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

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ALABAMA AWARDS: CHANCELLOR LOWE CENSURES CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN; ENGLAND'S DUTY—CABLE TELEGRAMS— SEVENTH Page, GREELEY’S TOUR: MORE SPEECHES AND OVA- TIONS-JUDGE BEDFORD AGAIN 2d DORSED—SCHURZ IN PENNSYLVAN! COLORED LIBERALS—Taixp PagE. TROTTING: CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION MEETING— AQUATIC: SAPPHO VS. DAUNTLESS— $100,000 FOR THE JITY'S CHARITIES— SHIPPING—TENTH PaGE. CRICKET: THE “GENTLEMEN ELEVEN" AT BOS- TON—BRAZIL AND THE ARGENTINE CUN- FEDERATION—PORTO RICO—THE PRESI- DENT IN PHILADELPHIA—Sgventa Page, RIOT ON THE JERSEY WEST LINE RAILROAD— SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN JERSEY CITY— THE LATEST JERSEY SCANDAL—MURDER- OUS MILITIAMEN—Turep Pace. TENNESSEE'S TRIANGULAR “STUMP” FIGHT: | JOHNSON'S VIEWS; ‘MY POLICY” IN THE SURRATT CASE—VICE PRESIDENT COL- FAX'S FACTS IN THE CREDIT MOBILIER | SCANDAL—FovrtTH Pace. ‘CHANGE: THE CLIQUE LOCK UP NEARLY $2,000,000 GOLD; “HENRY HELPLESS; | HOT WORK IN PACIFIC MAIL; ERIE DE- | CLINES—“RING’ — APPARITIONS—MUNICI- PAL. GUTH PAGE. THE BIENVILLE INVESTIGATION: THE BOIL- ERS, THE FIRE AND THE ESCAPE—Nintu PAGE. FAIR'S SECOND TRIAL: THE CRITTENDENS—FALK AND METHODISTS: COURTS—THE NETT MURDER—THE SIEGFRIED POISON- ING—Firtn P: ON MRS. Vice Preswent Courax ix His Own Dz- vence.—In the matter of that Crédit Mobilier, and certain alleged distributions of shares of stock in the Union Pacific Railroad in the way of bribery and corruption, Vice President Colfax, one of the parties accused in the prem- ises, has deemed it necessary in his own de- fence to prove an alibi, He was not there, and he turns the tables upon his accusers and calls upon them to surrender. Yet it seems to us a little curions that Mr. Colfax should give us much more sharp firing upon this small personal matter than he has given during the whole campaign in the cause of Grant and Wilson. | be unlocked and its splendid plateaux, its The Present and Prospective Fruits of Livingstone’s Triumph, It is the misfortune of almost every genera- tion to dote over the deeds of remote and by- gone ages and to depreciate its own. The ex- ploits which most affect the world’s destiny do not, it is true, by tay their significance by a flash and need to be scanned and interpreted in tho calm light of human history. Tho great man whose name heads this article may not live to discover the true import of his own achievements, and certainly, in the course of nature, cannot hope to reap the harvest which he has sown. The great impediment to the realization of the toils of such a man as Livingstone lios in the incredulity of the human mind. Tho world is not deficient in the supply of a nu- merous class who resemble the pertinacious King of Anam, who refused to believe that water sometimes froze in Europe, because it had never been known to freeze in Anam. When Sir John Ross in. 1818 penetrated far within the Arctic circle he found a fine tribe of savages inhabiting a region of icy grandeur between the prongs of the Greenland glacior, but shut out from civilization and the sun by the great ice wall; and when the gallant ex- plorer told them his ship had come from the south they tenaciously insisted, “It is not true; there is nothing but ice thero!"’ So intense and blind is tho resistance which many otherwise sagacious and reasoning minds offer to the story and conclusions of great pioneers of science and research that when Sir Isaac Newton, on the strictest mathe- matical principles, arrived at and announced the deduction that the earth was a spheroid, many of the philosophers of the world of the highest repute, among them tho great Ber- noulli, entered the lists against him and declared it an oblong figure with a greater polar than equatorial extent. The great hero of explorations in Equatorial Africa has met witha similar fate among the geographical doctors and speculative scientists of his own country, but ho will survive their criticisms, and already we may begin to forecast the fame that awaits him and the advantages which the whole human family will ultimately reap from his self-sacrificing and herculcan labors. The esteem in which geographical discovery has ever been held may furnish some clew to the real value of Livingstone'’s re- searches, Tho first circumnavigator of the globe, the indefatigable Magellan, was almost immortalized by posterity. Sir Francis Drake, who followed his illustrious ex- ample, was knighted, his voyago in tho Golden Hind celebrated in song and the famous bark thronged by thousands of his admiring countrymen. Even in our later period, when the world is more phlegmatic and utilitarian, the very bones of a lost explorer (Sir John Franklin) were 80 anxiously and energetically sought for that in 1866 Sir Leopold McClintock esti- mated the foot explorations accomplished in the search, amid mountains of ice, at forty thousand miles. History fully attests how all geographical discovery, by its influence both directly and reflexively, not only serves to quicken and fecundate all the sciences, but to rouse the human mind itself from its lethargy and introduce it to new worlds of thought. But no portion of the earth yields such abun- dant treasures to the explorer as the torrid zone, in which lies the scene of Livingstone’s exploits. The tropics, as Humboldt has sug- gested, not only give rise to the most powerful impressions by their organic richness and fer- tility, but they reveal to man, by the uni- formity of atmospheric variation and the development of vital forces in their fauna and flora, and by the contrasts of climate and vegetation at different levels, the invariability of planetary lands, mirrored, as it were, in terrestrial phenomena. Africa is emphati- cally the land of greatest natural productions, of which we have here- tofore known less than we do of the surfuce of the moon, and _ not much more than the spectroscope has taught us of the photosphere of the sun. Into the most hidden wilds of this vast land mass— nearly four times as large as Europe—the penetrating genius of Livingstone has pushed geographic research and planted the germs of future civilization and empire. In solving, as we may now justly assume he has done, the ancient problem of the Nile, the old explorer has produced the key with which all the secrets of the great Southern Continent may opulent river valleys and its chains of enor- mous navigable lakes, seated and embowered high above the sea, may be thrown open to the enterprise of all coming generations. In | large sections of this newly-found world— | although, like Andean South America, lying almost under the Equator—nature has piled up upon a series of gigantic parterres and | terraces every variety of climate and soil, and compensated by cool and lofty elevations for the severity of a vertical sun. If to the na- tions of extra-tropical countries and high latitudes it seems improbable that a great civi- lization can be erected in the new world brought to light by Livingstone, we have | an artist scarcely inferior in his line. NEW YORK HHKALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1872. argosies of commerce. We doubt not, in like manner, the successful experiment of ihe Afri- can explorer will be quickly followed by the world’s pioncers of adventure, traffic and emi- gration. But, apart from all that promises of mate- rial advantage from Dr. Livingstone’s work, thore remains the moral benefit to be derived. One germ of true civilization, planted in the wilds of Africa, brings them into sympathy and unison with the rest of mankind. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. The undying seed of true Ohristianity once sown will prove fruitful beyond man’s most sanguine oxpectations, and may be expected to outlive the most adverse influences and noxious miasma of heathenism. The futuro historian, in summing up the results which attended the marvellous labors and Atlantean undertakings of Livingstone, will accord him the honor of settling and solving “the problem of the ages,” of satisfying the demands of scientific and cosmographical research in the great tropical Continent, besides that of opening a new world to commorce and civilization, and of planting the standard of civil liberty in the midst of it. The explorer himself will ever stand forth in history a colossal spectacle of moral heroism, which needs no monument nor memorial to perpet- uate its influence, Progress of Music in America—Thomas, Rubinstein and Wientawski. The memorable scene in Steinway Hall on Monday night, when Mr. Grau introduced to the American public tho Colossus of modern pianism and the inspired successor of Paga- nini, caused many of those present to cast a re- frospective glance on the wonderful progress of instrumental music in this country. In this particular even the art centres of Europe must yield the palm to the Republic of the West. Thanks to the indomitable perseverance and unassailable fidelity to the best purposes of art of the pioneer of music in this country, Theo- dore Thomas, schools and thoughts which aro comparatively unknown in some of the capi- tals of the Old World have become familiar- ized to the public mind here. Wagner, tho Beethoven of the present day, whose great mind has broken through the barriers and projudices of old schools and systems; Liszt, whose eccentricities cannot always hide the firo of genius that burns in his soul; that fantastic tone builder, Berlioz, and other mighty creators of musical works, have become our most intimate acquaintances through the introduction of Thomas, and this when a tardy recognition of the greatness of these men is now being given in Europe. The Summer concerts at Central Park Garden have no rivals on the other side of the Atlan- tic. Four months, or over one hundred nights of orchestral music, selected from a host of the best composers, ancient and modern, will show to what a high standard of education Mr. Thomas has brought the public. When it is considered that during these months the fashionable patrons of the opera, who are thought to be the only support of music in the city, are out of town, and that Mr. Thomas has to depend upon tho masses, not the ex- clusives, the difficulties in his path appear greater. But the result has proved a complete triumph for his effort in the cause of art. A large and invariably attentive audienco every night, the formation of a Wagner verein, a broader and more liberal spirit towards classical music, even when it is tinged with the metaphysical ideas of the new schools, and diligent study of the best forms of art seen in the conservatories that spring up in all parts of the city, testify to the generous recog- nition of Mr. Thomas’ services by the metro- politan public. The visit of Rubinstein to this country will also bring forth abundant fruit. There is a Titanic grandeur about the man, as player and composer, that lifts the hearer above the mere pigmies of elegance and prettinesses, and a deep consciousness of power that thrills tho soul with a magnetism almost superhuman. On an instrument which we have been accus- tomed to regard, with most of our players, as a mere vehicle for the display of technical ex- cellence and virtuoso variety, Rubinstein draws forth every tone that can sway the human soul. At one time a Cyclops, forging out thunderbolts of sound and filling the air with myriad sparks of scintillating harmonies; again a wooing lover, pouring forth his suit in impassioned cadences. The touch that can fill the air with the thunders of a symphonic finale becomes as light as the hush of a hamming-bird's wing in the inter- pretation of a Chopin étude. His compositions, too—and their name is Legion—will open a new vista of sweet sounds to the music-loving public. With the great Russian vianist is associated Many years ago tho first appearance of Wieniawski in London was made the occasion of a remark- able ovation, and time has matured and per- fected the wonderful talent he then exhibited. We have had no such finished artist on the violin since the days of Paganini. Ease, in- telligibility, even in the most intricate pas- sages; a shading of tone of a marvellous | only to recall the historic development of the Equatorial South American States and of the | famous Carthagenian, Persian and Egyptian civilizations of old, flourishing under climatic Tue Imrentmat Honor which the Sultan of Turkey has just conferred on the Viceroy of Egypt presents a very significant fact in the current history of the progress of affairs in the East, occurring, asit does, too, at the very mo- ment when His Higness has undertaken his grand separate executive demonstration against Abyssinia, Wuere 1s Gov: zk ?—We have veports of serious disturbances in Huntingdon county, New Jersey, between Irish laborers and Virginia blacks, in which loss of life has been the consequence. According to state- ments the local authorities are powerless to prevent these disorders. Cannot Governor Parker preserve the peace in his own State ? Let Net Fisuens Bewanr!—-A law passed in the last session of the Legislature prohibits the drawing or setting of any net for catching fish in the Harlem East River within three miles of the ‘Middle Gate.’’ Fines not less than twenty-five dollars or imprisonment not less than ten days are the prescribed penalties for those caught in the meshes of this law. As the fishing season is jnst coming on those who may be tempted to not or the finny tribes should take care lest they be | scooped in this legal not, and physical conditions no better than those of the Upper Nilatic basin. | But, to be more specific, it is easy to see | that the day is not distant when European commerce and culture, crossing the Suez Isth- mus by its great canal and descending the Nile valley, must prove an entering wedge to the newly explored country. Tho present | traffic of Equatorial Africa does not at present | extend south of Gondokoro, on the White | Nile. But once connect this point with known routes of travel and communication, piercing the western drainage of Lakes Tanganyika, | Moero, Lincoln, Bangwoolo and the valleys of | the Lualaba and the Chambezi, and we shall | soon have nota lonely and forlorn explorer | fighting his way into the darkness and slavery | of these regions, but richly freighted caravans of trade, conveying the treasures of knowl- edge, the blessings of emancipation and peace and the truths of Christianity to these very strongholds of barbarism and benighted hea- | thendom When Magellan first cireumnavigated tho earth, bis renowned historian tells us, it was | gravely asserted over Europe that no one clse | would ever dare so foolhardy an undertaking again, so little did men droam that the ocean, which had opened a way for hia keel, would | | soon be furrowed by the countless fleets and | | York, order and a finish of execution such as we havo looked for in vain in the concert hall before, niawski’s playing. He is also a composer of no inconsiderable rank, and his works will attract as much attention as his performances on the “king of instruments.”’ Thus Now York may pardonably boast of the immense progress made in music here | ' within the past few years. hither the best talent that Europe can afford, and have made the names of all whom music holds dear household words. The time is not far off, perhaps, when men like Wagner and Liszt will quit the atmosphere of preju- dice and jealousy, which ostracises musical genius in Europe, and will come to this coun- try, where a host of willing pupils are ready to welcome them. Qui A, verra. Miss Exrry Farrurvn, Queen's Printer and Publisher to Her Majesty Victoria, has em- barked for a voyage from England to New When she arrives in this metropolis the American people will sce among them a rand industrial exponent of woman's right to work honestly both for her own good and for the profit and credit of her country. Mr. Greecny's Orr | Pennsylvania October election is that it will give the inside track in the Prosidential race to Greeley and Brown, and that thereby they will win the dav. We have drawn | ms of the coming | The British Cabinet and the Ala- bama Claims Arbitration. A Heraxp special cable despatch from Lon- don reports that the Right Honorable the Chan- cellor of the English Exchequer, Mr. Lowe, has just addressed the electors of Glasgow, Scotland, in a lengthy and able oration, during the delivery of which he expounded the national situation of Great Britain, and, of course, defended the policy of Premier Gladstone in the management of public affairs. Mr. Lowe made a distinct reference to the Ala- bama claims arbitration settlement which has been accomplished in Geneva. He condemned the action of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in publishing his reasons for not signing the tribunal award, and thus inferentially defend- ing his personal dissent from the joint ruling of -his colaborers in the international judi- ciary. Chancellor Lowe declared that tho course of Chief Justice Cockburn was caleu- lated to reopen the subject matter of the ques- tions in dispute between the United States and Great Britain, and, as if in anticipatory neutralization of such an unpleasant conse- quence, the Minister proclaimed that it is “the duty of England to accept the award of the Geneva Court loyally, and that the money will be paid without murmur or delay.” This special despatch to the Hrraxp reveals the anxiety with which the British Cabinet re- gards the approach of the moment when the Queen's Ministers will be called on to explain and defend the Geneva : Arbitration to and be- fore the Parliament. It goes to prove also our first position in argument, that the masses of the British people have come to prize the good and profits of peace with America at so high a value that they will not permit the ono to be imperilled or the other interrupted either by the caprice of Cabinets or the crotchets or con- ceit of individuals, Premier Gladstone has found it officially necessary to assure tho na- tion that he is in unison with tho popular view, and he knew whea he was about to un- dertake the demonstration thatno one other of his fellow Ministers could accomplish the work in more effective manner than Chancellor Lowe, who holds the purse strings of the na- tion, and that at no one other point in the Kingdom could the Chancellor's effort be at all so successful in the proposed direction as in Glasgow, a new and vast contre of commerce and of ship-building, the framework of the industries of which has been welded into one solid mass of mercantile and revenue profit since tho days of the operations of the Ala- bama. Hence, perhaps, the choice of location of a place for the utterance of tho Ministerial effort. Chief Justice Cockburn has received a Cabinet warning before the eyes of the popu- lace. It would not be at all surprising if ho should retire from the bench just previous to the opening of Parliament, and if Sir Roundell Palmer were elevated to the vacant ermine ana peerage. Ofthe Alabama claims award, in its cash amount, the American people care very little. With the Cabinet differences to which tho Geneva ruling may have given rise in Downing street they have no concern. Tho grand points which the national position of the United States has elaborated for humanity from the case are, that the great neutral nations must in the future keep very near to the moral code of courtesy and discipline towards each other in time of war among neighboring peoples, and that European statesmen cannot longer afford to despise the sentimont of the fraternity of the democracies before tho sub- jects of their respective sovereigns and in the presence of their own legislative constituencies. That the day of red tape is rapidly passing away, and the era of diplomacy by the electric telegraph and through the columns of the in- dependent press has opened upon us, has been made certain as a fact and patent to the world. Thiers and Gambetta—Tho and the Republic. In the Hzratp of this morning will be found a cable despatch to tho effect that in a speech delivered two nights ago at Albertville, in Upper Savoy, M. Gambetta demanded the dis- solution of the National Assembly and a fresh appeal to the people. We print also an inter- view which one of our correspondents has re- cently had with the ex-Dictator. A compari- son of the cable despatch, giving an account of the speech at Albertville, and the senti- ments of M. Gambetta, as expressed to our correspondent, will convince the reader that, while the ex-Dictator has much faith and hope in the Republic, he has small faith in the present National Assembly. It is evidently M. Gambetta’s intention to bring things to an issue as soon as possible after the Assembly meets. That President Thiers is not ignorant of the purpose of Gambetta is abundantly plain, from the fact that he has resolved for the present to retain the Assembly and to make good use of it in the consolidation of the Re- public. The President has come to the con- clusion that everything which can be done must be done to give the present French Republic a fair chance and to make it a success. It was long doubtful what he meant to do, and even what he wished to do. We all remember how the old man was denounced as an undisguised Orleanist, and how it was said that all his power would be exerted to restore the heir of Assembly | the House of Orleans to the throne of France. are the distinguishing characteristics of Wie- | It is possible—it is more than possible—that all this was true, and if it was true who can blame him for doing his best for the heirs and descendants of his ancient friends? If his best failed in this particular direction, most men of sense will admit that he did well in beginning to think of himself, of his own reputation and of the future welfare of his country. It is fair, we think, to say that President Thiers has done his very best in most difficult circumstances to" find out what France wanted, and to do all that he could do to meet the wants of his countrymen, while at the same time he was conserving their best interests. The restoration of tho House of | Orleans he found impossible. The feult, was not his, but theirs. The ground was open— he held it open; be gave them a fair chance ; but they failed to comprehend or benefit by their opportunities, President Thiers was under no pledge to the logitimists; he was notoriously opposed to the last Empire,- and when the family of Lonis Philippe let go what he offered them he was free. Now he goes for the Republic. If Gambetta resists Thiers ho may ruin the present Republic, The Re- | public exists; he is its head, and France believes in the Republic and in him. It is gratifying to all lovers of republican institu- —TRIPLE SHEET. up his mind that if it lies within the limit of his powor to accomplish such a result, It is a wise and Proper conclusion. We are proud to chronicle the intelligence that, after pationt considera- tion and after a full examination of all consti- tutional governments, President Thiers has decided to adopt measures for the appointment of a Vice President and the creation of an Upper Chamber. This is what we have been waiting for, and the decision of tho President gives us joy. We shall now wait for the development of this new policy. Hitherto the present French Republic has rested on the shoulders of one man. His death to-morrow would be the death of the Republic. If he is spared to do what he proposes to do the Republic in France will begin under happy auspices, and France asa republic may become all and more than all she ever was before, The peasantry is almost converted, and the peasantry in all the past has been the drawback to all republican efforts, “Andy Johnson’s” Campaign in Ten. messee=The Old War Horse in All His Glory. From our special political campaigner in Tennessee we have been giving our readers some exceedingly interesting descriptions of the curiosities of the triangular contest in that State for the office of her Congressman at Large, between our inextinguishable and irrepressible ex-President, familiarly known as “Andy Johnson,’’ and General Frank Cheatham and Horace Maynard. Cheatham, who was in the “lost cause,’ is the regular democratic nominee, Maynard is the republican candidate and Johnson the independent John- sonian democratic and liberal candidate, who, as between a choice of evils, is down on Grant and gocs for Greeley, and is particularly strong for Johnson and the constitution all the time. These throe candidates for the distine- tion of Congressman at Large are stumping the State together. If we had here ex-President Fillmore running ‘‘on his own hook’’ against both Cox, and Tremain, and all three, from place to place, speaking at the same meetings, we would have a Congressional canvass like this of which ‘Handy Andy’’ is the lion of the tribe of Jackson, and we are half inclined to regret, for the life and the fun of the arrangement, that ex-President Fillmore in New York is not playing the same réle as that of ex-President Johnson in the backwoods of Tennessee. Next toa circus our correspondent attend- ing this Johnsonian campaign affirms that nothing draws out the vow populi in Tennessee equal toa joint stock political discussion on the stump, and that any discussion in which Andy Johnson is concerned is sure to draw like a cirous. So it was the other day at the little border town of Bristol, which is partly in Tennessee and a portion in Old Virginia. Arrangements were made ina forest near by over in Virginia for the Tennessee meeting, and five thousand people, an immense gather- ing for that thinly populated rogion, assem- bled to hear the wisdom expected from Johnson, Cheatham and Maynard. And the sovereign people had their fill of it, ina two hours’ harangue from each of these orators, “right straight along.’’ Cheatham opened the ball in presenting himself as the regular demo- cractic candidate. He was no outsider; but he was backed up by the democracy in the regular way, and he was going to be elected, and he was going to Congress as a working- man, and he had no axes to grind, no friends to reward and no enemies to punish, and so on to the end of his two hours. He concluded amid cheers, and a cry of ‘Hurrah for Chicka- mauga!"’ Then followed the inextinguishable Johnson— Whose march ts o'er those mountain vaies, Whose home is on the stump. And right and left he opened fire upon rings and cliques, and to set the people free. And he was down upon packed conventions and down upon the candidate who carried the official label pasted upon his back—“I am the Convention candidate.” And in the illustrations of his case he drew upon Rome and Cesar, and Gaul and Pompey, and Naples and Croesus, and boxed the compass all round, including Jeff Davis, the rebellion, the everlasting niggers and universal amnesty. And he made the dry bones of the radicals rattle again. He had done ten times as much for the blacks as any noisy radicalin the State, and Horace Greeley had done more for them than a hundred Grants. And then, with a graceful compliment to the hundreds of beau- tiful women who graced the scene with their presence, the gallant ex-President triumphantly closed his stirring address. tt in France shall be a Republic | deepest mines, and, even were tho deposits of | Horace Maynard is a good speaker, and | when his turn came he made a strong, lively and vigorous speech against Cheatham, John- son, Greeley, the democratic party and bolting republicans, and zealously proclaimed the vir- tues of General Grant's administration. Then Cheatham came forward again, with a few closing remarks, then Johnson and then May- nard, known as the Narragansett Indian. Then the proceedings were closed and the crowd dispersed, with shouts for Cheatham, Johnson and Maynard, the band meantime playing the thrilling patriotic tune of “Tho Red, White and Blue.’’ And such is the style in which they conduct a political fight in Ten- nessee; and such is the spirit and high en- joyment which the presence and the eloquence of Andy Johnson give to those political joint discussions in the backwoods of the Allegha- nies. Cheatham, though not an orator, seemed to have the most of tho crowd at this border meeting; but Johnson is a whole team on the stump, and, though the outside candidate, he may prove more than a match in tho election for both of the regular party nominees, On Wednesday the Classically named city of Jonesboro’ re-echoed to the cries of the com- batants, and if our readers want a jolly laugh | to relieve the dulness of things, let them peruse the jovial story of our able corres- pondent in to-day's Herat, who is shaping into an olio of oddities this odd old-fashioned stumping trio of divided sentiments but com- mon aim. The Coal Question in England. Cheap and abundant coal has had much to do with England's greatness. It has given hor the steam power which has carried her busy spindles, operated her railways, propelled her steamers, and in a thousand ways supple- | mented manual labor in her foundries, forges, machine shops, ship yards, and most of the tions to know that President Thiers haa made | British woalth, groat branches of industry which havo ereatod Sut there are limits to the | black diamonds inexhaustibie, recent strikes and the remarkable advance inthe cost of the labor employed in mining coal and preparing it for market have so enhanced its price that many enterprises aro threatened with susp\n- sion, At tho date of our latest mails, in York-* shire seven thousand coal miners were about to quit work, having demanded an advance of twenty-five per cent on their wages. In consequence of the dispute the iron works in the neighborhood are obliged to reduce their time to three and a half days in the week, “Carrying coals to Newoastle’’ has heretofore been considered an absurdity, but just now wo hear of a quarter ofa million tons of French coal being sent to England from the collicries of the Bas de Calais, while from other Conti- nental mines English steamer lines are pro- curing their supplics. Our despatches an- nounce the intended opening of new shafts in the coal mines, and it is suggested that the British-American steamers shall take their coal at this side of the Atlantic in the future. Tn view of this novel state of affairs it is the obvious policy of our coal merchants to deal most liberally with their new customers. We have thonsands of acres of coal lands, and our best interests will be served by their'being ac- tively worked. If wo furnish the’ British steamers at reasonable rates they may\become yery large consumers, and our mineral fuel will excellently assist our grain products in adjusting our trade balance. The people of Engi:nd need not be apprehensive of suffer- ing from lack of fuel while we have such abundance, if those who control our mining and carrying interests are willing to conduct their business on liberal and generous pringi- ples. Pennsylvania coal, judiciously han- dled, will readily pay for Manchester's cotton goods and Birmingham's iron manufactures ; and should the price of fuel remain at its present rate in England, only the lack of just views among our mine owners will prevent a thriving business in carrying American ‘‘coals to Nowcastle.’’ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Count de Nou3, of Paris, is sojourning at the Gil. sey House, The President and family return to Washington this evening. Judge John C. Palmer, of Raleigh, N. C., Grand Central Hotel. General E. W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Bishop A. Rappe, of St. Albans, Vt., la staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commodore T. P. Greene, of the United States Navy, is at the Brevoort House. Captain H. P. Conners, of the steamship Rising Star, ts at the Sturtevant House. Colonel J. K. Mizner, of the United States Army, ls in quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Albert S. Evans, of San Francisco, a journalist, author and litterateur of note, has gone to Europe. Admiral Polo de Barnabe, the Spanish Minister, yesterday went to Washington from the Clarendon Hotel. “Mr. Charles E. K. Kortright, British Coraul at Philadelphia, yeaterday came to the city. He is at the Brevoort House. Senator Yates {s still under the physician's care ia Chicago. The newspaper jokes about the Senator's illness are cruel and ill-timed, Misa Annie White, of Appleton, Wis., has been added to the faculty of Lawrence University. Sho is a graduate of that institution, Murat Haistead, of the Cincinnati Commerctal, is on a visit eastward. He says Ohio is sure for ireeley, and his paper has so declared it. Thomas McElrath, the former partner of Horace Groeley, has arrived in Paris, and is in very indifferent health, He will pass the Winter in Italy. Governor Curtin yesterday left this city for hia home in Beilefonte, Pa., where he will endeavor to recover his health by absence from turmoll and ex- citement. Leslie Combs, tho playmate of Henry Clay, haw clasped hands with Horace Greeley, and says Ken- tucky will give the Chappaqua philosopher a tre- mendous majority. Rev. Mr. Kincaid, of Leavenworth, Kansas, hav- ing latd violent hands upon the sacredness of our glorious Fourth of July, is now making furious on- slaugnts on the “Black Crook.’’ Colonel Norman Wiard is about experimenting in Boston harbor with a rifled gun of his own inven- tion of enormous calibre, sald to be superior to anything of the kind in the world. Cc. A. Sumner, of Massachusetts, has come out. for Greeley.. He tsa son of Increase Sumuer—ao relation to Charles, who, according to a Western paper, does not belong to the increase family. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, has en- gaged an apartment 99 avenue des Champs Ely- stes, and will remove to it on the Istinst. It isthe intention of the Governor to remain in Parts during. the coming Winter. Attorney General G. A. C. Schalch, of Jamaica, West Indies, yesterday returned from his tour im Canada to the Brevoort House. He was joined there by Admiral Fanshaw, of the British Navy, who came on from Halifax. An old lady, @ warm admirer of Mr. Greeley, at one o! the stations on the Little Miami road, tha other day, said she “knowed Mister Greeley the minute she seed him, for he hadn't changed a bit since he had his picture taken for them fans."’ M. Miguel de Aldama, of Havana, is at Atx-lea- Bains with his family. He was one of the richest and most induential men in Cuba until the Spanish authorities arrested him and confiscated $8,000,000 worth of property for his advocacy of annexation. Colonel Frank Reynolds, of the Army of the Khedive, writes to us to correct the report that he was connected with the recent affray between Con- sul General Butler and Major Campbell. He had left Egypt three weeks previously, and was in Geneva at the time of its occurrence. John J. Van Allen, engineer of the O’Conor train on the Presidential track, swears point blank that he never received @ dollar from the Grant man- agers to run the Louisville Bourbon democratia machine. He has borne his own expenses all along and expects to continue to do so until O’Conor is elected. Miss Fannie Carson, of Iowa, ts bolstered up as @ shining example for her sex, because she went inta her father's hay flelds in the capacity of a Maud Muller; but unlike that much-quoted maiden, she “raked the meadow, sweet with hay,” until she had gathered together forty tons, The Memphia Avalanche says this was much better than “foolin’ round with a rheumatic old Judge.” It ls reported that Joaquin Miller will pass ths Winter in Washington. Mr. Miller is one of the most charming of our trans-Rocky Mountain pects, the “Longfellow of the Sierras.” Minnie Myrtie Miller is to lecture in the East on Joaquin. Sail eymphony, wild and unmeasured, Wood warp, an! woot woven in strouds, Strange trutns that a stray soul has treasured ; freths seon as through folding of saronds, de as stars through the rolling of clouds. » NAVAL ORDERS. Fgura WAsuINGTON, Sept. 26, 1872. Lieutenant ©. R, Meeker and Master E. A. Field have been oraered to join the Frollc on October 5, Paymaster Edwin Stuart has been ordered to the Hartford, October 5, a3 Fleet Paymaster of the Asiatic station, Surgeon Joseph Hugg has been detached from the Naval Examining Board at n and ordered to the Naval Hospital at New York, Passed Assistaut Surgeon Edward Kirshner has been detached from the Naval Hos pital at New York and ordered to the reoetving ship Vermont. Assistant Surgeon T. H, Streets has beon detached from the receiving ship Vermont. and ordered to the Portsmouth, The United States aveamalitp Tallapoosa, wu'ch loft New York on the 26th inst., with the remains ig at the of the late Captain Davenport ou board. ia expected to arriye hee October ky