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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. eee I a THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription ‘price $12, JOB PRINTING af every’ description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly ana prompily exe- .No, 244 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GRAND OPERA HO av.—itor Cannote. M ty-third st. and Bighth BOOTI'S THEATR onty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Tar Brits; or, Tux Poutsu Jew. Matince. Y THEATRE, Bowery.—A Tair to Wittiams- "ANE. MUSEUM, Froad: pox, Afters corner Thirticth st— vening. between Houston and OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, b Matinee at 2. Bleecker sts.—Davip Gannicx, BROOKLYN ACAD: NAC. OF MUSIC, Montague st— Wax Voxxs Fasiuy—B a) Sov TUX KiTcHERN, troriAN Ec- pe at 2, WHITE'S ATHEN. roadway.—Nxeno Min- BIRELSY, &C. wenty-thire Nunterry, & corner jatinee, 8T. JAMES THEATRE, of 28th st. and Broad. Way.—Sax Francisco Mix«r: pe i IN Fance, &c. Matinee, Mexico, Her Necessities and Her Pros- pects, Our sister Republic first of all wants peace. Her soil has long been the scene of almost constant war. Life and property have become proverbially insecure, and all the paths of industrious prosperity hedged with danger and discouragement. Suddenly, from the un- expected death of President Juarez, issues the bright bow of hope for his country’s happi- ness. A man of strong will, he was eminently useful in driving from the Halls of the Mon- tezumas the government of the imperial usurper, Maximilian. Doubtless his un- daunted courage and perseverance, coupled with the fact of his Indian blood, was in the highest dogree useful in inspiring patriotic sentiments in the hearts df his countrymen, and in inciting them to resist the foreign rule which European monarchical bayonets sought to fix upon unhappy Mexico. But after im- perialism had been overcome Juarez lacked the tact of liberal statesmanship to unite and harmonize the many and adverse interests and ambitions which swayed the various sections and cliques of the tri- umphant Republic, Till the day of his death civil war, more disastrous than the struggle against the invader, rent and convulsed the federal Union. Juarez was committed to the support of vicious men who had assisted in the overthrow of the Empire, and he seemed unable to withdraw his countenance from such criminals as the murderer and cattlo thief Cortina, whose military command on the fine of the Bravo, our Texan frontier, was used as a cloak to cover the wholesale plunder of American citizens. No wonder that revolt existed in New Leon under the lead of her liberal Governor, General Andreas Trevifio; in Chihuahua under Donato Guerra, in the sierras of Puebla under Mar- tinez and Mendez, and in other States under Generals Porfirio Diaz, Negrete, Labastiada, Mier y Teran, Portillo and other popular CENTRAL PARK GA ‘Concent, PAVILION, No. 683 Br yGRanp Concert, —Geaxo IsstRowentan Away, near Fourth street.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Sorence anv Ant, New York, Saturday, August 31, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD, see Ack Advertisements. 2—Advertisements, “dt 3—Terrible Disaster on Long Island Sonnd: Sink. ing of the Steamer Metis and Fearful Loss of Life; Names of Some of the Saved and Lost. 4—South Carolina: The mpaign in sweeney, it for Grant in: Strong Probabi Carrying the State for Greeley; Gi Ger- man Defection; Doolittle and His Suborned Slanderer—Vermont: Ech Mountains; The G Thousand Loss to the Republicans—Miscella- neous Campaign Notes—Liberal Republican Primaries—Tammany Primaries--Movements of Mr. Greeley—Tne Political Headquarters— Brooklyn Democratic Delegates to the State Convention—Robbing the Emigrants—Death ‘tn the Tombs—Another Robbery at the Cunard ’ yelled the Deputy County Clerk Says. S—Black Murderers Executed: Two Atrocious Assassins Hanged at Uolumbia, S. C.; Bill Lucas and Ned Harris; Résumé of Their Ca- reer and Bloody Crimes; Simpson and Mur- phy Butchered for Revenge and Plunder; In- rviews with the Condemned; Sce: Be- fore the Gajlows—The Case of Mara am- ination Before Alderman Carpenter—Schoep- "@ Second Trial: Proceedings at Carlisle ‘esterday; Appearance of the Prisoner and Scene in Court; Testimony of the Medical ¥xperts—Yachting Mattess—What ts an Ama- teur Oarsiman ?—The Jersey Whipping Case— The Numancia. G—Editorial: senile 3 Article, “Mexico, Her Ne- cessities and Her Prospects’’—Amusement Announcements. T—Victoria's Thanks: Letter from the Queen of England to the Hrraup Explorer from Africa—The Council of the Crowns—The Alabama Claims—Miscellancous Cable and Domestic Telegrams—Straight Bourbons: Blanton Duncan in the Kove of “Jeremy Did- dier’’—Business Notices. S=<Dry Goods: The Fall Trade and Its Prospects Among the Dry Goods Men—The New Clipper Ship Sea Witch—Lonis Napoleon: Interview with Napoleon and His Views Regarding the Imperial Conference—Stanley Before the Brit- ish Association—Livingstone and Stanley— Racing in England: The Brighton Meeting— Cubans in Canada—An Inebriate with a Frac- tured Skull—Fatally Crushed by a Ratl Car. 9—Financial and Commercial: Another Quict Day in the Street; Goid Lower and Neglected; | The Speculative Movement in Abeyance; A | Further Relaxation in the Money Market; Three Per Cent the Closing Rate; Govern- ments Off with the Yielding of the Gold Pre- Land-Slide ; mium; A Spurt in South Carolinas; Stocks Quiet and Heavy, with a Reeleatct | to Realiza- tion; The Week's Imports of Foreign Dry Goods; Domestic and European Markcts— Connecticut Liquor Law: Peculiarities of the Provisions of tie Measure—The Carcer of a Notorious Forger—Comptroller's Payments— Horrible Case of Suicide—Marriages and Deaths—Advertiscinents. 10—Thoe Jersey Tragely: Death of Mike Sandford; Opening of the Coroner's Inquest—News from Washington—The Buitale Hunt—The Callfor- nia Railroad Muddle—Real Estate Fraud A rested in Brooklyn—Naval Inteiligence—The | National Game—shipping Inteliigence—Ad- vertisements. The Courts: Decision in Rankraptcy ment in the Navy; A De: rature Held for Tri Sailors; Bloomingdale the McCabe Case; A Divorce Jeiterson Market Police Court—Trotting at Hall's Driv- ing Park—The Board of Phartinacy—Proceed- ings of the Board of Assistant Aldermen—Ad- vertisements, 12—Advertisements. Executtons 1x Sovra Canorind Yusten- pax.—On another page of to-day’s Henatp we present the details of the execution of two notorious murderers at Columbia. Lucas— one of the most desperate characters in the State—massacred an inoffensive and hard- working man, named Simpson, because he had not refunded a few charges of powder and shot previously borrowed. Harris, with two confederates, assassinated a poor old man, called Pat Murphy, who was supposed to have .faved sufficient money to pay them for the trouble of killing him. Governor Scott, probably awaiting the result of the recent conventions, respited these murderers from the 16th to the 30th of August; but, finding nothing t6 justify © further postponement, | | abundant and profitable trafic. leaders. In spite of the ability and the as- sured patriotism of Juarez, the country, at the time of his death, presented an almost hope- less condition of insurrection. and disorder. His demise devolved the Presidency pro tem. upon the Chief Justice, Sefior Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada—a man, by the unanimous testimony of his countrymen, admirably adapted to guide the destinies of the Republic in this trying juncture and bring order and prosperity out of the chaos of internecine | strife and threatened dismemberment. His first act was an offer of amnesty to all who were or had been in arms against the federal government. This at once wrought the hap- piest results. Leaders of the revolt from all sides laid down their arms and announced their desire to join the temporary Executive in re- storing peace. A new election was ordered for an early day. Sefior Lerdo is the most promi- nent candidate, and will probably be the chosen man, as his election is advocated by the friends of the late President as well as by the principal revolutionary chiefs, One of the latter says in an appeal to the public thet Lerdo ‘promises to open a path of flowers to a country which up to the present has been sown with thorns,” and asserts the power of the new President to give happiness to Moxico. In view of this hopeful aspect of her gov- ernmental affairs it is not amiss to consider the needs of that glorious land where nature has provided all the elements of natural wealth and greatness in matchless profusion. She has all desirable variations of climate and temperature, unbounded agricultural re- sources, 2 long sea coast with commodious harbors, ample territory and mountains of mineral wealth, which ever since their dis- covery by Europeans have been the envy of all lands. After a stable government she needs first a general system of railroads. Forming the waist of the Continent, at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec a line of less distance than trom New York to Albany would carry the voyager from the Gulf of Mexico to the Paci- fic. Mexico is thus most favorably placed to compete with the United States for the carry- ing trade between the Indies and Western Eu- rope. Her mineral treasures demand a com- prehensive system of internal communication. At present her main railroad extends from the capital one hundred and fifteen miles to Pue- bla, on the line toward the Gulf port of Vera Cruz. This road should be at once completed to the Gulf and extended to some one of the fine harbors of the Pacific coast. Without doubt the country affords feasible | routes for half a dozen railway lines from the Gulf to the commodious bays which indent | the Pacific shore, every one of which would open regions rich in agricultural and mineral resources which would surely build up an Already a road is commenced at its northern end de- signed to connect our State of Colorado, via Santa Fé, with the City of Mexico. This line will afford ready means of exchanging the pro- ducts of the temperate zone with those of the tropics, aud would, doubtless, be a popular thoroughfare of travel and a channel of valua- ble traffic. Though less generally provided by nature than the United States with facilities for internal communication by water, Mexico has lakes of considerable size and a few navi- gable rivers. The Rio Grande, which marks the boundary between her and Texas, furnishes a long line, which assured peace would make busy with well freighted steamers. Only security of permanent peace and civil order is lacking to set at work enterprise and enpital sufficient to open the whole of this magnificent domain to occupation and to build up among the Cordilleras of the Southern Republic towns like Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and permitted the law to take its course yesterda The culprits are reported as being strang not hanged, and the scenes before the gallows | ting in the extreme. ae Schorrre Murpen Tnuat.—-The trial ‘of Dr. Paul Schoeppe, under charge of having murdered Miss Maria M. Steinecke, was con- tinued at Carlisle, Pa., yesterday. The pub- lic interest in its progress was intensified and ‘the attendance in Court still larger than on the day previous. The testimony was prin- cipally that of surgical experts, one of whom was cross-examined by counsel at very con- siderable length, Then there was a dissection of a portion of a dead body performed in open Court—o novel course of medico-jurist proceeding which, if it be adopted as a pree- edent for future rule, may become a means of personal or university puff, just as much, if not more, than it will be a source of en- lightenment to juries in such like difficult Pali. Chicago, while her safe havens at Acapulco, | San Blas, Mazatlan and other points on the | Western coast might become the sites of cities | which would rival San Francisco. Were the | political affairs of our neighbor as stable as | our own her inexhaustible mines of the | precious metals would soon bo fully worked and become the source of wealth to individuals and the State which cannot be overestimated. With a climate so tompting, such wealth of vegetable products, growing almost without labor, soils which generously repay the toil of culture, only a firm government is wanted to allure to her a tide of immigration from Eu- rope and the United States which would rapidly dot her map with thriving villages and change for the better the character of her population, She wants good goverument; free, liberal institutions; ample protection to person and property. Will she receive it at the hands of Sefior Lerdo? That is a question which a few months will answer. It is now open to many perplexing and saddening doubts. He may on trial prove incompetent to tho task. He may take too narrow. views of the glorious destiny which his country claims, or, with the most liberal views and best intentions, ho may be thwarted and baffled by the want of statesmanship and patriotism in those by whom he will be surrounded. His administration may fail for lack of the organ- ized power essential to hold in check the law- less and criminal classes who have so long exercised local sway. He may be unable to so wield the federal force as to repress violence within the Republic or restrain the turbulent bands who constantly conduct raiding expedi- tions upon our soil, killing and robbing our citizens, Should the new government of Mexico fail in any of these points it will clearly be the duty of the United States to interpose its power to prevent the utter wreck of our sister Republic. The Mexican people would gladly hail such a protectorate as their only salvation from lapsing into barbarism under the sway of a score of military chief- tains, or falling into the eager grasp of some European Power which would make of her a second Cuba. President Grant, with the high prestige of the conquest of the Con- federacy, could long since have extended to Mexico the blessings of regulated authority, and established peace by a strong and judi- cious occupation with the military force we could well spare, and he might thereby have won the proud title of Pacificator of Mexico to add to that of Saviour of the Union. He neglected the opportunity. Providence has at last brought peace by the removal of Juarez, and the long disturbed nation forvently prays for its continuance under Lerdo de Te- jada. But it is useless to disguiso the fact that his success is exceedingly doubtful. Should it become necessary that Mexico should have ex- ternal aid it is probable Brazil would cordially unite with the United States in such o military occupation as would effectually repress dis- orders. It would then be the dictate of wiso generosity to ascertain by an absolutely free and unbiassed vote of the people their preference and judgment in relation to their future condition. If the Mexican people should desire a union with our nationality the starred and striped flag is broad cnough to cover their States as it does those over which it now floats. If they would still further essay a separate na- tionality let their choice of a form of govern- ment and the personnel of administration be sacredly respected and firmly protected by the military force till such time as through the operation of wise and liberal measures of na- tional development she shall have acquired ample strength to stand alone an Amorican nation, fit compeer for the United States of North America. Mexico has fully long enough been the prey of rebellion and the victim of faction fights. If she is now able to assert her majesty as one of the great Powers of the globe let her do so. If not, we owe it to her, to ourselves and to humanity to protect her. This subject should at once have the earnest consideration of President Grant and his Cabinet. Tho Disaster on the Sound. The storm of Thursday night seems to have exerted all its fury on those ‘“‘who went down to the sea in ships’ on that cheerless evening. The first sad returns we have from the scene of the Storm King’s wildest orgies announce the total loss of the propeller Metis, of the Providence line, on Friday morning, off Stonington, Conn. The Metis came in colli- sion with a schooner in the darkness and storm, and sank in o short time, leaving crew and passengers to shift for themselves. It is easy to realize the consternation among those on board and the hurried rush for life preservers. Our Sound and Hudson River boats are among the most beautiful floating structures in the world, and at the same time the most eminently deceitful. Pacing their spacious and splendid interiors the traveller forgets for a time how frail the separation be- tween him and eternity, yet when the signal of an accident is announced, the resounding blow of a collision or the heavy bump upon a sunken rock, then, indeed, all on board wako up to the terrible realization of the vessel’s pitiful weakness, They are in truth mere shells, and no wonder need be felt thata schooner coming in colli- sion with one of them should break through her light apd brittle frame and render her at once a total wreck. There is no blame, as far as can be seen, attaching itself to the officers of the vessel. The storm of wind and rain was above their control, and in the darkness all things became invisible. The remarkable and interesting feature about this painful dis- aster is the marvellous manner in which the survivors of the wreck escaped. We are told they clambered to the upper woodwork of the vessel, and that that portion, by what must be supposed some violent wrench from the storm, became separated from the hull and floated them away in comparative safety to shore. In former shipwrecks wo have heard of the hencoop of a ship being loosed from its fastenings, rendering itself the means of sav- ing many a clinging life; but here we have the entire upper story of a vessel lifted bodily off its natural base and support, and proving itself the providential agency of floating a number of lives in safety to shore. Down went the hull amid the high and angry NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. which-ranks among the list of fatalities that no skill or foresight could avert. Queen Victoria’s Memorial of the Liv- ingstone Expedition—England’s Grat- itude. The act of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of England in causing a letter of thanks to be addressed in her name to Mr. Stanley, the Henatp Search Expedition commander, isa graceful one, and in perfect consonance with many wise and thoughtful manifestations of her royal will. That this letter is accompanied by a valuable memorial in the form of a mag- nificent gold snuffbox studded with diamonds may add in a material way to its worth, yet beyond even the lustre of this gift of brilliants from a queenly hand will shine the telling words of recognition and congratulation which she directed to be their forerunners, Justice had been done to the Hzrazp explorer by the enlightened and well-informed of England's people and governing classes; it only re- mained for the sovereign to add her word of esteem, and this she has done with as much delicacy as dignity. Her Majesty shows that the question of Dr. Livingstone’s safety was one of especial interest to herself, and that the authenticated news of his safety re- lieved an anxiety which she shared with the humblest in her realm. The letter is short and formal, as such notes usually are, and has around it all the evidences of authority, which will make it a State paper as long as the Eng- lish throne rests on its foundation. Neverthe- less it breathes 2 warmth and fulness of grate- ful feeling which no stiff official phrasing’can obliterate, and so is creditable alike to the English woman and the Queen. That the en- terprise was planned and carried out by others than Englishmen makes,the significant royal gratitude of more value. Accorded to one of her own subjects it would bear a simply do- mestic interest, while extended to the citizen of another land it becomes of moment to mil- lions who owe the royal lady no allegiance, and who will view it in its simple faith in courage, prudence and zeal applied to a noble end, uninfluenced by the glare and pomp of royalty. Thus viewed we rejoice at the ap- pearance of this generous tribute to American pluck and enterprise. The influence, too, which this royal letter should have in setting at rest all doubts, honest or dishonest, about the genuineness of Mr. Stanley's narrative is apparent. The advisers semi-barbarous habits and manner of living of the peasantry, and from their ignorance in regard to the cholera and its treatment, the disease has still » comparatively free course, while in the nations west. of Russia scientific researches have reached the causes of the pestilence and the precautions and remedies by which it can be mastered and driven away. We therefore do not apprehend that this new outbreak of the cholera in India, though it may extend into Russia, will westward extend much farther, The Cuban News. Affairs in the “Ever Faithful Isle’ seem to continue in a state of confusion, in strong contrast with the assurances of order restored. which the world has received from Spanish sources. So far from being crushed, the revo- lution is sufficiently strong, it appears, to act on the aggressive in some districts, nor is there any intention apparent on the part of the more remarkable that all hope of imme- diate success must have been long since aban- doned, as the friendship and sympathy of this country, upon which the Cubans had counted, have proved barren and worse than worthless. In view of the bold attitude of the men in arms against so many difficulties, it is difficult to refuse them the admiration we owe to those who fight without hope in defence of a causo they deem just. But the picture has another side, and no one can look on at the progress of a useless slaughter without feeling pain and disgust. Where political passions run so high as in Cuba we cannot expect that either party will regard the struggle from a humanitarian standpoint, and we almost wish that some neutral Power would interfere to stop bloodshed. Our government is, of course, too much occupied in electoral ques- tions to have time to spare for the considera- tion of the crimes committed against ‘hu- manity at our doors, The Cubans seem at last to recognize this painful fact, and have sent three of their ablest representative England with the object of conferring with Spanish Minister and trying to engage the sympathy of the moneyed classes in their cause. It is rumored that they will endeavor to nego- tiate a loan of a hundred million dollars, to be offered to Spain as the price of Cuban inde- pendence, . The government at Madrid would no doubt be delighted to get the money, but tho pride of Queen Victoria would certainly interpose to prevent her bestowing such high laudation upon’ an individual whose triumph could’ be questioned, or whose veracity could be im- peached in the details of his story. It will be observed that the letter is signed by Earl Granville, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who thus not only confirms the title of Mr. Stanley to credit, previously given to the Heratp correspondent, but pledges the faith of his sovereign for the certificate it contains. While, therefore, sceptics on this side of the Atlantic are taxing their imaginations for quibbles and nursing doubts on the au- thenticity of Dr. Livingstone’s letter to the Heranp, the experts of the English Foreign Office, with Earl Granville at their head, who are intimately associated with the great explorer’s fame and accurately informed in all things relating to him, breathe no. such suspicions. The suceess of the expedition in all the particulars published, from the meet- ing with Dr. Livingstone down to the traveller's letter of thanks to this journal, is proven. Yesterday we referred to the accumulation of convincing proof, but we had no knowledge that so authoritative a declaration would reach us as that which to-day we print elsewhere. It would be tiresome to follow every feather- brain’s vagaries who resurrects an old. doubt or ransacks his ingenuity fora new one; yet we have brought down the principal ones with a forehead shot every time, and with the Queen of England’s certificate, set in gold and diamonds, before the public, we can, for the present, “let the heathen rage.”’ The Asiatic Cholera.. The Asiatic cholera, we learn by’ ® oxble despatch from London, is raging in India, and in many towns throughout that vast and. pepu- lous country, and that the number: of deaths from the pestilence is appalling; that the greatest consternation and alarm. prevail among the inhabitants of the infected: small and thickly settled towns, who, in dread of an epidemic, are hurrying to the settlements where the disease has not yet appeared. Again, a despatch of yesterday’s date from.St. Peters- burg reports the breaking out of the cholera at Grodno, in the western part of Russia; and recently we had the intelligence from Constan- tinople that this widely diffused pestilenee was committing fearful havoc in that quarter. In short, at the present time this Asiatic plague prevails.at different points, from its ieadquar- ters in India. to the western borders of Russia, and the question again is suggestad,, especially from this general outbreak of, the disease over India,.Is there any danger of its. spreading again as an epidemic over both hemispheres? We do not apprehend any such universal calamity as a.repetition of the rawages which the natians and continents west of Asia have suffered from time to time,, since 1830, from this.disease,, as a travelling epidemic. In this capacity its powers or the materials upon which it feeds appear to be exhausted, or it may ba that the knowledge which the. Western nations waves, and off went the light superstructure as gayly as a cork boat. But this did not save many from finding a watery grave. The con- fusion must have been great. From what can be learned, it was every men for himself, and in such a state of affhirs they who are weakest and least alert are bound to go to the wall. What we are at a loss to discover is who had charge of the lifeboats. It is stated that one of them came ashore with one of the directors of the company and five deck hands, from which it may be inferred that the orew were foremost in saving their own lives and the pas- sengers wero left to shift for themselves, This is the old story. In justice to the captain.and the agent of the line, however, it is reported that they refused to enter the lifeboat and contrived to get ashore ona piece of the wreck, ‘We might ask if the lifeboats of our Sound and Hudson River steamers are constructed ex- clusively for the use and safety of the crews ? The steamboat Stonington and the revenue cutter Moccaasin did gallant servico in stand- ing by the wreck and picking up all the strug- gting passengers they could find. The hotels did their utmost forthe comfort of the un- happy survivors, many of whom are from this city. Ia another column will be found the fallost particulars of this unhappy ocourrence, havo.gained from experience: and from scien- tific: tests. and experiments as:to the causes and the means for correcting and preventing the spread of the disease, have. rendered it com- paratively powerless, Last year, our reader will remember, that from the sudden appear ance of this uravelcome: visitor in various places in Germany we warned oun: local authorities and all concerned in maintaining the health of this city, of the precautions needed against.the possible importation here of the cholera in some infected Germam ves- sel. The supposed danger, however, passed by, leaving us untouched; and now, from the facts that for five or six years past this cholera has, to # greater or less extent, prevailed in Russia, and has once or twice within the same period crept into Germany, and even so far as, to carry off a few victims on the eastern coast of Englond, but has been there arrested, we are led to the opinion that as 4 travelling epidemic this pestilence from the Ganges will seriously trouble us on this side of the Atlantic no more. At the same time we believe that the reasons why the disease has disappeared from the nations west of Russia, while in that country it still lingers, may be summed up very briefly as follows:—In Russia. from the of the Spanish nation renders impossible the acceptance of such a solution of the Cuban question. This project may therefore be dis- missed as chimerical, though if common sense could obtain in national councils it would certainly be accepted. Failing in this, the Cuban ambassadors will, in all proba- bility, endeavor to play the réle of Messrs. Mason and Slidell; but with the experience of the Confederate loan before them, the chance of obtaining the sinews of war on the slight security the Cuban insurgents can offer will be a very poor one. The chief hope of the pacification of the island would seem to rest on the liberal views enter- tained by the Zorrilla Cabinet. If some com- promise could be effected by which the strug- gle in Cuba would be brought to an end the accession of the liberals to power would confer not alone g great benefit on Spain, but on the cause of justice and humanity. Hitherto the opinions of the bloodthirsty volunteers and the slave-hclding Spanish colonists have had too much influence at Madrid ; and if the new government can only free itself from this evil association and inaugurate an era of recon- ciliation and justice we may hope to see peace and prosperity restored to the distracted isle. The Limits of Scientific Thought. The opening of the annual meeting of ‘the British Association for the Advancement of Science on the 14th inst. elicited from its in- coming President, Dr. Carpenter, an able and most significant address. Tho great physicist revived a question which has practically slum- bered since the close of the fifteenth century. He took pains to attack the assumptions of “science, falsely so called,”’ and read a severe lesson of reprimand to the great mass of modern scientists of whom he -himself is an t acknowledged and chosen leader:. He.endenv- ored to convince his scientific audience that those who set up their own conceptions of the orderly sequence which they discerned in the phenomena of nature as fixed and determinate laws, by which those laws not:only were within all human experience, but always. had been and always must be invariably governed, were really guilty of the intellectual arrogance they condemned in the systems of the ancients and placed themselves in diametrical antagonism to those master philosophers of the Baconian period, by whose comprehensive grasp and penetrating insight that order had been so far disclosed. The lecturer, with the. courage which belongs to solid science, alsodared to claim for the much-despised facultyyof ‘‘com- mon senso” an all-important sphere.of usefal- negs in scientific investigations, for-the obvious reason, which he assigns, that.in a lorge num- ber of cases ‘‘our scientific interpretations’’ of nature “are clearly matters of judgment.” But the most startling and: revolutionary idea in this address of Dr. Carpenter is the igsequence which he draws, apparently assigning ‘to science a.footstool. at the.feet of theology. \ Tt must be confessed this will, grate harshly on the philosophers of our age: who are some- times tempted, like a certain: mythical persan-. age of old, to soar so near the sun as to lose their wings. It might, indeod, be savagely retorted’upon the new President of the Asso- ciation that the triumphs of modern science have been won, not by any aid of thealogy, but in: the teeth of its, most relentless, oppo- sition. and most bigoted persecution. The sorrows ond trials of Galileo were the com- mom fate of the early votaries of science. Dusing the middle ages the most brilliant dis. covery in astronomy or the most exact analy- sig in chemistry was tested, not in the labora- tery or with the telescope, but by the pages of some Scotus or Aquinas, and pronounced true or false accordingly. When Calmnbus stood pleading before the Spenish Court for men and ships to prosecute, his first great voyage the doctors of Salamanca shook their reverend heads with holy distrust and the theologians protested that, St. Augustine had proved the unity of mankind, and if Colum. bus found men on the islands of the ocean— who, they assumed, could not have crossed the sea from the Ol4 World—he would over. throw the faith of the Church. It ia very true, as Dr. Carpenter intimates, that scion-, the Cubans to lay down their arms. This is'|' thing from the: pages: of inspiration, . sn especially in the field of geologic speculation, have sedulously inculcated a diligent unlearn= ing of all that the: Mosaic account re- veals of the creation. Ho is, perhaps, om: this score not a whit too severe. But it must. be remembered, after all, that theology has no’ light to throw over the vast ficlds of physical research save what she obtains from the Bible, and, confessedly, as the great theologian, Dr. Paley, has so admirably shown, the Bible was not written as a text. book of science, but as a revelation bearing on man’s spiritual destiny. Dr. Carpenter does ‘not, however, betray his profession, but seeks to restrain it within the true limits of scientific thought, and ear- nestly warns it against the peril of passing beyond its proper sphere, seeking the cause of nature and setting up its own conceptions: of the order of nature as a suficient account of its cause. This address will mark.an important era in science, and, if duly heeded, render the world an inestimable service in withdrawing the minds of scientists from the vain pursuit ofthe impossible and converging and con- centrating them on the study of the possiblo and the attainable. The Coming Council of the Imperial Crowns, Emperor ‘William of Germany will accord & right royal reception to their Imperial Majesties the Emperor of Russia and the Eniperor of Austria on the occasion of thgir visit to the Prussian capital. Tho preparations for a bril- liant realization of the important, we may add significant, event have been already com-: menced. Prince Gortschakoff will herald the advent of the Czar Alexander to Berlin bya previous personal announcement of the fact that His Majesty will reach that city on the 5th of September. Alexander. will remain the guest of the German monarch during a space of five days. Ho will bo entertained at a series of féles, each one of which will be in the most magnificent style. Then there will be a grand banquet at the new palace at Pots- dam, at which the three Emperors, with many German potentates and princes of inferior power, will be present. The Czar will, it is thought, take his departure from Berlin, on his return to St. Petersburg, on the 9th of Sop- tember. This royal assemblage, independent of the feasting, will constittite a remarkable epoch in the history of the Old World. Russia is evidently the grand constellation—the great Northern light—which will illumine the council hall, and which may flash thence suddenly in the eyes of the peoples, far away even to the East. Desonratization 1n Bertrn.—Considerable uneasiness is manifested in certain circles in Berlin at the increasing discontent of the working classes. A turbulent and hostile spirit is shown, and as a consequence alarm is experienced as the result, That the high prices of living and the enormous increase af rents in the poorest descriptions of domiciles have something to do with all this uneasiness is palpable. The rent question particularly isone of moment; so much s0, in fact, that the government has the matter under considera- tion ; and the subject of the erection of houses suitable for those of small incomes has been talked over by government officials. Be the causes what they may, itis evident that alarm prevails among moneyed men in Berlin, owing to the discontented spirit manifested in lower circles, and meetings of merchants and prop- erty owners have taken place, with tho view of influencing the government to take the neces- sary steps in anticipation of trouble. It.is un- fortunate that such a state of affnirs should arise, and especially at this moment, when the Emperors of Austria and Russia are-about to meet at Berlin, and when Germany should at least be able to show in her capital that, United Fatherland meant: peace and contentment to all its inhabitants. THE WEATHER, War DEPARTMENT, + OFFICE OF THR CuiEr StGNat 0: eR, WASHINGPON, D. C., August 31—L A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Howrs, The diminishing pressure on Thursday night over Lake Ontario has moved southwestward aver the southern portion of New England. Cloudy weather and rain have prevailed from East Virginia to New England and.,New: York and continue over the . northern portion-of the latter, Brisk northwest. _ erly winds have-prevailed over the lower lakes and : extending tothe east and middle Atlantic coasts, _ The barometer is highest from Upper Michigan to ., Tennessee. . The temperature has faem from Ten-. nessee to Lower Michigan and cagtward over tire, New England nadiMiddic®t } Probabitities, Fresh to»brisk northerly to westeyty winds, die minishing im: force, apd generally clear weather - prevail over the New England and; Middle States; northerly tomertheasterly winds andigonerally clear weather for the South Atlantic States; winds veer- ing to ,easterlyand soutirerly, with: generally clear weather, frem, the Guif to the Chio valley, ang! thence to Michigan; diminishing pressure, eastorly: to southerly winds and incrgasing: cloudimess-from: Missouri and: Kansas to Lakes Superior and Michie gan. public. The Wrather in this City Yesterdays, ‘The folowing record wiil:shes the changes-in tite temperature for the pass tweaty-four hours in com.- parison witt the corresponding day of last year; as indicated »y the thermometer at Hudnat’s. Phar. macy, Hawatp Bullding>— 1871. i ‘187}., t872. sl (6 i} 3 ye 3 82 66 OP. Ss 65 9.4, Mi. 8 7 OP. Ts 6a 12M... 85 14 22 P.M 58 verage tem} erature. yesterday Syerege romperatare fer the Inet year..... Ht jArnold, of Laramie, Returns from Avie gona with $175,000 Worth of the Gems—_ Whe Diamond Excitement in Cali. fornia. Laraiz, Wyoming Dien : Aga 30, 1972. Arnold, the. discoverer of the diamond field, ne turned this.morning from his deposit, having La his possession, aboat one hundred and seventy-ava thousand dollars’ worth of gems. THE GhM FEVER IN SAN FRANOISQO, CISD, August 30, 1872, ‘Three-new diamond expeditions are boing fitted out. Captain Bulkley, who was sent ont tothe mines Tecently, has returned, with about a quart of rubles, garnets and supposed diamonds, Tho mana of the San Francisco and New York Diamond ¢ y deny ever having purchased any diamonds ja London, and say they will soon show that thetr dis. coveries are genuine. A party of twemty ploked men, sworn to secrooy and well armed, have been fitted out by the Har. ponding-Roberts Company to start for the diamond helun im Arizaba, by the Way of Los Angelos, next Monday. WEST VIRGINIA ELECTION, ti WHITE SULPHUR Sratros, W. Va., August 0, 1872, Jacob's majority has been reduced to 263 There | tista hayo apguted the iden of learning ane | are elaht counties to her from