The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the gear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. t All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volu: me XXXI AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERN GRAND OPERA HOUS! Eighth av Twenty-third stre KING OF d VARIETY i AINM Begins at7 closes at 1045 P.M. Mr. G, L. Fox. THEATRE COMIQUR, No. SM Broadway VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 WM ; closes at 1030 P.M. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third” street.—MARIE STUART a. 745 P.M. ;closes at W:o P.M. Mune. Faany Janauschek WALLACK bye sp. Broadway and Thirtee eet.—MONEY, at . Mey Cowes abl P.M. Mr Lester Walluck, Miss Jeffreys Lewis OLYMPIC THEATRE, ENTERTAINMENT, at BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—EVEN UNTO DEATH, at 87. M.;closesacll P.M. Sheil Barry. BOWERY THEATRE, “Bowery.—WHITE HAIR, and SWISS SWAINS. Begins ats P.M. ; closesatil P. M. N THEATRE, No. 56 B ¥ ENTERTAINMENT, at 745 POM. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince |and Houston, streets — LE ATHERSTOCKING, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ‘Fourteenth street.—Strakosch Italian” Opera Troupe— AIDA, at 8 P.M; closes atll P.M. Mile. Torriani and ‘Miss Cary ; Campanin and Dei Puente. STADT THEATRE, | -Bowery.—German Opera—DIE HUGUENOTTEN, at P. M.; closes at U P.M. Mme. Lucca. GERMANIA THEATRE, | So ag street.—EPIDEMISCH, at 5 P. M.; closes at Ws PL The Politieal Situation—What ef the | we can find none more intelligible than this. Pature? Whether he really means to make a campaign President Grant enters to-day upon the seo- | fot’# third term or not we do not now inquire. ond year of his second term. The edmintstra- | But he certainly means to rally under his tion slowly reaches the summit of the hill and | banner that section of the party and those gradually descends into history. The time | eaders of its organization who have gone with seems appropriate for a retrospect of the | bim through fire before and who will go with NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, | of | @ hope that the General who had made peace | and defeated supporters of the Southern Con- | ner had no stronger purpose than what came | administration from republican control would | deepest winter of discontent, and the clouds year, which has a character of its own already, and which, for good or bad, has made its mark upon the country. We are about to have the spring elections, and upon the results of the canvass in New Hamp- shire and Connecticut will depend, to a great degree, the immediate future of our politics. No President ever entered upon his second term with the onthugiggm and gpnfidence en- joyed by Ulysses 8. Grant. i re-election was a triumph that must have moved even a@ mind satiated with the successes of Richmond and Appomattox. He had been assailed by one of the most powerful combinations known in our political his- tory, a union of the democratic party with leading members of the republican organization, men as eminent.as Schurz and Trumbull, Chase and Sumner. The leader this alliance, in the person of Horace Greeley, had championed the re- publican party in ita youth and in- spired the triumphs which gave it power. General Grant was weak enough to say in the inaugural he delivered one year ago that the election was gratifying to him as a personal vindication from the slanders and criticisms of party newspapers. But the election had a higher meaning. It was a hope and a protest— through war would make that peace an endur- ing bond of union, and a protest against the schemes of ambitious and disappointed federacy. The fear that Mr. Greeley was sim- ply the champion of reaction; that Mr. Sum- from a personal dislike to Grant; the still greater fear that the sudden wrenching of the depress business and lead to general dis- tress, all combined to secure his amazing triumph. The country did not approve many things the President had done. It did not find him a character calculated to inspire enthusiasm, but there was a sturdy conserva- tive sense about his administration that pleased the nation. To pass from the President to Greeley was like passing from a land of granite and forests to a land of mists and shifting sands. He entered the White House for his second term sustained by the expression of the nation’s warmest confidence. But the glorious summer soon became the lowered rapidly over his house. The sun had scarcely gone down on that cold, bleak March day of his triumph before the evil omens LYCEUM THEATRE, Fonrteenth street, near sixth avenue,.—THE HONEY. MUOD, ats P.M. | | EUM, | ANTIAGO AVENG- THE BOY DETEC- Miss Bessie Darling. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, | ‘Twenty-eighth sireet and Broadway.—CIARITY, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Clark, Miss Ada Dyas. | RA HOUSE, | ‘ TONY PASTOR’S OPE . No. 201 Bowery. —VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8P. | M. closes at li P.M. | | BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, | Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenuc.—THE BRI- GANDs; NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at 8 P. M.; closes at lor. M BAIN HALL, | Great Jones street and Lafayette place.—THE PILGRIM, | a3 P.M. ; closes at 10 P.M. Matinee at 2:30 P. M. | COLO! UM, | Broadway, corner ot Thirty-fitth street.—PARIS BY BOONLIGHT: atl F M.; closes at 5 V. M.; same at7P. | sat io P. TRIPLE SI ew York, Wednesday, March 4, 1874. | THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the : Herald. | astonishing success, and they began to make | the blunders of reckless conquerors. Instead came. It is due to the President to say that in the recommendations of his inaugu- ral address he endeavored to reulize the best hopes of the country. But he re- turned to power with a giddy, imperious party. His supporters were heady with their of honest, grave legislation, looking tow- ards reconstruction, the funding of the debt and the general pacification of the Union, one scandal came after another, and the nation’s honor was tarnished by a succession of shames. First came the Crédit Mobilier scandal like an ava- lanche, carrying with it into infamy some of | the fairest and proudest names in the Repub- | lic. This was followed by the Louisiana out- | rages, the back pay and legislation of a similar character. Then came the panic, in which some of the conspicuous friends of the administration were ruined, and the Vir- ginius complication, in which we accepted un- necessarily a dishonorable peace. These were the main features; but there were attendant scandals in the Judiciary of Kansas, Ohio, Alabama and Louisiana; in the nomination of | so high and almost sacred an officer as the Chief Justice; in the management of many of the revenue agencies and custom houses; in | GENERAL WOLSELEY'S CRITICAL POSITION IN ASHANTEE ! GRAVE FEARS OF CALAM- ITY—SEVENTH Pace. GERMANY’S CONQUERED PROVINCES AGAIN TROUBLING THE REICHSTAG—AMUSE- MENT FEATURES—SEvento Pace. HOME RULE CONFERENCE IN THE IRISH CAPI- TAL! THE MAYOR ACTS AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BODY—Seventu Pace. ‘CLOSE OF THE SIEGE OF NAGASAKI! THE JAPANESE INSURGENTS DEFEATED AND DISPERSED—SEVENTH PaGE. AN ITALIAN HORROR! AN ANGRY ALTERCA- TION BETWEEN TWO HATTERS, ENDED BY THE SHOOTING OF ONE AND SUICIDE OF THE OTHER! INSTANT DEATH OF BOTH—SEVENTH PaGE. BOMBARDMENT OF BILBAO REPORTED FROM THE FRENCH FRONTIER— SEVENTH PaGe. AN IRON VIADUCT FOR RAPID TRANSIT ! RIVER- SIDE AVENUE! WORK OF THE LEGISLA- TURE—TENTH PaGE, @HE ARDENT FIGHT AGAINST TIPPLING! ROUSING MEETING IN’ BROOKLYN! PRAYER THE TRUE WEAPON—TurRpD Pace. POSTPONEMENT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL CUR- RENCY WRANGLE! WASHINGTON SPECIAL ITEMS! CUSTOM HOUSE SEIZURES—TuIrp Page. KINDLY, CHRISTIAN WORK OF NEW YORK’S NOBLE-HEARTED PHILANTHROPISTS! NO CESSATION IN RELIEF! PROVIDING WORK—THE PRODUCE EXCHANGE— E1guTH PaGe. EULOGISTIC HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE JUDGE HALL, IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT—CUBA'S GREAT YVIC- TORY—FourtTH PaGe. MR, BERGH AND THE HOG BUTCHERS! LEGAL LIGHT SOUGHT UPON THE DARK TRI OF KENO—THE SALVATIERRA OUTRAGE— FourtH PaGE. ALARMING ENCROACHMENT UPON THE NA- TIONAL FAITH! AN ILLEGAL INCREASE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT SHOWN BY THE FEBRUARY STATEMENT! BUSINESS—F irra PaGE. AsnantTee.—If it turns ont to be a dis- vaster in Ashantee Mr. Disraeli may well ery yout against his fate. With a famine in India and a defeated British army in Africa he will have enough to do without embarking in that ‘vigorous foreign policy’ which his Tory supporters con- fidently expect. We have no idea that ‘disaster has come to the British in Ashantee. ‘She war is an unnecessary, foolish one, and #we pray for its speedy end with as little loss of lite as possible. It does not look pleasant to see brave white Englishmen dying in Africa from the fever or at the hands of savage gribes, FINANCIAL | Jodion affairs, To crown all, we have had | the nomination of Simmons, Whisk, though | a small matter in itself, yet virtually means a defiance by the President of one section of | the republicans in Massachusetts and an open | alliance with the fortunes and the party of General Butler. | We have said the nomination of Simmons in Boston is in itself a small matter. Between | one Simmons and another, between the sup- | porter of Butler and the supporter of Bout- | well and Dawes, the President had not much to choose. And so long as our political con- trol is in the hands of men like Simmons we | shall not be critical in our choice, hoping, as | we do, that the time may come when all | such nominations will be impossible. | But this special appointment is not | without its significance. It has made a profound impression in New England. It | means a direct recognition of General Butler, a recognition which amounts to a defiance of the leading men in the leading republican | State of the Union. What purpose inspires this bold proceeding? Foran alliance with General Butler in New England means simi- lar alliances in other States, with Conkling | in New York, with Cameron in Pennsylvania, with Morton in Indiana, with Carpenter in Wis- | consin, with Brownlow in Tennessee, with Chandler in Michigan, and with that school of resolute, daring and ambitious republicans who follow these men and sustain the party for the spoils and dignities of office. General | Grant is nota man to doan impulsive act, | and we cannot understand the policy of his administration without carefully considering the meaning of the Simmons excitement in | New England and its probable effect upon the elections in New Hampshire and Connecticut. | Well, we cannot butremember that General Butler, during the remarkable and instructive him through fire again. He is too good a soldier to despise his veterans, and there is no possible political campaign that would daunt the courage of Cameron and Conkling, Carpenter and Butler. ‘These men are in politics what the soldiers of the regular army are in war. Their trade is conflict, and they live for power. Public opinion they despise unless it destroys them. They are not oppressed by constitutional scruples or precedents. They have a rude’ loyalty to their party, like the loyalty of the Highlanders to the Stuarts or of the Biscayans to Don Carlos, They want power and station. They will pardon any weakness on the part of public men, ex- cept disloyalty to the party. They removed Sumner becanse he was lukewarm, and over- threw Cushing because they did not trust his republicanism, and while doing so sus- tained the usurpations in Louisiana, the shameless ring in Pennsylvania and the reck- less management of the revenues in New York. They care little what the clansmen do, so they do not betray the MacGregor. How far will the President follow this alliance? It would be to close our eyes to the most conspicuous and shining fact in the Political heavens to say that it does not exist. Will he follow it to the disruption of the party? Does he mean to draw the line now drawn in Massachusetts through the Union? Already we see the demarcation in Pennsylvania, and the omens there are not discouraging to the President. For only the other day the opposition to his banner, headed by men as powerful as Forney and McClure, and bur- dened as he was with the corruptions of local misgovernment, was overwhelmed in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, too, is the ban- ner city of republicanism. It never failed the party. It represents better than any other the elements that constitute the organization. The President may reason truly that if the prestige of his administration is strong enough to over- whelm all opposition in Philadelphia, even when commanded by old republican leaders, it has strength enough to carry the country on any issue; nay, even to carry it fora third term, should ‘the necessities of the country require.”’ Certainly if such a campaign is probable or possible the men he has drawn so closely to his standard are the men to fight and win it. In the meantime let us see what New Hamp- shire and Connecticut will say. The President has made a demonstration in Massachusetts. Let us study the result in the neighbor States. The advance guard has advanced, If it tri- | umphs the whole line will advance. If it fails it will only be a Belmont battle after all—a re- pulse and a retreat and a change in the policy of the administration. But the time is coming for some definite policy. A great silence, as of awe and fear to speak, rests on the republi- | can party. The leaders, who do not | beliove in many things that have been done, wait timidly until public opinion | encourages them to protest. Boutwell and Dawes and Sherman dread the fate of Fenton and Trumbull and Schurz. They do not crave the ice-bound desolation of the oppo- sition. They may have their opinions, but they do not care to express them at the risk of being led out to a ditch and shot like deserters. Let these New Eng- land States pronounce against Grant, and we shall have an awakening of the public sense and a quickening of the political heart that have not been seen since the days of Fremont, The Presidency will become an important and interesting problem. Candidates will come from the North and the South, the East and the West. There will be the awakening of dry bones that was seen by the prophet. For the present all eyes rest on New England, and Grant begins the second year of his second term with a party behind him disciplined and audacious and ready for any enterprise, and the country awed, patient and fearing tospeak more than a murmur against his imperial will. A Suggestion and a Hint. The writer of the following is a gentleman of standing, well known to the community, whose testimony is of great interest at this time: — To THE EpIroR OF THE HERALD:— For fear that the ee may think that your strictures upon Mr. Brace are tuo severe, I beg leave to say that some years ago I was a director of the Children’s Aid Society, and spent my time and money intits behall, but, becoming suspicious of Mr. Brace, I resigned, and have had nothing to do with him or the society since. MERCHANT. New Yor, March 3, 1874. “‘Merchant’’ evidently does not approve of a system of charity which gives $79,768 for the poor children and $94,237 30 for ‘‘sal- aries,” the result being that Brace is himself one of the most expensive paupers of the age. Brace is a burden to his ‘‘charity.’’ So long as he manages it on this ‘‘salary’’ prin- ciple it will not command public confidence. In the meantime charitable people would do well to follow the advice of Mr. Roosevelt, and remember in their offerings societies like the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, the Roman Catholic So- | ciety of St. Vincent de Paul and the New York City Mission. We are informed by many citi- zens and merchants of high standing that, sharing in the views of our correspondent, and believing that the Children's Aid Society no longer possesses public confidence, they have withdrawn their support. They can do no better than to follow the suggestions of Mr. Roosevelt and send their offerings to the three societies here mentioned. Mr. Smmmons—as it is written elsewhere— | cannot find terms sufficiently glowing to sound | the praises of General Grant for having made | him Collector of the Port of Boston. This was to have been expected. Ingratitude, the marble-hearted fiend, finds no place in the nature of Simmons—just yet. Perhaps while | his gratitude lasts it will be to the President a discussions last summer, was the first prominent man to publicly avow his preference for the President for a third term. There was a cynical humor and audacity in the General's declaration that he would give a President any number of terms, “gs high as fitteen,”’ and that he was certainly favorable to the President's re-election. Now, we do not place the highest impor- tance upon what may be the light, ban- tering phrases of a politician given to | humorous considerations of politics, and | General Butler has a way of saying unusual things which are not to be too literally consid- | ered. But in looking for a reason for the Presi- | dant’a unexpected end. extraordinary oousee sufficient equivalent for the lost confidence of | very respectable Boston, and we hope the | gratitude will last long enough to be useful. But (alas) for these exuberantly grateful peo- ple! the more ardent the flame is the sooner it burns out. et eae Arsace anp Lonratye have again appeared in the German Reichstag. Banquo’s ghost will not down. Bismarck, however, unlike the unnerved Macbeth, does not tremble. He did not expect Alsace to welcome Germany “with applause.”, But as Alsace was partly responsible for the war, she can take her time ‘the result of his observations and to base on | come, and that so imminent was the famine Instructing the Almighty. The remarkable prayer delivered yesterday in the United States Senate by the Chaplain is worthy the attention of the people as an illustration of the relations of official piety to politics, Chaplains in our legislative bodies are the one small relic that our system has preserved of a State Church, and every now and then they come prominently into view as if purposely to furnish us reason to rejoice that they are tne only portion of a State Church that is ‘eft to us It is their function to stand in direct relations with Divine wisdom for the benefit of the majority, and if they do not, as Samuel did for Saul, consult the Almighty by Urim and Thumminm, they evidently have other means of communication, for they inform us defi- nitely what is tho will of God on every greatly agitated point. They dispense the wrath of Heaven to the opposition and accord meroy as party complications require. This is only their everyday occupation. Occasionally they blaze out as if with special inspiration, and that is the way the Chaplain ot the Senate comes before us now. He has looked over the world, and in the form of a prayer ventures to lay before the Almighty them some suggestions, He informs God that the way in which He has made the world 1s defective, and that the iniperfect creation should be corrected in accordance with the views of the Chaplain of the United States Senate. There are some tonguesin the world which utter things apparently not pleasant to his ears, and he requests that the Almighty will touch them with “palsy.” There are some hands which he expects, as a special favor, to have “paralyzed.” He is aston- ished and disappointed that “the flaming Spirit of God’’ does not take more ‘‘ven- geance” on evil-doers than it appears inclined to take—seems, in short; to neglect its proper duty—at all events does not act in the case up to the sublime conceptions of this Chaplain. He deplores the fact that the demon of slander “casts upon all the earth a fearful shadow’ and tends to “give a malignant power to all the bad elements for the demoralization and destruction of human society.’’ In plain words, the newspapers publish the thieveries and villanies committed by Congressmen, and the Chaplain of the United States Senate prays God to punish those who publish histories of the villanies, and not those who commit them. Any Senator whose cheeks did not tingle with shame as he listened to this blas- phemous toadyism can scarcely be 9 warm- blooded animal. India. The news from India becomes more and more grave. We cannot but feel that we are in the presence of one of the most terrible calamities of modern times. The other day’ our special despatches from London rep- resented that there was nearly a half million of people in distress, that hunger had olready that high caste women had already gone out to work on the highways, at the coarsest manual labor. Yesterday it was reported that over a million are starving to death. This fact Mr. Disraeli mentioned in a public address, and at the same time he said the Indian question would soon assume an importance that would engross all other questions in the mind of England. We can understand how earnestly the new gov- ernment has entered upon the consideration of tho famine from the tone of the remarks | of Mr. Disraeli, He is a man of high intelligence, one of the very few English statesmen who thoroughly understand this subtle and extraordinary people. Coming from an Eastern race himself, he has an Ori- ental sympathy with them in this the crisis of their agony and sufferings. We in America can only sit in painful silence and sympathy and look on. All that can be done we are convinced has been done. The Marquis of Salisbury, who is now the head of the Indian government, is a man of rare capacity, and will exhaust the resources of the British Empire to save India from the famine. Interstate Commerce.—Mr. McCrary yes- terday argued ably in the House of Repre- sentatives in support of the bill to regulate commerce by railroad among the several States, providing against unjust discrimina- tion and extortionate charges. We shall con- sider his argument at large on a future occa- | sion. Tue Temperance Cause 1n Brooxtyn.—The great temperance meeting at Dr. Cuyler’s church in Brooklyn last night was exceedingly enthusiastic, and showed a spirit that was zealous aot the same time that it was free from | the sensational tendencies of the Ohio crusade. | As all Christians believe in the efficacy of | prayer, this is to be the means adopted by the Brooklyn Christians in contending with in- temperance. This iso healthy sign, and one | that will command the sympathies of the | entire press of both cities, so that Dr. Duryea | will find that the compliments in his speech | last night were not misapplied. Divorced from the vagaries of the West and from vagaries of every kind, the temperance cause is one which the newspapers are foremost in encouraging and promoting. Hesitation or THE InrLationists.—Yester- day was the day appointed in the Senate for further consideration of the proposition for an additional issue of currency, but the subject | was again postponed. It is not clear whether | this is because the Senators who have not yet | spoken are in doubt what to say and do not want to commit themselves, so as to control | their votes, or whether ‘‘the game’’ is not | altogether made up among those who pull the | wires. Delay, however, seems unfavorable to | inflation. Inflation was to have been carried with a rush, and, if the rush is broken and the country has time to see clearly whither in- | flation tends, the pressure on Congress will, perhaps, result in leaving the volume of cur- | rency just where it is. Tue Japanese INsurRectionists who were advancing on Nagasaki have been de- feated and routed by the forces of the Mikado. This may be reasonably doubted, | inasmuch as the great bulk of the agitators is made up of tenant farmers, who claim that they are demonstrating merely against a feudal system of baronial oppression, against exorbitant rents and for an equitable | 1874.—TKiY LK SHEET, Once More om His High Horse. Aurora, now fair daughter of the dawn, | im the Nee business and beats {ts own lesson ‘of the terrible story which wild sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn and | be found in anofter column. nearly every other place that she could con- veniently reach with her delicate fingers, and while she was still busy with this sort of sprinkling or pink-washing, Quixote, the illus- trious hero, rose from the couch on which he had sleeplessly tossed for some hours, and which had now beeome doubly unendurable because his copious tears had made it exces- sively wet. His heart was touched with the thought of the miseries and pangs to which the gentle swine are exposed at the hands of barbarous butchers, in order that a cruel world may gratify a taste for sausages and pork chops. He had eaten heartily of a tenderloin and four warm sausages before going to bed, and early in the night, as he lay prone and snored so that the rafters rattled, the spectres of the young pig from whose body the spoils had been takon, and of the old sow, her mother, as well as the spectres of all the other eight of the litter, had taken their places on the hero's person, covering him to his very chin, and there they had screamed a wild and terrible chorus, like the infernal scream of fifty locomotives through tin tunnels made in the form of trumpets. He had awakened with a vivid impression of this per- formance, and as the making of hogs into sausages was One among the very many things of which he was ignorant, he resolved to inform himself on the subject. He called his trusty ‘squire, therefore, to bring him for immediate use two of the crippled horses that had been seized as not fit to stand on their feet, and having put on his head a hel- met made of the leaves ofall his old gram- mars, which he had found the hardest thing in the world to get through, and covered him- self with a patent armor made of printed copies of laws regarding animals, he rode gloriously to the establishment of a hog slaughterer. His worst fears were realized by what he there saw. He discovered that the hogs wore actually killed with knives, which were thrust into their throats; but that pre- viously, by a villanous machinery, the hogs were dragged up into the air by the hind legs, simply for the convenience of the butchers and without any regard to the feelings or sense of dignity of the hogs. He looked about him and saw gt a glance that it was not necessary to empl@y heroic weapons on the creatures engaged in this cruelty, for they trembled at his presence. Ho therefore contented himself with giving peremptory di- rections that in future no hog should be thus drawn into the air save by a silken cord or a silver chain, nor unless its legs were attached to the cord or chain by a velvet band and its head permitted to rest on a pillow of swans- down, and that no knife should be thrust into any hog’s throat that had not a fine and | smooth handle of ivory or tortoise shell. All these directions the wretches promised to comply with; but no sooner had the Knight of the Woful Countenance left them than they ran to a justice and appealed to the compli- cations of law. How our knight dealt with the justice will be shown in another chapter. The Poor and Christian Benevolence. Our columns this morning show that the destitution in this cityis even more severe than at first we were led to believe. The ex- isting soup houses are daily besieged by hun- gry multitudes, and evidences are not wanting that the great mass really do not belong to the professionally pauper class, the idle and the , wilfully indolent, and that they are there be- | cause of the want of employment and because | they themselves and theirs are suffering from | the pangs of hunger. At those centres the | sights are sad and humiliating, and no one | can witness them without feeling the bet- ter part of whatever is human within him painfully touched. We are glad to be able to record an increase in the out- flow of charity. Mr. Orcutt has estab- lished s soup house in Seventh street, near Third avenue, and the increasing crowds have compelled him largely to go beyond his original | intention. Liberal donations from friends, | however, are enabling him to carry on the good work. The same has to be said of the soup house at Fifty-seventh street and Third | avenue. At the Sixth and Seventh ward soup houses, where large numbers are daily fed, | donations, it will be seen, are at once liberal and numerous. The bread and beef house in West Fifty-second street—which has done so much in a kindly and considerate way to | alleviate the existing distress—makes to the | public a very kindly request. Large numbers | of those who daily receive help have expressed | their desire to give some equivalent in the | shape of work tor what they gratefully accept in the form of charity. As to the nature of this request we refer our readers to another column, and we know no reason why it should not be at once and on a large scale complied | with. These facts show that if the poor are | suffering the rich and the well-to-do are giving | ungrudgingly to their poorer brethren. In a few weeks from now, let us hope, there will be work for most, if not for all. Meanwhile it is the duty of all to help according to their ability. “ee | Brrzao.—By way of London a despatch | reaches us from St. Jean de Luz, a French | town eleven miles southwest of Bayonne, con- veying the intelligence that the Carlists have | kept up a bombardment at Bilbao for the last six days. Yesterday we were led to believe | that Bilbao had fallen, and that it was ac- tually in the hands of the Carlists. The pre- sumption is that our French news is late, and | that the news of yesterday revealed the actual | situation. Our news of yesterday was too | circumstantial to allow us to doubt that the | Spanish government troops have actually been defeated, and that the Carlists really are in possession of the town. Parton Eanrtaquages.—Nitro-gtycerine in homeopathic doses tor use in the parlor is a pretty and pleasant idea, but if too many doses are kept in one place the thing, it seems, may become disagreeable. With the tront of a house blown out, there seems to be some evidence to that effect. But who are the people responsible for the enforcement of the laws in regord to the storing and keeping in the city of explosive compounds? Tun Tracepy 1x Puce Sraeet.—The murder and suicide in Prince street yester- day—a single crime in a double deed of blood—is only another illustration of the dis- regulation of the scale of wages. If this be exactly true the insurgents will be heard, from egain. ? , ~ regard of human life which has grown up in | Portsmouth, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. a Benson J. Lossing is at the &t. Denis Hotel. The Minnesota doctors Will not let Miss Dr. Pres- ton tnto their society. George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, te st the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Major Samuel P. Lee, United States Army, & quartered at Barnum’s Hotel, General George L. Hartsutf, United States Army, has arrived at the St. James Hotel, Congressman Alexander Mitcneil, Of Wisconsin,’ is regigtered at the Hoffman House, The fortune left by Baron Meyer de Rotnechild ts expected to exceed three millions Sterling. Assistant Inspector General Nelson H.. Davis, United States Army, 13 staying at the Grand Cen- tral Hotel. W. A. Simmons, Collector of the port of Boston, arrived from Washington yesterday at the West- minster Hotel. bishop McFarland and Very Rev. J. Hughes; of Hartfora, and Rev, Dr. Carmody, of New Haven, are among the recent arrivals at the Astor House. The Rev. Maurice Cunnmgham ts another op those men who are best described in a figurative Way, 48 wolves in sheeps’ clothing. Maurice is or Was a priest at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic chapek in Liverpool, England. On the 24 ult. he was fined by a Liverpool magistrate for drunkenness, insults to young ladies on the streets, and for as- eault on the policeman who arrested him, Aman named Bryant, who lived at Weymouth, England, was strangely affected by political agita- tions, In 1868 the contest in his borough excited him so that he cut his throat. His life was saved, however, and he consented to live through the subsequent period of political calm, The recen$ elections again unsettled his mind, and having again cut his throat, he is now, it ts hoped, where governments are stable, “CALEB CUSHING, The New Minister to spain at the: Astor House. Caleb Cushing, the new Minister to Spain, was quartered at the Astor House yesterday. Though he was very busily engaged during the day, as he intends to leave for Madrid this week, he received the persons who called to pay him their respecta with his usual urbanity, In conversation with @ HERALD reporrar Mr, Cushing said that he had not as yet decided what day he would leave, but he laughingly remarked that there were so many different steamers leaving this:port that he felt pretty certain that he could yet secuze a berth in one of them belore the end of the week. In answer to a few questions put to him as te whether be anticipated that our present relations with Spain would remain as they now exist, he re- plied that he did not “anticipate” as to wha’ changes might come about. Mr, Cus was evi- dently determined, even if there were time enough, not to be interviewed. However, his views as to the Cuban and other questions, about which this country and Spain have made so much ado of late, were given very fully inthe HERALD last Janaary, and the general public must, theres lore, be well iniormed as to what they are. EX-PRESIDENT FILLMORE, BUFFALO, N. Y., March 8, 1874, The condition of ex-President. Fillmore has re mained unchanged since last night. Dr. J. P. White, the family physician, reports at nine o’ciock to-night no change in Mr. Fillmore’s condition, He says that, while the whole body completely paralyzed, the ex-President’s mind ta clear. He can articulate distinctly, although with aneffort. He can eat, ana fully appreciates hie condition. The doctor thinks there is hope of hia being able to weather the attack, OBITUARY. M. Armand Barthet. The Parts journals of February 18, announce the death of M. Armand Barthet, aged fity-four years, in a private asylum for lunatics atIvry. The de ceased had his hour of glory in 1849, when Mlle. Rachel played at the Francais a little piece of bis, “Le Moineau de Lesbie.” He has been for some years past affected in his reason. Sir William Holburn, Bart., R. N. The above named gentleman died at his resl- dence, Cavendish-crescent, Bath, England, on the 17th of Fedruary, at the age of eighty-one years. Sir William entered the navy in 1805, became lieu tenant in 1813 and commander in 1855, He wae present at the battle of Trafalgar, being one of the few survivors of that memorable conflict. He also fought at the battle of Toulon, and assisted at the embarkation of troops after the battle of Corunna. He had resided for some years in Bath, where he was known asa keen sportsman and @ judicious collector of antiquities and objects of real histor- ical vaiue, Captain Huyshe, of the Anglo-Ashantee Army. Adespatch from Cape Coast Castle of January 18, reports as follows :—I am sorry to announce the death of Captain G. L, Huyshe, Rifle brigade, which tvok place at Prahsa. This oficer came out from England with Sir Garnet Wolseley, and acted on his staff up to the time of his death as Deputy Quartermaster General. He was suffering fora few days trom @ very severe attack of acute dys entery, which has proved fatal. Duchess Torionia. The Italian journals of February 16 announce the death, at Rome, at the age of seventy-one years, of the Duchess Anna Sforza-Cesarint, widow of the Duke Marino Torlonia. She nad long suffered from dropsy mu the chest, Sir George Campbell, of Succoth, A despatch by mau, from Glasgow, Scotland, under date of the 18th of February, says:— News has been received in Glasgow to-day of the death of Str George Campbell), of Succoth, which took place at Malta this morning. The deceased baronet contested Glasgow unsuccessiully at the general election of 1868. He was Colonel of the First Lanark Rifles, and when servingin the army of the line was wounded in the charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea. Haktrorp, Conn., March 3, 1874. The funeral of William P. Burrell, late-Vice Preste. dent of une New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, who died this morning, will take place on Thursday afternoon in this city. Mr. Burrell was at one time President of the Housatonic Ratl- | road and also of the Illinois Central Ratiroad, He graduated at Yale College in 1526, and studied law in the office of the late Chief Justice Church, He | was sixty-eight years old. BEPORTS OF COUNTY TREASUBERS, ALBANY, March 3, 1874; At the last general term of the Supreme Court an order was entered requiring the various county treasurers of the Third Department to report to the General Term the amount of Court funds held by them and how invested, on or before the first Tuesday of March to date, or show cause why they should not be punished for contempt. At the opening of the Court to-day reports were received from the treasurers of Sullivan, Greency Scho- harie, Ulster, Rensselaer and Columbia counties, with detailed statements attached. The a stated that before the close o! the term 3 fe Wns, would be appointed to examine each statem and report thereon. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. WasHINGTON, March 3, 18744 Assistant Paymaster John C. Burnett. has heen orderea to the Colorado as Assistant: to Pay In- , Williams. Passed Assistant Fngi- reer ty Cook has been. ordered to tue Navy Yard at " HL oS IMPOBTANT ARREST. Detective Dusenbury arrested Moltie Howitt alles. Jackson. yesterday alternoon, and she was locked, up at Police Headquarters. Mrs. Howitt is.charged with stealing $20,000 in United States bonds, and was locked up by Captain Irving as a, most tm. portent prisoner. The despatch upon which the capture was made arrived irom Chi» ca There the robbery took place, aod Detecttve Dusenbory was at once put on the case. Mrs. Howitt proved herself to be a woman of nerve and cooiuess when the officer took hold 0! her; but it was of no avail, her identity was too well established, Captain Irving sent her on ta Chicago last night, where she will be ar- raigned for the robbery. THE KANSAS STATE TBEASURER Torrka, March 3, 1874, The Kansas House of Representatives last night this community. It had no occasion except in the enmitios opgendered by unpleasant, py ‘passed, by a vote of 74 to 20, aresolution Of (m- Deschment anime State Treasurer Heres,