The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD bate eS BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. sAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. -—— TRE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the tear, Four cents per cops. Annual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hammar. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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. 0. 55 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, posite City Hall, Brooklyn —WHITE SWAN, at 3P. , Closes atll P.M. ® BOWERY THEATRE, oo Bowery,—A STEAMBOAT TRIP TO JERSEY, SUN- LIGHT THROUGH THE MIST, Begins at 5 P. M. ; closes acl P.M, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street brooklyn THE HUNCHBAGK, at 8 P.M, ; closes at 11 P.M. Bowers. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, . $85 Broadway — VARIETY P. 5 ENTERIAINMENT, at No. 7:45 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P BLO'S GARDEN, Prince. and Houston, streets — ats P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. woOn'S MUSEUM, : '—DDMBEY AND SON, y, co! Thirtieth stree TE W: cscs 040 F THE MAN WITH THE niy BE. atll P.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-third street and’ Broadway.—LOVE’S LABOR'S: Postwar sf Meccloses at lu) bd, Mx. Harkins, Miss Ada Dyas. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fighth avenu and Twenty-third — street.—HUMPTY DUMPTY aT SCHOOL, and VARIKTY ENTERTAIN- reM. Mr. 0. L MENT. Begins at 7:45 P.M. ; closes at LO s Fox. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth sti EINE VORNEHME ‘ENE, at $ P.M; closes at 10:45 THEATRE COMIQU No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY ENTE. eins at $ P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. E, RTAINMENT. Be- BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street.—CHESNEY WOLD, at7:45 P.M; Closes at 1U:45 2. M. Japauschek. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—MONEY, at3 PM closes at 11 P. M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Lewis OLYMPIC THEATRE, roadway. between Houston and Bleecker streets.— AODEVILLS and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 3 P. Mi. ,closes atil P. M. Matinee atz ?. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-thira street, corner of Sixth avenue.—CINDER- FELLA IN BLACK "NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at 3 P. AL; closes at 10 P.M. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Famine ta India. Some months ago there appeared a cloud in the East no larger than a man’s hand. About the time when our panic came upon us, and we were threatened with the ruin of all business values and _ interests, amen began to look to this phenomenon in the East and ask what would be the effect. There was an empire larger than any civilized nation, as large, perhaps, as all the civilized nations of Europe combined. It was an 4n- | cient, subtle and, in some respects, a splendid civilization. There were the arts, and indus- tries, and developments of skill; a language which had made its impression upon our daily speech ; a literature which we are only be- | ginning to comprehend in its beauty and value ; a religion going back far beyond the Mme. Fanny | Jetfreys | time of Jesus, and anticipating many of the | Master's noblest precepts. This Empire, | which was a perfect, if nota fruitful, civiliza- | tion when the early Britons were leading a wild and savage life, had passed into the hands of some daring English adventurers, | in time to become @ part of the British Em- | pire. What the cloud threatened was farnine. Generations had passed since there had been a famine in Bengal. But those who remem- | pered the visitation spoke of it. as ‘one of | the most appalling-calamities that had ever be- | fallen the human race. | The threatened famine in America came | from a business panic which threw thousands ot workingmen suddenly out of employment. | These workmen were of the worthy, deserving poor. The failure of great houses and rich | companies, upon whom they had depended for labor and the consequent means of support, at the beginning of winter threw them into a condition of want. But the misfortune was not beyond control, for Providence had blesssd the land, its harvests and its industries. The famine, if it came to be a famine, would only be limited to one section of the people. The rest of us could, with an effort of humane zeal, suppress it. This effort has been made, and the result is that what menaced us with the pro- portions of a calamity has only become an in- | convenience and privation, and has enabled New York to display the fertility of her resources | and the magnificence of her charity. But the inevitable famine in India was a direct visi- tation of God. In that densely settled country the majority of the people depend upon the | rice crop for their food. The rain only falls | in certain seasons, as it falls in our tropica or in California. The time was, if we are well informed, before the English became masters of India, when there were methods of irriga- tion which always insured a crop, whether the season was wet or dry. The methods were known in Spain under the rule of the Moors. When the Christians came irrigation was de- stroyed, and many of the fairest and richest fields in Murcia and Estramadura under the Moors are now worthless, barren plains. What- ever the early Hindoos, like the Moors, had succeeded in doing in the way of irrigation | has been destroyed by the rapacity of Clive and Hastings and those who served them, to | aggrandize their own fortunes and secure | dividends for the East India Company. So | COLOSSEUM, } A . Broadway, corner of Thirty-dith strect—PARIS BY | when the rain did not fall, and ‘the wet sea- NIGHT, ai 1 P. M.; closes atS P. M.; same at? P.M.; closes at 10 2, X { son’’ was a barren and dry one, it was notin the STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—CONCERT of Caroline Bervard’s Musical Union, at 8 P. j Closes at iRishings the crops. They had only to bow their heads and die unless England could give them aid. The problem, the sore and heartrending | problem with the English government has | | been how to prevent millions of these Hindoos | és from starving. A problem of this nature, ee: prea when it comes to our doors, is serious THE NE YESTERDAY. | and sad enough. There was the potato famine | in Ireland, within an easy sail of fat and To-Day’s Contents of the prosperous England, and yet all efforts could Herald. | not prevent many dying from want. When | | Paris surrendered after the siege it required the | QDIA'S GHASTLY VISITANT! MILLIONS OF | Utmost exertions of the German and French | LIVES IMPERILLED BY FAMINE! DIRE governments, with the generous help of En- | TRIPLE SI New York, Tucsday, Feb. 24, 1874. WS OF | power of the people to compel the ripening of | | despatch from our London correspondent, who sends the report of Mr. Archibald Forbes, who was sent to India as 4 special commissioner from the Daily. News. Mr, Forbes, as our readers well know, distinguished himself during the French war a8 an enterprising and gifted correspondent, with unusual powers of obser- vation and telicity of expression and thought. Mr. Forbes is unusually competent for this work, and his report possesses a painful interest. He has visited the distressed dis- tricts in person, and only “‘hopes that famine may be averted."’ There are fifteen districts, comprising a population of 26,000,000 of peo- ple, who are threatened with actual famine or scarcity of food. In addition there are dis- tricts numbering 14,000,000, for whom grave apprehensions exist. In other words, a terri- | tory containing as many people as are 1D | France, or Austria, or America is menaced | with starvation. These districts are mostly | without roads and without water. As thero is | no work in the rico fields, the laboring men | already feel the want of their a labor and its wages. Lord Northbrook, the Governor General, hopes that he has food stored away sufficient to last until May; but Mr. Forbes reports that many have already | died without asking relief, while in these | remote sections food ia needed for cattle as | well as for human beings. “On the whole,” says Mr. Forbes, “I enter- | tain a most dopressing conviction of coming | calamity.” Let us trust that tho rulers of | India may avert it But itis painful and | suggestive thought that at the time when we are afilicted at home with misery and want | an affliction a thousand times more terrible | is impending over millions of fellow human | beings on the other side of the globe. | The New British Parliament. According to our news of this morning | the 5th of March, will be immediately prorogued until the 12th, The avowed of Commons who may have accepted posi- tions in the new Cabinet to go before their constituents for re-election. This is a not un- reassembling on the 12th. No one can blame Mr. Disraeli for the delay. speech, on the occasion of the opening of that it indicates the outlines of the policy which the men in power intend to pursue. On this occasion the royal address will reflect the views of the new Cabinet and reveal their keenly scrutinized, and wherever weak merci- lessly exposed. He does well, therefore, to take time to mature his plans and to make the speech from the throne worthy of himself and of the occasion. Two new Cabinet appoint- ments are announced. Sir William R. Sey- mour Fitzgerald becomes Under Secretary of State for India, and Mr. Hart Dyke takes the position of Patronage Secretary of the Treasury. Tue Last or tHe “Swamp ANnGELs.”—The notorious Steve Lowery, the last and the most desperate of the terrible Lowery gang of North Carolina outlaws, has been killed. The news of his death is printed in another part of this day’s Hzxaup. For ten years the Lowerys kept the mountain districts about Lumberton in terror, and outrage after outrage upon the white people was committed by this gang of | negroes. Indeed, about three years ago they were at war with the inhabitants of the whole section, and fora time it seemed impossible to | subdue them. Their ranks were successively thinned, however, by the capture and death of | members of the band, till there remained only | the new Parliament, which is to meet on | object of the prorogation is to allow Mr. | Disraeli and those members of the House , The Queen's | Parliament, is valuable only for the reason | plans. Mr. Disraeli knows that it will be | The Proposed Steamer the Atlantic. The ocean travelling public will be inter~ ested to learn that Congressional legislation is likely in behalf of fixed steamer lanes on the Atlantic. The necessity for accord be- tween the great transatlantic passenger steamship lines as to their routes to and fro has become apparent to the people, and it is no less the interest of the companies than of humanity and commerce that the proposed safety tracks be universally adopted. It has been too quickly assumed that the selection of the safest routes interferes with speed and sacrifices time. But we believe a thorough investigation of the meteorology of the North Atlantio will tend to dissipate this assumption. We shail not expose ourselves to the criti- cism of any competent navigator when we say the most eligible routes across the Atlantic from New York to Liverpool, speed only being the object, aro determined by the lines which aro extraneous to the fog belt and lie within the axial bands of the Gulf Stream and the anitrade winds. The great Atlantio current does not flow due northeast from Sandy Hook, but, after passing 40 north latitude, its course, especially in March and April (the dangerous ice months), is nearly due east until it has reached the forty-fifth western meridian. In- deed, pressed on its northern margin by the cold Labrador inshore current, the flow of the warm stream is slightly deflected to the south- eastward, and not till it has reached the forty- fifth meridian does it escape from this pressure and trend off towards Ireland. So far as a | vessel can be .set forward on her voyage from America to Europe by the great ‘river in the ocean,” she has nothing to gain but everything to lose if she attempts to cross the fiftieth western meridian north of the forty- second parallel. By keeping a nearly due easterly course after leaving Sandy Hook until crossing the meridian of Cape Race she runs in the swifteat or axial band of the Gulf Stream extension and gets the maximum ad- vantage of the impelling force, which, it is supposed, assists her or increases her speed from twenty to twenty-five miles a day. This saving of time during the eastward voyage would of itself well nigh, if not fully, compen- sate for abandoning the more northerly or common custom on occasions like the present. | great circle route, where the current is of The Queen’s speech will not be read until the | little or no help. Nor are the wind conditions less favorable to the route proposed (crossing the forty-fifth meridian at its intersection with the forty-sec- ond parallel), After leaving Sandy Hook and our Atlantic ports the mean direction of the winds is almost due westerly and the streak of most favorable winds lies just over the now proposed route, as will be seen from an examination of the charts. In fact, it is by no means im- | probable that a steamer going east would have the maximum benefit of the wind by steering almost due east from Sandy Hook to 40 degrees west longitude and crossing that meridian in latitude 42 or 43 degrees north. Certainly, so far as ocean meteorology throws any light on these water highways, such a | route would largely escape the cyclone tracks of the North Atlantic; nay, more—it would enable the navigator to utilize the winds of the cyclone asa great locomotive power to tow his craft through the ocean. In the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere we know the most extraordinary runs have been made by sailing ships utilizing the cyclone winds, and there is no reason why it may not be as Well done in the safe middle latitudes as in those which are often strewn with floating ice islands. The only other controlling consideration is the fog. The fog belt of the Atlantic lies on the northern margin of the Gulf Stream and covers the region of its intermixture with the Polar ice-bearing waters which wash the | shores of Newfoundland. There can be no this young man, who has at last met the fate INCIDENTS OF THE CALAMITY! GOVERN- MENT MEASURES OF RELIEF—SEVENTH Pace. NORTH CAROLINA FREED FROM HER SCUF- | | gland, to prevent a general famine. We see what ft the oth No st f bri i | only recently occurred in New York, and what | ieonay OBEY Oop eeneeeeaag mountains of Spain or Italy was ever more strenuous exertions were needed to protect the | poor. But in India the problem was a thou- | sandfold more momentous. With all the | FLETOWN BRIGANDS! THE LAST OF THE | LOWERYS SLAIN BY THREE YOUNG terrible, and the people of North Carolina are to be congratulated on the extinction of the “Swamp Angels.” safety in the present route, which so closely shaves Cape Race, and the detentions from fog and icebergs must always be counted on ; FARMERS AT A CAROUSAL—SEVENTH PaGE. GENERAL WOLSELEY’S TASK ACCOMPLISHED! A TREATY OF PEACE SIGNED BY THE BRITISH COMMANDER AND THE ASHAN- TEE KING—SeveNTH PAGE. SHE NEW BRITISH PARLIAMENT TO BE PRO- ROGUED FOR A WEEK, UNTIL MARCH 12! THE THRONE ADDRESS TO BE READ ON THE REASSEMBLAGE—SEVENTH PaGE. DR. LIVINGSTONE’S REMAINS TO REACH ZAN- ZIBAR ON THE 20TH! THE PAPERS AND PROPERTY OF THE LAMENTED EXPLORER TO BE OBTAINED! SUICIDE OF ONE OF THE SEARCH PARTY—SEveENTH Pace. BIRASBOURG DEMANDS THE RESIGNATION OF A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE PRUS- SIAN PARLIAMENT—IMPORTANT GENERAL WEWS— SEVENTH PaGE, THE DUTCH VICTORY IN ACHEEN—ANOTHER OCEAN CABLE—SEVENTH Pace. VERY SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN VENEZUELA— THE DOMINICAN PRESIDENCY—Sgvesta Page. FIFTEEN MINUTES FROM THE CITY HALL TO HARLEM! A GRAND DEMONSTRATION AT COOPER UNION IN FAVOR OF RAPID TRANSIT—Tuiep Pace, THE SIOUX WAR! ACTIVITY OF THE RED FIENDS! WHOLESALE MURDE! THE PAWNEES AIDING THE WHITES—FourtH PAGE. DANGEROUS STABBING AFPRAY IN THE FIRST WARD—NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—OBITU- | ARILS—Tuirp Pace. THE FATAL HUNT FOR “DUTCH” AN INNOCENT MAN SHOT BY A DETEC- TIVE~LUTH Pace, DEMOLISHING THE GIN MILLS! RAPID AD. VANCE OF THE SKIRMISH LINES OF THE TEMPERANCE ARMY—TzNTu Pace. PRACTICAL PHILANTHBOPHY! THE NATION'S ‘NIVERSARY AMONG THE DESTITUTE GHOULS IN THE GARB OF CHARITY! DRAMATIC RELIEF—Eigute Pace. “FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRY- JENERALLY HONORED YESTERDAY! VARIOUS OBSERVANCES—Firta PAGE. An Enrerpnisrya Riven.—The Mohawk | has broken up, and the Hudson gives indi- | eations which seem to render it improbable that it can long hold out against the pressure. ‘The next thing after the opening of the river is the shadpole war, and then come straw- | berries, Tur Wmsxex War has not onl Last Tennessee, Andrew Johnson's town of Greenville, praying band works away in front of the sa- | Joons from sunrise till sunset and every man } ‘who passes is asked to sign the pledge. The ex-President will be compelled to face the | music, , ly reached The | knowledge Englishmen possessed of India | they knew very little about it. Perhaps they , * " cared little about it Certain itis thnt to the | op me on gn OAT rhe anniversary svete Bcliskk asa to th ade of the birth of General Washington was gener- | the average Englich ruler, India was ite | SAY Cbverved yesterday throughout the ity more than a name anda legend. How could | paras a pets: ap ws uri the famine be reached? What would be its | Nea Re ong ie ee extent? “What would be the peampienthisttiog { magnificent demonstrations, the multitudes of HARMANN! | THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON | of supplying food? Could not ships be sent from England laden with corn and wheat and beef and pork? How much money would be required from London, from Liverpool, from the great guilds, from the rich and gener- ous Englishmen who are always lavish in well- doing? What could America furnish from the | richness of her harvests? All these practical | questions were asked by men who were only too anxious tocheck the famine. But it so bap- | pened that these Hindoos were a peculiar peo- ple. They had customs of caste and religion | of the most perplexing nature. What would | be food to the American or Englishman the | Hindoo would rather die than eat. Those of one caste would accept starvation rather than | partake of food shared by those of another. ‘The country most seriously menaced was hard | to reach. There were no roads, no local com- | merce organizations, no system of central | authorities spreading like arteries, and ena- bling the Governor General to put his hand upon any part of India as easily as our Presi- dent could put bis hand upon any part of the | United States. The mscrutable decrees of God combined with the misgovernment of man to precipitate a disaster which had no parallel in the history of human misery. Our hope has been, knowing their embar- rassments, that there would be some dispensa- tion of Providence warding off the famine. | We have always doubted the power of the British government to aid India over the seas, And there was something terrible in the thought that we must look helplessly on while a sure death slowly approached hundreds of thou- sands of people. This has been the position of England towards India. To check the famine was probable—to prevent it almost impossible. The London Times now informs us that two hundred and eighty thousand | people are already distressed from want of class of persons who equally defeat the pur- | food in certain districts of Bengal. It further | poses of the benevolent by taking what is says that but for the aid furnished by the but it first broke out in | government five hundred thousand would | poor and appropriating it to themselves in the perish. In other words, half a million are menaced with government has only succeeded in relieving 280,000. This is a report from certain dis- | prevail in the foundation of this society, and tricts, and it only shows that the famine has | only been partly checked. Wo have a fuller | of some grasping superintendent, starvation and the | speaker at the meeting thought, should be in the metropolis were in the streets and parks enjoying a most delicious holiday. The name | of Washington was on almost every tongue, | showing that his memory is still deeply en- | shrined in the hearts of his countrymen. The | study of Washington's character and the cele- | bration of his services are the duty of every | American citizen ; and it is to be hoped that | before another return of this anniversary his | example will be felt throughout a public ser- | vice grown corrupt before the centennial of our independence. | \ Rarm Tnansrr.—At a mass meeting of citizens held last night at Cooper Institute, which is reported in another column, speeches were made and resolutions passed endorsing Mr. Eastman's bill as “calculated to insure the speedy construction of railways that will bring Harlem River within fifteen minutes of | the City Hall.’’ This bill, it will be remem- bered, provides for the appointment of com- | missioners to investigate various routes and | plans, and in that direction is just what we want; but the judgment of the people should be taken as to whether the road shall be built at public expense. | Ixvestigatisa Cuanrry.—The Bureau of Charities—the organization of which is re- | ported to-day—proposes to systematize on a | large scale the dispensation of charity in this | city; and, so far as can now be judged of its | proposed activity, it promises to be an ad- | mirable institution. Its primary purpose 1s to secure charity against the devices of im- postors—the thieving vagabonds who cheat the charitable and rob the needy by seizing | themselves the gifts of benevolence, Any organization that will thoroughly guard | against these will do wonders, This Bureau seems also disposed to guard against the other | supposed to pass through their handy for the j form of salaries, &.—persons who, a Sing Sing. Altogether, good ideas seem to wo hope it will not become the mere machine so that for the eastward voyage all the ad- vantages of speed are in favor of a more southerly route than any now pursued. It is remarkable that the greatest number of quick- est trips has been made by the companies whose steamers come nearest to the more southerly route, crossing the Newfoundland meridians two hundred and fifty miles south of Cape Race. When we consider the enormous value of these argosies, which throng the seaway from America to Europe, numbering nearly two hundred, and some of them, when laden, insured to half a million in gold, to say nothing of many bun- dred lives on board, it seems criminal to make safety give way to speed. In a short time there will be, on an average, three steamers a day from both sides of the Atlantic. If, by international regulation, or, what, if possible, is better still, by concert among the com- panies, fixed routes to and fro can be agreed upon, not only will the chances of collision be greatly diminished, but a steamer disabled at sea would be almost sure of succor in the course of asingle day. No matter where she might break down, if in the lane she might justly expect a steamer to pass her every oight hours. So far as the westward voyage is concerned, of course, the before favorable elements are un- favorable ; but to get out of the ocean current and the streak of strongest westerly or head winds, the seaman must go further north than any are rash enough to do, or take a more southerly route than that selected for the eastward-bounder. This the Cunard line have done, and we are greatly mistaken if future navigators do not find that they are right, and, indeed, that a still more southerly route would be preferable. Srramninec at a Grat.—Some little boys of the bootblack order have a hall in the Sixth ward, where they “‘perform,” and they have recently given fifty-six dollars—the proceeds of their entertainments—to the poor. But it appears the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents has a vested interest in all ‘‘stage plays” to the extent of five hundred dollars, which is caffed a license fee, and the counsel of this society L®s written to the “Grand Duke Opera’’ to demand his five hun- dred dollers. ‘Here's richness.”’ Os tue Icx.—It is reported that there are three hundred men on the ice at the mouth of the Saginaw, and it is feared that the ice will break up before they can be rescued. Though not so thrilling as the story of the drifting floe which carried part of the crew of the Polaris so long distance, the disaster in this cage may be much more terribla | women. Butas women prove the most suc- Academy of Design. Next Saturday night the exhibition of the “American Society of Painters in Water Colors,"” at the Academy of Design, will close, and no equal opportanity will be en- joyed for another year of witnessing the im- provement which our artists have made in this peculiarly elegant and beautiful branch of art. We shall be tedious, perhaps, if we reiterate what we have often aaid about tho apathy of the American public with regard to water colors; but if, out of the tediousness thus created, shall arise that desire for seif- justification which shall induce a vital interest in the subject, we hall manage to endure with grace the stigma of having momentarily offended. To a certain extent it is the same with water coloring as with etching. Every- body thinks he can etch, and it is only after the most earnest, patient and repeated efforts that he appreciates, not only that he has no practical mastery of the art, but that he even possesses no adequate conception of what the practice of the art implies. It has seemed to be a prevalent idea that to paint in water colors was a boudoir accomplishment, to be picked up and laid down like crochet work—an elegant and flippant little art, in which about as much proficiency was desira- ble as that which enables the average young lady to please her own expectations on the piano and disappoint those of her friends. The present exhibition at the Academy of Design, however, proves that the appreciation of water colors, so far, at least, as New York is concerned, is on the increase. The rooms have been very well attended night and day, and sometimes, at evening, the galleries have been thronged to that degree which is so pleasant as an evidence of popular interest and so unpleasant as an obstacle to any proper view of the display. It would be folly to deny that no despicable proportion of the at- traction has been the drawings emanating from the hands of foreign artists. The sheep of Rosa Bonheur, the coast scenes of Marny, the cathedrals and broad-eaved houses of Dibdin, the flowers of Rivoire, the two or thfee military bits by Edouard Détaille and the marvellous chiaroscuro of Gustave Doré, would have been sufficient to throw a sort of splendid charm over @ much meaner collection. But even without these features, it may safely be claimed that the present display at the Academy is such an advance upon the past, and upon that of last yearin particular, as to merit o compliment which to the eye of hypercriticism might seem like a too fair exaggeration. Bad pictures there doubtless are, but for our part we feel disposed to thank the hanging committee for baving unanimously conspired to put them out of sightas much as the principles involved in the very arduous task of suspending sev- eral hundred pictures for public exhibi- tion would allow. Mr. A. F. Bellows is very numerously represented, but he seems to have sought nature out through every green lane that England possesses; and, though the nature he gives us is English nature, when we should be glad to sec him a little more American, yet it is nature so sweet, so serious, so sensuous, so full of rich and affluent repose, that there is little tendency to quarrel with him. The mention of Church's pre-eminence at once recalls all that | he has done. ‘The marines of Mr, W. T. Rich- | ards, of Philadelphia, are more dramatically interpretive of the life and light of ocean, the | restless vitality of waves and the endless gradations between dawn and midnight, than | | ever before. Mr. Bricher is a young artist | who is rapidly advancing, and who is making | | special feature with marines. If Mr. | | Tiffany always drew as correctly as he | reproduces the temperament of an Oriental | atmosphere he would leave less to be desired, | and if Mr. J. D. Smillie executed every part | of his work with as much fidelity as the back- | ground of one or two of his landscapes in the present display he would at once assume a | There sre several eminent American names which it would-be pleasant to see represented at the Academy, and it is im. possible to feel contented that that reprosentas tion has not been made. Still, making allow- ance for every shortcoming and for many cases of individual apathy, the exhibition now open is excellent, and no one who loves art and who has not yet visited the Academy of Design will have done his duty if he make no use of the week that remains, A particularly desirable opportunity may be enjoyed to- morrow, when the whole amount received for admissions during that day will be applied to the relief of the poor of this city. higher rank. Donations.—Numerous generous contribu- tions to the reliof of the poor are reported in our news columns. Many give bread for use in the soup houses, and Mr. Dan Bryant gives $500, the proceeds of a charity matinée. Tae Temperance Movement at THe Rront Port.—It bas reached Washington and is in- | vading Capitol Hill and the purlieus of Con- gress. Nowhere is it more needed. A great many Congressmen stow away a considerable amount of liquor, and that not of the best | sort. The drinking shops around the Capitol are much resorted to by a host of lobbymen, and there they exercise their persuasivo | powers with members over a drink. The scenes at these places sometimes are anything | but creditable to gentlemen holding the po- sition of representatives of the people. Besides there is o great deal of dissipation at Wash- | ington which a vigorous temperance crusade might check. It is said that a movement will be made next Saturday against the liquor selling establishments. We rather think, how- ever, it will require more praying and heavier artillery generally to drive Congressmen into temperance than have been used in Ohio or elsewhere. It will require a large force of cessful lobbyists they may exercise an influ- ence in s better cause, Tur Asuantee Peace Treatt.—A despatch from the Gold Coast to the London Standard states that a treaty of peace has been signed by General Sir Garnet Wolseley and the King of Ashantee. The terms of the treaty have not yet been made public, It remains to be seen what will be the result of this new British con- | quest. It is to be hoped that the British gov- ernment have learned something since the fall of Magdala, and that in o:nsequence this latest African war will in some sense be a gain to civilization, | gulted in the re-election of | The hall was crowded with spectators, { tance, the meetin, | pretences, Ottley See anne Lanes Across| The Water Color Exhibition at the The Street Cleaning Investigation. The Committeo of the Legislature to inves tigate the Street Cleaning Bureau and the subject of atrest cleaning and disposing of the dirt generally continued their labors at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. The in- vestigation is postponed till Saturday in con- sequence of the death of Commissioner Smith and the ongagoments of other Police Commissioners. So far no important facts appear to have been clicited. The contract- ora who were examined represented that their contracts were not valuable, A great part of the time was taken up on the question of disposing of the street ‘cleanings without filling up the harbor or endangering the pub- lic health. Pilot Commissioner Blunt thought the best place to dump the dirt weuld be in the gea about a mile bélow Coney Island. A good deal of the dirt has been used to fill up the flats around or in the neighborhood of New York. One would think the refuse of the streets might be used profitably as ma- nure within a convenient distance of the city. But the great thing is, first, to have clean streets, and then to see that the con- tracts be carried out honestly. We hope the committee will be able to devise some satis- factory plan from the masa of evidence they will have before them. Broavar tHe Exegnrencep Mr. O. L. Brace objects to the ‘demoralizing’ offect of feeding the starving poor it must not be supposed that he does not possess, in an eminent de- gree, the Christian virtue of charity. He only insists that the poor shall be relieved, ina discreet manner, through the hands of experts. His Children’s Aid Society spent seventy-five thousand dollars last year for ‘‘discretion” and “experience,” and probably a quarter of that amount on the poor. We may feel as- sured that the charity thus carefully guarded has done nothing to undermine the morals of the destitute. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. John M. Forbes, of Boston, is House, General W. B. Tibbits, of Troy, is staying at the Sturtevant House, Mrs. R, 8, Todd, stepmother of Mrs, Abraham Lincoln, died on the 14th inst, in Madison, Ind. Soticitor E. C. Banfield, of the Treasury Depart- ment, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Norman Wiard, of Washington, has arrived as the Metropolitan Hotel. ‘Lhe latest news from Andy Johnson ts that he in tends to run for Congress again. Parson Brownlow is opposed to mixing the white and black races in the public schools, Daniel Dougherty, the Philadelphia orator, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain D. P, Heap, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, is quartered at the Glenbam Hotel. Mrs. Bridget Tobin, who held out until she was 100, died at Long Grove, near Davenport, lowa, on the 11th inst. The Odd Fellows of Springfield, Mass., have in- yited Schuyler Colfax to deliver an address some time in March. J. W. Taylor, United States Consul st Man- ttoba, arrived in St. Paul, Minn., (rom Fort Garry on the 14th inst, =} Thomas Danforth, of Boston Hightands, gave @ party on his ninetieth birthday and played the fiddle himself Jor the dancers, A Mississippi postmistress has discharged her Dusband from a clerkship for non-attendance to auty. She wanted no nepotism in hers. Professor Julius Seelye, of Amherst College, has been called to the professorship of theology im tae Union Theological Seminary of Cincinnati, B. K. Bruce, colored, United States Senator elect from Mississippi, was in New Orleans on the 17th and 18th inst. to witness the Mardi Graa festivities. Miss Annie Spann, a servant in the National House, at Terre Haute, Ind., recently had $40,000 thrown into her lap through the death of a rich relative, Si ay Mme. Grosse, a counterfeiter and confidence woman, who was sentenced in 1872 for five years inthe Penitentiary of Wisconsin, has been pas- doned by the President. Mr. Zebadiah Shattuck, a soldier of the War of 1812, who used an old flint musket at the battie of | Platusburg, died at Nashua, N. H., on the 15¢0 inst, aged nearly eighty-two years. Paul B. du Chailla, the friend of African gdéritiaa, 1s in Chicago, A friend, commenting on Paul's at the Brevoort | “Midnight Sun" story, says he bay once or twice seen the same night phenotiefon through several | glasses daréily. Messrs, Kennard, Giddings, Denny and several other prominent merchants of Boston, leit this city last evening for Washington, where they are to use their infuence with the President to secure the reappointment of Judge Russell as Collector of the port of Boston in place of Mr. Simmons, whose nomination has created a stir among the mercan- tile community at the Hub. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Arrival of the Powhatan at Lewes. Lewes, Del., Feb. 23, 1874, The United States frigate Powhatan arrived here at balf-past two A. M. Departare of the Worcester from St. Thomas. HAVANA, Feb. 23, 1874. Advices from St. Thomas say that the United States steamer Worcester had sailed for the Wina- ward Isiands, THE HILDISE BUND. Annual Convention and Election of OM- cors=Rights of New Members, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23, 1874, The Hiidise Bund Convention assembled at Schutzen Hall to-day. The election for officers re- the old Board. the proceedings being public. A proposition o: Louis Loey, of the New York delegation, that fature ap- Plicants for admission to the Bund should | their dues for thirteen weeks before being entitled to insurance, was adopted. The next question of importance recommended by the New Jersey Cen- tral Association was upon the subject o: the re- demption of loans. The unparalleled success that has attended the ia induced the Convention to adopt the proposed plan, the roreedings were conducted ina spirit of harmony that augurs well for the prosperity of the Oe of the agents took place The annual meetin, this ‘afternoon at the Bund ofice, After congratu- latory addresses upon the success of the Bund, ction of matters of minor impor- and the introdu adjourned tina ae Tne a tes’ will visit Masonte Temple, the Mint an other places of public interest. aa caenintisomaaeniainnianinse OUT OF THE PAST. Meeting of the Historical Society of Phil- adelphia—The Sword of Franklin. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25, 1874, To-night General William H. H. Davis, of Doytes- town, read @ paper on the “History of the Deep Run and Doylestown Presbyterian Churches” be- | fore the Historical Society. The Rev. Dr. C. 0. Batie, who in his younger days was pastor of one of the churches whose history was given, was preseat, The President ofthe society stated that within afew days the society had been presented with the old sword of Benjamin Frankiin, and also a set ot curious china which was presented to Franklia when the latter was at the French Court. A BUFFALO GRAIN MERCHANT ARRESTED. BUFFALO, Fed, 23, 1874, Detective Cusack, under a requisition of Gov. ernor Dix, arrested in Chicago, and brought te this city this afternoon, Thomas M,. Ottley, under an indictment of obtaining money under false was formerly @ heavy grain merchant here, engaged in the Canada trade, and Sbsconded tn 1871, teaving his creditors large suf- ferers. At the ume of his arrest ue had arr BLOB, (0 epmeng 14 (he Dime Qyainass at (1