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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16
THE LsTHluIAN SNIP RAILWAY.

There can be no doubt that the country is
fully sensible of the importance of what may
be called the Isthmus Question. The scheme
of Count de Lesseps has met with almost
universal disfavor in the United States. The
country is practically unanimous in the feel
ing that any commercial route across the
American Isthmus must be ealousiy guarded
against the possibility of European control.
And more than this, il is felt that it is not
so much direct foreign control which must at
the present stage be guarded against, as
something still more dangerous because more
insidious, which is the creation of relations
that will afford pretext for future interven-
tion by the maritime powers of Europe. We
possess ponavy, and we are seeking to avoid
the cost of Keeping up one. Yet when NJ.
de Lesseps begins digging bis canal We shall
be wise to begin building our i.,op-clads.
With the rapid increase of commerce and the
greed which all the great powers are showing
not only for commerce but for colonies,
We cannot expect mere assertion of the
Monroe Doctrine to keep them out of the
tempting field which this continent offers.
The condition of most Spanish American
States is suci tbet the advent of foreign
company with large capita would be sure to
lead TO intervention and control like that
which England and France are beginning to
exercise in Egypt And yet we cannot ex-
pect to keep commercial enterprise at stand
util hu -k,- 1,
We must either provide for transporting
ships across the Isthmus or let others provide
FOR IL. Therefore it is q matter for sincere
qualification that our most eminent engineer
has brought forward project which he pro-
nOunces less costly than that of NJ. de Les
seps, and which can be completed in one
fourth of the time which would be required
to build ship canal.
This is not the place to discuss the merits
Of Capt. Eads's plans for a ship railway.
They involve problems of engineering, and
we need only say that they are vouched for
by the first engineer of his age fresh from
his triumph in opening the mouths of th.s
great Mississippi to vessels of the largest
draught. The mechanical problems in
volyed may be left to the experts to whom
they belong. The question whether it is
advisable for the Government to guarantee
the capital for such an enterprise is the one
upon which public opinion needs to be made
up. II il be true that we ought not to per-
init foreign company to build canal across
the Isthmus, and that We cannot simply
obstruct the worlds progress, then we must
provide the means for the work ourselves,
and ii private capital does not come forward
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

PHlRlSEE.S AND NEuvSBolS.

The publishers Of Sunday newspapers
Messrs. Hunton and Neal do the bidding OF
the +" holier than thou class of puritanic
agitators, by fastening to throw obstacles in
the way of the sale of newspapers on Sun
day. If church. goers are annoyed 10y the
little boys who cry the papers, every reason-
able cause of annoyance could he removed
by prohibiting such crying after certain
hour, say 10 A. NJ, or in the neighhorhood
of churches during service. Mr.. llunton
protested that the object of the proposed
change in the code was not to hinder the
sale of the newspapers hut to stop the noise.
He can hardly have made this statement in
good faith, for the very next paragraph in
the bill, if enacted, will close on Sundays
every hotel newsstand and cigar store in
Washington.
Ii the congressman could see the hun
dreds of little boys, mostly ill-fed and thinly-
clad coming from their homes in the remote
parts of the city where the poorest people
live, through wind, rain or snow, heroically
leaving lnelI ucuS III tH' NhiiiN houis VI tht
morning before daylight, to buy the papers,
the sale of which often affords them their
only means of subsistence, they would
perhaps have faint glimmerng of the
brutal pharisaism which causes the we'll
fed and warmly y-clad churchman to I" come
"beforc the Committee on the District of
"Columbia in regard to this nuisance" !"
No man with heart can see the crowd of
boys about this office Sunday mornings with
ont feeling that the lot of the children of the
poor is bitter one. The Sunday news
papers will not suffer much from any legisla-
ton which puritancal malice can frame.
The utmost it can effect will be to take from
the poorest class of newsboys a part of their
weekly earnings, and give it to the carriers
who organize large routes and serve papers
Systematically. This endeavor is born OF
self-righteousness and uncharitableness, and
not of the spirit of the One who sought His
friends amongst the poor and lowly, and
who said J." Suffer little children to come unto
"Me.' And at the bottom Of the trouble is
envy. Small-fry preachers are jealous OF
the power and influence of the press, and
this sentiment is cordially shared by the
narrower sort of politicians. The Editor o.
THE SUNDAY HERALD speaks to an hun
dredfold larger audience than any clergy
man in Washington, larger than even Messrs
Hunton and ONeal can reach. 1t would
be more manly for them all to assail the rea
object of their jealousy directly and not ven
small spite on the poor little newsboys.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16
7liE VA TER INSPECTION QUESTION

7IfE VA TER INSPECTION QJ'ESY SYION
The objections of various Senators to the
provisions of Mr.. Rollinss bill to prevent
the waste of Potomac water, which author
ICES policemen to inspect houses to detect
waste, were evidently "well meant The
maxim that Z" a mans house is his CASTLE
is deeply grounded in the popular mind as
expressing one aspect of the liberty of Eng
lish-speakng people. And if Legislators
sean jealously everything that looks like
authorizing domiciliary visits, or searches
without warrant, they will certainly not eX-
cite hostility. But in the case of tile water
service we do not think the community need
to he protected against such inspections as
are provided for in Senator Rollins's bill
No one objects to n monthly visit from an
agent of gas company, who is surely less
responsible person, and less easily reached
or recognized, than n uniformed officer. The
right of entrance and inspection is properly
regarded as part of the contract between the
gas consumer and the gas company. Why
then, on the same principle, may we not re,
gard the right of inspection, under such
proper regulations as the authorities may
prescribe, as part of the contract between
the water taker and the Government which
| supplies the waterl
But there are special reasons why our
people should not oppose the proposed in
spection. The figures which the engineers
| give to show the amount of water con-
sumed-or wasted-per capita in this District
indicate that the supply at present furnished
| ought to be ample, even on the higher levels,
| if properly husbanded. Whether these
| figures are or are not correct (and we incline
to agree with Mr.. Cluss and several official
reports on the subject, that the proportion of
the water supply consumed in the public
buildings and grounds is many times the
quantity given by Senator Rollins) they will
doubtless be regarded as correct by Congress
until the contrary is shown. Now a thorough
inspection will demonstrate, as nothing short
of thorough inspection or the universal in
PRODUCTION OF metres will demonstrate, either
| that there is such waste as is currently
| represented, or that there is some error in the
data upon which the accusation is grounded
that the community are hagrantly Indifferent
to their duty in respect to this alleged
waste of water. And if the fact shall be
found to be as the Engineers of the Water
Department assume, the evils complained of
will be remeded without the immediate ex-
pense which would be required to finish the
aqueduct and lay new mains. Upon the
whole, we regard the plan of rigorous in
spection by the regular patrolmen as the
step which should precede other action to
improve the water supply, and it is one
which should be welcomed and advocated by
the community. If it shows that there is
not the extraordinary waste which appears
to cause the present deficiency, Congress will
then be more ready TO appropriate for the
Conduit extension. If the waste is detected
and checked, the evil is remedied without
cost
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

yicksburg Commercial.
The Jeitics "a Success.

A corps OF engineers from the Texas and
Paclhc aud New Orleans Pacific railroads has jus re-
ported the result of thorough inspection fecOnily
made OF the Eads eitj0s al tie mouth Of te Mssis-
sipp river. This report states that the south Pass
which i've years ago was not nayigable for vessels
drawing over six feet, * now magnificent stream
one thousand feet In width, with central channel
varying from two hundred and lifty 10 Ave hundred
feet In width where twenty-six feet Is the least depth
the outer edges, and where thiryhye feet Is the
average prevailing depth Of the middle This chan
at distance OF hye hundred feet outside tho goa.
walls there Is a well-dehned channel one thOusana
feet In width, witt depth Of tweny-six feet on Inc
edges and Of tirtytwo and thirty seven feet In the
..aI.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16
LITERARY NOTES.

Kossuth's Memoirs, the first volume of
which has Just been published at Pesth, are of much
greater interest than the public would expect. The
account of two interviews which the Hungarian pa
triot had with Napoleon III and his vaorOus consin,
Pl0n-Plon, in 1859 KOssuth, under the name of
George Brown, had to Paris to propose that the
Iiungarians should unite with the Italians and
French against their common enemy, Austria.
The piice of Magyar cooperation was to have been
their independence. In consideration of the services
rendered by Plon-Pl In the negotiations KOssuth
offered 10 have him elected to the Hungarian throne,
but Plon- Plon, with his habitual prudence declined
the peIous honor. ''No more this head, - said
the Prince. ''and mind You don't mention the mat
ter to the Emperor
PogreSs says: :" It is an auspicious an
nouncement that Mr.. Murdoch's Recoecons Of
Acting and Actors are now In course of publication
by j. NJ. Stoddart Co., 727 Chestnut street. Phia-
dephia. They have been prepared by Mr.. Murdoch
himself, with the aid of infabe records and faith
ful memory, and at II period when his health had
been completely restored This work viii, hope,
not only add 10 his financial success but also to his
permanent fame. ~
The latest numbers of Harper's admirable
"Half- Hour Seres'' are the ''I.ife of Charlie
magne, by Eginhard, translated from the text Of
the 'Monument;e Germann,'' by Samuel Epes
Turner biographical sketch of ''Ihe Right Honor
able William Ewart Gladstone, - and ''Tales from
the odyssey for boys and girls. All the above
celved by Brad Adams.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers have issued in
the "Franklin square Library two new novels,
"Clara Vaughan, by X, u. Black more, and Young
Lord Penrith, " by John Berwick IIarwOod, which
can lie had of Brad Adams
Calmann Levy, George Sands publisher,
announces the coming appearance OF her letters col
leced and edited under the supervisor Of her family.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

The ex-Rhedive of Egypt, who with his
harem ~ residing at Resna, would do well 10 provide
himself with an extra supply Of patent locks, bull
dogs broken bottles cat-teasers, and Philippians
with rolling eyeballs and curying scimitaIs. Not
a young Italian artist, and now fair CiICasslaIi,
Miss Mask Missak who IL rising sixteen. has fed to
''who - says the report, 'had fallen Ia love with
her from seeing her at the window and with whom
ghr had managed TO carry on panlcmimic wo0ing.
IL seems that ths young affection Is slncarc for
he has applied to the municipal authorities of
Kesina 10 publish the notice of his Intended marriage
with Interesting young fugitive But the author
Ties are much embarrassed BY this request, for the
italian law demands that all strangers wishing 10
marry must produce certificate from The authorities
of their native country that there exists impede
ment, and as this yolug gif now only sixteen yeaTg
of age, was sold IN Cairo when mere baLy no oIs
knows to whom 10 apply
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16
COuLISSE CHAT.


Modjeska has succeeded in London,
Emma Abbott has reangaged Castle for
next season.
Grau's French opera company are in Bos-
ton, aud Will sail thence for Europe.
Strakosch and Hess have positively secured
Marie Roze for their grand English Opera Company
next season.
1t Is stated that Currie, the assassin of
Porter, the actor, VIII he tried for that crime at
Marshall, Texas, ON June 10.
Mackaye's "IIazel Kirke," ("The Iron
Wil'D has reached Its hundredth representation
al lhe Madison Square Theatre.
" pinafore' - may he played out, but Max
Strakosch doesn't seem 10 think so, for lie hegng "A
season OF 1t at the Fiflh Avenue Theatre May a.,
liollingshead, OF the London Gaety, has
offered Edwin Booth an engagement. Mr.. Booth
sails for Europe In June, but has made arrange
menl TO play while there
II is reported that Frederick Gye, manager
Of the Coyent Garden Royal Italian Opera Company,
In London win give Italian opera In New York next
winter, eye probably oycrrates the harvest Maple
son Is feapng, ana unless lac can bring Adelina Patti
II is dincult how he could expect To make head
against his rival with Nilsson to alternate with GER
ser.
The correspondent OF the Philadelphia
Bulletin writes from Rome; - Ristor has given US
performance of Marta Stuart at the Politeana AL
though terribly old aud shrewish- locking, Ristori
nevertheless remains SIN magnificent actress But
she is growing little TOO massive for the stage. Al
Milan this winter she was not at all oourteously re-
ceiyed. You're too old y shouted at her.
Hearing this she stopped short In what she was saw
ing, and turning TO the speaker, she said; you
Hre too polite = which gained her storm Of ap-
piause, and Sho was not lnsuted again during her
stay there. Here, however, even IL she were hum
dred years old, she would still bo favoritc shO
calls Rome her home and Is building q magnificent
palace In the Via Nazionaic, In which she hopes to
end her days and enjoy the fortune she has made
ng her long career ON the stage
Col. Forney says in Progross: "Mr. Muir
doch, at the Chestnut street Theatre, Philadelphia
Hast week, surprised even Ills Intimate friends with
the force aud grace Of his acting siNtynine years
Of age, 1t Is almost beyond belief thai this artist
should lost hardly anything Of the ability which
had at time placed him Ia the very front of his
profession. lie las sil the beauty of gesture,
manner, aud clearness of enuncaton which used 10
characterize The great actor when acting art,
and Is perfectly free Of the stted artificial methods
which pass for acting nowadays. lie played IOuHg
NiraJl IN FarquhaI' comedy OF 'Ihe Inconstant, -
In very remarkable way 10 u very remarkable au-
dience, ON Tuesday evening. Time has dealt kindly
with Murdoch his form Is little bowed, hut his step
Is rn his eye Is bright, his face expressive and his
voice almost musical as II forty years ago. 1t
was rich fnast, his acting, aud the welcome
cordlngly anu gracefully saesre, hearty aud snhstan-
tlal, -
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16
Tur best advisers deprecate the way il

TnE best advisers deprecate the way in
which the strictly internal affairs of the Washington
Light Infantry Corps have crept into the newspapers
This fine organization has nothing To gain and every
thing to lose by open disssension and bckering Its
little troubles, though they may exaggerated to
the excited feelings of young for time, be
just well settled In their proper place, the corps
meetings and united front kept presented to the
public and the publc's enemies, If any arise. The
corps was never so large and well organized never
had such resources to draw upon many infu-
entlal friends 1t enjoys To throw away all
these advantages over contested election for fourth
eutenantcy, any rine OF that kind would cause 1t
to be said that the young soldiers far from having
the proper manliness and fellowship among them,
too childish to manage the large interests COM
mittcd to their hands hy good fortune and popular
favor. 1t is encouraging to note, In an apparently
authorized annou ncement, that military discipline is
still paramount and that the full battalion of $50
muskets is expected to turn out with the usual hearty
good will on Decoration Day. We hope this will prove
the final refutation of the rumors of bad blood -
and "a split in the ranks
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

the Government must. But there arc spc-
cial reasons why it is best that this should
bc public and not private work. Every
consideration which teaches that no foreign
power should he permitted TO gain footholl
on the lstlmus, indicates that the United
States should he dominant there in national
capacity. The most eilectual way TO exclude
others is TO be there first ourselves. 1t is
not necessary TO point out that no precedent
in favor of subsidies or guarantees to inter
nal improvements can he drawn from guar
antee for this ertornal work. 1t is for the
very reason that the projected ship railway
is across foreign territory that our iuterna-
tional interests require it should be ma
tional work.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16
The MAORI.
prosnecting-.A. II. Mayte.

prospecting H. Nalle'
Every Maori Is able to furnish himself in
all the requirements OF fe lie makes hsOwn clothes
catches his nsh and fowl, and cooks his own din
ners. Most Cf those about Wellington are educated
IN the three "r's, - well OH, and have plenty Of
spare time As natural consequence, they great
thinkers, takers aud politicians AT dlnner given
Aundr0d Of t0m L the superintendent, shortly be-
fore my arrival twonty-hyo Of lhenl made speeches
with fuency and self possession, and very much 10
the point. with attempt 20 conceal their real Opy
Ions. - You send your missionaries to US first, -
said one, "and afterward your land'sharks,n
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

GREAT IN VAR, GREAT ~ PEA CE.
The prominence which General Hancock
has gained as candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency has started
all the bourbon idiots to saying that "the
soldier business is played out,' and that
what the Democracy want is a statesman
l.. Q. Washington, in letter to the Rich
mond Commonwealth, goes so far as to assert
that ii a soldier is elected somebody else -
will really he President. Now if these igno-
ramuses had even smattering of historical
knowledge they would remember that almost
every really great soldier has also proved
upon opportunity a superior civil admins
traitor. Such, in prominent degree, were
Philip and Alexander of Macedon, and all
the eminent soldiers among the ancient
Greeks. Such also were Cesar, the Scipios,
Frederick, Cromwell, Marlborough, Napo-
leon, Give, and CORVALLIS of Yorktown
fame. Hannibal would even have saved
Carthage, if he had been permitted to gov
ern her as well as to command her armies.
We cannot touch any period where we do
not find that he who can command an army
well can also govern provinces and admins
ter public affairs. There is no other profcs-
sion than that of arms in which so little can
be learned from books and so much must
come from native genius and experience.
To succeed in war requires an elevation OF
soul and character which are needed in
every high station, and which are not by
the more sordd and moneygetting avoca-
tions. History teaches that great soldiers
are almost always great men, and it i'll he
comes the countrymen of Washington and
the party of Jackson to he launching shallow
sneers at "mere soldiers
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16
DIED.

ToRREY Suddenly, on May Is, at 7:2O A. NJ,
niIs. mary r. Ambrose Torrey. Funeral from CON
gregational Church Tuesday, at . p. NJ New YORK
Ihiadelphta, Chicago, and Boston papers please
copy.l f
SHERMhN.-I New York, the 18Th instant
!.,cut James l.. Sherman. First United States Artl-
iery Notice of funeral in this city In Monday morn
Ing papers.
hAREiNGTON. N.-May -, Daniel Harrington
aged nineteen years. Funeral from his father, resi-
uence, NO. iOb street northwest, Monday, May 18th,
sALTER. Memorial services for George W. Sal
.er ia'e pay clerk u. =. N only son of Edwin and
Margaret Salter, who died at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
March y. lsso. viii he held In Waugh NJ. E. Chapel
day. at Z. NJ. ' "
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

THE indecent haste to adjourn Congress
will not help the Democracy to elect a Presi-
dent.
Neither will leaving the courts without
money to pay jurors, and the post Offices
without light and other necessaries.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

Gan Ohio Democrat" who appears to
know whereof he speaks, writes TO the World
that at no time and under no circumstances
"will Samuel I. Tilden ever receive a vote
" from Ohio" in the Cincinnati Convention.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

This man is now regarded as the ablesL
civil engineer IN America. His traluoers haye been
shaned into silence. OccasOnaly, nom mere force
nal an old sianderer rises to tho surface and
come 10 the defense of Capt. Eads. Ever since ha
opened the way to New orleans for big steamships
there has been constantly Increasing movement of
grain down the Mississippi river, and with better fa
ciIitgs for transportation there he doubt but
that great deal Of wheat and corn intended for ex-
port viii take this route 10 tic sea. The accpmula-
ion OF grain at Cairo. NJ, awaiting transportation,
suggests the possibility Of great future for that city
The junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers wOul
10 he the natural depot for the trade Of the two
great valleys drained by these streams Should ele-
yators for ihe storing OF wheat aud the loading OF
barges be erected there. Cairo might become 10 Mis-
slssppl trade what Buffalo Ia IN the lake trade 81.
Louis Is already little disturbed over The prospect,
The alarm is high tribute TO the success Of Capt.
Eads's jetties, which destined to turn our Inn
lnense trade down the Mississippi river The
of this man has been marvellous. The people have
faith In the man, and IT Is surprising that they
have faith In his new pTolect--in any that lie may
propose.
ylcksburg Herald, May 2.
Captain Rads is neither an amateur nor
gfnsatlonalist lie has no cheap reputation 10 make.
Afier maturing Plan We may be assured he has the
utmost cOnhdeDre IN Us success. MANY shook their
heads OminDIsly when e blaap HpFk on the leties at
the mouth Of me Mississippi haise proybels were
numerous predicting failure Ihe nosefnhsnt
yigilant scientific espionage. lgt with Napoleopc
courage aud confidence. he pursued his wprl aHd won
for himself fame brighter ihal oDTonei and moe
priceless than an empire,
yicksburg Commercial
Capt. Eads has reputation world wide.
His many trlumphs OF engineering skill-eyideIyng
genius ominently practical and prOl0und-haye
given him the Of the nation. lie is to-day the
knOwletged head nf bis profession In America and
has but few peers In the known world His large
scientific ataiumcnts have been Illustrated by his
brilliant achievements. Any oalmly.formGd opiGiOb
of his, In the professiun commands universal respect
and general CTedenCe.