of the South Carolina Rail-
road Company and of the Southwestern
Railroad Bank will be held in this city,
in the Hall of the Bank of Charleston,
Northeast corner of Broad and State
streets, on TUESDAY, April II, proximo
at II o'clock A NJ On the day follow
ing an election will be held between the
hours of 9 A. N. and P. NJ, for fifteen
Directors in the Railroad Company and
thirteen Directors in the Bank. A COM
,nittee to verify proxies will attend.
Stockholders will be passed over the
Road to and from the meeting free of
charge. }. L. EMERY, Secty.
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Annual Meeting ofthe South Carolina
Railroad Company and of the South
western Railroad Bank.
CHARLESTON, S. c., March 16, 1874.
STOCKHOLDERS having Proxies in
- tended to be used at the meeting to
be held On the 14th and 18th of April
pro1imo, are requested to lodge them
with either of the following Committee,
who will be In attendance at the Hall Of
the Bank of Charleston, during the
morning of the 14th April, for the pur-
pose OF verifying Proxies. On the fol-
lowing dag, during the election, other
duties may prevent the Committee from
examining patches Of Proxies before the
hour for closing the polls .
L. C. HENDRICKS,
G. P. AIMAR,
T. N. WARING,
Committee on Proxies.
April 1--2w 24-2o
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