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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

The STRIKES. The foolish workingmen,
not content with finding employment in these
days of hard times, when thousands and thou
sands are living on the charity of the people,
demand more wages. 1t is true that in the
case OF the cigar makers they are simply fight
ing for what they were paid prior to the grand
reduction superinduced by the panic. Our
advice to all employees is, now is not the mo-
ment to initiate movement for o general in
crease of pay, when men of strong and willing
hands are calling at our basement doors i'm
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

THE WHIsKEY WARs-The women's whs-
key war in Ohio, which, we are told,
shows no sign of abating it's ferocity, has
now companion in the raid made upon
the Boston barrooms by the police,
under the orders of the Prohibition Com
missioners. In the former case the
ladies, always encouraged to increased energy
by opposition, are growing more and more
resolved to carry the day and ore extending
their hostilites into new counties. In the
latter case the police are striking at
high game, and have already made
'hauls" of about eighteen thousand dollars
worth of the prescribed fluids at the principal
hotels-Youngs, the fremont and the Sher-
man House. The probability, based upon ex-
perience, is that in few weeks the spirits of
the Ohio Amazons and of the Hub police will
be exhausted; and then those other spirits,
now under the ban, will rule again with more
absolute sway than before the breaking out Of
the rebellion, which has for awhile interfered
with their supremacy.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

On TO CooMAssIE -" Twelve hundred
British troops have advanced to within a
few days march of Coomassie, the Ashantee
capital" is the cables fash this morning.
No opposition has been made to their
advance, and Sir Garnet Wolseley and
Captain Glover have had it all their own way.
The Fantees have turned out to be what every
body said they would prove-nimble- footed
towards and worthless allies. They have de-
serted the British as the victors were knocking
at the door of the capital simply because they
had in their far-seeing eyes the spectacle of
revenge that would be practised upon them
by Koffee and his subjects in the not distant
future. The despatch further states that the
troops are healthy-a proof that Africa is not
dangerous when the traveller is away from
the undrained regions about the coast.
Another excellent letter from Mr.. Stanley we
publish this morning describing the final
preparations for the conquest, probably now
many days achieved. He tells the story of
health in Africa, which is simple one
'Touch not taste not, handle not"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05
T RIPPLE S HE E T.
New York, Thursday, Feb. 3, 1874.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
TO-Day'S Contents of the
Herald.

EXTREME EXCITEMENT IN THE ENGLISH ELEC-
TIONS. MORE CONSERVATIVE SUCCESSES
EDINBURGH CARRIED BY THE GOVERN
MENT THE IRISH CONTEST, DISRAELI
AND LOWE MILITARY TO SUPPRESS THE
MOBS-SEvENTH PAGE.
CRITICAL JUNCTURE IN FRANCo-GERMAN Az
FAIRS ALARMING RUMoRS ABROAD IN
THE PRUSSIAN CAPITAL-SEvENTH PAGE.
. GENERAL WOISELEY'S ADVANCED TROOPS
WITHIN ONE DAYS MARCH OF COOMAs-
SIEi AsHANTEE PEACE OvERTURESl
FANTEE DESERTERS-SEvENTH FACE.
BRITISH PREPARATIONS FOR ASSUMING THE
OFFENSIVE IN ASHANTEE THE IN
Killed HIGHLANDERs ABSORBING
FEARS OF THE ACCUSED FEVER ~
THE TEETOTAL MANIA-FoURrH PAGE.
DESPERATE FIGHTING BETWEEN THE SPAN
IARDs AND CUBANs IN GIBARAl SPAN
ISH ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF ME-
LONES-FoURrH PAGE
DORREGARRY SUCCEEDS ELIO AS DON
CARLOS CHIEF OF STAFF-IMPORTANT
GENERAL NEwS-sEvENTH PAGE.
THE sIAMEsE TWINS TO BE DIssECTED A
VICTORY FOR SCIENCE-SEvENTH PAGE.
DETERMINED WAR UPON THE wHISKEY
DEALERsl ALMOST A RIOT In BOSTON
THIRD PAGE.
THE PROPOSED NEW ELECTION IN LOUISIANA
THE ACTION OF EX-GOVERNOR HEBERT!
THE NECESSITIES OF THE CASEl CON-
GRESSIONAL DUTY-FoURTH PAGE.
The HIRELINGS OF MONOPOLY HAULED OVER
THE GOALS BY THEIR CONGRESSIONAL
FELLOWSl THE BANKRUPT ACT AND
FREE ARMY TRANSPORTATION CoNSID.
ERED-FIPTH PAGE.
RAPID TRANSIT AT LAST PROBABLEl THE
LEGISLATURE TAKING II up LEGIsLA.
TIVE PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY-TENTu
PAGE.
HORRORS OF LIFE AMONG THE DEsTlTUTEl
REAL LIFE PICTURES FROM THE FOURTH
AND SIXTH WARDS THAT ALMOST BEG
GAR observation-disclosures PAGE
THE RAILWAY TRAIN ROBBERY IN MISSOURI
HISTORY OF THE OUTRAGE BY THE CON-
DUCT0R-FoURTH PAGE.
STEALING KIDS A HEAVY TRANSACTION A
FIRM MULCT Sl5,o0o-THIRD PAGE.
sUEz CANAL TOLLS REDUCED-THE LABOR
STkIKES-FIFTH PAGE
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The CUBAN WAE-We publish in another
column the Spanish official account of the i'm
portant battle Of Melones. In all essential
particulars it corroborates the fuller account
sent us from the insurgent camp which we
published some time ago. The Spaniards
cannot deny that they were compelled to re-
tire with heavy loss, but yet they are unwill-
ing to admit defeat If any proof were
wanting of the unreliability of Spanish ac-
counts of the war the attempt to turn seri-
Gus defeat like that at Melones into glorious
victory would furnish it. If the Spaniards are
content to regard this fight as glorious the
Cubans must wish heartily that their enc
mics shall enjoy many such glorious trumphs
in the future. The instruction is evidently
Gathering new power.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

GERMANY AND FRANCE. to one
C our cable dispatches alarming reports are
current in Berlin concerning the present rela-
tons of France and Germany. Somehow
Prussia has more difficulty than France in get
ting rid of the bad feeling engendered by the
late war. The explanation, however, is not
far to seek. Bismarck has been too anxious
to consolidate his conquests. His work might
have been more successful, as it certainly
would have been more easy, if he had allowed
more scope for the exercise of the religious
sentiment He has made bitter enemies of the
so-called ultramontanes. He has been able, to
large extent to silence them in Germany;
but in France and Belgium, in spite Of the
governments, they have the use of the pulpit
and the press Bismarck's latest annoyance
came from Alsace. At the election held there
few days ago the anti-Prussian sentiment
was Enthusiastically revealed by the return of q
large majority OF French candidates to the
Reichstag. Notwithstanding the bad feeling
between France and Germany we do not look
for another war.
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Musical and ORA attic Notes.

Nine. Anna Bishop has gone to Honolulu.
George F. Bristow's new symphony, "Arcadian,"
will be played at the Philharmonic rehearsal on
Friday at the Academy.
The engagement of Nine. Pauline Lucca. at the
Stadt Theatre, under the direction OF Mr.. Ruman,
will be signalizcd by the production of some Of the
best works in the German repertoire.
The Strakosch Italian Opera Company COM
mence at the Academy Of Music on Wednesday.
February Is. a season OF eighteen nights and six
matinees during which Nine. Nilsson will appear
as Elsa, Miss Cary as Ortrud Sgnor Campanini a.
LoheDgrin. M. Maurel as Frederick OF Tebramund.
and Signor Nannetti as King Henry. In Wagner's
OPERA "Lohengrin."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

The BANKRUPT BILL was taken up by the
United States Senate yesterday, and after dis
cussion, it was decided not to strike out the
provision relating to persons suspending
payment on their commercial paper. Prompt
ness in meeting obligations of this kind is
the test Of commercial soundness and SOL
vency and the Senate did well in preserving
the provision, if the rights of the bankrupt
are properly guarded in other respects
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

The BODIES OF THE SIAMEsE TWINS are
now on their way to Philadelphia, in charge
of the medical commission recently sent from
that city. According to our special despatch,
printed elsewhere this morning, the widows
made the autopsy conditional that the remains
of their late husbands should not be I'M
necessarily mutiated. The curiosity of the
scientific world will soon be satisfied
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

The LATE STORM, which swept the Atlantic
seaboard from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf
of st. Lawrence, appears to have been most
violent at and around Richmond, Va, where
the damages from the hail and the wind to
houses, fences and trees were very great.
Houses were crushed by falling trees, and
streets and roads were rendered impossible to
vehicles from the trunks and limbs of trees
scattered about in every direction. This
heavy gale at Richmond was doubtless,
Whit inland from the Gulf Stream, off stormy
Cape Hatteras.
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Elisha Colt.

Mr.. Elisha Colt, of Hartford Conn.,. secretary ana
treasurer OF the Collins Company, whose works are
at Colinsvillc died yesterday, aged seventy years.
He was in early life teller IN the Phoenix Bank, and
afterwards cashier and president OF the exchange
Rang and for ten or twelve years secretary OF tho
Collins Company. He has been connected with
various business enterprises, and was implicitly
trns fed I'm ALI He was q man OF unmpeaChablo
integrity. whose loss will be greatly mourned.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

The SLE1GH1NG CARNIVAL on this island
may be of short duration, but the parties who
delight in the sport are making the most of it
while they can. The general turn out on St
Nicholas avenue, Harlem lane and other
presented brilliant spectacle, as may be seen
in our columns elsewhere.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

Charles J. Foote, professor OF French and Eng.
nsh literature in the Syracuse IN. " High School.
died IN Syracuse the Sd inst at the age OF forty.
seven years. He formerly professor In Seton
Hall College, New Jersey, and was also private
secretary TO John Y. Mason, wnen he was united
Minister to France.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

WASHINGTON, Feb. L. 1874.
The President to-day nominated the following
officers o, the navy for promotion -
Master John A. Rodgers. to be Lieutenant; En-.
sign Joseph b. Murdoch, to be Master.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05
RECEPTION TO CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE.
TOLEDO, Ohio. Feb. 4, 1874

TOLEDO, Ohio. Feb. z, 1873.
The members OF the Bar In this city gave q rccep
ton to Chief Justice Waite last evening. 1t is I'M
de rstood that he will leave for washington on the
18th inst
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Naval Orders.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 4, 1874.
Lieutenant Commander II. d. Lowry is detached
from recruiting duty at Erie, Pa, and ordered To
take charge OF recruits for the Asatic station ana
on arrival there report tor duty on the station.
Master Pauding is detached from recruiting duty
on the Michigan and placed on waiting order&
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.

Summoned Before the Retiring Board.
WASHINGTON, Feb 4, 1874.
Major Jacob F.. Burbank has been ordered to
hold himself IN readiness for examination before
the retiring Board, OF which General Hancock Ii
President.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

THE CHARITY BALL tonight at the Academy
Of Music, in aid of the Nursery and Child S
Hospital, WILL doubtless, be an imposing as
semblage of the beauty and the fashion of the
METROPOLIS,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05
OF the Wizard of the North
Sing the Tuesday nights renOwn,
When he let the gas burst forth
And burned the theatre down.

The .WiZard" had rented Covent Garden for
a limited term, at a season OF the year when
any other occupancy was hopeless. lie paid e.. 600
to the manager of the Royal Italian Opera, and
expended fl,OJ0 additional in getting up his pam
tomime ''La Belle Alliance; or, The Field OF tho
Cloth OF Gold" Previous to this misfortune the
wizard" had been the lessee Of almost
every theatre in England, Ireland and Scotland,
and had had five London theatres under his man.
agement. He had given his necrOmantic per-
torrance in Great Britain, the other countries OF
Europe, Russia and we believe, in the East. The
public relieved him CT the charges which were
made against him by portion OF the English
press so that he has passed from life eminent
conjurer and very much esteemed as theatrical
manager and gentleman.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05

THEATRE COMTQUE ,
No. IA Broadway.-COLLEEN BAWN ana hAhiEl'
bNTERTAINMENT, at S p NJ closes al 10 80 r M-
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GERMANIA THEATRE.
fourteenth street-PRECIosA at r. NJ closes Al
T. NJ.
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BOOTHS THEATRE
Sixtb avenue and Twenty third street-ELtNE, AZ I'D
Il. N. closes at 10 30 r. NJ. Mrs j. B. Booth
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OBITUARY.
Professor Anderson, ''The Wizard OF the
NOrth.'

Professor Anderson, s.The Wizard OF the
North"
telegram from London, under date OF the 4th
instant. reports as Ows:-"Proessor Anderson,
the well known conjurer, Is dead"
John Henry Anderson, professionally known az
"The Wizard of the North" was born in Aberdeen
SHIRE Scotland, and first appeared in public as
conjurer in 1880, in Edinburgh. He was exceed
ingly successful in astonishing and afOrding amuse-
ment to very large audiences. He came to New
York in 1851 and opened at the Broadway Theatre.
Afterwards he played "Rob Roy" at Castle Garden.
He travelled all over the United States and ap-
peared in almost all the countries OF the Old ord,
performing before mOnarchs princes and the peO-
pie. He had not been in America for some years,
but always manifested great gratitude for tho
favOrs which he received AT the hands OF the peO-
pie of the United States Mr. Anderson suffered
many losses in property by fire.
On the morning OF Wednesday, March 8, 1856. the
last day OF his tenancy OF Covent Garden Theatre.
London. the building was destroyed by fire. There
was widespread speculation concerning the cause
OF the cOnnagration and in very many quarters in
Great Britain the '.Wizard" was charged, more or
less openly, as an incendiary, rho wished to make
money and gain additional nOtOrety by having his
name connected with the occurrence OF great
metropolitan catastrophe. This imputatiOn he In
dignanty denied, notably in letter which no
addressed to the NEW YORK HERALD under date OF
London, April 7, 1856. and which was published IN
columns. Other theatres-One in Glasgow and
one IN Misunderstanding been burned when under
his management, and the busy tongue OF rumOr
found ample ioOd for It's utterances when the
same disaster befel him in some one or two OF tho
houses which he leased In America. Douglas JerrOd
in q London weekly journal, designated Anderson
as "a necrOmancer enthroned on tar barrel whose
name will be burned into the memories OF genera
tiOns," and the Spectator sad:''COvent Garden
Theatre Is burned down and the public, taught BY
experience, at once suspect the incendiary." me
Globe, Examiner and Punch followed In the same
strain, Mr.. Punch closing poetic enuslon VITA
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OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Broadway, between Houston aud Bleecker streets
VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT ana
Holman opera Troupe, at p NJ. closes at IL T. NJ
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wALLACK'S THEATRE,
broadway and Thirteenth street-MOfEf. at +. NJ Z;
closes AZ II r NJ Mr. Lester Wailack, Miss Jefireys
L.
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errors Of judgment. as well as Of misconcep-
people. in virtue OF which it conscientiously
endeavors to do what it believes to be
right. but learns ultimately that its
notions of duty are 80 far above
the comprehension or generosity of it's
supporters that it must persist if at ALL at the
expense of changing friends to foes. Few
governments in the world. however. and few
parties have fallen by such preference of
principle to party safety and success, and it
may well be doubted if any other English
statesman than Mr.. Gladstone would have
gone down in just that way. 1t is an end-if
it be the end-that his enemies may honor.
If the conservatives are coming fully into
power upon the present agitation the result
may prove far from deplorable; for the liberal
party has carried the country forward enor
mously-quite as far, perhaps as it could well
carry it for the time, and little return to the
tender merces of the tories will but excite
new appetite and new zest for further progress.
The University Race-SarstOga or New
London.
Two weeks ago delegates from twelve of our
principal seats of learning met in convention
at Hartford and determined, three dissenting,
to have the great race Of 1874 ON Saratoga
Lake. Our dispatches report threatened
bolt among the universities, Harvard and the
Amherst "Aggies" leading New London is
the place desired by the boilers. Perhaps
outside of Boston no city in New England
could as we'll care for several thousand extra
visitors as Springfield and yet last year made
it plain that she was wholly unequal to the
task, while the unfitness of her course to prop
erly accommodate so many crews was even
more glaring. Yet now it is asked that the
same problem be given to place away off in
a corner not nearly so central and with only
such hotel accommodations as her ordinary
wants call for, while there is serious danger,
also, that the action of the tide will prevent
a strictly fair race. AS the question
has been once decided, and by so very
large majority, and that, too, in
favor of place not only easy of access and
peculiarly attractive in itself, but well proved
already to possess probably the finest rowing
course on the Continent we hope that these
gentlemen now thinking of trying New Lon
don will reconsider their purpose, and not try
to drag away to provincial town, and so
dwarf the prettiest athletic contest we have in
America. Let them try Saratoga once, and
then, if the objections to it are of real account
they can fall back on one of the provincial
towns next year The bad work Harvard made
of it at the finish last July makes it even more
incumbent on her not to stand in the way of
any step that will tend to make better race
this time; and, renewing our hope that she
will reconsider this new step. we yet trust that,
even though she will not, the nine institutions
which have already taken their stand will not
be turned from it,
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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE.
op ooste City Hail. oklyn.-SAM and DrNDREARY
a f. NJ. closes ut Ii 45 p NJ Mr.. 4. A. Sothern.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-05
Shall the Army and Navy Be De-
strOyed!

Retrenchment! Every member of Congress
thinks that if this word is used in connection
with his Legislative record he is great states
man, and will dwell long and gloriously in the
popular heart. The army and navy are
his peculiar aversions. "What is the use
of having an army?" he says 10 himself and
colleagues. 'Thefe is no war. There will be
no war; The grangers will settle all questions
of domestic character for the Western peo-
pie, and as for foreign wars we will avoid
them by the arts of diplomacy" The army is
not cordially supported by the Eastern member
because its field Of operations is in
the West the navy is not cordially sup
ported by the Western member because its
field of operations is in the East. If our
great cities on this seaboard should find it
necessary to have large garrisons of regular
troops in order to protect the lives of their
inhabitants and their property, then the
Eastern member would not ''retrench." II on
the Plains of the far West it were necessary
to have fine squadron Of iron-clads in order
to keep off the grain and railway monopolists,
then the Western member would not "re-
trench" The truth is, there is no true economy
in legislation on this subject. The army is
sacrificed to one interest and section, the
navy to another interest and another Sec
ton. AS far as the army is concerned it
should be maintained. The Western Terri
tories, their exploration, settlement and pros
perity demand its continued efficiency;
for there ore nearly sixty thousand
hostile Indians who will be in a state of
chronic warfare until, by a gradual civilization,
they lose all their ferceness and the char
acteristics of their race. The navy should be
maintained, for without it we can have no
manly, decisive diplomacy-no character
abroad. We ask, then, that the legislators
who propose to extinguish all that gives char
acter to the history of our arms on sea and
land should pause and reflect. They may reap
as they have sown.
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MRS CONwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE.
shington street. Brooklyn-LADf AUDLEYS ST
GET. At $ +. NJ. closes Ut IL T. VI. Mrs. Bowers
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BOwERY THEATRE,
Powerv-THE SIAMksE TWINS; PASSIM. Begins o.
Z l.. N. closes at II p. NJ MIss Laura Alberta
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COLOSSEUM

Balm HALL.
Great Jones street and Lafayette placc.-THE Pill
GRIM. at T. NJ. closes at 10 7. NJ.
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COLOSSEUM,
Broadway. corner of Thirty fifth street.-PARIS BY
NIGHT. at 7. NJ. ; closes at T. NJ. at r. NJ ,
closes at 10 T.. NJ.
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BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE.
Twenty third street. of Sixth avenue -CINDER
lila IN BLACK, NEGRO MINS1RELsY, &c, at p
NJ closes AZ 10 Z. NJ.
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IHE LOUISIANA lMBROGLIO. We publish
this morning powerful statement from Mr..
Albert G. Janin on the rights and wrongs of
the suffering people of Louisiana and on the
timidity and hesitation of Congress touching
the Kellogg usurpation. Meantime the Judi
ciary Committee of the Senate is still collect
ing volumes of evidence bearing upon Pinch
back, Durell and all the parties concerned in
this Louisiana ENHANCEMENT. In summing it
all up, the Senate as at the last session, will
most probably drop the subject from failure
to agree upon any settlement except that
er parte settlement of Durell. The difficulty
can be settled to the satisfaction of the people
of Louisiana only in new election, and if
the Kellogg party are satisfied that they are in
power by the peoples will why should
they be afraid of this appeal to the people?
The PoTTER's FIELD ABUsE-We publish
in another column report of the investiga-
ton into some of the alleged abuses of the
Potters Field The charges made against the
employees of the Commissioners of Charities
and Correction were substantiated in several
instances by the testimony of respectable and
trustworthy witnesses. Even President Lain
beer was astonished, and expressed strongly
his condemnation of some of the minor
officials. 1t is, however, rather the system
than some minor official that should bear the
blame. The public do not want scapegoat
but they do want the introduction of such re-
forms as will prevent a recurrence of the dis
graceful disregard of the rights of citizens
that seems to have characterized the action of
occasion.