The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1872, Page 4

jad BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No, 221 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Frow Asnoap—A Kiss wr tus Dank. Woop'’s MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st.— K1y, Tax AxkaNsas TuaveLie, Aiternoon and Evening OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway, between Houston and Bleeck¢r sts.—Onx Wire, s UNION SQUARE THEATRE, ith st. and Broadway:— Nay, Tax S30 vor Norutna, &c: ‘a ren WALLACK’S THEAT! road: REE TERATERP Greate’ Cae airtoonth CENTRAL PARK GARDRN.—Ganpax Ixsrnguantas, Concurr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scumnoe and Anr. = WIT SUPPLEMENT. avaere This Prestdonsial Oampaigg~How ly ? ids It Dritting Mp ey In the peculiarities and curiosities of this Presidential canvass it stands alone. Woe havo nothing to compare with it in all the catalogue of our Presidential battles touching the con- ditions of the fight and the changes which have taken place in the party in power and in the opposition elements. For instance, in General Grant we have a great soldier who was utterly unknown to the politicians until from hig sweeping and decisive victories in behalf of the Union he became the most avail- able Presidential candidate that either party could offer to the suffrages of the people. The consequence was that, while the republicans confidently counted upon him as their Prosi- dential standard bearer in their approaching campaign of 1868, the democrats were not without their hopes of securing him. They had found that his antecedents were, those of a democrat, that he had voted for Buchanan in 1856, and they thought that, notwithstanding his services ond high military promotions New York, Thursday, Aa; Advertisements, —Advertisemen 3—Indiana : ‘The Political Outlook in the Hoosier State—The Political Headquarters—Hamilton to Butler ; Schuyler Humilton Desires to Ex- ge His Position—Politics at Poughkeepsie— foRicipal Atfairs—The Attempted Suicide— Stolen Bonds Recovered—Monteclair’s Myste- rious Murder—Advertisements, 4—Editoria's: Leading Article, “The Pecullarities and Curiosities of This Presidential Cam- Sra epee ed Is It Drifting?’—The Alabama ims—Cable Telegrams from England, Ire- iT Russia, Germany and Spain—Personal I ‘igence—Amusement Announcements. S—North Carolina: The ei Looked-for Ro- sult; Caldwell Elected by About Eleven Hundred Majority—The Montana Election— Massachusetts: Sumuer and Banks Causing a Political Somersault—The Home of Horace: The Philosopher Flies to the Granite State; Receptions at Nashua and Manchester—The Bloomliugdale Asylum—Business Notices, 6—Monmouth Park Races : Third Day of the Sum- mer Meeting; Three Capital Contests— Nilsson’s Marriage; The Nuptial Ceremonies in Westminster's Old Abbey—The Harrisbur; Tornado : Terrible Fury of the Storm King al Pennsylvania’s Capital—Tho Jersey Police Problem—The New Shipping Law—Slaughter of the Innocents—Daring Robbery. TeAdveitisements. 8—Liv! tone and Stanley: Comments of the English Press on American Pluck and Enter- 1 tise; The Letters of the Great Traveller; frica’s Central Mystery Wrested from Her and Proclaimed Aloud; The African Slave Trade; The Lake System of Central Africa Connected with the ‘Nile: Stanley’s Stories of Livingstone; ‘The Chivalrous Enterprise Which Has Been Crowned with Success and Honoi”’—The Great Seal Expedition—The Board of Health—Impeachment of Barnard: John Strahan’s History of the Tammany Prose; cutions; Prosecuting and Defending Counsel “Rest” their Case, SeImpeachment of Barnard (Continued from Eighth Page)—Winancial and Commercial: A Duil Day in tne Produce Exchange; Comparl- son of Our Imports; Influence of the Reduc- tion of the Tarlif in the Prices of Dry Goods; Gold 115'4 a 115!,; Foreign Exchange Easier; Money Easy at Four Per Ceut; Stocks Heavy, with Erie as the Only Ray of Speculative Light; Purchase of $2,000,000 Five-Twentles by the Treasury; Boutwell’s Balances and the ‘Treasurer’s Report—New York Courts—Voro- ners’ Work Yesterday—A Vagraut's Death— Marriages and Deaths. 10—The Frulé Sioux: Spotted Tall and His Squaw Go Shopping; Broadway Filled with Great Crowds to See the Wild Sioux—Lile on the Waves; The Atlantic Yacht Club Fleet ona Cruise—Custom House Matters—Sbipping In- telligence—Advertisements. Tuer Nortu Canonnia Exectrron.—From the Special despatch we publish in another part of to-day’s issue it is apparent that Caldwell, the republican candidate for Governor, has been elected over Merrimon, the democratic nomi- nee, by & majority of from one to two thousand. The democrats, however, claim a victory also. By the latest returns they have carried five out of the eight Congressional districts. They will have majorities in both branches of the Legislature and eighteen majority on joint ballot, thus securing the election of a democrat to the United States Seuate in place of the re- publican incumbent, Senator Pool. The official returns have been received from fifty- four counties. Cantstinz Nursson’s Nuptiars.—In another part of this morning's issue we publish a let- ter from the London correspondent of the Henatp describing the marriage of Miss Nilsson in Westminster Abbey. To those who have listened to the fair cantatrice during her yisit to our shores the letter will prove in- teresting. Ta: Wutre Har anp Irs Owen arrived in their native State yesterday aud were honored by the citizens of Greeley tendencies in quite a family manner. The Sage referred, in the course of a few politically unimportant re- marks, to the occasion of his first visit to Manchester, N. H., which oceurred the same year as the battle of Waterloo, Tae Fir 1x Novcorop, Russia, which is reported in the Hxnatp to-day, occured, most unfortunately, during the season of the great fair which is held at that place. The goods stored in the different booths sustained heavy damage. This unexpected loss will haye the effect of unsettling the price averages of many valuable commodities, not only in the Russian markets, but at the commercial entrepots of Asia and Europe and, to a certain extent, in America also. Srorrep Tam and His Banp, who are ‘in this city, yesterday went through the usual process for delegation Indians—namely, being fed and lodged in good hotels and shown round the industrial wonders of the metropo- lis. In the evening they attended church and listened to o number of philanthropic Poor-Lo speeches. They returned the compliment in short, ‘good Indian’’ ad- dresses. They wanted money, Spotted Tail remarked, for the building of churches and Sunday schools. Inrecognition of this laud- able desire a goodly collection was taken up, with which the Brule Sioux will seek the | Spirit on their return to the Plains. What | ‘ ‘ould at present be unsafe to say. “fet AurMent or Pustic Wonks.—A food report comes to-day froma the Depart- ment of Public Works. The receipts from water rents last month show on incrcaso of thirty thousand dollars over July of last year. The receipts for seven months in 1872, ending ‘on August 1, are nearly one hundred thousand dollars in advance of the receipts for the cor- | responding period in 1671. On July 31 the receipts for the single day were the largest ever known in the department, reaching one hun- @red and twenty-two thousand dollars, or ‘twenty-six thousand higher than any previous day. With all this increase of business the returns of the department show that the ex- pense of collecting the water rents is now six under a republican President and Congress, he might still be gained as a democrat. Accordingly, some of the loading New York managers of the demooratic party proceeded to take soundings in the direction indicated, but they were too late. Genoral Grant had been secured by the republicans, and the door was shut. .He was made their Presidential candi- date against all comers in 1868, and he was elected. He has been nominated as the repub- lican standard bearer for another term, and still, while he has faithfully co-operated with the republican party in Congress in the foreign and domestic policy of his administration, and while he stands before the country as the recognized head and embodiment of the re- publican party, he has done nothing and has said nothing since 1868 toshow that he has ceased to be a democrat. Hence the common observation that if the democrats, in Mr. Greeley, have a republican as their Presi- dential champion, the republicans, in General Grant, have a democrat. We have never had anything so curious as this in our Presidential politics heretofore, and will probably have nothing like it for a long period hereafter. Another peculiarity in.this canvass, withont a precedent, lios in the fact that Mr. Greeley, the democratic candidate, was first nominated as the candidate of the anti-Grant or liberal republicans, and that, as the representative of these two parties, he has two strings to his bow. General Harrison, in 1840, against Van Buren, gathered in all the opposition elements of all descriptions ; but still he was ran and elected a8 the whig candidate, Again, Gen- ‘eral Taylor, in 1848, took in everything as fish that came into his net, and wished it to be un- derstood that ‘‘though he was a whig he was not an ultra whig ;” but when he got into the White House he found that he had to be an ultra whig in the hands of the whig party. Mr. Greeley, as the candidate of the two parties, on the same platform, has, in advance, judiciously provided for probable future con- tingencies by proclaiming the broad principle of equal rights in behalf of all his supporters. Hence the harmony between liberal republi- cans and democrats in his cause as the cause of sectional reconciliation ond civil service reform. Upon this doctrine of equal rights Mr, Greeley, as the champion of the ‘‘outs'’ against the “ins,” has unquestionably the ad- vantage over General Grant in reference to the “spoils and plunder ;”’ and it is an ad- vantage to the outside party which was nover more conspicuously developed than in this campaign. - But next to the nomination of Mr. Greeley as the democratic candidate the most remark- able political novelties of this Presidential can- vass are to be found in the changes of base vee AR, either of these candidates, but as a choico of | State ticket is to be voted for also on the game evils somo of them are for Grant, though most | day, and threo members of Congress. In 1871 of them are for Greeley. General Toombs, the State gaye a democratic majority of 2,857. General Wise and Colonel Mosby can hardly | Should the coming election sustain the now find language strong enough for the expression | constitution, which is claimed to be very lib- | of their detestation of Greeley, while General Hunton, General Jo. Johnston and others hardly fall behind Sumner in their con- demnations of General Grant. These divisions among the soldiers of the late Southern confederacy show at least that spirit of free thought and individual independence which is always to be admired and never to be feared in a republic, And it is in this general breaking up of old party lines of division, and old party principles and preju- dices (the Southern blacks excepted), that we hail the signs of a reconstruction of parties, in which the issues and revenges of our civil war will be wholly cast aside, and the restora- tion and reconciliation of the South will be complete. In these revolts of old-line repub- licans against Grant, and of old-line demo- crats against Greeley, there is much that is curious and amusing, but nothing very alarm- ing, whatever may be th? issuo of this cx- traordinary contest, But what is tho prospect? How is the tide of public opinion drifting? another term to General Grant or in favor of an immediate change in the national adméatis> tration? Our first reports from the North Carolina election seemed to indicate tho be- ginning of a sweeping political reaction; but our last reports from Raleigh indicate that henceforward to tha end of the long agony in Noyember this Presidential battle will bo the sharpest and most fiercely and closely con- tested of all our national elections sinco that of 1844, between Polk and Clay, or that of 1856, between Fremont and Buchanan, Shall We Have a Statue of Dr. Liv- ingstone in the Central Park? It has been suggested by some of our leading citizens that a statue of Livingstone, tho great modern explorer and Christian missionary, ought to grace our Central Park. The idea has met with general favor, and we give it our hearty cnlorg:m:nt, We have a bust of Hum- boldt in the Park and a statue of Morse, and it is eminently fitting that Livingstone, with whose history America is now so closely and pleasingly identified, should take his place by the side of the renowned naturalist and the famous electrician, To the genius of Morse we are indebted for the wonderful medium through which the letters of Livingstone were recently transmitted through three thousand miles of ocean and read simultaneously by the people of Europe and America. It is fit that the statue of the man who is now atriv- ing not alone'to make scientific explorations, but to force civilization and Christianity into the heart of Africa, should stand beside that of the father of the electric telegraph, the great agent of civilization and progress all over the world. The statue of Sir Walter Scott, by Steele, the well known Scottish sculptor, from the original model which adorns the Scott Monument in Edinburg, will in a few months be placed in position, and the idea of the original projectors of the Park, who desired that it should in time be a gallery of art as well.as a place of natural beaut}, is in a fair way of being realized. The statue of Dr. Livingstone is already made. It is the work of Mrs. Amelia R. Hill, the widow of David O. Hill, a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, famous as a landscape painter, and especially as the de- yoted illustrator of the ‘Land of Burns’’ and Is it in favor of [ eral in its provisions, there will be little doubt of the election of the five democratic Presiden- tial electors to be chosen in November. In | cage the new constitution is defeated there will be an election of State officers in October. An active canvass is progressing, both parties laboring zealously for the advantage in this preliminary struggle, which will pretty clearly indicate the complexion of the State in the general Presidential engagement. Each party appears confident of victory; but both are so’ thoroughly divided on the questions involved in the proposed constitutional changes that the result is extremely doubtful. Greeley and Grant on Their Rounds— The Danger of Too Much Moral ‘Waxworks. Recreation, we must admit, is as necessary to Presidential candidates aa to anybody else, and nobody should say that because a man has received a nomination to the Presidency he should be obliged to wrap himself'up in him- self ond await results through a long summer season without a breath of fresh air. Any- body, however, who has noted the manner in which Mr. Greoley has been carried round the country, like a moral waxwork exhibition, for the past week or two, will regret the use to which he has come so soon. The murder of the matter is that, like the ‘‘figgers’’ of the late Artemus Ward, his most moral points are there- by turned into a fountain of ridicule, too much so for a sober-minded voter who has ninety days left to consider which way he is going to vote for President. General Grant, with his Havana, his handshaking and his infinitesimal oratory aniong the Thousand Islands, has an advantage over Mr. Greeley in this respect which a people so sensitive to the grotesque and tho ridiculous as Americans will not be nominee. The | in £OUNOVAL, AYVUGVIL O, 10te—Wilt SUPE LEMENE NEW YORK HERALD The Peculfarities and Curiosities of | cause’ aro divided between Grant’ and Gree- up by tho republicans, and is ranning against oe - procure ley. Those Southern warriors do not like | J. N, Camden, the ee ad * by tis — THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Prominent fellow partisans. Now Mr. Greele,’ “Sra eaey tap RS threatens to eclipse all the efforte-of-these! Fr0eendings Before the Geneva Court of Arbitrae “frightfal examples.” ‘That he refuses ¢o |’, *iaa—The Case of the Shonandoah—A Pro- make compromising speeches may bo @ Vongation of the Recess Probyble. point gained; but, as if fo make the |- moral waxwork business more true to TELEGRAM 0 THE NEW YORK WERALE: talking, he convulses Geneva reports mom people by gesture and action. B the bers of the Al&@ma Claims Arbitration Court were Philosopher back, ye liberal: - Bragerdig me oe ee conviction that it is quite feasible with the requisite money to deprive any individual of liberty and estate by the legal use of those in- stitutions which are intended by their founders | to serve only the purposes of human charity. Suppose an elderly man possessed of a comfortable estate. He becomes ill. On the purchased certificate of men who write M. D. after their names a magistrate authorizes his committal to an asylum as an adjudged luna- tic. This.can be done without even a notifica- tion of intention to take such proceedings being served upon his own children at hand. ‘Then bya second step a committee is author- ized to take charge of the person and estate of the so-called Iunatio, after which, for all chance he has to even obtain human justice, he might as well be in his grave. Horrible cruelties and shocking neglect aro at- tested by the affidavits filed on the motion of Mr. Van Vleck, who, though nover insane, as he alleges, was confined in the asylum more thana year. As this testimony is ew parte it may be untrue and eventually dis- proved; but the circumstances which cannot be denied are full of frightful suggestions. slow to appreciate. .It may not be exactly what one would define as harteur, or the more com- prehensive term, ‘‘dignity,’’ but is as distinct from the late caperings of Mr. Greeley as the réle of ‘walking gentleman’ in the theatre is from that of clown in the circus. The friends of General Grant have made the fatal error recently of returning the abuse and invective of the liberals in kind. How much more effective would it be to hold up the picture of the benevolent Philosopher in his white hat, shaking hands with the clean mechanics and hugging the babies of Bristol after the manner of the benevolent Pickwick in the memorable Parliamentary election canvass ! If these tactics were adopted it might suggest itself to many that Pickwick in Parliament would. form a perfect analogue to Greeley in the Presidential chair; and if this view were persisted in the foes of the Philosopher might find as many oddities in his record of isms as in that of the profound writer on the origin of the Hampstead Ponds and the discoverer of tho famous stone with the peculiar inscription. ‘We do not wish to injure Mr. Greeley’s pros- pects on this ground, and we shall not, there- fore, follow up the Pickwickian comparison which, sooth to say, might be indefinitely ex- tended. After the baby-hugging at Bristol comes scene which should make the friends of the Sage shudder if they believe that the preposterously absurd has that power of freez- ing respect in politics which it has in everyday life, We refer to the Rhode Island clambake, where, amid a voracious crowd of admirers, he the scenes associated with the writings of Sir Walter Scott. No person who has seen the co- lossal statue of the great explorer by Mrs. Steele would think of tempting art to another effort. made by old party leaders on both sides and in the trenchant campaign letters and speeches of these old soldiers. Thus, from Senator Sumner, who, until his St. Domingo quarrel with the administration was esteemed as the Magnus Apollo of the republican party, wo have had since January last a series of resolu- tions, speeches and letters against General Grant and his administration which, to- gether with the anti-Grant speeches of Gen- eral Schurz, have become the favorite cam- paign ammunition of the democrats, And Trumbull, with his caustic expositions of the shortcomings of the President, and Banks, with his modest announcements of the reasons which have determined him to support Gree- ley, have each contributed to strengthen Sumrer’s geveral indictment among that large bod ly of men who in this contest have been halting between two opinions, like the historical donkey between his two inviting bundles of hay. In all these letters and speeches, some of which are weakened in being too bitterly personal, the leading bolters from tho administration have been doing more or less effoctive work for all actively engaged in the cause of Greeley and Brown, On the other hand, it has been made mani- fest in the North Carolina election that neither the record of Greeley as a friend of the black man nor the appeals of Sumner and Schurz nor the arguments of Trumbull and McClure have made any impression upon the colored vote of the South in favor of Greeley as a Presidential candidate against Grant. The Southern blacks had ‘passed the word for General Grant,"’ and, in the freemasonry of their Union League, this settles the question. Here we see the laborer who comes into the work of the vineyard at tho eleventh hour may displace him who has borne the heat and bur- den of the day. Furthermore, against Sum- ner’s vials of wrath discharged upon the head of Grant, Speaker Blaine of the House of Representatives, and those old pioneer aboli- tionists, Gerrit Smith and William Lloyd Garrison, have come forward with strong letters in the Prasident’s support. The letter of the venerable Garrison (which we published | in full yesterday) is, with all ite bigotry, un- | questionably the best argument to the colored It is simply perfect. It is to be erected in England in honor of Livingstone as soon as he returns home. Why should we not have the same model erected here at once? A pho- tograph of the statuo is in New York, and is sufficient to prove that the high praise be- stowed upon the work when exhibited at the Royal Academy in London was not unmerited. Sir Noel Paton, the celebrated artist, famous for his two pictures, the ‘Quarrel’ and ‘‘Re- conciliation” of Oberon and Titania, and for his later and more ambitious work, entitled “The Pursuit of Pleasure,”’ pro- nounces the statue ‘a singularly faith- ful portrait of the man as a whole, em- bodying with remarkable power that indomita- ble but, undemonstrative Anglo-Saxon self- reliance and energy which characterize the great explorer.” The same authority says “the work has been carried on with a strong naturalistic feeling, remote from vulgarity on the one hand and on the other from the emasculate pseudo-idealism by which so many modern statues of men professedly ‘in their habit as they lived’ are rendered insipid as works of art and worthless as historical rec- ords, and impresses one, like the original, as at once familiar and heroic."’ Dr. Livingstone gave Mrs. Hill sittings for the statue immediately before he left on his present expedition, and hence the likeness is the latest one that has been taken. The de- sign is admirable. The figure of the adven- tarous explorer stands, with outstretched arm, grasping o Bible, as at once tho pioneer which is to point the way and guide him through all difficulties and tho gift, more valu- able than gold, which he offers to the heathen. A revolver tells of the dangers through which the lonely traveller expects to pass. The execution is equal to the design, and the details, all of which have reference to the mission of civilization and Ohristianity in which Dr. Livingstone is engaged, have been studied and wrought out without sacrificing the simplicity and breadth of tho statue as a whole, The Commissioners should secure a model of this great work and place it in the Central Park at once, so that it may be first teen here by Dr. Livingstone whon, as we hope men in support of General Grant, as their tried and trusty friend, that this campaign has pro- duced. But after the Southern blacks them- selves had ‘passed the word for Massa Grant’’ there was no need of any appeal to them in his bebalf from the venerable Garrison. Under all the circumstances the united front of the Southern blacks in support of Grant and against Greeley is very strango, and indi- cates a mysterious political organization which, we fear, is full of mischief os a distinct Southern political balance of power. On the other hand, we sce that while theso Southern ey | dollars a month, or seventy-two ousand dollars a year, less than it was last wear, This is substantial reform. and expect, he visits New York before his re- turn to his native land. in Order=The West Election. The North Carolina skirmish being ended, next in order is the election in West Virginia on the 22d of this month. On that day the State will determine the question of adopting the new constitution, which is advocated by Next Virginia cuts all sorts of ludicrous figures in a scramble for chowder. The side picture, too, of hungry adorers of His Sapience being hurled ignomini- ously from the table to languish in vain for the sucoulence of the bivalvular repast does not add to the dignity of the situation. It would seem from the samples of how Greeley’s friends intend to ‘run him” in the campaign that the feature of eccentricity to the border of lunacy is to be kept well be- fore the people. The woodchopping perform- ances before a select few, which it was well un- derstood would be chronicled for the million the day after, were passed over with an allow- ance for that form of harmless weakness among the noted of men which made Fred- erick the Great ostentatiously partial to dogs, and even King David so proud of his harp- twanging and heel-kicking that ho performed in public before the ark. But we scarcely imagined that the moral waxwork idea was to be so extensively applied as the baby-hugging, clam-scrambling since would lead us to believe. It is funny; it will amuse thousands sickened of the asperities of political personalities; yet the side-splitting sport may be death by ballot to Horace, as the stone-throwing was to the frog in tho fable. Let the white elephant business be stopped. The Philosopher seems to be frightened by his friends into compara- tive silence on the solid, well-known ground that if ho opens his mouth he may “put his foot in it.’ They have not, however, put a like embargo on his cavorting propensities, and they should at once seriously consider the necessity of doing so. He chafes as it is under the restraint on his tongue, and makes malicious jokes on the profession he succeeded in as an excuse. Now let him be tied up altogether before he does the liberal and demo- cratic cause any further mischief. If his ad- visers insist on the waxworks let the white coat, the white hat and the old boots be toted round the States; but let the Philosopher himself be stowed away like a barrel of winter pears, not to be served up for dessert before Christmas. As the ingenious Mrs. Jarley was not particular about likenesses, the historical habiliments might be worn by some venerable local celebrity wherever the exhibition is made. On the other side of the contest nature has done 2 good deal for General Grant. It denies him the gay and festive youthfulness of Horace, and it has fettered his tongue so fixedly that nobody is afraid he will ever suffer from oratorical sorethroat. His fault lies in letting his underlings do too much of tho fan- tastic business in his name, as Mr, Boutwell did in North Carolina and Babcock did in St. Domingo. It is with keen regret that wo urge on Mr, Greeley’s managers the propriety of endeavoring to curb his apparently irrepres- sible display of eccentricity as so much comi- cality lost to a nervo-straining people. Andy the democratic party and opposed by the re- publicans, under the lead of Governor John J. Jacob, who has hitherto been classed with the blacks are united almost as one man in sup- port of Grant tho fouthera heroes of tho ‘“Loat democrats, but being defeated for renomina- Johnson might never have loosened so com- pletely his hold on national respect if he had not ‘swung round the circle’ like an urchin on a merry-go-round. Governor Sey- tion in the State Convention, hag been taken | mour's weak imitation of that perform-.| con! They make it apparent that radical modifica- tions are needed in the laws which provide for the care of alleged lunatics. Spite or covet- ousness, armed with perjury, can too easily procure the taking off of any person whose care is too onerous or whose property tempts an unscrupulous relative or custodian. Though Bloomingdale may not be an unpleas- ant institution and its management may be perfect, it is an unpleasant reflection that one might be forced to reside there for years while perfectly sane or might be transferred to an- other asylum even less inviting. Paralysis might deprive a man of the power to speak or write, while still capable of exercising all the mental faculties, Should such a case be con- signed unwillingly toa public asylum while the victim has ample means to pay for his support? Even, as it appears in the case of Mr. Van Vleck, a man in sound health and sound mind can thus ‘‘closely be mewed up,”’ with hardly the ghost ofa chance for regaining his freedom till death brings him enfranchisement, Nothing is more obvious than that adjudication of insanity should be most carefully guarded against abuse. En- tirely incontrovertible proof and absolute pub- licity should be required before it should be competent for @ magistrate to authorize the restraint of individual liberty, without even the allegation of an offence. Some method should also be provided by which the inmates of asylums can communicate with the outer world without the aid, or in spite of, tho jailers to whose care they arecommitted. In Belgium all public and. private receptacles of the insane are furnished with letter boxes, which the keepers cannot open, in which the inmates can place communications to the local authorities, who are charged to investigate all suspicious cases. Our asylums should present their prisoners some such method of escape from a restraint likely to drive the strongest reason from its throne. In the reformation of these institutions and the laws which regulate them is a fair field for tho exertions of the humane and the lovers of justice. WASHINGTON. WashinaTow, Augnst 1, 1972, Diplomatic Personals. Hon. Francis Pakenham, First Secretary of the Britjsh Legation, starts for London to-morrow, hav- ing been granted leave of absence for several months.. It is understood that he will be assigned to another mission, Tie diplomatic corps and a host of friends regret his departure, as his bachelor entertainments during the past two years have been of a most sumptuous character. Baron D’Offenberg, the Russian Minister, has taken a residence on H street, and Duc de Noaitles, the French Minister, one on G@ street, where they will entertain during the coming season. Hilness of Secretary Dela Secretary Delano is ill at his residence at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and on Tuesday telegraphed to his son, John 8, Delano, Chief Clerk of the Interior De- partment, who was at Berxeloy Springs, to como to him at once, The Ka Klux PrisonersmAn Inquiry Ordered. In accordance with the letter from Mr. Gerrit Smith to the President, asking for the release of certain Ku Klux prisoners now confined m the Albany Penitentiary, the Attorney General, to whom the President referred the letter, has re- quested Colonel Whitley, Chief of the Government Detective Corps, to visit the institution where the prisoners are confined and make a complete inves- tigation into their condition, reporting all facts to the Department. The Louisville Unterrified Bantam. Blanton Duncan, in behalf of the Anti-Greeley Democratic Executive Committee, has issued a circular dated Louisville, August 6, which has been received here, denunciatory of the nomination of Greeley and Brown, and recommending measures for the appointment of delegates to the Louisville Convention of the 3d of September. The International Maritime Signal Sys- tem. ‘The Treasury Department is considering the pro- priety of urging upon Congress at its next session the importance of some general enactment in re- gard to the adoption by the merchant marine of the international code of signals now used by the mer- chant vessels of most foreign nations. This code ia being published by the Navy Department for use in the navy, and when completed will be on sale at its cost of publication, which will be less than $3 per volume. ‘The system is very complete, and by the use of the book communication can be established, as well between vessels of nations speaking different languages as between those of the same nation, All present communica- owing to several systems being In had and by 4 almost impracticable for an American rperchant veasel to communicate with another of ‘a nation speaking a foreign language, with forign signal stations or with vessels of the United Fstates Navy, by which the new code has been Pdopted. The ce experienced Under the pres- See acon vitl undoubtedly loa, to legislation upon the subject and the geneyal diguac ‘of the modes now in VOgUC. 4 tion between American vessels is very didioult, |; THE RECESS LIKELY \T0 BE PROLONGED, The Court rule for the nycess adjournment Clared that the arbitrators \would reassembie session to-morrow, Thuradsy.¥gth instant, but it possible they will not meet\s before week, i woe Parliament will be prorogued on Saturday at two o'clock. }: PLEASING RECOGNITION fo _Auemmoan PRESS RNTER- Mr. Mutter, editor of the Anglo-Amertoam, enter- tained Mr, Stanley, the HeraLp correspondent. from Africa, at a dinner given at the Junior United Service Club to-night. General Sherman, Minister Curtin, Mr, Moran, Secretary of the American Legation, and manyrep- resentatives of the press here and in America were present. . Pleasant speeches were made, and Mr. Stanley ‘was warmly congratulated on his perseverance an@ success, THE COTTON SUPPLY. One thousand six hundred and twenty-eightbales of American cotton were landed at Liverpoot: to-day. Thanks from the Royal Goographical Society. Sir Henry Rawlinson, President of the Royal Geographical Society, has written to Mr. Staniey,. thanking him for communicating intelligence with regard to Dr. Livingstone to the society, and re- ferring to the HERALD enterprise in terms of the highest praise. Severe Storm and Fatalities from Light ning. Lonpon, August 8—6 A. M. There was @ severe storm yesterday, which caused much damage throughout England, Sev eral persons were struck by lightning and killed, IRELAND. Publio Excitement from an Unusual Cause. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpow, August 7, 1872. ‘There is some excitement throughout Ireland over areport that gold has been discovered meat the town of Kinsale. _ RUSSIA. Alarming Fire and Serious Losses in Novgorod Destruction in the Booths and Store _Pralls of the Great Fair... TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORX HERALD. Sr. Psrerssure, August 7, 1872. A despatoh from Nizhnee-Novgorod states that a great conflagration is now raging in that city, The fire broke out in that quarter o1 the place where the annual fair is being held, and has already destroyed a great quantity of valuable goods. “WHO OAN PREVAIL AGAINST THE GREAT NOVGOROD 9? ‘The fire fiend bids fair to give a sad and severe aMrmative reply to the patriotic question which te conveyed in the old Russian proverb, “Who cam prevail against the gods and great Novgorod ?'? Novgorod was &@ grand commercial entrepot as early as the commencement of the thirteenth cen- tury, and the business transactions of ita great Fair exercise a marked influence on prices, even in British India, to-day. * GERMANY. Imperialistio Reunion Interpreted as a Pledge of Peace. - TELEGRAM TQ THE NEW YORK HERALD, BgRLIN, Angust 7, 1672. izial Correépondena considers the ap- c theeting of the Emperors of Germaay, Russia and Austria a guarantee of peace for Eu- rope. The writer adds, that “it is the purpose of Germany to maintain and strengthen the bonds be- tween Austria and Russia, for whose friendship she prepared the way.” SPAIN. Criminal Expatriation with Cabinet Projects fee Human Emancipation. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Maprin, August 7, 1872, The Carlist prisoners taken during the late in- surrection have been sent to the Canaries. THR CAUSE OF EMANCIPATION. ‘The Cabinet has submitted to the King a sertes of regulations for the abolition of slavery in the Spanish dominions. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. eee Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Indian Commissioner William Welch, of Philadel- phia, is at the Hoffman House. Captain Moodie, of the steamship Cuba, is stop. ping at the Brevoort House. Colonel William McCutcheon, of Mississippt, is: sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Congressman T, A. Jencks, of Rhodo Island, is at the Astor House. Mr, Jencka’ namo ts almost: synonymous with Civil Service reform, as he was the first to agitate the subject in Congress. Secretary of State Scribna is residing with hiss family at the Hempstead Houso at Greenport, L. FE. Governor Hoffman left the Clarendon Hotel for Newport yesterday afternoon. ‘The Marquis of Blandford and Lord Walsingham, yesterday sailed for home on the steamship Russia. ‘These gentlemen had been stopping at the Bre~ yoort House since Saturday. The Marqnis is a som of the Duke of Marlborough. Heis connected with: the East India service, and is, now returning to England on a teave of absence. He came averiand, and has spent some time visiting the principak watering places of this country. Mr. Joseph Price, the President of the Great West-| ern Railroad of Canada, ond Gilson Homaa,, English capitalist, who ts also a director ta We Great, Western Railroad Company, were pasv.n. geri the Russia yesterday. x f i THE UNIVERSITY CONVOOATION, é. sn Auuany, N. ¥., August's, 1972 At the University Convocation to-day professot Mear discussed, unfavorably, Herbew, spencer’a religion, President Barnard, of Colo’ mpia College, New York, read @ paper on cicctive studies in col- leges, which was <liscussed by Ly osident Samson, Principal Gregory and Professor jowoll. Professor ‘Tayler Lewis read § Depor OW, *ie Moral and the *t Secular in Education,’* 4 @