The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1871, Page 4

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, _ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. 4 Volume XXXVI.. —— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 50h st.—Perform- ‘Bnces afternoon and ng—LoLa. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 between 6th and 6th ava.— LIrree WELL any THe MaRcmoNEss. No. 243 \ “BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—“ON THE TRACK" —THB @Raovs Pur.osoruec. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston sts.—THue Drama oF Fuitz. LINA EDWIN’s THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—K ELLY € Leon's MinsT Eris. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Uh street.— Bive Branv. GLOBE THEATRE, Broadway.--NEGRO ECORNTRI- ‘OITIES, BURLESQUES, £0. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tne BALLET PAN- ‘TomIue or Humpty DuMpty. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—THropors TaoMas' Boxunze Nicure’ Concerts. GLOBE THEATRE, Broo! » Vas RIETY ENTERTAINMENT. kiya, opposite City Hall.—Va- WITH SUPPLEMENT New York, Thureday, August 31, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Pace. 4—Advertisements, Q—Advertisements. rrest of a Noted Express Robber—Another Canal Steamer—Marriages aud Deaths—ad- vertisements, Editoriais: Leading Article, “Our Special Ad- ¥ices on the Gastein Conferences—The Ne Understanding Between Germany, Austria 2 Italy”—The Weather Keport—Calamitous Col- lision—The Loss of the Lodona—The Wrecked Steamsmp Mississippi — Aquatics — Yacnting Notes—The Case of Ex-Collector Holiey—Ne- gro Outrages at Darien, Ga.—Amusement An- nouncements, 6—The Triple League Between Austria, Ger- many and Italy—France: Gambetta's Mo- tion for the Dissolution of the Navional Assembly Discussed in a Caucus of the Extreme Left—The Pope: The Papal Guards Paying Their Homage to the Holy Father—News from Central aud South Amer- 1ca—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Wisconsin Pol- Uuics—Virgima Politics—Ben Butier: Another of the Generai’s Gubernatorial Speeches—Business Notices. @—Malpractice Murders: Tne Mystery of the Trunk Clearing Up; the Murdered Woman Ideatitied; the Brookiyn Abomination; Frail Florence; Death of a Young Woman and Her Child in Hariem; One Theory Exploded—Disaster at Sea: The Cunard Steamer Java Coilldes with the Norwegian Bark Annita; Eleven Lives Lost—The Wall Street Haul. © Y%—Advertisements. S—Filth of the Markets; Distress, Disease and Dirt in All We Eat; Meeting of the Boara of Campaign Health; Horrible Revelations; The Conattion Of tue ‘Streets; Tenement Houses; Enforce- ment of Ord:nances—Bluebeard in Pough- Keepsiec—A Police Palace—Proceedings in the Courts—New Jersey Polltics—Capture of Young Gallows Birds—Drowntng Casualty in Hoboken—Robbing a Railroad: Details of the Great Frauds in Georgia. @—Robbing a Railroad (Continued from Eighth Page)—The Shanty Homicide—Music and the Drama—The Fail of Rain Yesterday—Tie Hi Brethren of the Triple Links—A Crash at { Loulsville, Ky.—The Orange Kiots—The Rock- t away Steamvoats—Tne Customs Receipts— Hoboken Hotheads—Monument to Colonel N. { i L, Farnnam—The Thumb Biter—Death of a ‘ Notorious Character—A Son of Aaron Burr— Financial and Commercial Reports— Domestic Markets—The Mackerel Fishery. 10—News from Washingtou—The Rattroad Slaugh- ter in Massachusetts: Condition of the Wounded—Shipping Intelligence—Aavertise- wents. Tar Richuoxp Whig claims to be the black man’s only friend. Cuffee (very much aston- ished)—‘‘W-w-b-y, whar you bin all dis time ?” Tur Sreamsnir Java, on her last passage _ from Liverpool to this city, ran into the Nor- wegian bark Minta, and sent her down, with eleven lives on board. Tax DerarTMENT oF Stare has issued no- * tices to all interested parties to prepare their claims for settlement by the Geneva arbitra- | tors and Washington commissioners. Tue Spanish GOVERNMENT has issued an amnesty for all political offences. This meas- fare will tend to conciliate the adversaries of the government and increase the popularity of the Ministry. A CorresponpeNt of the Memphis Appeal! says he caught Andy Jobnson in a position he never was caught in before. Andy knew an interviewer was around and did not take time to part his back hair. Dr. Carsocuan’s Diarence.—The receipts for customs at this port have been this year some ttn millions of dollars in excess over hose at the same time last year. This is the right way of ‘‘sending away commerce.” 4 z Senator TuvrMay, of Ohio, in his speech on Tuesday denounced the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, The Senator is evi- dently averse to the new departure. Indeed, gince Vallandigham’s death we notice that a number of democratic leaders disown his pet theory. Governor Warmorn is not mending mat- ters much in the political hubbub in Louisiana. He removed his Secretary of State yesterday for some alleged malfeasance in office, and to » get possession of his office had to resort to } force. Poor Louisiana is, indeed, in shame- ) less hands. eee } Waerr Are Tux Missionaries ?—Better let the heathen slide for the present and attend to the home trade in social demoralization and general wickedness, Scarcely one crime | orone horror is announced ere it is ‘‘tele- | scoped” into another, and so it goes on from | ene day to another, without end to the chap- i ee } Tue Conservative State Convention of | Virginia met in Richmond yesterday to nomi- ' mate candidates for the Legislature and for State offices. A very commendable ‘‘new de- parture” spirit was displayed at first by the ’ admission of colored delegates. Jubal Early, { whom Sheridan thrashed so vumercifully in the valley, refused to remain in the Convention afterwards, and stalked out amid hearty hisses | from those who remained. The platform and | resolutions will be enunciated to-day, when it will be seen if Old Virginia adberes (o the “pew departure” doctrine. t my ./ Tux Trunk Myergry Cizarep Up.—Yes- terday Dr. Kinn¢, of Paterson, N. J., visited | © Bellevne and identified the remains of the un- 4). fortunate woman as those of Miss Alice A. "| Bowlsly, of Paterson, N. J. The identifica- | tion was made complete by a vaccination mark on the left arm below the elbow, a large mole % | on the right side of the neck and some filled 4 teeth, Furthermore, the police last night, | qhile searching the house of the prisoner, Dr. | Rosenzweig, in Second avenue, found in a washtub mmon linen handkerchief marked with the e of the victim, There is now & prospect that the perpetrator of the foul mur- Ger will speedily be brought to justice. seen pers Our Special Advices on the Gastein Con- {be remembered that, conspicuous among the forences=The New Understanding Betweon | causes which precipitated upon Russia the war Germany, Austria and Italy. From the special Heratp despatch on the subject which we publish this morning, it appears that the high contracting parties— Germany and Austria—in their conferences at Gastein on European affairs, have agreed upon some important principles of policy, the details of which were written down on both sides, in the nature of a treaty, though not a formal treaty, whereby the two imperial Chancellors have effected that ‘happy accord” which secures the co-operation of the two Powers in view of any European complications threatening the peace of the Continent. The understanding thus secured is regarded by the contracting parties as satisfactory, looking to the maintenance of peace, and as covering the ultimatum of war against any Power ventur- ing to disturb the general interests of peace. As it appears, too, that Italy is a party to this agreement, we may consider it a sort of Holy Alliance of the central Powers of Europe against the uncertain caprices of revolutionary France on one side and the grasping designs of imperial Russia on the other. In the despatch under consideration we are informed that Russia, apprised of this under- standing between Germany, Austria and Italy, is making vast preparations for war. But we are next told, in the same despatch, that the Pope, in receiving the other day the homage of the Papal Guards, said :—‘‘We cannot name the day of our deliverance, but the time is not remote when we shall issue together from our prison.” And what possible connection can this incident have with these Gastein confer- ences? Let us look into the subject, and it may appear that the Pope is a party deeply inter- ested in these negotiations between the two German imperial Chancellors at Gastein. Louis Napoleon, in turning adrift the senti- mental French republic of 1848, and in re- establishing in its place the empire and the imperial dynasty of the Bonapartes, took upon himself the maintenance of the Pope in his temporal kingdom against the aggressive Italian republicans, Indeed, it was as Presi- dent of the French republic that Napoleon by force of arms put down the Roman republic of Garibaldi and reinstated the Pope in his capital; but it was as Emperor of the French that Napoleon, as ‘‘the eldest son of the Church,” took the Holy Father as a temporal sovereign, under his especial protection. From the suppression of the Roman repub- lic in 1849 to his disastrous war with Prussia of 1870, notwithstanding the invaluable eervices of Napoleon to the cause of the unity of Italy in the Franco-Italian war. of 1859 with Aus- tria, the French Emperor, with his armed pro- tection of the Pope and his diplomacy with King Victor Emmanuel, practically reduced Italy to the condition of a dependency of France. But the worst of it is that the French government of the present day, nomi- nally that of a republic, but in reality an irre- sponsible despotism, seems to adhere to the fallacy that the proper condition of Italy is that of a dependent upon France, and.that it is also the duty of France to resame her especial protection of the Pope and to see him reinstated in his temporal authority as soon as practicable. President Thiers, in his apolo- gies to the Pope and the Church, has ad- mitted, though indirectly, that France would intervene in the rectification of the Italian usurpation of Rome if she could; but that she can’t, and that so the Holy Father, for the present, must “‘accept the situation” and await in patience the shaping of events. Nor can we doubt that the real difficulty of Thiers, between the Bourbons and the Bonapartes, is that of Macheath between his two sweethearts, and that he can feelingly sing, with the senti- mental vagabond :— How happy could I be with either, Were Voiher dear charmer away. The general impression is, however, that Thiers is preparing the way for the restoration of the Bourbons; and we know that it is as a Bourbon that the conservative Thiers abides in the faith of the temporal rights of the Pope and the duty of France to maintain them. In view, then, of a restoration of the Bourbons, Italy appreciates the importance of a saving alliance with Germany against the possible armed intervention otherwise of France on the Roman question. Furthermore, her new re- lations with Spain, resulting from the late Franco-German war, have placed Italy in an attitude of antagonism to France, which makes it the policy of the Italian government to main- tain its absolute independence against Freneh pretensions, whatever the form which they may assume. And thus Italy has risen to this position of independence through the victorious arms of the German nation. We can readily- understand the motives and the advantages inviting the Italian government to this new alliance with Germany. Not the least thing in the freedom gained by Italy is her freedom from the impertinent pretensions of France, and Italy, inthis new alliance, is simply re- solved to maintain her independence. Next, in regard to Germany, it is evident that Prince Bismarck expects anything but a lengthened continuance of the existing peace with France. He counts upon another war with the enraged warriors of Gaul as sooa as she imagines herself ready for the desperate undertaking; and he doubtless believes that France will consent even to a humiliating alli- ance with Russia in order to retrieve her deep humiliations received from Germany. Hence the motives of Germany in this new alliance with Italy. From the Baltic to the Adriatic it detaches France from Russia, and isolates them both, with Austria in the coalition with Germany. We cannot imagine that Russia has the slightest inclination to become an ally of France, in anything or for any purpose, while France is in the doubtful transition state of a temporary government, drifting to a Bour- bon king, an imperial Bonaparte, an aggres- ‘sive republic, or to a civil war among her fighting factions, But let the French establish themeelves, for instance, under a Bourbon king or a Bonaparte, with a standing army at his back, whose fortunes are his fortunes, and Russia may be ready for a new coalition look- ing to her grand designs in the direction of the Danube and the Golden Horn, Here we have the inducements of Austria to enter into this new understanding with Ger- many. It secures her northern and eastern frontiers, and in the event of war with Russia it may enlarge the Austrian dominions to the Black Sea and extend the German empire a considerable distance wv the Baltic. Lt will of the Crimea was that famous confidential conversation of the Emperor Nicholas with ‘the British Minister at St, Petersburg on the “sick man” of Turkey ; and that on this occa- sion the Ozar said, in substance, ‘We can ar- range this business between ourselves, and the Emperor of the French need not know anything about it.” It will be remembered that Sir Hamilton Seymour, in reporting this conversation to his government and the world, roused the wrath of Napoleon, and that the armed alliance between England and France against Russia, in defence of Turkey, speedily followed. It may be that these conferences between the Chancellor of Germany and the Chancellor of Austria at Gastein have now awakened the wrath of the Czar; but still the coalition reported, with the tremendous army of Germany as its central power, is equal to all probable European emergencies, peace or war, for Germany, Austria and Italy. The Currency Question and Western Po- liticlans. Some of the politicians of the West cling to their currency notions and to the payment of the debt in currency. General Ewing wanted to revive this issue, as appeared in the speech he delivered lately in Ohio, but others are dis- posed to let it drop as no longer available or practicable. Mr, Pendleton even seems dis- posed to let it slide; for he no longer makes that the burden of his speeches, as formerly. There was a time when the question of a legal tender currency exclusively and the payment of the five-twenties in that was a prominent one. Many of the ablest public men of both parties—and among them Thaddeus Stevens— were in favor of such a policy. The estab- lishment of ‘the national banks and a national bank currency, the financial policy of the Treasury Department and the approximation to a specie basis have upset the greenback theory. Probably the nation has lost by this. The financial policy of the government has, perhaps, created and enriched a moneyed oli- garchy at the expense of the people, and has given to private corporations the profits of a national circulation which properly belong to the people and the government; but it is fastened upon us, and for some time at least efforts to make a change would prove fruit- less. General Ewing and other Western politicians who have been trying to raise the question are spending their strength for naught, and should turn their attention now to live and practicable issues. Tue Socta Horrors or tue Day.—The young girl who was left at the First precinct station house in Brooklyn by a Dr. Perry and a Mrs. Van Buskirk died in the City Hospital yesterday. This adds another murder to the long and melancholy list of social horrors which hang over the city like a curse. Why is it that these social crimes are of such frequent occurrence? They cannot spring from mere depravity, for the victims are gen- erally persons of previously good reputation, and only the professional murderers are wholly lost to all the instincts of humanity. Some deep-seated reason there must be for it; and this we can find only in the early teachings of philosophers like Greeley and the communistic ideas which he and his followers have been preaching. In other words, social duties are disregarded, because the marriage relation has been allowed to fall into contempt among avery large class of the community. This contempt has not been fostered so much by the professed ‘‘free lovers” as by those who are pretending to seek a higher sphere for women that women may be degraded. If the horrors of the last few days cannot make the community understand this we know of noth- ing which can teach the necessary lesson. Tae Ricumoxnp Dispatch (democratic) pitches into Aleck Stephens for his war upon ; the new departure, and declares it as certain as any future event can be that the Demo- cratic National Convention will next year adopt a platform in which one of the planks will be a ‘‘plain, candid concession that the new amendments are part and parcel of the constitution.” Throw out Ad- niiral Semmes, Jeff Davis, Aleck Stephens, Bob Toombs, the Mobile Register and two or three other prominent Southern men and newspapers, and the opposition to the new departure does not really seem to have much strength or bottom in the South. As for the constitutional amendments, the South might as well begin to talk of fighting the fight of the rebellion over again as to attempt to ignore them. Tue Action oF Dr. Prey AND Mrs. Van Buskirk in dragging a dying victim out of their house as soon as they dis- covered that the trunk horror had excited public sentiment against their vile avocation so as to make it dangerous for them if a death should occur in their house, is even more in- famous than the crime of Dr. Rosenzweig. The woman who was so cruelly treated died yesterday, and the City Hospital physician testifies that it was mainly the brutal dragging her about*that killed her and her child, A New Yankee Pouirioa, Notion,—The Boston Advertiser states that, in response to a call of a committee previously appointed, a convention composed of two hundred delegates met ata certain hallin that city lately and adopted a series of resolutions as a platform for the ‘American Union reform party.” Ar- rangements were made to call a public meet- ing, to which liberal men of all parties will be invited. No names are given, not even of the committee by whom the convention was called, This smacks a little of old Know Nothingism vedivivus, Wonder if Ben Butler bas a hand in it? DrraLcaTions have been discovered among the officials in Toronto, Canada. So the work goes bravely on. CrHarrMAN Atonzo B. Corngit, of the Re- publican State Committee, writes to Giles W. Hotebkies, of Binghamton, a letter in answer to the following conundrum :—‘‘Why did the State Committee direct the reorganization?” As the reply has been done up in circular form and sent privately to parties interested, as well as published in the partisan papers, it is, no doubt, pretty well understood by this time “why” the State Committee acted as it did. But, after all, the republicans asa mass do not appear to he satisfied, Call Onondaga to witness, ‘The Abuses of the Car Lines-Waat We Have and What We Ought to Have. In the teeth of our advice last week to the west side car companies to correct the various abuses of their management, we are sorry to see that the Sixth and Eighth avenue lines are growing daily more intolerably uncomfort- able. The Eighth avenue, indeed, rivals the Third in its wanton disregard of the conven- ience of its passengers and in its pachyder- matous indifference to a criticism which it must be conscious it has richly deserved. The Bighth avenue certainly carries off the palm from all competitors in the matter of brutally discourteous conductors. Some of the outrages we have witaessed on this line have been enough to make the blood of a humane and civilized man boil with passionate indignation. In some way it seems as though women of the poorer sort. use this Iine more than any other; and especially on Saturdays there are any quantity of market and laundress’ baskets brought aboard the cars. If our ideal of a car line were carried into effect special provision would be made for these impedimenta—say on the roof, and an extra charge of a cent or two exacted. But no man with a heart in his body, sensible as he may be of the unpleasant features of the nuisance, could bring himself to deny these daughters of toil a place on the only means of conveyance they can afford. Their treatment, however, by the conductors presents a vast field of labor for some man willing to assume towards the human race the place of Bergh with the dumb creation. We have ourselves seen a poor woman, with her arms full of packages, purposely jerked off the platform, because she hesitated a moment before stepping out upon the muddy, slippery street. Oh, that we had some modern knight errant to avenge such cold-blooded outrages ; some Rodolph with the purse of a prince to pay assault and battery fines; the kind heart of a saint and the muscles and science of a Morrissey to meddle in our mysteries of New York and convert a conductor a day to good manners. We have specially instanced the conduct of these brutes to poor women, but such a champion would also redress the wrongs of many a passenger of the sterner sex who has been snubbed, insulted and per- haps even physically injured and annoyed. As to overcrowding, there is little to choose between the Sixth and the Eighth. A ride on either line during six out of the twenty-four hours is to voluntarily cast one’s self into a black hole of Calcutta. Some ingenious physician once wrote a treatise on the bad influence of daily railroad travelling on the human frame. But what must be the effect upon the health of a majority of our popula- tion of half an hour's ride twice a day in the vitiated and poisonous air of these over- crowded prisons? Onan Eighth avenue car one summer Sunday night we once counted ninety odd passengers. The cubic feet of air and space to each person could easily be com- puted, and even with the windows open the press was too great to allow of the atmosphere speedily renewing itself. But most of our readers must have frequently noticed for themselves the enervating effect of a journey up town under similar conditions. The poor victim escapes from the car weak and faint and exhausted, and he rejoices in the free air of the open street as though he had been mewed up for weeks in some unwholesome dungeon, We are sure, indeed, that if the Board of Health did its duty it would prosecute both these car lines for not keeping their vehicles in @ proper sanitary condition, Against both these companies we also make the charge that their cars are habitually and hideously filthy. Perhaps the Eighth avenue is the dirtiest, and the Sixth most infested with vermin. In other respects, such as speedy running and absence of detentions, we have but little fault to find. We believe both lines are sometimes blocked up by wagons, but that is a trouble springing from the nar- rowness of the streets and not from mal- administration. We only blame the companies for what they can easily avoid, if they would. And now, to close, we ask for a reform on the car lines of the city because we believe daily familiarity with discomfort and unclean- liness does a great deal of harm to usas a people. Selfishness, dirt and brutality are more contagious than yellow fever or the cholera. The overcrowding in tenement houses has had far worse results morally than physically; and the overcrowding in our cars has already converted a large part of our men into selfish and unmanly brutes, at any rate in one respect. It used to be counted an infamy for an American gentleman to sit while a lady was standing. But now, how many men persevere in such old-fashioned gal- lantry? Not one in a score, we should judge ; the other nineteen glory in their selfish indif- ference to the eufferings of the half-fainting women who hang on by the straps and strive to conceal the pain which each sharp jerk of the vehicle round a corner inflicts. Some men, we know, make the excuse that the lady ac- cepts the offered seat as a right and notas a favor. We do not believe this is true; we have noticed that nineteen women out of twenty do say ‘Thank you,” and the twentieth, if she says nothing, at least looks her grati- tude. But it is not alone in this matter of seats that the companies are demoralizing us. People cannot live, even -for an hour a day, in dirt and discomfort without being in every way morally the worse for it. Itis high time on every ground that a change for the better should take place. All that we ask for is that the car companies should carry out their original pledge of cheap, speedy and pleasant intercommunication about the city. Clean cars, courteous conductors, a seat for each, passenger, through cars at regular intervalse— these are surely not unattainable blessings if the companies will but bs the necessary time and money to secure them. Insurance System. consideration of the British public. accept the principle which we have adopted, vency of a life company. mine this very important question. an article recently published in the Protector, of Actuaries, in London, a society which enced in the life insurance business, and from which are selected the ablest men in the ac- tuariai department of English Kfe companies, the Institute, reed a paper on the Life Assu- rance Companies Act of 1870, wherein, while commending the working of the’ new law, as empowering the Court of Chancery to wind up any company on satisfactory proof of its insolvency, he complained that the act did not go far enovgh, as it still left the question open as to what really should be the test of insolvency, adding especially that this had been accomplished in America, where there is a fixed standard of valuation, and that the appointment of State Insurance Commissioners is a guarantee that the law goveruing insurance companies would be observed. The Protector says that since life insurance legislation in the United States is held to be within the province of the several State governments, each of the States that chooses to place life companies under restric- tion must fix its own standard of solvency. In this, for instance, there is a difference be- Massachusetts of about ten per cent, as the reserve or valuation of policies is calculated at arate of four and a half per cent interest in the former and at four per cent in the latter State, so that a company may be perfectly sol- vent as doing business in New York, while it would not pass the examination of the Massa- chusetts inspector. The deliberations of the National Insurance Convention at their next meeting will doubtless result in arranging a desirable uniformity of State action in this re- spect. We shall then be able to congratulate ourselves upon having so far perfected our American system that we can set an example of sound insurance legislation even to those Old World companies which have had an ex- perience of more than three generations. The Condition of the Markets Strects. The reports to the Board of Health which we print this morning, though not very pleas- ant reading, are highly important documents on account of their terrible revelations in re- gard to the sanitary condition of the city. The communication of Dr. Morris, concerning the filth about the markets, is especially worthy of attention. He found disease and dirt everywhere, Washington Market being in a particularly unhealthy state. But from be- ginning to end these reports tell the same story, not only of the markets but of the streets, the tenement houses and of every spot where negligence could allow filth to accumu- late. These terrible revelations will, we hope, lead to a thorough reform. The cholera is again on its travels and we must be pre- pared for it. As one of the first steps toward the complete cleaning out process which must be undertaken, it is due to the public that the booths on the streets should be removed. If the sidewalks at Washington, Fulton and the other markets were not used by trades- men the noisome condition of these places would not be so shocking. Nearly every street corner in all parts of the city is occupied by petty venders, who allow filth to accumulate for many yards around their stands, The work of cleansing the city must be pursued vigorously and rigorously, but while these places are allowed to exist there can be no cleanliness. and the GamBETTA AND THiers.—The HERALD special correspondent at Paris telegraphs that the party of the Left had a caucus, over which M. Gambetta presided, the result of the meet- ing being a determination on the part of the the dissolution of the National Assembly. This is wise. Able as he is, Gambetta cannot maintain the popularity necessary to mould the republic after his ideas; and so far M. Thiers has done very well. A rupture between these men would put republican institutions in danger, and could not subserve any useful purpose. In view of these facts the action of M. Gambetta in abandoning bis former deter- mination is to be commended. For Oren Corruprios—barefaced, glory- ing in political infamy—the New Orleans office-holders take the palm. During a move- ment recently to change the officials of the City Water Board and for other purposes, it was shown that every member of the City Council had been liberally feed, one man claiming that an independent fortune had been offered him, Tse Wasnineton National Republican thinks that the Stephens wing of the demos cratic party might be won over if he (Stephens) should be nominated for the Vice Presidency, with, say, Hendricks for President. Hum- phrey Marshall, of Kentucky, would ‘‘turn the beam” on Stephens for such a nomination, Tre Lovisvitrx Ledger (endorsed by the Mobile Iegister) says ‘the new departure, as a democratic measure, is already dead,” If so soon I am to be done for, Wonder what I was begun for? Tue Boarp oF Heatta, as one of the most vital necessities for the prevention of epl- demic, has ordered the immediate inspection of all tenement houses, The disease-breeding filth that is to be found in some of these houses will, no doubt, astonish the inspectors, NEGRO OUTRAGES AT DARIEN, GA. SAVANNAH, August 30, 1871. Tur Loviavinte Courier-Journal tegards the constitutional amendments as enclosed im a Pandora's box, It would not, therefore, be safe to open it at all unless the democratic party is prepared to be overwhelmed with a new eet of plagues, rested by the negroes of thas He was released yesterday and The caso will be subuutied, to We BEAR ph Waslvugions An English View of the American Elf? The cordial reception which Mr. George W. Miller, the Superintendent of the New York Tusurance Department, has met with in Eng- land is gratifying, not ooly in a social aspect, but also in its recognition of the claim of our American system of life insurance upon the It appears, however, that the life companies of Great Britain are not quite prepared to of a fixed legal standard by the valuation of policies, and which is now, as it has been for | some years, our guide for judging of the sol- Those companies hold that the circumstances which severally govern their affairs call, ia each individual case, for a distinct system whereby to deter- But, in we are told that at a meeting of the Institute numbers among its members the most experi- Mr. T. B. Sprague, M. A., Vice President of tween the State of New York and the State of republican leader to forego his measure for | Another outrage has been perpetrated by the ne- groes at Darien, Ga. It appears that the crew of the British bark Mona, Hatfield, master, mutinied at sea, and the captain was compelled to shoot one of mutinzers, though only slightly wounding him. on the ship's ‘arrival at Dario 4 captain was ar+ zTplace ‘and put in jati. is now in this city, Auda | CALAMITOUS COLLISION. — \The Raritan River Disnster—Four Persone Browued—The Ceroner’s Inquest and Ver- dict=Nebody to Blame. Lat? on Monday night, 2ist inst, a frightful calamiv,¥ took place in the Raritan River, at a place catied Pvint-no-Potnt, Middle Grounds, some dis- tance behw New Brunswick. The tug Bordentown left New Brunswick for New York on the night of August 21, having in tow fourteen canal boats. On one of the boats were Captain Thaurman, his song George and Henry, and his daughter Annie. About one o’clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 28d, tne propeller Annie, Captain Steen, of the Wilmington and New York Freigitt line, came into cok lision with Captain Thaurman’s boat, siniiteg her almost instantly. All four of the Thawr mans were drowaed. After the disaster the Annie kept on her course, passing New Brunswick. without giving notice of the calamity. She came+ back from Wilmington on Friday, passiag tarough: New Brunswick at ten o'clock in the night. She started back from New York ona second trip aaa reached New Brunswick on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile the Coroners of Middiesex county claimed the case and there was likely to be a contliet of authority over the four dead bodies. Tats, hap« plly for decency sake, was avoided, and the inquest | took place before Coroner Paradin, of New Brung- wick. After spending all of buen d in taking tes- tmony the case was adjourned till last evening, when A VERDICT ‘was reached, as folows:— That the said Christian Thaurman, George Thaurmany Henry Thaurmnan and Aniie Thaarman were drowned iu the Raritan iver, in the county of Middiesex, on the morni of Tuesday, the 22d of August, by the accidental ¢oliision the boat Christian Thaurman, which was in tow of the steamtug Bor.entown, with the steam propeller Annie, of Wilmington, Del., and, fa our judgment, no auch neal ace @s amounts to crime can be attrivuted, under the W any person, THE LOSS OF THE LODINA Additional Particulars of the Shipwreck— Names of the Saved. JACKSONVILLE, Fia., August 39, 1871. The gale’ struck the Lodona on the 16th inst, and at half-past s2ven o’clock the next morning she went asuore near Cape False and became a total wreck. The captain (Hovey) and thirty of the crew were drowned. The saved were Schofield, engineer; Stevens and Smith, mates; Mooney, fireman; Woif, mess boy; the captain’s son, the cook and four sailors. M{The survivors reached Cape Canavarel ughthouse and are on their way here. THE WRECKED STEAMSHIP MISSIS3IPPL Arrival of the Passeugors and Crew at New Orleans—The Ship and Cargo a Total Loss. New ORLEANS, August 39, 1871. The steamship Cortez, Captaim Whitman, arrived: at Southwest Pass this evening, bringing the crew and passengers rescued irom the steamship. Missis- sipp!, wrecked on the 29th instant tn a hurricane of Millsborough Inlet, Florida. All on board were: saved, but the vessel and cargo are probably a total loss. The Mississipp{, Captain Henry, salied from New York for New Orleans August 19, with full cargo of assorted merchandise, mostly dry goods and shoes, vaiued at $500,000. The vessel is Clyde-built, of the Merchants’ line and belonged to Wiiliam F. Weld & Co., of Boston. She was classed as Al and valued at $159,009, THE WEATHER. OFPICK OF THE COIRY SIGNAL OrriceR, WASHINGTON, D. C., August 31-1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four ours. WAR DEPARTMENT, } The barometer continues somewhat low om the California coast, but has risen very generally since Tuesday night east of the Mississippl, except in New England. The area of lowest pressure after extending north- eastward im Canada has stretched southward to Maine. Southwesterly winds have continued to prevail from New York to Michigan and southward, and westerly winds on the upper lakes. Danger- ous winds have been reported only m restricted regions on Lakes Erie and Ontario. Clear and pleas ant weather prevatied on Wednesday trom the Ohto valley northwestward, and in the Gulf and Southern States. Clearing weather, with occasional light rata, 1s now reported from New York and New England, with a severe northwesterly gale on the summit of Mount Washington. Provavilities, Clear and pleasant weather is probable for Thurs day on the Laxes and southward to the Gulf, with light or fresn winds from the southwest and north- west, The chreatening weather in New York and New England will probably clear away by the af- ternoon, with increasing northwesterly winds. AQUATICS. Postponement of the Cluamplen Race at Hale fax on Account of the Kog—Tie Pool Selle a HALirax, N. S., August 30, 1871. The race for the championship and $3,000 was postponed this morning on account of untavorable weather. The day broke in the midst of a dense fog, which made it impossible to see a hundred yards ahead, Tne day, however, was Kept as a public holiday. Thousands of people gatuered on the banks of the harbor in expectation of a change for the better. About ten o’clock there was a brief im-. provement, and the contesting crews mustered at the starting point. Tne fog, however, soon seiled down again worse than ever, and the race was post- poned until five in the cvening. Ine crews were loudly cheered as they darted along to their quar ters. The Reniorths and Americans are the most ular. Re five o'clock, the weather being thicker tham ever, with wind and rain, the race was further post poned until to-inorrow morning. To-morrow, there- fore, both the four-oared and single scull events will, weather i petagr ens come olf. The pool selling to-mght 1s frightfally wtid, aod Most of che pools are small. Betting seems to be from 2to leven against the Tyne crew, and trom, $ to 1 to 2to 1 against the Renfortn. The Americans were for a long (ime lumped in the feld, which sold avont $1 to $6 to $16 stakes, Wheu put up sepa- rately the Americans sold lor $5 iu $40 poois, Coulter is better, and the rest Of the crew are im splendid form. For the single Scull Sadler 1s the favorite at about even betting, Kelly second, Brown third and Coulter fourth, “YACHTING NOTES. The public spirited citizeas of New London are endeavoring to perfect arrangements to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Groton Heights, September 6, vy @ first class regatta. If the mater is consummated—and we belleve it wilt be—all yachts, without distinction of clubs, will be invited: to compete for the prizes ofered. These will consist. of one for each— seeds sloops and open boats— and will be of large value. Yacht Alice, N.Y-Y.C., Mr. George W. Kidd, bag during the past five or six weeks in ciarge of Mr. J. F. Norris, will return to this harbor im a day or two, the summer cruise of the latter gentleman baving ended. He was in New Bedford on tt last and intended to make sail tor the westwat #0 soon as asevere storm then raging should sut- ide. ‘i Yaont Enchantress, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. George: Loril. lard, will, the first of next week, be taken. up,by the large screw dock for repairs and cleaning pur sex. ® The following yachts passed Whitestone yester~ day:— ¥ Yacnt Columbia, N.Y.Y.C., Rear Commodore Os good, from Newport for New York. Sha made the Tun from Newport to Whitestoue, @ distance of 100 in ten hours. erent ncn Edgar Stuart, N.Y.Y¥.0., from New~, t for New York. Povacht Trouble (now sloop), Mr. J. R. Williams, om Fy atrial trip from Stonington, put in at Whitestone ‘on account of the rain siorm, She will remain over! t. at Mary Anna, M.Y.C, Mr, Genet, proceeded: Yesterday. PROVIDENCE, R. L, August 90, 1ST The race between the yachts Haswell, ot Pawe tuck, and Sadie, of Beverly, to-day, for & plate valued at $500, was won by Sadie by twenty minutes. THE OASE OF EX.COLLEOTOR HOLLEY. Burva.o, August 30, 1871, a Samuel J. Holley, convicted yesterday in the United States District Court of embezzling fromAne government While Collector of Customs at this, port, was brought up for sentence to-day, and, on mo ton of h¥ counsel for’arrest of judgment, Judge Hall took the papers and reserved his Yecision. Zhe, BemONeT To 10'waq Oleced Wak Hance frown argument 0 loluay WO TOG WR BALAN GAD at Ail, ;