The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1872, Page 4

4 ae ‘NEW YORK HERALD |"3"sr nn 2 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, — PROPRIETOR. Diplomacy. ‘The secrecy enjoined upon the members of the Geneva Court of Arbitration on the Ala- bama claims appears to have been 60 faithfully Observed that tho reporta we have received All business or news letters and telegraphic from time to time of the proceedings of the despatches must be addressed New Your Hama. ‘ Rejected communications will not be re- ‘BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Uowest Jony—Haset tribunal since the last authorized announce- ment of its work, kava been accepted at the best as rumors only. We have had from Washington periodically 9 stereotyped state- ment that everything is progressing favorably for our side, and that the result when reached Ne. 226 | is certain to be highly satisfactory to the United States. But then we have remem- bered the official nasurances sent éorth from the same source pending the indirect claims controversy, assuring the American people that UINTE:S ATHEN ADA, 129 Lrowtway.—Nroeo Mo" | one government was xesolved to stand firmly WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth st.— Sam. Aftern joon and Zvening. by our original case, anf that our representa- tives before the Court were instructed to insist OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway, between Houstonand | upon the consideration and decision of our Bleecker sts.—A Lirs's Dreax, 46. WA CK’3, THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street —Brue Bua. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowory.— Carts ano Lena, Matineo at 234. PPh THEATRE, Brooklyw.—Escarep From Sino ING. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Geasp Ivetnummwran Comczrt. weed NEW FORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Science anv Axr. UP PLEMENT. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Page. 1—Advertisoments, R—Advertisements. 3—Advertisemcnts—Matriages and Deaths—The Politica! Headquarters: General Banks to Take the Stump in Maine—The Germans— Henry Wilson: Brief Review of the Campaign by the Oandidate for the Vice Presidency— Political Campaign Notes—Obituary—Youn, Ber Siew Rampant—Drowning of an Elizabet! juilder, 4—Kditoriais: Leading Article, “The Geneva Tribunal and Its Work—The Mysteries and the Failures of Dipiomacy’'—Death in the Freezer: A North Carolina Negro Poisons Twenty-six Persons by Ice Cream—Selling Arms to she Sonth—The Weather—Amuse- ment Announcements. S—The Slave Trade in Africa—The Alabama Claims —Cuable Telegrams from England, Ireland and Switzerland—Mexico: Murder of a Texan Merchant—News from Washington—Greeley’s Travem: ‘The sage on a Tour Throngh the Granite State—Butler and Boutwell: The ‘two Great Champions on the Stump at Low- | ell-—Business Notices. 6—The Campaign: Photographs of Public Opinion | by the HERALD Commissioners ; Glimpses of the Struggle in New York, Kent Z Tiltnois; Sorehead Democrat: Slowly Crystai- izing Against Greciey; Doubt and Mystery | Gathering Over the Future; Effect of the First Gun in North Carolina; Western New York a jous Puzzle; Violent Fluctuations of Greeley Stock bn Maine; The Combat Datly | Growing Thicker and ‘cer; Ilinois for the | Most Part on the Fence; How will the Ger. mans Vote? Trimmers Everywhere In an | Agony of Perplexity; The Prevailing Outside Sentiment, ‘May the Best Man Win.” Advertisemedt. jurrecting the Confederacy: George N. San- ders Correcting Professor Holcombe's Re- rt—Oustom House Matters—Brooklyn Af- ir4—Buying Up the .Utes—City Rallroad Defaulters ratoga airing at Hull’s Driving Park, L. 1.—Death the Famons Race Horse Lexington—Racing Notes—Coroners' Work Yesterday—Terribic Result of.a Bite on the Finger—Proceedings fm the Courts—The Kendrick Bond Case— | “Collector” Weston—Crime and Its Penalty: A eening: at Jefferson Market Police Court. @=—Crime aud [ts Penalty (Continued from Eighth Page) —Financial and Comineretal: The Open- bi, Habe of Another Week’s Operations; AStrong Market for Breadstutfs; A Steady Gold Market, with the Premium Ranging from | 115), @116%,; Continued Large Customs Re- Foreign Exchange Dull, but Pirmer Business, with Nominal Rates Un- iasy ; Active Movement , the Market Closing | Strong; : Southern Securi- ties Dull, Railway Mortgages Quiet and City Bank Shares Steady; The Sub-Treasurer’s Report—Judge Barnard’s Trial—Long Branch: ‘The Sayings and Doings of the President and claims for indirect damages, This recollec- tion has caused us to receive the rose-colored semt-official reports of the progress of the arbi- tration with some grains of allowance, We have also heard from time to timo through~Geneva and London telegrams of results that have been reached by tho Court, and in some in- stances we have been informed of the exact amount of claims awarded on cortain vessels, | Sinco the temporary adjournment of the tribu- nal, however, the most important information that has yet reached us is that contained in the Heraxp special despatches from Geneva pub- lished yesterday and supplemented by tho press report which appears in our columns this morning. From these it is to be in- ferred that the actual question of the amount of claims has not yet been reached, but that the discussion hitherto has been on the points covering the primary issue of England's lia- bility. Our special correspondent states that the argument before the recess was arranged by the Court and covered three points: —First, as to what is meant by ‘‘due diligence’? on the part of a nation as a principle of law. Second, what was the value of the commissions held by the Confederate cruisers, and how far did they entail responsibility on England when they entered her ports? Third, how far did the coaling of the cruisers in English ports make England responsible for their acts? All these points relate to England's liability, and nothing is said to show how they have been decided, if, indeed, a decision has yet been reached upon them. The report from Geneva published to-day confirms our special in the statement that lengthy discussions. had taken place regarding England's responsi- bility, the argument turning mainly upon the questions whether England had exer- cised ‘due diligence” to prevent the escape of the Confederate cruisers and whether such ro- sponsibility as we claim did actually follow upon the permission to the cruisers to coal at British stations. But there is one additional piece of information that may be significant, namely, thet Mr. Cohen, the English barrister who drew up the report for the Crown on the subject of the American claims for losses sus- tained by the mercantile marine of the United States, has been summoned from London to Geneva. From this it is conjectured that a decision has been rendered by the Board on the general question, and that Mr. Cohen has been called in to assist the British counsel in arguing on the amount of damages to be as- sessed by the Board. The points stated by our special corre- His Surroundings—The National Railway— The Street Banner Law—Newark Dastards and Desperadoes—Troubies of Strikers in | Hoboken—Death on the Rail—Attempted | of a Policeman—Sunstroke Cases | 10—Johnson, of Ballykilbeg: An Irish Orange Legis- lator on the Stump—Amusements—Yachting— | New Dominion—The Steamer Bristol— Board a Ship—Yellow Fever Down | The Day of Wrath: Tne Comet Hoax | Shipping Inteiligeuce —Advertise- | Garetey’s Waystpe Srercnes YesTenDay.— We report in another part of our paper to-day no less than six separate addresses made by the liberal democratic Presidential nominee during his run trom Bradford to Lan- caster yesterday to “Fellow Citizens of My Native State of New Hampshire,”’ &c. Who can deny his fertility henceforth ? Tur Proaress or Kixe Amapevs.—The young King of Spain continues his tour through the Northern Provinces. On the 10th instant he had reached the ancient cfty of Bilbao, in the Province of Biscay. He was well received by the inhabitants, as indeed he ‘has been at every halting place in his extended tour. The King signalized his visit to Bilbao by issuing pardons to several prominent Carlists who | took part in the recent insurrection. The am- | nesty will no doubt have a good effect, and it must increase the King’s popularity. Froatixe Tax Steamers Bristo..—At about three o'clock on Sunday afternoon several | powerful steam pumps were set to work to pump the water out of the Bristol, and in less than ten hours this magnificent boat was again || afloat. She successfully made the trip from Coal Mine Flats, where she had been beached, to Newport yesterday, and after discharging | the remaining portion of her freight she will | proceed to New York for repairs. Is Inetanp the anniversary of the relief of Londonderry from the siege of the troops of | King James was celebrated yesterday in the | Maiden City in perfect qniet—a first excellent | regult of the repeal of the English law against | party processions, When all parties have “a | chance” good humor comes in play. Morper py Mextcays rs Trxas.—The news despatch from Brownsville which appears in | our columns to-day goes to prove that even the lives of our Texas citizens who inhabit the | line of the Rio Grande, not to speak of their property, are not now secure against the as- saults of marauders from Mexico. It will be seen that two gentlemen, Messrs. Alexander and Simon, prominent merchants on the American frontier, left Brownsville for Rio Grande City last Saturday. Some few hours afterwards three Mexicans passed them on the way, one of whom fired into their carriage, killing Mr. Alexander instantly, Mr. Simon making a narrow escape from death by flight to the bush. The assassins having completed their work fled to Mexico. There was mourn- ing and an inquest on the American side. The Coroner's jury charges the commission of the deed on Cortina’s troops. A strong feeling exists among the Americans for the organiza- tion of a band of men and the pursuit of the murderers on Mexican soil. Our murdered j how far did cruisers thus | successful course of brow-beating and by su- spondent as having been argued by desire of the Court are raised upon the three rules laid down in the Treaty of Washington for the guidance of neutral governments and agreed to be taken as applicable to the cases of the confederate schooners. The first of these rules makes it the duty of.a neutral to use “due diligence’ to prevent the fitting out, arming, equipping or departure of such vessels intended to be used against a Power with which it is at peace. Upon this England raises the legal question, What is due diligence? The sec- ond rule forbids a neutral Power from allowing either belligerent to use its ports or waters as the base of naval operations or for the renewal of supplies or arms or the recruitment of men, and the third requires the neutral to use all due diligence in its own ports and waters, and as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to pre- yent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties. Upon these rules England raises the legal questions, What was the value of the Confederate commissions? —that is tosay, were they really commissions or mere waste paper ? commis- sioned entail responsibility “upon Eng- land when they entered her ports? and how far did the coaling of the cruisers in English ports, supposing the former questions to be decided adversely to the English argument, make England responsible for their acts? It is evident from this that England is fighting her way against any payment at all for direct claims inch by inch, and that having, by a perior statesmanship, shaken off the threaten- ing danger of indirect claims, she now seeks by every legal quibble that can be thought of by sharp lawyers to evade the responsibility for actual losses inflicted upon our citizens by the Anglo-Confederate pirates. It may be said that this is all fair enough, and that any defendant in a Court has the right to exhaust the ingenuity of the law in the effort to win his case even when justice is not on his side, or to lessen the damages to be given against him. Doubtless this is true; but it offly proves what the Hzraxp has all along nsisted upon—namely, that the Treaty of Washington as a settlement of the differences between America and England and as the har- binger of a better state of feeling between the two countries is a deplorable failure. The | claims of the government and people of the | United States against the government of Great Britain were never proper subjects for the quibblings of attorneys and the sharp scrutiny of accountants, The English Cabinet may have been scrupulously diplomatic, the English subordinate officials may have been sneeringly civil and apparently strictly within the red-tape limits of their duties, during the war of the Ameri- can rebellion; yet not one of our representa- tives abroad aud scarcely one of our citizens at home could be ignorant of the fact that the whole spirit of the British government was adverse to the Union cause, and that the success of the Confederncy was desired and aided by the English Ministry. This be- brother “points to his wounds.’ What is to be done? ing the case, it is the merest sham to pretend that our heactburming and judiguation are to “Ww YORK HERALD, TUMSVAY, AUGUSY '13, is72-WiTH be removed by the payment of a few individual claims for direct losses inflicted upon our citi- zens by the Anglo-Confederate privateera. The fact that the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty was nothing more than a settlement of this insuffi- cient kind caused its rejection by the Senate, and the present treaty has the additional demerit of having only been secured through our hamiliation and defeat. Tf England had been in reality repont- ant of her action in our rebellion; if sho had become sensible of the fact that in her sympathy with the Southern people she had been endeavoring to set back the civiliza- tion and progress of the world a full half cen- tury; if she had regretted the extra lives that were lost and the extra suffering that was inflicted by her unfriendly action towards tho Union cause; if sho had honestly desired to Temove the evil effects of her unfortunate acts and to establish a better state of feeling between the two nations, she would have offered payment freely and generously for the damages we had suffered through her instrumentality, and would have trusted to our magnanimity to limiting them to just and equitable sum. Such a settle- ment as this would have drawn the Anglo- Saxon people closely together in the bonds of mutual respect, and would have been the dnitiation of a brotherhood between the two great English-speaking nations of the globe that would have held all the world for the next half century in bonds to keep the peace. As it is, the Goneva Tribunal has yot some practical difficulties before it. At best it is now but a sort of Justice’s Court for the adjustment and settlement of a few outstand- img personal accounts amid the snarlings and wranglings of the debtors and creditors. Tt has lost allits national dignity and import- ance, for no man but tho party interested cares whether this or that claim is allowed or rejected any more than he cares whether a grocery bill or a washing account is decided for or against his neighbor. If tho quib- bles and special pleas of the English lawyers foil to clear their government of liability, and if the shipowners and mer- chants who lost their property through the acts of the cruisers get awarded certain amounts in the shape of damages, it is not very likely that the American people at large will regard the result as a final and satisfactory settlement of the debt that England owes this country for her unfriendly conduct in our hour of trial. But apart from this, is there any power that can compel tho individuals who have suffered losses to accept just such awards as the Genova Court may choose to give them? Should the claimants unite in rejecting the sums offered to them, is there any power that can prevent their un- satisfied claims from being hereafter pressed on the attention of England by a new Presi- dent and a new Congress? Is it certain that the Treaty’ of Washington, which declares upon its face that it is made ‘‘in order to re- move and adjust all complaints and claims on the part of the United States” growing out of the acts of the Anglo-Confed- erate privateers, has not already been violated and turned to mere waste paper? The business of the Geneva Tribunal may proceed with all its high-toned decorum and respecta- bility ; the learned lawyers on both sides may thrust and parry in the most finished style of legal fence ; the British Ministry may continue to chuckle over their triumph ; the Queen of England may complacently declare that her promise not to suffer the American case to be considered by the Geneva arbitrators has been fulfilled to the letter; the highly satis- factory reports given out from the office of the Secretary of State at Washington may still bo published twice a week; but behind them all stand the American people, and it is just pos- sible that they may yet have a few last words to say about the Treaty of Washington and the Alabama claims before the whole story passes into the realms of history. The Slave Trade in Eastern Africa. ‘The information in regard to the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa brought by. the Henatp Livingstone expedition is already be- ginning to yield a gratifying retarn. From a special cable despatch from London published in the Heratp to-day it will be seen that the London Times of yesterday pronounces the paragraph in the Queen’s Speech relating to that inhuman traffic “the most significant part” of Her Majesty's address. The Queen announced that the government had “‘taken steps intended to prepare the way for dealing more effectually with the slave trade on the East Const of Africa,” and the London Times adds:—‘‘We suppose it is not an error to connect the an- nouncement which has just been made by Her | Majesty with the recent discovery of Dr. Livingstone ond the despatches to the Foreign Office brought by Mr. Stanley, of the New Yore Hzraxp, from the great traveller."’ It will be remembered that Dr. Livingstone stated in his letter to the Henatp that if he could be instrumental in destroying the slave trade and averting its horrors from the simple people among whom it has been his lot to dwell for so long a time, he should regard it as agrenter triumph than anything he could achieve inthe accomplishment of the task which was the special object of his eventful pilgrimage. We can imagine the joy it would afford the Christian man to find on his return to the coast, probably to learn in the interior of Africa, that his countrymen, aroused to action by his earnest words, were already stretching forth their strong arms for the relief and protection of the people for whom he has pleaded, The promptness with which the English government has acted reflects credit upon its humanity. It is especially gratifying to know that this solid, practical good has been accomplished by the Hznaxp Expedition, in addition to the satisfaction of the discovery of the great explorer and the valuable information obtained of the result of his researches. lf Dr. Livingstone had remained un- visited in the wilds of Africa for another two years, even if he had lived to return to civilization, the time for action in this important work would have been just so much longer delayed. We cannot but believe, too, that the practical success of the Henatp Expedition has brought to men's minds more vividly the idea of the possibility of effecting good in Eastern Africa, not only in the direction of humanity and civilization, cannot remain much longer closed to effectual missionary efforts or to the enterprise of trade and commerce. We may soon have strong, determined men from among ourselves, such as rush to the new-found mines, combining to- gether to develop the resources of Africa, and in their path will walk the spirit of freedom. England may not be alone in the good work she has so promptly and so humanely under- taken, From Doubt to Conviction—A Press View of the Herald Livingstome Ex- pedition. ‘The varying steps of a certain portion of the press from disbelief to doubt and from doubt to conviction will form an interesting episode im the history of the Hzrarp Livingstone Expe- dition. A man, like» journal, when serenely conscious of the right, can afford to allow the fruition of his acts to speak for itself, undis- turbed by shallow sneerers, ready doubters and make-believe wiseacres. In all the painful steps of pushing onward to the relief of Living- stone our correspondent, like ourselves, little recked of the flippant babbling of these “prophets of the past,’’ always ready and more than willing to parade their “I told you so,"’ on the first notes of failure or breakdown. People are tired of the story of Galileo, and although every one to-day laughs at the idea of the Inquisition solemnly compelling him to retract his conviction of the motion of the carth around the sun, the lesson is deliberately thrown away on the next opportunity of having something to doubt. That Christopher Columbus suffered heart-eating annoyance for years before and indignity and ingratitude after his discovery of the New World, is not unknown, and with certain sapient writers nowadays the treat- ment would be repeated on every Iuckless wight who dared to advance the standard of progress an inch further than it was at the date of their birth. They belong t= the class of men whose greatest enemies are hose who benefit them. Plcasant is the reflection that this amiable class of croakers is a century or two behind the age, and that our press raven has to change his tune occasionally before the logic of hard facts and a public that demands reliable news. It is scarcely worth while in the present instance to trace with great detail the course of the doubting Thomases among our contem- poraries; buta few specimens will suffice to show how the barricades of incredulity yield toa solid charge. Our first news of the expe- dition on its way to Ujiji they hailed derisively ; the avant courrier who reached the coast ahead of Stanley was unreliable, they said, as all avant courriers should be to suit them. In spite of all this confirmations crowded in, and it was admitted in some of the doubting quarters that Stanley and Livingstone had met; but if so, a geographical Solomon added, it was doubt- less Livingstone that met Stanley. This was very wise and very funny and a nice distinc- tion. When our correspondent arrived on the coast and headed for Aden a new ground was taken. He may have been in Africa, they hinted, but (shrug of the shoulders) his infor- mation cannot in any case be depended on. It was not sufficient that the Hzrarp correspondent should publish his own account of the expedition and the main discoveries of Livingstone ; they should have it in the Doctor's own handwriting. Aha! they had cornered the Hzrazp now! Not to anticipate events we may here give breath to the truism that men whose opinions are worth nothing grasp with avidity at anything that looks like a prop to any view they may have hazarded. So, scraps of incredulity wero clipped and passed from Thomas to Thomas at an amusing rate. By putting all their heads together, like Sydney Smith’s church wardens, they found wood enough to make an anti- Livingstone platform. A perfect godsend at this period was an article in the Saturday Review, which, with the usual good taste and courage of that periodical, sneered at the undertaking of an American journal, which had achieved what the English government and people had failed in. At the same time the Review cautiously left its readers in doubt whether it believed or not in the premises of its own arguments. The letters from Dr. Liv- ingstone to the Henaup were next published, and the doubters at once moved their base. Their creed, as stated in articles, was: — First—The letters were not genuine. Second—The Doctor's style had been im- proved by contact with the Heraup correspond- ent. Third—The alleged Nile discoveries were un- true. Fourth—They amounted to nothing anyhow. Fifth—The Doctor should have writtan to civ- ilization earlier. Sitth—The Doctor was an ‘‘old idiot” for writing at all. A cable despatch stating that the Paris Temps, on the authority of a German geogra- pher, named Kiepert, wagged its head doubt- ingly over the letters, buoyed the Thomases up with renewed hope, and fire was opened along the little line. We presenta few of the fuseleas shells. Says the Buffalo Express :— The numbers of those who regard the Herarp Livingstone story as a huge humbug are increasing. It ts thought that Dr. Livingstone could never have written such letters as those published in the HgRALD over his signature. Think of a scientific man, say Agassiz, giving to the world such stufl as this as part of the fruits of years of toil. Following suit comes the Washington Chroni- dle:— There seems to be an increasing inclination to discredit the statements of Stamey, the corre- spondent of the New Yor«k HERALD, about Living- stone. There has been something of extravagance and sensationalism about the disclosures of Staniey that has been unpleasantiy suggestive of the moon- hoax experience. The Evening Register, of New Haven, joins a little political jocularity with its doubts, thus :— Avery general suspicion that the “Stanley-Liv- ingstone correspondence” is a hum begins to crop out in audible guifaws, Staniey is supposed to be the North Carolina correspondent of tue New York Times—its returns are go accurate. The Lycoming (Pa.) Gazette on tho shoul- ders of its big brothers, says :— STANLEY.—There is bf atbihin suspicion that the alleged discovery ot Wp ger the African ex- plorer, by Stanley, of the New York HERALD, 13 a monstrous seil, only equalled by the ‘great moon hoax of several years ago. These are very general and vague, but your experienced Thomas, who feels himself equal to deciphering the toughest palimpsest that ever bothered a medimval scholar, wrought his vengeance on the Livingstone letters in another style. The St. Louis Globe thereupon lucu- brates: — But it was worse than naughty to quote from “Hawthorne's English Notes” about betng “‘oulbous below the ribs.” Inasmuch as the book which he uotes so glibly Was not publianed until after the but of business as well. The land that one bold man would penetrate with nothing but hig own resources to depead yvon Doctor's disappearance, we are at a loas to account for hig acquaintance with its contents, Coull he have got it trom the Book and News Com} of Unyaoyembe or trided with its pages gt the citca- lating brary of Ugogo? An éxplanation ts needed The Doctor will no doubt attend to this conundrum when he returns. The Milwaukee Sentinel follows up the <‘bulbous’’ controversy with killing sarcasm in this fashion: — objects to the it i J rect but sevoral poopie ere wonserian fH writer got his acquaintance with the contents of yy atnoe tho work was not published until Livingstone's disa) . It be t liberal quotatio! : ‘ ets ns were juded the other thi attend at dese ne The Sacramento Record sniffs tho battle from afar and rejects the hypothesis of the Livingstone letters being genuine with scorn: — The man’ of science may have fallen tnto his with = Ujijfan Ba) 3 but itanding the it ti lack Of chayity to which we arate Ona 4 must confess that we find it uit to pt she letter attributed to the e: Tr as genuine, We cannot go through them all, but the above are fair specimens. Some Colonel San- ford, who had travelled round the world, was viewed, and this second edition of De joey’s great walker had grave doubts also, and the Thomases all over shared them imme- diately. We shall close these elegant extracts of “reliable’’ doubts with an echo of dubi- tableness from the Royal Geographical Solo- mon aforementioned. This is found in the columns of the Pittsburg Commercial, under the head ‘Is It Imposture ?’*— Sir Henry Rawilnson, who from the first has re- fused to believe in the discovery of Livingstone b: Stanley, persists still in unbelief, as the folegraph tells us, At least that seems to he the inference which Sir Henry wishes the world to draw from the emphatic announcement he makes of the fact that boosie eh no lettera from the great African Tho sensible Commercial does not, however, believe at all in Sir Henry and his ruffled mightiness. In the midst of all those little paper houses of doubt the letters of Earl Granville and Dr. Livingstone’s son to the Hzratp, attesting the genuineness of the communications, fell and knocked them to pieces. Henceforward the exchanges bring us notes of an entire disap- pearance of all doubts on ‘the matter. The Troy Whig says:— In sptte of the improbability of Stanley's story and the strange wording of the Livingstone letters the doughty correspondent seems to have proof enough of his adventures and of his claims to the discovery of the great explorer. The Springfield Republican comes bravely out: — A good many people have been slow to give en- tiré credence to the reported discovery of Dr. Liv- ingstone by the New York WERALD’s correspond- ent, Mr. Stanley, and even since the latter’s return from Africa not a few have questioned the gen ineness of his story and the authenticity of the lettera he claimed to have brought from Dr. Liv- ingstone. But there is no bee ed the slightest ground for any such doubt or cavilling. The Philadelphia Ledger speaks its mind:— The doubts that have been entertained in refer- ence to the truth of the report of the discovery of Dr. David Livingstone by Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the New York HERALD commissioner, should be en- tirely dispelled by the certificates of ‘Karl Granville, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, and of Mr. leben bpp the son of the long-lost African ex- plorer, The Worcester Evening Gazette is gladdened at heart: — The authenticity of the Livingstone letters is at last assured, for a despatch from London of to-day’s date states that the traveller's son, Mr. 3. Living- stone, is satisfied of their genuineness, and, along with Lord Granville, the English Minister of Foreign has written Mr. Stanley to apprise him of The Philadelphia Age wonders how anybody could have doubted it: — Our telegraphic despatches from Europe on Sat- urday gave from a French newspaper some foolish doubts as to the authenticity of the New Yore HERALD's account of the finding of Dr. Livingstone. It has received the fullest corroboration, and it was always entitled to the fullest credit, The Buffalo Courier parts regretfully with its incredulity: — Whatever doubts there may be as to the authen- ticity of the letters purporting to be from Dr. Liv- ingstone published in the RALD, there can be none aa the fact that Mr. Stanley actually met the explorer and has brought communications from him to England. The Paterson Guardian satisfies its longing for the right: — The New YorkE Heratp this morning summarily disposes of the ingenious cavils of envious rivals by publishing certificates from Earl Granville, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Liv- ingstone’s son, fully authenticating the letters and other papers received by Mr. Stanley from the fa- mous African explorer. This, we imagine, is enough. The Hzraxp troubled itself not at all about the cavillers and hair-splitters, while all the great leaders of thought on this Continent and Europe ac- cepted the success of the expedition not merely as a fact, but as a material aid to civilization and progress. There we can leave it. To the insignificant or self-sufficient beings who amused themselves in nursing their doubts we can in the best of humor and in the spirit of Mr. Greeley apply the language of Goldsmith in his elegy on 8 mad dog—the rabid canine in this instance being their incredulity: — But soon a wonder came to light That showed the rogues they lied; The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died, Progress and Prospects of the dential Campaign. Our political readers of every party stripe and color will find much to interest them in the opinions of Senator Wilson, the regular re- publican candidate for the Vice Presidency, touching the probable results of the great national battle of November next, and in the budget of reports from our travelling corre- spondents, which we publish this morning, of the latest movements, developments and indi- cations, East, West and South, of this extraor- dinary Presidential campaign. Senator Wilson is confident of a victory to General Grant in November, 1872, which will eclipse his triumph of 1868, He thinks, for instance, that there are only two doubtful States in the North, New York and New Hampshire, and that they may be retained by General Grant against the combined forces of democrats and anti-Grant republicans. Sen- ator Wilson, since the Baltimore Convention, has had very good opportunities for testing the pulse of public opinion as an active cam- paigner in North Carolina and Virginia and in the heart of the great West; but still, as a party directly interested in tho general results, his views of the pros- pects of this Presidential contest must be taken with a liberal sprinkling of salt. The opposi- tion coalition candidate for Vice President, Governor Gratz Brown, expressed his opinion tho other day at New Haven to the effect that Grant will hardly carry three States of the thirty-seven, How, then, are we to decide when such doctors disagree? Tho best that we can do for the of striking a bal- ance betwoen them is to fall back upon the reporta of our travelling correspondents, whose business it is, in the matter of this Prosiden- tinl canvass, to look vigilantly about them, to gather the evidence on both sides and to judge impartially according to the weight of the facts and the testimony co! as between Grant and Greeley. A batch of these will be found in our columns to-day, and although a corre- apondent's views aro taken ‘‘on the wing” they will soverthcloss Yo found interesting, Prest- Secure success for its favorite candidate. At Present the scales seem very evenly balanced, and we shail have to wait until the great Oc- tober elections before the scales will be seen to turn decisively one way or the other. ee DEATH IN THE FREEZER. A North Carolina Negro Poisons Twenty-six Pere sons by Ice Croam—Several Mot Expected to Recover—Tragio Ending to a “Social” — Arrest of the Alleged: Poisoner, GreENnoRO, N. O., August 12, 1872, The arrest of a negro at Ruffin's Depot, on tas Richmond and Danville Railroad, to-day brought to light the facts of a most diabolical attempt to murder a large party of Iidies and gentlemen by POISONING THE ICH ORBAM which was served up at a supper given at the resi- dence of the Rev. P. H, Fontaine, at Reldavilte, in the adjoining county of Rockingham. The detatts of this flendish attempt to murder twenty-six innocent per- sons, including some young ladies of the county, and atl of whom were belonging to the élite of society tn this State, liave hitherto been kept in the pro- foundest secrecy owing to measures which were Promptly Lnstituted to effect the arrest of the would-be wholesale assassin. Mr. Fontaine, who is the principal of a female academy at Reidsville, wound up {ls annual commencement, exerciaes with @ party, to which he invited all the youthand beanty of the surrounding country. It appears that some days before this gathering Mr. Foutaiue em- ployed as a nurse the wife of JIM JOHNSON, & NEGRO, who was necessarily also domiciled on the prem. iscs, Jim Joinsonand hia wife, not keeping before their eyes the solemn promise made when joined tn wedlock to iove and cherish each other, had a slight misunderstanding and, when they fuiled to convince each other by words, came to blows, In the contest which followed Jim Johnson, tn a fury of rage, struck a child of Mr. Fontaine's, whieh was then in its nurse’s arms, a blow, which for a time appeared to endanger its life, As soon as Mr. Fontaine heard of this gross outrage in a mo- ment of indignation he setzed a large switch and gave the negro a sound thrashing, All parties then made friends, and the whole affair would have been forgotton but for the terrible calamity which has go suddenly stricken down a large number of young people, almost in the midst of the innocent amusements that always take place at a social reunton, and which tt is now feared will send ben’ to premature gravea. On the evening of the sth inst, the entertatament spoken of above was given, and all things went merrily as a marriage belt. The old folks partook of supper and departed to find peaceful reat. All these’ escuped from injury. It was at this time that Mrs. Fontaine unfortunately requested Jim Johnson to REFREEZE THE ICE CRAM. which had melted from the extreme heat. It was then the poison was administered, and tn this way the guests became the victims of this human fiend in his attempt to wreak cowardly vengeance for his supposed grievance. The evening passed of pleasantly, and, alter mutual congratulations, the crowd separated. In a few hours all these persons, to the number of twenty-six, who had so lately been in the enjoyment of perfect health, were SEIZRD WITH VIOLENT CONYULSIONS, pain at the stomach and head and other symptoms of a deadly nature. The anxiety of the people in the village became intense when they Icarned that one after another was suddenly brought so near to death’s door. All remedies known to science failed to produce any immediate curative effect, and vio- lent death stared the victims in the face, Fortu- Hately no one has yet died, but the physicians now Bay that SEVERAL WILL NOT RECOVER. ‘ A young man, W. M. Houston, associate editor of the Record, a democratic paper published at Reida- ville, ig: now dangerously. at his brother's reat- dence, in this towa. He, too, was a victim of this foul attempt to murder. The fact that Jim Johnson had been very angry with Mr. Fontatoe, that the rsons who ate cream before he was sent to ireeze itsuffered no sickness, and that he, even when pressed by his wile, persistently refused to touch any of it, and WOULD. NOT ALLOW HER TO TOUOH ANY, goon led to his being suspected, The physicians, under advice, kept the supposed cause secret until the would-be polsoner could be arrested. A war- rant for bis arrest was accordingly issued, but he had sought safety in fight, thinking that he had fully accomplished his devilish work. Active search was made for him, aud he was to-day found at RuMn’s depot, living under an assumed name, When arrested he CALLED LOUDLY UPON THE NEGROES TO RBSCUB HIM, and, but for the coolness and bravery ofthe Deputy Sherif, James Dalton, a serious riot would have taken place. From all the lights that can be on- tained on the subject the proofs against Jim John- son appear well founded, and his work would been only too well done but for the active meas! taken by Dr. Jem. Scales, a yoang phystcian of Retdsvilie, who, from the first syniptoms, discovered poisoning and promptly adininistere the proper antidotes, witich in time had the effect of relieving some of the sufferers, Tue most tu- tense excitement prevails in the community im which the outri took place, and now, though Johnson's preliminary examination 1s tn progress before a magistrate, he would be lynched but for bene law abiding spliit of the people of North Caro- Be PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Count Schirkom, of the Russian Legation, is at the Brevoort House. Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour yeatcrday came to the city and took quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commodore F. Stanley, of Virginia, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Licutenant Governor J, I. Marye, of Virginia, is registered at the Grand Central Hotel. Congressman W. C. Smith, of Vermout, is at the Brevoort House. General Judson Kilpatrick has arrived at the Astor House. United States Senator A. Caldwell, of Kansas, yesterday arrived ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senator Charles Sumner arrived at the Brevoort House late last night, He will probably remain in this clty several days. SELLING ARMS TO THE SOUTH. ATu Quoque to the German Government in Response to the Freuch Arms Sales Charges. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 12, 1672. The Leader of to-morrow wili coutatu the follow: ing letter:— Myr Camscus, who, duriag. the rebellion of out r. Camseus who, dui " Sonthern secessionists, was the United States Consul in Vienna, has ‘given evidence in his re- cently published letter to the fact that the Austrian and Prussian governments sold arms of every de- scription to nta, who forwarded them to the revels. Now, aba time when there Is so much talk by Carl Schurz aud the liberals avout our sale of arms to #rance, | fect none to say what | know ‘about the sale of arms to the Southerners, the tc- gality of which was never doubted by the Germans so long as they had a hand in {t themselves. In July or August, 1862, I made a trip rom Bremen to Hamburg and met in the diligence a personal friend, a first lieutenant named Siefert, of the Bremen Hanseatic battalion, and hts brother-in- law, a Mr. Borntraeger, a commissioned land. welir officer, of Dusseldorf, Prussia. In the course of conversation they told me that they were going to Hamburg, in order to send a car, of muskets, purcha: from the arsenais of the several German principalitics, to the Southern States, This fact is still fresh in my mem- ory, because & dispute arose between ua over the question as to whether such a transaction, carried out by military officials, could be considered a legitimate business, the rebels not Ling | an acknowl belligerent Power. The last I heard of the sale was a rumor that the above-named officer had had the worst, ob it; that is, that he had met with heavy losses. It is, however, beyond my knowledge whether the i ot ever received the arms or not. Respectfully, yours, sth Dr. HERMAN D. MIEIRE, Editor Anzeyyer. « THE WEATHER. War DsPAaRTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CaIRF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasiinoron, D. O., August 13—1 A. M, Probabilities. Cloudy weather and rain are to pass over the lower lakes, the Middle States and over New Eog- land, with southerly winds, but clearing aut cooler weather, on Tuesday afternoon, Variable south- easterly and northerly winds on the South Atiantig and Gulf coasts, with clear weather. Partly clougy weather and southerly to westerly winds in the Ohio Valley and northward to the upper lakes, where northerly winds und cleas weather way bt expected 4