The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1874, Page 5

CONGRESS. Final Efforts to Resurrect the Franking Privilege. CARPENTER’S LOUISIANA BILL. Pensions for the Widows of Gen- erals Meade and Canby. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Feb, 27, 1874. Mr. Scort, (rep.) of Pa., presentea a petition of tbe workingmen of Pennsylvania, Mlinois and Michigan, against any increase in taxation, Re- Jered to the Committee on Finance, Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, from the Finance Committee, reported favorably on the House bill 4n relation to import duties on fruit, being tae bil to correct an error in the late Tariff bill. Passed, Also the bill authorizing the Chief Clerk of the ‘War Department to sign requisitions on the Treas- ‘ury during the temporary absence of the Secretary of War. Passed. Mr, HAMLIN, (rep.) of Me., called up the resolu- tion to print extra copies of the Smithsonian lasti- ution report. Passed. LIFTING THE ODIUM OF DRUNKENNESS FROM SEN- ATOR CHANDLER. Mr. SHERMAN, of Ohio, said he desired to correct & gross calumny against a fellow Senator, and read fem a Detroit bewspaper of February 20 & special despatch from Washington headed “Chandier at his old tricks,” and stating that Senator Sherma) ‘01 Ohio, & short time previous, took Senator Cnan- adler out of the Senate Chamber and put him to bed ©n @ jounge in the Finance Committee room in a State of beastly intoxication; that Chandler awoke Bubsequently and grossly insulted Mr, Keese, Clerk of the Finance Committee. Mr. Sherman Suid there was not a word of truth in the state- ment, as he had never taken Senator Chandler out ‘1 the Chamber in such a state, and had never put him to bed in the committee room, Mr. Reese, the modest and industrious clerk of the commit- ‘tee, had also voluntarily stated to him that tae ‘Whole matter was a Jabrication. WIFING OUT & DKFALCATION. Mr. Bayarp, (dem.) of Del, from the Finance Committee, reported favorably on the bill author. azing the Secretary of the Treasury to give Thomas ‘Hilnouse, Aasistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, a credit of $185,000 on his stamp @ccount, Passed, Mr. OGLEsByY, (rep.) of Ill, from the Committee ©n Public Langs, reported favorably on the House Dill extending the time for the completion of the Green Bay and Lake Michigan Canal. Passed. Mr. SaXGENT, (rep.) of Ca... from the Committee | ©n Appropriations, reported favorably on the | House bill making avaliable certain unexpended (balances to construct the branch mint at San rancisco, Passed. PREVENTION OF DEFALCATIONS. Mr. Bayarp, (asp of Del., from the Finance Committee, reported a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the senate ‘What, ifany, additional iegeenon is required to prevent defalcauons by officers receiving and dls- one of United States revenue stamps and pubitc noney, and whether the persons having custoay ©! such stamps apd money should not in all cases be required to give bond, with security, ior the proper execution of their duty. Passed. MISREPRESENTATIONS BY COUNTRY JOURNALS—MR. SCOTT'S FINANCIAL VIEWS, Mr. Scort, of Pennsylvania, arose to a per- nal expianation, and sent to the Clerk’s | desk a copy. of the Lebanon Courier, of Penn- #ylvania, ‘om which was read a state- ment that he (Mr. Scott) took sides with the contractionists on financial questions, giving asa ‘cason that he believed it to pe the only means of ringing about specie payment, and that it would tend to reduce Wages so a8 to enable our manu- facturers to compete successfully with those of foreign countries, He said the article was founded on one in the Philadelphia Press, of February Zi, which he also had read. He said doth these extracts reached him thia morning in letters fom numerous portions of Pennsyl- ‘Waula, from those whom he cousidered his frienda, and he believed it to be his duty to correct what- ever may be false in these extracts, The paper iven a& the original authority, the Philadelphia , Claimed to be respectable, and the Lebanon Courier, 60 taras be knew, was a respectable ‘gwewspaper. The tone of the articles was such as to cacry the idea that they spoke for him and tate his opinions oy autnority, So far as the at- tacks were confined to misrepresentations and Yavrications, chiefly of a personal character, he had declined to notice them. So irequently had that @ven the case that he had come to the conclusion ‘That the reporter of the Pailadelphia Press was an- der the orders of his superior systemati- cally to misrepresent and deiame him (Mr, Scott. When he had atriven tor and ® conded the appropriations in which the city of Philadelphia was largely interested he lad been represented as neglecting ber interests, When he advocated the expulsion of the Senator from Kansas (Mr, Caldwell), he was represented as Gefeading him. Wen the books of the Secre- tary of tue senate showed that he haa not drawn the back pay, the despatches represented that he Jai, When falsehoods were published as to his oyinions upon public questions in which the people of his State were largely interested, ne felt ‘t to be his dnty to avaii himsell of the only means Jeft nim of meeting and refuting such assumptions, He bad not hesitated to announce that specie pay- Ients, in bis belief, could not be resumed in the hear future and couid not be maintained under all circumstances. He savored free banking upon United States notes issued through the Danks$ based upon a bond bearing a lower rate of interest than those upon which the present national bank currency is dssued, redeemable primarily by the bank and ultimately by the government, either in coim or in interest bearing bonds, If he could not secure that he wouid favor the best system of tree bank- ang that could be secured by modifications of the present National Bank law. To a paper currency, Unlimited in amount and irredeemabie in anything more valuable than itsell, when it feli below par, he was opposed, believing it to be injurious to the permanent and best iuterests of all classes of ‘society. He had never entertained or uttered such @ sentiment about the wages of labor As that ee in the press and quoted in the Courier, It was @ fabrication and @ falsehood. ‘With the proprietor of the paper which first gave currency to the talsenood, or with the instrument he used to farnish such matertal for his calumnies, he could have no controversy; and it was in re- Sponge to the demanas of his constituents that he | doticed these unauthorized tabrications of bis opinions. He was not likely either to be correctly or iairly reported im the despatches of a paper represented bere, with the knowledge of its pro- rietors, by one Who, when speaking of him (Mr. tt), has been more frequently an eavesdropper and a libeller thun an impartial journalist, THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. The d{ll to provide for the appointment of a commission in regard to the alconolic liquor traMc, ‘being the unfinished business from the morning ‘hour of yesterday, was taken up, and the amend- ent Of Mr. MoKRILL, (rep.) of Me., appropriating $10,000 for the expenses of the commission, was agreed to. Mr. THURMAN, (dem.) of Ohio, opposed the pas- Sage Of the bill on the ground that it would be the entering wedge for Cougress to enter upon legisia- tuon alfecting the rights and powers o! the States. Mr, FERRY, Gene ot Conh., agreed with the sen- ator from Ohio (Mr. Thurman), and thought it | would be a bad precedent. THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, Pending the discussion the morning hour ex- Pirea, and the House bill in regard to the Centen- uial Exnibition was taken up. Mr. SUMNER, (rep.) Of Mass., offered a substitute for the House bill, providing that the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American in- dependence shall be national in its character; that the arrangements shall be left in the uands of the original commission, and shall be carried out to conlorm to the provisions Oo! the act of Congress, and that bo money shall be appropriated from the natioual Treasury on account of the celebration. in advocating the adoption of the amendment Mr. Sumner said that one of the first votes of the commission went to show that the celebra- tion should be national in character, and not inter- national, as they provided that it should be open from the anniversary of the battle o! Lexington to tue auniversary of the battle of Yorktown; but a change came Over the guiding spirits, and they now wanted to have @ word's fair, The bwo ideas Were incousistent, INHARMONIOUS TWINS, bound together by an unnatural ligament like those two now lying on the surgeon's table in i Philadelphia, Engiand would be invited to par- ticipate, and, taking ber seat on the Centennial bench, would listen to the arraignment of George Ul and his tyrannical quaiifications. Italy would have representatives of her two sovereigns, Victor Emmanuel and of Pius JX. Germany would have a representaiive of her Emperor, who believed in the right divine. Austria would be represented by her descendant of Joseph ih who declined an introduction so Ben- Jamin Franklin, giving as @ reason that his busi- ess Was to be & royalist. Kings and queens, em- perors, princes and’ potentates would be invited. gad this Republic would ve expected to welcome them. He did not think they should be invited ft would not be consistent with our own 6e epect, Another thing: a world's fair here would be different from one {n Europe. ‘Tne exhibitors would not have the number of yrs e same as are drawn by European exhibitions, had buat 40,000,000 people in this country, while the world’s fairs of London, Paris and Vienna had all of Europe to patronize them. [t would be premature to attempt to hoid a world’s fair here ba hd yeare tla Bap of Vienna, He dia not think she country abie to incur the ex ‘this Exhibition. saree Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, {rep.) of N. 45. gala the country was abundantly «bie to incur the expense, and it was appropriate that the event should be commemorated in such a manner thag all mankind might participate. The Exposition wonld be instructive and entertaining to the people of our country. and its effect would be Paneticial upon the European Powers participating in At, EALOUSY OF THE HUB. Mr. Scorr irep-) said he wuted to see all the crowned heads of Europe here, and he hoped that some time between the 19th of April and the 19th of October, while the Exhibition was open, the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Sumner) would be there as an orator. His voice would not quail before them. He reviewed the history of the Cen- tennial bill, and said when the Houge bill on this subject was and sent to the Senate it was reterrea to the Committee on | oreign Relauions, of which Senator Sumner wus then chairman, e very title of the bill referred to an international exhibition, 1! Boston had been agreed upon as the lace ior holding the Exhibition there would have been no adverse resolution in the Massachu- setta Legisiature. If this International Exhiot- tion failed it would be because gress refused to comply with the obliation resting upon it to make tt a success. He had un- derstvod trom the Board of Finance that i Con- gress Would appropriate $3,000,000—$1,500,000 pay- able the present year and $1,509,000 payable the year aiter—the Exhibition could be made a suc- cess, The men having it in charge were energetic business men, and would carry it through i! the means were appropriated. He hoped the people ofthe nation would not have to undergo the hu- mination of seeing this Exhibition Rrnve @ fatiure because Congress would not sustain it SCOPE OF THE DEMANDS OF THE PROJECTORS, Congress should not hesitate to appropriate $3,000,000, $5,000,000 or even $8,000,000 to make the Exhibition a success and have the products of our country compared with those of other navions. He had no doudt whatever of r of the general government to such @n appropriation, The Exht- bition was not @ Pennsylvanian project, but a great national project, and if it failed the skirts of Pennsylvania would be cleared from dis- race, The panic bad prevented subscriptions jor the enterprise. The people of Pennsylvania re- arded it a8 @ Dational enterprise, and had at feare the honor o! the nation as well as that of their own State. Pennsylvania had done more than she promised, and he trusted that now the matter would receive the endorsement of Con- ress, and that our great nation would stand up, e admiration oi the whole world, THE ARMY APPROPRIATION. ‘Mr. Wear (rep.) submitted an amendment to the Army Appropriation bill repe 80 much of the act of July 7, 1838, a8 provides for the detail of officers of the army as acting paymasters, and oviding that hereafter the Secretary of War shall ave authority to make such details ar given by the ofMicers so detailed, Ordered to be printed and lie on the tabie. Mr. STEWART (rep.) Moved that when the Senate adjourn it be to meet on Monday next, Agreed to. CARPENTER’S LOUISIANA BILL. Mr. CARPENTER (rep.) 621d that on Monday next, after the pending bill should be disposed o:, he would ask the Senate to take up for reference his bill in po ere to the new election in Louisiana, and would ask the indulgence of the Senate to enable him to submit some remarks thereon, Mr. West said, a8 & memoer of the Appropria- tion Committee’ having charge of the Army Ap- propriation bill, he would ask to have that consid- | ered ag soon as the pending bil snould be disposed of, to the exclusion of everything else, The Senate then, on motion of Mr. CAMERON, Went into executive session, after wnich the dvors Were reopened and the Senaie adjourned until Monday. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 1874, FREE DISTRIBUTION OF NEWSPAPERS. Mr. TYNER, (rep.) of Ind., moved to reconsider the vote of yesterday by which the bill reviving the franking privilege was rejected. He said ne would callit up when the members were more generally in their seats, and that his object was to move to recommit the bill to the Post Office Commit- \ee, with instructions to report back the third sec- | tion only, which relates to the iree circulation of weekly newspapers in the counties of their publi- cation and the iree exchange of newspapers be- tween publishers. ‘The House then proceeded to the consideration of private bills. PENSIONS FOR THE WIDOWS OP GENERALS MEADE AND CANBY, Bills granting pensions of $50 per month to the widows of Generals Canby and Meade were re- ported by Mr. MCJUNKIN, (rep.) of Pa. frum the Committee on Invalla Pensions, The for- mer bill was passed; but as to tne latter Mr, MYERS, (rep.) of Pa. deeming the pension in- suMcient, moved to recommit the bill to the committee for a rehearing. The bill was so recom- mitted, and on a like motion of Mr. CopuRN, (rep.) of Ind., the vote on the bill for Mrs. Canby was reconsidered and the bill was also recommitted. Mr. Rusk, (rep.) of Wis., chairman of the Com- mittee on Invalid Pensions, asked that instructions be given Brisas House as to the pension to be re- ported, ere were four such cases, and the com- mittee had allowed the highest rate of pension guthorized by law. Mr. CoBURN, of Indiana, moved to tnstruct the | committee to report a pension of $100 a mont for Mrs. Canby. He eulogized the character of Gen- eral Canby and stated that he had met his death more in the discharge of a national than a military duty. Mr. SHANKS, feta) of Ind., took exception to the remark of Mr. Coburn, which, he thought, reflected somewhat on the Interior Department, and argued that Generai Canby had not gone to the interview with Captain Jack under any orders or suggestions from that department. On motion of Mr. MAYNARD, (rep.) of Tenn., the Dill pensionin, sideration in the Honse, and Mr. COBURN moved to end by making the pension $100 a month. Mr. Foster, (rep.) of Ohio, said there was to be ® like bill reported ror the mother of General McPherson and he would move to make it for the same amount, Mr. SCOFIELD, (rep.) of Pa., remarked inciden- tally that the widow of Admiral Farragut had re- ceived a pension of $2,000 a year. Mr. WLLLaRD, (rep.) of Vt., remarked that al- though it was an ungracious thing to oppose such ry proposition, he thought it better to have the bilis recommitted and let the committee re a fixed rate for certain ranks. That would be the ony fair way to do it. Ir. COBURN, Of Indiana, sent to the Clerk's desk and had read extracts from the testimony of Gen- eral Sherman relating to the death ot General Canby, in order to sustain what he had said in reference to the extra military character of that oMcer tn his fatalinterview witn Captain Jack. The question was taken on Mr. Cvburn’s amend- Ment to make Mrs. Canby’s pension $100 a month, and it was negatived—64 to 104, ‘The bill as reported was then passed. The bill pensiouing Mrs. Meade was then taken up, and Mr, Mykrs, of Pa., moved to increase the pension from $50 to $100 per month. Mr, YouNG, (dem.) of Ga., advocated the amend- ment, and said that no man woo had not had the honor to serve in the army in which he (Mr. Young) had served seg! Confederate army} could appre- ciate at their true value the services of General Meade at Gettysburg. Mr. Myers urged upon the House the propriety of adopting his amenament, The amendment was rejected, and the bill as re- ported was passed. Mr. MCJUNKIN, of Pennsylvania, also reported a | bill giving @ pension of $60a month to the mother of General McPherson, which, after a few remarks from Lag Foster, of Ohio, in advocacy of it, was assed. Also a bill increasing the pension of the widow of Commodore Jesse D. Elitot, of the Navy, from $30 to $50 a month. After remarks by Mr. Topp, of Pennsylvania, the bill was passed. THE POSTAL QUESTION AGAIN, Mr. TYNER, of Indiana, referring to his motion to reconsider the vote rejecting the bill reviving the {ranking privilege, satd that after thinking the matter over more fully, and taking the counsel of friends, he had concluded to withdraw that motion, and he gave notice that on Monday next he would introduce a bill and move to pass it un- der @ suspension of the rules for the free circula- tion of weekly newspapers, The Honse then, at forty minutes past one, went into Committee of the Whole on the Private Calen- dar, Mr, Orth, of Indiana, in the chair, BILLS PASSED, The committee rose at (our o’clock and reported | bills, which were thereupon passed by the House as lollows :— For the relief of George Yount, of Missourt; Alexander Burtch and Matthew Woodruff, of Mis- sourt; Spencer H. Mead, of Kansas; P, 0. Haines William J. Scott and Dwight De Silva, of Deposit, N. Y.; David Braden and Jacob Bagley, the sure- ties for James L. Collins and George P. Fisher, Granting pensions to William Haffords, of Massa- chusetts; J. W. Davis, of New York; Mrs, Martha Northrup, Helen M. Stanberry, the children of Michael Weisse, the widow of Colonel Crano, of the First artilery; the daughter of Colone! Hall, of the Eleventh lowa tnfantry; William D. Boyd, of Ken- tucky; Jane La Font, Mary S, Prince, Timothy Paige, T. J. Mcintire, of Kentucky; Mary B. Dallas, William H. Edwards, of Tennessee ; George Holmes, Mary J. Biood, Aun M. Brockett, getsy Lewis, Isaac M. Grant, W. D. Morrison, of Maryland; Henry B. Ryder and Alonzo snyder, of New York. A LAST EFFORT TO RESUSCITATE, Mr. SHANKS, of Indiana, entered a motion to re- consider the vote of yesterday rejecting the bill to revive the tranking privilege, to be called up here- alter. The House then, at half-past four o'clock, ad- Journed till to-morrow, CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. How Is This, Mr. Bergh? To THE EpItoR OF THE HERALD :— AS your columns are always open to the inter- ests of true humanitarianism may I trouble you to notice an outrage which {8 so publicly paraded that it is quite surprising that it has escaped the vigilant “Hi. B,? On Broadway, not a mile from Nineteenth strect, have been confined for several days two gamecocks, caged, but separated by a mere partition. If the object of the owner 18 to worry out the lives of these birds by & process of slow torture he could not have adopted a more successful, and. at the same time, cruel method. As the “society” has stopped the sport of the reg- ular pit, may it not be well to tniorm “the boys,’? through your paper, that good judges of breeds can bet with greater certainty upon the winning bird by visiting the locality before named ? ABW YORK, Feb. 26, 1874, HUMANITY, Mrs. Canby was brought up for con- | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. § THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. The War That Is To Be Waged Against King Alcohol in New York. The Women Studying Spiritual Strategy. The men tn this city who make their living by day and by night in the dealing out of whiskey straights, hot runs, brandy smashes, and at times “a small bottle for two,” when there is three of & party, are apparently doomed, To be doomed in New York city tn the liquor trade is certainly something new in the “reform line; but there are but few of our foremost reformers who will not concede that reforms, even in a liquid form, may be reforms in deed and spirit, even though imaugurated by women, The fact of the matter is that Gotham is very open to as- sault when men and women alike cry out amen to the new crusade against the liquor trade, and express a desire to pray and be happy in liquor saloens, where the ardent reigns and the plain soda that tranquilizes the uneasy mind, and the cocktail that is said to give life in the early morning to the hard drinker, rendered half lifeless and cumbersome to himse’! from copious draughts from the fowing bowl of friend and foe alike the night before, are dealt out with sctentific measure, To fight against 7,000 men who have grown rich on the spoils, while the bartenders of 1,000 spirit- ual dispensaries of the usual comforters of the hot and cold advocates of spir- itual consolation have accumulated for yeara, 1s, indeed, no easy task. As yet the crusade in Gotham is not well organized. The Good Templars, the T. A. B.’s and the various other or- ganizations, it is true, are determined to take ad- vantage of the wind that is blowing trom the West; Dut they are, one and all, apparentiy in a muddle as to just how they should go about tne tmportant struggle they deem necessary to overcome THE LIQUOR INFLUENCE OF THE METROPOLIS. One of the most conscientious advocates of the | Dew idea of praying the saloons dry of castomers, and who has already this year made his mark of total abstinence im every saloon doorway in Ohto he came acrosa and who was met in a liquor store in this city yes- terday, remarked, between his “Vermount” cocktalls, which, probably unknown to himself, were not free from the taint of the coming through the rye hquid and the tastes of the Bourbon dynasty, that he and all like him meant business in the town. He talked of the conquests made in the West and the saloons that had been closed | because the presence of sweet woman had DRIVEN THE DEVIL FROM DIS STRONGHOLDS, “But,” said he, “your city here is a very big place. My mame it is—weil, let ic be unknown | now; I have been in Dayton and even in God-for- saken Indianapolis, but 1am yet aman who does | his duty for his Maker’s sake;” and as Mr. Caffert | drained his fisth Vermonter he again repeated that he was a man who did his duty. A reporter of the HERALD yesterday, full of | spiritual inclination to do good, and determined, | so tar as Jay in his power, to make the way of the poor and the rich wife alike smooth and easy for years to come, provided his sayings and doings | could make sinners long used to daily and nightly | Nquoring up repent and turn over a new leaf, | called at various liquor saloons during the day to ascertain the general sentiment of the trade. He had previously, it may be said, heard B.D. | Remington tell how he intended to make the tur | fly from of the backs of the wolves in sheeps’ | clothing who WENT TO CHURCH REGULARLY EVERY SUNDAY and yet who, inan anderband way owned and heavily profited by cocktails and brandy smashes that were daily andeven nightly passed over cer- tain bar counters. He was aso, was this spiritually inquisitive reporter, bent on finding out to what extent the women’s proposed crusade had made | them feel weak in the knees. Wililam E. Dodge, it had been said, and the men who were anxious that Congress should pass a law appointing a Con- mission of ipl into the statistics of the liquor trade of the U the anti-liquor assault, and so the re- porter felt bis way carefully. In his ramblings he learned that this evening at Association | Hall, Dr. Dio Lewis and others will expatiate on the way to avoid becoming a confirmed drunk- ard. Indeed, practical experiences, it is ramored, will be given at the meeting by some of the best, well reguiated Good Templars, to show what a de- lightful thing it was to know what it was to have been jolly drunk when one was really jolly drunk, thing it 18 to be able to stand firmly on one’s two legs and be abie to tell, without staggering, what it is to be half sober; and yet, trom shame, and the dictates of a temperance conscience, ; be unable to tell the whole truth. The temperance movement. as tt ts called already, may be said to be even nOw &@ threatening war lor the New York dealers; but they do not seem to care anything about it. New York city is a metropolis. It is very tle about those small conventionalities which tn SOME COUNTRIES MAKE THE PEOPLE SLAVES to acertain dominant class. There are the Ger- | mans, who like their lager at home as well as at | their saloons; the Irish, who have as strong a faith | in their rye and hot mixtures of whiskey | as they have in the virtues of the | soil of Erin, which does not permit of the existence of “‘shnakes,” and last bat not teast | of the Americans of the hot and young biood who will brook no interference with their champagne and their nightly festivities, festooned and | crowned, as it were, by their champagnes and | their rare liquors, which lager never interteres | with in gale or mixture. “I tell you what tt is,” | Said a liquor dealer to the HERaLp reporter, yes- terday—and whose statement ts an illustration of this general view of the cosmopolitan drinkabili- ties of this city—“I tell you this, that the women can come to my place any day and pray, | and every time they come 1 will reel _ that they have given me a good adver. Usement, As the poet says ‘men may come and men may go, but | go on forever.’ But Tenny- son knew nothing of these infernal idiots, who ; think to prevent men from drinking their private | drinks by going about in the winter time, soiling | | their nice linen by kneeling on the sidewaiks in prayer, and in Fea costing their “devoted part- ners” by that exhibition of holy devotion more | than if they stayed at home and permitted their | husbands to take their cocktails in the morning , and their nightcaps at night undisturbed by any | screech or howl against whiskey or gin, which does Rot inebriate but simply exhilarates the well Tegulated man of family.’’ | “But,” asked the reporter, “what can you do if & bevy of pretty ladies call on you, and deliberately | pray lor your deliverance from evii, for dealing out | whiskey, you know, 18 an evil ?"* | “Weil,” said the dealer as he went over to the sideboard behind his bar and filled a wine glass UF TO THE BRIM WITH COGNAC, which he drained at a single draught, “well,” said | he, “I would feel happy. I love lovely women. | (By the way, i you publish my name you must say , that I am @ married man, and refer to my wife in this particular connection.) 1 do, sir,” he continued, ‘like to see women tn prayer. i often go to church to see ‘em; but, to be candid, they May prove, beautiful as they are, rather in the | | way. Still I don’t think they will bother much | in New York. The city is a big place, and a single word to a policeman, ona charge of a breach of | the peace, disorderly conduct and all that would eM @ whole gang of 'em in the station house. Virtue is its own reward; but I tell you what it is, they wouldn’t stand over a couple of nights. I’ve been there mysell, and ali because of a lark, and 1 Want no more of them ceil arrangements," It is pretty generally understood, so far as the | HERALD reporter could learn yesterday, that the | Templars and the General Praying Temperance Society do not mean to go about from saloon toe saloon to fight King Alcohol. The managers, it would seem, are men of common sense, and will | content themselves with doing the best they can by getting up revivals in tue churches and agitar- ing the temperance cause at appointed mass meetings. One failure, they know, of a praying band at any liquor saloon would damage tue canse | irretrievably, and it is therejore highly possibie, notwithstanding the MANY PROJECTS ALREADY ON FOOT, that the system Of praying banda, as adopted in Ohio and [adiana, will not be adopted here, and that wives, sisters and sweethearts will, instead, go to church in prayeriul groups at designated times to convert the wayward loved onea who may have strayed from the straight way o! total abstinence. It 18 stated, however, on pretty good authority that ina week or two an organized meeting of ladies will cali upon the Legisiature at Albany in a body and demand that the liquor saloons of the city shall be closed at twelve (mianight), and that on Sundays the aeors shall not be opened atall, The gentlemen who are working 80 tard to nave ap- pointed by Congress a@ statistical commission, whose duties It will be to find out how many men are killed by alcoholic stimulants every year, are Said to be the powers behind the throne in this new movement against the liquor deal- ers. It may not be, indeed, that the jact that one of the men who wants to be a Com- missioner 18 interested in the temperance tract business, and that the fact that his advo- cacy of the use” makes his tracts sell exceed- ingly weil, his purse feel the heavier after every day of the moral persuasion crusade in every State, have anything to do with the general movement; but tt ts not to be denied that the backers of the Commission are in dead earnest, and that William." = and Dy, Willard Parker | ing wo inion were really at the bottom of | many @ time in the past, and what @ still jollier | bg A composed of men of all nations, who care | at : f tm lending to tt the aid of their pewerful influ- ence, are doing a great deal of good, still, as & liquor deaier in Sixth avenue remarked to @ HERALD rerorter pag “There ts a larger fleid tor work in the clubs than im the ordinary liquor stores for the praying women.” Said he:— “We liquor sellers, as the women cull us, dun't do balt as much selling a8 the clubs. We dov’t kee men away from their families like tne clubs; least we don't try to. But look at the clubs! Se aristocratic and private like and social and decent! Why, they drink more 0! # night, do the men who go to clabs than ali the droppers in to saloons you can jetch along at a sight of a night | Let the women go for the clubs on Filth avenue firet, and then come for us who do Tr Dual ness with less dangerous temptations.” Many liquor dealers in the city are already, it may be mentioned, setiing their houses in order perenne to the anticipated visits of the women, me Of them are anxious they should come; others are airaid lest tney will come; majority seem to think that THERE ARE BREAKERS AHEAD. Nearly all of tnem assert that they will dea! sum- marily with any jnreriopers, 12 petticoats or otner- wise, who do not come in for ‘business’ and make the police haul them off to the station nouse, It 18 but the churohes in this city tor the conversion of the hard drinkers will be the practice during the threatened crusade, and the saloon to saloon praying practice the exception, This evening Dio-Lewis speaks at Association Hall on the “Cause,” and to-morrow, at the Church of the Strangers, the planus o1 the district visitors are to be laid open. ‘Truly, there is a hard 1oad to travel lor the praying women if the plans shall coniganyo the saioon praying sysiem adopted in 0. AT THE FULTON STREET PRAYER MEETING yesterday the Rev. George J. Mivgens, the Super- tendent of the City Mission, presided, and in the course Of tue exercises took occasion to speak upon the present temperance movement, There was &@ great revival going on, he said, in which he had great contidence, because it leaned 00 religion, He wanted to approve it publicly, and asked the meeting to pray ior the revelation of God's wiil in the matter. it was not clear at pres- ent which course it was best to take. Several prayers were then offered having relation to tne temperance gueation. One prayed for enlighten- maent, a8 he was lot able to see bts Way Clear of all the iniquity overwhelming this city on all sides, Another person offered prayer for More humility among Christians, so that they would not be afraid to kneel even in a gutter to bring sinners to the cross, Au aged man, in porcine prayer for the anninilavion of all the rum shopsin the country, said that we should not be anaid to follow those who have taken the lead in Christ’s spirit. Those women worked with prayer and tears, Christians should not be unwilling to follow leaders with such weapons, a8 they had uot been backward when the sword was the weapon used. BROOKLYN AND THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. The Ladies in Downright Earnest—A Day of Prayer Against Hell Broth— Golden Gongs to Ring the Death Knell of King Alcohol. The march of the temperance feminine brigade the good people of Brooklyn, and the ladies who otherwise pious community have determined upon assaulting the strongholds of King Alcohol and emulating their worthy sisters of Ohio, Several preliminary meetings have been held, Jook- the jormation of a strong and powerful organization in the Eastern and West ern districts, Yesterday the Women’s Temperance Society met at the Sunday school rooms in Mon- roe street, hear Pierrepont, thcre being @ large assemblage of delegates present. TEMPERANCE ADVOCATES, Addresses were made upon the cause of absti- Bence trom strong drink by delegates from the Washington, Franklin, Southern Star and Watch Hil Temperance Unions. Rev. Mr. Bass, Mr. Morton ana others also spoke in advocacy of pure, sparkling water as preferable to all other beverages, They were followed by Mrs, Martin, Mrs, biwell and Mrs. Wilder. The Worthy Patriarch of Washington Lodge, Mr. Mason, said, with great emphasis, that if the glorious cause of detestation of alcohol ever succeeded it would be through the efforts of tha ladies; the men had tried and failed lamentably. About twenty letters of encouragement were read from societies declaring their intention to attend the grand mass meeting at Dr. Cuyler’s chureh, on mext luesday, Alter some discussion touching the Dest means of accomplishing the great end in view, @resolution was adopted declaring it to be ad- mussible to appoint A DAY OF PRAYER, upon which all the churches of Brooklyn, trrespec- tive of creed, shall be opened and the congrega- tions be invited tor the purpose of meditation and appeal to the Throne oi Gracc for guidance as to the best means of effectively closing the liquor saloons, The day will be designated at the mass meeting and @ plan for the campaign will be an- nounced. The following are the names of the | Cuyler church meeting:—Mrs. George C. White, |.Mrs. Wilder, Mrs, Squires, Mrs. Tibballs, Mrs. Cock- ro(t, Mrs, Richmond, Mrs, Anna Field, Mrs, Cleve- land, Mrs. Theobald. GOLDEN GoNGs. Mrs, M. B. Ingalls read a letter of recent date from a missionary from India which contained a few points touching the treatment of drunkards | m that far of land. The missionary writes:— | “fhey have one or two laws whici Curistians might do well to follow. The first crime of drunk- enness 18 [Barents by the offender belug paraded through the streets by a procession ot State minis- ters under golden umbrellas, who strike a golden gong and read the crime at the corner of all the Streets, and lash him with thongs. He ts then taken to the high court, where he has more severe biows, and then sent to his home. It he is found guilty the second time he is taken out in the same way and then banished trom the country. We saw such o rocession with a man gailty for the first time, Ve were in the golden city six weeks, and this ‘was the only drunken man We saw. ‘They are for- bidden to use opium or gamble. As I contrasted this view with our own Christian land, where in- temperance and other kindred evils reign un- molested, and are daily driving thousands into et Perdition, 1 was led to prociaim, “Traly the he: us.’ ’ The “golden” umbrella and gong bustness, it was acceded, could not be introduced in the Brooklyn programme, but other reformatory measures . can, and the ladies say “must be,” Why an Admission Fee Is Charged for Dio Lewis’ Lecture This Evening. New Yor, Feb, 27, 1874. To THE EpIToR OF THE HERALD Some rather severe remarks have appeared on the charge for admission to Mr. Dio Lewis’ lecture to-morrow night. Will you allow me a few words in reply to the eame in your valuable paper? The anniversary of the Union Temperance prayer meeting was held in the Church of tie Strangers on the 8tn of this month. Our report showed an indebtedness of over $200, since largely increased. Inave no place to look for that money except in my pockets. May I not be pardoned, and not be considered @ money seeker, if { do as other institu- tions in this city are doing almost daily—secure a lecturer and charge an admission jee to reduce said indebtedness Mr. Dio Lewis makes no charge; neither has he at any other time for a like service. 1 pay $75 for the hall and all the expenses of printing, &c., and, being on a sulary myself, can- not afford the admission free. 1 will cheerfully give any poor person a@ free ticket, and would gladly charge nothing for admission, but, as | have already said, I am now very much embarrassed for funds to carry on the good work my heart and pocket are pledged to sustain. A. 't, MCMULLEN, President New York Union Temperance Prayer Meeting. The Tidal Wave Touches Missouri—A Series of Temperance Meetings To Be Heid in St. Loats. St. Lovta, Feb, 27, 1874. Ata meeting to-night of the Temperance League it was decided to hold a@ series of temperance meetings in this city, commencing next week. It {a not designed to visit saloons, as has been done in Onfo and elsewhere, but to hold meetings some- what after the plan of the Hammond revival gath- erings, to be aided by a number o/ clergymen of this city. Enthasiasm at Ithaca—Large Women's Meetings Morning and Night. Irttaca, Fev. 27, 1874. The women’s temperance movement ts fairly tn- augurated bere, At nine o'clock this morning the bells were rung and a@ large audience assembled at Library Hall. The Rev. Dr, Bristol was chosen Onairman, Dio Lewis explained at length the manner of organizing and conducting the movement, Short speeches were made by clergymen of the various churches and by prominent citizens. The ladies ol many of vhe leadingyamilies of this plave occu- pied positions apon the stage aud made brie! ad- dresses. An organization was perfected and com- mittees were appointed. Dio Lewis delivered an address before a very enthusiastic audience last evening. Several others also spoke, including Mr. H. W. Sage, of Brooklyn. It was resolved to call a meeting this morning, at nine o'clock, for the purpose of organ- izing @ praying band for @ raid on the liquor deal- ers; and With that object in view bills were printed and left at nearly every house in the city, alter the adjournment of the meeting last aight Dr. Lewis leaves for kimira at three o'clock P.M. Where he apeaks this ev ag. higaly probable, however, that praving iD the | over the West is exercising an influence among | @re alive to the evils of the rum traffic in that | committee chosen to periect arrangements for the | athen willrise up in judgment against | ST. PAIRICK’S DAY. Preparat for Parade—Conven- tion of the Irish Societies—Election of @ Grend Marshal. A convention of [rish societies was held last evening at Hibernia Hall, No. 26 Prince street, vo | Make arrangements for the celebration of St, Pat- rick’s Day, and about fifty societies were repre- sented, Mr. Thomas Kerrigan presided, Edward L. Carey and Stephen Walsh acting as secretaries. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Mr, William Carrol), of the Committee on Military Affairs, reported that Colonel Cavanagh was ready to turn out with the Sixty-ninth regiment on the day ofthe parade, At the same time whey re- | quested that the route be selected with a view to spare the young members of the regiment as much a8 possible, as they would have @ ball on the even- ing 01 St. Patrick’s Day. The report was approved. Delegates were then elected from each society to appoint a grand marshal jor the parade. The delegation retired to a room below, A Committee o1 the Father Mathew Monument Association made an appeal to the meeting, asking them to contribute muney ior the erection ofa monument in Central Park in honor of Theobald | Mathew, Mr. Edward L, Carey said the temperance men numbered 0,000, and ue Lad no doubt the money could be easily raised. He thought the temper- ance organizations ought to raise (he money. The speaker denounced Vice President Henry Wilson, who had not dared to lace the people of New York, and declined to give a lecture im at | of this monument, He desired to know what | the association had done thus far before appealin; to the public for aid, ‘The HERALD had disciose | the fact that $1 60 had been spent on salaries by | Some “benevolent” associations for every $1 spent | in the actua! work for which they had been formed, | A temperance monument inust be raised by tem- perance money. | Here ensued an excited scene, several members calling the speaker to order and rebuking him for the sentiments He had expressed, Father Mathew was warmiy deiended by several delegates, who declared that he had saved hundreds o1 Imshmen trom ruin aud shame. A member of the committee said they were poor, but honest Irishmen, and dared the gentieman to | find @ Maw ip their proceedings, fAppantes) ‘There was a great deal of noise and confusion, and Mr. Quigley, the chairman of the committee who also nade an explanation, could only be hear with difficulty. He thougnt be was as wel! known | and as honest an Irisiman as the gentleman who bad assailed him. (Applause.) There were more cries of Order!" “Order!” at this point, and some delegates insisted that the | whole discussion nad nothing todo with the St. Patrick's procession. Mr. Quigley and the other members O/ the committeesthereupon withdrew. ‘Ihere was an intermission of turee-quarters of ) a0 bour, and then the delegation which had been Sppointed to select the Grand Marshal returned. ‘They reported that the following gentlemen had received the highest number of votes:—Joun McGuire, of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, No. 13, 10r Grand Marshal; James W. Reilly, for First Ald, and Patrick McGinley for Second Aid. The meeting then Lacerreqge to vote for Grand Marshal, and Mr. John McGuire was declared clected, The | Meeting then adjourned. The route has not yet Deen decided upon and | | will have to be submitted to the Police Commis- | Sloners and the officers of the Sixty-ninth regiment | beiore being definitively adopted. One of whe { pina Say members expressed the fear that the | Police Commissioners would not allow the proces- sion to go below Canal street, and stated thas with this exception the line of march would be the same as last year. PLYMOUTH FRIDAY EV: | Our Knowledge of Christ—Christ Formed | in Use—A Present Help in Time of Need. Plymouth lecture room was unusually crowded | last evening, the parlors being called into requisi- | tion aso, Almost immediately upon Mr. Beecher’s | ING LECTURE, dered him a bouquet, for whick she was thanked by @ kiss from the reverend gentleman, usual services Mr. Beecher said :— 1 suppose we are a thousand times better in- structe: science of Christ. [suppose we Know the history of Christ better than the disciples did; that is to say, have gives a light tous that it did not to the apos- ties. It I were to say what seems to me to be the difference between ancient and modern Chnisuans | it would be in the PERSONAL USE MADE OF CHRIST. When I hear the apostles say, “we have Christ formed in us," when i hear the aposties speak ol “putting on the Lord Jesus Christ,” 1 think Wiat | that means—clothing themselves with Christ, as if he were a garment fitting every part. Have we this experience o! Christ ? You fave a hope in Christ, and hope when you die He will save you ‘but is He such an one that you can say He is being formed in you? My disposition becomes such that when @ man feels this be krows what Christ is. Is Christ to you uke a garment? Is He bread to you? Is He everything to you? Men think to gain this reguires moral genius, but, on the con- trary, while there have been many geniuses good red people. Let us look atit. A person is tn ‘aitened circumstances, vexed and burdened, and be goes into his closet and throws it all on tne Lord and goes ont comiortabie, he don’t know why. He just trusted Christ, wno says, “Cast your burdens on me—take no thought for the morrow.'t He is & soul that don’t know any better than to TAKE CHRIST AT HIS WORD, and what does he get? Suppose he don’t geta hod of coal, ig mot the peace of God something? A woman lives with a wretch whose chiel aim in life seems to be to torment ler, and instead ot ask- ing how shall I relieve myselfy she bears it, We hear of martyTs being burnt at the stake, but that ts a luxury, ior it could not last more than an hour, but to roast year alter year and year aiter year, I tell you there are no martyrs like those in houses. She bears, she won't run She thinks of Christ, and has an inward peace and strengthening, and grows radiant in the face, a mark of seif-contro! and communion | Witn the spiritual. Sickness and poverty and all | Other complications of trouble cluster around | Qs, and we say how are we to bear this? Leaning | on Jesus. Now then, 80 far as that person ts con- | cerned, this {#¢a lesson no text can give. Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden light. Don't shirk it; take tt right on the spot you don’t want it. You say I might bave | borne it 1ft¢ had been anything else. On} that tf | 18 a devil, You don’t reflect that the measure of | What you have done Is the MEASURE OF YOUR SELF-DENIAL. + The point where the battle is laid on us by the | Divine Providence isthe spot where the batwe | must be fought. Now take your necessities, your { poiats where you are temptable, and put them on Jesus, and what is the result? I hold that tuere | tg more comforts and hope springing out of a vic- | tory over some weakness than in all else. We | dodge these tests, Instead of glozing it over come | to the front, and Christ will meet you and say, | “Will you drink of my cap?’ He will meet us in ; the darkness and trouble. You slink and hide; and | how shall you sit on His right hand or His leit if | yon won't take His dealings with | preaching the Gospei to other people. THE THING THAT TAKES HOLD of people ts the belief that you are strengthened to do things impossible to others, ‘in @ store there 18 @ bouncing ways ready for any kind of fun, ) ater a time, some one tells the | that Bill has got a hope, | Humph! 1 would like to see the hope he has got. | But by and by comes @ strain, something he never | would bear before, and he flushes and is silent, and | they look on and say 1 guess Bill has got some- | thing and they keep trying him and find he is really humble and anxious to do good, and they say Bilis a Christian. Why? Because he does aud, rest | self.this t8 what impress: men it is @ Pentacostal season to every man to see @ person brought to temptation and doing ali and standing all, having all trust in God, measuring life not by the value we attacti to it, but by @ higher standard, So there is a grace of God adequate to every triai in life—no grief, no temptation, no errors, uo situation, nowhere that Christ cannot sustain you, and, more than that the harder the load the more joyiul is the heart o} Christ to succor, JESUS IS NEAR | in proportion gs you need Him—a present help tn time of need—and 60 by putting Him on you will by and by sit down with Him in the glories of His Father's kingdom. MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD. Trains Kunning Regular! New York, Feb. 2 To THE Epiror oF THE HERALD:— In the HRRALD of yesterday (Thursday) appeared &@ paragraph beaded “Freshet in the Southwest,’ stating that “the trains on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad had stopped running.” I have received oMcial information from Captain W. J. Ross, General Superintendent of the Mempnis and Charleston Railroad, that trains are now run- ning regulariy—the road all right, As there are many merchants here from the South who will look to the HERALD for information, you to give this a ey im your columns, 3. G. M. BUFFALUE, General Eastern Agent, Memphis and Charieston Railroad, 1s’ FREDERICK, MG., Feb, 27, 1874. The large livery stable of Samuel T. Bungie was destroyed by Gre about four o'clock this morning. Several valuable horses were burned, Includin; the well known Wade Hampton, A number o; Duggies, Wagons and sieighs Were also destroyed, The joss, exclusive of the horses, will reach $5,000, \ Sucendiary, entering a little girl went on the platiorm and ten- | than the disciples in the doctrine of the | the degree of knowledge and enlightenment we | i| Christians, yet the mass are among the less | ft ¥ trom tt, | Provi ou? So as to | Suppose | lelow Got what? A hope. | things he don’t like todo. 11s the suppression of | Of The fire is supposed to have been the work of an | this date of th THE STATE CAPITAL. BILL CREATING A STATE PARK, Husbands and Wives to Testify for Each Other. Talk ot Remodelling the Charter. *REORGANIZING QUARANTINE.” ALBany, Feb, 27, 1874 Both Houses were without any very neavy load OF business to discharge this morning, A number of local bills were introduced in the Assembly, none of which were of any great importance, ex- cept it might be that introduced by Mr. Alvora to give legal shape to an oid idea of establishing @ public park in the Adirondacks, A Board of Com- nifesioners 18 provided for, consisting of Horatio Seymour, Patrick H. Agan, William B, Taylor, George H. Raynor, Wtillam A, Wheeler, Verplanck Colvin, George Dawson and Robert B. Roosevelt, and the State Engineer and Surveyor, ex qficio members, In case of @ va- cancy the Governor shall ll it, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Park will take in all the lands owned by the State lying within the counties of Essex, franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, St, Lawrence and Warren. Tue foresta are to be protected from waste, trespass and injury. The Board ts authorized tg accept a donation or bequest of any land within the counties named for the purposes of the Park, and should {t deem any lands desirable within the limits indicated, it 1s authorized to contract for the purchase, subject to the ap- proval of the Legislature. The Commissioners are expected to furnish an annaal report the frst Tuesday of Fepruary to the Legislature ot all their acts, They shall act without compensation, ex- cept such expenses as may be incurred tn the dis- charge of their duties. Five park keepers are to be appointed, the com- Pensation of each not to exceed $500 per annum. In the suppression of forest fires the keepers are given power to summon a posse from the nearest settlement for their extinction. HUSBANDS AND WIVES, One bill of general interest was passed in the As- sembly—allowing husbands and wives to testify for each other in criminal trials, THE RUSH OP RAILROAD BILLS. The rush of street ratiroad and rapid transit bills would appear to originate from sume central de- sign of blocking the pathway to a genulne pian for establishing quick intercommunication in New York city. Some people insist that Vanaerbilt is at the bottom of this distracting purpose and that when the meuntain pile of railroad bilis that now burden the calendar has dene its purpose and killed all the vitality in the scheme ot Mr. Eastinan, the wily Commodor will come out with @ plan of his own that is sure to carry the day. REMODELLING TRE CHARTER. The proposed scheme for reviving the Metropolt- tan Board of Police, and extending its authority Over the adjacent counties exercises the politi- cians here considerably, They predict it 1s but the entering wedge to the over- |-throw of the entire governmemt of the city as it exists under the present charter, and After the | that before the end of the session not gioue the Metropolitan Board of Police and Health, but other Doards ot a like imperial character will be estab lished, to the utter consternation of your conserva- tive democratic Mayor, GOING FOR THE CANAL AWARD. Taking advantage of the very curious decision Yeached by the Commission on the canal steambose award. Mr. Mackin, on behalf of the two most suc- cessfal competitors, introduced in the Assembiy 4 | Dill for the relief of William Baxter and David P. Dobbin, which provides that the Comptroller shall pay William Baxter, when he has placed on the canals seven acceptable steamboats, $35,000, and Davia P. Dobbin, when he has placed on the | canals three steamboats, the sum of $15,000. CONSOLIDATION OF NEW YORK CITY AND COUNTY. In the morning session of the Senate the only thiug of auy moment done was the passage of tha bill ior the consolidation of the city aud county of New Yors. THE CRY OP THE UNWASHED. Nine thousand ettizens of New York have sent up @ petition, throngh Senator Groas, for addi- tional public baths, which shows there are some people left in Gotham who are not averse to wate! THE STREET CLEANING INVESTIGATION. To-morrow morning the Committee on Cities re- sumes its investigation into the Street Cleaning Bureau at the Filth Avenue Hotel, and witi coa- which is expecred to be about Tuesdi They wil first examine the books at Poilce Homigaarters at | ten o'ciock. THE SMITH FUNERAL. 8o many of the members Jeft on the morning , train jor Amsterdam, including the Speaker, whose place was taken by ‘fou Alvord, that barely @ quorum was left for business. Mr. Smith had | evidently @ host of iriends 19 dota houses of the Legisiatare. | AMENDING THR BROOKLYN ELECTION LAW. The bill introduced by Mr. Bern, of Kin | Assembiy, regarding the Brooklyn Election law, des that each election district spall contain | 600 voters, shall be entirely within @ ward, and | that the Register shall be appointed betore the | 15th of Uctober of each year. Tue Dill also pro- | vides for the Sppoincment of canvassers, and at | much length defines the duties of registers, can- | Vassers, poll Clerks, &c. ADJOURNMENT, The Assembly concluded to adjourn from half. past one to-day over to half-past seven Monday, and to sit every alternate Saturday for the remain- ; der of the session, The Senate, consistently enough, resolved to have an evening sesston, | quorum or no quorum, if only for mutual admira- tion. In the evening session of the Senate Mr. Wood | introduced a bill relative to quarantine, defining | the qualifications, duties and powers of the Health | OMicer of the port of New York as contained in Senate document No. 104, May 29, 1873, in connec- tion with @ report of the Finance Committee made | at that date. The bill provides that the Quarao- | tine estabiishment shall consist of ~ First—W arenouses, docks and wharves, Second—Boarding stations, Third—Anchorage, Fourth—Hospitat Fifth—Place of detention. Sizth—Burial ground, |, Tne third section relates to docks, ware- j houses and wharves, together with such Tacilivies for begged and unloading and stor- ing cargoes as will enable merchants to over- baul and refit vessels while in quarantine, and shall be constructed at such expense and in such places in the lower bay of New York, not on Staten Island, Long Island or Coney Island, as the Quarantine Commissioners may determine, with the approval of the Health Officer and Com- missioners of the Land Office. The warehouses Shall be of such capacity only as will secure the best natural ventilation consistent with security for merchandise; but in the aggregave they snail of & capacity equal to the storage fifty medium cargoes, and they shall have connected with them apartments with suitable appliances for special disinfection by forced ventilatiqn, refrigeration, ‘h steam, dry heat and chemical disinfection, ‘The wharves shall be constructed with due rd to safety and protection for vessels, and ery extensive to admit of safe moorage of at least jour vessels of the largest size at the same time. There shall be two docks, each one capabie of adinitting # ship of the largest size. The ‘ding station jor vessels sub- Ject to quarantine ving between the 1st day of Apriland the lst day of November stall be in the lower bay, below the Narrows, and consist of the vessel at present used as s Moating hospital or such other vessel as may hereafter be provided, to be anchored tn such proximity to the channel as will afford the greatest despatch in boarding and directing vessels as soon as practicable after their arrival. The anchorage for vessels under quaran- tine shalt be in the lower bay, distant not less than two miles from the ‘earest shore. The only diseases against which quarantine shall apply are yellow fever, cholera, typhus or ship fever And smallpox, and any new disease of 4 contagious, inlectious or pestiiential nature, at the discretion of the Health Om doating hospital shal! be constructed with reference fo the purposes of ® hospital, and of # capacity suMictent to accommodate 100 patients, Prom th ist day of May to the 18t day of November the float- ing hospital shall be anchored in the lower bay, not less than two miles dit from the nearest shore. From the lst day of November to the ist day of May it may be moored at the Quarantine wharves until SS Provision shall be otherwi: made by law. Smallpox patients shall be sent and supported, as @t present, at Blackwell's Island, anc typhus or ship fever patients shall be sent to and supported, as at een at Ward's Ces All salaries ar be fixed by the Health A resolution to adjourn over nntii Monday evening, and an amendment thereto for a final adjournment on the 16th of April, were both, after much. discussion, adopted, THE INDIANA GRANGES INDIANAPOLIS, Feb, 27, 1874, The State Agent of the granges has reports up te e organization of 1,450 granges it Tage of sixteen to each county. in z ludiana, an ave