The New York Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1874, Page 3

ae THE TEMPERANCE TEMPEST, Great Demonstrations in New York, Philadelphia and New Haven. PETTICOAT PERTINACITY The Fresh Water Wave Sweeping East and West. i A CATHOLIC CRUSADE. The Bold and the Timid Disagreeing on the Method of Warfare, WOMAN’S WILL AT WORK. The good men and true and the women of this city who have seen fit to openly identify them- selves with the new temperance movement, it would seem, are not all of one mind as to the dest why of attacking the enemy. There arc among them a few who believe that the best way to get rid of the temptations with which the young and the old alike who are bibujously inclined in the Metropolis is to attack the saloons by main force of devout prayer and repeated calls upon the pro- prietors of the various liqnor dispensaries. Still, the fact has become apparent to most of them that what is an easy thing to do in a village where Charley Beck or Irish Sullivan was made 40 go down on his marrow bones, and, with tears im his eyes, confess that he was unable to stand the pressure of prayer and exhortation apy longer, ig really an impossibility in a city like New York. The men like Dio Lewis who are doing all they can to egg on the movement to put the dramshops of the city among the rabbish of the past are doubtless sincere. They mean well in ali they do, and, in their enthusiasm, they care very little what advice they give to their bearers, so long as the Lord is supposed to be on their side of the fight It is @ fact that became evident yesterday | at the various meetings that were held about town to favor the anti-liquor crusade that the leaders of the movement are not of one mind as to the best way of carrying on their warfare, Even Lewis himself is a little in doubt; but while he is not a | Prohibitory Jaw man he trankly tola a HERALD | reporter yesterday, at the Church of the Strangers, that he believed women in praying bands could in this city do all the good that had been done in Ohio so long as they went about their work in dead | earnest. In answer to the question put to hin by the reporter whether or not the women might be pulled up atsome time with a sharp turn in their ramblings about the saloons, in view of the fact that the liquor. dealers are doing a business | that they are by legal license allowed to carry on, | he remarked that law had nothing. to do with the matter. He said, in fact, that the women’s right in the matter of invading the saloons was not to be considered at all, because they were the sufferers from the lquor trade—the wife, the mother and the sweetheart—and had a right of self-defence, as it were, to attack by any means in their gentle power te men who were instrumental in making their lives unhappy. At the hours appointed yesterday, afternoon and evening, the friends of the new movement met at Dr. Deems’ church. The failure of the meeting the night beiore at Association Hall was made up for by a crowd that was over- whelming in numbers—so large, in fact, that an extra meeting had to be heid in the Sun- @ay school room in the basement of the church, where exercises were conducted by the Secretary of the Temperance Society, Mr. | L. 8. Cole, The two meetings were enthusiastic | toa wonderful degree, which probably may be ac- counted for in great part by the fact that the ma- | jority of the audience was composed of women. Dio Lewis and Mr. McMullen, the President of the Temperance Society, were present and both de- | livered earnest discourses. Mr. Lewis was very | felicitous in his remarks, and gave hs hearers a vivid picture of the way tne liquor trade was knocked in the head in Ohio while he was | out there, His appeals to the good and | the earnest workers in tile temperance cause were doubtless irom the heart, and the | candid way in which he answered every question pas to him as to the certain good and the provable | aa that legally might be made if the praying band | fystem were inaugurated, told plainly that he, at | Jeast, baa entered the movement with an houest | purpose, Dr, Steele also made a most eloquent @ddress at the evening meeting, and when the hundreds who were ge Qnally sep- | arated it was discovered by Mr. Barker, a | strong temperance advocate, who went through | the crowd with @ petition asking Jor men and women alike to take the pledge, | that 268 persons bad determined to give up the | Bowing bowl asa luxury. The two meetings were marked by great excitement trom beginning to end, and doubtless did a great deal of good ior the temperance cause. They showed one thing, how- | ever, which Mr. McMulien himself made certain by @ positive statement, that no matter how many meetings may be heid, or how many prayers are offered up (or the destruction of the liquor trade, | there will not be Sag yet band system in the | general tournament. |The reason why Mr. McMul- | Jen did pot state, but it is generaliy believed that the reluctance 01 decent women in this city to enter | into the contest as the Ohio women did, and the fear of the police order to “move on” have hada wood deal to do with it. A LARGE TEMPERANCE MEETING. eects How Dio Lewis Proposes to Convert New York—Ten Women to a Block and the Same Results To Be Obtained as in Ohjo—Speeches by Revs. Messrs. Inskip and McDonald—An Original Temper- ance Hymn. Mi A meeting of the East Side Temperance Ailiance ‘was held at the Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church yesterday afternoon. The church was crowded, the major part of those present | being ladies, who seemed to take a very decp in- terest in all that was said. The Rev. Mr. Boole presided, and the Rey. Mr. | McDonald led in the opening prayer, which was | full of earnestness and feeling. Atter prayer Mr. Boole introduced Dio Lewis, of women’s crusade | fame. Mr, Lewis opened his remarks by stating that there was something in the movement which frightened him, At first when he entered on the good work he was not afraid of it, but within a | short time it had developed a something which to him was alarming. He said there ‘Was now so much of Godin the movement that he wished to go and hide himself, The creature of his creation had taken on so much of God that he now came to regard it with awe and trembling. What he had intended to be local had become | universal, and now the tide of religious feeling | that had been aroused could not be stemmed by | any sectional influence or animosity. It seemed as though it were going to sweep across the face of the whole country. But, as he had not come to the meeting to talk of what was being done in Ohio, but of what ought to be done in the East, he Would let the West go on in the good work and tun his attention to New York, not 80 much a8 @ city, but as regarded tie individual actions of its citizens and their duties in tne cause of temperance. What wa: everybody's business Was nobody’s business, and on this uccount he recommended that every one take the subject to ‘himself, and, independent of influence or organiza- on, do all he conld to help the cause. As soon as this state of things is brougnt about organization— and powerful organization—win Spring up, and its power and influence will be felt on both sides, ‘To insure the success of the movement in the East there must be, as“ there had been in the West, a depth of feeling and interest in the work, and Goa must be the foremost consideration. Temperance organizations have been in existence for hundreds Of years, but they never Sc00m of these women im Ohio, Their pel Co ra ha was perfect, but there was ot that love of God, and that deep seated geeling onderlying it, and consequently it had not succecded ag yell a8 the Women’s movement, | and make @ short which was on love and religion. Mr. Lewis divided a: into three classes :—First, those who drink aa a day as they can get it, and are money only from being continually lack or riunity; second, drink otly abd get drunk occa- L who, wita kid gloves and sip from damty glasses the choicest and rarest wines of the world. The first class, he Bays, do not induce young peopie to drink, as they are in themselves examples of what drinking leads to, They are walking and stron, temperance lectures, and, had they no souls an bodies to save, I ladly say, ‘Go on are keeping the rising generation ruin and destruction.” The second class re those with furry overcoats and stovepipe © get flush now and then and go off on a “11 ” Many Of them are in business, Many of them have good names in the Gold and Stock boards; but let them go on in their way for five years and see where they will stand, The third ana last class, he thinks, is the worst, and he declared that he would sooner die a sot than go belore bis God after having spent a life lke these kia glove gentiemen, ey were the bon ton, the men who lead the fasbiod and trom whom all the town takes tone. They rise at public dinners and on penis occasions and, glass in hand, before the world make speeches. They have an awiul crime to anewer for, ior they are leading the young of their generation to ruin and to degrada. tion, i In conch giag. hie remarks Mr. Lewis said that the women of New York let themselves out as the servan hell and the devii when they offered wine to their visitors on New Year's Day or any other time. He said this New Year business was an evil which needed to be rectified, and tne sooner the better, In his opinion many and many a good and virtuous man was thrown down :rom his high estate by this iashion, Men for whom drink had no fascination found it agreeable when dispensed by @ female hand, and drank amid the noise of | female voices. if this jashion could be stopped in New York a great step towards temperance per- fection would be taken. At the conclusion of Mr. Lewis’ remarks the fol- lowing Original hymn, written for the occasion, was sung by the congregation ;— mancn on} ‘The banner cross is waving high, ‘The standard of our God, “To arms, to arms !—the battle cry— Ring out the cheering word. ‘There’s sound of victory In the air, nd shoutof triumph grand; The hosts of God in mighty prayer ‘Are sweeping through the land. The beast is hunted to his lair, ‘The monster to his den, And Love her spotless bosom bares, ‘To rescue fallen nen, What can withstand the might sublime ‘That powerless secks to win! Resisiless ag the flight of time, Its conquests over sin. ‘The hand of faith lays hold or God, And chokes the springs of death, And pours the streams of life abroad, ‘To sweeten poison’s breath. March on! march on! ye conquering hosts, Nor hunt of vice through al jor 01 our ¢ Nor drunkard in the land. ord DIO LEWIS’ PLAN OF DISTRICTING NEW YORK. In answer vo the question whether he thought It pone to do in the East as had been done in the est, Mr. Lewis answered, “I certainly do; true, it cannot be done in the same way, but it can be done, 1 would suggest that the work be under- taken in this way:—Say, let ten women take a Street and go Into the first ‘gin mull’ on that street rayer, then move on to the next store and do the same. When they get to the end of the street let them begin over again and do the same thing, Many may not see how this will have any effect; bui it will, and needs only to be tried to be proven.” Here Mr. Boole arose and said that this morning there would be @ prayer meeting in the church for the conversion of the “gin mill” keepers and lor all others tasting, touching or handling ardents. BROTHER INSKIP'S SPEECH. « Brother Inskip was next introduced. He said that the movement had a deep religious signifi- cance, and was not by any means an exclusively temperance one. He said its success was not at- tributable to woman or her persuasive power, but to God, who was foremost in the movement, and who Was making Himeelf felt, He concluded his remarks with the sentence, “No gin miil can stand in the presence of an angry God.”? This sen- tence was spoken with vociferous emphasis, and one brother, who seemed to enter into the spirit | of the thing, cried out in stentorian tones, ‘Bless the Lord!” BROTHER M’DONALD’S SPEECH, Brother McDonald next came forward. He is from Maine, aad gave ms experience of the much talked of Maine Liquor jaw. He said it effectively closes the ‘gin mills,” but drunkennegs is still very prevalent, and an immense number of sub- terranean groggeries are stil) in full operation, In | his opinion legisiation on the subject of temper: ance was of no account unless the tone and senti- ment of the people were in accord with the law passed. This woman’s movement had God in it, and would prepare pubilc sentiment jor legislation On the subject of temperance, A collection was here taken up, and the meeting Was closed with prayer. THE METROPOLITAN C. T. A. UNION. The new Board of Government of the Metropoll- tan Catholic Total Abstinence Union of New York State, elected at the late State Convention in this city, held their frst meeting yesterday afternoon at the residence of the President, No. 216 Canal street, to map out the campaign for the ensuing year. Alexander Patton, Sr., President of the Union, took the chair, The project of visiting ail outstanding societies and applying to them to link their forces for a general advance was discussed and the execution of the same assigned vo the New York County Vice President, Thomas J. Cro- nan, to be aided by the local directors of the several parishes. A series of public demonstrations to set forth the special principles of the Catholic movement belore the country and attract the support of ail the congregations will be carried out at once, New societies were reported as organized in the churches of St. Joun the Evangel- ist and St, Bernard, and the pastor of St. Cecilia's (new) church, Rev. Father Fiattery, was reported as ready to aid the organization committee in founding a branch in his parish. The Centennial proposal, originating in the Phila- delphia Union, for statuary in Fairmount Park in | the form of a fountain to de built by the General Union, came up by a resolution instructing the New York member of the national board to oppose the introduction of business of a political or public nature, such as the Centennial affair, into the ¢Counctls of a purely religious association ; | the satety of the total abstinence movement de- pended upon its holding aloof trom operations which properly belong to political bodies and _pub- lic men, and that the action of the reverend Presi- dent of the General Union in refusing to commit the Union to the Philadelphia Centennial scheme be endorsed as saving the cause from a great peril. The resolution was adopted unanimously, Ladies’ total aostinence societies were reported as forming tn the several parishes, not for a public Singing crusade, but for supporting the religious abstinence pian. THE FORSYTH STREET METHO- | DIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Yesterday afternoon temperance meetings were held in the schoolrooms attached to the various churches throughout the city, at which many sig- natures to the pledge were obtained. In the For- | syth street Methodist Episcopal church the move- ment was inaugurated yesterday by the frst mect- ing, at which there was a large attendance. E. Seeiy, Superintendent of the Sunday scho presided. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Cudy and Glover, vesides others from’ members present, demon strong drink, THE CAUSE IN PHILADELPHIA. A Monster Uprising in the City of Brotherly Love—T'wo Immense Mass Meetings at the Same Time—The Ginmills More Numerous than the Churches and the Drinkers than the Christians—Defiance of the Police. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28, 1874, The crowd assembled at Colonel Wood's Museum this afternoon to hear the addresses of Mrs. Dr. French and others identified’ with the general tem. perance crusade was immense. Mrs. French, when she appeared upon the platform, was wel- comed down the aisle with the most prolonged and enthusiastic applause. MRS. DR. FRENCH’S ADDRESS. The meeting was presided over by Mr. W. B, Drew, of Washington, D. ., and after a bricf prayer by the Key. Dr. Romaine Mrs, Dr. French came forward and addressed the assembied thon- sands, “I came here to-day,” she said, “to address you for the promotion of this great and momentous temperance cause, This immense audience indl- cates what interest the community take in this ‘Wondrous Movement. What woman or what man, were a child in danger, would not rush to the brink of heil to save it irom ruin, My appeal is to every true woman and every honest man, We do not intend to get down in the mud and block up the thoroughfares with a riotous crowd, Our prayer meetings are troe and legitimate, and the police dare not interfere with us; but they should inter- fere with the crowd that follow and interrupt as, Our work has just begun. It ts our aim to sO appeal to the feelings of the rum. sellers that they will voluntarily give up their ne- Jarious occupation; that they will of their own Mr. | who related their experiences of tne | outrage our (friends or destroy our dear ones; that they will cease forever the ruination of our fathers and the degradation of our sons, ALAS! 1 AM NOT A LEGISLATOR, “Our appeal is said to be through legisiation, but What prominence in the Legislature have I or any other of my sex? Nay, our guardian is Heaven and our instrument is prayer. We shall hold meetings of prayer in every churcb—nay, in every house—on each day and atevery hour. We trust in the virtue of our effort, and it’ purity before a just and equitable God. It ts prayer alone | that has wrought the purest and most delicate elements of our civilization, and iv is prayer and religion together that can pro- Mote our national progress until it becomes the Perfect example and model of the world. This 18 the aim of the women of to-day. We come forward at this hour for the numane purpose of saving our children and of rescuing from destruction those whom we dearly love. 'e have no less significant motive, nor could we have a nobler one. There are some who call this movement sensational. If so, I @m a sensationalist. There are others who do not 0 quite so far, but say that the onset is enthusi- astic. If so, 1am an enthusiast. I am heart and mind in the enterprise, and I stand pledged both to pray and to act.” Mrs. French’s address was brief, concise, just and reasonable. Alter she had concluded the au- dience sung the hymn beginning thus— All hait the power of Jenus’ name, Let angels prostrate (atl, Bring forth the royal diadem Ani crown Him Lord of all. The great temperance leader, Father Heritage, Was then introduced and addressed the audience, and after him the Rey. Dr. Komaine made a sew eloquent remarks. Then the chairman of the meeting, Mr. W. B. Drew, of Washington, stepred + forward and made a really remarkavie address, his analysis being backed up throughout with starting and reliable statistics, THE GINMILLS AND THE CHURCHES, “Let us,’’ he said, “look at the religious progress of the great Quaker City. Throughout its Jength to the worship of God. Allowing an average at- vendance upon each of 200 souls, the total is ren- dered of 100,000 worshippers. Now, look at the ginmills, There are 8,000 of them, There is one rumshop for every 88 inhabitants, The total num- ber of persons who gulp down intoxicating bever- ages each week amounts to 600,000. At these grog- shops $50,000 1s spent dally, $350,000 a week and $15,000,000 a year; while by twelve o’clock to-night there will have been more men in your saloons than there wil! have been in your churches, ABRAIGNMENT OF THE RUMSELLER: “Who are your fumsellers, and what signifies the luxurious manner in which they live? There is not a stone of thetr houses that is placed one upon the other by money legitimately earned. There is not @ carpet within which sink the dainty feet of those who tread them, not a diamond flashing upon the bosom of their daughters, purchased by means which He Shows dare to explain, There is nota dollar to-day in the hands of a poor man in your State which is not rendered Jess than that amount to him because of the existence of gin mills. These statements are facts; no one can deny them,” GREAT ENTHUSIASM. oA ge Of overwhelming waeE, gentleman ad Intervalg dress, and he retired amid vehement and vocife- Tous demonstrations. The other speeches simply reiterated the statements made above, and were listened to with exact and attentive silence. Alter the announcement of two other meetings during the coming week and the pronouncement of @ benediction, the crowd, ata late hour in the at- ternoon, dispersed, and will assemble in the same Place again this evening. ANOTHER BIG DEMONSTRATION, While this immense mass meeting was held in Wood’s Museum, another of the same kind was going on in a distant quarter of the town, at the hortheastern corner of Ninth and Spring Garden streets. This meeting was proportionately as large as the other one, and the same interest was manifested throughout. Mr, Snyder, who occu- pied the chair, made a@ brief but spirited address, in which he said that where the crusade move- ment had been tried it had been attended with success, and that it was a strange action made by the rumsellers to seek the law of prohibition from prayer. ROSTRUM CHIVALRY. lay their hands upon any woman engaged in pray- ing. The police dare not interfere with a work 1ike this. All the locomotives of the United States | combined do not possess the power of one wom- | an. Give them their way aud almshouses will be closed. ‘This speaker was followed by another, who said | that if the women went right on with energy they | Would scare ali the gin guzziers ip town. Dr. Leach said that he was with the Philadelphia women in their crusade; that the police would be ashamed to interfere, and that the crusaders were sure of success, Colonel Alfred H. Love satd the sight of 80 many persons assembled for such @ cause was glorious, and that in the liquor trafic the law was constantly disobeyed, more especially. the Suntay law. He said that the undeveloped } possibilities of the women’s movement would Surely disclose themselves.as wonders, WOMEN ARE SUPERIOR TO LAW. and grog shops must perforce succum).”” He said that gin mast ever be overthrown by prayer. Mrs. Ellis said the women would go on with | their crusade until the little temperance star in the West reached the meridian, Sne said in a city of brotherly love women would be safe from insult, and the authorities could not arrest those who | Were aan serving their God, When a woman will she will, and when she won’t she won’t. She said that itin the crusade the women Were making | the blood of one of them shouid be spilled, it would be far more disastrous to the enemy than the fra- ternal blood shed by Cain, and would deluge the whole country. We have not only God and the operation of many noble men. Before the meeting concluded the hall was cramined to suifocation in every part, and hun- dreds joined in the singing. The crusade will pe pursued during the coming week. No little excitement fills the city. STRENGTH OF THE LOCAL MOVEMENT. The crusade has now been virtually inaugu- rated. While some may doubt its future suc- cumstance of its successful commencement, Last Week, had such a popular outpouring as that which occurred to-day been predicted, its prognosticator would by the public have been regarded as a lunatic; but now whe crusade is here—actuaily present in the Quaker City—and through the re- suits of the day the waylaring man, even though a Jool, can plainly and distinctly read, Last week several saloons were approached, hymns being sung and prasers being read before the doors. More saloons must suffer the unremitting and in- evitable approach of the women. Mrs. French made a point when sie sald that the police dared not arrest those who prayed, but they were at lib- erty to arraign, and she hoped they would do 80, the Wicked and riotous crowd which followed them, She made another point when she said that their efforts would disturb the public peace not half so tent, as the crowd assembied to secure Mayor Stokley’s election, at which time she asserted the sidewaiks were so blockaded by men that the women were jorced to walk in the mud. There 1s no doubt now of a general uprising upon the part of the women, though your correspond- ent does not venture to predict what success will foliow their undertaking. TEMPERANCE IN CONNECTICUT. A Catholic Crusade Organized in Con- necticut—Immense Mass Meeting in New Haven—Street Prayer Meetings Censured. New Haven, Conn., March 1, 1874. great Catholic outpouring to-night in benall of the temperance crusade. It was @ united effort. All the pastors announced it in their churches. The whole community seemed alive. Through the green regalia, marching from all quarters, The societies of Bridgeport and other towns were represented. The New Haven societies of St. Patrick, St. John, St. Aloysios, St. Mary and St. Francis were represented in full, with flags, ban- ners and music in the hall. Music Hall was the rendezvous, the New Haven Academy of Music; but it was not large enough to admit half the multitude. Three thousand were packed within the building, and nearly 2,000 had to go away, WAR DECLARED. The Rev. Dr. Carmody, in catling the meeting to order, said that Music Hail would no jonger do. It was war time, and when America was in danger the Catholic citizens were moved so strongly that they would have to hold the next meeting in Ham- ilton Park. Never was America in more danger than now. The War of the Rebellion killed not half so many of our citizens as intemperance. The women of the Protestant churches were doing their best, but it was not in the right way. The Catholics knew how irail was an experiment founded on the fitful moods of public excitement. The Church brought the sacramental channels of grace to bear on men’s appetite, They wished tne Protestant effort well, but if any por- tion of an army makes a wrong move all suffer, Connecticut raised the voice of her Catholic Abstinence Union in warning agatnst too much faith in this movement, in order to avert the reaction which would follow defeat. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America was blessed by the Pope, and guarded by earnest men of the clergy and laity, who would keep it clear of side issues, and already its banner waved over all parishes on the Continent. He wanted the Catholic women to take the pledge and form @ society. To the Secre- tary of the Natfopa) Union he would leave the men, . and breadth there are only 500 churches devoted | fring. his ‘ad. | “T woul’ just like,?” he sald, “to see the police | Once let the fleld be open to them, taverns | angels with us, she concluded, but also the co- | | cess, none dare to refuse to recognize the cir- | much, nor block up the sidewalk to half the ex- | The largest meeting held here this year was the | afternoon the streets were thronged with men in | pledge. AM AUDIENCE PLEDGED TO THE CAUSE. The whole audience was instantly in commotion ; the women were standing in all parts of the hall, and as soon as they repeated the words of the Foor against all drink and drinking habits in onor of the sacred thirst of Our Lord on the cross, the men rose and wildly cheered, and the band struck up an air. Dr. Carmody then introduced the next speaker, Mr. W. O’Brien, of New York, Secretary of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, who said that 50,000 members had been enrolled in the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America in the past two years. Two milhon of men, women and children would be on its roll two years hence at the present rate of increase. diers flew to the front in the war against an armed enemy. The priest is now calling his congregation to stand forth in defence of America, The demon of drink had picked out this great nation and laid ‘nis hand upon it. Toe flags of the Total Abstinence Union are now flung to the winds beside every church spire, They wave as white wings of angels, symbols of peace and safety. ‘The women’s war will fail, but it bas opened the peo- le’s ear tO hear of the right cure. lard earts are softened to receive healing principles. if every saloon in New York were closed to-mor- row more liquor Would be drank unless the demand Was destroyed. It would only add zest to the pur- guit of @ favorite vice, ‘the Catholics entreated Americans to waste no power of hope or eiort in Wid experiments. All these hopes would sink into revulsion if fastened on a frail basis. Pablic opinion 18 monarcb in America. The New Yor«& week to feed the poor of New York, All that the people need ts to have the proper path pointed out to them; then correct opinion would sweep intem- perance fromthe land. The moderate drinkers Were patrons of drinking usages, and total absti- ,mence was the only cure for the worst phases of the evil, The nom blighted, hopes viasted, hearts broken and lives lost by this public vice would make angels weep, Protestant women were being pelted with snowballs through the streets, but their cries filed the air, begging of God and Women would emulate this heroism, and, with better means, would cut out the drinking customs trom society and keep our people from the taste | of liquor from infancy up. He called on the men to arise and take the pledge. THE MEN TAKE THE PLEDOR. Dr. Carmody seconded the call, and the immense hall was immediately a scene of the wildest en- Vhusiasm. The pledge was given by the priest, and a thousand voices rang it outin tones of thunder, Dr. Carmody organized tne ladies’ so- ciety. Captain Thomas O’Brien, President of the St. John’s Total benence ciety, then took the chair, and was preseited With a banner for the St. Aloysios Society by the ladies. ] her by an organ and Singing by glee clubs, ence was nearly an hour Iéaving the hal Judge Robinson, James Gallagher and several prominent non-Catholic citizens were present. The city seems very much excited. Tne hotel and saloon keepers say the women’s war will not work at all, and the ladies are not expected to attempt it. The Catholic crusade is conducted by the Rev. Lawrence Walsh, of Hartford, President of the State Union, who is engaged in Canvassing the State, great meetings being neld in all the principal towns. At eleven o’clock the vast crowd dispersed, 1t was the first combmed effort of the Catholic clergy to bring the community out en masse tor the temperance cause, and the result Was truly unprecedented, THE CAU:E ELSEWHERE. ‘as music | audi see Sk aa | The Women Anti-Rum Crasaders En- dorsed in Newark. AS yet the ladies of Newark, to use a slang phrase, have taien no stock in the anti-rum move- ment of their sisters in the West, although the fleld for retormation is most wide in the New Jersey city of churches, There are over 1,200 places in it where malt or spirituous liquors are sold, Possibly the Newark anti-lager and liquor Joan d’Arcs are waiting for some man to move in the matter. Aman has moved. This man is a promi- nent Methodist clergyman, Rev. Dr. Hare, ol the Central Methodist Episcopal church, who last night, in the course of a sermon on the “New Tem- perance Movement,” warmly and eloquently en- dorsed the crusade in the West, saying that le would infinitely rater see his wile and daughters prayingon tne sidewatk for rumsellers than see them whirling round iv the arms of men in a bali- room. A Temperance Prayer Meeting at Ny- ack, N. Y. NYACK, March 1, 1874, The temperance excitement has reached here, A large and enthusiastic prayer meeting was held in the Methodist Episcopal church this afternoon, The Rev. C. E, Little stated the object of the meet- | ace from the village and the whole bp get Alter appointing a committee to further the ob- Jects of the meetin; singing “Praise God, from Whom all Blessings Flow.” | The Crasaders of Washington Giving the Warning to the Enemy. WASHINGTON, March 1, 1874. The temperance crusaders, with Mr. John Cess- na, Representative from Pennsylvania, were at their leaders, and gave notice to Downing, the | colored caterer and philanthropic politician, that they would begin their praying Jabors this week, commencing with him, and it is understood that they will proceed trom there to the other restau- Tants in the vicinity of the Capitoi. The Temperance Movement Stiil Pro- gressing in Ohio. Couvmavs, Ohio, March 1, 1874, Temperance prayer meetings were held to-day— one for ladies and one for men. They were largely | attended and intense interest was manifested. The sense of both meetings seemed to be that it would never do to let the work flag, but rather active crusade. The Rey. Mr, Stidham, pastor of the First Baptist church, in a sermon to-nignt earnestly favored the beginning of street work at once, saying that while prayer in secret and in churches was well enough, that if any particular work was to be accomplished it united. The Rev. R. W. Clark, o1 Trinity Epls- copal church, aiso preached in favorof a street crusade. A monster temperance mass meeting will be held to-morrow evening, and will be addressed by ex- Governor Dennison and other prominent gent men. The programme of the crusade will be an- nounced at this meeting. INDIANS KILLED. Tragic Result of a Fight in the South- west. GALVESTON, March 1, 1874. A special despatch from San Antonio to the News says it is now fully ascertained that eleven Indiaus and one squaw were killed in the recent fight on the Doubie Fork of the Brazos, . Lieutenant Turner, of the Tenth cavalry, nar- rowly escaped death.’ A cartridge in his pocket | Was split by an arrow. THE UNSETTLED sI0UxX | Another View of the Indian Difficulties. Oman, Neb., Feb. 28, 1874. An official telegram here to-aay from Fort Lara- mie says the condition of Indian affairs is unset- tled and unsatisiactory at the agencies. The good Indians seem te have been corrupted, and are leaving for the North to join hostile bands. stopped supplying beef, drive cattle through seems to no being afraid to the reservation. There doubt but that the column of troops now at Fort Lara- mie will enter the reservation from that point. It 1s thought they will meet with some op- position, No trouble with the Indians is probable south of the Platte, in Wyoming Territory, Ne- braska is too far removed be thought of in con- nection with the Iudiang. There is not one in the State but what (s peaceable. | DEPREDATIONS BY OALIFORNIA BANDITTI, SAN FRanorsco, Feb. 28, 1874, Vasquez and his band of robbers and murderers are still raiding in the southern counties of the State. On Wednesday they robbed the Los Angeles stage, carrying off $200 and eight horses. One man resisted and shot at Vasquez, but missed him. Vasquez returned the fire, shooting him through the leg. He then told him his name und granted him his life, The banditti travelled ina southerly direction after the robbery, SOUTH CAROLINA'S BURDENS, CHARLESTON, March 1, 1874, The Committee of the Taxpayers’ Convention appointed to present the peopie’s memorial to Congress are to meet in Washington for the per- formance of that duty on the 19th inst. SHOOTING APFRAY, An affray took place iast night at No. 232 Mott street between Michael Schaus and Monk Kreiner, when Sohaus drew a revolver and discharged two shote—one taking effect ander the chin of Ia ot Kreiner, caasing asevere flesh wound ; the other bail faxing, earect ‘in she Jere hand of Monk kreiner, cau » The woun iF were con- veyed to the Mulberry street eration, house, Where their wounds wi dre dy Bebaus escaped. seed by Surgeon Cook. The Catholic sol- | + HERALD had caused $1,000,000 to be poured out a | man that rebef might be granted; and the Catholic | ing and appointed John Charlton Chairman, | Prayers were offered for the removal of intemper- | the assemblage dispersed, | the Capitol yesterday in the persons of some of | that the time had now come for beginning an | Was necessary that faith and work should be | It ts reported that the beef contractors have | LONDON GOSSIP. Political, Social and Legal Talk in the British Motropolis—Exiled from Parliament by the Favorite Ballot—Celebrated Liberals Hoisted by the Party Petard. Lonpon, Feb. 14, 1874, I can tell you an authentic anecdote which will exemplify the undue haste in which the recent dissolution of Parliament was brought about, pat before doing 80 1 may Mention that there is littie doubt that the knowledge that bis Greenwich seat was in grievous peril, owing to his having under- taken the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer without secking re-election, was the mainspring of Mr. Gladstone’s coup @état. He was invalidea lor two or three days, and confined to his bed. During this period he concocted his address to the electors of Greenwich, and showed it to Lord Granville, who, with amiable weakness, found no | fault with it. It was then taken down to the Cabi- | het, where it arrived like @ bombshell, but where no protest was made against it. Now for my Bnecdote. So little idea had Mr. Gladstone’s in- timates of what be was about to dd that Mr. | Childers, who “had been First Lord of the Admiralty, and had only just retired irom the Giadstonian Cavinet, was about to set of Jor Nice | with his iamily. Belore leaving England he went | to pass afew days with Lord Honghton, in York- | shire. Local newspapers are not taken in at Pry- stone Hall, nor the Loudon dailies until the aiter- noon, but onthe morniag aiter Mr. Childers’ ar- | rival the butler void him of a rumor that Parliament bad been dissolved. ‘Ins report Mr. Childers at first laughed to scorn, but on driving into the | neighboring town he found it was correct, and in- | Stantly set of for Ponteiract, the borough which he represented in Parhainent, and which was lor- tunately only a few miles distant. Having te ad- | vantage ot being thus early on the spot he was en- | abled to gather bis committee, to organize huis | measures and final, | head ef the poll. Had he arrived at Nice bejore | the news reached him there ts little doubt that he | Would bave shared the tate of many of his jormer colleagues, Writing to you last week, | coming events were only casting a small’ shadow betore them, I ventured to prophesy a working Majority of trom fHiteen to twenty for the conserva- tives. Now itis 55, equal to 110 0n a division. All sorts ang coygitions of liverals have been ruth- lessly defeated, "Ty" a ee CHICHESTER FORTRSCI . | _ The deteat of Mr. Chichester Fortescue is curio38 | and significant. During the early part of the Glad- stone Ministry he was Chier Secretary for Ireland, | an office which he filled with great distinction, and ) Would have retained had it not been for the Jealousy existing between his wile (of whom more anon) and the Countess Spencer—wi e of the Lord Lieutenant. Mr, Chichester Fortescue was there- upon created President of the Board of Trade, 18 wife is a very extraordinary Woman. she is the daughter of Braham, the celebrated tenor singer, and has been tour times married. First to Mr. | Waldegrave; secondly, to Earl Waldegrave ; thirdly, | to George Granville Vernon Harcourt, and fourthly | to Chichester Fortescue. She was very beautiful— aiter the Jewisi type—and 18 very smart and | talented, She retains the title of her second hus- band, being always known as Frances Countess Waldegrave; and'she and Mr. Foriescue live prin- } cipally at Strawberry Hill, the “gimerack” | mansion, so well Known as the resicence of £ Walpole, Here, and | Garden, they give graud receptions, and a card tor | Lady Waldegrave’s soirées is in great request. Her | 1adyship may indeed be looked Upon as the femaie | Yashionable leader of the liberal party, having | taken the place which was formerly so admirabiy occupied by Lady Paimerston, The deieat of the husband of such @ Woman, Jor that is perhaps, after all, the real way to define Mr. Fortescue’s position, and especially his defeat by a home ruler, is u | matter of deep chagrin to the liberal party. THE HOME RULE PARTY. Not that in the recent election home rule can be considered as having achieved any remarkabie success, Mr. Butt’s hopeful prophecy to me that he would have & Jollowing of eighty remaining dismally uniuifiied, When the last poll has been taken It wilt probably be found that there are between | umirwy'and forty gentiemen professing the home rue doctrine having seats in the House. But tue change in the aspect of politics has completeiy stripped them of the power which they expected to wield, Theirs was to be @ policy ol aggression and turbulency as well .as of expedieucy. The | Swiss of Parliament, they were to hold themselves aloof trom both parties and turn the scale o! a di- \ vision by selling themselves to that one which bid | highest for their support. Such a course is now impossible. The conservatives, who will be in | power nate utterly independent of Mr. Butt and | is phalanx, while from several of Mt. Disraei’s | utverauces it may be readily: gathered that he ha: no intention of fooling with any Irish question: | and that neither home rulers nor ultramontanist will meet with any favor irom him, DISTINGUISHED EXILES FROM THE COMMONS. To the list of distinguished members now exiled from the House, which Lsent you 1m my jast, must be added the names of Viscount Bury, great in voiunteering and Canadian subjects; George | Lord Otto Fitzgerald, son of the Duke of Lein: and member o1 the Queen’s nouschold; the three brothers Guest—Sir Ivor, the Baronet; Montague, | a great friend of the Prince of Wales and Arthur— | Tom Hughes, Locke King, the veteran member for Kast Surrey; Merry, the well known racing man; | Rylands, wad made’ economy his hobby, and Mr, | White, the veteran Brighton reformer, “Thus this, | the first general election under the’ bailot, has resuited in the crushing deieatot the liberal party, | by whom it was introduced and whom it wus in: tended to serve. Here we have an exact example of the “engineer hoist with his own petard.” Sxo sibi gladio hune jugulo! may Mr. Disraeil victori- ously exclaim. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ve AE ie The Admiral’s Report and Its Effect— EGicient and Economical Administra. tion of the Marine Hospital Service, General regret, it mignt be said even demorali- zation, is prevaientin the navy, because of the efforts being made to aboiisn the grade of commo- | dore. SHAKING HANDS AGAIN, There is a large gathering of the junior officers of the navy at Washington, to undergo examina- | tion for promotion. Many of these officers have not met each other since the day of their gradua- tion at Annapolis. When the squadron breaks up | and the vessels are assigned to permanent sta- | tions those awaiting examination will proceed to | | the capital. ADMIRAL PORTER'S REPORT, dition of the navy, published in last Monday's HERALD, has been warmly commended in ni | circles. The officers feel that the Admiral is s doing good service in pointing oat in direct and | candid language the abuse and injustice whica cause the iree utterance of that timeworn phrase | that ‘fhe service is going to the devil.’” | THE MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES—INTERESTING DETAILS, For the purpose or iliustration rather than of comparison the Marine Hospital Service of the | United States may be said to be analogons in its | functions to the Medical Departments of which medical and surgical treatment is iurnished to the sick and disabled of @ large body of men. | Its scope, however, is wider than that of those de- | partinents, as well in the variety of duties imposed | by law upon the chief of the service as inthe much | larger number of men cared for through it. These men, constituting the American merchant marine, | aggregate in round numbers about 113,000 souls, | comprising the officers and crews Of 26,853 vessels, | of 3,721,425 tons burden. Upon the individual members of this body is assessed by statute, dat- ) ing as jar back as 1798 (1 Stat., 603), a monthly tax, the proceeds of which constitute the Marine | Hospital Fund, and out of which 1s defrayed, in large part, the cost of the service, the deficiency | being met by an annual appropriation made by Congress jor that purpose. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873, hospitar dues were collected | in 127 diferent customs districts of the United | States, the sums 80 collected aggregating | $535,845 95. Hospital relief, to the extent of | 421,376 days, was iurnisted to 13,529 seamen, in 91 customs districts. Under Mr. Woodworth’s able management the cost of maintaining the service | has been reduced 51 per cent, | eturn of the United States Steamer Frolic to Fortress Monroe. Fortress Monnokg, Va., March 1, 1874. The United States steamer Frolic, which left Nor- folk last week to search for the monitor Dictator, returned here this morning, NAVAL DISCIPLINE. ——. Another Fortnight’s Drill of the Flect Ordered—The Exercises To Be Prolonged to April 15. NEAR Dry TortvGas, FLEET RENDEZVOTS, } Via KEY West, Fia., March 1, 1874. § Aamiral Case received a telegram from Wasn- ington this morning, ordering that there be another fortnight’s exercises. As all the fleet must return to Key West for coal before returning to Florida Gulf the function cannet be renewed ve- fore March 15. ‘The sail exercises will be substantially repeated, ‘This wMl prolong the function till April. The ect has reached this point on its way back to Key West Commodore Rodgers will come from Pensacola this week, The Wachusett will be sent after him. to get nimself returned at the | when the | Elliot, the largest coal miner in Great Britain; | ‘The able report of Admiral Porter on the con- | the army | and the navy, in that it 1s the medium through | _NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1874,—TRIPLE SHEET. AS accord resign their trade; that they will no longer | He calfed on the voids to arise ana axe the E ; ~ CUBA. Rumored Change in the Com. mand of the Island. CONCHA THE COMING MAN. The Embargocd Properties of Americans—A Practical Confiscation, Determined On, Havana, Feb, 21, 1874, For two days past a report has been very gen- erally current that the home government has manifested its disapprobation of the late decrees of Captain General Jovellar, and the measures to be carried out under them, in reference to the State of siege, the draft, &e. ‘The situation o1 the island is indeed an anom- alous one, An insurrection exists, to sup- press which has for five years bdamied every effort of Spain; which constitutes @ state of war de facto, though the Span- ish government, feariul of the recognition by other nations of their adversaries as belliger- ents, persists in declaring it to be the outbreak of @ few misguided men, and made up of Chinamen, marauders and bandits. While thus persistent in | declaring that no state of war exisisin Cuba the | government of the island has recourse to tie most stringent measures, and such as nations only use as a last resort. Such a state of things cannot last Jong, and the disapproval, t{ true it be, of the Spanish govern- ment of the Captain General's decrees will force A CHANGE IN THE HEAD OF THE ISLAND, and already rumor points to the man who on every vacancy is put forward as a candidate for | the oMce, not heretofore with success, but who at present, with the existing Cabinet at Madrid, and strongly supported as he is by the weaithy oll- garchy of Cuba, has the est chance to be the suc- cessor of Captain General Jovellar if the change is really meditated, The persoii reiérrea to has had command of the island on two occasions and ruled with @ hand of tron, The name ‘of Don | José Gutierrez de ta Concha, Marquis ot Havana, has figured in the annals in letters of bold relief, Captain General from 1860 to 1852, be had to contend with the filibustering attempts of Narciso Lopez, and succeeded in capturing the ex- | Pedition landed by that brave and gallant leader, | Who was ruthlessly garroted in the public square, | while Orittenden and others of the expedition | were shot on the slope of the Atarés Fort. Again in command from 1854 to 1859, Concha conducted affairs in the strongest manifestation of that policy which Spain has so long adopted for ber colonies, Coucha’s popularity among a certain part of thi Spaniards, “the unconditionals,” is not of a nature to inspire confidence in the future of this unhappy island. In suppressing the insurrection of 1851 and 1854 many cruel deeds were committed, the orders for which emanated from him. When Narciso Lopez was captured and fell into his power Concha led his former companion in arms (for they had | Served im the same regiment) to believe that be would mitigate nis punishment and not sign the death warrant; but, pever- theless, although showing a _ reluctance which those who knew him believed to be feigned, he signed that tnetrument, and Lopez yielded up his life on the garrote. However, times have changed considerably since he held command here. Concha of to-day is not the Concha of twenty years ago, Former snsur- rections WERE SUPPRESSED AT THE START} | the present one has existed now for over five years. It is not now the Captain General alone who “orders and commands,” in the whirtigig of time many men have come to the sur- face of politics, who, once they jearn what power is und what tufluence they wicid, are loti: to lose either. There area great many now wuo have their fingers in the political muddle of this isiand, and although there exists @ strong party in Cuba who. live under the firm conviction that Concha is the only man capable of restoring peace and prosperity to the island, there are many more who have no faith in nus powers, and, knowing | Weakness and that his wealth has dwindled away believe that all his intrigues the past years to re- gain this command are witn the view of ob- taining the means of replenishing his af- ficted purse. Besides, he has been a life | long supporter of the Bourbons, though since the September revolution (1868) he has Kept himself aloof. from active politics and maintained a | reticence im the expression of his views ow the im- portant questions which have excited and kept Spain in ferment ever since. With the two leading journals of this city, the | Diario and Voz de Cuba, Concha has unbounded popularity. By them the intrigues for his third command of “the island have been continued, | With them the domfmant idea exists, as also with @ great number of the Spanish self-styled ‘unconditionals,” that he is the only man who, from his tormer experience and success m suppressing two msurrections, knows What means and measures are necessary for the government 01 Cuba, and tne only general among 80 many who, under all circumstances, will be inexorable, and will direct all his efforts to the Wellare 01 Spain, the preservation of Spanish im- tegrity and the national honor, and what is of equal importance, will attend to their wishes, whether authorized or not, in Spain, Among the pacific part of the native Cuban pop- ulation Conca 1s no tavorite, His name alone throws tgrror into their hearts. Among them he has acquired the reputation of being the most cruel and personally ambitious commander that ever held the reins of government im this island. ‘They believe him to be the embodiment ot atrocity, and that it is by many considered that bis appointment to the chief command will | be in defiance of the sentiments of humanity of the civilized world, and they even entertain strong hopes of interference from loreign nations should he be again instailed. itis also rumored that Generai Lopez Dominguez, the conqueror of Cartagena, 1s to be the successor of General Jo- vellar, Such are the rumors current and their effect upon the public mind. Itis more than probaole, however, that they are without auy foundation whatever, aud that mo change is intended for the present, General Jovellar giving ull satisiaction to the leading men here, and, though there are plenty of mu:murs, his late decrees have met the approval of & majority of the Spaniards im the isiand, EMBARGOED PROPERTIES, Tne order trom the government of Spain for the release [rom embargo of the property of American citizens 18 as yet bocemMciently carried out, Vari- ous trivial reasons have been given lor the delay, and the misery entailed upon many tamtlies by the arbitrary action of the government Of this island is exceediugly aftlicting. Numbers of American citizens Wave been thus deprived of the neces- saries to muintam themselves in comiort, The rents of houses or slaves, the products of their lands and plantations, have all been seized for the benefit of the government, or rather or its minions. ‘Ihe under authorities bere have delayed, from day to day and Irom month to month, to act justly toward ‘the claimants or their agents, But the authorities have recently been pressed tor ex- cuses Jor turther delay, and discovering that the United States is in earnest tn her demand jor the release of the estates and other properties of American citizens, have resorted to another potic attempt TO PRACTICALLY CONFISCATE the property instead of only embargoing it. The American owners o1 these estates, not having been in possession of them for five years, are to be compelled to pay ordinary and extraordinary | taxes for that time, and the total amount of these taxes will be so large that the owners will be foreed to sell or abandon their property. The authorities refuse aasoluteiy to pay over the proceeds for the past five years, set y rendering ty caenein for the large majority of the owners. argoed es- tates te pay the taxes, as most of Uem have been ving in poverty since they were driven frem the island. Salvin, she famous Italian tragedian, will com- Mence his season for twenty nights at the Tacon ‘Theatre next Thursday, The subscription is pro- gressing favorably, and the enterprise will proba- bly be successful and lucrative, THE VACANT POLICE OOMMISSIONERSHIP, ‘TQ THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— 1do not know, nor have I the slightest suspl. cion of, the friend { am indebted to for placing my name in the list of candidates for the ofice of Po- lice Commissioner; but while I would eatnesty thank that friend for any intended kindness in m: behalf, will you do me the favor to say, throug! your columns, that 1 am not @ candidate for the appointment, ana oblige, very aE LO WER. 45 SouTH Stree, Feb. 28, 1874,” —— a teeimanninen, THREW HIS WIFE DOWN STAIRS, Edward Haziett was arrested last night for throwing his wife down stairs at No, 174 Front street and inflicting serious injury upon her, be was sent to the Hospital in aa aubuinnce. the odium attached to his name 18 such * Ltd 2 mien tan-etnreniemisenarigiandiea ae