The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Tair 70 Wrui1aMs- BuRG—SHiN FANK. WOOD'S MUSEUM, B Tux Octonoon, Afternoot y, corner Thirtieth st.— Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—A Live's Dream, &¢. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—BLux Bear. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Ror Carnore, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twent avenue,—Tae Brits; ox, Tw third street. corner Sixth Pouisa Jew. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Eraiorian Ec- cuxrricitixs, BuRLEsguk, Drama, 0. 585 Broadway.—Nrero Min- WHITE'S ATHENAU, STRELSY, 4c. 'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner KGRO MinstRELsy, Eccentaiciry, &c. ST. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 28th st. and Broad- way.—Sax FRANCISCO MINSTRELS IN FARCE, &C. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Graxp InsrRowENTAL Concenr, NEW YORK M Science ayn Aw SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadw: TRIPL EB SHEBT. New York, Tuesday, August 27, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S > PaGE. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Chirography from Africa: Of Interest to the Ad- mirers of the Great Explorer; A Proof to the Beng marcanen: The Carpers at Living- stone’s Diction; Brief Sketch of the Great ‘Traveller's Life; Herodotus and Claudius Ptolemy as Nilotic Geographers; Gradual Lift- ing of the Veil; The Scotch Traveller Bruce Discovers the Sources of the Blue Nile; Sir Samuel Baker's Explorations in Abyssinia and on the White Nile; Captain Speke’s Journey from Victoria Nyanza Down the Bahr el Abiad; The Great Work Accomplished by Livingstone and the Work Before Him. @—Chirography from Africa (Continued from Third Page)—Lake Tanganyika: Mr. Stanley’s Ad- dress Before the British Scientific Society at Brighton; The Doubting Thomases Rebuked— That Catacazy Aifair: Minister Curtin’s Opin- ion of How Miserably the State Department Blundered—Adieu to Civilization: The Latest irom the United States North Polar Expedi- ifon—The Telegraph in Australia—The Phila- dletphia Moyame ‘frotting at Pro: International Cric roat Line Between Ne Arrest of a London Merchant. e Rail rk and New York— S—Michigan: Liberal-Democratic Convention at G Rapids; Interviews with Governor Blaiv, John L. Harmon and Others; Greeley Stock Rising; Negroes and Indians Repre- sented Among the Unterrified; Prospects of a Liberal iumph—The Labor Reformers— The Wonderiul Liberality of the Liberal Re- publicans—Tammany General Committee. ‘the Campaign in the Cit N ‘eley’s ‘Movements- New York City News— sSunstrokes. Death by a avages of Hayti: How American Citizens Are Treated by the Black Barbarians, 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Uncertain- ties of the Presidential Campaign—Why the Result is Doubtful and How It Can Be Made Secure’’—Amnusement Announcements, 7—Fditorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Council of the Crowns: Prussian Prepara- tions for the Imperialist-Monarchical Meet- Washington—Personal In- aneous Telegrams—Grand ‘Le Roi Carotte’’—Business S—The bonded Imports: A Glance at the Public Stores and Sample Ofice; How Affairs are Managed in that Bureau—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Brooklyn Atfairs—Board of Assistant Aldermen—Pure Water for Jersey City; Is It Another Mont- gomery Street Experiment \—Randail’s Island ee eee ‘The Umeertainties of the Presidential Campaign—Why the Result is Doubt- fal, and How It Cam be Made Se- cure, { The result of the Presidential campaign is, to say the least, uncertain, and neither party pretends that it can hope to achieve success for its candidate except by hard work and a thorough canvass. Yet four years ago the re- publicans, under the same leader who now heads their column, walked over the Presiden- tial course, carrying twenty-five States out of thirty-three by majorities ranging from five hundred in California to seventy-seven thou- sand in Massachusetts. At that time the pat- ronage of the federal government was only partially in their favor, and the negroes in several States were not voters, while in the present contest they have the enfranchised negroes almost solidly on their side, and every federal office in the United States supplying them with money and votes. Then the demo- crats were united on a popular candidate, taken from their own ranks, while now, if we are to credit the assertions of the republi- cans and the ‘straight-outs,”’ the democratic party is broken into fragments, some of its members supporting Greeley, some Grant, some the Louisville nominee, whoever that may be, and some refusing to vote at all. Under these circumstances it might be ex- pected that the republicans would command an easy victory, and there must be some un- explained reason for this singular loss of con- fiflence in their own strength, especially as they scout the idea that the liberal defection has occasioned any serious rupture in their organization—some cause for the unexpected } closeness of a contest which should have been for the administration nothing more than a triumphal march. Why is it that North Caro- lina, which gave a republican majority of eighteen thousand in the State election of 1868, yields only a scanty and doubtful thousand or so to the Gubernatorial candidate of the same party in 1872, and gives to the democrats the State Legislature, a United States Senator and an inercased number of Congressmen? Why is it that the State of Maine, with its unshaken republican majority ever since the republican organization had an existence, is regarded as debatable ground, and calls for giant efforts to keep itin the republican line? If, as we are assured, the liberal leaders have no follow- ing in the ranks of their old party, and the democracy is demoralized and scattered, whence comes this opposition element which shakes the foundation of the powerful republica n column and threatens to topple it over and cast it into the dust? How is it that, after being strengthened by the possession of power during four years of peace and prosperity, the organization that elected President Grant so triumphantly is now compelled to put forth almost superhuman efforts to save him from defeat even in sterling republican States ? The explanation can only be found in the unpopular policy of the party which controls the national administration and puts Presi- dent Grant before the people as its candidate for re-election. The President is the same man to-day he was four years ago. He has lost none of the prestige he won as the suc- cessful leader of the Union armies against the rebel Confederacy, and the people honor him as much now as they did when he was made the Lieutenant General of their armies by Congress and when he was elected to the Cruelties Revived in Jersey—A Monstrous Nulsance—Pastoral of Bishop Odenbeimer. 9—I'inancial and Commercial: An Active Specula- tion in the Gold Market; A Sudden Decline and a Rapid Reaction; Money More Active and Quotably at Five Per © Jontinued Decline in Governments ; Stoc ong, with an Advance in Erie to 49; ‘The Others Higher and Moderately Active; Erie Railway Earn- ings—Domestic and European Marke! - ville and Jefferson Market Police C Supposed Child Murder—Suicide by Taking Poison—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments. 10—Straight-Out Bourbons: Mceting of Solons at Long Branch; Report of the June Committee— The Princes on the Frolic: Their Visit Yester- a, to West Point—Obituary—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Snhipping Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 1—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. A Deuicurrut Cuance—That from the suffo- cating heats: of Thursday to the refreshing westerly winds of yesterday. Surely at last the backbone of this roasting Summer is broken. Wesr Vieoin1a.—It is probable that the con- stitutional proposition to exclude black men from office in West Virginia has been defeated. If so it ends the resistance of the old Bourbon democrats to the ‘‘fixed fact’ of the fifteenth amendment. “Poor Cantota,’’ the ex-Empress of Mexico, is dying—an sad fact, the report of which will bring sorrow to many a heart in Mexico on account of her amiable character, her self- sacrificing mind and non-obtrusive disposi- tion. A Goop Sian ror 4 Harmonious Srrrur- uzn—The dining and wining which for some days past have prevailed at Geneva. We are reminded by these diplomatic dinners of the feasting and toasting all round which at Washington carried the High Joint Commis- sion so splendidly through their arduous dabgrey firtax Aanicutture anp Exponts.-—By a special correspondence from the antipodes we are informed that the cotton crop in all the Fijian Islands has turned out magnifi- cently. The acreage was larger than ever be- fore cultivated, and the yield in excess of pre- vious years. Peanuts have been raised for the first time, and will become an item of export in 1878. This is exceedingly encouraging for ci Wah the exception, perhaps, of fit Nowrm Poran Expzpriox.—We pub- lish to-day an interesting letter from Captain Hall, commanding the United States expedi- tion to the Polar regions, to the Secretary of the Navy, As the commander hints, it may the last communication we shall receive hitn for several years. On the 24th of Greenland, in charge of an experi- Presidency by their votes. The nation owes him now the same debt of gratitude it owed him when he paroled the brave soldiers of Lee and Johnston and declared the rebellion at an end. But in the last Presidential election General Grant stood before the people on his own personal record and on his individual political views and principles as indicated by his words and acts. No person knew or cared to know what had been his political antecedents. He had proved himself during the war independent and remains to be tested by the October elec- tions. No authoritative voice has spoken on the subject, and we can only base our opinions upon the apparent tendency of senti- ment among moneyed and business circles. Our best judgment leads us to believe that such is the present situation of the canvass; yet it must be remembered that the features of this remarkable campaign have changed more than once since the commencement of the contest, and may change again. An ably conducted democratic contemporary, whose duty it is to support Mr. Greeley, endeavored yesterday to find some other explanation of the reaction in the Greeley cause than that we have given, and its editorial was well constructed and en- titled to consideration as an effective political argument. It is undoubtedly true that a high pressure rate of speed cannot be kept up un- ceasingly in a political movement, and that in politics, as in the weather and in the business of Wall street, there must come a season of lassitude and dulness. Nevertheless, we attrib- ute the Greeley stagnation mainly to the settling back of the moneyed interests of the country against a change of administration in a period of peace and prosperity ; and we deem it likely, unless there should be a counter-reaction in this direction, that the republicans, by the aid of the financial and commercial classes, may carry their candidate to victory despite thé political issues of the campaign. At the same time we repeat that the doubt and uncertainty that still hang over the result are due to the men and the policy Presi- dent Grant now represents, and we are more than ever convinced that if the President would rid himself of both and stand once more before the people as he stood in 1868, upon the sound platform of his personal record, independent of partisan policy, his triumph in November would be no longer doubtful. It is our duty to state facts, however unpala- table they may be to the politicians; and we warn the President of the dangers in his path in order that he may avoid them in time. The Heratp is an independent journal, and cares no more for Grant than for Greeley, and no more for either of them than for any other reputable citizen of the United States. We have supported General Grant as the head of the national administration chosen by the people, just as we shall always be found on the side of the government of the country, under whatever party, in all its proper acts. We have criticised the present adminis- tration as we shall criticise all others, fear- lessly and we hope justly. We advise the President to renounce the reconstruction pol- icy of Congress, as he has the power to do, by suspending the operation of the Ku Klux law and taking the iron hand from the throat of the South, because we believe the large ma- jority of the people desire to see the Southern States restored to self-government, peace es- tablished all over the land and the bitter mem- ories of the war buried forever. We counsel him to repudiate Boutwell’s policy of negro hate and revenge, because we know that it is fraught with danger in the future and startles the conservative principles of all responsible citizens. Party journals are unable to un- derstand this position. If they support an administration they must support it as parti- sans in all things, good and evil alike. If they oppose a President they must oppose him as the representative of arival party and must see no good in any- thing he may do. We now tell Presiden Grant that the uncertainty and doubt that sur- round the present contest are due to the un- popularity of the republican policy and to the belief that the republican party is the secret enemy of reform. He is experienced enough as a soldier to know that the army now at his back is not the army he led in the campaign of 1868; that the standard under which he now fights is not the standard that marshalled him to victory four years ago. Let him change of the politicians and disposed to resist their interference with the military authority. The terms granted by him to Lee’s soldiers ; his prompt denunciation of the attempt to violate those terms by the arrest of General Lee for treason; the conservative tone of his report on the condition of the South ; his desire to extend to the subdued rebelsall their rights under the constitution and to restore self- government to the Southern States; his ap- preciation of the wisdom of educating the ne- groes up to the standard of intelligence neces- sary to enable a citizen to exercise the elective franchise with advantage to the community, and his famous expression, ‘Let us have peace,’’ were accepted as the platform of prin- ciples upon which he stood before the country for its support. He was not looked upon as a distinctive party candidate. At one time it seemed uncertain of which political organiza- tion he would be the nominee, and he received the votes of thousands of citizens independent of political considerations, for the reason that he was believed to be free from partisanship and as capable of leading in peace as he had shown himself to be in war. In tho present campaign General Grant is put forward as the candidate of the republicans, and bears on his shoulders the policy of the men who surround his administration—the policy of the radical Congress and of an incompetent Cabinet. The people are called upon not only to re-elect the General Grant of four years ago, but to vote for the continuance of the Congressional policy towards the Southern States, for the retention of the present Presidential advisers, and for the endorsement of the foreign policy of the past four years. This is the explanation of the closeness of the contest and of the mys- terious strength of the opposition. In the early part of the campaign we took occasion to tell President Grant that if he would rid himself of his unpopular advisers, nullify the objectionable policy of Oongress by suspending the operation of military law in the Southern States, change his Cabinet, and take a practical step in civil service reform by recalling the ward politicians and incompetent persons misrepresenting the United States in have no fear of the result of the election. Few Angst, 1871, the Polaris steamed out from | foreign missions and consulships, he need pilot and accompanied by Governor Ellberg and other officials of the Danish gov- ernment, After the vessel had been conducted out into deep water the pilot and Governor Elberg loft, bringing with them the despatch we now publish. Tossac is the last’ or most northern port known to the civilized world, and in leaving it Captain Hall stated they were leaving behind civilization, and, with ‘God be with us’’ as an adieu from the captain, the people would prefer Greeley to Grant as the latter stood four years ago. It is evident that many will prefer Greeley to Grant as the latter stands to-day. It is very probable, we admit, that the republicans may ro-clect their eandi- date; for, according to the present outlook, the financial and commercial interests of the country do not seem to desire a change of ad- ministration at this time, and appear to deem it safer to accept four years more of Grant gallant vessel steamed on her course of discov- exy and exploration. than to trust to the doubtful experiment of Greeley. Novertheless, this is only conjecture, his division commanders and alter his plan of battle, and the result will be no longer doubtful. Let him fight it out on the partisan line, and while he may remain in possession of the field it will only be after a hard contest and through the uncertain fortune of war. In the one case triumph would be certain; in the other defeat anda rout are by no means im- possible. Shall We Have an Telegraph? A pleasant belief prevails among thos who have never had occasion to test its reality that we have a city telegraph in opera- tion for the rapid transmission of messages from one part of the city to another. The fact is, that deficient as we are in the means of rapid transit in New York, a messenger of ordinary diligence can beat the telegraph line over any distance between the Battery and Harlem Bridge, and give the electric wires a good start at that. We can ordinarily senda boy from the Henan office to the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel with a letter and receive an answer back by his hands before a message, if sent by the telegraph line, would have reached its destination. Indeed, a mes- sage sent from New York to Philadel- phia will often be despatched and an- swered in less time than would be consumed in transmitting a telegram from the City Hall to Thirtieth street. We need quick and thor- ough telegraph accommodations, and if the business of the Western Union is too great to permit them to do this branch of the service properly we should have an inde- pendent city company. We would willingly aid such an enterprise by a liberal subscrip- tion, and oug men would promptly raise sufficient capital tp establish it if started under reliable auspices dnd efficient manage- ment. Such ao line, if kept open day and night, and made effgotive as a means of really rapid communication, would pay a handsome profit, besides being a valuable public accom- modation. Tae Bonpeg Wanrrnovse Fine.—A very simple accident yesterday morning caused a serious loss of property by fire in the United States bonded warehouse No. 8 Washington and No. 5 West streets. The fall and breaking of a glass lantern set fire toa sample of brandy, and the result was the rapid destruction of the store and its contents in spite of the prompt and vigorous exertions of the Fire Department, who had their apparatus at work almost at once after the alarm, and prevented the spread of the flames beyond the building in which they originated. Casks of spirits exploding one after another as they were reached caused some momentary excitement, but the conduct of the firemen was, as it uniformly is, admi- rable, and their labors efficient, Efficient City 2 ale NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1872—TRIPLK SHEET, — Livingstone’s Handwriting to the Herald=The Doubters’ Brigaile—A Proposition. The ‘fogs of doubt which becloud and bemuddle the minds of certain careful indi- viduals whose mental grasp is moderate with regard to whether Stanley ever met Living- stone, whether such a being as Stanley ever existed, whether Livingstone is nota myth and Africa a mere moonland, are doomed to a premature dissolution. In another page of the Heraxp will be found a fac-simile of Dr. Livingstone’s first letter to this journal, which will be seen and scrutinized by a million read- ers to-day. To the doubting Thomases of every grade we dedicate it in all the kindness which a feeling of pity for limited human intel- ligence can inspire. But not only to these; for the millions all over the world who accept an honest story in good fuith will look on the page which contains the fac-simile with eyes of reverence for the noble man who penned the original, We have had from time to time occasion to smile editorially at the weak, shifting ways of the incredulous in this matter, and from their own mouths judged them. It would be a superhuman work to take every single doubter up, for such is the perversity of a man of this. class who finds himself in the wrong that he would doubt his own existence sooner than the fact of his staring you in the face should be proved to him. Like the village school- master of Goldsmith, Even when beaten he could argue still, While on of learned length and thundering soun Amazed the gaping rustics ranged round, Prominent among the latest editions of Thomas is a Long Island philosopher named Noe, who knew (on the authority of the local postmaster) all about Stanley some six years ago, and hence knows all about him up to the present moment. This knowledge of Mr. Stan- ley extended to the assurance that he could not possibly meet Livingstone at Ujiji, because Stanley and Noe, as the latter alleges, got into some odd difficulties witha party of Moslems in Asia Minor in the year 1866. From the manner in which, according to Noe, the trouble was brought about and the way Stan- ley got the party out of it he finds irrefraga- ble proof that in November, 1872, Livingstone was not to be found anywhere, and, therefore, Stanley did not find him. On all this stupid course of reasoning, which is put forward by Mr. Noe inferentially, we submit that it is a one-sided story at the best, and personal in all its details to the accuser and the accused. The candid admissions of Mr. Noe about desert- ing the navy, perjuring himself, attempting murder at the word of command and submit- ting to outrages at the hands of the Turks are not very edifying; for although they may exalt him highly in the eyes of those who wish to look on him as a “‘converted”’ traveller in Asia Minor they bear & decided trace of being disingenuous in relation and in motive. The refreshing, primeval innocence which Mr. Noe puts forward to ac- count for his bad actions is hardly fair to the navy from which he deserted, and his allowing over five years to elapse before publish- ing his story shows just at the present moment a strong current in himself of that ‘‘refinement of eruelty’' which he so liberally charges to Mr. Stanley. We say thus much for the sim- ple sake of fair play between man and man. Mr. Stanley was employed by the Heratp to report the Abyssiniam war for this journal, and the vigor, capability and faith- fulness of the man were shown in his furnish- ing us with the news of the fall of Magdala and death of King Theodorus before anybody else and in time for us to communicate to the English government the success of its own ex- pedition in that distant region. This was Mr. Stanley’s certificate of character as a jour- nalist to the world. For what hap- pened in his life before that we are not accountable, and certainly do not feel such unlimited confidence in Mr. Noe or his narra- tive of peculiar catastrophes as to make our- selves judges on the alleged ‘‘facts’’ in the case. From the date of the Abyssinian triumph forward Mr. Stanley further proved himself journalistically in various expeditions for this journal, every one of which he has conducted in a thoroughly honorable and sf&tisfactory manner. He has truthfully related the man- ner in which he received his instructions to “find Livingstone,’’ and the fac-simile of Livingstone’s handwriting on another page will tell how he obeyed them. This, we imagine, should be answer sufficient to the Thomases ; but murmurs of a forgery commit- ted in some end or other of the world, which was being palmed off as the handiwork of Doctor Livingstone, have been so rife in vari- ous grudging and ungenerously envious quar- ters, that we presume they will shift their ground again as they did before, and remain loudly unconvinced. Objections have been taken by some callow critics to Dr. Livingstone’s expressions as ‘‘sa-, voring too much of Americanism,” &c. Now the explanation appears to us as very simple. Such words as “twaddle,” ‘‘currency,’’ are pointed to, and the everlasting ‘bulbous-be- low-the-ribs” controversy is possibly going on still. The words and phrases ticketed ‘‘Amer- icanisms’’ were by no means invented since Dr. Livingstone’s departure from among us, and were by no means uncurrent in England when he left it; yet, for the sake of argument, we may admit that they were coined in the in- terval between Livingstone’s day of starting up the Rovuma and Stanley's leaving for Africa. In this category we may include the never-to-be-forgotten ‘bulbous-below-the-ribs’’ mystery. At the time Stanley met the great explorer the latter had been over five years without the sight of a white man’s face and without hearing the English tongue spoken, except, perhaps, the jagged nondescript of those he carried with him from Bombay and who deserted him. The tongue which he then heard possibly tripped off ‘Americanisms’ colloquially, as an Englishman might drawl out Anglicisms under the same circumstances. They were in close communion for months, and it would be nothing wonderful to find the Doctor admit “Americanisms” into his vocabulary, through that unwitting process which arises from con- tiguity, and jot them down “bulbous-below- the-ribs,”” and allin writing. The quotation from Hawthorne is apt in its place, and possibly a comment of Stanley’s on Living- stone’s verbal description of the noble African chief led. the latter to adopt the more striking “hulbous”’ epithet. These verbal eccentricities aecounted for, we find the bolder accusation of complete forgery before us. Now. when the German geographer Kiepert, for whom we must own a Niagara of respect, advanced his sweeping objections to the Henaxy correspondent’s story, he was not aware of the fact that Stanley carried in all eight letters from the explorer, together with his diary, consigned to various individuals, all of whom were familiar with the Doctor's chi- rography. If, however, Stanley’s geographical announcements did not agree with Mr. Kie- pert’s ideas of Central Africa, they must be all wrong! The French geographical Solons who discussed the matter made a much greater mountain out of the molehill, which they did not observe was only their own ignorance of the facts. They had heard half the truth, and immediately proceeded to “construct’’ Africa, the Nile, Livingstone and Stanley with the most astonishing results and with a calmness equal to The row That broke UP our society upon the Stanislaus, If Stanley, in fine, did not construct an Africa a la francaise, with a Nile a miatre @hétel and a Livingstone @ l'eau glacée, the whole thing was the-construction d'un farceur américain. Very sorry indeed, messieurs ; but it would have been worth while to have waited for the whole truth, which appeared with the publication of the letters to parties other than the editor of the Henazp. These included Earls Clarendon, Granville and Derby, Livingstone’s brother in Canada, a former fel- low traveller, and Livingstone’s daughter in Ireland. Now, in the face of all this, to pro- claim the letters forgeries is to write one’s self down an ass, or to attribute to Mr. Stanley such powers of imitation, imagination and clairvoyance that there is no way of accounting for all his cleverness except through Spiritualism. Men’s names have been forged to wills, deeds and checks ; but that a man could sit down and write a number of lengthy letters and a five years’ diary in the handwriting of another, and en- close these to his family as genuine, and be 60 accepted by them, can only, we repeat, be achieved by calling “spirits from the vasty deep,”’ and having them come, too. It would leave the Tichborne case, with its uncertainties, far in the background ; nay, even Chatterton, “@ marvellous boy, the sleepless soul that per- ished in its pride,” never had such difficulties to contend with. When he commenced putting forth the pretended Rowley manuscripts there was nobody in the world to verify the writings of the dim old monk to whom Chatterton at- tributed them. Ho was tripped up on a point similar to the great ‘bulbous-below-the- ribs’ discovery, but Chatterton could not say that he had a chance to tell old Rowley what words had been coined and books written in a matter of three or four hundred years. If all the forgery criers say be true then they are the greatest hoaxes of all time and Stanley a greater genius than mankind sees in every thousand years. If it had not been for the ‘‘bulbous’’ we would be- lieve it, say one class of sceptics. All else we could put faith in; but ‘‘Fulsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.’’ It is the old woman’s story re- peated, who could not believe that her son saw a flying fish, but could that his ship’s an- chorén the Red Sea brought up one of the wheels of Pharaoh’s chariot on its fluke. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, would not be trusted because he gave a description of the native process of cutting steaks from the live cow, and soon. The English Search Expe- ditionists were afflicted with no such doubts, although it is not very apparent why they did not proceed on their errand in any case. From their own statement it was because of their certainty that Livingstone had been found to a sufficient extent and did not desire to be found much more, Now, by way of final challenge to the incred- ulous, sceptical Thomases, we propose that if they can find sufficient funds to pay half the cost of another expedition to Central Africa to settle the question and doubt no longer wo will pay the other half. To the party might be added correspondents from all the New York journals, and then we and everybody might be sure we had found him. The Catacazy Case Once More. We thought we had done with the Catacazy case, and that we would hear nothing more of the little Russian Jack-in-the-Box who worked Secretary Fish into such a terrible frenzy as to imperil our friendly relations with Russia; but we find we have been mistaken. In a letter from London, which we publish in another part of to-day’s Hxnaup, the reader is fur- nished with o new feature,in this already thrice told tale. M. Catacazy himself has writ- ten volumes on the subject; the State Depart- ment has made what might be termed full and minute explanations on the matter, and the newspapers have so thoroughly ventilated the subject that it would almost seem impossible to have anything further to say about the diffi- culty between the American Secretary and the Russian Minister. But now another phase in the case is revealed. M. Curtin, the United States representative at the Russian Court, os we are informed, in a conyersation recently, makes an explanation. In this it is shown that when the despatch from the State Depart- ment in Washington regarding the Russian Minister's conduct was received in St. Petersburg Prince Gortschakoff was absent from the capital, and the Secretary in charge of the Foreign Office had no power to act in so important a matter in the absence of his superior—had no power even to receive the American despatch. Minister Curtin at this point telegraphs to Washington, asking for instructions to follow Prince Gortschakoff and lay the Washington despatch before him. It was necessary, it seems, for the Minister to have this permission, as Prince Gortschakoff was in Germany at the time, and an American Ambassador is not allowed to leave the country to which he is accredited without per- mission from his government. In answer to this solicitation M. Curtin is told briefly to leave the note requesting Mr. Catacazy’s recall at the Russian Foreign office. These instruc- tions were obeyed, and there the note lay until the return of Prince Gortschakoff, period of about four months, It is easy to be seen that the annoyance and bad feeling which the Fish-Catacazy imbroglio gave rise to might have been avoided had Minister Curtin and Prince Gortschakoff had an op- portunity of conferring together; but Secre- tary Fish’s action prevented this ond in- creased the unpleasantness. And now another party appears on the scene—Mr, Bancroft Davis. This gentleman manages to get his finger in the Fish-Catacazy pie. He, we are informed, gives a flat denial to the statement | that My. Curtin ever received the despatch leave the note requesting Catacazy’s recall at the Forefgn Office in St, Petersburg. For « gentleman who has so amount of busi- ness in another quarter % transact as Mr. Davis he appears to take an extraordinary amount of interest in a question which does not at all concern him personally. Between Geneva and Berlin one would imagine he had enough to occupy his attention without intera fering with the affairs of Washington and St. Petersburg. And how does he come to be so well ‘posted about the despatches which pass between the State Department and the Ameri- con Embassy at St. Petersburg as to be able to give the statement of Minister Curtin so un- qualified a denial? Whatever light we view the’ case in, it presents unpleasant features, all of which could have been avoided by the exercise of common sense. In this respect, as in many other instances which might be cited, Secretary Fish’s dealings with foreign Powers has not been a success. Ha appears at times to get tangled in red tape, and we. cannot resist the conviction that Prince Gortschakoff’ spoke sincerely when ha said that ‘‘the recall of M. Catacazy might at the right time have been settled in am hour.’” The Council of the Crowns—Prussian Ovation to the Potentates. The Prussian people are preparing to accord & magnificent reception to their Majesties the Czar Alexander of Russia and the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria on the occasion of their arrival in Berlin to visit Emperor Wil- liam. The German capital is engaged in a continual effort for a proper observance of the event, which will occur on the 7th of tember, so that ‘its consummation will be made in every way worthy of the impor- tance of the fact itself. There will be a grand’ military parade, a state banquet, royal attend! ance, with a citizen crowd, at the opera, & German torchlight procession and then general civic illumination. The Emperor of Austria is about to place his house in order in; Pesth, where he will address the Hungarian Parliament on the 1st proximo. He will then pay a visit to the King of Saxony in Dresden, and subsequently, putting aside all recollection of the late unpleasant ‘‘race’’ for the Saxom capital, set out to meet the victor of Sado Minister Andrassy, attended by the chie! members of the Austrian Cabinet, will accom- pany the Emperor to Saxony. The Hun garians will have had a great many apparently pleasant sentences from the imperial speech just previously delivered in Pesth, and then; in the absence of his parti-coated peoples, Francis Joseph of Austria will find himself the presence of his peers, Itis difficult ta divine the subjects which will be brought for« ward by the imperialists for discussion, but it is safe to presume that the great and never- dying one of the Church, particularly in Rome, will be one of them. And then there will ba France and the democracies, with Turkey an: 4 her dalliances, and England with her Ballot! bill, her transatlantic relations and her marches and advance in Asia after having cured the “Sick Man.” The Emperors wilk find plenty of subjects to talk about, so thaé the coming meeting at Ischl or in Berlin will) be very likely to eclipse that which took place - years ago on the raft at Tilsitin the matters of present effect and future consequences, The Summer Solstice and the Thea tres=-The Approaching Dramatic Sea= son. Among the many evidences of the growing greatness of New York the theatrical pro- gramme for the coming season will be found:, Summer seems to be reminded of its limited days of existence by the clamor of Fall an. nouncements outside the many-fashioned, temples of Thespis. Many goodly things are promised us, and there appears: to be less of the wmeretricious i store. No one can be held accountable fc the freaks of managers in the dogdays, since a full house is a difficulty only as great ag keeping the audience cool if they could oncd be induced to come. Hence, that bad plays are inflicted in addition to ninety odd degrees of Fahrenheit must be condoned by their utter failure. In this manner ‘‘One Wife’* at the Olympic went the way of all flesh, being buried under deservedly indignant condemnation after dying of public neglect. Phantom companies take possession of the theatres and play to empty benches; sporadic “stars” perform in a dismal way and disappear unexpectedly. It would seem that a few ad- venturous artists are always reserved by the fates for a display of childish incredulity.by incurring a load of debt during “a short summer season,” in the belief that where so many theatres aro doing nothing, or next to nothing, they may havea chance. They take a theatre each and become mutually, astonished to find preliminary pufis appearing one after the other in the papers, and fina! see all the theatres open and close fitfully, with a woful result on the wrong side of the ledger. The mere contemplation of human weakness makes us sad; bul we know that ‘‘short Summer seasons’ will obtain, in spite of all eel logic, to the end of time. There, is perhaps,’ another side to the secret, which is equally de- pressing. Actors are among the most ambi- tious of classes, and the feelings of a “walking gentleman’ or ‘utility’ as he sees himself by, the road of time walking into ‘second old man’s” shoes, can hardly be described. It is hard to bear. Give to this actor an unfledged author with a trashy play, and the “ntility” will hug himself with the delusion that if he becomes not a ‘‘star,"’ he will be discovered some Summer night from the critic's observa- tory as, at least, a new asteroid. The mad- ness grows upon him through the Winter, effloresces in the Spring, and drives him to hia doom in the “short Summer season.” makes his flash, but is only a meteor after all;; he bursts forth, “falls, falls and disappears,’* and is voted a bore, along with the rest of the flimsy August star showers. As the weather cools the theatres begin to look cheery and bright again, as if the funeral of dead hopes were over, and the managerial lists of good things to come are paraded temptingly. New York begins to feel that it can support good theatres without stint, and lessees and managers are not slow to recognize that fact. They have learned that a first class theatre conducted in first class style can always com- mand its public, and they will soon have learned thoroughly that a single great name on the bills will not be accepted for a completa performance. Such theatres as Wallack’s /