The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1872, Page 6

: ' “BRAZIL. _ ‘Warlike Relations of the Empire Towards the Argentine Republic. enemies atone General Mitre’s Mission to Rio and the Embroil- ‘ents of Bace—The Difficulties of Brasil at va ‘Rio Jansrno, June 2%, 1872. The, Ptolemy took on the 18th the news of the ‘aagry Felations between Brazil and the Argen- ‘ume Confederation, produced by the publication in @uenos Ayres of the provocative note of the Argen- ‘ne Secretary:of the Exterior to the Brazilian gov- erament. Although recetved carly in May, the government of Brazil did not reply to it until the ‘20th of June, but caused the Brazilian Minister in Buends Ayres to make personally to President Sarmiente strong remonstrances upon the nature ‘and language of the long and irritating note of his Secretary for Foreign Affairs. 1t would seem that General Mitre’s mission to Rio was in part in- ‘tended to mitigate the effect of the note, but General Mitre would not accept of the carte anche the President desired to give him, requtr- Ing «trict, and expiicit instructions, and under those circumstances publication of the note was iver to hook the sympathies of the Brazil-hating Argentine public and to obtain the public support to the position the Argentine government had been brought into by the note. Since then, on the mo- tion of a hot-headed young Western deputy, the Oengress has unanimously passed a minute ap- proving of what the Argentine government had @one; ana thus, while strengthening the govern- ment with the authoritative signification of mational approval, rendered a peaceful solution of the bellicose position more difficult to arrive at. , war, ‘m fact, appears the only possible solution, for the @isputatante are not of the cooler Anglo-Saxon Face, which can make large allowance for buncombe and whose habits‘of viva voce controversial discus- sion give it coolness and power to discriminate and to perceive the force of argumentation even on the adverse side. On the contrary, we have here two peoples standing up in front of each other with furious gesticulations, peoples to whom ‘the idea of an adversary being in the right is incon- ceivable, who are accustomed to settle their inter- mal disputes, personal or political, with THE BLUNDERBUS AND THE KNIFE, and whose passions the flery, briefess young 4awyers who control the press, and use it as means to blow themselves into notoriety and place, are busily fanning with flre-eating and abusive articles, ealculated to act upon the ignorant, unreasoning and bigoted masses which form almost the whole sum total of both nations. But whatever the Ar- gentine government may wish, there is no mistake but that the government of Brazil WANTS PRACE, ‘and not war, with its neighbor, and that the publi- cation of the abusive note was like a bombshell in ite midst, and has forced it to assume a bellicose Position which it was hoping to avoid by negotia- ‘tions and pacific remonstrances, In fact, nothing could be more unwelcome than a breach of the peace, when after five years waste, to the tune ef $244,000,000, the Brazilian finances had just ob- tained an equillbrim between receipts and expendi- tures; when enterprise was expanding its arms all ver the country; when the bonds of slavery had been cut; when reforms of all kinds were being seriously taken to heart by the govern- ment and the monarch, and an era of moral and material progress was opening to the nation; that ‘the vanity of a young lawyer should thus thrust a war epee. & country busied in the promotion of the arts ce Was very unpleasant. ' Unfortunately” the jopes of still avoiding strife Are are nearly nuliided by the knowledge that t! gentine government three montis ago sent agents rope, and to the United States also, so 'tis said, to purchase cannon, rifled breech loaders and iro) for the purchase of three of which Jast the Argentine Congress, six weeks ago, voted $2,600,000. Now, as things are, Brazil is in a posi- to become MASTER OP THE SITUATION if war be at once declared, and thus the Argentine government's urchases be stopped by the neutral governments From whose conntriés they are to come. Brazil, with her numerous feet of ligh Graft gunboats and ironclada, would be omn{poten' against a Power without a navy, without manufac- tures, with @ commerce which would be annihi- lated by a small naval force in the River Plata, Without the means of assailing a Power whose coast and foreign commerce is carried on in foreign bottoms, whose territories are separated from it by neutral territory or by deep rivers commanded the adversary'’s gunboats. But all this would be vy changea were ONE IRON.CLAD to appear upon.the scene, flaunting the gandy silk ofthe Argentine banner. Then the Brazilian feet, Bumerous, but weak individually, would be de- stroyed or driven from the Plata to take shelter in ‘the shallow creeks from its formidable antagonist, and the Argentine might be displayed at ever, rt, even Rio itself, despite its forts of masonry ani jight-calibred rifled cannon, On ing war contribu. ‘ons or playing the part of the vindictive destroyer, To this danger the Brazilian government is not blind; it Knows that it has not @ vessel capable of pn tn for @ second with even a tenth rat fronclad of the latest build, with even a heavy uu, armored corvette armed with 300-pounder rifles, and itis thus involyed in the serious dilemma of sending an ULTIMATUM, demanding Immediate satisfaction for the insult and prompt settlement of the irritating Paraguayan questions, and thus provoking the war itis desirous ‘to ayold, or of, by trusting to negotiations leading to delays, giving the astute bed liane are as acute and tricky a the Massachusetts artful dodger imself—the means they have been calculating on 11 the <liscussions until the arrival of monitors enable them to throw off the musk of pacific palaver, and in the loud roar of their at guns 58 prry BRaz: anda command her peremptorily to withdraw her cockle-shell squadron tnstanter from the Plata and its tributaries, This is the present position of the Argentino-Brazilian diMculty. CHURCH FESTIVALS. Last week was the festival of St. Anthony, and owder in considerable quantity was expended in is honor by his numerous vamerakes and by those as numerous devotees who delight in the Doise and smell of peaceful powder. To-day also 1s the festival of St. John, who gives his name to countless Johns, and whose is looked forward to by old and young to make their burnt offeri in fire of wood, pitch and salt petre in all ite shapes, forms and appliances, for creating diabolical stinks aud ear-racking sounds, a ee for the boys! the prospects. of Grafts and war taxes have drawn tight in many cases the once freely slackened purse-strings of — erst profoundest devotce to the fire- 01 of the good St. John, and the devotion of the t to-day is but a shadow of past gears. Still, last evening the discharging. of crack- rs, ery’ rockets and Catherine wheels, and the wafting of fire balloons to the winds, would have driven @ Sunday Puritan “mad asa hatter;” and this afternoon already the sulphur cloud can seen from every height, plerced by rushing fights rockets, aud more loftily ambitious fire balloons, ‘while Roman candies, portfires, wheels and bon: Mires; intermingled with capertng forms, flash out, contiane to occupy the pubite trent e pul attention, but what ean the good fathers expect, when standing still in ¢he midst of an onward rushing crowd, than to have pom phaty sremeesed on, ay nibs hard squeezed aU jal orn piecemeal from Eee omic cert exo! pI st him by refasin, io receive @ popular petition in favor of ‘@prient suspended Lay oan against the Jesuits, and das added auger by evading the giving of an audictice @ deputation of the city fathers of Pel , FATAL FEVERS. From the city of .Pard we learn that the fevers In ‘the netuementyon the Lower Tocantins had bro! out afresh and with greater prise, be in the & place of about elty of Came: inhabitants, there were reckoued to be 12,000 alek, Loe pK 9 ters Of it not haying @ single person uni and it seems that the medicines wovernment turued out to be PROGRESS, The Snape, Duke of Edinburg and the steamship £M, both belonging to the contractors of the Marmoré and Maetra Railroad, had arrived at Parad about the beginning of June, with engineers, work- men and material for the’ road, which the Chief ——_- Mr. declares will Opened for trafito upon 4th of March, 1874, ‘The railroad will be 157 miles long, with the 40K6 Of one metre, and is contracted for at 00,000. When finished, and Cojonel G. EK. Church has also got his steamers on pe Beni, tourists and pilgrims trom all qurters of the world will be en- abled to visit without dimculty the real Eden of the Bibie, which an American gentleman here is now writing @ book to prove was situated between the heads Of tribuipries of the Beni, in inter-Apdine within them, eent thither ‘vy the Useiess, NEW YORK HERALD, M regtons, where kein, the fu eli ancient and modern ‘Thi ‘author says, odes ment ineecen dent anthre- believe that a to the read ward encouragement to give it publicity. LA PLATA AFFAIRS. Th the Argentine Confederation arte inton was very upon the ith and the of the and was very belli- cose. iso had Mad a resolution of approval of the action of the govern- ment in those questions, it was hoped that the tron-clads and cannon ¢. d from Europe would arrive in time to enable the government to tsoops rons Poreguay' andthe immediate evucua. uon of the naval station ‘on the isiand of Cerrito, Public attention was so excited oer the probe- bilities Brazil was given eee lad the Indians into the pro- of Buenos Ayres. However, troops and militia were coll from all quarte Indians | d q ra, and the would hardly succeed in carrying off much Ami of congratulation arrived on the 12th from the President-of Chile, on the proximate con- clusion of the trans-Andine bey pi of which only three miles remained on the unwired. On that latter day the message, @ brief one of nearly four thousand words of hyperbole, was sent off from Valparaiso, across the break by & mountea gaucho in a gallop, rewired to Villa a, and there ed to the post office, as the gov- ernment lne between Villa Maria and Buenos Agree would have taken. whole day to wire it. Iu Montevideo pubiic feel went mainly with the Argentines in the qui with Brazil; but it was also agreed that a strict neutrality should be maintained if the war broxe out, The Santa Maria iron lighthouse is said ‘to have been struck by hgh bee! when 100 feet high, thrown down, ing the workmen engaged upon it. the acci- dent the contractors suffer a very heavy loss, and the Shippin Cd extended period of danger of loss upon int @ number of deaths from yellow fever during the three months’ visit of the plague to Montevideo Was 136 out of 185 cases, URAGUAY, Political Changes and Party Prospects— The Advantageous Tri phs of Peace=— Ministerial Appointments—Commerce. MONTEVIDEO, June 15, 1872. Since the establishment of peace the government has pursued a steady and firm course in reorganis- ing the various departments, and great confidence ts felt in the new system. The nominations of the Gefe Politicos, or, more properly speaking, the Governors for the thirteen departments of the Btate, have given great satisfaction, and through them the military has been disbanded and paia off without any diMculty. ‘ ‘The “biancos” have already started two papers, organs of their party, and are now vigorously working for the approaching Presidential election. The names given to the papers are the Demooracia and the Republica, which titles are severely criti- cised by the Colorado press. The various political sects have established the clubs Radical, Libertad and Colorado, These are of the “red” party. The whites are quietly working, and thus far have kept the opposition in ignorance of their course. DEATH'S ALARMS. Dr. Polomoque, @ prominent blanco and Commis- sioner at the Peace Convention, died recently. He was one of the most enthusiastic workers fora settlement of the revolution. Dr. Regunaga, pres- ent Minister of government, and also one of the signers of peace, has been at the point of death, but is now reported to be slowly recovering. JUDICIAL PROMOTION. The General Assembly has elected the binstabig | members to fill vacancies in the Superior Court oi Justice :—Drs. Don Adolfo Rodriguez, Don Tristan Narvajas and Don Laudelino Vazquez, foncieing a of distinction, who merit public approbation. FORBIGN DIPLOMACY. The government has also appointed two diplo- matic agents, Dr, Don Perez Gomas to Italy, and Dr. Mezquita to Brazil. @ object of the first misaion is tn reference to the reclamations of the Italian government for dam: to the apraperty, of its citizens as presented by their late Minister the Condedella Croce, and on whichoccasion he retired from his position. ‘The mission to Brazil is also in relation to the reclamation of that Power, and maj prove useful in defining th? position and neutrality of this vern- ment in its relations with that empire and the Ar- gentine republic in the questions wing out of delicate situation of the Eeremuayey Treaty. the two Powers has commenced to cause some in- quietnde, and the ntine government has re- solved to send General Mitre (ex-President) on a mission to Rio de Janciro. It ls evident that the Argentines anticipate diMculty, as the Chambers recently voted the sum of $3,500,000 to invest in two monitors and new and improved arms, The opinion to jay is uniform and decided that whatever turn the question may take it will be to the interest of the country to abstain from mixing up in the quarrel. TRADE AND COMMERCE, Business is rapidly improving and free commauni- cation was opened with the Argentine ports on the ith inst., @ circumstance which added to the peace we now enjoy, and re-established confidence {n our comme: community, All articles of import are looking American articles are in a poal- tion, and e import business Fb cena to be a good one for some time to come. PORTS—Dry ox and cow hides—Market weak witha downward tenden- cy; sales for the United States were 7,000 pares 8,000 @ $7.75; 8,200 & $7.70, and 7,000 & $7.65 ir Ibs duty paid; stock in Bi $1,000. Hair—Good mixed, 30$ currency .for 25 Ibs. Wools—stock re- duced to 47,000 arrs. No sales for the States. Premium on ape 303% Exchange on England 5156 to 5444 for gol MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Tony Pastor has secured Eddy for s!x nights, Brooklyn bas “The Streets of New York” at its Park Theatre. Vofty Gooit makes his bow at the Bowery to-night in a new sensational drama, “The Witches of New York” supplement Mile, Geraldine’s leap at the Olympic. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence are at present quaf- ing the waters of Ems, Germany. Barney Williams and his lady are stopping for a few weeks at Swalbach, near Ems, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Bandmann have appeared in “‘Narcisse”’ at the Queens, London, The Prussian Band play at the Brooklyn Rink to- Night, for the benefit of their leader, Herr Saro, The Vokes family Bay their imimitable “Belles of the Kitchen” at the Union Square Theatre this week. Lydia Thompson and her new burlesque com- pray apres this evening at Wallack’s in “Robin ood. cent, The Alleghanian vocalists and beliringers have returned to New York after a nine months’ concert tour im England. The concerts at Central Park Garden, under the direction of Theodore Thomas, and at Terrace Gar- den, under Neuendorf, continue every evening with ‘undiminished popularity. John Jack and Miss Annie Firmin played last werk Union, N. Je, with such success that they ‘nave b invited by the principal citizens there to repeat the performance of “John Garth” ou Thurs- day next. “OBITUARY. John Thomas de Selby. John Thomas de Selby, Chamberlain to His Holi- ness Pius [X., Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great of Francis I. of the Two Sicilies, has just Gied at hig temporary residence, Avenue de Wagram, Paris. He was sixty-six years of age. Mr. de Selpy belonged to one of the most ancient and honorable of the aristocratic families of England. : James Armour. James Armour, a veteran soldier of the British army, ana for many years @ rough rider in the Royal Scots’ Grays regiment of dragoons, died a few days since at his home in Linlithgow, Scotland, He was eighty-four years of age. Mr, Armour joined the army in the year 1805, and took a very | active part with his regiment at Waterloo, where he was slightly wounded. On the establishment of peace he obtained his discharge, and was shortly afterward appointed a sheriff oMcer in Linlithgow. He was among the last survivors of his regiment who fought at Waterloo. Sussex Vane Stephenson, A telegrain from Bombay to London announces ‘the sudden death, by cholera, of Lieutenant Colonel Sussex Vane Stephenson, of the Scots Fusilier ards, military secretary to the Honorable Sir satus Spencer, K. O. B., Commander-in-Chief of the Presidency. Volonel Sapbensew entered the Scot Fusiliers a6 ensign and lieutenant in March, ">, BW YORK STATE CAMP MEETING, ny # ROND Lake, N. Y., July 21, 1372, Twelve thonsand people attended the New York State Camp Meesing at this place to-day, Sermons were delivered 1m the morning, afternoon and evening, by the Rev..Dr. Butler, of New York; Rev. Dr. Kynnety of Philadelphia, and the Rev, Mr. Lindsay, Presidit Elder of the Owego diatrict. Meetings were ‘ales held durtig the day at al! the | church and prayer tents. — z:'| NORTH CAROLINA. Exciting and Bitter A Close, ‘ Contest. Openirag of the Canvass at Weldon, Raleigh and Greensboro’—Conservative Enthusissm—Bout- ‘well’s Speech a Failure—A Great Day in Greensboro—Outpouring of the Peo- ple—Boutwell’s Back Down—What the People Think and Say. Greenssono, N. C., July 18, 1872. The canvass im North Carolina may be said to have fairly opened with the immense conservative demonstration at Weldon, on the 12th inst, As it began with unwonted and remarkable energy on that occasion, soit has been sustained to the pres- ent time with an industry and determination which evince the importance attached to the result of the contest. The conservatives and liberals first took the fleld with such distinguished speakers as Senators Stockton, Tipton and Doolittle, and Gov- ernor Walker, of Virginia. Previously the con- test was carried on in rather @ desultory and uninteresting manner by the local can- vassers, among whom there are but few on either side of distinguished oratorical abilities. The arrival of the gentlemen named, and the an- nouncement that Secretaries Boutwell and Delano and Senator Wilson would take the stump for the administration, and Carl Schurz ana others for the liberals, have given a wonderful impetus to the fight, and both parties having drawn upon all their resources, are pushing the contest with a vim and determination scarcely equalled by the great con- test of 1840. Every dayof the past two weeks has witnessed some imposing demonstration, on one side or the other, and as the excitement mong the white people is at fever heat they never lack the éclat of numbers, It is a notable fact that the attendance at republican meetings is commonly an equal DIVISION OF BOTH PARTIES; for as the conservatives are attracted thither by curiosity, the blacks are kept away by what, as will appear further on, seems to be an utter indiffer- ence to such occasions. This is no indication, how- ever, of a lack of determination on their part to do full duty on election day. The blacks are good voters. The franchise still has the charm of novelty to them, and they never neglect the opportunity of exercising it. WHAT STOCKTON HAS DONE. Senator Stockton having come to North Carolina at great inconvenience to himself, in response to Senator Ransom’s urgent request, returned to Washington immediately after the Weidon affair. General Ransom is a shrewd worker; he counted Justly upon the influence of Mr. Stockton's ex- ample among the extreme democrats—he being now as enthusiastic in support of Mr. Greeley as he was determined in opposition. It is evidence of the bitterness of the fight that the negroes em- ployed to construct the platform, benches, tables and other appurtenances of the mass meeting and barbecue at Weldon quit work on the second day, although they were receiving extraordinary wages. Upon questioning General Ransom, he stated to your correspondent that the order to “knock ofl” came from THE LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS, enforced by threats in case of refusal. Senator Tipton having announced his purpose “to fight it out on this line,” went to Raleigh on the 18th inst., and this bucolic metropolis was the scene of another extraordinary gathering on the Tuesday following. Mr, Tipton, however, on the night previous to Tuesday had addressed a large crowd in the public hall, devoting himself mginly to what he is fond of styling “Executive, Military and OMmi- cial Usurpations,” Ex-Senator Doolittle and Gov- ernor Walker arrived early on the morning of the meeting to take part in it, and the Hon. H. V. M. Miller, a distinguished, but somewhat intemperate orator and politician, of Georgia, and ex-Governor Graham, of North Carolina, lent their presence to the occasion, As the day advanced one might have witnessed a scene very characteristic of the Carolinas—the country folk coming into town in four-wheel con- trivances, an assortment of which would bea “big thing” up at Wood’s Museum, and more especially if accompanied with specimens of feminine ions in the piney woods and a stuffed model of the fam- ily horse, which is always poor, always old, entirely dliapidated and barely able to drag one foot after another, consefvative mass meeting and barbecue at, or rather near, h—for the affair came off in a grove a mile from town—was undoubtedly ‘an imposing demonstration. The barbecue was calculated for five thousand, and the best estimate of the number present was furnished by the fact that the tables were cleared. Among the colored i no some excitement was mani- fested, owing to the presence among the conserva- tive marshals of two prominent colored men, who until recently have supported the administration. Some of the negroes, more mischievous than the rest, brought out a pack of hounds and HIED THEM ON the black marshals, who Were mounted. Consider- able noise and confasion resulted for a time; but the marshals kept their saddles, while the horses de- fended themselves so_etlectively with their heels that the dogs were finally persuaded to retire, There is an evident disposition among the darkies to countenance no “Greeleyites’? among their number. One of these marshals was severely beaten by colored men at the close of the meeting, and was pursued to police head- quarters, where he was compelled to take refuge. It is reported that the other was searched for by a vengeful crowd of negroes, The eg | was kept up from eleven A. M, until nearly dark. Ex- Senator Doolittle made the Leak speech of the day, “Isn't it, my fellow citizens,’ said Mr. Bar- ringer, chairman of the meeting, “a delightful thing to listen to an eloquent orator advocating A G00D CAUSE?” His fellow citizens responded with approvis cheers. The conservatives here seem to appr ciate very highly tie efforts made in their be- half by men of ‘such dlstinguished uta. tion as Doolittle, Tipton and Walker, ee ever they have, gone they have been wel- comed with every expression of popular h and admiration. If any one is favored by the | people above the rest it is Doolittle, who impresses: grave, Inminous and pleasant oratory. re- markably handsome face and form of Walker, of Virginia, is one of his best cards, and never fails to win him a targe feminine audience. Tipton takes well among the farmers. At Greensboro, last night, the greatest ovation of the campaigu took place—made so by the character as well as by the numbers who participated, The best society of this arlatooratic little town was on the streets, and the most exclusive and “particular” of the women boldly thrust themselves into the midst of the masculine crowd and contented! seated themselves On the rude benches in the mid- | dle of the street. The enthusiasm seemed to have ; reached its culmination, whence it could reach no higher. A view ofthe repubilcan side of this con- test presents no such FIERY PICTURE as that I have described. It ia not owing to a want of energy and determination amoug the rank and file of republicans so much ag to the natural indif- ference of the country negroes, who, of course, compose the bulk of the party here. to political dis- Play. It is a notorious fact that the megroes are all one way; but yet their meetings are, as a rule, dull and without interest. It must be confessed that Mr. Boutwell’s speoch, yesterday morning, FRKLL VERY PLAT, The Hon. cepa was evidently not at ease. A distinguished conservative present remarked that “‘be looked ashamed of himself." He felt his Way very cautiousiy at first, as if fearing a Ku Kiax demonstration jt his person, ‘The impres- ston was,'’he said, “that the democratic darty was 0] to emigration, internal ments, education, &c."" He became bolder he proceeded, and said finally that all these things chary anon the democratic party were not illusions. The negroes showed their accustomed indifference ait this occasion. The town was full of them, but less tham one hundred = attended = Mr. Boutwell’s speak- ing, and jess than fiity remained when ho had Gnished his statistical defence of the nancial I cea of this administration, There are in Greensboro several Fepablicans. of prominence to whom the President will owe no thanks for the reception tendered his Secretary. He has been treated with singular iudiference. The aecommo- dations on the speaking ground were not to be com- Pared in convenience, extent, or In any respect with the conservative proparations for the same purpose. It was @ miserable affair, and unworthy ot the secretary throughout. A telegram from Char- lotte indicates that his reception there has beca better, and itis stated that @ large number of con- servatlve citizens attended at the depot to welogme nim. ROUTWRLL BACKS DOWN, llearn opon the authority of Governor Walker's Secretary that a proposition was made to Mr, Bout- well by telegraph, from Raleigh, to divide time with either Mr, Doolittle or Mr. Tipton, and that he de+ clined, and that he refused also the opportunity to either of these gentiemen to make a formal reply to lus argumeyk Zhe proposition Was mac~ through | thein by his urbane, social manner, as well ag by his, ‘General Barringer, Chairman of the State Conserva- tive Committee, . conservath of North Carolina are very useing to raubre thas an ADMINISTRATION TRIUMPH thattiey are not. verg cond oo vy lack of thorough ‘organiza- col among the want of money and the &@ source t class. They reprehend their leaders for trus' eve! to mass meetings, barbecues and the rush of popular en- thusii Governor Walker said to your cor- ‘If the conservatives are defeated in be lack of party orga: H other hand, naturally amenable to discipline, are held clcge In hand, aud will move to the polls @ solid » The margin is 0 narrow that it is - poe Deny td ugust, and very few AA iff howeve: nit ‘the sume to do #0. It is Ponservatives win the State it will be by dint of the f opinion that their haraest fighting they ha er Party was organized. Iam chances are a shade the better—perhaps a 101 to a round hundred, LONDON GOSSIP. The Trade Disturbances in the Motropolis— Prices of Everything Increasing—Thé Herald Expedition in Search of Livingstone— ~ Stanley’s Succegs—Ihe Albert Memo- rial in Hyde Park—The British Science Association—The Col- lision in “the Channel. et it in easy to nee of Lonpon, July 4, 1872. Strikes and rumors of strikes, “lock-outs,” lock- ims and “dead locks” are still the order of the day in Landon. The gigantic industrial struggle which has agitated the country to an extent almost un- precedented for some weeks past has already pro- duced a plenteous crop of disastrous consequences, ‘The general series of strikes has already resulted in a general advance of prices. Such an issue was, of course, inevitable. The workmen who struck in all directions for shorter hours and increased Wages obtained important advantages in well nigh every section; sometimes they gained all they demanded ; more frequently they were granted @ large instalment; rarely have they suffered total 1 defeat. Yet the masters have madea bold stand. A meeting of the London Master Builders’ Associa- tion was held on the ist. It was there stated that twenty new firms had joined the lock-out, and that the masters were resolute. There is also some talk of forming a Masters’ National League, to counter- act the demands of the men. Prices are, neverthe- less, daily enhanced. Large as they are they have to be paid, and the public are callea upon, as usual, to “foot the bill.” Everywhere the rise has been rapid and general. Iron has advanced fifty shil- lings. So has coal, because miners and colliers have obtained better wages and work shorter turns. Copper, tin, tallow and other raw materials have considerably advanced, Added to these sufii- ciently unpalatable facts we have the discomforting assurance that there is no knowing where the up- ward Movement will stop. It is this uncertainty which is disorganizing business in the midland and in many of the northern counties. Noris this by any means the worst phase ofthe present dimiculty, The industrial deadlock, which has seized upon the Provinces has now communicated itself to the metropolis. The skeleton in the cleset of the mas- ter and the employer reveals its ghastly, unwel- come face at every turn he takes, The ghost will not be laid, but persists in holding its vigils not nightly but in the broad face of day. It cannot .be well doubted that the long threatened struggle for supremacy between capital and labor has fairly commenced. There is no dodging the issue now. The music, discordant and threatening as it is, must be fairly and squarely faced. The nine hours’ limit has, since the New- castle strike, been generally conceded, and will soon become the rule throughout the country. THE ADVANCE IN PRICES which has already taken place and will doubtless continue to a moderate extent will not aficct the working classes 80 greatly as might be expected. The earnings of the laboring classes in land goesin a great. majority of cases for rent, bread ice of these has been but little al iy strikes. It is by those who are not within the circle of what are Pree A known as“ working people, i that the burden of the present aituation will be most severely felt. Every year the task of the purely professional man with a fixed income or salary becomes more arduous. The shopkeepin; class, always humerous, will now increase and mul tiply. Heavy and growing tariffs have already in- duced large numbers of the middle classes to join the ranks of the shopkeeper and petty trader in the hope to save the cost of distribution. Another Tesult will be to give forei ufacturers a firmer foothold in British markets. Indeed, there is already abundant proof of this in the increased supply of foreign manufactures, To this branch of our subject-one of transcendant interest 4t this time—I hope to reter in a future letter. - THE DISCOVERY OF LIVINGSTONE BY STANLEY. The recognition of the eminent service ren- dered by American enterprise and energy, backed “up by American capital, to e cause of exploration and civilization in the far East has come at last, though not from the guarter whence Americans and Britons alike had best rea- sons to expectit. Yesterday morning each of the leading journals, “through the courtesy of the Naw York HERALD’s representative in London’ (sic) were furnished with two columns of the precious and Jong-looked for despatch bringing proois of Living- stone’s good health and glorious achievements, di- rect from Stanley himself—ar' act of magnanimity as well as a stroke of newspaper diplomacy on his and beer, and the fected by the part, which tt is to be hoped will not be wholly lost upon the scoffers and slow coaches, the “dead locks” and “tite barnacies’”’ of Downing street and porilpgay Gardens. Perhaps Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.B.,F.2.G.S., &c., &0., will now consent to recall his African squadron, sent out in April last at 80 great, @ sacrifice und with #0 much ceremony, and admit, even at the eleventh hour, that Stanley had something to do with finding Livingstone after all, and’ not wait for that heroic old man to come home and tell himso. The defeat of the Atalantas is more than atoned for in the complote triumph of the Heratp African expedition, It has restored to the world one hero, and well nigh made for it another. THE QUEEN AND THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. South Kensington has again been the scene of a royal “walk round.’ The opening of the Interna- tional Exhibition has been gees, followed by another less numerousty attended, though scarcely less ceremonious gathering, the occasion being the ueen's visit to the Albert memorial in Hyde 4 rom the published accounts it must have been & very formal, uninteresting affair—not more formal, perhaps, thau the dedicatory inscription on the monument itself, which runs thus:—“Queen Victo- ria and her people to the memory of Albert, Prince Consort, as a tribute of their gratitude for @ life devoted to the public ” Great diversity of opinion is expressed in ra to this monument even as a work of art. In my humble opinion it ts the most beautiful atructure of ite kind in this Kingdom. It would in- pe. If As the other beautiful ir ly remarks:—"'Like has its blemishes. The dite i not all that things, ti it ought to be, or might have been; the sculpture is not all of ft good; the inscription {s poor and pro- saic, and no word or emblem in the whole memo- rial commemorates the Prince Consort’s cardinal virtue—that purity of life, tare among princes, to which his character and owe their lus- tre, But, though it mi ve these aud other rep pgs by e Inemot {a still well worthy of Dim and us, , At least, we think, and 80, we venture to say, Will any one think who looks upon it with an eye that is sin and a4 judgment un- prejudi Go and gee on any one of these summer afternoons. Its shalts of clustered ite in the san; the points of sunlight glittering in-like enamiels; the bright id the bronze statues; the golden angels t! heaven and the golden ang earth; the throned reg of the mosaics; the whi wht. Me Bay eo pang ee! pare aming against + We CYC] locks: gern erm the sencee pevbortan and the black bases of the ym tne Las, @teat groups of sculp- er tare bound ded railing; the solid and weil: led stairs; t Panaich of the frieze; res in the ndre! Is Of arches; the rich ornaments of the roof and fast cross, seeming to clouds—whoever does not agall the sallin, flod these = thin beautiful m themselves, and more beautiful taken together, must be hard to please nos worth the effort.’ Of the seVeral emblematic sculptured groups re- presented on the memorial that of America, exe- cuted by JohnBell, is the most admired. Its supert- ority, remarke the Sta is particularly mant- fested in the composition and In the deli of the sentiment, as well as in the distinctness with which the story {t tells is expressed. |The reprewentative ures of America riding om the wild and 3! m if @ fine and spirited conception; while the frank admission of the United States leading the Rs Ty the affairs the vast Weatern Continent, while Canada, with trne loyalty, still presses the rose of England to her breast, di lars @ prominent and estimable fact, acknowledged without jealousy alike by sovereign and peopie here. THE APPROACHING MERTING OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, A goodly attendance of literary and scientific men from the United States is looked for at the meeting ol the British Science Which opens at Brighton on the J4th of August. Professor Loomis and other American savans now sojourning in Eng- lgnd have accepted invitations to be present and ONDAY, JULY 22,,.1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT, take part im the proceedin; Great ppisemece to complete the Cirighton ine Aquarium in time, for meeting of the feracma na tis Rased “inet the srenuoos efforts put by the directorate will be only wartially successful, Steam Packet Company, was run bark Abbey Holme, of “Liverpool. Upwar twenty lives were lost. or A Mother and Her Daughter Beaten to Death—Scene of the Murder and Rob- bery—The Murderers Not Arrested. About three o’clock on the morning of Wednes- nesday, July 10, two horrible murders were discov- ered at a house situated at 46 Hyde road, Hoxton, London. For years past the house stated has been occupied by a widow and her daughter, named Squtres, who carried on the business of stationers, no one else living there but themselves, At the hour above stated a boy went into the coffee shop, next door, and said that he had seen blood on the counter of Mrs. Squires’ shop. Upon going in to ascertain the cause a most horrible spectacle presented itself, Behind the counter was discov- ered the body of Mrs. Squires in a pool of blood, with her hand to the right side of her head, which was shoskingiy, injured. The daughter was found with her head lying in the ‘lor and her legs in the shop. She. was also covered with blood, and her head battered in. Inspector Ramsay was soon on the spot, when Dr. Hawthen was sent for, who pronoun both bodies to be quite dead, and stated that in his opinion death had been caused by their heads having ween beaten in by some blunt instrament. police searched the house, which they found from top to bottom, and in the parior was found a clock that had been knocked down, which had stopped at twelve, the time at which, no doubt, the deed was committed, as Dr. Hawthen stated he should think they had been dead close on two hours. Although every search was made no in- strument has been found likely to have produced the injuries. The Pal vbebodes has not yet been dis- covered, but a son of the deceased, who has recently ‘been discharged from a lunatic asylum, was seen in the neighborhood in the morning. 1¢ mother’s osed to be about sixty-el ight, and that of the daughter thirty-five. The son of the deceased, it is stated, has for some time past been an inmate of Shoreditch Workhouse, and since the tragedy his clothes have been examined, also the walla of the workhouse, to ascertain if it was possible that he might have escaped, but the parish authorities feel quite satisfied that itis not the case. The Doctor states that he never saw two persons 80 battered about in his life, the face of the daughter — 80 disfigured that it is impossibie to recognize her. Mrs. Squires has seven wounds on the head and a large part of the left ear cut of, and the daughter has five wounds, besides her heaa being battered in, It is stated by aneighbor that an attempt was made by some persons to enter the house on Sun- day night, but that they were disturbed. The po- lice are actively engaged in trying to discover the perpetrator of this most horrid deed, but up to the resent tume have gained no clue. It is stated that ith the deceased and her daughter, who had re- sided for many years in the Hyde road, were much respected and esteemed by all thetr neighbors as being quiet and most inoifensive persons, It is also rumored that she kept a large sum of money in the house, but that at present cannot be ascer- tained for a fact. THE DISASTROUS FIRE IN GLASGOW. — Particulars of the Conflagration—Loss of Life—Injured Persons—Baildings De- stroyed and Damaged—Excitement in the City. The North British Daily Mail, in its description of the fire in Glasgow on the 9th inst., says:—An ex- plosion was suddenly heard, sounding like the dis- charge of a thunderbolt; the falling of showers of débris, followed by dense black rolling masses of smoke, through which the red flames were dimly visible. The gable of the mill was blown into Commerce street. The men employed in the work were collected as far as possible, and it was then found that six men and two boys were missing, and the conclusion was ar- rived at that they were buried in the ruins. A large number of the men were also found to be injured, and the more serious cases, amounting to six or 80, were taken to the infirmary, while the others were removed to the Stlotning, shee and afterwards taken to their homes. By this. time the fire was progressing at an alarming extent, From the whole front and roof of the buildings facing Commerce street dense volumes of smoke rolled w wards, while bright tongues of Names moment \y protruded from the building, Masses of sparks few in all directions as piece after piece of the roof fell in, and things began, to look so alarming that at one time feats were entertained for the safety of the shed along the quay, ip which was stored a large quantity of sulphur. ‘The decks.of the Anchor liner Sidonian were covered with débris, and it was thought prudent by those In chai to moor her out in the stream. ‘The inhab! in the tene- ment situated at the corner of Commerce street and Clyde place were in the wildest state of excite- ment. No time was given to save any of the furnt- ture. The flames circled round to the wing of the grain store extending from Commerce street Westward, and Speedtiy it was tho- roughly enveloped. By this time the premises were in one flery glow, and all hope of saving them being hopeless, the firemen directed their energies to saving the joining buildin, Gorbals Free Church for some time was in imminent danger, and 80 intense was the heat that the large oriel window at the back of the pulpit was broken, as were also the windows in the stores on the opposite side of the street. The'fire about two hours after it broke out presented a grand yet a fearful spectacle. Sec- tion alter section gave Way, till at length nothing was to be seen of the mill, the engines alone stand- ing black and grim among the surrounding rui The walls of the ining grain stores gradualiv followed, until about eight o'clock, when that which was standing fell with a loud crash, startling those around and filling the air with an amount of smoke and dust almost stiding. The scene in Commerce street was of a very painful na- ture. Tae surface of the roadway was covered with the ruins of the butidings, while in front of the mill ‘was seen sticking through the débris the front part of a ruined lorry Which was dashed to pieces by the fall of the gable, and the body of the horse which drew it scorched and blackened, while standing on the pavement was a shattered cab, the driver of which, along With his horse, escaped. By about eight o'clock on Tuesday evening all danger was passed, but the firemen continued till, yesterday morniug to pour water on the smouldering ruins. POREIGN TURP NOTES. The French Jockey Club has juat decided on plac- ing in its library @ marble slab on which will be in- scribed the names of such of its members as fell before the enemy during the late war or died of their wounds, Their names are:—Colonel Fiévet,. of the Sixteenth regiment of artillery, Commander of the Legion of Honor, died of his wounds at Stras- bourg, September 1, 1870; Colonel Dubessey ae Con- tenson, of the Fifth Cutrassiers, officer of the Legion of Honor, killed at Mouzon (cena Eis vo 30, 1870; Captain Count de Mee of the First Spahis, orderly officer to Marshal Mahon, Knight of the Legion of Honor, killed at the battle of Reichshof- fen; Captain Viscount de St. Sauyeur, of the Third Zouaves, Knight of the Legion of poner, wounded at once ransacked fe is, sup at the battle of Frorschwiller, died Septem- Be 1870; Captain Lesergeant —d’Hendecourt, o staf, orderly officer to the Emperor, Knight Of the Legion of Honor, killed in the battle of Sedan; Viscount de Grangey, formerly an officer in the Davy, leutenant-cotone! of the Mobiles of the Aube, Knight of the Legion of Honor, Killed in the aifair or ampigny during the siege of Paris; Count Picot de Dampierre, commanding the First battal- fon of the Mobiles of the Aube, killed at the attack $f Bagneux durmg the siege of Paris; the Duke de uynes, captain adjutant-major in the Mobiles of the Sarthe, killed at Nonnevilie, near Lolgny Vane g et-Loir). ‘The names will be surrounded by a frame, handsomely ornamented and gilt. ‘The jockey, W. Dey, was thrown while riding in a Steeplechase at Vi my LL ed seriously injured ju that he died on Mon: tal ‘acture of the collar bone by Ohamptonnet in the last race at Beau- 1, Rose Mousse and Tuileries also fell Lf vais on July ry same race, but their jockeys, Burrell and Lavis, escaped with but a shaking. DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM. Coroner Young recently heid an inquest at the house.No. 60 Bast Ninth street, over the remains of Mrs, Catherine ¢.,.Webb, a lady iifty-two years of age, and a native of New York, who died from the effects of an overdose of laudanum administered by herself on the 26th instant. Mr. J, 8. Clinton, liv- In the hone, teatified that he had heard from ot ey deceased was often intoxicated, and he had seen her under the influence of liquor, so much so that he requested bis wife not tohave her come in the room. Mra. Web) told the witness she had been in the habit of taking morphine. The witness farther testified that deceased had either been very sick or else under the infiucnce of mip for the past two or three months he heard she had been in the habit of taking morphine and whiskey ag stimulants. Mr. William A. Webb, son of deceased, testified that about hall-past nine o'clock in the evening his mother swallowed the poison; he was in her room, and while sitting by the window heard her screain; he ran fo the bed to see what was the mat- ter, but could net arouse her, and she continued Speechless till the following morning, when death ensued, medical ald proving of no avail, Dr. Marsh, who mate examination of the body, was of the opinion thet death resulted from An Overdose of laudanum, Amd euch was the ver- fos of the jury, CHOLERA. Visitation of the Rpidemie in Brstern Bassia and Its Gradual Advance to the Cen- tral and Western Provinces. St. Petersburg Sickly and Alarmed—History of the Progress of the Scourge from Its Hotbed in Asia—Its Advance Route to Europe and America—Fatal Consequences in Russia During M-.dwinter. The advices from St. Petersburg, which were briefly telegraphed to the HERALD yesterday, rela- tive to the appearance and progress of the cholera, in the Russian empire, go on to state that the epi- demic is gradually but steadily making its way from the eastern provinces of the territory, and assuming a fatal foothold in the central and western. portions of the land. The city of Moscow is suffering from its ravages, and there the desease has assumed its most malig- hant form. The proportion of deaths to the recoveries, of those attacked, is placed at eigh® to one, } Thia terrible fatality has created a panic among the inhabitants, and thousands of the better classes are fleeing into Western Europe. ST. PETERSBURG SIOKLY. At St. Petersburg a few sporadic cases have ap~ peared, and the authorities are taking the moss rigid precautions to cut off communication bee tween the capital and the outlying infected dis- tricts, Previous Visitations and Route of the Great Scourge—How the Russian p= ital Suffered in Midwinter. ‘ Inthe year 1817 the cholera broke away, as it. were, from its usual confines in the marshy re- gions of the Ganges, where it had been epidemia: for centuries, and appeared in the city of Calcutta. within thirty days. It raged there with more or lesa violence for a year. Thence itextended north/ ward to Nepaul, and southward to Madras, Ceylon and Malacca. In the year 1819 it visited the Bury mese empire and the countries lying to the east: In 1820 it appeared in Bombay, where It carried o! one hundred and fifty thousand persons by death, Thence it went to Madagascar and along the east. caost of Africa to Borneo, Celebes, China and the Phillipine Islands. In 1821 it veered to the northwest. It pursued the course of the rivers and the travelled pighveyy to Persia, Arabia and Asia Minor. Here it became almost qileanens for a time, and halted. It reap- peared in the year 1823, and devastated Central Asia. In the year 1829 it showed itself in Southern; Russia. It was in Moscow in 1830, and in 1831 spread over most of Central Europe. It epeoareds at Sunderland, England, in the month of October, the same year. In the month of Januar; /, 1882, 1 broke out In Edinbarg, Scotland, and in February wasin London. Its consequences at that time im the British metropolis were slight. In the month of March it showed itself in Paris, and spread raplily all over France, causing the utmost conster- nation. It first appeared on this side of the Atlantic on the 8th of June, 1832, making its opening assault in Quebec, and its second in Montreal, 0: the 10th day of the same month. On the 2ist o June, same year, it appeared. suddenly in New York, the intervening districts lying between our people and the citizens of Montreal and Quebec havi oe caped. Itspread in various directions, Philadelphia, Albany, Rochester, Boston, Baltimore, bh lee Cincinnati and New Oricans having all suffered from it during the period intervening between June 21 and the latter end of August. Y Oholera reappeared in Europe in the years 1835,/ 1836 and 1837. m statistics prepared in England, it ig shown that 385 per cent of those attacked in Great Britain died; five thousand of them in Lon- don. Paris lost 18,000 persons. In Russia the mor- tality was dreadful, 68.6 per cent of the cases ter- minating in death. It raged in St. Petersburg in. midwinter and with great fatality. ms YACHTING NOTES. ‘The third annual regatta of the Manhattan Yacht Club will take place on the 23d inst. The contest- ants will rendezvous and start from the anchorage off the club house, on South Brother Island. Cabin sloops must weigh anchor on starting, and vea- sels contending will be allowed to choose their positions according to the priority of arrival, The steamer Fort Lee will be chartered for the accommodation of guests. The course 'to be traversed 1s as follows:—First class sloops—From the anchorage to Throg’s Point. buoy, passingdo the southward and eastward; from thence to the Stepping Stones and Gangway buoys, paskiag to the northward and westward, to and around Sand’s Point buoy, rout from leeward to windward. Returning over the same course, passing to the westward of the stakeboat. Second class sioops will to the southward ‘and eastward of Throg’s Point buoy, around the Stepping Stones buoy, rounding the same mark from leeward to windward and home, westward of the stakeboat. The conditions are :—That if one yacht of the feet: should sail the race within six hours it will be con- sidered a race ior both classes. Time allowance will oe based on length only, to. be eecmnenis adding actual length on water line to actual lengti over all; dividing the total by two, the result to be the length on which allowance is to be calculated. Rules 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the “Regatta and Sailing Regulations” of the Club, are to be suspended for this regatta. The undermentioned vessels are en- tered as competitors, ‘M. Stimpson, Jr. . F, Thompson. Jacob Varian, Joe Jefferson D. Ransom. Mary. Louise Sophia Emma. |. M. Varian. Zepny reso IM. Hyslop. Skip Jack. SF; D? Brassington. The judges will be Captains Samuels and Plate and Mr. James Clark. ‘the Williamsburg Yacht Club will hold their an~ ; nual regatta,on Tuesday next. The wayve-skim— mers will start from opposite the Club House, at Pottery Beach, Greenpoint; will round Tnrogg’s Point Buoy and return, The steamer Thomas Cuyler will accompany the craft over the course. he sehooner yacht Columbia, Lester Wallack,, came to anchor off Newport, R. L, yesterday, ‘the Alice, of the N.Y.Y.C., with her owner, Mr. Nichols, in command, passed Whitestone, L. 1, em roule for New York yesterday. Mr, Major's protty vessel, Sea Drift, brougnt up. off Whitestone on Sunday last, s A number of yacht races have been appointed to take place pon the 23d Inst.; but it is improbable: that any will excite so much interest in pachting circles as the match arranged between those two first class sloops, the Gracie and Meta, The first-named will be well remembered; as victrix in very many faces, while Oap- tain Beling’s new craft has shown a ed. that induces the belief that she will prove a dangerous antagonist. The course be satled’ over is from Buoy No. 5, off Sandy Hook, twenty miles to windward and return, The race will be; sailed according to the rules of the Brooklyn Yacht, Club, and if there is breeze enough to cause ‘a wet: sheet and a flowing sea” a lively contest may be anticipated. THE EXOISE LAW-IN WILLIAMSBURG, The order recently fe#ued by Chief of Police’ Campbell, directing the Captains of the various pre~ cincte to strictly enforce the Exeise law, was car4 ried out pretty well in the Eastern district. The liquor saloons presented a somewhat respectable: appearance yesterday, for the first time since the abrogation of the Metropolitan Excise law. The front doors were closed, and there was aw absence of gangs in the front, The side doors, however, were unlocked, and the thirsty, entered and had their cocktatis without “let or, hindrance.” The rowdy element was not con< spicnous yesterday, In the whole district there, was but one slight disturbance, Oficer Burrill! of the Fourth precinct, while attempting to perse a crowd of disorderly persons cong! at the corner of Grand and Seventh stree! sauited by & young man named Henry The oMcer succeeded in conveying his to the station house, where he was rown the opening of Justice Elliott's Court, when he admitted to bail. George Waiter, a liquor dealer, doing business at North Eleventh Second! streets, arrested by officer Phelan, for: ues the Excise law, was tted to ball by Justice Elliott, as was also Wil ‘Wallis, of No., 86 Broadway, who was arrested for the same by officer Bell, In the Sixth and Seyenth precincts pica ua ret many Brenton Stn. ported, but there were as men on the streets of Williamsburg yesterday as on any. previous Sunday. Last night, while officer Simons. was arresting ® disorderly person named Charles Fitzgerald, he was atiited by one Michael Lan- gan, who was clubbed by another officer aud taken In, COURT CALENDAA—THIS DAY, ; SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS.—Nos, 41, 57, 67, 86, 98, 101, 102, 103, 105, 113, 115, 116, 117. ™