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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. Annual subscription ear, price $12. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yonx | Henan. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. eee AS LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK , HERALD--NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. | Volume XXXIX.......... anus EMENTS THs AFTERNOON AND EVENING | GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fighth avenue and Twenty-rhird | street “1 DUMPTY AT SCHOOL, and VARIETY ENIE MENT. begias at 8P. BM. closes at 10:09 P31. ‘Ox. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 Boe atlv;30P. M, Matinee at 2 P. M.; closes at | BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street-—FEMME DE Fol, at7 sto P.M; closé at 10:0 P.M. Mrs. J. B. 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TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 11 P. M. 3 OPERA HOUSE, ‘ner of Sixth avenue.—CINDER- “GRO MINSTRELSY, éc., at 8 P, COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner ef Thirty-fith street.—PARIS BY NIGHT, at LP. M.; closes at 5 P.M.; same at 7 P.M; Closes at 10 P. M. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, | Wes Fourteenth street.—The Di Cesnoia Collection ot | Antiquities from Cyprus, TRIP New York, Wednesday, Feb. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents otf the Herald. | DISRAELI TO THE FRONT! THE DISCOMFITTED PREMIER SS! PROMOTION OF PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE GLAD- STONE CABINET TO THE BRITISH PEER- AGE! FOREIGN BUREAU EX-OFFICIALS | ALSO GIVEN SEATS IN THE UPPER HOUSE- SEVENTH PAGE. 4 SEVERE BATTLE IN CUBA! THE CAMPAIGN BRISKLY OPENED IN THE CENTRAL DE- PARTMENT! SPANISH CLAIM UF VICTORY, WITH A LOSS OF 230! INSURGENT DEVAS. | TATIONS! BURRIEL ON THE WAY TO SPAIN—SEVENTH PGE. MR. BEKE REPURTS THE DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE MOUNT SINAI! ITS SITUATION! IN- TERESTING RELICS FOUND UPON IT—Segv- ENTH PaGE. INFAMOUS EVANS! THE MURDERER OF GEORGIANA LOVERING HANGED! TER- RIBLE CONFESSIONS OF GUILT AND PRO- FESSIONS OF GALLOWS PIETY—Tuigp PAGE. DEATH OF THE KING OF THE SANDWICH | ISLANDS—SUCCESS OF THE REPUBLICAN MAYORAL TICKET IN THE PHILADEL- PHIA ELECTION—SEVENTH PaGE, THE CURRENCY PROBLEM UNFOLDING FROM WASHINGTON—TuIRD PaGE. THE RAIDS OF THE REDSKINS ON THE WEST- ERN TOWNS—WOMAN’S WAR ON THE RUM DEMON—SevENTH PaGE. WEALTH SUPPLYL THE WANTS OF THE NEEDY! A GRAND CHARITABLE EX- | HIBIT! SOUP HOUSES TO BE OPENED TO-DAY—FourtH Pack. GREAT FIRE IN \G SING! OUTRAGES BY A RURAL MO: EVENTH PaGE. SIMMONS FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE! SEN JE DE- FERRED ! YESTERDAY'S FROCEEDINGS— COMMISSIONER CHARLICK AND THE ELEC- | TION INSPECTORS—Firtu Pace. ATTEMPT TO “BREAK” THE STUCK MARKET! FORGED LETTERS READ IN THE EX- CHANGE! A PANIC NIPPED IN THE BUD! FEATURES (3 FINANCIAL BUSINESS— | EIGHTH PaGE BARON REUTER EXPLAINS THE PERSIAN CON- NEWS | BANKXUPTCY—THE BURGLARS ON TRIAL—FourtH Pace. Tae Cvpan War.—The Cuban insurrection | seems to be daily growing in importance. A | battle is reported in the Central Department, in which five thousand men were supposed to have taken part on the Cuban side. This is a respectable force to bring into the field after a wasting struggle of six years. It is not long since Spanish officials and editors assured the world that the Cuban insurrection was dead | and the insurgents reduced to mere wander- | ing bands of marauders. But when a regular | army of three thousand men is held in check | for seven hours and loses two hundred and | fifty men in a conflict without gaining much, if any, advantage, the outside world must be- | lieve that it has had to do with something | more than marauders, The Cuban struggle | has not been wanting in heroism—a fact that sooner or later will have to be recognized even at Washington. A QUIET FAMILY, | NEW russ HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, The Trae Plan of National Finance— Thirty Millions a Year Te Be Saved to the Country. Tt has been observed by scientific writers that as nations progressed in civilization and refinement the market rate of interest on loans of money continually fell. Thus in the thir- teenth century, in maritime Europe, the mar- ket rate of interest on the best securities averaged over fifteen per cent per annum, al- though in Venice—at that period the best governed country in the world—it was as low as four per cent. By the eighteenth century the average market rate on similar securities had fallen to less than three per cent. This tendency of the rate of interest to tall—a ten- dency which continues to this day—was com- monly ascribed to the increase of commerce and national wealth, which are the explana- tions advanced, first by Sir Josiah Child, and a century later by Sir John Sinclair, the two best informed English writers on the subject in their respective days. More modern re- searches have, however, established the fact that it is due as well to the increased security afforded by a better administration of justice. “High interest is only another name for bad security,” said the Duke of Wellington while Premier of England; and his terse opinion appears to be ratified by both Of course there is a limit at which this tendency of interest to fall must stop. This limit is somewhere about three per cent per annum—a fact established by the net rate at which capital, that is to say, plants, animals and their product fabrics, will increase when improved by the labor of man. The Chinese recognized this fact six hundred years ago when they fixed the limit of their production taxes on manufactures at three and one-third per cent; the grangers of to-day recognize it in de- manding that the maximum rate at which our national debt ought to be funded is 3.65 per cent; while the estimates of the growth of our national wealth contained in the various decennial censuses, making due allowance for grants, prove that three per cent, or there- | abouts, is still the utmost rate at which human wealth can accumulate, and is, therefore, the utmost rate at which it is not unprofitable to borrow. Whenever a higher rate of interest than this | is paid for the use of capital there is risk, ex- | pense or bad management involved in the negotiation, or all of these elements together. In England and several other countries the whole of the national debt is funded at a traction over three per cent for par, and that there is plenty of capital to be had in this country at or about the same rate, provided | the security is certain and the loan perpetual, | as is the case with British consols and the | other foreign securities referred to, is abun- dantly evidenced by the fact that hundreds of | millions are now on deposit with savings banks and private bankers at little more than | the rate mentioned, the difference being but a | fair equivalent for the risk attending such deposits as compared with investments in the | permanent securities of responsible govern- ments. The plan, too, which would induce the man of small means to invest his savings in government securities would work a great | good, and make banking institutions more | careful than at present. The time has now come when the circum- | Stances of the nation imperatively demand the | recognition and practical adoption of this prin- ciple, concerning the value of money, to the necessities of the Treasury. Flagitiously wasteful expenditures threaten, not only the government itself; yet such is the greed of office-holders and the lobby that in no direc- + tion does voluntary retrenchment offer, and such the subservient partisanship of legisla- tors that in no shape does forcible retrench- ment dare assert itself. No economy seems possible which threatens to curtail the power or emoluments of those in office, and in this | dilemma a saving of interest’ by funding the public debt appears to be the only direction in whicM financial reform has any prospect of success. The necessity of such reform is but | too apparent. It only remains now to | indicate the specific measures requisite for its accomplishment and to de- monstrate their entire feasibility. The | measure which we propose is, that Con- gress shall pass an act authorizing the Treas- ury to issue four per cent gold annuities of long date in exchange, at par, for any of the | outstanding six or five per cent bonds that | may be voluntarily offered for conversion into such annuities, or for currency at par, in which latter case the currency to be applied, as fast as received into the Treasury, to the pur- chase and extinction of the outstanding bonds | as they become redeemable. There is little risk in predicting that in the event of the en- actment of such a measure, which would cost | nothing beyond the printing of the new se- curities, the whole bonded debt, consisting of six per cent five-twenties, all of which are | now redeemable, would be funded at four per cent within the current year and the remain- der as soon as the bonds which represent it become redeemable. The savings to the nation by this trans- action would amount to thirty million dol- Jars per annum in perpetuity, and there | would be neither risk nor loss involved in its accomplishment, not even the loss of the nation’s power to resume, should it ever desire to do so, its present inane policy of paying at an early day the principal of a debt while the capital is worth more to | the people in their industrial enterprises than | the rate at which it is loaned to the govern- | ment. The latter can at any time purchase the new class of annuities—say a fifty year bond—in the market just as easily as it can now purchase the outstanding six per cents. Great Britain is purchasing her perpetual an- nuities in the market every day, and will probably continue to do so, toa moderate ex- tent, so long as her annual revenues continue, as they do now, to exceed her expenditures, The feasibility of this plan is not only proved by the operation of the perpetual an- nuity plan in England, but is evident from the most cursory examination of the rates at which money is now invested in our own gov- ernment and State bonds. Making allowance for their different rates of interest, the currency in which such interest is paid, the periodicity of the interest days, the fact that the bonds are qnoted in our market with accrued interest and the current price of gold, the following table shows, approximately, the net rate of intarest the experience of uations and the conclusions | | of science. what is added by the contributions of immi- | yielded hy investments at par in the securities named :— Securities. Interest. at Par. U. 8. 5-20 bonds. [pperseae gold.|5 1-6 per cent. U, 8. currency 6’s,../6 per cent, cur. 143 per cent. a ate edi Beaten Ber eat Mass. 5's, 1894. {5 per one Bold 4 Per cent. is dealt in on the Lo tock Bx. ere quoted ex interest. Allowance must Merling, the. American Galler ‘oing mantee tonal Se garded as equal to 4s. 6d. It will be observed that, while the United States government is practically borrowing money on its five-twenty bonds at five and one-sixth per cent, it is able to borrow on its other securities at four and a half per cent, and that the State of Massachusetts is able to borrow at fouranda third per cent. These phenomena cannot be explained on the absurd hypothosis that the credit of Massachusetts is better than that of the United States, which embraces Massachusetts, and whose revenues, federal, State, county and municipal, amount | annually to so great asum as nearly one-half of its entire debt. Such an hypothesis does not account for the fact that, while the federal government is borrowing money at five and one-sixth per cent on one class of its own ob- ligations, it, at the same time, is able to borrow at four and one-half per cent on other classes of the same obhgations. The enigma is only to be solved by reference to the redeemable period of the several secu- tities above tabulated. The five-twenties aro redeemable now, while the currency sixes are not due for twenty-five years. The ten-for- ties are legally redeemable now; but, prac- tically, are certain to stand so long as any sixes are out, The new fives are not redeem- able legally until ten years after their issue, which began in 1871, and practically have the same longevity, and for the same reason, as the other fives. The Massachusetts fives are not redeemable until 1894. These facts illustrate the whole principle in a nutshell. With a given security the more remote the maturity of the bond the lower the rate of in- terest at which it can be floated at par; and this is the principle proposed to be made use of in economizing the interest charge upon our national ‘debt. This plan—that is, the perpetual annuity plan, to which the one we propose is practi- cally similar in result—neither claims the merit of, nor stands exposed to, the suspicion which should always attach to novelty. It was that by which, under the Ministry of Mr. Pelham, all that portion of the national debt of Great Britain bearing interest at four per *This security change, and ts the and patriotic citizen. He had originally offered it for the congideration of the govern- ment in 1737 ; but coming from such a source it was regarded as both treasonable and dan- gerous. Twelve years elapsed, during which interval a destructive and expensive war occurred, which, it was seen, might have been avoided had this plan: been sooner enter- tained. At length, after the Treaty of Aix-la- Chapelle, it was entrusted to the management of its author, who, in carrying it into success- ful execution, completed what has since always been regarded as the grandest and boldest operation known in the history of finance. If with this great measure of finance, by which it is proposed with a single stroke of the pen to throw off thirty million dollars | per annum from the heavy fiscal burdens that now shackle our national energies, is | contrasted any of the plans hitherto sub- | Subversion of parties, but the solidarity of the | mitted to the Treasury, gress or elsewhere, all dwindle to the «proportions of mere jobs or fade into the shadowy realm of fools’ dreams. The Funding act of 1870, which is the only measure of the sort that has yet been tried, provided for the con- version of all the outstanding five-twenties into five, four and a half and four per cents. For this purpose it appropriated several mill- iop dollars of public money. Nearly three years have elapsed, the appropriations have gone into the pockets of a syndicate of bankers, and all that has been effected is the conversion of some two or three hundred mill- ions of sixes into fives. Not a single four or four and a half has been floated. This was the pet scheme of Messrs. Boutwell and Sherman. Another one is that of a Mr. D. H. London, now under the consideration of a Congressional committee, providing for the establishment and patronage by gov- ernment of a colossal private bank to be called the Exchequer—as palpable a job as the other. Still another is the idiotic pro- posal which advocates the re-enactment of Jobn Law’s absurd idea of interconvertible bond and currency notes, which so nearly ruined France under the Regency. But the name of these projects is Legion. What the exigency of affairs demands is neither jobbery nor ignorant experiments in the management of the public debt, but such skilful and well approved administration as will result in con- either in Con- observe how they | serving the national credit and turning it to the best account for the people, and these are the ends which the plan herein recommended seems best calculated to promote. Tue Inpran War Crovp.—The reported burning of Red Willow is contradicted, but the war cloud seems to threaten to break along the frontier. It is evident that vigorous and immediate measures of repression are needed in order to prevent the war feel- ing from spreading among the tribes that remain at peace. If the govern- ment would inaugurate a policy which would prevent dishonest agents from robbing the Indians we should probably not hear quite so often of Indian outbreaks. There is need of reform in this particular as well as in our mode of dealing with the savages. The system of civil agents seems to be decidedly bad; it has been tried and the results do not warrant its continuance, The proposition of turning the Indians into a pastoral race, under the care of the War De- partment, is based on common sense, and if tried would no doubt lead to good results. A New Exxctioy ror Lovistana.—Senator Carpenter is unshaken in his resolution to bring the question of a new election for Louisiana before the Senate as soon as the debate on the Finance bill is closed. As he will be supported by the democratic Senators, he will probably be able to carry his motion in opposition to the administration Senate. cent—to wit, £57,703,475, was funded at | three per cent. Its author was Sir John Barnard, a determined opponent of the Ministry, but o well informed FEBRUARY 18, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Professor Tyndall's Hecont Experiments on Fog Signals—A Warning te Mar imers. Professor Tyndall has recently been con- ducting ® series of experiments to teat the acoustic character of fog signals. His experi- ments have been undertaken in connection with the labors and under the co-supervision of the Trinity House Committee, and the re- ported results are of great interest. In alecture delivered before the Royal In- stilution on the 16th ult. he announced some of his conclusions, arrived at after observa- tions extending over. period of six months and during many vicissitudes of wind and weather. As faras we can gather from a brief account of his lecture in the London Nautical Magazine it appears that the distances at which fog signals are audible on different days vary in a most remarkable manner. He is reported as saying that if the sound ofa gun can be heard on a fine, calm day at a distance of ten miles, the experiments show that there is no reason why on another apparently similar day the sound should be heard at only three or four miles, On the 19th and 20thof May it seemed to be demonstrated to a certainty that the sound of a gun could be distinguished further than that of a trumpet. © And yet on ‘succeeding days the trumpet was audible at several miles’ distance, and the gun inaudible. Again, on June 25, with the wind favorable, no sounds were per- ceived at six miles, while the day following, with wind opposed, they were clearly heard nine miles. Once, during a thick haze, which hid the land from view and limited the visible horizon to one and a half miles, the sounds were distinguishable over twelve miles’ dis- tance, while on some clear days they were in- audible at very much shorter distances. The uncertainty and variability in the aérial transmission of signal sounds, thus brought to light, are of immediate and vital importance to the mariner, and demand an ex- haustive investigation, as well as thorough re- vision of ideas now prevailing on this subject. Professor Tyndall’s labors would seem to,show that our fog signals are not to be relied on for 8 distance exceeding three miles, and, perhaps, under some atrial conditions, less. The homogeneity of the air strata and thoir relatively tranquil condition, it is known, greatly affect the intensity of sound, and per- mit the sonorous waves to be propagated without losing their amplitude by reflection. If there is an irregular commixture of light and dense air then the sound waves are re- flected back from the interposing walls of the denser media. This principle, which has been clearly brought out by Professor Lockyer, was strikinvy verified on the 8d of July, when the air seemed to be singularly lacking in homogeneity, and Professor Tyndaly found—notwithstanding it was a clear, calm and sunny day—that nothing at all was audible at three miles. It was proved on going to the place on shore where the signals were sound- ing that echoes of fifteen seconds’ duration came back from the air space in front, show- ing what had become of intransmissible sound, which was lost to the listeners only three miles off. In this singular instance the dense air had been opaque to the sound, and the sonorous wave breaking against it was arrested as a wave of the sea breaking on a rock. Enough is revealed by these initiatory in- vestigations to show our present ignorance of the practical transmission of fog signals and the consequent jeopardy of navigation until the precise distance to which they are audible can be determined. Cannot our own govern- ment assist in this investigation ? Tse Encusx Execrions.—Mr. Gladstone has tendered his resignation to Queen Victoria and Mr. Disraeli has been summoned to form a Ministry. The defeat of the liberal Minis- try has been complete. In England the tories have swept the boroughs in which the liberal strength was supposed to rest, and the defeat of the Glad- stone government in Ireland has been still more marked. Notwithstanding the short time allowed them for preparation the home rulers have carried fifty-eight seats. If they act together in the new Parliament they will hold a balAnce of power. Disraeli will come into power with a working majority, but on many questions where party lines will not be very severely drawn the position of the government will not be very secure. It is probable that the advent of the conservatives will materially aid the progress of liberalism in England, although it appears on the sur-’ face a severe check to the reform movement inaugurated by Mr. Gladstone. Our special eable despatches announce the elevation to the peerage of two members of the late Minis- try and three other prominent supporters of Mr. Gladstone. Put Monry 1x Tuy Pursz.—Men who de- vote themselves to any religious or benevolent service are supposed to do it in a spirit of self- sacrifice and under the stimulus of an exalted idea of moral duty, which the mass of men admire, even if they cannot imitate; and the consciousness that they are performing a duty more or less sacred has always been recognized as the true reward of such men, both by the world and themselves, But that notion evi- dently belongs to the world that is passing away. In these days it is not the consciouse ness of a duty performed that rewards men who take charge of charities in our great cities. On the contrary, they want sala- ries, and good ones, too—as our recent ac- counts of Mr. Brace, of the Children’s Aid Society, and Mr. Barnard, of the Five Points Hotse of Industry, will amply show. Tue Examination of Police Commissioner Charlick, on the application of the Tammany Sachems, on a charge of corrupt favoritism in the appointment of inspectors of election, commenced yesterday. There may be some spicy developments before it is concluded. It seems singular to find Tammany leaders apparently standing up for the, purity of elec- tions. The fight, however, scems to turn upon the dissensions in the democratic family. Commissioner Charlick, it appears, was desig- nated to appoint inspectors on the part of the democratic members of the Board, and Com- missioner Gardner did a similar business for the republicans. Charlick selected democrats, but not of a stripe pleasing to Tammany; hence its tears. ‘The farce will happily serve to make the people yet more thoroughly dis- gusted with politicians and their brawls and yet more satisfied that we shall never get honest and efficient city government until we are rid of the whole tribe of political huck- ters. The Season of Lent. The last beaming emile of Prince Carnival has vanished, and the receptions, balls, parties and routs of Mrs. Grundy are over for & month or so. The season of Lent, with its figurative sackcloth and ashes and abundance of prayer and fasting, begins to-day, and not only religion, but, to a certain extent, Dame Fashion prescribes observ- ance of the same. The object being Popularly regarded as repentance for the sins of the past year and due preparation for the gala time of Easter, this morning's reflections in the corhmunity will, probably, be of a very diverse as well as serious character. Regrets for useless and often dangerous conquests may disturb the mind of the coquette; a twinge of conscience will, perhaps, visit the salaried philanthropists who censure their neighbors’ charities; re- morse for offering themselves at auction in the lobby cannot fail to distress some of our legislators. Wall street scare brewers may discover the enormity of their offences in the disastrous consequences of their unscru- pulous acts, and municipal corruption-mon- gers should bow their heads in shame on the threshold of this penitential season. If the hearts of even a respectable minority of the above mentioned classes be touched during the forty days of fasting, we can afford to hail the Eastertide with more joyous acclama- tions and unalloyed enjoyment than ever be- fore. The season is eminently appropriate for the work of charity, and nothing can be considered as more grateful in the eyes of Heaven for the atonement of past offences and the gain of favors from the throne of grace than the exercise of this, the noblest of vir- tues, Whe Stcck Exchange Forgeries. The little breeze at the Stock Exchange yesterday, caused by the forged letters of the President of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway and the President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, had both a comie cal and serious aspect. These forgeries, pur- porting to give the required notice of increas- ing the issue of stock, have the appearance of a hoax, and just such a one as the frisky stock brokers and speculators delight to per- petrate. Butif intended for fun these stock gamblers were ready to speculate upon and to make money out of the joke. They did not wait to ascertain if the letters were genuine, but began instantly to run the stock of both companies down, though they must have known the truth could have been obtained in a few minutes by application, at the offices of the companies. Of course it did not take long to expose the fraud, but in the meantime money was lost and won by eager speculators. Such is the laxity of morals among stock jobbers and the demoral- izing influence of their business as they con- duct it that fraud is looked upon only as a joke. It is but a short step from the ordinary sharp practice of stock speculators in their cheating misrepresentations to forgery, and, therefore, it would not be surprising if those who forged the names of Mr. Coxand Mr. Orton thought that was a smart business oper- ation. There are some respectable men con- nected with the Stock Exchange who would not tolerate such a crime. ‘They should have the matter investigated and the guilty parties punished. Berree THAN Mepicrnes or Corrins.—By the following statement, taken from the report of Dr. Harris to the Board of Health, it will be seen that soup is not a bad specific for dis- ease:—“‘Great as the pressure of want is among the poor of the city, timely charities are now conspicuous means of sanitary pro- tection.”’ This authoritative statement of the good effects of charity ought to be an encour- agement to pushing on the work of establish- ing soup houses. Exxcution or Evans, THE NortTHWoop Mourperer.—The canting murderer Evans was hanged yesterday at Concord. It is not likely that much sympathy will be wasted on him, and it is only to be regretted that he was not hanged a little sooner. Before dying he confessed to the murder of his niece and another young girl named Mills, as well as to several rob- beries, but in spite of these crimes he mani- fested a strong religious sentiment to the last. The execution was carried out in an orderly manner and caused little excitement. Travers 1N Benzvouence.—Charity is one of the oldest and most effective covers for a kind of genteel fraud that is not the less hateful to right-minded persons because it does not come within the reach of the criminal law. No one ever contributes to a public charity without some misgiving as to what will become of his money—so universal is the system of diverting from the purpose for which it is intended the money given to re- lieve the poor. Many give and indulge the doubt whether what they give will ever re- lieve misery, and a few resolutely investigate, and ‘give only where they know they will not fatten the already corpulent traders in benev- olence. Henceforth it will be recognized by the charitable in this city that there are two socicties as to which they need never be in doubt. These are the Children’s Aid Society and the Five Points House of Industry. Every one may be sure that very little of what they give to those bodies will ever help the needy. ' Banow Revrer ap THE Saau.—In another column will be found a communication from Baron Reuter in reference to the telegram reporting that the Shah of Persia had an- nulled the famous concession for the making of railways, telegraph lines, &c. It will be seen that the Baron does not deny the report that his concession has been thrown over. He is only led by his latest advices to ‘‘anticipate a satisfactory understanding ;"’ from which it would not be a violent inference that the report was true, but that the Baron hopes his friends at Teheran may save him yet. Mistaken Vocartons.—It is said that the men who take charge of great charities must have remuneration for their services. Is it, then, when a man takes charge of @ great charity just as if he took charge of mill or a workshop? Is it a trade like any ether, or is it a vocation altogether exceptional in its character and making its appeal to the public solely as apart from ordinary transactions ? If it is the latter, as we believe, then persons who want fat salaries or want to make money Lought to get inte some apher line, Gisamons, who killed Nicholas W. Duryea, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the third degree. The verdict will perhaps surprise some people who entertain old-fashioned ideas of the sanotity of life, but on the whole we have much to be thankful for that matters are no worse. It is something that twelve good men and true look on murder asa breach of the law meriting public censure. The verdict amounts to little more than a mild expostulation against the too ready use of dangerous weapons, for the law only imposes a sentence of from one to four years on manslaughter im the third degree. That portion of the public which desires to live under the protection of law, free from the violence of the rowdy ele- ment of the population, will not be reassured by the verdict in the Duryea case, It really ap- pears that we have reached a state of society where killing is not murder and where the peaceful citizen holds his life at the good pleasure of every drunken ruffian or murderous rowdy in the community. Tae Lovwuna Trovsixvs.—The democratic Senators have agreed to a course of action which will enable them to support Mr. Oar- penter’s proposition for a new election. They intend to ask the Senate to recognize the McEnery government as the legal government of Louisiana, and if the Senate, as is very likely, refuses to do so, they will then sup- port Mr. Carpenter's motion for a new eleo- tion. Tae Pamaperraia Exection.—The cause of reform does not seem to thrive in the City of Brotherly Love, as, notwithstanding the exposure of the corruption of the late ad- ministration, the popular voice has re-elected Mayor Stokley over the reform candidate. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lieutenant George Talcott, United States Navy, is at tne New York Hotel. Ignatius Donnelly is opposing the normal school system in the Minnesota Senate. Lieutenant Governor Sill, of Connecticut, hag arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hote}. Judge William F. Alien, of the Court of Appeals, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Earl of Dunraven passed through Savannah, Ga, last week on his way to Florida. Ex-Governor W. B. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, bas apartments at the Brevoort House. Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, is among the recent arrivais at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Franklin J. Moses, father of the Governor, hag been re-elected Ohief Justice of South Carolina. Ex-Congressman Tiecdore M. Pomeroy, of Au- burn, N. Y., is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, An Oswego (N. Y.) woman says she cannot pray, but she will shoot the drst man who furnishes her husband with liquor, . Governor Adelbert Ames, of Mississipp!, haa purchased a large tract of land in Sunflower county, in that state. An Elk county (Pa.) deerhunter has been in the business thinty-eight years, and has kilied an ay- erage of 100 deer every tweive months, Ex-President Baez, of St. Domingo, who has been living quietly at the Brevoort House for several weeks past, le{t last night for Washington. Governor John A. Dix has been appointea honorary Chancellor of Union University at Schen- ectady, and wilideliver the next commencement address. George B. Terry, originally from Canada, has been arrested in Booneville, N. ¥., on a charge of being too much married. He has two wives in this State and one in Wisconsin, Associate Justice Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived from Washington yester- day morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, but almost immediately left for his home in Maine. AChicago paper circuiates the dreadful rumor “that a second Gilmore will gather all the singing societies ard brass bands tn the thirty-seven States and concentrate them in Philadelphia in 1876, witn intent to unite them in one harmonious howl, Is it for this that we have suffered 100 years of free- dom ?? MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, This evening, at Robinson Hall, an “illuminated lecture” by E. 0. Beaman will be given. Mme. Caroline Richings-Bernard’s Musical Union sing at Steinway Hall on Thursday next. Mme. Jennie Van Zandt sings the title rdle in “Maritana’’ at Hartiord, Conn., this evening. Mile. Torriani, Miss Cary, M. Capoul and Signor Del Puente appeared in “Martha” last night, in Providence, R. L The Strakosch Italian opera troupe present “Les Huguenots” on Saturday evening at the Brooklya Academy of Music, A vocal society gives concerts in Montreal under the title of “The Snow Shoe Club.” It uses the glissando extensively in singing. The pupils of the Brooklyn branch of the New York Conservatory of Music appear in concert at the Athenwum 1n the City of Churches on Thursday evening. Miss Adelaide Neilson is at present in town, per- fectly recovered after her sojourn in Florida. She goes hence in a few days to fulfil a California en- gagement. ‘The Murray Hill Amateur Dramatic Association will appear at the Academy of Music on Saturday evening and give an entertainment for the benefit of the poor of the Ninth ward. So many Juliets have appeared in New York that Mrs. J. B, Boeth’s assumption of that rdle at Booth’s Theatre on the occasion of her benefit, on Friday night, is contemplated with considerable interest. LOVE'S LABOR'3 LOST, FEBRUABY 17, 1874, To THE EpiTor OF THE HERALD:— 1 observe that several of the gazettes moot the question, “What will Mr. Daly do with Shake- speare’s closet play of ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost ?’” But is it a closet play? Was it not written as a Christ mas piece for Queen Elizabeth and repre- sented at her court? Was it not after- wards repeated at the Globe and Black friars? Where is it deficient in action? Let me begin by answering the first question. Mr. valy will undoubtedly restore what is want- ing in the closet editions of the play, viz. :—The business and stage directions Of the original prompt book. ‘Then he will probably add such hew business as must the better explain tue text under such modern light a8 commentators and illustrators have thrown upon it. And lam much mistaken if the play will not be found full of bustie and change. ‘The reader who calls many of Shake- Speare's productions ‘‘closet’”’ piays 18 ignorant of scenic illustrations and stage effects, and there- lore fails to appreciate them as he cons the poetry. Yet there are none of the great tragedies or comedies which do not, in the hands of & Reed lly manager. bristie with ints of action. The real reason why “Love's Pabor's Lost’? has not been often performed is be- cause there necessity in the play for so much scenic disp! d effects and for such @ profusion (almost con! yn) of business action, and so marked a demand for many first class actors and actregses that Managers are either unable to pro- duce it or too timid. Manager Daly, howeyer, claims great resources. He certainly hasan ex: tensive comedy company. There are the veterans, Fisher, Davidge, Hardenberg and Whiting, and, among the younger favorites, Clark, Harkins, James, Fawcett and Parkes, Among the lady favorites of the — pubiic Miss Davenport, Miss Jewett, Miss Conw: and Mesdames Gilbert and Morant, wit the new comer, Miss Ada Dyas, who has already ex- cited much enthusiasm, With this wealth of variety talent there must be found abundant scope for perfectly portraying the cupid-forsworn King of Navarre, the sweet-voiced Princess of France, the witty and vantering Rosaline, the mischievous Maria, the Koi ede Katharine, the mystified Jaquinetta, the braggart Armado, the quaint Moth, the poetic Biron and his love-sick fellows, the courtly Boyet, the stupid constable, the founder- ing clown, the si ling schoolmaster, and the ‘word-picking cur Besides, Mr. Daly, all these actors and actresses ought to be able to impart melody to the beautiiul verse without bymning away reer ideas which are embodied in the quaintly conceited rhymes, ana to in! ret pertectly that markedly originality of charactert- zation which all commentators baye noted in SLoye'a Lanor’a Lah! 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