The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR —_— Volume KXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth sireot,—OoRs. ON SQUARE THEATRE, Bubdway. Tus Wiousn Wort. Union square, near WO )D'S MUSEUM, Broadw: Viorims—SoLon Suincix. Afte BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth Bavtus; on, TH FALL OF TaRovin, METROPOLITAN THEAGRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaniery Baraat ant. . corner Thirtieth st.— joon and evening. ad Twenty-third st— MRS. ¥. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— | Pavuns—Cuances Tax TwRLeTH PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hatl— | APANcuon. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 51¢ Broadway.—Varixer Brreurainacent. Noli lat OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston ‘and Bleeoker sts.—Rir Van WINKLE NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and i ‘Bouston st —Tax Bick K. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Mth street and Irving place.— Travian Orwns—Lxs H vGoKNoTs. "TONY PASTOR'S OPRRA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaniety KntagtaInMent, BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSER, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—NxGxo MINsTRELSY, &c, BAIN HALI, Great Jones street, between Broadway and Bowery.—Tux Piuronim. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 84 av., between 63d and 64th sts. Atternoon and evening. aUGHING Gas ann Macicar NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- way.—Somnce axp Ant. QUADRUPLE SHEET. Me = THe: Sundays ee 16, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “THE IMPOTENCE OF SPAIN IN CUBA! waar] HONOR DEMANDS AND THE LAW PER- MITS''—LEADING ARTICLE—E1caTH Paas. SPAIN’S INFAMOUS ACTS! WILL AMERICA AVENGE THE GRIEVOUS SPANISH IN- SULTS! OPEN DEFIANCE OF OUR CONSU- LAR AGENT! THE LAST SAD MEETING | OF THE MARTYRS! OUR WAR SHIPS ON THE WAY TO CUBA—FirTH PaGE. A SERIOUS EMEUTE AND INSULT .TO THE BRITISH FLAG IN DAMASCUS! THE CON- SUL'S DEMAND FORK REPARATION RE- FUSED—NINTH PaGE. FRANUE AND THE ASSEMBLY IN A TUMULT! MACMAHON’S TENURE LIMITED TO FIVE YEAKS—MORE BRITISH BULLION ON THE WAY TO THE UNITED STATES—NinTH Pace. ‘VICTOR EMMANUEL’S SPEECH TO THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT! THE CONDITION AND NEEDS OF THE NATION! CEURCH AND STATE—NINTH Page. ‘SHOOTING A WIFE IN THE STREET! THE DAUGHTER OF THE PRESIDENT’S PRI- VATE SECRETARY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED } BY HER HUSBAND, DUNCAN 1, TEMPLE- New YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, ‘whe impotence of Spain in Cuba— ‘What Our Honor Demands and the Law Permits. The feeling of indignation throughout the en- tire Union aroused by the inhuman outrages of the Hispano-Cuban butchers at Santiago de Cuba has no uncertain sound in its expres- sion. It is the diapason of a mighty people, which is seldam heard more than once in a generation. From the South as well as from the North, from East and West, it has arisen in that solemn accord which will bear no denial of what it claims. The ad- ministration has never existed which could ignore such an appeal. It is not in any way clogged with the minor issue of whether Cuba should be slave or freo; it consults only the national honor and dig- nity, which certain Spanish fiends in Cuba have dehiberately outraged. It demands that reparation, instant and com- plete, be made, The evidence that localizes the responsibility of the outrage on the Span- ish rulers of Cuba is complete. We were,long aware of the impotence of the home govern- ment of Spain to restrain the violence of the slave owners and their volunteers in Cuba, but it has seldom been so clear that the action of the latter was completely in defiance of the central government at Madrid. Filled with the intrigues of Spanish parties as Cuban affairs have been, it was never before possible to say that the atrocities of the slave owners and volunteers in Cuba were not sympathized in by the Spanish goverhment. The home authorities, -since the outbreak of the rebellion, have never been able to control the brutes of the Casino Espafiol, but until the advent of the Republic there was never any real desire todoso. Since the abdication of Amadeus the slaveocracy have proved the utter powerlessness of Spain to rule in Cuba. The abolition of slavery and the law on the sequestration of Cuban estates were scoffed at, and the execution of the cap- tives of the Vifginius is the crowning act, proving that Madrid has no hold on Cuba to-day. We put the question in this light not to claim any mitigation of feeling for Spain, but to demonstrate that our business is directly with Cuba. The Spanish people, whose very sports are bloody, may see no crime in the butchering of citizens of the United States, and the best resolves | of . their government may be thwarted by those whose brethren in Cuba have made Santiago a slaughter house of civilization in the eyes of the world. While the gravest doubt exists that the gov- ernment of Castelar could muster a corporal’s guard to right our wrongs in Cuba, we are very certain that tens of Spanish thousands could be found to applaud and sustain the butcheries. Therefore, we say, the impotence of the Spanish government must not be its excuse, even for delay. An insult to America has been committed which must be wiped out; blood has been shed which must be atoned for; lives to which we owe protection 4 are in jeopardy and must be saved. How are these things to be accomplished? TON—TENTH PaGE. THAD STEVENS THE WINNER OF THE GREAT | RACE AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.! INTENSE | EXCITEMENT OF THE IMMENSE THRQNG | OF SPECTATORS! FOUR FOUR-MILE | HEATS—NINTH Pace. PRESIDENT GRANT VISITS THE NEWARK IN DUSTRIAL EXPOSITION! 500 ~HAND- } SHAKES—THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERT — | NINTH Page. ®MOOTH SAILING AGAIN IN FINANCIAL WATERS! STOCKS, GOLD AND BONDS | UNDER FULL SAIL! IS ANOTHER STORM | BREWING !—ALDERMANIC ROCTIONS— | ELEVENTH Page. QORKINGMEN'S RIGHTS ASSERTED IN MASS MEETING! THEIR REPRESENTATIVES CALL .UPON THE FEDERAL AND CITY AUTHORITIES FOR WORK—THE SPRAGUE TROUBLES—SEVENTH PacE. | POLICE LODGINGS FOR THE HOUSELESS AND | DESTITUE POOR! INSUFFIUIENT ACCOM- MODATIONS! THE ALARMING GROWTH OF PAUPERISM—THE BOILER DISASTER— SBVENTH PAGE. THE MAYOR TALKED TO BY THE SAILORS! JACK ANIMADVERTS UPON THE SAILORS’ EXCHANGE—TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD— Sixta Paas. NO MORE NASTY CHALK! THE BLACKBOARD ARTIST TO HIS PROPER SPHE NCH DRA- MATIC NOVELTIES AND PROSPECTS—THE NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Six1a Page. TO-DAY'S CHURCH SERVICE: ENTS’ VIEWS ON VARIC DESTITUTE CORRESPOND: | S TOPICS! DE- | NOMINATIONAL NEWS METHODIST FIGHT FOR A DEAD M GOLD—TgNTA Pas. “RIG SIX'S" BANK ACCOUNT INVESTIGATED | GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—STATUS OF THE COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS— THIRTEENTH PAGE. Tax Tempteton Tracepy.—This time it is 6 wife, in good circumstances and moving in the best society, who is shot by her husband in the open street in broad daylight. Mrs. Templeton, who is a daughter of General Bab- cock, lived unhappily with or had only recently separated from her husband. He shoots her in his anger and disappointment. The crime, though exceedingly base and cowardly, differs only from many others which were fecently commitied in the social standing of the criminal and his victim. It is another and @ most painful evidence of the depravity which underlies our social system. It is vain | to preach sermons on assassinations of this | kind except through stern and severe punish- ment, There is no possible excuse or pallia- tion for an offender base enough to assassinate ® woman in the street, and the offence is all the more damning when the victim is the | assassin's wife. Victron. Emmanvrn rrom tar Tony. “Order and safety,” Victor Emmanuel told the | Italian Parliament yesterday, were the two indispensable conditions of industry and prog- ress. Hoe thought that Rome might become the capital without encroaching upon the in- dependence of the Pope or the exercise of the spiritual functions and relations of the Catholic world, He would respect the Pope's Feligious sentiments and liberty, but he would+ not permit attacks on the nation and her in- stitutions, We are inclined to the belief that the Italian government has been unneces- sarily harsh oftentimes in denling with the Papal question, and has hastily and often unjustly disposed of questions, and in a manner calculated to produce bitterness which might have been avoided by amore pradential policy. But, taken all in all, Italy is a rising It will be seen by our despatches up to the | latest date that some of the men captured on the Virginius are probablystill alive. It would be a crime on the part of our Executive to allow the lives of these men to be taken, and thera | is no way to prevent this but by action. It is | objected in quibbling quarters that to take the measures necessary to rescue those yet un- | butchered and to recover our property would be to commit acts of war, which the President cannot authorize without the order of Con- gress. It is not war to protect lives which it is our daty to protect in a season of peace as well as in any other season. It is not war to take our property from the hands of robbers. It is not war to tear down a foreign flag from any portion of our territory whereon the Stars and Stripes have been lowered by the in- sulting hands of lawless desperadoes. The best that can be said by the quibblers is that it may lead to war. Very well. Let the onus of its declaration be upon those wha dare to litt their heads before the world to champion the hideous crime of Santiago. The course which lies before us, outside of the declaration of war, allows of three important acts in the case, which are those of reparation. In the primary form of a demand they are; — The surrender of the men of the Virginius still living. The surrender of the murderers of the men slain. The surrender of the American ship Vir- ginius. If these demands are refused they must be enforced. If we have a right at all it is not war to enforce it. These views are incontro- vertible. They will meet the sense of the nation. While the exact temper of the administra- tion upon the question is not as clear as it migiit be, we are glad to observe that they are straining every effort to place us in a position to take the most extreme step necessary in the event of our demands not being complied with. What we have to complain of especially is the sentimentalism which governs our Sec- cretary of State in his dealings with Spain. This sentimentalism causes him to shut his eyes to the fact we have dwelt on previously in this article—namely, the inability of Spain to curb or coerce the slaveocracy in Cuba. He can depend upon it that no exchange of regrets and compliments between Sefior Castelar and Mr. Fish will satisfy the Ameri- can people. Struggling with Carlist and Com- munist, Castelar can do nothing more, Inter- views between our Minister at Madrid and the Spanish Secretary of Foreign Affairs can end in nothing but what compose the conver- | sations—words, Let President Grant, in his message to Congress, have to say that the Virginius is onee more under our flag, that the men condemned to imprisonment are on board an American man-of-war, that the inurderers are in our hands, and, with- out violating a single law of the land or of humanity, he will have a clear American record to present which will outweigh # ream of gecommendations. volunteers and their masters in Cube are ut- terly independent of the home govern. ment, we can find it in the words of the republicans who rule Spain to-day. As we have said, the volunteers were always supported by the monarchists. In the Spanish Congress, little more than a year ago, Sefior Salmeron said, referring to the driving ater, and her King may bo vroud of his life- Gimo’s work. home of Captain General Dulce and to the massacre of the boy students at Havana: — uphold the honor and Seni of the Spanish name, can, withoué the hot blood of shame rushing to his face, remember that theso savage volunteers have Shipped of to Spain the first author- ity in the land, the representative of the State, oecanse, jtorsooth, he was in favor of reform; that they have prevented the ful- fiiment of Sefior Moret’s act, which had been passed by the Cortes of the Spanish nation, and that they have compelled the shooting of innocent victims in cold blood. With what dignity can it be said that after these acta, which are dificult to conceive in this nineteenth century, that the Ha- vana volunteers defend the interests of Spain? The man who, with his fellow republicans, thus protested under the reign of Amadeus, is among the leaders of Spain to-day. Their words have not been forgotten in Havana, and from behind the bayonets of the volunteers the slave owners scoff at the hampered government of Castelar. When the orders from Madrid have been, even in the present case, set at naught, what chances are there that the bratal volun- teers will obey tho order to repair what they have 60 systematically done? Once more w ask whether the vain ways of di- plomacy are to be made the media through which the juggling Spanish fiends shall be permitted to “palter with us ina double sense."’ The fact that some lives are yet in jeopardy should forbid it. What is dno to the nation from the insult to its fiag, and what extent the punishment for the murders already committed must reach, is, we believe, in the hands of Congress by the law, but we have laid down clearly what the Executive is competent to command by virtue of his office. We have left out of mind the fact that the sympathy of civilization is with usin all we may do to wash the island of Cuba clean from its Span- ish butchers, for in this matter the American people must rest the consciousness of recti- tude in the approval of their own souls, Female Teachers—Less Wages tox E _Work, np ah eee nat Last Wednesday mn, at a meoting of the Board of Education, the report of the Special Committee on Salaries and Economy was presented, discussed and adopted. It presents one or two very extraordinary fea- tures. After fixing the maximum annual salary of the male principals of grammar schools at $3,000, of male vice-principals at $2,500, of male first assistants at $2,000, and of other male assistants at $1,000, the report provides that the maximum salary of female principals shall be $2,000; of female vice-prin- cipals, $1,500; of female first assistants (if instructing classes of a particular grade), $1,000, and of other female assistants, an amount ranging from $500 to $800. Now this plan may be economical, but itis certainly not consonant with wisdom or humanity. It outrages common sense, we might also say common decency. We defy any logic to prove that two persons performing equal amounts of equally important work ought to be paid un- equally because there happens to be between them a difference of sex. One of the mem- bers of the Board, Mr. Jenkins, indeed said that anybody with a fair salary can always work better than one with a bad salary; and, while assenting to the general truth of this propo- sition, we beg leave to endorse it with peculiar heartiness if by it Mr. Jenkins meant to imply that our female school teachers would work better if they were paid as well as male teachers. The amazing injustice of the pres- ent arrangement is so patent that to discuss it would seem a waste of words, were it not for the fact a greater amount of pigheadedness obtains in boards of education than in almost any other public bodies upon which functions equally valuable devolve. We are making a very moderate statement of the case when we claim that the ability of our female teachers, as a class, is quite equal to that of our male. The qnick intuitions, the acute sensibility, the tenderer conscientiousness, and the sweeter and more magnetic moral suasion that con- tribute to constitute the influence of a good and intelligent woman (and we have reason to believe that the majority of our female teachers are made of this material) are often particu- larly happy in the results they accomplish on pupils, both girls and boys. In these respects the female teacher often has the superiority. Let her, then, be at least equally well paid with the male instructors. That is her right as incontestible as that of life and happiness. Tur French AssEMBLY oN THE PresmDEN- man Term or Orricz.—The Prolongation Committee of the French Assembly has re- ported to the legislative body on the subject which was referred for its consideration, the propriety of prolonging President Mac- Mahon's term of office, and the period of time to which it should be extended, five or ten years. The sitting of the Assembly yesterday was excited during the early part of the day, andan adjournment to the evening was voted amid a scene which approached very nearly to tumult. The committee appears to have been cautious in its consideration of the case and conservative in its resolve and expression. The report, which was presented at the even- ing session, goes to show that a prolonged personal Presidency, in the absence of organic laws, assumes the appearance of a disguised dictatorship. It conjures the French con- servatives to help in founding the Republic, now that the monarchist schemes have failed, and concludes with the assertion that ‘Gt is impossible to grant President MacMahon more than five years’ power.’’ The report will come up for Assembly debate on Monday. Paris remains excited in the meantime, and the intervening moments will be moments of vast importance to the French nation, Ler Us Have Prace.—A short time ago the particulars of an outrage alleged to have been committed by negroes in Grant parish, La, were published in the press, but it was hoped that the statement was a hoax. The details were too revolting for belief and the whole story was denied by the so-called government | of the State. We now have the sequel in a few lines from New Orleans. Seven ot the nine negroes who were implicated in the outrage have been killed by citizens. So the irrepressible contest goes on, and so we receive illustration after illustration of the advantages | If further proof be needed that the Spanish | of such popular government as federal bay- onets bave forced on the people of Louisiana, Tax, Consrrrotionataty of rae Pour Jusrice Law was discussed at the Special Ses- sions yesterday by the new justices and the counsel of prisoners who refused to plead to the charges made against therm on the ground that the Court as at present constituted is not a legal tribunal, ‘The sooner tho constitutional question is settled the better will it he for the Lmarvel uow & Minister of spain. wag eygns ta | dignity aud the seayrity of justice, The Religious Press on the Cuban Massacre and Other Matters. Several of our religious contemporaries comment upon the great sensation of the week—the recent horrible butchery at Santi- ago de Cuba. Others will doubtless express their views when all the facts are gathered and they are enabled to form a mature and do- liberate opinion upon the subject. The Independent is unusually fearless and outspoken in denunciation of the atrocity. “This bloodthirsty haste,’’ says the editor, “ig of a piece with the cruelty which butchered a dozen students in Havana for the crime of scratching the glass on a monument, The deed is done. No adequate redress is now possible. No doubt there will be explanations from Madrid, and no doubt the Castelar gov- ernment is kindly and justly disposed; but that will not bring the doad to life, nor can it prove that the Spanish government has any real authority over its subordinates in Cuba. Much as we sympathize with the liberal re- publican government of Spain we sympathize no less with the effort of Cuba to secure inde- pendence; and it may well be that an act which can only be excused on the plea of bel- ligerency may lead to the recognition by our government of the belligerent rights of the Cuban patriots.’’ The Jewish Messenger affirms that this last outrage evokes the righteous indignation of the civilized world. ‘Whether or not,"’ re- marks the editor, ‘‘our dignity as nation is wounded, we have a just right to interfere in the interests of humanity, take a bold stand as to the Cuban question and insist that the Cubans should be treated as belligerents or their independence recognized. We trust that our government will take prompt steps in the matter and demand satisfaction from insolent Spain."* The Evangelist treats of the “Abuses of the Lecture System,"’ atid avers that it ‘can be made instrumental in disseminating false theories of life and duty, lax views of social obligation, unsound speculations with respect to religion and revelation; and all this can be effected under the guise of ministering to the cravings of popular curiosity end literary taste." Thé attention of lecture committees is called to the serious responsibility devolv- ing upon them in selecting acceptable speakers, and pastors, Young Men's Christian Associatians and all good citizens are invited to co-operate in securing a reform in the system as now practised. The Observer discourses upon the communi- cations that have passed between Bishops Pot- ter and Tozer, and trusts that ‘the Dean of Canterbury and the Archbishop, as well as the Evangelical Alliance, will not be shaken from their course through the combined and power- ful opposition of the Lord Bishops of New York and Zanzibar." The Baptist Weekly, remarking upon the late elections, says every real friend of the republican party must ke glad at its defeat in this city. ‘From the moment its leaders,’’ says the editor, ‘‘consented to an alliance with the miserable and unprincipled demagogues of the Apollo Hall democracy men of real prin- ciple were disgusted. What man of decency cared to register to vote in such men as O'Brien and his followers could suggest for city offices? Tammany Hall certainly could give them no worse candidates, and since the Tweed power was overcome it has learned to present in the main men of some character and decency.”’ The Christian Intelligencer, treating of ‘‘Suit- ableness in Marriage,’’ remarks that ‘that marriage which is based on a fair, mutual estimate of character ; which is the unison of kindred minds, the concurrence of two natures suited to each other, the interblending of two hearts made one by pure and holy affection, is indeed the nearest approach to heaven that can be made on earth through any human re- lationship. Marriage does, indeed, involve so much that the wonder is that it should be treated of so lightly in common talk and its estate often entered upon as though it were but a lottery, with a few prizes and many blanks.” The Liberal Christian calls upon its friends to see that the American Unitarian Association “does not lack the means of planting broadly the seed from which a new character, trust- worthy, self-respecting, high-toned, rational and devout, is to spread over the nation.” The Freeman's Journal keeps up its fight in favor of having Catholic schools for Catho- lie children, The Tablet elaborates upon the Protestant press, and France as a great nation. The Christian Union has somo kind words to utter in relation to the reappearance of John Bright. The Cutholic Review, remarking upon “Un- truth and Bigotry,’’ makes the wholesale assertion that, ‘to the ends of the earth, wherever you find Protestantism in any of its forms, Atheism or Methodism or Presbyterian- ism, you find it characterized by the same un- truthfulness, by the same illiberal and narrow- minded bigotry."’ The Christian at Work treats of “Stagna- tion versus Sensotionalism,"’ and comes to the conclusion that there ‘are in the private membership of our churches and in the ministry great many men who are dead, but have never had the common decency to get buried. With the harvest white and ‘lodging’ for lack of # sickle, instead of lying under the trees criticising the sweating reapers who are at work, let us throw off our own coat and go out to see how good a swath we can cut." The Jewish Times discourses learnedly of “The Kingdom That is Not of This World,’ ‘The Impending Crisis’’ and other matters. The Methodist appears in a new and attrac- tive typographical form, while its editorial pages exhibit unusual spirit and variety. The Christian Leader puta the query, ‘Are There Any That Cannot be Saved?’ and answers evidently to its own satisfaction. Church and State elaborates on ‘The Dean of Canterbury and the Joint Commnnion,"’ “The Last Word of Modern Materialism" and other subjects. Tox Gaeat Four Mme Race om Cas- rornta.~A four mile race came off yesterday atternoon at San Francisco, between the Oali- fornia horse Thad Stevens, and two from this city, Jo Daniels and True Blue. The contest was for twenty thousand dollars in gold. Thad Stevens won after four closely contested heats, proving himself the stanchest horse in America, probably in the world. Tho tele- graphic report states that Trae Blue broke down in the third boat, 1873._QUADRUPLE SHEET, The Hariom Explosion. Every one who has the slightest familiarity with the history of accidents throughout the past year will join with us in the profound hope that this latest calamity at Harlem will not be classed among those which led to no good result. No one who has average intelli- gence and humanity will fail to wish that the party ultimately responsible will be found, and that a punishment adequate to his crime will be inflicted. One or two im- ‘portant developments have already taken place. Among these is the arrest of one of the contractors, and the probability of the fact that a regularly licensed engineer, some days before the explosion occurred, called the | attention of a responsible party to the equivo- cal condition gf the boiler. Such accidents are sins against humanity quite as enormous, just as worthy of punishment, as any of the offences forbidden in the Decalogue. Thoy are crimes growing out of the venality of men whose indifference to the calls of natural feeling renders them un- worthy to be placed in tho category of humanity, If fearless and impartial investigation is not made, if heavy punish- ment is not permitted to fall, no matter whom it may strike, these accidents will go on re- peating themsefves until some general and vast calamity shall wrench society to its lowest bottom and the law is remedied as with the throes of a convulsion. The material from which such offences are manufactured does not abound along the upper section of Fourth avenue alone. It would be difficult not to mention a quarter of the city which some time during the past twelvemonth might not easily have become the scene of just such an out- rage. If steam threatens to kill its thousands, nitro-glycerine threatens to kill ita tens of thousands. ‘The perils from blasting are nuiiierdus And frequent, and passengers in more than one line of cars give authentic accounts of showers of stones and heavy masses of earth, caused by criminally con- ducted processes in blasting, and spreading terror, confusion, and not unfrequently acci- dent and death. We repeat that unless severe punishment is inflicted in the proper quarter there will soon be scarcely such a thing as the probability of a man’s leaving his house in the morning and returning alive or un- wounded, The Panic, the Opera and the Theatres, He who, when the year is concluded, under- takes the task of sumarizing its peculiar features so far as public amusements are con- cerned, will not find that the influence of the panic has been as disastrously felt in these quarters as he would at first be disposed to imagine. Doubtless there have been some poor houses, and possibly the lowering of the prices at most of the places of public amusement has not been quite so generously responded to as sanguine managers hoped. But the fact remains that as a rule the theatres have not done badly during the last few weeks. The people who complained of tight times and high prices could not forget that man was made not only to grumble, but also to be amused, and that the theatre offered one of the cheapest and least objectionable means. The same assertions can be made with equal truth in regard to the opera. When the heavy shadows of the financial cloud were first felt there were those who predicted a total collapse for both of the impresarii. The tactics pursued by these fival managers differed widely. The one adopted a sort of guerilla warfare, pop- ping down upon us at unexpected times and places, and suddenly breaking out again when everybody thought he had permanently with- drawn. The other is now ambling not un- prosperously through the last evenings of his ten weeks’ season, wisely reserving the best things until the last. Weare glad that ad- versity has not swamped cither enterprise— not because we are disposed to sympathize sentimentally with individual successes, but because the preservation of the prosperity proves that the cloud is not so dark as the Jeremiahs foretold. Even while we write news comes to us of the opening of two new theatres—that of Mr. Daly at Twenty-eighth street and Broadway, and that of Mr. William Stuart at Broadway and Twenty-second street. The public’s intimate experience of both these gentlemen, and of Mr. Boucicanlt, who is to be Mr. Stuart’s coadjutor, renders it unnec- essary for us to allude in detail to the policy to be pursued by each. All we can add is that the encouragement already given to the theatres and operas during a season of finangial depression warrants the expectation that neither of these enterprises will be a near or a remote failure. Tue Surprina Act and THE SramEN—The sailors made their demonstration yesterday, with the intention of strengthening by a show of numbers their application to Oongress for a repeal of the Shipping act. The procession was a fair one, and while it may have con- tained many who have an improper interest in the proposed repeal, and who are not such good friends of poor Jack as they profess to be, there were no doubt some sailors in the ranks who feel the oppressive character of certain of the provisions of the law. It is unfortunate that an act, which is designed to be a protection to the sailor from the harpies who are always ready to prey upon him, shonld in some of its provisions, or in its practical operation, inflict hardships upon the class it is meant to serve. The sailors have too long been the victims of unlicensed ruffians; they should not be subjected now to official oppression. The present law should be amended #0 as to remove its objectionable features; but its repeal would leave the sea- men without any protection, subject to the notorious rasehlity of the worst rnffians in the city. How tHe Poor are Lopoxp im tHe Sra- tion Hovses.—We desire to call attention to an article in another column showing how the poor who require a night's lodging are accommodated in our station honses, ‘There seoms to be unnecessary hardship exercised by the police in disposing of these night p vagrants, whose only crime i# poverty, and we trast the Police Commissioners will insti- tute inquirios that shall lead to some salutary reform in this connection. Diamonn Cur Diamonp—The Aldermen or- dering the arrest of the County Canvassdés and the County Canvnssers ordering the arrest of the Aldermen—aad all this ordering with. uk oi GRO Yb OMe a sans Arctic Hxploration. A serious blow to the projected explora» tion in 1874 of the North Polar rogion is the famine in Greenland, caused by the fail- ure of the seal and whale fisheries. We learn from a despatch in yesterday's HemaLD that the inhabitants of one entire vil- lage, consisting of one hundred and fifty persons, was swept away by atar- vation, As any expedition which goes to the Arctic Circle with an honest im tention of reaching the Pole must depend upon flourishing bases of operation, whére supplies can be deposited and drawn from, this disastrous failuro of the fisheries will fall like a wet blanket on those ardent goograph- ers who hoped that the spring of 1875 might find the great geographical problem solved. There has been amazing activity among the learned societies of Europe to induce the gov- ernments to fit out creditable and co-operat- ing fleets to take up the highway left by Captain Hall at latitude eighty-two degrees sixteen minutes, and follow it out until the Pole should be reached, : We hope that the Danish authorities will not permit their settle ments to languish, because it is of ,interna- tional importance that they should be maim tained until we know. moro (about that mysterious region of ice and night of over twenty-four hundred miles in diameter. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. George M. Dallas, of Philadelphia, is staying at the Brevoort House. Lieutenant Porter, United States Navy, is quar- tered at the Brevoort House, Major W. ©. Bartlett, of the United States Army, is stopping at Barnum’s Hotel. Captain E. B, Ames, United States Army, has ar- rived @ the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Commander T. E. Chadwick, United States Navy, is quartered at the Hoffinan House. General Joseph FE, Johnston yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel from Savannah. Paymaster Joseph Foster, United States Navy, is registered at the Grand Central Hotel. Colonel Hiram Fuller, of the London Cosmopets- tan, has just been enriched by a legacy of $125,000. Lord Carysfort, the owner of large estates im Ireland, has given $25,000 for the improvement of Arklow Harbor. Joaquin Miller 1s in Italy. On the 16th ult, he was entertained by Consul James Lorimer Graham, Jr., in Florence. ~ A “Royalist” advertises in the Paris papers for @ loan of 3,000 francs, and offers the security of his “‘word of honor.” General M. KR. Morgan and Captain George @. Webster, United States Army, have apartments at the Sturtevant House. Queen Victoria has appointed Mr. John Kirk, Vice Consul at Zanzibar, to be Her Majesty’s Con- sul General at Zanzibar. Secretary of War Belknap arrived in the city yesterday morning from Washington and started on his return to the capital last evening. Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army, was at the Hoffman House yesterday. The General left in the afternoon for West Point, but will return to the city to-morrow. Martin Van Buren used to say that he woald tunnel forty miles to interview @ man rather tham write hima letter. Who would have imagined that the “Sage of Kinderhook” was the original interviewer ? An anti-women’s rights man in Burlington, Towa, in scratching the name of Mrs. Hagar, wrote upon his ballot “Don’t want no wammun in Mine." The lady was a candidate for School Superintet dent, and the “intelligent bolter’’ could nos ap- preciate the necessity of having such things as common schools at ull. ot The subject of ® miracle in Posen, Prussia, has got into trouble. Ata shrine of tho Virgin Mary he suddenly manifested his power of speech, whies he had seemingly lost while in the army. He has now been found to have been only shamming dumb > ness to draw a pension, and the pnymaster o1 pem- sions in his district is prosecuting him for fraud. Many of the good people in Providence are no Mttle exercised at the prospect of having several of their venerable elms in the First Baptist church- yard cut down, in order that the new illuminated clock can be seen from all points, Are there no other means by which light can be afforded the Providence people? ‘Woodman, spare that tree |" Mr. Sackville Gwynne, known in Liverpool, England, as the “gentleman cab driver,” ia dead. He was the son of Colonel Gwynne, of Carmarthen- shire, where his family possessed valuable estates. Some years ago, to end some harassing dimculty with his family, Mr. Gwynne became a “whip,” and - continued in that capacity almost until the day of nis death, Mr. Matthew D'Arcy, member of Parliament fer county Wexford, Ireland, has offered to put at the service of Cardinal Cullen the sum of £100,000 fer the purbose of building a Catholic Cathedral tn Dublin, Mr. D'Arcy is a brewer, like Sir B. Guin- ness, who some years ago gave alike sum for the restoration of St. Patrick's Protestant Cathedral in the Irish capital. The Rev, Edward Forbes, D. D., writing from Paris to the London Times, contradicts the state- ment made before the Evangelical Alliance in this city that the late Archbishop of Paris, while im priaon, sent for him to visit him, Mr, Forbes says that, being in the prison on a charitable errand, he called upon Monsignor Darboy to assure him of sympathy and prayers in his behalf. When Mr, Forbes was leaving him the Archbishop said:— “Your visit has been a bright rayin my prisom house, and if my head be left on my shoulders & hope tt is not the last time we shall meet.” THE GERALD AND ITS ENTERPRISES. ae (From the Concord (N. ©.) Sun.) Mr. Bennett proposes to fit out an expedition te discover the North Pole. Having large means at his command, and possessed with indomitable pluck and energy, whatever he takes in hand he rarely fails to accomplish. His effort and final sue- cess in the discovery of Dr. Livingstone are ample proof that whatever his hands find to do he does it with his might. Asa journal the HeraLp stands pre-eminent, @ perfect giant among its contempe- raries, with live, reliable correspondents every- where on the inhabited glove. It has lately made hosts of friends by its timely demonstrations of “Crmsarism,’’ back pay rogues and dishonest jurors, (From the Memphia Avalanche.} {tis said that Mr. Bennett, of the New Yore HeKALD, intends sending an expedition to capture the North Pole. We hope he will not only captare the Pole, bot plant it several hundred miles further south, so that we can get @ frost crop in September in yellow fever years, . THE UERALD AND THE NORTH POLE. wa From the Port Jervis (N. Y.) Gazette,J The manager of the N&w YoRK HeRALD 1s cer~ tainly possessed of vim and enterprise, Not com- tent with having sent an expedition to find Living- stone, this busy-body FRtaLp is now going to sond out an expedition to discover the North Pole; We are not very positive as to Staniey’s veracity regarding Livingstone, but if the HeraLp and Stanley told the truth in that matter we are free to admit that we believe that journal will be the means of discovering this long-looked for Mecca of modern explorers. At any rate, whether the ex- pedition is Auocessinlor not, its projector deserve the hearty goodwill of every person interested tm selence, for the expedition will not return witheat acquiring some information that will be valaable— even though said information be no more than a knowledge of the folly of attempting furtner ex- Plorations in that direction, At any rate, the Gazewe gives tho Hamann Arctic Kxpedition a gare pg aggeds and wlayen (s Agccedty