The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-23


The Weather-A snop storm-Railroad Bridges-Rise in
Railroad Fares-AuthorsAip Of the Letter of and Con-
oeyYsing the Hulsemann Lettcr-Aad Dogs-Neo Work
by Observation-Disclosures Proceedings-7he Convent Ine-
nity-Statn Of Mr.. Observation-Disclosures O~anges-
Discovery Concerning the POtdtoe Rot.
Waking up at five O'Clock this morning had the sats
faction of seeing that there was avery respectable snow
storm hand not very common occurrence SO late in
the year. even in this most unstable and caprcous Of
climates 1t has been cold enough here to snow almost
every day for nearly month"; the white robed vsiter
is by strange parsonage as she might have
been. There has been timed singing on the part
of some highly imaginative birds who labored under the
singular deusion that the spring had arrived and
sionaly the careful and laborous inquirer could find
patch of green looking earth in one OF the rural dis
trcts but beyond those things there has been as yet
small evidence Of the absence of winter They have been
sweeping up the Common this week, and effect of
the present storm will be to bring the grass
forward in all places where 1t is permitted to
grow At this time, 10 A. NJ, the storm is very severe
with indications of the turning to rain Passengers
by the railway trains say that the very deep and
very hard the country in places deep six
inches
Railroad bridges are the rage in Boston. The Bos-
ton and Lowell Railroad Company is constructing
from East Cambridge to Causeway street. and which is
more than half completed, and will wholly be
The company will then give up their present Boston sta
ton and take their @ ,ur'ner the
ture and will not differ in that respect from the new
bridge built by the Eastern Railroad just completed and
account of which gave in my last There Is new
bridge building for the New York Central Railroad from
South Boston to the foot of Summer street and which IL
going ahead very fast Planking has been commenced
on IT, and the whole will be finished with the least posi-
BILE delay.
of the rates Of railroad fares which took place the
10th. 1t does not apply to season ticket passengers
whose turn will come about the month of jane. The
1aua ole Imam atraAa and
better received The first effect of these proceedings
must be adverse to the interest of the companies What
the ultimate effect will be cannot be said Some already
prophecy return to the old rates at an early day
1t has been stated in of the papers here that Mr.
american, wrote the letter that appeared in the New
York Evening Post concerning the Husemann letter.
have the best authority for saying that Mr. Robinson
wrote line of the letter. and that he never heard of
ii until it making much noise here Neither
it written by Mr.. Hildreth, the historian by Mr.
Bird, to both of whom it has been attributed. 1t was
written by Mr. Thayer of the Post who here, and
who it must be confessed has succeeded in kicking up
most delectabe 'fuss" Mr. Robinson is the regular
succeeded Mr.: Carter who used to write over the
san adopeS Anoher Boston CORRESPONDENT Of
the Pot is Edward Hamilton, whose signature is
'hontcello" Mr.. Hamilton is the gentleman whose
speech in the Norfolk County Democratic Convention
last autumn is said to have led to the publication of
Cushing's ukase The Post is greatly read here by the
organ they having paper in Boston, and speak
of in the State except in Lynn and Worcester that
its Boston correspondence an important portion of its
columns.
just there is great deal of insecurity prevail
Ing in Boston the subject of mad dogs. The poor
quadrupeds slaughtered without rem0rse all Sides
and vast the number Of the fallen that the sausage
trade has experienced glut 1t having, however, been
said by good authority that the poison used against
the dogs might make the sausages into which they
converted poisonous to individuals good deal of alarm
was the and the artice been shunned
by all good housekeepers Seriously much of the fear
that has prevailed about hydrophoba is the merest
ardce that ever existed and Is e1cusable only on the
allow to think Of it in way If dogs
well taken of they will no more mad than men,
that have the direct results of the fortunes
and prosecutions to which the guilty of being sus
from bad food and the unclean condition which not
few specimens of animal good in itself is permitted
to exist. Some of our scientific men do say that one
Of hydrophoba is the scarcity of what Mrs Gore
calls the gentler Of the cynocephalors species"
Henry moreau has new work in press, entitled
sWslden, Life in the Woods" From its title infer
thatit account of his experience in the eremite
line Of lfe For time Mr.. Thoreau lived in hut,
which which les in the town Of old whether he did
not like the business that 1t did not or that he
grew tired Of being what Moses Marble Gaea D1oay
Enlistment fine morning, or dark evening, and re-
turned to the habits practices and endurances Of cyi
Eation and great sacrifice but
which may trust will not be without its reward The
book will give to the world the results of his inquiries
to tell how sweet solitude is It viii be worth reading
Mr. Thoreau being Of the ceverest Of Emersons dis
4 eccentr1cltlc6
ed by our legislature On Wednesday Mr. Ton Of
on claims the appointment Of three commissioners to
ascertain the losses of all by the burning Of the
to the various claimants their actual loss and the Cover
shall draw his warrant the treasury for the
awarded The report and bill, together with report
made last year the subject ordered to be
printed. This is about the most ticklish subject that
can now be discussed among politicians. The time
whom it the easiest thing in the world for Legs
ature to dispose of petitions in favor Of paying the
vent indemnity They could be flung out, kicked out
with perfect mpunity There comparatively speak
ing but few Catholic voters in the State and they
not located to be able to act to the injury Of any
party. But things have changed The Catholic voters
are now to be counted by thousands. They to be
found in all parts Of the commonwealth and in almost
every line Of life There are less of them in
ties of Suffolk Middlesex, Norfolk, Essex, Worces
ter and Bristol They gave an astonishing proof
religious and political organization, last November, when
they voted in against the constitution under
and with the understanding between those priests and
the leading wings that the convent indemnity should be
paid in return for assistance valuable at the crt
cal period of the fortunes OF the wing party of Massachu
sets cannot say how correct this statement may DO
as to the details but it was plain to all who had their
eyes open tie day of election that something had
CURED to convert democratic Catholics to very good wings
In places they to abandoned the party with
which they had been acting only six and thirty hours be-
fore have heard the number Of votes thus gained to
the wings placed at ten thousand which think much
too large though six thousand is not the number,
judging from such examinations and comparisons rs
made at the me and which then published in the
HERALD The time has now for paying for all
this good service, and the difficulty is in meeting
the bin not to lose twelve thousand votes while
buying six thousand. When the indemnity question
first up in the House, the wings could do
nothing with It. The proposition was refused even the
common courtesy Of a reference, by overwhelming
majority. This would do The Boston leaders
begged and mpored their country friends to CON-
init them to the mercies Of gentlemen who might think
proper to make of them the objects of political st Bar
tholomew and finally the subject reconsidered and
the petitions referred to the committee claims with
the intention of there having it disposed Of the cee
bated Richard ILL., is popularity supposed to have disposed
of his nephows-by being smothered Now, at the heel
of the session and almost three months the ques
tion first brought forward, have a bill brought
in which is far from being satisfactory to the Catholics
while is highly unsatisfactory to all Others The for
want something direct than contained Mr.
Tltons bill, something that shall recognize their right to
the indemnity because the place assaed and destroyed
was Catholic institution. J. is principle for which