The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1874, Page 6

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M. must be addressed New Yonx | NEW YORK HEKALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1874.—TRIPLE The Pail ef Mr. Gladstone—The Con- Its Meaning. The brilliant summary of the English politi- cal situation which we print elsewhere, trom one of our London correspondents, will ex- plain the meaning of the pending elections | and the downfall of the Gladstone Ministry. | The history of the canvass, as seen by our | correspondent at the outset, is given with a | rhetorical finish worthy of Macaulay or King- | lake. We learn the hidden causes of the over- throw of the great liberal party, and see indi- cations, likewise, of certain political phe- nomena which hid fair to give unusual interest to the immediate future of English politica. When we. study these national movements from an impartial point of view we observe | social and political phenomens reminding us of the operations of nature. The tide that | sweeps over the shore is certain to recede. | When the storm rages in a neighboring do- ; minion we may expect dark skies over our + own homes. It seemed inevitable, after the | conservative manifestations on the Continent— |in Spain and France and Germany— | the coup délat of Serrano, the acces- sion of MacMahon to the French Presi- dency, the severe struggle between Bismarck and the Boman Power—that the British Em- pire should escape. Between England and the Continental Powers there are sympathies and alliances that wedo not quite comprehend in our American isolation. There are legends in English diplomacy which, however neg- lected, and we may say wisely neglected, by Mr. Gladstone, have a strong hold on the | imagination of the €nglish people. The pos- session of Gibraltar and Malta, the absence of French power on the Peninsula, the integ- rity of Belgium, and a dozen other questions of a sentimental character belonging to the Na- poleonic era, are still cherished by the average English mind. And while public opinion of the most truculent type would pause befdre actually accepting the hazards of war, even to retain Gibraltar and Malta and defend the autonomy of Belgium, still the legends re- main and are cherished, and have been suc- cessfully invoked’ by Mr. Disraeli. No cry has had more influence upon the English can- vass than the demand for a ‘‘vigorous foreign policy.”’ And yet it is a cry marked with in- | sincerity and passion. Mr. Disraeli will strive as earnestly to keep the peace as Mr. Glad- stone did. He will do precisely what his rival attempted—making a little more noise, per- haps, in his diplomacy, but really aiming to consolidate the greatness of England as a peaceful manufacturing and commercial Power. So far as internal questions are concerned nothing has been determined by these elec- tions except that the Country will have a season of peace to recover from the effect of | Mr. Gladgtone’s thorough, radical and, as his opponents were wont to say in a spirit of | irony, “‘heroic’’ legislation. However eagerly | public opinion may crave a reform, when it TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT ARMORY, | Sa Sco ae DERDere ee ec a SERIE Fourteoath street, pear Sixth, avenue.—GILMORE'S | ness. Reform means the eradication _of ; a _| abuses. Abuses have friendships, sympathies, | associations. When they are pulled up and | rooted out wounds and gaps remain. Time, Foarteenth SCONCE at Ri nth, street—CONC of Caroline Richings Bernard's Musical Union, at 8 P. M.; closes alo PM. et cena OTE atrant siti ae and comfort and consolidate reform. It may Nig ae aes closes a's FM" same at TE. a; | be necessary to take off a limb or cut deeply | into a diseased and unruly member of the | body; but the necessity imposes a time of rest | and healing. England is now about to enter = | uponsuchatime. The nation needs repose to accustom herself to many of the wisest achievements of the Gladstone Ministry. The new law system must go into operation; the Education act must be fully tested, and Eng- land must pause and see whether what has been done is wise before beginning any new experiments. This we understand to te the | real meaning of the success of Mr. Disraeli, New York, Monday, Feb. 16, 1874. TRI = THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. which heals and comforts all, is needed to heal | PROBABLE COMPOSITION OF THE DISRAELI CABINET! A NEW ASPIRANT TO THE PEERAGE—SEVENTH PAGE. GREAT BRITAIN IN A POPULAR WHIRLPOOL! THE INDICATIONS OF PROBABLE IMPOR- TANT RESULTS! MR. DISRAELI’S AND MR, GLADSTONE’S CHANCES—TuIREp Pacg. TRE BRITISH ADVANCE UPON THE ASHANTEE CAPITAL! HIS STAFF! NATIVE PRISONERS! EFFORTS—THIRD Pace. THE CARLISTS DEFEATED BEFORE TOLOSA AND THE TOWN REVICTUALLED! THE SIEGE OF BILBAO LIKELY TO PROVE A FAILURE ALSO! MORIONES’ ADVANCE NEARING THE CITY—SEVENTH Pace, MARTIAL LAW SAID TO HAVE BEEN DECLARED IN HAVANA, AND THE CAPTAIN GENERAL FORCED TO SEEK SAFETY ON THE ARA- PILES! ARRESTS OF RIOTERS—SEVENTH Page. VIVID PORTRAYALS OF THE DISTRESS EXIST- ING IN THIS CITY AND BOSTON! SOME OF THE SAD SIGHTS REVEALED IN VISITS TO THE SUFFERERS! THE CITY OF CHARITIES WORTHILY ENGAGED IN MEASURES OF RELIEF—Fourta PaGE. SPREADING THE GOSPEL! PULPIT UTTER- ANCES IN THE SANCTUARIES YESTER- Da! VICE, LENT, ADVERSITY AND CHRIST'S LIFE AND WORKS DISCUSSED— E1@uTs Pace. BRAVE WORK OF THE OHIO WOMEN! MORE RUM STRONGHOLDS DEMOLISHED—IM- PORTANT GENERAL NEWS—Tenta Pace. GIVE SHERIDAN A CHANCE! WAR WITH THE WESTERN SAVAGES A FUTURE POSSI- BILITY! THE WAY THE SUBJECT IS RE- GARDED 1N WASHINGTON ! THE MILITARY THE ONLY SAFETY—TENTH Pace. NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE FEDERAL COURT OF LAST RESORT! IMPARTIAL VIEWS OF MEN AND MATTERS IN GEN- ERAL! A PERSONAL 5KETCH—Firts Pace. FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN CONGRES AND FLUCTUATIONS IN WALL STR LAST WEEK! INFLATION OR REDEMP- TION! THE GRANGERS AND THE RAIL- ROADS—ICE HARVESTING—NINTH Pace. PROFKSSOR BLACKIE ON THE PROPER EDUCA- TION OF YOUNG MEN—A LONG ISLAND ANTI-RUM CRUSADE—FirTa Pace. AN EX-RABBI'S VIEWS OF THE MESSIAH— RUEVENTA Pace. PEACE THE SIR GARNET WOLSELEY AND | | so far as home affairs are concerned. There | are, no doubt, many fervid tories who, in the | exultation of triumph and the heedlessness | which so “frequently characterizes restorations | to power, will clamor for the repeal of these | measures of reform. Mr. Disraeli is too wise ‘a man to hearken to such appeals, and we question if, even with the majority which he | has gained in Parliament, he could grant it. The country wants rest, not reaction. A notable circumstance in these elections is | the compact body of home rulers returned from Ireland. The defeat of Chichester | Fortescue is as significant a circumstance as the famous defeat of Vesey Fitzgerald in the famous Clare election during the reign of Daniel O'Connell. We do not know the exact number | of home rulers elected to Parliament. The | leaders anticipated a delegation of eighty, but it will not reach that number. If there are fifty or even forty patriotic Irishmen, wise, disciplined and patient, in the next Parlia- | ment, resolved upon home rule or upon any | question of Irish policy, they can put a severe | pressure upon the new Ministry. The trouble with most Irish statesmen is that enthusiasm takes the place of judgment. Many of them do not exactly know what they want. Those | patient allies, as O'Connell was overpowered | by the gallant and impetuous youths who formed the Young Ireland party. We do not know exactly what home rule means. We do | not think that men as accomplished as Mr. | Butt and Mr. Sullivan know precisely what they mean themselves. We fear that there are not two of the leaders who have similar ideas of its meaning. But the election of this | delegation is the voice of Ireland protesting inst centuries of misgovernment and wrong, demanding justice, nationality and due consideration as a component part of the British Empire. If Ireland will continue to speak with one voice and not become dis- , tracted with the miserable factions which are mbolized in the orange and the green, if re- lgious “and social and personal dissensions that do know are overpowered by their im- | That the pictures of representatives in the present evenly balanced destitution in this city given by the Heratp | condition ot English politics will command are not exaggerated finds confirmation in the | an attention from Mr. Disraeli that they never words used in the course of a sermon yester- received from @ Minister of the British Crown. day morning by Father Gockelen, 8. J., of St. Lawrence's Roman Catholic church, ast | servatives have swept England they do not Eighty-tourth street, wherein he called the | seem to have made much headway in Ireland, attention of his congregation to the condition | Scotland or Wales. It would be an interest- of the poor, and declared that the Hinarp had, | ing phase of this reaction to find it purely if anything, underrated the widespread misery | English. Time and again, however, we have prevailing among the laboring classes of New seen in British history England arrayed York. In view of the destitution which he | against her sister States. In every such an- knew existed he asked that a relief subscrip- | tagonism England has won. Self-govern- tion be taken up next Sunday. We sincerely ment in Great Brifain means that where there hope all other churches will follow this noble | is any doubt England will govern. Me. qanple No Exsaoraatioy. | are forgotten in the impulse of patriotism, her | ‘Another singular fact is, that while the con- | LDiggaeli ages into power, therefora, aa a_,_gee that it is to be altogether regratted, Minister, representing the peculiarly Engl servative Reaction im Emgiand avd | °xtremo English sentiment. He has had One of the administration organs does SHEET. Release @ State That Is Bound. ‘Tee Only Way to Reach Rapid Trensit, The Revival of Business. Yeaterday the Hznacp, ‘as a quadruple sheet, many triumphs in his extraordinary career, | not think it ‘‘euperfluous to point out) ‘The public anxiety for tho solution of the | contained fifty-four columns of advertise- but none like this, which comes to crown and close his life. Taking the lead of his party defeated and discredited, overwhelmed and beaten down by reform agitations and revo- lutions, by free trade and suffrage, he has led it for nearly a generation from one defeat to another, every defeat a lesson and a hope—undaunted, uncompromising—until it rules the British Empire, and rules it in obedience to his will Such a career, that of an English statesman.in the prosy nineteenth century, is as romantic as any fancy in “Vivian Grey’' or the ‘Won- drous Tale of Alroy."’ _ How will the new ruler discharge his trust? Will his extraordinary qualities of leadership—his tact, patience and quick, subtle adaptation of means to ends, suffice to compose the affairs of a great people? Will exquisite political dexterity control the hundred burning questions now agitating the mind of England? Is it not possible that this very majority which dooms the Gladstone Ministry has within it the ele- ments of destruction? A majority may agree that Mr, Gladstone is too “heroic” and radi- cal for uneasy, agitated England; but will it agree upon any one other point? And when other points press for consideration, as in time they must, for politics, like nature, hath seasons of blossoming and fruit, can tho new Minister hold under his banner the incongruous majority that has given him em- ire? a the meantime the wave has receded. Public opinion, which rolled Mr. Gladstone into power six years ago, now ebbs away, and his rival reigns in his stead. Mr. Gladstone will probably accept the verdict of his coun- trymen asa retirement from public life, and spend the remainder of his days in the shel- tered splendor of the peerage. He is a weary, wornout old man, and may well crave rest. Whatever sadness this verdict may bring him, we feel certain that history will modify it so far as to say thathe ruled his country with genius and courage, and that in his high place he made a name second to none in the illustrious line of statesmen who have for centuries governed England. Charitable and Benevolent In- stitutions, The exhibit of a number of the charitable and benevolent institutions of the city which we have published for some days past is read with interest, now that attention has been directed to the manner in which money raised for the relief of the poor is, in many Our instances, expended. We have rea- son to be proud _.of the, munifi- cence’ of our charities; — but Sa essential that the money given for the needy should be faithfully devoted to thot purpose and not suffered to leak away before it reaches the object for which it is intended. How far the funds of the institutions are diverted from charity the reports will show, unless, indeed, we may. regard itasa partof the charitable work to support an army of distribution with liberal pay. In some cases we find that up- wards of forty per cent of the receipts is eaten up in salaries, and in many the expen- ditures do not seem to be so closely econo- mized as the character of the work demands. The Ladies’ Five Points Mission Society in 1872 expended $18,989, and of this amount $10,046 went for salaries, printing, &., and $8,943 in charitable relief. The salaries alone amounted to $8,720, leaving the impression that the institution must be closely connected with the Five Points House of Industry. The New York Juvenile Asylum in 1873 expended ninety-four thousand dollars, and declines to say how much of this went for salaries. The House of Refuge, on Randall's Island, as we stated yesterday, shows that the salaries reach over fifty per cent of the amount expended in relief. There are several other cases, as will be seen from the exhibit we give to-day, in which the money paid for sal- aries is greatly in excess of what it ought to be. The Northern Dispensary, for example, expends for relief $7,310 and for salaries $3,309. The House of Refuge, Randall's Island, pays out for charitable purposes $61,036, and for salaries $33,238. Some of the institutions make a much more creditable exhibit. The Roman Catholic Protectory expended, in 1873, for relief, $365,042, and for salaries, including teach- | ers’, only $10,374. The Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews disbursed $20,000, and paid only one salary, that of a physician, $1,274. The Roman Catholic Foundling Asylum dis- | bursed $150,489 and paid for salaries only $700. | St. Vincent's Hospital paid out $20,000 for | relief and only $2,000 for salaries. St. Jobn’s | Guild expended for relief $10,000, and for sal- aries nothing. The House of Rest for Consump- tives makes also a very creditable exhibit, ex- pending for relief $10,239, and for salaries $1,850. The Society for the Relief of Widows with Small Children pays no salaries at all, its | labors being gratuitously performed by the lady managers. The Colored Home, in Sixty- fifth street, expended $23,568, and only $2,775 | in salaries and all other expenses. The He- brew Benevolent Society expended $24,000 in relief and only $700 in salaries. We com- mend these reports to the consideration of | Messrs. Brace and Barnard, and of all who | that the only valuable contributions to the | rapid transit problem was never 60 great as discussion of the state of affairs in | at the present moment. Within the past few Louisiana have thus far’ oome from the re- | years the city has pushed up to its northern publican members of Congress, and that no | limits, and has already made a spring across democrat has made a speech worthy to be | the Harlem River into Westchester county. mentioned tho same day with that of Senator | The citizen has found, year by year, the dis- Carpenter. A not over brightdemocrat might | tance increasing betwoon his home and his retort that, inasmuch as the republican mem- | place of business, and a means of inter-com- bers had contributed so largely to the early | munication that answered very well when history of this flagrant State wrong, it well | Forty-second atreet marked the dividing lino became them to be esrnest aud lively in | between town and country has now become bringing it to a less disgraceful conclusion, ® source of bitter inconvenience. The ments, being an excess of ten columns over the issue of the previous Sunday. We men- tion this asan indication of the revival of business and tbe return of better times to the commercial community. The Hzraup has long been recognized as an infallible barome- ter of the city’s prosperity, and it is in no mere spirit of selfish satisfaction that we point to the increasing area of its advertise- ments as an index that the clouds have broken and the sky of hope and joy reveals itself once more. The winter of discontent and What the people of the country will want to | street oars’ and stages have had their day know ig—now that Congress is officially,| in New York, and an imperative demand advised that no governmént having a shadow | rises for an improved method of of legality exists in one of the States of the | conveyance for the people. We have already Union—what is Congress going to 40 | noticed with approval the scheme of Mr. East- aboot it? Will it redress the wrong and} man, now before the Legislature, and though obliterate a precedent dangerous to all the | in its present shape it is not as definite in its States, or leave it to fester in open derogation | terms as we would desire, still we hail it asa of the claims of political justice? The telling’ harbinger of along deferred blessing to the speech of the Senator from, Wisconsin is | gorely afflicted citizens of New York. We un- worthy of all praise, not because it weS.| derstand that Mr. Eastman is engaged in cor- brilliant, but because it unearthed the-truth | recting and simplifying his original plan, and and revealed to the public a “monstrosity” of | if so we would again urgo upon him to strike incredible proportions. Time was, when the country was still amarting under the hot blood of a hateful internal war, that military and reconstruction necessities were silently left by the people to supplement the constitution and the law in the framing of measures of government. Men began to believe that in the order of nature and the interests of nations and societies some period should be put to the most exasperating wars, and that at last a great government should be run in the grooves of statesmanship, and not wholly in the interests of party. It may be avery agreeable thing for the adminis- tration party to hold Louisiana in the dust while usurpers degrade her citizenship and plunder her substance; but it is none the less acrime against the general liberty. A true statesmanship never had so abused that State, and so through common sympathetic interests wounded the whole. It is not because New York is powerful in wealth and population, and commanding in position and influence, that the Louisiana cup may not be forced to her lips. France went to sleep one night free and woke up to finda master. Despotism is a thief in the night, and her chains are forged of circumstances, and sometimes under the very eye of vigilance. We believe that the key of the political situation just now is to abandon the rule of partisanship and to enter boldly upon the broad highway of stateaman- ship in the administration of the federal gov- ernment. Barbarian kings and conquerors might have taught our leaders wigdom and common sense on this subject. .-‘After a | people have been worried and wearied and torn by domestic war the first prepa- ration of peace is to bind up its wounds, assuage its passions and restore its strength. Rome comprehended this policy far better than our ‘Christian statesmen’’ of this era. No sooner had she conquered a province than her first step was to bind it to the capital by every tie of pride, interest and physical creation. The humblest barbarian captive was allowed to hold up his head and say, “Iam a Roman citizen,” and soon he could march to the capital of his country over one of those marvellous stone highways which were made the ribs of Roman strength by that wise people. Rome did not need nine years of passionate agitation and empirical statesmanship to compose the warm blood and define the policies growing out of a state of war. chivalry of statesmanship she held ont her hand and ssid, “You have fought well ; let us be friends!'’ And then, as before the breath of aclear norther, rankling discontents and smothered enmities were blown away, leaving If she beat an enemy, with the true | out the vague suggestions in his bill that ren- der it undetermined whether tho city or pri- vate capitalists shall ultimately undertake the building of this rapid transit road. Let there be no doubt or misconception as to whom the task will be entrusted. With five commissioners appointed by the Governor—and Governor Dix is not likoly to select any but those in whom the people will have implicit reliance—the city of New York can safely and profitably undertake the build- ing of a rapid transit line, The Croton Aque- duct and the Central Park are sufficiently con- vincing examples of what the honestly and wisely directed public spirit of New York when impelled by its necessities can accom- plish, Let the city build this road, and let Governor Dix—whose interest in the welfare and glory of this metropolis is no less earnest than that of any other citizen—be given the appointment of the commissioners who shall construct and control it. By entrusting the appointment of the entire commission to the Governor we shall have a more harmonious result than by distributing the selection in different quarters. Who can doubt, when the enterprise is placed in the hands of able and honest men known to the taxpayers, that the bonds of the road will be certain to find abundant purchasers? Let private speculators stand aside and let this road be the people’s road as much as Broad- way is the people’s highway.“ And finally it will prove the salvation of the city snd the richest material legac¥"the present genera- tion. of _ New Yorkers‘can bequeath their posterity. We shall leave, them a tre- them a splendid provision for its payment. If this Legislature fails to afford the relief the unanimous voice of New York‘ now calls, for, and strangles the measure which the general mind approves, we shall be compelled to con- clude that it is more corrupt and reckless than any of its predecessors, As for the elevated and underground this and that and the whole host of schemes that have done nothing but ob- struct and were never intended to be projected beyond the pencil of the draughtsman, the sooner they are consigned to the limbo of dead and forgotten things the better. The| public mind perceives what is demanded, and in Mr. Eastman’s proposed commission it sees the only reliable method of reaching the | great object in view. Hetpre Lrrmz Jenszy.—The bill intro- duced in the State Assembly to incorporate a company to build a tunnel under the North River to connect New York and New Jersey is not more than a quarter of a century in mengous debt, but we shall also guarantee | b misery is neur an end and the bright side of the picture is turning towards us. We anticipate that a quadruple sheet of the Heratp will become a necessity with us through the coming season of spring, not on Sundays alone, but often through the working days of the week. Gladly as we hail this auspicious turn of affairs, we trust there will be no cessation—no lessening in the impulses of an aroused charity for the poor. Prosperous times will not come upon us ina day, and many will still continue “to suffer through ab- solute need of the necessaries of life. For the next thirty days the destitution which exists must be alleviated by those whose fortunate circumstances place them in a position to help their neighbors. In a month or so the spring trade will be in full activity. Till then our duty is to the poor. How to Manage the Indians. Our relations with the Indians are apt to be varied by the two very different conditions of peace and war. In peace we deal with the redskins by means of those mysteriously oom- trived and altogether separate specimens of the human race known as Indian agents, who intend to make money, and are quite satisfied that any one else shall take the consequence. They cheat the Indisns, of course, for they obtain their places commonly with that . purpose, and there is no restraint upon them. There is but one remedy for the Indians, and they know it. So they kill somebody. As soon as an Indian has killed any one in cir- cumstances in which his tribe have a general share, every other Indian wants to kill some one too, and an Indian waris the consequence. Thereupon our dealings with the Indians fall into the hands of the army, which thrashes the savages soundly and re-establishes peace, only to open new activities for the Indian agent, that he may prepare and provoke new wars. Generally, no doubt, the Indian agent gets rich; but the making an agent rich at the expense of a war must be costly to the coun- try. It would be cheaper to buy out the In- | dian agents and all persons who ever wish to be Indian sgents with a million apiece. In or some other they should be kept in, ee ctremas Fae nace aol the managemont of the Indians handed over absolutely for peace or war to the army. | ‘There is more honesty in the army than in any other branch of tho public land service. Places are not sought theré from mercenary motives, and the sense of honor is cultivated. This does not happen in the circles from which In- dian agents are taken. Indian wars are un- necessary, and they are not economical facts. Once put the Indians altogether in the hands of the soldiers and these wars will be far leas" trequent. Ovr Specian CoRRESPONDENCE FROM AsHAN- TEx. —The special correspondence from Prahsu, on the line of march to Coomassie, which ap- pears in our columns to-day, reports the operations of the British army, under Sir Gannet Wolseley, against the King of Ashan- tee tothe 4thof January. The description is lively and piquant in the extreme, and the contribution full of information on matters re- lating to the mode of conduct of the war and the relative power and strategy of the com- | behind a pure and generous atmosphere | advance of its proper time. We shall, no most favorable to the healing processes of re- | doubt, have tunnels under both the North construction. We suppose that none will | and 4hg East River Thddae+ but before that deny that the highest interests in this country are. to be found, ip the, resto. ration of a harmony as complete as human nature is capable of among all these forty confederated States. Were it otherwise the late war was both a crime anda fraud. It was for the preservation of that harmonious union that the United States proclaimed to the world that it took up arms. This being true, too, the interest of New York and of Louisiana in the harmony of the Union are equal in effect, and differ only in relative degree. It follows that, until Louisiana is as free and as privi- leged and protected by law as New York is, the late terrible war was waged with- out effecting the result it was designed to bring about. Then, is not Louisiana a stand- ing and disgraceful monument of the failure of the statesmanship and the armies in the most fierce and destructive war of modern times? General Grant is surely right when he warns his party that strosities” that it must ‘unload’ at its peril. Then let the republican Congressmen not halt at smart speeches. The public de- mands more, and will not be satisfied with less, You must unrivet and knock off the | chains from the limbs of a sovereignty that has equal title with your own constituents to swing | them freely to the heavens. Congress cannot believe in that charity which experts alone can dispense, and which refuses to demoralize the | poor through the degrading influence of hot Tae Novety-stxta Reorment evidently feels | deeply the humiliating position in which it | has been placed by the action of General Sha- | | ler. In virtue of General Order No. 4 the regiment is virtually disbanded. On Satur- | day the non-commissioned officers and pri- | | vates met at the Walhalla, in Orchard etreet, | | and drew up a petition to Governor Dix, re- | | questing him to rescind the objectionable | order and reinstate them in their position as | soldiers and citizens. The petition is en- | trusted to Senator Jacob Gross, who will argue that it is too bad to punish a whole regiment | for the offences of a few. | | | Puttosopny or THE Cuinuse.—Some of our legislators do not like the Chinese, and yet | fancy they have not enongh of them. They | object that the yellow wanderers from the Flowery Land do not become citizens ; but | even when they die send their bones home. Well, what do we want of their bones? And if they are such wretched creatures, do we even want them to become citizens? We want their labor and we get it—cheaply too—and if | they will go home when it is done we do not , dragged away intoacorner. This is ‘your shirk this duty. Its demand is in open day, visible to the universal eye, and may not be funeral, Messieurs,” and it becomes yon to | get your dead out of sight and remove its odors from between ‘the wind and the no- bility’ of the people’s nostrils as soon as pos- sible. Until it is done the ghost of Louisiana usurpation will never cease to haunt you. Tue Carer Justice.—In an interview with ning from the Battery to the Westchester bor- | der, and shall see the upper part of the island | and the new territory covered with residences, | and Brooklyn and New York consolidated un- der one municipal government. We have done our best in the past to drain and cripple | it is about time that we should do something for ourselves before attending to the interests | of railroad corporations or New Jersey land ) speculators. Tue Vauve or Exrermnce.—Experience is money. The Secretary and other ‘‘experts’’ of the Children's Aid Society recognize the truth of this saying; hence they make their experience in the distribution of other peo- ple’s charity realize them seventy-five thou- sand dollars a year. They also evidently be- lieve in that other saying, ‘‘Charity begins at home.” They have collected about a million it has ‘“mon- | anda half of dollars out of the benevolent in twenty years, besides receiving some annual donations of seventy thousand dollars from the city, and they have been careful not to suffer too large a percentage of the amount to go abroad, Tae Arctic Meera To-Nicut.—The degree of public interest attaching to the rapidly increasing prosperity of the American Geographical Society will be enhanced by | the Arctic meeting to-night. We understand | that the Arctic regions are not only to be dis- cussed by the first living explorers and author- ities, and illustrated by men who have spent the best years of their lives in the ice-bound lite and live Esquimaux themselves will be exhibited to the public, while Arctic discovery in general and the Polaris cruise in particular day arrives wé shail have steam railroads run our own city for the benefit of outsiders, and | latitudes, but that all the appliances of Arctic | | of Missouri has offered a reward of two thou- a Henaup reporter Chief Justice Waite spoke in s frank and pleasant manner of the circum- stances connected with his appointment to the high position he is about to assume. He knew nothing of the intention of the President to | nominate him for the vacant seat until he read the fact in a despatch from Washington. Ho | appears to be well satisfied with his position | and not disposed to find fault with the good fortune to which he owes his appointment. Tar Gapsar. Rossery.—The Governor sand dollars each for the Gadshill highway- men, dead or alive. The aggregate of the re- ward; already offered amounts to seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. This ought to stimulate the police to unravel the mystery, will be thoroughly discussed. It is needless | to say that this is the proper way to clear up | geographical mysteries, and that the meeting | will be an encouragement to exploration the world over. Answertna Mr. Dawes.—The tenor of the Washington despatches to the press generally | is that of dissatisfaction with Mr. Dawes for | the plain words of his great speech in the | dollar's worth of soup given to the hungry? House. He will be fully answered, says one, when General Garfield reports the Legislative, | Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. On every hand we hear of General Garfield an- swering Mr. Dawes. We sincerely hope the appropriation bills will show o spirit of econ- omy commensurate with the emergency; but there must be retrenchment in many other the outrage being one which no state of so- | quarters before Mr. Dawes shall be finally [ciety can allow to go unpunished. answered, | batants. The Henatp correspondent was | enabled to convey to our readers an intimation ; of the first inkling of the peace negotiations; ] by witnessing ‘the eptry, in » rather unusual’ manner, certainly, of the efivoys of King Koffee Calcalli into the English camp. Boston anp Her Poor.—In another place in the Hzzazp of this morning will be found a letter from our Boston correspondent, giving an account of the condition of the poor of | that city and showing how they are cared for, | by the city authorities. Boston has as yet suf- | fered little in comparison with New York. It | is manifest, however, that for the last two | months suffering has been on the increase. ‘ Some ten per cent of the mechanics are said | to be out of employment. At the Temporary | Home, which is under the control of the Over- | seers of the Poor, over one thousand six hun- | dred persons received assistance in the month | of January, and during the same month the | demand for meals reached the high figure of | 3,848. Our correspondent bears testimony to | the excellence of the Boston system of man- | agement. | Tue Cause or Don Cantos must now be | regarded as desperate. General Rivera, with | two thousand men, the advance guard of General Moriones’ army, was reported yester- day to be within nine miles of Portugalete, a | town distant some seven miles from Bilbao. It is not expected that the Carlists will be able to resist the increasing forces of the gov- | ernment. The presumption is that Bilbao haa already been relieved. At Tolosa, also, the | tide has turned against the Carlists, a band of | two thousand having been defeated by the government troops and the town revictualled. | 'The promise now is that ina few daya more Spain will be restored to herself. Her next | business will be to find a government. Un- | less we mistake this will be an easier task than | putting down the insurgents. Tar SupermTenpent of the Five Points House of Industry claims that the expendi. | ture of nearly one dollar and a quarter on the | institution and its officers for every one dollar | expended on the poor is necessary in order to | keep up the charity. What would he think of | a soup kitchen that expended one dollar and a | quarter on cooks and saucepans for every one Fast Specs, Mati Trains are wanted by | Postmaster General Creswell. He has thus | expressed himself to the Committee on Appro- priations. He thinks they should be run on all the railroads at a high rate of speed for | the sole purpose of transporting mail matter, a6 they are in Europe. Woll, this is desirable. Anything that will quicken communication is progress. But what about the cost? Make