The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. w Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVI No. 152 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, -elghth st. and Broad- ST. JAMES THEATRE, Tw way.—McEvoy's New Hiner WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth st.— Performances aiternoon and ovening.—Ow Hann, Brormer Bit ano BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. Cuiner, Me—Cautroanta; on, Tre Heart OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Ta® Batuer Panto- ine oF Humpty Dumery. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue,—ENocu ARDEN. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Mth st. and Broadway.— NavALENGaGeents—Tar Wrong MAN IN TH Rugut PLACE. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Howx—Tne Crit! FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Anticix 47, MRS, F, B, CONWA Lonpow Assurance. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— Wining Hann, SAM SHARP: MINSTREL HALL, 685 Broadway.— Sam Smarevey's MinsTRELS. ROOKLYN THEATRE.— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Nroro Ecoxyraicities, BuRLesques, &c. Matinoo at 24. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garpen InstaumeytaL Concent. PAVILION, 683 Broadway OnouxstRa. near Fourth street.—Lavy NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Boimnce AND Al New York, Friday, May 31, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, | Paar. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisoments. S—Washington: All Night Tarlif Session tn the Senate; Hot Ku Klux Debate in the IHouse— ling Democratic Convention: Buckalew Nominated for Governor; Pendleton’s Letter on the Cincinnati Nominees—The Cincinnati Convention—Weather Report—New York City—A Barber Shoots Himself Through the Heart—Faber’s Pencil Factory, 4—The Soldier's Grave—Decoration Day, or the Most Beautiful and Touching Festival of | the Year; ThefPluvian Deities Sympathetic; A Peralstent Rain Storm Mars the Splendor G Fallon Brave Throughout the Country. 6—The Soldier's Grave (Continued from’ Fourth Page)—Dr. Vaughan on the Colored Race— | Methodist General Conference—The Quaker Conferences—Corpus — Christi—Church and State in Germany—The Broken Shaft—“Dig- ging for Gold: The Everlasting Captain Kydd | and His Bags of Treasure—Municipal Affairs— Sad Death of a New York Broker in Jersey— Struck with an Axe—Accidentally Shot—The Tarif on Alpaca Umbrellas, G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Ku Klux En- forcement Bill and ‘Log-Rolling’ Legislation— ‘Let Us Have Peace’ "!—Personal Intelligence— Foreign Musical and Dramatic Notes—Amuse- ment Announcements, T—The Treaty ngland Ready to Withdraw from Arbitration; The President Put His Poot Down; A Defence of Secretary Fisl I dabte Telegrams from Spain, France, England and Cuba—Free Trade: Enthusiastic Meeting at Prospect Park Fair Gronnds—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business Notices. 8=—The Crops: Advices, from Various Sections of the Country—Madame Mackau's Will—Mexico: The Gradual Decline of the Revolutton—Sand- wich Islands: The King's Speech to Parlia- meut—News from Navigator's Islands—Peru: The Presidential Etection—Aqnatic Notes— | Steel Pigeons for Shooting Matches—Perti- nent Questions for Professor Chandler— Brooklyn Affairs. | @=Financial and Commercial: Almost a Dies Non | in Wall Street; An Early Adjournment of the | Boards and a Light Business—Proceedings in the Courts—Brutality and Death—Commodore | Vanderbilt's Colored Coachman—The Jersey City Frands—Policy Shops—Marriages and | Deaths—Advertisements. W—Labor Leagues: Continuance of the Effort to Establish the Fight Hour System—Art Sale— New Jersey Yacht Club—Miscellaneous Tele- | Intelligence—Advertise- 12—Advertiseme! {ng at the beautiful garden of Brooklyn has Procession and the Ceremonial; | The Pilgrimage to Woodlawn; Patriotic and | Loving Hands Decorating the Graves of the | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Ke Klux BEinforcement Bill and Legislation—“Let Us Have Peace.” The day for the adjournment of Congress re- mains undecided on account of the conflict over the Ku Klux bill, as it is commonly called. The extreme radical supporters of the adminis- tration seem determined to carry this measure, and, therefore, wish to extend the session for the purpose of overcoming the opposition, while the d appear to be resolved to prevent it passing by using all the Congres- sional tactics within their power. In this the democrats are aided indirectly, if not directly, by some of the liberal republicans. The latter evidontly want to avoid a vote directly on the question, as that would place them in the di- lemma of either going against their party on an administration party measure and acting with the democrats, or of voting against their consciences and for what they believe to be wrong. Hence the refusal of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to suspend the rulgs to take up the Habeas Corpus Suspension or Ku Klux bill, and the failure of similar efforts on Wednesday under the lead of Gen- eral Butler. Tho difficulty lies, consequently, in the House. In the Senate, where there is a large majority of extreme radicals, no great obstruction has been or could be offered to such repressive and political legislation. The republicans of the House, at least, being divided in opinion as to the policy of enlarging the provisions of the Enforcement act, the President, it seems, deems it proper to be reticent on the question. He defers, it is said, to Congress in this matter, as he did to the Senate the policy of agreeing to the sup- plement to the Washington Treaty. This is prudent on his part, in viow of tho split in tho republican party and the approaching Presidential contest. Still, his friends in Congress being such ardent advocates of the amendatory Enforcement act, it is reasonable to presume he is in favor of that measure, But would it not be better for General Grant to intimate that this legislation is unnecessary ? Ahint from him to that effect would be suf- ficient to influence his friends in Congress. That favorite motto of his, “Let us havo peace,”’ might be well applied in this matter. Let him do what he can to promote peace in the republican party, but, above all, to cement peace and harmony between the different sections of the country. The repressive policy toward the South has been extended far enough—has, in fact, been continued too long. It keeps up ill feeling and retards the devel- opment of the Southern States. It is an in- | jury to the whole country. It fosters corrup- tion and the rule of plundering carpet-baggers and scalawags. If the President and his friends think this amendatory Enforcement act will serve them politically, by enabling them to control the votes of the Southern States, they will, probably, find that to be a mistake. What might be gained in that way would be more than counterbalanced by the unpopular- ity of the measure both in the North and South. The people of all sections want to see the supremacy of tho civil law restored every- where, amnesty and peace established, and the memory of our civil conflict obliterated. Gen- | eral Grant would gain more politically by a liberal and forgiving policy than by repression. The tactics of Congressmen in their efforts Steinway Hall Last Evening—Horse Notes— | to force through this obnoxious measure are reprehensible. Indced, tacking one measure on to another in order to carry such as are ob- jectionable and could not be carried | tom that | the constitutional singly on their own merits is a cus- cannot be too severely con- demned. The attempt of the Senate to introduce an entire Tariff bill by way of amendment to the House Tea and Coffee Duty Repeal bill was an instance, which caused bad | blood on both sides. This, however, was quashed on a question of prerogative—namely, inability of the Senate to originate revenue-raising measures. Senator Sumner’s perverse action in weighting the several amnesty bills with his civil rights measure as an amendment is another instance | of this jockeying. From the rules under Prospect Park Races.—The spring mect- | which these dissimilar bills would require to be voted on, so long as the amendment was been 2 most brilliant success, and foreshadows | kept there, it acted as a perfect snag to both the triumph of the grand event of the season at were present in gorgeous array. The attend- ance of delegations from several associations similar to the Prospect shows a generous spirit among turfmen and an earnest desire to make the noble sport a permanent institu- tion in this country. Tue Loo or THe Sarpao shows a remark- blo result in the late trip of this fayorite yacht across the Atlantic. One day during the passage she encountered a gale of such formidable power that the captain said it was the heaviest he had ever met with in twenty-five | years’ experience. Yet the noble craft pulled through most nobly, and ran three hundred and eighteen miles that day, in spite of the storm. The run from Sandy Hook to Cowes was made in eighteen days and three hours. Tho English journals are already discussing the probabilities of match between the Sappho and some of the old Country Craft. The saucy American boat will prove an ugly customer ina race if Mr. Douglas chooses to contend for fresh laurels. Tor Hawanan Treaties wrrn tae Ustrep Srates anp Japan.—The King of the Sand- wich Islands, in his speech delivered on the occasion of the opening of the session of the Hawaiian Parliament, assured the legislators that the Treaty of Reciprocity with the United States, which had been sanctioned by the nobles and representatives previous to the pro- rogation, had failed in the American Senate, not having received the number of votes | requisite for its perfection, His Majesty appeared, so far as we can divine royal senti- ment by oral expression, to regret this termi- nation of the international diplomacy. He consoled his hearers by the statement that he had concluded a treaty of amity and com- merce with the Emperor of Japan, and that he was about to terminate the treaty with France which was signed at Honolulu in the year 1857, The bearing of the imperial Polynesian poliey is to leave the Parliament froe to deal with the commercial tariff duties | seale just as it pleases—a fact Which should have been carefully considered by the mi can legislators before they nullified the treaty, and perhaps forced the authoritics of the Hawaiian group to discriminate against our 1 at | every time they were considered. The sharp | Jerome Park. On each day of the meeting | tactics of Senator Carpenter, however, defeated | the beauty and fashion of the City of Churches | this “og rolling,’ and the Senate, in Mr. Sum- | ner’s absence, was enabled, by an arrange- ment between both parties, to pass the House | Amnesty bill with its two-thirds vote and give | a handsome majority to a modified Civil | Rights bill. The latter bill, in company | with the Ku Klux bill, passed on the same | evening by tho Senate, was thereupon sent to | the House. Placed almost at the bottom of ! the House calendar, there was little hope of | reaching them in the regular way before ad- journment, and hence the resolution, resulting in the failure above referred to, of taking the Dills from their regular order and putting them | on their passage. The Senate Committee on Southern Out- rages, in its session on Wednesday morning, resolved that another piece of ‘‘log-roll- ing’”’ legislation should be attempted. The Ku Klux bill was to be reported yesterday to the Senate combined with the Civil Rights bill, in the hope that both measures, each by attracting its supporters, would secure a | double triumph when the bill went to the | jockeying which | | House. Apart from the | | certain parliamentary tacticians believe in as the complement of party management, and | which has its defenders in every party, the determination of the Ku Klux Committee to | couple these two bills in one vote is a piece of dodgery as indecent as it is illogical. The democrats of the House, incensed at this pro- ceeding, have registered their determination to filibuster against all these bills, if necessary, until Monday next, the time set down for adjournment—a course for which, with its | attendant waste of valuable time, they can searcely be blamed, as an examination of the merits of the combined measures will prove. The Ku Klux bill provides that the President shall have power at any time to suspend the writ of habeas corpus wherever he sees fit. It is a repressive measure for the South, and one whose use in time of an election, wherein the President will be himself a candidate, must be productive of the worst results. The policy of the wisest in the nation now tends toward winning the South to loyalty by measures of | kkinditess rather than legalized oppression, and the effort to dra200, msi into alove of the 5 “ Union is looked on everywhéfs With Ine: casing disfavor. If the Prosident, armed with tics? commercial interests and in fayor of thos tho Japonese and English. igiae vast powers, refrained altogether from using them, the moral effect would still bo the | to the red-tape secret system of treaty making | and bearing glorious fruits to the Union while same—to engender and foster a fire of hate which, unhappily, needs no fanning. The effect of the amnesty in giving confidence to men of brains and capacity in the South to em- bark once more in the conduct of public affairs, would be negatived and stultified by the passage of this Ku Klux bill, which would leave them in little better position than elec- tioneering in a huge jail yard, with the option of their political opponents to lock them up in the cells whenever they threatened to become dangerous to a radical majority at the polls. The position is mirrored in Swinburne’s couplet: — Thow poner sweet springs to all the pleasant In eee ‘Thou hast made them bitter with the This is not the broad, statesmanlike policy which will give back to the ravaged South its energy and tranquillity. The Civil Rights bill, giving to the negroes the right to travel and be lodged like other citizens, when they can pay for it, is a totally different measure, and one due to those who have been invested by the nation with the high rights of citizen- ship, and who now ask, in addition, only the rights of the men who are no more than their equals at the ballot box. It is measure ex- tending the privileges of a race, and has noth- ing in common with one which takes away the constitutional rights of citizens in particular localities. Whon Mr. Sumner connected it with the Amnesty: bill he could at léast say that the first was a high favor to ex-rebels and the second common justice to the loyal colored people, and thatso far they were cognate. In the present case it is nothing but the straits of an unscrupulous majority which lead to the “log-rolling’’ device, and we call on the House to dofeat it, as a rebuke to the partisan trickery which dictates it. Instead of the President assuming not to have a policy on the habeas corpus suspension proposition and leaving it to Congress, while it is well understood that his friends in that body act in accordance with his wishes, ho ought to say at once that the act is unneces- sary, and that he can execute existing laws without it. Whatever strength Mr. Greeley has as a Presidential candidate arises chiefly from his liberal course of late towards the South and his persistent demand for universal amnesty. Should the proposed amendatory Enforcement bill pass that would strengthen still more General Grant’s rival, and in tho same degree would damage the prospect of tho President. It would be good policy, therefore, for the President to forego the additional ar- bitrary power his friends in Congress want to give him, as well asa blessing to the South, and productive of harmony and a better feel- ing between the two sections of our common country. ‘Let us have peace’ and an end of military government. A Wild Scene in the Spanish Cortes and Retirement of the President. Tho Spanish Cortes yesterday presented a scene of wild confusion. In Biscay Marshal Serrano has thought it his duty to act leniently |- towards the insurgents who surrender to the royalarmy. Admiral Topete, the President of the Council, announced that the Ministry approved of the General’s cynduct. Zorrilla moved that a vote of censure be passed upon @eisano for daring so to act on his own respon- sibility. The motion of Zorvilla created con- siderable excitement in the Cortes. Admiral Topete had made a special request that mem- bers would not interpellate the government. In spite of this request Sefior Martos insisted on questioning the government. The Presi- dent of the Cortes declared that this action of the Deputy was a personal insult to himsolf, and, consequently, vacated the chair and re- tired from the Chamber. Excitement and con- fusion, culminating in general tumult, fol- lowed the retirement of the presiding officer. Madrid sympathized with the irritated condi- tion of feeling which existed among the repre- sentatives. It was considered probable that | Serrano, with the other Ministers who accepted positions in the new Cabinet, would re- sign office at an early moment. King Amadeus will, itis reported, insist on making Serrano Premier of the Council as a reward for his recent service in quelling the Carlist in- surrectionary movement, and the most serious consequences are expected to ensue should he | persevere in his intention. It is possible that | Marshal Serrano may have acted too much on his own responsibility, but it is generally said, | notwithstanding, that he acted wisely and well; | but the knowledge of this fact does not by any | | means tend to improve the tone or avert the | file, He, danger of a Spanish political crisis, which has | | been induced, to a very great extent, by the | demoralizations which ensue from party strife, Treaty-Making Relations Between the United States and the Navigators Islands, We are specially informed by correspond- ence from the Pacific that the treaty-making | power of the United States has been exercised | in a manner very beneficial to the commercial | and marine interests of the American people by a representative servant of the republic | with the King and chiefs of Navigator's Islands. Negotiations have been conducted and concluded between the captain of the United States ship Narragansett and His Ex- cellency the native leader at Paga-Paga by which the use of a fine harbor and coaling sta- tion has been secured to our countrymen, be- sides the acquisition of a very valuable tract of land tor purposes of American cultivation and | profit. The United States flag was floated | over the territory, and a native commissioner despatched to Washington authorized to secure the formal ratification of the instrument. The wholesome effect and profitable consequences | which must ensue from the exercise of this simple and summary mode of treatment of | great international interests will serve to deal | another heavy blow and great discouragement which is at present observed. The Treaty of Paga-Paga will no doubt be in full operation our people are still being bothered about the Treaty of Washington, the Alabama claims | and a renewal of arbitration in Geneva. The ture—men who go to the point directly and after a fashion which should make Granville and ish blush for their hesitancies and their equivocations. Smatirrox Dino Our.—At tho meeting of tho Doard of Health on Wednesday it was reportéd that the “Trosh cased of smplipox for eit. | le constilate. | King and chiefs and statesmen of the Navi- | 0 simp) A | gator’s Islands are evidently noblemen by na- May 18, this is most encouraging news Let us hope that the vigilance of the com- this most dreadful of diseases shall disappear from our midat, The Soreheaded Sorecheads at Steinway Hall—Free Traders on the Warpath. The meeting at Steinway Hall last night, a report of which will be found in the Heraup to-day, is remarkable for nothing except the additional evidence it furnishes of the general breaking up of old party lines and of the dis- position among the people to cast loose from all former political ties and to takean independent course of their own choosing in the pending Presidential contest. The principal parties in the movement the meeting was intended to inaugurate represent a sort of double extract of soreheadism, and represent little else. They were dissatisfied with Grant's adminis- tration, or professed to be so a short time ago, and joined the Liberal Conventionists at Cincinnati with the alleged object of making a general reform in the government—a reform in the civil service, in the revenue system, in foreign relations, in amnesty, civil rights, and Heaven knows what besides. When they got to Cincinnati, however, their reform dwindled down toa single idea; they desired a free-trade platform, with free-trade candidates upon it, and were willing to abandon all the rest. As they could not obtain this their soreheadedness became aggravated, and they bolted from the bolters, resolved to make the best bargain they could elsewhere. Immediately upon Greoloy’s nomi- nation they repudiated the action of the Con- vention, in which they had taken an active part, and they now profess their intention to put new candidates into the field, representing their own single pet principle—entire free trade. They went to Cincinnati satisfied to abide by the action of the Convention, pro- vided the Convention acted as they desired. Beaten there, they turn their faces towards Baltimore, and as they will fare no better among the democrats they will settle down like sensible mon at last, and vote for General Grant, who is a free trader at heart anda sound, sensible Chief Magistrate. Mr. Simon Sterne and his associates will find it difficult to persuade the people of the United States to elect a Presidential candidate upon their one idea, although that unsuccessful re- former assures us that free trade was first agi- tated by the Almighty when He laid down the platform ‘Thou shalt not steal.’’ There are other issues at stake just now besides the tariff; and, moreover, the country is not pre- pared to accept the doctrine that the Executive is to use his power and in- fluence to control the action of Congress” on that or any other purely legislative question. Executive interference with matters not coming within the President's legitimate province has formed one of the most persistent charges brought by the soreheads against Gen- eral Grant, and yet these consistent free traders, who declaim against Grant, insist that their Presidential candidate shall stand pledged to yse all the force of the federal administra- tion to secure the triumph of their favorite principle, the failure or success of which depends wholly on the legislative branch of the government. We imagine, however, that their first difficulty would be to induce any person to accept a place on the ticket they de- sire to put into the field. Their candidate would stand about an equal chance of suc- cess with the straight-out copperhead nominee promised us by Daniel Webster Voorhees, The truth is, there will only be two live tickets in the field in November—those headed by General Grant and Farmer Greeley. The democracy may do what they please, and so may the Steinway Hall free traders; the people will array themselves under the banners of the two real candidates, | and no outside nominations would command a hundred thousand votes in the whole Union. The men who are opposed to Greeley will vote for Grant, and the most manly and courageous thing Voorhees and the free traders can do is to declare at once boldly in favor of the soldier candidate. This is what they mean, and this is what they should say. The Baltimore Convention may, and probably will, endorse Greeley, but it can- not bind the democracy to vote for him. The masses will act for themselves, and will bolt Baltimore as the liberals have bolted Phila- delphia., Of the democratic rank and under the lead of the New York organ in this city and Voorhees in the West, two-thirds will vote for President Grant's re-election, and the rest will give their ballots to Farmer Greeley. To talk of any other nominations is absurd. If the free traders are to bave a candidate of their F%wn we may as well have as many in the field as there are issues to be met—a distinct | representative for each. If they must nomi- nate a ticket they had better unite with the Woodhull party, who are practically in favor of free trade, and thus make at least a respectable display at the polls. allow the circus to commence. Let us have no more talk of separate candidates, but let all such democrats and disaffected republicans as prefer Grant to Greeley declare their senti- ments boldly and take their place in the ranks led ,by the Hero of the Wilderness, will find the solid commercial and financial strength of the country with them, and will have the satisfaction of fighting on the winning side. Prince Bismarck and the Holy See | The rejection of Cardinal Hihenlohe as the representative of Germany at the Holy See by the Pope has created quite a stir throughout the lately consolidated German empire. Prince matter, and cannot regard it otherwise than the snub direct. The subject has been brought up for discussion in the Reichstag, and Deputy Herr Von Bennigsen, a liberal, by way of retaliation for the act of His Holiness, proposed a reduction of the Embassy to the Holy See to Bismarck seized the ocea- sion to denounce the course pursued by the prisoner of the Vatican, in the rejection of Cardinal Prince Hihenlohe as the chosen representative of Germany, a3 an act unpar- alleled during his experience in the Foreign Office. It is easy to perceive from the reading of the Chancellor's speech that he feels sorely the rebuff administered. After he got through with his remarks Deputy Windthorst, the It is time all these side shows should close and | They | | Bismarck is particularly perplexed about the | si As compared with the previous week ending. | defensive, and showed, evidently te tho satis- faction of the , that the Pope had Good reason for the course he pursued in the mittee will be continued, and that all signs of | matter. The proposition of Deputy Von Bon- nigsen was rejected by a large majority, 50 that Germany will still continue to be repre- sented at the Vatican by an ambassador, and not by a consul. The Hydrography of the North Paci- fie—How to Obtain the Sovereignty of the Seas. One of the most important subjects now ex- citing the interest of scientific and commercial men is the early and active prosecution of our national marine surveys and explorations. In his last annual report the Secretary of the Navy earnestly and ably called the attention of Con- gress to the necessity of such researches as a practical requirement of our navy and mercan- tile marine. ‘While every great maritime na- tion,”’ he says, ‘is yearly prosecuting the sur- vey of unexplored or insufficiently determined avenues to commerce the United States has remained idle, and, taking advantage of the work of other nations, has by no means returned them an equivalent.’’ He takes occasion, also, to urge that ‘means at least be furnished for the prosecution of more general surveys, par- ticularly in tho Pacific Ocean and tho waters most traversed by our commercial marine.”’ ‘The Heratp has within the last year many times anticipated the Secretary, because, as the great representative of the people, who are generally far in advance of their rulers, the Henaxp speaks for the people. It would be a matter of surprise to us that the Secrotary of the Navy, having it in his power to order every government vessel to make constant explora- tions and surveys, should appeal to Congress, if we did not know that the results of such sur- veys, in the present fragmentary and ill-equip- ped condition of the Hydrographic office, would be of no use to the nation. There aro many im- perative reasons for the immediate and extensive prosecution of these researches and also for the corresponding equipment of the Hydrographic office to use and utilize them for the public good. Our knowledge of many parts of the Atlantic is very imperfect, and exposes our trade to many perils and detentions. Tho best routes for crossing the Equator are still very much in dispute; and especially is the naviga- tion of Cape Horn and of the hurricane-ray- aged islands of the West Indies not only im- perfectly known by the best hydrographers, but the knowledge we already have is most scantily disseminated. But in the Pacific the case is infinitely worse. In this broad and great expanse of waters there are thousands of discoveries yet awaiting the explorer's zeal and sagacity. In the North Pacific, where the English naviga- tors have recently made but few investigations, there are countless reefs, shoals and islands, to say nothing of smaller rocks and the con- stantly multiplying coral formations, which as yet are not charted, and on which every year numbers of lives and ships are lost. Geolo- gists find numerous striking evidences that this whole oceanic region is one of upheaval, and that beneath it the volcanic forces may at my moment throw up above the waters their pyramidal masses (as the island of Sabrina, which rose in the year 1810, in a single night, 400 feet above the surface of the North At- lantic), and thus obstruct the highways of commerce with new and unknown perils, In- deed, the very character of the North Pacific, so exposed to incessant changes from subma- rine volcanoes, would suggest the ne- cessity of keeping an international fleet of hydrographic survey continually upon its waters, even if they were already perfectly charted. So far, however, from this being the case, with the exception of theadded results of Admiral Rogers’ expedition, made nearly twenty years ago, the cartography of this ocean has not materially progressed since tho beginning of this century. The brilliant labors of the Japan expedition, under Commo- dore Perry, gave us the discovery and early limits of the Kuro Siwo, or Japanese Gulf Stream; butthey were never followed up. We are now greatly and specially interested to know, for the benefit of our Arctic whaling fleet, the entire movement of this immense ocean current of warm water into the Polar basin, and to trace the branches of the stream which are deflected by the Aleutian Islands and Alaska over upon our northwestern coasts, conspiring with other causes to give their abnormally mild and delicious climates. It would be a matter of profound interest to science to verify the reports of numerous navi- gators of the annual freezing over or gorging with icebergs of the entire channel of Behring Strait, by which the whole volume of the Kuro Siwo is arrested in winter and thrown over upon the shores of British Columbia and Washington Territory. But the greatest ad- vantage arising from such hydrographic sur- veysas we plead for is connected with our newly opening and rapidly expanded relations with the Japanese and the Eastern nations generally. With fostering care of our com- merce and navigation in the North Pacific we may soon come in for a goodly share of the enormous commerce of the East, of which Eng- land has for so many years been the allowed monopolist and aggrandizer. We cannot close this article without urging the great good sense and comprehensive states- manship of the official suggestion which has recently been advanced by Commodore Daniel Ammen, the distinguished Chief of the Bureau | of Navigation, that there should be ‘‘an agree- ment on our part with other nations to take up the surveys of such other seas as are not in progress of survey by them, and, if possible, adjacent to our own coast—such, for example, as the survey of the North Pacific, its islands, shoals and reefs, correcting longitudes and combining what is already known, so that that extensive sea can be navigated with increased It is not steamship subsidies for the enrich- ment of private enterprises that the commercial enterprise and welfare of the country needs, | but just such encouragement as we have here indicated, by which those that go down to the sea and do business in the great waters may know that their capital is safely invested. Eng- land won her present supremacy on the ocean by the exploits and explorations of her Cooks and her Drakes, her great and gallant seamen, like Raleigh and Ross and Franklin, more than by all the other means ever used by her states- men. It is only by similar labors of our own navigators, sustained by the most liberal and, if necessary, lavish support of the government, that the United States can ever hope to share tho wook onding May 25 ete only sixty-seven. | leader of ho Qatholic party, assumed the | in tho sovereignty of the seam | | 100) rubles each? Mme, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. | Ph bncpachal Massachusetts, is at the Astor” Governor John A. Burbank, rritory, { domictied at the st, Mictoins Hons a Count Gallte, Itgjian Consul at New Oricans, is “General G.Orstadon of Maier ee nae ere . of the New York Hotel. waa a Ex-Congressman F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Rev. W. M. Pettit, of Kentucky, is at the St. Dente Hotel. General Dagin, of the United States Army, ts sojourning at the St. Germain Hotel. Recorder A. Pollock, of Washington, ts registerea at the St. James Hotel. General Samuel Bacon, of Washington, ts stop- ping at the Grand Central Hotel. The Rev, Jabez Burns, D. D., the well and widely, known Baptist preacher, temperance lecturer aad author, of London, having recently come to this Country on a visit, was welcomed last evening by ® number of prominent church people of New York and Brooklyn, at the residence of his nephew, Jabez Burns, Esy., in Ryerson street, Brooklym Among the party were Rev. Dr. Davis, of Wales Rev. Dr. Hutchins, Dr, Whitney, of the Baptist Union, Mr. Dougal, of New York, Hon, W. Jeremiah, J. W. Pratt and others, The Doctor gave a very free and pleasant sketch of his recent tour through the Hold Land, and referred to the HeRALD’s discovery of Dr. Livingstone as something fully believed in im the Old World. He also contrasted what he had seen here twenty-flve years ago, on his last visit, with: what he has seen and expects to see now. Then he crossed the Ohio on @ canal boat, now he can cross it by rail or ride over it in magnificent steamers. The Doctor alse spoke tn a free and easy way of the labor agitations: which are going onin Europe, as well as in Amer- ica, and answered a variety of questions on rail- road travel, which appeared to interest the com- pany. Within the last few weeks It appears that the leading railroad companies in Great Britaim have voluntarily agreed to take their Parliamentary or emigrant trains (fare one penny a mile) on ex- press time. This is a great boon to the working peo- ple, who, for the sake of cheap fare, lost a great deal of time heretofore on the roads.’ bi The Doctor is going across the Continent gather- ing up religious and temperance statistics and ma- terial for a work on travel, which he will publish om his return to England. He has brought out a simple and interesting handbook of travel in the East since his late tour in Palestine, He is well known on this side of the Atlantic by the numerous works of his published by the Appletons. Though in his sixty-seventh year he looks young and vigorous as @ man of flity. FOREIGN FERSONAL GOSSIP. —Mr. Lowe’s budget is received with goneral fie vor in England, the only criticisms up to the present being that he might have done more, and that he has proved that the additional two pence in the in- come tax last year was not necessary. —M. Thiers visited the Chateau of St. Cloud re- cently to ascertain whether or not the building ‘was set fire to by means of petroleum. He found that the ce.lars and foundations are the only parts: of the building which remain in such a state as to be made use of, -—Prince Bismarck is credited with afresh scheme of some importance. He is said to contemplate a Postal Union, embracing Europe, the Russian and Turkish provinces of Asia and America. He pro- poses uniform rates through this union for letters and newspapers. ——The Sultan, in order not to disturb friendly rela- tions existing between Turkey and Russia, has re- fused the oifer of the Envoy of the Emir of Bokhara to invest the Sultan with the Suzerainty of Bokhara. aga protection to the Emir against Russia, The Envoy has consequently left Constantinople, FOREIGN MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES. A subscription is being raised in Paris to erect a monument to Auber. Mile. Chaveau, from Lyons, has made a successfal début, at the Paris Opéra Comique, in Mignon, M. Pasdeloup’s band of the Paris Popular Concerts will come here in June for a Jong provincial tour. The rehearsals at the Théatre Francais of “Le Chandelier,” of Alfred de Musset, proceed actively. A piece, in five acts, by M. Léon Laya, with a leading role for Madame Desclée, is in rehearsal at the Gymnage. Mlle, Tletjens has declined £4,800, with her trav- elling expenses besides, to sing two pieces for twelve consecutive days at the Boston Jubilee Fea- tival. M. Larochelle, the manager of the Théatre de Cluny, has become associated with M. Ritt in the Management of the new Théatre du Porte Saint- Martin. The death of Signor Lulgi Anglois, a famed double bass player, who once visited London, at Turin, is announced. He wrote a clever treatise for his in- strument. A new comedy, by MM. A. Achard & L, Bourgeois, entitled “Les Tyrannies da Colonel,” has been pro- duced at the Théatre de Cluny. The plot beara some resemblance to that of “Le Suppiice d’une Femme.” “L’Atfaire Lerouge,” a five act drama, adapted by M. Hostein from the well known novel of the same title of M. E. Gaborian, is the latest novelty at the Theatre du Chateau d’Eau, It is a strongly “sensational” piece, and has met with a favorable reception. According to the Rivista Europea General Giorgio Manin has protested against the performance of M. de Lorbac’s drama, entitled “Daniel le Manin,’? which was produced at the Chatelet Theatre of ry as being contrary to historical truth, anda false representation of the character of his ilus- trious uncle, Among forthcoming revivals in Paris are “Le Fils de Nuit,” of M. Victor Séjour, at the Gaité, and “La Closorie des Genéts,”” of M, Frédéric Soullé at In the plece first named MM. Lafontaine and Desrienx, and Mesdames P% and Devoyod will appear. In that of M. Soulié, M. Laferrire will take the role of Monteciain, and M. Larochelle that of Kerouan. A formidable list of forthcoming novelties is ane nounced at the Follies Dramatiques. The most note- worth ranged version of Molitre’s le Pourceaugnac;” “Les Bénélices,” a four act vaudeville of M. Henri Boc; five act comedy of M. 3 CH et Abailard,” in three . by MM. Clairville, Bus- nach & Letolif, and “La Cuisinigre Bourgeolse,” in five acts, by M. Busna. The new four-act opera-seria, by Signor Carla Pedrotti, “Oloma la Schiava,” was produced in Mo- jong on the 5th instant, with Signor Gallettiin the chief character, The composer was called for no end ot times, and there were two encores; but the critics pronounce the work to be somewhat heav: and labored, and blame Signor Pedrotti for not ad- the Théatre de Cluny. hering to the opérw boupe, iu which he has been heretofore so successful. » A correspondent from St. Petersburg thas speaks of Madame Lucca’s last visit there:—“The directors of the imperial Russian railwa sent a private saloon carriage for Mme. Lucca as far as the fron- tier. The prima donna proceeded like a princess ta the capital of the ruler of all the Russias, and dike ® princess was she received. The most distin- guished representatives of intellect, of birth and of money flocked to the Hotel Demuth to catch a word from the fair artist. And when she appeared? The acious theatre did not seem filled natives of e cold North; not a bit of it; the audience grected the lady from the bottom of their hearta with cheers and applause, as if St. Petersburg was inhabited only by beings of the purest Italian blood. For ten long minutes was the con- ductor obliged to lay down his stick, in order to give the audience time to manifest thelr apprect- ation of their visitor, And what kind of audience were they who thus welcomed her with fanatical applause? Is it enough for me to Inform you that tho dealers in. tickets sold their seats for 100 (say a first appeared as lina, Tn th ondon, every rival. The Prussians, nglish, asked for every number da capoz Russians were more ardent and energetic— they called on this queen of song more than twenty tines. Thus has Madame Lucca borne German art from the Spree to the Thames, and from the Thames Mozay' Berlin, to the Neva, leading it from triumph to triumph, from victory to victory. Itis said that the great little lady thinks of visiting America, If she does the success achieved in Europe will be increased in an Indnite progression, and then Panline Lucea will be the prima donna of both hemispheres,” AN EXPENSIVE SPREE. On Sunday night John Finney, of 937 Spring street, Timothy Downing and Charles Thompson were all night drinking, and brought up at an early hour Monday morning in an Eighth ward gin mill to take a parting drink, When Finney put his hand in his pocket to get’ his money he found $283 in money jrone, and is of the opinion his compan- fons took it, as he was in no other person’s company from the time he last saw his money until, = missing «it im They were arrested yoste: mornin » Von Geuchten, of the Twenty-eight raigned before Justice Ledwith, at As the complainant was unable prisoners took his macncy they were Aiacharged,