The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly THEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Broadway.—BLow FoR Buow. Matinee at 2. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tak QOERN OF HeaRts—Tur OL WOMAN Tua LIVED IN & SHOR, M AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street ang ‘noon and evening Performance. THEATRE, Fifth aveaue and Twenty- NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bronai RAILROAD TO RUIN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Scorrisu Cutars— In AND Our OF PLACE. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and Bd street.—Tnr, SEA oF 1OR. —Formosa; on, Tan No. 720 Broadway.—A GRaNnp THEA . Matinee at 2. AVERL Vaniery ENTEStAtNnan: OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bri ay.—Tue DRAMA OF UNOLE Tom's CAuIN. M 2 BOOTH’S THEATRE, teveen 6th and Gth avd— Rie Van WINKLE. M WALLACK’S THEATRE. 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Prince Gortschakof has arrived in Paris, An Oficial bulletin declares Napoleon convalescent and “at work.” The Pars reports of the actual condi- tion of his Majesty’s health, however, are contra- dictory. The Emperor will return to Paris to-day. The French Senate closed its parliamentary session. The English journals expect that Prince Napoleon ‘Will be calied to the head of a liberal ministry in France, for the reason that the Emperor can scarcely “dispense with or overlook him” longer. The Prussian liverals wiil agitate for ministerial re- Sponsibiliiy. The last of the Carlist bands on Spanish soil surrenderea to the national troops. Switzerland supports the Ecumenical Council idea in opposition to the Bavarian sentiment of Prince Hohenlohe. Military recruitments for the Viceroy of Egypt are forbidden in Switzerland. By steamship from Europe we have a special cor- respondence and mail report in detail of our cable telegrams to the 28th of August. The English reports of the international boat race between the Oxford and Harvard crews, with the expression of British feeling on the result of the Contest, which we present to-day will be read with interest, notwithstanding our ample cable details of the event when in actual progress. Egypt. The cotton crop is reported excellent both in qual- ity and quantity. Cochin China.® Advices from Saigon report that the children of French and Americans born on the soli will ere- after constitute the municipal council, native An- a@mites and Chinese being “eligible.” ‘The Coal Mine Horror. The shaft at the Plymouth Mine was cleared yes. terday and several descents were made, a long list of minefs having volunteered. About thirty feet inside the gangway the black damp compelled them to retreat. Several inner doors have been opened, but the main doorway has not been reached. Two Volunteers who went down were brought back in fifteen minutes almost overcome with the effect of the gas, but they recovered in the open air. ‘The crowd about the entrancgsto the mine was im- mense and was largely composed of the families ot the victims. Ali workin we neighboring mines is suspended. Miscellaneous. Secretary Rawlins’ body was laid in state in the War Department yesterday, where it will remain until Tharsday, when the funeral takes place. Ata meeting of prominent citizens at the Sub-Treasury in this city yesterday $15,000 as a fund for the re- lef of the Secretary's family was subscribed, President Grant telegraphing that he would give $1,000. The recent municipal election in San Francisco ‘was very close, and integse excitement prevails in regard to the result. The official returns of the First ward give McCoppim, democrat, a majority of eighteen votes for Mayor. The independents threat- @n that McOoppin shall not be permitted to assume the office. Protessor Davidson's scientific party returned to San Francisco from Alaskaon Monday. The party penetr: into @ region of country never before visited by white men. ‘The partition wails of a new brick building tn Bal- timore fell yesterday morning, completely wrecking the buliding and burying four of the workmen in the ruins. Three of the men were rescued alive, but se- verely injured. The fourth, @ colored hod carrier, ‘was crushed to death. ‘The losa by the fire at Richmond on Monday night was $120,000, on which there was an insurance of $50,000, one-third of which is in Northern compa- nies. The New England Fair opened at Portiand, Me., yesterday. Among the distinguished visitors present ‘waa Sir John Young, Governor Generai of the Cana- Gian Dominion. ‘The State Department has been informed by J. Ross Browne that no concessions for telegraphic en- terprises have been granted by the Chinese empire and, probably, none are contemplated. Colonel Brodhead, State Liquor Agent for Massa- chusetta, was yesterday arrested in Boston on com- Plant of Collector Lyman for selling liquor to town agents without revenue stamps. Colonel Brodhead claims that the liquor was in original packages and, therefore, no stamps were required, Prince Arthur arrived in St. John, N. B., yester- Gay, and attended a grand ball at the Victoria Skating Rink. ‘The election for directors of the Susquehanna Railroad took place at Albany yesterday. Both the Ramsey and the Fisk interests elected full boards of their own, notwithstanding two injunctions were served upon the Ramsey inspectors of election. The Tus direcigm apase Waltex 5. Ouurch President and ie yA te ~ =k oj 928 formality demanded the road of the Goeveraor, who, however, directed litigation to be brought wo see which was the rightfully elected board, aud heid je road in tho meantime, ‘The John Fuller commenced pumping water yes- terday into the Fairmount Water Works at Philadel- phia at the rate of 8,000 gallons a minute, and the blockade of the Schuylkill has been raised. The City. The work of removing the obstructions at Hei Gate is progressing rapidly. Way's reef will, proba- bly, be rendered harmiess by December, although it can be operated upon only during a few hours of the day. The elevated raliway between the Battery and Cortlandt street is in running order. The distance of over half a mile was made yesterday in one min- ute and a quarter. The various boat clubs of the city and vicinity held a meeting yesterday and decided to give a dinner to tha Harvard crew on Monday or Tuesday at Del- monico’s. Uhe crew are expected on Saturday in the city of Antwerp. General Canby bas ordered an election in Alexan- dria couaty to fill a vacancy in the Virginia House of Delegates. Sheridan Shook, ex-collector, and J. P. Abra hams, deputy collector of intermal revenue, were arrested yesterday on a charge of extorting money from private citizens and misappropriating the fands collected as revenue. They were released on $5,000 bail each by Commissioner Shields. ‘Three war widows who have been drawing their pensions after having married again were arrested yesterday and held in $500 bati each. Mrs, Margaret Smith died under suspictous cir- cumstances at her room in 33 East Twenty-seventh street on Monday night and her husband has been arrested. The Humboldt committee of arrangements met again yesterday, when it was announced that the statue would be erected near the Scholar's Gate. At a meeting of the trustees of the Free Coliege yesterday Mr. Sands offered a resolution that the chair of Professor of Latin and Greek, now vacant, be not filled. After a very cradite and humorous discussion the resolution was lost, Mr. Bands alone voting for it. The stock market yesterday was excited under a further large decline. Gold sold down to 136%, closing finally at 1865,. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General D. C. Branhan, of Indiana; Colonel George B. Church, of Rhode Island; Juage T. C. Jewett, of Ohio, and Mayor L, M. Brush, of Pittsburg, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Morton, of Indiana, and Professor Silli- man, of Connecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Rose, Minister of Finance, Canada; Louis Shauss, Belgian vonsul, an¢ Emile Moulson, Chan- celier of the Belgian Consulate, are at the Brevoort House. Captain Henry Dexter, of Philadelphia; Judge G. M. Newton and Colonel A. W. Merriman, of New Orleans; Judge H. Winslow, of Cincinnati, and Lieu- tenant M. Dolan, of the United States Army, are at ‘the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge George H. Yeaman, of Kentucky; Captain Kalinsky, of the Russian Army; L. L. Crounse, of Washington; A. Van Vechten, of Albany, and Gene- ral H. W. Bridges, of Oonnecticut, are at the Hoff- man House. Prominent Departures, Major Hendley, for Montreal; Judge Sweetser, for Indiana; Colonel Gteason, for Washington, and Montgomery Blatr, for Boston. ‘The Death of Secretary Rawlins—The Cabi-« met Question. The death of General Rawlins, late Secretary of War, leaves an important vacancy in the Cabinet. A war democrat of the Douglas school in his political antecedents, General Rawlins, unlike General Logan, had not drifted into the extremes of radicalism. On the contrary, he was no doubt the best representative in the Cabinet of the liberal ideas and conciliatory policy of General Grant. From the day when the Galena tanner took the young Galena lawyer into his service in the army as his chief of staff the close confidential relations estab- lished between these two men were strength- ened to the end of their patriotic copartner- ship. No man connected with the administra- tion, we dare say, not excepting even General Sherman, possessed so intimately the con- fidence or knew so well the peculiar mind or the opinions and purposes of General Grant as his devoted friend and sagacious adviser, Rawlins. The loss of this confidential adviser and thoroughly devoted friend is, therefore, a serious loss to the President, and in casting about to fill the vacancy some time may be re- quired to reach a satisfactory selection. The Cabinet disclosures which have followed the late Virginia and Tennessee elections are very interesting. We have learned through them, for instance, that Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell and Postmaster General Creswell were active and earnest colaborers in said elections in behalf of the radical party and for the defeat of the new Southern party of liberal republicans and progressive democrats. We know, however, that it was under the wing of General Grant’s administra- tion and Southern policy that this new party swept the field in Virginia and Tennessee, and that, inspired by these successes, the same political elements are coming together in all the other Southern States. We have seen, too, the failures of the radicals of Virginia and of Ten- nessee to induce the administration to interfere in their behalf in upsetting these late elections, and in the official opinion of Attorney General Hoar on the new Virginia Legis- lature we have no doubt an opinion by authority of the President. And what does this opinion signify in a broad political view? It signifies that General Grant's policy in reference to these Southern elections is to give the largest latitude to the people concerned which the laws of Congress will allow, and to leave to Congress itself the responsibility of defeating the fif- teenth amendment in rejecting the new anti- est oath Virginia Legislature. Thus General Grant, in his quiet way, has shown remarkable skill in the management of these Southern reconstruction difficulties, The Virginia opinion of the Attorney General de- fines the President's policy. It is not the pol- icy of Boutwell, Creswell and the extreme rau- icals of the republican camp, but the policy of Grant, Rawlins, Hoar and that section of the Cabinet. Strangely enough Massachusetts is divided and neutralized in the Cabinet on this question, while Maryland, a Southern State, in Creswell, stands in bold relief in opposition to the President's policy of Southern concilia- tion. A divided Cabinet is not a good thing. A Cabinet with one, two or three members in ac- tive opposition on any question to the Presi- dent's policy, with the rest of the members suspiciously quiet or passively indifferent, is not a good thing. General Grant has a Cabinet of this sort, and the occasion suggests a fine opportunity for the needful work of reconstruction. It is probabie, however, considering the amiable disposition of General Grant, that he will overlook the late mischievous intermeddling of Boutwell and Oroswell io Squthora party politics, and, in’ view of the dubious condition of the new Tenure of Oftice law, will content himself, in the absence of Congress, with the appoint- ment of a new Secretary of War. But even in this appointment he will do well to avoid the choice of a radical, whose only idea of Southern reconstruction lies in the pains and penalties of treason and rebellion, His true policy is a Secretary of War who will provide for the same ‘‘freedom of election” in the elec- tions still to come off in Mississippi and Texas which prevailed in Virginia under the auspices of Secretary Rawlins, Gold Gambling. To the outside world, unacquainted with the mysteries of gold gambling in Wall street or Broad street, the rise in the price of gold with- in three weeks from 131} to 137} must be very puzzling. They naturally look for some cause, some extraordinary drain of gold from the country, some heavy balance of trade against us, a general failure of crops, or something else, and are astonished to find none. Indeed, at the very time when the premium on gold might be expected to fall considerably, in con- sequence of the small balance of trade against the country and the abundant crops now com- ing in, it has gone up over six per cent. It was supposed a few weeks ago that the pre- mium would be down by this time to twenty- five, and there is no commercial, financial, nor any other good reason why it should not have fallen to that or lower. The crops generally are abundant, as was said, and from the cotton crop alone there will be realized a sarplus of two hundred millions or more of gold. This product for the present year alone is worth nearly four years’ yield of the gold mines. Then our mines produce steadily and yearly a large amount of the precious metals. The winter season is the time when we get out of debt to foreign countries for importa- tions, and we are now approaching that happy condition. If the premium goes up in summer, when we are getting in debt, there might be some reason for it, but certainly th@re is none at the present time. On the contrary, it ought to go down to a low figure, The rise and fall of gold has nothing to do with the con- dition of the country. All the fluctuations are the result of gambling by a few individual capitalists or stockjobbing firms. Yet the whole amount of gold held by these, and through which they influence the market, is not more than a few millions. A small margia is all that is used for sales of millions upon millions. Such bogus transactions would not be tolerated in any other business. All are done on paper or by credit, with or without the smallest sort of margin in gold, between a few individuals. Is it not absurd that such operations should regulate the market value of gold, and, as a consequence, of other things as well? But the question arises here, how are these bulls and bears in gold to be killed off? How is their gambling to be stopped? It is diffi- cult to reach the evil, if not impossible, by proscriptive legislation or by taxing their operations. Perhaps the government may have to find a remedy .in some other way. The question may arise as to the necessity of demonetizing the precious metals and of making a uniform paper money currency. There is no doubt that our present mixed cur- rency and the demand of the government for gold duties on importations are the indirect cause of gold gambling. If gold were not in demand for the payment of duties, and we were to have a uniform legal tender currency used as money for all purposes, the gold operations of Wall street would cease. It will be difficult to reach specie payments, how- ever much gold there may be in the country, so long as these gamblers have control of the market, and, therefore, it may become a ques- tion whether the government should not, for a time at least, demonetize gold and make a uniform legal tender currency as the only money of the country. The Mine Disaster. Another heartrending disaster in a coal mine! It has become an old story. It is use- less to repine over the misery, the individual suffering and the general horror of these events, for human sympathy is not moved in that way to the necessary point of taking mea- sures to prevent these distressing occurrences. Some other course must be chosen, and the only practical one is to consider what is a most feasible general step against such disasters. In the case now under observation we see that the calamity is directly due to an absolute negligence in regard to the safety of the men in the mine—negligence on many points, too. There was but one way for entrance or egress, and ventilation was had by that same way, andthe mouth of this one opening was em- bedded in combustible material—old build- ings—‘“‘all of wood and dry as tinder.” In such a state of the mine, any accident, however trivial it might otherwise have been, must destroy all the miners. It only awaited the flight through the air of a spark from any source to touch that old tinder, and all the men were gone. Not only must escape be rendered impossible by the obstruction of the shaft, but even the means of respiration must be instantly taken away. There is a plain duty before the people of Pennsylvania; it is for them to say, through their Legislature, whether they will permit capitalists to work mines in this reckless dis- regard of the lives of those they employ. It is at least a subject for legislative inquiry whether the construction of combustible edifices over shafts must not be absolutely for- bidden, and whether mines may be per- mitted to operate with only one opening for escape and ventilation. Your ground mole is a model miner, and your gopher is another, and neither of these leaves himself in his sub- terranean life to the chances of a single avenue of escape. Shall man act with less sagacity ? Roougry.—It is astonishing how many peo- ple would like to be dishonest if they only knew how; and it is a reflection for the philo- sophic thatthe number of our villains is small to what it would be but for ignorance. Here are two thousand persons, as shown by the Gumbridge seizure, honest enough as the world goes, but who, notwithstanding, would like to be the holders and passers of counter- feit money, They are eager to buy the photo- graphs of greenbacks, under the impression that they are counterfeits—and Gumbridge trades on their quoldity. The Uuioe Ferry Company and the Brook- lym City Hospital. The people of Brooklyn—that is to say, @ population of four hundred thousand—who have been for years past the victims and the slaves of that gigantic swindling monopoly known as the Union Ferry Company, appear to have waked up to the fact that there ought to be some limit put to the despotism which has been doing its best to ruin all the interests of that city and to retard its prosperity for their own selfish purpose. It seems that the | law courts are to be appealed to by a certain number of citizens in order to decide whether the Ferry Company, according to its charter, is not indebted to the City Hospital in the sum of three millions of dollars or thereabouts, which have been, by an ingenious subterfuge, withheld from that institution. The charter of the Union Ferry Company provides that all its earnings over and above its expenses and a dividend of ten per cent per annum to the stockholders shall be paid to the City Hospi- tal for the support of the sick poor. To those who know how the ferries have been managed it may be unnecessary to state that this provision has nover been complied with. It has been evaded by the ingenuity of the directors in adding to their capital by the purchase of additional water fronts, the erection of costly buildings, and by the issue of extra stock—a watering process—which has perhaps paid better than the earnings of the ferries themselves, although those are known to be enormous. Thus, while the City Hospital has been skil- fully cheated of its proper dues by the Ferry Company, poor patients, who ought to be re- ceived there gratis, or nearly so, are com- pelled either to pay a weekly stipend, which they cannot afford, or go to some of the county institutions and become a burden upon the taxpayers, At the same time it has been a marvel why the trustees of the Hospital, hav- ing the law on their side, and having an obvi- ous right to this accumulated sum of three millions, did not attempt to assert their rights and compel the Ferry Company to comply with the provisions of the charter. The mystery may perhaps be explained by the fact that out of the twenty trustees of the City Hospital six are connected with the Ferry Company—one as superintendent and the others as directors, Of the Hospital trustees belonging to the Ferry Company are Cyrus P. Smith, superintendent, and Henry E. Pierrepont, A. A. Low, Charles E. Bill, H. B. Claffin and S. B. Chittenden, directors. The other trustees who have no direct con- nection with the Ferry Company are William H. Allen, A. W. Benson, A. V. Blake, Peter C. Connell, J. H. Frothingham, John Green- wood, John Halsey, Thomas Messenger, J. L. Pope, H. G. Nichols, W. M. Richards, W. S. Tisdale, D. W. Wetmore and A. M. White. Why these gentlemen should have permitted the claims of the noble institution they repre- sent to remain in abeyance all these years and leave it to a ‘Citizens’ Reform Association” of a few weeks’ growth to take legal steps for their recovery is a question they can probably best answer for themselves, and they should be called upon to answer it. It is pretty evident that the city of Brooklyn has been cheated in this matter of contract between the Legislature and the Union Ferry Company in an immense amount, while the company has been growing rich, while it has been incommoding and oppressing the residents of Brooklyn in every way and thus retarding the advance of property. Fortified by that provision of the charter which declares that the purchasers of the ferry franchises must purchase also the entire pro-. perty in docks and boats and houses and privi- leges owned by the present company, that cor- poration keeps the monopoly in its own hands. There is hardly an interest in Brooklyn that the Union Ferry does not control. It has a finger in everything—the Hospital manage- ment, the Board of Education, the Corpora- tion and the Bridge Company. As to the latter, the ferry interest may be considered as having killed the bridge project outright. The Ferry Company indeed, virtually, though in- directly, governs all Brooklyn, and most unfor- tunately does it govern that city against the interests of its inhabitants and property own- ers, It is to be hoped, therefore, that the legal proceedings contemplated will compel that grasping corporation to disgorge some of its gains and to surrender some portion of its assumption to control and damage a large and growing city like Brooklyn. The Sultan and the Viceroy. The special correspondence from Constanti- nople, under date of August 16, published in our columns yesterday, presented a compre- hensive and exhaustive exhibit of the Turco- Egyptian difficulty question in its chief points of aspect—imperial and dynastic, territorial and tributary. The communication is conse- quently of exceeding value just now for the better elucidation of a subject which may, per- haps must, eventually complicate some of the leading Powers of Europe in its solution, peacefully or by another war in the East, soon after the complete opening of the Suez Canal. The family of the Sultan, as well as the family of the Viceroy, have claims and counter claims with many varied and distracting interests in the case, for which reason it would not be sur- prising if it were not settled finally without direct foreign interference. In this view alone the actnal condition of the health of Napoieon becomes of importance, and the result of his present illness of serious interest; for his death at such a moment would be not only a loss to France, but perhaps ® cause for the disturbing and overthrowing of the peace of Europe. Prince Gortschakoff’s visit to Paris and the timely convalesence of the Emperor may tend to elucidate the subject imme- diately, Gragcey positively declines the Chinese mission; nay, he rejects it indignantly in advante. He don’t want it and wouldn't have ijon any terms. He has gone into the Southern land and railroad and Southern immi- gration business, and in view of the money that isin this adventure he would doubtless refuse, even now, the mission to England. Horrman’s Mixturg.—The Governor has made a¢me odd associations in the nomination of New Yorkers for the Southern Commercial Convention, and it cannot be claimed that our various ideas and systems are not represented. Bryant and Greeley go side by side, and Tweed ond Low bear them astonishing company. More of the Belmont-Tweed Imbroglio. Fresh batteries are being brought into play almost every day by the political cannoneers who have selected August Belmont, the chair- man of the Democratic National Committee, for thelr fre. Tho ball opened by the Tweed Cen- tral Committee of the Seventh ward is rolling along, and resolations are nightly adopted by the democratic organizations calling upon Bel- mont to resign. Even a German organization or two seem to be inoculated with the same spirit and turn against their own country- man in the fight, and to go in for his great op- ponent, Tweed. The Democratic Union party, however, under Ely, oppose the Tweed move- ment, and in some pungent resolutions de- clare him incompetent for the position on the National Committee to which he aspires. But what of all this? Belmont is immovable in his position, and it will be only by his own good pleasure and by resigning not only the chairmanship, but his place as representative of the State of New York in the National Com- mittee, that a vacancy can be left and an op- portunity afforded the frieuds of Tweed to substitute their favorite in his place. So long, therefore, as Belmont declines to take this double step the Tweedites are passing resolu- tions to no purpose. If the contagion of dis- satisfaction, however, spreads, and the desire to get Mr. Tweed at the head of the National Committee extends to the democracy of the other States, sich a pressure may thus be brought to bear upon Mr. Belmont that ho may be compelled to withdraw altogether from a committee with which he cannot act in har- mony or unison. But outside of this city there is little or no agitation of the subject, so that the probabilities all point to the failure, of Tweed in this movement of his to super- sede Belmont on the national party com- mittee. We think, too, that Mr. Tweed has already as many irons in the fire as he can properly manage, and would advise him that it is an idea among the democracy that two or three offices for any one man are enough. Dr. Hayes’ Arctio Expedition. The interesting letter which we published yesterday recounting the progress of Dr. Hayes’ Arctic expedition was dated at Ivigtut, South Greenland, July 27, 1869. On the 3d of July Dr. Hayes and his associates sailed on the Panther from St. John’s, Newfoundland, steer- ing northward. A ball was given in honor of the arrival of the Panther at Julianshaab, in latitude 60.25, longitude 45.55, on the 16th of July. The ball and the ruins of an ancient cathedral at Kakortok, the surrounding scenery, @ visit to @ remarkable glacier near Kaksimint, the mine of cryolite near Ivigtut— the only mine of the kind at present known in the world—and various indications of the un- explored mineral wealth of Greenland, are de- scribed, and we are informed that the expedition was probably to leave on the 28th of July, and that its route would be north to Melville Bay, stopping by the way at Disco and Upernavik, and returning to St. John's, via Labrador, about the 1st of October. We do not see why the project of Mr. Bradford, the artist, and his friend, Dr. Hayes, to inaugurate regular sum- mer excursions to the Arctic regions may not become practicable and popular, with steamers properly equipped for the purpose. But some means must first be adopted to rid those regions of the flies and mosquitoes which our corres- pondent was surprised to find at Kakortok “both intolerable and interminable—the latter not only larger but more venomous than those generally seen athome.” Otherwise we would as soon spend the summer at Rockaway or any- where on the Jersey coast, We doubt not, however, the assertion that the sublimities of Arctic scenery are not further remote than those of Alpine scenery and are infinitely supe- rior to them. Exoursion oF THE CALIFORNIA ProngERs.— The men who developed California are about tocome to the Atlantic coast by way of the Pacific Railroad. These gallant adventurers went mostly from the Eastern States to the Pacific coast in the early days, and they are now coming to make a temporary visit to their old homesteads on the Atlantic over the grand land highway across the Continent. The idea originated with the Sacramento Association of California Pioneers. It is decided that the party shall leave Sacramento on Wednesday, the 15th of this month. The price fixed for the trip is one hundred and fifty dollars, with the pri- vilege of stopping over for a day or two at such leading cities as Chicago, Pittsburg and Phila- delphia, or such places as the majority of the excursionists may determine. As, according to the terms, the whole party must start from California together, they will necessarily ar- tive in New York in a batch, and they will no doubt be received here with a pleasant share of welcome as well as interest. Hon. B. F. Butter on tae Byron Soan- pAL.—In the dearth of political occupation the Hon. B, F. Butler has amused himself by sub- jecting Mrs. Beecher Stowe as a volunteer witness in the Byron case to a thorough and severe cross-oxamination. With the instincts and habits of a shrewd lawyer he seizes upon her testimony and delights in twisting it and tearing it all to pieces, He does not fail to expose among its vulnerable points ita astound- ing and feminine inaccuracy as to dates, General Butler finds it easy to show that Mrs. Stowe is no lawyer, and he proves that, so far at least as concerns the evidence already offered by her, she is a very unreliable witness, But he discloses no new testimony in the case, and we think that the publication of his adroit and elaborate special plea is ‘‘a work of super- erogation” after the triumphant refutation by Count Johannes of Mrs, Stowe’s shameless attack upon Lord Byron and the honorable Mrs. Leigh. A JovRNatist AND A Jon,—For awhile there has been a great clamor in # portion of the press in regard to ‘‘vermin in the street cars,” and evidently there was a desire on some one’s part to make @ pressure that would compel the companies to refit their vehicles, Now it is announced that ‘‘a journalist has invented a car soat that is vermin proof.” A Man Trap.—The Post Office barricade on Park row, with the cars that run beside it, form a very ingenious trap for the unwary. This fence leaves about two feet of sidewalk, and on this space pedestrians venture, not re- flecting that the coming car runs so near to the curb that its platform protrudes to within afew inches of the boards, There should be somo Provision to prevent scojgente at that point, Mercantile Confidence Operations. Wo have been compelled to chronicle of late the various operations of a class of rogues who impose on the credulity of business mea. With a good appearance, business-like man- ner and a glib tongue, there is nothing too daring for these fellows to attempt. In many cases they are successful—so successful, in fact, that their numbers have increased to a serious extent. Yesterday we published the cage of one of these fellows who, by represent- ing himself as the agent of an establishment in the South, succeeded in working himself into the confidence of a number of business firms here and obtaining goods to a large amount. Surely there must be some method to guard against these dishonest fellows. Ia all instances where they have been successful their assurance has been the chief capital om which they had to depend. Roguery of this complexion has become so prevalent of late that it is necessary to call public attention to it, in order that business transactions shall not be conducted so loosely and that our mercaa- tile community shall be on guard against im- postors who attempt this game to enrich them- selves. “Sri, Tazy Come”—The Mormons from over the water. A detachment of four hun- dred landed here on Monday last en route to the Great Salt Lake. Brighami Young, in connection with his Church, has established an emigration system which other parties con- cerned in the colonizing and development of lands, mines, &c., would do well to study. His missionaries in Wales, Norway, Sweden and elsewhere hunt out accessible people, &nd in providing for their transportation to thelr new homes have filled up the waste places of Utah and made “‘the desert blossom like the rose.” A PLAIN ANSWER To 4 SiLty Question.—A. copperhead organ ssys that*by the time the work is done in the national cemeteries they will contain the remains of three hundred and five thousand Union soldiers, and then asks, “What did these men die for?” We answer, they died to put down a rebellion which otherwise might some day have drafted our copperhead patriots into the army of Jef® Davis, for his conscription system swept the board. By Apviog or Tue Empzror.—Tho French Senate, which a day or two before had re- jected the proposed liberal amendments of the Senatus Consultum touching the constitution of the Senate by a vote of 123 to 19, adopted them on Monday last by a vote of 134 to 3—no doubt upon a hint from the Emperor. Thus the Prince Napoleon, in his able speech ia support of said amendments, was, if in opposi- tion to the Emperor, too. strong for the Em- peror himself. TSE PEDESTKIAN CONGRESS, Pedestrianism, Running and Velocipede Rid- fug at the Capitoline. The second session of the National Pedestrian Con- gress was held at the Capicoline grounds, Brooklyn, yesterday. The programme of the day embraced a number of handicap walking matcles, championship running race, championship velocipede race and prizes for standing jumps. The success of the affair was not of @ very marked character, several of the champions who had been expected to attend and take part in the games, as is usual among the “sporting” men of the present day, fail- ing t putin their appearance. In consequence of their non-attendance the one-mile championship run- ming race, the two-mile championship velocipede race and the jumping match were omitted. The races ‘were announced to commence at one o'clock, and at that hour about 700 persons were present, but be- fore the conclusion of the games there were proba- bly 1,000 persons on the ground. Tne ground Was in good condition, and every care had been taken to insure to the spectators a good day's sport. Mr. E. D. Davis, of Kingston, was appointed judge ofthe remaining races, aud Mr. John Golding judge of the walking matches. ‘The first item on the card was for a four-mile han- dicap walking match; first prize, a silver goblet, seo- ond five dollars cash. There were four entries for this match, the competitors being Join Casson, of Brooklyn, James Smith, James Adams and a Mr. Haydock, Smith allowed Casson 500 feet start, and Adams and Haydock 200 each. After a very ‘ene contest Casson won by about forty yards, Smith coming in second. ‘Time, 33 minutes 4 seconds. The second race was @ one-mile velocipede race, for which there were only two entries, and was wom by McLellan, of New York. ‘Third race, 100 yard Co cae aac geet race, for which William adsetts, L. J. Gibney and John Donaldson started. Won by Adsetis, Gibney second. Fourth—Half-mile amateur running race. Wom by Wyld in 2m. 12s, Fifth—Amateur 200 Ps and running race; five en- tries. Won by Ourtt;, Gibney second. Time, twen- ty-two seconds. This completed the regular programme, and the reat of the afternoon was spent in impromptu scrub races. Tho religious ceremonies of the Heprew New Year festival ended last evening in all the synagogues, and most of the stores, even of the extreme ortho- dox, were reopened after being closed, a majority of them at least, since Friday at sunset, as it will be remembered having already been stated in the HeRALD, that according to the old Talmudistic ritual abstention from all secular employment is [et ote onthe two first daysof the month of ishri. With to-day another period of religious ceremonial opens among the Jews. It is. the season of “re- pentance.”’ which lasts for seven days. Though It ia permitted to attend to one’s worldly affairs, it is ati eason of prayer and fasting, and the (ge Sno are generally open during this time for the pious to obey the injunctions of the religious code, Upon the close of this season follows another one of the greatest of Hebrew festivals—Jom Kuppar— the Feast of Reconciliation, when it is understood, that having repented truly and loyally for aii the manifold shortcomings to which sinful flesh is tn- clined since the fall of Adam, the trae bellevers be- come reconciled to all the world their enmities cease and their friendships are knit the faster. This again is foliowed by the feast of Suckoth, after which comes the Simchas Thorah, or the ‘‘Memorial i of the Law,” commemorating the revelation of the law unto Moses on Mount Sinai. WESTCHESTER COUNTY ANNUAL FAIR. Yesterday being the second day of the Westchester County Agricultural and Horticultural Fair, opened auspiciously, notwithstanding the doubtful aspect of the weather. Indeed, to such an extent is the effect of a continued dry speli felt in the neighbor- hood that the managers and friends of the exhibi- tion wonld gladly welcome a ropious shower of rain, as 1t would principally supply the rather im- portant want of watering carta on the dusty road leading from the fair grounds to the village of White Plains, A noticeable feature of the present fair is that the agricultural commantity ot the county appears to be more awake to its importance than has been Ls. yo [> mse Lhentethg alk cnn iiesting ise! 6 tin when it . 4 alery ‘and ovner fem, soracaone fa gg fore the entry rm , productions books Were closed at noon yesterday. The stock of blooded horses at present on the grounds, numbers over fifty, and embraces some of the most superior equine specimens of this and adjoining estates. The Gepartments allotted to horned cattle, sheep, awine, &c,, cannot fail to attract special attention. Amor the amusements offered for tu-day 18 @ velocipede race, in which it is understood only ladies will take Dart. TAOTTING AT NARRAGANSET FARK. PPovipRNoR, Sept. 7, 1960, At the Narraganset Park this afternoon the Hiram Woodrut Stakes for four year old colts and fillies, mile heats, in harness, but the winner of the Spirtt of the Times Stakes of 1866 to go to wagon, subscription $250 each, and $250 adden, was trotted for. Pthe entries were George ©. Hitchcock's bay filly Highland Ash, by Ashland, to wagon; G. 0. Hammond's bay filly Miss Fairfield, by Hambietonian, and B. 5. Wright's chestnut ‘colt Fearnougnt, Jr., by Fear- nought. Highland Asn and Fearnought only pat in an appearance. The former won the first neat, and the Uatior tha tro others, Time—2:40%, 2:43 aud 2143.