The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1873, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Velume XXXVIM. ecccseees AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUS! third st. av.—Unone Sam. “asaatcryt manne ee BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty- re Pe equa eke cee: a nty-third street, corner Sixth —— BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Ree’s Last Suor, £0, 2) THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Bustesque anv O10. . NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728.and 730 Broad- ‘way.—Oup Heaps anp Youne Hants. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Law in New Wont “Aioencon ahd evening. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Gnano Vantery Enrer- TAUTMENT. . NIBLO'S GARDEN, Rroadway, between Prince and _ Houston sts.—Tux Bcours or Hx Prams. ~ OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston Gnd Bieocker streeta—Hourrr Duwrrr. UNION SQUARE THEATR' Broadway and Fourth av.—C Union ware, between aN J ACK OAWBER, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth DAVID GARRICK, ACADEMY OF MOSIC, Fourteenth street.—Das Guas Wasexn, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Bxa or Ter, BRYANT’S OPERA HOU: Cth avy.—Nacro MinseReisy, ‘Twenty-third st, corner ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPE: HOUSE, No. 201 wery.— Vanity BTEursinwawe. “Matinee aide. | Bowery BARNUM'S GREAT 8HOW.—Now open, Afte! id Night. Rink, 34 avenue and 63d suoek ON cat LENT’S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Fx ay. and 20h se Alwernoon aud Evening bps NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ENCE AND ART, QUADRUPLE SHERT. New York, Tuesday, April 8, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE ARREST OF THE HERALD’S CUBAN COR- : RESPONDENT! A DANGEROUS GAME FOR SPAIN!"—LEADING EDITORIAL THEME— , ‘Eigara Pace. REPREHENSIBLE CONDUCT OF THE SPANIARDS IN THE O’KELLY CASE! THE HERALD’S COMMISSIONER THE SUBJECT OF A STAR CHAMBER INQUIRY! HE IS DEBARRED FROM ALL COMMUNICATION WITH CIVILI- ZATION! CONSULAR DESPATCHES SUP- PRESSED BY THE TREACHEROUS DONS! THE CAPTAIN GENERAL'S PROMISE! VIEWS OF. PROMINENT MEN AS TO MR, O'KELLY'S SAFETY—Firra Pace. A MAP SHOWING THE PORTIONS OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA TRAVERSED BY THE HERALD SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS—Firru Pace. SPANISH VICTORIES! HOW THEY HAVE NOT “SQUELCHED” THOSE DARING REBELS! THE PROPOSED CAMPAIGN! WARLIKE STRATEGY! AGRAMONTE'S REVENGE— SIXTH PaGR. CAPTURE OF GENER«L PORTILLIA—A CUBAN PATRIOT TELLS OF INSURREC- TIONARY PROGRESS—GERKUIT SMITH ON CUBA LIBRE—SIxTH PAGE, ON SHORE AND IN THE OCEAN! THE ATLANTIC | MAUSOLEUM, AS VIEWED BY THE DIVERS | A HERALD CORKESPONDENT ! SOUL- THE CAPTAIN WILLIAMS (!) THE WHITE STAR COMPANY— ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH PaGEs. ERENCES AND THE WAR- EL! CAPTAIN JACK’S PROM- WILL NOT RELINQUISH THE 2D STRONGHOLD! THE SOLDIERS ON THE MOVE—NINTH Pace. RETURNS FROM THE ELECTION IN CONNECTI- CUT—NintH PaGE. OUR DARK ‘D HOUSES AND HIGHWAYS! EFFORTS TO LIGHTEN THE CITY'S GLOOM! WHAT THE COMPANIES ARE “GOING TO DO ABOUT IT!” THE STRIKING “OOME- OUTERS” PRESERVE A FIRM ATTITUDE— ENTH PAGk. GREAT PERIL OF THIRTY PASSENGERS ON A HUDSON RIVER PROPELLER! AN IMMENSE FIELD OF ICE CLOSES IN UPON AND CUTS A HOLE IN THE ‘SEL! ESCAPE CUT | OFF! A COOL COOK—SIxtTH PAGE, MISRULE {N LOUISIANA BEARING FRUIT! MURDERS, ASSASSINATIONS AND KIOTS— Ninra Pas. EUROPEAN NEWS BY CABLE TELEGRAMS—THE CHARTER, THE CUSTOM HOUS fOPLE AND THE STATE. LEGISLATURE—Nixta PAGE. ERIE EMPRISE! WORTHLESS VOLUNTEER TES- TIMONY OF DISMISSED EMPLOYES! NO FALSIFICATION OF THE RECORDS, SAYS MR. O'DOUGHERTY! SENATOR MADDEN'S “LUCK —SEVENTH PAGE. . COUNSEL FOR MCDONNELL, THE ALLEGED ENGLISH FORGER, ENDEAVOR TO HAVE | HIM RELEASED! THE BLEAKLEY IN- SANITY PLEA! GENERAL LEGAL BUSI: | NESS—THIRTEENTH PAGE. MONEY CLIQUE AGAIN BRACING UP THE | MARKET! GOLD FALLS OFF A POINT! A | GOLDEN OUTLOOK FOR GOVERNMENT SECURITIES! STOCKS FLUCTUATING— TENTH PAGB. ROBESON IN THE WAR DFPARTMENT! THE ATLANTEAN LABORS OF THE “HEAVY MAN” OF THE NAVY! HOURS WITH THE THE MODERN OUTTLE—UNITED STATES SU- P E COURT—SixTH Pace. ENGLISH’S INCARCERATION! THE MUTUAL LIBEL SUIT—THE NEW BOARD OF EDU- CATION—NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE— THIRTEENTH Pace. fAVING LIFE AT SEA! A STARTLING SUGGES- TION—ART GLEANINGS—RBOOKS AND BRO- CHURES—CENTRE STREET HOSPITAL— MUNICIPAL ITEMS—YOUNG AND MORMON FINANCES—DESPERATE SUICIDE—SEvVENTE Pace. ‘ORTUGAL AND THE Spaniso Rervsrrc.— mor has it that Sponish revolutionary its have gone into Portugal, of course for ic. olutionary purposes, and that they are well supplied with money. This piece of news is xsefal only so far as it shows that if the Re- public in Spain were an assured success the Portuguese throne would not be worth an hour's purchase. Portugal has, no doubt, cause to be alarmed, as, indeed, all the mon- archies have; but meanwhile there is not much cause to dread Spanish revolutionary propagandists. A Catt on Mayor Havemeyven was made by a committee of the labor organizations yes- terday to get his opinion on the Eight Hour question. The Mayor promised to look into the subject, and give an opinion at an carly day, for doubtless he fecls that the sub- ject is one reauiring a good deal of con- Sileraticus ‘The Arrest of tme Herald's Cuban Com- missioner-A Dangerous Game for Spain. The special despatches from the Hznarp correspondent at Havana, published to-day, supply us with some further information in regard to the arrest and detention of Mr. O'Kelly, our commissioner to Cuba, but leave the fate of that gentleman stil! in uncertainty, and afford additional evidence of the injustice, audacity and cowardice of his persecutors. From these despatches we learn that on March 31, immediately after the arrest, Mr. Louten, the British Consul at Manzanillo, telegraphed the fact to the British Consul at Santiago do Cuba, Mr. Ramsden, requesting him to, con- vey the intelligence to! the Consul General at Havana, Mr. Dunlop, and telling him that Mr. O'Kelly asked the assistance of both the American and British Consuls at Santiago de Cuba. This telegram was suppressed by the ‘Spanish authorities—a —_pro- cceding which would have. © been cruel and’ unjustifiable, even if the HenaLp commissioner had been guilty of any act that warranted his'incarceration, but which, under the circumstances attending Mr. O’Kelly’s , case, was doubly reprehensible. There is little room to doubt that Mr. O’Kelly’s de- spatches to the Hzxanp were in like manner suppressed; for it is improbable that he would have omitted to forward to us the intelligence of his arrest, and our correspondent at Ha. vana received the first information of the occur- retice from Consul General Dunlop, who was himself ignorant of it until the arrival of Con- sul Ramsden’s communication. It would seem from this dastardly treatment of their prisoner that the Spanish authorities at Man- zanillo desired to deprive him of the benefit of such assistance as it was his right to de- mand, perhaps with the idea of butchering him before any steps could be taken to extort justicé from their fears. At all events, the anxiety te evade responsibility in so flagrant a case is evident on all sides, and Captain General Ceballos, who in his conver- sations with our correspondent at Havana, as in his earlier interviews with Mr. O'Kelly, fluctuates between timidity and bravado, only carries out the legitimate Spanish policy when he instructs the so-called Court which pretends to try Mr. O'Kelly that it must take its own course, and not consult him any further about the matter. At the same time we learn that our commissioner has very properly refused to answer any questions put to him or to plead at all before a tribunal whose right to deprive him of his liberty he denies. So far as may be consistent with his duty to the journal he represents, he would no doubt will- ingly satisfy the Spanish authorities in any possible way of the neutrality of his position and of his innocence of the violation of Span- ish law or of the rights of hospitality. But he will neither betray his trust nor sacrifice his self-respect, and the man who could not be deterred from his lawful mission by savage threats is not likely to be coerced into any act inconsistent with his duty and his manhood. The mission of our Cuban commissioner was no secret to the Spanish authorities. Ho did not visit the island in any assumed char- acter or endeavor to carry out his object by indirect means. His first act upon his arrival at Havana, in accordance with the instructions he had received, was to seek an interview with the highest authority in the government, the Captain General, to frankly state to that officer his business, and to request his aid and protec- tion in a legitimate, useful and hamane under- taking. He was assured that the rebellion was of very little account; that he could travel with safety all over the island, and wile he was refused a safe conduct he was verbally granted permission to go wherever he might desire at his own risk. “But why extend your travels,” said the Spaniard, ‘‘when here in Havana you may learn all about the rebel- lion from those who have been engaged in it, who have become satisfied of its hopelessness and have received the clemency of the government?” It was not from such sources, however, that the HeERatp commissioner was to gather his in- formation. His duty was to view the condi- tion of the insurgents with his own eyes and to hear their story from their own lips. He 60 informed the Captain General, adding the assurance that he should speak of all things os he found them, without fear or favor, and that his feelings as between the combatants were those of indifference, He proceeded to Santiago de Cuba, and there he discovered the unreliability of the assurances he had received at Havana. The whole island could not be travelled over in safety, for the insurgent lines embraced a large amount of territory ; he was not at liberty to go wher- ever he might desire, for every obstruction was thrown in the way of his entry into the insurgent country, and he was threatened with instant death as a spy if, after visiting the enemy's camp, he should be again found within the with our Washington correspondent, affords the clow to the general sympathy felt in Mr. O' Kelly's trials when he says that if that gen- tleman returns in safety to tell all he has seen it will be “a prodigious thing for the cause of humanity as well as for the Henat.”” Mr. Cushing is correct in gaying that the informa- tion our commissioner will bring ‘will be of @reat value, such as heretofore we have had very little of, and that little so much colored by Spanish sympathy on one hand and insur- gent sympathy on the other hand as to be of little practical value.’ The feeling that the American people have been prevented from learhing the truth about Cuba, the suspicion that our government has been misled by accounts coming through Spanish sources, and the fear that we have carried the policy of non-intervention to a point of cruel injus- tice to a brave and suffering people, have won popular approval for Mr,.O'Kelly’s mis- sion, and have enlisted almost the entire press in his cause. His success willbe a proud triumph of American journalism, and any out- Tage committed upon him would be as warmly resented by our contemporaries as by our- selves, There are some successes which be- long to no one journal, although achieved by a single newspaper. There are some wrongs which, although directly affecting a single establishment, excite the just indigna- tion of the whole .press. Mr. O’Kelly’s assassination by Spanish butchers would be of such a character. He has gone forth on the legitimate business of an enterprising journal- ist; he has borne himself with modesty, cour- age and tact; he has been open, frank and fearless with the Spanish authorities; he comes back into the Spanish lines scorning disguise or evasion, with nothing in his pos- session but the information he went out to seek. That information belongs to the Herarp. It is as much our property as are the presses on which our paper is printed, and the Spaniards have no right to demand it of our commissioner. If their own stories about the hopeless and hapless con- dition of the rebels are not grossly false they cannot fear its publication. They will not force it from Mr. O’Kelly. They dare not murder him in order to suppress it, for the act would be the strongest evidence of their own falsehood, weakness and cowardice. They cannot successfully concoct any con- spiracy to prove him guilty of an offence against the Spanish laws, for the whole world would know that they had only added perjury to assassination. The dastardly at- tack of the Diario, noticed in our special de- spatches to-day, is characteristic of that journal, and its mendacity is only equalled by its stupidity. Mr. O’Kelly is a regular attaché of the Hzrarp, and is not half so likely to be an insurgent spy as is the Diario itself, which would probably be as fierce for free Cuba, in the event of Cuban success, as it is for Span- ish rule while the Spaniards hold control of Havana. But the Diario bears the best testi- mony to Mr. O’Kelly’s innocence when it admits that ‘‘to leave the island is easy enough, but to'reach the rebels offers many difficulties.” Why, then, did Mr. O'Kelly return to the Spanish lines, if he was a Cuban emissary, intent only upon bear- ing verbal messages from the insurgents to their allies in New York? We have every confidence that Mr. O'Kelly will not suffer other injury than the tempo- rary loss of his liberty, not because we believe in Spanish justice and honor, but because we understand Spanish bluster and Spanish discretion, The patience of the American people has been sorely tried already on the Cuban question, and their temper towards Spain will not be im- proved by the story which reaches us to-day of the insolent treatment of the American Consul at Santiago de Cuba by the Spanish authorities on the occasion of the unau- thorized détention of three American sailors es Cuban spies. It will be well for those now in power in Cuba to remember that the people rule in the United States, and that no government would dare to resist the popular outburst that would demand retribution for the murder of the Heratp commissioner in the shape of tardy justice to Cuba. As we have said, his assassination could have but one object—the suppres- sion of the facts he has learned in the Cuban lines of the real condition of the insurgent cause. It would be the strongest evidence that the revolution is a success, and that the braye Cubans are entitled to recognition, Besides, Captain General Ceballos and his officers, now about to bd superseded, are the relics of the dead Spanish monarchy. Spain is now a Republic, and she cannot afford to stain her earliest days with a cowardly crime against a free press. The present authorities in Cuba dare not act hastily in this matter. The new authorities will not venture, as the representatives of a republican government, to initiate their rule by an act that would startle and outrage the | Spanish lines. Once more avowing the legiti- mate object of his: visit he pushed forward, in spite of the dangers that surrounded him, and entered the insurgent territory. He is now on his return. He does not attempt to steal out of the country, as he could have done, and as hundreds have done before him, but, with the courage of an honest and self- reliant man who is strong in the conviction of his own innocence and honor, he boldly re- enters the Spanish lines and claims the privi- lege of a free passage through the country. By what right do the Spanish authorities dare to deprive him of his liberty? Under what law or under what pretence of law do they venture to threaten his murder? Have they the folly to believe that the outrages their blood-stained volun- teers practice on defenceless Cubans, male and female, can be perpetrated on the citi- zen of a powerful nation, on the representa- tive of an independent public journal, whose mission is one which the whole civilized world will applaud? There is no element of the traitor or the spy in Mr. O'Kelly or in any of his actions since he has been on Spanish territory, and, lost as the Span- iards in Cuba may be to any sense of hu- manity, of justice and of self-respect— indifferent as they may feel to the laws and opinions of the rest of the world— they dare not for their own sakes incense two powerful people by the dastardly assassina- ‘tion of an innoceat and honorable man. From every part of the country we already receive evidence that the arrest of our commis- sioner is likely to stir public feeling to its devibs, Mz, Celeb Cushing, in‘an interview whole civilized world. We have no fears for our commissioner's life, but we demand that he shall be set at liberty. If the Spaniards ate wise they will not complicate ® dangerous question by refusing Mr. O’Kelly’s immediate release. Tae Execrions ix Connecticut Yesrerpay are reported as having been the most quiet on record in the Nutmeg State. A sudden change of sentiment is apparent in regard to the re- publican party, which is made all the more prominent by the efforts of the prohibitionists to defeat the republican candidate for Gov- ernor and throw the work of naming the Executive on the Legislature. The Crédit Mobilier investigation is already bearing its fruit. From the returns of about one hun- dred and sixty towns it seems that Ingersoll, the democratic candidate for Governor, has been elected by the people on @ majority over his republican rival, Haven, of between three thousand and four thousand. Smith, the temperance candidate, although in the aggregate his vote was considerable, must have greatly disappointed his par- ty, as it was expected he would be able to divide both the republican and democratic tickets, and thus place the friends of total ab- stinence in a position to demand the passage of their prohibition measures. Starkweather, republican Congressman from the Third dis- trict, is re-elected. General Hawley ran well ahead of the republican State ticket inthe First district, and is re-elected to Con- gross by 1,300 majority. Kellogg, republican, is elected from the Second district, Barnum, democrat, goes to Coparess from the Fourth district by a majority of 1,249—a gain of forty- seven over the democratic vote of last year. The gains of the opposition, so far as reported this morning, are upwards of 8,000, including about 1,900 of the temperance vote. Some Herald Quintuple Notes for the Curious. With the promptitude which characterizes the American mind when bent on inquiry a number of letters on the subject of Sunday's quintuple issue of the Hzraup have reached us. Queries reaching from the roof down to the inmost recesses of the cashier's depart- ment have poured in upon us, and in defer- enco to the wide wish we prosent a few replies, The Sunday edition was one hundred and fifty thousand copies.. The number consisted of twenty pages, that is one hundred and twenty columns, of which seventy-eight were advertisements and forty-two reading matter. A detail which will be perfectly new to non- professionals is, that to produce one hundred and fifty thousand full copies it was necessary to take nine hundred’ thousand impressions. To accomplish this, in the short time allowed, five rotary Hoe presses of eight and ten cylinders each and two Bullock per- fecting presses were kept rolling off one thou- sand impressions per minute, Tq drive those huge presses two engines of eighty-horse power are kept in motion by burning six tons of coal in the furnaces. ‘[o form the stereotype plates for the cylinders eight tons of type metal were melted down to cast one hundred and forty-eight plates, weighing when finished and dreased thirty-eight pounds each. The ink-on a single copy would not be taken into consideration by the average observer, but it required seven hundred and twenty-five pounds to keep the rollers prepared to leave the imprint of their kisses on the eighteen million virgin pages that were to glow at day- light with the news. And those rollers were composed of five hundred pounds of glue mingled with one thousand pounds of honey. Then the virgin pages—the paper on which all this is printed. There are eighty men and boys about the presses han- dling it. Sheet by sheet it is passed in by the feeders until seventeen tons, or thirty-four thousand pounds, are printed on both sides, If you were to pile those sheets up one upon the other they would make a monument one hundred and twenty-five feet high. If you are a curious calculator you may compute how far the four hundred and fifty thou- sand sheets would reach placed end to end. The two eight-page sheets are each thirty-two inches by forty-six, and the four-page sheet thirty-two inches by twenty-three. Laid end to end, they would form a strip over two hun- dred and seventy-two miles long by thirty-two inches broad. They would reach from the Henatp office to Albany and back again. They would reach to Boston, with thirty-six miles left for a trip through the Bay State. They would reach to Washington, with enough left after a circle round the White House, the Capitol and the Treasury Department for o track to Fredericksburg. Three such issues would reach Cincinnati, three and a half would reach Chicago, and less than six would bring them to New Orleans. Placing the four hundred and fifty thousand sheets so as to form a square they would cover five hundred and fifty-two million square inches, or eighty-eight acres. That is more than all the open squares and parks of the city, exclusive of Central Park. The area of printed matter would be, of course, one hundred and seventy-six acres, and five such issues would cover Central Park. As a track of printed matter, two pages wide, one such issue would reach to Quebec. We have already stated that the advertisements on Sunday filled seventy- eight columns. They coveredeevery line of business and consisted of two thousand hine hundred and sixty-two separate advertise- ments. Some idea will be formed of the machinery to get those advertisements into shape when it is stated that over twenty thou- sand words of ‘‘ads’’ were transmitted on Saturday from the uptown and Brooklyn branches to this office by ten telegraph operators over the Hrnaxp’s wires. We could multiply these curious details through a great many columns of the Henratp,. but for the present these must suffice, In this journal's growing power, resources and achievements Americans take just pride. Its further devel- opment in all these things is only a matter depending on the growth of our rising nation. Arras at THE Lava Beps, according to the Hznatp special despatches published to-day, are anything but satisfactory. Judge Roéborough and Mr. Meacham, of the Peace Commission, had a lengthy interview with Captain Jack and a select party of Modocs on Friday afternoon, the 4th inst., at which the In- dian Chief stated his desire to remain in the lava beds, promising, in the event of any change in the Modoc Council to the contrary, to send and inform the peace men the same day. No mes- senger came, consequently it would seem they intend holding their present position. They give up all claim to Lost River. Our correspondent gives several reasons why the government shonld not agree to the latest demands of the Indians, the principal being that they cannot live in the lava beds without stealing, and perhaps murder would follow. The troops have been ordered to the east side of Tule Lake, with instructions to reconnoitre and act on the defensive only. Rarts as Lore-Savine Arraratvs.—In an- other column we print an article on rafts as life-saving apparatus in cases of misfortune at sea. The suggestion seems a feasible one, and it is certainly well worthy of serious con- sideration. Already there are o number of manufacturers of ‘life rafts in the country, and the question of their usefulness has been fre- quently urged apon the Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steamboats. These worthies, however, pay little attention to anything, ex- cept drawing their salaries, and the interests and welfare of the travelling public receive no snch consideration as would improve the con- ‘dition of life-saving apparatus, The matter is one which ought not to be longer neglected, and it would be best, perhaps, if it were consid- ered in behalf of the United States and Great Britain, with a view to an arrangement be- tween the two governments regulating the outfit of passenger steamers. Puesipent Grant was at Harrisburg yes- terday, and spent the day with Senator Cam- eron. If it were not so early in the season wo should suspect this to be a flank move- ment for another trout Ashing excursiop. The Gas Strike—Orderly Position of the Discharged Men. Capital and labor are shedding faint light upon the rights and equities of their relations in the strife at the gas works of the New York Company. Violence was anticipated yester- day, when the discharged strikers were to be paid off; but they disappointed the expecta- tion, and, possibly, the hope of their foes, by taking their money peacefully and entirely ab- staining from any breach of the peace, which would have furnished their opponents a legal advantage in the struggle. Demanding sim- ply their lawful os well as natural right to make eight hours’ labor a day’s work in an atmosphere where it seems almost incredible that men can live, so long as they are not be- trayed into illegal conduct the strikers have the sympathy of the public, in spite of the annoyance of flickering gas lighta and the necessity to use candles and lamps. It needed last night only a look at the dim glimmer of the gas burners wher- ever the supply was from the New York Com- pany to convince any observer that its propo- sition to furnish its usual quantity by the labor of the raw Italians substituted for the strikers was a failure. Amply forewarned of the coming demand of its employés, the com- pany utterly neglected to have at hand a labor Teserve upon whom it could rely as capable by experience to carry on the regular manu- facture and fulfil its duty to the public. This company has not the reputation of making a gas at any time which can be called brilliant, though it is not modest in the matter of price. That flowing last night was barely equal in lighting quality to fair tallow candles. Surely a corporation so wealthy can afford to give its customers good gas and to deal with its laborers as human beings instead of dumb cattle. Ifits work is to be continuous it should provide three sets of men, each to be eight hours employed. This is only what is due to humanity. Safety to life and health impera- tively forbid a longer exposure to the blazing heat of the retort rooms, and this corporation, which has long thriven on a monopoly, should be prompt to accord to its laborers the right to live as well as to work. Our law makes eight hours a day’s work. Can the New York Gas Company hold itself above law? Gas-making requires a certain amount of skill. Till the raw men can attain it this company expects the public to tolerate a half light, with constant liability to total depriva- tion. It hag no special claims upon the grati- tade of our citizens, and if it continues to defy the enforcement of the Eight-Hour law there may be formed against it such an opposi- tion as will endanger those chartered privi- leges which have enriched it. Better abate somewhat the dividends to stockholders, fur- nish the public a rich and brilliant light, com- ply cheerfully with the spirit of the Eight- Hour law, and so reduce the daily task of employés that they may suffer as little as pos- sible from the rigors of their exceptionally severe labor. By adopting this course tho gas companies would still maintain a profitable business and relieve themselves of the general odium in which they are held. So long as the strikers continue to be guided by moderation and adue respect for the law they may be confident of the public sympathy in their efforts to secure their rights. Brigham Young and the Bend. The Mormons have just been holding their semi-annual Conference at the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City. The telegram informs us that about six thousand persons were present, including four or five hundred Gentiles as spectators, and that visitors flocked in from all quarters of the Territory. Apostles of more or less eminence spoke at the morning services, and in the afternoon Brigham Young himself, “looking in the best of health and lively as a boy,’’ to quote the words of the despatch, made his appearance and delivered a spiritual discoufse. This is nothing new for Brigham Young to do, and our only reason for alluding to it is that on this particular occasion he came down to the frivolities of the flesh, and indulged in a saintly philippic against the Grecian bend, ‘‘caricaturing it across the platform, much to the amusement of the audience.’’ We have not admired Mr. Brigham Young any too much, but we have a grain of praise for the breadth of vein with which he contemplates his flock, and is willing to go out of his way to save those who have been already sealed. Why does not some metropolitan minister follow his example?) Why should our wives and daughters be allowed, without an effort being made to save them, to become the victims of the ‘kangaroo hang’’ and the latest air-bustle? Why don’t Talmage illus- trate the perils of the panier? He will never have a better opportunity than at the Brooklyn Academy, and will enjoy all the advantage of the prestige created by the dramatic marriage recently celebrated by him there. Or suppose Bishop Snow exemplifies the depravity of the present feminine fashions in ‘hair, or Mr. Beecher thrills the faithful with the horrors of upper-skirts worn very bouffant, We will not undertake to decide which of. these preachers is the more spiritual and exalted or how they compare with the heavenly graces of Brigham Young. Itis certain that they all hold their ocks in the hollow of their hands, and that a word spoken in season concerning the weak- nesses and wickednesses of female fashion would be productive of quite as much good as the Mormon leader’s denunciation of the Grecian bend before the fashionable offenders of far-off Utah. ‘ Toe Press anp THE Usury Laws.—The subject of the usury laws is a theme of consid- erable discussion at this juncture among the newspapers. Their repeal is almost univer- sally advocated. The Lynchburg Virginian expresses the opinion that these laws only make the sharp money lenders more rapn- cious, while they increase the difficulties of the needy borrower—compelling him to pay outside rates that finally use him up: Low rates of interest should be maintained, but ex- perience fails to demonstrate the utility of usury laws in securing this desideratum. The Crxcmyyatt Enquirer asserts that the third party movement in that city in regard to local affairs proved an abortion, and an at- tempt to get upa recent meeting was a com- plete failure, But the Enquirer rejoices that the “true and tried friends of the Bible” are at work. It is a happy omen to find that tried friends of the Scriptures are associated with democracy in a contest of apy description, Grecian Senne Wee The English Badget. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lowe, submitted the national budget estimates and accounts of Great Britain to Parliament yesterday evening, The Right Honorable gentleman appeared in excellent humor, was exceedingly off-hand and free in his state- ments, sanguine in his financial anticipations of forthcoming income, and pradently adroit in his promises of revenue concessions to the country, and his intentions of application of the cash when in hand. His figures go to show a reduction of debt during the past year, and he calculates that the country will have a balance of sixty millions of dollars on hand at the close of the fiscal season in 1874. The House was thus elevated in temper toa point of happy tone favorable to the Cabinet and hopeful of a pleasant Easter digestion. Seiz- ing thé opportunity, the agreeable moment of the tide which leads to official fortune, Mr. Lowe assured the members that the govern- ment proposed to pay one-half of the Geneva arbitration award in the Alabama case out of ‘the revenues of the present year and without the addition of a single penny to the the Swiss arbitration pill acceptable, and it was swallowed after the exhibition of merely a few wry faces oy the part of indi- vidual refractories. How it may operate on the body corporate of the Legislature will not be known until after the reassemblage of the House of Commons, when the budget will come up for House of Commons debate. It is proposed to make a large re- duction in the duty on sugar and to take a penny from the income tax. The Treasury statement has been merely accepted pro forma just now. In the meantime Mr. Gladstone stands at the right side of the Downing street ledger, and in that position the Premier must wait and pray during the Easter solemnities and the subsequent holiday season. Payment or A Gorp Drarr in the ordinary five dollar gold pieces of our specie currency was objected to by one of ourcity banks yesterday on the ground that their abrasion through use asa circulating medium—not recently, but in the good old times gone by—had depreciated their value below their nominal standard. It seems odd that specie payment should be re- fused in this way at a time when anything in the shape of the precious metals would be gladly accepted by the community generally. The subject brings up the topic of the Coinage laws, which were revised by the last Congress, with a view, among other things, to the ame- lioration of this evil in our specie currency. The matter is treated elsewhere in an article which will interest importers and business mem who have occasional need of using gold in their transactions. Stens or Sprinc.—A destructive tornado swept through Burlington, Iowa, on Saturday last, and on the same day they had a rousing snow storm out in Colorado Territory, and yesterday the propeller Nuhpa, near Rhine- beck, was cut down and sunk in the Hudson by the drifting ice. ‘Come gently, Spring.’” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. August Belmont has returned to Paris with his family. General Thomas 8. Sedgwick, of Oalifornia, is at the Astor House. Judge A. M. Osborne, of Catskill, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ‘The Earl of Normanton and Sir R. A. S. Adair are to be created Peers. Judge Amasa J, Parker, of Albany, is in town, at the Brevoort House, President Grant is expected to arrive In Wash- ington this afternoon, George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, has ended his tour through Spain and is now in Italy. General Horace Porter and George M. Pullman, of Chicago, are at the Brevoert House, General P, V. Hagner, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. United States Senator P. W. Hitchcock, of Ne- braska, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Commander Frederick Smith, of the United States Navy, is registered at the Hoffman House, Mr. A. T. Stewart, who has for several days been lying extremely ill, was yesterday announced as convalescent, Carlyle spoke of the Dublin University bill as “an amorphous botch out of which nothing endurable can ever be made.” Nasrulla Mirza, a nephew of the Shah of Persia, has entered the Russian army as an ensign in the cavalry serving in the Caucasus, Herr de Laporte, a German advocate, has been sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment in a fortress for lidelling the Emperor William and in- citing high treason. Lady Ellenborough’s relatives announce through the London Times that they “have the best reason to believe that the report of her death is.as un- founded as the account of her career is false.!” Lord Robert Montague wants the Pope to be made supreme arbiter of international disputes, as war is useless and bloody, and arbitrations like the late ones do not inspire confidence or respect. MM. de Largentaye and Marcks, members of ops posing sections of the French Assembly, lately quarrelled while breakfasting with Admiral Poth- uan and a duel was decided upon. But the next day they were less brave and no fight has occurred. “George Francis Train has arrived im London, and is stopping at the Langham Hotel,” says the Paris American Register of March 22, Some people, notably the Warden and others in authority at the Tombs, wish the statement were true, Mr. Evan Matthew Richard, M. P., has recovered damages from Thomas Eiford, one of his Welah constituents, who slandered him by reporting that the M. P. received £2,000 a year from the Great Western Railway Company for attending te its in- terests in Parliament. Mr. Wright, of SheMeld, England, proposes te supply the world of the future with gas for light and heat made frem common air by means ol elec- tricity. Itis only to cost fifteen cents per 1,000 feet. He has patented his process, so ifit works Wright will be all right. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 7, 1878. President Grant arrived here this morning, and is spending the day with Senator Cameron. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The United States frigate Juniata has received orders to proceed to Newport for the purpose of exploding torpedos, under direction of Commander Matthews of that station. The vessel will prob- ably sail on Saturday next, SHCOKING BAILROAD ACOIDENT NEAR NEW- Last evening while the twenty minutes past five train from New York on the Pennsylvania Rail- road was speeding over the Neward meadows be- tween East Newark end the Hackensack River, an unknown man was struck by the locometive and killed. The train was stopped and the dying man picked up. He lived until the Market street depot reached when he died. Deceased w about tairty years of black hair, He had a of paper on his person Baldwin, South, ‘a with the address of The Essex county physician was notified, but de- cided to hold no inquest. He had no authority, fact, hn the occurrence took vlage in Hudson Jggunty.