The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD STREET. BROADWAY AND ANN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY BERALD, published every day in (he ear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription werice 912. : All business or news letters and telegraphic ‘despatches must be addressed New Yorx Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Bejected communications will not be re- | turned. fila LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK ' HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York -No. 41 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | ‘AMUSEMENTS OLYMPIC THEATRE, Prosdwar, between Houston and Bleecker streets. — VAUDEVILLE and NOVe LLY ENTERTAINMENT and Miolman Opera Troupe, at 5 P.M. ; closes at 1 P.M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, ppposite City Hail, Brooklyn —MARIHA at 8 P.M; (loses at 145 P.M." Kellogg English Upera Company. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, | ‘Washington street, Brooklyn.—MARIE ANTOINETTE, | sata P.M; closes atll P.M. Mrs. Bowers, BOWERY THEATRE, Rowers —LIFE OR DEA\H; LEND ME YOUR LOVER jegins at 5 P.M. ; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 58 Broadway.—VARILTY ENTERTAINMENT, at W45 P.M, ; closes at 1040 P.M. NIBLO'S GARDEN, sn of (Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—FUN NA FOS; MORE BLUNDERS THAN ONE. Begins at P.M.; closes at 10301”. M. Vokes Family. Woops MUSEUM, | roadway, corner Thirtieth street—LEAST SIN, at 2 cides a 4330 P.M. CLoARETTE, at 8 P.M; | ‘cloges at 1 P. M. Tg a | | FIFTH AVENUL THEATRE, | |Twenty.third street and Broadway.—FOLLINE, ats P. AM. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. iarking, Miss Ada Dyas. cae qaeagas | GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eine, avenue and ‘iwenty-third — street —HUMPTY UMPTY Al SCHOOL and VARIETY ENTERYAIN- | ANT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 1045 P.M. Mr. @, L Fox. THEATRE No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY TP. M.; cloges at 1U 30 P.M. MIQUE, ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 : BOOTH'S THEATRE, | JBixth avenue and Twenty-third street-—ELENE, at 7:45 | P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mrs. J. B. Booth. WALLACK’S THEATRE, ‘Broadway and Thirteenin street —MONEY, at 8 P.M; ia 1 ¥.M. Mr, Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffreys wi TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, “No, M1 eye Sart ENTERTAINMENT, at SP. | AM. ; closes at IP. M. | _ BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSK, | TTwenty-third street, corner of Sixth avenue. —CINDER. | -ELLAIN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at P. ‘Mj closes at 10 P.M | BY | TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. @R, GLADSTONE’S ROUT! THE PREMIER PRE- PARING TO RETREAT AND DISRAELI FORMING THE RANKS OF HIS CABINET ADVISERS—SEVESTH PAGE. RELEASE OF SPANISH INTRANSIGENTES—A | NEW ATLANTIC CABLE AND CHEAPER RATES—SEVENTH Pace. €UBAN SLAVES DEMANDED BY THE CAPTAIN GENERAL FOR MILITARY SERVICE~NEWS FROM HAYTI, ST. DOMINGO AND PORTO RICO—SEVENTH PAGE. NEWS FROM JAPAN IN LESS THAN NINETEEN DAYS! PROGRESS OF AFFAIRS IN THAT COUNTRY AND CHINA—SEVENTH Pacx. THE SURGEONS FOILED ON THE ANATUMIES OF ENG AND CHANG BUNKER! A STRIN- GENT CONTRACT—SEVENTH Pace. | {RIUMPHAL ONWARD MARCH OF THE OHIO | RUM CRUSADERS! THE VULNERABLE HEEL OF KING ALCOHOL PIERCED WHILE | IN RETREAT—Seventa Pace. MAYOR HAVEMEYER ON THE SINKING FUND DEFICIT AND OVER-TAXATION OF NEW | YORK CITY TOU MAKE IT UP! MORE TIME | SHOULD BE GIVEN TO TAXPAYERS! UN- WARRANTED ACTION OF MR. GREEN— THIRD PaGE. PINCHING POVERTY! SUFFERINGS OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO WANT WORK AND CANNOT GET IT! STARVED TU DEATH! TENEMENT HOUSE MISE OF A PHYSICIAN! E RELIEF! POPULAR FEELING—Fovern Pas. THE FINANUIAL MEASURE OF RELIEF ADYO- CATED BY MR. BOUTWELL! SPECLAL FEDERAL CAPITAL ITEMS—TuImp Page. PROGRESS OF THE LABOR STRIKES —MORE RAPID TRANSIT SOLUTIONS—Turrp Pacs LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS! RECLASSIPYING ERIE—OBITUARY NOTICES—BROOKLYN’S POOR—TENTH PAGE, MICHAEL NORTON’S EXPOSURE OF THE TENTH NATIONAL BANK CLAIMS! MR. HEALEY’S STORY! NORTON’S BRIEF RETURN—Tarap PaGE. GONORS BY BENCH AND BAR TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE JAMES W. GERARD! Ac- TION OF THE COURTS, THE .LAW INSTI- TUTE AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION— Firra Page. WEW BANKRUPTCY RULE! THE PUTNAM CAR- HOOK MURDER! LEGAL SUMMARIES-- CONNECTICUT POLITICS — HAMILTON'S LURKING PLACE—NINTH Pace. BUSINESS AT THE WALL STREET BOARDS AND THE SUB-TREASURY! GOLD VERY P1RM— EiauTa Pace, Paeswentian Caxprmares for 1876 by news- Paper nomination have not yet become very numerous, but the Akron Times has already “hoisted’’ the name of Senator Thurman. Tae Vatox or Ixprvipvan Ervorr and lib- erality in a time of general and unusual suffer- ing is not always properly appreciated. We havein this city about forty police stations and sixty engine houses. These are srattered evenly through the city and are located in every ward. If in each of these a soup house should be opened a small contribution fn money or food from each family in the dis | trict able to contribute would form a fund and Wretchedmess in the City—The Need of Systematic Charity. Every great city has its mass of misery at all times. Gathered in the remoter byways are the huddled groups of humanity that have been borne down in the desperate struggle for life—the crippled stragglers out of the great battle, creeping away to die in some wretched corner. Pale mothers and puny children, left penniless by the sudden loss of one whose daily labor earned their only support ; little brothers and sisters, orphaned altogether and scarcely removed in age from babyhood, and broken down fathers thrown by illness as a burden on those whom they have barely kept alive for years—such are the classes of the city poor sustaining a flickering vitality by scarcely known devices. In prosperous times they live upon the easy habits of the many. Our people are ordi- narily lavish in expenditure, and opportunity comes often to all, so that starvation scarcely occurs and the extremest misery is but little known till there comes a time of greater pressure, such as was lately precipitated upon us by the panic. An event of that nature not only dries up all the little streams of charity that feed the ordinary poor, but by arresting many industries it also adds greatly to the numbers of those incapable of sustaining themselves. At the present moment we have therefore absolutely without resources those thousands who have received a precarious support on the miscellaneous outlays that are | no longer made, and other thousands of me- chanics and their families and working women who commonly live upon fair wages honestly earned, but now are without employ- ment—and all these in their desolate homes or in the street are suffering the pangs of cold and*hunger. All these have a just claim upon the gen- eral public, which is under an obligation com- mensurate with the distress. An extensive application of charity for the regular support of masses of the people is a burden on many cities of the Old World; but this has never grown to any proportions with us because it is the tendency of every fact of our daily lives to teach people to help themselves, and because the morale of even our poorest people keeps them from beggary while their own exertions may suffice for their support. It is therefore not possible that general chari- table help could be urged here for any con- stant occasion; but the present is a visitation like some of those great natural calamities that and often extirpate the population. Its results are to be compared with those of a great conflagration like that which destroyed Chicago rather than with ordinary poverty; or with the failure of a crop and consequent famine, such as has made desert but lately many parts of Persia and India. Our people have never been slow to respond when the call has come upon them to relieve the misery of the plague or famine or fire stricken people of other cities, and they must now comprehend that the case is substantially the same with re- gard to the distressed who wander homeless and hungry in our streets craving clamorously for aid or dying silently ina spirit of semi- savage pride that is ashamed to acknowledge such final and utter defeat of all its projects and attempts. Misery of this kind has o claim on the ground of the natural human sympathy ex- cited by the painful facts themselves; and there are also reasons under the head of self- defence why the public at large should take the subject in hand. As the great city is but an agglomerated mass of human life—a larger aggregate vitality—the fate and condition of one part of the mass is intimately related with the fate and condition of every other part, and no considerable portion can suffer degrada- tion withont the bad effect being felt by the whole. War, famine and pestilence are the terrible associates whose dependence upon one another has seldom been broken since men have lived in masses ; and though famine may come without war, pestilence follows famine as necessarily as night and day follow one another. Immunity from pestilence in the months to come must be purchased now, therefore, in the dispensation of food to all that need it, whoever and wherever they are. If the distressed linger through the winter months to pine and die finally in crowded tenements of famine fever, an epi- demic of typhus in the coming summer will be an inevitable consequence. For this suffi- cient reason, if for no other, the publicshould feel that the care of the hungry is its own, and act accordingly. Another epidemic will also follow our neglect in this emergency with scarcely less certainty than the fever, and this is the epidemic of crime. Hunger dissolves all the obligations that civilization imposes. No respect for law, no consent yielded to the restrictions of society is valid against the man whom hunger has restored temporarily to barbarism and to the control only of primitive instincts. Murder, robbery, arson must necessarily become more frequent facts, and the race of children abandoned to the streets will grow up with predatory impulses and with the obvious understanding that society is the common enemy. For an occasion such as is now before us the usual machinery of charitable aid is inade- quate, mainly because it is scattered and fitful in its operation. Our public provision for charitable service, though large, is well nigh worthless for any application to the imme- diate wants, because so much of it as is not swallowed up by the army of employés that it sustains goes to those regular paupers who inhabit the institutions year in and year out. Few of the casually wretched can possibly be supplied from that source. It is to be appre- hended that the large amounts given through the many private organizations now devoting themselves to the needy are of less service than they might be if spent in the prosecu- tion of some common plan. Voluntary char- ity, inspired only by the different purposes of the various volunteers, fritters away a force that, applied with some general aim, would accomplish great results. This charity re- minds us of the French system of carrying on war by accidental spurts of energy from little parties of franc-tireurs, which utterly threw away a power that, organized and poised with military intent, would have been useful. Without presuming to declare exactly what general plan of assistance to the poor should be determined upon and carried out, we may atleast remind the public that the general opening of soup kitchens has operated with devastate whole districts | furnished with an obvious occasion to apply its means to the one Common object of feed- ing the hungry. An organization for soup kitchens, out of which no one could hope to make any money, and which would supply free to all comers, at all times, a bow! of good, nutritious soup and a loaf of bread, could be readily carried through the winter by our get the generous aid thus given. The Death of Strauss. According to a cable despatch of this morn- ing Dr. David Strauss, the well known com- poser of the ‘Leben Jesu," a work which, more than any other of its kind, has affected the religious thought of the last half century, is no more. After Baur he was the most prominent teacher of the Tiibingen school, a school which, under the guise and garb of re- ligion, laboriously worked to sap the founda- tions of the Christian faith. The Tibingen school is now almost forgotten; but its fruits, which are abundant, remain. Its influence spread rapidly over Germany, and was eagerly eaught in England and the United States. A serious revolution was threatened in the re- ligious world. Of all the books directly emanating from the Tiibingen school Strauss’ important and the most influential. The churches were indignant. Replies to Strauss taxed the ingenuity of college professors and formed the themes of students’ essays. Lives of Christ in reply to the great heresiarch were preached from every pulpit and lectured from many a platform. Whatever his faults, Strauss, more than any | man who has lived during the last half cen- | tury, has made the religious world debtor to his memory. To him we owe the incom- parable work of Neander—a storehouse to all future laborers in the same field. To the same source, also, we are indebted for that very fanciful ‘Life of Christ’’ by the French Rénan, for “Ellicott’s Historical Lectures” on the same subject, for Hanna’s “Life of Christ,” for ‘Ecce Homo,” for ‘Ecce Deus,” and for innumerable other works, all of which have had the effect of bringing out more dis- tinctly the divine and human elements in the life and character of Him who called Him- self the Son of Man. Born in 1808, the great German neologist lived to a good old age. After the publication of Rénan’s work he altered and republished his ‘Life of Christ,’”’” but the new work was marked rather by con- densation than by any change of sentiment. Strauss is gone; but Christianity lives, and is stronger rather than weaker because of the labors he devoted to accomplish its destruc- tion. A Model American. When men die there is, happily, among their surviving friends a unanimity as to their virtues and a spontaneous appreciation of kindly and endearing qualities, James W. Gerard has passed away. His was truly a noble life—a model one. He made his own fame as a scholar, as his ancestors had made for him a downy social position and a amooth pathway to fortune. Beginning at the bar as & modest advocate, he became one of the brightest ornaments of his profession and retired from active duty only when he consid- ered that self-denial was a duty to others although a deprivation to himself. Citizens of New York have been accustomed to welcome his genial smile at all gatherings where any great public aim could be subserved, and thousands of the scheol children of the city have regarded him as_ their patron, indeed as the father of New York’s common schools. It can be said of him that he was unselfish, devoid of any ambitious self-glory, that he never accepted office as a political recompense, and that in all his relations in life he was that rare man in our institutions—a true republican. The tributes of respect to his memory, published elsewhere, from the Bench and Bar, while they are a poor compensation for his loss, teach the lesson of recognition which a useful and an honorable life can command from a community to whose interests it has been de- voted. Tue Istz or Astatic Crvmization.—‘The quickest time on record” is the achievement of the Vasco da Gama, coming from Yokohama to San Francisco in eighteen days and twenty- three hours. On the smooth Pacific, although the passage may seem extraordinary, it de- serves no special commendation, because a swift steam service has never been encouraged in those waters. We are of the opinion that sixteen days could be made “the quickest time on record.” The news brought to San Francisco by the Vasco di Gama is of an im- portant character. Japan is undergoing a revolution, and, happily for the United States, our Minister is the only diplomatic represen- tative respected in the transition, That is to say, Japanese civilizers aim at American civil- ization. Mz. Bourweut’s Nationa, Bank Restrary- 1NG Brit, which was introduced in the Senate yesterday and referred to the Finance Com- mittee, prohibits the national banks from paying or receiving interest on deposits and requires them to keep seventy-five per cent of their reserves at home. These are both good | provisions and would go far to prevent such disasters as the country endured during the late panic. The financial and industrial distress at that time was greatly aggravated through the banks grasping after deposits by paying interest on them, by the country banks | loaning their deposits at a higher rate of in- terest to the city banks and for Wall street | speculations, and through transferring their | reserves in the same way and for a like pur- pose. The consequence was that their re- sources being away from home and not realizable in the general scare, they could neither meet demands upon them nor afford relief to the business communities in their | several neighborhoods. This is one of the | best measures out of a great number intro- | duced this session of Congress, and ought to be passed. | Pamape.paia Corres boston in the matter of female members of the School Board, only the former begins by disregarding the nomi- nations of the primaries, preferring not to wait till after the election. And Philadelphia eclipses Boston in a want of gullantry to the sex, even forging the name of one of the lady candidates to a letter of declination in order to get a genuine declination from the others. Women in politics seem to have no chance s supply ample to satisfy tho hunger of all the | good effect in many cities hitherto; and by | against the bad manners of men, and the the establishment of suchplaces tho public is | etiquette of the drawing room must be in- Stasving poor in the city. opulent people, and the poor would never for- } “Life of Christ” was unquestionably the most | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET troduced into ward meetings before they can succeed. The Elections in Great Britain. It is now no longer a disputable question whether the present election contest has gone against Mr. Gladstone and the liberal party as he represented it, The promise now is that parties will be almost equally divided, and the question is not s0 much whether Mr. Gladstone will be able to remain in office as whether he will resign now or wait until Parliament reassembles, The London Times, a not unfaithful index of the ruling sentiment, advises the resignation of the Ministry in the interval between the conclusion of the election and the reassem- bling of Parliament. Mr. Gladstone's defeat and the causes thereof constitute one of the most interesting problems of the hour. Five years ago how popular and how powerful he was! In the interval, at the head of a great party, he has been able to un- dertake and accomplish great work. He has attacked two ancient Irish grievances. The Irish Church establishment has gone, and Irish land tenure has been modified in the interest of the farmer and peasant class. An | attempt at reform in the higher spheres of Irish education, although it proved a failure, was as bold and noble as it was just. While doing so much for Ireland he found time to think of the British Army and of the educa- tional interests of England and Scotland; and the abolition of purchase in the army, as well as the educational measures for the two king- doms, gave proof of his good intentions for the welfare of the Empire. Good intentions, however, do not always take the shape of sat- isfactory results, and well-meaning sometimes proves a failure. All this Mr. Glad- stone knows to-day. His Irish Church reforms frightened the Church of England, his land tenure and army reform disgusted the aristocracy, and his educational measures had the bad fault that, while they pleased no party, they offended all. Unhappily, too, Mr. Gladstone has not been able to fulfil his prom- ise to reduce the national expenditure. He cultivated peace with the United States against the will and wishes of the tories, he found no cause of war against Russia in the matter of Khiva, but he made war against the Ashan- tees, and for this war against the ‘‘man and the brother’’ the tories indict him. Periodi- cally England wants a change of government, and the constitution happily makes such change easy of accomplishment. England was tired of Palmerston before Palmerston died. England is tired of Gladstone while Gladstone lives. The two régimes together have given the British people almost a surfeit of so-called liberalism. The turn of the tide promises to give toryism its opportunity. We shall soon know whether tory courage and ability are equal to the-occasion. Our New Printing Presses. Without the aid of labor-saving machines a newspaper like the Hznaup could not be far- nishéd daily to the public with the rapidity and cheapness which are essential quali- ties of news supply to-day. Whenever an invention is perfected which promises greater efficiency in the mechanical de- partment of a newspaper the Heratp hastens to place it at the service of the public. Some years ago we adopted the Hoe printing press, which excited wonder and admiration by the rapidity and accuracy with which it turned out thousands of printed sheets by the hour. But the performance of even so modern an invention is surpassed by that of an improved Bullock self-feeding printing press, which we put into use with good results yesterday. This machine prom- ises to do double the work of the Hoe press. It prints a quadruple sheet of the Henan at one impression, and needs the attendance of three men only, while the Hoe press requires fifteen to work it effectively, The Bullock press is fed froma wéb, the sheet is printed on both sides, cut off and deposited on the receiver a perfect Henatp, Twenty thousand papers can be printed by the hour. This wonderful machine is remarkably compact, occupying about one-fourth the space of the Hoe press, Every portion of the machinery is under the eye of the press- man, who can easily detect and correct any irregularity. In addition to its other good qualities it is solid and simple in construc. tion. There are only nineteen gear wheels, so that the danger of its getting out of order is very small The process of saturating the paper is very simple, and the delivery of the printed sheets is effected with a precision not attained in any other system. Single or quadruple issues of the Hzraxp can be printed at pleasure, and every paper deposited on the receiver is courted by a register. If the Bul- lock press stands the test of time and proves as efficient as our experiments give reason to expect it will effect a considerable reduction in the cost of printing. It is calculated that the Henaxp will save fifty thousand dollars yearly in the cost of printing by substituting it for the older printing presses, An Apsvrp Mzasvre Pzoposep mn Con- Grkss,—Mr. Smith, a Representative from North Carolina, introduced a bill yesterday in the House to repeal the internal revenue tax on whiskey and tobacco, There is little chance of such a measure passing Congress, and we only notice its introduction to show ita absurdity and the utter lack of statesman- ship in some of the men sent to Washington. Of all things whiskey and tobacco should be taxed tothe utmost that they will bear and that will admit of the revenue being collected. They are entirely luxuries and their use injurious to the people. Great Britain raises the greater part of her revenue from a few such articles. If the revenue could be hon- estly collected it would be better to increase than to diminish the tax on tobacco and whiskey. Tae Avropsy or THe Deap SramEse Twins has not yet been commenced at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, and if the medical men desire to adhere to the severe contract with the widows Bunker and avoid legal proceedings for heavy dam- ages it is clear the work before them is both difficult and responsible. Ac- cording to our special despatch printed elsewhere this morning, the advisers to the relatives of these wonderful huinan curiosi- ties make it incumbent on the surgeons that the ligament connecting the two bodies shall not be severed in front, but that all dissection shall be performed from the rear, every in- cision to be carefully filled. [pense for rents and fittings, and in sucha “What Will the Newspapers Do” This question is asked by a correspondent in to-day’s Hznaup, who professes to be ‘a Giver” to the poor, and who thinks that the newspaper establishments of the city should “unite with their readers in the work of charity, not only by words but by deeds.” Tho benefits rendered by the press in a season of distress such as the present cannot be measured by dollars and cents. The news- papers direct public attention to the sufferings of the people, and are instrumental in organ- izing the work of charity and making it effi- cient, Without the aid of the newspapers the extent of the existing destitution would be unknown to a majority of the people, and the relief afforded would be so much the less. At the same time it is true, as our corre- Spondent suggests, that “it is the duty of every one not in want to give out of his abundance for feeding the poor.” Recog- nizing this duty, the attachés of the several departments of the Henan, literary, clerical and mechanical, are pre- pared to contribute one thousand dollars toward the object of “teeding the hungry.” The amount will be paid toward any practical method of carrying out the desired object. We have no doubt that the employés in the other city newspapers will gladly contribute to such a fund, and their united donations will be a valuable addition to the more important ser- vices they all render in the cause of charity. ‘There are some twenty morning and evening dailies published in this city, besides a large number of weeklies, and if all of these should contribute according to their means a sum of money could be raised which, distributed under the auspices of a committee that would be satisfactory to all—such, for instance, as the Executive Committee of the Associated Press—could be made to relieve a great arhount of that pressing and immediate distress which we all so much deplore, Soup Kitchens for the Sstarving— Where Shall They Be Located? We give a great amount of money for charity in New York. Our public institutions are creditable, our private benevolence is pro- verbial. There has been, up to the present time, less street begging and less visible signs of want in this city than in any other city of equal population in the world. But to spend the money that is given in charity wisely and beneficially is as important as the act of giv- ing. If the liberal sums contributed for charity were all spent in such a manner as to insure that the aid they are competent to ren- der would be applied promptly to cases of real suffering, the good they would accomplish | would be much greater than it is, No doubt everybody who gives to the poor or raises funds for their relief means well and acts with asincere desire to doas much good as possi- ble. But there is a homely saying that “while the grass grows the steed starves,"’ and it is questionable whether circumlocution and delay do not seriously interfere with the practical benefits that ought to flow from the ample charity of our citizens, -The most practical plan for instant relief in the direction most needed is that which proposes the establishment of free soup kitchens throughout the city. Hunger is the greatest of all the evils of poverty. To givea man a hearty, wholesome meal is, in fact, to clothe and warm him as well as to feed him; for cold can be borne when the appetite is satisfied. Besides, the food furnished by soup kitchens is nourishing and strengthen- ing, and does much to avert disease and suf- fering, especially among poor women and children. The question is how to start these soup kitchens promptly, without great ex- manner that their number may enable every hungry pauper to be fed, and their loca- tion be easy of access and readily ascer- tained. No better plan suggests itself than to open a soup house in every police station and engine house in tho city. There are nearly forty station houses and about sixty engine and hook and ladder houses in New York, and these are necessarily well located and evenly distributed. If soup houses should be connected with them any policeman or fireman could readily direct inquirers to them, and they would soon be- come known to the poor of the several dis- tricts, Rent would be saved, and the police would be in great measure the distributors of the great charity. The city is directly inter- ested in the work, although it will probably, if carried out, be mainly through private char- ity; hence there could be no objection to the proposition. The poor wretches who are driven to seek a night's lodging in the station house would then obtain a meal instead of going to bed hungry, and the sta- tion and engine houses, being open day and night, would be accessible at all hours. It would, besides, facilitate the immediate open- ing of the soup houses without wasting time to search for and fit up other premises, and, as the destitution in the city is fearful and is on the increase, it is desirable that this effec- tive and humane plan of instant relief should be put into operation as speedily as possible. We therefore strongly urge upon our authori-~ ties the propriety of taking such action as may be necessary to authorize the opening of soup houses in the station and engine houses of the city, and we call upon the charitably disposed and the managers of charitable societies to apply the funds they contribute or raise to this desirable object. In no other manner can the sufferings of our starving thousands be so promptly and so mercifully allayed. Praying in the Highways and By- ways. If it be deemed possible and proper to “storm the walls of Heaven with prayer” there can be no good reason why the women of Ohio should not make the attempt against more ac- cessible places, and they are to be congratu- lated if by so ready a method they succeed in getting rid of a great evil Propriety and the notions of feminine delicacy are not to be considered in the case, inasmuch as it involves one of those queer departures from the com- monplace that may be called ridiculous if they ultimately fail, but which if they succeed take rank as the great moral frenzies that are superior to the operations of human reason. Judgment must therefore be suspended on these singular outbursts till the results ore known, and meanwhile it may be conceded that it is no greater harm for # woman to kneel on the sidewalk than for her husband to take his case at fall levgth in, “Tithe gutter ;" while stickiers for propriety may amuse themselves with pondoring over the self-sacrifice of the women who venture on the one in the hope of saving their lords from the other. It is said to be the intention of the liquor dealers to stand legally on their rights and to put up against the State law suppressing the trade the fact that it pays a tax to the general government and thus seems authorized. That, however, bas already been decided on this side of the Continent by the decision that the tax was an impost merely on traffic found in existence, but did not license it, The Duty of the Merchants. And let the merchants also do something for the poor—not by mere individual action, but by united effort. Most of our merchants are benevolent, we know, and give largely for every worthy object, but they are often too busy to extend their charities or find time to give only in cases where a special appeal is made to them. Now isa time for them not only to think of giving, but to unite and be active in giving. To feed the poor at this time is not a simple charity, but a case where giving becomes a duty. Will our merchants take united action and contribute to a cause which is the highest cause of humanity? If they will hold meetings of the different branches of trade—the importers and job- bers in the various lines of business, and the retailers who make so much of their profita out of the poorer classes—they can do an immense deal of good. Within o week our merchants, who form 60 large a part of this commercial city, can raise money enough to drive absolute want from the doors of all. The destitution in the city is terrible, not only for the need of bread, but for the want of fire and clothing. Labor is notabundant, and while it continues depressed the poor must suffer. We expect to see the mercantile part of the community do much to relieve the suffering which otherwise will be extreme. Amsrriovs SraTesmMeN.—Connecticut has many aspirants for Senatorial honors. They are fairly described by our Hartford cor- respondent this morning. General Hawley seems to be the coming man, as ex-Governor Jewell has gone to St. Petersburg and ex- Governor Buckingham has no longer the con- trol of youth and powerful political engines— if personal popularity be alone excepted. Te Repsxins.—Says o despatch we re- ceive as we go to press, ‘Evidence is daily accumulating that the Indians are being ill- treated on the reservations, and they contem- plate an uprising in the spring, and are even now swarming the prairies prepared for war."* This is interesting intelligence for those who would curtail the army, as the atrocities in our despatches from Omaha will furnish readable matter to economical Congressmen who would govern a continent without soldiers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Rev. Dr. Batterson, of Philadelphia, ts registerea &t the Coleman House. Colonel E. M. Yerger, of Baltimore, is living at the Grand Central Hotel, Professor J, S. Schanck, of Princeton College, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Captain A. W. Rafferty, United States Army, is quartered at the Everett House. Ex-Congressman James M. Marvin, of Saratoga, is staying at the New York Hotel. Professor W. B. Rogers, of Boston, is temporarily residing at the Westminster Hotel. Captain George T. O!msted, United States Army, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Wiliam J. Florence, the comedian, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-State Senator Isaac V, Baker, Jr., of Com. stocks, N. ¥., has arrived at the Filth avenue Hotel. ‘ Professor Spencer F. Baird, of the United states Fisheries Commission, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-State Senator Abiah W. Palmer, of Dutchess county, New York, 1s among the recent arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. : Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan, United States Army, who, with General Forsyth, his Adjutant General, has been stopping at the Fiitn Avenue Hotel during the past week, will leave to-day for Chicago. He was yesterday visited by @ large del- egation of his late companions in arms, veterans of the war, of various grades of rank, whom he re- ceived with his accustomed suavity of manner, Under the order of the War Department General Rufous Ingalls, Assistant Quartermaster General, United States Army, has resumed his duties as Chief Quartermaster of the Division of the Atlan- tic and Depot Quartermaster in this city, relieving Lieutenant Colonel Tyler. He will hereafter reside at the Filth Avenue Hotel, For the past six months General Ingalls has been absent in Europe and Egypt, under special instructions. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Gettysburg to Bear the Panama Ex- pedition—Changes of Officers, é&c. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 1874, The United States steamer Gettysburg has been designated by the Secretary of the Navy to take the expedition to inspect the inter-oceanic canab routes across Darien and Nicaragua. The Gettysburg will be at Pensacola on the 25th instant for that purpose. She is now under com- mand of Lieutenant McRitchie. Chiei Engineer J. Triliey has been ordered to the- Ossipee; Commander Oscar ©. Badger, from the command of the Ticonderoga and placed on wait ing orders; Lieutenant Commander Charles S. Cotton, Lieutenants R. Glover, George Talcott, George 0. Clay, Master Charles 0. Allibone, Ensign R. Mitchell, Surgeon E, 8. Mathews, First Assist- ant Engineer L. W. Robinson, Boatswain J. Bur- rows Feltx Cassidy, Carpenter Warren Bernard, and Head Sailmaker George W. Gtot have also been detached from the Ticonderoga and pli on waiting orders. Lieutenant Commander Henry L. Johnson hag, been detached from the Hydrographic Omice an@ ordered to the Canandaigua as Executive. Lieutenant A. E. Bateman, of the United States: Revenue Marine, has been ordered from special: duty at Washington to special duty at Portiand, Me. THE NAVAL DRILL, Evolations of the Squadron off Key West. Kary West, Feb. 9, 1873. ‘The United States squadron ts now drilling in the new naval tactics about thirty miles north of this t. Pot Consists of fifteen ships. 18 nad thet oe ATTEMPTED MURDER. Prosper Evans, of No. 422 West Thirty-fifth street,, assaulted his wife Jniia and son Aramond las night with an axe, while under the influence of Mquor, and wounded both severely on the head. A cry of murder was ralsed and the police rushed in, out before they had time to arrest the man he attempted to take his own life. He stabbed himself in the left breasg Knife, but not seriously, Aiter being removed to the station house he became 4a delirious that Captain McElwain was compeiled ta send him to Bellevue Hospital. with @ carvin, The police of the Fourteenth precinct made @ descent last night on the cockpit kept by Jong Mulholland, at No. 122 Mott street, Thirty-seved™ persons were arrested and locked ap in thi ‘th tion house. The prisoners will pe arraigued she Tombs Police Court wis morning. re