The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1872, Page 6

“ African explorer. 6 EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—Tux Last Trumr Carp. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Twe Frexcu Sry ox Hoxsxsace—Jack Suzrranp on Honsesacx. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway. —Vaniety Entee- ‘YAINMENT—TaE SouTH; OR, Arran THE Wan. Matince. ' woop's MUSEUM, Broaaway; comer Thirtieth st.— Won Our. Afternoon and Eveni: ' oLyMPptc THEATRE, Broadway.—Scannipsn: on, Tas Oxp Hovss on tax Raine. Matinee at 2. $i. ( UNION SQUARE THEATRE, 1th st. and Broadway.— ean Mataes ate be \_ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Tax Mit Giats. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Everrsopr's Faienp, £0. f CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garven InsteumentaL Conozar. \. TERRACE GARDEN, Sth st., between 3d and Lexing- ton ava—Svxume Evening Concerts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— (OR AND ART, .. DR. KAHN'’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Anrt anv Scrmnce. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, July 6, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO0-DAY'S HERALD. Pagz. y. Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. * 3—Penal Punishments: The Inner Life in the Prisons; What Released Prisoners Say; The Penitentiary and Workhouse Management— The Baltimore Convention: An Influx of the Great Unterrified Delegates; te ee the Preliminaries — Bismarck's _ Be’ ‘oire: Kaiser William's Squadron Compelling Hayti to “Settle’—The HERALD and Dr, Livingstone—The Great Welsh Question—The Dying Jubilee; The Life of the Great Hub-bub Ebbing Out; Miserable Attendance Yester- day—What Rullman Knows About Manage- ment—Miscellaneous Telegrap! 4—The Presidency: Our Presidential Elections and their Results; The Rise and Fall of Our Politi- cal Parties—Miscellaneous Campaign Dashes— ‘The Unterrified Compromise ; Convention Top- ies from aa aering Baltimore ; Interview with Senator West, of Louisiana; The Baltimore bon ag Labor Reformers—Railroad Ac- cident. S—The Unterrified Compromise (Continued from Fourth Page)—Colfax at Kalamazoo; Grand Hurrah on the Future Greatness of the Ameri- can Republic—The Campaign in lowa, Minne- sota and Wisconsin—Greeley’s Return—The Soldiers and Sailors—The German Democrats— Choked to Death: Murder in a Stanton Street Tenement House—The Liberty street Explo- sion—Wife Murder on Long Island—Brutally Clubbed by a Policeman—Probable Murder— Suicides. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘Our Presidential ‘ps. and Downs of Our Politi- Elections—The cal Parties—The Impending Contest’’—Amuse- ments Annodncements. Y—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—The War in Mexico—Terribie ConMagration in Constantinople—The Fourth in Europe—The British Iron-Clad Navy—News from France, Switzerland, India and Ouba—The Edgar Stuart—The Forlorn Faunie—Personal Inteill- ‘nce—Business Notices. 8=—The Heated Term: New Victims moaverdey, Thirty-four; Deaths, Thirty-three—Fires in Forty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Streets— Marine Court—‘Hark from the Tombs"— Smuggling on a Cunard Steamer—The City Hall and Court House—Highway Robbery— Attempted Snicide—New York City Items— The Heltze Homicide—Severely Cowhided— Canoe Travelling Extraordinary: Success of the Expedition to the Source of the Missis- sippi—is the Soul Immortal ’—Foreign Yacht- ing Notes—Pigeon bewiaatt d in Hlinois—A Challenge from the Cornwall Oarsmen—Death in a Garret—A Stormy “Fourth” in Trenton, @—Financial and Commercial: A Slugish Return to Business; Secretary Boutwell and a New “Call” of Bonds; Gold Steady and Dull—Board of Health—An Iron Bridge Shaken Down— Marriages and Deaths, 10—The Roumanian Jews Again—The Seventh at Saratoga —The Edgar Stuart—A Bloody Ex- cursion—News from Washington—Aquatic— The Weather—Miscellaneous Telezraph— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 21—Stokes: Further Developments in the Line of Defence; A Day of Crimination and Recrimin- ation Between the Lawyers—The Courts—The Late Railroad Collision: Two Victims Already 4 Dead and Others Dangerously Hurt—A Mu- sician’s Matrimonial Experiences—Hydro- phobia. i%—Long Branch Races: Last Day of the Meeting at Monmouth Park; Three Interesting Con- tests—The Strikes—Brooklyn Affulrs—Child Lost—Advertisements. Tse Barmsn Inox-AnmMorep Was Sar Guattox, a naval monster, for purposes of coast defence at least, was ‘tested under the fire of very heavy guns at Portland yesterday. The direction and effect of the practice ap- pears to have been excellent in that particular branch of science, while the continuance of the turret in revolution under and after the shock of the great shot appears to have been equally consoling to the Lords of the Admi- ralty and the advocates of the turret system of marine defence architecture. Tae Great Weis Question—Wuo Is Srantzx?—We print to-day on another page some extracts from the Welsh papers regard- ing Mr. Stanley, the Hzratp’s indefatigable As soon as his success was acknowledged the enterprising Welsh journals resolved to locate the place of his birth, and their enterprise was rewarded with the discov- ery that Stanley isa Welshman. Another im- portant point in relation to the matter is that notwithstanding his great successes Stanley's “Celtic disposition’ has not been tarnished by Yankeeism or any otherism. Regarding his name, @ unanimous yerdict hag not yet been arrived at, one authority claiming his name as John Thomas and another as John Rowlands. Thomas is quite as good a Welsh name as Murphy is an Irish one; so, in point of a choice of name the Welsh journals are sin- gularly patriotic. We feel sorry, however, that our distinguished Cambrian contempora- ries have not settled the question of Stanley's mame. Of course, the matter will not end here, and we may expect other claimants for the birthplace of the American explorer. Lerrers rom ‘Livinesrone 10 tne Henaup.—Among the many notices which have come to hand on the success of tho Huznatp's expedition in search of the great explorer in Central Africa, we have noticed some statements that the man who met Livingstone did not carry back to civilization any scrap of the long-lost’s handwriting to authenticate the Story of his having been met and succored at all, Unfortunately there are people in the world whoso insignificance does not accord with their aspirations, and who would seek to have themselves hoisted into notoriety, even on the end of a pitchfork, rather than be left se- eurely alone. To insinuate, therefore, against an actuality is a favorite mode of presenting themselves for the prongs. To the public it is our desire to state that not only will our cor- respondent tell in full the tale of his expioit in our columns, but that letters to the Hunary from the hand of David Livin tone will ac. | ¢ompany them. This interesting piece of in- formation, we are sure, will quict the appre- ensions of the handful of doubting Thomases, ns tt will prove & agusee of doep interest to the trillions who read the Hwadib’s 1». lligence NK“W YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. Our Presidential Elections—The Ups and Downs of Our Political Par- ties=The Impending Contest. Mr. Sumner, who proved completely, to his own satisfaction, some few months ago, that the safety of "the country requires that the oc- cupant of the White House, good, bad or in- different, shall be limited to one term, has just proclaimed another important discovery, not that of the sources of the Nile or the Congo, but the discovery that the main spring near the fountainhead of ali the political cor- ruptions of the day isthe caucus or conven- tion system by which our Presidential candi- dates are nominated. In other words, Mr. Sumner unsparingly denounces this conven- tion system as utterly corrupt and demoraliz- ing; and an able democratic contemporary, being exactly of the same. mind, is satisfied that Sumner is the greatest statesman of the republican party. But Mr. Sumner'’s opinion of these Presidential conventions, had he, for instance, been nominated at Phil- adelphia in the place of General Grant as the republican candidate for this contest, and the opinion of this journal, if it were demon- strated that Mr. Greeley would not and could not be adopted at Baltimore as the democratic candidate, would be, weapprehend, an opinion that this convention system is an excellent thing. The old fable of your bull and my ox will solve most of these-political riddles. But as the masses of the people seem to like their party conventions as great labor-saving machines the complaints of disappointed politicians may be dismissed without farther remark. And so, for the present, we will turn toa general review of our past Presidential elections, and in reference to the one before us. In looking over the colut of the Hzraup this morning our political readers of all par- ties will find, in our carefully compiled chapter of facts and figures on the Presidency, a brief outline of the political history of the United States which will well repay a thoughtful perusal. We are on the verge of a most remark- able Presidential contest, and we see already that anything and everything bearing upon it, directly or indirectly, is eagerly seized upon by all parties. Hence this compilation of our Presidential statistics. It will be found, to every man interested in the issues and proba- bilities of this campaign, useful as a guide book or time table in reference to our past elections, and as indicating the positions and conditions of the contesting parties of this day. As Professor Agassiz, from a bone or two of a fossil ichthyosaurus or pachyderm, can give you a picture of the animal as he lived, so the old political campaigner, from our leading facts and figures upon each of our Presidential elections, from Washington down, will be able to fill up the outline from his own recollection of the parties, politicians and issues of the contest; while our younger politicians, Grant or anti-Grant, will find in our statistics the best of ammunition for their stump speeches. To the superficial student these Presidential facts and figures will be apt to convey the conclusions that since Washington our Presi- dential contests have been mere games of chance; that our party leaders have been mere gamblers in capital for ‘‘buncombe,”’ and that our national growth and prosperity are due less to any fixed policy of patriotism, wisdom or statesmanship, on any side, than to the chapter of accidents affecting our juggling parties and trading politicians. Yet, in look- ing below the surface, in considering these ups and downs of our political parties, factions, cliques and leaders, it will be seen that the in- telligence and sturdy patriotism of the ruling majority of the American people have been equal to all emergencies. + The most important conclusions suggested trom the rise and fall of each of our political parties of the past are these: that no political party in this country, unless founded upon great principles or ideas, can stand, and that when a party has fulfilled its mission it breaks up, dissolves and disappears, Thus the anti- Masonic party and the Know Nothing party were short-lived, because they were founded upon shallow fallacies, bigotry and persecu- tion; while the little stone, marked the Aboli- tion of Slavery, cnt out of the mountain of human rights by a few bold and self-sacrificing men, rolled and gathered strength till it filled the whole land. So, too, the old federal party, the old republican party, the old whig party and the old pro-slavery democratic party having each, in their day, done their appointed work, or, run to the end of their tether, have been broken up and dispersed, or superseded by a re- organization on a new departure. The pres- ent republican party, founded upon the grand ideas of the abolition of slavery and the estab- lishing of equal rights, having fulfilled its ap- pointed mission, the question recurs, is it ap- proaching the end of its occupation of the government? That is the question which is now before the country, and which is not settled by our Presidential statistics, because the reconstruction of the democratic party on @ liberal-republican platform and candidate changes all the pre-existing arrangements and conditions of the battle. As we have shown in our Presidential reca- pitulation, our political history may be divided into five periods. Each of these historical divisions is distinctly marked, but none so broadly or by so great a political revolution as this fifth period. The great questions upon which our political parties were mainly formed and divided, from Jefferson to Monroe, grew out of our difficulties with France and Eng- | land ; but with the settlement of these, the skeleton in the closet, the negro slavery scan- dal, was disclosed. It was, however, for a time quieted in the Missouri Compromise of 1819-20. Then, for twenty years, the money question, in various shapes and forms, agi- tated the country, even to the point of a threatened war with South Carolina on nulli- fication. But in 1840, for the protection of their foot- hold in the District of Columbia, the Southern slaveholding oligarchy began again to show fight on the general slavery question. In 1844, on the issue of the Texas annexation, they brought this old spectre of slavery into the foreground, and gained their point; but from that day forward they were only heaping up wrath against the day of wrath, which é¢ame with Lincoln's first election, And what has followed > One of the broadest, bloodiest, | most momentous and most decisive political | revolutions in the history of any people. fn | | 1860 our national government rested and de- | pended for its continuance upon certain com- | pacts binding it to the recognition and protec- | tion of negro slavery; in 1872 we have a na- tional constitution resting upon universal liberty and equal rights. And the democratic party, which had become the defender of negro slavery, and which was the opposing party to all these new amendments, having ot length fally accepted the situation, our Presidential probabilities are changed again, and must be measured by this new order of things. The slavery question and the negro question, upon which the republican party has achieved the greatest changes in our political system and the most decisive party victories in our history, aro settled. The republican party and the opposition forces here, at last, stand on the same ground. It is in this capacity, as ropresenting the issues settled by the war, that democrats and republicans, Northern and Southern men, Northern Unionists in the war and rebels of the Southern confederacy, are uniting as in 8 common cause for the de- feat of General Grant and in order to establish @ new administration at Washington. Here, then, the statistics of our past elections cease to be applicable. Even those of 1868 will not serve us; for in 1868 the democrats fought General Grant upon those very measures of Southern reconstruction which now they recog- nize as valid and binding. What, then, is the prospect of this new and extraordinary Presidential contest? The re- publicans pretend to despise this new depar- ture of the democrats and their republican standard bearer. The democrats profess the most unbounded confilence in a glorioug victory. They are confident of getting the balance of power from the repub! can camp, North and South, and that a popu- lar tidal wave is rising which will sweep away the present administration in the fall elections, But the issue of this exceptional contest is necessarily uncer- tain. We know that the Cincinnati Convon- tion represented a considerable body of de- serters from the administration; but we have yet to learn the extent of these dosortions. ‘Wo know that the name of Mr. Greeley as the democratic candidate excites very general confidence and enthusiasm in the ranks of the party; but still there re- main some doubting and protesting voices. Assuming that a few days hence all doubts will be dispelled in the adoption of the Cincin- nati nominee as the democratic candidate, we may reasonably look for such a rally of the democracy and their allies as we have not seen for many years. General Grant is strong, and is supported by a compact and powerful party; but the opposition elements are also strong, and have of late evidently beon gaining strength in view of this general union of all the opposition camps upon Mr. Greeley. Let not the party in power presume too much upon the weakness of the adversary or upon its own ample resources. History is full fatal mistake of James the Second in regard to the strength of the invading William of Orange. It was the fatal mistake of Napoleon the Third in his declaration of war against Prussia. It was the humiliating blunder of our first battle of Bull Run, and the crush- ing misfortune of Leo was his over-confi- dent advance upon Meade at Gettysburg. It will be remembered, too, how contemptuously in 1840 the democrats spoke of General Har- rison in opposition to Van Buren; but the result was a political tornado. We live in a revolutionary age. In politics, as in every- thing else, the world moves now by steam and ‘electricity. In this view all that we can truly say of this Presidential contest is that the new position taken by the democratic party, in changing all the pre-existing conditions of the campaign, renders the issue, from the lights before us, not only uncertain, but exceedingly doubtful, and that it will require a State elec- tion or two, after the Baltimore Convention, to indicate the drift of the tide. The Question of the Plebiscite Re-= vived in France. The recent debates in the Fronch Assembly have brought about a sort of crisis in France. As usual, President Thiers has frightened friends and foes alike by threatening to resign. The opposition is less noisy; but the opposi- tion is not put down. On the Army bill the Assembly yielded out of respect to the Presi- dent. On the question of free trade and pro- tection the President, it is not at all unlikely, may win. It is impossible, however, that the threat of resignation on the part of the Presi- dent can always and forever put off the evil hor. On this last occasion feeling has run high, and the call for a Triumvirate has been loudly made. Into this Triumvirate MacMahon was invited to enter. MacMahon has not re- fused to be one of the triumyirs; but he has emphatically declared that such a course he cannot and will not take unless it is sanc- tioned by a plébiscite. It will not be wonderful if the piébiscite is revived through this sug- gestion of the General. It is not at all won- derful that he makes the suggestion. It would not be wonderful if the plébiscite brought back the Bonapartes and restored the empire. It almost seems as if we were promised a new departure in the history of this latest French revolution. Whatever be the final result a change is now imminent. The Dolly Varden Source of the Mis- slsstppi. set In another column of the Heratp will be found an interesting letter from the Heraup correspondent at the head waters of the Missis- sippi, correcting the geography of Schoolcraft in his account of the source of the great North American river. The Henaun correspondent dates his letter from the canoe Dolly Varden, and has fallen so in love with the locksmith’s daughter that the head waters, which he finds lie beyond Schooleraft’s fancifully chris- tened Lake Itasca, in another lake of smaller dimensions, he has called Dolly Varden, too. While the Herarp has its expeditions in Africa looking for the source of the Nile, it would be unfair to our own great land if the fountainhead of the magnificent Mississippi were left in doubt. Apart from this interesting geographical correction, the sketch of canoe life among the solitudes of Minnesota will be found ‘ar more suggestive than any similar story from the home-bred wildness of the Adirondacks, The pleasure of canoeing needs either & péculiarly happy or more peculiarly morose turn of mind to drink in its enjoyments. By way of parenthesis, it may be remarked that moroseness with gthers does not mean discontent with onesélf, In any case the canoeman must be a self-contained individual, for he has no roore-on his tiny craft to spread himself, This mode of healthy enjoyment, which of fatal mistakes of this character. It was the’ received such a transitory impetus from the owner of the Rob Roy, who paddled or carried his boat all over the rivers of Europe, is one peculiarly fitted to American pleasure hunters. There is so much to be learned in almost every State of the Union which could be acquired by a canoe trip that it is some- what wonderful our dashing youth do not take 8 leaf from the Hzratp’s notebook and set off in canoe squadrons over our rivers and lakes,’ to inform themselves and humanity. and find fun and adventure in the exhilarating exercise. Constantinople Again Visited by a Tere rible Fire—The Flames Still Raging, a from Local Causes, as in Chi- cago. * A telegram from Constantinople, forward to us through London yesterday, reports the sad fact of the occurrence and rapid progress of s most serious and extensive fire in the Turkish capital. The exact date of the origin of the visitation is not given in the despatch, but we ‘are informed that at the moment when its contents were written in the English me- tropolis, on the 5th instant, the flames were still raging, and that one thousand houses, situated in the poorer quarters of Constanti- nople and the suburb of Scutari, had been destroyed. The news statement did not indi- cate that the fire was by any means under con- trol at the moment of date, and the vagueness of the conclusion, goupled with the firgt Knowledge of the disastrous ality, a a fecling of aeay clade, with a sense of sincere sorrow, in England, as its publication in the columns of the Hzrarp to-day will bring a sentiment of unqualified regret to the minds of the people of the United States, steady and fast friends of Turkey, of its inhabitants and their fortunes. Ancient Stamboul has gloried and suffered very much in its history. It has seen its Christian churches, from that of St. Irene downward, defiled; its native mosques made desolate at times; its grand columns frequently broken and as fre- quently rebuilt. Its people have been called on to bless the banner of the Crescent, notwith- standing the fact that the majority of them were convinced in their inmost hearts that it was being borne forward as a ‘‘pale, disastrous planet,” to inspire fanaticism, to war against the advance march of the civilizations of the world. Inall this Stamboul was, and has been, and perhaps yet is, magnificent, if not exactly great. Herrulers haveignored, perhaps, in con- sequence of her greatness, neglected the observ- ance and enforcement of many, of most, indeed, of the minor disciplinary rules of society, of the laws which go to render individual households careful and healthy, and hence render the amalgamated confederations of a city popu- lation secure as may be against the occurrence of accident, and healthy as may be under the influences of a well regulated system of hygiene. Poor little shanties built of wood have been permitted to multiply in the very centre and along the outskirts of Constanti- nople, The most petty dealings in the traffic of the most dangerously inflammable articles have been permitted, if not encouraged by the subordinate officials. The introduction of the American system for the extinguishment of fires has been discouraged and the offers of our citizens to supply first class. engines for ‘use in moments of such danger almost tabooed. Scutari is a town of Asia Minor, and stands on the Bosphorus, immediately op- posite Constantinople, of which it is com- monly spoken of as a suburb. It is one of those mean, contemptible places which mar the beauty of the loveliest portion of this lower world. Its destruction ought to give no cause of sorrow were it not for the fact that some thousands will thereby be rendered homeless. To many of the Eastern cities it would be natural to conclude that fire would be a gain, were it not for the fact that the opportunity for improvement in the work of reconstruction is always lost, the new buildings being almost invariably more wretched than their predecessors, It is only a few years since a large portion of Constantinople, in the neighbtrhood of Pera, on the Golden Horn, was destroyed by fire; but no one has yet told us that this neighborhood has been improved by the work of reconstruc- tion. The time may come when Constanti- nople reconstructed will realize the dreams and the ambitions of the Great Constantine; but that time is not yet. In connection with the sad facts incident to Constantinople to-day and its nestlings of aged | and almost tinder-dry dwellings it is abso- | lutely necessary to recall the memory of the Chicago fire disaster with ourselves—os trivial | cause of origin, in Mrs. O'Leary's log-shed | cow stall, and its textible consequences—if only | to again warn the American people and our | city authorities everywhere of the danger of permitting wooden’ shanties to encumber and disfigure large cities, to jeopardize the lives of the populations of our great towns, and, in fact and trath, to render industry timid, and thus contract the operations of capital in con- sequence of the very heavy risks which are in- curred both by the insurer and insured in bona Jide cases of precaution, while it opens, at the same moment, a source of temptation anda door for attempts at the commission of fraud on the part of the most immoral, careless, worthless and insolvent persons who may be fesident in the larger municipal communities, The Murder of Fisk. Thirteen days ofthe trial of Edward 8. Stokes have passed and the defence is merely at its opening stage. But the interest which at first fed reluctantly upon the retelling of the story of the shooting, as evolved at the Coroner's inquest last January, is now challenged by the novelties of the defence. Its first point seems to lie, if possible, in destroying the pros- ecution argument of premeditation and lying in wait. To this theory of the prosecution they oppose the evidence, taken at the inqliest, of a dead or vanished hackman who drove Stokes on the day of the deed. Several persons were also brought forward who testified to being in Stokes’ company some few minutes before the shooting, and that his (Stokes’) anxiety at the time was centred in a matter relating to a bet. A strong endeavor will evidently be made to prove the meeting between Fisk and Stokes on the hotel stairs an accidental one. The testimony of the boy Brennan that Hart, the hall boy, ad- mitted at the House of Detention being bribed, and that he did not see Stokes fire the shots, is, if the jury accept the young jail-bird’s story, a damaging one to the prosecution. An exciting scene occurred between the opposing counsel yesterday, and every indication seems present that the in- terest in the trial is rapidly reaching fever heat. The Celebration of the Fourth in the Ola World. The European news télegrams which we ‘publish to-day—as did our special report from Geneva which appeared in the Hzraup yes- terday—go to show that the celebration of the ninety-sixth anniversary of the declaration of American independence evoked a very large amount of citizen sympathy in the Old World, besides affording to our countrymen resident in foreign lands a pleasing opportunity for the reiteration of their profession of patriotism and giving a fitting occasion for the unfolding of the banner of freedom and hope to toiling but yet unenfranchised millions. Americans, and among them some of the government men connected with the Arbitration Confer- ence at Geneva, celebrated the day in good style in the Swiss city. The town was gayly decorated, and its people, as well as the strangers, entered into the spirit of the occa- sion. Among the notable incidents was the speech of Mr. Adams. He usually speaks well and to the point, and at this time he made very appropriate allusions and comments on the work of the Geneva Conference. Speaking of the result already reached and of what he expects to be accomplished, he remarked that the tendency would be to remoye the tradi- tional ped of nations as to the mode of agttling thefr differences, We hope it may be 86; and hdmit ¢ T ihe tian Le “BR good one, though we have made such a wretched failure of the whole business, but we have not yet come to the millennium. Nations are likely to be as selfish as ever, and we rather think that if Great Britain had a chance” again she would endeavor to build up her own interests on our misfortunes, as she did before. However, it is well to say encouraging things and to hold out hope of a better time coming. But Geneva is a sort of ‘“‘entangling’’ diplomatic subject, so we teeter from the centre-seat of the Alabama diplomacy to the great metropolis of Great Britain, to Paris and to Berlin. Here the surroundings were of the most pleasing and hopefully encouraging character. Queen Victoria, accompanied by members of her family, paid tribute to the progress of American art ; foreign commerce and finance halted in their career of gain to do honor to our national probity and our fidelity to first principles; and Prussian sport was made more jubilant in Berlin. Paris appeared bril- liantly ; she was herself in good feeling, and her devotion to the cause of enlightened democracy. M. Laboulaye returned thanks for a toast to “President Thiers and the French republic’ at a banquet given in Paris, closing his speech by the utterance of the suggestive and rather affecting senti- ment, “France and the United States— once allies, always friends.” This yearly increasing advance in the work of our peaceful republican progress for the elevation, énlight- enment and final liberation of the Old World peoples is exceedingly hopefnl to our country, as it goes to prove to humanity that we inter- pret the mission handed down to us in charge by the fathers of the republic rightly, and entertain a just and proper appreciation of the means which are equitable and proper for its complete accomplishment. The Jews in Roumania. Ashort time since the cable informed us of the continued hostility of the subjects of Prince Charles to the Jews residing in Rou- mania. The persecutions of the unfortunate Israelites were of a character to attract the attention of the foreign representatives at Bucharest, who accordingly informed their respective governments of the condition of affairs. In a letter from the Heraxp corre- spondent at St. Petersburg, which we publish on another page, the real position of the Jews in Roumania is described. England, impressed with the idea of putting a stop to the persecu- tions of the Israelites, and acting upon the information received from its Consul at Bucharest, proposed somo time since a Con- vention of all the European Powers. In this resolve the British Minister was seconded by the Italian Cabinet. Russia and Germany were the only nations that promptly responded to the proposition, and Gortschakoff offered, n lieu of the proposed convention, that all the European Powers first unite in a formal inter- pellation of the Roumanian government. Ger- many also favors this arrangement in prefor- ence to the proposed convention, and it is, therefort, probable that this will be the course adovted. Naturally enough the Roumanian authorities aré exceedingly indignant at the ventilation of their shortcomings. M. Costo- foro, the Roumanian Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, denies the allegations of the foreign consuls, contends that the Jews have not been badly treated and that the statements of the consuls are greatly exaggerated. This is a mild way of putting a very distinct contradic- tion, It is hardly possible, however, that a number of intelligent gentlemen, such as those composing the diplomatic corps in the capital of Roumania, could be so far led astray as to mislead the respective governments on a sub- Ject worthy of the attention of the great Powers of Euro) Thetis whe Porrmto Draz, the originator and nominal hend of the Mexican revolution, has at last spoken, though only by proxy. His designs and mcyements have hitherto been 60 coni- pletely shrouded in mystery that he has come to be regarded as a phantom of whose existence there was no other evidence than vague hearsay. If his Private Secretary may be considered as his mouthpiece, then the alleged proclamation published some time ago in his name, purporting to modify the plan of the Noria, whereby Lerdo de Tejada had been excluded from the Presidency, was not genuine, But to judge by the language of thé Secretary, Diaz is willing to make such concessions as will insure the co-operation of the Lerdistas, who are the conservative power in Mexico. Diaz's Secretary expresses the hope that the Lerdistas will yet rise in arms against the government of Juarez. In the meantime the war situation remains unchanged, with success strongly in- clining towards the revolutionists, Tue New Frencn Minisren to Wasnrne- ton.—The Duke de Nonilles, the newly-com- missioned Minister of France to the United States, took his departure from Paris for Brest yesterday en route to Washington, His Excellency is a learned and most accomplished gentleman, very rich, of most distinguished lineage, angl an excellent soldier as weil as an exverienced diplomat, He is of the aristo- ais. democratic school of European politics, and will, with the members of his family, make # brilliant addition to society in W: fact which will be seen from the sketch of his life and previous services which we publish in the Hznaup to-day. _ Yacht Racing in June. The sport which spreads white canvas for the breath of the salt sea wind has, during the past three weeks, attracted the energies of its votaries, ‘The several clubs have each in> augurated the season with regattas the biuest of skies, the brightest of suns and the lightest of winds. The ladies are q with their excursions down the bay, that they have enjoyed a most delightful ti floating lazily on the water. doubt, true; but, strange to say, the perversity of the male sex, the yacht owners have come to the conclusion that for real sport it was very unsatisfactory. For a man who owns a fast boat to seea rival competitor who is drifting about a couple of miles to leeward catch a puff of air sufficient to carry her home, while he lies bef calmed, with his sails hanging idly to the masis, is irritating, to say the least, On the day of the New York Yacht Club regatta some of the racing yachts lay be- calmed inside the Hook, and did not moves cable's le the Font of the fleet salad from the ie me Bxe, ar returned. Again, on the Brooklyn regatta there was avery light breeze; and, although on this occasion those yachts generally credited as the fastest were fortunate enough to win, the victory cam never be claimed by them as any oriteriow of speed except as light weather yachts. On the Wallack Cup day the yachts were started. with what may be cop- sidered quite a fresh breeze for this’ season of the year; but then it neverheld steady from any one quarter, but veored round, so favoring the yachts that stood to the eastward as to give them a decided ad- vantage over the rest of the fleet. All this hag a very disheartening effect, especially to yachts- men who have spent thousands of dollars in equipping and improving their boats in the hopes of making them sufficiently fast to beat all others and carry off the much-coveted prizes. The New York Yacht Club fleet has been re- inforced this season by the new schooner yacht Viking and the new sloop yacht Vision. The schooners Madeleine and Tidal Wave may also be called new yachts, as they have each been lengthened some eight or ten feet, and exhibited lately qualities of sailing which en- title them. to be classed as fast sailers. The annual cruise will be carried out this year with the usual spirit and energy. Several of the largest yachts, such as the Sappho, Enchan- tress and Rambler, being on cruises abroad, their ‘absence is certainly to be regretted; “but as the fleet has received several additions since last season, there will be quite a large muster, including the Alarm, Resolute, Fleet- wing, Wanderer, Tidal Wave, Madeleine, Foam, Eva, Columbia, Alice, Fleur de Lis, Viking and others. Rear Commodore Franklin Osgood, it is understood, will take command of the. squadron this year, and will fly his pennant upon the Fleetwing, a vessel celebrated in yachting history as one of the participants of the famous ocean race of 1866. The RearOom- modore is one of the most able and energetic. yachtsmen in the New York Yacht Club, and during the past few years his career has been, marked by a series of triumphs in the yachts Widgeon, Magic and Columbia, including the famous race for the Queen’s Cup in 1870. The yachts, it is supposed, will, as is cus- tomary, rendezvous at Glen Cove and visit New London, Newport and Martha’s Vineyard in succession. On the return the regular autumn race will probably be sailed on the Newport course, round Block Island and return, A visit to Portland has been discussed, but no definite arrangements have been coneluded, ; ! The regattas sailed during the past month have plainly shown the fallacy of yacht racing” in June for 9 test of speed and sea worthi- ness. In fact, holding a regatta in June has resulted in the actual exclusion of all the larger yachts from taking any part in the contest, but, although rather lightly estis mated by yacht owners, it has always been looked forward to with the most pleasurable anticipations by the other members and their Indies as one of the pleasantest excursions of the season. By way of com) @ sug gestion has been made which appears to give general satisfaction to all interested, and that is to have an ‘opening day’ in the month of June and the true yacht racing in September and October. Pew sstataaeee) The ‘opening day" might be held on some date in June that would not interfere with the Jerome Park races and before the annual exodus to the summer resorts. The club might take this occasion to throw the schooner yachts open to the inspection of the members and their lady friends. The programme should comprise a cruise of the entire fleet of the club, sailing in squad- ron, to tho Horseshoe, or outside Sandy Hook, and return, = Thig_ i rales, yacht owners each ‘to ‘invite from ten thirty guests, according to the capacity: of their boat, and indulge them with a pleasant sail. It would also give the ladies a chance of witnessing the working of a yacht, and, if the vessels manceuvred by signal from the flag yacht like ao fleet of men of war, it would be hard to afford a more beautiful spectacle for the benefit of excursionists or those that line the shore, In order, also, to perpetuate the time-honored June Regatta, the sloop yachts might sail for a cup, which would add ma- terially to the enjoyment of the day. In the afternoon there might be a series of boat races between the gigs belonging to the dif- ferent yachts, and the day’s Amusement might close with a collation set under canvas on some private grounds convenient to the shore or on some steamer chartered for the occasion. Such a day's programme would undoubtedly be much enjoyed by the members of the club and their guests, Yacht racing might then be delayed until during the visit to Newport late in the month of August, and the annual regatta would come in well a couple of weeks after the return of the yachts from the cruise, Thero would be no need to make any change in the club course if the regatta was sailed in October,~as, with plenty of wind, it would afford a good chance of fairly testing the speed and sea- worthiness of the yachts without going outside, Ladies not afraid of a frosh.