The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. enn fs 7 == 5 BOWERY THEATR! i inal Two Sronts—Tar Posu Jew—My ia Lenk. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad: , corner Thirtieth st.— ‘Ticxxt or Leave Man, Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—A Lire's Daxam, dc. WALLACE’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth streot—Bhux Buanp. ‘THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Etmiorian Ec- GeNRicttins, BugLesqur, Drawa, &c. . YS THEATRE, Twenty third street. cornor Sixth avenue.—Tux Buiis; on, THe Pouisa Jew. “WHITE'S ATHENAUM, 58 Broadway.—Nearo Mty- BTRELsY, &c. TORY, PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Tar Pouce Sry. “CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Granp IxstnuuentaL @owosnr. sie ald 2NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bormnxce axv Ant. is DB. KAHN’S MUSEUM, ‘Sorenes. No. 745 Broadway.—Agr and New York, Sunday, August 18, 1872. CONTENTS Paan. J—Advertisements. R—Advertisements. 3—Staniey in Paris: The Discoverer of Livingstone Feted in the Capital of Fair France; His Breakfast with eg paar, te Again— The Philosoper’s Return: Mr. Greeley’s Part- ing Speont at Rye Beach—The “Star in the Bast." 4—Religious: Programme of Church Services To- . Day; Spiritualism, Jesuitism and Judaism Discussed; The Human Constitution a Battle Wield Between Heaven and Hell; Proof of ‘Waat the Sons of Loyola Have Done for Civili- gation; Need of the Establishment of a He- brew Theological Seminary; Movements of Ie Clergy—The Courts of Berlin and of me—Fashionable Camp Meetings: Ocean Grove, Sea Cliff and Martha’s Vineyard; Sketches of the Grounds and Places. SeeSaratoa: The Races at the Watering Place; Fashion and Fun; The Reign of Fashion After the Rain of the Water God; Three Capital Baces—A Case of Polisoning—Long Branch: Race of the Hocydeiphia Jockey Club-—Another Jersey Murder--Aquatic—The Political Se aR an Hungarians—The Cenvention of the Irish Wnions—Sunstrokes Yesterday—-Another Heavy Bond Robbery—A Brutal Policeman—Central Park Meteorologi- cal Department—Miscellaneous Telegraph, G—Editorials: only? Article, ‘The Party Con- ventions and Their Nominations for State and OMices—What the People Will Re- uire”’—Amusement Announcements. V=—The Alabama Claims—The Imperialist Con- gress—Cable Telegrams from France, Ire- land, Germany, Spain, Australasia, Mexico and Quba—The Utah Utes-—Barnard’s Im- achment—News from Washington—The ‘ellow Fever Harvest-—-The New York Yacht Club at Newport — Amusements — Royal Honors to an American Artist—Business Notices, BS—Along the Coast: The Scenery and Reflections Thereon from the Branch to Cape May—Baiti- more Archbishopric—Clerical Changes--New York City [tems—The Ingersoll Mystery—The Steamship Vibilia—Audacious Robbery in Brookiyn—The Red River Report—The New York Custom House—The Pitcher Homicide— Police Court Incidents. 9—Financial and Commercial: A Sphinxitic Bank Statement; A Loss of Two Millions in Greenbacks and a Gain of Two Millions in Specie; The Banks Stronger Relatively, but Poorer Absolutely; Decline in Gold to 115; Renewed Feria Inquiry for United States Bonds; Money Easier and .Abundant; The ‘Week's Imports of Foreign Goods Upwards of Ten Mullions; Stocks Less Active, but Steady; Pacific ‘Maul, Western Union and Northwest Weak and Lower; Earnings of the Erie Railway—New York Courts—The Bailing of Jim Cusick—The Pay Roll Destroyer— Coroners’ Work Yesterday—Brooklyn Af- fairs—How Pilots Blackmail—The Seven- teenth Ward Murder—Rongh and Tumble Fight in a Station House—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 20—Bloodthirsty Cortina: The Arch Enemy of the United States on the Rio Grande; Antece- dents and LT eatery es Park Races: Last Day ot the Trotting Association Mecting— Shipping Intelligeuce—Auvertisements. 21—Advertisements. vertisements. OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Local Toe Fever Serr.—Thousands of people who each day have passed within sight of the Spanish steam ram Numancia, lying ‘with her freight of pestilence in our Upper Bay, vill rejoice to hear that she has been taken ten miles further from the city. So, too, will every one of the two million people in New York and the near-lying cities who though, perhaps, not actually afraid of yellow fever contagion from the ship under her severe sanitary regulations and the strict surveil- Jance of the Quarantine authorities, breathe amore freely on contemplating the matter sat the Southwest Spit. Yellow Jack is one of thoge acquaintances to whom only ‘‘dis- ance lends enchantment,” and we may thank fhe nowspapers ond Commissioner Blunt that ‘the Numancia is further off than yestorday. Toe Work or Pacirication iy Merxico,— ¥rom Monterey, by way of New Orleans, we fame again assured that the work of national pacification is progressing satis! in Mexico. General Rocha reports the surnpnder of severnl notable revolutionist leaders,” 9on- cluding his despatch to tho seat of govern- ment with the words, ‘I am positive the revo- lution has terminated.”” Wonderful news from Mexico! From Avusrranasia we have, by way of San Francisco, a telegraph report in detail of latest news from the Antipodes, The despatch goes to confirm our first statement of a great and beneficial industrial advance in the colo- nics, despite the disturbing influences of party politics and of Church influence made sub- Bervient to the uses of politicians. Intensely cold weather prevailed in the southern prov- inces of New Zealand, heavily laden teams , crossing the Wapore River on the ice. Tae Were ww Watt Srreer wound up with gold at 115}, or one-half per cent lower than it was the previous week or before the recent heavy imports of foreign goods, the in- troduction at this port during the past week having been upward of ten millions of dollars. Are the heavy imports “discounted” already, or is there some quiet, unobserved source of foreign exchange which is scttling our trade balances for us without our ken? Stocks were less active, as if the brokers had yielded to the depression of the warm weather again. Money was run up to six per cent on Friday, but closed yesterday at 2 a 3 per cert. A Goon Examrie—That of Mr. Greeley and Secretary Robeson in joining hands over the smoking chasm of a ‘“Down-East’’ clambake, and in eating clams together jike a band of brothers. Let us have more of this and “let us have peace." Maron O'Nem, has been too much for the refractory superseded Police Commissioners of | Jersey City. He will sign no more warrants | for them, and they will act wisely in accepting the situation by yielding gracefully to their lawful successors in office. ‘The Party Conventions and Their Nomi- nations for State and Local Offices— ‘What the People Will Require, Although the time has not yet arrived for the return of tho political leaders to the city andthe commencement of the actual business of the campaign, a great deal of quiet work is being done by those who have interests at stake in the election. ‘The call for the State Conventions of the democrats and liberal re- publicans has revived that interest in the local issues to be decided next November whieh has seemed to flag during the warm weather, and people are beginning to look about them to ascertain in what position they stand and to seo what sort of a prospect lies before them. The breach in the republican party in this State is wide and serious, and imparts 2 new feature to our local canvass. It splits tho State representation in the United States Senate in two; takes a large enough slice off the republican side of the House of Represen- tatives to throw a majority of the New York delegation into the Greeley scale; makes an inroad in the State Senate; carries off the best part of the State Assembly, and brings over to liberalism some twenty-four journals in various parts of the State hitherto avowed republican organs, or leaning towards that organization. To set off against this, there aro the disaffected democrats who profess to bo so sternly demo- cratic that they can support neither Greeley nor Grant, and who demand a third candidate of the thorough ‘topperhead faith ; but their number in New York is not large, and to be consistent with their professions they cannot well oppose the democratic State nominees without figuratively turning their pockets in- side out and showing exactly how much they favor ‘straight out’? democracy. We hear all sorts of reports from correspondents and in- dividual politicians of the prospects in this town and in that county ; of a democrat here who avows himself for Grant before Greeley and of localities there in which o reward is offered for the discovery of a singlo Greeley republican. One correspondent is startled to find in one place democrats forming a Grant Club, and another is surprised to hit upon an- other ‘spot where the regular republican strength is shown by a careful canvass to have increased since last election. But all these discoveries, predictions and surmises amount to nothing, and would prove unsafe guides to follow in calculating uponresults. The main features of the State canvass are distinct enough and can alone be relied upon as indications of the respective prospects of the contending parties. The vote of New York in the Balti- more Convention was cast solidly for Greeley, and nearly every district in the State in tho election of delegates to that Convention favored a union with the liberal republicans on Presidential candidates, At present scarcely a democrat of standing and influence has refused to abide by the decision of the Demo- cratic National Convention, and hence it is fair to conclude that in New York there will be but trifling defection from the Baltimore ticket, unless through some political combina- tion in this city. On the other hand, the secession of such men as Greeley, Fenton, Alvord, Littlejohn, Judge Harris, Waldo Hutchins, Judge Selden and other prominent leaders from the Republican ranks is open and avowed, and they must carry with them more or less of the rank and file of the party. It would, therefore, seem that the political chances in New York strongly favor the Democratic and Liberal union movement, and that whatever may be the general result Grecley’s own State must be conceded to his side of the list if the politicians are to decide the election. But it is by no means certain that the poli- ticians will have things all their own way in this contest, and they may find their calcula- tions at fault when the votes are counted on the evening of tho 5th of November, as they did at the close of the polls last year. The reform movement then commenced has not been forgotten by the people, and the fact that the victory they then won has been stripped of its fruit through the faithlessness of the poli- ticians who used that movement for their own purposes has not changed the popular determi- nation to carry reform into every department of the public service. Last year a Senate of reformers was scnt to Albany, only to be covered with disgrace in the early part of the session by the discovery of improper practices on the part of its clerk, and of corruption on the part of one of its members. One of the most notorious leaders of the old Tammany ring was chosen to a seat in its body and the reform Senators stood pledged to expel him; yet the session closed without a movement toward such action, and it is motorious that the threat of an exposure Of their own past corruptions ticd the hitmls of these model reformers. Now the people will be careful not to elect such men again to office, and the lesson of last year will teach them to scrutinize closely and jealously the names of all candidates who may be put for- ward for positions of public trust. Hence if either political party in the” present election should venture to place undesirable nomina- tions before the voters, it is probable that its ticket will be defeated by the same clement which swept the old Tammany réyine out of existence last November, however great may be its apparent political strength. The Repub- lican Convention meets in Utica on Wednes- day next, the 21stinstant, and it is a matter of necessity that it should reinforce itself as much as possible by the gelections it makes for State officers. It has the personal popularity of Mr. Greeley throughout the State to struggle against, andan unprecedented seces- sion from its party to make up. It is madness in the republicans to trast to bargains with the new departments and the old Tammany rings in this city for success, or to rely upon their supposed power, through the connivance of the Election Bureau and the assistance of the new General Election law, to manipulate the ballot boxes or the canvass, The small ward politicians who are advising them tosuch a desperate course to destroy the adverse ma- jority in this city are only luring them on to their ruin. They should take broader and more honorable means to improve their chances of success, by making nominations that will recommend themselves at once to the confidence of the people, and by casting behind them all those political ad- venturers who have betrayed the cause of reform. ‘The democrats and liberals who meet in State conventions on the 4th of September should be careful that no influences are allowed to force into nomination on their side candidates who will revivo old issues, keep alive local dissensions or bear the suspicion of any friendly connec-, tion with’'the old Tammany rings. Tho democratic party in this city has been thoroughly rogenerated, ond through its efforts mainly was the roform triumph of last No- vember made secure. The liberal republicans, who have severed their old political associa- tions, have been charged with a greedy desire for office and the honesty of their reform pro- fessions has been called in question. Both democrats and liberals, then, are interested in making the character of their candidates a practical guarantee of their integrity and good faith in the union they have formed in the cause of honest government, If they fail to do so their apparent political strength in the State will not save thei from defeat. The responsibility for the result of the con- test does not rest alone with the State conven- tions. It extends to those who are to be en- trusted with municipal nominations and with the selection of candidates for Congress and for tho State Legislature. As New York was the victim of the old frauds and the principal agent in the revolution of last November the people. will look to the character of the mu- nicipal and legislative nominees to discover which party is honestly in favor of reform. The republicans must not forget that they labor under the disadvantage of having elected last year, under the mask of reform, one of the most corrupt Legislatures that has ever sat in the State Capitol. If they do not discard every Assemblyman who was in Albany last year, with probably half a dozen exceptions, they may as well retire from the contest. In this city they are reported to have made their peace with the old Tammany politicians, and to have driven illegal bargains with certain of their old enemies. It will be necessary that they should disprove these rumors by the character of the candidates they select for municipal positions. Anything that savors of a trade or an unnetural combination in their policy would be fatal to their prospects, On the other hand, the democrats still bear the name of Tammany, and every effort of their opponents will be directed towards fastening upon them the odium that attaches to the old organization. It is true that the new Tammany has nothing of the old corruption about it, and that the names now powerful in the Wigwam are recognized as the most distinguished actors in the revolution of last Fall. But if the regene- rated democracy would prove its constancy to the principles it upheld so unselfishly a year ago it must offer to the people candidates whose names area guarantee of integrity and capacity. Wo submit this advice to the leaders of the, party organizations on both sides, and we repeat the prediction that in the coming contest the power of the quiet, undemonstrative voters will make itself felt, as it did a year ago, and that it will carry to triumph whichever party it accepts as the real friend of honest government. The East African Slave Trade=Stanley and Livingstone. ‘There is a class of people, and unfortunately a very largo and noisy class, which hails every new achievement in the onward march of science with the sume unvarying cuckoo cry of “Oui Bono?’ It is true, say they, that we are so much the wiser for this latest addition to our knowledge, but what practical results-is)it going to yield us? And the Livingstone explorations, as displayed to the world by Stanley’s successful quest, have, of course, like every other noble and unselfish task of the same character, been liberally covered with these depreciatory sneers. But we are glad to see that, apart from the intrinsic valne and interest of these discoveries, they havo already brought forth fruit which will compensate the world a hundred times over for the money and energy and heroism expended in gathering them from the dim depths of a vast and almost unknown land. More conspicuous than aught else, alike in the story of Stanley and tho letters of Living- stone, stand out in painful relief the hideous enormities of the East African slave trade. Both the explorer and the journalist seem thrilled with horror at the extent and the iniquity of this infamous commerce and tell the sad truth in words that burn with righteous indignation. Nor has their testi- mony been given in vain. In her prorogation speech Queen Victoria, roused by these terri- ble disclosures, made what is practically a solemn pledge to her people that this scandal and reproach to the whole human race shall be forthwith abolished, and that slave catch- ing and slave trading shall cease, as an insti- tntion, in this its worst and most firmly rooted stronghold. And the means of achieving this good work are by no means very difficult. By far the vast majority of the unhappy vic- tims of this trafic are captured for the use of the subjects of the Sultans of Zan- zibar and Muscat, two petty Powers, now scarcely better than tributaries of the British Indian government, which for a quarter of a century bas interfored in their affairs on the slightest provocation. The Sultan of Zanzi- bar, indeed, owes his nominal independence of Muscat to the decision of a representative of Her Majesty, and Muscat has quietly submit- ted to wholesale bullying from the same source times without number. The moment, there- fore, that Great Britain resolves to energetie- ally interpose, the slave trade can be stopped, even if it be true, as stated in some quarters, that the region in which the most of the kidnapping is done is only . nominally within the domains of the Sultan of Zanzibar, and lies, a sort of No Man’s Land, beyond the limits of his real and practical sovereignty. Close the market where slaves can be sold and no one will henceforth find it worth his while to catch them. Wo may, then, take it as an assured fact that this horrible traffic will be abolished in the near future. And is not this enough, we repeat, to weigh down the scale against all that has been done and suffered, not to speak of the money expended, which has been, after all, but a comparatively small sum in making this part of Africa a known land? Brilliant, indeed, will the honors accorded to the line of hero explorers—Burton and Speke and Grant and Baker and, last and greatest of all, Livingstone—by whose labors this great reform has been made possible, when, a cen- tury hence, the story of the past of East Africa shall be written, Nor wiil the gallantry of Stanley be forgotten in that shining record of the tall of the most cruel and wicked system of human bondage that ever blighted this beautiful garth, But {or hia beroic perse- verance, the historian will say, Livingstone would probably have perished of destitution, and a humane civilization, ignorant of the dark horrors which lay just beyond its ken, and which he had labored so long, but in vain, to disclose, would have allowed their hideous crimes to linger along in rank and rev 1 luxuriance for another generation, and haps forever Siftings from the Religious Press, The New York Evangelist compiles from the minutes of reports to the Presbyterian General Assembly an array of statistics of its denomi- nation in the United States, from which it ap- pears that its number of churches is 4,730; ministers, 4,441; communicants, 468,164, and Sunday school members, 485,762, and their contributions during the year amount to $10,086,526, being an increase of $1,003,117 on those of the previous year. The editor is enjoying a summer vacation, and, having passed through rebuilt Chicago, on his way to the American Switzerland in Colorado, he is enthusiastic about the reappearance of the Garden City. He likewise puffs the palace cars, which creature comforts religious editors, like their secular brethren, appreciate. A forcible article cautions the clergy against moral delinquency, admonishing them that the great Teacher said, “Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall," and saying: —“It is true that Christianity justly claims to be tried on its own merits. Itis not responsible for the delinquencies of, its professed friends or chosen leaders. And yet the world will insist on judging the one by the other. The faults of the champion are imputed to the cause he advocates, and religion is exposed to reproach and dishonor as the result. A stumbling block is thrown in the way of belief, and thousands are only too ready. to herald and magnify the lapse that follows an over-master- ing temptation’’—which is a very natural re- flection after the scandals of Thompson, Hus- ton, Robertson and others, whose cases aro familiar to the publio, The Evaminer and Chronicle (Baptist) de- votes two articles to Sabbath discussion ; in one condemning Sunday journeying and excur- sions and in the other hoping that the Park Commissioners will not authorize sacred con- certs in Central Park on Sunday. A corre- spondent sharply criticises the annual report of the Baptist Home Missionary Society. He quotes :—‘‘To payments on account of Freed- man’s Fund, as per detailed statement, $44,894 12,’’ and observes, ‘‘We turn to the Freedman’s Fund account, on page 42, to ex- amine the detailed statement referred to, and find such general charges as these: —‘To cash paid teachers and beneficiaries, $25,185 14.’ How much disbursed to each teacher? Who are the beneficiaries? And what amount was paid to each? ‘To cash paid erecting and re- pairing school buildings, $6,349 68.’ What schools, where located and the amount to each? ‘To cash paid proportion of salary of Secretary, Assistant Treasurer and clerks, $2,381.’ To whom, and the proportion and amount to each? ‘To cash paid interest on contingent donations, $1,403 34.’ What are they, and how contingent?” From which it may be inferred that there may be looseness in Baptist as well as in Tam- many bookkeeping, ahd that the Methodist Book Concern is not alone in suspected irregu- larity of keeping accounts. The Boston Pilot (Roman Catholic) reviews at length the recent Randall's Island investiga- tion, characterizing it as a whitewashing operation and making severe criticisms upon the cruel punishments which have been in use. It also throws pretty solid doubts on the unsectarian character of Rev. B. K. Pierce, the chaplain of the institution, who is also the editor of a Wesleyan paper in Boston. The Golden Age is mild in religion, but balances it by being fiercely political. Its one religious article is entitled “A Religion that is Natural,’’ which asserts :— The only religion that has any hold on any man, or claim to his belief and service, is that which 18 imbedded in his nature and illustrated in his ex- perience, a religion which is part of the constitu- tion of things, and without which man is a tuneless harp, a spiritual favalid. [four theologians would spend their strength and learning in setting forth the Jaws and illustrating the duties and enforcing theclaims of this natural religion, of which Jesus was the divinest teacher but not the inventor—a re- ligion old as creation and indestructible as man and vs necessary to the well being of soctety as Bauitery conditions and legisiative@nactments—we Should hear less of the decline of the Church and see less of the wickedness of the world, The Christian Intelligencer (Dutch Reformed) lgads off with ‘Differences and Arguments,’’ Qrguing that there are many points upon Which Christians of divers denominations can agree, and that to do so is better than to differ. In illustration it tells a story of two Scotchmen living in one house who carried religious discussion to such length that they declined to speak to each other. Each was bound to thatch his half of the roof :— So ae day as — oe on the roof thatching, each ou his ain side, they reached the tap, and louking ower, face met face. What could they do? They couldna flee. So at last Andrew took off his Kilmarnock cap, and, scratching his head, said:— “Jonnie, you and me, [ think, hae been very foolish to’ dispute as ‘we hae done concerning Christ's will about our Kirks, until we hae clean forgot His will about ourselves; and -so we hae fought so bitterly for what we ca’ the truth that it has ended in sp ite, Whatever's wrang, it’s per- fectly certain that it can never be richt to be un- civil, unneighboriy, unkind, In fac’ tae hate ane @nither. Na, na, that’s the devil's wark and no God's, Nov, it strikes Me that, maybe, it’s wi’ the kirk as wi’ this house. Ye’re working on ae side and me on t‘ither; but if we only do our work weel we will meet at the tap at last. Gie’s your han’ aud neighbor." And so they shook ‘han’s and were the 0’ freens ever after. Imitation of the thatchers might diminish the theology, but would certainly improve the Christianity of some of the denominational or- 8. The Observer (Presbyterian) shows | the working of outdoor services in Edinburgh, and commends their adoption here. It also advo- cates the cultivation of Christian unity among the various sects, instead of strife. Church and Stale (Episcopal) takes a drive at Darwin, and apologizes to the brutes for the insult of presuming that man with all his vices could have been descended from them. It believes that the present time opens a wide field for religious usefulness, . The National Baplist labors to establish the efficacy of prayer, which Professor Tyndall proposes to test. His.method of testing it in a hospital is considered objectionable, saying it would not be proper to expect a miracle. As results of prayer, the great work of the Ameri- can Board of Foreign Missions and the Methodist denomination are mentioned—the one originated by the prayers of John Wesley and the other by those of two Congregational- ist ministers in Massachusetts. Tho Christian Union (Congregationalist) asks, “Who Is On the Lord's Side?” It says: — > In the endiess diversity of parties now existing Ob Lie JundameBtal questions oF belicr and lie, by will degrade rg ee be two armies are not Sereecuenne aaa, ee a whom we and the right hand of | “Ans these queries it sdde: — Wo hail as booger ‘all those who are serving Ip 1 ith and to know ot ‘Christe doin: are the very work He did, givit Sainte at net oars Barve elp to whoever in any way is trying to bring man out Br self unto God, ¥ The Standard (Baptist) condems ‘half- truths” thus :— The most dangerous tendency of our own times is the prevatent inclination to adopt and be satia- fled with the half-truth in place of the truth; with the verisimilitude rather than the actual itsel, Men forget that truth is uncomprom| 3 ‘that a haif-truth is an error, and all the more to dreaded because It is not wholly an error, If the editor had said ‘truth is one thing and is lovely, while error is a hideous lie,’’ the ordinary mind would probably more fully ap- prehend his meaning. The Tablet asks, ‘Can tho Jesuits Be Sup- pressed ?’’ It observes :— In attacking the Jesuits the enemies of the Church know full well that they attack herself, but they do not seem to know that the Society of Jesus par- takes of that wondrous vit » that recupera- tive power, which is one of the distinguished char- acteristics of the Catholic Chureh. They forget that neither Bismarck, nor Juarez, nor Victor Em- manuel, can crush out’ a life that God has given for Hisown sorvice and His own glory, which 1s the one sole end and aim of the Society of Jesus, The Liberal Christian (Unitarian) is largely occupied with the discussions of the late In- ternational Prison Congress, favoring such uso of punishment as would increase the moral sensibility of the convict, and thus in- duce his reformation. The Jewish Messenger laments the lack of rabbies and exhorts its people to make good the deficiency. The Union Advocate calls attention to a rather serious difficulty at the Episcopal Theo- logical Seminary, wherein the pupils seem to have become more ritualistic than the Faculty and to have submitted to certain requirements under protest alone. This quarrel the Advocate attributes to the Book of Common Prayer, which, though usually esteemed a harmless compilation, it sees to be full of dangerous germs, A Distinguished Visitor from Brazil. That extensive portion of South America which forms the Empire of Brazil, with its stretch of near three thousand miles along the Atlantic, its rivers, the largest in the world; its mines of diamonds and gold, its wide plains and their countless herds of horses and cattle, we scarcely know better than we do the dim territory of Central Africa. We know thata line of steamers gives constant communication between New York and the chief cities of that great nation, and that thence we receive a large share of our coffee, our medicinal drugs, hides, diamonds, honey and caoutchous, while thither o few of our merchants send large quantities of flour, butter, cotton manufactures and other commodities. Our mariners know her coast, but little know we of the twenty-five hundred miles of width which carry her west- ern limits to the borders of Chile and Peru and the vast tropical foresis through which her wide rivers flow thousands of miles to the sea, In this favored land natare so bounti- fully provides for the wants of man that, though the population probably reaches ten millions, not one acre out of a hundred has ever been brought under cultivation. Our relations with Brazil, though friendly, are not so intimate as it would pay for us to make them; and it is to be hoped the visit we aro now to receive from one of her reigning fam- ily may result in closer commercial and per- sonal relations between the peoples of the two countries. His Imperial Highness the Duke of Saxe, son-in-law of the Brazilian Emperor, is a passenger on the steamer from Rio Janeiro, due here to-morrow. He is described as an intelligent and courteous gentleman, who comes to the Republic of the North to study, during a visit of some months, our people and institutions. That he will be well received there is no doubt, and self-love tells us he will learn many things during his. con- tact with our institutions which will impress him favorably with us. It is confidently ex- pected that a great commerce will grow up be- tween the two countries, advantageous alike to both, differing so widely.as they do in produc- tions ‘and resources, yet so favorably placed for interchange, and that the most friendly re- lations. will ever continue between the great Empire of South and the great Republic of North America. The Next Season of Italian Opera. Surely the new managers of Italian opera at the Academy of Music are abundant in prom- ises, to judge from the list of their company and the extensive répertotre. It is to be ex- pected that they will not be like their predeces- sors, who “keep the word of promise to our ear and break it to our hope.” The new management have secured in Madame Lucca, an artist who acknowledges no peer in Europe and who has for years past made herself the idol of the public in the three great operatic centres, Lon-' don, Berlin and St. Petersburg. Then comes Miss Kellogg, whose popularity in America is unquestioned. The rest of the company, except M. Jamet, the principal basso, are entirely new and their claims for public recognition have yet to be examined. The management, however, have done well in dispensing with the. services of those hangers- on at the Academy who have from time im- memorial Iabored industriously to kill opera by their inexcusable deficiency in small parts, All the secondary singers ore to be brought from London. Again, the chorus will mainly consist of members of the company at Covent Garden, and a new chorus master, who ranks very high across the water, is engaged. We hear of costumes and appointments entirely new and many other enconraging announcements, The question now is for the management to keep faith with the public. A prospectus and its fulfilment are frequently as opposite as the promises and after career of a successful candidate in poli- tics. Messrs, Maretzek and Jarrett have an excellent opportunity now to place Italian opera on a sound basis; but let them not for- get that the time has long gone by when the American public could be deceived in this re- spect. The immense annual exodus to Europe | and the opportunities there of witnessing opera in its grandest form have made the patrons of the Academy more ofitical than ever. The metropolitan public aro ever ready to sustain genuine talent, but woe betide the manager re men _ who, not taking on them the name | who endeavors to pass off a counterfeit for the Genuine article on them. The season will open about the end of with Mme. aa aneoe ae Selike in “L' Afrioaine,’’ her special investigation in that promise increaséd security to The study ofthis magnetie problem hag’ boss avery difficult and costly one, and hag ia ceived in America but little attention, The problenr itself in nautical importance is second only to that of terrestrial was first successfully tnfolded and by municalfe.gecret of longitude which Cabot on his deathbed boasted of having re- ceived by divine revelation. Careful experiments have shown that the compass on board iron ships is sensitive to many local attractions. Not only ‘does the mysterious index change its indications by the relative distribution of iron over the vessel, but its diversion will depend upon the course which the ship is taking, upon any oscillation or careening, and upon her ever changing geographical position. It is even found the deviation is very perceptible; which is due solely to the position occupied by the vessel while it was lying on the building slip, where it acqnires a definite magnotic character, the needle invariably turning to that part of the ship which was farthest from the north while she was in process of construction. " A gentleman of Southampton, England, has recently invented a simple and improved method of determining the local attraction. of . ships, which is said to be very valuable. A centre staff, distinctly marked, is set ‘up om some select spot on shore, and a segment of the magnetic circle described from this staff asa centre with a radius of a hundred fect. This part of the circle is divided into degrees, and the line of the magnetio meridian deter- mined, and the true bearing of the staff and its intersection of the segment given, leaving the observer on board only to notice what degree the centre staff cuts upon the circle. This is the true bearing, and the difference of the compass is the local attraction. It is by the diligent improvement of such methods,. which, mechanical as they may seem, are of vital importance to safe naviga- tion, that the perils of the sea may be averted. Nonr Canouma.—Governor Caldwell: has informed the public, in a despatch from Raleigh, that the official figures of the late North Carolina election cannot be known till after the meeting of tho Legislature on the third Monday in November next, when the re- turns will be opened before the two houses and the results declared. As it thus appears that this official announcement will not occur till a fortnight or so after the Presidential elec~ tion, it is a matter.of no consequence; for the present we must be content with the Gov- ernor’s estimate that Caldwell’s majority will range from, eighteen hundred to twenty-five hundred, there or thereabouts. 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A composer whose fame and even his namé have passed out of recollection has just died in Paris at the age of eighty-seven. Carafa de Colobrano, bet- ter known as Carafa only, was born at Naples on November 28, 1786, and at a very carly age studied music under Professors Plage! and Fenaroll. Com- pelled to serve in the Neapolitan army, he was made prisoner by the French at Campo Tenese, in Cala- bria, in 1806. Prince Murat took a fancy to him and attached him to his service as an equerry. He served in the expedition to Sicily with the rank of captain in Murat's guards. The events of 1814 relegated him to his former musical pursuits, He specdily brought out an opera, “ll Vascello d’Occi- dente,” which was well received at the Del Fondo Theatre, Napies. Several other works, ‘La Gelosia Coretta,” “I Due Figaro,” &c., followed tm quick succession. In 1821 Carafa de Colobrano— for that was his full name—came to Paris, and soon obtained letters of naturalization His first work (produced at the Théatre Feydeau, now the Opéra Comique), ‘Jeanne d’Arc,” was rather @ failure than otherwise; but his next, “Le Soll- talre,” raised him to a great height of ularity. The opera a fed an fin oney aioiee Woes cused “Masanielio,” but the subsequent success of ‘La Muette de Portici,” completely eclipsed Carafa’s earlier Work on the same theme, C! cnjoyed the ‘rendship of Rossini, for whom he composed sorie ballet airs for “Semiramide.” He was elucted & member of the Institute in 1897, aud wasan officer of the Legion of Honor since 1847, SUICIDE IN THE BAY. The man John Lacy, or Meliasy, reported in yes- terday'’s HERALD af having, attempted suicide by jumping off the Staten Island ferryboat Middletown ob Friday, aster having swallowed a quantity of Paria green, diea yesterday at the Infirmary, Stapleton, Staten isiand, He died from the effects of the poison. James Peed, mate of the bark Lavonia, lying at the Upper Quarantine anchorage, was drowned yesterday at noon by the upsetting of his boat near the vessel. Peed was about twenty-seven yeara of age and a native of New York.