The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1869, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. : AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., betwoen Sth and 6th avs.— Bir Van WINKLE. WALLACK'S THEATRES. Broadway and 18th street. Vicrims—-Tus Prorie’s LawryEn. "g MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Tairtieth atroet and Prisha Mvheruoon and evening Performance. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Davip Gan- RIOK—PAs DE FASCINATION. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- ‘ourth street.—PLAY. IE TAMMANY, Fourteenth strect.—Tu® QUEEN OF aneete Tae OLD Woman Tuat LiveD in 4 Smog. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Annat XA POGUE; 03, Tux WioKLow WEDDING. Pe al THEATRE, Bowery.—MAssSANIELLO—Tom GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ner of Eighth avenue and 2d street.—Tuk Ska oF lor. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—A GRAND Variety ENTERTAINMENT, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hicooxr Diooorr Doox. GENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 68th and GOthsts.—POPULAR GARDEN ConoERT, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOJSE, 21 Bowery.—Couto Voca.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c, Matinee at 29. HOOLEY’S OPERA “Ho Minerrecs—THE Lawyer's NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— QOIENOE AND ART. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 69 Broadway.—FRMALEs ONLY LN ATTENDANCE. Brooklyn.—Hoougy's Ky £0. New York, Monday, August 23, 1869. a Sah Oe ee THB NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are aated August 22. The national troops are making numerous arrests of varlists in Spanish frontier provinces. Cabinet Gissensions exist upon matters appertaining to the bishops. Fifteen thousand workmen are on strike for higher wages in Barcelona. The Regent is not in favor of the pretensions of the Duke of Montpen- sier. Rumors prevail about the preliminaries of a treaty for the cession of Cuba to the United States being signed. General Leboeuf has been appointed French ‘Minis ter of War. Cuba. Advices received in Washington say that the vol- unteera are exercising the same control over De Rodas that they did over Dulce. De Rodas is un- easy at their dommeering ways and flerce demands and will probably resign soon. An organization of Spaniards favorable to Cespedes, and intended mainly to defeat the designs of the volunteers, has been exposed by a spy, and many members of it have been compelled to take refuge in the Cuban ranks, Colonel Quesada, a brother of the General-in-Cnief, arrived in New York on Saturday on a diplomatic mission and as bearer of important despatches for the Cuban authorities here. Miscellaneous. President Grant attended the Congregational church at Newport, R. IL, yesterday, in company with Senator Morgan and wife. He will proceed to the White Mountains, and on Monday next depart thence for Washington, where an important Cabinet ‘meeting is to be held soon after his arrival. Young Prince Arthur, of England, arrived at Halifax yesterday by the City of Paris. He was re- ceived by the Governor General and Lieutenant Governor Doyle, and conveyed in an open carriage to the Government House. A public reception will be tendered him to-day. Colonel W. B. Stokes, the defeated candidate for Governor of Tennessee, is in Washington intending to demand a new distribution of federal patronage in his State, as Brownlow by going for Senter, he claims, has broken up the republican party and no longer represents it. Colonel Stokes says he was defeated by fraud and will contest the admission of ‘any one whom the Legislature may elect to the Senate. He thinks that person will be Andrew Johnson. Secretary Boutwell will probably continue to purchase bonds next month to as large an extent as at present, and it may be even greater, aa the balance is heavy and the requirements are small. The proposition to modify the income tax law is being put into shape by influential members of Con- grees now in Washington. It is shown that all the Decessary expenses of the government, with the exception of interest on the public debt, can be raised by the taxes on whiskey, tobacco, licenses ‘nd a greatly modified income tax. We publish elsewhere in our columns tnis morning & history of the coal strikes in Pennsylvania, and an account of the present situation between the miners and the companies. The attendance of officers at Gettysburg !s so far rather slim, but many more will probably arrive to- day. Most of the leading Coniederates have excused themselves from attending, but General Heth and one or two subordinate officers will be present. Commodore Vanderbilt is at Saratoga, where his Mountain Boy is to trot to-day against Lady Thorn. A laborer named McGuire, living in Hartford, cut his wife's throat yesterday during a quarrel between them. He then walked away and 1s still at large. ‘The woman may probably recover. Two men, named Lewis Hornbeck and Stephen Paulding, were run over and killed by an express trataon the Hudson River Raliroad, on Saturday night, near Milton Ferry station. Bishop Janes preached yesterday at the Sing Sing ‘camp meeting. The City. Copies of the will of Andrew J. Butler, and of the inventories and achedules filed by his brother and exeoutor, General B. F. Butler, are published else- where. The schedules show that the estate is in- solvent, and that no money remains to be divided among the heirs, who are General Butler, Mrs. Batler, wife of the deceased, and George H. Butier his son. Two undertakers in the Eleventh precinct are en- gaged in a quarrel as to who shall bury the corpse of @ woman name! Sutton, who died on Saturday. One of them was sent by 4 coroner, who made an investigation in the case, but the other was called first by the woman’s relatives. The coroner's man insisted on his right to do the burying, but the po- lice were called in and the matter was referred to Inspector Walling, who referred It to the Public Aa ministrator, and there the case stands. Meantime the body is unouried. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General Brinkerhoff, of Ohio; J. A. McKean, of Paris; Carlo Carranoza, of the Hayvien republic, and Pasco De C. Lowehiro, of Maderia, Spalo, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General John 8. Cavender, of St. Louis; Dr. J. H. Barthoff, of Jackson, Miss.; Captain J. Wiilisms, of the United States Army, and W. W. Gillpatrick, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor C. H. Van Vorst, of utica; Major A. W. Griffen, and Captain Coe, of the Unived States Army, are at the St. Uharies Hotel. Colonel J. Steinberger and Colonel F. M. Etting, of the United States Army, are at tho New York Hotel. dudge Smith, of Tennessee; ©, G. Coombs, of Georgia, and Alexander McKinstry, of Mobile, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Stewart, of the United States Army; Pro- feasor Robertson, of Quebec, and Sefior G. Syel- ‘Wares, of Cuba, are at the St, Julien Hotel, The Suez Canal—The Future of tho East. The completion of the Suez Canal, which will soon be at hand, will undoubtedly mark a new era for the prominent Asiatic coun- tries, Besides furnishing them with in- creased commercial facilities it will give them the benefit of intercourse with the higher types of Western civilization. They will acquire new methods of thought, new means and manners of living; and, although the change may be apparently glow, it will be none the less radical and important, The main field of speculation as to the probable results of the canal has been hitherto confined to China and India, In the last named region the change will not be so apparent; for, beyond increasing the amount of business, it will pro- bably do little, as the country is so thoroughly under English control, In China the effect will be greater, and the changes that it will work will be more apparent; for the Chinese are now for the first time disposed to reap the benefit of Western experience. A great move- ment is taking place in the Flowery Empire, and its surplus population is eagerly seeking an outlet. A liberal policy has been inaugu- rated by its government in its intercourse with foreign Powers; and they, in their turn, fol- lowing the lead of the United States, have at last commenced to treat China in a manner that her size and importance demand, We have seen the last of ‘opium wars” and of the old “‘gunboat policy.” The Chinese are ready to accept the teachings of modern science, and modern machinery in that fruitful land will work wonders in .the way of production, and will save the large cost which the world has so far been paying for the transportation of her raw material. The Suez Canal will, however, work won- ders in the hitherto partially unknown and comparatively undeveloped Malay Archipelago. The immense islands of Timor and Borneo and the rich fields of Java will feel the impetus that a largely increased trade cannot fail of giving them. The Celebes, the Philippines, all the islands that compose this immense group, are thickly populated, and the large revenues that the Dutch draw from those that are under their control show that the Malays, if properly treated, can and will become use- ful citizens. The Sea Dyaks in Sumatra and some of the other islands are given to piracy, it is true; but this can be suppressed and their energies turned to the development of the valuable fisheries that are found in that region. The Land Dyaks, although formerly addicted to head hunting to an unpleasant degree, can and have been utilized, and in many places cultivate the soil, which in this favored clime is wonderfully productive. Large coal fields exist throughout the group, tin and other valuable minerals abound, and gold, which is found throughout the neighboring Australasian group, can certainly be found among these islands. We have seen the success that Sir James Brooke had in this part of the world, and there is no doubt that under wise manage- ment and with a market within reach these hitherto only partially developed regions can be made to increase their productiveness in the most wonderful manner. If the example of the Dutch be followed, as shown in their management of Java, the hap- piest results may be looked for with certainty. There the prejudices of the natives are not wounded, and with only a small force of sol- diers they have maintained order and security for life and property. No fearful mutiny like that of India has disturbed their rule. In many remote districts the only European is the Resident, who acts with the native chief; his orders always take the form of advice and are always obeyed. Besides the native popu- lation, Chinese are found in large quantities throughout these islands as traders and com- mon laborers, and if there be a demand for them, thousands can be readily procured from the teeming millions of the Celestial Empire: They are suited to the climate, they are frugal, industrious and satisfied with small wages, and the Central Pacific Railroad will stand as an everlasting monument of what they can ac- complish in the way of labor. The Suez Canal will work wonders in these rich islands, will develop a country rich in all tropical productions and filled with the most valuable minerals. It will open to science a region rich in historical remains—one which offers a boundless field to the antiquarian and the naturalist, and which affords the choicest problems for the ethnological student to puzzle over. The International University Boat Race. As the time approaches for the international boat race between the crews of Harvard Uni- versity and Oxford University the excitement in sporiing circles increases. The daily and weekly papers of London give up much space to the subject. It is manifest from their com- ments that whatever may be the result of the race the American competitors have been steadily gaining the respect of their English rivals and critics, At first the bets were almost all largely against them, but now it is admitted that ‘the race is likely to be close,” and although one journal says that ‘‘if the weather is bad the result will probably be in favor of Oxford,” yet, it adds, ‘if good the Harvards will win.” It is beginning to be suspected that the Americans, during their six weeks’ training exercises, have never put out their whole strength, and it is not forgot- ten that at home they have made the fastest time on record. Moreover, the question as to the relative superiority of the modes respect ively adopted by the two crews of using the oars is daily assuming increased importance. If the Harvards win in spite of ‘‘the nice, slow English drizzle,” which, it has been somewhat inconsiderately predicted, will “‘take the heart out of them”—it will establish the superiority of their quick, short, strong and nervous stroke over the long, sweeping stroke, resembling the old man-of-war rough water stroke, employed by the Oxfords. The ofiener the oar falls into the water with a pull the faster will the boat be propelled. It is on this principle that the blades of the steamboat wheel have been multiplied and placed six inches apart, instead of three feet, as formerly, It ts seen that the Harvards start off splendidly; but their opponents hope that they may not be able to keep up their tremendous pace to the end of the course. If, however, they get the better at the start they can economize their strength, and pull more or fewer strokes, ac- cording to their advantage. They will need | only to keep the lead, Que London journal NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1869. declares that “if the Harvard crew win the race we will acknowledge that our notions about our style of rowing are antiquated absurdi- ties,” and another says that “if the Harvards win after six weeks of exercise without doing their best it will be an aquatic revolution.” It may bea disadvantage for the Harvards that their new oars are longer than those to which they have been accustomed, inasmuch as it requires more expenditure of strength to multiply the strokes. The difference in weight between the two.crews—the Oxfords being heavier by a few pounds than the Harvards— is not so favorable to the former as it might seem; for if the long stroke needs more weight the short stroke needs less. The Har- vard style of rowing requires dexterity and force rather than weight. The appointment of Mr. Thomas Hughes as referee for the race gives great satisfaction on both sides of the water and is alone a guarantee of fair play. The author of “Tom Brown at Rugby” is as popular in America as in England. Massachusetts PoliticoA Chance for tho Democrats. The democrats of Massachusetts have a car- dinal maxim—‘‘Never go in to win.” In for- mer times, when the national government was sure to be in the hands of the democracy, there was no necessity for the faithful in Massachu- setts to exercise themselves to overcome the whig predominance that generally prevailed in the State. So long as there were federal offices to be filled that was enough for the Massachusetts democratic leaders, whose policy was to keep the party “conveniently small,” in order that there should be no more mouths agape for public pabulum than possi- ble, But now that the democrats of the Bay State have not enjoyed even a lanch at the public collation table—having been denied an appearance at that of the federal government for some eight or nine years, with the pros- pect of a continued abstinence for over three years longer, and having never had a crumb from the State crib since Marcus Morton was Governor—an event that happened just subse- quent to the deluge—and Boutwell and Banks were only hybrid democrats, it is not surprising that the old harness makers of the party should by this time have an itching for re- assuming the reins of power, for hitching into and ranning the car of State if not of the nation, and for managing the public machine in Boston if not in Washington. The Massachusetts democrats have now in their bands the means of redeeming the State from its chronic affliction of radicalism and of placing her—as one of the wonders of the nineteenth century—on the same side with lib- eral and tolerant.States in the sisterhood. It is rational to suppose that the leaders of the party, ambitious as they are to be at the tup of the heap somewhere, would see the opportunity and be wise enongh to seize it. Their opportunity lies in the present dis- tracted condition of the radicals on both national and local issues—upon national issues from disappointment and chagrin; and upon local .issués, such as the prohibitive liquor law, whi has rent the party in twain and set thé\.managers at work with all the machinery tl can com- mand to heal the break or to bonstruct a bridge over which the recusants can be made to trot until after the election. Now, how can the democrats take advantage of this opportu- nity? Is it by olinging to the old fogy and sntediluvian issues of the dead past? By acting as if the Fugitive Slave law were still in existence; that another slave Simms or an- other slave Burns were still held for rendition in the Court House, and that the blood of an- other murdered United States marshal, like poor Batchelder, remains unatoned for? Just asitmay be not to forget the latter, it is equally wise to remember that the law under which the unfortunate officer paid the forfeit of his life no longer exists, and that the neces- sity for the enforcement of such a law has passed away from this land forever and ever. It is well known that there are some old hunker democrats in Massachusetts, with lig- numvite heads, who may never consent to surrender a tittle of the old dogmas of the political faith in which they were baptized. ‘But even this class must be aroused to an ap- preciative sense of the crisis, and it may be effected by the passage of sledge-hammer resolutions at all the liberal democratic public gatherings. It must be declared and made distinctly understood that the liberal party of Massachusetts is the democratic party. That if the P. L, L.’s—or whatever they may be called—do not come to them with heart and hand they must go to the P. L. L.'s with open arms, and make no fastidious grimaces about the embrace either. Further- more, they should hesitate to make a nomina- tion for Governor until they see who is the favorite of the anti-prohibitive party—that is, if they mean to eschew for this time their hereditary creed of never attempting to win— and for the first time in the history of the party in the State they should endeavor to ac- commodate themselves to circumstances; to tealize that this is an age of progress; to com- prehend that since they held power in the State or nation a big war has been gone through with; that the Old and the New Worlds have been connected by cables, stretch- ing from both British and French shores to our own, and one of them landing upon the shores of. Massachusetts herself; that a railroad to the Pacific has been con- structed; that the nigger question has “gone where the good niggers go,” and that another question, several shades lighter and not carrying with it the darkly-tinted prejudices of the old one which wrought so much mischief to the country, has arisen—namely, the Chinese or coolie question—composed of material out of which a good many true democratic voters can be manufactured in the foture, if it be managed rightly. The Massachusetts demo- crats should remember these things, and understand from the beginning that if the P. L. L.'s do not want John Quincy Adams, who {is at present the most prominent candidate for the democratic nomination—for Governor, the blood of ten thousand Adamses will never elect him. Therefore it will be well for the Mas- sachusetts democracy, if they mean to attempt success, to ponder carefully the situa- tion, to make liberal concessions, to subdue early prejudices, govern their passions, and, if necessary, throw. the dead wood of tho I party overboard, If they do not, and the P, L. L.'s nominate a separate ticket, the elec- tion will assuredly result in another radical triumph and throw liberalism and toleration in Massachusetts further in the background than ever. Will the Massachusetts democrats “go in to win,” or will they not? That is the question. The New Dominion—Prince Arthur. The New Dominion has got a fresh sensation to stir the upper crust of society, Prince Ar- thur, third son of Queen Victoria, and a young man of whom fame, in spite of her proverbial malignity, has the courage to say a good word, set foot yesterday, for the first time, on our American shores. The regular and volunteer forces and the varfous civic societies in Hali- fax are preparing to give him a right royal welcome, and to-day’s festivities will close with fireworks and a general illumination throughout the city. A ball and picnic in honor of his Royal Highness will crown the week's jubilee, and all outside at least will go ‘merry as a marriage bell,” whatever cause for dissatisfaction may lurk within, As son of the reigning sovereign—a lady to whose vir- tues all pay honor—he will pass from city to city of the New Dominion, admired and féted and welcomed wherever he goes, but amid all his journeyings and pleasure excursions keeping aloof, says our telegraphic despatch, from the United States, Now why is this? Are our habits, feelings, mode of thinking and expressing ourselves, too republican for this scion of royalty, at the raw age of nineteen, to be placed with safety within reach of their influence? Or does he himself, or do his advisers, imagine that we should not welcome him as warmly as we did his brother in 1860? Far from it. Our quar- rel, such as it is, is not with the British crown, but with the British aristocracy, who leagued themselves against us during our civil war. At that time—and we remember it ta their credit—his royal mother and Prince Albert were almost the only friends we conld count upon in the British government; and were it ouly for their sake we should give him an en- thusiastic welcome. But perhaps the object of his visit to the New Dominion is, in reality, to spy out the land and judge -for himself whether the inhabitants, notwithstanding their republican neighborhood, desire a king to reign over them. In that case, though we are too good republicans to wish, him success, yet if nothing but this bauble “of @ crown will satisfy our New Dominion friends, we know of no one more worthy to wear it than this young man, whose connections and gatecedents are in every way so honorable, Postal Money Qiders to sSwitzorland. We have alroady announced that a new and convenient postal system of money orders between this country and Switzerland had been ‘Rgreed upon. The Postmaster General (Mr. Creswell) bas issued official instructions to postmasters ali over the country, by which it appears that the general rules require that the exchange of postal orders between the two countries is to be effected through the agency of two post offices termed ‘International Exchange Offices.” The International Ex- change Office on tho part of the United States is New York and that on the part of Switzerland is Basle. Certain money order post offices in this country, desig- nated for the purpose by the Postmaster General, are authorized to issue money orders on the Postmaster at New York, payable to beneficiaries in Switzerland, and to pay orders issued by that Postmaster, for sums remitted by the Post Department of Switzerland, for payment to beneficiaries in the United States, Hence an international money order cannot be drawn by a postmaster in either country directly upon a postmaster in the other, but must be drawn upon the International Ex- change Office of the country in which the order is issued. An international postal order must not be drawn for a larger sum than fifty doliars in United States currency, and must not contain a fractional part of acent. The fees for the issue of international postal orders are the same as for domestic money orders, viz.:—On orders not exceeding twenty dol- lars, ten cents; over twenty dollars and not exceeding thirty dollars, fifteen cents; over thiriy dollars aad not exceeding forty dollars, twenty cents; over forty dollars and not exceeding fifiy dollars, twenty-five cents, No other currency than United States or national bank notes can be received or paid. The convenience of this arrangement will be seen at once. The idea of an International Exchange Office is something new ; but it may simplify and facilitate the business. Tho Religious Aspect. Camp meetings, with all the attendant out- door and open-air religious exercises to which such assemblages afford occasion and vent, have been in very decided favor with the church-going members of the community during the past week. We are not at all sur- prised at it. Fervency in prayer could scarcely be endured at the same time with the unusual heat of the weather inside the walls of a hea- vily draped, deeply cushioned and sombre win- dowed church; so the congregations were, to @ very great extent, compelled to return to the primitive custom, and worship God under the great canopy of heaven and with the surroundings of nature in their finest luxuriance and grandeur on all sides about them. The Sabbath services of the Methodists in camp meeting at Sing Sing were vastly con- soling, opening with the solemnization of the “dove feast” and embracing a sermon by Bishop Janes. The colored brethren were in camp meeting at Far Rockaway with great éclat, and, apparently, a vast amount of con- solation. In Christ Church, Brooklyn, an Episcopal clergyman treated on ‘Sin a Disease,” but was rather indefinite, not only as to the means of particular diagnosis, but any feasible plan of cure, leaving the case gener- ally to the Great Physician of Souls towards the close. Vicar General Starrs was eloquent and forcible, as usual, in St. Patrick’s Cathe- dral, New York. Tae Evrorgan JouRNAIS ON THE CUBAN Question.—Almost all the leading English journals have openly expressed the opinion that Cuba is praciically lost to Spain, Simi- lar opinions have already been expressed in France. La France, » government organ, has just put the case well when it says ‘Cubs is lost to Spain, The wisest thing, therefore, Spain can do is to take advantage of the present situation.” Spain should take the hint, Mr. Belmont, Tammany Hall and the Domecracy. The sachems of Tammany Hall have un- questionably resolved upon the removal of Mr. August Belmont as‘chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee and the ap- pointment of Mr. W. M. Tweed in his place. The proceedings of the Seventh Ward Tweed De- mocratic Association the other evening may be considered equivalent to an edict from Tam- many itself, Mr. Tweed being the first “big Indian” of the concern, The charges brought forward against Mr. Belmont are very grave. They represent him, the managing head of the national democracy, as inefficient, undevoted, indifferent, unacceptable and unpopular; and that his want of capacity, &., was the main cause of the defeat of McClellan and the de- feat of Seymour; that Mr. Belmont must re- tire, and that Mr. Tweed is the very man to take his place, We presume that Mr. Belmont will cheer- fully avail himself of the opportunity to retire, and will be glad to get his thankless office off his hands, Since the time of Buchanan, we believe, he has been President-of the National Democratic Executive Committee. His term of office has been a period of dreadful defeats and disasters to the national democracy, for which, by this aforesaid Seventh Ward Asso- ciation, he is absurdly held responsible. The charge that he is ‘‘indifferent as to re- sults,” and that this indifference was one of the causes of the defeat of MoClellan and the de- feat of Seymour is particularly preposterous. In behalf of General McClellan, as the demo- cratic standard bearer in 1864, Mr. Belmont was very liberal. If we are not mistaken, it was out of his pocket that the bulk of the democratic money came which bought that fine house presented to General McClellan ; while at the Chicago McClellan Convention, in giving dignity and prestige to the occasion, Mr. Belmont’s coach and six, and his unstiated contributions to meet all sorts of expenditures, were especially admired bythe ‘‘plain men” of the West (that is, the men of the plains), and by all the newspaper reporters. From all these and numerous other outlays in that cam- paign Mr. Belmont derived no dividend; the whole speculation collapsed, and therefore, if his cash iavestments in the Seymour campaiga were not so generous, the difference must be cbarged to Mr. Belmont’s financial training under the Rothschilds, and the fixed law of Wall street, to wit: never to be taken in and done for twice by the same game. Thus it will be seen that as the head of the democratic management Mr. Belmont has not been indif- ferent to results, but has weighed them and acted upon them like a sensible, practical business man. However, as Tammany has hinted that he must go, we conclude that he will go, in order that a new man may take his place as head of the national party-managing committee. But how is the change to be made? Mr. Belmont, we suppose, will have to call the committee together—one member from each State—state his case before the meeting and submit his resignation, and then call upon the committee to fill the vacancy. Should he adopt this course it isto be hoped that he will seize the occasion for proposing to the committee some action in reference to the present separation of the Southern from the Northern democracy on negro suffrage and democratic principles gen- erally, The national party machine, by this Southern departure, is reduced to the condi- tion of a cart with one wheel, and needs fixing up, especially on the nigger question. This is a matter in which we are all interested. As for the successor to Mr. Belmont in the Na- tional Committee, that is a secondary ques- tion, and in the election the West and South will probably overrule Tammany Hall in seeing that justice is done to Brick Pomeroy, who was the first man to break ground in the late campaign against Belmont and the Man- hattan Champagne Club. We are all waiting to hear from Mr. Belmont. GeneraL Grant—ToE Pivarm’s Pro- a@ress.—General Grant had a splendid muni- cipal reception at Newport on Saturday last, and is so well pleased with the ‘‘big bugs,” the belles and beauties of that famous seaside resort that he has made his arrange- ments to remain there till Wednesday, when he is to leave by special train ‘‘direct for the White Mountains,” stopping officially en route only at Concord, N. H., in deference to an invitation from the republican State authori- ties. Ex-President Pierce, we are sorry to learn, is at Cape May, and will not be home for some days to come; otherwise a meeting in Concord between him and General Grant might be looked for with great interest. Tue Horrest Day.—The hottest day on record in many places on the Atlantic side of the United States was Saturday last, the 21st of August. Not in New York, where the highest degree of the heat was only ninety- five, but in some other places, Philadelphia, for instance, where the mercury in the shade for a time marked 104, and Washington, where it rose to 105. Such great heats, extending over a wide section, produce great changes, and so it is probable that from the heated term of Thursday, Friday and Saturday last the backbone of the summer is broken, NOTES ABOUT TOWN. Fruit of all kinds is so plenty in New York just now that venders are quite willing to dispose of Peaches, pears and apples at the small advance on their purchases of 200 per cent. Liberal, are they not? Can anybody tell the world how tt is that butter is so high at this season? It is “hard to get at fifty per pound. It should certainly be “soft” at figures many degrees lower. Dealers all over the country seem to be “freezing to it” at that price. ‘The reservoirs are not so high in their water marks as they were in May and June, or even in July, People should economize in Croton. If they don’t they may be reduced to the necessity of drinking lemonade with the inevitable ‘stick’ in tt, Patent lager 1s not good to assuage thirst witn when the mercury is in the nineties. It is certain to make you, if you take too much of it, slightly obfusticated. They are resurveying the ground for that East river bridge which 1s positively to connect New York and Brooklyn, when it is constructed, They are putting down asphaltum walks in Green- wood Cemetery. The directors have had sense enough left not to permit it where there is a possl- bility of wheels passing over the sticky stuf, There is some talk of removing St. Paul's charch and the bodies interred in the yard adjoining, and putting thereon a piace for the lawyers and money changers, Don’t! 1s tt falr dealing on the part of the contractors for the now Post Ofice building to take in the walks on Se Broadway and Park row? The people pine for them. If the City Fathers choose to place themselves 08 the “fence” about the present site thetr constitu- ents can’t see why they should be punished there- for. Now that Worth street has been cut through, and in a few weeks is to be a thoroughfare from West Broadway to Chatham square, property holders ought to move for the immediate extension of Leonard street. This would be even a greater im- provement than Worth street promises to be, The dome of the new Court House will, it is thought, be put up this autumn. That dome will cover an enormous “ring.” Before they get the rocks out of Hell Gate there will have to be considerable damming and blasting done. The draw of the Harlem bridge 1s 8 meonanical triumph. It “swings around the circle” in almost next tonotime. It 1s done by hy-draw-lica, That slow-moving body the Board of Health taked to itself credit because the mortuary lists for the season are so light. Its organ of self-esteem has recently been greatly enlarged by the application of @ number of moral brickbats which have beed hurled at them by the newspapers, MOVEMENTS OF PRESIDENT GRANT. Reception by the Municipal Authorities Newport, R. I—The Arrangements Decorations—Speech of the President—Gevs eruor Morgan’s Reception. Newrorr, R. I, August 21, 1860, To-day the President exchanged courtesies with the municipal government of the city of Newport, When it became known that the President was will. ing to accept these clvilities and at the same timé pass an hour in receiving the populace, the proper arrangements were inaugurated to have the eure - roundings possess a dignity and character equal the occasion. The State House was selected 4g the most fitting place for the ceremonies. Willam D, Lake, high sheriff, was entrusted with the superiny tendence of the arrangements, and Messrs. and Eastman in charge of decorations, The o1 of the State House was profusely decorated flags, and over the entrance were the words, “We! come to Our Beloyod President, Welcome !'! ’ The ithe terior of the lower hall was dressed in numerot fags, most tastefully disposed. Ovor the seat tis tended for the President was a canopy of flags, ex tending between two pillars back to the rear walls In the background of the canopy was a fine copy of Stuart's “Washington,” and suspended upon the pily lars respectively fino steel engravings of Lincoln and Grant, forming an arch, beneath which canopy were inscribed the words, “Fiat Justitia Ruat Calum.’ In the midst of the numerous national colors, f¢ tooned and arrayed in every variety of design, wel @ number of American shields, with the names of the following battles inscribed upon them:—‘For Henry,” ‘Fort Donelson,” “Pittsbprg Landing," “Corinth,” “Port Gibson,” “Vicksburg,” “Ohattas nooga,” “The Wilderness,” “Richmond,” “Lee's Surrender.” And over the central piliara shields, with the names “Washington” and “Grant upom them. The following mottoes were posted in appro+ “4 mediately upoa oir a ime Pon pantie Donelson," “7 shall fight 1¢ Um on this ie it it takes all sums ‘At oleven o'clock as mora ment held a meni pais sisren, ck, setae Atkinson, Alderman W. 0. Tot fh onder 10 eacort Morgen oa ato Bias House, Carriages were in waiting. Immediately the mer,” “Let us hav yi the olty A to final arrangements. ‘The Ce hal, J. T. Busmend, LA omnas ry 3 Counclimen ‘Thomas Coggeshal, Presale ce accompanied by ex-United States Senator woreee and General Horace » private secre- Charles H. Russell and pro- ceeded to the State House—the eavias down Thames, the matn business ‘ay largo crowds of eitizens had gathered and ‘Ghoered 1 lent and comm! the tate House at twelve o'clock, and were ushered up staira into the of the Here dard, George A. Sim: Debvrots Bad G. Wea uum = Carr, Ja James L. Khia J. Bush, ma, as Coggesh: of the Council, Joun Ames, John Green, Thi Lae ham, er 8. Cranston, Jr., and Arnold Among the distinguished i present, ‘a addition to Senator Morgan and General Lead Lieutenant Governor Stevens, of Rhode Islan Mayor Ban oe New Bedford. Mr. Pierce 4 the President this morning and tendered the hoapite alities of New Bedford. The President, however, was compelled to decline. Alriving in the Hall of the Representatives, “rent Atkinson, having called the City Council to order, in- troduced the President in a few words as follows:-« Amy or tae cerge Comm L—I have the honor of woing to you d visitor to Pan es dont ae ilateretne ay genera eat of (Bs Us who visite he guest of the Hon. Edwin D, Morgan, ox. ae of New York—which latter gentleman has consent the Freaidens to your ‘special protection for a ver time, may enjo aly ‘opportunity thus afforded you of weleom ay ai ipa ually and, with as little formality as possible, in accordance his’ expressed wishes, And now, If there is no dance wh Wwe will have &. recess for purpose, previous to occupylug the floor below for a similar object, ‘The members of the City Council now advanced and were introduced. The ceremony being finish the President and city government moved dow! stairs and took a position under the canopy in the lower hall. Tne crowd was now allowed to enter, ‘the Mayor then delivered the following address:— , YOUR EXCRLURNCY—In behalf of the authorities eh the people 1a our anclent and pleasant jaland na sey by th T welgome you, most cordially wal noeptatt iy citizens and the invigorating lr of ite ‘Fu have visited Newport, aif, at an auspicious pines ld’ it In ita summer loveliness, & rlehiy nature and so elegantly by art. arevious to. ihe “Wevolation “of 76" (ax Blatter of history this, of course, 1s well known to you, sir, Newport was the prilictpal emporium of commerce, mi factures and fine the merchants of New York, Ja and Horton froquenty visited our olty for the ‘Subsequently, y dence, which, however, bas since been made pul and ‘parti to tho letter’ you wrote to's valued f and Faithtul public officer city of Detroit, is Anewer to one of encou " him on the of them le ‘of Vicksburg, in which you said that you bad “taken a heavy oon but were. Reet se ceeeeg CU Sete the results of the more stuper gontract which you hy the salnbrny of oar ol renew tt arge of y sPduous offesal ou return th renew ihe dachergs of out improv Rgain extending to you the hospitallties of ahenrty wele con sextaneyf an flonsed eased to "have the honor of precast fog you to our people ¥ no \ssembled here to-day to pay thEs? respects tb you as the President of the United States. ‘The President replied:— ‘MR. MAYOR AND CirizENs or Newrort—I can only say your kind remarks that it atfords me great gure to be in your [+ pe at this time. Jt is a pleasui ng desired, but otuer duites interfering, thie is the gpportunity I have had of doing so. T shall be here but & dare, during which I hope to see ‘most of your peoy ve with aa favorable impressions as I have Hooelred ing in After the President had finished the crowd ad. Mate shaking hands and passing out at the door pposite. This ceremony lasted one hour, when hy President, Senator porneD, General Porter and committee returned to the residence of Senator organ. At three o'clock this afternoon a reception held at the house of Senator Morgan, lasting ‘une t six o'clock, Large numbers of persons called not fas the rain Which came on about the same “tne United States steamer Tallapoosa arrived {1 this bay this morning at #ix o’clock, having on boat the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Robeson, Ger Sherman, Admiral Porter and other distingutah gentlemen. This morning the garrison at Fort Ad- ams Was reviewed. The Tallapoosa will remain here several days, probably during the presence of the President, which will extend to Wednesday next, A Quiet Sabbath at Newport—Futuro Moyee of the President, Newport, R. L., August 22, 1900, The President and Mrs, Grant, in company with. Senator and Mra. E, D, Morgan, attended tne Con gregational church in this place this morning. Rey, Dr. Thayer, the clergyman, took as his text the twen- tieth chapter of John, twenty-fifth verse, giving brief view of the lessons taught in the pg of Christ aad the necessity of faith in the ‘The remainder of the day was passed in quiet, a friends cay being received. Last ni aut the Frosident, Secretary Robeson snd Senator Morgan were present at the hop at the Ocean House, remaining about cm we The President 4M raid visit Washington this but wil! leave the Whi eae yak b3 Monday ot nit just 30, for Washington, A to Rola inmedtacery the aeivae ren the ~ Ls Washington, and some im; ted ts oon up. The Prontaent wil oases feta Was on Nite es and ee rejoin his or Saratoga,