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TRI Page, Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—The Choctaws and Chickasaws—Lieutenant Wheeler's Topogespnies Survey of the South- ‘west—Literary Chit-Chat—News from Wash- ington—Mexico: ‘The Effect of Juarez’s Un- timely Death—The Alabama Clalms—Cabie Telegrams from France, Spain, Switzerland and ireland—Carl Schurz’s Charge Against the President—North Carolina Politics— Flashes ot the Presidential Campaign— Weather Keport—Brooklyn Affairs, 4—Mr. Greviey’s Movements : He Returns to the Lincola Club; A Busy Day; Diverse Elements Meeting in His Presence; General Long- street's Card; Augustus Schell and Senator Doolittle’s Visit; A High Commissioner from the Colored People of the South—The De- mocratic Headquarters—The Liberal Head- quarters—Greeley and Brown vemonstration in Brooklyn—Seuator Stockton : He Sok Greeley will be Elected by an Ove elming nt tt leg Impeachment Trial—De- tective Doings: Piercing the Mystery of the Great Diamond Robbery—The Nicaraguan Surveying Expedition—Postponenient of the Goshen Trotting Mecting until Monday next— ‘Yhe Vienna World's Fair—Family Scandal in @ Police Court—Runaway Reuter Arrestea— Mara’s Victim Slightly Improving—New Jer- sey State Asylum. S—Financial and Commercial: Slight Revival of Interest in the Wall Street Markets; A Mild Suggestion of Business; Stocks Dull, but a Spasmodic Movement in the Gold Market; ‘oreign Exchange About Steady, Govern- ments Firm, Southern Securities Neglected and Railway Mortgages ‘(as They Were;’’ Money Still Easy; Heavy Export of Specie to Europe, Amounting to $3,000,000—Domestic and European Markets—Mecting and ey tant Action of New York Cotton Merchants— . The Comptroller and the Contracts—The S:nith Shooting Affray—Marriages and Deaths—Ad- vertisements, 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “Eastern Equa- torial Africa—Anotacr Letter from Dr. Liv- ingstone—The Natives, the Slave Trade and the Geographical Wonders of the Mile Sources”—Amusement Announcements. %Doctor Livingstone: The Explorer's Story of the Slave Trade in Eastern Alrica; The In- -ducement, Charm, Intent and Object of His Geographical Undertaking; Physical and Domestic Differences Between the Negro of the Interior and the West Coast Captives; The Ladies Very Pretty and with Nature Triumphant Over the Appearances of Art; Nativist Feuds, Faction Fights and a Natural Extradition After a Murder; How Slavery “Hardens and Petrefics’ Man; Manyuema, the Cannibal Country, and Its Customs; De- scription of the Great Watershed of the Nile; Baptism of Lake Lincoln; Waiting at Unyan- yembe for the American Hoyald Supplies. 8—Dr. Livingstone ontinued fram Seventh )—The Burned Protectory: Preseut Con- dition of the Honseiess Children at West- chester—The Erie Fire—The Stabbing of Com- missioner Corr—Proceedings in the Courts— * Embezzlement—The McDonald Murder—The Je:sey Nuisance War—An Interrupied Prize Fight—The Hrratp as a Keltgious or Antl- Satanic Paper. O—) of Equatorial Africa. eleine and Rambler: An Exciting Ocean ,-Bace Between Two Famous Yachts; New York to Brenton's Reef in Figeen Hours— ~ Aquatic Notes—The National Game—The Rain Storm—New York City News—Auburn Driv- ing Park Races—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- ___yertisements. f1—Summer Breathing Places: The Glories of Old Rockaway Fast Fading Away; Happy Lost of East Hampton; bey ere age Brides and Blushing Belles at Niagara Falls; White Sulphnr Springs; The Brimstone Regions of West Virginia; ‘The Ladies’ Toilets, Lovely Scenery and Healthy Drinks—Obituary—Re- cruiting for the United States eb &2—Canoe Dolly Varden: Exploration of the Upper ‘Mississippi—A Chance for Children—Suicide by Hang.ng—Advertisements. Tae Henaty Mar or Equator Arnica.— We reproduce in our columns to-day our map of Equatorial Africa, showing the courso of the Hrnarp Up-Nile and the Stanley-Liv- ingstone expeditions, The work, which is valuable if only as @ specimen of art, is made additionally and most exceedingly in- teresting as a contribution to our stock of topographical science and knowledge, from the fact that it is accompanied by our special telograph letter from Dr. Livingstone, in which the explorer publishes to the world the result of his latest discoveries relative to NEW YORK HEKALD, SATURDAY, JUDY 27) 3872 7TREPTM siiicr, Eastern Equatorial Africa—Another Letter from Dr. Livingstone—The Na. tives, the Slave Trade and the Geographical Wonders of the Nile Sources. From Dr. Livingstone, at Unyanyembe, that now famous halfway station between Lake Tanganyika and the Indian Ooean coast, we have another and a lengthy and exceedingly in- teresting letter, which we spread before our readers this morning. Wo have deemed it sufficiently important to justify its transmis- sion from England through the Atlantic cable, and we are sure that to our readers of all parties, creeds and races it will be weloomed as an agreeable diversion from the spiteful controversies and profitless excitements of our Presidential agitation. After years of trials, sufferings and grievous disappointments in strange lands, among savage tribes, cut off from all communications with the civilized world, disabled, robbed, abandoned, destitate, helpless and on the verge‘of despair, how fresh, vigorous and buoyant this late broken- down and desponding explorer presenta him- self in this philanthropic letter ! A timely messenger, and providential, as it would appear, bringing him news from home, kindred and friends, and, best of all, supplies for his immediate wants, and assurances for the future, has made this surprising trans- formation on this long lost and long nogl ected missionary in the cause of science and of Christianity. His meeting with Mr. Stanley and his surprise party made his heart thrill with joy. The weakness, the exhaustion and the shadows of despair which had weighed him dowa have vanished, and, under the inspira- tion of his new hopes and renewed strength and confidence, this letter of his sparkles like champagne, and glows with humanity and Christian charity. The mission undertaken by Dr. Livingstone in the cause of science, in which he has been so long engaged, was and is the discovery of the sources of the Nile; but his self-appointed work in all his African explorations has been and is thé work of Christianity. His heart isin this work, and hence, if he can be instrumental in the abolition of the horrible Eastern African slave trade he will esteem it a greater glory than that of the discovery of all the sources of the Nile. ‘ The suppression of this diabolical Enst Afri- can slave trade, as the Christian missionary, Dr. Livingstone, makes, therefore, the special theme of this letter. Looking to the United States, relieved of this pernicious “relic of barbarism,” African slavery, and rejoicing at length under a constitution of universal liberty and equal rights, he appeals to us for a help- ing hand in this greater enterprise than the solution of all the geographical mysteries of Africa. Nor is there anything wanting in the terrible facts which he recites to make this savage slave trade of Eastern Africa a subject for the direct intervention of England. From ten to twenty thousand perannum of these poor Africans of the Upper Nile basin are captured, carried off and sold into slavery, and under cruelties surpass- ing the horrors of ‘‘the Middle Passage” between the const of Guinea and the island of Cuba. Thus, while the island of Cuba remains as the market for the slave tra from the West coast of Equatorial Africa, the island of Zanzibar continues the great depot for this detestable traffic on the Eastern coast. Indirectly, too, if not di- rectly, in connection with this Eastern traffic, England, to somo extent, is responsible; and with these shocking exposures from Dr.™Liv- ingstone she cannot blink the question longer. Considered next, simply in the light of trade, itis evident, from the testimony of Livings- tone, that England might turn the policy of active intervention for the suppression of this slave traffic to a profitable account. This in- tervention, of course, to be effective, would require o ‘reconstruction’ of the Sultan of Zanzibar; but is he not, with his estates, as being outside the pale of civilization, subject, under the law of nations, to seizure and ap- propriation by any power within the code? But, important as to Obristianity is this dreadful evil of the East African slave trade, in the new lights presented by Livingstone, and attractive as he makes those free born and naturally in- offensive people of the eastern tablelands of Africa, who are torn away by violence from their homes to be sold as slaves, we cannot resist the temptation of dropping these sub- jects for the present in order briefly again to consider the interesting researches and discoveries of Dr. Livingstone of the Nile the water affluent system of the Nile, and. de- scribes the country, geographically and geo- logically, in which the great lake system has its origin, as well as the course of the united riparian volume to its entrance into the bosom of the Father of Waters. The simple lan- guage in which Livingstone presents his facts gives earnest of their accuracy, while his stern devotion to the enlightenment of one single point, which he regards as the crowning of his work, attests his firm belief in the truth of what he already publishes to civilization in our pages. Tom Jews ix Rovmanu.—The proposed conference of the European Powers for the purpose of considering the status of the Jews in Roumania has, we believe, fallen through. There will be no conference, but, instead, the governments are to communicate an energetic note on the subject to the Roumanian govern- ment. With this proceeding the whole matter ‘will drop out of sight, until some new persecu- fion of the unfortunate Israelites attracts the attention of the civilized world. Wo may expect to hear again of the great Powers conferring on the subject. Tux Manrropa Inptans.—There is fresh trouble round Fort Garry and the Manitoba Territory. The Fenian troubles, not only there, but nearer to the capital of the New Dominion, have passed happily away. But the Indians or half-bréeda, a pestilent set at all times, seem determined t) give the Cana- ian government a peck of trouble. We can fardly recommend our political nostrum as a curative, but still something in that line must be done. The Indian Commissioner sent out from Canads has failed in his efforts to con- summate a ‘‘izeaty with the Indians.” In all such cases Phil Sheridan’s prescription is the best antidote—that is, military occupa- tion and suppression. Treating the Indians with “gloved hands,” whether in the Western wilds or in the fastnesses of Manitoba, will be found to be a fruitless and unthankful task. Coercion and repression axe slope the reme- dies to be pppligd, sources and their drainage. It was thought by Speke and Grant, in their discovery of one of the great equatorial lakes, Nyanza, which they named, in honor of the Queen of Eng- Jand, Victoria Nyanza, that they found the head of the Nile because they went round the south end of this lake and found that it was indeed the great fountainhead of the river on that side. But when Sir Samuel Baker discovered the other Lake Nyanza to the westward, which he named the Albert Nyanza, in honor of the lamented. Prince Consort, he was led to the conclusion that there might be still many other lakes in a chain to the south- ward drained into the Nile; and this is the problem which Livingstone has so nearly solved. From the summit level of the tablelands, or the ridge or chain of mountains, some eleven degrees, south latitude, which divides the waters of the great Zambezi, flowing into the Indian Ocean, from the waters of the Qhambezi, flowing northward towards the Nile, Livingstone has discovered a great interior basin, which he travelled castward and northward for six hundred milos, leaving but a hundred miles or so unexplored between him and Baker's lake, He is satisfied, and we are almost convinced, that this Chambezi and its connections of lakes nd rivers, lengthens the Nile southward beyond Baker's lake some seven hundred miles, If so, then we may set down the Nile as not only the most wonderful and the most famous, but as the longest river in the world. It dwarfs the Mississippi to half the length, as the bee flies, of the Egyptian River, and it challenges the Missouri, from ite sources to the Gulf of Mexico. Accord- ing to Livingstone, it rises, like the Missis- sippi, from ten thousand fountains on a lofty plateau, which flow through numerous streams into the main river, and next the main stream passes through @ chain of great lakes as long as the chain of the St. Lawrence, and then for nearly a thousand miles by the river channel to the sea. Ono of this Nile chain of lakes dis- covered by Livingstane, he bea named Lake Lincoln, after our ‘Honest Old Abe"’—a com- phment which shows that our American expe- dition in search of Livingstone was not, in the light of patriotism, out of place. And here, we think, as our loftiest Rocky Mountain peaks are named after our Western pathfinders, such as Pike and Long and Fremont, and as the lakes of the interior basin of Nevada are named in honor of those famous pioneers, such as Carson, Walker and Danner, this Nile chain of Inkes should be filled out with the names of such pioneers in Africa as Speke, Grant, Burton, Baker, Livingstone, and, may we not say, Stanley? But the utilitarian may ask, What do all these African discoveries signify? Of what practical value are they to the outside world or to the Africans? How often this absurd ques- tion has been asked, and how emphatically it has been answered by the results, in relation 4o other discoveries, from time to time, through thousands of years, we need not here repeat. But in regard to these dis- coveries in tho great equatorial basin of the Nile, we venture the prodiction that the results to Africa and to the civilized world will be of great and enduring valuo—that they will embrace the complete extinguishment of the African slave trade, East and West, and through commercial enter- prises and the encouragement and instruction of the African nations in Chris- tianity, and in the arte of pence, agriculture, mining and manufactares, predict, even within the period of the living generation, the development of o trade between Africa, Europe and America, compared with which the trade of ancient Egypt and of Oarthage, in the meridian of their greatness, will appear but a bagatelle. These disclosures from Dr. Livingstone in reference to the East African slave trade cannot be ignored by the nations of Christendom, and these important dis- coveries of the unlimited capacities of Equa- torial Africa for the production of corn, rice, cotton, sugar, tobacco, and all the fruits of the tropics, will not longer by England be overlooked, casting about as she is for now markets for her wares and new fields of em- ployment for her redundant population. Whe Africans as Soon at Home. We are so accustomed to regard the ignorant and debased negro of the West Coast as the typical black man that most people will have some difficulty in accepting the Afrioan picture drawn by Doctor Livingstone. Yet if for an instant we forget our prejudices a little reflec- tion will show that tho influence of clime and institutions may have more to do with the ignorance and barbarism of @ race than any radical physiological defect, Ages of slavery have exercised their demoralizing offecta on the inhabitants of the coast, whose contact with civilization has been for them the worst of misfortunes. But away from these debas- ing influences the black man, as seen in his native state, uncorrupted by the rum dealer or the slave trader, rises to a high level in the seale of humanity. The population of the interior exhibits marked differences of color, ranging from the coal black of the Soudan to the light brown of the Arab. . But this appears to be almost entirely due to local effeats. It seems by no means to follow, as is commonly be- lieved, that the nigger black skin is a mark of intellectual inferiority. In their native state, living under their own laws, the black race develops into a type closely resembling the old Egyptians. They are, in fact, a race full of fire, of fine physique and capable of foble and generous thoughts. The low, receding forehead and the lark heel, which are distin- guishing marks of the lowest slave type with which we are acquainted, is unknown, except on the West Coast, while in some instances the races of the interior develop a nobleness of physique far in advance of Europeans. The testimony of Dr. Livingstone on this point is one of the most interesting and striking pas- sages in his letter, and tends to sweep away the absurd projudice which would make tho black race naturally inferior to tho white. Speaking of a peace council between some tribes dwelling south of Tanganyika Dr. Livingstone says:—“‘You could not see more finely formed, intellectual heads, in any as- sembly in London or Paris, and faces and forms corresponded.” This evidence over- throws completely the supposed physical and mental inferiority of Sambo. Nor is the con- trast offered by the picture of the African ladies a whit less striking. They are repre- sented as ‘pretty, with charming black eyos, beautiful foreheads, nicely rounded limbs, and small hands and feet."’ In fact, just the op- posite of what wo have been in the habit of picturing them. The Doctor is evidently as gallant as he is observant, and if there be many beauties to bo met like the Queen of Cazembe, whom he describes, one might bear philoso- phically the prospect of a four-years’ isolation from civilization. Indeed, the character of the ladies of the country is so much in keep- ing with what we observe nearer home, that a sisterhood is at once established that overleaps the bounds of color. The African belle has her fashions and her modes just as her better upholstered sister at Newport or Long Branch. It is true that barbarous “‘waterfalls,"’ inflated ‘queues de Paris” and brilliant ‘Dolly Vardens”’ are unknown to the Manyema beauties or the belles of Ujiji. Those belong toa colder clime ; but other forms of the same passion to improve their charms dis- play that “touch of nature which makes the whole world kin.” Other aspects of tho female character are not less creditable to Afri- cans. If they share the vanity and follies of our civilization they also display much of the energy, industry and home love, which are the best and noblest traits of any woman's charac- ter. Nor are they free from the love of gain— the disposition to obtain an advantage by questionable means in their dealings. They will chatter and will cheat in s manner which would set @ professional sharper at his wits’ end, laughing ond joking all the while in the manner. With such qualities their chivalrous respéct for the ladies, who, even in time of war, are allowed to pnss through hostile tribes unmolested—a fact which speaks volumes for the ladies’ tact and the influence they exercise over the stronger sex. Not content to be ornamental, they take their share in almost all the labors of life. In Manyema they manage the commerce of the country in @ creditable manner, while the means of employing their time in diving for oysters. In fact, tho picture of Africa pre- sented by the distinguished traveller is most tempting to young men of adventurous tastes who are matrimonially inclined. We would not be much astonished to see a stream of bachelor emigration established towards this happy region, where the brown beauties ao glowingly described invite tho wanderer to a new if somowhat warm elysium. Mexico—The Death of President Juarez— The End of the Late Revolutionary Movements, but What Next? m Tho death of Prosident Jaurez is.an event of the greatest moment to the Mexican people, both in regard to their domestic affairs and their foreign relations, and especially as touching their relations with the United States. For a period of fourteen years—a period of incessant wars against internal revolutionary factions or foreign invaders and usurpers—this remarkable man, Juarez, main- tained his position as President of Mexico— the most extraordinary fact in the history of this most turbulent and revolutionary of all the turbulent Spanish-American republics, This long continuous administration of four- teen years, which, for Mexico, would be remarkable under any circumstances, has been made particularly conspicuous, first, from the overthrow by Juarez of the Church party as the supreme political power in the State; secondly, from his successful patriotic war against the French armed occu- pation and imperial protectorate under Maxi- milian; and lastly, from the suppression of all the numerous revolutionary attempts, which have followed the death of Maximilian, for the expulsion of Juarez from the government. We may here not unprofitably reproduce some of the leading facts in the eventful career of this extraordinary Mexican of the Azteo race. In 1858 there was a mili- tary outbreak in the City of Mexico, instigated by the Church party, against the constitutional authorities. President Oomonfort, in this crisis proving faithless in attempting a dictatorship, was driven from the country, and for some time, like so many other exiled rulers, lived the life of a philosopher in New York. Juarez, Vice President at that time, thus became Pres- ident, and in this capacity from Queretaro he issued a strong pronunciamento against the Church party, and the war commenced in ear- nest between this powerful party and this bold reformer. Driven from point to point he wasat length at Vera Oruz, in April, 1859, acknowl- edged by the United States as the lawful head of the Mexican government; and then and there, July, 1859, he issued his programme of reform, embracing religious liberty, indepen- dence between Church and State, the legality of civil marriages, the confiscation of the real estate of the Church as national property, and directing its sale, und the suppression of con- ventional establishments throughout the re- public, After a sanguinary civil war of three years Juarez, with the destruction of the army of Miramon, came off the conqueror, and his proposed reforms were put into practice. But the defeated Ohurch party, in the enormous properties and powers which had been held and which might he reclaimed by them, too much at stake to give up the contest in this fashion. Driven to the despe- rate extremity, they did not hesitate to invite foreign intervention; and it came with that French invasion and armed occupation which culminated in the setting up of Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico, ‘by the will of the peo- ple,” under the protection of the Emperor Napoleon and the army of Marshal Bazaine. The time was favorable for this daring Napoleonic idea, The United States could give no material aid to Juarez. They, at home, were engaged in a struggle of life or death with a gigantic rebellion, and Napoleon was satisfied that the issue of this straggle would give him the convenient ally of an in- dependent Southern confederacy. Juarez, by Bazaine, was driven to tho northern frontier of Mexico; but still the tenacious Indian maintained his rights as head of the State, and faithfully in this capacity was Juarez sup- ported to the end by President Lincoln's Secretary of State, Mr. Seward. At length, with the beginning of the end of oyr Southern confoderacy, Napoleon, convinced that hig Mexican adventure was g bad investment, abandoned it, withdrew his protecting army and left poor Maximilian to his fate. With more courage than discretion Maxi- milian, relying upon his Moxican adherents, resolved to fight it out with Juarez. He was invested in that very Queretaro where Juarez setforth upon his successful career; he was betrayed, he was captured, and he was exe- cuted. This execution was the act of Juarez; and, while he could justify it under the laws of Mexico, he would have acted more wisely had he listened to the appeal of Mr. Seward and spared the life of the brave but misguided Maximilian. Nothing was gained by his exe- cution but the condemnation of the act by the civilized world as an act of needless ven- geance; nothing would have boon lost in sparing him but the blood of a victim no longer required to satisfy Mexican honor or to vindicate the sacredness of the Mexican soil against foreign usurpers. But Juarez was a man of resolute will, of persistent stubborn- ness, we may say; and this quality, which wo find in almost every man distinguished in public life, at home or abroad, occasionally mars with cruelties, mote or less, the record of the best of them. Something, too, touch- ing the execution of Maximilian must be allowed to the Indian blood of Juarez, with which vengeance for a great wrong is held as a religious duty nevor to be forgotten or com- Still the general record of the long, turbu- lent, eventful, revolutionary and bloody ad- ministration of Juarez, all the circumstances considered, is good. He lived to see estab- lished his programme of civil and religious liberty against a powerful party in war at home and against a powerful armed occupa- tion from abroad. In short, his administra tion has. been marked by @ political revolu- tion hardly less radical and progressive than that connected with the abolition of slavery in the United States, With hie death, we eup- pose, the revolutionary factions which in dif- feront parts of the republic have for several years been in the field against him will retire, inasmuch ag Lerdo de Tejada, who, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, succeeds to the under the constitution, is the very man for whose elevation as the rightful Presi- dent these revolutionista have professedly been ‘Wo promume, therefore, tat the death of Juarez and the accession of Lerdo to the Presidency will give Mexico at least a brief season of peace. In this interval the Congress will assemble end issue the order required for the election of a President by the people. But atter this election, whether the present incum- bent, or General Diaz, or some other military aspirant shall be the successful can- didate, wo suspect that, according to the time-honored custom of the de- feated factions in Mexico, they will again rise in arms to put out the Prosident elected end the party in power. Meantime foreign governments, and particularly the government and people of the United States, will watch with interest the steps which President Lerdo may take in the matter of a new election, and with reference, also, to the restoration of law and order in his capital and throughout the republic, and especially along the Rio Grande frontier. Oan he put an end to the murders, robberies and abductions which now make even the city of Moxico unsafe to the stranger ? | Will he find it oxpediont, as it is proper, to put an end to that convenignt arrangement for border smugglers called the ‘Free Zone?" And will he give us something better than fine promises for the suppression of those gangs of Mexican outlaws on our frontier, who, for many months past, appear to have been en- gaged in stealing cattle from Texas, not as freebooters, but with the authority or con- nivance of the officials of Matamoros ? President Lerdo has the reputation of a patriot of high accomplishments and abilities, and of a public man of great popularity. With these advantages, and with those left him.as the head of the government by Juarez, there is reason to hope, as we do, that his adventas President of Mexico will mark the beginning of better times for that unhappy and distracted’ country. The Labor Reformers and Their Second National Convention—No Time and No Room for a Third Party. ‘The labor reformers held a National Oonven- tion at Columbus, Ohio, in February last, at which they nominated Judge David Davis, of Tllinois, a member of the Supreme Court of the United States and a liberal republican, as their candidate for President, and Governor Parker, of New Jersey, democrat, for Vico President; a very good combination ticket. It was generally believed at the time, however, that the main object of the managers of this Columbus Convention was to impress upon the then approaching Cincinnati Liberal Republi- can Convention the importance of these labor reformers as a political balance of power; and they were not without the hope that their ticket would be adopted at Cincinnati, and next by the democratic party. If so, the managers of the initial Convention at Columbus, in the event of the election of their ticket, would have'a good claim for the first choice of places in the Cabinet, foreign missions and so on. But the Cincinnati Convention, strangely enough, perhaps, overlooked this Columbus labor reform coalition ticket, and nominated, on a liberal republican platform, the ticket of Greeley and Brown, both liberal republicans, whereupon Judge Davig detlined his Columbus nomination, and Governor Parker likewise, and for good and sufficient reasons in each case. The Democratic National Convention next coming on, all doubts respecting the ticket from that quarter were soon settled in the adoption of the liberal republican ticket of Greeley and Brown. And the rank and file of the democratic party and the liberal repub- licans have rallied to the support of this ticket with » degree of enthusiasm which should at least satisfy every doubting Thomas that the only alternative now is Grant or Greeley. And yet it appears that these labor reformers, as Presidential wire-pullers, are not satisfied, and that they intend to hold in this city, on the 30th of this month, a convention for the purpose, as their newspaper organ puts it, of renewing ‘‘the laudable efforts begun so aus- piciously at Columbus last spring, but which, through the efforts of thosé with more ambition than honor, has thus far proved futile.’” Next, the men who are to meet in this convention aro admonished ‘to take a lesson from their sad oxperletiod, And ater clear of the ‘rocks which. are sure to be thrust in their way, and not be beguiled by glittering promises’ from flatter- ers, who only smile to betray them. Then we are told that, driven to desperation, and taught by sad experience, the laboring masses, “if only to a certain extent, will be shrewd enough to see where their true advantage lies, and sweep, with“a mighty wave, which has “not hitherto been equalled, their oppressors to the wall.” This is a little cloudy as to the real purpose of this movement, but we suppose it means the organization of a new party for the Presidential contest. There was on interchange of views on this subject the other day between Colonel Blanton Duncan, straight-out democrat, of Kentucky, and Mr. Horace H. Day, of this city, Vice Pre- sident of the Labor Reformers’ General Com- mittee. The hint thrown out by Colonel Dun- can in this correspondence, that a coalition Presidential ticket between tho straight-out democrats, and the labor reformers would be a good thing, seemed to please Mr. Day, and we may, perhaps, hear something more of this on the 30th inst. But the battle is now arranged, tho lines are drawn, and there is no time and no room, and there are no materials for a third party. The issue is between the party supporting the administration and the ele- ments in opposition to it; and betwee these two parties, and by this issue, all outside fac- tions and questions will be swallowed up in this contest. The temperance party, with its Presidential ticket, and the free traders, par excellence, with their ticket, and the women’s rights ticket, with the ticket of the labor re- formers, have disappeared from the public eye, and the best thing that these labor reformers can do is to resolve that each man of them shall be free to go his own way, Grant or Grooley. Tho democrats have wisely in this canvass taken this new departure out and out upon a liberal republican ticket and platform. They have done nothing wiser than this line of action since their nominetion of Pisses, Ot 1852, upon the compromise measures 5 the theory of Henry Clay, the embodiment of the whig party. On that whig platform they literally in that campaign extinguished the whig party, for after that crushing defeat that and dispersed. Since that day, on Buchanan, on Breckinridge and Dovalys, on MaGlellanend op Seymour, wv elements. Accordingly, there is no room im this contest for a third party, and so the labor reformers can do nothing better than to agres to disagree, and let each man of them for him- self vote for Grant or Greeley, as Hobson's choice. ‘The Explorers of Africa. Our African Livingstone Search Expedition has resulted so much to our entire satisfaction that we feel it to be as much a pleasure as & duty to briefly mention a few name’ intimately and inseparably associated with African ex- plorations. It is a long and brilliant roll. IB includes Bruce, Mungo Park, Beke, Speke, Burton, Grant, Livingstone, Baker, and last, but not least, our own Stanley. Bruce waga Scotchman, so was Park, and, strange to say, so were Burton, Grant and Livingstone. Speke and Beke were both English; so, too, is Baker. The one American is Stanley. We cannot help honoring old Scotland, be- cause the land of Bruce and Wallace and Queen Mary has fairly earned its right to be mentioned: in connection with Africa and tha Nile mystery. A Scottish Bruce began the African search; a Scottish Livingstone, not to speak of other names, promises to end if. All the names we have mentioned have done much to bring about one grand result—the discovery of the sources of the Nile, All honor to the names of all the explorers—to the men who are no more and to the men who now live. It is long since Brace and Park went to their rest. Pence to their ashes! Poor Speke is no more, but his memory will long be sweet. Burton goes to Trieste as Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General, and to rest and enjoy the fruit of his labors, The English Baker fights his way up the Nile ; the Scottish Livingstone, while he longs for home comfort, refuses to leave his task undone, and the American Stanley comes home to tell the latest results of African ex- ploration and to do honor to Americam journalistic enterprise. It is our hope and belief that Livingstone and Baker will betweem them settle the Nile mystery, and, as things: are now shaping themselves, we are not un- willing to indulge the thought that with this final settlement of the Nile mystery the name and fame of the New York Hxraxp will be | inseparably and forever associated. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. psa sar cat Castelar, the Spanish orator, it is said, was for- merly a “‘typo.’” Ex-Mayor Innis, of Poughkeepsie, is registered at tie Astor House. Governor Hoffman yesterday left the Clarendon Hotel for Newport. Ex-Mayor Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Secretary Boutweil has left Washington for his home in Groton, Mass. ‘The Emperor William of Germany has a private rent roll of two million thalers. Colonel B, R. Nickerson, of Sau Francisco, has ar- rived at the Grand Céntral Hotel. Colonel C. 8. King, of the United States Army, has quarters at the New York Hotel. Judge Samuel F. Rice, of Montgomery, Ala., is stopping at the New Yorx Hotel. Ex-Congressman F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge L. W. Cooper, of Texas, is among the late arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel. M. do Bellonet, of the French Legation a& Washington, is at the Brevoort House. General Lewis B, Parsons and Colonel C. B, Bura- ham, of St. Louis, are at the Hoffman House. Inspector General J. Nimmo, Jr., of the Boller In~ specting Bureau at Washington, is at the Astor House. ‘The Post OMce Department will be closed on the day of the funeral of the lato ex-Postmaster General Randall. ~ The Duke d’Aumale is a zealous numismatician. He is continually seeking to add to his already large collection of coins. Henri Diaston, the well known operatic singer was stricken with paralysis yesterday afternoon, and it is doubtful if he can recover, a. po The Japanese Minister for Hagland, M. Tera shima, left Washington last night for Europe, having taken passage by the steamer China. 2 The Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has but @ small private fortune, having used his personal means to discharge the debts of his orother, Maxi- milian. ‘The Baron Von Rhaden, the husband of Pauline Lucca, the cantatrice, is an inveterate gambler. He has squandered many thousands of dollars of the: earnings of his wife. Ex-Senator J. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, was at the Grand Central Hotel a short time yesterday. Im the afternoon he started for North Carolina to re- sume his ‘“‘stumping” tour. Senator Carl Schurz arrived in this city from St. Louis late on Thursday night. Yesterday, after several short visits to places and men of political importance, he resumed his journey to the OM@ North State, where he is to endeavor to cause am opening of the Presidential campaign favorabic to the Philosopher. Secretaries Gah and Hyasb, of the Japanese Ene bassy, with six students, came on from Washingtom to the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday. The party wilt gail for Europe on the steamship City of Brussels to-day. The secretaries are despatched to Europe to put the students accompanying them in proper educational institutions, and fo make arrangements for the convenience of the Embassy while in the Old World. The Embassy will probably come to this city in the early part of next week and start hence for Europe on Saturday. Emillo Bernard, Minister to the United States from Nicaragua, arrived at this port on Thursday morning by the City of Austin, from Key Weat. While at Key West Minister Bernard was offered passage to Hampton Roads by Admirai Lee, com- manding the West India squadroh, but the Minister declined the compliment, not having time to delay for the intended tour of the United States ship, which will not reach Hampton Roads until about the middle of August. Sefior Don Bernard. ts at present staying at the Ciarendon, where he witk remain some eight or ten days before going to Washington, seeing the sights in the metro and acquainting himself somewhat with life in York. FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP, —Mr. Dodson is about to retire from the offiea of Chairman of Committees of the House of Oom- mons, which he has occupied. since 1805, and i im stated that Mr. Bonham-Oarter wit be proposed am his successor. f the Radical and a member ee repel y, has been convicted oF ——M. af the Paris Municipalit; fraud bankruptc: abuse of confidence and anol two Rey sar cio of cos and fifty —Prince Louts Murat has left Paria for Stacie holm. It i he obtained from the French government an to farvige im the quayty of O@jeer ‘sbtacued. Wo Se y