The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1871, Page 4

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GLOBE THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall—Va- RIRTY ENTRETAINMENT. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway, — SOIRNCE AND ART. New York, Thursda: aoe CONTENTS Page. 1—Advertisements, Advertisements, 3—The Conner-Cullen Cutting Case—The Brick Church = Property—City —Government—Mar- riages and Deaths— Advertisements. 4—Evlitorials: Leading Article, “The Next Presi- dency—Chief Justice Chase as the Democratic Vanaidate—A Strong Endorsement {from the Soutn”’—News trom Washtngton—Personal Intelligence—Amusement Announcements. S—A Wail from Hungary: Destructive Floods and Hail Storms im the South of Hungary; A Ferule Country Ruined—The Situation in France—News from Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, England and lreland—Anglo- Amert- cau Aquatics: Result of the International Boat Racp at St. Jonn—Miscellaneous Tele- raphic News—Views o! the Past—Business -Tazopore Tuomas August 24, 187: OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Oli 6—Repu' in Rambles: Fighting for Fenton and Grant at Niagara—Tue Presidential Pool—Re- ubiican Reorgan: jon—Kunning Notes, Po- itical and Gener ried Bluefish: The Late Fish Poisoning in Williamsburg—Maniac’s Murder: Cutting Two Throats at Once—A Fancy Financier: Keniarkabie Narrative of an Oficer of the Royal Navy; A Young Enghsn Tar in Search of a New Unitorm— Connecticut Seed Leat Tobacco. . 7—Advertisements. S—Cholera Coming: Excitement m_ England; Communication to the New York Board; Dis: infection, Prevention and Warning—Horrible Tragedy in Jamestown, N. Y.—Matrimonial Madness—Vive L'Itaua: Grand Parade in Commemoration of italian Unity—Desperate Car Thief—Paying Of the Riot—An Orphan Girl's Ruin: Justice still Triumphant in Jersey—Proceedings in the Courts—A Bowery Bagnio Brawl—Obsequies of Lieutenant McKee—Destructive Storm in Savanaah. 9—Destractive Storm in Savannah (continued from Eighth Page)—Tue City Accounts: The Mayor's Messages to the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Aldermen—Brooklyn A ffairs—Brook- lyn Police—Bad brooklyn Brakes—Odd Fel- lowship—Financial and Commercial Reports— Domestic Markets, 10—The Saratoga Races: Last Day of the August Meeting—iachting—Wisconsin Democracy: The New Departure ed—Shipping In- telugence—Adve' Tae Gotp Corner.—Mr. Boutwell came down with the Brobdingnagian foot of the Trea- sury on the Liliputian ‘‘bulls” of the Gold Room yesterday; but, curious to relate, the *ittle jokers” weren’t there. Sgorerary Bovrweitt has determined to publish immediately the report of the govern- ment inspectors appointed to examine into the cause of the Westfield explosion. Proba- bly no similar inquiry was ever more thorough and searching, although the conclusions ar- rived at are not altogether satisfactory. The ‘manuscript consists of over one thousand pages and is illustrated with diagrams of the boat and boiler, exhibiting every detail of the accident. Repcrricay State Conxvention.—The Re- publican General Committee of this State de- termined yesterday to hold their State Con- vention at Syracuse on the 27th of September. Now we suppose the war of factions will begin dn earnest and the Fenton men and Conkling men begin to buckle on their armor for the fray. A perfect lovefeast may be anticipated, and that nobody may be disappointed it is im- portant that at least two sets of delegates shall be sent from this city. But we have no doubt that Mr. Murphy and Mr. Greeley will attend to the matter. A Fearevi CataLoaur.—Never before in the history of New York has crime. been so rampant nor offenders so bold in their opera- tions as now. Our columns this morning record one murder and suicide, two attempted murders, a shooting and stabbing affray and one car robbery, besides a long list of minor offences. The car robber and two would-be murderers are in custody ; but as they belong to a class who generally manage to elude the laws the attempt to bring them to justice is likely to prove a mere mockery. A sad com- mentary this upon the effectiveness of our police and prosecuting officer Burier’s Bras General Butler is to speak @ piece at Springfield to-night, in which he will endeavor to show why be ought to be made Governor of Massachusetts, He will, of course, define his position and all that sort of thing; but we fear there will be very little position left after be has defined it. Whether Butler is to essay another blast like some of those which he attempted before remains to be seen; but we have no doubt he will try to put his best foot foremost, and, unless it is a physical impossibility, he will keep his eye straight on the main chance. Things apparently as im- possible as his nomination have occurred before now, and he is a most persuasive fellow when he has something to ask for bimself. If old Essex county never burned a witch—a fact of which we are assured—it certainly’ elected Butler to Congress. Massachusetts no longer burns witches, and it may make Butler Gover- por. Yankee logic is such a queer thing that only masters like Butler know how to use it, and his blast to-night may tuen the whole State in his favor, We think not, but we shall wait and see. ; although a democrat. as the Democratic Candidate—A Strong Endorsement from the South. A new departure of the democratic party, under the broad national ensign of Chief Justice Chase as their candidate for the Presi- dency, is not a new idea with the New York Heratp. We urged this movement upon the democrats in 1868, as their only hope of salvation from a crushing defeat in that campaign. Some of the most sagacious leaders of the party, accepting this view of the subject, undertook the task of securing the nomination of the Chief Justice; but the Tammany Hall National Convention, after coquetting with him as a doubting damsel dallies with a new lover, or as a cat plays with a mouse, crueily sacrificed him, and Mr. Horatio Seymour and General Frank Blair can tell what followed in the succeeding October and November elections. The time approaches when the democracy will be called upon to define their position and to declare their champion for the White House in 1872 against General Grant, as the republican candidate for the succession. We have on several occasions undertaken to show that Chief Justice Chase is still by all odds the most available man for the democrats, and that if any ticket can be named for them which will carry with it any encouraging hopes of success it wiil be the ticket of Chase and Hancock. Recently a democratic conven- tion at Parkersburg, West Virginia, struck out in favor of Mr. Chase, on the Val- landigham new departure. Mr. Chase, in the name of the convention, being informed of its proceedings, and the various resolutions of its platform being thus laid before him, felt called upon to respond; and in his response, while cordially approving the platform adopted in all other respects, submitted that the resolution on the ‘‘new departure,” instead of being qualified and diluted with objections touching the ways and means whereby the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth constitu- tional amendments were carried through, should be so framed as simply to declare that said amendments, having been duly ratified and accepted by all departments of the govern- ment and by the people, must be respected as parts of the ‘‘supreme law of the land.” In other words, the Chief Justice proposes to the democracy the acceptance of the situation, fairly and squarely, without mental evasion or reservation, and upon this platform he is at their service. And now we have a letter from Chief Jus- tiee A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee (which the reader will find in another part of this paper), strongly endorsing this Parkersburg Chase movement. Referring to the resolu- tions of the convention aforesaid Mr. Nich- olson says that, “relying upon my knowl- edge of Southern character and sentiment, I have no doubt that the great body of the Soutbera people would cordially support Chief Justice Chase, or any honest statesman standing upon this platform.” He says, fur- thermore, “I do not think that the Southern democrats have any decided preference as to the persons to be nominated for President and Vice President;” but that they look to the national party convention to settle that matter ; and that ‘I think I can safely add that Chief Justice Chase, by his firmness, independence and ability in the discharge of his judicial duties, has secured the decided confidence of the Southern democracy.” Now, as a Southern democrat, Judge Nich- olson speaks as one having authority. From the letter introducing his letter it will be ob- served that he is an old Jacksonian in his political antecedents; that he has never been a Sonthern fire-eater, and that from his liberal course on the negro suffrage question in ,the reconstruction of Tennessee he received the support of the great mass of the black voters of the State in his election to his present office, We may infer from this encouraging example that Chief Justice Chase, as the democratic candidate for the Presidency, would certainly command a large proportion of the black vote of the Southern States, inasmuch as the whole record of bis active political life down to the suppression of our late gigantic Southern rebellion is a record of his efforts to right the wrongs inflicted upon the African race in this country under cover of the constitution, and inasmuch as his recognition of these new amendments is full, complete and without the shadow of a qualification. But if the democratic party adopt Mr. Chase upon this explicit and undiluted accept- ance of the ‘‘new departure” what is to be done with such distinguished leaders of the Southern “lost cause” as Jeff Davis, A. H. Stephens, Toombs, Wade Hampton and their unreconstructed followers? They declare these new amendments outrageous, scandal- ous, infamous, fraudulent and void, and that they will never accept them—never, never ; but while the sun continues to rise and set they will fight them, even to the extremity of abandoning the Northern democracy and their Presideutial ticket. Very well. If such is the Southern fire-eaters’ ultimatum—if they will have nothing short of the suicidal demo-~ cratic Wade Hampton platform of 1868, the only alternative left to the national party convention will be to let these Southern fire- eaters depart in peace. Their loss, with the democratic party under the standard of Chase and Hancock, or Chase and Nicholson, will be a bagatelle compared with the sure gain of a large portion of the black vote in every South- ern State, from Delaware to Texas, * The Southern democracy, including some of the fussiest of the fire-eaters, are largely in favor of General Hancock as the national democratic candidate. Even the fiery Toombs will accept Hancock; but he says that if reduced to a choice between Chase and Grant he will go for Grant. This is because the old line reminiscences of Toombs go behind the war and give him a larger field of hostility to Chase than our political history furnishes against Grant, and because your old Bourbon “never learns anything and never forgets any- thing.” These disturbing fire-eaters, however, if put to the test, will be found to be mere “noise and fury, signifying nothing,” against sach a democratic Presidential ticket as Chase and Hancock or Chase and Nicholson. We eay es, eb Nicholson, because each has his peculiar ‘recommendations—Hancock as a gallant Union soldier and popular Pennsy)- vanian, and Nicholson as a genuine Jack- sonian Southera democrat. sound from the & ‘NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1671.—W. jump, and popular among the Southern blacks | The St. Jom Boat Race—Emfects of Over- feeling which existed in the minds of the old on the “‘new departure.” In discarding the Presidential ticket for 1872 thus suggested where are the democrats to go to find a ticket which will offer them the sinall- est hopes of success? We cannot tell, nor do we believe they can tell, Under the shadows of recent events, though they rather add to than detract from the genuine popularity of Governor Hoffman, he is not the man for the democracy in 1872. Nor do we think -that Pendleton or Hendricks or Packer or Parker or English or Andy Johnson, or any one of the regular democratic catalogue of politicians holding over from the Convention of 1868, carries guns enough to resist the heavy artil- lery of General Grant to any purpose in the coming campaign. The recent elections in North Carolina, Kentucky and Montana, like those of the spring in Comnecticut and Rhode Island, show that notwithstanding all the rebellious radical malcontents, such as Sum- ner, Trumbull, Logan, Gratz Brown, Carl Schurz, Fenton and Greeley, and in spite of sll the demoralizing cliques and factions of the republican camp, such as those of New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans, General Grant has lost nothing of the good will of the masses of his party, but has strengthened him- self in their confidence through the generally acceptable policy of his careful and prudent administration. It needs no argument, however, to show that the democracy have an uphill fight before them in the contest for the Presidential succes- sion, and that with their ‘“‘new departure,” a new man, fairly and fully representing it, and completely detaching the party from its dead men and dead issues is the first essential to the party in view even of a hopeful advance to ultimate victory. Chief Justice Chase meets these requisitions, and the democrats must prepare for some such representative man on the living issues of the day in 1872, or the occupation of the party, like Othello’s, may be gone. the impression, from all the signs of the times, that in the year 1876 the political parties and issues of the present day will, in all probabil- ity, be overwhelmed in a new revolutionary agitation, the most radical and sweeping in its consequences since the world-shaking French upheaval beginning in 1789, The Calamities of the World—The Desti- tution in Southern Hungary. This year has been prolific of calamities that have sorely tried poor humanity. Dis- aster has followed close upon the heels of disaster, The elements have played sad havoc with men’s lives and property, not to speak of the human holocaust sacrificed to the devouring monster, War, and of other dire mishaps on sea and land. We have had mournful tidings of death-vomiting volcanoes and equally destructive tidal waves in remote parts of the world, of the ravages of the famine in Persia and the inroads of the cholera in Northern Europe. But a day or two ago we were informed that the blight had ruined the potato crop in Ireland, a report which, however, we are glad to hear proves to have been exaggerated. And now, as if there were not already misery enough in the world, there comes a special despatch from our correspondent at the capital of Hungary adding another mite to the sum total of human misfortune. Floods and hail storms have ruined the fertile fields of Southern Hungary. One-third of the district of Banat, the granary of the Austrian empire, is under water. These lands had in former times been waste marshes, They were reclaimed by the construction of dams under the reign of the Empress Maria Theresa, and made the most fertile fields of Hungary. But now the country has returned to its original condition; for a culpably negligent administration has turned a deaf ear to the pleadings of the peasantry. It failed to repair the dams and thus caused the calamity, Bat, regardless of the misery of the pea- santry, the authorities levy the arrears of taxes with undue severity, seizing all the re- maining property of these poor, trodden-down people. The once fair and happy province is ruined, and famine is staring in the face of the inhabi- tants. Here the government may be said to have aided the elements in their work of destruction, We might go further, and say that bad or improvident governments have caused nearly all the calamities we have mentioned. Their first care is not to alleviate the sufferings of the people, but to keep what they consider their skeletons in the closet perfectly secret from the rest of the world, In the teeth of all authentic reports about the famine in Persia the representative of that country in London but recently denied the seve- ral accounts and made light of the calam- ity, thus delaying the aid which might other- wise have been immediately despatched to that famine and pestilence-stricken people. The like may be said of the cholera, which had been lingering for two years in Russia, the existence of which was, however, carefully excluded from the knowledge of all but the officials of the imperial government. The angry elements know no mercy, but, after all, man’s worst foe is his fellow man. Tug Montana Inpians, who have been on their good behavior for some time, are be- coming restive and are preparing to take the warpath. Governor Potts says the redskins mean war, and as the government troops in the Territory are inadequate to its defence he has commenced organizing and arming the settlers. Generally when Territorial officers take a hand in an Indian war it turns out a profitable operation for them, especially if the general government can be induced to foot the bills. President Grant will find it cheaper to feed the Montana Sioux than to fight them, although in doing 60 he may frustrate many well:laid schemes for plundering the public treasury. Count Bi , hints the Vienna /ree Press, is going to retire from the Ministry. That Francis Joseph should part with bis trusty adviser, who saved the Austrian ship of state from utter wreck after the battle of Sadowa, seems scarcely credible. And yet there isa powerful anti-German party in Austria that disapproves of Count Beust’s advances to the government of the Emperor William, If the policy of éhat party should prevail with Francis Joseph of course there would be no alternative for Count Beust but to resign We say this because we cannot resist training. The brat race between the Tyne crew and the St. John crew resulted, as we told our readers yesterday it was possible it would resalt, in a victory for the latter. If the race had been rowed to the end itis nota settled question which would have won ; but the St. John men took the lead from the start, and even the powerful spurts of the Tyne crew could not wrest their advantage from them. Unfortu- nately the melancholy death of Renforth makes the victory a barren one and throws around the contest an Interest that is in a cer- tain sense repulsive. The Canadians quietly rowing over the course while the leading man among their rivais was dying gives to their conduct and to the occasion a touch of inhu- maoity that makes one shudder, even though he be prepared to admit that their action was right and proper. There is nothing in the his- tory of outdoor sports like this tragic event, and’ we must go to Geoffrey Delamayne’s foot race in Wilkie Collins’ remarkable novel of ‘Man and Wife” to find a parallel, There was a novel written by the most expert story teller of the day to illustrate the evil effects of overtrain- ing in the matter of outdoor sports which would find few believers among the lovers of athletic exercises, and yet we print to-day the exemplification of the truth of all the novel- ist’s theories, Weare slow to believe that the death of Renforth, coming, as it did, in the excitement of a great aquatic contest, is to be attributed to apoplexy as apoplexy is popu- larly understood. On the other hand we are convinced that this strong man died when his strength was apparently the greatest from the sudden breaking up of an organization trained and tested beyond endurance. Just asa proud edifice which has withstood the shocks of the earthquake and the violence of the hurricane sometimes crumbles to pieces in the calmness of a summer morning, or a strong ship which has resisted the buffetings of the winds and the waves founders in smooth waters, he yielded to the summons which, sooner or later, comes to all, dying when even he believed himself in the plenitude of his powers. If we could now take up Wilkie Collins’ novel for the first time and follow the fortunes of his athletic but wicked hero from the hour when the skilful old doctor gave Geoffrey De- lamayne the warning which was received so brutally, noting the careful hedging of his trainer when he saw the evidences of a break in the young man’s wind, and tracing his career up to the tragic death-scene, the story would have a new meaning for most of us. We would find the history of yesterday de- picted in truthful colors, and even the victory of the St. John men would have its parallel in the success of Delamayne’s competitor. It is a glowing chapter, and yet one that is eminently distasteful, in which the novelist depicts the breaking down of the nobleman’s son, who was not too prond to run a foot race; but the soene at St. John yesterday morning shows how far it is from being an exaggeration. Overtraining, in fact as well as in fiction, works out the werk of death, and the hardened frame breaks when even the weakly constitu- tion would not give way. We would not discourage physical training, but we would not have it carried to the lengths to which many of our boating men would carry it. We prefer to see the oarsman ac- complishing by skill what strength cannot accomplish, There is a point beyond which endurance cannot go, and the next step after perfection is decay. Few prize fighters live to be hale and hearty old men, and if our oarsmen strain instead of strengthening their powers that which they believe will prolong existence will only serve to shorten it. Ren- forth’s death is a clear demonstration of this, and the lesson it teaches is well worth heed- ing. It will not do to say that apoplexy hurried him away ; he died of dumb bells and the strength-giving appliances of physical culture. As the cracked boiler of the West- field gave way one Sunday afternoon because a little more steam had been generated that day than on the day before, so his constitution, broken by long exertion, fell to pieces yester- day because a little more excitement was too much for him to bear. His death is both a warning and a protest, but it ought to be an encouragement rather than a discouragement of proper physical force. The French National Guard—The Motion te Disband Ii—The Regular Army. The question of the disbandment of the Na- tional Guard of France still continues a source of perplexity and annoyance to the govern- ment. The course which the National Guard pursued when the Paris Commune cast down the gauntlet of war to the government of France has completely shaken the confidence of the people in the efficiency, honesty or pa- triotism of the Guard. It cannot be depended upon, Of this fact the French nation is pretty well assured, and hence the National Assem- bly are determined to abolish it: Not only is the National Guard a source of anxiety to French legislators at the present day, but the army itself, as at present constituted, causes great fears to rise in the minds of many of them. Every intelligent person recollects how suddenly and disastrously the armies of the empire became broken up. After a short cam- paign of a few weeks the imperial armies of Napoleon were prisoners of war in Germany. France, though disheartened with this series of terrible reverses, determined not to yield without an attempt to redeem herself. With the defeat of the imperial armies fell the empire, Then rose the republic. New arqies, commanded by new generals and led by new officers, poured into the field. The struggle was continued, and with what results the world is already familiar. Our reason for referring to these facts is to ahow that within a short six months two distinct armies, by two dis- tinct and opposite governments, were engaged in France against acommon enemy, The old, or the imperial, armies were nearly all cap- tured, and on their return home from confine- ment they found their places supplied by forces whose existence they did not dream of when they commenced the war with Germany. Old army officers came back to find themselves outstripped in rank by new men, inexperienced in military affairs and unacquainted with the business of war, save what the brief campaigns which intervened between the fall of Sedan and the second siege of Parig qfforded them, The f officers of the empire towards the new officers of Gambetta’s making, as may be imagined, was anything but productive of that harmony, discipline and efficiency which go to make an efficient army. We hear that the army is to be reorganized, and that bill for that pur- pose is already before the National Assembly ; but {in its reorganization trouble may arise. From what we have said it will be seen that the army question in France is one which re- qaires delicate handling, and one which may Produce fresh troubles for a nation already weighed down under the load of misfortunes. Piscatorial Polsening. A further inquiry into the late case of poisoning in Williamsburg leaves no doubt that it was caused by eating a bluefish. This fact naturally suggests a very unpleasant feel- ing, in view of the enormous quantity of this fish consumed weekly in such a city as New York between May and October. The impos- sibility of ascertaining whether the fish in question was caught with poisoned bait or had had the noxious substance introduced by other means is unfortunate, since on a mat- ter of food a poison scare is as diffi- cult to arrest as a stampeded mule. Yet let Gotham take comfort in the fact that the salesman who vended the fish declares that no one else has complained of anything. Notwithstanding this sweet assurance it is something that deserves extended inquiry; for the possibility of even one fish in a million being through a vile practice made dangerous to human life must, if possible, be guarded against. That the poisonous coculus indicus is occasionally used in the capture of certain fresh water fish seems certain, and that boys have the name of the substance pat on their tongues, under the synonym of ‘fish corn,” shows how much more widely spread this nefarious practice is than would be imagined. That any respectable druggist would knowingly sell a strong poison for such a purpose passes comprehension ; yet, if there is a ready sale for such an article, there are, doubtless, unprincipled scoundrels enough inthe world to avail themselves of the opportunity of profiting by the exchange. We are willing to admit that no such Thuggism obtains among the wholesale fish merchants, for it would certainly be found ont, and, once discovered, would ruin the business of the guilty wretch—a consideration which would certainly weigh more with him than any moral misgivings. The danger lies, perhaps, more with the smaller fry of fishermen, who may find the ‘‘fish corn” answer its purpose and yet be ignorant of the peril in which they place those who eat of their harvest of the seas. No sach excuse can he offered for those who sell the drug, since the trade name for the article would convince the most stupid clerk that ever doled out arsenic for sal soda of the object to which the poison was Intended to be applied. If poison be used to stupefy the fish it must first bo absorbed, and it follows logically that who- ever eats a portion of that fish takes a certain amount of poison into his system. That this may not be in sufficient quantity to produce any violent symptoms does not remove the danger ; for many poisons are cumulative, and the consolation that there is but ever so little present does not make it the less danger- ous. We do not think there is any necessity for the public to give up all pisca- torial pabulum, but still less are we willing that so importaart an item in our food supply should be within the reach of villanous vitia- tion. Ifthe laws guarding the sale of poisons are notstringent or far reaching enough to touch this reprehensible practice let something be enacted to meet the case. The knave who sells should be as rigorously punished as the ignoramus who buys. Both are public ene- mies—enemies on a par with the barbarians who poisoned wells, and should be similarly treated when caught. Gathering of Politicians at Niagara. It appears from our Niagara correspond- ence published to-day that many of the re- publican leaders of New York, as well as prominent politicians of other States and of both parties, are gathering together within sound of the mighty cataract. This famous spot has attained a historical reputation for unorganized political assemblages, where pub- lic men compare notes and develop schemes for the future. The great trouble with the republicans of this State appears to be just now the rivalry of the Fenton and Conkling factions, and that the only difficulty in the way of reconciliation is the division of the spoils of office, present and prospective, The leaders of the party think there is a good prospect for them of defeating the demo- crats in this State, and, consequently, are endeavoring to prepare the way for harmony and vigorous action. Of course the administration at Washington ear- nestly desires the harmony of the party. The Fenton faction express the same desire, and seem to be ready for overtures from the Conkling party to that end, The Fentonites want a reasonable proportion of the offices in the Custom House and elsewhere, and their chief to be placed on the ticket for Vice Presi- dentin the Presidential contest next year. The great obstacle appears to be with those who hold the offices at present. They cannot endure the idea of giving them up and shar- ing with others, though of the same party. Judging from present indications, however, we think this difficulty may be solved. While the republicans are thus caucusing and pre- paring for the issue the democrats of this State seem to be in a tempest-tossed condition, at sea without a rudder, Has not the time come and is it not in order now for the demo- cratic chiefs to meet at Saratoga, that other famous place for gatherings of politicians, to devise plans for the future? A little purging of the waters there might clear their heads and open their eyes. The Springs might prove as useful to them as the inspiring influ- ence of Niagara to the republican oe The campaign is opening in earnest, am it behooves all to be up and doing. Tue Ciry Accounts.—In to-day’s HeraLp will be found the messages of Mayor Hall to the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Aldermen relating to the accounts of the city and county of New York, We have the assur- ance that these accounts are to be thoroughly examined, and that they will he printed as foon as thg work can be done. Tremendous Frauds Upon the Pensiom Bureau Unearthed. Report of the Inspectors on the Westfield Sx- plosion To Be Published. Great Increase of the Chineso- American Tea Trade. WasuInaton, August 23, 1871, Frauduleat Pensions Discevered. It has been the opinion of Treasury officials fort some time past that the rapid and continued inerease of claimants on the pension lists after the war had so long terminated was somewnat irregu- lar. Investigations have been made from time to time, but these have only developed isolated cases of fraud, in most of which the offenders have been brought to justice, Detectives in the service of the Treasury Department now profess to have got on the track of information which, when thoroughly sifted, will open up @ wide field of fraud in this branch of the public service. It 13 asserted that Combinations exist, extending throughout the large cities, especially in the Southern States, which have made a regular business of working up fraudulent lsts of colored claimants who never had an existe ence except in the tmaginations of the swindlers. The Westfeld Disaster. The manuscript of tne investigation into the cause of the Westfield disaster, consisting of over one thousand pages, together with diagrams and drawings of the boiier and boat, were recelved to- day at the Treasury Department, and Secretary Boutwell will to-morrow give the necessary order for the printing of the same, The drawings will be lithographed, so that whatever of general interest was brought out by the examination will be pre- served in print. Chinese Tea Trade with the United States. An official report concerning the tea trade, from the United States Consul at Amoy, China, says ihe Market opened on the 23d of December in Amoy, and the crop of 1871-72, of Volong. is fully up to that of last season in quality and not likely to tall short ia quantity. The market for the United States opened at prices certainly one-fourth above the opening rates last year, and in three days the pur- chases amounted to 10,000 packages above the actual arrivals—part of the crop only in many cases having come down from the country. Prices are so irregular it ts difficult to give exavt quota- tions, Teas grading trom fine upward-are eagerly bought as they arrive. The Government Securities. ‘The recent heavy demands for the new five per cent bonds has developed a very great increase in the cali for bonds of the lower denominations, of $50 and $100, wnich is understood to be due to in- vestments in these securities by the working classes. The clerks of tne loan branch of the Treasury are now kept very busy packing and preparing for transmission abroad the large numoer of bonds for Which subscriptions have recently been made, At the close of business at the Treasury Department to-day the subscriptions to the five per cent loan, reported by Jay Cooke & Co., amounted to $5,042,600. Absurd Regulations of the Navy Department. By the last Naval Register it seems some remark- able arrangements have been made in the rating of ships quite puzzling to the uninittated to under- stand. Before this the lowest rate was the fourth, now a fifth rate is established, and beside whicl vessels which seemingly belong elsewhere are placed under it. For instance, the register says third rates are between eight hundred and fifteen hundred tons, yet the Portsmouth, 3840 tons, and Jamestown, 830 tons, are placed among the fifth rates; so are the Mo- nocacy, Ashuelot and others which, by their tonnage, would seem to belong to fourth rates. Then again, all the lictle tugs in the navy, some not much larger than the Jamestown or Monocacy’s cutters, are classed as fourth rate. Why 1s @ iitile tug of thirty tons, carrying only three or four men, occu- pied in harbor work, made fourth class, while shipa of eight hundred tons, with two or three hundred men, are put fifth rate? Before this, the rating of a ship furnished some idea of her size and capacity, but this is the case no longer among naval men. Some of the changes create not only surprise, but uncertainty, a8 change of rate sometimes necesal- tates other changes. Lighthouses and Beacons on the Chinn Coast, ‘The Secretary of the Treasury, in returning to the Secretary of State a communication in reference ta keeping in repair lighthouses and beacons on the coast of China under the terms of the treaty of that country with the United States, says:— The Department has very carefully read and con- sidered the papers submitted by the Secretary of State. lam of opinion that the Chinese govern. ment has, under the circumstances, shown @ very creditable activity. It can hardly be expected a that with such a people and so intricate coast operations can proceed quickly, and especially as tne need of foreign assistance 1s admitted. Ido not think it wise to press fore! intervention in this matter so far as to leave the Chinese nothing todo. They seem willing to do all they can, and to have secured the full confidence of Mr. Hart, the Inspector General of the Chinese Ma- ritime Customs, both as to their integrity and intendence. It allowed to carry out their own views in their own way, with such foreign assistance as they may need duly afforded, it will, perhaps, be better for commerce and our own interests in the end, by preparing the Chinese them- selves forthe assumption of the responsibility of lighting their coasis and of otherwise performing their duties as a commercial nation. The Plymouth Rock Scare. Secretary Belknap has ordered General Brannon, in command of Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, not to experiment with the depressing gun carriage during the passage of steamers up and down New York harbor. Launch of a New Revenue Steamer. The new revenue steamer Grant was launched to- day from the yard of Pusey, Jones & Oo., Wilming- ton, and will be fitted out immediately for duty im New York harbor, Personal Intelligence. United States Senator Simon Cameron, of Penn- sylvania, 1s at the Astor House. E. ©. Banfield, Solicitor, of the Treasury Depart- ment at Washington, 13 staying at the Fifth Avenue. Governor Hoffman came from Newport to this city yesterday morning. Having remained for a short time at the Ciarendon Hotel he went to Albany, where he now 18. John B. Manning, after a pleasant tour on the Continent, a run through Great Britain and Ireland, ‘and a Jook on the principal money marts of Europe, returned home by the City of Brooklyn, to again re- sume ls avocations among the bulls and bears of Wail street. Congressman Oakes Ames, of North Easton, Mass., 1s again at the Fifth Avenue, Ex-Governor T. C. Fletcher, of Missourl, ts im town, residing at the Sturtevant House. United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Dela~ ware, is temporarily residing at the New York Hotel. Geo. M, Pullman, of Chicago, the Prosident of the Palace Car Company, yesterday arrived at the Bre~ voort House. General Kilpatrick and famlly are at the Huffman House. General S. 8. Hinkle, of Washington, D. U., has quarters at the Gilsey Honse. W. Pembroke Fetridge, of Paris, France, is a resident at the Everett House, Prancis B. Hayes, of Boston, President of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, 1s sojourning at the Brevoort House. Colonel T. C. Bethel, of Memphis, Toun., has quar. ters at the Grand Central. Colonel Cumming, of Princeton, N. J., has come ta the Hoffman House. Colonel Leatherman, of Memphis, Tenn, 1s stop. ping at the Albemarle Hotel, Judge ©. 0. Cole, of Des Moines, Lowa, isa reate dent of the Grand Conway WASHINGTON. i) cy