The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1872, Page 7

, ee » pretty certain, that in the month of & yacht will have to be fast to win, and ‘will then be some encouragement afforded I gentlemen who expend large sums year in buil¢sg new yachts and im- the models and rig of those they have tried and found deficient in some point. Another point worthy of consideration is ¥: made during the past ten years in the size and class of yachts that now belong to the New York Yacht Club. When the club yas organized, some twenty-eight years ago; the course was off the Elysian Fields; butas the fleet begun to increase in size, in 1858, the course was made from Owl's Head and return, and dignified by the title of an Ocean race. The past twelve years have made avast difference in the tonnage of the New York Yacht Club, and have added to the fleet @ number of large seagoing schooner yachts 6f entirely different stamp from those accus_ tomed to sail an ocean race from Owl's Head and return. Drifting in June is not what is required for large keel and centre- board yachts, and it is also obvious that racing in October will have the effect of causing new yachts to be built for seagoing purposes as well as speed, and stop the construction of shallow skimming dishes, put together for smooth water and light airs. Colfx on the State of the Nation— Astounding and Comprehensive Trum- pet Blast from Kalamazoo. Astonishing ore the utterances that come from the mouths of mighty men! The glori- ous Fourth puts them to their level best, and when they are at that point the kernel of Truth is Inid bare from its shell of Sham with the same crushing force as a two hundred pound triphammor would smash a soft-boiled duck’s egg. We aro charmed with our illustration, and still more with what it has reference to— namely, the Kalamazoo Demosthenic effort of Schuyler Colfax. Virgil sang arma virumque, Homer the wrath of Achilles, but Colfax makes the eagle scream and howl and dance a break- down from the wilds of Sahara to the firesides of Podunk and thence back to Kalamazoo. It was feared, after the nomination at Phil- adelphia, of Wilson, the Natick shoemaker, in place of Colfax, the Indiana journalist, on the republican Presidential ticket with General Grant, the Galena tanner, that the Vice Presi- dent, disgusted with tho Philadelphia politi- cians, might possibly go over to Greeley, the Chappaqua woodchopper. It wasapprehended that we must lose, at all events, in this can- vass, the services of Mr. Colfax in the illumi- nation of the public mind on the great political issues of the day. We rejoice that these ap- prehensions may now be dismissed. On “the glorious Fourth” we did not know whether Mr. Colfax was among the cornficlds of the ‘Wabash, or pleasuring at Dutch Flat, or in Utah, fishing in the Devil’s Gate of the Weber River; but on the 5th we received the pleasing intelligence that he was at Kalamazoo, Not only this, but that he had devoted the Fourth to a glorious speech to the “Michiganders,” @t Kalamazoo, on the political situation. Better still, ‘the rich cream of that speech, off for the telegraph, we submit to ener this day. "ind what says Mr. Colfax on the political situation? He says that, while rejoicing in the glories of the future and the present of our we should guard against the perils of the past. Spoken as a patriot speaks when there ia danger abead or astern, ‘Then he quotes the great Spanish orator, Castelor, ‘and asa, grand idea, that while Asia is the nt of the past, pnd Europe is the Gon- tinent of the present, America (hip! hip!) is the Continent of the future (hurrah!). But what are these insignificant bubbleizings to the perils that, environ us? ‘Ah mé, What pertis do environ i. ‘The man that meddles with cold iron! And the first of theso perils, he tells us, is planting the bill of the eagle in the icebergs of Behring Strait, while his tail is exposed to the heated atmosphere of tho capes of Florida. Another part of the peril is that stretching the bird so far must make him “too thin.” This peril is combined with overtrading, and making up the balance against us in scrip of different kinds, to be paid at last in gold. Here we have the ring of the real silver. The next peril, he ” thinks, is too many railroads, and the finding of Stanley by Livingstone a thousand milos from A telegraph post. Our th.rd peril, he says, lies in our increasing State and municipal debts, to the detriment of those in the nigger min- strel business. Fourthly, Mr. Colfax warns Sus of the great peril threatening us in gigantic corporations. These should be covered, he this with a Dolly Varden polonaise, for ‘a ne ‘a at “In the fifth place, he touched upon the peril of political corruption, the great heat of the weather, the eloquence of Susan Anthony, and the view-halloo of the pffice-secker, which he holds to be worse than private embezzlement or stealing. Sixthly, and lastly, he warns the people of Kalamazoo of the peril of going ahead too fast with the floctrine of spreading out too much. This dondiy ‘peril to nations, corn-fed hogs and turtle-eating aldermen should be avoided in the expansive state of our currency. Annexa- tion is like marriage in the places far from Kalamazoo, where the blushing bride is carried off without asking her leave; and, to conclude, he admonishes them to be careful about going into war, or, in other words, getting up an Indiana divorce. ‘Then he thinks that centralization might or might not be perilous, according to circumstances—which nobody can deny. Furthermore, it was his opinion that tho best Jaw for us is tho law given by God Himself to Moses, which is this—‘‘There shall bo but one manner of law for him that is born among you, fnd for the stranger.’’ And here”the Vico Prosident stands firm, for he is founded upon & rock—the rock of ages. Moral of the above and deductions to bo drawn by the intelligent reader:—The Asylum for Incbriates hasa grand chorus nightly of “Down in a Coal Mine,” with its right resting on the Polar basin, whence copious draughts of ice water are honored ‘by the fishing banks, Magniloquence is the food of fools, and onions NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1872.-TRIPLE SHExr. the ambrosia of sages, while the whoop of the Indian on the Plains is to a roasted Quaker what the sfeam whistle was to a baggage- smasher—the prelude to a swoop and a feast. May the bird of freedom ever thus feast and swoop, free from dyspepsia and dry rot. If ‘we were not aware how strictly temperate Mr. Colfax is, he being thoroughly sound on the water question, we might imagine him to have been suffering from an overdose of sarsaparilla. No wonder he took # drive ‘through the mag- nificently snaded streets of Kalamazoo;"’ there was something in their shadiness kindred to his oration. What didhe mean? The Long Island Railroad “Accident.” It would seem that our American railroads intend having every step in the way of guard- ing against the slaughter of the travelling public written only in letters of blood. Our railroad companies, with very few excep- tions, are achieving the reputation of being the worst managed and most reckless of any in the world. Accidents, as they are termed, occur in other countries on railroad lines, and lives are sacrificed to the stoker- demon abroad as well as at home,” But our fatal superiority is undoubted, not only in wholesale collisions where scores are killed, but scarce a day passes that some smash-up is not reported, wherein if human lives be not taken those of oattle are, and other property in large amounts is destroyed. The blame is shifted from one official to another, and, after it has gone the round, the public is informed that nobody is in fault: It is high time that the ldosely-drawn, little-respected rules which govern traffic on our lines should be exchanged for something more intelligible, and the tremendous responsibility entrusted to more intelligent heads and careful hands. The collision near Hibbard’s Head, on the South Side Railroad, exposes @ number of the faults of our slipshod system. To begin with, it is an instance of the ever-present danger which hangs over the line which is in whole or part com- posed of ‘‘single track.’’ The conductor, en- gineer and passengers can never be certain that a train coming along at twenty or thirty miles an hour is not approaching them. Certain reg- ulations are made which have no absoluteness, but leaving, on the contrary, a fatal option to men who have ceased to reflect’ upon per- sonal danger. In this instance the incoming train, aiter waiting the allotted period, moved off the double track on to the single track. The outgoing train, knowing that it was be- hindhand, believed it could catch up the lost seconds, and so save a necessary delay. The result was that the latter train ran into the first, which had come to a standstill, and two lives have been already sacrificed thereby, Now, we find on examining the running reg- ulations that trains ina certain direction are obliged to wait a certain time for other trains ; that, if the other train does not then arrive, it may go ahead, and the curious clause is intro- duced that it’ then becomes the duty of the other train to ‘get out of the way.” How this cannot occasionally be done on a single track the late accident painfully shows, Conductor Lynch had- waited his full time, and Conductor Rathburn thought he would “get out of the way’ by running past Conductor Lynch. The folly and ab- surdity of such a thing, being a matter of everyday occurrence, is some- thing startling. Conductors may not all be so reckless as Rathburn, but the fact that lives depend absolutely and habitually on the capricious judgment of such a man is some- thing to startle the reader. Here are two great stupidities of our want of system made apparent—the large ‘use of a single track and the dependence for a safety from casualty ‘on such things as conductors and their variable watches. The single track shguld not _be allowed. to_oxlst while lezietation can compel the construction of a double one. In any case the rule for the passage of trains should be abgolute—that is, Diss ass ahoald daa tale la the edo switch until the train due-has actually arrived. The present catastrophe points the danger of the haphazard ‘‘time allowance.”’ There are railroad accidents, ‘of course, purely such, which, it might be said, are im- possible to foresee; but the majority of cases prove criminal negligence or want of common foresight as the cause. Bridges are left open and the unwarned train plunges to destruction into a river; a freight train is left standing on the line and an express train runs into it. But there are other de- fects in the system which demand a remedy. The passage of express trains at full speed through the centre of towns and villages is a constant source of danger and death. There is no fencing, no gate, no watchman, to warn the citizens of the approaching monster. The bell, to be sure, is rung, and the whistle sounded, but at twenty-five miles an hour the warning comes but little ahead of the danger. Our companies need more corefulness and skill in their running of trains, which might be made an exact science, but is at present a headless conglome- rate of old stupidities, rash calculations and general makeshift. The excuse of Conductor Rathburn for his fatal rashness will point this charge: A new set of rules for the Fourth of July had been issued, and he had no time to read them ! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ©. W. Woolley, of Civcinnati, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Juage Thomas Allen Clarke, of New Orlcans, is at the New York Hotel. Judge R. B. Johnson, of Pittsburg, has arrived at the Sturtevant House, Congressman William H, Barnum, of Connecticut, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Commodore W. EB. Le Roy, of the United States Navy, 1s again at the New York Hotel. Assemblyman Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Admiral Polo de Barnabe, the Spanish Minister, his son and Lieutenant Pelon, his Secretary of Le- gation, yesterday left the Clarendon Hotel for New- port, where they will remain during the summer. Governor Hoffman came from Newport yesterday, and is now at the Clarendon Hotel. It is expected that he will go to Baltimore to-day, in company with the other delegates to the Convention. General John ©. Fremont is at the Clarendon Hotel. a number of delegates from this State to the Con- vention at Baltimore will leave this city to-day. They are Licutenant Governor A. ©. Beach, J. T. Van Allen, of Watkins; E. J. Hackney, of Hamilton, and Charles H. Lee, of Buffalo, who arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel last evening, and State Senator Jarvis Lord, of Rochester; Delos DeWolf, of Oswego, and H. A. Richmond, of Batavia, who are now at te Filly Avenue Motel THE WAR IN MEXICO. Herald Special Report from Matamoros. Diaz’s Secretary on Lerdo de Tejeda’s Chances for the Presidency. The Lerdistas Masters of the Situation. Saltillo Not Yet Captured, but the Garrison Offering Conditional Surrender. CEVALLO’S MARCH ON MONTEREY. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. The Heratp correspondent at Matamoros has forwarded us the following special de- spatch: — Maramonos, Mexico, July 5, Via Brownsviie, Texas, July 5, 1872. General Porfirio Diaz's private secretary is now in Brownsville. He denies the authen- ticity of the alleged proclamation of Diaz, which was published in the Juarez papers some time ago, purporting to modify the plan of La Noria, by making Lerdo de Tejeda, in his quality of Chief Justice, the constitutional President of the republic. The secretary says General Diaz thus defines his position: —Benito Juarez not being legally elected, therefore Lerdo is President ez officio. The adherents of Lerdo, adds Diaz's secretary, agree to this definition of the pact, but are re- luctant to rise in arms, as they wish to avoid the extension of civil war and would only en- gage in active ‘hostilities as a last resort against the growing despotism of the Juarez government. The Lerdistas repre- sent the wealth and _ intelligence of the country, and if they can only be induced to pronounce, will dictate terms to the govern- ment of Juarez. They would probably not see and endure the complete triumph of Juarez without pronouncing against him. Meanwhile the revolutionists now under arms are willing to fight their battles. SALTILLO NOT YET CAPTURED. Dates from Monterey to the 1st instant were received here to-day; also news ‘from Saltillo. to the 30th ult. The report of ‘ho capture of the latter city by the revolutionists was prema- ture, but General Trevifio is surrounding it with 3,000 men. Colonel Ruvuellos, the com- mander of the Juarista garrison of Saltillo, numbering 800 men, has already offered to sur- render conditionally, but General Trevifio has refused, demanding an unconditional surrender. The revolutionary Generals Naranjo and Barra were holding Monterey with 800 men, and General Quiroga, with another large force, was within supporting distance of Monterey await- ing the attack of the government troops under General Cevallos, of whose approach from Ca- margo there was, however, no sign. Coval!os is still waiting for government reinforce- ments from the interior, but from present, ip? cations thev’29 ot Likely to ome forward, as <% 6 Tevolutionary Genera! Pedro_Martinez is i holding in check the Juaristas under Sanchez Ochoa, while another revolutionary force, com- manded by General Donato Guerra, is engaging the attention of General Rocha’s army.” JUAREZ's ORDER—THE NEW CABINET. The trouble with the National Guard of this city has been momentarily quieted. President Juarez has telegraphed to a mer- chant in Matamoros to send the ten guns which are mounted on the fortifications to New York, to be recast and made more effi- cient; but General Cevallos has stopped this order, because it would leave the city without guns. The new tariff has gone into operation, but the government reserves for ilseli the right to make any arrangement it chooses for the purpose of raising money. The following are the members of the new Cabinet :— José Maria La Frague.... P. Gomez Palacio. - Foreign Secretary ..-Home Secretary Francis Mejia. -Secretary of the Treasury Ignatio Mejia cosveel Secretary of War A telegraphic despatch has just been re- ceived from Gener.1 Cevallos, saying that ho is starting for Monterey. SWITZERLAND. Cabinet Completion of the Postal Convention with America, TELECRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Brung, July 5, 1872. The Swiss government has ratified the additional article of the Postal Convention with the United States regarding the money order system, INDIA. Fatal Shipwreck Off the Port of Calcutta. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, July 5, 1872. A despatch from Calcutta reports that the ship Rothsay was wrecked near that port and seven- teen of her crew were lost. YAOHTING NOTES, The following yachts passed Whitestone yester- day:— Yacht Resointe, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Hatch, from City Island for New York. Yacht Peerless, A.Y.C., Mr. Maxwell, from Oyster Bay for New York. ch ., Mr. Jacob Voorhis, from ‘acht Madeline, N.Y. New York for Newport. i Yacht Mystic, C.Y.C., from Glen Cove for New York. NOVA SCOTIA. HALIFAX, July 6, 1872. Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Cherub fs ashore at Pape Canso, The Royal Alfred has gone to her assistance, The French frigate Minerva sailed last night for Sydney, Cape Breton CONSTANTINOPLE. Terrible Conflagration in the Turkish Capital. One Thousand Dwellings Already Destroyed and the Flames Still Raging—Alarm and Anxiety Prevailing on All Sidee—The Disastrous Visitation of 1870; Its Rise, Pro- gress, Victims and Cause. Lonpon, July 5, 1872, A telegram has just been received from Con- stantinople which reports the fact that a terrible conflagration by fire is just now raging in the Turkish capital, The date of the origin of this sad visitation is not stated, but itis reported that as many as 1,000 houses im the poorer quarters and in the suburbs of Scutari had been already destroyed when the despatch was forwarded. No indication is given that the fire was under control, and fur- ther details aa to the progress and actual extent of the calamity are awaited with great anxiety in England. ‘THE TURKISH CAPITAL AND CHICAGO. Constantinople bas suffered frequently and severely from. the visitation of the fire king during some twenty yeara just past. In- ternally, as in the suburbs, it appears to invite fire in. its labyrinth of crooked, ill-paved, dirty lanes, which are crowded with low-built wooden houses and roughly constructed sheds, Then again, and even in these sheds, its traders deal in the-supply and sale of the most inflammable materials, while the eMciency of its Fire Department and the matter of a regular supply of water for the use of the engines are vastly neglected by the Turkish municipality. THE LATEST GREAT FIRE IN THE CITY, On the 5th of June, 1870, the latest and one of the most flerce and fatal fires which ever raged in the city of Constantinople broke out In a frame house in Pera, at the hour of twelve o'clock noon. It freshened under the influence of a severe north wind which was blowing at the moment, and spread with marvellous rapidity over an area of ground almost incredible in extent, running from the Taxim to tie Petit Champ des Mortz, along the main street to some distance towa:ds and between the Galata Saray college, consuming all the houses of the place, of stone as well as of wood, Ten thousand houses were burned, and it was. at first supposed that 1,000 persons—men, women and children—lost their lives, by the flames or by the explosion of gunpowder or kerosene: oll. The number of the dead was reduced somewhat in amount by official facts published by the Porte ofMicers subsequently, but it was fearful in amount, notwithstanding. The gross loss of property was estimated at 25,000,000 of American dollars. The Sultan appeared personally at the scene of the disaster in 1870, and worked with gatlantry and || vigor, #3 a city fireman, in combating the drea FRANCE. , English Report of a Royalist. Re- actionary Conspiracy. Lieutenant Grant Presented to the Prosident—, The New Minister to the United States— . ‘Bkotch of His Life and Services, oo TELEGRAMS TO THE NE YonK HERALD, : Lonpon, July 5, 1872, Aspecial teleeram from Paris to the Daily News sserts that a threatening conspiracy of royalists, under the leadership of the bue de Broglie, for the overthrow of the republic, was recently discove: oq by the governmer Sisstvnggael oy f ‘resident Thiers at once took enereetié action for its suppression, and it is believed tha! the danger- ous movement has been defeated. a LIEUTENANT GRANT AND THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. Lieutenant Frederick D. Grant, of the United States Army, was presented to M. Thiers yesterday by Colonel Hoffman, Secretary of the American Le- gation, and cordially received. The Lieutenant will leave for home on the 11th inst, The Conspiracy Excitement Subsiding— Loyal Sympathy and Support. for the President. Panis, July 5—Evening. The report of the existence of a conspiracy for the restoration of monarchy is pronounced without foundation, and the excitement produced by its first circulation is subsiding. Members of the party of the Leit in the Assembly called on President Thiers to-day, to express sym- pathy and offer support, FLOW OF SPECIE TO THE BANK, The specie in the Bank of France has increased 8,000,000 francs during the past week. The Embassy to the United States. . Parts, Jnly 5, 1872, His Excellency the Duke de Noailles, the newly appointed Minister of France to the United States, leaves Paris to-day for Brest to take the steamer for New York and Washington, Sketch of Henri, Duke de Noailles. Henri, Duke de Noailles, formerly Marquis of the same title, who was commissioned some short time since Minister of the French republic to the Presi- dent and people of the United States of America, took his departure from Paris yesterday en route for Washington, The Duke Emmanuel Victorien Henri de Noailles is the son of the Duke Paul de Noailles, French historian member of the Academy, Chevalier of the Golden Fleece, and a descendant of the illustrious family whose seat was in the Limonsin, The Duke Paul de Noailies was married to Mile, Rochechouart, and had by her two sons, the irst Jules, Duc d’Ayen, was born in 1826, and the socond, the Marquis (now Duke) Henri, the Minis- ter, born in 1830, so that the new Ambassador is now forty-two years of age. He has always had the reputation of being a very able and intelligent, and among the party to which his famil belonged, that is to say the legitimists, was al- ways treated as a dangerous republican, But the republicanism of the Duke Henri is of a moderate description; and whenever a “rea”? French democrat or republican attempted to treat him on @ footing of equality the Duke knew always how to show that he belonged to the celebrated Noailles family. His fortune being very large, and therefore being without many troubles, he enjoyed @ life which he willingly exposed to danger. frequent duels have made him equally celebrated among duellists and turfmen. The quiet hours of his life he has devoted to literary purposes, and written, among other things, two works on Poland, of which one, “Poland and its Frontiers,” was published in 1863, and the other, “Henri de Valois et la Pologne en 1572," published in 1867, received the premium of the Paris Academy. It would be dificult to say whether it, was in consequence of his study of Polish history that he married a Polish lady, or that he studied Polish history on account of his having married @ Polish lady. At all events, the fact is he married & most beautiful Polish lady. The Duke, nevertheless, pursued his literary and diplomatic career, and was attached to the French Embassies at St. Petersburg, Madrid and other places. The Duchess de Noailles, who still preserves all the splendor of her original beauty, will be one of the brightest ornaments of Wash- ington society, and the Marquis himself, clever, fmiable and rich, will most certainly please all with whom he is brought into intercourse, THE BANK OF ENGLAND'S BULLION. Loxpon, July 5, 1872, The bullion in the Bank of England hes de- THE FOURTH Celebration of the American National Anniver- sary in the Great Capitals—The Day Made Still More Glorious in England, Scotland, France, Switzerland and Germany— The Banner of Hope Hung Out Freely Before the Peoples—The oast to Thiers and a French Official Reply. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD, Loxpon, July 5, 1872, The Fourth of July was more generally observed by Americans in Europe ths year thau ever before. There were special celebrations in this city and in Edinburg, Manchester, Liverpool, Paris, Stuttgard, Geneva and other cities. THE DAY IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, The American residents in London had a banquet at the Inns of Court Hotel last evening, in honor of their national anniversary. Judge Haldeman pre- sided, ‘The day was also celebrated in Edinburgh, Man- chester and other cities 0° the kingdom, The Daily Telegraph newspaper this morning says :—“These celebrations of American indepen- dence, which we once sorely begrudged, but of which we are now honestly proud, had a peculiar character yesterday, following 80 closely the settlement of the dispute over the indirect claims in the Alabama case. We think the glorious Fourth is more honored as: the anniversary of Vicksburg and Gettysburg. We have certainly forgotten wh-ther the Chesapeake beat the Shannon, or vice versa." Queen Victoria and the members of the royal family viewed the pictures of Mr. B adford, the American painter, at Windsor yesterday, and con- gratulated the artiston “the pleasure his works had given them,’” The Day in Uiverpoe?. LIVERPOOL, July 6, 1872, The American Club of this city estebrated the amniversary of the Declaration of Independence by adinner at their rooms:in the Washington Hotel. ‘The house was gaily decorated witt bunting, inside and out. Dr. Jerome V. ©. Smith, ex-Mayor of Boston, occupied the chair. Complimentary and friendly toasts were exchanged by the Ameriean and English guests, and speeches fullief good will were made on both sides, The Day in Gencva—Ur. Adams’ Hops of a New Era in the Comity of Nations. GENEVA, July 5, 1872. The festivities which were enjoyed ducing the American celebration of the anniversary of the national independence in this city were not con- cluded until an early hour this morning. The features of the banquet, bail and salutes, with the toasts and speakers, were telegraphed specialty to the HERALD yesterday evening. Mr. Adams, ia the course of his address, expressed his great cratificas tion at the-work recently terminated, by which the fact of arbitration in the Alabama case wes estab- lished. He said the tendency of this resuté would be “te.veverse the traditional policy of nations as, to the.mode of settling their didterences.” The Day in Paris. Pats, July. 5, 1872, A danquet was given by the Americans resident in Paris, on the eveniog of the 4th of July, in the elegant saloon of the Grand Hote. Sixty persons were present. Mr. Elliot C. Cowdin was chosen ehairman. | Among the guests were General James L. Donald- son, United States Army; J. Meredith Read, Con- sul General of the United States. at Paris; Colonel Evelyn Washburne, son of the American Minister; Mr. Healy, M. Laboulaye, the well-knowa friend of America, and several eminent French journalists. The chairman, on offering the toast to “The Health of the President of the United States,” made an eloquent speech, Recalling the early history of America he took occasion to pay a warm tribute of praise and gratitude to France, who was the first, and had since been the constant friend of American independence. He referred to the creation of the Tribunal of Geneva as one of the noblest victories of civilization, an saw in it an exemplification of Richelieu's maxim that differences between nations could be settled without a resort to the sword. THE TOAST TO THIERS. A toast to “President Thiers and the French Re- Public” glicited great enthusiasm, and amid the choff Of the company, enw NE Bee M. Laboulaye rosé to respond to it. He returned thapks for the honor done his country and acknow- ledged that tie sympathy or tne auc.ca" People for the French in their reverses had been unfailing. He closed his Temarys by proposing the following sentiment :—France and the ‘United states—once allies, always friends,” Consul General Kead made a graceful and appro- priate response. Colonel Washburne replied to the toast to “the health of the American Minister,” who was absent4 and General Donaldson spoke for the Army and Navy of the United States. THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON AND FARRAGUT. Toasts to “the memory of Washington and Farragut” were drunk in silence. The utmost coardiality prevailed; the Frenchmen vied with the Americans in protestetions of friend- ship, and, amid great good feeling, the company separated at midnight, with cheers for the French and American republics. The Day in Berlin. BERLIN, July 5, 1872, The Cricket Club celebrated the Fourth with great spirit yesterday. There were no general fes tivities at the American Legation or Consulate, CUBA. The Killed and Captured During a Fortnight’s Fighting—Surrender of Insurgents—In- crease of the Capital of the Spanish Bank—The German War Ves- sels Which Scared Hayti. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO, Havana, July 4, 1872. The Cuban Major Fajado, with twelve armed and sixteen unarmed followers, surrendered at Holguin. The fortnightly report of the governinent an- nounces that 196 Cubans have been killed, 236 captured, and 970 of all classes have surrendered. The Spanish loss is 3 killed, 22 wounded and 3 bruised, The directors of the Spanish Bank have decided to raise the capital of the bank from six millions to eight millions, Numerous offers to subscribe for the new shares have been made. ‘The notes of the Spanish Bank are quoted at 11% per cent discount, and the indications are that there will be a further decline in their value. The acceptance by the Spanish government of the resignation of Captain General Vatmaseda causes much dissatisfaction among the residents of Cuba, ‘The German corvettes Vineta and Gazella, on the way from Kingston, Jam., to Nortolk, arrived off this port yesterday and communicated with the German Consul at Havana, A TEN-HOUR LEAGUE, Lock Haven, Pa., July 5, 1872. About one hundred and fifty ten-hour men, headed by their President, arrived here from Williamsport on the morning train, and with mar- tial music marched in an orderly manner past the saw mills. They stated their purpose to be the for- mation of a ten-hour league. is evening they held @ mass meeting in. the depot and returned on the night train, The Mayor ordered all drinking saloons closed and no disturbances occurred. None of the mills here aro on strike. A NEW BRUNSWICK OFFICIAL KILLED. Frepericxton, N. B., July 6, 1972, George J. Hathaway, Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick, died this morning from injuries re- ceived in stepping from @ raliway car, The wounds creased £457.000 during the past week, werg not cousidgred gerigus Uulil last evening, 7 I EUROPE. |THE FORLORN FANNIE, Capture by the Spaniards of Eight More Expeditionists. THE STORY OF THE ESCAPED. General Ryan Slightly Scratched, but in Safety. TELEGRAMS T@ THE WEW YORK HERA, HAVANA, July 3, 1872. Eight more men of the Fannie’s expedition have been captured. Fl ty-four more cases of ammunition: have been found on the beach, where it was burted by the erew of the Fannie. Twenty-twoof the ex- Peditionists are still at large, but the Spaniards express tuemsclves confident that all wil. be captured, The Spanish gunboats are actively at work: The Alarma brought @ portion of the cargo off tite Fannie to Baracoa. The officers of the Alarma have inspected the hall of the steamer Fannie; and conclude that it was so badly dimaged by fire as.to be worthless, Esenpe of General Ryan and the Pane nie’s Crow to tho Bahamas—Accoent of the Ship's Disaster—Ryan’s Bras: Pres teets His Body. Nassau, N. P., uty 1; Via Key West, Fia., July 6, 1872: Captain Speed, General Ryan, Captain George Brown, theageut of the steamer Fannie, and twenty- two of the crew of the Fannie have arrived. here, They make the following report: — The steamer Fannie struck: om a reef on the coast of Cuba, and after remain- ing there between thirty and forty hours, daring ‘whieh time the coal of the steamer was: thrown overboa d to lighten her, the party on board suceeeded in sSately landing two. pieces of cannon and several thousand stand of arma, As the Fannie coukl not be floated she was set on fire and totally destroyed, Tho party. then. launched the ship’s boats and started for the Bahamas, and succesded im reach ng Long Island after sail of three days. The whole party were. brought to Nas- aau by the schooner Charles, arriying here on the ‘2sth ult., amd will sali tor New York to-day. General Ryan repo.ts naving: received a knife wound, but as the kute struck a piece of metal on his persea but sight injury was dong, The perpe+ trator of the deed was ony of the expeditionists, THE BRITISH IR0N-ULAD NAVY: Tasting the Turret Ship Glatton Under a Severe. and Repeated Firs—The Turret Struek _ Heavily, but Still in Revolution—-. Desoription of the Glatton. TELEGRAM TQ THE NEW YORK HERALD: Lonpon, July 5, 1W®. The tron, turret ship Glation was tesied at Port. land to-day. The first shot flred mada holedn her turret measuring bineteen by seventeen inches, lifted the upper plates, shattered the framework and started joints in all directions. ‘ The second shot made a hole fourteer inches im diameter, with thirteen decima): penearations, the shot rebounding and falling on the deck. Neither shot interfered with the revojations of the turret. The result of the. trigt is. Sonsidered strongly in favor of the turret system. Description ef the, @latton. The iron-armored tugret shtp Glatton, one of the modern monster evginés for war employed by Great Britain, was laungned at Chatham dockyard in the early days of the year 1871, On her arrival at Portsmouth, soon, afterwards, she was placed for a time at harbor moorings asa tender to the Excellent, gunnery ship, for the purpose of afforde ing ta means for drill with her 26-ton turret guns. She is a very powerful vessel, and is a substantial ind valuable addition to the navy. Her freeboard, or height out of the water, is only three feet, and in time of war, by the use of water ballast, this can be reduced totwo feet, The armor plating of her sides ts 12 inches tuick above and }) juches thick below the water line, and worked on to a teak backing of 20inches. The tjmber baoking is attaohed tp in inner ( akin plating of iron of 9) lald on trot fram 10 tacts di Meats be Le a ect Spare, The breastwerk ‘eateting thé bas’ or tne wurret js carried to a helght above the deck, and covered with 12 inches tron plating ald on to & < backing 18 inches thick. The Glatton will only curry one revolving turret enclosing two 25-tom 600-pounder guns. This turret is 30 feet im diameter, and occupies a large portion of the deck. which is 54 feet broad; rises 7 feet avove the breastwork, and is 80 con- Rectcd as to wive the guns an unobstructed fire ta witiin about twenty degrees of the fore and aft line on either side; it is also contrived that no point of tue horizon ts left upon which one of the two guns cannot be direct-d. A most important feature of the Glatton is her ram, which projects eight fet beyond the upright part of the stem, and is suMcient to make her a very formiuabie adver- sary independently of her guos. It is now expected that her speed will be more than nine Knots an hour, but as she is built for coast defence, this has been sacrificed to a great extent to weight of metal, both in sarmor-plating and guns. The Glatton, although she is ® a periect specimen of a low bourd turret ship, has many special character- nh distingui-h her from other vessels of class boti at home and abroad. She holds @ middie position between the American monitor and the new turret siips which are now boing built for tue Lritish Novy; and sie Wil stand as a prac- tical record of tue first Iree concession of preju- dice at the admiralty toa recognized want in the navy. The difference bet woen tie Glattou and the ordinary monitors lies in two points—a more heuvil; plated upper deck and a tieavily plated breas' work for the protection of the turrets and funnels. In the Glatton, whose deck has an area of 13,348 squere feet, the iron plate (three inches thick) which covers it Is about 608 tons, and is sufficient to cover tite sides of the vessel if Increased by seven feet with nine inches of armor all round. This ad- ditional weight of iroa carried by the Glatton is then the essential compromise which distinguishes her from existing monitors. Died. Puiiirs.—At Brooklyn, on Friday, denly, Davin B. Pui.irs, in the sith re. . Notice of funeral hereafter. Squrams.—As Flushing, N. Y., on Friday, July “ DORE M. JUIRES. 5 Pineral trom ine residence of his father, Richard Squires, Jau avenue, Flushing, N. Y., on Monday, July 8, 1872, at two o* k P.M. Friends of the iamily are respectfully invited to attend, (For Other Deaths See Ninth Page.) 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