The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. eozemne: Velume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—BRRraa, 1H SEWING MACHINE Gini—Tur Buzzanvs, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwa Qnces afternoon and evenin, corner 80th st.—Perform- Oasax DE BAZAN. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 LIvrie NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Uth street.— Bur Beary, Matinee at 2 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Tar Tarek Rep MEN—NiOK OF THK Woops, Matinee. between Sth and 6th ava,— ‘Matinee at 159. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S FARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Unper ene WiLLows, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.— 4 Leon's MINeT REL. Sadi cae ca SAN FRANCISCO HAUL, 585 MaN—HENnyY IV, Matuee at, CENTRAL PARK GARDS SUMMER Nigurs’ Conorrts. BROOKLYN RIN. bue.—SUNMRBR EVE: Broadway.—Tut Last |.—Tunopore Tuomas’ Clermont avenue, near Myrtle ave. No CONCERTS, New York, Saturday, August 19, 1871. CONT’ Paar. 1—Advertisements. 2—Adverusements. 3—The Courts—A Maniac Milkman—Murder in New Jetsey—Burgiars Ni Jersey—Churen Bequests in Brooklyn. vertisements. 4—Editoriais: Leading Artic! “our Coming Etec: ens and the New Phazes of the Political Situation—The Crisis to the Lemocratic Party in New York"'—Persona! Intelligence—News Jrom Washington—The Ogdenspurg Riot— Musical and Dramatic Notes—Amusement An- nouncements, 5—The Persian Famine: The Worst Accounts Contirmed—Russia and Austria: Both Powers Said to be Arming Against — Each Other—News from France, tngland and Spain—Napoleon’s Feté at Chiseihurst—The Dubin iot—The Henry Chauncey Canara— neous Telegrams—Weuther Report— susiness Not : Thad Day of the August Meet- awamazou Races- Time—The '$ OF T)-DAY’S HERALD, Explosiot with Ulysses—Another Coal lowa—Sir Alexa Ml Mine Disaster in Sockburn's Career— Scientific Notes—' ery of the Rxplosion on Chautauqua Lake—Catull the “Onewer?— A Blackmailer vaulked. 7—Cloud of War in the East; The Political and Military Horizon of Constantinople—The Ferry Massacre—Financial and Commercial Re- Marriages and Deaths. Additional Particulars ‘onvicts; Severai Arrests Bi Unton—The Ro- ston Coal Mine elligenco—Advertise- Secretary Bovrwett has determined to advance the payment of the September in- terest, without rebate, on Tuesday next. Tue Esoare or Prisoners aT Sine Sine.— Some of the prisoners who escaped from Sing Sing on Thursday have been recaptured, but the majority of them are still at large. It must be confessed that the public sympathy is, for once, on the side of the jail birds and against the prison officials. Not only was the escape cleverly planned, but the prison discipline was so lax that most people would prefer seeing the officers punished to the punishment of the escaped convicts. Ex-Minister Rovner has not yet given up the imperialist cause as lost. At any rate, he seems to be scheming for the restoration of Napoleon, if we are to judge from the fact that M. Abbatucci, an imperialist deputy from Corsica, has resigned his seat in order that the most able champion of the Bonapartes may take his place in the National Assembly. This step was probably preconcerted in the impe- rialist camp, or enacted according to direct in- structions from Chiselhurst. Tne InrepressIBLe AFRIoAN again figures in diplomatic circles, and is the cause of some tart correspondence between the government of Great Britain and the United States. A negro justice in Darien, Ga., discharged on a writ of habeas corpus four sailors who had been imprisoned on board an English vessel at that port for insubordination. Of course such a breac of international law could not pass unnoticed, and notes on the subject are passing thick and fast between the British Minister and ihe State Department. Tue Spreap or THe CHOLERA IN EvRope.— Our European despatches continue to record the progress of the cholera in Europe. From Berlin we learn that in the neighborhood of Stettin it has made iis appearance. At Konigsberg during last Taesday and Wednes- day there were one hundred and fifty new cases, sixty-one of which proved fatal. It will thus be seen that this dread visitation, the terror of people wherever it appears, is making its way steadily and surely westward, and it behooves the health authorities here to be on their guard and leave no precaution unattended 4 to guard against its beh ach. Crovp or War in tHE East.—In a letter which we publish in another part of the Hrr- av this morning from one of our correspond- ents in the East the relations between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sultan of Turkey are concisely stated. The relationship exist- ing between the two Powers is anything but friendly, and the breach is becoming wider and wider every day. The Viceroy feels the restraints of Turkey grow more irksome, and hostilities are avoided by the tact of the Egyp- tian, who fully understands the strength of Turkey, and is, therefore, not willing to stake everything on the hazard of war. He tempo- rizes, in the hope that some lucky chance may turn up which will result in disadvantages to Turkey, while it also gains for him time to prepare for a struggle which may take place at no distant di Toe PersiaN FAMINE seems to sustain the horrors of the first report. At Ispahan, the largest city in Persia, though not the capital, there have been already twenty-seven thou- sand well authenticated deaths, and in the pro- vinces, where the dearth first broke out, the mortality is reported to be even worse. This is indeed a diemal record. We can scarcely realize in this broad land of plenty tbat such * a hideous chronicle of death from starvation is indeed well founded. But we know little of the evile of unscrupulous despotism, In India, in the famine two years ago, even ac- cording to the statistics published by the British government, the deaths footed up to two mil- lions. Only another couple of years before that there was in the same land yet another famine, in which another million of buman souls perisbed, These are established facts ; und in their light we are forced to believe the fad annals we publish this morning of the Pavel Wadevus foumlne ip moderp story Our Coming Blections ana the New Phases of the Political Situation—The Crisis to the Democratic Party in New York. Mr. Speaker Blaine, of the national House of Representatives, in his late sharply-pointed speech on the political issues of the day, at Saratoga Springs, has no doubt pretty dis- tinctly made known the republican plan of presenting these issues in reference to all our approaching State elections, asthe preliminary skirmishes leading to the great general battle of 1872, He fights the democracy upon the offensive, touching the late riot in this city and the administration of our muuicipal affairs, and also upon their ‘‘new departure” on the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments. He draws anything but a flattering contrast between the retrenchments and econ- omies of General Grant’s administration and the alleged extravagances and spoliations of our city government. He enlarges upon our late riot as illustrating the hostility of the democratic party management to the recogni- tion of the great American doctrine of equal rights. He amuses and delights his republi- can bearers in defining the ‘‘new departure” of the Northern democracy as taken from com- pulsion, in order to avoid the charge of a posi- tion of incipient rebellion to which continued opposition to the ‘‘supremo law of the land” would commit them before the American people. Upon these points he stoutly contends that, while the republican party has estab- lished its claims to the public confidence and gratitude, the democratic party has proved itself utterly unfit to be entrusted with the reins of the government. Senator Morton next is brought before us with a campaign speech delivered the other evening at St. Louis, He takes a wider range of discussion than Speaker Blaine, for he speaks to a Missouri and not to a New York political meeting. He dwells upon the neces- sity of maintaining the republicans in power, in order to secure the full recognition every- where throughout the country, and by all men, of the new amendments to the constitution; he justifies the constitutional disabilities im- posed upon ‘‘such men as Jeff Davis, Toombs and Breckinridge, who made a great national funeral at which more than four hundred thou- sand men were buried;” he commends the civil service reform policy of the President; he advocates the rights and the cause of free labor; he discusses the questions of free trade and a protective tariff, and goes for in- cidental protection; he advocates free schools and contends that all the enemies of free schools are all in the democratic party; he applauds the republicans in Congress for their heavy reductions of the national taxes; he defends the Ku Klux bill as a beneficent mea- sure; he argues that if the democrats come into power their Southern men will rule the roost again, and will not tax themselves to pay pensions to Northern soldiers unless Southern soldiers are pensioned, and he thinks the same rule would be applied by the South- ern leaders to the national debt as properly involving compensation for Southern slaveg set free, “ : Here we have a little too much of specula- tive pleading for buucombe; but Senator Mor- ton is a trenchant political campaigner of the Western school, and goes for covering the whole ground. He echoes back from St. Louis the opinions of Speaker Blaine at Sara- toga on our 12th of July riot, and he holds that our religious liberty is not safe in the hands of the democracy. He agrees with the speaker, too, in having no faith in this ‘new departure” of the Northern democrats, for, he says, ‘there is not one in a thousand of the Southern democrats, and not one in fifty of the Northern democrats, that accept these amend- ments.” Finally, he will support the republi- can nominee for the Presidential succession “whether he be Greeley, Sumner, Trumbull or Grant;” but, ‘I think at present,” he says, “that General Grant’s chance is a little the best.” And here we may say that of all men Senator Morton is the man who may be accepted as by authority speaking the senti- ments of General Grant on all the political questions of the day, and that Speaker Blaine is perhaps next to Morton in the President's confidence, Collector Murphy himself not ex- cepted. Here, then, from Speaker Blaine and Sena- tor Morton we have the general republican plan of operations for these coming fall elec- tions. The new phases thus presented in the discassion of the political issues of the day are the position of the democracy on their new departure, their position, as illustrated in the late Orange procession in the important mat- ter of religious liberty, and their position as illustrated in our city government in regard to the administrative virtues of economy, retrench- ment and reform. These new points in the general controversy are of recent development. The new democratic departure thus appears as a new democratic obstruction. Jeff Davis has been reduced to silence in the South; but his silence has not diminished the zealof Mr. A. H. Stephens and his colaborers on their old departure. They keep up their fire, and they are evidently resolved to resist this new de- perture to the alternative of organizing a new Southern party. At the same time there are numerous Protestants among the Northern democracy, from Pennsylvania westward, against the recognition of these new amend- ments; and the effect of these discords in the party camp upon this question will probably be felt to the disadvantage of the party in these approaching fall elections, On the Ist of July last there was a fair pros- pect that the democracy would carry the State of New Yorkin November next by at least fifty thousand majority, because of the unity of the democrats and the dissensions and fac- tious divisions among the republicans. But on the 11th and 12th of July the whole face of the case was changed. The general question of religious liberty involved in that Orange procession and as presented in that contro- versy made a profound impression at once upon the public mind—an impression which would have been utterly ruinous to the democ- racy but for the saving intervention of the Governor. As it is, this affair has thrown the party upon the defensive, with the odds against them in the ‘‘rural districts,” and more recent accusations, true or false, have only operated to strengthen the republicans as the at- tacking party. The late affair at Ogdensburg, juvolving the question of free speech, will serve to contribute a fresh supply of fuel to | tue fre kindled with the insane attempt of a NEW YURK HERALD, SATUKDAY, AUGUS! 19, 187L hostile crowd to suppress the principle of equal | The Henry Chauncey Canard—A Stock rights in suppressing the aforesaid obnoxious Oranze procession. Now, it can hardly be denied that Speaker Blaine correctly states the Presidential pros- pects of the democratic party as good for nothing with the loss of the State of New York. They must carry New York in this coming November election or their nomination for the next Presidency will hardly be worth contending for in the national party conven- tion. But how are they to carry New York in November as matters now stand? We cannot tell, though Mr. Greeley still holds out a hope |® for them. The Fenton-Greeley republican faction still maintain their warfare against Senator Conkling, Collector Murphy and what our amiable bran bread philosopher is pleased to call “the Custom House committee;” but nevertheless Mr. Greeley is evidently getting weak in the backbone, and has intimated that if pushed by General Grant's party to the wall in the approaching Republican State Conven- tion at the Syracuse salt works, he will sur- render as gracefully as General Lee capitu- lated at Appomattax Court House, or as gra- ciously as Napoleon surrendered at Sedan. Senator Fenton, too, still with an eye upon the Vice Presidency (though Speaker Blaine will be apt to supplant him), is said to be ready for a reconciliation with Collector Mur- phy and General Grant upon the most reason- able terms, including a coalition against Tam- many Hall, The wind and tide are setting in this direction, and the chances are in favor of a union of our republican cliques and factions, and indicate some discords and divisions among the democrats in November, and what then? The loss of the State to the democracy and another change in the figures of the politi- cal kaleidoscope. With the loss of this State to the democrats in November next we may have such a com- motion among the politicians on all sides as to bring about a national scrub race in 1872, with three or four Presidential tickets in the field, or we may have such a fusion around General Grant that he will quietly walk over the Presi- dential course. In any event, the coming Sep- tember elections in California, Vermont and Maine, and the October elections of Pennsyl- vania and Obio will only add to the command- ing public interest which these new political phases have drawn to our Empire State and to the crisis thus presented to the democratic party of the State and of the United States. Red Tape Versus Common Sense. The report of the official investigation into the, Westfield disaster was forwarded to Wash- ington several days since, but because ‘Secre- tary Boutwell has not yet found time to read the document the chief clerk of the Steamboat Division of the Treasury Department, in whose possession it is, refuses to furnish a copy to the press for publication. This report affects the interests of the people very materially, and of right it should be made public without de- lay. If Mr. Boutwell isso overwhelmed with business that he cannot give this matter imme- tate attention why does he withhold from the publica docuiment which so intimately concerns every community? No State secret is involved in the report; foreign diplomacy cannot be affected by it, and no reason can be adduced for such affected reticence, It is simply a question of fact, which it is supposed is settled by the report; and the people have a right to it without waiting for the slow movements of the circumlocution office at Washington. Let Mr. Boutwell cut rel tape in this instance and not shield himself behind the usages of his Department. If he has neither time nor inclination to give this report immediate attention let him at once publish it. Public interests will not suffer if the docu- ment makes its appearance without comments by the honorable Secretary; on the contrary, they will be better served if the inspectors are permitted to tell their story in their own way, Is There to be Another European Wor? Again we have the report that Russia and Germany are arming against one another, Our special despatch a few days ago was the first to signalize the existence of a secret un- derstanding between France and Germany on the one hand and between Germany and Aus- tria on the other. The Paris journal Patrie now gives the most positive confirmation to the report of our correspondent, adding sig- nificantly that General Lefl6, the French Am- bassador at St. Petersburg—but lately the War Minister at Versailles—has accompanied the Czar on a military inspection. Under these circumstances the fact alone that Thiers should have chosen his former War Minister for the post of St. Petersburg cannot be void of mean- ing. The armaments of both Russia and Ger- many are said to be on a gigantic scale. Making, therefore, some allowance for exagger- ation, we begin to think that these rumors must have some sort of foundation. It is, however, difficult to conceive that France should think of going to war in her present situation, and Russia, single handed, is certainly no match for Germany. Boovs Inp1AN OvurracEs.—Several weeks since the city of St. Joseph, Mo., was startled by an account of the capture of a government wagon train by a party of Indians near Fort Sill, and the horrible atrocities committed upon the drivers by their savage captors. The story was brought to St. Soseph by a man pro- fessing to be one of the survivors of the mas- sacre, and his narrative was extensively copied by the Western press. Upon investi- gation by proper authorities it has been ascer- tained that no wagon train has ever been taken by the Indians near Fort Sill. The whole affair is a fabrication, without the least foun- dation in fact, and was probably set afloat by parties interested in transporting supplies through the Indian country for the purpose of frightening off competition. General Hazen says of the story that it is “a pure fabrication from first to last, without the least incident of fact to make it out of.” PSE ATRO TT Te Tne Pirrston Disastek.—A coroner's inquest was held yesterday into the causes of the late disaster at the Pittston coal mines, At midnight the investigation was conciuded, and the jury found that the explosion was the result of the falling of a portion of the roof of the mine, which forced the firedamp into im- mediate contact with the lamps worn by the miners. They further say that had the mine been properly ventilated, in accordance with the provisions of the mining laws, the acci- dent would not have happeaed, ———— EEE Gambling Trick. The apocryphal report of the destruction by fire at sea of the Pacific Mail steamship Heary Chauncey is much more than its authors intended it to be. They originated it simply as a hoax to influence fluctuations at the Stock Exchange, of which they might reap the ad- vantage ; but it is an outrage on the public at large which ought to meet with the severest punishment, and we are glad to see that a heavy reward has been offered for the detec- tion of its perpetrators. In any aspect the act was one of unmiti- gated villany. Although the report was con- siderate enough to spare the feelings of those who had friends on board the steamer by an assurance that all the passengers had been saved, the alarm was of widespread extent among the merchants who had valuable freight in her cargo and among people who received the first tidings of her loss without being vouchsafed the additional intelligence of the safety of those who were voyaging in her. The whole scheme was of the most deliberate character. The time was selected when the vessel would be quite likely in the vicinity of the point at which the disaster was reported to have occurred, and the place was selected because Body Island is merely a wrecker's dreary abode on an inhospitable coast, with which communication would be difficult and infrequent, circumstances all combining to give color to the Norfolk letter. The an- nouncement also was made by a channel hav- ing the appearance of legitimacy—an official letter of advice from an assumed agent of an underwriters’ company, It is true the scheme might have been better planned. Had the telegraph been used instead of the mail it would have been a greater success. The ab- sence of corroborative intelligence by tele- graph was laid to the believed dulness of Nor- fol and its incapacity for excitement over so ordinary an event as a. wreck between Capes Hatteras and Henry. The motive of the whole affair was the desire to profit by the fall of the steamship stock. Its manipulation and management recall the Vanderbilt hoax of last summer, and suggest the probability of its having been the work of the same parties, If there be an organized clique for the purpose of making these speculative diversions it is time the Stock Exchange exerted its efforts for their suppression. The probity of the financial community and the integrity of financial transactions demand a swift and sure extirpa- tion of such rascality, The footpad who robs the traveller on the heath is a gentleman compared with the authors of such villany. We know that many think it simply ‘‘smart- ness” to make money by such trickery and device; but the speculator who by false reports or wilful misrepresentation of any kind obtains the property of another comes by it as dishonestly as if he purloined it by stealth or possessed it by the many arts of the swindler. The men who originated the story of the burning of the Henry Chauncey and profited by the fall in Pacifle Mail stock have stolen every dollar of the money as much as if they picked it from their victims’ pockets. The morality of the game of speculation is questionable enough without the addition of positive fraud and dishonesty. A The melancholy affair in South Brooklyn on Thursday, in which Mrs. Hopkins was mor- tally wounded by her son, has a number of peculiar points not to be overlooked, both for the lessons they teach and the domestic infe- licity they indicate. Young Lewis is repre- sented as an idle youth, fonder of novel read- ing than of work, and, consequently, like thousands of young men in this city and Brook- lyn, a source of great anxiety to his mother. Nothing more speedily destroys all family affection and stirs up enmity between relatives than the idleness of young persons content to be a burden upon their widowed mothers, and this case illustrates what direful results may come from feelings so engendered. It was, of course, a great mistake in Mr. Townsend, the boy’s uncle, to allow himself to be prejudiced against young Lewis by considerations which did not concern him; but his conduct in listen. ing to the report of a conversation between a foolish boy and a_ stupid carman and seeking to punish the young man for his words, was even more foolish. And, besides, it seems that the carman, in repeating the conversation, embellished and falsified it as people who report idle talk in the streets are apt to do. Then, the young man’s friend, Robert Miller, erred greatly in the counsel he gave to the lad, in telling bim to throw cayenne pepper in his uncle's eyes and to shoot in the contingency of his uncle's at- tempting to beat him. The actions of both Lewis and his friend Miller were criminal ; but Mr. Townsend's behavior is scarcely more excusable. The boy did not want to meet his uncle, and the boy’s mother was opposed to the uncle’s chastisement of her son, and yet Townsend waited at Mrs. Hopkins’ house for a long time to obtain an opportunity for pun- ishing the young man. The shooting of the lad’s mother was murder or manslaughter, because it was done in attempting an ualawful act; but it is a delicate question whether Townsend is not in every way as criminal as the others. So much folly and stupidity on all sides were never before crowded into a single case and never before were the results more deplorable. Melancholy Matricide. Spain AND THE Frenca ComMuNIsTs.—A telegraphic despatch from Madrid announces that the Spanish government, at, the express request of the French Cubinet, has consented to the extradition of the Commune leaders on the soil of Spain, and that one of these leaders had been arrested and delivered over to the French authorities. How different is the con- duct of this effete Spanish nation, with all its pretence of liberty, and even of republican principles, to that of England! When asked to surrender the Commune fugitives the Brit- ish lion growled ‘“‘No!” England, with all her faults, is still a safe asylum for political re- fugees and the same old bulwark of individual freedom. ns.—James Wilkner, a Srarvine Pens veteran of the Mexican war, and who served | in the war of the rebellion until he was dis- charged on account of disability, arising from a wound received in the Mexican war, is in the receipt of a pension of two dollars a month, Of course the old soldier ix in an plumshause, The “Syndicate’—What It Is.| We are plied with numerous inquiries as to the high-sounding agency which has come to the relief of Mr. Boutwell in negotiating the new loan. The gender of the thing seems to be much in doubt. Some want to know “Who he is?” and others again, thinking, like the Algerine Cadi, that woman is remotely or closely connected with everything, ask ‘Who she is?” Others modestly ask ‘What is it?” and not a few “Who are they?” The Syndicate, in brief, is a combination of bankers exclusively entrusted, in this case, with the negotiation of the new loan. The law authorizes an expenditure of one-half cent upon each dollar subscribed, either by ao actual exchange of gold for the new bonds or by an exchange for them of the old six per cent bonds, dollar for dollar. The one-half cent on each dollar is ‘made up by the allowance of ® commission of one- quarter of one per cent and an allowance for advertising of one-quarter of one per cent. Mr. Boutwell originally made all the banks anda host of designated private bankers the agents for the receipt of subscriptions, but after nearly five months of hard exertion was successful in placing only $70,000,000 out of the $1,500,000,000 authorized to be borrowed or refunded. In this situation an offer was made by a combination, or, rather, two com- binations—one here and one in Europe—to subscribe outright for $25,000,000 of the loan, on condition that its further negotiation, with all profits arising therefrom, should be theirs exclusively. Mr. Boutwell, having given the old plan time enough to prove its lack of prompt feasibility, has decided to test the availability of the more concentrated efforts likely to be made by these combinations, He has therefore turned over to them so much of the original offering of five per cent bonds as remained untaken, reserv- ing a fraction for so many of the national banks as wish to subscribe upon the original invitation. The arrangement seems to have been made with a number of firms having European origin or connection or both, Such a combination is known in Europe as a Syndicate. And now for the word Syndi- cate. Brushing up our etymology we find that the word is derived from the Greek svn, with, and aiké, justice. Hence the Greek word sundikos, a judge, which the Romans adopted in the form syndieus. Delving into our historic lore we find that with the infusion of the Italian or Latin element into the population and govern- ment of Northern Europe away back in prime- val times, the chief man of a town or village corresponding to our Mayor (the mayor or magister) was designated as the Syndicus by reason of his being the chief magistrate. German theology and politics took kindly to the introduction of Latin terms, much more so than the Anglo-Saxon to the Norman-French. The Syndicus in English become Syndic, quite a common title for the president of a council ora corporate body in Europe. In French, syndic corresponds to our word assignee. In course of time the Stock Exchanges of Ger- many were formed and the managing commit- tee were designated the Syndicate. The gov- erning committee of the New York Stock Ex- change would be the Syndicate in Berlin. Later on the brokers and bankers began to make combinations for the negotiations of loans for railway and other projects, to receive subscriptions for the capi- tal stock of these enterprises and to undertake the initiation of such matters generally. They assumed tbe title of Syndicate in these opera- tions. Finally the word“was applied to com- binations generally, and now has a meaning on the Berlin Bourse capable of embracing even the smaller and less dignified combina- tions which in New York would be known as “pools.” In its migration to Western Europe it has as yet lost none of its respectability, and a Syndicate in England is a very dignified affair. For some reason the American tongue does not glibly pronounce it as yet. May be, we like the Anglo-Saxon better than the Eng- lish themselves. The word seems a sort of grand monarchical foreigner who has not as yet taken out his papers, ‘Tut Emprror NaPoteon receives the hom- age due to fallen greatness. He®has given a féte in honor of August 15—once a great day in France, but now only a great day at Chisel- hurst—and has received the congratulations of five crowned heads and of the heir apparent of England. Well, these crowned heads know what common decency is, after all. They do not cut an old friend and brother when he is down in the world. Not that Napoleon is so very low down, either, He has got too much spare cash for that, A wan in his position need never despair. Still, Cwsar has fallen from his proud emi- nence, and is now only a gouty old gentleman who is scheming to get the throne back for his boy. The congratulations of crowned heads, therefore, empty phrased thongh they be, must be thrice welcome to the Lord of Chiselhurst. Personal Intelligence. Judge Robert Ray, of Louisiana, is staying at the Fifth Avenue. Colonel A. Whipple, of San Francisco, 1 & resi dent at the Startevant House. General E. W. Serreli, of the United States Army, has taken quarters at the Clarendon Hotel. Gerritt H. smith, of Geneva, 1s domiciled at the Firth Avenue, Colonel Phil Stockton, of Texas, is among the late arrivals at the Coleman House. John Palmer, Chief Engineer in the Spanish Navy, is a sojourner at the Astor House, H. L. Hanscom, of the United States Navy, has come to town and 1s stopping at the Albemarle Hotel. ©. H. Taney, of New Orleans, is domictied at the Clarendon Hotel. General Van Vilet, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Hoffman House, D. L. Yulee, ex-United States Senator, from Fiorida, is at the Coleman Houge. Colonel W. F, McLannahan, of Georgla, is at the Grand Central. THE OGDENSBURG RIOT. The Riot Quelled—Free Speech Vindicateds Baron De Camin Delivers His Lecture. OGpensBurG, N. Y., August 18, 1871. The excitement about the Baron De Camin lec- tures {s abating. One of the rioters, Who was balled on Weanesday, assaulted one of the most respecta- bie citizens to-day at noon, and then gave himself up. He was again batled, ‘The Baron De Camin deiiverea his lecture this afternoon at the Skating Rink, beyore a good audience, under the protection of the Mayor and police, No actempt was made to disturb hin. He will not deliver any more lectures 1 pp (uaa ciby. GoW Wal feog PRE gol la VIRdiGaled, | WASHINGTON. Statement of Collections of Internal Revenue in 1870 and 1871. Negro Magistrates Furnishing New Subjects for Diplomatic Correspondence. Advance Payment of the Septem- ber Interest, Wasulnaton, August 18, 1871. Collections of Internal Revenue fer 1870 and 1871. A comparative statement, showing the collections of imternal revenue for the fiscal years ended June 80, 1870 and 1871, was completed to-day. The entire amount of collections from spirits for the year ended June 30, 1870, was $55,606,094, and for the bast fiscal year, $46,282,463. There was an increase of $800,000 from spirits distilled from fruits during the past year, and uw decrease of $9,000,000 from spirits distilled from materials other than fruits. ‘The per diem tax on distilleries also decreased $200,000, and the” special tax on distile leries $800,002. ‘The revenue from tobacco during the past year was $33,578,587, and for the year before $31,35),707—an increase of over $2,000,000, about equally divided between cigars and chewing tobacco. In 1act there was aa Increase of revenue under every article under the head of tobacco. On fermentert liquors the increase during the past over the fiscal year was $1,070,000, and on banks and bankers the Increase was $623,009. ‘The income tax shows a falling off during the past year of nearly $19,000,000, ‘The income from tndt- viduals for fiscal year ended June 30, 1870, was $28,224,572, and for the past year $15,220,462, Bank dividends and undistributed profits for 1870, $3,573,272, and past year $1,514,551. Rallroad compenies’ dividends and undistributed profits for 1870, $2,898,802; past year, $1,102,043, Ratiroad companies’ imterest on bonds for 1870, $1,869,369; past year, $1,00,3477. Insurance com- pantes’ dividends and undistrmputed profits for 1379, $926,519; past year, $240,675. All other collections from income for 1870, $283,337; past year, $70,745. ‘The revenue from tax on gas was mmcreased during past year $26),000, The sales of adhesive stampa decreased $1,200,000. Articles and occupations formerly taxed but now exempt by act of July 14, 1870, yielded during past fiscal year, $16,000,000 less than the preceding fiscal year, Payment of tae September Interest. The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the Assiscant Treasurer to advance the payment of the September interest without rebate on Tuesday next. Reéuction of the Public Debt. The Treasury Department has issued a statement of net receipts and expenditures by warrants for the fiscal year ended June 30, showing that the actual redemption of tbe principal of the public debt tor the year was $182,139,575. The usual monthly debt statements for the same period foot up a reduction of $94,327,764. The difference between these two statements is because of the fact that the monthiy statements being a balance sheet takes cash and accrued interest into account, which are considered outstanding liabilities. ‘The New Loan. The subseriptton to the new five per cent loan to- day was $50,000, Concerning the withdrawal of the four and four and a half per cent bonds the Secre- tary of the Treasury bas intimated nothing what ever beyond the statement contained in the circular withdrawing that for the present, This class of se- curities, whatever 1s to be done in the future, either as regards their renewal or permanent withdrawal, is not mentioned at the department. In this particu- lar the Secretary will be guided solely by considera- tions of the public interests. Governor H. D. Cooke paid into the Treasury to- day, on behalf of the European syndicate, afteen mililons subscription on account of the new loan. Exchange of Bonds Suspended, ‘The following circular is issued to-day :— TREASURY DEPARTMENT, ; OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, WASHINGTON, August 18, 1871, Allexchanges of bonds held a: security for the circulation of national banks for other ponds of the United States, except for the new five per cent honds now beme issued, will be suspeuded from this date until further notice. a. R, HULBURD, Comptroller of the Currency. Negro Dogberrys Expounding Lnaternatioual Law. The captain of an English vessel at the wharf at Darien, Ga., recently had occaston to puntsh four insubordinate sailors by confining them in the hold of his vessel. Tne imprisoned men, through a law- yer in that vicinity, obtatned @ writ of habeas cor- pus from @ negro magistrate, who caused them to be brought before him, and, after a hearing, re- leased them. The matter has been made the subject of diplomatic correspondence between the British Minister and the State Department, the captain having complained to nis government of the Inter. terence of the local magistrate as a breach of Inter- national law. The matter ts now being considered by the proper officials. Certificates of License for Steamboat Officers, The following circular, relative to certificates of licenses for masters, mates and engineers of inferior grades was to-day promulgated by Secretary Boue well:— TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Angust 13, 1871. To SUPERVISING AND LOCAL INSPROTORS OF ‘STEAM VeRsrt ‘The department is now supplying local Inspectors of steam veasels with bound volumes of blank certiticates of Heenses for masters, tates aud enzincers of inferior grades for issue under the provisions of section 14 of the act of Febru- hry 24, 1871, relating to steam vessels, the receipt of which. will be promptly acknowledged by them, It will be observed that in the preparation of these certificates an error was Inade by printing the number of the license in the apace al- lowed for, and in which it was designed the inspector should write, the number of the issie. As this error Gannot now be corrected, and as it is deemed mexpedient to Aiscard the completed certificates inspectors are Instrncted, jn order to insure uniformity when issuing licenses, lo desig: nate the number of the txsae thereot immediately above tho Word “issue,” on the face of the certificate, leaving the num- ber of the license to remain as itis, Supervising inspectors are airected to issue auch instructions to their respective local boarda as they may deem necessary relative to the is: sning of the new series of licenses Immediately upon tboir fecelpt. Local inspectors will be held strictiy accountable for all certificates of licenses furnished them, and care ts en- joined won them both us to the safe keeping and Issuing thereof. GEORGE 8, BOULWELL, Secretary. ‘The Steamer Chautauqua Explosion, Sheriff Harrington, of Chatauqua county, N, ¥., to-day telegraphed (0 Secretary Boutwell to have him order Chief Engineer Alexander Auchinleck to investigate the cause of the explosion of the steamer Chautauqua. Secretary Boutwell declined to have anything to do with the investigation, as the steamor was not amenable to the United States Inspection laws. A Plucky VeteranHow Old Soldiers are Pen« stoned. The Commissioner of Pensions to-day signed a re~ nowal of a Mexican war pension to James Wilkner which, in September, 1861, at the age of sixty-five, he forfeited to enlist as a private in Company G, First Pennsylvania Volunteers, He was, undoubt- edly, the oldest enlisted private that served tn the Jate war—the maximum age for recruits being forty- five, After serving fifteen months he was honor-/ ably discharged, on account of disabilittes arising from a severe gunshot wound received in the Mext- can war, twenty-five years before. The renewal of his pension dates from December 27, 1862, when ha was discharged. Its amount, however, is only $2a month, and the veteran 1s now, and has been for some time, in the Blockley Almshouse, Philadel. puta MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, ‘The lovely Lydia and her troupe will give the musical mélange ot “Biee Beard” at a matinée to-day at Wallack’s. Mr. John Jack has his complementary benefit this afternoon and evening at San Francisco Hall, opposite the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr, Jack will appear as “The Last Man” and “Falstaff,” assisted by Oliver Doud Byron, Theodore Hamilton, Charles McManus and others. Miss Pauline Marks, ham and Signor Operti will sing, and Mr. Gump. town Podijah Cute will give his fantastical facial lecture on funny fellows we meet. Signor Brignoli and troupe gave a concert ac tho Stockton Hotel last evening. It was largely ate tended by sojourners on the island, and was a arath fying success Ja every particuiar