The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1870, Page 4

Sn a in: in a idk aa Wir t 3 NEW YORK HERALD |™ Ni /} BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed. New York Herarv. { Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. = te AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk FIsLD OF THE CiotH or GoLp, \ WOOD'S MUSEOM AND mor Thirtieth ot. —-Matinee di ENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- riormance every evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth evenue and 98d ot. —Tox LWELVE TEMPTATIONS. \ BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23d st., between Sib and 6th ava.— ax Hoournors. | BowgRY THEA’ Ax Onszor oF v7 a Flash ai AMABEL— 0. { wALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1h strect— Minwie's Lvow. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FER- ANDE. 4 Tony PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—UNCLE ffom’s Canin. \ MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— SATHLEEN MavouRNEEN. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comro VooaL- 136M, NEGRO ACTS, &C, 4 KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— Prow-Frow—House Fry Don't TickLE ME, 40, ‘ CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., between 68th and ith ats,—THEODORE THOMAS! POPULAR ConoRK Ts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science AND ART. New York, Thursday, June 30, 1870. = = —= eo CONTENTS OF TO-DAY?3 HERALD. Pace. fl—Advertisements. Be Advertisements. 3—Avertisements, 4-Eliioria Leading Article on the Tammany Pronunctamento for the Fourth of July—Per- sonal Intelilgence—Yaciiting Notes—New York City News—The Weather—Musical and Theatri- cal Notes—Rowdy Picnickers—Amusement Aunouncements, G—Te.cgraphic News from all Parts of the World: Pa,al Infalitbility at the Point of Promulga- tion; Napoleon Regulating the Spanish Succes- sion; Keligions Tolevation in Russia; The Trade Strike in Ireiand—Quiet, but Controlled; Lord Clarendon’s Funerai—The Harlem In- fumy—Another Mystery—Naval Intelligence— Sale of Pictures—The Labor Question: Meeting of Workingmen 1n Bosion; Fiery Speeches Against the Introduction of Chinese Labor— Reign of the Roughs—Che “Skin Game’!— Long Isiand College Hospital—Amusing, Very —Aquatic—Homicide Case—Brooklyn Clty e News—Business Notices. 6=—The Quarautine Quibbie: Meeting of the Full Board of Commissioners; Dr. Carnochan Re- views the Situation—A Wail from the Sham- bles—College Commencements—Morris and the Fat Meiters: All the Nulsances to be Abol- ished—Big Speech trom Hon. Dewitt 0. Little. John—Too Rich to Live—Financlal and Com- mercial Reporte—The National Game—Sicken- ing Horror in Indiana—The Monthly Coal Sale. Y—Proceedii in the New York Courts—Real Estate Matters—Marriages and Deaths—Ad- vertisements. ik ie es St. Domingo Treaty Before xecutive Session of the Senate; Garfleld’s Currency Bili_ Defeated; The Senate Retain the Duty on 4 Great Amount of Business Transacted in the House—st. Vomingo—Alleged Blackmailing— A Great Trot at Fleetwood Park—Pool Selling for the Fashion Course Summer Mecting— Astounding Pistol Praciice—Shipping Inieill- geuce—Advertisement:. -mers to hold on to expecting a rise. fall before thara is 88,—Is there or is te South Carolina aousv? This is a query ‘Congressmen may well cogitate over this eweltering weather. Lapigs or Tae Lake.—The latest right that ‘woman is disposed to seize is the right to ‘bandle an oar. Three ladies of Pittsburg are mow practising to compete for a prize at a forthcoming regatta on the Monongahela river. Some of the oarsmen have a notion that this is galculated to bring rowing into disrepute— f little prejudice that they will get over. ‘ Moyopory iN Casizs.—The movement against monopoly in cable enterprises is good 4in its general purpose in so far as it applies to the telegraph the general doctrines of free trade and fair competition; but when a line has ‘been constructed, as was the Cuba line, on the faith of the government that it should have certain rights exclusively for a certain time, it Beems dishonest for the government to violate the compact. Tne WorxineMen oF Boston have hada large meeting at Tremont Temple to express their indignation against the introduction of Chinese labor. This is too bad for the Hub. Mn such an enlightened city they ought to know better than to oppose such an enlight- ened measure. It is arevival of the old Know Wothing proscriptive policy, that we would have first expecied in some more ignorant place. Prans FoR Our Dooxs aNnp Piers.—The Dock Commissioners cannot complain of any want of suggestions and plans as to the mode of building docks and piers all round the city, from the Battery to Harlem river and Spuyten Duyvil creek. They had submitted fo them at their last meeting all kinds of plans. A wall of stone, with proper arrange- gents for sewerage, running underneath, making a perfect sea wall, was one of the plans, Piers erected upon hollow iron pillars was another, The Board cannot be much fu these plans. They ubstantial and per- 5 Mae t nstructed with the ¥ good public sewer- & , 2eded. ose noisy, fighting »en knocking people rouses and keeping , would only throw k up their needles « bags and start for viser would it be! amense demand in '. Good workmen town and village, ages. A compe- earn twenty-five ly fotte times as nd, to say nothing life which he can brs should there- Save yay. Fourth of J L- Tammany Hall hag {fined its pronuncia- mento for of July. It comes to us in the of an invitation to attend this Year's celebration by the Sachems of the national anniversary in the Wigwam, at ten o'clock in the morning. The document is a regular democratic stump speech, in good, clear print, surmounted by 4 pair of star spangled banners, neatly colored, one on each side of the temple of the constitation, and is a very imposing affair to look. at, though some- what disappointing to read as-the latest expo- sition of the views of Tammany on the politi- cal issues of the day. In the outset of this manifesto we are gravely warned that “although our noble fabric of government is not yet a hundred years old, yet, within a few years, thoughtful men have been heard to express their fears that the day of its ruin is close at hand.” Of course, by the party out of power these fears are always expressed. It has been so from the time of Washington to this day, and will be so, perhaps, for a thousand years to come. Next we are told that during our late civil war “personal liberty” was subjected to “arbitrary force,” and that personal rights ‘‘were treated with soorn by unscrupulous men.” Granted; but have not these proceedings as among the necessities of the terrible struggle for our national existence been endorsed over and over again by the American people? Yes. Then why not drop this stupid complaint of arbitrary violations of personal rights during the war as among the dead issues of the past? How else are we to have a universal amnesty? Then we are told that even now ‘‘the entire South is without a stable, civil government,” and that both fraud and force are employed to con'rol the Southern elections. There is some trath in these complaints, but they are not “the whole truth;” for, all things considered, Southern reconstruction, under General Grant’s administration, may be set down asa great success. Next comes this particular accusation against ‘‘the powers that be” at Washington :— “Not content with destroying the freedom of elections at the South, Congress has this ses- sion enacted a law the purpose of which is to control elections in the North, by like applica- tions of terror and fraud.” This is all a mis- take. The law in question is intended to ter- rify the repeater and ballot stuffer, and to pro- tect the honest voter, and we dare say that honest men will so find in it its practical operation. The Tammany Sachems tell us, however, that ‘‘this is not the old form of government, so dear to all true Americans;” but here, again, they are mis- taken, for the power given by the old consti- tution to Congress to regulate elections for Congress is broad and full. Road it (art. I., sec. 4): “The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Repre- sentatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but (mark the but!) but the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except (mark the only exception!) except as to the place of choosing Senators.” The Sachems, however, are consoled with “the hope of better things.” They see in the recent elections ‘‘cheering signs that the peeple mean to protect thamselvas.” We re- member that the democracy were as hopeful in 1868 from the local elections of 1867; but it was shown that, like the elections ot 1862, those of 1867 signified nothing. In the next place, after assuring us that all the issues of the war are settled, the Sachems tell us that “we have now one great task to perform, to wit:—To re-establish promptly, in all its completeness, the old government.” God forbid, say we. The old government—a com- promise with slavery—was a government under the control of a slaveholding oligarchy, and we rejoice that it is among the things of the past. To form the Union the framers of the constitution were compelled to recognize and protect not only slavery, but the African slave trade. It was the best they could do to get the Union established, and they hoped that slavery would soon die out, as then it appeared to be dying out, But after that Whitney's invention of the cotton gin made the negro in the cotton field a cash article, and we know the rest of the history of ‘the old government in its com- pleteness” with the Dred Scott decision. This task of its re-establishment is sheer nonsense, The Sachems have reason, on the other hand, to crow right lustily over the good work done in behalf of municipal rights by our late democratic Legislature; though they are making the contrast too absurdly strong in saying that the federal administration and Congress during the last five years have accomplished nothing. Are the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments nothing ? Is the reduction of the public debt, under General Grant, at the rate of a hundred mil- lions a year nothing? Is the restoration of all the late rebel States to Congress, under this administration, nothing? Are the tax reduc- tions made nothing? Is one hundred millions surplus in the Treasury nothing? Is the reduc- tion of the gold premium to eleven per cent nothing? We must say that, asa party pro- nunciamento, this edict from Tammany Hall signifies nothing, or that as nothing more than a Fourth of July splutter of Tammany fire- works it may be dismissed. At the meeting we shall look for something better. MerRowants’ PooKETS AND THE PvuBLIO HeA.tH.—As an evidence of the extent some of our merchants regard the public health when their pecuniary interest is likely to be affected the case of the bark Fyen clearly shows. This vessel came direct from a port where the yellow fever is raging. Two of her crew were attacked with the disease, and when she arrived in this port she had no bill of health to exhibit, Messrs. J. L. Phipps & Co., ané Funk, Edge & Co., who claim, we presume, to be respectable merchants in this city, but with residences elsewhere, contend that she should be allowed to come direct to the city and discharge her cargo of coffee. It might be a little too severe to suppose for a moment that any of the above named mer- chants were actuated by mercenary motives in waking thelr demand that tne wzen should be relieved from quarantine duty, but ere te a singular circumstance connected with it, and that is that at present there is a good market for coffee and gold is declining, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1870. Tammany FPrenenciavonte for thd The President Still Has Hope of Getting St. the accommodation they get. If the tax is Domingo. The time for the ratifloation of the St. Domingo treaty expires to-morrow ; but there is no prospect of it being acted upon by the Senate within the time. The President, how- ever, does not give it up. The news from Washington informs us that General Grant told several Senators that be had made an arrangement for a further extension of time, with the hope that the Senate may, before Congress adjourns, act favorably upon the treaty. This tenacity of purpose is strong in the President, When he sees he is right and has a good object in view he is not easily turned aside from his purpose. Senators have lost sight of the main object and the general policy involved in this ques- tion of acquiring St. Domingo by looking too steadfastly at minor matters or side issues. Some have opposed the treaty because they want no further extension of territory; some because the territory lies to the south and in the tropics and not at the north, Others are opposed to the incorporation of more negroes and because the acquisition of St. Domingo would bring to us several hun- dred thousand more of that population, A good many appear to have been influenced by the reports of there being a big job at the bottom of the annexation scheme. The com- bined influence of these objectors has proved stronger than the administration, though a large majority of the Senate belong to the party of the administration. Those who oppose the treaty on the ground that we want no more territory, or, at least, territory to the southward and in the tropics, are old fogies who do not see beyond their noses. There always has been that class of men in the republic—the same that opposed the acqnisition of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California and other Territories. They would have fenced in the old thirteen States with Chinese exclusiveness. Had their advice been followed the United States would have been to-day a second or third rate Power, with limited pro- ductions and a circumscribed area, instead of the magnificent empire, abundance and great variety of products, enormous wealth and vast population we now have. Such men are always behind the times and never compre- hend the destiny of the country. Not less short-sighted are those who resist the acquisi- tion of tropical territory. The sugar, coffee, cocoa, minerals, dye stuffs, ornamental woods, fruits, drugs and other things which the rich islands of the West Indies furnish in abundance, or are capable of furnishing to an almost un- limited extent, would add greatly to our wealth and commerce, and would go far to make us independent of the rest of the world for these supplies. Besides, these islands, if possessed by us, would afford a large market for our manufactures and agricultural products. Then, the United States has become such a vast nation as to need the ports, harbors and defences of the Antilles, which command all the channels and seas south of us. Wo can- not resist long our destiny in that direction, and it is a narrow-minded policy that jeads public men to make the attempt. As to the negroes or mixed races in the West Indies, they are but a drop in the bucket. The overwhelming, superior white race in this republic can easily control and make them useful. See how it 1s in the South- ern States of the Union. Look at the enor- mons cotton crop and other products that they raise by their labor, and that, too, with all the difficulties that arose from the war, sudden emancipation and protracted reconstruction. There need be no fear about controlling that class of population and making it useful. ‘ As to the opposition on the ground that | there is a job in the annexation scheme of St. Domingo, that is comparatively a small mat- | ter. It would be hard to accomplish any/ scheme of annexation or purchase of terri- tory without some job being in it—-without some individuals being benefited. It would be bet- ter if this were not so. But, after all, this is a trifling consideration compared with the great object in view and the results to be obtained. Then the government can use proper vigi- lance in the matter and hedge any treaty of annexation round with such provi- sions as to prevent any stupendous jobs | or frauds. We suppose that Fabens, Cazneau and others, who are smart, scheming fellows, are going to make something out of the annexation of St. Domingo, if that takes place, and so will a great many other Americans; but shall we throw away all the advantages to the country on that account,? - It was the same with the silly hue and cry about the Cuban bonds, to damage the cause of Cuba and to prevent that island, the most valuable of all the West Indies, coming to the United States. As it turned out, this report about the Cuban bonds was a canard ; but if it had been true—that is, if these bonds had been used to help the cause of Cuban independence, provided none had been used to corrupt Con- gress—what harm would there have been done? Would not this have been a very small affair, at least compared with the great object of making Cuba free and driving the Spaniards from this hemisphere? The truth is, these reports about St. Domingo, as well as about Cuba, have been worked up by opposing par- ties, and have really no reason in them. Gen- eral Grant is right in his broad and far-seeing policy to get a foothold in the Antilles, both for the interests of our commerce and for naval purposes. We hope the Senate will no longer quibble about trifles, and that no member will attempt to emulate the laborious effort which Mr. Morrill made yesterday in the executive session, in apparent aggravation of the hot weather and as @ malicious defiance of poor Sawyer’s snores, but that it will ratify the treaty for the annexation of St. Domingo with- out any useless dallying. Tue Horsz Car Tax.—Congress, in deal- ing with the Tariff bill, should abolish the tax of one-eighth per cent on every passenger carried on city railroad cars. Why? Be- cause it would remove the excuse upon which the railroad companies charge the passengers one per cent, thus stealing seven-eighths from the public on the ground that they have to pay tax to the government, This of course isa swindle, as everybody knows. Remove the preven. by abolishing the tax and the public will not be Sompelied to Bay more thag the | orignal fare of five cents on the street cars ; and even at that price they pay 0 much for abolished we shall know how to deal with the railroad companies. The people will have the power in thelr own hands and they will know how to use it, Canada—The Independence Agitation. The sudden appearance in Canada of an evidently strong independence party is a fact for which time was ripe. It portends a not remote change that will certainly be of great consequence to our neighbor, if not to us, So far as is immediately apparent, however, the change will be mostly nominal, Canada was really cut adrift by the imperial power some time since; but this fact was scarcely observed by her people. They were so accustomed to believe in their own importance and in the wealth of the provinces that they had no room in their minds for the notion that Great Britain could possibly find her relationship with them more @ burden than an advantage, and they therefore refused to see in the establishment of the new Dominion the real significance of that event. But now that England refuses to de- fend Canada at the imperial expense ; now that she requires her to provide for her own pro- tection—things that were implied in the estab- lishment of the New Dominion—the people over the border rub their eyes, and discover that the mother country has abandoned them and thrust them out ona cold and heartless world, The colonial policy of the present British government, as given elsewhere in a despatch from Earl Granville, involves the simple refusal of England to tax an empire to sustain the police of the North American pro- vinces. ‘Every civilized government,” it holds, ‘is bound to protect the property with- in its own limits,” In view of the assumption of such an atti- tude by the imperial government the Canadians are startled from their propriety, and when some of the more logical of their number re- flect that this merely means independence, that word gives direction to the expression of all the sentiment of all the disgusted barnacles. They seem to fancy they can take out a spite against the four syllables that horrify their loyalty; that they can resent upon the word their spleen for the nonchalance with which they are whistled down the wind. But the clearness and cogency with which the party of independence lays down its views, and the evident excitement and trepidation into which its appearance has thrown all the old colonial place holders and government contractors and similar ‘‘influential classes,” tell alike that the new idea touches the keynote of the Canadian future, At this moment the only attitude pos- sible for Canada is that of independence, and then the only consequence of independence will be annexation. For this last the other provinces are ready now; with Nova Scotia in front annexation is the inevitable future of all those countries. Only as States in this Union can their resources be developed or their people be contented. This is obvious to the men mong them who see clearest, and these men, with no hatred to British rule, but with a com- mendable love of country, are the foremost men in the party of independence. Miss Clara Louisa Kellogs. From every enterprise, whether resulting in success or failure, some noticeable fact is always evolved, important to the individual, to the many or to both; so after the thunder of the cannons, the crash of the anvils and the surge of the grand tonal wave from thousands of voices and instruments assisting at the late grand musical jubilee, this fact stands forward prominently, that Miss Clara Louisa Kellogg was the unchallenged success and the crown- ing glory of the festival week. This young songstress, born in our midst and educated at home, with no foreign influence to win her from a loving allegiance to her native country, has steadily worked her way to the highest position in the operatic art—a position which she has maintained here against all opposition, and in London against Nilssen and other great artists who flock to that city during the fash- ionable season, The musical quidnuncs who settle facts in art with wonderful precision long since | decided, beyond dispute, that only grand dra- matic voices could fill buildings of the magni- tude of the Music Hall and Coliseum, of Boston, and the Rink, of this city. It was clear, then, that Miss Kellogg could not be heard in that large building in Third avenue, put up for various purposes. Those who had cut their wisdom teeth said so, and so it must be, But American pluck was equal at least to the trial, and Miss Kellogg stood before some thousands of people and sent her voice forth, without effort, just as it was formed in her wonderful throat, to search out the farthest ends of the building. Bright, clear and pure, now flowing and throbbing, now brilliant and sobbing, taking its inflections from the changeful sentiments of the music, it rose dominant and pervading over chorus and orchestra, just as the song of the skylark in midair seems to burst from every quarter of the heavens, flooding space with boundless wealth of the divinest melody. A result so utterly unexpected, while it confounded the knowing ones, proved that, in the purity of production and not in immense volume, rests the secret of the carrying power of the voice. The brilliant reception given to Miss Kel- logg and the elegant audiences which marked the days of her performance point her out as the dominant attraction and as the one great and legitimate success of the great musical jubilee. Miss Kellogg is the acknowledged American representative of Italian Opera, asking no consideration for her birth, but competing on a level with the best foreign artists. For several years she has been the salvation of that mismanaged and bankrupt institution, and her good work has always been done ata pecuniary sacrifice. She has now assumed the leadership of the concert room, and will in the fall take her stand in the highest class of classical music, which has now no single interpreter in America. Miss Kellogg will have then but one more duty to pay to the American people—namely, to sing in opera in their ownlanguage. She will then be truly the representative Amerigan singer, and fame and wealth will flow in upon her whom the people will delight to honor. AN AvriontfY ox T Several leading railroad men in Washington would racic® have “an extension of the incomo tax than the tax on gresd Bel Wry, Of course they would; but then they are not 6 tire WRole people, Congress Yesterday. The Senate yesterday debated at some length the clause in the Tax and Tariff bill making the duty on coal fifty cents a ton. The proposition was voted down and the duty on coal remains at its present rate. Other items of less importance were acted upon during the evening session, but the bill was not finally dis- posed of, An executive session was held to dispose of the St. Domingo treaty, but Mr. Mor- rill unexpectedly inflicted a long speech on the perspiring members, which compelled them to adjourn the matter in an exhausted mood until to-day, when we are promised a certain disposal of the treaty. In the Honse there was a busy time clear- ing away the business on the Speaker's table, A number of unimportant bills were disposed of in this way. The conference report on General Garfield’s Currency bill was further considered and rejected. Another conference committee was appointed, but the differences between the Senate and the House on the bill are probably too wide to be settled by this means. The currency question may therefore be considered settled for this session at least. The Committee on Elections made a report which gives a cheering indication of a returning sense of justice that knows not party, such as was evinced in the very aggra- vated case of Mr. Whittemore. In the Mis- souri contested election case between Dyer (republican), the sitting member, and Switz- ler, a democratio contestant, the committee reported in favor of Switzler—an instance of unpartisan ruling thatso far has been very unfrequent in that committee. The evidence must have been very hard indeed against Mr. Dyer. The Now French Loan—The Hausmann Improvements. A cable despatch informs us that the French government is negotiating a heavy loan, in order to complete the regeneration of Paris, inaugurated by Baron Haussmann. It is now some time since Baron Haussmann found it necessary to resign his position, His reforms were visible, were telling; but they were also expensive. Haussmann’s great offence was shat he was a costly reformer. Haussmann knew, and every man who sees Paris knows, that the result justified the preliminary expense. We are not sorry to know that Haussmann’s plans are still in favor, and that, although he is no longer commander-in-chief of the Paris reconstructors, the ‘good work must goon. Paris is now the most beautiful city in the world. Its beauties will remain a perpetual memorial of the second empire. As things now are Paris is the centre of Europe. Itis more. It is in a high sense the cenire of the world. Haussmann’s plans carried out, Paris will, as a city, be the crowning of modern civilization. Lofty and alone, the queen of cities, the eye of the world, it will stand. Why should not New York come up to the same high standard? No city ever had such opportunities, Nature has done all things for us. Why should not art put on the finish? As things are the city of New York is a disgrace to modern civilization, not to speak of the New World. Money is not the scarce commodity. tis brains and taste and honesty and patriotism. These are the want- ing qualities. As Paris is the queen of Europe so should New York become the queen of America. We await Peter Bismarck Sweeny’s return from Europe with some hope. After he has seen the capitals of Europe we expect to find some practical proof of taste on the part of the man who really governs New York city. Augustus Cesar found Rome brick und left it marble, Why should not our modern Augus- tus do the same for New York? If he does not he will lose his chances. But the work must be done and some one must reap the glory. Weare not sorry for Paris. We are sorry only for New York, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Colonel F. W. Latham, of Texas; John H, Cathcart and A. F. Ravnel, of South Carolina; Thomas K. Price, of New Orleans; John P. King, of Augusta, Ga.; SM. Routh, of Louisiana; J, Blair Gallaher, of Texas; Thomas Taylor, of South Carolina; Washing- ton McLean, of Cincinnati, and A, D. Banks, of ‘Mississippi, ate at the New York Hotel. * — General N. Kimball, of Chicago; W. H, Seward, of Auburn; J.N. McCullough, of Pittsburg, and Dr. D, Hostetter, of Pittsburg, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Judge Jos. Lawless, of Rhode Island; Judge E. ©. Kattell, of Binghamton; Colonel Wilds P. Walker, of Maine; W. F. Randolph, of the United States Army; Dr. D. Breed, of Washington; Senator J. W. Patter- son, of New Hampshire, and E, McCormick, of the United States Navy, are at the Astor House, Simon Moses, of Pittsburg; H. ©. Bentley, of Mil- waukie, and Henry Clay Miller, of Baltimore, are at the Coleman House, Charies Dwight and Nathan Appleton, of Boston, are at the Albemarie Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Edgecumbie and Lieutenant A. M. Pack, of the English Army; D. C. Littlejohn, of Buffalo; ex-Congressman F, E. Woodbridge and T. H. Canfield, of Vermont; V. V. Drew, of Washing- ton; General J. 8. Tyler, of Boston; Bishop Kerfoot, of Pittsburg; W. M. Ely, of Binghamton, and A. Cherry, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Prosessor Pierce, of the United States Coast Sur- vey; C. H. R. Gosset, of Montreal, and J. 8. Wilson, Of Glasgow, Scotland, are at the Brevoort House. Major G. W. Pratt, of the United States Army, and Professor Batchelor, of Paris, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Major G. E. Head, of the United States Army; Dr. W. C. Heard, of Connecticut; Colonel W. Coleman and Dr. T. Carnagee, of Pitsburg; Dr. F. A, Parker, of Boston; Rev. E. C. Colchester, of Australia, and Colonel Audenried, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hoiel. Persona) Notes. Secretary Robeson and family are at the Metro- Politan Hotel, Long Branch. Prince Pierre Bonaparte 1s said to be In San Fran- cisco on his way to the Tahiti Islands, So long as he 1s pacifically inclined we are all safe. Captain James Weisman, an aged and respected citizen of Charleston, died on the 26th inst. He was born mn England, YASHTING NOTES, The entries for the Columbia Yacht Club regatta, which comes off to-day from the foot of Fiity-seventh street, North river, are as folilows:—Firat class (cabin sloops)—Louise Elizabeth Rowe, Edith Ann Gage, Jennie T., Carrie Morgan, Resolute. Second class {open boats)—The Earle, Lillie. Third class—Re- beoca, G. W. Cregier. Fourth class—Flirt, Geraldine, Betsy and High Daddy. The course will be from a stakeboat off the club house 1o aud around a stake boat anchored of Fort Lee dock, thence to and around @ boat off the ofl docks and back to starting point, the distance to be sailed over twice, The measureient of hulls and canvas is different from at adopted by any other club—viz., by superficial test Teetor canvas, Wiill a}:0W- ance o! ing to the co, th Ys ie S18 RIRS, “Gage tn. ule Sean ease Espectal ey voohte of the ‘rst class. The Yachts are announce; -past ten sh ‘As the regatta can bé witi din he th nouss the club house & large asscmblage Will doubueys be in attendance. Local and Police Paragraphs and Minor Items of Metropolitan News. ‘The police census show 88,732 horses, 116 mutes, 2,191 cows, 8 oxen and 11 bulls in the city. Adolph Knapp, @ man thirty-four years of age, late of 878 Greenwich street, died in the Tombs, where he had been committed on Tuesday by Ji Hogan on a charge of intoxication, Ooroner nan was notified. John Cornin, residing in Oak street, was arraigned at the Tombs yeaterday for having stabbed in the aide with a knife a woman named Mary Haines, re- siding at 39 Oak street. Cornin was committed te answer In default of $1,100 bail. Robert H. Lee, who says he is an upholaterer from Cleveland, Ohio, pleaded guilty at the Tombs yester- day, before Justice Hogan, of having stolen s watch, valued at $150, ats, of No. n aefault mm Charies QI iden lane. He was committed for trial in 000 bail, The Pennsylvania Central, New York Central and Erie railroad companies have agreed to advance western bound [reight rates to regular tariff prices on Friday, July 1. Merchants, therefore, will, sect have ino reason to anticipate an carly redue- tion Henry Lee, 8 New York waiter, was charged at the Tombs yesterday with having, on the 27th instant, stolen trom Theodore Martin, of 81 Centre - the present rates, treet, two lots of harness, valued at seventy-five aalern ‘the property of the New York Printing Com- pany. ‘Justice Hogan held the W answer ia fault of $2,000 ball. Edward Brennan and Thomas Mahan, who were yesterday discharged by Justice McQuade, they hav- ing been arrested in connection with an outrage om Misa White, were rearrested yesterday and locked up for examination on suspicion of bemg the ovher two who, with Riely, committed the outrage on Mra. Birnwe in 116th street. John McCarthy, residing at 36 Washington street, was arraigned in the Tombs yesterday for picking the pocket of William O’Shea witle the latter was tery esday last. Justice Se ee tieea the Rcused tor trial ny default of $2,000 bail, and sent O'Shea to the House of Deten- tion to await ihe tilal. Richard Folkes, a carman, residing at 446 Cherry street, was before Justice Hogan at the Tombs yes- terday on acharge of having stolen from Richard Kolb, of 84 Water street, two barrels of whiskey, valued at $200 each, Fuldes admitied the theft, and siated that he got ten dollars for takiug the whiskey to Williamsburg, but denihd that he was guilty. auere fogan held him for trial in default of $1,000 Tue annual commencement of the Lespinassa French Institute, situated at Fort Washington, wai closed yesterday by the distribution of prizes. Five gentiemen were graduated, and prizes were @warded as follows:—Gould medal, for superior gen- eral siandiug, to G. Eliot; silver meuais to Heary Brush and Warren Priest, John Vorhees received the dipioma im civil engineering, and Wm. Elliot and A. Lazare diplomas mm modern languages. Atameeting of “John A, Rawlins” Post, No. 31, Grand Army ofthe Republic, held at 73 Ludlow street, on Tuesday night, the following officers wore elected for the ensuing year:—Commander, P. T. Lynch; 8. V. Commander, T. J. Kelly; J. V. Com- mander, I. J. Connolly; Adjutant, 8. K. Thom} H Quartermaster, G. B, Dibble; Chaplain, B. J. Jacob, and three others. The delezates to the department convention apps wt this meeting were P. T. Lyneh and T. J. Kelly. Yesterday, on the departure of Denis O'Donoghue and Frank Higgins for Europe, on board the steam- ship Cuba, a body of distinguished gentlemen char- tered a steamer, with a band of music axe ‘ccom--~> panied them down tne bay, under nagement of Peter Trainer, chairman of the committee of ar- sangemente, and Join M. ey secretary. The fair was excchiently man: throughout. During the trip the party entertained themselves as New Yorkers on @ joliitication know how to do, ‘ The attention of Superintendent Jourdan is re- spectfully called to have @ few guardians of the peace look alter the locality foot of East Seventy- fourth street and neighborhood. Fights are of aimost nightly occurrence and drunken brawling renders night hideous and unsafe. A few descents by @ posse of police would be of service 1m that neighburbood, for by and by, as it is now, the opinion Will be that the police force are afraid to sow Wei- selves there alter dark. Something ought to ve done for those who wish to live in peace. FERVENT HEAT. The Gothamite Purgatory—Another Day’s TorturemThe Thermometor and What It Did. Yesterday was another blisterer for poor Gotham- ites, The sun rose at his appointed hourin not » whit better mood than on the pre Gay, and from the moment he made his 4) jee people, began to fret and chafe. He has evidently got some grudge against us metropolitans, has this same sun; but the worst of the thing is that nobody knows how, to propitiate the fiery monster. Even eH with the big cannon with a glass at both ends, who takes up his stand every day in the Park to gaze the heavens out. of countenance, could not get at the bottom of old Sol’s temper. People who consider themselves ‘‘some” on weather predictions took their Sauta Cruz ‘sours’ complacently on Tuesday night, fully convinced that the redhotness of the temperature would give up the ghost by to-day; but they found out to their cost, and that of their friends, that “sours” were just a3 necessary biood coolers rede | as they had been the pny before, In the middie of the day the heat was positively ex- cruciating, and if one of Mr. Hume’s bad spirits happened to be on his earthly holiday tour about noon he must have felt quite at home on Broadway. During the afternoon somebody who has influence with tne clerk of the weatier #1 in scaring up a breeze, when the aweltertug community breathed more ireely. ‘The following is the record of the day a3 compared with the corresponding day Of last year 1869, 1870, 87 4 IBGE YORE ssv'evscscavecss oasis 5 The following cases of coup de soleil are repo! by the police:— Seneca Deitz, colored, of 149 West Thirty-ninta street, was overcome with the heat. Edward Losey, of 246 West Thirty-fifth street, car- man, was prostrated by the heat at 254 West Twen- ty-ninth street, and was taken home. Edward Usborn, of 129th street, near Third ave- nue, was overcome by the heat, but recovered, Elizabeth Williams was affected by a slight sun- stroke at the corner of Bowery and ucey street, A slight sunstroke was experienced by Henry Bradley, of 113 West Fifteenth street. George Solst, of 96 Hester street, was overcome by heat at Casile Garden last evening, and, being re- moved to his residence, died. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES, ‘The Zavistowski sisters, Emeline, Alice and Chris- tine, bave arrived tn ibis city from San Francisco, where they performed successtully for some months, ‘Theodore Thomas’ grand benefit concert comes off this evening at the Central Park Garden. The fine orchestra will be increased on the occasion and an exoellent programme will be performed, A vocal and instrumentai concert will be given to~ morrow evening at Terrace Gardin. During the excessively hot weather the summer theatre at- tached to the garden is much too close for operatic business, and open air concerts will doubtless prove more agreeabie. ‘The Brignoli Italian opera troupe have so far met ‘with great success in taeir tour. At Uuca the fa- mous “Il Trovatore” was given with fine effect, aud although the temperature was somewhere in the region of ninety degrees, the large assemblage, ac- cording to the local papers, was quite enthusiastic. Signor Brignolt was the recipient of much approba- tion, a8 was also Miss McCulloch, In her beautiful rendering of Leonora. The troupe wiil make an extended trip throughout the British provinces im Canada, ROWDY PICNICKERS. Attempt to Sheot an Officer at Landmann’s Park. On Tuesday evening a disturbance was created in Landmann’s Park by @ young man, named John Walsch, alias Hannan, who tore the dress off a wo- man’s back. Oficer William Clark, Jr, Who was present, attempted to arrest Walsch, when a pal of his interfered to prevent the arrest, Walsch took a pistol from hig pocket and gave it to Williams, his friend. who noitjted it at the oficer, The latter was, ' raw Q quik and wide awake to be caught in Strap, and pews ~ red He. officer Fann! of His serene. Vinee ‘both the rouge were ifito custody. Dtiows Bixby hold tiem in defanit of $1,000 bail to answel ap atiempt af assault aud batter, NEW YORK CITY. ,