The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1874, Page 10

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —_—+- {HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $22. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Haracp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘arned. 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. Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 54 Broadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 v. M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and twenty-third street. -THE COLLEEN BAWN, at 7:46 P. M.; closes at 10:45 ”. M. Dion Bouci- caalt WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth stree.—THE RIVA ats PM... closes at P.M, Mr, John Gilbert, Miss Jeffreys Lewts, ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.—Grand Charity Matinee—SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and CONCERT, ins at 1:30 P. M. ‘Miss Madeline Henriques, Mr. Lester Wallack. OLYMPIC THEATRE, , between Houston and Bleecker streets. — VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 7:45 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, posite City Hall, Brooklyn.—ZiP, at8 P. M.; closes at TPP Lote. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—REVENGE, and VARIETY ENTERTAIN. MENT. Begins at 8 P. M.; closes at ll P. M. METROPOLITAN THBATRR, No. 5% Broacway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 7:45 2. M. , closes at 1030 P. M. NIBLO’S GARDEN, n Prince and Hou: ML; Clowes at 10: Broadway, b CRUOKKTT, 1 Mayo. ¥.M. Mr. Frank LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue —French Opera Boufle—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. Mile. Marie Aimee. WOOD'S MUSEUM, | ped gle corner Thirtieth stree.—NICK WHIFFLES at 2 PF. M.; closes at 4:30 P.M. THE MAN FRO. AMERICA, at 8 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—KRISEN at 8 P. M.; closes at Ll P.M. DaLY’s FIFTH AVENUE TREATRE, ‘Twenty-cighth street and Broadway.—CHARITY, at 8 P. By closes at 10:30 venport, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lewis. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth avenue and Twenty-third street.—PANTOMIME VARIETY ENTERTAIN 745 P. M.5, MENT. Begins closes at 10.45 P.M. The Martinetti amily. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. No. 201 M.; closes at 1f P.M. STEINWAY HALL. Fourteenth stree.—THEODORE THOMAS’ ORCHES. TRA RELSARSAL at P.M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MIN. STRBLSY, &c,, at P. M.; closes at 10 P. M OSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirts-fifth street—PARIS BY MOONLIGHT, ati P. M.; closesat5 ¥.M.; same at7 P. M. ; closes at 10 ¥, M. New York, Thursday, March 19, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cioudy, with rain, clearing in the afternoon. ‘Tae Horse Diszase which has made its appearance in many stables has so far shown | none of the virulence of the epizooty of a year ago, and may be only the ordinary distemper ot the spring season. Tae Granp Cuanrry Concert.—The prepa- rations for this great musical and charitable n streets.—DAVY | Mise Ada Dyas, Miss Fanny | Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8P. | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET, St. Patrick’s Day. The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day seems to have been universal throughout the coun- try. The weather in New York was not as pleasant as might have been desired, but the legends are all in favor of a stormy season, and we may well believe that, in the spirit of the lyric, St. Patrick is too much of a gentle- man to disappoint his followers. An act of allegiance loses much of its value unless it is in some respects an act of courage, and cer- tainly there could not have been a rarer test of courage than a parade along Seventh ave- nue on Tuesday. There were the incessant, pitiless rain; the cold, eager March winds, and the remnants of Tammany civilization in the rugged, uneven pavements. As a display of military prowess or of groups of friendly society people; as a demon- stration with music and banners, and muskets and uniforms and gaudily orna- mented aprons, it was not inspiring. We saw | the men of Fontenoy and Waterloo—the | materials out of which these victories were achieved. The cavaleades were peculiar in many ways, and caleulated to encourage | mirthfulness. But the courage which led so many thousands of manly Irish gentlemen to walk the splashing streets deserves all praise. St. Patrick himself, if he is not atove | uncanonized emotions, must feel proud of the courageous devotion paid to his memory. St. Patrick is a personage concerning whom our opinions are matters of faith, He isa sentiment to millions of our fellow citizens, and we pay him the respect that should never be denied to any faith, We have never ques- tioned his birth, his labors, his parentage, his peculiar influence over Ireland, his position in the world in those early days, his services as a priest and bishop. We believe it all, in- cluding the snakes. We respect the sentiment of nationality which takes so many forms on this anniversary, whether a rainy march down Seventh evenue or a sheltered banquet under the sumptuous rooftree of Del- monico. The banquet was also an act of courage, as banquets go in our progressive land. We question whether | the rainy parade would be a severer test of | courage than the ‘flow of soul’’ with which Americans deluge one another when they meet around a dinner table. Our faith in St. Patrick, like our faith in General Logan, would lead us to any sacrifice in his honor. But he was far from being an amateur saint, as General Logan is an amateur statesman. He knew what he wanted and how to obtain it. It General Logan had lived in the early days he would, no doubt, have had a dazzling suc- cess o8 8 saint; | values and inflation and incontrovertible cir- culation, he would never have made as thor- ough a job with the snakes. We question | whether he would not have added to their | number, as a time-honored institution and ‘a relief to*the people.” But St. Patrick had enlightened ideas, and if he would only bless | us by becoming # Senator from Illinois he would limit the circulation of greenbacks in the West as he limited the circulation of the snakes in Ireland. Upon all such questions he was a man of sound principles. Snakes, like greenbacks, were a curse to the country ; | they poisoned society and led to several forms of madness. People ran wild and lost | | their reason, and indulged in one folly after another, like our Wall street speculators or railway financiers in the West. St. Patrick took the only remedy. He restored confi- dence in his doctrines and among his flock by driving the snakes out of circulation, just | as prudent men now mean to do with the poisonous and pernicious greenbacks. Therefore, to honor St. Patrick, even under | the Niagara rush of six hours’ flow of soul at Delmonico’s, is an act of faith and showsa wholesome respect for good principles. And | our Lrish fellow citizens cannot be too highly praised for their devotion to their mother- land. A man, we believe, will not love his ‘wife the less because he respects his mother ; but we have seen it laid down as good doctrine in well regulated families that a respect for event are going rapidly forward, and great the mother should not be carried too far. success may be expected in both points of | Mothers- As will be seen by the communication | from Mr. P. S. Gilmore, which we print this morning, the Twenty-second Regiment Band is to take part in the performance, and we are assured that the spirit of Mr. Gilmore's letter view. prevails among our artists generally. in-law have gained a reputation which may be an injustice, and perhaps if we examined the question philosophically and arrived at the truth we should learn that the unpopularity of mothers-in-law is only the result of a misplaced or a misunderstood | affection. When an Irishman or a German but, with his notions of | Tar Downratt or Spanish Domryton mm or a Swede comes to America he takes practi, | Cvupa is to be expected from the gradual | cally the same step in life as a young man | breaking up of everything like financial and nd maiden who abandon their homes to find a commercial credit in the island. Captain uewone. He leaves the land of his birth and General Jovellar has found it inconvenient to | makes this the land of hisaffection. He weds enforce what 1s facetiously called the law for | his home as he weds his wife. He becomes the part payment of customs duties in gold, a2 American to all intents and purposes ; January, our Twenty-second of February— and, with the present tendency to build statues over most men: who die, and in bonor of some who are still alive and not yet in jail, no one knows how many more anniversaries. parades a day, and the business of life will be to splash up Broadway behind dreary bands of music and to dine amid the splash and surge of persistent >ratory. Seriously, we think we have had something too much of this. The motherland is worthy of her son’s affection even in these distant lands; but is she nota mother-in-law, after all, and have not Americans some rights at we want Américan festivals, The banks of the Lee are very charming; green are the hills of old Erin, But should not our Irish fellow citizens find the Lee and the Shannon in our own rivers, and a greater glory of green mountain side in this chosen land? Far be it from us to question the right of any citizen or any number of citizens to parade in honor of their saints and festival days, or to ou- courage any spirit of intolerance or Native Americanism, or to mock at the love which every man must feel for the land which gave him birth, But are they not mere baby’s play, the processions and celebrations of events that represent nothing but the passions and national prejudices of the past? When citizens come to America let them leave the traditions and enmities of Europe behind them. We have seen in the past what came of these demonstrations. We have witnessed the strifes of the orange and | the green even to bloodshed. What we saw then we may see again. If citizens of one be- lief parade on March 17 others may parade on July 12; and what useful, noble purpose is served? Only collisions, heartburnings, con- troversies, murder and an incentive to the Native American feeling which at one | time swept over the country and was with difficulty suppressed by prudent, patriotic men. What interest has the American | citizen in these festivals? St. Patrick has So that in time we shall have two or three | Bill in the Reichstag. There is a vague possibility that the moat | unlikely Parliamentary body in the world may become presently a centre of some political intexest. If the Reichstag stand firm we shall have on hand a very pretty conflict between two powers, the strength of which respectively and as tried against one another is in doubt, The determination of this doubt presents | one of the deeply interesting problems of the immediate future of Europe. William we know and Bismarck we know; but the liberal power or the capability of resistance to these two in the German Reichstag or in the coun- their own hearthstone? This is America, and + try isan unknown quantity. Just how fara | Parliamentary body may imagine its powers to go against a government that is resolutely absolute; in how great a degree liberalism will raise ita head at the possibility of a differ- ence, and, indeed, whether, in view of the recent history of Germany, there is a real spirit of liberal vitality left in the country— all this is shadowy and uncertain. William, by the mouth of Moltke, presented to his people in Parliament his will as to the army. He never meant by this that the people should pretend to review his addition or sug- gest even whisperingly a change of the numbers. He let them know the numbers, in order that they might be informed how many soldiers there were to feed, and so how much money it would take. But his people ventured to have an opinion of their own, and thought that, instead of William's four hundred thousand soldiers, they would rather feed and pay three hundred and sixty thousand, and they voted down the govern- ment bill, which established the larger num- ber. Now, however, we hear the reply. Wil- liam will ve the Reichstag if it does not reconsider vote and enact the lawas he framed it He will tumble the Parliamen- tarians out ot their new palace and send them home in a hurry unless they play to his lead. In this distinct difference and clear issue be- tween the Emperor and the Parliament upona cardinal point in national policy the part the gone to his reward, and William of Orange sleeps—in peace, we trust—in Westminster | Abbey. What value have they to us, and | | why should citizens who come here as | Americans, to make this land their home and | the home of their children, exult over the | dark memories and feuds and strifes they represent? Ireland has been cursed by the wars of the orange and the green ; why trans- fer them to America? The whole anniversary business is the play of children. Let us be | Americans in that complete and generous sense which leaves the dead past to bury the | past, and lives only in the glories, the duties | and the festivities of this our country and our | home. | | Encouraging American Shipbuilding. | We congratulate Mr. John Roach upon the | launch of the iron steamship City of Peking | and upon the distinguished company which sent the vessel into the stream. In all this | we see not only the glory of being an excel- | lent shipbuilder, but the value of Washington | associations. It is not every man nor every shipbuilder who could command the presence | statesmen. Mr. John Roach did it because jhe is dear to the Congressional heart, and when he cannot go to Congress, Congress | goes to him. Senator Cameron and Repre- sentative Scofield were present, because they are from Pennsylvania, where the | ship was built, and Senator Kelley, of | Oregon, and Representative New York; Conger, of Michigan, and Coburn, of Indiana, were all on board, the first because he is chairman of the Committee on Com- merce, and the others because neither patents | nor military affairs have anything to do with commerce. These are only a few of the dis- tinguished gentlemen who showed their zeal for American shipbuilding, The result was | that the House was nearly empty and Roach’s ‘ shipyard chock full. Indeed, there were more Congressmen at Chester than in Washington. , It is a noble thing to encourage American shipbuilding, and every Congressman who went to Chester yesterday knew it was safe to encourage it, for he knew Roach, which was | tantamount to knowing that the dinner would be excellent and the wines reasonably good. | Professor Proctor. We publish this morning a letter from Mr. Richard A. Proctor, the distinguished English astronomer, who asks his American cor- respondents, whose letters he has been unable to answer directly, to excuse him on account on such an occasion of so many distinguished | Honghton, | | of California, because their States are on the | | ocean the vessel is to sail. Messrs. Wheeler, of | Emperor takes can excite no surprise. It is consistent and characteristic. He does not stand to dispute with the creatures of his will, and he cannot believe that any resist- ance they may make is a real power. It is factious only, he deems ; so he will dis- solve this Parliament and confidently call an- other. But the course of the Reichstag in voting down the government bill was a re- markable sign of a growth of opposition to the militarism that threatgJs to swallow up , the whole vitality of Germany, and it will be | curious to watch how far this will go. Just now we believe the Parliament will yield and pass the bill; but if it should resist and be dissolved, William will have on his hands a power more troublesome than France, Portents Dire. Illinois has a hurricane, Nova Scotia has a mild earthquake and North Carolina and East Tennessee are troubled volcanically. There | is evidently something going on or coming off. It is a case as clear as the one in “Tam | O’Shanter,”’ for from evidences like these A chiel may understand ‘The de’il has business on his hand. | Learned men will tell us what it all means | half a century after it is over—if we re- ! main to hear. Meanwhile we beg leave re- spectfully to suggest to such as have not made their wills, nor even repented, that a line trom Bald Mountain, in Western North Carohna, to anywhere in Nova Scotia, would run near this | city. get a more rapid transit than isagreeable; but prise us. If North Carolina and Nova Scotia are respectively the ends of certain subterranean lines of communication—dreadful grooves, or gas is equally ready to ‘burst out at either place, why, no doubt it may, scientifically | | speaking, cut across lots and come out any- | where between. Already a great deal of gas | has come out ata great many places between these points, and if the fire should follow, we shudder to contemplate what may happen—that is, we shudder now—though if it happens, of course we will have a staff of trained reporters on the spot. Our desire is, however, to be let alone; though there are plenty who would | Secretly delight in any event that would make | real estate cheap in this city. The Western Tornado. The telegraph brings us accounts of the terrific tornado which, at three o'clock on | Wednesday morning, swept over Cairo, Ill. | This is the first tornado of the incoming sea- It is our earnest wish that nobody may | we live in an age when nothing should sur- | Emperor William and His Military | come when the women's rights women | waters by compelling the butchers to halt in ought to interfere. The temperance women | their bloody work and go saved the lives of are really robbing them of the almost ripe | the survivors on board the ill-fated Virginius, fruit of years of laborious effort. In the in- terest of their own cause Mrs. Oady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony should speak out. Value of Our Commerce with the South and Cuba. The advance statement of the Chamber of Commerce as to the commerce of the country and New York, published yesterday, presents some remarkable facts worthy of special notice. The total domestic exports for the year ending June 30, 1873, amounted in value to $649,123,563, inclusive of $73,905,546 in gold and silver. The balance is reckoned in currency, and, therefore, to reduce the whole to specie value ten to twelve per cent must be deducted from the $649,123,563. Of this smount of domestic exports cotton alone brought the enormous sum of $227,243,069. This shows the value of the South in our com- mercial affairs, and the folly of government in neglecting that section of our common country, or, what is worse, in keeping it crushed by misrule, Tho vost sum realized from cotton exports is equivalent to gold. But this Southern product supplies also our own manufacturers with the raw material, and is not less valuable for that than for the foreign market. Then the greater part of the business connected with the cotton trade is done through New York or the means it farnishes. Of the imports, amounting to $663,617,147, not less than $100,000,000, prob- ably, come trom Cuba. The imports of sugar amounted to $77,994,788, of coffee to $29,890,085 and of tobacco and cigars to $9,961,723. The total value of these tropical products, by far the greater part of which were Cuban, was $117,864,546. Valuable as the products of the States and countries south of us are to our commerce, they could be made much more go by a liberal and compre- hensive policy. We should by all means foster the growth of trade with Cuba and the American islands and territory to the south, and, above all, should promote the industry and development of our own Southern States. There is far more wealth to be extracted and a much more profitable trade to be reached in that direction than in any other part of the world. Police Outra; The frequent commission of acts of vio- lence by members of the police force chal- lenges public attention and gives evidence of | state of demoralization among the men charged with the protection of life and prop- erty which is traly alarming. The worst feature of these outrages is the in- difference with which the police au- thorities regard them and the scarcely concealed sympathy of the force with the criminals who thus violate the law. The result is the loss of all healthy check on the action of a body of men intrusted with extraordi- nary powers over the general body of citizens, and the introduction of a laxity of discipline truly dangerous. When it is remembered that | the law arms the police and makes them not alone agents of restraint, but allows them to assume the responsibility of becom- ing executioners at their own discretion, the | danger arising from laxity of discipline as- ; Sames 9 most serious aspect. Acts of offi- | cious interference with the liberty of the citi- | zen, though vexatious, are capable of remedy or proper punishment ; but where men have the right given them by the law toshoot or club ‘to death on slight provocation an abuse of power becomes a real danger, destructive of all security among the community. We have a sad illustration of the evil of unre- strained police power in the case of poor McNamara, murdered in cold blood by a while endeavoring to defend his home trom an unauthorized and illegal invasion. And | now a case occurs which, in disregard of the | right of the people and in brutality, surpasses | even the cold-blooded killing of McNamara, | This time the victim, o Mr. Kollman, | untaught by the fate of McNamara, had the folly to imagine that he had some rights officers, who were disturbing the occupants, to leave his premises. Instead of complying, however, the preservers of the peace set upon the unfortunate man, beat him savagely with their clubs, dragged him from his home, and when his wife attempted to interfere to save her husband's life the apiformed ruffians, | with characteristic brutality, kicked her. ¥or full of red hot what d’ye call it—and the fire | squad of detectives in the middle of the night | in his own house and requested two police | is shortly to arrive in New York city. The army and navy, we understand, intend to do him all honer. Let the Captain of the Niobe have s right royal welcome; and let it be known the wide world over that New York understands how to honor a man who knows his duty and does, at the right time and im the right way, perform it. So long as Sir Lampton Lorraine lives the grand old race of sea kings will have a representative. The Significance of the New Hamp- shire Election. The republicans, as far as we can judge from the expressions of their party papers, do not look upon the New Hampshire election as indicating any change iu public sentiment generally, or as seriously affecting their future prospects. They pretend that their losses result from mere local issues or feeling, and from the fitful capriciousness of a people ina particular section—that, in fact, they have no national significance or influence, The deme- cratic press, on the other side, is jubilant, and argues that the partial success of the demo- crats is the beginning of a political revolution. This is the usual course of party politicians, and is a sort of special pleading for effect. Still, there is no denying that the democrats have the best of the argument. The result shows that. But their victory, as far as it goea, is not very great, and has been achieved more upon negative than positive issues. The ad- ministration republicans lost because of the errors and declining popularity of the party. The democrats gained correspondingly for the same reason, and not because they had any popular or great measures upon which to appeal to the people. There are ele- ments enough in the mismanagement of the national finances, in the extravagance and cor- ruption of the dominant party, in the Louisi- ana ‘‘monstrosity,”’ in the success of ‘‘Butler- ism’ in Massachusetts, and in other damag- ing matters, to break down the republicans; but the people naturally ask what the demo- crats have to offer. The democrats labored under a load of odiam for some time during and after our late civil war, and have been im @ minority both in the federal Congress and most of the States. The local and spasmodic reaction in their favor which has been seen at times never went far or amounted to much. Though there has been a disposition on the part of the people to revolt against republicam misrule, corruption and incompetency, par- ticularly of late, the opposition has done nothing remarkable, either in action or prom- ise, to win over disaffected voters. The coun- try, then, is just in this situation, that, while the partyin power gives dissatisfaction and there is a growing desire for change, the op- position has not overcome the objections against it or done anything to regain confi- dence and popularity. If the republicans and administration will take a lesson from the New Hampshire elec- tion and public sentiment generally, and, to use the words of the President, will ‘unload’ the weight that rests upon them, they may continue to hold power. In the absence of new and stirring issues the sentiment of con- servatism and dislike of change which is en- tertained by a large class of the people may serve them, provided they honestly commence ie policy of reform. Then, as a last resort, some fresh popular issue, on 9 foreign or home question, might be started. In every way the dominant party has advantages for maintaining its power if it will use them. But will it? We have no indications of that at the present time. It seems to be satisfied with relying upon the past. It believes, ap- | parently, that its power is invincible, and that | it can override or control public opinion. | Such a mistake has been common enough with | all parties when they have become very power- ful. The republican party is really as much an oligarchy as was the slave power before the war. A few men control it, and it mercilessly cuts off any member, however exalted, who ventures to be honestly independent, as in the case of the late Senator Sumner. But the people will certainly revolt against the corruption and arbitrary conduct of such an oligarchy, and, if we mistake | mot, there are signs of that in the | New Hampshire election. It remains to be | seen if the republican porty will be wise in | time to ‘‘unload” and enter upon a new and popular course. But it will be uphill work for the democrats to get possession of the | government through the failings of the repub- | requesting two police officers to cease dis . licans alone and without popular measures. turbing his house Mr. Kollman has been " At present they have neither a taking plat- of the severity of the work he has been doing | son, andis a striking corroboration of the | clubbed so brutally that he lies at the point of | form nor able leaders. The question of frea and the paper currency of ‘‘The Spanish Bank”’ votes, pays taxes, enlists, accepts the protec- is becoming more and more worthless. In all | tion of the flag. For better or worse, through this there is nothing surprising except that it good report and evil report, even to death, he did not come sooner. accepts the vow. Most of the honors of TE: | place and authority are open to him. He may be a Senator like Schurz, a Secretary of the Treasury like Gallatin, a member of the Discreprraste Jupces.—The extraordinary conduct of the Justices of the Seventh District Civil Court yesterday is im every way dis- |. a ‘7 creditable. After reading the report of the | ae y a betsy Paget : Be proceedings in to-day's Hznazp the people of | ™°MY pani F Seca ssi P i ; ‘tion back. In accepting citizenship we this city will be surprised and mortified at a ae h ‘ ‘ Rae te ‘ do not think he shétld dishonor his native judicial acts so unseemly that it appears | a Bi 1 d at the almost impossible they should have occurred. Ian ila ae Sea _ anol sion that swarmed along our avenués in the Taking any view of the qnestion at issue ; . A between McGuize and par the affair is Cn ae gh i re hat Le te ii ful. lorn and helpless company beleagured in Del- (ee | monico’s, the thought came to us that per- A Lrrmtz Pourtican Voicano at Hoxo- haps there was a little too much of St. Patrick uiv.—Prince Kalakua has been elected King for American citizens, and that our friends of the Sandwich Islands, and the opposition, yan the risk of making their adopted land the supporters of ex-Queen Emma, do not like | jealous of its mother-in-law, the green old it. A serious riot was threatened when the woman over the sea. fact become known; a mob attacked the Court House, and a force from the war vessels inthe cystom whatis to be the result? One Irishman harbor had to be landed to restore order. celebrates St. Patrick, another the Prince of Voleanic explosions are common enough in Orange. The Welshman will parade on St. the islands, but there is hardly material suff- payid's Day, the Scotchman will have his pro- cient among the Kanakas for @ great political | cession in honor of St. Andrew. The French- disturbance. The story of the whole trouble | man will have any number of days——in honor is told elsewhere. of Bourbon ond Bonaparte, Orleans and Frvanctan Impectuiry ms THe Senate.—The *Robespierre—not to speak of our Com- debate on the currency question in the Senate mune friends, who would like to yesterday indicates pretty clearly that the parade every Sunday to celebrate their aimless talk has broken down and that Sena- dreams of everlasting chaos. The Germans tors would be ready to vote if they only knew have their rights, and when we consider how what to vote for. The case is one of down- many different duchies and States are em- right despair, and so it matters very little for braced under the German name, each with what the Senators vote, only so that they vote its own saint, we may imagine how many for something. Perhaps the financiers of the festivals will be needed. Then come our House may do better when the question gets Spanish fellow citizens, who in happier days to that side of the Capitol. At any rate the | were wont to parade on every saint’s day; the Senate should dispose of the matter one way | Iialians, the Russians, the Grecks, the or another and give the House an opportunity | negroes, whose ancestral deities should not be to show whether it has any practical skill in | altogether dishonored. We have our own Anancial legislauon, | rights—our Kourth of July, our Highth of For if this fealty is to become an unending in this country. The mere delivery of the | seventy-five given in this country, without the labor and exhaustion of travel, was sufficient work for | the winter, but with the travel added, it isa work that would tax the strongest constitution. In view of all this the favor Professor Proctor asks of Americans is a very slight one, and the | kindly appreciation he evinces in return is something to be cherished. But if Professor Proctor appreciates the American people they also have shown that they appreciate him. Wherever he has gone he has met intelligent ‘and earnest audiences, His gumt attainments tliat a ae ‘i ‘as An astronomer and his skill as a lecturer, which is in no way inferior to his scientific | acquirements, were always fully recognized. | Professor Proctor has done more in this country than make a sensation—he has created a profound interest in the topics he | diseusses, and he will find that this interest extends to himself by the eagerness with which his London lecture on ‘Science in | America” will be awaited. | Hex Gate Improvemenr.—A petition to Congress is in course of signature asking for | an appropriation to complete the Hell Gate improvement. We hope the question will re- ceive the careful attention of our lawmakers. It is one which directly affects the pros- | perity of this city and the commerce of the country at large. The removal of the obstructions at Hell Gate will bring the capital of America a day nearer to Europe, and in these days of | rapid communication this is of the utmost | | importance, not alone to New York but to the commerce of the country, which is carried on | through our port. Large sums have already | been expended, and if the work is worth being done at all it is worth while doing it quickly. We hope that Congress will see the necessity for pushing on tho work without unnecessary delay. lectures Professor Proctor has | | article in the Hmrap of Tuesday on the equi- | noctial outlook, presaging the premature ar- rival of spring. | ing, like the March tornado which desolated | East St. Louis in 1871, from the Great River | | Valley and following approximately in its | | groove. Fortunately there is no long list of | killed and wounded by this last storm, as was | the case with the Missouri tornado. | ‘These fearful meteors are invariably pre- ; ceded by excessive heat instead of by any | barometric indications, and are attended | by lightning ond thunder and frequently | by hoi, The Me ne pee tg be en- | gendered only” ‘on the “Outside of “Targer when there are marked thermal contrasts within small areas of country. Their prevision would be of incalculable value to the exposed tions the thermometric observations may one day enable science to forewarn endangered points of their approach. Tae Temperance Women in THE West—A | Reactioy.—In Cincinnati on Tuesday night the Germans held a mass’meeting, the object of which was to offer some effoctive resistance to the women’s temperance crusade. The Germans, who are determined not to be robbed of their lager, met in full force. The large hall was crowded at an early hour, and hun- dreds of persons found it impossible to gain admission, The German clergy and Jewish rabbies of German tastes did the principal part of thespeaking, Resolutions were passed in favor of lager, against the interference of women in matters with which they have no | Proper concern, and condemning the temper- ance movement generally on the ground that, in addition to its violating the rights of citi- zens, its tendency was to reopen hatred be- tween natives and foreigners. The time haa This terrible hurricane seems | to have followed the course of the river, com- | storm centres and to prevail only at periods | cities of the West, and it is believed that with | an increased number of meteorological sta- | death. Similar treatment may be meted out to any citizen while the present demoraliza- tion in the police force is permitted to con- tinue. The assailants of Kollman have been placed under arrest by orders of the Coroner ; but the same farce was gone through in the case of Leahy, who was allowed to leave prison on bail ina few days and is now at | liberty. | The police authorities show their sympathy | with the action of Leahy and the men who abetted him in his midnight raid on McNamara’s house by continuing him on the force. He is not even suspended, though alleged to be guilty of the cold-blooded murder of an inoffensive man. Th€Wdtal eMect of this sympathy with violence is seen in the attack on Kollman. The | police begin to look on the citi- zens of New York as their sub- | jects rather than their masters, and it would seem that a Mameluke power is growing up among us which despises all restraint ot law and justice. Had the alleged murderer | of McNamara and his accomplices and abet- tors been sent to jail and kept there, as should | have been done, untila jury of citizens had | decided what was the measure of their guilt, the moral effect of such action would have | prevented the occurrence of similar outrages. | But when the members of the force see | that men whose hands are red with blood illegally ond unnecessarily shed not alone escape all punishment or censure, | but are sustained by the police authorities, | they naturally consider themselves at liberty | to imitate the example of violence which is set them. The public, however, has no in- | tention to allow itself to be victimized with- | out a protest, and we doubt not the police Mamelukes will find that their violence and brutality will not pass without exemplary pun- ishment, Sm Lampton Lonnarna, of the British ship Niobe. who did auch noble service in Cuban | trade is not practical one, whatever may be said of the principle, for we must raise a ‘large revenue from duties, and the peo- | ple would not submit to direct taxation. On | the subject of cheap transportation, in which the grangers and farmers generally of the ‘West and South are deeply interested, the | republicans do not lag behind the democrats, and are, possibly, a little inadvance. Where, then, will the democrats find an issue that can bring them into popular favor? The | money question is of greatest interes pte, Toguptry at the present time, bu js full of diff rietreryenti hardly Dé made a party one; | yetif there were democratic statesmep who, | could solve the problem and rally the party | to their support the democrats might, within | the next three years, overthrow the repub- | licans and take the government. Both the | great parties of the country are on the dead level of politics and without vital force. One shows symptoms of decay and the other hag nothing better to live upon than the carcass of its rival. Reform and purification are neces- | sary in the former and fresh materials for popularity in the latter. Without these the future of both is uncertain. MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA, of Boundaries Between the Two st: \ RICHMOND, Va., Match 18, 1874, Messrs. Isaac D. Jones, John W. Davis and James M. Dennis, commissioners, bearing the resolue tions of the Legislature of Maryland regardi boundary line between that State and Vil | were received here to-day by the Genoral As- sembly of Virginia im joint session, Lieutenant Governor Withers weicomed the commissioners | and assured them that the General Assembly was prepared tw receive any communication they mignt | Mave to make. Mr. Jones, on the part of the com- Missioners, expressed satisfaction at the cordiaity | of the recéption accorded them, and then pro- ceeded briefly to explain the plan proposed by Maryland tn reference to the adjustment of the boundary line between the two States. The plan proposes the Lovett and Davis line as the perma- nent boundary, and snould.that not ve accepted, then to take it as the temporary line, and reler the matter to arbitration. The matter will come be- fore the Legislature aa s00R aA the papers are arinted,