The New York Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1872, Page 4

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New York, Saturday, August 17, 1872, CONTENTS OF T0-DAY'S HERALD, Pas. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements—The Political Meadquarters— Growling at Greeley—Teetotal at Intervals— Grant publican =Primaries—A Fireman Killed at Farmingdale—A ‘Down-Easter"” Demoralized—Joe Jefferson's Eyesight. S-Livingstone's Letters: The Correspondence of the Great Traveller Received at the British foreign Oilice; Travel Through the Primeval of Interior Africa; Invallded at Bam- barre with Eating Ulcers on the Feet; Terri- bie Scenes ina Slave Camp; Fascinations of the avory. Trade of Manyema; The Man- riences of a Tramp of Over ities; The Watershed of the Nilo; The Mistakes of Others Who Have Bravely Striven to Solve the Ancient oblem; The Drunken Moslem Tailor ho Robbed the Doctor; Killed by the Koran; Disappointed and Bailled by the Banian Slaves Sent to Ald Him; Terrible Massacre at Nyangwe; Livingstone’s Letter to Dr. Kirk; The tor’s Description of the Coming of Stanley, the HexaLp Explorer; Nearly Destitute when Relieved; ‘Contrast Between the American Promptness and the brag Tardiness ; How Slaving All Along the joust Might be Suppressed; Livingstone’s Commission to Stanley; The Spirit With Which the Brave Old Man Enters Upon His Final Ex- lorations. 4—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The Reported Visit of the Mikado—Progress and Commercial Development in Japan—American Policy and Interests in Asia” —Amusement Announcer ments, S—Livingstone : German Savans Assembled in Congrcss at Letpsic; Thanks from the Geo- graphers for the American Journalistic Entor- rise—The Alabama Olaims—Cable Telegrams om England, Ireland, France and Germany— News from South America—Greeley at Kye Beach : The Sage Winds Up His Tour Under Brilliant Circumstances—Yachting: Cruise of the New York Yacht Club; Sailing the Handl- cap Race for the Commodore's Cup; The Columbia Wins, cai Allowance to the Fleet—Heat, Storm and Floods: Effects of the Recent Terrible Work of the Storm King— Business Notices. G—Livingstone’s Letters (Continued from Third Page)—A Rampant Rhinoceros—The Sunday Clause—Oarrying Deadly Weapons. J—Advertisements. £ jarnard’s Impeachment: Continuation of the a for the Prosecution ; Judge Van Cott's Summary—Proceedings in the Courts— Burglary Near Scranton—A Yellow Fever ‘Deadlock :” The Spanish Ram Numancia Still Anchored in the Narrows; Public OMcials on the “Shirk;!’ No New Cascs and But Ono Additional Death Reported—Saratoga: Tht Reign of Fashion Not To Be Disputed; Races Postponed—Mace and O’Baldwi Day of Fignting Soon To Be Named—Maurder in New pe re Murderous “Molly Ma- guires”’-- A Fatal Fight—Commodore Ma- comb's Funeral — The Seventeenth Strect Wife Murder—The Captain of a Schooner Drowned —Commerciaf Courtesiea—The Al- ley Swindling Detectives—The Seawanaka in Distress: An Alarming Accident to a Sound Steamer Below Whitestone; Narrow Escape of Three Hundred Passengers. O—The Seawanaka in Distress (Continued from Eighth nk Sing Camp Meeting—A Fearless Sea Captain—Ca jug of @ Yacht— Financial and Commercial: Liveller Doings | in the Street; A Rise and Fallin Stocks, and the Reason; Spasmodic Activity tn Money; The Circular of the Comptroller of the Cur- renoy; The Gold Pool Charged witi Manipu- lating mae and Stocks; Alternate Weaken- NEW YORK The Reported Visit of the Mikado— Progress and Commercial Devolop- mont in Japan—Amorican Policy and Interests in Asia. There appears to be sufficient authority for the statement that the Mikado of Japan really contemplates visiting Europe and the United States. This news comes recently and authori- tatively from Japan. The Mikado was making journey through the southern portion of his Empire, and when this shall be ended he will, it is snid, embark for Europe, and, after hav- ing visited that Continent, will come to the United States, from whence he will return home by the way of San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean. The announcement of such a remarkable event would astonish us if any- thing could be regarded very astonishing in this eventful age. A few years ago only the Japanese Empire was like a sealed book to the rest of the world, Foreigners, who were regarded as barbarians, were excluded from the sacred soil of Japan. Foreign intercourse was interdicted, except on the very edge of the Empire at one or two ports, and with only afew traders specially licensed. The Japan- ese were really more oxclusive and suspicious and jealous of foreigners than the Chinese. The Mikado, who was looked upon as a demigod, and who has been all along the spiritual chief-—the Pope, or more than Pope— of Japan, was too sacred a person for profane eyes to look upon. But the surprising and unparalleled revolution in Japan within the last few years has made a wonderful change. Our readers are informed of the facts gener- ally, and it is unnecessary to recite the details of this remarkable history, The Mikado, as is known, is still the spiritual chief of Japan, and is regarded with much reverence as such, thongh he has, since the deposition of the Tycoon and the Daimios, become the secular ruler as well. ‘This is the religious potentate and Emperor of forty millions of people or more who, it is said, intends visiting Europe and America. We should sooner have expected the Pope of Rome to leave Italy and cross the seas. Yet, when we look at the character, liberal views, love of knowledge, progressive ideas and ambition of this young Mikado, we should not be astonished to see him in the United States, The important embassies that have been sent from Japan to the Western na- tions, and which were here recently, were in- tended, it is reported, to prepare the way for the Mikado’s visit. Now, in view of the Mikado coming here, or of even entertaining such a thonght, our gov- ernment ought to extend a cordial invitation to him and to offer the finest national ship— the Wabash, for example—to bring him across the Atlantic. Let this be done in the name of the government and American people, and in the proper dignified way, agreeable to Japanese ideas, and it might have the effect of inducing the Mikado to come if even he should be un- decided. As the guest of the government and with government officials to accompany him and to advise his movements, he would not be annoyed by undue curiosity of the people or be subject to the ‘bombastic reception’ which a British contemporary cynically says were given here to the Japanese Embassy. He could be as free or as reserved as he might please, and duo respect would be paid to his character and position, just as much as there would be to the Pope were he to come to America. He would receive, doubtless, the most considerate and exalted attentions in Europe, and this great nation could show him as much respect, though less ostentation, perhaps, than the transatlantic monarchies. The Mikado, though a young man, is one of | the most liberal and progressive rulers of the | world, and would appreciate the hearty repub- lican welcome we should give him. But apart from the proper courtesy that should be ing and stiffening of the Forolgn Exchange $ ‘The Secret of the Advance tn Gold; The Dry Goods tabs, 3 for the Week Six Millions; Dante! Drew Alleged to Have Bought Three Millions of Gold for “a Flyer’ Governments igher and Strong; Trafic of the Oblo and Mississipp! Railroad. 10—Wendell Phillips: The Massachnsctts Orator Counseis Sambo on the Campaign; Compari- gons of the Past and Present of the Presiden- tial Campaigns—Oard from W. U. Saunders, the Colored Greeley Champion—Trying Har to Die—Shipping Intelilgence—Advertise- ments. Tue Exrezors or Grpemany, Rvssta aND Avstni will, it is said on English authority, debate subjects of the very highest importance to the peoples and governments of Continental Europe during the imperial congress in Berlin. The programme of work, as it is given by a London contemporary, is sufficiently ample and pointed to excite the attention of the nations. Srx Muxions or Dry Goons in a single week fs a heavy importation, and indicates either ex- traordinary extravagance or a vast expansion of wealth among the people of the country. With all this, gold labors hard against the ef- forts of speculators to push it up, and the foreign exchanges are fully one per cent below the specie shipping point. Old Adam Smith would go crazy were he alive and forced to the task of solving the present curious problems in our gold and money markets. Tae Yettow Fever Sares.—Nothing came yesterday out of the proposition of Pilot Com- missioner Blunt to reméve the Spanish ram Numancia to the Southwest Spit. The Pilot Commissioners met and are understood to have rescinded Mr. Blunt's direction to the pilot Gillespie to take the ram down to the Lower Bay, ordering him instead to report for ter as it stands is ina very devided muddle, not likely soon to be settled. Meanwhile the public will be glad to know that there is no fmereaso of tho disease on the obnoxious steamer and that there have been no fresh ar- That encient and formerly exclusi directions to Health Oficer of the Port Van- | <- 14 5 y joe derpoel, who declined giving any. The mat- | extended to so distinguished a person there would be a profound and far-seeing policy in making him the guest of the nation in the manner we have proposed. There is some- thing of a republican basis to the institutions of Japan, and the late revolution, which has placed the Mikado in supreme secular au- thority as well as spiritual, has enlarged that and made the government more popular. We may imagine, then, with what interest he would view the working of republican institu- tions in this country. Though he may be, from his education and position, inclined to favor something of the absolutist or monarchi- cal principle of government, and though he might be somewhat impressed with the gilded entourage of royalty in Europe, he would not fail to notice the universal freedom, happiness and prosperity of the United States. He would in all probability see that this happy condition and the wonderful progress and future of our country aro the result chiefly of free govern- ment, in which all the people participate. It is evident from the liberal conduct of the Mikado and the surprising changes he has made in Japan that he desires above all things the improvement and welfare of his people. Would he not, then, leave the United States with more enlarged views of lib- erty and progress than he can obtain in Europe? He would go home, probably, with a determination to imitate as far as prac- ticable and as consistent with his own position | the principles of government he would find operating so well here, A fresh impulse would be given to the liberal movements in “arn P' would be rapidly advanced in civilization; and this ee 4 now era in the re- generation of China, which is popu- lated by the same race as Japan and contiguous to it, musi soon feel the influence. The stu- pendous results of such a movement can Tivals of fever vessels. + Tax Rerasions Betwuen Bua. axp THE Axozntixe CosFEDERaTION remain in a very unsettled and delicate diplomatic condition. Our news advices from Rio Janeiro are dated | ‘to the 24th of July. General Mitre's special mission, on the part of the republican peoples, to His Majesty Dom Pedro had not speon concluded, but the progress of the ne- Botiations, so fur, was without any apparont friendly result. Both Powers were in the meantime preparing for war—an event which “waa regarded as of very probable occurrence should Mitre’s efforts at reconciliation prove unsuccessful, This intelligence, which was jprought by mail to Lisbon and despatched to hardly be imagined. The visit of the Mikado | to Europe and the United States, and to the | United States especially, would be, no doubt, an important step in revolutionizing the Mon- | golian and Asiatic nations—of empires that embrace half the human family or more. | Such an event as the visit of the Mikado, if it eclipse in its consequences, probably, any event of modern times. If this Emperor—for he is Emperor now—could be sure of léaving ® stable government at home, and of the fidelity of his people during his absence, he might acquire a greater name in history than any Asiatic ruler ever acquired by the journey whjh it is said ho contem- plates. At all évents, tho government at jas thence by cable, goes far to confirm the | Washington should neither hesitate nor delay anticipatory inferences of coming trouble between Brazil and the Bands Oriental, which hhave been just lately presonted to the public the Henatp special letter correspondence from Rio Janeiro. in extending an invitation to him to come to this country and in offering the finest ship in the navy to convey him here, We have referred to the moral and civilizing effects likely to fow frow such ap cvont, but can be brought about by any means, would | if we would be more selfish we might urge government action and expenditure, with a view to our trade and commercial prospects in Japan and Asia generally, Though the United States are separated from that part of the world by the broad Pacific, the people there are becoming every year more and more our neighbors. We have already regular steam- ship communication with them, and the time of transit is only about twenty days, They are much nearer to us, both in timo and distance, than to any of the other great commercial and civilized nations of tho world, They have learned to recognize us as their nearest neighbors. Trade with them is susceptible of almost indefinite expansion. There is no reason why this country should not have the largest share of Asiatic commerce. The tendency is to bring that, All we need is @ proper appreciation of the value of that trade and a liberal government and commer- cial policy to secure it. Woe include in the scope of our vision the vast Chinese Empire as well as Japan and the other countries of Asia. It will not be long before several steam- ship lines may be regularly and profitably em- ployed between San Francisco and other ports on the Pacific and in these Asiatic countries. Nor will it be many years before telegraph cables will put us in instant communication with them. While we have lost, fora time at least, the best portion of the steamship busi- ness with Europe, we possess advantages on the other side of the Continent that can be used to great profit unless we neglect them. The empire of commerce on and across the Pacific is within our reach if we seize the opportunities presented. And, here again, it is in this point of view that wo urge the government as well as our merchants to cultivate the most friendly and intimate re- lations with Japan first of all, and, finally, with all the other nations of Asia, Nothing could do more to this end than the visit of the Mi- kado to the United States. Let the step wo have suggested be taken, and, whether the Mi- kado comes or not, a cordial invitation from our government would be appreciated ond have a good effect. Doctor Livingstone’s Letters to the Eng- Msh Foreign Oficc—Mr. Stanley at Brighton. We publish in to-day's Henaxp a series of interesting and important despatches from Doctor Livingstone to the English Foreign Office, addressed personally to Earls Granville, Clarendon and Derby (Lord Stanley), and to Dr. Kirk, at Zanzibar. These are the letters carried to England by our corre- spondent, Mr. Stanley, and duly delivered as requested by Dr. Livingstone. ' Entirely cor- roboratory of the létters addressed by the great explorer to the editor of the Hxnatp, they contain a mass of fresh information regarding the topographyof the savage coun- tries in which he has passed the last six years. Pictures of the strange lands start out occasionally in recounting his journeys through primeval forest, wading through fear- ful swamps, crossing natural bridges of grass (kintefwetwe) over rivers, wending his way along at the foot of great mountain chains, or toiling painfully amid jungles of grass ten and twelve feet high. It will be observed in reading these letters that Dr. Livingstone writes fn the same free and easy manner which he used in his com- munications to the Heratp, pointed as they were with apt, homely illustration of an occasional Highland flavor, which, while it savors of the abandon of the traveller among rude surroundings, never obscures the fine nature of the man or his singleness of purpose. Overflow- ing with animal spirits, occasionally almost boyish in his mirth, even at his own misfor- tunes, he can turn with deep feeling to paint the horrors of the murder of the Manyema by the Arab slave-traders, the flight of the Man- yema from slavery to death in the deep waters of the Lualaba, and the heartrending sight of villages in flames and the villagers driven off like cattle to the slave mart at Zanzibar. His acknowledgment of the services of the Henarp in his behalf is a touching tribute, in whose heartfelt language every intelligent being in the world will see a man high above the narrow bounds of race and country, to rescue whom from want and death is a high honor and worthy all the toil or money it could cost to earn it, Mr. Stanley, the commander of tho Henanp Search Expedition in Africa, again addressed the members of the British Association at Brighton yesterday. He related the travels and discoveries which have been endured and perfected by Dr. Livingstone during the past six years. An English gentleman, who had made _exploratio near the sources of the Nile in “cdmpany ‘with the Tate Captain Speke, during the period from the year 1863 to the year 1865, thought proper to question the correctness of the ob- servations and conclusions of the famous traveller; but it is apparent that the more modern report of the aged British exile in the cause of science, as it. was presented by our representative, was well received, despite the exercise of this opposing judgment. Sir Henry Rawlinson acknowledged the value of Mr. Stanley’s services in a very cordial man- ner. Tho American gentlemai was subse- Tin introduced to His x-Majesty Napoleon ¢ ‘Third, Eugenio and the Prince perial of France so that we find the combined cause of science and humanity is being rapidly elevated above the influence of personal cavil, and the first consequences of the union made interest- ing to all classes of society, without distinction of nationality or rank. Tar Ovt-anp-Ovr, Jerrensonuan, UNTERnt- rrep, hard shell, no surrender democracy held a caucus yesterday ina parlor at tho St. James Hotel, with the object of feeling their way to the nomination of a straight-out democratic. candidate for the Presidency, in particular hatred of Horace Greeley and undying detestation of General Grant. They undertake their task with the full determination and expectation of making themselves politicol martyrs, and if they carry out their plans they are likely to succeed. They parted to meet at Louisville on the 13th of next month, when we shall see what we shall see. Their numerical force outside of hotel parlors it is difficult to calculate exactly, but to the great democratic party they probably stand in about the samo rolation as the little pig the Hibernian could not count, “because it kept running about so much,’’ did to the rest of his porkers. The Negro Meeting at the Cooper Institute—A Picture for the Contem- Plation of White Citizens. On Thursday evening a great concourse of our negro fellow citizens gathered in the Cooper Institute, with the professed intention of listening to an argument between two colored orators on the respective merits of the Presidential candidates, William U. Saunders taking the side of Greeley and Rev. Henry Highland Garnet maintaining the claims of Grant. Men of all shades from ebony to cream, with a sprinkling of females of dark complexion, crowded the hall, ‘and it soon became evident that three-fourths of the num- ber attended not for the purpose of hearing a discussion and forming a judgment on ita merits, but with the object of yelling and hooting down the Greeley orator so as to prevent his words from being heard and of cheering his adversary. The scene was a disgrace to a civilized city, and was calculated to shake the convictions of those who have hitherto been the most earnest in their advocacy of negro suffrage. Taking the account of the Grant organ as the one most likely to represent in as favorable a light as possible the conduct of the black ruf- flans who made night hideous with their up- roar, we find the following specimens of their proceedings interspersed through the report of Saunders’ speech: — They would carry the Greeley banner next No- vember to victory. (Great hissing.) Of Sum- ner he could only oy that he never could do wrong. seoans and hisses.) Grant never voted @ republican ticket, (Tremendous groans and hisses, which interrupted the speaker, for several minutes.) On resuming he said ho was aware that the negro vote belonged to General Grant and the minions of the administration. (A voice, ‘Ho will have it.” Great Lyre and three cheers three times repeated for Grant.) It was a high crime fora black man to raise his voice inst General Grant. (Prolonged cheers, which inter- rupted Mr. Saunders and compelled the chairman to advance to the front of the platform and bespeak for the orator a fair hearing.) * * * Atthis period of the speaker's address there were repeated calls for Mr. Garnet, and Mr. Saundere’ efforts to explain the superio: oy of the Baltimore platform over that of Philadelphia proved an abortive fall- ure. Democracy he declared te be a government of the whole ple for the good of the whole. (A Volce, "Hanging niggers to lampposts is democ- Tracy.” Cheers and ans.) * * * (Here the ‘oans became so prolonged and loud that it was arod the speaker would not be permitted to re- sume.) Finally, on belng permitted to continue, he indulged in personalities by calling attention to the opposition of certain members of the audience, but it did not tend materially to give him a better hearing. After the speech of the Grant negro, Gar- net, which was delivered without other inter- ruptions than those caused by the wild cheers of his audience, Saunders, in accordance with the arrangement of the discussion, was allowed half an hour to reply; and the closing scene is thus described by the republican organ: — Mr. Saunders again attempted to address the meeting, but he was met with a tremendous out- burst of groans and catcalls that bafiies descrip- tion, At the carnest request of Mr. Garnet order was restored, and Mr, Saunders endeavored to re- ply. As soon as he began to speak, however, it be- came evident passion had completely obtained the mastery over him, and that billingsgate and @ vio- lent ebullition of temper would supersede fact and argument. This induced a fresh uproar, in the midst of which Mr. Saunders vainly essayed to say that the personal attacks of his op- Ree were infinitely beneath his notice. * * * he excitemant was indescribable. The audtence rose to their feet, and, yelling with fury, rendered Mr. Saunders’ further remarks inaudible even to himself, In vain the orator pitched his voice to the highest key. He couid not be heard, and finally he was compelled to retire, furious with rage. Several Greeley men shook ‘nim cordially by the hand on pacar a A breach of the peace seemed imminent, but #he police vigorously kept back the crowd, and the opposing factions leit in quiet. ‘The reports in the other daily journals repre- sent the conduct of these free and independent electors in a yet more offensive light. When Sounders declared that it was God who had freed his race from bondage, the remark was received with yells, hisses, catcalls, ‘boo- hoos’’ and cries of dissent, and the negroes evidently believed that the assertion was in- tended to do injustice to their favorite candi- date and the republican party. Throughout the proceedings there was a display of ignor- ance, bigotry and ruffianiam revolting to those who have been taught to believe that the ballot is the palladium of our liberties. : Yet deplorable as was the exhibition at the Cooper Institute, it was orderly compared with the scenes enacted in some of the Southern States. The negroes freed from slavery in the South are far more degraded, ignorant and intolerant than their brethren in New York, and can be more easily incited to acts of rowdyism and violence. Upon such men the republican politicians are endeavor- ing to bestow the political control of the whole Southern country, strengthening them wher- ever their numbers are less than the whites with reinforcements .of, carpet-baggers and sealawags. Let the citizens of New York pic- ture their own city ruled by the votes of such electors as assembled in the Cooper Institute the night before last, and they will be able to appreciate the condition of the States and cities of the South, The fault docs not lie with the negroes, but with those who strive tg bind them together os a dis- tinctive political power by imposing upon their credulity and inflaming _ their passions. -The incendiary speeches Secre- tary Boutwell calling for a ceaseless enmity between the negroes and the whites ; the dan- gerous and unchristian letter of Gerrit Smith, in which the fierce hatreds engendered by slavery are invoked to make the South, in his own words, a ‘‘hell of horrors’’—these are the influences that are calculated to turn the negro intoa demon and to make the suffrage extended to the black race, in ous love of jus- tice ond equal righty % “Sarde to the nation. Left alone by tbe ‘politicians; gradually on- lightened and educated up to the capacity of forming an intelligent political judgment ; taught that the shackles of slavery are broken forever ; that their lot in life must henceforth be carved out by their own industry; that they have an equal interest with all other citizens in the peace, progress and prosperity of the nation, and that they must henceforth live in harmony and trust with their white neighbors, the negroes would become a docile and useful people, and their happiness and success in life would be insured. But the teachings of the tadical republican politicians are calculated to | keep them still in the ignorance into which j slavery has plunged them and to bring untold evils on their heads, If Greeley should be successful in the Presidential canvass, would it be surprising if these poor, misguided men, taught to believe that the success of the liberal party was the signal for theirre-enslavement or extermination, should bring upon the country the horrors of insurrection and bloodshed wherever their superior numbers taught them that they held the power of revenge and mur- der in their hands? If Grant should succeed, would the negroes be likely to undervaluo the importance of their support of his cause, or to allow those who they are told are their mortal enemies to live in peace in the Southern States? Wo warn the men who are striving to excite the fears and the passions of the negro enacted in the heart of the metropolis on Thursday night is only a slight foreshadowing of the evils they are bringing upon the country. The Miners’ Outrages in Ponnsylvania— The Daty of Honest Workingmen. At Centralia, in one of the Pennsylvania mining districts, a crime was perpetrated on the night of the 14th instant which belongs to 4 class that must be trampled out on the free soil of America. A certain number of miners, it appears, went to work in opposition to the insolent dictation of some secret labor organ- ization known there as the ‘Molly Maguires,”” and a murderous ambush, by which one man out of @ party of six was left for dead with seventeen buckshot in his body, was the result. No clew, we are informed, has been obtained of the identity or whereabouts of tho akulking would-be murderers, This is disheartening and a direct disgrace to the authorities of the place. Labor combinations are all very well to regulate the price of labor by fair means; but when the mask, the musket and the bludgeon are the main arguments with which men seek to impress their convictions upon fellow workmen they become an insupporta- ble tyranny. : In England, some years since, a Parlia- mentary inquiry into labor outrages at Sheffield disclosed the workings of a system of organized murder, which startled that virtuous country with a record of maiming and assassination that left the Thug- gism of India a good deal in the shade, Men were killed or had an arm or a leg blown off if they became obnoxious to this Anglo-Saxon “Vehm Gericht.’’ Tools and machinery wero destroyed and houses blown up, and terror was everywhere the portion of the laborer as well as the employer. The murders were accomplished at about ten pounds sterling a head, which was dispensed by an innkeeper named Broadhead, who decided when, where and on whom the “rattening’’ process was to be carried oat, An almost complete immu- nity from punishment prevailed, and the history of cowardly crime which came out bit by bit was only reached by an understanding that no witness before the Commission should be indicted for anything he confessed. The blood of religious England ran cold at the recital, but Sheffield was rid, for the timo at least, of its labor tyrants. Now, we emphatically protest against Broad- headism or “rattening’’ being introduced into this Republic, where the ballot is in the hands of the workingman and all the legal and moral influences at hand by which capital can bo compelled to give a fair day’s wages fora fair day’s work. The pauper paid cutlers of Shef- field pleaded the utter impossibility of main- taining a fair rate of wages without bloodshed; but not even the most ignorant miner can advance that argument here. Labor in England is surrounded with the curse of caste, which pervades all aristocratic governments, and the ignorant workingman may often feel that, heavily weighted as he is, no ordinary or legal measure can assist him where the law- making power is in the hands of those he believes the enemy of his class, The occur- rence at Centralia demands that Pennsyl- vania, for her own fair fame, should annihilate organized murder, and the miners should see that in slaughtering their fellow workmen they are slaughtering their own cause and cutting themselves off from the sympathy! which in America would inevitably be on their side if their demands were pressed with the firmness and moderation of intelligent citizens. As it is they will stand alienated from consideration while murder is attempted in their name, and the Broadheads, ‘Molly Maguires’’ or what- ever name they are known by are permitted to sneak away from their ambush, to be after- wards sheltered and screened from the eye of justice. The miners should deliver up the mis- creants and rescue themselves from the dis- grace that the assassins bring upon them. Central American Affairs. From Havana we learn that Honduras has recently been the scene of one of those fre- quent revolutions so characteristic of Spanish- American populations. Medineta, after seiz- ing the foreign vessels, had overcome and de- posed President Medina and proclaimed him- self President. Sanchez, the lieutenant of Medineta, had arrested the President and sub- sequently, after accepting a ransom for his life, had sent him to Camayngua for trial. These proceedings of Sanchez were varied by put- ting General Chamoro to death and imprison- ing the Spanish Consul at Omoa, which port | he left on the 2d instant. On the 4th General | Osorio arrived and re-established the old authority. In this brief sketch of a revolu- ‘ivi and counter revolution we Jose sight of ex-Prosident Medina. On the 14th the Spanish war steamer Tornado touched at Omoa and was at once surrounded by claimants for protection. English, German, Spanish and American merchants have suffered terribly from these volcanic move- ments in Honduras politics. John Bull has large interests in that country, and it is highly probable, should this state of affairs continue, he may soon consider himself entitled to inter- ford and place a protectorate over this too rapidly revolving country. If President Grant and Secretar Fish could spare a little atten- tion to this subject they would find that the Monroe doctrine com7its the United States to taking cognizance of suc digorders gent our neighboring republics, and ‘hat “iauiZest destiny,’ ss understood by the bulk of Americans, requires us to resist any Eurnvean interference in tho affairs of this Continen* This is one of the first mattors to which tho President should look. Delay will only com- | plicate the subject by bringing European | governments into it in defiance of our tradi- | tional policy, and with projudice to the rights | of our merchants. Panponrva TH: Ku Kivx.—Washington ad- vices annoauce that President Grant has de- cided to pardon four of the Ku Klux convicts in the Albany Ponitentiary—David Collins, William Teal, Amos Owen -and William Scrugg—men of advanced age and two of | them ill He holds the cases of eighteen | others under consideration. Why should the President make two bites of a cherry? Why not at once give those sixty-four men tree par- don and send them home to preach to their neighbors from his text, ‘Let us have peace?”’ Their offences were political; thoy have been severely punished, the law has been vindicated, and now President Grant could do no act which would baya a better effect unom bia clemency, No" advantage can accrue to the country from. their continued imprisonment. are reported as‘ mainly poor men, with large families, who joined the Klan ignorant of ite real objects and have been Jed to violence, and crime under the incitement of blind par- their districts, convert them from foes toi earnest friends, and send them as useful citi.’ zens to provide for their families, Let no the grace of mercy be turned to cruelty By too. long delay. A British Ministerial Election Tre umph. a . The clectors of Pontefract, England, voted for amember of Parliament yesterday. The Right Honorable Hugh ©: E. Childers, who has soryed) ag (Figet Lord $f thie: Admiralty under Mr. Gladstone, was réturned, Mr. Childers has represented Pontefract since the year 1859. His re-election at present’ wal. contested, but he won the seat by a majority of eighty votes. Tho news despatch report does not state the name of his opponent, nor whether the election was conducted under the provisions of the Ballot bill. ‘This latter point is quite important. The Ballot bill was signed by Queen Victoria in the, month of July just passed. The measure itself provides that it should come into operation at once, and that “every election henceforth shall be held under its provisions.’” Whether this means a single local or a general election ig not very clear. If Mr. Childers has been re-elected under the Ballot bill it is a triumph for the Gladstone Ministry, but ons which goés to pravé, by the majority given to a Cabinet Minister, that the voters in the British boroughs possess much more of franchise power, and much morein- dependence in the exercise of it, than they did in former years, A German Tzstrmontax.—The Forty-fifth Congress of the\German Naturalists aid Phy- sicians is now in session at Leipsic, and the geographical section of the body has unani- monsly passed # vote of thanks to the Hznatp for sending out the Livingstone Expedition, the result of which they regard as having ad- vanced the cause of science,The compliment is especially. gratifying a8, coming.from.men whose learning is only equalled by their cix cumspection. WASHINGTON: WASHINGTON, D, 0., August 16, 1872, The North Carolina, Eicotion—Caldwell’s Majority 1,800 to 2,500. The, following letter was ‘received here to-day from the Governor of North Carolina :— Executive DEPARTMENT,/STATR OF NoRTH CAROLINA, RALKIGH, August 13, 1872, EB. iiss, Ze | Sir—Your telegram asking for a copy of the cer- tiflcate of the Secretary of State as to the result of election for Governor was received at cleven o'clock last night. In reply have to say that our Election law provides that ‘the returns shall be made, sealed up, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to be opened by him in the pres- ence of the two houses of the General Aasem! onthe frat Tu after the organization of houses. Our islature does not convene unt the third Monday in November, hence it is tm- ssible to get a certificate from the Secretary of Btate until the result. is declared.by the Speal of the House, as the returns cannot ope! any one except and he must do it on a certain day in the pi of the two houses, There are some fifteen counties*yet to be heard from. Ex- cept partial returns, the most hoi from are semi- clal, and it is pretty satisfactorily ascertained hundred to twenty-ive umdreds Very ‘rebpeee- an wenty-1 dreds fully, TOD R. CAL’ EEL Movements-of the Presidont. The President and General Porter return to Long Branch by a late train to-night. It is not supposed the President. wil accept the invitation to visit Chattanooga. ‘ His letter in reply to it will, it ia provable, be of some political significance. A Cabinet Meeting. There was a meeting of the Cabinet at noon te day, attended by Secretaries Belknap and Delano, Postmaster General Creswell, Attorney. Gemeral Williams, Assistant Secretary of State Hunter and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Richardson. No business of special importance was co: Prior to the meeting Rear Admiral Case, Acting Secretary of the Navy; Senator Robertson, of South Carolina; Senator Chandler, General Chipman and others had interviews with the President. Grant Thinks the Quaker State Alk Right. The President to-day received a letter from the highest authority, in his opinion, on political mat. tersin Pennsylvania to the effect that Hartranft would certainly be elected by a large majority, and that Greeley was right when he wrote to a friend that the liberal republicans could not expect to carry Pennsylvaula at the Presidential election. Throwing Mud at Clay, Banks and Kile patrick. The President to-day requested Acting Secretary Hunter, of the State Department, to furnish the Union Congreggional Committee with a complete copy of alf the scandalous reports made to thé de- partments against Cassius M. Clay while Minister to Russia, and General Kilpatrick, Minister to Chile. The report of the Red River expedition in rela- tion to Genexal Banks’ failure and other personal attacks on what are called renegade republicans are to be furnished in rapid succession for political reading matter. A. T. Stewart on Greeloy as an Inivest> ment. A. T. Stewart writes to a prominent offictal in this city that he has better use for his money than to give a dollar to the Greeley cause; that he has not and will not give a cent to elect Horace Greeley. Canali Boats and the Navigation Laws. ‘The recent decision of tho Judge of the United States District Court for Philadelphia that canal boats are not subject to the navigation laws of the United States causes much trouble throughout the country, ag the masters refuse to recognize the authority of the customs officials. The case im which this decision was rendered will be appealed to the Supreme Court. THE JERSEY CITY POLICE WAR. Rea a Mayor O'WNom: Takes Up Arms—The Stub= born Commissionets vo °* aneved Out. ‘The convicted Police Comnlastonsre of Jersey City held a meeting last evening an” prosssaea to transact biisiness with as much coolness 4 If they had not recetved their walking papers. During” beat 4 progress of the meeting a communication was received from Mayor O'Nelil setting forth that he would éign oo more warrants for the recusant Corhmissionors, They had beem removed from office and their successors were @p- pointed by the Chief Magistrate of the State, and when they offered resistance to the authority of the Governor he (the Mayor) could not recognize them any longer. The new Commissioners were the only oMcers duly authorized to transact the busineas of the Police Department, and as far ae his authority wag concerned he should regard then alone as the proper body to control the Department and to disburse the public money therefor, The effect of this startling document on the late Commissioners was singularly manifest. They could not conceal thelr dismay, gnd in their glances at each other could be traced the last utterance of despair, “All is lost!” As no more money can be appropriated by them the Police Department will be starved into a surrender. This decisive action of Mayor O'Neill elicited the warm- est commendation from the groups who collected around the police rwiieticrs last night, and te is in strong contrast with the fag Aes masterly in- activity recently pursued by the Governor on this question. The next move on the chessboard will be the or- ft 7 of the new Commisstonors, who rocced 1 apRowat # wolicg (gree witout delare.