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, 1874-01-05

Total. ,oso,s77 1,es3ll5 1,s3e,lH 2,01s,se7
The packing at points given exceeds the num-
Der to corresponding datea last season 233, 00o-
The points not heard from packed total of 49,
10 during seaeou l872-73. The aggregate fall
ing off at Interior points will be III round num-
beta 200, 900. TIE estimates for tho season e1-
ceeds 1'ac ting TO dates OF reports near 400 900.
The whole packing in the West, to Jan. !, il ap-
500 900 q. the six iatger cities, total of 40o0
00D, which is 1.410, 900 lo=s thaa entue season
l572-73.
AB-logards the six larger Western packing
points, We do not esteem 1t practicable at til
time to undertake au estimate OF what will be
duuo during tue remaining two months Of tho
season. The packing to date ut these points
!. aggregates 2.495, 700. against 1,W5,000 to sumo
tne last season, or excess this soason amount
lug to $50. 900. and leaving 9000UO moro to be
packed to equal last seasons numbers. Our
latest adviceo give unmistakabla evidence Of light
supplies OF hogs yet to be marketed.
The Price Current aleo refers to tho phenom-
enon OF much greater slrinkage, aud says:
Muny Of the larger number OF hogs this year
shrink more than oue-hfth Of the gross weight.
whereas last year Is per cent would cover the
sdrlnkage in many instances, and VIC doubt II the
average WAS more sthan II per ceut. In some
test cases made with meats it is found that the
shliukage in curing also is moro than double
orally attributed to tho inferior quality mud de-
ficicnt quantity Of corn. but whether this Is the
true explanation or not the fact remains tho
same"
LUMBER.
Tie Saginaw Courier says:
Reports from nearly every point where numbering
operations conducted ara to the effect that there il
not c11np this ye4r where there wero i've OF six
last WINTER aud .t in many localities they have had
no znow speak ut~ THIS il the in the neigh
borl.ood OF Loomls, and soma localities on the Cass,
and points. except possibly the Shore strcms
aud the Upper Tttabawassee ia thohauling anywhere
near daceut TuB will cHectunlly dispose Of 4dli-
tona operations, and will aso curtail the operations
Of those already in the woods. number Of it
is reported, have stopped work altogether. The Nh
son County Record, published ut Ludingtons at the
west end Of the Flint Pere Marquette Hallway, Bays
that many campo On tile Pere Marquette have BUS
Tended work for want Of SNOW. Ws are inclined To
fInk that this falling OF, while it may bo temporary
hardship to some lumberaen who heavily iu debt,
will work advanageously to tho numbering interests In
general md to localities dependant upon tho numbering
business. The shortage III the log crop the present
winter will decrease the supply OF lumber in the
ket next seasou and SHOULD there be reasonable de-
mand for the article, prices must consequently ad-
vance,
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

THE DRoUaHr-SIGNs OF RAIN.-The fearful
and disastrous drought, which we may say has
dried up all the land from the great plains to
the Atlantic coast, and from the Gulf of Mex
leo far into the interior Of the New Dominion,
u.s. we hope and believe, now rapidly coming
TO an end. The signs of rain are thickening
from day to day, and the widely extended
July temperature, of the last two days particu-
iarly, must surely, we think, bring about a
speedy and far extending atmospheric reac-
lion, with bountiful rains.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

! Marshal Bazaine's denial that he is q pollti-
clan is just If he were politician he would
not in this bitter way attack the man to whom
he owes his life nor denounce him as one OF
the principal authors of the disaster His
tory will assign to the great captains of the
war the blame or praise they have deserved,
and present recriminations are idle. If
Bazaine comedies that MacMahon honestly
did all he could for France, as he seems to
admit, criticism of his military actions might
as well be left to others. Marshal Mac
Mahon now holds the government of
France in trust for the people. He
has shown integrity and faithfulness
amid great temptations. No party can justly
claim him as its agent. He belongs to the Re-
public as it is, not perhaps, to the Republic as
it may become, and is we believe, resolved to
maintain that government till the people
themselves reclaim the power they have dele
gated by constitutional methods which no
faction can control. Whether he fought
wisely or unwisely in Alsace is not the ques-
ton now, nor would the proof of his error
exonerate Marshal Bazaine. Bazaine must
look higher when he would find the author of
the ruin for which he claims, and not without
truth, that he has been made the scapegoat.
Let him go to the Emperor. Beside the
marble tomb at Chiselhurst he may stand in
silence, and, in loyalty to that great memory,
utter none of those just reproaches which
would be wasted on the dull, cold ear Of death.
That his duty to the Napoleonic dynasty
did not end with the Emperors death is
The words near the close of his letter are
a menace to the Republic and to President
MacMahon: 81 do not look upon my
military career as ended. Some duties
remain to be fulfilled, and shall
fulfil them when the time comes"
There can be but one Interpretation of these
sentences, and that is that Marshal Bazaine is
resolved to be as faithful to the son as he was
to the sire. We regret this devoted but
useless passion for the Empire which was
always an evil to France. But that
which entities Marshal Bazaine to hon
orable consideration in oil that he may
say is that fate has made him the suf-
ferer. He is banished from his country, de-
prived of his rank, stigmatized as unfaithful.
Much more could be excused to him in this
hour of disgrace than anything he has said
here, and, altogether, the tone of his letter is
honorable and manly. He has the right to
make the proud boast that "MacMahon and
were sometimes unhappy, but never ridicu-
lous No German could afford to laugh when
attacked by me-" The spectacle of heroic
spirit surrounded by misfortune commands
admiration, and this old soldier of France
bears his burden as bravely as if it were the
knapsack he carried when the marshals baton
was no more to him than glittering distant
dream.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

Our correspondent in Nashville sends an
able letter concerning the operations Of the
White League in Tennessee. and. We
regret to add, affirms the resurrec-
ton of the Ku Klu1. Nothing could
he more injurious to the South than the re-
vival of the bloody spirit of that secret order.
On the other hand the United States troops
have arrested persons supposed to be guilty
of completely in the murder Of negro prison.
ers in the Trenton Jail, and their
trial at Memphis is expected to take place
at once The punishment of these murderers
now would be better for Tennessee than If the
gold mines Of the Black Hills were set down
among her mountains The whites have
nothing to do but to maintain order and law
to become masters of the situation and to in
sure the defeat of any outrages by misguided
blacks
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

NJ Coundourots is the new Minister Of Greece
in Paris
In Paris they call gray hair "a little dust from
the road Of life."
Mr.. Homer Ramsdell, OF Newburg, has arrived
at the st. James Hotel.
Judge Josiah G. Abbott, of Boston, has apart
ments at the Brevoort House.
Very amiable expressions of sympathy for Mr..
Ten Broeck in the English papers.
General Peter V. Hagner, United States Army, IL
quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotel.
Ex-Governor Theodore +. Randolph, OF New
Jersey, IL staying at the New York Hotel.
Mr.. Samuel L. Clemens Mark 1wain), OF Hart
ford, is sojourning at the Hoffman House.
II Bacon didn't write Shakespeare 1t must be ad-
mitted he is the author OF Beecher's woes.
MIR. Henry c. Kelsey Secretary OF state OF New
Jersey, Is residing at the Metropolitan Hotel.
His Royal Highness'the Prince or Wales attended
q dog show at Plymouth and bought bull pup.
General Stephen v. Benet Of the Ordinance
Depar, ment United States Army, is registered vt
the Grand Hotel.
Hyacinthe lett his church at Geneva because he
does not believe the people are infaIble any
more than the Pope.
NJ Paraf. OF the College of France. proposes Q
plan for doing without rain and getting good crops.
Now is your time, Paraf.
featuring India rubber In form that author
izes the name OF vegetable leather.
J. D. Aristarch Bey, Turkish Ambassador at
Washington, dined with Lord Du1erln, at Rtdeau
Hail. Guelph, Ont, on Thursday evening.
When Mrs. McGlashan was giving evidence IN
the case OF a woman charged with theft, she said
she was ~ decent, honest, drunken creature"
In the aquarium at Havre they organize for the
delectaton OF the public battles between devil fish
and conger ees, and the eels are the vicsors
Major General Shelby Smith, an onlcer OF dis
tinction IN the imperial army has been appointed
Major General commanding the militia force Of
Canada.
Robert watts, Professor Of Systematic Theology,
wants to .'argy the pint" with Huxley "0eiore an
Ulster Audience He knows who Ulster be-
lieves In.
"An' are ye Mrs. Mcleod p? said q Highland
mon, on being introduced to certain lady OF thas
name. "Ye're an ill-O0kin' woman ava If 20
hadna been sac awluly pittit wiz the small pox."
Leonardo da vinc had been buried a5s years, ana
when they uncovered his face the other day they
could recognize 1t from his portraits and he was
not embamed either--ony smut In stone cofuu.
Vet the cremationisss talk OF decay. &c
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

The THIRD Term IN THE SOUTH. There
was recently an extensive movement among
Southern conservatives from Virginia to Geor-
gia in favor of General Grant for third Pres
idential term. But if since his recent letter to
Attorney General Williams, which was a carte
blanche touching the employment of United
States troops tor the suppression of Southern
ontrages-if since this official proclamation the
southern conservatives are still in favor of an
other term TO General Grant, they must surely
be id favor of the restoration of the blessings
of martial law. We dare say, however, that
even General Toombs is no longer fre-eater
in support of the dangerous proposition of
givinz u tls President third term.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

GOVERNOR DIX is seriously i'll at his resi-
dence at West Hampton, but we are glad to
say not dangerously. He is poisoned by wild
ivy, disease which causes much suffering,
and an attack of erysipelas, probably induced
by tho poisoning, has been checked. The
strongest political opponents of Governor
Dix hope equally with his friends for his
speedy ana complete restoration to health.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

GOVERNOR BAXTER CRIES, ''HoID! ENouaH!"
Though unanimously nominated by the late
Democratic State Convention for reelection as
Governor of Arkansas, he positively declines
the honor. He has had enough of it and of
the amusements of mounted rihemen,
bushwhackers, ''belligerent niggers" and civil
war, and he gracefully retires, thankful that
he is still in the land of the living. Wise man,
that Governor Baxter.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
Art in Cincinnati.

We publish in another column on interest
ing and thoughtful letter on the Art Exposi-
ton in Cincinnati. That Western centre of
trade is beginning to devote its attention to
aesthetic subjects, and will, no doubt derive
much help in its educational march from
the presence Of the many gems that have
been gathered into the art departments OF the
Exposition. The sight Of the artistic produc-
tions Of foreign nations must exercise
stimulating effect on the minds of men alb
sorbed in employments as useful, though
scarcely 80 elevating, as is art work, and
exert q healthful influence in setting up cor
rect standards of public taste. We are
glad to see the West beginning to
take an interest in the marvels of
production. No country can ever be truly
great whose people do not possess high me-
chanical and artistic Skill and some influence
is needed in the West to counteract the ten
dency toward agricultural and pastoral pur-
SUITS TO the exclusion OF manufacturing in
dustries. The problem of inducing the West
to enter the industrial field and compete with
the East in manufactures is Of Importance to
the whole country, and whatever tends to turn
the attention of the people into artistic and
industrial channels deserves consideration
and support.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

In England, on the Great Eastern Railroad,
by which twenty persons were killed and fifty
wounded. The rate of speed at which English
trains are run makes collisions more destruc-
tive than they are in America, and they seem
10 be more frequent now in Great Britain
than at any previous time.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

GAME IN THE Rocky MOUNTAINS Else
where this morning we publish letter
from our correspondent who is ''roughing it''
ject of universal interest; for hunting, as
therein detailed, is not merely an idle sport,
appealing to our spirit of adventure alone,
but sanitary pursuit. having the best effect
upon body and mind.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

AhC oPoTtSmeh0 SOnVemt1On-Tno fTOs
lection OF Fish, Game and Useful
Birds.
The late Sportsmen's Convention at
Niagara Falls having effected permanent
national organization, before adjourning sine
die on Thursday last adopted series of reso-
lutions declaring the objects of the association.
They are:-First, the protection of game and
fish in all the States and Territories in the
passage Of national and local laws prohibiting
the destruction of fish and game during the
breeding nesting and spawning seasons, and
for reasonable time preceding and following
such seasons and prohibiting the destruc-
ton OF certain game birds by nets and traps
at oil times and prohibiting in our rivers and
lakes the destruction of fish by nets, traps,
dams and chemicals Second, to insure the
enforcement Of these laws. Third, to estab-
lish the right of property in useful hunting
dogs Fourth, to secure the passage of laws
prohibiting at all times the destruction Of all
song and useful birds that are not game birds,
and to establish clubs and associations
throughout the country for the promotion Of
the objects indicated
We commend these objects to the general at
tention and support of the American people.
because they are objects which, if faithfully
and generally carried out, considered in q
financial view, will be the gaining and saving
annually Of millions of dollars to the
country. The fish Of our rivers and
lakes and the game Of all kinds
of our forests, mountains and prairies are
rapidly disappearing, and unless the work OF
destruction be speedily checked there will
soon be neither game for the hunter nor fish
for the angler of any value within the limits
of the United States On the other hand.
with proper and universally enforced laws for
the protection of fish and game we may
within few years, and throughout the coun-
try, have an abundance OF game, and we may
so far restock our lakes and rivers and brooks
with excellent fish as to bring even fresh sal
mon, shad, bass and trout in their season to
the tables of the humblest classes of our
people.
Again, in the protection and increase Of our
useful birds we know, from the saving Of our
ClIy pdIhS ny tuo 1IARAAoA opoAAoWos ohoS wo
may, in the preservation of our fields and
gardens from destructive insects, save millions
OF money from year to year. Of the numer-
GUS scientific conventions connected with the
Vienna Worlds Fair the Convention upon the
Protection of Useful Birds was of the highest
practical importance to the people of the
States of Europe and Of our own country.
The proceedings Of that Convention, pub
lished in the HERALD in our special reports
from Vienna at the time OF the Fair, will
doubtless be remembered by our readers in
terested in the preservation of our crops from
destructive insects as of the greatest value to
our gardeners, farmers and planters. In
short, we consider the general objects of our
Sportsmen's National Association as the OBJ
jects of public benefactors, and challenging
the support Of all sections of our country and
all classes of our people,
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

THE FLOATING HOSPITAL made its sixteenth
cruise yesterday, and the eight hundred sick
children and mothers who enjoyed the pure
salt air were fortunate to escape the sitting
atmosphere of.the city. The next excursion
will take place on Tuesday, and contributions
to the fund are needed and earnestly desired.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION has
closed its proceedings at Geneva. Its object
was to obviate the necessity of war; yet stand
ing armies were never as large in Europe.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.-The stock mar
ket while irregular, shows the same disposi-
lion to higher prices. Gold was steady at
1O9a
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

The PORK PACKERS have held their national
convention at Louisville, KY, and, as will be
seen elsewhere, gave their answer as to ''who
wrote Shakespeare" by declaring unani-
mously in favor of Bacon. A banquet in
honor of Lord Verllam was given last evening.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
MIR. Weed and the Proposed Conven-
ton.

Mr. Weed and the Proposed Convene
The veteran Thurlow Weed has expressed
certain views on the proposed convention of
peace and reconstruction which our readers
will find elsewhere. They are worthy of the
respect that should always be paid to expert
ence and patriotism. Probably no man now
living is as familiar with the inside Of our war
history as Mr., Weed; for during the war he
possessed the confidence of Mr. Lincoln and
Mr.. Seward, and largely influenced the diplo-
matte result by his counsels and his influence.
Mr. Weed, we observe, takes issue with the
HERALD upon our argument that emancipa-
ton was a ''fne." He regards it as "a
penalty" which the South invited by enter
ing into causeless war. We do not differ
with MIR. Weed. He merely states our argu-
ment in another form. We do not question
ship OF emancipation. We entirely agree
that the Southern leaders invited it
and should not complain. But what
we say is this, that in considering
the results of the war, 80 far as they tend to
the present unhappy condition of affairs in
the South, we must estimate the act of eman-
cipation as financial question. By this act
property to the amount, let US say, of two
thousand millions Of dollars was extin-
guished, and the men who owned that prop
erty were so much poorer. Instead of being
fine imposed upon the Commonwealth, as
Germany with France, and paid by system
of general taxation, it was the amercement of
the slaveholding classes, in many instances
to the extent of their whole possessions. In
this respect it resembled more the policy of
Henry VIII. in seizing the lands of the
Church, or the policy of the French Conven-
ton in confscatng the lands of the fn,igrks
We recite this military view of emancipa-
ton, not as special grievance that should be
remedied, for we do not admit it to be q
grievance, but rather as an illustration of the
severity of the war upon the South. And,
while we do not recognize any claim on
the part of the shareholders for compen-
sation, we do say that in dealing
with reconstruction We should consider
this extraordinary amercement and aid
the Southern people in some way to bear it,
| We should do this the more because in look
ing at the question from high point of view
we must admit that slavery was an institution
which we in the North cherished for two CEN
turies, and which Mr. Lincoln would not
have abolished had it not been to his mind
war measure. It was therefore fine, or, if
Mr. Weed prefers the word, self-invited
penalty" imposed upon the South. And
we do not see how there can be any generous
and abiding plan of reconstruction that does
not so consider it.
In the main the views of Mr.. Weed are
statesmanlike and brave. If the Northern
people would only enter npon the question of
reconstruction in this spirit there would soon
be an end. Is it not time to put away hatred
and seek truth and fraternity?
(rENERAT. MuEq' INDIAN
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
T triple S HE E 7.
New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 1874.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the toedther today aoM be clear.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

wALLACK's THEATRE,
R,osdvav and Thirteenth streeL-OUR CLERKS. ICI
ON PARLE FRANCAlS ana OFF TIL LINE, at r
n closes at Ii +. NJ j. L. Ioole Matinee at l:30 T. NJ
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

The SOUTHERN SITUATION. Troops are
already being distributed throughout the
South, especially in South Carolina, although
no disturbances are reported in that State
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS,
Broadway, corner of Twenty ninth street-NEG.
GINSTRELSY. ats +. NJ Matinee at +. NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
luusImEyTs THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING

NIBLo'S GARDEN,
Broadway between Prince and Houston streets;;-rhE
DELUGE at 8 p NJ. closes at ii T. NJ ihe hraHy
Family. Matinee at 30 r NJ
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

AMERICAN INSTITUTE,
Third avenue, between sixty third and Sixty fourtl
Streets.-INDUsTRIAL EXHIBITION.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

WOODS MUSEUM,
Broadway corner OF Thirtieth street-FOUL PLAY, at
RF M and at s r. M. closes at 10 30 p NJ. Louis
Aidrich and Miss Sophie Miles.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL at 8P. NJ. closes at Il
p NJ Miss Fanny davenport Miss sara Jewett, Levi:
James Charles Fisher. Matinee at 80 r N.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

CENTRAL PARK GARDEN,
Fifty ninth street and Seventh avenue.-THOMAS' CO!
CERT, at 8 2. N. closes at 10 80 p. N.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
FIFTH AyENUE TIL

OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No GA Broadway-VARIETY, at T. NJ. closes at 10 ;E
Z. NJ Matinee at z. NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

GLOBE THEATRE,
No. 728 Broadway.-vARIETY, At SP. NJ; closes at
p. N. Matinee st2 p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

eral Miles, after pursuing large body of war;
like Indians, from the great plains west Of
the Indian Territory down to Texas over
hauled them, gave them sound thrashing
and routed them, and from our latest advices
from his command was still on the warpath
in hot pursuit of the retreating redskins.
For ''bad Indians" this is far better policy
than high feeding and gilt-edged hymn books,
and even for ''good Indians meditating
holiday excursion this warning from General
Miles will be better than O PRAYER meeting.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
LYCEUM THEATRE

LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth street ana Sixth avenue-LA PRlNCESSE
DE TREBIZONDE, at p M closes at 10 80 p. NJ. Mile
Aimee Mile. Minelly. Matinee at 30 +. NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE,
West Twenty third street, sixth avenue.NKG RO
MINsTRELsf, at p NJ. Dan bryant Matinee at 2
The New York herald., 1874-09-12
BOOTHS THEATRE

THEATRE COMIQOE,
No 5l4 4Broadway.-vARIETY, at r. NJ closes at 10 60
r. N. Matinee at2 NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

BOOTHS THEATRE,
corner Of Twenty third street and sixth aycnpe- =
BELLE LAMAR. at 8 P. VI. +; closes at 10 30 p M John
Mccullough and M ISIS X. Rogers Randolph Matinee at
~ r. NJ
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
No. 5a5 Cancan Dancers at P. NJ.
Matinee At . z. ".
The New York herald., 1874-09-12

ROBIN or HALL.
Sixteenth street. between Broadway and Fifth avenue
VARIETY, at ?. NJ. Matinee at 2 p. M.