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The New York herald., 1874-04-10
The Flood i'm tho Lower Mississippi-
Yesterday's Storm.

The Gather of Waters in it's lower course
is now rapidly rising and booming along at
high food For several days the periodic
March rise has rendered the river stage at
New Orleans critical, and the weather pre-
dictions for Tuesday last, announcing rains
for all the lower Mississippi basin, ought to
have amply forewarned the citizens of Lou
isiana. There are now strong indications that
the Cumberland, the Ohio and all the lower
Mississippi will be speedily in food. In some
of the States bordering these water courses
there have been excessive and torrential
rains-in some instances exceeding three
inches of fall. The memorable floods of
1853 and 1859 were due to rains in the Ohio
Valley, preceding the usual June rise in the
Missouri and its turbid tributaries. In each of
these tremendous deluges it was demonstrated
that the great river is not dependent for its
overwhelming inundations to the melting
mountain SHOWS In the last-named food,
that of 1859, the Missouri, the upper
Mississippi and upper Ohio were not full;
but the lower Ohio rose over thirty feet on the
falls at Louisville, with fearful ravages of the
current after it passed Cairo. There were
thirty odd crevasses, and for two months and
ten days the swelling tide continued. The
river did not subside till the last of May but
notwithstanding this fact many planters were
The New York herald., 1874-04-10
The Mayor ON Elective Comp
trOIfer.

Mayor Havemeyer has addressed letter to
the Legislature, showing cause why, in his
Judgment, the bill now before that body to
make the Office Of Comptroller elective by the
people, instead Of leaving the power of appoint
ment in the hands of the Mayor, should not
become law The opinion of the Mayor
may be regarded as disinterested, since he is
pointing another Comptroller The proposed
change is simply one OF those acts OF charter
tinkering of which we have already had too
liberal supply. The law of last year left the
Comptroller where he is and made his sue
cessor appointive in the same manner with
other heads of departments. The bill of this
year proposes to undo that work and
to hold an election for Comptroller
next fall. This is quite sufficient rea-
son why it should be rejected. Mr.. Green's
term of Office expires in 1875, and the people
may prefer to leave things as they are until
then, rather than to be subjected to these
incessant changes and experiments. At the
same time, inasmuch as the charter makes the
Mayor sort Of check upon the Comptroller,
in the double signature of warrants, and as
collusion between corrupt Mayor and his
two financial appointees Comptroller and
haInberlain-would leave the city without
any protection against robbery, many persons
believe that the Comptroller should be rem
dered entirely independent of the Mayor, and
liable to removal only in the same manner as
the executive.
No doubt the thieves who have been driven
from the treasury by the overthrow of the
Tammany "Ring" have no affection for
either Comptroller Green or Mayor Havemeyer.
At the same time there are honest men and
good citizens in New York who regard Mr..
Green's financial management as bad, and
who are even disposed to look upon Mayor
Havemeyer as an executive failure. Both
these gentlemen were active participants in
the reform movement OF 1871, and the people
appreciate their services. But that is no
reason why they should now practise the very
deceptions in relation to our financial affairs
for which the Tammany officials were 80 noto-
rious. In January last the Mayor and Comp
troller put forth deceptive exhibit of the public
debt-an exhibit the untruthfulness of which il
established by the trial balance sheet Of the
Finance Department up to the last day OF
December. In his present letter the Mayol
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

Beust-The Men Who Write Letters.
Heretofore, in diplomatic life in Europe,
Frenchmen have generally been the victims.
They have written too much. Benedetti
made an ugly record for himself in trying to
steal Belgium, and Bismarck preserved and
exhibited it to an astonished Europe. De
Grammont wrote letters which required
several years of industry to twist into
French patriotism, and Bazaine committed
himself to peripatetic adventurer named
Regnier, who aspired to heal the wounds of
the butchered empire. La Marmora then
came forward and made Bismarck, that crusty
Mephistopheles of imperial scoffers, wince
and boil over with rage in the very midst Of
his parliamentary servitors. Revelation after
revelation has followed, and nearly all the
secrets which made the era of Prim, Napoleon
III. and Cavour notable for the frequent use
of the phrase, .'balance of power" have come
to the surface. Yesterday the cathke
Won .Beust, who hoisted himself
from the Court of Saxony to that
Of Vienna, was introduced in turn. In July,
1870, when France was rudely shaking her
fist at the whole Teutonic race, Beust, who
had his own sweet revenge in mind, wrote to
his diplomatic man, Metternich-s'We con-
slider the cause of France our own" OF
course he did but then Russia who covets
Austria's Sclaves, was not willing, and so
Beust could to nothing but tell France to
fatter Italy and yield up Rome Probably
Beust told Bismarck also that ''the cause of
Germany is our own )" but this has not yet
come to light. So that Beust and Austria
gain with France by the disclosure as it
stands, while the Fatherland will look with no
tender feelings on the cisleithnn States. We
shall wait patiently for Bismarck to produce q
long-buried despatch from somebody which
will settle the matter, as usual, to his entire
satisfaction
The New York herald., 1874-04-10
What Docs II Mean.

The Mayor yesterday transmitted to the
Board Of Aldermen report of the warrants
drawn on the city treasury during the year
1873 Alderman McCafferty stated that the
report as presented was merely balance
sheet, and on his motion the Commissioners
of Accounts were directed to make detailed
statement to the Board. What docs this
mean? The Commissioners of Accounts are
required to make statement in detail. Have
they neglected this duty, or has the Mayor
suppressed portion OF their report? What
object is there in covering up the details of
this statement? We understand that some
seventy-fve million dollars were drawn from
the treasury on warrants in 1873 and the
detailed report should show to what accounts
the warrants are chargeable, thus affording
the taxpayers the opportunity to discover
exactly where there has been official extrava-
gance. The report of the debt statement
made by the Commissioners Of Accounts to
the Mayor was held in the Executive Office for
week, until an alteration of the figures had
been secured. Now let us know whether
another report has been subjected to change
or curtailment after its transmission to the
Mayor and on it's way to the Common Council,
The New York herald., 1874-04-10
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Professor o. c. Marsh, Of Yale College, Is at the
Holman House.
Dewitt G. LlttIejonn, OF Oswego N. Y, Is staying
at the metropolitan Hotel.
Commander John W. Philip. United States Navy.
Is at the Sturtevant House.
Ex-Governor Rodn AN NJ. Price, Of New Jersey, ts
registered at Barnums Hotel.
Captain Hamilton Perry, OF the steamship Adrt-
atic, Is ut the ST. Nicholas Hotel.
Archdeaccn Woods, or British Columbia, has
apartments at the Brevoort House.
Professor James Orten, OF Vassar College. is
among the recent arrivals at the st. Denis Hotel.
Or. Danlel Read is now in the lfteth year OF his
serv,ce "a President OF the Missouri STATE Univcr-
sity.
sano Tsnetami until lately Minister from Japan
IN Itaiv ,s uoinq home to become Minister Of Pub
lie Works.
rhe shah OF Persin intends to make pilgrimage
to Mecca in mlhlment OF q VOW made during his
European tour
Congressman Alexander Mitchell OF Wisconsin,
ia said to be the wealthicst man III the West. lie
repudates the idea OF imitation.
Professor M. G. Vincent and Rev. Thomas Miner,
OF London, England, arrived yesterday in tho
steamship City OF Paris, and are now ut the ST.
Nicholas Hotel.
M Katkof,. editor Of the Moscow (Russla, CO.
zette, is likely to be made prince, so that he VIII
be put on the social plane OF his vile, VINO Is by
birtnright the Princess Schalikow. The Cologne
Gazette makes this statement.
Assistant Secretary sawyer and A. b. Mullctt.
Supervising Architect OF the Treasury Department.
who have been In Boston for several days on bust
ness connected with the new Post Office there,
started last night en- route to this city and WASH
ington.
Roman Won Rampony, an Austrian officer and
student at the University OF Innsbruck, was re-
Gently challenged by several members OF an
athestic club. He refused to fight being good
Catholic, and consequently mas been dismissed
trUW the Austrian service.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

BENDER's ARREST. public will learn
with profound satisfaction that the head of
the Bender family Of murderers has at last
been arrested The story of assassinations
committed by this gang recalls the history of
the atrocities of Trauppmann and Sawney Bean.
Accident furnished q clew to their guilt, and
with their accomplices they fed from the
scene of their crime; but the law has already
hunted down some of the guilty parties, and
the capture of the head of the gang gives us
hope that his confederates will not long escape
the pursuit of justice 1t is of the greatest
moment to punish promptly and with
the utmost rigor crimes Of the character
Of those which are charged against the Ben
ders. The temptations to commit acts OF
violence and robbery in sparsely settled coun-
tries have ever proved too strong for brutal
ICED and dishonest class of the community,
and it is, therefore, most necessary to impress
the lesson on the evil disposed that, however
wild and savage the country may be, law will
certainly reach and punish those who take the
lives of their fellow beings.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

SUMNER ON INITIATION. The Davenport
Gazette prints the following somewhat cele-
brated sentiment of the late lamented and
illustrious Summer
The possibility OF new issue OF incOnvertiblc
paper regard with amaZement and anxiety, ana,
In my Judgment, sucn an issue would be detrI-
ment ana u shame.
In commenting upon this declaration the
Gazette denies that these words were ever
used, and says it cannot find them in any OF
Summers speeches. To which we answer that
they came to the editor Of the HERALD, in
Summers own handwriting, in response to q
request from us that he would give us his
views on the Financial bill then pending in the
Senate. They were written day or two be-
fore his death.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

GLASGOW, ScoTLAND.-We print this morn
ing cable despatch giving an account of a
sad and serious accident which occurred in
the town of Hamilton, some ten miles distant
from the city of Glasgow and well known to
all who are familiar with the banks
of the Clyde. A steam boiler burst
and a large portion of the same,
having been carried several hundred feet fell
upon schoolhouse, crashing through the
roof and killing three children and iniuring
o large number There as here, bad inspec-
ton or ignorance prevails Pity that the in
nocent should suffer!
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

The UNION LEAGUE CLUB at regular
monthly meeting held last night, as will be
learned from our news columns, denounced
the action of Congress in regard to initiation.
Sound and solid republicans and the best
friends of the party are deserting. Will this
open the eyes of the President !? When true
and tried friends take to the small boats is
it not time to say that the ship is in danger?
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

STICKING TO THEIR TExr.-The Massa-
chusetts Legislature keeps up the farce
of voting for United States Senator with
the same obstinacy, by sticking to the several
candidates. 1t is game Of see-saw without
end. Two or three votes are changed occa-
sionally, by way Of variety, but with no ex-
pectation of any definite result. Measures, and
not men, has been good motto Of statesmen
and patriots, but in Massachusetts they only
think Of men and mere partisanship. The
Hoar and Dawes men, all of the same political
party, are SO bitterly opposed that they will
not yield an inch, and the democrats, who
support Curtis, hold on like grim death,
hoping for break in favor of their man. A
compromise must come at last, even if the
balloting continues till the dog days. Why,
then, not agree upon a compromise candidate
at once? However, the world will not come
to an end if no Senator should be chosen, and
the Massachusetts, Legislature may prolong
the farce if it chooses
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

remain neglected we do not see how Com
gress can vote to extend exploration in
Asia Minor. If liberal appropriations were
made to conduct our geological and other
surveys in the Far West then we could see no
reason why reasonable assistance should not
be furnished to finish the labors of the Pales-
tine Exploration Society.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

MAYOR HAvEMEYER sent to the Board of
Aldermen yesterday veto of the proposition
to allow citizens to vote at the next election
on the question of rapid transit as public
work. The Mayor prefers the slow coaches of
half q century ago to the steam cars of the
present day.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

The ESCAPE OF RocHEFoRr AND Hrs
FRIENDS is no longer doubted by the French
government. Of the escape we were, on this
side of the Atlantic, fully aware long ago.
Red tape is not SO binding here as in Europe.
The French government, of all the govern
be SO slow in the face OF facts.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

PALESTINE EXPLORATION. there is
great deal in Palestine exploration which
appeals to the sympathies of the Chris
tian world we cannot commend exclusive
Congressional legislation in its favor.
There are extensive regions OF the United
States yet to be explored; photographic fields
in both oceans washing our shores to be
sounded; vast surveys to be completed, and
the regular geographical boundaries of the
Continent to be defined While these works
The New York herald., 1874-04-10
T r RIPLE S HE E T.
New York, Friday, April 10, 1874.

are that The aoeat4er today ,cM be rainy clear
ing possibly in the eUeninq.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

spain-Serrano and the War in the
1t has all along been our opinion that Ser
rano urderestimated the power Of the Carlists
in the North. This opinion We have again
and again stated Our news of this morning
fully justifes all we have said. One account
has it that at council Of war held in
Madrid Serrano's plans bearing upon the
reduction Of the Carlist power have been
pronounced impracticable. According to
another account Serrano is about to return
to Madrid and General Concha is to take his
place in command OF the Army Of the
North. Serrano, it is said, will call
convention on his return to the capital
city. How far these reports are true we know
not. II true, the failure of Serrano must be
admitted. His return to the capital means
distrust and fear of fresh insurrection.. Ser
rano ought to have known better before he
went North. Ii the Carlists are as strong as
this news implies Serrano, with all his fine
schemes for the establishment of the Republic
and the restoration of Isabella's son out of
the ruins thereof, has gone up in balloon.
After all 1t may be found out that young
Spain is much stronger than old Serrano.
man who in 1S43 fought against the interests
Of the Queen-mother can hardly be supposed
to be in sympathy with young Spain of 1874.
But the condition of Spain is so chaotic and
SO incomprehensible that time must be al
lowed to decide the difficulty
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

BRINGING Them TO THE FRoNT.-The Alder
men yesterday adopted resolutions denounc-
ing the Legislative lobbying resorted to by the
heads of the city departments for their per-
sonal and political benefit, through paid agents
at Albany, and calling upon the Legislature to
reject and upon the Governor to veto any laws
thus lobbied or that have not received the ap-
proval Of the Common Council-the direct
representatives of the people Of the city. The
Aldermen also reminded the heads Of depart
ments that while the charter entities them to
take part in the debates in the Common Coun-
Gil, they have not hitherto availed themselves
Of the privilege, and the Clerk was directed at
future meetings to call the names of the heads
Of departments and make note of the pres
ence or absence of each. But will the action
OF the Aldermen have the effect of putting a
stop to the departmental lobbying at Albany
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

DALY'S FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE
Twenty eghth street and Broadway-CHARITY. at p.
M. closes at 10 80 P. NJ. Miss Ada Dyas, Miss Fanny
Davenport, Mr. Fisher. Mr. Lewis
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

COLOSSEUM,
Broadway, corner of Thirty fifth street-PARIS b,
MOONLIGHT, at ?. NJ; closes at 5P. II. Same at P
n. closes at lU Z. NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

WOODS MUSEUM,
Broadway corner Thirtieth street-IDLFWTLD, at P.
NJ !; closes ut 80 p NJ ESCAPED FROM SING SING,
at & r N. closes at 10 30 Z. NJ
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

THEATRE COMIQUE,
No. 5l4 Broadway.-VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at
+. M Closes at 10 80 r. NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

ACADEMY OF MUSIC
fourteenth street and Irving place.-IiaIian OPERA
DINORAH at T. M. closes at II p N. lima di Murska
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth street. sixth avenue.-Grand Parsian
Folly, at r. NJ. closes at III I. NJ
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

MRS CONwAY,S BROOKLYN THEATRE
Washington street. Fulton street. Brooklyn
THE FAIRY CIRCLE at SP. NJ closes at IL r NJ Mr.
and Mrs. Barney Williams.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE.
Twenty third street, near Sixth ayenue.-NEGRO MIN
STRELSY, &c. at p. NJ closes at 10 r NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10
ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING

NIBLOs GARDEN
Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets-DASf
CROCK Err at r. NJ closes at 10 80 II. NJ Mr.. Frank
May0
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

TO the volume of the currency will be an i'm
mediate though temporary benefit to
many sections OF the agricultural districts,
and of this temporary advantage the
South is in position to reap the
full benefit. All the good that imitation
may possibly do is clear and Immediately
apparent to all, while the vast evils that
must necessarily flow from it are only
apparent to those capable of applying to the
future the recorded experience of the past, and
these evils are therefore beyond the vision of
the people, and equally beyond the compre-
hension of the oracles of the coun-
try grocery, from whom the popular
opinion derives instruction on subjects
beyond the peoples knowledge Southern
opinion is, therefore, controlled by the same
circumstances that affect Western opinion;
but, unlike this, it does not feel itself under
the little restraint OF regard for the national
pledges, for to the Southern people the
national pledges are simply the pledges OF a
party to which they are opposed, and OF
an enemy who has ruthlessly ground the
South under his heel. BY what conceivable
principle in human nature could they be sup
posed to care for that enemy's honor? They
want money, and they want Congress to vote
any measure that they are told will give them
money Immediately. That this measure will
be source of ultimate ruin they do not
believe if the warming is even heard, while
that it will be an injury to the credit Of the
United States is perhaps an additional point
in its favor
But the most significant fact is the adhesion
of the republican party of the West to the
Southern policy; the acceptance by them OF
the lead of North Carolina democrat, and
the virtual thrusting aside of all the proposals
ignominiously of the bill of that tried repub-
lican-the most capable fnancier in the
Senate-Mr Sherman, for the crude,
naked, revolutionary imitation programme
of Mr.. Merrimon, Southerner and an
opponent Of the party in power. This is
simply the going over Of the republican party
to that party which it has always declared to
be the enemy Of the country, and going over
on point where the welfare of the country is
most perilously at stake. II Horace Greeley
was slaughtered by the people at the polls for
going over in a way no worse, what shall be
done to oil these party leaders in Congress
who merely repeat his offence? Are these
men renegades? Are they betraying their
constituents? Or does the country mean
repudiation2
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

WALLACK'S THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth street.-the VETERAN at 8
r. M, closes at ii T. M. Mr.. Lester Wallack, Miss
Jefreys Lewis.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

BOOTHS THEATRE,
Sixth and Twenty third street-ZIP att As NJ.
closes at 10 As Z. NJ LoIta.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

OLYMPIC THEATRE,
broadway, between Houston and Bleecker Streets
vAUDEVILLE ana NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at
7:45P. M closes at 10 AS r. N.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

GERMANIA THEATRE,
fourteenth street near Irving place-MoNEY, at s. P
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE,
No. col Bowery.-vARIErY ENTERTAINMENT, at s p
M closes at Ii T. NJ.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
Eighth avenue and Twenty third strect-EILEEN OGE
ct p. NJ. closes at ii T. NJ Mr.. and MRS Florence.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
No 5s5 Broadway ay-vARIETY ENTERTAINMENT
74s NJ; closes at 10 80 p. NJ Benefit OF Miss Jenni
Hughes
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

STADT THEATRE,
.Bowery-German Opera at 8 +. NJ; closes at IL p NJ
Benefit OF Louise Lichtmay.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE
opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.-A WOMAN'S WRONG
at r. M. closes at II L. NJ Mrs. +. s. Chanfrau.
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

BOWERY THEATRE.
Bowery.-NIP, and VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. B
gins at +. NJ. closes at II p. NJ
The New York herald., 1874-04-10

BROADWAY THEATRE,
Hr0adway. opposite Washington piace-HUMPT
DUMPrY AT HOME, &c, at T. NJ. closes at II P. NJ
q. L. Fox.