The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1874, Page 6

o NEW YORK HERALD STREET. SRVADWAY AND ANN ——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, + UE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Anuval subseription qear, Four cents per copy. price $12. | Letters and packages should be properly | communications will not be ad sealed. Rejected turned. a | LONDON OFFICE OF TH NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. j and Advertisements will Subscriptions he received and torwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volame KXNIX, ........ cc. eee cece ee No. 3 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ROOKLY MRS. CONWAY'S N THEATRE, i NA, OR, LOVE'S Mrs. Bowers BOWERY THEATRE, POMP; OR WAY DOWN SOUTH, ats PM, ML. Bowery closes ab LP. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 5% Broadway.—VARIBTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 7:45 P. M.; closes at 100 8. M, BLO'S GARDEN, Be nee and Houston stre IN LUNDERS THAN ONE. 8 P. 301M. Vokes Family WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broadway. er thirtieth street. LEAST SIN. at 3 P.M. ad PM. CIGARETTE, at 3 PM; choses at 12. M. FIFTH AVENUL THEATRE, ree » OLLINE, ata P larkins, Miss Ada Dyas i ‘Twenty-third { Closes at 10:30 P Iwenty-third street.—HUMPTY Si . and VARIETY ENTERTAIN Mj closes at O45 POM. MG. ke Fox. | THEATRE COMIQUE. 4 Broadway. VARIETY EN VERTAINMENT acs No. 5h P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P- ROOTWS THEATRE, NEW YORK The Two Great Intereceantc Lines— The Advanteges of the Nicaraguan Roate. The new movement for the survey of the interoceanic water ways on the American Isth- mus will be hailed with universal pleasure. ‘The supplemental exploration of the Nicara- gnan and Atrato routes by competent civilian engineers will deepen the already deep inter- est im the future canal. We may now look torward to this exploratioa as the consumma- tive measure for obtaining all needed knowl- edge of the isthmian orography. But, in fact, we may regard this canal problem as one | of ages, the grand issues of which have been practically settled and only the details leit to be considered. The Atrato route, of which so much has been recently pat forth to the public, has | been carefully popularized, and the energy of Captain Selfridge’s party, who surveyed it, has met a well merited meed of official encomium. The great rival route is now almost aniver- | sally conceded to ba, not by Tehuantepec, but | by Lake Nicaragua. The Tehuantepec scheme | has been tacitly abandoned on the obviously good grounds that the elevation to be sur- | mounted is too great, and the tainfall and water supply of the country are insufficient for | all the levels. While heartily rejoicing in the present ar- rangement for sending the civitian and mi tary engineers to examine and report finally | on the Atrato and Nicaraguan routes, we think | is now more urgent than ever; hence the that their task can only decide engineering points touching the great issues involved. The most momentous and controlling points lie outside the scope of auch a survey, and we apprebend the time has come to press them home on thinking Americans. The cost of a canal by either of the two | most practicable routes wonld, as nearly as f Tho usual fair is omitted, and instead the any estimation can decide, be about sixty mill- ions of dollars. If we consider the necessity of # ship tunnel on the Atrato line, its high | grade of one hundred and twenty feet end the untried experiment of such a mammoth | excavation in the water-deluged mountains of Columbia, the prospect is forbidding. Noth- Sixth avenue and Twenty-tlurd street ELE 715 Po Mecclowes at 1030 FM. Mra. J.B. Booth | ing, certainly, would warrant ao uncertain and WALLACK’S THEATRE, | formidable an undertaking unless the Atrato Broadway and Thirteenth street.—-MONEY, at 8PM. ; closes at Ll P.M. Mr, Lester Wallack, Miss Jetireys Lewin OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, befreen Honston and Bleecker streets. VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ERTAINMENT Holman Opera Troupe, at 8 P. M.; closes at HP. M. ri GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street—KINE VORNEHME ENE, at3 P.M; eloges at Li P.M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hail, Brooklyn —PAUST, at 8 #. ML; closes at li 45 P. Kellogg English Opera Company. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—CONCERT of Caroline Musical Union, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P, M Richings’ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 3 P. B.; closes at Th. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSK, ‘Twenty-third street, corner of Sixth avenue —CINDER- ELLA IN BLAC GRO MINSTRELSY, ac., at 3 P. M.; closes at 10 P, COLO: M, Broadway, corner of Thirt street.—PARIS BY NIGHT, at 1 P.M; closes at 57. M.; same at7 P.M. ; New York, Thaurstay, Fe 1%, 1874, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. SDORM IN IRELAND AND SHIPPINY: DISAS- TERS—SERIOUS DAMAGES BY THE BAL? TIC GALE—SEvENTH PAGE, RESULTS OF THE CONSERVATIVE-LIBERAL HUSTINGS BATTLE IN GLAND AND TRELAND—IMPORTANT LATE NEWS—SeEv- | ENTH PAGE. FEEDING THE HUNGRY, NAKED! A GRAND OU STARVING POOR AND BROOKLYN! FOURTH PaGE. CBEAP FISH FOOD FOR THE POORER MIL- LIUN—INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS AT THE WESTCHESTER CATHOLIU PROTEC- TORY—THIRD Pace. CONGRESS HOTLY ENGAGED IN THE cUR- RENCY-SPECIE BATTLE! THE WEST DE- TERMINED TO HAVE MORE CURRE! — THE FINANCIAL MUDDLE IN CONGRESS— Firra Pas. THE REMAINS OF THE SIAMESE TWINS RE- EMBALMED, AFTER BEING PHOTO- GRAPHED, AND PLASTER CASTS TAKEN! NO AUTOPSY ! PROBABLE REVELATIONS— SEVENTH PaGE. THE LEGISLATURE ! THE CENTENNIAL COM- MISSIONERS TO SERVE WITHOUT PAY! A RSPORTER EXPELLED—1ENTH PaGe. THE CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS IN CONV! TION! HENRY B, HARRISON FOR G ERNOR—SEVENTH PAGE. THE SECRET GOVERNMENT RAID ON ILLICIT WHISKEY DISTILLERIES BARREN ISLAND—THE PLATFORM THE GRANGERS—Teigp PaGe.} EXALTED RESPECT FOR THE LAMENTED GERARD! HIS ASSOCIATES OF THE BENCH AND BAR AND THE MASSES UNITE IN A HEARTFELT FINAL TRIBUTE— THIRD PAGE. CLOTHING THE ‘COME POR THE IN NEW YORK CITY 6,000 MEALS A DAY— THE ON OF THAT UPTOWN MILITARY PARADE GROUND IN | THE PROCESS OF LEGAL ADJUSTMENT! | EIGHT JURORS OBTAINED IN THE SIM- MONS-DURYTEA MURDER TRIAL—THE WATER COLOR DISPLAY—NINTH PaGE. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS | ON ‘CHANGE YESTERDAY—PALMER'S CLAIM ON THE CITY—E1GHTH PaGe. Monsmvr Tonsox.—The usual bill in rela- tion to insurance companies is before the Legislature. Will the companies please take notice and make the best of their way to Lim- erick? Tue Arncument in the civil cases against the Tammany corruptionists, in which the people of the State are made complainants, was commenced in the Court of Appeals at Albany yesterday. Mr. Charles O’Conor opened for the people and Mr. Elihu Root argued for the defendants. The case will be before the Court again to-day. Doctors Dirrer.—The American Institute holds its annual election of directors to-day. There is trouble in the camp and an opposi- tion ticket in the field. The issue seems to turn upon the point whether the last fair of the Institute was a paying or losing experi- ment, One side declares that it realized a net profit of fifteen thousand dollars. The other side asserts that it made a dead loss of twelve thousand dollars, Those entitled to vote will please poy their money and take their choice, route is demonstrated to possess extraordinary | compensative advantages over that by Nica- | ragua. Is this demonstrated ? We can answer the question now as well as if the present outgoing surveyors had com- | pleted their task and presented their decisions. Lake Nicaragua is a great and well main- | tained fresh water basin, more than three hun- dred miles in circuit, and admits of being | navigated by the largest sniling vessels and | | steamers. Itis united with the Atlantic by | the large surplus overflow from its own foun- | tains, forming the broad current of the San Juan, and it is separated from the Pacific by a narrow neck of land of light altitude and needing no tunnel Juan River from the mouth, where lies the excellent harbor of Greytown, to its issue | | from the lake is assured by the best engineers. It is known that in the last century the Span- | ish trading ships used to ascend freely from = | the Atlantic up to the lake, impelled by the propitious trade winds of that latitude. And even now the steamboat, so gradual is the slope of the coast, easily ascends the rapids. The adaptation of the river to canalling pur- poses is a simple engineering work and is of a kind which has been continually demonstrated to be feasible. Even where it has been tried | ona grand scale in China it has beautifully | succeeded. The Great Canal, crossing the | Hoang-ho and Yang-tse-kiang, runs from north to south seven hundred miles, and in every | part of its course it traverses alluvial soil, but never, at any part, is it carried through twenty miles of country unaided by tributary rivers. These manifest and long ago known and established advantages of the Nicaraguan route are reinforced by others which have been almost ignored. The Europe or New York to China and Japan or to California would on her outward voyage save from seven hundred to nine hundred miles by taking the isthmian canal through | aragua instead of the more southerly one | via the Atrato River. After entering the | Pacific at the western terminus of the Nica- ragua Canal such a vessel would at once strike the heart of the trade winds, in which the old navigators were wont to say they could go to sleep and cross the Pacific. On the retarn vosage the ship wonld take the anti-trades north of thirty-five degrees north latitude, and thus she would save as much time and dis- | tance as in her outward trip. | The meteorological conditions which pre- | | vail along the Nicaraguan and Atrato routes | are manifestly in favor of the former. The | Atrato Rivor and its watershed, taking all the | data collected by meteorologists, has an an- nual rainfall of at least ninety-seven inches, and probably in some years one hundred and | twenty inches, most of which water descends | torrentially. At Cartagena Ulloa describes the rain tempests as so impetuous in | their precipitation that ‘the have the appearance of rivers, and the country of an ocean.” While the original cost of the Atrato Canal might possibly not exceed that one by way of Lake Nicaragua the future expenditure necessary for repairs after as compared with the torrential rains of the Atrato Valley, Nicaragua is moderately watered. The precipitation annually does not exceed sixty-five inches, and even were it twice or three times as great the tempestuous rains would fall on only # small part of the canal, and would only go towards swelling the great lacustrine reservoir out of which the San Juan River is fed. Physical geography has long since discov- ered the beautiful and benign economy of lakes. They are natural reservoirs, holding back the water in time of flood and storing it away in deep caverns and littoral estuaries, to be discharged in time of drought. They thus subserve the purpose of a meteorological bal- ance wheel, insuring uniformity of sapply— the very essential of # great interoceanic waterway. Evidently the Nicaraguan Inke is the natural provision, if any exists, for the great highway of international commerce. ‘There is not now known a solitary advan- tage in the Atrato scheme which would com- pensate for or overweigh the yet greater political consideration that the Nica- raguan route is for wus nearer home, and hence more decidedly the American route, In all the physical aspects in which the two competitive routes have been or may be viewed the balance ia in favor of the more | certs and the like, the proceeds of which have The utilization of the San | ship bound from | streets | | the rainy season would be far greater; for, | HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, I874—TRIPLE SHEET. | northerly. The sacrifice of human lie in 16 | oemennes and maintenance, as well ax among those who would be exposed in fransitu, would be far less than in the case of | the Atrato thoroughfare; for, while the | climate of Nicaragua is comparatively salu- | brious for a tropical latitude, the Atrato | | River smokes under the very blaze of the | | thermal equator. It lies in a region of uo- | torious unhealthiness, the famous ‘La Sepul- | tura de los Europeanos,”’ and would prove | equally “the grave of Americans.” | As before stated, we heartily commend the | plan of sending the eminent engineers of the | country to report on the more minnte points | of the sarvey, Their report will serve to put | the whole question beyond the sphere of | dreamy speculation or Congressional talk, and | to transfer it, we may hope, into that of early and earnest action. ‘Tho great problem of Le Brun—what is to be the future highway of the world’s com- merce—can only be solved by cutting the isthmian canal. Whatever ought to be at once inaagura ia to be done Charitable Entertainments. Much good has been accomplished this season by the various charitable entertain. ments, theatrical performances, balls, con- | been distributed among the poor of the city. Many thousands of dollars have been realized from these sources, The necessity for relief efforts of those who are instrumental in ar- | ranging charitable entertainments and the | co-operation of those through whose liberality | they are made successful should not be relaxed. | This week a very enjoyable programme is { offered at the armory of the Seventy-first regi- ment, on Broadway and Thirty-fifth street. | armory will be open on Friday and Saturday | next, commencing at four P. M. on Friday, and the entertainments will comprise music by the regimental band, promenade concerts, dancing, refreshments, Punch and Judy shows, Valentine post offices and other | fun and frolics. Many thousands ought to | | pass in and out and enjoy themselves for a | | short time during the two days, especially as , the charge of admission is only one dollar. | | The proceeds go to the funds of the Samaritan | | Home for the Aged, a most excellent institu- | | tion. Similarly deserving of liberal support | | will be the ‘Pot-Pourri’’ at St. Cecelia Hail, | on West Seventeenth strect, at five P. M. on | | Monday next, the receipts of which are to be j devoted to the aid of the poor. All such en- | | tertainments should be generously patronized | | by our citizens. | Waker Broveat to Grrer.—It appears | \ that among the evidences of the perfection of | our federal system of enforcing the laws | + Barren Island furnishes a very convenient if | unhappy illustration. There was formerly | | Upon its sterile acres a fat-rendering estab- | | lishment, but carcasses becoming scarce or a demand for them rare, the property was put | { | to the use of a distillery, without the knowl- | edge of the federal authorities, we are bound | to believe, and immense quantities of whiskey | were manuiactured. This whiskey reached | the consumer without the tedious detentions | | of the taxgatherer, and it seems that a certain deck hand, believing this form of doing busi- | | ness to be irregular, told his story to the | | authorities, who, with one hundred soldiers, yesterday morning captured the island and large quantities of the contraband fluid. Soup Krrcnens.—Already a great deal of | good has been done in directing public atten- | tion in special directions where there was dis- tress, but pinching hunger is still abroad, and the need is fett for a more systematic daily dis- tribution of food in different quarters of the city. Are the churches doing anything? They are clearly in the number of organizations from whom society has a right to expect efficient service in such a care. All these bodies of | men and women, often in good circumstances, and at least agreeing on the large points of | Christian charity, might accomplish wonders by united action on behalf of the wretched | | poor. Shall we have some soup kitchens organized by the churches? Not long ago all the churches in London appointed a Hospital Sunday—a day on which to collect money for the hospitals of their great city—and it was a memorable success. Our churches might with equal good effect appoint a ‘Soup Kitchen Sunday.” Practicat Cuarrry.—-Perhaps the best and mest practical machinery ip aid of charity is that rendered by the press. Yesterday we published the case of Mrs. Ford, a widow with nine children, in a starving condition, and before noon of the same day the poor | woman had received sufficient assistance to | make her comfortable for many days—one giving a ton of coal, several sending meat, some clothes for the children and several sums of money. Ten dollars were received for her at this office. There is no want of a disposition to give, but people want to know where to give ; and any distinctly stated and well established case of distress is sure of sympathy and ample aid in this rich and generous city. { | | | | Tae Remains or James W. Gmrarp were buried yesterday. The best proof that he lived a noble life is in the spectacle around his bier. The Bench and Bar were never more fully represented on a similar occasion, and we believe it is the first time in the city where the little school children have so spon- taneously testified their grief at the death of a public man. Tae Leoriatory Is Puzziep Waar to do with the various projects for the promotion of rapid transit in our city. In all the schemes so far presented the accustomed nigger has been discovered, so that the virtuous repre- sentatives do not know what to do. The | plain and simple course is the appointment of a reliable commission with full power to erect a railway for the benefit of the citizens. It is the quickest and cheapest solution of the rapid transit question. | } Vinorsta Excrten.—Virginia is in a blaze of excitement. Governor Kemper is actually to visit President Grant. Indeed, he is on his way to Washington. He may even be at the White House at the present moment, We are told that some Virginian organs denounce the Visit; that others—the majority, too—spprove of it; that Mosby arranged it; that Jubal Early opposes it, and that Withers endorses it. After this we hope the President and the Governor may enjoy » pleasant time. No Aoubt they will, Governor Kemper smokes, f | | | political economy, alluding, no doubt, to ' resolutions put forth by party conventions, | cents when the glorious American Union was | Commissioners while the State Treasury was admittedly bankrupt and while The Conmectiont Republticans—Their Candidates aud Platform. The Republican Convention of the State | of Connecticut met at Hartford yesterday and | put in nomination a ticket for State officers which is supposed to be respectable enough and acceptable to the party. Mr. Harrison, | the nominee for Governor, was honored with | the unanimous vote of the Convention, and he ought to be elected if a persistent straining after the office, withont much scrapie as to from whom it may come, entitles him to its posses- sion. The remainder of the ticket is of o satisfactory, if not of a very striking, character. The platform, however, will need endorsement to establish the fact that it is the proclama- tion of a republican convention, just as the pictures of some artists require foot notes to indicate which figure in the scene is intended for a horse and which for an elephant. Indeed, the resolations read very much like a satire upon the history of the republican party. They declare that the ond of free government | can only be secured by the election of honest and capable men to public office, and by con- ducting public affairs in accordance with the sound and approved maxims of business and Credit Mobilier. They declare that ‘‘the States should be left to reguiate their own affairs without interference,’’ evidently re- ferring to Louisiana. They endorse civil service retorm without citing the case of the New York Custom House Surveyor. They disapprove any inflation of the paper cur- rency, passing politely over the questionable issue of the forty million reserve. They dis- | approve of subsidies of public lands in, the interests of private corporations, but without alluding to the liberal land grants | made by the republican Congress. So on to the end of the chapter. The ‘“platform’’ is one apon which any person and every person can stand. But, like all | other political platforms, it is the merest clap- trap—a few snares put out to catch the young | and unwary game. If the people would look | more to the acts of the party whose candi- dates claim their suffrages and less to the | they would better understand how to vote so | as to promote their own interests. The hum- bug of political platforms on both sides is, however, beginning to be understood, and it is to be hoped the time is not far distant when these unmeaning lies will cease to be ‘“re- solved’’ by party conventions, and when the candidates will be left to stand the test of the people’s votes on their individual character and merits. Patriotism and Poverty. There was a little scene in the State As- | sembly yesterday growing out of the proposi- tion to appoint a committee to represent New York at the Centennial Exhibition at Phila- delphia, Mr. Becbe, of Sullivan, desired to | have it embodied in the resolution that the | commities should serve without pay. This | called out the spread eagle orators, who spurned the paltry idea of mere dollars and about to become one hundred years old and to flap her wings triumphantly in the astonished eyes of a wonder-siricken world. But Mr. Beebe insisted that it was an outrage to think of squandering money upon itinerant Centennial starving women and children haunted the very Capitol and clamored for relief. The galleries ap- plauded the sentiment and the Speaker very Properly put a stop to the unparliamentary demonstration by ordering the galleries to be cleared. At the same time the House adopted the suggestion to make the committee serve without pay. That is right. Any one who goes to the Philadelphia Centennial, officially or unofficially, ought to be made to pay his own expenses. Rarm Transtr anp Stow Coacnes.— Peter Cooper, on behalf the Citizens’ Asso- ciation, writes to Speaker Husted, protesting against using the public money or the city's credit to insure rapid transit in New York. At the same time he agrees that it would be wise to raise a commission in whose hands should rest the power to decide upon the most practical scheme of rapid transit and upon the propriety of making the road a public work, like the Central Park or the Croton water. Well, this is all that the friends of rapid transit ask. Let a commis- sion be created to take control of the ques- tion and we shall get rid of all corrupt jobs and of all stupid propositions, including the patent second-story double-wheeled wire-roped well-greased line along the Third avenue. Tux Poor anp THe CxanrtraBLe.—The communications and incidents which appear in the Henaup to-day bring to light several additional cases of destitution in the city, and reveal more and more suffering. At the same time we are pleased to see that the subscriptions in aid of the home- leas and the starving flow liberally in, and that many of our citizens are aroused toa sense of the duty of a Christian people ins season like the present. We trust that the example of those who have already con- tributed wili stimulate all who can afford to give to similar acts of charity. ‘Tae Grancers.—The platform of the na- tional grangers, which we publish this morn- ing, has a genuine, earnest and honest ring, which sounds pleasantly on the ear in these days of political fraud and party claptrap. If the grangers will remain true to the objects they avow and the principles they enunciate, especially if they will adhere’ firmly and sin- cerely to their expressed determination not to allow politics to enter into their organization, they will accomplish all they desire for them- selves and do much good to the whole country. A Tenge Visttation.—The village of South Windham, Conn., is undergoing a ter- rible affliction in the ravages of smallpox. The disease has attacked every house in the village, and several deaths have occurred. Business is suspended ; the trains on the New | London Northern Railroad are rushed by without stopping, and no communication from the outside is allowed. The disease is | said to have been introduced by a lady from | Mystic, whose child was recovering trom the malady. The spread of the disease to other towns is feared. It is to be shoped that the panic which has evidently seized the people will cease and that proper precautions will be taken to orevent farther calamity. } | and the secret of that earnest devotion he has Reminiacences of a Veteran Politician, A few days ago the State Assembly tendered the privileges of the floor to Mr. Thurlow Weed, who happened to be visiting the city of Albany, for many years his home. Yester- day Mr. Weed sent a communication to the Speaker of the Assembly, acknowledging the compliment. Such an interchange of courtesy would be ordinarily a mere matter of form, requiring only a passing notice; but in the case of a veteran leader who, both as an editor and a dictator, has held the fate of ralers and the destinies of w great party in-his hands for nearfy half a century, it calls out reminis- cences of great interest, and becomes, a4 it were, a landmark in the political history of the State. The first thought which occurs to us, as we read the letter addressed by Mr. Tharlow Weed to Speaker Husted, is not flattering to our present State legislators. It suggests to us that the public men of the present time are | very inferior to those who were known at the State capital in the days when the writer of the communication was an active participant in the business of legislation, either inside or outside the chambers. We are disposed to inquire who, in the present Logislature, when a quarter of a contury has passed away, cau hope to be mentioned in such a list as Mr. Weed now advances to honorable nofice—a list in which occur such names as James ‘Tal- madge, David B. Ogden, Peter R. Living- ston, Ogden Hoffman, John C. Spen- cer, Avzariah ©, Flagg, Fronk Granger, Millard Fillmore, Francis B. Cutting, Michael Hoffman, Luther Bradish, Greene ©. Bronson, John A, Dix, Abijah Mann, Sanford E. Church, Albert 4H. Tracy, William H. Seward, Daniel S. Dickinson, Samuel Young and others of equal reputa- tion? How many members of the prosent Senate and Assembly could some future Thur- low Weed—if Thurlow Weed hjmself had any suecessor—hold up as models of able legisla- ters to the admiring gaze of our children and grandchildren in the early part of the next century ? Mr. Weed’s reminiscencos are always in- teresting. His memory is like the watch he recently so fortunately recovered—it steadily retains the impression of those who have been and are dear to him, notwithstanding the inevitable passing away of time. When he tells us of the survivors of the Legislature of 1824, half a century ogo, describing their several fortunes and present facul- ties; when he recalls with evident pride and gratification the success in after life | of those who first entered the political arena as adventurers with himself in the days when his frame was strong and his ambition high; when he speaks feelingly of those who have | passed from time into eternity, or whose in- firmities remove them from that active life to | which he has happily been spared, we dis- | cover in his words the kindly, benevolent heart for which he has been distinguished always commanded from those who have been honored with his friendship. His letter to the Assembly should be productive of some | practical good in the scenes among which his | name is still a household word. | Tae Conruncy Distrmurion Brow was de- | bated in the Senate yesterday, and the dis- | cussion developed much sectional feeling. | The New England States were accused of | obstructing the way of the Northwest and of the Sonth, while the retort was made that | when tbe national banking system was | organized the West and South would not take advantage of it. Mr. Morton described the people of the West as having to come to | Congress to beg for justice. ‘‘We have given you men to populate your West,” said New Hampshire. ‘‘Yes,” replied Michigan, ‘‘and you deny to the people you sent there the rights they would have enjoyed had they stayed at home.” Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, attributed the feeling against the New England States to their superiority in maple sugar and pretty girls. And in this able and erudite manner the grave and learned Senators discussed the ques- tion of finance until the close of the debate without doing any work or coming to any conclusion. Is the ‘distribution” proposition a subterfuge designed to misdirect public attention until inflation is ready to be rushed through Congress? We shall see. Axorazr Mopoc Arvam TsREaTENED.— It is to be hoped that the brutal massacres and assassinations by the Indians of the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail reservations, reported from Laramie to-day, will arouse the government to immediate | action. We must have no more hesitation, no more Modoc blunders. The fate of Lieu- tenant Robinson, Corporal Coleman and the acting agent, Frank Appleton, should be suffi- cient to induce determined action against | the savages before we are called upon to | record tresh horrors. | Tur Trapes Usions anp THE Srrikes.— | The operations of the trades unions published in the Herat to-day show the activity and j the usefulness of those organizations. At the | same time our account proves that there are many good, industrious workmen who remain, | for some reason or another, outside the unions. | The difference between the two classes | is that the workmen who belong to the unions must join “strikes,"’ whether they are satisfied with their wages or not, while the latter are at liberty to act on their own volition | alone. It will be seen that the capmakers continue their ‘‘strike’’ and compel the closing of the mannfactories ; that the cigarmakers have partially left work, and that the fur- cutters and tailors are thinking of following suit. A season of so much destitution seems a strange time to indulge in ‘‘strikes,"’ Lrxcoun's Bmrapay.—This being the an- niversary of the birth of President Lincoln the event is to be celebrated in a number of cities. In Buffalo the exercises will consist of a semi-religious, semi-patriotic pro- gramme. Though it is nearly nine years since Mr. Lincoln was assassinated this, we believe, is the first. time _that birthday honors were accorded to his memory. More Fat.—aA bill in the Assembly seeks to transfer the duties of the Board of Excise to the Police Commission and to abolish the former Board. This would give more fat to Mulberry street; at the some time would it not be well to make the Licensing Board a bnrean of the Police Devartment? eee ALCOHOL DOOMED. The Ohio Women Marching on the Enemy, COLUMBUS AND CINCINNATI, ates Intense Excitement at the Con. querors’ Approach. CoLumnus, Ohio, Feb, UU, 18%, A secret meeting of the State Liquor Dealers Association nas been held in this city to take measures to detend their interests or compromise with the enemy. The meeting, however, did not amount te much. No prominent members of the State Liquor Dealers’ Association were present, They seemed to give the subject the go-by. On the contrary, the temperance people are mak- ing unusnal exertions to bring a pressure upon the present Legislature. There wilt be a grand assemblage of temperance advocates in this city on the 25th and 25th inst, Mrs. Mattie MacBrown, Grand Worthy Chief Templar of the Independent Order of Good ‘Templars of | Ohio, head of the Order, telegrapns from the Alliance that she will be presens on the occasion, together with the Executive Committee of the State, and John Russell, of Micht- gan, prohibition candidate for Vice President in the last Presidentiat election, will also appear, The new City Hall building will probably be en- gaged for the two days’ temperance jubtiee, and » general turnout of the women wtiskey Warriora irom ali parts of the State is expected, A inceting of prominent iadies wiil also be held on Sunday evening to arrange a programme ior their temperance campaign, ‘The pian now talked of {a to consider each war@ as a town, and labor in each by singing and prayer. Some most earnest workers favor # com- bined Movement on the General Assembly. They favor a plan of assembling in force in the rotanda of the State Mouse, to sing and pray until the Legislature hear their cry, Government Attack on Whiskey Din tillers. CINCINNATI, Obio, Feb. 11, (874, ‘There have been curious features in the whiskey trade for some time past, which seem to have puzzled the government agents and of ficial, Large quantities of raw spirits have been thrown upon the market at prices jess than it is possible legitimately Manufacture it and the tax to pay for it, but it has been equally impossible to detect the frauds which undoubtedly exist. To-day a case was tried before Judge Irving, of the United States Court, which seemed to throw some light on the mystery, but, strangely enough, the govern- ment loat the case, Samuc! L. Herr, Silas W. ‘Turner and James Heck, distillers, and their bondsmen, M. Turner and Isaac Hay, were sued on their bond of $30,000 for frauds alleged to have been committed in 1867 by the remov&l of 80,000 gallons of whiskey from thelr distiiery at Brookville, Montgomery county, Ohio, thereby iu- curring @ liability for taxes and penalties of 000, It appeared in evidence that Silas W. Turner was only twenty-one years of age at that time, and served in the capacity of agent for the Dayton and Union and the Payton and Western roads; that he was also agent for the express companies, carried on a grocery and dry gooas store, kept a large warehouse and dealt in gratn, all in addition to running the distillery near Brookville, He bought 1,000 barrels of whiskey over and above that run through the distillery, an@ sold it for $1 25 per gallon to parties tn Hamilton and Cincinnati. It was not tax-paid, and when asked how he managed to avoid the tax be said that he paid the gauger and the storekeeper $1 per barrel to let it out. Joseph M. Turner testified to buying six or eight car loads of whiskey, or about 400 «barrels, and escaping the tax by compounding with the yovernment officers in the same way. It is inscrutible how the jary, in face of the manifest frauds, Jound a verdict for the defendants; but the fact that all their books were consumed in the ‘Turner Opera House, when that beautiful place of amusement was destroyed by fire, and that there was nothing to show but hard swearing, may have operated upon the minds of the jury, especially as at ap- peared from first to last that the firm was weax, the bondsmen rotten and the government officials themselves the rottenest of all. Remote as the cause is, in this case it servesjto showjhow whiskey is thrown on the market at less than honest prices, and there is no doubt but it is operating now as then. REPORTS FROM SOUTHERN OHIO and Indiana show no abatement in enthas. a concerning the Women's temperance crusade. Wherever the work is inaugurated the leading people of the community take hold of it, and once set in motion it seems to be seli-support- ing. Everywhere the reports indicate no lack of faith in ultimate success. Day after day women make their rounds, while large meetings of men and women remain {nthe churches to pray. Every- where the temperance crusade is the exciting topic of conversation. In Shelbyville, Ind., a lively antagonism has developed. ‘Ihe saloon. keevers served written notices on the ladies that they would hold them for loss in business. Next day an immense meet- ing was heid, and an incorporated company was organized, with $300,000 capital, to fignt the liquor traffic legally if other means jail. The ladies then prepared a reply to the notices of the saloon keepers, charging them with destroying the busiuess of the com- munity, exhausting its resources, adding to the taxes, increasing crime, and detending their right to pray for the removal of such an evil. In Muncie, Ind., intense excitement prevails. The day after the first meeting. and belore the pleage had been circulated, the druggists volun- tarily tendered @ pledge not to sell liquor for drinking purposes. Since then two saloons have been closed. One was ousted by the owner of the Pope dt 4 and the signatures were withdrawn from the petition for the otner’s license. Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, reparts a com- plete suppression of the traffic after two weeks’ effort. The organization is still kept up to waten efforts to open new saloons. Cedarville, Greene county, reports one shop closed, and that the work is pushed in others with- out visible success. ‘The same report comes Brown county. Propositions have been made to make efforts in Dayton, the result of which will be watched with inierest, as it is the first city of unportance w which the movement will have been tried. from Georgetown, Dio Lewis Stirring Cp the People at Springfield. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Feb, 11, 1874. The church was densely crowded this afternoon and the Opera House to-night, the objects which drew the assemblages together being to hears speech of Dio Lewis and to organize for more ex- vended temperance work. Seventy-five women visited the saloons to-day. One bondred and sixty-five more were afded to the Visiting Committee to-night. A ineeting for more periect organization bas been appointed tor te-morrow tnorning. The work has not fairly begun here yet. Tne movement enlists unlversal interest and meets with general sympathy, Lewis goes to organize in Lebanon to-morrow. A Strong Foree nized at Xenia. XeEnta, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1874. Four hundred women have enlisted in the tem- perance movement at Xenia. ‘The organization waa completed this noon, and work will be commenced | to-morrow morning. The “Wasserg perance Order with ization—Its Object the Extermination ot Small Grog Dealers. WASHINGTON, Feb, 11, 1874. A new secret order of temperance, to be called the ‘Wassergulld,” 18 being organized here. Ita principal objects are the urging of such legislation by Congress, and in the States and Territories, as shall greatly increase the tariff! and tax on bragay, wine and = malt liquor, imported, manu/actured and vended, and thus have a tendency to disconrage retail tramc by restaurants and restrict the same to hotels and drug stores. The pian of the organization contemplates the institution of a Grand Guild at every State and Ter~ ritorial capital, with subordinate branches in every county, and a Supreme Guild at the National Capital. geiteiaatinl THE NAVAL DRILL The Exercises Yesterday—A Northern Wind Threatening to Defer Further Evojutions To.Day. Froripa Bay, via KEY Wast, Feb. 11, 1874, The naval exercises were continued to-day. They consisted of tne forming hp divisions mt columns for pattie, and passed off with very satis- factory results, having proved, so lar as they be hrc sgise to Rear Admiral Case and er. vernere Naa been no breeze to-day, during the ex- ercises, but @ heavy wind 18 now, at five o'clock, up from the north. [t threatens to spoil the tuauavutres of to-morrow.