The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1872, Page 4

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New York, Wednesday, July 3, 1872. between 3d and Lexing- RTS. CONTENTS Paar. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The World We Know: Review of the Progress graphical Discovery—Libbie Garra- A Stupid and Cruel Blunder; The Death Sentence Not Commuted—More Newark Horrors—A Steamboat Sunk—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 4—Editorials: Leadig Article, “The World’s Great Lesson”—Amusement OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. is ES wS Discoveries and Their Announcements. S—The Filibuster Famine: Another Cuban Expe- dition Come to Grief—Another Filibuster—The Edgar Stewart—Cabie Telegrams from France and Spain—Telegrams from Mexico and Cuba—Hayti_in Trouble—Hostile Indians in Utah—The Heated Term: Another Day of be tera Melting in the City—Business No- ices, 6—Long Branch Races: Second Day of the Mon- mouth Park Meeting; Twenty-five Thousand Spectators; Three Grand Longfellow’s Great Triumph; Uncie John Har- per Happy—The Strikes: Employers Massing to Crush the Movement; Unions Growing Feeble; A Monster Procession in View—Aftairs in South and Central America—Murder of a Mayor—Meeting of the Board of Health—Ex- tensive Robbery ata Bathing Establishment. J—Advertisements, S—-stokes: Yesterday's Session Devoted Entirely to the Taking of Medical Testimony; The Theory of the Defence as to Injuries from Probing the Wound Upset; Must Have Died Any Way; Advised to Make His Will; The Mother and Sister of Stokes in Court; The | Prosecution to Close To-Day—St. Elizabeth Academy, Madison, N. J.—The Death of John Doherty—The Scatfold: Double Execution in Georgia ; Hanging of Lloyd und Holsenbake at Oglethorpe. from Eighth Page)— @=—The Scatfold (Continues Municipal Affairs—Financial and Commercial: Wall Street Deserted for the Long Branch Races; A More Active Inquiry for Money; Foreign Exchange Not so Firm; Erie Rallwa' Earnings—Departure of the Seventh Regl- ment for Saratoga—Reception of Female ae School No. 20—Proceedings in the ourts, 40—McCunn Guilty: Decision of the Court of Im- pesctunels Review of the Charges; The rindle Trial Progressing—The Big Jubilee— Yachting—The Joint Board of Aldermen and Patong iy of Brooklyn—Havana Markets— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. Tae Froususter Fann Come to Grier.— The Cuban expeditions which periodically leave these shores to aid the struggling patri- ots of the island in most cases end in disas- trous failure. But this does not appear to dis- courage the Cubans, to judge by the readiness with which they fit out new ones. According to a despatch from Havana the expedition by the filibuster Fannie—a vessel claiming American nationality, which sailed from Balti- more last month after having been detained and satisfied the scruples of the United States au- thorities—has been even more unfortunate than many of its predecessors. In the attempt to fand the Fannie got aground and was burned. She was probably set on fire by the Cubans themselves to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Spaniards. The expedition, com- prising fifty-six, landed, but were attacked by the Spaniards, their leader, Peralta, killed, several others captured and shot. Colonel Ryan, the famous filibuster, formed part of the expedition, but of him the report makes no mention. If captured jhe can expect nothing but the usual allowance of lead from the tender mercies of the Spaniards. Another expedition, on board a schooner called the Pilot, is on the way to Cuba, and Span- Ssh war vessels are on the alert, resolved to capture her if they can. Jupcz McCunn Decrarep Gurmty.—The ‘trial of Judge McCunn was concluded in the State Senate yesterday. According to our de- patch, published elsewhere, each charge was carefully read over to the members present and separately voted upon. Eight charges were ko recited and acted upon, the sixth only be- fing declared ‘‘not proven.” The eighth charge Wave rise to considerable debate in the Cham- ber, several Senators qualifying their votes by the words ‘substantially’ and “essentially.” 'The formal proceedings concluded, the entire question was put to the vote of the Senate and Judge McCunn’s removal from office was offirmed unanimously by the twenty-eight members of the Court. Tue East Rrver Brincx.—At a meet- ing of the directors of the New York and East River Bridge Company, on Mon- day, an interesting feature was the report from the Chief Engineer, making returnsas to the probable cost of the entire structure. ‘These estimates differ materially from the originals of the late Mr. John A. Roebling. Ac- cording to this eminent engineer seven million dollars were placed as the total sum of the cost, and the revised estimate of his successor, imade last May, places it at nine millions and bhalf. This is a considerable advance, and many people would be inclined to grumble, but the work is of such vast importance that the main point to be considered by the direc- tors of the company is its speedy completion. It is to be hoped that the tactics of the con- tractors of the new (or rather old) Court House will not be adopted in this instance pnd that the great work wil] be pushed for- ward with unremitting vigor. When such is once established between York and Brooklyn the community will more inclined to overlook many short- on the part of the directors. But, by Racing Events; | ‘Tne Werld’s Great Discoveries and ‘Their Lesson. cal researches the student of human progress finds the noblest and most momentous devel- opments of human activity. The discovery of the art of navigation necessarily preceded any extensive and general geographical re- searches, such as those which, since the fif- teenth century, have astonished the world by their magnitiv» and by their magnificent results, The famous expedition of the Argo- nauts, more than three thousand years ago, is the first credible account which has come down to us of man’s enterprise in the exploration of the globe. The wonderful activity of the Carthagenians in coasting along the great ‘continent on which they lived is well attested, and there are strong reasons for believing that in the flourishing times of the republic of Carthage the celebrated Hauno, sent southward along the western coast of Africa in search of discovery, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. To the Phoenicians of Tyre was reserved the greatest glory of ancient discovery, and we know that before the time of Solomon they had become familiar with the distant and auriferous land of Ophir, which has, until recently, been located in the East Indies, but now, by the late discoveries of Carl Mauch, more probably to be identified as the southeastern coast of Africa. While the Roman empire was in its infancy and struggling for that all-absorbing great- ness which it afterward attained, and even after it had risen to the summit of earthly power and importance, its policy did not en- courage its extension over the seas. To the Roman, as Gibbon tells us, the ocean was ever an object of terror rather than of curiosity. The nation of soldiers never conceived the idea of enlarging the bounds of the world and exploring its farthest shores. It was reserved for the hardy mariners of the Mediterranean— the classic sea—in whose stormy waters they had learned to manage their ships, about the beginning of the fourteenth century, to make the first use of the mariner’s compass and strike out boldly to sea in search of new worlds, From very remote periods the rich products of the East had engaged the attention and ex- cited the avarice of the Western nations of Europe. When Marco Polo’s wonderful dis- coveries in the thirteenth and fourteenth cen- turies were made widely known the desire of trading with the nations which he represented as abounding in wealth became so strong that an overland conveyance was established be- tween the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the shores of the Mediterranean. The exactions of the Venetians, Genoese and Florentines, at that time the imperious masters of the sea and the monopolists of Oriental commerce, forced Portngal to seek an avenue of opulence through other ports than those held by their more fortunate rivals. The idea of circumnavigating Africa and opening a new route to the East Indies was advanced to meet the emergency, and it seemed practicable, from the success of a then recent Portuguese voyage along the coast of Africa, which dispelled the notion of the equa- torial regions being uninhabitable from exces- sive heat. But while Portugal was maturing this project, which terminated subsequently in the brilliant passage of the Cape of Good Hope by the famous De Gama, the discovery of all discoveries was made by Columbus. Dashing across the vast expanse of ocean, towards which the maritime nations had long and ‘wistfully stretched their eyes, the great Genoese sailor, aided by the astrolabe of Mar- tin Behaim, forever tore away the veil of obscurity and terror that had hung over distant voyages, and from that time geographical research entered upon its grand career. England now, mortified at being, as usual, outstripped in the race of na- tional glory, sent out the great navigator, Se- bastian Cabot, the first authenticated discov- erer of Newfoundland and the American coast running thence to Florida. Vasco de Gama and Magellan, a little later, led the van of geographical exploration and accomplished the long, ardently sought project of finding oceanic pathways to “the golden shores of Cathay.”’ But these routes round the Cape of Good Hope—more honestly named Cabo ‘Tormentoso by its discoverer—and Cape Horn or the Strait of Magellan were so perilous, protracted and expensive that a passage to India by the north was univer- sally demanded, Columbus, whose apotheosis had been celebrated, had prophetically promised to the world ‘‘a way to the East by the West,’ and, as the Southern routes seemed so forbidding, it was concluded that the prophecy warranted the expectation of a short circle route to China through the Arctic Ocean. This fond dream of all the maritime nations has never given them rest, and in the last three centu- ries more tham one hundred and thirty well equipped expeditions have exhausted their energies in the attempt to find the Northwest passage. From the middle of the sixteenth century—1553—when the gallant old Sir Hugh Willoughby led one of the first of these expe- ditions, whose ill-fated issue has been perpe- tuated in the poet's lines— In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And to the stony peer his idle ak Immediate sealed. He, with his hapless crew, Each full exerted at his several task, Froze into statues. To the cordage glued ij ‘The sailor, and the pilot to the helm— | to the present day, the failures of this at- tempt have been most signal, and the paltry successes attained have been won only by cross- | ing plateaus and mountains of ice with infinitely more peril and pain than attended Hannibal's or Napoleon's passage of the Alps. The time would fail us to tell of the voyages of Burrough and Barentz to the frozen shores of Nova Zem- bla; of the expedition of our own ill-equipped, but heroic Henry Hudson, of Knicker- bocker fame, to the extremes of Spitzbergen; of the explorations of Wood, - Poole, Phipps, Fotherby and Baffin in these icy and cheerless regions, and last in this catalogue of daring adventure, the ever memorable expedition of Sir John Franklin in 1845 with the vessels Erebus and Terror, the tidings of whom brought by Captain Hall, less than two yeags ago, revealed the frightful fate of the imprison- ment of the survivors of the expedition for twenty years amid the stoniness of icy dark- ness and desolation, And yet, notwithstanding failures and dis- asters, these have not been in vain, The ‘traveller, bound over the heated wastes of the Sahara, finds’ his way by the line of human skeletons and the remains of caravans that have perished in the attempt to'crosg the “‘sea of sand.” Just so has it happened that the very failures of geographical discovery have proved the ultimate means of suggesting the true secret of future success. The fate of Franklin immediately led to the great exploit of Captain McClure, who, in 1850, while co- operating with Sir Edward Belcher in the search for Franklin, was the first to make the complete passage from ocean to ocean, from Beh- ring Strait to the Atlantic, passing around the northern part of our Continent. This brilliant movement was soon after eclipsed by Kane, in his memorable passage through Smith's Strait to find the open Polar Sea. All of these dis- coveries to which we have alluded were the legitimate fruit of the grand conception of Columbus, which led him to the discovery of the New World. We must rank with them also the discovery of the Pacific Ocean by Vasco Nunez de Balboa, and the wonderful early explorations in that ocean of Cook, Dampier and others ; of Sir James Ross with the Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic Ocean, where he found the open South Polar Sea; the discovery of the magnetic poles, so important to nautical science; the later researches of South American travellers and explorers, as Humboldt, Gibbon, Herridon and others, and the still later physical and deep-sea obsgerva- tions in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans; to say nothing of the very latest American, Swedish, Norwegian and German Arctic expeditions. In this brief epitome of some of the greater discoveries of human history we see that man- Kind needs just such events to rouse it from its lethargy and teach men to know that there is “more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in their philosophy.” Macaulay has said that “In every great stir of the human mind there is, doubtless, something which may well move asmile.’’ The death-like earnestness of Liv- ingstone may not be an exception to this re- mark. But the great explorer, doubtless, in- stinctively knows that his success is not to be measured by the immediate results he gathers so much as bya long train of geographical discoveries and moral and political develop- ments that will surely attend it. In the accomplishment of such results as we have here spoken of, and in the advance of physical and geographical science, the power of the press has been the strong arm on which the gallant explorers and patient investigators of our century have rested in their efforts to awaken governmental and popular interest in their beneficent labors. In this country, since the old philosopher, Franklin, published his Gazette, the voice of the press has made itself heard as the stanch ally of all that is solidly scientific and progres- sive. In England it is through the press that such men as Proctor, Huxley, Buchan, Lockyer and others have succeeded in awakening some national concern for the cause of physical re- search; and we can but regard the wonderful triumph of Stanley, the Hzraxp’s explorer, in his successful search for Livingstone, as a splendid triumph of the whole American press. Henceforth the great discoveries of the world, scientific and geographical, are to be heralded, not by the slow and ineffectual means of books and through the ordinary agencies of publication, but by the press of the land. The Trial of Stokes. Eleven days have been taken up from the calling of this case and the prosecution has not yet closed. As it progresses from day to day the various points in the theory of the defence take shape. The medical evidence given yesterday for the prosecution suggests | that they have endeavored to anticipate the defence on the question of cause of death. The testimony of Drs. White, Sayre, Steel and Tripler was emphatic that death resulted from the shock caused by a gunshot wound. Although peritonitis was present it was not sufficient to cause death. The cross- examination tilted at the treatment of these professional gentlemen, on their use of the probe, the opiates and stimulants administered, without shaking their allegations in the slightest. To make assurance doubly sure on this point the reply was elicited by the District Attorney from Dr. Sayre that ‘death would have re- sulted anyhow.’’ The quicksands of technical testimony have shipwrecked many an admir- able case for the prosecution, and it remains to be seen whether the prisoner will be able to eallon his behalf respectable physicians to swear that Fisk could not have died from the wonnd, but did, in all probability, from the treatment. Doctors disagree very often, and when they do the subject matter wraps itself up in a terminology difficult for blank jurors to follow. The prosecution, however, has taken very positive ground on the cause of death, and seems to require more than opposing possibilities to shake it. A witness for the defence was examined because he wanted to return to Rhode Island. His evidence related to a sporting matter in which the prisoner was interested. He promised, this witness alleges, to attend a meeting on the 9th of January. As the shooting took place previously Stokes was in prison on the day of the engagement. Counsel were not demonstrative on either side yesterday. Labor Reformers in Search of a Can- didate. Like ‘Japhet in search of a father,’’ the labor reformers are searching for a candidate in place of Judge Davis. The Boston Adver- tiser (administration) announces that they are about to try their hand again in the national convention line next week. The President of the Columbus Convention, whose residence is in Boston, will issue a call inviting the dele- gates to that Convention, and other members of the labor party, to assemble in Teutonia Hall, New York city, on the 30th of July, and immediately after the executive committees of the different States will send out subsidiary calls stating the object of the meeting to be the consideration of the declination of Judge Davis of the Columbus nomination and the propriety of making a new nomination. The Advertiser is of opinion that the friends of ‘that eloquent orator and amiable critic of mankind,’ Mr. Wendell Phillips, will zeal- ously endeavor to secure his nomination at this Convention. It is refreshing to know that New York city is to be honored with another National Vonvention this Presidential year, and whether ite labors result in raising the standard of Wendell Phillips, or any of the season. (Jovernor Parker, of New Jersey, the nominee of the labor reformers for Vice President, our readers will have noticed, has also declined to run on the labor ticket. Here is another opening for some as- piring individual who is ambitious of learning how to “labor and to wait.” Send in your proposals, gentlemen, for the nominations at the Convention in Teutonia Hall, on the 30th. The Press asa Teacher of Seience— Superiority Over All Other Media. The theme of the unexplored is one which ever arrests the attention of mankind. Super- stition and fable rest their sources beyond that ever-receding line which hardihood, hope and calculation are ever intrenching upon. Our old romances fade before the ex- plorer, giving place to realities not less roman- tio, and the sure foothold forward once gained it but remains for time to note the next step in advance. Rarely now are the fruits of dis- covery lost to the world. A thousand media exist for stamping them permanently in the mind of man, and at the head of these stands the press, It is not twenty years since the process by which the world at large gained its knowledge of these finger-posts of Progress was a very slow, uncertain and halting one. A discovery, for instance, in astronomy, chemistry or geography—which last. is the science by which we learn the features of the world’s face—had, in these old times, to be slowly filtered before it reached the masses; and defective school books, long after the new facts were arrived at, gave an earnest of ignorance to the rising generation on matters of great importance. The traveller, safe from his perilous explorations, wrote papers to scientific . societies, whose contents seldom oozed out of the libraries of the members, if indeed they ever got beyond the musty archives. By and by the returned traveller, after much chaffering and huckstering with sundry book publishers, sat down to write his volume. It, of course, took a, con- siderable time, and the book, when published, was high-priced and _ rigidly protected from vulgarization by a long copy- right. It was bought only by the diletlanti, the blue stocking and the scientific themselves, Excepting the latter, a few chapters furnished the select body of readers with matter for ostentatious conversation. From these hands it percolated some time. through lectures to a larger circle, and came to the profanum vulgus in about as vague a shape as the old fable land it had supplanted forever. The establishment of lending libraries helped the diffusion for- ward, and individuals who founded their hunger in youth for geographical knowledge on such fascinating but questionably nourish- ing pabulum as ‘Gulliver's Travels” and “Robinson Crusoe,’’ devoured the solid books as fast as they could lay hands on them. The balance of profit lay. almost entirely in the pockets of the publisher up to this. Next came the lecture system, which worked wonders. Yet the whole population cannot find room in the lecture hall, and hence a readier means was wanted to achieve the grand principle of diffusion. This was found to lie in the newspaper. From the moment that this became apparent the difficulty was solved. Aided by ‘the telegraph the press pushes forward to grasp the fruit of knowledge wherever it grows, and the next in- stant, as it were, it is held to the lips of the entire world. Such is the mora! of the success of the Heraup’s expedition to Central Africa. The great Livingstone, with his story of marvels, stood at the very best calculation three years off from civili- zation. Had even the merciful Providence which guided his footsteps and guarded his existence through desert, forest and jungle, through the home of beasts of prey and sav- ages but little above them, still tended his foot- steps ,until he came back and breathed into anxious ears the secret of the Nile, hundreds of thousands would have passed away to whom the planting of the Cross among the heathens would be ‘tidings of great joy.’’ The Henatp’s expedition, in its success, tells all this, and those who trembled for Living- stone’s life breathe reassured, while millions upon millions, who never heard before of Tanganyika Lake or the Chambezi River, find their curiosity awakened for further news o! the mysterious continent. ‘ Pushing steadily up the White Nile is another Hznaxp expedition, from whom we last heard at Berber, where the fitful Atbara empties into the great river of Egypt. It is in the wake of the Sir Samuel Baker’s expe- dition, who, at last accounts, was pushing amid hostile tribes for Lake Victoria Nyassa. It is not improbable that this expedition will proceed south over Lake Nyassa, and, gaining Ujiji, push for the east coast by the caravan track to Zanzi- bar. The record of sucha journey would be rich in its store of varied information and possibly may bring still later news from Liv- ingstone. Eternal vigilence is the price of journalistic superiority, and these expeditions furnish some material to show how the Henatp will hold its place. Fiddle-Faddle in Washington. We are informed from Washington that the State Department has suggested to President Grant the propriety of bringing home Dr. Houard, the released American victim of Span- ish tyranny, in one of the vessels of our Eu- ropean squadron, as a public recognition of his American citizenship. We trust President Grant will be guilty of no such piece of egre- gious folly. After our ignominious backdown on the Alabama question, when we confronted ® powerfal nation like Great Britain, we should become the laughing stock of all the governments of Europe were we to make a great hurrah about this simple act of justice performed by a comparatively weak nation like Spain. The fact is, our whole foreign policy is weak and pusillanimous in the extreme; there is nothing in it to excite the admiration of American citi- zens; on the contrary, there is much to humiliate and shame us as a nation ; and to get up hullabaloo, with processions, bands of music, salutes, bonfires, illuminations, buncambe speeches about the American flag, and soon, would make us appear like a little boy with his first bunch of Fourth of July fire-crackers—exhilarated over a very small other prominent map, the aggir will, no doulyh | matter. But the suggestion is so ridiculous that we do not imagine the entertain it fone moment. . / At last the ‘much talked of treaty between France and Germany, providing for the evacu- ation of French territory by German troops, hasbeen signed. The treaty was signed on Saturday last by Count Remusat, on the part of France, and by Count von Arnim on the part of Germany, and it is provided that the ratification must be effected within one week after the date of signature. Much misappre- hension has existed in the public mind regard- ing the character of this treaty and its proba- ble effect on the immediate future of France. The treaty does not provide for the immediate evacuation of French territory. It does not even shorten the term of occupation. The last milliard of francs of the war indemnity, with the accrued interest, is not to be paid until the ist of March, 1875, What the tréaty does provide for is as follows:—Two months after the ratification of the treaty France pays one-half milliard of francs, and then the Marne and the Upper Marne departments are to be evacuated. Another half milliard is to bepaidon the 1st of March, 1873, and another half on the Ist of March, 1874, and then the Vosges and the Ardennes Depart- ments are to be evacuated. As we have said, the last milliard isto be paid on the Ist of March, 1875, and then the departments of the Meuse and Meurthe and the fortress of Belfort are to be evacuated. It appears, then, that France is to be offended by the hated presence of the invader for well-nigh three years to come. In the National Assembly, on Monday, when the treaty was read, great disappoint- ment was felt when it became known that by the clauses of the treaty, although provision was made for the gradual evacuation of cer- tain provinces, the right was reserved by Ger- many to retain on French soil the entire strength of the army of occupation until the indemnity was fully paid. While we write the Minister of France has ‘not yet submitted his bill for raising the loan requisite to enable him to meet the obligations of the treaty. The terms of Bismarck are most unquestionably hard; and it will not be at all wonderful if the French people should insist on some further modification of the treaty before it is finally accepted by the nation. If the evacuation of certain provinces leaves the Germans the right to concentrate in one particular province, the treaty just signed must be pronounced a huge and unmitigated blnnder. We are willing to believe that on this point there is some misun- derstanding. The Case of Libbie Garrabrant— Capital Punishment as It is Bungled in This Country. It seems that the report of the commutation of the punishment of Libbie Garrabrant (who is confined in the prison at Paterson, N. J., and sentenced to be hanged on the 19th instant) from death on the scaffold to im- prisonment for life was altogether premature: The Court of Pardons, before whom the matter was laid some time ago, have come to no decision as yet in the premises, and therefore the ‘quality of mercy’’ has not entered into the case of this wretched girl— up to the present hour, at least. Whoever was the cause of this premature report deserves the severest repre- hension for his blunder. It was the very refinement of cruelty to congratulate the half ‘ demented condemned upon her escape from the gallows and then bring again to her weak understanding the terrible truth that her doom was still unchanged and that she was destined to an ignominous end. Torture of this kind could hardly find a parallel in the annals of the harrowing torments of the Council of Ten of Venice. And the least the ‘New Jersey Court of Pardons can do under the circum- stances is to commute the punishment of the unfortunate creature to imprisonment for lite, as first erroneously reported, and of which report she was cruelly made the victim. The fact is, the whole system of capital pun- ishment, as practised in this country, is a bun- gle and a blunder from beginning to end. Nine times out of ten the trials of criminals accused of murder are farces, and the courts of justice made the arena for personal wrangles among lawyers, when the proceedings should be conducted in the most solemn, dignified and impressive manner, After conviction— when such a thing does occur—the culprit is taken back to prison, allowed the consolations of religion, sees his friends, is furnished with luxuries and treated more like a hero who de- serves well of his country than one on whose brow the mark of Cain is branded. Then comes the scaffold scene, which is frequently made a tragedy in a double sense. It too frequently happens that our country sheriffs, who have to do the work of the executioner, know nothing at all about their business, They go about the matter tremblingly, as if they felt in their consciences they were themselves about committing an act for which they were to make a fellow being suffer. They do not know how to adjust the rope; but, as a general thing, they know more about fixing it so as to choke a man to death instead of breaking his neck and depriving him of life almost instantly. They are experts in the cruel process of suffocating a malefactor to death, thus keeping him in lingering torments from ten to fifteen minutes, and sometimes more, before life is extinct. The true way to carry out the extreme penalty of the law is to have regularly hired and paid professional executioners, the same as they do in most foreign countries. One of these professionals would answer for an _ entire State, and thus relieve from an unpleasant duty some of those country sheriffs who make the scene of an execution more like a Methodist camp meeting than the awful one it should be, then pump the poor wretch above whose head hangs the fatal noose for an address, a confes- sion, a few “last words,” sing another psalm, cut the rope, and the body writhes in a state of agony shocking to humanity for many minutes. We say capital punishment should be abolished altogether, or that executions should be conducted in such a manner as to avoid the implication that the law means to inflict ‘‘crnel and unugual punishment’ upon criminals, which is contrary to the spirit and letter of fundamental law, as every one knows. ‘Woe again urge upon the Court of Pardons in New Jersey to exercise all the clemency they can in the case of Libbie Gerrabrant. She PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. oP —_. —____. General John 0. Fremont yesterday arrived at the General Judson pete Kilpatrick, of New Jersey, is a¢ Captain H. P. Connors, Star, 1s at the Sturtovant House, ibaa 90 M. de Westenberg, the Minister has arrived at the Albemarie Hous” a General John F. member of C from Illinois, is at the St. Nicholas oa Colonel R. F. Bates, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel, Captain C. W. Kennedy, of the steamsntp has found a haven at the Grand Central pe aga 1 Marshal Serrano’s conduct towards the Qarliste has been approved by the Spanish Senate, ro¢é Serrano, Marshal Forey, who has been indisposed for some time, is now dangerously ill, and the doctors have little hope. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. His intentions, though not “Pacific,” are O. K. aims, Archbishop Manning presided at the annual meet- ing of the Westminster Diocesan Education Fund, at St. James Hall, London. Earl Winterton has sent in his claim to vote for Irish representative Peers. That recently made by the Earl of Antrim has been allowed. Sefior Castelar made a speech recently in the Spanish Cortes, in which he undertook the defence of the Commune and the International, Bishop Naniszarrowski, the Prussian army eccle- siastic, who will shortly be tried for breach of mili- tary discipline, has been appoipted a prelate of the Papal throne, M. Von Brandt, the German Minister to Japan, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House from Washington. He will sail for.Germany on Satur- day on the Bremen steamer. M. Deak has been elected member of the Hun- garian Diet for the Central district of Pesth by 1,100 against 130 votes, The announcement of this result was the signal for an enthusiastic demon- atration. ; V. Shirkoff, the Secretary of the Russian Lega- tion, is at the Brevoort House. He does not act ag his name implies, for when M. Catacazy was com- pelled to summarily ‘shirk off” the duties of Minis- ter Mr. Shirkoff acceptably performed them until the arrival of Baron d’Offenburg. Count von Moltke has sent to the Russian Staf® Academy his portrait and a letter, in which he thanks the members for having forwarded to him an account of their proceedings, and testifies his thorough approval of the excellent system adopted in the superior education of the Russian officers, M. Soldatenkoff, of Russia, yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. This gentleman is an en- voy of the Russian government, whose mission to this country has been to examine our reformatory institutions and to note their best features, that they may be used in the reformation it contem- plates making in the conduct, &c., of its own prisons. M.de Soldatenkoff has almost concluded his tour of observation and will soon return home to make a report, whose recommendations will be of benefit in removing many antiquated practices from the prisons of Russia, He should call on Pope Jones, who will show him the whipping closet as @ hint for the land of the knout. MR. GREELEY’S MOVEMENTS. Mr. Greeley passed the morning yesterday at the Lincoln Club, opening and answering the numerous letters that come to him marked “Private.” Al- though his secretary is constantly with him he per- sists in answering most of the letters in his own remarkable chirography. A number of visitors called upon him during his sojourn at the club, among them General Hayes, Major Haggerty, lately of the Custom House; John Maullaly, Colonel Dudley and others. At two o'clock the Philosopher went to Mr. Johnson’s, om Fifty-seventh street, where his clothes were, took his bag and bi ‘and went to the Fall River boat in a carriage, accompanied by Mr. Fonda, Theodore Tilton and Samuel Sinclair, who will visit the Jubilee with him. As the boat shoved off the band played ‘Hail to the Chief,” and the crowds om the ‘shouted and waved their handkerchiefs. ‘The following visitors were registered at the headquarte: Glenham Hotel, yesterday:—J. C. Derby, New York; W. W. Owens, Baltimore, Ma. + E. ©. Cavell, Tennessee; Thomas L. Ogier, New York; M. B. Lindsay, St. Louis, Mo, ; Alfred Wilkin- son, New York; John Benedict, Massachusetts; Col- onel J. G. Dudley, New York. THE ABDUCTED CANADIAN. Dr. Bratton Held in Bonds to Antwer fot Complicity in Hanging a Negro Militim Captain. . YORKVILLE, S. C., July 2, 1872. Dr. Bratton, who is alleged to have been abducted from the Canadian Dominion, is now here under bonds. The charges against him are complicity in the hanging of one Jim Williams, @ negro qilitia captain, on the night of the 6th of March, 1871, just after the attack upon the town of Chester by. the negro militia, When martial law was declared here Bratton fled to Canada, where he remained ‘until the 6th of June last, when he was kidnapped in London, Ontario, by two Canadians and brought to Detroit, Michigan, on that night. There he was formally arrested by J. G. Hester, a United States Deputy Marshal belonging to this district, who brought him to Yorkville, arriving on the 10th of last month, He remained in jail until the night of the 13¢! when he gave bail in the sum of twelve thou: dollars for his appearance before the United States Circuit Court at Columbia on the first Monday in August next. There has been no information re- ceived here whether or not he has been demanded the Canadian authorities. Indeed, it is gene! believed that such has not been the case. That he was forcibly abducted at the instance of Hester ig @ well-known fact, but whether it is a breach of international law remains to be proved. Heater is here, and he treats the rumor of the demand for the return of Bratton and himself with derision, THE NEW DOMINION. The Reported Changes in the Cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald. TORONTO, July 2, 1872, The Matt, the government organ in this city, says :—‘‘We have reason to believe that several im- portant changes will at once be made in the dispo- sition of officers at Ottawa, the necessity therefor being caused by the appointment of the Hon. Alex. Morris Minister of Inland Revenue, to be Chief Justice of Manitoba. John O'Connor, M. Pp. for Essex, will be sworn in as the successor of Mr. Morris in the Cabinet, that gen~ tleman’s portfolio, however, being taken by Dr. Tupper, and Mr. O’Connor tal the duties of President of the Council. Mr. O'Connor accepts office under Sir John A. MacDonald as a representa- tive Catholic, and his name will be associated with those of Sir’ Dominick Daly, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Alleyn, Mr. D'Arcy McGee and Sir Edward Kenney, all of whom have successively occupied seats in the same Cabinet with the present Premier of the Dominion. QUICKSTEP PARK RAOES. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 2, 1872. There was a fair attendance at Quickstep Park to-day, notwithstanding the intense heat, The first race was for horses that have never beaten three minutes; purse $2,000; $1,000 to firat horse, $500 to second, $300 to third and $200 to fourth. There were ten Malate rg seven horses started, The race was won by Ella Wilson in three straight heats. Time, 2:35%—2:31%—2:32, Jenny ‘was second, Henry R. third and Vanity Fair fourth. The second race was for horses that have never beaten 2:34; purse $2,000, divided as in the first race, There were fourteen entries and seven horses started. The race was won my aay Kate, of De- troit, in three straight heats. Time, 2:36}4,—2:85— 2:38%. Fred, of New York, was second; Indiana, of Cincinnati, third, and Wade Hampton, of Baltt- more, fourth, EME ev EXHIBITION OF THE ACADEMY OF ST. AGNES, ‘The third annual exhibition and distribution of premiums of St. Agnes’ Academy of Our Lady of Mercy will take place this afternoon at the instita- tion, in East Eighty-first street, Aah 39 and Fourth avenues, at three o’cloc! re ‘The occasion will be @ most interesting one for pupils of this inatitation, is under the man- agement of the ladies of the Order of Mercy. Pre. miums will be ted and an address will be made by His Grace Archbishop McCloskey.