The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. = Volume XXxva. AMUSEMENTS ‘THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Woop's MUSEUM, Broadway, cerner Thirtieth st— Cuow-Cuow. Afternoon and Evening. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, hatepeen Houston and Bleecker sts —Onz Wirr, Matinee at 2. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, botween Thir. teenth and Fourteenth strects.—Acyus. datince at iva WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth sreet—Kxxinworru. Matinee at 144—Lxon. FIFTH AVENUE eee, Twenty-fourth street— Diasnonps, Matinee at 1}. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Tgntyhird st. and Eighth av.—Ror Canorrs. Matinee at THEATRE COMIQUE, No. {4 Broadway. ~Annan-xa- Brogue. Matinee at BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third stroot. corner Sixth avenue.—Tux Beis; on, Tux Pouwsn Jew. Matinee. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Sxacrant's Wxp- nc—Tae Dearne Trav. WHITE'S ATHENAUM, £8 Broadway.—Neoro Min- STRELSY, 4c. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st... corner €thav.—Nvcro Minsrnatsy, Eocenrnicrry, &c. “Matinee. ST. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 23th st. and Broad way.—San Francisco Minsteeis ww Farce, &c. Matinee. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Granp Vantety Entertainment, &c. Matinee at 244. 720 BROADWAY. EMERSON'S MINSTRELS.—GRaxp Exnrorian Eccenraicrtims, Matinee at 2. JAMES ROBINSON'S CHAMPION CIROUS, corner of Madison avenue and Forty-fith street. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth stroet.—Straxoson Concent. Matinee at 2. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 624 and 64th streets, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Geaxp (CERT. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Sept. 21, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'TLo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. InsTRUMENTAL LIVINGSTONE: LETTER TO AN’ AMERICAN; THE HERALD SERVICE DONE RIGHT NOBLY— EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS—SEVENTH Paar. GREELEY IN OHIO: SPEECHES EN ROUTE AND AT CINCINNATI; VISIT TO THE EXPO- SITION ; SERENADE AND PROCESSION ; FUTURE MOVEMENTS—A PRESS QUARREL OVER THE SAGE—STATEN ISLAND LIBE- RALS—Turmp Pagz. GRANT'S JERSEY TOUR—THE BOURBON DEMOC- RACY STICK TO O'CONOR—GERMAN EN- DORSEMENT UF CITY JUDGE BEDFORD— CAMPAIGN FLASHES AND GOSSIP—TuiRD PaGE. EDITORIAL LEADER: “CITY REFORM—TOO MANY COOKS AND TOO MANY CAND DATES FOR MAYOR" —SrxTH PaGE. HIDDEN PLUNDER: A FEDERAL QUARTERMAS- TER BURIES $62,000; ITS MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE—THE SECOND CONNEC- TICUT—SHIPPING—TENTH PAGE. THE VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD TROUBLE— WASHL ‘ON—THE MARIO-PATTI CON- CERT—PERSONAL—TELEGRAPHIC NEWS— SEVENTH Pac. YACHTING: GRAND RACE FOR THE COMMO- DORE’S CHALLENGE CUP—AQUATIC— PIGEON SHOOTING—PAULINE LUCCA— MUSIC AND THE DRAMA—Firtn Pace. TROTTING AT PROSPECT PARK: THREE GAL- LANT STRUGGLES—THE LEXINGTON (KY.) RACES—NAVAL—THE ODD FELLOWS—THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS: DISCOURTESY; THEIR DEPARTURE—Firta Pace. THE WALL STREET EXCHANGES: ROUT OF THE CLIQUES; MR, BOUTWELL PREPAYS THE NOVEMBER COIN INTEREST, AND GOLD DECLINES; A GENERAL RISE IN STOCKS— THE ANTI-CLIQUE BANKS—THE CLEARING HOUSE MEETING—EtcuTa Pace. fHE SUB-TREASURY DEFALCATION: WHAT BE- CAME OF JOHNSON’S MONEY ; HILLHOUSE’S RESPONSIBILITY—CLUBBING AN ARTIST: CURIOUS POLICE DOINGS—THE COURTS— THE IMPRISONED KU KLUX—CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN UNION—CAPTURING ROME— NINTH PaGE. JAPAN: HORRORS OF THE CHINESE COOLIE TRAFFIC; A PERUVIAN SLAVER CAP- TURED; RELATIONS TO COREA—THE DUELLO IN ASIA—TELEGRAPH TO AUS- TRALIA—SANDWICH ISLANDS —FovaTa PaGE. CUBA: THE ROYAL DECREE ON THE ISLAND DEBT; NEW IMPORT REGULATIONS; HOR- RORS OF SLAVERY—BRAZIL: EXCITING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION — SINGULAR SUICIDE NEAR BALTIMORE—AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIK—Fourti Pas. MINOR MUNICIPAL FRAUDS: “APPROPRIA- TIONS” IN BUILDING JEFFERSON MAR- KET AND HARLEM COURT HOUSES—ELEv- ENTH PAGE. Toe Watn Street Catpron was quieter yesterday, although there wasa good deal of simmering in the public discussion of the situation. The offensive and defensive action of the two banks that refused to cash certified checks presented by the pool on Thursday was the occasion of a meeting of the Clearing House, but nothing was done of a formal character either to endorse or to condemn it. The rebuff of the pool in their designs upon the money market has been supplemented by 8 new trouble, in the shape of ao revival of an old law allowing the Treasury to anticipate the payment of the coin interest on the public debt by a period of sixty days, on a rebate of ix per cent. Ove Speci Lerrens rrom Jaran—Tre Coorre Trarric at Issvz.—The special corre- spondence from Japan which appears in the Henatp, under date of the latest mail advices from Yokohama and Hiogo, supplies news of great interest, particularly with reference to the modern and scarcely masked slave trade which iscarried on from China under the cover and classification of the coolie traffic. The Japanese authorities and people, the progres- sive reformers of the Far East, are likely to bring the subject to the test of international arbitrament. A Peruvian vessel laden with (Chinese coolies was driven into a Japanese port by stress of weather. Here she was forcibly detained and the cases of the coolies inquired into, The commander of the ship pleads that the Chinese are emigrants, each pone exiling himself of his own free will as an articled industrial laborer. The representa- Lives of some of the great governments, Eng- land among them, have interested themselves in the matter at the point of Japanese decla- fation, so that it is quite probable the Christian ‘world will soon have occasion to enlarge the Boope of the work of international settlement from Geneva outward to Hong Kong and Pekin Gnd ot Yokobama apd Hioga Cd al , NEW: YOKK HERALD, City Keform—Too Many Cooks and Too Many Candidates for Mayor. The agitations and excitements of a Presi- dential campaign on national, State and municipal affairs bring out all the reserved forces of our political parties, factions, cliques and clans, And when, as this year, wo have before us, and all in the same general election, a Presidential electoral ticket, s Congressional ticket, a State tickct, a legis- lative ticket and a municipal ticket to vote for, the excitements and agitations of the general canvass aro inevitably groatly increased from the cross-purposes and cross- firings, and the exchanges on our national and local candidates, between the various factions and parties concerned. But when, superadded to these disturbing elements of numerous national and local candidates, we have new party organizations and divisions and deteo- tions, all inexplicably mixed up in the com- mon cause of city reform, we have ‘‘confusion worse confounded,’’ and the prospect of city reform becomes correspondingly gloomy and Yet these are the conditions upon which our fellow citizens and taxpayers of this “tight little island”’ are entering into the important work in view of an election in behalf of city reform. To all the various considerations cal- culated to affect the mind of the voter as between Grant and Greeley, Dix and Kernan, Cox and Tremain, and this or that Assembly ticket, are now added the question of this, that or the other candidate for Mayor, and all the complications of our city politics, National, State, municipal, all the great and small issues involved, and all the interests of tho candi- dates and parties concerned in the schedylo of elections suggested, come up for the judgment of this people on the 5th of November. Remember, remember, the fifth of November. On our Presidential question we have threo parties in the field—the republicans for Grant and the liberal republicans and democrats for Greeley ; and a fourth party of the straight, or Bourbon democrats, is still making prepara- tions for an active hand in the battle under the Bourbon banner of O’Conor and Adams. These Presidential complications will, to a great extent, affect the divisions of our parties and factions upon our State and local tickets., But still, from the numerous organizations and clans that have sprung up here with especial reference to our municipal election, it promises to be the most perplexing muddle and the most unprofitable scrub race ever known on the island since the first landing of the Dutch. It would be superfluous here to give the cata- jogue of the associations and clans already organized and at work looking to the election of our next Mayor, for their name is Legion. Conspicuous among the candidates men- tioned for this important office are H. G. Steb- bins, W. F. Havemeyer, Charles E. Loew, Andrew H. Green and James O’Brien. Mr. Stebbins is a man whose high character and qualifications for any public position demand- ing a large experience in public affairs, ability, integrity and sound discretion, are universally admitted ; but, under the peculiar conditions of the crisis, he is hardly the man required to grapple with the difficulties of the situa- tion. He is not sufficiently known among the masses of our voters to meet the necessities of the case. Mr. Havemeyer is also a man universally respected and esteemed, a safe and reliable man, in fair weather and plain sail- ing, and is widely known, too, as a man, from his services in this capacity, who would make a good Mayor. But his experience and his ideas of city retrenchments and city reform, we apprehend, are associated more with New York of the past than with the city of the present and the future. Mr. Loew is one of the most popular of our rising democratic politicians; but, without depreciating his talents and capabilities, it may be said of him that he has not yet passed those intermediate stages of political experience or study required for a first rate Mayor. Mr. O’Brien, at a single bound last Fall, sprang into the position of a popular reformer, and he has a powerful and devoted clan at his back who appear resolved to run him for Mayor against the field, regard- less of the strength or the number of his com- petitors; but we fear that Mr. O’Brien is too impulsive and enthusiastic for this office, which particularly calls for a cool head and a sound judgment. Mr. Green, our present Comp- troller, has become somewhat famous for his retrenchments; but we want a Mayor whose notions of retrenchment and economy will not stand in the way of those improvements and expenditures needed for the continuing progress, development and prosperity of the city, and Mr. Green does not meet this requi- ition. zi Other citizens more or less distinguished ad public benefactors, popular Politicians or wise old money savers have been mentioned as likely to come to the front with this or that coalition or party or association or clan as its candidate for Mayor. But in casting about for a candidate whose learning, talents, gen- eral knowledge of public affairs and practical business habits would eminently qualify him for the Mayoralty and the great work of city reform, it has occurred to us that Charles A. Dana, of the Sun, “which shines for aoll,’’ would meet the demand. He is a fine scholar, and from his writings all who have read them will pronounce him a keen and profound thinker. Moreover, from the excellent taste displayed in the selections of his popular book of houschold poetry, he evidently possesses in no small degree the refined sensibili- ties of the poet. But, ‘Fee, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.’’ We hear a voice from Printing House equarc, which in consternation protests against the outrage of honoring in any way this alleged libeller of General Grant. But we do not know, and, therefore, do not assume, that Mr. Dana is really guilty in the premises. We know that the proprietor or managing editor of a daily journal is held guilty of many offences of which he is innocent ; and so, we think, is Mr. Dana. Touching his qualifications forthe Mayor- alty, we think they will hardly be questioned, and as an advocate of city reform he has done good service. Next, on the point of availa- bility, an essential of the first magnitade for a political candidate, Mr. Dana’s advantages are very great. The Sun, we are informed, has a daily circulation which has reached the hand- some maximum of ninety thousand. This figure doubtless represents ninety thousand voters and say sixty thousand friends of Mr. Dana, who would vote for him as a candidate for Mayor, especially if presented as tho can- Gidate of the democratic liberals and liberal SATURDAY, republicans. We believe, too, that if so nomi- nated the canvass for Mayor would be so far simplified as to render the issue dependent only on the strength in this city of Kernan and Coxand Greeley and Brown. Mr. Havemeyer, it is understood, is to be brought forward as the candidate for Mayor of the Committee of Seventy and its affiliating reform associations, We presume that with this introduction he will-be adopted by the republicans as their candidate. What chanco, against this coalition, will there be forthe Tam- many reform candidate or the outside reformers under the banner of O'Brien? A compro- mise candidate, representing Greeley demo- erats and republicans, and the O’Brien re- formers if possible, will be the only chance for them against the Committee of Seventy, backed up by the Grant republican reformers. Aud here Mr. Dana’s availability comes out in bold relief. He isa Greeley republican, and heartily supports the Syracuse coalition State ticket. He is o city reformer, and in the cause of reform has struck many a telling blow for O'Brien. In short, Mr. Dana, on the momentous question of the Mayoralty, offers the same advantages for a coalition of all the anti-Grant elements which the name of Mr. Greeley suggested to the Cincinnati and Balti- more Conventions. There must bea fusion of the democrats and liberal republicans in this metropolis on the Mayor, or there will be confusion among them in reference to Presi- dent, Governor and Legislature. As goes the city so goes the State—thut is, if the city goes by anything near its average democratic ma- jority. But Grant is strong and Dix is strong, and the democrats of the city, on the question of reform and the Mayor, are so cut up and divided as to render the general result in the city, from present appearances, exceedingly doubtful. Hence we suggest, as the basis for acoalition of all the opposition reform ele- ments, the name of Charles A. Dana to head their city ticket, for of all things to bo desired by the people of this island in regard to these coming elections of the 5th of November is a square issue and a fair battle between two re- form candidates, because with three or mord we make it a scrub race, which in its results will give us anything but city reform, Oficial Frauds and Financial Dis- turbances—Where Is the Remedy? The love of money, it is said in Scrip- ture, is the root of all evil, and cer- tainly we aro having evidence enough just now that tho eager grasping after it by any means is croating an unusual excite- ment in this city at present. For several days past thero has been a great disturbance in Wall street, and in business and financial circles generally, through the cornering opera- tions in stocks, money and gold of a clique of gambling speculators. At the same time we learn of a stupendous robbery in the Sub- Treasury of government stamps, which is too mildly called a defalcation. The amount of stamps, mostly or entirely of one dollar de- nomination, as is reported, which Johnson embezzled or stole is not yet known, but is variously estimated from a hundred and eighty to three or four hundred thousand dollars. The sum is very large at least. And here we have the old story in this man’s crime of Wall street stock operations as the cause. With a salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year Johnson was entrusted with hundreds of thousands of easily convertible property of the government, almost as avail- able as money—in fact, without any check upon him—and his accounts never examined. Catching the mania for stock gambling, which prevails to such a frightful extent, he used, it appears, the government means of which he was custodian. He commenced, it is said, his stock operations last May, gaining a little sometimes and enough to stimulate his pro- pensity and cupidity, and then, as is usually the case with such amateurs, lost heavily. Ho had not, of course, any resources to make good the plunder taken from the Sub-Treas- ury, if even he should have had the disposi- tion to refund. We have had frequently and unfortunately to record similar embezzlements by government officials and others holding the funds of financial establishments from the same cause. Stock gambling is as demoraliz- ing as the faro bank. Nor are the so-called stock cornering operations by a clique of capitalists, such as we have witnessed within the last day or two, by which the business community is plundered, scarcely less immoral; and this evi- dently was the opinion of the bank authorities, who refused to let money go out on checks to nid the cornering speculators. Whether strictly legal or not, they acted upon the prin- ciple that ¢ on public akc moral grounds they were justified in what they did. It is gratify- ing to know that the disturbance and trouble caused by these gamblers in stocks and money are subsiding. All such things—combinations to affect the market and business, as well as the embezzlements resulting from the same spirit of stock gambling—show the want of high moral principle and are fearfully demoralizing the community. It may be difficult to finda remedy for this great evil, but it is becoming more necessary every day that our lawmakers should endeavor to check it at least. The dif- ferent boards of trade should take this matter into serious consideration and make suitable representation to the Legislatare aud Congress for their guidanes. = Cane Cosmmuntcation Frost Eur ROPE TO vies Tratia.—By ao special correspondence from Australia, dated in Sydney on the 3d of August, we are informed of the fact that the rojoicings in which the colonists indulged over the receipt of the first electric telegram direct from Lon- don were suddenly clouded by the cessation of communication through the wire. Congratu- latory messages had been forwarded to Queen Victoria and President Grant, complimenting the English and American governments on the successful accomplishment of this grand feat of science, when the fire of the tongue of sub- marine utterance was in a moment quenched, as it were, and the nerve of popular intercom- munion paralyzed. The occurrence is almost similar to that which took place just after Europe had spoken to America under and from the depths of the Atlantic. The officers of the company are endeavoring to repair the injury to the Europo-Australasian wire, but the break had existed for the space of a month when the Henatp letter was mailed, and the restoratton had not been effected. Tho search for the injured portion of the ¢lectric rope off the coast of Australia is prosecuted amid ledges of coral reef, which renders the work extremely difficult. The light will shine anew, notwithstanding. SEPTEMBER, 21, 1872.-FRIPLE SHEET. Dr. Livingstone’s Epistle to the Ameri- cans—A National Tribute. Among the letters carried to the coast by Mr. Stanley, the Heraup correspondent in Central Africa, was one from Dr. Livingstone to an American gentleman, Mr. W. F. Stearns, It will bo recalled that this gentleman kindly furnished the Heaanp with some previous letters of the great explorer, of which we presented fac-similes. On the receipt of this latest letter from Bombay (whtte he formerly resided) he handed it to the Henatp for publication, and we present it in our issue of to-day. Accompanying it was a letter from the Doctor, dated Manyema, Central Africa, November, 1870, in which especially honorable mention is made of tho American Geographical Society, and requesting him to furnish that body with extracts. He admits in the later letter that as he gained additional knowledge of the subject since writing, some of his views expressed in tho earlier communication, may have changed. It is gratifying to note that Dr. Livingstone’s high appreciation of America and Americans antedates by a long way the extension of aid to him through the Heratn expedition. The renaming of tho large lake, Chebungo, after America’s great murdered President, Abraham Lincoln, is another instance of this. Tu the reference to the Hxratp's claim on his gratitude he mows that be is addressing an American, and, therefore the acknowledg- ment comes with a double force and grace. Ho puls the matter in the very sonso in which we have always wished it to be un- derstood, namely, in a national sense. When he says, “I have been among the Philistines, my dear fellow, but am now strong and well, and, thanks to the Americans, completely equipped for my concluding trip,'’ he puts the question outside of individuals and extends his recognition to the entire American people. The contrast which it cannot fail to suggest between his treatment by those of his native land and a foreign nation seems to find cheery allusion in this phrase when compared with his . remark on. the easy belief of the Consul at Zanzibar, Dr. Kirk, in the matter of sending him supplics. We do not care to go into this contrast further. Our idea of finding Livingstone or solvin, the mystery of his fate was not based on any- thing 80 narrow as his nationality or race; it was as one of the heroes of humanity—a man who, by his devotion to what is of interest to all civilization, is or should be tho especial care of every intelligent being in the world. We have heretofore given some attention to the doubting Thomases in this matter, who successively shifted their ground from scoff to quibble, from quibble toshrug and from shrug tothe nod of assent. The testimony of Mr. Stearns’ letter is fortunately not necded to convince anybody now; but it is a complete pulverizer of the last vestige of incre- dulity that may roost on the conscience of the sceptic. It is amusing to notice that this grave breed of wiseacres was found even under the sun of Hindostan, ‘Doubts were suggested,” we learn, that a letter also carried by Mr. Stanley, and directed to Doc- tor Wilson, was genuine. The “fancyo- grapher’’ blossomed there, too, and took an alleged confusion between the names of Unyanyembe and Kazeh to indicate a faulti- ness of geography. The factis that the ‘“fancy- ographer’’ was, as usual, in the dark. Kazch is the place mentioned by Burton in his book on the country of Unyanyembe, where he rested. This place, or at any rate the name, has disappeared. It probably, as Stanley suggests, was the name of an enclosure, or tiembe, and called so only temporarily. In the midst of the ‘legitimate doubts’ built upon such stuff Dr. Wilson wrote to the Times of India, on the 7th ultimo, as follows:—‘‘I have not a particle of doubt about tho letter. Itisin the handwriting of Dr. Livin-stone, with which Iam perfectly familiar, and there are allusions in it to matters known only to Dr. Livingstone and myself in the form in which he refers to them. I see Dr. Living- stone as clearly marked in it throughout as if he were sitting before me at this moment.” Straightway the bag of incredulity’ collapsed and Hindostan breathed more freely. In all that concerns the work of that great and good man, David Livingstone, we shall ever take a deep interest. He has laid out two heavy tasks before him—one in the cause of science, the other and greater in the cause of humanity—the discovery of the sources of the Nile and the suppression of the African slave trade. The first has been the problem of ages; the second must be the task of civilization while it is worthy of the name. Every word, every piece of in- formation that may drift towards us from Dr. Livingstone will be eagerly looked for by millions of people While he, then, is pursuing his dangerous way among the trackless lands of Africa, let all the governments and peoples who claim a voice in the tones of progress not stand idly by. He wants for nothing personally, but he has shown how deosply his great soul sickens at the horrors of tno slave trade, and how he yearns to see an end to it. To prevent the exportation of slaves from the East Coast is what he asks the British government to do. Will it be done snr Sew and in | good faith ? Canust News yon raz Svprmue Pox- qrrr.—-A papet purporting to have been addressed by Don Carlos to Pope Pius the Ninth is being circulated in Paris, The document makes the Spanish ex-Bourbon promise the Holy Father a speedy renewal of the insurrection in the Peninsula, the revolu- tionists having, he alleges, ample means. This is really extraordinary news to forward to the Supremo Pontiff at the centre of charity and peace. But perhaps tho state- ment is incorrect, if true in fact. The Holy Father has had some personal experience in military affairs, and has also, as a sovereign, had to resort to the carnal weapons; but that he should wish to hear of a renewal of civil war in Spain passes all comprehension. Pio Nono is really a peaceful man, and Don Carlos cannot convert him into a modern Gregory Seventh, the St. Hildebrand of f tho day. Tue Cost or Coat 1s Exanaxn. An im- mediate decline in the present high price of coal is anticipated in England. The value of the article was run up with a degree of ra- pidity which alarmed the people. It may come down just as suddenly. The average cost will then equalize, pretty much all over the world, for tho Winter. The Imprisonment of About by the Germans. ‘The friends of Germany who looked for the development of liberal and progressive ideas under the new Empire must be somewhat dis- appointed by the policy pursued by the government of Prince Bismarck. From what- ever point of view we regard that policy wo can find nothing in it to admire except the stern adherence to the fixed idea of making Fatherland strong and united. Now that this has been accomplished, with a success that moust have astonished even the most enthu- siastic German dreamers, the world has been looking forward to the growth of those large and liberal ideas which ‘form the chief motive force of modern civilization. Unfortunately the rotrogressive military class seems to have acquired complete ascendancy over the coun-‘ cils of Germany. The result is seon in the outburst of feudal tyranny which, ignoring the progress of ages, attempts to restore the rule of brute force by ignoring the rights of the weak. One day the world is startled by the announcement of a religious persecution of German subjects, another by the publica- tion of an ukase declaring it a crime for the industrious serf to soek a home in more con- genial lands. Much as these acts pained those who sympathized with German unity, because they hoped to seo ® ew progressive forea bern into the world, they had some sanction in the laws of tho country. But the arrogance of power, of which these acta were but indica- tions, has carried Germany too far when sho outrages public right by tho arrest of a foreign citizen for words spoken and acts done in his own country. No such flagrant viola- tion of public right has been known in mod- ern times ; and unless the authorities at Berlin quickly correct the action of their subordinates at Metz by ordering the release of M. About Germany must be regarded as a country with- out respect for the common rights accorded to all by civilization. No writer who ventures to express an opinion hostilo to German pre- tensions will hereafter venture within reach of German power, any more than he would venture into the dominions of some African chief whose anger he might have incurred. The new ingult offered to France can only result in ‘increasing the hatred felt for Ger- mang in that country. It can aerva id politi- cal purpose, a3 France is too wise to resent the outrage. It will not, however, t be without an unfavorable influence on the public opinion of the world. Germany may feel herself strong enough to defy opinions, but in this her statesmen aro mistaken. No country can afford to occupy s0 false a posi- tion, The very power and greatness of Germany make us less tolerant of such abuses of power as her statesmen have committed, as it is impossible not to feel contempt for the bully who delights to make war on the weak and helpless. . The Prussian Court Mar- tial charges against the prisoner are of very serious character. He will be ably defended by French counsel.. The captive realizes the serious gravity of the international crisis, and, from his place of confinement, appeals to President Thiers, entreating him ‘to be calm and take no step in his case which will im- peril France.”” The new born republic may gain a grand moral victory by exercising self- restraint under these trying circumstances, Proposed Banquet in Paris to Our Geneva Representatives. It must be admitted on all hands that the Geneva arbitration has been a jolly affair from its inception. It was ushered into life as the result of the wining and dining of the Roast Joint High Commissioners, and certainly they had a “high” old time of it. Never for a mo- ment has the offspring belied its paternity. The scenes at Washington were renewed with zest at Geneva, ond that quaint old town was fain to ecknowledge that the arbitrators were a pleasant lot. Even the grim judicial aspect ot the English commissioners thawed into something approaching conviviality under the influence of dinners, wine ond fétes champétres. We have reason to believe that the Alabama business was brought to a close with regrot, and something of sorrow was visible in the faces of the wise men as they separated for their distant homes. News comes now that Paris is about to cheer the drooping spirits of our re- turning sages by a wining and an introduction to the folies Parisiennes. No doubt the grave arbitrators will come home wiser if not better men, for this little experience. There can be no objection to closing up the treaty farce in a jolly manner. We have been outwitted and humiliated, and the best thing we can do is to join with our frisky representatives and cry as loudly ag we can, Vive ielanery a ry 6 Bia “Ox ro Bacon. — Bhs a Virginia paper to ‘the merc who are making their Fall and Winter pur- chases. It advises them to go to Richmond for this purpose instead of coming here to New York. How ridiculous! New York is the grand centre of trade and commerce for the country. Here is the great mart from which merchants can select their goods with as much facility, and almost as cheaply, barring duties, as they can in the groat trade centros of Europe. The metropolis was never 60 full of purchasing merchants as it is at this time. The dry goods and other trades are particularly brisk, and the field for selecting scasonable’ articles, suriable for every section of the coun- try and applicable to liv varied climates, was never moro extensive. All this, too, in despite of Wall street rognerics, silly reports about epidemics and idle statements in regard to local lawlessness. Instead of advising its mer- chant friends to go to Richmond to make their purchases, our Virginia contemporary would much better subserve their interesta by sug- gesting that they hasten to New York to lay in their stocks of Fall and Winter goods. Iysprctors or Exections.—At the meeting of the Police Commissioners on Thursday a large number of citizens were appointed as Election Inspectors, and the Chief of the Bureau of Elections was directed to have them sworn in. The list will be completed in about ten days. In addition to these wo are to have another set acting under United States law. An honest election, which gives every voter an opportunity to exercise his choice, anda fair count of the ballots cast, are what we want more than anything else in this election; and it would seem that if an abund- ance of inspectors can insure it, we may, for once, have a full and free expression of the vor populi, which, if not vox Dei, is near enough to it for all practical purposem ——— , The Champion Seuller of America. , The contest on the Hudson, off Nyack, om the afternoon of the day before yesterday, has done much towards determining who is the foremost ocarsman of this country to-day. Two families, 60 long used to being repre- sented in the front ranks of American aquatics that their names are not only national, but in- ternational; each, like the Horatii and the Curatii of old, selected from their numerous sons him most likely to battle successfully for the high prize of the championship, and no gtound of fault has either at the way in which the race was rowed or at him who came in the winner. To be ‘beaten only a hundred feet in ® race over five whole miles tells a story that, till recently, has been o rare one—far rare—in the annals of our aquatics. Now, at last, men aro rowing together—as was seem not only in this contest, but even more plainly in the splendid College race month before last, at Springfleld—who are really matched, and it begins to look as if we are hereafter to have some races well worth going to see. When, asis frequently seen on the Thames, men cannot manage, in one mile or two, and sometimes even more, to put asingle boat's length between them, and each seems to put in every stroke all the power that lies in him, there is a treat to the looker on, however little he or she may know of row- ing, beside which the trial of strength and skill in any other pastime we have is tame. and insipid, We have seen James Renforth, the greatest oarsman England ever knew, row Harry Kelly from Putney to Mortlake, four miles and thrée furlongs, and, try all he would and improve his. every advantage, the best he could do wad to lead his skilful rival by but even seconds. Walter Brown, as he lay on the umpires boat, intently watching every movement of either, and better able, per- haps, than any other American to, de- termine their relative merits, concluded that were he in tho strife he could sandwich him- self between the two and stay there, but that that was all. Both Renforth and he have gone now, and Thursday's result encourages us to believe that not only will John Biglin well fill the place that Decker and Daw, Josh Ward and Hamill and Brown each for while held before t but will, gyen hon tho time &Sites—and wo doubt if it is a year off—kesp Joseph Sadler, who has taken Renforth’s post in England ahead of Kelly, vory closely occu.” pied over the whd!e e distance, however long it may be, to win, if win -he does at: all. ot twenty-nine years old, an inch ‘taller than” Brown, larger bone, a trifle heavier, loss’ @e- veloped in parts not brought. into play in rowing, but quite as much, so,-in those that are; deep of chest, very strong in the loins, and with excellent legs, he adds to judgment naturally far sounder. an experience in difficult positions in almost every sort of boat and race, extending over ten whole years; an acquaintance with every prominent course in the United States ; a familiarity with coaching aud training men, as the work of the Amherst. men at Springfield testifies ; and a most liberal allow- ance of nerve and thorough, downright plutk that altogether fairly promise, if he will ‘keép his name as fair and good in the future.as.he has done in the past, and will continue to im- prove in the one item of skill in the use of these very frail craft, to not only keep him in the position he has so well earned, but, especially withso many good rowing years before him, to yet give England an opportunity to look across the water for the single man who can’ outrow the best she owns, even as she now has to look for the champion four of the world. Moreover, he is especially favored in having this same young rival: who did such brilliant work the other day, ever on the watch for a chance to seize ffom his grasp the much-coveted prize which he has but just wrested from him. If he is the more powerfal and has the untiring endurance that his record and his looks both show, he has a wonder- fully lithe antagonist, almost as skilful with the oar as Grace is with the bat, and with all the wisdom and experience of numerous and justly distinguished older brothers ever at his elbow and just aching for the opportunity to show him how to win; and if the record of these older brothers is 4 fair criterion, Ellis Ward will be likely for twenty years to come to be constantly on hand, ready to cut out for all aspirants for the American sculling championship all the work any one of them may want to take care of. Harry Kelly was so much struck with his rowing last year on Saratoga Lake that he broke out in warm praises of it, and so much redson had he that it is not odd that Coulter and Mekeil, Scharf, of Pittsburg; O'Neil, Butler and numerous lesser lights have not sought him out and made him show whether he or one o them is the better man. “°° SU. 4} It cannot be long till the facilities que country, with its thousands of miles of rivers and almost innumerable lakes and ponds, offers for fast rowing will be more generally seized, and, now that we build about as good boats as the English (for Biglin’s shell was built by Elliott, of Greenpoint, while Ward's came from Jewett, of England); now that the amateurs have defined, however justly, who belongs to their number; now that we ai had more than one visit from the plek « ihe world-renowned English professional oars- men; now that one of the very four who beat the best of them has been beaten in his turn, we certal have reasonable ground to hope that if we do not reach tho one race or more for every day in the year that England's aquatic almanac shows, and have tio watermen who ply the oar for a livelihood all their days, as their fathers did before them, we can, nt Jenst,’ cause the London journals to hesitate before’ they again say, as they said in substance recently in commenting on the Atalanta’ defeat, that Americans do not know how to row. Not yet have Englishmen come back to retrieve the complete defeat they met with at the hands of the Ward brothers at Saratoga over a year ago, and it must be o source of no small satisfaction to Americans to think that, even if old Hank Ward is get- ting too near fifty tosit again on the stern thwart and set his men that stroke which showed him a master at his art, the man is not wanting who can step in and take his place, and fill it, too, and surely no one can regret that that man is John Biglin. Frvancran Statement or THR Dock Com- ssstowERs.—From the report of the weekly meeting of the Dock Commissioners it appens,