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WEW YORK ‘HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRU. NEW YORK HERALD) BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. {HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the | Four cents per copy. Annual subscription | year, price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed NEw Yous | Hera. ie 2 | QONDON 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. ‘Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING METROPOLIT io, $85 Broadway.—VARLE ENTERTAINMENT, at 45 P.M. ; loses at 10:3) P.M, Matinee at? :30 P.M. NIBLO'S GARDEN, roadway, between Prince and Houston streets —THE ELLES OF THE KITCH MC BLUNDERS HAN ONE. Begins at 8 } closes at 10:30 P. M. ‘okes Family. Matinee atl hes M, CIGARETTE, at 2 Lae nc page a ae nine Mw” fer" als P. M.; closes . FIFTH AVE. HEATRE, Twenty-third street and ¥.—-FOLLINE, at 8 P. {Closes wt 10:30 P.M Miss Ada Dyas. GRAND th avenue and MPTY AT SCHOOL, ENT. bexins ats I Matinee at2 P. THEATR fo. S14 Broadway.—V AK M.; closes at 1:30 P.M. Ma’ THEATRE, ty-third street.—-ELEN®, at 745 .M. Mrs. J. B. Booth. Matinee at jBrxth avenue and Iw ". M.; closes wi 10:30 P.M WALLACK’S THEATRE, roadway and Thirteenth street.—MONEY, at SP. M.: joses at 11 P, M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jefireys OLYMPIC THEATRE, WBrsawey, between Houston and Sleecker stree YAUDEVILLS and NOVELTY bNTERTAINMENT lolman Opera Troupe, at 8 P.M.; closes at li P.M. Biatinee at? v. M GERMANIA TH street EINE VORN P.M. TRE, {Fourteenth ME"EHE, at 8 P. M.; loses at 1) BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, gpeoette, City Hall, Brooklyn.—FRA DIAVOLO. at5P. 3 closes at 11:45 P.M. Kellogg English Opera Com pany. At matincee—BOHEMIAN GIRL. 5 MRS, CONWAY'S BROOKLY THEATRE, RT, fRVashington street, Brooklyn. —MARY at 8 P. 3 closes at li P.M. Mrs. bowers. E ANTOIN- b, at 2 P.M. ¥ TH v DOWN ALL, of Caroline | Richings’ closes at. M. Matinee at BO E WBowery.—POMP:; Of OUTH, ar SP. M.; ‘Closes at P.M. ST! puureence apes = mon, at ara. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS <0. 201 Bow: ‘ARI RTAINM [.¢closes at il P.M. Matinee at 2:40 P. M. BR nty-third str) ELLA IN BLAC. .; Closes at LO P. M zor -Hith street.—PARIS BY M5 Nah aL Pa i GHT. at + closes at 5 P.M.; same at 7 P.M; closes at 10 P.M saa } “ is ACADEMY fourteenth street, corner PRILHARMUN PooNCE RT, New York, Saturday, Feb. 14, To-Day 1874. EWS OF YESTERDAY. Contents of the Herald. | CARLIST AND REPUBLICAN FORCES CONCEN- TRATING NEAR BILBAO, SPAIN—THE AUS- TRIAN EMPEROR CORDIALLY WELCOMED | IN THE RUSSIAN VAPITAL—FIFTH PaGE. MOB DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE CUBAN CAPTAIN GENERAL! AN EDITOR AND A | PRIEST [MPRISONED FOR COMPLICITY— FurTH Pace. | FURTHER CONSERVATIVE GAINS IN THE BRIT- | ISH ELECTIONS YESTERDAY: MILITARY CALLED UPON TO SUPPRESS A BlOT— Firta Pace. HE IRISH RIFLEMEN ACCEPT THE AMERI- CANS’ CONVITIONS—IMPORTANT LATE NEWS—FirTa Pace. | GAPAN’S DIPLOMATIC COMPLICATION WITH GERMANY! THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINA- | TION OF IWAKURA—FirTs Pace. ‘WAB IMMINENT WITH THE SIOUX INDIANS! | 4,000 YOUNG WARRIORS MENACING THE WHITE PKONTIER SETTLERS OF WYOMING! RED CLOUD AND SPOTTEv TAIL MOVING! REUVENT ATROCITIES TO BE SPEEDILY PUNISHED—FirTi Pace. | PALL OF A PHILADELPHIA BREWERY UPON A NUMBER OF PERSONS! NIN® INSTANTLY KILLED—Firri PAGs. @HE FINANCIAL FIGHT IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! WILL GRANT BE GIVEN A THIRD TERM '—THirD PaGE. RAILROAD AND CANAL JOBS BEFORE THE STATE LEGISLATURE! tHE SUPPLY BILL— TENTH Pace. @HE GOLVEN STATE ASKS CC THE INFLOW OF “CHIN BOR!” CURRENCY h DEMNITY FOR THE REDS OF THE RESER- VATIONS—THikD Pace. QHE AMAZONIAN WAR UPON KING ALCOHUL’S GRESS TO STOP SERVITORS IN OHIO! SURPRISING RE SULTS—THE PROSCRIPTIVE SPIRIT—Tarxp Pacs. “SOW 1 HAVE GOT THE BEST OF YOU!” THE TRIAL OF JUHN E. SIMMONS, CHARGED WITH THE KILLING OF NICHOLAS Ww, DURYEA! THE EYEWITNESSES’ RECITALS OF THE TRAGEDY—TuHIRD Pace. FLATTERING PROGRESS IN THE WORK OF RELIEVING THE DESTITUTE OF NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN! WHAT WAS DONE YESTERDAY—THE STRIKES—SixTH# PaGe. Tax Press anp THE Poon —The appalling | destitution exsting among the poor of the | city makes it the duty of all classes to con- | tribute something for the relief of the poor. Gn this, as in all other good and noble work, the press should lead the way. Editors, com- | positors, pressmen, all should unite in the | great work of charity, and give according to | their means to the relief of the destitute. The | employés of the Henatp have already contrib- | fated, and if the example were followed by the other papers a handsome fund could be real- | ized. With one glaring exception the news. | Papers of the city are unanimous in their Sppeals to the public in favor of the starving | Poor, It would, therefore, be peculiarly fit- ting to establish a press relief fund, managed by euch a body as the Execntive Committee of the Associated Press. , ministration. always a proper subject for criticism, but in | | this case the motives of Mr. Dawes are of little The Condition of the Treasury—me. Dawes on Retrenchment. As chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means Mr. Dawes occupies a position superior even to%that of the Secretary of the Treasury on all questions touching the financial condi- tion of the country. When he speaks it is | with an authority which no one else possesses, | for his committee originates all money bills | and supplies the Treasury with the means of meeting the requisitions of the great rival | of the Committee on Ways and Means, the | Committee on Appropriations. Between these | opposing elements of legislation, each claim- | ing and generally obtaining the sanction of | Congress—the one to a decrease of the reve- nue and the other to an increase of the | expenditures—the Secretary of the Treasury | becomes a mere bookkeeper, trying the im- | possible feat of balancing an overdrawn ac- count. That the Secretary should fail is not | more to be wondered at than that the dis- | tinguished Mr. Micawber failed in the beauti- | ful theory he enunciated to Traddies about | living within one’s income, especially when we remember that both Mr. Richardson and Mr. Micawber have the same system of finance—paying one 1. O. U. with another. Accordingly Mr. Dawes’ great speech in the House on the condition of the Treasury was not so much an attack upon the Secretary as it was an assault upon Mr. Garfield and his | money-giving bills, That it is so regarded is apparent trom the outcry that is raised against it, the smart of the lash being felt by the party leaders who have brought the Treasury to the verge of bankruptcy. The Presidential campaign of 1872 was con- ducted upon two issues by the successful party—the boasted payment of the national debt and the promised reduction in the public burdens. Only one fiscal year has elapsed since that time, during which nota dollar of the debt has been extinguished, while the ex- penditures have been largely increased—how much we care not to say, because this is the very point in dispute between Mr. Garfield and Mr. Dawes. And we have the authority of Mr. Dawes for the statement, to which, we infer, the Secretary of the Treasury assents, that the close of the present fiscal year will show a balance of only ten million dollars, a margin insufficient to protect the Treasury from bankruptcy. This exposure, though it | has been apparent all along, is all the more remarkable coming from the source it does, | and it is not wonderful that Mr. Dawes’ motives in making a speech which bears so harshly upon his own party and the majority in Congress should be sharply questioned by | the politicians who believe in giving the couleur de rose to all the operations of the ad- A politician's motives are consequence if his assertions are true. It is no new thing in the Chairman of the Commit- tee on Ways and Means to favor economy. Since he has ocenpied his present position of leader of the House he has more than once policy of endeavoring to pay offa debt there was no need of paying, and to pay which we had no money, as the event proves. Our de- ficiency is due to the pretended payment of the debt, and we must, if necessary, retrace the foolish steps taken in that direction. Some millions more or less on the amount of the debt are of little consequence to the people, but its proper management is of great im- portance. Fund the debt in fifty-year bonds and every dollar of it will be taken at four per cent, and that fact will be the first great step toward placing our finances on a sound basis. The political consequences of a speech like that of Mr. Dawes are the first consideration with the professional politician. A trenchant exposure of the errors of the party in power, by a leading member of the party, instead of leading to a correction of the abuses, usually has the opposite effect. Scarcely had Mr. Dawes’ great speech been uttered in the House when we were told that the Washington poli- ticians thought it would undoubtedly be, in part, if not in whole, the leading campaign document of the reform opposition. It was | nota speech spoken in the interest of the | opposition. It was simply a plea for retrench- ment and the proof of its necessity. It wasa speech in the interest of the whole country ; | but if it had any party significance, for the present at least, it was in favor of the domi- | nant party in Congress. This party is the | only party which can give the country imme- diate retrenchment and economy for the future. Mr. Dawes’ words were especially | directed to that party whose leader he is on * the floor of the House by virtue of his posi- tion. If the republican party heeds his advice its benefit will accrue to the republican | party; but if his warnings are disregarded then the advantage will go to the organization that will grow from the ruins. A country that is bankrupt will have retrenchment in the public expenditures, if not from one party then from another, and the sooner the repub- lican leaders learn this the better it will be for the whole people. What the Business Firms Can Do. There should be a united or simultaneous movement of the large business establish ments of the city to raise funds for the suffer- ing poor. If such leading banking houses as Belmont & Co., Duncan, Sherman & Co. and Morton, Bliss & Co; if the large book and publishing establishments, as the Harpers, Appleton, Scribner and others, and if the large dry goods firms, as A. T. Stewart & Co., | Claflin & Co., Arnold, Constable & Co., land Lord & Taylor, and other rich and | extensive business firms, too numerous to | mention separately, would severally act at the | present time, an ample fund could be raised | | to relieve all the distress. They need only announce that one of their clerks is ready | | every day to receive contributions, and that , | they will see that it goes into proper hands to | be honestly expended, and the public would furnish the money. If even a larger | | sum were accumulated than is needed during | | the present crisis, the balance could be in- H vested and held as a reserve for future char- | protested against the lavish outlay it is a habit of Charity Experts to They Ca: ¢ Profit By. Mr. ©. L. Brace, ‘who has had an expe- rience of over twenty years with the poor of this city," and who in that time has collected about a million anda half dollars from the public in the name of charity, objects just now to the system of soup kitchens for feeding the needy. ‘They demoralize and pauperize the poor.” Perhaps the fear of thus injuring the poor is a good reason for consuming in salaries what the public give to help the wretched ; but we do not believe it. From the published reports we learn that the Chil- dren's Aid Society paid in the last year sev- enty-five thousand dollars for salaries and other expenses. That socicty has been in operation twenty years, and in that time has collected one and a half million dollars. Now, seventy-five thousand dollars for twenty years makes just the sum of one million and a half. How much, then, has gone to the poor? In the earlier years, perhaps, this society did not pay so many salaries, and the poor have re- ceived the little accounted for by that differ- ence, Not much there to ‘‘demoralize’’ any- body. Some very little soup kitchens might do more ‘tharm” than that. “What every one familiar with the poor most dreads,” says the same gentleman, ‘is the growth of the habit of dependence and begging.” No; there is something univer- sally more dreaded than that—something far more repulsive to every one familiar or unfa- miliar—and that is the habit of collecting money for the poor of which the poor receive from five to ten cents on the dollar, and on the remainder of which professional philan- thropists get fat. All the world, we believe— every one animated by a generous or charita- ble impulse—loathes that sort of character ; and from time immemorial it has been recog- nized as a creature to be.guarded against. In all countries it appears. In charitable Eng- land a pastor of the Established Church was lately sent to prison because he had been for several years making regular collections for a home for poor children, which home was found upon inquiry to have no existence. It is not the same, of course, with the Children’s Aid Society, for it does exist and does send children out West. That is known, for the public have heard how the poor little crea- tures were dropped as paupers in the streets of Western cities like St. Louis, and how some of them tramped all the way back to this city. Another “expert” in the pursuit of charity— Mr. Barnard, of the Five Points House of In- dustry—believes that ‘there is more danger this season of bringing upon us as a commu- nity the curse of mendicancy than that there will be cases of starvation." They have no fear that any one will starve, though many have already been days without food. Their only dread is that ‘the curse of mendicancy’’ will come upon us through money given to the poor which does not pass through their hands. There's the rub. ‘Ido not hesitate to affirm,’’ says this latest expert, ‘‘that there are now in the city all the organizations neces- 14, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Fresh Indian Trouble — Corres spondence Between Gencrals Sheri- @an and Sherman, The telegraphio correspondence between Lieutenant General Sheridan and General Sherman with regard to the fresh trouble with the Indians, published in another part of the paper, shows how well these officers under- stand the policy to be pursued toward these savages. Both are prepared to act with energy and promptly, and it is to be hoped that neither the Indian Bureau nor the Quaker philanthropists will be able to place any ob- stacles in their way. This trouble with the Sioux, General Sheridan says, we have been it seems now to be beyond any peaceable solu- tion. Since the Indians murdered Lieutenant Robinson and Corporal Coleman they have killed the chief clerk at the Red Cloud agency. The agent with the tribe of Spotted Tail re- ports that large parties of hostile Indians from both agencies have left to engage in general hostilities. General Sheridan adds that Gen- eral Ord was taking measures to protect the settlers, and that he—General Sheridan— would leave for the West immediately to The reply of General Sherman is character- istic. ‘You will,” he says, ‘be justified in collecting the most effective force possible;’’ and, further on, adds, “the occasion to give the Sioux a lesson long merited seems to be favorable.” What a practical com- ment is this formidable, threatening outbreak of Indian hostilities on the policy of Congress to reduce the effectiveness of the army! Scarcely has Congress determined to drop five thousand men from the rolls, and let the West suffer if it must, than the war comes, and it appears that the army we actually have is insufficient to keep the Indians quiet. The murders that have recently been committed by the savages ‘and their gen- eral warlike movements may, perhaps, cause Congress to hesitate in the proposed action to impair the efficiency of the army. The peace policy with the Sioux Indians has failed, and the war policy will fail too if the army 1s cut down. A Model Charity. A great many of our most estimable citizens are patrons and nominal managers of the charitable institutions with which New York abounds, and contribute their money liberally in aid of the cause in which they have en- listed. Children’s aid societies, Five Points houses of industry and similar charities claim their sympathy and receive their generous as- sistance. But, unfortunately, they have neither time nor inclination to interest them- selves in the manner in which the funds they subscribe are expended. The de- mands of business and the claims of society occupy their time and_ their thoughts, and they are too willing to trust to the reports of treasurers, secretaries | and superintendents for a faithful account of | the manner in which the trust has been dis- | charged. The funds thus fall into the hands trying to avoid for some time past, but | superintend any action that may be necessary. | Soup Kitchens and Their Advantages. At a time like the present it is necessary to resort to extraordinary measures to relieve distross. It may be conceded that to com- pletely relieve is impossible, but that society, in order to give the best effect to benevolence, must restrict its efforts to what is plainly possible. It is scarcely possible to give a good fire to all who are cold or to put comfortable flannel on all the shivering little ones, or to add good meat to the meagre fare of those who need it, for people who have any food, though it be not the best, or any clothes, | though thin, or any home, though a cold one, will not class themselves with those dependent on charity. Such as cannot be reached by simple, uncomplicated measures are without the pale of general assistance. Nor doesa public remedy propose to help those that can subsist without it. Society can at least prevent starvation, That may not be the limit of what can be done ; but society addresses itself mainly, as we understand it, to relieving extreme misery, and to do this, we believe, soup kitchens are @ good practical means, simply because they involve the least possible machinery and leave the largest proportion of money to be devoted to the purchase of food. No other system.of charitable aid of which we have heard is so economical in this respect. In great cities they have generally been opencd in some places connected with public service, as now it is proposed to open them in station houses or similar places here. Thus the charity escapes the charge of rent. As soup houses are the remedy for an occasion and are not permanent, the service is generally per- formed either by persons in public em- ployment or by the benevolent whose service is gratuitous. So there is but little to be paid for salaries; some utensils are to be bought, and save for that small reduction all the money the charitable may give is actually spent for food and fuel. Let those who look upon this as a small fact examine how the effect of benevolence is les- sened by the expense of administering ordi- nary charities. Ina donation now in process of administration Mr. Delmonico gives hia services gratuitously in the organization of soup houses, and this generosity is itself equal to a large addition, for the regular char- ity-mongers would in such cases charge against the fund the salary of a superintendent. It is objected that soup houses do not re- lieve a class of poor that are ashamed to have their misery known. This may be true, but is not shown by experience. We have it only as the opinion of some empty-headed specu- lators in benevolence. But if it be true there | is no reason why the charitably disposed should | not bunt up these silent sufferers and carry nutriment from the soup houses to their homes. But the police, we believe, are apt to know all such cases, and there is enough true charity in them to help such as keep away from a sense of shame, Another point is that if the police assist in the distribution of public charity—and their assistance is usually | | part of the soup kitchen machinery—the so- of secretaries, superintendents and others | with Congress to impose upon the country. In his own district, two years ago, he made a speech which clearly indicated the disasters which have since fallen upon the country, andif he did not faithfully stand by that speech it matters little now that he gives us a faithful account of the present and prospect- | ive condition of the Treasury. We have | found frequent occasion to criticise Mr. Dawes in other respects, but in this matter, certainly the most important which can engage the at- tention of Congress, his conclusions seem to be as just as his averments are bold and manly. It would be unkind, to say the least of it, to seriously discuss Mr. Dawes’ motives for making a speech which so clearly points out the faults of our financial system and the remedy for the evils. Taking it for granted that bankruptcy is | is a discussion of the proposed remedies. Ac- itable purposes. Each firm would feel the tax | | upon its attention very little and the aggre | | gate result would be immense. Then what a | | noble spectacle would our city present to the | | world! What an example it would offer ! Now | | is the time for prompt and simultaneous action. | A Goop Exampre.—The workmen at Mor- | gan’s Iron Works have been requested by | their employers to subscribe one day’s wages | for the relief of the suffering poor. The firm set a good example by heading the list witha large subscription, andas the men have | had constant work during the year they can | well afford the sacrifice they are asked to make. sary for the care of all the worthy poor, and | Taz Wax on Kiyo Atconon —The ladies of | Ohio are still carrying on vigorously the cam- | ; aii the T: , all that : | paign against the rumsellers. As will be seen | sg are caria haem local by the interesting letter from our correspond- | the only requisite is the necessary fund from which to draw supplies.” That is plain enough. It means, simply, ‘Don’t throw away your money on wretched starvelings. Send it all to us. We will put it where it will do most good, and you may be sure it will not encourage people to be mendicants.’’ There is one good thing likely to result from the present distress. It will turn the at- tention of the people to the administration of some public charities, and will probably ex- pose and explode some dreadfully rotten ones. | Our opinion is that the Children’s Aid Society will prove the worst of these, That society receives from the city and county seventy thousand dollars for educating nine thousand | children, and shows itself that it only has three thousand; and for the education of | who are said to manage them well enough to make them yield large fortunes to the man- | agers. There is some reason to believe that j | moneys is so great as to cripple and some- | times to defeat the object of the donors. The | report of the Five Points House of Industry | for the year ending March, 1872, shows the | actual expenditure on the poor to have been | fourteen thousand dollars, and the cost of ex- pending this sum to have been twenty-six | | thousand dollars. The figures are as fol- | lows: — Provisions. ... + $12,088 Fuel and lights 1,707 Clothing... 55, | Medicine an 76 | Outdoor poor and be 318 | Transportation OM bie siicicictinscind oo daleiilen veh ‘These sums may be said to have been ex- | the cost of distributing these institution | that three thousand it appeals to public | called voluntary paupers can be restrained and kept away. There seems to us, however, to | be an undue apprehension of this class, | Some supertiuous persons will profit in every case where charity comes to the assistance of the wretched, and it is our opinion that not the “bummers,’’ but the canting hypocrites who administer charity on fat salaries, are the | worst of these. Cuearer TRaNSPoRTATION FoR THE Worx- tNG Crasses is needed, and there could be no | better time to commence than in this season of distress, And why should not the rich street railroad companies, which have been given valuable privileges by the representatives of the people, do something to help the working classes? Take the Third Avenue Railroad _ Company, for example, which makes enor- | mous profits out of its franchise, why should it not reduce the fare for the laboring poor? ent at the seat of war considerable suc- | cording to Mr. Dawes these are three in num- ber—increased taxation, a temporary loan, or retrenchment. Mr. Dawes earnestly argues for the latter; and this is no new plan with | him. It has been steadily advocated by the Henzatp also, from the beginning, as a | necessary part of the policy for Congress to pursue in this matter. The expenses of every department of the government must be put at the lowest possible figure. General Garfield’s appropriation bills must be jeal- ously scanned. necessity, especially items looking to prospec- Every item not of absolute | | No quarter will be given to any one who per- | sists in the sale of any class of alcoholic | | liquor, and though in some instances the re- | | sistance is stubborn the ladies seem resolved | not to lay down their arms until victory has | finally crowned their efforts. | cess has so far attended their efforts. | Contest Between Inish anp AMERICAN | Rortemzy.—The international rifle match | | proposed between Ireland and America has been at last arranged. We learn by a cable despatch that the Irish Rifle Association has tive improvements, must be stricken out. The | accepted the conditions on which the Ameri- provincial cities must be required to wait for | can riflemen are willing to compete. A good their new post offices. New York needs many | deal of interest will attach to the friendly new buildings for the public business; but even the metropolis, with its vast commerce, must get along in cramped quarters till the country is in better condition to meet increased obligations. River and harbor improvements are out of the question. Useless offices must beabolished. Mr. Dawes’ suggestion for closing ports where the cus- toms expenditures are greater than the receipts is one to be honestly acted upon by Con- gress. Economy im public as in pri- vate affairs is the only method to make | both ends meet. Voting sway the public | money to the extent of even a single dollar beyond that authorized by the most rigorous economy at s time when the currency is de- ranged and the revenue falls below the cur- rent expenses of the year is @ crime. Con- gressmen must be made to feel the weight of | Berlin Court: Very little political importance whenever their record | public displeasure shows they have been untrue to the public interest. It is the fear that this will be the case that causes the outcry against Mr. Dawes | in political circles at Washington. We are told that be is riding the economic hobby for his own advantage, and Mr. Garfield hastens | to explain that Mr. Dawes puts his figures too high, thirty millions of dollars out of three hundred and nineteen millions of ex- penditures this year being properly credited to the Sinking Fund. But what if this sum was not included in the aggregate of other years? This does not show that the revenue is equal to the expenditures or that national | bankruptcy can be avoided without the aid of retrenchment. False pretences in financial | legislation will no longer answer the needs of the country. Plain speaking is a necessary step to straightforward legislation, and Mr. Dawes’ words, so boldly spoken, cannot fail to arrest the attention of the country, even though the majority in Congress should disre- gard them. But we do not regard retrench- ment as the only way out of our trouble; for | contest, as the Irish team carried off the | Elcho shield in the Wimbledon meeting, de- | feating the best shots of England and Scot- | land. © | Tae Ercutsa Warp is about to establish a committee to help the genteel poor who do not | beg, and to whom soup kitchens may bring no | alleviation of their sufferings. It is proposed | to aid poor roomkeepers with small sums of | money, to be used in paying rent or supply- ing coal. This is an excellent idea. Visrr or THE Emperor or AvsTEIa To St. uRG.—The Emperors of Austria and Russia have shaken hands after the little dis- agreement which grew up out of a review at Vienna. It is thought that the affair was smoothed over by the good offices of the ‘attaches to the visit, as neither Emperor is likely to allow his policy to be much influ- eenced by hollow shows which at bottom mean | nothing. | Tae Fortowrse Facts are shown by the reports we now have on hand: — Pr rad of Retuge for year ending December 31, 3 Expended on the poor Expended for saiaries. Excess of charity over perquisttes........ $27,798 | Five Points House of Industry tor year ending March, 15) { | Expended tor charity | Expended for salaries, interest, Excess of expenses over charity. = $12,000 | Total expenditures of Five Points House of Industry in same year..... eee «$40,516 | Amount éxpended on outdoor poor. 318 Has not the time arrived for investigating these charities and ascertaining just how the | liberal funds they receive are expended? Riotina at Havana.—The valiant Havana volunteers have made a riotous demonstration against the proposed levy, and were dis- persed by the police and military, The Cap- tain General proposes to send ten per cent of the trouble i partly due to the ridiculous | the stay-at-home soldiers to fight the insur- genta, and they do aot like it { charity. It has a newsboys’ lodging house, | supplied and kept by the contributions of | charitable people, and not a newsboy can sleep in it without paying six cents; so that people give money to furnish beds for poor | little wretches, and wolves in sheeps’ clcthing take the money and shut the boys out in the | street. And this society that shuts into the street on a winter's night any newsboy who has not six cents—this creature of well devel- oped benevolence—has one hundred and sixty- four thousand dollars invested in the shares of a Western railway. Tae Twenty-rmst Warp will open a soup house on Tuesday next, at No. 203 East | Thirty-third street. A visitation committee | will also be organized to seek out the poor in their homes and bring relief to those who may be prevented by a false shame from applying for sid at the soup house. Tue Cartist War.—The government of Serrano does not appear to be very successful in the campaign against the Carlists. Bilbao is still invested by the forces of Don Carlos, and Moriones, as usual, is about to attack them. He appears, however, to be much more formidable on paper than in action, and we have very little faith in his power to relieve the city. As the Carlists do not possess siege artillery it is not probable that they will take Bilbao; but the continued blockade aids their cause by the moral effect it exercises on their adherents through Spain by showing the im- potence of the Madrid government. Tue Tump Warp opened a soup house at No. 14 Dey street yesterday, under the auspices of the New York Juvenile Guardian Society. | The place was literally besieged by the desti- tute poor, but there was a noticeable absence of the bummer element. Most of the appli- cants were quiet and orderly people reduced to want by the stagnation in trade. Here is another proof of the necessity and advantage of the soup house. Tae Howarp Inquimmy.—President Grant yesterday approved the joint resolution giv- ing General Howard a special court of inquiry. | We hope that the charges against the General | will be strictly investigated, in order that the question shall be sotistactorily and finally settled. pended on the poor, although the ‘fuel and | lights”’ and “provisions,” no donbt, included | such as were used by the employés of the institution, as well as by its beneficiaries. On the other hand, we find the following ex- penditures incurred in distributing this four- teen thousand dollars: — | Salaries..... School and Printing a pi Stationery, &c jeachers’ salaries, F called the Z Incidental.. Interest, aulding speak for themselves. Are they not worthy | the consideration of those who give their | money so liberally for the support of Su- perintendent Barnard’s House of Industry and suppose they are giving tothe poor? | | Tue Worxrmc Womzn’s Home—How To | Use In.—A magnificent building has been | erected by one of our wealthiest citizens in | our uptown district. It is intended to be a | home for working women. The building is | not quite finished, but it is far énough ad- | vanced to be available as a dormitory for the | poor. It is large enough to shelter a thousand | people. A little expense on the part of Mr. | A. T. Stewart would make it immediately useful. It would cost little and it would re- | dound to his lasting honor. | Taz Tompxins Square Riorers.—Six of the men arrested for participation in the Tompkins square riot were yesterday brought | before the Recorder. The evidence against | them was very slight, and the Recorder, taking a merciful view of their case, discharged them on their own recognizance. Looking at the doubtful legality ot the action of the police, this is perhaps the wisest course to pursue in all cases arising out of the alleged riot. Metaes on tHe War Crams.—The propo- sition of Mr. Meiggs that a commission of inquiry be appointed to examine into the claims made against the government on account of property of loyal citizens alleged to have been appropriated during the war deserves atten- tion. The Commission could take testimony, in the districts where the property is alleged to have been taken, into the character of the | claimants os well as of the claims. There is a | general impression that many of these claims Early in the morning and in the evening when laborers are going to and returning from their work there might be special cars at | lower rates of fare for their accommodation. The saving of a few centsaday to them at such a time as the present would prove great benefit. Let everything possible be done to bridge over this period of distress, | and, among other things, lower charges on the street railroad cars, morning and evening, and by special cars if necessary, would be one of | the means. What say the city railroad com- panies? Are they willing to give the help they can so well afford? An AppEAL To THE CuuRcHES.—To-morrow re expect to find denominationalism, sec- | tarianism and every other term which | signifies division in the Christian Church, if not forgotten, at least overlooked. | Roman Catholics, Protestant Episcopalians, | Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Con- gregationalists, Unitarians, Universalist, whatever we call ourselves, we hope we shall be one. Whatever the names we choose or the banners under which we arrange ourselves, let us on Sunday give proof that we are, first of all, Christians and followers of Him who said, “Whosoever shall give a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple shall have a disciple’s | reward.’ Forgetiul of the reward and mind- | ful only of the duty, let the churches rise ta the full measure of their strength, and, through the channel which the world willingly recognizes as legitimate, let Christian liberality freely flow. The churches must not be beaten. To-morrow they will have their opportunity. May they be equal to the occasion! The people want bread, not @ stone. al Tur Rerost or THE House oF Rervae for | the year ending December 31, 1873, shows that there was expended in relief during that year sixty-one thousand dollars, and for salaries thirty-three thousand dollars, That is to say that for every dollar given to the poor | the persons giving it put into their own pockets little more than half a dollar. This is a liberal percentage even for those who look | after the spiritual as well as the temporal | wants of the inmates of a charitable institu. tion. Mr. Superintendent Israel C, Jones and | his associates, if they do not believe that | charity begins at home, evidently consider Tue Frrreenta Wanp, not to be behind in | are fraudulent. It is difficult at this date to | (hot one-half of it should stay there, the work of charity, has opened o free kitchen at No. 219 Mercer street, next to the police | decide upon the authenticity of the docaments upon which they are based, and the tempta- station, where the unfortunate lodgers can | tion to dishonesty is so great that every pre- | obtain a meal before retiring for the night. | caution should be taken to guard sgainst This is good work, and should be imitated by | raids on the Treasury under the guise of claims other wards, for property seized by the Upian anny, Tur Graxp Anmy or THe Rersiso is nok unmindful of the men who fought and bled for the Union. All soldiers and sailors who apply for relief at the Headquarters will be hetned by their old gormrades in. arma.

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