The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1869, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1869, NEW YORK HERALD F. E. Camp, of the United States Army, and A. D. Drake, of the United States Navy, are at the Metro- Politan Hotel. Major Frank Taylor and Captain G, E. Camp, of the United States Army, and Colonel A, P. Leland, of Ohio, are at the St. Charles Hotel. N. Tanco Armero, of China, is at the Brevoort House, Professor Hooman, ot Paris; P. Malibran, of Trint- dad, and ©. D. Mansfeld, of the United States Navy, are at the Westminster Hotel. General G, Granger, of the United States Army, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Wiseman, of the British Army; Professor R. Williams, of Sandusky, and Seflor Alverez, of Cuba, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Prominent Departeres. Dr. Wh'ting and EB, R. Helmbold, for Philadelphia; Judge McFarlane, for Albany; Major M. E. Highland, for Washington. Third Party Agitations. Every day we find in our exchanges editorial articles upon what is called the ‘Third party movement.” What the precise movement is, who is atits head or gives it its blood, pulse and brains, is not easily discernible. In one paper it seems to be based upon the nomination of BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Volume XXXIV AMUSSMENTS THIS EVENING. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No, 130 Broadway.—A GRA ND Vagiety ENTERTAINMENT, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hicoorr Drocony OOK. etwoen Sth and 6th @rs.— BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d st., Rir Van WINKLE, WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street.— Victime-—-Tur Prorie’s Law THEATRE COMIQNE, 5) vengR—Goop For Noruing. Broadway.—A Lirs's Ra- THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tom QUEEN OF Heagte—Tuz OLp Woman Tuat LIVED IN 4 SHOR. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and fternoon Broadway.—a\ ae eveniak Ferrermnmen Chief Justice Chase to the Presidency, and all sAIETE_AVEMUR THRATER, FIth aygane ond Tevats- sorts of dove-tailing processes are given, show- ing how certain democrats with easy con- sciences can be made to coalesce with certain radicals with no consciences at all, all culmi- nating in the grand climax of Chase's nomina- tion and triumphant election. It is even broadly hinted that Father Chase has winked at these doings; that in Maryland and Virginia, and in other parts of the South, he has given his consent and encouragement to these opera- tions ; but when all things seem to be working smoothly in favor of this third party Chase programme, lo! and behold, the learned Chief Justice writes a letter to a friend in St. Louis, in which he says:—‘“‘I am out of all future political contests, and no one need be jealous of me hereafter.” Here, then, unless the Judge is coming the ‘‘pity-me, Harvey” dodge, which was so successfully practised by Sey- mour in obtaining the democratic nomination, Chase may be counted out of the ring alto- gether, and thus one third party phantom dis- solves into thin air. And ‘then another third party is proposed in the Southwest, to be com- posed of democrats and conservative republi- cans; but here the republican doctrine of con- solidation comes in contact with the democratic doctrine of State rights, and in the conflict an- other nice little third party scheme is knocked in the head. There is also a third party tem- perance movement, organized in New England; but while it seems to be in a hopeful condition in the State of Maine, with its Good Templar lodges as recent auxiliaries, it is well nigh collapsed in Massachusetts from fears of the defection of a large portion of the republican vote. There is likewise third party labor movement pretty well established in the East and West; in Massachusetts it is said to have @ secret organization numbering fifty thou- sand voters, Still another third party notion has just been aired in South Carolina, which is described as a cry to the demo- crats of that State to reorganize as a conserva- tive republican party, so that “the virtue of Carolina may be introduced into the republi- can ranks and fright away with the dignity of Purity its elements of weakness and vice.” All of which sounds very pretty, but it is all empty jingle. The South Carolina democrats are as likely to affiliate with the imps of dark- ness as they are with those other dark-minded imps, the Northern republican party, the after- birth of the vicious and hated abolition party of old times. Therefore that third party plan may be considered as blown to the winds. Last, but not least, a grand national tem- perance Sanhedrim is now being held io Chicago, in which Gerrit Smith figures con- spicuously, and in which another third party movement upon a large and comprehensive scale, with ‘‘Prohibition” as its corner stone and cap stone, is contemplated—a movement supported by Gerrit Smith and other great temperance lights, but opposed by others equally influential. Therefore even this third party movement, strongly supported as it is, meets with opposition in the house of its kin- dred, and will probably collapse. It is and will continue to be so with every attempt to start a new party so long as the political situation remains as it is at the present moment. Such movements and agitations at this time are perfectly absurd—the silliest chimeras of vain and addle-brained political tyros. They will remain such so long as General Grant holds the destinies of the country in his hands. His discretion has won for the General the position of the foremost man in the country. His popularity has been tested during his lately extended tour among the people, who have everywhere received him with testimo- nials of respect and confidence. He gains strength every day, and has become so far committed to a policy of peace and modera- tion that it is difficult to arouse any formidable feeling of opposition to himself or to his administration. The unterrified democratic party is the only party possessing any degree of vitality that can be arrayed at this time, and probably for the next seven or eight years, against General Grant and his platform of common sense. But even the democracy are in a muddle. They are fighting among them- selves, the prize being the Chairmanship of the National Executive Committee—one faction claiming it for the German democratic element in the person of August Belmont, who has nine points of the law in his favor, being already in possession, and the other for the Irish democratic element in the person of William M. Tweed, who represents the Irish masses comprising the bulk of the sturdy and steady democracy of the country, and espe- cially of the city of New York. Tammany Hall wields the sceptre over all the demo- cratic hosts, and its power is becoming more and more puissant every day. It will soon become as potential as the power of the Albany Regency was in its palmicst days. This, from all the signs of the times just now, is the only party General Grant will have to oppose his unobstructed walk over the Presi- dential course in 1872, and all third party agitations intended to impede his progress are the sheerest folly and nonsense, and all Presi- dential aspirants in opposiiion to him should understand that fact and stand aside without a further wasting of breath or spending of money. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway,—ABRA NA POGUS; OR, Tax Wi0kLow WEDDING—HANDY ANDY. ROERE THEATRE, Bowery.-Mansue Heast—Tus onaWyoau Bossa hg GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘8a street.—Tux Ska OF Tor. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th Wihste,—PoruLas GaapEn Cono! TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comro Vooa.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.--BTM10- PIAN MINSTEELSY, NzGeo ACTS, £0. Detwoen 68th and HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooiur's MineTRELS—OF¥ TO Cun, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOE AND ART LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUN OF ANATOMY, 630 Brosdway.—FEMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANOR. New York, Friduy, September 3, 1869. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated September 2. One of the Oxford boat's crew during the interna- tlonal race detracts considerably from the manly sentiment of his companions by asserting, in a pub- Ho letter, that the English boys could have won by very many yards, and not a narrow victory, had they been inclined to increase their distance ahead from the Harvards. The German Catholic bishops are in conclave in Bavaria on the subject of attendance at the coming Council in Rome. Lady Byron’s solicitors notice Madame Stowe's bad taste in the publication of the “Byron scandal” story. Cardinal Cullen endeavors to crush out the government system of national education among the Irish Catholics, Admiral Lefebre is to command the French squad- ron in the Antilles and North America. Eugenie will reach Paris to-day. Prince Napoleon continues his legislative agtiation against the imperial system; the Minister of the Interior pronouncing some of ius assertions “scandalous.” Sixty millions of francs will, it 18 thought, be saved by retrenchments of government expenses in France. : ‘The German mail steamship Rhein, from Bremen, by way of Southampton, on the 24th ult., arrived at this port at one o’ciock this morning. South America. Our Panama letter 1s dated August 25. Frank Ward, a son-in-law of William B, Astor, jamped overboard from the steamer Sacramento near San José and was drowned. The cause ofjthe deed was mortification at not being able to pay the wine bill that he ran upon the steamer. Political excitement is high in Bogota. President Balta, of Peru, has issued a formal de- cree recognizing the independence of Cuba. The Minister of the Interior has been sent in haste to Rio Janeiro to head off Prado, the exiled ex-President, who is believed to have gone to Rio Janeiro to seize on the Peruvian monitors and give them to the Cubans. Central America. In Guatemala, Serapio Oruz, the insurgent chief, nas been again defeated. Cuba. An engagement near Contramestre river is re- ported, in which sixteen insurgents were killed and eighty others surrendered themselves, An incen- diary proclamagion was discovered yesterday posted about Havana. Miscellaneous. Governor Walker returned to Richmond yesterday. It ts understood there, though not from the Gov- ernor, that the teat oath will not be required and that the Legisiature will soon be convened. The Temperance Convention in Chicago continued its session yesterday and adopted resolutions and a Platform. Wilbur F. Parker, who made the attack upon Cap- tain Riggs, of the Meriden Recorder, recently, has been sentenced in the Police Court to the full extent of the Jaw, and has also been sued for $10,000 personal damages. Mr. Riggs lies in 8 critical state. Hon. J. Russell Bullock, Judge of the United States District Court in Rhode Island, has resigned because of tl health, Two gentlemen, named Washington and Glenn, went out to fight a duel near White Sulphur Springs the other morning; but in presence of one another their anger relented and the difficulty was amicably adjusted. A young woman, newly married, was crushed to death by the machiuery in @ flour mill at Norfolk, on Wednesday. The election in California came off on Wednesday, and from present indications was a democratic vic- tory. The ship laborers in Quebec are still on s strike and are disposed tobe riotous. A disturbance has been threatened several times, but the presence of the po'ice and the military has prevented any seri- ous trouble. Virginia City, according tothe count of the can- vassors of the late election in Montana, still.remaing the capital of that Territory. The Schuyler Towing Company has becn brought up before Judge Hogeboom’s court at Albany, on ap- plication for @ dissolution of the company and the appointment of a receiver on the ground of alleged fraud in withholding dividends, The City. In the case of Mrs. Brown, the negro woman, who was believed to have died from poison administered by her husband, the chemist reports having found arsenic in her stomach, blood and liver. An alleged delinquent boarder was brought before IJndge Dowling at the Tombs yesterday by a police oMcer, and the Judge dismissed the case on the ground that the police were not paid to collect debts. In the alleged fraudulent pay roll case before Com- missioner Shields General Thomas W. Eagan, the chief defendant, was held under $5,000 bail, and Colonei Percy B. Spear was discharged. A man named Washington, living with his wife in Brooklyn, was engaged in robbing his employer's store in ¥urman street.on Wednesday night, fell through the hatchway and received injuries of which he died yesterday. ‘The stock market yesterday was irregular, but in the matin strong and buoyant until lave in the day, when the feeling became unsettled and the whole list Went off from the best prices, Gold, amtd great excitement, rose to 145). Prominent Arrivals in the City. General 0. C. Maxwell, of Dayton, Ohio, and Gen- eral Albert Pike, of Washington, are at tne St. Nicho- las Hotel. Captain Kalinsky, of the Russian Army, and Mayor Beach, of Troy, are at the Hoffman House, Judge F. L. Latin, of Saugerties; Colonel Diefen- fs Gord, of Colorado; General J. H, Alexander, of Mas. | devico, most likely. Too Goop To Bk Truz—The reported dis- covery of a coal mine twenty-five miles from dollars a month and found,” and so on. fruit crop, too, with the exception of apples, which appear to be short in quantity this year, is quite as abundant as it is in our own weinity and in the States south of us, prospects of the agriculturists in the great West are beyond all expectation. from Europe state that the harvests are very prosperous, In England the grain crop is regarded as a fair average, and if there be any more needed we can supply it at moderate prices. safely calculate that popular disturbances are not very likely to occur during the coming winter, for cheap bread makes a happy people. Buffalo, in New York, A railway hedging | I soart; Cotone! D, F. Witey, of San Francisco; Colonel | ‘The September Statement of the Public | ‘The International Boat Race—A Speck em | posing composition may be carted off to some . Debt. The Treasury Department is able fortunately to exhibit to the country another flattering monthly statement of the public debt. As the figures are arrayed there is a decronse of the debt of over ten millions and a half since the 1st of August, and of over forty-seven millions since March, when the present administration came into power. The calculation is made by estimating the total outstanding obligations and then deducting the cash in the Treasury, the sinking fund and the bonds purchased for cancellation, but which lie in the Treasury awaiting the action of Congress. But in this mode of estimating the debt accrued interest is reckoned and the bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad are ignored. Adding the accrued interest the decrease of the debt the last month amounts to over five millions six hundred thousand dollars, The bonds issued to tho Pacific Railroad, however, should be reckoned as a part of the debt or obligations of the gov- ernment, and Secretary McCulloch always placed them as such in his debt statements. They were issued by the government, it is re- sponsible for them, and it may have to pay them. Counting this as a part of the debt, therefore, and taking the comparative exhibit of the whole debt for the year, we find that, after deducting the amount in the Treasury the debt has decreased since September 1, 1868, over thirty-seven and a half millions. Even this reduction shows the enormous re- sources of the country and revenue and our ability to liquidate the debt. Still, much more might be done under an improved system of finance and by using the surplus money that lies all the time in the Treasury for purchas- ing bonds and saving the interest on them. With all the demands for specie to pay the coin interest on the debt there is now in the Treasury the enormous sum of a hundred and one millions, While other governments find it difficult to make both ends meet Mr. Bout- well’s great trouble is to know what to do with the plethora of money in his hands. The Crope—Glorious Prospects. The report of the crops which we published yesterday from the great farming region of Ohio is most promising. From all quarters we read such phrases as these :—‘‘Wheat crop magnificent, oats splendid, hay crop un- equalled ;” ‘‘wheat, oats and potatoes have not been egualled in the years ;” “‘harvest laborers receive two dollars last twenty a day and found, field hands average twenty The So far the Reports With these facts before us we may The cereal productions of this season must secure that boon to both continents. It is true that some short-sighted farmers may growl because the prices are low, for they always do, without gratefully considering the blessing which has been showered upon them in an abundant harvest. Dry goods and other necessaries of life, we observe, are also declining towards prices within reach of the poor, so that if the coal monopolists would only abandon their horrible conspiracy fo defraud the public in the sale of that article there would be no reason to antici- pate that dread of the working classes, a “hard winter.” Caxirornta Gonk Demooratic.—Accord- ing to our telegraphic despatches the elec- tion in California on Wednesday went demo- cratic, pated. General Grant, with all his popularity, carried the State last year by a mere majority of some five hundred, and the democrats had @ majority of fourteen in the Legislature last year as a prestige to enter the present contest with. The principal point settled in this suc- cess of the California democracy—if further accounts confirm our first reports—is that, so far asthe fifteenth amendment to the consti- tution—negro suffrage—is concerned, it can- not receive the vote of the Legislature of that State. No doubt the coolie suffrage question also entered into the canvass and helped to swell the vote of the democrats in opposition to the extension of the elective franchise to the newcomers, of whom California has at pre- sent more than its share. ried San Francisco, electing their candidate for Mayor by a majority of a thousand or s0. The vote was small, and, contrary to expecta- tion, there was very little excitement, This result was to have been antici- The democrats car- Tas Unxispest Cot or At.—Mr. August Belmont is called upon to resign the chair- manship of the National Democratic Com- mittee by New York democrats, on the charge that he ia not a citizen of the Union. of “‘little New Jersey” following suit, Well Think may Belmont exclaim, ‘Who made thee a judge over Israel?” A “Corxgr” IN Gotp.—The gold gamblers had an exciting time of it yesterday, the “bulls” making a sudden dash upon the market and putting the price to 1854. They are said to have purchased more gold than is really in the city, so thats ‘‘corner” is expected to be the result, The speculative movement is greatly to be condemned, for the reason that at this season, when the fall trade is opening, it is essential to have the greatest equilibrium the price of gold. “ANYWHERE, ANYwuerr, OUT OF THE Wortp.”—The story of the two girls who went to Hoboken to commit suicide shows the progress, wealth and civilization of the age on 4 sad, sad side. Brought, perhaps by their own wilfulness, perhaps by trusting natures, perhaps by vice, perhaps by inex- orable disaster to a bad way of life, they had the good left that enabled them (o feel the degradation and the will to take the most desperate remedy. But how is it tat, with all our Magdalen asylums and all the ostentatious charily of the reports of Indy directresses, thesy forlorn girls were found trying the on river rather than their ‘Christian charity 2” the Sun of Victory. By a special telegram from London, dated yesterday and forwarded through the Atlantic cable, we are informed that Mr. Willan, one of the Oxford boat's crew during the late in- ternationsl race, has published in the London journals a letter over his signature on the sub- ject of the actual distance between his com- pacions and the Harvard men at the moment of victory, including a very ingeniously pointed selfish reference to the respective prowess as well as the physical condition of the con- testants just previous to and at the close. Mr. Willan sets out by objecting to the decision of Sir Aubrey Paul which re- cords the winning of the race by the Oxfords by half a boat's length in the clear, He does not, as it appears, decidedly deny the accuracy of Sir Aubrey, but claims that the Oxfords could have accomplished much more than they really did, asserting ‘‘the Oxford men were merely making « child's play towards the con- clusion of the race,” and ‘‘they could have increased the final distance between themselves and the Harvard boat had they wished to do so.” Mr. Willan’s communication is not only untimely and in very bad taste, but—as incon- siderate or splenetic expressions for the most part do—its utterance renders him inconsis- tent and at variance not only with the decision and the popular verdiot, but with himself. A couple of evenings subsequent to the day on which the race took place the members of the London Rowlng Club, as our readers re- member, entertained the men of the Oxford and Harvard crews ata grand banquet given in the Crystal Palace. It was a ‘‘foast of reagon.” Friends abounded on all sides, and a really international commingling both of heart and hand ensued. Oxford did not appear very much elated; the Harvards expe- rienced no feeling of depression. Mr. Willan represented the Oxfords on the occasion, In his after-dinner address he first apologized for the absence of his colleagues at the oar, and, proceeding to speak of the actual struggle, said:—“With respect to the race, as an old hand, it had not been won easily. It was the best race he ever rowed.” And again, as specially reported by the cable, Mr. Willan asserted, ‘That of all the races in which he had rowed he had never been so hard pressed as in the race with the Harvards.” Such were the words of Mr. Willan, refreshed by exertion, recuperated from any physical exhaustion he may have experienced, gratified by triumph, and on his own soil. They evidently came from his heart, What feeling has influenced his pen? Has he felt the effect of the out- burst of genuine British feeling which his countrymen displayed towards the Harvards ? Is it distasteful to him personally? Is he not “in tone” and exactly in physique? Had ho todo over much to win? We cannot indeed account for his present exhibition of such attempt at this sort of what may be called post obit detraction, and are consequently compelled to class his letter, as it has been already rated in London, as a piece of “Cockney bounce,” the writing of which attests the very fact which its author at- tempts, but in vain, to disprove, viz, that the Oxfords enjoy a victory barely won over factory to be worked up into chandeliers. Happy, however, is the man who lives to build his own monument to sult himself, regardless Of cost, and who lives to see it proclaimed as among the wonders of the world. Vive le Grand Admiral! Vive la république / WASHINGTON. to the Sale of Cuba. A private letter, dated Madrid, from go entirely responsible source, repeats that Minister Sickics ires offered the United States as a mediator betweem Spain and the Cubans, the proposition being as stated in the American newspavers, that slavery be abolished in the island, the Cubans to pay Spain for the public bulldings, fortifications, &c.; and it is equally true that while Spain does not reject the mediation, there are serious obstacles in the way of accommodation. The impression among many of the Spanish statesmen 1s, however, that the island ‘will eventually pass from the possession and control of that authority. It ts stated the preliminary de- mended by Spain is that the Cubans shall lay down their arms—a proposition with which, it 1s ascer- tained, they will not comply, if for no other reason, because they nave no guarantee of protection in such an event from the Spanish volunteers, who, according to report, aim at the absolute rule of the island, and have a secret organization to that end. Alleged Forged Comfort for the Cubans. A letter has recently appeared in the newspapers, professing to have veen furnished for publication by & prominent Cuban patriot, dated Washington, August 22, and purporting to have been written by Sefior Roberts, the Spanish Minister, to the Captain General of Cuba, and intercepted. In this letter Sefor Roberts is represented as giving information about the status of the gunboats now building in this country for the Spanish government, stating that belligerent rights will not be conceded in haste, but that the probable future action of this government will be in favor of the Cubans. Mr. Roberts, under his own signature, to-day says the letter has nots word of truth tn it, and thas “the document itself is a mere awkward forgerj."’ The Consideration ef a Successor to J. Ross Browne. Hon, William A. Howard having resigned the ap- pointment as Minister to China, the administration will in a few days designate a succeasor. The merits of several gentlemen arc under consideration, and great care will be taken to select a proper represea- tative of the United States at that court. Secretary Rawlins Again Ill. Secretary Rawlins was again attacked with @ severe iliness this morning. He attended the Cabl- net meeting on Tuesday and was at the War Depart- ment yesterday, notwithstanding the advice of his physician to remain quiet at home, The Alexandrians Dissatisfied. Several of the citizens of Alexandria city and county are desirous of returning *o the jurisdiction of this District; and, with a view of teating the valid- ity of the retrocession of said city and county to the State of Virginia, have held a conference and agreed ‘that the speediest way of bringing about an adjudi- cation of the matter is, after paying their State taxes, to bring action in the Supreme Court of the State of Virginia for the recovery of the same, and in case of an. adverse decision to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. They will act accordingly, and have retained William A. Cook, of this city, as counsel. Seizures in North Carolina. John Crane, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth district of North Carolina, reports to the In- ternal Revenue Bureau that he has seized $50,008 worth of tobacco in that district, because it had counterfett stamp on it. He has closed nearly all the tobacco factories in the district, and turned the condemned tobacco over to tho United States Mar- shal. The Sale of Polsons. There is a case before a coroner in Hoboken illustrating the worthlessness of all present provisions for protecting the lives of the people from the “‘charms of powerful trouble” sold in the drug shops. By the united stupidity ofa father and an apothecary one grain of opium was given to a child three months old, with di- rections to repeat the dose in four hours. This is 8 dose for a grown person, and, ordinarily given, would bea safe one, but given to an infant must cause death with absolute certainty. It is a common custom for people to go to the apothe- cary rather than to the doctor for ‘‘physic,” and they do not know the exact limit of safety in this respect; and while apothecaries sell drugs on such a call they should be made re- sponsible for such atrocious heedlessness as distinguishes this case, The subject of the sale of poisons is one that needs entire re- vision in the law. We have a provision for- bidding the sale of a certain number of poi- sons whose names are more familiar to the peo- ple; but there is an fofinite number beside these whose sale is not forbidden at all. Woe believe our own statute forbids the sale of poisonous doses of opium, and if this is true there isnot a single bottle of the soothing syrups and similar abominations sold in the shops but exposes the seller toa penalty. Has not the Board of Health some duties in this direction? How Brtmont Mar Hzap Taem.—The Tweed men desire Belmont to resign his posi- tion as chairman of the National Democratic Committee, and they want Tweed in his place. But Belmont may head them off by simply resigning the chairmanship, retaining his place asamember of the committee. Thus New York will atill have its member, and the committee, from some other State, will have to elect their chairman from the committee as it stands, leaving Tweed farther off than before. He Won'r Br Reoonstevotep—Jeff Davis. He has been playing the lion in Scotland, and, as it appears, writes to a friend that he will probably spend the remnant of his days in the United Kingdom. Davis and Slidell, we believe, are the only leading rebels of them all who won't be reconstructed. They are like the butternut Arkansas bushwhacker, who thus defined his position:— An out-and-out old rebel I was, and still I am; And I won’t be reconstructed, And I don’t care a. ‘hem! Perrgcriy Satisractory—The opinion of Chief Justice Chase pronouncing the Seques- tration act of the late so-called Congress of the Confederate States null and void, and all proceedings thereunder, and that all parties so despoiled may find relief in a court of equity. Appointments by the President. The Presideat made the following appointments last evening before his departure:—Walter Q. Gre- sham to be Judge of the United States Court for Indiaaa; William Gouverneur Morris to be United States Marshal for California, vice Chas, M. Rand, suspended; Claiborn R. Mobley to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Tho Receipts of the Government. ‘The following are the receipts from customs from August 21 to the 28th, inclusiv: NOTES ABOUT TOWN. Instead of making a huge bonfire of the branches of the poor old trees in the City Hall Park, why could they not have been given to the poor in the vicinity, many of whom, no doubt, were without a : Baltimo gallant men. Mr. Willan stands @ shade in| aro quring tho Iato, cold snap? By the way, who | 880 Francisco (from the 7th to 21s the sunlight. gets all the little odds and ends in this new Post | Total.......... peer respepeneraangen TU ey The internal revenue receipts to-day were $912,000, Amount of fractional currency received to-day from New York, $103,500. YACHTING NOTES. OMice job? Is anybody responsible for a nuisance that has ex- isted for @ year past at the northeast corner of Eighth avenue and Forty-third street? About arty cubic yards of broken stone, blasted from the sub- cellar of the adjacent building, monopolizes about one-third of the width of the avenue. Blast it! ‘The selling of the plank fence around the City Hall Park for dill posting was a bid to perpetuate a nuisance for two, or it may be five, years to come. ‘The meanness of the thing is despicabie. Who took down the great liberty pole in Franklin street and lefts lot of stumps, débris and uneven ground instead—abating one nuisance and creating another? Does anybody speak. ‘The better way foc the government to have done in regard to the new Post Ofice site would have been to have made a neat fence around the enclo- sure and to have had it whitewashed and kept clean and free from the odious placards that will now cover it. But this would have been a whitewashing process in which the peop!e were personally inter- ested, and as no Congressional committee had a hand in the business the people must suffer. Avery pleasant exhivition of the ‘‘chemistry of nature’’ can hourly be seen on the corner of Eleventh stree. and University place. The broken walls of the sinks on the vacant lot in that locality show better than any chemist’s laboratory the infuence of decomposing forces on animal and vegetable mat- ter. It would bea good move for the chemists of the Heaith Board to select this place for their dally experiments, The sub-letting of places for placards on the new Post UMice fence has, itis reported, already begun, and the chief lessee ts likely to receive a handsome Tevenue from it, New Post OMice job No. 1, The government going into the show business— Leasing to a specalator the fencing around the new Post Office site for show placards. THE HUMBOLDT NON The Vanderbilt Monument. Different men have different ideas of glory and of monuments—millionnaires especially. As the rule their surplus funds are distributed to colleges, schools, churches and asylums, Many of these institutions have thus become richly endowed. Smithson, an old English bachelor, in London, took the curious notion into his head of founding an institution at Washington, upon the basis of half a million of dollars, ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men,” and there it is in the Smithsonian Institution. Girard, of Phila- delphia, has left as his monument his splendid college, costing several millions. George Peabody, while still living, has erected numerous monuments in his buildings for the poor in London, and his educational disburse- . ments in the United States, especially in his millions for Southern schools, embracing all races and colors, A. T. Stewart is building a splendid monument in his beautiful hotel up town for workingwomen, and another on his Hempstead Plains purchase for cheap homes for workingmen, Jobn Jacob Astor has left us his free library, and Roebling in his suspen- sion bridges will be transmitted to posterity. But our water commodore and land admiral, Vanderbilt, has given us something new under the sun, It is his life and times in a massive monument of bronze. It is not so prodigious as the Pyramid of* Cheops, nor #0 lofty as the Colossus of Rhodes, but it willdo. It bangs out anything in bronze to be found at The yachting season promises to be unusually brief. Indeed, should the present cold weather con- tinue it will not last beyond the end of the present month. Several interesting events, however, are announced to come off. The spirited challenge recently issued by Commo- dore Kidd to sail the well Known schooner yacht Alice against the no less famous Eva, owned by Mr. Mahlon Sands, qill in all probability be accepted. In fact Mr, Sands has intimated that when the Eva returns from her cruise, which will be in a week or go, he will take up the gauntlet. The course suggested by the Commodore is either around the New York Yacht Club regatta course, or from City Island around Statford lightship and back to starting point, the latter being a distance af about eighty miles and the former but forty; each yacht to use only four sails, two jibs, fore and mainsail. By this mode the sails will be equalized to propor- tonate displacement of vessels, upon which basis is sparred and canvassed below mastheads. More- over, the merits of each vessel would rest more upon the model and seamanship, rather than upon the sailmakers and long outriggers, with main- masts set aloft. ‘The raco will provably take place at the latter end of the month, and will unquestion- ably excite great interest in yachting circies, ‘The fine schooner yacht Widgeoa owned by Mr. Lioyd Phenix has been sold to Mr. J. B. Norris, of ay fhe Bomta. The ‘less after & pleasant ten dava’ cruise to the ward as far as New London, with her owners and a party of friends, has returned to the oy in time to take part in the cruise of the Jersey Club. She encountered rough weather when homeward bound, especially off the Thimble Islands, but from the manner in which she rode through a heavy sea she proved herself one of the ablest boats of her jaas. The contest between the Peerless and Mr. Morgan's fast and handsome little yacnt, the Flying aT. this day in either hemisphere, and LANES pn am mnt aap Cloud, the date of wich has not yet been deter- port—Blaeser’s belde , 13 looked forward to with t interest, and nothing like it has been put up on this suds oer vee foie eat that “ amounts hare. been already Already in Port. Quite an excitement was created yesterday by a despatch from Berlin, stating that “Blaeser’s bust of Alexander von Humboldt has been successfully cast here, It will be shipped to New York directiy.”” staked on the result, both boats having many ardent — James F. Morgan, owner of the Fiying Cloud, sends the following card in reference to tue contest alluded to:— Inasmuch as the owners of the Peerless claim that there planet since the creation. What they may have in Mars, Venus, Saturn or Jupiter we don’t know and we don’t care. We have the Vanderbilt monument in New York, If this information were true the bust could hardly | exists s misunderstanding as to the terms of the m ve- and that’s enough. ‘The shield of Achilles, } nave arrived in time for the memorial festivities on | Upon), the, Flying. ‘lou and Posriens heretofore, agroed the 14th of September, and the proposed ceremonies the ‘of the Peerless to sali a race of made by Vulcan himself, was a magnificent work of art, with its numerous graphic pic- tures embossed upon It of scenes of peace and war in the time of Homer; Trajan’s column at Rome is a book of history, and so is Napo- leon’s at Paris; butin none of these great works have we the pleasing variety of objects and ideas grouped around the central statuo of our water commodore and land admiral Van- derbilt. First we have the Grand Admiral himself dwarfing Chang, the Chinese giant, and cir- cling round him a pictorial rainbow in bronze, we have steamships and locomotives, and Neptune and sea monsters and raccoons, and the Palisades and a lighthouse, anda ferryboat and a dock, with its coils of rope, pineapples and bananas; and a watch dog, end a cotton bale, and » capstan, anchor and chain ; and Liberty, and @ forest, and @ fence, and two cows, anda railway train entering » tunnel, and a villa on a hilltop, and harvesters at work, and agricultural products natural as life, and even birds flying in the air. This grand triumphal arch of the Hudson River Railroad depot at St. John’s Park, therefore, nay be pro- nounced, of all the great works in bronze, ‘the biggest thing out,” and cheap for eight hun- | dred thousand dollars; for it is built to last a long time, Still, such is the progress of modern improvements in this city that even vofore the end of the next generation this im- to owners ‘alles against the Flying Cloud according to the, cules fi ropulatons any of the gambliahed yachisiube within State, the Peerless Leing larger than the Fila " ‘Andi offer to make the consideration ® yvaluabie Piece ot plate, or money, if preferred, say a purse of $1,000. THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. First Mocting After Vacation—The Citizens Association and the State Canals—The Ori-~ ental Steam Navigation Company Pro~ of unveiling the monument would have to be post- poned. But the despatch was a false report. In the first place the bust was not cast at Berlin, but at Hanover, from # model made by Professor Blaser, of Berlin; and then the bust was shipped from Bre- men in the steamship America and srrived safely and uninjured in this city on last Monday, as to- quiry of Mr, William Aufermann, ® member of the committee, and of Messrs, Peiricho & Co., agents of the Bremen steamship line, disclosed yesterday. A levter from Mr. Klamroth, the secretary of the oom- mittee of arrangements, states the same fact in con- tradiction of the report telegraphed, and hence no isarrangement of the programme need be feared on thas account, CASTLE GARDEN LABOR EXCHANGE. ‘rhe semi-monthly report of the Superintendent of the Labor Exchange at Castle Garden, gives the fol- lowing interesting statistics:—Between the 14th and the sist day of August last, comprising fourteen working days, there were registered 2,045 applicants for employment. Of these there were, males 1,352, ‘and females 603. Orders from employers for laborers were received—for male help, 1,378; for female, 600. Total, 2,068, Employment was secured for 1,264 males and 676, females, or 1,880 1n all, The average rate of monthly wages paid to males employed was $16 50, and to females $10. The classification of emigrant labor for the period was:—Males—mechanical labor, 203; agricul- tural, 066; females—skilled labor, 21, and unsktiied, 664 Of those employed, 1,102 males and 396 fo. i writo, and 162 maies ana aT wee, die were ‘bot Able to do so, The firs report for August, inctadiag the two weeks from t! ‘1st to the 15th, showed 1,1 engagements, thus gi ing a total of 3,465 engagements for the whole month, The Chamber of Commerce held their first meet- ing after the summer vucation yesteraay afternoon, at their rooms on William street, ex-Mayor Opdyke in the chair, Mr. James P. Wallace was again elected a member of the Committee on Arbitration. A special meeting is to be neid on the 18th inst, for the purpose of electing a pilot commisstoner. Messrs, James P, Wallace, Jeremiah P. Robinson, William H. QGuion, Wiliam H. Fogg and Paul N, Spofford were elected @ conference committee, in response to a written request of the Citizens’ Association, in which the latter say that the association has ro- cently made an examination of the canals of this State, with a view of ascerta'ning what steps snould be taken to improve thelr management and reince the enormous sums spent annually under the nre- text of keeping them in repair. And they ask fora committee to confer with @ siiuilar committee of tha Citizens’ in and to report on the subject. A communication was receive from the oilicert pad tye ee and i eaten eg el va company, w York, stating that they pro- pose to estabiish a line at steainers from ‘New. You and Norfolk to Burope and through the Suez Canai to the Orient, and asking the aid of the Chamber tn carrying out their objects, The Navy Department ts to be requested to turn over al! suitable steamers not in use to the company, the latter to pay their as- sessed value to tue government afier the meeting of Congress, The Chamber was requested to tion tn favor of the measure, It was also stated that the company would send a sie mic to tie Opon- ing of the Suez Canai on the 1 fF Novemper, and the Chamber were tnyited to delegates. ‘the paper was relerred fo ihe | xeou!\) © UOMUNL Oe,