The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1572—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, a Rae ss All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor | Herap. Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, | FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street — | Aprrice 47. ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-cighth st. and Broad way.—McEvoy's New Hinenntwo: WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Performances afternoon and evening.—On Hann. BOWERY THEATRE, Bow Me—Carironnta; or, Tun Hea: y.—Brommen BIL, aNp Cun, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tar Baier Panto- aime or Humpty Dumrry. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—ENnoca ARDEN. UNION SQUARE THEATR: 4th st. and Broadway.— Nava EncaGewents—Tar W. Man tx tue Ricut PLace. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth | street.—Hoan—Tue Cartic. | PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hail, Brooklyn. | Winnine Hann. SAM SHARPLEY’S MINSTREL HALL, 685 Broadway.— Saw Suakener’s MINsTRRLS. Matinece at 2. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Neoro Eccenraicrrizs, Buriusques, &c. CENTRAL PARK GARD) Conoxat. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Scimnox axp Ant. TR New York, Thursday, May 30, 1872. GARDEN INSTRUMENTAL CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. | —— PAGE. 1—Advertisements. R—Advertisements. 3—News from Washington—Louisiana Repnbli- cans: The Pinchback-Warmoth Custom House | Assembly—Virginia Politics—Frank Blair— | Mr. Grecley’s Movements—The Steamer Em. | eror Wrecked—Church Convention—Brook- | yn Yacht Club—New Y City News— | Veather Report—Fire in orty-second Street. 4—Prospect Park Fair Grounc the Spring Trotting Mectin, Museum of Natural History—rhe Quakers at Worship—Quaker Sabbath Schools—Methodist | General Conference—New Jersey Episcopal | Convention—Decoration Day—Brodklyn Sun- day School Anniversary—Board of Educg- tion—Coal Bales—Art Sale—The Suicide Of Mr. Bushnell, S—Celestial Matrimony: Approaching Marriage of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China to | the Bride Elect, Alute—Arrival of the Yacht Sappho—The International Boat Race—New York Courts: The Italian Murder Case—Tthe Alleged Fowler Murder—Important — Suit Against a Bank—The Mount Sinai Hospital— The Perils of Shopping on Grand Street—The Tugboat Explosion—Rescued from Drowning by a Dog—A Noble Newark Charity. 6—<Editorials: Leading Article, “Another Entan- | glement in the Treaty—England’s Last Men- | ace—The Question of Veracity”—Amusement | Announcements. T—Derby Day: Race for the Grand English Event, the Derby Stakes, at Epsom Downs—Cable | Telegrams from Spain and Russta—The | ‘Treaty: Another Dificulty on Hand; England | Declines the Partial Surrender; The Question | in England—Nellie Grant in Paris—Miscel- | Another Entanglement in the Treaty— England's Last Menace=The Question of Veracity. The Treaty of Washington, which hag trem- bled in the balance so persistently, seoms in no fair way of a final settlement yet. The latest advices indicate “that the British Cabinet, dissatisfied with the changes made in the tone and language of the supplemental article, demand that it be altered back to the shape in which Granville first pre- | sented it, They profess their inability to com- prehend the meaning of the alterations, and fear that the apparent widening of its scope may give gise to fresh misunderstand- ing. It will scarcely be exceeding the mark to speak of this as insolent. It is well understood that so far as the treaty is concerned tho question of indirect damages was settled by the article which expressly surrendered them; yet Eng- land denounces the poor attempt to extend the surrender into a principle of Hoaven knows what elasticity. It would give some comfort to the country to know that Secretary Fish has declared the sup- plemental article as amended by the Senate to | be America’s ultimatum, but that tho Secre- tary has ere now registered determinations from which he found it convenient to recede. Such, in effect, is said to have been his statement to Minister Thornton and the gist of a despatch to General Schenck in London to be read to Earl Granville. So that after all the nation will be obliged to reopen an irritating controversy, which has caused us already so much heartfelt shame, and that, too, at the growl of the Eng- of our humiliation. It remains to be seen whether the English Cabinet will remain firm in its position of menace, and whether Sec- retary Fish can ‘screw his courage to the sticking point’’ sufficiently to let England break down the arbitration if sho will. While the two nations thus hang in sullen waiting on the upshot of the diplomatic rhot- oric which will decide the fate of the treaty we may note an episode of the proceedings | before the Joint High Commission, out of which the great difficulty may be said to have grown. It refers to the question of veracity which has been raised by the state- ment of one of the British members of the Joint High Commission. In a speech de- livered quite recently at the town of Exeter, England, by Sir Stafford Northcote, the Right Honorable Baronet emphatically stated that there was a distinct understanding—nay, that a promise was given—that the claims for in- direct damages should not be made by the United States. Sir Stafford’s language admits not of two interpretations. ‘“I'wo questions,” he said, have been raised—‘‘one, the personal question as to what was the understanding be- tween the Commissioncrs at all events, and perhaps between the two governments, at the laneous Telegrams—Amusements—Obituary— | Business Notices. | S—Financial and Commerciai: A Further Ad- | vance in Gold; The Money Market Hasier, | Causing @ Rally in Stocks at the Close; The Pacific Mail Election Goes as Anticinated ; The Government Purchase of Bonds; A Partial Holiday To-Day—Street Cleaning—The ard of Heaith—Departinent of Parks—Van Nort | and Summer Vacations—The Real Estate | Market—Last Lecture of her Burke in ti Academy of Music—Marriages and Deaths, 9—Shooting Affray in Dan Rice's Cireus—A Thief | Overboard—Advertisements. | 10—The Toilers of the Ci test Phases of the Long Continued Labor Strike; All the Unions Astir—Eight Hour League; Annual Mecting | of the Association at «Boston Yesterday A | Husband’s Revenge: A False, Guilty Wife | ‘Trapped by Her Better Half—the Jersey Cit) Frauds—Killed by Rail—European Markets— | Shipping Intelligence—Adyertisements, i Advertisements. ia—Advertisements, Miss Netrme Grant mm Pants.—Miss Nellie Grant, the daughter of the President, as our | readers are aware, has gone on a tour to | | colleagues upon that Commission. | have been most unjustifiable if, while the mat- time the treaty was concluded; and the other as to the general merits of the question raised with regard to what are called consequential damages and indirect claims. With regard to the personal question, I will only say this— that we, the Commissioners, were distinctly re- sponsible for having represented to the govern- {iment that we understood a promise to be given that these claims were not j to be put forward % the. United States. But if we are {© maintain that position we of course must be brought into painful relations, and perhaps painful ques- tions, between ourselves and our American It would ter was under discussion, we had allowed any desire to make good our own case in the mat- ter to interfere with the great international Europe. After ‘doing’ London she paida visit | settlement which has been going on. Whether to Paris, where her quiet, modest, unassumin, demeanor won her many admirers. The Bohe- , mians of the Paris press, however, who are | adepts in all kinds of small talk, have been cir- | culating the most extraordinary reports of the | mission of the young lady to Europe. A small share of the politeness with which Frenchmen in general are credited would dictate a differ- | ent course, but possibly the Bohemians in | Paris do not possess the required amount. | Tue Sunpay Scnoou CELEBRATION IN Broox- | xxx.—The good little girls and boys in the | City of Churches who attend Sunday school | (and what good child does not?) had a gala time yesterday at their anniversary celebra- | tion. The scene in the beautiful Prospect | Park was a cheering one, no less than thirty thousand children, with a host of spectators, being assembled there. We have seen and | heard of the thousand glittering pageants of | war and worldly splendor, but none can com- pare in interest with this youthful army of the | Lord, with beaming faces, unsullied minds, joyous spirits and ringing voices, celebrating | triumphs more enduring than those of any | earthly conqueror, The grand procession, in | which order, regularity and happiness reigned, and the demonstration at the Park, was a sight calculated to gladden every heart. When the | children turn out in such strong force for such a holy object the effect on their elders cannot | be otherwise than beneficial in the highest de- | gree. It would be well if we would oceasion- ally turn from the stern, cold realities of life | and the heartless world to revisit the days of childhood in thought on an occasion like this, | when merry voices and laughing faces unite in | innocent enjoyment. Orvestran Matcn-Maxre ror an Impentan Marruce mm Asta.—The marriage of the Emperor of China, an event which will take place towards the close of the present year, | will constitute a celebration of great impor- tance, interesting not only to the happy par- ties more immediately concerned, but also to the peoples of the outside world having com- mercial relations with the Central Flowery Land. Personal sketches of the intended | bridegroom and bride elect are published in the Hexatp to-day, accompanied by an exhibit of the dynastic, diplomatic and occult scientific reasons which have influenced and controlled | imperialistic match-making. It will be seen | that the tendency of the native aristocratic Chinese mind is, to a very considerable extent, reactionary against the interests of | foreigners, so that the union of the Brother of | the Sun with the young lady who has been | selected to assume the position of Sister to the Moon will be very likely to bring the foreign relations of the far Eastern empire to an exact point of definition, for better or worse, for all parties concerned, | the time will ever come for speaking fully on the matter I don’t know, and I comparatively little care. What I am anxious for is that a reasonable arrangement should be come to which may secure to both countries—and I will go so far as to say, to the world at large— the great advantages that we promised our- selves in the conclusion of the treaty. While the question was one merely between the two governments it was difficult to treat it lish Cabinet, who wish still to have the ex- | | quisite pleasure of dictating the precise terms | without entering upon the personal ques- | tion, but it has now so far passed beyond the two governments that an arrangement has been provisionally come to between them which is now awaiting the sanction of the United States Senate, and which must, if accepted by them, come before the Parliament and the people of this country | with a view to its ratification by usalso. Ithere- fore speak with some little freedom, because I feel that I can do so without raising the other | class of questions to which I have referred.’’ | This language, as we have said, is clear and unmistakable. ‘We, the Commissioners, were distinctly responsible for having represented to the government that we understood a promise to be given that these claims were not to be put forward by the United States.” Sir Stafford Northcote is a gentleman and a man of honor, He has already held high position | as a Cabinet Minister; and, although he be- longed to the tory side of politics, his high character recommended him to the Gladstone Ministry as a right and proper person to rep- | resent his country in the settlement of a great international question. Let it be noted that, throughout his speech, Sir Stafford speaks in the most laudatory terms of the government and people of the United States, and of the | spirit in which they seemed willing to court | a settlement of all outstanding difficulties be- | tween the two nations. The Right Honorable Baronet did not, at the time and on the oeca- sion referred to, condescend to go into particu- | lars. Nor ean we blame him for not doing so. | But he made the statement, and he has since, in his place in the House of Commons admitted that his speech was cor- rectly reported in the London journals; and although he declined to enter into details with- out notice having been given beforehand, he | repeated that he understood when at Washing- | ton that the indirect claims were not to be presented. It is not conceivable that Sir Staf- | ford Northcote, in making and repeating this | statement, has been guilty of wilful falsehood | or misrepresentation. In making the original statement, and in repeating it he has done much to save the Gladstone Ministry froma disgraceful fall; butin the maintenance of | the Gladstone administration, it is notorious, he has no interest. All bis interests point in | the opposite direction, Apart altogether from any consideration of his political inclinations, us to admit that, when at Washington taking part in the negotiation of the treaty, he was in some way led to believe that these indirect claims were to form no part of the case to be prosented to the Geneva Tribunal. If sucha promise was made, or if anything was officially said or done at Washington to encourage the English Commissioners in such a belief, the hensible and disgraceful in the extreme. What then are the facts in this case? Has Sir Stafford Northcote told the truth? Is it true or is it not true that such a promise was made? Who made the promise? Was the promise made by an official authority or was it made under the sanction of official authority? These questions must bo an- swered, and answered at once. We call upon Secretary Fish to answer them without delay. The honor of the American people is at stake. Their amour propre has already been sufii- ciently wounded by the bungling of the ad- ministration in this treaty arrangoment ; and they will not submit to be held up by their rulers to the scorn and contempt of all right- thinking men. We cannot afford to havo it said of us that, in order to accomplish a cer- tain purpose, we make promises in secret and that when our purpose is accomplished wo break those promises in public. “Punica Sides" and “Porfidious Albion’’ are phrases which will live and which through all time will fitly characterize the policies of two great peoples. Our record is as yet clean, and we cannot permit the fair famo of the republic to be stained by a course of conduct which Great Britain condemns and which Car- thage would have scorned. Sir Stafford North- cote has as yet spoken for himself alone; but his speech is not the only intimation that wo | have had that some such pledges were given. In a day or two, at most, Sir Stafford will, in his place in Parliament, enter fully into de- tails, and we shall know what were the reasons which led him to believe that an assurance was given that indirect damages would not come before the Geneva Tribunal. It is not impos- sible that Sir Stafford was unintentionally mis- led, and we shall not be at all disappointed or surprised to learn that he erred by belioving too much or too readily, or rather by putting upon words a meaning which the words were not intended to convey. It is just as possible, however, that he will make good his position, and that he will not be unsuccessfal in bring- ing home to our Washington officials the charge of wilful deception. We aro the more encouraged to expect some such result from the language which has just been used by another of the British Commissioners. In a lecture delivered at Oxford on Tuesday night Professor Montagu Bernard said, speak- ing of the Washington Treaty, that “circum- stances prevented him from replying to the ac- eusations which had been made of carelessness and too implicit reliance upon what had been called ‘understanding’ on the part of the British members of the Joint High Commission.” In the premises we know of no one who is so immediately and directly interested on this side of the Atlantic as Secretary Fish. What are the actual facts in the case he knows or ought to know. If a promise was made that the claims for indirect damages should not be presented before the Geneva Tribunal, Secretary Fish made it or ought to know who made it. If no such promise was made he ought to be subsequent conduct of our government is repre- | | America the progress of the fight. Decoration : Days. Thousands of mourning friends will visit to-day the peaceful homes of the dead, ea,"¢F to pay honor to the memory of the soldiers who died for the Union cause. Those whose life went out amid the smoke and noise of battle will hoar above their silent graves the measured tread of the comrades who survived them. The cause for which they fought has triumphed, and though too many of those who enjoy the peace and prosperity | purchased by the soldiers’ blood forget their | services, and would leave their memory to oblivion, the great heart of the nation will be ever moved by the remembrance of their heroism. It is true that their memory cannot die, for future ages will point with pride to battlefields where the equality of man was vindicated. ‘The war for the Union was something more than a sectional struggle for supremacy. Had no other question been involved than whether the North should rule the South or the South the North there would be little reason to pre- serve the records of such an unhallowed con- test ; but it was not so. Throughout the civil- ized world the peoples stood ranged under the different banners, and watched withan eager- ness and anxiety as intense as was felt in Each one felt that the cause dearest to his heart would be directly influenced by tho issue of the war. On the sido of the South were ranged the priv- ileged classes; while the eager, anxious millions looked to the Union flag as the star of hope for the oppressed toilers of the world. While the rich aristocrats emptied their coffers to assist the South the people sent forth their sons to do battle in the cause of justice and humanity. From all lands the soldiers gathered under the Stars and Stripes, and helped to carry them to final and glorious victory ; and to-day the memory of the dead will be celebrated in the accents of all lands. From this cause as well as from the impor- tance to the human race of the issues involved the Union cause early ceased to have a sectional meaning. It was the struggle of the people against privilege, the enforcement of the grand idea of the rights of man, and it is only in this sense that we should seek to per- petuate its memory. The lesson of the war was a noble one and ought never to be forgot- ten. Animated by the love of democratic in- stitutions, men forgot the ties of family and home to take their places beside American citi- zens in defence of the flag which offered refuge and protection to the unfortunate and op- pressed. Cruel as was the war it cemented the friendship of the people, and proved that the solidarity of mankind was something more than a vague theory. There can be no ques- tion how much it widened the sympathies of our own people and effectively overthrow the illiberal tendency of nativism which aimed at erecting a Chinese wall of prejudice between the citizens of the republic and the rest of mankind. It the war had had no other effect than to overthrow and destroy this evil influence which was threatening to become a danger in the land there would be sufficient cause to glory in its results; not, indeed, in the way of triumph over a gallant people of our own blood, but in thenkfulness of our escape from reaction- ary influences, * So long as the curse of slavery remained there was a stain on the national flag which able to that no such prozise was made. It is iow SSnie days stuca ‘Wo leatned by cable Sonie despatches what Sir Stafford Northcote had said. It is now some days since we called upon Secretary Fish to speak out and vindicate himself if he could. The days have rolled past, and the Secretary of State has remained silent. What does this silence mean? In view of what has been said by Sir Stafford Northcote and by Professor Bernard, and in prospect of the full revelation which Sir Stafford on an early day must make in the House of Commons, Secrotary Fish must be ignorant of the duty which he owes to himself as well as to the American people if he does not tell us all he knows about this ‘un- derstanding’ or misunderstanding. We do not think we say too much when we say to Secretary Fish that in this case delay is dan- gerous—specially dangerous to himself. This question, however, involves in reality less an imputation on the faith of the nation than on the veracity of Sec- retary Fish. It should be cleared up with- out delay, that no stain should rest on either. For the present we shall content ourselves with marking closely the conduct of our Cabi- net under the pressure of the latest threat which England has thrown out. Rumored Cabinet Change=Who Is To Succeed Mr. Fish? The rumor that we have had so many times in the last year or two about Mr. Fish resign- ing is repeated again. It is said now that he has signified his intention to resign as soon as the Supplemental Treaty is ratified. Secreta- ries of State do not often resign, except under extraordinary pressure, and, as Mr. Fish has held on to his office in spite of adverse public sentiment, we have little faith in his vol- untary resignation. If even he were desirous of retiring to private life the State Department lobby have too much at stake and have too much influence over him to permit him to re- sign, unless requested by the President to do so. But, should Mr. Fish leave the State De- partment, who is tosueceed him? Our Wash- ington despatch, published yesterday, states that General Banks has been mentioned as likely to be his successor. General Banks would make a good Secretary of State. He isa man of great experience in public affairs, cour- teous, dignified and popular, and from his firm and high-toned American course on questions of foreign policy would strengthen the admin- istration. Mr. Washburne, our present Min- ister at Paris, too, has all the qualifications for this important position, and is, besides, a warm personal friend of the President. The ap- pointment of either of these gentlemen would be well received by the people, would relieve General Grant of the embarrassment into | Which the foreign policy generally of Mr. Fish has involved him, and would go far to restore the administration to public favor. At all events a change is necessary and cannot be made too soon. | Gorn Apvancep to 114} yesterday on later ad- } vices from London confirming the first reports | that the amended treaty was not agreeable to | the English Cabinet and would be rejected in | its present shape. A rumor that the Bank of England rate of discount would be lowered | the known high character of the map comopels | caused a reaction to 114, no sophisms could wipe out. Republicans the world over blushed that a noblo nation, proud of its freedom, should jan inferior and helpless race, and when at last the black stain was washed out by the blood of gallant men it was the cause of humanity that triumphed. It is with these feelings that we should cast our garlands on the graves of the Union sol- diers. No unkind or ungencrous thought for the gallant foes who fell for what they deemed the right should find a place in our breasts. Enough that we know the men we honor fell in defence of the right, and that when the passion and bitterness of the hour have passed the children of the whole na- tion will honor the men who fell in the great cause. Let the garlands be laid tenderly, sorrowfully, but proudly, yet with no resentful or bitter thought. The issues that caused the blood to flow are dead, neves to arise again, and the heartburnings and hatreds must be buried also. Our brothers erred, and bitterly they suffered for their error; but anger should not be eternal. As we tri- umphed we can afford to be generous. Letus, therefore, stretch out the hand of friendship to our brothers of the South. They also have their decoration day when they honor those who died for the ‘lost cause.” We can appreciate and sympathize with their devotion to the gallant dead, and we hope the day is not far distant when this sacred duty shall no longer have any hostile or sectional signifi- cance but that the soldiers of both armies shall be remembered gratefully as citizens who died at the call of patriotism in defence of what they believed to be the right. This is the true lesson which should be inculeated by the honors to the dead both in the North and in the South. Thus only shall we grow up a great and united nation. While preserving the memory of the national valor we must bury the prejudices and resentments which tend to perpetuate sectional hatreds and disunion. Let us forget that we triumphed over rebels, and glory only in the services that our victory rendered to man- kind. This isa reason for rejoicing that in the next generation will be common to all Americans and to republicans the world over. We need not fear that the glory of those who died in the Union cause will be forgotten. The service they rendered to humanity is too great. In the remotest ages the story of their struggles and victories will form the theme of praise, and the enfranchised peoples of the world will look with reverential awe and won- der to the heroes whose blood cemented the foundations of human freedom. Tue Inrernationan Boat Racr.—Our Lon- don correspondent continues his scrutiny of the work of the Atalantas on the Thames preliminary to their contest with the London Rowing Club on the 10th of next month. It is evident, from the care and judgment exercised by the Captain of the American crew, that the approaching contest will bea stern trial to wrest the supremacy of amateur aquatics from the veterans of the Thames. There is no disguising the fact, however, that the crew is over-matched in every particu- lar. Bone and muscle, weight, knowledge of the course, experience and climate, all are on the side of the Englishmen ; and to those } who rer’ knowledge of boat racing these leacegntions are not influences to be easily ignored. Thero is, on the other hand, a de- fermination and pluck on the part of the Am<ricans and a confidence in their ability to win, argues strongly in their favor and may be as evidence of their high resolve to do’ all that can be done to secure victory. The odds, woe must confess, are against them, so that their triumph, therefore, will be the greater if they succeed in win- ning it. Sports of the Turf—Epsom and Je- rome Park. The great event is over ; the excitement that annually convulses Great Britain from John O'Groat’s to Land’s End and the hurly-burly of the great English metropolis has culminated at Epsom Downs, and the Derby of 1872 is now a thing of the past. The event came off with unusupl brilliancy, as will be seen by our- special cable report from London. The at- tendance of spectators was multitudinots, Every interest within the realm of Britain, from the Crown to the costermonger, was re- presented, and America lent some of its most gifted and valued children to refute by their presence the attempted heresy of Tom Hughes against the infallibility of outdoor amuse- ments as & means of national recreation and inspiration. No national festival on the “tight little island’ can compare in importance and democratic jollity with the Derby, and one visit there will supply reminis- cences for a lifetime. The winner becomes an historical personage, if such a term may be applied to an equine star, and certainly the fame acquired for the moment is calculated to turn the four-footed champion’s head, could he understand his position, Cremorne is the last name enrolled on the annals of turf fame. On Saturday next an American Derby will commence at Jerome Park, and from all indi- cations it will be more brilliant than any of its predecessors. Year after year the gentle- men composing the American Jockey Club have striven with commendable zeal to make the spring and fall meetings at Jerome Park worthy of a national reputation, rendering them satisfactory to all classes and investing them with the mantle of respectability without detracting from their popularity. The diffi- culty of uniting these apparently irrecon- cilable characteristics—complete order and democratic freedom at a race course—has been placed in skilful hands, and we may now enjoy to their full bent the manifold pleasures of a meeting of the American Jockey Club without the presence of a single disagroeable feature to mar their enjoyment. It would not be an easy task to point outa similar triumph of able and judicious manage- ment on any race course in the world. Cer- tainly not at Epsom, where the democratic character of the proceedings often degenerates into positive unpleasantness. According to the remarks of Mr. Hughes, when the motion for the usual adjournment of Parliament for the Derby Day came up, ‘‘the English race courses have introduced the most corrupt and insidious system of gambling which had ever disgraced any country.” This speaks badly for the character of the turf in England, and is calculated to bring the noble sport into dis- repute. Not a word can be breathed against the management of Jerome Park in this re- gard, as fair play has been ever their guiding principle. The opening event on Saturday will. ke the, Forder map cioep: Sieepernsee/ for all ages, a of a mile and a quarter. A very large field will start in this race, com- prising many celebrities. The second race, for the Belmont Stakes, will be equally bril- liant, judging from the large list of nomina- tions. The meeting will embrace six days’ racing, and will have some special features of interest on each day. The only thing now to complete the success of the meeting depends upon the weather. Bright skies and sunshiny days will make Jerome Park such a scene of pbrilliancy and pure enjoyment that even the great Derby itself will pale before its American namesake. The Present Ice Perils of the North Atlantic. The ice indications in the North Atlantic this year seem to be peculiarly abundant and alarming. The Heratp has for many weeks published full intelligence of the vessels lost near Newfoundland, where they have been caught in the meshes of the storm and iceberg combined. There can be little doubt that during the past phenomenal winter, one of the coldest on record, the ice forma- tions in the Arctic Ocean have been exception- ally large. It only needs the genial breath of spring to dislodge these glacial masses on the coasts of Greenland and Labrador and in the far North to render the European routes of navigation very dangerous. The great polar ward along the Greenland coasts and through Davis Strait, in moving to lower latitudes, owing to the -diurnal rotation of the globe, incline toward the western limits of the ocean, and hence on and near the Newfoundland banks. They drift directly across th. tracks of ships bound from Europe to America. Experience shows that the ice, in different years, has a wide variation both as to quantity and locality. It is seen and encountered from ally as early as January and as late as August. The usual belt over which these floating, frozen archipelagoes drift southward extends from the fifty-second degree of west longitude to forty- four degrees west, but sometimes the iceberg ad- vances as far as forty degrees west, and still nearer Europe. In 1829, April 27, an iceberg was passed in latitude thirty-six degrees, ten min- utes north, and longitude thirty-nine degrees west, which was estimated to be a quarter of a mile long and o hundred feet high, much washed in its upper portions, showing that it had been many days exposed to the suns of a low latitude. Two years after there wasa well- vouched-for account of a smaller one which had gradually worked its way to the vicinity of Antigua, West Indies. The southwesterly movement of the great ice currents affords an interesting demonstra- tion of the course of oceanic circulation. Many of the large bergs which enter the Gulf deeply sunk that they come within the in- fluence and impulsion of the submarine or Arctic flow, although superficially they are melted by the Gulf Stream ; and the cold current, passing beneath the warm one, by reason of its greater specific gravity, #0 urges the immense glacier that. instead of be- i ite and ice-bearing currents that descend south- | March to July most commonly, but occasion- | Stream eastward of the Grand Bank are so | ing impelled eastward in conformity with the movement and the prevailing anti- trade winds, it is sometimes forced by the un- dertow across the stream and borne to a lati- tude lower than that of the southern boundary of Virginia, Nothing but an. impulsion of an enormous hyperborean current, underrunning the Gulf Stream in a general southwesterly di- rection, could have carried these congealed masses to the positions in which, at different times, they have been The south- ward extension of the polar current has beon observed off Cape Hatteras, and even off the coast of Florida at great depths, where the deep sea thermometer has been known to reach the low reading of thirty-six degreos Fahren- heit, while on the surface the temperature was over seventy. If the views of many of our first scientists are to be entertained the energy of this boreal drift over the floor of the North Atlantic may be peculiarly marked during the present sea- son, and in this annus mirabilis of physical phenomena it is important for our transatlan- tic steamship commanders to exercise double vigilance against ice dangers, and to run as much as possible to the southward of the or- dinary ship lane. THE SEARCH FOR DR. LIVINGSTONE. (From the Philadelphia Ledger, May 25.) We have again obtained intelligence of the safety of the African explorer, Dr. uivingstone, the news having been received in New York by telegraph from Aden, at the entrance of the Red Sea, to which point it was brought by the regulfr steamer from Zanzibar. The report just received, confirming a previous rumor to the same effect, announces that Mr. Stanley, the correspondent of the New Yorr HERALD, had found Livingstone, and that the two explorers were together at Ujiji. This news was received at Zanzibar by a circuitous route, having been transmitted orally through four persons. It appears that Seyd ben Majid, an Arab chief- tain of Ujijl, on his arrival (February 5) at Unyanyembe, the hall-way station te the coast, announced to Sheik ben Nasib, an important chiefof Unyanyembe, that fhe “ Amer- ican gentleman,’’ meaning Stanley, had been stay- ing at Ujij!. and was there joined by Livingstone, who had been absent on an exploring expedition in the neighboring country. Sheik ben Nastb, in pur- suance of a previous arrangement, then de- spatched a messenger with this intelligence to his brother, Abdallah ben Nasib, a merchant of Zanal- bar, On the arrival at Zanzibar, on April 2, of the messenger, a trusty slave named Sa’eed, he was taken to the correspondent of the New York HERALD at Zanzibar, and the news was communi- cated and discussed. The intelligence was at first doubted in consequence of the non-receipt of letters from Stanley and Livingstone, but this suspicious circumstance was ex- plained by Sa’eed as follows:—Seyd ben Majid left Ujiji at the head of an armed band, with the object of reopening the regular caravan route, and without any intention of going so far as Unyan- yembe. The opposing forces, however. retreated, and in pursuing them Seyd ben Majia at last ar- rived at thee til a where he communicated the intelligence of the safety of Stanley and Living- he This explanation was considered satisfac- Great credit is due to the New YorK HeRawp for its enterprise and promptitude in sending out'a special correspondent to search for Livingstone, e expedition organized in England for the same urpose has been very Capt in its movements, In consequence of the difficulty of obtaining funds, caused by the eneral belief that Livingstone had perished. A few sanguine men of science, however, had not given up all hope of the safety of the great African explorer, and their efforts to fit out an expedition for his relief were obliged to rely entirely mpou, private subscriptions, the British government having refused to grant a subsidy for the object in view. While the prospects of the success of this effort still seemed hyd doubt- ful, the New YORK HERALD, with great liberality, organized at its own expense an “ American Liv- ingstone Expedition,” the results of which, as just Teported, prove that the system and energy re- quired to publish a daily newspaper wiil undoubt- Say, be successful when applied in other pursuits, and particularly in the apparently hopeless search for a traveller lost in the pathless wilds of Africa. TERRIFIO TORNADO IN NEBRASKA. Onrcaco, May 29, 1872. A fearful tornado passed over the town of Crete, Neb., this morning, demolishing several houses, in- cluding the fine academy building. C. M. Fish had his back broken by the falling of his house, It is reported that a woman living a few miles in the country was killed. THE OENTENNIAL OF '76, PHILADELPHIA, May 29, 1872. » The Centennial Commission met again this morn- ing. The Committee on Trade and Transportation made a report, stating that application would be made to Congress to admit articles intended for exhibition free of duty, and that Colonel Scott had given instructions prides free transportation over the Pennsylvania Railroad to members of the Commission. MASONTO. Annual Session of the Grand Temple of Honor. Apany, N. Y., May 29, 1872. The Grand Temple of Honor is now holding its annual session in this city. Avery large number of representatives is present. A vast amount of very important business has been and will be tran- sacted during the session. The following are the Grand officers elect for the ensuing year :—G. W. T., Charles A. Graham, of Temple No. 27, of New York; G. W. V., T. Elisha Mack, of Tivoli Temple, Albany ; a , Peter T. Monroe, of Temple No. 3, New York; G: W. T., Wm. B. Wadsworth, of Temple No. 8, New York; GW. U., J. a Tinasi , of Her- cules Temple, Albany ; G.W. ona lain, Asa P. Thayer, of Tivoli Temple, Albany; G, W. G., A. B. Norcross, of Temple No. 32, Rochester. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The United States steamer Worcester arrived at Aspinwall May 17 from Key West. The United States steamer Wyoming arrived at Aspinwall on the 18th instant from Kingston. No furthur Peres yet reported concerning her convoy of the Virginius. Naval Orders. WASHINGTON, May 29, 1872. Surgeon Delavan Bloodgood, detached from duty at Brooklyn, N. Y., and ordered to the Plymouth, European fleet. Surgeon John T. Taylor from the Plymouth, ordered to return to the United States, TELEGRAPHIO NEWS ITEMS, One hundred Boston firemen have been detailed for the “Anvil Chorus” at the International Jubilee, and their re- hearsals will shortly commence. During a thunder storm on Tuesday evening the light- ning damaged the dwelling of H. A, Griswold, in Dorches- ter, Mass., to the extent of $3,500. The annual meeting of the Nashua ina Lowell Rail- Ce ‘as held in ua, N. H., yesterday. The Chtite Bowed of last year Were unanimously rececle. ing, which calls out for annual inspection ark amt all the rilitary organizations of Boston and vicinity, took, piace yesterday. The companies generally tarned out with full’ ranks, presenting a fine appearance. ia Knights Templars yesterday enjoyed Ione, aaae Phe gauusbe of Howton n collation at Fret Pond, a formal reception and preeniation at Masonic Temple and a banque ‘and ball in the evening, all under the auspices of thelr hosts, the Boston Commandery. The republicans of the Massachusetts Seventh Congres- istrict, in convention at Concord, Hines. 79 er~ Guy, elected Joshua N. Marshall, of Lowell, and E. B. Morse, of Natick, delegates to the’ Philadelphia ¢ tion, and passed resolutions endorsing Grant and ison. ‘Jeff Davis has written a letter to Wade Hampton, de claring for Horace Greeley. Davis says the democtatic party would act unwisely’ to make nominations at Balti- more, AS @ man, Davis could not refuse to support Greeley, for his kindness when under trying circum- stances. The third annual meeti Concord and Rochester Railroad N. H., yesterday. mously clected of the stockholders of the ‘as hekl in Concord, irectors were unai R, . Childs, all of Concord; EB. Foss, of Staffoy Babcock, of Barngted, and John MeDuff, of Rochester. A. resolution was adopted expressing @ ‘determination ta prosecute the construction of the road with vigor. The annual meeting of the New Hampshire Central Railroad Company was held TueMay at Centre Harbor, N. He and the followin directors Were elected for the ensuing year:—Oscar F. ‘owler, of Bristol; William Dyer, of New Hampton; John W. Boede, of Merodith Villaxes W. Il. H. Mason: of Moultonborou hj Larkin D- Mason) of Famworth; Henry J. Banks, of Onsipee. “Hon. ©. F. Fowler wag chosen Frosideng with George 7. Craw. fort, of Bristol, Clork, and Oyrus Pastor, of Bristol, Teens aren, meoting was largely atte!