The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yone Heracp. Letters and packages should be properly . No. 210 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Yacur—Tur Riva Dorcnarn. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Kir, Tux Ankansas Traveter, Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THBATRE. Broadway, bet ‘and Bleecker sts.—Oxx Wire. yy, between Houston UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Tae Bettys or tae Kircnen, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ttreet.—Rosin Hoop. ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Lirtis Barxroort, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- “y léth st. and Broadway.— ac, " PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— Daw Bryant's Minstax.s. resin CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garven Instnumawtat Concert. TERRACE GARDEN, 88th st., between Third and Lex- ington ava—Suamen Evenixc Concerts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science an ARt. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Arrt anv Bermnce. New York, Sunday, July 28, 1872. CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'S HERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The Impeachment Trial: Appearance of Judge Barnard in the Court Room; What His De- fence Will Be; Barnard the Victtin of the Sys- tem of an Elective Judiciary; the Proceedin, Yesterday—Yachting: The Ocean Race for the Challenge Cup; the Rambler the Winner— Horse Notes—Racing Prospects at Monmouth Park—Loiterings at Long Branch—The New Steamship Caledonia—The Jersey Midnight Raiders: The Story as Told in the Courts— Eight Hour ie Sb pag nN in Newark. 4—Religious: Intelligence: Tenth Sunday After Pentecost; The Religious Programme for To- Day; Herald Religious Communicants; Popu- larity of the Heraid’s Sermon Reports; More About Immortality and “Cato; Hebrew Rabbinical Education; Ministerial Changes and Movements—Fatlen from Grace; The Re- ported Crimes of the Rev. Gilbert H. Robert- son. S—Dr. Livingstone’s Discoveries—The Confede- rate Archives: Jacob Thompson's Mission to Canada; Letter from Colonel John T, Pickett—Carl Vogt—A Case of Lead Poison- ages On Strike. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Interests of New York in the November Elections—The Need of a Real Reform’—Amusement An- nouncements. Y—Editorials (continued from Sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims—Stanley—Nilsson’s Mar- riage—Mount Cenis—Cable Telegrams from France, England and Spain—Carl Schurz: ‘The Missouri Senator on the Stump at Greens- boro, N. C.—The Last of the Love Feasts: Mr. Greeley’s Closing Soiree at Chappaqua— The Liberai gle pe ede Republican Rooms—New Jersey Politics—Flashes of the Presidential Campaign—Miscellaneous Tele- eortt"! h—Business Notices. e Geneva Arbitration: Earl Granville Sum- ming Up and Defining Great Britain’s Posi- tion; Profuse Quoting of American Authori- tles; Callng Up the Diplomatic Ghosts of Adams, Johnson and Motley; Indirect Dam- aren vs. Fenian Claims; Secretary Fish’s Dig- nity Aroused and Plain Talk Resorted To; The Delicate Points; Granville Denying What Was Not Asserted and Sir Stafford Northcote “Promising” Without Authority. 9=—The Geneva Arbitration (Continued from Eighth tat tice ee and Commercial: “The Old, ol tory Told Over mtg Another Quiet Day on the Street; Gold Firm, Foreign Ex- change Dull, Governments Strong, Stocks Firm and Southern Securfties Neglected; Money Easy; A Semi-Favorable Bauk State- ment Without Influence; The Imports; Value of the Staff of Life; Condition of King Cot- ton—The Stabbing of Commissioner Corr— Jefferson Market Police Court—Battle of the Clubs—Suicide by Diowning—Supre me Court, Chambers—Marriages, Birth and Deaths. 10—Tracking a Fillibustero: Rumored Intended Arrest of General Ryan—Buifalo Park En- tries—New York City Items—Another Brutal ee Intelligence—Advertise- meni 11—Brooklyn Affairs—The Detectives and the Dia- mond Robbery—Proceedings in the Board of - Assistant Aldermen—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. Curistixz Nizsson, the songstress, was mar- cied in Westminster Abbey yesterday. Her husband is M. Rouzeaud, of Paris. The nup- tial ceremony was performed by Very Rev. Dean Stanley, in the presence of a very numer- ous and most fashionable assemblage. Loox Ovr ror Porrtican ‘Roornacks’’ of all kinds about these days. They may turn up in obscure country papers, and after creating a terrible hubbub in the political world for a time sink into the obscurity from which they originally arose. Doctor Lrvinastone’s D1scovertes.—Since the publication of the report of the Huratp African Search Expedition, Mr. Stanley's ac- count, as well as Dr. Livingstone’s discoveries, has been subjected to considerable criticism, which is ‘neither just nor generous.’”’ Charles Beke makes answer to one of these in a letter to the London Times of the 15th, which we reproduce in another column this morning. Tae Avavusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist (Gree- ley) remarks that ‘‘ among the innumerable evi- dences of coming defeat to the Grant party are the small tricks, the disingenuous arguments, the contemptible perversion of facts to which its organs resort to break the current of condemna- tion so fast sweeping it to destruction.” The late Carpenter backdown may be taken as evi- dence of the truth of the above. Our Summer Resonts.—Every one whose name figures in the lists of fashion is supposed to be “out of town’ at present. The fierce rays of the midsummer sun induced the few who were debating at home the relative merits of the various sum- mer resorts to make up their minds at once and take the earliest boat or train to their fhosen place of sojourn. The majority of the va st crowd of pleasure-seekers prefer a trip to Ew,"ope to the extravagances and nonenities of some, Of our watering places. The facilities of travel ,.\ct0ss the Atlantic, ample as they are, have bes 8 severely tested this summer, state- rooms on t \¢ steamships of the principal lines being engag. vd weeks in advance. The ra- pacity of hot ‘1 proprietors at our watering places has met , with @ deserved rebuke in the significant decline of patronage and the wan- ing popularity of t. ‘ese once favorite resorts. People find that it i: one cheaper ig go to ‘he summer at one of — ean a gga ion has reached its climax: Another featare on the season is the | country homes number of new resorts—quiet most of them—to which many betake themselves. They evide. jbealth and peaceful enjoyment to th life ot » noted widering ph “= New Yorkers tly prefer e glare of a NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. 2 ‘The Interests of New York in the November Election—The Need of & Real Reform. In November last the people of the city of New York made a decisive revolution in their municipal government. The work was done atthe polls by the orderly, respectable citi- zens who seldom interest themselves in poli- tics, but who had quietly resolved to put the mark of their condemnation upon the men who had been using their official positions for the purpose of plundering the public. They were aided, of course, by the political reform- ers who had joined the hue and cry against corruption, in the hope of securing the oppor- tunity to repeat themselves the rascalitics they pretended to condemn, and by rivals of the men then in power, who sought revenge for old offences. But the result was, in fact, the wordy denunciation of the dishonest officials, but made up their minds when the time came to sweep them out of existence. The verdict rendered at the polls effected a practical purification of the municipal govern- ment; yet the reform was not so com- plete as could have been desired, for the reason that designing men man- aged, in the excitement of the revolution, to fasten themselves upon the public and to secure offices to which at any other time they would have aspired in vain. This was especially the case with the State Legisla- ture, which was carelessly suffered to pass into the hands of the worst set of corruptionists that ever assembled at Albany, thus defeating what Charles O’Conor declared was the most essential thing in the whole reform movement, the election of honest lawmakers. The con- sequence was that a Senate and Assembly— more than three-fourths republican, with ab- solute power over all legislation—refused to pass any reform measure, and effectually blocked the wheels that had been set in mo- tion by the electors. In addition to this evil, the politicians who had taken upon themselves the management of reform in this city soon brought the movement into disrepute. Some of them were office-seekers ; others were so visionary and obstinate as to hinder, rather than promote, the cause they advocated. The party journals which had done noble ser- vice in exposing the frauds of their political opponents soon destroyed their usefulness by defending or cloaking the corruptions of their own friends. When a republican Sena- tor on one side was found guilty. of having received heavy bribes from the most notorious of the old rings ; when a republican clerk was discovered to have been in the habit of receiving percentage on work ordered for the State, or when a republican printing firm of the true faith was proved to have altered bills against the State, and to have paid out ten thousand dollars at a time to the lobby to get enormous claims passed in the Supply bill, the partisan papers that had been exhausting the vocabulary in abuse of opposition robbers had no word of censure for their own dishonest friends. The cause of reform was unfortunately further discredited by being used to gratify personal spites, jealousies and dislikes. Some of its champions, while doing good service to the people in one direction, impaired their usefulness in another by suffering private piques to interfere with. the public good. What the people desired aftenthe last November election were a thorough regen- eration of the whole political system and the inauguration of an era of honesty, not in the mere matter of dollars and cents, but in all political action. They had disppsed of the old Tammany and municipal rings, and had driven the money-changers from the temple. Their pockets were safe against further plun- der, and they were assured that the example made of the dishonest officials would act as a warning to public officers in the future. But they wanted more than this. They demanded that their affairs shonld be managed hereafter for their own advantage, and not to gratify this whim or to satisfy that prejudice of those they placed in power. They knew that the best interests of the city had been sacrificed to personal greed by the unscrupulous men they had dis- carded, and they wished to see those interests fostered and advanced in the future, as well as to know that their money boxes were properly guarded. The people of New York are proud of their city, and are sensible of the magnifi- cent future that is in store for the metropolis of the Western World. They wish by wise and liberal enterprise to hasten her progress. ‘They know that the necessities of a great and growing commerce dgmand the improvement of the natural advantages we enjoy from our splendid harbor and rivers, and hence they look anxiously for the cazrying out of the comprehensive plans of the Dock Commissioners as one of the most important aids to the future growth of the city. They know that the health, com- fort and morale of the population would be benefited by the construction of railroads that would enable the people to spread out into the upper part of the island and into Westchester county, and to pass rapidly between their homes and their places of employment; and hence they approve the policy of building rail- roads by the city for the use of the citizens. They know that the present police force is not sufficiently strong to properly protect life and property, and hence they desire to see a more liberal expenditure on this most impor- tant branch of the city government. They | see for themselves the advantages of fine parks, boulevards and other improvements | and adornments undertaken by the Depart- ment of Parks; and hence they would regret | the abandonment or curtailment of any of its | plans. Inshort, they favor a free, liberal and honest expenditure on all works of public im- | provement that will aid the growth and pros- perity of the city and imerease the wealth, comfort and happiness of the citi- zens; dnd they condemn any policy: that would cripple ond hinder our advance, whether induced by personal spites and jealousies or by a narrow-minded and false economy. The popular desire to encourage a wise liberality and enterprise in the management of our local government will cause the people to | watch carefully the action of political parties put into nomination for State and city offices to meddle with the action of the politicians, and it is very likely that they will | make their selection of candidates to Lsvit their own purposes and views, the work of those who took little or no part in | But the people have indicated what sort of candidates they desire to support, and we believe the political parties will commit serious blunder if they fail to study the popu- ar sentiment. There isa general feeling all through the State in favor of the nomination of Judge Church for Governor by the party that now appears to have the best chance of success in New York, and it will, we think, be & mistake if any less acceptable candidate should be named. Governor Hoffman is of course out of the contest, as he has already held the office for two terms and the democrats and liberal republicans have adopted the one-term principle as their tallying cry in the campaign. The cther State officers are not so material as the Governor; but, as we look for real Legislative reform next year—the present corrupt Senate holding over this year—it is important that a reliable re- former should be at the head of the State gov- ernment. The citizens of New York are even more deeply interested in the Mayor of the city, however, than in the Governor of the State, and they have indicated their desire that a thoroughly reliable, enterprising and honora- ble man should be chosen for that position. Some persons have already been named among the people as desirable candidates. Among them are August Belmont, John G. Kane, and James O’Brien. All of these names are unexcep- tionable. Mr. Belmont is, of course, known to every resident of New York, as, indeed, he is known all over the United States, as a gen- tleman of large wealth, good ability, culti- vated taste and strict integrity. It is ques- tionable whether he would accept the nomina- tion; but if nominated he would assuredly be elected, and would make a chief mag- istrate of whom the city would be proud, and who would be in every way qualified to ad- vance its interests. Mr. Kane is known as one of the most diligent members of the pres- ent able Dock Commission and as an intelli- gent advocate of all schemes of public im- provement. The progress of the city would be, no doubt, great under his Mayoralty if he should be nominated. His success would, of course, be assured, as he is at once popular, competent and honest. He would be as de- cided an opponent of a niggardly parsimony as of extravagance and dishonesty. Senator James O’Brien, both as a_ practical re- former and a vigorous, enterprising politician, would fill the position of Mayor with credit to himself and advantage to the people. In his Senatorial career last winter he signalized himself as much for his opposi- tion to the Rip Van Winkle policy as for his fidelity to the cause of reform. He would represent the bone and muscle of the city, as August Belmont or John G. Kane would represent its brains, wealth and _ refine- ment. Either of these names would ingure the success of the ticket on which it might be placed, and if the politicians should disregard the popular sentiment and endeavor to foist some old party hack on to the people, it is not at all improbable that independent nominations may be made that will sweep the city next November as it was swept last November by the reformers. The Negroes of the South, The light thrown on the negro character by the letters of Dr. Livingstone will be welcomed in this country as a help to the solution of a question of the gravest importance to our future welfare. In view of the different and widely divergent theories which are accepted by powerful sections of the population in relation to the effect which the admission of the negroes as citizens is likely to exercise on our political and social well being, it is well | and to scrutinize thoroughly the candidates | and for the Legislature. It is not our province | to have the opinion of an intelligent observer on which to base our conclusions. Although the conditions under which the negroes are seen in Africa and in America differ widely, yet the general characteristics of that race are found to be similar in both hemispheres. Be- tween the freeman and the slave there is, of course, a wide distinction; but the point which most affects us to know is how the negro is likely to use his freedom. There could be for the solution of this question no better guide than to look at him at home, where his fancies and his passions have full play and flow unrestrictedly into their natural channel. The main points of character are found to resemble so closely that we may rea- sonably assume that were our manumit- ted slaves freed from outside influences they would naturally develop the same characteristics as distinguish the negro in his native land. Between the inhabitants of the interior of Africa and our Southern blacks there is really no more difference than natu- rally results from the enjoyment of liberty by ¢ and the brutalizing effects of slavery on Foe Whee ae Tad the negro he is the same happy, good-natured, simple, credu- lous being, capable of strong attachments and not much troubled with ambition. So long as he can procure the necessaries of life without much toil he is happy, and once his immediate wants are supplied he is not likely to make much exertion. This is not a very noble type of man, nor one calculated to become the most desirable kind of citizen; but, such as he is, we must make the best of him. There is not much use in trying to correct nature, and it is only in the progress of time and by the spread of enlightenment that the black race can be made to adopt higher aims in life than the enjoyment of physical ex- istence. With such aspirations it is only necessary to leave them undisturbed in the possession of the rights that the law has con- ferred on them. They are sure to find their natural level. If they were left to themselves they would soon settle down into quiet and friendly relations with their white neighbors, and the result would be most advantageous to themselves and the community in which they live. They would certainly be well treated by the white popula- tion, because having votes they would be an object of interest to both parties. But while the negro is remarkable for a child-like docility he is also credulous and easily made the dupe of designing persons, who excite his prejudice or his fears. In spite of his docile | nature his passions may be fanned until he is | transformed into a monster. By their intrigues | the Northern politicians are laying the seed of | hate and strife between the races in the South, careless of everything but their selfish lust of | power. Under the pretence of being protectors and friends of the black man, they are raising | up for him enemies, who, though powerless for | a time, may ultimately get the upper hand. | By fanning the passions and exciting the fears of tho black men they threaten to inaygurate a struggle of races which can only end in the destruction of the colored people. True friends would urge the adoption of conciliation, which is the only means of securing lasting peace between all classes of the citizens. The Wonders of the West=—The Great Basin of Utah and Nevada—Licutenant Wheeler's Exploring Expedition. From the sources of the mighty Nile and the wonders of Eastern Equatorial Africa, we pro- pose in this article to carry the minds of our readers to some of the surpassing natural wonders of our own great land. We published @ very interesting letter yesterday from a Henarp correspondent at Salt Lake City, giving the details of a government exploration about to be undertaken in that interior great basin of Utah and Nevada, under the command of Lieutenant G. M. Wheeler, of the United States Topographical Engineers, in connection with a general scientific survey in progress for the settlement of all geographical doubts over those vast regions extending from the one hundredth degree of west longitude (which is near the heart of the Great Plains) to the Pacific coast. These surveys and explorations will be prosecuted under the act of Congress “to establish an astronomical base, and to continue the military and geographical surveys and explorations west of the one hundredth meridian.’’ We shall, however, confine our remarks for the present to the field work for this season proposed by Lieutenant Wheeler, and upon which, fully equipped and provi- sioned, he is about to enter from his present rendezvous at Salt Lake City. His exploration will embrace areas in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. He will examine the southern and southeastern parts of the Great Salt Lake Basin, and settle the mooted question as to the identity of the drainage further south of the Preuss and Sevier lakes, and he will in- spect the mineral ranges from Salt Lake down to the Virgin River, and thence down to its junction with that wild river of the great canyons—the Colorado. The silver-bearing ranges of Eastern Nevada will also be ex- amined, and the lofty, snow-clad and extensive Wahsatch range, the eastern boundary of the Great Basin. The geological branch of the survey will fix the limit within which mineral croppings may be reasonably expected, and be- yond which it would not be judicious to search for them. Much of the labor of the survey will be devoted to this object, and particularly inasmuch as, the soil of Utah and Nevada being mostly desert, those countries must depend for their settlement and deyelopment mainly upon their mineral resources. But still, in this expedition, all the usual scientific depart- ments will be fully represented. The scientific corps, the teamsters, packers, attendants, &c., and a protecting company of cavalry, all told, will number one hundred persons. That is the equipment with which Livingstone by England should be provided. Meantime, side parties from Wheeler's corps are engaged in geological examinations around Great Salt Lake, and General Morrow, of Camp Douglas, an accomplished officer, well qualified for the task, proposes an excursion to Provost, fifty miles south, for the examination of a number of ancient mounds and other supposed Aztec remains in that quarter. Now, from what we know already of the wonders of Utah and Nevada, we have no doubt that the reports of these forthcoming explorations will be of the greatest interest and importance. During the Mexican war and for some years after it the army officers, overland emigrants and other pioneers passing through the Great Basin, concurred in the opinion that it was an utterly God-forsaken country, not worth one cent for a thousand acres beyond the few green patches along the mountain streams, which could be made productive by irrigation. Next came those silver discoveries in Nevada, from which hundreds of millions have been added to the general wealth of our country, and yet, perhaps, not over one half the mountains of Nevada have been explored or prospected. Next came the Pacific Railroad, which has made even the Nevada deserts along the line valuable property, and which, from its branch road to Salt Lake City and the recently discovered silver mines in the neigh- borhood, have advanced real estate in that little city to something approximating the scale of New York prices. From recent travellers in Utah, moreover, we learn that there isno conception in the East of the mineral riches of that Territory ; that its coal mines already furnish a heavy trade to the Pacific Railroad to the Pacific ; that “Rocky Mountain coal,” a fine bituminous article, is the general fuel of San Francisco ; that this coal is worth more to those timberless States and Territories from Utah westward than all their mines of ‘gold pnd pilver } that the moun- tains wegt and south of Great Salt Lake to Utah Lake and its basin are lined with silver, lead and iron ; that farther south there are mountains of rock salt and mountains of pure sulphur—the upheavals of extinct volcanoes ; that they are building the Temple at Salt Lake City from great quarries of the finest granite in the world ; that the soda, sulphur and boil- ing springs of Utah have never been num- bered, and that down towards Arizona there are mountains, cliffs, rifts and canyons more wonderful than the Devil's Slide or the Devil's Gate of the Weber River, or the picturesque palisades of the Humboldt ; that there are still thousands of acres of wild land in the valleys and bottoms of the Salt Lake Basin, which can be made to produce from fifty to sixty bushels of wheat to the acre by irrigation ; that lime- stone is the predominating rock in the Salt Lake Mountains, and that simply by solar evaporation the manufacture of salt from the saturated solution of the Salt Lake is a profit- able business. Lieutenant Wheeler's forthcoming thorough exploration will, no doubt, throw a flood of light upon all these resources of wealth; and we expect, too, that in the Colorado defiles and in the canyons of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona it will give us many interest- ing discoveries of that ancient Aztec race, the ruins belonging to which in the valley of the Gila river, and in the valleys of other tributa- ries of the Colorado, give evidence of conside- rable advances in the arts of civilization. The traditions of the present local tribes on the Gila tell us that the Aztecs, many, mary, gen- erations ago, moved southward, and_ that Cortez found them in all their glory in their splendid semi-barbaric and semi-civilized city of Mexico. There are yet thousands of square miles of the mountains and sage brush deserts of Utah and Nevada still unexplored, aud we antigivate, from the comprehensive re- searches of Lieutenant Wheeler’s expedition therein, revelations of many new wonders, which will eclipse the wonders of Equatorial Africa, The Sources of the Mississippi. While Livingstone is wandering about undera tropical sun, in the land of Sambo, seeking to discover the long-hidden sources of the Nile, an adventurous savant has under- taken to search for the mystic O-musz-kose. Borne through rapids in his frail canoe, and escaping shipwreck by good fortune, this ex- plorer, without running exactly as much risk of being broiled and eaten as if he were in the happy but cannibalistic land of Manyema, undergoes an améunt of privation and toil which entitle him to a share of our sympathy. His only companions are a guide, an Indian, and his inseparable Dolly Varden. It may ap- pear rather strange at first sight thata Dolly Varden should venture into such outlandish Places, even in search of that great, good O-musz-kose; but the Dolly Varden of the ex- plorer’s love is nota lady, but a paper boat. This explanation, we hope, will be deemed suffi- ciently satisfactory. The account of the mode of voyaging between Lake Pemidji and Lake Cass, while very romantic and exciting, will not, we are inclined to think, be likely to in- duce many of our young men to try their for- tunes in navigating that seven miles of river where one cannot well determine the point where one rapid ends or another be- gins. To sit aft in a canoe, with one’s legs hanging in the water, or folded up 4 la Turque, while the skiff rushes through blinding spray, must be a rather delightful state of existence, the thermometer being in the nineties. But even spray bathing, we fear, would become mo- notonous unless relieved by the sensation of coming full tilt against some sharp rock and remaining impaled, to the delight of the little hungry fishes. Toa man of weak nerves the trial might be found distressing, but to a man with a strong and well regulated stomach the prospect of being dashed against the rocks furnishes that spice of danger which is cer- tainly not without its attractions. The vexations of the voyage are to be met with in contact with the thieving Indians, who, not content with hospitably inviting them- selves to tea, are willing to appropriate the stores of the expedition without caring a fig what may become of the adventurous explorer. On the other hand, the novelty of the situation and the beauty of the scenery naturally possess charms which easily tempt one to forget the inconveniences and even the dangers of the expedition. It would indeed be difficult to imagine a scene more tempting to sports- men than the wild district into which civiliza- tion has not yet penetrated. All and more than all the wonders that travellers write about in foreign lands are waiting at home for discoverers. The upper regions of the Missis- sippi, so imperfectly known, offer strong temp- tations to the seekers of adventure. There they will find a field where they may not only enjoy a good deal of the kind of pleasure which they admire, but may do good service by making the region better known to the people. The Alabama Claims Arbitration in Geneva. We are assured from Geneva, by telegram, that the interruption which occurred just lately in the proceedings of the Alabama Claims Arbitration Court was not caused solely by the desire of the members of the Tribunal for the enjoyment of a season of much needed recreation, but, on the contrary, was almost involuntary, but of absolute necessity on their part in order to recuperate the judicial intel- lect, so as to,enable it to grapple with the legal position which has been assumed by Great Britain. It appears, indeed, as if Mr. Bull has gone back to his first hiding place within the mazy intricacies of the old-time arguments of Grotius, ‘‘Historicus,’’ of the London Times, and the others of the jurist writers of whom the world has heard since the first publication of the Dutch work, De Origine Gentium Americanum, in the year 1642. In fact, the arbitrators are just now reading up the British law on the subject of the build- ing of privateering vessels in English ports, their escape therefrom and the matter of laches, blame; whether the onus should rest on the shoulders of the First Lord of the Admiralty or on the head of some revenue policeman, who may have been, for all the American people know, dismissed from the force long since, if he has not been promoted to a commission rank so high that we shall be unable to identify him. Of four cases which have been advanced by the United States the English deny three in toto, and plead due dili- gence in the fourth. The work of settlement is very slow, and, 4s 1s intimated in our de- spatch, is likely to be concluded by an award of a lumped stim—it is to be hoped it will be a great big Iump—to the Americans. The arbitrators are rather averse to allowing inter- est; but we need not fret much about that until we know how big the lump of principal will be. The lawyers have, as we take it, placed Her Majesty Victoria, in this Alabama claims business, in a sort of Fair Rosamond’s bower ; we are certain she is there, a fair and elegant personage, but are totally unable to find her. The Geneva telegram intimates that Mr. Adams may accomplish this part of the work. But perhaps Mr. Secretary Fish will be the fortunate man. He has been studying the matter, as will be seen by the correspond- ence which he has maintained with Earl Gran- ville, and Granville’s opinion of it, published in the Heraxp to-day. Is There Any Hope for a Criminal? Reformation, not vengeance, is the proper object of punishment. Does our system effect this dbject? Obviously no, Our prisons are universities of crimé. A petty thief, by a few months’ confinement on the Island, becomes qualified for graver crime, His two or ten years in Sing Sing not alone confirm his incli- nation fora criminal life, but actually so brand him with the characteristics of a felon that he is never after allowed to earn an honest liveli- hood. No blacker picture of ‘man's inhu- manity to mar’ can be seen than our treat- ment of those who have been convicted of | offences against law. James Dougherty, of Philadelphia, illustrates this. He was sent to the Penitentiary as an accomplice of Mara in the shooting of Officer Brooks. Being par- doned out with Mara, he directly ob- tained work in a carpenter shop, endeavoring to support his wife and children. His old as- sociate shoots Alderman McMullin, and at once Douchertv. unsusnected of any connes- | forming the turf.’’ tion with the affair, is expelled from the shop where he wrought and excluded from all the now unable to find work, though willing to be honest = an orderly citizen. While we should ulously punish shonld remember thatthe Supreme Judge bes said, ‘“Vengeance is mine,” and that Eart! wer doth then show likest God’s When wabrey seasons Justion, Gossip of the Religious Prese—Living- stone from a Religious Point ef View. . Several of our evangelical contemporaries take occasion this week to refer to the Henawp expedition for the discovery of Dr. Livingstone, and, although heretofore inclined to be incredulous in regard to the subject, they now unite in expressing their admiration for the boldness and success of the entire un- portance, the explorations of Dr. Livingstone possess peculiar interest when taken from a religious point of view, and from that stand- point the Hvangelist—one of the principal Presbyterian organs in the country—says: — Dr. Livingstone has had higher aims in view than those of scientific explorers, He has been engaged iu pioneering the exploration of a conti- nent in the name of that Master to whom it belongs. He has already done what no motive weaker than that of his own Christian devotion could have constrained him to do; and now as, instead of hastening his return to civilization, he resumes his task, resolved to lay open the heart of the con- tinent still more completely to the gaze of the world, we feel that we cannot admire his heroiam or do justice to it without recognizing its sublime, its Divine source, in the consecration of his powers and his life itself to the work of brit frica’s benighted millions under the light @ preached Gospel, as well as of European civilization. The Hvangelist also reads a timely homily upon “The Limits to Party Allegiance,” in which it deprecates the demoralizing influences. of a political campaign, and trusts that it shall “never be visited by such an excess of party zea as to witness with any, even the least satisfac- tion, the sacrifice of independent manhood to party dictation, or the access of any party to power over a causeway built up out of the frag- ments and rubbish of the public conscience.’* The Independent discourses upon Senator “Sumner’s Dilemma,'’ and concludes by de- claring that there is one bold and noble course open to the Massachussetts Senator—one worthy of his past and his future. ‘Let him,” says the Independent, ‘bravely take the dilemma by the horns and make himself its master’’— “All men know what I think of General Grant’? he PAlent say, “and so all men may judge of what I think of Mr. Greeley. The ills we have I know, and have testified against them, But I will not to the worser ones, which I know not of but which I know must follow the election of Horace Greeley, the choice, because they know he will be their creature, of the deadliest enemies of the black man. As the least of two evils, I shall vote for Grant, and urge all men of my opinions to do likewise.’ “This,’’ adds the Independent, with Mephis- tophelean gravity, ‘‘werea noble and a wise course. Will he take it?’’ Having just re- lieved himself of one dose of nauseating poli- tical pills it is not probable the patient is anxious to try another immediately. The Golden Age is beginning to take the ‘Lowest View of It’’—meaning the liberal movement. Having buta short time since discoursed upon the necessity of there being a Hades, the brilliant Age is eminently qualified to take the lowest view of almost anything. But with the alacrity of a bright and shining light it is also capable of taking’a more exalted view of sublunary matters, especially when it announces that ‘‘the Hzraxp of this city is am independent journal and to-day is one of the ablest papersin the country. Its editorials are among the very best, and some of them are remarkable for intelligence and force.’” “Words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver;’’ and the Golden Age can paint the prettiest picture in the world if it only be in an amiable and silvery humor at the moment it makes the attempt. The Freeman's Journal (Catholic) is in an unusually pleasant mood this week. Refer- ring to the choice for President it proclaims that “it is either Greeley or Grant—Greeley, crotchety, crank-headed, unreliable and erra- tic, without a drop of democratic blood in his veins or a democratic impulse in his heart; or Grant, the creature of mere luck, whose prospects a dozen years ago were infinitely better for the poorhouse than for the White House’’—and concludes that, it being between these two that a choice is to be made, in such a dilemma it ‘seeks to be no man’s counsel- lor.” Between the horns of ‘such a dilem- ma’’ why does not the Journal take an extra outside horn of its own and run an independ- ent ticket? The Christian Intelligencer touches upon “reeds and Their Enemies;”’ but the article that will command the attention of the gen- eral reader is entitled “Religious Newspapers and Politics,” in which it is asserted that the ‘feligious press is a mighty battery which ought to be controlled only by the highest in- telligence and conscientioys devotion to those principles which alone constitute the safety of popular government. May it never become asi instrament of evil in the hands of Smid incompetency or of narrow partisanship!" —"? The Jewish Messenger copies from the Hzranp an editorial article on “Hebrew Rabbinical Education,” and remarks that it is one of the most important, suggestive and accurate statements of the necessities of the Jewish community it has seen in the secular press. “This article,” it adds— oaant to arouse tre pat on The valved steven to a keen sense of their lamentable neglect of duty. We are glad to have the powerful influence of the HERALD on the side of this great movement for the reconstruction of the American Jewish com- munity. The Cork (Ireland) Herald of the 11th inst. gives an interesting account of a banquet given in Lismore to the Rev. Michael Carthage O'Farrell, of St. Peter's church, Barclay street, New York, at which the guest of the evening was the burden of many complimen- tary remarks, and made a highly eloquent speech in response. Lismore is Father O' Far- rell’s birthplace. The Catholic Review takes to task the Zion's Herald, of Boston, for defending the atrocities perpetrated on Randall's Island under the lash and thumbscrews of Pope Jones. The Examiner and Chronicle (Baptist) makes a dash at what it calls the ‘‘Horse-racing Vice,”” and avers that it is useless to talk of ‘“re- An external aspect of de- cency may be enforced by efficient police regu- lation; but the heart of the thing, it says, is corrupt, and from this evil source no sweet waters can be expected to flow. “Thus,” it adds, “all things conspire to rendor the race course ® dangerous resort for the young. Whether racing, in the cruel mode in which it is now carried on, ought not to be suppressed, as detrimental to public morality. is a anestion