The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1869, Page 4

— NEW YORK HERALD ann . BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —— Volume XXXIV.. a = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Don C2sau DE Bazan—CUaTonine a Gov: a. ; Fifth.avenue and Tweuty- FIFTH AVENUE THEAT! fourth street.—PLAY. NY, Fourteenth strest.Ta® QUEEN OF anton e OLD WoAN TuaT LivED iN 4 SHOR, NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—ARRAM NA POGUR; OB, EE WIOKLOW WEDDING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bower OasTovonE. - GRAND OPERA M0US#, corner of Eighth avenue and gba Manco, THE MUTE street. —THE SEA OF 10K, WAVERLEY THEATRE, No, 720 Broadway.—A GRAND Vanity ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—ftcconr Diogort Dock, sis BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28dat., between Sth and 6th avs.— Bre Van WINKLE WALLACK'S THRATRE. Broatway and Ith street. Viorims--Ta® Proria’s LawyEe, AND THEATRE. Thirtieth street and a and evening Performance, WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway.—afteraocy: OENTRA! K GARDEN, 7th ay., between 68th and eee opucan GanDEs COMOERE.’ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couto VOOALIGM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &¢, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouet’s oreo Tas Lawrews OLimey 20.2 NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. BOIRNOK AND ABT. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 030 B FEMALES ONLY LN ATTENDANOR. == New York, Thursday, August 26, 1869. = Europe. ‘The cable despatches are dated August 25, The London Times, commenting on the crops in England, anticipates a year of plenty. The samo journal thinks that Spain is sanguine of the preser- vation of Cuba and that the American government does not desire its immediate annexation. Tue Harvard crew are reported to be showlng signs of overtraining, and opinions respecting the issue of the race vary considerably, Both crews are in- vited to 8 banquet on Monday. A new ocean tele- graph is projected, from Ireland to America. Tue Emperor of the French is improving in health, A fearful colliery explosion has occurred near St} Etienne. The modifications of the Senatue Consuly tum have been reported to the Senate, Affairs in Spain remain unchanged, and more Car- at risings are reported. All differences are arranged between the Suttan and the Viceroy of Egypt, and the latter is expected shortly to vistt Constantinople, China, A despatch from Hong Kong by way of London, purporting to be on tie authority of Minister Browne, says that the amperial government has re- Jeoted the treaty made between Mr. Burlingame and hia Chinese Embassy aud the United States. As Minister Brown bas been in San Franolsco for some time, and as we have not heard of his making any statement personally to this effect, the despatch coming as it does, appears to us to be hardly worthy of credence. Cuba. Sefor Lemus, the Cuban agent, ts patiently wait- ing the result of the propositions submitted by Min- Aster Sickles to Spain ior the purchase of Cuba. The Cespedes government has assented to the proposl- Sion, and, in case it is rejected, propose to render Cube utterly uninhabitable rather than submit to Spanish dominion. Sixteen hundred insurgents are reported to have returned to Spanish allegiance near Holguin and in the Cinco Villas district. The Spanisi Bank has ‘again tendered a douation for the support of the Volunteers. Valmaseda is belng reipforcea and » decisive battle with General Jordau ts expected daily. General Kyan is in Canada, where he was recently joined by two offlcers direct from Cuba, Miscellaneous, The President arrived in Concord, N. H., yeater- day, where he ts the guest of GovernorgStearns. He will go to the White Mountatas to-day, aud will pro- bgbly remain for several days. ince Arthur visited the British and French men- of-warin Halifax harbor yesterdaygand the forts about the neighborhood. Rear Admiral Poor ts to take command of our Gulf squadron. The Tallapoosa, with General Sherman, Admiral Porter and Secretary Robeson on board, is at Boston. ‘The school ship Sabine, with the naval graduates of last June on board, was at Cherbourg recently. She will return home next summer. Father McMahon is keeping himself quite secluded at Bishop Ryan’s house, in Buffalo, declining all pubiic demonstrations, He will retarn to his home 4m the West soon and prepare his case against the Canadian government for false imprisonment, He i suffering from paralysis and lupg disease, Reporte received at the Bureau of Agriculture in- dickte a general decline in the corn crop for the pre- aont year as compared with that of 1868. ‘The demand for fractional currency at the Treasury f# so great that no less than the ts9u9 Of $200,000 o day for one year will satisfy it. ~ About 160 Indians attacked Dougherty's govern- ment surveying party on the south aide of the Platte, below aikall station, 6n Sunday morning, @nd succeeded in capturing the entire outfit, Tue Maen reached North Platte on Tuesday morning. Aman named Griffin was sliot and killed on tho ‘Weldon Rattroad in North Carolina recently by a party of armed negroes who were sent to serve a warrant on him, but who shot him on sight without ‘waiting to serve the warrant, Mrs. Ames, of Mound, Ogle cofnty, Ill., potsoned herself and little daughter fatally on Sunday be- cause of come trouble between hersélf ana husband, Bolineaux, @ French gambler, bas written to the President requesting license to Open 6 gambling sa- Joon tn New York on the Baden Baden plan, paying & portion of the profits into the Vréagury and being wander the surveillance of tue police. The City. The case of Percy B. Spear, the Custom House weigher, accused of defrauding the government by means of false pey roils, Was yp before Commis. sionet Osborn yesterday and whe evidence was con- cluded. > “mn the Supreme Court yestérday ex-Governor Lowe was sppointed referee to take testimony in the Remsoy contempt case, ‘The Superior Court yesterday granted a new in- function against Thomas J, Barr and others, the @ustodians of the Fenian Fund, 1p the Court Of Common Pleas Judge Daly yester- day issued ah Order dissolving ail injunctions ast the South Pacifico Ratiroad Comp any. 6 Eighth Annhal Coudcll ofthe Fenian Broth. erhood met at Masonic Hall yesterday and organ- ized, Mr. Savage's annual report will probably be Tead to-day, ‘Twelve bulldings were destroyea by fire in Baitt- Mhore yesterday, and thirteen others were damaged, NEW YORK Gold rose to 138%, closing Oually at 1835. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Isham G, sarris, of Tennessee; A. O. Lord, of Cincinnati; Colonel S. 8. Ellsworth, of Penn Yan, and General J. B. Gray, of Si, Louis, are at the ‘St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Fendail and F. Hare, of the Fifty-third, and Major Scott and Captain Fox, of the Sixty-ninth regiment, British Army, Quebec, are at the Clarendon Hotel. General Z, B. Tower, of New York, and ©. 0. Chaffee, of Springfield, are at the Albermarie Hotel. F. D. Grant, of West Potnt; Colonel J. H. Keogh, of the United States Army, and Senator M. H. Car- peuter, of Wisconsin, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Mighty Agency of the Telegraph— The Duty of the Governmont With Regard te It, Surprising and important as the develop- ments and influence of the magnetic telegraph have been, we have seen only the infancy—the first signs of the power—of thia mighty agent of modern science and civilization. We under- stand there is a new and remarkable invention, an automatic system of self-telegraphing power, which will multiply eight or ten times the facilities of telegraphic communication over the present system. From the information we have received and from what we have seen there is reason to belleve this'is one of the most astonishing inventions of the age and destined to produce a great revolution in the commerce, financial affairs, intercourse and social condition of the world. We learn, also, that the government will be asked to test this invention and to take control of and use it for the public good. Congress, we hope, will not hesitate to investigate the matter and to make the necessary appropriation, first, to try the new system between Washington and New York, and then, if successful, to gbtain the patent and give the whole country the benefit of it under government control. Congress never did a better thing than when it appro- priated thirty thousand dollars for putting up and testing the first magnetio telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore. What wonderful results have followed! Yet the opposition was so great that it took five years— that is, from 1838, when the Committee on Commerce first reported the bill, till 1843, whon it was finally passed and signed by the President—to get this insignificant sum for trying the greatest invention then of the age. Let us hope our present Congress will prove itself more enlightened. It should pass at once on reassembling Mr. Washburne’s bill appropriating sixty thousand dollars for an experimental postal telegraph line between New York and Washington, with an addition of any other sum, if necessary, to test on such line the new automatic system. It is known that the object of Mr. Wash- burne and those who act with him in propos- fng an experimental postal telegraph line is, if that should prove snecessful, to place the whole telegraph system of the country under government control. This is the secret of the determined and powerful hostility of the exist- ing telegraph monopoly to his measure, It would not only be the entering wedge that must break up this monopoly, but would show, probably, that in case of @ proposition to pur- chase existing lines the government could con- struct better ones for eight or ten millions of dollars less than the present companies would demand for their property. It is a curious fact that when this invention of the magnetic telegraph was first brought before Congress in the way mentioned the idea was to connect its operations with the postal system. The in- ventor, as he said in a speech at the banquet given to him a short time since in this city, was the first to propose that. The Secretary of the Treasury at that time, Judge Woodbury, urged this upon Congress and the report of the House Committee on Commerce was very em- phatic, It strongly recommended the govern- ment to take possession of the invention. Some of the statesmen of that day seemed to have a prophetic knowledge of what the tele- graph would become. But how puch more applicable are their arguments to the present time and state of things than to the period when this invention was first used! Every argument that can be made In favor of the postal service being in the hands of govern- ment applies to the telegraph. Ang who will say, except a few crazy theorlsts, that the postal system should be under private corpora- tions or individuals? All governments take charge of letter communications between their own people and with foreign countries, Why not of telegraphic communications? This latter mode of communication has become as importsnt and pinoct og anlernal ) the for- mer, and with the improvements We have adverted to or that must shortly be made it will supersede to a great extent the business of the Post Office. But there fs another and very {mportant view to be taken of the use and power of the telegraph and the necessity of ite beng under government control. It must become the great regulator of commerce, of financial ope- rations and of exchange. Few will take the trouble to write letters and wait the slow pro- cose of the mails when tho facilities of tele- graphing are increased eight or ten fold. The time is at hand whon almost all communica- tion will be by telegraph, Financial opera- tions will be revolutionized, The old system of exchange and the profits thereon will be abol- ished. People will communicate directly and freely with each othet from one part of the country, or of the world, to another, The capital of commercial men will be more than doubled in use; for instead of waiting for the mails they cay learn instantly of the accept- ance of bills or the payment and receipt of money, and can go to work with new opera- tions, Indeed, far less money or currency will be needed. Tho financial operations and condition of the banks of New York, as exhibited daily by the Clearing House, where @ hundred millions or so of transactions aro The loss cannot be ascertained yet, but it is said to We been the most destructive fre that has visited jaltimore for ten years. The Board of Health had another stormy meeting yesterday, and in secret session voted to dismiss a gon of Mr. Lincoln, the president of the board, from office. The North German Lloyd's steamship Main, Cap- | tain Oterendorp, will jeave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and bremen. The mails ‘will close at the Post OMice at tweive M. The steamship Engle, Captain Greene, will gall from pier No, 4 North river at three P. M, to-day for Havana. ‘The steamer Fah Kee, Captain Steele, will icave piers North river at toree P, M, to-day for Bermuda, , The stock market yesterday was steady and Luoy- represented or adjusted by a small balance of | one or two millions, will show what an effect | the telegraph may have in extending such a | system to the whole country, The question | arises here—and it is one which especially | concerns New York, which is destined to absorb the financial business of this Continent or of the world—is the power over all these | mighty interests and operations to be left in | the hands of a few Individuals or telegraph companies? Shall all the communications i ' t : machinery of government, No, the time has come when the telegraph should no longer be in the hands of private companies or individuals, The British gov- ernment has had the sagacity to see this, has purchased the lines in England, and on the 1st of January next will take entire control, in connection with the Post Office Department, of alltelegraphic communications, The great nations have moved slowly in this matter, and have followed what the lesser ones—such as Belgium and Switzerland—have done before. All will have to come to itin time, There is no other way of preserving the secrecy of communications inviolable, of preventing mo- nopolies from using the telegraph to the injury of the public, and of cheapening the transmis- sion of messages. The charges for telegraph- ing now are enormous and out of all propor- Without entering into the question of the necessity of bathing and washing the multi- tude, free of cost, in a great oity like ours, we may state that the Legislature has legalized the principle of plentifal washing, and that the Common Council has appropriated fifty thousand dollars for the construction of two free bathing houses, one on the East and another on the North river side of the metropolis, It appears that noth- ing has been done in the matter up to this time, Neither the Street Commissioner nor the Mayor has had leisure to devote to the subject all summer, Tho Mayor says that os far as he knows no sites have been selected, nor have any plans been prepared for these public free baths. But he thinks that some- thing will certainly be done by next summer. Meantime the mass of the people who cannot tion to the capital actually invested in the,| afford bathrooms in their domiciles must lines. Under government control and in con- nection with the postal service they could be reduced to a fifth the present rate. In every either go unwashed or brave the vigilance of the police if they should be tempted to take a surreptitious bath at or near any of our piers. point of view, then, for the wolfare of the | It is a suggestive fact that in one police pre- public and interest of the government, Congress | cinct last summer the captain had to report should at once establish the experimental line | thirteen hundred arrests of poor people, we have spoken ofand prepare the way for | men contrelling the whole telegraph system of the country. Condition of the Crope—Harvest Prospects at Home and Abroad, The government in Washington is in daily Health receipt of written returns relative to the all- important matter of the probable yield of the coming home harvest in the supply ‘of our two great national staples, corn and cotton, The official deduction, as at present inferred—but which may be materially altered. by the in- fluence of six or seyen days of unvaried warm, Mpening fall weather, coming after timely rains—is te the effect thes the corn crop will be generally short, in decline of the supply as compared with that of the past year. Four- teen States—three Eastern, four Western and seven in the South and Southwest—exhibit the crop as equal to, or superior to, that of 1868 at this date, while it is anticipated that the produce of the grain fields of Illinois and Indiana will range from twenty-five to thirty per cent less. Inthe two last named States the average expanse of acreage under cereals has decreased, a fact which should be borne in mind. In the West and S ovthwest the crop will, it is thought, be below. New York, with the New England States, are also set down as promising a deficiency, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas will, it is thought, go far to reduce the food balance as against the people, a corn crop largely in excess of that of 1868 being looked for in each. The prospect with regard to cotton is more cheering, the condition in all the States in which it is grown having improved since July. The cultivation has been also much more extenslye, South Carolina and Ala- bama make the poorest returns, which may perhaps be accounted for by many existing local causes, On the whole the appearance leads to the hope of a crop larger than that of last year. These facts with respect and boys, who endeavored to clean themselves—contrary to law—by a dip in the river, And yet there was not thon, nor is there now, any place where they can take a legal wash after their bard day’s labor in factories and workshops, The Board of insists, and very properly, that the domiciles of the poor, which are mainly located in tenement houses, shall be kept clean and pare; but how oan this be done in the heated summer season if the occupants have no facilities for keeping thelr own persons olean? It is evident, then, that this city, like almost every other all aver the world, must provide free bathing places for its population, They are more needed here than in Albany, Phila- delphia or Boston, where the system of free baths has been found to work with astonish- ing benefit, not only to public health, but to public morals, because as cleanliness is next to godliness, so are the lowest and most debasing vices always found to be the part- ners of filth and uncleanliness, There is no city on the Continent which affords more faoili- ties for public baths than New York; hence it is a disgraceful neglect that we are left so long without them, especially as provision has been made for their construction both by the Legislature and the Common Council. As to the proper location for these baths we should suppose there can be very litile diffi- culty, Of course they should be erected in the vicinity of the most crowded parts of the city, where they are most needed. In the thinly populated wards up town they are not a necessity, because the masses of working people who require them reside in the crowded lower wards, The fit place for the bath on the East river, for instance, would be somewhere within reach of the inhabitants of the Fourth, Seventh, Sixth and Tenth wards, the two first of which front on the river and the other two having both to corn and cotton are very consoling as evidences of the vast inherent wealth of our soil and the grand recuperative energy of our people—-national blessings which, under God's providence, will ever maintain our Independ- ence at home and cause the peoples and gov- ernments of the Old World to look. to us with confidence and hope and in a wholesome tone of respect. The subject is really vital in Europe. Our cable despatches state that the grain crops in Great Britain are in the most favorable condition The late dry and warm weather has hastened the ripening of the corn, and on the. predica- tion of an early and abundant harvest, much of which is already gathered, the: advance in prices had been arrested, An attempt fs made in the same despatches to create the idea that the grain crop on the Continent of Europe direct access to ft through Roosevelt, James, Catharine, Market, Pike, Rutgers, Jefferson, Clinton and Montgomery streets, The bath onthe. North river might be located some- where within the precincts of the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth wards, These are the most popu- lous parts of the. city. and are inhabited by just the class of people who most need the luxury of a bath and of whom just now that comfort and necessity is entirely out of reach. The) river line on either side of this crowded portion of the city is not so very long that some point on any of the many wharves and piers could not be easily decided upon. We see no reason, therefore, why there should be any difficulty on the part of the authorities as to the locations for the free baths, If thoy desire to accommodate the public in this re- aspect there is no obstruction in the way. generally, with the exception of the interior | qy¢ wate Executions at MemphiemA Savage of Russia, promises to be light. This canard is circulated, of course, In the intereat of the speculators, who want to ralse the price of grain. We can say that all our newspaper reports from Europe contain the direct reverse Spectacle. Wethink the hanging of murderers a good thing as a wholesome check upon living vil- Jains that way Inclined. Public executions, however, from Newgate to California, are of this statement. Goop Apyick to tHe DgmMooraoy—That of the democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams, urging them to abandon dead issues and old battle fields, where they have been beaten from Je- rusalom to Jericho, and to fight upon the living questions of the day; that the money question is the great question of the whole country, and the liqior qfiéstion, and equal rights on this great question, are the maja issue in Massa- chusetts, Tim InpiaN HarnonDBrow Ovr.—There fs a pleasant spot called Indian Harbor, situated near Greenwich, Conn,, where the big and little Indians of Tammany are accustomed to sojourn during the idle times of summer, when there are no elections on the ‘apis, and they locate themselves in the ‘Americus Club” mansion, where they ‘‘rejoice greatly” in the coraforts and luxuries of the season. The New York pilots made a cruise in that vicinity day before yesterday, and were, of course, hospita- bly end merrily entertained by the Americus boys. hospitable and merry who enjoy all the loaves and fishes of the city government, Law TrrompHanr ix Texas.—There has been a legal execution in Texas, and » double one at that. Thore was no bungling about the matter cither, and although some five thousand spectators were present no disturb. ance occurred, At the request of one of the culprits the Sheriff so adjusted his Inst cravat as to allow him to pass into eternity with com- parative ease and comfort, How different this when compared with the horrible tortures that 60 frequently attend Northern executions! It shows that the State of Texas, abused and villified as she has been for her ontlawry and homicides, has at least one Christian-like vir- tue remaining. Her officers know how to | hang a man in the most elvilized and humane fashion. Wuen John Quincy Adams was introduced to the Massachusetts Democratic Convention as their candidate for Governor ho was styled the “richest jewel in the State.” If the re- publicans nominate as his opponent Harvey hich regulate the commerce, trade and social interconrse of the whole country be left under he control of a few monopolisis? We might Jewell—and that is the talk just now—the | people will have no difficulty in decidiag which | in tho richest jewel of the two, Why not? They can afford to be | demoralizing shows and public nuisances, From the account which we published yea- terday of the publio hanging of two men for murder at Memphis, Tenn.—a white and @ black fellow—the jeering crowd assembled to enjoy the sensation, whites and blacks, and their sayings and doings on the exciting occa- sion made up a savage and shocking spectacle, We are told by our eye witness that it was a | shameful sight to see so many women in the | crowd, with curiogjty so unbounded to see the modus operand) of e neck sietghing ; thet if the men elbowed the womeh thé tomen | shouldered the men for a good view, and jeered and joked for the best places; that two respectably dressed women, after the hanging of the first man, went up to the scaffold to see how the trap was fixed, and what threw the support from under the platform, &c. ; that a more God-forsaken, heartless rabble was, per- haps, never congregated together; that when the trap fell this delighted tabble set up a pro- longed cheering, that the handful of armed policemen present were run over and trampled | under foot, that a batouche laden with women | was by the prossurg of the mob upset in the dirt, women, horse and all, the horse in his fall seriously injuring @ little child ; that the | alarm of a rescue created o stampede worse | than Bull run, and that such a wreck of women’s gear was never before seen; and that pickpockets did a fair business, the riff-raif of the crowd being considered, Now, our metropolitan readera may think this an exceptional case of a public execution, with all its barbarous accessories; but public hangings or decapitations are all substantially the same in these shocking exhibitions of the Free Bathe—A Disgracofal Neglect. General Grants Summer Exoursioning. assemblages on such occasions, whether in the East or West, or in Europe or America, If such atdiences are more orderly in Paris than anywhere else, it is because there they | have a police system which is held in whole- | some fear, and has trained the mob to 4 whole- | some discipline, Throughout the United States | the system adopted in this city, of the exclusion | of the public from executions of criminals, ought to be the law. Comprnation Looks are the present grief of the Treasury Department in Washington. | The combinations of outside jobbers to rob the Treasury require equal, if not more, atten- om HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1869, ant, and for some of the list aotive and excited. | just as well think of letting thom rua the The opposition newspapers are raising a great outcry against the pleasure excursions of General Grant, when he ought to be at Wash- ington. They say that instead of attending to the public business and earning his salary he {s going about from Old Point Comfort to Long Branch, and from Long Branch to Washington only to geta change of clothes and run off to the oil wells and coal mines of Penn- sylvania, and then to New York, and then to Newport, and thet up to the White Mountains, intending to come round by way of Saratoga to New York for a fresh start again on some other wild goose chase; that surf bathing, fast horses, Havana cigars, fine women, flunkeys and fancy balls, clawbakes, chowder parties, trout breakfasts, mutual admiration societies and all the froth and folly, snobbery and tuft hunting of our summer resorts seem to bo his highest ambi- tion, and that we never have had such a tuft- hunting and shilly-shally President heretofore. An absurd and utterly preposterous outcry, this, from beginning to end. General Grant has nothing of special moment to require his presence at Washington just now. He is, therefore, doing exactly right in taking these pleasure excursions among the people; for in these travels he sees much and learns much that will be valuable to him fa the administra- tion of the government. The people every- where are glad to see him, and in his quiet way he is everywhere glad to foarn the wishes and wants of the people. While believing, too, that business more than pleasure is the object of General Grant in these summer expeditions, we expect that the good ‘results will be soon made manifest after his return for a regular get-to upon the business of his administration. Napoleon aud His Auwnesty Proclamaiion. Our late cable despatches have been inter- esting and instructive in regard to the situa- tion in France. The Senatorial body has just met and heard the report of the Committee on the Senatus Consultum, The amnesty pro- clamation has been received everywhere throughout France, and, indeed, all over Europe, with an amount of enthusiasm which has had no parallel in many years, Promi- nent exiles long away from La Belle France are returning from all parts of Europe; homes are being gladdened by the presence of long absent friends, and Napoleon is more than ever looked up to as the friend of the people and the protector of France. We have little doubt that the reforms sanctioned by the Sena- torial Committee wiil be endorsed by the Senate, and that when the Corps Législatif meets in Oc- tober the Emperor will be thanked as a public benefactor. It will, indeed, be well if the parliamentary system works in France, It will be good for the French people if the fac- tions do not abuse their new privileges, and a very short period of parliamentary success will be sufficient to secure the succession of the Emperor's son,-if the Emperor himself should unfortunately be taken out of the way. We look forward to October with some in- terest. We shall not be the last to rejoice if the Corps Législatif knows how to behave. Many A TRUE Worp 15 SpoKEN IN JEST, — When John Quincy Adams was last year ran- ning for Governor of Massachusetts some one remarked that he was too young a man to hold 80 responsible an office, ‘‘Never mind,” re- marked 4 friend, “he will be old enough be- fore he gets elected.” That was the case with the old man Marcus Morton, who was a young man with curly brown locks when he was first nominated by the democrats for the office, and when he was elected all the hair he had on the top of his head had turned to a grizzly gray. That callow youth, young Adams, has a long race before him, but the race of the Adamses is famous for longevity, and he may become Governor yet before he dies, GoLD AND THE SPEOULATORS.—The Inevi- table tendency of gold to a lower price under the flattering expectations of a large cotton crop and heavy shipments of produce this fall has been checked by the ‘‘bulls,” who have made a sortie on the market and bought all the gold preparatory to a corner on the “bears.” The fact shows that Wall street fluctuations are nowadays no longer the result of legiti- mate and natural causes, but of artificial in- fluences originating with the gold and stock gambling cliques. Crurt Preasanrry—The invitation to General Lee to attend the Gettysburg frolic, It was like inviting a man to dance at his own funeral. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT, Tho Trip from Nowport to Concord—Recep- tlon Along the Route—Trip to the Mountains Four coxconn, N, Hey August 25, 180, The President and family, attended by Mr. Bout- well, Secretary of the Treasury, Attorney General Hoar, Governor Stearns, of New Hampshire, and a number of gentlemen arrived here at haif-past four o'clock this afternoon. The party left Newport at half-past nine o’clock this morning, accompanied by Mr, T. Coggeball, representing the municipal gov- ernment of that city, and Colonel Bell, representing Governor Stearns, also by Major Morrisey, Ser- geant-at-Arms of the Legislature of Massachusetts, At Boston, the party were received by Governor Stearns and proceeded immediately to the Concord depot, where a special train was in waiting, and left at once upon the President and those ac. companying getting aboard, At Nashua the train stopped ten minutes to allow an immense crowd gathered at the depot an opportunity to see their Chief Magistrate, At Manchester, in the company of Mayor Smyth, the President spent an hour in assing through the Manchester, Amoskeag and Rtark's mills, after which he took o short drive through the city, A large crowd lined the streets, cheering and waving flags and handkerchiefs, Upon the arrival of the Presidential party here they proceeded in procession, beaded by the Knights Templar of Mount Horeb Commandery, to the State House, where the President was formally welcomed by Governor Stearns in behalf of the fess and by Mayor Stevens onthe part of the oitizona, The President replied brieny. The Knights then passed betore the President, followed by t! opie. From the State House the President jo! his family at vernor Stearns’ residence. Gotten eight o'clock this evening a number of rominent oltizens called to pay their respects to the Breniaent. ‘The party leave here at nine o'clock to- morrow morning by special train for the white Mountains, y President has received no information of the Bi Tune of a preliminary treaty looking to the acqul- ition of Cuba by the United States, The Presid ju at the White Moun. WASHINGTON, August 25, 1809, It is known that the President will remain at the White Mountains for several days, and will probably not arrive here until Monday next. It Js understood that the President desired to get the Cabinet to- ether this week, bué on account of the members & “a ed the matter, ‘Thia is the season of fine peaches, and among the finest of the season is a basket we have received from Mr. Samuel Townsend, of Towns- end, Del, New Jersey used to furnish the finest peaches that came to thia market. Delaware has now that Louor, + Wasntnaton, August 25, 1860, A Oorrection—Senator Shermau on the Ine come Tax, 4 A rather unaccountable error occurred in my ea patch of last Sunday reapecting the proposed moat» fication of the odious income tax, As Published, the despatch represents Senator Sherman. ag op- posed to the tncome tax, while the fact is your core Tespondent wrote very plainly that. the Senator's speech had been severely criticised in consequence of his declaration ‘in favor of the continuance of the unpopular income tax.’ As the despatch pub. lished conveys @ meaning exactly the opposite of what was intended and written, this correction is of some importance, and the more so from the fact thas ‘A large proportion of the press of the country seéms to have been awakened to the propriety of agitating the repeal of the tax by the statements and figures furnished in the despatch to which allusion is made, ‘The movement tn favor of its modification or entire abolition is undoubtedly gaining in strength, and Promises by the time Congress meets to be of such @ charactor as to sweep all opposition before it. Mur‘er by Negroes im North Carolina, The following was recelvod from Richmond to- day:—Information has been received here of a moss Gtrocious murder by negroes on the line of the Wil- mington aod Welion Railread yesterday, at Whiter ker's station, in North. Carolina. For some cause unknown a recentiy-electéd negro magistrate issued & warrant for the arrest of the railroad agent, named Grimn, This warrant was délivered to a party of armed negroes with instructions to take Griffin deag@ or alive, and with such uneqnivocal anthority they proceeded in quest of the supposed delinquent. On arriving at the ratiroad depot they found thelr but without any demand for his surrender to hands of the law they deliberately murdered him: the spot. Griffin is said to have been an estt! young man and highly respected by tne com! in which he lived. The affatr created t pelsrag ty, cilement among the citizens in {he seemed for @ whil Qsposeg to ai this outrage against justice and hulitanity. counsels, however, prevailed, and writs issued for the arrest of the per the saple justice who originated The Plate Printers’ Strike=fhe Fractional Carrency. The Treasury oMciais received information to the effect that the plate printers of the Bank Note Company in New York, who have been on a strike, had agreed to go to. work, and to-morrow tho ban& note companies have promised to furnish $100,000 ig currency, and to keep that supply up daily, Th Secretary of the Treasury proposes to exact of $200,000 daily for the present tu order to mi for lost time. The demands for fractional currency at the present time are so great, and the amounts required so large, that to supply them wouid nacesy aitate the issue of $200,000 a day for a year to come, There is a report here that the plate printers of the American Bank Note Company, which prints oneside of the notes, are about to strike now that the other company’s hands have agreed to goto work. The information at the Treasury Department was that they would quit work to-day, but it 1s expected they will do it to-morrow. In that case the issue of the currency will again be at a standstill, and the government will be compelled to transfer the print- ing to this city. George B. MoCartes, the head of the Printing aud Engraving Bureau of the Treasury, hag nottfled the Secretary that withig tén days 06 will be able to go on printing the currency and can turn out $200,000 a day. This will put an end to the inconvenience which the government has been at through the failure of the bank note compantes to come to time. Indian Claims to be Settled Through the Indian Bureau. ‘The Secretary of the Interior has ordered that hereafter all Indian claims must be settled through the Indian Bureau, These claims include bounty and pension claims of Indian soldiers, claims for Indian depredations, &c, This decision is brought about because of agents who overcharge thoir ciientsa—a mode of defrauding that is carried on to @ very groat extent, Lady Clerks in the Revenue Bureau. A number of temporary lady employés of the Kew enue Bureau have had thoir term of service extended till January 1g next, and several of thom have re- ceived permanent appointizents, The Case of Collector Willis of Mississippi. Supervisor Stanwood, of Mississippi and Lout- slana, is here preparing @ report in the case of Major Willis, recently suspended as Collector of Internat Revenue for the Third Mississippi district, A Seemingly Absurd Proposition, A letter was received at the White House to-day from Paris, written by a Frenchman, requesting the President to issue a charter guthorizing lim to es- tablish @ gambling house in New York city, to be regularly icensed and placed under the surveillance of the police; to contribute @ portion of its profits to the government, and to be managed in all re spects like the gambling houses of Baden-Baden ana Wiesbaden. The name of the enterprising member of the gambjing fraternity is Bolineaux, Personal. Mr. L. Estrance, of the British Legation, was yea- terday summoned North of account of the loss by drowning at Nahant of bis wife’s brother, a youth named Austin, Mr. L, Estrance married an Amort ‘can lady, @ niece of General Wadsworth, of Now York, who lost his life in the rebellion. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The United States steamer Tallapoosa, from Wash- ington via Newport, with General Sherman, Admiral Porter and Secretary Robeson on board, reached Boston at noon yesterday. ‘he distinguisned party have been entertained s; the past two days at Cm summer residence of J. M, Forbes, at Naushot Island. The United States ship Sabine, Commander John GQ. Walker, arrived at Cherbourg Augusi 9, from Spithead, and Capa to sail in about ten days for Lisbon. The Sabine bas on board the olass of mi shipmen which graduated in June last at the Nav Academy, and the object of this cralse is to giv thom kuowledge and instruction in their profession. The Sabine will proceed from Lisbon into the Med terranean, thence to Madeira, Kio Jaueiro and Ca 4 Good Hope, from which point sho will ret flome. She Will be absent until next summer, Rear Admiral Poor reached this city yesterday an@ will relieve Admiral Hoi of the commana of the North Atlantic squadron, A REMARKABLE MET.OR, At about eight o’clock Tuesday evening, as a party of excurstonists wero returning from Red Bank to Keyport, N.J.,@ meteor of remarkable brilliancy snot upwards from the west, remaining in view for - pearly twenty minutes, Its first appearance wag indicated by @ streak of light upon the horizon; thep followed the report of its explosion, which was dim tinctly heard. Upon bursting the detached i, menté seemed to dissolve into a soft, feecy whit cloud, and form a tail to the main body, wiich gradually became less and less distinct until is was Sitogether lost to view. ‘Iho meteor, when firat see: was somewhat above and to the right of the evenin star, 1t was no doubt the same that was observ la Philadelphia, and is represented as having been of more than ordinary grandeur, REPORTED SALE OF THE ST. NICHOLAS MOLE. New Yor«, August 25, 1869, To THE EpiTon or THR HERALD: ‘A correspondence nas appeared in the columns of the H#RALD and various other journals, in which it is stated that President Sainavo and myself have offered to cede the St. Nio holas Mole to the United xchat for the Algonquin and some tron- Stat ensels, Will you please to deny this asser- tion, which 18 without the least foundation? The St. Nicholas Mole docs not belong to President Sak | nave or to Ine, but to the nation of Hayti, and it will not, at any price, cede a particle of its territory, and President Sainave aud myself think like the nae tion. Once for all, it is well that public opinion im the United States should be enlightened on this point—namely, that the people of Hayti would never ratily any treaty tending to (he loss of its autonomy or the alienation of any part of the island of Maytt. Some intriguing persons can make, or perhaps ba made, a similar proposition, but neither the Amer can government nor capitalists wul allow tem. selves to be lmposed upon by such iudividuals hav+ ing no national character, Relying upon your accustomed kindness, I have the honor to remain yours, very respectful BVARISTE LAROCE Minister of Hay to the United States. ‘ BENKFIT FOR THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ORPTIAN ASY+ LUM OF BROOKLYN.—Mr. aud Mra, Barney Williams have tendered tholr services and will appear tov night at the Brooklyn Academy of Mustc for the benefit of the above institution. A number of fine pieces have been selected, and the sffatr will, OF \ doubt, prove of substantial beuedt to the Agri