The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. tit ment will not be able for a much longer time The Great Strikes in Europe and | with which England supplies the world, thus | The Boston Bubble om the Point of NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. . All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hraavp. Volume XXXVII. eerreeeereerrer errr ie No. 177 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Enocn ARDEN. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Putma Donna oF a NiGHT—AN ALARMING Sacnirice. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—On THx Jur. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—ScuneipeR : on, Tar Ovp House on tHe Rune. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Gio, THE ARMORER OF Re—MY SaRan Tinas. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— PED FROM SING SING. . . THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Cnicago Berorx amex Fine, Doing THe Fine AND AFTER THE FIRE, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Nxoxo Focentaicitixs, Burtxsave, &c. Matinee at 24. eh ee SAM SHARPLEY’S MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Sam SUARPLEY’s MINSTRELS. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Groraia MinstRELS. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garpen InstrumentaL Concent. TERRACE GARDEN, S8th st., between 3d and Lexing- fon avs.—Sumaer Evexinc Concerts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science AND ART. New York, Tucsday, June 25, 1872. CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'S HERALD. PAGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisoments. 3—Yachting: The Wallack Cup Regatta; The Open- nb— h ing Regatta of the New Jersey Yacht Ci Tammany Hall—Political—News from ¥ ington—Another Steamboat Explosion—Fa Medical Blunder—New York City New Brooklyn Common Councili—The ' Brooklyn Board of Estimate—Young Men’s Christian Association Convention, 4—The Labor Revolt: A Compromise Proposed; The Men Calm and Collected—Political In- telligence—Drowned in Hoboke 5—Rxcing in England: The Royal Ascot Meeting— pe eae Park Fair Grounds—Two Great Trot- ing Eve: mouth Park Races—The London Ope Season—Militaria—Municipal Atfairs—Payment of Croton Aq borers—The Methodist Preachers—New York Educational Society—Almost a Tugboat Dis- aster. 6—Editorials: Leading A) le, “The Great Strikes in Europe and Aime’ ‘The Common Cause of Capital and Labor’—Amusement An- nouncements. ‘T—Editorial (Continued. from Sixth Page)—The Great English Strike—The Alabama Clatms— of ¥ Telegrams—Personal Intelli- ge! Business Notices. 8—Dolly jen Canoe: An Expedition to the Source of the Mississippi; #n Route for Lake Itasca—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—The Stokes Trial— The Paterson’ Courts—The Liberty Street Explosion—Daring Escape—Marriages and Deaths. ‘9—-Financial and Commercial: A Firmer Tone in the Money Market; Advance in Foreign Ex- ohange; Gold Feverish and Unsettled; De- clining to 113 and Advancing to 11333; Pre- ment of the July Interest on the Public Debt to Begin on Wednesday—The New State Loan Awarded at 100 a 1074, Gold; A Raily of ‘Two Per Cent in the South Carollua Bonds; Stocks Higher but Unsettled; Erie, Northwest- ern and Pacific Mail Strong and Canton Weak—Advertisements. 10—The Boston Jubilee: An Unprofitable, Intolera ble Day of Oratorio; The Handel Societies Benefit—Our Colleges—The Weather—Obitu ary—Temperance Lecture at Cooper Instf- tute—The Church of the Messiah—The Police the Street Incumbrances—Fires in New- ‘European Markets—Shipping Iutelli- gence—Advertisements. f1—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. 3 Ovr Sprctat Despatch From GENEVA an- nounces the arrival of General Sherman in the city, after journeying from Zurich. Tue New York Conrenence has become a source of amusement to the journals of all parties all over the country. It will probably be travestied in several prominent places. Tue Brack Sea Canie.—The Czar of Rus- sia and the Sultan of Turkey have come to the conclusion of establishing telegraphic com- munication between Odessa and Constanti- nople by means of a cable underneath the waters of the Black Sea. The St. Peters- burg journals of the 2d inst. published the terms of the convention between their Impe- perial Highnesses. By these terms the start- ing point of the cable will be on the European shore of the Black Sea, at the mouth of the Bosphorus. The cable will be finished within & year. Tae San Antonio (Texas) Herald is much rejoiced because General James Shields, of Cerro Gordo memory, takes the field for Greeley. Shields was pierced through the lungs by Mexican bullets, but he still seems to have heart and pluck for a Presidential cam- paign. Generat Rosert Toomns has accomplished one good thing by his recent tirade. He has aroused the respectable Southern prints to the necessity of a disavowal of his incendiary sen- timents. Tae Recent Invnpations ry Iraty.---The accounts in the Italian papers of the terribly destructive work occasioned by the recent rains in Southern Italy are most deplorable. The losses will aggregate the sum of twenty millions of francs. For miles the country was flooded, and over forty thousand people saved their lives with difficulty from the rising waters of the rivers. At several points, according to the mail accounts, the Po overflowed its banks and caused the disasters referred to. At Mezzano the river first rose above its banks, and subsequently at other points. With | commendable alacrity the authorities per- formed their duty toward the sufferers, many of whom were found in the most deplorable situation. King Victor Emmanuel has subscribed 20,000 francs, the Minister of the Interior 5,000, and a large number of the rich landed proprietors in the country contig- uous to the scenes of the occurrences have contributed generously to aki the unfortunate sufferers who were driven from their homes and despoiled of all they possessed by the angry waters of the swollen river. Tur Kentucky Democratic Parers univer- sally endorse the action of their State Con- vention, which was all for the Cincinnati platform. The ancient hostility between Cin- cinnati and Louisville—chief cities of the rival States of Ohio and Kentucky—seems to have been subdued by this tender of the olive branch from the Ohio side. Tue Srrmcrmip Republican says the Evening Dose does not support the Fifth avenue ticket. It has not the ghost of a chance if it did. 1th st. and Broadway.—- America—The Common Cause of Capi- tal and Labor. The Henatp special cable despatch from London, published to-day, gives a graphic ac- count of the great strike now going on in that city among the carpenters, masons, bricklayers and others connected with the building trade, and a résumé of the agitations by which it has been preceded within the past twenty years. It will be read with especial interest by all who are directly or indirectly concerned in the present movement among the laboring classes of New York; by employers and employed who are at this moment gazing upon the smokeless chimneys and deserted workshops of the metropolis with anxiety and apprehension and asking themselves how long this deadlock, so injurious to both, is tocontinue. There is a natural sympathy among workmen all over the world, and a great and important labor movement, such as has been agitating New York for eight weeks, cannot fail to be watched anxiously on the other side of the Atlantic in these days of rapid communication and almost instantaneous interchange of thought. In like manner our own sons of toil, who have laid aside their tools and deserted the bench and the forge with the resolution to force from capital what they believe to be their rights, will look with anxiety for information respecting the action and the fortune of their fellow laborers in Europe. It is with this knowledge, and in the hope of protecting both employers and employed on our own side against false in- formation, that we have determined to pro- cure special cable reports of the actual condi- tion of the strike in England and elsewhere in Europe, and to lay the information before the working classes of New York, so that they may be as familiar with its progress as though the strikers in London wore the residents of one of our city wards. We have discovered that a great many exaggerated and untruthful stories are circulated by designing men in regard to the labor movements in Europe, with a view to incite our own workmen to extravagant de- mands and even to acts of violence, and hence we believe that a faithful record of the true condition of affairs in foreign cities, so long as the existing agitation continues, will serve to lessen the excitement inseparable from such occasions, and to bring to both capital and labor a better appreciation of the responsibili- ties they are incurring. 4 The labor strikes in London commenced in 1853, and have been continued at intervals up to the present time. The masters were gener- ally successful in their resistance of the de- mands of the workmen until in 1859, when George Potter, the great agitator, appeared on the scene as a leader and commenced the formation of trades unions. Last year there was a general rising of the engineers all over England, and, although the masters made a stubborn fight, the men prevailed in the end and obtained the concession of nine hours as a day's work. It was found that the places of engineers could not so readily be supplied, and their absence from work, of course, stopped all the power in the several establishmen ts and tied the hands of other workmen who were not nominally in the movement. The success of the engineers encouraged other trades to follow their example, and the carpenters and joiners took the lead and withdrew from work in two of the largest London firms. The masters threatened a general lock-out, unless the men returned to their posts, but before putting this extreme measure into operation they proposed an arbitration to consider the claims of the employés, naming on their own part the Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Salisbury. The men refused to submit their cause to arbitration, probably fearing that the prejudices of the arbitra- tors would be too strongly against the la- borer to rendera fair decision likely. When this overture was rejected a general lock-out took place, and last week twenty thousand workmen were thrown out of employment. The masters, it appears, not only closed their gates to the actual strikers, but ejected also the masons, bricklayers and others employed in the building business, whose services were valueless without the carpenters and joiners. One of the locking-out firms was the well- known one of Cubitt & Co., and the Hrrarp correspondent obtained an interview with one of the partners, Mr. Plunkett, an old and ex- perienced master builder, who has witnessed three great strikes. The firm employs three thousand carpenters, masons and bricklayers, | and as Cubitt’s principal business is to lease ground and to erect skeletons of houses thereon, which are rented at an advanced ground rent, these men are constantly at work. Mr. Plunkett's experience has taught him that while the general effect of strikes is to raise wages, which have advanced fifteen per cent in the last twenty years—a very immaterial advance when the increased cost of living is considered—they also result in throwing a large number of men out ot em- ployment and thus in causing great want and suffering among families. At present the men demand that fifty-one hours shall be a week's work, or eight hours and a halfa day, and they ask in addition an increase of a shilling a day, or twenty-four cents of American money, in their wages. At present the hours are fifty-six and a half per week, or nearly nine hours and a half a day. The London masters profess to regard the demand of the men as not warranted by the present condition of trade in that city, and although they do not approve of lock-outs, exceptasa last resort, they remain firm at present in their resistance to the movement. The laborers also tell their story to our cor- respondent, and show that their pay as | masons is now eightpence, English currency, an hour, or sixteen cents of our money, \ making for a day's work at nine hours | one dollar and forty-four cents. They | say that the cost of living in London has largely increased, and complain that when sent to jobs at great distances their walk to and from the work is not allowed them in their time. The men express themselves san- guine of success, declare that they are finan- cially strong and that they do not lack assist- ance from other trades, who will, in their turn, strike for nine hours a day and ninepence an hour. §o they nail the flag of “No surrender” to the mast and spend their time in the “‘pub- lies,” no doubt drinking in communist sentiments with their beer. The London Times, in commenting on the strikes, predicts that these extended trades disputes will have the effect of making coal and iron dear and of incredibly increasing the price of the products entailing loss upon the country and sacrificing the advantages she is entitled to derive from her resources and products, This is the position of affairs at the present moment in the city of London, and we be- lieve that the situation may be studied with ad- vantage by our own workmen and capitalists. The American mechanic or laborer, should not overlook the fact that he is far better off in every respect than the workingman of Europe ; that he is better paid, better fed, better clothed and better appreciated; that he isa free man and the equal of the millionnaire if sober, honest, industrious and upright in his dealings, instead of being a mere overworked, underpaid, despised drudge. The American workman has a character and a standing in the world, with intelligence to back him, and he should refuse to be put upon the same level with the irresponsible Communist or the uneducated European laborer. We have re- gretted to find that the enterprising and usu- ally outspoken journals of the metropolis have almost entirely ignored the subject of these labor strikes in their editorial columns, and have hesitated to give that advice both to em- ployers and workmen which is so much needed at an excited moment like the present. We have felt it to be our duty to offer such counsel as we have deemed the crisis demanded, both to capital and labor, and we now tell the American working classes that they must re- spect themselves if they desire to suc- ceed in the work they have before them, or te accomplish any result by which they can better their condition. As we have said, they are the superiors of the great body of English laborers, and hence they should spurn from their societies the Mackays and Blissarts, who would degrade them from earnest, steadfast citizens into a horde of half savage revolutionists. Let them study the con- dition of the London laborers as shown in our report, and they will probably be disposed to better appreciate the advantages they them- selves possess. Especially they will refrain from allowing themselves to be led into ex- cesses by foreign advisers, and will not misin- terpret the favorable words of those who believe some of their demands to be reasonable into an approval of any rash or lawless acts. In like manner we call the attention of men of capital and employers to the story of the London lock-out, the experience of the old master builder, and the sensible com- ments of the London Times. If they read the lesson aright they will not let their feel- ings overpower their judgment and good sense, and by a coercive policy give oppor- tunity to mischievous agitators to venti: late their agrarian doctrines and incite an irritable mass of strong men to acts of indiscretion and probably of violence. The lock-out in London, they are told, will so en- hance the price of coal and iron and of all the products which form the bulk of the English trade, that the men of capital will in the end be the parties to feel the injury to the greatest extent. Itis a certain fact that these great labor strikes, which throw hundreds of thou- sands out of employment and paralyze indus- trial pursuits, however much they may be temporarily supported by contributions from societies, must in the end make the country poor, and compel the wealthy, in some shape or another, to bear the increased burden. Starving families must be speeriee and those who have means must be taxed to support them. If riots occur damages must be paid, and the loss falls at last on the rich man and on the steady workman who returns to labor and struggles on for a living. Capi- talists and honest men with families, who are always ready and willing to work, are those who suffer from these disturbances, while the reckless spirits who do the most to initiate them escape the penalties they impose upon the community. There is one gratifying piece of intelli- gence in regard to the New York strikes. It is reported that the Com- missioners of Emigration and the Citi- zens’ Association have come forward in an attempt to scttle the differences between the employers and the workmen by a convention and friendly arbitration. The men, it is said, have agreed to the proposition, and the employers certainly should not hold out or offer any obstruction to sucha mode of settlement. The present condition of affairs cannot be expected to con- tinue without breeding incalculable mischief. We do not anticipate violence. Weeare con- fident that our laboring men have too much good sense and self-respect to attempt the accomplishment of their objects by other than lawful and peaceable means. But every day taken from the active industry of the city impoverishes some person, and idleness breeds vice in the bad portion of the working classes. A lock-out, says the Eng- lish master, is a dangerous experiment; and so is every act that tends to separate the interests of the employer and the laborer and to shake their confidence in one another. Let the men be peaceful and moderate—the capitalists reasonable and even liberal, and the efforts now being made to effect a settlement of their differences cannot fail to be successful. Before another week passes over the city we hope that the cheerful sound of labor will again be heard ringing out from the workshops; that the chim- neys will once more give forth their volumes of smoke, showing that the incense of industry is burning brightly within, and that employer and workman will meet each other with cheerful looks, feeling that the concessions made on each side have only strengthened the ties be- tween them and enured to the interest of both. We look to the conservative spirit of capital and of intelligent, honest labor, to accomplish this result, Way Do Nor tue Press of the country cease for a time their twaddle about the Baltimore Convention and give their views about the more immediate question of the labor strikes ? Ir Is Assentep that a majority of the news- papers of the country are in favor of the Cin- cinnati movement. But how is it about the circulation of those papers? Handbills do not express the sentiments of a community of intelligent people. Tne Sprivcrtetp Tepublican (Sam Bowles- Greeley) announces that Cincinnati was a little excited on hearing of the nomination of Groesbeck, its worthy citizen, for President. Bursting. The first week's existence of the unwieldy monster of discord called into being for the sole purpose of feeding the inordinate vanity and laughable conceit of the Bostonians is likely to be its last. Already the wearied and suffering denizens of that unhappy village re- fuse to be dragged to the five-acre lot on Back Bay, where it would seem that a second Pan- dora’s box has been opened or that Boston was atoning for all its wickedness in a purgatorial state. The twenty thousand people that oc- cupied the chorus seats—one-half of them as innocent of singing qualities as if they were inmates of a deaf and dumb asylum—are looking with long- ing hearts towards their farm homes; the very cannon has lost its sturdy roar, as the gunpowder is dealt out less liberally than before; the fiddlers and hornblowers are shak- ing their heads despondently at the slim chance of ever getting their hard-earned money, and the deserted benches and gloomy aisles of the Coliseum re-echo mournfully to the footsteps of the bewildered visitor who may chance to stumble into it. The fate of the builders of the Tower of Babel has over- taken these ruthless invaders of the realm of music, and the childish vanity of Boston has received a blow that, if anything could penetrate its adamantine armor of conceit, would crush it forever. Happy in their exaggerated ideas about their whimsical lit- tle village the modern Athenians refuse to ‘see that the entire civilized world is laughing at their ridiculous attempts to gain notoriety by five acres of dis- cord and hideous noises. It‘is the last and most lamentable example of the fable of the frog and the ox. The Boston frog is now ready to burst, and naught will remain but ridicule and contempt. Yet there will be one more legacy left of the “Hub,” a very undesir- able one too. This Yankee speculation called the Jubilee will undoubtedly leave behind it such a pile of unpaid bills that a tax will be imposed upon the village, and a burdensome debt bequeathed to the descendants of the thousand and one committeemen. Already the expenses are enormously in advance of the receipts, and the latter are decreasing every day. Amid all the charlatanism and noise of this hubbub there are a few features that we should like to keep in _ the country and give them a _ chance to be heard under less distressing circum- stances. There are the French, English and Prussian bands, Strauss, Mme. Leutner and Mme. Arabella Goddard. In defence of all these artists we might say that they were in- duced to take part in the Boston affair under false pretences, and that they sincerely regret ever having anything to do with it. It would be worth tho money and enterprise of any manager to bring such artists before an intel- ligent metropolitan public, and to enable them to place themselves in a proper light before the world of art. As for the rest of the Jubi- lee, organ, piano, cannon, anvils and big drum, itis tobe hoped that they will never arise from the merited oblivion into which the voice of an outraged community will speedily sink them, The Geneva Conference—The Prospect of Settlement Again Disturbed. We have scarcely had time to congratulate our own citizens and the people of England on the friendly ‘termination of the irritating controversy between the two governments in regard to the subjects submitted to the con- sideration of the Geneva Court of Arbitration before we receive information calculated to impair our faith in the finality of the supposed settlement. The Heraxp special cable despatch from Geneva published to-day states that in consequence of important despatches received since Saturday night by the American agent the Court has been suddenly summoned to meet to-day instead of Wednesday, and that all the arbitrators had reached Geneva at eight o'clock last evening. In connection with this change of programme we have the announcement that despatches have reached the national capital within the past two or three days in- dicating that a serious question still remains before the Geneva tribunal, and that an ob- struction lies in the way of its decision on the admissibility of the American claims for indi- rect damages, which threatens to revive, or rather to keep alive, the original point of dis- pute in all its force and intensity. Phil Sheridan on the Indians Indian Policy. The news we published recently relative to the hostile and threatening movements of the Indians along the Texas border is confirmed by the communication of General Sheridan to the Secretary of War, which appeared in our columns yesterday. He agrees with General Augur as to the character and disposition of the Kiowas, the hostile Indians referred to, but he differs with him and others as to dispos- ing of these troublesome customers, Sheri- dan is eminently practical, and if left to man- age the Indians as he thinks proper we should hear little more of their depredations. He does not favor the proposed scheme of General Augur, to merely remove these Kiowas, be- cause, as he says, they would escape from any of the Northern posts. In short, he declares there is no way of stopping the outrages of the Indians but by inflicting punishment. “The tribe needs punishment,” he says, “of the severest kind, and we are pre- pared to administer it whenever it is deemed best by the authorities. Had it not been for Colonel Hazen, who represented that these Indians were friendly, when I fol- lowed their trail without missing it for a mo- ment from the ‘battle of Washita’ till I over- took them, the Texas frontier would be ina better condition than now, and we should be free from embarrassment.'’ Why does not the government give Sheridan full authority to manage these hostile Kiowas, for he would not stop, as he says, until he caused them to re- spect human life and the rights of property? The Quaker peace policy as applied to such Indians as these is based upon a false senti- ment of humanity. Is there to be no feeling of humanity for the murdered, outraged or plundered whites on the frontier? Are we to have no sympathy for the victims of these savages? Is all our sympathy to be for the savages only? It is time that our Indian phi- lanthropists and the government should seo that the most humane policy is to rule these and The chance of his being Minister to England under Greeley, however. allaved the agitation. wild and warlike tribes through their fears. General Sheridan says well. that ‘the govern- to avoid the demands of progress and settle- ment, and that measures must be adopted to render every portion of our extensive frontier safe for a citizen to travel over or occupy.” How the Herald Gets Its News—Ex- citemenmt in High Quarters. The State Department at Washington has long been a convert to the opinion that the ways of the Hznaxp are inscrutable in the matter of getting news. Within the past few days, however, it has knelt at the Heratp shrine in a manner which amuses us as we note the comicality of the puzzled expression that plays round the mouths of these worship- pers in spite of themselves. On this sub- ject the Henatp has a record which can afford to smile at the wonder of the devotees of the State Department. It contents us to publish the news, and whether it falls into our hands like a ripe peach from the tree or we are obliged to climb perilously up for it, as people in the tropics do after the delicate bonne bouche of the cab- bage palm tree, or whether we are forced to dig deep for it like water in the desert, we care only to chronicle the success. A failure on our part to achieve anything, no matter how great the effort made, we would regard with as little sympathy as the world generally wastes on its heroes of unsuccess, It was our fortune once to supply the English government itself with the news of the fall of Magdala and the death of King Theodorus, of Abyssinia. The, news of Dr. Livingstone, which came to us so long ago, is now being confirmed through the slow medium of mail communication to the savans to the Royal Geographical S6cicty, who were in nowise willing at first to credit the informa- tion furnished them gratuitously by the Henatp. The arrival of Alexis, for which New York was athirst last November, awak- ened scepticism when it was found that the Henatp was the only paper that had the news, which was lying at our very doors. If wo refer to the publication of the Fisk-Mansfield letters in the same breath with the thirty-five thousand words despatch which composed the secret treaty correspondence it is because no other paper published on the same day mat- ters which were in the highest demand as important matters of news. They were things which increased intelligence among the people demanded of increased facility in the press. When the State Department undertook to keep secret the grave steps it was taking in a matter of such vital interest to the nation it was mak- ing war upon that popular intelligence and the increased press facilities to satisfy it; the Henatp’s pages have shown with what result. The dark-lantern device has been knocked to pieces in the nervous hands that held it, and the medisval secrecy proved to be no secret at all when the Heratp and the sun of the nine- teenth century were abroad. It was all very well when potentates cooked up treaties and got the crowd to hurrah when they were signed. The people nowadays want to know not only for whom, but for what they are asked to cheer, and if the Old World style of partisan newspaper cannot or dare not and the diplomats will not tell them, the live, pro- gressive journal must do it. The State Department lately become, as we have said, wonderfully exercised over the man- ner in which the Heraip got its news about the various steps in the treaty, which were reported in its columns as soon as they were made by the old diplomats, who thought they were managing the busi- ness with consummate secrecy. Accordingly, a most confidential personage, with the vast department machinery at his back, was set to pluck out the heart of the mystery; but, like the courtiers in ‘Hamlet,’ they discovered they could not play upon the pipe which dis- coursed such eloquent music to the public daily through the columns of the Hzraxp. “They tap the State office wire,” said one; but neither spigot nor bung could be discovered whereat a Heranp man could drink in the vintage of diplomacy as it was fermented in the brains of our treaty makers and bunglers on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘They sub- sidize entire telegraph companies,” sug- gested another, and the confidence clerk breathed the foul suspicion into the ears of tne head telegraph officials. We cannot print the exact measure of the indignation which this aspersion roused in the tickings of the tele- graphic breast. The biggest electric battery that ever scientific lightning imitator discharged for the edification of virtuosos would not be the faintest electric spark beside the thunder- storm of strong language used by the telegraph people at the insulting insinuation. The con- fidential man left immediately, lest some of the sturdy assertions of blastedness and donkey- ism might become realized on his person and @ coroner’s inquest become necessary. No! Like Cwsar’s wife, the telegraph company pro- nounced itself and its employés above suspi- cion. At last the innocent little cherubim who wear pretty white wings in business time and play ‘tag’ in their leisure hours—the tele- graph message boys, in fact—became the latest suspects of the confidential Fouché of the de- partment, Lynx eyes were set to watch the gentle children as they flew on rapid pinion towards the leviathan of the State Department and as they gambolled home- ward along the gutters and every two or three days indulged in the luxury of a piece of stale pie, secured at an immense reduction on its value in the fresh state. The severe flouting which the department man received at the telegraph office was turned into overwhelming ridicule when it was discovered that the great American government, while tilting in sharp encounter of wit with England and Spain, was using all its spare force in tracking the little errand boys of the telegraph office. Utterly bamboozled, foiled and fuddled in the vain attempt to get at the secret of Hrratp success in news procuring, the State Department officials topk to iced drinks and cold shower baths and left the questio verala where they found it. We are sorry we cannot help them. The Heratp pays a pretty large telegraph Dill yearly, but it must be small compared with the immense sums those cunning old chaps have spent on cabling their squabbling from America to England and back again. When the Alabama claims are settled, if they ever are, it will require a good round appropriation to pay for the amounts squandered in playing battledore and shuttlecock through the cable, probably as large a sum as the damages we are ever likely to collect from the precious treaty. It dawns on us that much of the high-strang humanity and gushing brotherly love which | that the sleck entente-cordiale people have such sordid roots to their feelings? $0 long as the negotiations go on the Hzraxy publishes the spice of the theme; but the brotherly-lovers are never heard from until they are likely to stop. Another suspicion rises. Have the State Department people any shares in the cable? Then, indeed, would it become plain’ why they should not oppose an eight months’ adjournment of the arbitration. They eould cable themselves into wealth almost in the interval if they stuck well to their work and always held something in reserve to cable and squabble about. These matters have dropped into this article incidentally ; but when the history of Hznaxp enterprise in the treaty matter is enjoyed by posterity the question of what made the old State Department fellows cable so much in secret (?) will share the interest with the query as to how the Hznaup got its news. it The Fish Culture in American Wa- ters—A Good Appropriation by Con- gress. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill passed at the recent session of Congress contains an item of fifteen thousand dollars to be applied to the erection of shad and salmon hatching establishments in American waters, and to be expended under the direction of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries. This ap- propriation was secured throngh the efforts of Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York, one of the New York Commissioners of Fisheries, a gentleman who, both asa true sportsman and asound political economist, has studied the subject of fish culture and understands: its great importance in every point of view. Few people reflect upon the evil that may be in- flicted upon a populous country through the indiscriminate destruction of the fisheries, or upon the benefits that may be derived from:a wise protective policy in the regulation of the taking of fish and from a careful application of the artificial means by which their cultivation can be promoted. In his exhaus- tive speech.on the subject in the House of Representatives Congressman Roosevelt called attention to the value of the fisheries as a means of national wealth and as a source of support to millions of our people, and showed. conclusively that with a little exercise of industry and a small outlay of money the government has it in its power to add. materi- ally to the economy as well as to the luxury of. living. The practice of over-fishing and of unseasonable fishing is one incident to the growth of the population, and should be restricted as far as possible by wise laws; but this alone is not enough. Indeed, it is buta small portion of the work the government: is. called upon to perform. By whatever strin- gent regulations the indiscriminate destruction: of fish and their taking at improper seasons, when they should be left undisturbed to breed and to grow, may be: prohibited, there will still be wanting the encourage- ment of their increase by artificial means and the introduction into the several waters where they are unknown of the most desirable species for food. Of these latter salmon and shad are prominent, and their culture and spread are the immediate objects of the appro- priation. The artificial culture of fish has been prac- tised for centuries with success. It is notan experiment, but a certainty, and there is no reason why it should not be regarded as impar- tant as the cultivation of the land for the pro- ducts it yields. Mr. Roosevelt, in putting for- ward this idea, remarks that while an acre of land will produce corn enough to support a human ‘being an acre of water will. sup- port many persons, and can be made, with proper aid, to sustain the lives of a still greater number. The expense of securing the food in the latter case is far less than. in the former, and hence the products can be sold at a cheaper rate to the poor. ‘We raise animals for man’s use,” says Mr. Roosevelt, ‘‘cross their breeds, study their food, and try and adapt their surroundings to their greatest development. We cultivate plants and vegetables, and strive to obtain new species and improved varieties. We import cattle from Europe, horses from Africa, sheep from Spain, wheat from Egypt, sorghum from Asia. Our daily struggle is to make the most of what- ever can be turned to the support of the human race, except with one great class, which hae always contributed, and, unless exterminated, always will contribute largely to that end.” This reasoning is unanswerable, and it is only surprising that the culture of fish has not long since been taken hold of by the government as a national work. The appropriation now secured is small, but it may prove the opening wedge to a great undertaking which will be of more practical and immediate value to the poor than all the agricultural bureaus that could ever be established. Spain—The Montpensicr Manifesto, In his manifesto, just issued, the Duke de Montpensier asserts the right to the throne of Queen Isabella’s son, Alphonso, the Prince of the Asturias. The Duke's language is: plain and emphatic. ‘When the proper moment arrives he will fearlessly defend and proudly serve the interests of the Prince of the Astu- rias."’ This language sounds strange, coming, as it does, from a man who encouraged the revolution which sent Isabella and. her family into exile, and who afterwards consented to allow himself to be nominated a candidate for the vacant throne. Our regard for Montpen- sier would have been none the less if his past record had been less open to suspicion. Hig conduct throughout the protracted. struggle in Spain bas been the reverse of noble. Ambi- tion and selfishness have never been wanting to the members of the House of Orleans. Ambi- tion and selfishness have, unless-we greatly mistake, proved the ruin of the Duke of Mont- pensier. If anything could induce us to sup- port the cause of Amadeus we should certainly find some inducement to take that course in the manifesto of Montpensier. It may be that the cause of Amadeus is hopeless—that the Spanish people have made up their minds that no foreigner shall fule over them, It may be that the hearts of the Spanish people are set upon Alphonso, and that the restoration of the Bourbons in his person is merely a Guestion.of time. But the cause of the Savoy-