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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ‘PAGE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. —Washington: The Treaty on Its Last Le; sage of the Pacific Mail Job in the S litical—The Connecticut Senatorsh: After the Fire: The Ruins of Niblo’s Garden; Aid For the Actors. 4—Gould-Gordon: Final Earnest and Fierce Open- ing of the Legal Battle—Interesting Proceed- ceedings in the New York Courts—Marrying a Whole Family—The May Anniversarie: S—Financial and Commercial: Gold Weal provement in Stocks; Money Still Easy ernment Bonds Steady—The Methodis eral Conference—African Methodist Confer- ence—Marriages and Deaths. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Opening of the Presidential Campaign—Are We to Have a Fair Fight Between Grant and Greeley?"— Amusement Announcements. 7—The War in Mexico—The Revoluti Cable Telegrams from France, £1 jJand, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, sia and Cuba—The Search for Dr. Living- stone — Miscellaneous Telegrams — Business Notices, S—Fieetwood Park: The Trotters in Training for the Coming Season—Trotting in New. Or. leans—Scenes on Jersey Horse Cars—Adver- tisements, 9— Advertisements. W0—The State Capital: Varden Charter; Pas Law; Defeat of the J dozo Saved From I With Blackmailing—K Shipping Intelligeuce Dl—Advertisements. 24—Advertisements, Mock on the Dolly » of the Regi 1 Option Bill; pachment—Chi Tue Democratic Natrona ConvENTION meets to-day, to issue the call for the National Convention of the democratic party. It is generally believed that the democrats will go westward, to St. Louis or some other Western city. SvuprRmTeNDENT Muuter, of the Insurance Department, has friends in the State Assen» bly. A resolution introduced yesterday in the House for his removal from office was defeated by a decisive vo! JupcE Carvozo has defeated the intentions of the Legislature in his regard. The Assem- bly bas declared that it is inexpedient to im- peach him, his resignation having been wecepted. Some Cugiosrry 1s Expressep as to whether | the Tribune will support the administration in the event of Greeley’s election as President. | If so, it will be the first administration it has supported since its establishment as a journal. Proressor Burt, Member of Parliament for Limerick, defines home rule in Ireland as an Irish Legislative Assembly “‘in fraternal union with England, gnaranteeing the author- ity of the Crown.’’ A curious medley in the shape of a collegiate recipe for a national ad- mixture which Sharmon Crawford, the Rev. Grey Porter and O'Coune!l endeavored to per- fect, almost forty years since, but failed in the attempt. Tax Revovvrionany Army near Matamoros is in the last stage of dissolution. The Heratp correspondent at Treviiio’s head- qnarters, whose interesting report will be found in one of our special despatches in obtuined another column, has by per- sonal observation ample particulars about ‘Trevifio’s forces, their demor- alized state, decreasing numbers, and the causes of their failure in the attempt to capture Matamoros. In fact, all over the re- public the cause of the rebels appears to be in a sinking condition. General Cevallos, the commander of Matamoros, according to an- other account, is preparing to give the coup de grace to the demoralized force of Trevitio. Tae In1-Farep Treaty or Washinton seoms now in a fair way to be finally disposed of. The State Department nurse having the sickly thing in charge lis, by direction of his master, turned it over to the ruthless British Moloch, who it may be expected will soon put | an end to its miserable existence. All this is t be achieved through the directions to Min- ister Schenck. If Granville wants any addi- ‘tional points he is to be told politely to go to— . Granville will then get in a passion d brain the baby with an inkstand. All this in labor. and only a dead mouse ter all! | nation, are urging such a policy. | no such fatal blunder would be committed by | sane men. NEW YORKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. | The Opening of the Presidential Cam-~ | paign—Are We To Have « Fair Fight Retween Grant and Greeley? | The undeniable success of the Cincinnati | | Convention, as a large and influential gather- ing of republicans, and the peculiar nomina- tions made by that body, have created a new | feature and a new interest in the Presidential | canvass. The politicians and the party organs | have all been nonplussed by the result of the deliberations of the liberals, and are now | beating about the bush to discover how it was brought about and what effect it is likely to have upon the action of the forces that are yet to be brought into the field. Of course these questions present them- selves in different lights, according to the sen- timents and wishes of the observers, and hence we have every varicty of explanation of the one and of speculation on the other. In one quarter we are told that the Cincinnati nominations were made through the in- trigues of Senator Fenton, Frank Blair and other politicians, against the wishes of the labor reformers. In another we are assured that Fenton and Blair were in the Davis move- ment, and that the ticket was made by the protectionists in a preconcerted effort to head off the plans of the free traders. The one thing evident is that the politicians and party organs were entirely mistaken in their reckon- ings, and had not even contemplated the success of Horace Greeley in the Convention. If they had studied intelligently the reports of the Hrratp from Cincinnati they would have understood that Greeley’s chances of a nomination were by far better than those of | any other candidate from the Monday morning | preceding the organization of the Convention, | and would be conversant with the manner | in which the result was arrived at. The | | Adams movement never had a real strength | | equal to the largest vote cast for that candi- | | date in the Convention, and he could not have | | secured a nomination had the balloting been | | continued to the present moment. Many of | | the votes that were cast for him on the fifth | | ballot, which was the highest point he | reached, were given in order to prevent | nomination while there was still | hope for some of the outside aspirants. | On the sixth ballot these votes were changed | to Greeley, placing the philosopher ahead. Then came the consultation of the Tlinois delegation and their reappearance on the floor | with a-divided vote. This seemed to indicate a bargain on the next ballot for Adams or | Trumbull, or both; and then the delegates | who had all along declared Greeley to be their second choice changed their scattering votes in his favor and nominated him by a large majority. It was the easily ascertained fact that Greeley was from the commencement the second choice of a large number of dele- gates who had first their State preferences to guide their ballots that caused the Henan correspondents to so confidently pre- dict Greeley’s success. The result was brought about in defiance of the wishes of the politi- | cians and the intrigues of Washington cliques simply because it was felt that Greeley best - | represented the old republican sentiment and | would be the most powerful leader in a bolt from the regular republican organization. The same diversity of opinion exists in re- gard to the effect the candidacy of Horace | Greeley is likely to have upon the action of the Philadelphia and Democratic National Con- ventions. On one hand an absurd rumor is | afloat of an attempt on the part of Secretary Boutwell and others to in- | duce the Philadelphia Convention to | put some other candidate than General Grant | into the field, and a few of the bolting repub- | liean organs, dissatisfied with Grceley’s nomi- Of course The strength of the republican | party is in the name, the personal character { and the general success of the administration of President Grant. Four years ago he car- | ried their banner to victory and secured to | them the fruits of their triumph in the war of | the rebellion. It was Vicksburg and Appo- | mattox that won the fight for them at that | time; it is Vicksburg and Appomattox, strengthened by a straightforward honesty }and sincerity in the administration of | the civil government for the last four | | years, that will give them the victory in November next. If they depended | upon mere partisan support at this moment, | they would suffer defeat; for their party is | | broken in two, and the most active elements inthe old organization have gone over to the | enemy. Should they be infatuated enough to | select a mere republican politician as their | candidate in place of General Grant their doom would be sealed, and either the whole | republican party and all the honest men of | the land, who would deplore the resuscitation | of the old copperhead and Tammany democ- | racy, with its dead issues and its unabated | Venom, would elect Greeley, or the democratic nominees would carry nearly every State in the Union. It is therefore necessary }and certain that General Grant will | be the regular republican and the | independent people’s candidate in the ap- preaching campaign, and hence the Boutwell | rumor may be set down as a weak and stupid hoax. Hence the probable effect of Greeley's nomination on the Democratic Convention is | all that need be considered. Some of the | lights of democracy declare that it necessitates aseparate and distinetive democratic ticket, | composed of the regular old copperhead guard, and they hope to carry these candidates into | power through the division in the republican party, as Taylor was elected in 1848 and | Lincoln in 1860. Others, who are not qnite so blind as to lose sight of common sense, | discover — in Greeley's candidacy =a hope that the Democratic Convention may take advantage of the republican split by nominating some such fossilized poli- ticians as Adams and Groesbeck and claim- ing for them republican support, By this | policy they would avoid becoming only the | | tail of the liberal republican faction, and by nominating the ticket themselves they would | preserve their old organization intact and command the control of the federal patronage | and of the policy of the administration in case of success. There is certainly moro wis- dom and reason in this programme than in the | idea of placing a full-blooded copperhead ticket before the people. Yet its defeat would be assured. With three such candidates as Grant, Adams and Greeley in the field who can doubt what the verdict of the people would open to the democracy if its counsels are to be gnided by wisdom and _ prudence. Its National Convention should either openly endorse the Cincinnati nominations, or should declare the inexpediency of making any nomi- nations at allin view of the opportunity that appears to offer of defeating General Grant. This is, of course, the paramount object of the copperheads, to take their revenge upon the General who subdued the rebellion and forced Lee and his democratic army to surrender to the Union forces. It is the merest balderdash’ to pretend that democrats cannot en- dorse or vote for Greeley because he has been their life-long and consistent op- ponent. An honest democrat would more cheerfully support such a man than one who had only turned against democracy be- cause he found republicanism the more prom- ising and profitable investment. If Greeley has been a vigorous enemy, he has at least fought his battles in a manly manner, and not vindictively and treacherously. Even his abuse has had in it something of the open character that dis- tinguishes the man. In the phrase so familiar to readers of his writings, he has always chgsen to give the lie direct rather than to mince matters with an opponent, and the roundness of his abuse will not detract from his good qualities in the estimation of the hard- fisted democracy. On thesubject of State rights Greeley must be acceptable even to Jeff Davis himself. In the early days of secession he denied the right of the federal government to pin States to the Union with the bayonet, and his famous bailing of Jeff Davis was only a concession to this old democratic doctrine. He is a hard currency advocate to the back- bone, and if his old whig prejudices in favor of protection still retain their hold upon him he will no doubt subscribe to the true demo- has no right to interfere with or influence the legislative branch of the government, but is bound to obey the will of the people as repre- sented by a majority of Congress. There is no honest reason why he should not receive the endorsement of the national democracy now that the ‘issue of abolitionism is dead and gone. The cry of complete and uni- versal amnesty was first raised by Greeley, and upon that and the question of decentralization of national power he is as sound as Hendricks, Pendleton or Seymour. It is, therefore, to be hoped that the democracy will accept him as their candidate without any wry faces and that the issue may be distinctly made between the soldier and the philosopher. ‘ We have little doubt of the result. Seven years have not sufficed to blot out of the minds of the people the debt of gratitude they owe to the successful leader of the Union armies or to lessen their enthusiasm for the Hero of the Wilderness. The boys in blue will rally to the side of their old commander all the more cheerfully when they find him threatened by the politicians who owe their present power to the weight and influence of his name. Besides, General Grant's civil administration has been as a whole as straightforward and as successful as his military rule, and his four years of ser- vice have left the country prosperous and united. There have been some hitches in the reconstruction of the South, but this has been owing to the intrigues and rascalities of repub- lican politicians of the same species with those who now cry out against Grant because they did not enjoy the opportunity to rob and plunder in the place of their more successful brethren. We have confidence that the South- ern policy of the administration will be re- formed by the President in his term of office. The blunders of Secretary Fish in our foreign affairs are a serious injury to General Grant, and this is the reason why we have insisted and still insist that he remodel his Cabinet and call Mr. WasiXvurne into his coun- sels, The surroundings of the White House, although personally unexceptionable, may be changed to political advantage, and General Grant will not be likely to neglect the wishes of his friends in this direction. But, on the whole, the administration has been successful and has won the confidence of ‘the responsible men of the country. Greeley is honest, popu- second lar and eccentric. There is a_ possibility of a great amount of enthusiasm being raised in his behalf, provided he receives the endorsement of the Democratic Convention and goes fairly into the contest with a chance of success. It may be that white hat clubs are about to become as universal as were log cabins in the days of Harrison, and that some of the ,many poets, who will of course all support Greeley, may yet produce a refrain destined to ring out more loudly than did the well known ‘Tippecanoe and Tyler too’ of the exciting campaign of 1840. It is not unlikely that our farmers may take to ‘Uncle Horace’’ as kindly as they took to ‘Honest Old Abe,” for Greeley represents many of the characteristics of Lincoln. But behind General Grant stands asolid strength of patriotism, practical busi- ness interests and independence which cannot easily be overcome, and which can scarcely fail to secure victory. It will be the steady march of the Union troops through the Wil- derness to Appomattox Court House over again. The result will be rendered all the more certain if General Grant will at once clear his ranks of all objectionable adherents, as he once cleared his army of hucksters and camp followers. At all events, as two safe and honest candidates have been named for the Presidency, let us have an open field and a fair fight. The Philadelphia Conven- tion will place General Grant at its head, al- though he could as well be nominated by the people without any party convention at all. Now, let the Democratic National Committee, which meets to-day, prepare the democracy to endorse Greeley, and we shall then be able to see with what unanimity the several States to any other individual, they are indebted for the preservation of the bond that still holds them together in brotherly union. Our Coinage—Report of the Chamber of Commerce, The Chamber of Commerce is sometimes practical in its action. At a special mecting on Monday to receive and consider the report of a committee relative to our coinage, some good suggestions were made. Resolutions were passed requesting Congress to exempt, in the bill now pending before that body, the coinage of gold and silver from all charges beyond the actual cost of refining and coining anda small percentage for recoining worn be? It is evident that but one course is coins, and commending that provision of the bill making the gold dollar a unit of value and cratic republican principle that the Executive | will stand by the soldier to whom, more than | | foaming water of the sea. the silver dollar a legal tender only for amounts not exceeding five dollars. The Chamber of Commerce desires only one ab- solute standard of value, and that the gold dollar. Anything that tends to simplify our monetary system is an advantage. That provision of the bill, also, to reduce the weight and to modify the standard of the silver dollar, so as to as- similate it to the silver coin of France, Bel- gium, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, is recommended, This is a sensible view of the matter and a step in the direction of mone- tary unification throughout the world. Our silver dollar now is 412} grains. The proposed change would make it 385 80-100 grains. Con- gress should pass the bill now while no de- rangement in our monetary system would be telt and preparatory to a returp to specie pay- ments, The Probable Discoveries of Living- stome and the Horald Explorers. The profound and widespread interest awakened by the Heratp Livingstone expedi- tion naturally seeks satisfaction in the proba- ble great discoveries of the explorer. Until a few years ago the geography of unexplored re- gions of our planet was supposed to be entirely beyond the power of human reasoning or imagination to unveil, and all attempts at a science of comparative geography were dis- couraged. The genius of Carl Ritter, the com- panion of Humboldt, has in recent years con- vinced the world of this mistake, and shown us that with given physical conditions the phy- sical geographer may work out the approximate character and orography of an unknown con- tinent as well as the French astronomer pre- dicted the position of the unknown planet Nep- tune. Geologists point us to the undoubted fact that the enormous land masses of Eastern Africa are situated in a great wave of terrestrial upheaval. The coral structures around the islands of Mauritius, Reunion and Madagascar, and those which line the Mozambique coast, bear living witness to the past and continued uprising of the earth's crust, while on the southern coasts of the Red Sea are found the clearest evidences of what was yesterday the Reefs emerged from the sea, former beaches still incrusted with salt, and bogs left far inland and converted into marshes, further attest the gradual rising of the great eastern half of the African Continent. To the geological inference which is forced upon us the hints afforded by the known geog- raphy and meteorology of Eastern and Equatorial Africa must be added, as in the highest degree suggestive and instructive. The regions explored by Livingstone are known to be rich in lacustrine deposits, as Tanganyika, Baringo, Manyara, Moero and the Nyanzas abundantly demonstrate. As Mr. Wakefield, missionary at Mombasa, stated in his paper, published last year by the Royal Geographical Society, the natives in the vicin- ity of Lake Nyanza declared to him they had often travelled sixty days along the shore with- ont perceiving any signs of its termination; that its surface was marked by a daily tide, and that the time required in crossing it by canoe was at least six days. Such enormous and extended sheets of water are formed on the earth’s surface in only two ways, either in high latitudes where the great vapor-laden upper currents of air from the Equator descend and are chilled by commixture with the Polar air, giving up their moisture, or in tropical districts, from the regular condensation in the rainy seasons. A glance at*the map of the world will show that the greatest and deepest lakes of inland caspians are not found in the tropics, but always, as a rule, in the extra-tropical regions, generally on the Polar side of a belt girdling the earth between the fortieth and fiftieth parallels. The only exception to this rule is in Equatoral Africa, and the inference necessi- tated from this fact is that the rainfall, or con- densation, which supplies the vast fresh water lakes visited by Speke, Baker and Living- stone, is due, not to commixture of cold and. warm moist currents of air, but to the con- densation of the great band of wet and easterly equatorial winds, which have swept over the glowing waters of the Indian Ocean— “the boiler of the Southern hemisphere’’— against a lofty and cool equatorial plateau in the heart of the African Continent. To this conclusion every fact now brought to light seems to point as with unerring finger. If this be true the researches of Livingstone and his coworkers will probably reveal one of the most important tracts of country on the globe, blessed with a climate ‘he most delicious and equable, besides settling the many long agitated problems of the hydrography of the Nile and its tributaries. Strange as this may at first appear, we should reflect that Equatorial South America is just such a country, and enjoyed in early times a magni- ficent civilization. The remains of the great road from Quito to Cuzco, rnnning along the plateau of the Andes for nearly a thousand miles, and vying with the Appian Way of Rome; the Peruvian temples, fortresses, ter- raced gardens and aqueducts, equalling those of Augustus; the gorgeous Shrine of the Sun, at Cuzco, the admiration of Pizarro, more splendid than anything Europe could boast; the royal baths of Atahualpa, in which the water was conducted into basins of gold through subterranegn channels of silver, were among the discoveries that rewarded the early Spanish explorers of Equatorial America, and attested the fact that its natural advantages were unbounded. The same lesson is taught the traveller of to-day whose eye rests on the superb city of Quito, with its seventy thousand inhabitants, lying on the breast of Pichincha, under the Equator itself, where the climate, | tempered by altitude, is unsurpassed for luxury and life, and where the invalid may, in a few hours, by ascending the table lands or descend- ing them, experience the most bracing or the most relaxing temperatures. We look with confidence for great results from the labors of the African explorers, and doubt not that they will far exceed in reality the most sanguine expectations. The Reign of R am the Metropolis. The increase in the number of highway rob- beries, midnight assaults and garroting cases at the present time is calculated to awaken the liveliest apprehensions of all peaceable citi- zens. The records of the police actually teem with these alarming indications of a reign of ruffianism and lawlessness, and the constituted guardians of the peace seem to be either power- less or unwilling to check the growing oyil a Garroting has become a favorite pastime with the unpleasant gentry that swarm on all our thoroughfares, even the most frequented. The immunity they enjoy is doubtless owing to the Same cause that leaves the streets in such a filthy condition. Perhaps our authorities labor under the delusion that it is the duty of that mythical personage, the street cleaning con- tractor, to remove garroters and ruffians as well as other nuisances from the streets. In that case the broom will take the place of the baton, and the dust cart that of the prison van. The street cars are fruitful seminaries of crime, and in them some of the boldest outrages ure committed. Whether the conductors and drivers are in collusion with the thieves or are only afraid of them, one thing is certain, that a victim of an assault or robbery in one of these Jack Sheppard nurseries on wheels receives no assistance nor commiseration from the driver and conductor. Vigilance committees have frequently been threatened by our sorely-oppressed citizens, and petitions and remonstrances have been sent to the Albany Solons, but still the evil is in full ope- ration. We can only wait and hope for the day when a New York thoroughfare will not be like the Hounslow Heath of old, and citi- zens will not fear the grasp of the garroter or the bludgeon of the ruffian. The Situation in Spain—The Prospect. According to our news of this morning there is a crisis in the Spanish Cabinet. It is stated also that Don Carlos, who has been com- pletely routed, has fled toward France, and that Marshal Serrano, with his troops, is in hot pursuit of the Pretender, with the expecta- tion of overtaking him. What is the particular cause of trouble in the Spanish Cabinet it is not easy to say. It is not impossible that the unanimity with which all ranks and classes of Spaniards have risen against the Carlists has begotten a desire on the part of the King to have the Cabinet reconstructed on a broader basis and on prin- ciples at once more generous and more com- prehensive. It isa tact to be remembered in this connection that Zorilla, the open and avowed antagonist of the trusted Minister Sagasta, has proved his loyalty to the King in a manner which at one time was deemed impossible. Zorilla, in place of allying himself with the extreme republicans and trying to make capital out of the Carlist movement, generously and magnanimously ac- cepted a command at the hands of the King and took the field against the Pretender. At one moment Zorilla was master of the situa- tion. If he had decided to act with the ex- treme republicans, Castelar and himself, with all their following, taking advantage of the Carlist rising to make the great cities their own, the head as well as the throne of Amadeus would have been in danger. We do not say too much when we say that Zorilla has killed the Carlist insurrection and for the time saved the throne of the Savoyard King of Spain. Is this reported Cabinet difficulty the result of a desire on the part of the King and his trusted friends to find in the Cabinet a suitable place for the radical chief? We think it not unlikely. Atany rate the services ren- dered to the throne by Zorilla must be recog- nized, and a proper recognition implies Cabi- net reconstruction. A coalition Ministry on a larger scale is now in Spain an absolute neces- sity. . As to the other piece of news, the flight of Don Carlos, little needs to be said. It was never our opinion that Don Carlos, with his medixval nonsense, whatever might be his personal pluck and bravery, could succeed in placing himself on the Spanish throne.. It is no longer possible to doubt that the insurrec- tion in his interest has proved a complete failure. It could not have been otherwise ; and no one regrets that divine right and legiti- macy have received a fresh and most damaging blow. Poor Spain has not yet seen the end of her troubles ; but the failure of this Carlist movement, and the general good behavior of the various political factions dur- ing this crisis, encourage the belief that the Spanish people, in spite of their many weak- nesses, are gradually working their way out of the dead past and finding a place in the living and active present. We know no good reason why we should not wish Spain success in her onward and upward movement. The New York Charter. The charter substituted for the mass of in- congruities, yelept the Charter of the Seventy, while not, perhaps, perfect in all its parts, is still so much an improvement upon its prede- cessor that we are at any rate willing to give it the chances of a fair experiment. It recog- nizes broadly the great feature for which the Heratp has so persistently struggled— namely, making the office of Mayor the true Executive of the city government, with the necessary appointing power for the heads of departments. Without this principle in action the appointments to those places would be arbitrary, and very often, we fear, matters of corrupt sale. With the Mayor as the ap- pointing officer the responsibility for a good ora bad appointment is confined to one per- son. Under the monstrosity of the Seventy old noodles this responsibility would have been diffused over a discordant heterogene- ous body of forty-five Aldermen. When any question of accountability before the tribunal of the public would arise, we can imagine the forty-five irresponsibles standing in a circle and each one pointing to his neighbor, as with the three old white-chokered parsons in the old-time ‘“catch’’ with its bur- den :— 'Twas you, sir; you, sir, you, ‘Twas you that kissed the pretty girl. _ Yea, you, sir, you. In many points the charter which was passed by the Assembly yesterday, with an amendment forbidding appropriations to sec- tarian schools, is an improvement on some of the weak points of the present one. In con- tradistinction to the Seventy’s abomination it maintains the Department of Docks as a sepa- rate department. This is the merest justice to the interests of the city. The large amount of river frontage and the necessity of its careful adjustment to the growth of the Empire City will indicate how important it is that its administration should be left in the hands of an experienced and responsible board. We regret, indeed, that the charter, while securing the existence of this depart- ment, provides fora change of its personnel. We hope, therefore, in view of the effectiveness and high personal character of the gentlemen com- posing the Department, that care will be taken to make the reconstructed Board of Commis- pioners pgactically the same in composition | as the present Board. Taken altogether, we feel inclined to accept the charter, which will doubtless go to the Governor for his sig- nature in a few days, and give it the unfailing test of time. The Crown of Denmark Against the Internationalist Society—Scrious Ex- citement im Copenhagen, King Christian of Denmark has, as wa anticipated in the Herat he would, accepted the gage of battle which the Internationalist Society has flung down before the crowns of Enrope asa token of defiance on the part of the organization to the governmental system of the thrones. The city of Copenhagen is about to be made the centre of arbitrament of the contest. The arrest of the President and Treasurer of the society in the Danish capital last Sunday has produced an intense excite- ment among the inhabitants of the old town. Internationalists and their sympathizers, with great numbers of unassociated citizens, as- sembled in the streets, The society men were «loud in their denunciation of the government. ‘They were dispersed by the authorities yester- day and tranquillity wos restored before night. ‘The King’s government is alarmed. Military guards havo been placed ronnd all the public buildings and the royal palaces have been cor- donned with soldiers. This attitude will be maintained until the municipal thoroughfares have been restored to their everyday order and tranquillity. Preparations are being made for the prosecution of the captive members of the Internationalist body in the courts. They will be indicted for the highest crime known to the Old World law—after murder—that of high treason. Should they be convicted their lives will remain forfeited to the State and may perhaps be taken away by the executioner. The contingency is one of exceeding danger, to the men in confinement particularly. They may be, perhaps, destined to champion a prin- ciple and show forth to the world again the truth of the civic reform assertion that “they never fail who die ina great cause.” Thus would their blood dot a point in the progress of the march of the peoples towards the attain- ment of a universal democracy and cheap government, The King of Denmark will, no doubt, remain equally determined in his vin- dication of the rights of the monarchies. He enjoys, as we have already stated, the most powerful alliances by family. He is him- self a man of feeling, energy and strong religious conviction. What he deems just, equitable and proper he will attempt to enforce, without fear or a sense of overstrained affec- tion, Copenhagen, a city which has been long at the head of civilization in Europe, with its fifteen open squares and its grand treasures of art, science, and for the education of the masses, constitutes a most fitting and interest- ing point for the trial—either by force or legally—of the grand questions, ‘Are the European peoples educated to a point at which a governmental change would be really bene- ficial to the masses, or will their present rulers elevate them still nearer to the thrones by ‘further concessions of citizen ‘privileges ?”” The case is one of particular interest to the free democracies of the New World. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. SE ae Mr. and Mrs, Williaza J. Florence sail in the Scotia to-day. United States Senator Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General H. L. Hunt, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Brevoort House. Commander L. A. Beardsley, of the United States Navy, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel, General S. E. Marvin, of Albany, is staying at the New York Hotel. Judge Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, is at the Bre- voort House, General W. B. Bates, of Tennessee, is sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. E. ©. Banfield, the Solicitor of the Treasury De- partment at Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Oden Bowie, of Maryland, has ar+ rived in the city, tobe present at the meeting of the Democratic National Committee, at the resi- dence of Mr. Belmont, to-day. He ts domiciled at the New York Hotel. Lady Thornton, of Washington, and Lady Rosas, of London, are in this city us the guests of Mr. L. P. Morton, of Fifth avenue. The lately chosen United States Senator from Kentucky, Thomas C. McCreery, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He is a member of the Democratic National Committee, and his visit to this city is in response to the call of Mr. Belmont for a session of that body at his residence to-day. Colonel Grosvenor, of St. Louis, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Colonel was chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for the Cincinnati Con- vention. His endeavors to procure the official democratic ratification of Mr. Greeley’s nomination and the meeting of the Democratic National Com- mittee are the canses of his visit to this city. AMUSEMENTS. SS Union League Theatre—Engel Matinee. Mr. Engel gave the last of his popular organ re- citals yesterday afternoon before a very large and decidedly fashionable audience. The greatest in- terest has been created in musical circles by the introduction of such a novel and complete instru- ment as the Engel organ, inwhich are combined qualities of tone and touch which were formerly considered impossible in a reed organ. Mr, Engel’s artistic playing, perhaps, contributed the largest share to the popularity of the new organ. The programme of yesterday's recital was as follows :— “Cujus Animam," from the ‘“Stabat Mater,”,Ros- sini; “Soupirs et Larmes,” “‘Sourires et Charmes,"” Engel, on the plano-organ. The first of these two little pieces expressing deep melancholy, while the second is pure hice Ll were peculiarly adapted to the qualities of these two instrument. Gari- baldi March, “cho du Coeur,” Nocturne, Engel; Quartet, from “Rigoletto,” Verdi, on the plano- organ. The sweet tenor song, the mocking con- tralto part, the power of the ensemble and the of Organ | animated accompaniment were brilliantly displayed in the Performance of this piece. ‘“Lascia ch’ io Pianga,” Handel javotte,”” Sebastian Bach; “Com’ e Gentil,” Varié, Engel. Here the percus- stop produced the mandoline accompaniment. Romance sans Paroles,’ Mendelssohn; Nocturne, Chopin; “Miserere,” Verdi; “Let There’ Be Light,” (from the oratorio of the “Creation”), Haydn; “The Prayer of Moses," (for organ and piano). Both instraments played with the left hand, The Pd a tg effect of the prolonged stop was thus to be strikingly exhibited. The instruments were turned toward tite audience, so as to show that they were both played with one hand only. Theatre Comique. Josh Hart's bill, just at present, is singularly varied and interesting. The first part of the per- formance consists of a medley of amusing variety business, all of which is good of its kind, It in- cludes several comic sketches, in which John Hart spreads himself as a superbly funny negro, some songs by Miss Wray, Join Manning and Larry Tooley, and graceful and astonishing acrobatics by Mons, Caron and his talented family, The second art of the bill is an ménitely mirthful local bur- esque drama, entitled “Biue Monday,” which is only et founded on fact, and is, therefore, an im- mense improvement upon its defunct protot of “Black Friday.” Nobody, apparentl, eciaioe the merit of hav! ng penned it; but Mr. Kelly, as an al- derman, and Mr. Graver, as a burglar, and John Hart, as Joe June, deserve a word of passing praise. The house is crammed nightly by this ap- petizing programme; and, in spite of our present “heated suap,”” maintains its numerical impor- tance. As ® variety show few performances are more deserving of support. To all who go there We ce svomlse & yleasuut evening,