The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. aaa “al bate JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Kir, Tam Angansas Travetten. Afternoon Ral dine OLYMPIC ‘TRE. Broadway, between Houstoi ant Bieecker sacOne Wire a ry ».No. 212 UNION SQUARE ‘TRE, 1th a — Tos Banas ce ig af ao. a hat WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broad’ and Thirteenth etreet.—Rowin Hoop. ase " TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowory.— Lirtin Baneroor. 8 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Yacor—Tas Riva. City Hall, Bi — RS ove eee CENTRAL PARK Conosrr. DEN.—Garvan Insrrowmntat TERRACE GARDEN, Séth st, betwoen Third and Lex sogion evs Svuune Eveninc Concusts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— amp Arr. WITH The True Issues of tho Presidential Campaign—The Remedy for Repub- licau Blunders in the Hands of President Grant. There are two important points upon which the American people are so strongly to the policy of the party that has held control of the national administration since the cessa- tion of the war of the rebellion as to render it probable that they may determine on making a change in the government at the approaching election. These points are the treatment of the Southern States and the management of our diplomatic affairs. The republican organs in the interest of the administration evince their sense of the unpopularity of the ‘Recon- struction laws by foregoing any defence of the unconstitutional treatment of the South, and by confining their replies to the charges of their opponents to the plea that all this has been the work of Congress, and not of Presi- dent Grant, who is now before the people for re-election. They argue that the President bad no hand in the framing of the bayonet low, under which the Southern States are now held in the grasp of the military power as in o time of war; that, as required by his oath of office, he simply submitted to Congress the fact that disturbances of the peace existed in certain Southern districts, and that Congress, in the exercise of its power, passed New York, Tuesday, July 30, 187%. Paas. 1—Advertisements. —Advortisements. 3—Disastrous Fires ; A Sugar Refinery Burned in Leonard street; A Dey Street Structure Gutted; Destruction of a Saw Mill and Car- rit Factory in Brooklyn; The Burned Pro- tectory in Westchester; The Erie Fire—Sun- Liquor : The Board of Excise Forcing the loon Keepers to Respect the Law—New York Courts—A Day at a Police Court—New Jersey’s Latest Murder Mystery—Advertise- ments. 4—Fditorials: Leading Article, “The Trne Issues of the Presidential Campaign—The Remedy for Republican Blunders in the Hands of Presi- dent Grant'’—Amusement A: monpeamen 5 6—Mexico: batt pone Procia is forced: Loan st the Merchants of Monterey— The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from France, Spain, Rome, Japan and China—At- tempt of a Radical Negro to Burn Charlotte City, N. C.—Amusements—Miscellaneous Tele- iph—Business Notices. ie Odes of Horace: What the Modern Q. laccus Horatius Knows About Poetry; Strains from the Chappaqua Symposium— North Carolina : Great Liberal-Conservative Mass Meeting in Charlotte ; Governor Walker, of Vir 5 aching “Peace and Good Will to All Men;’’ Carl Schurz’s Speech—An Inter view with Merrimon—The Liberal Headquar- om ters—The Democratic Headquarters—The Regular Republican Committe. 7—Advertisements. S—-The Situation in France: Politics and Political Economy of the French Repuplic; France Arming for_a New Struggle with Germany— Reg Upon ade eaeek: lerman Mc- ullin—Barnard’s Bele Noire: Further Testi- Mony concerning the Tammany and Judicial Ring; Of-Hand Decisions of Honor the | judge. | DeBarnard's Bite Notre (Continued from Eighth | )—Thieves at a Private Bathing Estab- | lishment—OMcer Teban’s Tournament—Fi- gurities Quiet an: Raltway Morizage ies Stead: 8 La Foreign Exchange Un ; The Business of the Sub-Treasury—Marri: 10—Trotting at Goshen, N. Y.: it Day of the Meeting; Three Capital Contesta—The Buf- falo Races—Municipal Matters—Brooklyn’s Wounded Commissioner: Probable Recovery of the Victim—The Burke Homicide—A De- faulting Bank Clerk—Terrible Tragedy in California—Cheese Market—Shipping Intelli- | @ence—Advertisements. ‘Tae Srrvation mx Mzxtco.—A Henatp spe- | cial telegram from Matamoros, which we pub- | lish to-day, describes the situation as it pre- vailed in that portion of Mexicg yesterday, and | generally throughout the republic at a very | late moment. General Rocha levied a forced loan of eighty thousand dollars against the merchants of Monterey. His plan for raising the cash is likely to have the effect of compli- cating the tariff and customs imposts system toa very unfavorable extent. The averaging | of the customs dues, with a very uncertain | mode of collection of the amounts by the na- | tional officials, appear indeed to constitute two of the most prominent and most demoralizing | difficulties with which the Mexicans have to | contend. The country was, generally speak- | ing, quieting down, politically, under the effect | of the act of peaceful acceptance of the succes- | sion of Lerdo de Tejada to the supreme execu- | tive authority after Juarez. | A Preasant Wax or Porrixe Ir.—Instead | of calling a man fint-footedly “a liar,’ speak | of him as ‘having had occasion before this to | distrust the accuracy of his recollections.’” Tae Srrvation iv France.—The letter of the Heratp’s Paris correspondent, published on another page of this day's issue, will be found of a very interesting character. whole situation of affairs in a fair and candid spirit, and will enable the reader to form an intelligent opinion of the progress of the repub- lic politically, financially and militarily. “Nor Mucu or a SHower Arrer At1.’’— The Providence Journal (Grant) is consoling itself with the reflection ‘that the indications that the small spasm of fictitious enthusiasm which followed the nomination of Mr. Greeley at Baltimore is about over.’’ To recall the old Joe Millerism about the man who was up to his neck in water at the time of the Deluge and prayed Noah to take him on board the ark, but was refused—“‘Go to thunder with your old ark,"’ cried the almost submerged individual ; “I don't believe it’s going to be much of a shower after all." So the Journal regards the It reviews the , such a law as it deemed necessary to meet tho exigencies of the case. -In like manner there has been an attempt to lay the blame of our diplomatic blunders on the same shoulders, and it is asserted that the United States Senate is accountable for our humiliation at Geneva in having recommended to the President the withdrawal of our claims for indirect damages and the acceptance of the Granville article supplementary to the Treaty of Washington. It was certainly a sharp movement on the part of Secretary Fish, after leading the nation into a serious dilemma, to fasten upon the Sonate the unenviable responsibility of deciding on which of its horns we should impale ourselves, But without entering into & conor to the relative blame atiaching to cative and legislative branches of the government for past errors, we can fortunately point outa way | by which the popular sentiment can be satis- | fied and a complete change in our Southern | and foreign policy secured. Fortunately for the country, Congress is not now in session, and the administration of our | national affairs is wholly in the hands of the | President, under the restrictions of the consti- | tution. The Ku Klux, or bayonet law, which | lies at the root of all the evils of our Southern policy, is a law which delegates certain ex- traordinary powers to the President, which he can exercise or not in his discretion. Under ita provisions and through the co-operation of the federal officers and Courts all the acts of oppression and injustice practised towards the white citizens of ‘the South are done. ‘Troops are drawn up round the ballot boxes; civil law is suspended; a reign of terror prevails such as existed in some localities. during the war—such as ought never to exist under a free government in time of peace. While the odious law is in force citizens have no civil rights; they can be arrested without warrant, confined as long as their captors deem neces- sary and discharged without trial. It is noto- rious that through this law and the action of the federal courts and United States mar- shals combined, the attempt is to be made to terrify white citizens from exercising the right of franchise conferred on them in mockery. by the Amnesty bill, forced from Congress in its last hours through dread of the Cincinnati movement. Now all this evil President Grant can remedy if he will. It is for him to enforce the Ku Klux law all over the Southern States as the election approaches, as it is enforced in North Carolina at the present moment, or to confine ita operation to those districts—if there are any at all in the South—where a federal tyranny is absolutely necessary to preserve the peace and protect all citizens regardless of color. The President has it in his power to abolish military rule altogether; to remove the federal troops from the Southern States; to restore civil law; to leave power in the hands of the local authorities, where it ought to be, and thus to show to the people of the | whole country, North and South, that | he declines to become the autocrat Congress would have made him, He can give to or withhold from the white men of the | South those constitutional rights and liberties | which t heir fellow countrymen of the North at present enjoy. He can stop the outrageous acts of the federal dependents in the Southern | States, and allow a fair election to be held. | The suspension of the military law and the restoration of civil law, the replacing of fed- | etal troops by the proper State authorities, | Would at once put a stop to the abuses of the | federal courts and the infamous attempt at the intimidation of white voters, because the | civil law and the State Courts would then be supreme. President Grant cannot, then, evade re- | sponsibility for the present unconstitutional | and cruel treatment of the white citizens of the South, because the enforcement of the Ku {Kiux law rests with him alone, and ‘he can at his will use it for its original present tempest in favor of Greeley—‘‘It's not | legitimate object, or as an instrument to con- touch of a shower after all.” Tae Free w Lzonanp Streer Yesterpay.— | ‘We publish to-day an account of one of the | largest fires that have visited our city for some time past. At about three o'clock yesterday | morning an alarm was sounded indicating as the scene of the conflagration Leonard strect and West Broadway. It was then discovered that the extensive sugar refinery there situated was in flames. A second alarm brought addi- tional engines and apparatus to the scene, but all the efforts of the firemen failed to save the immense building from destruction. the day the front wall gave way, bringing down with it the rear and side walls. The flames had driven from their homes scores of families occupying the tenement houses sur- | rounding the factory, but as the efforts of the firemen had been chiefly directed to saving these dwellings the residents subsequently re- turned with their furniture, and though the engines were playing upon the ruins up toa late hour last night the neighborhood bad re- sumed its usual quiet aspect. Mr. Greeney’s Capacity ror rie Prest- pency is the theme for an editorial in the Hartford Post (Grant). The ‘capacity’ gen- erally required nowadays of office-holders is the capaciousness of their pockets to hold the plun- der thev ateal from the public, Late in | | trol the ballot box by military terrorism and federal bayonets. This is not all. The Secre- tary of the Treasury, by his indiscreet speeches | in North Carolina, has involved his chief in the responsibility for the radical republican policy of setting the negroes against the whites, of reviving the hatreds of slavery and of keep- ing alive the bitter memories of the war. But the President has an easy means of escape from the unenviable position in which he has been placed by Congress and Secretary Boutwell. He can wash his hands of the cruel policy of military oppression and of the dangerous at- tempt to incite a war of races by suspending the operation of the Ku Klux law and by re- | moving his Secretary of the Treasury. He can jin like manner make atonement to the } country for our humiliation at Geneva {and our -unpopular policy’ in Spanish | affairs by calling Minister | or some other competent American diplomat | into his Cabinet in place of Secretary Fish. If | President Grant would pursue this wise policy the people would overlook all the smaller { errors of his administration and re-elect him to the office he seeks, trusting to his holding himself free from the intrigues and control of the politicians for the next four years, Thoy care but little about the smaller issues that are raised by noisy politicians, auch as the use Washburne | tion, the appointment of relatives to office, the acceptance of presenta, the St. Domingo job, or even the awkward episode of the Pleasonton letter. All these, together with French arms and Custom House investigations, the people are willing to ignore, in view of General Grant’s great services in the war, and in the hope that experience will render him more cautious of the politicians in his second term than he has been in his first term of office. But they are not willing to see the white citizens of the South oppressed, to risk the danger of the subversion of all our liberties by. patiently suffering an unconsti- tutional and tyrannical treatment of a portion of the States of theUnion. They do not desire that the country shall be led into new peril by the efforta of political adventurers to inflame the-passions of the ignorant negroes of the South, and to incite them to such acts as those witnessed’ yesterday at Oharlotte, in North Carolina, on the occasion of the Carl Schurz meeting, when, the blacks attempted to burn down the city. Nor do, they wish that ‘the foreign policy of the government, 24 instanced in the cases of Spain and England, shall form the model of our diplomacy for the next four years. ; We desire to impress: upon President Grant tho fact that in*these respects his Cabinet and the politicians in Congross, to whose dontrol he seems to have given himself up, are now on trial before the people. If the country could go back to the personal record of the President as it stood four years ago, and render their ver- dict upon that alone, the election of November next would already be decided. . They, would see beforethem the General who carried the Union arms to victory through the smoke and fire of many a battle field; the generous sol- dier who honored the gallantry of the fallen armies of Lee and Johnston ; the patriot who set his face against the persecution of the con- quered people and insisted upon a peace that should reunite the States in heart and bury. the animosities of the war out of sight forever. But between President Grant ahd the American le, now stand the polltiofaas ‘who ow eight years of peace have striven to keep alive the hatreds and passions of the war, and the Presi- dential advisers who have led the administra- tion into serious blunders and difficulties. If this same policy is to prevail and if thesé same men are to be retained in power another four years, can the country be recompensed by the knowledge that President Grant himself is o gallant soldier and an honest man? We have told the President repeatedly that the’Ameri- can people would regret toadminister a rebuke to him by driving him out of office; but they cannot be expected, they ought not to be asked, to take with him the men who have be- littled the nation in her foreign policy and who have outraged the constitution, displayed theix contempt of popular rights and disgraced humanity by their cruel treatment of the South and by their attempts to raisea dangerous strife between the negroes and the whites. There is no reason why this should be demanded of them or forced upon them, especially as Presi- dent Grant has it in his power to do justice to himself and to the people before the latter are called upon to vote on the Presidential ques- tion. He can, at his will, suspend the action of the Ku Klux law, and leave every Southern State as free as a Northern State to vote as it may see fit in the Presidential election. Although Congress passed the odious law it is a dead letter until the President puts it in force, and hence, by refusing to avail himself of its power to force himself upon the South- ern States by the aid of federal bayonets and negro votes, he can at once rebuke the policy of the radical republicans in Congress and show his confidence in the friendship of the American people. He can at his will change his Cabi- net and send Boutwell and Fish into retire- ment. If he stood at the head of his armies in the field he would not hesitate to drive from his ranks incompetent and unfaithful officers. Let him follow the same course now, and the people, who revere and admire him as a soldier, will honor him as a civilian. He could not go into a battle with hope of suc- cess if his plan of action was faulty and his subordinate officers unreliable. He cannot enter hopefully upon the Presidential contest with an offensive policy and incapable advisers. He knows how to carry his banner to victory ; it will be his own fault if it should trail.in the dust. Tre Havre Recatta.—The steamship City of Paris, which arrived at this port yesterday morning, brought us the letter of our Havre cofrespondent about the Havre regatta. It was at this regatta that the Sappho beat easily, though not actually engaged in the race, Mr. Ashbury’s Livonia. Had the English yacht Guinevere, considered as the fastest boat in the English pleasure fleet, taken part in the regatta, as was expected, Commodore Douglas would’ have engaged in the contest; but in the absence of the fast English yacht the American yachtsman declined, for the reasons given in a special telegram, published in the Henatp the day after the race, and now cor- roborated by the letter of our Havre corre- spondent, which is published on another page. A Poxrrtoan Resurrection.—John Neal, a Main political octogenarian, inquires through the Portland Press (Grant):— “Can it be possible that honest, well-mean- ing men, Americans loving their country and abhorring both traitors and treason, can be | found willing to have for the Chief Magistrate of this great people » man who is ready to pension rebel soldiers, and is not ashamed to acknowledge it, and perhaps to pay off the rebel debt and indemnify the slaveholders?’’ Our venerable friend seems to have just | awakened froma Rip Van Winkle nap, or he would have known that all these accusations | against the model woodchopper of Chappaqua were long since reported or pronounced the merest twaddle. ae Cotowzt Branton Duncan, of Kentucky, in a letter to Mr. James Brooks, of New York, says that the straight-out democrats at Louisville (3d of September next) will show their hands, and that there will. be many of them, He says, furthermore, “The: mass of the politicians will not be with use— so much the better’’—and that “this move- ment has ten times the strength which the | self-constituted Cincinnati Convention had, and that we have solid constituencies to back wa’’ Very good; but seeing is beliov- ing. Wet us wait till the 3d of September and then we shall see. We suspect, however, that, for a third party movement, it will appear that | of the federal oatranage to gecure # reniogina- | Colonel Duncan is too Inte The Genova Arbitration Tribunsl—Re- Ported Jadgments of the Court. Cable despatches which wo print this morn- ing inform us of the progress which is being made in the work of arbitration by the Geneva Tribunal. Tho Swiss Times of yesterday, giving particulars of the proceedings of the Board of Arbitration, says:—The Board has disallowed the claims of the American govern- ment arising out of the depredations of certain smaller Confederate cruisers, among which aro such names as the Boston, the Jeff Davis and the Musio. In so far as those vessel are con- cerned the Board has decided that charges of negligence on the part of the British govern- ment have not been proved, and consequently the claima, have been, disallowed. In the matter of the Florida, according to the same authority, the Court has decided in favor of the United States, the Court being of opinion that sufficient precaution was not used by the British government to prevent the departure of that vessel from British porta. The Indepen- dence Belge gives us » most interesting piece of information when it informs us that the awards of the Tribunal in the cages of the Florida 'and the Alabama will together amount to ‘one million five hundred thousand pounds sterling, or seven million , five hundred thousand dollars. It is understood that the Alabama caso is now under discussion. ‘It is hot our desire to say anything which might seem to prejudge the action of the Geneva Tribunal. In ruling out the claims arising from the depredations of the vessela whose names we have given above, we are willing to believe that the Court acted up to the best of its judgment, and wo have no doubt that the reasons for so deciding will, when made pub- lic, be found to be perfectly satisfactory. We are pleased to learn that in the matter of the Florida the judgment has been given in our favor. We have no doubt that a similar judg- ment will be arrived at in the case of the Ala- bama, There is every reason to fear, how- ever, that the damages awarded will be small, so small, ipdeod, that when the work of the Geneva Tribunal is ended we may not bo without reason for pronouncing the entire Washington. Treaty a mockery and a sham. It is not yet time, however, to pronounce judgment. It willbe asource of lasting regret, if, when the work of the Geneva arbitrators is done, the bad feeling engendered by Eng- land's conduct during our late civil war still divides the two peoples. The Frait of the Evil Seed Sown in North Carolina—The Black Cloud in the South. The seed sown by Secretary Boutwell and thosé “who have united with him in the at- tempt to, excite. the passions and hatreds of the negroes of, North Carolina against. the whites begins already to bring forth ita legit- imate frnit. Yesterday there was a political meeting at Charlotte, in that State, called by the supporters of, the democratic ticket and addressed by Senator Schurz. In the course of the proceedings a black fringe of angry negroes gathered on the edge of the meeting, and one of the blacks, a notorious republican Politician, was heard to utter threats of burn- ing and shooting. He left, apparently to carry these threats into execution, and soon afterwards an alarm was raised, and it’ was discovered that a building had been set on fire with the design, it is believed, of destroy- ing the city. The matter is now undergoing investigation. We are not disposed to exaggerate this inci- dent of the campaign. We leave all the em- bellishments and political flourishes to bo made over the outrage of republican negroes upon a conservative meeting to the Greeley journals, which Will, no doubt, seize the opportunity with avidity. Ifthe black rascals who set fire to the roof of a wooden building really desired to burn down the city they showed themselves to be bunglers at the work of incendiarism, just as, by proclaiming their intentions, they proved themselves to be novices in.crime. But because the ignorance of the negroes made the affair absurd, it is not the less: startling as an evidence of the evils to which the teachings of Boutwell and his associates promise to lead. The blacks, with arson and murder in their hearts, with their worst passions aroused by the assurances of their republican teachers that the white citizens of the South will enslave them again or strip them of their civil rights whenever they get the opportunity, can readily be movéd to any act of violence, and will not long lack system and leadership to make their | outbreaks effective. There can be but one ending to the effort to induce these ignorant negro crowds to believe that the whites are their natural and mortal enemies, and it is foreshadowed in this Charlotte incident. It must be peace or war between the black and white citizens of the Southern States, and Boutwell and his friends are doing their best to make it war. Extraordinary Success of the New French Loan—President Thiers’ Trou- bles @nd Triumphs. The new French loan was placed upon the public market on Sunday, and on the close | of the day the full amount had beeii ‘2ken_up | and the subscription books were closed. Six or seven times the amount called for was offered. It is said that the lion's share of the loan has been taken up by the Berlin bankers, It is « fresh triumph for M. Thiers. No man in modern times has acquitted him- self so well in circumstances of exceptional difficulty as has President Thiers. When he assumed the reins of government it did seem as if France was utterly and hopelessly ruined. | Nothing daunted by present facts or by future | prospects, M. Thiers took a firm hold, and, | in spite of some shortcomings, he has guided , France so skilfully and with so much success that the French nation to-day is not morea wonder to the outside world than it is to itself. No nation under misfortune, in the whole his- tory of the world, ever bore itself so graudly. President Thiers bas, no doubt, @ heavy | task still on hand, and at his advanced period of lifehe is now in his seventy-fifth year—it is difficult to see how he isto find strength to bear the burden and to finish the work. Presi- dent Thiers, however, has tho will, and in his @hse, as in the case of so many who have gone before him, it may be found that, the will being present, the way is not wanting. Praise, however, is due, not to the President alone, but to the whole French peo- Look at the situation of to-day. | the people to enjoy. Permission had been granted by the Assembly to “ Goulard. the resent Minister of NEW.. YORK. HEKALD, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1872—WITH, SUPPLEMENT. Finance, to raise a loan of seven hundredmil- lions of dollars, the largest gum, wo believe, ever asked for in a single transaction. This loan is to be mado on the Napoleonic, not on the Pitt principle—that is to say, all Frenchmen are: invited to subscribe. So eager were the people to respond to the invitation that the first instalment of one hundred millions of dollars was taken up at once. It is not at all impossible, although to many it may ap- pear incredible, that the whole of this vast sum may be paid up within the year. In that case the Germans will be out of France before next Midsummer Day. What France has done and is doing reveals, like our own late civil war, the enormous wealth of modern times. In four years we raised two thousand five hun- dred millions of dollars. In two years the Italians raised upwards of five hundred mil- lions of dollars. What Jules Favre said some time ago seems, after all, not beyond the truth—that France, by a convulsive effort, could raise four times the money now de- manded, We are rejoiced to know that France is doing so well: ‘We believe we express the sentiments of the more intelligent portion of mankind when we say that the rapid recovery of France is a source of universal gratification. In spite of her folly and her sin there is a place for France in Europe; and ‘it will be well for the French people themselves, and well for mankind generally if, when that place has been regained, it is honored, not disgraced. His success in the matter of tho Toriff bill shows that President Thiers is really master of the situation, and that the Assembly is afraid to break with the Chief of the State. Things being as they are, the French people cannot do better than continue to repose their confidence in President Thiers. The Shooting of Alderman McMullin in Philadelphia. We publish to-day a communication from a citizen of Philadelphia vindicating the charac- ter of Alderman MoMullin, who was recently shot bya radian in that olty. The writer thinks that the remarks of the Huenau> on tho occasion of the brutal attempt at assassina- tion did injustice to its victim, in identifying him with the class of roughs to which his assailant belonged. Our remarks were intended to be general, and we regret they should bear any construction that would seem unjust or unkind to thy object of the cowardly and felo- nious assault, The Henarp knows how to appreciate the men whose energy and courage carry them succcesfully through the hard battle of life. We can readily understand how a politician who seems to cast his fortunes with the rough elements of a city may, if so di control them for the public good. are politicians in this city who have shown their disposition and ability to do this, and.we have no doubt that Alderman McMiullin in this direction deserves the credit given to him by our correspondent. At all events, the attempted assassination was 8 cold-blooded and brutal crime, and the indig- nation it has excited in the city where it oc- curred proves that the intended victim has many warm friends among his fellow citizens, who ought to be the best judges of his charac- ter. It is to be hoped that his life may be spared and that his would-be murderer may be brought to justice. How to Szcurz THE Ord Bourson Dzmo- cratic Vorz vor Grezter—Make it thor- oughly appear that the megro vote of the South is united and inflexible for Grant. It is not that the old Bourbons hate Greeley less, but that they hate Sambo more, that will influence them in favor of the Sage of Chappa- qua. Then let the Greeley men ‘‘pass the word for Massa Grant’ through all the negro lines. Our Holiday and Sundsy Excursions— The Reforms Needed. It would be difficult to over-estimate the im- portance of the holiday excursion to the industrious toilers of our great city. The breath of the pure air which they inhale re- freshes and reinvigorates their frames, while the innocent associations of the country give a healthier tone to their spiritual being. Life in this close, crowded city in the warm sum- mer time would be almost unbearable were it not for the few glimpses‘of the pleasant woods and the enjoyment of the cool breeze on bay or river which the holiday excursion allows It is, therefore, of the first importance that whatever may be calcu- lated to interfere with the popularity of these health-giving trips should be at once removed. Unfortunately the manner in which the ma- jority of excursions are organized gives an op- portunity for abuses to creep in. The chief difficulty to be solved in relation to picnics and excursions is the exclusion of the class of roughs who intrude their unwelcome presence in all assemblages of pleasure. The difficulty could in some sort be obviated by using greater care in the sale of tickets and the adoption of precautions against the admission of par- ties not supplied with the necessary authorization. It frequently happens that a party of respectable people are suddenly in- vaded by rowdies, who insult the ladies and assault the men if they are not allowed to have full swing. An example of this kind occurred | inst Sunday, on one of the Hudson excursions, which terminated in a severe struggle, Por- tunately, the ruffians punished each other heavily, and were then dealt with in a sum- | mary manner by the respectable people on board, who wese forced to take action in self- defence. The incident is by no means 6n un- common one, though we regret to say the decent people are oftenest the sufferers. Great difficulty exists in dealing with this nuisance on account of the demands made on the inadequate police force. At present the number of men is barely sufficient to make a decent show of patrolling the streets, and it is absolutely impossible to detail officers to pro- tect the citizens during these excursions. It is certainly a great hardship that the industrious tradesman, who takes his family ont for a holi- day, must do so with the knowledge that he places himself out of the protection of the law just at the moment when he has most need to enjoy all the security it can give, Under or- dinary circumstances the workingman is able to take care of himself, but in the midst of his family he is obliged to suffer insult and often outrage at the hands of blackguards from the dread of exposing some weaker member of his family to the vio- lence of ruffians. This is a grievance folt by the workingmen of the city, and ono which it is the interest of all classes to abate. In view of tha enforcement of the Sunday Liquor | at Chiswick, on Tuesda; law tn the city, the outflow of roughs on San- days will, no doubt, largely increase, and some measures ought to be adopted to afford ample security to the citizens, Every day, in ono form or another, the inadequacy of tho present police force is forced upon us, and yet we be- lieve that the men are efficient and zealous in the discharge of their duties, Policemen, how- ever, have not the faculty of Boyle Roche’a bird, and cannot be in two. places at opce. This is the real secret of the rampant rowdy- ism which is at once the disgrace and the dan- ger of the city. We hope the police will secure every one of the prize fighting gang who dis- tinguished themselves in Sunday's affray, and that we shall have the pleasure of knowing that they are safely locked up for the remain- der of the summer. The question of affording protection to excursionists is one that ought to engage the immediate attention of the police authorities, and if they are unable to make any disposition. of men for this it would be well that the public ld be informed of the reason why. This will lead ‘to the blame being saddled on the right shoulders, Toe Worst Weex on Recorp.—It is said that the week ending last Sunday’ was the worst on reeord for the city in its catalogue of murders or homicides, the number being nine upon this island. ‘This is an ugly report and indicates. « bad condition of things, We: fear, however, there will not be much improve- ment in this matter until we have such an en- largement and improvement of our police force as will be sufficient to maintain law and order throughout the island day and night. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, of Vermont, ts at the Brevoort House. Colonel BE. M. Yerger, of Baltimore, is at the New York Hotel. William H. Seward, Jr., ot Auburn, 13 stopping at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Admiral 0. 3, Glisson, of the United States. Navy. has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Admiral Polo de Barnabe goes to Newport, from the Ularendon Hotel, to-day. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Stewart L. Woodford is Fegigtergd ot the Filth Ayenuo Hotel, Colonel Sam ‘fate, of Memphis, is among the so- journers at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor William P. Blake, of New Haven, is staying at the Fifth Ayenue Hotel. Gount Garbol de Festetiis and Baron B, Hol- lander, of Austria, yesterday arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. These gentlemen have been making @ tour of the Western States and the Pacific coast. They now intend to visit Washington, and, possi- bly, will go thence through the South. 4 Ex-Governor Thomas Swann, of Maryland, and General Ferdinand Latrobe, of Baltimore, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Protessor George Batchelor was last evening chosen President of the French Canadian Union Club of this city. He was also commissioned as a delegate to the Eighth General Convention of the French-Canadian residents of the United States, which ig to occur in Chicago on the 8th of August. Americans Abroad. (From the Paris American Register, July 13] General D. W. Marmaduke, of St, Louis, was mong the arrivals at Liverpool last week. Mr. J. N. Kiddoo, United States “Army, is at prea- ent in Paris, and is staying at tte Hotel Chatham. Mr. D. A. GriMith, United States Army, has ar- rived in Paris and is staying at No, 52, bis, Boule- vard Haussmann. Mr. Palton Paul, of the State Department, Wash- ington, haa arrived in Paris and is staying at the Hotel de 1’Athénée. Clarence E, Seward, of New York, nephew of rn fa a WO Per Paris, fas remursed to, Rome, where poms fulfilis the duties of United States Consul Gen- Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Cincinnati, has recently arrived in Europe from the United States. os Pendleton proposes remaining abroad some me. Mrs. James Lorimer Graham, Jr., wife of the United States Consul at Florence, has arrived at the Hotel Meurice, Paris, on her way back from America. E.C. Larned, of Pittsfleld, Mags., one of the Saree aged evs Beate ic al soapeee ts rr at present in Switzerland. ; Generai Sherman, with Colonel Audenried of his staff, reached Paris this week, and is stopping at No, 6 Rue de bi mgt The General its to pass several weeks in Paris, and will be met in that Re by his ee agua from New York in the ussia on the We are wad to learn that Dr. Edward Gage, a a long and favorably known to Amer Paris, ig fast recovering from the recent attack of paralysis by which he was aMicted. He hopes to be able to leave the French capitalin a short time to join his family in America, and we wish him many years of life to enjoy there the ample fortune he has so honorably acquired. The Prince of Wales gave a grand ‘garden party’ afternoon, and among ti four or fve hundred guests invitea we notice the names of the following Americans:—! Schenck and the Misses Schenck, William M. and the Misses Evarts, Rear Admiral James Al ter | Lieutenant Frederick Grant, Commander J. $. and Mrs. Bartlett, Lieutenant Harry Lyon, Captain R. W. Schufeld, Lieutenant Commander Swann, Oa] tain E. Simpson, Captain W. G. and Mrs. Temple and General J. H. Wilson. MOVEMENTS OF PRESIDENT GRANT, The President, with ira. Grant, Lieutenant F. D. Grant, young Jesse and General Porter, left Long Branch on the half-past ten o'clock train yesterday morning, and arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel at one o'clock P. M. The party dined privately in their rooms at the Fifth Avenue, and started by the seven o’clock P. M. train for the Thousand Islands, yaar ++ appheleanmnn tataanal THE JAPANESE EMBASSY. Their Departure for Europe Shortly= Iwakura’s Intentions Regarding Treaty Relations with Foreign Powers. The Japanese Embassy, having finished” their diplomatic labors at Washington, are about to resume their tour of the civilized world. To-day they will arrive at the St. Nicholas Hotel. They will be rejoined in this city by Minister [to and suite, who have just returned from Japan, and are at the Westminister Hotel. A HgraLd reporter conversed with a number of Minister Ito's suite last evenlig on the subject of the return of the Ministé? fo Javan and his rearrival in this country, 4 ? gentieman of great intelligenc been for a number of months speaks English with ease and a c tion, the reporter thar sion of the uimbassy was not dip we tory. When it was foun v., rvatory. aties With this country and other v4. tried whic they intend visiting, Minister [to wag teh to Japan to procure plenipotentiar: Sotere ioe Iwakura, the head of the Em! ~ Ale though Ito has brought authority for the negotia- won et treaties by [wakura, it is now intended that nothing further shall be done than the arrange- ment of terms with the governments of the coun- tries gg pe visited by the Embassy, and that ail” th tens ff tiéaty shall be rarities oF sebee, Alshon ye “isa erm be 4 to Japa, ig! reat 1s Washiny bit as yet, the gentle- man rah ihe re] oer conversed declared that they pleased the E: iy a are sure of fatification tn Japan. bg Os in this city through this week, ir 0 to Boa- ton, where they will be met by the r of Jeddo and party, and sail thence for Europe on Tuesday next. me time in last May the ices, merce, tl to a banquet y8 ago, thi Colonel Walcott Brooks, the Japanese Consn! at San Francisco, they courteously declined the invitation, assigning,as their reason for so doing their lack of time. ENTERTAINING THE JAPS, PHILADELPOTA, July 20, 1872. The Japanese Fmbassy were handsomely enter. tained by the city to-day at Belmont Mansion. Speeches were made by Ambassador Iwakura and others. The ministers of this city presomted the Embasay with an address of weloama,