The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1872, Page 4

_# a NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. pic Parl JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic @eepatches must be addressed New Yors Henary. Letters and packages should be properly realed. Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEHING, WARE THEATRE, Mth at. and Brondway.— UNION Tax Voxxs Tantiy—Tux Waona Man ix Tux Ricat PLace. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteonth street—Tax Loxa S1nizs. ne TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSB, No. 201 Bowery.— Bxocu Axpex—Rosexnt Exmerr. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pizanno—Wowan's Wu, MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— ‘Norge Dar. Afternoon and Evening. .. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—-Vaniety Enter- ‘Salnmant. Matinee at 2. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Qagoex IxstRUMENTAL ‘Comcnnr. TERRACE GARDEN, ‘th st.. betwoen 3d and Lexing- tonave.—Svxusr Evexixa Concunts, WEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 61S Broadway.— axp Acr. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Ant anv Serence. ENT =—=—_— Se CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisemente. R—Advertisoments—Custom House Matters: The Regulations Concerning the New Taritf—The Rapid Transit Question—Baths for the Work- Classes. S—Gratz Brown: His Views in Relation to the Colored Vote—The Greeley Headquartors— The Greeley Central Committee—Preparing for the Campaign—Greeley and Brown Meet- ing in Wiliamsburg—Grant and Greeley on Long Island—Flashes of the Campaign—New York Colored Men Not for Greeley—Seaside Resorts—The Suicide of Mr, Dusenberry—The ‘ Comptroller and the Pipe Men—Fatal ‘Result t gt Sylar sing Organic isease and Violence— Real Estate Notes—singular Proceedings in a United States Court. 4—Etltorials ; Leading Article, “The Campatsn in North Carolina—No Claspiyg of Hands Across ie Bloody, Clasm”—AmuSement Announce- SeSpain : Attempt to Acsassinate King Amadeus and Bis Queen tn Madrid; The Royal Carri Fired on by Murderers at M r Alabama Claims—The Coming Pr the British Parliament—The Sitnation in Mexico—Appalling Railroad Accident near Pittsford, N. Y,—News from Washington— Business Notices. @=—The Saratoga Races: Harry Bassett Beats Lyttleton Alter a Gallant Race of Three Miles; End of the July Season—‘Trotting at Gion Mitchel!i—Buitalo Driving Association—The ssion Law—Poy Burglars—Judge Bar- 's Trial: The Piea of Informality of the Impeachment Denied by the Court—New York Clty News—Strange Discovery of a Corpse— Sudden Death of a Ship's Surgeon—Mairiages and Deaths. ss AL pret ba: Bitter Partisan War Petween the Friends and Foes of Valmaseda; Stupendous Corrup- tion Unearthed; Emancipated Negroes Sold and Accounted’ for as Bead—T! Failure—The roational Prison (' Brooklyn Aj ate Rega: the Conn rs—‘‘Admiral’? e —Police Trials—The Inter-Co The Crews all in Training on ; How They Look and What the Coming Contest. the 244 Per Cent; Our Retiroad Decline in Tenaessee Secnri- tles—Domestic and European Markots—The Ice Supply—The Ferryboats—Interesting Pro- ceedings In the New York and Brooklyn Courts—A Homepathic Explanation—Adver- tisoments. 20—Marquis de Noailles: Interview with the Newiy Arrived Minister of France; A Per- sonal Sketch of the Marqu's—Dr. [av it stone's Discoveries—Music and the Drama— Cleveland Races: Soidsmith Matd, Amer’ Girl and Lucy on the Track--Shipping Ini gence—Adyertiscments. Axotnen Fricutrun Ramnoap Accipext occurred yesterday. The scene of the disas- fm North Carolina— No Clasping of Hands Across the Bloody Chasm. The campaign has beon opened in North Carolina this week on the part of the adminis- tration with speeches from the Socretary of the Treasury and the regular republican candidate for the Vico Presidency. Senator Wilson was, as usual, courteous, plausible, bland and in- sipid, and his address, no doubt, made a favorable impression, although it cannot be considered a powerful argument on his own side. His main object was to show that the present contest is between democracy and republicanism, and that the success of Greeley would bring about the extermination of tho republican party. He would regard this sequel as a national calamity, inasmuch as he does not look upon the work of the republi- can party as completed, but believes that it has yet much to accomplish befors liberty and qual rights can be con- sidered secure. Tho republicans have removed the fettcrs from tho limbs of tho slaves after four years of war, says Senator ‘Wilson, but they have yet to remove prejudice and error from the minds of three mil- lion American democrats, and this is the task they contemplate per- forming during the next four years of Grant’s administration. But Senator Wil- son boars a merited reputation as a philanthro- pist, and he must surely concede that tho conversion of the ungodly democracy may be more speedily and more certainly brought about by Grocloy than by Grant; for would November, be enabled to add to the example of sound republican principles the persuasive | eloquence of the federal spoils? mjssionary once declared that glass bends and tobneco Aird fdwerful auxiliaries of the Bible in bringing the heathen to grige; and custom houses, post offices, revenue offices, diplo- matic missions, cousulships aud the pickings of the departments would be wonderful aids, no doubt, in turning unregenerate democrats to the true faith. If, therefore, Senator Wil- ‘son sought in the present clection only the | conversion of the democracy he would, no whose feet that contrite party has laid its ancient sins. But the republican candidate | for the Vice Presidency is a believer in the propricty of a period of probation, and hence he requires the democrats to go to Congress next winter and vote for Sumner'’s Civil Rights + | bill in proof of a change of heart, after which they may be regarded as fully redeemed, and tho mission of the republican party will then be fulfilled. Tho little difficulty does not seem to occur to Senator Wilson that | the republicans, who are in a large majority in Congress, defeated the Civil Rights bill last session themselves, whilo they passed tho law extending military despotism over the South- | era States, and that if they should att in ao | similar manner next session the democrats | would be unable to furnish the test of repent- ance required of them. | Senator Wilson deserves especial credit for the courtcous tone of his speech towards the opposing cindidates and parties, as well as for the moderation with which he appealed to the colored voters for support. In following the | admirable example set by August Belmont and | Senator Doolittle in the Baltimore Convention, | the republican candidate for tho Vice Presi- | dency has administered a rebuke to those ora- | tors and journalists on the regular republican | side who have injured the cause of their own friends by the violence of their personal abuse of Greeley and his supporters. The opening | speech of Secretary Boutwell at Greensboro, on Wednesday last, was altogether of a differ- ent character. Apart from its review of the financial policy of the administration, it wna, ter was on the New York Central road, | inits political aspect, a dangerous and repre- a few miles from Rochester. The want of an effective signal system is again the cause which sends human beings out of the world by a violent death ond maims and mutilates others for life. On reading the account of the catastrophe in enother column it will become evident that had there been a telegraph ot the station beyond Pittston the dreadful affair would have been averted. The coal train broke down in a sharp curve, where the approaching train could scarcely see it before the collision oc- curred. Had the passenger train been obliged to wait at Pittston until the whereabouts of the coal train was made known lives would not have been sacrificed and much valuable property destroyod. Senator Fenton as a financier on the stump “ought to travel with Secretary Boutwell. Be- tween them they would make the exact facts of ‘our financial affairs as “clear as mud.”” Tae Rounp Lace Metnopist Caup Mezet- tno (now that the Saratoga horse races are over) has become the great attraction to the fashionables from those springs, and is draw- ing many sinners to repentance. The Metho- dists, in combining at these annual summer meetings religion with recreation, or business with pleasure, are prospering finely, and under this sensible system wo say let the good work go on, Outer Justice Cuase is at Newport, and, we are pleased to hear, his health is improving. Relieved of all doubts and cares and hopes and fears about the Presidency, and relieved of his Presidential friends and enemies, his position is certainly an enviable one compared with that of General Grant and My. G: who, as Presidential candidates, have Monday morning till Saturday night hardiy | an hour they can call their own. faudable exertions of the Public Park Commis- | sioners our citizens at the upper end of this sland are to have a little park of their own, of some seventy acres, and the name—High Bridgo Park—will sufficiently indicate its locality and its attzactions. What with this park and the Riverside Park, at Fort Washing- ton, and the Boulevards and other improve- ‘ments, in progress or projected, in that quar- ter, the northern end of this metropolis a few years hence will become an ornamental section of which the people of the city and the State will be justly proud. And to all concerned Jet not this important fact be forgotten, that in making tho city attractive to citizens and strangers we make it pay. Ovn Consut GexgnaL ox Eavrt, they say, has been recalled. Itis only a pity for his own sake, ag well as from considerations of sound public policy, he was not recalled some time ogo, hensible effort to array the Sonthern blacks against their white fellow-citizens and to scatter the seeds of distrust, hatred and | revenge broadcast over the South. The Secre- tary of the Treasury denounced and spurned the proposition that the peopto of the Northern and Southern States---the men who had fought | the battles of the Confederacy under the ban- ners of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and the | men who had marched to victory under the lead of Sheridan and Grant--shall now clasp war and bury forever the bitter memories of the past. No; rather let us keep alive the animosities and hatreds that led to the rebellion, until tho chasm may be, with the mangled victims of a more cruel war, a war of races. Slavery, says Sec- | retary Boutwell, was the cause of this dark and portentous chasm,"’ an in, the essential characteristic of slavery. Ho refuses to recognize the fact that slavery is | the United States while the world continues ; the results of tho war; that the white citi- | zens of the South ask only to be allowed | to live in pence, to repair their shat- terod fortunes, to reconstruct their deso- again on the road to prosperity and happiness. He sees in the solid vote of the | majority of them undoubtedly are, a prospect of securing the Southern States for tbe admin- istration of which he is a member, and so he tells the negroes of North Carolina that it must still bo war betwoen them and their white fel- low citizens; and he pours into their credalous ears the insidious poison of suspicion. ere wise, he says in substance to the black crowd he harangues, you will never trust your liberties and immunities to your old masters, | for whenever they obtain the power, if they | cannot destroy tho former, they will deny you | the latter. Their professions may be fair, but their hearts are false, and if you would protect yourselves your cry must be, no peace with such oppressors. Clasp hands across the bloody chasm? No; rather fill it up with more blood and with the corpses of men, women and children whose white sking point them out as your natural enemies. Wo do Secretary Boutwell uo injustice in this inter- pretation of his unfortunate speech. IL will bear no other. His address is an effort to excite the worst pas sions of an ignorant and violont people; to array race against race; to per- suade the negroes that tho white democrats of tho South are their mortal enemies; to revive the deadly animosities of slavery when [yes itself hag perished; to open afrosh the wounds made by the war when the country is | not the former, in the event of his success in | A famous | doubt, labor for the success of Greeley, at | hands across the bloody chasm made by the | Il be filled, it | dead ; that it can never again be revived in | that the Southern people, one and all, accept | lated homes, and to place their States once | blacks, ignorant, idle and vicious though a | If you | tary is less brutal and coarse than the ideas it | conveys, the talent displayed in his rhetoric only renders the offence against humanity the more unpardonable. Tho record of the Prosident proves that he can have nothing but detestation for the policy advocated by his Secretasy of the Treasury. When General Grant drew his sword for his country he declared that it should strike on the side of tho South if he could believe that the war was waged for the abolition of slavery. When the brave soldiers of General Leo laid down their arms and lay helplossly at the mercy of tho Union troops, General Grant ac- corded them terms of peace fitting for men who had fought so gallantly, although in a bad cause. When tho sneaking politicians who had kept their skins wholo during the war sought after its close to persecute General Lee Grant’s voice was raised in indignant protest against the treacherous act, and they wero forced to abandon their dosign. Whon tho radicals in Congress cndeavored to find a pre- tence for holding tho Southern States as con- quered territory General Grant united with Andrew Johnson in declaring that the citizens of the South accepted the result of the war in good fuith and wero anxious to return to seli- government within the Union as loyal mon, “Lot us have peace’ ‘has been the ery of Goneral Grant ever sinco the war ceased, and he has raisod his voice against every attempt to force negro supremacy upon the South as an outrage and an insult to the white race. What, then, will he think and say of the in- cendiary speech of his Secretary of the Treas- ury, followed, as it has been, by viclence and attempted murder on the part of the blacks of North Carolina? Let us hope that he will at onco order Secretary Boutwell back to Wash- | ington and leavo the campaign to the more | discreet management of Senator Wilson. It is his only safety, for a few such speeches |as that delivered on Wednesday Inst by the wandering Secretary would destroy the administration. The people are already weary of Ku Klux laws and proseriptive test oaths, and the sentiment of the North demands o more liberal and just treatment of the whito citizens of the South. Can we expect any such policy from those who strive to stir up strife between the races in the Southern States and who instil into the mind of the ignorant negro the idea that his former master is his | deadly and unyielding enemy? We warn General Grant and Secretary Boutwell that such a policy is full of danger and trouble in | the future, for it cannot fail to bring forth bit- ter fruit for any administration. 1% must in- not to more serious evils ; and in the train of these must come more military usurpation, more coercive legislation, more of that course of oppression and injustice towards the South- ern States which has already been pursued too long, and which, we insist, must and shall cease, whatever administration may be in power. The people of the North will no longer suffer this unconstitational treatment of States within tho Union or tolerate the acts that lead to its continuance. They know that the South would bo peaceful if left to itself; thoy will not allow its peace to be disturbed by the sel- fish intrigues of narrow-minded politicians. They do not intend that the fair Southern States shall be the Ireland of tho American republic, We once more appeal to General Grant, as a soldier and a man of honor—as one who despises in his heart the treacherous policy of radical adventurers, to recall Secrotary Bout- well from his stump-speaking pilgrimage and relieve him from his Cabinet duties, We tell him once again that tho people of the Northern States are watching this unwise and dangerous attempt to force a government of bigoted blacks and characterless whites upon the South by exciting jealousy, hatred and mistrust be- } tween the races, and that they will resent it at | the proper time—in their votes at the polls. Their voice has declared that the hands of the two sections shall be clasped in friendship across the bloody chasm made by the war, and that the liberties of their fellow citizens of the warm and generous South shall no longer be held at tho mercy of political in- triguers. They have faith still in the noble qualities and democratic principles of the President, and they only call upon him now to cast off his offensive and reckless advisers in justice to himself. We | know that General Grant would rejoice to remove every federal soldier from the Southern States and to drive away every corrupt carpet- bag office-holder who now preys upon the unfortunate country. Why will he not follow the dictates of his heart and his conscience? Let him heed our advice and the country will honor him even more in the future than it has honored him in the past. Let him neglect it, and the American people, however much they | may respect him, will leave the mark of their reprobation upon the unserapulous men by whom he is surrounded. The Alabama Claims Arhitration. ‘The Court of Arbitration which is sitting in Geneva for the settlement of the American bill of damages against Great Britain in the Ala- | Lama case does not make any great progress | towards the final completion of its commis- sion, That is, so faras can be known with | the public press kept outside of the door of the | council room. The national lawyers consume a considerable quantity of midnight oil, with, no doubt, a valuable portion of brain material, in the preparation of pleas and counter pleas; | but the gross total of the American account in golden dollars or guineas bright still remains hidden away in the vaults of tho Bank of | England. We are told that the point of dis- cussion yesterday was the all important one— “the responsibility of England.” Lord Ten- terden, who appears to be very vigilant in his defence of the royal position, as taken at first, denied her responsibility. This is about as far as we know of the progress of the judiciary proceedings. The rule of secrecy toward the outside world is maintained most rigidly by the British, Mr John Bull appears, indeed, to have retreated within himself; not corporeally, but mentally. Ho refuses to speak on the subject, even, when not in the arbitration hall. How is this? Repentance for the past, or finesse in tho present? Is the old gentleman not “froe to confess ?’’-~-one of his own most favorite Parliamentary phrases. The Italians have paida high and well deserved compliment to Count Sclopis, the President of the Court, in acknowledgment of his effort for the preservation of good feeling be- twoon America and Britain. Tho Court stands adjourned to Monday next, by which time, it evitably lead to disturbances of tho peace, if | Sunday prayers in one of the old churches of Geneva and found his tongue for the arbitra- tion, The Attempted Assassination of the King and Queen of Spain. Spain is again forced upon our attention in all her chronic misery and wickedness. About midnight on Thursday, as will be seen from our cable despatches, a most dastardly, but at the same time most determined attempt was made on the lives of King Amadeus and his young Queen. It appears that at midnight the King and Queen were returning trom a ride through tho gardens of the Escurial, and were approaching the palace whon they wero sud- denly fired upon by a party of assassins. Tho King and Queen were the only persons in the carriage. The assassins, numbering, it is sup- posed, five persons, were most conveniently posted in one of the streets through which the cortége passed. It is gratifying to know that the attempton the lives of the King and Queen proved a complete failure, both of them escap- ing uninjured. One of the would-be murder- ers was immediately killed by an attendant of tho royal party, and two others were captured. It is of ell things the most natural that tho wildest kind of excitement should now prevail in Madrid. During the course of the early morning hours the news had spread over the wholo city, and by four o'clock almost the entire population were hastening through the streets. The murderous attack, according to the despatch, was universally de- nounced; and during a groat portion of yes- terday Their Majesties, who remained at the palace, received the congratulations of all ranks and classes of the people. It is impossible to write of this affair in other than terms of the highest indignation. It is difficult to resist the conviction that this party of assassins who have failedso miserably in their attempt on the lives of the royal comple, aro the sawe party wha go cruelly made an end of the life of poor General Prim. It is, if possible, more difficult still to refuse to be- liove that this wretched band of men is in the confidence and in the pay of some one or other of the political factions into which the Spfinish people are now divided. Until the facts are | brought out we have no right to blame any one of the factions more than any other; but as matters now stand we are justifigd in say- ing that by this latest outrage Spain stands disgraced in the presence of the civilized world. It is for the Spanish people to purge | themselves of this disgrace by discovering the roots and ramifications of this conspiracy and by bringing the criminals to justice. Great names, it may yet be found, are impli- cated in this shameful affair; and Spain will not do herself justice if any attempt is made to conceal the criminal or to palliate the offence. It is notorious that by a considerable section of the Spanish people Amadeus is disliked on the ground that he is a foreigner. It is unde- nieblo that it has been frequently and publicly said in Spain that unless he left in good time he was certain to meet the fate of Prim or the fate of Maximilian. One wonders sometimes that Amadeus would vex his soul by remain- ing among such a people. We remember, however, in spite of what his enemies have said, and still do say, to the con , that Amadeus came to Spain only after He was elected King by the constitutional vote of the Spanish people. We all remember how, after the election, he was urged by the representa- tive men of the country to cast in his lot with a people who had given him their hearts and asked him to come and rule over them. He did not seek the position, it was forced on him. If he isa foreigner the fault surely is not his, The Spanish people knew who and what he was when they elected him. It might be wise for Amadeus to leave his adopted country in disgust. As King he has done his best, but he has failed. The ¢vorld could not blame him for re- tiring and shaking the dust of Spain from his feet ; but he has a right to be his own judge. He has put his hand to the plough. If he thinks it dishonorable to look back no one can blame him. His pogition certainly is most delicate, and, as this attempted assassination proves, it is beset with the greatest danger. It is not our opinion that the enemies of Amadeus will gain anything by this most dastardly business. It is almost certain to improve the position of the young Savoyard. Many of his opponents, feeling ashamed of what has been done in their name, will relax their opposition. Friends will gather around him in greater strength and in larger num- bers. What was intended to prove his ruin may tarn out to be his salvation. Assassina- tion, even when uot an immediate failure, as in this caso, is as worthless as it is wicked. { As has been well said by an imperial author, | “Brutus, by slaying Cesar, plunged Rome into the horrors of civil yar. He did not pre- vent the reign of Augustus, but he rendered possible those of Nero and Caligula.” So is it always. What has Spain gained by the mur- der of Prim? What did the South gain by the assassination of Lincoln? The First and the Third Napoleons both knew how to make capital out of vain attempts on their lives. As we have said already, this attempted assassina- tion of King Amadeus may prove the happy turning point in his career. Enoris Honor To Science anp Pivck.— Queen Victoria has commissioned Captain Richard Francis Burton, the explorer in the lake regions of Central Africa, Her Majesty’s Consul at Trieste, Austria, in succession to the | late Charles Lever, the novelist. This is as it | should be. The appointment may be accepted as o first oxcellent result of the New Yore Henatp’s effort and outlay in the finding of Livingstone. If American enterprise can do so much for the cause of science and humanity cannot the Crown of Britain do something? This is the argument which prevailed in favor of Captain Burton in Downing street. We congratulate him, as well as his Sovereign, that it is 60. ‘Tur Srneets.-—Since the thorough washing our strocts had from Monday's showered tor- rents we have enjoyed the unusual luxury of clean streets. Under tho new system, thus far, the work of sweeping and removing the filth is as promptly done as it can be by the force placed at the disposal of the Superin- tendent. During last week the sweeping amounted to 666 miles upon 243 miles of paved streets, some of them being cloaned six times, and the majority three times. There were removed 17,928 loads of dirt at an expense of $16,138 80. At this rate tho yearly cost would fall below et peace, If the language uyod by tho Seore- | ig to be hoped, Mr, Bull will havo avid his tho ostimats put the removal of snow during NEW, YORK, HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY , 20,, 1872.-WITH, SUPPLEMENT, the winter involves extra labor. There is no outlay of money the whole city sanctions more willingly than for cleaning the streote, when the work is efficiently done. The clean- ing brigade should relax no exertion, and now that the accumulations under the contract system are swept away, the public will hold them responsible that the city is kept in a wholesome condition. This duty is most im- perative while the summer lasts. Though the heat of the last fortnight has slightly abated, it may at any moment return, and to permit any festering deposits in the streets or gutters would invite disease and death. Absolute cleanlinoss is the best safeguard we can have of a healthy city. If wo fail in maintaining such a condition, there will be no doubt as to who will bear the blame. Our Congressman at Large=Why He Should Be Selected from New York City. Under the Supplemental Apportionment bill New York State obtaing one member of Con- greas in addition to the number proposed by the original bill passed during the recent ses- sion. In the present Congress New York has thirty-one members. The original bill, based on @ ratio of 136,119 population for each district, gives her ono more, making, of course, her number thirty-two. The supplemental bill we refer to gives her one more still, making the total number to be elected the coming fall thirty-three. The supplemental bill was only just to New York State, inasmuch as the State had the largest fraction of the nine States named in the supplemental bill. This frac- tion, by the unjust apportionment manipu- lated at Albany, is situated in New York city, and is, in fact, totally unrepresented in the National Legislature. The city is entitled to seven members. She has but six, and a frac- tion of 132,656 population left— being only a small number less than the ratio of 136,119— 80 that while the State obtains her full quota by the action of Congress, New York city is robbed of hors by the so-called “‘reform’’ Legislature for partisan purposes. Let us submit a few figures with reference to the redistricting and gerrymandering at Albany, and the history of the apportionment measure at Washington, with a view to explain why the Congressman at large, to bo chosen next November, should come from New York city. Tse ratio, we have shown, is a little over one hundred and thirly-six thousond. Tho districts begin numerically with Suffolk, Queens and Richmond counties as District No. 1, with a population of 147,205. We here see the finger of partisan gerrymandering, os well as the cheat upon the people of the dis- trict. Districts No, 2, 3 and 4 lie mostly in Brooklyn, and are rather above than below the ratio, with the exception of District No. 4, which contains 133,557. Tho Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tonth districts are in New York city. Their population is as follows; — Districts. Districts, Fitth.. E . Sixth.. 146,766 Seventh. 142,774 Total popuiation.. 940,370 We repeat that this amount of population should give seven members of Congress, as the fraction, after providing for the six members is, as we have already stated, 132,656; and as that is greater than the fraction by which the State gets the supplemental member, that mem- ber should by right and in simple justice is due to the metropolis. It may be observed, moreover, that many republican rural districts have a full member for less than the ratio (136,119) and less than the fraction in New York city (132,656), as we shall proceed to demonstrate. Most of these districts, it should be remembered, lie in the western part of the State, and all of them far distant geographi- cally from New York city, and possess local and individual interests entirely differont from those of the metropolis. RURAL CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS, pr agen (Chautauqua, &c.) i Thirtleth (Genesee, &c.).... Twenty-seventh (Tio Twenty-sixth (Ontario, ‘Twenty-fifth f za, Twenty-for ndaga, & Twenty-third (raatsor Eighteenth (St. Lawrenc Seventeenth (Warren, &c.) And so on., Or, to sum up, there are four- teen districts aloof from New York city which | reported tohim might be sooner abated than if are below the ratio of one hundred and thirty- six thousand, and some of them far below the unrepresented fraction in the metropolis, It is not our purpose now to discuss the par- tisan character of this apportionment by our “reform” Legislature. Happily the device canifot be perpetuated. We will explain why, When the supplemental bill for the nine addi- tional members passed tho Senate of the United States (as the Globe of May 22, 1872, shows) an amendment proposed by Senator Morton, and supported by Senator Conkling, was passed, providing that the words ‘Forty- third Congress only’’ should be stricken out, so that the additional members from New York and other States should be elected at large for a period of ten years. Tho intent was to prevent @ new districting for that space of time, and thus enable the party in power to maintain their partisan ascendancy in the House of Representatives for the coming five Congresses. The House, however (May 23, 1872), disagreed to the scheme. A confer- ence committee was the result, consisting of Messrs. Edmunds, Morton and Thurman on the part of the Senate, and Messrs. Mercur, Willard and Cox on the part of the House. This committee refused to accept Senator Mor- ton’s amendment, the Indiana Senator alone sustaining it. Both Senate and House con- curred in the report of the Conference Com- mittee, and the bill became a law. New York, thanks to the action of this committee, ob- tained one member of Congress at large, which, -we insist, upon every principle of right and justice, and in accordance with the statistical facts we have shown, belongs to the metropolis. Her interesta, so vitally affected by federal legislation in all that relates to tariffs, revenue laws, fmance, commerce, international relations with foreign countries—in short, all the varied and complicated business concerns of the great entrept of the nation—demand that she should receive her full share of representation in the halls of Congress. It is eminently proper, therefore, that both parties should choose their oandidato from this city; and the Republican State Convention, which is to assemble in Albany on the 2ist proximo, will exercise the part of wisdom by so selecting ite candidate, ‘ag woll as will the democratic and liberal re- publican convontene when they shall mgt, Prior to 1870, owing to the untestricted slaughter of shad and to the obstruction of the streams in which they formerly bred, this noble fish was becoming gcarco and its disap- pearance from our markets was threatened. To remedy this was one of the main objects of the New England and the New York Fishery Commissions. Under their auspices oxperi- ments were tried in artificial propagation, which havo succeeded beyond the most gan- guine expectations. Shad require three years to grow to’ maturity. In 1869 the artificial hatching produced a large number of the young fish, which were placed in the Connecti- cut River. Thoy remain in the river the first and part of the second year, then go out into the ocean and return in the spring of the third year to the samo locality where thoy passed their youth. They aro then tho mag- nificent fish so welcome on _ every fable. In accordance with the calculs- tions, the spring of 1871 saw New York Bay, Long Island Sound and tho Connecticut River abundantly stocked. The catch was many fold larger than for sev- eral previous years, and the price fell toa frac- tion of what it had reached. The hatching operations were repeated in cach year since, and the young fish deposited in the Hudson, near Albany, as well as in the Connecticut. This spring, too, shad were abundant and cheap. Last year the Superintendent, in addition to supplying millions of the young fish tothe rivers of this section, carried several thousand. by rail to California and placed them in rivers flowing into the Pacific, where they wero before unknown. This year be has sent ono and a half million to Oregon. Seventy mil- lions have been hatched at South Hadley Falls anda like number near Albany. It is believed. that, with proper care, the waters of the globe may be made to produce an equal amount of food for man, acre for acre, as the land, and if the success of tho shad propagation is a test, it appears that fish culture is to play an import- ant part in cheapening and improving our sub- sistence. . fom PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. <* Ex-Governor Randolph, of New Jersey, is at the New York Hotel. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Massachusotts, is at the Brevoort House. ‘The Princess Mathilde’s old hotel in Paris has just been sold for £640,000. Ex-Governor E. H. Metcalf, of Georgia, has ar- rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Christina Edmunds, the prisoner, has been sent to Broadmoor Asylum, England. Prince Arthur returned to Dover on the 7th inst. and resumed his regimental duties. General James M. Scoviile, of Camden, N. J, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel. General J. Roberts, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House, General Baird, of the United States Army, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The ex-King of Hanover arrived in: Dover on the ‘7th inst. from Ostend and left for London. B, Sclicher, C. E., and H. D. Schmid, of Vienna, Austria, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House, Ex-Governor Beriah MagofMin, of Kentucky, haa returned from Saratoga, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General J, W. Hammond, of St. Louis, and Colo- nel Charles R. Cornwall, of Washington, have ar- rived at the New York Hotel. Judge Dick Busteed, of Alabama, yesterday came up from his residence at Jamaica, L. I, to the Everett House. He will, with hia family, to-day sail for Europe on the steamship Algoria. Martin Harley Carey, a well-known Fenian leader, drowned himself in tue Liffey on Saturday. He had been discharged from prison sometime since on account of insanity. The Visitors of Trinity College, Dublin, have de- cided that Mr. Purscr. @ Moravtan, cannot be admitted a Fellow of the University, because he refused to take the necessary oath. Count de Chambord won’t give his adhesion to the programme of the Right, as requested to do by @ Dumber of Deputies. He believes only in the “divine right,” and can find nothing approaching goaliness in the Assembly. M. Godeau, formerly French Consul at New Orleans, yesterday reached the Brevoort House, having been # passenger on the steamship St. Laurent, He has been appointed Consu! at Shang- hae, and is now on his way tiither. Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Inspector General of the Steam Boller Inspecting Bureau of the Treasury Department, is at the Fifth Avenuc Hotel. He is ona tour of examination of the affairs of the Local Bureau of Boiler Inspection. General Nimmo’s dutics are but supervisory over the performances ofnis subordinates, yet there are abuses in the management of steamboats about this city that if left to the action of subordinates. Now is the time to take precautions to prevent “another appalling disaster.” The Marquis de Noatiles, the new French Minister to Washington, arrived on the steamship St. Lau- rent late on Thursday night. The steamship was met at Quarantine by the United States revenue cutter Grant, and the Marquis was taken from her and brought to this city. He went immediately to the Brevoort House, where he now is with his wife and child and Count de Montebello and Baron Brin, the Secretaries of his Legation. This evene ing the Marquis will go to Newport, where he will leave his wife and child until after his formal reception by President Grant. The Count de Montebello and Baron Brin, his Secretaries, are to go to Washington immediately. MUSIC FOR THE MILLION, The Department of Public Parks announce that if the weather be fine there will be music by the Central Park Barid on the Mall at Central Park to-day, commencingat four o'clock. The following 1g the programme :— pants «-Lindpatnter 7 as Schubert 103, Mendelssohn & Batection, G.7. Briwow 7. March, La Be ‘Wauerstein & Paraphrase, “La bake Newswaba . ley, “Old and Merry Friends’ Dodworth 1h, Watts Swewudaul Rnine oiler Bella Hi; Quadritie, “Spanish bea Rello 12, Galop, “Rock Spring” J Dodivorth Finale—“Unton, There will Ukewise be musical entertainments oat at the Battery on Tuesday noxt, and at ‘ompkins square on Friday next, should the weath- er prove fine. NEW YORK SOLDIERS’ HOME, ALvANY, N, Y., July 19, 1972. The Trustees of the New York State Soldiers’ Home met to-day at the oMice of the Secretary of State, and organized by electing the following per- manent oMcers:—President, General H. A Bar- num; Treasurer, General W. F. Rodgers; Secretary, Major D. C, Stoddard, he following Trustees were present :—General H. A. Barnum, General William F. Rodgers, Gene- ral James McQuade, General J. E. Jones, General J. H. Martindale, General J. C, Robinson, General W. M. Gregg, Colonel William Johnson, Colonel Timo- thy Salivan, Major Joseph Fete Major D. CG. Stoddard, Major E. L. Cole and N. K. Hopkins, State Comptroller. “ Tie Board resolved to visit the National Soldiers’ Homes before adopting any definite ptans of action, = then adjourned to meet at the call of the Prest- ent. SUDDEN DEATR, Mr. Joshua A. Kirk, of Glen Cove, expired on the steamer Soawanahaka between New York and Whitostone yosterday afternoon. Ths docenssd gentieman had been alling for some time back, Ha Was about dity-five yours of age,