The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1871, Page 6

G NEW YORK HERAL puoapwaY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Volume XXXVI No, 291 "AMUSEMENTS “THs AFTERNOON AND EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corn ILEREN OGE. LINA RDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway. —F Opeea La Peniono.e. baht cae) FIFTR AVENUE TL Tur New Deana oF D UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth ®t. ant Broad way.—NkGBO AOTS—BURLESQUE, BALLET, &, Matinee. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway. olgerg aoe Pan: comtNe oy HUMPTY DUMPTY. Sian corner of 8th av. ana 23d st— ate. "Twenty-fourth strest,— ROY STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 —( we rabt xemaTEn, ad 47 Bowery —Orena WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broaiway an A CURIOUS CaSE—A GAME OF SPECULAT hh street.— ACADEMY OF MUSIC orpka—Lucnezia Bora: WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad Boces afternoon and even: fourteenth street, ENGLISH , corner 30th THE OCTORO —Perform- = THEATRE, 25d st., between Sth ani 6th avs. -- MACBETH. BOWERY Farce. ST. JAMES THEATRE, way.—PRIMA DONNA Fi THEATRE, Bowers.—Hrir—A PAVORITE wenty-eighth street and Proad- a NiGuT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ay, between Prince and Houston streets.—Tuz STREETS OF NEW YORK. Matinee. MRS. FR. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE Tar LANOERS. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway, sas, NEGRO AC16, aC. Matinee at 219. Come Vooat HALL, 585 Broadway.— MA st., between 6th a . No. 201 Bowery.— : 'S, BURLESQUE &0. _smemsray HALL, Fourieenth street. BALLAD Cox- PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth street, between 2a and sa Avenues. —EQUESTRIANISM, eo. AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, pelts avenue ‘®nd Sixty-third street.—Open day and evening Ps este ann A ANATOMICAL NU MUSEUM, 743 Broadway. — OF A NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, Ist. —TKIPLE SHEET. The Fire ‘storm of the Northwest—Are We to Have an American Desert ¢ The fire storm still pursuing ite silent and undisputed march through the noble forests of the Northwest bezgars descrip- tion. In the blaze of its conflagration the lurid glare of Chicago pales upon the eye. The mind sickens with the protracted tale of horror, and it is only the stifled moan of help- less humanity—Niobe-like, ‘‘voiceless in its woe”—that can induce the journalist to con- tinue the recital. Since the close of August, as the telegraph recently informed us, the gorges and valleys and summits of the Rocky Mountains have been on fire, and the labors of the National Sur- vey have been seriously retarded by the dense clouds of smoke. By whatever agency begun, such a fire could not be harmless at a season when all nature is withered and scorched by the summer sun, and especially when kindled right in the current of that band of westerly winds which eternally sweeps the middle and higher latitudes of the globe. Without stopping to repeat the fast follow- ing telegrams annouacing new and ever wider sweeps of the alarming fog, itis enough for us to know that the whole country is threatened with a great calamity. Are we to have in the very centre of our Continent, and in the very midst of the magnificent granary of the North- west, an artificial desert, rivalling in aridity and barrenness the famous deserts of the Old World? It is not improbable that the now parched and dreary regions of Central Asia may once have been covered with vegetation and forests that made it a habitable and happy home for man. It is not improbable that the far-famed Valley of the Nile itself, with its prolific soil, sapported a vegetation almost Amazonian, bat, under the wasting axe of Egyptian civilization, and by losing ‘the rich- ness which the clouds of heaven dropped upon it,” lost its physical wealth and then entered upon its career of political decay. The fright- ful sufferings of the people of Wisconsin, Min- nesota and Michigan, and the sorrows of Chicago, ought first to excite our attention and awaken every chord of sympathy. For them the most prodigal extravagance of charity can, perhaps, do little more than alleviate the temporary miseries of their state. But, beyond the present hour, the American people have something to do and to CONTENTS: OF TO- Pack, 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—The Municipal Imbroglio: The Del ei the Committee of Seventy iov- ernor—The City Complication: Ingersoll Case—The Newark Tragedy: Second Day of riai of George Botts—Brookiyn Whiskey War: Raid by the United States’ OMmicials on the Distilleries—The Ku Kiux Rebellion: President Grant Suspends the Writ of Habeas | Corpas ia the Ka Kiux Counties of South | Carolina—Niagara Falls—The Cotton Crop— Furopean and Havana Markets. 4—New York's Response to Chicago: Ope: and Sympathetic Hearts; Liberal Stn Pouring In; Contents of ‘Tratns. 5—Contents of Erie's Fast Trains (Continuea from Fourth Vage)—The Forest Fire Fund—Cham- ber of Commerce: Meeting of the Executive Commiitee Yesterday—Financial_ and Com- Terciai Reports—Marriages and Deaths—Ad- veriisements. | 6—Eiditoviais: Leading Article, “The Fire Storm es the Northwest—Are We to Have an Ameri- n Desert ”’—Amusement Announcements. qasews irom England, Scotland, Russia, Ger- many, Austria, China, Mexico and the Judies—The War Cloud in Gloucester—Cui- cago News from Washington—Movements of the Presilent—Muscellancous Telegrams— Views of the fast—Business Notices. S—City Government —Advertisements, 9—Advertisemenis. 10—Jderome tari 3: Closing Dav of the Au- vumn Meeting : Gfand Assemblage of beauty aud Fashion; Six Brilliant Contests—Pros- pect Park ‘Agriculturat Falr— Woman Burned to Death—Snipping Inteliigonce—Advertise- ments, 14—Adyertisements. 12-5: Advertisements, — Sr. Loris, ‘meing them in, has provided for twenty thousand of the houseless people of | Chicago. So goes on the noble work. Generat Boutizr will repeat his speech on "Vashington Treaty in the Boston Lyceum ‘the . : . inst. Cape Annis making ital on the 25u. : id ta for bim. ““VENTY assert that the Tus COMMITTEE OF Da Rat every one of , EP eity’s credit is destroyed. ~city bonds Ahese wealthy capitalists would buy “ia, ‘to-morrow to any amount at a fair priv is 4 ad plan to foul one’s own nest. - -” GesEraL Grant's Movements. —Tie Presi- dent and hi travelling party enjoyed them- fay in a railway excarsion away sthe song has it, “away down in Short speeches and good dinners are j Bp 0 Maine. the rale of General Grant's excursions. A Viovory ror Brx Botien. —A deapateh | to the Boston Post from Springfield states that } Ben Butler swept the field against the ring, or | the anti-Butler faction, in the laiter place, on | the occasion of a republican meeting for the | choice of « City Committee. General Ben has another victory to gain—a victory over his belligerent constituents on Cape Ann. That at the A Torna. Fine in RUSSIA: town of Bogooslay, in which eight buadred | Jouses are reported as destroyed, the fire being the work of savage fanatics against the Sews, who for wed a large proportion of the jinhabi ants of the town, This is much more horrible than anything” “ia Yncendiarism ported trom Chicago. re- Juper PieRREPOS' ‘asserls that fraud and plunder riot in the treasury, upon money of which the honest laborer is deprived. Surely, ith Deputy Green in the Finance Department and th the Committee of Seventy at work, there can now Ye no rioting of fraud and plunder in the Treasury, and! no necessity to deprive the honest laborer of his money, ay Tux Mexican Conaress has re-elected Juarez President of the republic. He re- ceived one hundred and eight votes—all that were cast. The oppositionists aid not yote, Mexigo tliy was tranquil. The “country, geil- eFally appears to be “looking up,” notwith- standing the efforts of some ‘‘sorehead” native politicians in the line of political agitation. The existence of such « condition of affairs is "always agreeable to the American people, Tue Viert of a deputation of the Commiti f Seventy to Governor Hoffman, an account of which is published in the Hera. to-day, vill be productive of some good, although the joveruor has not been able to discover any swer vested ia him by the constitution of the “ate to seize apon the goverament of the ity of Now York, turn out the officers elected y the people and place the city ander mar- 1 tal low t | huntsman dared Redivivus—The Nortnwestern Fires— | | learn from their common losses and bereave- ments in these appalling conflagratio 1s. One of the first of these lessons must be .) valug of their inheritance in gut x vast ferei which has heretofore “Deon Fegarde as litde better than prey for the public plunderer, or at best as a bait for the emigrant, The Herat has already pointed out the immense importance of the forests of the Northwest, and of the whole country, as the manile which nature, or, rather nature's God, has spread for 8 protection ov-r the fair bosom of our Mother Earth. The processes which lead to the gradual destruction of these forests must be checked before they have gone too far; for when once the mischief has been done no agency of man, however heroulean, can repair the incal- culable damage. The forest tree, through long ages of English history, was the sacred property of the Crowo, and not even the intrude upon it, lest he suould infringe upon or mar the sport of his royal master. If, under monarchical govern- ment such laws as ruled the forests were proper for preserving the pleasure of the mon- argh, how much more in Ameited sould the rreery interests of the whole p people, in this matter, mile sao pores iad aaak. representing the growth of ages. It was a favorite theory of Mr. Espy that the farmers of thickly-wooded | ‘in! Law. countries might, under favorable atmospheric conditions, produce artiticial rain by kindling immense fires. The theory, no doubt, might be now and then verified in the vicinity of large bodies of water, or where the air is richly charged with aqueous vapor, but in the dry season of the Northwest, when rain is most needed, the experiment must be not far from madness. It is possible that the present disasters bave been partly due to some auch experiment by persons of little judgment or forecast. But, however this may be, here- after there must be an argas eye kept over this parched region in the summer and autumn, The daily reports of Signal Service will here come into play, and by an early re- port of the presence of vast quantities of smoke in the hizher air current (of which the chief signal officer gave us waraing this year in August) the government might obtain warn- ing of the fire-storm and send, if necessary, an army to fight the flames. Ag surely as the sun crosses “‘the line” at the next cquinox so surely, in the ordinary course of nature, may we count upon a recurrence of dryness and drought in the region of our country near the ninety-eighth meridian, A few more such fires, and one of the fairest portions of the land may be brought to a state of desolation beyond the power of human labor and human skill to recnperate it. Time is money, and this whole subject should be carefully studied by the government, and timely arrangements perfected for preventing a repetition of the appalling catastrophe of the year. Otherwise we may have, in our country, a doomed dis- trict, in which the tragedy which befell the ancient Cities of the Plain is to be re-enacted. Or Covrst a Nomper oF Impostor are trying to make a penny or two for themselves under the banner of Chicago charity. All good works have such drawbacks. Among the creat number of letters that we have re- ceived proposing ways and means for the charitable purpose of relieving Chicago we have detected a few of these frauds, though not so many as might have been expected. To all such we would say that true charity seeketh not her own, and to the Doctor es- pecially who writes us of his perfect willing- ness to deliver three public lectures on phre- nology, fifty cents admission, with ‘‘deserip- tions” and ‘“‘examinations” of character, all for the benefit of f Chicago, provided | two or thgeo | responsible gentlemen will only arrange for | the same, we would further suggest that he can serve Chicago just as well by contributing 8 few dollars of hia income, and his orthogra- phy strongly indicates that he could not do more than that by his lectures, His charitable impulse is highly commendable, but he evi- dently lacks the. method of doing good. Tue Commirrez oF Sgventy declare that the city is bankrupt in credit and can get no more money to carry on the government. Now, then, is the time for the redemption may need. Tar Basten Cee issued his proclamation suspending the writ of habeas corpus iv the nine Ku Klux counties of South Carolina, The President holds that the refusal of the Ku Klux in those counties to disband or sur- render their arms on the promulgation of his first proclamation taiacrs be guarded by law and statute? In all the more elevated and interior regions of the United States west of the Mississippi the annual rain fall has never exceeded that which was necessary to sustain animal and vegetable lite. Even in the Valley of the Missouri it has occasionally been necessary to drive the cattle in August for hundreds of miles to water, and thos pasture them far from home during the dry season. The hardy emigrant on the east- ern slopes of the Rocky Mountains has only to repeat the celebrated experiment of the travel- ler Deluc (who remarked that the head of his walking stick always fell off in high mountain ascents, from the shrinking of the wood) to learn that the higher and upper strata of the a eehes have become dry and vaporless, ‘and tea must depend for rain only upon * of air. the surface curren 2. So universal is this phenomenon of dryness in «22 loftiest and even moderately elevated regions 8 of thé air that during the sojourn of Piazzi Smyth, the | Astronomer Royal for Scotland, on the Peak | | of Yeneriffe—a peak that lifts itself in the Ca- naries outof the very billows of the Atlantic— the aridity of the air was painful and distress- ing to the philosopher. During his residence at the Cape of Good Hope—the Cabo Tormen- toso (or Stormy Cape) of Vasco de Gama—Sir John Herschel relates that when walking beneath the tall fir trees on the side of Table Mountain be was sub- jected to a heavy shower of rain, but on going out from beneath the trees the rainfa) imme- diately ceased, Even ‘on ihe svorm-swept ~ 2.in a coast of Scotland, where, as the | ancient forest trees decayed along the margia of the sea, and the peat mosses crept over their prostrate trunks, the humidity has continued to abate year by year_ until, from want of moisture, the very mosses, “Jo whose holes, as we know, the Covenanters of the seventeenth century took refuge from their pursuers, are now gone and nowhere to be traced. Fearful as are the present losses of the Northwest, therefore, the prospective gonse- quences of the destroying flame are yet more threatening and call for the utmost efforts of te Zovermment, tq ayert tt them, if ip, dg still possible, Minnesota “and Central and Wesiera Wisconsia will probably be the greatest suf- ferera, and, if we may calculate the magnitude of the Chicago calamiiz, the immensity of the other disasters far outstrips that or var sister / éity of the Lake’, Magnificent and colossal as have been the efforts and charities of the country to repair the loss in the great Western metropolis, the country must make other and | at least equal efforts for the telief of the | Nort hwest. These events, which will mark au important year in history more signal than that of the great fire of London, call for the establishment of a national police over our great Western Plains and Territories more effective and vigi- lant than has ever yet been exercised. In former times the hostile Indians occasionally fired the prairies, but the results of such iucendiarism were meagre and insignificant compared with the loss of a single sauaré Sati rebellion against the government, suzh he holds that the public 4 re- quires the suspension of the writ of | habeas corpus. It is, however, an ex- treme measure, dikely tg be obnoxious to the conservatism of the country ; ‘pat the great faith in the honesty and integrity of the President will, in the long run, sutisfy the people that be acts only for the best, As a soldier he was mainly famous for strong and decisive blows, _following one quickly upon reorganize, and, having tried with partial suc- cess, mild measures, the law courts and warn- ing proclamations in his prosecution of this war upon the Ku Klux, he follows witha more effective blow than either, being too wise a general to let the scotched snake go unkilled. Ex. -Govkksdn SALouow wants the civil law to be set aside in New York and military law to be substituted. He believes that the courts of the State would sustain the Execu- tive in such a course. But would the people submit to lawlessness on the part of the Gov- ernor any more than ou the part of a private citizen? A SENSIBLE Jury AND SENSIBLE Vervict.— Ii is not often that a jary can be found in any of ow courts that will render a verdict of damages am “iust a railroad company. A com- Snendable “exception showed itself io a suit before Judge Brady, of the Supreme Gourt, Mr. Rockwell, who formerly belonged to a hook and ladder ea in ronsiog to a fire with his company, canght the top | ‘of his foot upon the sharp point of a splintered frag- ment of one of the rails of the Third Avenue Railroad Company's track. The injuries he sustained permanently crippled him. This accident occarred six years ago. This power- fuland rich corporation, with its facilities ia procuring the ‘law's delays,” prevented the suit being brought to trial till the present term, hoping, no doubt, to exhaust both the patience and the money of the pidsecutor, Placn and justice Mitel He in the end. The case was ‘brought to trint go ga Monday and con- cluded yesterday, with a Yerllck of &12,b00 for Mr. Rockwell, and certainly, as the facts very plainly show, a more jast verdict rarely recorded in our courts. is Generar Dix was ai Albany with the depu- tatloit of the Committee of Seventy. did not back up the plea for martial law in New York, General Dix is a soldier and knows what martial law maeans. Wer Saip, Mr. " RopEsc of the Navy has just been laying dow the law to the youngsters of the Aanapolis scho.! on the vulgar, mean and barbarous amuse. ment of “hazing,” and he tells those “lively lads” that “while mere youthful vivacity and mischief may be overlooked, persistent binck- guardism is inconsistent with the character —ite Sooretary of an officer and a gentleman, aad will tolerated,” ‘Persistent blackguardiata’ fines the nuisance exactly, not be de- ir combination a | Ties and being | But he | The Meinian and tho Seventy—An Ineffectunl Appeal for Mar- A delegation from the Commitiee of Seventy waited upon Governor Hoffman, at Albany, yesterday, aud laid before him a statement purporting to represent the condition of our municipal affairs, with a view of inducing the Governor to interpose in some way or other to rescue the city from the hauds of the present office-holders, The address of Judge Pierre- pont, the remarks of other members of the deputation and the reply of Gov- ernor Hoffman are published in the Herawv to-day. ‘It is difficult to gather, from the highly colored speech of Judge Pierrepont, exactly what the committee required the Governor to do. To be sure he was told that ihe executive power is vested in him ; that he is the Commander-in-Chief of the naval and military forces of the State; thathe is to take care that the laws are faith- fully executed ; that ‘‘no flimsy web of cun- ning fraud interwoven in the stealthy charter” can take away his constitutional powers; that “‘the robust sense of our people breaks through these shama, and knows that the Chief Magistrate of the State under its supreme law can suspend public robbers and law- breaking conspirators from official power,” and a great deal more of what might be truth- fully called “glittering generalities.” But whether he was required to march a wilitary force into the city and to send a gunboat down the Hudson River was not distinctly stated. Ex-Governor Salomon, it is true, came more directly to the point and suggested that as the Governor would clearly have the right to declare martial law and to take military pos- session of New York in the event of riot and bloodshed in the streets, he might as well exercise the power at once and seize upon the municipal government at the point of the bayonet. But the Governor quietly asked whether Mr. Salo- mon could find any warrant in the constitu- tion for the usurpation of such arbitrary power; and although the latter expressed the opinion that the courts would sanction the lawless act—an opinion from which all think- ing people will differ—the Governor politely declined to play the part of an executive revolutionist. The delegation was reminded that in order to obtain Executive interference they must be specific in their charges and in their demands, and must require at the hands | of the Governor in reality the enforcement of the laws, and | not t thelr Yiglation, a “The interview will be productive of good. It will ease the minds of the frightened com- mitteemen, if they really apprehend riot and bloodshed in the city, inasmuch as they are told, first, that ample preparation has been made to meet any difficulty of that character and to enforce the laws and maintain public order; and next, that the Governor, after a searching inquiry, has failed to discover any indication of an intention on the part of any person to break the of their pledge to stand by Deputy Comptroller tion : Green and supply him with all the funds he |“ diet and orderly manner. peace, and believes that the elec. next month will pass off ia It will clear of | away a great deal of the mist that has envel- oped our municipal troubles, inasmuch as the | Governor, in a few pointed, common sense re- | with bad reais, marks, reminds the people that, however shame- fully the Treasury may have been plundered ‘n the past, there is now no danger of any waste or misappropriation of the public money—first, because Deputy Comptroller Greep is at the head of the financial depart: ment, and next. because in the eyent of i the removal of Deputy Green, which thé delegates pretended to apprehend, the injunction of the Court steps in to the pro- tectio of the Troasuz>. It will remind the taxpayers, ‘Yoo, that their plait) duty is to aid the city’s credit at this time by prom; PAy- ment of their taxes, and there are few men who will not agree with the Governor in the opiaion that the citizens who withhold pay- ; tnent, under the flimsy plea that frands have another, so that the enemy “had no time to | heretofore been committed by municipal ofti- cers, are influenced, not by considerations for the public good, but by the desire to use their money for their own purposes. The deputation made one singular state- ment. They informed the Governor that money could not much longer be obtained to carry on the government, This will be a double surprise to the people. It is gener- ally believed that the credit of the city is ex- cellent, and that such city bonds as can be legally issued are taken up with avidity on | the market. There certainly has been no hesitation on the part of capitalists to invest in such securities, and any amount that might be offered by Deputy Green to-morrow would find ready purchasers. But oven should there be any difficuliy in ne- gotiating city bonds, the people remember that the wealthy gentlemen | of the committee who make this remarkable attack upon the public credit have pledged | and bound themselves (o supply Deputy Green with all the money he may need to carry on Ui aia pessary WUE BUTCH Mey to await Tegiaiailve Action before obtaining | repayment. Do they now ignore or recall this pledge? Are they willing to leave Mr. Green in the larch and to see his financial administration a miserable failure? Let us hope not. Stump speeches are well enough in their way, and ambitious politicians may be excused for showering laudations upén the Role army of laborers who are about to bz thrown out of work rate he: and who cannot obtain pe money, tatad have already earned, It may even be was able to slander the good name and eredit of the. city by begaing at the Executive chair for martial law and State bayonets in order to carry a political point. But at least let the seventy millionnaires who have pledged their support | to Deputy Green carry out their voluntary | promise and supply him with funds out of their ample means to carry on the machinery of the government until the Legislature shall come to our relief with a good charter and a vew deal for the municipal offices, and the | people shall enjoy the opportunity to rid them- selves of the whole crew of greedy, grasping, brawling political sharks, outside and in, vi Commrrver or Seventy is troubled It imagines the city is tu revolt, and (ears riot and bloodshed, Gov- ernor Hoffmad declares that his sleep ts untroubled, that no one is going to make any riot, and that the election®, will be quiet and orderivy. Doctors differ, pone of | Mrs. Moulton—Tho New Siar in the Mu. sical World. Mrs. Moulton has pissed the ordeal of a professional début before a most critical and fashionable audience, aud the verdict is as highly complimentary as deserved. Her con- certs at Steinway Hall have placed ber in the front rank of the few first rate singers in the world, This is the judgment of the press, the public and artists, Public expectation was rather exacting because of the honors she had received for her vocal ability from the royal courta of Europe, and especially from the Em peror Napoleon and the Empress Eugénie while singing only as an amateur andina social way; but it was not disappointed. Her first appearance in the professional career she las commenced showed that her fame in that charmed circle of the Old World was well merited. There has never been seen more fashionable or critical audiences in this city than that attending her performance. This is due in part, a0 doubt, to Mra. Moul- ton’s social standing, though more to the rare excellence and cultivation of her voice. The enthusiastic plaudits, encores and profusion of bouquets which she received were tributes to her exquisite vocalization. Tais country has produced several fine professional female singers, and among them we may mention Miss Kellogg and Madame Van Zandt, besides a number of charming amateurs who have voices and musical ability enough for a successful professional career if they chose to enter upon that. There appears to be something in our climate and the nature of American women favorable to the development of the fiver qual- ities of the voice. Patti was an Americano girl, though born of foreign parents, and now we have another native star in Mzs. Moulton, who promises to take the highest position in opera as well as in the concert room after some training. In the quality of her voice Mrs. Moulton stands scarcely second to any prima donna in this country or abroad. Then she has the advantage of being very handsome, of a charming expression, fine figure and hay- ing great taste, which always prove attractive to the public. She begins under very favor- ablo auspices, and has, we think, a bright pros- pect in the future, * Tue Commitren or SEvENTY appear to have become enamored of martial law. Do they know what martial law means ? and do they desire the stain of martial law to rest on the metropolis of ah Unit States in a time of pence t ? pate, A Move ix tar Ricar Direcrion.—While Governor Hoffinan refused to place New York city under martial law at the suggestion of Judge Pierrepont and ex-Governor Salo- mon, he expressed his earnest desire to aid by all means in his power in the punishment of any persons who may have defrauded the public treasury. To that end he instructed Attorney General Champlain to engage Charles O’Conor as counsel in the prosecution of any fraudulent contractors or unfaithful public officer against whom ground of action may exist. The Attorney General has addressed a letter to Charles O'Conor, authorizing him to bring any suits he may think expedient in the name of the State. This is 9 movement in the right direction, and it is to be hoped it may lead to good results. It destroys any further usefulness on the part of the Committee of Seventy, whose occupation is now gone. RELIEF FOR THR FoRRsTeRs OF MIdAMiGaN axD Wisconsin.—We are glad to say that the public attention is being drawn to these suffering people, that our fellow citizens of this metropolis are coming to their help throngh the Heratp office; that Detroit and other cities are acting nobly, and that as far west as San Francisco they are giving a por- tion of their liberal relief collections to Michi- gan and Wisconsin. Let those people make kac¥a their wants, we repeat, and help will come to them: for at this day the universal idea ia that of St Paui, “Baith, Hope and Charity, these three ; but the greatest of these is Charity.” JupGe Prerrerost begs Governor Hoff. man to have a military force in rea:tiness strong enough to quell a riot which has been threatened and incited. We hope the inciters, who have been on one side prompting the labor- ers to pull down citizons’ houses, and on the other side urging the workingmen to ‘‘puil down” the citizens themselves, will take notice of the Governor's statement that he is prepared for any such ruffianism and knows how to deal with the raffians, Tus Great Aarrator.—ft was Wendell Phillips, but it is General Butler. His latest sensation is the ignoring of the mackerel rights of bis Gloucester fishormen by the Treaty of Washington. He claims that they have the right to catch mackerel, and like- wise codfish, where they please and when they please, in American watera or British waters, and that the Nova Scotia Binenoses have “‘no rights which white men are bound to respect,” But we are not much alarmed ! by thig warlike ovement gf the General ; for it has becoile Mn old trick ‘with him, when other sensations are used up, to fall back upon his fishermen and their mackerel, The case has an awful smell of spoiled fish and gan- powder, but there will be no war. Caution To Coast TELRGRAPH SIGNAL Overators.—The Inman steamship City of Paris, trom New York, arrived at Queenstown yesterday safe and in good order. She had not been disabled, as was reported on Monday Wizht, and proceeded to Liverpool. The signal tele- erator stationed at Cape Clear made graph vp-.. ihe stateme mt. Signal tele- a mistake; lence ar 6 should be @x- graph operators ou ¢ tremely careful in the disc. and thus avoid the danger of ahccihe ee of ‘thei iv “duty, ~aating mane Jcepek Prareevon’ states that frond and | misrale have so impaired the credit of the city | that money canoot be obtained to keop the | suffering laborers ewployed, Well, let. the Judge and his sixty-nine fellow committeemen | patriotieally lend the city one hundred thon- and pay the poor Inborers, They will thus | vedeem their pledge and the cily will return the money with interest, Fouxn Drowxap.—These reports from our river fronts appear to be increasing. police atiend to their duties at night along our docks, #lips and pliers? Superiatendent Kelso should look into this matter, | sand dollars each (o carry on the public works | Do the | | Our news from Germany this morning ia to the effect that after Emperor William deliv- ered his speec the Reichsrath adjourned without transacting*any business. It is im- possible, however, to refuse to admit that the Emperor in person made a very solid and sensible speech—a speech which rang over Europe and the echoes of which, in spite of the broad Atlantic, are resounding over tho American Continent to-day. The hopeful and confident tone of the Em-4 peror’s speech and tbe manner in which, 30 | far as we can judge, it was received, suggest to us the very different positions and pros- pects of the German and Austrian Empires. Emperor William refers proudly to the past, and particularly to the past year. And well be may. Since 1866 Germany has been grow- ing, and growing grandly. German unity, ao long the dream of poets, is now @ glorious fact; and the aged “but vigorous Emperor knows that in the future history of Fatherland his name will be proudly mentioned in connec- tion with Ciarlemazne and the First Otho and the Red-Bearded Frederic. The House of Hohenzollern is now grander than the House of Hapsburg, and it will be impossible for the future historian to refuse to admit the First William did as much for his country as did the greatest of the Caesars of the past. Empe- ror William succeeds, and Germany is strong because the policy pursued is the policy of unity. Austria grows weak, and Francis Joseph fails because Austrian pursues or endeavors to pursue a policy of disanion, The policy of the Prussian Court is to make Germany one and to destroy all small nationalities, The policy of Austria is to maintain the empire, but to make the nationalities independent. Both policies are a necessity, but the one suc- ceeds and the other fails. In a9 few yeara Germany will be, if it is not now, the mightiest Power in Europe. In a few yeara Austria will be unknown, and provision will have to be made in the valley of the Danube for the heir of Rudolph of Hapsburg. The lesson is allimportant. It is the old esson—union is strength, No people or p?oples once united dare go back. We know the value of union because we fought and bled for it and saved it. Great Britain is now pressed as Austria has been pressed sinca 1866. Had we yielded to the South we should have been ruined, Austria has yielded, and Austria to all appearance has failed, Let all the peoples, take. warning, A backward policy is death. We look forward to a grander union, a larger nationality, a universal repub- lic. Whatever tends to check the movement or hinder this result must fail. In the policy of Germany we see strength and wisdom. In the policy of Austria we see werknesg and folly. Tur Lirtte Speck or War that has re- vealed itself in Gloucester, no bigger than a man’s hand, has increased to the dimensions of an ordinary war cloud. The schooner under debate, the Horton, has not yet ar- rived at that port, and the people are unduly excited over the picture of the chase which their imaginations drew. The President ap- pears to be fully advised of all the points in the case, and he has directed three additional revenue cutters and gunboats to the scene of expected danger. It is stated, though ap- parently on no authority better than the rumors that are eagerly accepted as very credible storiey by the agi- tated Gloucester brain, that the revenue cutter Mahoning, whiob put to sea yesterdag from that port with sealed orders, had instruc- tions to seize the Horton wherever found, whether in possession of a Brilish gunboat or not, and bring her into Gloucester, Her forcible recapture from a British Bunboat would embroil us at once in war, especially if it had been porsonally ordered by the Presi- dent himself, and we doubt the accuracy of the report. But there js no question that affuirs in Gloucester and the bay are at boil- ing int, and that too mach hot blood among naval officers may rend like waste paper that famous instrument called ‘che Treaty of Washington,” Tne ComMMITTRE OF SEVENTY cal call upon Gov- ernor Hoffman, in the sacred name of justice, law, peace and endangered liberty, to usurp power, violate law, take mililary possession of New York city and rule with the bayonet. But the Governor cannot find any authority in the constitution for such a usurpation, Goop News From THe West—The news of the late rains in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, And now comes the additional good news of a severe snow stormin Wyom'ng Territory, on the line of the Pavific Railroad, | the snow falling to the depth of three feet in many places and delaying the passenger trains twelve hours. All this is good and welcome news; for it means the extinction of these destructive prairie and. forest fires on the plains and in the mountains, which, since July last, have been raging in numerous localities and over extensive districts, from the Pacific, coast to the great lakes. Thanks to a merci- ful Providence for these blessed rains and snows. Ay Awrun Haci or Waiskey Stints AND Wuiskex—That made by the revenue officers Silas B. Dutcher and General Jordan yester- day in the famous contraband whiskey-making district of the City of Caurches. Eighteen stills in areottal operation, and 14,000, gallons “of “ihe rale old. sinff that will make your hair curl,” were the trophies of this sur- prise party. This pays the government for the raid, but it is a sort of thing which caa pat be profitable to the nh omy stas. Te Coxist TEE oF Suventy Bay ‘tat citi« | nous of New York refuse fo pay their taxes, | on the plea that the treasury has been de- frauded in the past. Governor Hoffman suys ~velu men only make this excuse because that b. ‘a speculate with the money they they want ‘sto the city treasury. The ought to- pay iw « Hoffman to be right. people believe Govern. — _ oa served the Mr. Opo Russpit, who th. Ailigence Kinglish government with attentive . ‘ae during a namber of years—altbough somen, under a chameleon-like commission—in Rome, | in Vrance and in Prussia, has been gazetted aa Minister of Queen Victoria at the Court of the aperor of Germany, An honorable port- , and earned by very hard work—a fact t whieh renders it still more honorable to the reoiplony, 0!