The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1870, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD |™ . BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeErarp. Letters and packages shonid be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubifshea every day in the year, Four cents per copy, Aupual subscription price $12, THE WEPKLY HERALD, cvery Saturday, at Five CENTS per copy. Annua! subscription price:. ‘One Copy... ‘Three Copies. Five Copies. Ten Copies. a AMUSSMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th strest.— Faitz, Oun Cousin Geman. anal THEATRE, Bowery.-Vausety ENTERTain- ment, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and Md wt. —SiraLa—TaR Nations, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERI®, Rrosdway, oor. ner Thirtieth at,—Performances every afternoon and evening THEATRE OCOMIQ'E, 514 Broadway.—Comic Vooar- 18M, NEGRO ACTS, &0. SAN FRANCISCO ML BUCKLEY'S SERENADEUS. 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Pacr. 1—Advertisements. = Adveritsenents. 3—Love and Diamonds—An Ex-Confederate General on the War—Martiages aud Deaths—Adver- ttsements, 4—Editorials: Leading Article on the News from the Seat of War, Severe Fighting and Prussian Victory—Perso.ial Intelligeuce—Workingmen’s ratefulness—strack by Lightning-—Amuse- ent Auuouncements. 5—The War: Severe Fighting Wednesd: and Thursday: Prussian Assault on the och Camp at Wissembourg; The Camp Carried at the Peint of the Bayonet—Telegraphic News— Business Notices. @—The Nutnan Murder: The Inquest before Coroner Rolhius; Testimony of Omcer Mangan, Officer Evans ani the Two Carpenters; Which of the Nathan Brothers Had on the Bloody Start? A Little Light That May Grow Greater—Depart- ment of Dorks: Report of the Superintendent on Needed Kepairs—Padlic Works—Who Is ~ King of the Portr—Crime in Paterson, 7—Long Lranch Races: Fourth Day of the Jnangu- ral Mecting—Vroceedings in the Court’ot Ge: eral Sesstons—A Boy Murderer in New Jerse: Disgraceiul Occurrence—Fire in Jersey Cit; Miisuinmer Retreats: Movements of the Presi- dent at Long Branch—Municipal affairs—A Newark Swindler Captured—Real Estate . Sales—Financial and Commercial Reports. S—News trom Washington: Dr. Grindle in Trouble— Another Strange Disappearance—A Dash at the Sergeant—Real’s Last Hours Upon Earth—Ba-e all Notes—New York State Poli- ties—The Clan Gourmands--Yachting—Three Men Struck by Lightning—Shipping Intelii- gence—Advertisements, ‘Waar Dogs Ir Mean ?—-The Emperor Napo- Jeon has broadly hinted ata long war. The question has thus been raised, what does he mean by a long war? Is it bis purpose to play war on the Prussian frontier till England and Russia intervene for peace? or does be count upon such a struggle with Prussia as will make it along war? Asitlooks to us the door of peace is still left ajar. Taz Lone Brancn Races.—-They had another great day yesterday for the sporting and gay circles of Long Braach at Monmouth Park. The first season at that course may be safely pronounced the most brilliant end successful of any in the history of the turf on this Continent. The new steamboat and rail- way facilities to this Long Branch course, and the surf and tbe gay summer season, ‘und the great gathering of the fashionable world, including General Grant's and Collector Mur- phy’s and Mr. Tweed’s headquarters down there, bave contributed mainly to the great “wnecess of these races as a popular attrac- tion, Sée our report of yesterday's sports. There will be no race to-day ; but to-morrow, the lasi, will be the greatest day of ail, with its four mile heats and the splendid horses entered for the contest. Tre Repvsri0an Srave Commrrrer is in ses- sion at Saratogo and has called the State Con- vention for September 7, to meet at the same fashionable point. The most important work ‘before the committee is to harmonize different factions which have been threatening such dis- aster to the party of late. The Fenton de- fection is not a very serious one, and Fenton himself appears willing to come back and be a good boy, but there is a sense of disappointment among the yeomanry of the party in this State at some of the un- Bucky proceedings of Congress, which the committee will find it knotty work to allay. The refusal to abolish the income tax and the neglect to admit foreign vessels to American register are mistakes that will impress them- selves upon the result of the elections next fall, unless a very clear platform is adopted and some very honest names are put forward on the ticket, Tug Nataan Morver.—The Coroner's investigation of the circumstances of the death of Mr. Nathan began yesterday at the Civil Vustice’s Court, in Twenty-second street. The testimony of officer Mangan and of the two workmen, Le Maistre and Smith, throwa no ad- itional light on the dreadful mystery. After this testimony had been rendered the investi- gation was abruptly closed and was adjourned | nntil Monday next. The public has been at a Joss to know why the Coroner's investigation was postponed until yesterday, five days after the first inquest on the body. It is still more surprised that it should now be postponed for four days more. A case of such terribly momentous importance to all citizens assuredly Gemands the most immediate, incessant and impartial investigation, We may rest sat- istied, however, that during the painful interval which must elapse before the Coroner's jury shall reassemble our able and indefatigable Superintendent of Police, Mr. Jourdan, will Jeave no stone unturned to compass the por- fot ends of jasiive. Fighting and Prussian Victory. News from the Seat of War—Severe | mony is ia favor of locating it upon some favor- able point on the Hudson river, say from six- The special cable telegrams from Europe | teen to twenty miles from New York city. which we publish to-day reveal the fact very | The arguments in favor of this location have plafaly that the two great armies of France and Prussia which stand opposed to each other on the Rhine are almost afraid to make a first been partially presented to Congress; but now that the change is certain to be made those who favor the erection of the Navy grand moye. The military power which has’| Yard in convenient, but not too convenient, been evoked by each nation is so vast, and the field and other strategic considerations have distance of the city, should begin the work of pressing their views befora the next Congress been so matorely considered and so nicely | in an energetic and proper mannor, balanced that it may be said that the very development of the science of war almost paralyzes its most ardent votaries. Failure in the first general action may bring utter ruin to the vanquished. The monarch who will be discomfited in the fight, Bona- parte or the Hohenzollern, may be almost set down as the i perduto among the crowns of Europe. If the tri-color of France waves in triumph over the field it will illuminate the way from the point of victory towards Berlin. Should the black eagle of Prussia ‘‘spread its wings on the blast” of triumph Paris may fear for a repetition of scenes similar to those which her people experienced during the period of the occupation of the French capital by the allies. The statue of Napoleon the First was then hauled down by a rope thrown round it by Prussian hands, The re- presentative of his name and glory may well dread their return toward the Tuileries flushed with victory, animated perhaps by the promptings of a modern Holy Alliance. Waiting thus for the grand event the troops are employed pretty aciively. Some sharp actions have just occurred. Marshal MacMahon made a personal survey of the line of the Rhine river from Kebl bridge yesterday. It was known pretty exactly that he was marking out certain points for an ad- vance of his forces to be made on Saturday or Sunday. The Prussians observed Progross of the Imprevoments in tho Pub- lic Parks, The Board of the Department of Public Parks are now located in their new and ole- gant quarters on Broadway, adjoining the Chemical Bank. These quarters are central and permanent. The Department having at last settled on their own base are proceeding with the work of improving and ornamenting the public parks in a manner which, if tully carried out, will prove a lasting glory to the city and eventua‘o in their receiving the unani- mous approval and applause of all good citi- zens. The march of improvement is already dis- cernible in the Battery and the Bowling Green ; and yet considerable remains to be done to make the former at all presentable after its long time most wreteed and squalid condition. This is really « herculean labor, but the ener- getic manner in which the work has been thus far carried on betokens its speedy \and satis- factory completion, The undertaking to dis- lodge the booth squatters around the entire semicircle of the Battery was deemed a most hazardoas one for any party tha! should at- tempt it; but under the persuasive eloquence ot the acting President of the Board, Judze Hilton, and the admirable tactics of his reso- lute lieutenant, Superintendent Wiley, the “object of the expedition” was accomplished without the loss of a single human soul, nor, it and anticipated him. They first advanced | Possibly, the sacrifice of @ single demo- on the French line at one place and drove in their outposts with some loss. Next the Prus- sians assaulted tho French position at Weis- semburg. They were led on by the Crown Prince of Prussia and were in force. They cratic vote in the First ward. The City Hall Park is gradually assuming a new and im- proved appearance, which is. certainly credit- able to the energy of the Department, con- sidering the numbers of the seedy old ‘‘chain- stormed the French position and carried it at | 889” aad the swarms of public loafers who the point of the bayonet after a desperate struggle on the part of the French. Napoleon's have for years been allowed to congregate about the premises night and day, and ccn- troops had a general with two staff officers sider that they had a pre-emption right to all killed, They lost also one gun, their camp and five hundred prisoners, including many of “parts and appurtenances” thereof. Tompkins square is undergoing a wonderful transmogri- their Algerian turcos. The Prussian regiment fication, so much so that it is expected when of Grenadier Guards suffered severely also. They had a general wounded. the estimable Presideat of the Board, Mr. Peter B. Sweeny, returas from his European Our special cable telegrams, which describe tour he will scarcely recogaiz. the ‘right lung the above actions, convey an idea of the news of the city” inits changed, purified and hoalth- which we may expect to hear when the per- baps final clash of arms takes place between these vast contending hosts, the one fighting for an imperial crown, a dynasty and a rebap- tized name, the other for divine right, terri- torial consolidation and unity, fatherland, citizen franchise, military reputation and Teu- tonic propagandism. It will be a dread issuc. Ocr Shipping Interests—The Question of an Extra Session of Congress. The wide awake little kingdom of Belgiam, it appeare, has stepped in to take the place of Germ&ny in the matter of those important lines of German Atlantic merchant steamers, the place made vacant by this Franco-Prussian war. Had the Congress of the United States seconded the timely message of the President upon this subject the transfer of those German lines of steamers might have made a very sim- ple business transaction. As it is the oppor- tunity appears to be lost, It is given out, however, that to-day or to-morrow, General Grant at Washington will hold a Cabinet council to consider the question of calling an extra session of Congress, and in view of the very strong probabilities of England's early participation in this Continen- tal war, and in view of the necessity which will follow this event for some special legis- lation by Congress in reference to American neutrality, belligerent rights, commercial in- terests and the Monroe doctrine, we think the best course that the President can take is to make sure provision against all probable contingencies by a j proclamation embracing say a notice of sixty days for the assembling of the two houses in extraordinary session. For- tunately, there will now be no difficulty in the matier of elections. The two houses of the present Congress, as now organized, will continue till March nexi, and in assembling on an extra call they wili b2 at once ready for business; and as the compensation of the | members is fixed the only costs of an extra session will be its contingent expens Hence, while there can be no serious 0b) extra session of Congress, the demands of ¢ crisis for special legislation looking to Ameri- can interests are unanswerable. Joun Reat.—The murder which Joba Real ' committed over two years ago will be finally expiated to-day. ‘here is more of a solem warning in this slow but determined justi than there was in the quick, retributive ex tion of Jack Reynolds, (In the execution that will occur this morning there are none of the elements of popular vengeance, no evidence of acquiescence in general demand for the life of some one, | no hurried disproval of the vaunted theory | of the murderer that “‘hanging was played out,” which characterized the “‘taking off” of that poor devil of a philosopher. On thecon- | trary Real has bad two years of contest with the law for his life. He has bad the benefit of appeals, writs of error, petitions for mercy and the Governor's decision. Every means of saving his life has failed, and therein we hold that the example of execution will prove more salutary to would-be murderers than a hasty settlement of his case could have proven, | Removac or tae BrooxLyn Navy Yarp.— \ This subject seems at last to have assumed a practical shape by the publication of the report of Captain Ammen to the Navy Depart- meut, The objections to the present site are there given in a clear and convincing manner, so that Congress at its next session will be able to appreciate their importance and act accordingly. Now, asit seems to be pretty well settled that the Navy Yard is to be removed from its present location, the ques- tion arises—to what point shall it be trans- ferred? From an investigation Into the advan- ns to an | | i gah is | that those hireling Hessians ful condition, On Washington square the im- provements may be delayed in consequence of contemplated operations of the Board of Public Works in opening or exiending Fifth avenue; but so far as they have progressed neatness and taste have marked the change. Madison square is loomin sup in its beauty as if touched by a wand of migic. The grand Ceatral Park was always in splendid condition, and, under the new managoment, many attractive features have been added to its manifold allurements, so that itis not only the Park par excellence of this Continent, but is fast becoming the queen park of the whole world. Our uptowa friends ara rejoicing in the improvements ia Mount Morris square, which will eventually render that one of the most elegant and recherché of all the public pleasure grounds on the island. Thus is the good work of ornamentation and improvement going on in all the public grounds of the city. The business is in good hands. A better board could not have beon selected. All they ask is, don’t let the peo- ple be too impatient. This is not the age of Arabian Nights’ transformations. Rome was not bailtin a day. Nor were the grounds of a great city like New York relieved of the débris and dry rot and aceumulated filth of some ten years in the twinkling of an eye or in the single swoop of a new broom. At the same time the people demand of the Depart- ment of Public Parks that their duties shall be exercised in a careful, judicious and economi- cal manner, so that the taxes shall not be too heavily, if at all, increased, while, at ihe same time, the great improvements centem- plated shali be carried out in no stingy or one- horse way. The War in Europe and the Demorracy. * The Franco-Prussian war is furnishing material for articles in favor of Napoleonismm in the columns of the leading democratic organs throughout the country. Among the most prominent of these papers are those old dyed in the wool ultra-democratic sheeis the icago Times, the Cincinnati Haguirer, the ston Post, and others of less influence nearer The papers that support the cause of e denominated ‘‘Hessian sheets,” and epigrams like the following are ground Prussia ow, . s'us far more rliyme tan red ‘The word “Hessian” is used ina sense of opprobrium, under the impression, probably, who fought against American liberty during the Revolu- tion came from German duchies over which Prussia held dominion. But such happens not to be the case. Prussia was then com- paratively an insignificant Power, and instead of her monarch, Frederick the Great, the grand uncle of the present King of Prussia— and whose sagacity and valor as a military chieftain challenged then as they challenge now the admiration of the civilized world—being hos- tileto American independence, his sentiments were quite tho reverse, Therefore the Prus- sians of our Revolutionary epoch should not be identified with the Prassia of the present day, a nation which, in the progress of destiny and amid the crumbling of dynasties, has absorbed some of those Hessian principalities whose very names are hateful to the memories of American patriotism. Our democratic organs should, therefore, be # little cautions, lest in their efforts to pander to a just American pre- jndice they go a little too far and alienate from their ranks a great many of their warmest friends—the true democratic republican Ger- mans of the period. “Trams Ue a Cninp in tos Wax He Snoutp Go,” &o.—Taking this trite old apothegm as a text, what will be the career of the Prince Imperial of France, who, accord tages and disadvantages of the sites thus far | proposed it is clear. that the weight of teatl- | “bpaptiom of Bre 2” ing to imperial authority, has just received his «| the healthy condition of our financial system, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1870. rene ee ae pg a er, CCA tet The European Problem. When, in 1847, the great bell of St. Peter's rang out the summons of Rome to defend the borders of her dominion in the Papal States against the invading Austrians, then advanc- ing into Bologna, it sounded the first signal in these modern times of Italian nationality and independence, This was the work of Pius IX., and from city to city, throughout the Peninsula, the summons ran until a great nation, awakened from its slumbers of centu- ries, reappeared upon the scene at the word of its leader in aris as in arms, and began to revive the glories of the past. The whole world received this great movement with acclamation—the era of good feeling was revived, the old affection sprang up again in hearts that long had been estranged, and blessings were invoked upon the head of Pio Nono in lands hither and beyond the seas, where the title of the Popes and of their primacy had been opposed for hundreds of years, And why was this? Shall we attempt to answer? Because—and we offer the idea with deference—ths people discovered in the head of a great Christian Church one who, in championing his own nationality against a Power that then seemed overwhelming, also championed their cause, Is the cause of nationality involved in this fearful con- test just opening between France and Germany? If s0, whose nationality is as- sailed? Does any one avow a design or an endeavor to straiten Hrance in any or in all things that she may do to consolidate her strength, to confirm her position asa great Power, and to spread abroad through all the world the influence of her arts and the ameni- ties of her refined and beautiful civilization? Tf any there be we pause for a reply. We are told that the Prince of Hohenzollern’s candi- dature was a menace and a danger to France, We have the right to askin what? He is nearly allied in kindred bleod to the house of the ruling French dynasty, and in religion he is entirely in harmony with the peculiar requirements of French policy. Is not the matter, then, narrowed down to dynastic and national jealousy? And if so what have the people, the great, struggling, suffering people of Europe and the world to do with the quarrel ? We greatly admire and respect the French people and French history, and we recognize in Napoleon IIL a monarch who has done more for the prosperity and glory of his empire than any of his predecessors, not excepting even him who founded the dynasty and gave his name to it. But in this contest we must recall him and the gallant people who so enthusiastically follow his standard to the eternal principles of justice. France has revelled in glory; her standard has made the tour of the world; the nations look to her for liberty and not for enslavement; ¢Hmpire cest la paix was a pledge and a promise given; the idea goes back to the tenets which should guide the centre and the head of the Christian Church and its self-assumed or chosea champion. If this view be correct— and we offer it asa journalist comprehending the solemnity of our mission—it is for France, as the exponent of the Christian faith for the majority of its adherents, to arrest the tide of war and havoc and to hold out the olive branch of peace. i This is the delay and this is the situation. We care nothing for the rumors of war that have reached us thus far. The reluctance to engage on either side reveals the conscious- ness of an uncertain cause, What more splendid or glorious opportunity for a truly great nation that has stepped into the arena, thrown down the guantlet and exhibited the tremendous resources at her disposal, than to say, even in the eleventh hour, ‘Let us prove that we are truly great--let us have peace!” Perta AMBO: still asserts her superiority as a port of entry to all the quarantine laws and health regulations of her ambitious rival, the port of New York. Recently a yellow fever vessel detained at our Quarantine was allowed to put to sea; but instead she put into Perth Amboy, where she was readily admitted, the officers of that port not having so much to do thatthey can afford to stand off on a little matter of yellow fever. From Perth Amboy the vessel came on io Brooklyn under new sailing orders, and holding evi- dently to the opinion that not coming from an infected port she was entitled to pass without question. It was not so, however, for the captain was arrested yesterday and is held in one thousand dollars bail for violating the quarantine Jaws, He will and ought to be severely punished; but there ought to be some punishment for the consignees of the vessel under whose orders he acted, and for the port authorities of Perth Amboy, who, in their hopeless attempt at commercial rivalry with New York, thus offer a preminm on infee- tion. Tre German VessELs iN Port.—There are nine large North German ocean steamers now lying in the port of New York, unable to sail for Hamburg or Bremen for fear of capture by French cruisers, unauthorized to discharge their crews in a foreign-port aud not allowed to register themselves under the flag of safety— the flag of the United States. There are also twenty-seven sailing vessels in the same predicament, If anything can exem- plify the stupidity of Congress in re- fusing to admit foreign vessels to Ameri- can register this startling exhibit does so. The expense to which these steamers and sailing vessels are subjected probably ag- gregates fourteen thousand dollars per day, and there is no relief for them except in the cessation of the war. It may be, too, that the French steamers willbe tied up in just the same way when the Prussian navy gets more of its cruisers afloat, As it is now here is over two million dollars’ worth of property which we need lying at our doors useless and unused throngh the culpable neglect of Con- gress. Axi Square in tHE Sus-Treasvry.—The officials who were sent to New York to count the money in the Assistant Treasurer's office have accomplished their task, and returning to Washington they report to the Acting Sec- retary that “they found everything correct.” This is an additional satisfactory symptom of The New Swedish Prima Donna, Tho English papers have just got hold of the fact, which the Heratp published some time ago, that the American manager of the famous Swedish artiste, Christine Nilsson, had engaged to pay her a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in gold for a six weeks’ en- gagement in the United States. This isa handsome price, it is true; but then the libe- rality of the American public will choerfully make it good to Manager Strakosch, and will pile up an equivalent profit on the back of it, Genuine talent never fails in this country. The manager who is wise enough to compre- hend the taste of the people and to introduce here from Europe the leading stars of artistic genius is pretty sure to become the rich manager. ‘The public will support merit, whether in opera or tragedy; but it’ must be merit of the first class, Jenny Lind’s engage- ment was, as all remember of that sweetest bird of song, an ovation of gold. Ristori, in her magnificent interpretation of tragedy, de- livered in a tongue almost unknown to her audience, had a grand success—such a suc- cess, perhaps, as she has never won in Europe, either before or since; which proves that nothing great in art fails in America, The youthful rival of the Swedish Nightin- gale of twenty years ago will be among us in a few weeks, seeking for those favors at this side of the Atlantic which have been heaped upon her with so much love and affection in all the capitals of Europe. Mlle. Nilsson is announced to ap- pear at the French theatre in Italian opera on the 19th of September, We anticipate with pleasure her grand impersonations of the two or three leading parts which have made her so famous—‘‘La Traviata,” ‘‘Marguerite,” the gentle Norman peasant; Alice, in Meyer- beyer’s superb composition, ‘‘Robert le Diable,” in which she is said to excel all her prede- cessors, in that essential combination of beauty of person, a voice of exquisite sweetness and a strength of dramatic power which the char- acter demands—marvellous, the critics say—in an artiste so tender in the finer delineations of human passion. Mlle. Nilsson’s success in this most difficult character has been immense. Then she has o full répertoire of Italian opera, comprising the works of Donizetti, Mo- zart, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Auber; all, in fact that are familiar to us in the réles of great artistes. Weare not disposed to regard the debit of Nilsson in this country as a possible success, but rather as a foregone triumph. If she is not greeted with the same wild enthu- siasm which characterized the coming of her great prototype, Jenny Lind, it will be because our reason is a little more balanced now than it was at that time; because we are better educated in art and the ways of art; because we have had twenty years training, and that training is notlost upon us. But we antici- pate that the welcome extended to the second Nightingale, Christine Nilsson, will be quite as appreciative as that which hailed Jenny Lind with tumultuous demonstrations. We are anxious and willing to accord to the young Scandinavian songstress who is about to come among us so soon a recognition of her splen- did genius which will leave her no reason to regret the honors she is leaving behind her in Europe. General Grants Platform. The platform of General Grant—peace, re- trenchment of expenses, correction of abuses, reduction of taxes and redemption of the debt—is a very good platform for the repub- lican party if they only knew it. There was no surplus, or next to no surplus, revenue under Johnson’s administration; for Johnson was so absorbed in the work of defending “‘the constitution as it was” that he had no time to look after the interests of the Treasury. Hence the whiskey rings and various other rings for defrauding the revenue abstracted from the resources of the Treasury millions upon millions of money. Under General Grant most of these leakages, if not all of them, have been stopped, and such has been the effect of this policy of practical reform, connected with a general cutting out of needless ex- penses, that with areduction of the national taxations to the extent, if we are not mis- taken, of over a hundred millions, all told, since January, 1868, General Grant’s admin- istration is enabled to present the following exhibit as its reductions of the public debt:— 69,004,001 ¢ de’ ministration. Average mont Average monthly decrease tor 1830. One hundred and fifty-six millions reduction of the debt, on a@ greatly diminished taxation list, and over one hundred millions as a reserved fund in the Treasury, is an excellent record for General Grant’s administration; and such facts make the strongest platform of all platforms for the party in power. In short, the republican party, which was given a new lease of power in the election of General Grant, can only maintain its ascendancy upon the safe, sound, honest and solid platform of Grant’s administration—peace, retrenchment, reform, the development of our resom&ces, the reduction of our taxes and the redemption of the debt. While the ship of state is thus smoothly sailing before the wind the captain may be excused in a little rest and refresh- ment, which he has been enjoying in his cabin, or, as the poet has it— . ‘Looking out on the Atlantic, Frou his cottage by the sea. SreampoarT Racine. —Of all kinds of racing steamboat racing is the most dangerous, Neither the peril por the responsibility for possibly fatal consequences is lessened by the fact that the passengers on racing steamboats are often the most eager to encourage the rivalry of competing captains. The contest on Wednesday between the “State of Maine” and thé “Rip Van Winkle,” on their trip to | the Fishing Banks—each boat being heavily laden with passengers, Hable at any moment to be blown to pieces or drowned by an acci- dental explosion—may have been exceedingly interesting to the particlpatoss in it, but it was nevertheleas an offence as worthy of punish- ment as avy other crime. . Tux Bank of ENGLAND has again ad- vanced the rate of discount, this time to six per cent, The gold market responded but faintly, the price barely touching 122, while our bonds in London continued firm and strong. Consols, however, were weak and yielded a fraction, The facta enumeratad are certainly very significant il Whe Bank of England Feollag the War Pressure, We learn by telegram from London that the officers of the Bank of England have announced a further advance in the rate of discount of one per cent. The minicoum rate is now six Percent, The barometer docs not indicate more surely the sudden changes of weather or the coming storm than does the Bank of Eng- land the financial disturbance and apprebeu- sion of approaching disasters in Great Britain. The war between France and Prussia, and the complications growing out of “it, have the Bank authorities, Looking, too, the extraordinary preparations of England to place herself on a war footing, with ‘the tone of public sentiment and the language of the leaders of all parties in Parliament, it is not unlikely that the Bank has received a hiut from the government to be ready for a crisis, At such a time as this there is a tendency to draw away the specie of the Bank. The demand for it abroad, and the rush of timid people to get hold of it for the purpose of hoarding against an evil day, would soon bring the specie reserve down to a low ebb if the Bank were not to take precautionary measures to prevent thet. Raising the rate of discount is always the first step—putting on the screws, as it is called—to prevent « drain of specie. Six per cent as the minimum is a high rate of discount in England, and it rarely goes up to that except in times of war or a great commercial crisis, It is evident, therefore, that there is serious apprehension in England that she cannot be kept out of the war. lt is probable that the rate of discount will be raised still higher. We should not be surprised to hear within a week that it has gone up to seven per cent, unless something remarkable and unexpected should occur to indicate determined neutrality on the part of Great Britain or the prospect of the war not spreading. We do not apprehend that the action of the Bank of England will have any serious or lasting effect upon the financial affairs of this country. It might cause a tem- porary depression in our bonds and stocks abroad, but this would not continue long. While we remain at peace and go on in our wonderful career of prosperity there need be no fear that the credit of this country will remain depressed whatever events may happen in Europe. Jvupex Beprorp a few days ago, in sentenc- ing a burglar, gave a momentous warning to the burglarious profession generally. He said that a person found in » house for burglarious purposes was liable to indictment and convic- tion for intent to do murder if necessary, and under that head could be made to suffer twenty years’ imprisonment at hard labor, This warning is timely. Murder is, of course, the very last resort of the burglar, and he is not likely to resort to it except wher he is detected and assailed; but he still counts it among the probabilities of every burglary, and is cpnsequently ready to com~ - mit it if occasion requires. Every burglar, then, is a murderer in intent, and if he does not actually commit murder it is becanse some better and less dangerous mode of perfecting the crime of burglary presents itself. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. General T. W. Francis, of Alabama; Isaac Sisson, United States Consul to Mexico; ‘I. L, Woodward, of St. Louis; L. E. Farwell, of Freeport; J. McFarland, of Washington; Fred. Jonson, of Texas; Major G. E, Head, and Captain T. BE. Merritt, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dr. E. J. Sears, of New York, and Dr. McFarian¢, of Louisiana, are at the New York Hotel. Iteutenant Commander Sterliag, of the United States Navy; Dr. R. H. Sterling, of Baltimore; T. M. Devens, of Boston; E. L. Morphy, of Illinois; Thomas Frost, of Albany, and J. J. Noab, of Tennes- see, are at the Everett House. Major Bell, of England; Colonel Thayer, of India, and W. Collier, of Baltimore, are at the Brevoort: House. Colonel ©. Walsh, of Mobile; W. W. Phelps, or Chicago; General F. P. Blair, of Missouri; Colonel H, 8S. McComb, of Delaware; Nathaniel Page, of Wasnington. L. A. Bigelow, of Boston, and Benjamin Field, of Albion, are at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Charles Ridgeley, of Springfield, and H. W. Gray, of Newport, are ai the Albemarle Hotel, General J. Hayden, of the United States Army; Y. H. Devereau, of Cleveland; Mahlon Chance, United States Consul, Nassau, and Congressman D. J. More réil, of Pennsylvania, are atthe St. Nicholas Hotel. » Genera! 8. 8. Roberts and Major T. H. Norton, of the United States Army; General Levi Harris, of Del, aware; Dr. W. J. Aiken, of Michigan; B, A, Wise, of Georgia, and W. H. Jackson, of Massachusetts, are: at the Astor House. WORKINGMEN’S GRATEFULNESS, {nteresting Meeting of the Workingmen of the Sixth Senatorial District. Atthe corner of Twelfth street and Third avenue qnite an interesting conference was held last evening of the workingmen of the Sixth Senatoriat district. Mr. John R, Hennessey, late member of the Assembly for the Fourteenth district, was in the chair. Mr. H. E. Fitzsimmons acted as secretary. Mr. James R. Purdy made the first address, the pith of which was in opposition to coolie contract labor and forced Chinese emigration, his remarks evie dently coinciding with the views of his hearers. Mr. Nelson W. Young spoke next, and after tonch~ ing pon the generat questions of the labor move- ment he turned to Mr, Hennessey, stating that om aay the hall he haa been requested to publicly tender him the thanks of the workingmen for the able manner in which he represented them last winter in the Assembly, Extoiling the honesty, per~ severance and zeal Of Mr. Hennessey, he, in the name of the workingmen of the Sixth Senatorial district, presented him agold watch and chain. It isa heavy hunting case, railway timekeeper, fuil jewelled, With an extraordinarily heavy chain, and ears the following inscription:— Presented by the workingmen of New Yorke city to Hon. John R. Hennessey, for iis noble exertions in battling for our righta in the Legislature of 1870. The Eight Hour law, Abolishing the Conspiracy iaw and other 4, we Ww! cherish with grateful remembrance. ‘The price of the gift is sald to have been $450, Mr. Hennessey responded feelingly, announcing himself a candidate for re-election, Which an nouncement was received with appiaase. Messrs, Joun Ennis, Patrick Welch, Theodore Banks and others of the Workingmen's Union made appropri- ate remarks, resolutions complimentary to the course of the workingmen's candidate were passed.: and the meeting adjourned. “STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ‘we Persons Injured—Singular Freak of an Electric Spark. During thie brief but severe storm which prevallea yesterday afternoon the residence of Mr. James Stillman, in Washington avenue, Morrisanta, West~ chester county, was struck by lightning, which, after demolishing a climney, darted into the base- ment, where it struck and partially paralyzed a jady member of the familly, named Armstrong. At& the same instant the electric current entered through a rear window of the printing office owned by Mr. Stillman, and distant about forty feet frou his house, striking @ compositor named William Duane, throwing him to the noor, inflicting a ghastly wound on his head aud com; sey paraly2~ ing the left side of his body. Four type cases were hurled from their places, two of them being almost completely destroyed, while the contents of all four were scattered over the otfice, The subtie Quidaisappeared through a brick wail, try? an aperiure about an inch in diameter, through which daylight was plainty visible. Botley of the sufferers had immediate medical aid, when their injuries, although serious, were found to be not neccdsarily Of & Laval MALUTGs