The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1872, Page 4

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Paan. 1—Advertisements. a—Advertisements. 3—Advertisements—Marriages and Deaths—The Great Strike; Indignation Meeting of Work- men and Incendiary Speeches; Resolitions of Revenge; The Iron Founders in Council Re- solved to Resist to the End—The Supervisors’ Civil Service—College of the City of New York—Brooklyn Public School Reception— The Warm Weather—Anniversary of the Coro- nation of Pius IX—Meeting of the Board of Health—‘The Chapter in Erie’”—Miscellaneous Telegrams—New York City News—The Leaky Excursionist. 4—Editorials : roading Article, “The Geneva Con- ference and Its Doings, Omcial and UnoM- clal—The Judgment of the Court on the Claims for Indirect Losses—Amusement Announcements. S—The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from France, England, Spain and Cuba—The Monster Musical Jubilee—Political Intelli- ance Mace ilaneous Telegrams—Business e8. 6—The Campaign in Brooklyn: Republicans of Kings County Ratify the Philadelphia Nomi- nees—The German Liberal Republicans—New- ark Politics—Miscellaneous Campaign Noves— Virginia: The Old Dominton's Thousand Dem- | Ocrats to Visit Baltimore—Trotting at Mystic Park—Trotting at Fleetwood Park—Yachting: The Fifteenth Annual and Fifth Union Re- tta of the Brooklyn Yacht Club; The Wal- 13 ~~ Regatta; Sale of the Schooner Magic—A Prison Boiler Explosion: Nearly One Hundred Convicts Blown Up; No One Killed; List of the Wounded. | J—Advertisements. kes: Another Day's Tedious Search After a Jury; A Preparatory Tilt Between Counsel— Gordon Gordon; The Case Resumed Before Judge Brady, of the Supreme Court—A New Orleans Sensation—Rum and Murder—Di: mond Cut Diamond—Fatal Blow from Hatchet—Hagerty’s Haul—Abandoned Wa: The Railroad Smash Up at Metuchen, N. J.— Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts. 9—The Courts (Continued from Eighth Page)— Financial and Commercial: Duiness and Sameness; Money and Governments Steady and Quiet; The News from Geneva Alarmi the “Bulls” in Gold; Stocks Dull, Higher and Strong—Domestic and Foret, larkets—The Northern Pacitic Railroad—The Alabama Claims: England's Anxiety in the Past and Courage of the Present—“Those Unpaid | Bills"—La_ Salie colnge Philadelphia—A Drowned Body Recovered. 10—We, The People: The Free Traders of Tooley Street Regulating National Affairs; Eighteen Bolters from the ‘Beat’ Conference in Con- vention; William 8. Groesbeck, of Ohio, and Frederick Law Olmsted, of New York, Nomi- mated; A Full-Blooded Free Trade and Revenue Reform Platform—Shipping Intellt- gence—Advertisements. Tae Dary Borer Exprosioy occurred yes- terday in the prison yard at Columbus, Ohio, and, although it did not result in the usual loss of life, caused severe bodily injury to nearly a hundred of the unfortunate convicts. ‘The boiler in this case had actually exploded a year ago, and is stated to have been leaky ever since. The fact that the sufferers “were persons already dead in the eye of the law will not be taken as an excuse for going so close to killing them out and out. There will probably be an | investigation, but the experience (if any) | fathered will scarcely be applied by those who | have most interest at stake. Tue Denver axp Rio Granpe Rartnoap.— This railroad has just been completed to the | city of Pueblo, and arrangements have been | made to carry on the work with all possible | speed as far as El Paso. The future of the road is full of promise, and the rich country through which it passes will contribute largely toits prosperity. It is, moreover, contemplated to extend the road so that it will run through the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas, on to the city of Mexico. This | once completed will, no doubt, exercise a} healthful influence on the future of the Mexi- can republic. The railroad, as a rule, has always been a great civilizer, and there is pos- | sibly no country in the world needful of such | an influence as much as Mexico. | THe Spans AUTHORITIES IN Cups appear to be in constant trepidation of American fili- bustering vessels. This apprehension betrays | them into many high-handed absurdities. | While we have a report that the steamer Fan- nie has succeeded in landing in safety her freight of men and arms for the insurgents in Cuba there comes another announcement that the steamer Columbia, which had put into the port of Sagua la Grande, was suspected by the authorities of being likewise a filibuster, and placed under guard of a Spanish gunboat, to prevent her from landing some expedition orother. In the case of the Spanish authori- ties the words of Richard IIL. to his victim, King Henry VI., ‘The thief fears in every bush an officer," might be appropriately re- vorned to “The officer fears in every bush a thief.” Judgment of the Court on the Claims for Indirect Losses. The Henatp special cable despatch from Geneva published this morning darts a ray of light through the darkness that has hitherto enveloped the Court of Arbitration, and gives promise of a clearer atmosphere and a brighter prospect in the future. While Lord Granville and Secretary Fish have been exhausting their wonderful diplomacy in earnest and commend- able efforts to settle the latest misunderstand- ing that has arisen between our gov- ernment and that of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Defender of the Faith, the practical gen- tlemen who are sitting in the black, white, red, green and gold upholstered apartment of the Hotel de Ville in Geneva are reported to have cut the Gordian knot into which the Alabama arbitration has been tied, and to have thus, like Alexander, found a short way out of the difficulty. Ifthe rumor be well founded the question of the admissibility of claims for indi- rect losses has actually been decided by the Geneva tribunal, and decided adversely to the United States. At the meeting of the Court on Wednesday last, it is said, the arbi- trators considered the important preliminary point officially presented to them as to their power and authority under the Treaty of Washington to entertain the claims for in- direct damages made on the part of America, and arrived unanimously at the conclusion that such claims could not be pressed by the United States as the grounds of a money com- pensation before the tribunal. This decision is to be announced on the reassembling of the Court on Wednesday next, the 26th inst., at which time the genial President, Count Sclopis, will, in the space of a few seconds, destroy all the complicated machinery of the supple- mental article, clear away the confusing litter of diplomatic controversy, throw out of the window of the court room into the pleasant little garden in front of the Hotel de Ville the eight months’ adjournment demand of the stately Tenterden, and leave the road free from all obstructions for the final arguments of the two governments on the remaining points in dispute between them. The state- ment of our special correspondent is strength- ened by the semi-official report from Wash- ington, which credits the rumor of the judg- ment of the Court, and declares that it will be accepted and obeyed by our government. Several weeks ago the Heratp advanced the opinion that the only practical and sensible mode of settling the vexed question of the in- direct claims was by referring to the Court of Arbitration the preliminary point of their ad- missibility. We argued that this course was not only the one dictated by common sense but would be honorable alike to both the Eng- lish and American governments. The claims for indirect losses, having been made in our case in clear conformity with our rights under the treaty, could not have been withdrawn by us at the dictation of England with honor and self-respect, and the weakness of our govern- ment lay in the slightest deviation from that position. At the same time the people of the United States did not desire a money compen- sation from England for the losses sustained by the nation growing out of the acts of the Anglo-rebel privateers. They were quite willing to set off any amount they might have been justly entitled to against the handsome apology of the Queen of Great Britain for the escape of those vessels from British ports. As England thought proper to object to the intro- duction of indirect claims into our case, and as a difference of opinion arose between the two governments as to the authority of the Geneva Court to consider and decide upon such | claims, it was plainly the province of the arbi- trators to give judgment upon that preliminary issue, the second article of the treaty making it their duty to “impartially and carefully ex- amine and decide all questions that shall be laid before them on the part of the govern- ments of the United States and Her Britannic Majesty respectively.” But England inter- posed an objection to the entertainment by the Court of the subject of indirect claims in any form or under any circumstances, reserving ‘all Her Maj- esty’s rights’’ to withdraw from the arbitration in case they should be retained at allin the American case. This policy was doubtless pursued by the English government in the apprehension that the judgment of the Court might possibly have been favorable to the presentation of this class of claims, in which event, having submitted the question to the decision of the Court, they would have been precluded from resisting its verdict. It now happens that the judgment of the Court has actually been rendered on this issue pre- cisely as the Hegatp maintained that it ought to be, and that it has been given against our- selves and in favor of Great Britain. This result has been reached without the direct act, consent or connivance of the English govern- ment or their agent at Geneva, and hence we may conclude that it will be accepted by England, and that the arbitration will pro- ceed without further interruption. In other the danger of being cast in heavy damages for the indirect losses entailed upon us as a nation, through the acts of the piratical ves- sels built, equipped and protected in her ports during our rebellion, she can now afford to suffer the business of the Court to proceed without stickling for the formal withdrawal of indirect claims. The result must be regarded asan American victory, for we have secured all that we insisted on, to wit, a decision of | the Court of Arbitration on the subject of | these disputed claims. The truth appears to be that our lawyers at Geneva have outwitted the English agent and counsel, including the | Lord Chief Justice of England, in getting the | | the issue fairly and fully before | Court. Inthe application for postponement made of ‘indirect claims,'’ in conformity with the determination of his government not to recognize in any way their existence before the tribunal. The application simply re- ferred to subjects in controversy between the two governments and not yet settled, as the reasons for desiring delay. When our coun- sel were applied to by the Court for their confirmation of these pleas, whole subject of indirect claims was brought officially before the arbitrators, only desired the settlement of a principle. The English counsel thereupon claimed that under the seventh article of the Troaty | tant precedent of Chief Justice Obase, who was | nearly bundred miles an hour, words, England having been insured against | | stead to their mast. We ought probably to the arbitrators were only empowered to consider claims in relation to a money award, and that hence these indirect claims, for which the Americans avowed no money award was sought, must be rejected by the Court. Our counsel caught at this suggestion and agreed that the tribunal should give its judgment on the point raised by the British side, our desire all along having been to bring the subject of indirect claims to a decision by the Court, with which object we had refused to accede to the demand of England that they should be withdrawn altogether from our case. Upon the whole, we suspect that the English government will not regret having been out- generalled by the Yankee lawyers at Geneva. The affair having been thus definitely set- tled, and the curtain having fallen on this sen- sational drama of ‘Much Ado About Nothing,” we are told that all the members of the Court, English, American, Italian, Brazillian and Swiss, have packed up their valises and fled to the Valley of the Pennine Alps. There, three or four thousand miles above the level of the sea, cooled by the sight of old Mont Blanc, with his mantle of perpetual snow, and sweet- ened by the taste of the white, aromatic honey given by the bees of that won- derful region, they will forget the heat and sourness of embittered controversy, and grow as amiable as turtle doves. The jovial coun- tenance of Count Sclopis will beam with moro than its customary good humor; the brown cheeks of the citizen Staempfli will glow with more than their ordinary color; the bland Sir Roundell Palmer will be more courteous and graceful than usual; the Baron Itajuba will shrug his round shoulders with delight, and even the little old English Judge with the long-shaped visage and red face will look pleasant and agreeable. As to the Ameri- cans, they will all be in high feather, and will chuckle at the thought of England having at last, after all her bluster and fuss, submitted the indirect claims fairly to the Geneva Con- ference and accepted a formal decision of the Court upon their validity. One of the great sights of the Chamounix valley is the flowery island called the Jardin, which stands smiling in the gayest colors and the most fragrant perfume in the midst of asea of ice. The Geneva party will probably recognize in this a symbol of the bright and pleasant spot called up by the Court of Arbitration in the midst of diplo- matic desolation created by Lord Granville and Secretary Fish, and when they return to their labors at the Hotel de Ville they will probably be careful not to risk again the disturbance of that harmony and good feel- ing which the sensible action of the arbitrators seems to have brought about. Here, in New York, with the thermometer at ninety-seven in the shade, we may at least be thankful that | this Alabama nuisance is in a fair way of being finally abated. The End*of the Anti-Greeley Free Trade Fiasco—A Funny Ticket in ‘the Field. That the men of one idea of the Free Trade League worked like beavers to get up the Cincinnati Convention, in view of a new departure and a new party for this Presidential contest, all the world well knows; that their one idea was a Presidential contest on free trade they were industrious in proclaiming in advance; that they were outrageously mocked and insulted with the Cincimigti nomination of Horace Greeley, the fiercest of protection- ists, nobody can deny, and that they should attempt what they did undertake against him, a diversion in behalf of some other man for the approaching democratic convention, was perfectly natural. But, if they were shocked by the nomination of Greeley by the Cincinnati liberals, what must have been their feelings to see him exalted as the man for the crisis by the confidential conference called to pronounce against him? The Conference assembled, and after anum- ber of men had delivered their opinions—some for Greeley and some against him—and after it had become apparent that the anti-Greeley free traders—a few voices in the corner—would not be reconciled to the Chappaqua wood- chopper, it was ‘‘resolved that this Conference do now adjourn sine die, without any further expressions of opinion beyond those had from the individual members ;” and so they adjourned. But after the Conference had dispersed Judge Stallo, of Ohio, called a meeting for the next day (yesterday) of thosé who were dissatisfied with the blank report of said Conference. And so it was that yester- day there was another Fifth Avenue Hotel Conference of the dissatisfied anti-Greeley free traders, and this time ‘‘all by themselves.”’ We give an account of their proceedings in, another part of this paper, from which it ap- pears that Judge Groesbeck, of Ohio, is the proper man, in their judgment, for the Presi- dency in this contest against General Grant, and that they cannot rally for Greeley anyhow. They are also of opinion that Mr. Frederick Law Olmstead will be a better man for Vice President than either Brown or Wilson, and so they nail the colors of Groesbeck and Olm- say that they nail them at halfmast as a token of respect for the departed hopes of the Fifth Avenue Conference. This leaves these parties precisely as they stood before, with some advantages gained in favor of Mr. Greeloy—namely, the advantage of the support of Senators Schurz and Trumbull, which before was doubtful; the advantage of a entered by Lord Tenterden no mention was | | departure but a new revolution. | Presidential the | our side declaring that they did not seek a | money award for this class of damages, but | handsome victory over the implacable free | traders in a game of their own contriving, and | the advantage of an open road and no more | current which Mr. Glaisher, the English | drawbridges or toll gates all the way to Balti- | more. There it is now morally certain Mr. Greeley will be nominated by a two-thirds vote, and more, on the first ballot, as the democratic candidate for the White House against Gen- eral Geant. Now, we call this not only a new Well, as poor Ophelia says, ‘we know what we are, but we know not what we may be."’ Martin Van Buren in 1840 was the President and the candidate of the Southern slaveholders and the champion of slavery; | but in 1848 he was the Presidential standard bearer of the Northern abolition- ists. Fillmore in 1848 was run as an anti-slavery man on the ticket with General ‘aylor, but in 1856 he was run as a defender of slavery. And without referring to the | change of base on the part of John Tylor and of Andrew Johnson, we cannot omit the impor- ® candidate for the republican nomination in 1864, for the democratic nomination in 1868 and for the democratic-republican nomination, on a new departure, in 1872. The fact is men are nothing, principles are everything; but where both the great parties have used up their distinguishing principles, other things being equal, one man is as good as another and sometimes a great deal better. This is mani- festly the case with Mr. Greeley as the demo- cratic candidate. He bridges over the chasm between the old departure and the new, be- tween the liberal republicans and the democ- racy, between the South as it was and the South as it is. Before the war in venturing down South he would have ventured at the risk of his life ; now some of the most ultra of the old Southern slaveholders come up to New York to endorse him in a free trade con- ference. These things are wonderful; they belong to that class of wonderful things which Lord Dundreary says ‘no fellow can understand.” They are the croppings out of great revolu- tionary agitations, when old party leaders are thrown into the rear and new men come to the front. We see that there is a great and spon- taneous democratic transformation going on all over the country in favor of Greeley. We see that there is a tremendous power in this movement, and that, with Greeley as tho democratic candidate, we are on the threshold of one of the most exciting and most hotly contested Presidential battles in the history of the country. The French Government—Cabinet Ten- der of Resignation. The French government is vastly impeded in its efforts for national recuperation by the turmoil and tactics of the contending political parties in Parliament. President Thiers meets, evidently, a vast deal of trouble in his excellent endeavor for the completion of harmony. We are told to-day, by telegram from Paris, that the executive affairs of the republic are approaching to an important crisis rapidly. It appears to us, judging from the subsequent portion of the report, as if the point of difficulty has already arrived. The interview which was had between M. Thiers and the members of the Right on the 20th inst. completed a rupture between the Chief of State and that section of the Assembly, and leaves the government dependent entirely for constitutional support on the party of the Left—a poor position and very demoral- izing as a public precedent. The forces of the Right held a caucus, at which much irrita- tion was vented against the venerable states- man. Then again the Cabinet is divided. The members of the Ministry tendered a resig- nation of their portfolios. The President persuaded them to remain in office, which they did, with the single exception of the head of the Department of Public Works, who has, it appears, gone over to the opposition. Next we are informed of a legislative caucus coquetting with the Bourbons—the Duke d’Aumale having been invited to a committee- room conference with the sorehead Right. The idea of having to ‘persuade’’ public men, and Frenchmen at that, to continue in the ser- vice of their country is not a very heathful sign for the perpetuity of the spirit of patriot- ism in the land, nor do we approve of the course of holding the members of a deposed royalty—excellent citizens as each of them may be individually—in a sort of everyday terrorem over the head of the administrator of a republic which has been freely chosen by the unanimous acclaim of the millions, and, so far, exhibits vast strength and power. This system of party tactics is, to say the least, un- dignified, and not in any way respectful to the existing representatives of the kingly race whom it is sought to so use, or honor, as it may be taken, The Paris Treasury negotia- tions with Germany for the relief of the soil of France from the burden of the war indemnity are progressing favorably. We are glad of this, for it is really here that France must begin. She must be truly free, of her debt as in her honor, before she can expurgate the.’ republican constitution from the taints and sores which have been induced upon it by the strifes and vulgarisms of mere political party. Meteorology Av: Itself of the Bal- loon—An Important Ascent. A series of aeronautic and aerial experiments is to be made on the 4th proximo, by the Sig- nal Office, in the monster balloon Colossus, of Mr. Samuel A. King, of Boston. The ascent will be made from Boston Common duritig the festive commemorations of the great day. The balloon is of the finest texture and of immense size, having a circumference of one hundred and ninety-one feet, with capacity of nearly one hundred thousand cubic feet, and is said to be the largest ‘ship of the air’’ ever yet launched in America. The most important passenger it will carry will be the meteoro- logical observer detailed by General Myer for the special duty of gaining all the physical information to be had in its voyage in the cloud land and amid those lofty upper currents which roll in silent but majestic force. Ser- geant Schaeffer, the observer sent on this sci- entific mission, is distinguished for his keen perception and instrumental skill, and is already on the spot, thoroughly supplied and equipped with all the meteorological apparatus and instruments proper to his work. The public will henceforth look with great interest to all aeronautic ascents which include scientific investigations of the high atmos- phere. Meteorologists have long asserted that | @ great band of warm equatorial air moves | aloft over our Atlantic seaboard, and forms a part of that grand, fan-shaped, equatorial aeronaut, ascertained to move from the south- west to the northeast over his own country with steady volume and great velocity, and which he characterized as a ‘Gulf Stream in the air.’’ Since Mr. Glaisher’s aerial voyages the French balloonists alone have made some sixty or seventy experiments, and generally with similar results. The most interesting of these was that of M. Rollier, who travelled with cloud-speed from Paris to Christiana, in Norway, over twelve degrees of longitude, in a northerly course, and over eight degrees of latitude, eastwardly, or, in a straight line, over twelve hundred miles, in fourteen hours, in a little less than twelve of which he crossed over the North Sea. We presume, of course, that the signal ob- server in the forthcoming adventure will not be taken by surpise if he encounters in the higher atmosphere such @ current as may carry him towards the sea with a velocity of Such an NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Geneva Conference and Its Doings— | of Washington experience, ina modified form, was that of Mr. Lowe, in 1860, during his voyage from Philadelphia in the famous balloon City of New York. He found that the higher he went the faster his aerial ship trended away to the eastward and the faster it sped forward. ‘The investigations now to be made in the latitude of Boston may serve to demonstrate the exterior northern margin of the great upper air belt, and this alone would abund- antly repay the labor of the survey. _ The Latest Chapter in Eric. The approaching election for a new manage- ment of the Erie Railway naturally excites a good deal of interest on account of the con- flicting statements as to the controlling influ- ence of the different parties concerned. We. havo already given an exposé of one scheme by which the London clique of speculators in the stock have agreed, for a consideration, to rein- state the leading spirits of the old Erie Ring. Tf, as conjectured, these speculators have parted with their interest in the stock since the closing of the transfer books, the election on the 10th of next month promises to render fuller justice to the stockholders than the framers of the law pro- viding for the election were sanguine of get- ting. One of the sections of this law has been carefully drawn so as to require that the voters of election day shall be the parties in whose name the stock stood at the closing of the transfers. There can consequently be no jugglery in the interval to election, The stockholders of record must on the day of elec- tion be also stockholders in fact. Otherwise they are disfranchised. The speculators who have sold their stock will therefore be unable to vote, and the legitimate owners of the stock, who are, as a general thing, conserva- tive men and haters of stock gambling, will decide the complexion of the new Board of Directors. The section of the law referred to is as follows: — SECTION 6.—It shall not be lawful, at any election for directors of said company, for any person or persons to vote either in pereen or by proxy upon any stock standing in his, her or their name on the books of said com: in case he, she or they has or have parted with his, her or their interest in such stock and no longer has or have possession or control of the stock certificate therefor, when his, her or their vote thereon 1s offered to be cast; but this provision shall not be construed to prevent any person or persons having stock etna dee his or their name, whichis held by him or them as trustee or agent, and of which he or they holds or hold possession of the stock certificate, from voting thereon in person or by proxy. The inspectors shall be entitled to examine upon oath any person on ering to vote upon any stock at any such elec- tion, elther as principal or attorney, in respect to the existence within his knowledge of any circum- stances disqualifying the stock from patie voted on by him in virtue of the foregoing provision of this section; andifsuch disqualification shall be satisfactorily shown tothe Inspectors, either by such examination or otherwise, the vote shall be rejected. Getting Into the Ark. The Free Trade Conference, just adjourned sine die, shows that in time of deluge all hands make haste to find a craft that will float. The Conference, called by a fine evasion to take any means to beat Grant, meant also by inten- tion any means to beat Greeley. It relied too much upon a supposititious notion that both Grant and Greeley were equally repulsive to the liberals, whereas the important element of time had intervened, and it was proved that in this mean time of deliberation more than half the crew had resolved to accept Greeley, and therefore the Conference was beaten by itself. This is as it must have been, by the free traders’ own axiom, which has taught us for several years that the security of a republic lies in two well organized and opposing political parties. It is seldom that a third party move- ment avails, and this always in the event of exceptional and widespread disturbances in the popular idea. The democratic party has been the wiser. It saw clearly that escape from its own past lay in taking judicious advantage of a split in the republican ranks, whereby the onus of a new departure was shifted to those republicans who could begin the new departure without compelling any democrat to take back water and meet his own record. By this device the democratic leaders would be enabled to change column, and at the same time lead the new column by polling their new com- mand, which would assuredly vote them the seniority on the score of possessing the greater number of recruits. Men are not willing to “depart’’ altogether from a long record, even in the face of impregnable facts, when they must be put on the defensive upon that record and yet be unable to change the facts. A friend with a better record must step in to relieve them, and this friend is liberal republicanism. It says:—“‘We expunge all that has been; we vote and favor only what must be, and we invite co-operation.’’ Now, four-fifths of the liberal republicans are only ancient democrats, who ‘‘departed’’ in 1858-'59 on the issue of slavery extension, and they feel in better com- pany back in the democratic fold than with the regular republicans, who see longer uses for the party of the war. If both schools of dem- ocrats can make it personally comfortable to be oblivious that Bull Run was ever a retreat or Appomattox ever a surrender, it will be pos- sible to restore the party of Jackson and Pierce in all its entirety, and with all its polit- ical knowledge and marching intact. The rebel democrats appear to have abandoned their rem- iniscences already; the Northern democrats surrender their biographies more slowly; but Baltimore, where the first blood was shed, seems probable to be the spot where the act of expungement will be per- formed, and the two columns of the democracy propose, awkwardly enough, to reunite under the standard of a regular old whig, who supported Harrison, bolted Taylor, and finally, in pursuit of his own individuality, bolted even Seward and Weed. The free trade coterie is an excrescence respecting men rather than opportunities ; it cannot forgive Greeley for his old beliefs, and it is hazarding the doubtful possibility of floating in a second ark over the waters of the political flood tide. While we respect these amateur mariners we must give the good Mosaic advice, ‘Either get in the bigger ark with Greeley, or refuse to believe in the deluge and stand out on the solid ground with Grant."* The Good Writ says that on the occasion of a previous deluge it was ordained that the end of all flesh had come, and that the earth being filled with violence, a new departure was nec- essary. Otherwise, parties were breaking up after the war and a new beginning had been resolved upon. So the old man Noah, aged six hundred years, received the com- mand to take charge of the ark, other wise Horace Greeley. He was a good old nepotist, and took in his sons and his sons’ wives first. Next the animals were invited, and they poured in by sevens and by pairs— the seveng being the clean beasta and the oy pairs the unclean beasts. Certain of the clean beasts—the free traders, idealists and straight- out democrats—took exception to any unclean beasts whatever coming in. The 9th of July was approaching, and still these invincible purists kept out, They had no reverence for Noah Greeley himself. They feared he would be controlled by the kangaroo, John Cochrane ; the armadillo, Hank Smith; the elephant, Jeff Davis, and the Chautauqua tiger with the feline tread, Reuben Fenton. So they called a conference, at which it was plain to be seen that four-fifths of the animals were already superstitious about the deluge, and these made the crows, roars and barks peculiar to their species, and walked into Noah Greeley’s ark. Half a dozen or more remained outside and built a new boat. Before the 9th of July further changes will take place. The smaller boat will be occupied by the venerable poet and the two Lloyds, who trust to the natural buoyancy of youth to float Over any inundation. The bigger ark will con- tain & very remarkable and numerous menage- rie, presided over by an old gentleman with hia trowsers rolled up and prepared to wade if if should be found to be a shower rather than a deluge. If it be @ deluge the little boat will be swamped. If it be nothing, the bigger ark will be a monument and afford copious second rate lodgings. If it be either, the little boat will contain a very conspicuous crew, who are just now getting jeers from all sides and shortly will pass out of observation altogether. had neither superstition to get into the ark nor faith to stay ashore. They half believed in the deluge, but bolted it on account of the unpopularity of the commander, as if the poodles and billy goats had walked ashore, saying:—‘‘We may be drowned, but that is preferable to hearing that particular Noah give us our commands!”’ WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, June 21, 1872, Movement of Secretary Fish. Secretary Fish will leave Washington to-morrow night for New York, thence to Boston to attend im that city next week the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund. The Treasury Head and Sub-Head. Secretary Boutwell will return to Washington to- morrow night, and early next week Judge Richard- son, at present Acting Secretary, will leave Wash- ington for a brief visit to Boston. Decision on Leaf and Fine-Cut Chewing Tobacco. In reply to a letter from a wholesale leaf tbbacco dealer in New Orleans, who states that he buys leaf tobacco of various grades and in hogsheads too light for export, and who has a warehouse where, after assorting and classifying the various gradea of tobacco, he repacks it in merchantable hogs- heads in its natural condition, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue says :— If you wish to know whether under the new law you can continue this business and whether you can repack leaf tobacco in bales of fifty and one hundred pounds each and sell the same, a8 well aa tobacco tn hogsheads, to duly authorized dealers in leaf tobacco, in reply I have to say that, under the new law, as a dealer in leaf tobacco, you can assort leaf tobacco and repack it io hogsheads, cases or bales of any size and weight you please. Such hogsheads, cases ales you can sell to duly authorized dealers in leaf tobacco and cigar manufacturers, who have paid the spectial tax as such, and to such persons as are known to be purchasers of leaf to- bacco for export. But you cannot, under the new law, as a dealer in leaf tobacco, sell to parties other than those just named, or break hogsheads, cases or bales and retail therefrom. It has been decided that a package of fine-cut chewing tobacco of less than one ounce will not be, under the new law, a hoe package, even witha one ounce stamp attached. Claims for the New Increase of Pension. The following circular will be issued to-morrow by the acting Commissioner of Pensions :— Persons who are already pensioned under the act of June 6, 1866, at either of the rates of $15, $20 or $25, are entitled, by an act passed June 8, 1872, to increase rates, and may secure such increase with- out formal application and without the intervention of an attorney; nor will any attorneyship be recog- nized in such cases. A letter from the pensioner oa as above addressed to this office, enclog- ing his present pension certificates and giving his Post Office address, will be a sufficient presentation of his claim for the increase. ‘The certificates will receive such endorsement by this office as will authorize the payment of the in- creased rate, and will then be forwarded to the Pension Agency at which the pension is payable, ang the pensioner will be notified of such transmis- jon. Revenue Stamp Swindlers. Information has reached the Treasury that par- ties in New York are endeavoring to swindle manu- facturers and brewers by professing to be able to sellat very low rates tobacco and other stamps, through the medium of parties here who, they allege, are able to secure such stamps without cost. Itis needless to say that all such offers are the efforts of swindling operators to impose upon the public. New National Banks. Tne Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Citizens’ National Bank of New Philadelphia, Ohio, with a capital of $100,000, and the Stone River National Bank of Murfreesboro, Tenn., with a cap ital of $50,000, to commence business. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. iene Ex-Congressman George Dudley, of Connecticut, is at the New York Hotel. Captain T. Clarke, of the British Army, ts at the Clarendon Hotel. General J. L. Fisk, of Montana, is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. General W. F. Barry, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Astor House. Colonel D. Bidwell, of New Orleans, is at the Gran@ Central Hotel. General Dick Taylor, of New Orleans, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. Governor Hoffman has appointed as one of the Commissioners to propose amendments to the , State constitution, B. D. Silliman, of Brooklyn. “What's in a name?” Dr. William M. Gwin, formerly United States Senator from California, is a delegate from that State to the Baltimore Convention. The sometime Duke of Sonora’s sonorous voice will at the Con- vention, it is said, call for Greeley to be let “Gwin and win,” E. H. Rotlins, of New Hampshire, the ex-Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The ex-Commissioner is, as is natural, somewhat depressed by his late failure to be ele- vated to the United States Senate. He keeps cool on ice. Why Senator Schurz did not meet Mr. Greeley and a select coterie at Delmonico’s yesterday morning, as had been arranged, has of course been explained properly, else the Senator and Mr. Greeley’s henchman would not have chatted in a manner so perfectly free and easy as they did on the steps of the Brevoort House last evening. The Philosopher, Horace White and the long-haired lib- eral blonde sat down to their matutinal meal together, and its enjoyment was little detracted from by the absence of Mr. Schurz. NAVAL ORDERS. WASHINGTON, June 21, 1872. Rear Admiral Joseph Lanman has been detached from the command of the South Atlantic fleet and is placed on waiting orders. First Assistant Engi~ neer James L. Vanclain is ordered to the Talla. relieving First Assistant Engineer Wilsoa . Purse, who Is placed on sick leave. THE EFFECTS OF YESTERDAY'S BEAT. Thomas Burrows, aged 40 years, a laborer, waa prostrated by the heat at 77 Lewis street yesterday afternoon. He was removed to the Eleventh pre- cinct station house, attended 7 Dr. Saville, and sent home. Fitz Eberiine, S2 year, Of 602 Ei a treet, was found suifering from tie heat ta Thirt re treet last night. "he waa Attended by Dr. Smith, at the Twenty. Proving. ‘atation house, and seat home,