The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY aye ANN PrREEt. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches musi be addressed New Yors enaconnaetl Velame XXXVI Stee AMUSEMENTS THIS ASTERNOON AND EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street, Revie. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Aogoss THe Conti. NENT. Matince at 2. Ne. 217 LINA EDWIN'’S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway. A Leon's MINSTRELS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.Tanoven wy LIGRI—HaNnnsone Jack. “KELLY Dar- WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: ances afternoon and evenin; corner 30th 1, = tertorm. jOKET OF LEAVE MA TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery MOUNTAIN KiNG—MIDDY AsHORK, £0. Matinee at 2/y, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway. —SOUNEIDER--N kW SONGS AND Danons. Matinee at 2. MRS. FB CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Rrookira.— CIGARETTE. Matinee at 2. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Tarovoer Summer Nicwrs' Concrers, Tuomas’ TERRACE GARDEN, 58th astreei, between Leringion «nd 3d ave.—-JULIEN'S CONCERTS. 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CONTENTS OF TQ-DAY'S HERALD, PAGE. 1—Advertisements, W— Advertisements, page hr Politics: Inauguration of a Third Party Movement in the South; Threatened Betrayal of Grant—Runninge Notes, Political and Gene- ral—Proceedings tn the Courts—Tombs Police Court—Killed on the Camden and Amboy Ratl- road—Escaped Convicts Arrested—Brooklyn Affairs—Struck With a Base Ball riages and Deattis—Advertisements, A—Editorials: Leading Articie, ‘The Past and tne Putare ot New York—A Pert to the City’s Credit the Peril of the Natton’’--Personal In. teiligence—Amusement Announcemen's, Alexanaer and Eugenie: Herald Speciat Report to from London—France: Th Proposition Indemnity the Invaded Pri National Assenbly—tn, ot Washington Denounced fended in the House of Commons— lancons Telegrams—The City Cred York City News—The Connaught Range Indians—Police _ Changes—tne ‘Nort American Tarnfest—Views of the Past— Business Notices. @—The Dire Disaster: Still Another Victim of the We: Explosion; Coniinuation of the Investigatio) Condition of the Wounded at Believue Fanerat of Phone nineu to Die— ch: Reniarka- Change His q-Long Branch Meeting; Grand Racing ie s Deluging Rain— The National Game— af “Sharper’’—Anorher Un Board of Healihand V Infanticide— A Remin a Murder’ $—Tue Coal Conundrum—Cond Ttavan Unity—The Ward Fatally in Kentuck, The National Camp Meetiny—Voreign, Per- sonal and Misevilaneous {tems—Scientitic Notes—Fire In Monucel'o—Casualties in ine FPastern District, Brookiyn—Shipptug ,intelli« gence—Advertisements. ot the Kiot—Was it ‘on ot the South. Tue Frexon are doing wonders in paying off the enormous German indemnity. If they had been half as vigorous and united iu fight- iag the Germans as they are io paying the price of French vanity and folly they would have had no indemnity to pay. Anxp Now tr ts Bevteven that in the repub- lican Convention which meets at New Orleans there will be All the a bolt and a fussy carpet- on the 9th instant split. Reason why: baggers want to be ca The ¢ re doing good work u Carolina to Texas. can’t in the all be captains. same wa crats fro: for the demo- S AND THE PRESIDENCY OF THE that the snch Assembly is determined to make an end of the anomalous government of Thiers is the head, M. Thiers is to be named President of the republic and his lease of power is to be extended over three additional years. This is the desire of the Lefi Centre, and, we believe, of the majority in the Assembly; but the matter is not yet settled. The presumption is that France is once more to be named 2 republic with royal princes in her service. It remains to be seen whether the republic shall, like its predec sors, grow into an empire or a kingdom. which M. Tur CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE Crry Crepvir.—We print in another part of 10- day's HExap the request of Mayor Hall and Comptroller Connolly to the New York Cham- ber of Commerce to undertake the investiga- tion of the city and county accounts. The bigh character of this body and its great com- mercial importance would insure a report that could not fail to give satisfaction to the peo- ple. We hope the proposition will be ac- cepted and the examination be made thoroughly that it will leave no cause for further complaint. The Chamber of Com- merce can best deal with a question where the credit of the city is so vitelly concerned, and we are confident it will undertake the task, arduons as it must prove. M. Turrs vigorously eepdess in the Na- tional Assembly yesterday the proposed acheme that the government should assume the losses of the provinces which had been invaded by the Germans. ‘‘The amount of the claims,” said M. Thiers, ‘could not be less than one milliard, which the treasury is unable to pay.” The proposition was supported by the majority. [t seems that M. Thiers’ good sense is superior to the collective wisdom of the whole National Assembly. The invaded provinces are very unpatriotic to ask for com- pensation from an exhausted treasury, and the Deputies equally foolish and inconsiderate in supporting their claims. 80 AnoTuer Spanisn AmNnesty.—The Jowrial Oficial of Spain contains the authority for another general amnesty for ail political offences against the Spanish government. This, as wg take it, means a general pardon more especially for such of the Cuban insur- gents as are willing to accept the clemency of the authorities. But in reality it bas no significance whatever. Spanish pardons are meaningless, and are as little io be trasted as Spanish faith and houor. pacify Cuba; neither can it give contentinent to Spain. What the latter needs is a good and honest government, and the colonies want the abolition of slavery and freedom trom the exactions of Spanish officials and an abate- ment of Spanish hatred. No Spanish amnesty includes these, and all are. consequently, worthless. No such device ean NEW Y ORK HERALD, Tee Past and the Future of New York— A Peril to the City’s Credit the Peril of the Nation, New York is to America what Paris once was to the world. We have on this little Island of Manhattan a city with a great trade, agreat population and unrivalled interests. Its growth has not been the growth of a day, but the steady progress of many years. When Western Pennsylvania was the back- woods the population of this city was extend- ing from the Bowling Green to Maiden lane. Whea Ohio and the Western Reserve were opening up to settlement the City Hall Park was just inside of the city, When Illinois spread out its vast prairies to the emigrant Canal street still bordered on fields almost as wild as those which lay on either side of the Mississippi. What is now ‘‘up town,” em- bracing Murray Hill, the magnificent avenues, intersected by some of the finest streets in the world, and the squares, around which cluster the wealth and cul- ture and fashion of the metropolis, yas reclaimed as slowly and almost as re- cently as that part of the West which is be- yond the Missouri, The residences about the Central Park are almost as new as the homes of Colorado and Nevada. The city has grown with the country. As States were added to the Union its limits were expanded. As in- dustry was developed in every part of the Continent New York drew the fruits of that industry together and irrigated the land with gold while it freighted the seas with rich cargoes. Other cities contended with it in vain, and its progress was so complete and ils estiny so certain that they fell behind in the race, and could only admire where they could not compete. To-day the city is great, rich and powerful; but not prond of its wealth, not vain because of its greatness, and not arrozant in the use of its power. The whole country regards it as master, and when it speaks through Its eminent citizens and through the press it is heard with that respectfal attention which no other city, not even Lon- don or Paris, can command. But, great as it is, New York is only in the beginning of its career of greatness and glory. The triumphs of the past are to be constantly eclipsed by the triumpbs of the future, till the bundred vil- lages which now surround it are a bundred cities, taking from and giving to the life of the metropolis, and till all the waters which sweep past it from away up the Hudson to Sandy Hook and through the East River and Hell Gate to Montauk Point, are only a roadbed for its shipping. But New York has a moral grandeur more significant even than its material prosperity in the past or the brightness of its promise for the future. In nothing is that moral gran- deur more fully and gloriously illustrated than in the proud position occupied by the city in the early days of the rebellion. It was New York which made war against South Carolina. It was New York which gave the country heart to save the Union, Boston had its little fever of excitement and its Wendell Phillips harangues in Faneuil Hall, and Phila- delphia its charity fairs and slow-go ing Union League; but New York possessed the ear of | the conatry and was able to inspire confidence | among the people. In that hour the metropo- \ lis poured ont from its immense wealth only less abundantly than it gave of its best and brightest sons for the salvation of the repub- lic. Rich and poor marched out shoulder to sbonlder and slept together on the bare ground night afier nigbt that the flag which had been trailed in the dust might again be lifted up. Twenty thousand of her children bared their bosoms in an instant to the bullets of the traitors, as they are ever ready to bare them in defence of liberty. It was New York—democratic New York—which rescued the country and put the republic on a safe and sure foundation. And New York is not only great and rich and strong, commanding the trade of the world, holding in its care the confidence of the country, and standing up at all times in defence of American freedom—it is the door which opens up an asylum for the oppressed of every land. Irishmen of every creed; Ger- mans and Frenchmen, full of the fiery hate engendered by wars and trinmphs and defeats ; Spaniards, looking wistfully back toward mis- governed Spain ; and Italians, praying that the unity of Italy may be maintained, are all at home here, having over them the same panoply of stars which are over us, and being protected by the same protecting folds of the banner of the free which protect the children of America, New York ie a city as freo as it is great, where every man thinks his own thoughts, utters his owa words and goes bis own way in peace. The only thing to mar a picture so grand and to dim a promise so brilliant is the demon of misgovernment, whether it shows itself in enormous frauds on the one band or unwise counsel on the other. Men accused of crimes, and especially faithless public servants, ought to be tried and punished according to the laws, But accusation is not proof. Angry and popular appeals cannot rightfully take the place of calm and cautious judicial investiga- tion. ‘Tempestuous public demonstrations, engineered by weak men and without any definite end, cannot correct evils which can only be dealt with by the cold and carefal reasoning of the courts. But hot words, angry speeches, unwise counsel and the fool- ish acts of foolish men, may work immense and irremediable injury. A proud city may he humbled, iis trade be cast down, its prosperity be stayed, and the brilliant promise of the future be turned into the hopelessness of despair by a few incautious words and acts, If the city’s credit is destroyed the city will be destroyed with it; if the city’s obligations are dishonored the city is dishonored also. A great scandal vill work a great injury. The peculations of officials ave bad enough, but the specta- cle of a people breaking their own laws and violating their municipal honor is worse, Are the men charged with these pecniations guilty not guilty? That | is a question to be determined, not in the | Cooper Institute or Academy of Music, but before the proper tribunals. Men who are accusers cannot properly be jndges, and it is not meet that men should be judges by their own appointment. While we refrain from de- nunciations of the city authorities we care not to rush in for their defence, We intend to let them stand or fall by their acts, But we pro- or | credit and the interests of its people, ta the name of a war upon its rulers, Let it not be forgotten that to imperil the finances of New York is to imperil the finances of the whole country. Mr. Boutwell has done well, though perbaps not wellenough. But should the credit of the city be destroyed he ean donothing. The well being of the whole country depends upon the well being of New York. The Old World would took with hor- ror upon our dishonor, and the money mar- kets of the world would be closed against the American people. The predictions of the fire- eaters before the war might at last come to be true, and the grass be seen to grow in the streets of this great city. Let justice be done ; but let the law take its course. Give us light—give us the trath in regard to the alleged stupendous city corruptions; but let us have the facts, and let the remedy be ap- plied in the legal and constitutional way. For the high crimes and misdemeanors charged upon our city authorities the course of justice is plainly defined, and the ways and means to enforce justice are at hand. First, however, let the alleged crimes be established, and then the punishment and the remedy can be applied without injury to a great city and its teeming population. The Czar and the Empress Eugenie. The true and complete history of the fall of the French empire remains yet to be writ- ten. In the meantime our special despatch from London will be found a valuable con- tribution to the material of the future historian. It gives a highly interesting revelation—one that perhaps comes to day- light for the first time in these columns, When France, after the surrender of Sedan, lay prostrate at the feet of the conqueror, the Emperor of Russia was about to step in and say to the conqneror—Stop, so far and no further! In adespatch addressed to the Empress, after the disaster of Sedan, the Czar offered to intervene on the basis of the integrity of French territory. He at the same time addressed himself to the Emperor Wil- liam--that was to be—whom he earnestly re- quested not to fleece France of any territory, because Europe—meaning Russia—would not permit the disintegration of France. But the revolution of September 4 broke out ere the Empress-Regent bad time to reply to the despaich of the Czar. History knows that she was forced to make a hasty exit by the back stairs of the Tuileries, leaving behind her the key to the skeleton of the imperial closet, in the shape of a bundle of papers which have since been duly labelled and published as the secret papers of the empire. The Emperor Alexander was willing enough to prop up a falling monarchy or empire, but he had nothing to say to the republic. ‘‘The peace of Europe,” he told the King of Prussia, “would be endangered by the disintegration of France ;” but it would be still more endangered, he probably thought, by the “gentlemen of the pavement.” So the Czar told the King of Prussia to continue his conquests. M. Thiers went on a begging tour to the Cabinets of Europe; but all in vain, for none of them would have anything to do with the republic. Besides the desire of helping a falling brother monarch, the Emperor Alexander had, per- haps, another object in view. He probably did not think that England would be so accommodating in the Bosphorns business as she afterwards proved fo be, and he might have deemed it good policy to lay France under obligations and thus to se- cure her co-operation in the East. The secret papers of the empire, we said, have been published. But not all. Jules Favre and his colleagues of the Government of National Defence, it seems, withheld the despatch of the Czar. Perhaps they did right to keep back what might have been a feather in the cap of the fallen Bonapartes. Roche- fort, the Bombastes Furioso of the late Paris Commune, then formed part of the Govern- ment of National Defence, and it has been rumored that he knows one or two secrets worth knowing, Alexander's despatch, perhaps, among the number, Some people have said that his trial has been indefinitely postponed or that it will never take place, because he might reveal things which it is for the interest of the late Govern- ment of National Defence to keep unknown, The present revelation comes too late in the day to revive the drooping prospects of the imperialists, but it will be their standing boast that France might have been spared the loss of territory, the additional loss of blood and treasure, and, last of all, the horrors of the Commune, if she had remained trne to the Bonapartes. The Crown Warrant and the P Nothing in recent years has so nearly resembled a coup d'état as the action of Mr. Gladstone in the matter of the abolition of the purchase of commissions in the British army. Itwas nota coup d'état in the proper sense of the term; but some of the English papers have found it convenient to use the expression. It is now quite clear that Mr. Gladstone, by a dexterous use of antiquarian knowledge, tripped up his opponents and sur- prised many of his friends. The language of Sir George Grey puts the whole case ina nutshell, ‘The whole system of purchase,” he says, ‘‘rests not upon acts of Parliament, with one exception, but on royal warrants and regulations, which have been in force for a series of years, and which, by the royal pre- rogative and without the intervention of Par- liament, have been altered from time to time and varied in many particulars during the one hundred and fifty years.” The whole story, aa we understand if, is that the Queen had the right to do what she has done, and that the Prime Minister persuaded ber to do it. {It remains to be seen whether the use of the royal prerogative in this insiance has not been a democ rable & Right hune in the British Army. of Sanranra’s Prva For Lire reads like the despairing cry of a woman, He, a great In- dian chief, son of a tribe that went to their death with boasting and the plaintive croon- ing of the warrior’s death song, begged for mercy, when sentence of death was passed upon him in the Texas Court, like a weak’ child of the pale face, offering to be forever peaceful, and even proposing to kill with his own hands the Kiowa chiefs who warred against the white man. How have the sous tes agwiust avsaulls upoa (he city, upon its | of tae great Logan degeverateds SATO RDAY, AUGUST ~ 5, 187L. The Ferry Sueaiser earauapenan: The Inspectors’ investigation yesterday adduced several additional facts regarding the explosion of the Westfield. The maker of the boiler testified that it was more than twelve years old and worn out. Other witnesses testified that the steam gauge, standing for a long time at one figure, would snot be likely to mark any higher pressure, The chief super- intendent of the Williamsburg Ferry Company testified that some of the steam gauges on his line last year, tested and cer- tified to by United States inspectors, were found to be nine pounds out of the way. The general summing up from tho evi- dence so far indicates that the generation of too much steam in a boiler almost completely worn out and a faulty steam gauge were the combinations that produced the disaster on the Westfield. The imperfect inspection by Mr. Matthews, the ignorance of all the theories of engineering on the part of the engineer, and the lack of close and efficient superintendence on the part of the company, are furthermore chargeable with the presence of the direct causes of the explosion. At the time at which the explosion occurred the tide was setting up heavily. It has been the custom among the ferryboat engineers to get on a good head of steam before leaving the slip when they have to go against the tide. For this purpose they close the furnace doors, open all the draughts, and for probably ten minutes’ time previous to starting they make steam with as much rapidity as possible. This may have been the case on the Wesifield. It has, indeed, been partially admitted by the engineer. In this rapid generation of steam, and the refusal of the steam gauge to mark the higher pressure, and of the defective safety valve to work, lies, doubtless, the plain solu- tion of the whole affair. Tet some of the in- spectors question the engineer to-day upon these points. The Coroner's jury will sit on Wednesday. Their deliberations will doubtless result in the disclosure of the same facts and theories as have been disclosed by the Inspectors’ inves- tigation now going on. After their investiga- tion is ended it becomes the duty of the Grand Jury to consider whether the inspector, the engineer and the company are all to go clear of punishment for their participation In the consummation of this horror, The North Carolina Conveation Question— A Serious Matter. The late election in North Carolina, on the question of cafling a convention to make cer- tain amendments to the State constitution, has, from the returns, resulted in a popular majority in favor of such convention. Under ordinary circumstances this would be an end of the controversy touching such convention; but this North Carolina case is surrounded by such extraordinary circumstances that, with the popular vote in favor of the convention, it is apprehended that the real trouble con- cerning it will probably lead to the interven- tion of the United States army, under the authority of the President, to maintain the State constitution as it is, being the constitu- tion accepted by Congress in the reconstruc- tion of the State. This election for a convention to remodel the constitution was called by the late demo- cratic Legislature. Having, through the bun- gling mismanagement of the carpet. -baggers, taken away from ‘the” ‘republicans the popular vote of the State, the democrats in this move- ment have simply undertaken so to revise the existing constitution as to secure them in the possession of the State as far as possible. Some two years ago, with a split of the republican party of Tennessee upon two candidates for Governor, the demo- crats got possession of the Legislature, and instanter called a convention to revise the State constitution, and in that convention they so revised as to cast the republican party out of the water high and dry; and there they are to-day. This is the game which the late democratic Legislature of North Carolina initi- ated in calling for this election for a consti- tutional convention. But the republicans say that this proceeding is revolutionary, inas- much as the existing State constitution, adopted in 1868, prohibits the calling of a con- vention to change it inside of ten years from the date of its ratification by the people and its acceptance by Congress. It is also alleged that the act providing for the convention was not adopted by the legal vote required of the Legislature. The republicans, therefore, although they went into the election in the hope of quashing the convention by the popular vote, deny the constitutionality of the whole movement, and boldly declare it to be their purpose to stand their ground by the existing State government, come what may, If the democrats, then, through this constitutional convention elected, go on with their proposed work of so amend- ing the State charter as to clear out the pres- ent republican Governor, State judges, &c., there m ay be a conflict of jurisdiction between the two parties in the State which may bring in the President, with the United States army, to settle it. From all that we can hear the republicans of North Carolina appear to be confident of this intervention of the President when called upon. It may be said, too, that if the people of North Carolina, in the ratification of their present constitution, ratified an engagement that they would not disturb this constitution for ten years, they are bound by the bargain. In support of this opinion it may be said that the people of the several States, in forming the constitution of the United States, are bound by certain conditions, engagements, and restric- tions, even in amending the constitution, which they cannot escape. For instance, if three- fourths, lacking only one, of all the State legis- laturea, and including all the larger States, ratify a constitutional amendment, each unani- mously, and one-fourth and one over of the smaller States, by a bare legislative majority in each case, reject said amendment, it is lost. We say it is lost under this constitution, al- though nine-tenths of the popular vote of the Union may have been cast in favor of the amendment, and only one-tenth against it, Hence it would appear that if the people of North Carolina have bound themselves in their present State constitution not to touch it with- in ten years from its adoption, the democrats, in now undertaking to revise it to suit their party purposes, will have a pretty rough road fa travel, for the supreme law of the State will be against them. The republicans on j the one side, however, and the democrats on the other, each appear resolved to push this quarrel to the last extremity, and so, whatever may be the real facts and merits involved in the dispute, we fear that it is driving the State 5 of North Carolina to another dose of Congres- sional reconstruction, from which we think all WASHINGTON. Revision of the United States Beatutes. the North Carolina people will pray, “ Good | Important Rulings by the Treasury Lord, deliver us.” A Third Party Movement in the Seuth. Onur special correspondent in Atlanta sends us a singular story of a new political move- ment afoot in Georgia and throughout the Southern States generally, If true, it explains the recent visit of Senator Cameron to Georgia and the more recent democratic ten- dencies of Governor Bullock, of that State. It seems that the entire republican party of the South has gone over—horse, foot and | tee on the dragoons—to the ‘‘new departure” movement of the late Mr. Vallandigham. of its going over to the democracy, our cor- respondent suggests that its leaders design nothing less than the formation of a third party, and he hints that the object is to pre- vent a choice for President by the people next year, and thus to throw the election into Congress. Did we not know that President Grant is not popular with. the politicians we should doubt whether any set of men medi- tated the treachery to him which such a design implies, But, as matters stand, we should not be surprised if the suggestions of our correspondent prove correct, especially as the fact is unquestionable that the entire body of the Southern republicans seem to have deserted their Northern allies and become sig- nificantly conservative, But would a third party movement result in the failure of any one candidate obtaining a majority of the electoral vote? It might. ‘The defection of a very few thousands of voters from the radicals of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana would give those States to the demo- crats beyond a doubt. If, then, the “third party” leaders in the South could succeed in splitting the democratic vote in the Southern States, and carry those States for their candi- date, whoever he may be, the election would inevitably be thrown into Congress. Who this “third party” candidate would be it is difficult to surmise. It may be Greeley or Geary, or any other discontented radical willing to be used as the catspaw of the enemies of Presi- dent Grant, Of course we do not forget that Senator Cameron, who is supposed to be at the bottom of the movement, is at present an avowed supporter and friend of Grant. The ways of politicians, however, are dubious, d doubtful and tricky. Asa public character Cameron has never been the steadfast supporter of any one but himself; and if he believes that his political fortune can be advanced by throwing Grant overboard he will not be restrained by any scruples of conscience. Altogether, while it is possible our correspondent may be mistaken, we advise President Grant to keep a watch upon the political mancuvring in the South, Itis certain that in that section his party fiiends are going to the dogs; and it may be that the little game playing there is intended to destroy his chances for a second term in the White House. Tue Fenton-GREELEY REPUBLICAN CEN- Tra. Commirree of this city have resolved a good many things against Tammany Hall and the terrified democracy, and, coming nearer home, they have resolved substantially that the State Central Committee had no business to come down to interfere with the Tammany republicans; that the city republi- cans don’t like the new departure of the Cus- tom House, and that the Fenton and Greeley men will stand by the nominations of the Republican State Convention, and that this | convention ought to be called at an early day. This looks as if the Fenton-Greeley faction were confident of controlling the State Con- vention, and as if they suspected a bolt by the Custom House organization. Now let us hear, therefore, what the Conkling-Murphy | City Central Committee have to say, Personal Intelligence. S. H, Hammond, Assistant Attorney General of this State, is at the Hoffman House. J. H. Ramsey, of Albany, the Fiskite foe, 1s at the Fifth Avenue. Colonel P. M. Reeder, of Tennessee, is stopping at the Grand Central. Count Zannini, an attaché of the Italian Lega- tion at Washington, ts among ile arrivals at the Albemarle Hote}. Judge J, Erskine, of Georgia, is a temporary resi- dent of the Sturtevant House. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) is residing at the St. Nicholas. Baron Friedenthal yesterday arrived from Wash- ington at the Astor House, Marshall B. Champlain, of Cuba, N. Y., ing at the Hofman Honse. A. G. de la voer, of Engiand, is a temporary resi- dent of the Fifth Avenue, General 8, Casey, of the United States Army, is quartered at the Astor House. Major Neil, of the United States Army, is domicited at the Sturtevant House, General N. P. Banks is sojourning at Nicholas, Commodore Jacob Voorhis, of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, yesterday returned from Newport. With lus family he 1s now staying at the St. James. Juage C. P. Hillyer, from Washington, ts registered at the Hoffman Honse. Ex-Mayor Vaux, of Philade|phia, residing at the St. Nicholas, Ex-Congressman Galusha A, Grow, of Pennsylva- nia, 18 at the Astor louse. Dr. Edward Calcina, of Venezuela, a member of the stail of the Cuban patriot General Quesada, yes- terday arrived at the Hotfman House. Judge J. 1°, Cowan, of Pennsylvania, ts stopping at the Astor House. is sojourn. the St. is temporarily Mr. K. Sehiover, the German Minister, accompa- | nied by Count Arco and Baron Alvensieven, of his Legation, arrived lasi night at the Brevoort | House, Governor Hofman wen! from Albany to Newport yesterday, stopping for # short time at the Clarendon | Hotel. ~ ROUGH RAUGH. On Sunday morning “last, while Patrick Wall, of Hicksville, 1. 1, Was passing the house of Gabriel Raugh, with some carpenter's toois on his shoulder, Raugh stepped out of back door of his house and levelled a gun at Wall and would have shot hum bat for the interierence of his wite, Wall pro- cured a watrant, and Ofiicer O' Harra proceeded to make the arrest. Raugh made a terrible resistance, torowing every available articie at the oMcer. He was at last capture 14 now in jail awaiting the action of the Gran J TROUBLE AMONG THE MORMON WOMEN, Corning, Utah, August 4, 1871. The widow of Garrison, the Keeper of the White House Hotel at Ogden, who died very suddenly re- cently, was arrested to-day on saspicion of poison ing her husband, Many Mormon women have latety lest their Aum | Whipple, banda aud (he CONMETY With Quer Deas But, instead | gress | | being towed through Hei Department. WASHINGTON, August 4, L871, The United States Revised Statutes. For some time past an effort has been in progress, by authority of Congress, to secure the repubdlica- tion, in asimple and economical form, of the gone~ ral laws of the United Staces. The undertaking bat proceeded under the general direction of coiamiiteest of the two houses of Congress, Mr. Conkling being’ the chairman of the Senate committee, and Juage Poland, of Vermont, chairman of the commit- part of the House. The generat purpose is to rearrange the acts of Con- (which are now published chronoiogi- cally) in an order of subjects, convenient for reference; to exclude all provisions that have beem repealed or have become obsolete, or are of a iocal or temporary character; to correct and simplify the language, and then to re-enact the laws as thus re~ vised, repealing at the same time the laws whic the revision replaces, The country will then have, I the compass of two or three volumes, the gen- eral and permanent laws of the United States. ‘The duty of draiting this revision, im the frst in- stance, hag been entrusted to three commissioner, appointed avout a year ago by President Graut, who have proceeded so far in the work as to have collated and arranged, under ttles or subjects, all the provisions of law which they find to be in force; ana these titles they are engaged in drawing up in form to be submitted to Congress for its considera- tion. Three o/ these tities have been issued, They relate, respectively, to the legislative power, or the rules governing the organization of Congress and the action of its officers and employ¢s, The Execu- tive power or the conduct of Presidential elections, and the incidents of the Presidential office, ant crimes, including, of course, only offences against the laws of the United States, Consuls Recognized. The President has recognized Christian Bors a8 Consul of Sweden and Nurway for the State of New York, to reside at New York city; and Theodore Wagner, Consul of the Netherlands, at Galveston, ‘Texas, Revenue Officers To Be Taught Their By ness. Mr. Josiuh Given, Second Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has gone to New York to adjust the diiferences between the compounders of alco- holic spirits and the Internal Revenue officers. Un- der recent rulings of the Revenue Department the highest tax has been imposed upon compoupders of ‘the most common alcoholic preparations, The reve- nue officers in New York have misconstrued the orders of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and Mr. Given’s visit is for the purpose of explain— ing the rulings of the Internal Revenue Bureau to both manufacturers and revenue officers. National Bank Securities, ‘The United States bonds reported by the nationat banks as security for their circulating notes are Classified as follows:—IS881's, $66,990,980; five- twenties of 1862, $30,434,400; other five-twenties, Pacifics, — $15,5: ten-forties, ; New funded loan five per cents, 3 total, $361,922,550, The new bonds on deposit as security for public deposit are:—1881"'s, $1,968,500; five-twenties of 1862, $1,575,100; other five-twentles, $6,197,700; new funded ivan, $2,063,500; Pacifics, $909,000. Passports for Americans Going Abroi Citizens of the United States before going abroait shouid obtain their passports from the Department of State. No fees are now chargea for them. Naturalized citizens should send thew naturatizae tion papers with their applications. Treasury Dovisious. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has rendered the following decisions: Entries for immediate transportation are not sub- ject to Internal revenue stamp duty. Grenadines aud goods of p stpiar description are not to be fied B's Finke. ants. ses Isaned to ‘hts must embrace the privi- a to ioreign ports without « “azo provides that for the Identification of yachts pelonging to regularly or- ganized yacht clubs a commission stating the ex- emptions and privileges conierred by law upon yachts may be issued by the Secretary of the 1 - sury., The Department considers such commission as intended not to designuic or confer other or diferent privileges irom those whieh ¥ be enjoyed under the licenses authorize't by the act of August 7, 1*48, as amended, but to te in the nature of a sea letter or passport, as evidence of nationality of the vessel. ‘The uct contemplates that such commission should be regarded as con- elasive by ali consular and other oicers and agents of the government, both at home and abroad, aud that it may be so regarded by the authorities of any foreign Powers. Such commissions will, therefore, be issued only from the office of Secretary of the ‘Treasury upon due application through the Collector of the pore or district Where such yachts shail have been licensed. The Secretary also decides that the actual weight of imported cigars must be returned by the weigners. No allowance 1s to be made fora sup- | posed increase of weight caused, as alleged, by the | cigars contracting dampness or motsture during the voyage. Should importers be of opiuion that the alleged increase of weight consututes a damage application should be made to coliectors for aa allowance —— as in other cases, ‘The Regatta of the Aclnutic Yacht Chub. GreeNrort, L. L, August 4, 1871. The open regatta of the Atiantic Yacht Chu, to take place in Peconic Bay to-morrow, excites much interest. The fleet and accompanying yachia arrived here from New Haven last night, The har- bor is gay with vessel4 this afternoon. The yacit- men tad a clam bake at Locust Grove, Shelter Isiand. There are entered for the regatta four schooners and twenty-seven sloops, besides halt # dozen yachts trom various places, including the Mayle, from Stonington. The Visit of the New York Yarht Club te Boston, The regatta of the Eastern and New York clube whi probably take place on the last of next week or tne first of the week following. ‘The prizes to be satied for wili be $1,000 for schooners and $500 fur sloops. The Eastern Yacht Club wit rendezvous at Nantasket Roads, where they wiil receive, by tcie- ram from Highiand Light, news of the arrival of he New York Club off that point, and will immedi- ately go Of and meet them and escort them inte Nantasket Roads. Yachting Notes. ‘The following yachts passed through Hell Gatey bound East:— Yacht Fleur de Lis, N.Y. Mr. from New York for a cruise eastward. ably rendezvous at Newport afierwards, Yacht Idler, N.Y-Y.C,, Mr. Durant, from New York for Greenport. vee ‘The yacht ae Douglas, from New Yor Dickegion, Will prob- r.C., Viee Commodore r Whitestone, while jate on the Sd inst., ae on the Middle Ground and She was got off and tower eight A. M., got ashe lost a piece ‘ot her keel. back to the city for repar NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Lieatenant Commander Charies H. Davis, Jr., hae been ordered to the receiving ship New HampsDireg Master Alfved Force to the Kansas; Assistant Sur eon Henry Stewart to the Severn. Lieutenant! Commander Join MeGowan has beer detached from the Terror and ordered home; Lieu- tenant Commander John Schouler from the Bogtore vy Yara and ordered to the Terror; Passed As~ sistant Surgeon Rapin trom the Severn and placed es steamer Wachasets left the navat hi coms the Ist mst. a che com~ Henry ©. Cochrane, United States . has been detached from the sloop-of- yin the Pace station, and ordered e Savy Yard in Phitadelpiita, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, By direction of the Secretary of War Captain Rover H. Hall, Denth mniantry, wili be relieved from duty as Assistant tnstructor of Infantry Totes at to duty a West Point Military Academy on the 1st of Se ber and be detatied as second Lieutenants Frank Heath, Third artillery, aut Charrie: Third artilery, Nave Been vrdered ve report ign duty at West Toms joiden,