The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1874, Page 6

— ee 6 NEW YORK HERALD BHOADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the tear, Four ceuts per copy. Annual subscription irice $12. AJ] business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 13 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. |The Charities of Sew York—The Les- sons of the Winter. The quality of merey strained ; Badge ages wanton ten U7; ee beneath. It is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that tales." We are reminded of these words of the master as we view the maguificence of the charity shown by New York towards those to whom the winter has brought suffering. We had hoped that the severity of the weather would abate and with it much of the misery attending these cold,. hard days. But Winter persists in lingering in the lap of Spring, and the efforts that have been made with so much generosity and self-sacrifice must be con- tinned. It is a singular coincidence that while New York is called upon to make unusual efforts to remedy the condition of the worthy and suf- fering poor the samé duty is imposed upon Paris. We have heard of the meeting at the palace of the Elysée, under the presidency of the Duchess of Magenta, the wife of the Presi- 1s in New York. Volume XXXIX. M THEATRE, Sixth avenue.—Freneh Opera ADAME ANGOT, at 5 P.M; larie Aimee. WOOD'S MUSEUM, E JIM, at? SEWING Broadway, corner Thirtieth stre BE doses at 4:90 P.M. —NIMBL RIHA, THE GIRL, ats P.M. atliP. M PM: ¢ MACHIN FIFTH AVE Twenty-eighth street and E . i. closes wt lU:Ju PM, Mr. Clagk, Miss Ada Dyas, GRAND OP HOUSE, Vighth avenue and Twenty-third street.-HUMPTY UMPTY AT SCHOOL, and VARIETY eNTERTAIN- MENT. Begins at 740 P.M; closes at 1045 P.M. Mr, THEAT! No. 5M Broadway. —VAR P.M ; closes at 10:30 P.M CR, ED TER rAINMENT, ats BOOTH’S THEATRE, avenue and ‘Twenty-third street.—CAESNEY 7492. M.; closes at lu:45 P.M. Mme. Funny | Sixth WOLD, at? Jauauschek, BROOKLYN THEATRE, ington stree!, Brooklyn.—ROMEO AND JULIET, at closes at LU P.M. Mrs. J. B. Booth, Mr. J. W. Kk. Wasi BP. Wuaeeloe WALLAC Broadway and Thirteent 81. M.; Closes at 1 P.M, Lewis, THEATRE, hh street,—HETR-AT-LAW, at Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Jeffreys ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourieenth street,—strakosch Italian’ Opers Troupe— IDA, avs P.M; closes atl P.M. Torriaui and Cary; Campanini, Del Puente and Nannetti. OLYMPIC THEATRE, i Froadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets,— | VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 7.45 P.M. j closes wt 10:45 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE. Fourteenth street, near irving place.—PERICHOLE, at | SP. Mo; closes at Il P.M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—DONALD MOoKAY, at 8P. 31; closes at LP. M. Oliver Doud Byron. | ou | BOWERY THEATRE, | Fowery,-UNCLE TOMS CABIN, and VARTETY EN. TLRIAINMENT, Begins at P.M; closesatll P.M. | METROPOLITAN THEATRE, | °5 Broadway.—VARIETY ENIERCAINMENT, at | M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. | N NIBLO’S GARDEN, | Broadway. between Prince and Houston street, —DAVY GEVCKETT, ai8 P.M; closes at 10:30 2. M. Mr, Yrank | Ayo. TONY PASTOR'S OPE No, 201 Bowery.—VARI AM. ; closes at lf P. mapa BEYANTS OPERA HOUSE, ‘wenty third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN- STREESY, &c., ats P. Mei closes at lu P.M, ; JETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner ot Thirty-ti'th street.—PARIS BY MOONLIGHT, atl P. M.; closes ato P. M.; same at7 P, M.; closes at lo P.M TRIPLE SHEE New York, Friday, March 13, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold, cloud , and windy. Czownen’s Quest.—The investigation into the murder of a pedler near Princeton, N. J., bas as yet reached no result. Cuanstr Oncanwation.—In the report of the proceedings of the Bureau of Charities will be found, with other interesting points, an allegation decidedly to the prejudice of servants as a class, the truth of which for | die. dent of the French Republic, at which the journalists of Paris, without any distinction of party, assembled to provide means for relieving the poor. The only plan that could be adopted, so pressing was the want, was to provide soup kitchens or cheap cooking saloons, similar to those under the management of Mr. Delmonico and others in New York. The Duchess of Magenta and her associates know very well that as a general economical system nothing could be more un- wise than to perpetuate any system of absolute . | charity, which would only result in gencral mendicancy. In no city has this rule been more strictly followed than in Paris. Mendi- cancy is impossible under the rigid system of French police. And the various institutions for the relief of the suffering, which are upon a more liberal and prudent plan in Paris than in any other city in the world, oppose any tendency to idleness and beggary, and only grant relief to the most deserving. But, occasions arise which we have seen in Paris, as in New York, when we cannot be governed by the ordinary rules of prudent benevolence. In Paris a hard winter and the derangement of business and industry consequent upon the war have thrown thousands of honest and in- dustrious laboring men out of employment. These men are not paupers. They do not shirk employment. They are not objects of | charity. They would rather eat the bread of industry than of benevolence. But they are victims of the dislocation of business conse- | quent upon the war, and there is only one way of relieving them. They must have food or It is with them as with the Irish in 1848, when the potato crop failed; as in India now, that the rice will not grow. Ireland had to be | supplied with grain as India is supplied with rice; for what is more certain than anything else is that we cannot feed the hungry on | ideas or satisfy the starving with logical de- ductions and figures of speech. We had the | same problem in New York. The extraordi- ERA HOUS, | nary want in this city which came upon us with the winter was not the result of thrift- | lesmness. We have no doubt that a large | portion of those now receiving | bounties of so many public and private insti- | tutions saw winter coming perfectly satisfied | they could meet its terrors and hardships | without embarrassment. But the panic fell | upon them as the war fell upon the poor in Paris. Suddenly they were thrown out of employment. All means of earning wages | were arrested. There was no work to be | done—no money to be earned. They were as much at the mercy of the famine as the | Hindoos when the season brought no rain ; | for indnstry to the poor is the rain that opens the soil and brings forth fruits and enables them to live. What New York has done so magnificently she has done silently. | tithe of what has been achieved by our people. | We do not see everything on the housetops. In our society there are innumerable methods The Church, the Sunday | of beneficence. the | We do not knowa | that reason we venture to doubt. It is said school, the “Doteas” and “Mite” Society, that if they can live by public charity they the peice, the: lodge, ithe -mutaal aapocia- will refuse situations with good remuneration. | tions tor relief, are all so many parts of the | social machinery. There is scarcely a citizen “Francis JOSEPH AND THE Unrramonranes.— | who is not in some way connected with Austria, it seems, is quite as severe on the ultramontanes as is Prussia. In this one particular Germany is a unit. All over the Fatherland the feeling is the same. Emperor Francis Joseph has authorized his government to assume a strong attitude against ultramon- tane opposition to the ecclesiastical laws. Austria evidently fears the frown of Bismarck. Cuartice.—The investigation in regard to appointment of inspectors of election reported this morning reveals nothing very terrible. Cavour Arrer 4 Lona Run—Snuperintend- ent Macgregor, the latest of our municipal functionaries arrested on criminal charges, has been for many years entrusted with the important duty of superintending structures erected in this city, and an investigation of his administration will be useful as showing in whose interest his department was man- aged. Rarm Taranstt.—There are too many bills. ‘Tere were too many bills before, and now Vanderbilt has taken the field and of course there are a great many too many bills. Else- where we give an account of the Vanderbilt bill, which is very pretty and very promising, aud we are assured it would give us a good road within a year. Only imagine the possi- bility of getting up town decently within a year! ises attractive just in proportion as they never mean to perform them, and that is perhaps the real secret of Vanderbilt's beautiful bill. He was under no restraint in having it drawn. Fan Too Costiy—Tue Pusurc Paewrmxa at Wasutxorox.—Over one million two hundred thousand dollars a year for the different de- partments, besides a vast sum for Congress- ional printing, is certainly paying too much for this whistle. The same amount of work | that is done at the government printing office | for the above sum would not cost any well managed business firm as much by one-third. | No doubt there is some stupendous jobbery connected with the public printing. It will | But then some men make their prom- | one of these institutions. The result is | thats charity enters into our social life as it | does into our religious life. Whatever we May profess as a matter of faith our civiliza- tion follows the teachings of Christ. Chris- | tianity rests upon charity, as other forms of faith, wonderfully beautiful in their way, rest upon self-denial. As religion gives tone to our civilization we may see in this one cir- cumstance how the teachings of Christ differ from those of Confucius and Plato and Mahomet. In many respects the moralists and philosophers lay down a doc- trine as wise aud as well worthy of example as the lessons in the New Testament. He would be a good man who would diligently study Contucius and Plato, and base his actions upon their precepts. But where they fail to reach the divine example of the Founder of the faith is in their inability to comprehend the real meaning of charity. Ac- cordingly, we honor no men* in our daily life more fervently than those who give their lives to doing good. As Shakespeare says in the text we have quoted actions such as theirs, drop upon the earth like the gentle rain from heaven, Truly, they are twice blessed—blessing not only him that receives but him that gives. In our modern life, with our rude, loud, and not always sincere methods of awarding praise, none stand higher in popular esteem than | those who have become conspicuous for | their benevolence. What man, for instance, {has been more exalted than body? Two hemispheres united to do him homage. While he lived England hailed him as 4 princely benetactor. When sepulchre to his ashes, an English fleet brought them to Amorica, and a Prince of England stood over his tomb to do him reverence. The example ot a life like that of between England and America than a dozen Geneva arbitrations. blessed, and our people are doing all that can be well for members of Congress who are inteus on retrenchment to look into this mat- | ter. And, the House having directed the | Joint Committee on Printing to investigate | the charges made against the government | printing office, it looks as if this leak is to be the winter, The columns of the Henanp for weeks have been only so many records of good works. Men and women, in all stations of life, have vied with each other in a spirit of honorable and almost siopved. ‘ relizious emulation in deeda of beneficence. he died Westminster Abbey opened its royal | George Peabody will do more to insure peace | For, as we have said, these deeds are twice | be done to arrest the calamities that came with | With great regret we have been compelled to separate the wheat from the chaff—to single out some institutions for condemnation as under the control of adventurers. But we do not care to refer to that now, for it isa pain- ful blot upon what would otherwise be a record of stainless benevolence. We only care to see the unselfishness, the patient effort, the unwearied endeavors to arrest the want. We have mentioned the work of Mr. Wallack and Mr. Daly, two theatrical managers of distin- guished energy and taste, who have done so much to redeem the drama and make our stage worthy of its palmiest days. They have succeeded in bringing together their great companies in the performance of Sheridan's wonderful comedy, presenting at the same time on the stage the it distin- guished actors now living. In afdition to such mames as Lester Wallétk, John Brougham, Charles Fisher and others, the traction by the reappearance of Mrs. Jen- nings, so well known in other days as Madeline Henriques. This accomplished and well remembered lady, like the Countess of Derby, retired from the stage, to which her honored domestic life. She leaves her home for this occasion only in the cause of charity, which pervades all classes. Nor do we think we are premature in saying that Mme. Nilsson opera for the same purpose. Mme. Nilsson, in a spirit of large-hearted benevolence and in recognition of her wonderful successes in America, will gladly unite in this work; for will not lag. We are assured that the efforts of Mme. Nilsson will be seconded by all who have part in the Italian opera, that the managers of the Academy of Music will give her every facility and the stockholders will waive all their rights. Let our opera troupes unite as the theatrical companies have united, let our gifted singers volunteer, and, under the inspiring leadership of the Swedish prima donna, we shall have an operatic performance as much an event in its way as the production of the ‘School for Scandal.’’ At the risk of dwelling unduly upon these | things, we have the utmost pleasure in noting the efforts of our people to arrest the sufferings of the poor. We are a hurried, busy, feverish commu- nity, concerned about our affairs, possessed with ambition, enterprise, and the desire for gain. It is well to feel that under all these is a deep feeling of humanity and brotherly kindness, and that there can never be a de- mand upon the great heart of New York that will be made in vain. Archbishop Purcell om Temperance. The temperance angels of Ohio have been to jointhe praying band and curse with bell, beverages other than water. But the Chris- tian shepherd is not to be wheedled even by augels, though clothed in muslin as a dis- guise, and he has dexterously tripped up the intraders with his pastoral staff, justifying himself with many a holy text. We print the | Bishop’s letter in another column, and it will | probably tickle saints and sinners alike. It is | a Christian letter, full of kindly feeling for the poor and wretched and such as are sore oppressed, and has more of the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount than could be squeezed out of any amount of psalm-singing crusad- \ing. There is pity for the sufferings of the poor as well as for their failings snch as the Master showed, and virtue becomes attractive because it is human. But the Bishop, like Jacob, can wrestle even with an angel, and is not to be terrified by a legion of them. There is something irresistibly comic in the home thrust of the pastoral staff when the Bishop tells the crusaders ‘‘to be wise unto sobriety.” He evidently thinks that other forms of intem- perance may beas offensive as wine-bibbing, and, with the bluntness of a good Christian, he brings down his staff with a thwack on the pates of the crusaders in a way which would be trying even for martyrs. What answer will the temperance prophet Dio give when confronted with the words of Jehovah:—‘‘God made wine to cheer the heart of man?’’ Christian author- ity is altogether against the extreme temper- ance fanatics who would pronounce wine ac- | cursed because men drink it to excess. The followers of Dio Lewis will do well to read carefully Archbishop Purcell’s letter and pon- der upon its contents, for even angelic beings may sometimes with advantage be swayed by | common sense. Sxow anp Destrrvtion 1y ConsTaNTINoPLE. — One of the items of this morning’s news is to the effect that destitution cn a large scale now exists at Constantinople. The suffering, it is said, is the result of an exceptionally severe | snow storm. Snow storms, althongh not un- | known in Constantinople, are infrequent and | but seldom severe. In an Eastern city—and | Constantinople, althongh on this side of the | Bosphorus, is really an Eastern city—the home | accommodations and the established mode of living do not seem to invite snow storms. Unwindowed houses and a semi-nude popula- tion are little suited to that kind of weather, against which we, in more northern latitudes, are always more or less provided. The gov- ernment, we are told, is doing its best, and private organizations are rendering effective aid in relieving the distress. Let us hope that the suffering will be as brief as the snow storm. A New York winter is not possible in Constantinople. Tur Kena Verpict.—King, the murderer of O'Neil, has been found guilty of murder in the second degree, and will, thererefore, be imprisoned for life, which is altogether a | good result, at least by comparison with what has been done in many similar cases. People | will always believe that in any case compli- cated as this was by supposed relations of the | victim with the murderer's wife, the homicide | loses its enormity in some degree; and, as this will always affect the minds of jurors, we have, perhaps, reason to feel satisfied if | we can succeed in incarcerating this class of | criminals for life, occasion will assume an unusual social at- | genius was an ornament, to lead a happy and | and thus by her influence and ex- | ample pays a tribute to the widely spread feeling of generous benevolence and her associates in the Italian opera will | soon announce a performance of some favorite | in good deeds her genius | trying to induce the good Archbishop Purcell | book and candle all wine bibbers, beer swillers | and such other ungodly persons as drink | | that the new Senator is to be a politician the Shall We Save Insure the Continued Prosperity of New York, City and State? It is now half @ century since the comple- tion of the Erie Canal was celebrated with great rejoicing at Castle Garden. No publio enterprise during fifty years of unparalleled usefulness has suffered more painful vicissi- tudes, has been so often the pet of the State and again under the popular ban. The causes of this history we clearly discern. There have always been two canal partics, as there are always two parties divided upon all ques- tions of internal improvement. These Erie Canal factions we cannot better describe than by comparing them to the leaders and whcel horses of a stage coach. The leaders are ever pushing on, leaving the past behind them; the shaft horses are the checks on progress, drags on advancement and development. Mr. Samuel B. Ruggles, the founder of Union square, a statesman who has always guided his operations with a prophetic eye, believing in undertaking no great and permanent work without allowing for the growth of the country, was & | leader on the coach, as he is to-day. Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, an eminent and a useful neighbor of Mr. Ruggles, has always been a | shaft horse—a conservative, advocating with might and main a slow conservative policy with the canals. Both of these upright citi- zeus have had, and have now, their usefulness. The State not only needs a guide who will point out the way and construct schemes for the perpetuation of its material pros- perity, but also counsellors who will check a too sudden and violent improvement. It is thus that we are enabled to recog- nize that these two antagonisms, carried on through two long and eventful lives in the public service, have been in the main benefi- cial to the Commonwealth. Mr. Ruggles was | profoundly impressed with the necessity of the broad and deep canal to provide for the immense products of the West, for which the narrow and shallow canal constructed by Mr. Clinton had become inadequate. And now, with the growth of the country and the increase of transportation, even this en- larged canal is totally insufficient as a | gteat national highway. It is plain, then, | that the amendment now before the Legisla- | | ture providing for the reduction of the tolls— | an innovation which will practically reduce the | revenues of the State by one million five hun- | dred thousand dollars annually—is a blow at | that broad and progressive policy by which j alone the city of New York can maintain its | commercial supremacy on the Atlantic sea- | board. The elevators of Buffalo demand that | the tolls should be diminished simply in order | that the local interests of Western New York | may be aggrandized. Should this amendment | pass what would be the result? The revenues, which, by constitutional amendment, could be | applied to improvement and repair, would, in | lieu thereof, enrich the grain speculators of | Buffalo. The contemplated enlargement of the locks on the Erie Canal to twice their present length and the construction of a | class of carrying craft of twice the pres- ent length to replace the old-fashioned boats, the employment of steam as a means of propulsion—all of these changes, proposed by Mr. Ruggles, would not only become impossi- | ble, but a serious blow would be dealt to the | importance of New York as the terminal city | of the grain trade of the Union. With the’| | active work on the Welland Canal proceeding, | does it not behoove the Legislature of the State, therefore, to inquire if a rival city shall | grow up on the St. Lawrence which shall be- come the mart of our Western products? Mr. Sumner’s Successor. | Only a day or two ago the Massa- chusetts newspapers were discussing whether Mr. Sumner would again become his | own successor in the Senate. Death has answered that question, and the proud State which so long took delight in honoring him is saved from the humiliation of setting the great Senator aside after nearly a quarter of a century of continuons service. Mr. Sumner had satin Mr. Webster's seat since 1851. Mr. Webster entered the Senate just a quarter of a century before. His term of service, however, unlike Mr. Sumner’s, was broken by his acceptance of the office of Secretary of State in the cabinets of Harrison and Tyler. During the eventful years of American history each of these men was a guide in the statesmanship of his epoch. With Mr. Sumner’s successor, it is to be hoped, there will come a new epoch—one of wise statesmanship—and no Senator will have better opportunities to fill the place of a guide in the true principles of legislation than he who will take the place once filled by these great men. It is with the highest culture of Boston and Massachusetts to declare who that Senator shall be. We do not think it rests his facfion to with General Butler or name Mr. Sumner’s successor. Is he to be a politician to fill a vacancy or a statesman to fill the place of statesmen? The country will await the answer of Massa- chusetts with an anxiety that has not been felt in any Senatorial election preceding it. It will be fortunate if some man as capable and as little known to politics as Mr. Sumner was in 1850 could be chosen; but if fate ordains contest will rest, we suppose, between Goy- ernor Washburn and Mr. Dawes, thoughit is not likely Butler will remain quiet if matters turn in this direction. Orrnatic Cuagity.—The widespread feel- ing of compassion for the suffering poor of this city, which has brought out the noblest traits in the character of our citizens, has | found a ready response in operatic circles, Mr. Strakosch, the manager of the most com- plete Italian opera company that has ever vis- ited this country, is arranging a grand charity performance, which will comprise features of rare attraction. Tuesday evening next is mentioned as the date when this performance will likely take place, Exre:pivc tu# Horse Ramroap Lrves.— ‘The owners and managers of the horse rail- roads arf astonished to learn that there is a bill before the Legislature in regard to their lines which did not originate with them- selves. They have been so much in the habit of sending word to Albany what laws they wanted and getting them that they naturally look upon any change in the matter as an infringement of their rights. Nevertheless the proposition to compel some of the west side lines to go to the Battery is a good one, with o \ view to uublic convenience. The Grest Bengal Famine and Its Bearing on America. The terrible Bengalese famine, instead of abating, seems to have just fixed ita death grip on the crowded inhabitants of the Upper Gangetio Valley. Perhaps no section of the globe furnishes a richer and easier harvest for the fell destroyer than the lower and north- west provinces of Bengal. The portions of these provinces now menaced with early starvation, though in the aggregate searcely exceeding the State of Texas in arca, have a population of forty-two millions, greater than that of the whole United States. It appears almost incredible that a land watered by the vapor-stored monsoons of the Indian Ocean, which precipitate two hundred inches of rain, and on the mountain slopes twice that quan- tity, should ever grow thirsty. But a single fact explains the unwonted drought which tol- lows a scarcity of the monsoon rains in Ben- gal. So great is the evaporative power of the sun that its fiery rays take up about thirty- seven inches of rainfall annually and re- convert it into steaming vapor. At Bombay the daily evaporation in clear summer weather is nearly one-fifth of an inch; on wet and rainy days it is, of course, greatly less—i. ¢., from .05 to .10 of an inch. Last year, in the absence of the usual rains, the evapora- tion probably greatly exceeded the average, and not improbably was over forty-five inches, oras much as we receive from the skies in a whole year. We have already commented upon the fear- ful results likely to follow; but the latest ac- counts from English papers make the aspect of affairs far more alarming than bad been anticipated. It now appears certain that the present famine will be far more disastrous than that of 1866 in Orissa, when, despite the | most strenuous efforts to succor the starving, the Bengali proverb, “It is watering the top of a tree whose roots are cut,’’ was fear- fully fulfilled. The loss from this visitation is not, so faras we know, numerically given; but it would doubtless come near to that of the Bengal famine of 1772, from which Warren Hastings stated the loss by starvation to be one-third of the population—amounting to about ten millions, In the famine of 1837, in the northwest provinces, the population af- fected was about eight millions, and during its violence there were twelve hundred deaths a day in two of the principal towns. When we remember that pestilence in many forms ever follows close upon the heels of famine we may gain some faint idea of the mag- nitude of the calamity that now stalks over Bengal, andalready more than decimates its hungry and fevered millions. Though many leagues of ocean divide us from the horrible scene experience teaches that no one member of the family of nations | suffers alone. The effects of the Bengal deso- lation have already been felt in England, and must shortly reach the United States. For- tunately the peculiar climatic and meteorolog- ical irregularities that conspired against Bengal last year have not been experienced in this hemisphere; nor is it likely they will be. But we may learn a lesson now that will be of national service. The past winter in the United States has been extremely favorable to early agricultural operations, and we learn that the farmers in some sections are far ad- vanced in their preparations for spring work. As the duration of the tremendous famine in India and the drain it will make on the world for increased production of breadstuffs cannot | be foreseen, and promise to be very distress- ing, our agriculturists should improve the opportunity for planting a large crop of Indian corn. Whether this grain can be utilized abroad on 8 scale so extensive as to meet the Indian drain or not, a large corn crop would justify an extraordinary exporta- tion of American wheat, and thus serve to | avert the great calamity in the East. Brpao anpD THE Can.ists.—From Bayonne we have it that the Carlists have entered Irun and have commenced operations against Olot. The Madrid news of this morning is of a different character. The Governor of Bilbao has informed Marshal Serrano that he has re- ceived provisions sufficient to last until April, and that he will continue a vigorous defence of the city. This means that the Carlist cause must now be regarded as a failure. On Bilbao they have centred all their strength, and the | government at Madrid, quite as much as the Carlists, have recognized the importance of the position. Now that Serrano himself is in the North and at the head of the army, and that the Governor of the town feels himself equal to the situation until April, it is not unreason- able to conclude that the Carlist game is up. A few days more and the presumption is that the Madrid government will be supreme over the length and hreadth of Spanish territory. Briana Her Home.—Yesterday the Duke of Edinburgh and his Russian bride were welcomed to London in the height of a snow storm of unusual severity, which the travellers from, St. Petersburg might fairly have been accused of bringing with them, for such a storm at this time of the year in London must be almost without precedent. Everybody was gay despite the unpropitious weather, and there was a tremendous turnout of the people. For THE Propre anp By THE Pxoriy.— Petersburg, Va., is said to be badly governed, and the reason assigned is that the prepon- derance of the negro vote throws the power into the hands of worthless people. To remedy this it was proposed in the Virginia Legislature to put the government of Peters- burg in commission, as ours is; but the Gov- ernor has vetoed the bill, because it is con- trary to the principles of freedom and self- government guaranteed to the whole people. Tse Temperance Movement.—An exceed- ingly large meeting of very earnest men and women was held in this city yesterday, at which the ways of compelling men to keep sober were discussed. Many silly things were said, of course, as there are at all large meetings, and of course the illustrious Lewis told all abgat what was done in Ohio, and in- formed the company that he had a monopoly of knowledge on that subject, As this move- ment is evidently not likely to change the fundamental laws of the State or of human nature it is scarcely necessary to point out any one of the many erroneous notions from which it starts; but, as a conscientious en- deavor to make men better by the legitimate process of a moral appeal, we may properly regret that it seems likely to have so littlo effacte The Smithsonian and Signal Office Co-operation, Our press despatches have already noticed the fact that the Smithsonian Institution has transferred its very valuable and extensive system of meteorological observations to the custody of the Signal Office, The object of Professor Henry in so doing is, as he says, to combine these observations with those made by standard instruments now under General Myer’s charge, and out of the whole form a more extended and harmonious system. The Weather Department, in assuming charge of the joint system, has invited the veteran volunteers of science so long connected with the Smithsonian to continue their labors, with the promise of whatever aid can be given to facilitate their researches, the Meteorologi- cal Office also promising to recognize theiz assistance by furnishing such correspondents copies of its publications. For twenty-five years the Smithsonian Insti- tution has been an unpaid pioneer in the field of meteorological inquiry, and has collected a vast amount of material, which it is now re- ducing. While the transfer of this system to the Signal Ofise must, we presume, involve the latter in some additional pecuniary responsi- bility, it will enable it to extend its work and enlarge the sphere of its investigation very widely. The many interesting problems of sanitary and forest climatology which have been pro- posed during this century bear so heavily on our political economy, and so affect questions of public health and wealth, that the agricul- turist, the physician and the trader will gladly co-operate in these practical investigations. Some of the States have in their legislation evinced a desire to further such researches, especially with a view to determine the cli- matic and agricultural value and influence of forests and to set at rest many long mooted vital questions of sanitary science. The pres- ent co-operative system of the Smithsonian and Signal offices supplies the best channel through which to push these inquiries. Szxator Sumner.—All over the country the impression of the great loss is deeply felt. Cities and States, public and private corpora- tions and the people at large express their sympathy with the more immediately bereaved people of the Senator’s own State and their share in the nation’s sorrow. In the career of most public men the salient points that take hold upon the gentler side of human natura are less obvious, and it is this very fact—that his endeavors had all the aspect and purpose of humane impulses—that now seems to set aside in Sumner’s favor, more fully than usual, the passions and animosities necessarily excited by a long public career. Our reports give the full detail of what has already been done and said to honor the memory of the illus- trious citizen. It appears that, though the cortége will halt at this city on the way to Boston, it will remain but a very little while. Our people, had the plan made it possible, would have turned out with great unanimity to honor in his funeral the great man with whom they did not always agree, but for whose purity, sincerity and exalted motives they had the highest respect. Mn. Finumore’s Onsequies were celebrated yesterday with due ceremony in the city of his residence. His remains had lain in state in the Cathedral, and the whole people fole lowed him to the grave. His quiet serenity of temper was so much in contrast with the character of the mass of public men of to-day that it may well have seemed to the whole assembly the funeral of a man belonging to another age. Pxucky Burcrer.—Our London letter gives a good glimpse of the last moments of the great Tichborne trial, and the falling of the curtain upon the imperturbable butcher, who passes into the shade without any apparent sign of change in the familiar figure known to all, and leaving in popular remembrayce the same peculiar, impenetrably stolid counte- nance, unbroken by any line of regret, disap- pointment or alarm. A Dectsion Acarnst THE Prayrna WomEN.— In the case ¥ a liquor dealer named Morrow, in Warren county, Ohio, who had petitioned the Court of Common Pleas against the women crusaders praying and singing in front of his'saloon, Judge Smith decided that not only would an action for damages lie, but that a court of equity would interfere to prevent apy such infringement upon the rights of others. Morrow, however, obtained no relief, because he had not requested the praying and singing expeditions to leave his premises, and had uot alleged personal annoyance or injury to his business. A similar decision, we pre- sume, would be made in any State where the question was raised, and if relief were invoked on account of personal annoyance and injury to business the ladies would be expelled from the sidewalks by order of the courts. This ia another proof of the wisdom of our reformers who do not oppose the ordinary administra- tion of the law. Morettes.—In Magna Charta it is provided that ‘‘no freeman shall be fined save in pro- portion to his fault, nor shall any fine be levied on him to his utter ruin.” It seems a re- markable fact that one of the very wrongs that afflicted society in the days of the bad King John should arise to plague us in this model Republic, where the rights and interests of the people are supposed to prevail over all other rights and interests. Did the minions of the bad King ever do worse than the minions ot our republican Treasury, which fines a man two hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars in a case in which the government lost a little over one thousand dollars? All that can be said in favor of the oppressive laws was said yesterday by Mr. Bliss, and was very little, as will be seen by the report in our Washington letter. uy Tux Mourn oF THE Mississirrr will not open. The government has been working at the job, and now the sum of thirty thousand dollars is demanded by the War Department to carry on the operatigns until the next ses- sion. Other parties now wish to make the débouchement through a canal by way of Fort St. Philip, claiming that a work of this nature will be the most effective and inexpensive channel for deep-draught vessels that can be made. Which one ure we to have? It is ime portant to know. THE NOVA SCOTIA LEGISLATURE, HIALtwax, Maren. 12, 1874, The Hon. Stanley Brown, of Yatmouth, has been appointed President of the Logisiative Council im Rice Of the late Hop, Alexander Keltle