The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1872, Page 4

— NEW YORK HERALD " BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ; PROPRIETOR. seeeees sere Mo, 199 Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Wire ros 4 Dar— Woman's Witt, D's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Nore Dawe. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, ral , Broadway.—Vauierr Entxr- muunr. Matinee at 2. UNION JUARE THEATRE, 14th et. and Broadway.— Tux Voxes ‘AMILY—Tuk Wrong Man ix tax Riost Piace. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tng Long 8TRikx. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Brow ror Buow—Dicx Tour, AOQADENY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- oER?. C) OENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gaepen InstaumenraL Conosat, pa aah Lik TRREACE GARDEN, Sth st. between Sd and Lexing- ton ave,—Suaaen Eveninc Condxars, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sorenon axv Arr. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Wednesday, Jaly 17, 1872. CONTENTS OF T0-DAY’S HERALD, Pagz. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The International Prison Congress: The Open- ing Day in the Middle Temple Hall, London— The Franco-German Convention—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “The North Caro- ‘ Election—Its Probable Result and the t on the Presidential Contest’—Fgypt: The Reseeing. Affray Between Americans in Alexandria—The Alabama Claims—United States Naval flag in Ea eed and the Catacazy Pamphiet—The Weather—A Water- spout in Colorado—Amusement Announce- ments, S—-North Carolina: A Great Liberal-Conservative Ratification Meeting at Ralcigh—News from Australas: Sandwich Islands, Navigator Islands and Fiji Islands—Cuba—Shipping In- telligence—Business Notices. 6—Seaside Wanderings: HeraLp Pen Sketches of Our Principal Summer Resorts; The Fllto at Long Branch; Fire Island as a Breathing and Bathing Place; Stonington’s Old Curiosities; Fashionable Life at New London and New: ee Greeley _ Headquarters—Gratz own - The German Democrats—Spice of the Campaign—The Tammany Ring: The Cases of Tweed and Ce Before the Supreme Court—Dangerous Stabbing Affray, T—A<vertisements, 8—Dr. Livingstone: Comments of the English, h and Aimerican Press—Aquatic Notes— paahang As Stranger Killed by a Rail Car— Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts, O—The Courts (Continued from Eighth Page)— Financial and Commercial: The Money Mar- ket Easier and the Rate on Call Three per Cent;a@ Further Advance in Goid; the Pool Mark the Price Up Two Points More; Fluctua- tions in Foreign Exchange ; Speculations as to an Alteration of the Bank of England Rate ‘To-Morrow ; the Specie Exports and Engage- ments; Stocks Higher and Strong; the Re- formatory Measures of the New Erle Board; Revival of Old Gossip About New York Cen- tral—The Brooklyn Bridge—The Erie Rail- way—Vanderbiit's Brother-in-Law Indicted— The Drange Parade—Suicide of a Lunatic, 10—Saratoga Races: The Great of the July Moorings Harry Bassett Beats Longtellow; He 1s Halled “King of the Turf;” Longfellow Broken Down and Will Not Recover; The Western and Southern Men Astonished; Scenes at the Pool Room, in the Village, at the Stables and on the ‘Track—Trotting at Saratoga—The Cleveland Races—Turf Notes— Reviewing the Awards—A Coffee Conspiracy— The Whiskey Men Startied—Brutal Murder in Canada—Death of a United States Consul— Advertisements, Tux Gory Manxgr begins to show signs of the usual summer rise in the premium, be it this time more or less. Yesterday the price touched 114§, or within a trifle of the highest in nearly a year. The movement is this time helped by a wealthy clique, whose existence and intentions have already considerably agi- tated the placid Mr. Boutwell. So far his fesistance has been only a silent watching of the scheme. American Tatent in Lonpon.—A cable de- spatch informs us of the appearance of Miss Clara Louise Kellogg on Monday night at Her Majesty's Opera, Drury Lane, in the opera of “La Traviata.” Her success was so great that she was recalled five times before the curtain, and received the warmest congratulations of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Such honors rarely full to the lot of a prima donna, and conclusively show that American talent is bound to make its way to the foremost ranks in art as well as in everything else. Our Avstratastan Despatcues.—The news from Australasia, telegraphed to the Herary from San Francisco, is quite interesting and re- assuring of a solid, substantial, healthy colonial advance. Valuable mines of copper had been discovered, the yield of gold was fair and th wool trade remunerative. There were politics and official aspirations and party mancuvres inevitably; but the governments control a people who are still young in the exercise of the franchise, and consequently able to bear a good deal of that sort of thing without injury to the general interest. Comments oF THE ENcuish Press on THE Heratp Liviestone Exreprtion.—We publish on another page of this morning's issue the comments of the British press on the discovery of Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji by Mr. Stanley, the Heratp’s African Explorer. With character- istic British fairness, the principal journals of the English metropolis acknowledge the grand work achieved by Stanley in carrying out the mission entrusted to him in the finding of Livingstone, and in furnishing the intelligence that the brave old man still lives and still labors to solve the problem which for cen- turies has baffled the scientific skill of the savans, the explorers and the travellers who made the sourve of the Nile the study of their lives. Reyotvrion m Fist.—The Australasian mail at San Francisco brings intelligence that the Fiji Islands are ‘undergoing incipient revo- lution,” and that the existing government is powerless against it. The despatch does not state whether the anticipated change applies to the matter of the every-day dietary of the natives or whether it is merely political and of an anti-dynastic tendency. This is a very serious omission on the part of the news reporter. If the trouble of the Fijians is merely gastronomic or of a homely culinary nature, we have nothing to do with it. If it is for freedom, independence, democracy and self-rule, we, of course, sym- pathize with its promoters, and the American government will, no doubt, accept accomplished facts should the people win, notwithstanding ‘the executive embarrassment which may ensue in Washington on account of our having already a treaty of amity and friendship with King Thakambou—who may be deposed by this time, for all we know to the contrary—con- able Result and the Effect om the Presidential Contest. The State election for Governor and Legis- lature which will take place in North Carolina on the Ist of August will be the first gun of this Presidential campaign, in being the first election after the final shaping of the Presi- dential contest between the supporters of the administration and the opposition elements of the country. The March election in New Hampshire, the April election in Connecticut and the more recent election in Oregon all in- dicated in their resulta that General Grant was still strong among the people; but these elec- tions will not apply to the actual political situation, because within a week it has been wonderfully changed. -The democratic party, in union with the liberal republicans, with republican candidates for President and Vice President, and with the Cincinnati resolutions for its platform, has indeed taken a new de- parture, and a departure, too, which cuts loose the party in its future policy from the dead issues of the past and brings it into the fore- ground upon the living issues of the day. Accordingly the results of none of the State elections of tlris year preceding the late Balti- more Convention will apply as indicating the strength of General Grant against the general op- position ticket of Greeley and Brown. Neither can the approaching North Carolina election be regarded asa test between the rival republi- can candidates, inasmuch asthe nominations of both political parties in that State were made before the acceptance of Greeley at Bal- timore and without regard to the union that has since taken place between the liberal re- publicans and the democracy. The situation is the same as it would be if New York were called upon to vote to-morrow on candidates for some local offices who had been put into the field respectively by the democratic and republican parties before the Presidential nominations had been made and without refer- ence to the division in the republican ranks. It is possible that the votes of some republicans might be controlled by consideration of the more important Presidential issue in the future ; but the probability is that the party would adhere to their nominees for local offices without refer- ence to their subsequent action in the Presi- dential contest. Nevertheless, as General Grant represents the regular republican or- ganization, and is the standard-bearer of that party, it is of vital consequence to him to carry the North Oarolina election, and hence we find the administration party work- ing with a degree of industry and liberality in its electioneering appliances seldom witnessed in a mere State election since that in Penn- sylvania of 1856, upon which it was known on all sides in advance the issue of that Presi- dential contest depended. In 1868 General Grant carried North Carolina by nine thou- sand majority; in 1870 the democrats re- covered the State by five thousand majority. In 1871 they lost the State again, bya majority of over nine thousand against them, upon the question of a constitutional convention, which involved, as it was understood, the overthrow of the whole work of the reconstruction of the State in the event of the success of the demo- crats, Hence their defeat. Now all this is changed, and with Mr. Greeley as President noman can fear the overthrow of Southern reconstruction or of any of the fixed facts of the situation as accepted by the democratic party, The chances of the election, however, are all in favor of the success of the regular repub- lican ticket next month. The administration is using its power energetically to influence the result, and the State is being canvassed very thoroughly on that side, while the democrats appear to be singularly apathetic and almost disposed to suffer the election to go by default. The republican candidate for the Vice Presi- dency, Senator Wilson ; the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Boutwell, and other prominent administration politicians, are engaged in stumping the State, and all the employés of the national government are at work on the same side. The unusually large amount of money appropriated for certain federal pur- poses in North Carolina just at this moment excites the suspicion that eloquence will not bo the only means used to influence the voters; and the people of the State are miserably poor under the policy to which they have been sub- jected since the close of the rebellion. The census of 1870 shows that there were then nearly four hundred thousand negroes out of a population of a little over one million, and the colored citizens are relied upon, almost to aman, to vote for the republican State ticket against the straight-out democratic candi- dates, whatever may be their action in the Presidential. election, when the fight will be between two republicans, The result can, therefore, scarcely be regarded as doubtful, and it is only a matter of surprise that the administration republicans should evince the doubt and apprehension manifested in the extraordinary precautions they are taking to escape defeat. Their anxiety no doubt arises from the conviction that a sin- gle overthrow in the skirmishes preceding the battle would render their defeat almost a mat- ter of certainty. Probably the apparent apa- thy of the democrats is owing to the absence of a similar feeling of responsibility, since no one would regard the defeat of the straight-out democracy in this State contest as destructive of the Presidential chances of Mr. Greeley, this local battle having been joined on old demo- cratic candidates and issues before the meeting of the Baltimore Convention. There is one feature of this North Carolina canvass which, unfortunately, threatens to disfigure the whole Presidential campaign—the apprehended attempt to combine the negroes together in a solid mass as men whose inter- ests are adverse to those of the white citizens of the State. In North Carolina the negroes number two-fifths of the whole population of the State, there being six thousand white to four thousand colored inhabitants. In some of the Southern States the negroes are actually in the majority, while in others they are numerous enough, with the help of a frac- tion of the whites, to control the elections. The Sonth is thus threatened with the political rule of freedmen not released from bondage a sufficient length of time to have en- abled them to obtain education and to become intelligent electors, united with the worst class of white citizens—the men who for political | purposes would excite a conflict of races in the South. The Henatp condemns such a selfish firmed by the signet of the great whale’s tooth | and unpatriotic policy, no matter by what which is duly suspended in the State Depart- | party it may be attempted, and it is to be ment. | hoped that Senator Wilson, Secretary Bout- ‘The North Carolina Election—=Its Prow- | well and tho other Presidential orators who are | now stumping North Carolina will refrain from any exciting appeals to the colored voters as a class in their efforts to induce them to adhere to the republican party. The negroes are a simple-minded and confiding people, and they should be taught that their interests are identical with those of the whites in securing an honest and efficient State gov- ernment, It is as impolitfo and unchristian as it is unnecessary to keep alive in their breasts the old prejudices against their former masters; it is as dangerous as it is false to tell them that their white fellow citizens: are pre- pared, at any moment they may have the power, to strip them of the freedom and the privileges conferred upon them by the war and to reconsign them toa state of servitude. The attempt to set race. against race is even more reprehensible than those proscriptive Know Nothing tenets of whose mischievous tendency, it is tobe hoped, Senator Wilson has long since become convinced. The appeals Greeley and his friends are making to the Trish as a distinct nationality are bad enough, but are less objectionable than the effort to control the negro. vote of the South by exciting the fears and passions of the colored race, inasmuch as the Irish are natural politicians and are shrewd enough to follow their own judgment, while the Southern blacks are ignorant, inexperienced and credu- lous and their prejudices may be worked upon to a dangerous extent. ‘There is, besides, no real necessity for any” such questionable policy to aid Grant in the South. The Southern blacks are well disposed toward the administration and have a rever- ence for the profession of which General Grant is the acknowledged head in merit as well asin rank. The probability is that they will vote the administration republican ticket without persuasion, and their united support in North Carolina, joined with the strength of the federal office-holders in that’ State, the efforts of the stump orators, and, probably, an open-handed liberality toward the voters, can- not fail to carry the election. The wisest pol- icy General Grant could pursue would be to refrain from any extraordinary effort to influ- ence the negroes, to prohibit any interference of the civil or military authorities with the canvass or the polls, and thus to fore- shadow by his action im that State o complete change of treatment for the entire South. The people of the Northern States have made up their minds that whatever may be the result of the Presidential election the next administration shall give peace and en- tire freedom to the white citizens of the South, and shall extend the protection of the consti- tution over the whole Union. They will no longer suffer the Southern States to be para- lyzed and their white citizens to be degraded to help any political party. If the Presi- dent, recognizing this fact, would rid him- self of his present political advisers—stump orators, carpet-baggers, office-holders and all—and adopt toward the South such a gen- erous and ‘noble policy as he pursued toward the vanquished soldiers of Lee’s army and foreshadowed in his famous report to President Johnson, he would not only ensure the success of the republican State ticket in North Caro- lina next month, but would sweep the whole Southern States in November. Sucha triumph would ‘be more valuable and more honorable than any victory won by political trickery or by the dangerous expedient of creating a hostile feeling between the white men and the negroes of the South. Lonargiiow's Accipent—A Game Horsz.— It will be learned with extreme regret by the large class interested in sporting matters that John Harper's great horse, Longfellow, was disabled from racing, it is feared for life, by an accident at the Saratoga course yester- day. That this took place in a race which saw two and a quarter miles accomplished in three minutes and fifty-nine seconds— the fastest time on record—will make the ac- cident the more regretable, when, too, it is learned that Longfellow only lost the race by alength. One of his plates became twisted in the running and cut the other foot and leg badly, but the heart of the horse never weak- ened. He ran gamely as ever to the end, and was led off limping and bleeding to the stable. There seems something in this of pluck, almost heroism, which man arrogates entirely to himself; but two miles and a quarter on little better than three legs and in such time will challenge admiration the world over. It will be remembered that he recently beat his successful rival of yesterday, Harry Bassett, at Long Branch, in a two and a half mile race, by about one hundred and fifty yards, in four minutes, thirty-four seconds. Tue Bratron Aspvuction Casr.—The Brat- ton case was brought up in the Court at London, Ontario, yesterday. Our readers will remember that Dr. Rufus Bratton was abducted from Canada on the 4th of June, and that he reappeared subsequently in South Carolina. The case has caused considerable excitement, as it seriously involves principles of international law. It appears that Bratton arrived in Ontario on Saturday last, but that he purposely con- cealed himself until the opening of the Court yesterday. According to Bratton, Cornwall, who is charged with the abduction, laid vio- lent hands on him in Waterloo street ; hand- cuffed him, with the help of a cab driver, and forcibly placed him in the cars. Bratton says he protested to the last and yielded only because he relied on British justice to sustain him in the end. The case was further remanded. This is a curious case, and it seems to us that it will lead to some sirange developments. It is but little likely to set the St. Lawrence on fire; but it may furnish us with a sensation of some interest in these dull times. A Usrrep States Protectorate of a por- tion of the South Sea Islands has been, as we are informed by telegram from San Francisco, formally assumed by an American naval officer on board one of the national war vessels. We presume his action is all right. Tar AtapaMa Cratms Ansrrration.—The members of the Court of Arbitration for the settlement of the Alabama claims assembled in session in Geneva yesterday. The meeting was of very brief duration, an adjourn- ment having been had within the space of thirty minutes. A variety of printed matter was handed in by the national agents. Our telegram report indicates that the prog- ress is quite harmonious so far, and that the entire proceedings may be, perhaps, closed at an early day. trial in the case of Stokes furnishes strong evidence proper administration of ‘under the pre- sent system. So many experiments of the same nature have been tried with a like result that the public conscience is not so much affected as might be expected or even desired. Still there is abroad a general dissatisfaction that some conclusion has not been reached by the twelve men who were obtained with so much trouble to try this case. The main facts of the charge against Stokes were admitted by the defence, and it only remained for the jury to decide what was the nature of the act which Stokes committed when he shot and killed Fisk. To the ordinary mind the issue seemed @ plain one; but, as the evidence of motive in such cases is always of a most conflicting na- ture, it is natural to expect that different men would take different views of the regponsibility incurred by one man in shooting down another. Where important evidence of a con- flicting nature is certain to be pregented and requires to be carefully weighed and ana- lyzed, it is of the first importance that the men to dpcide on its relative value should be of-superior intelligence, It is not enough that they should be honest and unprejndiced; they ought to represent the highest intelligence of the community, The interest of the prisoner, no less than that of the public, demands this; yet the law as at present interpreted tends to exclude from the jury box the only class whose presence could give weight and authority to that ancient but much overrated institution. There can be no question that the present ruling in relation to the selection of jurors is made rather after the letter than the spirit of the law. It is evident that the framers of the law never intended that the intelligent portion of the community should be driven from all practical share in the administration of jus- tice. The intent was to protect the citizen from the malevolence of personal enemies, and the challenge was meant to mect the case of personal prejudice which might endanger the life of the accused. No _ reasonable man will attempt to maintain that intelligent legislators deliberately passed a law with the intention of making the life of the citizen dependent on the stolid stupidity of men_yho, from their sheer want of intellj- gence, forii nd opinions on dvents that agitate the whole community. This position is too absurd to be maintained, and yet the judges in our Courts constantly ignore the evident intent of the law and give force to its literal interpretation, without a word of comment or protest. Bytthe vast mass of the people are becoming tired of the judicial farces which are constantly being enacted in our midst, dnd the desire for the adoption of some more logi- cal mode of procedure has grown to be uni- versal, at least among the classes who do not care to indulge in the amusement of shooting down their fellow beings. No doubt the rowdy element will look with disfavor on any change in the present system, which practically places at their mercy the lives of the peaceable inhab- itants. It is scarcely just that all the protection of the law should be afforded to those who, set- ting all law at defiance, make their own wills the only guide, while the victims of their vio- lence are deprived of all protection. If this state of things continues it will be the imterest of every one to defy the law, and we may look forward to the execution of summary vengeance for real or fancied wrong as a regular item of daily intelligence. If judges and juries are to be assembled, at some expense to the gene- ral purse, simply to tell us that they do not know whether or not killing is a crime, the sooner we dispense with the farce of holding courts of justice the better. Two ways sug- gest themselves of curing the present evil, and we think the moment has come when the remedy should be applied. The adoption of a rule which would make a two-thirds majority sufficient to secure the conviction of a criminal would undoubtedly give a real guarantee for the administration of justice. In addition, the present interpretation of the Jury law, which excludes the intélligent classes from the jury box, ought to be modified so as to apply only to such cases of prejudice as might be held to interfere with a juror’s returning a true ver- dict according to the evidence. This was cer- tainty the intent of the framers of the law, which legal sophistry has so distorted as to convert what was meant to be a safeguard for the innocent into a powerful shield for the guilty. With the introduction of these reason- able changes into our code we might hope to see abated, if not entirely suppressed, the murderous ruffanism which is a blot on our city and on our civilization. Gambetta and President Thiers, In his speech at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre on July the 15th M. Gambetta praised the repub- lic as the embodiment of the prin- ciples of self-government, order and pros- perity. He denounced the conservative party—that is, the monarchical major- ity in the Assembly—and in terms the most flattering complimented President Thiers, pro- nouncing his administration a grand success. President Thiers a few days ago surprised his conservative friends by declaring for the re- public, and now Gambetta surprises many by declaring for President Thiers. After Thiers Gambetta is unquestionably the most power- ful republican civilian in France. In the event of the death or retirement of Thiers Gambetta is the man to whom republican France would look. It is a good sign for the republic that two such men are agreed. It does not mean, however, that France has yet seen the end of the troubles begotten of the date war. A general election is hourly becom- ing more and more a necessity; but no living man can tell what would be the result of a general election in the peculiar circumstances in which France now finds herself. The pear is ripening. Too Larz—Colonel Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, straight-out democrat, and Mr. Horace H. Day, of New York, Vice President of the Labor Reform League, in their efforts fora joint stock national convention, in view of a straight-out democratic and labor reform Presidential ticket and party for this contest. It is too late now for a third party, for the masses of the people, of all parties, have already made up their minds for Grant or Greeley. If Colonel Duncan could do nothing for a third party at Baltimore’ in July he will not be able to do much at Louisville in Sep- tember, a A Blessing Not in Disguise. ' Thanks to that Divine Providence which watches over the fall of a sparrow, New York thas clean streets, The abundant dashing showers of Monday, pouring their torrents upon the three hundred miles ef our paved streets, have conferred upon us a boon for which we have long looked in vain to the well- paid contractor. Clean streets for once we have, and are grateful. Fierce sunrays during the past fortnight, in spite of the exertions of Captain Thorne’s broom brigade, had. devel- oped smells that threatened disease. We now have nothing which could offend the most sensitive nostrils, and the air of yesterday, though at full summer heat, was as wholesome ami pure as that which sighs through the mountain passes of the Adirondacks’or crests the waves at Long Branch. Nature taught us in her copious flooding the true way to secure a clean and healthy city. The practical water-cure is upon us, and our filth is buried in the ocean tides at our feet. Shall we never learn the lesson and wash our streets with the abundant water which surrounds us? New York can easily and cheaply become the cleanest city in the world, and the healthiest. Just now the death rate of Philadelphia, where there has lately been a slight scarcity of water, has advanced beyond our own. We have had no lack of that inestimable blessing, pure Croton water, and should thank the wise pru- dence of those who provided it for us in such unstinted measure. With clean streets and abundant water rightly used we shall have little cause to fear epidemics as a result of summer heats. Cunan Avrams—Tue DexparturE oF Vatmasepa.—The most notable event men- tioned in our budget of Cuban news this morning is the departure of the late Captain General Valmaseda yesterday from Havana, en route for Spain. It appears that an im- mense concourse assembled on the occasion to bid him farewell, and we presume that there was more a feeling of gladpess than of sorrow among the assembled multitude in witnessing the departure of the man whose cruelties against the Cuban insurgents constitute his most conspicuous claims to distinction. We cannot doubt that the government of King Amadeus in this matter has acted in deference tg the general opinions from the public press of the civilized world, touching the savage policy adopted and pursued to the last by Count Valmaseda in his efforts to suppress the Cuban rebellion; and from the high char- acter of General Ceballos, the newly appointed Captain General of the island, we are con- fident that a more humane and enlightened policy will now be tried against the insurgents than that of Valmaseda, which has so signally failed» In short, abandoning the policy of ex- termination, we expect General Ceballos will do what he can to deserve success in adopting the policy of amnesty and conciliation. Tue InrERNaTIoNAL Prison Concress.— The last English mails brought the report of the first day’s sitting of the International Prison Congress in London. All the Euro- pean governments, with the exception of Portugal, were represented on the opening day. America, both North and South, was also well represented. Earl Carnarvon, in his opening speech, welcomed the delegates, but expressed his regrets that the British govern- ment when applied to refused to aid financially the scheme of reform contemplated. The warm welcome of His Lordship to the foreigners who had gathered together for so worthy a purpose outweighed the other con- sideration, and there is no room to doubt that the Congress, even without British sup- port, will accomplish all its promoters in- tended it should achieve. FISH AND THE OATAOCAZY PAMPHLET, WASHINGTON, July 16, 1872. Secretary Fish arrived here this morning, expect- ing the President to be here also, but for some rea- son the latter did not reach here, The Secretary is very much annoyed over the publication of Cata- eazy’s defence. At the time the original docu- ment was prepared allusion was made as to its purport in these despatches. Mr. Fish then endeavored to obtain a copy from Chief Justice Chase, but failed. Since Catacazy's return to Europe he has consoled himself with the statement in a letter from Mimister Curtin that the causes of differences between this government and Catacazy should not be the subject of further pab- licity. Silence was maintained until Catacazy's successor, Baron Offenberg, was received by the President. On that occasion the usual ex- change of courtesies in the way of com- plimentary notes was marred on our part by an unnecessary allusion to the “late onpleasant- ness."’ The President's reply to the address of every Minister received is prepared at the State Depart- ment. In harmony with the declarations of the new Plenipotentiary, and as Baron Offenberg had only renewed considerations of the highest regard, &c., the Russian government regarded the reply of the President as uncalled for. It was this that gained for Catacazy permission to expose the al- leged duplicity of the Secretary of State, THE WEATHER. nea tne War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17—1 A. M. Probabilities, The lowest barometer will probably move east- ward over northern New England on Wednesday, with westerly winds from New York to Virginia and westward. Cloudy weather, with possibly light rain, continue from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, but clearing away during the day; rising barometer and northwest winds prevail from Lake Erie northwestward. No material change is indicated for the Southern and Gulf States. The Weather in This City Yesterday. Yesterday was rather a day of comparative relief from the excessive heat of the passing season, The forenoon and early afternoon were sultry as usual, but in the evening a cooling breeze set in which did much to reduce the temperature to endurable closeness. Judging irom the freshening rains of the day previous and yesterday’s pleasant change, there is still some hope that the hottest part of the season is not yet to come, There was one case of sunstroke yesterday, Edward McCusker, & poor street sweeper, who succumbed while at work in the Fourth ward, and who lies at the Park Hospital almost a hopeless case, ‘The tollowing record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im com- arixon with the corresponding day of last year, as Pruicated by the thermometer at Hudaut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building :— 1871, 1872. 7 i 3P. M.. 7 6P. M 83, oP. M 86 86 127. M. rs perature yesterday. cove OL Average temperature for corresponding date last year 8h CARL SCHURZ AT HOME. Sr, Luts, Mo,, July 18,1872, Senator Schurz arrived home to-day, ‘It ts not | yet announced but ft is understood that he will | make his opening campaign speech, here next Mon- day night, Butler Away from the City: TELEGRAM TO THE MEW YORK HERALE. ALEXANDRIA, July 14, 187 - A military commission is now sitting to inquire into the circumstances and facts connected witi the shooting affray which occurred betweena party of Americans in this city on the 11th instant. The affair, as will be recollected from the first despatets to the HeRaLp, was between the United States. Consul General, George A, Butler, and Mr. Wad- leigh, his Secretary, on the one part, and General W. W. Loring, Colonel J, M. Reynolds and Major Willlam P. A, Campbell, who had served in tié Américan Confederate forces, and have been recemé- ly employed in the army of His Highness the Kie- dive, on the other. Generals Loring and Reynolds and Major Camp bell testify to clroumstances which, in their judg- ment, clearly show that the affray was premedi- tated by Butler and his friends and that their purpose was to take the life of Major Campbell. ‘The latter is dangerously wounded, Butler ieft Alexandria in the mail packet steamer this morning. The Cashiecred Officers. ’ We give the following sketch of the American officers in the Egyptian service, who have been cashiered for participation in the shooting affray:— BRIGADIER GENERAL W. W. LORING. A soldier from his fifteenth 7a the General served with ee distinction {n Florida, on the- Plains, in the Rocky Mountains, in Mexico (where he lost an arm) and as a division commander in the Confederate armies, il yet in the life he has probably been under fire more frequently than any officer now In active service in any coun- try. It was remarked by @ spectator of a great Inhiitary percent at Alexandria, fn witen Loring took a part, that his empty sleeve conferred on him more dignity and more honor than all the stars, crosses and gewgaws with which the well-padded breasts of the Egyptian pachas, generals and other officials were profusely covered. General Loring was @ chief of corps, with his headquarters in the old Strangers’ Palace at Alexandria, his command ex- tending over the whole delta up to Cairo. COLONEL A. W. REYNOLDS was chief of stat of General Loring’s Reyntien. corps. He is a graduate of West Point, lonet Reynolds served with distinction in the United States armies in Florida, on the Plains and in Mexico. Returning to Virginia, his native State, at the outbreak of the civil war, he distinguished. himself as a brigadier general in the armies of the Confederacy, but particularly at the battle of the Gauley, in West irginia, Colonel Reynolds was commissioned a genoral by the Egyptian nt in New York, but consented, on his arrival al Rg to be cut down toa colonelcy, with the promise speedy] promotion; but that promise had not been fulfille : ~ y wivenin veneer ee eonneg ener jor Camo! a fine type o! ie saliot ‘and otficer, A Tennesseean by birth, he en- tered the United States Navy in 1847. In 1861 he resigned and reporte for duty to the Confederate government and was ordered to Florida to organize the defences of that coast. At the request of Commodore Tattnall, of Merrimac memory, he was ordered to report to that officer, and served with him in and around Savannah. He was then detailed to pro- ceed to-England to superintend the building and take command of a steamer similar to the Susque- hannah. It was he who suggested and planned the cruise in the North which proved so de- tructive to the American shipping in that quarter, and he was selected by Admiral 1k bap tara for that work. He built and equipped ip and got safely to sea; buta serious accident to her , machinery compelled him to seek a port for repaira, and, permission peing previously obtained, he ran into Calais, where his ship was detained, by order of the French government, to the end of the war. He Was now connected with the heavy artillery, and was chief of staif to General Sibley, who is in com- mand of the Khedive’s artiliery. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The Geneva Arbitration Board in Session Yeattre day—A Variety of Matter Submitted to the Court—Speedy Work and Amicable Progress Anticipated. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ~~ Genrva, July 16, 1872. The Board of Arbitration met to-day. A large quantity of printed matter was: sw- mitted to the members and exchange by the agents of Great Britain and the United States, No other business was done, the Court adjourning after a session of less than thirty minutes duration. There is no reason to anticipate further delay in the proceedings, nor is any lengthy coatrov.rsy expected. ENGLAND. American Artistic Triumph in Opera—A. New Peer of the Realm—Roman Catholic Move- ment in Support of the Holy £es. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, July 16, 1872, Miss Clara Louisa Kellogg achieved great succes# in “Traviata” on Saturday, being recalled five times. The London journals unanimously concede her perfection in “Violeta.” She has received the congratulations of the Prince and Princess of Wales, A PEER OF THE REALM, Lord Francis Napier, who succeeded the late Earl of Mayo as Governor General of India, pra tem., has been created a peer of the United King- dom under the title of Baron Ettrick. ROMAN CATHOLIC MOVEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE CHURCH, An influential meeting of Roman Catholics. was held in this city last night, the Duke of Norfolk pre- siding. Resolutions were adopted protesting against the action of the Italian government towards the Papal authorities an? condemning the recent law passed by the German Parliament proscribing the Jesuits. a aad UNITED STATES NAVAL FLAG Admiral Alden’s Fleet About to Leave England TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonvon, July 17—5 A. M. Admiral Alden, United States Navy, who has been visiting this city, yesterday rejoined his fleet at Spithead. The fleet will sail for Antwerp and Ham~ burg. 1en A WATERSPOUT IN COLORADO. The Spout Empties Itself Over a Carriage and Drowns Two Persons. Denver, July 16, 1872. A remarkable waterspout occurred on the Cem tral City stage road, four miles above Golden City, on Sunday afternoon, The torrent of water struck a carriage containing G. Vierden, his wife, her sister and a girl named Blood, who reside five or six miles up tbe cafion and were returning home. The two latter were drowned. The body of Miss Vierden was found some three miles below the scene of, the disaster, covered with sand and débris, The road was badly washed out and rendered impassabie, Heavy storms of thunder and lightning, secom— panied with rain, have visited this region and towards New Mexico during the past four days. ‘the telegraph line south of Trinidad was not work~ ing yesterday, ates ARRIVAL OF THE YACHT RAMBLER. Boston, Mass., July 16, 1972. The yacht Rambler, Captain H. Crocker, which sailed from Boston last spr.ng for & trip to the Azores, arrived at this port this afternoon, having left Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, on {ae 2ist of June. She has as passengers Mr. J. M. Forbes, owner of the Rambler; his sister, Mry Francis Cunningham; | Miss Alice H. Forbes, Misa Sarah 0. Jones and Miss R. L, Dabney. The trip fas beon highly enjoyed by all on board: