The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK H ERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York MERA. Letters and packages should be properly vealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo: typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly cxe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, SONGS AND Dances. Broadway.—ScuntrpEn—New WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and 15th street, — Buri. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway. NENT. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner £0th st,—Perform. ances afternoon and evening—ibiov OF THE MOUNTAIN. Across tHe Conti BOWERY THEATRE, wery, BY LIGHT—VALENTINS AND ORSON, Tarovel Day- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— SIGUTLESS BRIDE—DUTCHMAN IN TURKEY LINA EDWIN'S THE d 720 Broadway.—Taz BERGER FAaMiLy oF BEL MRS. F. B. CONWAY ALMA; O08, HELD IN BONDAOR. E, Brooklya.— CENTRAL PARK Tuomas* SUMMER NiGuTs’ Con BROOKL’ nue,—SUMM DR. KATIN’S ANATOMICAL SCIENCE AND Axt. New York, Thursday, Juiy 27, 1871. S HERALD. 3—Adveri 4—Edito Prebler didate ng article, “The Presidential Who Shall Be the Democratic Can- : Intelligence branch—A irsi—Con Sunken Docks e—Amusement acture Ka The Announce- Tr : if ments S-The Pap. Another Authority Frauce Herald Spec yilapus of the elegrams frou Rovmania and Chin id—Terrible Indian Outra vest—South and Ce H egramis—Views of ihe celal Report fro} be in the South Aimerica—Miscel- vast—Busi- toes, G—Jeil and the HERALD: The E: dent in a Pecuilar Predicaw Sleeping Car Amour; The Fatal Midnign: Severe Storm ai Cape Performance by the Trot The Nat Ship L Helme Vindicated—A Sew Broceedings in the Court Public Ins raction Z—The Apothecarie Markets in the Finaue:al and ne Public Matters— Domestic and THE VinpDICATION oF Caprars Henne, of the police, charged with cowardic> on the 12th inst., wes complete yesterday. The charge appears to have originated in the excitable brain of a Bohemian who was himself a safe shelter that da seeking Dutt Tres IN WaLL Sreeer.--The Stock Exchange is practically a glee club nowadays, where the melodious voices of the bro are to be heard chanting “Old Hundred,” ‘Put Me in My Lilile Bed,” and the like, instead of shouting the electric “100 Rock Island!” £2,000 Central!” aud other less sentimeatal songs. ANoTner oF THE WreETOuED Mi<Ers of the city is dead. This one was a woman, who for years has been picking up rags and bones from the city gutters, while she had five thou- sand dollars stowed away in bank. She leaves it all to a little girl of eight years of age who lived with ber, but it is probable that we shall hear of numerous sharks putting in their claims as first of kin, Perce Bismarck Duke oF LvUxeM- Bourc.—A cable despatch which we print this morning has it that Pr’ arck has been created Duke of Luxembourz. We were told before that Bismarck was to be created Duke of Strasbourg. It will not surprise us to learn that Luxembourg is a mistake, and that Strasbourg is what was intended. Lux- embourg is still the property of the King of Holland. The mistakes. cable does sometimes’ make Tne Largest Syiianvs from the Pope, if our news correct, is the most phatic negation of the march of progress be em- which has ever been issued from the Vatican. The Holy Father lays claim to a supreme contro! over all the Powers that be, and declares those Powers forfeit which do not exactly chime in with the Papacy. The address of the professors of the University of Rome sets forth in plain terms the utter inconsistency of the Sylla- bus with the spirit of modern times, It must, however, be confessed the Pope's reply softens down considerably the tone of the Syllabus. In fact, the explana- tions of the Holy Father are almost diametri- cally opposed to the literal meaning of the document. Let us hope that the Pope will abide by his explanations and pigeon-hole the Syllabus, where it may rest in oblivion. Ixorgase oF Our FornicN Commence.—It is said that the report of the Bureau of Statistics, which is about to be issued by the government at Washington, will show that both the imports and exports of this country had largely increased in the eleven months ending May 31, 1871, over those of the corresponding period last year. The increase of imports amounted to nearly seventy millions of dollars and the exports about the same, We would rather have learned that the exports had vastly increased and that the imports were not so large. In the exports, we suppose, gold is reckoned, and it continnous drain of the precious metal to make up the balance of is this trade against us that keeps gold at a premium and prices of everything higt should be. But there r this, we suppose, till the American people become less extravagant or the country becomes so over- whelmingly rich thal nolbiag can disturb our financial condition, than they is no cure ] The Presidential Problem—Whe Sheil Bo the Democratic Candidate ¢ The Democratic State Central Commitice of Indiana have spoken, They have proclaimed their candidate for the Presidential succession, and his name is Hendricks, They have unani- mously resolved “that we recognize in Thomas A. Hendricks the unanimous choice of the democracy of Indiana as their candidate for the Presidency in 1872, and recommend that every honorable effort be made by his fellow citizens to secure his nomination and election.” So much, then, for Indiana, But as the firat swallow does not introduce the summer, so the first Presidential horse trotted out by the democracy does not decide the question what horse will run for the party against the sure- footed and long-winded republican horse, Gen- eral Grant, in the four-mile race for the White House sweepstakes in 18 This Indiana proclamation of the name of Hendricks looks like a deliberate revival of the struggle in the Tammany Convention of 1868, which resulted, to the astonishment of all concerned, in the nomination of Horatio Seymour. ‘The Pendleton escort” from Obio entered the Convention in Tammany Hall with “drums beating and colors flying” emblazoned with the name of Pendleton, The men of Obio, too, backed up by nearly all the West, were jubilant ia their hopes of success, and did not hesitate to bet on Pendleton against the field. It is probable, too, that but for that terrible ordeal through which a demo- cratic Presidential aspirant has to pass, that awful two-thirds rule of the nominating con- vention—but for that difficulty we think Mr. Pendleton would have carried the day. On the first ballot the vote of the Convention, Tuesday, July 7, 1568, was Whole vote cast Necessary to a choice. For George H. F For General Vi sylvania. For dames E. English, of 0 For Joe! Parker, of New Jerse For Santord 1. Church, of N For Asa Packer, of Pennsyiva drew Johnson, of Teun nes R. Doolittic, of Wise Blair, of M follows :— F For T s | vor Keverdy Johnson, of M T sa scattering fire of the parties op- ; posed to Pendleton. The only really honest poriion of this vote casi, we dare say, was that portion which was cast for Pe On the tenth ballot the vole for Pendlotoa had rua up to 147}, and Hendricks’ had increased from 24 to 82. Taen the tide turn of Hancock, and on the sevente the vote stood :— For Hancock. } For Hendrick For Pendleioa On the twenty For | For | For For oma din favor first ballot lish . Doouttie | For Andy Johnson .. Yor Judge Field... | For Chief Justice Chase 4 | For G 1 MoUle!lan. % } For 4 | Pendleton had been dropped, and his friends were filibustering; the vote for Hendricks was offensive to the “Pendleton escort;” they did not like the ood running of Hancock; but they were posilively alarmed by the intro- duction of those four votes for Chief Justice Chase. To head off all these dangerous con- testants, and especially Chief Justice Chase, whose nomination would have been a new departure very distasteful to the old Bour- bons, General McCook, of Ohio, when h State was called upon to voie the twenty-sec- ond time, rose and cast the unanimous vote of Obio for Horatio Seymour; and then the whole Convention, like a flock of sheep fol- lowing their bell-wether, joined in the chorus for Seymour, and he was unanimously nom- inated, very much after the fashion of Pierce in 1852 and Polk in 1844, as the last resort, hit or miss, sink or swim. Now, from these doings of the Convention of 1868 it is evident that there is an outstand- ing account on each side remaining to be set- tled between the Pendleton men of Ohio and the Hendricks men of Indiana. Nor can there be any very happy accord between any of the candidates actively involved in the jugglery of that juggling convention in Tammany Hall. Hendricks is brought into the field to renew that old convention fight. Ohio will probably accept the challenge by bringing out Pendle- ton, and Pennsylvania with the proclamation of Hancock as “‘Pennsylvania’s favorite son.” On this line of action the democratic party will, almost to a certainty, give us the Tam- mauy Convention farce over again, culminating in some unexpected nomination, like Polk or , and winding up with a defeat like that of Seymour. How is this absurd programme to be avoided? It can be avoided only by taking a new departure on the Presidential ticket as well as on the party platform. the Tammany Sanhedrim, when that twenty-first ballot was sprung upon it by the Ohio delegation, they defeated a plan which had been entered into among some of the most sagacions party leaders—a plan which, if carried out, would have given General Grant a hard push in the November election. The plan was to make a eort of stalking horse of Seymour, under cover of which Chase was to be roshed through the Convention; for, if we are not mistaken, Mr. Seymour himself, it was arranged, should decline the nomination, with astrong and decisive speech in favor of the contemplated new departure under the stand- ard of the Chief Justice. When given the nomination Mr. Seymour did make a speech declining it, but the substance of all that he said was:—‘‘Gentlemen of the Convention, I thank you, and may God bless you for your kinduess to me; but your candidate I cannot be.” Mr. Vallandigham and the Convention, however, insisted. They would not take no foran answer, and Mr. Seymour, protesting that he ‘‘would ne'er consent, consented.” It is to be hoped that the democratic party will not repeat this Tammany farce over again. They have agreed to run a new set of princi- ples; let them agree to run a new set of men, and to put up two men on their Presidential ticket which will emphatically signify a new departure. They have undertaken to cut themselves off from the dead issues of the war; let them complete the work with the nomination of the ticket of Chase and Han- cock, which will thoroughiy identify them with the Union cause of the war and the constitu- tional principles settled by the war, and with free trade and State rights in the bargain. This Indiana nominatioa of Mr, Hendricks, for all practical purposes, signifies nothing. Mr. Hendricks is a man of talents, abilitles aod high standing. He has had much valua- Pier In | to conceive. . NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY ble experience in our political affairs, and he is avery popular man in Indiana, But his popu- larity goes no further; for the elements of his popularity are not known outside of Indiana. Mr. Pendleton, with General MoClellan, has been over the Presidential course and has failed, and neither of these two men will answer for 1872. The same may be said of all the hold-overs from the Convention of 1868, excepting Chase and Hancock. We do not exclude Governor Hoffman from the category, for this Indiana-Hendricks movement is a sign that the Western democracy are not pre- pared to give New York the first place on their Presidential ticket twice in regular succession. The West gave the candidate to New York in 1868, as with an understanding that he should come from the West the next time. Chief Justice Chase meets this condition, and is per- haps the only man who may carry Ohio for the democratic party in 1872. On the other hand, if the Westera democrats are resolved upon settling in '72 the unsettled accounts of ’68 between Pendleton and Hendricks, they may be compelled, as in 1868, to fall back upon New York for their candidate, and thus compel Governor Hoffman to go into the Presidential battle at least four years in advance of his proper time. At all events, this Indiana nom- ination of Mr. Hendricks only adds another to the present perplexilies of the democratic party. The Famine and the Pestilence im Persin. The dreadful plague which a few weeks ago broke out in Persia is on the increase, and is causing terrible havoc among the unfortunate inhabitants of that plague-stricken land, The English Consul at Tabrez announces to his government that the details of the famine are truly heartrending. As if in corroboration of this melancholy intelligence, the telegrams from Constantinople speak in as melancholy a tone. In the province of Khorassan the average death rate is three hundred daily, and so great is the distress among the people that the bodies of the dead are devoured by the survivors. Worse still: we are told that men, women and chil- dren are killed to feed the famishing. A more dreadful or more sickening picture of human misery it would be impossible A whole people rapidly wasting away by famine and disease, and no human power potent to arrest the progress of their destruction. The Turkish government, usually slow in the adoption of sanitary precau- tions, has become alarmed at the terrible ravages across its borders, and has adopted measures by which it expects to keep the dread visitor from its own door. But of what avail will a cordon of troops along the borders of the Turkish dominions prove when the winds that sweop the sandy plains of Khorassan may carry into Turkey, as well as into the neigh- boring lands, the disease which will inevitably follow in the track of this destractive famine ? It is only a few days since the cable in- formed us that the cholera had broken out in several districts in Poland. We do not forget that when the cholera visited this country in 1834 it had swept Europe, and appeared here as if to spend its remaining force. What terrible ravages it made is still fresh in the minds of many. The late war in France has rendered that country a fruitful field for the deadly operations of cholera, should that terrible visitation afflict that un- fortunate land. The late battle fields, with their half-covered graves, will offer a fair opportunity for the disease to spread death and misery all over the land, Once in France whatis to prevent it from being brought to this country? We do not wish tocreate alarm, but itis to be hoped that already the authorities have taken the necessary steps to ascertain all that can be learned regarding this terrible plague which is now consuming Persia, threat- ening Europe, and which may at any day make its appearance in some shape at our own doors. The News from Spain. The cable has of late been laden with odd inconsistencies regarding the Spanish Minis- terial crisis. A new Cabinet appears to have been chosen at last. Were it not for the fact that the contradictory despatches which have been flashed across now acquire a certain coherency, we should be sceptic about the veracity of the latest news. Sefior Zorrilla’s Ministerial list is, however, still incomplete, and the choice of the most important functionary yet wanting. The Min- ister for Foreign Affairs may prove a stum- bling block to the new combination, Seiior Zorrilla’s Cabinet has in it elements of popularity. It is entirely constituted of progresisias or members of the old liberal party, which upset the throne of Queen {[sabella and insured the success of the revolution. Sefior_ Zorilla is credited with honesty of purpose and abilities of a high order, even by his opponents, and his appointment tends to conciliate the republi- cans, as he is known to be in favor of a libe- ral policy. It is, however, probable that Serrano’s party, which is left out, will oppose the arrangement. Axprew Jonnson Exprorep IN Paris.— Arrangements, so says the Atlantic cable, are being made in Paris for the reception of Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the United States. Andrew is expected in Paris on an early day. Whyshoulditnotbeso? Andrew Johnson is a distinguished American. In a trying period of our national history he was a prominent actor. On the future page of our national history he is bound to be a prominent figure. We do not wonder that Americans in Paris are anxiously awaiting his arrival. In spite of his early training Andrew is some- what of a courtier. In gay and cultivated Paris he will not be from home, His easy, affable, gracious manner will win him friends and do us no dishonor. In spite of “my policy” we rather like him, and wish him good time. Saas ae Quite AN Excrrement was caused in theat- rical circles yesterday by the announcement that Charles James Mathews, the distinguished comedian, had died in London. It appears, however, that the Thespian who shuffled off his mortal coil was one Frank Mathews, a second rate actor, who played for some time at the Olympic, London. ‘The” Mathews is now fulfilling an engagement at Montreal, and has not the slightest intention of making his “exit” either from the stage or from the world for many years to come. To use the language of the minstrels, “he's looking as well and as hearty as ever he did in his life.” ‘Tho Cheyenne Atrocities—A Suggestion. The Indian horror that was enacted near Fort Sill recently, when one hundred and fifty Cheyennes captured a government train, kill- ing eight teamsters and taking five others prisoners, is replete with all the most cruel elements of savage warfare. Two of the cap- tives were tortured to death, having their tongues cut out and their ears lopped off, and then being burned at the stake. The three remaining prisoners maraged to escape during a drunken carousal of their guard and arrived safely at Fort Leavenworth. They state that there were a number of white men disguised in the Indian band, and that they were as cruel and vicious as the red men themselves, and that two women, one of them a beautiful girl of eighteen, were held as captives by the band, These Cheyennes are the most vicious and relentless enemies that the white settlers have on the Plains. They have defied the Indian agents and the government authorities, refus- ing to make any peace with them or even to hold any council looking to terms of peace. They have Indian duplicity and cunning enough to keep very quiet when the weather is unfavorable for their work of pillage or the white cavalry is near their neighborhood in unusual force; but they wage continuous warfare upon defenceless settlers, and, when they muster men enough, are bold and deter. mined, even to the extent of attacking armed trains and cavalry. If we were ever in a state of war with any people we are in a state of war with these Cheyennes, and in view of this latest atrocity a heavy force of cavalry should immediately be sent from the various forts north and south in the Indian country in order to make an end of them while the weather is fit for campaigning. It is useless to pursue them with infantry, and itis Almost as useless to start after them with only one body of cavalry. They can fly before our heavy dragoons as easily as before our foot soldiers. But several bodies of cavalry should be sent out to intercept them, to pen them up if possible, so that they must surren- der or fight. This is the oniy way to treat with such determined barbarians as the Cheyennes. Don Quixote Davis—His New Moral and Political The venerable and highly respectable ex- chief of the confederacy never professed to be reconstructed politically, and his recent al- leged scandalous demeanor in various ways, on the stump and in sleeping cars and other things, indicates that he refuses to accept any reconstruction morally, Ever since he was captured in woman’s petticoats, trying to pass himself off as his wife's grandmother, he has exhibited the utmost demoralization, The chains of Fortress Monroe, the terrible ordeal of his mock trial at Richmond, the iusufferable degradation of having to accept abolition bondsmen to get free—all these crushed the proud heart of the champion, and he roamed about the world aimless and dejected. But of late he has found renewed vigor, whether on account of his cheerful life insurance pros- pects, or the famous New Hampshire election, or under the chafing influence of the demo- cratic new departure, we cannot say; but cer- tain itis that Jeff has suddenly sprung into the social and political arena with all the vigor of a boy of twenty and some of the passions of an old man of sixty-four. He has raced and chased about the South, pummelling the sand- bags of reconstruction, stoning the ‘‘unac- ceptable situation” with the sturdy but cloudy rhetoric of a sophomore, and generally set- ting the old politicians of the South by the ears and making the simpering women of the re- bellion happy. But Jeff's exuberance of healthful vigor has carried him too far. He has allowed the heyday in his blood to run so far away with his judgment that we fear he has ruined himself irretrievably, morally, po- litically and socially. An ex-President of the confederacy ought to be more moral than anybody else. He bas to sustain all the Confederate pride of station hat there is left. He is the great hero for the trusting women of the lost cause to set up as their model. He is the lost cause itself, and when he loses his moral character and is dis- covered to be no better than he should be then the cause is indeed lost. We hope the story abont him relative to a sleeping car arrangement, which we publish in another column, is not wholly true, If it should prove to be so the ‘Lost Cause” has received the severest shock that it has had since Davis’ other petticoat scrape at the close of the war. Whenever any man attains Davis’ extremity of rashness he naturally wants to shoot or pummel a newspaper correspondent. Davis felt this way, and having practised with dumb- bells, trained on oat meal and rare beef and shot at a mark for some weeks, he sat down in his office, surrounded by clerks and pistols, and waited for some newspaper man to come and “‘interview’ him. The ‘‘HERatp corre- spondent,” being ubiquitous, was naturally enough the one to come along first, and upon him the chivalric champion of the ‘Lost Cause” opened his heavy guns. He first tried to worm some confidential information out of the Heratp correspondent, for, with all the impulsive recklessness of this aged Hotspur, he keeps a weather eye open usually to the main chance, This failed, and then as there was nothing to be made financially out of this jour- nalistic customer, who hardly thought it worth while to insure his life ia such Davis’ firm (though he might have changed his mind had he dreamed of the imminent personal danger in which he stood), Davis gave a loose rein to bis fury and hurled the usual Tennessee com- pliments at his head. The correspondent ob- serving the arsenal that backed up the vener- able Don Quixote, and seeing alsg the wrath- ful countenances of the Memphis clerks, whose holiday pleasures evidently consist in dissect- ing newspaper correspondents from the North, blandly and politely withdrew. Some time after this a Louisville paper pub- lished, on the authority of a Memphis gentle- man, the narrative of the sleeping car adven- ture that has been going the rounds ever since. Mr. Davis promptly denied it, and we won't insist that itis true. But Mr. Davis’ organ in Memphis says that it was written by the Herap correspondent out of malice for his “anchivalric and ungenerous treatment” by the high-toned Davis, Thisis not only untrue, but we refrained until now from publishing the story at all, because we wished to do no one injustice, and we publish it now merely in order to give both sides of the verv interesting case Departure. 27, 1871, which Mr. Davis himself has thus presented to a ravenous and delighted public, The newspaper in which the narrative was origin- ally published—the Louisville Commercial— also denies having received it from a Hzratp correspondent; so that the charge made by Mr. Davis’ organ falls to the ground. What is to be done with this Don Quixote of a Davis? Will the Southern people allow him to go about like a roaring lion, devouring them politically and munching them mor- ally solely on his sacred repute as the ex-President of the confederacy? Is there no limitation of time to his privileges as ex-President? ‘Will nothing but death relieve the South of this indiscreet old incubus, who, on the strength of having been a very unsatis- factory ‘‘President,” makes bimself a foolish Sir Oracle, and gives political chaff and an in- decorous example to a people whose greatest need is political quiet and social regeneration ? Personal Intelligences. United States Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, is at the St. Nicholas. Judge George Sharswood, of Philadelphia, is stay- ing at the Albemarle Hotel. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, ts again at the Firth Avenue. General James 8, Negiey, Member of Congress from Pittsburg, Pa., is stopping at the St. Nicholas, Judge W. G. Abbott, of Boston, is sojourning at the Brevoort House. United States Senator George E. Spencer. of Ala- bama, yesterday returned from Washington to the Everett House, Captain Charies Porter, of the United States Army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House, General R. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, is domiciled atthe St. James, Judge John R. Porter, of Waterford, is a temporary resident of the Hoffman House, P. 8, Gilmore, the conductor of the Boston Jubilee, yesterday arrived at the rifth Avenue. United States Senator Powell Clayton, of Arkan- sas, is again residing at the St. Nicholas, Ex-United States Senator James Dixon, of Con- necticut, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue. W. C, Alexander, of Princeton, N. J., is at the St. James, General J, E, Smith, of the United States Ariay, has taken quarters at the St, Nicholas, Colonel H. S. McComb, of Delaware, 1s sojourning at the Fifth Avenue, General G. B, Raum, of Harrisburg, 1s temporarily residing at the St, Nicholas. H. J, Kimbai!, of Savannah, Ga., is stopping at the Fifth Avenue, Judge A. L, Roache, of Indianopolis, is among the recent arrivals at the St. Nicholas. President Grant and General Porter remaimed for ashort time yesterday, while en voute to Secretary Fish’s residence at Garrrison’s, at the Fifth Avenue, Wayne McVeigh, late United States Minister to Turkey, and family arrived from Europe in the Cuba last eventng. LONG BRANCH. Movements of President Grant—Hotels fast Filling Up~Distinguisked Arrivais—hieps at the Mansion and Continental Hoitelsa—The Navesink Regatta. Lona BRANCH, July 26, 1871. President Grant, accompanied by Frederick Grant, General Horace Porter, Collector Thomas Murphy, Willtam C. Rogers and James Terwilliger, left for Garrison’s, on the Hudson, tms morning, on a vistt to Secretary risk. The President wilt return this evening. Secretary of the Navy Robeson left here this morning on a visit to the Philadciplia Navy Yard. He will proceed to Washington to-night. The hotels are full, notwithstanding the boisterous weather which has prevailed tor the past few days, Postmaster General Creswell, General Beale, of Philadelphia; Senators Spencer of Alabama, Rice of Arkansas, and Cattell, of New Jersey; General Walker, of Washington; John Tucker, of Pennsyl- vania, and Henry Clews arrived to-day aud are at the West End Hotel. ‘The second annual regatta at the Highlands of Navesink takes place to-morrow from Jenkinson’s dock. It is open to all sailboats on the Shrewsbury River, aud also double scu!l working boats. It promises to be a grand affair, a great many boats being entered for the occasion. The boats start at hal!-past one o'clock. ‘The Mysterious Pilgrims, & Philadeiphta organiza- tion, arrived here to-day and are the guests of the Neptune Yacht Club. Grand hops at the Manston and Continental Hotels take place to-morrow evening. A LARGE SIZED JOLLIFICATION, The Railrond and Steamboat Men Enjoyiug Theaselves at New London. Boston, July 26, 1871. A “new departure’ in the arrangements and facilities of the Shore Line route between New York and Boston afforded an occasion tora hilarious celebration to-day. It was particl- pated in by about a handred and fifty prominent ratlroad aud steamboat men from this city, abont the same number from New York, and also delega- tions from the chief cities and towns intervening along the shore between the Hvb of the Untverse and the tsland of Mauhattan. Special trains were run from Bath, New York and Boston, and they met at New London. About half way between, where the festivities and jollification took place in honor of the introduction of new and im- proved drawing room coaches and the christ ening of the new ferryboat Thames River, employed to run the cars over the stream of that name between New London and Groton. The heavy eating and drink- ing, as well as the lofty speaking, all took place tn the spacious saloon of the new boat, the craft mean- while making a tour of the New London harbor, Some three hours were thus occupied, time the Mayor of New London, the repres of the various roads forme the line and nu others of a happy frame of mind, said a great many clever and justiy complimentary tings about the improvements which had becn made for the travel- ling New Yorkers and Hostonians, The visiting guests returned to their respective homes at the re- spective terminations of the routein the same special trains which brouglit them, but before sepa- ratiug they voted the Shore Line a “big thivg,”’ and all seemed ro voie understandingly. DANE Dab et e Se ote Parade of the Regiment in Providence=Mon= ster Clam Bake and Bali at Rocky Point= Homeward Bound. ROcKY Pont, R. I., July 26, 1871. The sSeventy-first regiment left Proviaence this forenoon. The weather was delightful, and tne parade through the streets to the boat attracted thousands of spectators, who cheered the New Yorkers heartily as the boat cast of from her moorings. Rocky Point was reached about noon. There were fally ten thousand people on the hotel grounds when the regiment went ashore, who, despite the rain, which set in shortly after their arrival, re- mained at the Point until long after dark. The clam bake came off late in the afternoon, and the New Yorkers and their friends demolished 300 bushels of clams and one ton of tish before the tables were de- rt ei - thousand persons assisted at the molition. There was a brilliant display of fireworks this evening just previous to the ball, Which was opened about nine o'clock and lasted until midnight, when tattoo Was beaten and the Seventy-trst stowed themselves aboard the steamer, “ homeward bound.” The regiment will arrive in New York about five o'clock to-morrow evening, CONVENTION OF NAIL MANUFACTURERS, NIAGARA Fauss, N. Y., duly 26, 1871 A general convention of nail manufacturers of the United States was held at the Internaitonal Hotel, Magara Falls, to-day, for the purpose of effecting: the arrangement of a uniform scale of prices throughout the country, 0. H, Washburn, Jr., of Providence, K. 1, was appoinid chairman, and James ©. Holden, of New York, secretary. Thirty- three milis were represented, which turn out 6,000,000 kegs of nails per annum Several matters of importance were discussed, aad, without taking any detinite action, the conveniion adjourned, to meet at the Mononganela Hou, Pittsburg, Va, Wednesday, AUZust LU» WASHINGTON. Enforcing the Ku Klux Law—A New Departure in the Depart: ment of Justice. Heavy Beward Offered for the Arrest of the Murderer of Captain Gilbert, The Ku Klux Investigation---A Geor- gian’s View of the Situation. Waspinoton, July 26, 1871, Enforcing the Ku Klux Law-—Characterintie Folly of the Attorney General. Several hints have recently been in circulation here respecting certain movements of the judiciary in the Southern States, under the advice and in. structions of the Attorney General's office, and there is already enough to show that the tnitiavive has been taken to prosecute thoroughly, by the fed- eral authority, every tustance of outlawry south of the Potomac which can by any system of torture be construed akin to a violation of the Ku Klux statute, The department is extremely reticent con~ cerning the plans which have been adopted in this particular, and the Attorney General, tn the exercise of secrecy, has given explicit orders that reporters, of the public press are not to be informed of anything whatever transpiring tm that depart- ment of the government. Im reference to this prominent officer it may not be amiss to say thata stronger opposition than has yet appeared in the republican party is developing against ann, which will be likely to exhibit itself in very prace ical shape at the meeting of Congress. Even the Southern republicans, of whieh he has been selected by the administration as a representative, are very chary in their admiration and veneration for this member of the law department of tie government. Wearisome Investigetions by the Ku Kinx Committce—A Specimen Brick from Geor On the return of the sub-committee on Ku Klux outrages, Who went South to gather testimony, th committee now in session in Washington will ad- journ unul tie 17th of September next, Tne lavor of the committee here has not enly been arduous, but weartsome. Occasionally, nowever, a witness has presented himself for examination whose style of answering was other than matter of fact, The details of the examination ave tor the most part been exceedingly irksome and trying to the patience of the most phlegmatic of the Investigating Com- mittee. On the 13th instant Judge A. RK. Wright, of Kome, Ga,, submitted atmself to a generous ques- tioning, aud proved a vaiuable witness to the demo- cratic side, notwithstanding the efforts made ta diminish the importance of his testimony. Senator Pool, of North Caroliaa, who is an advocate of general amnesty, Lad the last privilege of examin. ing Judge Wrighi on that day and elicited te foi- lowing, taken from a printed copy of the testimouy just issued to-day :— Q. You have said that you believed the removal of disabilities from those men word have a whois some efie.t upon the alfalrs of tie State of Georgia? A, 1 think it would, Q. Are not the colored people in favor of that? “ far as 1 have observed they are infinitely more generous taan those oid grown-up fire-caicra who have been pardoned by the government aud continue to rule Us. Q. Does not that entitle the colored people to very kind treatment from those men? A. 1 whl oe swamped if it does not, andr have tt from 1 Q. How, then, do you justify the Ku Klux. A. Justify the Ku Klux’ Good heavens! Just listea to hint! Do I justify then? Q. You say it was fora good purpose? A. i say itis for a goou purpose, and that they have acted wrongly m some thin If at any time there ig anyting so bad that society cannot stand tt v get together in a moment and rectity it. stance, i we have a riot umong the negroes, or anys thing of that sort, we can control, them i a short ume. Q. We had a bit of an argument npon an ecclesis astical question a few moments ago’ A. Yes. Q. And you called upon your Knowledge of Scrips ture in Instancing We parable of the returning pro+ digal? A. Yes, ‘fue CHAtkMAN (Mr. Poland)—I think we had betier leave the prodigal out. [do not think it ta worth walle to institute a parallel between the re< seen eo and the returning prodigal, The WirNEss—Whiy, God biess you, Ll aim perfectly willing he should talk about that, for T chink | know as much about that as he does. The prodigal re- turned, and his father fell on his neck ant made auuch of him; but if the old gentieman had cotlared him and commenced kicking him, | think he would lave been ready to peg out again, It would hardly be necessary to add that the wit. ness was permitted to stand aside, and that tne committee adjourned promptly. Persopal. Secretary Robeson and Secretary Belknap are an, nouuced to return here to-morrow, and probavly Postmaster General Creswell will arrive in the evene ing. Secretary Delano returned last night, Al- though all the members of the Cabinet will he heré on Friday the President is not expected to returu to Washington for several weeks. Reward Offered for the Murderer of a Brooke lyn Reveave Oficer. Commissioner Pleasonton, by and with the advicd and consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, olfers a reward of $6,000 for information that shall lead to the arrest and couviction of the person or per« sons who, on the 14th instant, at the city of Brooke lyn, N. Y., mortally wounded Christian Gilbert, au officer of internal revenue engaged in the discharag of his duty. ‘Treasury Circular to Customs Collectors. The following cirealar letter from the Secretary of the Treasury was to-day sent to all the Coliectors of Customs, and a copy also mailed to the Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada:— aI f Sm—The requiremeut of a certificate of entry 3 a Canadian custom house to be subinitted m= sath faction of certain Canada export bonds, as pre- part 6 of Kevised Regu- lations, October 30, 1858, is hereby extended so as ta require that such certificate be produced, in addl- tion to the proois already prescribed, in every case where goods are exported in boud to any of the pro- vincea of the Dominion of Cauada, Whether sucte exportation be directly from a seaport by water, or from or through a frontier port, as prerequisite to tha cancellation of the export bond covering guc 1, @Xs, v portation. These instructions are tu tyke effact {ro and after the first day ot November rts , Respe a fully, GEORGE S. LOUTWHRHL, Secretary, ae ee ape, ~ THE SUNKEN DOOKS. aie — ¥ The two docks belonging to the New York Drp Doek Company, which sank a week Of two ago, re« main in pretty much the same condition they wera in when an account was published tn the HERALD. One seciton of the dock at ihe foot of Clinton street has been ratsed, and a steam engine was at work yesterday afternoon pumping the water out. A large force of workmen, wader the direction of @ proiessional wrecker, Were busily engaged trying ta raise another one. A number of chaias are placed under the dock and retained in their places by the aid of “block and tackle,” and made {ast to the pontoons on the out« side of the section to be raised. They expect to hava the section raised by to-night, when tt will be towe down to the company’s dock, betweeu Pike an Rutgers streets, and tiere repatred. j Soine idea of the work to be done may be formed! from the fact that each section is 86 feet long (with. the floats), 26 feet wide and 44 feet high, and weigng sone sixty tons. Owing to the helynt of the struc-| ture it Is quite a delicate operation towing the sec~ tions to the dry dock, a8 great care must be exers clsed lest they topple over. Owing to the amount of work to be done and the nature of it, the company are nnable to form any decided opinion as to whea the docks Will again be in working order. Fortu. nately lor the company in a pecumury pomt of view, the accident has occuvred at a very dull season vy) the year. THE PISTOL AND KNIFE. Night before last Join Roberts, of 95 Cherrp street, and John McKenny, of 433 Kast Fourteenth street, had @ quarrel, when McKenpy is alleged to have stabbed Roberts with a penknife. Last night the parties again met, when Roverts drew @ pistol and went for “Mac,” whom ha shot in the breast. Both men were ur+ rested by ofMicers of the Fourth precinct, aud while im the station house Roberts acs knowledgead having shot McKenny, but said he had done it in sbif-defence, as (MeKenny) had assaulted him with a knife, The ine, Jured man was taken to Park Hospital, where ia wounds were dressed by the attending surgeons, who pronounced them not Of a serigus Characters ud Roberts was locked by