The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1871, Page 4

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DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — SCIENCE anv Aut. New York, Saterday, Avgust 26, 1871. OF Ti-DAY’S HERALD, Pace. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3- dings in the Courts—The Church Dim. calty in Hudson—Tie New York College of | Pharmacy—Advertisements. abe mh 8: Leading Artcle, “ ‘Lo, the Poor In- 0 Peace Policy”—!ersonal Intellizence—Yacht- ing Notes—The Hulifax Regatta—Running Sores, Political and General—Fire in a Mous- guito Net factory—lailroad Matters —Kero- sene Again—Amusement Announcements. S—The Situation in France—A Spanish Pretender— The Pope—News from England—The Cholera in Europe—Death in the Hurricane; Total Wreck of the New York Steamer Lodona Of the Fiorida Coast—Ohio — Polltics—Miscel- lanecons Teegraphic News—Amusements— Local Matters—Views of the Pust—Business Notices, @—Yach'tng: Arrival of the Schooner Yacht En- chantress at Newport: the Brooklyn Yacht Club Regatta at New London; the Li- voni2—Dexter ark Races—the W ton Poisoning Case in Balttmore—Su of a Lonaite—Attempted Sur Who Is She—Cholera: What ts Being Bone at Quarantine—Yellow Fever—The Rotlers Afloat: Examination or Vessels by tho United States Inspectors—The Westfield Ex- prosion—'The Escaped Convicts—Operations of the Park Commissioners. %—The Coresn Fight: The Story of an OMcer of the United States Expeuition—Imvoriant Question of Citizensnip—Municipal Music—A Sceptic on the Syndicate— nell and Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets— Marriages, Engagement and Deaths. $—The Italian Dream: Italian Unit the Euiiice: Nome Recovered Memmorition Celebration: Procession of the Addresses at Sultzer's Park; Lako NEW YURK HERALD, SATURDAY. AUG “Le, the Peer Indinal”—Our White Ele- | gether in two or three large communities, General Butler Comes to Time. Y 26, 1871. Lo, thie poor Indian | whose untatorea mind Parrot! go Siena geen sing si Par as the solar Walk or milky way,” to. Is the subject to which we invite the reader's | attention in this article. Mr. Delano, the Sec- retary of the Interior, in his late speech at Sandusky, Ohio, on the policy and conduct of General Grant’s administration, says that “the Indians (excluding the Alaska tribes, of which little is yet known) over whom the govern- ment has now supervision number about | two hundred and eizhty-eight thousand souls ;” that “‘they are divided into about one hundred and forty-two different tribes or nations, which are subdivided into numerous independent | branches or bands,” and that ‘‘these are all | embraced within seventy-five agencies, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian | ca | | | Affairs,” and are located as follows | Northern superintenden Central supermtenden Southern superintende! | Moptaua superinen Kota superintenden xico superinte: superiniende: ming superintendency Uiaa superint c n Arizona superinvenden California superintendency Washington supenuiendency Total, Alaska estimatea, 5 In addition to our red brethren of this list there are some hostile tribes, Apaches and others, of Arizona and New Mexico, number- ing some six thousand souls, so that alto- gether the “‘untutored” Indians under the care or jurisdiction of the government are hardly less in number than 375,000. What are we to do with these savages? The policy of exter- mination, which was commenced by the Cava- liers in the settlement of Virginia, and by the ey Shae ieleviaee tones Gre | Pilgrim Fathers, those blessed old humbugs, | in the settlement of Massachusetts, has be- come too much a public scandal to be per- mitted any longer; the policy of removal further back and still further back with the advancing “‘palefaces” can be no longer prac- tised, for all these Indian tribes, save those of Alaska, are at last enveloped in a cordon of white settlements, States and Territories, by which the retreat of these red men is cut off on every side. Two courses are still left open to the government—that of leaving these | Poor creatures mainly to shift for themselves, | with the army standing guard over them, till they dio out, and that of gathering iliom into communities and instructing them in the wars and arts of civilized life, in view of their ulti- mate blending with the great body politic and social of the American people. Mr. Delano says that, “looking at this de- plorable picture” of these Indian tribes, “‘the President, at the very outset of his adminis- New Summer Retreat; shipping and Saratoga. It ballasts its bed with sand, it starts with a jerk and stops with a jam, and hires the smallest condactor it can find, to save carrying weight. Dox Cantos, THE PrETENDER, *:ys our cable report, is at Bayonne, and his friends are tration, determined to try a new Indian policy, which may properly be called the policy of truth, justice, humanity and peace.” Hence his Quaker Peace Commissioners, and the In- dian delegations under Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and other chiefs called to Washington to be informed of the good designs of their “Great Father ;” and hence, too, the request sent out to our various Christian denomina- tions to assist with their missionaries in this divided as to what be should do or leave | new policy of “‘civilizing, educating and Chris- undone. Of all the Spanico pretenders—and | tianizing these poor, neglected and benighted there are two or three wore—Don Carlos has the least chance of sucrass. His followers are decayed grandees, discontented priests and these soreheads. government at all she will have a republic; but as a king the best man is Amadeus, who, by the way, bas not been assassinated, as the speculators of the Paris Bourse would have it. savas new policy, it appears, too, worked very weil Goanelally, for the Secretary of the Inte- “ignorant rastice, Spain will bave none of | rior reporis that while the old Indian policy If there is to be a chango of | for the last fiscal year of Johason’s adminis- tration cost $7,042,923, the new humanity and peace policy introduced by General Grant cost for the fiscal year 1870 only $3,407,938, showing a clear saving to the Treasury of Tue Horeioane of the 16th and 17th insta, | Ve $3,634,000. At the same time the costs begins already to unfold the story of the work of Indian wars have been greatly reduced, in ot destruction. First comes the announcement that the steamer Lodona has been wrecked on the Florida coast, with an appalling loss of twenty lives. Other ships have been disman- tled and damaged, and there seems hardly a doubt but that more is still tocome. In how far the loss of the Lodona was due to any un- foreseen point of weakness cannot now be determined. Her captain bore a high charac- ter in his profession, and was known as a thorongh sailor. The vessel was believed in by her owners, and the presumption, there- fore, is that her loss was ordained by Him who rides sot the whirlwind and directs the ~ { Wauow Faver in Cuantestos.—A de- spatch from Wilmington, N. C., asserts that yellow fever prevails in Charleston, and, it is feared, in epidemic form. A letter from a prominent clergyman in Charleston says four cases came under the writer's notice, and that the disease is believed to be spreading. The city authorities of Wilmington on Thursday telegraphed to the Mayor of Charleston for ioformation, but that official has not yet deemed it expedient to re- ply. ‘This very reticence of the Mayor gives color to the report—had it been unfounded an official contradiction would have been at once returned. Thanks to the efficient quarantine regulatious of our own port this dreaded scourge has not invaded our city, although arrivals in the bay from infected places are of frequent occurrence, and the near approach of cold weather removes all danger from this disease until another season. Is Ir Riou or humane to set little children like puppets upon o triumphal car, and drag them through the streets in the midst of drenching rain, merely to celebrate a political or even a national victory? The crowds that witnessed the Italian procession yesterday were actuated solely with feelings of pity for the poor, drenched, shivering girls who stood on exposed platforms as representatives of the cities of Italy. There were two deaths from sunstroke on the occasion of the great Ger- man procession, and the victims were young girls attired in fancy costumes and placed on triumphal car, where there was nothing to protect them from the fierce rays of the sun. How much worse is it to expose children of six and eizht years to the mercies of sucha storm as deluged our streets yesterday! It is right and proper enough to rejoice in the real- ization of the Italian dream of unity, but it is not necessary to indulge in a slaughter of the innocents. There are plenty of people to make a fuss over the slightest act of crnelty inflicted upon dumb animals; is there no one to prevent the cruel exposure of children in public to what might be termed gure death? the general avoidance of these wars; and Mr. Delano has great faith in the complete success of this new policy, looking to the civ- ilization of these Indians, and, as the Presi- dent has expressed it, ‘‘their ultimate citizen- ship. General Grant's Indian policy commends itself to the enlightened spirit of the age. The details of the system, as suggested in the list of superintendencies named, may also be the best for a beginning; but we think that, for the pacification of the tribes concerned, and their advancement in the ways of civilization, the Indian Territory established south of Kan- ses and west of Arkansas furnishes the exam- ple which the government should follow. This Indian Territory, a fertile and well- watered region of seventy-one thousand square miles in area, is divided among and occupied by the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choc- taws, Chickasaws and Wichitas, to the num- ber, all told, of about seventy thousand. These people in the old slavery times held over seven thousand negro slaves and had five hundred free blacks among them, and in the war of the rebellion they fought for their “niggers” with the Southern confederacy. At the end of the war, however, they gracefully “accepted the situation ;” and now those sev- enty thousand Indians, of half # dozen differ- ent tribes, and the eight thousand blacks and three thousand whites among them, form one of the most prosperous and, for their num- bers, the wealthiest community, State or Ter- ritory, in the Union. It must be remarked, however, that each tribe of this Territory occupies a distinct regervation and is a distinct political commu- nity, though all these tribes together form a sort of political confederation, under the sove- reign protection of the United States. They have become a civilized people in their industry, houses, schools, churches, habits, manners and customs, and we presume tbat when they make up their minds to become a State and apply for admission as a State, with & republican form of government, they will be cheerfully admitted to all the dignities and responsibilities of a State. Meantime railway corporations and land speculators are crowd- ing upon the Territory so greedily and re- morselessly that we think the true course on the part of the government and the Indians concerned is to make the Territory a State as soon as possible. As it stands this Indian Territorial experi- ment is a great self-sustaining success, which invites the government to other experiments of the kind. For the present these scattered reservations are no doubt the best arrange- ments that could be made; but having taken the initial steps in thus locating these Indian tribes, the next stev of grouping them tao- i | each in a district where they may sustain} The way in which General Butler manages themselves in the raising of cattle, horses, sheep, &c., and in the cultivation of the soil, will be comparatively easy. It is true that in small communities, surrounded by white set- tlements, these Indians may be more readily assimilated with the whites than they can be in large communities; but their dangers in small detachments from the aggressions and provocations of white border rufflans are very great, and the Indian is qaick and deadly in his revenges. In any event we are encouraged, from the official representations of the Secretary of the Interior, in the hope that General Grant’s | peace policy, even with our wild Indians, will mark in history the ending of the old, barbar- ous policy of swindling Indian agents and wars of Indian extermination, and the begin- ning of the policy systematically pursued by | the government of humanity, charity and peace toward the red man, who has been long enough robbed of his lands, cheated of his annuities, swindled in every way and hunted to death as an outlaw. The Florida war against less than a thousand fighting Semi- noles cost the Treasury, chiefly under Van Buren’s administration, the enormous sum of forty millions of dollars. Hundreds of mil- lions have since been lost by the government in the needless costs of Indian wars and swin- dling Indian contractors and treaty breakers, In falling back -upon the original Indian policy of William Penn, the policy of peace, and in securing the Quakers to assist him in this policy, General Grant is sustained by the general public sentiment of the country, and has been so far successful in the experiments made that we can hardly doubt that before the end of his administration we shall have the endof our Indian wars and the hatchet buried from Oregon to Texas and from Dakota to Arizona. The New Loam—They “Want You Know.” It was announced about a week ago that the Syndicate had paid into the Treasury the twenty-five million dollars subscribed by them as their initial effort with the new loan. Yet the Treasury balances of yesterday were about ninety million dollars coin and a few mil- lions in currency, or very nearly the same as they have been fora couple of weeks past. Where, then, is the twenty-five million? Mr. Boutwell ought to answer this question, or the public will begin to think there is a great deal of hocus-pocus about this Syndicate business. If the twenty-five million ison deposit with the Syndicate, drawing interest, it might as well be there as lying idle in the Treasury, for all the good that would accrue to the country from it in either situation. Again, if the money is subscribed and a deposit only put up until the bonds are delivered, why is not this money, amounting to several millions, turned into the Treasury? The public are also beginning to ask other questions. Does Mr. Boutwell credit the subscribers with the bonds from the date of subscription and allow them the pending coupons until the bonds are delivered? If so, we maintain that Mr. Boutwell is committing a very grave injustice by virtually increasing the public debt; for if five-twenty bonds corresponding to the new issues, dollar for dollar, are not simultaneously cancelled, the country is pay- ing eleven per cent interest in gold on so much of the debt as Is undergoing refunding. If these pending coupons and this excess in the interest burden fall to the Syndicate as per- quisites, in addition to the commission allowed by the law, the result will show that the re- funding of the one hundred and thirty million dollars placed in their hands has been accom- plished at an enormous expense to the govern- ment. Were the letter of the law strictly carried out in its requirement, ‘‘that nothing in this act, or in any otber law now in force, shall be construed to authorize any increase whatever of the bonded debt of the United States,” we opine there would be a different story about the success of the Syndicate in marketing the new loan. CoLongi Lew CamPpBELL, member of Con- gress for the Third district of Ohio, cannot be classed among Senator Sherman’s personal or political admirers, In fact, the erratic Colonel bears no love for the Senator as a man, and considers his politics as aught but orthodox. Entertaining a lively remembrance of the Senator's attempt to defeat his election, the Colonel is anxious to return the obligation by upsetting the Senator's chances for re-election, and accordingly invites him to a joint discus- sion of the political topics of the day. The Colonel’s note to Mr, Sherman is somewhat acrimonious, and his offer to compare notes on the consistency and general propriety of their political lives shows that he still smarts under the Senator’s castigation. Mr. Sherman takes the challenge in a kindly manuer, but declines to meet his adversary on the stump. Mr. Campbell by no means relishes the Senator's reply, and plainly intimates that in some of his speeches he indulged in certain extrava- gances which sembled untruths—in fact, were emphatically false. Both the Senator and the Colonel are men of words, and by no means bloody minded, therefore no fears need be apprehended for either calling the other to account, to Know, Tog IratiaN Parapg.—The Italians of New York paraded the streets of the city yes- terday in spite of the rain, not abating a jot or tittle of their programme. So inclement was the weather that it required no little courage to turn out at all, and we doubt if a disturbance had been intended whether it would have taken place. The day was alto- gether too stormy for the ordinary rioter. In turning out in the rain and storm of the morn- ing these representatives of Young Italy manifested much of the firmness of the old Roman days, and they are entitled to praise for the spirit and determination which they exhibited. Tne Corgan Fient,—We publish to-day a graphic account of the fight between our sailor boys and the Coreans by an officer engaged in the expedition. It gives many interesting de- tails in addition to those already furnished to our readers by onr special correspondent. As may be seen, those who undertake to force their way to the capital of Corea have no easy task before them, as the natives are full of fight and learn quickly how to adapt their mode of fighting to what is in vogue at the - Dresent day. to secure the attention of the country is more curious than important. It is free at once from the vulgar seekings after notoriety which distinguish the doings of nobodies like the whole crowd which Butler attacked in his Springfield speech and the empty vaporings of @ mere demagogue ; and yet we doubt if it ie 8 much higher style of art, But we confess there is genius in it, else the movements of the Essex statesman would not have a national interest or his words on all occasions receive a metropolitan hearing. There is nothing in Massachusetts politics, nothing in the canvass for Governor in that State, to provoke outside discussion or to warrant outside interference. It is only when Butler is in some way identi- fied with its politics that anybody takes the trouble to think what Massachusetts is doing, and then only because Butler's skill challenges general attention. Like the showman in one of Spielhagen’s novels, who was always the hero of his own stories and the object of inter- est to the multitude, Butler succeeds in making himself the central figure on every stage, and much in the showman’s way. We doubt if General Butler's speech will do him mach good, though it is pretty certain it must have eased his mind considerably, More than any public mania this country he has been goaded to fury by the press, and it,is not to be wondered at that he should strike back at the gadffies which have been annoying him. If he succeeded in showing malice in the New England journals which constantly assail him, he failed in concealing the malice in his own heart. He shot poisoned arrows at his assail- ants rather than dealt them telling and crush- ing blows, if we except the case of General Hawley, whom he certainly touched on the raw. Of what avail, it will be asked naturally enough, was this assault on a few provincial journals? And even Butler's best friends will question whether he can afford to make new enemies or to further embitter his old foes. General Butler himself heeds none of these considerations. He is too bold a man not to do brave battle when he fights at all. However much the Massachusetts politicians may have been disposed to ignore him, they cannot now easily compel him to stand aside, because he has made him- self heard over the whole State. In a single night he called a new element to his support, and not only put himself at the head of the labor party in Massachusetts, but distanced General Geary and the other aspir- ants for the leadership of the movement in the race to the front. In this consists the con- summate art of the manasa politician, In spite of what his enemies say his speech was neither tedious nor insipid. Indeed, its per- sonalities, howover indefensible they were in themselves, gave it a piquancy which was invaluable to him in gaining the ear of the country, and in thrusting himself forward as the Moses of our laboring population, If he does not succeed in his gubernatorial canvass it wil) not be for want of skill in his manner of conducting it. General Butler’s views on any question can- not be disposed of by mere ridicule, and we doubt if the obloquy heaped upon the man materially weakens him with the people. Even when he is wrong he is too strong and too plausible to be effectively met with such weapons. His enemies may laugh at his scheme for reducing the hours of toil to the minimum, so that labor as well as capital may reap some of the ad- vantages of machinery, but the workingmen will not thereby be deterred from striking hands with him in the effort to secure a mitiga- tion of dradgery. He is not logical, but he is generally acute, his acuteness showing itself in his calling the masses to his side. And he may be Governor of Massachusetts yet, in spite of his old enemies and his new enmi- ties, Even on his own showing General Butler is not to our liking. He always rides a high horse. When he says the least he appears to say the most. In all that he says there is a vein of unfairness, and, like Spielhagen’s showman, he often assumes the credit of other men’s achievements. His Springfield speech was full of these faults, and many of his accu- sations will not bear the test of a very close scrutiny. But that General Batler came to time nobody will deny. Whether he will con- tinue the battle after having struck one flerce blow is another matter. If he does he will act contrary to his past record, and no one is truer to his own ways than Butler to Butler’s characteristics. Dissatisfaction ac the French National As: sembly. There seems to be general dissatisfaction at the course pursued by the Assembly on the subject of the disbandment of the National Guard and on several other questions, Gene- ral Faidherbe has even gone so far as to re- sign his seat as a Deputy. The radi- cal journals in Paris unanimously demand the dissolution of the Assembly, while all the other papers are bitter in their comments on yesterday's proceedings, The National Assembly has to all appearances outlived its usefulness, and now there remains nothing for it but to die gracefully. Itis a noisy, fussy, unruly body, and its majority is evidently bent on the establish- ment ofa monarchy. But the Assembly will never vote its suicide. It cannot be dissolved by the present government, which is part and parcel of it. The Thiers government exists only at the pleasure of the As- sembly, which is the real sovereign of France. Hence it can only be dissolved by a coup @état, and M. Thiers is not equal to such an emergency. But Gambettais. To all appear- ances there is a conflict impending which will either lead to the firm establishment of a re- public under the leadership of Gambetta or to the triumph of the National Assembly and @ monarchy. Tae Nationa EpvcatIonaL CONVENTION isin session at St. Louis. So far nothing affecting the great cause of education has been done. Most of the time of the delegates has been devoted to reading long essays upon abstruse subjects and junketing to Iron Moun- tain and Pilot Knob. What is needed in con~ nection with education in this country is the adoption of some sound, practicable means by which its standard shall be improved and the system relieved of the incubus of politics in every respect, Tho President of the French republio seem# to be both impulsive and weak. He has on more than one occasion threatened, directly or indirectly, to resign, when embarrassed by the action of the Assembly. When inter- rupted violently by the members of the Right, at the time he was speaking on the bill for the disbandment of the National Guard, he re- marked, ‘‘it was evident he had lost the con- fidence of the Assembly, and that he knew what course to adopt.” We now learn by our special telegraphic despatches that he had determined last night to resign, though he did not say so in plain terms to the Assembly. It appears, however, that his friends refused to communicate his purpose to the Assembly, and, fortunately, the vote afierwards on the National Guard bill helped to get over the difficulty. With all his ability and experience Thiers seems to be unequal to the exigencies of his position. This threateniog to resign, or intimating go frequently that he might do 80, shows weakness. That would not be the course of a great and bold statesman. It is not unlikely that he will be pushed to the wall 80 closely by one or other of the parties in the Assembly before long as to cause him to re- sign. What would follow no one can foresee. Probably a desperate war among the different factions for ascendancy. A Significant Interdiction. Contrary to a cable report yesterday the French government has, according to out latest despatch, forbidden public rejoicings on the 4th of September, the anniversary of the French republic, This announcement does not argue for the stability of republican instita- tions in France. If ever a nation deserved the charge of fickleness it ia surely the French nation, It is less than a year since all Paris, we might say all France, went crazy with joy at the proclamation of the republic, or the Gov- ernment of National Defence, which was meant to signify the same thing. The republican cause must have lost much of its popularity when the government which issned from the events of the 4th of September deems it neces- sary to deny its origin. This interdiction has probably been issued at the bidding of the majority of the National Assembly. At any rate it shows that the republic is far from being firmly established in France. But there may be another reason for this inconsistency. By the light of the recent revelations the Government of National Defence does not appear so white with pure patriotism and the late imperial régime not so black with bad designs as they were at first represented to be. The empire caused Sedan, and the government of the 4th of September caused the Commune. Hence both are connected with disgrace in the memory of Frenchmen. Brooxiyn’s INVESTIGATION OF THE WEsT- FIELD Expiosion.—The Coroner’s jury in Brooklyn, which undertook the investigation of the Westfield disaster, has gone a step further than the New York jury and included Inspector Mathews among the persons responsible for the explosion, We see no ob- jection to this, as we have always thought Mr. Mathews should be indicted with the others ; but there is certainly grave objection to the action of the Brooklyn Coroner. These men must not be vexed by unnecessary prosecu- tions, and no principle of law can be clearer than that they should be tried only where their alleged crime was commitied. If Brooklyn is to have the right to try these men, every county in the State may indict them, and even New Jersey give them a taste of Jersey justice. A more silly piece of business has not been seen in a long time, and Coroner Whitehill and his jury have only suc- ceeded in making themselves ridiculous. Tae Cnotera at ANTWERP.—A cable despatch from London, which we publish this morning, announces the appearance of cholera at Antwerp. It is manifest from this that the epidemic is steadily progressing westward. The European governments, nearly all of them, have already taken precautions to guard against its introduction into their respective countries. In England, particularly, the quarantine regulations have been rendered more stringent in view of the approach of the epidemic. Tho Italian government has now ordered a rigid quarantine of all vessels com- ing from Antwerp. Let us hope that the health authorities on this side of the Atlantic will not be found napping should the terrible scourge pay a visit to our shores. Personal Intelligence. Congressman L. P. Poland, of Vermont, ts at the St. Nicholas, Lientenant Commander 8, Rand, of the United States Navy, is quartered at the Hoffman House. Colonel J. H. Wells, of Engiand, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue. General W. B. Tibbitts, of Troy, is stopping at the Gilsey House. Rey. Dr. Van Nest, lately from Florence, Italy, is at the St. James Hotel. Judge A. G. Magrath, of Charleston, S. C., isa sojourner at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel C. W. Lowell, Postmaster of New Orleans, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas. Inspector General D, B, Sackett, of tne United States Army, is at the Fifth Avenue. Captains J, W White and J. H, Merryman, of the United States Revenue Marine, are domiciled at the Sturtevant House. Niles G. Parker, Treasurer of the State of South Qarolina, 1s temporarily restding at the St. Nicholas. Lieutenant W. L. Marshall, of the United States Engineer Corps, is quartered at the Hoffman House, Commodore J. U. Ringwalt, of the United States Navy, 1s among the late arrivals at the Fiftn Avenue Judge Arpold, of Missouri, is a resident of the Sturtevant House, Colonel Theodore Hyatt, of Pennsyivania, is domi~ oiled at the St. Nicholas, Secretary Boutwell stopped at the Fifth Avenue Hote! for a short time yesterday morning, while on is way from Washington to Groton, Mass. PIBE IN A MOUSQUITO NET FAOTORY. About & quarter to eight last evening @ fire was discovered in the mousquito net factoty, 438 West ‘Thirty-second street, 1t commenced on the firat floor where the boiler $s situated, It is a three-story brick bofiding and used by James Thompson. Damage to building $3,000; stock $3,000; insured for $20,000, KEROSENE AGAIN. About half-past ten last night a fire broke out in the basement of 118 Maiden lane, occupied by Vickes & Co. as an oil warehouse. A large quantity of kerosene was stored there, and from sume unknown cause a barrel of itexploded. The noise was heard in 82 Engine House, in Burling slip, the members of which company at first thought 11 was anotner boiler burst. The fire extended to the second floor of the Eapsine, coonpies, by Libby & Co., agents for aram: at that point, Loss Fe Rook B10.000, Budding damaged $6,000, Insured. It 18 proposed to raise a penny subscription among the teetotatiers of Great Britain to replenisix ‘the purse of an impecuntous father of the order. If an atiempt shouid be made to raise in this city @ penny @ibscription from the same class and for & similar purpose scarcely money enough could be raised to enable the cold water apostle to purchase ‘a single sip wf Niagara Falls. General John Davis (the original “honest John,’* when “Lion.” aa} 8 preiix to a Congressman’s name meant something), is iiving at his home® in Davis- ville, Bucks county, Pa., in good health at eighty- five years of age, He was Surveyor of the port of Philadelphia when Colone! Forney was Deputy. Folitictans in Pennsylvania will be busy next year, when there are to be voted for President, Governor, Congressmen, a Supreme Judge and a Legislaiure te elect a United States Senator to succeed Senator Cameron, besides the host of city, borough, towa- ship and county oficers, ‘The Mobile Register says they have a locomotive called the Ku Klux ap at Tuskegee, and when #& lets off steam with an angry shriek that’s anotuer Ku Klux outrage. A keno war lias been started in Mobile, 80 flerce as ihe Ku Klux squabbles, Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, itis stated, is about to come out tor the new departure. He wilt Prove a weighty advocate—three hunared pounds or 80 avoirdapois, Senators Nye and Cole and ex-Vice President Hamiin are maxing a stumping tour in California. Benjamin Franklin Spriggs 19 a democratic stump Speaker from Noble county, Ohio, Refermng to MoCook’s failure, he recently »: “Why, he hag no heart in the thing. He and 1 compared views. Mc- Cook 1s ike me, He consiaers this new departure the damndest humbug of the century, and it ham- ers him so that in ying to conceal his real sentt- ments he gets mixed up the damnaest.” It 1s now It is not Stated that General McCook will resume the can- Vaas in Ohio on the 7th of September, An Oregon paper has discovered that the late Sea- ator Dave Broderick, of California, died in 1859, an@ could not have been, a3 intimated tn the Philadet- Pphia Press, in hearty hostility to the rebeilion, whic commenced 1n 1361, The re-election of Hon. James Harlan as United States Senator from Iowa seems to be generally: conceded. Hisonly competitor is Hon. Willlam B. Allison, Henry D. MoHenry is named as a demooratic came didate for the United States Senatorship from Ken- tucky. The Cincinnati Commerctal dentes that there is @ league in Vhio of certain republicans to let the come Ing election go by default in order to defeat Grants renomination in 1872. The denial was hardly neces- Sary. But there is a serious split among the republi- cans in Cuyahoga county, nevertheless. Some magnetic springs in Michigan are advertise® 8 & sovereign balm for maladies of the body. The cure consists in allowing the patient to catch the fever and ague. During the “shakes”? no other malady aMicts tue patient. They have an “Elephant Club” in Philadelphia. It is composed of radical ‘Tusk-a-roarers, and is sata to be a huge concern. The Phiadelphia Press says the struggle among republicans ‘‘over the gubernatorial nomination t= New Jersey is one of the bitterest in the politica history of that State—too bitter and too closely com- tested in fact to result in anything else than injury to the party.” That is good news for the deme- crats. Referring to General McCook’s illness, the Cincine nau Enquirer says:— Unwell when he commenced the canvass, he has prosecuted it througu the hot season with @ vigor and unyielding persistence that coula be maintained: only by the most robust health. He was not in the possession of the physical power he sup} Pride and ambition stimulated him to persevere, but nature could not hold out, and the Colonel ts compelled to yield to her demands. RAILROAD MATTERS. eae ‘Tbe Cincinnati and Dayton Tuunol Railwaye CINCINNATI, August 25, 1871. Judge Hagan this morning granted the motions setting aside the sale of the Cincinnati and Daytos Tunnel Rallway, and dismissed the receiver under the scheme of capitalization issued by the Secretary of State to the aforesaid company. The effect of the decision ts favorable to John ©. Fremont and others, and to the Great Eastern Kallway Company, Who have an interest in that road by way of their tunnel under Walnat Hill. Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. Litre Rock, Ark., August 25, 1871. The old board of directors of the Little Rock an@ Fort Smith Rallway Company reorganized in tid city yesterday, entirely ignoring the new board, which is composed mostly of Boston men. ©. G. Scott was elected sident, and the other officers are the same as before. This board claims to be the only legal board of directors of the road, and will at once institute proceedings to have it re= stored to them, pay off its présent indebtedness and complete it a8 s00n ag possible, ‘The North Pacific Railway—Military Expedi- tion Fitting Out for the Protection of the Engineers in Dakota and Montana. Sr. PavL, Minn, August 25, 1871. A military expedition ts now fitting outat St. Paul, which will have the double object of escorting the engineers of the Northern Pactfic Kailroad whue they are making the final location of the lines through Western Dakota and Eastern Montana, and of repressing any hostile demonstrations of the Sioux Indians in Yellow Stone Valley, The expedi- tion Will consist of seven companies of infantry—420. men—with four Gatling guns, twenty-two monnted Indian scouts, twenty-five members of the Northerm Pacific Eny ee Corps, seventy teamsters and gov— ernment empiloyés, making a total of avout six fun dred men, to be commanded by General Whistier. The engineering party Will be in charge of General T. L.. Rosser, formerly of the Coniederate cavairy, and now Chief Engineer of the Dakota division of the. North Pacific Ratiroad, ‘The expedition will leave Fort Rice, on tne Up; Missouri, September 6, and will be absent from tier point sixty or seventy days, ‘The lavest survey of the railroad line through Da- kota, crossing the Missouri at the month or Hear; River, wholly avoids the bad lands east of the Mis~ souri, and traverses a fertile prairie country they entire distance, YAOHTING NOTES, The following yachts passed Whitestone yester= day afternoon:— Yacht Josephine N.Y.¥.0., Mr. Durt New York ior Newport. fom, from, Yacht Halcyon, N.¥.Y.C., Mr. Smith, from New= port tor Whitestone and returned. Yacht Phantom, N. Y.Y.C., Mr, Stebbins, from New York for New London. The yacht Pilgrim, of Milford, Conn., nas. beem sold by Mr. Theodore’ Platt, of that place.’ to Messrs. KE. H. Lyon, Archibald McNeil and E. A, Powers, of Bridgeport, for about two thousand five hun dred dollars. The Piigrim is sloop rigged and. or the following dimensions:—Length, 40 feet breadth of beam, 14 feet; depth, 4 feet; burden, 13 65-100 tons. She is in complete order and pos sesses considerable local reputation a9 a saller, though not a8 yet enrolled as a member of any yacht club. Yachting on Lake Erie. TOLEDO, Ohio, August 25, 1871, From present indications there will be a large ate tendance at the regatta at Put In Bay on the 6thy and 7th of September. AM the American cities om Lake Erte willsend one or more yachts. Yachts are also expected from Montreal, Toronto, Coburg and Hamilton. Ample arrangements are cou- pleted for the conveyance of the public to Put In gay and their accommodation while there. THE HALIFAX REGATTA. mt im the Tyne Crewe Bawrrax, N. 8, August 26, 1871, ‘The practice of the Taylor-Winship crew elicita general admiration, and it is thought thatthe bet~ ting will be In their favor now that Reufosth 1s gone, ‘The difference between their rowing and that of the Pryor crew of Halifax is very marked, The latter: fishermen from Herri Cove and Sambro. Their boat, the Nova Scotia, Is forty feet by twenty inches, It was built here, of §) ih cedar, by Norris, and weighs 128 younds. The Roche crew,, ‘also of Halifax, are the latest to train and to enter the list, Hefter, their siroke, is only twenty years oid. Thelr boat, the Lilian, was built here by Roche, ‘they are the ligh crew in the race, Three of the Barton crew are fishermen, and Tracey,, the stroke, 18 a cooper. They are all of Tanjter, where gold was first discovered in Nova Scotia. ‘They are the heaviest crew entered, Their boat was built by Elliot, of Greenpowt, The average we of the men forming the seven crews entered for peal, aes va on ton Boe rier ss Loulter, ; ‘ay Pryor, H oaist Barton, 170 pouuds, 1) 10" LAME Patine ME ey