The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY ANO ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the Nzw Yorr Henry will be eent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | Four cents per copy. An- | day in the year. nual subscription price $12 All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Youx | Bena. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. i VOLUME XL.+--ssccscnseceescosscsccaesscsoeeNQ, 71 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATR i Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. Matinee ai 2 P. M. Ra ipa HALL, Sixteenth Broadway.—CALLENDER'S GEORGIA MESSiuais at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. Matinee at 230 P. M. $ closes at 1065 | THEATRE COMI No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. Pi; clowes at 10:48 STADT THEATR' -p REE JUDEN VON WORMS, ater. M.; M. Fanny Wilt Bo. 5 Bowe: closes at 10 x TONY PASTOR'S ore HOUSE, Peta 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 5 1’, M.; closes at 10:45 METROPOLITAN MUSECM OF ART, West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. rs toSP. M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Fourt| noe and Twenty-seventh street.—CIRCUS, Teornse AND SMTENAGERIE. afternoon and evening, atl an Lengiae Spd ee Arie er og . M.; closes at 1045 BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE West Twonty third street, near Sixth avenne. EEqRO MINSTRELSY. ac, at8 P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. Dan | Bryant Matinee atzP, M. GERMANIA renee 3 Fourteenth street.-GIROFLE GIROFLA, at 8 P. M.; closes at W451, M. Miss Lina Mayr. | | sary barbarities of war ; or was England right | humanitarians and to find them guilty of | for two missionary-establishments? And is | spires England with the fancy that wherever | | humanity is put forward as the pretence there | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1875,—-WITH SUPPLEMENT, The Political Condition ef Burope, Russia and England; the projected new laws of war; the new French Republic; Ger- many and the Pope; Germany and Spain; Germany and France; Germany and the rest of the world, in short—these are topics that are very lively now in Europe, and ruffle more than usually the surface of public thought. It may always remain a mystery whether | Russia was really sincere in her propositions in regard to the mitigation of the horrors of war. Was humanity truly her object? Did the Colossus of the North indeed come down to the level of human sympathies, and was the Conference of Brussels inspired by an honest | wish to establish between nations some gene- | ral rales as to the treatment of prisoners and wounded and the people of occupied countries, such as might lessen in some degree the neces- in the suspicion that the alleged purpose was only the cover forone far less acceptable? In England it is firmly believed that the proposi. tion to regulate war in the interest of humanity was only a dishonest mancuvre intended really to cripple and disarm the fee- bler nations, by securmg their adhesion to a set of rules that would practically put them at the mercy of Powers with great armies, simply because it would require them to sign away the right to use that last resort of patriotic resistance, ‘an armed people.” There is a singular inconsistency in the British character. No other country in the world equals England in the production of | diffuse philanthropy and cheap hardware. Witness her anxiety over our wickedness in regard to slavery and her exertions tor our welfare during twenty years before the war. Witness the millions she has spent in the ex- tension of the Gospel to all the heathens, especially the Hindoos. Note the money she has spent on Africa; and itis doubtful if in this generation she will get out of that country enough cotton to reimburse the smaller items of her expenditure. Yet that country of expansive philanthropy is the first to suspect the motives of other hypocrisy and falsehood and all the kindred | vices when they come forward with beautiful schemes that have the breath of the millen- nium in them. Is it the old difficulty about two of a trade? Is not Europe big enough it her knowledge of her own ways that in- is cheap hardware or some analogous reality | behind that standard? However this may be, BLO’S, —CORD AND CREESE, at § P.M. closes at | a 1045 P. E. Eddy. Matinee at2 P. M FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, FRET SE atree and Broadway —THE BIG BO. NANZ, M.; closes at lu 30 P.M, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Lewis "Wiss Davenport. Mrs, Gilbert.” Matinee at 130 Ly FUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street. near Sixth avenue.—MABIE STUART, SOP. M. ‘Mime. ori, PARK THEATRE, woreray French Opera Bouffe—GIROFLE-GIROFLA, — = 10:45 P. M. Mile. Coralie Geoffroy: GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE, . Le 585 Broadway.—VARIETY, ats P. M.: closes at 10:45 | . M. Matinee at2P. M. BOOTH'S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue. — HENRY V., at 8P.M.; closes atll P.M. Mr, Rignold. Matinee at 1:20 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner of Twenty-ninth street.—NEGRO | LSY, at8 P.M; Broadway. MINSTEE closes at 10 P.M. Matinee at Eighth street, sure : econ ant , tated ues. | a street tween second and m1 _ VARIETY. a8 PM. 2 P. oe WA Brosawar—THE S t8'P. M.: gloss at 045 P.M Mr. Bouc' ee at 1:30 P. M. .YN THEATRE, cK loses at 10: SOP. M. CA Mr. John McCullough. Nii WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway. corner of Thirtieth DENS, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 7. Wow oe our reports this morning the probabilities sre that the weather (o-day will be warmer and cloudy, with possibly rain or snow. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—Stocks gen- erally advanced, but the market was dull. Gold declined to 115}. Money was easy at 2} and 3 percent. Foreign exchange firm. Tae Lovistaxa AnpiTraTion ComsrrrEe met in this city yesterday, but no action was taken, owing to the absence of Mr. Frye. It is to be hoped the whole matter will be soon and satisfactorily adjusted and that peace and prosperity may follow the unsettled condition of a wronged and oppressed ‘Commonwealth. xt Sr. Axprew's Disaster is now supple- mented by the fall of the roof ot the Twenty- second regiment armory building, fortunately without joss of hfe. Our report shows, among other interesting facts, the enormous length of a police officer's round in that cen- tral portion of the city. Two Nrcrors were hanged in Maryland | yesterday, one at Belair and one at Easton. In the one case it was revenge and in the other greed that were gratified. There were the usual prayers and bymn singing in the | jail and then the revolting and degrading spectacles which make capital punishment so hideous. Tue Twrep Case in the proceedings upon the writ of habeas corpus was decided in the | Supreme Court yesterday by Judge Westbrook, both the verdict and the sentence being sus- tained. Thus there is another demonstration of the strength of the law in New York, and the fate of Tweed will long be a warning to corrupt men in the public service, Tae Srocxvis: Ixqv: EST, as it progresses, reveals greater carelessness and recklessness in the institutions on Blackwell's Island and among the police and in the police courts than appeared possiblo even after this case was first made public. The investigations must not cease until the whole subject is probed to the bottom, and then there must be stern and uneelenting panment. Toe Trovsnes: ov TAMMANY are about to begin. Fitz Kelly has at last resoived that Fitz Porter must do as he is desired to and distribute the patronage of the Department of Public Works according to the programme which Tammany Hall will lay before him. It is a very delicate matter for Fitz K. as well as Fitz P., and itis no wonder the former is alarmed, because the Heratp always prints | the news, and wants to act with greater secrecy hereafter. | that thought might well come from the coun- | paternal character, acquires the habit of look- | would make a queer political it remains a singular circumstance that | England, which is the professional philan- | thropist of the world, should be the only | Power in Europe to impugn the honesty of | | the philanthropy of Russis. With all that we do not pretend to say that England impugned Russia unjustly. It is true, however, that it is’ only in Russia that | any great piece of national benevolence has | been done within ‘the memory of very many generations, and if in this haphazard world | a thought should be given to the fact that the | creatures who go out as military machines to | defend and cast down empires are human | creatures, and worthy consideration as such, try in which many millions of slaves had been emancipated without the urgent pressure of | | necessity, and where the government, from its | ‘ | rejection of the monarchy there is no chance | ing upon the people with some paternal care. | Thoughttalness for human miseries is more | likely to come from such a quarter than from | Birmingham. | suspicious element in the case of the Russian | propositions that they were so thoroughly sat- It is, nevertheless, certainly a isfactory at Berlin. Indeed, it would scarcely be too much to say that a large number of them were a mere reduction to | writing of the usages of the Ger- mans while in France in the last war, and | this circumstance would be sufficient to justify almost any suspicion with regard to them. But whether Russia had really a philanthropic impulse, or whether she was induced to put forth a programme which rep- resents the purposes of Berlin, and was only not dated trom that city because no such pro- ject from tbat source would have received a moment’s consideration anywhere, it is clear enough that there is bad blood between England and Russia over their difference on this subject. This fact is likely to give inter- est to their relations as rivals and even opponents in Asia, as it gave its only signifi- - cance to the telegram we had some days ago from Calcutta, that an order had been re- ceived there to hold every regiment in readi- ness. It was, of course, not intended that such a fact should get out, and so it was denied the next day by authority, but some order of that nature none the less certainly went from England to India. In the attitude of these two Powers in Asia there is a relation | that inevitably leads to war, and the war that has got to come, and to which the minds are made up on either side, is always likely to blaze out on the occasion of irritation just like this that England has now excited in Russia. The next step that seems to be menaced in the battle of Prussia with the Pope may | give a new aspect to the whole case. It difficulty for Italy if Germany should suddenly deter- mine to hold the Italian government respon- | sible for the Pope ; yet such a case seems not unlikely to arise if the latest report ot the re- lations of the two governments is to be de- | pended upon. In what train of ideas stich a fancy should naturally come into the Prus- sian official mind is tolerably clear. Prussia has overcome all difficulties hitherto by the judicious application of military force, and when she finds herself thwarted or crossed in any project she looks around to see where she shall apply her military force against the source of the trouble. In the case of any im- pediment in the administration of her gov- ernment, the source of which is in 4 foreign country, she calls vigoronsly upon the gov- | ernment of that country fora remedy. She calls on Madrid vigorously at the present moment for redress for a grievance which originated with the Carlists, and, as the greatest of all her grievances comes from Rome, why should she not call }on Victor Emmanuel to suppress the cause or take the consequences? In the | Prussian view of the Pope there is nothing | whatever that should set him apart from the | likely to support the Papal authority, and it | would itself have supported that autuority | justin proportion as it was near to or far ‘trast it presents to the elevation of Arch- against Germany the liberty of action that Italy allows him has the appearance of a pref- ace to the more positive declaration to come by and by, that Italy must give some guaran- tee that the Papal liberty shall not be so abused any longer or it must suppress that liberty. It is logical enough that Germany | should deal with the Pope vigorously on the principles of international law, and allege that he has himself forteited all right to any observance of the exceptional position he holds in virtue of his sacred character as the head éf the Church. And if Germany declared outright that Italy must suppress the Pope, what then? Italy would have to do it, and, for aught that appears to the contrary, might be glad of the pretext. “From the fact that the possible usefulness of Italy to Germany has not yet reached its limit it is safe to believe that the alliance of these two Powers is still vital and that Ger many is ready to give any reasonable evidence of her grateful appreciation of the substantial favors she has received from her not over vig- orous ally. It is not forgotten at Berlin thatin 1866, when Prussia had not yet won her pres- ent towering position, it was Italy that detained at Custozza that part-of the Austrian army which, if it had been at Sadowa, might have been of inconceivable value to the Empire that went down. Neither is it overlooked that if Italy had taken a step toward France in 1870 sbe would have put not only her own, but, in all likelihood, an Austrian army also in the balance against Prussia. Lively remembrance of favors received and, if possible, repetitions to come, will, therefore, assure to Italy the highest cunsideration of which German states- men are capable, and consequently the rela- tions of the Pope as they might appear in the strict construction of international law will not be unduly pressed, unless” it is quite agreeable to Italy that pressure of this sort should be made. If Italian states- men find that it relieves them of any respon- sibility before parties at home to have a cer- tain line of policy with regard to the Pontiff forced upon them by pressure from a foreign government, Prussia is, of course, ready to render so small a service. These relations of the two Powers will be found perhaps to be of greater consequence in regard to the choice of a new Pope and in the dictation of his policy than they are likely to be with re- gard to Pius IX., for whom there is a very considerable support in the public opinion of Europe in virtue of his age, his long reign and his personal character. Public opinion will regard a new pontiff—no matter who he may | be—with far different sentiments. The existence of the Republic in France will also change very greatly the position of the Pope asa potentate. Indeed, it may re- sult from this fact that he will be left without a friend, nationally speaking, in Europe ; and it may be more than a coincidence that the step toward the development ot his helpless- ness, internationally, comes pat at the moment when the partyin France that might have sustained him is itself definitively overthrown. With the monarchy established in France it would have formed a rallying point for all the elements in any degree from the monarchy of divine right—that is | in the conception of the visionary pretender | to “the throne of Henry IV.”” But with the | for the Pope in France; Spain cannot lift a | hand in his favor, and the Catholic party in Italy can only look on hopelessly if Germany ‘should require the extinction of the semblance | of authority that glmmers at the Vatican. Whether this will provoke a widespread dis- content and revolt of the Catbolic popuja- tions—the fourteen millions of North Germany, the twenty-three millions of Austria, the thirty-five millions in France and the twenty- six millions in Italy—and prevent a savage return of the religious wars, may be a neat problem for that mystic politician who pre- dicted just before he became Prime Minister of England the early coming of a great struggle. “surgents. With the exile of their families and | thousands of the disaffected, who, under | Spanish lines. The American Cardinal. Nothing could be more graceful than the method by which a cardinalate was bestéwed upon Archbishop McCloskey, and the appoint- | ment itself is another evidence of the great wisdom Which has so long swayed the Roman Catholic Church. It was but natural that the Archbishop of Posen, in view of the persecu- tions he has suffered at the hands of Prince Bismarck, should be elevated to this dignity | as a recognition of his services and sufferings | in behalf of the Holy See. A similar honor | bestowed upon the Archbishop of New York, while it can have no such direct political sig- nificance, is even more noteworthy in the con- bishop Ledochowski. The distinguished Ger- man prelate was honored in part because he had suffered trom political persecutions. On the other hand the distinguished Ameri- can prelate was honored in part be- cause he neither seeks political in- fluence nor can be made to suffer from political persecutions. It is a practical dec- | laration that free institations are not incom- | patible with the spiritual dominion of the Cburch. In this view of the case republican liberty has gained a new victory in the ele- vation of Archbishop McCloskey, the news of whose appointment is now completely and un- mistakably confirmed by the special despatch | from Rome, which we print this morning. In a few days the distinguished Archbishop will be officially informed of his new dignity, and a little later the first cardinal’s hat ever brought to America will reach the city of New York. The event is in itself one of the most important in American history. That it is so regarded in Europe is apparent from the satisfaction it affords to the clerical repre- sentatives of the different nationalities in Rome, especially when it is remembered that Archbishop McCloskey’s elevation, apart from his personal merits, is viewed by the Pope himself as an express appreciation of Ameri- ean Catholics and as a compliment to the United States. American Protestants, as well American Catholics, will hail with plea- sure this double evidence of progress, where- by the influence of the Church is widened at the same time that republican liberty is strengthened and encouraged. From tHE scope of the investigation in the | Beecher case on Friday we presume that on Monday the whole question of the inspiration | | country and is of the highest significance, | especially as connected with the impending | ice floods and | For two or three days the thermometer has | the process of liquefaction now going on over | itnow demands the closest watching. | and escaped murderer, is allowed to remain | Of course, there is political feeling in this re- Valmaseda's Return. The complete triumph of the military party in Spain is worthily signalized by the restoration of Valmaseda to power in Cuba. The reappointment of this man, whose name is associated with deeds of cruelty and blood, may be regarded asa declaration of a war of extermination against the partisans of Cuban independence. The civilized world has not yot forgotten the slaughter of the Havana students, done with the sanction of this hidalgo Count Valmaseda. That was, how- ever, but the crowning act of a career of crime. Ifthe volunteers of Havana insisted on the slaughter of a number of schoolboys for a pretended desecration of Castafion’s tomb they but carried into practice the theories of government by terror which were promulgated by this model ruler, The outside world has little knowledge of the hundreds ot men suspected of dis- loyatty that during the rule of Valmaseda were torn from their families at night and hurried before a drumhead court martial, and, after the mockery of a trial, shot to death as a warning to their fellow countrymen that doubtful loyalty was as dangerous or rather more so than active participation with the rebellion. He it was also that made war on the families of the rebels a prominent featuro of his system of repression. The suffering and distress caused by his attempt to stamp out the insurrection by stamping out the Cuban people have scarcely had a parallel since Alva deluged the Netherlands in blood or Cromwell desolated Ireland. So long as the Cuban people exist this man will be named only to be execrated. Could thd in- surrection have been suppressed he ‘would have accomplished the work. He was ‘‘thor- ough.” There was no measure, however infamous, no policy, however cruel and bloody, that he was not willing to employ for the achievement of his aim; and yet he failed. Like most tyrants he overreached himself. Had he only used half the severity he em- ployed against the insurgents he might have succeeded. But to the terror inspired by his acts succeeded horror and despair. Valma- seda may be said to have changed the Cuban nature, The wholesale deportation of the families of the men im arms deprived the Spanish party of one of the most powerful levers for compelling the surrender of the in- the destruction of their prop inaugurated by Valmaseda they were left like Satan and his legions. With rallied arms to try what may be yet Regained in heaven, or what more lost in hell. It was then the war of retaliaiion and vengeance, since waged with such terrific effect, began on the part of the Cubans. ‘They learned from Valmaseda the use of the torch, and now the returned Captain General can almost see the flames of the burning planta- tions from his palace. He will find the work of dealing with tho insurrection more diffi- cult than in his celebrated march through Camaguey, a feat we venture to predict he will not repeat. Perhaps the most important and immediate effect of the advent of this | man will be to drive into open insurrection | mulder governments, were content to aid in- directly their countrymen in arms. This class knows well that with Valmaseda in power there will be more safety for them in the Cuban encampments than within the We may, therefore, look for | large accessions to the insurgents already in arms and the waging of the war with in- creased vigor and more pronounced ferocity by both parties. The Weather and the Rivers. The warth weather of yesterday is a good | evidence of the arrival of spring and the establishment of its balmy influence at an early day. It is true that the new season will have to assert its supremacy through a pro- tracted equinoctial battle with the old, in which there must be many fluctuations of fortune till the middle of next month; but the change ot temperature during the last week has been very marked all over the freshets in the rivers, remained above the freezing point, with scarcely any interruption, even at night, in | most parts of the Middle States. This has | been the case in this city, where, since Sun- day last, mild, melting weather has prevailed and the average diurnal temperature has been | above 32 degrees, It is hardly likely that the next day or two can be cold enough to arrest the snow-clad country drained by the Dela- ware, Hudson, Susquehanna and their tribu- taries. Whatever dangers, therefore, there may have been from floods in these streams | they are now increased, and if the situation called for caution during the first of the week The Sharkey Case. The position in which our government is | placed by the fact that Sharkey, a condemned | | at large in Havana, and even to commit mur- | derous assaults upon American citizens, is not a pleasant one. We observe that one of the Spanish officials is reported, in a recent letter | from Havana, as saying that there is no more reason why Sharkey should not remain at large in Cuba than that the Cuban Junta should have permission to exist in New York. mark, which we respect. But let us look at the case clearly. Two years ago an American citizen escaped from England, where he was | under indictment for forgtry. He fled to Havana. _ The English government thereupon | asked President Castelar to return him to | England to be tried for an offence of which | he was presumed to be innocent until he had been proved guilty. There was | no treaty of extradition between the two countries. But President Castelar did not say that, because England aliowed the Carlist Junta to raise money in London and bny supplies for Don Carlos, he would not deliver up the forger to be tried for his alleged crimes. He did return him to England, where he was tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life—a sentence which he is now undergoing. Now, Sharkey is derer; not under under sentence of death. We have no ex- tradition treaty with Spain any more than common category of international grievances, of the Seriptewes will be commidered by the | England had, and yet it seems that our diplo- and the intimation few given that he employs | learned counsel, macy is so powerless that we cannot induce a mur. | indictment merely, but | the Spanish government to send back this wretch to answer for his crime. The argu- ment that the Cuban Junta exists in New York, and that, therefore, American murder- ers should be allowed liberty in Havana, would certainly not for a moment weigh in the mind of an enlightened Spanish statesman. The Painful fact is this, that the American government, with all its power, is not able to do as much to protect its citizens against murder as the Bank of England was enabled to do to protect its vaults against a forger. The Three Points. If Governor Tilden, Mayor Wickham and John Kelly, the triumvirate who now control the destinies of New York, will only learn one lesson from New Hampshire and devote them- selves to the building up and strengthening of the city they will give their party a power they bid fair to squander. The three points that New York city requires to stimulate its growth are:—First, rapid transit; second, the Brooklyn Bridge; third, the Jersey Tunnel. Nor are these points so difficult of attainment. Already we have rapid transit. from Forty- second street to Harlem and from Thirty- fourth street to the Battery. Now, have we not genius enough to connect this link so as to enable our citizens, within sixty days, to go from the Battery to Westchester by stesm? The Brooklyn Bridge is well under way. Let us bmild this. work and then establish steam communication from the City Hall to all that country lying beyond Brooklyn. Then let us tunnel the Hudson, so that the great lines that bring New York so much of its trade shall not be compelled to throw their wealth and prosperity into other States, The time will come when the citizen of New York will leave his business, enter a steam car near the City Hall, and select his route, either for Long Island, Westchester or’ New Jersey. Whoever achieves this will do for New York a work only equalled in great- ness by the building of the Erie Canal. And if our literary statesmen, who are now writing long letters to each other about trivial matters of patronage, would rise to the level of their duty they would give themselves imperishable renown and add largely to the strength of their party. The Board of Health and the Water. Many functions of our city government are done too little; but there are some others that if not actually done too much are at least | in a superfluity of hands. There seems to be no adequate provision—scarcely any provision whatever—for securing the purity of articles of daily consumption—food, beverages and medicines that the people buy in ten thousand shops to the great profit of small and dis- honest traders; but our Croton water has the benefit of a double guardianship, and yet it is not pure. It is cared for by the professors— more or less learned—of our phenomenal Board of Health, and it is in the hands of the Croton Board. Exactly what is the limit of the function on the part ot these respective authorities is mot clear, but the limit ap- pears to fall on either so far short as to leave outa large space in the middle, and that space the important one in which pro- vision should be made for the healthfulness and suitableness of the water fora common beverage. Croton isat present notagreeable to theeye. Dr. Chandler, President of the Board of Health, has given to one of our reporters his opinion that the water is not unhealthy, and in evidence the analysis of a scientific assistant. Yet the Doctor is probably aware that noxious principles in air, water or food escape analysis altogether. Every Jersey- man knows that if he lives at the edge of a swamp in the flats on the Jersey Central he will get fever and ague, but none of the chemists can find in the air the fever poison. |In the ward of a half dozen smallpox patiente, where the unprotected could not escape the contagion, analysis cannot dis- cover in the air what communicates that disease. So with the water; our chemical processes may be too clumsy to detect the trouble, but it is there. Fortunately, though the chemists cannot measure and weigh the fever poison, all know how to avoid the fever; and if it cannot be declared altogether how water becomes unhealthy the processes for making it healthy are susceptible df distinct | formulation; and if‘attendance to these is not required of the Croton Board by the Board of Health it is delinquent in its public duties, and we beg to call its attention to the fact that this delinquency is far more serious than that of the Department of Buildings which recently resulted in the Duane street calamity. Tae Br to Provipz for the aid and sup- port of the poor in the counties of Ene, Kings and New York, has passed the Assem- bly and goes to the Senate. Such a law may be necessary under the amended constitution, and Mr. Campbell’s bill may fully meet the necessity, but the subject is of such grave sideration of the Senate. We have the author- ity of the leading members of the constitu- tional commission, who framed and adopted the amendments, that the clause in relation to the aid and support of the local poor was not intended to affect and does not affect the appropriation of moneys authorized by law to be appropri- ated to our institutions of charity. It is be- lieved that all the laws authorizing such ap- propriations, including that for the distribu- tion of the excise moneys, are as constitu- tional and operative now as they were before the adoption of the amendments. It is there- fore very desirable that a friendly case should | be made in order to secure an early judicial decision on these points, If new legislation is needed the law on the subject should be very carefully framed and guarted. Sorsarevaxnune Watuina was tried before the Board of Police Commissioners yesterday, on the charge of keeping prisoners in custody over twenty-four hours without bringing them before a police magistrate. admitted, but justified on the ground that the Superintendent could not comply with the law, because the Police Commissioners were not in session during the time the men were in custody at headquarters, and on the addi- tional ground that justice would have been | evaded had he not acted as he did, We do not wish to prejudge the Superintendent or | to judge him harshly, but one thing is very plain—namely, that he cannot trust the police courts, which is necessarily the position he has assumed. Upon this point the whole question really hinges. | injure property to the extent of £1 A Cheerfal Spring. All the indications poirt to a cheerful spring, with fine business prospects and en- ergy in trade. The long winter is breaking, our people are recovering from the prostrating effects of the panic. There is much activity in commercial circles. The farmers are pre paring for their crops. In every branch of in- dustry and commerce we have cheerful signs. It is time that this “long strike,’ as it were, this long season of depression, shculd come to an end. And there is no reason why it should not end. All we want is energy, patience and confidence, Above all things, however, we desire to prevent our people from plunging into a déeper panic by giving way to the Big Bonanza fever which now rages in Wall street. We desire to sce our business pulsing and throbbing with the activity of health, and not feverishly beating with the activity of disease. Now that spring opens so brightly, and now that our business heavens are bathed in sunshine; the future brightening with hope, we cannot be too cares ful in avoiding the speculations of Wall street, in keeping away from fancy stocks and using our money in honest business interests and investments, and not throwing it at the feet of desperate gamblers, who live only by dee ceiving and plundering the public, ——— A New Quvestion.—This is not pleasant reading that we have from Mexico of this massacre of Protestants in Acapulco and other places. It is a delicate thing for any government to interfere with the internal management of other governments, and especially to take sides in a religious ques- tion, Mexico has been distressed sorely by the controversies between the Church and the anti-Church parties. But wemust remember, also, that the United States is a Protestant country, and that, while we grant freedom of conscience to every religion, that the Prot. estant. denominations are the majority. Now it seems to us a question worthy of com sideration whether our government should not insist upon neighboring republics re- specting the rights of conscience and pyo- tecting Protestants in their faith. It becomes ® very serious question whether we really protect our citizens if Americans can be mur- dered in Acapulco, because they do not believe in the Catholic faith, We trust that our government will give attention to this matter. Our protection of religious freedom at home is of little value if we fail to compel respect for the religion of our fellow citizens in other countries. Tue New Sznarorn From Micuican, Mr. Christiancy, made his maiden speech,in the Senate yesterday on the Pinchback case. The speech is one that is noteworthy as an indica- tion of the policy of the independent repub- licans who have come into the Senate, and shows a better and purer tone than was usual in the last two or three years. Evidently Mr. Morton and Mr. Conkling are to have a new and dangerous element to battle. against. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The Prince Imperial wiil be Cele to the Fifth Royal Irisn Lancers. “Genévidve de Brabant” was playea in Paris last month—tor the frst time. Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, ts residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Solicitor Bluford Wilson, of the Treasury De- partment, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Brevoort House, Judges Sanford, of New Haven, and Beardsley, of Bridgeport, Conn., are among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Comptroller Nelson K. Hopkins and Senator Albert G. Dow arrived from Albany last evening at the Fifth AvenueHotcl. Disraeli has the gout, and an Englishman who beligves in homceopachy has writtey him to try “pryunia alternated with rnus tox.” Among the caliers on His Excellency the Presi- dent yesterday were Senators Kernan, of New York, and Randoiph, of New Jersey, Congressman Lyman K. Bass and wife, of Buf falo, arrived at the St. James Ilotel yesterday and ‘will sail for Europe to-day io the steamer Weser, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn’s charge to the jury in the Tighborne case 1s published, It ta about the same leng+n as Gidbon’s ‘‘Liistory of the Decline and Fall.”” Senators Daniel H. Cole and Jonn h. Selkreg and Assembiymen F. W. Vosburgh and James 0. Brown arrived at the Motropolitan Hotel last night from Albany. Punch tarnishes this inscription for the front of the idiot asylum founded by Mr. Holioway, who made his fortune in “patent meuicines :”— “Not oft is fate so just—see wealth restored Back to the simple +ource !rom which it poured.” Dr. Jonn P. Newman, alter an absence of two years irom the United States, traveling in a gov- ernment capacity in the East, will return fo the charge of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church of Washington, as tts pasior, where le previously served for three years. Some Edinburgh students sent a “friendly ad- | dress” to Paris students “recommending the ex- amination of religious truth;” but the Paris stu- dents reiused to hear it read, Perhaps their in- tolerant tll manners are no worse than the imper- tinence of the British disposition to mind other people’s business. In Spain rooms are not warmed by stoves or | fireplaces, as there are not brains enough in that importance that it should receive the best con- | country to understand these contrivances. They use braziers’ brass dishes ull of coals, and all the gas remains in the room. Alfonso s room was warmed this way at Avila, and His Majesty was partly asphyxtated, but recovered. Baron Rothschild recently visited the oMce of one of his empioyés on the Northern Railroad, where he was notexpected, He was startled at the magnificent productions of spider wed in all the upper corners of the room and referred to the sfidject. “Monsieur the Baron,” said the man, | leave them so on purpose. Otherwise, the walls would be ruined by the fies.” The Grand Duchess Marie recently bought in France the upholstery of a bedchamber, all in the finest point d’Alencon lace. It was made for Marie Antoinette, but the Revolution prevented her buying tt. It was given to Marte Louise by Napoleon on the occasion of their marriage, and was sold after the hundred days. The latest roya) purchaser paid only 25,000 francs. it was no secret in France that the republicans were all agreed that ifthis present Assembly should re-establish the monarchy they would oppose the validity of the government on the ground that the Assembly had not constituent powers and transcended its authority in pretending to set up any government whatever. But now thatit has established the republic they may reconsider that | theory. The charge was + There are 4,000,000 cats In Great Britain, and tt 1s estimated that each cat kilis an average of twenty mice or rats every year. It is estimated further that every rat or mouse, if it lived, would sterling. If ali this is true, pussy saves to that country every year $400,000,000, and she might pay off tho national debt if she chose. Recently, during the pantomime at one of tne Dablin theatres, a clown entered and said, “I fee) rather Moody.’ The pantaloon rejoined, “And } feel rather Sankey-montous,” at which the gallery hissed furtousiy, and some one struck up “Hold the Fort, for 1 Am Coming,” one of the revivalisi hymns, and the whole assembly in the higher story joined in the chorus heartily. The eurtass fell until the hymn was concluded,