The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ——-——_— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heraty. =—_ = Volume XXXVII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH'S THENTRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ay.—Ricuanp IL WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 3th street.— Lonpon ASSURANCE. cane THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway'—Comic Vocar- isms, NeaRo Acts, &¢. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Ta® Goup Druon. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-Fourth street— ApricLe 47. ST. JAMES THEATRE. Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.—DMacEvor's Nuw Hinkxsicon. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Per- formances afternoon and evening.—FRexcn Sry. BOWERY THEATRE, BOWEREY—.Crazy Nax—Woop- Leica. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae Batwet Pax tommmx of Humrty Dumpty. MRS. F. B. Conway's BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Apricus 47. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— Ow Han. 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Article, “The Prospects and Policy of the Democracy in the Presiden- tial Electlon—What Are They Going To Do About It /’—Amusement Announ T—Cable Despatches from SPain, France, Rome and Germany—The Alabama Claims— The English Turf—Mysterious Murder of a Farmer by a Masked Man Near Detroit—a Negro Shot Dead in Virginia—Weather Rh port—News from Washington—Racing in Ken- tucky—Business Notices. 8=—The National Game: The Mutuals Washed— Real Estate Matters—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. ¢ State Capital—The Shakespeare Monument—News from the New Dominion— Shipping News—Advertisements, 1—Advertisements, 18—Advertisements, Mansnat Bazare's present surrender, for court martial, appears to make his case for ex- planation of his grand and fatal surrender to the Prussians look better. Mr. Trxpen’s Brix in relation to Courts of Oyer and Terminer was vetoed by the Governor yesterday, but an effort will doubtless be made to-day to pass it over the veto. Empzron Wituam anp Brsmancx are about to recruit—not for the army, but for personal health. One goes to Ems, a place of exciting reminiscences; the other to his home, the scene of consoling remembrances. Tae Bu. AR THE Powers of the Quarantine Commissioners passed the As- sembly last evening, but it will probably fail | in the Senate. This is not a good time to tamper with the administration of Quarantine. Tae News or THe Spanish RevouvTionany Movement is exceedingly conflicting in siate- ment, according to its source. In Madrid | they are satisfied that Don Carlos’ cause is extinguished and the Prince invader in flight attended by a single individual clerical “contraband.” In Paris they make Don Carlos personally allege that he is all right, although he don't tell ‘what he knows’’ of the insurrection and its prospects. The French ‘assert also that the Carlists are in strong field muster in three provinces of Spain. King Amadeus may take his choice; we shail have to wait a little longer. stone Mrsistny.—In the House of Com- mons on Monday night the Scotch Education bill came up for discussion. | The bill is what is called a Ministe- rial measure. Strange to say, the Gladstone | Cabinet attempted to reform Scottish education | by excluding the Bible from the public schools, | The fundamental principle of the Scotch | The NEW YO RK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Prospects and Policy of the De-/ Adams. But the Heuaup isan independent | The Vanderbilt Tunnel Railroad B11! | still to be entitled to all the glory of Sodan. mocracy in the Presidential Elec- tlom—What Are They Going To Do About It? ‘¢ ar The Democratic National Committee met yesterday, at the residence of its chairman, August Belmont, in this city, and issued a call for the Democratic National Convention, which will be found in the Hrraup to-day. The Convention is to be held at Baltimore on Tuesday, July 9. There is nothing unusual in the wording of the call and nothing transpired at the meeting to indicate the probable action of the Convention. The policy of the democratic leaders in postponing their nominations for the Presidency and . Vico Presidency until all the other candidates shall have been selected indicates their willingness to enter into some combination whereby the overthrow of the republican party and a change in the national administration may be rendered probable ; but, aside from individual opinions and inclinations, it is not yet known whether the action of the liberal repub- licans will be approved by the democratic party, and whether a union of all the anti- Grant elements is destined to take place on the Cincinnati ticket. At present, although the democratic masses are willing to accept Greeley, there is a great deal of coyness and hesitation on the part of the democratic poli- ticians. They are weary of fighting for twelve years on the outside of the federal offices, and they scent the spoils from afar in the division that has taken place in the republican organi- zation. Asa general rule they are. practical men, willing to admit the sound philosophy of the adage which teaches that half a loaf is better than no bread. They would regret any action oftheir party that might destroy the hope of at least a partial restoration to power and office excited by the rebellion against President Grant. But they are considering whether the opportunity does not offer to se- eure something more substantial than they may expect from the endorsement of | the Cincinnati nominees, by striking | | ont in an independent direction themselves, and either placing candidates from their own ranks in the field or nominating a third ticket, composed of two compromise candidates, such | as Adams and Groesbeck, or General Cox, of | Ohio, and Hoffman, of New York. To defeat Grant and to secure for their own friends a | fair share of the federal patronage are, of | ourse, the real objects they have in view. There are no issues involved in the contest; | no principles at stake. The only question, | therefore, that agitates the minds of the demo- | | cratic politicians at the present moment is, | Can we secure the whole loaf in place of the half by making a ticket of our own instead of accepting the ticket offered us by the Cincinnati Convention? The very idea is a concession of the strength of the Cincinnati nominations, for it is suggested by the belief that Greeley will so nearly divide the republican vote as to enable the democrats to elect candidates of their own, asthe whigs did in 1848 and the re- publicans in 1860. We regard the nomination of General Grant at Philadelphia as a matter of certainty. The absurd rumor of an opposition to his candi- dacy has been set at rest, and was never en- titled to a moment’s serious consideration. To fail to nominate Grant would be to give up the contest and to abandon the republican organ- ization. [is name alone can ward off the blow that has fallen upon that party in the de- fection of some of its strongest and most active adherents and of many of its original founders. With Grant and Greeley in the field three courses are open to the democracy : first, to nominate distinct party candidates of their own, taken from the regular copperhead | school; secondly, to nominate Adams and Groesbeck, or some other compromise sand- wich ticket ; thirdly, to endorse Greeley and Brown and to accept the platform laid down at Cincinnati. The first of these proposi- tions—the nomination of a distinct democratic ticket—would of course be impracticable if the aim of the democrats is success in the present election. Greeley has already an- nounced that he will retire from the field and choose the least of two evilsif the copperhead spirit should insist upon reviving the dead issues of the past and should seek to take advantage of the republican division only to restore the Bourbon democracy | to power. He will be as good as his word, for in such an event all the politicians in existence could not prevent his following the course he has marked out both before and since his nomination. A democratic ticket would, therefore, be igno- miniously defeated, and the organization, stripped of power in nearly all the States as well as in the nation for another four years, would go to pieces. No such hari-kari policy will prevail in the Baltimore Convention. second proposition—the nomination of Adams and Groesbeck—would be met at the outset by a grave Mr. Adams was a candidate before the Cincin- nati Convention, and having been fairly beaten there by Mr. Greeley he could not in honor accept a democratic nomination against Gree- ley. Nor could any liberal republican afford tion against the Cincinnati nominee. Besides, if Adams could be induced to run, it is well known that an influential portion of the demo- emtic party would refuse to support him, and Education bill is good. The nation has long since outgrown the old parochial system to which the Scottish people owe so much. Ministerial bill contemplates the extension of the old system, making it coextensive and com- | mengurate with the wants of the community. So far it is a good measure. But Mr. Gladstone, who, if not a Scottish parents, ought to have known that education in Scotland was nothing if the Bible formed no part of it. Mr. Gordon, the mem- | ber for the Universities of Glasgow and Aber- deen, introduced a resolution providing that the Scriptures should form part of the instruc- tion in the schools, and the good sense of the House of Commons was revealed by the vote | which carried the resolution against the gov- ernment. Ina very full honse, in which four hundred and twenty-five votes were cast, the goverument was placed in a minority of seven. | | They would not only have abandoned their | These Ministerial defeats are coming so thick and so fast that Mr. Gladstone bimeelf must soon find it convenient to admit that he is no longer master of the situation, Evidently his power is waning, and it is uo longer doubtful that a few more defeats of this kind will neces- sitate a change of Ministry or on aypeal to the people. The | Scotsman | by birth and education, is at least the son of | his name would fail to create any emo- tion or excitement and would fall as a wet blanket on the hopes of the | democracy. A few sore-headed republican politicians who are personally hostile to Gree- ley might vote for such a ticket, but it would drive off a hundred democrats for every single republican ballot it would obtain. These democratic votes would be given to Greeley to add to whatever strength he may draw from the regular republican ranks, and to the col- ored citizens, farmers, laborers and others who will vote for him as “Unele Horace.”’ There would be no more hope for Adams or any other republican that might be nominated by the Baltimore Convention than there would be for Hendricks, Pendleton, Seymour or Jeff Davis himself. The defeat of such a ticket would eave the democracy ina still worse plight than they would be in should they go down fighting under regular democratic leaders, organization, but would have divided their party, and it never could be reunited again. With Grant, Greeley and Adams in the field, the success of the former would be assured, ‘and it is in this connection that the Browne suuUuedLy Warts Us CuOTE elute UT difficulty. | to become a candidate in a democratic conven- | journal, and hence it can afford to give sound adyice fo the democracy and to point Out the fatal blunder they would commit should they dig up any political fossils and place them before the people in a campaign in which two of the opposing armies are led by such men as the gallant Hero of the Wilder- ness and the honest old farmer of Chappaqua. Tho third proposition—the endorsement of Greeley and Brown and the accept- ance of the platform of the Cincinnati Con- vention—is all that seems left for our demo- cratic friends. With these they can enter upon the campaign with some prospect of suc- cess, and can, probably,‘ raise an amount of noisy enthusiasm that has not been witnessed since the days of Tippecanoe. There will be nothing then to prevent the establishment of old white hat clubs all over the Union, and a revival of the wide- awake processions as a set-off against Grant's ‘Boys in Blue.’ The partisan cant about adverse principles and life-long opposi- tion is not worthy of consideration. Greeley is honest, straightforward, independent and kind-hearted, and will act squarely by all who support him should he succeed in reaching the White House. Besides, the situation would compel a fair treatment of the democ- racy by President Greeley. A union upon the Presidential ticket means a union upon State tickets and upon Congressional candidates; the success of the Cincinnati nominees would means the election of a majority of democrats and lib- eral republicans to the House of Representa- tives. These Congressmen would form the administration party, and it would be vital to the administration to hold them together in unity, which could not be done unless the democracy should be conceded a proper share in the federal counsels and a fair proportion of the federal spoils. Democratic place hunters need have no fear, therefore, of a disappoint- ment of their hopes when Farmer Greeley moves his traps from Chappaqua to the White House. They will fill the Custom House, the post offices, the Internal Revenue Bureau and | the Washington departments before the new eivil service rules go into operation, and will then be safe in their positions. They will of course be compelled to divide with the hungry liberal republicans: but they will secure their half loaf, and this they will find far betterthan | no bread. While everything will thus be rose-colored | in regard to the spoils should Uncle Horace be | elected by democratic votes, the democracy will stand in a better position than they occupy to-day should Greeley be defeated with the democratic endorsement. The republican party will then be hopelessly divided, and a thorough union of the democratic and liberal republican organizations would, no doubt, take place in the next campaign, under | the name of the liberal democracy. As soon as the strength of Grant's | name is taken from the regular republicans they must be left in a hopeless minority, and then the liberal democratic party will become the party of the future, and will be likely to | hold power for a quarter of a century. So that, whether present success or future safety be considered, the wisest policy the democracy can pursue at Baltimore is to make a unani- mous and prompt union with the liberal republicans, endorse their candidates and their platform with enthusiasm and plunge into the contest with spirit and en- ergy. We desire to see a fair fight between the two tickets, and are willing to test the issue between the soldier and the farmer—the | sword and the plough. We believe Greeley | to be a strong candidate, and for that reason | his endorsement by the democracy is likely to have a healthful effect upon the administration and to compel some reforms that ought to be made. Already the partisan sup- porters of General Grant are urging upon the administration Congressmen a more liberal tariff, a more honest civil service reform, less land grant jobbery, and a real | ‘universal amnesty"’ for the South. In addi- tion, we warn the President thet popular senti- ment condemns the policy of Secretary Fish in regard to Cuba and Spain, as well as Eng- | land, and we urge him to request the resigna- tion of that Cabinet officer, and to recall Mr. Washburne from Paris to take his place. If General Grant will make these concessions | there will be little doubt of his } | | i at Atbany—The Last Chance for Rapid Transit, The Executive veto in the case of the Pneu- matic Railroad bill was based mainly upon the ground that it interfered with the route granted by charter to the Central Underground Railroad Compagy. As the Vanderbilt Tunnel Railway bill was open to the same objection its friends in the Assembly have changed the first proposed route, so as to take it alonga line not covered by the charter of the Central Underground, and have pushed it through the House by a vote of 90 to 20. It will, no doubt, pass the Senate at the same high pressure speed, the main profits of its supporters, we understand, depending upon its final success. Ifthe Legislature had displayed an equal energy and directness of purpose in favor of a bill to authorize the construction of two viaduct rail- ways along the North and East rivers by the city, we should have already had a sufficient scheme of rapid transit to meet the require- ments of the population fairly under way. As this has not been done it is well to inquire whether there is any prospect during the few days of the legislative session that yet remain to secure such rapid transit as the people ex- pect and desire, Commodore Vanderbilt is a thorough rail- road man, and can command any amount of capital he may desire to carry out a well-con- sidered and promising project. If the city is not to build railways forthe people the work cannnot be entrusted to better hands than those of Commodore Vanderbilt. Only the people will demand from him the substance and not the mere shadow of rapid transit. The present bill authorizes the construction of a tun- nel road from the City Hall Park to Fifty-ninth street along the route of the Fourth avenue, and a branch across town to the Hudson River Railroad. It is, therefore, nothing more than an extension of the through railroads owned by Commodore Vanderbilt, and is not a road for the use and benefit of residents of New York. It will serve to distribute the passen- gers coming from the West on either of the Vanderbilt lines, and will be valuable as a feeder the freight trains of those roads; but it will not meet in any degree worth considera- tion the demand for rapid city transportation. The fare authorized to be collected is ten cents, and if any trains should be run on the Harlem road or the Hudson River road in connection with the tunnel line, for the accom- modation of local travel, an extra amount would be collected for any distance above Fifty-ninth street. This would put the road entirely out of the reach of the laboring classes, whose interests should be studied above all others in any bona fide scheme of rapid transit. What the people really require is railroads for steam cars, running to Harlem to | Bridge on one side of the city, and to Kings- bridge on the other, at a rate of fare certainly not exceeding six cents for the entire dis- tance. Such roads would pay a handsome profit either to the city or to any private corporation that might undertake their con- struction. There is no objection to the building of city railroads by Commodore Vanderbilt, who is a practical and responsible railroad man ; but if he undertakes the work at all let him give us sucha railroad system as the people expett and desire. Let the bill now before the Senate be amended and enlarged so as to give the incorporator the right to construct two great viaduct roads along the east and west sides of the city, from the Battery to West- chester county, as well as his through railroad extension freight line from the City Hall Park to Fifty-ninth street. We have already shown, by calculations made by experienced and com- petent parties that such roads would pay a handsome profit, and Commodore Vanderbilt could command the capital to build them with- out delay. We have objected to the private incorporation bills that have been before the Legislature mainly on the ground that the parties seeking to secure the franchises were simply adventurers who were bent on making money out of the charters and did not intend to carry out the work. But this is not the case with Vanderbilt. He can raise the capital to build the roads, and would, no doubt, be paying investments. We object to the pas- sage of the present tunnel bill under the false re-election. The loyalty and sound sense of | | the nation are with him, and the commercial strength of the country is at his back. But | the democracy may yet have a chance of suc- | cess if they take shelter under the old white | hat of an honest man, and at least they will | and of laying up for themselv of ammunition for future battles, Amenities of Special Sessions Convictions. | The New York can sincerely congratulate itself | on the fact that legal means have been found to avoid the wholesale jail delivery threatened by the late decision of the Court of Appeals on the illegal constitution of the Court of Special Sessions. The counsel for the convicted scoundrels had made a very plausible argn- ment, which was fortunately just clever enough to deteat itself. It is, of course, a fun- damental principle of criminal jurisprudence for the same offence. clared that the Court which tried the martyred the pets of the Five Points found themselves sojourning on Blackwell's Island, the uncom- kind of logic is not convincing to a pick- | pocket or sneak thief on vacation in the Peni- | tentiary; and a number who have elected to | be tried, legally this time, find it prudent to plead guilty and go back to stone breaking {or | ‘a month or two. The prospect of two or three | | hundred accomplished thieves being liberated | throngh the criminal blunder of a Tammany | legislator is happily avoided. The ladies and | | gentlemen who have been brought down to the | Tombs to await a trial nay possess their souls | in patience, plead guilty, go back to the Island | and mature their plans for the robbery of dwelling houses whose owners have gone to the seaside during the heated term. Others, again, will be out just in time to pick pockets at the watering places and ‘vo through’’ the apartments of seaside hotels. We throw out these hints to show them that, although we | | party organs of the administration have | can afford to miss them just now, there is some | much for one man to have a right to claim all 1 consolation for them in the futnre, have the satisfaction of making a good fight | expenses at Albany. . good store | quite willing that | should be granted a franchise for a real city | railroad, and we should be glad to hear that he that no man can be placed twice in jeopardy | The decision bad de- | | ruffians was not # court at all; and although | fortable fact was conveyed to them that | they had not been placed in jeopardy at all. To be sure, this | pretence that it will supply rapid transit to the people of New York. It will do nothing of the kind. It is simply an extension of the Van- | do so if he should be satisfied that they would | derbilt through lines, and is nothing more nor | less than a job out of which the hungry legis- lators are hoping to make enough to cover their At the same time we are Commodore Vanderbilt | had resolved to carry out the Hxnatp’s propo- | sition and to construct two viaduct railways— | one on the North River line and one on the | East River line, from the Battery to Spuyten | Duyvil Creck. We hope the Senate will amend the Assembly bill in the manner we have sug- | gested. Itis the only hope now left of secur- | ing rapid transit this year for the accommoda- | tion of the residents of the city. | iiaielaemctinineedalsaaans | The Iilness of Prince Bismarck. | Prince Bismarck, it is said, is again indis- | posed. His physicians, we are told, have in- sisted on his taking absolute rest; otherwise the consequences may be serious. We do not exagyerate when we say that the name of Bis- | marck is at the present day the greatest among | living men. Primarily he is Germany’s hero; but’ he is also the greatest of European states- men and the world’s favorite. His death would be a calamity to Germany, and it would be felt and confessed by the universal public to be a loss to mankind. Bismarck is not yet old. Born in April, 1814, he has just entered upon his fitty-ninth year. So far as years go there is no reason why his lifework should come toa close. In Germany and in Enrope there is work to be done which no one can do so well as he; and itis not unreason- able to conclude that if ‘he were now suddenly cut off the tide of history would be niaterially affected. There are men, however, who | live much in a brief space of time, who press the work of centuries into years and the work of years into | days; and such a man has been Bismarck. Within the last stx years what has he not done? He has made irussia the mistress of Germany, and he has made Germany the cen- tral and dominating power in Europe. It was the glory of Sadowa, It was something grander | querade of the Liederkranz Society. | the prospects before them. Tf any man ever lived years in days and days in hours, Bismarck is that man. Sch work tells on the best of constitutions. There is a limit to human power and human endurance, and we are not surprised that even the iron frame and the sturdy intellect of Prince Bis- marck are beginning to reveal the effects of ex- cessive labor and excessive thought. ‘The Prince has many enemies, as well as many friends and admirers. His death would be felt to be a godsend by not a few; but our desire is that his health may be restored, his life pro- longed, and that he may yet see and enjoy the full fruition of his thought and toil. The Influence of Our Customs Legis- lation in Canada—Trade Laws Versus ‘Treaties. The action in the lower house of the Do- minion Parliament on Tuesday night, whereby it was announced that in view of the repeal of the tea and coffee duties in the United States o similar repeal would be proposed for Canada, is very significant. It demonstrates very clearly the natural union of interests which exists between Canada and the States, no matter what artifi- cial barrier of government may be placed be- tween them. The government which feels it- self thus floated inevitably on our commercial currents, and obliged to trim its sheets with every shifting of our trade winds, must find its task of controlling the desire of its most ad- vanced citizens to become part and parcel of our body politic one of increasing difficulty. From its union with England it gains present merely the material benefit a customs discrimination whose value growing less and less every year the nearer United States markets absorb i exports more and more, With regard to its imports from England, they are of course considerable, but in the matter of dry goods France and Germany supply large quanti- ties, and farm implements come from the United States. The moral support which England lends to Canada is the merest frac- tion, and it is gratifying to observe that a manlier and more American spirit has taken possession of the Canadians since England with- drew her soldiers than they exhibited before. When they assimilate their trade with ours they are taking more direct steps towards uniting with us than by any number of friendly treaties. The Reciprocity Treaty, indeed, tended much more to make the line more distinct between us, for one side or the other was always grumbling that reciprocity was a cheat and a system which favored only special interests. Canada, as far as trade is concerned, stands now to the United States in the same rogard as a limb tothe body. It can no more dissociate itself from our system and live than could an amputated member. The great activity which marks our commerce is gradually giving strength to Canada, and the only thing which prevents it from feeling the full force of our trade system is the neither-fish-nor-flesh form of government which acts like a tourniquet in depressing the circulation. Its statesmen have already recognized, as last night’s financial statement testifies, the subserviency of their trade to ours, and it now only remains for the Canadian people to appreciate the fact, and then resolve to have the benefits of our dash and progress without let or hindrance. This they will not be slow to learn, and the lesson, when carried into practice, means annexation. The Summer Exodus trom the Me- tropolis. With the advent of the real summer weather we find a portentous list of departures of our leading citizens for Europe and the country districts. The usual Babel of moving on the 1st of May is beginning to subside, and the groans and complaints of the annual congre- gation of victims of landlords and wagon drivers are fading away. But since the late | extraordinary season—extraordinary in more senses than one—has given way to scorching days and nights that require a dispensation of overcoats, the thoughts of every denizen of Manhattan Island that can look his banker { and his creditors fearlessly in the face are turned towards Europe or the usual American summer resorts. Every steamer bound for the Old World takes away a large number of our leading citizens, and already the hotel proprie- tors at our favorite watering places are preparing for the reception of an unexampled crowd of visitors. During the winter we have seen crowds at the Acad- | emy of Music when Nilsson or Parepa-Rosa | sang; at Wallack’s, when the accomplished manager and his talented company illustrated the bygone days in comedy; at Booth’s, when Shakspeare was the guiding star of the night; at the Fifth Avenue, when French and Ameri- can comedies have delighted the fashionables, and at the other theatres, when spectacle and all the minor departments of the stage found their host of admirers. Again, we must recall those magnificent receptions and balls, commencing with the visit of the Grand | Duke Alexis, and culminating in the mas- | Then the countless reminiscences of private recep- tions, grand weddings and celebrations of all kinds, made the past winter season one never to be forgotten. Now comes the time when the numerous participants in these entertain- ments begin to think, or have already thought, of a place to while away the welcome vacation time. Some go to Europe, and the number of visitors to the other side of the At- lantic increases every year. The prin- cipal steamship companies announce the fact that never before was there such a de- mand for staterooms eastward. Some go to hear and enjoy the Italian Opera season at Covent Garden and Drury Lane in London; a few go to wander over the famous battlefields of France; others to breathe fresh air at the foot of the Alps; some to revel in Russian hospitality at St. Petersburg; perhaps a crowd to find out what Vesuvius is making such a row about, and a very large number to look in at the renowned German watering places. The magnates of summer hotels at our American watering places are in ecstasies at Rooms have been engaged for some time past, and there is every likelihood of a brilliant display of New York fashions in the country during the summer. Newport will have its pretty little cottages full and its unequalled drives radiant with stylish equipages; Saratoga cannot fail to have crowds around its far-famed springs menading the spacious corridors of its and pro! sorrid hotels; Long Branch will lyxurigte in fashion ll Sa and surf bathers; Niagara will havo a host of newly-manried couples and appreciative gazers at the wonclers of its falls; Lake Mahopac, that latest candidate for summer honors, will draw no small number of pleasure seekers from the metropolis, and the Neversink High- lands of New Jersey will be enlivened by the beaux and belles of uppertendom. Many will seek quaint, out-of-'he-way Places, in many cases a cottage by the ea, and nota few will submit to swelter in Gilmore's Coliseum, if the winds permit, and love their senses amid the din of psaltery, harp, cannon and loud- tongued clarionet. The exodus has commenced, and few can tell the whereabouts in a month or two of those who listened to Nilsson or Parepa-Rosa during the past season, or who will listen to Lucca and Kellogg next fall, or will, perhaps, gird up their loins for the fight in the approaching Presidential election. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Henry Sherman, of Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Thomas ©. McCreery, United States Senator elect from Kentucky, is at the Grand Central Hotel, Rev. John E. Edwards, of Richmond, Va., is stop- ping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor Woodrow, of Chillicothe, Ohio, has. arrived at the Everett House. re Nathan Appleton, of Paris, a member of the bank- ing firm of Bowles Brothers & Co., yesterday ar- rived at the Albemarle Hotel. General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. The Count and Countess de Pourtales Gorgier, of France, were passengers by the steamer Ville de Paris that arrived yesterday. They have apart- ments at the Clarendon Hotel. The Baron Fricks, of Germany, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Wayne McVeigh, of Harrisburg, Pa., late United States Minister at Constantinople, is at the Brevoort House, John Forsyth, of the Mobile Register, has been at the Everett House for some days, having come on to be present at the meeting held yesterday of the Democratic National Committee, of which he is a member. Mr. Thomas Buchanan Reade, the painter- poet, has, since his arrival from Italy, last week, been lying ill at the Astor House. His affliction is pieuro-pneumonia, and its strength has been enhanced by the lingering effeets of the Roman fever from which he suffered in the Holy City. Last night it was stated by those in attendance on him that he was unhkely to live until this morning. The artistic career of Mr. Buchanan has been varied. He entered the profession of painting in early life, and his works are reputed to possess much of merit. Soon his literary tastes led him to verse making, and it is in this character he has become well known, The poem “Sheridan's Ride,” if not his best effort, is likely to survive lon- ger than any other, because of its vigor and apt de- scription of a remarkable event. Reception to Mr. Alexander Taylor. A brilliant reception was given last evening tn the Union League Club House in honor of Mr, Alex- ander Taylor, who will sail for Europe this week to become a partner in the banking house of Messrs. Clews, Habicht & Co., London, the bankers and fiscal agents for the United States govern- ment for all foreign countries. The reception was tendered by some fifty of the best known gentlemen in social, banking and mer- cantile circles, as an expression of the friendship and esteem which Mr. Taylor has inspired during thirty-five years activity asa banker. The guest numbered about two thousand, prominent among whom and of the committee were rs. Henry @. Stebbins, E. B. Morgan, General H. H. Baxter and Messrs. Henry Clews, A. J. Drexel, Richard Irvin, Wm. B. Clerk (Presidentof the New York Stock Ex- change), John A. Stewart, W. B. Dinsmore, Reuben W. Howes, Isaac H. Bailey, Richard Schill, E. B. Wortley, Charles 8. Frost, Charles S. Sanford, Arthur Leary, 8. T. Hoyt, William R. Garrison, J. M. Bundy, Lawrence R. Jerome, John T. Daly, 8. Y. White, J. Judson Hawley, James M. Hartshorne, A. B, Stockwell, Hiram B. Crosby. ‘The expressions of congratulations and well wishing were very general, and were gracefully acknowledged by Mr. Taylor, who will leave behind an extensive circle of friends. ~~ OBITUARY. William Sanger, M. D. William Sanger, M. D., a distinguished physician and well known practitioner of the profession of medicine In New York, died at his residence im this city yesterday, Sth inst. Dr. Sanger was born August 10, 1819, at Canterbury, Conn. He removed to Wheeling, Va., in 1836, and commenced the study of medicine in 1842 with John Frissell, M. D., one ef the most skilful physicians and surgeons west of the Alleghanies. He came to New York in 1844 to attend lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which institution he graduated with credit im 1847. He was appointed assistant at Bellevue Has- ital, and from there was sent as the first Resident Physician to Blackwell’s Island. The doctor subse- quently served at Quarantine, where he nearly lost. his life with ship fever, after which, to recruit his health, he went as surgeon of the steamship Washington; crossed the Atlantic seve- ral times, and embraced various opportunities to visit London and Paris and the hospitals in these cities. He commenced private practice in Honea- dale, Pa., in 1849, and married in the same year Lucy M., eldest daughter of Samuel Atkinson, @ well known lawyer of Columbus, Ohio, In 1853, during a visit to New York, he was reap- pointed Resident Physician to Blackwell's Istand which responsible office he filled during a term seven years with remarkable administrative ability. It was while there the city authorities requested him to Investigate thoroughly and report fuily the facts relating to the great ‘Social ‘vil, ’? which came so prominently under his professional cognizance. Two years of assiduous efforts in’ that direction resulted in the eS tion of his famous hook, entitled “The core of Prostitution.” In December, 1360, he resigns the office of Resident peas on Blackwell's Island, and devoted himself to the private practice of his profession, until the last six months, when @ painful illness, which resulted in his death, com- menced. Modest and unobtrusive almost toa fault, Dr. Sanger never made himself canspicu- ous in his profession, but as a practitioner was skilful and conscientious. The reputation which he gained was founded on real merit. He was an honest man and a patriotic citizen. A mem- ber of the Tammany Society for many years, he always took a lively interest in politics. Concern- ing all the great issues of the day he was firm in his convictions and plain spoken in the utterance of them. His many friends have lost one from their eg of the most genial and intelligent compan- jionship. THE REFORM ASSOCIATION, Over Fifty-five Thousand Voters Em rolled. The Excentive Committee of the Reform Associa tion met at Mr. Ottendorfer's oitice, in the Staata Zeitung, yesterday afternoon. William F. Have- meyer, John H. Strahan, Myer Stern, James W. Gerard, Jr., Henry Nicoll, John 1. Draper, Oswald Ottendorfer, and General Sigel were present. The following important address was adopted :— Reronw Assoctation, New Yorn, May &, 1872. To mmx CHAIRMEN AND ENNOLLING OvricKns o¥ Ti EN 6 ASSEMBLY DisTMICTS OF THK CiTY OF Naw 7 all the frienas of The“important work of enrollin 0 ha pward of fifty-five reform has been a great success, thousand citizens have already united with our associa- ‘apable mem tion, pledged to vote only for honest, for ‘the various ofces of our ciiy xo compliance with a resolution, adopted at ui of our Association. You will please call a enrolling officers of your Assembly District as ¥ sible, and solicit five names of well k each Election District in your Assembly mit them on or before Mohday next, May man of our Executive Committe, name in address and occupation. From the naines thus submitted the Executive Committee will select and appoint the Executive Committes to be known as the Ketorm Aswei- ation for your Asscinbly district, and also ta et asdele. gates to the General ¢ tee trom which ie delegates to the nominating Cony oof all the refom assuciae tions shat! be selected. AMUSEMENTS. ae ae An immense benefit has been designed fer the cause of the sufferers of the dramatic profession by the fire at Niblo’s Garden, and will take place thi evening, at the Grand Upera Louse, m™ ” The bright comedienne of the Fifth Avemue Thea- tre, Mjss Fanny Davenport, took tier annual bones last night, appearing as the Baroness di Mirac, im “Article 47," @ character which she has made her own by the charming vivacity, coquetry and re- fined humor which she (nfusos into it, Mer friends gathered in strong force, and ghe pleasant littie ramatic boudolr fate ten, era y gliatened with rich toulods bid