The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1871, Page 4

oe. eo 4 re a TS NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubtishea every day in the Annual supseription year. Four cents per copy. yrice $12. wit Velume XXXVI.... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUS ‘Tar Tamer Hunonsacks. ormer of Sth ay, ana 234 st.— BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—PomP—Tnok Femas ABBER, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— No Namg. av? OLYMPIC THEATRE, Peay oF East Lyx. GLOBE THEATRE, 788 Broadway.--THE Great DRaMa OF NEOK AND NECK. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 284 st, between Sth and 6th avs.— ‘Tax MAN 0’ AiRLIE. Broadway.—Tur EMOTIONAL WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th at.—Perform- ances every afternoon and evening—IHREE BLIND MICE, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— EDALE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. TRAVELLER, MRS. F. B. 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KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND AE’ New York, Friday, June 9, 1871. o> es TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pace. ‘ 2—Adveritsem: 3— Adverusemen 4—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘Furope ata New Point of Departure—The gle Between 1 Old Idess—Personal Intel tabbinical Conierence—Army Intelil- gence—Weather Keport—Amusement An- vA is Assassination of the Marquis Galltfet— zy in England—The War in Colombia— from Russia, Germany, Turkey, South Africa and West Indies—News from Washing- ton—Literary Chit-Chat—obituarnes—Miscella- neous T Past—Bu Notices. 6—Prospect Fair Grounds: Great Trot Be- tween Goldsmith Mat and George Paimer—sn Match Race Between the Bouts Sopa Em anil General Tweed—The National Game— Third Day’s Session of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons—West Point: A Review Before the Pre: lof crelary of War—Crime ana Cnloroform—The Late Brooklyn Howicide, ‘7—Adver'isements, S—The } residency: Asa Pack Speaks—Volitical Noies, erai—vills Signed by t of ‘Two Murderers tn Si. Journalistic Notes—The lilinvis Cyclone. Quakers’ Finale—insurance issues—A F Mistake—The Late Tragedy on Shipboa Arrest of Joe Cuoburn—Murphy’s Muscie Me Proceedings in the Courts. 9—The Courts (Continued from Eighth Page)—Rut- gers Female Coliege—The City College Com- motion—Supposed Death from a Stab Wound— dumping from a Train— queens County's Dis- grace—Department of Docks—Commussioners of Hinigration—Chaw pion Cider Consum Financial and Commercial Reports—Domesuc Markets—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- of Pennsylvania, ‘onal and Gen- ments. 10—New Hampsnire Legislature: The House of Representatives Fully Organized—Catholic Ceremoniais in Newark—Old Jet? kepresents Only Himself—The 0 it School in New York—Mra. Cunton’s Purp’—A Clerical Swindler—Tired of Life—New York City News—The Claflin Clan—Brooklyn Butcner- tes—Brooklyn Matters—Suipping intelligence— Advertisements, Tne Episcopa.iaN Bisnops are all incensed against the anti-canonical Tyng, Jr. They warn him that the wages of Tyng is death. Tue Capets at West Pornt had a decided treat yesterday. They were visited in their barracks by Miss Nilsson, who sang for them, and some of the audacious young fellows had the temerity to sing back, “Benny Havens, Ob,” being their best hold. Tue Democrats oF New Hampsnire have carried the organization of the lower House of the Legislature, where they have two majority. The question of a Governor and a United States Senator now depends entirely upon the complexion of the Siate Senate, which is not yet organized. Tue Most important day of the Ascot races was yesterday, Mortemer being the winner of the Ascot Cup. A large and brilliant gather- ing, as usual, witnessed the race. Unlike the Epsom racee, which are attended by all classes of London, the lowest of the low included, the sightseers at Ascot are for the greater part the créine de la créme of English society. Littte Ruopy Snows Siexs oF Pro- GrEss.—She proposes to abolish the property qualification for voters, except where the question is upon matters of taxation, and to substitute an educational test. This will give little Rhody an augmentation of voters; for, while nearly everybody there can read, it is generally taken for granted that nobody there holds any property except the rival families of Sprague and Ives. ConsTANTINOPLE has been visited by an- other conflagration of considerable dimensions, Two hundred houses and a large amount of property, says our despatch from Lon- don, have fallen a prey to the flames. The fact of. the fire having simul- taneously broken out in four places proves tbat it was the work of incendiaries. The number of lives lost is not stated ; but to judge from the losses of former con(lagrations it must, uofortunately, have been considerable, as tbe well known apathy manifested by Turks on sach occasions, the insuffi- ciency of the fire department, the nar- rowness of tbe streets and wretched condition of mort of the houses render escape a difficult matter to the unfortunate inbabi- tants. Buta short time ago the best portion of the city, known as Pera, was destroyed by a fearful conflagration. The present one is, fortunately, not of such magnitude, and at the time the despatch left Constantinople it was hoped that the fire would be arrested without further loas of lives and property. | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, ‘1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Surope at a New Paint of Departure— The Struggle Between Progress and Old Ideas. . But few appreciate the gigantic nature of the problem that is rapidly resolving itself in Europe. Certainly the Europeans themselves appear to understand it the least of all. It is only from this distance and from an American point of view, with a vision cleared by a cen- tury of practical liberalism and unopposed progress; that the forces at work among the nations of Europe to-day can be estimated at their true value. No State can be at peace unless its political keeps pace with its material growth, for progress pushes on its work, over- turns old ideas, is never conservative and is more dictatorial than the sword of Tamerlane. We of the United States feel this keenly, for progress is simply another name for republi- can government. We follow its leadership with the faith of a Columbus and the persis- tency of a Magellan, sure that it will direct us to new and great discov- eries for the beneflt of the human race. Europe is totally the opposite of all this. Itis the old constantly struggling against the inroads of the ever victorious new. The old makes conservative laws, excommunicates all innovations, and from time to time strikes for a new lease of life, and dies hard, bat dies. The European systems of government are not applicable in this century except in rare instances. They always nursed upon blood in the primitive condition of man. Even now they bave lost nothing of their instincts and tastes. The incomes of States are the exponents of their progress. Europe in 1815, which was the point of its new departure on the race for 1870, was scarcely able to bold to its old po- litical systems. Nothing but the combined monarchical and religious forees could give a transient lease of life to old ideas. he na- tional annual incomes ef the five principal na- tions in existence at that date were :— Great Britain. 1, 750,099,000 10,090,000 Prussia . From this the world has leaped forward with strides which have threatened the overthrow of every political sysi not bora of progress. Since the year 1815, iron, steam and elec- tricity have pushed forward their work, and their great work has changed the world. It has left the Pope far behind in infallibility. It has blessed the world more than all the preaching since the days of Peter the Hermit, for it has made religion practicable and caused morals to be appreciated. There is no dis- puting the mathematics of 1870, as shown in the following incomes per United States. at Brivain. ‘man Empire ie. 4,091,090, 009 s+. 8,000,050,009 hat the brains of Europe have not expanded with this mighty pros- perity? Can you wonder that Eounenicai councils, Papal infullibility, esta! d eburches, thrones, boundary lines aad con- servative institutions goto the ground against the tremendous forces Leld in line of battle by these figures? Is it surprising that the disestablishment of the Church of England is following rapidly upon the track of that of Ireland; that Enzlish aristocracy, the finest in the world, hopes for bat a short lease of life for its prerogatives; that Scotland, quicker to feel the movement, quietly presses forward to a peaceful conquest of England, as is seen in the propitiatory marriage between the Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorn ? But progress gives no less results in France, however red the bath into which monarchical ambition has plunged ber. That France can arise from her disasters, and, in addition, pay a thousand millions for her folly, is‘some proof of prosperity and what the century has done for her. If Europe does not understand the Commune we do, and define it as the effect of French progress working upon the brutalized humanity which ever lies in ambush under a throne. This always watches its opportunity, and strikes, tiger-like, at the merciless hand which, in France, has never relaxed its pres- sure since the days of Charlemagne. The Commune felt the impulse of the times, and if it failed to enunciate sound republican princi- ples the fault should be credited to that European element which thrives on ignor- ance—not to the Commune itself. The Versailles party, with all its education, has been scarcely less stupid. “It has wan- dered inthe dark and without a programme ever since its election. It has a vague idea that it must rule, but how, or to what purpose, it apparently knows not. The truth is, France in July, 1870, had outgrown her statesmen. Her material elements had so far outstripped her political ones that when the latter were called upon to wield the former for the defence of the nation they found the problem too gigan- tic for monarchical education. In other words, the monarchical forms were too weak, too infirm, too inadequate to the necessities of modern progress, which changes forms of government day by day, and refuses to allow the world to become a fixture. With Germany, although she now sees an Emperor, there is no difference. The Ger- mans had not reached the imperial period when the late war broke out. No great and homogeneous internal development had taken place. Instead of this scores of petty princes had combined their territories together for protection; but, powerless to resist the move- meng of the age, they have emerged from the struggle a consolidated nationality. Germany promises to push forward along the German Ocean, and, obeying her commercial destiny, absorb Belgium, Holland and Denmark. When she does this she must rest in her conquests, for progress will be too unwieldy for monarchi- cal forms, and in republicanism she will fiad peace. In this march of the nineteenth century we feel that the United States should more thor- oughly study and appreciate the great réle which destiny has given to us. The day is past when we shonld talk of war with any European State. It becomes laughable to speak of the conquests of the world in com- parison to the victorles which mark the track of modern republican ideas. For instance, to make war against the England of to-day would be to strike at ourselves, for we should wound liberalism. Let England alone; she will conquer herself, and, doing so, will rid her territory of its evils and the stings which envious souls have thrust westward across the Atlantic. European liberalism is rapidly ac- knowledging our leadership, and one can see in the effect upon it the immense moral force which our practical ideas carry with them. But we move side by side with progress; the nations of the Old World are also struggling for equal glory, and it should be our duty to help and guide them onward. General Grant and General Sherman. General Grant, in one of bis late conversa- tions with our reporter at Long Branch, speak- ing of General Sherman, said that he and Sherman were warm friends, and that “I am not authorized to speak for him; but I am pretty certain that Sherman wouldn’t stand on the democratic platform. Sherman is no dem- ocrat, and never was.” But Sherman goes a little beyond this, in his letter in yesterday's Heraxp, in which he speaks in this decisive style:—‘“‘I say that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party I should per- emptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.” This means that General Sherman would not on any terms exchange his present position for the White House; that he despises party politics and does not want to have his name bandied about in the newspapers by either party for political purposes. This is not surprising, considering the re- markable antipathy of General Sherman to newspaper reporters. This antipathy crops out in this letter from Fort Sill, and it was one of the first peculiarities of the General made manifest to newspaper reporters in our late civil war. They gave him, and he gave them, a deai of trouble fora year or two; but at last they were too much for him, though he never became entirely reconciled to their presence in his camp. Grant, Meade, Thomas, Sheridan and other generals, on the contrary, early learned to recogniz9 and provide for the press as the agent of communication between our soldiers in the field and their friends at home; that the recognition of this agent was absolutely indis- pensable to harmony in the Union ranks, front and rear; for the ‘boys in blue” would have their newspapers, and they liked to see the press gang in their camps. Tt is a curious fact that while General Sher- man is a capitat speechmaker, and likes to make a speech on occasions such as a meeting of the Army of the Cumberland, he still shrinks from the newspaper reporter. It is equally remarkable that while General Grant is no speechmaker he does not hesitate to call a properly authenticated newspaper reporter to his side and talk to him on public affairs as freely and frankly as he would talk with a member of his own family. This dif- ference between these two remarkable men explains why the one recoils from the very thought of beiag a Presidential candidate, while the other rather likes the idea than other- wise of running for another term. It is because General Sherman bas not yet mas- tered the mystery of newspaper reporters, while General Grant has pretty fully discov- ered the important part they play in the shap- iag of political events, public men and public affairs. Prince Napoleon, Guizot and Thiers. A few days since we had the announcement that Prince Napoleon had issued a protest against the action of the liberal party in Paris last September, which resulted in the dissolu- tion of the empire. This is nothing more than might have been expected. Louis Napoleon himseif has oft repeated, since the ill-fated day of Sedan, his denunciation of the pro- ceedings which released France from im- perialism and gave it over to the republican form of government which now exists. Prince Napoleon, however, stands forth as an advo- cate for the cause of the House of the Bona- partes, and, like the ex-Emperor, has so un; bounded a faith in the wisdom of the people that he claims that a plébiscite is the only way to ascertain the desires of the French people regarding the form of government under which they desire to live. Of course he be- lieves the result would be the restoration of the empire. Like a good and faithful servant of an ancient and honorabte house M. Guizot comes forth as the champion of the Bourbons. The Duc d’Aumale is his choice—a choice which the former Minister of Louis Philippe be- lieves would be acceptable to France. If Guizot advocates the claims of the Duc d’Au- male with the Dake’s sanction, how are we to regard the fusion of both branches of the rival Bourbon houses, reports of which were so prevalent a short time since? The manifesto of the Count de Chambord, which we pub- lished a few days ago, might lead us to believe that the fasion of the two houses was atbing accomplished. If M. Guizot is to be regarded as the mouthpiece of the Duc d’Au- male, that little arrangement would appear to be a matter, after all, of mere speculation. “Before God and man I will remain true to the republic,” said M. Thiers recently. Let him keep his word. Give the republic a fair trial. There is an opportunity to do so now. The insurrection weeded Paris of the fiery impracticables, whose wild, theoretical rav- ings were always a source of trouble to the capital. Keep your word, M. Thiers, and give France a fair trial under a republican form of government. PoxrticaL INTEGRITY IN THE West.—They have a very decisive way of doing things out West. If courts or juries are slow in bringing notorious culprits to justice Judge Lynch in- terferes, and in not a few cages saves the community from the depredations of outlaws and villains. But the rigor of justice is not confined altogether to cases like these; even the highest functionaries in the State are brought up, as it were, with a round turn and made to receive their just deserts, This bas just happened in the case of Governor Butler, of Nebraska, who, after a fair trial ina High Court of Impeachment, has been removed from the office of Governor. In commenting upon the event the Omaha Republican says Butler's disgraceful fall should be a warning to all other officials in the young Common- wealth of Nebraska. It might also serve asa warning in older States than Nebraska, where corruption is allowed to creep in and fester. A constitutional convention is soon to sit in Nebraska, from the deliberations of which much good is anticipated in the matter of the reforms demanded. Political integrity is on the advance in the West, Earl Carnarvon’s Larger Federation a Federation of Commerce. When Sir Benjamin Pine became Governor- in-Chief of the British possessions commonly known as the Windward Islands, he set him- self to work to form them into a federation, something similar to the Dominion of Canada, Each of theso islands has a separate Governor and a separate Legislature; but all of them, with the exception of Nevis and St. Kitts, are heartily favorable to the plan. An attempt at federating them was made in 1836, but it failed through mutual jealousies and the utter stagnation of business consequent upon the abolition of slavery. The office of Governor- in-Chief has been in effect only nominal, and each island has acted in all things independ- ently of the others. England cared nothing for them, because they were of little worth to her, and, in their wretchedness and misery, they cared little for themselves, Now, how- ever, things have changed somewhat for the better. Industry is beginning to revive, and commerce sees new prospects of gain among those tropical islands. From Demerara and Trinidad to St. Thomas the seas are whitening with English and American sails, and the steamers of the Royal Mail Company carry full freigbts both ways, to be reshipped at the latter point, Jamaica, which is also ultimately to be a member of this new federation, has been able to prove, under the vigorous administration of Sir J. P. Grant, that it need not always be a burden upon the mother country. All the other British West India is!ands have felt similar revivifying influ- ences, and so hopeful has the condition of affairs become that the Earl of Carnarvon even dares to hope for a still larger federation. What the noble Earl meant by his hope for a still larger federation it would be difficult to determine, were it not for a single sentence in the report of his speech in Parliament, which throws light upon his meaning. ‘‘The change,” he said, ‘‘would no doubt lead to economy and improved administration, but he attached more importance to the opportunity of enlarged commerce which it would offer.” In itself, a federation which should include only Jamaica, Antigua, St. Kitts and some other little islands would be useless. To make it of any value whatever it must include Ber- muda, the Bahamas, Barbados and British Guiana. Without these it would effect nothing. By a strange confusion of the terms “leeward” and ‘‘windward” it is impossible to ascertain the exact group of islands included in Sir Benjamin Pine’s original bill; but it is such a plain case of all or none that Earl Carnarvon's larger federation must be taken to mean some- thing more than perhaps even he intended. It must mean a federation of commercial in- terests between England and America, which should have its centre in the tropics, but reach from the Indies of the West to the Indies of the East. It is in this larger sense, and in this larger sense only, that federation is important. The West India islands are all exceedingly produc- tive; but steady labor is much needed, and especially is a wise administration of public affairs required. Ignorant and supercilious army officers, and poor noblemen, or poor de- pendents of noble families, have been too often charged with the important duty of their gov- ernment. The result hasbeen that they were the worst governed countries in the world. Even Ireland is happy in comparison with many of the British West India islands. Ab- sentee landlords have sought to enrich them- selves and have impoverished whole colonies. Jamaica, one of the most fertile and produc- tive islands on the globe, cannot hope for a complete restoration of prosperity till after her abandoned e@ates are reclaimed by the Crown and sold to the people on condition that they shall be cultivated. The same thing is true of all the others, except Barbados, where the necessity of obtaining bread by steady and un- remitting labor makes the entire island culti- vated and the whole people industrious. Hitherto these islands, heavily taxed and badly governed, have offered no inducements to emigration, and no means were employed to stimulate the industry of their own inhabi- tants. It may well be doubted whether feder- ation will at once bring about a much better state of affairs ; but in the larger federation at which Earl Carnarvon hinted there is much promise for the fature. It cannot be doubted that England and America are destined to play very important parts as commercial and political allies. Steam and the telegraph, not less than a common language and a common origin, bring the two peoples wonderfully close together. The two countries can never go to war, and will be rivals only in finding the trackless paths of the ocean and bearing to all the world the fruits of the tropics and the spices of the East. While the Latin races—France, Spain, Italy—are fighting among themselves and falling to pieces by the disintegration which follows national degradation; while Germany is aggrandizing in Central Europe, and Russia pushing her conquests further and further into Central Asia, England and America alone are free from the taints of the Latins and the faults of the Prussians and their Russian allies. They will stand together against all encroachments upon Chiaa, and unite in protecting their com- merce, which is the commerce of the world. Tennyson felt this when he saw the pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales, Til the war-iram throbbved no longer, and the bat- tle flags were furied In the Paritament of Man—the federation of the world; and Earl Carnarvon seems to have had a glimpse of it in seeing in Sir Benjamin Pine’s petty federation scheme the germ of a still larger federation. The American people can scarcely hope to wrest the dominion of the Atlantic from the Eaglish commercial navy; but America may at least share that dominion with England, while the Pacific is ours for all future ages. It only needs a little wisdom now to make the two countries greater in the future than in the past. The Treaty of Washington has opened the way, and the adoption of this federation scheme will be another step inthe same direction, Before the close of the century we may see the West Indies redeemed, Spanish-American influence disappearing from the Western hemisphere, and China pouring untold wealth upon our shores, at the same time that India stands as a bulwark against the encroachments of the Czar, and England is, with America, the strong defence of civil liberty. Funding the Debt. The Secretary of the Treasury is not making much progress in funding or transferring the national securities at a lower rate of interest. The subscriptions for the new redaced per cents authorized by Congress are small out- side of the banks, which are required to take them, notwithstanding the advantages offered by the bonds being exempt trom taxation and the length of time they have to run. The cause of this is apparent. Money is worth more in this country and commands a higher rate of interest in business and other invest- ments. European capitalists mizht take the new securities with more profit to themselves, for money obtains a much lower rate of inte- rest abroad. While we might prefer that our debt be held principally at home, as that is capital in itself, and a drain of gold to pay interest abroad would thus be prevented, it may be as well, perhaps, for Mr. Boutwell to accept any such large offer as report says has been made by foreign capitalists. The great object now should be to reduce the interest and lessen the present burdens of the people. In the progress of the country, increase of wealth and wonderful development of our resources, there is no reason to fear that the future cannot take care of itself. Reportep Piortines or THE Frenon Ix- PERIALISTS.—It is said Prince Napoleon has announced his intention of becoming a candi- date for the representation of Corsica in the French Assembly, and that he maybe sup- portdll by a powerful party. This, it will be remembered, was the way in which Louis Napoleon first got into power. This was the stepping stone for the usurpation and bloody coup @état of that Bonaparte, through which he reached the imperial throne. Does Prince Napoleon wish to play the same game over again, either for his own elevation or the res- toration of some other of his family to power? The European telegrams say, also, that he is known to be an active conspirator in the cause of the empire. Probably this is true; for these imperialists have presumption enough, and care nothing for the welfare of the French people. The Bonapartes imagine they are a sort of gods, and that the masses of mankind are made for their use and glory. We hope the people of France will have sense enough to repudiate these imperial pretenders, as well as the royalist Bourbon pretenders, and follow the example of this country in establishing a republic. Tue Counr pz CuamBorp IN FRANCE.— One of our despatches of this morning has it that the Count de Chambord has arrived at Boulogne. The announcement is somewhat qualified by the word ‘‘rumor,.” Whether the Connt is or is not on French soil the rumor is significant. The Count is now the accepted chief of all the Bourbons, and when such talk as that which announces his arrival at Bou- logne is finding echo we ought to acknowledge the fact that France is not unprepared for him. The known activity of the Bonapartes and of the Bourbons and the tricky policy of M. Thiers permit us only to say that the Count de Chambord represents one of the three pos- sibilities. Has M, Thiers bought over Mac- Mahon? The question is all-important. But we cannot answer it. Dancer IN New Orveans.—The waters that submerged a portion of New Orleans recently are not likely to subside like the ebbing tide of the sea. They lie now on lower land than their original bed, and a buge stagnant pool consequently breeds disease and miasma in the city, just at the commencement of what promises to be an exceedingly warm summer. The New Orleans people should work ener- getically to drain off this unwholesome pool, and if aid—more than they themselves can render—is needed the other cities of the Union should promptly tender it. The ques- tion is not one of the health of New Orleans alone, but of New York and Philadelphia and Baltimore, and all other cities that are con- nected by commercial relations with it; and in view of the danger from the epidemic in Buenos Ayres, and the presence in this city and Brooklyn of dangerous diseases, the ques- tion is one of main importance. Tue FUNERAL OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF Paris—A Contrast.—Wickedly, most merci- lessly, after the fashion of border ruffians cen- turies ago and according to the example of Greek brigands in our own day, the Paris Commune butchered the chief representative of the Church in France. The Commune killed—the modern Vandals put out of the way—France does justice to good men who were left no choice but to suffer death at the hands of desperate scoundrels, Contrast the sweet solemnities of the funeral in the Church of Nétre Dame with the cool-blooded murders in the prison cells and know the true character of the men who, without religion and without law and without morality, made the insane attempt to Paris, to revolutionize France and to benefit mankind. The funeral and the massacres! Light and darkness! Good and evil! Tue Frenon Government Dotna [ts Work WiseLy.—Yesterday a motion was made in the Versailles Assembly for the prolongation of M. Thiers’ term of office as the executive head of France. It was agreed that the ques- tion should be postponed until after the com- pletion of the supplementary elections to the Assembly. Over one hundred and twenty seats are known to be vacant. With so many empty seats in the National Assemby—with so much of the intellect and so many of the in- terests of France unrepresented—this action of the Assembly must be commended. After all the turmoil and fury and unwisdom we are glad to see returning signs of wisdom. M. Thiers professes to be in favor of the republic. Whether he is in favor of the republic or in favor of the House of Orleans the empty seats will be filled by men after the President's own heart. save Mr. Henry Baton deserves and receives great credit for his humane efforts toward the amelioration of the condition of the dumb ani- mals, but yosterday he interested himself jn a case that appeals to human sympathy more fully than the case of any of his own immediate protégés, He complained against ahyena of a woman, who has been in the habit of beating most inhumanly a little ward of hers, an orphan girl aged ten, and he had the girl sent to the Charity Commissioners and the woman held in bail for trial, All honor to Bergh. While we do not wish, hin to neglect horses and dogs and turtles and such, we would like to see him pay mora attention to this higher branch of humanite- rian pursuits. Personal Intelligence. Baron Alvensleben, an attaché of the North Ger~ man Legation, yesterday arrived at the Albemaria Hotel. General H. L. Burnett, of Cincinnatt, is restding at the St, James Hotel. Assemblyman De Witt ©. Littlejohn, of Oswego, ia stopping at the Fifth Avenue. Congressman C. W. Kendall, of Nevada, 1s domi- ciled at the Astor House. General James R. Partridge, United States Minister to Venezuela, yesterday arrived at the Albemarle Hotel. State Senator J. Hardenburgh, of Ulster county, has apartments at the St. Nicholas. E. R, Conkling, of New Brunswick, N. J., is at the St. George Hotel. Governor Hofman ts in town, stopping at the Clarendon Hotel. Commander Stockton, of the United States Navy, is quartered at the Astor House. Lieutenant Commander Batcheller, of the United States Navy, has taken quarters at the Hofman House, A. H. Lafiin, Surveyor of the Port, 1s domictled at the Fifth Avenue. Major ©. A, Wikoil, of the United States Army, is* registered at the Astor House. Professor J. W. French, of the West Point Military Academy, ts a guest at the Fifth Avenue. Major M. J, Wicks, of Memphis, is staying at the St. Nicholas. J. B. Alley, a prominent citizen of Boston, ts at the Astor House. Colonel William L, Scott, of Erie, ts staying at the Fifth Avenue. James Mason and A. Stone, Jr., of Cleveland, Ohio, are guests at the St. Nicholas. Captain English and E. A. bield, of the United ‘States Navy, are quartered at the Astor House. Erastus Corning, Jr., of Albany, 1s registered at the Fifth Avenue. Judges Henry Souther aud §. N. Pettis, of Pennsyl- vania, are judiciously taking a temporary respite from judictal labor at the Astor House. Thomas P, Soold, of Georgia, is at the Fifth Avenue. John Tucker, prominent in Philadeiphia politics, 1s at the Astor House. RABBINICAL CONFERENCE. CINCINNATI, June 8, 1871. In the Rabbinical Conference to-day Dr. Lilienthal, appointed at the New York Conference to effect a reconcillation between the members of the Conference that met at Philadelphia in 1869 and the present Conference, reported that he had not accomplished the desired object. A proposition recommending the exchange of pul- pits to promote fraternal feeling was recelved with, great favor. An fneffectual effort was made to reconsider the vote on the form of Bible reading. Dr. Wise obtained the floor and recommended the following topic for the next Conference:— ‘The idea of a personal God, accepted as a technical term, ix not Jewish. ‘the God of the Bible is Jehovah—that is, the infinite and absolute, the substance and essence of all that was and will be; ‘this cause of all causes; this wi derstanding supreine; love, justice ana holiness untver- sal cannot be thought or even Imagined as personal. The- ology bases the idea of @ personal God upon the doctrine of, the incarnation, The subject was referred to the Lecture Com- mittee. The committee on the establishment of a Rab- binical Seminary reported unanimously in favor of the same, Tue report was adopted, with instruc- tions to the committee to report a more detailed. course of study. A plan proposed by Dr. Wise for the estanlisnment. ofa union between the Israelite congregations in America was adopted. A resolution was pi providing that when twenty reform congregations, with 2,000 members, shall have joined the union the first synod shall be called. Drs. Lilienthal, Wise, Hubsch, Sonneshein an@ Mayer were appointed a committee to carry out the provisions of the resolution. The same committee was also authorized to draft a plan for a untiorar course of study in the Sabbatn schools and for the preparation of text books. 5 Dr. Sonneshein, of New York, presented the sur Jecis for lectures at the next conterence:— First—The idea of God according to the Bibie. Second-Moses, Mendelasohin and modern Judaism. Third—Judaisin and a republican form of government. The Conference will close to-morrow morning. The meeting has been one of the most importans yet held, and ita results may be summed up as fol~ lows:—Twenty-three congregations were repre- sented; a union has been effected; a modern prayer book is to be furnished, in which all allusion to the return of the Jews to Jerusalem and ideas of sacrifices and @ personal Messiah are to bo omitied; the service to be largely in the vernacular instead of the Hebrew language; a Rabbinical Semi- nary for ministers to be established; reforms in con- gregations are authorized; a more comp ete Sabbatn school organization ts to be effected, and the ostab- lishment of circuit preaching has been uetermined on. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuinaton, D. C., June 9—1 A. M. Synopsts Jor the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer has very generally risen from the Miss{ssippi eastward to the Atlantic, and the area of lowest pressure has moved to the northeast beyond onr station. The highest barometer 1s found on Lake Michigan. The barometer ts falling rapidly ta the Missouri valley, and rain is now reported west of Iowa. Theratn in Northern Florida Wednesday night extended to-day to Virginia, but at noon cleared away; a3 also has that in the New England States. Clear weather has been very gene<« raliy reported east of tne Misstssipp!, aud clearing weather on the Gulf coast and Michigan. North- westerly winds have prevailed trom Lake Ontarto to Wisconsin and southward to Tennessee, fand southwesterly winds on the Atlantic coast, Provabiticies. Asevere storm is probably approaching the Mis. souriv alley, where the barometer has fallen very considerably. Clear weather, with light winds, Is probable for Friday for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Fresh northwest and northeast winds will probably be experienced on the lakes. ARMY INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Army Retiring Board at Philadetphia, of which General Meade is President, has completed all the cases before it save a few of officers ordered- from distant stattons, The Secretary of War has issued an order direct ing that alt United States arsenals be excepted from the provisions of the general order of March 12, 1969, by which General Sherman took command of the army, and wherein he directed the generals com- manding military departments, in addition to the duttes required of them, to give their special atven- tion to the economical administration of all branches of the service within their com- mand, whether of the line or sta, sod to thia end = directed them to exercise supervision and command of every part of the army within thetr limits not specially excepted. By the order just Issued tne Secretary also calls attention to the army regulations directing that tn ume of peace ordnance ald ordnance stores are to bo Bstea from arsenais and armories only by autho~ rity from the Ordoance Bureau of the War Depart- ment; hence the department commanders can no longer issue ordnance supplies. WEWARK’S ROWDY ELEMENT. Alderman Crane Turns ConstablemA Would= Be Murderer in Custody. In Newark yesterday morning sn overgrown young lad, namea Christopher Henry, eighteen years of age, whue unaer the influence of liquor, atroctously assaulted a child of tender years, With @ Kick he hurled the child against a pile of stones in Springfield avenue, inflicting wounds which may prove serious, He was secured by Aldermau Crane, Who Witnessed the act, and detective Fischer, aud was conveyed to the station house and commitied for trial, Henrv Elrode, who, as alleged, three times last: Saturday, in Howard street, shot a Woman named Bridget Murphy, on account of a brazen, impudent. bawd named Kate Connor, the mistress of the mur- derer Welch, and with whom he, too, had been un~ lawfally abiding, is now safely lodged in the county) jail to await trial. After shooting the woman he cleared out, and early yesterday morning appeared’ at the station and delivered himself up. phy 1s getting better, On Wednesday evening while some young Ion Mrs, Mur~ were returning from a game of base bail, alon; Ferry strect, they were assaulted hy a crowd ol! roughs with stones and other murderous missile® Several were sertougly injured, particularly Mn James 1. Robinson, “No arrests were made.