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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S MERALD. Pace. 4—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, S—Labor Reform: A New Political Party in the Field; the Contest Between Capital and Labor—The Base Ball Howlcide—singular Case of Strangulation—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 4@—Editori: eading Article, “The Family Jars Among the Republicans and the Troubles of the Democracy—General Grant Master of the Fi ‘Personal Intelligeuce—New York City News—arreat of an Alleged Swindler—Amuse- Ment Announcements, —War Toreatening: A Franco-Russian Alliance Against Austua and Germany; Gigantic War Preparations of Kussia—The’ Situation in France—Engiand: Earl Russell Appoioted Ar- bitrator of the Alabama Claims—Telegrams from Germany, Spain, Cuba and Central and South = America—Misceliancous —Telegrams— Yachting—Views ot the Past—Local Matters, 6—The Rochester Tragedy: Conunued Excitement Over the Strange Death of Viola Karsnner— ‘The Sad Steamboat Scald: Continuation of the Oficial Investigations—A Funking Ferry Com- pany—Taxauion of National Banks—Another Stride for Jersey—Murderous Mike—Great Fire in Rochester—The Maine Central Railroad Disaster—Fatal Railroad Accident—Destruc- tion of a Packing Box Factory—Sad Atfair—A Baitmore Detaulter Captured—Lake Superior Silver Mines. —The Presidency: Chief Justice Chase on the Na- tional Issues of the Campaign of 1872; His Views on the Democratic Platform—Proceed- Ings in the Courts—The Counterieit Canard— Shall Women Have a Chance to Learn a Trade ’—Financial and Commercial Reports. G—News irom Washingion—The Late Captain Lyons—The Merrick Camp Meeting—Buralo Park: Third Day of the Sixth Annual ‘trotting Meeiing—The Natioual Gaime—Fires in Pmia- delphia—Fire in the Pennsylvania Mines— Patriotic Sons of America—Insh Unity—Boat Race at Poughkeepsie—Army and Navy Intel- ligence—Long ranch—Shipping = Intelu- gence—Advertisemenis, Tae Patriotic Sons oF AMERICA have need of more patriotism than can be found in a name, or else they would not have proposed or discussed a resolution disfranchising Roman Catholics and expressing abhorrence of that system of religion. Let the Patriotic Sons of America worship as suits them best, and let the Roman Catholics do the same. Tue Rocnester TracEpy is the cause of great excitement among the good citizons of that town, While such precocious criminality lies hidden among the children of religious communities or such reckless rowdyism is found to be rampant among the participants in religious picnics it is a matter that deserves immediate action, and is enough to frighten the quiet country people out of their pro- priety. Mixes Copvrn’s Brorner and friends are still using every effort to secure his release, They intimated to the Coroner yesterday that they thought they could find some obliging Judge who would take bail. [t is a matter of the utmost interest to the general public to know what obliging Judge Mr. Coburn can find. It is not likely that any Judge in the city, under the present pressure of public opinion, would dare to allow this ruffian out on bail. The intimation was doubtless one of those ebullitions of confidence in political Influence that so frequently defeat their own ends, like Jack Reynolds’ epigram on hanging. Avyotner Cuban Leaver Execurep.—Ha- vana despatches say that the Cuban Generals Quesada and Figueredo have been executed at Santiago de Cuba. Quosada’s Venezuelan expedition was ill-starred in the extreme, and from the first seemed fated to destruction. After encountering many obstacles he succeed- ¢ ed in landing a portion of his forces in Cuba and achieved one or two unimportant snecesses, but soon his entire command was dispersed and himself taken prisoner. Tous ends an- other of those unfortunate and seeminzly mad attempts to revive the waning fortunes of the patriot cause in Cuba. Eart Russert has been appointed arbi- {rator on the part of England to sit in the Geneva Commission. Sir Roundell Palmer is appointed his counsel. There could hardly have been any person named for this commis- NEW XYUKK The Presidential agitation has commenced, and the controlling influence of the Presi- dential question is beginning to be felt and seen in all our political elections. It is appa- rent, too, looking at the general results of the late elections in North Carolina and Kentucky, that, notwithstanding the Ku Klux bill and the carpet-baggers and the divisions and dissen- sions in the republican camp, General Grant is strong in the South and is gaining strength in thai section. Nor can it be questioned that his name and the record of bis administration, embracing his domestic and foreign policy on his general programme of peace, are a tower of strength to his party in all the North. It is equally clear, from all the signs of the times, that he will be renominated and re-elected. But still the family jars among the repupli- cans, arising from rival aspirants for Presi- dential honors, from disappointed spoilemen and reckless demagogues, from trading cliques and discordant factions, here, there and every- where, are very seriows. They would be fatal to the republican party in 1872 but for the neutralizing troubles and embarrassments of the democratic party, Beginning with Massachusetts, we find that the irrepressible General Butler has struck out on a new departure on labor reform and women’s rights as a republican candidate for Governor. Upon this movement Wendell Phillips, the Yankee Cassandra, said in a speech the other evening at Boston, ‘The republicans (for Governor) may nominate Loring. In that event he (Phillips, the labor reform leader), would certainly nominate Butler.” Further- more he said that ‘Butler's course the past month is the first blow to knock the republican party to pieces, and it only needs one other to crystallize it into a new form. He knew of a good many republicans who would not object to a reforming of their party on the labor issue.” It is evident that Butler is a thorn in the side of the orthodox school of Massa- chusetts republicans. He seems to be re- solved upon running for Governor in Novem- ber anyhow, and, {f not taken up by the Regu- lar Republican Convention, he may, as the labor reform and women’s rights candidate, make a good opening for the democrats under the standard of the persevering John Quincy Adams. Should this thing occur, and it may occur, this republican upset in Massachusetts will assuredly create a greater political sensa- tion than did the unexpected triumph of the democracy in New Hampsbire last spring. Coming next to New York, we find the republican party of the city and the State cut up into various discordant cliques and fac- tions, They may all, however, be classed under two heads—the Conkling republicans and the Fenton republicans. The Conkling wing of the party hold the Custom House, and go for General Grant against all comers for the Presidential succession; the Fenton fac- tion, including the benevolent Mr. Greeley, being outside of the Custom House, are thoroughly convinced that the good of the country requires that General Grant shall be reduced to one term. The Fenton faction, however, have declared that they will abide by the action of the September State Conven- tion of the party, from which we suspect that they count upona majority in the Con- vention, and upon snubbing Conkling, Col- lector-Murphy and General Grant in the Con- vention resolutions. If they doso Tammany may feel easy ; for, with all the hullabaloo of wholesale spoilations raised against her, Barkis being willin’, she will in our Novem- ber contest walk over the course. Mr. Greeley says, in so many words, that he “does not himself favor the renomination of General Grant, and is prepared to give his reasons at the proper time ;” and we shall probably get them at the coming Republican State Convention, for there he will be com- pelled to make his fight against General Grant or to surrender at discretion or bolt. We look for a bolt, with Mordecai Murphy still “sitting in the King’s gate.” Next, looking into Pennsylvania, what with Governor Geary and the labor reformers and the temperance party, which has taken the field for the October State election with an indepen- dent ticket, and what with the fighting repub- lican factions in Philadelphia over the spoils, there would be a splendid chance for the democrats, with anything like concord and en- thusiasm amongthem. Even as they are, all at sea, they may, perhaps, recover the State. In Ohio the republicans seem to be in better con- dition; but in Illiaois Senators Trumbull and Logan, each looking out for the main chance, under a new Presidential shuffle, cut and deal, are doing considerable mischief in the repub- lican camp. The same remarks will apply to Senator Schurz and Governor Gratz Brown in Missouri, and the same may be said of the dubious party loyalty of Senator Tipton (the Tipton Slasher), of Nebraska. We dare say that, including Senators Sumner, Fenton, Trumbull, Logan, Tipton and ‘General Jim Nye,” of Nevada, there are at least halfa dozen republican Senators who have got the buzzing bee of the White House in their ears, and that, waking or sleeping, it bothers them all the time. So much for the republican party in the North, From the East to the West in this sion of peace and harmony more dis- tasteful to Americans than Earl Russell, out of whose injudicious rulinzs and cordial hatred of American institutions the whole question that he is now called upon to settle coolly and justly grew originally. But as England has the reputation all the world over of looking out for her own interesis mainly, she cannot be justly condemned for putting in this place the one man most likely to secure her interests in the settlement. CoMPENSATION OF THE FreNcn Dzpart- MENTs.—A motion was submitted to the French National Assembly yesterday pro- viding for the distribution of remuneration for the losses sustained by the departments during the late war, The proposition, which was strongly opposed by M. Victor Lefranc, was not acted upon, and for the present the matter is at rest. So long as the German indemnity remains unpaid it would be well if the present government of France abstained from assuming any immediate financial obliga- tions, Pay the Germans off first, free the land from the presence of the invader, and then whatever indemnity is due the invaded departments should be taken into considera- fion, section its wrangling factions and disaffected leaders and trampeters are doing all they can do to disorganize and break up the party in pursuit of their selfish schemes, Nor are the same demoralizing elements wanting in the South. They abound in Georgia, they are to be found in Alabama and Mississippi, and they have, just broken up the Republican State Convention of Louisiana into two con- ventions and the party into two parties or ferociously hostile factions. One of these divisions marches under the banner of the national administration, and the other—a sort of Fenton arrangement—under the flag of Governor Warmoth, who thinks, with Mr, Greeley, that General Grant should be re- duced to one term. Under ordinary circum. stances this budget of blundering party leaders and conflicting cliques and factions would suffice this fall to clear the way for a sweeping political revolution in the next fall; but so strong with the masses of the republican party and so acceptably before the masses of the people stands General Grant’s record for the succession, that the opinion universally prevails that he will be renominated without difficulty and re-elected President by a de- cisive majority of the popular and electoral vote for four years more. But this prevailing opinion of his re-election is not based altogether upon the satisfactory record of his administration. The troubles and embarrassments of the democrats have much to do with this general impression of the country. First of all, the democrats want a Presidential candidate equal to the emergen- cies of the time. We have urged upon them the ticket of Chase and Hancock as a powerful ticket, and that it be backed by a strong Cabi- net ticket, including such men as J. Q. Adams, Hoffman, Randolph, Pendleton, Hendricks, Blair and Governor Walker, of Virginia. But from the democratic party organs we have had no encouraging responses to these practical suggestions. So the question of their Presi- dential candidate remains a perplexing conun- dram to the party, and in their National Con- vention, under the two-thirds rule, some un- expected obscurity, as in 1844 and 1852, may cut out all the aspiring and hopeful party leaders, from Hoffman to Hendricks, The party leaders admit that it is useless to put up a military candidate against General Grant; but with the abandonment of Chase where are they to find a civilian competent to cope with the record of General Grant? Here, indeed, the democratic party is all at sea, while the leader and the principles of the republicans are established in Goneral Grant and his success- ful and satisfactory policy of retrenchment, economy and peace at home and abroad. There is still a greater perplexity with the democrats than that of their Presidential can- didate in their Presidential platform. Their “new departure” among the ‘‘old line demo- crate” is denounced as a cowardly surrender to radicalism, a humbug, a delusion and a snare in the North, East and West, while in the South the leaders of the ‘“‘lost cause”—who are the leaders of the Southern democracy or of the main body of the dominant Southern whites—protest that they will adhere to the Northern democracy only upon the reaffirma- tion in 1872 of their national platform of 1868, which defeated Seymour and Blair with their nomination. Soitis that with all these per- sonal feuds and factious cliques, and squab- bling factions and splits among the republicans the opinion prevails on all sides that General Grant will be re-elected in 1872; that the greater issues of internal and external peace, of economy, retrenchment and the payment of the debt and of order and security in our finan- cial affairs will swallow up all these petty and contemptible complaints of disappointed spoils- men and trading and over-greedy politicians, Such are the indications from North Carolina and even from Kentucky, and we suspect they will be strengthened in our approaching Septomber and October elections in the North, and that if New York is not recovered by the republicans in November it will probably be because the Fenton-Greeley faction have re- solved, at all hazards, to have their revenge against General Grant, Senator Conkling and Collector Murphy. But still, our conclusions from all these republican family jars and demo- cratic embarrassments are that General Grant has become and is becoming stronger as the master of the political field, and that in due time all these radical malcontents and sore- heads, including Mr. Greeley, will be con- strained to eat their “humble pie.” War Threatening. The prospect of another war stares Europe in the face. Our special despatch from Salz- burg brings the startling news that Russia has formed an alliance with France against Austria and Germany. On the other hand, the Emperor William and Francis Joseph are about to meet at Gastein. The theme of their conference, at which the Aus- trian Chancellor, Count Beust, is also to be present, will probably be the threatening Franco-Russian alliance. It now bebooves the two Kaisers to unite in opposing the hostile combination. Russia is arming ona gigantic scale. Thiers has refused to reduce the large military establishment of France. Surely, this means mischief. It is a well known fact that Russia has not looked with a favorable eye upon the overshad- owing preponderance of Germany. Aus- tria is her natural enemy, who has always barred the execution of her ambitious designs in the Danubian Principalities. In view of these facts it is by no means improb- able that the Czar has taken up those negoti- ations with Thiers which had been commenced with the Empress Eugénie and so inoppor- tunely broken off by the revolution of the 4th of September. Chief Justice Chase and Party. The remarkable series of resolutions adopted by a number of conservative gentlemen at Parkersburg, West Virginia, and submitted to Chief Justice Chase for his approval, reveals at once the hesitation of the democratic party and the advanced position it will be compelled to take if Mr. Chase becomes its candidate for the Presidency. The Chief Justice is not satis- fied with the ‘‘new departure” when it is an- nounced with reservations disapproving of the means employed to secure the adoption of the recent amendments to the constitution. He wants a simple declaration that the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments, having been promulgated by all departments of the government, afé the law of the land. In this he shows great wisdom, as direct and explicit words can alone pnt the party on a platform which will not be mistaken by the country. He ap- Proves the resolutions in other respects, and by the letter which we print in to-day’s HeEpAcp it is plain that, while he is not push- ing himself forward for the Presidency, he will not refuse the democratic nomination. The wisest thing the party can do is to make him the candidate on the broad and liberal platform upon which he is willing to stand, Unless the democracy comes up to his position on the ‘‘dead issues” there ig no hope for the success of the party in the next campaign ; and even by making the advance it is doubtful if they can succeed unless they make Mr. Chase their standard-bearer, We shall see with what wisdom they act in the matter, but in any event the opinions of Chief Justice Chase on the national issues of the campaign of 1872 cannot fail to create a very profound impres- sion. Obedience to the constitutional amend- ments, an indivisible Union, the specdy resamption of specie payments, a general amnesty, the revision of the tariff, making it a the Democratic HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1871 tariff for revenue only, and retrenchment and reform in all the departments of the govern- ment, are propositions which will commend themselves to the whole body of the people. With these principles in the platform and so able an exponent of them as the Chief Justice at the head of the ticket the democracy would enter upon the next canvass better prepared for the fight than at any time since the break- ing out of the rebellion, The Threatened Meeting in Hyde Park— What Will the Government Do?t—The Two Public Guests of Ireland—The Prince of Wales and Marshal MacMahon. We learn by the cable that the action of the Trish government in suppressing the Fenian amnesty meeting in Dublin has provoked a great deal of feeling in England, and that an indignation meeting is to be held in Hyde Park next Sunday to protest, in the name of the English people, against this flagrant and out- rageous interference with the “right of assem- blage.” This curiously agrees with what we predicted a few days ago as the probable plan of campaign of Mr. Maguire and other promi- nent Irish leaders to obtain the repeal of the Union, First among the features of that agi- tation would be, we said, an attempt to culti- vate an entente cordiale between the English and Irish masses, and to show both peoples that their common enemy was that privileged feudal class which has instigated the oppres- sion of Ireland and has brought about the brutalization of the English peasan- try. The proposed gathering in Hyde Park proves, indeed, that this mutual sympathy already exists, thanks, doubt- less, to the organized exertions of the men in both countries who aim at revolution- izing the British empire. John Bright has long shadowed forth such a policy in his speeches and in his acts; and we have little doubt that national prejudice and jealousy will in time be succeeded by the caprit d corps engendered by the sense of a common interest and the enthusiasm of a common struggle. All over Europe kings and mil- lionnaires are complaining that the spirit of nationality is decaying anwng their victims, and that it is no longer possible to inflame the mind of the artisan of one country against the artisan of another. The masses of the people in all civilized countries are, indeed, beginning to believe that the grand struggle that affects their welfare—ay, even their honor and dignity as men—is a struggle between classes, not a struggle between nationalities. Eng- lishmen and Irishmen seem in this respect to have caught the spirit of the age; and they will stand together to abolish the rank abuses and right the wicked wrongs that have fora thousand years ministered to the amusement and the profit of a selfish aristocracy. As to the attack of the police upon a gather- ing in Phoenix Park, and the bloodshed in which it resulted, there can be but one opinion among thoughtful men. It was a foolish blunder on the part of the Lord Lieutenant. We may grant, for the sake of argument, that the people had no right to meet in a public park, which nominally belongs to the crown, though it is admitted that they hada right to assemble in a private hal! or upon private property. But how absurd to resent such a slight stretching of the undisputed right into & great political crime! A sensible ruler would have let Mr, Sullivan and his colleagues talk to their hearts’ content. It is not the most dangerous species of sedition that thus airs itself inthe public gaze. After all, what harm could they have done? And then, how ill- timed was this determined and bloody pro- vocation of disloyalty! The Prince of Wales had gone on a “‘starring” tour through the country to revive by his presence the old Celtic respect for a king, ora king’s son. He had talked already hundreds of yards of pleasant but meaningless blarney, and might perhaps have ultimately succeeded in winning the affections of his Irish subjects but for the pig-headed folly of the authorities. We believe that he intended, as a last and winning card for popularity, to play exactly the very measure that the meeting called for—the amnesty of the imprisoned Fenians. Nothing but the greatest stupidity on the part of the Lord Lieutenant can explain the appeal to brute force at such a crisis as this. The consequence of the riot has been to intensify a hundred fold the hatred of the English monarchy by the Irish people. The Prince of Wales is denounced in every paper that appeals to the masses, and he is hissed and hooted, or at best received with an insulting silence, when- ever he appears in the streets. What a contrast to these expressions of aversion and contempt will be the hearty welcome accorded by every Irishman to the gallant Mursbal MacMahon during his coming visit to the land of his ancestors! The French hero may, pérhaps, pass under fewer triumphal arches and eat not quite so many public dinners as the Prince; but in all that makes up a true welcome—enthusiastic crowds, faces beaming pleasure, eyes flashing admiration, throats sonorous with hearty cheers—we think the Marshal wil have by far the better time. But what does the British government intend to do about the coming demonstration in Hyde Park? Will it dare repeat in London next Sabbath the bloody work of last Sunday in Dablin? We thiak ivt The English people areas resolute and earnest in defending the rights their fathers won as their fellow sub- jects across the Irish Channel, and the govern- ment, in these latter days of almost universal suffrage, dare not awake their wrath. Per- haps if it isa wet day and the meeting is a slim one the authorities may venture to dis- perse it, but not otherwise. We shall watch with keen interest the upshot of the struggle, The Trial of the Communists. Now that the Communists have been fairly put upon trial and that evidence begins to be made public, we are the more fully convinced that the worst things said of them were not quite up to the mark. It was testified that Ferré released convicts and put arms in their hands. The Abbe Darcy, who saw some of their doings, said he had been for twenty-five years a missionary among savages, and that even among the barbarous races he had never witnessed atrocities equal to those perpetrated by the Communists. He also said that among the members of the court martial, which sat in the Roquette Prison, there were boys not over seventeen years of age. Assy at the bur of justice glories in bls shame, admits that he took part in the execution of captives, and justifies the wildest atrocities of the Com- mune on the principle of the law of retalia- tion. More will yet come out, But come out what may, we are not likely to be made to lose the latest organization which aims at the reconstruction of society. The International and the Commune speak for themselves; but 80 far as they have spoken we must say we do not like them. Murderers let loose on society could not be worse than the Paris Commune. It is the duty of the civilized world to squelch the International. Slavery ‘in Cuba. Even the memorials of men so distinguished as M. Guizot and M. Laboulaye for the aboli- tion of slavery in Cuba and Porto Rico can have no practical results, The King of Spain is almost as powerless in the Spanish colonies asthe King of Dahomey, and especially on such questions as the question of slavery in Cuba. The prosperity of the island depends upon cheap and forced labor while Spanish dominion continues, and Spanish cupidity will not permit abolition in Cuba either now or hereafter if such a consummation can be pre- vented. Zelueta is now in Spain seeking the reappointment of Concha as Captain General merely as a means of fostering slavery and secretly reopening the slave trade. Cargoes of slaves occasionally arrive off the island now, and, in spite of all that the Spaniards say to the contrary, they are landed. There can be no doubt that the slave ship which was reported off the island early in the summer accomplished its wicked purposes, The Gradual Emancipation act, which was to go into operation last January, is a dead letter. There is not yet the first slave capable of labor who has been freed under its operations, While the United States continue to spend one hundred and ten mil- lions of dollars annually for Cuban sugars, produced by a system of labor antagonistic to our own, the Cubans and Spaniards will hold on to their forced labor, Guizot and Labou- laye would have shown more wisdom if they had asked England and America to put a stop toa system which is a disgrace to civiliza- tiof. Their petition to the helpless King of the Spaniards would be dignified if we were to call it a farce, President Grant and the Memory of Sir Walter Scott. In another place in the Heratp of this morning will be found a despatch addréssed by President Grant to the Earl of Dalkeith, the presiding officer at the Scott centennial celebration in Edinburg on Wednesday. The despatch does credit to the head and heart of President Grant. It was a pity the President was from home when Dalkeith’s message ar- rived; for the reading of bis reply would have been the sensation of the day in Edin- burg. As it is we are glad to seo it on record. The despatch of the Earl of Dalkeith and the reply of the President, taken together, must be regarded as another beautiful out- come of that fine spirit which found expres- sion in the Washington Treaty. “The American people,” says the President, ‘‘who have been instructed and edified by Sir Walter Scott’s works of history, poetry and fiction, will highly appreciate your cordial expressions of friendship and reciprocate them in all sincerity.” This isthe kind of rivalry in which the two great English speaking families ought to indulge, Hand in band let us thus march on to the great future, United the two peoples stand and must stand at the head of civilization. Kind words are easily spoken; and kind words are more potent conquerors than mighty armies, The Dangers of the Fcrrics. The inquests and investigations into the cause of the Westfield explosion still continue, though little new matter is being brought for- ward in evidence. As a new cause for uneasi- ness one expert, evidently an intelligent and reliable gentleman, said it was generally con- ceded that to sound a boiler with a light ham- mer is a better test than hydrostatic pressure. Superintendent. Braisted said that he would rather have a man for engineer who had learned his trade as a fireman, and that he knew men to take charge of steamships who had been blacksmiths. The inspection of all the ferry- boats, including the remaining ones on the Staten Island line, is now going on, and before certificates are granted we would like to have the riddle solved, Is there no better way of inspecting? Hydrostatic pressure is evidenily a faulty test, because, while it may indicate a high capacity in the boiler for resisting steam, the very test itself so injures the boiler that it would not probably indicate near so much at a second test made immediately after. In other words, it shows the steam pressure which the boiler might have stood before the test was made, but it renders the boiler uafit to stand it afterward, As to the engineers, we think the inspectors might also inspect them more thoroughly before certifying to them. If an engineer is a mere machine himself, capable barely of pulling one lever, hoisting another and scanning the various gauges; if he is so ignorant as to call a vacuum foul air and know not the definition of maximum, then the company should be Fequired to teach him the theory of explosions or else get other men, It is the high price of educated engine drivers that deters ferry ddiit- panies from putting a reasonable animal rather than an automaton to control this powerful giant of steam. The Astoria and Weehawken ferries have been inspected by the HeRatp Commissioner, and, so far as safety is concerned, they might as well be so many nitro-glycerine cans, ARREST OF- AN ALLEGED SWINDLER. How a Baker Undertook to Raise Bread in Westchester County. Louis Christ, @ baker of Oriental origin, doing business on the corner of 137th street and Third avenue, Harlem, was arrested yesterday on a war- Tant issued by Justuce Browne, of Morrisania, West- chester county, in which he is charged by Louis Deihl, of that town, with obtaining a quantity of flour, valued at $200, by misrepresenting his financial Status, It scems that the accused called at Deihl’s place of business In Mott Haven, and having stated that he was the owner of considerable real estate in New York and Westchester county succeeded in se- curing the merchandise indicated. Subsequent in- quiries, however, revealed the fact that the real estate owned by this unprofitable customer existed chiefly in the latter’s imagination. On belng ar- raigned before Justice Browne the accused was ordered to find bonds in $1,000 to appear for further eXamipation ou the LOLb iste yaa Personal Intelligence. Judge John Powell, of Georgia, is at the Grand Central. General D. W. Adams, of Alabama, 1s quartered at the Filth Avenue. United States Senator Charles Summer, of Massa- chusetts, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House, William 0. Alexander, of Princeton, N. J., 1s stop> Ping at the St. James Hotel, Congressman Clinton L. Merriman, of Locust Grove, N. Y., is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue. General G. B. Cass, of Pittsburg, Pa., is dwelling at the St. Nicholas. United States Senator James W. Patterson, of New Hampshire, is registered at the Astor House, Rev. Telfair Hodsgon, of the University of Ala- bama, is temporarily residing at the New York Hotel. Thomas A. Ritchie, of Halifax, N. 8., is at the Clarendon Hotel. Captain J. M. Lancaster, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Albemarle Hotel. Congressman J. Lawrence Getz, of Reading, Ps., 1s sojourning at the Astor House, General G. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is a dweiler at the Brevoort House. R. U. Brinckley, of Tennessee, is a resident of the Grand Central. General A. J. Myer, of the United States Army, Chief of the Signal Service, 1s residing at the Filth Avenue, W. H. Goddard, of Louisville, Tenn., is at the Clarendon Hotel. Major 0. Livermore, of San Francisco, is quar- tered at the Fifth Avenue. Major S. 8, Davis, of Ciscinnatl, is among the recent arrivals at the St, Nicnolas. David Paul Brown, of Philadelphia, is staying at the Astor House. J. H, Ramsay, of Albany, is again at the Fifth Av- enue, Dr. Gatling, of Hartford, is a sojourner at the St. Nicholas. W. H. Shock, of the United States Navy, ts quar+ tered at the Astor House, Major J. N. Knapp, of Auburn, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas, D. T. Casement, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue. Wm. H. Seward, of Auburn, is at the St. Niche» las. Judge Richard Busteed, of the United States Dise trict Court of Alabama, yesterday took quarters at the Sturtevant House. NEW YORK CITY. The following record will show the changesin tha temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, a3 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Phare macy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann street:— 1870. 1871, 1870, 1st, 834 75 SP. M. 833 748 PL 85 17 oP. 80 83) 12P 79 Average temperature yesterday... 5 19% Average temperature for corresponding ‘date last year........5 a 85 John Allen, aged twelve years, who resided with nis parents at 241 Delancey strect, fell overboard accidentally, at the foot o! Stanton street, yesterday afternoon, and was drowned before aid could reach him, His body was swept away with the tide and has not yet been found. Amelia Trow, a little girl, eight years of agg whose pareats live om the northeast corner of Thirty-seventh street and Tenth avenue, died yesterday from the effects of burns received by her clotnes accidentally taking fire. Coroner Young waa calied to make an examination in the case. Coroner Young was yesterday notified by Sergeant Carr, of the Tenth precinct, of the death at 97 Nor- folk street of Mary Hathaway. In his note to the Coroner Sergeant Carr stated that Mrs. Hathaway died suddenly in her Spersments, caused, it Is sup- posed, by a fire which had broken out a short time previously at 100 Norfolk street, Justice Shandley, at Jefferson Market, yesterday committed George Leavitt for trial upon complaint of James Lee, of Fifty-tourth street, near Figntir avenue, who charged him with stealing a horse, harness and wagon from him on Wednesday, valued at $700. The property was found in the possession. of the prisoner, Frederick Bohler, a German, died yesterday im Centre Street Hospital, On Wednesday evening he Was driving a lager beer truck past the corner of Warren and Greenwich streets, when he feil trom his scat to the pavement and fractured his skull. Coroner Herrman held an inquest on the nody. De- ceased lived at 366 Greenwich street, where he haa left a famhy. Patrick Kelly, thirty-four years of age and born in Ireland, while at work corner of Fifty-eighth strece and Sixth avenue on Wednesday afternoon, was injured by a telegraph pole falling on him, causing compression of the brain and iracture of his mght arm. Death subsequently ensued from the injuries. Deceased lived at 81 Roosevelt street, where Coroner Young will hold an inquest, the body having been removed, A Cardozo club was last evening organized in the Seventh ward, at the Standard House, with the election of the following named officers:—President, M. P. Breen; Vice Presidents, Jonn Howard and Dennis Dempsey; Recording Secretary, Mortimer Moynehan; Corresponding secretary, D. A. Spellie cier; Financial Secretary, John Gritfin; Treasurer, Edward O'Vonnor; Sergeants-at-Arms, Jeremiah Regan and D. Rumbold. A committee of four was fre ta to draw up @ constitution and set of by- jaws. The Ninth Ward German Michael Norton Assoctae tion held a meeting at their club room, 239 Bleecker street, last evening. The following ofiters wera clected for the es? ited H. Sturken, Prest- dent; J. A. Franke, Vieé President; A, Eicks, Secre- tary; J. Rosenthal, Treasurer, A working committee was formed for the coming campaign, when, after a series of resolutions expressing the unanimous satis- faction of all assembled in the past acts of their Sena- r, the meeting adjourned till Friday evening, Augast 11, at eight o'clock, to appoint a delegation to collectively work with the kindred associations of the Eighth, Fifteent a Sixteenth wards. Yesterday afternoon, while laborers were engaged {n uprooting trees at the new eutrance to the Cen- tral Park, corner of Eighty-fifth street and Eighth avenue, they discovered, fourteen inches beneatar the surface, a black rosewood coffin, richly mounted and 10 a state of good preservation, On the td was 4 plate with the engraving, ‘Margaret Mclntay, died February, 1852, aged sixteen years, threo months and fourteen days.” Within the coffin was the pony ol a Woman, decayed almost to a skeleton, Ata short distance from the spot another coitin was found, enclosing the body of a negro, decomposed beyond recognition, This land was dug up tive years ago, when the trees were planted there, aud no such cofius were e at that time, A large meeting of the citizens of the weat side of the Twenty-first ward met last nignt at 1,259 Broadway, corner of Thirty-flrst street, to organize a Shandley club. After eloquent speeches nad been made by Captain Eytinge, W.M. Bavbett, W. A. Hall, Mr. Suilivan, David . Holdredge and others, and some delightful music, Dr. Theophilus steele moved that the meeting organize as a permauent Shandley club, which motion was enthusiasticallp carried and the following officers were unanimously elected:—President, Dr. Walter M. Fleming; Vice President, Harry 8. Evtinge; Secretary, Lyman W. Mews; Treasurer, Philip Milligan, The mecting then adjourned with three cheers for Judge svand- ley and the democratic cause. At a meeting of the “Hancock Column,” held at 71 Broadway yesterday aiternoon, Colonel William A. Lynch gave a history of the association and the ects for which it was formed, He read a speech delivered ‘at Masonic Hall in July, 1863, by Theodore K. Tomlinson, endorsiay General Hancock's ciaim tor the Presidency of the United States, and during Which the speaker gave & detailed account of the General's services during the war, his claims upon the people and the benefits that would result to the country from the election oi such a man to the Presidential chair, Resolutions were passed con- firming the nomination of General Hancock, and urging the people throughout the country to form auxiary “Hancuck Columns” lor the purpose of forwarding the work in hand, Tno Department of Public Parks announce that it the weather be fine there will be music by the Cen tral Park Band at the City Hall Park on Friday, st 11, from half-past five to half-past seven athox P.M. ‘Tae following i» the programmes 3. Rerenade 4. Galop, “Tornado' 5. Grund Selection, “Maritan 6 Waltz, “Wahistimmen”, 7. Selection, “Erin, 8, Guiop, “Up and At 5 i ag 4 10, Walta, Spring I. Air, “Our Bar’ LQ PARE Wives of Jennengern’ 1m Moonlig) juddrille, “Palmetto”. . 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