The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROYRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeERarp. Letter: and packages should be properly "AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 153th street.— Burak. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Aonoss re Conti- NENT. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 80th st. ances afternoon and evening—NIOK OF TRY Wi Perform Se BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Trnoveu LI@HT—DON JUAN, By Dav- TONY PASTOR'S OPPRRA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. Tur Rersouate-PresecoTRD DUTCH MAN. : . OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Scuxteper—New SONGS AND Dasces. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE. No. 720 Rrosdway.—Tax PeEGER FaMity oF BELL RincrRa, 5 MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Rrooklyn.— ALMA; OB, HELD IN BONDAGE—SHERIDAN'S RIDE, CENTRAL PARK B —THeopoKe THoMas’ SUMMER NIGHTS’ CONORRTS. 4, between Lexington and BROOKLYN RINK, Clermont avenue, near Myrtle ave- nUe,SUNMEB EVENING CONCERTS. DR. KATIN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Nrondway. — SCHENCK ANY ART New York, Friday, July 28, 1871. CONTE) OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. PAGE. Se ce lamess unweat tad t—Advertisements, 2—Advertisemeuts, B—Sketen of tne New Commissioner of Agriculture— Advertisements, 4—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The Famine in Persia—The Horrors of Mussulman Misgovern- me Personal Inteiligence—Weatner Re- port—The Philological Convention im New Haven—News from Washington—Weary of Waiting—The “fearless Eighty-kighth—Mag- nus Gross Associatiun—Amuscment Announce- ments, 5—The Papacy: Speech of the Holy Father Vindi- cating (he Dogma of Infalltoilky—ltaly: Count Beust to Act as Intermediary Between tie Ru aly and the Pope—Terrestrial ar The barthquake and Volcanic in the Phillppine — Islands— uation in France—The Famine in Per- Wsirom England, Spain, Turkey and iseellaneous Telegrams—Remints- of the | htot—Ex-Policeman Logan. th engers—A Sum 8 bal News—Views of the Past—Bus- o1lces. pnty-irst Regiment Excursion—Brook- lyn Aiairs -The Forthcoming Long B Races—DLu alo Driving Park—The Wickede: Man— Another Victim of the Riot oi the Words Peace Jubilee—The P Ne undland—supples for the Arety — Abrog amped EI yobery—M. nvelopy The St. Louis Express ysteries of the Metropolis: Suicide of a Beautiful Southern Woman —Depa tment of Docks—Alleged Frauds in Indiana—West nia Sulphur The |. ockaway 8 iway War: Judge A Victory Declared ior afen tsiand New: s Arrival of J id Commercial Reports —Rairoad aial Accident on the New Jersey aval Intelligence—Ihe New rages and Deatas. he Bayonne Yacht Club; n Yaent Club Regatta Matter: Railr Commitee : Regatta of Crescent. City Yacht Club; Yachting Notes; International A Short Trip With Polmieal Situation Crickei—The Na- ry—Drowned im the nipping Intelligence— Hono vo Governok Horrman.—A_ hith- erto unnamed spur of the White Mouniaius, bas been ristened “Mount Hoffman,” in honor of the Governor of New York. Gov- srnor Hoffman is every day gaining in popu- « raral districts. rity int Tne A are indi- askA Seat Contractors recily = dling the government by taking no seal oil for which they have to pay a some- what hich bonus. It costs them sixty-two and a half cents per gallon, and will only com- mand thir sven anda half cents in Ss Franci Consequently they do not take any, but strip the felt off the seal and leave the c to rot. By this means much valu- able seal oil is wasted, and the government is substantially a loser to the amount of many shousands of dollars. Tue Surcmpe oF GENevRa Rockweit, alias Minnie French, is one of the many mysteries with which the metropolis teems. She died, and refused to make any sign, saying that the cause of the deed was a secret hetween her- self and God. There are several other mat- ters connected with the mystery which the investigation failed to disclose. Why she is called by an alias, and why after shooting herself at one house she was removed to another are matters yet in doubt. There does not y tobe any direct intimation that the girl and her sister were women of the abandoned class, and the reticence of the vi tim upon ber deathbed would indicate the very reverse, Doroner’s appe: Prorosep RECONCILIATION BErWweeN THK Kine any tHE Pore.—Our special cable despatch from Vienna makes the important announcement that the Italian government has requested Count Beust, the Iinperial Chan- vellor of Austria, to lend his aid in smoothing over the difficulties which now divide Italy and the Holy See. The italian government was prepared to give the most solemn guarantees for the fulfilment of the terme already granted by the Chamber to the Pope and to respect the spiritual inde- pendence of the Holy Father. This is cer- tainly a step in the right direction ; but that the Italian government should have entrusted this delicate iission to Count Beust, who isa Protestant and by no means a favorite with the Vatican, seems rather odd. Tar Duvecisrs had quite a full and ex citing meeting at Harmonia Hall yesterday to protest against the action of the Board of Commissioners for the examination of droggists and drug clerks as to their quali- fications for the business, They prepared a remonstrance against the repayment of the license fee, which was forwarded to the Com- missioners. There may be wany incon- veniences to the profession in the carrying out of the new law; but it is io the main a most excellent enactment, and druggisie who make show of opposing it are likely to create the uprossion (hat their qualifications for the waking ap of prescriptions and dispensing of rugs are not of the very best. At any rate the law is for the benefit of the mass of drug coosumers, rather than of drug dispensers, ud the latter have no right to compleia. aituated between Mounts Clery and Madison, | i The Famine im Persia—The Morrers of Mussulman Misgeverument. Meagre and unsatisfactory as are the de- spatches we publish in regard to the dearth in Persia we already know enough to realize that this unhappy land is again the scene of one of those hideous famines which meet the eye at almost every page of Asiatic annals. The Euphrates Valley and the storied lands that lie upon either hand of it—the cradle of the human family, the site of the earliest, em- pires, the sacred soil that brightened first in the dim gray dawn of religion and civiliza- tion—from the very beginning of human his- tory have been cursed by these horrible catas- trophes, Most of us have heard from 4 mother’s lips the touching story of that seven years’ famine which spread over Egypt and the Holy Land, and gave back to the arms of Jacob his best beloved son, But this last visitation in Persia is colored with far gloomier tints than those that tinge the picture drawn by the inspired peo. ‘The horrors we chronicle to-day make the heart turn sick and faint. This blighted land, we are told, is filied with famine-frenzied wretches, who, like evil carrion birds, pick clean the bones of the dead and prowl around the cemeteries, eager, as the people of Paris were in that terrible siege by Henry the Fourth, to grind the bones of their ancestors to powder and bake them into bread. Is it wonderful that dreadful forms of pesti- lence follow in the train of unnatural crimes such ag these? The cholera and the plague seem, indeed, but appropriate instruments of Divine vengeance upon the men who have been maddened by inanition into foul banquets upon the corpses of their brethren and the ashes of their sires, Alas! that the earth should be darkened by miseries so appalling, by crimes so revolting to every sentiment of human dignity. The causes of these terrible catastrophes are many and complicated. They are the same that have converted these fertile lands, once the home of countless millions, into semi- abandoned wastes. We read of Mesopotamia and Media in the past, and, after making every allowance for Oriental exaggeration, we are dazzled by the wealth and splendor that marked Assyrian, Persian and Babylonian civilization, These deserts, where the bit- tern raises its melancholy cry as it stands in pools of putrid water, and the jackal and the hyena howl and moan, and the wild boar and the lion range in search of prey, were in happier days smiling fields of plenty, dotted with cities and towns, which were the hospitable homes of sages, philosophers and artists. But the ambition and the greed of unscrupulous and selfish military despots again and again desolated and depopulated their beautiful lands. Wave after wave of fire and sword have swept across them, each more ter- ribly destructive than the las This vast region was already ruined when it came into the hands of the Mussulman conquerors, who now hold sway over it, and under the shadow of the organized oppression of the Crescent it has grown each year more and more sparsely populated. The evils of Turkish and Persian rule can scarcely be realized by description. The very means of fertility—the canals, which formerly threaded the land—have been allowed to fall into ruins; and the waters of the great rivers, bursting through the banks, have formed vast and unwholesome marshes. he people have grown too wise to hope for riches, and they live from hand to mouth, just raising enough rice and wheat and = dates to last out the year, and never daring to indulge in the luxury of producing a large crop lest it should tempt spoliation. They have but one ambition—to live like good Mussulmans in the practice of the piety of the Koran; andthey have but one consolation— the society of their three or four wives, if, in- deed, they have made money enough to ac- quire so large a stock of feminine relations. The worst feature of this famine—and, per- haps, its chief cause—is that Persia is almost severed from communication with the outside world. It is difficult to carry merchandise to the Persian frontier; but a greater obstacle is that the country is absolutely destitute of roads. The only means of transporting mer- chandise is by mules or camels or horses. There is not a wheeled vehicle in the length and breadth of the land, and trangportation, such as there is, is, of course, very expen- sive, and all commerce in bulky articles and in food is pecuniarily impossible. Within the past quarter of a century gleams of light have, however, now and then begun to brighten the gloomy prospects of this section of the East. The Russians have begun an ever-increasing trade by way of the Caspian, and there is a line of British steamers from Bombay to Persia’s only port, Bushire. Oaly two or three years ago the Shah was almost persuaded to fellow the example of the Czar and build government railroads. English capitalists offered part of the money needed ; but the scheme fell through. Perhaps, however, if the Porte ever become sufficiently enlightened to pierce the Euphrates Valley with a rajjroad the Shah may follow its ex- ample, The telegraph line is said to have already convinced him, by giving him timely information of two or three projected insur- rections, that Feranzee arts and inventions strengthen rather than ondermine a govern- ment, It is impossible, until we get fuller accounts of the famine, to ascertain how wide is its area, Khorassen {s a large province in the eastern part of the country, and adjoins ‘the Cabool Here. is said, there is a daily death rate of three hundred, Some further despatches mention spesifically that the neigh- borhood of Shiraz, which is in the centre of the province of Fars, is also suffering heavily ; and people are said to be flying from Teheran, whieh is in still another province, Prob- ably the plague, if not the famine, will spread all through Persia, and it will also very likely again ravage Turkish Arabia and the Levant, The last great visitation of this horrible pestilence was in 1852-8, thongh it has now and then appeared since in a mild form in Egypt and along the eastern ports of the Mediterranean. Jn 1832, in Bagdad alone, there were thirty thousand deaths out of « population of eighty thousand. We can only hope that these unhappy lands and peoples will be spared a repetition of a calamily to appalling. frontier. Tak Raiweoap Acoment on the Toledo and Wabash the other day has beea pliced by NEW YORK HERALD. FRIDAY. JULY 28. 1871 @ coroner's jury at the doors of the conductor and engineer of the freight train, who are posi- tively stated to have disobeyed orders. A coroner's verdict out there is considered such a weighty matter that the persons criminated in this instance have fled the country to avoid lynching. The Pepe and the New Syllabus. The Holy Father, as will be seen from our special cable despatches this morning, seems determined not to give up the fight without fully explaining his position. He has, it ap- pears, issued some new thing, which they call 4 Syllabus, and in this Syllabus he arrogates to himself all the power claimed in ancient times by such men as Hildebrand and others of his sort, The University of Rome, it ap- pears, likes not the Syllabus, and the profes- sors have plainly said so. The Pope has re- plied to the professors; but the reply seems to be quite as absurd as the original docu- ment. This whole Papal question is becom- ing something of a farce. The Italian people have surely as good a right to Rome as the English have to London or as we have to Washington. The Italians, after long and patient waiting, have got hold of Rome, and they mean to keep hold of it, and all sen- sible men everywhere say they do well to cling to their purpose and keep what they have won. As we have again and again re- peated, there is still a place for the Pope in the modern world; but it does seem as by Ecumenical Councils and Encyclicals and such like the Papacy was bent on completing its ownruin. Since the fall of the Holy Ro- man empire the Papal chair has been more a name than a reality. If the Papacy will not accept the new departure the Papacy must die. It is clear from our special despatch of this morning that the Pope and his friends are under a canopy of clouds and that darkness is round about them. The Next Musical Sensation. We are going to have ao regular feast of music next season, and what between opera, oratorio and concert, it is hard to make a dis- tinction, Rullman brings complete orchestra of ladies from Vienna ; Nilsson promises such Italian opera as we never had before; Parepa- Rosa is in the field with a first clase English opera troupe ; Dickens’ Dolby announces the greatest baritone in the world (Santley), Theodore Thomas has added to his orchestra to such an extent that it will be complete in every sense of the word; Ole Bull, Kellogg, Phillips and Albites are in the field with won- derful attractions, and a dozen others are making out lyrical programmes, But un- doubtedly the next great musical sensation is the ‘‘World’s Peace Jubilee,” to be given in Boston next summer by the great Gilmore, a sketch of which we present to-day. Jndging from the immense success of the first Peace Jubilee two years ago this enterprise promises to be one of the most remarkable musical achievements of the age. Only imagine an audience of one hundred thousand people and a chorus of twenty thousand voices and an orchestra of two thousand in- struments! And then comes the international character of this wonderful jubilee. Mr. Gil- more starts for Europe in a few days, armed with national, State and municipal documents to persuade the various governments of Europe to take part in this ‘‘World’s Peace Jubilee.” He goes to London first, and we trust that no “Battle of Dorking” will interfere with the masical festival. Judging alone from the fact that Mr. Gilmore, at his last jubilee, made ex- travagant promises, and that the performance was still more extravagant, we can assure our readers that this gentleman will carry out to the letter everything in his programme. It will be a fitting conclusion to one of the great- est, if not the greatest, musical seasons ever known in America. The idea is a truly Amer- ican one, comprebensive and immense, and its realization will do more for our country in a musical sense of the word than anything else that can be devised. The Erlo Railway Litigation. Our columns to-day show that something like a crisis has been reached in the Erie liti- gation, Yesterday, in the United States Cir- cuit Court, Judge Blatchford rendered a de- cision to the effect that the issue of converti- ble bonds by the Erie Railway Company is not illegal, and he therefore denies the motion on the part of the English shareholders to re- strain the Erie Company from registering at the office of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Com- pany thirty thousand shares of Erie stock, alleged to be fraudulent or valueleas. In com- ing to this conclusion the Judge states that he follows the decisions that have been made un- der the statute law of the State of New York. Under this decision we suppose Erie may now go on and issue all the stock it deems proper to put apon the market in order to make up for what it will have to pay back under Judge blatchford’s order in reference to the thirty thousand shay. of Bric charged (9 haye been abstracted by Say Gonld from the Colema ceivership. What will be the effect of flooding the market with more Erie shares, depre- ciated as the stock slready is? Many per- soos believe that there will be a great fall in the price. Bnt this is not exactly the question here. How long is this litigation to last? Judge Blatchford’s decision would seem to complicate matters a little; but the diffienjty, if it is to be settled at all, must be arranged with all the formality and precision of the law. Tar Dock Commissioners yesterday re- fused to lease w portion of the water front near tho Battery to the New York Warchouse Company for the erection of piers, for the reason that in view of the great iinprovements now in progress and the projected change of our whole pier system it is necessary that the city itself shonld retain fall control of all its water front, The establishment of this prin- ciple is necessary also to secure # uniformity in the plan of the new piers and to prevent wharfage exactions, that have so frequently been the rule where the piers were owned by private parties. We ane rather flash of princes and other notables just now. Prince Shemidgo Jogar, from Japan, with twenty-nine other eligible young fellows, all with a rent roll and a title, arrived in the city yesterday. Prince Alexis, from the other extremily of the globe, is due ere long, and numbers of others, rating even as high as an emperor, are thinking of coming. LL is not a very good season tyr veinces, either, Commander Selfridge aud His Darion Ship Canal Route. It is generally considered that the Darien Isthmus expioring expedition has established the fact that south of the Panama Railroad there is no feasible route for an interoceanic sbip canal, From an inspection, however, of the maps, drawings and estimates of Com- wander Selfridge, it appears that he has dis- covered a route, which may be made available for the passage of the largest ships from ocean to ocean by means of # short canal, estimated to cost from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and thirty millions of dollars. The route lies between the Gulf of Darien on the Atlantic side and the Bay of Cupica on the Pacific. Entering from the Gulf, Darien, one of the outlets of the Atrato, the route is up that great river for one hundred and fifty miles, For this distance, at all seasons of the year, the Atrato—from a thousand to two thousand feet wide and from thirty to sixty feet in depth—is all that could be desired. Against the current of some two knots an hour ascending sailing vessels, as in the Mississippi, would require a tug. Tho canal, then, by this route, will begin at a point one hundred and fifty miles up the Atrato, from which point the excavation to the Pacific by the Napipi River will be thirty-two miles and ahalf. For twenty-four miles of this dis- tance the work will be light, for the ascent is gradual; but for the remaining eight miles, through a mountainous ridge six hundred feet high, skirting the Pacific coast, the work will be heavy, including a deep cut of four miles and a tunnel of four miles. Having ascended forty feet above the ocean level, in ascending the Atrato one hundred and fifty miles, there will be required to the summtt level of the canal on the Atlantic side only nine locks, of ten feet lift each, while on the Pacific side thirleen locks will be required, The Napipi River, from the summit level, it is estimated, will furnish all the water needed to supply the locks in both directions. We have here, then, from the navigable Atrato a distance of some thirty-two miles only to the Pacific; but that intervening mountainous ridge which here skirts Cupica Bay is the great difficulty. Captain Selfridge cannot overcome it, and therefore proposes to bore through it a tunnel ninety feet high. That tunnel of four miles is the drawback which has led to the public judg- ment that this route is impracticable. By the Panama route a canal of less than forty miles from sea to sea can be made with, per- haps, not moro than twenty locks each way, without a tunnel; and by the Nicaragua route Captain Pym, of the British navy, has esti- mated that the cost of a ship canal of medium dimensions would be less than twenty-five mil- lions of dollars. Even by the Tehuantepec route, ‘according to the reports from Captain Shufeldt’s expedition, a ship canal, without a tunnel, may be excavated at much less ex- pense than the short canal by this Darien route, with its four-mile tunnel, For the general commerce of the world passing between the two oceans the Darien route of Commander Selfridge is the route, re- gardless of cost, if we can do without that tunnel, Even with the tunnel it may be proved the best route; but the enterprise will atleast be avoided until all doubts are re- moved as to its advantages over auy other route. All things considered, we think that for the United States the Nicaragua route is the best for an interoceanic ship canal on a grand scale, and that in this view it ought to be surveyed by Commander Selfridge or some other competent officer of the navy. “Flabbergast.”” Here is a new and interesting subject for philologists. One of our London correspond- ents, in a letter which was published day before yesterday, informs us of an interesting discus- sion which took place at one of the hotels be- tween the gallant and good-looking young Irish- American Senator and Tax Commissioner, Tom Creamer, and a certain Mr. Bailey, ‘‘a dis- tinguished republican, and at one time an office-holder in the Internal Revenue Depart- ment.” The Senator we know well, as does everybody in the Eleventh ward; but this Bailey is an entire stranger tous. It cannot be the distinguished gentleman who displayed such remarkable talents at one time in the Internal Revenue Department that he found a change of scene necessary for him, and left his accounts behind him in a very unsatisfac- tory condition for the government; other- wise General Sickles and the other noted Americans who attended the Fourth of July banquet in London, would not have chosen him as chairman on that occasion. But who- ever he is, he had the honor of being ‘‘flah- bergasted” by the Adonis of the Eleventh ward of New York. He chanced to express himself in irreverent terms about Tammany, and to allude, in language not choice, but strong, to the ‘‘rottenness of our municipal system ;” when the gallant Creamer’s Tippe- rary od Was oused, and fo vont in fay on SA gee a Withee chat. acter. He told Bailey that he was ‘‘a liar and # poltroon,” and ‘‘flabbergasted” him. Now, what is the meaning of ‘‘flabber- gast?” What is it to be ‘‘flabbergasted?” Through what process must one pass in order to experience ‘‘flabbergasta- ion?” Worcester is the only lexicog- rapher who throws light on the subject; but we sabmit that he falls very far short of the modern definition when he states that it is to be ‘‘confounded” and “abashed.” Bailey must have been very badly confounded and abashed ; but he must also have been overcome in some other un- commonly uncomfortable style when our cor- respondent found it necessary to ase the strong verb “flabbergast” to express the feelings of the distinguished American aforesaid. That verb hag come to mean some dreadfully rare mental and physical emotions, which we sub- mit the New Haven Philological Convention ought to try to define more satisfactorily. The world is interested iu having the thing set- tled. Louan, the policeman who was disiniased the force by the Police Commissioners for interfering with another officer in the perform- ance of bis duty on the 12th of July, was made the recipient of a hearty demonstration among bis friends at Emmet Hall last even- ing. hey upheld him for his action on that occasion, and heartily denounced Governor Hoffinan and the authoritioy, Personal Intelligence. pesueee enero) Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo, ts at the Astor House, Judge Vick Busveed, of Alabama, is again at the Sturtevant House, Dr. J. G. Holland (Timothy Titcomb), the author, is in town, from Springflela, Mass. He is stopping at the Brevoort House. Congressman W, A. Wheeler, of Malone, N. Y. staying at the Fifth Avenue. United States Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, yesterday arrived at the Astor House, George B, McCartee, Superintendent of the Print- WASHINGTON. Important Changes in the Pa» tent Office Regulations. Arbitrary Decision by Secree tary Boutwell. ing Burean of the Treasury Department, ts tempo | Injustice to Kentucky---Damaging rarily residing at the Fifth Avenue, F. G, Palacio, Jr., an attaché of the Mexican Le gation at Washington, is domiciled at the Albe- marle Hotel. Colonel E. W. Leonard, of Cullfornia, 1s stopping at the Sturtevant House, Prince Shemidgo lugar, of Japan, accompanied by an accession of vhirty-nine to the number of Japanese students in this country, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas, General J. H. Ketcham, M.C., from Duchess county, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue. Sir Henry Parkes, ex-Minister from Great Britain to Japan, is again at the Fifth Avenue. General José San Roman and Colonel José Her+ nandez Armendair, of the Spanish army, yesterday arrived from Washington at the Hoifman House. Comte de Fleury, of Paris, who arrived on the Cuba, yesterday took up his abode at the Breyoort House, WEATHER REPORT. RB DEPARTMENT, | OFFICE OF THR CHIRF St DEFICER, WASHINGTON, July 28-1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, An area of low pressure has advanced eastward, with clouds and rain, into the Mississippi. The ba- rometer has risen, with clear weather and nortueriy winds, from Lake Huron to Minnesota, The pressure still continues high on the South Atlantic coast, with pleasant weather. The area of low pressure which was Wednesday night cen- tral over Lake iluron has extended northeastward, and threatening weather with light rains ts reported from Maryiand to New York, with cloudy weather thence to Maine. Light winds, with partiatly cloudy weather, now prevail on the Gulf coast and the Southern States, Probabilities, The barometer wilt probably continue to fall in the Ohio valley. Northerly winds, with partially cloudy and clear weather. are probable for Friday on the Upper Lakes; southwesterly winds on the North Atlantic and Gulf States, and partially cloudy and clearing weather in the Middle and East- ern States. Local storms will probably continue Trom the Lower Lakes to Tennessee, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The totiowing record will show the changesin the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated vy the thermometer at Hudnut's macy, HERALD Building, corner of Aun str 1870, 1871. last yea 849-16 THE PHILOLOGICAL CONVENTION IN XLW HAVEN, The thira day’s session of the Association was commenced yesterday forenoon at nine o'clock. Professor W. D. Whitney, of Yale College, read a paper entitled “Strictures on Schiletcher’s Viows of Langaage.” to his pamphlets, written by Professor Schleicher and sent to Dr. Heckel, of Jena— one entitled ‘Darwin's Theory and Science of Language,” anda the other “Respecting the Im- portance of Language to the Natural History of man.” The first attempts to prove that ade species: of animals descended from another very anitke it, because @ modern dialect 1s very different from an anctent one, and that animals of a higher struc- ture are developed from thos> of a lower, because complicatcd tongues are derived from monosyllabic roots. Schleicher, to maintain tuts, assumed that languages are natural organisms, which, not being determined by ine will of man, grew and developed in accordance with fixed laws, and then grew old and died out, and that to them belonged the succession of phenomena called Ife. In answer Professor Whitney shows that there has been 4 growth in the (language, new names have been adopted, new forms made and new compounds, all of which have been made by ma nm the exercise of Is will, to meet its necessities and asameans to varlous ends, It being established that this growth was determined by the will of man, and not by xed laws, the theory of Schictcher that 1anguage is a natural organism, the growth of which is determined by fixed laws, falis to the ground, In the secona paper Schleicher holds inat lan- guage has a material existence aud depends upon the structure of the organs. Professor Whitney contended in his paper that language did not de- pend upon the structure of the orgaus, but upon teaching, and thitit mattered not to what race a child belonged, tt would speak the language taught it. Laaguage did not depend upon organ structure, The paper was discnased by Dr. Sampson, of Washington, aud the Rev. Mr. Anderson, of Water- bury, ater witch Professor March, of Easton, Pa., read @ paper on “The Origin of Language.” He took the ground that language had grown up from mics sounds and was & God-given endowment. e pay Benedict, Whitney, Schlegel, Brewer, March, K rick, Caswell and Colonel T, W. Higgmson. Colom Higginson read a paper entitied “An Oid Latin Text Book." It embraced a reminiscence of college life, Eo took ground in favor of a high Iterary educa. ton. Di Sampson read a paper “On Sign Language,” ave the results of his observations among the leaf mutes and also some of the resulis of @ study of hieroglyphics, He thought a perfect sign language could yet be secured, The paper was discussed until the hour of adjournmegt by Proiessors Com. tort, Whitney, Halteman, Caswell, Crosby, Messrs. Bristed, Anderson sud Higginson. At the afternoon session Prof, of Rochester, and Dr. J. Thomas, of Philadelphia, read papers, both of which were devo! cussion of the proper pronunctation of al Latin. Roth gentiomen contended against the adoption of the so-called Continental system of pro- nuaciation, aud favored the English pronunciation. ‘The subject Was Watuily discussed by Mr. Colton, of New York, Who favored the English system; by Professors Haldeman, Schlegel, Kendrick aud Thacher, Who favored the Continental system. RY OF WAITING. . alles Ellen V. Foster, alfa? Eunchy,” aged twenty. wuree years, a boarder af the Lous? OF muss, Bennert in Wat THe EN dirvef, yesterday” antertord attempted suicide by taking laudenum and chiovo- form, but failed to take cnough to produce death, Sheleita note on the nurean requesting that her clothes bo,donated to her washerwoman, Whom she had known for tue past eight years, she was arrested by an oficer of the Twenty-nintu precinct, and sent to # ‘are of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction, At nine o'clock last night a girl named Jennie Mor- ris, aged about nineteen years, cane to the Twenty ninth precinct station house orted that she had taken & dose of laudanum for the purpose of come herself, Shortly after reaching the sta- tion she became stupid and insensible. Surgeon Oates was called in, and ordered her to be removed to Bellevue Hospital In an atbniance, She to give any account of herself or the moive indneed her to commit the rash act, Her reco Js considered doubtiul. MAGNUS GROSS ASSOCIATION. The Magnus Gross Association held a large and enthusiastic meeting at their rooms, 200 Third ave- nue, last evening, July 27, Coroner William Scbir- mer in the chatr, assisted vy Dr. J.T. Nagle, Seere- tary, and Otto H. Coop, Treasurer. It was resolved that @ set of resolutions and a stlver service be pre. sented to Mr, Magnus Grose on the stl day of August, the twenty-fifth anutversary of his mar- riage, Josta’ arpenter, Lewis Lochinan, Dr. Merkel, Alderman Schiichting, 4. Landermau, M. Moses ana ©, Covper addressed the asaociation. THE “ PEARLESS" EIGATY-EIGHTH. A meeting teenth sircet rN. W. Benedict, ot ny 43 held last evening, at 491 Bast Wif- for the purpose of orguniming-—or rather reorganizing—the old Kighty-eighth regl- "| jated during his alse: ment, Which gained a good record irom its connec tion with Meagher’s brigade, The Intention is to form a thoroughly Irish regiment simiiar to te SIXty-MiMth, ahd tis slated that a prominent Irisit onicer will take command when Mcrent nimber of men areenrolied. At the meeting last night Mr. P. H. Cooney presided and Mr. Murray acted as Secretary. Several new members were enrolled, bringing the pumber at present on the books up to As, The paper contained a reply | 1? Exposures in Prospect. WASHINGTON, July 27, 1871. Changes in the Patent Office Rvgulations. ‘The Commissioner of Patents is engaged in thor oughly revising the rules of practice before the Patent Ofice, and a few important changes wilt be made, Among these may be enumer- ated a change in the rule heretofore gov» erning the oath required of inventors on fil- ing a claim for a patent, to the effect that they were the original inventors of the inven- tion offered for a patent, and upon the office grane ing @ patent allowing attorneys to modily the claim according to the testimony of the patent examiners. It is now proposed that every applicant shall, apom the granting of the patent, be reqnired to take am oath in support of the ciaim as allowed, and not as originally advanced, This will, in case of litigauon, condne parties strictly to what they are entilled ‘to claim, and not allow them to prosecute on the broad claim as filed in making the application, The oath as now required will be exacted, but supple- mented in accord with the claim allowed, Kentucky’s War Claim Repudiated by Seco retary Boutwell. Congressman Beck, of Kentucky, had an inter. view with Secretary Boutwell to-day in regard to the payment of the claim of the State of Kentucky for arming and equipping volunteers during the late rebellion, and amounting to $525,000, The claim, it will be remembered, was finaily disposed of at thé last hour on the 3)th of June last, when the fisca’ year ended, and the law authorizing the payment of this class of claims under act of July 27, 1861, expired. Mention was made in these de spatches at that time of the insignificant excuset made by Treasury officials tor not | assing the requi- sition for the amount, although it bore the signa- tures of all the proper oMtcers, including the Seere- tary of War, Second Comptroller and Third Auditor. It was alleged that the sum to be pald was very large, and that Secretary Boutwell tad given orders that no important warrant should be drawn during his absence. He left Washington on June 29 for his home in Massachusetts, and Mr, Hartley, Second Assistant Secretary of the Treasury became acting Secretary. At the time this claim was presented he did not fee! like taking the responsibility of ordering is payment, and referred the Kentucky State of- cials entrusted with the collection of the money to Mr. Boutwell, Since the Secretary returned he has been too busy until a few days past to give the sub- Ject his attention, but yesterday announced to those anthorized to receive the money that he did not think himself justified in allowing the claim io be paid, as it was not clear that the law contemplated giving compensation for services rendered by troops, suck as the State of Kenwicky represented those were ia whose behalf money had been expended by the State during the renellion, Congressman Beck asked the Ss tary if tae War Department officials: and the elary of War were not competent to decide what troops were entiticd to be classed at volunteers. It was to him a new theory entirety that because the Secretary had the disbursement of money he should also constitute himself an arbi- trator between the heads of other departments and the people. He might be anthorized to require obedience from all bis burean oMicers, but he did not believe the constitution nor the law bad closed him with discretionary authority when requisitions had been properly drawn and signed by responsible officials, Secretary Boutweill ad- mittted that 1t appeared a rather delicate matter to interfere 1n the transactions of other departments, and he would not finally decide the claim untit he had time to consider the matier more fulip tn all its details, aad so the question rests for the present. Mr. Beck's argument was the same advanced tn these despatches at the time the claim was suspended, It !s indeed a pretty state of affairs that when the several Comptroilers of the ‘Treasury, Whose integrity no one can doubt, pass # claim atter the most rigid scrutiny and careful ex- amination of every law bearing upon it, that when the proper auaiting officer sigus the requisition, after months of patient examination of all the vouchers pertaining to It, and declares the amonnt correct, or that when the head of the War Department duly authorized to declare what troops were accepted and what were not, confirms the action of comptrollers and audi- tors, backed by the anqualified approval of General Sherman. That the Secretary of the Treasury should interpose @ single objection and say “You, Mr. Secretary Beiknap; you, Comptroliers Taylor an@ Brodhead: you, Auditor Rutherford; yon, General Sherman, know nothing about this matter. | am satisfied that you are all wrong, and if Kentucky must be patd let Congress, my superior, order me to da it by a special act.’ There are other matters con- ~ nected wilh the suspension of this claim until the last day of the fiscal year, and even to the last hour per was discussed by Professors Comfort, |, of that day—for the requisition did not reach the warcant division for action until three o'clock, the closing .hour—that will be brought to light at the proper time, and it may appear that some parties here in Washington had, or pretended to have, more Influence in the settlement of this class of war claims than all the higher officers of the govern- Taent put together. The Ka Klux Lavestigation. General John B. Gordon, of Auianta, Ga., was ex- amined for five hours wo-day before the Ku Klux Committee. Raving been asked a question concern- ing tue relations of the whites to the blacks, he tes- Ufled that the very kindest feeling existed on the part of the former toward the latter immediately after the war This was evidentiy iu their subscriptions to churches and schoothonses. This feeling co tinged ia the main up to the time thie ohpet-bagigers came joty the Stave, and wha have ina great measure bee instrumental in ac- raying the blacks against the white" a¥ég now, it lett Co themselves, the negroes would be as kin disposed towards the whites as tne whites are to~ Ray Jt was the Interest of the South to hg blacks among them, Instead of encouraging organized bAiugs to drive them out. The people were compelied to have their labor. It was tio best they could get. Taney could not cultivate their rice and cotton lands with any other labor 80 snocessfally., Immediately after the war much trouble was causeé at Brunswick, Darien and at other places om the coast by the negro troops Insulting white mem who nad served in the @onfederate army. ‘There wero so many ontrages of this kind thac the witness, at the soucitation of the citizens Appealed to General Grant to remove the negre troops. Notwithstanding the insults by the troops the whites were forbearing aud kind, having sab- veribed to negro churches and schools wad otherwise aided them ail they could. Retuen of Members of the Cabinet. Secretaries Boutwell, Delano and Belkuap and Attorney General Akerman are now in the city. Secretaries Fish and Robeson and Postmaster General Cresweil are expected in a day or two. It 18, therefore, probable that all the metmpbers of the Cabinet will be here by the rst of next week. Cutting Down the Expenses. Tne number of asaistant assessors of the internat revenue service in Massachusetts, Rhode [sland and Connecticut, on July 1, 1970, was 164, The number wow euiployed is ninety- three. Personal. Secretary Bolknap returned this morning, and was enguged to-luy in giving attention to & voluminous mass of oficial correspondence which had accomu- from Washington. ‘The President has recognized Andres Cassard ax Conant of Costa Rica at Charleston, 8 OC. T ysident has appointed 1. W. Smith ana Thomas Hardman, dt., of Georgia, 10 be comin. stoners to the one handredt auniversary of Ameri. ean independ ‘The Pre maar Bodisco, Cousul Ge ai New York the exequatur of Walde- eral of Ute Kassian empire