The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD ABET. EERE N BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ei onl oes GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO 8U BSC ‘RIBERS, —On and 1875, the daily and weekly | ES JAME after January 1, editions of the New York Hxraxp will be | sent free of postage. pa ha All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. 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 Xt... AMUSEMENT. ROBINSON BALL Sixteenth street and — Broad GBORGIA MINSIRELS, at 5 P. —CALLENDER'S esat 10 P.M TH No. 54 Broadway. —' rM, OMIQUE, pouse, TONY PASTOR'S OP. ; closes at 10:45 No, 201 Bowery.—VAKIETY, at 5 PM. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM CF AR’ West Fourteenth street.—Open from 10 A. 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SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Twenty-vinth street—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, av8 P. M.; closes at lu P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Fighth street. between second a a Third avennes.— VARIETY, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 12 P. ’3 THEATRE, IRAUN, ate P. M.: closes at FARIS BY NIGHT. YN THEATRE, Brook’ ats P.M; vu. closes at Broadway, NTE CHRISTO, aca P.M? corner Tri irtieth str SP oses at 10:45 Y. M. SAs-sA OU ; Closes at 10:45 QUADRUPLE SHEED, sew YORK, _ SUNDAY, MARC! oa i, 1875, on our reports this morning Gthe probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly clowly. Wau Srneer. —Stocks were firm. The bank statement showed an important loss of gold. Foreign exchange was steady and money on call was sbundant at 2} a 3 per cent. THE Loum ISIANA "ARBITRATION ComaiTrrEe held another session in this city yesterday, but no conclusion was reached. Waar Ove Great Men Beecher trial is shown in our report to-day. It is impossible not to agree with the general opmion expressed by so many intelligent wuinds. Tue S$ 1s above the Port Jervis ice gorge are gradually rising, but there is no great-change in the general situation. The nitro-glycerine gave out yesterday, but the ice does uot show apy symptoms of exhaus- tion. Tue Invesricatton of the malpractice case in Brooklyn began yesterday, and the mystery has already been dispelled. Four persons are * | journey to Rome for the purpose of comply- ais ?. ML; closes at 10:45 | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1875--QUADRUPLE SHEET His Eminence, Cardinal McCloskey. It is more than two hundred years since the style of address was adopted—by a decree ot Pope Urban VII. in 1630—which makes Eminence the title of cardinals. Their pre- vious title, ustrissimi, was of equal dignity, ; but the word was selected with less sobriety | of taste. It is not probable that Archbishop McCloskey sets much personal value ou the | style of address, but the Catholics of this country and particularly of this archdiocese, will gratefully appreciate this recognition by | the bead of their Church. When the intelli- gence first reached this country, a few days | ago, that the Pope intended to raise Arch- bishop McCloskey to the Cardinalate, he ex- pressed a sentiment of regret. We do not suppose that this was a mere expression of | personal modesty or. Christian humility, but think it rather implied a sense of the in- | convenience to which his ecclesiastical promotion would subject both him and his flock. He had, at that | time, no reason to expect that the ordinary | usage, which requires newly appointed car- dinals to repair to Rome and receive the red hat from the hands of the Pope, would be re- laxed in his favor. It would be a serious in- terruption of his pastoral duties to make a ing with a mere ceremonial. Our despatch from Rome, printed yesterday, indicates that the established usage is to be waived in the case of the American Cardinal. There can be no doubt of the authority of the Pope to deviate from it in his diseretion for sufficient reasons. A newly appointed cardinal receives a red eap and a red hat as marks or symbols of his office. According to the usage of many cen- | turies the cap is given to the cardinals by the Pope if they are at Rome, and is sent to them if they are absent; but the hat has never nation of Christians can regard it as of small consequence, One of the despatches from Rome, which we printed yesterday, repeats from the Voce di Verita a statement that “the Pope confers the cardinal’s hat on Archbishop McCloskey not only on account of the personal merits of that prelate but be- cause the Holy See is desirous of honoring | the Catholics of America and of marking the progress of Catholicism in the United States."’ ‘There is no room to doubt that “the progress ot Catholicism in the United States’’ has been very remarkable. When John Carroll, of Maryland, was, in 1790, made the first Catholic bishop in America, there were less than forty thousand people in this country belonging to that communion. In 1808, when six additional American bishops were appointed, the Catholic population amounted to only one hundred and fifty thousand souls. In 1850 there were twenty-seven Catholic bishops in the United States and a Catholic population of about one million and a half. At present—we follow Catholic authorities and statisticians who may perhaps exagger- ate—the Catholic population of the country is about six millions. If this estimate be even approximately correct the extraor- dinary growth of that communion is fitted to arrest attention and deserves the profound consideration of all Catholits and all Protest- ants, and, indeed, of all intelligent citizens who take an interest in the higher aspects of our national life. Subjects of this class, which engage the attention of every enlight- encd traveller in a foreign country, cannot be deemed trivial by anybody who desires to reach a correct estimate of the play of moral forces in the United States. Protestants and Catholics have an equal interest in such facts; and it is the facts, rather than their recogni- tion by the Pope, which challenge public at- tention. The creation of a cardinal, who, for been conferred except by the Pope’s own hand. The red cap is in the nature of a notification ; the conferring of the red hat is a full investiture, which completes the title to the office. The cardinal’s cap is called a Tanz of the | under arrest for supposed complicity in the | death of the young woman, and against some ot them the testimony is direct, Mr. Joun “Mircemy was elected the second time by an immense majority, but that is no | reason why the people ot Tipperary who re- fused to illuminate their houses in his honor thould be mobbed. The tact, however, shows how embittered the Irish people have become becanse of the attempt to exclude trom Parlia- ment their favorite representative. Tue Bustess Prospects this spring are certainly improving, and among the indica- tions of an active revival of trade are the ad- vertising columns of the Henavp to-day. This increasing advertising patronage is always a | healthy sign, and the probabilities are that we shall have a brisk and busy spring in New | York. Tae Patnonace or Tammany.—How Tam- many proposes to divide the spoils upon a mathematical basis is detailed elsewhere, and the figures will be read with as much interest ag the purchasers of lottery tickets read the announcement of prizes. The chances of get- ting offices are about equal to those of draw- ing lucky numbers, and thousands of demo- cratic statesmen are destined to be dreadfully disappomted. ‘Tue Pivcurack Case will be soon decided, and the debate in the Senate is, therefore, re- garded with more than usual attention by the | country. 18 opinions of the newly-elected | Senators ure especially important as intima- tions of their future policy in respect to the | South. Yesterday Senator Whyte, of Mary- land, made a powertul argument against Mr. Pinchback’s admission and quoted the Presi- Gent as ove of his authorities, | berrelta, and the statement of our intelligent M.; | correspondent at Rome that the berretta is to be sent at once by special messengers and the cardinal’s hat to follow atterward in the care of an ecclesiastic of higher dignity, indicates that the old distinction between the two is to be observed while releasing the American Cardinal from strict observance ot the estab- lished ecclesiastical etiquette. The berretta will | be an authentic official notice of his elevation, and the sending of the hat by a church digni- tary dispenses the Archbishop from the duty of the European cardmals to go to Rome and receive it from the hands of the Pope. The berretta, or red cap, is to be sent at once, without waiting until after the equinoctial | | storms before the papal messengers cross the | | ocean, which, we suppose, is the reason of the inquiry respecting the safest lines of steam- | ships and their days of sailing. The Catho- | lies of this country will think the value of the | Pope's recognition or compliment is enpanced by the deviation from usage which exempts the American Cardinal from the duty of a long journey to Rome ona point of ceremonial etiquette. This, at least, is the interpretation which we put upon the discrepancy between | our despatch from Rome and the ordinary | usage according to which the cardinal’s hat could be received only trom the hands of the , Pope himself. | Archbishop McCloskey acquires new dig- | nity, but no additional power by this gracious | and complimentary act. He is precluded by | distance from participating in the most im- portant functions of the Sacred College. The me most important of all, that of electing a new = | Pope, although in the course of nature it tmaust soon devolve on the College of Cardi- nals, must be performed under conditions which wi!] not permit Cardinal McCloskey to take part init. The conclave meets for this purpose on the tenth day after the demise of | a Pope—a period so short that an American | Cardinal could not be present unless he should happen to be accidentally in Europe | at the time. The other functions of the | cardinals are chiefly local, appertaining to the | | civil and ecclesiastical administration of the Papacy. ‘The cardinals have always been | the princes and chief dignitaries of the Roman States. During the long period before the Pope was stripped of his temporal power they held the highest offices in his civil government as well as in his ecclesiastical adminis- tration. A large majority of the car- | dinals have always been, and still are, Itahans; but their functions have been dwaried and narrowed since the assumption by King Victor Emmanuel of civil jurisdiction in the States of the Church. Unless the tem- poral power of the Pope should be recovered there is no longer any reason why so large a proportion of the cardinals should be Italians; but it is not probable that this consideration has in any degree influenced Pope Pius in elevating an American Archbishop to the Cardinalate. Besides testifying his personal regard for Archbishop McCloskey he has | merely intended to recognize the impor- tance of the Catholic Church in the United | States. The interest of our Protestant population in this event is very slight—perhaps too slight—becanse they look merely at its in- | trinsic value. As compliment of the Pope to his Catholic children in America it is of bo conseqnence to them; and, from their point of view, it is a mere compliment, They are too intelligent to think it adds to the real power of Archbishop McCloskey, and they | accordingly feel no sort of apprehension or alarm, as if the conferring of a mere title, accompanied with no real authority, could | endanger any Protestant intcrest in this coun- try. A cardinal’s red hat is no more to them | than the astical robes worn by the | Archbishop in the services of his Cathedral. From 8 point of view their judgment is | correct and their indifference fully justified ; but they cannot afford to be indifferent to the facts, or assumed facts, on which this high compliment is No intelligent man | | wishes to ignore the moral and religious sta- | eccile based, tistics of his own country any more than its | statistics of population and material re- | sour The growth and strength of the various religious denominations are of even greater interest to the better class of minds, | whether Catholic or Protestant, than the pro- | | | of the country. If Catholicism has made such headway in the United States as ita ad- | the Board of Health, recently stated, it may be | in fact, due to the mineral substances that | instance probably of extensive harm caused _ impurities which the President of the Board | | substances. , half the people of great city. | him or her the stain of unort! | doubt, an excellent Christian, but his relig- gressive development of the physical resources | geographical reasons, cannot be expected to discharge the customary duties of that office, on the express ground ‘‘of marking the prog- ress of Catholicism in the United States,’ cannot rationally be regarded with indiffer- ence by any of our religious sects. The selection of Archbishop McCloskey for | this distinction is a joint tribute to his per- sonal worth and the importance of his arch- diocese. The number of Catholics in the archdiocese of New York is estimated to be six hundred thousand, while the next highest, that of Baltimore, is only two hundred and fifty thousand ; that of Cincinnati, two hun- dred and twenty thousand; that of New | Orleans, two hundred thousand, and of the | two or three other archdioceses still leas, If | an American Catholic was to be raised to the Cardinalate, there can be no question of the | eminent fitness, both on personal grounds and the importance of his charge, of the se- | | lection already made. Archbishop McCloskey | | will wear this unsought honor with the meek- | ness of a Christian, and, while he fulfils every requirement of propriety by grateful acknowl- edgements to the Pope, he will unostenta- tiously pursue the even tenor of his way in the assidious discharge of his duties precisely as if this high distinction ‘had not been con- | ferred upon him. It can hardly increase the | respect and affectionate attachment of his co- religionists, although they will rejoice in this recognition of the American branch of their | Church and cordially approve of the fitness of the choice. Pure Water. We print in another column an article of interest at the present moment in the water | supply of cities. It is contributed by General Viele to the Sanitarian, It does not exhaust the subject, but rather touches and indicates its important points, and deals with them capably as far as it goes. Dr. Chandler, of remembered, that the impurities now found in | the Croton water are ‘‘mainly organic,’’ and “not harmful.’’ Water is correctly contem- plated from the standpoint of a directly con- trary theory in the article to which we refer. Dangerous impurities in water are nearly always not only “mainly organic,’’ but exclu- sively organic. If the goitre found in the Alpine valleys and among the dwellers on the sides of mountains in some other countries is, abound in the water, that is the most marked by the presence in the water of inorganic “impurities.” But every case of pestilential or malarious visitation due to contaminated water arises from the presence of that class of of Health deals with lightly as merely organic | Cholera, for instance, is spread through the contamination of the water by the presence of specific organic impurities, infinitesimal, perhaps, in quantity, and that defy detection by every known process of chemistry or the microscope. Water that the chemists of a Board of Health, or any other chem'sts, would declare absolutely pure might yet spread a disease that would destroy | Some other assurance, therefore, than any the chemists can give is needed for the purity of the water of this city. At this moment the thawing snow is carrying into the Croton River the washings of half the barnyards in a large sec- tion of Putnam and Westchester counties, and the washings of the whole surface as well, in- cluding, perhaps, many points even less fragrant than barnyards, for, startling as it must appear, an adequate process of filtration is utterly ignored by the authorities. A Suggestion for the Beecher Trial, A notable trait of the Beecher trial is the inquisition madeinto the religious belief of the witnesses. So far no one has been allowed to testify without an attempt of the lawyers of one side or the other to fasten upon | loxy. We do not understand what is gained by | this. The jury are not all blue-light Presby- terians, or close communion Baptists, or rigid Methodists, The lawyers have been selected, so far as we know, without regard to their religious opinions. Judge Neilson is, no ious belief was not looked into, Why, then, | the witnesses’? Is it not a little ridiculous in Evarts and Fullerton and the rest of the Bar to be badgering a witness about the Divinity of Christ and the church he attends? The Christian religion is not on trial before Judge Neilson. It will survive the verdict of the.| jury. Bat if the religious faith of the witnesses is i more 80, and we should like the Judge to ex- amine Mr. Evarts and Mr. Fullerton, Mr. Beach, Mr. Tracy, Mr. Shearman and the rest publicly in the catechism and what they believe about the Christian religion. Such an examination, in which Mr. Beach might cross-examine Mr. Evarts and Mr. Fullerton Mr. Tracy, would make the trial a little inter- esting. At present it is fearfully dull, and, after all, nobody cares where the witnesses go to church, or how often, while the whole country would.read with interest Mr. Evarts’ confession of faith and his account of how he usually spends the § Sabbath. «John Doe.” The inquest in the case ot the late Jacob B. Stockvis shows at every step of its progress that a peculiar danger menaces the citizen of New York in any emergency where physical and mental misfortune ought to invoke for him the protection of the police. The story ef Mr. Steckvis isa singularly pathetic one. Leaving his home in the morning against the wishes of his family he was suddenly stricken bya disease and rendered speechless. His mind also was affected, In this condition Officer Fallon found him, and he was taken to the station house, where he was locked up over night as ‘John Doe,’’ upon a charge of intoxication. He was brought to the police court in the morning, still speechless and de- ranged, looking, according to Mr. Justice Flam- mer, as if he had been on a long debauch. Here a most remarkable scene was enacted. Not only did the Judge accept the charge of intoxication without inquiry, but of his own motion and without any apparent reason he added to it an accusation of ‘‘ccllecting a crowd and fighting.” And so the prisoner was sent to tue Island for six months, where he was locked up with two ‘tharmless’’ luna- tics and no further attention paid to him. In the meantime his friends made unavailing search for him, and though soliciting the aid of the police obtained no assistance from that quarter. His discovery in a cell at the Work- house was accidental, and then it was found not only that he had had no medical atten- tion from the time of his arrest, but that he was dying. There is something so asiound- ing in the bare recital of this story that had the facts been the basis of a romance they would have been regarded not only as im- probable but impossible. The experience of Jacob Stockvis may be | the fate of any citizen of New York. This is | a view of the case to alarm and shock the entire community. If it could befall this man it may happen to any one of us, and will continue to threaten so long as the ‘John Doe’’ theory is acted upon. Even the expla- nations of the police and the Workhouse offi- cials only intensify the alarm, while they show that the danger cannot be exaggerated. Because a man happens to be intoxicated is no reason why he should be tossed about from one officer to another in utter disregard of his rights as a citizen. The testimony in the Stockvis case shows that his treatment was the result of the system and not a mere acci- dental series of abuses. Officer Fallon and the sergeant to whom he turned over his pris- oner are not necessarily bad men at heart because they carelessly mistook paralysis for intoxication. Justice Flammer, though he was wrong and reckless, was not intentionally cruel and unjust. Tie officers and physicians | of the Workhouse—even the young doctor who works for “board and washing”—had no intention to alloy a felloy man to die from sheer neglect and inattention. Yet the results could not have been more deplorable if their motives had been as base as their acts were unjustifiable. The wrong is inthe system, which has been allowed to deteriorate until there is no longer any feeling of responsibility or sense of duty in the public service. There is no reverence tor the law or for its forms | among those charged with its enforcement. Justice, or what ought to be justice, is loosely administered ; but this carelessness is not con- fined to policemen and police judges and hos- pital wardens and physicians. It pervades every department and even society itself. It caused the St, Andrew’s church disaster. It enabled Superintendent Wal- ling to satisfy his conscience in ting aside the law by complying with its purpose and spirit. It was the late Mayor Havemeyer’s defence of Charlick and Gardner. | Personal derelictions spring from the rotten- ness ot the system, and until the system is tions we may expect accidents and outrages to befall us in the future as they have befallen | us in the past. The subject is one not to be lightly treated gid no more injury than this there would be | We have a complete | and thorovgh reform in every department of | or forgotten in an hour. the city government. The Board of Alder- men have done well in profiting by the les- sons of the St. Andrews disaster and moving for greater security in public buildings. Reform must not stop with the Department of Buildings, but reach every bureau in every department, so that the citizen may no longer be a football to be kicked by every official in whose path he may chance to fall. The Fourth Avenue Improvement. This great public work, which will be re- membered with the old Roman roads that now excite the admiration of travellers, is coming toanend. It is a work that bas at- tracted the attention of the whole world. From Rome, Florence, Naples and Genoa, from Paris, Berlin and Brussels, from Dublin, Longford and Mullingar applications have been received from unemployed statesmen to assist in bringing it to completion. It will go down to posterity, carrying with it the lessons of the age in which we live. But only those who study the inside history of the revolution which swept over Tammany Hall two years ago can see what thé real value of this work | has been in a political sense. There is no harm in onr stating now that the Fourth avenue inprovement has been the refuge and the hope of the survivors of the late Tweed empire. ‘Consider, oh, great Pompey,” says Cicero, ‘to what changes the human life is subject!” ‘The best way,” says Emerson, “to find gold is to dig for it."’ Here are the statesmen, the bosom friends of Tweed and Sweeny, the learned Judges, Senators, Alder- men, Assemblymen, digging and delving, and dreaming of the splendor of the Americus Olub of the days when ‘Big Six” was master of Tammany, and when even the members of the Manhattan Club were only too anxious to subscribe to a statue to his fame, When we think of the late supervisors, ardu ously labor- ing until the sweat pours from their brows, yooates claim we do not sce how any denomi- | important that of the lawyers must be much | boring into the rocks, and thinking of the set- | | munity. | their intellectual giants these parades ex- retormed and the law obeyed in all its exac- | | alone they take thousands of men from their | of doing much good for the weak and helpless days when they were boring for rocks in the Treasury; when we think of the Common Councilman who once controlled his ward as absolutely as Casar mastered Rome, now de- voting his energies to the mule, the saw and the pickaxe, thinking of the point of order he once raised in the unfinished and unfinishable Court House, we see what this Fourth avenue improvement has been in our modern. politics. But may it not be that from this noble work may come that revolution which the Fitz Kellys and the friends of the Empire earnestly crave? Will the Fitz Kellys con- tinue to be patient workers in granite and stone—the Fitz Kellys, with eighty thousand votes, while the Fitz Porters, who cannot muster one hundred on a rainy day, sit and simper over champagne and delight their souls in rare viands and quietly accumulate all the patronage of this great city? These are the men who voted early and often, who were perfectly willing, also, to vote in the names of the fashionable and stay-at-home Fiuz Porters. Let the Fitz Porters remember that the man who sold the lion’s skin was killed in hunting him. Hen1y V. won the battle of Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day. It would not surprise us it the patriots of the Fourth avenue imptovement, aroused by the memories of their fallen glory, won the battle of Tammany on St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick's Day ¢ Celebrations. Notes of preparation for the honoring of Treland’s patron saint are heard over the length and breadth of this land. Not even in the island he freed from toads and ser- pents will his memory be celebrated with as much pomp and enthusiasm as will be wit- nessed in the towns and cities of the American Union. The feast of St. Patrick has a dual quality. It is at once religious and national, and so is bound up with the strongest and most enduring sentiments of the human heart. Hence its power in awakening whatever of love and raverence for their native land re- mains in the breasts of the scattered members of’ the Irish family. Love of country is a virtue which deserves respect, and when wisely displayed commands it. We can sympathize with the principle underlying the honor paid to the memory of St. Patrick. We rec- ognize it as a form of protest against the disappearance of Ireland from the list of nations. As a protest we hold it to be ineffective and unnecessary, especially now, when Ireland has once more found a voice to protest within her own shores against Pulpit Topics To-Day- The reasons why every one should join the Church are numerous and varied, but we dare say Mr. Hepworth will select and present some of the best and strongest to the consid- eration of his people this morning. But when @ person has joined the Church he or she as- sumes an obligation to work for Christ and the Church, and hence the sublimity of Christian labor associated with Christ, as Mr. Hawthorne will set it forth to-day. And in such labor is found true happiness, whick Solomon, seeking for it elsewhere, did not find. The religion demanded by the times, whatever Mr. Thomas may think about it, is, in our opinion, of the same sort as the religion that was preached by Christ and His aposties in the times long gone by. We cannot get better, and anything infe- rior is of very little use in counter acting evil. This old-time religion which enters into human character constitutes the strength of young men, and its absence leaves them helpless and an easy prey to vice and temptation. This religion is obtained through the ‘precious blood,’ concerning which Mr. MacArthur will speak this morning, and with- out the crucifixion of Christ or ‘Carist cruci- fied’? which Mr. Borel will treat, there would not have been the precious blood nor the re- ligion that rests upon it. Trouble drives many a soul to God who would not think of going to Him from any other motive. To-day Mr. Alger will present “humanity in the depths crying unto God’ and what came of such crying. And akin to this topic is that by Dr. Porteous on “cloud providences.”” The trial that is and is to be—probably the Brooklyn trial and the last. judgment trial-- will command the attention of Dr. Fulton this morning, as the atheistic tendency will this evening. Mr. Henry Varley will preach a pure and simple Gospel in plain and com- prehensive words from the platform of the Hippodrome this afterncén and evening. If the day is passably fuir the place will be crowded, we doubt not, at both services, Tue Specran Commirrer appointed by tho Board of Aldermen to inquire into the charges made against Comptroller Green held another meeting yesterday, when several important witnesses were examined. Mr. Green seems to have puts great many worthy people to unnecessary trouble and expense. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. the injustice to which for ages she has been subjected. The system of celebrating this festival by public parades, involving a large outlay, is founded on a misapprehension as to the value and effect of such demonstrations. The men who engage in them are for the most | In } the new home they have not forgotten the old | part simple, honest, industrious citizens. land where rest their fathers’ bones—the scenes haliowed by the memory of a mother’s love. Looking back from amid the feverish struggle and toil of their present | existence they see like an oasis in the desert of life the Green Isle of their early youth. They see their land as men behold their mother’s face through the long forgotten years, smiling and radiant to them, though to all the rest of the world haggard and bedimmed with tears. The Irish people have never abandoned the | hope of recovering their independence. They have submitted toa power they could not resist, but never eenge their defeat as final. The St. Patrick’s Day parade is chiefly important to the average Irishman because it is a visible confession of his taith that some day ‘Ireland will be a nation once again.” The more intel- ligent Irishmen hold aloof from these displays, because they icok on them as unwise and use- | less. They recognize that when the parade is done Ireland is no nearer to being free, nor is | the world any more sympatheticaliy disposed toward her cause. It is well known that the contrary is the case. People who do not understand the underlying sentiment which prompts these displays are liable to be of- fended at them. Others who see the mass of workingmen separated from their natural leaders, the men oi education and intelligence, who persistently decline to take part in them, are likely enough to form a very unfavorable and very erroneous idea of the intelligence and standing of the Irish people in this com- While other nations are judged by pose the Irish in America to the danger of being judged by the brawn and muscle rather than the brain and intelligence of the race. If these celebrations sufficient reason tor their discontmuance; but they do infinitely more damage. | In this city work and induce poor, struggling workers to expend in idle and foolish dispiay money that were better applied to benefit their families, At a low calculation the Irish residents of New York expend yearly on their St. Pat- rick’s parade one hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars, which they might better cast into the sea, If, instead of wasting this money on German bands and gaudy banuers, they were to apply it to the erection of an Trish hospital, for the relief ot the suffering of their own race, or found with it an aid society for the benefit of poor Irish emigrants, how much real good could they not accom- plish! Such an expenditure of their money would secure for them the friendship and good will of all citizens and would be a more practical way of displaying their patriotism than all the parading they could do in a century. It is charged against the Irish people that, though warm. hearted and impulsive, they are eminently un- practical as a people. They certainly, in this country, lay themselves open to the charge; for while they possess means and opportunity of their own race they allow themselves to be | blinded and misled by the blatant patriotisnr | of men who'flatter only to use them, It is | sad that men who in the ordinary affairs of | life do not lack quickness of perception or in- | telligent understanding should allow them- | selves to be led into a foolish course by selfish | and designing politicians, who lead in these | foolish displays in order to acquire the right | to sell with advantage the influence they de- | rive from a hollow pretence of patriotism. A | large section of the Irish residents are in | favor of discontinuing these annual parades, and we hope the wisdom of this course will recommend itself to the common sense of the socicties that are principally responsible for their continuauce, | It ts thought in Germany that Moltke will not recover, General JamesS. Negley, of Pittsburg, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan left this | city last evening for Chicago. Paymaster Milton B. Cushing, United States Navy, is quartered at the Everett House. Congressman Wiljlam P. Frye, of Maine, is re- | siding temporarily at the St. Nicholas Hotel. In Germany 1t 1s @ personal insult to dun a | debtor by means of postal cards, and the law | affords a remedy. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, is sojourn- ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. M. and Mme. Levert have their ‘‘Wednesdays” in Paris, and their sa/ons are the chosen and ac- cepted centre of Bonapartism. Warwick Castle, badly burned a few years ago, has been reconstructed, and this fine antiquity 1s now as good as new. Price of repaira, $100,0v0, | At Zinnwald, in Germany, a widow of 103 has | just married a man of sixty. One of the bride’s i children, aged eigity, was present at the wed- ding. A cable telegram announced that the Hon. Ben- jamin Moran, tne new United States Minister to Portugal, arrived in Lisbon yesterday, the 13th inst. Mr. Aigernon Sartoris, son-in-law of President Grant, arrived at the Brevoors House yesterday morning and started on nis return to Washington last evening. State Senator Wells S. Dickinson, of Bangor, N. Y., and Assembiymen James Fauikner, Jr., of Dansville, and Richard D. Cole, of Rochester, are | at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Eat of Dunraven, of Ireland, arrived in this city yesterday from Montreal, and 1s at the Bre- voort House. He will sail for England on Wednes- | day next in the steamsmp Cuba, Colonel McClure’s new paper, the Times, made ! it9 appearance yesterday morning, taking the | place of the New Age. It is a handsome sheet, and | promises to be edited with spirit and ability, saxony longs for the restoration of the “schlague’’—the public whip—as an instrument to justice; since no other discipline seems effective to repress the minor crimes against the person, Louis Blanc and Fdgar Quinet, who are profes- sional republicans, did not vote tor the bill that established the Senate, though @ Senate was necessary to assure the existence of the Republic. The Philadelphia New Age is no Jonger a Living Age. It is among the papers of the past, Upon its manes has arisen tae Times, a handsome and independent sheet, managed by Colone) A. K. McClure, Here's condescension! His Serene Highness Prince Hermann Eugen Adoiph Bernhard Franz Ferdinand August von Sayn-Wittgensteim-Hohen- stein is about to marry Gertrude Westenberger, who 1s only a common man’s pretty daughter. Said a mutual! friend to the young wile of an old gentleman, ‘*You woulda pity your hnspand if you saw him tearing his hair, Come, send him one gentie word by me, What shail 1 say to him?’ “Teli him only to tear out the white ones." Vicar Rahm, in & littic town In Bavarta, excom- municated the daughter of the Keeper of the locad hotel. In the local court this was treated as an insult, and the Vicar Ranm Was compelled to come down with ten thalers, These legal views of theo- Jogical subjects exhibit the impiety of the age. We are informed by cable telegram from Parts, | under date of the 12th inst., that the Marquis de | Clermont-Tonnerre, formerly Second Secretary of the French Legation at Washington, but now First Secretary of the Legation at St. Petersnurg, has received the Cross of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Seflor Jose do Armas Cespedes, tie Cuban pa- trlot, editor and proprietor of i Correo de Nueva. York, @ bewspaper published in the Spanish lane guage in this city, ts lying Seriously, fi at the Orittenden House, He has recently submitted to an uncommon and dangerous operation and is slowly convalescing. “Four Thousand Miles of African Travel” is tae title of Mr. Aivan 4. Southworth’s new book, now yn press and soon +o be published by Baker, Pratt & Co, it is @ personal record of tis journey up the Nile, through the Soudan to Ventral Africa, and will, no doubt, be one of the most entertain. | ing and finely tiustrated of recent books of travel. ‘The priest who spoke at the funeral ceremony of Cordt, the great painter, wus not content to state that Cordt had confessed betore his dea. but spoke sharply against the newspapers because they had not given wide publicity to this fact. His words led to @ tumult, and the organ was played to drown the voices both of the priest and tne objectors. In that slippery night they had in Parts an old mau fell on the ice in a lonely street and hurt him. | self 80 as to lose consciousness, He was only found several bours la sad then was frozen jast, People who found din lifted him with too much energy—in fact, tore him up—and left in the ice much of his clothing anda large strip of his tkin. They put on tne raw place the skin ofa jamb that had been recently killed, and that skir bas grown fast.