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Another of those awful disasters, which
seem more terrible when they come in seasons
OF pleasure, is reported in our columns to-day.
The collision upon the Rockaway branch OF the
Southern Railroad of Long Island was the
most appalling that has happened in the
neighborhood of New York for years
The facts, so far as known, are that
train of six cars left Williamsburg for
Rockaway at half-past twelve yesterday, and
when at q short distance beyond Lawrence sta
ton collided with another train on its way to
Valley Stream. These six cars were crowded by
nearly five hundred people in search OF
pleasure, and the engines approaching, each
at speed of ten miles an hour. came together
with fearful force. The cars were telescoped,
and a scene of gayety and joy was instantly
replaced by. one of panic and horror and
death. Eleven persons were killed without
minute warning, and twenty-seven wounded,
some of them, no doubt fatally
The only marvel is that the loss of life is
not greater. The passengers, as usual, were
packed into the cars and many were COM
PEELED to stand on the platforms This was
against the company's rules, we are told; but
the company should have protected its own
rules by providing sufficient accommodation,
or refusing to sell tickets, if that was
impossible. 1t is common thing
ON ell the roads running to towns
near New York to compel passengers to
stand by neglechng to furnish enough cars,
and much of the fatality on the Rocka-
way branch is attributed to this criminal
neglect. The custom of using single track
is also largely responsible for the disaster.
These are general errors, resulting from
q misery and reckless system of rail-
road management but it is plain that
some one was particularly to blame
in this terrible calamity. Two trains
cannot meet upon a single track without the
conductors or the telegraph operators having
the responsibility. The company. up to
late hour last night showed no desire to give
the public any information, but the public
will have the truth. Accidents such as this
are crimes, and the criminals must be dis
covered and punished.
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Jerusalem.

The most interesting part of the planet, on
account of associations which reach back into
the mists of prehistoric times, is undoubtedly
that known as the Holy Land. The whole
country is only about one hundred and forty
miles long, while it averages something like
forty in width. Yet within that narrow space
victories, defeats and revelations have been
crowded which have been the impulse of CIV
ilizatlon and the foundation of religion.
Whatever we may say or think of the Hebrew
family as it is represented in Europe and
America at the present time, there can be
little doubt in the mind of critical scholar
ship that the time has been when that re-
markable family held the key to the world s
future. The whole of Christendom looks on
the soil Of the Promised Land as holy, and
there is hardly an acre, from thickly wooded
Lebanon in the north to the desert in the
south, that has not been the scene of some
prominent and important event. What the
Hebrew race is to become at some time in the
distant future, when certain vague and not
easily understood prophecies shall come true,
is matter of grave interest and speculation;
but 80 proud are we all of its heroic and privi-
legged past that every hill top and valley, every
plain and stream, has an inestimable value.
Leaving its future, then, for time to settle,
and caring less than nothing for its ignoble
present. the religious bodies of Christendom
some years ago determined to discover what
ever inscriptions monuments and relics Of
any kind remained after the ravages Of CEN
turtles. To Great Britain was assigned the
country lying west Of the Jordan, while the
land of Moab was given over to the spade,
pick and derrick of American zeal This
land OF Moab lies directly east Of the Jordan,
stretching along the shores of the Dead Sea,
and is about fifty miles long by nearly twenty
broad. It contains some very interesting
remains, and discoveries of more or less i'm
portance are being made every year by per-
severing explorers. Their expenses, which
are by no means light are met by COM
mendable generosity on the part Of churches
and individuals. The American people are
not much given to antiquities, because we
believe more in tomorrow than in yesterday
The new rather than the old is valuable TO
us AS general rule, we are quite willing
to let the dead past bury its dead. But IN
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-06

That standard sheet which we are informed
by the poet was by angel hands to vaIor
given never reflected more brilliantly its gor-
geous hues to its ancestral skies than yester-
day, when the heavens smiled upon the flag of
freedom and those who clustered around it,
The Fourth Of July was celebrated with more
enthusiasm than it has been for several years,
and our reports from oil parts of the country
show that the nation was in earnest in its
holiday This unanimity of feeling is proba-
bly, to large extent due to the recent CEN
tennial celebrations, which have made all the
memories of the Revolution dearer to the
American people Bunker sHill, Lexington,
Concord, Fort Tconderoga, Mecklenburg and
Cambridge have been worthily celebrated.
and prepared the way for an unusually spir-
tied observance of the anniversary of Ameri-
can Independence, which can only be excelied
at the Centennial in 1876. We rejoice that
the Fourth of July is 80 well remembered.
and that the Declaration of Independence
which the festival commentaries is united
with an equally emphatic pledge of union
In Augusta, Ga, remarkable illustration of
this fact was given. In New York all bust
ness was suspended by common consent, ex-
cepting such as was necessary to amusement
Many thousands of citizens sought rest in the
parks or on the waters, and in the night the
sky was illumined with fireworks whose
dazzling light eclipsed for the hour the paler
splendor of the steadfast stars. Every kind
of sport had it's admirers there were boat
and yacht contests, races, athletic games, all of
which are chronicled in our columns. OF
course there were the usual number of acct
dents and fires caused by carelessness
shadows coming to mar the pleasure of the
daY we celebrated.
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this instance the past seems to have a very
decided relation to things of the present. II
In no ordinary event to discover tablet or
monument whose inscription corrOborates tho
Old Testament story, and so far, at least, CON
POUNDS the audacity of modern infdelity.
The English, however, have the more start
ling field of discovery. They have concen-
trated their efforts ON the city Of Jerusalem,
and have managed to unearth important in
soriphons and facts The difficulties of this
work are understood by few. There are relics
which point to a variety of periods, and
which must be carefully Disseminated There
are ruins which the people OF Israel found
when they captured the country; ruins
Herodian; ruins Roman and post Herodian;
ruins Christian and ruins Saracenic. Now, in
spite of the time and money spent in this
enterprise, the English explorers are COM
PEELED to confess that they have demonstrated
very little, while they have guessed at great
deal They seem TO have no definite idea al
to the position of the Temple even, and can
not reproduce the ancient city with sufficient
accuracy to give any satisfaction to the Bible
student 1t Is impossible to tell the position
OF the fortress Antonio, or of the Tombs of the
Kings. 1t is not known where the Pool of
Bethesda was, or that of Hezekiah, nor where
the towers of Hippicus Pbasslus and Mari
anne we're Even the site of Mount Zion
itself is matter for hot controversy.
We have o conviction, contrary to the judg-
ment of many, that private enterprise is apt
TO be more successful. than regularly organ
lied expedition. The latter is likely to use
more ordinary methods and 10 lack the zeal
and personal responsibility of the former.
When business of Importance is to be accom-
plshed it can be more satisfactorily done by
one earnest administrative man than by
cumbersome committee. We should hestat to
to utter word of criticism even concerning
the efficiency of the expedition which is exca-
waiting in the region of Jerusalem. Still it
occurs to us to say, in spite of the admonitioR
of that expedition not to engage in or encour-
age any private enterprises, that private
enterprise is just as likely to make important
organization which has the work in hand. It
is pity that nothing can be found which will
fix some important site, like that Of the Tenn
pie, which will be key to other important
discoveries. We have strong hopes that the
day is not far distant when new light will be
thrown on these disputed matters, and when
the Christian Church can have some definite
conception Of the city which to their affection
Ia the centre of all things earthly.
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q THE STEAM CARRIES. How the good news
was carried from New York to Niagara Falls,
how the special train which served the Sun
day HERALD was run upon its unprecedented
trip, is graphically told elsewhere. The four
hundred and seventy miles were made in
wonderfully fast time, and the lightning
HERALD express proved itself worthy of the
title. A similar gratifying success was OBJ
tained in the delivery of the paper at Long
Branch at the early hour of FIVE o'clock in
the morning. These feats of journalism are
appreciated by the public, for whose benefit
they are primarily intended.
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Rev. Dr. J. Brace, of Hartford, is residing az che
Everett House.
the Sultan OF Zanzibar In London ts bored oy
antl-slave trade deputa IONS
Professor William b. Rogers, or Boston, Is So
journing at the Westminster Hotel.
A tall old fiddler taken by the police In tho
streets or Paris claimed to be the ghost or Paga-
mini.
The Augsourger Zettun0 says that Bismarcks
withdrawal from public AFFAIRS Is an indication
eminenty favorable to continued peace"
Fashionable people in France now take their
bathing houses with them from Paris to the sea
side. Tney are made portable and can be packed
In trunk.
Parls-orations, &c---on the fingers. OF course. All
for the Inauguration OF monument to the Abbe
de pEpee.
Mgr. Dupanoup, the Bishop OF Orleans mas re-
ceived congratulations from Rome his clever
conduct through the French Assembly OF the DILL
on the Universities.
Captain W. Glencross, OF the Twentieth regi-
ment and Captain W. Y. Brown, OF the Ninety
seventh regiment British Army, are CHARTERED at
the Grand Central Hotel.
In London q cab driver who would keep in the
way OF q horse car was given by the magistrate
the option OF a month or So Pestered riders IN
morse cars mere Lnl8nL import tnat Judge.
Tne Paris financial Journal Is written up BY
I've editors who send their copy from their places
OF residence. In the number OF June 10 the coDy
OF each editor respectively was sent from Paris
prison. Banking IL not SO free over there.
Queen Isabella, accompanied BY her three
daughters, and attended BY two ladies OF honor
and two gentlemen on service, recently visited
Nine. Ia Marechale dc MaoMahon at Versailles.
The august company dlned at the Hotel des Res
ervoirs
Recently the italian Parliament passed law for
the suppression OF briRandage. Upon hearing OF
this in Sicily the population organized Indignation
lamentations az people here DO against proni-
bltion laws Brigandage In their most agreeable
pastime.
They are conservative In England. Ceorgs
Caruenter Hall died there the other day and LEFT
leqacies TO three servants. His hOusekeeper
had been with him nny years, his housemald
years. To the FIRST he left an income for lite.
series OF interesting experiments have been
made at Toulon on board the iron clad Marengo TO
work the rudder by steam power. BY means OF
this Invention one man can do In ten seconds
what II required eight men to perform in q min-
ute and half under the former system.
1t is proposed In Paris to place In all the TO-
Dacco shops umbrellas to be hired out at a modest
price, q small sum being required as a deposit un-
same system viii be pursued as is at present car
ried out In theatres and other places OF am1se-
ment hY peraons who let opera Glaasess
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-06

A Coop AvERAaE.-The aggregate city
debt on the 1st Of January last was one hun
dred and forty-two million dollars. If we
add to this the floating debt, unpaid judg-
ments and claims in suit it will reach one
hundred and sixty-four millions Then o
deficiency exists in the treasury, owing to I'M
collected taxes and assessments Of about
twelve millions, making our real public in
dcbtedness about one hundred and seventy
six millions. This on the basis Of a million
population is a per capi&u of one hundred and
8, -enty-six dollars. The years appropriations
So the expenses Of the government amount to
}, arly thirty eight million dollars. This is q
pr capita Of thirty-eight dollars. Our united
debt and taxation therefore averages two
hundred and fourteen dollars for every man,
woman and child in the city. VINO says we
PIE not q progressive peopieP
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The Water supply OF the city.

If there be any public want on which no nee
essary expense should be spared it is an abun-
dant supply of water for the extinguishment of
possible fires, and the health, cleanliness and
comfort of our citizens. A great drought is
liable to happen OF any time, and the atmos-
pherio causes which produce drought con-
vert all the woodwork of our buildings into
finder, so that great fires and deficient sup
ply of water would naturally happen at the
same time. Droughts we cannot prevent, but
We can so increase the supply of water that
no drought can either create q famine of that
indispensable necessary or deprive us Of the
means of promptly extinguishing fires.
This subject has been brought officially
to the notice of the Common Council by
a timely communication from Commissioner
Porter and message of Mayor Wickham-
The recommendations presented in these
documents were twofold-frst, to increase
the facilities for the distribution of
water in the city, and second, additional
preparations for increasing the sources of
supply and replenishing the reservoirs. The
message of the Mayor made it clear that the
sources of supply were abundant if proper
means be taken to make them available, and
the communication of the Commissioner of
Public Works insisted on the Importance Of
laying new pipes and supplying new valves
in the city during the approaching season,
when the streets will be comparatively free
from the encumbrance and impediments of
travel and traffic The necessity for action
by the Board of Aldermen grows out of an
act passed by the last Legislature curtailing
the powers of the Department of Public
Works, and requiring the authority of the
Common Council to carry out such improve
ments. The proper ordinance was passed,
and now the Department of Public Works
should lay down the necessary pipes for
better distribution Of water within the city
limits.
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To NKwsDEALERs AND THE PUBLIC -
!, THE NEW YORK HERALD will run a special
Train every Sunday during the season, com
mencing July 4, between New York, Niagara
Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and
Riehfeid Springs, leaving New York at half
past two o'clock A. NJ, arriving at Saratoga
at nine o clock A NJ, and Niagara Falls at
p quarter to two p. NJ, for the purpose of
supplying the SUNDAY HERALD along the line
Of the Hudson River, New York Central and
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads.
in their orders to the HERALD Office as early as
possible.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-06

(, EGYPTIAN CoNoUEsrs. expeditonary
enterprise of the Khedive of Egypt in
Equatorial Africa, under the command
of Colonel Shaille Long Bey, formerly
of the United States Army, has been very
Sucoessful in extending the authority Of
His Highness, as viii be seen by our special
cable despatch. Colonel Long has arrived in
Paris. He has added greatly to the pre-existing
stock Of knowledge concerning the Niam-Niam
country, both geographical and chronological
This information was not obtained without
lighting. Two negro soldiers have been dec
GRATED by the Khedive for their bravery in
support of Colonel Long.
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A SINGULAR CASE was on trial in Brooklyn
last week. The plaintiff brings an action for
the recovery of deed given to secure law
yer's bill The story of the plaintiff IA female)
is that the lawyer gained . suit for her,
and demanded twelve hundred dollars, alleg-
ing, as she says, that Of this three hundred
and fifty dollars we're for the judge, three hun
dred and Fifty for the jury, two hundred and
fifty for the County Clerk and the same
amount for himself The lady must have had
advanced ideas Of Brooklyn justice or she
would not have paid the bill
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THE BROOKLYN CoNsPIRAoY. Tho Beecher
trial naturally attracted to it men of bad re-
pute, such as Conner, whose story we publish.
Tho charge which he makes against the
honorable gentlemen who we're counsel for
Mr.. Tilton will be received with general doubt.
But it might as well be thoroughly examined
and the public enlightened as 10 who the real
conspiratOrs are.
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WITHIN few DAYs-almost at any mo-
ment-a new voice may be heard whispering
between tho Old and the New Worlds The
'direct cable is said to be on the point of
completion. The constructors are now en-
gagged in searching for the Imperfection, hav-
ing successfully grappled for and secured the
cable, and they anticipate speedy success.
The new link between the two worlds win be
welcome. ''The more the merrier," and, let
Us hope, the more In number the more reason
able In rates.
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TIE LONG BRANCH RAcEs.-Thsre were
three good races at the Monmouth Park yes
terday, and the last was especially exciting.
The winners in these events respectively
were Pastor, Big Fellow and Aaron Penning-
ton. AS it was a holiday the course was
thronged and the days sport was heartily
An1oved
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THE TESTIMONY in regard to the death Of
q young lady and her infant at Central Park
station, Long Island, is published to-day. It
is the old, old story of error and shame; but
1t may be hoped that no dark crime has
been committed.
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? THE AMERICAN RIIEMES have had another
pleasant evidence of Irish hospitality in tip
they made yesterday through the county of
wicklow, one of the most beautiful portions
Of the island.
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AN EXAMPLE. policemen who re-
Gently murdered an unoffending citizen of
Philadelphia have been sent to the Peniten-
tiary for nine years. Justice thus admins
tered ought to have good effect.
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From our reports This morning the probabilities
ure that the ,0edther today s0QI be little cooler
md partly cloudy, ,0ith possibly occasional light
rhine
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, Persons gong out OF to,cm for the SUMMER can
haze the daily and Sunday HERALD mailed to
hem, free of postage, for 81 per month
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS On and
after January /, 1876, the daily and weekly
editions of the NEW YosK HERALD viii be
Rent free of postage
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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PRoPRIETOR
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VOLUME n.......-.............-.NO. 1877
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TIvOLI THEATRE
Eighth street between Second aud Third aveuueA-
Performance CONNIE at O'Clock closes At Il
O'Clock.
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THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS.

NEW YORK, TUESDAY. JULY 6. 1875.
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ROBINSON HALL,
West Sixteenth streeL-English Opera-GIR0FLE-
ELR0FLA, at P. NJ
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LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK
HERALD-NO. 46 FLEET STREET.
PARIS OFFICE-RTE SCRIBE.
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WOODS MUSEUM
Broadway corner of rhirtieth street-BlACkWELLS
ISLAND At P. NJ closes at 10 As P. NJ Matinee at
7. M-WOMAN OF THE WORLD
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No. 6s4 BrOaeway.-VARlETY atSP. NJ closes Mt 10 4
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CENTRAL PARK GARDEN
KODORR THOMAS CONCERT, at r. NJ.
, 1875-02-08
THE PRODUCE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

Gr4tia! pispateh 10 Tas Chfeago Tribune
New YonK, Feb. G-FLoua-DutI, In buyers favor !;
saes 900 bsla 1t S4o5G1.25 for fancy $42o for
pcrhno. Southern Aour quiet and heavy salen, 4G0
urls ut fA.7o@s4o for common to fair e1tra $s.46@
800 fur good to choice.
GnAIs-wheat In buycrs' favor; sales, TO- 600 hu At
flo3l Oh for M. spring; $loaa1 08 for No. Chi
eA9o; $1.05@l.O8 for No. q Northwestern; 81, ,09ea
Lily for No. h1ilwaukcet $i.ls@1.1a for No.
spring fI.03@l.l7 for unRrldol lows and Minnesota
spring; $l.1s@1.21 for wiaer red We4tarn $l,24a
1.2s for nubor do +; $l.:sts1.so for wAiss Western
Rye quiet at 03@9ao. Barley dull anu heavy, Barley
malt tala AMI in buyerH favor. Corn quiet; hales.
81 900 bu ut 82t8s2hO Tor new Western mixed s2H0
B3o for do high m.xcd aud yellow Western. Oats
steady sa!ea, ~ GOO bu 1t 66a8sHo for mixed West
ern o7@70o for whits Western.
Pnov1aloHs-pork heavy a Sie.oaN for new 1nesa :;
$ls2ses1e.Oo for extra prime &s2s81s.to for primo
*13o0 for extra do. Bret hatns Quiet ii it,
There's boef atady a 42o oo92e prime mess, AGO
fSF so IN lnata TO- ssd losxy etc., o M
~: lSsd sad .es S'ss ss. H. III; 'hs;' g
s.tc; B,!e fur city; 1'ttasse for Weslesn.
.F4LIow-3o.U,6 III Western soli Il sxosHo.
s. m fra as ieSa % 1ia Ter Gs dl.,
lznElPrs-Whl.ty. l,ta Iris Hour. 800 Itis
peas. eG0 Iu; coEn-mosl, 497 Eaeks aid 20o brls
asl4sa, ~ pkgs; beef Is do pork t64 do cut meats,
l,ls5 Do butter, 2Std do choeas, 7sU do lssd 2l3a
do; I'll csko o7o sacks steaslae, llQ pkgs tslow 59
!tgs; wheat, 9sG ou; corn. y loo do: outs 1900
malt. 2,3ao do; dressed hogs. Liza. :.
WAtsx1-ffn,cr sales, Z, ,8!0 bss 1t ai0ss4ei %
hflR alcohol II t3s per proof gallon.
~ tas AsaoeiatEt ITt.s.l ~
Nsw Yong, Fsb; g. e;1Floua-Duli md a. y huyer';
Atata. ta.s0e1 70 common to good. coed
70 chotce. s&.eo96.26; whlte wheas WsstsFn s1tts,
to.sS41,aol astxB uhaot qAAk3Aof a. 1A1tk AA5