The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1870, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or t ‘despatches mnust be addressed’ New York ws letter and telegraphic CORRE We have special correspondents moving -with each division of (he opposing forces of France and Pruasia, xnd news agencies in the principal capitals—-London, Paris, Berlin, Ma- @rid, Vienna and Florence —so that nothing of an important news character escapes our vigilant representatives. Oar news agencies in the priocipal cities of ONDENT. Europe, and our system of travelling corre- spondents, have been long established, a fact the readers of the Hira. have no doubt tong rs since become familiar with, and as our le from all parts of the Esstera Liemisphere tor years past have fully proven. We do not pretend that our comments upon the war, or that our opinions upon the proba- ble success of eiiher belligerent in contem- Our only aim is to give io the public the fullest, the record of facts as they occur plated movements come by the cable. most reliable, and the most authentic | in the grand operations of the contending armica. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEN! je. RBOOTH’S THUATRE, et oh and fty ava. — | Bir Van WINKLE. | NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broauway. As StKEL, ‘Cay Duama ov Troe | WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIF, Broadway, ner Web st, Performances every afternoon and even WALLACK’S THEATRE, Sroxdway ana (3th street.— Warez, OUE Cousin Gruman, GRAND OPERA HONs tC GUELLA, Tue LD) OLYMPIC THEATEE, Broadway.—Ovr2a Bourrr— Lirrise Facer, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PAKK THEATRE, Brooklyn. Buvant’s Minsreet A HOUSE, 201 Bowery Comte VOCALISMS, &: TONY PASTOR'S 0: BieVY ENTRETAINNEN Va. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Com1o Yooau su, N¥ano Acts, co. SAN FRANCISCO MIN Necuo MINgTRELEY, F) REL HALL, £85 from way.— » BURLESQUE, &u. KELLY & LEON'S MI Prurk—Tur ONLY Leow. STRE No. 506 Broadway — CENTRAL Beth ata, PARK GARDEN, ‘TuxOv0gE Tomas’ For av., between Sah and LA CONORETS. LEEDS’ ART GALLERIES, #17 an $19 Broadway. — Bxamirion o¥ PRav riven. NEW YORK MUS) UM OF ANATOMY, 8 Broadway — BetkNoxy AND Ant. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMIUVAL MU. BerENcr AND Aut. EUM, 145 Broadway New York, Mondny, August 29, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-VATS HERALD. PAGE. peat % I—Adivertisements. 2—Adverusemenis. B—Advertisements. d-bditorials: Lea the War, the in dent Graut Pomt Tnteiligence—A Counte: Amusement snuoune ng At Omnis Personal ik Shover Arrestea nts, 5=The V French aod Prussian Keports of Bat- Ues and ‘Trimmuph of the Frenen at Verdun; Pr t 1 at Vitry; Repulse of the Crown Priaee of Saxony; Battalions of uihiated;? — Mi abon and nee Frede- Said to be hand ; Mail Advices inglon— B—Religion niin the Metropo- W ud Newark; bishop i and the atihful Who Walk Through the Surplice and t Tue War tn Europe: The Glories of the 1 guration; Protest Sin Konan Catholic Couniries—A iy Sabbath Day for Pieasure Seckers—Religions Scandal in Paterson—Musical and Dramatic os—Base Ball Notes. Murders Capital: ‘The Spinners’ Strike at Fall River; Seven thousand Operators Out of kmploy— s irom Central America—Pree Fight of For: aul ane Commer: cial Reports— S— Advertisements. K~—Telegraphic New: muting School Tra- ar ou the Counter. os Bloodietiing~Shipptag Usements, Pracr AND Prosprors.—-The fal! trade, fall elections, fall amusements, horse fairs, indus- trial exhibitions and rieultural shows, ail combine to make the people of a prosperous country energetic, indusirious and happy. Let us continue to have peace. Tue Torr.—Great events are looked for among the turfmen this fall. The Jerome Park course, the Prospect Park track in Kings county, Sprague’s Nurraganset Park ia Rhode Island and numerous others all promise sport for horse admirers far outstripping anything that has been heretofore offered. GENERAL SHERMAN AND THE Crown Prince ‘oF Prussta.—There appears to be a similarity in their movements. The march of the Prus- sian army under Prince William towards Paris isvery similar to General Sherman's march through Georgia from the Mississippi to the sea, and the brag and growl and fuss of the French is not unlike what we used to hear from the rebels during that famons tramp of Sherman's. Tue West Iypia Capua Exrepition.— ‘Frém our special correspondent on board the Dacia we learn that the citizens of Santiago de Cuba gave a brilliant reception to the West India Cable Expedition in tue harbor on Satur- day night last. The scenes on the waters are di bed as having been very grand. It is gratifying to learn that the cable so far as completed works splondidiy, Tuar Extra Session ov tua Liaisra- rure.—Some of the noisy democrats are still agitating the question of an extra session of the Legislature for the purpose of having a law passed disconnecting the elections for members of Congress from that of State officers in order to save from punishment, under the Congressional law, the regular repeaters. Suppose they should succeed; the law would still be in force so far as regards tho election of members of the State Legislature, because through them United States Senators are chosen, and thus the government has an Indi- rect interest in preserving the purity of the election for members of the Logislature as well as for members of Congress, \ improvement of France and in adding to the Teadeacten of tho War—The Incoming German Empire. However the scales may turn in the fate of war from day to day, or up to the end of the present conflict between Prussia and France, there will be through it a few important | questions settled and facts established with regard to the future status of the belligerents in Europe. France, which has assumed to be the controlling Power’ in the affairs of the European continent since the time of the first Napoleon, and which has claimed to be the first military Power, as England his to be the first naval Power, of the Old World, has now lost her prestige. Though this ambitious assump- tion has been checked on sevéral occasions the French have never given up what thoy believed to be their legitimate position and rile in Kavope. And though they had to suc- comb tothe combined power of European uations, as at Waterloo, they have not been whipped nor has their soil been invaded by any siigie foreign foe since the establishmeat of the first empire till the present war. {t aust be admitted, too, that the wars which tbe present Emperor has undertaken, as those of the Crimea and in Italy against Russia and Austria, have been remarkably successful. The Emperor showed great. skill in the ances he made to accomplis!: his object, and French displayed their historic military ability and bravery on those occasions. Both were proud of what they accomplished and France rejoiced in the re-establishment of its military glory and influence in Europe, Both Napvleon and the French people believed themselves invincible. Looking with jealousy upon the growing power of Prussia and the unity and consolidation of the German people, particularly after the battle of Sadowa, they had the idea that it was their mission to inter- pose and check this Prussian and German de- velopmefft, just as they had to curb Russia, to weaken Austria and to strengthep Italy. Not that they had any fear of aggressive inter- ference with France or any assault upon the integrity of the French empire; they simply were ambitions to be, and assumed to be, the regulators of the balance of power in Europe from their own point of view. It suited the Smperor Napoleon to pander to. this national ambition and vanity, and, in- deed, he deemed it necessary, probably, to do so to gratify the French people and to per- petuate his own rule and dynasty. There was no cause for declaring war against Prus- sia, as all the world says, and no other motive than this. We have seen some of the consequences of this vaulting ambition and national vanity. How the French people have deceived them- selves and been deceived! How shortsighted was the Emperor! What a fatal mistake he has made! If the French were to gaia victo- ries now their military prestize would still remain damaged. If even they could turn the tide of victory back and drive the Prussians to the Rhine border again—which is not at all likely—they have called forth a power in Ger- many which they cannot subdue. They could not pass that wall of fire which they have kindled in united Germany. They could not penetrate the heart of the Fatherland. France is no more the arbiter of Europe. She is no longer the regulator of the balanoe of power there: She has ceased to be the first military Power. She will continue to be great, and must always be one of the first Powers of Europe; but she will no longer be the terror of nations. Henceforth she will not be able to disturb the world at her ‘pleasure and for the sake of glory. United Germany will prevent that. The French might gain some victories, for they are forty millions of brave people; but their military prowess is overshadowed by the events of the last few weeks. Humili- ating as this is to their pride, it will be better for them in the end, for it will prove the best guarantee of peace. The French are a great nation and have a splendid counjry, and if they be cured of their insane ambition for military glory and agzressive wars they may become the most prosperous and happy people in Europe. This effectual and permanent chanve in the status of France among the nations of Europe and in European affairs is one of the most im- portant consequences of tbe war. Another will be, probably, the end of the Napoleonic dynasty and Jdées Napoliennes, For nearly three-quarters of a century France has been imbued with the Napoleonic idea. Amid all the revolutions, changes of dynasty and repub- lican experiments in that country the people have always cherished the name and fame of the great Corsican, The accession of Louisa Napoleon, the nephew, and the port given to him by the French was not so much on his own account or merits a3 for the sake of his famous uncle’s | memory and for the love France bore for the | name of Napoleon. It is but just to say, how- ever, that the Emperor Louis Napoleon has done a good deal in promoting the internal aitp- influence and fame of the country among the nations of the world. But he has spoiled all this and destroyed the Napoleonic prestige by the fatal mistake he has made and by his incapacity in the present war, A less error or a disaster of less magnitude might have been forgiven by the French, but this is so over- whbelming and so humiliating to the nation that he cannot overcome it. Still another regult of the war will be seen. It will be the end, probably, of that political charlatanism with which the French have been humbugged. COwsariam, the theories about the Latin race supremacy, the pretence of governing through the voice of the people and upon republican principles under an imperial despotism and with the bayonet, and all the other theories and political clap-trap performances with which France has been entertained and hnum- bugged will end, it is to be hoped, with the reign of Napoleon. After this the French people will learn to be more in earnest and to look more for earnestness and sincerity in its government. It is hardly possible that ia this age a great nation like -the Freach can con- tinue to be governed through theatrical shams or impracticable theories. But the most important result of the war will be the consolidation of a great German empire in the heart of Europe. The war on the part of France was made chiefly to prevent ORK HERALD, Picea ic A Lex a f Prussia France did more for the union of Ger- many than fifty years of peace could have done. Blood and race have proved stronger than all political considerations or political animosities. However much the Germans may have been divided among themselves or may have fought each other, as in the late war between Prussia and Aus- tria, they make common cause against France. ‘Thty could have no faith in the professions of Napoleon and the French. Their pastexperience of Napoleonic and French pretences and bad faith had given them lessons that never could be forgotten, Not only have the States of the North German Confederation, which are more directly under the government of Prussia, rallied earnestly to the German cause, but the Southera States have shown a patriotism and courage not less remarkable. Yes, even the Germans of the Austrian em- pire—even those of Vienna, too—are aroused in favor of Prussia, which is fighting for the Fatherland, The bloody battle of Sadowa is forgotten, even by the Austrian Germans, in this conflict between Germany and France. This state of things, so unexpected by Napo- leon and the French, will lead, probably, to the establishment of a great Germanic empire, embracing all or nearty all Germans, both North aud South. Prussia, or the name of Prussia, as a Power, may become absorbed in that of Germany. By empire we do not ne- cessarily mean an imperial form of government or dynasty. True, the chiefs of the family of the Hohenzollerns may become the emperors of Germany, and King William may be the firstone ; but in the progress of events and en- lightenmeat of the age Germany may become a republican empire. The people of Father- land, as well as those of other advanced civil- ized countries, are beginning to estimate pro- perly the oppressive rule of monarchs and aristocracies and to clamor for self-govern- meat, But whatever form of government may be established ultimately, there is no doubt that the German race, numbering nearly fifty millions of people, will soon be united in one empire, That, seemingly, will be the great result of the war which Napoleon provoked. Such a Power in the contre of Europe may be the best guarantee of peace for that continent, for though the Germans are brave and warlike enough when provoked, or in defending them- selves, they are naturally a peaceful, indus- trious and progressive people. Cable Despatches—Newspaper Enterprise vs Newspaper Trickery. Nearly ail our daily city joornals are receiv- ing more or less, according to their financial capabilities, ‘cable despatches touching the movements and developments in Europe from day to day, military and poliiical, con- nected with this gigantic war between Franco and the allied German States. Of these despatches the Heracp specials as records of facts, we may say, without injustice to our contemporaries, are more nearly correct and more comprehensive than any others, because we have spared no labor or expense to make themso. The rules of the Associated Press, of which the Heratp is a member, require that the private news despatches of every journal concerned shall be shared among its colleagues, and. that every such despatch when received “shall be immediately handed over to the agent of the” Association to be copied and delivered to the several papers of the Association in the same manner as other telegraphic news is delivered.” We have always held this to be an unwise rule—a check upon individual enterprise and an advantage only to the negligent, the incom- petent and the slow coaches of the Associa- tion, in sharing equally the fruits of the labor of collecting telegraphic news, which has chiefly fallen upon the Heratp. Having been forced to accept the rule, we have faith- fully complied withe ils conditions, carefully avoiding any evasion, hedging or double- dealing. Notso is it with that model of all the virtues and of all proprieties, the Zribune. That journal, on the contrary, since the com- mencement of this European war, has deliber- ately evaded and violated this law. It has ap- propriated to itself, under the weak devices of the shoplifter, the property of the Association to which it belongs; it has been playing the game of obtaining credit and money upon false pretences. Its enterprise isa fraud, and its exclusive news is stolen goods. It has de- prived its associates of news which belonged to taem, while it has been sufficiently adroit as an “artful dodger” to hold them to their full share of the expense. And as Robert Macaire floirished in triumph the handkerchief filehed from a neighbor's pocket, so boasts the Z’ri- dune of its achievements in this dirty business. We have thus been robbed in the dishonest perversion of a rule of our Association which requires that if any part of a despatch to uny member of the league, if even a word of it is used by any other member, the payment therefor shall be the proportion that would be required for the whole despatch, There is another rule of the Association under which all special despatches that are received by any member after one o’clock A. M. shall be sent to the office of the Associated Press instead of being sent to the paper to which they are ad- dressed, in order that they may be promptly copied and distributed to the several papers concerned. To avoid this rule or law of the Association the 77idune has had its despatches, likely to come in after the hour designated, addressed to one of its subordinates as an “outsider,” a trick which neatly cuts off the Association from ‘such despatches until it is convenient for the 7'rébune to furnish them to colleagues ‘‘just in time to be too late” for its publication in their morning edition, {inless in a mutilated form, but still in time to exact from them their full proportion of the costs. Now, as John Randolph is said once to have remarked in Congress, referring to certain in- dividuals of the Barnum school, ‘These men may be very smart, and this, Mr. Speaker, may be called Yankee enterprise and Yankee shrewdness; but, sir, according to our old- fashioned notions, it is Yankee trickery and Yankee swindling.” Two Victorirs.—We have reports to-day of two victories—one by the French at Ver- dun and the other by the Prussians at Vitry. The story of the success of the latter is plain, and seems to be a simple record of fact. The this, and yet no event could have happened to do more in uniting and consolidating Germany. By the single act-of declaring war against French account, on the contrary, is fishy, and has the appearance of having been manufac- tured for Paris consumption. The War Despatches This Morning. From the mass of cable telegrams published this morning we glean the fact that on Thurs- day last the garrison of Vitry surrendered to the Prussians, and that on the same day the German. forces commanded by the Crown Prince of Saxony attacked Verdun, and after a fight of threo hours’ duration were repulsed with considerable loss. Both of these events are officially reported, Count Palikao having informed the Corps Législatif of the last. Marshal MacMahon, with the main body of his army, is said to be at Stenay, which would account for the attack upon Verdun, as that fortress will stand on the flank or in the rear of the Prussians should they fight a battle in the vicinity of MacMahon’s present position. The foregoing are about the only facts in connection with military movements which are reported, Of rumors we have any num- ber, One Paris paper insists that battles were fought on the 23d and 24th, Steinmetz being beaten on the first day and Prince Frederick Charles on the second, but by whom they were beaten is not stated, Another des- patch says that the army of the Crown Prince was arrested in its advance upon Paris, and is falling back to St. Dizier; but this is merely a repetition of what was telegraphed three days ago. Meantime, however, the authorities at the French capital are working like beavers to prepare the city for a siege. Provisions continue to pour in from every quarter, there being now two hundred and fifty thousand head of cattle within the forti- fications, to say nothing of cured meats, flour and other necessaries, All of this goes to show that Count Palikao is of the opinion that there may be some fighting before the fifteen fortresses which surround Paris, Characteristically elastic in their tempera- ments, the French seem to have got over their fright of last week, and are beginning to talk as confidently and defiantly as ever. One newspaper refers almost pathetically to the oné million of men whom “that obstinate old man,” the King of Prussia, has brought into France, and “whom he will never take back across the Rhine.” A writer, who conversed with Napoleon on Wednesday last, predicts wonderful things in a few days, and the Constitutionnel gene- rously warns the Crown Prince that if be continues his march on Paris Marshal Mac- Mahon may cut off his communications and place him between two fires. Another per- sonage who saw the Emperor on the 25th declares that the armies of MacMahon and Bazaine are near to each other. Altogether, if we were to rely on the Paris reports the complete overthrow and annihilation of the Prussian armies are near at hand. From London and Berlin we get very little news, and what there is of itis mainly unof- ficial. Further detaila are given of the com- position of the German forces. Three bun- dred thousand German troops aré said to be on the Rhine ready to reinforce the armies in France should they be defeated. In Berlin yesterday there was great rejoicing, the peo- ple carrying trophies of war in procession through the streets. A despatch trom London reports a flying rumor that a great battle was fought either Saturday or yester- day, but up to a late hour the report remained unconfirmed. This closes the war news of the morning. As will be seen very little authentic information was _ received, but the silence and uncertainties of the past few days are doubtless due to the important movements both armies have been and pro- bably still are making. During this week, however, we shall surely hear of important results through official channels, as the two armies cannot manwuyre much longer with- out fighting. The mons Yesterday. Since the war in Europe began no clergy- man has given it more profound attention than the Rev. Charles B, Smyth, dnd yesterday he discoursed for the third time upon this weighty subject. The reverend gentleman pleaded eloquently for peace and predicted the over- throw of Napoleon and the humiliation of France. Time will decide upon the prophecy, so we shall refrain from speculation, while acknowledging the eloquence of the preacher. On the same subject, though in- directly, preached the Rev. Oscar Hugo, at the Chelsea Metgodist Episcopal church. He discoursed on Protestant rights, religious and educatignal, in Catholic countries, and assured his congregation that these were mythical. A victory by Prussia over France would be a triumph over Catholicism. As a wind-upethe reverend speaker, figura- tively speaking, dissected the Pope, poured a broadside into Catholics and, delivered alto- gether « good old fashioned anti-popery sermon, From this theme we turn to an able sermon on the transfiguration of Christ, which was de- livered by Dr. G. H. Houghton at the Charch of the Transfiguration, The perfection of Christianity was explained by Rev. W. H. Clark, and Rev. O. H. Bidwell indulged in an interesting discourse about the Holy Land. Songs of Scripture formed the subject of Rev. C. C. Foote’s sermon, in which the Hebrew hymns were compared with the Greek tragedies. At Murray Hill Presbyteriau church, Plymouth Baptist church, St. Patrick’s cathedral and other places of worship in this city the sermons were, in the main, creditable to the preachers. The same may be said of the religious discourses in Brook- lyn, Washington and other points reported in the Heraxp this” morning. Altogether, however, yesterday cannot be said to have been a decided success in a religious point of view. That many souls were saved we sin- cerely hope ; but the season for saving souls has scarcely commenced yet, and we must con- sequently wait « few weeks longer, when the churches will be crowded and the work of salvation will be entered upon with real energy. Po.itics.—There will be lively times this week among the political substratum, The little ward politicians—those who make the beds for the leaders to repose upon—will be as busy as bees in a clover field. Tue Sima Founv.—The Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury has issued an order for the purchase of seven millions of government bonds for the sinking fund, and for the sale of fotr millions of gold during the month of 5 September. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1870. aa to oer popes < gerents. The French press exalts over the statements made that their national loan has been promptly closed, more than the amount having been subscribed, while Prussia found great difficulty in raising a much smaller sum. One Faria journal exclaims:—‘‘France yesterday gained a great victory. In one day many hundreds of millions were paid into the Treasury, Prussia for two months has sought to procure a less sum vainly.” A special Paris correspondent of the London press says, however, ‘‘thut the loan was @ striking failure compared with former sub- scriptions, adding the estimated cost of effect- ing the loan, The deficiency of subseriptions on the first day was eighty-five millions, while former imperial loans were covered many times over, The full amount of this will be nominally made up, but a considerable.part by subscription of speculators, who cannot pay calls." While we admit the French gov- ernment is putting the best face on about the loan, with a view to inspire confidence, and may be is resorting to some trickery for that purpose, and while we see that this loan is not subscribed for so largely or readily as former imperial loans, we must acknowledge that the French people have subscribed liberally and have shown in this their confidence, patriot- ism and resources. Prussia found more diffi- culty in getting her loan taken, though it was not as large as that of the French. True, we have heard little or nothing about that loan lately, Still it must be understood that the Prussian loan was placed at a much higher figure than the French loan is subscribed for. This, of course, would make'a great difference as to the readiness with which capitalists and the people would take up the loans, There is no doubt, however, that the financial resources of France are greater than those of Prussia, if wo excopt the much greater weight of the debt of the former over that of the latter, and the war chances and other things being equal. Commerce is the great creator of the sur- plus wealth of a nation. It is this that has made England so rich and full of financial resources. France has had the advantage over Prussia in acquiring commercial wealth, and to-day, while the ports of Germany are closed and their commerce cut off, France is trading freely with all the world. In a pro- longed war commercial isolation proves most disastrous. This was seen in the case of the Confederate States during our civil war. Nothing makes a nation so rich, or, in a great emergency, so strong a3 a large commerce. This war will be ended, probably, before tho financial resources of tho belligerents be strained to the utmost; but should it continue long France; through her commerce, would have the advantage, as far as money goes, which is called the sinews of war. CenrraL AmrrioaN News.——Our latest cor- respondence from Panama, which will be found on another page, gives an intelligent résumé of matters in the Central American republics. The troubles on the Guatemalan borders still continue, and the present weakly condition of Mexico gives renewed confidence to the des- peradoes who head the movement towards the invasion of Mexican soil. Tar Law enforcing the fifteenth amendment does not work as smoothly as its originators anticipated, In several of the Southern States registers of election have been arrested by United States commissioners for refusing to register parjies who served in the Confederate army, such parties being deprived of the elective franchise by statute law. This con- flict between federate and State authorities involves the principle of State rights, and Attorney General Akerman, who has been asked for his opinion on the subject, appears to intimate that in this instance State authority is paramount. The Attorney General says the question does not come within his pro- vince, but is one belonging to the courts, and has given notice to that effect to government officials and other parties concerned, Tne Waorre Man’s Party is numbered among the things that were in Louisiana. The democracy of that State have accepted the situation, ignored the negro question and kindred issues, and cordially invite the affilia- tion of the colored voters, The wisdom of this step is manifest in the fact that they are making serious inroads in the radical ranks, hundreds of colored voters having abandoned the republican party, and intend hereafter working and voting with their old masters. The Louisiana democrats not only solicit the colored vote, but they fairly and openly call upon the negroes to take part in conventions and to work for the success of the party. Northerners who so insanely adhere to the traditional white man’s party will do well to study the tactics of their Louisiana friends. Negro suffrage is an accomplished fact, and no amount of stupid conventional resolutions can alter it, PERSONAL IN’ LIGENCE, General Hovey, of Indiana, after being four years Minisicr to Peru, has tired of the place, found the salary inadequate, resigned and Wul be home by September 1. George Bemis has retnrned to Boston from Europe after an absence of nearly two years. His numer- ous friends will be glad to learn that his bealth has been completely restored. Bishop Eastburn will begin his visitation of the churches of his diocese on Sunday, September 4. His earilest appointments are in the westero part of Massachusetis. E. J. Royce, President of Liberia, {3 Io Washing- n. Samuel FE. Sawyer bas not only given a bell and clock to the new town house in Gloucester, but has offered to.put iron jences about two of its schovl- houses, one of which was named tn bis honor, Mr. George Wood, chief of the Navigation Division of the Treasury, who diea Tuesday night, at the age of seventy-two, after nearly half a century’s service for the government, was a constant contributor to several magazines, and was at one time associate editor of the Washington National Era, His pub- lished works were “Peter Schiemel in America,’? “Marryme Too Late,” “Modern Pilgruu," and “Gates Wide Open,” Five hundred members of the Clapp family held Areunion at Northampton, Mass., Wednesday. a, M. Clapp, Congresstonul Printer, was president of the day. The principal address was made by Rey, Dr. Alexander H. Clapp, of New York. Mrs, Williams, late Mrs. Senator Douglas, has commenced an action agatnst the executors of the Douglas estate, alleging traud in the manage- fea She secks to recover $150,000, wrongtully eld, mnel Sprecher, President of Wittenberg Oui, is engaged on the first English trans- lation from the German jot Donner’s great work on Protestantism, which i3 considered in Germany the standard work on doctrinal theology. This wiil be the only English translation yet attempted. Professor Henry Durant, the newly elected Preat- dent of the University of California, graduated at Yale in 1827, and bas resided in California for sevea- teen vears, me PRESIDENT GRANT. aot Midnight Serenade by the Militory Academy Band=Dioner at Judge Pierpont’s at Garri- sows Lunding—Sunday Tae im the Cadet Camp—The Colored Cadet in Durance Vile— Army Officers at the Hoteis—Senator Ames ‘The Hop. Wesr Point, August 28, 1870. Scarcely had terminated a very delightful though rather impromptu hop given tast evening at the West Point Hotel, and with it the animation of music and many trembling feet and rustling silks, when the post military band made its appearance at the hotel and serenaded the President, in the deep hush of night—for it was after midnight when the band commenced playing, with the muste melting and mingling its murmuring sounds with the echoes from the encom- passing mountains, Nothing in the way of musio can be imagined baving & more soul-stirring snd soul-enlivening effect—nothing—except by those who have been here and heard a midnight serenade by the post band—imagined coming 80 near the posts conception of the exquisite music of a dream. The band played some half hour. If stars are the poetr; and mystery of heaven there ts a poetry farther reaching and a deeper mystery in music such as this was, We will Bol undertake to describe it. The President, thougn roused from slumber. was de- lighted by it, and so was everybody else who heard it, and there were very few who did not. BEVEILLK AND SUNDAY INSPECTION. While Sunday is generaily the quietest day of the week elsewhere, it 1s altogether the liveliest here. ‘This 18 particularly 40 while (he cadets are in camp. AS the cadets have to get up at sunrise, a cannon 1 fired at this time, awakening everybody else, whether they want to get up or not; and then, to be sure and keep everybody else awake. there follows. an incessant beating of drums; all of which ts, of course, intensely military, but intensely disgust to one Who does not care to enlarge his stock of lore on the subject of the rising sun, but has a preference to cultivate tired nature's sweet restorer to a con- siderably later hour, The Sunday morning inspec- tions at nine o’ciovk are an interesting feature. General Upton, Commandant of the Cadet Corps—he of Upton Tactics memory, 80 greatly adored by the cadets and so indescribabiy useful to those having military on the brain—conducted the inspection this morning. As a sort of compromise, no doubt, with the sacredness of the day, band played some sacred music, but the tran- sitions to galops ana waltzes were both frequent and marked. The guard mounting was specially tine; but, in fact, the cadets do not do anything in the military way that 1s not specially fine—a po! it is wholly unnecessary, as the thing has been done Somany times, to undertake to prove by any de- tatled description of this morning’s military exer- cises, A large crowd was in attendance as specta- ters, including many ladies, mostly young, whose anxiety on the subject of our future national defend- ers has tis basis, perbaps, in patriotism, and perhaps not. Among the spectators, by the Way, Was the author of the “Wickedest Man in New York,’ who, at the close, sought to “interview” THE COLORED CADET, Smitn, but was not successful in the attempt. The fact is this colored cadet 1s just now in disgrace, bathe andes arrest and.confined to his tent. Think- ing himself capable of teaching a white cadet liteness, he undertook to do so through the me- ium of a tin dipper, brought down with considera. bie force on the latter's head. He sits tu his tent Remote, friendlies, melancholy, slow. And this last adjective of the poet seems quite appropriate to his case, There 1s certainly nothing promising in his appearance; nothing indicatug any Promethian spark liable at any tine to ignite any river, THE PRESIDENT VISITS JUDGE PIERREPONT. During the middie hours of the day, whlle nearly all the people here, inciuding the cadets, were at church, the President crossed the river and visited Judge Pierrepont at is summer revidence, near Garrison’s Landiag. Hé fémalied fhere several hours, dining there and returning here shortly be- fore dark and just in time again to mias the evening dress parade, mucu to the disappointment, a secund time, of the cadets, ALMY OFFICERS HERE. ‘The hotels are unusually swarmed with army offi- cers, some of whom have been spending several weeks here, this being their favorite place of sum- mer sojourn, and others having come on to partici- pate in the @ay festivities of the torthcoming hop. Among the more conspicuous of these are General ‘Van Vitet, the well known quartermaster of the army, and as widely popular as he is widely known; General Gillmore, General Kiddoo, General Baldy Smith and General Alexander; Colonel Black, lately commandant of the Cadet corps—and a better liked or more eilicient officer never filed this position—is also here, a3 likewise Captain Camp, connectea with the army recruiting bureau in New York, Not to be omitted among the late arrivals 13 SENATOR AMES, who, with his bride, is stopping at the West Point Hotel. As is well known the Senator is a graduate or the Military Acadomy, aud, like the most of vid graduates, finds pleasure in coming back here and reviving the delightiui memories of his cadet days. All the arrangements are now uearly completed fore” ~ THE HOP to-morrow evening. The second class, which has been absent on furlough since the close of the last June examtiation, sre to arrive to-morrow, 80 a3 tu to be on hand in ume to participate in the evening's festivities. A good many others are also expected, and itis well enough to state that there isto be Oancing ail night; for it would be utterly unpossi- bie to find room for any more at the hotels, as they are now crowded (o suffocation. The floor mana- gersare Cadet Fred Grant, son of the President, and Cadets Wasson and stewart. ‘The selections for this position are made by the Cadet corps, and being exclusively a test of personal popularity, are esteemed a very high honor. The aanciug will be in the mess room and the room m wine! tue ordinary hops take place, the two rooms being used for convenience of the the division of dances. Everything gives assurance that it will be & most magnificent auuir; and one tiing is very cer- tain, that although it is Sunday, and notwiuhstand- lug the presence of President Grant, 1b das bean the great Lopic of talk evory where to-day. YACHTING. Americano vs. English Schooners—A Challenge from Mr, Ashbury, To THE Eprron oF THE HEKALD:— Sir—It is generally known that I desire to test the Cambria with the best American yachts, not so much in inland or land-iocked waters, but fairly at sea tn @ stiff breeze. Apart from the famous race for the 11 Cup I have already had opportunities of sailing against the New York Yacht Club fleet and other yachts in our present tuteresting cruise, and with the additional advantage of private races with the Idier and Palmer, under circumstances already fully described in your journal, the result of auch sailings being to confirm my opinion that witn probably about four exceptions—Dauntiess, Sappho, Fleetwing and America—there 1s no yacht in America faster or more weatherly than the Cambria, at sea, ina ten- knot breeze, I have also an opinion that under the usual sailing regulations the Cambria would stand a fair chance of beating the exceptions so referred to. i have private matches on with the Phantom, Idier, America and Madeleine, in a nine to ten knot breeze, twenty miles to windward and back. Iam, however, led to belteve that the other yacht owners wil like to sail singly against the Cambria prior to her departure for the West Indies, and with this im- pression 1 beg to say that’ I hereby challenge any schooner yacht in America to sail against the Cam- bria in a ten knot breeze, twenty miles to windward and back, from the Sandy Hook lightship; such race to commence upon the conclusion of the forthcom- Ang races in these waters, and to be in accordance with the rules and conditions of any royal yacht club in Great Britain or Ireland or those of the New York Yacht Club. The following yachts are espe- cially Suggested as being larger or about the same American measurement as the Cambria, viz.:—The Sappho, Alarm, Fleetwing, Halcyon, Josephine, Tidal Waye, Silvie, Tarolinta, Vesta and Widgeon., Yours truly, JAMES ASHBUBY. Uamsnia, Newport, August 26, 1870, A COUNTERFEIT SHOVER ARRESTED. Some days ago a fellow named J, B, Kilpatrick callea at tha restaurant of J.D. Crockett, No. 345 Grand street, and passed upoo him a twenty dollar countertett bill on the Shoe and Leather Bank. Mr. Crockett detected it after he had taken his depar- ture, but sald nothing, hoping that Kilpatrick; would again make an attempt to victimize him. On Saturday evening the shover visited him again and presented another bill, when Crockett told him that, ‘would not do as he had passed one upon him before. Kilpatrick at once snatched the bill from the coun- ter and tore itup. Crockett detained him until the, arrival of officer Bradley, of the Tenth precinct, who, took him into custody and locked him up at police: headquarters. Kilpatrick thinks that by tearing up the last bill presented he has destroyed all evidence. of nis guilt; but on his bere alice! Kd the United States Commissioner this mornthg he wll find confronting him the first bill passed upon Mr., Crockett, A WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE, Last evening Mary Johnson, locked up at tha Eldridge street station house, attempted suicide by hanging herself to the door of her ceil by nean® of @ piece of her muslin dress. LIQUOR STATISTICS, The arrests by the pole yesterday between tha hours of six A. M. and nine P. M. were for intoaicas 7, for diss tion 57, for beg drunk and disorderly 1i, for Ms orderly conduct? 22, and for violating the excise 2 taking & Lotal Of 93.