Show edl EDI editorials TO RIAL S DECAY or OP immigration OUR oun anew york contemporaries of late have made a number of references feren feten ces io to the decrease of tom europe to the united j stales states which decrease still continue r ti nue shenew the new york herald of D 1 I I 1 il cc castle mccastle garden gardon has basof 1 bf late assumed a moat mot mob deserted appearance since the emigration has so vastly decreased the old tumble down buil bull building dingi dingy which was usually filled with poor emigrants living and sleeping there for days after their arrival has completely lost its wonted aspect of bustle and activity workmen are adv now laying a new floor the board having appropriated 2000 forthe for tile purpose the structure is sadly in needom need of other repairs r ep airs but the embarrassed finan clai cial condition of the emigration commission Comm llon Wion is am AH effectual bar to all other alterations if the legislature refuses tomake to make an adequate appropriation sou SOV is the amount asked forthe for the beard noard will have to consign the thee emigrants under its care to the county authorities the appropriation ia aked asked a ked for the purpose of helping he ping rhe fhe commissioners mim loners ners out of their financial d affied atles their indebtedness alone aiono amounting to over oven the arrivals yesterday were not numerous the california of the anchor glasgow brought 97 steerage average passengers most of whom were trish loish and scotch and the wyoming of the williams gulon guion line about 60 english and irish the total emigration for this year exe exclusive elusive of persons who had previously been in this country will probably not exceed while the number for last year was it is not expected that the emigration will materially revive in the next few years owing to the reports of hard times in this country which have been s spread IV ead broadcast all over europe the number of persons now under the care of the commission Is there were in the hospital on wards island yesterday men women and 63 68 children in the asylum 84 men 87 women and I 1 child in the male refuge men and 18 boys 75 in the female refuge 43 men and 32 women and in the nursery 30 women and 80 children the support of this army of dependents costs 2 20 a week per heau head the herald sordid refers to the estimates of mr kapp formerly a member of the commission but now in the tho german parliament who came to the conclusion that the immediate average gain to the country was per emigrant on which estimate the kerald herald concludes that the decrease of immigration to the united states during 1873 and 1874 has caused a loss to this country amounting to or marly nineteen millions of dollars in round numbers exclusive of the annual loss of labor of taxes an I 1 the tho value of that labor I 1 in bulla bulia building ingup up the country anade add and developing ve loping its resources the decrease is principally in the immigration from germany and next in that from ireland for a wonder speaking of the german immigration calls to mind the following upon the subject from the new york tribune of dec dee 16 eor eon for iceon several days past many persons mostly Ger germans marls maris have besieged the offices of the commissioners of emigration at castle garden and besought them to provide steerage passage to europe of course it was impossible for uhe the commissioners to provide means for them to return to Germany but in some few instances cherb only a small deficiency existed 3 the balance was supplied by the commissioners sio ners in nearly every case they came provided with letters from germany in which they th were assured ass ared that labor is plenty p ley nty and all ali d profitable at home and that 4 the demand for mechanics is greater than for many years 0 previous information received by the commissioners themselves from all parts of prussia shows that the situation has not been abed skilled killed labor is scarce and arid the prices paid exceed anything that lips iras been paid for years past bookbinders machinists typeset type set and mechanics in tho the dih diu erent trades are receiving from 10 to 30 florans florins A week where only one third that hat sun used to be paid L his rate rato rae considering the prices of rent provisions and living generally is equivalent to as many dollars here accomplished bookkeepers with large manufacturing companies are receiving from to flor ins a year business Is brisk throughout the empire and pros prosperity perit y and plenty prevail throughout the land this la Is accounted for by the thy commissioners and others from the fact that while germany is is now homogeneous and a unit she became enriched by the late war levying tribute upon france which was made to bear all the expense of the campaign she was more than indemnifier indemnified money became plenty and the industries which had slumbered when the war was raging were set in operation at its close these are rather unpleasant indications for this country they are indications of decadence if not of permanent yet certainly of present decadence they proclaim the faut oaut that this continent is losing Us lt attractions attraction s for european emigrants at least that their own countries in comparison possess far greater attractions than they were wont to do how is this it ls is is 19 an complimentary utu uta fact and it mut must be attributed if in part to the good government and present general prosperity of those old countries at least also in part to the bad government of this country and the circumstances in which the countr country y is now placed HON CI N porep tho the omaha merald herald of dec dee doth says clarkson il N potter of new york we are glad to know is a member of the special committee on the affairs of the so south uth to wham that part of the president dent message referred it is understood that this committee will visit now new ew orleans and other places in the south it is fortunate that a gentleman of the nigh character ability and rugged honesty of clarkson N potter is a member of this committee few men wen in our country have broader views of the existing condition of things in the southern section and their bearing upon the welfare of the whole ron aon union nion 11 how is ri ii An Englishman in chicago seems to aso be sorely i re i ly puzzled to divine the reason why the expense of living is 13 so much greater la in this country than iii in england and he writes the difficulty in this strain what first strikes however the stranger visiting the stock yard is the unaccountable difference between the cost of living in america and the prices of the first necessaries of lif an average head of cattle can be bought here while it would cost coat as much as 90 or in the old country khoa A hog can earl be bought for for 9 or 10 or at I 1 retail for about 8 or 9 cents a pound one third of the english price the same astrue is true with bread an and vegetables yet living here costs three or four times as much as in england there must be evidently something utterly wrong in the very basis of the social ar add d eco comical organization of this country i reputation BE sot NOT EVIDENCE says a washington paper othe the ithe united states district court in a case on trial at pittsburg involving the claim of an indian waman woman to the mowry estate has ruled that public reputation is not evidence of marriage AN EXCEPTION I 1 all ali alifornia fornia is represented as the one happy exception to the general hard limes and not quite quito so good a C christmas as usual the san francisco chronicle says the present season Is ia oae ono 9 effii f mo most unprecedented prosperity as regards our favored city there are arc pretty sure indications that the coming coining christmas holidays holiday will swill be the merriest we have ever experienced perien ced never during any previous winter have there been so little real destitution and su suffering frering work is abundant and wages are good trade in all its branches is brisker than usual scarcely will the christmas chimes arnes have closed upon the air when the bells will be heard ringing ina lna in a new year of livelier commerce and rap idly increasing population when san francisco looks at the business sta sla stagnation nation and suffering in E astern eastern elt eit cities fes fis she can well afford to be generously complacent VS A western paper says bays american journals have a great deal to say about the outrageous expense of the british governmental machinery the cost of supporting the royal family etc but it appears that there are some matters n which that monarchical government is a great deal more economical than we are the new york tribune has been making some laborious researches with a view to obtaining materials for a comparison between that extravagant monarchy and our own frugal ic in regard to the cost cosi of public buildings the result of these rese researches arcles is that CoR Oo gress agress appropriates under this head where the british government ex tends lends and moreover britain has a great deal more to show for her comparatively small expenditure than wo we have for our 12 per annum KATIE KING klug HOW tue THE WONDERFUL mater MATER NATER were webe OBTAINED THE CABINET MADE convenient the tire disappearing BE APPEARING AND levitation EXPLAINED AN ANIMATED tire THE MODUS OPERANDI OF tle tir TIE manifestations SET sew sortir that katle katie icing ring as presented lor for or the last year of the Holme hoime ses stances in this city was a being of flesh and blood has been ascertained beyond a doubt but who she was how she was secreted in the houses afterwards introduced into the cabinet and so HO assisted as to leave it without being detected have us as yet been more or less a mystery katie king or rather the young woman who person abed her is a widow with a child and a mother depending on her for support mr and mrs nelson holmes became acquainted with her at a boarding house housel where they lived for some weeks subsequent to their advent in philadelphia about the time the Holme holmesen ses took possession po session of no 50 north ninth street katie king for reasons hereinafter to be stated we will wilt not publish publish her name became unable to pay her board and was finally redu reduced ce d to such an extremity that she was absolutely penniless and almost without clothing finding that this was the case her host sold what few effects she sha aad lad left and turned the woman into tho the street 1 jn n this condition she was promised assistance by mr and mrs holmes wol Hol nas cas provided pr ovideA she would eu ennet enact act the part of a materialized spi spirit ri rin in their cabinet se ances although the proposition was revolting she was forced forrd tp fo accept it or se see e her child aud and nd mother summie suffer r from hunget the cabinet which had been placed in one cornor corner of the second story room with one side against door which opened into a bed so as a to admit of ingress from the bedroom the boards were nil nii fastened edwith with screws screw sand and battens were placed outside and inside about two feet from the floor it was an easy matter to te take out one of the boards and put at in its place a duplicate so elvde divided d at the battens that the point of juncture could not be seen the upper part of this board was firmly secured but the lower portion was loosely fastened with two screws while the other screw heads were dummies when it was thought a strict examination of the cabinet would be made the divided board would be talen taken out I 1 and the original put back in its place when the katie king aking Fi cances first farst began the gent gentleman leman ieman who afterwards became so prominently connected with them dr child of anh mis city was permitted to examine every nook and corner in the house As he was for a time very skeptical on the question of materialization the investigations were very thoroughly conducted the visitors would then be congregated in the front room with the cabinet and the door would be locked ratie katle katie king would soon after enter the house from the street make her way to the bedroom assume her white dress and with a small screw screwdriver driver take oss off the lower portion of the divided board these preparations could not be heard beard on account of the singing and music box noise which was continually kept up to enter the cabinet was an easy task for katie and with a stool she could reach the rather high aperture the disappearing and reappearing part of the phenomena was accod by gradually veering lowering lo a black cloth over herself and at tho the same time crouching back in the corner the semidarkness semi darkness of the room combined with the complete blackness of the inside of the cabinet made this seeming impossible feat very simple the levitation levi talim manifestation or the suspension of her body in tho the air was done by means of the stool covered with a black cloth As it was impossible to distinguish any color but white within the cabinet the stool was of course invisible and by stepping ste P upon it very deliberately and gradually raising herself the young lady was enabled to present the appearance pe arance of being lifted and suspended above the floor at the close of the there was always a delay of about ten minutes between the time of the last appearance pe arance of the alleged spirit and the knocks which signified that mau no more were coming during this time katie would hilp blip through the hole in the cabinet screw on the loosened board and make her escape had the cabinet been taken i ap apart art at such a time the trick would WO uld have been discovered it was taken to pieces after a similar but by some means the Raime Homie ses aes suspected that this would be done and were prepared for it A party of ten gathered in the room on this occasion and mrs holmes complained that she was feeling so unwell that her bedlum mediumistic power was very weak consequently it would be necessary to hold a dark first this wa wan consented to the lights were extinguished not only in the room but in the ball hall and the dark began As the divided board had been taken from the cabinet it was impossible for katie to enter in the usual manner and she consequently came in through the door this she could do under cover of the darkness and as all hands were clasped she safely crossed the room during the ringing of bells and the twanging of guitars and other accompaniments compani ments of dark se anees once within the cabinet she had only to arrange her white dress put on a little extra powder and she was ready to begin A lamp was then dimly lighted and the usual manifestations were gone through with had the closed in the ordinary manner ratie katle would have been found in the cabinet but john ring king through mr Hol rol holmes mobs mets stated that if they would turn out i the lights again for fora forn a few moments it might give him strength to do some extra materializing the lights were accordingly extinguished guis gui shed bed thus knablin enabling katie long ring to come out of the ta cabinet and leave the room by the hall door after katie had made her escape john ring king again asked for light lights and for several moments all waited patiently for the man danl fe stations promised none came however as mr ring king explained that conditions were not right and so the light was turned on and the closed the ten persons who had bad witnessed the manifestations then took the cabinet to pieces and as the original board had before been returned to its place they of course found no trap nor trick trie of any kind had the investigators on that evening insisted on having but one dark they would never have signed the certificate which was there drawn up for as the cabinet was on that evening virtually without a trap |