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The New York herald., 1874-10-08
Count Won Arnim's imprisonment.


A lively sensation, intensified by mystery.
has been created throughout Europe by the
imprisonment Of Count Won Arnim on the
charge of secreting important papers of which
the German government wishes to gain DOS
session. There is more curiosity about the
contents Of these documents than on anv
other point, for Bismarck's great anxiety to
get hold OF them indicates that they are of O
compromising character, and that their pub
ication would be especially awkward for
him. Won Arnim has been subjected to strict
prison discipline as means of extort-
ing either the papers or statement
of the place where they are secreted; but If
he has fortitude enough to stand out the
arrest and Imprisonment will prove great
mistake. The missing documents have been
SO sensatonally advertised that if they should
ever be published they will be universally
read with eager interest," whereas they might
otherwise have attracted little attention. II
they contain damaging facts Bismarck is
taking the surest way to spread and extend the
injury unless he can extort their return by the
severity he is practising on Won Arnim. A
Berlin despatch states that they have probably
been conveyed to England for safe keeping,
and, if 80, they are beyond reach or recovery,
unless the contumacious Count can be re-
duced TO submission. II ia rumored that the
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THEATRE CoMIQUE,
no 5l4 Broad way-NARIEfY, at T. Nj. closes at 10 80
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STFINwAY HALL
CONCERT, at P. NJ. Miss sophia Heilbron.
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A FRESH EXAMPLE of the needless
stupidity, or revolving inhumanity, of our
police, is presented in the case Of Thomas
Weiger, who died at Bellevue Hospital
from injuries received in some unknown man
ner. Coroner Eickhof Is to hold an inquest,
and it will probably appear that the poor man,
who was given to intoxication and had fallen
from shed, had his ribs and collar bone
broken by the fall before he was taken up by
the police and arraigned on o charge of
drunkenness 1t is piece of criminal and
brutal carelessness that injuries SO severe and
which resulted in death should not have been
discerned by the policemen. Such instances
of revolving neglect Of the ordinary Offices of
humanity are quite too common in our police
forca.
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The LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN and several
members Of the Irish team sailed for Ireland
yesterday on board the Abyssinia. His Lord
ship was attended by numerous friends, and
carried away with him the regrets of large
circle Of acquaintances During his
stay in this city the Lord Mayor
received the customary civic hospitalities
and acquired the esteem and friendship
of those with whom he came in contact.
General regret has been felt at the shortness
of his VISIT and we hope that the example set
by the honorable gentleman will be followed
by other civic dignities OF the Old World.
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METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
No. &5 Broad ~ay.-NARIE1Y, atSP. NJ
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BARyUMs ROMAN HIPPoDRoME.
Westons Walk.
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MRS. CoNwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE
ROSEDALE, al +. NJ. closes at II r. NJ. Mr.. Leste
W allack.
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METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
No. 5s5 Broad way.-yARIEIY, at SP. NJ.
MRS CoNWAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE.
ROSEDALE, al T. NJ. closes at ii r. NJ. Mr.. Lester
W Wallack
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE
No 20l Bowery.-yARIETY at s P. N.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS,
Broadway. corner Of Twenty ninth street-NEGRO
NINSTRELSY, at 8 p NJ
AMERICAN INSTITUTE,
Third avenue between Sxty-third and Sixty fourth
streets-INDUSTKIAL EXHIBITION.
BAILEY's CIRCUS.
loot OF Houston street. East River at r. II. and r NJ
THE GREAT NEW YORK CIRCUS,
Eighth avenue ana Forty nlnth street.
COLOSSEUM,
broadway, OF 1hirty-dfth street-PARIS BY
NIGHT, at As p. NJ.
WOODS MUSEUM
Broadway, corner OF Thirteih street-HANS AND
CHRISTINA, at p NJ closes 40 p NJ Messrs Hans
and Johnson. A FLASH OF LIGHTNING, at s p NJ,
closes al lo:U 7. NJ Mr.. +. L. Davenport
OLYMPIC THEATRE
No. ga Broadway-VARIETY, at p NJ closes at l0:45
BARyuM's ROMAN HIPPoDRoME.
Westons Walk.
sTEINwAY HALL
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AmUSEMENTS TO.NIGHT.

Volume XxXIx...........-... No. ash
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12

The ALDERMAN1o COMMITTEE TO INvEsrI-
GATE the affairs of the Street Cleaning Bureau
met yesterday. Mr.. Ottendorfer argued that
ineficiency or incapacity in Office is sufi-
cient cause for removal under the charter.
Nothing of importance was done at this meet
ing, but the fact leaked out that the report Of
the Assembly Committee of Investigation has
never been printed Every effort is evidently
being made to suppress inquiry into the
doings Of the Street Cleaning Bureau, and it
will be we'll for the Aldermen to press the in
vestigation with vigor, especially in view Of
the recent suspicious appointment of police
commissioner by the Mayor The Aldermen
will no doubt ascertain whether Mayor, as
well as q commissioner, has any interest in
the Long Island Railroad property for the
benefit of which, it is alleged, the dumping"
Job was concocted.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12
Civil Service Reform.


The chief examiner connected with the Civil
Service Commission has made report to that
body concerning the working Of the system
and the practical results of last winters ex-
aminations The report is very rose-colored
one, and in defence Of the system it advances
many strong arguments. The most substan-
tial one is that ''each man feels that his pro-
motion depends chiefly upon his own efforts
and not upon the weight Of his political inAu-
ence nor the degree of his own subserviency,
and is melted to extend his knowledge,
especially of the duties of the Office on which
his advancement chiefly depends" There is
no doubt that the principle of civil service re-
form is calculated to produce important re-
suits in every department of the government
if carried out in its true spirit honestly and
without favor. As the report states, it brings
into the field many qualified persons who
were entirely excluded by the old appoint
ing power, and practical knowledge of
specific duties will take the place of mere
party strength. The examinations, the re-
port says, have been entirely directed toward
securing appointees for the various offices of
the government who are practically CONVEX
SAINT with their special duties. If such are in
deed the results of the system every one will
be inclined to wish it every success.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12

A SUGGESTION. AS the great problem of
modern society is how to secure the honesty
of Car conductors the railway authorities may
learn how the Turks manage. The conductor
Of cars in Constantinople gives to every pas
senger a prize ticket, bearing number,
which is recorded on the company's books
A drawing takes place monthly, the company
having provided certain number of prizes
The hope of drawing prize makes the pas
senger anxious to send in his ticket, and if the
returns of the conductor are not equal to the
number of returned tickets his dishonesty is
easily detected, and he is at once discharged
This is good plan for the Turks. The plan
we suggest is that our railway companies pay
the conductors better wages and give them
fewer hours of work.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12

STEAM ON THE CANALs.-At last steam has
been applied to boats on the Erie Canal. The
steam canalboat City of New York, Captain
Baker, which lett New York on the 10th, ar
rived at Albany yesterday morning at three
O clock She was Immediately locked through
with an assorted cargo into the Erie Canal and
went westward. This is good enough. But
improvement is still possible, and the Erie
Canal must go on improving until New York
can defy Canadian rivalry. Steamboats, on
the Erie Canal are among the necessities Of
the moment.
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

General P. D. Roddy, Of Alabama, is at the Wind
sor Hotel.
F. E. Church, the artist, has apartments at the
Brev0ort House.
General John M. Corse, OF Chicago. ID quartered
at the Aston House.
Ex-Governor E. d. Morgan has arrived in Paris
from Italy, with his family.
Mr.. Robert Hoe and family, OF this city, have re-
turned from Italy to PARIS.
Mrs. Gray, Of Abba, 1t is claimed, was the first
white child born in Iowa.
Judge Nathaniel Shipman, Of Hartford, has Or.
rived at the Clarendon Hotel
Captain Kennedy, Of the steamship City OF Ches-
ter. is at the New York Hotel.
Ex-Congressman John q. Churchill, OF Osweg0.
is residing at the Windsor Hotel.
state Treasurer w. Morrow, OF Tennessee, u
stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Minister John Jay sailed for New York from
Liverpool In the Russia, ON Saturday.
Rev. Fl. A. Bury, OF Bertram. Iowa, has been
buried out Of sight in the county jail for '1ndlscre-
TONS"
A. K. Howe, Of Pittston, Pa, wooed gentle
zephyr, and last Thursday married Miss Mary A.
Breeze.
An Leck, Q Chinaman, was buried in Chicago on
Thursday. All sin and Yu B. Hung were among
the pail bearers.
Judge Charles Devens, OF the Supreme Court Of
Massachusetts, is among the recent arrivals at tho
ST. Nicholas Hotel.
Antonio Alcalde, ex-Bshop OF Guadalajara, Mex
ico and founder OF the Hospital Belen, Is to have
statue In Guadalajara.
Associate Justice Ward Hunt, OF the United
States Supreme Court, arrived from Washington
yesterday and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
'Now that SicKles has been presented to the
Queen, what Will she do with hlmf" asks an OK
change. Sell him to the grangers, perhaps.
Mrs. Seba Spicer, of Upton, NO., aged rs, 70.
Gently employed a mason to repair her chimney,
and herself carried all the mortar and brick up .
ladder.
Mar Ignatius. the spiritual head OF the old Syrian
Church and one OF the several persons who claim
to be the Patriarch Of Antioch, Is about to visit
England.
kThe adventurous fellow who attempted to steal
q hot stove must take back seat, since william
A. Meyers, OF Pleasantville Pa, Is on trial for
stealing nitro-glycerine.
The Marquis d'Ourches, who lately died at Paris
founded q prize of 600 francs to be awarded by
one OF the members of the Paris Institute to who
ever discovered the most certain sign OF death In
q human being.
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nHEERING THE AFFLICTED.

The rooms OF the Flower Charity, at No. 2ao
Fourth avenue. were formally opened for the sea-
SON yesterday morning A large number OF ladies'
were in attendance and were found busiy engaged
In asserting the quantities OF flowers which poured
on Mondays and Thursdays from ten A. M. to One one
p. NJ, and will be devoted to this good work until
the end OF July. The hospitals Of this great city
filed with the suffering aud unfortunate, will be
the receptacles OF these floral tributes, ana will
90 far toward making the dreariness OF the aims
house seem more cheerful. Arrangements have
been made with West0ns express whereby all
gifts OF fruits and MOWERS Tor the society are for
waIded from any OF the companys offices free Of
expense. During last summer more than IS OQ
bouquets were thus distributed in the public hospt
tolls. The work s entirely unsectarian and ID par
ucipateQ IN by ladies' Of all religious cIeed4
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12
Theatrical Licenses.

1t is somewhat startling to find at this day
efforts being made to put into force penal
enactments against the stage. 1t was gener-
ally thought that that phase of gloomy
bigotry, which banned innocent. amusement
as thing unholy, had long since disappeared
from the minds Of all but an infinitesimal
portion of the Christian world. It is, there
fore, with some surprise we find person,
even in this free community, endeavoring to
revive the system of'theatrical licenses, which
was the outgrowth of an illiberal and intoler-
ant age. The system of licensing theatres is
based on the idea that the stage tends to the
decentralization of the population, and should
therefore be taxed to compensate the State in
some way for the increased expense of main-
tanning order due to its demoralizing influ-
ence. In fact, the theatre, according to
this view, is classed in the same category as
the drinking saloon, the gambling hell and
such disorderly resorts. On this argument
alone can there be any justification of the
licensing Of theatres. But is it true that thea
tres exercise so baneful an influence on the
morality of the population? Are the brilliant
audiences of the Academy of Music, Wallacks,
Days, Booths, &C., in reality assemblages Of
dangerous characters who cause the police
anxiety and alarm?
We can scarcely believe that this is SO, but
ifnot, on what plea is it sought to impose
the degradation of license on the theatres,
placing them on par with gambling saloons
and places Of disorderly resort? BY an act
passed by the Legislature Of this State the
House of Refuge is authorized to levy
an annual tax of $500 on every
theatre, and unless it can BIO shown that
the theatre exercises corrupting effect
ON youth we can sec no just reason
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12

Although the trade unions of workingmen
have been roundly abused for the principle of
combination against what they conceive to be
''the common enemy" Of their interests, the
principle is of very extensive application in
commercial and industrial enterprises. Our
great railway and similar monopolies are
founded upon it, almost, and combination
against the travelling public is far more uni
versal with them than is the combination in
trades against employers One of these COM
binations on grand scale has just been dis
solved at Liverpool by mutual consent of the
parties to it and the result is likely to be bene-
ficially felt in the reduced rates of freights on
the Atlantic Ocean. Hitherto all the trans
atlantic companies whose headquarters are at
Liverpool were combined for the adoption and
support of uniform rates of freight all of
which combination was to the direct injury of
trade and at the expense of the consumer.
Now the combination has been relinquished
and competition will operate. Already it is
reported that offers are made to carry freight
at half the previous rates. In the cause that
dissolved this combination we see the natural
moral of all these endeavors to keep up prices
by artificial means. As the combination was
in the trade from Liverpool, shippers were
driven to other ports. If in Liverpool
freights we're made high by the combination,
competition and free trade made them cheaper
elsewhere, and shippers went where they
were cheap. These companies thought it was
q great thing to control Liverpool; but as
they could not control the whole shipping
world, their game fell short, and proved to be
not so much plundering of the shipper as
an injury to the port and the trade in whose
prosperity they were directly concerned. And
this indicates the limitation Of combinations.
Immediately and on small theatre they are
an advantage to those who combine, but ulti-
mately and in the largest application they are
an injury, for they either drive the trade in
which they are applied to some other point or
they kill it altoge Their.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12

FRENCH JoURNALIsM.-Now and then we
have an outburst of feeling among our journal
lists, but generally speaking they live in fra
ternity, and nothing seems to please one Of
them more than to attend comrades funeral
and write about his virtues in the newspapers
craftsmanship in France, however, is not under
such placid control, if we may infer from the
following tribute paid by Bonaparte news
paper to republican Deputy
One the less. The Citizen Labelonye, chemist
and deputy, Is dead We cannot regret either the
druggist or the legislator
This is very bad. But remember that it is
in France. We are more civilized and
humane in New York.
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The American Cardinal.

The Cincinnati Commercial takes up the
argument adduced in these columns in
favor of bestowing cardinals hat
upon an American prelate as compli-
ment to the Catholic Church, and suggests
that the honor be conferred on Archbishop
Purcell, not only on account of his quali6ca-
tons, but of his seniority. eff we are not
mistaken, " says the Commercial, che is now the
Oldest Bishop in the Church, certainly the
Oldest in America; and his steadfast support
of the most extreme ultramontane views emit
ties him to as much of the confidence of the
Pope as is given to any of the Italian prelates. =
We have no doubt Archbishop Purcell would
do honor to the Church as a cardinal, for he
has certainly honored it as an archbishop.
But our concern is not with men. We do not
care especially what prelate receives this
honor, so long as America is unworthy to
have representative in the Sacred College.
If His Holiness could appoint young man of
forty to be cardinal, merely because he was
cousin of the Emperor Napoleon, why not
confer the honor upon some of the venerable
prelates who adorn the Church by their piety
and virtues?- America is one of the great
Powers of the world. The Catholic Church
enjoys here unusual prosperity and freedom.
Why is it, then, that this dignity is not con.
ferred upon an American prelate?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12


Arkansas is simply type Of pitiful con
dition. We have sketched the rise of the
system which has produced anarchy in rich
and noble State. It is only by considering
the question in this high aspect that We see
its importance. Arkansas is an illustration OF
great evil, not simply local quarrel be-
tween aspiring and INSCRIPTIONS politicians.
We must look behind Brooks and Baxter for
the cause, and after all it is the cause that
concerns us. Arkansas is what she is because
OF what we have made the South. We produce
chaos and the result is anarchy. With anarchy
we have war; Here is every element and
attribute of war even to bloodshed. Men are
slain, law is outraged, justice is dead The
Bench is dishonored, all the functions OF
authority are arrested, commerce is stopped,
industry is paralyzed, the steamer rocks idly
in the stream and the plough rusts in the
furrow, public order is distracted, hundreds,
and no doubt thousands, Of stalwart men are
drawn from necessary pursuits to take up
arms in civil broil. Here, we repeat, is
every element Of war, and, more than all, it
is in a community which has not for
gotten the struggle for the Confederacy.
We run o great danger, danger
we cannot exaggerate, in permitting these fires
of civil tumult to burn unchecked in South
ern State It is not, as some of our contem-
poraries say, because we distrust the South
that we express this apprehension. We have
no distrust, and, we are sure, no fear. But
the close of every war, especially civil con-
fict as prolonged and bitter as was our war
for the Union, leaves behind it for one, and
perhaps two generations, sentiment not
without valor and generosity, ever brooding
over defeat, ever hoping for renewal of % con-
test which may yet bea victory. We have seen
this spirit many times in the South. To sup
pose that it did not exist would be to ignore
those very qualities which have given the
leaders of the Southern Confederacy all the
splendors of historic recognition and made
their cause as memorable as any that lives in
tempt this spirit? Why encourage hopes and
aspirations that could only be destroyed in
blood? Why make Arkansas Louisiana, or
any Southern State beacon light to every dis
satisfied Confederate, summoning him to re-
newed conflict, to new and hopeless wars
against authority and law.
For every reason, therefore. for the good
of the people in the South as we'll as
for our own dignity and peace of mind, let
us have peace in Arkansas. The President
can make peace by an act Of prompt rigor.
Let him send General Sherman to Arkansas
with plenary powers restore tranquility and
compel recognition of law. We see no way
but by decisive act of this kind. If it is
delayed we see dangers which may assume .
memorable and mournful Importance.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12

BITTER ALMoNDs.-A jury in London has
broughtin q verdict censuring the use ola sam
pie of burnt almonds in confectionery. The
evidence is that these almonds were bitter
and that when STEPPED in water they yielded
prussic acid. The question is now raised
whether the use of bitter for sweet almonds in
confectionery cannot be made criminal Of
fence, and prosecutions are to be instituted
for that purpose. This whole sugar.plum
question should be carefully considered, as it
largely affects the health Of our children.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-12

A NEW TUNNEL4-The proposition to build
a tunnel under the Straits of Dover, and thus
connect England and France by railway, seems
to be really under way. A report has been
made in reference to its feasibility. The
French authorities will subscribe two hundred
thousand dollars towards the construction Of
the tunnel, while an English railway offers to
advance as much, if concession in its favor
is made. The construction of this means OF
communication between England and the
Continent will do more towards making travei
easy and increasing communication and trade
than any other agency
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why an exceptional tax should be levied On .
special business. Now, no one who knows the
theatres of this city will hesitate to deny that
any such influence is exercised by them over
the youthful mind. On the contrary, Tho
houses most affected by boys generally pro
sent dramatic compositions which, Whatever
other qualities they may lack, are furnished
with healthy moral. However vice
may triumph for q while, virtue has
always the upper hand, and the boys are sent
home under the influence Of the acted sermon.
which has demonstrated clearly that the evil
doer inevitably receives the Just punishment
Of crime even in this world. There ID, them,
no excuse for the extraordinary law
which has been re-enacted by the Legis-
lature for the benefit of the House
Of Refuge It has no just cause In tho
interests Of morality or social order, and can
only be sustained by calling up old musty
prejudices that are out of keeping with the
ideas of the nineteenth century. Actors,
perhaps, are not saints; but politicians can
scarcely lay much claim to holiness, and il
is certainly very amusing to find the gentle
men assembled in Albany putting on taxes
in the cause of morality. We arc
glad that the theatrical managers have
resolved to resist the attempt to brand
the stage. If the idea is simply to coll
lect revenue for charitable institution IL -
manifestly unjust to tax one class of citizens.
and there is something like ingratitude shown
by a charitable institution in trying to levy
on the theatrical profession. Certainly no
body Of men do more in the cause Of charity
than the actor and the theatrical manager,
and it is not just that discriminating and in
sulting tax should be laid on the profession %
q reward