The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1872, Page 8

DRY GOODS. The Fall Trade and Its Prospects Among the Dry Goods Men. What is Expected by A. T. Stewart & Co., Arnold & Constable, H. B, Claflin & Co. and What They Know About Silks and the Wool Trade—A Brisk Season Expected— Stockings $100 a Dozen Pairs, and American Silks Equal to the Best Imported Fabrics, Next to the question of fooa, which may be said to include meat, bread and potatoes, there is no other question so important to the man of family as the question of dry goods, No woman has yet been discovered with a soul superior to silks and fur- belows, and probably no woman will ever be born whoke aspirations shall go so far heavenward that she will not desire to havg at least one nice areas, ‘This question of dry goods is a question that on the face of it interests the half of the human race, and perhaps, more than half, for does not the cen- sus show that there are more maids and widows waiting to be married than there are men to marry them ? Consequently, now that the heat of the dog days may be said to have passed and the Fall season is about to commence shortly, it behooves all per- sons who have clothing or dress goods to buy for the coming season to understand the market and provide for the Winter months, And as the Henavp finds no subject too great and no subject too small for its investigation, if the re- suit of its inquiry can be of benefit to the public, a representative of this journal was ordered to pay a aiplomatic visit ‘to the principal dry goods houses im the city and ascertain the prospects of the Fall trade—whether they were favorable or otherwise. THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF DRESS. Among the houses visited the principal ones | were those of the well-known firms of A. T. Stewart & Co,, Arnold, Constable & Co, and I. B, Clatin & Co, A stranger to New York can find no better way ef obtaining a faint guess at the enormous com- mercial wealth and industry of this country than by slowly walking through a great dry goods house like Stewart's, This emporium of fashion ard wxury is to all other dry goods houses what the HERALD is to journalism, It is a lobster among the soft-shell crabs, a Triton among the minnows, and the mind is astonished and bewildered to think of the Inxury which has grown upon this country @ince the reverberating gun was fired upon Sumter. At that time we were, com- paratively speaking, a people simple in tastes and easily satisfied, as far as our women were concerned, in the matter of dress and ornamentation, But let any person now ask at any European fashionable watering place or frequented resort of tourists, “Who are the women who dress most expensively?’ and the answer will be, “They are Americans.” Who wear the most costly diamonds? American women, What wo- man at Baden or at Biarritz, at Nice, Mentone, at Brighton, on the Boulevards, on the Prado or walking along Regent street, is the most Noticeable for being bien gantée or bien chaussie? Why, of course, the belle Americaine, She is the “dearest” and most delightful and most extravagant of wo- men. But since the days of Silver Mouth Chryso? tom the fashionable follies and weaknesses of wo- men have been denounced and railed at, and yet every year they dress in @ more expensive manner and the increase in household expenses are not waning and are not likely ever to wane. And thus it is that the dry goods trade prospers and grows apace. THE GREAT WOOL QUESTION. There are two great staples which form a founda- tion for the dry goods trade, viz.—the products of the silk worm and the wool irom the sheep's back. ‘The HERALD representative obtained a state- ment from the chief executive of the largest dry js house in this city, which may be taken ag e opinion of a gentleman who controls a business amounting to many millions of dollars every year. beartiie J been for many years connected and largely with the dry goods trade he speaks ex-cathedra on these matters, of which the following is substan- tiully a reproduction of his ideas:— To begin; the speculators and newspapers who are interested in the matter, They have denied | that there 1s a large stock of wool in the market. | This is not true. There is a very large stock of ‘woo! on hand, and there has been pleuty of wool to be had for three or four years past. During the Peal 1870 the product of American fleeces amounted a good many miilions of pounds more than in the previous years, comparatively beara b and | probably not an extra — was run in the | country. There was a combination of speculators | ainong the wool men, and a combination of the gold men with them to make corners, for gold rose from 8%; to 15, Black Friday, strange as it may seem, | had a tendency to draw some of the gold specu: | Jators into the wool ring which was immediately | jormed, With a surplus of several hundred mil- lions of money in the country a chance was given to these people late the market for their own The amount and volume of the cot- ton crop last year was 240,000,000 -pounds, and it was easy to see that the speculators be- tween New York and Liverpool would get into this | doubt an upright ofiicia great field for gambling purposes, for what will they not get into where money is to be made ? Cloths, ali wool, which sold at $5, have been re- placed by shoddy cotton cloths at 3 NO DECLINE IN ST. . We are on the downward pk Tt is hardly | possible that there will be mach of a decline in staples, ‘The wool crop last year, as n be gotten at, amounted to between ninety and one hondred and ten millions of pounds, and speculators with from fifteen to twenty muliions of doltars could control the entire p. ‘The statistics of wool are never lectedeaccurately, for the reason that the farmer does not report in’ his returns any of the crops which he uses for domestic consumption, and thus there is a great and unknown deficiency; yet tt ts believed that the crop ranges from about ninety to one iondred and ns of pounds. This year ‘ge importation of foreign 8 which have been concen- trated and kept in business centres in the hands of produ The dry goods trade has been late this fall, and change his principally grows out of the fact of apd reduction in the tarid which took pls 4st day of August, A satisfactory trade was done Jast year up to the Ist of September, Am of prices upward began when toe small pu commenced stocking their markets began to break in price o fabrics fully ten per cent, and there was a fall of fitecn to thirty per cent for seasonable and foreign fabrics. THE SPECULATORS’ LITTLE GAME. Smail consumers wha came in September would ae not buy these goods. Gold increased in its v ‘Then came the Chicago fire in October—a fire wh unsettled everything and produced a tempor: stagnation, ‘This, im connection with the | declining — pri made the Fall busi of the preceding mont ness of IsTl very unsatisinctory in its nature to nierebants, All these things taken into the reasoa is to see 3 SIX Weeks to two mouths be- ing this season, Also un an- prices is’ an additional to get hold of and manipn- invaresta. | From this charge 1 except the Commissioner of s could | on the | grain, ‘wool, wheat, corn and other cereals never fore were The increase ts very greetin these products, and it is a certain that there will be a larger bao of ness than ever. It is Li lal that the average of con- sumption of fabrics must go on when it ts manifest toalithatevery man, woman and child in the country je a eansumer. Why should a man who has the money in his wallet, the yield o1 plentiful crops, deny his wife a silk dress, daughter a new bon- net or his boy a good suit of clothes? Clothing ts made to be worn out, and woollen ts will sell this year more largely than ever, it is believed, In ‘silks the price of raw matertal has made a steady advance, and it is a noteworthy fact that the American silks are more than holiling their own, - A, T. Stewart & Co. are selling black silks of American manufacture that are net to surpassed for durability and elegance by soy Joreign silk, ‘These silks will = wash an look as well as any poplin or muslin after the washing. American silks are fast taking place in the best of commodi- ties that always have held their own after having reccived a fair chance, and there is no reason why American ladies should not be proud to wear the roducts of American looms when silks are offered thein of equally good fabric and texture and of equal durability and elegance considering the enor- mous duties imposed on foreign silks. AN hail, if only for patriotic reasons, the advent of the Ameri- can silks, “DOLLY VARDEN SILKS.” The house of Arnold & Constable, which has a reputation for an excelient class of soos in all branches, report most favorable anticinations for the Fall trade. Broche asllks, otherwise known as the “Dolly Varden” silks, have advanced slightly, but not in proportion to the advance in the wages of the weavers of Lyons and Belgium. The Lyons weavers engaged in the broche goos, it 1s stated by Mr. Hicks Arnold, are receiving since their strike fifteen to twenty francs a day in gold—an unusually high rate. The HERALD representa- tive syoke, while visiting the — wholesale | down town establishment of Arnold & | Constable, with the superintendent, Mr. Came- Ton; Mr, John Little, of the cloth department; | Mr. Hazleton, of the hosiery department; Mr. | Peters, of the shawl department, and Mr. Conkling. | of the lace department. All of these gentlemen | were very courteous im affording the HERALD repre- sentative information, ‘The heads of the different departments seemed to think that the Fall business would open briskly and continue good during the season. While at Arnold & Constable’s the HERALD man was shown a new kind of ladics’ hose, made of cotton, with silk clocks, which were sold at whole- saie at $100 adozen, These stockings were very thin, and would retail, at about ten dollars a pair, Even the fair and trail Helen Josephine Mansfield, Whose furniture was sold afew days since under the red flag, might hesitate at such vagance, but if any one is incredulous about the fact of such high priced stockings they can see them by calling on Mr, Hazieton, in charge of the hosiery depart- ment, Some of the finest cloth goods, of Engiish, French and Scotch manufacture, and of entirely new styles, were shown the HeraLp representa- tive by Mr, John Little, superintendent of that, department, und some very costly and beautiful specimens of French silks were shown by Mr. Cameron. 3 AT THE HOUSE OF Hi. B. Clafin & Co., which does avery large busl- ness, the HERALD representative found Mr. Bancroft, f& member of the firm, wio made the iollowng statement in regard to the prospects of the Fall trade :— THR CROPS ARE PROMISING. Mr. Bancrort—I have ouly this to say. The Fai trade is very late on account of the hot weather, and there was a disposition to be prudent on the bts of purchasers, But since the cold spell their usiness has brightened up and has become more active. The prospects are very food in every sec- tion, and there is a prospect of falr prices. Stocks of goods in the hands of country dealers are smail, 80 that we infer that there must be a fair demand for goods through the season. Countr: have paid up, and quite promptly, through the sea- son, and everything goes to show that prices will be steady. This was all that Mr. Bancroft had to say, but he directed the HERALD emissary to two of his employés, a Mr. Hammond, who is in charge of the cloth ‘department, and a Mr. Talcott, who has charge of the sitk department. Mr. Hammond is a little, nervous man, quick of movement, and has evidently been in a hurry all histife, In relation tothe silk department he had no information to give, although the HERALD had condescended to interview him. He briefly said, “We are very busy in cloths,” and disap- peared in the direction of an elevator. Mr. Talcott, who is not a bad-looking man, was seen at an unfavorable time. He had just returned from lunch, and wanted time for rumination and digestion, To answer inquiries at any length at such a time would be dangerous. He stated that there had been no change in the duties on silk, but that there was an increase on the value of raw material. Then he stopped short, and said goodbye with a cool, vacant and careless sture. CUBANS IN CANADA. See A Protest Against the Dominion and Spanish Authorities in the Kecent Caban “Recruiting” Affair—The En- listment Denicd—Per Contra, the Affidae vit of an Informer. HamILton, August 27, 18’ To THR Eprror or THE HERALD:— Those Canadians who are wont’ to find fault with Uncle Sam and stigmatize everything that occurs or fails to occur in his domain, as acrime of com- mission or omission, and who denounce him with especial vehemence for permitting the Fenian raids, are loud in their boasts of the prompt action to enlist men and despatch from its coast a mili- tary expedition in aid of the Cuban insurgents. As to the report that the Cubans are, or at any time have been, enlisting men for their army, or attempting to fit out a warlike expedition from any port of the Deminion, it is all bosh, And, what is more, the snbordinate of the government generally know it to be bosh, Police, Justice Coursol, who, notwithstanding his the vitals of every government, intent on getting their hands into the Secret Service Fund, fabri- cated out of the merest and most innocent trite | this plausible story, fairly turning the heads not ly of the shallow Spanish Vice Consul aad | Justice Coursol, but of tie grave and mighty , Governor General, who, in his zeal toserve Her | Majesty’s ally ‘rather than) the — country j over which he rules, has fairly chased | every Cuban and every stranger | sympathizing§ with the Cubans into a | corner or out of the Dominion. And what was this trifle ? Nothing more than this, Several gen- | tlemen, sympathizing with the Cuban canse, and | believing at the same time that some capital and mechanical labor could be employed in the insur- | the capitalists and the laborers, formed a company for the purpose of engaging, in the United States, Canada or elsewhere, artisans and mechanics to proceed to Cuba, there to be employed at their peaceful trades and vocations. Of the few parties engaged in Canada not one had | ever had any military experience, and a majority of | them were men beyond the prime of lie and w | unfit for the toils and hardships of war. So muc! jor the last Canadian sensation, AN INFORMER’S AFFIDAVIT. The following is one of the aMdavits upon which these enlistment rumors were based :— Pouce: orrice. ‘The deposition of Williain B. Myers, surveyor, of the United States, in the district o treal, takeit f Any he police oft ndersign artes J, Cour- now Miguel de Aldama, Leon and Pedro Martin the Cuban Jonta was dissolved who said that tes government an ofticer In the t a few wee Tinay styl tocome to Montreal for the for the Cuban service; the mea were to eeeompany me B.; other parties were gent ty Malifax, (ness of the Fall trade. ‘Then comes the anticipation of a large erop of cot- | ton, some business men believing that the crop { Will be as Jarge as four to four and a@ half millions Of bales. But all these opiutons he ninidged | over, however, and trade has already began briskly among dry goods men and in good volume. At present it is firmly believed that there is | nothing iu the mercantile horizon that assures a diminution or increase in pr sixty or sevent large dry goods 4 t firm the theory of steady price during side con nd an advance | in some things. | THE WOOL EXCITEMENT. | Advices yesterday in wool © be advanced. Wool holders a and they anticipate a steady s: vance in the saies of September and Ov tober In London they have stated sales tor wool, as they have for Kast Tudia shawls and many oiler classes of articles. There are always a set of croakers in business who are not gifted with industry enough even to se for an anticipated lack ot this 16 the Presidential election business, and year they will on account of the political huriy burly. pmen were too lazy to consult th a ’ receipts for some ye If the: ack they would find that there is no deficiency in | the years when Presidents are elected, and that the election of 2 previonsiy unknown or wel! kuown dndividual for four years to the the nation does not any sense staguate the general mercantile trade of the country. At this juncture ng forward to the pros- pects for a Fall trade in the dry goods & must be said that they are visuelly country teems with the wealth o and the success of this season will be @ rep tion of the results of the previous three or four years. PROPLE MIST BOY DRY GooDs. The crops meve: were better and the yields of ure you that nothing wil be cone | Lief magistracy of | Fredri en a nus ficient tobe om harke ay of Fundy for Cuba; It was und an arined vessel would | be in the consort os ty Caba and protect our landin; cruited five men in this elty: I promised them St) moath in gold; [gave them éach $5 for to- bacco and gin imoney until we ready to forwar hem to 8t. John, \. B.; [ received this money from H { it frou Aldama upon an or n Uespedes; 7 Thave not seen Harrison for two days; don’t know. thet he is in the » but suppos. he is: don't know that f eonld find him Md t hink it is his practice to ik he generaily takes supped with Ww the names ot the pi ova Scotia and New Brunswick ; T know canteen; | have never had any conversa regard to this business, and have no rea- TT hat my business wi never bo used as our transport oF 3 MYERS, | the eral tines this bas Joo He tion wit | son to heard th | that ory | AN INEBRIATE WITH A FRACTURED SKULL, On the 20th instant John Gormley, about forty years of age and a native of Ireland, apparently a coniirmed inchriate, was arrested by the Twelfth precitivt police on a charge of intoxication, and, | being nearly if not quite in a state of | Insensibitity. was removed to Bellevue | Hospital, He lingered till the following yand expired. Deputy Coroner Marsh subse- quently made a post-mortem examination on the | body, and on opening the head found that deceased had Sustained @ fracture of the skull. How the | fracture was received did not appear, but probably | it resulted from an accidental fall ‘while tntoxi- | cated. Coroner Herrman has the case in charge, dealers | just taken by the Dominion government to prevent | the consummation of an alleged orzanized scheme | } officers | found | gent districts to the bvenciit alike of the patriots, | | | | | \ blunders in the St. Alban's raid case, is without | Whatever. | id | peace; that he desires nothing but ; But he has bcen | | +} Tt egregiously imposed upon in this matter. A set of | one object now is to develop the trade and com- harpies such as infest every country and prey upon {| eh | | coantry he loves so well. | opinion—the French newspapers are too often the LOUIS NAPOLEON. Interview with Napoleon and His Viows Re- garding the Imperial Conference. ee The Meeting of the Emperors—Dées It Moan Dan- ger to France?—Thiers Preparing for War— How the French President Develops the Resources: of the Country— ‘What Napoleon Thinks of Mr. Stanley’s Discovery. {Brighton (August 18) correspondence of the Lon- don Telegraph.) At a moment when every politician is speculating upon the results which may be expected to follow the mecting shortly to take place at Berlin be- tween the Emperors of Germany, Austria and Russia, it cannot bat be very interesting to the English public to have some idea of the senti- ments with wich this important event is regarded by one who not long since was greater than either— whose word was peace or war—whose voice, according to some, may yet again be the most powerful in Furope—Napoleon II. During a visit which I had the honor of paying His Majesty yes- terday the conversation turned upon this subject, and, as may be supposed, various opinions were expressed as to the real object which the three po- tentates—or, rather, perhaps it should be sald, Pringe Bismarck—had in view when ‘it was arranged that they should assemble in the Prussian capital. Upon one point those present were agreed—that the three sovercigns did not propose to meet for the mere exchange of compliments, but that they had some high political purpose to accomplish. Nor was there much difference on another point—that one of the principal endeavors would be to prevent an immediate quarrel among themselves, so that the | vast bodies of troops which are being constantly drilled and the immense armaments now being prepared by each of the three powerful nations should not be directed—at all events just now—against either of the empires represented, But it was thonght to be very unlikely that the Emperors would confine their deliberations to these mutual concessions, and that they would not take into serious consideration the much larger | question how their agreement would affect other Powers, and, above all, the position of France. Our discussion strangely followed the course of argument employed in an article recently pub- | lished in the Pall Ma Gazette, Russia, it was re- marked, if she genuinely and finally gave up her designs in Eastern Europe, would cease to be Russia, and the Czar who was instramental in such a surrender would not long remain Czar. For her to give up those designs even in appear- ance 18 a very great sacrifice, which must gall her | pride, and which makes the government suspected and disliked the national party. It happens, that, for different reasons, the three Powers want. at this moment one and the same thing. But they want it each tor different and even opposite reasons; and tnis fact is held to be quite enough to insure that they will not long pursue their ends in harmony. Russia wants peace, that she may gather strength to resume her tradi- tional policy. Germany wants peace, that she may | organize her new emplre and set France and Rus- sia atdeflance. Austria wants peace, that she may consolidate the empire which is still left her, 0} ose # permanent barrier to the advance of Russia in Europe, and perhaps become once more a Ger- man Power. Russia may very well be anxious that France should not rush into war too soon, since in that case she would have either to see a future ally crushed, or to fight at @ great dis- advantage. But she can ave no desire that France should be permanentiy kept down. Germany and Austria may very well be willing to be on good terms with Russia so long as she con- sents not in any way to interfere with their wishes. The moment, however, that Russia feels strong enough to recall this consent Germany and Austria will not have the means of purchasing it of her. Such were the views that prevailed in our conversation. ‘THE IMPERIAL. MERTING AS AFFECTING FRANCE, “Permit me to ask, Sire,” said one of the purty, “whether Your Majesty thinks Prince Bismarck may have been anxious that the three Emperors should meet for the express purpose of Molating France and crippiing, her as much as possible?” “It is impossible for me to know,” replied the Emperor, “what the precise object of their Impe- rial Majesties may he. If you suspect that the posl- tion of France rrp form an important matter to be taken into consideration by the Conference, it is well you should consider what is the actual condi- tion of that country at this moment—whether there is anything in the conduct of the government which might form a pretext for Germany to take any h precantions as those which you imagine.” THIERS PREPARING FOR WAR. “Sire,” observed an English gentleman, “to Germany it must appear almost a certainty that ‘rance will never suomit to the misfortunes which befell her—that she is straining every nerve to re- venge the insnits to which. she been subject— and consequently that the peace professions of M, ‘Thiers at be valned accordingly.’ “Words are nothing when they are contradicted by returned His Majesty, with marked em- phasis “When Iwas at the head of the army M. Thiers ‘as furious if 1 ha gene to spend an extra Yet M. Thiers, who declared against additional outlay cost of the army by besides which he has spent Of, or 6),000,000f, without any authority M. Thiers protests that he is all for that to war; that his franc upon it. the slightest increased the 100,000,000f ; 50,00 then, has France has no intention of goin of the country. Very well. These are his ‘ords, What do we see? All his acta show that isa design of going to war im two or three So much for his professions of peace, And how does he propose to develop: the resources of the country and extend its trade’ By a system of protecuon.” A STRONG BELIEF IN PREF TRADE. These words were spoken with a decision and | earnestness which plainly proved how deep was the interest of the Emperor in the future of the Continuing his observa- tions he showed how sincere were his wishes on the subject of free trade, and how greatly he re- gretted the retrograde policy of M. Thiers, who, be- Keves that the way to increase the commercial [aden Nie of a nation is by increasing prohibitive tariits. 80 LONG AS IT SUITS THEM, Although the Emperor did not express in defl- nite and explicit terms his views Spee the general result of the ensuing meeting at Berlin, the dis- tinct impression leit by his words was that any compact which the three Emperors may make wiil last so long as circumstances are favorable and it is absolutely to the interest of the three contract- parties that the agreement shall remain in mt that when the time for aggression or de- hall have arrived, their conduct will be in- need, not by verbal or written agreements en- tered into at Kerlin, but by the circumstances and | necessities of the hour, THE PEACE OF EUROPE. “Will your Majesty allow me to inquire whether you regard the approaching conference as dange ous to the peace of Europe ¢”’ said one of the pari; “As [have ovserved,”’ was the reply, “Ll have no special means of knowing what is the precise object | which tneir Imperial Majesties may contemplate, | but Ldo not think the meeting can be regarded as dangerous to the peace of Europe.” THE PAST. At this point in the conversation there was a | general ression of regret that the Congress to consider the unsettled Eurgpean questions, which ‘was proposed by the Emperor when at the height | of his power, did not meet with acceptance by other leading States, and particularly by England. | In proof of the determination of the German mili- tary authorities that they would close France in on every side, and give her no chance of an advance on the Rhine, one of the party drew His Majesty's attention to the report which had been published both in some of the French and of the English news- papers that THE GERMANS WOU! NOT SURRENDER BELFORT. The Emp r, however, would not credit the statement. cannot think it,” he said. “Ido not believe the Germans have any intention of keeping the iortress. It is very indiscreet on the part of the directors of the Freuch newspapers to | agit such a question unless it was known to be true. Some of th rench newspapers, I am sorry to #ay, are not conducted with so much common sen: ts the English newspapers. Asa general rule the English newspapers reflect — public 8 of faction.” MPEROR STILL FONDLY REMEMBERED IN FRANCE® While speaking of M. Thiers # gentieman refer- red to the recent incident at Trouville, where some young mea cried out “Vive ’Empereur !” and he related the particulars as stated in your special telegram on Saturday morning. | His Majesty appeared to be considerably amused atthe notice taken of these “treasonabie” cries. ‘The same genticman affirmed that very recently he ; paid his first visit tothe city of Lyons, and that several French residents in the place pointed out the splendid improvements which had been made under the Empire. Judging by the terms in which they expressed themselves of the great benciits which had been conferred upon the city by the per- sonal exertions of His Majesty, the speaker declared that he should have thought he was in one of tue most imperial, instead of one of the most republi- can, parts of France. WHAT HE THINKS OF STANLEY, ‘Turning from political to general subjects, the first to come under discussion was the meeting of |, the Geographical Section of the British Association | | that an American has found Livingstone, be Bo 7 A ee ig Stanley, Lolifpcar gta 9 vingston which Emperor, the Emy Fahd "the Prince Imperial were ere bapa was very warm he praise of the gallan' wi raeve: amid a thousand danvers until he ed. accom Plished the obje Emperor Said that ho had listened with the i it utmost to the details given by Mr. Stanley, and the Knpresr andthe Prins had been greatly in- BRIGHTON, His Majesty further remarked, was a tful Rathi more le gold" oopi oo, Taw still more le wh, OF air visitor — 6 him a more edom, an mi: upon attending him by hundreds every: time he moves out of the Grand Hotel—and if it were ible for him to enjoy the sea breeze from the balcony of his hotel without the spacious roadway being instantly Diocked up, Not that he made any complaint him- solf—on the compen. believe that the Emperor has the very highest yr the character and habits of the English people, for whose enduring esteem he expressed his profound gratitude; yet a little less demonstrative affection would certainly be far from disagreeable. THRIR MAJESTIES will probably not remain in Brighton longer than a few days, a8 they propose to visit the Isle of Wight. The Emperor enjoys excellent health and the best of spirita, Her Ma‘esty, I undei , well, though suffering from slight fatigue ‘rom her jour- = in Scotland, with the scenery of which. «se was le ghted. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. Their son, a most accomplished and winning young prince, hes wonderfully improved tn healt! during his residence in le has grown ra) idiy, and bids fuir to turn out a thorough soldier. At present he is baste e d in studying for his academic career at Woolwich, whither he rane in a couple of months to join the Royal gery Ifthe Prince proves himself as successful in hi military duties as in his English studies he will Ls be one of the most distinguished pupils of his class. STANLEY BEFORE THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. a [From the London Observer.) Mr. Stanley, the discoverer of Livingstone, has proved nimself quite equal to a night with the British Association. No one who has seen him could ever have doubted that he would issue as triumphantly from the ordeat of a s¢ance as he had done from the newspaper controversy. Except, however, as regards the “picnic” at the head of ‘Tanganyika, there is nothing new in the bright and striking nurrative of his journey in search of the lost traveller, which Mr. Stanley addressed on Friday to the British Association. We are alffamiliar now with the outline of the spirited story. For our parts we are less Impressed by the arduous and victorious endeavor which carried Mr, Stanley from Zanzibar to Ujiji than by the fact that the proprietor ofa journal should have hit on the idea of finding Liv- ingstone and should have soreadily laid hands on a man able to execute his project. Nothing in romance or in the stirring matter-of-fact incidents in Africa is so wonderful as the interview at Paris. It is Ori- ental in its simplicity and Occidental in its brevity and thoroughness. Mr. Bennett calls a man by telegram from Spain, and tells him in @ few words to find a traveller lost from ken in Central Africa, and to draw upon his cashier for any amount re- quired to defray expenses. This is quite beyond the frontiers of routine or everyday practice. The selected seeker never saw Africa, knew nothing of tts language or customs, yet he was only slightly surprised at the request of his employer, and suggested no obstacle save money. No despot in his pride of power could obtain more instant acquiescence. “You will go to Africa and find Dr. Liyingstone,. and take as much money as you need for the purpose.’? “Very well, sir. Good night!” That is the sub- stance of the whole negotiation. The route chosen is in itself a heavy piece of work. The envoy sets out for Zanzibar by way of Russia, Persia, India and the Mauritius. Probably he has as keen a recollection of his hardships in Persia and of his disgust at the character of that country as he has of the wide stretch between Zanzibar and Ujiji. Although a special distinction attaches to this African expedition, yet, rightly viewed, it must appear less striking to Mr. Bennett than to the world, for the New York HERALD freq almost as wany wandering missionaries as some an governments retain in diplomatic service. The secret of its success lies in the choice of men and in boundless expenditure. It is a merit in Mr. Bennett that he gave carte to the emis- sary he sent into a country new to his enterprises; but practically the roving ‘correspondents’? are ordered hither and thither and obey tele- graphic instructions just as promptly and readily as Her Majesty’s men-ol-war answer to the Admiralty helm. We can understand sending a man from Rome to Berlin, or from Paris to Alexan- dria, or London to Moscow; but it is quite a differ- ent thing to call suddenly wy) Tei r to pacl his trunks for a voyage to Tai ka. The other day an enterprising traveller, Mr. Cooper, to penetrate into Thibet; he failed. Cannot a New YORK HERALD correspondent be found to interview the Grand Liama? . The appearance of Mr. Stanley at Brighton was in every way triumphant. He not only told a most interesting story, and told it with a Defoe-like sim- plictty and directness, but he stood the fire and an- swered the fire of the geographers. There is nothing in the whole history of travel that quite equals the thoroughly realistic account of the entry into Ujiji. Mr, Stanley says no one can describe his emotions at the sight of the village wherein the mission entrusted to him at Paris was to be fulfilled, But how well he had them under control when he uttered the every-day formal salutation, “Dr. Livingstone, I resume.” We can ate, such a greeting ina all Mall club or @ city bank parlor; but in the heart of Africa! Here were two men alone of their race in the midst of savages, and they speak exactly asif the scene were the Broadway or the Strand! We can weil believe that the Arabs and others present were impressed by the coolness of the two white men. But the Arabs could not enter into their feelings at all. if they half understood the aim of Mr, Stanley they would not be able to comprehend the motives which brought him to the palm-embowered village s0 remote from the sea. They would appreciate the energy, to ap courage and display of resources which he had exhibited, and wo: have no doubt whatever that Mr. Stanley has increased the pres- tige of the European in Eastern Africa, and has so far contributed directly an additional security to the indefatigable Livingstone. Another point—and one which must have gone straight to the hearts of his hearers, as it has done to others ere this—is the hearty, manly, enthusiastic affection which his American cousin bears to the Scotch traveller. Perhaps 1t was—from a moral point of view—worth Mr. Stanley's while to'travel ail the way to Ujiji for the sake of the strong feeling of admiration and love which Livingstone had aroused in him. We British folk, who already admired him, will now only admire him the more; and the generous senti- ments experienced in America towards England will certatnly be intensified now that the Stars and Stripes have succored an explorer as dear to them astous. Itisa striking fact that the interest of the Americans in our Indian Empire ana our East- ern enterprises has always been warm and friendly. Seward, when in India, spoke just as most glishmen would have spoken, and more fairly than the carping school of critics among us, Now work in such gallant style, the sympathy and help, if needed, will be stronger and fuller than ever. As to the geographical question, has anyone a right to dogmatize on that If testimony is worth anything, Mr. Stanley’s description of the voyage to the north extremity of Tanganyika proves that it has no connection with the Victoria Nyanza and the Nile. That point we must accept as settled, discredit the observations of the two travellers. But Dr. Livingstone tells us that he has discovered the sources of the Nile in the water system west of Tanganyika, in the great river Lualaba, which he assumes flows into the Bahr-el-Ghazal. On the other hand, we have the positive evidence of Petherick and Schwein- furth and Graut that the Ghazal is not of volume sources are north, not south, of the Equator. The first thing we have to remark is that Dr. Living- stone’s own account has not yet been published, and that his explorations northward—that ts, in the direction of the Nile—have not been completed. All we are entitled to believe is that west and south- west of Lake Tanganyika there ia an extensive range of waterways whose general direction appeared to be, and were so far as followed up, northward. Beyond that all is conjecture. The balance of tes- timony and reasoning is adverse to Livi tone’s | opinion that these waters feed the Nile; but surely, | until the traveller has finished his explorations, eee joey bs suspended. The rivers may run into the Nile, bulging into hi walnps brane way, or they may fow to the west and feed the Congo; or they may drain into some deep depression of the central plateau, and form a vast inland sea. The multiplicity of suggestions show how wise it will be to register what we know and wait for more facts. The secret of the African river-system lies between Lake Tchad and the country southwest of ‘Tanganyika, A line bisecting that area must, one would judge, cut at some point the interior net- work of streams forming the drain: We know all the outlets on the coasts of the continent; every stream has been visited by our ships, and the @ broad fringe of country. this it may be inferred that the waterways dis- covered by Livingstone must ran either into the Congo, the Nile, or an inland sea, Until we obtain Livingstone’s full accounts, and lly until we have the story of his further pt northward, more no one can positively In the mean- time, thanks to the marvellous resolution of Mr. Bennett's envoy, we have the satisfac- tion of knowing not oni that Livingstone exists, but that he has ample supplies, and that he let it by is bent on following up the mystery, Jead him wi of Livingstoffe’s fual triumph than ever. for the Test it is highly desirable on every ground that some token of our ap) tion more substantial than “thanks” should be presented to Mr. Stanley— something that he can keep to show his chilfren When he settles down at home—something that will always remind him that the British are not un- etd or insensible to the value of the work he LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY. {From the Philadephia Post, August 30.) The New York HERALD gave to the world the greatest feat of newspaper enterprise when it sent Stanley to Africa at its own expense and discovered Livirigstone. The New York Sun is now rivalling the HERALD by producing the greatest newspaper sensation in putting forward what will very likely Prove a akilfully concocted plan to throw discredit ‘upon the veracity of Stanley through the medium of one Louts Noe, While Henry Wilson is striving earnestly to prove that he was not a Know Nothing the Sun is vigorously laboring to prove that its correspondent is a reliable Noe Something. We fear that Henry Wilson and Louis Noe are in the same dilemma, and until Henry is able to extricate him- self from the slough of Know Nothingism there is no probability that Louis can show that he knows something that will prove Stanley Africanus to be @ fraud, The story of Noe is entitled to so little credit that it is surprising that it is not treated as a zephyr of sensationalism. He pronounces himself as a de- serter from the army and as a mere slave in the hands of Stanley. He produces letters of the most affectionate character from his master, yet alleges that he was treated by him in the most cruel man- ner. He displays no particular ability, yet claims that Stanley took such a fancy to him that he made him his companion in wonderful travels. There is not even the air of probability in his remarkable story, yet it 1s being treated as Gospel truth. The HERALD and Sunare printing fac-similes of Livingstone’s letter, of which Stanley was the bearer, and of the alleged Stanley letters to Noe. While there is a similarity in the chirography there is nothing extraordinary in it. No one that has paid any attention to the writing of different in- dividuals has failed to observe identical pecullari- ties, One’s penmanship depends on two things— education and temperament. As a rule nervous people have the same jerky style, and phiegmatic people a regular style. Iynorance will direct the peninone way wiih the same irregularity and want of confidence, and the educated hand will show that it felt no dimcuity in the task. We can recall three persons of our acqnaintance whose handwriting resemble each other so remarkably euae Only. the signature to a letter will decide the aul Ls It 1s dificult to assume the possibility of Stanley's concocting 80 monstrous and complete a fraud as the Livingstone business could be under the as- sumption of his would-be friend, Louis Noe. Mr. Noe has behind him brains that are working up a tremendous case of improbability, and it is being worked up well. The result will be that the HERALp’s enterprise, after the explosion of this bubble, will come out in stronger light than ever. The veil of doubt which hangs over its splendid achievement dims its lustre now, but when it is rent in twain the brilliancy will be the more daz- aling for its temporary obscurement. The sun is no brighter after the sterm-cloud is lifted from its countenunce, but we imagine it grander and more glorious when we see it dash superbly dt the blackness which has hidden it from our view. The New YorK HERALD, with that shrewdness which is its characteristic, is humorin this story, thus keeping it before the public, [ will cause comment over the world just that much longer, and in the end will place it in the position of aman who has performed a great deed, upon whom cruel stander has been heaped, but who has come out stronger in his greatness when the slan- der has been disproved. The Sun wilknot be a loser in the controversy. It lives ina never-end- ing atmosphere of extravagant narrations. Its comprehensive grasp takes in men of all conditions and rank. From uations to small boys if seizes material to construct overpowering delusions which startle its readers with their tremendous im- peewee and they are never disappointed when he sunlight of truth dissipates the mist, but look eagerly for “the next,” and enjoy the Sorc excitement of wandering through a fresher fleld of conjecture, {From the Buffalo Express, August 29.] A correspondent of the New York Sun named Noe is trying to make a sensation by telling what he knows about Stanley Africanus. He makes out the latter gentleman to be a forger, deserter and an abominable fraud, and avers that Stanley com- municated to him his plan of gaining money and fame by going into Africa and writing a book about it. The HERALD having printed a Jac-simile of the letter sent to Mr. Bennett by Livingstone, the Sun prints a letter of Stanley's to Noe, side by side with the su, oe Livingstone letter, and it is said to be strange ly like it, though in what respect we are not yet informed, We are satisfied by the evidence that Stanley did see Livingstone, and is mainly truthful in his state- ments. But the sceptics are popping up on all sides, The French papers will not be convinced, and a “Boston Woman” thinks it strange how any- pina can believe such an extravagant yarn. But be on English government and Dr. Livingstone’s m are satisfied with the Foe brought by Mr. Staniey we are not disposed to give serious atten- tion to the flaw-pickers. Meantime the discussion is domg wongers towards stimulating curiosity about Stanley’s book. SHIP BUILDING. a os The Clipper Ship Sea Witch—The Latest Model in the Commercial Line.) ‘The merchant navy of the United States is rapidly growing in strength and beauty of structure, and every month new vessels are leaving our shores and making their maiden voyage laden with freight to all portions of the world. The clipper ship Sea Witch, lately built by Robert £. Jackson, of East Boston, and now taking in cargo for San Francisco at pier 19 East River, is a very fine specimen of “what we know about ship building” in the United States. She is an oak-built vessel, of 1,288 tons, carpen- ter's measurement, designed for the California and India trade, and although she has fine ends, with slightly concave lines, she is not extremely sharp, like a steamer. Her bow has a graceful fore-rake, and terminates in a full female figure, piaced to correspond with the rake of the stem. The stern is quite light and oval in outline, but rounded in the wake of the monkey rail, and is tastefully orna- mented with gilded carved work. She is sheathed with yellow metal up to 2134 feet; above that the hull is painted black, and the bulwarks and deck houses are pearl color. Her between-decks, as well as the lower hold, are bright and varnished. She 1s 197 feet long on the keel, 203 feet between per- ndicuiars.on deck, and 215 feet over all; her Breadth of beam is 38 feet, including 8 inches swell, or rounding of sides; depth, 24 feet, including 8 feet height between decks; sheer, about 4% feet, which is graduated on her whole length, and dead rise 12 inches at halffioor. She is Poe flush to the covering board and is smooth forward, without head boards or trail boards. All her accommodations are on the sre deck. Her frame and all the outside pls Ing up tothe wales are of seasoned white oak; her keelsons, ceiling, deck frames, lower deck and wales are of selected Southern pine. The upper deck and houses are of white pine; and not only is she eqnais fastened throughout and through tree- natled with locust, but her floor timbers, butt and bilges are bolted with yellow metal, and every plank from the garboards to the plank shear is iked with composition. The decks and bulwarks are also composition fastened, and every eye and ringbolt is of galvanized iron, 80 that rust will not be likely to mar her beauty. Her frame was well seasoned with salt while in the course of construction, She has open air streaks in the lower hold and tween decks,” brass ventilators along the line of her plank shear, and is otherwise,seasoned and ven- tilated fore and aft. She is a full rigged ship, with built lower masts and bowsprit of hard pine. The topmasts and jibbooms are also hard pine spars. Captain mikes Paine, the Marine Surveyor for American Lloyd's says that he can sug- gest no improvement in her, and has, therefoi iven her the highest rate accorded to vessel Inthe country. She is owned by Messrs. William F, Weld & Co., of Boston, who are reckoned amor the largest shipowners in the United States, an best sailing vesse! who own some of the Is in the world, Captain Isaac N. Ja rly mander of the ship Great Admiral, also owned by Messrs, Weld & Co., will command She is the largest ship that has been built in East Boston since the Glory of the Seas. FATALLY ORUSHED BY A RAIL CAR, — Coroner Herrman yesterday morning examined several witnesses in the case pf Andrew Probst, a German, fifty-five years of age, late of No. 875 Eleventh avenue, who died from the effects of in- Juries received on the 6th inst. by having his left foot crushed, corner of Fifty-ninth street and car 145 of the Beit Ratiroad Com- Fig occas was in the act of stepping on the it platform of the car while it was in motion, and, in some manner not fully explained, the ‘wheel passed over bis foot. Owing tothe absence Oiveveval witnesses the case Was not «oucluded. THE BRIGHTON MEETING. George the Fourth and Brighton—Decline of the Meeting—Immense Attendance on This Occa- sion—The Demi-Monde and the “Welshers” in Foree—Complaints of the Respecta- ble—The Howling Botting Men and the Press—The Brighton Stakes—The Brighton Cup. Lonnow, August 8, 1872, ‘The feature of the week, regarded from a sport- ing point of view, has been the Brighton meeting, which first had greatness thrust upon it by George the Fourth, who, not content with setting up his famous Pavilion at the town which he made into the greatest bathing place in England, did his best torender popular the races held on the downs which overlook the town on the eastside, At that time he was at loggerheads with the Jockey Club, @ body that had so disgusted him with the observa- tions it had passed on the riding of his jockey, Sam Chifney, on an occasion which ts now historical, that he withdrew altogether from its membership, and was not appeased until an abject apology had been tendered him by the cinb. In his absence from Newmarket and his frequent residences by the “gad sea waves” he gave much patronage to the meeting on the downs, and for many years after- wards it was one of the greatest in the country. It is stillona fair footing; but of late years it has lost @ good deal of popularity, and the meeting held this week has been far from up to the average. The GAY WATERING PLACE is, however, now at the height of its season, and every lodging is secured for weeks to come. It is “London-super-Mare,”’ and as London itself has been: for some time far from comfortable, there has been @ tremendous rush to every bathing place within easy hail and above all to Brighton, which, as it is the largest and handsomegt, is, perhaps, also the best, Of an evening it is almost impossible to make one’s way along the extensive payade above the seashore; the air is resonant with the incon- gruous strains of many hands, chiefly German; the pier, stretching far out into the water, groans under the weight of the mass of humanity—princi- pally womanity—which it bears, and at the sea wall one can hardly find a space from which it is pos- sible to sniff the fresh breeze which blows over the English Channel. Brighton is fast becom- ing too popular, and while, no doubt, in Winter it will always be the fashionable seaside resort, in the hot months it is now the haunt of the flashiest and most vulgar of our middle class, or rather lower middie class, The Jews in particular are more fully represented than ever, and their generally coarse but occasionally handsome physioguomies can be seen all over the fashionable quarters of the town, and their decidedly “pronounced” style of dress quite puts in the shade the tasteful and ele- gant costumes of such of the “upper ten’ as have not yet deserted this once popular resort of the - great world. The half-world, gorgeous in silks and satins of all the colors of the rainbow, is trium- phant and came down for the race meeting in such force that the space om the further side of the course opposite the Grand Stand, always given up to carriages, did not show a single lady whose virtue could not be considered doubtful. The golden-haired and well powdered and rouged “division” need not, however, have penetrated into the lawn, just under the balcony of the stand, which was occupied by the wives and daughters of country gentlemen and esteemed resi- dents of the town.’ This spot—instead of the regu- lar ring devoted to the betting men—was crowded with thieves and “welshers,” whose practices in speculation and language in conducting their busl- ness were so objectionable that the MORALITY OF THE JOURNALISTS was offended, and all the “specials” of the daily papers wrote in the strohgest language concerning these wretches—none more so than Mr. G. A. Sala, in the Daily Telegraph. These articles had, how- ever, an excellent result, for on the day following their appearance it was found that the committee had had a rope stretched separating the regular ring from the lawn, with a board on it containing these words:—‘‘No betting allowed on this (the lawn) side.’ The effect was that the welshers not only found themselves excluded from their favorite haunt, but were unable to pursue their vocations in the ring, where the really respectable betting men held them perfectly safe. It would be also advantageous to the meeting if the committee could hit upon some means of excluding from the lawn the loud and vulgar, though well-dressed, women who usually occupy all the furtner side of the running track. Some means will, I hear, be adopted next year with this view, and if they are successful the Brighton mecting will be saved from a nuisance which materially interferes with its suc- cess among the respectable classes. I understand that the presence of the demi-monde on the lawn at Goodwood—a subject to which [_ referred in & previous communication—greatly offended many of the ladies of rank who patrouized the meeting, and that, among others, THE PRINCESS OF TECK made representations to the Dake of Richmond on the matter, which will probably bear fruit next season. The racing on this occasion was not ofa very high class, despite the exertions and liberality of the-committee, who are unremitting in their endeavors to make the meeting thoroughly suc- cessful, One of the principal events was the Brighton Stakes, of which the following is a sum- mary :— THE BRIGHTON STAKES (handicap) of 15 sovs, each, 10 {t. and 5if declared, with 100 added; winners extra; the second received 50 sovs, out of the stakes. One mile and three-quarters, Thirty-five subs., twenty-three of whom declared; — Mr. Spencer's ch. ©. Proto Martyr, by St. Albans- Laura, 3 years, 97 Ibs, including'8 ibs. extra... a Me fh rawfurd’s b. c. Dalnacardoch, 4 years, ie eee ti stsees r. ¢. Uhlan, 3 years, 01 Ibs, M. Lefevre’s Manille, 4 years, 113 Ibs... Sir G. Chetwynd’s Gourbi, 6 years, 110 Ibs Mr. Mannington’s Hautboy, 4 yeara, 97 lbs Mr. G, Nicholas’ Manager, 3 years, 94 Ibs. Mr. C. Trotter’s Kelcheburne, 3 years, 93 Ibs. BETTING AT THE StaRT.—100 to 30 against Daina- cardoch (taken) ; 100 to 36 against Maniile (taken) ; 6 to 1 against Kelchburne (taken) ; 100 to 15 against Proto Martyr (taken); 8 to 1 against Hautho: (taken) ; 100 to 12 against Uhlan (taken) ; 100 to ‘ainst Gourbi (taken). ‘he first to show in advance when the flag drop- ped was Hautboy, who made the running at a moderate pace, attended by Manille and Uhlan, As they went out of tho straight part of the course—the start taking place at the stand—Da- nacardoch headed Gourbi, who had hitherto beer lying fourth, and then commenced the ascent for the loop on the hill, which forms the middle por- tion of the track. Coming round the last half of this loop Manille and Uhlan closed up with Haut- boy, and the three now lay almost in a straght line clear of Dainacardoch, Proto Martyr at the same time drawing forward from the rear position which he had hitherto held. Soming down the hill again and approaching the straigh' ward journey Hautboy was in in front, and when fairly in the line for home Manille and Uhlan ve way to Dalnacardoch, who headed Hautboy at fie distance. When, however, they had reached the stand enclosure Proto Martyr, ying next the rails, dashed to the front like a flash of lightning, and, overcoming Dalnacardoch at every stride, won easily by a lenj @ length and a half separating second and third. Proto Martyr distinguished him- self at Goodwood by winning the Twenty-first Bentinck Memorial, but he was subsequently beaten at the same meeting for the Chesterfleld Cup ‘80 easily that {t is supposed he was “not on duty”? that day. ie Brighton Cup would have been a most interesting race had Baron Rothschild not struck out his Goodwood Cup winner—the famous Favonius—but as it was it was reduced to a,con- test between three animals. The favorite, Albers Victor, was beaten for the Goodwood «dup by Favonlus, who completely upset the form ther hed Tespectively shown at Ascot, where Albert Victor beat Favonius most decisively for the Alexandra Plate. Albert Victor was now opposed by two ani- mals, the property of the same owner, Verdure and Barford, the former of whom was made the better favorite for the reason that in the Goodwood Ou; she made nearly the whole of the running and be: her stable companion, who, however, was pulled up when it was seen that he had no chance of win- ning. THE BRranTon Cup, & ptece of plate, value 300 es of 10 s0Vs. each, for Sovs., added to a sweeps! three-year-olds and upwards; weil e; Wwin- hers extra; the second received 60 sovs. The Old Course foe two miles). 19 subs. Mr. W. 8. Cartwright’s ch, c. Aibert Victor, by Mars} Princess of Wales, 4yrs., 8st. 121b.. 2 Mr. Lefevre’s b. h. Barford, 5 yrs., 9 #t. 4 Ib. 2 Mr. Lefevre’s b. rdure, 4 uy ee we 3 ctor, against Vict WY noo , in fron tor was the first ow in at. Barford and Verdure, and in this tiger they cantered at a miserable pace to the six far- long post, At this point Custance, determined to make the running & little hotter, dashed away with Albert Victor into the dip, where Verdure, who, passing her stable companion, took second ‘place, challenged him. Barford, however, again pi the mare and ran up to Alvert Victor, who, how- ever, after a desperate race, Won by only # head, » 5349, Socooun