The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —_-———— All business or news letters and telegraphic @egpatches must be addressed New Yonx Himpap. 4 ‘She Financial Situation of the Coun- try—Government Action Thercon— Large Custom House Reccipts—The Dry Goods Epidemic. One of the most often repeated and urgent pleas of the republican orators and newspapers for the re-election of General Grant is tho al- leged successful financial policy of the admin- istration. It must be admitted, too, that if this be well founded General Grant's adminis- tration has one strong claim at least to cee 6 f i speculation. Economy in governmentis likely to induce economy among the people. With © hundroed millions or more of gold lying idle in the Treasury for years the Secretary could not bring us to specie payments, and with his enormous surplus revenue he has not been able to bring our six per cents but to a trifle higher in tho market than the British throe per cents, although our boundless resources are well known abroad. The truth is, our national finances have been badly managed, Letters and packages should be properly | favor. The able management of the national | 9nd the fiuancial policy of the administration, eealed. Rejected comraunications will not be re- turned. fod od ty 057 ‘The Evrorran Eprrion, every Wednesday, at Six Cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great finances of a great nation is of more im- portance in promoting the welfare of the people than arc the mere partisan political questions of the day. Let us look, then, at the grounds for this plea of wisdom and ability in managing the finances of the country. It or rather of Mr. Boutwell, is a failure. In connection with this subject we may notice the extraordinary receipts from customs at this port since the Ist of the month, when the amended Tariff law came into operation. ‘They have been over @ million of dollars a day, Britain, or 93 to any part of the Continent, voth to | is not, however, with a view to political effect— | or for six days (Sunday excluded) six millions tnelude postage. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Sterco- typing and Engraving, neatly and promplly exe- uted at the lowest rates. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTER! BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Fxom Annoav—A Kiss an tae Dark. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Rroadway, corner Thirticth st-— » Tae Ancansas Taaventen, ANeruvon and Lv ang, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broad Bicecker y Iway, between Houston and sts. Unk Wire. 2 nee'at 2 Mth st. and Broadway. oc, Matinee at 25. UNION SQUARE THEA’ Nan, Tax Goop rox Noruixe, to the Presidential contest—so much, that we enter upon this subject, as for the purpose of correcting wrong impressions ‘and to show our actual financial condition and what the coun- try needs, About three hundred millions of the na- tional debt—a seventh of the wholo interest- bearing portion of the debt—has been paid off in little more than three years of General Grant’s administration. ‘This, undoubtedly, is an important and gratifying fact, and it is the ono chiefly which the republicans delight to dwell upon. In connection with this they claim the merit for the administration of hav- ing collected the revenuo more faithfully than it had been collected previously. It is but WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth t—Kontn Hoop. Matinee at Lig. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Hanpsour Jack—Don Cawar ve Bazan. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Escarro rox Siva CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Graxp Ixstaumxsrat Concxxt. Kk MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad way.— WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Saturday, August 10, 1872, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HER Page. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements—Marriages and Deatlis—Coro- ners’ Work Yesterday, 3=The Road to U. Starting from Kwihara; A Plunge Into the Wilderness; Stampede of the Herald Expedition; Rogoveriag the Run. aways; The Strong Fortress of Ugunda; Ma- Manyara, His Retinue and Hts Wonderment; RALD. Soran ides’ Revolt Among the Men; ymbay ‘Ih ed; Scenic Beautics of South. | ern Ukawe Crossing a River Over a Nat- ural Brilge ‘ater Plants; Wholesale Black- Mailing by the Native Chiefs; Cost of Ferriage in Uhka; A Night Flight from the Wahha; First Glunpse of Lake Tanganyika; Frantic Joy in thy Caravan; A Trinmphal Procession Into Bunder Ujiji; the Meeting with Doctor David Livingstone. 4—Editoria!: Leading Article, “The Financial Situation of the Country—Government Ac- tion Thoreon—Large Custom House Receipts; The Dry Goods Epidemic’—Amusement An- nouncements, S—The Alabama Clalms—Cable Telcgrams from England, Treland, Spain and ance—The | President's Return—North Carolina—\W! on Biacks—The Louisiana Convention—| cal Notes—Grecley at Rest—Mr. Wick! Resiguation—Adieux a L’Amerique—The Cam- ign Opened in Maine—Sumner Serenaded— ews from Washington—The Weather—Busi- neas Notices, 6=The Road to Ujiil (continued from Third Page) — Tl English Livingstone Expedition: How Caine To Ge Abandoncd—The Lro- fair to admit this fact also. Then, within the present year, the party in power has taken off fifty millions of taxation. Whatever may have been the motivé, and if even the object was to court popular favor on the eve of a Prosiden- tial election, a republican Congress and tho administration are entitled to credit for the boon. So far, then, as the party in power have brought about theso results, it has the right to speak about them and to claim com- mendation. But is the liquidation of three hundred millions of the interest-bearing debt duo to the financial policy or wisdom of the administra- tion? Was it wise evon to pay off the debt so rapidly? When General Grant came into power a revenue system was in operation that brought an income of over four hundred mil- lions a year and kept tho Treasury fall to ropletion. It was the same during Mr. John- son’s administration. Though the revenue was not as well collected; though, in fact, there were stupendous frauds while Mr. John- son was in the White House, arising chiefly from the bitter hostility of a republican Con- gress to the President and the corruption of the republican party, a large sum of the public debt was liquidated, besides an enor- mous amount of floating war indebtedness dis- charged, during that administration. Yet neither the republicans nor any other parties ever thought of giving Mr. Johnson credit for what was accomplished. It was the revenue systom—a war revenue after the war ccased—together with the wonderful resources of the country and ability of the people to Nuisance—Another Car Murder n rgiars Captured. TrAdvertiseme: S—Racing at M outh Park: Cioaing Day of the fecond mer Meeting; A Magnilicent At- tendance and Splendid’ § tting a y Annual in the Cheek—Suicide in Ne’ Proceedings in the Courts—Custom Hoi fairs—liiladelphia’s New Post OMce—A pocket Captured—the Political Headquarte: A Quict Day All Around; What is Thought About tue Reported Frauds in North Carolina | —The Coiored Vote. The Colored Vote (Continued from Eighth Page)—Republican Central Committce— Brooklyn Atairs—A River Thief Captured— Financial and Commercial: A Strong Mar- ket on the Produce Exchange; Wheat and Flour Firm; Cotton Quict at @ Slight Ad- | vance; A Steady Tone to the Gold Mar- ket, with Loans Easier; Customs Reeeipis 995,000; Continued Speculation in Vorcign xchange, with Sales of Sixty Day Hills at 30833; The Outiook of the Market; Stocks | Heavy and Lower, with @ Partial Raliy at the Ciose from the Lowest Point of the Day; Gov- ernments Quict and Firm; Sonthern Securi- ties Dull, Ra:lway Mortgages Steady and City Bank Shares Unchanged ; The Sub-Treasurer’s | Report-——Domestic and Europ: farkets——A | Murdered Man's Burial—The 1: stavus D. Cardezo—Lurylary. AeA Ku Klux Carolina De: handier, a North 3, The Culprit’s Contession ; } Solemn uth c a Seene in bag tad and Wa ne | the Treasury particularly has this ob- Sailing of the A tie Yae el jor aa ; eee ‘ * port—Suippiug Intelligence—Advertisements, | Ject in view, as is shown by his See 3 | reiterated speeches, in which he claims Tae Geneva TaivnaL.—It is now pretty | so much credit for the financial well understood that our representat in | policy of the administration. But, apart from Geneva have concluded their case and that the English counsel are proparing the ro- sponse. In (he meantime, and during the re- cess, Messrs. Hvarts, Cushing ard Waite have left Geneva to recuperate aud freshen up for the concluding acts of the arbitration « Sion. onsa- ‘Tur Democracy ov THs Crry on local affairs, according to all accounts, are split up into | cliques and factions to an extent never known before, and never were the politicians so per- plexed in their efforts to estimate the chances of Tom, Dick and Harry in our next municipal election. There are too many captains and too many cooks, and confusion reigns su- preme in the captain’s office and in the kitchen. Nor Enoven Gints to Go Rovuxv.—It is reported that the complete | consus returns of the United States for 1870 | give us these startling statistics of our popula- tion:— Men and boys... - os ‘Women and girls : iitepens Surplas of men anid boy oor 428,859 A surplus of 428,359 men and boys is some- | thing really startling when it is considered | that Adam and Eve, one man and one woman, is tho law of the creation. But as in the chapter of accidents there are more fatalities among boys than girls, and more widows than widowers, and more old maids than old bachelors, our surplus of men and boys is in the infantile, and not in the adult population. “Bo time at last makes all things even.”’ Tar Brooxirn Briwar.—Mayor Hall said in the Board of Apportionment, on Thursday, that, after an examination of the subject, he found the city authorities arc allowed no discretion in the matter of furnishing funds to the East River Bridge Company. Whether or not the directors of that corporation use the money judiciously or honestly, they are legally entitled to it, and the city is bound to furnish it, In this view of the case ihe Comptroller was directed to raise one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for this purpose. Every citizen is glad to seo this grand work go on and impatient for its early completion, but it seems as though the city, in consideration of its large contribution, ghould have some voice ns to whether the faoney shall be thrown into the river or pru- Beer cxpended. & , bear taxation, that kept the Treasury full and enabled the government to pay so much of the debt. With the exception of having collected the revenue better, General Grant’s adminis- istration is not more entitled to credit for pay- ing off a large amount of debt than was that of Mr. Johnson. And it must be borne in mind, as we have said, that Mr, Johnson was seven hundred and twenty-nine thousand dol- lars. Tho cause of this movement is known to our business men and is abnormal. Mer- chants held back their goods till the amended, or new Tariff law came into operation, in order to save the percentage of duty reduced by that law. Hence the eagerness to withdraw their goods from bond and to get them through the Custom House now, and the consequent enor- mous amount paid for duties. Yot we learn that the numerous bonded warehouses remain crammed, and that thero is no room to receive more goods, At tho same time every. vessel arriving is freighted down to the gunwale with valuable merchandise. No doubt numerous and large orders were given abroad by our merchants as soon as they knew the duties wore to be reduced, with the expectation that there would be a greater demand. How far their anticipations may be realized remains to be seen. They are sagacious business men and may not have exceeded the demand in their importations. Indeed, there is such a raging dry goods epidemic in this country that there scems to bo scarcely a limit to the wants of the market. Our people, and especially the women, appear to be going crazy about dry goods. Nearly half the productive indus- try of the country, perhaps, is absorbed in this luxury. Merchauts, tradesmen, mechan- ics, laborers and all classes work intently from morning till night, more to pay for the extrava- gance of dross than for the mere necessaries of life. How many of our men are kept at the mill of anxious toil, and even to the breaking down of their health, to pay for the dry goods extravagance of their families. Nine- tenths of the conversation of women, wherever they may be, anda great deal of their time are devoted to this subject. It seems to be the sum of their existence. With all our wealth, industry and natural resources the nation is getting deeper and deeper in debt every year for dry goods and other luxuries, and for dry goods especially. All the gold we extract from tho earth, and more, is drained from the country to pay the balance of trade against us. Our cotton, corn, flour and other products do not discharge our foreign indebt- edness for importations. The interest on our securities held abroad can hardly be less than sixty to eighty millions of gold. And with all the money and wealth of labor that immigrants bring, our fifty thousand or more American absentees in Europe, mostly of the rich class, draw, probably, an equal amount from this country. Should we be surprised, then, that we cannot get to specie payments, or that gold even should rise? Evideutly more economy is needed. It is time war extravagances and embarrassed at every step by a hostile Con- gress, while with General Grant all has been plain sailing. But, indeed, neither could help war prices should cease. Economy should begin with the government, We want a much- reduced revenue, much less taxation and lower having an cnormous surplus revenue under the system that existed. Tho liquidation of the debt resulted necessarily from the taxes imposed. Ther was no other way of dispos- ing of the vast and surplus income. The policy of General Grant's administra- | ject was partly political—was with a view to | and to bring about specie payments. Still, be- tion was to keep up this burdensome taxation, in order to pay off rapidly the public debt, and the views of the dominant party in Con- gress accorded with that. No doubt the ob- obtain public approbation. The Secretary of this, we are willing to concede that the admin- istration supposed this policy would improve the credit of the government, enable the Secre- tary to fund the debt ata lower rate of interest hind all this, there was the old protectionist | idea of Mr. Boutwell and the New England | prices. The influence of such a change would soon be felt. The people would learn the habit of being more economical. A nation cannot continue to run into debt all the time any more than individuals without coming to a day of reskoning. The Jersey Police War. The local Dogberrys in Jersey City promise to afford some amusement in the course of the war which has been raging in that wonderful city for some time. great fame for the Draconian severity of its ger of being overthrown by the very power on which it depended for the maintenance of its fame. With the unlucky dipping of the Police Commissioners into the political pie in search of nice little plums there came to light certain abuses which other Jersey politicians could not suffer, seeing they derived no profit from them, and hence the crusade against the police authorities, which promises to develop an unusual number of ridiculous situations, ropublicars, of which he is a true represent- | ative. ‘They understood very well that the | more revenue the government called for the | higher must taxes and duties be maintained, | and, consequently, the greater protection would | be afforded to the home manufacturers. New England became rich through the war; and the accumulation of a vast public debt, which made a large revenue necessary, has continued to be in that way an advantage to that section of the country and manufacturers generally, | while other sections and the mass of the Ameri- can people have been the sufferers. It will be seen, then, that by keeping up a large revenue, ostensibly for the purpose of paying off the | debt and improving the credit of the govern- ment, Mr. Boutwell has been serving his New England friends and other manufactufers. While this rosult has been obtained, we do not see that the financial policy of the admin- | istration has improved the credit of the govern- ment, or brought us nearer specie payments than if a different policy had been pursued. | On the contrary, there is reason to believe our | \ credit would have risen, the country have | been more prosperous, and we shovld have | been nearer specie payments if less revenue | had been called for, if taxation had been re- duced, and the general industry of the people stiraulated through a removal of the unneces- sary burdeus imposed. Political economists will understand this without going into an elaborate argument. Every unnecessarily abstracted from industry by taxation, would, if left in the hands of the people, add much moro to dollar | Already we sce the police stations turned into citadels, which the occupants are prepared to defend against the authorities named by the Governor. The new Commissioners are resolute knights, and will not be scared by sight of brandished locust’ How the matter is to end is difficult to see. If the con- victed Commissioners make good their threat to resist removal the Governor might feel him- self justificd in calling out the militia—horse, foot and artillery—and laying siege to the headquarters in due form. The result would be exciting, and under the influence of ‘the world-renowned Jersey lightning both parties would, in all probability, act like heroes, . If such should be the end of the Dogberry war Jersey would be immortalized and the siego of Troy eclipsed forever. So far things look threatening, though the leaders on both sides rival the politeness of the French and Eng- lish guards at Fontenoy in their bowing and scraping before entering on the de- cisive work of skull-cracking. Things aro in a dangerous condition, and any moment may precipitate a conflict. A momentous hour | in the history of Jersey is at band, and an extra “flash’’ of Jersey lightning may precipi- | tate a struggle which will live in the memory of mankind. The Police Headquarters have been put in a condition of defence, and should an assault be made a dosperate resistance will | certainly be offered. The fate of Jersey hangs | in the balance, and an ill-considered act may | plunge that hitherto peaceful land into all the | agonies of an internecine struggle. Momen- tous events are looked for, and intenso anxiety the productive wealth of the nation. Cuapital- ists and the croditors of a country look more to industrial capacity and the way the re- sources of a people are used than to an ex- travagant collection and display of mone Mr. Boutwell’s plethoric Treasury has neither been a benefit to tho national credit vor brought us nearer a gold basis. At the same time that this imposes a burden upon the people, it leads to habits of extravagance in the community and encourages unhealthy is felt for the peaceful solution of the police | difficulty. We hope that no rash act will pro- | cipitate a conflict so fraught with danger’ to | Jersey's prosperity, and would advise the rival | Commissioners to adjourn to a quiet corner and settle the matter among themselves— | peaceably if they can; but settle it anyhow. A Proposep Nuisance,—A proposition be- fore the Department of Docks to locate a dump- | ing ground at the fgot of Maiden Jano very Notwithstanding Jersey's | laws, the Commonwealth stands in great dan- | 4 WEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. (properly excites the disgust of those interested in property or doing business in the lower part In o nutshell, the question is be saved the cartage of filth a mile or the largest ships which trade in this port be driven from the deepest water, commerce sacrificed and real estate scriously depreciated? As New York lives mainly on her commerce little doubt need exist as to what is advisable in the matter. The Herald Expedition’s Foreed March to UjijieFinis Coronat Opus—The Failure of the English Search Party. Although the historic interest which at- taches to tho meeting of Livingstone and Stanley in the town of Ujiji, by the waters of Lake Tanganyike, is well fixed in the minds of all lovers of daring, humanitarianism and science, the letter of the Heap correspond- ent, dated November 23, 1871, describing the toils and incidents of the journey, will be read with a whetted appetite. Men do not daily endure such trials in such a cause, and the heart of grace which rose supreme above all obstacles and discouragements must be recog- nized. The regular caravan route to Ujiji, it must be remembered, was closed by the war of Mirambo, the powerful native chieftain, and the alternative was presented to the leader of the Henatp expedition of either waiting at Kwihara until the ‘cruel war was over,”’ or else pushing forward bya circuitous route. Tired of three months’ forced inaction, Mr. Stanley chose the latter, and, in the teeth of remonstrance, started the caravan. The sick- ness and faint-heartedness of his white assist- ant, who had to bo sent back to Kwihara to die after the expedition was a day or two on the march, did not deter him. The porters who deserted him and fled to their huts were col- lected and brought back with o vigor which alone gave promise of ultimate success. Their summary punishment, too, was something evi- dently necessary in Africa to insure obedience ; at any rate it appears to have worked ad- mirably, and, we are sure, the end will be found in this instance to justify the means. His road lay firstly to the southwest, and brought him to the fortified town of Ugunda, where he was hospitably received. Further on upon the road the scene with Ma-Manyara will awaken a decided feeling of amusement, as we fancy to ourselves the Henan correspondent astonishing this healthy African with a tea- spoonful of brandy—a small quantity, truly, for one of the race on this Continent. The description of the beautiful land of Ukawendi will destroy many an old idea of the barren- ness of Central Africa, while, even in the most unhealthy districts, the cultivation of the soil, with the meagre means at hand, shows the old school-book notion of sandy deserts to bo an absurd assumption to supplement actual ignorance. Africa, in fact, like the house in Missouri which was bought on the sample of ao single brick, has been labelled dangerous and inaccessible on the stories of Sahara drought, Guinea coast yellow fever and fighting Caffirs. The variety of racial distinctions, too, will be noted, and the fact that wherever the grasping Arabs have passed they have left the stamp of their avarice on the peoples whose chiefs levy tribute—that is, blackmail—on all travellers through theirdominions. It is a bold thought, and one which some may live to see realized, which suggested to our correspond- ent that the time may not be far off when the lands where to-day a white man’s face is a wonder may witness the settlement on their broad slopes of thousands swept out of their overcrowded homes on the wave of emigration. While, however, so much of our own matchless country yearns for the plough, not to speak of Australia and New Zealand, the day of Central African colonization is at least a generation removed. Placed on record, it may nevertheless be recognized hereafter as a prophecy, as we speak of Bishop Berkeley's famous line! Westward the course of empire takes its way. Among the natural curiosities encountered on that memorable journey was a floating bridge of grasses and water plants over the bosom of a river, and upon which the expedi- tion had to trust its existence in order to gain the opposite bank. Few incidents possessing a ludicrous as well as a deeply dramatic side can be conceived better combining the two than the flight of the Henan expedition from a Uhha village to escape the everlasting black- mail of the Wahha chieftains. As this was attended with considerable risk it added | an additional zest to the joy experienced when it was learned from a passing caravan from Ujiji that a white man was then residing there. The feelings that rushed through all bosoms when the welcome tidings was received, and_which lasted until the gieat explorer’s hand wad Eradped by that of the Heraxp cor- respondent, can best be appreciated by a perusal of the letter in to-day’s Heratp than in any attempt to describe it here. The shout of hard-won triumph which led to the exultant ery, ‘‘Finis coronat opus,’’ and with which our correspondent concludes his letter, will be genorally joined in wherever manhood is worthy of the name. Comparing curiously with this startling rec- ‘ord of success we may turn to the abandon- ment of the English expedition, the reasons for which will be found in the communication to the London Times, written by the Rev. Charles New. Its misfortune was that it came on the ‘‘heelof the hunt,” and was only ready to start when Mr. Stanley arrived at the coast. There would also scem to have been too many Richmonds in the field—a thing to be de- plored when prompt action is demanded. The way in which the chiefs of the English searck corps went backward and forward from Bagomoyo to Zanzibar, to con- sult with each other in one place and with the sapient Dr. Kirk in the other, suggests the thought that it was fortunate David Living- stone had not to wait on their arrival for as- sistance. The success of the Hernanp Expedi- tion seems to have given their want of coho- siveness a finishing touch ending in thorough demoralization. Even after Stanley's arrival, we observe, from the Rey. Mr. New’s epistle to the English, that the New York Henatp correspondent found means to equip and des- patch a native caravan to Livingstone with stores for his two years’ further explorations before the Englishmen had recovered from their surprise, Tho compliment of the rev- erend gentleman to the ‘determination, energy, perseverance, tact, pluck and endur- ance’ of the Henarp commander comes, there- fore, with the more force and grace when, apart from the actyal finding gf Livingstone, it is viewod in the light of the and flitting of the English expeditionists between Bagomoyo and Zanzibar. The Case of Justice Keogh and the De- bate in the English House of Com- mons. . The despatch which we publish in another column informs us of the defeat, in the Eng- lish House of Commons, of Counsellor Butt’s motion to remove Justice Keogh. The motion was directly caused by the strongly partisan charge of Justice Keogh in giving judgment in the Galway election petition, by which Captain Nolan, the popular candidate, was un- seated. In commenting on the conduct of certain Catholic clergymen who were charged with using undue influence the Judge allowed himself to be carried beyond the bounds of good taste He denounced the priesthood in terms so violent and extravagant that the moderate press in England was scandalized, and such a storm of indignation aroused in Ireland that Judge Keogh was obliged to take refuge in England from fear of personal vio- lence. Popular indignation, however, was not to be appeased by anything less than the degradation of the man who, it was charged, had soiled the purity of the ermine by a dis- play of partisan violence out of keeping with that judicial impartiality that should be striotly maintained. It was not denied that in some instances his condemnations were merited, but he had shown that, while he was quick to detect and denounce anything savoring of intimidation on the popular side, he could be conveniently blind to conduct as reprehensible on the part of the landlord or governmental supporters. Nor was he content with simply ignoring the facts presented to him, but, contrary to the evidence, he abso- lulely exonerated the landlords from acts of gross intimidation which had been proved by reliable witnesses in his Court. This proceed- ing, more even than his attack on the priests, brought down on him the condemnation of all moderate men, because it was manifestly un- just. It gavea stronger and deeper tinge to the partisanship he had displayed in his de- nunciation of a class held in special rever- ence by the masses as their spiritual and politi- cal guides, In appealing for justice to the English House of Commons Counsellor Butt had a deeper object than unseating Judge Keogh. He must have known from experience that Keogh’s attack on the political action of tho priests was in perfect harmony with the pre- vailing prejudice of the English mind, and that he could hope for no reparation in an English House of Commons. His motion was certain to be defeated, but he desired to pro- voke just the expression of opinion which re- sulted from the debate. The chief aim of the “federation party,” of which Counsellor Butt is the leader, is to convince the upper and middle classes in Ireland that their interests or opinions have no weight with English statesmen. In this hoe has been completely successful. The tone of the House, the enthusiastic way in which the attacks of the landlord orators on the people and their leaders were received, will do more to embittcr public feeling in Ireland than even the orig- iyal insult, which has raised such a storm. Premier Gladstone and the government found themselves placed in an exceedingly unpleas- ant position. If they had dared they would have liked to disassociate themselves from Judge Keogh, but they could neither do so nor yet boldly defend him. So they wero obliged from the beginning to adopt a non- committal tone in his regard, which cannot be regarded in any other light than an unwilling admission of the charges of violent partisanship alleged against him. Considering the small- ness of the Irish representation in the House of Commons, the majority of one hundred by which the government succeeded in defeating Counsellor Butt's motion must be looked on as a moral defeat of the government and a con- demnation of the action of Judge Koogh. At the same timo it will furnish a telling argu- ment for the home rulers against the possibi- lity of obtaining impartial justice at the hands of a foreign Parliament. King Amadeus, Spain and Slavery. A cable despatch which we print this morn- ing has it that King Amadeus has signed a decree providing for the gradual abolition of slavery in Cuba and Porto Rico. We should have called this news good had we not been so often deceived by similar reports. This samo | intelligence has, in fact, been so often re- peated and has so often proved a snare that we almost feel vexed for Amadeus. The young man means well, wat he had known better be would not have ent himaelt to. old and worn-out deception. It is now thirty- five yoars ago since Great Britain at an im- mense cost wiped out slavery, and it is fair to say that Spain from that time until now has been continually making promises and con- tinually breaking them. Away from Turkey, there is now no European State blamable for the perpetuation of the slave trade but Spain. We have fought the fight and washed our hands, The one European State claiming to belong to civilization whose hands are not yet clean is Spain. Spain, in fact, has been a blot on the map of the Old World and the bad element in the life of the New. Blot Spain out from the map of the world, and what we call European civilization is fairly respectable. We cannot blame Amadeus for what hehasdone. His youth and inexperience | in his new circumstances must be his excuse ; but Spain in the Old World and the New, and in spite of the sacred memories of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second, of Cardinal Ximenes and the Holy | Inquisition, must be voted a nuisance, All that the world knows of Spain the world is | desirous to be rid of, and the riddance cannot | come too soon. The Spanish republic promised to make an end of slavery. The | Spanish republic lied. Let Amadeus be- ware. Ho must not lend himself to Spanish deception. Tur Oster Trape.—Few of us think, as we swallow our Saddlo Rocks, East Rivers or Shrewsburys, of the great aggregate value of the oyster trade of New York. The value of these bivalvular luxuries handled in our mar- kets annually is from twenty-five to thirty million dollars. Most of this trade is concen. trated about the foot of Spring street, which | location the Commissioners of Docks havo directed to be vacated, The dealers protest that to crowd them up the river above Four- teenth strect, as is proposed, would he a great hardship and occasion serious loss, adopted civilized customs and habits. These few live worthy lives upon their reservations, tilling the soil and flocks and herds like their white neighborm They have their churches and schools, the rights of property and govern the by wise and liboral laws, like other well-ordered. communities. These ask none of the theatri- cal talks and sensational shows which tha government so generously bestows upon the hunter tribes who still maintain their sav- age tribal organizations and livo by turns on what they can coax in gifts and annuities from the Washington authorities, on the fruits of the chase and on what théy can steal frons their neighbors. Theso wretches, when im our large cities, ever promise to abandon their wild life, to settle down and become husband- men, like the Choctaws. They want money ta build schoolhouses and churches, Rifles and re- volvers, too, they want, with powder and balls, to shoot buffalo. These samo weapons and ammunition, when Big Horn and Red Eagle have returned to their homes near the sunset, are seen in company with scalping knives, and do fearful work among the settlers in Montana and Arizona. Thess Indian shows and talks have grown tiresome. Let us omit tho farces, or teach tho noble savages to omit the trage- dies on tho Plains and in the mountains. For years the wild tribes, who know no and no ties of common humanity, have kept up this alternation of fair talk and. fiendish butchery. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, crafty old chiefs, are over ready, to protest their inno- cence. Murder and rapine are the business of the young braves. Their girdles are orna- mented with the scalps of our brothers and sisters. The blood of innocent children and un- offending women stains their hands, and they are more proud of the trophies which attest their diabolical cruelty than are their treaty- making sachoms of the wampum and feathers with which they set city crowds agape. It is full time this should be stopped. Let us have no more good talk here supplemented by devilish deeds along the Oregon trail. Government should feed and arm no more of these red robbers, whose hand is against every man whom they can surprise or over- power. Our army, instead of menacing citi- zens of unsound politics on the Atlantic slope, could do good service holding tho red men in check, and one of our generals, the gallant Phil Sheridan, knows the proper method for punishing their crimes. When the idle Indian becomes industrious we should protect and aid him—not before. Till then, if he commits @ murder oro theft, pursue and punish him. The feathered chiefs and their painted squaws have had too much of pleasure excursions and sight-scoing. Our Western sottlors have had far too much of the warwhoop, the smoking cabin, tho rifle crack and red-dripping sealp- ing knife. Wise physicians vary the remedy in obstinate cases. Let us try Shoridan’s In- dian cure. a PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. + Governor John M. Goodwin, of Arizona, ts at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Licutenant Commander C. I. Davis, of the United States Navy, is at the New York Llotel. Ex-Mayor Vaux, of Philadelphia, is the St. Nicholas Hotel. Sefior Villona, of the Peruvian Logation, has ar- rived at the Westminster Hotel. General Werner Myers, of the United States Army, has quarters at the New York Hotcl. Ex-Congressman F’, E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. . ee General George B. McCletlan and wilco, with his father-in-law, General Marcy, of the United States Army, and Miss Marcy and a party of friends, lef this city last night on a trip to Utah and Cali‘ornia, ‘They occupied a special car and expect to have a very enjoyable time. Lord Frederick Cavendish has become the private secretary of Premier Gladstone, Lord Frederick isa member of the louse of Commons, As he wilt serve without salary it will be some time cre Mr. Gladstone will ‘cut Cavendish.” Monsignor Capel becomes entitled to the honors of a bishop in his new capacity of doimestic prelate to His Holiness Pope Pius. The Emperor William has purchased the property of Busalt, near Konigsverg, for 37,350 thalers, 16 was at this place the Emperor's parents passed their sad season of 1806-'7, and the Emperor himeelf spent @ good part of his youth there, “"**" “Kmorleats Abroad. - {From the Paris American Register, July 29.) Professor William L. Montague, Professor of Modern Languages in Amherst College, is passing the summer tn Paris, General Thomas G. Rhett, of South Carolina, whe has been in the Khedive’s service for the past tw@ years, and occupies there a aa @ high rank, has been spending the summer north, and is now is Switzeriand, Sir Fenwick Williams gave a grand dinner at Gib- raltar on the 29ti uit., to which a number of Ameri- cans were invited, including My, and Mrs. Sprague, General Pennypacker, Mr. and Mrs, Woodhouse and Mr. Stevens. Charles futtle, of New York, one of the oldest merchahts of that city, and who acted as the Snan- cial agent of the Union Pacific Railway while that road was in construction, ts traveiling on the Con- tinent with lis family, and is now on his way to Paris. stopping at OBITUARY, Jacob R. Eckfeldt. Jacob R. Eckfeldt, Chief Assayer of the United States Mint, dicd in Phiiadelphia yesterday morn- ing. He was seventy yours of age. Mr. Eckfeldt was a very able man, and faithful as he was tal- ented in the discharge of his daty, He stood at the head of the Assay Department of the American Mint during the past forty years, and wes greatly and continuously esteemed by the executive au-~ thority, his own subordinate officers and a wide circle of friends, He was the author of a number of valuable works, ulning to the profession of making the solid u of Moustary circulation, and was long since recognized untvorsally ag the acknowiedged head of the work of government colning within the orraLory oe ee Mate. eldt was the son of Adam Eckfetat, pointed Chief Coincr of the Mint by President Washington in 1794. Prince Aject Singh. Prince Aject Singh has just dicd at Puttialla, India, He was almost eighty years of age. This chief was the younger son of Rajah Sahib Singh, and in the early days, after the British government took charge of the Cis-Sutle) States, gave a great. deal of t.awble to the foreign monarchy and tried to obtain a division of the State hetweon himself, And Wis brother, Rajah Karan Singh. After mang years spent in fruitless intrigue at Deli and elgg r accepted its position, and had for a vers at Pubilalia, where he was on the hk his great nephew, the present, 1» aD ally Of Queen Victoria,