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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-30

A"H EObA avn hANiA
is spreading among cattle in Cumberland
and AberdeGnShire.
LONDON, August 2S.-The Scotch ex
press on the Midland road Collided with
an excursion train from MorCcamber 10
Bcardford, near Kildwick to-day. Five
persons were killed and forty injured,
several probably fatally
LONDON, August 800 A.M.-A Berlin
dispatch to the Times says; A force Of
Russians have taken the field against
Khokand. The rebellion has spread to
the southern Districts Of Russian Tur-
kistan. The town Of Khojend is in the
hands Of the insurgents, whose priests are
proclaiming holy war against the inGdels.
A special TO the NelrS from Berlin says
that advices from Herzegovina confirms
the report that the insurgents have rejec.
ted the advice Of the European powers to
suspend hostilities, and also that they dc.
mand independence Of Bosnia.
The Valorous, which accompanied the
Arctic exploring expedition, has returned
to Plymouth Sound.
A special TO the Nets from Bourg Ia
Dame says that the iopmal surrender Of
SEQ dc Urgel occurred on Friday, and the
citadel was handed over to the Alfonsists
on Saturday. Fifty Carlists were killed
and one hundred wounded during the
seige. Eight hundred prisoners were
taken, including three hundred officers.
General JOvellar has asked permission
to return TO Cuba. He considers his
presence here no longer necessary.
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was whether the ladies would have such
department allotted to them-One that
would be satisfactory. To this point Gen
Hawlcy replied as we have already set
forth in our verbatim report of his re-
marks, His..reply was not satisfactory to
Mr.. H., who feels for the present like
adopting the decision OF the Cincinnati
Womens Committee, which was as fol-
lows;
"For the present we decline to aid in
the construction OF the proposed build
ing; but shall be glad to know what other
WomCn's Centennial Committees thin k OF
the plan. When We began our work here
We were officially informed that exhibit
ors will not be charged for space See
Article 3, General Regulations for Ex.
hibitors.) We feel keenly the injustice OF
putting women on a different footing
from other exhibitors. We also consider
il rather late to make such suggestion,
unless the sums already raised by women
and paid into the General Finance Com
mittee be appropriated to the cost OF the
proposed building"
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A REVOLT OF sERYIANs.
ENGLAND.

FEELING AGAINST THE ROYAL YACHT,
LONDON, August est is rumored
that a majority Of the jury was in favor
OF n verdict Of manslaughter, against the
officers Of the Royal Yacht, which ran
down the Mistletoe.
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BANGOR, ME-, August 2S.-The safe Of
Gates h ButterGeld, at lincoln Centre,
was blown open by burglars last night
and robbed Of a large amount o. money.
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THE CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE.

LONDON, August 2S.-The 7Tmes corre-
spondent at Berlin telegraphs that the
Pope has sent his special blessing to the
promoters Of The Catholic pilgrimage to
France, and II seems certain that the
project will be carried out. To avoid
collisions the pilgrims will leave Ger.
many one by one, and rendezvous at Mons
and Paris.
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COLUMBuS.

IncendiaPiSm at WCsterVille-
Nomination Declined -PFOhlb.
itlOn Picnic. ...
COLUMBUS, August 2s.-Ex-B BishoI
Hanby'sstable at Westervillc, was burned
last night, together with horse and car
riage. Whole loss $500. Supposed in,
cendiatism.
LORENZO English has declined the Re.
publican nomination for Probate Judge
Tho Ptohlbiionlsts held q big picnic
al Westerville to-day.
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TOLEDO, August 2S.-The Grstseries Of
rowing contests between the Undine and
Naiads crews, Toledo, was rowed this at-
ternoon. The race was interesting, won
by the Naiads, distance one mile and
half and return. Time, twenty-one min
ufnu
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LOUISVILLE, August 2s.-Wm, Coward,
struck on tho head several days ago with
a croQuet mallet by George ConnOr, at
Simpsonville, Kentucky, Is dead. Con.
nor fled, and has not been arrested.
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New YoRK, August 2s,--Mr. Church,
late At The head Of the ribbon department
Of jeffrey \ Co, who abaconded with
10000, has been arrested In Montreal,
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FRANCE.

ALARM ABOUT THE PILGRIMAGE FROM
GERMANY.
PARIS, August 29.-1t is semi-ofFicially
announced here that in consequence Of
the unanimous wish Of France, there Is
now reason to hope that the Catholics Of
Germany will make no.pilgtimage in the
French territory.
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SPAIN.


PARIS, August 2S.-A dispatch from
Perpignon says the news Of the surrender
Of Leo Del Urgel Is doubted here. The
dispatch from General Campas was dated
on the evening Of the 2Gth, and says Of
the Carllsts II shall probably grant a
further brief suspension Of hostilities,
after which, II they remain obstinate, 1
shall attack the citadel"
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ThE WOMAN QUESTION AT THE OPERA
h0VsE'-ln our report Of The passnge.at.
arms between uCn. llawlcy and Mr.. Thos.
hofnprOok on the woman question, as
connected with the Philadelphia Centcn.
mai Exposition, we omitted to give The
substance ol the paper sent to the stand
by Mt. II to he read s part Of his In.
tended remarks and interrogntories. The
point raised by. him was the same TINT
had been raised at Cincinnati as early M
June last, at the time that the following
dispatch appeared in the newspapers.
CtNClNNArl, June lQ.- The Iodi0,
Centennial Committee Of this cily Loss
raised large sum for the women's ,,o.
Eartment Of the Centennial Iiujli;n,,
They have received notice from ~,
Managers at Philadelphia that there wiIi M
be no room in the building for the wn W.,
mems department, but II the ladies NV Nv,
disposed to carry ont their purpose the,
must erect u special building which vii
cost SO,OOO. The announcement cai,sc,
much surprise, and an Indignation meet
ing will he held to-day.
Asiswcll known, Mr.. IIornbrook /,
'ympathiacr with womens rights, to
certain 81, extent, and believes in nllotinp
liberal sphere Of action to women in al
public and private work for which thc,
ate fitted He naturally therefore SYM
pathi'e' with the Cincinnati moyemen
ana leeh like counting himself out nnles
me ladies have a special department,
wherein the distinctive progressive Capoc
,Vo' American women may he cShibi,e,
III such a manner as to do them full lus
uce, The point that he desired to cali A
'O'on to at the Opera House meetin
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CORN MARKET.

The Times, reviewing the corn market
for the week, says grains have been held
as formerly here, but there has been little
business. Imports and deliveries by home
growers have been large. The country
markets have been very irregular at de-
clines ranging from one to four shillings
per quarter. Prices In French markets
nrn alan lnwpr
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FRANKFoRroN.THE.MAfN, August %.
The editor Of the Zeiting was sent to
prison to-day for refusing 10 disclose auth.
orShip oil certain articles published in
violation Of the Press law.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26
Our Paris Office.

The Paris office of the New YORK HERALD
has been removed from Rue Scribe to Avenue
de lOpera Those who are familiar with the
magnificent city will recall this site as
among the most convenient in the French
metropolis. 1t is within sight of the new
Opera House, the Column Vendome but
few moments walk from the famous Boule-
wards, in easy reach of the Gardens
of the Tuileries and the Galleries
of the Louvre, the Madeleine. the Champs
Elysees and the Place Concorde. Here we
have opened for the convenience of Ameri-
cans resident in Paris and travelling abroad
reading room containing the most complete
collection of American journals and periodi-
Gals that has been formed by private enter
prise Every locality of any Importance will be
represented by its leading newspaper. Our
object is to place within the reach ofAmericans
from every part of the Union their home
journals. Our Office is spacious, well-lighted
and easily accessible. Paris is SO much of
an American city, and is becoming, from
year to year, so much more an object of re-
sort for Americans, that in the establishment
of this reading room in connection with our
Paris Office we feel we are doing the people
a service.
We have further to say that we shall be
happy to put on file in our reading room
copies of newspapers that proprietors may
send to us. 1t is only necessary to direct
their journals to the Paris Office of the New
YORK HERALD, No. 81 Avenue de pOpera,
Paris, and pay the postage. The following
is list of papers already on file at our Paris
Office =
The New York herald., 1875-09-26

1t was evident that war must come some day.
In 1870 Bismarck saw that Germany was
ready and France was not, and he seized the
first pretext that came to precipitate the
struggle in that favorable juncture. This
idea will become policy. AS soon as ma
ton in which a new cannon has been made
discovers that this cannon will destroy its
enemy's ships it will not give that enemy a
chance to build new ships but will seize some
pretext to force Immediately the war that
seems an inevitable fact of the future. Ma
tions will perhaps come eventually, as a re-
suit of this to spend more money in
diplomacy and less in cannon, and there
may be fewer wars.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26


We print elsewhere narrative of new
swindle which has grown up in our city gov
ernment. We have class of spectators in
New York who are called 'tax sale "scalp-
ers." Their operations are elsewhere de-
scribed. Every year sales of lands and
tenements whose owners are in arrears for
taxes or assessments are made in ''dingy
room under the Comptroller's office" Some
times these sales embrace property to the
value of million and quarter to a
million and q half of dollars, which
changes hands because of the neglect of the
owners to pay their taxes and special assess
ments or of their ignorance of such assess
ment until they learn that their property has
been sold in default BY special law the
Department Of Finance is empowered to
charge twelve per cent interest upon all sums
unpaid up to the time of sale. These sales are
advertised in ring sheet called the City Record,
at cost of five dollars extra for advertising
each piece. The owner has the right to
redeem his property within two years.
The practical effect is that the purchaser. at
these tax sales, even if he is called upon to
restore his purchase, receives from the use
of his money fourteen per cent per annum.
Consequently, by the operation of the law,
by the connivance Of the Comptroller, by
the existence Of ring newspaper, which
nobody reads the city is in the position of
imposing usurious rates upon its property
owners Now, if the property which goes
into default was honestly sold, if the public
were called upon through the general news-
paper press TO take part in these sales, it
would be much better for the city and for the
owners The next sale, for instance, will
take place on the 9Th of October. There
arc three thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one parcels advertised for sale on
that day, and among the owners of these
parcels are men like William b. Astor, rich
corporations like ST. Patrick's Cathe-
dral the Hudson River Railroad Com
pany, the Continental Bank and the Erie
Railway Company. This goes to show that
the whole business is a fraud because
these corporations and these owners would
not for moment allow their property to be
taken out of their hands in ''dingy room
under the Comptroller's office" The fact is
that by using this ring sheet to conceal the
operations of law thousands have no knowl-
edge Of the fact that "Assassments' are made
The New York herald., 1875-09-26
The Herald and. the Business Re-
vival.

great newspaper is necessarily nearer to
the general business of the country than any
other agent can be- journalism is the one
business which represents and includes all
others. The leading trades and manufac-
lures off nation influence each other, it is true,
yet they are to a large extent independent of
each other. They move in distinct and sepa-
rate paths and no one of them can sum up
the prosperity and the purposes of the others.
But as anciently all roads led to Rome so all
business roads. now lead to the newspaper as
the common centre of their conflicting or CO.
operative interests. 1t is impossible to point
out one great commercial pursuit which does
not seek and find its ultimate exponent in
the press. Thus a great newspaper becomes
an infallible measure of the condition of the
business of the community in which it is
published the thermometer does not more
accurately record the variations of tempera-
ture, than it marks the changes in trade.
The HERALD to-day stands forth as an
absolute proof of the revival of business in
the United States for the fall season of 1875
The new life which inspires the business
world expands our pages, as the trade winds
fill the sails of ship. The HERALD has
never failed as an indication of returning
prosperity, and the sixty-fve columns
of advertisements we print to-day repre-
senting SO many departments Of business.
are conclusive evidence that the long de-
preston of the dull season is ended This
enormous amount of advertising which is in
itself news Of the utmost Importance to the
seller and buyer, is not permitted to exclude
those other classes of news which it is the
special duty of great newspaper to supply
to its readers. The HERALD, therefore, is
| issued as a quintuple sheet, with ffty-fve
columns of reading matter additional to its
eleven pages of advertisements, and it is not
as a boast but as a simple fact, that we say
that in extent, variety, and as complete
microcosm of the busy moving world, it has
certainly no rival in journalism.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26

Our TAxEs.-A singular illustration oi
reform in our city government, as con-
ducted> by that model reformer Comp
troller Green, is shown in the fact that
while the valuation of real estate has
increased this year by over two millions,
as compared with the previous year, the rate
of taxation has been advanced from two dol
lars and eighty cents to two dollars and nine
ty-four cents. Although the assessed value
has steadily increased in real estate since
1871 it has fallen off in real and personal
property. Consequently we have been COM
PEELED to increase our taxes upon un-
improved and unproductive property be-
cause of the shrinkage. The reason fol
this increase in the tax rate and the falling
off in personal property is that investors
who had heavy amounts in taxable securities
have withdrawn them and placed them in
non-taxable securities This suggests to US
the propriety of a revision Of the whole sys-
tenn of taxation. The time will come when
we shall have to decide whether, in the
interest of honest government, any owners OF
property should be exempt from the duty OF
supporting the government.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26

The ARENENBERG CONFERENCE. -Impor-
tant news is furnished by our Paris corre-
spondent relative to the new policy decided
upon by the Council of Bonapartistsj just held
at Arenenberg. The abdication of the Re
gency by the Empress Eugene is the most
significant event that has lately occurred in
the imperial family. The Empress for many
years welded q vast influence in politics,
and it was through her intense Catholicism
that the Empire was brought so near to
Rome. Her abdication may not mean that
her policy is to be abandoned, but that it is
thought fit to present the Prince Imperial to
the world as his own master. This, OF
course, is an impossibility. The boy King
of Spain and the boy Emperor of France are
equally unfit to rule without a director.
M. Rouher is to be the power behind the
throne, and when all his dreams are realized
the Empire will be restored with its old des-
potic forms and the constitution of 1862.
The Bonapartists apparently intend to take
bold, aggressive steps when the Assembly
meets again.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26
Cannon and Ships.

1t is q popularity of the age that none
of the Powers in the world that may fairly
be considered rival Powers are at peace,
although there is no war. They are not face
to face on tented fields, neither do their
embattled fleets ''sweep through the deep
while the raging cannons roar )" but they
are waging tremendous conflicts in their
respective machine shops, in the navy yards
and the gun foundries 1t is a bloodless
war, certainly, and war that exercises the
national industries and the arts of peace ;
but the burden upon the people who have
to pay for it all in taxes will perhaps even
tually convince several nations that moder-
ately long open wars are better than this
constant conflict In this struggle Of the
machine shop the victory goes from one side
to another, and again is
Like the swans down feather
That stands upon the full swell OF the tide
And neither way nciines.
First they built simple appropriated ships,
and all the old guns suddenly became as
useless as so many Quakers. Then guns
were cast that would send shot through the
iron-piated ships as easily as through sardine
boxes, and the fleets lately triumphant were
for war purposes worthless lumber. Then
there was another turn at ships with heavier
armor and again another turn at guns with
greater power and so from side to side the
conflict has gone on for over fifteen years, and
all that is finally determined is this-if there
is capacity anywhere to contrive for ships
q less Vulnerable armor than has been
known before there is capacity somewhere
else to construct gun that will pierce that
armor Exactly where is all thist stop, and
is there any limit in this vast warlike rivalry
of unproductive art and industry that alb
serbs already large share of every national
income? For some time it has been thought
that the great English iron-clads like the
Devastation were in this direction the last
word of naval architecture but Herr Krupp
has made some guns that in ten shots
wrecked the targets made like sections of the
Devastations armor, and some others THAI
pierce an iron plating eight inches thicker
than her armor and by the new system of
simultaneous discharges by means of cleo
tricity it becomes as easy to deliver the
ten shots within given radius as to
deliver one shot England must, therefore,
yield this great fight of the fosndries or try
again-and she will probably try again. There
is probably point beyond which it is inn
possible TO 90 in the weight Of armor which
any ship can be made to float but, as far as
harbor defence goes, there is no limit to the
weight of cannon that the earth will sustain
There is here, therefore, point in favor of
the land batteries, for the only limit is in the
dimensions of q cannon that humanity can
handle. and they may increase the guns in
this respect till the artillerists shall seem like
ants beside them. All this may eventually pro-
duce in nations wars like those legal processes
that ore called ''snap judgments" There will
be snap wars. The Franco-German war OF
1870 was in fact, q snap war For years tho
two nations we're armino nuainst ono another.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26

upon their property until after the sale,
and many not until the two years expire
when they are notified by the ''buyer" to re-
deem it. In addition to this there are abuses
in the Comptroller's Office arising out of this
questionable and shameless business Real
estate men charge that attaches act in the
interest of owners by getting a sale set aside
and charging for this service excessive
sums. Although the officers under Mr..
Green deny all knowledge of any such irregu-
larities, the evidence that they exist cannot
be questioned.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26
Pulpit Topics To-Day.

The spirit and inspiration of revival seem
to have fallen upon our pastors, for here
they are, month ahead of their usual time,
either holding revival meetings themselves,
or, like DR.. Talmage, waiting for Moody and
Sankey with a continuous revival in his
Tabernacle for two years past But, as no
man is expected to 60 to war at his own
charges, Mr.. Leavell will inquire something
about the campaign expenses, and Mr. Lloyd
will protest against limiting God or despising
the echoes that come to us from Calvary.
The general subject of revivals will be treated
by Mr.. Kennard. while Mr.. Macarthur will
select three indispensable prerequisites to
efficient church work from the many that
exist, and will press the same home on the
attention of his people Mr.. Saunders will
take the two extremes of a religious life-the
first step toward heaven and the Christians S
reward-and show their bearing one upon
the other 1t is certain that there can be no
reward, present or prospective, while the
first step remains untrod. And first things
are about as important as last. And nearly
akin to this is Mr.. Taylors final glory of
Gods children Some Of them have not
much glory here, and some don't deserve
much but those who endure the cross here
are promised the crown hereafter Christs
transfguration--a theme full of spir-
itual instruction-will be considered
by Mr.. Ganse. and His compassion
for the weak will be illustrated by Mr..
Hawthorne, while Mr. Van Buskirk
will demonstrate that the Christhood of
Jesus is the foundation of the Church and
the creed of its religion. Mr.. Snow will open
the Valley of Achor rs door of hope for Zion,
and lead the way for believers to enter into
its rest, and Mr. Mccarthy will examine the
head of the ministry Of repentance and call
Adam forth from his hiding place Of sin and
shame. The destruction of the earth by fire
a theme now left almost exclusively to Sec
ond Adventists and scientists-will receive
the attention of Mr.. Lightbourn, while Colonel
Olcott will lecture on spirit naturalization.
We can show him any number of material
lied spirits every day, but he canoot show us
one immaterialized.
The New York herald., 1875-09-26

improve this. When better than now, with
labor so cheap and our people seeking en-
ployment? Aid of this kind TO the laboring
classes. with winter coming on, would be
a general benefit to the community More
than all, money spent on good drives and the
opening of avenues is the best investment.
1t comes back to the city, in part, at least,
in the value of property thus improved The
real estate market will grow with the growth
ofNew York. "The noiseless panic" will pass
away with the improvement of business and
the coming down to a specie basis
which is inevitable. The prosperity
of the city will increase with every
stride of the country. All we want
is economy in our government, wisdom in
the administration, policy manly, far
seeing and courageous, looking toward the
glory and the grandeur of the metropolis
The best evidence of the true value of real
in a city like New York, is that in a time of
general chaos ana tumbling of values and
depression of business and mismanagement
in city affairs-robbery under Tweed or
suffered so little. The probability is that no
interest during the last five years has felt the
general depreciation less than real estate.
What is called "a noiseless panic" is there
fore not anything seriously affecting its
value, but general tendency toward reform.