The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1871, Page 4

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Paar. ee 1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisements, 3—Jadaism—Department of Docks—Supposed Sni- cide—marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 4-—Eaditoriais: Leading Article, “The Democratic Party and the Nest Presidency—Chase and Hancock the Ticket'—Personal Intellizence— Fire in Ann street—Stabbing Affray—amuse- ment Announcements. 5—France: Rochefort’s Trial to Begin on Monday Next—The Freneh Review—News from Ger- many, England, Italy, Russia, Spain and the West Indies—the Treaty of Washington— News from Washington—Miscellaneous Tele- graph—Local items—New Publications Re- ceived—Naval Intelligence—Views of the Past—Business Notices, 6—Maine Republican state Convention: The Politi- cal Outlook In the Pine Tree State—The Cali fornia Republicans—The Iowa Democracy D1- vided—M. Alexander Dumas on the Past, Present and Future of france—tditorial Ex- cursiouists at Cape May—Yacnting Notes— Mistic Park Races—The National Game— Cricket—Railroad Intelligence—Jersey Small- pox Scare—Serions Accidents in Newatk—Sui- cide by Hanging—Enterprise in Trenton—A Scaffold Catastrophe—Departure of the Po- Jaris—The “Five Years’ search for a Racer”— City Assessments tor 1871—The Oceanus Clun. 7J—Advertisemnents, S—Southern Opinion: The Why and the Wherefore of a Fire. 's Conversion—St. John’s Day— The Inco! —The Erie Railway War—Thne Norwaik Bank Robbery—Tombs Police Court— Murder on Shipboard—The Late Amos Rob- ins—Collision on a Jersey Railroad—Proceed- ings in the Courts. 9—Proceedings in the Courts (Continued from Eighth Page)—New York City News—Our Coi- leges: Another Day Among the Edncational Institutions—Staved to Death—Foreign Per- sonai Gossip—Financial aud Commercial Re- ports—Domestic Markets, 10—The Vanderbiit Depot: The Largest Rallway and Passenger Caravansary in the Worla— New Hampshire Legisiature—Repubdlican Unity: Young Men’s Republican State Con- vention—New York Politicians Unrobed— Shipping Intelilgence—Advertisements. Tue Prestpent so Far Dectrygs to par- don Bowen, His wife, Mrs. Pettigrue, King- Bowen, applied to him yesterday and he re- ferred her to the Attorney General, which is considered almost equivalent to a refusal. There must be something pretty good in Bowen to secure the devotion of this wronged woman, and for her sake we hope the Presi- dent will display a little leniency. Dick Busrrep has gone completely over to the democracy ; Governor Bullock, of Georgia, is thought to be very sure of going, in order to save himself from impeachment ; Senator Hill is considered unsound on republican principles, and a general revolution among the carpet- baggers is confidently expected, all on account of the new ‘‘departure”—the departure of all further chance at the spoils. Southern poli- ties, like ‘‘niggers,” are very uncertain. Tne Court or GENERAL Sessions closed its June term yesterday, after the most busy and effective session that has been held fora long time. During the term there were ninety- nine convictions, and the terms for which the convicted persons were sentenced aggregate two hundred and twenty-seven years. The Tombs, which has been so full that, like the infernal regions to which Thad Stevens consigned the democracy, the legs and arms of its inmates were sticking out of the windows, has been nearly emptied, and most of the gentlemen of burglarious or murderous pro- clivities therein have been distributed among the various State and county asylums, Re- corder Hackett deserves great credit for such efficient work, ENLARGEMENT oF og GLoRious anniversary of will be celebrated THE CO&LEBRATION OF Fovrru.—The forthcoming Awerican independence in an unusual manner, We sball have the accustomed military parades, fireworks, orations and bonfires, In addition we shall have one of the finest yacht displays at Cape May that has ever been witnessed in our waters. The New York Yacht Club will see that this part of the cele- bration shall not be deprived of its attendants of beauty and attraction, The fine races at Long Branch commencing on the Fonrth will also afford exhilaration to those fond of field sports. Tammany Hall, the Boulevard Club and all the other patriotic associations will unite with the city government, lending their aid ingiving ¢clat to the glorious anni- versary. We learn that stock and gold brokers, the downtown commission merchants and the members of the Produce Exchange, propose to make a holiday from Saturday to Wednesday, That is right. Let the toast be everywhere on Tuesday next, ‘The Day We Celebrate,” NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Late Amorican Victory im Corea. | Protection and Free Trade from the Ens- The Democratic Party axd the Next Prosi- dency—Chase and Hancock the Ticket. There will be hot work in our coming fall elections, The democrats in humerous States may be divided upon their new departure, but they are wonderfully united upon the common resolution to contest every inch of ground from Maine to California in these approaching State contests of September, October and No- vember, We can see something of the general spirit which animates the whole democratic organization from its proceedings in the New Hampshire Legislature. We see that in that body, in order to secure an undisputed control, the ‘‘unterrified” do not stick at trifles, and are resolved to leave no stone unturned the torning of which is necessary to secure their ends, And this is the general spirit of the party, Its leaders and followers are all evi- dently inspired by a common purpose, and that is, the purpose of breaking, right and left, the republican ranks this fall, as the one thing needful to prevent their consolidation and to secure the floating materials of the country against them in the grand general engagement of 1872, In other words, the democracy, rank and file, seem fully to understand the necessity of breaking the prestige of the repub- lican party touching its popular strength this fall, in order to show that even General Grant is not invincible. Hence, we repeat, there will be hot work in these coming fall elections, because it is known on all sides that they will be universally accepted in their results as foreshadowing the issue of the Presidential contest. It is apparent, too, that for these preliminary State skirmishes the democrats have many advan- tages against the party in power. For instance, while there are many dissensions, disaffections, clashing cliques and soreheaded bolters in the republican ranks, in reference to General Grant and the spoils and plunder, the democracy are heartily united against both Grant and his administration. There are no jealousies and no grievances to be settled among the democrats in reference to the spoils of the national government, because they are all outsiders, and are all hopeful of a share of the good things of the kitchen with a change in the steward of the White House. Again, while the party in power is held to its acts and its measures, and to its failures to please everybody, the party out of power, without any of the responsibilities of the administration, may please’ everybody in its unlimited promises, In their platforms for the coming State elec- tions it will be observed that the democrats, including their new departare, have taken the full benefit of their advantages thus suggested. Stealing the republican thunder on negro emancipation, negro equality and negro suf- frage, they promise, with a restoration to power, everything that can be hoped for this side of the millennium. At the same time, while they are ready for ‘anything for a change,’ the American people are apt to indulge in strange political surprises, Still, the de- mocracy are laboring now under the disad- vantage of an army without a general-in-chicf, of a party without a recognized general leader, while the republicans, with all their discords and disaffections, have a common rallying point under the standard of General Grant. Where, then, are we to look for that demo- cratic Presidential ticket which in itself will not only command the suffrages of the demo- cratic party, but will be calculated to secure the floating popular balance of power? In casting about for the solution of this im- portant problem we think we have it in the ticket of Chief Justice Chase and General Hancock. Let us look at this ticket for a moment. Here we have, in the first place, two men prominently identified with the Union cause in the war for the Union. Again, while in Chase we havea radical republican of the war, in Hancock we have a conservative war demo- crat. We have, too, in Chase the great finan- cier who proved himself equal to the financial demands of » million of armed men in the field, and in Hancock we have a model soldier, whose achievements in battle have contributed much to the military glory of Grant. Next we have in Chase a man who represents Ohio and the West, and in Hancock a man who represents Pennsylvania and the East; and so this ticket suits the democracy admirably for 1872, geographically considered, inasmuch as their ticket of 1868—Seymour and Blair—was an Bastern man for President and a Western man for Vice President. Better yet, while Chase is a free trader—just the thing for Ohio and the great West—Hancock is a moderate revenue tariff protectionist, which is just the thing for Pennsylvania, even against the stiffest protective tariff, regardless of revenue. Best of all for the democracy, while both Chase and Hancock are identified with the new departure from the first Bull Run, they both go for a general amnesty and they both cordially believe, with ‘‘Boss Tweed” and Mr. Greeley, that one term is enough for Gene- ral Grant. Here, then, in Chase and Hancock—the great Union financier of the war and the model Union soldier—in the Ohio man and the Pennsylvania man—the free trade man and the moderate protectionist—we have a splen- did Presidential ticket for the democracy on their new departure. The democrats of Wood county, West Virginia, recently held a convention at Parkersburg, while Chief Justice Chase was a guest in that city, and it is thought that his presence had something to do with the strong platform adopted by the con- vention on the new departure and free trade, State rights, hard money and a general amnesty. In this connection it is a curious fact that while Secretary Chase was the greatest paper money man in the world, Chief Justice Chase is, perhaps, the most decided hard money man in the world. His name was ‘‘Father Greenbacks,” but his name is ‘Hard Money Chase.” He hes had enough of his greenback system, and he goes now for specie as the only constitutional legal tender. Here, again, he looms up like a giant among the small-fry politicians; for does not the time draw nigh when we may aspire to specie payments on a larger scale than five cents ? It may be said, however, that the health of the Chief Justice is too delicate for the rough work of a Presidential campaign and the cares and trials and tortures of the White House, We understand, on the contrary, that his physical strength has been so far restored that he feels strong enough to sustain all the trials of a Presidential contest and all the necessary drudgery of the Presidential office. But, if after his election he should become disabled from physical exhaustion for his official duties, General Hancock would be able satisfactorily to fill his place; for General Hancock isa powerful man, still in the prime of life, and a democrat both on the old and the now de- parture, In his onse, therefore, as a Vice President becoming President, the democracy would be amply fortified against the hazards of another Tyler, or Fillmore, or Johnson, striking out for himself on ‘‘a new departure” for the succession. With that significant little Ku Klux speech of General Sherman at New Orleans before us we hailed that great soldier as the Moses providentially appointed to lead the democracy through the wilderness and over Jordan into the promised land. With that significant letter of General Sherman from the Comanche Reservation, declaring substantially that he did not want the Presidency and would not have it on any terms, we began to despair of a democratic restoration. But their cause is brightening again on their “‘new departure,” like that of the French Bourbons, and there is no telling what may happen in these revolutionary times in Europe or America. Unquestionably there are elements of great strength and cobesion and solidarity, as Kossuth would call it, in this democratic idea of Chase and Hancock. It is a powerful team on the new departure, and with the co-operation of the powerful New York team of Tammany Hall it would probably pull the democracy through to Wash- ington, In the very sound of this ticket of Chase and Hancock there is strength, Let the democracy adopt it, and they will have no de- fensive battle to fight in 1872 on dead issues; but they will be free to take the offensive and to carry the war into the enemy's camp. Chase or Hancock will hardly do, but Chase and Hancock is a splendid ticket even for the fight against General Grant. Trochn’s Defence. General Trochu’s defence, delivered before the National Assembly and printed in extenso in the Herap of yesterday, must be pro- nounced a failure. It proves that the General is not without the faculty which, asa rule, belongs to his countrymen; but it most cer- tainly does not prove that Trochu is an able general or a great man. A more miserable case was never made out, in similar circum- stances, in the history of the world. To his credit let it be said that he did not think France in a fit state to go to war with Prus- sia, and that if his advice had been taken France might have avoided the sorrows of Sedan. His weakness, however, became appa- rent the moment he came into contact with the Empress. He came back to Paris, as the representative of the Emperor, before the battle of Sedan; but in place of at once making himself master of the situation and bring- ing the Emperor back to the capital he yielded to the stubbornness of a weak, un- reasoning woman, agalnst his own better judgment, and thus brought on France first of all the terrible disasters of Sedan and all the subsequent sorrows. According to his own confession the defence of Paris was from the first a display of useless heroism. Yet for months upon months he persisted in this use- less defence, wasting life, wasting property, demoralizing his country, and without any good réason disgracing himself. Until we read this defence we had some faith in Trochu. Now we must admit that this war and the revolu- tion which has grown out of it has brought to the surface but one man, and that man is Gambetta. Gambetta failed; but on the page of history his name will live, and, unless we greatly mistake, the present generation of Frenchmen will do him honor. Trochu’s de- fence, while it does him no honor, reveals a rottenness in the imperial system which we cannot explain. We know of no parallel in the whole history of the past to the weakness of the imperial army. In our judgment Trochu’s defence has killed the empire, The City of Ragusa. This gallant liliputian craft has again safely crossed the Atlantic, Although the season of her voyage just completed is shown by the storm charts to be the most propitious for such an undertaking as hera, it must be confessed she has solved an important and deeply prac- tical problem. An eminent English geogra- pher has set the fashion of calling the waste of waters between the Old and the New World the ‘‘Atlantic Canal.” The title is suggestive. Half a century ago it was a matter of no light consequence to make a transatlantic voyage. Now it is nothing thought of, and the day is perhaps not distant when the ship-lanes laid down by navigators will be thronged with the caravan of trade and intercourse, and on both sides the Atlantic men will feel that the stormy ocean is but a narrow canal to be passed over at pleasure, The problem of life security in small boats is the problem which the City of Ragusa has now successfally solved. Some months ago a raft, constructed of pipes of light material and inflated so as to be very buoyant, actually made the passage from shore to shore of the Atlantic and was enthusiastically welcomed at Southamption for the light which her brave exploit had thrown on the question of navi- gating the ocean under the worst circumstances that can befall a seafarer. The projector of this raft contended that all seagoing steamers might provide themselves with material for rafts sufficient to rescue their passengers in case of shipwreck and store them in small compass, ready for use in any emergency. But the experience of the City of Ragusa suggests something better. A large number of small vessels of her construction, almost as light as paper and as buoyant as cork, might, at small expense, be supplied to steamers, and, in the event of disaster, almost the entire crew might be rescued, to say the least, without the fearful and often fatal ex- posure and hardship which generally follow shipwreck. The originators and sailors of the City of Ragusa deservo the thanks of the travelling world for their bold and benevolent experi- ment, It is true the experiment has succeded ata time of year when Old Ocean is in one of his calmest and serenest moods; but it is aiso true that the first experiment has suggested the means of making all future voyages in small craft safer and more expeditious Commodore Jack Rodgers is capable of doing a good and an unfortunate thing almost at the same moment. Carrying the American flag he punishes the Coreans and forbids a Heratp correspondent from giving to the American people a knowledge of his achieve- ments. This is the acme of modesty. His father, old Commodore John Rodgers, of Maryland, won renown as commander of the United States frigates John Adams, Congress and President, and gave prestige to the Ameri- can republic as a nation whose rights upon the high seas were those that were bound to be re- spected, especially by the navy of Great Britain. The old Commodore lost nothing by the publicity and celebrity given through the press to his gallant works, According to our cable despatches pub- lished yesterday the younger Commodore Rodgers showed himself to be a “‘chip of the old block.” He whipped the Coreans with a force of one against ten, dismantled their forts, captured their guns, and, like General Sheridan in the valley of the Shenandoah, sent the enemy whirling through their own forests and ravines. This splendid naval event should be suitably commemorated on the com- ing anniversary of our national independence. If the Emperor of China olaims a protector- ate over the pirates of Corea, and protests against the warlike measures of Commodore Rodgers, so much the better. It will afford our government a good excuse for visiting upon the ‘“‘inside barbarians” @ punishment which the violation of solemn treaties should always involve. The Tory Peers and the Treaty of Washington. The debate in the House of Lords last night on the Treaty of Washington revealed nothing new except the implacable hostility of the tory peers toward the Gladstone Ministry. The same men who accused General Butler and other American politicians of asing the fisheries question as a means of securing political power in the United States, thereby stirring up strife between two friendly nations, are now doing the same thing for the purpose of overturning a distasteful administration. The debate opened by Earl Russell some weeks ago disclosed no serious purpose to oppose the ratification of the treaty; but now that its ratification is an accomplished fact, such men as Lord Oranmore and the Earl of Lauderdale would destroy all the good results which. are expected to flow from it if they could thereby secure the downfall of Mr. Gladstone. The Premier's promised debate in the House of Commons will doubtless reveal the same purpose even more clearly, and we may expect to see Mr. Disraeli pitted against his old antagonist in another struggle for power. It is scarcely possible, however, that the tories can succeed in compelling the resignation of the Ministry on this measure. It is a notable fact that the Man o’ Airlie took part in yesterday’s debate, speaking on tho right side of the question—a circumstance which suggests that if this had not been a tory funeral Oranmore and Lauderdale might have been as loud in claiming the paternity of the treaty as Lord Heelman was in pre- tending to the earliest recognition of poetic genius at the unveiling of James Harebell’s statue. Tke Review at Longchamps. The review of the French army at Long- champs yesterday was doubtless a brilliant and interesting event. Predictions of a demonstration hostile to the government and discreditable to France were indulged in up to the last moment; but no hostile or discredit- able demonstration occurred. The second empire might never have existed so far as any proof of its existence could be traced in yesterday's proceedings. There were no cries of “* Vive 'Hmpereur!” and no offers of a kingly crown to any one. The Orleans Puinces were not dragged from their obscurity, and none of the many claimants to the throne—Chambord, Aumale, Joinville, the Prince Imperial—{s nearer the object of his ambition than before. The republic survives, and the grand scene at Longchamps yester- day—the long array of the battalions of France, the enthusiasm of the troops, the acquiescence of the people of Paris and the participation of M. Thiers and the Ministry in what is renewed fealty to republican liberty— seems to place it on a sure foundation, Since the fall of the Napoleonic empire such an event has not been possible. The fears of an unfavorable result which preceded it had the air of an unsettled purpose on the part of the French people which the review has dissipated. In this respect it is an event of the profoundest significance, indicating that France may be happy France once more. If M. Thiers is the strong, sincere and earnest man we have every reason to believe he is, he will use it not only to strengthen his own gov- ernment but to secure the success and per- petuity of that republic for which the French have sighed so long. Then the honors he be- stowed upon General Vinoy and other chief- tains will redound to the credit of the cause he represents to-day, and prove the first of a long series of memorable rewards clothed with the sanction of a free people. At the same time it cannot be disguised that his posi- tion is a dangerous one—one in which he is liable to errors of judgment and beset by the traditions of a never-to-be-forgotten past. It is his duty to make a striking military event symbolical of a long reign of peace and repub- lican freedom ; and the fature alone can reveal whether he can accomplish it, Axp Now THe CaLtroryiA REPUBLICANS snub John Chinaman. The State Convention yesterday nominated Newton Booth for Gov- ernor, aud adopted a platform which is almost identical with the democratic platform, and which, like the latter, opposes any further immigration of the Chinaman, We remon- strated a few days ago with the democrats for ignoring John while they welcomed Sambo, and showed to them that if they accepted the new amendments they must swallow the Chi- nese and the “nigger” both, But what are we to say to a republican convention that revolts at the thought of making a citizen, under the fourteenth amendment, of our almond-eyed and yellow-complected visitor, Here and in New Jersey republicans do not disdain to caress him, Verily, it must be a matter of geography rather than politics, this agitation about the “heathen Chinee,” : deferred till next Monday, but his convillot—a sh and American Standpoints. It must be confessed that on some questions Great Britain occupies @ peculiarly lofty and noble position. Though it was plain that the abolition of slavery would bring ruin upon her colonies in the West Indies and seriously impair the trade of the whole empire, yet Par- liament boldly and firmly promulgated the fiat of emancipation. Toough in England there is more religious bigotry than in any country in the world, yet Catholic emancipation gained a complete and substantial triumph. Though the English are the most severely taxed people under the sun, and pauperism has become among them an evil which threatens to be over- whelming, yet England was first to adopt the principles of free trade, and is up to this time the only country which has adhered to this broad doctrine of the political economists. With us all this is different. The abolition of slavery was forced upon us by a stern mili- tary necessity. Religious tests we never had, and consequently can take little credit to our- selves for refraining from intolerance. Pro- tection to American industry is a hobby which our people voted down nearly thirty years ago, and yet it troubles us to-day as violently as Banquo’s ghost troubled Macbeth. We are an eminently conservative people, and cling to our old theories a long while after they are exploded, and nurse our old traditions long after they are dead. Consequently pro- tection and free trade are looked at by us through different glasses from those by which they are revealed to the English vision. The great body of our people think protection illogical and impracticable, but they lack the courage to adopt out and out free trade. Men like Greeley, who know little or nothing of the economical principles they are trying to inculcate, raise such a terrible hue and cry in behalf of enormous tariffs and conjure up so many imaginary evils as the consequence of free trade, that it is scarcely to be regarded with wonder that the people should shrink from the very thing they desire. The young men, almost without exception, are free traders, the West and the South are for free trade, and even New England is beginning to show much free trade strength. But nobody is willing to e without precaution that which seems tq ae Oe a dark, Besfdes, the ‘obligations of the nation require heavy taxes, and the indirect taxations of the tariff have their at- tractions. In England there was but little of this hesi- tation, and there is no disposition to go back to protection. The adoption of the principle of free trade was its adoption once for all. Now it is to English interests that other nations sliould adopt it also. Looking at the question from a different standpoint than ours, and regarding it fromthe side of interest, it is natural that their hopes should be as lively as our fears. If with the Marquis of Ripon the wish had not been father to the thought he would not have been so easily convinced of the speedy success of free trade in this coun- try. While such nonsense as Mr. Greeley preached the other day about shoe manufac- turers going to Canada after the inauguration of direct taxation, because labor and lumber are cheaper, is listened to with com- placency, free trade with us can gain no complete and absolute trlamph. There can be no question that the English members of the Joint High Commission were impelled in some degree to conclude the recent treaty on some ill-grounded faith in the fruits of revenue reform. Fully one-half the republican party believes in free trade, but still Congress is not afraid to impose high duties on imports. If the revenue reformers came into power they would only amend the tariff laws by an experimental code of their own. The Mar- quis of Ripon will scarcely live to see the day when his prediction of the success of free trade principles in America will be realized. The English and American standpoints on this question are, as we have shown, s0 widely different that it is scarcely to be ex- pected that statesmen of the two countries should reach the same conclusion in any view of the subject. In England free trade is an established fact, seeking to strengthen itself by alliances in every part of the world, In America it is still an open question with babblers like Greeley and the World and the Post trying to enlighten their little arrays of readers upon it. Their essays make very heavy reading, especially as they always suc- ceed in proving nothing; but they keep ham- mering away nevertheless. Now and then one party or the other gets the ear of a stray Englishman in this country and pours it full of erroneous notions. Ripon goes home believing the Americans will speedily become absolute free traders, while Tom Noddy is impressed with the notion that we intend making our tariff so high that England would do well to buy us off by paying our national debt, We can only hope that both parties of our idle twaddlers may before long be wearied out, or that one or other of them may learn something of the subject on which they assume to be the teachers of the people. Stolen Bonds Dangerous Property. The Norwalk Bank robbery, a little affair in which, about two years ago, nearly two hundred thousand dollars of United States bonds and national bank notes were spirited away, and the mystery as towho had so spirited them was as profoundly obscure for a time, has been rather actively revived in the public memory by a trial concluded yester- day in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The result of the trial has been the conviction of William Okell, formerly quite a prominent broker in this city, of having come in posses- sion of some of the stolen bonds with a guilty knowledge, and sold them, knowing the same to have been stolen. One count of the indict- ment charged him with being impli- cated in the robbery, but, in the absence of proof on this point, this count was abandoned. It was clear, how- ever, that he had some of the stolen bonds in his possession and sold them, and, failing to explain how he became possessed of them, was found guilty. This -was ample finding for the jary on other counts, A brilliant war record and ample testimony as to good charac- ter availed nothing. Selling stolen bonds is a crime, The accused was found guilty of this crime—a crime, by the way, of growing and dangerous fascination in the community, and one of which it is most difficult to insure a conviction, The sentence of Okell hag been and there is no doubt that Judge Cardozd will make the sentence proportionate to the magnitude of the offence—carries a deeply. suggestive lesson with it, just at this time; when it appears that even with would-be respectable houses a commerce in stolen bonds is a legitimate business. The lesson to be read by Judge Cardozo on Monday next will come in good season and bear fruit accord- ingly. General Butler’s New Departare. The irrepressible General Ben Butler is ame pbitious of becoming Governor of Massachu- setts, and has, through his local organ, an- nounced the platform on which he proposes to contend for this honor. It is a sort of ‘new departure.” General Butler has had several departures during his political career, and generally takes a new one when there isa chance to make anything by it. He is in the habit, too, of putting forth fresh political kinks to try how they may take—just as a man tries the mettle and speed of his horse before putting him on the track. Still there come out of his large and active brain many good ideas. With all his vagaries and summer- saults he sometimes proposes valuable reforms and advocates them with vigor. His New- buryport organ says the General is a repre- sentative man of the new era of progress and of the great principles of democratic liberty underlying the republican faith. The promi- nent points of this new departure, as laid down in this organ, are “the country’s upity and indivisible nationality; its future of, continental expansion and power; American citizenship ; the equality of all men before the law, their education and enfranchisement; the interests of labor and the improvement of the condition of workingmen; the cause of cheap transit and intercommunication by rail- road and telegraph; the overthrow of monopoly, however respectable or securely. intrenched; a revision of the tariff and the internal excise, corresponding to the demands of a wise revenue reform; the question of temperance and of social science, including that of woman’s advancement in industrial opportunity and civil right.” This is a very comprehensive platform, and aims to bring upon it all the woman's rights adyocates, tem- perance people,kind those wno enjoy a ‘ak; with every kind of reformer, and has, more- over, a place for the American Commune. If this does not take jn Massachusetts we know not what will. General Butler's organ feels quite sure it will, ‘‘As respects,” this paper says, “‘each and all of these considerations, the only sure basis of popular progress or of republican success, with General Butler for the nominee, there will be no element want- ing in the representative character of the can- didate.” This is conclusive. General Butler can represent all these reforms and many more if needed. He is the man for Governér of Massachusetts, “Tue Frexot Porte aNp THR FreNow Loan.—The French loan has been a success almost unparalleled in the history of the world. 1 less than six hours the agents of the Treasury collected four thousand five hundred millions of francs, Paris alone subscribing two thousand five hundred millions. Well may the Minister of Finance say :—‘‘Thie state of things onables the government to fulfil its en- gagements and to hasten the deliverance of the country. We shall not wait for the date fixed by the treaty at Frankfort, bat shall pay the indemnity in instalments.” A people that can do so much, and do it so nobly, after the unparalleled sufferings of the last nine months, is not yet doomed to die. The success of this loan bids us hope for France if France only could find an honest government. Tue OrriciaL StaTEMENT of the assessed valuation of city property for 1871 shows a net increase of real and personal property over that of 1870 of $28,729,249. This shows more forcibly than any detailed description how our city is progressing and increasing, and what a grand and magnificent future awaits us. Personal Intelligenca. x Colonel Raymond, of Charleston, 8. C., is at the Gilsey House, United States Senator Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, is again at the st. Nicholas, General Butler remained for a short time yester- Gay at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, while on his way to Washington. J, F, Drew, a prominent lawyer of Washington, is at the Irving House, Rear Admiral Alden, of the United States Navy, is quartered at the Brevoort House. Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, is at the Astor House. Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, 1s sojourning at the Hoffman House. Judge Clayton, of Mississipp!, is stopping at the Grand Central. General James B. Fry, of the United States Army, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue, J. D. Bengluss, of the United States Navy, is quartered at the Gilsey House. Judge William L. Avery, of Michigan, is at the Sturtevant House, Rev. L. D. Herman, of Nebraska, is domiciled at the St. James. Congressman H. ©. Deming, of Connecticut, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. Major J. R. Campbell, of the United States Army, 1s quartered at the Hofman House, William T. Adams (Oliver Optic), of Boston, 1s at the Westminster. Ex-Governor James E. Engilsh, of Connecticut, is domiciled at the St. Nicholas. Ex-Congressman J, V, I. Pruyn, of Albany, ia staying at the Brevoort House, John W, Forney 1s sojourning at the St, Nicholas. Ex-Congressman L, P. Boyce, of South Carolina, is at the Sturtevant House, Judge A. L. Roach, of Indianapolis, is residing at the St. Nicholas, Bishop Pinckney, Of Washington, has .apartments at the St, Denis. General A. B. McCaimont, of Pennsylvanis istered at the Astor House, G, W. Brayton, of the United States Army, 13 quar. tered at the Sturtevant House. Governor Hoffman, wite and daughter, and Gen- eral R, Lenox Banks, of his staf, lett the Vlarendom Hotel for New; steritay. IN ANN STREET, At nine o'clock last night a fire broke out on the top floor of the four story building No, 45 Ano street, occupied by Lewis Dobrenwend as a box maker, causing a 1088 to butlding and stock of $2,000. Tne second floor cccupied by A. Kemple, cloth sponger, and Frank Setiger, military ornaments, was dam: by water. ‘The first floor and basement, occupied by Phinp Metz & Son, paper dealers, was alse damaged by water, The origin of the fre and amount of im- surance could nut be ascertained. STABBING. AFFRAY. About seven o'clock last night Rose Meyer, resid. ing at 46 Delancey street, was stabbed in the face by her husband Jacob and severely injured, The wounded woman was atvended Ww by Dr. Saville and: sent home. After committing the assault Mever Made bis escape gud is still wt large, te reg. ‘ 4 ;. > ES, Reece IR