The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorE Hera. -No. 221 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—KRu.y 4 Leon's MinsrRets. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—RERTAA, THE SEWING MACHINE Gint—TuE JOLLY COBBLER. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform- ences oon and evening—DAVID GARRICK. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. wery.— Tax DRap BoKeR—LOAN OF A Lovee. Sictineset ‘By. OLYMPIC THEATRI e ene bee is, Broadway.—ScunRipgg—New grdlaacees THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ean GARDEN, Broadway.—Actoss raz ConTi- CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-' ¥ SuMurn Nicnts' Conozers. ee es BROOKLYN RINK, Ci neecSewee RySSinG'Somearae mae Mamie ae WITH SUPPLEMENT New York, Wednesday, August 9, 1871. ros CONTENTS OF Té-DAY’S HERALD. Paar, 1—Advertisements. Q—Advertisements, 3—Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Tnhe City Finances—Comptroller Con- nolly Complimented—Proceedings in the Courts—Dangeronsir Beaten— Killed m Court— Foreign Personal Gossip and: Miscellaneous Items—Adverusements. 4—Editorial: Leading Article, The North Carolina and Kentacky Elections—General Grant Gain- ing Ground and the ‘New Departure’ a Failure in the South”’"—Yachting Matters—The World's Musical Jubilee—Buried Alive—Amusement Announcements. S—The German Clergy: Conference of Ecclesiasti- cal Revolutionists; Protest Against Ultramon- tane Tyranny—The Sitaation in France—The Revolution in Algeria—Napoleon and Euge- nie—England: Excited Debate in the House of Commons—ireland—News ‘rom Washing- ton: Removal of Commisstoner Pleasonton— Weather Report—Miscellaneous Telegrams— Business Notices. @—Cholera: The Disease in Europe on Its March Westward; Sanitary Condition of New York; How the City is Prepared for an_Unwelcome Visttor—Smallpox Spreading in New Jersey— Domunion of Canada—Naval Inieiligence—fhe Great Day at Wimbieton: The Royal Mar- chioness Bestowing the Pr —The Imperial Scandal—The Indians—New York City News— Will Murder Out? Extraordinary Phase of the Brills Switch Slaughter—Boston Items, 'y—Advertisements, S—Saratoga Gossip: Observations of american Men and Women—The Mace-Coburn Muss— Scientite Notes—Messner’s Murder: The Case of the People Against Him—Murder and Mys- very—Fearful Tragedy in Rochester—Railroad Rowdyism—The Druggists Examiners—Board of Police—Long Branch: Belles and Beaux in the Surf. 9—Long branch (continued from Eighth Page)— The Railroad War—Brookiyn Affairs—New Jersey Matiers—The Georgia Negro Scare— ‘The Burst Boiler: The Proceedings at the OM- estigation—A Wisinterested Corpora. it tothe Astoria Ferry and the Re- 10—Buttalo Pa Trotting ‘The Atalantas—Shippiog Ine ‘yenee—Adver- lisements. Tue Coroner's Lxvesrieation into the Westfield catasiropbe will be commenced to- day. Senator Sumner declines the medal which the Haytiens offered him, on the ground that he is not permitted by the strict letter of the constitution to receive presents from foreign Powers. Tae Frexcon AssEMBLY has passed the bill indemnifying those departments which have suffered by the German invasion. So it seems M. Thiers, in spite of his severe denunciation of the measure, has effected a compromise with the National Assembly. Tor Frexoe War Bopcet.—The war ‘budget in France has been increased two huan- dred and seventy-one millions of francs. Is not this loading poor France a little too heavily? If France bears it patiently it means that the idea of yet taking vengeance on Germany is not yet abandoned. Is the next generation to see, as we have seen—as our fathers saw—France and Germany in deadly conflict? It is not impossible. Assi, the leading spirit of the International Society, and Ferré, one of the shining lights of the Commune who is said to have fired the palace of the Minister of Finance, have at last appeared before the court martial at Ver- sailles. The confinement they have already suffered does not appear to have broken their proud spirits. They defied the Gourt and had to be reprimande@. Both Assi and Ferré prob- ably anticipate a severe doom, and do not thiok it worth while .to waste any sweetness upon their judges. Mr. Disrakri had a farions fling at his rival in power in the House of Commons yesterday. He charged Mr. Gladstone with bad leader- ship, with reckless waste of time and useless invocation of the royal prerogative in the abolition of the purchase system in the army. The irate Premier was stung to one of those rageful allies which Mr. Disraeli once aptly called his ‘‘pilgrimages of pas- sion.” He said that ‘Mr. Disraeli’s so-called facts are simply the offspring of his imagination,” which was giving, in a round- about way, the lie direct to the leader of Her Majesty's opposition. He hurled back the charge of having wasted the time of the House, attributing the unnecessary delay to the resistance of the tories to electoral re- form. After a cross-fire of personal attacks among the lesser lights of the House the Ballot bill was passed in accordance with Mr. Gladstone's earnest solicitation. Av a Cuvrcn Piontc NEAR Rochester, on Monday night, a strange tragedy occurred. A young German girl was walking with a gentle- man in the darker part of the grounds, whena number of young rowdies collected about them, evidently with evil designs, The gen- tleman, espying them, ignominiously de- camped, while the girl in her fright ran to- ward the brink of a precipice and fell over a distance of seventy-five feet to the dry bed of the river below, where she was found dead, with her neck broken. There is a great deal of rowdyism at nearly all picnics, even those of religious societies, but we have not heard of so sad a case as this at any of them. There should be at all our city picnics a full force of policemen, not only in the danciog ball, but in the open grounds, to prevent any cowdyinw, The North Carolion and Kentucuy “lec- tions—General Grant Gaining Ground and the “New Departure” a Failure in the South. The results, as far as reported, of the late elections in North Carolina and Kentucky indicate in the one State a republican victory of considerable importance, and in the othe? republican gains of much significance in ref- erence to our approaching Presidential cam- paign. The great question involved in this North Carolina election was the control of the official machinery for the elections of 1872. Had the democrats been successful, as they expected to be, from their success in the elec- tions for their late Legislature—had their hopes been realized on the issue of a convention to revise the State constitution and in the elec- tion of a majority of the delegates thereto, they would have so amended their supreme State law forthwith as to remove the repub- licans who now hold many of the most impor- tant executive and judicial offices and would have filled their places with zealous demo- crats; and they would otherwise have provided the ways and means for securing to their party the complete supervision of their State elections henceforward. Upon the plea, how- ever, that the existing State constitution binds all concerned against disturbing it for ten years from its adoption in 1868, and that, therefore, this late movement for its revision meantime was illegal and void, the repub- licans, as it appears, have secured a decisive majority of the popular vote against the pro- posed convention, Accepting these reports as true, we think the State of North Carolina, which was lost last year apparently beyond redemption by the republicans, has been recovered by them this year on an issue bearing directly upon the Presidential question and upon General Grant as a candidate for the succession. The result, therefore, may be accepted as positive evidence of General Grant’s popularity in North Carolina. The republicans there are united in support of his administration; they have looked and still look to him to help them in any desperate extremity with the Ku Klux Klans and such like alleged disturbers of the black voters, who almost unanimously go with the republicans, notwithstanding the rascalities of the carpet-baggers. This election shows, too, that the Ku Klinx bill, which General Grant has wisely held in reserve against law- less men asa measure to be enforced only when all milder means have failed, has ope- rated in North Carolina in favor of law and order. We hear of no scenes of violence or terrorism connected with this late election, and so we may infer that the power given to the President by the Ku Klux bill, although a despotic power, has had a good effect upon the lawless political elements not only of North Carolina, but of all the Southern States, and that political terrorism in that section has ceased to exist. We are supported in this conclusion by the prevailing peaceful character of the Kentucky election. From the returns at hand ii is ap- parent that the black republicans turned out more generally than in any election since they were elevated to the dignity of voters, and it appears, too, that, with a few reported excep- tions, they were freely admitted to the polls. Whatever, then, may be the cause or causes, we have the fact before us in the evidence from these elections in North Carolina and Kentucky that negro suffrage is at last prac- tically accepted by the whites of the South of all parties. But this republican victory in North Carolina and these heavy republican gains on the popular vote in Kentucky still remain to be accounted for. The free admis- sion of the blacks to the polls by the democrats is not a sufficient explanation. The repub- licans in these elections have evidently been making some gains from the other side, or general apathy has weakened the democrats, and if so, wherefore? The new departure of the Northern democracy meets the case ex- actly, and completely solves the problem. It will be remembered that, close upon the heels of the unexpected victory of the demo- crats last March in New Hampshire, the Northern copperheads of the party and the unreconstructed Southern fire-eaters hailed the result as the beginning of a great political revolution, from which, in 1872, ‘the radical despotism at Washington will be swept away, with all its works, including nigger equality and oigger suffrage.” It will be remembered that even Jeff Davis was roused from his slumbers by these strange democratic Bour- bon rejoicings, and was inspired to make a number of speeches looking to the revival and ultimate success of the lost cause, beginning his talks at Selma, Alabama. It will be re- membered that these unseasonable rejoicings of silly copperheads and Southern fire-eaters, including the congratulations of Davis, were taken up by the republicans in the April Con- necticut election, and that on the issues of the war thus revived they carried the State, and thus completely extinguished the New Hampshire democratic ‘Tevolution. “Te will next be remembered that Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, fully convinced at last that to fight these issues settled by the war was like butting the heads of the democracy against a stone wall, he led off on the ‘‘new departure,” and thai, rapidly following his example, the democracy, from State to State, throughout the North fell into line with him, in the accept- ance of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments—negro emancipation, negro civil equality and negro suffrage—as fixed facts in the constitution which the party would fight no longer, but would recognize henceforth as parts of the supreme law of the land. Now, this is the main thing, we contend, which is operating to turn the tide in the South in favor of General Grant and the republican party. It is this ‘‘new departure” that will serve to settle all perplexities touch- ing these recent elections in North Carolina and Kentucky. The case is plain as daylight, The Southern democracy are mainly identified with the “lost cause,” and down to this new departure they were hopeful of a restoration of the old constitution of Buchanan through the election of a democratic President and Coagress, So long as the national democratic platform of 1868, declaring the whole budget of the Southern reconstruction measures of Congress ‘‘unconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void,” remained in force, so long the Southern democracy, and particularly the old soreheads among them, like Davis, Stephens, Toombs and such, were prepared to do almost anything to asgist the Northera democracy ia NEW YURK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1871.—WITH tifeir politicai schemes, But this new depart- ure from the North came down upon these men and their followers like a wet blanket. It excited the indignation and disgust of many of them, and the indifference of many more, touching the Presidential succession. ‘Are these spurious amendments the best thing the Northern democracy can do for us?” ask these enraged Southern malcontents, ‘Negro equality and negro suffrage—is this the enter- tainment to which we are invited? Then we will have none of it. Give us your constitu- tional platform of 1868, gentlemen, or we take our own course. We will not follow you into this surrender to radicalism,” The effect of these things is visible, we say, in our election reports from North Carolina and Kentucky. They indicate a general Southern apathy in regard to the national democratic cause, from which it is probable General Grant will carry most, if not all, but two or three of the Southern States next year. This new departure of the Northern democracy, in a word, cuts the South from under their feet. Undying hostility to these new amendments, till overthrown or nullified, was the strong bond which held the Southern to the Northern democracy. Now this bond is broken, and vain will be any attempts to patch it together again. Nor does this new departure appear to be a democratic success in the North. The old Bourbons despise it, and the young Bourbons, who still adhere to the constitution of Buchanan, denounce it and spit upon it. Meantime, since the dropping of his St. Domingo hobby-horse, and particu- larly since the ratification of the ‘‘great treaty,” General Grant has been going on so smoothly and so satisfactorily with his admin- istration as to put down and extinguish all such feeble rivals for the succession as Sumner, Trumbull, Gratz Brown, Logan, Fenton and Greeley. And among the masses of his party Grant, from his policy of peace, stands as firmly established for another term as was Lincoln in his day from his faithful prosecution of the war. North Carolina and Kentucky have shown that the Southern democracy have lost their enthusiasm on this new departure. Vermont and Maine will speak in September, and from all the signs of the times, including our late Orange procession and Tammany Hall, the results in Vermont and Maine will not be very encouraging to the democracy, looking to the effect of their new departure in the October elections of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Suspension of Pleasonton. General Pleasonton was suspended from his position as Commissioner of Internal Revenue yesterday, and J. W. Douglass, the Assistant Commissioner, was deputed to act in his place ad interim. We stated in the Heratp last week, it will be remembered, that the Cabinet meeting had determined upon this measore in order to secure harmonious work- ing between the Commissioner and the Secretary of the Treasury. The President's hurried visit to Washington — yester- day was for this purpose. General Pleasonton was first served with a request to resign, but declined to do so, holding that the cause was a personal one between him and Secretary Boutwell, and he would not admit his own error in the matter by resigning until the law officers of the government bad decided him to be in the wrong. Upon this refusal the President issued the notice of suspension, appointed Mr. Douglas to act in the place and General Pleasonton gracefully turned the office over to him without a demurrer. The case resembles, in some respects, the famous Stanton war upon President Johnson, and has the law and the precedent of that case to support it. Under that law, which was undoubtedly a bit of malicious legislation against President Johnson, no removal could be effected during the session of Congress, and it was under its authority that Senator Sumner, at the inception of the War Depart- ment trouble, wrote that sententious note to Stanton, “Stick.” General Pleas- onton, with more regard for the constituted authorities, has declined to stick or barri- cade himself in his room like Stanton, and Mr. Douglas has been smoothly inducted into office without having, like the famous ad interim Thomas, to stand guard on the door- step, watching for a chance to get into the office. The Bonapartes in Switzerland and Spain. It is again rumored that the ex-Emperor Napoleon is making preparations to go to Switzerland, there, for a time, at least, to take up his abode. Are we to take it for granted that the ex-Empress will at the same time set out for her magnificent and newly- acquired possessions in Spain? Eugénie spent in Spain the happlest days of her young life. It is not unnatural that she should seek to return to the scenes of her childhood. It is not forgotten that Napoleon was, when young exile, admitted to the rights of citi- zenship in Switzerland, ahd that there, wih ds mother gud bis brother, the time rolles pleasantly of, Why should he not go back and revive some of hfs ‘early memories ? The breaking up of the establishment at Chisel- horst seems to mean that for the present all hope of the restoration of the empire is aban- doned. But why should the ex-imperial family be divided? Is it for political pur- poses? Which is to have charge of the Prince Imperial? In Switzerland the Emperor will be conveniently situated to his friends in the event of any opportunity for action presenting itself; and in Spain the Empress, who in all likelihood will remain in charge of the Prince, will ran no risk of being disturbed. We are more disposed to regard this rumored breaking up of the ex-imperial household in a political light than as the result of any division of sentiment between the illustrious but now ap- parently ill-starred couple. Time will soon reveal the truth, Tag Evivence Taken py tHe Coroner relative to the death of Mr. Deltour, who was killed by being thrown from a Second avenue car by rowdies on Sunday night a week ago, confirms the first impression that it was the deliberate work of roughs bent on riot and murder, They first commenced abusing the driver, who promptly retaliated, and then they made an indiscriminate assault, throwing Mr. Deltour and another passenger and the driver under the car wheels, Luckily only one death has so far oceurred, The roughs are still at large. The Charch in Danger. The Catholic Church, according to a despatch which we publish to-day, is menaced by a new peril. Forty gentlemen, having apparently appointed themselves representatives of the various German-speaking branches of the Church, met at Heidelberg on Sunday and instructed a committee to draw up a new con- stitution for the German Catholic Church. They declared open war to Rome and pro- nounced for highly revolutionary doctrines. If we knew who these gentlemen were we should be better able to tell whether the Church of Rome is now really and positively for the last time—she has been ‘going, going” 80 often before—about to be broken up and annihilated. When names are not given, however, we suspect that only nobodies have put in an appearance; and forty nobodies are searcely likely to overturn even what we are told by certain people is so feeble and decrepit an institution as the Latin Catholic Church. The keynote of the conference seems to have been Dollinger’s first declaration that it was inconsistent with German dignity to acknowl- edge, except in a sort of nominal manner, the supremacy of a Latin church. But where was Dillinger himself? If he had himself been at the conference we think we should certainly have heard of it, and if he had delivered an address to the delegates the HRratp correspondent would have telegraphed it verbatim. We think, there- fore, that he was absent, especially as we know from reliable sources that he has rejected, with expressions of indignation and sorrow, every attempt to connect him with a schism in the Church, The conference especially aims at fixing the status of the Pope at what it was laid down to be by the Council of Constance. That Coun- cil, convened in a corrupt and unenlightened age, when, alas! bad men had invaded the Church and seized upon her chief seats of power by force and fraud, found it necessary to depose two popes, one other resigning for reasons deemed sufficient by himself. To do this they stretched the authority of a general council beyond iis legal bounds, and perhaps they were justified by necessity in their action. But in these days, when a bad pope is scarcely likely to be elected, and anti-popes are unknown, and when public opinion is the supreme force on earth, the Church has deter- mined to assert the fall prerogatives of the Vicar of Christ. It has done 6o after mature deliberation, and we scarcely think the action of forty nobodies is likely to upset its decision, The Cholera On Its March. Our mail advices, as well as the cable despatches of late, have spoken to us words of warning against the approach of cholera. It is now a well established fact that ‘‘the epidemic is prevalent more or less at various parts in West, Central and East Russia in Europe.” On the 27th ultimo the appre- hended approach of cholera was the subject of discussion in both Houses of the British Parliament. Quoting from the report of the Registrar General of England, it was shown, in the course of the debates, that the Asiatic cholera is entering Western Europe through Russia, and is now advancing on the German frontiers. In the second week of July it broke out in Wilkowyszki, a town in Poland, where, in the course of a few days, thirty victims marked its deadly effect. In Wilna, another Polish town, the contagion prevails, and up to the latest accounts the average number of deaths has been from ten to fifteen daily. For four or five weeks this state of affairs has pre- vailed in that city. Atthe rate at which the disease has travelled we may at any moment expect to hear of its appearance in Germany, and once there its march into France will not be long delayed. In this last-named country it would meet every encouragement, espe- cially in the districts tramped over by the contending hosts of Germany and France during the late war. The thinly covered graves of the French battle fields, with their thousands of half interred corpses, the cities and towns whose sanitary regulations have been neglected during the prevalence of a foreign war and domestic strifes, are all but poorly prepared to meet the slow but unerring advance of this terrible foe of mankind, It was, no doubt, with these facts before his eyes that Earl Kimberley, in the House of Lords, argued that the present was the time ‘to adopt precautions, when not under the influ- ence of panic,” against the appearance of cholera, “though it was usually then that any- thing was done by local authorities to abate nuisances and take the precautions within our power.” It is with the same object that we now raise our voice, not as alarmists, but in order that every necessary measure may be adopted to dave dt city trofi A dangér which may at any moment threaten it. It is not enough to have rigid quarantine regulations ; that is only One of the remedies, Clean streets, healthy tenements, good water—all are necessary to guard against the attacks of the pestilence. So far there is no danger; but let us not rest in a fancied security which may deceive us. Timely precautions must be adopted, and to the health authorities do we Jook for the en- forcemeut of such laws as will a eld the city from the direful effects of such a viettation should it appear among us. The Algerian Insarrection. The insurrection in Algeria is, in spite of all official accounts, reviving with great in- tensity. The revolt is attributed by the French journals to a series of ill-advised mea- sures adopted after the 4th of September, which are said to have excited the discon- tent of the natives. From all past and present accounts it appears, however, that the rising has a deeper cause. The fact is that the Arabs have never been able to adapt themselves to French civilization, and the French, who never yet accomplished any great results ia the way of colonizing, have hitherto failed to adapt their rule to the peculiar wants of the natives. Hence never-ceasing wars between the Algerines and their conquerors, No doubt the French will be able to put down the present revolt by the aid of a considerable force—-say about 80,000 men—but whether they can maintain a steady hold on the cour- try by any other means than military occupa- tion must be seriously questioned, The gravity and extent of the revolt may be judged from the fact that a special council of war met yesterday at Vergailles, when jt was resglved ta employ SUPPLEMENT. lt tt energetic measures for the suppression of the insurrection, M. Thiers and Marshal Mac. Mabon were present and concurred in the resolution. Fresh reinforcements are even now on their way to Algeria, and the French will doubtless make quick work of the resist- ing tribes. In the meantime the revolt is raging with great fury in the Province of Con- stantine, and both the French and the natives distinguish themselves by massacres and wholesale burning of habitations. A New Extortion at Niagara Falls. It is not often that a respectable gentleman gets into so much trouble as Mr. Henry Stuyvesant, of No. 187 Reade street, New York, is represented by the newspapers to have got into at Niagara Falls recently, nor is it often that such cool brutality and extortion have been exercised even at that notorious watering place as seem to have been prac- tised upon him. His offence was nothing, unless showing a queer toy trick to an Indian woman on Goat Island is an offence. For nothing else apparently a detective nabbed him, conveyed him to prison, without listening to or asking any explanation, carried him in handcuffs past all the leisurely idlers on the hotel piazzas, and finally let him go, after a few hours in a cell, on payment of thirty dollars, all attempts to get an additional instalment in the way of jewelry proving a failure. The only explanation this zealous detective chose to give his bewildered victim in regard to his arrest was the remark, “ft know you; you can’t fool me.” This was of course unsatisfactory, for Mr. Stuyvesant is convinced that he did not know him. As it stands now, Mr. Stuyvesant is determined to fathom the mat- ter, and have a little satisfaction from the man who claimed to know him so well. But the moral, which we feel bound to append to this story, is a caution tothe authorities at Niagara Falls not to let the ruinous extortion of every- body at that interesting wonder drive all visitors and traffic from the place. My Lord Lindsay and My Lord Adare. It is not often that Spiritualism enjoys the advantage of the testimony of a lord—at least, ofa live lord. But Home, the medium, is no common juggler, and his feats are verified by no ordinary witnesses. Lord Lindsay is his friend, his disciple and his historian. Not long ago it occurred to this noble lord that it would be a matter of the greatest importance if Home could see a magnet in the dark, and Home saw it. ‘I have been trying,” says Lord Lindsay, ‘for more than two years to get a satisfactory result in this experiment, but hitherto with only doubtful success.” But Home saw the instrument, or rather the light supposed to be hidden away in the magnet, and consequently Spiritualism must be true. This is fixed at last, and we are glad of it. Now, when the medium floats in the air seventy feet from the ground or goes out of an aperture too small for bis body we shall not doubt it. And even on these points we have Lord Lindsay's testimony. But there may be one more triumph for Spiritualism, and we hope soon to be able to record it. We want to hear of Lindsay floating in the air. It would be so delicious to have a real lord in the jugglery line coming ont of the little end of a horn and doing other wonderful things. We should then know that the peers of the realm are really serving some useful purpose. In the House of Lords they are too dull even to be amusing; but if any considerable number of them should turn jugglers what fun we should have. Ordinary showmen would be compelled to stand aside, and Home would find his vocation gone. My Lord Lindsay and my Lord Adare are excellent witnesses as to Home's feats. “I may mention that on another occasion,” says Lindsay, “I was sitting with Mr. Home and Lord Adare and a cousin of his. During the sitting Mr. Home went into a trance, and in that state was carried out of the window in the room next to where we were and was brought in at our window.” And he adds :—‘‘Lord Adare then went into the next room to look at the window from which he had been carried. It was raised about eighteen inches, and he expressed his wonder how Mr. Home had been taken through so narrow an aperture, Home said (still in trance), ‘I will show you,’ and then, with his back to the window, he leaned back and was shot out of the aperture head first, with the body rigid, and then returned quite quietly.” Why cannot these noble noodles ‘‘float” also? If they will make fools of themselves they might as well run the risk of breaking their necks in doing it. At least they might go into the show business, where’they are go much peeces ” mist Wenessay, The Lower California Lund Company aud the Communists, A despatch which we publish io-day informs us that “the director of the Lower California Company has proposed to President Thiers to receive all the Commanist prisoners as colonists, and M. Thiers has promised to lay the offer betore the Assembly.” This is not news to us, ad yesterday we published the whole scheme forwarded by the Heraup correspondent in Paris, The California Land Company is a New York institution. It has among {te directors and officers many names well known in social, political and financial circles in the United States. The company some time since obtained from the neighbor- ing republic of Mexico the land which the directors of it now intend to turn to practical account, With keen instinct they found France in a peculiarly perplexing position regarding her Commune prisoners, and they went to her aid. With characteristic repub- lican boldness they said—‘‘Give us your prisoners and we will utilize them. If they are willing to work they can have plenty of it in a land across the seas.” Thiers fell in with the idea, and the bargain is almost as good as made. Lower California is to be peo- pled with the Paris reds, A better chance for these fire-eating Parisians to redeem past errors could not be presented to them. Un- less they desire to have a fight among them- selves they will have no one to do battle with. If, however, they desire to live in peace and work, their labor will be rewarded ten- fold. The country is rich in resources which only require development, Let them come and work out their owa regeneration on the Pacific Slope, YACHTING. THE CRUISE OF THE ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB. The Regatta at Stonington a Failure—Tho First aud Third Class Yachts to Compete Again To-Day. STONINGTON, Conn., August 8, 1871. Stonington is not prolific of sensation, but 1t gave birth to one to-day. The tast occurred in 1814, when an attack upon the town by a British feet was repulsed, After that the village drifted largely into the whaling business, aud with its decadence drifted as lazily into a state of tranqutility which has proved perennial. There were no more fleets to conquer; the sghoolmasters monopolized the whaling business, and none of the exctiements of the caraal mind entered to disturb tae doice far ni- entic existence of the town. But of late years it has become a watering place of some repute, and among the results of the iufusion of new vitality is an an- nual regatta, established a few yeara since, which now draws tbe crack craft of nearly every set- Uement on the Sound, This year D, P. Babcock, of Brooklyn, President of the Stonington Steamship Company; Captain 5. B. Stone and Captain W. M. Jones, of Stonington, were appointed executive committees and judges.” ‘The lists were opened to vessels measurmg filty feet and tess, The Atianuc Yacht Club, now on its summer cruise, Was invited to rendezvous im the harbor. The Atlantic Yacht Club feet, insadiae the Peerless, Lois, Mystic, Nancy, Orion, Mercid, Agnes, Qui Vive, Auna, Nim- bus, Mystery, Daphne, Kecreation, Linda, Eddy, Dudley and Edith, anchored in the harbor last evea- ing and gave a display of flreworks, ‘This ntorning broke with a heavy fog creeping up from seaward on a light soutneast breeze. The pros- pect was not encouraging, but as the day wore oa the wind suddenly hauled to the southwest, the must rolied away in @ heavy bank over tne land, and the sun struggled through’ the fleecy clouds, ‘the ancient marivers of the place were consulted, and with some uesilation -for a grim, ominous wall of fog sill bung over Fisher's Island, and the wind was light and fittul—1t was decided io call the race. By this time the veautiful harbor was crowded with cratix, In addition to the yachts mentioned, the Josie, Madgie and Sailie E. Day, of the New Yors Yacht Club, one of the Hariem Ciub, aud two of tie Boston lav at aucbor near the shore, the smaller boats crowding around the wharves, PREPARATIONS FOR THE RACK. cl fe wind had freshened to a six- knot breeze, ‘The committee were stationed on the ratiroad what, near the head of tne harbor, wheace suddealy came # put of smoke and a sharp report, foliowed by another, and the boats circling around the harbor hauled up. At 11,01 the first bout crossed the line of the stakeboat anchored #00 feet from the wharf, One afver anowher followed till atl were under way, a8 follows:—Orion, A. Y. K. Day, NY. Daphne, A. josie, N.Y.Y.C.5 Qui Vive, A. Nimbus, A.Y.C.; Anna, A.Y.0. Second ‘twilight, M. Bacon, New London; Undine, % Miller, Oyster Bay; Nettie, Dabalt, Noank; frolic, C. P. Palmer, Stonington; Matte, Thomas A. Keables, Mystic. Third class—Mi garite, 5. B, Stone, Stonington; Bessie, T. A. verry w Loudon; Caddie N., G. Smith, Stonin ton; Minx, Robert Palmer, Jr., Noank; Carrie, Lamphere, New London; Jennote Harris, Peudleton, Stoningtor Fourth Class—Haidee, D. Green, Gro- ton; Nam 1. P. Wiliams, Mystic; Cuba, C. H. Osgood, Nor ; F.P., 1. Pendieton, Stonington. The entries were divided into four classes, those ol the first bemy restricted to matusail, jib, jrovop- sail aud gatttopsail; the second to matnsall aad jib, the third to matmsail only and the fourth and mainsail, The course ior the boats was round Shagwang, a ledge from Montauk Pomt—a round trip of five miles; for the second, round South Ham- uf New London and return—a distance of ten miles; and for Lhe third and fourth, round Wel Gras Shoat Lightship, m the Sound, a six miles tura—all boats to make allowance of ume of one to twu All sloops on the start. THE KACE. wharves were covered with spectators, and yacnts with large parties of spectators on ad foliowed the feet; but in half an hour tie fog shut in again like a curain and not & boat could be seen lwo leet away. Objects were invisible, buc there was enougi yachting piuck and perseverance in the few wna haa lingered with the judges. ‘Ine Haidee loomed Up through tie mist abreust of the stakeboat, fol- lowed clusely vy the Jennie, Cuba, Carrie, Huidie, Bessie and Minx. Of the thira and fourth Class the Caddie and Margarite, missing the outside buoy in the tog, ran in and withdrew. The Daphne, Josie, Qui Vive, Nimbus and Anua returned, concluding it useless to attempt to sat. The Haidie, Jennie and Cuba, ft was decided by the judges, had not rounded the Middle Ground buoy on the second heat and were ruled out, The Carrie, Nameless and F, P. wee alto- gether lost sight of. At hall-past three tue regatta had become so thoroughly mixed as to render judgment in the third and fourth classes an impossi- bility, and, with the usual fickleness of the cie- ments, at that time the fog roiled away and the sum shone out brilliantly, Better weather for a race couid not be tmagined, but it came too late. Tne third and fourth class boats it was decided had not 1uitiiied the conditions of the race, and they were ordered to sail over the same course to-morrow. In the second class the Frolic rounded the stake boat on the homestretch at 4:50, taking tue first prize (a handsome silver epergne), over the Twilight, Nettle and Mattie, by allowance of time, the laiter ‘These were io jib i minutes per foul. taking the second prize by allowance. all prizes yet awarded. THE CRUISE OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. Wooo's Hou, Mass., August 8, 1871. The New York Yacht squadron has just (sevem o’clock P. M.) auchored in Vineyard Haven. YACHT RACE AT PORTSMOUTH. PorrsmovurH, N. H., Augast 8, 1871. Rev. George H. Hepworth’s yacht Ida and Mr. ‘William Dixon's yacht Bismarck sailed a race to-day from this city to the Isic of Shoals and return, a distance of twenty-tour miles, the Ida winning in four hours and seven mioutes, beating the Bismarck twenty-ilve minutes. — YACHTING NOTES. Yacht Sappho, N.Y.¥.C., Vice Commodore Douglas, is stillon the large screw dock being fitted with a aise keel to replace that knocked off while being towed through Hell Gate ou Saturday last. The work 18 being prosecuted with vigor and will be Nnished to-morrow afternoon or Friday morning, when the yacht will at once join the squadron, now on 1s annual crutse, ‘ Yacht Vindex (iron), N.Y.¥.C., Mr. Rovert Center, Was lowered from the small screw dock yesterday, having been cleaned and painted in bottom. Yacht Alarm, N.Y.Y.C., Bt. A. C. Kingsland, was lowered {rom the central screw dock yesterday, having been cleaned in pottom and few minor aiter- fitlons of a general nature made. She is now lying at anchor oe ie ig oh hisen th St the: eiderly Mr. Kingsland, tu this gentleman Wi nave vered it Sone enavie the yacht to Join the deer of the club mm the outside rages to be sailed. iitipeipbpemed’ yanht Resolute, N.Y.¥.C., Mr. A. 8. Hatch, now lying ab ant oi City Island, will be finished early next week, and /"¢4 proceed to Newport on a triat trip. Ibis possibile ynay S"e ay take part in some of the later races of the club, ot ory Yacht Plover, Ba.¥.C., Messr3. Taylor, is being” thoroughly overhauled, refitted and tmproved at the yard of Mr. P, McGiehan, Pamrapo, N. J. Her name will be changed. .Y.C., 19 still cruising eastward. steam yacht Day Dream, N.Y. sspinwall, is now Known as the he 1s cruising with the squadron, @ Yacht Bunsby, no club, Mr. Pope, returned from short crnise eastwards yesterday morning, and wiih rendezvous at Whitestone for some time. Yacht Foam, no club, Mr. Jonnson, passed south- wards trom Newport yesterday. THE WORLD'S MUSICAL JUBILEE, ‘The musical people of the country will feel grate- fal to President Graut ror his warm endorsement of Mr. Gilmore's magnificent plan for a great interna- tional musical jubilee, to be held in Boston next June, in which @ chorus of 20,000 votces, 2,000 in- struments and bands from all nations will combine in @ festival of harmony such as the world hag never known. It is aglorious idea, and, as we nave heretofore stated, will do much for the advance- ment of music throughout the country, as already numerous choral societies are being formed to take part, and the President has struck the right chord it his sanction. a Ke tohowing ishis letter of endorsement to Mr. Giimore:— N. J., August 5, 1871. 10 Ministers and Lowa Be commend Mr. P, representatives ‘of the United States in Europe and hie Plane for @ universal musical jubilee, to be held in this coun- plane Tera. ‘The kind ollices of our representatives abroad in hobalt of the enterprise which Mr. Gilmore has so much at heart. and which he is so eminently qualified to carry out, are respectfully folteiied. With great reaper, . 8) GRANT, To Ministers and Representatives of the Unitea States tm Europe. “BURIED ALIVE. — Jacob Hendrickson, aged twenty-six, in the em- ploy of the Eighth Avenue Ratlroad Company, while loading a cart with dirt, at Eighty-fith street and Fighth avenue, yesterday afternoon, was buried under an embankment, which caved in ag he was loading fis cart. The unfortunate man expired in a short time after he was extricatea from his premature grave. His body was removed to his residence, No. 400 West Foriy-eiwuth street. whu We Vorougr BuLUlyd