The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1872, Page 6

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Advertisements, dvertisemente, S—Gracious Greeley: His Reception at Newport and Lristol—Massachusotts Liberal ees cans:—Blanjfesto of the New Organization in the State—Grant on Grant: What the Prest- dent Knows About the Two-Term Policy— New Jersey Politics—Long Island Poiltics— Fine Arts—Yachting—Monmoath Park Races— BufMuio Driving Park—Racing Notes—Miscel- janeous Stay ge ue 4—The Situation in Spain: The United States and the Spanish Nation; The Humiliation of America; A General Review of Spanish Polt- tics and ey Be Will Grant Abolish Slavery in Cuba? The Carlists dnd Their lause; An Interesting Interview with King adeus; A Republic In the End—Tne Public Pn wprert: tase in Washington Street—Re- gtgred to Life—Accidents in Jersey—The Con- federate Avchives—The Fire Fiend in Connec- ticut—Destructive Fire in Tennessee—Aid to the Burned Protectory—Death of Orrin Tay- lor. S—West Virginia: The Gubernatorial Fight Be- tween Camden and Jacob; Almost Certain Defeat of the New Constitution; The Muddle in the Democratic Party; Possible Double Delegat:on to the Next Congress; The Candl- liam Lloyd Garrison to Charles Tlie National Democracy—Who Are crats—Meeting of 1! Tammany iy—Perls of the Lakes—Sumner to Blaine: The Father of Republicanism on Lis Mettio—Tweedledum and Tweedledee. 6—Editoriais: Leadlug Article, “he Lesson of the North Carolina Hlectlon—Tre Peril of the Ad- ministration”’—Amusement Announcements, VeThe Alabaina Claims—The Elections in North Carolina, Kentucky and Utah—Interestin, ‘om Mexico—Cable Telegrats--The Political leadquarters—News from Washington—Mis- cellancous Telegraph—Busincss Notices. S—Seaside Lions o1 1872: High Life and Admintis- tration Patronage at Long branch ; Grant and His Myrmidons; Political Recantations—The Indian Domain: Population of the Tribes and the Rich Lands Lying Waste; Present Condl- tion of the Keds) cect ke American Naval Fete on the rh ° tres with the Benicia Sailing for Home—The Clty Fire De- partment—The Liberty Street Explosion— Railroad Accident in Jersey—The Department of Docks. 9—Financial and Commercial: Arrest of the Up- ward Movement in Gold and Reaction in the Premiuni; Gold 11434 @ 114%, 5 Artificial Activ- ity In the Money Market and Advance of the Rate on Cail to Five Per Cent; Discounts Dull; Foreign Exchange Weaker aad Reduc- ton in the Rate of Sterling; A Quiet Day in Stocks, with an Inprovement in Prices; Gov- erpments Strong—Brooklyn Adairs—A_Dis- graceful Scene—Stolen or Smuggied Silks—A burglar Captured—Death in Weiss Beer— Foot Race in Trenton—Marriages and Deaths. 20—Barnard at bay: J. McBride Davidson as af? and Particular Friend; Judge Admiration of Erie Chairs— Spotted Tail and His Party—The Custom House—The Contract Commissioners—Obitu- ary- paemals HICe eket—The Twenty-ninth Street Shooting Afiray—Street Lamps—Fire on Staten Island—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, AleInteresting Proceedings in the New York Courts—Municipal Matters—Coroners' Work Yesierday—A Gay Deceiver—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements, Presrpent Grant has unburdened himself toa Herarp correspondent and defined his position concerning the two-term theory. The report of his remarks, which we publish elsewhere, will command general attention. The President is evidently aware of the fact that he has been misled by the political parasites that surround him. Swiarsa Rounp tuz Yanxre Omecrz, the liberal candidate for the Presidency of the United States is enjoying himself to the top of his bent. If not exactly ‘first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his fellow citizens,’ he seems determined to be constantly in their remembrance. He was well received in Bristol yesterday, and had the satisfaction of being cordially welcomed by the best citizens of that thriving city. Inuness or Curer Justicz Caase.—Tho country will be moved by the announcement we regretfully make in another column to-day, that Chief Justice Chase is very ill. The illustrious jurist and statesman has contracted Bright's disease of the kidneys, and his removal to the White Mountains is deemed necessary, Spars Invapep rrom Frrexpry France.— His Majesty King Amadeus, who is just now engaged in completing his provincial tour in Bpain, witnessed a French invasion of the national territory—one which presented in o very agrecablo form, however, yesterday. Tho King arrived in San Sebastian. The in- habitants of the town accorded him a most enthusiastically loyal reception. ‘The Prefect of the French border-line department of Basses- Pyrénées crossed to the soil of Spain and de- livered to its monarch a letter from President Thiers congratulating him on his recent escape from assassination. This greeting from the aged chief of the French republic, coming in autograph we are to presume, must be particu- larly consoling to the plucky, youthful Italo- Spaniard. ey Unerr Fruit as Caornna Bomnsinrrs.— One of the mest abundant sources of sickness and death during the summer heat is unripe fruit. Children are particularly exposed to this danger through the indulgence of incon- siderate parents, and not a small proportion of the mortality among the rising gencration may be traced to this cause. Unripe fruit is rank poison when the thermometer is among the nineties, and that terrible assailant of the stomach, cholera morbus, finds here its sturdiest ally. Now that we are blessed with the unexpected boon of clean streets, and that the quarantine authorities down in the bay are ‘on the lookout with ceaseless vigilance for the Asiatic scourge, it would bo well for all to against aught in the way of food or ink that would tend to invite the destroyer the system, By taking precautions in we may pass safely through the perils of | summer, one of the most unhealthy ever in this city, Tne Lesson of the North Osrolina Election=The Peril of the Adminis- tration, The result of the North Carolina election is still in doubt so far as the actual figures are concerned, and it is not yet known whether the State government is to be continued in the hands of the republicans, whero it has re- mained ever since the rehabilitation of the State after the war, or is to be transferred to the democracy. It is conceded that the demo- crats have elected a majority of the Congress- men and have carried tho Legislature, thus securing a United States Senator in place of the republican incumbent, John Pool; but on the State ticket each side claims to be ahead, the democrats being less hopeful at last ac- counts than they have heretofore been since the close of the polls. However this may be, it is certain that the republicans have actually sufforod a severe reverse in this first battle of -the campaign, and even if thoy should succeed in saving thoir Governor the effect will be none the less damaging to their future prospects. The State belongs legitimately to the republi- can side. The democratic Attorney General was elected in 1870 by o majority of nearly five thousand through a division in the repub- lican ranks, but every other yeat since the cessation of the war the republicans have been successful by majorities ranging from nine to twenty-three thousand. This year it was con- fidently anticipated that tho republican triumph would be more signal than at tho last election for Governor in 1868, when the repub- lican candidate received over eighteen thou- sand majority, and everything appeared to justify this belief. The State nominations had been made by both parties prior to the union of the liberal republicans and demo- erats upon a Prosidontial ticket, and hence did not fairly represent that combi- nation, The whole federal and State patronage and the machinery of election were in the hands of the administration party. The negro vote was unitedin support of the re- ublican ticket, and many white citizens were dee to be practically disfranchised through threats of prosecution on old indictments that were held hanging over their heads. Itseemed to be as impossible to wrest North Carolina from the hands of the administration as it would have been to snatch this city govern- ment from the grasp of Tammany three years ago. No apprehension of a reverse was felt in the republican camp, and if gigantic efforts were put forth by that party in the canvass it was rather with the object of making their victory so overwhelming as to dismay the followers of Greeley than with any idea that they were needed to keep the State in the republican line. Under these circumstances the very closeness of the con- test and the uncertainty of the result is, in effect, a republican disaster, and will be so re- garded all over the United States, North and South, The lesson of the reverse is easily read. It is the natural fruit of the seed cast broadcast over the State by Secretary Boutwell and others of tho administration canvassors and stump orators, There is no doubt that when the campaign first commenced a large proportion of the white vote was prepared honestly to support the republican State ticket. Tho hope of the democracy was based upon the expectation that they would be able to divide the negroes and take a good share of them over to the con- servative side through the weight and influence of Horace Greeley’s name. But when tho republicans announced their policy of con- tinued agitation and hostility between the races; when Boutwell cautioned the negroes that the accession of the con- servatives to power would be the signal for their own re-enslavement or disfranchisement; when he denounced the proposition to close up the wounds of the war and restore peace between the sections andall over the Union, the intelligent white citizens repudiated such doctrines and gave their support to the conservative candidates. The extent of the evil of the teachings of these republican agitators may be gathered from the action of the nogroes after the election, when it was supposed that the State had gone largely democratic. They gathered around the county court house at Raleigh in blank dismay and in- dulged in the wildest speculations as to the fate that awaited then. Many of them sup- posed that they would at once be remanded back to slavery and compelled to work for their old masters ; others thought that if they escaped with their freedom they would at least be stripped of all their civil rights and lose their votes in the future, and others inno- cently inquired whether there would be any more law in the State. One account repre- sents a number of men and women in 4 panic prepared to escape from tho State, in the expectation that every negro would be arrested and killed or flogged for voting for the republicans, and that the families of the offenders would sharo in the punishment. No honest and intelligent white citizen could support a party that would impose upon the credulity of the ignorant negroes to such an extent as to impress these ideas upon their minds, and thus we find that in all counties free from coercion and corrup- tion the large majority of the whites voted against the republicans. Only in counties where threats of prosecution were used, where military rule was enforced and where money was freely employed did the republicans secure any large percentage of the white vote. The practical effect of this attempt to keep open the wounds of the war, to revive the hatreds of slavery and to raise a dangerous issue between the negroes and the whites has been to bring disaster upon the republicans ina State whore two-fifths of the voters are colored men. It will be still more fatal elsewhere if persevered in by the friends of the administra- tion. The whole country outside the political supporters of the administration “right or wrong’ is opposed to the harsh and extraordi- nary measures that have been imposed by Con- gress on the Southern States and put in opera- tion by the President. This opposition will be increased by the efforts of the republicans to force the rule of negroes and carpet-baggers upon that section of the country and by the practical evidence of its evil effect upon the negro mind. It is recognized everywhere as a wicked and dangerous experiment; os a reckless act that is likely to bring dis- order and bloodshed on the Southern States. The republican politicians who are surrounding the administration and leading it into all manners of peril mugt be able to see that the policy pursued in North Carolina last week cannot be again successfully and that if attempted it will sound the death Imell of the party. The reverse they have now met with should teach them unless they are wilfully blind to the warning it con- veys. Their present check, we are told by their organs, will only serve to spur them on to greater exertions; but their work will be profitless unless their tactics ond policy President Grant must surely see the dangerous position into which these unwise advisers are leading him. Four years ago, on his own merit as a General and a man, he carried effort by over twelve thousand majority. This year, with the aid of all the patron- age, with an army around the ballot boxes and with unlimited means in the hands of his party, he either loses it altogether, or saves the State ticket by a few hundred votes after a suspiciously delayed canvass, the honesty of which will be seriously questioned. He ought to-day to have doubled his majority of 1868 in the State. He would have done so had he adhered to the generous sentiments he avowed towards the South when the soldiers of the Confederacy luid down their arms and acknowledged him their conqueror. As it is he losesa United States Senator, a majority of the Congressmen and probably the State ticket. Need -he be told again how this disaster has been brought about? He can find its cause in the policy of Congress, to which he has lent himself through the political enforcement of the Ku Klux law, and in the doctrines avowed on the stump by his Secretary of the Treasury. The lesson and its moral are before him. If he would save himself from the same reverse in other States he must free himself from his present advisers and strike out a course for himself. Unless he does this, and does it quickly, he will find that a majority of the white voters of the United ‘States, North and South, will array themselves on the side of the majority of white voters in North Carolina and pronounce against his re-election. Geneva Tribunal—The Work of Arbitration Progressing. We publish this morning a cable despatch, special to the Henarn, giving some interesting particulars regarding the progress of the work before the Geneva Tribunal. In spite of the secrecy which is so carefully observed, facts from time to time ooze out, and although all is not known, enough is known to convince us that the tribunal is getting on with its work, and doing as well as, in the circumstances, is perhaps possible. It is now well understood that the judgment of the court will be against England, ond that generally she will be held responsible for the acts of the Confed- erate cruisers. According to our despatch the opinion prevails that the tribunal will award o gross amount. The sum awarded, it is believed, will be large. The case of the Georgia is said to be s0 weak that it has been practically aban- doned; but the case of the Shenandoah is to be vigorously and closely pressed. It is expected that the losses sustained by the Tho whaling fleet will be considered, and that some indemnity will be voted. Oontrary to what was expected at the outsot, théreis good reason to conclude that the work of the tribunal will soon be ended. The tribunal, however, does not any longer command any serious attention in this country. It is no longer spoken about. If our individual merchants and others who expect compensation for their losses are satis- fied, nobody will be sent It is no longer a matter in which the naffon asa whole takes any interest. It will be well if the judgment of the court is satisfactory all round; but it will not be wonderful if all the bad feeling begotten of the late war continues as before to divide the two peoples, Already the Wash- ington Treaty is shorn of much of its glory. It was a grand conception; but the conception his not become a grand reality. The Gold Market. It is curious to notice the opinions of specu- lators and soi-disant financiers on the rise of gold in the market. Some assert that this is all to be attributed to the gold speculators or to the temporary demand for a million or two additional just now to pay customs duties, The truth is, local or temporary causes may affect the price of gold from hour to hour or even for a day or two; but when the rise is steady and the tendency upward all the time there is a general cause operating. A demand for a million or two, more or less, for specula- tive purposes or for the temporary exi- gencies of our merchants would only affect the market for a brief period. The ronal cause of the rise and still upwird tendency of gold is in the constantly augmenting balance of trade against us and the demand for specie to pay the interest on our indebtedness abroad. The productions of our mines are not equal to this drain, and, consequently, the original stock on hand is in process of depletion. The specie brought here by the vast number of im- migrants coming weekly would help to offset this drain, but unfortunately the host of American absentees in Europe, mostly of the wealthy class, draw a larger amount of gold from the country than the immigrants bring. While there is all the time a glut of specie in the different countries of Europe the premium rises here. Rich as the country is in itself, and boundless as are our resources, we shall be at tho mercy of tho money- changers of Europe so long as the imported luxuries exceed in value the export of our bulky raw materials. There is evidently sorfething defective in our financial policy and eommercial system, even making allowance for this being a comparatively new and agricultural country. Look at France, which passed through a terrible, exhaustive war and financial strain as well as this country did, and yet the Fronch experience no such gold inflation or paper-money depreciation os wo have expérienced. The government has wasted and crippled our resources by hoarding gold and raising an unnecessary revenue in order to get the merit of paying off a large amount of debt without improving the credit of the nation, and now, when the pinch comes, gold rises. The only way to raise the credit of the country, to prevent the balance of trade being so largely against us and to reduce the pre- mium on gold is to take off the burdens of taxn- tion to the lowest point, to practise economy and thus to stimulate industry and the amount and varicty of our productions. The whole The Campaign in Virginia—Hunton vs. Mosby. ‘The quiet, drowsy little village of Salem, in Fauquier county, Virginia, under the evening shadows of the Blue Ridge, has suddenly risen into a place of considerable importance as thé scene of a new sensation in this Presi- dential canvass. The other day, in that quiet and sleepy little village, there was a joint po- litical discussion of the Presidential question (of which we have given a spirited report) be- tween General Eppa Hunton (late of the army of the so-called Confederate States) and Colo- nel John 8. Mosby, the famous Southern gue- rilla warrior in the Shenandoah Valley and the eastern counties of Virginia to the Potomac, Hunton advocating the cause of Mr. Greeley and Mosby the re-election of General Grant. In this discussion the leading points of the general line of argument employed in this canvass on each side were forcibly presented, General Hunton making a good, strong speech in favor of Greeley and against Grant, and Colonel Mosby making a telling appeal, sharp and crisp, in favor of Grant and against Gree- ley. But while General Hunton was compara- tively cool, careful and dignified in his state- ments, Colonel Mosby was remarkably pungent and personal. ‘And thereby hangs a tale.” Growing out of the pointed personal re- marks of Colonel Mosby on this remarkable occasion was, it appears, a bellicose personal feeling of J. B, Withers, 9 physician of some prominence at Warrenton, the county seat of Fauquier, which could not be repressed. Withers, therefore, immediately challenged Mosby according to tho rules laid down in the so-called code of honor, and Mosby promptly took up the gauntlet. But the civil authorities, getting wind of these preliminary preparations for a breach of law and order, caused the arrest of the belligerents and bound them over to keep the peace. It is said, how- ever, that they will find some other locality in which they may indulge in their pistols and coffee without interruption, and it is suspected that they will seek to settle this little affair according to ‘the code’ at the dark and bloody ground of Bladensburg. We hope, however, that by the civil authorities or by the friends of these warriors they will be fol- lowed up and persuaded to lay down their warlike weapons and ‘shake hands across the bloody chasm.” We like the idea of a division among “the men in gray’’ on this Presidential question, as we should like to see @ division among the colored population—the men in black—and we should regret to have this spirited beginning of o joint discussion at Salem spoiled by ‘‘villanous saltpetre.’’ Wo urge the friends of Withers and Mosby to bring them to a treaty of peace, so that Mosby and Hunton may pick the flint and try itagain in the field of argument as between Grant and Greeley. We want no bloodshed in this Presidential contest. We want no example of an appeal to arms set so early in the campaign as these fiery Virginians pro- pose to set it. Let us agree to settle this business on all sides according to the code of common sense, and ‘let us have peace.'’ The Situation in Spain. Tho Madrid correspondent of the Heratp furnishes 9 communication, which we publish elsewhere this morning, on the situation in Spain. In discussing this question a wide area must be gone over, and this task the cor- respondent performs in a very efficient and thorough manner. It is, however, the rela- tions between Spain and the United States which more particularly attract our attention. These are neither such as cause us gratifica- tion nor afford us pleasure in considering them. The case of Dr. Houard is one in which the United States plays a most ignoble part. Tho American Minister, we were led to believe, was to demand, by order of President Grant, tho release of the unfortunate physician, yet we find that by some hocus pocus arrangement, in which the name of our temporizing Secretary of State is mixed up, the prisoner is released as an act of clemency by King Amadeus. And this is not the only case in which the United States plays a weak part. Passing over the subject, and coming to the political aspect of the much-perplexed and sorely puzzled nation, we find parties as active, as distinctly marked and as determined in hostility to the present dynasty as ever. King Amadeus labors hard to make himself popular, to rule according toa constitution adopted before he accepted the crown, and endeavors to soothe the con- flicting elements; but neither his untiring zeal nor honest intentions have been found sufficient to shield him from the hostility of jealous and disappointed partisans or the bullet of hire- ling assassins. Inan interview which His Maj- esty had with a visitor recently, and which we print this morning, the King expresses himself with a frankness which does him credit. He wishes to rule according to the constitution and for the good of Spain, but he appears to have before him a task which can- dor compels us to admit he can hardly end otherwise than in failure. Protection for Poor Jack. No class of men have suffered worse usage than sailors, Their calling, under the most favorable circumstances, though not lacking in romantic charm, often brings them into situa- tions of extreme hardship and peril. They take their lives in their hands when they risk the dangers of the deep. With patient toil they serve commerce and civilization in days of peace, and in war none more gallantly defend our flag or punish its enemies. But Jack is proverbially imprudent and credulous. In every port he is preyed upon by land sharks, who fatten on his frailties, Coming ashore from a voyage he is dragged to a board- ing house, where, if he can only be made drunk or be stupefied with drugs, he is merci- lessly robbed by his protended friends. Thus is absorbed most of his wages, and when his money is gone he is shipped for another voy- age by the boarding-house keeper, frequently while too drunk to know what he is about. He wakes to consciousness when his voyage is commenced, to find himself the victim of a brutal ‘master, whom he is power- less to resist. To correct such abuses is the object of the law passed last winter, and which goes into operation to-day. Under its pro- visions shipping commissioners have been ap- pointed in the principal ports of the Union, who aro authorized to supervise the shipping of all seamen and their receipt of wages, In ports where there is no commissioner the col- lectors of customs are directed to perform the same duties. All payments to sailors are to be made at the commissioner’s office; the men financial policy of the government has been wrong, and the soquer it is reverged the better, are to be furnished in advance with full state- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1872—TRIPLE SAMET, tars will be obliged to seek their gains by other and less cruel methods. Every sailor who leaves port will have the opportunity to judge soberly as to the character of the master and officers of his vessel before shipping ; and when he returns he will be protected in all his rights and full and honest payment of his wages assured. Captain Duncan, the Com- missioner at this port, an old seaman, has or- ganized his office with a full staff of assistants. If Jack is fooled out of his hard-carned wages after boing paid aff, under the provisions of this new law, it will be his own fault, and it seems that he canpot bo unwillingly dragged into an engagement. Of course, when afloat no law can absolutely prevent rough usage from brutal officers ; but ho can reflect that the law is open to give him relief and to punish his wrongs when he shall arrive at an Ameri- can port, and that the sympathies of the pub- lic will always aid him in obtaining justice, The American Federal Council of the + International, Our Utopian friends, the Internationalists, have issued an address to the American work- ing classes, which at once proves that its authors do not understand the genius of the people to whom they speak. Born for the most part in lands in which the inhab- itants are in the habit of looking for guidance or direction from a compli- cated machinery of government, they look even for liberty to some organized form of interference with individual rights for the ben- efit of the community. We aro not prepared to enter into any lengthened discussion as to the nature of the abstract good which the In- ternationalist movement aims at. It is enough to point out that the change which they propose to strive for would not be looked on as a blessing by any citizen with American instincts. On the contrary, if the Utopia which these men dream about, with its con- stantinterference with individual rights, wero established for twenty-four hours the population of this country would rise en masse and over- throw it, It may be all very well for long- haired dreamers to have a government which would see that the buttons were properly sewed on their shirts, but the vigorous, manly inhabitants of this Continent would not sub- mit to any such help, They would prefer to go without any buttons. The length to which government is now cafried is almost too much for them, and the growls of the people at the party in power show that they are not at all prepared to be taken care of like huge children. Nor is the policy which will deprive tho indus- trious and enterprising of the power of bettcr- ing their position likely to receive support. The love of equality is no doubt very deeply implanted in the human breast, but it gener- ally aims at equality with what is above, not with what is below. Tho selfish interest of every man who has something or hopes to have something is arrayed against those level- lers who preach a doctrine which they would never think of carrying to its logical conclu- sion in their own case. Men do not want equality, for they recognize that there is no such thing in nature. Besides, the adoption of a scheme of society that would annihilate personal ambition would deprive the world of all motive to progress, and in a few ages we would sink back into the poverty and bar- barism of the American Indians, Even our Utopian friends will hardly argue that this would be a happy change. That there are many and crying evils in our present civilization no reasonable man will hesitate to admit; but the cure for them is not to be found in the International scheme. We must build up if we would increase the happi- ness of the people, not attempt to purchase benefits for one class by inflicting sufforing on another. We must lift up the workingman, educate him and teach him self-reliance, and then he will, by the action of natural laws, find his true level in the social system. Labor organizations, under conipetent and practical men, eschewing all Utopian projects, might greatly assist in improving the condition of the workingman; but addresses like that of the Federal Council of the Internationalists only damage the cause they aro intended to serve by driving away from the movement men of practical minds, who alone could effect any good. ROBT EIN A AAOETS Interesting Stellar Rescarches. The late researches of the eminent English astronomer, Huggins, present some highly in- teresting prospects for the comparatively new science of spectroscopic astronomy. In a re- markable paper, read before the Royal Society very recently, this gentleman gives tho results of protracted observations on the motions of stars, and his conclusions, reached by obser- vation, confirm the speculations of the re- nowned Sir William Herschel, made in 1783. About five years ago Mr. Huggins published the result of a few detached observations on Sirius, “the Dog Star’’ of the ancients, from the rising of which,‘in tho latter part of August, they dated the period of most unfavor- able influences, excessive heat and disease. The astronomer’s labors established the fact that this star was moving from the earth with the astounding velocity of twenty-five miles per second. His later investigations, how- ever, are yet more startling, and reveal tho phenomenon of many stars and systems of stars approaching the solar system with the enormous velocity of more than fifty miles per second or three thousand miles per minute. The immense star-drifts, or movement in sys- tems and clusters of the heavenly bodies, originally advocated by Herschel, is accepted by Mr, Huggins as agreeable to his researches, if not verified by them. It isa matter of congratulation to scionco that spectroscopic astronomy is now penetrat- ing the most distant’ regions of space, and promises ere long to unrayel many of thoso mysterious stellar phenomena upon a scien- tific acquaintance with which our practical knowledge of so many terrestrial phenomena depends, Tho distinguished scientist who has begun these researches is now pushing them forward, and we may expeot many new facta and rich discoveries in the star worlds Grande at the head of an armed band, cap- tured a resident of Toxas at his ranch, near Eagle Pass, and carried him off a prisoner to the soil of the neighboring republic. Valdez drove away a number of horses also, This system of high-handed outrage will soon com- plicate our relations with Mexico seriously. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Governor Edward F. Noyes, of Ohio, is at the Metropolitan Hotel Postmaster W. L. Burt, of Boston, is stopping at the Astor House. Ifoutenant Commander Lewis Olark, of the United States Navy, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Secretary of State Homer A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsio, has arrived at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander 0. M. Schoonmaker, of the United States Navy, is staying at the Astor House. General J. C. Fremont ts registered at the Claren- don Hotel. Colonel A, H. Bowman, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Francis Kernan, of Utica, arrrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening. Mr. Kernan is one of the prominent candidates for the democratic nomi- nation for Governor, | Colonel Robert M. Douglas, the Private Secretary of President Grant, yesterday arrived at the St Nicholas Hotel. Ohief Justice W. B, Richards, of Toronto, Oanada, is sojourning at the Westmoreland Hotel, Mr. Harry Wall, agent for Mr. and Mrs, Dion Boucicault, has arrived here, por steamer Egypt. Ex-Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, has returned from Europe. He went as a delegate to a Presby- terlan Convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was absent from home about two months. During his stay in Scotland and England he received great at- tention from all classes of society, and had several informal meetings with Premier Gladstone and other statesmen, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following changes in the station of naval ofMicers have been announced:—Rear Admiral self- ridge to relieve Commodore Parrott, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Callfornia, September 8, Admiral Selfridge has been assigned to this position on ac. count of his ability to superintend the construction of the dry dock, which will shortly be com- menced, Commodore Parrott to relieve Rear Admiral Steedman, September 5, in command of the Boston Navy Yard; Rear Admiral Steedman to proceed in the steamer of the 20th of Septemper, and on his arrival at Panama to relleve Commodore Stembel on board the Pensa- cola, and assume command of the South Pacific station. Commodore Stembel will return to the United States. Captain Upshur, now at New Lon- don, to relieve Captain Spotts,in command of the Pensacola, at Panama, the latter to proceed home; Captain Armstrong, executive officer at the Navy Yard, Mare Island, to the command of the Benicia on her arrival at that point from the Asiatic squadron; Captain Sartori, in command of the naval rendezvous at San Francisco, to relieve Captain Armstrong as executive oficer of the Navy Yard, Mare Island; Captain Roe on leave, to relieve Captain Sartori, in command of naval rendezvous, San Francisco; Captain Rouckendorf to proceed to Pensacola by the 20th of August, and relieve Cap- tain Renshaw in command of the Canandatgua, de- taching Captain Renshaw to await orders; Captain Creighton is ordered to the command of the Wor- cester on her arrival at Boston, and to serve as Chief of Staff with Rear Admiral Green. Captain Egbert Thompson has been detached from the com- mand of the Worcester and ordered home. Lieu- tenant Commander Pendicton and Lieutenant Washburn have been ordered to the Pensacola, Commodore John L. Worden, now in command of the Naval Academy, will be the next ofMicer pro- moted to the grade of Rear Admiral, which pro- motion will take place on the 19th of November, when Rear Admiral Winslow will retire on ac- count of long and faithful service, and Commodore Worden takes his place on the 24th of November. Rear Admiral Joseph F, Green will be retired, and Commodore George F. Emmons, now tn com- mand of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, will be pro- moted to Rear Admiral to take his place, Rear Admiral Winslow, however, having recelved a vote of thanks from Congress, constructively remains on the active list for ten years after the date of his re- tirement, the same as if he had not been retired permanently. Commander Ramsey has been detached as In- spector of Ordnance at the Washington Navy Yard, and ordered to temporary duty in the Bureau of Ordnance. Tieutenant Anthony has been detached from the Portsmouth Navy Yard and ordered to the Canan- daigua, and Master De Bois from the Yantic and ordered to the Canandaigua. The HERALD special correspondent in Yokohama, Japan, writing on tle 6th of July, reports the movements of the United States naval flag thus :— The Colorado returned from Hakodadl on the 1st ofJuly. The Benicia leftonthe 4thof July for San Francisco. — ‘ LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. ——es UNDER THE TITLE OF THE “ROCKY MOUNTAIN Sarnts," Appleton & Co. will soon issue a history of Mormonism, from the pen of T. B. H. Stenhouse, ‘an ex-Mormon elder. The work promises to be In- teresting and, in obedience to the demands of the hour, somewhat sensational. Mr. Stenhouse has enjoyed ample opportunities to enable him to give usa vivid picture of the interior working and ultimate aim of the new religion, aud no doubt his book will well repay perusal. Cartan W. F. Bout.er, an Englishman, has de scribed his remarkable trip up the Saskatchewan River, in a book just out in London, entitled “The Great Lone Land ; a narrative of travel and adven- ture in the Northwest of America, SPORGEON'S SERMONS, ninth series, or volume, 1s ready, from the press of Sheldon & Co. This com- prises twenty-eight new sermons. Tum BROTHER JONATHAN PUBLISHING COMPANY will soon revive the Brother Jonathan as a weekly literary sheet, “A HoNpRep Crttes oO AMERICA, IN THEIR Past AND Present," is the title of a forthcoming work from the press of J. B. Barr & Hyde, of Hartford, which will give complete detailed information abont all the citios and largest towns in the United States. Dr, Henny Correr hasin the press of Claxton, Remsen & Hafelfinger, Philadelphia, & new Wook, entitied “English Literature, Considered aa an In+ terpretor to English History.” A Very TrmELY Book on “Thermic Fover, or Sunstroke,” is about to issue from the press of Link pincott, written by Dr. Hl. 0. Wood, Jr,