The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. * JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or uews letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your Hear. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. iabecenal lela IM THE DAILY HERALD, pubdiished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annuil subscription Price $12. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and ON, OF, cuted at the lowest rates. : No. 187 Volume XXXVII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WARE THEATRE, Mth st. and Broadway.— UCHESS. UNION ‘Tur Granp WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tue Last ‘Txumr ©. “BOWERY THEATRE, Nowery.—Wip Kare or tum Winputnsss—Tue Wirth Honsy Ov THe Purrens. THEATRE COMIQU: ‘TaiNMENT—T'BE SOUTH 4 Broadway. —Vantxty Entzr- Artxa THe Wan. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broatway, corner Thirtleth st.— ‘Wow Oor. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Scuneipes: on, Tax Op House on tue Rune. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Guenapien Guanps Baxv Concert. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Grorata Murra. TONY PASTOR'S OPEKA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Tax Miut Ginis. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganpex InstRUMENTAL Concur. TERRACE GARDEN, S8th st.. between 3d and Lexing- ton ave.—Summen Eventnc Concerts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scimnoz any Ant. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Ant and Science. WITH NT. New York, Friday, July 5, 1872. H SUPPLEM CONTENTS OF TO-DAY's HERALD. Page. 1—Advertisements, 2—The Fourth: The Anniversary of the Day of the Nation’s Independence and How It Was Cele- brated; Patriotism and Pyrotechnics; What ‘Was Done by the Dawn’s Eaily Light and the Twilight's Last Gleaming; ‘ihe Star Spangled Banner in the Citie the Villages of the Union; Boulevard Club Celebration; Fire- works, Fires, Accidents and Minor Incidents of the Eventful Day. 3=The Fourth (Continued from Second Page)— Murder in Sixty-seventh Street—Snooting and Stabbing Affrays. 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “The British Press on the Livingstone Search Expedition’ — Boat Racing at Boston, Newburg and Buf- talo—Ex-Secretary Welles on the Philadelphia and Cincinnati Conventions—Virginia's Re- ‘turni Loyalty—Movements of the Presi- dent—The Weather—Amusement Announce- ments, S—Livingstone: The British Press in Continued Comment on the News of the Finding of the Great Explorer—The Fourth in Europe—Cable Telegrams from France and England—The War in Mexico—The Dying Jubilee—Boston’s Big Gas Bags—Chase and the Chopper: Horace Greeley at Newport—The Filibuster Fannie—Business Notices. ‘6—Ethiopia: An American Party, with a HERALD Correspondent, at Khartoum; The Capital of the Soudan; A Private Slave Mart. at Ber- ber—Congressmen Among Indians: A Sub- Committee of the House in Kansas—Obitu- ary—An Upset in the Bay—Long Island Items—Raiiroad Accidents in Jersey—The Libbie Garrabrant Muddie. 7—Advertisements—Musical and Dramatic Notes. ‘S—Long Branch Races: Fourth Day of the Mon- mouth Park Meeting—Illinois: Inside View of the Political Rising in the State—New York City News—The Unterrified Compromise: Ex- pectation Tiptoe for the Convention at Balti- more; Who Will Oppose Greeley ? 9=—The Unterrified Compromise (Continued from Eighth Page)—North Carolina: The Cam- ign Opened and the Contest Waxin, ‘arm—State and City Politics—Financial an Commercial—Deaths. 10—The Heated Term: The City in a Swelter’ in the Early Part of the Day; Prostration and Death; The Rain Falls and “Old Probabili- tes” 1s Verified—Yachting: The Seawanhaka Yacht Club Regatta Yesterday; Yacht Race in Boston Bay—The Seventh Regiment at Sara- toga—The Grenadier Guards at the Academy— Sudden Deaths in Williamsburg—Shipping In- telligence—Advertisements, Tae Frencn Pantiamentany Coarrionist Opposrtion to Thiers is weakening in force, and the excitement which was caused by the agitation for a change, probably in the form of the government of France, is abating, so Bays our news telegram from Paris. But we are told also, just at the same time, that Mar- shal MacMahon has expressed his objection to a triumvirate unless such form of rule is approved by the people voting in plébiscite. How is this? Is there serious talk of a trium- virate or the prospect or necessity for a consti- tutional plebiscitum in France ? Honace Greevex Gor Ovt or THe Jupmer safely and made immediate tracks for New York, calling at Newport on the way. Here a circumstance occurred which may well chal- lenge attention and rivet the curiosity of those who take stock in the nation as a Chappaqua farm after March next. This wasa meeting between sly Old Horace and Justice Chase. ‘What the arrangements made and confidences exchanged mortal dare not say. That they point with fiery finger to Baltimore seems cer- ‘tain as that yesterday was the Fourth of J uly. ‘0 artful Horace ! Tue Government or Jvuanxz, in spite of its rose-colored professions, has but a weak hold on the North of Mexico. The revolutionists have lately gained considerable ground, and another great victory will probably give them complete possession of that part of the repub- lic. Our correspondent at Matamoros telo- graphs a report, without vouching, however, | for its accuracy, of the capture of Saltillo by the revolutionists under Trevifio. About twelve hundred prisoners are said to have been made by Trevifio. It is also stated that the correspondence of General Corrella, containing ‘an order issued by the government to massacre all revolutionary prisoners above the rank of sergeant, has fallen into the hands of Tre- viilo. Deena est CanvHaGo, AND THE JUBILER is falling into a rapid decline. It almost reached a catastrophe yesterday, which might bave left its memory of monster howlings linked with a sad one of trampled hundreds. ‘A gust of wind, the prelude to a storm, swept into the building, carrying clouds of dust along with it. Some Bostonian idiot shouted “Fire,”’ and a panic ensued. Persons were crushed and thrown down and trodden on in the rush. The British Grenadiers came to the rescue, at cool Dan Godfrey's call, with the “Star-Spangled Banner.’’ May that great national anthem ever recall Americans to a pelutary sense of themse)ves. ‘The Britisn Press on the Livingstone Search Expedition. ‘We publish in another part of the paper the comments of the British press on the success of our Livingstone Search Expedition. Hav- ing been furnished with the important news which we published on Tuesday from Mr. Stanley, the principal London journals promptly acknowledged the value of this intelligence and the service rendered by our expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone. And here let us contemplate for a moment the won- derful effect of that agent of modern civiliza- tion, the magnetic telegraph, in communicat- ing information from one part of the globe to another and under thousands of miles of ocean. The very interesting and detailed account of the meeting of Mr. Stanley and Dr. Living- stone, of Mr. Stanley's perils and advontures, and of the return of the Hznatp explorer to Unyanyembe to despatch the news, was tele- graphed to us from London last Monday, published on Tuesday, and republished and commented on by the London newspapers on Wednesday and yesterday. The magnetic spark annihilates, comparatively, time and space. From the heart of Equatorial Africa, with all the difficulties and tedious means of travel and communication, we have received this news, by the way of Bombay, in little more than three months, the latest date being the 14th of March. Years had Dr. Livingstone been in that unknown land without the means of communicating home, and years have ex- ploring expeditions been searching for him or for intelligence of him, and now, within almost as. short atime as it takes to go to India, we hear from the very spot where he and our correspondent were in company with each other. The Morning Post says that the information afforded by the New Yorx Hznaxp to the Lon- don press of the discovery of Livingstone sur- passes everything in interest, and is the great- est achievement of journalistic enterprise. Every civilized State has been anxious for years about the fate of the great explorer, and now that has been ascertained by newspaper enterprise. The Post remarks that, though they have been accustomed to laugh on that side of the Atlantic at the rage of Americans for big things, they must express, with kindred pride, their admiration for this wonderful un- dertaking, conceived and carried to a success- ful issue by a New York contemporary. While government hesitated and refused supplies for an expedition, the proprietor of the Hznarp selected a gentleman fitted for the enter- prise, gave him a carte blanche to draw for expenditures, and sent him to the unknown regions of Africa to find Livingstone or authentic information of his fate. All has been completely successful. The Telegraph says that it has listened with as ‘much interest to the outline of this story as to the daring of Vasco de Gama, the solitude and adventures of Robinson Crusoe or the wonderful dis- eoveries and romantic career of Marco Polo. The mind delights to realize in imagination the moment when the gallant and indefatiga- ble Stanley won his way to Ujiji, and that all must envy the American who proudly carried the flag of the Stars and Stripes to succor the lonely Briton. The Daily News says that this extraordinary narrative, which has just been communicated by the New York Henaxp, is one of the most exciting stories civilization has had since the startling truths of Bruce were made known. Stanley’s narrative is of a picturesque color, but the fact remains that he found Livingstone, and not, as Rawlingon conjectured, that Living- stone found him. It is not easy to ima- gine an enterprise more full of toil and peril than this of the strange journey of the lonely American, with a small, reluctant escort, through trackless wilds and tribes unknown. It is impossible not to admire the daring and perseverance, and to admit that in the discovery which crowned these there is nothing more he- roic in the history of modern adventure. It only wants the poet to render Stanley's first sight of Livingstone os impressive as the Spaniard’s glimpse from the Pacific of the peak of Darien. The Evening Standard re- marks that the warmest acknowledgments of England are due for the timely and valuable intelligence brought by the Hxnraup corre- spondent. While some of the journals manifest a feel- ing of regret and humiliation that this achieve- ment was not made by the British government or by Englishmen, they all frankly accord the merit due to those to whom it belongs. It is gratifying to notice this liberal recognition of the efforts of others in the cause of humanity and to promote science. That grand institution of France, the Acade- my of Science, has been famous for the broad and liberal spirit with which it has recognized merit all over the world. It never cares to ask what the nationality of a man may b, and only what he has done or what his merits are. The press should be equally as cosmopolitan and liberal in all matters pertaining to science, discoveries or whatever tends to promote knowledge or the progress of the age. To reveal the hidden secrets of Equatorial Africa, to determine the geography of that region and the sources ot the Nile, to open the way for the civilization of the native tribes, and to that magnificent table land of the African Continent subservient to cultivation and com- merce, should be the object of all civilized countries. And in this it is proper for the press, which is the great lever of modern | civilization and progress, to lead the way. ‘ | The power and usefulness of the press are | known now to the enlightencd statesmen and | rulers of the world. One instance of this, in connection with the search for Dr. Living- stone and the exploration of the Upper Nile region, we may mention. It is known gene- rally now that we sent another expedition in | search of Dr. Livingstone and to explore the region of Equatorial Africa, in addition to that of which Mr. Stanley is chief. This went up the Nile and somewhat in the course of Sir Samuel Baker’s expedition. The liberal Khe- dive of Egypt agreed to share the expense of this expedition with us, thus showing at the same time his recognition of the power and usefulness of the press and his liberality in promoting science and knowledge. This ex- ploring party will, probably, proceed south over Lake Nyanza, and, after reaching Ujiji, go to the east coast by the caravan track and come out at Zanzibar. If nothing unfore- seen or serious accidents hinder we may ex- pect a full and very interesting account from this well equipped and strong party. We may probably have an account of Sir Samuel Ba- 1 ker’s expedition, as well as additional informa- tion of Livingstone and the whole region of Equatorial Africa, Romantic as these adventures will prove, and poetic, as one of the London papers says the meeting of Stanley and Livingstone was, the results must be practical and useful. Though Stanley discovered the great discov- erer, and has thus rendered a great service to humanity and the world, he, as well as the test of the explorers, will accomplish more than that. They will turn the eyes of civil- ized nations to o part of the globe that has been like o sealed book through all the ages of history. The native tribes will be brought in contact with modern civilization, and it will not be long before that vast and well watered table land will be reached by the enterprise and com- merce of the white man. We shall soon re- ceive the first detailed accounts of that coun- try from our correspondent, Stanley, and Dr. Livingstone, and then additional ones from Sir Samuel Baker and our other expedition that went up the Nile. ‘The vast unknown region which has been locked up through all | time will bo exposed to view. The press will spread the information broadcast over the civ- ilized world, and in a short time schoolboys even will lcarn the wonders of Equatorial Africa and of the sources of the Nile. Nothing can be hid long in this age from the re- searches of enterpriso and science. The burn- ing equator and the frozen poles alike must givo up their secrets. The original edict that went forth in Paradise to subdue the earth is about to be realized. Spain and Cuba—Public Opinion in Great Britain. Quite recently the London Times, in an edi- torial commenting on the anarchy and misrule which still exist in Cuba, and on the apparent inability of the Spanish government to restore order, advised Spain to cede the island of Cuba to the United States. The Madrid Zpoca, commenting on the article in the London Times, scorns with some emphasis the idea of NEW YORK: HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Day We Celebrated. ‘The ninety-sixth anniversary of the glorious Fourth passed into history with the usual amount of jubilation over that momentous event in human history which transpired in Seventy-six at Independence Hall, in the old Quaker City. From Geneva, where the new pact between two great peoples was so lately soldered, our special despatch intro- duces us to a salute of one hun- dred and one guns, fired in honor of America, and.a banquet whereat representa- tives of both nations sat down in amity to- gether. Tonsts of » happy international char- acter were exchanged amid enthusiasm, and, with fireworks and a ball, the rejoicing ex- tended into the night. From other European cities comes the news of honor to the day. The American citizen abroad, it is evident, loses none of the love of motherland which breaks forth into hearty recognition on the birthday of the nation. From all parts of the Union, North, South, East and West, so far as heard from, the same words of good cheer come, all the happier in their story of faith that the Union is one and indivisible. At our own doors in Gotham’s good city, from hilarious youth and its eternal ear-spliting Chinese crackers to smiling age and its recollection of noisy Fourths ‘when I was a boy,” the day passed off with abundant good feeling and as much exuber- ance as the weather would permit. All the avenues and ocean paths leading out from the city were thronged with those anxious fora day of rural or seaside happiness. Towards nightfall the dark looming of the gathering thunder clouds betokened short shrift for the fireworks. Young America and middle-aged ditto commenced sending their rockets and Roman candles into the air, their fiery trails and lambent flames showing in strong relief against the background of sombreness, The public displays hesitated in view of the warning spitting of the rain, when vivid flashes of forked lightning in the skies, followed by the deep boom of thunder, Spain parting with any of her colonial posses- sions. It is not unnatural for the Spanish people to growl at British sentiment and at the London Times in such circumstances, The Spaniards, whatever may be said of their power and their pluck, cannot be said to have lost their pride; and the voluntary cession of Cuba by Spain to the United States would im- ply an amount of humiliation not compatible with the last existing remnant of Spanish dignity. At the same time it is not wonderful that the London Times should have tendered such advice as that which has given so much offence to the Hpoca. British sentiment has changed wonderfully of late in regard to the growing power of the United States in this Western world, and particularly in regard to the condition and prospects of certain portions of the Western world which are not now, but which ought to be, under the control of the United States. The London Times, which sel- dom fails to catch the growing popular senti- ment of the hour, has wisely taken ground which the British people will endorse. It is felt in the three Kingdoms, as here, that the continued domination of Cuba, the fairest and richest of tho West India Islands, by Spain is not only a wrong to a certain section of the human family, but an injury to British com- merce. On the commercial side of things the British people seldom judge wrongly; and the London Times, speaking for the British com- mercial mind, is rarely in the wrong. It is our opinion to-day, as it has been our opin- ion for years past, that Cuba should be the property of the United States. It is the fault of our government to-day that such is not the fact. Our people do not seem to see what the British people see, that Cuba in our hands would be a gain to the wealth of the world as well asa gain to the cause of hu- manity. Spanish rule in Cuba has become an outrage—a continual outrage on all the best instincts of the human mind. Our government has miserably failed in its policy towards Cuba. We have looked on when we ought to have acted. We have growled when we ought to have struck. We have sympathized when we ought to havo protected or delivered. We look on, and continue to look on, while the barbarous and inhuman rule of Spain in Cuba continues. Blood, innocent blood, the blood of martyrs and patriots, cries from that island to Heaven for vengeance, but we will not help. If it is the determination of our government to do nothing we feel that we are bound in the in- terest of humanity to call upon the Great Powers of Europe to come forward in the in- terest of humanity and jointly protect the poor Cubans from further suffering and sorrow. As our government will not help we cannot find fault if succor comes from other quarters. Much as we owe to our own nation we owe more to humanity. Phil Sheridan and the Reform of the Kiowas. 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 eo them, as well as Indians from the upper reservation at Camp Supply. Ido 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 authorize me to stop this bad work I am ready to doit. We have abundant means, without much expense, to operate where the root of the evil exists, To defend the long line of Northern Texas against Indians who are supplied with food, arms and ammunition at the reservations seems to me ridiculous, These are the words of Major General Sher- idan in reference to the Indian depredators in Texas, and, as is that gallant soldier's wont, they go right to the heart of the difficulty. It may be that the peace policy has succeeded with some tribes, and that even the blood- thirsty Apaches may in time becomo tractable. With the Kiowas, Comanches and other tribes along the Mexican border the treatment, however, seems destined to accomplish no great good, Savages in every way, they look on robbery and murder much in the light of pastime, and, with a line of retreat open into Mexico, the immunity from pursuit for crimes on American soil is almost perfect. Now, “Little Phil’ knows that to fight these well- armed red devils with rations and Quaker agents is not a very likely way of ending the trouble. He proposes to go to “the root of the evil,’ and show the gentle Kiowas in a made all the artificial pyrotechny pale terribly before them. For perhaps an honr this un- equal contest between the effort of man and the majesty of nature was kept up, when the storm god ended it by opening the floodgates of heaven in a steady, heavy thunder shower, and then continued all alone the celebration in the lowering empyrean at his own sombre will. The Herald’s Expedition Up the Nile— ‘Where Are the Sources of that Won. derfal River? In addition to the gratifying despatches which we give to our readers this morning, in reference to Dr. Livingstone and the success of Mr. Stanley in his perilous adventure in search of the long-missing explorer of Eastern Equatorial Africa, we publish two very in- teresting letters from the Heraup expedition up the Nile, under the generous protection and co-operation of the enlightened Viceroy of Egypt. It will be remembered that Sir Samuel Baker had been despatched by the Viceroy up the Nile at the head of a powerful and admirably equipped military expedition, including light draught and portable steamers and other boats for the navigation of the river; that his object was the exploration and annexation to Egypt of the whole Nile basin to its sources, and it will be remembered that after he had been gone several months on this important mission news came of a mutiny among Sir Samuel’s troops, and that as he was seriously wounded he and his expedition, if not lost, were in great peril. Upon this hint our Nile expedi- tion was undertaken in search of this greatly distinguished African explorer, and, as we have saidl, with the generous co-operation of the enlightened Khedive. With the news from this expedition that Baker was not only alive and unhurt, but was pushing ahead bravely far up the river, in the heavy work of opening a way around its cataracts and through its reedy flats for the passage of his vessels, the object of our expedi- tion was enlarged to the design of joining and accompanying Sir Samuel to the end of his up- river journey, and not without the hope of a junction with Livingstone somewhere among the head streams or lakes of the mighty Nile. With this explanation the reader will discover that though widely separated, our African expedition from Zanzibar and this other one from Cairo have the common objects in view of the solution of the mystery of the Nile sources and the finding of Dr. Livingstone. Apart, however, from this view of the subject, “the letters which we publish to-day from our Nile expedition will be found very in- teresting in the accounts given of the city of Khartoum and its people and its trade, and of that mysterious, blind old despot, the unap- proachable Sultan of Darfour and his kingdom of African barbarians. We are sorry that Mr. Southworth found it impossible to get a satis- factory invitation to visit this puissant Sultan ; and our commissioner acted wisely in not risking this adventure, in which the white man who attempts it mysteriously disappears. We presume, however, that this royal rebuff will not interfere with the main object of Mr. Southworth’s expedition. And now for the long undiscovered mys- teries of the Nile. They were three, and they are now reduced to one. They were, first, the sources of the great river ; second, the supply of the annual inundation of Egypt, and third, the supply of the inexhaustible volume of the river through all the year, notwithstanding its course of over fourteen hundred miles through a roasting desert without a tributary, and the enormous quantities of its water exhaled by the sun, absorbed by the sands and used in the irrigation of the fields of Egypt. Sir Samuel Baker has solved these last two problems by actual observation. He saw for himself that the enormous spring rainfall on the lofty table lands and loftier mountains of Abyssinia, through the Atbara and Blue Nile, bring down the annual inundation of Egypt. He saw, for instance, one night, as by a tidal wave, the dry bed of the Atbara changed into a deep and rapid river, half a mile wide ; and this was but the beginning of the Abyssinian flood. Next, he saw for himself that the never- failing stream of the Nile—the White Nile, or main river—is furnished from the equatorial to tho westward, atill remains unsolved, be. cause the south end of the Albert Lake has not yet been explored. The south end of the Victoria Lake has been explored, and so far the sources of the Nile are settled, because between this lake and the Tangan- yika there is a dividing ridge, or plateau. The Victoria Lake, moreover, is three thou- sand five hundred fect above the sea; the Al- bert Lake is two thousand seven hundred feet, and Tanganyika, according to Burton, is only one thousand eight hundred and forty- four feet above the sea level: But south of Tanganyika is the Chambezi River of Liv- ingstone, which he is sure is not the Zap- besi, owing into the Indian Ocean, but which, he thinks, is the source of the Nile. This Chambezi, then, must flow around the west side of Tanganyika into the Albert Lake of the Nile, and, as Tanganyika is fresh water, and must, therefore, have an outlet, and as the rivers flow into it on the east side and south end, its outlet must be on the west side or north end into the Chambezi. But if Burton is rightin putting the level of Lake Albert some nine hundred feet above Tanganyika, this loke, first through the Chambezi, must next be discharged through the Congo into the Atlantic Ocean. If so, the sources of the Nile are the Lakes Albert and Victoria and the small rivers within their basins, The whole question depends upon Burton's meas- urement, right or wrong, of the altitude of Lake Tanganyika, and Burton, as a rule, is very careful in his observations. This, then, is the Nile mystery which re- mains to be solved, and Livingstone remains at Lake Tanganyika to solve it. And here it occurs tous that with a light boat adapted forsailing or rowing,. first coasting on tho west side for the outlet of the lake, and then by following the stream, which must be a large one, he can within a month setile the question which otherwise, in trudging about among those savage tribes on foot, he may never accomplish. Meantime, it is probable that Sir Samuel Baker, with his ample equipments, will solve this problem. If so, we trust that the chief of our Nile expedition will come out with him to share in the honors of his great success. Oat of the Heated Cycle. The extraordinary heated*term, whose op- pressive fieryness was quenched in the tor- rents of last night’s thunder storm, has left a sad record behind it, Although a kind Provi- dence preserved us from the outbreak of any alarming epidemic the Destroyer counted an unprecedented number of victims stricken down directly by the merciless heat. The mortality from coup de soleil has exceeded anything in the recollection of this generation, as the hot spell itself lasted over a greater number of days than any other within the past twenty years. Over two hundred deaths occurred within the past fortnight from sunstroke, while the cases of persons actually attacked lie between eight hundred and a thou- sand. The lower animals, particularly horses, died by hundreds from the blistering heat. It seemed in vain to attempt escape from the excess of ambient caloric, and the exodus to the seaside, the valleys and the moun- tains was increased’ by the baking influence of the sun's rays upon brick walls. A light, pot breeze, coming in disappointing puffs from southerly and westerly directions, did not help matters much. Yesterday, how- ever, a cool breeze, veering from the north- east to northwest, brought an array of dark- looking clouds laughing along with it, and a glance at the heavens told there was some commotion aloft, for heavy, black, lightning- Jaden cumuli could be seen sailing majestically from the southwest. This could end but one way, and after nightfall the storm broke forth, the rain fell in tropical torrents and New York’s humanity and car horses took heart of grace that the fiery death had turned its Sahara visage from them. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT, Lone Brancn, July 4, 1872. President Grant and General Porter arrived here this morning and proceeded to their respective cottages. WasHINGTON, D, C., July 4—8 P, M. } Probabilities. Rising barometer, with pleasant weather and northwest winds, will probably prevail on Friday north and west of West Virginia; southwest winds, veering to northwest, with clearing weather, pre- vail on the lower Jakes and in the Middle States; cloudy weather in New Engiand, clearing away Fri- day night. No material change is indicated for the Southern and Gulf States. EX-SEORETARY WELLES. His Views Upon the Cincinnati and Philadelphia Candidates. Sr. Louis, July 4, 1872. Ex-Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, has written a letter toa friend in this city, which is published in the 7imes this morning, the main points of which are as follows :— 4 We were a good deal Severe with the re- sult at Cincinnati. It would have been ditcult to have found a more disagreeable, objectionable can- date to three-fourths of the men who must vote for him, ifhe is to be elected, than Horace hota Ve But, while I have tor a lifetime been opposed to Greeley on most subjects, I think him infiniteiy preferable to Grant. The question is not a per- sonal one, and onght not to be so con- sidered. The republican party has performed its mission. Its organization is kept up and pro- THE WEATHER. Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OvFicEr, Jonged, LA ad essential principles, not for the interests of the country, but to subserve the selfish purpose of a few ‘individuals who have their own ends to accomplish, Under these circumstances a@ change of administration is absolutely necessary. We must get rid of Grant, Grantism ‘and the hateful policy which for several years has been pur- sued, or our federative system of United States will be entirely subverted, Let the government become consolidated, and disruption will soon fol- low. We shall be broken up into sections and warring factions. Grant nas evidently no compre- hension of our governmental system, nor does he care much for it, To command and obey are his ideas of government. He knows nothing of constitutional restraint. The place he occupies he considers his right, a perquisite he has earned. We must et rid of this man and his evil surroundings. Greeley 1s not the man I would have selected, but his election'would be an advance, an improvement on the present state of things. A oe eod stick may be made available to beat a mad dog. It is necessary that we should dismiss minor dif- ferences and concentrate on one candidate, If we cannot have our first choice let us have the best we can get. If we can elect a new Chief Magistrate we can elect @ new and better Congress, and we shall rescne the government from unconstitutional bands and from sae rule, Some of the extreme and impracticable free ini as they call themselves, propose @ new ticket. This, if it can do anything, will aid ‘Grant and existing evils, Why talk of free trade and revenue while the government itself is in peril? Iam for rescuing the government and pre- rains which fill up those great equatorial manner they can understand that murder and pillage, in the language of the late Jack Rey- nolds, are ‘‘played out.’’ He is just the man for the occasion, as he was at Winchester and Chicago, and will make peace reign along the border in a shorter time than any man in the land. Let the government, then, at once give him the necessary powers, lakes, or reservoirs, to a point which maintains the steady volume of the river through all the dry season. But the main question, the sources of the Nile, which Speke and Grant and Burton sup- posed they had discovered in the great equa- torial lake, Victoria Nyanza, and which Baker supposed be bad foynd in the Albert Nyanza, serving free institutions before contending on mere matters of expediency. Grant has not a single qualification for Chief Magistrate. Grecley has some. Grant has some vulgar cunning and is ex- tremely selfish and avaricious; Greeley has intel- lect and generous and patriotic instincts, If he is elected he will have a new and different Congress, and all Presidents are more or less influenced by their friends. Margaret Rooncy, forty-five years of age, of 400 West Forticth street, fell off the roof of her resi- dence last night to the grougd and was iostantiy THE BOSTON REGATTA. teats Contests for the Prizes Offered by the Corporation of the City—A Series of Splendid Races—The City Fathers En- couraging Oarsmanship. Boston, July 4, 1872. ‘There was a very large crowd in attendance upon the rowing regatta which formed part of the pro- gramme for the oMetal celebration of the Fourth of July in Boston to-day. Twelve hundred dollars were offered in premiums, and this fact, together with the well-known capabilities of the course on Charles River, where the regatta was to taxe place, d) ew together & good concourse of oarsmen from abroad. The first race was tor four-oared working boate, rowed on the gunwule 4 distance of three miles, and there were seven entries; the Driscoll crew were among the number, as was also John Biglin and others of only local notoriety. A good start was made at one minute past eleven o’cleck, and @ “Appended is’ the summary, including the boats, crews and time:— ‘ . John W. Frazer—John Rigie Machen Hayes, P. FOUR-OARED THREE-MILB RACE, Regan, George Faulkner. Time, . 338. ~ 8. Gilmore—I, Driscoll, W. Gill, M. Barry, J. Driacoll. Time, 21m. ‘one im nF The Briss red in this class were $100 and $56, respectively, taken by the boats as named above. SINGLE-SCULL W. OONTEST. The second contest was between single-scull wherries, for a distance of two miles; prizes of pe and $60, respectively. There were ten entries r this race, but only eight started, James ‘Ten- Eyck, in the shell [tenes heey carmen Hg won in 15m. Redd cor in. just later, Go the others far Deuinas : HILEHALL BOAT TWO-MILE RAt The third race was between renal be for purses of $100 and $50; distance two miles. Five of the seven boats entered effected a start, and the tace was won by Messrs. M. Fox Lowry, in the boat soneeh Edward. 36s, essrs, Re won the second sens in thee. he Time, 20m. 08, eee DOUBLE-SOULL TWO-MILE HRAT, Four of the seven entries started for the fourth race, between double-scull boats, for a distance of two miles; prizes, $100 and . The James KF. Ormand, manned by T. ©. Butler and Ellis Ward, won in 14m. 29348.; Geo! McDonnell and his brother William second, in 16m. 8s., and the others straggling. SIX-MILE FOUR-OARED RACE. The fifth race was for a purse of $400; second best, $200; competed for by seven of the ten entries of four-oared boats; distance, six miles. Appended is asummary of the result, with boats, crew and 1 — James Fitzgerald—John Biglin, Michael Hayes, Patrick Regan and George Faulkner. Time, 42m. 618. » P. O'Donnell—James Conwell, M. O’Brien, M. E. O’Brien and T, Twigg. Time, 43m. 12s, Tue other boats withdrew before the close of the Tace, and the contest was between those named above, A heavy thunder shower sprung up just as the signal gun was fired and necessitated a general hurry-scurry for under cover, The regatta passed off in an eminently satisfactory manner. THE REGATTA AT NEWBURG. Gil Ward Beaten by John Mekeel in s Four-Mile Race. Newsona, N. Y., July 4, 1872. Newburg Bay, the home of boat-racing, was en- livened this afternoon by a couple of races, given under the auspices of the- Newburg Bay Regatta Association, the funds for prizes having been oP- propriated by the Common Council. The first race was for double-scull working boata, Open to all boats rowed on the gunwale,not ex- ceeding eighteen feet in length. First prize, $75; second, $50. The judges were Josh Ward, George W. Shaw and 0. Frank Brown. There were only two entries—the Murphy brothers, Ed and Sam, of Newburg, and Eugene Smith and James Coon, of Cornwall. The distance was a long four miles— nearer four and a half than four, The Murphy brothers won easily in 30m. 448, ‘The second race was for single-scull boats. Fret prize, $100; second, $50. Same course to be rowed over as for the above race. There were four en- tries, as follows, in the order of their positions:— Gil Ward, John Bancon, John Mekeel, Dan Ward, dr. The judges were George W. Shaw, C. Frank Brown and Frederick J. Englehardt. Mekeel took water pe getting a full half length in front before the quartet had got away from the judges’ boat. Dan Ward followed nim close. When half-way to the stakeboat, anchored a mile north of the = ges’ boat, Mekeel was stil in advance, and betting was brisk, Mekeel being the favorite, though some bets were taken even on Gil Ward. 'The stakeboat was turned and the first mile made by Mekeel in 9m, 17348., followed by Gli Ward in 9m. 28s. Dan Ward was third, while Hancon jogged along in a gang by himself some distance in the rear. At the Judges’ boat, end of the second mile, Mekeel’s time was 18m. and Gil_ Ward's 18m.18s. Dan Ward third and Hancon last. Mekeel’s friends now earine at everything in the shape of bets, Meg he the odds wanted. In turning the stake- it at the end of the third mile Mekeel’s time was 29m, 59s., and Gil Ward was just eight seconds be- hind him. Mekeel won the race in 37m. 378., Git Ward’s time was 37m. 458. Dan Ward was in the neighborhood of an eighth of a mile in the rear, while Hancon hauled off the course at the end of the third inile. Gil Ward’s friends are confident he can do better than he has done this afternoon, and ask allowance for him on account of some drawbacks. The water was rather “Jumpy,” and the boat rowed by him, Lt amateur oarsman of Newburg, is better adapted to a glass) ce. Then a canal boat pushed out from a Newb dock on the way up and nearly fouled him, A match of $500a side between Mekeel and Gil Ward is strongly talked of, and is among the proba- bilities of the next few weeks. The races were witnessed by an immense number of spectators, lining the wharves of the city, gathered on the housetops overlooking the bay, and crowding all varieties of craft on the waters of the bay itself. _ REGATTA AT BUFFALO, BUFFALO, July 4, 1872. Ina single scull race between Billy 8, Chartf, of Pittsburg, and Richard Tinning, Jr., of Toronto, Canada, the former took the purse easily. In a single scull race, open to all, Robert Berry, a negro, of Toronto, took the purse, The four-oared boat race, for a purse of $875, was won by the McKee Club, of Pittsburg. as he was The Fourth Celebrated with the Spirit, of Old Times—Greeley the Bridge Over which the Rebellious Seck to Return. RIcHMonD, July 4, 1872. The observance of the Fourth of July was general to-day. It was areturn of the old times and old feelings. Nothing has occurred since the war so well calculated to indidate the complete change that has come over the spirit of the people of Richmond. It shows the rapid development of a strong Union sentiment. The people are tired of nurturing the animosities and resentments of the war and ardently long for a return of the era of national brotherhood. ‘This feeiing might have been brought out actively long ago had the administration shown any disposition to cultivate it; but as the government wholly neglectea the white race, and favored the colored people, naturally the former were estranged more and more each year, until they had at last begun to feel they had no art in the country and were strangers o the flag and land of their birth. The stoics and cynics, the proper terms to use when referring to the Bourbons and fogies in this section, favored and encouraged this spirit among the disheartened people, and delighted in infaming and keeping alive their senscless resentments. But the great change which has been made so apparent in the sentiment at the North, by the favor with which the people there have received the nomina- tion of Mr. Greeley, has produced THE HAPPIEST REPECT IN THR SOUTH, and the people are again beginning to feel and act like American citizens, and thelr old love for their flag and country is returning by common tmpulse, as it were, for there was no preconcerted pian ot action. The people all seemed to enter into the true spirit of the thing, and there was a general suspension of business throughout the city; the State and city offices were closed for the first time since the war, and the Fourth was observed ag a national holiday in the true national spirit. ‘The military paraded, and while one portion of the First regiment went to the fair grounds, where they have festivities for the beneflt of the fund for the removal of the dead of Gettysburg, another de- tachment visited Norfolk and went to Fortress Monroe to be present at the usual pyrotechnic dis- play made at the Point, There the blue and the gray met to SHAKE NANDS ACROSS THE BLOODY CHASM of the past. Most every! who could get away from the heat and dust of the city went to the parks and groves iu the neighborhood and passed the day in pleasant festivities. The papers, with the exception of the Dispatch, suspended in honor of the day, The Dispatch never suspends, The colored people, too, had their celebration, march- ing through the ‘strects and occapying the public grounds. The city was fall of them, white the woods were filled with their white fellow citizens, The American flag ‘was displayed from the Capitol with the flags of vi nd others from the (fustom House. The feeling prevailed among all classes, and there ‘was not a single accident o¢ cosnary and every. thing Indicated that the trae spirit of the Fourth of daly was at swong the people of the South ON0e MOI. ’