The New York herald., 1870-03-17
Tho Two Missing Sreumcrs.

| Tho Two Missing Steamers.
| The villanous and senseless hoax which,
through the tclegraphic news agency of the
Associated Press, was perpetrated upon this
community yesterday in reference to the miss
ing steamer, the City of Boston, very nat,i-
rally excited the public Indignation But the
virtuous declarations on the part of the
responsible news agency of active efforts to
solve the mystery, and their offer of reward
of five hundred dollars for tho discovery Of
the author of the canard, do not repair the
mischief. The telegraphic operator who sent
over the despatch permitted his zeal, perhaps,
to outrun his discretion in giving as positive
fact some loose conjecture or idle rumor float
ing in the street No such thing az this, how
ever, should be permitted in any telegraph
office. The duty Of every such Office, where
an irresponsible report is handed in, involving
an important matter of fact, is to inquire con-
corning it in the right quarter before, and not
after, sending off such report as fact; and
this rule, it is to be hoped, will be more care
| fully observed hereafter than it has been by
the news agency OF the Associated Press.
We do not, however, yet abandon all hope
Of authentic news of the safety of the City Of
Boston, disheartening as it is to think Of her
chances after being forty eight days out from
Halifax and no authentic report concerning
her. Our latest news from the Azores Islands,
however, is of the 26th of February, since
which date the steamer may have drifted in
frhf u Iota Int oIl;
gence from Fayal, if we hear nothing of her,
we shall be thrown back upon the painful con-
clusion that, crushed, perhaps, among ice
bergs, or suddenly foundered in heavy
storm, she has gone down, like the President,
the Pacific, the City of Glasgow and the Tenn
pest, leaving not soul or vestige afoat to
tell the point on the sea or the nature of her
disaster. But still we hold to the chance of
the Azores Islands
Some distrust is also beginning to be felt as
to the safety Of the Cunard steamer Samaria,
now eighteen days out from Queenstown,
bound for this port. The Cnnarders have
been 50 remarkably punctual in their trips at
all seasons that where one of those steamers
is concerned detention of four or five days
beyond her appointed time is a matter for
some apprehensions of at least disabling
accident. But the Samaria, we dare say, has
suffered nothing worse than the Smidt, and
we may expect report at any moment Of her
appearance at the Hook. In real stormy
wintry weather the passing winter seems to
have been crowded into the month of March,
and so the lengthening of steamers passage
six, eight or ten days across the Atlantic is no
cause for any great anxiety.
The Gricfs Of Madrid nnd Glorles Of New
York.
Spain and the Spanish people remain in
volved in most distressing mesh of contra
dictions-co of principle, of poll
tics Of natural feeling and Christianity. The
revolutionary government was based on the
platform Of ''liberty, equality and fra
ternity." To-day we find by our cable tele-
grams from Europe that the demand Of the
people Of Cuba for the right Of managing
their own affairs is treated either with the
most peremptory denial or the advice to
abandon the island to its next powerful
neighbor. Not much liberty there General
Prim stated to the Cortes yesterday that he
had just been pelted with stones in the streets
Of Madrid. Fraternity, but in very trouble
some shape. Prim says the government will
IDEAL snmmarily" with such disorders in future.
The Spaniards know exactly what the words
ideal summarily" mean, coming from the
lips of General Prm The citizens of Madrid
may not, therefore, be likely to attempt to fra
ternize with him in trough and tumble man
ner for some time again. The remains of Prince
Henri de Bourbon. coffined with Masonic en-
b!ems, were escorted to the church by the
Masonic society, Of which body he had been
member Seeing this the priests removed
the church crosses and religious decorations
near to it or at the grave
New York, as we have always maintained
in our columns, is not so bad after all Our
citizens would free Cuba before dinner
hour to-day if they could. Ills Honor the
Mayor, with ''every other man in the
municipality, will be out 'fraternizing' with
st. Patrick and hobnobbing with the faith
ful children of the Green Isle within few
hours. On the 10Th instant and yesterday,
both days combined, the Freemasons of New
York occupied and paid for over three columns
of the HERALD pages in announcing the death
and funeral of one brother, the late Robert D.
Holiness On which side OF the Atlantic are
the liberty, equality and fraternity: New
York gives the reply.
TROUBLED ABOUT THE INSPECTORS. Mr..
Hennessey wants to have the Inspectors of
Public Schools not appointed, but elected ''as
they used to be" in the times when the corner
groggery caucus possessed all the power in
regard to the public schools. The inspectors
audit all the bills they must certify the cor
rectness of every account before it can be
paid Among them are such men as Andrew