The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx ‘Hana. 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. .No. 69 Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—OVER THE PLAINS, and VARIETY ENTER- VAINMLNT, Begins at 8 P.M. ;'closes at ll P.M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 585 Broadway,—VARIETY ENIERIAINMENT, at 745 2. M.; closes at 1050 P.M, GARDEN, and Houston streets —DAVY loses at lu:s0 P.M. Mr. Frank NIBLO’ Broadway, hetween Pri CROCKETT, at 8 P, M. Mayo. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue Boutle—LA FILLE DE M. ‘ closes at 10245 P.M. French DAME ANGOT, at 8 arie Aimee. » MGy WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth street —NIMB BP. M.: closes at 4:30 P. BERTHA, MACHINE GIRL, at 8 FIFTH AVE. 2 THEATRE, Twenty-cighth sireet and Broadway.—CLLARITY, at P, MM. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr, Clark, Miss Ada Dyas, ACADE Fourteenth street. —Ber CONCERT, ats P.M. and Mile, Torriant ses at P.M. Mme. Nilsson poul and Wienawsk. A HOUSE, y street. HUMPTY TY ENTERTAIN. 1045 P.M, Mr. OMIQTR, ¥ ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 THEATRE, ird street.—HENRY VTIIT., at M. Mme. Fanny Janauschek. BOOTH’ Sixth avenue and Twe 7:45 P.M. ; closes at BROOK Washington street, Brow M.j closes ati P.M. Mrs. WALLAC Thirteent M. , closes at 11 P.M, is. ATRE, iM& DE FEU, at SP, . B. Booth. RE, HETR-A Broadway and AT-L ilbert, M: 8P. Mr. John @ and Ev Sand AINMENT, . | closes at 10: GERMANIA THEA Fourteenth stree BUNDUS, ats P. M. TRE, place. -LUMPACIVAGA- 1PM, z THEATRE, DONALD MCKAY, 4 Md. ; closes ai 11 P. M, 1d Byron. ee TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery —VARIETY BNTERTAINMENT, at 8 P, M. ,closesatliP, M. Matinee at2 P. M. Oy , BRYANTS OPERA Hou y-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEG Ne STRELSY, &c., at 5 P. M.; closes at lu Y. M. asian COLO ry, corner of 1) MOONLIGHT, atl P.M. M.j closes at ld P.M TRIPLE 8 New York, Tuesday, March 10, 1874, M. y-lith street.—PARIS BY loses at 5 P. M.; same at7 P. Broadway, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear or partly | doudy. Tee New Hawesume Execrion.—This | event occurs to-day. Notwithstanding the positively republican character of the State, and the fact that a local and occasional issue operates in favor of the republicans, there is enough uncertainty to give interest to the contest, as shown by onr letter elsewhere. Senezt Creantvc.—The street cleaning in- vestigation was continued yesterday, but presented few facts of public interest beyond the charges of the filling in of lots belonging to Mr. Charlick and General Duryee without adequate payment for the service. Tue How. Jonn M. Francis, recently United States Minister at the Court of Athens, will speak to-night on “Greece As It Is,’’ before the American Geographical Society, in the hall of the Historical Society. A United States Minister with tHe ability and journalistic ex- perience of Mr. Francis could not handle such a theme otherwise than in an entertain. ing manner. A Wimow’'s Rent Fusp.—Mr. Francis P. Furnald, a merchant of this city, sends usa check for five hundred dollars, to be handed over to St. John’s Guild, and to be employed by that excellent charity in paying the rent of poor widows. Mr. Furnald evidently hopes that the sum he has thus given may become the nucleus of a considerable fund to be de- voted to the same purpose; and his idea indi- cates so much thoughtfulness, and so true a perception of the right direction of charity, that we donot doubt it will commend itself to the wealthy and benevolent. With the present | provision made for feeding the hungry it would seem scarcely possible that there could remain any severe distress of that nature un- | relieved; but there are hundreds of poor wo- men, with or without little children, who are penniless in the great city and likely at any moment to be turned into the street; and pro- vision to guard against suffering from such a | cause is timely and admirable. Sm Garner WoLszLeY anv rue Burnine oF Coomasstz.—Despatches have been received at the War Office in London from Sir Gar- net Wolseley. The General is evidently con- cerned as to the nature of the reception which he may receive on his return home. The ex- pedition, as he knows, was never in general favor; the war, successful though it has been, has brought no glory to British arms, and the destruction of Coomassie is sugges- tive of cruelty which it will be difficult to justify or explain away. The change of Min- istry in England cannot but have the effect of increasing Sir Garnet's anxiety. It is not, therefore, unnatural for him in the circum. stances to remove what he may consider false impressions. Everything, he says, was done to effect a peaceable solution of the campaign. The King’s palace was not touched till the last hour ; and the troops left Coomassie with- | out one article of plander. Of the thirty-four officers first sent out to organize the expedi- | tion four have been killed and seven are wounded. The rainy season has commenced | the streams and marshes are swollen and the | homeward march of the troops is being con- ducted under great difficulties, ‘This is a doleful conclusion to a rather unnecessary and pomewhat inglosious war, Opera |" rere =“ | Political Affairs in Englan@—The New Liberal Leader. The new Ministry slowly takes shape. Mr. Disraeli may be said to have brooded over his Cabinet with an almost Oriental passiveness. The new men have gone into power, and ro- bust tories believe that the old times are coming back to merry England. Somehow Mr. Disraeli is about to win the honors of Waterloo times, and England will again assert herself as a Power that rules the land as well as the sea. We can fancy the odd thoughts that move the new Prime Minister as he hears, same reasons which threaten the death of our own republican party. Its work was done. Mr. Gladstone had gone as far as he dared— further, perhaps, than he wished—in new ways, and he would go no further. The nat- ural leader of the party is Mr. Forster, next to } Mr. Gladstone the ablest man in the last Min- istry. But Mr. Forster is more radical than his associates, and his course on many ques- tions, more particularly upon the Education act, offended some sections of the liberal party. So the Marquis of Hartington, who represents nothing but rank and expediency, under the rush and roar of present enthusi- asm, the exuberant hopes of his followers, He is to bring back the bloody and expensive glo- ries of Marlborough and Chatham and the Younger Pitt, He is to redeem England’s bankrupt honor. He will prevent Russia’s march into Asia, and narrow Germany into } more convenient limits. More than all, he will save the Church and Throne and the sacred nobility. He will never be jdeceived as Mr. Gladstone was | deceived at Geneva. His supporters say that Mr. Gladstone did nothing that was more to | be regretted than the Geneva arbitration. And as we may have some curiosity to know | what Mr. Disraeli would do under similar circumstances it is interesting to read what | one of his able supporters says:—‘“It always was and still is utterly incredible to us that ‘the Americans would really have gone to war it they had been told in a simple and dignified way that we were quite willing ‘to submit to arbitration on the basis of | the existing international law, or to discuss the propriety of altering it for the future; but that we would not pay blackmail to them for doing what we had a right to do because they happened to suffer by it’’ If Mr. Disraeli means to conduct foreign affairs upon the theory that he can with impunity burn the ships of a friendly nation under the plea of *neutrality,” and then have international law ‘so amended that his own ships will be safe | from the enterprises of neutral pirates, we shall have little hopes of the peace of‘ Europe. It may be a relief to us to learn that | | there is no idea of any demand upon America | to annul the results of the arbitration. ‘‘For,’’ | continues the same authority, “the thing is | done and cannot be altered. The way in | which it is profitable to the conservatives is | that they find the questions between England and America practically settled, and that | they have had the opportunity of see- {ing in a very strong light the | true nature of the feelings of the English | people upon the way in which such questions | ought to be handled if they should unhappily | arise.”” We can only add that if such ques- | tions should ‘unhappily arise’’ in the future, | England—whether under Mr. Disraeli not—will also have the ‘‘opportunity of see- ing in a very strong light”’ the feelings of the American people, American merchantmen will never again be burned by Clyde-built pirates without something more than a remon- strance from us. Our anticipations that Mr. Gladstone would decline the leadership of the liberal party | are confirmed by our London corre- spondence this morning, as well as by a cable telegram printed yesterday, which quoted from the London Observer. Accord- | ing to the Observer, which is a semi-official | authority, at a meeting of the members of | | the Ministry Mr. Gladstone formally expressed | his purpose of retiring from the leadership of | the party. It is further said that the Marquis | of Hartington was designated as the proper person to succeed Mr. Gladstone, and that from this time forward he will be the leader of the opposition to Mr. Disraeli, and conse- quently Prime Minister should ever the liberal party return to power. The recent English journals are full of speculations on the subject. Some say that Mr. Gladstone means to take a long vacation and wander over Europe. Others suggest that he will | give his leisure to literary pursuits. There is | a story in the London Times of the reception | given to the old and new Cabinets when they | went to Windsor to wait upon the Queen. | Mr. Gladstone did not accompany his col- | leagues, having taken leave of Her Majesty | the day before, But as Mr. Lowe and other | Ministers passed out of the Windsor station | or | | | in abeyance, the Marquis of Hartington will | | it would be dispelled by reading the letter ad- ; | Russell, which we print elsewhere. | opposes ‘‘is incompatible with the freedom goes to the front, and will do what he can to reorganize the cruelly shattered ranks of the liberal party. At the same time his appoint- ment will only be an expedient. The true liberals of England can never march to victory under the Marquis of Hartington or any leader who represents little more than the influence of an ancient house. It is too late, in the present uneasy and turbulent condition of English public sentiment, for any living party to arise out ‘of the dry bones of the old whigs. Liberalism in the | future will embrace new and burning ques- tions now growing into life—questions affecting the foundations of English society and government. For the pres- ent Mr. Disraeli, with his stolid and dis- ciplined majority, may postpone these ques- tions; but he cannot destroy them. The season of reposo enforced upon the liberals will give them new strength. There will be thought, discussion, inquiry. True liberals will educate public opinion and compel the discussion of these grave issues, When . the time comes to assert them a new man will come to the front. It may be Mr. Forster, but more likely one the fierceness of whose radi- calism will make Mr. Forster » pale conserva- tive. Until that time, and while liberalism is | be a safe and respectable leader—admirable | while there is peace, but with no quality for | war, Emperer William to Earl Russell. If any one doubted the sincerity of the German campaign against the Roman Church dressed by the Emperor of Germany to Earl | At the | meeting in London to support the German | policy Earl Russell was only prevented by his | health from presiding. ‘The resolutions of the | meeting were sent to the Emperor by Earl Russell, accompanied by a letter of friendly courtesy. This the Emperor acknowledges, and alludes to his present contest with Rome as in some sense an inheritance. He is fight- ing a battle which has been fought by his | people for centuries, and the power which he and welfare of mnations;’? and, if vic- torious, would imperil, in other nations than Germany, ‘liberty of conscience and the authority of the law.” This | battle he means to wage in a spirit of ‘evangelical forbearance;’’ and as for his proposed laws, which we printed in | full recently ss communicated to our corre- spondent in Berlin by Prince Bismarck, they simply give Prussia guarantees possessed by other countries, and are in no way incompatible with the free exercise of the Roman religion. Furthermore, he rejoices that he has in this struggle the sympathies of the people of Eng- land, “to whom,” he adds, “my people and my royal house are bound by the remem- brance of many a past and honorable struggle maintained in common since the days of William of Orange.’’ This is an able, artful, resolute letter— written to aff-ct the Protestant public opinion of England. Nor will the appeal be made in vain. But it is to be regretted that Germany, in entering upon her new career of union and nationality, should be compelled to appeal for aid to the prejudices of any nation or any religion. It is not a letter breathing the spirit of the nineteenth century. It reads more like Luther the monk than Bismarck the statesman. Rapid Transit—Is There Any Hope? Within six miles of the heart of our city lie the open fields. Cramped in one end of our narrow island, the people pay for the rent of | on their way to the Castle they were hooted, | | while Mr. Disracli and his colleagues were | | received with great cheers. One of the jour- nals complains of this as a ‘democratic’ or | | “American’’ proceeding. We may venture to | | say that no American crowd would assemble | | to jeer a fallen Minister. The London Times | | points it out as an evidence of the mutability | | of human fame, and, recalling the enthusiasm surrounding Mr. Gladstone six years ago, calls | | upon Mr. Disraeli to be modest in his hour of | triumph. So Gladstone passes away and a new leader reigns in his stead. This honor seems to devolve upon Spencer Compton Cavendish, | Marquis of Hartington, the eldest son of the | | Duke of Devonshire and heir to that venerable | and illustrious title. The house of Cavendish goes back to the time of Richard IL, and is one, of the leading whig houses who have had so much power in English polities for the past century. The present Duke has not taken an active part in politics, and is rather more celebrated as a leader in society than as a dominant influence in public affairs. His | son, the Marquis, is now in the forty-first year of his age, and has been in public life since | 1857, when, byyhis family influence, he was | | returned to tlfe House of Commons from | Lancashire. He visited America during our civil war, and when he returned to England in 1863 was made Lord of the Admiralty, and, | subsequently, Under Secretary of War. Lord | Russell made him Secretary of War, and | | during the administration of Mr. Gladstone | he was Postmaster General and Secretary | for Ireland. His family influence gave him a | | start in public life, but in dealing with affairs | he has shown tact, energy and political skill, | He is a pleasant speaker and has labored as- siduously to cultivate the liberal party. He will hold the same position in the party that Lord John Russell held so long—a professed | liberal, sustained by the power of a great and | ruling house. | | away lies the comparative solitude of the miserable tenements sums greater than are paid in any other city in the world for similar accommodation; and at an easy distance country roads, the woodland and the open meadow—only the little distance is practically impassable for want of means of speedy and comfortable transit. In view of such a fact it is time we became modest and ceased to rant about our progressive character. There never was any intelligent people so slow to help themselves as we are on this point, Never did a people sit down so patiently and so tamely to quiet endurance of the evils inflicted by corrupt government and scheming speculators, who stand in the way of preventing all remedy until the remedy shall take the shape of grist to their mills. One can make the circuit of the city of London by steam, and from many points within that enormous gathering of humanity can take the steam trains for north, east, south or west and half a dozen intermediate directions, and reach points ten miles out of the city in half an hour. With accommoda- tions of that sort the problem of rent isa very simple one for the people of London Thousands of little houses, laborers’ cottages, comfortably built of brick and containing four or five good rooms, are run up in all the suburbs, and rent for from a hundred to two hundred dollars a year, while more ambitious ‘villas,’ with nice gardens, still within half an hour of business centres, may be had for five hundred dollars. Not only have the laborer and the clerk on moderate pay this great opportunity for a*home, but the facili- ties thus afforded for reaching the suburbs have so taken the pressure off from the city that houses such as bring rents of five thousand dollars in this city may be had in London for one thousand dollars, Our map, given yesterday to illustrate the problem of rapid transit, exhibits a very large proportion of Westchester county lying dis- tant from the City Hall only eight to fifteen The Marquis of Hartington, as leader of the | season of repose. He is in no sense a liberal— no more than Lord Palmerston. he command the confidence of large section of the liberal party who really believe in something and | mean to make their belief manifest, The { liberal party died in England from the very liberal party, means that there is to be a | Nor can | people who are now compelled to take the that { Third avenue and Sixth and Eighth avenue miles, and an excellent strip of Long Island lying within the eight mile line, All this lat- ter might be brought within easy reach of the cars and endure a daily ride that in the course of a year would exhaust the patience and vitality of St. Simeon Stylites. But our want of ferries is os bad as our other wants in transit, and small monopolists buy us up Are we likely to have any remedy from the legislation of this winter? It seems doubtful. Our rapid transit laws may come to the same inglorious end that was always reached, for many years, by laws for the organization of new gas companies, passed to relieve the people from the tyranny of the old com- panies. ‘Those schemes were always bought out by the old companies as soon as the Legislature had adjourned, and we have no doubt that the horse car com- panies and any others similarly concerned are now already in the market prepared to buy up any scheme for rapid transit that may be- come a law. These companies make too much money ont of the present horrible system of slow transit to permit the people to get out of their clutches by any system of rapid transit. Charities in France. We observe in the French journals the re- port of a meeting of the members of the Paris press, which was held at the Palace of the Elysée under the presidency of the Duchess of Magenta, the wife of the President of the French Republic, All the chief editors of the Paris press were in attendance. The wife of the President made an address, in which she pictured the misery which winter had brought upon Paris and the extreme sufferings of the poor. So widespread had this suffering become that nothing but the most urgent measures would prevent the starvation of thousands, Already food for ten thousand persons daily was distributed, but the numbers of the needy had risen to thirty-five thonsand. To provide for this in- creased demand until May 1 it was necessary to raise forty thousand dollars, What the Duchess proposed was the establishment of cheap cooking establishments in the poorest sections of Paris, like our New York system of soup kitchens. She earnestly requested the editors present to appeal to the public for sub- scriptions to that end. To this assent was given, and the journalists present agreed to open subscription lists at once. There are some points that may occur to our readers in connection with this meeting. When a calamity threatened Paris, as it threatened New York, all journalists without distinction of party—and this, too, in a country where such distinctions are strongly marked—came together to con- sult for the common good. The first lady in France was willing to preside over their deliberations. What the Duch- ess proposed was precisely what was proposed in New York, when the poor of our city were threatened with misery and extreme suffering—namely, that food should be at once provided. We have no doubt there are wise men in France who would have hastened to say to the Duchegs that nothing could be more improper, ill-timed and calculated to encourage idleness and pauperism than furnishing soup and bread and meat to thousands of worthy and suffering people. But it was most certainly felt by all that the important point was to prevent French men, women and children from starv- ing, and that nothing could be more cruel than to discuss theories while fellow beings were crying for bread. Nor did any journal- ist propose that the money thus to be collected for the poor should be paid out in ‘‘salaries” to some French Brace or Barnard, Nothing, strange to say, was said about “salaries,” and when Brace and Barnard read these proceedings their contempt for the reckless charities of these heedless French journalists will be unbounded. In fact, the more we think of the meeting the more keenly we regret that our beloved Brace, who occa- sionally spends a part of his ‘‘salary’’ in visits to Europe, did not on this occasion find him- self in Paris. With what zeal and precipi- tate promptitude he could have visited the Elysée! With what energy and eloquence he would have denounced the proposals of the Duchess of Magenta and the senile journalists who surrounded her! With what triumph he would have demonstrated that, instead of rais- ing forty thousand dollars for soup, the true way would be to raise twice as much for “sal- ary,” and that one salaried Brace would be more useful as a charitable influence in Paris than thirty thousand poor laborers over their soup and wine, At the risk of again offending Mr. Brace and his brother Barnard, who are, as we have had occasion to remark, among the most ex- pensive paupers of the age, we honor the Duchess of Magenta and our brethren of the Paris press for their prompt humanity in pro- viding means for the relief ot the poor. This gathering of journalists to assist in the work; this sinking of all political and personal diffi- culties to sustain the first lady in the State in her humane purposes; this direct and prac- tical method of dealing with the threatened calamity—all of this earnest, self-denying union of labor and sympathy is very beautiful. We commend the example to friends at home. The Murder of Mr. Jones at South Oyster Bay. There appears to have been some light thrown on this murder through the long and careful attention of a local detective, Stephen Payne. The story is told in another part of this issue. It will be remembered that the body of Mr. Samuel J. Jones, a well-to-do citizen, without family, and living alone near South Oyster Bay, was found in a well on the prem- ises of tha deceased the 25th of last June, Peter Maloney, who was employed by Mr. Jones, happened to go to the well to get water to drink and there discovered the body. There was a great deal of mystery about the death of Mr. Jones and many specu- lations as to the murder. The Ooroner’s inquest extended over twelve sessions at inter- vals up to November, and finally the verdict was that “Samuel J. Jones came to his death by certain wounds inflicted by some person or persons unknown to the jury.’ But an anonymous letter which was written to Jack- son Jones, o full brother of the murdered man, with the view apparently to implicate a colored man by the name of Jervis, and other letters which the detective, Payne, got from Thomas W. Jones, o half brother, afforded strong suspicion that Samuel J. Jones had been murdered by his half brother, Thomas W. Jones. Tho consequence has been the arrest and incarceration of the suspected man. One of the motives assigned for the bloody deed is regarding the property of Samuel J. Jones, there being a will, it is said, in favor of the son of the accused, though that document has not been found. The ac- with the letters obtained from Thomas W. Jones by the detective. There will soon be, probably, further developments in this mys- terious case, but at present the evidence is not conclusive, Soup Houses—Operation of the System. Our reports continue to show the vast num- bers of persons relieved by the establishments maintained in various parts of the city for the practical administration of charity, and they indicate that the labor has become so sys- tematized, under the. personal supervision of benevolent citizens that the amounts given for the poor suffer very little, if any, from the depredations of habitual and persistent pau- pers. In addition to the thirteen soup houses in charge of Mr. Delmonico, of which we have previously given the location, we find the fol- lowing thirteen in operation under the direc- tion of various societies: — q Juvenile Guardian Society Sonp House, No. 14 Dey street. Howard Relief Association Soup House, No. 61 Thompson street, Fifteenth Ward Citizens’ Relief Soup House, No. 219 Mercer street. Industrial School for Women, No. 47 East Eigh- teenth street, Orcutt soup House, No. 17 Seventh street. _ Society for oe and Destitute Poor Soup House, No, 323 East Thirty-third street. Twenty-first Ward Keform Club Rellef House, No. 232 East Thirty-third street. feos and Beef House, No, 306 West Fifty-second Sparta Club Soup House, Fifty-seventh street, near third avenue, ‘twelfth Ward Citizens’ Soup House, Harlem Market, 125th street; Manhattanville, 130th street. In Brooklyn are the following: — Fourth Precinct Temporary Relief Soup House, Vanderbilt avenue, near Myrdle avenue. ‘Teath Precinct Soup House, corner Bergen and Pearsall streets, Helping Hand, Atlantic avenue, Some of these establishments feed as many as fifteen hundred persons daily, and in the greater number personal supervision is exer- cised over the recipients, and they are visited at their homes to make sure that they are not impostors. In same of the places it is found that persons of excellent character, reduced to great distress by the pressure of the times, prefer to take the nutritious dole rather than starve in solitary garrets, It is also found that many persons who, when the places were first opened, came there smelling of liquor which they had obtained with coppers begged on the street, have given up their rum, and prefer to depend upon the soup rather than trust to the precarious chance of a few coins from a passer-by. Thus the soup houses seem to tend directly to the decrease of drunk- enness and of an offensive form of mendicancy. Pens or tHE Deep.—Elsewhere will be found the story of the voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia of the steamship Pennsylvania, which encountered weather of extraordinary | severity. On February 27, at midnight, she shipped a tremendous sea, which washed away nearly everything on deck, and carried overboard the captain, first and second offi- cers and two ordinary seamen. Yor a time this event was not known to any one below, nor even to thé men at the wheel, and when it was discovered its effect on the sailors and on the third officer was so demoralizing that they | could not be induced to goon deck. Fortu- nately there was a brave officer on board as a | passenger—Mr. Brady, who will be remem- | bered as third officer of the ill-fated Atlantic— and he assumed command and brought the Pennsylvania safely into port. Respect To tHE Memory or Mr. Fruumorge.— The appropriate and well expressed proclama- tion of the President announcing the death of | ex-President Fillmore, and ordering the Ex- ecutive Mansion and departments to be draped in mourning and a suspension of offi- cial business on the day of the funeral, is a proper tribute to the memory of the deceased statesman. The action of the Senate and House of Representatives and of the Supreme Court was also in accordance with that of the President, and with the custom that has pre- vailed when any one who had filled the Executive chair died. The expressions of re- spect from all appear to be really something more than. formal; for however public men may have differed with the deceased he was universally respected asa distinguished citi- zen and good man. Cuanrry ty New York.—We have the honor to announce that during the past week the Herat has made the following payments of money intrusted to our care for disbursement during the present season of want: — To the St. John’s Guild... Yo the New York Associat the Condition of the Poor. To the New York Juvenile A; To the Rozier tamily. Miscellaneous We have also notified the representatives of the institutions here named to call at our | office and receive the sums set apart for them, as follows: — City Mission 713 73 Asylum of 713 73 St. John’s Guild 500 00 | To the Sixth ward po 2,203 00 Part of these contributions have been sent to us for special distribution, and in such cases we have followed the wishes of the donors, Other contributions we have distrib- uted in obedience to the admirable suggestion of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt—giving in eqnal parts to the City Mission, the New York Asso- ciation for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and the Asylum of St. Vincent de Paul. Exewrrion or Mortoaces From Taxation,— Mr. Woodin presented to the State Legis. lature yesterday a memorial from Mr, Silas M. Stilwell asking the enactment of a law to exempt from taxation capital secured by mortgage on real estate. The memorial will be found in our report of the proceedings in the Legislature, published to-day, and the object and scope of the measure asked may be seen there, The memorial was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Such a law would afford great relief to the farmers and to all who have to borrow money on mortgage, and would be no disadvantage to capitalists, and it would at the same time prove effective in bringing down the rate of interest on money, Considering the high and well known charac- ter of the memorialist as an experienced statesman, the Legislature, no doubt, will pay due regard to the views he has submitted. NAVAL INTELLIGENOE, WasnInoton, March 9, 1874, Lientenant James A. Chesley bas been detached from the Juniata and ordered to the Kansas. Lieutenant R. R. Ingersoll has been detached from the Kansas and ordered to the Juntata, Past Assistant Surgeon G. P, Bradley has been detached from the Naval Hospital at Washington and ordered to the Boston Navy Yard, tie NEW HAMPSHIRE, —_-+—_—_— Party Prospects snd Speculations on the Eve of the Elections—Democrats Expectant—Republicans Sanguine of a Close Victory. ConcorD, March 9, 1874, © The most significant political campaign eves known tn New Hampshire is on the eve of closing, and the results of the election to-morrow are in many respects very opaque. There have been no State issues to arouse excitement, unless the liquor question may be considered one. We have had the Prohibitory jaw in force since 1855, and its workings have been very unsatisfactory and pro- motive of much secret disturbance without an at- tendant advantage to temperance. The Tepubli- cans desire the law, effete as it is, tostand, The democrats want a stringent licens: law, Which wil be practical and eMcient im its operation. They have considerable sympathy in the requirement from republicans. The pre- hibitionists have a ticket in the fleld. They go for an intensification of the existing law, but they are not apparently dispieased with the idea of a rigid license measure. At ljeast they do not frown very severely upon the democracy. PARTY PROSPECTS. As to party prospects I can only state what prominent leading men of all parties say. The republicans express doubt of their ability to accomplish the election of General Mc- cutchin, their gubernatorial candidate, by a vote of the people, but they declare them- selves certain of choosing eight of the twelve Senators and four of the five Councillors, and that they will have a majority, but @ somewhat diminished one, in the House, The democrats feel very sure that they will elect Weston, their candi- date for Governor, by the popular vote, and they seem equally certain that they will elect at least forty wore of their number to the House of Rep- resentatives this year than they had in 1873, when the republicans had sixty-two majority. This, if accomplished, will neariy tie the parties in the Senate and House. The democrats also believe tiat they will hinder the election of a majority of the Senators by the popular vote, which will give them the chance of filling the vacancies from men in. thelr own ranks, This ta the egg, but it tas yet to be hatchea, ‘The prohipitiontsts are the balance: of-power party. ‘rhe liberal republicans, baving affliated with the democrats, will not, as a separate body, returo many, if any, members to the Legislature; but their influence will be powerlul in close towns and will generally be exerted against the republicans, ‘bheir leading men Claim that they will more than double the vote of last year, which was a litde over 11,000, and some are ‘sanguine that they will, asa party, cast 30,000 voles. Whatever n&mber they may tally will include three-iourtns republi- caus, whicu will be a sad weakening of that party. Looking very careiuily over the ground and alter hearing the opinions of all parties, 1 think it doubtful that any cuoice 0! Governor will be made by ihe people, Lt is true that there 18 much disinclination among the old conservative republicans to vote for General Mc Cutchins, because, as they contend, he was nome nated by mere clap-trap, and is not a man whom they deem realiy titted tor their standard bearer; it 18 also true that the conduct of the government in cherishing extravagance and the threatened taxauon, has made many republicans very luke- warm, and these and the mroads o1 the prohibi- tionists of their party may seriously affect their aggregate vote, But the democrats have a ma- Jority of over 3,000 votes to overcome, and hence a popular choice of Governor? 18 somewhat improba- bie looking; but the latter party say that the uakers will surely come out tnis year, and if these men, who were disgusted by the nominauon of Greeley for the Presidency ih 1872 do show at the polls, the required number to elect. the demo-~ cratic Governor will scarcely come, It 1s calcu. lated that the large cities will throw Irom 1,000 to mere democratic votes than they did tast year, and that they wilt also elect from eight to @ dozen more democratic Representatives. ihat Concord, Manchester avd Nashaa will change | front in @ Material degree there is no manner of doubt, ORATORICAL WISH-WASH WASTED. What little has been done in the way of stump Speaking has done neither good nor harm to any ol these parties. The quality of the talk has been exceedingly sloppy and tasteless, and might as well have been spared, The republicans ot the ad- | ministration have been placed on the delensive, and they lave done very teeble work, In no State in the Union has oratorical bosh less effect than It has in New Mampshire, where politics is the popu- lar religion and public affairs are betver under | stood and discussed than in any other state I | know. To sum up, I think it probable that to-mor- row’s sun willset on @ very narrow and question- abie victory for the republicans, the harvesting of which will fall upon the Legisiature chosen that day. Much, however, will depend on the weather, Which now (eight P. M.) promises to be favoravle. Among the mountains, where free men are found in their greatest pertection, a stormy day is a 10sa of 500 democratic votes or more ; indeed, it was the heavy storm of last year that defeated the demo- crats, as they say. ‘This evening the license men are holding a meet. ing in Phoenix Hall, in this city, which will not probably make a singie convert. At the headquar- ters of both parties, half an hour ago, I was assured that the prospects were lovely. Things wil be more definitely spoken of to-morrow evening. TREASURY TYRRANY., WASHINGTON, March 9, 1874, Mr. Dawes, having returned to Washington, ree sumed his place to-day in the Committee of Ways and Means. At his request, however, Mr. Kelley continues to preside for the present. The investi- gation of the moieties system was continued. Mr. SCHULTZ continued his remarks from Satur day, spoke 01 an important omission in a recently published oMicial statement of the Treasury De- partment, The omission was of a column showing the amount of which accused merchants have de- frauded the government. This was important be- cause in an estimate of the guilt of parties very much would depend on the amount, as indicative of the motive. In the case of Phelps, Dodge & Co, the amount charged against them was $1,650, whereas they had to pay $271,000; | OFFICIALS SHOULD SUFFER FOR THEIR CARELESS- NESS. He had been on acommittee to examine into such matters, and had asked merchants how much was in dispute between them and tue government, and the sums were fuund to be generally from $30 to $50, and seldom $500 in Sve years’ time. Lf 16 | cannot be seen that there are motives for such | alleged = irauds, there must be a_ verdict | of mnocence. If the sum is large, there may be a | motive for fraud, On the other hand the man is | hot necessarily innocent if the amount is small. - | But there must be a motive for fraud. If they | could settle the question of the liability of the gov | ernment for the acts of its agents, then the mer- chant should not be held responsible. I! the gov- ernment should suffer loss by the incompetency or carelessness of its Own chosen agents it should stand the loss without grumbling, and discharge the agents and give their places to better men, A merchant would yery soon discharge such clerks for dereliction or improper discharge of duties | trom his employ without thinking it right to col- lect the money delinquency irom his customers. The special agent, Mr. Jayne, says he reported thirty or lorty cases to the Treasury Department fur dismissal, but who has heard of the recommen- ation being carried out? He did not believea dozen of them had been dismissed, Why should not such persons be arraigned if they have been ENGAGED IN CRIMINAL COMPLICITY? All goods pass through the hands of the govern- ment customs officers as correct; but, after five ears, the merchants are “struck,” as it is called. There was a Want of fairness on the part of the | government which he believed could not be sus- tained, nor did he belfeve the government would sustain the injustice. Mr, Shultz again alluded to the case of Harvey Barnes, showing the persecu- tion to which be bad been subjected, the fraud alleged against bim being compromised for ead although Vis govern mene did not lose a cent by him. He mentioned another case where books were seized on a faise pretence of smuggling, and the amount alleged to be due the government was only $400, When there was no fault whatever on the part of the merchant—a man who has enjoyed a fine busi- ness and ioral reputation for many years. The blow struck bim when least expected, His case was now under advisement, piece anintirehand irom TY FIRE IN WASHINGTON STBEET, Loss Estimated at $20,000—A Vagrant’s Horrible Death. Ateleven o’ciock last nighta fire broke out in the tour story brick building No. 211 Wash. ington street and extended to the ad- joining building, No. 209, before the dames could be subdued. The first floor of No 211 was occupied by Mr. Hullhan as @ Nquor store. His loss is estimated at $4,000. upper floors of the building are Tented "by John Miller as a_ provision warehouse. His stock was damaged to the amount of $3,000, The building, No, 209, 1s occupied by Mr- Lane ag @ provision warehouse, His loss 13 e+ timated at $2,000. The bulidings were damaged to the extent of $10,000, Peter McGovern, @ Va- grant, Was discovered by several of the members of Hook and Ladder company No. 1, lying dead ander the bar. John F. Algo, fireman of Engine Company No. 4, fell trom the fourth story to the ground, and was seriously injured. Fire Marshal sheidon will hold an investigauion to day as to the cause of the fire. OHARLES KINGSLEY. The Rev. Charles Kingsley will lecture to-morrow evening in the Acade of Music, Brootlyn, on MCivilization—[ts Begi end End.