The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, ‘ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. su bysiness or news letters and telegraphic espatches must be addressed New Your Hiznatp. Letters and packages ghould bo proporly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. seperti The EvROPEAN Eprrion, every Wednesday, at Six CENTS per copy, $@ per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of ‘the Continent, both to include postage. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and prompily exe- cuted at the lowest rates. :No, 220 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. — Lverezia Borcia—Tax Wert ov Tak Wisu-rox Wisi, BOWERY THEATRE, Bow IN Tux Dark, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtioth st.— Kn, Tax Anvassas Travetter. Afternoon and Evening Frou Aproap—A Kiss OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts,—Oxe Wire, UNION SQUARE ite te) léth st. and Broadway.— Nay, Tax Goon ror Nornina, &c. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth atreet.—Ronin Hoop, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Garpun InstRvuENTAL Concert, TERRACE GARDEN, 58th st., between Third and Lex ington avs.—Sumaur Evawina Concerts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science anv Ant. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Now York, Wednesday, August 7, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Pace. i—Advertisements, " R—Advertisements. - 3—Barnard's Impeachment: The Supreme Court Mogul Rises to Explain; He Has Not Re- signed; Andy Garvey Vehemently Declares Himself Innocent; Barnard on the Stand— meee, Jim McCarthy; The Story of the Bri are arie luded—Kings County Board of Super- tal Bailroad Accident. eading Article, “President Grant's Reasons for rgd Re-election—What are the Real Issues of the Campaign ?’—Amuse- Ment Announcements, S—Cable Telegrams from England and Geneva— The United States Naval! Flag—Napoleon— News From the Bahamas—The North Carolina Election—-lorace and Clams: The Sage at a Rhode Island Clampake—Ulysses Insulated: Charades Among the Calypsos of the Thousand Islands—Mosby and Withers—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business Notices, 6—Racing at Monmouth Park: Fine Weather and Excellent Running; The Favorites all Beaten— Hall’s Driving Park, L. I—The Political Head- eee Mean, in the Woods: Opening ay Ol the Sing Sing cae Mecting—Yacht- ing: Cruise of the Atlantics—A Disastrous ‘Tornado—Singular Cases of Insensibility. J—Advertisements, 8—The New Dominion; Great Kanuckian Exclte- ment Over the Pending General Elections; Campaign Scandals; Railroad Rings in the House of Commons; Quebec Bloodthiratiness; Carpet-Baggers and Grumblers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba and British Colunbia—Weary of the World: A Young Lady Attempts to Drown Uerself from a Jer- sey City Ferry Bout—The Clty Finances and the Public Works—Coroners’ Work Yeater- day—The Fire ana Police Onicials’ Dimculty— | Proceedings in the Courts, S=The Courts (Continued from FLighth Page) — Financial and Commercial: Moderate Ac- tivity in the Wall Street Markets; Gold Re- Covers to 1154s and Closes at 11534 ; Continued Heavy Customs Receipts Under the New Tarif; A more Animated Movement on the Stock Exchange; Stocks O11; Erie an Excep- tion, Upon the Authentic Announcement of the Closing Out of Mr. Drew's Short Contract; Advance in this Stock to 401s; Governments Strong in Anticipation of the Purchase This Week of $2,000,000 for the Sinking Fund; Southern Securities Firm and Railway Mort- gages Steady; Money Easy and Foreign Ex- change Nominal; utwell's Balances—The New ees onl Its Effect Yesterday at the Seamen's Exchange; An Interesting Re- ort from Commissioner Duncan—Custom louse Matters—The Washingt treet Bur- | rey Little Girl Drowned—The Supposed ‘venton Murder—Jersey City or Paterson, Which—The Boss Horseshoers, 10—Mexican Bandits; Continual Excitement on the Texan Frontier; A Crisis Approaching— Spotted Tail and the’ Stoux In this City—Ship- ping Intelligence—Advertisements, Present Grant shook hands all day yes- terday with thousands at the Thousand Islands, and his admirers afterwards shook the light fantastic toc at a masquerade hop. Horack Grucry PasseD YESTERDAY among ton thousand clams and an equal’number of citizens of Rhode Island and the neighboring farms. Horace, it is stated, ate a prodigious quai””'y of the bivalves. Tae Ovrnicrs on tHe Rio Granpr Borper.—The United States is, probably, the only great civilized Power on the earth that would permit its soil to be continually invaded | and its citizens murdered and plundered with impunity by invading bands of bordering foreigners. Yet, according to our despatches published in another column, these crimes and invasions by Mexicans on the soil of the republic and upon our citizens in Texas have become as regular as day follows day. Mexico cannot make her people behave themselves, and our own gov- ernment shows as little ability to check Mexi- can outrages, All along the border these cattle thieves and murderers scoff at the American flag and ride roughshod over our territory and citizens as if they wore the lords of the soil. How long is this to last? The state of things existing on the Rio Grande border is incipient war, and yet the government at Washington folds its arms and looks on with indifference. How Sram Recanvs tre Unrrep Srates.— The graphic and exhaustive letter of our cor- respondent at Madrid, published yesterday, shows the effect of our timid policy towards Spain upon the Spanish people. With charac- teristic pride and ignorance they attribute the extreme moderation of our government in the case of Dr. Houard and regarding Cuba to fear and weakness. They really believe this coun- try is afraid to provoke the anger of poor old Bpain. They talk of the terrible things their Bavy would do if we presume too far. To such ® humiliating position has the wretched, trimming and timid policy of Secretary Fish brought this mighty republic. We fear that the old Spanish lobby at Washington, so near tho Secretary of State, and the Spanish gold lavished upon it, have utterly demoralized Mr. Fish ond the administration in all matters connected with Spain and Cuba, The foreign policy of the government for the last few years has been in all respects most miserable and humiliating, but in none moreso than with ®pain. No American can read the letter of Our Madrid correspondent without a senso of Baame and fecling of indignity. NEW YORK | President Grant’s Reasons for Seeking Re-election=What Are the Real Issuca of the Campaign, In a conversation with a Henatp corro- spondent on Monday last President Grant ex- plained how it was that ho came to be a candi- date in the present election. He was not anxious, he said, for a second term of offico ; but he consented to receive the nomination because he thought it would be tho best way of discovering whether a majority of his coun- trymen really believe all that has been alleged against his administration and himself per- sonally and are willing to aid his enemies in casting slanders upon him. ‘The asperities of an election campaign he thought would afford his political opponents and personal enemies an opportunity and an excuse to say all they could against him, and these he desired they should enjoy, although it scems they had already said enough before he had ever thought of a second term to induce him to ap- peal to his fellow citizens for ondorsement. Tho President goes on to state as another rea- son of his candidacy that he also desires to ascertain whether the republican party is to have its policy sustained or not; but as amy other nominee of tho organization could have settled that point as well as himself, we must conclude that his real reason for accepting or secking a renomi- nation was a desire to ascertain whether the people are ready to stand by him now as they stood by him in 1868. We think that President Grant scarcely does justice to himself or to the American people in this singular explanation, Tho election of a President of the United States involves grave interests, and should not be made simply a test for the endorsement or condemnation of any individual character, It is not just or fair to the electors, who have a responsible duty to perform and whose votes ought to be con- trolled by a conscientious consideration of the best interests of the country, to tell them that they are only called upon to decide by their ballots in November whether they will aid or condemn the slanderers of President Grant. The President's character is as dear to tho American people as to himself, and they have done nothing to assail it. Four years ago they gave him a proof of their respect and gratitude, and they should not be told that to elect another candidate to the Presidency now and to declare in favor of a change of national policy will be a personal condem- nation of Gencral Grant. Behind the President stand a party whose principles are on trial and a Congress whose acts have an influence for good or evil on the whole nation, and the issue cannot, therefore, be regarded as a mero personal one between the President and his enemies. Besides, if President Grant has accepted the nomination only for the purpose of appealing to the people fora second en- dorsement of his individual character and ser- vices, it is proper that he should place himself before them now as he stood before them four years ago. Then, he had declared in favor of & generous and liberal treatment of the men who had been in arms against the government, but had in good faith accepted the results of the war. Now, he enforces of his own will the arbitrary and offensive bayonet law over the Southern States and aids in carrying out the policy of oppression towards the Southern people initiated by the politicians in Congress. Then, he uttered the memorable words, ‘‘Let us have peace.’’ Now, he suffers his closest ad- visers to declare against peace and to counsel the reopening of all the wounds of the war. Then, he pronounced the negroes incapable of intelligently exercising the right of fran- chise. Now, his advocates seck to consolidate the negro vote of the Southern States upon him, and for that purpose to excite their worst passions against their old masters, We submit to President Grant that if the issue involved in this campaign is really so nar- row and personal as he seems to suppose, he should at once rid himself of the policy and the politicians who surround him, and suffer the people to decide the question upon his own merits alone. Let him loosen the military grasp from the throat of the Southern people, change his Cabinet, drive from him the counsellors who havo led him into all sorts of dilemmas and break up his military corps at the White House. He will then stand in the position he occupied when the nation bestowed upon him its high- est honors, four years ago. At present he is hidden from view by the men who have caused his administration to falsify all the professions he made and all the sentiments he professed before his election. To accept him the people must accept Secretary Fish, who has made us the laughing stock of foreign nations; Secretary Boutwell, who has striven to plunge the Southern States into jas dire confusion as he has brought upon us financially ; the Congressional politi- cians, who have sought to keep alive the hatred and bitterness of the war, and whose motto has been “Let us have no peace.”’ That the people are unwilling to do so is already seen in the vote of North Carolina, whose white citizens pronounce by an enormous majority against such acceptance. General Grant four years ago received in that State, without effort, over twelve thousand majority, To-day the State refuses him its endorsement, despite the most desperate exertions of his friends to se- cure o different result. Yet the intelligent white citizens of North Carolina do not sup- pose that, in refusing to endorse Boutwell’s incendiary doctrines, or to favor the teachings of the carpet-baggers who would create an issue of suspicion and hatred between the ex-slaves and the ex-slave owners, they aid the slanderers of President Grant or cast a slur upon the character of the Union General. If President Grant looks upon the election only as an opportunity to rebuke those who have heaped personal abuse and slander upon | him during his Presidency, would it not be | well for him to adviso the organs and orators who are advocating his cause to refrain from personal abuse and slander of his antagonist and of all who venture to declare in favor of the Greeley movement? It is scarcely consist- ent to complain of personality and calumny in ono breath, and in another to heap con- tumely and vilification upon the rival candi- date for the Presidency, and to blacken the characters of such men as Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Tipton, Doolittle, Fenton, Banks, Littlejohn, &e., simply because they dosiro to support Greeley in preference to Grant. We believe, however, that the President will, upon reflection, admit that there aro issues of some importance inyolved in this campaign HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT, outside his own personal character, which stands deservedly high among the thinking portion of the American people. The policy of the national government for the next four years hangs upon the verdict to be rendered at the ballot box next November. Men who respect and honor Grant as the General who successfully fought out the war of the rebel- lion ‘are now called upon to decide whether the politicians who refuse to have peace, and who strive after eight years to keep alive the evil spirit of the war, are, by hia re-election, to be continued in power. On one hand, wo are promised a complete obliteration of all the bitter memories of the war, a real civil service reform, a firm and dignified foreign policy, a practical efficiency in the management of our finances. Are we to yield all these popular and needed reforms in order to prove our regard for Gen- eral Grant, whom we all honor and respect? If the President will do justice to himself by casting off the trammels in which he is held by the radical politicians, by suspending the operation of the Ku Klux law, so as to prove his willingness to return to the generous impulses he once felt towards the Southern people, and by changing his Cabinet for the purpose of initiating a change in his foreign and. financial policy, he can then justly and safely apply to the people to endorse his personal character and condemn his slanderers. The country would rather have the reforms it demands under him than under another President, But he cannot in fairness and honor put the issue of his per- sonal quarrels upon the people while he holds up before him and retains in power the men whose policy is condemned by the popular judgment, and whose selfishness and reckless- ness would bring disordor and ruin upon the nation. pe i Election Riots in Quebec. By way of Toronto we have additional information of the election riots which took place in Quebec on Monday. It appears that about noon rioting was commenced by attacks on the committee rooms. Later in the after- noon a terrible fight took place in St. John's ward, resulting in the death of David Gandle, @ young sailmaker, who was shot through the head by a youth named Gandreau. Three others ‘were shot, but their wounds aro not considered fatal. Weare told in addition that all the stores were closed and that the mil- itary and the police were called out. Fears are entertained that there may be more blood- shed, but it would seem from our latest news that the pelice and the military have been successful in preserving the peace of the city. Quebec has become quite notorious for its lively elections. A bad spirit seems to ani- mate a large section of the population, and at election times this spirit finds free and full ex- pression. In Lower Canada political strife has always been embittered and intensified by the antagonisms of race and religion; and it does not seem from this latest election as if matters were mending with the advance of time, Onr friends across the border are much in the habit of reflecting on the disgraceful scenes which sometimes are witnessed at our elections. We have toadmit that our elec- tions are sometimes sufficiently disorderly; but with such an example as this of Quebec before us, we have a right to ask our cousins of the New Dominion to mind their own affnirs, Comparing New York with Quebec, the advantage seems to be on our side. The New Army Uniform. Judging from the description we have before us of the new uniform recently recommended bya board of experienced army officers, ap- proved by the President and adopted for the army of the United States, we believe it to be much better suited to the requirements of the service than that now worn, Although some radical changes have been made in the dress, both for officers and enlisted men, yet enough of the old has been retained to enable any one at all familiar with it to recognize at a glance its national characteristics. For instance, the officers’ coats, buttons and insignia of rank, as well as the colors of the men’s coats, trousers and facings, are unchanged, Yet many im- portant modifications have been introduced tending to beauty and to give freedom and ease of movement to troops upon hard ser- vice in the field. No doubt a few old fogies will find fault with it; this is to be expected; but the mar- tincts of the old school are scarce now. Fora longtime after the introduction of the per- cussion gun this same class of officers argued in favor of the flint-lock, and some are said to have been so tenacious of antiquated customs as even to have advocated bows and arrows as our military arms. Thoso officers also be- lieved that drills and dress parades constituted about the only essential elements in military education, and were fully impressed with the conviction thata man could not bea soldier unless he was harnessed up in illy conceived and badly arranged dress and carried a huge knapsack and equipments suspended to belts drawn across the body in such a pecu- liar manner as to cramp the chest and occa- sionally suspend all powers of respiration, while his head was. encased in an enor- mous leather cap, which, in form and flexi- bility, was not unlike «a camp kettle. These, with the old stiff leather stock, united in rendering the soldier almost as incapable of locomotion as if he had been screwed into a vice, These instruments of acute torture, up to the time of the Crimean war, were regarded by many as the perfection of military costume; but more recent experience of military men in campaigning has shown most conclusively that an easy-fitting uniform, affording free movement of the limbs and muscles, is by no means incompatible with the performance of all military duties or the attainment of a cor- rect martial bearing, besides being altogether more comfortable and conducive to health than the old one, Wo observe that epaulets and sashes are abolished except for general officers, This we look upon as a wise measure, for the reason that the uses for which these articles were originally designed no longer exist. Epaulets were placed upon the shoul- ders as a protection against sabre cuts, but since the introduction of long-range small arms cavalry are rarely able to approach near enough to uso the sabre, The sash was sup- posed to be availablo for carrying wounded men from the battle field, but stretchers and as they have been in most E im armies. Many have thought the old uniform was too plain and that the soldier required a more showy dreas, &. In this we concur, and are glad to seo the change. The new uniform dress coat for the enlisted men is copied from a very handsome Prussian model and has more ornamentation upon it than the old, yet it is equally serviceable and fits much better, The helmet, with the horse-hair plume, adopted for our mounted men, is very beautiful, and will doubtless meet the approval of the troops. The helmet has always been worn by mounted troops in Europe, especially in France and Prussia, The cam- paigning blouse and hat adopted were worn by a regiment during the Moxican war, and were universally liked, The blouse is light and easy, and the soft, pliable hat affords an excellent protection against the sun and rain. Upon the whole we like the new uniform, and predict that it will be very popular not only with the regular army, but will soon be copied into many of our militia organizations, The Secretary of War, who seems always to have had the best interests of the service at heart, has performed a good work in causing this new uniform to be introduced, and we most cordially congratulate him upon its adoption. The Late Auroral Display—Is It Por- tentoust=The Hurricane Season in the Tropics. The magnificent auroral display of last Sat- urday night will furnish scientists a new op- portunity for studying the probable cause and significance of the phenomenon. As we have already noticed, this aurora was brilliantly visible over a large portion of the country— from the lakes as far south as Washington— and was reported by some as the most extraor- dinary one ever remembered in their respec- tive localities, ““"°-+ ..* ., e Tho most satisfactory explanation of thesé splendors in the northern skies seems to be that which connects them with the reflection of electric discharges from the microscopic ice crystals, which compose the delicate cirrus clouds in the upper atmosphere, These crys- tals of condensed vapor, so minute as to defy any but the most practised observer, act as a screen for the reflection of light; and the de- position of watery vapor from the lofty equa- torial current produces the lightning discharge, But whether this be the true origin of auroras or not they are said by meteorologists to be excellent and almost unfailing premoni- tors of atmospheric disturbances, and often of the most disastrous gales and cyclones. It has been carefully observed at the Imperial Observatory at Paris that the perturbations of the magnetic needle are joined inseparably with widespread auroras and the consequent disturbances of the telegraphic wires. It is also clearly established, by scientific observa- tion, that the display of the Aurora Borealis indicates'a general movement of the atmos- phere in high latitudes, and especially such a movement over the Atlantic Ocean. The elec- tric discharges in the high north seem to register and reveal the fact that a vast body of equatorial and vapor-laden air has invaded the polar territory and begun to invite a counter movement, and repelling activity of the colder atmosphere, resulting, as all experience shows, in the immediate and usually successful attempt to expel the intruding mass, This is followed by the downrush of polar air over the middle latitudes, and even into the tropics themselves, as is beautifully shown by the late weather reports of the Signal Office. These re- ports attest the flow of 4 vast cur- rent of cold air from the northern part of the Continent, descending upon the entire country east of the Mississippi and overrunning the Southern and Gulf coasts. It is by no means improbable that this vast torrent of cool, semi-polar air, as it makes its irruption into the hot, watery air of the West Indies, may produce violent disturb- ance, either by mechanical conflict or by the sudden condensation of immense quantities of aqueous vapor. In the weather preceding the celebrated ‘Royal Charter’ gale, which swept over England in 1859, the thermometer for a few days previous was very low for the season, and over a large part of the globe auroras and meteors had been peculiarly abundant and resplendent; and even for a week or ten days previous the English skies had been illumined by the blood-red streamers of Aurora, It is so commonly observed by seamen that such premonitions of storms are reliable that they have long interpreted the coincidence as causal in its nature. This is the hurricane season for tho West Indies, and we may be now on our guard against those tropical storms which, generated in the hot seas, move westwardly on our Sonthern and Gulf coasts every year, and strew them with death, desolation and many noble wrecks, Already from Harrisburg we have intelligence of the visit of one of these atmospheric disturbances. A storm of wind and hail visited that city on Monday night last, sweeping over a space of country a milo in width, tearing up trees, unroofing build- ings and carrying destruction in its path, And we may expect to hear of similar tornadoes along the western line. It seems eminently desirable that the press should spare no pains to give publicity to the fullest and latest reports of the Signal Service, and all interested in the weather on the Atlantic should give them special at- tention and scrutiny. Many lives and much valuable shipping may thus be saved from the devouring fury of these Southern storms. Jepar Bepronp os Orrencrs AGAINST THE Pupuc Heauru.—In his charge to the Grand Jury for the August term, in the Court of Sessions on Tuesday, Judge Bedford made some practical and highly season. able remarks on a subject which he aptly terms “not only of importance to the present and future welfare of this metropolis, but one in which every citizen necessarily takes a deep interest.'’ This is the evil of bone-boiling and fat-melting establishments, rendering houses and offal depots within the city limits. These unsavory affairs have been the bane of the health authorities, and the suffer- ing public have protested again and again to have them removed or abated. Although, os Judge Bedford remarks, the civil arm of tho law is perhaps technically weak to punish promptly these health invaders, yet the Grand ambulances serve to perform that office in modern warfare, Hence there is no conceiva- expensive and awkward appendages, and we are glad they ar¢ to be rejected in on servica. ble object in longer retaining those useless, Jury may be the agents of improving the con- ditton of affairs consiferably by vigorous and ‘ncompromising section in cases brought be- toward remedying the evil, and will be of incalculable service to the Health Board in their efforts to make our city what {ft should be, healthy and free from all epidemical agents. Interesting Sugar Statistics. Americans eat more sugar, man for man, than any other people, If diet has any effect on dispositions we should be very sweet and rapidly growing sweeter. Perhaps, however, the acerbity of our political contests counter- acts the saccharines we absorb, and the nature of our government may require us to consume much candy to maintain our normal balance of amiability. In 1859 wo used of foreign sugar 239,034 tons; of cane sugar we made 192,150 tons, from molasses 12,053 tons and from the maple 27,000 tons; total, 470,237 tons. Last year we used 700,000 tons, being an increase of nearly fifty per cent in the twelve years; the returns showing that most of this increase has occurred within the last six years, the consumption of 1871 being fifteen per cent above that of the previous year. If to the sugar used be added one hundred and fifty thousand hogsheads of molasses, ‘not to mention a large amount of. honey, we see that the sweet trade is a very large item in our commerce. Twelve years ago it was computed that we made use of thirty-five pounds for each man, woman and child of our population. Now the rate has advanced to forty pounds each. Great Britain uses twenty-nine pounds, France nine pounds for each inhabitant and Germany still less, In these and in all tho European countries the consumption is grow- ing. The general use of sugar is modern, not doting further back than about four hundred years, While the demand for sugar is so rapidly increasing the source of supply as to the pro- duction of cane is rather falling off. Cuba, om with the horrors of war, has declined rather largely, dnd other of the cané-prowing West Indies send less to market than twenty years ago, In our own country we raise less cane than before the rebellion, while the culti- vation of sorghum has not grown to any con- siderable proportion. But while the supply from cane has decreased the. beet root has— especially in Europe—very rapidly come into cultivation to supply the want, In France the product of beet sugar has grown from sixty thousand to three hundred thousand tons; in Austria from ten thousand to eighty thousand tons, and in Russia from nothing to over one hundred thousand tons. One-sixth part of the sugar supply for England—nearly one hundred thousand tons—was from this source. This industry has so far only been very partially experimented upon in America. We have here every requisite of soil and climate necessary to the successful culture of beet root, and there can be no reason to pre- vent this country, the largest consumer of sweets in the world, from becoming the largest producer of beet sugar. Without doubt its production, when introduced, will prove one of the most remunerative methods of employing land. Who will be the public- spirited promoter of this great enterprise ? _A Wanntxa.—John Gaffney was recently sentenced to be hung at Buffalo for murder. In announcing his doom the presiding Judge said:—“You are the victim of the cowardly practice of carrying arms.” This warning is as applicable in New York as where it was uttered, and where it will soon be emphasized by an execution. A real or fancied injury or insult, partial, intoxication, a ready knife or pistol, anda murder. This plot, with infinite variety of detail, is daily repeated in the police office drama, costing many lives, Laws which forbid the carrying of weapons are too rarely enforced, but the natural effect of the baneful custom takes its revenge in uncounted crimes and sufferings incalculable. It*behooves all who carry: concealed arms to consider the danger they incur by this breach of law, and not to wait till, like Gaffney the murderer, a hasty quarrel loads them to the felon’s cell and the murderer’s end. THE WEATHER. ‘WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIBF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHinaton, D, C., August 7—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. Southerly winds and partly cloudy weather pre- vail from the lower lakes to Virginia, and thence northeastwardly; southerly and easterly winds, with threatening weather and occasional light rain, in the South Atlantic, and light northerly and east- eriy winds, with rain, on the Guif; falling barometer and threatening weather on the upper lakes; clear weather and southwesterly winds in the Northwest and over the Upper Mississippi and Ohio valley. Probabilities, The low barometer north of the upper lakes moves eastward on the lower lakes and over New York and New England; southwesterly winds and parly cloudy weather in the middle States; dimin- ishing pressure and rainfall, with southeasterly winds, in the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts; clear weather in the Northwest, the Upper Mississippi and Oluo valleys, with westerly winds; clearing weather, with northwesterly winds, on the upper lakes. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record wiil show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1871, 1872, pt a 3 5 ’ cos 12M.. 85 8h 12P, M. 15 Average temperature yesterday ws 11% Average temperature for corres} 83% NAVAL INTELLIGENOE. Wasuinaton, August 6, 1872. Lieutenant Commander Frederick R. Smith and other officers have been ordered with a draft of men and a marine guard to proceed to San Fran- cisco, via Panama, tn steamer from New York of the 20th instant They will be assigned to the Benicia, The United steamer Nipsic was at Samana, St. bard on the 28th July, It is understood that the office of naval store. keeper at Samana, now held by Walter Price, will be abolished and the stores turned over to Pay- master J. Q. Barton, of the Nipsic. The United States frigate Benicia arrived at San Francisco from Yokohama on the 5th inst, THE YACHT PALMER AT HALIFAX. HALIPAX, August 6, 1°75, The yacht Palmer, Captaim Stuyvesant, ‘of the New York Yacht Club, has arrived from, Shediac, homeward bound. NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL *.gg00TATION. Boston, “inga., August 6, 1872, The National Educatio”,,.) Agsoolation commenced 4 three days’ session, ‘fm thig ofty to-day, Opening addresses Were Tnde ty Mayor Gaston, Rev. R. C, saat Of tq Association. In the evening an addrosa op “uyethods of Moral Instruction in Public Setools” wag delivered by Dr. A. D. Mayo, of Cin- ino’, ‘The Association elected F. P. Fross, of fore them by Woe authorities, The signal punishment o; indicted offenders will go fr UY pC 30 R. Stokes, "nois, assistant secretary; Chauncey R. ‘of Ohio, assistant treasurer, and KR. Woodbury. ol \ Maing. second assistant treasurer, Waterston, E’canet, w, Underwood and Mr, White,’ —_-——= WASHINGTON. Wasninaton, August 6, 1972: im the Southern The States, : Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the’ Caer te rine Secretary of the Treasury, has ued important regulations for carrying out the Provisions of an act passed at the last session of Congress for the redemption and sale of lands, held by the United States under the severat acts levying direct taxes in the Southern States. It will be remembered that large tracts of land in the insurrectionary States, South Caro- lina, were abandoned by their owners and seized by the United States for the payment of direct taxes, Under the regulations just made ail lands now owned by the United States, by virtue of pra- ceedings under an act entitled “An act forthe collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary aig. tricts within the United States and for other pur- poses,” approved Juno 7, 1862, and under acts supplementary thereto, or upon the same sub- Ject matter, except such lands as are excepted by the seventh and eighth sections of the act of Con- Gress approved June 8, 1872—viz., lands, farms, Plantations or lots which are now, in whole or in part, used or occupied by the United States for na- tional cemeteries, or for the burial of the dead or other public purposes, or which, under the in- structions of the President of the United States, have been reserved for military or naval purposes, or such lot of land on Hunting Island, South Caro- lina, as may be necessary as a alte for the erection of @ lighthouse; also block now occupied as a court house for the county of Beaufort, May be redeemed and restored to the original owner, heirs at law or devisees or grantees, upon Qn application therefor to the Secretary of the Treasury, through the Commissioner of Interna) Revenue, made in compliance with those regula tions and the provistons of law in relation thereto, The application must be made within two years from June 8, 1872, and satisfactory evidence must be furnished in each case that the- applicant wag, at the date of sale, the legal owner, or is the heir atla%, devisee or grantee in good faith and for valuable consideration of such legal owner, The Tangle of the Tariffs. Mr. H. B. James, Chief of the Customs Division, Treasury Department, left for Now York this even- ing to confer with the Collector of the Port respect- ing the operation of the new Tariff law and the com- plex questions daily arising under the old tari. « The Currency Deputy Comptrollership. J. S, Langworthy, of Kingston, N. Y., at one time cashier of the Rondout Bank, haa been recom- mended by the Comptroller of Currency for the position of Deputy Comptroller. Hs is at the head Of one of the divisions in the Currency Bureau and one of the three certified to the Secretary of the Treasury for appointment by the Civil Service Ex- amining Board. The appointment will be made out to-morrow, Stone for Chicago’s Custom House. Before the contract for stone for the new Custom House building in Chicago is awarded, a test of the samples of granite aud sandstone will be made, to ascertain the amount of pressure each is capable of sustaining. These experiments were to have been made at the Smithsonian Institute, under the direction of Professor Henry, but, as he has been obliged to leave on an ispecting tour of light- houses, the tests will be made at the Navy Yard. The quarries will then be examined, and the stone selected which combines the most advantages for the work. Tobacco Tax Decision. A letter from the Acting Commissioner of Inter- nal Revenue to Collector Blake, of the Thirty- second New York district, states that it has been ruled by that office that the word “now” in section seventy-four of the act of July 20, 1868, as amended by section thirty-one of the act of June 6, 1872, re- fers to the date of the passage of the last named act, and that tobacco entered in 9” ovnort bonded warehouse on or after 1872, can be withdrawn for consumption this country only upon the payment of ws rates imposed by the act of July 20, 196° tion has arisen respecting the ra. + § quired upon tobacco which, hav=—~ and withdrawn on a transportation 7 export bonded warehouse prior to Jie placed in another honded warehouse « that date. th day of tobacco wen mT ait from on bonded warehouse to another on a tran.porveiiow bond. It had been withdrawn from the first ware- house neither for consumption nor sale nor for ex- port, but simply to change its locality. Upon a careful reconsideration of the question and, taking into account the fact that Congress evidently in- tended, by the provisions relative to the with- drawals of tobacco from export bonded warehouses between the date of the passage of the act and the date of its taking effect, an object which would in no degree be furthered by a prevention of removals from one warehouse to another, I am of opinion that under the spirit and reason of this statute this tobacco may now be withdrawn from bond upon payment of tax at the reduced rate imposed by the act of June 6, 1872. Any portion of any previous rulings upon this subject inconsistent herewith ia revoked, Effective Working of the New Pensir¢- Law. Immediately upon the passage of the recent Pe sion act, which increased the number of claims, & competent force was organized by General J. He Baker, Commissioner of Pensions. Circulars and blanks were prepared, and evorything waa done to facilitate the transaction of the immense | amount of extra work required to prepare the cer- tiflcates prior to the payment in September, im order that the pensioners might not be inconvent enced by the slightest delay. A letter from pensioner enclosing his pension certiticate insure the allowance of the increase. Attorneys are not recognized, as there are no claims to establish, For thus simplifying the form of application and prohibiting attorneys, the Com- misstoner is daily in receipt of letters from all parts of the country thanking him for his endeavors ta save trouble and expense to the pensioners, The work is now being pressed rapidly forward, Seven thousand cases have already been acted upon, and every certificate now in the ofce and filed under the act of June § prior to the 25th instant will be mailed to the Pension Agents before the 4th day of September next, A new form of certificate has been prepared from engraved plates, on parchment paper, and all worn or mutilated certificates will ba replaced by those of the new issue. ‘ Choking Off the Cherokees. i The Secretary of the Interior on the 3d inst. proved of the acceptance by the Cherokee fhitlon oh the provisions of the act of May 11, 1872, for the dis- posal of the Cherokee Strip, so called, in Kangag, and directed the Commissioner of the General Band Ofiice to prepare the necessary instructions.fay, car- tying the law into effect, Regulations for thre guid- ance of the district oMcera at Independereo and Washita are now being prepared, and, Wit be pro« mulgated at once for that purpose, =—_/ Treasury Balanoes/ Balance in the Treasury a} the clpse of business + «$11,846,642 74,101,798, ++ 81,963,830 , Import Staternent. i “The following are the imports for the week end- ing July 31 New York $2,405,104! 148,579, Baltimor 161,24 New Orleans 19,715 Total sess «+0 $2,804, 08% DEPARTURE OF THE JAPS. The Principal Members of the Oricntat Embassy Sailed for EuropemA “Send Off” from Boston. Boson, August 6, 1872. The principal members of the Japanese Embassy, sailed to-day in the steamship Olympus for Europe. A harbor steamer filled with citizens accompanted, the Olytapus to the Lower Light, and gave hearty farewell cheers, Salutes wore fired from the Navy Yard and forts as the Olympus passed down tha harbor.