The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—BERTWA, THR SEWING MAouIne Gini—Tur Joriy Compiz, ~ WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 20th st. —Perform- Ances afternoon and evening—DAVID Gauniok. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOWSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Tue FLowEk Grn. oy Parts—Jox Kipp. OLYMPIC THFATRE, Broadway.—SCHNEIDER—NEW SONGS AND DANCES. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street. — Eris. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Acnoss THE ConTI- NENT. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No, 7% — ators ane No. 720 Broadway.—KELLY CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—T: " SUMNEB NicuTs’ Conornrs. wi A Si BROOKLYN RINK, Clermont avenue, near Myrtle ave Bue.—SUMMER EVENING ConcenTs, se York, Thursday, Acgust 10, 1 WITH SU New CONTEN OF Ti-DAY'S HERALD. Pace. (bs cele Baaeainat 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisenents, 3- Adve: ents. 4—The Mosion Excitement: Opening of the Cor *s Inguest; Continuation of the In- spec ’ Investigatton— Return Home of the 5 Onicials Who Were Injured on the Westiield—Naval —Intelligence—A Russian Conspiracy: The International Society at Work tn the Empire of the Czar—New Jersey Matters—Fire in Newburg—Daring Outrage— The Meana-Mermck Matter—Mrs. Vallandig- am—Proceeding tn the Courts. S—The Courts (Continued from Fourth Page)—The Great National Camp Meettng—Brooklyn Affairs—Lynch Law in Kentucky—Foreign Personal Gossip and Miscellaneous Items— Financial and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “Vote by Ballot tn England--The bil Passed in the House of Commons—Another Popular Triumph” — Personal Intelligence—Weather Report—Mis- cellaneous Telegrams—Amusement Announce ments. ‘7—News from Mextco—Troubles in Texas—A fairs in France—The Scott Centenary: Grand Cele- bration in Edtuburg—The Loulsiana Loya!l- ists: Struggle ior the Spois—Yachting Mat- ters—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business No- tices. 8—The Footiights: Musical and Dramatic Season ol 1$7i-72; Gathering of the Thespian Clans; ‘The Stage in All Its Kaleidoscopic Features, Both at tiome ana Abroad; A Complete Di- and the Theatre T Presented in America. s (Continued from Eighth Page)— cond Day of the Sixth An- nual ¢ Meeting—Monmouth Park Races—A Deathbded Divorce in Indtana—A Fe- male Evans: Outrage Upon a Respectable Female by an Abortionist—The Turn Fest— Art Correspondence—The Ohio _ Poisoning Case—The Jamaica Mystery—The Last Leap: Tragic End of a Young Kochester Girl— Obituary—Ine Pacific Coas!—Nauional Labor Congress—Murderous Mike. 10—News from Washington—Despair and Death— Local ltems—Shipping Inteliigence—Adver- lsements. Toe YELLOW Fever is reported to be in the lower bay, on shipboard. Let our health authorities see to it that it is not brought to the land, if. they can prevent it, and we think they can. Tar Wovcnps oF Mr. Brunner, who was fo severely injured by Mike Coburn and his pal on Monday night, are still very danger- ous; but efforts are being made to get the two roughs out on bail. They must be held tight. They must not be allowed to slip through the meshes of the law for want of vigilance on the part of our authorities, Tue Reports of our special correspondent at Brownsville show a very foolish and ridiculous quarrel between the Governor of Texas and the courts in relation to the ap- pointment of a Health Officer of Brazos. If such is the usual business of the Executive and the courts we think they might be much better employed. Tuz Coroner's Inquest in the Westfield ease was commenced yesterday, but itis not likely that anything will be developed by it other than has already been developed by the inspectors’ investigation. The latter has been very searching, so much so that multiplicity of evidence, slightly conflicting, is likely to render a clear and decisive verdict a matter of some doubt. A Coroner's inquest is also being held in Brooklyn, so that if we do not get at the cause of the great explosion it will not be for want of investigation. Tne Crry is pretty well emptied of all who figure in the world of fashion, but the dan- gerous classes still remain with us, and seem but little affected by the ‘‘nineties.” Day before yesterday Judge Hackett disposed of more than thirty cases in the Court of General Sessions. That must have been a hard day's work to get through ina stifling court room in the very middle of the dog days; but Judge Hackett is well known as one of the most in- defatigable as well as one of the most con- scientious members of the Bench. There are a good many public salaries, after all, that are earned « good many times over. Rapioar Poxtrios 1x LovistaNa have as- sumed an exceedingly complicated and quar- relsome phase, Warmoch, the Governor, and the officeholders throughout the State are in | fierce opposition to Dunn, the colored Lieu- tenant Governor, and the federal office-holders, and at the Convention in New Orleans yester- day the first named and his followers bolted, forming a Convention of their own. The fight is altogether one for spoils, and it is not likely to make much difference which one wins, though the republican split offers a fair oppor- tunity for the democracy, if they have brains enough, to run away with the spoils them- selves, Cer Justice Case, with all bis demo- cratic tendencies, favors something even more republican than the new departure. Some democrats in West Virginia recently sent him ® letter naming bim as their choice for the Presidency and enclosed a set of resolutions embodying their principles. In these the idea of accepting the new constitutional amend- ments was qualified, as usual, by the statement “while we do not approve of the means em- ployed to adopt them,” and the Chier Justice, while returning @ diplomatic answer that sub- stantially meant acceptance of the nomination, very sturdily struck out the words we have quoted, making the resolution an unequivocal endorsement of the new amendments. The Chief Justice sees the necessity for a thorough new departure or none, and objects to having the party that is to nominate him stultify itself hy puerile quibbling that gains it no friends and raises a doubt of its hone sty, NEW YORK HERALD. THURSDAY. AUGUST 10. 1871—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Vote by Ballot im England—The Bill Passed im the House of Commons—An- other Popular Triamph. In the House of Commons on Tuesday last the bill intended to secure for the British peo- ple the right to vote by ballot was passed. It was doubtful for a time whether the bill would pass this session; but Mr. Gladstone having put spurs to his horse resistance was useless. It was a stormy day in the Commons House of Parliament. Disraeli’s Jewish blood was up. He accused and abused the administration. Mr. Gladstone, according to the conservative chief, was a bad leader of the House, a bad leader of his party in the House and out of the House, was wasteful of precious time, was 8 dangerous innovator, and was otherwise an unfortunate or useless, or, what is worse, Tuinous Minister to the British Crown. The retort of the Prime Minister was gushing as usual, Mr. Disraeli had a good imagination and respectable linguistic powers, but he had the radical defect of being unable to look facts in the face. If time was lost and if im- portant and even vital measures were post- poned it was because of the resistance of the tories and the dislike of Mr. Disraeli and his friends to all genuine reform. Mr. Gladstone called upon the House to pass the Ballot bill, and the bill was passed. This fresh triumph of the “Great Common- er” is proof that his daring conduct in the matter of the purchase of commissions has not robbed him of his power in the House of Commons. That his conduct in that matter was most daring, that it was revolutionary, that it amounted toa coup d'état, most men who have made themselves familiar with the working of the British constitution for the last century will willingly admit. But it is just as willingly admitted that it was called for, and the fact that the whole liberal party in the House of Commons, at least, has endorsed his daring stroke of policy is its best vindication. It is a fresh proof that Mr. Gladstone has the coun. try athis back; that he knows he is the trusted leader of the conservative democracy of Great Britain and that he does not mean to betray them. Vote by ballot has been before the British Parliament almost every year since men whose hair now begins to grow gray first began to read the newspapers; but Mr. Glad- stone is the first Prime Minister who ever gave it honest and hearty support. The Commons have now demanded it, and it remains to be seen whether the Lords will so oppose the bill as to make its passage through the upper House impossible this session, or whether, admitting the fact that their own future welfare lies in the direction of no longer resisting the Com- mons, they will hurry the bill through to a third reading, and so make it law. The pre- sumption is that the bill will not pass the Lords this session. The dog days have made both houses impatient of delay, sick of furcher legislation; and the gentlemen in both houses are so anxious to get to their shooting boxes that it is not unreasonable to conclude that vote by ballot will not become law until next year. The recess is close at band; an October session has been spoken of ; but it is not our opinion that Mr. Gladstone, daring as he most unquestionably is, will dare much more until the next year. It is not to be imagined, however, that if his life is spared he will give up what he has won. Vote by ballot must, as in this country, become law in Great Britain. It is not our opinion that in carrying this measure Mr. Gladstone can again surprise Parliament, the country and the world by the efficacious power of a royal warrant; but it is open to him to do, if the Lords resist, what it was threatened to do in 1832, when the first great Reform bill was in danger—to call upon the Crown to create as many new Peers as sball be necessary to pass the bill through the House of Lords. The carrying out of the threat was not necessary then; and, if we judge rightly, the determination of the Minister has been so proved and he is so thoroughly backed up by the country that the Lords wili find it convenient to avert at once the threat and its fulfilment. The necessity of vote by ballot to a pure and honest representation of the mind and will of the electors is so obvious, that the discussion of the subject amounts almost to a work of supererogation. We know that in the reconstruction of the South, after the war, vote by ballot, by the universal demand of the new voters, was made a preliminary necessity. In some of the Soutbern States the viva voce system of voting at the polling booths had been, as it now is in Great Britain, the rule. The new voters found that, under such a system, to vote according to conscience was impossible, Wisely, therefore, the old system was univer- sally abolished, and vote by ballot is now the universal law all over the Union, In Great Britain it has long been notorious that all Parliamentary reform—tbat anything and everything in the shape of the extension of the franchise was more or less a sham with- out the protection of the voter by the ballot. Who that knows anything of the British sys- tem of voting does not know that every land- Jord can drive every tenant like a sheep of the flock before him to the polling booth? To vote with the landlord in Great Britain is to remain in sometbing like comfort in one’s home, the home, perhaps, of the family for many generations. Not to vote with the land- lord is to run the risk of being driven at the first opportunity, perhaps at the end of the first year, from all that to him or his means home or country. How many hundreds in the United States, in the New Dominion, in Australia, in New Zealand, look back with shame and indignation to some local or gene- ral election in Ireland, Scotland or England! Vote by ballot in Great Britain means that henceforward the people shall have the right of saying what they mean when they are asked tovote fora Member of Parliament, And there can be no doubt that, if not this session, then next, the voter in Great Britain will be emancipated from the tyranny of ages, In closing an article of this description it would be unpardonable to overlook the fact that this fresh triumph of the popular will in the House of Commons is but another indica- tion of the democratic or republican tenden- cies of the age. Despots, in the form of emperors and kings, have had their day. Monarchs under any name, among a highly intelligent and thoronghly emancipated people, are no longer found useful, The prince, so long as he is the brilliant apex of the social pyramid. Js a convenient tool; but somehow in these times he is going into business on his own account, and he is no longer the object of blind adoration. The United States is destroying Europe, at least for sovereigns. Our example aud our influence, however, are not 80 bad for the peoples. Great Britain, under Mr. Gladstone, is doing well, So, too, is France under President Thiers and _ his greater genius, Gambetta. So may the tide roll. Let the peoples triumph. Monarchs have had their day. The International at Work in Russia. In a letter which we publish this morning from the Heratp’s correspondent in St. Pe- tersburg we have an account of the discovery of a secret organization and the apprehension of a number of its members. Among those arrested are noblemen, merchants and stu- dents. The aim of the society to which the conspirators belong is the advance- ment of the people and their regenera- tion from the misery in which they live under the imperial system. The plan of the organization, its division into sections, the ignorance of one section of those who com- pose other branches, all go to show that the organization which has just come to light has been systematically organized. Its secrecy, too, for months, in a country like Russia, where governmental espionage is carried on to such a remarkable extent, is an evidence of how well the principal actors in the conspiracy have advanced on their plans. Not until the discovery of a foul murder did its existence become publicly known, Our readers will re- member that some days ago we published an interview which one of the Hgraxp’s corre- spondents had in London with the notorious Dr. Karl Marx, one of the leading spirits of the International, and during the conversation between them the existence of the Interna- tional Society of Russia was referred to. Dr. Marx, while asserting that the International had no organization in that empire, declared that ‘there is a revolution coming in Russia, however slowly, but surely. There are two .| classes there,” said he, ‘‘that are greatly dis- contented with the recent abolition of serf- dom—the laborer, whose position has not been in the least improved by it, and the smaller nobility, who have been ruined by it—and these two elements, once they can be induced to work together, will overthrow that tyrannical form of government easily when the first weak Czar succeeds to the throne.” In the letter of our St. Petersburg correspondent we find among those arrested noblemen. The igno- rance of the great bulk of the other members of this Russian society is also spoken of in un- mistakable language. May we not perceive in this, slight as is the indication, an evidence of the consolidation of the two elements for a common object, of which the Secretary of the International speaks. In many other respects the aspirations of the two organizations are so close that we feel inclined to regard the conspiracy just discovered in Russia as part of the programme laid down by the Interna- tional for the work of its members in the em- pire of the Czar. A Speck of War with Mexico—Outrages on the Rio Grande, The special despatch from Matamoros, which we print in this morning's HERaxp, reveals a state of affairs on our Mexican frontier which may lead to farther trouble with the neigh- boring republic. The depredations of Mexi- can predatory bands on the Texas side of the Rio Grande are of frequent occurrence, and may lead to the worst consequences, And in addition to these outrages, which may be ac- counted for on the lawlessness of a lawless population, we have still graver causes of complaint against Mexico. In 1851-2 the Mexican government induced a band of Kick- apoo Indians, who had left thelr reservation and gone to the Rio Grande, near Eagle Pass, to cross over the river to a place called Santa Rosa, about seventy miles in the interior, A remnant of the Seminoles and Lipans were also, about the same time, taken over and a place given to them. The Mexi- can goveroment, besides giving them lands and certain rights of citizenship, agreed to pay them an annuity in money or goods. These Indians, on their part, promised to defend that frontier of Mexico from the raids of the Apaches and Comanche Indians, who held the country to the north and west, towards El Paso and Chihuahua, The Kickapoos, Seminoles and Lipans, thus domiciled by the Mexicans, have, it is supposed, given satisfaction to them, from the fact that a gift of ten thousand dollars in goods and money was made to the Indians last spring. The Indians are con- stantly committing depredations in Texas, and the sitnation is just this :—Mexico is sup- porting and protecting near our frontier a lot of Indians who habitually rob the citizens of Texas, along a belt of country extending from El Paso to Brownsville, about one thou- sand miles; and the United States govern- ment has not peremptorily demanded of Mexico that this long-continued outrage should cease. The outrages of the Mexicans are likely to compel some inquiry into this Indian business also, and a demand for satisfaction from the Mexican government is not impossible. The rights of American citizens must be re- spected, and Mexico may as well know it now as at any other time. Tne AcoounT OF THE DOINGS OF A FemaLe Fortune Tecrgr, as set forth ina another column, deserves the close attention of the police. It would appear from the report that an unfortunate woman went to one of these she devils on Third avenue and wanted an abortion performed, but the price demanded was so high that she was about to withdraw, when she was seized, taken into an inner room, chloroformed and subjected to a process that has left her at Death’s door. She is now in the hospital, having given the fortune teller all the money she possessed to get clear of her. Tug Ways or tHe Divorce Laws oF Ix- DIANA are past finding out. A couple of precious rascals in Indianapolis recam@tly had a dying man divorced from his wife in order to cut the lady out of her third of the estate. The dying man had never had any suspicions of the case pending, and the woman, not fully understanding it, had consented to let it go by default on receipt of eight thousand dollars, Such eccentric rascality as this deserves to be remeggbered, The Scott Centenary in Europe and Ameri- ca—Sir Walter’s Claims Upon Posterity. Sometimes great poets, and more especially great dramatists—notably Shakspeare—receive &@ commemoration like that which is now being accorded to the memory and genius of Sir Walter Scott. But this is the first time in the history of English letters when so great a distinction was accorded to a great novelist. There could be no clearer illustration of the revolution which has taken place in the world’s literature and of the dignity which fiction has obtained in the minds of men as one of the fine arts. Itis not long since story-telling was a despised art, inveighed against by super- cilious moralists and even preached against from the pulpit. When Sir Walter was born, one hundred years ago, few novels had appeared worthy of the name. People were accustomed to read the dull and endless fictions of Richardson and Fielding and Smol- lett, and even now it is the custom to speak words of praise of ‘‘Sir Charles Grandison” and “Tom Jones.” But when “Waverley” appeared it was plain that a new era had dawned. The vapid sentimentality and inane extravagance of the preceding age was doomed. Nobody cared any longer for Dr. Johnson's high-flowa language in ‘‘Rasselas,” and cultivated readers began to realize that Goldsmith’s ‘‘Vicar of Wakefield,” though a pretty and simple story, was weak in conception and weaker in execu- tion. The picturesque horrors which Mrs. Radcliffe depicted, and the unalloyed brutality of ‘‘Caleb Williams”—all the absurdities of the novelists who had preceded him—were swept away when Sir Walter lifted his magic wand. It was still a point of honor to commemorate novelists who were once held in such great esteem; but as everybody nowadays praises Milton’s ‘‘Paradise Lost,” though no living mortal is known to have read it, so people continued to praise but discontinued to pe- ruse. Of all the masters of modern art it can only be said of Sir Walter Scott that he was almost equally prolific, and certainly as great, in the field of poetry as in the domain of romance. But he was more of a wizard than a master ; more of a mere story teller than a great artist. He always wrote with marked beauty, and, where he was well informed, with marvellous discrimination. His pictures, if never im- posing, are never commonplace. His de- scriptions are perfect. There is poetry in his prose and prose in his poetry. He never approached the heights where Shakspeare sat. Dickens soared far beyond him, and Thackeray walked serenely and placidly above both of them. Yet we honor him to-day, not only for what he wrought, but for that which he enabled others to work out after him. He showed how absurd were the absurdities and how inane the inanities of the novelists who had preceded him. He proved that fic- tion, whether in prose or verse, was an art not less lofty than the ideals which inspire the sculptor and the painter. He lifted his wand and new creations sprung from his brain like the uprising of Highland warriors at the call of Rhoderic Dhu. The gentle ‘‘Waverley” led the way and the poetic ‘‘Mannering” fol- lowed. Edie Ochiltree and Dominie Sampson and Captain Dalgetty all came in time. The “Lady of the Lake” glided like a thing of beauty on the crested waves. Marmion gloried and fought and conquered and bled. Ivanhoe triumphed in the lists, and, against the will of the artist, the fair Jewess showed herself fairer than the beautiful Lady Rowena, Such a world—so full of mailed fighting men, lords and Highland chieftans, soldiery in plaid and tartan and fair and titled ladies—never before existed outside of the great world itself. No man ever before dreamed such mighty dreams or saw snch true and marvellous visions. Shakspeare alone was able to give his characters a more striking in- dividuality; but it may well be doubted if Dogberry is a more perfect creation than Dal- getty. If Scott could not have written ‘‘Childe Harold” neither could Byron have created “Quentin Durward.” Scott might have written “Lalla Rookh,” but Moore could not have painted the ‘Bride of Lammermoor.” How great he was, compared witb all the greatness which had gone and much of the wealth of genius that has followed after, it is not easy to depict. And yet, are Sir Walter Scott’s works read to-day as they were read ten, twenty, thirty years ago? Are not the honors which are paid to him to-day the honors which are accorded to the pioneer who has opened up a pathway in the wilderness where others have reaped a more golden grain and richer harvests? Is not his memury becoming more and more a thing of the past? We hardly dare to answer these questions lest we be compelled to answer them in the affirmative. Scott could never have created a character so full of blood and bones as dear old ‘‘love- sick Pickwick.” Colonel Newcome is not merely a character ina novel, but a man whom we recognize as something like a friend. Becky Sharp is a woman we have all seen and most of us have instinctively avoided. Poor Joe, in “Bleak House,” and Smike, in ‘Nicholas Nickleby,” cross our path almost daily. Mrs, Jellaby shows herself as untidily in the news- paper offices of New York as she appears in her own untidy home, laboring for the natives of Boorioboola Gha. New worlds, new people and new thoughts have sprung up at the touch of younger magicians. The great master is yielding place to greater masters still. We reverence Sir Walter, but we love Dickens, and we live and act and think in the world which Thackeray made. While we sometimes go back to “Waverley” and ‘‘Old Mortality” and “Ivanhoe,” we keep “Vanity Fair’ and “Pendennis” and “The Newcomes” always near us, We would not forget the Wizard of the North, and yet we are so In love with our new masters that, like the husband com- plained of by the lover in ‘‘Locksley Hall,” we are apt to hold him only a little nearer than our dog or a little dearer than our horse, But we do not forget what a debt of grati- tude we owe him—what pleasure he has given us and what lessons he has taught us. His name is on every tongue to-day wherever the English language is spoken or English literature is read. Edinburg and Glasgow led off with the celebration yesterday, and the cable brings us ample reports of the honors paid to the “Author of Waverley.” But in the United States, where we care more St. Hubert, we shall honor the memory of the novelist on the centenary of his birth. Many of his American admirers will go to Central Park on Monday to assist in unveiling the Scott statue. In many ways will we show our reverence for the man and our appreciation of the novelist. This occasion is one of great significance with us, because Scott was the friend of Irving; and his works are even more admired here than in Europe. The Soott centenary will not be so imposing here as it was in Scotland yesterday; but, not- withstanding this, we as fully recognize the claims of the great novelist upon posterity and are as ready to do honor to his memory. The Musical and Dramatic 1871-72. We publish to-day a complete list of the musical and dramatic features of the coming season, embracing all the leading theatres in the United States. It will be seen that the managers, both metropolitan and country, re- cognize the importance of using all the means, ability, experience and energy at their com- mand to gain the patronage of the public, and consequently there will be a lively opposition everywhere, A notable fact is the increase in the number of theatres in the country, small towns and villages being now provided with dramatic instituiions. The musical outlook is the brightest, probably, we have ever had in thiscountry, Italian and English opera will be given atthe Academy of Music, with an assem- blage of stars and a perfection of ensemble such as a year ago would scarcely have been dreamed of, and the directors of that estab- lishment are making strenuous efforts to place their temple of music in fitting order to receive their distinguished guests. The two orchestras—the Vienna Ladies’ and Thomas’—and the English ballad quartet will furnish everything that is first class in the concert line. Two large vocal so- cieties purpose giving oratorios in the most complete manner possible. The influence which all these organizations will exert on music in this country cannot be overestimated, and we trust that the divine art, so loog sunk in the slough of despond, may revive brighter and more beautiful than ever. In addition to these attractions we shall have some travel- ling concert troupes, headed by artists of ac- knowledged ability, The season will wind up in Boston next summer with Gilmore’s “World's Jubilee,” in which twenty thousand singers and two thousand instrumentalists will take part. President Grant and other leading officials heartily endorse this gigantic festival, and bands from every part of Europe are ex- pected to take part in it. It will be an ap- propriate finale to the most brilliant musical season ever known in America, The dramatic prospects are not so favorable as those of music, owing to the degeneracy of the managers, who abandon legitimate and elevating attractions for machine plays of the most nonsensical kind. These plays are fathered by a class of third rate players who call themselves ‘“‘stars,” but who would not be able to procure even the humblest position ina good stock company, Many theatres in the country and a few here depend upon these rushlights for their season, and every lover of art will hope that the public will this season administer a just rebuke to them, by consign- ing them to the tender mercies of bankruptcy. There are, we are glad to say, honorable ex- ceptions to this style of management to be found in all the leading cities of the United States. In New York we have two first class comedy theatres, which uphold the true in- terests of the drama. At another house Miss Charlotte Cushman makes her first appearance after a lengthened absence from the stage, of which she was a chief ornament, and the German drama will be represented by one of its brightest stars. Mr. Fechter also proposes to effect great resulis by building a grand theatre, on the boards of which plays of the best kind will be interpreted by a well-selected company. The spectacular, pantomimic and sensational departments of the drama will not be neglected this season, as some managers intend to devote their theatres inclusively to them. A glance at our amusement columns to-day will give our readers a true idea of what they may expect in America during the musical and dramatic season of 1871-72, Season of The Alabama Claims Arbitration Board— An Excetlent Appointment from General Grant. The President has appointed Mr, Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, as the arbitrator to be named by him on those afore- said Alabama claims, and we are pleased to hear that Mr. Adams, with this appointment, has accepted the laborious and responsible task assigned him. The Treaty of Washing- ton provides that, for the settlement of the claims of American citizens arising from the depredations upon our commerce on the high seas, during our late civil war, by the Anglo- rebel cruiser Alabama, and by other craft of the same kidney, a board of arbitrators, con- sisting of five persons, shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to consider and to settle all such claims; that these arbitrators shall be appointed, one by the President of the United States, one by Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, and that the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation and the Emperor of Brazil shall each be requested to name one. The President of the United States having named his man we presume that Queen Vic- toria will shortly follow with her nomination, and that each of the other distinguished per- sonages requested to name an arbitrator will do so, and with especial regard to a settle. ment of our Alabama claims upon the prin- ciples of international jastice, as laid down in the Treaty of Washington. The appointment of and the acceptance of the position by Mr. Adams as the arbitrator of General Grant we regard so entirely satisfactory that we are fully confident of a settlement of the claims aforesaid to the satisfaction of both countries and all parties concerned as settlement just and true. The Rochester Tragedy and its Lesson. The story which we print to-day of the young Rochester girl who met so tragic and in every way so terrible a death by a fall over the banks of the Genesee River teaches a lesson which cannot be soon forgotten, Tho details are so sickening and heartrending that we cannot repeat them here, but the innocent picnics, of which we hear so much nowadays, which this story reveals, Not in Rochester alone, but in this city and many other places, do these gatherings contribute to vice and crime, The parks on Third avenue, where picnics are accustomed to as- semble, are generally ecenes of ribaldry and obscenity too shocking almost for ordinary credulity, This Rochester tragedy reveals in unmistakable language the fearful fruits of these ungoverned and ungovernable gather- ings. A young girl of unspotted reputation becomes either the victim of baseness or of curiosity, and dies a tragic death rather than face the shame which is inevitable. For this one of those religious festivals, for which there is neither warrant nor excuse, is mainly re- sponsible. It seems strange indeed that the grand petition in the grand prayer of our Lord, “Lead us not into temptation,” should be so carelessly violated in the name of Christianity, and we hope the lesson which this event teaches will lead to a necessary reform among the Christian congregations of the land. Personal Intelligence. Jodge W. H. H. 8. Hil, of Tennessee, 1s at the Grand Central, W. H. Ketcham, of the United States army, ts stopping at the st. Nicholas, Judge W. O. Gilvert, of Saratoga, is staying at the Gllsey House, Captain Harrel, of the British Army, has quarters al the Fifth Avenue. Postmaster G. W. Nason, Jr., of Newbern, N, ©., 18 temporarily residing at the Astor House. J. T. Vaaneck, of London, 1s domictled at the Albemarle House. George M. Pullman, of Chicago, President of the Pullman Palace Car Company, 13 sojourning at the Brevoort House, H. M. Hanna, of Cleveland, Ohio, is registered at the St, James Hotel, D, A. Wells, of Johnsontown, 1s a sojourner at the Grand Central. Dr. Levi Jones, of Texas, is among the late arrt- vals at the Astor House. N. P. Chipman, of Washington, D. ©., ts at the Fifth Avenue. J. Howard King, of Albany, isa resident of the Glisey House, Judge McGary, of New Orleans, is domiciled at the St. Nicholas. George H. Boker, of Philadelphia, is a sojourner at the Albemarle. H. G. Loomis, of Chicago, is at the St. James. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is again at the Fifth Avenue. Werner Otto, of Leipsic, is among the latest arrt- vals at the Fifth Avenue, President Grant arrived in town from Washington yesterday morning. Having breakfasted at the Astor House he went to the Fiith Avenue Hotel, and thence, after a short stay, to Long Branch. THE FIVE PER OENT LOAN, The cable announcement of the final and com. plete success of Judge Richardson’s negotiations abroad renders it proper to say that the proposition forwarded by him to Mr. Boutweil some days since, alter being somewhat modified by a con- ference with Messrs. Jay Cooke & Oo, the agents of the loan, has been agreed to by the Secretary and the agents. The particnlars of thia arrangement are highly beneficial to the Treasury and reflect great credit on Mr. Boutwell’s manage- ment and that of Judge Richardson, A syndicate, to pe formed by Jay Cooke & Co., under whose auspices the loan will be marketed, will mclude the national banks and bankers of this country, and the strongest houses in England and on the Continent. A sum of nut less than $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 will be placed to the credit of the Treasury on or before the 25th instant, applicable to the payment of the old five-twenties, Under this arrangement the balance of the $200,000,009 of the five per cent loan ‘Will be disposed of within a very short period, WEATHER REPOST. WAR DEPARTMENT, i OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, August 10-1 A, M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has fallen since Tuesday night north of [ilinois and Kansas, It has fallen very slightly in the Gulf and South Atlantic States and risen in the Middie and Eastern States and on the lower lakes. The temperature ts now somewhat lower in the Atlantic States, but rising in the Obio Valley. Northwesterly winds have prevailed from Virginia to Matne, southwest winds on the South Atlantic and Guif coasts, lignt winds and calms in the Olio Valley, and pleasant weatner has been very generally reported from Virgi- nia to Kansas and northward, with haze and smoke on the lower lakes from Canadian fires. Cloudy and threatening weather, with local rains, has pre- vailed Wednesday eventng from the South Atlantia Coast to the Atlantic and at the Rocky Mountain stations, Probabilities, Rising barometer with pleasant and hazy weather is probable for Thursday east of Pennsylvania. In- creased cloudiness, with local storms, will probably prevall in the South Atlantic States and westward, as wellas {rom Indiana to Kansas and Minnesota. NEW YORK SUPREME COURT. Decision In the Bennett Insurance Case in Syracise—§ 120,000 Involved=The Fire Declared) te bg the Act of an Incendiary. SYRACUSE, August 9, 1871, Inthe Bennett insurance case, Involving thirty- three suits in the Supreme Court brought by Erastua ‘1. ‘eM against thirty-three different insurance companies to recover, in the aggregate, about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars upon poucies of msurance issued upon Bennett Brothers’ stock of dry goods, lately owned by them in Syracuse, @ decision has just been rendered by Judges William J, Bacon, Alex- ander J. Johnson and Sidney T. Holmes, of Utica, to whom all the suits were referred, tn favor of the insurance companies, The suits were de- fended mainly upon the ground that the fire was iraudulent and intentional. The trial lasted thirty days, and over one hundred witnesses were called and sworn, The referees “hold ana decide that the fire by which the destruction of the insured property occurred was caused by the fraudulent act, procure- ment, connivance and consent of Samuel F, Ben- nett, one of the assured parties.’ ‘The sults were brought by Hardin and Burrows, of Little Falls, as atlorneys for the plaintif, and were defended by Pratt, Mitchell and Brown, of Syracuse, as attorneys for the companies, MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. Lona Brancu, N. J., August 9, 1871. President Grant, accompanied by General Porter, arrived this evening from Washington. Secretary Fish and wife and H. V. Bemis and wife, of Chicago, have also arrived, and are the guests of the Presi- dent, The President's answer to the committee of the Edinburg Scott celebration will be sent to- morrow morning, as he <lid not receive the message from Europe until late this evening. FRANK P, BLAIR AT CAPE MAY, CAPE ISLAND, N. J., August 9, 1871, General Frank P. Blair, of Missourl, who ts stay- ing at the Stockton Hotel, at this place, was sere~ naded by Mr, Daffy and the General's political friends this evening. It was not a political, but waa a grateful testimonial to the old Fifteenth corps commander, The General, at its conclusion, ap- peared on the balcony and thanked his [riends for the testimonial in a very happy speech and retired. ELECTION IN MONTANA. A Republican Elected Delegate to Congress. HeLENA, Montana, August 9, 1871. Reports from all parts of the Territory indicate’ that W. H. Clagett, republican, Is elected delegare to Congress. KENTUCKY ELECTION, LOUISVILLE, August 9, 18Tl. | Returns begin to come in sufficiently to enavia Politicians to form an estimate approximating tho result of the election, Leslie's friends claim hia election by 35,000 majority, While Harian’s friends, far the genius of Sqott than for anv tribute to | are really the gauge of the sip and gorrow . couccue it by 25,000 oF 30,000,