The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOIN AND EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Stb ay. and 28d st. TY Goorr. FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tue New Dawa or Divouor. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tie Batter Pan- ‘tomas oF Huwrry Dumpty, Matinee at BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st, between 5th and 6th avs. -- King Henny VIL WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st,—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—La MENDIANTP. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—NeGRo ECCRNTRI- CITES, BURLRSQUES, &0. Matinee at 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Rro.vsr—Dow- Lane. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway Houston sts.—Cak, STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.—Gronor Brown. between Prince and UNION SQUARE THEATRE, corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway.—NGRO AOTS—BURLRESQUE, BALLET, £0. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—KELLY & Leon's MINSTRELS, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAuL, 585 Broadway.— Tuk SAN FRANOISCO MINSTRELS. 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New York, Wednesday, September 27, 1871. \ CONTENTS OF TO ay Renna Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Butler’s Campaign: Gatherin; Worcester; Butler, the Bold, Pats the Repub- can Ring to Flight—Republican State Con- vention: Opening the Bail in the Struggie for the State—The Trial of Hodge, the Army Detaulter—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Local ms. 4—Uiah: The Troubles of the’ Polygamists—The New Steamship Baltic, of the White Star Line— Explosion of a Powder Mill at Newburg—Na- tional Commercial Convention—Peat as a Fuel—The Hoboken Common Council—Narra- ansett Park : Opening Day of the September leeting—Convention of the Protestant Epis- copal Church of the Diocese of New York: Professor Mahan ; Conclusion of the Coroner's Inquest—The Hostile Stoux—A Man Missing— New York City News—Life on the Bowery— The Hoboken Tragedy. S—Bones of the Patriot Dead: Naval Honors to Those Who Fell in the War for the Unton— Newark’s Lovely Larcenist—Proceedings in the Courts—Arrest of Two Wail Street Brokers—A Daring Outbreak—Murders—New York Thieves Arrested in New Haven, Conn.—Marriages, Births and Deaths. G—Ecitorials: Leading Articie, “The Financial Situation of the Country—The Prospect Before Us”—News from Wasnington—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Disraeli and Victoria: The ex-Premier.in Direct Collision with the Crown—Premier Gladstone's Position—News from France, Germany, Aus- Switzerland, China, South America and it Indies—Yachting—The Oiicial Ex- cursion: Secretary Belknap Completea His Tour—Miscellancous Telegrams—Views of the FPast—Businese Notices. S—Financial ana Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Sports in Arkansas—City Govern- ment — Advertisements. 9— Advertisements. 40—Tammany’s Thunder Storm: A_ Lali in the Municipal Tempest—Black Republicans— Politics 10 Ohio—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, 11— Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Tax ANGLO-AMERICAN CoMMIssioneRs met yesterday at the State Department, but ad- journed without transacting any business, Tur Evection ix New Mexico resulted in 8 democratic victory, although the coniest was so close that both parties claim the Legisla- ture. Cottecror Casry, of New Orleans, does not seein to be in much disfavor with the Sec- retary of the Treasury. Thirty-two appoint- ments made by him in the New Orleans Cus- tom Honse, to replace decapitated Warmoth men, were confirmed by that official yesterday. Tae Sovrn Pactrio REPUBLICS are still dis- turbed by the chronic afflictions of Presiden. | tial electoral agitations, threats of revolutios, the occurrence of fatal fires and casualties generally. Peru is the most suffering State of the family just now, as will be seen by our telegram reports from Lima and Valparaiso to-day. Anorner Evroreas A tianck. Russia, France and Turkey, it is said are now on more friendly terms with each other. The alliance of Austria and Germany has no doubt frightened these three Powers, and ii would not be wonderful if, when the next European war breaks out, we should find Ruasia and France and Turkey on the same side, Tuer Deveaates have all arrived ai Syra- euse, and te Convention of to-day will be a full and exciting session. The Conkling men arein the majority so far, and are disposed to compromise, so that the Fenton men may have a showing. John A. Griswold will prob- ably be the permanent chairman, and a com- promise ticket will doubtless be nominated. Tag Coon Trarric AND Its Hornors.— A coolie ship from India, bound for the British West Indies, has just been wrecked near Mar- tinique. Two hundred dead bodies have been already washed ashore on the island, to the great alarm and disgust of the iphabitants, England winks at the coolie traffic, but she gave twenty millions of pounds sterling for the liberation of negroes in the West Indies. Was her intention really charitable then Geewan Unirication,—Ii Is reported that the Duke of Anhalt will soon abdicate in favor of the Emperor William, When the princes of the empire so act we are not permitted to doubt that the German nation will soon be one of the largest as well as one of the most com- pact in the world, Centralization in Germany, just as decentralization in Austria, is the pas- sion of the people from the highest to the lowest, Snit Loowkine to Catwa.—John Bull seads forth a loud and ominous grow! from Cbina, His ‘‘life and property” are insecure in the Central Flowery Land, and be demands pro- tection and redress. The trath is that Hindo- stan is not big enough for ‘Johp.” He is eager to get a firm footbold inside of the Great Wall, in order that he may go to work build- ing rvilroads, opening mines and exploring geverally in the Orient, Civilization would be benelitedt perhaps by bis success ; but it is & very dificult matter to make the Chinese think 60. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘The Fimanciat Situation of the Country ‘Ihe Prospect Before Us. We hear a great deal about combinations to | affect the price of gold, stocks and the in- terest of money, and we are aware that there have been and are such sometimes; indeed, the market is greatly affected in a spasmodic way or for a short time by these combinations, But, after all, their influence is only tem- porary. The price of gold, stocks and the in- terest on money are goverued in the long run by general causes. A few men in Wall street, or even a combination of the banks, cannot change the fivancial situation materially for any length of time, however rich or powerful they may be. If gold, which was qaoted at 112 a few weeks ago, is now 115 or 114, there is some general cause for the difference. It is the same with stocks. Let us look, then, at the financial situation of the country, the causes of that and the prospect before us. We seem to be swimming along oa the tide of prosperity, and, in fact, we are, as far as the wonderful and varied resources of the country and the remarkable indu: of the people go. There appears to be hardly any limit io these. | regions of the West are year after year made thousands of emigrants and enterprising Americans who keep following the setting sun. Cultivated farms, villages, towns, railroads and States spring up as by magic, while the previously settled territory left behind con- tinues to improve and increase in population. | Our productions and wealth augment sur- ] prisingty every year. There is no want or necessity for want, There ‘3 abundance for all, except for those vagabonds who will not work. In every direction and in every de- partment of jndustry there are the same general progress and well being of the people. Itis a | Spectacle to make glad the hearts of states- of the Cians at | balance of tirade is always largely men, of political economists and of all who delight in the progress and happiness of imad- kind. erm al But with all our blessings and advantages ( the country is in an anomalous and unhealthy condition as regards financial matters, and is tending, we fear, to a dangerous crisis, Although we have a cotton crop worth two niet ; hundred million dollars and upward, of which the greater part by far is exported and is equivalent to gold, and a large exportation of tobacco, cereals, flour and other products, the gainst us. Last year the export of precious metals to help to make up this balance amounic! to about eighty millions, fully twenty millions over what was extracted from all our mines, Every dollar of gold and silver we can pro- duce each year is drained from us for this pur- pose, and too often the old reserve of specie in the country is reduced, as during last year. But this is not all. Our national securities, as well as other securities, continue to flow to Europe to pay for the extravagance of the people, and to make up the balance against us. If we got gold in return, or something that would not waste away, it would not mat- ter so much; but these bonds, as well as all the specie we can extract from the earth, go to pay for silks, satins, wines, jewelry and a hundred other luxuries which are consumed. What is the consequence? We are getting deeper in debt to Europe continually, and every year a larger amount of gold is demanded to pay, not the principal, but the interest merely on this foreign indebtedness. It is often said that gold and silver are com- modities of trade the same as cotion or tobacco. Thisistrae only in part. Intrin- sically they are merely commodities of trade ; but as they constitute the money of the world, or, at least, are the basis of money, and as we have thought proper, even with a paper currency, to adjust our finances on that basis, they are more than commodities—they have been made the very life-blood of commerce and the representatives of all values, If we had a monetary system of our own and not dependent upon influences from abroad the precious metals would be then purely commodities of trade. As long as we follow the nations of Europe and make them the basis of values, including the value of currency, we must suffer whenever the quantity we have on hand is reduced, or be- comes relatively less than that held by other nations. This is so self-evident that a child might understand it. What, then, is the pros- pect if we continue to export more than all the gold and silver we annually pro- duce to pay for our luxuries and the balance of trade against us? Of course we shall be and population, and when a crisis comes will Imed by disaster. Since the dis- gold in California that State | and the other gold and silver producing States and Territories bave yielded one billion four bundred million dollars in gold and one hundred and twenty million dollars in silver, What bas become of it? Gone, as we suid, to pay for the balance of trade against us. It is doubtful if we have as much of the precious metals now as we had twenty years ago, or when the population was a third less than at present and the wealth of the country hardly more than half, This would not matter if we did not make gold and silver the repre- sentatives of value; but as we do we must puffer the inconvenience, The nations that draw from us specie so constantly and largely have it cheap and a low rate of interest, while with us it is dear and we have a high rate of interest, ate its _ There is another important fact showing the disadvantage of our financial condition which should not be lost sight of, independent of the balance of the trade as represented by the be overwh covery of statisties of commerce. We mean the enor- mous profile of the carrying trade, which | are uot set down in commercial tables, | and which go into the pockets of foreigners, | It must be apparent to every thoughtful person that we are going from bad to worse every r, notwithstanding our ephemeral commer- cial_prosperity and the enormous products of the couniry. There must come a day of reckoning. When that may arrive we cannot say, Our vast productions, progress and elasticity of our | resources may put it off. Bat suppose a gen. | eral war should occur in Europe, or some other | great and general disaster, certainly precipitated, course of things, however, we must become the crisis would | be Iu the ordinary more and tore in the position of the spend- thrift who bas exhausted his means by luxu- rious living aad ky borrowing of money-lead- ; Millions of acres of wild land in the vast | to blossom as the rose by the hundreds of | short of specie relatively to the wants of trade | ing usurers. The same principle applies to | nations as to individuals, Can apy one sup- pose we will reach specie payments while there is such a continual drain of the pre- cious metals to make up the balance of trade and to pay the constantly accumulating interest abroad on our securities? | When a crisis comes look out for those institu- tions which have been speculating and living extravagantly upon the people's money. , Where would be the innumerable savings | banks, insurance companies and other institu- | tions, which build the most costly palaces and are ran at an enormons expense, which place | their funds in bonds and stocks, and which | pay the most extravagant premiums for drum- ming up customers? What would become of the regular banks, which loan their deposits and capital for Wall street speculations, and with a limited amount of money use bonds to the extent of huadreds of millions as capital for speculation ? Oar whole financial system rests upon a sandy foundation, We must be less extravagant and our banks less specula- tive, and we must have a better system of national finance and revenue, so as to make the balance of trade more favorable, or we | shall get deeper and deeper in the mire, and in the end experience a more fearful crisis | than (he country has ever known. The Republicans at Syracuse. Our reports of the gathering forces and of the movements of the clashing republican cliques and factions at Syracuse indicate a lively time In the party State Convention which meets there to-day. The Fenton-Gree- ley faction are evidently resolved to have the hoad of Murphy, and that this shall be their ultimatum, ‘Tne ® Muiphy- pas backed by General Grant, are resolved upon the casting out of the Tammany republicans as their ultimatum, What, then? Why, then, if the anti-Murphy faction are strong enough ' to blackball Sitihy they will do it, and thus drive the Grant-Conkling-Murphy republicans out of the Convention, while, if the anti-Fen- ton and anti-Greeley men are strong enough to expel the Greeley-Tammany delegates, they will be ejected and Fenton, Greeley and their followers will bolt. Thus a victory on either side will be the signal for a bolt and q split in the New York republican party, which may give the State to the democrats on a vote as low as two-thirds of their full vote of 1868. The contemplated break in the republican party against General Grant must be made in this Syracuse Convention, or Fenton and Greeley, as his rivals for the Presidential succession, will have to retire. All their schemes and all their prospects depend upon a break in this Convention; for if they agree to a compro- mise they sign their abdication and capitu- lation. General Butler Will Probably Run Any How. Tn an interview with General Butler the other evening at Boston, our correspondent on the subject says that the General declared that ‘‘in case 1 shall not receive the nomina- tion through any chicanery or fraud on the part of the republican leaders, I shall assur- edly run on an independent ticket ;” but when brought to the direct question, the General thought it ‘quite probable that he will run any way.” In other words, if nominated by the Worcester Republican Convention which meets to-day, General Butler will run as the regular republican candidate; and if rejected by this Convention he will run as the inde- pendent republican, labor reform and women’s right candidate. Such being the attitude of General Butler this Worcester Con- vention, even with a majority of the delegates against him, may feel constrained to nominate him in order to prevent a disruption of the party which may result in the election of the democratic candidate, Adams, for Governor. Still, we think the chances in the Worcester Convention are against General Butler, and that he will not be chosen its candidate. All the leaders and organs of the anti-Butler coali- tion are too radically committed against him to accept him upon any terms; but if they re- ject him we shall expect him to stand his ground as an independent candidate, in order to show those old Massachusetts Bourbons that ‘‘the world does move.” We agree with Wendell Phillips, that the republican party in Massachusetts has become mildewed and musty, and wants a regular overhauling, stir- ring up and drying in the sun; and we agree with General Butler, that he is the man to stir it up. We hope, therefore, that should General Butler be rejected by this Worcester Convention he will stick to his text and run as an independent candidate; for it is evident that the public miud of Massachusetts is ripe for a political revolution, and ready to follow General Butler on his proposed ‘‘ new depar- ture.” Count Honenwart AND His Trovsies.— {t is again rumored that Count Hohenwart will soon resign his position as President of the Council of Ministers. Count Hohenwart is the vigorons representative of the new policy of decentralization, and his success bas been such that he has become the object of special dislike to the German subjects of Fran- cis Joseph. So indignant have they become that there is some danger that, rather than form part of “‘the tesselated empire of Mag- | yars, Czechs and Sclaves,” they will advocate union with the German empire. This is the present difficulty of the government of Austria, The government cannot g back on the na- tio es, but the Austr 3 ; give in. It is not impossible that Count Hobenwart may have to retire for a season ; but his policy will live. Tar MAtN Question at Syracuse.—With the Fenton-Greeley men it is not the corrup- tions of Tammany hor the removal of Tam- many, but it is the spoils of the Castom House and the removal of Murphy. The main ques- tion with the Conkling-Murphy men is not the expulsion of the Tammany plunderers from our city goverament, but the expulsion of the Greeley city delegation from the Convention, on the gronad that they are Tammany repub- In view of the advantages which the demverats are promised from these republican family jgrs, Mr. Tilden, after all, may have adopted the wisest course in putting off the Democratic te Convention till next week, TMs the democrac y may have a fair oppor- only for the reorganization of their own party, but for securing a consider- able body of republican bolters on a well-coa- aideced programme of city reform. licana, tunity, not Queen Vie~ from Foreshadowed Abdication of toria—A = Startling = Anuouucoment Benjamin Dir A special cable despatch to the Heratp from London conveys a singular and startling piece of intelligence. The Right Hon, Benjamin Disraeli gave a grand dinner at his seat— Hughenden Manor—yesterday, and delivered a speech, in the course of which he referred to the alarming condition of Queen Victoria’s health, and made the startling assertion that the Queen is physically and morally incapable of longer performing her public duties. This-announcement, coming from an ex-Prime Minister and acknowledged favorite at Court and one of the sbrewdest politicians in Eng- land, has naturally created an intense excite- ment throughout the country, amounting in reality to a national panic, Some of the London journals, following the ostrich-like instinct which prompts them to bury their heads in the earth in the belief that they are thus secure from observation, suppress the information, but others publish it, and its transmission through the cable shows that it must be well known among the people. There ought really to be nothing new or unexpected ia Mr. Disraeli’s statement. The common talk in England for three or four years past has been to the same effect. The secluded life chosen by the Queen; her per- sistence in the grief which has clouded her later days; her almost entire withdrawal from the duties of her position as well as from its ordinary enjoyments, could not fail to call forth comment and to excite speculation, Rumor has not unfre- quently whispered that the royal lady's mind had become affected, and slander has constantly invented causes for = catatuiiy. But now that the certainty is brotght home to the nablic, we might almost say officially, that a change of rulers is imminent, the whole na- tion stands aghast. Tue terrified journals may suppress the news; but the people, who remember Mr. Disraeli’s relations to the Court, the great favors he bas been unavailingly offered and those which he has actually received, believe that he has a cause and a meaning for ghq angouncement_ he jhaa made, and #8- gard it only as the politic precursor of the more momentous intelligence of the abdica- tion of their Queen, There must be something more than the natural sympathy of the nation in the personal sufferings of a beloved Sovereign to account for this widespread zi, 187L—TRIPLE SHEKT: alarm at the impending crisis, and it may be found in the general apprehension that the accession of the Prince of Wales to tho throne will be the siznal of dis- turbances and convulsions which all men dread, and the result of which it is im- possible to foretell. Upon the first announce- ment of the Queen's serious indisposition, a few weeks ago, the radicals immediately com- menced an organized agitation and put forth their platform of principles, looking to the actual overthrow of the existing government. At the meetings of Internationals, Communists and other radical revolutionists in London it has long been the custom to declare that Queen Victoria must be the last of the British monarchs, and the efforts of all the radical organs have been persistently directed toward exciting a prejudice in the minds of the labor- ing masses against the heir-apparent to the British throne. Circumstances have favored their endeavors. The sovereign who expects to rule over a people in the present century should possess at least an appearance of that ‘‘divinity” which ‘doth bedge a king,” and divorce courts and police bars are not conducive to that attribute. There is no doubt that dread of the seething mass of poverty, vice and crime underlying English society, and of the dangerous use to which it may be put by reckless political agitators, is the immediate cause of the terror conjured up before the minds cf Englishmen when the idea of Queen Victoria’s death or incapacity is forced upon them. We have said that the announcement, com- {ng from Mr. Disraeli, is very significant. Many, doubtless, will question the truth of the report, and many will attribute the words of the ex-Premier to disappointed ambition or political enmity toward the present Ministry. Mr. Disraeli is too old a . politi- cian, too cool and able a _ states- man to imagine that he conld make capital against Mr. Gladstone and_ his friends by such a statement if he had not good authority for making it. We should rather incline to the belief that itis a quasi official utterance, and that Mr. Disraeli is specially favored in high quarters in being chosen as the instrument for breaking the startling intelligence to the people of Eng- land. Tue Triat of Paymaster Hodge was had before a court martial at Fort McHenry yesterday, General Meade presiding. The prisoner pleaded guilty and the trial there- upon ended. Under the military rule the plea of guilty, we believe, debars any presentation of evidence; but it is to be regretted that in this instance some testimony was not taken which might show up all the influences and ways of his dangerous speculations, The sentence will not be published until it has been reviewed by the Secretary of War and the President. Two Wall street brokers were arrested yesterday and taken before Commis- sioner Stilwell, on charges of conspiring with Hodge, but they stoutly protest their inno- cence of any knowledge of Hodge's pecula- tion. icicameree Tue GERMAN Occupation or Fr. The telegraph informs us that the German evacuation of the departments contiguous to Paris has been completed, Four departments convenient to the capital are thus freed from the presence of the German invader, Although the troops have left the places which they held possession of since the close of the war it does not follow that they bave departed from French soil, They have now taken up a position beyond the bordera, and are awaiting instructions announcing that the signatures to the Alsace treaty have been affixed, This done, anda speedy return to fatherland may be expected, A Severe Winn ann RAIN Storm have just visited the Southera coast, making the people of the Carolinas and Georgia, who have been in such dread of the threatened tidal wave on the 6th of October, distrust Professor Agagsia’s pssuranges of galety. ot Choieraic and Utmer Contagion». Despite its tardy movement the westward march of the great Eastern epidemic has not been arrested. This fact has quickened the zeal of scientiflc men in exploring the causes and character of contagious diseases, and already much has recently been added to our knowledge of the more dreaded forms of pesti- lence. It is, indeed, to be regretted that the literature of cholera has not been equalled in its advance by the scientific and exact pathol- ogy of the diseas>. But there ts no room nor reason for discouragement, On the contrary, we may refer to the receut and valuable English treatise by Macnamara, which has now run the gauntlet of scientific criticism and has taken rank as a substantial support of the germ theory of contagia, as heretofore developed in the Heratp. Among several conclusions reached by this eminent surgeon we select the following :— First, that the cause of Asiatic cholera ‘“‘is tKecent Studies invariably a portion of the fomes of a person | suffering from the disease; second, that the | organic cause of cholera may be preserved dry for years; third, that water is the most common medium of its diffusion, but that it may be carried and may act in foul air; and, lastly, with the exception of the cholera-infecting matter, I entively ignore all other causes or combination of causes as capable of producing the disease.” Dr. Macnamara’s conclusions are those now wei known as entertained by Professor “Cyadall, Dr. Budd, of Eagiaiia j f * Edin- burg; Pasteur, of France. tea othua alas guished microwr’ sty ; and the author of the treaties, to which we allude, as one whose field of professional labors has been a. Calcutta, in the Gangetic valley, the native place of the choisza, is worthy of attentive consideration. Besides the Work of Mactiamara the 2), contributions of Dr. Sanvcrsun (Une ihedical officer of the Privy Council) will greatly illu- minate this dark and subtle problem of epi- ! demics, The well-known experiments of Chanveau, of Lyons, with Vaécine matter, and the poisons of -sheep-pox, smallpox, &2., re- peated in part by Sanderson, show that the Cohtagtond fiuigs of infections diseases, Wheii diffused through ‘af animal membrane, lose their contagious property, while the portion which does not pass through still retains it, the main difference between the diffusate and the non-diffusate being the presence of the organized particles which are retained in the latter, the membrane not permitting their pas- sage through it. Hence it is concluded that the essential and active principles of contagion reside in the solid gelatinous particles to which the term microzyme is applied. These micro- zymes are discovered by the microscope to be about one twenty-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Water this experimenter found to be a peculiarly good medium and repository of the microzymes, and he tells us that even should our microscopes be unable to detect them in water, yet they may be there, when the latter is examined by the electric beam. In this Dr. Sanderson's investigation agrees with the deduction of Macnamara. The former, however, reveals the additional and not very comforting fact that ‘filtration exercises no perceptible influence on the zymotic power of water,” however it may improve its color and appearance—a warning to all municipal au- thorities to go back to the source of mischief and see that the drinking water is not pollnied at its fountain heads. Dr. Sanderson has also shown by actual experiment—contrary to the theory that these particles may exist in healthy structures of living beings—that the blood and other fiuids of the body, when passed directly into his test solution, was devoid of them, and gave no trace of the zymotic proporty so no- ticeable in water. This latter experiment clearly reveals and demonstrates the most im- portant truth that the germs of all septic and putrescent diseases come, not from within, but from without the body. So important and val- uable are these late researches that they have awakened great interest in England upon the question of the water supply for London and other great centres, and the Registrar General has just proposed a general application of the Clark softening process to the London water, adducing the following facts :— The average daily water supply to the metropolis: was 111,202,104 gallons in June and 112,107,097 gailons in July. Now, in each million gations of these waters there 1s about one ton of bicarbonate of lime, or 11114 tons in June and 112 in July. About two-thirds of this weight of lime or chalk would be removed by Dr. Clark's softening process—that ts, in June 74 tons and in July avout 75 tons, in each Year about 25,000 tons of useless lime would be re- Inoved from the metropolitan waters by the simpie and easy process now in use at Canterbury.” The Registrar adds:—“This riddance of the foreign matter which deprives water of some ot its cleans- | ing properties 1s in itself an advantag § besides this, the fine precipitate of chalk carries down with it suspended impurities and probably frees it from choleraic and other contagions. It is a most effective ditration. What we want is patient analysis and inves- tigation of this subject. We have in our own country able physicians and microscopists, and we are deeply interested to know whether they are moving in such researches. Whether we escape the fearful visitation now or not, the subject of contagious diseases, their ori- gin, propagation and treatment, is evidently one upon which the whole medical world is painfully in the dark, and the interests of suf- fering humanity demand relief from medical science, Wave Hampton is out in favor of the Southern democracy not participating in the next National Democratic Convention, or, if | they do, that they take back seats. He is dis- posed to entrust the campaign of 1872 to the | oltice, et ninjas WASHING TON. Progressive Ideas Among the Japanese. Robbery at the State Department--« Treaty Seals Stolen. Increased Demand for Rov- enue Stamps. Meeting of the Treaty Commissioners. WASHINGTOS, Sept. 27, 1871. Japanese Bourbons’ Appreciation of Republic can Institations, ‘The following fact Is related as an instance of pro-~ gressive ideas among the Japanese:—Several years ago, in the Parllament of Japan, Mr. Mort, the Minister of that country in Washington, earnestly opposed the Samarat, a privileged class, and their wearing of two swords as a hereditary distincuon. For this he became very unpopular, and was aa } vised to retire from political life for a time, uotil | the eflects of bis attack should cease. Not long since one of tie two-sworded nobility, who had placed himself in fierce antagonism to Mr. Mort in the Parliament, made the tour of the Untied States, and, on arriving in Washington recently, called on that gentleman in a friendly spirit and spoke to him of the gratificauion which the trip | afforded and the pleasure he derived on wiinessing | the wonderful progress and prosperity of this coun- {try under republican institutions, As an earnest expression of the change effected in is mind by > ssarwation and of his kindly feeling tyr Mr | personaiuvor. ‘i . Mori, he asked Mr, Morl to accepy ato ovens fee, had been an heirloom in the noble’s family for &éin~ turies. Mr. Mori at tirst refused, but was pressed to its acceptance, and has presented it to the War De- partment, where tt has been deposited tm the Mus Seum, Mr, Mor is vere manning t= wo" ‘ a we 0 “9 BY «quod Haglish scholal Great Britain, Robbery at the State Department—Trenty Senls Stolen. George M1. Chase, a messenger at the Post Onice ; Department, aud Frank McGraw, a waichman at the State Department, have been arrested ou @ charge of robbing the latter department of a um- ber of gold and silver treaty seals, The accused, on being takep to police headquarters, finding we detectives Were in possession of proofs of teir guilt, confessed to the taking of seven seals, whi they had melied and sold, and earnestly begy they might be leniently dealt with, aa it was their frst offence of the kind Acting under the direction of the prisoners tha detectives recovered a number of gold and silver nuggets into which the seals had beea melted, and which they were assured were what remained of the seven seals which they confessed to have stolen from the treaties in the Department of State several weeks ago, The department claims that ten seals were stolen, as that number are missing. One of the seals was attached to a Turkish treaty, one to a Ger- man convention and tie others to diferent treaties between the United States and foreign countries. 16 is said the principal party in the robvery was Chase, the Post Ofiice messenger, who was a frend of McGraw, and who stole the seals with the counv- ance and permission of the latter, The seals, most of which were of gold, were enclosed in circular boxes, some of gold and others of silver, about ai inch high and from three to five inches in diameter. ‘Their money value 1s, of course, not so much of a consideration as the embarrassment under whiclt the government must necessarily labor to replace \hem on the important documents from which they were stolen. The value of the melted silver re- covered 18 $75, while that of the gold 1s several hun- | dred dollars, It is rougtly estimated that tha money value of the stulen seals is between $400 aud $590, Increased Demand for Nevenue Stam The demand for tobacco stamps ts very heavy, the orders mcrease dauy. This is attributed to the ixsue of recent orders by the Commissioner, in whicte he states that he shall hold the revenue oMetals per- sonally responsivle for the collection of every cout of tax on tobacco, The demand for proprietary, stamps ts also quite large, unusualiv so for this sea- son of the year. Documentary stamps, especially those of the largest denomination, are tn demand, A telegram was received to-day from the Collecior of the Thirty-second district of New York fur a stamp of the denomination of $5,000, Mecting of the Treaty Commissioners. The Commissioners under the Treaty of Washing- ton, with the agents and counsellors on both sides, had an informal meeting at the Department of State to-day, They will not transact any business until they secure rooms elsewhere, which they will do te @ few days, New York Custom Rowse Appointments, The following appointments in the New York Custom House were confirmed at the Treasury to- day:—John W, Ridsdale, clerk; William Stevens aud J. B. Fresdee, inspectors; Jolin Lafond, Sigman M. | Barliner, Alexander Murray, Hiram H. Horton and W. H. Riley, openers and packers tn Appratger's, wut at wasmington, and , having been educated ua Statistics of the Post Office Depariment. —, From statistics just compiled m the Post Oi\ce Department it appears that on tne 50th of June of the present year the postal service had been ex- tended and was in operation over 50,000 miles of railroad in the Uniied States, agalnst 34,000 miles of railroad service m June, 186%, The number of miles of ratiroad over which the mails were carried in this country during the year ending June 30, 171, was 107,000,009, being an increase of thirty-two per ceut over the number of miles of transportation the three years previously, When the aggregate wast about eighiy-one millions, Postmaster Appointed. ? ‘The President has appointed Henry ©. Beck wit to be Postmaster at Hartford, Conn., vice the pree sent incumbent, suspended. The International Postal Money Order Systeme The interchange of postal money orders vetweem this country and Great Britain for amounts not ex- ceeding flity dollars, or ten pounds sterling, will begin on the 2a of next month, An account of the system was furnished in these despatches several weeks ago, and detailed information as to the man. ner of obtaining the new international orders, &c., can now be procured at the princtpal domestic money order offices of the country. Personal. Secretary Delano returned to the city this morn. ing from Oho, where he was called last week (a attend the funeral of his brother-in-law, Secretary Boutwell lett for Cincinnatt to-night, where he will deliver a political speech on the zsthe Northern democrats, with suet faoral support ag the strength of the party in the South can afford. This may do very well in imagination, but the idea of having a National Democratic Convention ‘with the Southern’ element left out is like playing Hamlet with the title réle omitted. The democracy should, however, learn wisdom from the disasters of 1868, and govern themselves accordingly, both in the North as well as in the South. Tue Woncester Convestion, judging from the preliminary proceedings last night, bids fuir to be the liveliest Convention that has ever been held in the Old Bay State, Butler was around among his constituents last night, hobnobbing among the “boys” and making himself quite popular as a candidate, though not recommending himself to the affections of those who consider the dignity that attaches to a Governor, The sentiment among the delegates was divided as to what would be the action of the Convention to-day, and caucuses and conferences were held all through the nigh d also at Cleveland oy the 20th Inst. Sie Custos OMcers oa! the eaee toms Frontier, Complaints having been made that collectors of cusioms at New York, Rochester and elsewhere were frequently beliind hand in sending to colleciors on the Northern frontier the proper papers for the exportation of goods in bond, the Secretary of the Treasury to-day addressed detatied instructions to all the collectors having business with the frontier customs officers, directing that goods that are to be to shipped from tmporting vessels for immediate transportation and «exportation = to Canada, or goods withdrawn from warehouse for transportation and exportation to Canada, shall be accompanied with triplicate copies of the entry, one of which shall be sent to the collector of the frontier port by the next mail alter the goods have been stipped, The Secretary fartuer directed thar the collectors of customs at the frontier ports should not in any case Issue certificates for the canvellution of transportation or exportation bonds unless the goods ave been properly reported to them on arr. val and unless they have oficial Knowledge, derived from actual mspection by the proper customs om cl that the goods have been duly wspected and have passed through into the Dominion of Canada, An Jot Passengers from Abroad, ‘The total number of passengers arriving tn the United States for the quarter ending June 9, 1874, Wad L902