The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, < PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston sta. —Tux Bests or New Yous. UNION £QUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Janx Eyre. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston And Bleecker streets —CiGanxtry, Matinee at 2 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street,— Mm. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Weppen, Yst xo Wirs—Ata—Tux Miniex or New Jekser, Matinee at2, THEATRE COMIQUE, ‘or Scunxipen, Matinee WOOD'S MUSEUM, Froadway, corner Thirtleth st— Suin Fawx, Afternoon and evening. 514 Broadway.—Tux Drama CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svawee Nicnts' Cone Cents. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington an avs.—DkR Postion VON MUN CHEBERG, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth st.—Crrrian ann Loan Couixctions oF ART, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrence anp Ant. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Screxce anp Arr, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1873. Independence Day—How the Ola Fogy, | nified splendor beside which the modern | degraded enough, or poor enough, to willingly | The Mecail of Biacque Bey—Our Dip- the Advanced Thinker and the Soy of | dazzle is flashy and superficial. He declares | occupy such noisome premises. Good work the Period Regard It—Also the Ad- | that Independence speeches then were speeches | is likewise being done by the sanitary officials worth listening to, and that the annual pro- | in enforcing the cleansing of offensive cellars, cession was one which the war-scarred | sinks and drains in tenement and private veteran could contemplate with tears of | houses, These officers have an unpleasant honest pride. Tho ‘advanced thinker’’ is | task. They should at lenst receive the appro- not less pertinacious and exasperating. He / bation and thanks of the public when they maintains an attitude of calm and amiable | faithfully and fearlessly do their duty for the vanced Woman. It is unfortunate that the very nature of the case precludes the didactic mind from point- ing back to the youth of George Washington, .No. 185 | and advising Young America how that great man used to spend the Fourth of July when he was a little boy. Did not the very sup- position of such a thing involve an anachron- ism it would be pleasant and perhaps instruc- tive to inquire whether the same strict fidelity to the truth which characterized his conduct with respect to the hatchet of his adolescence accompanied him through his period of pin- wheel and shooting cracker. It is easy to imagine with what avidity the antiquary would search musty records for the purpose of tracing the relations of the youthful Washing- ton to Bengola lights and China flyers. Was his conscience tender on the score of short- stick rockets? Did he never tergiversate on the question of blue lights and ‘grass- hoppers?'’ Did his cherry tree veracity never waver when vertical wheels came on the tapis? Was he proof against the blandishments of fire balloons and Japanese torpedoes? Alas! we shall never know, simply because he never knew himself. Unluckily for the —————— = New York, Friday, July 4, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “INDEPENDENCE DAY! HOW THE OLD FOGY, THE ADVANCED THINKER AND THE BOY OF THE PERIOD REGARD IT! ALSO THE ADVANCED WOMAN’—LEADING EDITO- BIAL TOPIC—Fourtn Pag. THE JUBILEE OF THE REPUBLIC! OLD AMERIUA’S THERMAL FAULT! THE COM- ING AMERICAN DETERMINED TO CELE- BRATE! HOW ALL CLASSES WILL ENJOY TREMSELVES, AND WHERE—Turgp Paes. ANOTHER IMPERIAL VISITOR TO RUSSIA—THE ITALIAN CABINET MUDDLE—Firrs Pacz. MARK TWAIN SUCCESSFULLY CARRIES HIS BEJEWELLED CHARGE ACROSS THE CHANNEL! THE GRAND ROAR OF THE DEVASTATION’S BROADSIDE AND HOW IT WAS REPOKTED BY THE NEWSPAPER MEN! MARK’S IMPROVED NOTEBOOK! ENGLISH CHEERS AND A LONDON RAIN AS IMPRESSIVE AGENTS! THE EFFECTS OF SUDA WATER AT SEA—FirTH PacE. ALL QUIET IN MADRID! THE REVOLUTIONARY DEPUTIES WITHDRAW FROM CORTES— Firru Paar. & PRINCELY BANQUET IN LONDUN! THE “GLORIOUS FOURTH” AND THE AMERICAN RESIDENTS! OUR PATENT RIGHT LAW APPROVED—FirTH Pack. HE WORLD'S CHAMPION AT BILLIARDS! GARNIER RECEIVES HIS ROYAL RECOM- PENSE! THE PRINCELY AWARDS— EiauTa Page. INTERESTING RACING AND TROTTING NEWS! MONMOUTH, DEXTER AND BEACON PARKS—ElcxTH Paas. BILIBUSTERS CAPTURE THE PRINCIPAL PORT OF HONDURAS AND TWO ADJACENT ISLANDS! THE STEAMER GENERAL SHER- MAN TURNS UP AT LAST! A BOLD VEN- TURE FOR THE SUBVERSION OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF HUNDURAS AND GUA- TEMALA—Tump Page. 4 POLIT:CAL REVOLT SUMMARILY SQUELCHED IN PERU! A PUPULAR UPRISING AGAINST THE “OUTS!” THEY ARE DEFEATED AFTER A SEVERE FIGHT—AFFAIRS IN COLOMBIA—SIxTH PaGE. SEVERE SUBTERRANEAN DISTURBANCES IN ITALY! VOLCANIC AND OTHER PHENOM- ENA—FIiPTH PaGE. SHARKEY ORDERED TO BE EXECUTED ON THE 28TH OF AUGUST! THE RECORDER'S DE- GISION IN FULL! CIVIL AND CRIMINAL BUSINESS IN THE VARIOUS COURTS—SixTH PaGE. NEWS FROM THE CENTRAL AMERICAN STATES AND WASHINGTON CITY—JEFF DAVIS IN TOWN—Firrn Paces. FHE COMMENCEMENTS AT ST. AGNES’ AND ST. MARY’S ACADEMY — THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL EXERCISES—SixTH Paas. THE GOLDEN PROSPECTS FOR AMERICAN BONDS! EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN FI- NANCIAL NEWS—UNDERGROOND VISITS OF THE SANITARY OFFICERS—SEVENTH Pags. A YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL WIDOW COMMITS SUICIDE—MATTERS IN THE MUNICIPAL- ITY—Tuimp Pas. In THE CasE or SHarxker, convicted of the tmurder of Dunn, Recorder Hackett yesterday dismissed the motion for a new trial and sen- tenced the prisoner to be hanged on the 15th of August. There was, of course, the usual notice of an application for stay of proceed- ings, The Recorder’s opinion is a character- istic document, strong in language, clear in declaring the law of the case and unmistakable \n regard to the guilt of the prisoner. In his charge to the jury he could not express any ‘nion upon the facts for the purpose of Yecting the verdict, and so he did well in saying that the murder was a case unjustifiable homicide most atrocious ai revolting, without shadow of excuse, of tircumstance, of palliation. No recommenda- tion to mercy ought to have weight in such a tase, and just such plain speaking from the bench is very much needed. Tue Unton Pacirio Rartroap Company, pushed to the wall by a government injanc- tion, began yesterday in this city the payment of the interest to the government on those first mortgage bonds. The amount of the first mortgages in circulation is reported at some twenty-eight millions, but the govern- ment injunction restrains the company from the payment of other interest than its own pending the so-called Crédit Mobilier suit against said company. Meantime it will be seen, from our despatches on the subject, that the Central Pacific or Western division of our through line, or Pacific road, is to be called to Court for refusal to deliver at Son Fran- cisco government through freight without prepayment of charges of the Eastern division. This means that the Western section of this road will not be permitted to act as a confed- erate of the Eastern against the rights of the government. Sram Has Mane ao first experiment at con- stitution making. How many constitutions | has Spain made in the last thirty years? How many in the lost three years? The new fed- eral constitution, the outlines of which were given in the Henaup of yesterday, looks well enough on paper. Will it be of any use to Spain? Will it work? Wo are willing to hope for the best. but the promise iy not art sentimental and improving tone which we should have liked to take, the first glorious Fourth that ever came to the Father of his Country found that father taking sides with his country against its unnatural mother. The tea which was thrown over at Boston Har- bor had got into the nation’s head as much as though they had swallowed instead of spilled it, and the people were as ripe for indepen- dence as a mellow pippin for the hand of the picker. Let us be thankful that the moral essayist has one less text to drag in. We do not want too many and too sublimated speci- mens of adolescent integrity. Without ap- proving of untruthfulness in boyhood as a habit, we rejoice that cherry trees are occa- sionally injured by the concealed deadly weapon of the juvenile, if it is only for the sake of teaching prosperous land owners that | perfect security is not one of the boons of human existence. But the question now be- fore us is, whether the average boy's celebra- tion of Independence Day is admirable and praiseworthy; whether he is more of a bless- ing or a curse to his family and society at that time; whether the nineteenth century contem- plates him with pride or aversion, and whether there stretches before the human boy an end- less eternity of Fourths of July, each of the series fringed with a penumbra of several days, all of them sparkling with the shooting cracker, eorruscating with the pinwheel, de- tonating with the torpedo, picturesque with procession and eloquent with oration. This is what we want to know. The modern boy has our sympathies, and if he reads the Hzraxn, as of course he does (or he is not modern), he knows it. Whether he fights for his base ball ground or clamors for his free baths, his instincts are the substratum of his common sense, and to that extent he will always find an advocate in us, The Fourth of July is his Midsummer Christmas, and he ought to be allowed to enjoy it to the top of his bent, subject only to such restric- tions as will insure public order and safety. How gunpowder and patriotism first came to be inseparably associated, except that the discharge of the one was frequently found necessary to support pretensions to the other, we do not profess at present to explain. Tho fact remains—saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal are the instruments through which, once a year, we express that devouring love of coun- try which burns within us. The custom has spread with the spread of the Republic, until, from Maine to Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Union is one vast shooting cracker one day in every year. Who says that the custom will ever die out? We will leave the consideration of that question to those philosophers who affirm that humanity having one day had a beginning will one day have anend For our part we are content to look forward illimitably. It is hard to realize a Fourth of July without a fire- cracker, a mere corpse of Independence Day without even the galvanic semblance of life. Imagine what the day would be like! No boom of cannon at dey-dawn, no wooden pis- tols popping off at every corner, no flashing and gaudily epauletted procession, no pyro- technic display at night, no oration on the village green, no matinée at the theatre! Imagine a Fourth of July passed in decent dulness—as Washington’s birthday is now passed. Think of the anniversary of the country’s birthday passing into as much desuetude as that of the birthday of that coun- try’a father! Fancy the schoolboy plodding demurely to his recitations and the patriotic people dradging away in their stores and offices. Picture to yourself the music hushed and the bunting stowed away, and the flags lowered and the annulled, and the fireworks vetoed and the orations put an end to. Imagine all this, and then tell us that that would be a more dignified, sensible and eminently proper method of celebrating the Fourth than the one now in vogue, and the least that we will claim is that such an epoch is very, very distant. Meanwhile the bells will peal and the balloons go up. We shall have our “silver glories’ and our ‘‘Chinese fans,’ “golden dragons” will be in request and “diamond stars’ not fall short, The Fourth | will remain the Fourth, though we are afraid | to predict how many years to come. But let us consider for a moment the argu- | ments which will be adduced by the old togy | and the ‘advanced thinker’ in opposition to | the present mode of celebrating the Fourth. | Both these parties come to us laden with logic. The one tells us that the boy of the | period is an unmitigated nuisance, and that | his ostensible motive for celebrating the | Fourth is only to obtain an outlet to his unru- | liness and contempt for authority. Your old | fogy is very confideat upon this point. He is | absolutely certain that the average javenile is | much worse than ever before; that the gun- | powder is of a worse quality than that of a quarter of a century ago, makes more noise | and is longer in going off; that the fire- works in general are inferior stuff, and that | the new inventions might have originated in | the brain of the Prince of Darkness himself, who is known to be a pyrotechnist of the first | order. Your old fogy protests that the whole thing was better managed when he was a boy, that Young America fired his Catherine wheel then under the direction of older hands, and | that every ecinwlladon bad a subdved and dix- supremacy, and behaves with the rasping good nature with which a man of the world treats an irritable child. His magnified imperturba- bility is the result of his science, his investiga- tion, his abstraction and his theories. His forehead beetles with crags of thought. He tells us that we live in an age of progress, of new ideas, and that we have reached an im- portant stage in the process of evolution. He reminds us that now is the hour to discard the follies and foibles which link us to our quadrumanous ancestry (fancy a pre-Adamite ape letting off a Roman candle!) and to plant our feet firmly as we stride onward to tho fu- ture. Hence he tramples on all our most cherished Fourth of July traditions. He wants an intellectual, an ssthetic, a scientific com- memoration of Independence Day. He ban- ishes the small boy to maps and atlases and puts @ damper on all the gunpowder in Christendom. ‘The pinwheel, he informs us, is a relic of barbarism; the Bengola light links us to a past of which, as men of intellect, we should blush to think. Tear up the flags and bunting, send home the militia; let us have a Fourth of July dedicated to Darwin, Huxley, Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte. Against these arguments our juvenile friend opposes his own, ang we do not know byt that he has the best of the encounter. He re- minds us that the fire-cracker and the pinwheel and all the explosive and gorgeous parapher- nalia of the traditional Fourth are an honest, straightforward, unaffected expreasion of the average sentiment of the hour. At least this is the direction in which the majority of his arguments tend, though we do not know that they are distinguished for luxury of rhetoric or for subtle finesse of diction. He tells us that there is no sham sentimentality, no as- sumption of intellectual supremacy or philo- sophical self-poise in their pleasures, but that they are simply what they profess to be—the spontaneous outcome of the occasion. He pleads that the number of holidays in the American workingman’s life is too few to ren- der it reasonable or compassionate to lessen them, and he represents that the quantity of pleasure created by the annual explosion of Independence gunpowder incalculably coun- terbalances the accompanying pain. And then, aside from the particular associations of the hour, what boy emerging from adolescence does not have a particularly soft place in his head dedicated to the memory of the wooden pistol and the miniature cannon? They take their place among the first pair of pantaloons and the initiatory long coat, and form a bright opening in memory’s tunnel. And, what- ever you do, you cannot divest the small boy of the conviction that George Washington would have done just the same as he does. As was intimated at the beginning of this article, the very nature of the facts pre- eludes your quenching the exploits of Young America by citing the example of the Father of his Country. Fate has been particularly kind to American boyhood in this respect. We shall not do more than touch at present upon one aspect of the Fourth of July ques- tion, and that is the light in which possibly it is regarded by the ‘advanced woman.”’ The very name of ‘Independence’ Day must be a sharp thorn in her chaste, progressive side, associated as it is with the remembrance of her immemorial dependence upon the monster man. With six thousand years of slavery goading her to madness, with the wrongs of unnumbered millions of her sex bellowing through the centuries and stimu- lating her to vengeance, every pinwheel must be a torture to her, every rocket-stick an arrow perforating her tenderest sensibility, cele- brating as they do the personal and national freedom of man, her congenital foe. How yearningly she must look forward to a female Independence Day, some feminine Fourth of July, when an Amagonian militia shall add a subtler picturesqueness to the ensemble at Union square, and her righted sex, clad in the mail of woman's suffrage and panoplied in a sense of equality with man, shall look with anticipating eyes toward the Pregjdential chair and ecstatically dream of guiding the ship of state! In what far future lies the actuality of this vision we will not venture to predict, linked as it must be with the vanish- ing figure of the last small boy and the final cracker, The Explorations of the Sanitary Sqaad. as li Under the most favorable circumstanced one-half the world is said not to know how the other half lives. Certain it is that to most of the New York world, say nine-tenths of it, the published discoveries of the Sanitary Squad who have been exploring the under- ground dwellings of the Sixth and Fourth wards bring revelations of squalor, filth and degradation hardly possible to believe. We are told of people living in cellars unfit for the habitation of the meanest brutes, and of heavy rentals for these dens flowing into the | pockets of people who perhance dwell in | brown stone fronts, wear costly clothes, | and, mayhap, echo the Pharisaic self- laudatory thanks to the Deity that they are not as the sinner and the laboring man. ‘There were found rooms below the street level, seven feet by five, where one hundred and sixty cubic feet of such poisoned air as only could penetrate thither was all that each lodger could get, while above ground three thousand cubic feet is only deemed a fair allowance. | One man was found burrowing at a depth of | fifteen feet below the surface, and, out of re- | spect to the inalienable rights of man, he wes | left undisturbed. He took no lodgers; hada | freeman’s privilege to suffocate himself; and | to-day he enjoys his independence in his hole, as a woodchuck possibly might. Where these noxious cellars were used for lodgings, as was | the common case, they were emptied and | closed by the police, and the inmates enjoined | to find more wholesome quarters some- where else, usually very much to | their disgust and amid loud and profane | protests against their ejectment. This action of the health officers has long been needed, Only actual force will prevent the owners of the rat holes in the lower part of the city from letting them as human habita- tions ; and, so long as they are not forcibly public good. With due regard to cleanliness, New York should be the healthiest great city in the world, and every citizen has a direct interest in all intelligent efforts to produce that happy condition. The Persian Momaereh' England—-Soda Water, Shahs and Showers. A thrill of pleasure when accompanied by ® pang of agonizing doubt helps to form a complex emotion. For the production of this Mr. Mark Twain is responsible. The editorial bosom of the Hxnarp has heaved under its perplexing influence upon reading his account of the Shah of Persia’s progress from Ostend to Buckingham Palace, He has worked up the English attempts to ‘impress the Shah’’ with fine success; he has accomplished his mission of bringing over the Persian poten- tate with as much stamina as Stanley, as much grim confidence as O'Kelly, as much fearlessness as Fox, and as magnificently as MacGahan. This is indeed high praise, and it is first administered in order that the poi- sonous doubt which his story leaves may be commented on. He has not satisfied us on the point whether the Shah was impressed or not by the English show. To be sure he was not sati if, and we take it as a mark of conscientiousness that he refrains from pursuing the matter into the flickering flame of fancy, wherein even a newspaper corre- spondent has been known to singe his wings before now. But the doubt rankles deeply, and although we admit that Mr. Twain may not be legally responsible for the uncertainty, we regret that he could not say at once that the Shah was “impressed,”’ or that he de- cidedly was not. Our commissioner, it will be observed, was kept on board a steamer which followed in the wake of that which car- ried the Shah. His operations with the Per- sian host were confined to Grand Viziers and the like. With these individuals he appears to have wrestled as pluckily as Leonidas did with their ancestors, and to have ‘impressed’’ them without any of the lethal weapons em- ployed by the Greeks. His weapon was a tele- graph pole. This is not, we believe, the first time that we have heard of a Cyrus or a de- scendant thereof being interested in tele- graphy. With the telegraphic lanterns he was also as successful in ‘‘impressing’’ the Persians as Gideon's band were in impressing the Midianites with their lamps. The sorrow that overspread his heart when he was forced to confess that in this optical tele graph business he could only ‘im- press” the Shah at second-hand is finely visible in the way he subsequently sought the champagne and soda (particularly the latter, we hope,) in the wardroom below. It is worthy of remark that even in this mad, momentary plunge into oblivion from sour reflections he found time to note how soda water (and possibly champagne, for on their relative powers he is not very exact) acts as an acquaintance-maker. It was well worth the trouble and anxiety of bringing over so remote an individual to sift out this great truth. It is not at all our intention to find fault with our commissioner, yet on one point the public will natarally look for further information. In describing a blazing star of diamonds on the Grand Vizier’s breast Mr. Twain says it is as large as the palm of his hand, Diamonds are very costly articles, and although in times not long gone they shone as profusely around the City Hall as ever they did in Golconda, they should not be described inas vague a manner. Mr. Twain, for instance, may have a manual member as small as ‘“‘airy, fairy Lillian’s,” or he may wear a number twelve pair of kids with difficulty when he goes to the opera, and the difference of acreage would be something considerable when the area is to be sown with diamonds. There is, however, an air of truly princely magnificence in the margin of three thousand gems which he gives the public in the emeralds and brilliants wherewith the aforesaid Grand Vizier’s scabbard is encrusted. He had forgotten to take a notebook with him, and had to rely upon a pack of cards, With true republican candor he stops short in his narrative to say he cannot recommend court cards for the journalist’s purpose in such an emergency—they play the deuce with notes. It may have been appropriate enough to display the jewelled splendors of the Persians on a tray of diamonds, since diamonds were trumps, although Mr. Twain hag forgotten it; but the whole thing would have been better if his des- tination wis Deal instead of Dover. The euchre deck of a man-of-war is not, perhaps, so great a novelty as it at first appears. When the big thirty-odd guns opened fire Mr. Twain appears to have been still witnessing the ripening of friendships under the influence of soda water, and gives us his opinion on look- ing through the lenses of other people's eyes. We may note, en passant, that the fashionable mamma of America has great faith in the sym- pathetic powers of mineral waters, else why does she bring her unmarried darlings year after year to the temples where Congress and High Rock may be imbibed as they gush trom the limestone? On “second sight,’’ as in- stanced by reading newspaper reports, Mr. Twain is playful, and we shall charitably attribute it to the soda. But he brought the Shah to London and handed him over to the English people and made them a present of him. He thinks the Shah was ‘‘impressed’’ by a shower of London rain, but if they could only have furnished him with a London fog he would have been ‘‘impressed’’ if he ever survived it, There we must, for the present, be content to leave him and for the rest refer our readers to Mr. Twain's remarkable story, as told elsewhere. Reception in Diamonds, Tux Inrgconcriastes have retired from the Cortes in consequence, it is said, of the pas- sage of the bill abolishing constitutional guarantees. The retirement of the irrecon- cilable Deputies has contributed to the restora- tion of quiet in the capital. Madrid, how- ever, is really under martial law, and an outbreak at any moment is possible. The government is on its guard; but a govern- ment which does not command the confidence of the people may find itself powerless . exnelied there exe fo ha fopnd tenants | ageing’ the cbellious master lomatio Relations with Turkey. The government of the Ottoman Empire, after having been admirably represented at Washington during the past six years, has at length recalled Blacque Bey, the Minister who has sustained the interests of the Sultan during this period with rare tact and delicacy. The policy that has dictated this change may be the same as that so prominently observed at Constantinople recently—the desire to infuse new blood into all parts of the ad- ministration. Aristarchi Bey has been ap- pointed to succeed Blacque Bey. Without having any particular knowledge as to the qualifications of the new representative of the Porte, wé can only affirm our opinions, ex- pressed when the gentleman whose post he is to take first arrived in this country, that the United States not only desire peace, and can appreciate the efforts of all foreign diplomats having this ob- ject in view, but will not fail to resent personal meddling and unnecessary intrigue. ‘The successor to Blacque Bey will discover no obstacles in his path so long as he follows the example of that Minister. In parting with the latter we cannot forget the many excellent qualities of head and heart which raised him so high in the estimation of the diplomatista ot the capital, and he leaves behind many friends in official and private life. It is acldom a diplomat succeeds more com- pletely in bjs bar Since the sojourn of Bloque Bey in tho United States our relations with Turkey have been on tho best footing, and our tourists to the Kast have remarked the attention and distinction of which they have been the special objects at the hands of the authorities of the Empire and of the Sultan himself. But these relations are not merely improved with reference to our citizens in Turkey, but they have acquired here an im- portance that has developed from day to day and gives new guarantees to our trade and intercourse with that country. For ox- ample, the Ottoman government, thanks to the suggestions of its representative during the last two or three years, has annually made purchases here to the amount of twenty mil- lions of dollars, the benefit of which pre- viously went into the pockets of English merchants. This is a beginning in favor of the American public that should receive just recognition, and it may lead to arrangements that will be of the first importance to our commercial interests. The Ottoman Empire has become a great mart for our industrial products, and this is, after all, the side of the Eastern question that most directly affects us. We understand the President and the Secre- tary of State, whoare not generally favorable to frequent changes in the diplomatic corps at Washington, have personally expressed the most flattering regrets touching the recall of Blacque Bey—regrets that we may heartily endorse. Excessive ‘Temperatures — Pedestrians, Look Out for Sunstroke To-Day! The reports of yesterday record some of the most extreme thermometric ranges known for a long time. In several sections of the country the last part of June had some days which would do very well for the tropics. Yesterday the thermometer in some of the Middle States reached the high figure of one hundred de- grees Fahrenheit, and occasionally exceeded even that. It will be rpmembered that the week ending July 6 of last year brought the greatest number of deaths in this city ever recorded by the health officers, The exposure to-day of thousands celebrating ‘‘the glorious Fourth,”’ who have too frequently indulged in the heating drinks of the day, calls for a word of warning, especially as the weather promises to beintensely hotand humid. The midday and afternoon are the most dangerous parts of the day, and excursionists and pedestrians need the utmost prudence to avoid the sunstroke and other maladies which are sure to attack the unwary. In the dry plains of the far Northwestern Territories the thermometer this Summer has ranged as high as one hundred and five degrees in the hottest hours of the day; but in this remote section the climate is blessed with cool nights, in which the temperature is seldom known to exceed sixty- five degrees. With us it is different, and we must often parch with the midday sun and swelter with the midnight heat, ond all the conditions impose upon our citizens the neces- sity of the utmost care and caution. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. R. S, Chew is likely to recover from his late severe indisposition. Ex-Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, is at the Astor House. Congressman Frank M. Morey, of Louistana, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Sir Bryan Edwards, ex-Chief Justice of Jamaica, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Ex-Congressman J. V. L. Pruyn, of Albany, is stay- ing at the Brevoort House. What killed Tom Swann for United States Sena- tor from Maryland’ Back pay. Sir George and Lady Prescott, of England, yester- day arrived at the Hofman House. Ex-Governors Newall and Price, of New Jersey, are staying at the Merchants’ Hotel, A justice of the peace in Georgia recently sen- tenced a man to perpetual banishment. James Russell Lowell has had an honorary degree conferred on him by Oxford University. ‘The Beecher-Bowen-Woodhull scandal is now oc- cupying the attention of the rural press. Clifford 8S, Sims, United States Consul at Pres- cott, Canada, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Buffalo Express wants to know what Ben Butler and the potato bug were made for. It is stated that Vice President Henry Wilson has had a stroke of paralysis, but is rétovering. Colonel G. L, Gillespie, of the United States Engin- eers, has quarters 2t the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Count Consanno, of Italy, who arrived on the Cuba yesterday, 1s now at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Sidney E. Morse has retired from the New York Observer, He has been connected with the paper since 1856, General Amos Pillsbury, who has charge on the part of the government of the Albany Peniten- tuary, is very sick. Governor Leslie, of Kentuck, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. Winn, at her residence, No. 9 West Twenty-first street, Colonel John W. Foster, of Chicago, President of the Association for the Advancement of Science, died on the 29th ult. ‘The dying notes of the swan are said to be the sweetest. But it was treasury notes tuat killed poor Tom Swann of Maryland. Mr. E. Steiger, the Gertnan book publisher, of this city, has had the decoration of the Crown-Order conferred om him hy the Emperor of Germany. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, the ratiroad king, and ‘wife will sail from Phitadelphia on the 10th inst. for Burope in the new American steamship Pennsyl- vanta, Admiral Polo de Barnabe, the Spanish Minister, yopterdgy left the Clarendon Hotel ta-angnd goveral a a days at Newport. He was accompanied by his aot, an attaché of his Legation. Marshal Bazaine bas written to Prince Frederick Charies of Prosais to request the oficial publica- tion of the correspondence bewween them concern ing the capitulation of Metz. Secretary Robeson went to Phitadetphts yeater- day to attend the transfer by the suthorities of that city to the Centennial Celebration Commis- sioners, on the partof the United States, of the land in Fairmount Park on which the extibition build ings are to be erected. His famity atthe same time leit the Fifth Avenue Hotel torusticate im New England, LONG BRANCH. Arrival of the President from Coving- ton—How He Bears His Loss—To-Mor- row’s Races. Long BEance, July 3, 1873. President Grant arrived here this afternoon at one o'clock. When seen on board the boat this morning he showed no outward emblem of mourn- ing, wearing a light hat, without the customary crape around it. Indeed, to judge from his ap- pearance, he either bore his loss with resignation, Or, according to his habit, suppressed within hin- self all demo! tion of sorrow. He wasin quite @ talkative |, chatting and laughing frequently with sever ntiemen who sat near him. He was, a6 usual, accompanied by General It 1s understood that the President will leave to- morrow for Philadelphia, to oMclate at the formal transfer by that city to the Centennial Com! Of the grounds devoted to the Exposition of 1876, THE RACES. Immense crowds are arriving here to attend the races to-morrow, every boat Lewd filled to ite utmost capacity with pleasu ers. Among the latest arrivais at the West End are ex-Governor Bowle, of Marra ; Collector Booth, of Baltimore; Jud rt Green, of New Jersey; Judge Dowlit f New York, and many others. The weather lelightful, cool and propitious for the races te morro} Ww. pie MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO WOTES. Some of the theatres not closed for the seasom give matinées this afternoon, and all of them the usual performances in the evening. ‘There is no truth in the reports of a visit of Herr Hans von Bubord to America in the Fall. Hels engaged for concerts in London during the Winter. Mandanici’s Grand Mass in G major will be sung this morning at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, East Fourteenth street. Mile. Hen- rietta Corradi, Mme. Huger, Herr Graff and Messrs. Sobst and Urchs have been engaged for the sole parts; Professor Gustavus Schmits for the organ and a chorus of sixty voices from the Oathotie Choral Union. The engagements for the Maretzek Italian Opera Company at the Grand Opera House are now nearly complete. The /ollowing artists have been secured :—Madame Lucca, Mile. Di Murska, Mme. Natali Testa and Messrs, Tamberlik, Viszani, Testa, Mari, Jamet and Castelmary. Three nights in the week will be devoted to Italian Opera and three to German. Verdi has written to the Syndic offering to com pose a funeral mass in honor of Manzoni. The Offer was, of course, eagerly accepted. Tne mass will be executed on the 22d of May, 1874, the an- niversary of Manzoni’s death. Verdi himself will superintend the rehearsals and conduct the per- formance, Should the performance be given in the Duomo there can be no female chorus, ualess the clerical authorities can be prevailed upon to abro- gate for this particular occasion the usual rale, which prohibits the presence of female artists in charch choirs, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A Panama correspondence of June 2 reports as follows:—The steamship Montana left in the port of Mazatlan the United States steamer Benicia on the nate inst, She was to sail in two days for Panama rect, The United States steamer Omaha will leave the Isthmus on the 25th inst. for the South coast. Naval Orders. WASHINGTON, July 8, 1878. Assistant Surgeon D. A. Bertolette has been or- dered to the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va. Lieutenant John ©. Soley is detached trom the Naval Academy and ordered to the Wabash, Eu- pean fleet, The formal order detaching Commander Greer from the Naval Academy and ordering him to com- mand the Tigress was issued from the Navy De- partment to-day. United States Men-of-War and a Court Martial. Fortress MONROE, Va., July 1, 1878. The Unitea States steamer Nipsic, Commander R. L, Phythian, and the Shawmut, Commander H. L. Howison, arrived in the Roads yesterday from Key West, and are anchored oif the Fort. These vessels have been stationed in the West Indies for over two years and are ordered North for a cruise during the heat of Summer. in order to give their officers and men an opportunity to recuperate and visit tneir friends, The Nipsic has been ordered to proceed to New York, and wiil sail as soon as she takes on a sup- piy of coal The following Is a list of her ofMcers:— Commander, RK. L. Phythian; Lieutenant Cor mander, A. G. Caldwell; Lieutenants, Samuel Belden and ©. H. Judd; Masters, A. P. Osborn and A. M. Thackery; Paymaster, J. &, Burton; First Assistant Engineer, A. 8. Green; Second Assistant aoe M. H. Lander; pay Clerk, G. W. Salter. The Shawmut is expecting to go to Boston or Portsmouth to spend the Summer. She is officered as follows:—OCommander, H. L. Howtson; Lieuten- ants, W. A. Morgan and A. B, H. Lillie; Master, W. W. Kimball; Ensigns, J. H. Moore and J. W. Gray- den; Assistant Su! n, E. H. Ware; Paymaster, Joseph Foster; First Assistant Engineer, 0. M. L. Maccarty; Second Assistant Engineer, C. W. Foss; br tain’s Clerk, G. W, Smuth, and Pay Clerk, R. Be jaloney. A general court martial has been commenced here for the trial of some prisoners—non-commis- stoned officers and privates—fer desertion, &c., under Special Orders No. 120, Headquarters De- partment of the East. The detail for the Court is as follows:—President, Lieutenant Colonel Josep Roberts, Fourth artillery; Captain Samuel S. Elder, First artillery ; Captain Samuel N, Benjamin, Second artillery; First Lieutenants John McGilvray, Second artillery; Charies F. Humohrey, Fourth ar- tillery; Crosby (A Miller, Fourta artillery; S. Allen Day, Filth artillery: Second Lieutenants John Pepe, Jr., First artillery; C. 0. Howard, Second artillery; Henry A. Reed, Second artillery ; Will:am R. Quinan, Fourth artillery, and Rollin A. Ives, Fifth artillery. First Lieutenant L. A. Chamberlin is detailed as Judge Advocate. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. CHARLOTTRVILLE, July 3, 1873, This was Commencement day at the University of Virginia. The exercises consisted of the con- ferring of diplomas upoa the graduates in the differ- ent schools and conferring professional degrees, &c. There were fourteen doctors of medicine, eighteen bachelors of law, three civil engineers, three civil and mining engineers, two bachelors of science, one bachelor of arts, three masters of arts, The students who received honors in logical analysis were:—First honor, T. R. Sampson, of Richmond; second, William McKenney, Peters- burg; third, William H, Borz, Albemarle, Va. In the afternoon Governor Swann, of Maryland, delivered the address before the Society of the Alumni. It was, in a meagure, a review of the American Republic, its rapid growth and prosper- ity and its form of government. He concluded as follows : “We have reason for congratulation, my friends, that the same flag, representing the same glorious Union as it came from the hands otf our iathers, floats over us again to-day. It is the proud hert- tage of all the States, won in a common struggle, and endeared to us by common sacrifices. Virginia more than any other shares its renown, May it go forth once more with every star im its place among ail nations and alt people, biazing with renewed splendor, to proclaim to the world the advancing march of treedom as developed by the glories of the new era and to stand forever in the accomplishment of its great deg- tiny as the beacon light to inspire hope and confl- dence in the down-trodden and oppressed of every lana, bearing the glad tidings of peace, good will and universal equality to the remotest nations of Christeudom.”? Judge Kennard, of New Urieat was elected Alumni Order for 1874, and Senator Thomas Bayard was elected unanimously an honorary member of the Alumni Society of Virginia, At six o'clock this evening the Alumni had their usual dinner, It was a festive scene of much cunviviality and merrymak~ ing. Among those present and speaking were Senator Bayard, Governor Walker, uten= ant Governor Marye, of Virginia; Governor Swann, of Maryland; Judge Smith, and Professora Venable and Sauthall, Mr. B. Johnson Barbour presided. The Commencement exercises closed to-night with a grand bali, at which the beauty and chiv- alry of the South were conspicuous. The Unt- versity grounds are briftiantly tiluminated to-night. The Commencoment was every Way @ greay 7 ie