The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1872, Page 4

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B—Advertisements—The Texans’ Terror—Sara- toga: The Fashionable Furor Unabated ; Third Day of the Races; Three Capital Contests— Hamilton Park Races: Opening of the Fall hes 4 of the Trotting Association—The Jersey Birmingham: Opening of the Newark , Industrial hibdition—Supposead Wife Mur- der—A Gross Outrage by Negroes, 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “New York Poli- tics—The Republican State Convention—An Exciting Contest Before Us"—Personal Intelli- Be heats eral Intelligence—A Mys- rious Altair at Staten Islaud—Fire in Thompson ments, §—tIreland: Progress of the Belfast Party Riots; Threo Large Warehouses Gutted by the Mob; Municipal Surrender of the Town to the Mill- tary—The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from sat, hy France and Rome—News from Cuba—Utica Republican Convention: Specu- lations Before the Fight—South Carolina: ¥ The Republican State Nominating Conven- * tion—Politics in Ohio and Vermont—Busi- ness Notices. i 6—The Bourbons: A Day in Colonel Blanton Dun- can’s Study; Rummagings in His Mail Bag; Ominous Letters from the “Pigneaded” Un- dercurrent; Startling Discontent and Dissat- isfaction in the Democratic Ranks; Anything to Beat Greeley; Why the Unterritied Got Slaughtered in North Carolina—The Two Princes: Arrival of the Prince Augustus Co- burg and His Brother, Prince Philip, at the Brevoort House Yesterday: Interesting In- terviews With the Royal Brothers; A Rapid Survey of the Present Aspect of European Politics, Including the French and German War, and the Future Prospects of the Empire of Brazil; Reminiscences of the Visit of Prince Alexis—Dr. Houard: His Arrival in New York Yesterday from Cadiz; He Tells His Story of Imprisonment—The Jersey City Police War. T—Advertisements. 8—Cuba: The HERALD Livingstone Letters and the Slave Trade—South America: The Argentine Confederation and Its Relations Toward Bra- zil—Meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fel- lows—Proceedings in the Courts—A Brutal Murder: Terrible Results of Rum Drinking in Westchester County—New York City News— Catholicity on Long Island—Death of a New- ark Alderman—The Procession Law—Beaten by Her Son—The Campaign: How the Political Straws Blow in California; Sentiments Pre- vailing on the Shores of Lake Erie. 9—The Campaign (Continued from Eighth Page)— The Political Headquarters—Mr. Greeley's Movements—Political Campaign Notes—Fi- nancial and Commercial: The Interest of Wall Street Centring in the Gold Market; Another Decline and a Subsequent Rally in the Pre- mium; A Sharper Demand for Money; The In- quiry Accelerated by Clique Manipulation; he Rate on Call 5 a 6 Per Cent; Stocks Heavy: and Lower, with a Tumble in Wabash; Ad- vauce in Foreign Exchange—Domestic, Ha- Vana and European Markets—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisement: 40—Yachting: The Tidal Wave and Madgie; A Close Race for the Challenge Cup; Contests in street—Amusement Announce- 2,88 Gem NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, ‘AUGUST 21, 1872—WITH SUPPLEM&Ny ES LE New York Polities—The Republican State Comvention—An Exciting Oon- test Before Us. The republicans of New York, in State Con- vention, assemble at Utica to-day. The im- portance to the party of the assemblage and its proceedings can hardly be exaggerated, for the business before this Convention embraces & ticket of Presidential electors, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, a Congressman at large, a Canal Commissioner and a State Prison In- spector, and a platform for our November con- test on our national, State and municipal affairs, The Convention will, no doubt, be a harmonious body, inasmuch as the Fenton- Greeley republicans have cut loose from the Grant republicans, and have thrown out the reform banner, seconded by the democracy, under the lead of the liberal coalition Presi- dential ticket of Greeley and Brown, and inas- much as the necessities of the administration republicans will admit of no more divisions or dissensions in the party camp. As the probable candidate of this Conven- tion for Governor, George Opdyke, General John ©. Robinson, of Broome, W. H. Robert- son, of Westchester, and William A. Wheeler, of Franklin, have beon montioned; General Dix and E. D. Morgan having both doclinod. Last night Robinson's chances appeared best, and his friends believe he will give strength to their State and their Presidential electoral ticket.” We presume that in this viow of strengthening the cause of the party on local and national affairs these dele- gates in council at Utica will bring ono of their best men to the front for every position for which they are charged with the selection of the party standard bearer. It appears to be understood that Lyman Tremain will be nominated for Congressman at large against the powerful alliance of demoorats and liberal or anti-Grant republicans, and their candi- date, who will doubtless be one of their very strongest men. Again, it is surmised that General Dix will be put at the head of the administration ticket of Presidential electors, and that the whole list will be carefully se- lected with reference to their local and general popularity. In short, it may be safely assumed that in all its nominations this Utica Conven- tion will be remarkably careful to present an acceptable front to the people of this great Commonwealth on State and national affairs for this important State and national contest before us, as they have the personal popu- larity of Mr. Greeley to contend against and the serious breach in their ranks to consider, and hence must leave no point unguarded if they do not intend to saffer New York to go by default. Next, the Convention in question will have to consider the platform upon which this double battle, or two battles in one, will have to be fought. The national branch of this platform will, of course, embrace a hearty endorsement of General Grant’s administration, the usual stereotyped allusions to his retrenchments of the national expenditures, his reductions of the national debt and of the national taxes, and the establishment in practice of the principles of civil and political equality under his administration, notwithstanding the awkward fact of military law and while oppression in the Southern States, and so on. We may also have, in this connection, some “glittering generalities’ on the Alabama claims and the redeeming virtues of arbitra- tion as the proper method of settling inter- national disputes; and we may have a word or two for “Buncombe” on civil service reform, though we do not expect much vain boasting of the distinguished achievements of the administration in reference to either Spain, Cuba or Mexico. It will suffice that our na- tional affairs in this Republican State Conven- tion will put its best foot foremost for General Grant, and will leave no stone unturned cal- culated to weaken Mr. {Greeley as the Presi- dential champion of the anti-administration republicans and their democratic allies. But on our State and city affairs, and on the paramount local question of city reform, we shall look with the most lively interest for the declarations and the promises of this Utica Convention. It will be curious to observe what can be said about legislative and munici- pal reform by a party which last fall elected a State Senate whose Clerk was turned out of Prospect—The National Game—Alleged Homt- cide—The Heat—News from Washington— Brooklyn Affairs—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, Dn. Hovarp, tHe American Crrizen In- erisoneD by Spain, arrived in this city from Cadiz yesterday. His story of Spanish brutal- ity will be read in to-day’s Heraxp with a sen- sation of disgust and shame—disgust that it could be carried out by a people pretending to civilization, a8 the haughty bloodthirsty Spaniards do; shame that it was allowed to endure for nineteen months by a powerful government like that of the United States. Dr. Houard intends presenting his claim against Spain for the loss of his prop- erty and business in Cuba, and it will be only common justice for America to insist on its payment, ‘Tux Success or tHe New Sureprna Act my Bosroy,—-Landsharks in Paritanical Boston are just as voracious as they are in the metrop- olis, and accordingly were just as indignant at the prospect of being deprived of their prey by the operations of the new law in regard to shipping and paying off seamon. There, as here, they contended that their rights were in- vaded by the act, and asserted their intention to prevent its enforcement. It is, therefore, specially gratifying to hear that the govern- ment shipping agency is thero as entirely suc- cessful as here, and the operation of the law eminently satisfactory to the friends of poor Jack. In a little more thana week there have been shipped at the Boston office fifty-six crews, and seventeen crews paid off. The har- pies who lived by pandering to the vices and taking advantage of the weakness of the sailor find no opportunity to ply their vocation, and the jolly tars make contracts while sober, able to exercise their judgment, and receive their hard-earned wages under circumstances favor- able to making’s prudent use of them, For the inception of this beneficent law the sailors are indebted to the Ladies’ Seaman’s Friends Society, of San Francisco. It was drafted by ‘a lady of that city to counteract the effect of a combination of sailors’ boarding house keepers for systematically fleecing the credu- lous tars. Under its operations ‘‘shanghac- ing”’ is effectually prevented, and o sailor's money has a chance to be usefully applied in- stead of being gobbled from men too drunk $e appreciate ite value. office for corrupt practices, and one of whose members, after being convicted of having re- ceived money favors from the Tammany and Erie Rings amounting to many thousands of dollars while holding a seat in the State Sen- ate, was yet suffered to retain the position of Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. We shall probably learn something from the Con- vention about the threat made by Senator Tweed that if the republican Senators dared to vote for his expulsion from that body he would prove that he had purchased a majority of them time and again, and shall at last discover whcther this was the reason their pledge to expel him was not redeemed. We may also expect to receive some explanation of the defeat of the reform measures brought before the Legislature after the reformers had succeeded in organizing the Assembly as they desired, and while they had more than a four-fifths majority in both branches of the Legislature and were thus in a position to override any Executive veto and to crush out all opposition. It is necessary, too, that the Convention should furnish the people with some information in re- gard to the suits against the Tammany officials, and as to why they have not been more vigorously prosecuted. It is true a State officer recently sought to explain the singular delay by the statement that it was not desirable to try the criminal indictments against the dishonest officials and their fellow | conspirators before Judge Cardoza or Judge | Barnard; but as these Judges have not been | on the bench for some time, and as certainly one, if not two, terms of the Oyer and Terminer have been presided over by Judge Ingraham, the excuse is scarcely valid. It will be well for the Convention to explain why these cases were not moved at the last term of the Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Ingraham, and to pronounce strongly in favor of their trial the first week of the October term before Judge Brady, in view of the fact that some unpleasant rumors ‘Tammany leaders in this city in the approach- ing election are afloat onthe air. If these rumors are weak inventions of the enemy it will be necessary to prove thom to be such, for the people will not forget that for some of a compromise and alliance with the old | the last election proved false to their pledges after election, and they will require something more than words to induce them to put their faith in political reformers hereafter. A do- nunciation of the Senate and Assembly of last year, a protest against the renomination of any republican Assemblyman who was at Albany last winter, a request to all the republican Senators who hold over anothor year to resign their seats and suffer a new Senatorial election to take place—this, and little short of it, will satisfy the people that the republican party, as now constituted, is not responsible for the failure of the reform demanded by the people last November, and is not ready to again betray the cause it then advocated. Let the Republican Convention do this, and it may again stand before the people as the champion of honest government. After the experience of last winter it will be idle for the repub-. licans to attempt to sot aside this reform issue by the mere reiteration of the cry of ‘Tam- many! Tammany!" against an opposition party headed by such democrats as Belmont, Tilden and Schell. In its action on this and on all other matters, the Convention must not lose sight of tho fadt that it is admitted by tho republicans that the New York battlo of last November will not be the battle of this coming November; that all the condi- tions and the issues ‘between the belligerent forces aro changed, and that there are no pre- cedents and no election returns by which we can measure or anticipate tho results of our Coming election. The bolt of the liberal or anti-Grant republicans from the administra- tion camps, and the union of the democrats with them on their Cincinnati candidates and resolutions, give us a new opposition departure and a new contest in this State and throughout the Union to which the figures of none of our past elections will apply. The republicans at Utica know that their party in this State is weakened by the loss of Mr. Grecley and his numerous republican followers; but they do not know that General Grant has been strength- ened, or will be, by democratic Bourbon rein- forcements, though his party leaders and jour- nals profess to believe that their democratic recruits will outnumber their republican do- serters. Mr. Freeman Clarke, the able and clear- headed republican Congressman from our Twenty-eighth district, has expressed the opin- ion toa Heratp correspondent that tho No- vember result in this State will depend almost entirely upon the State ticket; that the republican party is just now in such a condi- tion that it will require tho utmost caution and good judgment to prevent a serious break, because all the republicans of the State are by no moans of the same mind about certain mattors with which the administration has had everything todo. Referring to the split between Senators Conkling and Fenton, Mr. Clarke further expresses the opinion that, from the present outlook, “if General Grant does not carry New York he will have a tight pull of it.” This idea will, no doubt, so impress itself upon this Utica Convention as to compel it to do the very best that it can doin candidates and principles, national and local, to secure the State. We know, on the other hand, that, in view of the closeness of the contest in other States, New York may turn the balance one side or the other; and we have thus the im- pelling motive on both sides for the most ex- citing and desperate contest we shall have had in New York since the closely contested and doubtful battle of 1844 between James K. Polk and Henry Clay. In the interval to November we shall have the Maine election and the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska State elections, which will go far to determine or to modify the results in New York. In the meantime the organization of our State contest between the opposing parties will draw the lines closely between them. The republicans of Utica open the ball to-day, and the democrats and liberal republicans will meet to give them battle on the 4th of September at Syracuse; and we now await the candidates and the platform of the Utica Convention. The Question of Bread in the Irish Metropolis. From Ireland we have news of the sudden presentation of o fresh social difficulty in the shape of an agitation for bread in the metropolis. The journeymen bakers of Dub- lin have gone out on strike for higher wages. The masters refuse to comply with their demands, and hence the daily production of the supply of the staff of life has ceased. This fact has troubled the stomachs of the people vastly, and the fair ladies of the ancient and renowned municipality have become deeply irritated under the infliction. Good humored and kind by nature, the Dublin women sym- pathize with the ‘‘boys who are in trouble,” and demand that the bosses shall pay them just what they ask, or. at least, ‘trate the poor cratures fairly.” In the meantime the chil- dren are crying for a “bit of loaf,"’ and the family glee of the tea-kettle sounds sadly through the cellars of the Liberty. Attacks onthe brend shops are feared. This is just where the serious aspect of the news comes in. The journeymen bakers of Dublin possess, as a rule, very light hearts with light pockets, but they manage to get along fairly. Combi- nation and riot have ever ended badly tor the leaders of such movements in Ireland. The action has rarely originated in Ireland, but its exciting elements have been imported fre- quently and have often become foreign nuisances in the land. Sydney Smith's ad- vice to the Irish people—“Erin-go-Bragh !"’ Nonsense; let the cry be, ‘Erin-go-bread- and cheese! Erin-go-pantaloons without holes in them!’’ may be completely vindicated in Dublin. Two Princes Amona Us ar tHe Present Tre indicate that the Great Republic, with its marvellous’ growth and progress, its vastness and other attractions to the traveller will soon be much more visited by the titled and wealthy of other lands. Prince Augustus of Coburg-Gotha, son-in-law of Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, trod the soil of the United States yesterday for the first time In another part of the Hznarp will be found an interesting interview with that royal personage which will gratify many in its an- nouncement of Brazilian friendliness to our nation. His brother, Prince Philip of Coburg- Gotha, arrived from Europe yesterday, and although the latter has travelled previously reason or another many republicans who made J such loud professions in favor of reform Welere through the Union, he will accompany his brotber in an pxtended tous over the Wert, The Irtsh Riots in Belfast. A series of cable telegrams, dated in Dublin and London, enables us to report in the columns of the Hznatp to-day the progress of the Irish riots in Belfast during the hours which intervened from the date of tho latest despatches on Monday to the moment of five o'clock yesterday evening, and also to present to our readers the efforts which were made by the authorities for the suppression of the law- less movement. Tho chronicle contains, of course, an account of the scenes which were witnossed during the night from midnight of the 19th to the morning of the 20th instant. The record has o variable aspect, particularly when itis read in the light of morality and with a due sense of respect for social order and its maintenance. Wo behold in it the savage instinct of the unoducated and abandoned prompting a demoralized frac- tion of an otherwise respectable and decorous community to the commission of the most outrageous acts of violence against property and even against life itself, We seo that the exciting cause of this action was a desire for public plunder; an unreasoning wish to subject the savings and household means of their more industrious neighbors to the seizure and subdivision rules of an ex- temporized communism which was presented to the hoarts and eyes of a half-drunken mob under the attractive garb of religion, stitched up here and there with the warp of oxtra loyalty to the Crown and constitution. Primed and inspired from these sources, and with such motives, the Belfast rioters proceeded to plunder stores, to sack and gut dwellings, to display and use loaded firearms in the thoroughfares and to indulge in a regular Donnybrook Fair saturnalia, with the differ- once, however, that all the amusing and play- ful national traits of the time-honored market festival were wanting and apparently for- gotten. There was no “going into a tent to spend half a crown," and then meeting a friend and ‘for love knock him down," in this Bel- fost fray. It was dark in its inception and entirely foreign to the Irish character in ita mode of execution. The municipal authori- ties of Belfast stood paralyzed for a moment in face of it. They did not recognize it as an offshoot of the old factions fight stock, nor did they understand how it could result from the profession or practice of religion in a town whore the temples of Presbyterians, Protestants, Roman Catholics, Methodists, oven of Arians, range in the peace- inspiring beauty of modorn architecture almost side by side, and where the hierarchs, presby- ters and preachers of all these different Chris- tian denominations meet daily on terms of perfect equality and with a genuine, friendly, Trish greeting of salutation. Hence the muni- cipality did not know, apparently, what to do. That grand curator of citizen interests, the sword, came to their relief. Martial law was proclaimed. The rioters heard the sound of the voice of order. They could not afford to despise it. They commenced to recede from their position in face of the military, and it is quite evident from the news this morning that the Irish riots in Belfast have been extin- guished, An almost ridiculous side of the story is shown in the small number of persons who have been injured, some three or four only being in the hospitals. Now will come the secondary consequences—arrests, committals to jail, bails, bonds, trials, judicial sentences and tho penalties. Then Belfast will be peace- able again, and it may be that after the next general election her people will enjoy repose from the debauching efforts her local and itinerant politicians. Fear of More Revolutionary Trouble in Spain. Tho telegraphic news from Madrid repre- sents more revolutionary trouble brewing in Spain. The Cabinet Ministers and others have received warning of a probable outbreak of the partisans of ex-Queen Isabella. It is thought that this may lead also to renewed activity of the Carlists. The apprehension is sufficiently alarming to cause active prepara- tions on the part of the government to meet the threatened outbreak. A local disturbance had occurred at Pampeluna between Carlists and liberals, when an attempt was made to assassinate the Mayor of that city. - It is evi- dent that Spain is still resting on a political volcano. Partisan revolutionary spirit, though apparently suppressed for a time, exists with all the intensity of the Spanish nature. The different monarchical claimants look upon the ‘soil and people of Spain as their rightful property, just os & man does the cattle on his estate. These royal aspirants and intriguers have no patriot- ism. They want power and the revenues of the country only, and to obtain these would plunge Spain in revolution and slaughter the people like cattle. They do not seem to com- prehend the progressive spirit of the age which is leading the nations to recognize the princi- ple that governments must be based upon the will of the governed. The partisans of mon- archy make a great outcry if the people rise to overthrow despotism and establish self-govern- ment, but have little to say when royalist scoundrels plunge a country into the horrors of civil war. Of all the parties in Spain the liberal republican party, of which Castelar is a distinguished representative, is the most re- spectable and most moderate. Looking at the conflicting elements of revolution in that coun- try, we fear ithas yet to go through a fearful ordeal, If the republicans behave wisely they may in the end overcome all the royalist fac- tions, make Spain a republic and lay the foundation of a great future for their country. Prvs rae Ninta anp THE Itartan Ror- auty.—A despatch from the Holy City states that Monsignor de Mérode, Grand Almoner to Pope Pius the Ninth, has been despatched to Brussels commissioned to make arrangements for the reception of the Pontiff in Belgium. Intelligence of this character has been con- veyed to the world frequently, at intervals, since the occupation of Rome by the Italians was completed by the entry of His Majesty Victor Emmanuel to the capital of the consoli- dated nation. The Pope remains in the Vati- can notwithstanding. It may be that he will suddenly fly from the Pontifical residence. We cannot see what good would come to the cause of the Church from such an event, and it is almost certain that Belgium would be deeply, if not dangerously, excited by the ad- vent of the illustrious ecclesiastic to her soil in the character of a refugee from the centre of roligiqug unity, eee ene EEN The Loutsvilie Straight-Cuts—Who Will | to vote di Saffer trom the Nonrination of Oharies O’Conor? The letter of our Louisville correspondent, published to-day, gives an interesting aecount of an interview with Colonel Blanton Duncan, the moving spirit of the straight-out Bourbon Convention about to be held at Louisville fer the nomination of Charles O’Conor as the candidate of the still unterrified democracy for Prosident of the United States, and for the adoption of a platform on which all who aro unwilling to vote for the liberal republican candidates can plant themselves and take part in the contest. Our correspondent finds Colonel Duncan full of energy and hope, loaded down with correspondence from old- line democrats, and strong in the faith that his. pet Convention is going to be & great success, The responses pouring in from all States, and the earnest tone of the letters, many of which were examined by our correspondent, convince him that a strong undercurrent is running in favor of the Louis- ville movement; that it is not being laughed at by the whole people, and that it is very probable the Duncan raid may draw off enough of the democratic forces from the liberal. republican and democratic coalition to defeat Greeley. Colonel Duncan kindly furnishes extracts from these letters, and hence we are the better able to judge of the temper of the writers and. to form an intelli- gent idea of the effect the movement is likely to have on the prospects of the two real can- didates actually in the fight. We expressed the belief in a former notice of this straight-out convention strategy that it might in the end be found to be more damag- ing to those who have helped it toa success than to their opponents. This belief is strengthened by the tone of most of the letters in Colonel Duncan's liberal collection, from which we have been favored with quotations, and we suppose these are fair specimens of the whole correspondence. In nearly every in- stance the writer, in his energy, makes it ap- parent that, while he desires a strict party ticket to vote for, he would, under no~con- ceivable circumstances, support Greeley, but if driven to choose between the two candidates should prefer Grant. We give Colonel Duncan credit for full sincerity when he declares his conviction that if the Bourbons succeed in getting eight hundred and fifty thousand votes sit will be ‘enough to beat Greeley to smash ;”’ but we would remind him that if these votes were cast for President Grant instead of being thrown away on Charles O’Conor they would count exactly double, or seventeen hundred thousand, and make the result ho desires all the more certain. In order to convince him and all who are looking to this Bourbon move- ment only as a means of defeating the liboral republican candidates, we quote from Colonel Duncan's correspondents. The first is from an old farmer of Tllinois, who says:— “We democrats’ in this part of the country cannot support that life-long aboli- tionist, Horace Greeley, for President of the United States. Woe think General Grant the best man of tho two, but we want a straight ticket to vote for, and we hope the Louisville Convention will put out a good democrat.’’ Well, if a “good democrat’ should not be in the field it is@vident that this Illinois farmer and his friends would vote for President Grant, and not for Greeley; so, as far as they are concerned, the Louisville Convention would damage the party that has been looking to it for aid. A letter from the editor of a North Carolina paper, published at Charlotte, states that the conservatives failed to elect their Governor because ‘five thousand democrats re- fused to vote with the party endorsing Greeley.’” These five thousand votes, then, would be given to Grant in the Presidential election, and not to Greeley, if a straight-out democratic ticket should not be in nomination. A citizen of Douglas county, Illinois, writes that the feeling among his friends is ‘one of intense disgust with the action of the Balti- more Convention,’’ and hence they would hail with delight the nomination of Bourbon candi- dates. A Salem (Mass.) democrat is strong in his desire for straight-out nominations. ‘Pre- sent a straight democratic ticket to the coun- try,” he says. ‘Grant is bad enough, but Greeley is the scum of all rascality—tho most infernal liar, the most dangerous cuss,” &c. It is clear who our Salem friend would vote for if he could not give his vote to Charles O’Conor. A Mississippi lawyer ‘‘wants the record of Greeley,” and finds plenty of citizens “who cannot and will not support Greeley.” A gentleman from Culpepper, Va., cannot conceive how any democrat can endorse Greeley, and says, ‘‘As for myself, I will not vote for him.” He would no doubt prefer Grant as 9 choice of evils, Some of Colonel Duncan’s correspondents are yet more emphatic. ‘I was in the Con- federate service four years, a major,’’ writes a Professor of Latin in a Missouri college, “and I'll be if I vote for any such man as Horace Greeley." He would vote for Grant first, in the absence of 8 strongly flavored democrat. A red-hot Kentuckian is equally firm in his resolve never to support Greeley, and a Nebraska unterrified writes in bad Eng- lish to the same effect. Now it seems evident that a very large majority of these straight- outs are so bitterly opposed to Greeley that unless supplied with a safety-valvein the shape of a Bourbon ticket they would burst right out in favor of Grant. This is precisely what they ought to do. The Louisville movement isa mere farce so far as a serious nomination of candidates with any view of suc- cess is concerned. No person pretends that it is anything more than a diversion, and the only question is as to which side it will help. The issue is fairly made between Grant and Greeley, and there is no reason why any other candidates should be in the field. Democrats who aro convinced that Greeley is not a fit person to fill the office of President should insure his defeat by voting for General Grant, instead of risking ~ his elec- tion by throwing away their ballots on a third candidate, The whole democratic organization and the whole democratic press have joined the liberal movement, and it is evident that the contest between Grant and Greeley is to be a close one. The effort to make any important break in the democratic ranks will be a failure, but individuals are at liberty to vote as their convictions prompt, especially at a time when old party lines are so completely obliterated. A third ticket is only a subterfuge, and no man in this contest | should besitate to take a decided position and lieves his a mecessary for the welfare of oe PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. - m Windom, of Minnesota, General E. O; Wi at the St, NicholasHoter’ | MaP' ls stopping Colonel N. G- Ordway, @ergean, United States House of Representatives ty cr jd Fifth Avenue Hotek Senator Reuben E. Fontemy was at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel yesterday, for a thas, while on voute to Washington. Samuel L. Olemens (Mark Fwsin), satis op Scotia to-day. He is to make ® tour of Scotiang and Ireland, and wilt be absent toree months, Americ: Abroad. (From tho Paris American Register, August 8.) Mr. and Mrs, Elliott Cowdin and fennity lof Parte yesterday for Havre. Consul General Butler is at Napies and will prob- ably arrive this week in Paris. Mrs, Washburne leaves Carlsbad to-day for Franzensbad. She has only one of hes ehildrea with her, uit act Dae ast arrived in weel at the Hotel du Louvre. « “ee Mrs. General William T. Sherman and family are at Islip, L. I., where they will remain until the re- turn of the General in August orSeptember. The Hon. Alexander W. Randall, ex-Governor of Wi , and Postmaster Genoral under Ane _ Peter coral ts lying critically Hi at his residence General Sherman left Paris on Monday last for, London. The General and Colonct Audenrted were resent at the déjeuner given by Mr. Washbarne om turday last to Mr. Stanley. Miss Grant, the daughter of the bmg do is now in Vienna with the family of Mr. Bo‘ late Secretary of the Navy, has returne? that city from 4 visit Mr. and Mra, Jay, at.) ag on: the ascent of the Simmering, near Pa Congressman a} the Fifth Avenue “OBITUARY. Captain Henry K. Davenport, U. 8. N. A Gespatoh received at the Navy Department from Minister Washburne at Paris, dated August 9, announces the death of this gatlant officer as occurs curring at Carlsbad, m Bohemia, on tho sth inst, Captain Davenport was in command of the Unite@ States steamer Congress, on the European sta-’ tion, and the announcement of his being takea with sevore illness was reported from Southampy ton some -months since. It was thought advisable to remove the patient to Oarla bad, where @ course of the waters, it wad hoped, would effect a recovery. Captain Daven port's system, however, could not rally, and he sank gradually until the end came, Mr. Davenport was born at Savannah, Ga., in 1820, and entered the naval service as a midshipman on the 10th of February, 1638, making @ total of over thirty-four years’ service of his country. At the breaking out of the war he ranked as lieutenant, and was them serving on board the steam sloop Sus- quehanna, Uniike so many of his follow ofiicers of Southern birth -Mr. Davenport remained true to his allegiance, and exhibited throughout the war the highest qualities aa a naval) oficer. During a portion of the conflict he « manded a squadron ofgunboats on the Missi with the rank of commander, and was plac command of the Lancaster (second rate) befo. close of the war. In 1866 he was appointed Né. tion and Equipment Oficer at the Washington Yard, and afterwards on ordnance and specific at the Navy Department, where he remained unt. dered on active service in command of the Cone (second rate) in 1871, In 1868 he was promot; the grade of captain. The Congress, under command, first accompanied Captain Hall's Expedition to Greenland, where the little Polaris was finally equipped for its perilous voyage. The Congress then returned to New York and became the flagship of Vice Admiral Rowan in the squadron which welcomed the Archduke Alexis to America, in November last. Captain Davenport's last feat at sea yl the Cuban filibuster Hornet 01 au Prince to the United States, when he sailed for Europe to join the squadron under the commend of Rear Admiral Alden. In the death of Captain Dav- enport the naval service loses an able and guished oficer. In Washington circles and o! where his demise will be resrected by a large circle of friends as that of agenial and refined gentleman. He was married to a Washington lady, a Miss Gra- ham. His eldest son, R. G. Davenport, is an ensign in the navy. Emetrio Regunaga. By the mail from Montevideo, South America, we’ are informed that Dr. Emetrio Regunaga, the late Minister of Government and ex-member of the Superior Court of Justice, died at that place on the ioth, of July. He was universally esteemed by foreigners as well as natives, and ranked ag a true patriot of acknowledged ability. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Rear Admiral Joseph T. Green assamed command of the North Atlantic Squadron yesterday, and. raised his Nag upon the flagship of the squadron, the Worcester, lying off the Boston Navy Yard. The flag was saluted by Rear Admiral Steedman, in commend of this station, with thirteen guns, to which the Worcester repiled with a similar salute. ‘The Worcester will probably sail next week for the headquarters of the North Atlantic Squadron. The United States on boat hd mander Quackenbush, sailed from Montevi deo for Asuncion, Paraguay, ay, 15, conveying the United States Minister, Hon. J. L. Stevens, WASHINGTON, August 20, 1872, The United States steamer Wyoming was at Ag» pinwall on the 7th of August, with all well on board. The officers and men who had been ae- tailed to take care of the Edgar Stewart had been withdrawn from that vessel. The United States steamer California, now at Panama, has been ordered to San Francisco, The Ossipee arrived at Valparaiso on tho 6th of July and was expected to leave on the 11th for Rio, en for Boston, The Pensacola was at Callag on July 2th, | 3 Naval Ordors, ‘ és Ifeutenant Commander Henry Leo Johnson, Licte tenant Henry Wheeler and Master Charles Seymour have been ordered to torpedo duty. Captain Alexander H. Rhind has been ordered to command the Congress in the place of Captain Davenport, deceased. He will soon take passage to join his vessel. Paymaster Tuttle, of the Lackawanna, detailed as astronomer of the surveying force im the Pacific under the command of Commodore Skerre' The object of the expedition is the surveyll such parts of the Pacific as is requisite to oe perfect chart for the use of ships. : , FIRE IN THOMPSON STREET. 9, Last night fire was ‘Uiscovered in the basement of the three story brick building, 102 Thompson street, the first Noor of which ts occupied by Fred rick Figge & Bro., as a lard establishment, causing a gloss to stock of $600; insured in the #tna of Hart- tord for $2,000, The second floor occupied by John McCarten as a laundry, was damaged _ on stock; insured in the Springfleld, Pacific and St. Nicholag for $2,000 each. Several parties who had 3 oO this floor sustained a joint loss of $300: fully in- sured, The building is owned by Mr. H. Andrews, of Rhode Island, and ts damaged about $700; fully covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is un- known. A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STATEN ISLAND, Last Sunday three residents of New York, named respectively John Still and Messrs. Van Sant, uncle and nephew, engaged @ cat-rigged boat at Bay Ridge and sailed over to Staten Island, Upon her arrival at the lower landing, ten Island, Mr. Still, whose father ts engaged fhe ‘Seventh Ward Bank, whilo regohing or in the boat to obtain a drink of whiskey out of & demijohn, fell overboard to rise no more, Yesterday Mr. Henriquoz, of 49 Broad street, paid a visit. to tho Chief of Police of Staten Island, Captain Holbrook, and informed him that young Van Sant, aged twenty-one of 221 South street, jad not returned to hia home since Monday. Cap- tain Holbrook commenced an investigation of the amvnir, and it is hoped that @ solution may speedily be arrived at. THE NEW DOMINION. The Government About to Issue a Proclas mation Against the Attempt to Enlist Recruits in Canada to Side with the Cuban Insurgents. ToRoNTO, Ontario, August 20, 1872, An Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Leader says thero is some foundation for the rumor that Cuban agents are at work in Montreal endeavoring to enlist men to serve in the Cuban army. The government have been apprised of the fact, and will issue & proclamation warning Hor Majesty’s subjects against enlistment of persons for service with the insurgents of Cuba or Atting gut veasemm. Or any such Durpoge has been « ;