The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1869, Page 4

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The cable despatches are dated August 6, The London papers have taken up the question of the seizure of the Spanish gunboats by the United States government, and comment freely on the probability of the sale of Cuna, Great consternation was caused in tne Houses of Parliament in London, during the session of yester- day morning, by the explosion of a canister of gun- powder somewhere within the building. No clue of the perpetrators of this outrage has been ob- tained. The new boat for the Harvard crew has ar- rived in London. ‘The Emperor and the Empress of the Frencn have gone to visit Chalons. Marshal Niei is very unwell, A duel is reported between two well known Paris editors, in which one of the combatants received four wounds, A correspondent of 8 London joarnal writes from Rome that the emancipation of civil society from the Church influence is 80 complete that tt would be Buperfuous to prevent the meeting of the Connctl, Other States are expected” td follow the moderation exnressed by Baron Beust in respect to the Council. ‘The Carlist bands in Spain are reported to be dis- solved and the partisans discourage. The representatives or the foreign Powers resident in Constantinople bave mterceded with the Sultan, and the difficulty with Egypt is, consequently, in a fair way of being settled. Cuba. Information has been received in Washington of the safe landing in Cuba of a filipustering party, 250 fn number, which started from the coast of Florida ‘On te 4th lustant. Miscelianeous. ‘The returns from Alabama snow that Buckley and Hays (radicals) have been elected to Congress from the Second and Fourth districts, and Dox and sher- man (democrats) from the Fifth and Sixth districts, ‘The First and Third districts are in doubt, but pro- bably Back (radical) ts chosen in the First district, ‘The implied condemnation of ex-President John- son by Secretary Boutwell and Postmaster Creswell in their letters endorsing the extreme radical party of Tennessee caused a@ reaction in that State tn favor of the ex-President, and his return to. the United Btates Senate is rendered more than probable. Hon. James M. Cavanaugh, democrat, has been re-elected delegate to Congress from Montana by 2,(00 majority. ‘The colored radicals of Mobile, Ala., held a meet- ing on Thursday night to celebrate the election of thelr candidate for Congress, During the meeting a slight diMcuity ensued with a white man, when a general onslaught was made with pistols, Three negroes were killed outright and five were wounded, Five whites were also wounded. Tne negroes num- ered 1,500, the whites 190, It is believed that upon completion of the Kansas Pacific Railroad St. Louis will become the chief point of smeiting the silver ores of Colorado, and in anticipation of this event parties in that city are already making arrangements for the erection of smelting works. Injunctions were served yesterday upon the vice President and treasurer of tne Susquehanna Rail- road Company and a majority of the directors, pre- venting thelr acting as officers of the company, They are charged with conspiring to place the road in the hands of Jay Gould, and thus defraud te company out of its property. A steamer of fifteen tons burden left Baltimore yesterday for AttaKapas, La, Her route is vy canal to this city, hence by river to Albany and through canals and inkes to the Mississippi river. Jay Cooke & Co, deny the report forwarded from Philadelphia that they had made advances on whis- key destroyed at the burning of the government Warehouses in (hat city, A Southern farmer deposited $3,300 worth of gov- ernment bonds in the ast hole of his smokehouse for safe keeping. His wife, knowing nothing of the circumstance, &@ few days ago, wishing to smoke some bacon, built a fire in the smokehouse aud re- duced the bonds to cinders, Aepleasure boat containing fourteen persons waa capsized on Bush river, Harford county, Md., on Thursday afternoon, and three of the party—Harry Lee, of Baltimore, James M..and Septimus Sewell— Were drowned, The mother of Mr. Lee resides in Brooklyn. Oharles Creswell, of Augusta, Ga., and his brother, J. D. Creswell, were met near Edgefleid, 8. C, on Thursday by the brothers of Miss Addison, who had been seduced by J. D. Creswell. Charles Creswell was shot dead and his brother dangerously wound- ed, The frothers of Miss Addison surrendered themselves to the authorities, The City. Work upon the new Posi OMice will ve commenced on Monday next, The photograph of the supposed Ocean Bank rob- ber who committed suicide at a raliway station in Crewe, England, was yosterday recognized by Mr, month of July was $6,190, as reportea by a commit. tee to the Board of Water Works, In regard to street cleaning the same committee say that the streets are much 8,000 loads of dirt having been removed from the Seventh ward aione, troversy another injunction was served yesterday on the Water Board, issued on the complaint of Mr. N, T. Higbie. ing three stores on Fulton street, Brooklyn, were en- tered by burglars and goods to various amounts stolen, Captain Jones, will leave pier No. 45 North river at one P, M. today for Liverpool, via Queenstown. The matis for Europe will close at the Post OMce at twelve M, will leave pier No. 50 North river at about one P. M. to-day for Brest and Hayre, The French matis will close at the Post OMice at twelve M, direct, eliminate from the minds of men the idea of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1869. Frederick Letss to be that of his ;brother, William Leiss, who left this city for Kurope early in June. John H. Platt, a major in the rebel army, was arrested on Thursday night on a charge of having on the 4th of October last, while # prisoner at Jeffer- fon, Texas, assisted in killing three or his guard and making his escape. Summonses have been served by United States Marshal Dallon upon nineteen Brooklyn bankers for failure to make their monthly returns to the asses- Bors, a8 required by the internal revenue laws. A Frenchman named Anthony Neill was arrested yesterday on a charge of manufacturing bogus coin, Upon his premises were found dies, presses and all the paraphernalia necessary for making gold and silver coin, and a quantity of metal so similar in appearance to gold and silver that few experts can detect the difference, The cost of street repairs in Brooklyn for the aner than they were heretofore, over In the matter of the Third avenue (Brooklyn) con- Between Thursday evening and yesterday morn- The Inman line steamship City of Washington, The steamship Ville de Paria, Captain Surmont, The Nationai line steamship Denmark, Captain Cato, will sail from pier No. 47 North river at three P. M, to-day for Liverpool, touching at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The steamship Europa, Captain McDonald, of the Anchor line, will leave pier No, 20 North river at twelve M, to-day for Londonderry and Glasgow, The steamship United States, Captain Norton, of the Merchants’ steamship line, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P, M, to-day for New Orleans Gold opened yesterday at 136°,, touched 13634, and 136, bul was steady most of the day at 136%, closing at136:;. The stock market was fairly active, with the Western railway shares as the features, closing Strong on these and firm on the Vanderbilt stocks. The Solar Eclipse To-Day. Since eclipses were first observed by mortal eyes they have been sensa- tions. In early times they came on the world by surprise. Mortals naturally were put to their wits’ end. The course of nature was disturbed. Darkness burst in upon the light, It was the seeming triumph of evil— either the world was at an end or the God of nature suffered. Later, even when solar eclipses have taken place and the true cause has been known, it has not been possible to direct supernatural agency ; and the all but universal feeling has been that if nature was not ina condition to inspire us with alarm she had at least a claim on our sympathy. Among the Greeks and. Romans it was common on such occasions to rush to the temples of special divinities and by prayers and costly offerings seek to appease their wrath. To this day it is common in China when eclipses take place to beat drums and brass kettles, believing, as the Chinese do, that such noises will frighten away the monsters which are devouring the sun and moon. We know something more than our rude forefathers, and believe our- selves to bea little better educated than our barbarian contemporaries ; buf we cannot say that eclipses no longer create either alarm or interest. They are known to.9¢¢ar much more frequently than-?is at one time believed; but they are so seldom experienced on one and the same point of the earth’s surface that when they do occur they are felt to be sensations of no ordinary kind, In another place in this day’s Hrratp we give a full and detailed account of the eclipse as it will be seen to-day. To this account we refer our readers, It is a peou- liarity of the present eclipse that it will be seen all over the United States. In this it differs from the eclipse of last year, which was observable only from certain parts of South Africa and South America. For at least two hours to-morrow the inhabitants of Canada and of the United States, all along a belt which will run from Alaska to Wilmingion, will witness this strange and startling phe- nomeron, From about twelve minutes past five till about twelve minutes past six the eclipse will be visible in New York city and neighbor- hood. It is natural that scientific men should be considerably excited by what is this day expected, and that there should be made at different points all along the belt such arrange- ments as are likely to secure full and accurate observations of the entire phenomenon. At Sitka, at Norton's Sound, at Sioux City, at Burlington, at Des Moines, Towa; }at Springfield, Illinois; at Shelbyville, y., at Abingdon, Va, and elsewhere, scientific parties have located themselves, and, provided as they all are with com- plete apparatus for observing and photo- graphing the strange sight, itis generally ex- pected that something substantial will be added to our stock of astronomical knowledge. At- tention on this occasion will be generally directed to the luminous protuberances which at one time were supposed to belong to the moon, but which are now satisfactorily proved to belong to the sun. These protuberances were observed as early a3 1706. They were seen in 1715. They were seen again in 1724, when, however, it was noticed that the luminous corona of which they formed a part was not concentric with the moon, but with the sun, At Gottenburg, in the year 1733, these red protuberances were seen more dis- tinctly by Vassenius, and since then they have been noticed on the occasion of every eclipse. They were seen in 1778 and in 1806, and in 1842 Arago, the celebrated French astronomer, saw them with bis naked eye a3 well as with the telescope. Seen again from the Sandwich Islands in 1850 and from points of observation on the coasts of Sweden and Norway in 1861, they were naturally the great objects of study on the occasion of the eclipse of last year. Some of these protube- rances were visible, and photographs taken at different states reveal them with great distinct- ness. M, Janessen, who made observations at Guntoor with the stereoscope, describes these protuberances as followa:—‘“The total obscu- ration occurred instantaneously and the spec- tral phenomenon also changed immediately in a very remarkable manner. Two apectra, formed of five or six bright lines, red, yellow, and the large numbers of svientific men who are engaged ; considering, too, the superior ap- place of the prismatic sun which had juat disappeared. These spectra, about one minute (of arc) long, corresponded line for line, and were separated by a dark space in which I could see no lines, The finder showed that these two spectra were caused by two magnifi- cent protuberances, which were now visible on each side of the point of contact. One of them, that on the left, was more than three minutes (or one-tenth of the sun’s diameter) in height; it looked like the flame of a furnace rushing violently from the openings of the burning mass within, and driven by a strong wind. The one to the right presented the ap- pearance of amass of snowy mountains, with its base resting on the moon's limb, and en- lightened by a setting sun.” ‘The preceding observation shows at once:—First—The gas- eous nature of the protuberances (the lines being bright). Second—The general similarity of their chemical composition (the spectra cor- responding line for line), Third—Their chem- ical species (the red and blue lines of their spectrum being no other than the lines © and F of the solar one, and belonging, as is well known, to hydrogen gas).” Later and from fuller observation he con- cluded :—‘‘First, that the luminous protube- ranced observed during total eclipses belong unquestionably to the circumsolar regions. Second, that these bodies are mainly or en- tirely composed of incandescent hydrogen gas, Third, that they are sybject to movements of which no terrestrial phenomenort can give us any idea; since, though they are masses of matter having several hundred times the volume of the earth, they chauge completely their form and position in the course of a few minutes.” Considering the many points of observation paratus which science will bring to its aid, great things are expected from the observa- tions of to-day. For many reasons the day will be interest- ing. There are many still living who remem- ber the eclipse of 1842. Te all such this will be but little of a surprise. There are many, however, who have never witnessed any such phenomenon, To all such it will, indeed, be a ‘‘new thing.” There are hundreds of thou- sands again who will never see another eclipse. Before such another material phenomenon presents itself to the wondering. gaze of mor- tals, telescopes and stereoscopes will to them be useless. This day all will gaze, admire, wonder, Many will pry into the mysteries of nature. Some will worship. *Few will scoff. Is. it unnatural {n such circumstances to ex- press the hope that faith this day will be strengthened as well as knowledge increased ? Our State Prison Management. — The management of Sing Sing Prison has been notoriously bad for some time, Revolts among the prisoners, murder and bloodshed within the prison walls and escapes of convicts have been the rule for many months past, We published yesterday the presentment of the Grand Jury of Westchester county, made upon the suggestions of Judge Cochran in his recent charge. The Grand Jury recite the circumstances of insubordination, escapes, cruel punishments, and so forth, all of. whioh have already been publisket-in the HEraLp as they.oeetirred. They make a few suggestions as to the best mode of correcting the existing evils in the prison system, and their sugges- tions, we should suppose, can be very easily adopted. They comprise the employment of 4 more efficient class of men as keopers and guards; a higher salary for these offictals, which might induce better men to accept those situations; a larger number of officers in the prison to control the one thousand five handred convicts; the absence of political favoritism in the selection of these officers, and the same discrimination in awarding of contracts for prison supplies, All, or nearly all, of these improvements can be adopted by the State Prison Inspectors if they choose to perform their duty faithfully, We have urged all these points upon the State Prison mana- gers repeatedly, and we doubt whether the recommendations of the Grand Jury will have any better effect, But that they have reached the causes of the difficulties existing in the management of Sing Sing Prison there can be very little doubt. It remains to be seen now whether this official interference will receive any consideration at the hands of the prison authorities. If not, the next Legislature will have to remodel the whole State Prison system. Nor Dgap Yet.—Andy Johnson's return to “the United States Senate, in view of the result in Tennessee, isalmost certain. This is not the least satisfactory result of the contest in that State, Andy is a bold, positive exponent of that class of political ideas that is least agreeable to the blatant radical rulers, He has the one grand virtue that he will not be put down, and, therefore, discussion in the Senate will be the less monotonous for his presence. He hasa Union record that no man can im- peach. He is a Southern Senator not open to the carpetbag objection nor assailable on the copperhead sneer, He is genuine in all senses, absolutely fearless and honest, and will ‘make Rome how!” from his place in the Senate with much better effect than ever he did in his mes- sages. He is the first President since John Quincy Adams whose political vitality has not been exhausted by the Presidency, Guy Fawkrs’ “Day” Aytictparep,—The members of the British Parliament were alarmed yesterday morning by an explosion in the building in which they were assembled. The fragments of a tin which had contained gunpowder were found outside, “The affair is, we are told, involved in mystery.” Such “affairs” always are and have heen gince the original experiment of the first Guy. For reg- ular “blow up” purposes our Amerfean poli- ticians keep to whiskey, The English, as if tobe ahead in something or other, are perhaps taking to gunpowder. “Tax Ordinary TRIBUNALS” in Austria are not to be interfered with in their dealings with @ murderer because he happens to be a prince. Another effect of the battle of Sadowa. Keer Him ty View.—The engineer of the Erie freight train who is charged with caus- ing the recent massacre has just been admit- tod to bail in the sum of six thousand dollars, green, blue and violet, occupied the field in image of the The Tennessee Election and Its Moral. {| Affairs tu Cuba—Progroas of the Patriots. The conservatives in Tennessee have swept everything before them. Senter is elected Governor by a heavy majority, and there is probably a majority of conservatives returned for both branches of the Legislature. No one will be surprised at this result ; for the violence, bitterness and ultra course of the radicals there, ‘as in other parts of the South, have dis- gasted the moderate republicans. The reac- tion against radicalism which was seen in Vir- ginia has extended to Tennessee, and will run, probably, through the whole South. The posi- tion of political parties in that section of the republic must have a powerful influence in the reorganization and course of parties through- out the whole country. The victory in Ten- nessee, as in Virginia, is not a democratic one; for the conservative republicans were the balance of power, if not the majority, in turn- ing the election against the radicals. Thero was undoubtedly an alliance or concert of action with the democrats and moderate repub- licans; but if the democrats expect to make capital out of the result and to reor- ganize abandon their old dogmas struct @ platform on which all the conservative elements oan unite. On the other hand, should the radicals modify their ultra policy and unite with the administration in a more conservative course, they may head off the democracy and secure a longer lease of power. however, the elections in the Southern States will put the polltical elements of the country in a state of fermentation, and will in all pro- bability cause a reorganization or modification of parties. in Tennessee it is not unlikely that ex-Presi- dent Johnson may be returned to the United States Senate. He has a considerable party in the State, and is an able political manager. Should itbe so he will prove a thorn inthe side of the administration, and might have no little influence in shaping the course and future of parties, trump cards, if lt knows how to play them—if, in a word, it ignores ultra radicalism and fol- lows public sentiment. The elections in the Southern States give a lesson to both the great parties of the country. seen how they will be instructed by them or their party upon it they must and con- In any event, As a consequence of the election Still the administration holds the It remains to be what use they will make of them. The Boston Murder. The additional particulars which we pub- lished yesterday relative to the murder of Mrs, Hobbs by Major White clear the terrible Bos- ton South End tragedy of much of the mys- tery which at first enveloped it. It appears from the testimony at the inquest that the deceased Indy, who is described as having been ‘‘highly accomplished and widely known,” had for twelve years lived happily as the wife of Dr. Alvah Hobbs, but that pre- vious to her marriage she had been the doc- tor’s housekeeper ; that she was divorced from a former husband; that the doctor was divorced from a former wife, and that the Major, an invalid resident in their family, had long been passionately in love with Mrs, Hobbs, whose life he had attempted to take with a knife in 1861 ina fit of jealousy, after which -he was confined for six months in an in- sane asylum at South Boston, Most impru- dently -invited to become an inmate of the family of Dr. Hobbs, his medical adviser, Major White carried into execution on Tuesday evening threats which, it is testified, he has often made to kill the wife of his host. It is difficult to suppose that the murderer was not insane. But what a curious revelation this case would be of the state of society in Puritanical Boston if it were not known that Boston is no longer inhabited by Bostonians. Everybody who has visited the ‘Hub of the Universe” is aware that several years ago all the Bostonians de la vielle roche moved outof town. They only come in town every day to do business for a few hours in State street and on Long wharf, accom- panied by their wives and daughters, who go shopping awhile, and whom they rejoin at tea- time in Brookline or Waltham or Newton, or some other delightful suburban retreat within five to forty miles’ distance of the State House, After sunset Bostonians proper can wash their hands of all the indecencies and crimes that have converted Boston Common and Boston streets into a modern counterpart of Sodom and Gomorrah, Let us not be unjust even to the Boston Pharisees, who know nothing of all the in- iqnity on which Park street steeple and the Old South nightly look down with horror, and who, therefore, continually sing in their rural homes the “‘holier-than-thon” song with which they have made ‘‘the whole world and the rest of mankind” familiar. In this very latest so-called Boston tragedy is not the murderer a crazy Canadian? Let, then, the burden of responsibility rest not on pious Bostonians, but rather upon the fatal facilities of the divorce laws im almost all the United States except South Carolina, and on the folly of an unfortunate husband who welcomes a furious lover of his wife to the bosom of his family. Currenoy.—Here is the latest view of the Tribune in regard to the currency :—‘‘While, therefore, we travel on the direct road to me- tallic payments, by pursuing a course which diffuses knowledge of our resources and confi- dence in our ability to redeem, we can, for the time, safely leave the currency to take care of itself.” And only the other day, and for months end years, has the same voice clamored for specie payment on any terms, every terms, in season and out of season. When this change of tune? Somebody recently employed Greeley to write on political econo- my. That led him to study political economy, and in the course of the study he has mastered a few problems in finance, and now knows that our currency in our situation may bo left ‘to take care of itself,” A Lono Crist8.—Baron Beust says it is hazardous to promise to maintain peage in Europe ut present, but that if there is not war in four years there will not be in a great while longer. ‘‘At present,” therefore, means during the next four years, Bovina Lanp.—Somo chiefs of the Osage Indians had agreed to sell a large tract of land to s railroad company at nineteen cents an acre. So said the railroad company; but the Indians say they made the agreement only under comoulsion and fear . Our latest despatches from Cuba are on the whole encouraging. The insurrection, instead of being stamped out by the arrest of the Cuban volunteers that left this city, goes on with as much vigor as if no such check had been received. For some reason or reasons yet unexplained the Spanish authorities have detained the American mail steamer between Santiago de Cuba and this country. Probably when details reach us we shall find it only another instance of that high-handed and ar- bitrary way in which Spain has hitherto con- ducted this war. The unfortunate Cubans who, rightly or wrongly, are suspected of disloyalty are treated with extreme severity, being hur- ried away, even when in ill health, to Bayamo, there to be tried summarily before one of the military tribunals. The sequestration of es- tates still goes on, proving that the wealthy planters are deeply embarked in this cause, Little fighting of any consequence has taken place, the policy of Generals Cespedes and Jordan being to harass the Spanish troops, eut off thelr convoys of provisions and such small parties of soldiers as stray from the main body. A small body of patriots lately surprised the garrison (four thousand strong) of Puerto Principe by an assault upon the town before daybreak, and retreated in good order, carrying with them fifty thousand dol- lars’ worth of provisions, But cholera and vomito are causing far greater havoc among the raw troops from Spain than all the efforts of the patriot leaders. The Spanish ranks are being thinned rapidly, and the difficulty of fill- ing the vacancies caused thereby is daily beédming greater. The government journals are now more fully alive than ever to the critical position of affairs, and are calling upon allranks to volunteer, but the call is badly responded to. The Governor of Trinidad has preased into the service all Spaniards between fifteen and sixty years of age, and it is proposed to extend this order to the whole island. The government is afraid, however, to entrust the creoles with arms, and as tothe negro militia, they have threatened repeatedly to go over to the enemy should they be compelled to exchange. garrison duty for service in the field. Quite in keeping with this threat is the news we publish to-day that sixteon of them—a first instalment—have already deserted. Urgent solicitations for fresh troops have been sent to the government in Madrid, and Brigadier Leteure y Rios has gone to Spain for this purpose, as well as to impress upon the government there the really critical position of affairs on the island. Altogether the news from Cuba is reassur- ing to the friends of liberty, and, as might be expected, the patriots there rejoice to hear of Carlist insurrections and the many difficulties fast gathering round the Spanish government. Now that the question of the sale of the island seems finally set at rest the Cubans are pre- pared to fight out their own independence, Every week finds them better organized and fitter to take the fleld. The very atrocities of the Spanish volunteers have done much to strengthen the insurrection by fomenting among the natives a spirit of hatred ageinst.a government that countenances such ruffians, and by enlisting more warmly in behalf of Cuba and her freedom the good wishes of every American, Election Riot in Mobile. The political or constitutional experiment for the commingling of people of two distinct races on terms of perfect citizen equality which is being attempted in this country is likely to lead to serious trouble during its progress towards ® final solution. From Mobile we have reports of the occurrence of a serious and fatal rlot between whites and negroes during a moment of out-door rejoicings, conducted by the republicans of that city, in celebration of the triumph of their candidate for the Con- gressional representation of the district. An exclusively negro-black-republican, meeting was held under the conduct of some white lead- ers, the enfranchised Africans being for the most part armed, in consequence, as their frierids allege, of the prevalence of certain ru- mors to the effect that they would be assailed— and thus for self-protection. Unfortunately a collision—of the origin of which we have, as usual, very conflicting statements—did occur between men of the opposing parties—opposed in color, in sentiment and in politics. Fire- arms were freely used, and after a period of general tumult and alarm it was found that three negroes were killed and five others badly hurt in the mélée, Seven white men were wounded. The expression in Mobile appears as if in gratitude that the affair was not of still worse consequence, and in direct condemna- tion of the itinerant agitators who ‘madden and inflame the passions of the negroes.” It is the crimination and recrimination of poli- ticians, and will go on until the negro attains his exact position, wherever that may be. Trouble in the Republican General Com. mittee. The meeting of this body held on Thursday evening was not of the most harmonious character. In fact, the seeds of discord put up their heads so very demonstratively above the ground that it is quite possible, if the sprouts should flourish, there must necessarily come great trouble to the ‘Union Republican Gen- eral Committee.” It appears that a rival com- mittee of outsiders has been formed, the members of which aspire to control the federal offices on their own hook, without due regard to the dignity and claims of the original body, as heretofore exercised. The intention ex- pressed by the orators on this occasion tended to ‘“‘weeding out” the members who had the temerity to join any other committee, and these gentlemen were pretty heartily de- nounced as backsliders and men who voted with the democratic ring, and were designated the most corrupt members of the republican party, and so on. Of course the parties assailed were not without their defenders, There were speakers who admitted that another organiza- tion existed of which they were members, and some who declared that the ‘General Repub- lican Committee” was arraigned before the State as untrue to republican principles and guilty of infidelity to the party. This is entirely a family quarrel, It is very amusing to witness, but it may prove a very serious affair to those who hold office or expect to hold office under the influence of the com- mittee which has had the arrangement of these ittle mattors entirely in its own bands, There appear to be some strong-backed politicians” . among the recusants, and hence the general committee may be compelled to compromise with them or else forego its exclusive claim to the spoils. The domestic fight, however, is of very little moment to the general public except as it suggests the good old proverb which runs ‘When rognes fall out honest men come by their own.” Dereorivges.—On the 14th of July a man threw himself under a railroad train in Eng- " land and was instantly killed, of course, No person acquainted with him was present. His name, home, destination were all unknown, and it became the duty ofthe police to deter- mine his identity. Seven days later the Lon- on police were able almost to write bis biography, although he was not an English- man, and was only in England on his way to Australia, Every step he had taken since he landed in England was known, and in ten days the American Consul was able to send here a considerable statement of facts in regard to him. How would it have been had this event happened here? Detectives Blatherskyte, Puffer and Itchingpalm would have been assigned to ‘‘work up the case.” They would have studied the newspapers for three days to ascertain what rewards were offered, and find- ing none would have informed us at the end of three months that the suicide was an impene- trable mystery. Why cannot we have a detece tive police as well as the Londoners ? Conservative Parrins—that is, parties of such modified republicanism that the democrats and sensible ex-Confederates find it not incon- sistent with self-respect to act with then— have now swept Virginia and Tennessee. MOVEM ‘§ OF PRESIDENT GRANT. The President at the Home of the Secretary of State—Interesting Surroundings—Iaformal Visit to West Point—The Newburg Trip= A Cabinet Meeting Next Tuesday. GaRRison’s, N. Y., August 6, 1869, The President at the elegant country seat of the Secretary of State, Mr. Fish, will certainly enjoy to its fullest extent all the delightful recreation to ba had only tn this interesting locality. The rarest ~ beauties of nature, in the sfape of bold moun- tains, smiling valleys, a magnificent river, pass ing river craft, from the palatial steamboat to a low- deck schooner, the railway train rushing backward and forward day and night, the numerous mansions of the affluent ana the humbier homes of the country people, ali lend to this vicinity a peculiar charm. It was also in this vicinity that events transpired call- ing forth on the one hand feelings of gratitude and reverence and on the other scorn and rebuke, It was here that the patriots of the war of 1776 ea- tablished for themselves @ stronghold in the high- lands; it was here that Arnold -sought to betray that stronghold and his country to an ine famous snemy, and failed because the couvtryme: were too trué to the cause they had sworn to defend and to the principles which were to make them freee men. A few days of ease given to reflections upon these surroundings of historical association, fore tting the annoyance to which he has been sub- Foctoa Within the past fey months by the mob of Ree ie) the President will certainly leave ere benefited In . respect, Ths morning the President inaugurated his visit tothe Highlands by getting up at ‘ood oy hour, and breakfasted eae ‘ojock, cfthout halt-p: ten, in company with Mr. Fish and General Porter, he crossed over to West Point, on the opposite side ot the ion. The visit of the President bet; ntirely Of au informal nature, not even informiny the commanding officer that he was coming, his arrival was a complete surprise. No tormallties were exchanged. The President drove to tne tent of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Biack, commandant of es. now in encampment, and remained some time, le also visited Ryeyet Brigadier General Pitcher, commanding bao After passing several hours here, surrounded by the scenes ol his youth, receiving the attentions of those few officers who by chance jearned of his presence, and giving a passing look at the grounds and the eucampment of caucts the party returned to Garrison’s and thence back to the residence of Mr, Fish, arriving about halfpast one, At dinner this afternoon, which was at_threa o’ciock, Mr, Fish invited General Pitcher and Culonel Black, who were both present, also Judge Plerre- pont. The remainder of the day was passed quietly. At five o’clock the President took a short drive with District Attorney Pierrepont. To-morrow, if it.should not rain, the President, Mr. Fish and General Porter wilt visit Newburg, a short distance above here, A special boat will be at aonn by mine o'clock and convey the party to ie 7 wburg. ‘The President has determined to teave here on Monday evening for New York, and wiil proceed either the same evening or the next morning for Washington. He will be accompanied by Secretary Fish. There will be a meeting of the Cabinet upou the arrival of the President, and there is no doubt questions of importance will be taken up. The first scene of the Spanish Armada business having veea: so well and summarily disposed of we may look for new developments speedily. Preparations at Newburg for the Reception of the President. NEWDURG, August 6, 1869. The citizens of this place are in a bustle of ex- citement and preparation for the grand event of w- morrow—the visit of the President of the United States. The event will be the first of the kind in the history of this little city, and there ts a general de- sire to make the most of it, for it may not be re peated very soon. This morning Mayor Clark re- ceived a letter from President Graut stating that he would be at the disposal of the committee at ten o'clock to-morrow morning. He will be accompanied by Secretary Fish, General Pitcher, General Porter and others of Granta friends, The programme is something ad foliows:—At nine o'clock A. M. the committee of arrangements and invited guests will leave Newburg \ im the steamer M. Martin, formerly Grant's de- spatch boat, and now of the Newburg and Albany jay line, and proceed to West Point, arriving about ten o'clock, The Presidential party and the West Point Band will be taken on board, and the steamer’s head will be turned towards Newburg. ‘The Martin will skirt the shore as closely a4 possibie, to give the President opportunity for eyo the proposed route of the Newburg and West Poll carta drive. The party will arrive at Newburg at eleven o'clock, and be received by a procession composed of the military, firemen and various civio societies. The Presidential yd and invited guesca will then be escorted through the principal strects to Washington’s eet bengal Here thie President will be welcomed in a short address by Mayor Clark, and presented to the citizens. A collation is to be served up on the headquarters grounds for the procession- ists, while the Presidential party and invited guesta repair to the residence of Mayor Ciark, to be dined and wined. After dinner the }’resident will be driven around the city, and probably along the river road aa far as Cornwall Landing, where he wiil again taxe the steamer Martin for West Point, At this hour writing (7:15 P, M.) the weather has an unsettled ap- pearance, with the promise of a northeast storm to- morrow, Should the day be stormy the visit of the President is to be deferred watil Mouday aext. THE SOLAR ECL PSE ANO THE WEATHER, DES MOINES, August 6, 1869, The weather-has been cloudy for two days, with no sign of @ break up. Twelve astronomers are here, with ven telescopes in position, also me terological apparatus; but they doubt the possibility ” of making observations. The he ae rose @ litte this morning, but stopped. Jt will be a greas scientific disappointment if the eciipse Is not visl- bie, THE_ ARMY. ‘The President has accepted the resignation of Second Lieutenant Burbank, of the Fifth infantry, First Lieutenant Von Schrock 1s assigned to duty in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, and ordered to report to General Howard, ‘The resignation of First Lieutenant Wagmire, of the First cavalry, has been accepted by the President; also of First ‘Taeutenants John Marphy and Moverty, from the cavalry, Captain Joseph Gebray and Firat Lieutenant Whiting are detailed for recruiting ser. vice, and ordered to report to the Superintendent of the recruiting service in New York city for assigu- ment to duty. Bail . THE NAVY, Admiral Dahigren will sever his oMciat connection With the Ordnance Bureau aa its chief on Tuesday next, on which day he will assume command of the Navy Yard in rane cr! 4n piace of Admiral Poor, who takes command of our squadron’ in Cuban waters, relieving Vice Admiral Hoff, Second Assistant Engineer John Van Hovenborg ta ordered to duty a8 assistant to the Inspector of } Chinery at the New York Navy Yard,