The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1872, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIL No. 237 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. *BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth avenuc.—Tae Beis; or, Tux Pouisa Jew. Matinee, ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Two Sronts—Tux Pousu Jew—My Fettow Cheri. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— ‘hoger or Leave Max. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and leecker sts.—A Lire’s Dream, &c, Matinee at 2. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Biux Bap. Matinee at 1 THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —-Ermortan Ee- canticivins, BuRLES@UE, Deana, &C, nee at 2g. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Necro Mux- seRetsy, kc. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! La Your ve Nesix—his , No. 201 Bowery.— ao. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Grano InstRoMENTAL Conckrr. SAE PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway, near Fourth street.— Gran Concert. WEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrence any Art. WITH SUPPLEMENT. it 24, 1872. New York, Saturday, Aug CONTENTS Pace. 1—Aavertisements. #—Advertisements—Intemperance and Death. 3—Michigan: Iaterviews with Leaders of Opinion and Sketches of the Leading Men; The Blan- ton Duncan Movement—*Bourbon Straight: Senator James O’Brien on the Political Situa- tion—The Political Headquarters—The Coming Demonstration—Mr. Greeley's Movements— ‘The President's Piety: General Grant and a Full Presidential jRetinue at Ocean Grove Camp Meeting—The New York Yacht Squad- ron Cruse—English Yachting—The Alabama Claims: Progress of the Geneva Tribunal; ‘The American Case Presented in Three Points; Caleb Cushing’s Address to the Court—Suicide in West Washington Square. 4—Fiitorials: Leading Article, “The Prospects of the Presidential Campaign—The Conservative Element and the State Elections”—Amuse- Ment Announcements. 6—The Alabama Ciaims—Cable Telegrams from England, France and Spain—News from Atrica—West Virginia Election—Split Among the South Carolina Republicans—The Princes and the President: Reception of the Royal Visitors by a President and His Family— News from Washington—Miscellaneous Tele- grams—Business Notices, 6—Saratoga: The Sixth and Last Day ofthe Races; Graud and Fashionable Finale; Four Good Races—The Hampden Park Races—Long Brauch: The Storm of Thursday Night; Con- sternation in the Hotels and Probable Loss of Fishing Boats—Terrible Torpado in Connecti- cut—An Excursion in a Storm—The Storm in Trenton—Struck by Lightning—A Terrible Accident—The Post Ottice Laborers—Mar- riages and Deaths. ‘To~Advertisements. S—The Fifth Avenue Widening—The Tombs and Jefferson Market +Police Courts—The Frigate Numancia—Fatally Crushed by a Rail Car— ‘The Death of Mrs. Cosgrove—The Hub’s Great s Panjandrum—An Oil Tank Struck by Light- ning—South and Central America: President Balta’s Death and its Lessons to the Govern- ing Classes. and Peoples; Popular Progress in the Republics—The East African Slave Trade— Axother Letter from Dr. Livingstone—Living- stone's Critics. 9—Livingstone’s Critics (Continued from Eighth Page) —Brooklyn Affairs—Smallpox in Jersey City—Financial and Commercial: Sudden Rei- axation in the Money Market; The Rate on Call Declines from Seven to ‘Three Per Cent; Chicago Well Provided with Funds Now That the Wheat “Corner” is Over; Gold Declines Another One-Half Per Cent; Falling Off in the Dry Goods Imports; Gradual Disappearance of the Gold Pool; Mysterious and Correlative Strategy in the ket; A Further Heavy Decline in pean Markets—Cotton Receipts—A Swim for cae Two Convicts Bolt from Blackwell's sland. A0—South Carolina Murderers: The Assassins of Monroe Harmon Respited by Scott; . Black Escapes the Halter; History of the Fiendish bers and Robbery—The Cape of Good Hope: Democratic Agitation for Provincial Secession and Citizen Rights—The Shooting of Frohberg—Fire in Lexington Avenue—The Agassiz, Expedition—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, ‘OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. pM ae aN ‘Tae West Vircrs1a Execrion.—From the special despatch we publish to-day it appears that the new constitution has been defeated, and probably also the regular democratic ticket. The majority for Jacob, the inde- pendent candidate for the Governorship, is estimated at about two thousand. The vote of the Stite is said to be the largest ever | polled. Rampant Repvswicans or Soura Caronina.— | The second session of the Republican State Convention, at Columbia, appears to have been more noisy and indecent than the first. After Judge Orr and his friends | had withdrawn from the Convention it seems that the delegates became violent toward one another. Yesterday, according to our despatch elsewhere, the Sergeant-at-Arms ‘was called in to restore order, but the produc- tion of revolvers soon caused that functionary to retire. Consequently the remaining nomi- nations on the republican ticket have not been made, and the meeting adjourned last night amid great confusion. Gotp went off to 113} yesterday. At the fame time the dry goods imports for the week were reported to have fallen off to about four millions. A Nive Days’ Wonver—The riots at Bel- fast, the wonder being how they could con- tinue for nine days in the teeth of all the local and imperial authorities. This reveals a state of things worse than that of the wildest out- lawry in the mining districts of Nevada or Idaho, and the moral is that England has not yet learned how to govern Ireland. Ayprew Jonnsox 1s His Exement.—Hand- Dills have been posted up about Nashville call- ing on the workingmen to meet Andrew John- son next week as the workingmen’s candidate for Congressman at large in Tennessee, against the regular democratic candidate. Hot water, in fact, is the proper element of Mr. Johnson, and if he can’t get his adversaries, he is bound to have his friends in hot water. As the work- ingmen’s independent champion he will cer- tainly make it hot for the democracy of Ten- nessee, Is Tats Farm?—A Henan political corre- spondent, who has been canvassing this State g golden opinions from all sorts of ,"' says that the liberal republicans com- plain that, while the great body of the demo- erats are all right, “they are not working at all for the success of the ticket (Greeley and Brown). They are letting us liberal republi- cans do all the plonghing and sowing and hocing, ard they sit on the rails of the fence and look on, They don’t turn ont at our mass meetings and they do not furnish uw with speakers.’’ We may, then, ask, with Sir John Falstaff, “Call you this backing your | friends?’’ If this fatal disease of general @pathy has fallen so soon upon the reeon- structed democracy, where will thev be in November? ‘The Frospects of the Presidential Cam- paign—The Conservative Element and the State Elections. ° From the accounts furnished by our special correspondents in this State and elsewhere, as well as from other indications of the popular feeling, it is evident that the enthusiasm for Greeley and the opposition movement is dying out, and is succeeded by a “sober second thought,” which holds men back from the change propgsed by those who have been en- States to the cry of “Anything to beat Grant.” No doubt a great deal” of dissatisfaction has been created by the policy of the administra- tion, and had the bold raid of the Cincinnati liberals and the grand coup of the Baltimore conventionists been made only two months before the election, they would almost cer- tainly have been effective and there would have been a géneral stampede to Greeley from both the republican and democratic ranks. The humiliation and defeat of the government in the controversy with England growing out of the Treaty of Washington and the Geneva Conference; the anti-republican char- acter of our policy towards Spain and Cuba; the weakness which has suffered our Mexican borders to be a constant scene of lawlessness and ruffianism without raising a finger in de- fence of American citizens in that exposed locality; the general demoralization of the’ civil service, and the ungenerous treatment of the Southern States excited a fecling against President Grant's advisers which threatened at one time to sweep the whole republican party out of existence as effectually as the old Tammany régime was disposed of last Novem- ber. The blame was not lnid at the door of the President himself, who was known to be at heart opposed to the radical policy; neverthe- less, it was felt that an endorsement of Grant would be an endorsement of the acts of his Cabinet and of Congress, and the people were not disposed to suffer their personal esteem for the soldier who conquered the rebellion to lead them into an apparent approval of the policy of his advisers. But these features of the campaign, once promising to be its real issues, and standing out so distinctly on the Presidential canvass, have lost their oe outlines, and, like dissolving views, have grown fainter and fainter in the distance until it seems probable that they may soon disap- pear altogether. In their place the great com- mercial and moneyed interests of the country come looming up, magnified, it may be, into undue proportions, and promising to engross the attention of those who are watching with interest and curiosity the Presidential phan- tasmagoria. The people who are interested in the welfare and prosperity of the nation are evidently beginning to ask themselves what they will profit by a revolution in the administration at the present time, and to take into serious con- sideration the question whether they can afford to change General Grant for Horace Greeley. Conceding that the President has committed grave blunders since the commencement of his term of office; that the civil service has not been all that could be desired; that our foreign policy has been marked by blun- ders worse than crimes; that our financial policy has been theoretical and narrow- minded; that the treatment of the South has been unconstitutional and oppressive; that the effort to rekindle the animosities of the war, to revive the hatreds of slavery and to array the freedmen of the Sou th against their white neighbors for political purposes is alike dangerous and cruel; that the ‘attempt to base a great, enduring party on the hate and wrath necessarily engendered by a bloody civil war is as though you should plant a colony on an iceberg that had somehow drifted into a tropical ocean;’’ conceding all this, there yet remain the facts that ,our national debt has decreased at a wonderful rate of speed, that the country is at peace and that the people generally are prosperous. These are hard points to get over, and it is no wonder that the moneyed men of the country are reflecting upon them earnestly, especially when the Presidential candidate who proposes to succeed the present administration does not possess the reputation of a safe, cautious and practical financier. While the sentimentality of politics is all very wellin its way the pocket is generally the test of a man’s loyalty and patriotism, and if the business men of the country can be satis- fied that a change of administration at this time will disturb our finances, increase the premium on gold, depress our credit abroad, unsettle values and temporarily check the progress and prosperity of the country, they | will overlock all the errors of President Grant and all the objectionable policy of his advis- ers, and will vote in the approaching election as their own interest dictates. It is the doubt that yet hangs over this feature of the campaign—the absence of any strong declara- | tion on the part of those who are entitled to speak for the great commercial and financial circles on one side or the other, that occasions the present uncertainty and seems to dampen the spirits and check the ardor of those who have hitherto been enthusiastic in the liberal republican cause. We do not undervalue the importance of political work in the campaign. We know | that there are numerous citizens, influential enough in their way, who study the political chart with anxious interest and steer their course in accordance with its lines. The check re- ceived by the administration in North Carolina turned many of the wavering over to the | Greeley side, although the late discovery of a partial victory for the republicans prevented a stampede to the enemy. The West Virginia election and the Vermont election are mere dead letters in the campaign, the one being scored all democratic and the | other all republican; but if Maine, | which has been republican through and through ever since the party had a being, should turn from the faith, thus giving the first indication of a tidal wave similar to that which swept over New York last Novem- ber, there would no doubt be a grand Greeley revival in all the States of the Union. Never- theless the final result will not be foreshadowed until the October elections in Pennsylvania and | Indiana, when the financial question will first enter into the contest. We shall then be lable to form an intelligent judgment | of the position to be taken by the solid business men of the country | in the more important battle of No- vember, and shall see whether they are pre- | pared for a change or are willing to continue { the present administration in power for an- NEW YORK HERALD, deavoring to rally the people of the United | ge al suc bly, other four years in view of ite cess. Upon this simple “question, will depend the result of the * and hence the weakness and folly poli- ticians, who are straining after all manner of petty advantages and resorting to all sorts of small tricks in the hope of benefiting the chances of their candidates, In the end they will, no doubt, be astonished at the fruitless- ness of their arduous labors-and the erroneous- ness of their judgment. Where they supposed themselves strong they may find themselves | weak, and where they feared weakness they muy discover their greatest strength. ‘The leaders who undertfike to manage politi- eal parties and to run political contests ought by this time to understand that the peo- ple have outgrown the politicians and can no longer be deceived as to the true issues of a campaign. .The liberals can make no capital worth having out of the St. Domingo job, the French arms swindle, Custom House abuses, the President's nepotism and similar picayune matters, about.which the people do not interest themselyes. When Mr. Sumner supposes that any sensible citizen’s vote will be influenced one way or another by the ultimate decision of the controversy as to whether President Grant did or did not snub the negro, Fred Douglass, now at the head of the Grant elec- toral ticket, by not inviting him to dine with a party of gentlemen at the White House, he exhibits a poor appreciation of the intelligence of the American electors, If the efforts of the Greeley party to sectire the Irish vote have been successful, it has only been on account of the intolerance of the leading Grant organs and the stupid policy of the republi- can earicaturists who cannpt resist the temp- tation of always depicting an Irishman as a ruffian with the countenance of an ourang- outang. ‘The republicans cannot improve their prospects by coarse personal abuse of Mr. Greeley, by peddling out rebel docu- ments to prove him a disunionist, by slander- ing every lifelong republican who chooses to prefer Greeley to Grant; by making secret bar- gains with old Tammany ring men and outside politicians, or by helping on with men and money a stupid side show of straight-out democracy. The battle now about to be fought will be decided by broad principles, and not by false issues, secret bar- gains and paltry intrigues. Before the day of election arrives the people will have forgot- ten all minor questions and will consider only two points, which are, in fact, associated in their consequences; these are, the policy towards the Southern States and the financial interests of the country. . They will ask them- selves first if it is wise and prudent to change the administration at this time, when the nation is at peace, the national credit good, the debt rapidly decreasing, business tolerably briskand the country gener- ally prosperous. They will ask themselves next whether the policy of the republican party towards the Southern reconstructed States—the revival of the passions of the war and of the hatreds of slavery and the banding together of the negroes in deadly hostility to the whites—is likely to lead to a serious rup- ture of the peace in the South and to the SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The ‘Three Emperers at tschi—The Affairs of Europe as They Stand _ Before Them. Tt has been the fashion in Europe for many years to agitate profoundly what are known as ‘diplomatic circles’ by the announcement that certain crowned heads or their ministerial fac- totums are about to meet quietly at some watering place in the summer months and “discuss the situation.” Every individual who could possibly be included in the dip- lomatic circles, and a great many who could not, immediately knows something on the mat- ter which nobody else knows, and which he would impart to the world in confidence. As if to make the delusion perfect those nearest the crowned heads or factotums about to have the meeting would state semi-officially that it meant nothing more than mere friendly chat about family matters; for, curiously enough, these crowned heads, no matter what their opposing policies may be, manage to have mutual relatives. There is no reason why this should not beso; yet their most apparent use has been to make the thinnest of covers for imperial and kingly consultation. Biarritz, in the south of France, in the days of the last Napoleon, attracted European attention annually; but the conse- quences that followed an interview between an Emperor and an ambassador at Ems, another watering place, took all the importance out of Biarritz. This year the snug little town of Ischl, in Upper Austria, famous for its saline waters, will be the centre round which the diplomatic circles will agitate themselves. The three most powerful potentates of the Continent of Europe will meet and drink the waters there and then proceed to business, or the sem- blance of it, and doubtful echoes from the imperial utterings will run in hints and whispers around Europe for a month or two. Aglance at the position of affairs in Europe to-day will furnish ample subjects for com- ment when the Czar Alexander, the Kaiser Wilhelm and the Kaiser Francis Joseph join hands around the table in a quiet little parlor at Ischl. They will have before them a map of Europe changed considerably within a couple of years, and several new questions arising therefrom, as well as the old chronic ones which wait patiently for settle- ment. Speculation is already busy with the subjects they will discuss ; but where the field is so wide it is folly to say they will begin here and end there. In a highly important moment they meet ; none the less so that the prospect of immediate peace is so good, It is indeed in such times, on the rebound of the wave, that all well-laid plans to take advantage of the next situation must be put in shape. One empire has van- ished from the scene amid plood, and another has risen. France, which stood like a per- petual threat to the rest of Europe, lies chained with debt and faint from loss of blood, yet bitter and angered at heart at heavy defeat accumulated upon its head. The Emperor who led her hosts to disaster has passed away with a curse upon him from the inmost soul of France; yet these three Emperors well overthrow of all the financial advantages they have derived from the safe policy of President Grant in the past. The people who will settle the Presidential question care nothing for the and stump orators indulge, but will voto in accordance with their judgments on these im- portant issues. The New Policy of Mexico on the Rio Grande, Cortina, who, under Juarez, was com- mander of the Rio Grande line, uniformly harbored murderers from Western Texas. It was natural he should, having been a cattle thief and chief of the ‘‘Engles,’’ who, under his command, scoured the border, robbing and murdering all who fell in their way. After he had amassed wealth by his crimes the late Mexican President gave him the rank of General as the price of his aid against the Empire. Placed in command of the Texan line his Mexican national soldiers crossed the river to plunder our citizens, whose, cattle they stole; and if the owners resisted the rob- bery their lives paid the forfeit. Thus he has become a wholesale murderer, seventy indict- ments standing against him in one border county of Texas, while he has grown to be one of the millionaires of Mexico. But Senor Lerdo de Tejada, the new President, has changed matters. We read with satisfaction that dur- ing this week the Sheriff of Cameron county, Texas, in hunting a band of murderers, drove four of them across the Rio Grande, where they were seized and hung by a Mexican military force, acting in’ concert with our people, This indicates that the command of Cortina has ceased, and the rule of theft and murder along the Rio Grande is at last ended. Amnesty at home with justice and inter- national comity towards neighboring nations, will go far to make Sefior Lerdo the best ruler Mexico has yetihad, and his adoption of such measures ‘at the commencement of his temporary administration promises happily | for his success in the coming election, and for | the prosperity of our sister Republic under his | wise guidance. His offer of amnesty is being promptly accepted by all the leading chiefs of the rebellion, the most powerful of whom, General Porfirio Diaz, has accepted a commis- sion under the new administration. Just now | the Mexican sky brightens. May it continue | unclouded. From tae Centra, Amertcan Repusiics axp Coromsra,—We have an_ interesting budget of news, dated to ‘the 14th of Augnst, which reached us last night by the steamship | Henry Chauncey. The union of the peoples was becoming more intimate through demo- cratic intercommunion. There existed at the same time a manifest desire to get rid of clerical influence in lay matters completely. The Colombian Mission to Washington was | embarked at Aspinwall, as did likewise a num- ber of United States naval officers. Pleasant | weather prevailed on the isthmus. An isthmus journal undertakes to applaud the Peruvian people for their recent action against the life of President Balta, concluding with the pronouncement that the cause of liberty and personal freedom has been advanced by his death. A Goov S1on.—President Lerdo de Tejada has contracted @ loan for half a million of | dollars, which in these days is regarded as a petty squabbles in which the poli organs |-shame. wonderful achievement for Mexico, the poorest and yet the very richest country in the world. know that the hate which will follow Napo- leon into exile is tenfold more bitter toward those who sent him _ thither. Kaiser Wilhelm is not so sure that republic France prepared to fevenge the imperial Franoe would he so dasily dealt with as the latter was, He has cemented his empire with the blood of France, and now he would have time to let it “set.” The two Em- perors he will meet can help him much in this. Neither can love France much. Within twenty years both Russia and Austria have felt the ‘weight of her arm; and Kaiser Wilhelm is doubtless sure in his reckoning that he can expect on their countenance for his purpose, if not gn their actualaid. It is the making assur- ance doubly sure which will lead them to make such a show of strength as would incline even the rashest Frenchman to pause before he in- voked the god of war. The position of Austria in this conference must be more of one who acquiesces and waits than one who has strong points to urge or demands to make. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but they are .of more apparent than real value, such as the Danubian principalities. Russia on the French question has not a very deep interest, as her isolation from West- ern Europe becomes greater every day, par- ticularly since Germany erected the strong wall of the Northern Empire across so large a portion of the Continent. Since the time of Peter the Great her policy has leaned towards a triumvirate of European Powers to hold the balance of rule between them. France, in Peter's time, was the ally, with Austria, it would have chosen; but with France crippled, and, above all, a republic, it is certain that the cold cal- culation of Russian statecraft would select the Teutons in exchange for the Gauls. This does not answer thoroughly the design of Peter, for the closest allies of circumstance are often enemies at heart, and since the border lines of all the three Powers meet, the equipoise of territory is lost. But, accepting the inevitable and joining hands, the first evidence of the disad- vantage of the new coalition will find apt illustration ina discussion of the affairs of un- fortunate Poland, of which each of them now rules a share. Among three spoliators the victim’s chanc@lessens considerably, and dis- putes concerning the division of spoil are more likely to hurt the despoiled than those who have him by the throat. Southward, then, they will turn their eyes, and the new kingdom of Italy, with its diffi- culty—the Papacy—will meet their gaze. In proportion, however, as the power to resist is less, these sovereigns will approach that difficulty daintily. Its influence, mys- terious and ubiquitous, they have felt before, and a share of anxiety may well come up around the council board as they address themselves to what will be their action when the old man, in the twenty-seventh year of his pontificate, vacates forever the Papal chair, Prussia, if its desires were expressed, might lean to declaring Rome no longer the home of the Papacy, or, further, that the long succession was ended. Austria, with its little love of Italy, could scarcely go so far as the first proposition and would know the absur- dity of the second. -Russia’s feelings on the matter are not deep and therefore not dan- gerous to the Papacy. , They will most prob- ably conclude to either induce a settlement between Italy and the Pope or leave both to shift for themselves. Of far deeper interest will be the question— which from being the very antipodes of the |" last will next force itself upon them—the Inter- national Society. This bugbear of the Roman Church, as well as of the Throne, will meet with secant mercy at their hands ; and if their com- bined effort can crush it out it will be done, or at least attempted. If there is a choice left to them between the International and the Roman Church they will invoke the latter, but the difficulty of the course will be in attempt- ing to carry fire on one shoulder and oil on the other. The Papacy represents reaction, the International revolution, and neither can suit the aim ot the three Emperors in their respect- ive governments; but the danger is more im- minent from the revolutionists, and will,» therefore, draw forth their strongest measures. Yet the. most important discussion of all, and round which most interests hang, will be the aggressive propositions of Russia, no matter how covertly approached. With this Power the aversion to see France successfully reassert itself against Germany can be little more than sentiment, of which Kaiser Wil- helm is well aware. The Ozar, we have reason to know, will therefore ask, in exchange for his leaguing against France, a free hand to grapple with Turkey, and if not to seize Con- stantinople, at least defiantly to open the Black Sea. The opposition of England is that most to be taken into account, and Ger- many, with her desires for extending her power upon the seas, will offer but little objection. Russia, again, in Asia, has a long- cherished policy which jars or threatens to jar against that of England, where the Musco- vite places his dreams of the future as con- stantly as round the Golden Horn. Russia, decending through Asia, nears Hindostan and has scarcely more at present than the Himalaya Mountains between her advance guard and the inexhaustible mine of wealth to England. Her energies for annexation at pres- ent areand must be divided, but, with Constan- tinople hers and the Black Sea question settled, she would be free to push steadily on to India. This is the deepest part of the conference, and the one out of which most chance of change will come. Turkey, the Sick Man of Europe, in spite sof her English- officered, English-built navy on loans raised in England, would fall an easy prey to the Muscovite. The pretence on which war would be brought about would be the tearing up by Russia of the, to her, ‘dishonorable Treaty of Paris of 1856. Such are the questions which will come under the three Emperors’ notice when they sit around the council table at Ischl, with Prussia ardent and demonstrative, Russia quietly but persistently aggressive, and Austria pondering over her waning fortunes, sitting in the shadow of Sadowa while communing in more policy than love with the victor of Sedan. Tse Atapama Cuarms Axrsrrration.—The Court of Arbitration for the settlement of the Alabama claims was in session in Geneva dur- inga period of three hours yesterday. The members adjourned to reassemble on the 26th inst. The proceedings may, perhaps, be closed finally by the 15th of September. It is to be hoped, indeed, that they will be, for it is manifest that Sir Roundell Palmer, adhering strictly to the disciplinary wig-and-gown réyime of Westminster Hall, has a new and inost difficult task in endeavoring'to keep his +olleagues together and at work in the council hall, away from the festive attractions of the good old Swiss town. Citizen Jacob Staempfli inclines to the idea that all hands shall recreate in a fine public jollification ; but then Citizen Staempfli is at home, under his native air, and knows right well how to recuperate out of doors. Not so with Mr. John Bull, who imagines that there is nothing so good as a eure for headache as plenty of hard work. The arbitrators enjoy themselves in Geneva nolens volens; for we have to-day most attrac- tive accounts of a monster musical festival, an illumination and a brilliant soirée, each one of which is very pleasant to read about, particu- larly to those who cannot go to Switzerland to learn about the Alabama business. Tae Tza Trave axp THE Suzz Canan.— The English Board of Trade furnishes returns for the month of July from which some very interesting statistics regarding the tea trade and the traffic through the Suez Canal may be gleaned. The immense traffic over this route is a matter of surprise when the prognos- tications of ill wishers to the canal are con- sidered. In July, 1870, there were only 711,000 pounds imported into England through the canal, but these figures in the same month of the following year increased to 4,010,000 pounds, while in the corresponding month of the present year the quantity was still further increased to 22,912,000 pounds. While this large increase of traffic, owing to the superiority of the route through the Egyptian water way over the old one round Cape Horn, is a matter of comment, it may be well to cast a glance at our own Pacific Railroad and see what has been done here in regard to the large and in- creasing trade. Since the opening of the road across the Continent the quantity of tea trans- ported from the Pacific shore to the Atlantic coast, without breaking bulk, has been con- stantly on the increase. The time gained by transportation over these two routes in prefer- ence to the old highway is a matter to mer- chants which outweighs the high tariffs at present charged for transportation. Picxrockets on Street Cans.—Again rises the cry that gangs of pickpockets are ‘work- ing’’ the street cars to the injury and annoy- ance of honest passengers. Third avenue ap- pears to be the favorite line with the cut- purses, who are said to carry on their trade by permission or assent of conductors and drivers. As the company who serve the pub- lic on that avenue are exempted from taxa- tion they might at least exempt their patrons from the forced levies of the light-fingered people. When robberies are committed by gangs stationed on the rear platform in sight of the conductor, while the driver’ puts his horses to an extra pace, and the victim is thrown off the car and left in the mud to look in vain for the arrest of his robbers, it séems, to put it in the mildest form, like an unforta- nate concatenation of circumstances. Detect- ives occasionally taking note of matters along the car lines would be in order. “Boz'’ Turnep Up Acatn.—Don Jose Boz is prominently mentioned os a Presiden- tial candidate in Mexico. Boz ought to run well, but Lerdo de Tejada will walk away from Boz. Governmental Secession im Africa. From the Cape of Good Hope, under date of June 28, we are informed of the continu- ance, ond increase, of the popular agitation having for its object the attainment of a gov- ernmental secession which would result in creating an entire separation of the Eastern province from the West. The manner in which the responsible Government bill was passed in the interest of the English royalist class by a majority of one in a full assembly of the Legislature, and then hurried off ta Downing street for the signature of Queen Victoria, in the face of the utterance of a strong local protest calling for delay and a general election, affords impetus to the radical movement,and supplies a new stimulus to the irritation already existing in the public mind. Port Elizabeth and Graham’s Town are deeply moved. A subscription list was opened in Port Elizabeth just previous to the departure of our despatches to collect a fund for defray- ing the expenses of the city branch of the Eastern Province Separation League. One trading firm gave the sum of five hundred pounds sterling as a contribution of the house, making, with the aid of thirty-five townsmen, the total foot up two thousand three hundred and seventy pounds sterling in one day. This is what may be termed colonial pluck. It affords a substantial premonitory warning of the near approach of the moment when all the colonial offshoots of England will come to stand erect in their manhood for self-rule and the right to manage their own affairs. When that consummation has been accomplished England must become exceedingly suave in her manner of dealing with the enfranchised peoples, lest they may undertake to form new alliances and turn their éyes towards a more powerful and grand democratic centre than will ever be fixed gn the shores of the Thames. Tuz Pracu Crop.—Thirty-five thousand baskets of Jersey peaches arriving at Hoboken in one day this week suggests that the luscious fruit is plenty. Observation in our markets and along the sidewalks decidedly confirms the suggestion. Last year only one-fifth as many were received. In quality the crop is as gratifying as in quantity. Those who can- not solace themselves with peaches in New York to-day need never hope for that pleasure in any possible future. We learn that so large is the yield in some of the New Jersey orchards that the farmers welcome the public to help themselves to the juicy and melting fruit at discretion, there being enough for all and to spare. Apples, too, promise the utmost abundance, so that none need abstain from fruit in the coming Autumn and Winter. His Impertan Hicuness tar Granp Doxe Axexis or Russa has just touched at the Cape of Good Hope from Rio Janeiro en route tothe East Indies. He was welcomed in the most cordial manner by the colonists, and expressed great pleasure at his reception. The officers of the Czar’s fleet enjoyed a friendly salutation also. From Sours Arnica we learn that the yield ‘of diamonds at the Cape of Good Hope mines continues exceedingly remunerative, the precious stones being found in large. num- bers. Dishonesty was increasing also; rob- beries of the gems being frequent. An Ameri- can was convicted of plundering the mails, and received & severe sentence. A Wexcomz Cuance—The cool, refreshing northwest wind of yesterday, after our terrible heated term of August, with its fearful contri- butions to our weekly bills of mortality. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Lopez Roberts, lately Minister of Spain at Washington, and Mme. Roberts sail .this morning for Europe by the French steamer France. Mr. Lopez Roberts has been one of the most popular representatives Spain ever had at Washington. Commodore F. Stanley, of the United States Navy, is at the Hoffman House. T. G. Younglove, of Crescent, ex-Speaker of the Assembly, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. M. Gretsch, of the Russian Legation, is among the late arrivals at the Brevoort House. Ex-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio, was at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday while en route to his home. Colonel George H. Smith, of Providence, R. L, ia at the Astor House. He will sail for England to day. The Colonel is to take charge of the newly in- stituted horse railways of London. Mr. Santiago P. Cahill, of Peru, isat the St. James Hotel. This gentleman, who is an able engineer, has had part in the numerous railroad enterprises that have lately been perfected in Peru. He has just returned from Europe, where he has been pro- curing supplies of valuable machinery. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, August 23, 1872. Despatches have been -received from Rear Ad- miral Jenkins, commanding the naval forces of the United States at the Asiatic station, dated at Kobe, Japan, July 12. The Colorado, flagship, left Yokohama June 20, and touched at Hakodadi, where salutes were ex- changed with the fort,and the vessel, with the Gover- nor on board, left there on June 27, and arrived at Yokohama July 1. The courtesy of a passage in the Colorado from Hakodadi to Yokohama was given to His Excellency Hangan va, Governor of the Island of Saghalien. The bsretdy ¢ of July was celebrated by the Colorada, Benecia and Idaho, the French iron-c! Ima and the British ship-Rinaldo uniting. The nese fort gave @ national salute. The Colorado sailed from Yokohama on the 12th of July and reached Kobe on the 14th. On the 15th of July a steam launch with the Passed Assistant, Surgeon on rd was sent to Kioto to bring to Kobe Mr. Turner, the United States Consul at latter place, who had fallen and broken his leg. At the date of Rear, Admiral Jenkins’ despatch the Ashuelot was at Kobe; the Monocacy at Naga- sakt; the Alaska, probably, at Nienchwi Palos and Saco at Shanghae. The Iroquois had aot been reported at Singapore. The health of the ba oy? was . ar Admirai Green hoisted his fag on the Wor- cester at Boston, on the 20th, as commanding oiticer of the North Atlantic squadron. The Kansas has been ordered from Key West to Halifax, N. 8. United States steamer Yantic, now at the*Norfolk Navy Yard, will sail in a day or two for China, Captain Robert N. Scott has been relieved from duty at the Bishop Seabury Mission, to take cifect on the Ist of October, and ordered to join his pro per station, , and the Naval Orders. Chief Engineer Robert Danby is ordered to the New York Navy Yard as Assistant Storekeeper of the Enginecring Department. Chief Engineer De Luce is detached from duty as Assistant Store- keeper of the Engineering Department at the New York Navy Yard and ordered as Fleet Engineer to the South Pacific squadron; Chief Engineer Kutz, from the Pensacola, and ordered to the Benicia; Assistant Surgeon Nickerson, from the Receiving Ship Vermont, and placed on sick leave. Captain A. G. Clary has been ordered to the com- mand of the United States steamer Bentcia, at San Francisco, and Captain J. F. Arinstrong, who had been previously ordered, has been placed on wait- ing orders, Commander J. 8. Skerritt has beon ordered to command the Portsmouth, which vessei is to be employed in surveying the Pacific. NEGRO TROUBLES IN TENNESSEE, Mewrnis, Tenn., August 25, 1972 The latest advices from Collinsville state that Sherif Curry had met a body of armed negroes, and after showing them what would be the result if they did not disband, prevailed on them to re- turn to their homes. ‘The excitement is rapitiv | subsiding,,