The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1871, Page 6

W YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. Bo — Saurson HanpeEap—Brian Olek, ae. Peer OLYMPIC | THEATR: saway. PIC [THRATRE, Broadway.—SounzipE2—NEWw WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th strect.— Surin ACR088 THE CONTI- NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad’ ‘BENT. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 720 Broad KELLY & Leon's MinsT RELA Reker btn THEATRE, Bowery.-Tozoves Br a Lieut—Tus Drap Suor. oie WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform- Snces afternoon and evening—TI0xet oF LEAVE MAN, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—T: . Somuen Niours' Concerre, epeahaw Suasond BROOKLYN RINK, Clermont aue.—SuuNER EVENING CONCEETA. WITH SUPPLEMENT New York, Thursday, Angust 3, 1871. = near Myrtle ave CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S DERALD. Pacs, Eo Advertisements, Advertisements, 3—Advertisements. 4—The luternational: Dr, Marx and the New York HERALD Correspondent in Consulta- tlon—Hoboken Common Council—Army and Naval Intelligence—The Courts—Brookiyn Affairs—Disgraceful Scene in Newark—Tue Jersey Democracy Victorlous—Ben _But- ler and the Labor Question—The Mace and Coburn Fizzle—A Shaker Defaulter—General Sherman—The Apothecaries. S—The Apothecaries (Continued from Fourth Page)—Yachting—Health Matter ~ University of Vermont—Financial and Commerciat Re ag te of Commerce and Naviga- lon—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, G—Eiitorials:—Leading Article, “The Times and Our City Administration—The Disease and the Remedy’’—Personal _Intelligence—scientifio Notes—Amusement Announcements, ¥—France: HrRaLp Specal Reports from London and Paris; The International Society; A Con- ference of Austria and England Upon Some Means of Repressing It; ie ir Again Filled with Vague Menaces Revolution—The —_‘Interna- tionals im Spain—The Jnsrarection in Albania—News from Eng! jand, Austria and Sots zeriand—The Indians on @ Raid: Bands of Piegans Tavaging the Upper Mis- sourl Valley; Panic Among the White Set- tlers—Tne Census of New York City—Suicide Extraordinary—The Boylston Bank Robbery— The ltallan Jubliee—Miscellancous Tele- grams—Business Notices. $—Sunday’s Slaughter: Further Details of the Westfield Woe; Death of Two More of the Vic- ums; Commencement of the Oficial Investiza- tion: Testimony of United States Inspector Matthews and Captain Jacob Vauderbiit; ctlon of the Corone@s of New York and rooklyn; Scenes at Bellevue and the Morgue, @~Sunday’s Slaughter (Continued from Eighth Page)—-The Long Brauch Races: Match Be- tween Longfellow and Kingfsher—Camp Meeting at Urbanna, Ohio—The Washington Monument Money—Lacrosse—The nto ‘oigoner—Coburn and Oayenue Pepper: A ht in an Oyster Saloon. @0—-—Wachington: The Boutwell-Pleasonton Dim- culty Still Unadjasted; A Disputed California Land Clatin Finally Disposed of; The Steam- ‘boat Laws to be Rigidly Enforced—University Convention: Address by a Jesuit Father on the Free Schools of the Monks of the Middle Ages—Obituary—Condition of the Wounded by the Expiosion—Attempted Muraer—Sbipping Intelligence—Advertisements, Toe MoGarranan OLA is again open to bother and bewilder the public mind. The Beecretary of the Interior has decided that either McGarraban nor the New Idria Com- pany are the holders of the required patent. At Tur Park Takatre, Brooklyn, a move- ment in the way of a benefit has been initi- ated for the sufferers by the late dreadful steamboat explosion, Here is a hint fora systematic movement for some relief to the sufferers by this dreadful tragedy who still survive, which we hope our benevolent citi- gens, experienced in good works, will take in hand. Tor Kv Kuox Commirrze is naturally somewhat puzzled to render a decision on the general subject of peace and order in the South, owing to the conflicting statements that have been made by the witnesses. The best way to solve the difficulty is the way chosen—that of personally visiting and investi- gating through a sub-committee the actual facts in the places of their occurrence. Szoretary Boutwett has decided not to pay the Kentucky war claime. Kentucky deserves more consideration than this; for, with all her present democratic preponder- ance, she furnished many excellent regiments and gallant generals to the Union army, many fine minds to the ranks of Union statesman- ship and one very excellent President to the Union White House. We suspect, however, that the present political complexion of the Btate weighs with the Secretary more than its record in the war, Gryerat BuTver anv Que Iisa CrizeNns.— At a meeting of our Irish citizens in the Fifth ward the other evening, for the purpose of tak- ing preliminary steps toward the presentation of a complimentary address to General Butler in regard to his views on the late riot, Orange processions, &c., strong speeches were made in support of the General as a stanch friend of Ireland, and highly complimentary resolu- tions were adopted, including one providing * for the proposed address. So goes the whirli- gig of party politics, Who says now that Gen- eral Butler bas no chance to be next Governor of Massachusetts? Turk Pirean InpiaNs are ravaging the valley of the Opper Missouri about the neigh- borhood of Fort Benton with terrible fierce- ness. They have frightened the settlers into the woods, attacked and captured govern- } ment trains, burned towns, and, from their refuge on British soil, they contemplate an attack even upon Fort Benton. Nothing but sodden, sharp and decisive cavalry tactics will ever render the “noble red man of the Plains” either faithful or peaceful. He breaks treaties and wages war with the treacherous instincts of the savage end cannot be expected to yield to avything bat the bullet. : —— Orr vor Cvna.—Two persons, claiming to ' be members of the Cuban Junta of this city, ‘arrived at Niagara Falls yesterday, and told t the somewhat remarkable story that withio | the last twenty-four hours four hundred volun- | teers bad left Canada for Cuba and {that another detachment will leave Mon- treal for New Orleans within a few Gays. The report mast be taken with many “ins of allowance, The Canadian authori- of had full knowledge of the proposed expe- ition, and were too much on the alert to “pfer so large a body of men to leave un- / seated, especially when thelr obiect bad 90n.n0 padlicly proclaimed, The Times and Our City Admisistration— ‘The Disease and the Remedy. The geal of a young reformer in the correc- tion of abuses is apt to outran his discretion. His diagnosis of even a disease curable by the simplest remedies is apt to lead him to a course of treatment fatal to the patient. Such is the zeal of our over-excited coutemporary the Times, and such is its lack of discretion in its proposed treatment of the alleged wholesale and shameless corruptions of our municipal administration. In its money article of Wednesday of last week the Z'imes says: “A morning paper intimates that a league is being formed among the great taxpayers to resist the further payment of taxes while these bad men (Mayor Hall, Comptroller Connolly, &c.) remain in office, refusing, as they do, to account for the money which they have already received and pillaged themselves or suffered to be pil- laged by others ;” that ‘‘we have also heard of such purpose on the part of the taxpayers;” that “‘althongh it may not yet have taken shape, the fair inference is that not only the tax-payers, but the property-holders, upon whom unjust not to say extortionate street ass2ssments have been levied, will join the league for common defence.” Then, in regard to the effects of this stop- page of the supplies by the tax-payers, while our highly inflamed contemporary admits that this proposed action might result in the sus- pension of ‘the payment of the Interest on the city and county bonds, and thereby embarrass the savings banks of New York and Brooklyn, which have invgsted the say- ings of their depositors to the extent of fifly milfions of dollars in such bonds,” we are told that ‘“‘even this humiliation to the city and county credit, and serious inconve-~ nience to the savings hanks, way be endured for ® season if they should be fol- lowed by a summary and thorough reform of administration.” In its leading article of Fri- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, in all our financial affairs would speedily fol- lows But the Times proposes a remedy for the evils of which it complains worse than the disease. Yet it seems to know that the only remedy lies in the constitutional exercise of the ultimate judgment of the people; for, in one of its tirades upon our City Fathers, it says ‘‘their only hope is that the charges against them will blow over,” but that “‘alihough they can command the silence of some of their journals of New York, they cannot suppress the free opinion of the whole American press.” In other words, if our city authorities do not clear themselves of these charges of systematic, wholesale robberies of the city treasury they will be turned adrift by an indignant people, who will get at the truth through the inde- pendent American press. Very good. We suppose that Mayor Hall and his colleagues understand that they have to answer to the people for their stewardship, and we dare say that all the parties, directly or indirectly, fully comprehend the necessity of a clean bill of health for our coming November State election, In this light we expect in good sea- son all the facts upon the subject of these alleged wholesale robberies of the public money by the parties accused, for the general information of the people. Nor do we despair of a better exhibit in behalf of these parties from all the facts and vouchers than the general exhibit given us by the Times, be- cause from the violont and unlawful remedy it has suggested we are led to the opinion that its case is vastly exaggerated, and may be fairly suspected as a violent effort for a party sensation. > Italy and France—Their Danger. Nothing could be more unfortunate than a collision between Italy and France. The occupation of Rome is a question of the past— an accomplished fact. The same reasons which compelled France to avoid taking any day last the Times returns to this proposition in this fashion :—‘‘We have reason to believe that a large number of the most influential citizens in the community have agreed to call a public meeting and to resist the payment of any further taxation until the present rulers of the city have been forced to render an account of their stewardship,” and then we are informed where subscribers to this move- ment are enrolled, and that “over one thou- sand names, including those of many eminent merchants and bankers, bave already been subscribed.” This unlawfal and revolutionary action is thus proposed and encouraged as the shortest method of overthrowing our present city gov- ernment, charged with certain wholesale spo- liations of the public money. As among the inevitable consequences of this violent remedy for the evils complained of it is admitted by our revolutionary contemporary that there will be “a humiliation of the city and county credit and serious inconvenience to the savings banks” and all concerned therein; but what does all this signify if, by a suspension of the payment of their taxes, our tax-payers compel Mayor Hall and his colleagues to retire or “vender an account of their stewardship.” This is simply the remedy of anarchy for the alleged disease of corruption. It is declared that our city authorities are guilty of fraudu- lent practices and of spoliations that have be- come intolerable, and that, according to the rule of fighting the devil with fire, it becomes necessary on the part of our tax-paying citi- zens to repudiate their just and lawful indebt- edness, to become delinquent in the payment of the interest due to the hundreds of thou- sands of industrious and honest men and women concerned in our savings banks, and to reduce the city’s credit to the level of that of Mississippi or Arkansas in their worst days of repudiation, and to set the example here for a general partisan repudiation of the national debt. The municipal corruptions complained of are due to the irresponsible mixed commis- sions established over this city by the republi- can party, and abolished, with the aid of the republicans, by the party now in power over the city and the State. The astounding frauds so heartily denounced by the Times are an old story to the Heratp. Our remedy, however, wasa change of our city govern- ment in the lawful and regular way, and that change we have had. The same remedy—the only remedy admissible—is open to the Times against Mayor Hall and hia official colleagues. Instead, however, of the constitutional method of correcting abuses, real or imaginary, as they vow exist, our contemporary would have us take the short cut of Paris Com- mune in the repudiation of our existing gov- ernment. If we are not mistaken, in the first stages of our Southern rebellion one of our city journals, dissatisfied with what it con- sidered the temporizing policy of President Lincoln, suggested the alternative of a popular coup d'état and the substitution of our amiable fellow citizen, George Law, as provisional head of the national government. Of course the hint was universally regarded as a vicious absurdity; but this to our tax-payers is of the same kidoey. The credit of the city of New York is good— its bonds are in request everywhere. Upon its good credit the city is marching on with giant steps toward the first place among the great cities of Christendom. The proposition of the 7imes, if carried into practice by our tax-payers, will inevitably destroy the city's credit, and so disorganize our municipal affairs and so demoralize this community that, per- haps, for twenty years to come we shall, as a municipal organization, bave to live ‘from hand to mouth.” But, again, our national credit is good, and the holders of our national bonds are so confident in the stability of our national Treasury that they are laying up those bonds as their safest securities, But let us suppose that in rummaging over the books and papers of the Treasury Department some indignant democrat makes the discovery, as he thinks, of enormous spoliations reduced toa system; that he parades his astounding statistics before the country, and calls upon the men of the democratic party to refus® to pay another penny of national taxes until the corrupt party in power at Washington is dismissed—would this be anything more than following the ex- ample of the Z'émes? But in the general adoption by the democratic party of this ad; vice, it needs no prophet to tell us that dis- honor to que ngsional sradis tad. confusion steps against the movements of Victor Em- manuel should impel the republic to decline any part in the struggle between the King of Italy and the Pope. What France necds are peace, recuperation and the strengthening of the foundation of the republic. These M. Thiers has promised to his country; but in taking up the Roman question he would break his promise, and, perhaps, destroy the republic. The issue of a war between the two Powers might not be favorable The International and Ite Rawifications. A special despatch to the Heratp, which we publish in another column this morning, states that the proposed conference of the rep- resentatives of England, Austria and France is for the purpose of considering the ex-. tent and spread of the International Society of Workingmen, We are told that this is really the object of the mooted meeting of Earl Granville, Count Beust and President Thiers, though ostensibly the consideration of the Eastern Question is its alleged object. In order that the readers of the HzRALD may un- derstand exactly the aims of this organization which for months past has attracted universal attention, we publish this morning the re- sult of an interview between the HERALp’'s London correspondent and Dr. Karl Marx, the Corresponding Secretary of the International in the British metropolis, Dr. Marx's exposi- tion of the workings of the society, its aims and aspirations, its peculiarities and the char- acter of the men composing it, will, we feel satisfied, be read with interest here, while it will also tend to exhibit this powerful society in a somewhat different light from that in which it has been generally represented to the public. r According to the showing of Dr. Marx the International and the Paris Commune were not so closely allied as was generally sup- posed. ~ Only five of the prominent members of the Commune leaders—Flourens, Dom- browski, Duval, Rigault and Woblesky— were members of the International. Of these the firat four named are dead. Regarding the otier leaders, who were not Internationals, if Dr. Marx’s estimate of them be true, a more impracticable set of idiotic blunderers it would be impossible to conoeive. The accidental and alphabetical Assy, who became prominent because his name commenced with an A, is set down as an {diot; poor Pyatt, a ‘blower ;” Flourens, a misguided philanthropist; Rossel, an ambilious hypocrite; Rochefort, a literary Bohemian, and soon to the end of te chapter of distinguished names which illumine the sad page of the history of Paris under the Com- mune. Admitting that only five of the Com- mune leaders were members of the Interna- tional, there is no doubt that those men who swelled the insurgent army and committed outrages terrible even to think over and caused the destruction in Paris during the dying hours of the Commune were members of the International. The declaration is not sufficient that the International does not con- to France, but in any event it would be full of grave peril to both nations. France to-day is not the France of the past, and Italy now is not the Italy of yesterday; and, besides, the question is not one about which there should be a war. Neither party has anything to gain by the struggle. The only result of the contest, should France prove successful against Italy, would be the restoration of the Pope's temporalities, and these are scarcely worth @ war which would imperil every nation in Europe and render the races opposed to German and Slavonic influences more impotent than ever. If the Roman Catholic clergy— and especially the Roman Catholic clergy in France—would only calmly consider this ques- tion they could scarcely fail to come to the conclusion that the temporal power of the Pope is in itself a small matter, The spiritual reign of the Holy Father is in reality the only thing about which the Catholic world is much inter- ested. This grand influence nothing but a war can shake; but a war would be so full of great dangers, not only to France and Italy, but even to the Papacy, that we cannot look upon such an event as possible. Franee would be in greater peril than when the victorious Germans swarmed everywhere on French soil, and Italy could be mangled and torn, but in no event could she be made more happy and prosperous. The danger to both countries would be the peril of the existence of both. There must be no war, and we believe there will be none. A Cororep CELEBRATION—A GREAT Con- trast.—Our fellow citizens of African descent celebrated the first of August, in honor of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, by @ general suspension of business, and in meetings, picnics, excursions, &., in every direction. Their largest gatherings were at Myrtle Avenue and High Ground Parks and Boulevard Grove; but all day by the different horse car lines groups of the rejoicing blacks were going out or coming in, and without any disturbances or interruption from roughs or rioters at any point. Whata contrast to the street scenes on this island of 1863, and what achange from the riotous doings here and their consequences of some three wecks ago! But soit is that ‘“‘out of the nettle danger we pluck the flower of safety.” So much for the maintenance of law and equal rights. All “these things will be understood by and by. Tne Emprrors OF GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, says our despatch from Vienna, will soon meet at Gastein, in Upper Austria, The official relations between the two monarchs had for some time been cold and distant, but lately Austria hae taken “a new departure.” She has given up the idea of avenging Sadowa, and the rapprochement now existing is in a fair way to become friendship. Why, indeed, should Austria and Germany play at cross purposes when their interests are very much the same? Aus- tria bas recognized the German empire, and the German empire will for a while abstain from absorbing the German provinces of Aus- tria, So let us have peace while we may, say the two Kaisers, who have probably heard of President Grant's advice and do not disdain to take a lesson. Tue Sgoonp Series or tk Lona Braxow Raors of this season do not Appear to draw as wellas the first. If the hotel keepers con- cerned were to get up some novelties, such as mule races, sack races, wheelbarrow races, foot races, races for greased pigs and the climbing of a greased pole for the prize of a silver cup on the top of the pole, or some swimming matches in the surf, or a tourna- ment, or a grand combination clambake, or some programme from this assortment of amusements, they might make it a great hit. Repemprion or tHE NATIONAL Dast.— Nine millions for July—not a very good month fora Treasury surplas—is doing very well; anda reduction of the debt under the administration of General Grant to the extent of over two hundred and forty millions of dollare ja » coed gard for qugther term template the destruction of property. The evil work was accomplished, and we must judge the Internationals in Paris by their labors, The International Association of Workmen, according to the best authorities, has existed for more than six years. It was founded on the 28th of September, 1864, in London. A provisional committees was appointed at the meeting held on that day to frame statutes for the society. It was subsequently agreed that a congress should be held in 1866. The provisional committee in the meantime undertook to place itself in communication with the different trades and workmen’s socie- ties throughout the world. How well that committee performed its task our readers can easily conjecture from the interest which the International at the present time claim in AUGUST 3, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, ~ campaign is very flat. Toward the end of August, however, when they begin to hear of the tremendous disclosures, mares’ nests and all, of the stupendous expenditures of our city government, there may be a little breeze of political excitement stirred up even “away down in Maine.” President Thiers and His Difficulties. . We print this morning a cable despatolt which is not particularly encouraging as to the immediate future of France. A decentral- ization bill had been introduced into the Assembly, apparently with the consent of the government. The bill was defeated and the President took the matter so much to heart that he threatened to place his resignation in the hands of the Assembly. The same de- spatch expresses the hope that the affair will not be made a Cabinet question, In ordinary circumstances this would be pronounced a small affair. But -France is not in c'rcumstances which can be pronounced ordinary. Her position is critical and very peculiar. President Thiers has done very well, Ina great crisis he has comported him- self with dignity and revealed great and statesman-like qualities, He has even en- couraged the hope that he might be able to plant France firmly on a strong republican basis. But, somehow, his policy wants visi- ble purpose. What he wishes to do he him- self may know. What he wishes to do the outside worid cannot comprehend, With an Assembly which is monarchical he contrives so to manage things as to maintain the sem- blance of a republic. While avowing himself an admirer of George Washington and declar- ing it to be his purpose to imitate his exam- ple he hob-nobs in the most questionable manner with the Orleans Priaces. The trath is, President Thiers has been doing what he could with ‘an Assembly which has in it all kinds of elements and which cannot be said to be fairly representative of the French people. Tired of war, sick of Internal discord, the French people trusted a man, who, for the time being, happened to be the representative of the better sense of bis countrymen and the champion of law and order, President Thiers, however, was trusted. because it was believed that he was the man who could bring order out of con- fusion, cosmos out of chaos. The weary months roll on, and Frenchmen ask in vain what {is to be our future? In such circum- stances it is not unnatural that both inside and outside of the Assembly French impatience should reveal itself. As we said before, we do not lay much stress on this particular defeat or this special threat, The great point in the case is that the National Assembly is no longer obedient to the President. It dares to vote bim down. That it shows signs of a yielding disposition under the President's threat to resign does not much alter the case. This is the second time he has threatened to resign. His first threat was justified by the circumstances and by the result. During the first hours of the Assem- bly it would never have done to have allowed arival Assembly to sit at Bordeaux. This defeat and this threat reveal the fact that the troubles of the President are multiplying. More defeats mustcome. More threats may follow. If the President docs not hurry on Europe and America. At the present time sections of the society exist in France, Eng- land, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Austria, Ger- many, Holland and the United States. In Russia, owing to the stringent governmental measures, it has had little or no opportunity; but the empire of the Czar will not escape its influence, and if the programme already laid down for the introduction of the society into that country be carried out revolution is by no means improbable or impossible. From this it will be seen that the ramifica- tions of the International are such as to cause the statesmen of Europe to regard with appre- hension this fast growing organization. Its aims are such as are calculated to attract unthinking workingmen, The old cry that capital is the oppressor of labor, and that the master manufacturer, agriculturist or miner is no better than a tyrannical task driver, is raised to seduce the unwary within the folds of the society. The plan of the Commune is to make every man work, and to live on the profits of his labor. The day when individuals or cor- porations will fail to be able to control capital and land is fast approaching, according to cherished ideas of the society, An equal distribution of the goods of this life to all. No man will be rich accord- ing to this grand arrangement, or no man will be poor, for the State will compel each and every man to labor. This is in brief the flattering picture which the International holds up to the gaze of the workingmen of Europe and America. Capital has had its day according to these theorists, It has built rail- roads, extended commerce, covered the ocean with steamers, opened forests, cut canals, delved into the deep recesses of the earth and pierced mountains. These are the accom- plishments of capital; now labor must step in to reap its reward, and the L[nternational is to be the means by which the accomplishment is to be reached. Wild and impracticable as this reasoning appears to sensible people, it is sufficiently attractive to draw millions of men within the fold of the society which advocates these views. When we consider that in Paris alone there are sixty-five societies directly under its control, in Lyons thirty, in Marseilles twenty- seven and all the other prominent cities of France have more or less organizations con- trolled by the International, we can form some estimate of the influence which the working- men of France can wield when occasion requires it. In Belgium the Internationals may be counted by hundreds of thousands. In Spain there are close on two hundred sections. Switzerland has between fifty and sixty sec- tions, not counting that of Zurich and the two branches of Bale-Ville and Bale-Campagne, which last numbers three thousand members. Austria, Italy, Holland and the United States are all strongly represented in the association, From these statistics, as well as from thé despatch and the letter of our London cor- respondent, our readers can judge for them- selves of the aims, extent, strength and ramifi- cations of the International Association of Workmen. Tae Stare Exgorton in Maine, the first of the fall programme in the Northern States, oqmen of September 11, and yes the Biante toward some satisfactory conolusioi‘his resig- nation will be a necessity. It pains many lovers of France to see that Jules Favre has had to retire to private life. It isa bad sign. The situation in France has become such that we look for very important and positive d>vel- opments within a few days. Certain it now is that the troubles of President Thiers are on the increase. Ald for the Sufferers by aster. The great majority of the people who suf- fered by the explosion on the Westfleld last Sunday were people who are only partially blessed with the world’s goods, There were many thrifty, well-to-do persons among them, for whose families there may remain a mode- rate portion sufficient to keep them in exist- ence, But the larger portion of the sufferers were of the class we call mechanics—skilled laborers, decent folk—who make nothing be- yond what is necessary for a hand-to-mouth existence, and who may havo drawn upon their little surplus in the savings’ banks even to take their wives and liitle ones upon this fatal pleasure trip. There were but few tich people on board. They are not depend- ent on Staten Island and a Sunday sniff of the bay breeze for their summer pleasure. Well, the sufferers by this catastrophe who yet live will need money, clothes and comforts, Many of them will be crippled if many of them sur- vive, and an upvbappy proportion have been bereft by the one terrible blow of all family connections, so that in many instances they remain alone, shorn of friends, money, health— a pitiable wreck indeed. We all know how New York acts when such objects of charity present themselves. She talks only with an open hand and a lavish purse, It is, therefore, enough that we pre- sent this subject to her citizens to secure a hearty response. But we would suggest that the movement be systematic, Let there be some method directing the spontaneous charity of the occasion so that not a dollar of the holy offering shall fall unused to the ground, Let contribution boxes be opened and let the money that is subscribed be freely lavished among the stricken ones for whom it is intended, and not hoarded up for the interest it may draw, as in the case of the Avondale fand, ostensibly for the bonefit of the sufferers, but quite likely for the chance of little pick- ings for the committees. New York has enough to give and is willing to give it freely, the Ferry Dis- Sorry To Hear It—That the President has givemup the idea of the trip to California this season. Weare sorry, because with all that General Sherman and his assistant gene- rals have been doing, and with all that the peace-making Quaker Commissioners bave been and are doing to keep the Indians within their corn and potato patches, they seem to bo, from the Cheyennes to the Arapahoes, the Kivkapoos, the Navajocs, the Comanches and the Apaches, on the warpath, or preparing for scalping and plundering expeditions. It is thus evident that the presoyce of their Great Father himself is needey among his red chil- dren, and 80 we regret that his contemplated reconnoissance ta, the Pacific coast is indefinite ly pontnoneds, ee The Cause of Sundisy’s Disaster: The investigation into the causes of the ex} Plosion on the Westfield last Sunday had commenced in earnest. Coroner Keonan will not commence his inquest until next Wednesday, but he has already selected a jury. One objection to the jury is to be found in the fact that there are no practical engineers or boiler makers upom it. Two or three such could direct inquiries more directly to the point in this case thaa the twelve importers, jobbers and merchants who now comprise the jury. The selection of @ coroner's jury is nota mattor of chance, as the selection of a jury in murder cases is usually, nor is there any such necessity for a completa | lack of intelligence upon the subject under | discussion. We think Coroner Keenan might have selected a more competent jury, though hardly one of more respectability and intelli- gence. The United States inspectors are proceed. ing very satisfactorily with their investigation, which was commenced yesterday. Inspector Matthews and Captain Jacob Vanderbilt, the President of the Ferry Company, wore ex- amined during the day and were positive im their statements that the boiler of the West- field wasin excellent condition, Mr. Matthews stated that there were soft patches over the seams of the boiler, but that they were al- ways required, and are frequently placed.om boilers perfectly sound and new as a precau- tion against corrosion. A safety valve, the size of the one on the Westfield, was ample to relieve the boiler, but he had never known one of its size to work freely, The engineershad no license, not being required to have oae under the con~ struction placed upon the law recently im force by the Secretary of the Treasury. He believed him to be a smart, intelligent fellow, however, and would have confidently trusteé himself and his family under his care on the Westfield that fatal Sunday afternoon. Captain Vanderbilt was 80 positive as to the sound condition of the boiler and the faithful. ness and ability of the engineer that he pre- ferred the Westficld to any boat on the line. He was, in fact, on the boat at the time of the explosion, with several of his family, and was in the habit daily of reading his newspaper on the deck seated directly over this long slum- bering volcano. This concluded the testimony for the day. It now remains for the Inspectors’ Board to examine personally the exploded boiler and assure themselves as to its soundness. The statements of Mr. Matthews and Captain Van- derbilt are very straightforward and appar- ently honest statements, but they are far from conclusive. The cause ofthe disaster yet lice either in the flaw in the iron or the negligence of tho engineer. Bap Counser—That of the Standard, in the wake of the 7imes, in reference to the alleged Tammany spoliations. It says:—‘‘Let every man who has taxes to pay decline to pay them until there is some assurance that they do not go into the hands of Mr. Garvey, Mr. Inger soll and their partners.” But suppose this advice is followed, and that the example is thus set to our tax-payers of refus- ing to pay their taxes till they are satisfied that the money will be properly expended, where will-you or can you stop this practice? The Standard presumes that that this ‘is revolution.” It is revolution, and it is something worse than revolution, for itis anarchy. We want a better remedy for corruption than anarchy, which is oat of the frying pan into the fire. Painog Arruor, who is also Prince Patrick, is to be made Duke of Connaught. Of course, in the ceremonies of this high promotion as = son of Old Ireland he will kiss the blarney stone and make some royal speeches for bun- combe to the Fenians, for even royalty is learning the tricks of the politicians. Personal Intelligence. General W. Bell, of Texas, is at the Astor House. P. C. Haines, of the United States Army, is staying at the Grand Central. General s. M. Zulick, of Philadelphia, 1s @ resi- dent of the St. Nicholas. s Major W. 8. Worth, of the United States Army, ws quartered at the Sturtevant House. Judge 8. W. Johnson, of Washington, is restaing at the Fifth Avenue. Judge R. Hitchcock, of Onto, is stopping at the St. Nicholas. Major &. Wilkes, of North Carolina, tsa sojourner at the Hoffman House. Henry Farnain, of New Orleans, is staying at the Albemarle Hotel. Paul de Malljoy, of Geneva, Switzerland, has quarters at the New Yor Hotel. Governor Rufus B, Bullock, of Georgia, is again at the Fifth Avenue. Commander E. P. Lull, of the Untied States Navy, has taken quarters at the Astor House, Octavius Cohen, of Savannah, is residing at the New York. General Ewing. of Waslungton, 1s domiciled as the Hoffman House. M. aud Mme. Capello, of Italy, have apartment» atthe New York Hotel. General W. L. Burt, of Boston, ts temporartly re~ siding at the Astor House. Captain H. A. Bartlett, of the United States Marine Corps, 18 at the Hofman House, W. Pembroke Fettriage, editor of “Harper's Handbook of Travel,” yesterday arrived in this city on the steamer Ville de Paris. Colonel J. 1. Hodge, of the United States army, is a sojourner at the Homan House. President Grant, accompanied by U. 8. Grant, Jr. and his Secretary, General Horace Porter, remained for a short time yesterday at the Fiftn Avenue. The tari and Vountess of Ellesmere, who nave for some time been at the Brevoort House, left foe Kurope yesterday on the steamer Cuba, , ill ¢ SCIENTIFIO NOTES. 4 Dr. Hooker, the Director of tne Botanical Gardener at Kew, with his party, have returned from Mot bringing with them a large collection of pla many of whioh are said to be new. It is stated that Sir Joseph Whitworth, just as to artillery authorities have abandoned breech-loady ig guns, because of defective mechanism tn fuse $ ud breech-loading and in want of power, has mav ¢ a preech-loader of Immense power and great stu ipit- city, With which he expects to establish an iW com- testable supremacy over the new muzzie-loader , tion has beon made hy Dr. Bret ri‘ cont and, towards the settlement or ine question whether, In addition to ozone, therf, is not another modification of oxygen oalled aw tozone. From his researches, communicated to the ly.4t meee ing of the Chemleal Soctety, Dr. Debus eonchtaes that this substance 18 only peroxide of hyvlrogen. {1,18 expected that an appeal whten myn be mado to the English government for a grant OF £5,004, to enable photographic olwervations to be made of the approaching transit of Venus, will be succeasrul. The immense sereles rendered by Photography in obtatning valuable records of the recent solar oclipse 1s still fresh im the memory of every man Of “sclouce. The Prince of Wales has directed that a donation of twetuty-five guineas be given from tue revenne of the Pachy of Coruwall to the Miners’ Association of Corawali and Dovon, which has veem for several years devoting itself to insiruciing the working mt- hers ol tho#e counties in such scignoes gs LAYe @ direct practical bearing Qn mining,