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

i , NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON. BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVII. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Scnxerper: on, Tax Oxp Hous on THe Ruwe. Matinee at 2. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, 14th st. and Broadway.— Taw Onaxp Ducnsss. WALLACR'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirt it strect.—Tus Last Tava? Camps sci BOWERY THEATRE, B —P ~Tae Hi in Pp ti rs ei uTNAM—Tae Hippe THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Vantery Exten- i ini Rees ete eae Wak akooes WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwa: Wow Our. Afternoon and Eyenin LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, Minstnets. Matinee. i a TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Tar Miu Gius. Matine: Bye HOOLEY'S OPERA HO Faiunp, £0, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garpuen InstRumentaL Concent. corner Thirtieth st.— 2) Broadway.—Gxorara K, Brooklyn.—Everynopy's TERRACE GARDEN, Sth st. between 3d and Lexing- ton avs.—Su:tuxn Evanine Coxcenrs. PAVILION, No. 683 Broadway, near Fourth street.— apy Oncuxstra. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Science anp_Anr. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway,—Art anp Screncr. SUPPLEMENT. Me=“The Day We Celebrate.” It is the Fourth of July, ‘the glorious Fourth,” the nation’s birthday, the new year of the republic and the ninety-sixth since that great declaration was made, that ‘these col- onies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.’ Only ninety-six years ago was this declaration made to the world, and what do we now behold? “Behold!” says an inspired orator of Arkansas, ‘behold our proud bird of liberty!—and his name is ‘E Pluribus Unum’—behold him perched upon the loftiest snow-clad pinnacle of the Rocky Mountains, with his right wing flapping the Atlantic and his left wing fanning the Pacific Ocean, while his glorious head, crowned with the North Star, is encircled by the corruscations of the Aurora Borealis, and his expansive and expanded tail overshadows the ‘Halls of the Montezumas’ and the Gulf of Mexico! Behold him, fellow citizens, grand, glorious, gorgeous and sublime, and let the eagle scream!’’ Touching our ‘proud bird of liberty,’’ this covers the ground. If, there- fore, we had intended, under the heading of this article, anything like a patriotic outburst of spread-eagleiam, we should, on hearing him, have been constrained to give it up, in deference to ‘the gentleman from Arkansas."’ Still, without undertaking the high flight of this Western poet, and without rohashing the vainglorious fustian of the average Fourth of July expounder of American liberty, we hold that ‘the day we celebrate’’— one of the greatest days in the history of ———— = Sete nn a New York, Thursday, July 4, 1872. CONTENTS OF Page. L—Advertisements, W—Advertisements—Marriages and Deaths—Long Branch Races: Third Day of the Monmonth Park Meeting; Four Fine Cqntests—Racing Prospects at Saratoga—Miscellaneous Cam- aign Dashes—Vacation—Sad Cases of rowning—“Admiral” O'Keefe, 8—Stokes: Testimony of Stokes’ Captor; Close of the Medical Testimony and of the Case for . the Prosecution; Opening for the Defence; Argument of Counsel—The Long Strike: The Teutonia and Germania Hail Meetings; Meet- Ings of Minor Societies—Music and the rama. @—Etitorials: Leading Article, “The Ninety- Sixth Year of the Republic—The Day We Cele. brate’’—The Alabama Claims-—Personal Intel- ligence—Weather Reports—Amusement An- nouncements. JeLivingstone’s Rescue: Rejoicing and Excite- ment tn England Over the News—Congral Sherman's Tour—The War in. ¥:..1.co—The Cuban Filibusters—The Fighting in Cuba— ‘Telegrams from France, spain and Rome— Fatal Disasters at Sea—Miscellancous Tele- atyms—The Greefey Jubilee: Horace Greeley ‘tu route to Gilmore's Babel; Enthusiastic Entry into the Realms of Yankeedom—Busi- ness Notices. i! S—The Heated Term: One Hundred and Fifty-five Cases of Sunstroke Yesterday, Seventy-two of Which Were Fatal; Scenes at the Morgue and at the Park and Bellevue Hospitals; The Names of the Victims—St. Agnes Academy: Third Annual Distribution of Premiums—vhe HERALD and Dr. Livingstone—“A’ Terrible Temptation: Lady Bassett and Mary Wells in Chicago—The National Rifle Association— A Fiendish Outrage. %—Advertisements, 8—Indgpendence Day: How the Glorious Fourth Is To Be Celebrated in the City; Where, When and How the Pubiic Celebration. is to Take Place; The Day in op tein Newark anda ‘Newburg—Proceedings in the Courts—New Steamships—Who Wants to 1s A Baby ?— Father Tom Burke on the Twelfth of Jaly—A Railroad Smash Up—St. Tammany : His in the Days of the Revolution; New Jersey a Decade Ahead of New York in Doing Honor to the Great Indian Chief. ®—St. Tammany (Copan aed from Eighth Page)— Financial and Coumercial: The Eve of the Glorious Fourt) a Half Holiday; The Treasury Sale of Gold; The Stock Market Quict and | ‘TO-DAY'S HERALD. mankind—is this day entitled to a few remarks, and we are confident of the unanimous concurrence of our readers in this opinion. It would be but the repetition of » well-worn story to say that ninety-six years ago tho United States consisted ofa few feeble settle- ments scattered along the Atlantic coast; that the vast regions beyond the Alleghanies were almost unknown to our people; that in ‘those good old times of the original Ben Franklin’s post office establishment the journey between New York and Philadelphia, if made within three days, in times of mud and high waters, was not slow, and that an Atlantic trip of six weeks against prevailing westerly winds was doing very well ; that in ‘the times that tried men's souls,’ in our War of Independence, it was hard work on the part of the Continental Congress to maintain an active force of twenty-five thousand men in the field, and that the whole number of Americans, French and English directly concerned in the deci- sive revolutionary struggle at Yorktown (1781) was less than the number of prisoners turned over to General Grant in the surrender of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863 ; nor would it be news to the boys and girls of our common schools to tell them that so late as A. D. 1803 the west- ern boundary of the United States was the Mississippi River ; or that in a treaty with the first Napoleon President Jefferson purchased for fifteen millions of dollars the magnificent territory of Louisiana, extending from the Mississippi “ indefinitely westward and from the sources to the mouth of the river. Nor need we go back to the oldest inhabitant to find the man in Florida who remembers the time when, with the acquisition of that land of flowers, oranges and alligators, he Strong—Judge Prindle’s Trial—The Deposed Judge: An Interview With Ex-Judge Mc- | - Cunn—brooklyn Affairs—Reception of Gram- mar School No. 27—Iow; Convention—Found rowned-—Board of Audit—Cricketing in Canada. 20—The Tobacco Tax—The Seventh Regiment at | Saratoga—Alleged Attemp Abduction— | Army of the Tennessee—Shipping Intelli- | gehce—Advertisements. { siocisec rR s | i = Liberal Republican | ceased to bea Spaniard and became one of our people, We shall, on this occasion, therefore, pass. by ali these conspicuous landmarks in the progress of our country as too well known in connection with ‘the day we celebrate’ to need here a recapitulation, Nor shall we Genenat Suenman has left Geneva, after a | pause to mention the fact that even so late as yery quiet sojourn in the city, as will be secn | by our special despatch from Switzerland | to-day. Miss Nellie Grant bas taken her de- | parture also. \ Tae Latest Wan News From is not of a startling nature. According to | our special despatch from Matamoros there | is a lull in the operations, for the simple reason that the “sinews of war’’ have given out. War can nowhere be carried on without | money, least of all in Mexico. The Juaristas in particular appear to have “a plentiful lack” of funds; consequently the report goes that the garrison of Matamoros are in a mutinous frame of mind because pay is not forthcoming, and revolutionary agents are at work endeavor- ing to bribe the malcontents into a pronuncia- mento against the government. Mrxtioo | Tur Arapama Crams Anpirration Corne- SPONDENCE.—The British government has pub- lished the correspondence which took place be- tween the Queen's Ministry and Lord Tenter- | den, Her Majesty's agent for the arbitration of | the Alabama claims in Geneva. The official issue appeared iti London yesterday. It is YVoluminous, of course, but hopeful of a final friendly settlement, by way of compensation, perhaps, for its bulk. Earl Granville is satisfied | with Lord Tenterden’s course of action. which has been already realized by the arbi- | reform.’” | California. He | appears to be pleased, also, with the progress | “9 rr s tiation: General Grant at the rate of a hundred mil- trators, and satisfied. with the ‘good feeling” | which has been evinced generally during the judicial proceedings, This looks exceedingly well for the final conclusion, subsequent to the reassemblage of the tribunal, July 15, if the investigation concerning the special cases of the ugly privateers does not tend to distarb the prevalent harmony. Lance Sarement or Specie rrom San Francisco to Asta.—The steamship Great Republic has just taken in one shipment the vast sum of one million one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars in specie to Japan and China. This shows how our trade with that part of the world is enlarging, and shows, | at the same time, that China and Japan con- tinue to be the great gulf of the precious , amazing results to the general benefit of man- | metals, as they have ever been. This has been and is the case particularly with China. There | is an enormous and constant drain of specie from this country to both the old coutinents— | to Asia on the Pacific side and Europe on the | Atlantic. Fortunately we have the precious metals to export. Our mines continue to yield a large amount, and gold and silver have become like cotton or tobacco—articles of trade. Still, as the precious metals are con: sidered the basis of value and the regulators of the money markets, every great commercial nation ought to prevent as much as possible too great a drain of them from the conntry We ought to begin to consider what article ‘we can supply the Asintic markets with, so a to make'the balance of trade more favorable without the shipment of vast amoants of the | precious metals. the year 1828 the expenditures of the national government under John Quincy Adams, of thirteen millions a year, were regarded by the Jacksonian opposition party so extravagant as urgently calling for ‘‘retrenchment and Nor shall we recur to the annexa- tion of the republic of Texas, which brought on the war with Mexico, and next that treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which doubled the area of the United States and opened to us a new world of enterprise and progress with the discovery of the gold washings and mines of But we cannot omit the subse- quent purchase by Mr. Seward of Alaska, that vast hyperborean empire of four hundred and cighty-seven thousand square miles, for seven million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold, because the cod fisheries of the | Alaskan bays and inlets are destined hereafter to make an important figure in the commerce of the United States. But as our territorial expansion and manifest | destiny are completely covered by the patriotic | gentlemen from Arkansas; and as everybody | knows that our population has been enlarged | from three millions to near forty millions, our national income from five millions to four hundred millions cash down, our national | debt from nothing in 1834 to three thousand millions in 1865, and that the payments of | our national debt have been going on under | lions and more per annum, we need say | nothing here upon these points. Nor are we | called upon here to sing hozannahs over these | achievements, or to recite the revolution | effected from the Southern rebellion in the | | for wpon all these things, in a thousand ora- | an essentially vital crisis in the history | tions before the sun goes down, the American | of the French government has been inau- people, far and near, at home and abroad, on | gurated, President Thiers meets it by a repe- thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments of the constitution—that great revolu- | tion which elevates Uncle Tom from the con- | dition of a chattel or an outlaw to the civil and political status of ‘a man anda brother;”’ The Nincty-Sixth Year of the Repub- | it suffice that, reform or no reform, our assoss- | France by tho calamities consequent on a ments of taxes never fail. What, then, shall. we say of this day of the resurrection of equal rights, ‘the day we celebrate ?’’ Shall we compare this ‘glorious Fourth” of 1872, celebrated all over the , Union, with that of 1862, when the Northern line of the Southern confederacy was a line of blood and fire? No; let us rather rejoice over the return and general reign of peace, and that sectional harmony in which we find the Southern lions of the rebellion and the Northern lambs of the Union lying down to- gether on the cool platform of brotherly love. Nor will we tantalize our fellow citizens de- tained in town to pass tho ordeal of thirty-six hours of fire-crackers, horse pistols and pyro- technics of all descriptions by recalling to them the reviving surf of the cool Atlantic, the refreshing summer winds of Pike's Peak, the charms of a morning sail among the icebergs of Baffin's Bay or of a night’s lodging in the virgin woods near Yellowstone Lake, where the air is fresh from heaven, and where they have a delicious frost every night in the year. Dismissing, then, all the topics suggested, we have enough in the achievements of a single year for this day of the emancipation of the the fruits of an ineffectual, yet grand, national army effort against the conquests of a powerful invader. If President Thiers can succeed in nurturing the material interests of France to.a profitable patriotic manhood by means of a careful isolation in the swaddling clothes of protection, why England herself must acknowledge that the theory of Richard Cobden was incorrect, and France proclaim that the calculations of Chevalier and others of her living children are erroneous, and their deductions consequently fallacious. The Deadly Heat and Its Terrible Consequences. The sad story of Niobe is familiar to all versed in heathen mythology. Offending the god of day, Apollo, she saw her twelve chil- dren struck down by his fiery shafts—the first cages of coup de soleil we read of in history. The same deity must have received some mortal offence at the hands of New Yorkers, . considering the active manner in which he has plied his bow during the past few days. Whether the rain of fire that descended upon the Cities of the Plain could have affected the be their duty if those who have gone forth for simple pleasuré’ and innocent recreation are in the slightest put to inconvenience or made to feel discomfort by abounding rowdyism. Let our civic authori- ties do their duty, and let the managers of steamboats and railroads do their duty, and much will be done to make the Fourth of July what it oughtto be. Letus hope thatall, young and old, will have occasion to remember the day as a day of mirth and good cheer, and that few will have cause to remember it as a day of sorrow. The day we celebrate! May it take away no young and hopeful life ; may itsunder no friendships; may it break no father’s or mother’s heart; may it be a day of joy and enjoyment to all! —such is our wish, such our prayer. The Fisk Murder Trial, The evidence for the prosecution closed yesterday in this case, and the opening for the defence was listened to with breathless interest by a crowded auditory, Medical testimony was again the staple of the prosecution, Drs. Marsh and Fisher being examined: The story of. both these gentlemen agreed pretty closely human mind, ‘the day we celebrate.’ Since | thermometer, or whatever substitute they had his memorable day, one short year ago, we | for it in those days, to any greater extent than have seen the Tammany Ring scattered to the | the deadly heat of the present July is a ques- winds, and we see it (with the tiger) coming | tion that suffering New York would be inclined together again. We have seen the lion and the | to dispute. But the effects are as fatal ns the unicorn rampant and full of fight against our indirect Alabama claims, and now we have Lord Tenterden and Bancroft Davis as happy as at the fish dinners of the Joint High Commission; for those indirect claims are pronounced at Geneva all gam- mon, and John Bull is reconciled. We have had.the Grand Duke chasing bos Americanos with ‘Little Phil,” Buffalo Bill and Spotted Tail. We have had a story of the Arabian Nights fehearsed in Nebraska. We have had the great ‘panjandrum of the Boston Jubileo and a largely increased consumption of whis- key in Massachusetts. We have got rid of Brown, the street cleaner, who left the streets uncleaned, and Smith is cleaning them. We have secured Mr. Greeley as the Presidcatial champion of the democratic party, and still, with an earthquake now and then, the world goes round. We have made Red Cloud o Quaker and General Cochrane an Alderman. We are at peace with Spain and Hayti. We are getting a surplus revenue on reduced taxes and increased profits from a reduced cotton crop. We have plenty of lager. We have found Dr. Livingstone. We have turned him loose again. We are sending millions of specie to Europe and Asia, and still gold hangs fire, stamps are a legal tender and money is easy. So is Mr. Boutwell. But still the all-impor- tant matter of this festival of popular nghts and popular sovereignty is ‘‘the day we cele- brate,’’ and still, as now, with the return of this never-to-be-forgotten anniversary ef lib- erty and union— We'll rally round the flag, boys, We'll rally once again, Shouting the battie-cry of freedom. England’s Reception of the News of Livingstone. Our special despatch from London brings us peculiarly gratifying intelligence regarding the enthusiastic reception by the British press and public of the Hzraup'’s triumph for the American press in the Livingstone expedition. Everything which manifests a deep, popu- Jar interest has been evoked by the nows of Dr. Livingstone’s safety, coupled with the story of his heroic, patient and toilsome explorations. The effort which has plucked from possible oblivion the work of such a giant among men as Livingstone is fitly honored there, and although it does not sur- prise us to learn that English journalists speak feelingly of a national sense of shame, we are pleased to know that their light of joy at the safety of the explorer defies all sentimental shadowing from the source whence it came. We look on the achievement in its high and hope- ful sense as one which every human being in- terested in human progress must share with the press of America. As Livingstone rises above race, country and sect in his devotion to entire humanity, so his'safety and the tale of his toil are subjects of rejoicing wherever the sun shines on man. The grati- tude of his great mother country is something to stir our national emotions of self-esteem. But in order that our recogni- tion of that gratefulness may not have a single jarring sense we would wish to see all ‘‘feel- ings of shame’’ hurried away, and the ban- quet of joy it was our fortune to spread par- taken of by all without reserve. The Question of Free Trade or Commer- cial Protection in France. This all-important subject was brought di- | rectly to the consideration of the members of the French National Assembly during the ses- sion of the Parliament at Versailles yesterday, The discussion was commenced on the pre- | sentation of a government bill providing for | the imposition of a tax on the importation of | articles of raw material for use in manufac- ture. The galleries were crowded with excited spectators, The members of the party of the | Right remain resolute in their determination | to secure the rejection of the measure if pos- sible, and hope for an ultimate triumph through the aid of the representatives of the free trade districts in the south of the republic, In truth, and as we have anticipated frequently, | the land and the sea, will. be sufficiently illu- minated, And yet again, we have so frequently and fully expatiated from time to time on the kind ‘from the rivers to the ends of the earth,"’ accomplished through the steamship, the locomotive and the electrical wire, that we | shall here ignore these important agents of modern progress, moral and material. | Strongly tempted in the next place, as we are, | to discourse upon the glorious triumphs of | the independent press, as due to “the day we celebrate,"’ we refrain from the pleasing task, thongh we cannot refrain from wishing, especially the brave leaders and the men of the H»naxp’s African exploring expedition, » happy celebration of this day wherever they be. In mercy to our long-suffering, mity sland we postpone, under the pressure of these long-continued, deadly equatorial Afri- can heats, muy lengthened observations upon | the progveds and prospect of city reform. Let yatient and hopeful fellow citizens on this | | | tition of his threat of personal resignation, aecompanied by a reiteration of his politi- cal appeal to the members of the party of’ the | Left for support against. the acknowledged force of the arguments of the Right. Whether | this course of administrative finesse is exactly | | prudent or otherwise, and for the in- | terests of the entire people of France, | remains to be seen. President will have to combat a great principle, which has been already demonstrated as beneficial to the progressive economies of the world at. large by statesmen of Great Britain | and Belgium, as well os by tho writings of many eminent Frenchmen, if he hopes to | succeed in the work of an ultimate sustention | of his project of commercial conservatism in | behalf of a portion of the population of one | nation alone. IJle will have to undertake this at a moment when the current of indus- | trial production, of treasury finance, and | tional history. The day we celebrate is des- | Sagresnae Thiers | storm of bullets on the heights of Fredericks- burg, or the leaden hail that swept through the orchards of Weissenburg a couple of years ago. Men, women and children have been struck down in scores, many never to rit again, and the death list at the pit office hourly increases. Such fierce, persistent heat was never experienced before in this city, not even when the most rabid political con- ventions met and wrangled. Already one hundred | and six deaths testify to the terrible ‘power of tho midsummer sun, and it would be impossible to calculate the number of those who have Suffered from the same cause to a degree which may lead to death or the wroch of constitution. The ‘principal thoroughfares have become like a field of battle—men falling in every direction and ambulances in constant requisition. And the attendant symptoms of such a death are no less terrible than when contending armies meet. Often we find raging delirium, screams as if in intense agony, convulsions that distort the body like a potent poison, and an expres- sion on the face that would make the most hardened turn away; then the final convulsive shudder, and the victim passes the dark river. In other cases the symptoms are like those that attend death by cold. Natural sleep is suc- ceeded by the fatal coma or stupor that pre- sages death. To guard against this terrible foe and to repel his attacks should be the first care of every one in the community. An epidemic of the most virulent kind could not produce a more fearful mortality in a few days, Every day that this intense heat prevails the weaker the human system becomes, and the more ne- cessary the precaution to avoid everything that tends to make the body an easy victim to the fiery destroyer. The sun has no more active agents in his deadly work than alco- holic stimulants and -ice water—when the latter is taken injudiciously. The mental depression consequent upon such weather sometimes imluces people to resort to all kinds of excitable means to keep up their spirits. Such a course is highly dangerous. The art of keeping cool, s0 necessary in this fiery ordeal, refers to the mind as much as to the body. Nervous anxiety and inordinate fear or excitement will tend to prostrate even the strongest physical | system. In regard to diet, each is the best judge for himself. Moderation, above all, is advisable, and ‘taking things easy” an in- superable barrier against sunstroke. If the fearful list of deaths were carefully investi- gated as to the immediate causes leading to such a result, it would be found that in nine cases out of ten the victim’s system was weakened by pernicious stimulants, incautious exposure or mental depression. Common sense will be an excellent guide in this weather, as it will teach every one to regulate his mode of living in proportion to the strength of his mental and physical system. A word of warning in time, if attended to, will go far towards reducing the death list at the Coroners’ office, The Pyrotechnics of the Fourth of July. It is not unnatural, nay, it is of all things | the most natural, that we should make much | of the glorious Fourth of July. It is the day | which marks the end of a long and painful | so far as the diagnosis of cause of death went, Dr. Fisher, however, was handled very severely by the cross-examining counsel, and did not stand the ordeal as well as the other doctors. The half-sister of Fisk was intro- duced, and, with the evidence of Mr. Gowan, engineer at the Grand Central Hotel, who was one of Stokes’ captors, the District Attor- ney announced that he rested his case. The opening for the defence was then called for, an adjournment being refused by the Court, and the curious history of Fisk was dragged into light once more. After a suffi- ciently dark characterization .of the victim in the case, his malign influence upon Stokes was entered into, The oil refinery business, and the dark ‘steps from the door of “the woman in the case” to the tragedy itself werd all related suggestively as pallia- tives. That Fisk bag employed gangs of raf- fians who made the prisoher fear for his life was dwelt on as part of the maddening process which culminated in a disturbed condition of |. mind. The boldest allegation, and that which, if sustained to the jury's satisfaction, will make a marked inroad on the case for the prosecution, is the statemept that Fisk drew a pistol on Stokes before the latter fired. The theory of the defence also hinges in the matter-of premeditation on some betting matter which brought the prisoner to the Grand Central, going to show that the meeting of the two foes was accidental. What matter there may be in all this remains to be seen. 4 : ' Cau, Ye Tus Reronm?—Last year the bank around the Bowling Green fountain was made gorgeous by the display of some of the choicest gems of Flora’s kingdom. This year a few stalks of green corn and something that resembles the tops of dead beets are all that is to be seen by way of decoration on this pretty spot. This is the work of ‘retrenchment and reform’’ inaugurated by the present city mana- gers; but the city debt, it appears, has in- creased over five millions in the last half year. Call ye this reform? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. United States Senator Cragin, of the Granite State, is at the Westmoreland en bloc. Captain Tillebroun, of the United States Navy, is on the quarter deck of the Grand Hotel. F, E. Townsend, of Montreal, longs for cool Can- ada, at the Gilsey House, Admiral Polo de Barnabe, the Spanish Minister, with Lieutenant Commander Pelon, his Secretary of Legation, eat the olive of peace at the Urirendon. General J. M. Shackleford, of Indiana, who cap- tured the noted guerilla John Morgan on his raid into Ohio, has captured a camp at the Grand Central. Judge Pierrepont sailed yesterday on the steam- ship Russia. He is going to London on business of the Texas Pacific Railroad. He will be absent a month, Ason of General William T. Sherman was a pas- senger by the steamship Russia yesterday. He is to join his father and accompany him during the rest of his tour. Sir Thomas Dakin, ex-Lord Mayor of London, and Mr. Gilson Homans, the President and Vice President of the Great Western Railway Company of Canada, and the Hon. Mr. Paget, of England, departed for i. me on the Russia yesterday. The Russia also took off Mr. William H. Vander- bilt and family. Ostensibly making the trip for | health’s sake, he will keep an eye on the overground and underground tmprovements in railroad con- struction, that New York—in its long hoped for rapid transit—may have the latest models in Con- tinental “bores.” His friends, on the steamer | Blackbird, flew to bid him adieu. They accom. | plished this several times, each godspeed being more affecting than the previous one. There was | an excellent lunch under the wing of the Blackbird, contest out of which this people came victo- rious. It is the day which marks the com- | mencement of our separate independent na- | tined in the great future to be remembered as | one of the most important days in the history | of the human family, It is our great national | holiday; and it is our duty to make our an- | nual celebration worthy of the historic im- portance and associations of the day. Un- happily, the Fourth of July, year after year, is made to smell too much of gunpowder; and as a consequence the day of rejoicing is, in too | many instances, converted into a day of sor- The use of firearms, as firearms are | used on the Fourth, cannot be too se- | yerely condemned. To-day old pistols and | small cracked cannon will be the play- | things of innumerable children; and to- | morrow it will be our painful duty to | chronicle our usual chapter of frightful acci- | dents, It is gratifying to know that our civil | authorities have at last made up their minds | that life and property are of some value, and that, so far as lifeand property are endangered | by the use of firearms and pyrotechnics, pro- tection is to be given. We are glad of this, and we hope that the protection promised will | come up to expectation. We know no good | | reason why, because young and reckless people choose to explode gunpowder in all manner of questionable shepes, peace-loving and law- alfiding citizens should find it next to impos- sible to leave their own homes, There is one other matter to which we deem row. ties. and the country people seck the towns. Mov- ing in all directions on the North and East Rivers and in the bay the steamboats will be crowded, and the blacklegs and pickpockets will do their best to corivert the day into a rich harvest for themeclyes, Ay it will be on customs tax impost receipts, and of city shop and provincial artisan trade have, for each one and all, beon derandod in * tho rivers and in the bay, so will it be | street and died in the Fifteenth precinct station | it proper to call the attention of our authori- | To-day the townspeople seek the country | Besides the long list of sunstrokes published in | another part of to-day’s paper, the following were | received ata late hour last night from Police Head- | Christopher Coughlin, aged seven months, died last evening from the heat. | Jacques Cobb, taken f cinct to Bellevue Hospita ininutes past ten yest Mary Farrell, age fort. sunstruck; sent fo Bellevue Hospital. A man, supposed to be Joseph Hendrich, was overcome with heat. He was sent to hospital. John Larkins, aged seventeen, of Philadelphia, was overcome with heat and taken to Bellevue | Hospital. | An anknown man, supposed to be a driver of | was prostrated in Amity | m the Nineteenth pre- | July 2, died at twenty | three, residing at Albany, | Schaefer's brewery, house. Richard Pembroke, twe' Washington street, was over sent to Bellevue Hospital. REPAIRING CABLES. Havirax, N.S, July 8, 1872, The steamer Mealin has completed the repairs of | the cable between St. Pierre and Placentia, which | has not been in operation for two months. The | cables from St, Pierre and Brest have also been cut | to repair damages. The cargo of the steamship Adalia, wrecked at St. | Paul's Isle, is being saved, ‘The vessel will be a | total loss, wo years of ae, of 152 | come by the heat and | "THE WEATHER War DRPARTMENT, =) | OFFICe OF TNS Corer SIGNAL 3 WASHINGTON, D, ©,, July d—1 A. M. Probapiities. ‘The lowest barometer continue on Thursday morning down the St, Lawrence Valley ; northwest winds and with increasing mois: | and cloudiness and ___ frei mene local | ture light rains extend from Penneylyanta northeast. | | ward, followed by cooler weather Thursday night; | | increasing cloudiness without other material change | | prevail in the South Atlantic and Gull States, THE BALTIMORB CONVENTION. Reduction of Ratiroad Fares for Dele~ gates and Visitors. | Barrons, Ma., July 3, 1872, | ‘The Baltimore and Onto Railroad Company will furnish tickets on its main road, branches and con- | | pe extending throu Virginia, West Vir- ee Peng an natane Dtinois, Mis- Mit, Kentucky, Tenpessee aud other States, at single fare for ‘the round trip to delegates and visitors to the Natignal Democratic Voavoution in, this city to agsgpRvte on the Ob Last, as not he came into Camp than to #ite information. Certainly more develop- ments o! Wet ofa general war with the Indians south of the | ter receiving Publication of the British Cabinet. Corre« Spondence with Is Agent in Geneva. Earl Granville Satisfled with Lord Tenterden’s TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpow, July 3, 1872. The oMctal correspondence which haa passed be+ tween the British government and Lord Tenterden, ita agent before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration, is publisned, It comprises twelve despatches besides the pro- tocols of the proceedings before the Board, which have already been made known to the public. The correspondence closes with a despatch from Earl Granville expressive of appreciation of the services of Lord Tenterden and Sir Roundelt Palmer, Earl Granville says:—“I should not do justice to the feeling of Her Majesty's government if I did not acknowledge the conciliatory spirit manifested by your American colleagues. The good feeling shown on both sides has facilitated the deliberations of the arbitrators,” Karl Granville in conclusion “acknowledges the thoughtfulness and wisdom evinced by the arbitra- tors in adopting the conclusions to which they have spontaneously arrived.” WASHINGTON. PONS aN nA WasuInaron, July 3, 1872, The President’s Movements. President Grant and General Porter left in to- night's train for Long Branch, Boutwell on the Stump. Sefretary Boutwell will visit North Carolina om the 15th instant, to speak at Charlotte an’ Morgan- town, yet he Apaches and the Great Father. The President this afternoon gavé audience to the Apache delegation of Indians at the Executive Mansion.. They’ were accompanied by Secretary Delano, Commissioner of indian Affairs Walker and General Howard, foal frchene expressed their de- sire to livé at peddd With the whites, and said they want horses, shops, farms and to be educated at schools, Santa, one of the chiefs, asked fora suit of clothes like the President's, and a cane, a pistol, & sword and a horse to ride, s0 a8 to show lils con- sequence at home. a The President told them he was anxious to pro mote their comfort, but to that end it was neces- sary for them to keep the peace, and he would do everything in his power to protect them from bad white men. He thought they would have a better home in the Indian Territory, where attention could be paid to their improvement and they would be assisted in farming, and schoolhouses would be built for them, and mechanics would teach them how to work, and other benefits rendered them. ‘Miguel sald at one time he was on bad terms with the whites, not knowing whether they were Ameri- cans or Mexicans; but as soon as ‘he learned that they were Americans he buried all his badness and was now their friend. Several other Indians ad- dressed the President, declaring their determination hereafter not only to live at peace among them selves, but toward the whites. Kiowas an the Warpath. The Secretary of the Interior to-day received from the War Department a copy of a communica- tion from Lieutenant Colonel Davidson, command. ing at Camp Supply, dated June 6, in which he gives reports of the threatening attitude of the Kiowa Indians, who are sald to be scattering om the warpath in the direction of Fort Sill and North- ern Texas, and also towards Fort Larned and Medi- cine Lodge Creek. Major General Pope, under date of Fort Leavenworth, June 19, forwards this com- munication with the following endorsement :— tna eats wil be minds by parties or ateso Ind an tar North as the ‘irkeatinas, but that there will be general hostilities I do not believe from present indications. George Bent, whose stories Colonet Davidson repeats, 18 ecole a it ae nd ans hostilities are necessary to sustain a be- Arkansas, wd nntil such are made I doubt the re- ports to that end “mew circulated, which are not very different from the stories ‘circulated every spring. The Secretary of the Interior to-day reeaived front the War Department a copy of a communication from Colonel R. 8. McKenzie, commanding at Fort Richardson, Texas, in which he says:— Ihave the honor to represent that the outrages committed by the Indians have been more frequent. than I have ever known them here or at any other point that I have served atin the department, En- closed are the reports of recent scouts. All of the outrages in this ony | are committed by Indians from tue reserve near Fort Sill. I enclose a copy of an extract of an oficial letter from Major Schotield, ‘Tenth Cavalry, to Captain Webb, while in command of a squadron. It is respectfully represented that every depreda- tion committed near this post is done by Indiaus who are fed by the government, who procure am- munition, it 13 believed, from the agency on the Canadian, and that it is not probable that this section will ever be quiet until vigorous measures are adopted with the Kiowas and Comanches, who are resident north of Red River, and treated in the Indian Territory as if peaceable. In forwarding the above to the Adjutant General at Washington, Lieutenat General Sheridan. makes the following endorsement thereon :— It is useless to disguise the fact that the depreda- tions referred to by Colonel McKenzie are commit- ted by the Indians on the reservation at Fort Sill, It is the common belief that the Kiowas are the only Indians committing these depredations, but such is a mistake. All the tribes on that reservation are engaged with them, as well as Indians from the upper reservation at ae og on 1 do not know of any way of stopping this bad work except by the action of the military at Fort Sill and Camp Supply; and the moment the government will au- thorize me to stop this bad work I am ready to do it. Wehave abundant means, without much ex- ense, to operate where the root of the evil exists. 'o defend the long line of Northern Texas against Indians who are supplied with food, arms and | ammunition at the reservations, seems to me ridi- culous, National Gold Rank. ‘The National Gold Bank and Trust Company or San Francisco to-day acknowledge the receipt of $160,000 of gold notes, the first instalment of the $800,000 to be issued. This bank was & conversion from a State bank, organized under a general law of the State of California, and its atfairs underwent a minute and searching examination by a special | examiner, whose report was submitted to the Comptroller of the Currency before the certificate to commence business was issued, A BRUTAL WIFE MURDER. A Woman’s Brains Dashed Oat in East Ninth Street, A fearful tragedy, the resuit of a domestic quar- rel brought about by intemperance, took place on the rear third floor apartment of the tenement house No. 616 Bust Ninth street, last night Thomas Cobb, who is @ laborer in she employ of the Manhattan’ Gas Oompany, and who is a powerlul, well-formed man, and @ | native of Kings county, Ireland, got his day off yes- terday, and Went’ on a bit of a spree, His wife, Margafet, @ woman of no small beauty and ot splendid physique, revenged hersey’ fer her hus band’s neglect by t a drop at ki so that when Cobb return to supper he was under t induence of liquor and found his wife in @ pg i em tion, To cover his iniquities ‘which upbraid her, and brought about # quarrel chied in the hushand. knocking Mis wife over the stove and then fracturing bet eee oitaceentti “it eof @3 dinory tem r handle of fea eteas ss A cw ‘unfortunate woman rallied enough to rise and sit tn Aye A became weak in a few moments and felton the floor. This sobered Cobb, Who rushed to the apartment of a Mrs, Goodheart, to whom he told what he had dove. Cobb was detained and the police of the Bleventh precinct notifed, and the murderer was locked up. On the artival of © sur. geon life was found to be oxtinet the walt being extensively fracture. on the loft aide. ‘There were several severe Contnstona on the rank, and the body Was covered wath bivod, presenting 4 hastly awectacte, A corpaer’a tnqueds WH UO held 0-day, | | | }