The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-03-23

bank, but on the left Kentucky, Western Virginia,
West Tennessee, Mississippi and Eastern Loisi-
ana. Who does not see in these divisions and
Subdivisions even without the active agency OF
the European Powers playing each section
against the other, wars, interminable and anar-
chy without ond, till some uonqueror arose at
last establishing himself upon the ruins of
liberty and insng the broken fragments OF our
republic into one great imperial despotsm.
There is no hope of asting peace, therefore,
and no safety Tor free institutions. but in the
restoration of the Union from the lakes to the
Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, under
the constitution transmitted to us by George
Washington and tho other founders of our
matchless system Of government
RELIEF FOR lREIAND-TIE CHARITY AND Re-
SOURCES or THE CoUNTRY--In the midst Of all our
domestic troubles, when one would suppose that
the necessities of the times and the exgencies
which r,linous rebellion imposes upon the
people might confne all their energies to their
own country, the American people are as active
in their charities to-day as in the most prosper
GUS times.
The operatives of Lancashire suffered for
want Of cotton, and thousands Of dollars were
.scnt across the Atlantic to aid them. disas-
trous famine now threatens ireland, as desc
lating as that which visited it in 1916 and l847.
The horrors that overhang that unhappy
piled to avert them. Already starvation rules
in many districts, and the peasaatry are flying
by thousands to preserve life at the cost of OK
patration. But the voice OF suffering at home
or abroad never falls UNDECIDED upon the cars
of our people. There are now not less than
three organizations working in this CITY for the
relief Of the poor of Ireland, and in all proba-
bility nearly half q million OF dollars will be
raised throughout the country for that purpose
in few months. Arrangements are under
way to give a magnificent ball at the Academy
Of Music on the l4th of April, under the aus
pices of the ladies of New York and Brooklyn.
The Knights of St. Patrick are preparing to
call great public meeting, from which gene
raj collection among the masses will originate,
and will no doubt realize very handsome
sum- The Friendly Sons have already opened
list, and some thousands OF dollars have been
contributed.
All these things prove not only the fine chart
table impulses of our people, but the boundless
resources of the country. Al time when we
are involved in most costly war, aud the ordf-
nary incomes of the people are virtually re-
duced one-shird in their original value by rca-
son of the advanced prices of oil tho necessaries
Of life, our hearts are still open to supply the
wants of other nations. Not only this, but, while
We are providing oil the requirements of our
own gigantic war, we are furnishing the French
army in Mexico with the means to carry on
their campaign, by supplying provisions, mules
and other necessaries and the French are in
dignant because we also furnish supplies to the
| Mexicans. Poland, in her struggle, obtains our
! aid and sympathy. Thus this country gives
evidence to the world that its resources and its
charities are equally without limit. There is
| not nation on the globe whose pubic chart
| ties are more efficiently bestowed, or whose
| public institutions are more admirably con-
| Quoted Hence we have in measure no poor.
Poverty, except it be allied to recklessness and
dissipation, rarely meets us in the streets, ana,
while we take care OF our own "little Ones"
we have willing hand and an open purse for
| the sufferers Of all nations
THE BROOKLYN GAS CONFERENCE.-THE bill
| before the Legislature for the equalization Of
| the rates charged by the Brooklyn City Gas
| Company seems not to be generally understood
The Albany correspondents Of the New York
journals represent it as the result Of All effort
| on the pait Of an opposition company-The
| CitzeRs'-to break down deserving mstitn-
ff.,n Il, fEn II, -
| prevent the perpctuation Of one of the most
! edous monopoles by which community has
| ever been blstered. The old company, 50 far
| from having any debt, has realized enormous
| profits for its shareholders, and, up to the
establishment of the new one, conducted its
affairs in the most oppressive manner. When
| the citizens at large associated themselves to
start rival company, the monopolists endea-
vored to defeat the enterprise by offering their
| gas at half price wherever the new company
| proposed to lay its mains. Thus, in one street
| they were charging only twelve cents and a
half per hundred feet, whilst in another they
| exacted twenty-five. Of course in such state
| of things there could be nothing like fair com
| petition, the Citizens Company not having the
superabundant capital necessary to enable it
| to keep up such an unequal struggle. 1t is to
put an end to the practices above described,
and to place both companies on par, that the
| present bill has been introduced in the T.egis-
lature. lts success is certain, 1t receives the
support Of the whole of the Kings county dele
| cation. q
AMERICAN HORSES FOR NApoLEoN-H Is
stated In our last letter from Havana that the
French transport Seine was about to sail for
New York to take on board half a dozen horses
intended for the use Of the Emperor. This will
make the fourth batch Of riding horses from
this country that his Majesty has purchased.
IL saatns that be prefrrs FIR his porsonol uea