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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

Captains Williams, of the Eighth ward, and
Byrne, Of the Fifteenth; Officers Fitzpatrick
and Tuohey of the Nineteenth precinct and
Detective Leahy, are brilliant illustrations OF
the relations Of the police to the public. In
the wards Of the two captains there are many
disreputable houses which one of the boards
charged with the government of the city is
endeavoring to close and this effort is made
In the interest of the public welfare clearly
and Enthusiastically. On which side are the
police? In any well governed city it would
be scandal to make such an inquiry. In our
city the inquiry not only may be made, but it
must be answered that the captains OF police
place themselves defantly on the wrong side.
They oppose the efforts that are made to
protect the children attending the public
schools from the communicating influences
that are gathered in their neighborhood. 1t
was formerly said that every house of ill-fame
in the city constituted the captain of police
OF the ward it's protector, and paid him
roundly for his good will, thus purchasing
from functionary an immunity denied by
the law. This was in the good old times of
"Feruandy the First and the story was
probably true but we have had reformed
police since then. Has the reform failed in the
very material point of amending the relations
that then existed between the police and the
keepers of disreputable houses? 1t is our
opinion that the Board OF Police Commits
sioners should investigate this point, for
what passed between Captain Williams and
the Board OF Education is sufficient ground
for the inquiry. Our people support police
to enforce the laws, not to defeat them but
this is evidently not known in the police force.
The cases Of Fitzpatrick, Tuohey and Leahy
go together The second case is q conse-
quence of the first and commentary upon it.
Leahy killed man in his own house by the
wanton, reckless, unjustifable use of fire.
arms, apparently just because he was
policeman and the other man was not.
He shot citizen because the citizen
refused to open his door to him, though he
had no right whatever to call upon the man to
open the door nor to enter the door if it had
been opened, and though the man was not
criminal nor an accused person, but an honest
with his family. What was done to Leahy?
Nothing. He is at large and, though he has
thus shown the instincts and temper Of an as
sassin, he is not deemed an improper person
to be on the police. 1t is thus established by
theaction of the police and the consent of the
other municipal authorities that a policeman
has the right to kill on the spot any man who
disputes his will or refuses to comply with his
demands; and the two policemen who dubbed
the man HOLMAN only acted on this instruc-
ton HOLMAN, finding them making dis
turbance in his house, required them to leave,
and they dubbed him nearly to death; and
Mr.. Matsell, who sustained Leahy, must of
course believe that they are quite within the
limits Of their authority, and, as Mr.. Matsell
is just now at the head Of the police it is Of
little consequence that the whole people have
different opinion.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

The CRY FINANCES. We publish to-day the
substance of a memorial to be presented to the
State Legislature on the subject of the present
financial management of the city government
The number and character of the signatures
are sufficient evidence of the serious manner
in which our business classes regard the large
increase of our debt and taxation at time
when the public improvements are notori-
ously stagnant We seem somehow TO be get
ting more and more deeply into financial en-
barrassments the further we are removed
from the evil legacies of official corruption
and the more parsimonious we become in the
matter of all public works. A thorough over
hauling of the Finance Department would do
no harm. But this is generally supposed to
be the duty of the Commissioners of Accounts.
who somehow appear to have withdrawn mys.
teriously from public view. Has the Office
been abolished by the Mayor, or have the
Commissioners received instructions that the
secrets of our financial system are not to be
revealed?
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SALE OF IMPURE MEAT.-The seizure yes
terday of some eighty carcasses of calves
unfit for food points to an organized system
for the sale of impure meat in this city.
Under the present system Of private sale
the inspectors of the Board of Health are
unable to examine large quantity of the meat
sold in the poor quarters and, as result, an
illegal traffic in diseased meat is assuming
dangerous proportions. There is but one
effective way of dealing with this nuisance.
It is to compel all meat to be sold in mar
kets under the inspection of the authorities.
This would involve the establishment of ward
markets. but anything would be better than
to allow the poor to be poisoned. The extent
to which the sale Of impure meat is carried
cannot be accurately estimated as the facili-
ties for evading detection are so great that it
is only by chance that seizures are made.
Some precautions ought certainly to be taken
to abate traffic SO dangerous to the health of
the poor.
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revealed b?

The BROADWAY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
This scheme was favorably reported to the
State Senate yesterday by Mr.. Madden, &C
companied by dissenting minority report
from Mr.. Tobey. The Broadway Under
ground is the old familiar Beach Pneumatic
bore, and it modestly asks to put an obligation
of five millions on the overburdened tax
payers of New York. Mr.. Ledwith made
motion to adopt the minority report and to
reject the bill, but it was defeated by vote of
10 to IL. The New York members were
unit against the bill. When will these rural
Senators take their hands out of our pockets
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since; while the Third Avenue and Vanderbilt
bills glide smoothly and easily past it, and
promise to make rapid transit time through
both houses. There is no money in Mr.. East
mans BILL and yesterday he rose to question
OF privilege in order to announce that he was
not privy to its unaccountable delay in the
committee; that he had not sold out, and did
not intend to sell out, and that he should at
the proper time take steps to rescue the bill
from the too careful keeping of the Railroad
Committee This brought up Mr.. Lincoln, a
member of the committee, who Indignantly
refused to allow the conduct of the committee
to be dispersed" He then proceeded to
explain the difficulty of considering and
deciding between the numerous propositions
(by the way this difficulty does not seem to have
been felt in regard to the Third avenue and
Vanderbilt projects), and declared that 'each
one having rapid transit scheme thinks his
the BEST and the committee will do well if it
pleases ALL" We may state that Mr. Lincoln
was a member of the Erie Investigation Com
mittee of last session.
Now, with all Difference to Mr. Lincoln, the
reference of the whole subject Of New York
rapid transit to commission of New Workers
of as high character as the Central Park
relieving the committee of the very difficulty
of which Mr.. Lincoln complains. He must
not hope to deceive the public by any such
shallow pretences. 1t is precisely because of
the conflict over the franchise and the insidi-
Gus efforts of interested corporations to kill
rapid transit altogether that commission is
demanded, in order that the best and most
practical project and the one that promises
the greatest benefit and convenience to the
citizens may be certain to be adopted,
in order that the road or roads may be
actually constructed either by private CAPT
tai or through the public credit, and in order
that the public interests may be properly pro-
tected after rapid transit is secured Besides,
Mr.. Lincoln fourishing pretence that his rail-
road committee has all along been determined
''to give New York rapid transit if possible"
is all moonshine. The people of New York
do not forget that the creation Of a Rapid
Transit Commission such as they demand,
would not prevent the construction OF either
the Third avenue or the Vanderbilt road. 1t
would, in fact, render the construction of the
roads certain, provided it is the honest inten-
ton of the applicants to build them. 1t would
simply guard the people from being cheated
out of rapid transit altogether, or from being.
defrauded by the construction, in the name OF
rapid transit of freight line for the advan-
roads. 1t will be hard to persuade any sensi-
BILE person that Senator or Assemblyman
who votes for these private corporations bills
in preference to peoples Rapid Transit Com
mission is not induced to do so by money
bride or from some corrupt consideration
equally as Infamous.
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The Young Vesuvius In North Caro-
lima.

The Young vesuvius in North Caro-
1t would not have been considered unjust
to North Carolina month ago if at that time
we had remarked that religious experience
was as completely unknown in the mountains
of that State as volcanic action. Accepting
the possibility of the one it is easy to accept
the other, and, strange to say, both came to-
gether. Bald Mountain has shown DISPOSE
ton to assert its ancient privileges as vol
cano. As an indication of this purpose it
gave forth numbering sounds. about the
only numbering the naked hill has ever done.
The inhabitants at once went to prayer as the
only remedy for the impending calamity, and,
forgetting all sectarian dogmas and doctrines,
forgetting even what few people are disposed
to forget<race in religion-they accepted
leader and teacher of the colored persuasion.
Prayer continued without intermission for
sixteen days, and almost the entire population
of the mountain was converted. To the
wicked and worldly mind all this will seem
exceedingly funny, and it is undeniable that it
has its grotesque aspects; but we must not for
get that with the grotesqueness of fear there
is also the fervor of religious devotion. 1t is
the spectacle, witnessed in every community,
the most intellectual as we'll as the most igpo-
rant, of man going to God when man is him.
self incapable of contending with the raging
and devouring elements. We need not be sur
prlsed at the scenes which took place among
these simple North Carolina people. If the
Orange Mountain should suddenly transform
itself into volcano even New Jersey might be
converted 1t is not surprising that with
real volcano threatening them the people of
Bald Mountain should turn from their evil
ways, especially when we remember that their
young Vesuvius was getting ready to burst
nearly month before anybody else found it
ont
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

The DEBTS OF THE DISTRICT has long
been known that the school teachers of Wash
ington are not paid their salaries, and Con-
gress is now asked for an appropriation to
support the public schools in the District
No other construction can be put upon this
proposition than that it is confession of the
bankruptcy of the new government. Are the
people of Washington always to be paupers at
the doors Of Congress2 In view Of the
absence Of even q school fund at the capital
the answer of the Board of Public Works to
the accusations against II, which we print to-
day, will fall upon less patient ears than
Governor Shepherd and his associates could
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

RETURN OF THE AsHANTEE Troops.
eral Wolseley has arrived in England and the
festivities are to begin Immediately. Africa
has been humbled and the King of the Asian
tees Inundated and punished. The mission
Of war will be first celebrated, and then the
loud acclaim of victory will give place to the
solemn celebration of the mission of peace
over the remains of DR.. Livingstone. Pos
terity will have no difficulty in determining
whether Wolseley's or Livingstone's mission
was the nobler.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

A REMARKABLE PETITION FROM CALIFORNIA
Senator Hager of California, presented a
petition from citizens Of his State TO the Senate
yesterday against any further subsidies to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company. As Cali
fornia is more interested titan any other part
of the country in steamship communication
along and across the Pacific Ocean, this pc
titIon has particular significance. Most of
the States or ports specially interested in any
enterprise or industry appeal to Congress for
protection or support. What, then, is the
motive of the memorialists? They certainly
do not wish to see steamship communication
stopped. Do they see that this subsidized
monopoly is an unnecessary burden upon the
government and an obstruction to useful
rivalry? We should like to have some light
on this subject, and hope Senator Hager or
some one else in Congress will clear up the
matter.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

The REIcHsTAG has again defeated the mill
tary bill upon which Bismarck and the En-
peror so vigorously insisted. Now, perhaps,
we shall see the stuff out of which modern
Caesars are mado.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

The SEIZURE OF THE EDGAR STUART at
Baltimore yesterday is another episode in our
Cuban-Spanish complications. The only
result will be good deal of nonsensical talk
from the Treasury Department about naviga-
ton and neutrality laws, and possibly little
feeble diplomacy on the part of Mr.. Fish.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

HOME RULE IN IRELAND receives no en-
couragement in Parliament, as is evident from
the light vote and lack Of interest in the
question in the House of Commons yesterday.
Mr.. Butt will have to wait for a more con-
yenient season.
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desire The debts of the District are so
enormous that magnificent streets and avenues
are no compensation for people impover-
lshed by the grand notions of their rulers.
rne Treasury Receipts Good and
Promising Well.

The Treasury Receipts Coed and
Promising We'll.
during the present month the receipts from
customs have been equal to what they were for
the corresponding period in March of last
year, and the Treasury officials say that they
would have been larger if the questions per-
tai ming TO The national finances and the cur
rency had been settled by Congress. Keeping
these questions open creates feeling of un-
easiness among merchants and checks busi.
ness contracts and operations. The Treasury
Department considers the effects of the panic
about ended as far as the revenue from cus-
toms is concerned. The prospect appears 80
good that If Congress would come to some
conclusion promptly regarding the finances
and currency trade would revive, the poor
would find employment and the income of the
Treasury would be augmented. If the con-
servatives and anti-infationists can prevent
expansion let them press vote and bust
ness will be established upon that basis If
the infationists can carry any one Of their
measures let us know the worst, 80 that
trade may be regulated accordingly. The
suspense and uncertainty are paralyzing, and
little less injurious than a panic. Only we
ask Congress to make whatever measures may
be passed final, or, at least, not to be disturbed
for some time to come. The country might
be brought to adapt its business transactions
and values even to measures that may not be
the best, but continual meddling with the cur
rency and the revenue system deranges every
thing.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

THE SENATE AT WoRK.--In passing the
Army and Fertilization bills yesterday the
Senate showed disposition to do little
earnest work. If little of this vigor is ap-
piled to the currency question it will do much
good The country is suffering because Con-
gress fails to act upon these measures. We
were promised at the beginning of the week
that they should be disposed of without delay,
and though the Senate yesterday made the
bill TO equalize the national bank currency the
special order for Monday we can only hope
that some definite action upon the whole mat
ter shall soon be had. Will the Senate give
little Of its earnest work to the finances?
Mr.. Dawes will call up the question in the
House on Monday on the Four Hundred Mil
lion bill but what the country wants is not
discussion or piecemeal legislation, but CON-
plets disposition Of the entire subject.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

The INDIAN LOAN which was asked for in
Parliament yesterday has no Importance be-
yond indicating the severity of the famine in
that dependency of the English Crown.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

The FRENCH REPUBLIC shows signs of de-
termined existence in the removal of the Duke
de Padoue from his mayoralty for partici-
pating in the festivities at Chisehurst
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

The CARLIsTs MovING ON MADRID.
latest news from Spain is of ON interesting
character. General Palacios is said to be
marching in the direction of Madrid, at the
head of an army of twelve thousand men.
In his march he had defeated republican
column under Colhgo, near Mirglanilla. Mir
glanilla is village situated some forty -four
miles southeast of the city of Cuenca, and
Cuenca is some eighty-four miles southeast of
Madrid Palacios is still far distant from the
capital city. If the report is true the Carlists
have friends elsewhere than in the North. We
doubt the truth of the report We expect
that the news from the North will, in few
days, give new aspect to the entire situation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

From Our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the aoeather today scu be generally
clear
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ACADEMY OF MUST,
OLYMPIC THEATRE,

ACADEMY OF MUSIC
fourteenth street-Strakosch Italian Opera Troupe
AIDA matinee at 50 7. NJ. closes at 30 r NJ Nile.
Iorriani Miss Cary. Canpaninl Del Puente. NannettL
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METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
No. 5S5 Broad wsy.-VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT al
As p. NJ. closes at III 80 p. NJ. Matinee At +. NJ
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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE.
opposite City Hall Brookyn.-ZIP, at p. NJ closes al
II p. NJ. Lotta. Matinee at +. NJ.
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WALLACK'S THEATRE,
Broadway and Thirteenth street.-The RIVALS, at
r NJ closes at ii r. W. Mr.. John Gilbert Miss Jettreys
Lewis Matinee ~ 80 r. NJ.
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THEATRE

NIBLO'S GARDEN.
Broadway between Prince and Houston streets-DAvI
CROCK Eft att r. M closes at 10 80 +. NJ Mr.. Franz
Mayo. Matinee at 80 p NJ.
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GTEINWAX HALL

BPYANT'S OPERA HOUSE,
Twenty-third rect near Sixth avenue.-NEGRO MN
RP. M. "
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GERMANIA THEATRE
Fourteenth street. Irving place.-EINE LEICHTE
IEhSON, at =. N. closes at III Z. NJ.
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BOWERY THEATRE,
Bowery.-REVEND Z, and VARIETY ENTERTAIN
NENT. Begins ut p, NJ closes ut IL p. NJ.
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WOODS MUSEUM.

Fourteenth street near sixth avenue French Operf
Boufe-LE PETIT EAU I, at T. NJ. closes 10 IS
NJ Mile. Marie Aimee Matinee at 80 p. MIA FILE
DE MADAME ANGOT.
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STEINWAY HALL.
Fourteenth street Irving pace.-Theo dore
Thomas symphony Concert, at s. p NJ closes at 10
Pm
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:. TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE.
No. POI Bower. ENTERTAINMENT, at s p
y. closes at II p NJ Matinee at 2 p NJ.
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WOOps MlSEl VI,
Broadway, corner Thirteth street-THE MAN FROM
AMERICA, at ?. NJ: closes at 4 80 +. II. same at
s Z. NJ. closes at 10 80 p. NJ.
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Broadway between Houston and Bleecker streets. :
VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTEhTA iNMENT VI
As r. NJ closes at ~ as p. NJ Matinee ut 2 +. NJ
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DALY'S FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
Twenly-eighth street and Broadway.-CHARITY, at P
~ closes at 10 80 - NJ. Miss Ada Dyas Miss Fam,
davenport, Mr. Fisher, Mr.. Lewis. Matinee al 80 F. Nj
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TRIPLE S HE E T.

New York, Saturday, March FL, 1874.
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STADT THEATRE,
Bowery-Grand German Opera-FAUST, at s p. NJ /:
Closes al ii T. NJ. Nine. Lucca.
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THEATRE COMIQUE,
No. 5l4 Broadway ENTERTAINMENT at
=. NJ. closes at 20 .3u p. NJ. Matinee at2 r. NJ.
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COLOSSEUM,
Broadway, corner of hirt, fifth street-PARIS By
MOONLIGHT at / p. M; closes at r. NJ same at z
NJ closes at 10 r. NJ.
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BUTLER TO WHsoN.-In the letter to Sena-
tor Wilson, intended to be terribly scathing,
General Butler seems to have shown that the
man from Natick has not q very masculine or
robust frame of mind, and that his action on
public questions is forced upon him one way
or another by his friends. 1t was not neces-
sary to prove that his mind was of the kind
indicated, as this was already known; and as
for the influence he was under, the only crime
is that it happened to be of the Sumner and
not of the Butler stripe, which makes all the
difference in the world to Bold Ben and not
so much to other people. Altogether the let
ter is tissue of very little points, which, like
the lost papers in the advertisements, are of
s'no value to any one but the owner, who evil
IDENTIFY felt great pride in them and thought
them very fne Butler makes mistake in
endeavoring to write. He should put his enc
mics down only by pulling wires, which he
does with great success. His pen is mightier
than his sword, but both are poor.
CHINESE CHEAP LABoB.-Mr Hager, of
California, who, it seems, is Senator in Con-
press has delicate way Of introducing the
great problem of the Pacific coast to the atten-
ton of the Atlantic States. Chinese cheap
labor ia troubling his soul, and so he seized
upon resolution recently passed by the Cali
fornia Legislature, instructing the Senators
from that State to use all their influence to
have our treaty with China modified so as to
discourage Chinese emigration, to make his
maiden speech and show his friends that he is
indeed Senator As the Senate has nothing
to do with it the Senator showed double
capacity, for he can not only improve oppor-
tunities. but make them.
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BOOTHS THEATRE
sixth avenue and 1wenty-third street.-The COLLEEN
BAWN, at As NJ: closes at 10 AS r NJ. Dion Bouci-
Cault Matinee q 30
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE,
Eighth avenue and Twenty third street-PANTOMIME
and VARIETY EN1ERIAI MENi. Begins at AS r. NJ ;
Closes at 10 45 p. NJ. The Martnett Family Matinee at
l.UP.M.