The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. “JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. gnowERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Uowesr Joun—Haset WHITS’S ATHENAUM, 685 Broadway.—Neoro Miv- eraxisr, dc. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad , corner Thirtiot - Six. Afternoon and Evening. ok wee OLYMPIO THEATBE, Broad; Bleecker ste.—A Liras Denam, between Moustonand WALLACK’S TIEATRE, street—Biur Busap. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Canis Np Lena. Matiuice at 235. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Escarep nom Sino Broadway and Thirteenth TERRACE GARDSN, 8th ot. betwoen Third and Lex- iwgton ave.—Guann Concuat. CRNTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Gaanp Lwornowmnmat - Conceat. aes MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— anv ART. ¢ DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Ant sawp ‘Sormnce, WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Friday, Augu: m A—Aavertsoments dvertinersents—The Old Ring Frauds: Arrest of James H. Ingersoll; His Appearance in the Court of General Sessions—Mace and O'Bald- win: The Stakeholder will Make Them Enlisting Sailors for the Braailian Navy- ners’ Work Yesterday. Indiana: What the apt Really Ia; A Struggle for Life or Death Between Hendricks and Morton; pape Se yuarrels Republican Rascality; Senator Wilson's Tour of State— The Colored Vote: A Black and Belligerent Controversy at the Cooper Institute Last Night; Saunders and Garnet; The Colored Champtoas of the Presidential Candidates and their Wordy War; Grant and Garnet Enthasi- ht NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT, The Democratic and Liberal Repub- Mean State Conventions—Importance of Good Nominations. The democrats and liberal republicans have agreed to held their State Conventions at Syracuse on the 4th day of September. They will meet in separate bodies, and while the nominations will no doubt be left to the democrats, to be endorsed by the liberals, the Convention of the latter party will afford some test of the extent of the secession from the Topublican Organization in this State, ‘The ticket will, of course, be headed by a demo- crat for Governor, and probably a liberal will be taken for the second place, that of Lieutenant Governor, although it is under- stood that no claim to such # concession is made on the liberal side. As the chances favor the success of the Greeley party in New York, itis important that good nominations should be made at Syracuse, and that the prom- ise of reform, which is tho strongth of the now political movement, shall be practically fulfilled in the character of the mon selocted for office. Governor Hoffman, who is now filling his second term, is out of the field in view of the “one-term” principle on which the opponents of General Grant are fighting their Presidon- tial battle, and hence there is an opportunity to make an entirely new ticket, free from the most remote connection with the old Tammany politicians, who met their overthrow last No- vember. ‘This is generally conceded to be a fortunate chance, and the only question is as to the nominee who will give most strength to the cause in the State. With a thoroughly capable and honest candidate for Governor, and with carefully selected nominations for Congress and tho Legislature, as well as for Judges and charter officers in this city, there is no good reason why Farmer Greeley should not receive the compliment of a very large majority in his own State, whatever may be the grand result of the Presidential contest. Party conventions are invariably ruled by the politicians, and as these managers have astically Endorsed by the African Citizens of New York; The Moral Victory with Saunders and Greeicy ; Tho Meoting Terminating tn Con- Tasion—Tho Political Se inatiete Braye Republican Primaries—Brooklyn Greeley leeting. 4@-~Editorials: Leading Article, ‘The Democratic and Liberal Republican State Conventions— Importance of Good Nominations’’—Amase- ment Announcements. S—An Imporial Visitor—European Nonora to the Hegnatp's Commissioner to Africa—Revolu- tion in Houduras—Telegraphic News from England, Ireland, Germany and Cuba—Mr. grpeley’s Tour in Maine—The Cruise of the New York Yacht Clubh—Vico Commodore Dougias’ Challenge to All England—Miscella- neous Pelearer he eustae. Noticea, 6—The Herald Livingstone Expedition: Continucd Comments of the English Press on Braplers: Success; A Servant of Science; The Ex- Borasons of Livingstone in Conjunction with tanicy; An Interesting Piece of Gossip, Graphic with Personal Traits and Enllvened by Notes of Perilous Adventure; Kind Offices of the American; General Review of the Liv- stone-Stanley Letters to the Herald—Tho ado: Proposed Journey of the Emperor of Japan Through the United States and Europe; Envoys Preparing the Way; How the Tycoon Fell and the Mikado Became Emperor—Catho- lio Festival Yesterday. TAdvertisements. S—Barpard’s impeachment: Mr. Beach Concludes ument in Favor of the Respoudent— fon rt The Latest Political Move— faer ch; Affairs—Proceedings la the Courts— and Dramatic Notes—Jefferson Mar- ket Police Court—Brooklyn Affairs—Killed by an Ironing Board—Canoe Dolly Varden: The Explorer of the Miselasippi’s Source Short of Provisions. @—Cauce Dolly Varden (Continued from Eighth ra ae ica Park Trotting: Third of the Meeting—Financial and Commercial: A ‘Weaker Feeling in Breadstnis; Extreme Dul- neeg in the Wall Street Markets; Reaction in Gold and Advance of the Premium to 1154; Foreign Exchange Engier; Stocks Dull and Lower ; Erie and Western Union the Features, Moving in oP osite Directions; Governmenta juiet and Firm; The Business of the Sab- vasury—Domestic, Havana and European Markets—Marriages and Deuths—Advertise- tome Pestilence Fleet: Four Yellow Fever Ves- gels Anchored in the Bay; Another Infected Brig Arrives Yesterday; The Frigate Nu- mancia To Be Anciored om the southwest Spit; No New Cases Reported on Board; The Total Death Roll—The Sultry Sun: Effects of the Sweltering Heat Yesterday—Fire in Nas- san Strect—Shipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments, Revovurion mm Ceytnan Amentca.—From Omoa, Honduras, by way of Havana, we are informed of the sudden occurrence of a revo- lution in the Central American Republic. The movement was attended by the capture, im- prisonment and ransom with foreign gold, of political enemies of leading men in public life. Geneml Chamoro was executed, and General Medina carried off a prisoner from the protection of the English. Tho foreign residents, Americans, English and Spanish, in the towns suffered heavy losses, and a general alarm prevailed under this fearful exercise of democracy, demoralized by ignorance and passion. e Presidential Dattle, as will appear from our special letters and newspaper extracts on the subject from day to day. Important of Trvr.—We cannot believe that Cardinal Antonelli bas quarrelled with the Pope. It is not possible. If it be so, as our news seems to imply, the end of the world must be close at hand. We have some faith in the Pope, but we like Antonclll’s pluck. Tae Deerexixa or Heut Gare.—We aro glad to announce to this community that the work of deepening and widening the ship channel of Hell Gate is, under the supervision and direction of General Newton, progressing | admirably, and that his excavations under those hard, primitive rocks are regarded by many as really more wonderful than the cata- combs of Paris, the Sucz Canal or the Hoosac Tunnel. A Purastsa Act—The visit of the venernble Thurlow Weed to his old friend, Mr. Seward, can imagine the happy time which these battles over again and in discnasing the Presi- dential prospects of one of the original mem- bers of the firm of ‘Seward, Weed & Gree- } ley.” ‘Tus Annest or James H. Ixcrnsort.— Great excitement was created yesterday in tho Court of General Sessions in consequence of the arraignment of James H. Ingersoll, the Tammany chairmaker, on two indict ments for forgery. Crowds thronged the court room anxious to see the elegantly dressed prisoner, who is charged with having pocketed incredible sums for chairs and other cabinet ware furnished to the city, and no little indignation was indi- cated in the remarks of citizens as he appeared at the bar and by his counsel offered bail to | | house as to have heard nothing of the Tam- appear for trial after having pleaded not guilty to both charges. In consideration of the fact that Ingersoll is already bailed for half o million dollars in @ civil action on behalf of the people, Judge Bedford fixed $10,000 a the bail in these casem our distinguished cx-Secretary of State and | Oriental traveller, at his home at Auburn. We | two old gentlemen, retired from the political | govmour, and it is being pressed with world, have had together in fighting their | their own interests to serve and their own plans to carry out it is seldom profitable to offer them advice. But if the lesson of last year has not been thrown away they will have learned that, while they may manipulate con- ventions and control nominations, thoy cannot always insure the success of their candidates at the polls, however seem- ingly large may be their political major- ity. The revolution which overthrew the once powerful Tammany Ring and defeated its most influential nominees was the work of the quiet, independent voters, who went to the polls re- solved to sweep away the men who had proved unfaithful to their trusts. The press did its part in exposing the frauds that had been prac- tised on the people by dishonest officials and their associates in rascality, and tho rival politicians, who sought to benefit themselves by a change of programme, helped on the movement, but their share in the result was comparatively small, and all their efforts would have been fruitless but for the solid strength of the intel- ligent, thoughtful citizens, who for once took the management of their political affhirs into their own hands. This same undemonstrative element is at work to-day, and it is the more resolved upon making its power felt because it sees that its brilliant victory of last Fall was in a great degree nullified by the subsequent ac- | tion of the political adventurers who availed themselves of the reform movement to advance their own schemes and interests. It will not do for the managers of the dual Syracuse Con- ventions of September 4 to ignore these plain facts and to suppose that the strength of the Greeley ticket and the large vote called out by the Presidential contest will carry them safely through, regardless of the character of their State nominations. The political feature of the Cincinnati movement is the one that is constantly before the eyes of the people, and the estimates of its strength or weakness are generally based on political caloula- tions. These are altogether deceptive and cannot be relied upon, There may bea large accession of strength on one side to the liberal cause, while there is a quiet leakage to an almost equal extent on the other side. If the movement is to succeed at all its success will be due to its acceptance by tho independent people as a movement of reform—of reform in the treatment of the Southern States; of retorm in the public departments and in the personal surroundings of the administration; of reform in the conduct of our foreign relations; of reform in the character of our representatives abroad. To inspire confidence in the sincerity of the pledges upon which the campaign is | conducted it is necessary that men of acknowl- edged worth and capacity shall be alone put forward by the liberal reformers for all offices of responsibility and trust. 4 Public sentiment seems to have pointed to Judge Church as a desirable nominee for Governor, and there is no doubt that his name would add strength to the Greeley ticket, especially in the rural districts. In the elec- tion for Judges of the Court of Appeals in 1870, Judge Church received two hundred and forty thousand votes out of three hundred and ninety thousand polled, and was highest on a ticket embracing such names as William F. Allen, Martin Grover, Rufus W. Peckham, Charles A. Rapallo, Charles J. Folger and Charles Andrews. Of his capacity’ and honesty there can be no question, dnd his opposition to the old Tammany corraptionists was never concealed. There is, however, a movement going on among the politicians in favor of the nomination of Horatio | vigor by those who favor it. It jis urged that Seymour has = always | sustained his popularity before the people on | the numerolid’ Occasions when he has been a | candidate for office, and that his only enemies | in the democratic party have been the men who were so signally rebuked by the vote of last | November. | that the nomination of Seymour would revive all the old stories of the draft riots and the Cooper Union speech; but this is met by the plea that the presont election is intended to obliterate all the memories of the war and ita incidents, and to blot out the records of indi- viduals in that trying period of our history. There are‘many, however, who will remember that last year Governor Seymour had been so busily engaged in putting a new roof on his | many troubles in New York until the Demo- cratic Convention met, and it was found that the doom of the old régime was sealed, It is also suggested that in the event of Sey- mour’s nomination a fresh batch of awkward paragraphs from the Tribune would make their appearance in the Grant organs and serve to further embarrass the new relations between the democracy and their old opponent. The spirit of the present campaign demands the selection of candidates tolerably free from entanglement in the party issues and internal quarrels of old. Althongh the chances favor Greeley'’s success in the State, it is not suffi- ciently certain to warrant inconsiderate action im the construction of the ticket that is to run with him in November. The strength of such men aa Fenton, Alvord, Littlejohn, Cochrane, Waldo Hutchins, Depew, Generals Merritt and Palmer, and others in the liberal movement is undeniable, to say nothing of Greeley him- self, with his ‘What I Know About Farming” and his famous white hat and long-tailed coat. We place littlo reliance on the ramored demo- cratic defections in tho interior of the State, because the ‘‘straight-out’ Louisville move- ment is such a clear fraud or folly that no man of common sense will be cajoled into the be- liof that he is upholding domoeratic princi- ples by throwing his time or vote away upon such a silly affair. Nevertheless there are no donbt many individual democrats, es- pecially among the moneyed men, who will support Grant in preference to Grecley, and there are unmistakable indications of a serions intrigue in this city that is likely to take over to Grant the whole strength of the old Tammany rings, together with the Police Department, the Bureau of Elections, the Public Works Department, the Street Cleaning Bureau, a majority of the Police Magistrates, the Health Department, besides the great personal strength of Senator O'Brien. Hence we caution Mr. Greeley and his friends, including regenerated Tammany, that, while the State promises well for their candidate, the fight is not likely to be won save by hard work and under acceptable lead- ers. If they would make certain of New York for their candidate they must place in nomina- tion for Governor and Mayor citizens of known worth and integrity, whose records are clean on the subject of reform, and whose names are guarantees of honest, liberal and energetic government, European Honors to the African Explorer. Woe learn with great pleasure from England Herald's On the other hand, it is argued | that Mr. Stanley, commander of tho successful Livingstone Search Expedition, has been tho recipient of marked honors at the hands of the Royal Geographical Society. At the meeting which was convened at Brighton this year the Henatp'’s commissioner was received with great enthusiasm by the members and visi- tors. Mr. Stanley reviewed his travels in Central Africa, and dwelt at length on the condition in which he found Dr. Living- stone. In conclusion, he gave the Doctor's views on the still disputed point—the source of the Nile. The savans then attacked the subject, and left it, we may suppose, pretty well where they found it. Aside from the merits of this question, we are pleased to note the warmth and earnestness with which the people of England recognize sterling work in the cause of progress. Nor are other lands behindhand in their testimony to the expedi- tion and its leader. The Goographical So- cieties of St. Petersburg and Florence, repre- senting respectively Russian and Italy, have each sent a gold medal to Mr. Stanley. Among the throng of distinguished visitors at Brighton who applauded the Henatp commissioner was the ex-Emperor Napoleon. The illustrated English papers contain many fine representa- tions of the course of the expedition. Tax Sqvevcaine or THE Pawzz Fiant.— In the arrest of those professors of the ‘‘manly art of self-defence,’’ Mace and O’ Baldwin, and the stoppage of their proposed ‘mill’ by United States District Attorney Pinkney at Baltimore, it is to be hoped the prize ring and its brutal scenes in this country have been effectually squelched. Had the champions met and punished each other scientifically on the sacred soil of the Old Dominion or the classic shores of ‘‘My Maryland’ the decent portion of the community would have had no sym- pathy for the vanquished and no pride in the prowess of the victor. Its verdict would have expressed regret that the fight had not been as mortal as the classic one of the Kilkenny cats. But had the affair come off as per programme it would without doubt have led to many sub- sequent tests of the vexed question of superior skill and endurance in a disgusting contest. Many doubt that a fight was really intended by the principals, though they bear each other no good will. In the majority of cases specu- lation has much to do with fistic exhibitions, the design of the ring being to pocket dollars rather than decide rival claims to the belt. Mr. Pinkney merits thanks for putting the brake upon the “sport.” Jaran.—Tue Mrxapo anv His Rerorss.— The leaven of progress is producing wonderful changes among our Japanese neighbors. Our latest despatches from the island Empire show the Mikado and his suite dressed after the style of New Yorkers, with ample additions of gold lace. He makes the tour of his dominions accompanied by eight vessels of war, which exhibit to his subjects all the modern inven- tions in projectiles and ordnance, as well as maritime construction and propulsion. This interesting people appear suddenly inspired with the desire to enter fully into the prog- ress of the age. In all departments of the realm reform and jmprovement are the sule, and everywhere the wish appears to be to adopt at once all the beneficent results which centuries of experiment in Europe and America have been able to produce. Our country, os the nearest transoceanic friendly Power, is most directly interested in the striking modifications et work in Japan, and we hail joyfully each forward step in her march of reform. Tae Decisions oy THE Genuva TatpuNan made up to the present are said, in a letter received at the State Department from Bancroft Davis, to be all in favor of the United States. This will be chvering news if true, but in view of the fact that we do not know what has been under decision, it will be safe to withhold our joy for the pre- sent. We have so often been informed in official quarters that the progréss of the Treaty was a perpetual triumph to America that we may be excused for a trifle of cynicism on the matter just now. We cannot forget that at the very time America was about to be humiliated by the State Department in the indirect claims business everything was reported from there as looking coweur de rose. The arbitrators still continue their meetings, preserving strict BoCrecy, | : i | i F i t r i | i i i if iH | i} f i i F § i : i ee j i E } i | HTL Fesg E iH Fe Frit ead i Hi E i Fl i i iF Li Northern Lights wore streaming up from behind the dark mountains of clouds which hung upon the Hudson Highlands with won- derful brilliancy, There was thus a blending of the electricity from the icebergs of the frozen North and of the electricity evolved from our burning summer skies, for which the records can hardly produce a parallel. The accompaniments or overtures to these thunder storm. The lightning wns of the most fearful nature and appalled the stoutest hearts as it flashed athwart the sky in forked tongues and jagged chains, and these fearful illuminations were each followed by rattling and stunning volleys of thander. On the same evening there was a tremendous thunderstorm at Owego and along the Susquehanna in that quarter, and a terrible thunder shower passed over a large part of Connecticut, and others in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. On Thursday night they had o similar visitation in Washington, and on the night preceding a very destructive downpouring at Louisville and thereabouts, in Kentucky. Houses wero blown down in Louisville, and the whole sur- rounding country was flooded, and crops, fences and outhouses were washed away. On Wednesday afternoon, while a violent thunder storm was raging in Amesbury, Mass., the poet Whittier was prostrated in his house (though, we are glad to say, he was not injured) by a lightning bolt which struck the building, and four other buildings in the little town were struck during tho storm, but without material injury in any case, In short, since Sunday last, there has been, East, West and South, a succession of these summer thunder storms, as remarkable for their num- ber as for their violence ; and yet, since Sun- day last, from day to day, in this city and its surroundings, the busy portion of the day has opened with the mercury among the eighties, to be carried in the afternoon high up among the nineties. Usually, we say, such a succession of fierce thunder storms, over such an extensive area as that covered by the storms of the present week, brings on immediately a refreshing cool- ness and purity in the general atmosphere. But down into the afternoon of yesterday there was no relieving mitigation of our August “heated term’’—heated to the sweltering tem- perature of the delta of the Ganges, or of those awful Equatorial African swamps crossed by Stanley in his search for Dr. Livingstone. And, without dwelling here upon what fol- lowed this sweltering heat of yesterday, we return to the question, why the continuance for so many days of these fearful tropical heats, notwithstanding all these heavy thun- der storms? This isan interesting question, and one to which we would call the special attention of our Signal Service Bureau, which has proved so signally serviceable to the country as to command the universal approval of the public. If Professor Plantamour’s comet, with a fiery tail stretching over half the semicircle of the firmament, were within or near the orbit of our little planet we might settle this ques- tion at once; but as no comet is just now with- in the range of our longest telescopes the comet explanation must be dismissed. The trouble, as defined by the Italian astronomer Secchi, must be in the sun. He appears to be fired up with an immense outflow of incandescent magnesium toa degree of heat that is posi- tively startling. But whatever the causes of the extraordinary phenomena in question we can only hope that the consequences will not involve the destruction of our helpless little planet until we shall have had a judgment from the people of the United States as to which is the better man—Grant or Greeley. Tue Yexrow Fever Freer gained another unwelcome addition yesterday in the ar- rival of an infected brig. There are now in the Bay four vessels having the horrible disease on board. The Spanish man-of-war Numancia will be moved to-day to an anchorage off the Southwest Spit, ten miles further distant from the city than her present position. No new cases are reported. There are in all twenty-four patients at present ag : Ax [venus Vistron to raz Untrep Srares.—We are specially informed by a tele- gram from St. Thomas that His Imperial Highness the Duke of Saxe has embarked at that port and is now journeying by steam to the United States. This gentleman is son-in-law of His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil. He comes to visit the American peo- ple and, also, to observe the workings of the governmental institutions under which we live. There is little doubt that the occa- sion will be very agreeable, to its moment of termination, on both sides—an opinion which is strongly fortified by the existence of the facts which we append to our news report. Tax Sworn Tunwep Into a Bxarrxe Hoox.— The English government has marghed a num- ber of soldiers to Oxfordshire, to be placed at the disposal of the farmers in oid of the work of harvesting the crops. This action has been taken by the Executive to neutralize the con- sequences of a strike of the agricultural labor- ers for higher wages. It has given offence to the officers of the National Agricultural Union, but there is no doubt it will be very pleasing to John Bull proper, and very uyjofal to tho Kicks Her Litelese Form. A tragedy occurred on the second floor of No. 405 East Seventeenth street about @ve o'clock last evening—Mart Flannigan, an Irishmaa, stabbed his wife Catharine to death. The particuars was born in county Galway, Ireland, in the i i J : E F ; : the past few months prosperity and tended them. Flannigan was taken sick last, and the entire support of the since devolved apon Mary and oldest brothers, James and Mark, t always bri home on a Saturday te ote of her week's tol! in ing Fiann! Yo lmprove somewhat, lat of was is former self, But the excessi’ hot weatner of June and July proved too his now delicate constitution and excessively vous system, and he soon became so weak in ree was necessary to watch him constantly. it Mon: lial whit futhe! clothes, While doing this he called to come in, but thia she refused todo. The says his poor mother seemed great bat still said nothing, nor did she attempt to leave the room. On the contrary, ehe went to the bedroom door and attempted by soothing and ci lan- guage to quiet the Infurtated man. 1 ing to him ho removed his vest, threw it on the floor, trampled tt and then tore it into shreds. At this juncture the wife went into the room to vent his destroying everything it contain Fiannigan, who, with the craft of a lunatic creted a knife about the bed, gatened it up and the poor woman e the first stab was fatal, and, having her daughter Mary, she &., ites. = Flanni towards the door hia drt and muttering something teltigivie. who had been an unwilling witness to the murder, rushed into the street and alarmed the neighbors: who came crowding into th On sel Hl ie house. ing them coming up stairs, Flannigan retreated into the bedroom, and on the prostrate form of hia wife kicked her ut head and chest, as though bent on her total annihilation. He was goon secured, however, and the we m of death wrenched from his. grasp. The police removed him to the Eighteenth Buss, from where he was subsequently taken to Bollevue Hospital, Commodore Worden, of Monitor celebrity, ts at the Everett Honse. The Commodore is now the efficient Superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Roar Admiral Glisson, of the United States Navy, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor Robert B. Lindsay, of Alabama, yester- day arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Senator J. A, Bayard, of Delaware, is at the New York Hotel. Ex-Senator J. 8. Carlisle, of Weat Virginia, is among yester(ay’s arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prof. Joseph Levering, of Harvard University, ts at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr, William Page, the artist, and President of the National Academy of Design, was yesterday visited with a stroke of paralysis, The attack was not 80 severe ag at first reported. Mr. Page expects to be able to resume his artistic labors in a few days, THE WEATHER TO-DAY. Wan Duvarrunvr, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuington, D. C,, August 10—1 A. M. Probabilities. Northerly winds and clear and clearing weather prevail over the New England and Middle States. Easterly to southerly winds, cloudy weather and rain from astern North Carolina to Florida, Clear weather and light winds from Eastern Texas to Alabama, and thence north- eastward to Ohio and Lower Michigan; falling parometer, ‘southerly to southeasterly winds and increasing cloudiness from the Lower Missourt | Valley to Lakes Michigan and Superior, with proba- bly threatening weather. But very few of the regular midnight telegraphic reports have yet been received. SARATOGA RACES. The Programme for To-Day—The Poot Selling—Cheering Prospects for the Meeting. Saratoaa, August 15, 1872. ‘The prospect fora fine race meeting ts cheering. To-morrow (16th) there will be three races; the first the Kenner Stakes, which closed with fifty. seven entries, two miles; the Summer Handicap which had eighteen entries, two miles and a quar- ter, and the Kentucky Stakes, for two-year-olds, rae ee ei wo ana 4200 ee eh comprising Jo. Daniels, who fete! o pool sold; London, who Brose Fe oar wee Who wold for $150; Meteor $80; Experience Oaks, 25, and Pennock’s colt, . be Hubbard was, the favorte for the Summer Handl- cap, fetching $150, while Wines Sy ee, $120, and Defender $115. In the Kent a wakes Mr. Belmont’s entry was the favorite, sell ne, for $200; Bowte’s, $185; Hunter and Traveta’, $75; Mo- Daniel's, $45; Waldeu’s, $20; Cameron's, $10; and Ferome’s, $16, WASHINGTON. * Wasmmnaton, August 16, 1872, Secretary Flah ts mot able to come inngtom, and the business of the State acta eels conducted by Assistant Secretary Hunter. ae + Beoretary Robeson wilt not return until the seh’ instant, He will take part in the pein efirng Seoretary Boutwell is not expected bere untu neal] 1st of next month. He has been urgently re-: quested to deliver @ series of speeches in Pe: ; vania during the latter part ef next month, ana it tw understood that he will comply with the Wishes of his friends. Cendolence with the Bmperor of Austria, ‘Tho Prosident has written a letter of condolence to Francig Joseph, Emperor of Austria, on the death of his mother, the Archduchess Sophia. The Retiring Danish Minister. The Danish government having recalied Mr. F, Bs Bille as Mintster Plenipotentiary, the President te- day addressed a letter to. the King. of Denmark commending the unexceptionablo conduct of Mr. Billo during bis residence in this city. The Invitation to Visit Chattanooga, Governor Sam Bard, who, as Chairman of the Chattanooga Committee, extended an invitation te President Grant, on behalf of the municipal author- ities and the Board of Trade of Chattanooga, fer himself and Cabinet to visit Chattanooga and Look- out Mountain,*had an interview to-day With the President, who informed him that he had laid the invitation before the several members of tho Cabi- net, and would give adefinite answer after the meeting to-morrow. A Diplomat’s Return to Fatherland. Count Arco, the Secretary of the German Le gation, leaves here to-morrow for home, and it is not expected that he will return. Four of the Ka Klux Prisoners Par doned—Eightcen Other Cases Under Consideration. During the forenoon to-day the members of the Cabinet then in town—Messrs. Belknap, Creaswell and Wiliiams—visited President Grant on business, ‘the last named tn relation to the Ku Klux convicts tu the Albany Penitentiary. The report in the case made vy Colonel Whitley having been read to the President, he directed pardons to be made out in behalf of those especially recommended to the Ex- ecutive clemency, namely :—David Collins, William Teal, Amos Owen and William Scrugg, who are re- Presented to be old men, one or two of them in poor health, and who joined the Ka Klux tm ignorance of its real objects. Somo days will elapse before they will be set at ilberty, ag it wilt Qrst be necessary to ascertain when and where they were convicted. After these cases shall be disposed of the l’resident will consider the sugges- ttons of Colonel Whitley relative to eighteen of the others now in Albany Penitentiary. Bx-Governor Wise to Speak Against Greeley in New York. enry A. Wise has accepted the invitation to ad- dress the unterrificd democracy of New York, and will fuidi his promise in a few days. He will attend the Louisville Convention, and says he will do all in hia power to defeat Greeley. The Temporary Internal Rovenae Com- missioner. President Grant, accompanied by Gencral Porter, retarned to Washington this morning. He soom thereafter Issued a commission authorizing Chartes: Ctesiey, solici ‘the Internal Revenue Ofice, to actas r during the absence of the Commissioner and Deputy Commisstonor. Libera! Nomination to Congress. The Convention of the Conservative aud Libera’ Republicans of tne Eighth Congressional district ef Virginia, held tuis eventug, unanimously nominated General Kppa Bunton for Congress. He is the gentieman who recontly discuseed the political situation with Coione! Mosby, at Salem, Va. Cretom National Bank Dividend. ‘The Comptroiier of the Currency has declared @ final dividend of eight and a half per cent in favorot the creditors of the Croton National Bank of New York, payable on the 10th inst., at the office of the receiver of the Occan National Bank, making in all dividends to the creditors of eighty-six and one-alg per cent. Cirealar to National Banks. The Comptroiler of the Currency has prepared? the following circular for distribution among the national banks in “redemption” cities :— In future reports of the condition of your bank peeks to-sees Sees ae aaoeee eayene in specte wit be ried under the head M aud other cash items." The amount of taese checks will be te fretudo Treasury no’ stated separately and oftenaed as Deretoiore. ae JOHN JAY KNOX, Comptroller of the Currency. ‘Treasury Balances. Balances in the Treasury at the close of business to-day :— Currency Including in Coin Certificates. General Howard aad the Colored Cadet=— Denial of Clark's Statement. When the Clark letter was published, asserting, upon the alleged authority of General 0. C. Howard, that the President had order ed shat a court martial be packed to insure the dismissal of the colored cadet, the Secretary of War at once telegraphed te General Howard in the following terms :— Wan DeranTusnt, August 1, 1872. GaveRat 0. 0, Howaxn, Santa Fe, New Mextoo:— Sik—In @ letter from David Clark to Sayiea J. Dowen, dated July 22, 1572, pubdshed tn yesterday's: New York Trivune, he states thet in December tel- jet Smith's trial you said to him as fol- conversation with the Secrotary of War it mo that President Grant had called upon him prior to the appointments of the courts martial and said, ‘1 suppose, Mr, Secretary, that on are about to appoint ® court martial the brat of colored cadet Smith at West Point.’ I have received two or three letters from my son Fred, who Informs me that the cadet ls very oljectionabie there, that there are are strong prejudices him, and now, as this trial Is to come off, Mr. tary, | trust you willso make up the court as ta cause bis reas nawer legraph. WM. W. BELKNAP, Secretary of War. Another telegram was seni forward August 3 calling for an immediate auswer to the above. General Howard stamps the statemont as false tm the most explicit language. This maeNecate: Camr at Caye Srainas, A. T., August Vie Santa Pr, hugusi ins } Hon. W. W. Bavawar, Secretary of War, Washing- ton, D, O,2— ¥ tolegeeane of Angnst lands are this mo ment recat Mr. in is Cay 8 mistaken, for | never had such a conversation the Secre- tary of War aod could nos have mate antrue ® a3 Brigadicr General, United States Army. Presidcatial Appointments. ‘The President this morning sigued the com- misstons of the following named appointees te office A babe Bethe pwnd temonsi ager st Manat orgs at Chubuabva. Also the > stint alley Kesery: California; w. loon at the Fort Hall Tcervetion, Lathe; Lock Wood, of California, to be of Une Office in the Sumanvilie district of California, 2! Alexander Gibson, United States Savy. Captain Alexander Gineon, United States Newy, died just latety at Pensacola, Pla. fle was in the sixty-% year of his age Alexander Gibson was & dative of Virginia, He was appotpted to the government service from that State, iis Gret Commission was dated July 1, tp the year 1822, He performed duty at see during seventeen years and eight montha, aad was engaged gm shore or other duty six years and one month. He went to sea for tho last time on the 6m of My,y, is65, and remained waiting orders from the dvparument im Washeng. ton since his landing OR Feturiy