The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1873, Page 6

, 6 — NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, shiliadtieeatientniee All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore ———— ven AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HEATRE COMIOQUE, No. 514 Broad Tae Daawa or Scunrinua, Matinee at 2 wean WOOD'S MUSEUM, EHroadway, corner Thirticth st.— Suir Fanx. Afternoon and evening. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway, hetween Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Brats or New Yous, UNION SQUARE THEATER Broadway.—Janx Evnv. » Union square, near OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Blecoker streets.—Cicanerty, “Matinee at 2. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth strect.—Mini. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Wevoven, Yet no ire, ac. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE. S8th st., between Lex- Angton and 3d ava—Ein Encr, do, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svumer Nicuts’ Con- ‘oxRrs, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth st.—COrrnian ann Loan Coutxctions or Axt. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Wormxon Ann Arr. “TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, July 2, 1873. —,— = ‘THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “ EDUCATION FOR WOMEN! NORMAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT LAST NIGHT! CLOSE OF THE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE SEASON "— TITLE OF THE LEADER—SIxTH PAGE, RVOMAN’S TRIUMPHAL MARCH! THE ACAD- EMY AGLOW WITH ENTHUSIASM! THE GRADUATORY EXERCISES OF THE NOR- MAL COLLEGE OF NEW YORK! SEV- ENTY-EIGHT, YOUNG LADIES PASSED TO BACCALAUREATE HONORS—Turrp Pagg. BANGUINARY SPAIN! THE UTTER ROUT OF CASTANON! SEVERE LOSS OF BOTH COM- BATANTS! THE AGITATIONS IN MADRID! CORTES ASKED TO GRANT EXTRAORDI- NARY POWERS TO THE CABINET—SEvENTH y PaGE. WBPANISH APPEAL TO COLONIAL BELLIGER- ENTS! THEY ARE ASKED TO “LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS AND ENJOY THE BENEFITS E OF A REPUBLIO”—SgventTo Pace. YGOVERNMENT REGULATIONS FOR FOREIGN VESSELS ENTERING SPANISH PORTS— . BROOKLYN TAXES—Ereuta Paces. AVAGE SLAUGHTER BY CHINESE TROOPS! THE TOWN OF MOMEIT CARRIED BY AS- SAULT AND THE POPULACE PUT TO THE SWORD—SEVENTH PaGE. WUSSIA DECLARES THAT SHE WILL WITH- DRAW FROM KHIVA AFTER PUNISHING THE KHIVAN RULER—IMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PaGE. WRANK WALWORTH’S TRIAL! THE EVIDENCE ALL IN! MR. O’'CONOR’S MASTERLY DE- FENCE OF THE PRISONER! A RESUME OF THE TRAGEDY—THE TR! IN THE PARKS WILL NOT BE EXTIRPATED— #ourtn Pace. & MURDERER RESENTENCED! AN INTEREST- ed — EicguTa !*HONORABLE” MURDER! A DUEL BETWEEN PROMINENT MEMBERS ¢ fHE NEW OR- LEANS BAR AND PRESS! JUDGE COOLEY INSTANTLY KILLED! DETAILS OF THE ‘ AFFRAY—1ENTH PaGR. WHE LONG ISLAND MURDER MYSTERY! THE INQUEST FAILS TO DISCOVER THE CAUSES OR THE PERPETKATOR—TuiRD ¢ PaGE. (FISHING RIGHTS! PRESIDENT GRANT’S PRO- CLAMATION DECLARING JULY 1 THE DATE FROM WHICH THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON PRIVILEGES BECOME OPER- ATIVE.—THIRD PaGr. JESSE ROOT GRANT'S REMAINS ENTOMBED! AFFECTING TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY NTLEMAN—SEVENTH PaGE. FROM EGYPT—THE PER- SIAN SHAH VISITS THE BAN OF ENG: LAND—HOLLAND AND ACHEEN—S&vENTH PAGE. CLEANSING THE METROPOLIS ! THE SANITARY WORK OF THE AUTHORITIES! CHOLERA NOT PRESENT AND NOT DREADED—BOS- TON FIRE RISKS—Firtn Pace. REGAITA OF THE JERSEY CITY YACHT CLUB A SUCCESS! THE WINNERS AND THE SUMMARIES—REGATIA ITEMS — FERRY RIGHTS AND WRONGS—FirTu Page. “‘CIPAL DECAPITATIONS! THE NAMES OF “HE OFFICIALS REMOVED YESTERDAY 4ND THE SAVING IN SALARIES—ACADE- AND SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS—Firta % » AND COMMERCIAL .«NSACTIONS—TIE (ENS—Nintu Pace MME NEWS AND EXTRADITION OF AIDENT'S Proc AMaTIoN on the seve- . artiv.ts of the Treaty of Washington re- ating to the Northeastern fisheries, announc- Ing that these articles, through the action of the several governments concerned, go into effect from the first day of the present month of July, we submit to our readers this morn- fing. Under these treaty stipulations citizens of the United States have the same rights pocorded them as those of British sub- in the fisheries of Nova Scotia, dl Edward Island, Newfoundland, ‘&e., including the right to catch cod, halibut pnd mackerel, and the rights to dry their nets pnd cure their fish on the adjacent shores ; and in exchange for these concessions British Smnbjects are given similar fishing rights along ‘our coast down to the capes of Delaware Bay } the benefit of our markets for the sale of wort fish, even from Newfoundland. Our it pays the difference in the cash ue of these concessions to England. The lement is sufficiently comprehensive to ly the belief that under it there will be no trouble between Yankees and Blue Noses reference to these Northeastern fisheries. (4 Tae Onsequies op Jesse R. Guant.—The \ omains of the President's father were in- ferred yesterday, with appropriate solemni- ties, at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, ‘and the Chief Magistrate was present on the mournful occasion. The deceased patriarch flived the life of a quiet, honest, industrious and worthy citizen—a life distinguished only for its simplicity, generosity and stern in- ity ; and he died leaving many grateful behind him ; and, best of all, he away in the full faith of » Christian ex. Education fer Women—Sormal College Commencem Last Night—Close of the School and College Season. In his “History of Civilization’ Mr. Buckle remarks that the spirit of the time is its knowl- edge and the direction that knowledge takes. If this is so then the education we give our girls and women becomes a matter of primary importance. We do not think that any one of intelligence will deny that a great improve- ment is sweeping over the United States—we say nothing for the present of the rest of the world—in this respect. We have made incal- culable progress since the day when all that it was thought necessary for a woman to do was to superigtend the household, ‘o carve grace- fully, and to yield a meek, submissive silence in presence of her lord and his male guests. Tho reader of ‘‘Tom Jones’’—are there any readers of “Tom Jones’’ nowadays?—may possibly remember that the virtue which the discreet and chaste Allworthy principally praisud in the charming Sophia was the command which she had over her tongue, in contradistinction to the belles of the present day, whose tongues, in too many instances, have the command over them. Toward the latter portion of that eminently interesting though somewhat licentious romance, when good Mr. Allworthy, is declaring the sum total of Miss Western's perfections, he lays particular stress upon the fact that she was never fast and free with her opinion, that she invariably waited for masculine tongues to take the lead, and that when she did suffer her voice tu be heard her sentiments were expressed with such deference to the male understanding and with such gentle yet sincere deprecation of self as invested her with a charm superior to that of most of the young ladies of the age. Well, Sophia was a very delightful young woman, no doubt, but she belongs to a type of young women whe would possess but few attractions to the exigeant and feverish youngsters of the present age. The characteristic of the culti- vated American young lady more emphatically is that she can talk. She may not dwell upon the price of hides, as one of the young ladies does in Mr. Sardou’s elaborated farce of “Uncle Sam,”’ but she could probably find something trenchant to say on almost any subject involving money or business, com- merce or manufactures. But the fact to which we particularly wished to draw attention is that the unlettered and unreasoning young woman has passed away and that a logical, self-possessed, and, to a great extent, self-assertive young woman has _ taken her place. Hence we have one of the most curious and interesting phenomena of the nineteenth century, one of the most remarkable and piquant outgrowths of the world’s six thousand years. Formerly it was thought that a woman’s place was only beside the cradle and the hearth. She was made to pare apples, to peal potatoes, to knead bread and to sew on buttons. As some cynic friendly to woman remarks, man was a noun and wo- man the adjective belonging to him. If she knew sufficient arithmetic not to overstep the pecuniary bounds imposed upon her by her husband ; if she could write sufficiently well to keep a legible record of her expenditures ; if her acquaintance with grammar was clear enough to enable her to conjugate the verb obey in the indicative mood, first person, fu- ture tense, this was all that the average man required of her. This was the model wife, who should make home a Paradise—this the pat- tern mother whose children should rise up and call her blessed. Between kitchen and laundry, her husband’s shirts and her children’s tyrannies, it was allowed that plenty of scope was to be found for her nature. To man was the world and action ; to woman the glorious monotony of home and children, bread-baking and bed-making, and the pros- pective triumph of a complimentary obituary being printed on her tombstone. The female colleges are doing much to put an end to this state of things, and the result will be a race of women midway between the hur- ried and baffled actual#” of the past and the hybrid idealities with which the brains of the female suffragists teem. It is getting to be believed possible that love for husband and children may co-exist with an intimate acquaintance with the rules of Latin composi- tion; that a woman may be a good hand at pies and yet have a botanist’s knowledge of the mushrooms she is putting into them; and that she is not the less capable of bringing healthy children into the world for having at- tended a course of lectures on anatomy and physiology. Before such an advance as this even the prejudices aginst learned women will gradually slink away. One of the most pleasant aud affecting passages in George Eliot's lately finished novel of ‘‘Middlemarch"’ is that in which the writer describes the un- pretentious Mrs. Garth remembering her schoolmistress's accomplishments in the midst of her numerous family, and correcting a mis-conjugated subjunctive mood with her sleeves rolled above her elbows and her eyes watching the oven. Good Mrs. Garth was on one of the lower rounds of that | dignified educational ladder which the coming housewife is about to climb. We want more mothers who know all about the subjunctive mood and who can move with calm dignity through the fretful complications of the kitchen, and yet nourish accurate and pleasing remembrances of their old school days. This is the work which Vassar Col- lege, to which we yielded so large a space a week ago, and which the Normal College, to which we cede so large a space this morning, seem about to accomplish. From all that we can learn the system of instruction adopted at both these colleges, and at more than one other founded upon similar principles, is thorough and maturely considered. Institu- tions like these turn out bright girls, who have acquired something more than a mere founda- tion upon which to build further education. Drones, of course, there will be, who are a credit neither to themselves nor to the colleges | whence they emerge ; but at least there are no | more drones among the female colleges than among the male, anfwe do not believe that there are 80 many. Without going to the ex- tremes of those who are perpetually preaching | the wrongs ef women and reminding us of the slavery in which the fair sex has been held ever since Paradise was lost and the coats of skin were gained, we are induced to believe that a brighter light than ever before is about to shine on woman's pathway, and that the name of that radiance is Education. And now that hands are being clasped and tears are being sled by so many fair gradu- ates; now that valedictories are being pro- nounced and all the fond and tender senti- ments of the parting hour are being reiterated in so many female schools and colleges, we trust no one will take us to task for uttering a fow suggestions to the ear of these gentle novices in life. It belongs to them to teach the sneering and incredulous portion of the world that their friends were not wrong in claiming that education does not unfit a woman for the transaction of those duties which are peculiarly hers, Granted thata woman has a natural genius for baby-talk ; granted that neatness, grace, delicacy are qualities that seem naturally better suited to her organization than displays of strength ; granted that intuition with her generally takes the place of reason, and that she often wings her way to that point in an argument to which a man is forced to wade ; still, we see nothing in these admissions calculated to weaken the claim that a good education is capable of mak- ing hera better wife, mother, sister, sweetheart and friend than she has ever been in the past. Nay, ought not the question to be put thus— If woman can be so charming and irresistible without education, what can she not be with it? If beautiful ignorance can subjugate the imaginations and senses of men for several thousands of years, what cannot beautiful culture accomplish? It remains for the class of women whose ranks are swollen by the graduates of last night to show how wide that limit can be made. We need educated women in our houses and dwelling places, in all pro- fessions and modes of business that are open to women, and in many that are not yet open. We want them in the nursery, in the kitchen, at the breakfast table; among the arts, in the trades, on the stage ; in every position of life, from the rostrum of the female lecturer to the composing room of the female printer. We want to see severity and exactness of knowl- edge set off with those graces which only women can wear to advantage, and which very few of the shrieking sisterhood—the irrepressible clamorers for female rights—ever dream of possessing. Thus adorned, en- dowed with wide and accurate information, which no intelligent man would dare despise, and commended with those feminine arts and accomplishments which every sensible man admires, it is not easy just at present to place a boundary to the influence the recon- structed womanhood would exert. Cost of Governing the City and County Under the Reform egime. We have published a full list of the esti- mates made by the Board of Apportionment for the city and county of New York for the present year. The total amount called for from the taxpayers is a little over $27,000,000. The sum required for current expenditures, interest on the city and county debt, priucipal of city and county debt due and the State taxes is $30,131,967 ; but there are to be deducted from that the reve- nue and surplus appropriations, amounting to $3,033,200. According to the estimate of the Comptroller the expenses of the city and county in 1871 were $36,567,825, and in 1872, $32,036,290, while for 1873 they are only a little over $27,000,000. This, apparently, is a considerable reform in expenses. But our city financiers have a peculiar way of their own in arranging figures, which is rather puz- zling to the uninitiated. How, for example, is the interest of the debt set down at $6,500,000, when Inst year it was nearly $8,500,000, and when the principal of the debt is much larger? How is it that the apportionment made in November last exceeds by nearly $8,000,000 that just made? It does appear, without further expla- nation, that there has been some legerdemain in arranging the figures. However, if there be no increase of the principal of the debt and no large amounts to be brought up for payment hereafter, our citizens may rejeice that their taxes this year will be only two and a half per cent, whereas the tax of 1872 was within a fraction of three per cent. With such an enormous expenditure this city ought to be the best governed and cleanest in the world. The amount is equal to that of the national government thirty years ago. But our citi- zens will not complain if the money be well spent and those great improvements be carried out which would make New York the most healthy, beautiful and attractive city in the world. Reform is necessary, and should be practised; but money that is properly expended in improving the metropolis will bring a large return in trade, comfort, health and wealth, The Philadelphia Centennial—A Hint. In order to make the proposed grand cele- bration of the centennial anniversary of Ameri- can independence in Philadelphia an un- bounded success the managers should do two or three things. First of all, they should in- vite the Emperor of China and the Mikado of Japan to visit the “City of Brotherly Love” on that august occasion and enjoy its princely hospitalities. Then, ,by way of interesting variety, they might invite Bill Nye (of ‘‘Heathen Chinee’’ fame), Bret Harte, the Americo-Chinese poet, and Koopmanschoop, the distinguished runner and forerunner of coolie immigration to this country, to partici- pate in the same festivities. It would be a magnificent thing to get the grand monarchs of the Far East to attend this gorgeous Yankee centennial spectacle. It would throw the Shah of Persia’s visit to the Vienna Ex- hibition completely in the shade; and inas- much as it can occur only once in a hundred years it is not likely they will have another such chance for a jolly ‘breeze’ in their lifetime. If the Mikado comes the Philadel- phians will make a Mikadido (if he be dis- | posed to commit any didos) of him before he leaves. If the representative of the ‘Flowery Kingdom” puts in an appearance, they will make the rosy gush from every city fountain, and if Bret Harte, or the original ‘Heathen Chinee,"’ or Bill Nye, or Koopmanschoop ap- pear in propria person: there will be no end to the “ways that are dark’’ that will be scoured nor the “tricks that are vain’’ that will be played upon the unsophisticated, the whole to conclude with that inevitable finale of a Quaker citizen's hospitality to a stranger gnest—an old-time catfish breakfast on the Schuylkill. Let the managers of the centennial take the hint and act accordingly. Tne Axpany Argus (democratic) affirms that ‘while it cannot hold General Butler up as a model, it can at least entertain some con- fidence in his nerve, dash, prowess and pluck.” This is considerably better than being held up as good for nothing, as some of the enemies of the General do. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1873.—TRIPL Mr Stanley’s Livingstone Expedition and the East African Slave Trade. A British fleet menacing Zanzibar has proved an efficient argument in favor of the treaty making certain stipulations calculated to aid in ending the slave trade of Central and Eastern Africa. Under its persuasion the Sultan signed the document submitted to him by the British Commissioner, Sir Bartle Frere, and on the same day the slave mart in the city of Zanzibar was closed. The English papers comment at length upon this fact, so full of encouragement for the humanitarian and the Christian, and truthfully ascribe the mission for suppressing the abominable traffic to the interest evoked in the British public for the salvation of Africa by the thrilling narratives of life in Equatorial Africa from Dr. Livingstone and the Hznaup com- missioner, Stanley, who found and succored the aged missionary in the heart of the black continent after his British friends had long given him up for dead. Says the Daily Tele graph:—‘‘On reaching Zanzibar and com- moncing inquiries Sir Bartle Frere found that the evils of slavery there were even greater than had been described. Every word of Livingstone has been confirmed in regard to its horrors and the paralyzing effect produced upon the interior tribes, It was the practice of our Fepresentative to question the slave children especially, in every spot, as their answers were generally simplest and most reli- able. In ninety-nine cases out of every hun- dred they told the same pathetic story—how they had been hiding with their tribe in the bush, till, in some unlucky moment, when they were fetching water or wood, the kid- nappers pounced upon them and carried them to the coast. Either thus, or by raids upon villages, when those who resist are murdered, the slaves are collected. It results that the interior is cut off from trade with the coast by this wall of terror, and neither is industry nor settled life possible to the poor miserable vil- lagers.’’ These statements tally exactly with the Hzraxp’s special despatches from Stanley and Livingstone, and the subsequent asser- tions of Stanley, which forcibly called ‘public attention to the vast natural resources of Central Africa and the desolating effect of the horrible trade in human flesh, which has for ages kept it in a state of savage isola- tion from the rest of the world. An imme- diate result of Mr. Stanley's declarations on this subject in England was a spirited meeting at the Mansion House, London, to take into consideration measures to put an end to the accursed slave system, by which three hundred thousand Africans have annually been sacri- ficed to the greed of the dealers in ‘‘human ebony."’ This meeting embraced the most illustrious men of Great Britain. Mr. Stanley and others spoke, and a demand was made upon the British government for strong means to put an end to the monstrous trade. In re- sponse to this demand Sir Bartle Frere was soon after despatched to Zanzibar and the East African coast, charged with this humane mission; and the signature of the treaty by the Sultan of Zanzibar is the crowning success of his errand. To the Hzraip commissioner who found and relieved noble old Dr. Livingstone, “g mere ruckle of bones,’’ ready to die from lack of the supplies duly sent from England and stolen by treacherous agents, who reported his death, has been providentially accorded the glory of exposing the blighting curse of Africa, and thus causing the enlightened na- tions of the earth to compel its suppression. Thus his resolute discharge of duty, arduous, painful and dangerous, has secured him an unlooked-for reward in the approbation of all friends of humanity and lovers of liberty; and the Hrraxp, as an enterprising newspaper, ever serving the public interests in all quarters of the globe, in seeking to succor an abandoned and perishing missionary and devotee of geo- graphical science in the almost inaccessible regions of Central Africa, becomes the means of Africa’s emancipation from the scourge of man-hunting and her entrance upon a caresr of progress heretofore deemed impossible to that naturally rich and much-sinned-against continent. Our State Treasury—Extravagances and Deficiencies. According to the last annual report of the State Comptroller there existed at the close of the last fiscal year a deficiency in the State revenues amounting to nearly eleven and a half million of dollars, snd the document showed the various drafts which the chief financial officer of the State had been forced to make upon the State credit and upon the various sinking funds created for specific pur- poses, in order to carry on the operations of the government. In explanation of this fact it is stated that successive Legislatures have made appropriations largely in excess of the provision for placing money in the treasury to meet the warrants, and that there has been gross, if not criminal, extravagance in the use of the money raised by taxation. One in- stance of this recklessness is clearly exposed by the report of the Senate Finance Committee upon the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, just published. Eight hundred thou- sand dollars was the outside estimate on the cost of this institution, as shown by the Comp- troller’s report for 1870, provision being in- tended for four hundred inmates. Less than one-third of the work is done, and there has already been expended on it more than a mil- lion dollars, nearly equal to the entire cost of the Utica Asylum for thirty-five years, with its capacity for seven hundred patients. To com- plete the new structure in the way it has been thus far managed would cost the State not less than four million dollars. The committee state the fact as admitted—the work on the institution, as far as it has progressed, — has been of a more expensive character than upon any other of the kind, public or private, that has ever been erected. Such total disre- gard of responsibility to the people for the proper use of public funds merits the most emphatic condemnation. No good citizen will grudge a liberal expenditure for the care and cure of the unfortunate class who are to be treated in the Poughkeepsie Hospital, but when the State is taxed ata rate far in excess ofany previous levy to provide for such waste- ful outlay as has been practised, not alone in this case, it is high time that those who have squandered the gatherings from taxation with such thoughtless profligacy should be checked in their career; and citizens of all classes will approve the conclusions of the committee, that work upon the Hudson River Hospital should conse (ill there shall be such modifica- B SHEET fion of the plans and the system of labor as will afford assurance of thorough retrench- ment and reform. New York State, though able by her unlimited credit to easily borrow allthe money she may require, should not, for any reason, show a deficit in her annual balance sheet, and her obligations should be promptly met out of her regular income, with- out the necessity of temporary loans from the Sinking funds or from other quarters. Spain—Increasing Perils and Extraor- dinary Powers of the Government. Our latest news from Spain indicates the near approach of the government to chaos. First, we have a special Hzranp despatch giving some details of decisive victory of a column of five battalions of royalists, under General Elio, over an opposing force of government troops of perhaps equal strength, commanded by General Castafion, who lost his artillery and baggage and eighty men as prisoners. Tho losses in men, killed and wounded, of the royalists were supposed to be nearly the same as on the govern- ment side, which were three hun- dred. These increasing sanguinary collisions between small detachments of republicans and royalists indicate pretty clearly the inten- sity of the hostile spirit of each side against the other. It appears, too, that whether the royalists are successful or defeated their ac- tive forces in the field are still increasing, and that they aro still enlarging their line of operations, and that from battle to battle they are acting more boldly upon "the offensive. They are evidently gaining recruits, and mate- rials of war are supplied from day to day, while the embarrarsments of the government in its operations against them are aggravated from the mystery which envelops the move- ments of the royalists and the sources of their reinforcements, Within a month or two more, at the rate of their progress of the last three months, the royalists will be able to abandon their guerilla warfare for tho regular system, or to de- scend from their mountain fastnesses to the open country and its large cities. Meantime, from various despatches which we give this morning on the subject, it appears that, in view of the extraordinary dangers of the government, the executive branch has ap- pealed to the Cortes for extraordinary powers, and that the Cortes, fully appreciating the ne- cessities of the crisis, have granted the enlarged powers desired for effective measures. What Measures or consequences are to follow it would be useless to conjecture, when, from day to day, the government itself knows not what a day may bring forth. A Great Geographical Feat. One of the most remarkable exploits of modern geographical research was recently recounted by its performer before the Royal Geographical Society. In 1872 Ney Elias, distinguished English traveller, started from Pekin westward to cross the great desert of Gobi, and in honor of his splendid march of two thousand miles to Western Mongolia and his survey, which he accomplished unaided, he has just reccived the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geo- graphical Society. His total journey from Pekin, China, to St. Petersburg, across the heart of Asia, is probably the longest land journey on record, and one of the most in- teresting to geographers. While his astro- nomical observations for latitude and longi- tude furnish, for the first time, the data necessary to lay down the geography of Cen- tral Asia ona mathematical basis, his other explorations enable us to form a clear idea of the physical structure and interior charac- teristics of the great Continent. Leaving Pekin, the usual line of travellers and the tea caravans on their way to the Russian frontier strikes northwestward beyond the Great Wall of the Celestial Empire to Kiachta, opposite which emporium lies the Mongolian town of Maimatchin, where the Chinese and Russians find a common market place. But Mr. Elias pro- ceeded on a route south of this, and all alone, with the exception of one Chinese servant, penetrated the wilds of Chinese Tartary and the true desert of Gobi. He reached the town of Bijsk on the 4th of last January, whence he proceeded, by way of the village Chusk to St. Petersburg. One of the principal objects of this most remark- able journey was the discovery of the ruins of Karakorum, the ancient Tartar capital of Gengis Khan in the early part of the thir- teenth century. This ancient and immense camp-city of the great Tartar warrior flour- ished then, and when the traveller Rubruquis was there, more than four and a half centuries ago, he found assembled goldsmiths from Paris and merchants from many other cities of Europe. * Unfortunately all Mr. Ney Elias’ inquiries for the site or monumental relics of the ancient metropolis proved fruitless ; but the geographic, the geodetic and meteorologic result of his daring and devoted enterprise will make a new chapter in our knowledge of this trackless and sandy wilderness, whose expanse is as wideas that of an ocean and whose solitude is as awful. It is a little remarkable that last year should have been signalized by announcing the march of a Heratp correspondent into the beart of Africa to relieve Dr. Livingstone, and also by witnessing the penetration of the desert inte- rior of Asia, Can it be that the present year will be marked by other explorations equally significant and important? Tue Boston Advertiser (administration) an- nounces as by authority that Governor Wash- burne will not be a candidate for the republi- can renomination for Governor of Massachu- setts. So there is another obstacle to the nomination of General Butler out of the way. The principal republican papers, however, continue to fight against him. Tue Broopy Copr.—Tar Fata, Meetixa in Lovrstana.—There has been an appeal to the ‘Code of Honor’ in Louisiana, between ex-Judge William Cooley and R. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., of the New Orleans Picayune, an appeal in which double-barrelled shot guns, loaded with ball, were the instruments, and with which the parties stood at the convenient distance from each other for decisive work of forty paces. Tho ex-Judge submitted in this case to o fatal ruling, for the editor brought him down and killed him at the second shot. The moral of this horrible affair is this—that in a community where a distinguished ex-Judge and o leading news- Paper editor can find no other method for thé settlement of a personal appeal to the bloody code itself must share in the disgrace of the which will put an end to this relic of barbar- ism, by making all parties directly concerned in a death on the so-called field of honor sub- ject to the penalty of murder. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Pinchback ts in Vienna. General Burnside ia registered at the Fifth Ave nue Hotel. Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, 1s at the Astor House. Secretary Robeson will leave this city for Wagh-e ington to-day. Rey. Pliny Wood, a noted divine of Boston, has died in Germeny. General Cluion B. Fisk, of St, Louis, is staying at Barnum’s Hotel, Bishop Wilmer, of New Orleans, has returned to the New York Hotel. Governor Edmund J. Davis, of Texas, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colone! Gibbon, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Glenham Hotel. Ex-State Treasurer Niles G. Parker, of South Carolina, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Levi P. Luckey, Private Secretary to the Preai- dent, hos returned to Washington from Europe. Sefior Don Erman M. de Ory, Secretary of the Spanish Legation, arrived at the Westmorelang Hotel yesterday. 7 The Hon. Mr. Scott, Assistant Comptroller of ane Finances of the Bermudas, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. Adjutant General Townsend left Washington last night for Massachusetts, where he will spend & month. During his absence Assistant Adjutant General Vincent will discharge his duties. Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel with his family. He wiil sail for Europe en the steam- ship Java to-lay, When upon the other side of the Atlantic he will make no delay in beginning the performance of his duties at St. Petersburg. Sefiors Francisce Vicente Aguilera, the Vice- President of the Republic of Cuba, and Ramos Cespedes, cousin of President Cespeaes, are pas- sengers for Kingston, Jamaica, on the steamer Claribel, that sailed on Monday. A large number of their friends, all active sympathizers with the Cuban cause, bade them farewell at the wharf, It is reported that Seilor Aguilera is going to the West Indies, to employ the money with which he arrived here from Paris some time agoin the fitting out of several expeditions to start from several places and carry aid to the revolutionists of Cuba libre. Paul B, DuChaillu has not succumbed to the rigor and perils of the regions bordering the Arctic, as was feared, nothing having been heard from or ot him for some time, but was alive and well at Karas- jok, Lapland, near the seventieth parailel of norts latitude, on the 1st of May last. Letters have been received from him in this city, giving an interest- ing account of his Winter residence ana journey- ings and reindeer travelling in that northern ex- tremity of Europe. He describes the last Winter as having been mild for that latitude. It was day- light all the time—no night—when he wrote, and, with this return of the sun he had become cheer- ful and hopeful. The work he ts preparing for pub- lication will, he says, be complete, and he hopes tt will prove interesting. Mr. DuChailla suffered lesa from the extreme cold than from the heat of Equa- torial Africa, THE WEATHER, War_ DEPARTMENT, \ OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WaAsHInaTon, July 2—1 A. M, Synopsis Jor the Past Twenty-four. Hours. The barometer has risen since Monday in the Southern and Atlantic States. An area of low pressure is apparently central in Missouri and Illinois. The temperature has risen slightly in the iower lake region, but fallen in the Middle Atlantic States; southerly winds and clear weather are now reported from the Southern States; light winds and clear weather in Virginia and Penn- sylvania; cloudy and rainy weather has prevailed in New England. Northerly winds, with rain, have extended from Kansas over the Lower Missouri Valley and thence to Lake Micht- gan. Probahilities. For Wednesday throughout the Southern States, southeast and southwest winds and rising tem- perature, with numerous local rains on the coasts; for the Middle States, southeasterly winds and clear weather, followed by cloudy weather on Wednesday night; tor New England, light winds and partly cloudy weather; for the lake region, northeast and south east winds, with cloudy and rainy weather. Midnight telegraphic reports are missing from the upper lakes, the Northwest, Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast stations. The Weather in This City Yesterday: The following record will show tne changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, ag indicated by the thermometer at tludnut’s phar- macy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. 1872, 1873, 3A.M 72 99 84 6A 72 83 9A 5 ad 12M Tl 12P. um Average temperature yesterday. . ode, Oe Average temperature for corresponding date Jast year. 87. RAGING IN OANADA, BakRiE, Ont,, July 1, 1873. The following races took place here to-day :— First Race—Hurdle races; two miles and eight hurdies; purse $300. The following horses en- tered :—B, g. Mitchell, b. s. Jack the Barber, b. g. Edenton, b. g. Kelso, The race was won by Mitchell, beating Jack the Barber by one length, Second Race,—Queen's Plate, fifty guineas; $10 entrance to be added to the Plate; a mile anda half dash. Kleven horses entered, namely :—Bik, m. Swallow, b. m. Minnie Langley, b. g. Bill Fagan, b, g. Bachelor, b. m. Charlotte, br. g, Forest Colt, c. m, Goldfinch, b, g. Murnonette, b. m. Emily, b,c. Norlander and g. m. Lily. The race was won by Mignonette in 2:57, Norlander second. and Goldfinch third. Tnind Rack.—Purse, $700; free to all; mile and a half heats. The following entered:—Br. 8. Ba- zaine, b, 8. Scythian, Lord Byron, ch. h. Vespucel, and ch. m. Marcey, Lord Byron took the first money in 2:47%, Bazaine, second. The races, which will last four days, will be the largest and most exciting held in Canada for many years, Over sixty horses are present. a number of which are from the United States, The principal race to-morrow will be the Canadian Derby, tor which there are twenty entries, “MIMI,” THE NEW PLAY AT WALLAOK’S, ~ Anew piece, adapted by Mr. Dion Boucicault,. from the French play “La Vie de Boheme,” was produced at Wallack's Jast night with the title of “Mimi.” In many respects the translation is hanpily executed, and the piece neither rises above nor falls below the medium standard of goodness. In one respect it is very weak, Much of ita strength has been crushed out of it to accommodate It to the “goody” spirit of the moment, but after ail it is and can be nothing else than an es- sentially French play. Mr. Boucicanit plays the leading part, for, in spite of the name of the piece, Maurice Durosel is the leading part. He plays it well, as a matter of course, working off its business with the great faithfulness of detail cha-- racteristic of his acting, and he occasionally de-: lights his audience with a ripple of Irish that ts, delicious, Indeed, what can be more delicious, than a bit of the brogue ina Frenchman? Miss Katherine Rogers, as Minie, looks her part, and, im the main, she acts it well, but, in the emotional, scenes, she alls far short of its re~ quirements, She is statuesque instead oft womanly, Miss EMe Germon, too, fails to invest her Rigoletto with any new charm. Mr. Crisp as Max, the painter, was not very strong, but he was easy, graceful and natural, qualities which go & long’ Way in a quiet piece. On the whole the per- formance, if not a great one, Was & very good one. It held the interest o1 a large audience to the close last night, and ell worthy to be seen, as its is ae to be enjoyed even on these Summer, night.