The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1871, Page 4

oW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Hrrarp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEWIND. BOOTHS THEATRE, 28d st, between ith and &th avs. LITTLE NELL AND THE MARCHION ESS, STOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— 5 BAND. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 78 Broad —K & Lrox's Miner res, harap ahd RY THEATRE, Rowery,-BeRtaa, (HE SEWLs MACHINE Giki~1un Buzanns, satiated MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THE. Bs Bethe UNpEa THE WitLows. any amore: CENTRAL ‘PARK GAR Tuomas’ SUMMER Nigurs’ Coxcrnrs. —Turoponr New York, Monday, Augusi 14, 1871. CONTENTS GF Te-DAY'S HERALD, Page. Ee 1—Advertisements, 2—Adveriisements. 3—Street Car Eptsodes—Bills and Bollets-—Carry- ing OF a Jewelry Store—brought from the Bivers—A Justice Without Business—Pinan- cial’ and) Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Havana Markets—Marriages and , Deaths—Adver. isements, 4~—Bditoviats: Leading Article. “The Labor Reform farty and Its Sweeping Revolutionary Pro- ramme—A Tremendoas Agitation Coming”— verature—Fire in Jersey City— Weather Re- port—Another Stavbing Adray—Amusement announcements, S—Italy: Tne Italian Government Satisted with the Conctliatury Conduct of M. Tiners—News from Spain—France—Nogiand: Hyde Park Indignation. Meeting Against the Dublin Au- thorines— Stilt Another {ot in Dublin- NeWs from Turkey and Brauzil—Miscellancous Tele- grams—Art'stic Pars: Immense Loss of Valu- able Works of Art— Tue Murderer of McNamara Sot News from Washington—Lusiness ouces @—Religions: Sermons in the Metropolis and Else- Where Yesterday; ihe #amaging Power and Dastardliness of Deiraction; Envy, idleness and Pride as Sources of the Evil; Yetigton ii the Slums; Saints Among the Puvltcans ap Sinners ia the Pulpit—Caurca Excursion— Sunday Excursions: kum anda Rowdyism; Sights, Scenes and Sayings Among the Sunday Pleasuie Seekers. VeAfter the setting Sun: From the Narrows to the bun tory atinental Excursion—Our Sum- the Wesifield Disester—The rry—A Chance for Base Ball- sunday Stabbing Scrape—The Midnight Murder- -Dougheiiy’s viscovery—The Death of ry Dobson. nerica: Iateresting Political News from veru and Bolivia; Kaiiway Enterprises in the Kepuphcs—Naval — Inte!ligeuce—Jake Tuompsou: Interview with the mississippi Statesman; Ayproval of the New Depariure— Lhe Justice of an ‘Apostie of the Man"’—The New Drug Law—Local Matters— Shipping inteiiigence— Advertisements. Tue WestrieLo’s Deata Roit,.—Jobn D. Clark, one of the victims of the Westfield ex- plosion, died yesterday morning at the Ger- man Hospital. Tae deaths caused by this disaster now number one hundred and three. Cu10aAGo Moras are improving. A glass of ice cream eaten oa a fast day by a rabbi of the Garden City caused his congregation to forcibly expel him from his synagogue. It was reserved for Chicago to invent a religion withont ice cream ; but its success is question- able during hot weather. Tae Hype Park IspiGNaiion MeEtinc tn London against the conduct of the authori- ties, with regard to the late riot in Dublin, has, according to our special cable report, proved a complete fizzle. The meeting was mainly composed of juvenile raggamuffins, who in their grotesque fashion combined Fenian- Ism and Communism in their demonstrations. After this we should not be surprised to bear of an alliance between the International and the Fenian Brotherhood. The police treated the demonstration as a joke, and abstained from al! interference. We also publish the version of another correspondent, according to which the Hyde Park demonstration was quite a serions affair. We are, however, in- clined to think that the account of our special despatch is the correct one. Tux Procgepines of the Internal Revenue Bureau are incomprehensible to ordinary mortals, A decision is rendered by one Com- missioner only to be overruled by his succes- sor or set aside by a superior officer, and in this manner business circles are mystified and great confusion caused, The decision of ex- Commissioner Pleasonton, relieving banks from the payment of tax on borrowed capital, Was promptly revoked by the present Commis- sioner, but not before it had been officially communicated to the bankers of the Thirty- second district of this State. Banks in other districts, therefore, are not affected by the decision of the late Commissioner, and will be compelled to pay tax on boriowed capital, as beretotore, Smart Rovens Rvure tue City ?--The orimes daily perpetrated by the roughs of this city are fearful to contemplate. A few days since an unoffending citizen was beaten and perhaps fatally stabbed by Saunders and Coburn, two of the worst representatives of the dangerous classes. Two weeks since two passengers anda driver of a Second avenue car were thrown from the platform and re- ceived injuries from the effects of which both passengers have died. Yesterday morning Dennis O'Connor was fatally stabbed by a drunken ruffian named John Cullom, at the corner of Bayard and Baxter streets, and on Saturday night Patrick McNamara was mur- dered by an assdssin in Eighth avenue, Has the law no terrors for such scoundrels? Tae Travian Government is satisfied with M. Thiers’ conciliatory attitude in the Roman question. Our special despatch says that Minister Visconti Venosta has instructed Chevalier Nigra, the Italian Ambassador to France, to inform M. Thiers of this fact, but also fo express surprise that the French government does not stop the abusive language of several deputies against Italy. To our mind it is more surprisiog that Signor Visconti Venosta can be 80 absurd as to expect M. Thiers to interfere with liberty of speech within or without the National Assembly. The liberal journals in Rome offer alliance to France.on condition that she abandon the claims of the Papacy. To this M. Thiers is apt to reply ironically, ‘How very kind and considerate of the liberal jour- nals in Rome)” Rights of | The Labor Relerm Party and its Sweep- ing Re’ tionary Programme—A_ Tre- mendous Agitation Coming. The new Labor Reform or National Labor parly has been holding a general Congress at St. Louis, and, considering the widespread and ominous agitation of this labor question on this side as well os on the other side of the j Atlantio, the proclamation of the principles And purposes of this new party may well challenge the attention of the statesmen and politicians of all other parties in the country. These labor reformers, in their political plat- form for the coming Presidential campaign, say that ‘‘the land, water, air and all natural elements are common gifis,” and that “‘gov- ernments are oaly trustees to guard against their misapplication;” that all class legisla- tion perverting these common elemen's from the many to the few is wrong and subversive of good government; that ‘‘all able-bodied, intelligent persons should contribute to the common stock, by fruitful industry, @ sum or | quantity equal to their own support, and that legislation should tend, as far as possible, to | the equi'able distribution of the surplus pro- ducts.” They say, furthermore, that ‘‘pau- perism and crime are the prevailing questions of ail modern statesmansbip, and it is with these we have to deal;” and that, although “chattel slavery has been abolished, the rights and relations of labor stand just where they did before emancipation in respect to the division of ihe products of the laboring masses of the country.” This is substantlally the bill of grievances of the International and of the Paris Com- mune, and the remedies suggested from the bare recital of these complaints simply mean the approach of the most radical and sweeping political revolution in the history of mankind. This St. Louis National Labor Reform pro- nunciamento says that the instrumentalities by which these wrongs upon labor are inflicted ar.—first, banking and moneyed monopolies, by which, through swindling rates of interest, the productions of labor are concentrated in the hands of a few non-producers; second, extortionate consolidated railway and other transit companies; third, manufacturing mo- nopolies, whereby small operators are crushed and the price of labor is mathematically re- duced to the smallest living compensation ; fourth, land monopolies; fifth, commercial and grain monopolies, Nor can it be ques- tioned by the most superficial observer that these evils, particularly since our ate civil war and from the manifold corruptions grow- ing out of it, have been operating, and now are operating more powerfully than ever, to make ‘‘the rich richer and the poor poorer” and to widen and deepen the gulf between the two classes. These Jabor reformers propose to remedy these evils as far as possible— first, by a new monetary system, based on the substantial resources of the nation and em- bracing a currency that shall, without any ex- ception, be a legal tender for all debts, pub- lic and private, this currency to be also inter- changeable for national bonds at three per cent interest, and so on; second, by the redemption of the debt on the greenback plan of ‘‘Old Thad Stevens ;” third, by holding the public lands exclusively for actual set- tlers; fourth, by a tariff framed exclusively for revenue purposes; fifth, by restraining or, if it must be so, by abolishing corporate mo- nopolies under interdicting class legislation ; sixth, by requiving in all future wars that we pay as we go from the substantial wealth of the country; ninth, by prohibiting the im- portation of coolies or other servile labor; tenth, by encouraging co-operative industry ; eleventh, by a general amnesty, and twelfth, by a general board of management of the revenue and the currency. It will be observed that there is the average proportion of political claptrap and stuff for buncombe in this new party platform, and that in its leading and distinguishing propositions of reform it is somewhat too much a budget of “glittering generalities.’ But from the com- plaints of the party we think we may pretty fairly interpret its realdesigns. They say that the laboring classes, even in the United States, are practically in the same condition in respect to the products of their labor as were the slaves of the South before thelr eman- clpation; that labor is under the heel of capi- tal; that non-producers and grinding banks, railroads, land jobbing and other monopolies absorb the profits of labor; that non-produ- cers must be put to work; and that, if there be no other way to reach them, these grinding monopolies must be abolished. Here, in the abolition of these monopolies, we have the main idea of this new party, for all the rest of its proposed reforms are but ‘featber and prunella.” We percelva, too, ia this movement the groundwork of a political agitation compared with which even the tremendous and terrible slavery agitation will stand in history as but a small and incom- plete affair, including the abolition of slavery, the establishment of equal rights before the law and the elective franchise to citizens of all colors, We have repeatedly within the last year or two discussed the great political dangers threatened the country from our gigantic railway and other powerful moneyed corpora- tions. This Labor Reform party, therefore, in our estimation, in opening the war upon these overshadowing monopolies, and in iis general design of the subordination of capital to labor, is initiating, we repeat, a movement which is destined to be marked by the fiercest political agitation and the most radical and cowpre- hensive revolution ever known in this or any other country, These labor reformers may not be able to make any serious diversion as a third party in the coming Presidential cam- paign; but they have a large and inviting field before them in which the harvest will soon be ripening. Many of our readers will re- member the general contempt and derision with which the original abolition party was met, even in the Puritanical city of Boston, in its agitation of the abolition of African slavery. Yet that ‘stone which the builders rejected has become the bead of the corner.” No such difficulties as those which confronted the original abolition party stand in the way of this National Labor or Labor Reform party. It appeals from the outset to the interests and the sympathies of the masses of the people, In a milder form it is the outcropping of the labor programme of the International, It represents the leading ideas of the Paris Commune, and it introduces into the arena of party politics the war of labor against capital as represented in our trade unions, We bound to have immediately after this proaching Presidential contest, whatever shaps which this contest itself may as- sume—there must come after it, we say—a reorganization of our political par- ties, In 1854, when the old pro-slavery democratic party had pushed ita demands for slavery beyond the last point of Northern for- bearance, the republican party, from a little public fmeeting at Pittsburg, came to the front on the platform of ‘‘no further extension of slavery,” Tho country was ripe for it, and behold the mighty revolution which since that day this republican party has achieved! But its appointed mission on the slavery question and the negro question is fulfilled. Its com- plete success, too, after fighting it step by step, from the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law to the consummation of the fifteenth amend- ment, is now admitted by the democratic party; and this democratic surrender brought both parties necessarily to the poiat of a new departure, On the remnants of the old issues and sou- venirs of the war, aad on half-way financial expedients and theories of reform on both sides, the republican and the democratic party may each be able to hold their forces together substantially through the coming Presidential campalgn through the sheer force of party discipline and party loyalty. But as the old temporizing whig party went to pieces and was dissolved after the election of 1852, and as the old pro-slavery democratic party went to pieces after the election of 1860, so, we dare say, the republican and the democratic party, as now organized, will both begin to go to pieces after the election of 1872, and from these dis- integrations on both sides it is quite possible that the party surperseding the republican party in 1876 will be the party representing the combined aggressive elements of the laboring classes of the country against moneyed monopolies and combinations. The workingmen have the votes, and they need only discipline, harmony and union, and a common paramount political purpose among themselves, to get possession in the elections of 1876, if not before, not only of the national government, but of every State government in the Union, That the elements of a great revolution are fermenting in this country no man can suc~ cessfully dispute; that this revolution will come from a political struggle between com- binations of capital and a general combination of labor is broadly foreshadowed in this labor reform Movement, and is apparent on every hand. The fearful demoralizations and corruptions of both our great political parties ; the greedy, grasping and extortionate doings and demands of railway combinations, of stock-jobbing and land speculating rings, and of commercial, huckstering and manufacturing monopolies, and the general tendency of things to a gigantic moneyed aristocracy on the one band, and to a multiplication of paupers, vagrants and criminals on the other hand, have created a state of feeling among the laboring classes, at home as well ag abroad, which is full of danger and mischief to ‘‘the powers that be” everywhere, In the closely contested election in New Hampshire last March this Labor Reform party wielded the balance of power; in the coming Massachusetts election, should General Butler be the labor candidate, he may turn the State topsy-turvy. In this event even the Presi- dential election of next year may become a doubtful problem; but in any event, after November, 1872, we shall have the beginning of a new political agitation in this country which will hardly stop short of the greatest and most radical and sweeping revolution in the history of the world, and we shall be for- tunate if we escape another general civil war in passing through this approaching revolu- tion. Such are the signs of the times, and we live in an age of revolutions. are ap- the South America—A Spoiled. The citizens of Lima, the capital of Peru, are unhappy. They have been defrauded out of a first class sensation—one that would have made their republic famous throughout the world, A venturons newsmonger published some very severe strictures upon the adminis- tration, which so incensed President Balta that he caused the unfortunate author to be imprisoned. After a time the courts took the matter in hand, and finding the prisoner had committed no offense against the laws ordered his release. This action of the judiciary added fuel to the ire of the President, who sent for the offending official, and upbraided him for loterfering with the course of justice, The interview was spirited if not consoling. Preai- dent Balta’s wrath found its counterpart in that of the Judge's; uncomplimentary expres- sions were interchanged, and the conference ended by the Judge assuring the President that as soon as he vacated the Executive chair a personal satisfaction would ba demanded. Balta is impetuous and plucky, if not discreet and considerate, and within ten hours after the occurrence, in order to give the Judge an opportunity to avenge his wounded honor, signed a decree resigning his office and calling the Vice President to the chair. Here was a lesson in chivalry without parallel in bistory, and great was the rejoicings of the Limanos thereat. Of course no affair of honor would be complete without a woman being in tho The Code iu Duel case, and President Balta’s exciting episode was no exception to this universal rule, The President’s counsellors saw the dangers which threatened their republic should he resign and leave the chief magistracy in the hands of so inexperienced a person as the Vice President, and accordingly besought him to reconsider his determination; but Balta was inexorable, and no consideration could induce him to forego the pleasure of meting out satis- faction to his opponent. At length the aged mother of the President appeared upon the scene, and to her tears aud entreaties the spunky Balta succumbed, and agreed to defer the combat till further notice. Loratty at a Discount.—The ultra loyal papers of New-Zealand complain that at Napier on the Queen's birthday the courts continued their sessions, and the members of the Provincial Council stubbornly kept their hats upon their heads while the national anthem was being played, This exhibition of democracy shocks the nerves of the New Zealand press, which sees in it troubles for the home government, and noasibly the germa of a revolution, Alscox—Taylor—Snow. The Rev. E. T. Hiscox, D.D., pastor of the Carleton Avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, will be familiar to many Now York readers of the Heratp as the pastor for many years of the old and once honored Stanton Street Bap- tist church fa this city. He is a man past the middle age of life, but, according tothe old proverb that ‘the good never grow old,” he is yet young and vigorous and active in the ser- vice of his Divine Lord and Master. Dr. Hiscox is one of the best and soundest theo- logians inthe Baptist denomination. Three or four years ago a retired merchant—Mr. Mangin—at his own expense, erected the church on its present site ia Carleton avenue, The mission from which this church orlginally sprang was located on Vanderbilt avenue until the present edifice was erected and handed over, a gift to the trustees for their and the people’s use in the future. Dr. Hiscox has been labor- ing in this vineyard ever since, and with marked success. Hoe is an, excellent discip- linarian, and by his own personal example en- courages his people to bo prompt and strict in their attendance upon all the means of grace and active in spreading abroad the knowledge of the Saviour’s name. His discourses are mainly doctrinal and practical, and extensive reading and lonz experience in the ministry have made his tongue like the pen of a ready writer, so that the sophistries and casuistries of the age have very little strength to stand before his arguments, attacks and appeals. He is well liked, not only by his own people, | but by the hundreds of strangers who from time to time lisien to his words, and by his denominational friends and neighbors and by others outside of his own creed. He is a loving and faithful pastor and a genial and warm friend. The “sensations” of the day find no place in his theology, and the unconverted young who chiefly seek such kind of preaching are not to be found in his church, His preaching is designed more to encourage believers, and to develop the Christian virtues in them, than to gather a multitude of unintelligent converts into the church. The converts enter by slower degrees; but they come to stay and to live and work for Christ and for His cause, The Rey. George Lansing Taylor, pastor of the South Second Street (Williamsburg) Metho- preacher or theologian he does not stand remarkably high, though we believe he receives generally as good appointments from his Conference as the average of his brethren in the ministry, Mr. Taylor's sermons are more in the style of literary essays than of theological disquisitions. He preaches usually from very copious notes, and sometimes gives the etranger an idea that his sermons are written and read from manu- scripts, Mr, Taylor has some reputation as a writer among the Methodists of the United States who read the Church papers, and the productions of his pen are scholarly and able as a rule. He is an excellent exhorter in prayer and other social meetings, and is attractive to the young people. His success spiritually is fair, bat not remarkable, Bishop S. S. Snow, the ‘Prophet of Mount Zion,” with half a dozen other aliases, is the leading theorist of the Second Adventists in this city, and utters his anathemas against his adversaries every Sunday in the litile chapel of the New York University. He has been a | quarter of a century or more advocating his theories publicly and privately, and by books and pamphlets, and yet has failed to gather into his fold permanently more than half a hundred persons. The “Bishop,” ‘‘Prophet” or ‘‘Messenger,” as the reader may desire to consider him, is a standing proof that impracticable theorists find very little place in this country orin this city. Religious people, too, like to hear some- thing besides the second coming of Christ presented to them occasionally, And the pro- phets of that event have gone so often and so far astray in regard to the time of its fulfil- ment that no one now takes much heed of their prognostications. Doctrines, to be accepted by the mass of mankind, must be such as the average intelligence of mankind can compre- hend and their faith lay hold of. But the ‘* Bishop's” theories, however he may back them up with citations from the Word of God, are too impracticable, and, as presented by him in an abrupt, iusulting manner—can never run round the globe with such apostles as he, ; Mr. Snow is liberal in blasphemous expres- sions, and has little, if any, ideas of the proprieties of a Christian temple or a Christian minister. He has a half crazy idea that God designs to overturn the world and its religions through him, and he feels himself especially commissioned to denounce orthodoxy in general and Roman Catholicism in particular. He is exceedingly severe on the ‘‘scarlet whore,” and consigns her to the deepest depths; butas he has no faith whatever in the place known among orthodox Christians as hell, it is difficult to de- termine to what other depth he would send the old lady. The immortality of the soul is also denied; but this earth, he believes, is to be renovated by fire and made a fitting abode for the redeemed, who, by some process of crea- tion or legerdemain, which the ‘‘Prophet” does not clearly explain, are to be brought into be- ing for the purpose of serving out another pro- bation on this ashheap. Such a heaven must be a great affliction, a punishment indeed, to hundreds who have taken their own lives rather than live a short life of seventy years here. But it is true of Bishop Snow as it is of every individual and class of impracticables, that their theories don't hang well together and donot meet human consciousness with the authority of “Thus saith the Lord,” and they fail and fall to the ground, however well spun and good they may appear. Truth is simple and direct, and boldly presents herself to the criticism and acceptance of mankind; but error needs to wrap herself up in theories and sophisms, and then expects the world to receive her. The ignorant may, but the in- telligent cannot, Marsa. Serrano has been the vietim of a railway accident, but, fortunately, escaped with o slight injury to his foot. According to our special despatch from Madrid a Barcelona, 4rain ran into that which contained the Marshal and a number of officers. Several were wounded, byt none killed, dist Episcopal church, J9 9 man in tha nring of life, though prematurely gray. He is the poet laureate of Methodism, and is a man of considerable literary attainments, As a NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1871. The Sermons Yesterdays Yesterday was a quiet, but, we trast, never theless a profitable day, in the churches, There were but one or two discourses that-immedi- ately touched on the topics of the day; the rest were good, practical sermons, setting forth fairly and fully the Gospel scheme of salva- tion and the varions aspecis of the Christian virtues, The Rev. Charles Smyth preached an ad- mirable address upon the religious bearings of various recent events. He was justly severe upon the selfishness of millionnaires, and said that he did not know which was the worst scourge God could send us—corrupt and greedy and heartless corporations or cholera and famine. Which was the more terrible death, to bo hurled into eternity a disfigured and hideous victim of the Westfield or to linger through the sharp pangs of an epidemic? Was it more horrible to be sacrificed to the cupidity of a great cap- italist or to be burned and eaten by a savage tribe of cannibals? It is worth while to re- flect now and then, as we mouth about the glorious privilege of living in the nineteenth century, upon the monsters in human form which our modern civilization has brought furth—creatures who gamble the coat of replacing an ancient boiler against a hecatomb of human lives, and infamous wretches who cloths themselves in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuoasly every day from gains made by letting out houses for purposes of prostitution. And put in every honest hand a whip, To lash the rascal naked through the world. Rev. Father Kearney delivered a discourse upon the sin of detraction, This is compara- tively a new subject, and yet the vice itself is one whose mischief we have all experienced. Evil tongues and willing ears are indeed the most fruitful source of misery in this little planet of ours, The reverend Father quoted to good purpose Shakspeare’s lines— Who steals my purse steals trash; But he that filches trom me my good namo Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. The Father, in scathing words, described most of the phases of this vile habit of talking scan- dal and saylog smart things against our neigh- bors for the sole purpose of setting up a repu- tation as a pleasant and witty man. And, as the goog Father said, the yorat feature of a is that the slanderer is withheld by natural instincts of pride from confessing his sin. What man, even wheii he sees that his careless words have wronght untold wrong, will come squarely out and say, “Thave been a liar and a scoundrol; what I have uttered against my neighbor's reputation was false ?” , With a great deal of sound and wholesomo truth the Rev. John Miles, we are afraid, gave a rather pernicious encouragement to the luxury which some people delight to in- dulge in of “plain speaking.” ‘Iam a plain, blunt man,” says a boor, ‘‘and I say just what I think.” And he does say it and earns the unenviable reputation of being the most offensive person in his social circle, ‘Paithfulness” in a friend does not require that he should spy out his brother's pecca- dilloes and sermonize over them with com- placent pleasure. And. we fear that thers is little danger of men failing to keep their friends down to a proper standard of humility by exposing their foibles, A waraing, if at all, should be given in the other direction. We cannot commend too highly Dr. Dar- yea’s noble summer appeal for the sick and the helpless, A couple of weeks ago we mado a- few remarks which contain substantially the gist of the Doctor's sermon, In winter the poor and the dying are pretty well cared for; but in the heats of midsummer, when the city is deserted, there is even greater need of well-directed charity. The hand of death touches many an unhappy victim, the panzs of starvation kill hope and kindness in many 8 sorrow-laden heart, in July as in December, We hope the Doctor roused yesterday some few noble souls to a consciousness of the vast field of duty that lays around them. Bishop Southmayd, oa ‘‘The Personal Rela- tions of Christ,” and Dr. Curry, on ‘Adam's Sin and Christ's Obedience,” are two admira- ble specimens of doctrinal theology. While they contain much that is profitable and whole- some, however, they are marked by but few original ideas, and we therefore content our- selves by simply recommending them to the perusal of our readers. The Meeting of the Two Ewperorr. Very considerable interest now attaches to the approaching meeting of the Emperor William and the Emperor Francis Joseph, which is to take place at the beautiful little village and watering place called Gastein, or Wildbad Gastein, in Aus- tria, The Cross Gaeelte has it that the Emperor of Germany will remain three weeks at Gastein and that Count Beust and Prince Bismarck will assist at the conference of the two monarchs, The New Free Press, of Vienna, says that the official relations of the two governments have slowly but steadily improved, and that an entente cordiale has been established which cannot but promote the welfare of the two empires, The good underatandiag as well us the approaching meeting are due, it seems, to the flattering words which Count Beust recently made use of in the Reichsrath with regard to Germany. These meetings of monarchs are proverbially fullof danger. It is impossible but that soma new complications will grow out of this meet- Ing. We have already seen that Russia likes not the growing feelings of friendliness be- tween her two great neighbors. Has the “urgency” of President Thiers anything to do with this approaching conference? It will not surprise us to learn that it has. This, at least, it is safe to say—the situation of Europe is quite as critical to-day as it was on the evo of the outbreak of the late war between France and German: Present Tamers avp tik Frenou As- SEMBLY.—The debate and the votes in the French Assembly on Satarday last cannot be said to be very encouraging as to the continuance of the present state of things in Franco, President Thiers has, no doubt, been popular and powerful; but it is quite manifest that his power in the Assembly and his popularity among the people are not growing, The two motions submitted to the Assembly—the one that ho should be proclaimed the President of the re- public with fwll Prosidential authority. the ‘ (ther that confidence be e: 4 + xpressed aunend, thay he be continaed fn his present po show th. the Assembly fs divided. The vote of “urgesio,"” on both proposals seems to {md ply that some ze Movement is serlously ap< prehended. Froth thé fact that the President himself asked for the vote of urgency it ia evident that it is his opiuton that he alone cay save France, It is not at all flupossible that some of these fine mornings we shi learn that France thinks differently. What is te be tha new departure we shall not yet venture @ say. LITERATURE, Reviews of New Books. Tak ISLAND NeIGHBORS, A Novel of Americ: Life, | By Antoluette Brown Blackwell. ios, trated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 187 8V0., pp. 149, A quiet, good-natured, easy narrative of country life on the sea coast of Martha's vineyard; such Mra. Biackweil’s first attempt in fiction. There i enough of the picturesque in that little island have drawn yet More upon the autnor’s descriptive powers; but itis dificult to resist being devoured by ennui at any resort so quiet and ‘“lonesome”’ ad this little tsland, lying between Nantucket and tha main. There is not enough of incident in the boos to hold any of the readers of the modern high pres~" ‘sure nove}, but those who like realism and @ modess endeavor to mirror nature im a domestic tate wilk Not regret speading a few hours in making the ace quaintance of Our Island Neighbors.’ GumE Book For THE EasTERy Coast oF New Ene , LAND. Concord: E. 0, Kastman & Co, New aoe Shepard & Dillinghaw, 1871. 16mo, Good local guide books are things which our country and seaside resorts stand mucn in need of, This one gives a succinct account of each resort fox summer visitors on the New England vast, trong Newportto Mount Desert. 1t is prepared from fres& materials, and he who seeks health and comfort by the saltsea waves at any point out of the beatem track cannot do better than to consult ita pages.’ Two excellent maps illustrate the work. Hesperia. By Coral. V.fappan. 1871, This prettily printed volume of poetry is one that would give the Saturday Review un excellent text for at least two pages of sarcastic abuse of Amert- can literature. The poems havea certain jingle; the adjectives are of the latest style, lush and sonorousy a@udto the very young, or very sleepy, or to ® foreigner very ignorant of English, they might seem extremely beautiful, but the stern law of criticisna demands of us to condeon them. The long lay, Hesperia, might, perhaps, please the enthusiasts tt England who hail Walt Whitman as the first poet America and Joaquin Miller as the second, Thd patriotism of the poem 1s undeniabie. and it 1s nog easy of comprehension, an especially attractive quality for those basé critics; but whatever may | its fate in that country between tuo conservative Saturday and these patronizing feckers after novelty we cannot recommend ii herd. Mrs. Tappau has a Certain poctiéal gilt; she is sensitive to the charm of words, but she is too much so. Sonorouss, ness 18 but one charm of poetry, and, of course, only’ anauxillary, We might as well have a horse all mane because his mane is handsome. Mystical ts w flattering term for most of the poems. The volama ig hardly worth preserving, even aa a curiosity. Literary Chit-Chat. f Toe SECOND SERIES OF Mr. Froups’s ‘Short Studies on Great Subjects” 1s keenly dissected by, the Saturaay Review, which observes that Mr. Froude cannot tell the simplest story without mis- representing the meaning of his author, 1tis not so much that he wilfully despises truth of state. ment, as that he cannot be mado to understand what truth of statement is. THE ATHENAUM, IN REVIEWING the “Life and Writings of Alexander James Dallas,” saya:—“Tha appearance of this memoir of a gentleman who wae nobody particular some sixty years since, and whos@ strongest claims to consideration have been utterly, estroyed by time, Indicates that social and Hterary, conditions in the great repunlic are stil favorable to dealers in profitiess blographics.”’ Aiter a few, well-expressed sneers at our “second-rate politicians and insignificant placemen,”’ the reviewer chargeg us with having produced “an appalling mass of unreadable literature in the shape of memotrs of men and women who differed from ordinary, mankind in being rather richer, or noisier, or more fortunate than the average of common-place’ people.” Jt then descends to particulars by styling: Mr. A.J. Datias “a very respectable and uninterest~ ing man,” and his son, George Miffin Dallas, as @ man who, “achieving success disproportionate his natural endowments, represented the governy ment of the United States for some years at the Court of St. James. WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WaSHINGTON, August 14—1 A, M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, Since Saturday night the barometer has risen an@ again falien in the Gulf and Southern States. Ithas risen the Middle and Eastern States and falienm slightly on the lakes, and more decidedly s@ north of Missourl. The temperature had arisen un< usually hign on Sunday afternoon from Iowa te Tennessee, but had fallen somewhat in New England, where northerly winds are now ree placed by south and east winds from Maine to Virginia. Easterly winds have continued nortly ofthe Ohio River. Rain has been reported from the Gulf and South Atlantic coast and the extreme Northwest. Clear weather now very generally pre vails at all stations east of the Rocky Mountains, Probahitities. The barometer will probably fall somewhat om Monday on the upper lakes, with 2loudy weather and loral storms, Clear and warin weather wilk probably prevall from Micityan to Arkansas aud eastward to the Atlantic, FIRE IN JERSEY CITY. One Woman Burned to a Crisp—Several Othe ers Badly Wounded—Loss $70,000. Ata quarter past twelve o'clock this morning the people residing in the vicinity of Montgomery and Washington streets, Jersey City, , were startied by @ terrible explosion, lke the report of a cannom shot. A policeman was immediately on hand, but ere no had time to give the alarm another aud much louder report took placo, followed by showers of timber, broken giass and other missiles, which on all sides for upwards of a hundred yards. The firemen were quickly on hand, and found that it was tne building owned aud occupied by Messrs. Durancy & Mayce, liquor dealers, corner of Mont gomery and Washington streets. ‘The force of the explosion blew away the whole side of the house on Montgomery street and set ire to Mr. Wilson’s real estate ofice and Mr, Ellison’s stationery store on Montgomery street. From these the fire spread to Ahrens & Haines’ fancy dry goods stores, and for the moment the fre scemed to be beyond the control of the firemen. ‘hoy worked gallantly, and succeeded in saving Haines’ and Abrons’’ stores, but were unadle to save the others, A woman, named Mary Jone Martin, jumped from the top floor ot Duraney & Mauce’s building and broke her leg. She wae also badiy burned about the fac Mrs, Smyth was taken | out roins soon after, barned, almost to ® crisp. Several other families lived on the same flooe, bus up to two o'clock {t Was Impossible to ascertain the real damage. Loss will foot up $70,000, In surance unknow! KENTUOKY ELECTION: LOUISVILLE, August 13, 1871. que official retarns from eighty-four counties give Lesite (lem.), 110,443; Harlan (rep), 74,124. Lestie’s majority In these counties, 36,319, ‘The fall returns from tne State will probably mako Lelie’s majority In the neighborhood of 40,000, Im the countica <iven Leslie gains 5,391 on the vote of Stevenson, femocrat, in the last gubernatorial election, and Harion galus 50,217 on the vote of Barker, republi- can, tn the last rabernatorial race. ‘The repybitcan increase Is altributed to the enfranchisement ef tha colored people, ANOTHER STABBING AFFRAY. Shortly after ten o'clock last night au altercation took place between Casmar Schuderiok, who resiues fat No, 235 Division sirect, and Joseph Jasumskie, of No. 67 James street, at Ny, 211 Division street, during which Jasumskie revtived tour severe stab wounds on the right hand with a large clasp kmiles Sohudgrigk Was acrgated, gnd locked uo,