The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1874, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ——- THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription yrice $22. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Heracp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ‘urned. 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. Sid Broadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 #, M.; closes at 10 30 P.M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and twenty-third street. -THE COLLEEN BAWN, at7:46 P. M.; closes at 10:45 . M. Dion Bouci- caalt WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth streec—THE RIVA) ats P.M... closes at P.M. Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Je! Lewis, ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.—Grand Charity Matinee—SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and CONCERT. ‘ins at 1:30 P. M. ‘Mise Madeline Henriques, Mr. Lester Wallack. OLYMPIC THEATR! Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets,— VAUDEVILLE and NOVELIY ENTERTAINMENT, at 7:45 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Matinee at2 P. M. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opporize City Hall, Brookiyn.—ZiP, at 8 P. M.; closes at M. Lotta. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—REVENGE, and VARIETY MENT. Begins at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 5% Broadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at | 7:45 2. M. , closes at 10:30 P. M. ENTERTAIN. | NIBLO’S GARDEN, way, between Prince and Houston streets.—DAVY KKTT, at 3 P.M.; closes at 10:30P, M Mr. Frank Broad CROC! Mayo. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue —French Opera Boufle--LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mlle. Marie Aimee. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth stree.—NICK WHIFFLES, | at 2 P. M.; closes at 4:30 P. M. HE 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 11 P. M. DALY'S FIFTH AV! E THEATRE, ‘Twony-cighth street and Broadway.—CHARITY, at 8 P. .; Clowes at 10:30 P.M. Mise Ada Dyas, Miss Fanny | avenport, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lewis. | GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Bight avenue and Twenty third street —| VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. Begins cloves at 10.45 P.M. ‘The Martinetti amily, ! TOMIME | 45 P.M; N TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. | No. Dl Bowe: aa ENTERTAINMENT, at 8P. > 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 calculated 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 os 8 saint; 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 a Senator from Illinois he ‘MM. ; closes at STEINWAY HALL. Fourteenth stree.—THEODORE THOMAS’ ORCHES- TRA RBEBMARSAL at 2:0 P. M. BRYANT ERA HOUS! NEGRO MIN- EUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty -fifth street —PARIS BY MOONLIGHT, at iP. M.; closesat5 P. M.; same at7 P. M. ; closes at 10 . M. New York, reday, March 19, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with tain, clearing in the afternoon. Tae Horse Diszsse 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 of the spring season. Tse Granp Cuanrry Concert.—The prepa- rations for this great musical and charitable event are going rapidly forward, and a great success may be expected in both points of view. 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 prevails among our artists generally. Tar Downratt op Spaniss Dommion mm Cusa is to be expected from the gradual breaking up of everything like financial and commercial credit in the island. Captain General Jovellar has found it inconvenient to enforce what 1s facetionsly called the law for the part payment of customs duties in gold, and the paper currency of ‘‘The Spanish Bank’’ is becoming more and more worthless. In all this there is nothing surprising except that it did not come sooner. Duwcrepitaste Jupees.—The extraordinary conduct of the Justices of the Seventh District Civil Court yesterday is im every way dis- creditable. After reading the report of the proceedings in to-day’s Hzratp the people of this city will be surprised and mortified at judicial acts so unseemly that it appears 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. 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 shows a wholesome respect for good principles. And our Irish 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 the mother should not be carried too far. | Mothers-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 or a Swede comes to America he takes practi. cally the same step in life as a young man and maiden who abandon their homes to find a new one. He leaves the land of his birth and makes this the land of hisaffection. He weds | his home as he weds his wife. He becomes an American to all intents and purposes ; votes, pays taxes, enlists, accepts the protec- tion of the flag. For better or worse, through good report and evil report, even to death, he accepts the vow. Most of the honors of | 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 | New York Board of Aldermen, like the { majority of these gentlemen for a genera- tion back. In accepting citizenship we do not thirk he shdtld dishonor his native but, with his notions of | values and inflation and incontrovertible cir- | St. Patrick | land. But as we looked at thé dense proces- sion that ewarmed along our avenués in the | pelting rain, as we sympathized with the for- lorn and helpless company beleagured in Del- | monico's, the thought came to us that per- almost impossible they should have occurred. Taking any view of the qnestion at issue between McGuiye and Stemmler the affair is disgraceful, A Lerma Pourricat Voiwcano at Hoxo- | haps there was a little too much of St. Patrick | v1v.—Prince Kalakua has been elected King for American citizens, and that our friends of the Sandwich Islands, and the opposition, 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 attackedthe Court For if this fealty is to become an unending House, and a force from the war vessels inthe oystom what isto be the result? One Irishman harbor had to be landed to restore order. celebrates St. Patrick, another the Prince of Voleanic explosions are common enongh in (range. The Welshman will parade on St. the islands, but there is hardly material suffi- | Darid'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 | is told elsewhere. Fovanciat Ipectuity 1s THE SenaTe.—The debate on the currency question in the Senate man will have any number of days--in honor | of Bourbon and Bonaparte, Orleans and ‘Robespierre—not to speak of our Com- | mune friends, who would like to ran the risk of making their adopted land | yesterday indicates pretty clearly that the aimless talk has broken down and that Sena- tors would be ready to vote if they only knew what to vote for. The case is one of down- Tight despair, and so it matters very little for what the Senators vote, only so that they vote for something. Perhaps the financiers of the House may do better when the question gets to that side of the Capitol. At any rate the Senate should dispose of the matter one way vd awe the House an opportunity show wi t it has any practical skill i ait y Practical skill in | parade every Sunday to celebrate their dreams of everlasting chaos, The Germans have their rights, and when we consider how many different duchies and States are em- braced under the German name, each with its own saint, we may imagine how many festivals will be needed. Then come our _ Spanish fellow citizens, who in happier days were wont to parade on every saint's day; the Italians, the Russians, the Greeks, the negroes, whose ancestral deities should not be altogether dishonored. We have our own | rights—our Eourth of July, our Eighth of January, our Twenty-second of February— and, with the present tendency to build statues over most men» who die, and in honor of some who are still alive and not yet in jail, no one knows how many more anniversaries. So that in time we shall have two or three 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 en- 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 Emperor William and His Military Bill in the Reichstag. There is a vague possibility that the most unlikely Parliamentary body in the world may become presently a centre of some political interest. 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 is an 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 s 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 of 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 traus- 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 | on such an occasion of so many distinguished | statesmen. Mr. John Roach did it because | \he 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 Houghton, | of California, because their States are on the | ocean the vessel is to sail. Messrs. Wheeler, of 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 fall. 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 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 of the seventy of the work he has been doing in this country. The mere delivery of the | seventy-five lectures Professor Proctor has 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 great attainments gee oesy, eho mom as 4n astronomer and his skill as a lecturer, which isin 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. | Hen Gate Improvement.—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 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 threatgfis 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 Carolina, to | anywhere in Nova Scotia, would run near this | | city. It is our earnest wish that nobody may | get a more rapid transit than isagreeable; but | we live in an age when nothing should sur- | prise us. If North Carolina and Nova Scotia | are respectively the ends of certain subterranean lines of communication—dreadful grooves, full of red hot what d’ye call it—and the fire | 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; thongh 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- son, and is a striking corroboration of the | article in the Hmnaup of Tuesday on the equi- | noctial outlook, presaging the premature ar- rival of spring. This terrible hurricane seems to have followed the course of the river, com- | ing, like the March tornado which desolated | East St. Louis in 1871, from the Great River | Valley ond 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- | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. come when the women’s rights women ought to interfere. The temperance women are really robbing them of ‘the almost ripe 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 spocial 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 amount 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 vast sum realized from cotton exports is equivalent to gold. But this Southern product supplies also our Own manufacturers with the raw material, and ia 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 furnishes. Of the imports, amounting to $663,617,147, not less than $100,000,000, prob- ably, come from 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 Ouba 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 Outrages. The frequent commission of acts of vio- lence by members of the police force chal- lenges public attention and gives evidence of a state of demoralization among the men charged with the protection of life and prop- erty which is truly 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- wary powers over the general body of citizens, and the introduction of a laxity of discipline truly dangerous. When it isremembered 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- sumes a 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 toshootor 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 squad of detectives in the middle of the night while endeavoring to defend bis home from 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 in his own house and requested two police 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 aniformed ruffians, with characteristic brutality, kicked her. For requesting two police officers to cease dis . turbing his house Mr. Kollman has been” clubbed so brutally that he lies at the point of 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 | | | | | New Hampshire election. waters by compelling the butchers to halt in their bloody work and go saved the lives of the survivors on board the ill-fated Virginius, is shortly to arrive in Now York city. The army and navy, we understand, intend to do him all honer. Let the Oaptain of the Niobe have a 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 goes, 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 odium 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 party in 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 eleo- 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 a policy of reform. Then, as o last resort, some fresh popular issue, on a 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 o 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 not, there are signs of that in the 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- licans alone and without popular measures. At present they have neither a taking plat- form nor able leaders. The question of frea | 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 ; ceded by excessive heat instead of by any | abetted himinhis midnight raid on McNamara’s | barometric indications, and are attended house by continuing him on the force. He is | by lightning and thunder and frequently | not even suspended, though alleged to be guilty | by haif, _The Pe 5 foe tg be en- | of the cold-blooded murder of an inoffensive | gendered only on the outside of larger | man. Th€ Total effect 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 | storm centres and to prevail only at periods when there are marked thermal contrasts | within small areas of country. Their prevision would be of incalculable value to the exposed | cities of the West, and it is believed that with | an increased number of meteorological sta- | tions the thermometric observations may one day enable science to forewarn endangered | | points of their approach. | Toe Tempzrance WomEN 1x THE West—A Reaction.—In Cincinnati on Tuesday night | the Germans held a mass*meeting, the object | | of which was to offer some effective 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 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. | Tabbies of German tastes did the principal hall was crowded at an early hour, and hun- dreds of persons found it impossible to gain admission. The German clergy and Jewish part of the speaking. 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 would seem that a Mameluke power is growing | up among us which despises all restraint | ot lawand 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 illegally and 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 @ protest, and we doubt not the police Mamelukes will find that their violence and | brutality will not pass without exemplary pun- ishment, Sm Lampton Losrarne, of the British ship Niobe. who did such noble service in Cuban blood | | future of both is uncertain. | money question is of erates i the Tcquptry.at the prevent time, but js full of difti- Sued and meri h orate 4 party one; | yetif there were democratic statesmes 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 has 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 MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA, The Question of Boundaries Between the Two States. RICHMOND, Va., March 18, 1874, Messrs. Isaac D. Jones, Jon W, Davis and James M. Dennis, commissioners, bearing the resolu. tions of the Legislature of Maryland regarding the | boundary line between that State and Virginia, were received here to-day by the General As- sembly of Virginia in joint session, Lieutenant Governor Withers welcomed the commissioners and assured them that the General Assembly was prepared to receive any communication they mignt nave to make. Mr. Jones, on the part of the com- missioners, expressed satisfaction at the cordiamity 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 should:that not ve accepted, then so take it as the temporary line, and reler the matter to arbitration. The matter will come be- fore the Legislature aa s00n aA the papers are arinied,