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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —— Volame XXXVII. sale tiee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. DJLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur Baccrt Pan. youuu ov Uuwrry Dumrry. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third strect, corner Sixth ay.—ENocn AnDEN ONION SQUARY THEATRE, way.—Naval ENGiGuments— urteenth st, and Broad- 3 OF Tun Kitonen, WALLAC! Lonpon Assi FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street Anricix 47, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Too Muca vor Goon Natuxx—Tux Dap Suor, &o. 5 THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ANCK, 8T. JAMES THEATR: Broadway.—MacEvoy's New Hine! WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw formances atternoon’ and evenitig. ON y-elghth street and corner Sth st.—Per- Hanp. LINA EDWIN’S T! . 720 Broadway.—Foor or tne Famtuy—Wantep a F &eo. BOWERY THEATRE, BOWERY.—Faeycu Sey—Louty- vor Doparn, &c, MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Sriut Wares Run Deer, & ‘PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— Boy Darxcrivs. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway'—Comto Vovat- was, Negro Acts, &¢, SAN FRANCISCO HALL, 585 Broadway.—Samu Suarr- ugy's MINSTRELS, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 2M Rowery.— Neouo Eccknticiries, Burvusques, co. Matinee at 24, ees PARK GARDEN.—Graxp InstrumENTAL NCERT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF Bormnox AND ART. TRIPL New York, Tucsday, May 21, 1572. NATOMY, 618 Brondway.— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. PaGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The Legion of Labor: Eight Hour Movement netmakers, Sashm: Ts, Brick Plumbers In Clover; The Employers Acqui- escent—News from Washington—Creeley and Brown: Preparing for the General Ratifica- tion—News trom Jamutea, 4—Financisl and Commercial: A New Move in Erie; Boutweli’s Resources; Claims Against the Treasury and Amount of the Secretary's Actual Coin Balance; a Dull Day in the Wall Street Markets; Stocks Quiet, Governments Steady, Southern Securities Firm and Railway Mortgages Flat; Gold 112 i Successful Issue of the The Carpenters, Cabi- Money a ange Easy and Foreign Exch anged— Street Cleaning—Probable Murder, urriages and Deatis. : he Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill nate; the Tax and Tari’ Bill Passed by the House; Ben Butler and the “Re- Treaty ;” the Sundry Civil Service Appropria- tion Bill—Methodist General Conference—The dings in the New —Kire at ould and NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1872.—-TR ‘The Herald Livingstone search Expe- dition—Further Confirmation of Its Complete Success. A despatch (special to the Hrrarp and printed in full in another column) gives us further details of Mr. Stanley’s movements, and Jeaves us little room to doubt that Dr. Livingstone is alive, that Mr. Stanley has found him, and that thus the expedition has been crowned with complete success. Tho despatch was sent from Zanzibar to Aden, and was transmitted thence to London by tele- graph. The statement is in the highest de- greo encouraging. The burden of the story is that Stanley had found Livingstone, and that the two explorers wore together at Ujiji. It appears from the despatch that a wealthy and powerful chief of the Ujiji Arabs, by name Seyd ben Majid, had left Ujiji on the 12th of January, and had arrived at Unyan- yembe, the half-way station between Ujiji and the coast, on the 5th of February. At Unyan- yembe he announced to Sheikh ben Nasib, an influential chief of the district and well known at Zanzibar, that the “American gentleman,"’ Stanley, was at Ujiji when he left, and that he had been there for at least o month. Stanley, it seems, had reached Ujiji by a circuitous route, having found it necessary, in consequence of the war raging among the native tribes, to avoid tho caravan path, When Stanley ar- rived Livingstone was absent, but it was known that his camp was pitched at Mayemba, a place about twenty miles distant and situ- ated midway between Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza, Stanley, however, had not been long at Ujiji when Livingstone returned from the expedition, and when Seyd ben Majid left the two white men had met and were living together. Such was the story told by Seyd ben Majid to Sheikh ben Nasib. Sheikh ben Nasib has, it appears, a brother in Zanzibar by the name of Abdallah. Aware of tho anxicty which existed in Zanzibar re- garding both Livingstone and Stanley, Sheikh ben Nasib entrusted the important news to a faithful slave by name Sa’eed and sent him off without delay to his brother Abdallah at Zan- zibar. Sa’eed, who left Unyamyembe on the Sth of February, arrived at Zanzibar on the 2d of April, and was at once brought by Ab- dallah to the house of the Hzaup correspond- ent. The despatch explains why the original bearer of the news, Seyd ben Majid, did not bring letters from Livingstone and Stanley. It had not been his intention when he set out from Ujiji to go so far as Unyamyembe. His original purpose did not render such a visit necessery; but having found himself so near Unyamyembe he concluded to pay the town a visit, and hence the welcome news. The despatch is minutely circumstantial; ingstone Search Expedi firmation of Its Complete Success’—The | National Game—Fleetwood ond Prospect | Park Races—The Rapid Transit Schemes—The | Roman Catholic Convention—Amusement An- Con- nouncements, T—Livingstone Found: Detailed News Herawp African Exploring E: firmation of the Former Repo and Stanley Together at Ujiji; Explorations Among the Great Knuckle Down: The Supplemental Ai the Treaty; Policy of the Senators; hate to Open To-morrow; Ben Butler Against, the Disgrace—Cable Telegrams—Business _ Notices, 8—Political Intelligence—Advertisements. S—Advertisements. | 10—The Schuylkill Boat Race: Splendid Contest at Philade); x Pittsburg Against Rew, York; The Pair Oured Race Between the | iglin Brot 4 By. fee Oh euntad n Awful S! vreck— | hipping Intelligen: W—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. ——_—_—_—— Tne Ricumonp Enquirer says it does not | care how the Alabama claims question is set- tled, but it is tired of the interminable discns- sion. That is the case with a good many others. They do not care how the thing is set- tled provided it is settled the right way, and | that our government makes no backdown in the premises. of the ae itone’s akes— | ie to de Spam anp THe Fresco Rervatic.—The cable despatches inform us that considerable ill focling bas beon caused in gov- ernment circles in Spain by the action of the French authorities in relation to the Carlist insurgents. We are not in- formed what is the csuse of misunder- standing, but there is little doubt it is due to | | it also confirms the intelligence conveyed by | spatches stated that when the steamship Aby- | Livingstone at Ujiji in the month of Janu- | ent giving an account of the proceedings of | taining two letters from Dr. Kirk, the British and while it satisfactorily explains its source the steamship Abydos from Zanzibar to Bom- bay, and transmitted thence by telegraph to London and New York at the commencement of the present month. One of our first do- dos, which took ont the English Search Expe- dition, left Zanzibar, a report prevailed that “Stanley, the commander of the Nuw Yore Henatp Expeditionary Search Corps, was with ary.” A few days later, May 5, we printed a communicstion from our London correspond- the monthly meeting of the Royal Geographi- cal Society, held on the 22d of April, and con- Consul at Zanzibar, These letters had been read at the meeting of the Society, and both of them made special reference to Livingstone and Stanley. Dr. Kirk’s second letter was dated February 14. It was not unnatural for some to imagine that if Stanley had found Livingstone in January Dr. Kirk should have been aware of the fact so late as the 14th of February. At that date, however, the Doc- tor could only say, “There have been many | ramors, both concerning Mr. Stanley and the | Arabs, but nothing concerning Dr. Living- stone and Ujiji. As we remarked at the time, the extreme difficulty of travelling in that country at that season of the year, in conse- quence of the heavy rains and the swamps | | steaming under a tropical sun, was sufficient | the facility with which the insurgents find refuge from their pursuers. However, the | French are so completely in the right that we | do not think anything very serious will come from it. It is evident that the Spanish royal- ists seo with ularm the establishment of a re- public on their border, and would be glad to ave it humiliated and overthrown, With the mass of the Spanish people it is different, and there can be no doubt of their sympathy with the present government of France. But this is another reason why Amadeus would greatly wish to see the end of the republic. There need be no fear, the republic will survive them all, Tae Sretes mw THe Crry—Tho usual excitement which prevails about this time every year among the workingmen for cither an advance of wages or a reduction of work- ing hours is now upon us. Yesterday the bricklayers, plumbers, carpenters, cabinet explanation why Dr. Kirk might have heard | ' nothing of Stanley's success when he wrote, on | | February the 14th, and why he might have | | been in possession of the gladsome intelli- | Bence towards the end of April, when the | Abydos left Zanzibar for Bombay. It now appears that matters were entirely as we wero at first encouraged to believe and in perfect | harmony with our original reports. Let it be | | noted that Seyd ben Majid, who conveyed the | | intelligence from Ujiji to Unyanyambe, left | Ujiji on tho 12th of January. When he left | Livingstone and Stanley had met, and the two white men had taken up their residence to- gother, Then, again, the slave, Sa’eed, the | second bearer of the intelligence, who lett | | Unyanyambe on the 8th of February, arrived at Zanzibar on the 2d of April. Our original reports are thus confirmed to the very letter. | reservoir from which aro supplied all the great rivers of Africa. It isnot impossible that his work is accomplished, and that his return to the coast his been prevented by the jealousy of the native chiefs. Should such be the case, and should he now be willing to undertake the homeward journcy, we may rest assured that, in company with our daring correspondent, no native chief will be powerful enough to prevent the homeward journey; nor can there be any doubt that in- telligence of ‘the restoration of Dr. Living- stone, the greatest traveller of his own or any former age, to the homes of civilization will be received with delight by thousands upon thousands in every land. Should his work not be done, and should he desire to remain, Mr. Stanley may not be unwilling to remain with him and assist in the completion of his work. In any case, we must soon know what are the actual facts; and it is no longer presumptuous to take it for granted that, with the discovery of the long-lost Livingstone and with the solution of a mystery which is older than tho Pyramids and older than the colossal gran- deurs of Thebes, the name of the New York Hxratp and the fame of Hxeraup enterprise will be lastingly and forever associated. Bowildering Old Time Diplomacy Versus Modern Progress and Frankness. Mr. Secretary Fish has not the ideas of tho present age. His mind dwells in tho past. He believes in secret diplomacy. Though the Cabinet Minister of a republic, where every- thing should bo open and above board, and where the sentiment of the people should be consulted and followed in all questions of public policy, he thinks the government should hide its proceedings from the people and act independently of them, He is indig- nant at the publication of the proposed sup- plemental treaty with England ond the whole correspondence between the Baftish and American governments which led to it by the Henatp, and would, no doubt, punish all con- cerned in the exposure if he had the power. It is a dreadful offence in the eyes of this old fogy Secretary to enlighten the public on the doings of the government. In Europe there is naturally a remnant of this ancient systom of secret diplomacy and disguises remaining; but even there statesmen begin to feel the influence of modern progress and to deal more frankly with tho people. Mr, Fish is behind the European monarchical statesmen even in this respect. In this free country State secrets and diplo- matic chicanery are entirely out of place. Everythiig should be made known, and an expression of public opinion invited on all matters of great intorest. or any member of his Cabinet to act otherwise is an assumption of unwarrantable authority. The executive officers of the government in this republic are the servants of the people, and not their masters. For tho President All through this deplorable controversy with England about the Washington Treaty and the claim for consequential damages the Secretary of State. has studied his own will and views and paid little regard to the public; and, now that he has brought himself and the country into the worst kind of entanglement, he is more desirous than ever of disguising his con- duct. He thought, no doubt, that he was doing a remarkably clever thing when he left the treaty in an ambiguous form,.and then, for popular effect, made a claim which was subject to dispute. But the British statesmen proved too much for him. Then, to extri- cate himself from the dilemma, and to save his pet treaty at all hazards, he continued to pursue a tortuous policy. Contemplating a surrender to British bluster, even while pro- testing that the United States could not and would not recede from the position taken, he tells our Minister in London to suggest to Lord Granville the terms of capitulation, Tho proposition to withdraw the claim for indirect damages came from Mr. Fish, but it did not accord with his bewildering diplomacy to avow that. He wanted it to appear and tried to make it appear that the proposition originated with the British government. The next step was to inveigle the Senate into an expression of opinion in favor of his plan of surrender, while he kept the people ignorant of what he was doing. He brings all the power of party Senate, and gets the State Department lobby, the Alabama Claims lobby and all the stockjob- adopt the supplemental treaty. He has had no regard for public opinion or the honor of the nation. With these facts in view we ask the President if it be not time to remove this in- cubus from his Cabinet and to return to the fairs with foreign nations which characterized the republic in former times and which is in accordance with our popular institutions ? Movements the How Stands Greeley? The voice of the péople of the South, as ex- Political South— If this later report be true, and it is difficult to | makers, upholsterers and wood carvers made a strike for the cight hour system. The , announcement will cause very little surprise, | from the fact that for years back the subject of | eight hours has been persistently agitated by | the workingmen in their unions and from the | platforms of their public meetings. The eight | hour system is already enjoyed by a few of the trades, and it is believed by many to work | well. From indications the present strike | will be a bitter one on both sides, the masters feeling loath to yield two hours from cach | working day, and the workingmen as strongly | Metermined to have the short day. | M. Gamperta ap THE Furvre or France.— | Gambetta has recently made a most significant | utterance. The occasion called it forth and | gave it point. A deputation of Alsatians, dis- satisfled with the new state of things, and not | having any special affection for their German masters, had waited upon him. After having | heard their story, he gave his answer:— | “France,” he said, “must not seck revenge.”” | “Patience and tenacity,"’ he added, “are the | watchwords of the future; France will ob- | tain satisfaction without resorting to the | of Waters, Livingstone went forth determined sword.'"’ We do not vouch for Gambetta’s sin- cerity. But we do know that he is winning golden opinions among all ranks and classes of the French people ; we also know that he isa | years’ toil we know not. prospective candidate for the Presidency of | his toil has been great and his sufferings the French republic; and, with these facts in view, it must be admitted that he is pluying insarda wil...) conceive how it can be called in question, “Stanley was with Livingstone at Ujiji in the | month of January ;" and when the Abydos | left for Bombay the report which had been | brought by the slave Sa’eed to Abdallah was | freely circulated in Zanzibar. Of the safety of | Dr. Livingstone we feel that we are no longer | permitted to doubt; nor are we any longer | the most generous undertaking of modern | success." | Our despatches say nothing regarding tho | health or the future plans of the two explorers. It is now nearly seven years since Dr. Living- | stone left England on this last expedition. No direct intelligence has been received from him since 1868. His object in this expedition has again and again been stated in these columns, Not satisfied with his own former achieve- ments on African soil, and content that Bur- ton and Baker and Speke and Grant had left | many important questions unsolved, and | anxious above all things to associate his name with the final solution of the mystery which | has ever been connected with the great Father | “to trace the Nile further south than lad been done by any explorer of his own or former times.’’ What success has attended his seven We know that | severe, So faras we know of his wanderings they have been chiefly confined to the lake region, Which seems t@ be tho great cental paqua,”’ in response, no doubt, to the stead- fast manner in which he stood by the ‘Mill | Boy of the Slashes’’ in the canvass against Polk. The Democratic State Central Commit- | tee of Virginia, representing every part of the State, have had a consultation on the subject, and are ready to recommend that the demo- craté of the Old Dominion support the Cinein- | | unwilling to admit that ‘‘the most daring and | nati nominees. All this support of Greeley by | the democrats of the South, however, depends | | journalism has been crowned with perfect | upon the action of the Democratic National | Convention at Baltimore on the 9th of July. If that Convention adopt the Cincinnati cand dates as well as thé Cincinnati platform, all right. The Southern democracy will support both. If, on the contrary, the Baltimore Con- vention take only the Cincinnati platform and reject the candidates, and make and administrative influence to bear upon the | bing interest he can get at to urge that body to | manly, straightforward way of conducting af- | pressed through the democratic papers, is de- | cidedly Greeleyish. Many of the veteran Henry | Clay whigs are declaring for the “Sage of Chap- | separate nominations, the democrats of the | South will, as it now appears, give the ticket so nominated a general support. And here comes in another question. How will the South act, suppose the Baltimore Convention * + | toake no nominations, and leave the Southern people, as well as the democracy of all sec- tions, to act for themselves in regard to candi- daics? In that case, judging from present lights and information, we think we are justi- fied in saying that four-fifths of the white democratic population of the South will cast their votes for Mr. Greeley. It will be scen, therefore, that the “passive policy,” if adopted by the democrats, will have a potent influence upon the next Presidential election, leaving tho matiox of Grgoley's full ondorsgment by the democrats out of the question altogether. Hence these preliminary skirmishes in the South have an important bearing upon the issues to be decided at Baltimore in July next. A Singular Chapter in Erie—The Sharp Operations of a Mythical Lord. Tho history of Erie contains many curious chapters, but none more singular than that be- ing now developed before the courts in the suit brought by the ex-Presidont of the Erie Board to recover certain securities placed by him in possession of & wonderful foroigner, claiming to be the son of a Scottish duke, upon the sup- position that he was Lord Gordon, Earl of Aberdgen, and held in his hands the control of a majority of the Erie stock, all of which was of course to be used in tho intorest of the old Erie direction, and to retain power in the hands of Jay Gould. The main facts in the case are simple enough. Gould, it appears, was ignorant of tho existence of the soi-disant Lord Gordon three months since, had no money transactions with him, and of course there could be no indebtedness between the two. About two months ago thoir acquaintance began, and before it had lasted a weck the Erie magnate was so completely under the influence of the supposed Scottish nobleman, millionnaire and stock operator as to entrust him with several hundred thousand dollars in securities and currency, just to show his confidente in the genuiness of the lord’s professions of ability and inclination to aid the failing for- tunes of the old Erie management. It would be curious to inquire whether this was the first time any of the Erie Ring believed in the Lord; but, however this might be, a large amount of property—a fortune, in fact—passed from the hands of the sharp Erie operator into those of the spurious Scottish peer. It is to recover back this proporty that tho prosont suit is brought. We read in story books of tho ancient belief in witches, and even in these days, in some of the benighted districts where the name of tho Heratp is unknown, people may be found simple enough to be imposed upon by sharp- eri who pretend that thoy can per- form all sorts of miracles. Thus,°a few months ago, a well-to-do farmer in Eng- land was persuaded by one of these im- postors to bury his ready money, some three thousand pounds, underneath a particular tree on a bright moonlight night, in the belief that through a spell, during tho operation of which the owner of the treasure was to remain blindfolded and bound in his own barn, the gold would be quadrupled in amount. The daylight brought relief to the weary and stiffened prisoner, but the money and the wizard had disappeared together. It would scarcely have beon expected that tho sharp, shrewd and matter-of-fact railroad magnate who a few months ago ruled over Erie with absolute sway could have been induced to bury over half a million dollars at the root of a ducal or other noble tree without receiving the pledge of very ample collaterals for its safe keeping. Yet Jay Gould appears to have been as confiding as the English farmer, to have re- mained bound and blindfolded by the ban- dages of British nobility, in the expectation that the hidden treasure was to swell into mil- lions through an extended term of power ob- tained by the assistance of tho wizard Earl, and to have opened his eyes to the startling fact that the coronet and the cash had both disappeared. The curious feature of the affair is to be found in the barefaced absurdity of the story told by the supposed Lord Gordon, as set forth in his affidavit before the Court. He rep- resents himself to be the “youngest son of a Scottish duko,’’ and asserts that his father ded in his infancy. The Duke was his moth- er’s first husband, and there was “litigation in reference to her first marriage.” He refuses to give the title borne by his father, but de- clares that he was ‘‘of the family of Gordon,’’ although of which distinguished branch of that family he declines to state. The title of “Lord Gordon’’ he claims to have used from his infancy and to be entitled to use, ‘‘as the younger son of a duke.’’ Now, it is a matter of notoriety—and a reference to any peerage will show—that for centuries there have been only three noble families of the Gordons; first, the Ducal House, or Dukes of Gordon, of which is a marquis; third, the Aberdeen branch, of which the head is an earl, who alone bears the title of ‘Lord Gordon.” The title of Duke of Gordon has been extinct since 1836. The Duke Alexander died in 1830, and was succeeded by his only son, the titular Marquis of Huntly, who died six years after- wards without issue. The latter had received a wound in Egypt in 1804, while commanding the Forty-second Highlandors, which rendered him an invalid for life. If the Erie Gordon | had been a son of either of the above—which | ig somewhat improbable, inasmuch as he was not born until some years after their deaths— the title of Duke of Gordon would not now be extinot, and the sharp operator now in New York would be either the Duke or a Lord Gor- don by right, and not by courtesy. If-«a natyral son of either he had no right to the title or the name, and his claim to either would be a fraudulent pretence. : In the family of the Marquis of Huntley the and the younger sons are Lord A. Gordon or Lord B. Gordon, as the case may be. The eldest son of the Earl of Aberdeen is entitled | Viscount Haddo, and the younger sons are “honorables’’ and not ‘lords.’ To neither of these families can the mysterious Gordon be- long if, as he states, his father was a duke, The question of legitimacy appears to be thrown into doubt by the statement in Gor- don's aflidavit that there had been litigation in relation to his mother's first marriage—that is, her marriage to the Duke, his father. Such litigation could only occur in the form of a claim to the title on bebalf of the children by the marriage, and it is well known that the title of the Duke of Gordon was never claimed or contested, and that no Scottish duke’s title has been contested in the last thirty years. These facts are so plain and so easily estab- lished that any person of common sense, by reference to a British peerage, might have seen through the imposture at once, even if tho pretended scion of nobility had not rendered his story yet more preposter- ous by the Munchausen statements that he had been entrusted by the Queen of England with a secret mission (o Prussia; that Prince of which this Gordon claims to be a member, | inasmuch as he asserts that his father was a | duke; second, the Huntly House, the head | eldest son bears the title of Earl of Aboque } + was occupied. | the cighth inning Trancy, of the Athletics, was IPLE SHEET. Bismarck had clipped a valuable pin into his’ shirt bosom and that ho had hobnobbed with Prince Arthur in Canada. We can scarcely imagine how any one less innocent than the English farmer who buried his money could be imposed upon by such a talo—unless, in- deed, it might be a person who nevor roads the Heratp. As Jay Gould firmly believed his mesmerizing pare: Be tobe the Earl of Aberdeen, and as we had long proviously given a history of the singular life and death of Lord Gordon Hamilton Gordon, the late Earl, and the succession of a younger brother to the title, it is evident that Gould pays closer at- tention to the stock list than to the Herazn, and this, probably, accounts for the remarkable facility with which he appears to have been vic- timized. Seward on John Bull, The Sage of Auburn has unbosomed himself to a Huraxp reporter on the engrossing subject of the Washington Treaty, in which he may bo supposed to take a special interest, and with which no citizen of the great republic is more conversant. His outspoken advocacy of the adoption of the English supplemental rule and tame submission to national disgrace will be a subject of surprise and regret to his many fricndsand admirers. Yet itis not in the slightest degree singular that Mr. Seward shoyld be desirous for the success of a treaty almost identical with the Johnson-Clarendon one that met with a deserved death at the hands of the Senate. His pot idea during his last days in office was the settlement of the Alabama claims, so that he might remove from the minds of the people the unpleasant reminis- cences of those dark days when England heaped insult and injury upon our struggling nation. It is not a cheerful item in a political record to look back to the time when a Secre- tary of State was obliged to smile and bow and say pretty things in return for gross injuries. Therefore Mr. Seward was anxious to draw the curtain over such unpleasant remembrances by some kind of settlement of the Alabama claims, and the Johnson-Qlarendon Treaty was the result, “Wo regrot to find that the memory of the venerable statesman is becoming slightly impaired. In the interview with our reporter ho states thet he never heard of “consequential damages’’ before. He forgets, doubtless, that when his own pet treaty was before the Senate and trembling in the balance Mr. Reverdy Johnson, acting on instructions from Washington, requested Lord Clarendon toadd to the treaty a supplemental article in- structing the Board of Arbitration to take cog- nizance not only of individual claims of Ameri- can citizens against English, but also of national claims, or what we now call conse- quontial damages. Lord Clarendon refused this demand, and the fate of the treaty was sealed. Since his retirement from political life Mr. Seward is inclined to enjoy his otium cum dignitate, and to forget the stirring scenes through which he passed. But the American nation is not prepared to forget the outrages perpetrated by a treacherous government when it was not in a position to resent them, nor to stoop to the depth of humiliation in which the English supplemental rule may be found. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Contest Between the Baltimores and the Athletics—A Large Aesemblage Present— The Game Won by the Baltimores, BALTIMORE, May 20, 1972. The game of base ball played on the grounds this afternoon at Newington Park will long be remem- bored in this city, For days the people had been on the qué vive of expectation. The Baltimores had wonderfully improved in skill and accuracy since their defeat by the Athletics a few weeks back, and strong hopes were entertained of the success of the yellow legs, and betting was very brisk and odds freely offered and taken on the Philadelphians. Long before the hour announced for the calling of the game a dense mass of people assembled on the grounds, and every available seat | ‘The beauty and fashion of the city | filled the stand allotted to the fair sex, ana many of the lovely creatures sought the reporters’ galleries rather than be deprived of the pleasure of witness- ing the contest. Fully five thousand peasons were inside of the enclosure, while thousands covered the roofs of the sheds and adjoining houses. Some | difficulty was experienced in securing the services of an umpire. The Athletics sent on three names, out of which the Baltimores selected a man (the other two objectionable), but he could not serve, The Philadelphias were requested to send another list, which they did, but still retaining the two objectionable names. The Baltimores se- lected the new name, but were again disap- pointed. At the last moment the Athletics brought @ man with them from Philadelphia, but he being obnoxious to the Marylander: Mr. Young, the manager of the latter club, name: Mr. Graham, of the Olymptes, of this city. With the | approval of the Philadelphians the game was called | at four o'clock. The Baltimores won the toss, and | Paea opponents at the bat. On the first inning the Athletics went out in one, two, three order, while the Baltimores scored three runs. On | HT ag inning two of the former club were re- tired at first and second Me! a beautiful double play, | and from that time forth the Philadelphians tried | their utmost to BROWBEAT AND BULLY THE UMPIRE. Accusations of pry and unfairness were | mace, he umpiré was young and nervous, and undoubtedly made mistakes, but his aim was to be impartial iu Lis decisions, and no honest spectator could say that he cared more for one side than the ther, On both the second and third Innings the Athletics made one run, while the Baltimores were retired with a blank. On the fourth inning the for- mer were whitewashed and the latter made four runs, The Athletics made @ run fn the fifth and anotherin the seventh, but were treated | to a O in the sixth, while the Baltimores | were whitewashed all the three innings. ei | ut | out at first, Anson was given his first on called bails, MoGeary made his first, placing Auson at second, and Mack was put to his firston three called balls. This necessitated the giving of a base | toeach of the others. Creaver, pitcher of the Baltimores threw the ball to third, and inadver- | tently the umpire decided that Anson was out. In realityi Anson was entitled to his pase under the rule, as he was forced off the second | the umpire’s decision in reference to Mack. The | ers of both clubs crowded around the umpire an ANIMATED DISCUSSION followed, in the midst of which the umpire reversed his decision and placed Anson back at third. The game had not been called, however, by the umpire, and Pike, second baseman of the Baltimores, having secreted the ball, watched for his opportunity and put McGeary out at second, Judgment being asked for, the umpire decided that McGeary was out. Immediately there was an out- cry on the part of the Athletics, and the captain of the nine refused to play the game out, The umpire then called game on the seventh inning, and oe cided the game won by the Baltimoreans, with . score of 7to 4, The excited crowd broke dee on the guard and police and rushed towards tl wire. ers. For a time serious re rehenstons were yond tained that trouble would ensie, nat ration] some uncomplimentary expressions q re wae scl and chagrin at the disappointment the: | thietics claim that they unpleasant results, The A! bide by the de- | were mobbed, but their refuse 0, eeaeon Why the | cision of the umpire wea fact Is they ere | perior playing of the tne ig accustomed to de- | The Athletics ola an game did not oe were iore vine, ‘and, Pe ite rea ee waeT a gaine with the Baltimores at | Newington Park Thursday afternoon, and both cinbs will play in Philadelphia on Saturday after- noon, phew The annual election of the New York Fire Underwriters was held yesterd with the following result:—President, George W. Savages Vico President, Rudolph Garrigue; Secaetary, Wil- Board of liam W. Henshaw; Assistant Secretary, John We Murray; Treasurer, Margus By Hodges 1) snare ential _— * THE RAPID TRANSIT SCHEMES.” - Arguments Before the Governor at Albany: Yess terday—What Commodore Vanderbilt Pro- poses to Do if His “Bill Bo Signod. — A heating took place beta¥é the Goverast to-day in reference to the bill for rapid transit in New York city. Judge George T. Curtis and John Mos Donald appeared for the Central Underground and Chauncey M. Depew for the Vanderbilt scheme, Judge Curtis said the bill promoted by Commod dore Vanderbilt gave him most extraordinar; powers, as he doubtless would, if It became a tat furnish the whole of the money required, and 88803 clate with himself members of his own family which would give him entire control of the ae enable him to bequeath and devise to anyon he pleased for the term of one hundred ye Farther, the bili gave him such’ power bd Von enable him to run on the lines of the Central Unde! ground Railroad, as they would run practically oven the same route in some places, there not bein, sufictent room for both lines; and the Undergroun Railroad, under their charter, had power to cone struct a curve line under the City Hall Park, which! Would be interfered with if the Vanderbilt bill bes camealaw. He maintained that under the charter of the underground road the line of route laid down became the vested property of the corporation, and the other side had no power to interfero in any way. In addition to that, there was no clause the bill for the protection of the public, andj practically, the bill would enable Commodore Vanderbilt to dig a ditch several miles lot and keep it open for three years and a if he wished. He quoted from several cases to show that if the bill were signed there would be ng power to compel Mr. Vanderbilt to assoctate an; body with himself; and, therefore, on publ grounds, as wellas in consideration of the rightg vested in the Underground Company, he argued thg bill should not receive the Governor’s signature, Mr. McDonald said the Vanderbilt line copied the bill of the Central Underground Railroad so fa as related to the company, without any protectivs clauses to the public. He argued that the propose line would cross the Central Mindergrouad Hatten in several places, which would be dangerous, safeguards could not be applied underground, as o1 railroads above ground, to prevent accidents, George A. Halsey appeared in behalf of property and lease holders on the proposed line, and py sented @ protest signed by 550 out of the 800 pi erty holders and lessees against “eh Vanderbilt bill receiving executive signatu He argued that the proposition to erect i ntilators from (ps proposed road above g nnd 4 he Bowery Would noi oniy také dp & larg port ofthe street, but that the smoke and st con: stantly emitted there would prove detrimental tq storekeepers and property holders, ’ Mr. Depew, on the other side, stated that i charter for the Central Underground Ratlroad wi passed by the Legislature in 1868, but lapsed, as_n steps were taken to execute the work, and in 1860 it was renewed, but from that time to the presené nothing had been done, with the exception of dig- ging a trench and a hole, for the simple reason hat the company could not get money necessary, to carry out the work. He argued that the Oens tral Underground Railroad was simply a com¢ bination of three bankrupt railroads, who sought to get a station on Broadway in order to float their bonds in the London market; whereas he wa@ authorized to give a pledge on the part of Commo. dore Vanderbilt that if the bill became a law hi would associate with himself men of standing, an money would be immediately forthcoming anc work carried on as speedily as the most skilled en« gincers and mechanics could do it. He urged that there was a great demand for rapid transit in New York city, which His Excellency, as well aq the Legislature, by every means in its wer Ole deavored to meet; but the want had not been sup4 plied, and he very much questioned whether, a: @ matter of law, the Central Undergroun Railroad corporation had not forfeited 1 charter by not constructing its road before th Piet ime. As to the remarks which hi en made in reference to Commodore Vanderbilt being a wealthy man, it OA wealthy men carry out such a project as this, asa pauper coul not build an underground railroad, and peopl were not ready to embark their Pan [i such a speculation. Proof of that existe in the dimeculty experienced by the Central Unders ground Railroad Conny in getting funds, and ha asserted that the opposition of that company to the Vanderbilt line was brought to bear for no other reason than that if a portion of the road wag built it would destroy thelr chance of floating bonds in the London market. The Central Under- ground Road Company had filed what arts called “construction plans,” after the Vanderbilt bill had been passed by a two-thirds vote of both houses, and he argued that if the plans as originally file were adhered to there was plenty of room for both roads to be built along the proposed line, His Excellency, hav! ng. very carefully examined both plans, assisted by the engineers, sald the en. gineer of the Vanderbilt road now before them had arranged for a return of the trains at their destinas tion by means of a transfer table and a switch, wh obliterated the necessity of the curve alluded to by Mr. Curtis, and if {t were practicabla to adopt that course in the case of the Central Un- derground Railroad he thought they would have to forego their right to the curve, as he did not seq that they could appropriate the whole space of the oy Hall Park to the exclusion of every other plan, Mr. Curtis argued that oie, were entitled to tha under the charter, and that if this bill was signe the routes would be cotnctdent. ’ His Excellency repiied that some very extraordl- nary ake were conveyed under their charter, and if it were before him at the present time he doubted whether it would no be as much open to attack as any charter he knew of. He did not consider that, a9 Governor of this State, he should be justified in allowing them to assume entire control of the spaca ofthe City Hall Park, to the exclusion of every other railroad, and, in conclusion, his Excellence! referred to the fact that at the time thi } bill was passed by both branches of the Logislature there was nothing on the fle in the Register’s offic to show that the Central Underground Ratlroa Company ally using the whole space on the east side of the City Hall. Decision has been reserved. THE ROMAN OATHOLIC CONVENTION, Civic Ceremonial of the Opening Celece bration in Dayton, Ohio—Dignitaries of the Church and the People—Brilliant Scene in the Streets=Organization— Probable Union of the Irish and Gere man Associations, Dayton, Ohio, May 20, 1872. The Roman Catholic celebration in this city yes- terday was a marked and brilliant event, and waq considered one of the finest and gayest pageanta ever witnessed in this State. The occasion of thé celebration and procession was the meeting of dele- gates in this city from the different benevolent Catholic societies in the United States and a visit of the Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell, of this diocese, we cee dignitaries of the Roman Catholi¢ Chureh. The headgqnarters of the different societies, dele- gations anda large number of private residences were decorated with flowers, evergreens, inscrip- tions and the flags of the United States and the Papal and Pontifical insignia, ‘The large concourse of people in the city was ine creased by numbers from the surrounding country, who came to witness the display. THE CONVENTION ORGANIZED AND IN SESSION. This morning the Convention was formally opened for business, and will provably be in session during the entire woek, Joseph Phillips, of Milwaukee, Is President of the Convention, having been elected at the last meet- ing of the association held tp Baltimore. A proposition for a uni between the Irish mn | catholic National Organization and the German k Yentral Association will be presented to the Convention for consideration to-morrow, “FLBETWOOD PARK. The Trotting Match Botween Evelya and Kitty Clover Postponed Until This Morning: In consequence of the heavy rain and the April-like tempest that prevailed at Fleetwood Park at noon yesterday, and the consequent heaviness of the track, the trotting matches announced to take peer were postponed, The first match, for $1,200, between Evelyn and the bay mare Kitty Clover, was deferred until to-day at elever o'clock, When, Weather and the state of the course permittin , the contest will be had. It will be ree membered that these races create great interest among all the lovers of the sport; especially are the members of the Union Club interested, the mares for the races beng owned by gentlemen connected with their association, Should the day be pro- Ditious It is expected that @ large concourse will assemble as spectators of the heats. PROSPEOT PARK. The Trotting Yesterday. ‘The trotting was resumed yesterday; but, owing’ to the inclement weather, the attendance was very siim, The first heat was- @ sweepstitke'for, $40, & e and repeat. chien SUMMARY, Prosrrcr PARK, PROOKLYN, May 20,—Sweepstakea, g40, mi nal repeat, it Pettis’ br. g. Petrel, to Wagon. si 4 1.1, Sammis’ hy g. Hippe, in harness 133 Owner's br. g, Gildersle o wagon 06232 Owner's & @. Butcher Boy, tn hark 4 4de Time, 3501 dy —2 HT 2 de

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