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Musical and Dramatic Charity-The
Stage Enlisted in the Good Work.

SsASe chliStcu IN the GOOd work.
The cause of charity never fails to enlist
the heartiest sympathies and support of the
members of the musical and dramatic profess
sions and the widespread restitution exist
ing in this city has urged the leading repre-
sentatives of the stage to unusual efforts to
alleviate such distress. Two remarkable en-
tertainments will be given within the next few
days. for the benefit of the poor of this city,
representing the most attractive elements in
music and the drama. Messrs. Lester Wal
lack and Augustin DAILY have organized a
dramatic performance of truly colossal
nature, which will take place at the Academy
Of Music on Thursday afternoon. Sheridan's
famous comedy, "The School for Scandal"
will be presented with cast comprising the
best elements of the great companies of both
managers. Besides those sterling artists,
Lester Wallack, John Gilbert, John Brougham,
Charles Fisher, William Davidge, G. L. Fox
and Miss Fanny Morant, rare attraction will
be the temperance, after some years alb
sence from the stage, of Mrs. L. J. Jennings
miss Madeline Henriques), who has con-
sented for this particular occasion to return to
the scenes OF her former trumphs. The valua-
BILE cooperation of Nine. Pauline Lucca has
also been secured for this occasion.
On Saturday evening, March 2S,
musical performance for the same worthy
object will be given at the Academy
of Music which, in point of attractiveness,
has scarcely any precedent in the annals
of concert or opera in this city. Nine. Christine
Nilsson and Nine Pauline Lucca have al
ready signified their desire to take part in such
a noble work, and Mr.. Maretzek offers the SER
vices Of Mile. lima iii Murska and his entire
company for the same object. 1t is probable
that the talents and personal attendance
of Miss Kellogg will also be enlisted
in this performance. The appearance
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17
The Atlantic Icebcrgs-A CIew to tn
Late Ocean Weather.

The reports from the Atlantic demonstrate
an early and extraordinary descent of ice fields
and icebergs from the Arctic Ocean. On the
first of the month large fields of ice were re-
ported from st. Johns, sailing off towards the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The Cunard
steamship Calabria ''passed great quantities
of ice on the 7th inst, latitude 43 deg. north,
longitude so deg. west and, on the same
day, the Frisia, within hundred miles of
that spot, encountered a mass of these icy
fotillas. But the steamship Idaho, Us early as
the 28th of February, in latitude As deg,
longitude 4S deg, became entangled in them,
and stopped her engines two hours. 1t is not
known to many seamen that occasionally, as
Sir Leopold McClintock found in 1860 great
quantities of ice accumulate on the coasts of
Greenland, afterwards to be dislodged and
precipitated toward the mid-Atlantic. In that
year the accumulation OF ice exceeded anything
like it in the past thirty-six winters. The
unusual mildness of February it would seem,
has been potential even in these high lati-
tudes, in unloosing the glacial masses and
launching them on the swift Polar currents,
which, sweeping through Davis Strait and
along the Labrador coasts, commingle with or
underrun the northern margin OF the warm
Gulf Stream.
The early and apparently excessive preclpi-
tation of these ice islands into the vapor-laden
region of the warm Atlantic current may
probably afford clew to the mystery OF the
terrible gale of the 9th of February III which
so many steamships were disabled The
Antarctic icebergs which penetrate the warm
water belt east Of Cape Horn are said to
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

SERRASo AND THE CABLIsTs. -The hour is
rapidly approaching when the question must
be decided whether the Madrid government
or Don Carlos is to rule in the North Of Spain.
Yesterday we were told that Serrano, with an
army of thirty-four thousand men and ninety
pieces Of artillery, was face to face with a
Carlist force Of thirty-hve thousand men,
General Iona, at the head of a column eight
thousand strong, is at the same time moving
On the enemy's rear. report from Bay
onne, as will be seen from this mornings
news informs us that the Carlists claim a
victory in the province of Corona Serrano
may find that he has hard task before him.
A Carlist victory over the government troops
with Serrano at their head would demoralize
Spain from one end to the other. Such
victory however Is hardly possible.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

ILLNESS OF Prominent MEN.-We learn
from Washington that the President was too
Ill yesterday to see any visitors or to at
tend to business that Admiral Porter,
Nathan Sargent and F. p Blair are
also i'll. Judge Dent, it is known,
has been suffering some time, and we heard
lately of the indisposition of Senator Morton
and others of public prominence. No doubt
have had recently have affected the health of
these gentlemen as well as of people generally
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

The MECCA PILGRIMS are unfortunate. One
hundred and seventeen, returning to Algiers
on board the steamship Laconia, were swept
into the Mediterranean and, of course,
drowned This is but the repetition of SINH
lar catastrophe in the harbor of Alexandria
three years ago. The pilgrims are generally
loaded down with gold, carried in belts around
their waists, and have an aversion to between
decks Such is probably the explanation of
the serious loss of lite
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17
The EquinOctial OutioOk-A Remark
able Meteorological Phenomenon.

able Meteorological Phenomenon.
From the monthly weather review, Just
published by the Signal Office, we have the
record of violent atmospheric disturbances,
which seem to have anticipated the equinox
The sun this week crosses the Equator, aud
his march from the southern tropic to the
line, with the consequent shifting of the bal
ance of heat from hemisphere to hemisphere.
is invariably announced by such disturbances.
There is no doubt we have passed through
remarkable winter-remarkabl alike for it's
mildness of temperature and yet it's tempestu-
BUSINESS. The high barometer and high cold
winds of last week appear to have been the
old Winter dying effort to assert his waning
supremacy over the season. The ice-making
temperature which this spell gave US solidi-
fed the streams and ponds from the valley OF
the ST. Lawrence to the valley of the Potomac,
and enabled the ice harvesters to secure an
abundant supply of the summer luxury. This
will remove every conceivable plea for costly
ice next summer, and thus reconcile even the
poor to the chilling blast, which apparently
promises to be the breaking up of the winter.
nomena brought to light in the current weather
review is the thermal contrast presented tow
ards the close of February by the juxtaposi-
ton Of the polar and equatorial air currents
over the Middle States, of which it is
stated similar cases have occurred but
three OR four times during the last
three years" On the 22d and 23d ult., all
along the seaboard States as far north as New
jersey, the cold northeast wind was struggling
with a warm Southwestern, overlapping and
undermining each other, SO that the most
marked thermometric contrasts appeared.
Thus, on the 22d, with northeast wind az
deg. Fahrenheit) at Philadelphia, there was
an opposing southwest wind (73 deg. Fahren-
het) at Baltimore, showing difference Of
26 deg. in less than hundred
miles. And this extraordinary group
of contrsted isothermals continued for
forty-eight hours, to be at last dissipated
only by the development of the storm of the
25th ult This phenomenon would seem to
prove the somewhat premature arrival of the
southerly or equinoctial conditions. The
isothernal charts for the month (Which ac-
company the current review also show that
for the Middle, South Atlantic and Gulf
States the mean monthly temperature was
slightly above that which usually prevails in
these sections. After the abnormal mildness
of the past season there can be no doubt
great caution is necessary to preserve health,
and exposure will be more sensibly felt than
after rigorous winter. But the poor, who
have suffered for lack of food and fuel, may
now take cheer in the prospect Of approaching
spring. And So likewise, may all classes Of
business men.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17
The Transportation Question in Com
grcss.

Ahe transportation Question IN S0n-
grcss.
There was an evening session of the House
OF Representatives yesterday, though no
quorum was present in the afternoon, when
the question of cheap transportation and
regulating the railroads was discussed. On
this occasion the Pacific side of the Continent
carried off the honors in an assault upon the
railroad monopoly. Mr.. Kendall, of Nevada,
delivered the speech of the evening. While
admitting the difficulties that surround the
subject he asserted that Congress had the con-
stitutionai power to regulate interstate COM
MERGE as carried on through the railroads,
and that it would fail in its duty to the
country if it did not prevent extor-
tionate charges and unjust discrimina-
ton in carrying freight. He was OPP
posed to government owning the railroads.
as some Of the governments of the Old World
did, but was in favor Of government control,
as in England. While the people have been
perishing for the want of food the produce of
the soil in great abundance was burned or
suffered to rot in some parts of the West be-
cause of the enormous charges for freight by
the railroads. Three hundred and fifty mill
ions of bushels of cereals were transported
last year from the Mississippi Valley to the
seaboard by railroad at fifty cents per bushel,
and MIR. Kendall says the cost ought not to
have exceeded thirteen cents He showed
that the Union and Central Pacific railroads,
which had been built by the government, or,
in other words, by the money of the people
and for the people. are most oppressive
monopolies These railroads discriminate so
unjustly in their charges that it costs
more to send freight from Nevada to
New York or San Francisco than for the
whole distance from the Atlantic ports to
those of the Pacific. Mr.. Kendall commended
by the government, and the Central Pacific at
the rate of seventy thousand dollars a mile.
they should certainly be controlled by Con-
gress. In adverting to the argument some
times made, that to concede the power of
regulating the railroads to the federal govern
ment would be to enter upon dangerous sys-
TEN of Capitalization, he exclaimed: Gen
tralization, indeed! Why, the control of all
our immense interstate commerce is already
centralized in the hands of some half dozen
despotic railroad kings, more exacting, inn
perious tyrannical and irresponsible than the
head of any State in Christendom." The
railroad power is great in Congress- but such
blows as these cannot fell to make an impress
sion.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

PLENTY OF CONTRIBUTIONS. -Donations of
all sorts still come in freely to carry on the
good work of feeding the hungry. Accounts
OF them all Will be found elsewhere. One of
the most interesting is a sum of money from
Mr.. Pell, in Paris. Our citizens abroad have
thought for sorrow at home
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

A New JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR WESTERN
New YORK is proposed by Mr.. Tremain, and
he endeavored to get the rules suspended to
introduce the bill in the House yesterday,
but failed. Still, it is thought the bill may 90
through the House, but will be blocked in the
Senate, chiefly because Senator Conkling is
reported to be against the creation of another
judicial district
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17
A Terrible Outrage in Mexico.

Our telegraphic news from Mexico, pub
lished to-day, gives an account of shocking
outrage upon an American missionary at
Ahualulco, in the State of Jalisco. It appears
that on last Sunday week a priest at the
above place delivered an incendiary sermon,
and in the course of his remarks advo-
Gated the extermination of the Prot
estants This infamed his hearers, and an
armed mob of two hundred persons proceeded
to the residence of Rev. John Stevens, Con-
gregational minister, sent out by the Boston
Beard Of Foreign Missions, crying, 'Long
live the priests!' This mob broke into the
house of Mr. Stevens, seized him, smashed
his head to q jelly and chopped his body into
pieces. They afterwards sacked the house
and carried off everything valuable. Finally
the riot was suppressed by the local
authorities. The government has sent
troops to Ahualulco and proposes to
investigate the horrible affair and to
arrest the priests. Other outrages and
troubles are mentioned in the news but this
monstrous deed of blood and fanaticism calls
savages could not be more brutal. In fact,
many of the Mexicans of the interior are little
more civilized than our rowing tribes of In
dams. If the MEXICAN government cannot
prevent such horrors on our border, if it can
not show that Mexico is civilized nation and
to be recognized as such, the sooner the
United States blots out it's existence the better.
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Clearing the Harlem River.

Major General Newton has reported to the
Chief of Engineers on the Harlem River OBJ
structions. and estimates the cost of the pro-
posed improvement in clearing that river at
S167,S75. This is small sum for such
necessary and great Improvement and should
be provided at once. General Newton says truly
that the Harlem River forms an important
passage from the Hudson River to Long
Island Sound and New York Harbor that its
upper part has been much neglected and, in
consequence, has been obstructed by artificial
obstacles, while the natural ones have been
suffered to increase. He reports that raking
alone would not prove a successful means
Of removing the distractions to safe
channel navigation. Surface blasting will
be at first necessary, and the removal
of the rocky distractions must be
performed by means of systematic process
OF rock drilling, blasting and graphing The
preliminary work here recommended is, as we
have said necessary, and the benefits to arise
from it would vastly exceed the cost, and it
will lead, no doubt. to TAR greater improve
ments hereafter. 1t will be the beginning of
that great project which We have frequently
advocated, OF opening broad and deep ship
canal or channel between the North and East
rivers. The time is not distant when ocean
shipping will connect with the railroads and
the boats bearing immense freightage by the
Hudson River at that end of Manhattan
Island, so that the transfer can be made at
small expense Nature has indicated by the
deep trench Of the Harlem River the proper
place for such canal and system of docks
The whole of the railroad system concentrng
and radiating from New York could be
brought there in immediate connection with
the shipping Let us have the preliminary
work suggested by General Newton at once,
and the greater work hereafter.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

OF those four SURPRISING artists at
the same performance cannot fail to
draw such a house as never has been wit
messed before within the walls of the Academy.
Add to such attractions the Liederkranz
Society and Gilmore's Twenty second Regi-
ment Band, and the features of interest will
be doubly increased. Mr.. Max Strakosch,
the director of the Italian opera, expresses
his hearty concurrence in the proposed musl-
Cal entertainment, and his entire company
are also willing to aid in its success. 1t will
be thus seen that the cause of charity will not
languish as far as the power of music and the
drama is concerned.
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tons. is due to France alone, to the genius
and valor OF her people, to the one fact that
should never be forgotten that great as any
man may be q country is greater far
Therefore, when this young Prince chal-
ienges ptebiscitum and avows himself ready
to accept the verdict, he makes an appeal to
France in the name of his ancestor France
has never resisted the advances OF a Napoleon.
Will she resist them now when he comes, a
slender STRIPPING. carrying the flag of Auster-
htz? Or will she prefer Prince Jerome, with
the ancestral face, with his ostentatous ''affec-
ton for the people" his genius for intrigue,
for oratory, for everything necessary to ruler
except war? An event in this family union
is the absence of Prince Jerome He will not
come to the feast and the rejoicings, and ac-
cordingly he is disowned by the Empress. 1t
is not the first time the strong -willed Prince
has been in trouble. Although the Emperor
gave him the Palais Royal, wealth, rank and
high commands although he is the
heir apparent to the throne should
the Prince die; and although, unlike
the Prince Imperial, or, in fact, most
OF the present Bonapartist princes, his mother
came from one royal house and his wife from
another, he was never cordial servant of
the Empire and never respected by France.
Loyal Bonapartists call him Prince Jerome
Egalite, in remembrance Of that Duke of Or
leans who voted for the execution of the King,
his cousin and the head of his house. Some
OF Prince Napoleons publications have been
sadly at variance with the text of the Bona
parte gospel. He has been keeping unseemly
company-seeking radical affiliations, and en-
couraging Gambetta and Louis Blanc with
hopes that he will join their party and aid in
creating the Republic. Prince Jerome never
gave his party any strength, and his dismissal
now is only one Bonaparte less. But the fact
that the Empress could afford to dismiss him
shows a consciousness of party strength
that surprises us. Whether this strength
will suffice to compel an appeal to the
people remains to be seen. The result
of plebiscitm depends very much
upon the way it is managed, and now that
Bonapartists are no longer in power there is
no assurance that France would summon the
Wooiwich student from his mathematics to be
her savior An appeal to the people,
however, is an attractive and magnanimous
part. Napoleonism never assumed a more
winning and amiable aspect Ii the appeal
should tail to-day there is no reason why it
should not be tested tomorrow and so on
from time to time. 1t Keeps the party alive
1t strengthens discipline and enforces diligence
upon followers and leaders 1t makes the
Prince perpetual pretender; and the chance
is that in one of the many sudden and extraor-
binary changes that take place in France
he may slip into power. Once upon the sad
die, it will be easy enough to ride. At any
rate, If Count F!eury lives he will have mas
ter whose lessons, however severe and harsh
to Frenchmen, need not be followed in vain.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

ANDREWS DECLINES George f. An
drews, recently nominated to the vacant place
OF Police Commissioner, has, after ample de-
liberation, declined the place. lie assigns as
a reason the request of his colleagues in the
Department of Taxes that he should remain
with them; but it is thought that the election
of Mr.. Gardner to the Presidency of the Police
Commission was a more efficient cause of this
effect defective"
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TRI PL E S III e EFT.


From or reports this morning The probabilities
are that tie aoeather to-day eoM be generally cloudy,
10Th rain, and falling barometer.
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COUNTING VOTES -Whoever wishes to study
the operation of free institutions in their
minute points should not fail to read the testi-
mony in regard to the appointment of in
spector of elections by Mr.. Charlick. 1t indi-
Gates graphically some of the neat ways in
which majorities are obtained for the right
man, even though the voters should have been
foolish or obstinate enough to have preferred
the other man.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-17

ANOTHER HORSE DIsEAsE.-It will be seen
by our local reports to-day that the horses in
the city have been attacked by new disease,
which is causing already considerable trouble
to the car lines. The exceptional weather of
the last week or two may have caused or ag-
gravated the malady AS spring is so
near it is to be hoped the disease will
abatc. The Superintendent of the Sixth
avenue car line says it is simply phase of
the ordinary complaint known as ''pink -eye,"
that it runs its course IN three to five DAYS,
and then the animal recoyers Perhaps the
best advice to be given just now is that which
MIR. Bergh posts up, to ''Spare the horse, :"
for rest appears to be the most effectual
remedy.
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LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK
HERALD-NO. AS FLEET STREET.
Subscriptions and Advertisements will be
received and forwarded on the same terms
as in New York.
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BOOTHS THEATRE.

THEATRE C0MfoCE
No 5lI Broadway. VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. at
4. N. CLOSES at 10 30 T. NJ
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
Eighth avenue ana twenty third strecL-PANT0MIME
and VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. Begins ~ 7 AS r. NJ;
closes at 10 AZ p. Nj. The Martnettl Family.
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BOOTHS THEATRE,
SIKH avenue and twenty third strcct-fHE COLLEEN
BAWN, att :l5 r A.. closes al l0 40 T A Dion Bouci
eau
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THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in ne
,eor. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription
prfca az.
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COLOSSEUM,
Broadway, corner of u irtJ fifth street-PARIS BY
MOONLIGHT, at 7. NJ; closes o Y. NJ. ; same ut z
M. closes at 10 Il. VI.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
,uly eighth street and Broadw CHARITY ats r.
closes AT lO 80 +. NJ MI Fisher, Miss Fanny Dayen-
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
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BROOKLYN THBATRE,
Washington street Brooklyn.-Li.p ANIRAf atSP. VI. ;
closes Ut Ii T. NJ. Mrs Conway-Frank Roche
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Fourteenth street Concert in aid of the YOUNG
LADIES CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION at ) p. NJ; closes
al II a)0-Nsson, Adelaide Phillips capoul Maurel and
WlenlawsKL
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OLYMPIC THEATRE,
Broadway, between Houston and Blocker streets
VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTEkTAl NMkNT at
z ~ L. NJ. closes ut 10 as p NJ
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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE,
opposite City Hall BrooNyn.-ZIP, st ?. NJ closes al
III T.. NJ. LOta.
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Broadway and thirteenth street.-The RIVALS, at q
r NJ closes at II T. NJ Mr. John Gilbert, Miss jeffrey
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BRYANr'S OPERA HOUSE,
Twenty third street, near Nth avenue.-NEGRO MI
STkhLSi, &c, ut 5 +. NJ; closes at 10 r. VI.
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BOWERY THEATRE,
Bower. REVENGE and VARIETY ENTERTAIN
MENr Begins ut p NJ. closes at IL p. NJ
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
No. 20l Bower. VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at s
ii. closes al II L. Nj Matinee at ? z. NJ.
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METROPOLITAN THEATRE
No. 5s5 Broadway-VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at
40 =. n. closes at 10 80 +. NJ.