The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1879, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. 7 . THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year Mhiree conts per eopy (Sundays excluded). Ton dollars per feat, five dollars for six wonths, two dollars and fifty © or three months, or at arateof oue dollar per month for my varied ows than ércemouths, Sunday editiow included, tar, "WEEKLY HERATLD—Ono dollar per year, freo of post “SOrICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts o» Now Tork oF Post Office money orders, and where noitiver of sexo tan be procured seud the nipwey iu a registered Wetter. All fouey Fetaitted at tisk of sender. In ordor to iususe atten- fon cubseribe th changed must Kive their old as w: deaddressed Naw Vouk Hnwato, ‘Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned, dem PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 113 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— LEET STREET. hic Yespatebes must UNION SQUARE THEAT BOOTHS THEATRE—Lirn NIBLO'S THEATRE—Biac BOWERY THEATRE STANDARD THEATRE. OLYMPIC THEATRE. PARK THEATRE-E. BROADWAY THEATRE! NEW YORK AQUAR! FIFTH AVENUE THEAT) LYCEUM THEATRE—Pixa M.S. Pixarone. wing Hoop. o-rms Dar. GRAND OPERA HO! GERMANIA THEATRE. AMERICAN MUSEUM. THEATRE COMIQU. MASONIC HALL—Tae Mu BAN FRANCISCO MINSTR BROOKLYY PARK THEATR E TRIPL SHEE MARCH 17, 1879. The circulation of the New York. Henatp for the week ending March-16, 187,.was as lollows:-- Monday, March 10......... Tuesday, March 11... Wednesday, March 12...... Thursday, March 13...... Friday, March 14... Saturday, March 15. 236,601 Sundey, March 16.. 44,371 The weatiur in New York and its vicinity to- day will be cooler and cloudy, with snow or rain. To-morrow it will be-cold and cloudy,evith rain or snow, followed toward evening by clearing and colder weather. i At Hat Sr. P. 106,247 ~-9109,076 «- 112,426 e000 8117,305 - 119,190 TRICK! Br a TrpoGraruicat Error wef{were made to say yesterday that the number of advertise- ments in our quintuple sheet was 33,447, in- | stead of 3,447. Tue Scores made at the short *range rifle tournament in this city last week were-excellent. However it may be in pedestrianism, onr national supremacy at the target is not in veryggreat dan- ‘ ger. Avrnovcn the Empire is no more Frmee still remains the arbitress of fashion. Enstern ideas { in dress, it will be seen from the hetterselsewhere4) printed. rule the hour in the gay-capital.. i Dr. Newnas, of this city, aud the Rev..Mr. Thompson, of Newport, are indignantiover the late'walking match. In their opiniom the cx- hibition was everything that was horrible, full j of all manner of wickedvess and evil, and a shameful count in the indictment against our Christian civilization. But suppose the+ match 4} had been for the benefit of a church fair—what? Tur Great Watk or To-Day—St. Potrich’s Procession. Ix THE Sermons YesrerDay, whichsare else-“ where reported, a variety of interesting sub- jects are discussed. First, we have Mr. Beecher | on the Chineso question and the fature.of the | great West, with its marvellous industry and 4 growth. The Chinese, Mr. Beecher belioves, we 4 should welcome, and the West wo must instruct and prepare for salvation. The Church and the theatre was the theme of Mr. Sweetser, who took the broad and sensible ground that the stage, when its influence is for good, oaght#not to be divorced from religion. Mr. Hepworth eloquently exphiined the meaning aud influence of Christianity; Mr. Talmage culogiad' the mame of Jesus, and Bishop Simpson preached on tho brotherhood of humanity. The Bible and its literature were discussed by Mr. Prothinghan from the materiahstic point of view. May ti& Goop Sarst’s Mumonxwemain for- ever green! Tux Weatner.—Tho narrow zone of high barometer which extended from the South Atlautic eoast northwestwardly has moved.| northward and now overlies the Now England States and the lake regious. Thospressure has decreased considerably within its area; in fact, itis now only relatively high. It is connacted with a large areca of high barometer, whichex- tends over the Northwest. The depressionsefer red to in yesterday's Heratp ns moving in the Southwest has. advanced into-the central valley Gisiricts. Itsinfiuence, however, preceded it moro rapidly and now is felt in the. Middle Atlantic States and the lowerlake regionswhero thebaram- eter is fulling steadily. Heavy rains havo-fallen in the Mississippi Valley, whilo sleet and.anow havo been general.from the Alleghanics to tho Rocky Mountain regions. In the lake regions aud eastward tothe ocean snow fell yesterday morning, bat the weather cleared up-during the day. Tho winds have beon generally fresh throughout the country, exeept in some sections of the Wost, where eteong winds of local devel- opment are reported. The temperature has risen in the central valley and Gulf districts, has fallen in the Narthwest and has remained variable elsewhere. Steep gradients will be formed on the northsvestern margin of tho dis- turbance now in the(entral Missiasippi Valley, ond strong northeast tw northwest gales arp likely to prevail during today and to-mor- row. ‘Che approaching disturbance will prob- ably develop considerable citergy ae it moves toward the Middle Atlantic coast, and there are indications of the formation of « sub- widiary centre of disturbance, which is likely to pass to the eastward of the Alleghanics until it Teaches the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, whero it will join the main centre, causing severe weather in that region. Tho wind is blowing from tho eastward at Holyhead, showing that tho centro of disturbance is about-to arrive.on the day pre- dicted, the 17th. Theweather in New York and St« vicinity to-day will be of the usual 17th of March order—i. ¢., cooler and cloudy, with snow or rain. To-morrow it will be cold and cloudy, with rain or snow, followed toward evening by ck aring and colder weather. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1879.—TRIPLE General Grant’s Welcome Home. A Henatp correspondent at Omaha sent us several days ago the report that prepara- tions are making at the headquarters of the Union Pacifie Railroad, at the instance of it does not precisely appear who, to give General Grant a somewhat surpris- ing welcome home on his return to San Francisco next August. Two notable statesmen, Kollogg and Pitkin, of Louisi- ana, are the only persons mentioned by our correspondent a3 actively engaged in this enterprise, and these patriots, who would perhaps like to turn an honest penny for themselves, talk of one hundred and twenty- five trains of ten cars each to form the mon- ster excursion of welcome, We have no doubt the great army of political Jenkinses will do their best to get pogsession of Goneral Grant and trot him over the country for their own glorifica- tion and pecuniary advantage when he returns to the United States,’ but we have no fear that the Genoral’s real and respectable friends wil] allow him to become the victim of such people. That he will receive a warm and universal wol- come from his countrymén we have not the least donbt, and wo will add that he de- erves it, But it will not bean effair of drumming; it will not be managed by self- seeking and designing politicians; it will bo a spontaneous, hearty, .unsolicited wel- come from the American people, and we say to the politicians, and espccially to the Pitkins and Kelloggs, in advance, ‘‘Handa off; this is not your affair. Your help is not needed, and your presence even would be officious.” The welcome to Grant not only will not need any “getting up” or preparation beforehand, but we ‘desire to warn his many sincere and warm friends that they will only dampen the genuine and gener- ous enthusiasm of the people for the Gen- eral if they permit themselves to take avy measures whatever to exhibit him or to place him in the way of popular manifesta- tions. We should prefer to see him make the journey from the Pacific shores to his home in Philadelphia, as he will, doubtless, prefer himself, with entiro avoidance of ostentation, like a great and eminent, but nevertheless a plain, citizen returning to his native land after a visit to foreign countries, It would be ungracious in him to deny his fellow citizens a sight of him, and he has now come to that age where travelling by easy stages instead of rushing through on a lightning express is for his comfort and that of Mrs. Grant. He will probably be glad, too, to make the round of the princi- pal Western cities, in all of which he hasold personal iriends who will desire once more to shake his hand. In a natural way, and without the least of that distasteful man- agement of which this rumor from Omaha gives the first public warning, the, General can see and beseen by the greater part of the country, and he will receive every- where the warmest welcome which an ad- miring and hospitable people can give him. If the season were not‘that during which travelling-in the Southern States is both tiresome and dangerous we should indeed wish him before he settles down in his own honse to revisit’ the South, and@ We are cer- tgin thathe would receive in that section a welcome-as warm and as sincere as he will got in any part of the Union, We speak positively and confidently on this subject, because it would’ be a pity to have the-General’s return home marred by anything like wlaptrap or buncombe. No sensible man doubts-that General Grant's name and fame are dear to every true American, or that he ranks in all hearts as the foremost American citizen of tho day. His great and long services to the Union have secured him the lasting and, indced, the increasing gratitude and admiration of the people. His sterling qualities of hon- esty and clear common sense; his patriotic love for his country’s welfare and desire for the success of our institutions; his severe and arduous, and often thankless, public service; ‘the patbetic manner in which on several occasions he has publicly confessed his mistakes while asserting his good intentions—all these are known to and valued by the people; and it is.a sure evidence that, though he was while Presi. dent the subject of hostile.and often acri- .monious criticism, no sooner did. he leave the (to him) unhappy field of politice-than alLill-will disappeared and he resumed as -of right his high place in the affectionate regards of his fellow citizens without re- gard to party. He returns home from a long journey in foreign parts, at every stage of which the honors which have been paid him by-emi- nent persons of all classes have been watchod with pieasare by the whole Ameri- can people; but the most distinguished honors-of his life remain, and will be.tound in the spontaneous welcome home of his fellow citizens. To thei, now, ho occupies a quite peouliar position; for, whatever de- signing politicians may propose, to the peo- ple ho is a citizen who has honorably and laboriously fulfilled his term of foithfal public service, and whom, for the rest of his life, they will regard not as a partisan, not as the candidate of or even the member of a party, but as one raised above party, and who, living in such privacy as such cmi- nence as his can secure, will be, while he livea, the trusted-adviser of all administra- tions. ‘Those who for theirown purposes would like to drag him once more into the field éf politics, and to degrndo him by com- pelling him to be, not tho greatest citizon of the sation, but the can- didate’ of party, make a grave mistake, and one which we cannot believo he will countenanco or consent to. It would lower his own fame, and it-would sect on examplo which some future Burr or Bene- dict Arnold would abuse. Washington laid it down as a wholesome principle that two terms in the Presidential office are enough, and his successor will, we trust and believe, be wise enough to honor his example. Asa private citizen, the most illustrious and the most trusted of the Republic, he will rise constantly higher in the general esteem and affection, and it will be tho delight of all Americans to guard and honor his declin- ing years. But to re-enter now the arena of fartisan politics would be to imperil his great reputation; to weaken the hold he has on the hearts of the people ; to descend to tho level of common men—a descent into the mire from an elevation rarely attained by any man in history. Those who would | tempt him to this fall are not his friends, but his worst and most dangerous enemies. St. Patrick Again. One historical point abogt the fine old saint whose anniversary wo celobrate to-day is of achavacter that makes people of all other nations envy the Irish most wickedly— St. Patrick was a gentleman. There are philosophers, eprincipally of the positivist school, who will insist that any one who can be a saint is naturally a gentleman also, but it will not do; those who aro con- noisseurs in living saints know better. A peculiar fact about most saints, so called, who can be inspected with the earthly eye is that everybody wildly wishes them in heaven, while if they were gentlemen the natural impulse would be to keep them here. The critical, contemptuous spirit which is born of science, falsely so called, may claim that thero is nothing so wondex- fal about being o gentlgman in Ireland fifteen centuries ago, for at that time Irish manners had not been corrupted by contact with Englishmen, there were no foreign made laws to swear at until a man forgot his politeness, and barrels that conveyed the fragrant mountain dew abroad did not return filled with cheap American whiskey, which will knock the gontloman out of any- body, saints not excepted, quicker than anything else in the world except Captain Williams’ club. But such would-be critics know not of what they speak. Ireland Jacked the annoyances mentioned, but, on the other hand, Scotchmen were continually sneaking into the Green Isle at the north, and a Scotchman is generally enough to make any’saint swear, unless the good man has been dead long enough to be canonized ; there was nota potato on the island, and this being the case any idiot can‘*under-, stand that there could not have been ary poteen; chimneys wero unknown, so that smoke in the eyes, which would cause even a Chesterfield to forego manners for an in- definite period, was a common experience, and there was avery “swell” set, called Druids, whose arrogance and underhand ways must have taxed a good man’s ur- banity and courtesy to the uttermost. And yet, St. Patrick was a gentleman; it is high!y creditable to the Irish race that this fact is the keynote of the classic ode which embodies the saint’s his- tory, and that next to it and like unto it is the statement that he was a man of fine family ; “tho came from dacint people,” as was eminently proper for him to do, for if aman is going to regenerate a nation sothat ‘all families may be first families and with- out mistake it is important that he should have some experience in the points of de- sirable pedigrees. Such being the charac- ter of the man whom every nation would bo glad to'have iniits local saints’ calendar it is in order’ to propose the time honored sentiment, ‘‘Then luck attend St. Patrick's fist!” for the only side of a fist that a gen- tleman shows is tho inside, whero he dis- plays also the palm that real saints most like to have waved toward them, Swili Fed Cattle in the West. i ' Another communication from Mr. Isaac H. Knox, vice president of the National Stock Yards Company, of St: Lonis, is given in to-duy's Herald, and with it a report from another Heriup correspondent who was directed, in view of Mr. Knox's denial of the statement made by a former correspond- ent, to make special investigation of the sub- ject of the uso of distillery swill as cattle feed at tho St. Louis yard and at a farm at which cattle are fed for salothere. 1t will be seen thet the report of this correspond- ent fully sustains the denials mado by Mr. Knox, and completely. exonerates all per- sons who may be subject to his orders at these places from tho discreditablo practices charged against them, In justice to Mr. Knox and his establishment we say this as plainly as possible, because we recognize that the roport made was injurious, and itis very remote from our p&rpose or wish to injure any one. On the contrary we set about to expose the nefarious practices of sill feeders who have con- taminated the herds of Western cattle sent East by smuggling among them cattle that have passed a winter in swill stables, and who have thus provoked the regulation mado in England against our commerce It is, therefore, as much a defeat of our object os it is an injury to fair dealers to have places which endeavor to maintain the purity of their animals confounded with those who by an unscrapulous system have done this gront injury to the nation. But wo call attention to the other facts alleged in this latest communication. Is appears by this that though the National Cattle Yard is all right there are other establish- ments within reach of St. Louis that need peculiar attention from all persons who avish to buy only uncontaminated cattla Moximilian in Mexieo. Wo give place in another column to a re ply which M. Masseras makes to some stric- tures contained in an article published in the Henaxp in January lust upon his views of the characters of the Archduke Maximilian and his wife, the Archduchess Carlotta. It will be remembored that M. Masseras, a dis- tinguished Parisian journalist, lately con- ductor of La France and formerly editor of the Courrier des Etats-Unis in this city, con- tributed toa French periodical somo months since o series of articles in the naturg of personal memoirs on the attempt to set up an empire in Mexico, and somo copious -extracts from those articles were pub- lished in the Hunatp. One story is always good until another ono is told, and the story of thoso notable days as.told by M. Masseras provoked commont and dif- ference on this side the Atlantic from many persons claiming to know all that history os M. Masseras claimed to know it, and did know it, by personal experience. Placo was found in the Hznaup attho timo for several articles ‘from adventurers, diplo- matists and soldiors, who deal with tho points in & more or less controversial spirit, and tho point M, Massoras takes up was in one ot those articles. It will bo noted that the differonco is as to the character of Maxi- milian, and is therefore one of opinion and not susceptible of determination as a point of historical truth. The New Culifornia Constitution—Disa- bilities of Chinumen. The California convention for framing a new State constitution completed its task after a Jong session of 157 days, and the result of its labors is to be submitted to the vote of the people on the 7th of May. This proposed constitution is of little intercst to other States except in its provisions relat- ing toChinamen, It is to be voted on asa whole, and the part relating to the Chincse 80 caters to the local popular sentiment by its extreme hostility to that race that it will probably ‘be adopted, however strongly citizens. may disapprove of some of its other features. ‘hat tho anti-Chinese provisions are amere bid of demagognes for the naturalized vote is provéd by the fact that the foremost of those provisions are futile in any other view. By the proposed constitution natives of China are explicitly.denied the right of suf- frage in California. Thisisa mero appeal to local prejudice ; it is of no more force than a picce of blank paper equal to that on which the interdict is printed. Only citizens are entitled to vote, and as our laws do not permit Chinamen to be naturalized it is idle and preposterous to erect any other barrier against their admission to the elective franchise, so long as,our naturalization laws remain unchanged. But it our naturalization laws should be so amended as to admit natives of China to the rights of citizenship that part of tho new California constitution, which is merely futile and su- perfluous at:present, would be annulled by the superior authority of the federal gov- ernment. The fifteenth amendment of tho federal constitution is in these words:— “Tho right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not bo denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous con- dition of servitude.” Whenever, therefore, Congress shall extend the privilege of naturalization to Chinamon they will be entitled to vote in all the States on the same conditions as other citizens, any State constitution to the contrary notwithstand- ing. as The new fundamental law of California proposes other measures against the Chi- nese which may, perhaps, be more effec- faal. It forbids the employment of China-" men on any State, county, municipal or other public work, and also forbids their empboyment by any corporation created by State laws, Hence a rail- road company, or a mining com- pany, or a gas company incorporated by tho California Legislature would ‘forfeit its charter or incur other penalties by employ- ing Chinese laborers. So long as Chinamen areexcluded from citizenship we présame this regulation can be enforced, but,wo doubt if such a discrimination could be maintained after naturalization. The fonr- teenth amendment declares that ‘‘All per- sons born pr naturalized in the United States are citizen’ of tho United States and of tho State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The exclusion of Chinamen from employment on any public work in California will have two effects. First, it will add to the burden of the tax- | payors by increasing the: cost of all public | works from which cheap labor is excluded; second, it will enlarge the opportunities of employment for the Chinese by private in- dividuals, since they will take the vacant places of those who are permitted to work for the public. The amount of labor re- quired on public works in any State isa bagatelle in comparison with the whole circle of employments. If the people of California wero capable of viewing their own intorests without pas- sion or projudice they would perceive that they have a great advantage over the rest of the country in the cheapness of Chinese labor. It favors a rapid development of the resources of their wonderful State. It enables them to underscll in all markets every exportable article which their soil, climate and mineral wealth enable them to produce. Tho idea that tho country is in danger of being overrun: by Chinamen is chimerical and ridiculous. The next census is expected to show that wo have fifty millions of people, and of that number less than halfa million will be Chinamen. Besides, the Chinamen who como here do not multiply. ‘They bring no wives, they rear no children; most of them intend to return to their native couutry. Are we to abandon our established policy of o free welcome to all immigrants in compliance with the clamor of a few imported laborers and the demagogues and toadies who desire to secure their votes? Duty of the Police.* As a fingrant caso of personal outrage upoa a citizen committed by a palice cap- tain is likely to be investiguted by tho Police Oommissioners within a fow days, and as such cases are somewhat common rosalts of the bad temper and sense of dignity of thearerage policeman, it seems worth an inquiry whether the polico adminietration is not as much at fault in these cases as the policemen themselves, Is there any stand- ing rule of tho service that touches this point? Is thero any polico instrac- tion forbidding o poliecman to touch o citizen with his club or to uso any other violence toward him excopt in self-defence? If not, thero ought to be. Violence on the part of a policemen is never necessary. In caso of difficulty ho can always bya tap of his club on the pave- ment get assistance, and the forco that would come in to his aid would be always sufficient to dispense with tho brutal treat- ment of a perfon arrested. But it appears that asarulotho policemen are irritable, quarrelsome persons. Thoy do not want to call assistance, ‘Ihey are glad of a pretext to use their clubs, not on the pavoment, but on people’s hoads, Why this is so may be dificult to say, bat that it is so the an- nals of dntrage in the city declare, Some years ago a police commissioner laid down the rule that SHEET. $e “we wanted brutes on the potice.” Perhaps the adoption of that asa principle of discipline has had its effect. If so itis time tochange it. It is against the law for a policem.n to cluba citizen to death ; but the fact that it is against the law seems not ‘to count. It ought to be against the rules of the police also, and the present would be a good time to consider the point. Moreover the Com- missioners might seize this occasion to in- struct policemen that it is their duty to ar- rest delinquents, and that the trial of de- linquents and their punishment is put in other hands. It is not a policeman’s duty to judge any one’s case, nor to inflict penal- ties upon the man he has judged ; but it is as clear as day that not one pgliceman in ten knows this-fact, Whois to blame? , Matches to Come. The tremendous impetus given to pedes- trianism by the great international tramp, and particularly by the pleasing quantity of gate money gathered in at the Gilmore’s Garden box office, suggests that now or never ig the time for other contests of the same sort. Many of these suggest themselves, and among them is a match between Sitting Bull or any other Indian and General Howard or any other represen- tative of that compulsory skeleton, the United States Army. The only belt to be struggled for im such case wonld be that belt of territory which offered most grass and water for the contestants, ‘Then, as a struggle purely local, the public will back Captoin Williams’ club against any other athletic club in existence, and guaran- tee that the present Police Commission will see that the popular nominee wins if any amount of official blindness and duplicity can advance his prospects. The belt in the encountersuggested would, considering the proclivities of one of the contestants, be what strect gamins denonti- nato ‘a belt over the head.” A match be- tween Mr. Thurman, tho famous athlete of the West, and Mr. Tilden, who is “little, but, oh, my!” is also in order, and will probably come off within a few months. In this contest the Astley rules would be necos- sary, for unless both men are allowed to run the conflict would not be interesting enough to bring in gate money, and gate monoy—even although some may adopt the subterfuge of spelling it ‘gait"—is the grand and final object of all contests. Within a day or two an interesting match, on the dead run, may be witnessed between Randall—who, according to his friends, might have won in the great national cham- pionship race of nearly four years ago had not his principal antagonist rolled a barrel of money along the track in front of him— and Blackburn, of Kentucky, who has no record to speak of, but is said to have any -quantity. of spirits, the same being quite influential when rightly used—that is, with sugar and lemon juice, Perhaps ihe most interesting, to New Yorkers, of strifes for the championship will be between the four Police Commissioners and the dozen or more men who enter against thom. The latter aro the stronger in responsible backers, but the former_ean depend upon ‘a strong force of **heclera,” who may break into and destroy the new ring soas to compel a general falling back upon the old one, Tho judge and umpire in this desporate straggle may have more to do than the par- ticipants in deciding who is the winner, but a Cooper should not take advantage of his position to ‘stave off” any self-evident verdict, while the ampire, although at Al- bany, is not far enough from the scene to have failed to notice the general system of heel-kicking, toe-mashing, old sojering and other trickery that has enabled the old four to hold the track for years against all com. petitors, although for a long time two of them have been on only by courtesy, and the other two have merely been going through the motions of the work*for which they have never neglected to bag gate monoy. ¥ Puipit and Stage. It will be matter for regret if the old quarrel, lately renewod, between the pulpit and the stago should continue without any good resglts whatever, but such will bo the case until both sides olevate the tone of the discussion by abandoning certain glaring errors of fact and logic, Clergymen should atop denying, merely because some plays are unclean, that the stage is competent to be ® moral teacher—unless, indecd, they are prepared to taboo the press, poetry and gen- eral literature, because some journals and books foster immoral tendencies. Another shameful ministerial blunder is the charge that theatres havo galleries or seats set apart for lewd women, for the decricd enstom, Which never was general, was entirely abandoned a genorution ago. The argument that the theatre is a step- ping stone to the rumshop is another favorite bit of ministerial nonsense, the truth being that barrooms near theatres are no more numerous, no: better patronized than those about railway stations, steam- bout landings, post offices and other places where men most do congregate. The bars most frequented in New York aro noarer the mass. of religious newspaper offices than to any theatre; how would the rev- erend gentlemen conducting these journals like theatre audiences to rotort in kind? On the other hand, apologists for tho stage should stop holding up Shakespeare as their representative author; for, incaleu- lablo as the waster dramatist’s influ. encod is, the stago is seldom the medium through which it works, If Shakespoaro wero to-day writing as once he wrote no manager in America would accept his plays on any torms what- ever. Nor should they confound what might be with what is; because tho stage can and does sometimes teach morality with a force that no book and hardly any sermon can equal no sane man should try to por- snado people that it always does so, Bo- sause virtue is to triumph and vice be baffled in the fifth act it is loo much to do- mand that four acts of unclean suggestion are to be hopefully ondured by people of decent birth and breeding. Tho stage is an established institution which tho pulpit cannot possibly destroy, but the standard of which it can raiso by substituting intol- ligence in argument for ignorance and prejudice, while the theatre, which neods 4 larger body of patrons, should aim, by far- ther purifying itself, to please that great number of respectable people who have had frequent cause to partially agree with the proachers, Russia’s Alternative. The importance of the news from our Tashkend correspondent lies in the indi. ° cation that Russia is contemplating the emergency that may arise in the event of a humiliating surrender of Yakoob Khan to the British invaders. Such a com- promise might be made as would vender the Ameer only a vassal of Great Britain. From the first, Russia seems to have had very slight faith in Yakoob Khan's good will. The technicality resorted to for dismissing the Afghan ambassadors need not have been raised. The Embagsy left Mazar-i-Sharif with full powers to treat. Diplomatically, as well as legally, speaking the King of a State never dies. Yakoob Khan was at the head of the State, and the fact that Shere Ali had placed him there prior to his death was an indication:that he intended him for his successor. Therefore, so far as the rights of the elder séns of Dost Mahomet are concerned, Russia would seem to be estopped é4rom saying that Yakoob Khan is o usurpor, having recognized his father, Shere Ali, as Ameer. The recent return of Dr. Javorsky with the intelligence that Yakoob’s title to the throne has already been egntested, may have much to do with this move, The insurrection was so promptly crushed at Tashkourgan, Balkh and Mazar- i-Sharif that the real strength of ‘tha defece tion may only be known to Russia. That General Kaufmann should, under such cir. cumstances, send for Abderrahman of Cabul points significantly to possible aspira- tions which he may have and in which he may bo aided and encouraged by Russia, Without going into tho subject on this oc- casion it can be seon at a glance that a very interesting problem might be formulated. Persia not only wants to reannex Herat, but the people would rather be under Persian - than English rule, Aid her, therefore, ta retake it, Rouse the old followers of Dost Mahomet and, branding Yakoob asa traitor, drive him out of Cabul before the British can enter it. Let England retain what sha already occupies of Afghanisten, but set bounds to her further advancement. Such things cannot, however, be done through Abderrahman. His record as a warrior is not good, although, according to European rules of primogeniture, he is the head of the younger branch of the Durani line, State Rights and Yellow Fever. At ast the Southern politicians find themselves face. to face with. an opponent who cannot be compelled to recognize State lines, who is indifferent to political geogs raphy, and though he has a preference for Southern countries as the sphere of- hia operations has no regard to considerationa of sectional politics. Yellow Jack is his name, and tropical America is to a great extent his nation. He is a very grim reality for the people of the Gulf States, ag the last summer showed, and as it is ap<« prehended the coming summer may show again; and intelligent men in Congress, and: in tho medical profession, outside of politics, altogether, and the press generally, we bes lieve, and certainly. the Hznatp—all. these did-what lay in their power to urge the completion of the national quarantine law that would systematize the protection of the Southern people fronrthe repetition of last year's calamity. Bat the politicians would not have it. It touched the doctrine ‘of State rights ; it was anti-democratic; it assumed the dominance of the principle maintained by the North in the war. They would permit the country at large to supe ply funds for the quarantine, but the States must handle them. Otherwise, welcome yel« low fever. Wesincercly trust that they may not have to welcome the yellow fever, but if it comes the Southern people ought to, remember who is to blame and reflect upon the advantages -and disadvantages of thia fresh cuitivation of ancient sectionabissuesa, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Hnacy on Saturday :— Carlin, Lieutenant Colonel William P. and wifa Scventcenth infantry, United States Army, Hotel de 1a Couronne, Croveling, B. C., St. Louis, 20 Boulevard des Capt cines, . Eaton, 8. B., New York. MacClevey, Richard, New York. Shearman, Mrs, M.N., New York, No, 60 Boule. vard de @ourcelles. Sherman, W. 8., Rochester, Hotel de St. Peters- bourg. * ‘9 Southworth, Mrs. W. P., Cleveland, Ohio, Hotel Binda, Smith ,Alpheus M., New Haven, Hotel do l’Ami- ranté, Stobs, Miss M. K., New York, No. 60 Boulevard de Conreelies. i Thayer, F, L., St. Louis, Hotel de St. Petersbourg. President Hayes and family will be in Now York April 30, The Providence Journal saya that Talmago is a fact, Bo is hydrophobia, Now that winter has departed the Whitehall Tim@ wishes peace to its ashes. Congressman Whiteakor, of Oregon, left Chicago on SMturday evening, and will arrive in Washington this morning. Vesuvius isn’t much of a torchlight procession just now. It has tapered off -that is, to oxplfin, it is not much moro than a taper. London has 26,000 consumptives, of whom 9,000 dio ovory your; yet in all England there are accom- modations for only 1,000 patients. Keokuk Constitution:—““Lho reason why o lady has nover become famous a8 & paragrapher ts that a two lino paragraph with a ten line postacript is a faile ure.” ‘Tho Oncida community since the late crusade has been receiving threo applications @ day from per sons who wish to become members. The applicants aro not received, Senator John P. Jones, of Novada, was tendered a complimentary dinnor at the Union League Club, on Saturday evening, by Colonel Drake do Kay. A num- ber of distinguished politicians and private citizens wero present, General Garfield, who visited “Chinatown,” in San Fruncisco, with Senator Sargent, and who grow sick, at his stomech from the sights there, says that Chinaman should bo pormitted to come to this free. country, althongh a bill might be passed to provent the importation of coolio slaves. Mr. Stoughton, our Ministor to St. Petersburg, has bean obliged to succumb to the severity of the Rus! sian winter, and, by tho advice of his physicians, hag loft with his family tor Southern Italy, where ho will remain several months, In the absenge at Washing. ton af Colonel Hoffman, the Secretary of Legation, Mr. Hayden Edwards, Consul General, will have - chargo of the legation,