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T RIPLE SHEET. eka Advertisements. 2—Advertisenienta $—The Ocean Rece: Arrival of the Yachts Cambria and Dauntless; The English Yacht the Victor; The Logs of the Competing Yachts; An Hour and (Forty Minutes Difference in a Race of Three ‘Thousand Miles; The Dauntless Loses Two Men Overboard; A Reception in the Harbor, 4—Europe: What the People Say of the War Con- ict; The Secret Treaty—Iis Origin and In- tent; British Outline of Napoleon’s Plan of cnmpelgn; Disraclt and Gladstone on the 5—Midsummer Resorts: Another Hot Day by tho Beas ¢ at Long Branch—Watering Place Notes—Personal Intel!1zence—A Curlous Aban- donment Cise—Naval Intelligence—Found Drowned—Death of a Newark Fireman—At- tempted Burglary in _ Hoboken—Intanteelde Fxtraordinary—The Hartman Murder—The Wickedest Boy in Jersey—The Al'eged Soldier Bigumist—Trotting at the Union Course—The National Game—Fatal Leap from a Train— Froceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Couris—An Affray on a German Steamer— eae Out Dens of Ill Repute—Real Estate rs, G—Editortais: Leading Article on The Administra- tion aud the Europea» War—General Grant's Policy of Peace—!'all of a Building—-Brook- jyn’s Water Supply—Obituary—Amusement A*nouncements. : ‘7—The War: Prussian Concentration at Mayence: King William with the German Army; Reports from the Front but No Battle; French Call for Ninety Thousand Additional ‘troops; “It is too Late” for Peace; The Empress Engénie Re- gent of France; Napoleon, Bismarck and the oni Treaty—Telegraphic News from All ‘arts of the World: Italy in Revolutionary Agitation; Papal Alarm at Napoleon's Pori- tion—News from Washington—A,; Remarkable Fatality—Business Notices. S—North Carolina: An Interview with Qolonel George W, Kirk—The Pbiladelphia Fires— Counting the Coin in the Sub-Treasury in This City—The Wine Prospect tu California—The Coal Trade Sa'e—Pollce Detectives Detatled to Attend the Long Branch Races—Return of Dr. Prime—The Chinese Question; Wendell Phil- lips’ Welcome to the Celestials; American Laboring Men to be Protected—Chess Matuers— A Job on an Officer—The Hessians 1a the Revo- lution—Tele, i ie St. Petersburg Exhi- iia and Japan—The Suez inancial and Commercial Reports— dlordism Outdone—Excitement on an in Stei A Gay Wedding Nipped in Mari ad Deaths. yacl (Continued from Third Pag n Indian Wedding—The Voice of the Veople—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. an 41-Crime in Canada: Statistics of Slaughter: Romance of Murder: A_ Bloodyi Record— Fashion in Britain: Engiishmen m America and Americans in England—Double Death in a Tenemen:—The Markets of New York: What They Are and Where They Are—A Strange Case—Burning Casualty in Chicago—The Fenn Murder—Woman Suffrage in Conuectic (2—<Australasia: Parliamentary Progr Agitation in New Zealand—A New Trick—Ad- vertisement! The Occan Yacht Race. The long agony is oyer. The great inter- national ocean yacht race is completed, and the British yacht Cambria has unfurled her victorious colors before the headquarters of the New York Yacht Club, where she re- ceived yesterday a stranger's welcome. If the result of the race does not fully satisfy yachtmen on the relative sailing qualities of the two vessels, it will perhaps demonstrate the fact that the northern course westward across the Atlantic is preferable to the long southern course in midsummer. The race was closely contested, there being less than two hours difference in the time of the two yachts reporting at the lightship off Sandy Hook. This, fora race of three thou- sand miles, consuming over twenty-three days of time, is most extraordinary. Weare pained in having to chronicle the loss of two noble asamen of the Dauntless, who were swept off her jibboom while in the performance of their duty. The Dauntless lay to over two hours in the hope of recovering the unfortunate men, but all efforts were fruit- less, and their bodies were left in the grave of thedeep ocean, We must forego comment on NKW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, The Administration and War—Gencral Grants Policy of Poace. the European tary Fish meantime to Baron Gerolt isa graceful compliment to Prussia and the Ger- The Secretary of State, Mr. Fish, on the | man people, without in the slightest degree 22d inst, addressed an official despatch to the Prussian Minister, Baron Gerolt, at Washing- ton, in which he says that he has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from the Baron, ‘‘communicating to this government the text of a deapatch from Count Bismarck, tothe effect that private property on the high seas will be exempt from seizure by the ships of his Majesty the King of Prussia, without regard to reeiprocity;” that ‘it is now nearly a cen- tury since,” saya Mr. Fish, ‘‘the United States, through Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Frank- lin and John Adams, their plenipotentiaries, and under the guidance of the great Frederick of Prussia, entered into a treaty of amity and commerce, to be in force for ten years from its date,” &c., and that “‘the government of the United States receives with great pleasure this renewed adherence of the great and en- lightened German government to tho princi- ples temporarily established by the treaty of 1785, and since then advocated by this gov- ernment whenever an opportunity has offered.” The Secretary of State, then, after reciting these several efforis of the United States, from time to time, down to the treaty of Paris of 1856, to get this important propositon of the exemption in war of private property from seizure acknowledged as the law of the great Powers of the earth, closes by saying that the present decision of Prussia on this subject “gives reason to hope that the government and people of the United States may soon be gratified by seeing it (the principle) recognized as another restraining and humanizing in- fluence imposed by modern civilization upon the art of war.” The Secretary speaks in a tone of regret of ‘the war which has now un- happily broken out” between Prussia and France, bis object clearly being to leave the impression upon the mind of the reader that the position of General Grant’s administration in this war is that of a careful aud coascien- tious neutrality. Among our democratic copperhead contem- porarles, however, tho discovery has been made that in this courteous and inoffensive letter to the representative of a friendly nation ‘General Grant has weakly decided to abet Prussia in the present war;” that such a letter ‘‘at this conjuncture is so gratuitous that it can have no other object than to express the sympathy of our government with the Prussian side, which is quite inconsistent with our posi- tion of neutrality ;” that Prussia is entitled to no credit for adopting, then or now, the human- izing principles embraced in her treaty of 1785, and that “‘our government acts without judg- ment or dignity” in complimenting her course upon this subject. Now, if the obligations of neutrality were such as to restrain our government, pending a war between two nations with which we are at peace, from the expression of a generous approval of any act on either side looking to the mitigation of the horrors of war, then it might be said that our government, in the letter of Mr. Secretary Fish, has acted “without judgment or dignity.” But, as no restraint of the kind suggested is involved among the duties of neutrality, we dare say that General Grant will not be called by Louis Napoleon to explain this complimen- tary despatch to Baron Gerolt. Nor do we apprehend that our imprudent copperhead contemporaries, in becoming partisans on the one side in this European war, will be able to entangle General Grant on the other side. From the day in 1868 that he proclaimed him- self a candidate for the Presidency his motto has been, “Let us, have peace,” and it has been peace in view of his paramount objects, the lessening of our burden of taxation and the redemption of the public debt. Hence, notwithstanding his personal inclina- tions in regard to the Cuban question and the apparently overwhelming public seatiment of the country in favor of decisive iutervention on his part in bebalf of the independence of Cuba, and in view of the annexation of that rich, convenient and desirable island, we have seen General” Grant persistently declia- ing to take any step calculated to dis- turb our peaceful relations with Spain. And yet again, he could have justified himself in urging the occupation and annexation of Mex- ico on the general plea of Napoleon’s experi- mental protectorates ; but instead of this General Grant has actually been assisling Juarez in his futile efforts to establish law and order under Mexican self-government. If General Grant has ‘‘worked like a beaver” to secure the annexation of the large, beautiful and productive West India island of Stq Domingo, beginning with the republic of Dominica, it has been because the scheme em- braced the advantages of a splendid bargain and no possible dangers of any hostile compli- cations. We have not been able to fathom the profound objections of Senator Sumner to this project, but we suppose that he saw in it some impediments to his Alabama claims which were invisible to the administration. At all events the policy of General Grant in this enterprise was the policy of peace, na- tional progress and prosperity. We may then safely conclude that if General Grant bas persistently declined to enter into any enterprises of ‘manifest destiny” in the national expansion and aggrandizement on this Continent, involving, however remotely, the chances of war, he will not be drawn into this necessity, whatever the European complica- tions it may assume. How can the United States, as matters now stand, take sides against France or Prussia, looking at the in- yaluable services of France in our first war of independence, and at the incalculable ser- vices of Germany and the Germans in our last war forthe Union. Itis true that Louis Na- poleon in this war tried the bold venture of a foothold in Mexico; but his graceful retirement when the occasion called for it was, after all, a satisfactory reparation for the offence. We do not apprebend any serious difficulty to General Grant in maintaining neutrality, and tho most friendly relations at the same time, with France and Prussia. Should England be drawn into the struggle she may expect serious troubles with the Fenians on both sides of the Atlantic ; but in that extremity we shall look rather to a satis- factory settlement of those Alabama claims the race at present, and refer to our full and graphic accounts iy another portion of the Raper.” than to a war between England and the United States, remembering that peace is the grand idea of Geueral Grant, The letter of Secre- European contest, except in the last resort of ' involving anything offensive to France. Mr. Gladsteno en the Present State of the Alabama Claims Question. From the reply of the British Premier to Mr. McCulloch Torrens ‘in the House of Com- mons as to the state of the Alabama claims question we understand precisely where the hitch is that prevents negotiations, Mr. Glad- stone said the case stood just where It did a year and a half ago, at the time the United States doolined the offer made by England, and that the next advance for a settlement was due from the American government, The British government waits, then, for some action or pro- position from the United States for reopening negotiations, We hope Mr. Frelinghuysen,’ if he is going to London, will be instructed to make a definite proposition, or if he should not accept the appointment of Minister to England that some other able statesman will be appointed at once with like instructions, - The responsibility of keeping open this question is nggegfrown directly upon our government by cial declaration of Mr. Gladstone in the louse of Commons. We cannot let the blame rest upon us. To do so would show weakness and indecision. It would be said that we do not know what we want, or that we are captious, In the first place, negotiations for the sottle- ment of the question should be conducted in Washington, and whoever may be sent as Minister to London should propose this as the first step. Negotiations having failed io Eng- land, let them be tried at Washington. There may be some difficulty in making out a bill of damages in dollars for the actual loss by destruction of American vessels by the Alaba- ma and the other British built corsairs, though this is but a small portion of the dam- age really done. But, we suppose, this loss can be preity accurately ascertained from the claims of ship owners filed in Washington. At any rate the amount can be ascertained. This, then, would be the first bill of items, ‘That should be presented and the amount de- manded. But for the other and greater damage, in the destruction of our maritime interests and commerce, a settlement might be reached through negotiations for the transfer of the British possessions in America to the United States, The damage was national, rather than individual, in this respect, and such a settlement would have a national character. The inevitable destiny of the British American colonies is annexation to the United States, Within a comparatively short time the Ameri- can republic must become a continental Power by the absorption of adjacent territories, and if England be wise she will take this oppor- tunity to settle all difficulties with us and cement a lasting friendship by giving up her American colonies. Asa part of the United States they will become more valuable to her commerce and to the world than they are now or ever could be under colonial rule. Mr. Gladstone and the other far-seeing statesmen of England may not be unfavorable to such a proposition, and we advise General Grant to present the question and to ask for a settle- ment oa this broad ground. Captain Hali’s New Arctic Expedition, Congress, before its recent adjournment, voted an appropriation of fifty thousand dollars to enable Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, to make a third journey of thirty months in the frozen regions which he has done so much to make known to the world, This vote is highly commendable, not only as an act of jus- tice to Captain Hall, in view of desperate but ineffectual struggles to prevent it, but also as a tribute to the vast importance of purely scientific explorations. The direct no less than the indirect practical benefits of such explora- tions are attested by history. While, how- ever, Captain Hall’s next expedition will be planned and executed mainly for the promotion of science and general knowledge, it will not lack an element of interest for the heart as well asthe head. It will afford an opportunity for still further research as to the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions. Not only valuable records of their unfortunate atiempt to discover the Northwest Passage, but mes- sages of farewell, precious, indeed, to Lady Franklin and others widowed or orphaned by the loss of the expedition that left England in 1844, may be found. We reproduced yester- day, from the Cincinnati Zaguirer, an inter- esting description of the visit of Lady Franklin to Captain Hall, and her hearty welcome in Ohio, on her arrival from Alaska via Cali- fornia. This venerable lady, whose devotion to the memory of her lamented husband will fill one of the most pathetic pages in the annals of modern times, is expected to arrive to-day in New York, where er romantic and tragic story must command equal sympathy. Tae Excitement About THE OozAN YacuT Racz in the city yesterday quite eclipsed the excitement about the European war; and it was somewhat refreshing, too, as a change of the public mind from the grim visage of war to the gentle face of peace and a gallant con- test between two yachts, each bearing the flag of a mighty nation, and both repre- senting peaceful rivalry for the champion- ship of the seas. Watt Srrezt, THE War News AND THE Yaout Rack.—The very warlike look of such an act as the proclamation of the regency of the Empress Eugénie revived the waning activity of the Gold Room yesterday morning, and the “bulls” put the price up to 122} on the strength of it. Favorable advices from the London money market produced an eventual reaction to 121. In the afternoon the general attention of the sireet was diverted to the yacht race by the thousand and one telegrams from Sandy Hook communicating the conflict- ing reports as to the various sails which were coming in sight and were each in turn believed to be the racing vessels until proved to be otherwise. Generat O’NerLt, the Fenian leader in the late raid, has finally been indicted at Windsor, Vt., and will be tried to-day. In view of ‘the ridicule that was cast upon the doughty Gen- eral for his inglorious capture, his long con- finement and the statement that he makes that he is reduced to poverty, we would counsel moderation in the punishment to be pronounced against him. We feel preity certain he will never invade Canada again. 5 on. The Latest War News. We have ample reports by cable telegrams from the seat of war in Europe. Tho de- spatches speak again of skirmishing and some few prisoners, There was no battle, so far as was made known at an early hour this morn- ing. King William of Prussia joined the Ger- man forces yesterday. Russia, it is alleged, at the instance of Napoleon, asked in Berlin on what terms a peace could be arranged. The answer of Prussia was conveyed in four words-—‘‘It is too late.” An ominous sentence. The Emperor of France called out ninety thou- sand ‘additional troops—an army contingent whose term of service would be due in a short time under any circumstances, The neighboring Powers remain watchful, but neutral, Rumors, political and specula- lative, abounded on all sides. It was sald, indoed, that Napoleon had quitted Paris pri- vately in order to join tho French fleet at sea, with the intention of spending his féte day, which occurs In August, in Berlln. The Em- press Eugénie ts named Regent of France. The matter of the secret treaty engaged a large share of public attention, the British press using the opportunity of its publication to warn Belgium of a probable coming danger. The European crisis thus remains, as will be seen, anxiously fevered and without any ap- pearance of an immediate solution. ‘The Peoples of Eurepe and the Great War. To and fro the tide of opinion sways, from side to side, in reference to the right and the strength of this Power or of that in the terri- ble conflict which threatens to cover Christen- dom with blood and ashes, The number of the armies is counted, the array of fleets is given in elaborate detail, and the ability of the leaders and the captains is extolled in endless articles. France, Prussia, England, Russia, Italy, &c., are mentioned confidently as undi- vided units of strength, But as yet no one in the press of Europe or America has be- thought him, or at least has expressed the thought, that there may somewhere be- neath, the surface reside o vast, silent, suffering multitude of men to whom the marching and “Sountermarching of these hosts mean ruin, misery and death. What has the individual in either nation embattled against the other to charge upon the poor working man or peasant who lives and toils beyond the dividing frontier? He is a brother in poverty, and in op pression, perhaps, with the conscript who is suddenly called from his humble hearth to face bayonet and bullet for @ cause he does not comprehend and to the benefit of men who have been the masters of him and of his kindred before him for hundreds of years. Peace is the gospel of civilization and progress, and war is the doc- trine of every violence and every vice. A century ago this was not comprehended, but to-day of the one hundred and fifty millions of human beings who people Europe the vast majority, in accepting the general truths of the religion of Christ and receiving the rudiments of knowledge, have learned to look upward for a higher glory than to manure the soil for the ambitious satisfaction of a prince, and to a nobler end of lifo than the memory of wounds and slaughter received by their” comrades or inflicted upon their antagonists. This is the idea that pervades the work- ing masses—the true bone and sinew— of Europe. Emperors and kings issue pompous . orders from their palaces and bodies of armed soldiery advance to the field of death; but the million— the mass of suffering, toiling men—remember that on the East and on the West they have only brethren laboring and praying like them- selves. This is the inner tone that we begin to discover already in the great diapason of war that sounds in our ears from beyond the Atlantic. At Strasburg, at Cologne, at Geneva in Switzerland, at Florénce and Milan in Italy, the popular party, as contradistinguished from the Court and the army, has spoken. When, as early as 1851, M. Romieu predicted the coming of the “Red Spectre” he feared the terrific outburst of revolutionary passion that then threatened to overthrow all forms of order in Europe. But the rise of Napoleon III. and his military government. conjured the ghost and laid it with the welcome formula, ‘‘The empire is peace.” Peace alone was the safety, and only with peace could the old systems hope for any lingering permanence. But now it has been shown by war after war, culminating at last in a catastrophe that has no better pre- text than the succession to a discarded crown in a country of but third or fourth rate’im- portance in the world, that while the monarchical system endures and standing armies are tolerated there is no guarantee against a sudden deluge of blood. The only rainbow in the sky to the nations of the earth is seen in the colors of the republic, one and universal. This is a mighty lesson, and at the hour while we write the peoples of the Eastern hemisphere watch impatiently for the moment when by mutual defeats the iron rod wielded by either hand of armed power shall be worn and broken. Every necessary of “life made costlier, the very finger of Providence, by its shortening bounties in the harvest field and its burning heats on land and sea, pointing to a period of intense tribula- tion, how shall the people exult in mutual slaughter? The voice of the humble ascends to the throne of God for rescue from this end- less scourge. Tho prayers of all good men go up incessantly for peace and for the banishment of the causes and instruments of war. How shall the most veuerable and most enlightened na- tions of the world continue this bloody orgie while on the hither borders of the ocean there is a spectacle of strength, prosperity and hap- piness with liberty, and without the sword, continually offered to their gaze? This war, with its accumulated horrors, will do more to utterly disgust men with the grim Moloch that has so long deluded and trampled on them, and its memories will_ more incline them to the cause of republicanism, and, we believe, of final truth and peace among nations, than any event since the Crucifixion. Ay Uaty Cass.—The reported violation of a woman in the City Hall by some municipal functionary calls for immediate and searching inquiry into the facts and for @ most rigorous JULY 28, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET - — punishment if it shall bo found that such o crime was committed. Crime is orime whexe- ever committed, and we cannot expect from the persons who hold clerkships under the clty government that they should hold the City Hall in especial sanctity ; but. thus to flout the sense of public propriety by an outrage in the very seat of justice does seem to call for the strongest hand of the law. Scientific Changes in the Art of War. The war of the giants has indeed come ; bat many of its blows will be struck at ranges and from distances no less enormous than the physical power of the antagonists, Although the days of chivalry may not be really and forever past and “gone, the gallant hand-to- hand encounters, the battle-axe of Coeur de Lion, the scimetar of Saladin, the lance of Bayard, and the claymore of the time of Bruce and Wallace, are as much out of date as the rude war clubs of the ancient Picts and Britons, The wild Soythian would not have been more misplaced with his skin mantle and bow and arrows in the presence of such armies as the first Napolean led to the field than The whiskered Pandours and the flerce hussars of Europe will become ére long under the modi-, fications of warfare that are now inevitable. Every one, upon carefully. reading the de- tails of Sadowa, where the fearful Prussian Zindnadegewehr mowed down the almoat helpless Austrians in swaths of dead and mangled men, felt convinced that a new era in the Boience and method of de- struction had already opened. But in that bloody engagement the finest breech- loaders were met by the old Austrian regula- tion musket and rifle. At Mentana, however, fought soon after, the French and Papal troops killed and wounded eight hundred out of the Garibaldian force of not much more than three thousand, in a very little while, and the Chas- sepot loomed up as the rival, some think even the superior, of the Prussian gun. But now these two terrible weapons are t9 be opposed to each other, and it is cleat ag noonday that the old evolutions and operations in the face of an enemy will have to be so greatly modi- fied as almost to disappear. At Sadowa the victorious Prussian closed in without much difficulty upon the Austrian struggling vainly with his ineffective weapon ; but with the fear- ful French mitrailleuse hurling literally con- tinuous jets of bullets, and the field artillery necessarily playing at “long taw” with rifled guns and pitching shot with perfect precision for two and three miles, while the sharpshooter “spots,” not his man, but his dozen of men, at nearly one mile distance, we shall have no more Murat or Balaklava charges of cavalry up to the mouths of the bat- teries, no more Redan and Malakoff escalades. Cavalry, excepting for scouting, foraging and some minor ouiside operations, will become almost obsolete, and even the bayonet, so long the chief safeguard of the soldier, will cease to be much more than a mere ornamental and sometimes very embar- rassing appendage. Such is the teaching of the latest and best experience, and such the conviction of the best informed authori- ties. The seven inch steel gun invented by Lynall Thomas is reported by General Lefroy in his ‘Handbook -of Artillery” to have thrown a 175 Ib. projectile 10,075 yards, the longest range, it is said, ever known previous to the Whitworth and our own great American guns, which threw very much farther. It is plain enough, then, that with such fearful enginery at work, the war is to be waged between antagonists like the French and the Prussians chiefly at long distances, and that steam on Yhe railroads and the seas and rivers, the hidden telegraph and torpedo under ground and under water, and a dozen new appliances of electricity and fulminants will play a part never before assigned to them. We shall no doubt have steel clad locomotive batteries swiftly approaching and receding in the rear of an attacking force, and nitro- glycerine and steam will both be applied in the construction as well as in the demolition of the numberless fortifications and field- works that will be incessantly thrown up. The occult powers of science will be brought more and more into play for the production of propulsive and explosive agey cies; and if the whispers that pass from lip to lip in the military laboratory be true, the French are about to be made acquainted with something quite as novel and far more destructive than any fulminating compound, rifled cannon or breech-loading, repeating fire- arm yet devised. Chemistry and civil engi- neering are likely to go hand in hand in this war with appalling effect, Thus each step onward leads to a fresh range of discovery in war as in all other exercises of human skill and daring, and, with the view that the latest falminants and weapons open to us, we think that we can perceive, at no great distance in the vista of coming years, the auspicious day when the very impossibility of war in any other sense than as wholesale, brutal mas- sacre, accordiag to successful manceuvring for position, on one side or the other, will disband the standing armies that tempt ambition and prepare the way for that ‘truce of God” that is to give the nations rest. 7 Tae Troveres i NortH CARoLina.—A number of United States troops have been sent to Raleigh, N. C., and as4hey were sent at Governor Holden's request, he being the only person whose request could constitu- tionally be complied with, it is evident that they are intended to aid the militia, who, so far, have proved competent to hold their own without any aid from the general government. We hardly think Governor Holden apprehends serious resistance from the people, except in the courts of law, where they are certainly combating him very resolutely, having made a motion, which will be decided to-day, to at- tach him for refusing to obey the writ of habeas corpus, A Marr's Nusr is Evrorz.—It is very funny to hear of the fuss they are making in England over what they call “‘the secret treaty” proposed by Napoleon to Prussia, and funnier still to hear them denounce the es- pecial villany of Napoleon as exhibited in these propositions. Why, there is not a line in this compact but has been bandied about Europe between its several rulers for ten_ years, and if there is any villany in thus dis- cussing the division of nations ng one ig guilt~ less. least of ai Bogland, The Board of Health aod Quarantine. The very important subject of quarantine ras properly taken up by the Board of Health at its session on Tuesday. Commissioner Mallaly laid before the Board the facts hith-' erto published inthe Heratp in regard to’ ships that jump the Quarantine by way of Perth Amboy and come to our wharves with yellow fever on board, in reckless vidlation of law, and on the flimsy pretence that they sup- pose the certificate of the Health Officer of Perth Amboy to be an authority for what they may do if this port. The Board of Health passed a resolution instructing the Sanitary Inspector to withhold all permits from sbips without the usual certificate of the Health Officer of the port. This, it was thought by the Board, was the limit of its power in the premises, as it {s not charged with any super- vision of seagoing vessels, except in cases where. they come directly to the wharves, or where it is proposed to land from them pack- ages to'come Into the city, This agrees with the opinion we have hitherto expressed, that the Health Officer himself is the sole deposi- tary of all the power of the laws for preserv- ing the health of the city so far as) they bear upon incoming ships, and is authorized to enforce these laws by every necessary means. To him the ships that have come up by way of Perth. Amboy are ships that have not passed quarantine; and he mast not walt for their option to come and submit themselves to quarantine laws, He must send his force and take them, and if he encounters resistance he must call upon the nearest police authority or upon the Governor. He will certainly commit a great error if he is led aside by any ill-judged leniency toward these law breakers, Nothing less is at stake in this matter than the safety of thid city and the supremacy of the laws. Ships ure arriv- ing every day from the yellow fover ports of South and Central America, and every one is an infected ship, while some have cases of fever on board at the time of their arrival, By this hoe poctis of “quarantine at Perth Amboy” these ships defy the laws made for their detention and come directly to the wharves of this city or of Brooklyn, If this continues we cannot pass through the summer without an epidemic of yellow fever, and, therefore, it must not continue, whatever be the cost of preventing it. The Price of Coal=Cheering Prospects. , The coal men—those speculators who prey upon the necessities of the poor—are endea- voring to get up a fictitious advance in the price of coal. . Thus, at.the auction sale yes- terday, they managed to obtain a higher price than that of last month, although itis a knowa fact that,so far from there being any probability of a scarcity during the fall and winter, there will be an abundance. There are actually a million more tons of coal on hand than there were at this time last year. All the mines are at work in a most satisfactory manner. The miners are contented and industrious. All tho attempts on the part of the monopolists to get upan advance of price on the plea of strikes, and obstructions on the part of the laborers, have therefore proved futile, All the indica- tions now go to show that coal will maintain a moderate price this coming winter. Still we should not advise people to put off the purchase of their winter stock too long. There is no knowing to what tricks the heartless coal mono- polists may resort to establish extortionate prices in midwinier. It is their habit to do this thing, and they onght to be watched, aad. if possible, outflanked. FALL OF A BUILDIYG. How Brookiyn Architectural Piles Totter aod Fall. Shortly after four o’clock yesterday morning the residents of the lower part of Fulton street were startled by a heavy crashing sound. Investigation of the cause showed that the noise was occasioned by the falling out of a large portion of the front wall of a four story brick building on the corner of Fulton and Columbia streets, owned by Joseph H. Mumby and occupied as a flour and feed warshouse by that gentleman. It appears that upon the third story of the bnilding, where a targe quan- tity of wheat and corn was stored, the rafters gave way suddenly from the extraordinary weight and pressure of the grain, causing the front wall to bulge out and then pre- cipitate a large mass of brick, mortar, lath aud grainto the sidewalk beneath. Fortunately there was nobody passing at that early hour in the day or there might have been one or more fatal casuaities to record. Captain McConnell and a squad of police were speedily on the Sceue and formed a barricade about the dilapidated structure, the walls of which threatened to make further descent to the sidewalk. Girders were placed about the sides of the building and workmen were engaged to remove all further wee from the upper stories of the building. This ts ihe second brick bullamng which has fallen, owing to inadequate support or displace- ment of the girders, in Brooklyn within the past month. The falling of the Hamilton Market building ‘was more disastrous in its resuit, as the life of a young girl was sacrificed upon that occasion. The fact that there 1g a dereliction of duty on the part of the official who Is supposed to discharge the duties of the ofiice of Superintendent of Buildings is made strikingly apparent by this . last catas- trophe, The Mumby building was by no means adapted for the Heep of heavy material, a fact which ought to have been ascertained before the accident made tt patent to the public. It is impos- stbie to say how many more such catastrophes may occur through similar negiect, from want of propee inspection of dangerous butidings of this kind. ‘The dilapidated structure will now, it 1s believed, be taken down entirely to avoid the possibility of a re- currence of the mishap of yesterday. PROOKLYN’S WATER SUPPLY. The Consumption Excecding the Supply by Ten Million Gallons Daily=The New Storage Reservoir. Surveyors are now engaged in surveying the ground at Hempstead which the Water and Sewerage’ Board propose to take for the new storage reservoir. Yesterday the President of the Board, Mr. Wiliam ©. Fowler, together with his hief and Assistant Engineers, ‘Colonel Adams and Mr. Bergen; General Slocum, Senator Nor- ton, William D, Veeder, Surrogate; Thomas Gardner, County Treasurer, and eeveral other gentlemen, went over the ground, or at least around the three ponds which the Commissioners propose to convert into the storage reservolr, the appropriation for which was authorized by the last Legislature. The daliy consumption 1s now 20,000,000 allons, while the stpply is ouly at the t time. This excessive consumption has existed 9,000,000. lemand wilt de- has but a short time and the creasé as soon as the heated term passed. ‘The average consumption ts over 18,000,000 gallons ver day. It with take uwo years to complete the new. reservoir, and there wil iy that time be four or five million gations per day more reguired, Mr. Kirkwood, an engineer who has been investigating the resources, says that, there ts an excess of 24,000,000 gallons datly running, to waste in Hempstead vailey. The new reservoir’ takes in about 300 acres, 240 of which will be con~ verted into a water area. Itis to be@ mile and af half in jength and half a mile tn width. [tsreapactty’ will be equal to 1,055,000,000 gallons. The gbst of the’ work will be $1, 100,000. 7 OBITUARY, " John Bates, A telegram from Cincinnati reports theMeath of this gentleman, on Tuesday last, at his rg6ms in the National theatre building. Mr, Bates vas born inl England in 1795, and came to this,Zountry forty years ago. He was the builder, ana for a long time Manager, of the National theat,e. By real estate transactions he ainassed vet $44) we eg \