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4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ————_ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —_-——_ All business or news letters and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New Yore Hupp. Letters and packages should be properly scaled. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. —_+—__— NEW YORK HEKALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Uncertaintics of the Présidentiat Election—Some Advice for Mr. Greeley and His Friends. ’ tanks aro not sot off by any cor- responding gain to the administration side from demogratic defections. To say The supporters and political managers of | nothing of the alliance reported to have been Mr. Greeley appear to be falling into the same error into which the friends of President Grant were led prior to the North Carolina election. They are showing signs of over-confidence and over-boastfulness and closing their eyes to the serious work that lies before them. 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Page. 1—Advertiscments, R—Advertisemente—Books of Miography—Cor- oners’ Work Yesterday—Strange Freak of an Insane Man—A Clerk Charged with Stealing The Land ot the Moon: A Graphic Pen Picture of Unyamwezi; Scenic Characteristics, Inhabi- tants and Cultivation of Central Africa; Birdseye View of Unyanyembe; Life in the HERALD Camp at Kwihara; Curiosities of Afri- cau Cuisine and Social Amenities; Arraign- ment of Dr. Kirk; Outbreak of the Mirambo War; Attack by the Arabs and the HeRALD Force on his Villages; Slaughter and Rout of the Arabs; Herotc Death of Khamis bin Abdal- Jah; Di: usting Savage Rites with the Dead; Deine Kwihara—Mirambo Retires; 4—Editorial: Leading Article, ‘The Uncertainties of the Presidential Llectton—Some A/vice for Mr. Greeley and His Fricn’s"—Amusement Announcements, S—The Alabama Claums—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Turkey and Belgiuin— | North Carotina: The Result of the Flection Not OMicially Decidea—( The Granite State Wel A’Splenakd Pageant Ania Pr plendtd ant Ami ‘ofound Regret— Miscellancous felograms—Business Notieon. G=—The Land of the Moon (Continued from Third Page)—Moumouth Park Bk fourth Day of the Second Summer Meeting—Pleasure Affoat: The Atlantic Yacht Fleet Still En Voyage; Splendid Salling from Greenport to Stonington—Shooting a Burglar: Two Rul flans Surprised bya Plucky West Point Ua- det—Municipal Matters—The Jersey Police War—The Montclair Murder—The Washing- ton Street Burglary—Fire in Leonard Street— | A Bull on the Warpath—Gayetics at Long | Branch—An Unsuccessful Burglar. 7—Advertisements. 8—The Political Headquarters: Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, on the Prospects of the Cam- —The Louisville Convention : Lond Wails | m Out-and-Out Democrats; Call tor a Con- vention on September 3—A Stinging Indict- ment: Judge Black Arraigns President Grant Before the Court of Popular Opinton—The Byaceningasle Lunatic Asylum—The Sunday Liquor w—The Gin-Mii Homicide—Carry- ing Concealed Weapons—The Courts: Action on a Bond; Peremptory Writs in Mandamus Cases; The New Law of Assessment. eley in Concord: omnes Back Her Juarez’s Funeral; publican Governor by a thousand or fifteen hundred majority; yet, in consequence of these extravagant promises, the result falls like a wet blanket on the republican hopes and is regarded as practically an administra- tion defeat. A similar unwise policy has been pursued by the liberals from the start. When the Cincinnati. Convention assombled it was found that the experiment of an independent movement was an actual success. The Convention was largely attended, and the avowed opponents of the administration num- bered among them some of tho best known names in the old republican party. Imme- diately bonfires were lighted, gunpowder was burned, and amid general rejoicing it was declared that the doom of the administration was already pronounced. But soon camo an interval of doubt and apprehension as to what would be the action of the democratic party. It was felt that without the practically united support of that established organization, with its threo million voters, the liberal movement would becomes nothing more than a diversion in aid of the democracy in the Presidential fight. The opposition of the democratic organ in this city and its trenchant assaults on Greeley; the bitter speeches of Dan Voorhees, taking such strong ground against the Cin- cinnati candidate and putting in a powerful protest against his acceptance by democrats, rendered the prospect unpromising, to say the least. But tho whirlwind at Ballti- more in favor not only of the candidates but of the platform of the liberal republicans again revived the spirits of the opposition, and the fires were rekindled and the noisy demon- strations renewed. Then followed the card of the bolting free traders, with Carl Schurz at their head, calling 9 conference at the Fifth Avenue Ilotel, and again a cloud came over the sky of the liberal heavens; but it quickly cleared away when the dreaded meeting took place and it was found that Schurz, Grosve- nor and all the leading spirits endorsed Gree- ley, leaving only a disappointed political aspir- ant to the nomination and a handful of am- bitious young men in the soreheaded conclave. This danger surmounted, the last obstacle in the way of success seemed removed—for the Duncan straight-out farce was never deemed worthy of consideration—and the liberal re- formers became almost beside themselves with exultation. The constant accession to their ravks of leading republican politicians who had not originally united in the liberal movement, including Generals, Senators and members of Congress, and embracing such | names as Kilpatrick, Sumner, Banks, Ira Harris, A. T. Stewart, Dewit C. Littlejohn, Alvord, Farnsworth, of Illinois; Tappan, of New Hampshire, and others of a similar prominent standing, kept up the excitement and served to increase the confidence of the free lances of liberalism. The North Carolina election came next in order, with its false hopes too readily received and its premature powder-burning and boasting. All these things combined have induced the Greeley re- publicans and their democratic allies to sup- pose that the Presidential contest was virtually over, and they have loudly predicted fabulous majorities for their candidates in November and have not been disposed to concede more than four or five States in the Union to Grant. What has been the effect of this blind and 9=—The Courts (Continued from Eighth Page)— The Danger of Sleeping Out Doors—Financial | and Commer in | Wheat and Flou: ) Money Market at 3a Discounts Quict and Steady; ign Tx change Unsettied, with Nominal Rates; Stocks Heavy; Governments Firm, Southern | Securities Strong and Railway Mortgages | Steady; Boutwell’s Resource: 1 the Sub- | Treasurer's Report—Domestic, ana = Markets—Obituar, unreflecting enthusiasm? The liberal candi- date for the Presidency has been sent forth on a tour which, interspersed with woodchop- ping and clambakes, has been relied upon to excite a popular furor to which the noisy campaign of Tippecanoe and Tyle:, too, was to be as o Quaker meeting to a Tammany Sirsa Screen Be Ring Binge Pacringes and | primary. The liberal and democratic 10—Troiting at Buffalo: Taree bxciting Contests— | committees have been wasting their The Sixth Avenue Burglary—News from | ,; ‘ . : n Washington—Shipping Inteliigence—Adver- | time in firing premature guns or in sending Usements, forth gushing addresses instead of devoting Tae Mexican Government which was or- | ganized under Lerdo after the death of Juarez means well, evideatly, toward the people, and promises many useful reforms. We hope most | sincerely that the new President may be en- | abled and permitted to give offect to his inten- tions. Anogn Irvrorpg, a son of the ex-Emperor | of Mexico, died in Mexico City the same day | on which President Juarez expired. A curi- | ous coincidence, betokening perhaps the ces- | sation of the extremest systems of government in the neighboring country, and the near ad- vent of an era of liberal, intelligent and per- | sistent scl{-rule for the Moxican people. From tae Banxs or tHe Bospronvs come the wail and lamentation of thousands of per- sons who have been made homeless by the ravages of fire. A village situated on the Asiatic side of the water has been burned sud- denly and its people rendered completely des- tituto in consequence. They were poor before— Greeks and Jews for the most part—but now they are pauperized absolutely. Christianity | themselves to quiet and effective work. As natural consequence the slightest obstacle in the way of their screaming political engine—a switch misplaced—an administration baggage wagon on the rails, freighted, it may be, with fraudulent votes—is sufficient to throw the liberal train from the track and to cover the ground with its débris. There is no doubt that the North Carolina clection has resulted sub- stantially in a republican check, If the repub- lican ticket has really secured a majority of fifteen hundred which cannot be overcome on the official canvass or set aside by the Legisla- ture on proof of fraud, it is still a fact that the democrats havo gained the State Legisla- ture, a United States Senator and probably a majority of the Con, en, and that the re- publican loss on the Sta¥e vote since the last gubernatorial election is over seventeen thou- sand. ‘This, under o discreet management and a modest deportment on the part of the Greeley managers would havo been triumph enough, especially as the negroes of South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and | Virginia will be compelled to vote in their own States at the Presidential election, thus insur- will hasten to their relicf, as it will ultimately, perhaps at a very carly day, reform the social | system in Turkey from Constantinople out- ward, Tae Geneva Anprrnation anv Its Pron- ‘tems.—The Alabama Claims Arbitration Court mot in session yesterday and adjourned to the 14th instant. Tho press news from Ge- nova is contradictory. It is said that several of the arbitrators and counsel are invalided by illness brought on by excessive toil and Gisagreeable weather. Then, again, we are told that they hive adjourned for very many days, #0 as to be enabled to study the law points which have been argued before them. If the ‘weather is so utterly disagreeable in Geneva just in the very days of the tourist scason, and if men who have been made sick by brain work intend to curo themselves by study, then the prosent problem of the jurist negotiation is ag inexplicable ty ordinpry minds as was the | first, the ono which gave rise to it of, How did ‘the Alabama escape to soa? | ing that the “colonizing” charged against the | republicans, if really practised in August, can- | not be resorted to in November. But, in view | of the premature hundred guns in the City Hall | Park, of the loud tones in which the glorifica- | tions of the party organs have been pitched, and of the boastfulness in which the liberal politicians and fuglemen generally have in- | dulged, the shock received by the administra- | tion in North Carolina loses its force and be- cause. ‘We now desire to tell Mr. Greoley, as we have on former occasions told Prasident Grant, that the unwise policy of his supporters is likely to prove damaging to his hitherto flat- { tering prospects. He must put his Prosiden. tial vessel on a new tack if he would hold the distance he has gained in the race and pnss the stakeboat ahead, Ho must not confort him- self with the delusion that the result is certain to be in his favor because the large accessions to his sido from the republican comes iustead an apparent blow to the liberal | made by the republican managers in this city with the old Tammany Ring, with the Election Bureau, and with every official against whom criminal indictment is pending or may be found, the Greeley managers must remember that the politicians are not in a majority in the United States and control the elections when the people in their independent strength and vote in accordance with their convictions, Behind Sumner, Banks, Schurz, Fenton, Farnsworth, Trumbull and the other well-known political leaders who have cast their swords into the scale on the side of liberal reform stand, first, the great financial and commercial interests of the country, and, next, tho solid phalanx of the laboring classes. These havo not yet taken position in the fight; but under whichever banner they eventually array themselves on that side will victory alight. The probabilities favor the adhesion of the business interests to the administration causo— first, because the natural tendency of these interests is to that conservatism which teaches the support of the existing government, and, next, because Grant's four years of civil rule have left the country at peace and in apparent prosperity. Change is always deplored by commerce and wealth when it can reasonably be avoided; and as our credit is good abroad, as our people are prosperous at home and as our national debt is rapidly decreasing, commerce and wealth may con- clude that change is not necessary or desirable at this time. ‘Thenational banks have fattened on the policy of Secretary Boutwell, and have enjoyed special and valuable privileges, which bind them to the administration by the strong ties of self-advantage. It is possible that the palsied shipping interests may make an effort to raise their withered arms in protest; that cautious millionnaires may. begin to question whether our national finances are actually in a sound and solid condition or are only swelled by the unhealthy inflation of false figures and fictitious balances; that taxpayers may feel tempted to seek relief from heavy burdens in a change of rulers. But the probability is that the solid commercial strength of the country will be arrayed against a change, especially as the eccentric aud experimental character of the liberal candidate will scarcely recommend him to the con- fidence of the moneyed interests. The eventual position of the laboring masses in the contest is more problematical. The steady men of toil may think it well to keep things as they are, since they find enough work to do and enough food to eat; while the more restless spirits may be willing to join the cry of anything fora change. It is proba- ble, therefore, that the votes of this class will not all be cast one way, unless, indeed, some great concerted demonstration should be made by the powerful trade combinations in favor of one or other of the candidates. We caution Mr. Greeley and his advisers, in view of these facts, against the blind confidence and over-boastfulness in which they have recently indulged, and we warn them that without hard and persevering work they cannot hope to succeed. The contest is likely to be very close. It will certainly be vigorously fought to the last hourdby the administration, and the fact must not be overlooked that the republicans will have in their hands the con trol of the election machinery in this city and nearly all over the Union. Then, again, the republican majorities in a largs number of States at the last Presidential election were tremendously heavy and will be hard to overcome. The list of some of the strongest Grant States is a formidable one—in Iowa, forty-six thousand; in Kansas, seventeen thousand; in Maine, twenty-eight thousand; in Massachusetts, seventy-seven thousand ; in Michigan, thirty-one thousand ; in Minnesota, fifteen thousand; in Missouri, twenty-five thousand; in New Hampshire, seven thousand ; in Ohio, forty-one thousand ; in Pennsylvania, twenty-nine thousand; in South Carolina, seventeen thousand; in Ten- nessee, thirty thousand; in Vermont, thirty- two thousand; in Wisconsin, twenty-four thousand. These are the solid bulwarks yet to be demolished by the liberal reform bat- teries, and we can conceive of nothing power- ful enough to break them down short of a tidal wave such as that which swept the old Tammany organization out of existence last | November. Hence, we counsel Mr. Greeley to leave off chopping unnecessary wood, eating indigestible clams and taking fa- tiguing journeys, and to give the benetit of his brains to those who are conducting his campaign. We counsel his friends, advisers and committeemen to discontinue cannon- firing, bombastic bulletins and Gambetta ad- dresses congratulatory of imaginary victories, and to set earnestly and vigorously about the lesubstantial work of the election. They may imagine that the popular tide runs with the white-hatted, heavy-booted farmer of Chappa- qua, but if they would not have it ebb before the port is reached they must bend to their oars with a will. International Maritime Signals. It would be difficuit to overestimate the importance of establishing o means, at once simple and practicable, which would enable ships to communicate on the high seas. At present, owing to difference of languages and signal systems, it is almost impossible for an American vessel to hold communication with foreign ships, and in case of distress there is | no way of making known the nature of assist- ance needed except by o clumsy kind of dumb show. This is an evil which should be remedied without loss of time, as the power of making their exact position known is a vital necessity to navigators at times. Indeed, there is perbaps no situation where the want of universal language is more keenly felt than at sea, and whatever is likely to supply the deficiency ought to be utilized, It is a matter of considerable regret to those interested in maritimo affairs that under the resent arTangements American ves- sels espana ‘great dithleulty in communicat- ing even with each other, uwing to the absence | of uniformity in the signal code, In Europe steps have been taken to avoid this difficulty by the adoption of an international code of signals which allows the ships of all nations to converse freely, untramme)led by difference of language. This is the nearest approach to the establishment of o universal language that has yet been made, and the effect it is likely to produce om the character and modo of thought of the seafarers can scarecly fail to be beneficial. The adoption of the international code of signals by the American marine will be urged on the attention of Congress as soon as it as- sembles. Already it isin use in the navy, where it gives complete satisfaction. There is little reason to fear any decided opposition to its adoption, as the reasons in support of the innovation are unanswerable. No interests will be injuriously affected by the change, and the Navy Department will soon have the code ready for publication ina form so cheap that it will leave no room for grumbling. By aid of this system vessels will not alone be able to speak with other vessels at sea without difference of nationality, but they will also be ablé to establish direct communication with all foreign signal stations. In view of these ad- . vantages there will be little difficulty in per- suading Congress to enact laws compelling the adoption of the code by the mercantile ma- rine. Itis only by making it obligatory that uniformity of system can be established, and there ought to be no delay or hesitancy in securing the desired reform. The present modes of communication are confusing and afford no ready or certain way of exchanging information at sea, and they should be swept away to make room for the new code, which meets all the requirements of the case, The Land of the Moon—Stanicy’s Story of the Expedition—The Charges Against Dr. Kirk. In another part of the Hzratp we present to our readers a continuation of the story of the Heraxp Expedition’s search after Dr. Living- stone. Giving in full detail events which have been already published in epitome, they will still be found highly interesting. The large tract of country known as Unyamwezi, or the Land of the Moon, is described at length, with pictures of its everyday life and everyday look, its agricultural industry, its government or semblance thereof, its natural features and tribal divisions, its fevers, its paganism and barbarism. Geographical and ethnological errors of former travellers are corrected and the quaint land rises before the mind in all its varied light and shade. This letter, which will be followed by others descriptive of the further struggles for the triumph of the expedition, is dated from Kwihara, in Unyan- yembe, on the 21st September, 1871. It cov- ers a period of three months passed almost entirely in camp, this state of fretful inaction having been forced upon the leader of the Henatp corps through the state of war between the native tribes, which the ambitious Mirambo afterwards had turned into war upon the trad- ing Arabs. That this savage possessed a large share of ability will be made manifest by taking note of his strategy and boldness, yet mingled with that mercilessness to the conquered which has passed into a sinister proverb since Brennusand his Gauls flaunted their stand- ards before the walls of Rome. With the re- tirement of Mirambo, gorged with the plunder of Tabora, and a careful preparation for the difficult and dangerous march to Ujiji bya new route, the narrative breaks off, not, how- ever, before the determination is registered to start once more on the indistinct trail of the long-lost Livingstone. The disheart- ening influences which beset the messen- ger of civilization in that unfortunate land, smitten with the triple curses of disease, barbarism and slavery, draw forth some bitter- ness from the courageous explorer, which, it must be admitted, was natural to the circum- stances. Among the many useful lessons that may be drawn from it one will be found in the case of the sailor Shaw, which tells as distinctly as possible that the vices and failings of civiliza- tion bring their Nemesis as well in the heart of Africa as in London, Paris or New York. The extent to which superstitious ignorance degrades mankind to the level of the beast or lower finds a painful instance in the shocking rites of the savages and their medi- cine men over the mutilated bodies of the slain. This and other features of utter depravity cry more loudly than a hundred senti- mental sermons in Exeter Hall for a com- mencement of the work of opening up to theso wretches of the human kind that higher life which Christianity alone can give. They de- mand that England shall begin the work by putting an end to the horrible traffic in flesh and blood that flourishes under the government of the Sultan of Zanzibar, more or less under the protection of the English flag. To what pur- pose can the processes of civilized thought and action be made plain to these savages if they feel the blight of slavery as their fore- runner and accompaniment? The words of Livingstone himself on this point, with the additional light thrown upon it by the Heratp correspondent, deserve especial attention at this moment from the English government. Let us hope they will not be spoken in vain. There is one portion of this communication which will be read by many with regret— namely, the revelation of the cruel neglect and carelessness of Dr. John Kirk, the Brit- isn Acting Consul at Zanzibar, in sending supplies to Dr. Livingstone. The indictment against this gentleman, so much trusted by the friends of the great explorer, is clear and ex- plicit and deals with sad facts only. It is re- corded that the expedition fitted out with stores for Dr. Livingstone was allowed to remain without the slightest cause for three months anda half on the coast at Bagomoyo, Had this been the result of the sluggishness natural to the half-castes, Arabs and Africans, who composed the expedition it might be palliated, but three months and a half from the sealing of the mail bag and the complete equipment of the caravan were allowed to elapse and no effort made to set them in motion. Dr. Kirk's visit to Bagamoyo, the news of which seems to have at last started the expedition, appears to have been wholly induced by a desire to hunt hartbeests with some British naval officers, and not with a view to helping or succoring tho noble old man who was marking out step- ping stones for civilization among the inner wilds of the Continent. Adding painfully. to the force of this charge is the fact that Dr. Kirk was a professed friend of Livingstone, and one, therefore, on whom the explorer's intimates in England and elsewhere believed they could rely to administer the relief 50 urgently needed, as we now know. The sup- posititious sagacity attributed to his oracular reports will also be terribly shaken by tho record of blunders made in speaking of districts and peoples whose location it must have been easy to learn correctly, Dr. Livingstono’s Ena- lish sympathizers, which should mean the entire English nation, will, we think, be justified in seeing to it that this carcless friend (to use a mild term), may have no further opportunity of leaving caravans in idleness upon the coast that should be six hundred miles on their road to the interior. What Dr. Kirk may have to say in his own defence can have but little effect on the accumulated evidence of strange heart- lesaness laid bare in our correspondents letter. The New Shipping Law—How It Works. A positive denial has been the uniform re- ply of the sailor-boarding-house keepers to the charges of abuse and fraud brought against them. They are, by their own showing, an innocent and calumniated class. No unfortu- nate, too drank to know whether he was afloat or ashore, has ever been sold by them to an impatient master, in haste to sail while the wind served. No. happy-go-lucky, just off a cruise, ever squandered his last dollar in their houses and was mortgagod by them for his ad- vance wages to an ontgoing vessel. These frightful stories have all been invented by men- dacious Jack to excite the sympathies of soft- hearted land lubbers, and to wickedly preju- dice the community against the honest and hard-working philanthropists of Cherry street, who hunt for the sailor from the time his craft crosses the bar at Sandy Hook. The new law forbids the runners boarding an American ves- sel to solicit lodgers till she shall have been moored at the w! forty-eight hours. Still the disinterested men engaged in that busi- ness throng the Staten Island landings, and hover in boats about every incoming ship. They are not prohibited from boarding foreign vessels, but the experienced seaman in charge of the Sailors’ Exchange doubts that they will serapulously obey the law by avoiding the decks of our own ineoming merchantmen. They are avowedly hostile to the law, which was framed to prevent them from swindling the credulous tars wild with the excitement of relief from toil and distracted by the novelty of lifeashore. So fully does the Commis- sioner believe that the runners will violate the law that be has chartered a steam tug to cruise in the bay to prevent or detect any such offence. His embarkation was announced by telegraph from the boarding-house keepers of the city to their associates and runners on Staten Island, and it is said that he will be allowed to make an arrest, in order to test before the Courts the validity of the law. It seems that sailors, whose pockets are lined with the results of long toil and exposure, aro considered legitimate prey for the boarding- house keepers, and they have openly combined to resist this law, which proposes to rescue the poor fellows from their jaws. They have long defied public opinion ; it remains to be seen if they are strong enough to override the law, or if it is so loosely drawn that their lawyers can drive a coach and four through its meshes. Shipping masters, too, complain of the ac- tion of the law. It will doprive them of a por- tion of their business. They are exerting themselves to their utmost to produce a dearth of seamen for American vessels by shipping them as rapidly as possible for foreign service; and they assert that soon some Yankee skipper will be detained in port from inability of the Commissioner to procure him a crew. Evi- dently the wish is father to the thought. Should such a delay occur it will come from the interested opposition of land sharks to a law'calculated to shield the hardy toiler of the sea from the greed which secks him the moment he enters our harbor and plots to strip him of his hard-earned dollars. In zealously and boldly endeavoring to carry out the law the Commissioner may be sure of the approval and support of all classes of the community whose good opinion is to be desired. If the law proves faulty it can be amended; but it must be enforced and our sailors protected when ashore. The Labor Reform Party and the “Straight-Out” Democrats—What Next? A pronunciamento has been issued, ‘in obedience to instructions passed at a confer- ence of workingmen held in New York city July 30, 1872,’ calling ‘a delegate conven- tion of the labor reform party to meet at Philadelphia on Thursday, August 22, 1872, to nominate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States.’’ In the next place we have the momentous information from Washington that Colonel Blanton Dun- can, of Kentucky, in behalf of the anti- Greeley or ‘‘straight-out’’ democratic com- mittee, has issued a circular, dated Louisville, August 6, denunciatory of the Baltimore democratic nominations of Greeley and Brown and recommending measures for the appointment of delegates to the proposod “straight-out’? democratic convention at Louisville, on the 8d of September next, the object in view being the nomination of a 4) “‘straight-ont’’ democratic Presidential ticket according to the gospel of Colonel Duncan and all those old-line Bourbons who have learned nothing and forgotten nothing, and who are fixed in the faith that the world is square and flat and stands still, and that tho true platform of the democratic party is the constitation of ‘Jeems Buchanan.” Now, in regard to both these daring enter- prises, we adhero to the opinion that they are too late; that all the ammunition expended in the efforts to get up and to run an inde- pendent labor-reform Presidential ticket or a “straight-out’’ democratic ticket will be am- munition wasted. These labor reformers ought to be satisfied, from their failures at Columbus, Ohio, and at New York, to strike a political bargain, that it will be utterly use- less to try again the foolish experiment at Philadelphia. Let us suppose, however, that they have met in convention, and have nomi- nated an independent Presidential ticket; what will they do with it? It will speedily disappear from the public eye, like the first labor reform ticket of Davis and Parkerand the temperance reform ticket of Black and Russell, and that extraordinary ticket of the women’s rights women and the Communists, the ticket of Vietoria Woodhull and Frederick Douglass, the ticket representing equal rights in politics and everything else to both sexes and all races of the human family. But between Mr. Horace H. Day, an oracle of the labor reformers, and Colonel Duncan, “straight-ont’’ democrat, there may be an un- derstanding to this effect—that the labor ro- formers at Philadelphia are to nominate a ticket (according to the example of the Cin- cinnati Convention) which will be acceptable to the “straicht-out’? demoerate at Lonisyita, {n order that, like the liberal republicans and liberal democrats, these other two parties may join their forces in the fight. This is » brilliant idea for the desperate emergency; bat to make the joint stock scheme at all effective it ought to be still further ‘The high contracting parties: ought to make such ar- rangements aa will secure at their Louisville Convention of democratic “straight-outs” a fusion with the labor reformers and the tem- perance reformers and @ coalition with the women’s rights women, the International and the Communists, and likewise with “G, F. T., the next President of South America,” and with “Daniel Pratt, the Great American Travel- ler’’ between Boston and New York. Other- wise this Presidential battle will be fought be- tween the party of tho administration and the supporters of Greeley and Grown, and any at- tempt to get up a third party will be labor in vain. We would carnestly call the attention of Mr. Day and Colonel Duncan to this important view of the subject. The East African Slave Trade. Already, it appears, the Hznaup Living. stone Search Expedition is bringing forth fruit, and just that kind of fruit on which Dr. Liv- ingstone most of all has set his heart. In one of his letters, published a few days ago in the Henatp, Dr. Livingstone writes “If my dis- closures regarding tho terrible jan slaving should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together.” Itis, as the London Telegraph well puts it, 9 singular coincidence that on the day previous to the publication of these words the London papers chronicled the proceedings of a large meeting held at the Mansion House for the express purpose of do- nouncing this accursed traffic. At tho right time the words of Dr. Livingstone rang over Europe and the world, and it would seem as if Providence had ripened the thoughts of men and furnished fresh reasons for renewing the attack on a trade which is as infamous ag it seems difficult to put down. To put down the traffic in human flesh the British govern- ment has from time to time paid many millions. of money.. With tho momory of our civil war frosh upon us we require not to be reminded of the evils of slavery or of tho cost of putting it down. At the meeting in London above referred to some most extraor- dinary statements were made. Sir Bartle Frire, a particular friend of Dr. Livingstone, who was the first speaker, said that ho had recently seen a letter from an old abolitionist, now ninety years of age, who had known Wil- berforce {and Clarkson ‘and been an intimate friend of Macintosh and Horner. In that let- ter the old man said he had gone to sleep thirty-five years ago in the belicf that tho slave trade was dead and buried ; but now he found that the trade which had been suppressed in the West was carried on with vigor on the East Coast of Africa, and partly under the protec- tion of tho British flag. Bad treatios, it was explained during the meeting, were tho cause. The great specch of the ‘evening was made by Mr. Russel Gurney, the Recorder of London. Mr. Gurney showed that for the five years end- ing 1866-7 the total mamber of registered - slaves exported from Kilwa was. upwards of ninety-seven thousand, making an average of nearly twenty thousand a year for that period. On each of the slaves shipped the Sultan levied a tax of two and a half dollars, and an addi- tional tax of two dollars was paid on overy slave landed at Zanzibar. Tho Sultan thas derived an income of twenty thousand pounds a year from thatsourco. It was also stated that one hundred thousand persons were annually captured for the purpose of being carried into slavery; and, according to Dr. Livingstone, four-fifths of those captured perish before they reach the coast. It is not wonderful that travellers should find in the interior whole districts, which a few years ago were smiling villages, converted into a wilderness. Such a state of things is a disgrace to this onlight- ened age—an age pre-eminently of Christian benevolence and Christian enterprise. We agree with Mr. Gurney that Germans, Ameri- cans and French, equally with the British, have an interest in this question; and we hope that the nations of Christendom will arouse themselves and by one vigorous effort wipe out this blot Which mars the beauty of our modern civilization. It has been demon- strated that the work can be easily done. It requires but the effort. Let the effort be made at once. THE. WEATHER. War DerartMeyt, OFFICE OF THE CHIE? SIGNAL OrFicER, Wasutnaron, D. C., August 9—t A, M. Synopsta for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer continues high from New York to Virginia, with clear weather and southwesterly winds in the Middle and Eastern States, and varia- ble winds in the Gulf and South Atlantic; higi temperature, with dimimished pressure, in the Northwest and on the upper lakes, with southerly to westerly winds extending castward over tha lower lakes and southward to the Ohio Valley. Auroras visible along the lower lakea, Prodabitities, Falling barometer on the lower lakes, with partly cloudy weather and southerly winds extending thence to the Middle and Eastern States; generally clear weather, with southerly to westerly winds on the Guif and South Atlantic States; clearing and clear weather in the Northwest and on the upper lakes, with southwesterly winds extending to the Upper Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- ri h the corresponding day of last year, periencated by the Phermometer at Hudaut’s macy, HERALD Bullding :— Pe ea aes Te 1sT1, 187% 92 82 a 16 TON + 85% THE ORUISE ‘ACHT CLUB. All the yachts intending to join the New York Yacht Club Squadron in the coming crutse wilt please report to Sccretary Minton at the carliest practicable moment. The yachts will rendezvous at Glen Cove on Monday, 12th inst. This notice is omictal. THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOSIATION, Boston, August 8, 1872. ‘ue National Educational Association, in session in this city, has chosen the following oMcers for the ensuing year:—President—B. G. Northrop, of Vir ginia. Vice Presidents—Newton Bateman, of ti- nots; George P. Beard, of Missouri; A, J. P ts; Edward Brooks, of nia; N. Lupton, of Alabama; A, 1% Stone, of Maine; N, A. Calkins, 0 RP Hb Ohio; W. Lt 8 gave & Comm imentary Tecop- nAaG FANQDYG Lali Utd eVCRIDE,