The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1874, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY ASD ANN STREET. 1AMES GORDCN. BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR, 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. eudilin LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Sabscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS TO-HOBRBOW. OLYMPIC THEATRE, and Bleecker streets.— Seg | onto ENISRTAINMENT, ‘at J. j Closes wh WU 245 P.M, OOKLYN PARK THEATRE, posite ony Hal Brooklyn.—DONALD McKAY, at 8P. SPP Cloves at 1 a Doul Byron. BOW Bowery.—OVER THE P TAINMENT, Begins at 8 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 58 Broadway.—VARI)TY EN CEE TAINMENT, at’ TS5P. M.; cioses at 10 P.M. NIBLO'S GARDEN, between Prince and Houston streeta—DAVY Bros wT sD M.; closes st 1080 P.M. Mr. Frank eRockET Mayo. LYCEUM THEATRE, ~ixth avenue.—French Opera ADAME ANGOT, at 8 P.M; Marie Aimee, Fourteenth stree' Boutfe—LA FILLE 0 closes at 10:45 P. M. x WOOD's MUSEUM, street —NIMBLE JT. BERTHA, THE oses at ll P.M HEATRE, ay.—CLEARITY, at 8 P. Twenty-eighth street and Miss Ada Dyas. ‘M. ; closes t 10:30 P.M. Mr. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street.—Strakoech Italian Opera Troune— Lés HUGUENOTS, P.M.; closes at it P.M. Mme. Nilsson, Mile. Maresi and Miss Cary; Campanini and Maurel, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Bighte. avenue and ‘wenty-third street.—HUMPTY DUMPTY AT SCHOOL, and VARIETY ENTERTAIN- MENT, Begins at 7:49 P! M.; closes at 045 P.M. Mr. G. L. Fox. THEAT! MIQUR, No, 4 Broadway.—\ y ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M. BOOTHS THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street.—MACBETH, at | 7:45 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P. M. Mme, Fanny Janauschek. | BROO| Washington street, Bri M.; closes atl P.M HEATRE, —FEMME DE FEU, at 8P. | B. Booth. WALLACK’S THBATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—HETR-AT-LAW, at | SF. Mi closes at UP. M. Mr. Join Gulvert, Miss Jeftreys | ewis. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA MOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M. ; closes ac il P. M. eee eid BRYANT'S CEEne HOUSE, sae | wi street, near Sixth avenue.—N 0 MIN. | STBELSY, &c., at # P. a. ; closes at uP. M. ‘nse conean ee. roadway, corner of Thirty-fiith street.—PARIS BY MOONLIGHT, ati P. M.; closes at5 P. M.; same at7 P. ‘M.; closes at 10 P.M. QUA DRUPLE SHEBT. New York, Sunday, March 8, 1874. T.| From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather wil be clear. Tae Navat Review in Florida bas ended. | According to our special despatch from Key | West Commodore Parker brought the famous “fanction’’ to a close by maneuvring the four | monitors—Maehopac, Manhattan, Saugus and Ajax. | Too Bapv.—With the sanction of the Court of Common Pleas the Mayor of Philadelphia | has proclaimed that no more liquor shall be sold in that city on the Sabbath, What will become of the sixty thousand habitual tipplers ? Tux Inpuns at Red Cloud Agency and the surrounding resorts appear to have delayed their threatened scalping campaign for a time. General Sheridan believes, however, that as soon as the grass grows there will be something stronger than prayers and good in- tentions needed to preserve the hair of the farmers on the border settlements, Aw Unsuccessrut MurpERER AND Surcrpg.— We have a report this morning of an attempt at murder and suicide at Wallingford, Conn. A Swede entered a factory, filled with work- men, where he fired twelve shots, wounding only two persons and killing no one. He afterwards made an equally unsuccessful at- tempt to kill himself. This man, whether sane or insane, has the homicidal propensity fully developed, and it is fortunate that his first crime was committed in a State where he will be cared for for the rest of his life. Porrmies mt Onto.—According to the Cin- cinnati Commercial, which has no standing in the republican party, the prospects of the Ohio democrats in the next election are not so flattering os most people suppose. The Legis- latare has done nothing, and the effort at redis- tricting the State into Congressional districts is likely to prove as partisan and disgraceful as under republican rule. It seems impossible that a party which has come into power after many years of opposition could thus feebly throw away the prize; but greed and corrup- tion have so demoralized our politics that we can scarcely expect any political organization to retain power by wise legislation and the force of a virtuous example. Tae Spanish GOVERNMENT AND THE Can- Lists.—Day after day we are compelled by cable despatches to think of Spain and her curiously perplexed affairs. After all we have heard Bilbao has not yet fallen. The town is still loyal and holds out against the Carlists, It will be remembered that at the commence- ment of the reign of Amadeus Serrano went North and speedily made an end of all public Carlist demonstrations. Serfano’s leniency on that occasion has been rewarded with a world of trouble, not to himself alone, but to his predecessors in office. One of our items of news gives us to understand that the government has sixty-five thousand sol- diers in the North fighting against the Carlista. We had no idea that the Carlists were so strong that they could bold out against so powerful an army. We suspect that the sixty- five thousand look better on paper than on the field of battle. Sixty-five thousand well armed, well drilled, oapable men, led by com- petent officers, onght in one month to make an end of the Carlist insurrection, limited as that insurrection now is, |} seems to us very clear. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. | The Tichborme Case—Was There a Conspiracy? Orton is safe for fourteen years, and the Tichborne estates are secure from his endeay- ors. It can scarcely be said that they were secure until the verdict that he had been guilty of forgery in signing the name of Roger Tich- borne, and of perjury in swearing that it was his own name, had assigned him an individuality inconsistent with his claim. Is was proved to the satisfaction of the jury clearly that the fat man from Wagga Wagga was not Tichborne, and also, apparently, that he was Orton, and the verdict rendered after o full investigation of these points must forever close the door to any attempt of his on those particular estates. This was not done by the result of the pre- vious trial, in which there was no verdict, the claimant's counsel accepting ® nonsuit in his proceas to obtain a special property, and the counsel of the holder of the property being glad to get rid of him on those terms, But the claimant, for anything the first trial did to hinder him, might atany time, if money could have been raised from the gullible, have launched a new scheme for . gaining possession of some other rich slice of the Tichborne property, and experience has shown that the speculation would have been far from desperate. His little games, however, are at an end, and he has abundance of time for reflection on the mutual relations of men with money and men with brains, and may wisely ponder the accidents that happen when @ man with a fair proportion of brains has not enough to know exactly how to use what he has, It is now proposed in England to pursue this subject further, and to follow up the triumph over the central figure in the story by prosecuting for conspiyacy some of the persons who helped him in his long battle STM. at arith the law. Although the Tichborne estates are quite safe from this odd adventurer there are some other estates in England whose value will be the greater for the negative guarantee which may make it dangerous to help on with one’s funds the speculation to defraud a right- ful heir by legal processes. This case isa good post on which to naila notice to sharp- ers, and justice in England is not likely to miss so admirable an opportunity to deliver a stroke in the interest of property. In tho interest of public justice, pure and simple, moreover, it seems wise to pursue those sup- porters, but for whom the punishment of the individual rogue would have been far easier; who alone made it possible for the case to swell to the wonderful dimensions it assumed; who enabled a shrewd, unscrupulous | confidence man to defy for years the justice of a whole nation; and who did all this, not con- scientiously, nor mistakenly, nor in sympathy, | a8 was pretended, with victim of oppression, but absolutely from the speculative point of view; who sustained the case because they had invested in it; who cared not a button for | right or wrong, but who had put their money | in an undertaking to capture by plausible pretexts a vast property, looking only for a | profitable return. Such conduct must be made dangerous. Properly governed States must notify their citizens that there is limit to the range of speculation, and the English | government is apparently of opinion that it cannot more effectively give this notice than | by criminally pursuing men who have ob- tained a meretricious fame by violating this principle. That there was a Tichborne conspiracy It probably first assumed definite shape in Australia. To that land of the loose life natural to new countries, | and swarming with eager schemers, prepared to take every chance for fortune, the English papers regularly brought an advertisement for a lost heir. In order to make the matter | easier for anybody disposed to undertake the | return of this heir he was described somewhat | minutely, and the fact was dwelt upon that he had sailed for Australia, Any bereaved | mother announcing sufficiently to the world | in this way that she has lost her son, and that | he is the heir to enormous estates, is sure to | find him sooner or later, or to find some one just as good if ‘‘the gulfs have washed him down.’’ Some sharp Australian solicitors | addressed the bereaved parent, and drew from | her many letters eking out the inadequate in- | formation of the advertisements. In time they became by this means well acquainted with | the story earching the country, perhaps in | good faith, and failing to find the heir, they at least found sowe one who filled the bill in | many points, and whose resemblance to the | real Tichborne has proved sufficient to puzzle many honest people. He was dissimilar as to rotundity, but not otherwise, and it is note- worthy that none of the Australian descrip- | tions touches the point of the slight figure of | the missing man, With aman who physically met all the conditions known to them the Australian projectors seem to have proceeded with system to prepare him intellectually, and Orton’s knowledge of Tichborne facts shows | at every step of the way the unmistakable in- dications of cramming. He knew nearly all those external facts that inquiry could com- mand snd industry acquire; but aside from thar line he was lost. He knewa great deal, enough to startle people who did not reflect that for years shrewd men had made it a study to prepare him in this respect, and yet he was ignorant of points apparently trivial, the lit- tle domestic detail, the still life of the picture, with which the real man was assuredly familiar, and could never have forgotten. Stronger resemblances than thats | of Orton to Tichborne as to face—which was | yet sufficient to impose upon some dull | people—are seen every day in every great | city; but the most was made of it by the | adroit projectors of the great attempt. With | all that could be done in Anstralia they seem to have felt that the case needed on the pre- tender’s part some personal acquaintance with the scenes in which Tichborne’s life was passed, and hence upon his arrival in England, | Orton went surreptitiously to see the places as that Lady Tichborne recognized the claimant | a6 her son helped his case wonderfully, pecu- | liar as were the circumstances under which the man from Wagga Wagga received a visit from the lady he claimed as a mother. Exactly what ramifications the conspiracy | had in England may never be known ; but it became necessary to raise money in large sums to continue the battle, and the money | was raised, and men of the class who fur- | mished tho funds in this case do not part before rushing to the arms of ‘his friends,” | to which his knowledge was likely to be well | sifted in the courts. The remarkable fact | with their money lightly. If the investiga- all these details it will be the most wonderful social romance of our times. Perhaps the most remarkable feature in the | Tichborne case is the exposure it has made of the inadequacy for practical occasions of the cumbrous system of English law and of its ab- solute unfitness for any other purpose than to meke the fortunes of the lawyers, Orton has shown that property in England, which the Jaw is more especially contrived to protect, is a8 uruch at the mercy of a bold adventurer as ever # traveller's purse was at the mercy of highwayman. It has costthe Tichborne fam- ily well nigh half a million dollars to save their property from the grasp of this man, and of course there is no opportunity to re- cover the money so spent. If a system of jerisprudence will permit a fellow who starts up like » mushroom in some obscure corner to compel property owners to stand on their defence to that extent, the proprietors of smaller estates must surrender at once under pain of finding themselves, after the loss of their property, overwhelmed with debt. And of Magna Charta, which says that justice shall not be sold, they still prate in England as if it had some vitality. Orton fought English justice at bay through two remarkable trials and on one actually made a drawn battle, and this, it is evidently appreciated, is a very dangerous example ; and, to deter others from working the fruitful field it indicates, an example must be made in the punishment of all who aided, even though to establish complicity may occupy the courts another year and delay ordinary proceedings for that length of time. If the Judge be con- demned when the guilty are acquitted, that jurisprudence should bo equally condemned “which, to punish one rogue or one set of rogues, must deny justice to a whole nation for upwards of a year. Mr. Wood on the National Finances. Yesterday, the House of Representatives having met for debate on the tax bills, Mr. Fernando Wood delivered a long and critical speech on the financial condition and policy of the government. It was, in the main, a reply to Mr. Dawes, but covered more ground than the statement of the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and closed with fifteen specific charges against the ad- ministration, some of which were well founded and others based only on the partisanship of an ambitious democratic leader. Mr. Wood argued, as we have repeatedly asserted, that the proper way to relieve the embarrassment of the Treasury Department is to reduce ex- penditures, and not either to borrow money or increase taxation. The estimates of ex- penditures for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1875, as submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, amounted to three hundred and nineteen million dollars. Mr. Wood says this sum is at least fifty or sixty millions too much, and should be reduced to two hundred and fifty million dollars. Allowing a hundred millions for interest on the debt and thirty millions for pensions there would be left a hundred and twenty millions for the ordinary and current expenses of the different departments of government. This is over fifty millions more than the total expen- ditures immediately before the war. The growth of the country and necessary business of the government do not call for such addi- tional sum. Apart from the debt interest and pensions there is really no expenditure result- ing from the war and but little more is abso- lutely needed than in 1860, But admitting a liberal margin for increase of population and business in the several departments a hundred and twenty millions should be ample. The government ought not to require more than two hundred and fifty millions. Mr. Wood said properly that the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means had not proposed any definite and practical plan to meet the exigencies of the case. There has been a great deal of taik about retrenchment, so asto make the expenditures meet the in- come without increasing taxes or adding to the debt, and some spasmodic efforts have been made to pare down expenses in certain departments to the amount of twenty millions orso; but no thorough and comprehensive plan has been proposed. The whole ma- chinery of government remains on the war basis of cost, and, difficult as it may be to bring Congress and the administration to economical peace ideas and practice, this | ought to be done to save the country from a state of bankruptcy and corruption. Sir Garnet Wolseley and the Ashan« tees. For some days past our news from Ashantee and the headquarters of the British army has been strangely confused and contradic- tory. The truth seems at last to have been reached. An official despatch has been re- ceived in London, at the War Office, from Sir Garnet Wolseley, dated the 7th of last month, announcing the capture and destruction by fire of the Ashantce capital, the flight of the King and the homeward march of the British troops. The despatch also announces that ‘messengers had just arrived requesting a treaty of peace.” Sir Garnet concludes by saying that he intends to remain, with the native troops, until the 13th or 14th, to allow time for negotiations. The destruction of Coo- massie by fire is suggestive, if not of severe fighting, at least of s terrible revenge, and seems to corroborate the report of yesterday, that the original overtures for peace were “treacherous and part of a plot intended to lure the army to destruction.” Weare nolonger in doubt as to the success of the expedition. It’ | is strange, however, that the British troops should have been allowed to go coastwards, and before a treaty of peace was signed. All this will, no doubt, be fully explained by and by. Meanwhile, we can see but little glory resulting from this expedition, either to Sir Garnet Wolseley or to the British govern- ment. Compared with the Magdala affair, which, after all, was only a military exploit, this thing of Coomassie is poor, and not a lit- tle contemptible. It might have been better { managed and it might have led to grander re- | sults, Creaninc THE StreeTs.—In ten years the expenditure for cleaning the streets of the city has swelled from $13,500 to $1,000,000. At the same rate of increase it would amount in 1884 to upwards of $70,000,000; and there is no reason for the past increase that is not equally good for the continued increase in the tion of the conspiracy uncovers the history in | moment that it costs to clean the streets what the city is made to pay—nor even that it would cost that if the streets were actually cleaned and kept clean, From $400,000 to $500,000 of the money actually spent goes surreptitiously into the pockets of thrifty city magnates, upon whom the fate of Tweed has had no other effect than to put them on their guard as to the necessity of stealing carefully. Brightening Skies. March comes angrily, but we have hopes that her anger will not live long, that it will soon pass into springtime and flowers. We have hada hard winter, beginning with the | shadow of the panic, and the still more terri- ble spectre of the famine. The sudden con- vulsions of business, the shrinking of values, the distrust that came upon capital and indus- try and the failure of so many large business houses and enterprises at the beginning of winter brought famine to thousands of homes where thrift had always dwelt, and, with thrift, comfort and peace. But for the resolution and promptitude of our humane citizens, by their churches, their societies, their mission- ary institutions, their asylums for the poor and houses of refuge and industry, there is no knowing how widely spread the calamity might have become. But, thanks to that silent and cheerful spirit of benevolence which underlies the American character, the danger has been averted and destroyed. With the lifting of this cloud other clouds even more ominous rise and pass away. Busi- ness, which has been dormant if not dead, during this hard winter, shows signs of new lif. A glance at our columns this morning will show what, in the language of the Wash- ington weather sages, would be ‘clearing skies, with probabilities of fair'wéather.” The advertising columns of the Hxnarp present the business probabilities as accurately as the signal officers in Washington prophesy the weather. Over fifty-eight columns of adver- tisements compel us to issue a quadruple sheet, and, from the indications, we shall soon be compelled to issue quadruple and perhaps quintuple sheets on days through the week. This duty was partly imposed upon us last spring, and we shall probably have it this year at even an earlier period. The business pulse of the country shows more and more activity; healthy currents of life find their way into the channels and arteries of the whole busi- ness system. It may not be without interest to our readers to know that we have, in re- sponse to the law of progress and growth which is as binding upon the Henaup now as at any time in its history, made arrangements to meet any demand upon our business. Our quadruple paper this morning is largely printed upon a press which issues the whole paper in a single sheet—the largest sized press in America, and perhaps in the world. The result is that the Herarp reaches the reader as complete asa printed book or pamphlet, and every purchaser knows he has the whole paper, with no “missing” inside or outside sheets. New branches of business present renewed activity. In real estate, especially, there are abundant signs of progress and prosperity. New York keeps on in her imperial career, un- checked by storm or wave. There may be a shock now and then, ao gale or a hurricane, o consequent shorten- ing of sail and pausing in her career; but the old ship only moves on and on to the haven of her splendid destiny. Let us have rapid transit, and the imagination will not easily comprehend that destiny. The New York of to-day will only be a section of the magnificent metropolis of the future, as the New York of the last generation was but a section of the present metropolis. Let us have the means of going from the Heratp office as far as Yonkers or New Rochelle in a half hour, and all that beautiful and picturesque West- chester, with its rivers and hills and islands, and its memories of our Revolutionary past, will become a part of the great city, and our Central Park will be as much our city contre as Hyde Park is the centre of London. The Dewth of Cespedes. Treachery delivered the Cuban leader to the vengeance of his enemies. A wretched negro prisoner, in order to save his own life, led the Spanish troops to the place of concealment of the ex-President. Unable to escape, Ces- pedes faced his pursuers and fell, pistol in hand, riddled with bullets. Such a death became his life ond it cannot but in- crease the sympathy felt with the Cuban cause. Except the satisfaction of their ven- geance, the death of Cespedes will bring no advantage to the Spaniards. The insurrec- tion does not rest on the courage or patriotism of any leader, but draws its strength from the intense hatred of the Cuban people to Spanish rule. Asin the case of Agramonte, the death of Cespedes may arouse the Cubans to new efforts for vengeance and bring new recruits to the insurgent standard. The Spanish authorities imagined that with the death of Agramonte and Cespedes the struggle would come to an end, but we venture to predict that the course of the war will not be influenced in the least, though both these gallant men have passed away. This year has been one of varied triumph and ill fortune to the fighting Cubans. They have lost many bold and noble spirits, but this is partly due to the new and bolder tactics they have adopted. On the other hand, they have won signal victories and forced the Spanish government to admit the formidable character of the insurrection. The death of Cespedes, owing to his deposi- tion from power, has lost its political significance, but there will be felt a general | regret that so grand a character has been swept from the world’s stage. It will be some consolation to his sorrowing family to know that his mission was done, and that Cuba must ever esteem him among the noblest and bravest of her children. Practicat, Taoveuts on Current Torics.— The difficulty of getting our religious cor- respondents to deal with current topics and phases of moral and religious thought, aside from abstruse subjects and stereotyped doc- trines and dogmas, has been frequently forced | upon us. And the greater difficulty of enlist- ing the best minds and the best thoughts in this direction has also been too painfully apparent in the past. But our readers must have noticed, for a couple of Sundays, com- munications in the Heranp signed “Climax,” of more than ordinary thought and treatment of the subjects handled. We publish to-day seme degree. No one, of course, bebieyga fox alanother from tho same pen om a apbicct of Fao | should remember that, though it hag increased permanent as weli as passing interest to Chris- tians everywhere—religious revivals. The strictures which our correspondent makes on the conduct of revivals are, to our own experi- ence, too well merited to be objected to, and our Methodist friends who may feel particulorly aggrieved by them can remove the cduses which have called them forth. Climax” furnishes them, also, with some excellent sug- gestions for the conduct of future revival meetings. To-Day’s Pulpit Topics. The topic that is likely to produce the greatest degree of friction in the religious community is that announced by Dr. Fulton, of Brooklyn, as his morning theome—‘‘Infant Baptism a Hindrance to Christian Union.” The Doctor, it is well known, is an ultra close communionist, ready at all times to take up arms in defence of his denominational princi- ples or prejudices, The topic chosen by him to-day indicates his readiness to accept all the odds against him on believers’ baptism as a Prerequisite to interchurch communion. It is substantially a challenge to Pedobaptists to meet the issue and defend infant baptism if they can. We shall await with interest his onset on the ranks of the enemy. Not so controversial, though indicating pug- nacity, is the topio chosen by Rev. Mr. Cor- bit, of Brooklyn, for his pulpit consideration this morning, ‘Life's Battle’ is evi- a. bottle ia which we org all OF less “eiffaged. ‘If Mr. Corbit can give us from his half-century experience some instructions in ‘spiritualtactics we may be able in life’s battle to corte. off victo- rious. This should be his aif, And while he talks, also, about curiosity, he the sorrow'and woe of humanity, it has also very materially added to our blessings and benefits. We do not know any better place for the Church to be than just where it is—in the world—provided, however, that the dividing line between both is kept steadily prominent, Mr. Sweetser has promised to tell us some things about the Church and the World. And as one of the most important constituent ele- ments in either or both is children, Mr. Pull- man will tell us how we should deal with chil- dren. Wo must presume he has a large do- mestic experience with his subject, which he will publish for the benefit of others less favored than he, There are many persons who think this is the most joyous age of the world; that there are to-day more elements existing among men conducive to happiness than ever existed be- fore. They are, doubtless, right. But every bright cloud has also a dark side. Every painting must have its shading, and so this lithesome, happy, joyous age has its periods of sadness too. Dr. Porteous, of London, whose brief experience here and more ex- tended experience in England must have made him familiar with his subject, will tell his Brooklyn friendssomething about the ‘Sadness of the Age.” And as weall need the sympathetic word or the friendly help of some one in our hours of sadness, Mr. Hoyt will tell us how we can make Christ our friend, and take Him with us in all our walks in this life and be- yond, where sadness and sorrow cannot over- take us. We commend these topics to-day to our readers for their consideration and reflec- tion. Soup Kitchens. The unusual severity of the storm has post- poned the spring; and although we may feel that the stress of the winter is over, still there is abundant work for those who mean to do their part towards alleviating the condition of the poor. We believe when the history of the efforts and achievements of private charity is written it will show that New York has been magnificent in her charity, and that good deeds have been done by thousands, with abundant and happy results. The operations of the soup kitchens now under the management of Messrs. Delmonico have been most successful. These kitchens are established in thirteen sections of the city, as follows: — Wise precinct, No. 827 Water street, Captain man, Sixth precinct, No. 110 Centre street, Captain Kennedy. Seventh precinct, No. 79 East Broadway, Captain ount. Eighth precinct, No. 114 Wooster street, Captain Williams. Eleventh precinct, No. 285 Second avenue, Captain Murphy. ‘Thirteenth precinct, No. 224 Delancey street, Captain Hedden. Fourteenth precinct, No. 53 Spring street, Captain Clinchy. i Kighteenth precinct, No. 302 avenue A, Captain ‘ynan, Nineteenth precinct, Second avenue, corner of Sixty-third street, Captain Gunner. Twentieth precinct, No. 511 West Twenty-ninth street, Captain Mc lwain. Twenty-first preciuct, No, 218 East Thirty-fourth street, Captain Allaire, TWwepty-second precinct, Tenth avenue, between ire el and Sixty-third streets, Captain Kil- lea. Twenty-ninth precinct, Thirty-first street, near Seventh avenue, Captain McCullogh. These soup kitchens, it will be seen, only embrace those sections of the city where want existed without means for supplying the want, In the Third, Fifth and Twenty-seventh pre- cincts, for instance, there are institutions already established. In some precincts, like the First, the efforts of Messrs. Delmonico to establish kitchens have failed because of the apathy or indolence of the police captains. A formal application to the Captain of the First precinct received no attention. This circum- stance is worthy of being examined by the Police Board. Generally speaking, Messrs. Delmonico have been well served by the captains of police. Officers of humanity and ability like Captain Kennedy, of the Sixth precinct, and Captains Murphy, Mount, Ulman and Killilea deserve the highest praise for their energy in supporting the movement. The result is that eighteen ranges are now in work- ing order, and two thousand five hundred gal- lons of soup are furnished daily. This will continue until the winter is over, and, in union with the efforts of other associations and institutious, already abundantly noticed in our columns, the result will be comfort and health, and life, perhaps, to hundreds of the worthy poor. We may say, also, that Messrs, | Delmonico have shown the utmost energy and liberality in organizing these kitchens. They show what the resources of a vast business can accomplish when anything is to be promptly and thoroughly done. The question as to whether the providing of soup and other food for the poor is really a relief to the needy or an encouragement of mendicancy has been a great deal discussed. We entirely agree with those who feel that the promiscuous distribution of any charity isa tomvtation to idleness and, we should be glad, to see some eystem perfected that will make tt unnecessary, But we bavo had an cage this winter, just o3 in Iroland in 1848, or in India at the present time. Nothing would be more absurd, for instance, than for the British Cabinet to discuss the wisdom of send- ing rice to India, or the soundness of the political economy of eraploying Hindoo coolies of high caste to work upon roads, There is not a political economist in the kingdom who would approve of these things as measures of administration. Yet every Englishman knows they must be done as matters of life and death. So in New York. We were in presence of a danger os painful, if not so vast, as the famine, and our duty was notto discuss charity asa system of public policy, but to provide imme- diate food for the starving. When the famine in India is over the statesmen may devise means to prevent its recurrence. Now that our distress is over, let us devise means to prevent the recurrence of the suffer. ing that came with the winter. It is only by studying what has been done thus far that we can prepare ourselves for any similar emer- gency should it unhappily arise in tho future. Voices of the Religious Press. The Christian Union treats in a humorous and sarcastic manner ‘Our’ Centennial, and then gravely passes to the consideration of “The Severity of Christ,” in whom it recog- nizes the motherhood as well as the fatherhood ‘of God. Christ is the manifestation of the Divine nature. That nature, in its inmost essence, in its infinite height and depth, is love, And yet the Union finds in the sayings of Christ evidences of Divine severity, which are brought out when injury or insult is offered Tho Methodist has an editorial SRStandagd Theology,” intended to be a comment wpéi a’ general article on this suljject which, it says, ‘will be found on another page.” Thearticle and the page are both missing from our copy of the paper, and we cannot, therefore, judge of its sprightliness or its merits. We have, however, a well considered and well written editorial on the ‘God in the constitution’ amendment, in which the editor sees no real good to be attained from it. It will not make us as a nation a particle more religious. Such verbal recognitions of God by the sovereigns and the laws of England, France, Spain and Bussia have not made those nations or peoples religious, and we are to-day a Christian people without any such constitutional recognition. The Evangelist calls attention to the con~ solidation of the several boards of the Pres- byterian Church into four departments, whereby the expenses are lessened and the efficiency of those institutions is promoted. It also moralizes on the storm signal that floats from the building on Broadway and Cedar street. How many wrecks of virtue there are, how many characters lost, how many souls ruined because the moral storm signal was not thrown out to their vision! In this great city of a million of souls what tragediea of woe are enacted every day and every hour! The only religious editorial in the columns of the Christian Advocale, aside from its mer- ited eulogy of the late Rev. Emile F. Cook, is devoted to an elucidation of the proposition that the powerful efforts put forth at Wash- ington to have the Indian Bureau transferred from the Interior to the War Department are due in part to the machinations of Jesuit priests, who, by this transfer, hope to gain control of the Indian service. If there be any real danger in this direction we ‘don’t see it.” Itis probably nearer the truth to say that an army ‘‘ring’’ want the transfer made for the purposes of plunder than to assign the reason the Advocate does. The Freeman's Journal devotes # leader to this, the month of St. Joseph, whose devotion has been wonderfully propagated in these lat- ter times. The Tablet gives its editorial atten- tion to the same subject. St. Joseph is the chosen patron of the Catholic Church. The Tablet, therefore, calls upon its people to pray to the good'saint for his interposition in be- half of the Church now persecuted and fox the Pope and all faithful Catholics now un. dergoing persecution and tribulation for the holy cause of religion. The Jewish Times draws a comparison between English and American Judaism, in which the former comes out second best, clinging, as it does in this enlightened age, ta all the old ceremonies and rites derived from tradition, as if they were of Divine origin, | while the latter makes little or no account of | them, Per contra, the Jewish Messenger again, as usual, lifts its warning voice in favor of “Religious Consistency” and against those theories and practices in Judaism which are not strictly orthodox, especially laxity in doc- trines and religious instruction of the young. The Hebrew Leader draws a parallel between two great thinkers—Strauss, whose ‘Life of Jesus’ created such a sensation at the time of its publication, and the great Jewish phi- losopher, Maimonides, whose masterwork, the “‘Moreb Nebuchim,’’ created as great a sensa- tion about the beginning of the thirteenth century. |e i Church. : PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Colonel Moseby has consented torun for Con- gress, Senator Boutweli is convalescent and walked ous to-day. State Senator Lynde, of Herkimer, is at Bar- num’s Hotel Judge Benjamin R. Curtis, of Boston, is at the Brevoort House. Wendell Phillips is reported to have cleared by his lectures over $100,000, Gencral W. F. Bartlett, of Massachusetts, is stay~ ing at the New York Hotel. Rev. Robert Laird Collier, of Chicago, has arrived at the Union Square Hotel. Captain William Jacobsen, of the British Army, has quarters at St. Nicholas Hotel. Major W. L. Elliott, United States Army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House. State Senator John H. Selkreg, of Ithaca, ts registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Congressman Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, ts still confined to his bed andis ina very feevle condition. Ex-Governor H. D. Cooke says Jay intends to pay every dollar of his indebtedness, if his assets are not sacrificed. Rev. Mr. Meekham, of Green Bay, says that it is hia belief that most of the editorial fraternity will eventually be saved, Colonel Thomas A, Scott, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Henry L. Dawes, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, arrived last evening atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Robert 0. Schenck, United States Minis- ter to England, arrived from Europe in the steam- ship Abyssinia yesterday, and is now at the Rre~ voor, Aiguae. L