The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1871, Page 6

———Se 8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Bive Brann. GLOBE THEATRE, OITIES, BURLESQUES, Broadway.—NEGRO ECoENTRI- roadway, corner 30th st. —Perform. ing—LOLa. WOOD'S MUSEUY ances afternoon and BOOTH'S THEATRE, 8d st, between Sth %: - Livre NELL AND THE MARCHIONESS, re BOWERY THEATRE, Bo MO) nm JEALOUS PulLosornER. cine aemunee temas NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broa Houston sis.—Tie Drama or between Prince and LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE. re —! a tseee ear E. No, 720 Broadway.—K ELLY SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL Ha. : Wi THE Sax Francisco Mineraena "© Broadway, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Tufopore Tuomas’ Scummen Niours’ Conornrs. TERRACE GARDEN, S8th street, between Lexington and Bd avs.—JULiEN's CONCERTS. TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Tuesday, August 29, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Paik a i 1—Advertisements. Q—advertisements. 3—The Massachusetts Slaughter: Six more Added to the List of Victims; Public Indignation Aguinst the Railroad Management—Murder Ont! The Mysterious Body in the Box; Lignt at Last; Arrest of the Doctor; The ‘fruckman es Himseif Up—Fircs—Miscellaneous Tele- ains—Local and Suburban News—The Metro- 1 oS Hotel Opening—Grand Ball at Long cl. ‘ommunist Trials: Further Proceedings of Triais of the Communist Leaders—Kussian Consptracies: History of the Secret Plovtings ? Plotters of the Russian Empire—Gortcha- and the Missi 3—Foreign Topics— ign Personal sip and Miscellaneous 8. aT ‘ion: The Westfield Disaster Supmttted nd Jury in General Sessions; Re- er Hackett’s Jus Fearless Charge—A Monster Floating Pala The Burglars’ Har- vest—The Career of a © ette—American In- sttute Fair—M) tinie: Shipboard—Biuefisn Again—The City anid Defies the A Son Side ‘ookiyn Affairs—Me- —New Jersey Iteus— f Equine Anatomy— —The “Lost itifle Notes, Ratlroad and yrder Hackett on mmon Carriers”. veors—Maine In Opening of the M imposttions on c r News from Washington— S—A_ Shanty Slaughter: Murdert jauley Kicks the Brains Out of Peg Reilly—The Po- lice and thei Farmers’ Wagons—t!rish Confed- eration—The Portchester Poisoning: ©) ation of the Corone Convicts—Plasting A: The Temperance ement—Pennsylvania Bible Anniversary—A_ Divorce and a Fight Between a Jewist Pair—Mail News from France—New York ¢ ws—A Colored Man Interviews the Presi fwo Men Sentenced to ve Hanged im > Orleans—Assistant Aldermen—Naval intelligence. 9—Proceedings e Courts—Blackmatiing Barks- dale—Monday’s Murmurings—A_ Suggestion for the Post Office Authorities—Financial and Commercial Reports—Dom Markets Brooklyen Common Councti—City Govern- ment—Martiages and Deaths —Advertise- ments. 10—Yachting: The Newport Cup Won by the Sappho—News from Washington—A Destruc- tive Tornado Near boston—Literary Chit. Chat—Amusements—The German Democratic n After the City Accounts—Another Su shipping Intelligeuce—Advertisements. A Fixe Cnance ror Smart Boys.—It is feported that there are one hundred and six- teen vacancies in the Naval Academy at Au- napolis, of which fourteen are due to the State of New York. A Spiexpip Snow For THE Monzy.—The Emperor William's grand festival at Berlin is reported to have cost the city only one bun- dred thousand dollars. Those Germans are & great people ! Bowen, the bigamous ex-Congressman, is doing well in Charleston. He will probably run for Governor at the next gubernatorial election in South Carolina, having consented to let Congressman De Large retain his seat in return. GENERAL MENEBREA, it seems, has not been appointed arbitrator on the part of Italy on the Alabama claims. The first report was incorrect, but we do not see that King Victor could appoint any one better fitted for the duties or more acceptable to our people. Tax ProvonGaTion oF M. Turzrs’ Powsrs came up yesterday in the National Assembly. The report of the committee proposes a con- siderable modification of the original motion, The report is more stringent in the definition of M. Thiers’ authority as President of the republic. A heated discussion followed the reading of the report, and affairs seem to have taken a gloomy turn, which does not augur well for the solution of this difficulty. Tar Cuovera Ix Paris.—The cholera is in Paris. Six deaths resulting from that terrible disease are reported in that city. Making its way across Europe, it is now pressing on to the seaboard bordering on the Atlantic. It be- hooves us, therefore, to be on the watch for its appearance here. Antwerp has been visited, and vessels leaving that port may introduce it into other ports with which this country has a large trade. The present condition of this city is not such as it ought to be. The streets are filthy, and with this terrible epidemic so close at band there ought to be especial attention paid to them at this time. Let our warning not prove vain. Prrsck GortouakorF any TAR MsstoN- anies.—In another column of the Herarp this morning will be found the report of Prince Gortchakoff to his imperial master, the Czar of Russia, relating to his reception of and interview with the deputation from the Evan- gelical Alliance, A great deal has been sald, both at home and abroad, regarding this meet- ing. Reports have had it that the deputation was cordially received, and these again, in turn, have been contradicted ; and the assertion was made at one time that the delegation was snubbed. We present the report of the Rus- sian Chancellor to our readers, in order that they can judge for themselves as to the treatment of the missionaries by Russia's Sepresentative. daEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET UTE tin Ime ccc ccc cee ee EEIEnESIENIERSEIINT GRRE Raflroad and Steamboat siaugnter—Re- corder Hackett on the Responsibility of Commen Carriers. It was only yesterday morning that we gave our readers the particulars of the railroad accidents in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and now we have to add to them and to the explosions before reported the disaster to the Ocean Wave. What shall we think of these calamities, involving the sacrifice sometimes of a hundred, sometimes of fifty lives, and fol- lowing so quickly one after another? They are certainly not the acts of God, in that sense which frees man from any responsibility for their occurrence. Nothing but the general use of boilers like that which recently ex- ploded on the Westfield—a boiler which was at once old, wornout, cracked and patched— and of the most criminal carelessness and neglect in the running of railway trains can account for them. All idea of responsibility to the public and everything like fear of justice seem to have for- suken the minds of the persons at the head of the powerful corporations which control the carrying business of the country. Looking only at their own interests and seek- ing only their own profits the officers of rail- road and steamboat companies set themselves above the law and speculate in the lives of the people. In consequence of this railroad and steamboat disasters are a common occurrence ; and yet nobody is punished, unless, indeed, in the occasional case of a subordinate compelled to suffer for his superiors. Within a month the deaths reported from these causes in dif- ferent parts of the country have reached nearly three hundred, and we have no assur- ance that during the next month the mortality will not be equally fearful. These facts prompt us to demand the most thorough inquiry into every disaster of the kind, and the speedy and rigorous punishment of all persons, rich and poor alike, who may be shown to be responsible for the slaughter. No proposition can be plainer than that the responsibility of the managers and officers of railroad and steamboat corporations will never be properly appreciated until severe punish- ment is meted out to some of the most culpa- ble for the massacres which have become so common. The Westfield horror, and the recent calamity on the Eastern Railroad, near Revere, are the latest instances of this species of Lomicide in a peculiarly marked and inex- cusable degree, unless, indeed, the Qcean Wave disaster is to be added to them. The culpability and carelessness, or, rather, the carelessness which makes culpability, could not be more clearly fixed in either case. In the one instance a patched and cracked boiler was used by the steamboat company, the lives of the passengers being daily imperilled till the calamity came in all its terrible details; in the other a train crowded with people was allowed to go out of the depot at Boston half an hour late and another and faster train to follow in hot pursuit, neither the officers of the company nor of the trains taking the slightest precaution against accident. The results of this criminal carelessness in both cases have been told at great length in the HERALD, our paper bearing evidence to-day of the heedlessness and wickedness of these slaughters. Andit yet remains to be seen whether the Mobile slaughter was not as wicked and heediess as the others. The history of railroad and steamboat ‘“‘ac- cidents” in this country presents a long and melancholy array of woundinzs and deaths, The McGill disaster on the Mississippi last winter was terrible; but it fell short of the horror of the Westfield explosion and of the burning of the steamer Henry Clay on the Hudson River in 1852. In the latter case there were not less than seventy persons killed, including among the number the Hon. Stephen Allen, who had been a Mayor of this city, and Miss Hawthorne, of Salem, a sister of the distinguished novelist. On the finding of the Coroner’s jury the captain and officers of the steamer were brought to trial in Octo- ber, 1853, before Judge Ingersoll, of the United States Circuit Court, and, after a trial of fourtéen days, they were acquitted. The charge against them was causing the death of their passengers while racing with the steamer Armenia, and whether they were guiltless, as the jury determined, it matters little, except to say that many persons still express dissat- isfaction with that verdict. In the case of the Westfield we trust no room for dissatisfaction will be left. The character of Recorder Hackett is the best guarantee that, in the trial of Mr. Vanderbilt and the persons indicted with him, there will be, in the Recorder's own words, ‘‘no room for after reproaches from any quarter.” Recorder Hacketi’s charge to the Grand Jury yesterday was as bold as It was neces- sary. He is determined fearlessly to examine into the culpability of the more educated per- sons behind the engineer as well as into the criminality of the engineer himself. Recog- nizing the duty of these men as common car- riers, and fully aware that subordinates are too often made the scapegoats for erring offi- cials, he insists upon holding the officials, as wellas their subordinates, to the exercise of the utmost vigilance, declaring that they have the means of knowing whether their boats, cars, engines and boilers are safe, and are responsible for the personal security of the passengers they, as common carriers, invite upon their boats for profit. To all this the public will respond with hearty approbation, and the people will only look with favor upon a trial conducted in the spirit of the Recorder's charge. A searching inquiry and an honest verdict are imperatively demanded. An ex- ample must be made of some of these rich men who are daily risking the lives of others, that these frequent and wholesale murders may cease. Since the Westfield explosion three other disasters of alike character have oc- curred, the latest one being that of the Ocean Wave, to which we before referred, and the details of which we print this morning. These unnecessary sacrifices can only be stopped by a strict enforcement of the laws and the speedy punishment of the men responsible for them. ‘ If the responsibility for the terrible disaster at Norwalk in May, 1853, by which a train of cars was precipitated into the river and many lives were lost, had been fixed upon the officers of the railroad company, we might have some confidence that drawbridges would not hereafter be left open for passing trains, If the Angola disaster of December 18, 1867, on the Michigan and Lake Shore Railroad. by which a passenger train was hurled fifty feet down an embankment and ngarly fifty lives were sacrificed, had been investigated and the officers of the company properly punished, we think it very doubtful whether there would have been an accident of a similar kind at Carr’s Rock in April, 1868, or at Mast Hope in July, 1869, The New Hamburg disaster last winter was a case for punishment, and if the law had been rigorously enforced in that instance we would not now hear of the criminal neglect on the Eastern Rail- road, Probably one thousand lives have been lost in the United States during the last five years by railroad accidents alone, and nearly all of them have been heedlessly and needlessly sacrificed. Our steamboat owners employ old and wornout boilers, which explode with the most terrible conse- quences, as in the cases of the Westfield and the Ocean Wave. The collision of railway trains is almost an everyday occurrence, and so extreme has become the carelessness of conductors, engineers and depot masters that it has become possible for a fast train to run down a slow one with terrible loss of life. From bad we shall go on to worse unless we stop now and teach prudence by punishment. This Recorder Hackett seems disposed to do in the case of the Westfield culprits, and this must be done also in the Massachusetts slaughter. Personal security requires it and the public voice demands it. Courts and juries cannot shirk the responsibility, and we are glad that at least one Court is not disposed to shirk it, The Triple AllianceWhither Will It Lead? Our special despatch yesterday regarding the Austro-German-Italian alliance has been fully confirmed by to-day’s cable report. Ac- cording to the Prussian Cross Gazette, another interview between the Emperors Wil- liam and Francis Joseph will take place at Salzburg; but Prince Bismarck and Count Beust have already been hard at work at Gastein, and the result is that “g joint attitude’—which is another name for alliance—will be observed by Germany and Austria. Italy has also agreed to the same policy, and thus the triple alliance seems to be an accomplished fact. So the report that a sudden coldness has sprung up between Russia and Germany appears to have a very good foundation, An alliance between France and Russia will now follow as a matter of course, if it has not already been consummated. This is certainly a novel combination, the like of which kas never before occurred in history. Germany, Austria, and Italy arrayed against France and Russia, England is the only great European Power, if we except Turkey, that. seems to be left out of all account, It is difficult to say upon which side England will range herself. Probably on neither side. She will adhere as long as she can to her policy of neutrality. Strange to say, Turkey has of late passed under Russian in- fluence, and will, perbaps, join the Franco- Russian combination. The European kettle is seething and boiling, and there will be a huge expenditure of gunpowder. Mischief- making diplomacy will not rest until it goto up another European conflagration. Tue Poraris IN GREENLAND.—The supply steamer Congress, which carried stores to Captain Hail’s Arctic expedition in Greenland, has returned to St. Johns, N. F., and our special despatch thence relative to the move- ments of the Arctic explorers wili be found of great interest. Captain Hall was warmly seconded in his efforts by the Danish Inspector General of Greenland, and had started on the 17th inst., by way of Smith’s Sound, for the unknown open sea that surrounds the mystical North Pole. Our despatch gives a rather pleasant view of the voyagers at Disco. There, in latitude 70 degrees, in sight of huge glaciers and among great numbers of icebergs, there was glorious summer. The flowers were blooming, the birds were singing and the brooklets flowing with the same sum- mer deliciousness that the country resorts about our own city present; while the day seemed perpetual, there being no darker night than a dim twilight, by which books could be read. Tor One Taina Certain—That the repub- licans in the interior of this State are rallying their forces and electing delegates to the State Convention to be held on the 27th of next month under the distinctive cry of ‘‘Opposi- tion to Tammany.” ‘‘Vell, vat ov it?” as Jemmy Twitcher might say. ‘Suppose the republicans do carry the next Legislature, there will only be a few more votes for the terrible old political Ogre to buy up. Tae Communist TRIALS.—We print in an- other part of this morning's issue a continua- tion of the proceedings against the leaders of the Paris Commune. The report, as well as those already published, is from one of the Heraxp’s correspondents in Paris. The present letter shows us the artist Courbet before the court. In his demeanor he exhibits none of that defiant air which characterized some of his associates. He is ‘so humble” now that he stands charged before his countrymen with participation in acts which will hand down the Paris Commune of 1871 to posterity with the stain of infamy branded upon it, He ex- plains, in a manner, his reasons for ransack- ing President Thiers’ house; and the Column Vendéme offended his taste to such a degree that be argued in favor of its alteration, if | not of its destruction. It is thought, however, that Courbet will escape with his life. Tur Szaron of the detectives for the mur- derer of the unknown woman, whose body was found in a trunk at the Hudson River Railroad depot, has resulted in the arrest of one Ascher, a professional abortionist. The evidence against him is conclusive. The car- man who conveyed the trunk to the depot appeared before the police authorities yester- day, and stated that he had taken the trunk from the house where Ascher lives, on Satur- day, and had seen Ascher’s face in the window at the time that he was loading the trunk upon his wagon, The search is now going on for the woman who 80 coolly superintended the removal of the remains, and the mystery of the woman’s identity yet remains to be cleared up. Tae Mempuis Appeal is opposed alike to lynch law and the new departure, Is not op- position to lynch law rather a new departure for a Southern oaver of the Aurea! atamu? And the foreign born..... which shows that, with all the vast acces- sions to our people from foreign countries, these elements, all told, still number only about one-seventh of the whole mass, although in the State of California they number two- fifths and in the State of New York nearly one-third of the whole population. York, in fact, absorbs one-fifth of the whole foreign population of the Union, and hence in this State, and especially in this city, the superior political importance of the foreign born elements as compared with any other State or city in the Union. ‘The United States Census fer 1870—Curieus and Interesting Figures. From the official table which we published yesterday of the totals of the population of each of the several States and Territories, and of the general aggregates, native and foreign born, whites, blacks, &c., it appears that the Total population of the United States 1s... 38,955,983 —or, in round numbers, say thirty-nine mil- lions, which isa million short of the general idea of what our aggregate population ought tobe. That the regular increase of the peace establishment, however, was cut down to the extent of a million by the war of the late Southern rebellion we cannot doubt, the dead of the Union armies alone reported from the various army cemeteries, hospitals, rebel prisons, &c., amounting to over three hundred thousand able-bodied men. It next appears that, as between our native and foreign born population, The native born number. + 32,989,437 566,486 New Down South we find the native born popula- tion overwhelmingly in the ascendancy, as the report (native and foreign born) of the three States named will serve to show :— Native, Foreign, Virginia. « 1,211,409 18,754 North 1,068,332 8,029 Georgia, » 1,172,982 11,127 These disparities are mainly due to the old institution of negro slavery, which had no at- tractions for the European seeking the bless- ings of Hberty, excepting an occasional straggler, like John Mitchel, ambitious of a large plantation, ‘‘well stocked with good fat niggers.” order being at last restored in the Southern States, the next ten years will doubtless show large accessions in all of them from most of the States of Europe, and particularly from the agricultural classes of Germany. Slavery being removed and law and We next find that in a division of the popula- tion of the Union by the primary colors— white, black and yellow—they stand as fol- lows in the census reports, adding to these re- ports the 850,000 Indians under the care of the Interior Department, not enumerated in the census :— White population of the Union... +++ 83,586,589 Colored (or black) populatiot + 4,880,000 Tndian population... 875,000 Chinese or Mongolia: 63,254 In round numbers the black population of the conntry is only half a million short of the foreign born element—a fact which will give the average political engineer a pretty clear idea of the importance of the colored vote and the meaning of the new democratic departure. We have shown heretofore, from the tables of the population for 1870 of each of the dif- ferent cities of the Union, that the increase of the population of the Eastern and Central States is pretty much limited to the increase in their cities, and that the States and Ter- ritories ef the Northwest, Southwest and far West are those only (excepting Pennsylvania) which can boast of a general increase apart from their cities and large towns. indicate that from the rural districts of the Eastern and Central States the natural increase of the population has been neutralized by re- movals to cities and to the West, and all these movements may be charged to the revolution- izing effects of railways upon the old order of things. These facts These census reports show us another thing of no small importance, and that is the change which has come, or will come, with the next apportionment of the House of Representatives in the dominating section of the Union. Down to the late rebellion South Carolina, with the Southern slave-holding oligarchy at her back, controlled the ruling party of the country and the national government at Washington—executive, legislative and judi- cial. Since the rebellion Massachusetts, with the Eastern and Central States at her back, has taken the place of South Carolina. But henceforward the Mississippi basin and Fre- mont’s great basin of Nevada, Utah, &c., and the Pacific slope, will hold the political balance of power, and shape more and more the finan- cial policy of the government, including banks, internal and external taxations, Such are some of the reflections and conclu- sions suggested from the statistics of the United States census of 1870. But with the statistics of the agricultural, manufacturing and commercial centres of the country we shall know much more touching the particular tendencies and destiny of this or that State or section of the Union, and the drift of the checks and balances of political power. Tue Lovisvitte Courier-Journal steadily advocates the democratic ‘‘new departure” in Kentucky, in spite of concealed and open opposition, It has been recently ‘‘pained” by the declared hostility of Mr. J. S. Golladay— he of the doubtful Congressional reputation— to what he calls the ‘‘new departure failure.” If a failure, argues the Courier-Journal, why kick at it? That paper is opposed to mea- suring the Kentucky democracy by a foot rule, which, it thinks, will be the case if it re- jects the ‘‘new departure” and adopts the Toombs-Stephens platform. Tne Jot Committee of the Board of Supervisors and Board of Aldermen met yes- terday to consider the measure proposed by the Mayor for the examination of the city and county accounts, Recorder Hackett was made permanent chairman, and @ number of promi- nent and wealthy citizens were by name re- quested to act with them. The names of these citizens comprise such men as Royal Phelps, H. B, Claflin, Paul N. Spofford, William EB. Dodge, Jr., Judge Porter and others, These gentlemen are yet to be notified, and mean- while the committee adjourned, “ApMIRAL” SeMMES has been delivering an address before the Spring Hill College, Ten- nessee, taking for his subject ‘The Catholic and the American, and the Claims of the One Upon the Other.” Is this a new serles of the Alabama claims, and does the redoubtable Admiral demand « High Joint Commission to sotila them’ Italy and Germany. Many plausible reasons can be given for the rumored alliance between Italy and Germany, 48 reported by our special despatch yesterday. Italy has slowly but surely emancipated her- self from the tutelage ot France; but the French, though fresh from defeat, cannot be brought to accept the “situation.” The recent debate in the National Assembly has shown that the conservatives, who are at present the ruling power in France, evince a disposition to meddle with the affairs of Italy. The majority, led on by the French clergy, talked of nothing less than active interference in favor of the temporal power of the Pope, and 8 collision was only avoided by the moderate tone of M. Thiere, Well may Italy say to herself, ‘‘See the insolence of these French while the conqueror is still on their soil! What will they do when France is fairly on her legs again?” The question can be easily answered. France would certainly have interfered in Rome but for the bad plight in which she has been placed by Germany. The policy of France toward Italy, with all the appearance of generosity, has ever been a selfish one. Whatever France accomplished for Italy she did tor her own vain glory and oggrandize- ment. Nor was Napoleon, whose policy was approved by the majority of the French nation, a true friend to the Papacy. His only object was—as it would be that of M. Thiers if it were not too late in the day—to keep both Italy and the Papacy under the thumb of France. The Pope must needs remember that the bombardment of Civita Vecchia was permitted, while Italy cannot forget that the Chassepot ‘“‘did wonders” on the poor, ill- armed patriots at Mentana. Italy struck the first blow for her emancipa- tion from French influence in 1866, when she formed an alliance with Prussia and gained Venice back from Austria. In the late war Prussia was again her best ally, though there existed no treaty of alliance. The misfortune of France was the good fortune of Italy. The saying that ‘‘all roads lead to Rome” has once more been exemplified, for the Italian government found that the road to Rome was via Sedan. Prussia has been more disinterested in her policy toward Italy. Prussia in 1866 was well able to cope alone with Austria, The battle for the deliverance of Venice was fought at Sadowa, not at Cus- tozza, and in 1870 it was again Prussia that struck the last blow for Italian unity at Sedan. Prince Bismarck, on the other hand, knows that the talk of the French about vevanche and re- gaining the lost provinces will, sooner or later, lead to corresponding acts. For the purpose of isolating France, aud on the principle that a man cannot have too many friends in a great emergency, Germany is probably anxious to secure the alliance of Italy; and Italy, mindful of Sadowa and Sedan, will be only too glad to embrace the opportunity. CampaicN DoovMENTs BY TELEGRAPH.— Democratic papers are complaining that while republican speeches in Ohio and elsewhere are sent by telegraph through the Asseciated Prene those made by democrats are left to be dis- covered through the slow course of mail. What is the use of sending any of these long harangues by telegraph? Half the time they are sentto the exclusion of far more impor- tant matter, and when they ‘are received and dissected are found to be only fossil corpses from some old buncombe graveyard. Drrven To Make Nick CaLovLations oF toe Omaxces oF Lirz.—So frequent and frightful are the catastrophes and loss of life by steamboats and railroads, that people who are compelled to travel begin to make close calculations as to the location on these con- veyances that may possibly be least dangerous to life—where they may by chance only lose a leg or an arm instead of their lives. People inquire now where the boiler is located ina steamboat, and get as far away from it as possible, or seek the best cushioned car in the middle of a railroad train. Yes, it bas come to that. Men, women and children are in fear all the time ; and wel they may be, when call- ing to mind the number of terrible explosions and collisions of lat. Never was there such recklessness of life, Will not Congress, the State Legislatures aid government officials do something to stop his slaughter of human beings? Let us hopt that coroners and juries at least will not fal to do their duty, and punish those having sharge of steamboats and railroads who showsuch little regard for the lives of passengers. PREPARING For 1!72.—Colonel Yerger, of Mississippi celebrity, is about to start a paper in Baltimore. It rill, probably, be of the tomahawk species, ind the work of scalping Northern radicals bedone neatly and with de- spatch. i Russtan Conspracres.—The letter of the Heratp’s St. Petesburg correspondent will prove interesting toour readers. It reviews briefly the conspircies which have come to the surface in theRussian empire from an early period in the Istory of the present cen- tury. It will thuebe seen that not alone to the Latin races’ enspiracies and plottings against the existingrder of things have these convulsions been pnfined. Even in Russia, among @ comparatively uncivilized and uncul- tivated people, the earning for greater liberty is manifest. The iscovery of the Neychatef conspiracy shows |hat the spirit which ani- mates men to a what they consider wrongs is not dead This last plot in Russia is but another ica of the unsettled con- dition of the workin peoples of Europe at the present day. Tue JACKSONVILLE (Fla.) Courier—demo- cratic—says the repvlican party in that State has “gone up,” like ty same party in Georgia ; but the Florida Unti—republican—says the statement is false. Why not let it go for truth? There woul be a fine chance for those terrible bayots with which, it is claimed, the federal (ministration is prepared to overawe the Sout! Srxtren Sea Batms at Shark River, N. J., nearly lost their lis on Saturday by ven- turing into the seat a point where the bot- tom wasunknown. ‘ey found it treacherous, and almost before ey knew it were beyond their depth and in ttgrasp of a strong under- tow. They were sed by their own strenuous efforts; but thelr oo is a timely warning to all our sea gide reg¢era, Andy Johnson Alive and Hickiag. Ex-President Johnson has just been inters viewed at his home in Greenville, Tenn., by @ correspondent of the Memphis Appeal. He is represented to be in vigorous health, and his intellect, it is said, was never more active. In short, he is in good humor with all the world, and don’t care a tailor's button for the rest of mankind. He takes great interest in the political movements of the day, and the democratic new departure is an especial object of bis aversion. On this point he says, ‘‘It were infinitely better that radicalism should still riot in plunder and power through another four years than that the democratic party should triumph by base abandonment of honesty and principle.” This has the regular Bourbonic ring. Throwing aside the freedom of the negro, the rest of the constitutional “patchwork,” as he calls it, is ‘revolutionary, destructive of popular and States’ rights, and should be annulled.” Andy has not, therefore, progressed much since the National Demo- cratic Convention of 1868. Of course the ex- President is not very complimentary to Gen- eral Grant, of whom he says :—‘‘He has daring and vaulting ambition, and would sacrifice a million of men, as well as laws and oaths and the organic law, to retain the enrpty place he fills.” Andy probably thinks the Presidential chair has been empty ever since he ceased to fill it, In regard to finance, the ex-President expressed the opinion that the bondholders have already been paid all that the bonds cost them, and should be content if in future they received their face value. In this Mr. John- son takes the Ohio democratic view of the question, and may be regarded as placing him- self upon the Pendleton platform. The ‘Sage of Greenville” is evidently spoiling for ventila: tion. He is never quiet unless he is in a muss. He wants somebody to knock a chip off his shoulder, to tread on his coat-tail, or do something or other to enable him to keep himself from sinking {nto oblivion: He is, no doubt, honest in his political convictions ; but honesty in politics nowadays is, as Jaffier, in Massinger's play, would say, ‘‘a damned starving quality.” Let a man go to Washing- ton—or come to New York, for the matter of that—and see how he could make out with “honesty” as his political watchword, It is refreshing to learn, however, that Andy John- son is alive and kicking. Some music may be ground out of him yet. Extraorpinary Imuicration.—‘‘Still they come” in greater numbers from the Old World to the New. Immigration has been very large this summer, and now, at the time of year when there is usually some falling off, the tide appears to be swelling. Oa Sunday there arrived at this port about two thousand immi- grants, and yesterday several large steamers came freighted with augmenting numbers, At this rate our population and industrial develop- ment are likely to increase beyond all antici- pations, Tue True Georgian has dropped the name of General Gordon as its candidate for Gover- nor of Georgia, but sticks to Hoffman for Presi- dent, Gordon is not svuud ou the new de- parture and the 7're Georgian professes to be. Personal Intelligence. General Frank P. Blair is at the Fifth Avenue, General &. S. Parker, of Washington, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas, J. B. Garland, of Eugiand, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge J. B. Joyce, of Louisiana, is sojourning at the New York Hotel. Commander R. B. Lowry, of the United States Navy, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue, Genera L. E. Yorke, of Cincinnati, has quarters at the Gilsey House. H. D. Vavasour, of England, 1s living at the Hort- man House. A Colonel William L. Springer, of Illinois, is a sojourner at the Sturtevant House. Colonel John S. Dunlap, of Massachusetts, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue. ’ General J. Strange, of Memphis, 1s domiciled at the St, Nicholas, T. A. Bancker, of Cairo, Egypt, yesterday took quarters at the Gilsey House. Judge H. H. Badgley, of California, is stopping at the Sturtevant House. Judges Durell and Hughes, of New Orleans, are domiciled at the Fifth Avenue. Ex-Mayor F, C. Wells, of Chicago, is staying at the St. Nicholas. Judge W. W. Crump, of Ricnmond, Va., is resid- ing at the St. Nicholas, Lopez Roberts, Spanish Minister at Washington; his brother-in-law, E. Pombert, and F, Bermudez yesterday returned from Saratoga. They are now stopping at the St. James Hotel. THE WEA‘HER. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D, C., August 20—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Houra, The barometer has failen very generally Hast of the Rocky Mountains since Sunday night; fresh southwest and southeast winds have been expert- enced on the Middle Atlantic. The area of low barometer which was in the lower Missourt valley has moved northeastward and is now central ou upper Lake Michigan, The pressure has falien, with cloudy weather in the South Atlantic States; southerly winds with cloud and rain im the Middle and Eastern States and the lake regions; clearing weather from Wisconsin to Kansas and thence to Mississippl. Probabilities. The low barometer on Lake Michigan will proba» bly move northeastward, without much aaditional rain, except on the lower lakes: southwesterly winds, with partially cloudy weather and loca rains, for the Atlantic States; pleasant and clearing weather for the Ohio valley and Guif States, ana cool northwesterly winds for Wisconsin and west- ward, ANN ELIZA’ TERRIBLE TEMPTATION. A $3,000 Fractional Currency Robbery te Newark by a Colored Womun. On Saturday the Essex County National Bank of Newark received from Washington $3,000 in frac- tional currency. Of the twenty-five cent denomina- tion there were $2,000 and $1,000 of fifty cent stamps, At the close of business hours a careless clerk forgot to put this money away in the safe. It wasina couple of tin boxes, Yesterday morning the mo- ney was missed. Detective Haggerty was at ouce sent for, and his suspictons were instantly directea to Mrs, Ann Eliza Scott, @ colored woman em- ployed to clean out the offices, She at first stouty denied the matter, but on a warrant being issued for her arrest she mollified and made @ clean breast of the robbery. She had taken the ae to Rah- way and placed Seen, in Keeping of Charies Wykoif, a colored friend. She said she had found 1¢ ana presented him and nis wife with $100, Be. tween two of her own daughters she divided $500, After much manceuvring the oMcer succeeded in recovering $2,700 of the stolen money. The balance will probably turn up too. Mrs. Scoit and her daughter were last night lodged in the cou jail. She is @ member in good standing of the African oo church, and says the temptation was ter. ble. WASHINGTON SCHUETZENVARIIN, The Sixth annual Schuetzenfest o¢ the Washing: ton Schuetzenverein was commer,ted to-day with @ rand procession, The Choral %ocrety was present fonignt and sang several airs, ‘Tue lest. im Tumere ously attendod. .