The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1871, Page 4

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PAGE. 1—Adveriisements, @—Advertisemeat. 3—Vearhs—Aacvertisements, 4—Edttoriais: Leading Article, “Democracy in Europe—The Great Spanish Orator, Castelar— Personal Intei/igence—Ooltuary— New York State Teachers’ Association—Caanges in the Capadian Ministry—Amusement Announce- ments. S—The Situation in France—News from Spatn— 1 ie Earthquase ta the Philippine —Cuba: surrender af Prominent of the Insurrectioa—The Canadian Filluusiers—ihe Indians—News from Wash- Ington—Katlroad Inieiugence— Misceligneous ‘Teiegrams—dew York City News—Brooklvn Affairs Pailolugical Convention in. New —The iiayuen Minister:—Naval Intell: gepve—Cansizing of a Boat—Views of te Past—Business \otices. 6—Europe: Chambora’s Complication; Thiers and Gambetia in Accord—.wericans in London; ‘emian Ouirage in Dupim—The Seventy- jund—Staboing Affray on a Steamer— old; A Doubie Execution in North Terrivie Siraggies of One of the Mardcrere—Dowinion of Capada—suicide of & Prussian. "y—Jeit Davis: He Wantsto Know Something From @ HekaLp Co respondent; te Goes for we i. ©, with a Sharp-ointed Tongue—lhe Jersey Democrats - Yachting Noves—Aquatics—Cri et—Base Ball Notes—the Apothecaries—. tot Vielm—Financial and Commercial Dowestic Marnets. fhe New Vork Republicans upebtfon 4 the Hatenet; Gvaton to Senator Fenton at Ni- agara Falls- Hendricks for the Pregidency— Proceedings iu the Courts—The Gambling Cases— eather Report—Misccllaneous Tele- grams—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. Saranta and Bia Trer, the two Kiowa chiefs, have been tried for murder by the civil authorities in Texas and sentenced to be hanged. This is a mode of civilizing them with a vengeance, Tue Goup Poor turns up now and then, like Monsieur Tonson, and is accredited with being once more at the bottom of a little rise in the gold market. Like a turtle, it dives ou! of sight when anybody comes along to look at it, and, doubtless, now that its presence is sus- pected, we shall see it quietly subside until the clique desire to sell some more gold. Tue Hic Toxep Stara oF PENNSYLVANIA has several indiscreet speculators among her high officials. It appears that a ring of influ- ential men of that State bave been trying to secure a bonus out of her war cluims against the government, by claiming a percentage for using such influence as they have with Trea- sury officials to hurry up the payment of the claims. One of the ring was so indiscreet as to teli of the matter and to urge upon the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold the resi of the money, because the State agent, with whom they made their bargain, had de- clined to pay them. influential statesmen is not to be compared to their assurance. Juies Favex.—The report again reaches us that Jules Favre has tendered his resignation as Minister of Foreign Affairs. President Thiers refused to accept the proffered resigna- tion, and so the matier rests for the present. Since the downfall of the empire in September tast Jules Favre has been before the world as one of the foremost men ot France». That he has done the S.ate some service even his ene- mies will not deny. During the trying hours of the e, in the delicate arrangement of The discretion of these | = i § NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1871. Demecracy ie Esrope—The Great Spanish Orator, Castelar. The speech of Emilio Custelar in the Span- ish Cortes, as reported and commented on by our Madrid correspondent in the letter pub- lished yesterday, is as full of significance as to the political condition and movements of Spain and Europe as it is eloquent. The speeches of the ordinary politicians and statesmen both in Europe and America are tame and arid compared with this grand, comprehensive and thrilling oration, There has been nothing superior to it, and perhaps not comparable with it, in late times. It is full of fire, pro- found in statesmanlike grasp and prescience, redolent of classical similes and beautiful in diction. It touches the heart while instructing the mind and leading the reader to contemplate the great movements of the age. e see the struggle throughout Europe, as well as in Spain, between the past and the present, and are led to anticipate the inevitable future. Castelar's eloquence reminds us of that of Daniel O'Con- nell in power, in abundant and apt illustra- tions and similes, in the wonderful flow of language and in its electric effect upon an audience. While scarcely less robust than that of the famous Irish orator, it is more classical, far-seeing and comprehensive. Cuastelar stands in the first rank of orators of ancient and modern times, with Cicero, Demosthenes, the Earl of Chatham, Burke, O'Connell, Patrick Henry, Webster and other such like great men. We can imagine the profound impression Castelar makes upon the Cortes and the Span- ish people. Notwitistanding the loss of beauty and strength of his language by translation into English, we are deeply impressed with it. How effective, then, must his words be as they are delivered in the rich and sonorous periods of his native Spanish. Indeed, there is evidence of the effect of his eloquence and boldness both on the Cortes and the government of Spain. He was interrupted frequently in the course of his speech by loud cheers, and immediately after this bold arraignment of the Ministry Mar- shal Serrano announced the resignation of the Cabinet. When, too, in conclusion, the orator declared that he and his friends would waze eternal warfare against such a Ministry, thoub to one composed of radicals—that is to say, progressists and democrats—they would be disposed to be tolerant and even benevo- lent, Marshal Serrano instantly caught at the words, and, asking Castelar what he meant, said be would try to form a Ministry if the republicans would lend ‘ic support, It is clear, from these circumstances, that the republicans are in power still in Spain, and that their great leader and orator is a thorn in the side of the reactionists and monarchists, Though Spain does not occupy that central position and icfluence over the political affairs and movements of the Continent that France does, Castelar may, we think, be called the apostle of democracy in Europe. There appears to be no man in France or in the other na- tions of Europe who is likely to exercise as controlling an influence in diffasing republican ideas and in leading the people to democratic government. Thiers, Favre and Gambetta may have at present more actual or governmental power, but we question if any one of them will exerciss as much influence as Castelar in promoiing the cause of republican progress and shaping the democratic destinies of Europe. He appears to be pre-eminently the apostle of democracy in the Old World. | He is not trammelled by such impracticable | theories as are many of the leading French | republicans, and does not shock the conserva- tive sentiment of people by obtruding socialist or Communist ideas, He is simply a republi- can, and as that no one could be more earnest and bold, Sunk as Spsin bas been in political degradation, we have hope of her restoration through this brilliant mao and his republican friends. His appearance on the stage of pub- lic life gives promise of glory again to this once great country. There isa Ting in the ardent eloquence of this republican chief which indicates that he may y.t place Spain foremost among the nations in the way of democratic progress. Re- publican ideas are fermenting and develop- ing in an extraordinary manner among the Latin nations of the south of Europe. France, peace, and am:d the stormy scenes which char- acterized the first s.ttings of the National Assembly in Bordeaux, tue Minister of Foreign Affairs discharged tue onerous daties of his position with tact, judgment ani patriotism. We hepe, therefore, to see him continue in office. France at present cannot afford to lose the services of any of her sons, and especially one of the marked ability of Jules Favre. Jerr Davis on a New Departcre.—lif half that is said in the eewspapers of a certain railway car adventure of the ex-President of the “‘so-called Confederate States” is true he has taken a ‘“‘uew departure,” though not according to the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Indeed, if there is any truth in the reports published on the subject of the adventure referred to, Mr. Davis ‘‘accepted the situation” with very uafortunate resulta, and his cause is another ‘“‘lost cause.” Seriously, however, the newspapers directly cerned have made of this affair, with the ames and specifications, a case which Mr. avis in his own vindication cannot safely rd with indifference. If the charge is ndless Jet it be so proved in a court f justice: if substantially true, which we can ardly believe, the accused ouzht to take ther ‘‘new departure” on a bee-line for tab and the Latter Duy Saints, Toat Lerrer or Taters To THE Porpe,— bat oft talked of, much denied and freely oted from letter, signed A. Thiers and ad- sed to His Holiness, we produce in other column of the Henatp this morning. e letter first saw light in Italy, found its y to France, then appeared in Eagland and due time made its way across the Atlantic. great deal of controversy arose on its first arance in France. President Thiers was ed and censured by turns for bis conser- and his indiscretion. It now turns out the document was a hoax jers’ writing of it was concerned. If the news from Rom: proves true, Pio Nono ot going to be influenced by the letter in tion, no matier who wrote it, The advice Stick” in Rome will vol bot 1, and the t informatian we tay have ivom the Eter- City may possibly be the announcement of Pope's * ow deparvure,” a hoax so far | Italy and Spain are uudergoing a wonderful change, and it is not unlikely that wiibin a few years all will become repubiican. Caste- lar evidently believes this, and he above all others may be insirumental in effecting the revolution. We have frequently referred to the great influence the American republic has‘had and is having over the thoughts and political destiny of the people of Europe. This fact has been s:0wn in many remarkable instances of late years, The people have been long learning silently from us the nature and value of republican institutions, and within tie last few years the magnetic telegrapi, rapid and frequent communication by steam power, the diffusion of information through the press, the astonishing events and results of our war, and these, together with the remarkable events in Europe, have throwa a flood of light on the minds of all classes in the Old World. Caste- lar has been impressed, like many other lead- ing and liberal public men of Europe, with the excellence of our institutions. In his speech he seems to have been particularly inspired when eloquently referring to the past and present and to America. He siid:— Nations are like beehives, ach nation contri- butes lo abricate (he honey of untversal lle, Ideas, wherever scattered, reiorms, wherever matured, change the human conscience, When {rom our nar- row horizon wo turn our eyes to tne whole planet we see that the contineats are ruled by universal and meontestanle iaws. is the immovable jand of the past, whe patriarchal land of the empires, the theocracies, We cast Ss. Kurope is the voicanie land of the present, the area of combat be.ween the an- cleut powers and the new ideas. America, and es- pecially Saxoa America, W.th its immense virgin ter- ritorles, With 18 1epublic, With its equiliorium Stability and progress, with ils harmouy pe- tween liberty and d -mocracy, 18 (he Continent of the fu ure—the linmense Coutinent stretclied vy God be- sween the Atlanuc and Pac.dc, where mankind may plant, essay and resolve al! social problems, (Loud cheers.) Tue pi nt moment fs supreme and an- | gushing. The last years of tne one: which are fast approacaing, may ve svlema as the last years of the eigitec | in which Was instailea the firet French revoiutto! rope has bo uecide Whether she wril confound with Asta, placing upon wer Jands old altars, upon the altars Old iiols, and upon the idols linmovable theocracies, and upou the theocractes despotic empires, or Whether she Wil wo by labor, | by liberty and by the republic, to collaborate with | America m the grand work of universa, civilization. Castelar but expresses bere the sentiments | that are permeating all classes of society in Europe, though few may be so advanced as / he is or can express themselves 40 eloquently, Doubtiess they have much to learn yet, and may have to go through a fearful struggle be- fore they attain similar institutions to ours ; but itis impossible they can go back to the despotism and theocracies of the past or that they can remain where they are, The Spanish orator ranges wide and far on political topics and the situation of Europe in his speech. The greater part is aimed at the foreign monarchy engrafted upon Spain, and at Serrano and others of the Ministry who committed this outrage upon the Spanish peo- ple. He is very bitter, on this ‘‘certain kind of foreign domination, the more odious be- cause the more hypocritical.” ‘Thus it is, gentlemen,” he exclaims, when discussing the imported monarchy, ‘that a duty of patriotism and of conscience compels me to say that in your work, that in spite of having brought it from a distant land with a long naviga- tion, all the world may read these words— Fragile! Fragile! Fragile!” With regard to the Papacy he said:—‘‘The temporal power of the Pope, gentlemen, is dead, andrightly dead. But we ought not to mis- take. The Pope being, as he is, an interior authority of Spain, the chief of the Church most followed by Spaniards, are we certain that the power which has succeeded him in Rome can guarantee the Pontifical authority | its absolute independence? I believe not. The Pope is the chief of the Spanish Church. The king. of Italy is the chier of tie Pope. A foreiga King, raised to the head of a great nation, is the chief of our Church. See you not the dangers of this anomalous situation ?” He then argues that this places the King of Italy in a position dangerous to Spain and the other Latin Catholic nations, and that the only proper solution is in Rome becoming a repub- lic; for then the Pope could exercise his func- tions independently of any ambitious monarch, We cannot allude to all the questions discussed in this highly interesting and brilliant oration, but would say that no American can read it without pleasure, It is one of the most re- markable, intellectual and statesmantike pro- ductions of the times, and cannot fail to pro- duce results beyond the Spanish peninsula as well as in Spain. The News from Spain. The cable has been very contradictory on the subject of the new Spanish Cabinet. The day before yesterday it yave in all confidence the names of the newly formed Ministry. Yes- terday it reported that the new combination under Marshal Ssrraro had proved a failure before it came into existence». To-day the cable says that it was all a mistake; that the new Cabinet is an accomplished fact, its members having already taken the oath of office. We may, therefore, tak» it fur granted that Marshal Serrano has succeeded in forming a new Ministry. What Spain needs just now is a powerful, unflinching hand to keep the turbulent factions within bounds. A more liberal combination under Zorilla would have been desirable to the friends of constitutional liberty, but it.is doubtful whether a Cabinet under Zorilla could hold its own for any length of time. The last Ministry had demo- cratic elements in it and failed, as we have seen by the resignation of Seilor Moret, who was a lib:ra!, besides being a very able financier, but who, by the persistent op- position of the majority, was forced to resign. The present Ministry is more conservative than the last and may obtain a working majority in the Cortes. Atany rate it will lust until the next session of that body. Marshal Serrano, if he cannot command the support, at least com- -mands the respect of all parties. He is, more- over, the representative of the Spanish army— a great power and source of power in Spain. Sefior Sagesta retains his post as Minister of the Interior, and is, perhaps, the most valuable member of the new Cabinet. The other ap- pointments—chiefly that of the new Minister of Finance—are more or less open to criticism. GeyeraL Farpnerss’s Pampuietr.—The gallant commander of the Army of the North, one of the generals chosen by Gambetta to lead the republican armies of France in the late struggle with Germany, recently wrote a work on the causes of the French defeat, an extract from which we publish in our columns this morning. Afler going over the causes which led to French defeat General Faid- herbe takes a more hop»ful view of the effect of German successes in the future than what might be expected, coming from a French source. Tube Germans, ho claims, “‘proud of the successes obtained at the price of their blood, will henceforth have a greater senti- ment of their worth and dignity, and will shortly claim the rights of freemen in their own country, instead of emigrating to America to seek for them.” General Faidherbe evi- dently looks forward to the no very distant day when Germany, like France, will shake off the imperial yoke to take its place asa republic. With the arrival of this accomplish- ment will come the day when the Rhine will no longer be a coveted frontier, but the vivi- fying artery of France and Germany. A Patippine Eanrtaquaxe.—A terrible earthquake is reporced in one of the Philip- pine islands. A sbort time ago we had the news of a very destructive earthquake in tho mountainous regions of Western China, and to the same subterranean volcanic forces, break- ing out in a fresh place, may, perhaps, be attributed this shaking up of the Philippines. From the islands of Japan southward to and including that great archipelago of which Borneo is the centre volcanic perturbations are very common. From the late perturba- tions, however, in New England and in Cali- fornia, we may assume that these disturbing subterranean elements, in connection with the electrical forces in the atmosphere, have re- cently been operating pretty actively in both hemispheres, and we fear that something worse for California remains bebind. When earthquakes are about we always have our fears for San Francisco, Tue Power or MaGnetism.—Chief Justice Chase is at the Magnetic Springs, Michigan, and it is reported that the most remarkable change has taken place in his appearance, and that the indications, from the rejuvenating properties of those magnetic waters, are bis rapid, complete and permanent convalescence ; and that, iv short, he promises to come out as with the opening of the Presiden- Here there isa great magnetic Their good as ne tial campaign. hope still for the perplexed democracy. man for the crisis is Chief Justice Chase Senator Fenton’s Nen-Committal Specch. Senator Fenton, in his speech at Niagara Falls last night, alludes to the line of thought into which he supposes he was led; but we confess we cannot find it. The Senator's remarks are not exactly glittering generalities, but the tamest of commonplace. He neither indicates a preference for General Grant for the Presidency in 1872, nor has the bold- ness to say that some other candidate would be better for the fortunes of the republican party. His hopes for harmony in the ranks of the repub- lican organization in this Siate are as pointless as his opinions on the Presidential question. He mentions no names, indicates no policy and speaks no strong, brave words. In all that he has uttered there is only an evident desire to say nothing of any moment, and those who expected him to say something which would have a telling effect upon the fortunes of his party have been disappointed. The spe ch lacks the bold rhetoric of Micaw- ber—it is not even spiced with the jingling sentences of Alfred Jingle, but partakes only of the easy and truculent humility of Uriah Heap. But if it is without significance in itse!f it is significant as show- ing that in spite of all his smooth phrases Senator Fenton is not yet heartily in accord with the administration and not anxious for the harmony which he pretends so much to desire. These things he shows only by impli- cation, but every word bears out the implied meaning which he employed language to con- ceal. And this is the substance of the whole matter. The North Pole Expedition. If Captain Hall’s North Pole expedition is destined to prove a failure it will not be because of an insufficiency in the means and supplies deemed necessary to insure success, The Secretary of the Navy has given hima steamship expressly prepared and strength- ened in every way for a campaign among the icebergs and floes of the Arctic Circle; the ship has been equipped and provisioned expressly for a long siege in those desolate Northern regions; and her officers, crew and scientific men have been carefully selected from experienced cruisers in the Arctic seas. The Captain himself is an old campaigner in Baffia’s Bay and its tribu- tary sounds and inlets, and knows everything that is known of the hardships and the dangers before him, The last duty of the Navy Department in reference to this expedition has been dis- charged in the equipment of the United States ship Congress, and in loading her with provi- sions and other supplies for Captain Hall, to be delivered to him at or near his ‘winter quar- ters in Greenland. We understand that Sec- retary Robeson personally attended to the collection of these supplies, inorder that the best of everything should be furnished, and that in Captain Davenport, of the ship Con- gress, he has one of the most reliable officers in the service for the special duty assigned him in the careful delivery of these supplies, amounting to one thousand barr¢ls of stores and three hundred tons of coal. Upon these supplies, together with the seals, white bears, sea fowl, &c., which may fallin the way of Captain Hall, he and his ship’s crew and attendants will have to depend through the coming winter at their winter quarters and in their expedition toward the North Pole in the spring, and on their returo in the fall to their Greenland base of opera- tions, We have great faith that the during captain and crew will return to report the complete success of their enterprise. Bui even if successful in reaching the North Pole, the question recurs, what good will be the result? Much good to science and for the general benefit of mankind, we expect, in de- termining the movements of the northern cur- rents of the ocean and the atmospher>, in- cluding the electrical currents of the Arctic Circle and their effects upon the climate and the fluctuations of the seasons down in our temperate zone, all round the globe. And last, though not least in our wishes, we desire that to the United States shall belong the credit of solving the mysieries connected with the North Pole; and we look to Captain Hall to solve them. In other words, we hope that the first flag planted on the North Pole, right under the north star, will be from the good ship Polaris, and the glorious flag of our coan- try. As we estimate it, this one thing will be glory enough to pay for tue expedition; for it will be a splendid advertisement to the world in behalf of the enterprising spirit of the Ameri- can people, and thus a good card for every American, wherever he may be. Tat Frenou Bupser.—The Committee of the French Assembly upoa the Budget pro- poses to raise fresh duties to the amount of six hundred millions of francs. This tallies with our idea that the budget of M. Ponyer- Quertier was a little more hopefal than rea- sonable. President Thiers is opposed to an income tax, and we happen to know that in this particular he expresses the sentiment of the French people. Tae President insists on maintaining a large army and navy. This also, we believe, accords with French senti- ment, The President is an undisguised pro- tectionist, and if French feeling :oes with him he must raise all bis extra supplies by taxing imported goods. It remains to be seen whether this is or is not good for France. In our judgment protection—the taxing of im- ported goods—is an unqualified, unmitigated evil, France, however, is the best judge of what she ought to do, and we have no objec- tion to wait. Tax Darya or Broapway Rossgrs far surpasses the buldness with which the bigh- waymen of Hounslow Heath used to stop the mail coaches with their cry of ‘Stand and de- live The very crowd of Broadway is a par- tial cover for these bold Sreebooters, for in that crowd it is everybody's business to interfere in nobody else's business, On Saturday after- noon, at the crowded corner of Broadway and Warren street, two men tripped apparently and fell. One recovered himself first and walked away without stopping to apologize or to look out for his companion. No one in the crowd paid any attention to the matter further than to laugh quietly at the mishap, And yet in the few seconds of that fall one of the men was robbed by the other of thirty-five thousind dollars, The tripping and the fail were parts of # bold plan of robbery thus successfully carried ous, The Canadian-Uabin Movement. There is great tribulation in Canada over reported filibustering movements in behalf of Cuba, The Heratp’s special despatches from Montreal show how widespread is the scare in Canada; but they fail to indicate any well formed, carefully planned expedition. It is likely that these filibustering opera- tions will turn out like most of the ventures in the same direction from other parts of the world. At this season of the year no expedition from the North could expect to accomplish anything for the Cubans, even if it were safely landed. But these Northern expeditions were never intended for Cuba. Adventurers are constantly pretend- ing that they are preparing to sirike a blow, but their first step is to cause their names to be printed in the newspapers that their pro- jects may be defeated. If the Canadians hed ever intended going to Cuba they might have gone, and it is their own fault that they now have occasion to complain of the newspapers. We fear that the Red River soldiers have learned a l’sson from some other ‘friends of Cuba,” and that these were as careful as those to defeat their own ends. i The truth is that the revolution in Cuba bas degenerated into a gross public outrage. The “patriots” are mostly Chinese and negroes, without arms, without food and without regard for humanity. The Spaniards—their enemies— commit crimes too shocking for human cre- dulity. The case of Colas, to which we referred yesterday at some length, is a case which illustrates both thoir ferocity and their knavery. Even Valmaseda, who has earned the title of the Bu:cher of Cuba, is not blood- thirsty enough for his masters of the Casino Espaiiol, and they want Concha back, that their taste for blood may be satiated and the slave trade reopened. Looking at this ques- tion from either side it is discouraging, and the Red River insurrectionists may be congra- tulated on not becoming Cuban patriots. The Chumpion Brotsers in Arms. Those fast friends, but eccentric fellows, Jem Mace and Joe Coburn, met on Monday and arranged for another fight with such cor- dial demonstrations of love and regard that one is led to suspect they had never had a thought of personal differences and had never been in antazomism, even through the agency of news- p.per communications. Jem fell upon Joe’s neck and Joe cordially embraced Jem. and each preceeded to bind himself to the pre- arranged conditions of the coming contest with a cheerfulness and joviality that t»kes away half the terror of the battle. Thus, the exceeding brotherly regard exhibited in the Canada combat, when neither could bring him- self to the cruel task of caving in his friend’s facial shell, has preserved itself in the unim- paired purity of the original, through thesé in- tervening months of apparent’ crimination and recrimination. The good lessons of that wathetic combat have borne other good fruit besides. The virtuous respect for the law which these gentlemen exhibited upon that discouraging occasion, when they so readily obeyed the mandate of the Canadian Sheriff to disperse, and ‘‘scooped in” his watch in the dispersal as a kindly remembrance of him, shone like a glowing light at the meeting of Monday; for, finding unexpectediy, in the very midst of their deliberations, that New York law, with the deadly illiberality of old Puritan fanaticism, forbade such arrangements, they adjourued with discreet rapidity to the more generous shores of Jersey. Here the brothers in arms completed all their preliminaries. They agreed to fight, on the 30th November next, somewhere near New Orleans, for five thousand doilars, and to clinch the friendly bargain they put up a hundred dollars each, New Orlcans is the bruisers’ heaven, or hell, whichever they may choose to consider it, for there these redoubtable champions will be permitted to pummel one another to their best ability without any fear of the cocked hats of Canada; and whether they consider a place where such is the case and there is no escape from the consequences of their bar- gain, except by fighting or making faces at one another forever, a heaven or a hell, is a question entirely of pugilistic taste. If they don’t fight near New Orleans they cannot blame the Sheriff or the police. They will doubtless have every assistance extended to them by these liberal exponents of the law, and it is even probable that the hospitality of the city will be ex.ended to them as diatin- guished guests, If the kindness of these judi- cious officials permits the two worthics to pound one another beyond recognition or re- covery New Orleans will have added another laurel leaf to the crowa of glory she already wears. In the meantime, the preliminaries being thus satisfactorily settled, Mr. Coburn returns to his cheerful gin mill and probably to the congenial occupation of writing newspaper com- munications while he mixes his gio slings, and Mr. Mace, who has a more advanced intellec- tual temperam:nt, will betake bimself to Europe, where he will fill a theatrical engage- ment and get his family together, preparatory to bringing them over to cheer his hearthstone and witness his coming triump). A Miurta Brit is under discussion in the District of Columbia Legislature. A number of white volunteer companies are already or- ganizing. The military spirit among the white people of the District has been under a cloud ever since the rebellion, while a radical Con- gress legislated for them, but now, fveling free, they naturally take to arming and drilling. NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. Lockport, N. Y., July 25, 1871. The twenty-sixth annual Convention of the New York State Teachers’ Association was commenced at two P. M. to-day in Arcade Hall, in this city. Professor J. Darman Steele, Ph. D., of Elmira, is President; Proiessor James Cruikshank, of brook- lyn, Secretary, and Professor H. K. Sanford, of the Fredonia Normal School, Recording Secrctary. There are over six hundred members in attend- ance, and oihers are arriving by each train, The weather is beautiul, and the clizens are extending every courtesy to nbers of the Convention, Janes Atwater 13 Cl ian of the Comuiuttee of Arrangaments, The programme of exercises this afternoon in- cluded an uddress 0; Weicume vy We Kev. Dr. W. ©. Wisner, of this city; the inaugural addiess by Prest- dent stecie, and a iecture by Professor Claries Davis, Li. D., OF Peekskill. alter disposing Of some miscellaneous business the Convention was adjurned until tus evening. EVENING SESSION, There was an immense audicuce at the evening | Session, AN sBay Was read Ly Miss Flora G. are | gous, of Rochester, and an Address was de.ivered by wfessor Ford, of the Eimtra Female VCollese. ie ‘onvention adjourned to Wednesday morning } @t nine o'clook, I Personal Intelligence. State Comptroller Asher P. Nichols ia atthe St Nicholas, Waldemar Bodisco, Russian Consul tn this city, is residing at the Clarendon Hotel, Commander Selfridge, of the United States Navy, has quarters at the Astor House, Dr, K. M. Schermerhorn, of Boston, Is stopping at the Sturtevant House. J. C. Stanton, President of the Alabama and Chat- tanooga Railroad, 1s among the recent arrivals at the Fifth Avenue, Indian Commissioners Vincent Colyer, Jonn D, Lang, George H. Svuart and Robert Campbell, are at the Fifth Avenue, Lieutenant wovernor Allen (. Beach yesterday ar rived at the St. Nicholas, Congressman C. W. Kendall, of Nevada, left the Astor House for the West last evening. Paymaster A. 8. Kenny, of the United States Navy, has taken quarters at the Hoffman*House. Colonel T. J. Pratt, of New Oricans, is a temporary reetdent of the Graud Central. State Senator Wm. M. Ely is a sojourner at the Fiftn Avenue, Ex-Governor James Tufts, of Montana, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House. Se ior Godoy, Minister from Chile, 1s at the Weat minster flotel, having just concluded a sojourn at General Kilpatrick's residence in New Jersey. Ex-Governor J, Gregory Smith, of Vermont, Presi- dent of the Northern Pacific Rauroad, is at the Brevoort House. State Senator O, W, Chapinan !s staying at the Fifth Avenue. General John G. Price, of Arkansas, ts domicilea at the St, Nicholas. General W, fl. Ferril!, Assistant Postmaster Gene- ral, is at the Gilsey House, C. A. Weed, of New Orleans, is residing at tho Grand Ceutral. Frederick Billings, of Vermont, « director of the Northern Pacific Rattroad, 1s a temporary resident of the Brevoort House, Judge Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, 13 domiciled at the Astor House. General H. T. Reid, of Keokuk, and George W. Cass, of Pitsburg, are at the St. Nicholas, General J. B, Stonenouse, of Albany, is quartered at tho Astor House, OBITUARY. Joun Kelium + Mr. John Kellum, the architect, died at his res dence, Hempstead. L, 1, yesterday morning, at three o'clock. The health of Mr. Ketlum has for some time been falling, and he has been unable, 1M consequence thereof lately, on several occa sions to attend to his proiessional engavements. About @ fortnigut ago he was present at a yaenting trip and took a severe cold, which progressed to pleurisy and was the occasion of lus death, He was born at Hempstead, in 13.9, but when a young man he removed to New York and engaged in the building trade. His genius aud the success of his specialty in the designing and erec'ion of the tron palaces of our city gave him a world-wide tamo as an aichitect, and he entered upon the profession with considerable ¢clat, taking ofices in Broadway, which he coutinued to occupy up to the time of his death. His private residence was for some years in Clinton avenue, Brooklyn. Mr. Kelium won his spurs a3 a Koight of the pencil and a master of constructive art through some con- trovery in regard to the building of Messrs. Ball & Black, on Broadway, of which the pians were drawn by him. Some rather minute calculations in regard to the weight of the several floors im deter- mining the relauve buik of material neces- sary to support them elicited considerable discus- sion among members of the profession, and gave rise to seemingly plausible objections frum those who had been accustomed to calcuiate the weignt to be supported and the material necessary to ita sould support, with less mathematical nicety than the draughtsman of the designs. By objections of this sort the work on the bnilding was stopped and some delay occurred, though, upon due explanation and demoustration of the Validity of his reasovings un the part of the young professional, the work was sooa resumed aud the building comploted, With considerable invention and unusual powers of calculation the success of Mr. Keslain was a certainty from the beginning, and it is not a matter of wonder to find his name more closely identified wita the progress of the metropo- lis thao tue name of an, of single artist, The fluest business eaifices in tuts city, Darticu- larly those erected within the last seven years—of wuich the Hekaty Batlaing, the establishments of H. 8. Ciadin & Ce., Mr. Stewart's, at Broadway, Ninth and Tenth streets, the Womai’s Hotel, at Fuurih avenue. and Tairty-second street, the stock Exciange, tie Mutual Life insurance buiding and tne Uniou ferry buildiug, at the foot of Fulton street, may be taken as an example—are due to a happy hit of his in the application of te essenial elements of the Grecian ty business purposes, and this style has gradually worked its way tuto general favor 13 sul- fictently obvious from the tact that it combines tuefuiness with utility to a greater extent any otner whicn has yet been introduced, and can- not, therefore, [a4 Of popularity watess superseded by Some more felicitous adaptation, Of the adop- tion of its Classical elemeais to the purpose of modern civilizaticu the New Court House, the draw- ings of which are due to Mr. Kei um’s ferwity of invention, is provabiy the oe-t example in New York city, and though modelled upon the principles set forih tn the treatise of Paliadio, has some origi- natity of edfect, belng far less senile than tue Gerard College or the Philadeiphia Custom Honse. Io this ouilding Mr. Keim adopted the Roman Co- Thithian column in ail ts proportions, aud nous the remaider of the building Is m the ma ner of Valladio, whe portico has certainly no sapertor ay an example of Coriutalan in the Ualted States, if Gerara College, the co:umns of which is copied from those ol tue Monuments of Lysicrates, be accepted. Lhe butiding of Mr. A, T. Stewart, at the coruer of Tairty-fourth street and Fith avenae, the lower story of which 13 pure Corintiian, form? anotuer of the unique triumphs of Mr. Kellum in tne adapting of design to location, and presents the rena seance style in its susceptibility to harmony and grandeur of eit ct. Mr. Ke lam was tn the sixiy-second year of bis age anu Was seif-culured to a great extent and be- Gun Life as a civil engineer, being iormeriy a builder and afterwards a designer. le was recsoned by critics the best master of r navissance and classiviso in Amertca and has succeeded passably im ludor Gotme, especiaily in the constru ton of a number of evegant villus in the vicinity of New york. It was in Mis class of arciitecture that his name will be associated in the Hempsiead Plas euver- prise of Mr. A. T. stewart, of which he had the exc usive control and management. Un the receipt of the telegram vy Mr. Stewart of tue death of Mr. Kellum, tat gentleman touk a special train for Hempstead, and va uis arrival expressed lis deep sympatny to the sorrowing widow, and tus own sense of logs that & mtad so tuvaluavle and al- Most necessary to the saccessfui compiction of Mr, Stewarts gigantic enterprise had been removed irom the scene of M3 lavors. ihe funeral services will take place at his resi- dence a Hempstead, on Thursday, at nine A. ML; same day at Dr. uddingtou's church, corner of Cunton and Lafayette avenues, Brooklyn, at one o'clock P. M. Friends are invited to attend, without further notice. Captain James ©. Williamson. Captain James (. Williamson, of the United Statea Navy, ¢ied in Jersey City on Monday,evening. He ‘was born in New Jersey, but was appointed to the navy from New York in 1532. He served with the Mediterranean and the Brazil squadrons for a num- ber of years, being promoten to passed midshipman in 1839. In 1840 he was siationed at the Brouxlyn Navy Yard, and for the next three or four years was attached tothe receiving ship New York. Having been commissioned as lieutenant in 1844, he served alternately in the home and the Kast India squadrons il 1858, and he sounded the channel of the Cantoa River in 1355 under dre from the fort, one man in his boat being killed. In 1861 ne Was made executive officer of the steam sloop Brooklyn, on spectal service, and siper- intended the landing of the reinforcements at Fort Pickens on the 15tn of April, During the rebellion he commanded first the Penguin and then the Fiag, domg duty in the blockading service, having been made a commander tor his galiant action a Pure Pickens, He was commissioned captiia in 1566 and ordered to New Orleans on special duty, and theace he went to the Navy Yard at Boston, where he re+ mained til 1869. IMPORTANT OHANGHS 48 due CANADIAN MINISTRY, Sir George E. Carticr to Receive aa Tope rial Appointment. MONTREAL, July 25, L871. rge B. Cartier is abot y and recave an im rik appointment, fon. Mr. Langevin will succeed him as leader of the Lower Canada party, Sir Fiaacis Hincks also retires to take ine position of Preiuen’ of the Metropoilian bank, He wil be sudvecded a8 Minister ol Pinwuce by ton, Mr, Culley. It ta ramored taat Sir to retive from the Miny