The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1871, Page 4

NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1871.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, NEW YORK HERALD eer. AND ANN STREET. JAMES “GORDON “BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. "AMUSEMENTS TAI THIS EVENING. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, brontway and Ush stroot.— BLVe Beanp. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway-NeGRo EOoRNTRI- OITERS, BUALESQUTE, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad ‘corner B0th st, —Perform- ances aftervoon and evening Ae ROOTH'S THEATRE, 26d st, between Sth and 6th ave.— LITTLE NKBLL AND THE MAROHIONESS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe! SRALOVE P'MILOBOPURR. —“ON THE TRACK" —THR NIBLO’'A GARDEN, Broadway, jouston sté.—THF DuaMa o7 Furrzy LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No, 730 Broadway.—KkLuY & LEON's MINSTRELS, between Prince and FRANCISOO MINSTREL FALL, THe Bax Fasweiseo MIMBTBEES sat acre CENT! PARK GARDEN,—' y on RDEN.—Tatopare Taowas’ Gus’ CONCERTS. TERRACE GARDEN, 38th stroet, betwoen Lex a tdava—JULieN’s CONGERTA Oe exer GLOBE TREATRE, Bro ~v. BUETE Byieerainuts irene eee, WITH SUPPLEMENT low “York, Monday, Annet ‘9s, 1871. <_ —— = ee covresTs oF ‘To-pavs HERALD, Pack 1—Advertisements, Foreign Misce!laneons Items—Foret; Per- Lemay Phebe a Brookiyn Assurance—Adyvertise- @—The Srhdleate: Boatwell’s Fine Financlering— Fat Fun: Fourth Annual Clambake of the Navional Assoctation of Fat Men—Financial and Commercial Reporte. News -Scienufic Notes—Mai 4—Edttorais: Leacing Articie, “Tne Five Per Cont Loan—What Shall be Done with the Kest of the Debtt"— News from Washington— Atnusement Annonnooments, esa ee and Germany: the Emperors William and Francis Joseph to Meet at Coblentz—Italy snd Germany: An Alliance, O7ensive and De- fensive, Be’'ween the Cabinets of Berlin and | RKome—The ‘Tricolor and the Green: Grand Demonsiration m Dubin at the Departure of the Freneh Deputation—News from France, Maly, Spain and Servia—Mtscellancous Tele rains—ibe Massachusetts Railroad Horror; ditional Particulars—Railroad Disaster in vania—The Great Storm at the South—Business Notices, 6—The munist Trials—Sunday at Coney Is- land—Literary —Chit-Chat—Music and and Major Geneval Protests Against Ben wi "s New Depurture: Warrington’s Remy putier—Ranning Notes, Political and Gene- Tal—The “Lost Cause.!” —Acvertisements. Religious: Yesterday's Discourses tn the Me- tropols and Elsewhere; Criminal Classes Con- troilmg the Cities: Ministerial Medicine for Municipal Manazements A Tious eee: Pre. seribing for Politicians; He Thinks New York as Bad as Bosto Universalist on Water | oa Other Orations, Orthodox ana Other euneligigns (Continued from Eighth Page)—The ick Church: The Property on Park row and Ne ‘rine—The Cholera: The Konte of tne Disease; Precautions in Engiand; The Ept- demic in Russia—Doubled OD in Death: ‘the Body m the Box—#rooklyn Affuirs—Sunday apemmn—telag a Thumb—The Shooting of | be. ations Between Italy and Rome—The Re- ager iene Tiinad a) Intelingence- advertise- 40—Yachting: The Cruise of the New ws Yacht Squadro.; Informal Meeting of Ganers on Boa Generar SnerMay is with President Grant {n his cottage by the sex. The Man of Appo- mattox andthe Man of the Great March will doubiless have some very interesting chit. chat to linger over, Tae Dararrcre or rie Frexon Dervra- wioN from Iréland haa, according to our speelal despatch, been made the occasion for another demonstration in Dublin. There was po lack of green and tricolcred flags, of bauds and patriotic airs, of decorations and other displays of enthusirsm. Though osten- sibly in favor of the French deputation, it seems that the whole affair was intended for an extraordinary Fenian demonstration. Capram Hatt anp vue Porarts have arrived at Holsteinberg Greenland. So far into the bowels of the earth have they gone forth toward the North Pole. The prospecus are excellent for the further prosecution of their discoveries, Arctic navigation is reported io be attended with fewer difficalties this season than usual, aod by next year we may expect to hear that Captain Ilall has greased tho North Pole with the wagon grease presented to him for that purpose. Du Onaitin’s New Fiety or Expiora- viON.—It Will be seen, by a despatch from *Hammeri¢s'. Norway, published in another part of the payer, that Paul B. Du Chuilly, the Jotrepid African explorer, has changed his field of investigeiion, and was atthe lat- ter end of last month within the Arctic Circle and at tue extreme point of Europe, He had been to North Caps, above sevonty-one north Intitude. 16 is said he is procuriag materials for sucther book and lecturea on this priml- tive and esting part of the world, which, judging from his equatorlal explorations in Airics, will prove, vo doubt, highly interest- tug. Wine Tan YeLtow Frver is ww threat- ening 10 become epidemfe in Charleston it is that the Charleston papera jast at e of Friday—have no word what- y regarding the presence of the hor any deaths to cbr The only item to: nz upon the cubj sa communication in one of them relative to hyglenic matters, suggesting the best means of securing the health of the cy, This omis- sion ts not to be taken as @ luck of enterprise pap.ra so much « of misdivected anxicty to prevent inj business prosifée ‘8 of tte port, a Bhow the on the part of the THE Femur SHOEMAKERS AY LYNN have got their spirit up, wad are not to be put npon, An attempt to limit their priviloges by the bosses recently, and to redacethvir wages, called out a epirited indignation meeting on the part of tbe girls, in whde® they declared that their rights as free-bormwonmen were not to be invaded with impunityg andgether senti- ments equatiy creditable t.themeelves and Giscouraging to their bomes, We would recommend to these spirited dgases, however, the example of the Lowell fagsery girls, who, being oma strike, made public declaration of their willingness to go at any other business— cooking, washing, housekeeping, marrying or baby-tending. That's the spirit that cows the boss. He can stand a great deal of futile {nvective at public meetings, but Le would Dirrender at once if he were qnietly ‘dis charged” by all his workwomen, However, we wish the Lynn girls af #ncooss. the ; Drama—Wawiey-Butler: A Connecticut Editor | | The Five Per Cent Loas—What Shall Be Done With the Rest of the Debt? Admitting that the Secretary of the Troas- ury has succeeded, or will succeed, in dis- posing of the two hundred millions out of the five bundred millions authorized of the new five per cent loan, the question naturally arises, What will he do with the rest? What will he do with the balance of three hundred millions of fives, the three hundred millions of four-and-a-halfs and the seven hundred mil- lions of fours? Looking at the extraordinary efforts that have been made to get these two hundred millions of five per cents taken, and the length of time the Secretary has been working to accomplish that, there is a poor prospect of succeeding with the thirteen hun- dred millions that remain. It is doubtful if any considerable amount of the balance of three hundred millions of fives could be nego- tiated, Thero appears to be no disposition to tonch the four-and-a-half and four per cents, Nor ia it quite clear that the two hundred millions, of which so much has been said, have been actually sold, or exobanged at par for outstanding five-twenty six per cents, The reports are favorable, it is true, and trom them there is reason to hope this much of the debt will bo funded at the reduced rate of in- terest ; but the Treasury Department is not explicit enongh on this subject. The people want to know if the so-called Syndicates, or agencies of bankers here and abroad, have subscribed and paid for the new loan, or if they are only and merely agents of ihe gov- ernment, depending upon their ability to dis- pose of the loan to others, That is the ques- tion. If they be bona fide purchasers—as, for instance, when the Rothschilds or any other great house take the loan of a European gov- ernment—‘there can be no question as to the success of the Treasury Depariment. In that case we expect to sce the amount credited on the books of the Treasury anda statement of it pablished. On the other hand, should the new loan, or a large portion of it, be placed inthe hands of these Syndicates as agents, simply to dispose of it if they can, success is not positively assured, and it is entirely another transaction. Is the success of the loan only hopeful on the promises of these Syndicates, or is it an accomplished fact? It ia possible Jay Cooke & Co. and MoCulloch & Co., and those acting with them, may have beon carefully preparing the way, under the private sanction of Secretary Boutweli, for placing the loan, and that long before the new financial de- parture was announced, and that they are able to speak confidently of tho result; but we want to know the facts and the whole bistory of the transaction, Then, on what conditions {has the loan been purchased by them or placed in their hands for negotiation? If purchasers, dre they allowed a percentage? and would that bo in accordance with the | funding law? If only agents, what per- centage are they to get? It is necessary that the public should know what the cost will be, ; how much the Syndicates are to get, and what j will be the profit or loss to the country. j There is a suspicion that the Secretary of the Treasury is making a great job out of this loan for the benefit of the Syndicates and national banks, We learn trom our Washington cor- respondence that the banks are receiving, or are to receive, the new five per cont securities upon delivering certificates of deposit, which, of course, will enable them to draw interest on both the new and old bonds forthe time being. How long they will b> permitted’ to do this we do not know. We want, as was said before, explicit information on all these matiers as well as to the cost in percentage of commission, advertising, printing and everything else, so that the public may know what is to be gained or lost in the manipula- tion of tho lov. Here it Is in order to inquire if the whole debt cannot be permanentiy disposed of, or arranged so as to prevent the manipulation of itevery two or three years by bankers and agents who make stupendous fortunes every time they handle it. We have never seen and cannut see now why the Treasury Department should not do all the business pertaining to the debt as well as Jay Cooke, McCulloch, the Syndicates, or any other agent. The trath is, the whole of our syatem of national finances is too complicated and anomalous, and is under the management of those who know little of the subject. Though two hundred i millions of the five per cents may be disposed | of there is still thirteen hundred millions of the six per cent five-twenties for refnnding at a lower rate of interest, besides a hundred millions more of six per cents, and the four hundred ard fourteen millions of the non-in- terest-bearing debt in the form of United States currency notes, which have to be pro- vided for. Considering that the founding bill and Mr, Bontweill’s scheme for re-arranging the debt have failed, with the exception of that small part of it, the two hund)ed millions of five per cents said to have been disposed of, the question arises, What shall now be done with the debt? Perhaps the consolidation of the whole into intermineble securities, bearing three sixty-five per cenf interest, which is a cent a day on a hundred dollars, would be the best plan. The debt would be simplified in this way, would cost much less in the management of tt, wonld facilitate trans- actious in the markel and at the banks, and would enable the most Ignorant to calculate readily and at any time the value toa cent of these national congola. 1f would at the came time tend to lower the rate of interest goner- ally in this country, and, consequently, to promote business and enterprize, as well as to regulate the money market and prevent those extrem? fluctuations which prove injurious to trade, But it may be said publio opinion is against a consolidated debt having no fixed time to ron. If interminable securities meant an interminable debt the people would bo right in opposing their issue; but that is not what we mesy. Securities having no fixed time to ran, and, therefore, termed interminable con. sols, can be redeemed as readily as paying off short time bonds, The governinevt oan go into tho market at any time, just as an in- dividual can, af a bayer. The sinking fund and the surplus money in the Treasury could be applied to this purpose ae easily os at present. Then tho low rate of interest would prevent the preminm on government securities being #o high’ as to uwke It unprofitable for the Treagury to buy thom op. No doubt one of the principal rea- sons, and, perhaps, the principal one, which keeps the three per cent consols of England up toa high figare 1s because they are inter- minable. They are sought as a permanent investment, The fact that they are intermin- able, however, would not prevent the British government from buying in the market and paring off its debt, if it desired to do so and had the means which this country hs, An objection may be raised to consolidating the whole debt into three slxty-five per cents ron the ground that this could not be done without increasing the total of the debt. Con- gross was so impressed with this idea of not augmenting the sum of the debt that in pass- ing the Funding bill last year it expressly pro- vided against that, Still the objection is more popular than logical. If the sum of the debt were increased two or three hundred millions, and the annual interest reduced twenty, thirty or forty millions the country would certainly gain by it, Besides the actual saving ofso much a year, the benefit to the country in bringing the people to be familiar with a low rate of interest would be incalculable, But it does not follow that the sum of the debt need be much augmented, if | augmented at all, if a propor system of fund- ing be devised. Congress seemed to have had some idea of that principle of national finance which recognizes additional value to securities that have the longest to run in the funding bill, While the five per cents are redecmable in tea years the four and & halfs are exteaded to fifteen years and the fours to thirty years. Graduating the supposed market value in this way, inter- minable three sixty-fives ought to be worth as much as the fifteen years four and a halls, and-the thirty years fours, Then, wit the facility of caloulating interest at a cent a day, and the advantage this would prove in finan- cial transactions, the government, as an addi- tional inducement for people to take these new securities, could make the interest pay- able quarterly or even monthly. Evidently some comprehensive and better plan to fund the debt and to simplify the management of it is noeded, and Congress could not spend {ts time better at the next session than to take up this subject. The Sermons Yesterday. In the Fifth Universalist church the Rev. Charles F, Lee portrayed the character of Walter Scott, the Christian man of letters, who, born two years later than Napoleon L., has outlived and outshone the great general in the affections and gsteem of mankind, The false glory which once gilded the name of Napoleon has faded, while the fame of Scott has increased, and he stands forth to-day a fitting illustration of the beautiful harmony of genius and virtue. His works may be read by all—by the young as well as the old—bocanse they are as pure in thought as the paper on which they are printed, This is a tribute well merited, and which, we regret to say, cannot be justly paid to very many of the novelists of our own day and generation; and well might this preacher add that no greater fallacy can exist than the belief that parity of tone in a writer is of no account. Ifnot now, certainly some future generation will consign every one of those immoral and debasing publications which pander to the lowest animal instincts of our nature to oblivion. And menshould write, as they should live, for the future and the bet- ter time. Not one of the people of Scott's brain can ever die. Their virtues, not their vices, have immortalized them and called them forth from the mist of fancy into beings almost as real as ourselves. Tbe Rev. Dr. Schenck, who has just re- turned from Europe, whither he went to unite with his brethren in presenting to the Czar of Russta the prayer of the Evangelical Alliance for religious toleration in his realm, greeted his people yesterday in St. Aan’s Church on the Heights, and told them that “everything was accomplished that was designed.” Had the Doctor gone a little farther, and informed us what was designed, we might be the better able to judge of the success, The Atlantio cable has brought us another and a different idea of the result, and we wonld like to know wherein the success of the Alliance's mission is predicated. Some excellent advice was given by the Rev. Alfred Young to the congregation at St. Paul's Roman Catholic churc) against super- stitious confidence in churches and in men, of which they were cautioned to beware, At the foot of the Cross only they were instructed they could find peace, We might have known that it is impossible to stifle Christianity had not Dr. Janes, of Flushing, L. I., so informed us yesterday. But there are some old truths which we are very apt to forget, and it is well to be reminded from time to time that they are verities, The closing remarks of the Rev, Fatber Merrick, 1n St. Francis Xavier's church, are worthy of careful attention, They show the difference between the hero of fiction and the nero of life, and the motives and affections which impel avd direct each. Tho other ser- mons were of the commonplace order of theo- logical expositions, but they were doubtless designed, a8 all are designed, to do good to the hearers, as we trust they will to the readers of the Herarn to-day, Tho New Murder Mystery. How murder will out! Could there be any surer mode of escaping detection for mure der,done than by packing up the body in a trunk and shipping it away as freight? ‘To the sharpened senses of the murderer no pos- albility of an uncovered track was likely tu remain after such @ process had been thoroughly oarried out. The new murder mystery partially developed at tha Mudsen River Railroad depot on Saturday is an instance of this kind, and yet the whole mystery is fast unravelling, Thero seems flieady no doubt that the hapless victim was one of the many that are cruelly done to death in the terrible abortion dens of this city. The namo on the express wagon, the sharp wit of the litte street Arab who helped unload the baggage, the looks of the secdily dressed woman who was so lavish of her money to secure the trunk, are all clucs that on ordinary detective can follow out to a successful fasve, The murderer will doubt less be unearthed soon, and most probably will prove to bo one of the unacrapulous qicks who rain health and morals, at eo much per head, without regard to tlaedicine or law, Tho statutes ws they stand are not etringent enongh to punish these viio | wretohes as they should be punished, but, so far as they go, we trust the full penalty will be meted out to the author of this new murder. Tho Oholera—Its Course and the Means te Prevent It. We print this morning a very important communication on the approach of cholera, its course and the means to prevent it. The suggestions of our correspondent are as simple aa they are valuable, and if they are acted upon in time they may save the country from @ very great calamity, England is already acting in this matter, and bas sent Dr, Rad- cliffe, a woll-known sanitarian, to visit the coast where vessels from the Baltic mostly arrive, and rouse the local authorities to the necessity of immediate precautionary mea- suros, Deaths from cholera have occurred on board ships at Hull, Dundee and Shields. In the epidemio of 1831 no less than sixty English vessels sailed from Riga alone as soon as the cholera broke out there; but, unfortunately, they carried the disease with them, and from England it was brought to the United States. The same thing happened in 1849 and 1854. The danger is even greater now than before, the coal trade with the Baltic from Newcastle and Shields having Increased to such an ex- tent that the shipping is perhaps doubled. The epidemic now prevails in Riga to an alarming extent, and this time, as on the pre- vious occasions, it was carried to England by tho sbipping, and though but few cases are yet reported every day increases the danger. It will not do for us to be listless in this matter, Our correspondent shows how easily the diseasy may be carried from city to clty by persons affected with it so slighily as to re- cover without having been aware of the nature of thele malady. This is a most alarming fea- ture, and one which renders dealing with it so as to prevent its introduction exceedingly diffi- cult, And the disease is so contagious that only the immediate use of the most powerful disinfectants can prevent its spread. Theso points are especially dwelt upon in this com- munication, and the hints which it gives are invaluabie both to the sanitary authorities and to the peop!e. Woe cannot afford to disregard them, or we may bo scourged even more fear- fully than in the terrible ordeal of forty years ago. Asiatic cholera is a disease more resistless in its march than the tread of armies, and only science, cleanliness and a wis2 precaution can guard us from it, There seems to be no good reason to doubt that cholera is disseminated by importation, and that it usually travels over the same course, The facts adduced by our correspond- ent prove theses two propositions most clearly. The route of the present epidemic is exactly similar to that which {it followed in 1832, Germany is invaded now, as it was in- vaded then, and not only have many cases occurred at Kénigsberg and Dantzio, and a few at Berlin and Stettin, but tho disease is even reporied as far west as Antwerp. If scientific Germany was unable to prevent its introduction and successfully to cope with it afterwards it seems idle to expect anything better in England and this country. In the previous epidemics it was quickly carried from Berlin to Hamburg and from Hamburg to London. And we are scarcely told that it has appeared at Borlin till we hear also that it is at Antwerp. Whether English skill and sani- tary precaution will stay its march remains to be seen, but we must not forget that it may be brought to the United States from Ham- burg and Havre as well as from Liverpool and Southampton. So far asa vigilant quarantine can close the door against it the door must b> vigorously closed, the strict performance of the Health Officer's duties being our first barrier against thia fearful pestilence, Cleanliness has always been reckoned next to godliness ; but when cholera Is on Its trav- els it becomes a Christian duty as im- portant as any of the Divine commands, A pare atmosphere is 9 more effective remedy against disease than the physician's potions. Havana is the hotbed of yellow fever, because its harbor, which has only a single outlet to the sea, is a pool of accumulated filth. New York may, in like manner, become the plague spot of the United States if its streets and tenements are allowed to reek with garbage and other offensive matter. Now is the time tor the Board of Health and the sanitary police to fight tholr battle with the cholera, If our city is made as clean as Philadelphia had once the fame of being we shall have little to fear from the ravages of disease, But no time ought to be lost. The work of a complete purification should begin at once. We shall fight against importation in vain if propagation is to be encouraged. All these points, as well as the proper treatment of such cases as may appear, are ao well argued in the communica- tion of ‘J.C. P.” that we not only commend it to our readers, but seoond and enforce all its arguments, The Railrend Slaughter at Revere, Mass. The frightful railroad accidents, as usual, are coming all in a heap. It seems to be a law of accidents that one shall precipitate another, like a row of bricks. A collision to: k place near Westport, Pa., on Saturday, killing five persons, and another on the Rastern Rail- road, at Revere, Mass., killing twenty-four. Theso are dreadful mishaps following so closoly upon our Weslfield and tugboat ex- plosions and the late railroad digaster in Maine, and they indicate that even such an accumulation of horrors does not impress the necessity of care and capability in their duties upon our railroad and steamboat managers and employ¢s. Tie collision at Revere was evidently the resuit of outrageous negligence, The nccom- modation train, which suffered most, was be- hind time half an hour, having waited that long for trains that apparently must have been overdue, Then it moved along slowly and seemingly uncertain whether to go or stay. It stopped on the road two or three times In this seeming uncertainty, and it would appear that while it stopped no danger sigoals were stationed fa the rear to warn off the coming trains that had so long been overdue. At Re- vero it stopped onco too often, The oxpress train that it bad waited for before camo dash- ing round the curve, and at once hurled itself into tho rear passenger cur, crushing and jamming everything {0 its way, sod In two minutes twenty-four dead bodies lined the train, These facts are enough to place the whole reaponalbility of tho divastor upon tho con- RoE A 6 Th A Seah Bela eA BEAL RSE CI el I iE ind le a te het Mle duotor, Mr. Nason. He doés not sem to have consulted the telegraph wires at all; he does not seem to.have ordored any danger light to the rear; he does not seem to have comprehended for a moment that the express train, so long overdue, might dash in upon him while he was dillydallying along the route with his train. He seems to have known nothing and apprehended .notbing, although there was every reasou to apprehend just what happened. Surely coroners’ ver- dicts Intely have been stringent enough to have warned him against such criminal neg- ligence, if they are good for anything what- ever. It now remains to be seen whether Massachusetts can grasp, the subject with the same rogard for the protection of human life as New York has grasped it. If these accumulations of disaster do not eventuate in some most telling example and warning, then there will be no need of attempting to secure safety on railroads or steamboats hereafter, We will have to pay our money and put our lives into the hands of careless men as here- tofore, or return to the old primitive modes of travel. How te Save New York. Some of our contemporaries have lately done their best, or their worst, to send abroad the impression that New York is the short cut to the infernal regions; that it is steeped in corruption, and that from the crown of the head unto the sole of the feet there is no soundness in it. The report has reached the village of ‘‘Bosting,” away up or down in New England, where resides a great physi- cian, Cudworth by name, who has come on here, and yesterday, ix ihe Church of the Messiah, on Park avenue, gave bis audience a series of prescriptions, good, bad and in- different, which he believes are to effect a cure in our body social and politico. Of course we are thankful for good advice coming from any quarter, and especially from the moral town of Boston; but we may be permitted, without being liable to the accusation of im- pertinence, to ask whether the medicine pre- scribed by Dr. Cudworth has been tried and proved effectual upon any other diseased body, As seen and stadied by this Boston pbysi- cian the disease of New York is complicated and deep-seated. It must be treated thor- oughly in at least three aspects—namely, intemperance, licentiousness and political cor- ruption. But, while we admit the prevalence of these evils among us, is it true that we, as a people, are in proportion to our popula- tion more intemperate, licentious or corrupt politically than aro the populations of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco, or any other large city of the Union? We hear the same cry sounding forth from all those places, and some of them present pictures of dreadful decay and corruption andvice. Dr, Cudworth thinks he has found the cure, and, for intem- perance and licentiousness, it is the creation of public sentiment against them. The Doctor illustrated what he meant by this public sen- timent, but he did not tell us how this senti- ment is to be created. By his illustrations of Sumter and the Westfield explosion and others he has left us to infer certaio states and conditions which do not reflect very great insisht or knowledge on his part, and as in a free country 0 law can be enforced which has not public sentiment at its back, we are at a loss to know how this sentiment is to be created and fed so as to enable the ministers of law and justice to enforce the same against those evils. Thirty thousand prostitutes and abandoned women in New York, and the number annually increasing! How are we to create a public sentiment which shall reduce the aggregate and finally drive the evil from our midst? That is what we want to know, and that is what Dr. Cudworth failed to tell us, The picture of the moral young man ooming from the country to the city and being ruined here in a few years has been so frequently portrayed that our readers generally are familiar with it, but, unfortunately for the illus- tration, it is not exactly true. The moral young man from the country has not been seen in New York for many a day, or, if he has, he at least has not beea found dead in bis bed from intemperance and its kindred evils before his young manhood had attained its full strength, We will venture to say that not one moral young man in one thousand from the country who have taken up their abode here has gone to roin fu our midst. The trouble is, and the truth of the matter is, that the city has to recelve and take care of the evil of the country as well as of its own, and the streams of vice are wider and flow along more rapidly than the streams of good. They all centre in our great cities, and, because of the many in- fluences of good which exist in cities, and especially in Now York, we are relatively more moral than our country cousins, and thera are ten chances that a young man will be brongbt into good and virtnous society and under moral and religious influences here to the one that he will fill a dronkard’s or a mur- derer’s grave. But this fact, instead of excus- ing Christians from doing more, should encourage them to redoubled efforts for tho salvation of New York. For the third great disease of our city— political corruptiou—Dr, Cudworth had, indeed, what be himself characterized as a strange republican remedy to recommend to his hearers—-namely, compulsory voting or expatriation. No man should have a house who caunot take care of it, and no man shoald have the ballot who will not use it for the public good. This was Dr. Cudworth’s doctrine—-bis great remedy for our municipal corruption, But incidental to this le would have aa intellectual and & property qualification for every voter. “Vote or leave the city” may do very well for ®& monarchy or an autocracy, but it will never pass current ia a republic like ours, That the criminal classes should not be allowed to govern us we freely admit, but that they do to a great extent rule us is the fault of the moral part of the community, who think not enough of our institutions or govern- ment to break away from party and vote as conaclence and the public weal demand, Until this thing can be done nnd a public sentiment aroused by which the nine handred thousand shall seize the government, now held by tho one hundred thousand of the vicious classes, we must submit to the evils of bad govern mont. But coercton cau never do what our moral sense aud our own free will leave un- done, Aw Auuasor Berwren Genuany xp Tracy Is reported to be the latest thing out in the way of European complications. Ac- cording to our special despatch from Salaburg both Italy and Germany were prompted to this step by the common fear of French aggres- sion, Not @ very implausitle reason, this, Italy is afraid of the clerical tendencies of the majority of the National Assembly, and soem- ingly not satisfied with M. Thiers’ left-handed explanations, while Germany is looking about for allies, with a view, perhaps, of meeting the alleged Franco-Russian combination, at any rate to isolate France in the future struggle. Russia seems dissatisfied, and France cherishes the idea of revenge and recovery of the lost provinces. On the other hand, Austria and Germany seem to be onthe best terms possible; for nothing short of an alliance between these two Powers will satisfy the Vienna press, which is loud in its approval of such a com. bination. Theo Emperor Francis Joseph, adds our special cable report, will pay his return visit to the Emperor William at Cob. lentz, not at Salzburg, as it was at frst eon- templated. WASHINGTON. Signal Lights for Saiiing Vessels---How the Law is Avoided. Census Statistics—Popalation of the States and Territories, Increase of Postal Operations During 1871. WaAsHinaton, August 27, 1871, A Law That Cannot be Euforced. The government officers hive recently been levy- Ing penalties of $200 under the new law on vessels not supplied with the toren proscribed in the Atatute to be lit and exhibited on the quarter ap- proached by other vessels, On an application for @ remission presented to the Secretary of the Treasury, he bas decided that the penalty caumot be collected under the law simply for & failure to have a torch at all times onboard. An sctual Jailure to show a lighted torch on tne Ape proach of # steamer in the night time mast be proved or admitted to bring the case within the lan- ingly veen refunded. Native and Foreign Population of the United States. ‘The following table, just completed at the Consus Ojice, exbibits the totals of the population of the States and , Territories, classified aa foreign and native, tho totals of the clasaitication into .white, colored, Indian and Chinese having already been published:— Native, TOURIS..00cecesereeee Territories, 64004082, 640, 907 Por purposes of comparison, summarizing the tables airea ty pubdilshed, the total population of the United States may also be made to appear under the foliowlng classification Chinese. Total... +e 88, 555,088 Of the Indians and Chinese the Territories con- tatn 4,503 of the former and 7,075 of the latter, Tho Indian Territory and Alaska are not Includsd or mentioned in any of the census tavies above epitomized, i Post Office Statistics. The following statistics, compiled from official data just completed, exhibit the large increase ta the business of the Post Ofios Department which has been going on for several years and ts still in progress:— Number of post oMces established during the jast fiscal year . ‘ Number of post offeee discontine Increase Numper of post June 30, 1871 Number of President of $1,0 1 offices (1. @, offices per aunum and over) Increase... Nomber of resignations during the Number of removals ducing fiscal ye 1 Number of deaths durng ilseal year 309 Nuabder of changes of name and site. 300 Total number Of cases acte: YORE seveses Tho highest nit ve present year was In 1s hen there were, Relies of the War of 1812 For some time past parties have been engaged at the Washington Navy Yard in dredging for chains and other articies deposited for safc keeping bee noatn the surface of the Anacosta river ai the tune the British burned tila ciuy. They have been re warded in their search by the recovery of a con. siderable amount of chain, and last week @ tine olddtashioned anchor was fshed ap irom tty muddy bed, wiere it had lain for over fifty years, It ia Inf a Very good state of preservation, It is sha very long and siender, with a huge ring in o| Tt will now probably bo made to serve anoti poso, as it 1s now lying near tue anchor forge Walt ing it6 turn with the rest of Whe old trou, Operations at the Navy Vora. ‘The Unitod States steamer Froite, formerly the A. D, Vance, captured of Wilmington by biock: aders and aflerwards employed as a gunboat in tho North Atlantic Squadron, ls being repaired and filtod up, tt ia satd, for the flagsiip of the Post Adusval at New York, Several alterations are being tuade and a light spar deck put over her Whoje length. The Niua 19 also on tia stocks une dergotng repairs 1 dieing the as " 28,530 Personal, Secretary Boutwell is not oxpeoted Washington until september in SN guage of thelaw. The money exacted has accord-