The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Reece co SLONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.... No. 66 MENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SLR WALLACK’S THEATRE rteenth street,— LP. M. matinee at 1:30 P.M. R-AT-LAW, at Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Jeffreys | | Closes at 420 Broadway, VAUDEVI 2:45 P. ML 5 Matinee ats P. M. ATRE, UNTO DEATH, at . Matinee at2 P, opposite City Hall, 6 SB. M.; closes at lly. M a Bow Bowery.—WHITE HAIR, w# @tS P.M. ; closesatl P. M. METROPOL No. 585 Broadway.—V 7x45 P. M.; closes at 100 NIBLO'S aaa . Broadway, betwe Prince and ouston streets. — LEATUERSTOCKING, at 8 P.M; closes wt 10:30 P.M. | Matinee at 1:3) P. esti ‘ADT THEATRE, ‘man Opera—DON JUAN, at8 P.M.; closes | me. Lucea. \ MANIA THEATRE, BRAESIG, at 8P. M.; GE INSPECTC Fourteenth stre closes at 245 Fourteenth street, 1 DINORAH, Matinee at 1:3) P. diwa di Murska, Mime. Tesia, and Verati. OPERA HOUSE, eet, Near Lexington avenue.—Charit: ALL, and EVERYBODY" es atll P.M ‘THE BOY DETEC. | M. The same at 8 P. FIFTH AVE, HEATRE, | ‘Twenty-eighth street and broadway.—CHUARITY, at 8 P. M.< closes at 10:50 P.M. Mr. Clark, Miss Ada’ Dyas. | Matinee at 1:30 P. M. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ian Opera Troupe— closes at 4:30 P.M, | iss Cary; Capoul and Fourteenth stree MIGNON matinee at 1:0 P. M. Mme. Nilsson, Mile. Torriani and M Dannetti. Begins Matune THEATRE COMI Broadway.—VARIETY M j closes at 10:30 P. No, 514 RTAINMENT, at 3 | P. M Matinee at 2 P. M. BOOT ATRE, | Fixth avenue and Twenty-third street.—MACBETH, at | 7:45 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P. M. Mme. Fanny Janauschek. Matinee at 1:30 P. M. BROOKLYN T Washington street, Brooklyn. SERIOUS FAMILY, Begins at 8 dirs. F. B. Conway, Mr. Frank Roche, TONY PASTOR No. 201 Bowery.—VARIE ERA HOUSE, ENTERTAINMENT, at8P. | M. j closes at 1 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—THE BRI- | GAND>; NEG SY, &c., atS P. M.; closes STEINWAY HALL, Matinee Concert’ of Theo. Thomas’ M. at 4:0 P. M. German closes at 10 P.M. | Fourteenth street. Orchestra, at 2 P. M.; Liederkranz Concert, at 8 cou Broadway, corner oi Thi MOONLIGHT, atl P.M. ‘M.; closes at 10 P. M. y-fifth street.—PARIS BY | .; closes at 5 P. M.; same at7 P. New York, Saturday, March 7, From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather will be cloudy, with rain and | snow, followed by clearing weather in the evening. 1874. | | was refused. | comes as coyly as a virgin and flies away in a | | the world because of the policy advocated by | lution in Congress to pay our bonds in paper | | suffer already from the effects of paper money. The Polley ef Inflation. The Senate yesterday, before its adjourn- ment, resolved to resume the consideration of the question of inflation on its reassembling on Monday. We take it the honest purpose of Congress is to lead the country ont of the miseries of war legislation. We have never really recovered from the troubles of the war time. Our expedients for raising large sums of money suddenly, our plans for currency, our legal tender laws, our intricate bonds and securities, our attempts to advance or decrease the price of gold by legislation—above all, our extraordinary and shifting tariff laws, our whiskey taxes and taxes on tobacco, and the appalling scandals attending their collection, all combined to degrade the country and enervate her financial strength. All the evils of the war time were summed up in the policy of inflation. We had only a certain sum of money, and, in order to make a show in the world, it became necessary for us to make it pass for double the amount. In private life we know the effect of such ex- genuine confidence impossible. Consequently we began to distrust our own government, and nations. They felt that there was no absolute a coufidence to be placed in the United States; | that in financial affairs especially we were a tricky, shifty, evasive people. To emphasize this feeling we had premature and unnecessary discussions on repudiation, on the real mean- | ing of our national bonds, and whether we meant to pay the principal in coin or paper. | We had financial’ experiments like the Erie Railway, and State money scandals like those in Alabama and Minnesota. Al- though we made unusual efforts at Washing- ton to redeem confidence, although we paid our interest promptly and imposed burden- some taxes to reduce the debt, although we made sacrifices to protect our credit quite un- | precedented in history, it was all in vain. The great American Republic, whose prodig- ious wealth was the envy and the astonishment of the world, whose achievements in peace were only surpassed by her successes in war, the nation capable of fighting five years for a principle, found her credit shivering and cresp- ing in foreign money markets, among the se- curities of nations like Spain and Brazil and Turkey. We were compelled to pay exorbitant | interest for our money, and when we offered | the rate paid by Russia and France the loan | | though we must own that failure was entirely | | too frequent to justify the belief that the | torpedo is a safe, a certain weapon, one that | can always be exploded at the proper time, if exploded at all. The other exercises were entirely satisfactory, and if we were to sum- marize our correspondence we would say that a naval drill should not be a thing of rare occurrence, but an exercise carried on at all seasons of the year where the climate might permit. Confidence is slowly won and soon lost. It | dream. This we see every day in our social | affairs, and if we were wise we would see it in our national affairs. We are to-day virtually | a dishonored nation in the money markets of Mr. Morton and his friends. For this is the very policy which began with the amazing lie that silk paper printed in green should be legal ten- der; which proposed, with Thaddeus Stevens, to regulate the rates in Wall street by a reso- money, after promising to pay them in gold. The natural progress of a policy of this kind may be found in the proposition now advanced by Mr. Morton, that because the West and the South are poor, therefore we should | have a new issue of paper money. Why, we Governor of Indiana to raise men and money during our own war; the extraordinary legis- lation of Congress to provide means for sus- taining the armies of the Union and the reluctance of our noisy patriots to subscribe a dollar to the government loans. ————_ javal Drill. ; We publish this morning fall and interest- ing correspondence from the Florida channel, giving details. of the closing days of the naval drill. In the experiments with the torpedo the country has never been furnished with a more complete exhibition of the destructive capacities of this submarine projectile, as it is now known to military and naval science. Admiral Porter in his recent report called particular attention to the torpedo as a | defensive and offensive Weapon, and urged | upon the navy a thorough study of its powers as a destructive agent in warfare. We there- fore congratulate the service upon the success of the torpedo exercises in the Florida chan- nel, believing that they will command the at- | pedionts. We inspire a false confidence, | tention of all the navies of the world. The | which is sure to fall sooner or later and make | dy of the torpedo has not yet definitely | board harbors can be improved in the same | confirmed the conclusion so often claimed by | enthusiasts, that naval warfare has been sub- | | this distrust was speedily shared by other | stantially revolutionized by its invention and | | subsequent improvements, Yet the exercises of | | the squadron during the closing days of Feb- | | ruary prove that “this new-fangled concern’’ | is not to be despised, as the navy often learned | to its sorrow during the protracted blockade | | of the Southern coast at the time of the recent | | war. The Wabash, Congress, Ticonderoga, | Canandaigua, Ossipee, Colorado, Brooklyn, | Wachusett, Kansas, Lancaster, Alaska, Frank- | lin, Fortune and Shenandoah participated in | | the practice with varied success and failure, | The Streets and the Contract System. The condition of our streets is a reflection upon our whole system of managing affairs in New York. And yet it would seem, if there was any honest intention of keeping the streets clean and the city in health, that there would be no trouble whatever. Our system is bad. We turn over the whole management of the streets to contractors. These contrac- tors owe their business to politicians and are under the necessity of paying money to | political parties, even if they do not pay for | worse purposes. They have their assessments | to one hall or another; their fees for counsel | and other service, their own profits and the profits of sub-contractors. And, as every- | thing is uncertain in this world of New York | politics, and the contractors do not know how | long their work will last, or what temper Mr. Green may be in about paying for it when done, they are in a hurry to make it as re- | munerative as possible. So the streets are not | cleaned, and there is no prospect of their being cleaned. And yet for health, for the beauty and at- tractiveness of the city, nothing is more im- We have been living a life of national dissipa- | tion, and the only way to escape from its | effects is to change our life, to reduce our vol- | ume of currency, to increase values and to | inspire confidence in our financial purposes. | | Let us have a policy, nota series of makeshift schemes. Instead of turning back to the | desperate measures of the war, let us go | ahead in the old paths. Mr. Morton may tell usin his breezy, Rocky Mountain fashion | that there are no old paths in America; that we are a new, original, developing and rap- idly growing people; that we cannot bind our- | selves down to ‘‘the old, effete systems’ of | Europe. But Mr. Morton should remember | Tae Presment Spvrrisc Concress AND | that these “old, effete systems” go back to Sezxrmc Inrormation.—We learn from Wash- Mount Sinai, and that it was there written as ington that the President was in his room at | an underlying principle of financial policy that the Capitol yesterday, making inquiries as to | ye ghould not give what we do not have to the views of Senators on the Louisiana ques- tion. This is a subject in which General Grant seems to take great administration and the republican party are seriously involved in that ‘‘monstrosity.”’ SvurrexpErR or Cupan Fucrmives To THE Spanisu AvrHoritres. — Whatever little respect for the American flag may have survived the Virginius affair has been destroyed by a dis- graceful act of selfish cowardice on the part of the Captain of one of the regular steamers plying between this city and Havana. ‘Three Cubans, foolishly trusting to the hospitality and honor of Ameri- cans, stowed themselves away on the City of New York steamship, and, having been discovered at sea, the Captain put back and de- livered the men over to the Spanish authori- ties, well knowing that their doom was sealed. The passengers were naturally indignant, but the Captain had more dread of offending the Spanish authorities than of committing a flagrant breach of hospitality. Cubans ought to learn that they can only trust themselves, and that no faith whatever is to be placed in the protection of a nation whose flag is little better than a national trademark. Braz axp Buenos Aynzs.—The late allies in the war against Paraguay seem likely to quarrel over the division of the spoils. By the latest accounts both governments were busy preparing forwar. The flame is being fanned by unquiet spirits in Paraguay, who hope to profit by the conflagration. Should the war break out the son of Lopez, the late President of Paraguay, will, probably, be used with effect by either of the contending parties. The rumored troubles at Villa del Pilar would in- dicate that the insurgents count on using the popularity of the Lopez family against Brazil. Tse Duke or Eprsvrc aND THE GRAND Dvcuess Marie are expected to arrive in England to-day. Preparations on a large scale are being made for their reception, and the day is more or less generally to be ob- served as a holiday. Why should not the young people be made happy? Why should not England rejoice? As alliances go itis a good enongh thing of the kind. It will not be awiss for England to-day to remember the Crimean war. The marriago alliance of Great Britain and Russia seems a grim satire on international war generally and on the Crimean war in particular, interest, because his | | give—that we should not, among other things, call printed paper money. Mount Sinai, we admit, is a long way back, | and it is hard to impose a record of such an- | tiquity upon these young financial giants of the West. If modern precedents will be more | | a then let our Rocky Mountaineers study | France. We know well enough that, espe- | cially since the German vote has arisen in the | West, France is not in favor with the Rocky Mountain statesmen. We admit in advance all of these fine prairie arguments, and their unmistakable importance as affecting the Ger- man vote. Somehow France is an argument, whether we regard her wisdom or her folly. We see what men like Mr. Morton did in France when they began to ‘‘relieve the country’’ by inflation of currency. They found France in a sad way, surely enough. There was no shoes for the feet of marching soldiers; and as for French credit, it had been sacrificed to the exigencies of the Regency and Madame Pompadour. France was os uneasy as Ilinois or South Carolina. Instead of seeking comfort in reformation she began print- ing mew reams of currency ; and “relief” came so rapidly that a loaf of bread cost a hundred francs, and a hundred francs were not in value more than one per cent of the nominal sum. Mr. Morton has only to go into the National Library to be abundantly instructed on the subject. He will learn, also, that France only became strong when she saw the madness of | this course, when she began to learn that there was some value in Sinai precedents after all, that money was money, and not paper. Napoleon the First taught this lesson, and no circumstance in his wonderful career is more worthy of remembrance than the finan- cial policy of the Empire. From that time to this time France has trodden in the path marked out by the Great Emperor. And recent days; when she was overwhelmed by Germany and seemed about to be crushed; when the minds of observers like our new and burning giants of the West, saw nothing but rain as her portion : the wisdom of the Napo- leonic policy became manifest. In one day she raised fourteen times more money than was necessary to pay the fearful indemnity imposed by the conqueror. Mr. Morton may even be able to understand the value of that triumph when he remembers his own efforts as | upon some department now in existence. But money, no credit, no bread for the laborer, no | when she came to her great sorrow in the | portant than the thorough cleaning of the | streets, Why should New York be the sloven | and slattern among cities? This she is to-day. There is no large city in the world so untidy as New York, unless it may be Pekin, and we are not sure about Pekin; and yet our people are proud of their city and would most gladly pay to have its condition improved. They do pay, but the money is wasted. There is no way of insuring the cleanliness of the streets unless we make the business a system or a department, like the police, A department should be created especially to clean the streets, or let the functions devolve | let there be salaried men, like the attendants | in the Central Park or the police, with speci- | fied duties and direct responsibilities, and | compelled to do their work daily, whether rain | or sunshine. We can never have a thorough | system for our streets until we no longer de- | pend upon the uncertainties of contractors, | who have no interest in their work except to | make money from day to day and expend as little as possible. | | De Caamporp axp His Puoroenara.— | Some foolish people in Paris have been sell- ing photographs of the Count de Chambord. An order, in consequence, has been issued by | the Minister of the Interior prohibiting all | such sales. Surely de Chambord must be a | man of might when his photograph so fright ens the French government. Is it the Re- public or the Empire which dreads the shadow? Tae Svurrertnc Pook snp CHARITABLE ) Ar.—Our news columns this morning show | how widespread and how severe is the desti- | tution which exists in this city. Yesterday | was bat a repetition of the many sad days which have preceded. As usual, the numer- ous soup houses were visited by famishing multitudes. The sad, pale faces revealed genuine poverty, and the onlooker could not | but observe that In many cases pride “had but | reluctantly yielded to the demands of nature. It is gratifying to be able to record that the tide of charity still continues to flow. Con- tributions this morning are, on the part of many of the societies, largely recognized. On this occasion New York has done well. Let us hope that while the necessity lasts the out- | flow of liberality will know no check. 4 Tur Hosprrats or New Yorx.—We publish | this morning extracts from o report signed by some of the principal citizens of New York, advocating a new hospital system for | this city. The suggestions therein contained | will, we are sure, command the respect of the | community. The facts disclosed will certainly | create alarm. ‘Treating all classes of disease and every phase of hospital life, the commit- | tee clearly shows that the old Bellevue build- | ing is a disgrace to the city which sustains it and to the profession by the labors of which | it is enabled to retain any character at all. | The question, simply stated, is this: Shall pa- | tients be treated in immense caravansaries or in | small cottage buildings? Statistics prove that treatment in hospitals, so called, means death in two-thirds of the cases where amputation is | details of construction, | way and at less expense than by any other | with the novel plan proposed, convened in | gineers, composed of Colonels Tower, Wright | the main Major Howell’s plan, and state, ‘It | region. | small draught to meet the wants of this growing | an imperious necessity. This traffic with the | rapidly growing far West must increase, and, | many of our Gulf and lower Atlantic sea- a necessity, while in the detached cottage life ig generally preserved. Cc Harbor Improvements. Texas bids fair to be the State of surprises. We all remember how, a few weeks since, the President surprised the country by advising ex-Governor Davis to submit to the verdict of the people against him. A few days since we had occasion to review the novel doctrine of Governor Coke—novel, at least, for a South- ern State—to “settle what we owe and pay as we go.” This was a surprise for Wall street. Now comes Major C. W. Howell, United States Engineer of the Southwestern district, and overturns all our preconceived notions of the cost of harbor improvements by announcing that for half a million of dollars or so he can put twenty feet of water permanently on Gal- yeston bar by a wonderfully cheap construc- tion of submerged jetties and training walls. He acknowledges that his plan of im- provement is without precedent in its but claims that it has been carefully studied, and adds, “If these proposed structures succeed, and I do not see reason why they should not, method.’’ Neither do we, and we have care- fully studied Major Howell’s report to the Chief Engineer. General Humphreys, struck New York a board of United States en- and Newton, to examine with Major Howell the proposed innovation and to report upon its probable cost and the practicability of securing a permanently increased depth of water in Galveston Bay and the entrance thereto, These experienced officers endorse in is believed that the requirements of a practical permanency will, under the conditions ex- pressed, be fulfilled.’’ Galveston has always been a twelve-foot port. Itis the distributing point for a vast commerce with nearly all the trans-Mississippi New York has been obliged to build large steamers of a peculiar construction and trade. If fora half million or even a million of dollars it can be made a twenty-foot port, let it be done and at once. Our freight trains for the far West are crowding the lines of transportation from this to the Mississippi, dodging the passenger trains and delaying and endangering both, until the construction of separate freight lines has become almost if forced into the already thronged lines from New York to the Mississippi, will bring despair to the cheap transportationists, if, indeed, it does not result in the permanent loss of a valugble trade to the merchants of our city and the manufacturers of New Eng- land. The bill to carry out the recommenda- tions of Major Howell is before the House | Coramittee on Commerce at Washington, and we hope they will recommend an immediate and liberal appropriation for the work. No greater economy can be exercised than that which shall give our domestic commerce cheap harbor improvements, and such sug- gestions as these of Major Howell do not come once in a century. Mone Staves ror THE Unton.—There is a curious rumor afloat that the people of the Azores have requested President Grant to annex them, and that the President replied that ‘the era of popular will had replaced | the age of conquest.” If the President made that speech it was very pretty ; but what will Louisiana think of the rule of popular will? The Azores are not big enough to annex. Before they got further into the Union than the Washington lobby they would be swal- lowed up. Tae Great Snow Srorm.—At the same time that the latest snow storm of the season— of which the readers of the Hzraup were fore- warned—is upon us, it is reported as still filling up the mountain passes and blocking the railroad in the Sierra Nevadas. Spring seemed to have come in earnest only three days ago, but now we are again in the midst of winter and shall not escape from its em- brace for some time. Tue Reten or Broop.—Our columns this | morning furnish sad evidence of the disregard for human life which is becoming such an | unpleasant feature of our social life. The | cause lies in the moral training of the people, | and cannot be cured by repressive laws. This recklessness of human life not only exhibits itself in frequent murders, but in the | prevalence of suicide among a class | that cannot plead either ignorance or the bru- talizing effects of extreme poverty. We fear that the duty of bearing patiently the trials of | life and struggling mantully against them is | not inculcated with the force and persistence it should be by the teachers of the people or in the home circle, where, after all, the real character of a people must be formed. The subject is a fit one for pulpit oratory. Tse Investicatton Inro tun Workina or tae Revenve Laws is vigorously followed up | by the Committee of Ways and Means, and, if we may judge from the testimony taken and the expressions of the different members of that committee, a bill will be recommended to Congress to stop abuses and to protect our merchants. As far as the evidence shows up to this time the revenue laws need amending, particularly as regards the arbitrary power of special agents and informers, and the stu- | pendous sums which these agents, informers and the Custom House officials pocket from seizures and fees. The whole system is despotic and full of corruption. Perhaps there isno absolute monarchy in the world where such tyranny is exercised or such cor- rupting proceedings are witnessed as in this free country. Tar Repusrican Fevp 1x Connecticur.—In | many of the States the republican party has | been long divided by the feuds of the leaders, | as in Pennsylvania, where Cameron and McClure were, for many years, at daggers’ points; and in Rhode Island, where the two | great commercial and manufacturing houses | became noted as the Montagues and Capulets | of the State. At a more recent period the | republicans of Massachusetts divided them- | selves into the Butler and Beacon Hill fac- tion. And now comes Connecticut, earnestly | trying to imitate the example of the others. There is to be a Hawley faction and a Jewell faction, with the Senatorship as the basis of the feud. Just now both sides are protesting against side issues in the State canvass; but the Senatorship obtrades itself now and then in shapes that arg very disagreeable. There are men and newspapers ready for the fight, and we may have a very lively battle when it comes, with exceedingly hot skirmishes before and after. The Stockinged Gold. What becomes of the gold? During the past twenty years we have sent over nine hundred and ninety million dollars in coin from the port of New York, and a very incon- siderable quantity in comparison has returned. Most of this specie has gone to England, who has also drawn from Australia during the same period about one thousand million dol- lars. Yet weknow that England shows no great surplus of coin. What, then, has bo- come of nearly two billions of gold during a poriod of twenty years? These twenty years have been important, without parallel, in the world’s history. While great wars have been fought, new inventions extended and generally adopted, civilization has been pushing in every direction. Countries which before had only beads and copper wire for a circulating medium have been opened to trade; but, sus- picious of greenbacks and Bank of England notes, the natives sell only for the genuine “shiner.’’ To-day, even in such a civilized country as Egypt, all the transactions must be eaxried on with gold, and so it is in all coun- tries where s general banking system has not | come into use. It is plain, then, that the re- mote lands of Africa, Asia and the East Indies but recently opened up to trade have absorbed @ vast quantity of this precious metal. What have they done with it? Take Egypt as an | example, Next to the desire to acquire gold is the unconquerable lust to hoard. The Egyptian has a long stocking, and in it he | places his gold. The coin that he does not dispose of in this manner is used by the ladies and concubines of his harem for brace- lets, anklets, necklaces and bosom ornaments. ‘The consumption is thus enormous. The fur- ther one penetrates into the interior the more patent this truth becomes. Sovereigns and twenty franc pieces are chiefly valued by the females for the glittering gewgaws with which they can adorn their dusky persons. Gold is, therefore, a necessity in countries like Egypt. While France, Italy and Austria can live on with an inconvertible paper cur- rency, the ruder peoples of the African, Asian and South American deserts cannot be taught to do business with a green picture represent- ing Washington crossing the Delaware and | Secretary Boutwell coming down from his | hole in the sky. Thus gold’ that goes to these | countries remains there. But leaving this great coin sponge, how is it with Europe? We find the stocking again, as when M. Thiers | called on the French people for five milliards, | every conciérge and cocher emptied his stock- ing and invested in the loan. All over Europe stockings and trunks are still full of | gold, which only national appeals, founded on the warnings of a political ruin, can put afloat | among the people. When the American sy3- tem of savings banks becomes a world-wide institution the people can put their stockings and trunks to other uses, and the world will be able to estimate the real quantity of gold | we have. Even in America the stocking hoarder has not ceased to exist, and we opine that many millions are safely stowed away by | venerable old men and wamen. Then we should consider that enormous quantities of | gold jewelry, plate and works of art are an- nually fabricated, to say nothing of the loss by wear, which of course is irreclaimable. If | all the gold manufactured into the arts since | 1853 and still remaining in this form were suddenly melted into coin and set afloat in | the world we believe that there would be little need of paper media if the hoarder could be induced to be less of a miser. Whatever may be thought of the stocking principle, | however, it is plain that the discovery and de- velopment of new countries cost the stable and solid commercial world a great depriva- | tion of gold, and the milk in the cocoanut is, “What is the remedy ?”” Connected with this | subject we invite the attention of the reader to the following table of the exports of gold | from the United States during the past twenty years :— Total since January 1, 1873. Same time in 1872. Same time in $48,800,483, + 71,545,271 63,865,547 | Same time in 157 8,191,475, Same time in 136! 2,108,448 | Same time in 1868, 0,841,599 Same time in + 51,801,948 | Same time in 2, | Same time in Same time in Same time 10 Same time in 1s Same time in Same time in 1s Same time in Same time in Same time in Same time in-1556, Same time in 1855. Same time in 1854 Same time in 18: Same time in 1 There is a suggestiveness in these figures and in the facts above noted that it would be well for our legislators at Washington to bring | home to application in dealing with the finan- cial questions now before them for solution. They certainly point to a period when coin may no longer be available as a circulating medium in the increased commerce of an ex- tended area open to civilization, In pre- paring the way for the substitution of paper— certificates of indebtedness in the place of the | material token—the one point to be aimed at | to render such a substitution safe is the culti- vation of a higher knowledge and appreciation of honesty, both public and private, or, | failing that millennial development, more stringent police regulation in monetary affairs, Tue Inpian Famine.—Intelligence received in London at the Indian Office, direct from Lord Northbrook, the Governor General, gives a very bad aspect to the present state of affairs in the famine-visited districts of Brit- ish India. According to Lord Northbrook the government will be obliged to maintain three million persons for three months, Already the famine has cost the Indian government over seven million dollars. Suffering India speaks loudly, and calls for universal sympa- thy. England owes much to India, and Eng- land is not unwilling to show her gratitude. But all that Engiand can do will not prevent thousands from dying of starvation. For the freaks of nature and the mysterious ways of Providence governments aro not to be held re- sponsible. Better arrangements, ‘however, might have becn made to meet the emergency. India will be a heavy burden upon Mr. Disracli’s' shoulders, A few more such visitations and England will besglad to be rid | with unequivocal | in | it remains one of the chefs d’cuvre of her réper- ib | spectable performance, ‘Tax New Hawesnree Canvass.—The cleo- tion in New Hampshire takes place next Tuesday ; consequently the canvass is now at its most exciting pitch. In that State the result is always doubtful and requires hard work on both sides. Accordingly we find Mr. Senator Wadleigh on the stump trying to carry the State, and thereby showing that his own predictions of defeat meant nothing. In doing this Mr. Wadleigh earnestly tells the people of the ‘Old Granite State’’ that Mr. Dawes’ great speech on national bankruptcy was cunningly devised by the administration to frighten timid Congressmen into econ- omy, and informs them that at this time “the greatest of all issues in this country is that of secession.” We have heard that some of the “Dutch” farmers in Berks county, Pennsyl- vania, are still voting for General Jackson, and we confess that if it was true it would not be more an anachronism than a canvasg in New Hampshire in 1874 against secession. Mr. Wadleigh has been long enough in the Senate to hear of Mr. Dawes’ speech, but otherwise it seems he has learned nothing in the last ten years. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, James T. Fields, of Poston, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. * Albert Blerstadt, the artist, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Postmaster John F. Smyth, of Albany, is regia tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Dr. Samuel G. Howe, of Boston, is residing tem porarily at the Westminster Hotel. Secretary of State Henry C. Kelsey, of New Jer: sey, 18 staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. General Jacob D, Cox, of Ohio, formerly Secre- tary of the Interior, has arrived at the Aston House, Professor Agassiz, son of the late renowned naturalist, is in Jacksonville, Fia., at the Grand National Hotel, State Senators D. H. Cole, F. W. Tobey and G@. B. Bradley arrived from Albany last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. ~ Hillyard Cameron, late member of the Canadian Parliament, arrived from Toronto yesterday at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressmen J. W. Killinger, Horace B, Strait and W. P. Wallace arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday from Washington. Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu leaves New York for Ea Tope to-dayin the Adriatic, to complete his ex | plorations in Norway and Sweden. Caleb Cushing, United States Minister to Spaim returned to the Astor House yesterday from Wash ington, and will sail for Brest to-day in the steam ship St. Laurent. Alexander Jonnston, father of the late Governor William F. Johnston, of Pennsylvania, is still liv. ing at Kingston, near Grunsburg, Westmoreland county, Pa. He is now in the 100th year o/ his age, He was comparatively robust until lately, and ta his ninety-eighth year used regularly to ride on horseback. AMUSEMENTS, “ll Trovatore” at the Academy of Music. Last evening Verdi's favorite opera, “Il Trove tore,’ was repeated by the Strakosch company success. The cast tncluded Mme. Niisson, Miss Cary, Signor Campenini, Signor Del Puente and Signor Scolara, Chorua and orchestra were well balanced and keptin eifective relation by the baton of Muzio. Of Mme. Nilsson’s Leonora it is not necessary to speak detail. It 18 sufficient to say that toire, Allher well known triumphs were repeated from “‘Tacea la Notte’ to the finale, and the clarity of her tones, finish of her vocalization and dra- matic force elicited enthusiastically warm plaudits. Miss Cary’s Azucena evinced the determination which this lady has taken to add forct- bie acting to the charms of full contralto voice in her impersonations. Her success last evening was but second to that of the prima donna. The Manrico of Siguor Campanini exhioited this artist in perhaps his best light. The sense of latigue in his tones shows that he needs a little rest, but otherwise he was well worthy of the applause he received. In the famous ‘Di quella ira’? he aroused himself to a superb effort. It rought down the house and gained repeated re- calison the fall of the curtain. His singing of it was impassioned, true aud fluished, and tne effect on the audience electric. “Ah che la Morte” was iven with great delicacy and tenderness. el Puente’s Count is a conscientious and re- His singing of “Il Balen’? was rewarded with an encore, but without wish- ing to detract any {rom the artist’s success, we may suggest that the popularity of the air had a great deal todo with it. The performance through- out was effective, not marred by a single hitch or break down, and those who have secn opera in New York for years past know how much thia leaves us to be grateful for. One would imagine that the instruments of a well-trained orchestra shouid get througa “Il Trovatore” almost unaided, so often have they played it; but @ smooth per- formance is, nevertheless, sufficiently rare to be heartily welcomed, Musical and Dramatic Notes. Sothern is playing in the ‘‘Hub.’” John Owens and his company are at New Or- leaus. Dion Boucicault will open at Booth’s on the 16th of March. Mr, Charles Walcott takes Mr. Tyler’s place at the Olympic. Tima di Murska gives her farewell matinée to-day at the Lyceum. Gilbert reappears at Wallack’s to-night in the “Heir at Law.” Miss Lisette Barnard opens at the Metropclitam | Theatre on the 23d. The first “Charity” matinée will be given to-day | at the Fifth Avenue. “Leatherstocking” dies to-night—takes leave of | the public at Niblo’s. English opera, with Kellogg ana Van Zandt, will | open on Monday at Boston. Oliver Doud Byron is announced for Monday at the New Park Theatre, Brooklyn. ‘Theodore Thomas gives his fourth grand matinée concert at Steinway Hall to-day, Giimore’s Twenty-second Regiment Band will give a concert on Monday night. Aimée will appear in “La Fille de Madame Angot”’ on Monday evening, at the Lyceum. The author of “Davy Crockett” died without haying witnessed a performance of the play. Miss Rogers has met with much success in Ne- | vada; she has turned all hearts in that icy region, Mile. Sorel made her début last night at the Lyceum Theatre in the rdle of Marguerite, in “Faust.” Janauschek gives “Marie Stuart” as a matinée performance. In the evening she appears as Lady Macbeth. Mrs. Conway, of the Brooklyn Theatre, contem- plates a starring tour. Mr. Frank Roche ‘will ae- company her. Fox 18 about to desert the Grand Opera House. It {g rumored that he will form a new combination at the Broadway Theatre. Mme, Lucca repeated her wonderful impersona- tion of Zerlina in “sta Diavolo” last evening. The Stadt Theatre was crowded to excess. ‘A burlesque company, under the management o& Mr. H. H. Pratt, starts Monday week through the astern circuit. Moses W. Fiske and the “Happy, World” are to be the leading attractions, ‘The Broadway Theatre will be opened on the 6tm of April, with the original Humpty Dumpty, Mr. @. 1, Fox, supported by his brother, C, K, Fox, anda large company. Mr.G. H. Tyler will be the man+ ager. The puppet manager, Mr. McDonough, and Mr, Laren, of the Opera House, Reading, Pa., nave had some trouble about the Royal Marionettes, The Sherif! interfered and the interesting puppets gave afree performance in court which was very. touching. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WastINGTON, March 6, 1874 Assistant Paymaster George E. Baughman ts or- dered to duty in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. Assistant Paymaster Jamies A. Ring ts ot her Indian Empire. ordered to the storeship Onward, at Callao, reliev~ ing Paymaster D, A. Smith, woo’ is ordered howe-