The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1873, Page 6

‘NEW YORK HERALD BRUADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth sircet—Mint. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Wire's Svs- Picton—Jack aND THE BRAN Stax. WoopD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Pour. Afternoon and evening. UARE T! ane Eyre. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets. —Cicanetrx. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Scwarr Nicurs’ Con- ‘CERTS. UNION 8 TRE, Union square, near Broadway. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Screnck and Axt. “| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth CYPRIAN AND LOAN COLLECTIONS ‘OF ART. TS “TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, July 8, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE PRESIDENTIAL OFPICE! IS IT CONSIS- TENT WITH TRUE REPUBLICANISM? THE DANGER OF C#S5ARISM’—EDITORIAL LEADER—S14TH PAGE, ANOTHER STEAMSHIP STRIKES ON THE ROCKS NEAR SAMBRO! THE VESSEL A TOTAL LOSS, BUT ALL THE PASSENGERS AND STORES SAVED—SEVENTH Pace. BIR SAMUEL BAKER’S UP-NILE EXPEDITION A GREAT SUCCESS! BY WATER TO UJI! ‘LAKES TANGANYIKA AND ALBERT NY- ANZA A VAST INLAND SEA—SRVENTH Pace. & KUIVAN TOWN FIRED AND DESTROYED BY THE RUSSIANS! PERSIAN SLAVES RE- LEASED IN KHIVA—SkvENTH PAGE. O’KELLY STILL A SPANISH PRISONER! HE IS ORDERED TO BE CONVEYED TO MADRID! THE POSSIBILITIES OF HIS RE- LEASE AND REASONS FOR DELAY—Ssv- ENTH PaGE. CARLIST OCCUPANCY OF THE CITY OF VCH! REFORMS FOR CUBA—IMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PGE, OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE CUBAN WAR AND OF THE OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF THE SPANISH FORCES! “INDUCKMENTS” OF- FERED TO CHIVALROUS FOREIGNERS IN MADRID—Turxp Page. OME AND THE PAPACY! THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF IN EXCELLENT HEALTH! “ORA ET LABORA” THE VATICAN MOTTO! THE KING SNUBBED BY TRE LADIES AND CURSED BY THE CLERGY! BISMARCK’S THREAT! GARIBALDI SPEAKS! THE SHAH’S OUTLANDISH WAYS—Tuigp Page. @ FRENCH AFFAIR OF “HONOR!” M. DE CAS- SAGNAO WORSTED IN THE DUEL WITH M. RANC! PROMINENCE OF THE MEN AND WHY THEY FOUGHT—SRvENTH PaGE. THE SHAH’S TOUR! VALUABLE PRESENTS MADE IN ENGLAND! THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY HONORS THE GUEST OF THE NATION—THE ENGLISH BANK FORGERS INDICTED—SEVENTH PaGE. POOR CARL KUSTNER! INQUIRY INTO THE LATEST HUBOKEN HORROR! A MOST ESTIMABLE GENTLEMAN, WHO CARRIED TOO MUCH MONEY! HIS LIFE STORY— TENTH PaGs. {MPORTANT NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—PU LICE REFORMS—Sgventu Pace. OUR SUMMER SUBURB! LONG BRANCH 80- CIETY AND ITS PRINCIPAL NEED! THE DIPLOMATISTS' SECLUSION! THE RACE MEETING—FourtH Pac. AN EAST SIDE CHOLERA-BREEDER! A MOUN- TAIN OF MANURE AS CAUSE OF WAR!, DEODORIZING AND REMOVING THE FILTHY MASS—FirTH Pace. “BILLY BRUCE” ESCAPES FROM “DURANCE VILE!” FEMALE VISITORS TO THE TOMBS AIDING A HOTEL THIEF! HIS REMARK- ABLE CAREER AND DARING ESCAPE— FOURTH PaGB. EXECRABLE CRIME OP “DR.” ROSENS- WEIG! THE MURDERER OF ALICE AUGUSTA BOWLSBY PROVIDED WITH SAFEGUARDS BY THE BEFUDDLED ALBANY SOLONS! UNDER WHICH LAW SHALL HE BE TRIED?—Firtu Page. ON THE CATSKILLS! GRANDLY PICTURESQUE GROUPINGS OF NATURE'S BEAUTIES! OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN AS A SUMMER BREATHING PLACE—Fourtu Pace, *NPERVISOR McCAFFERTY OUTFLANKS THE MAYOR! THE TAX ROLLS OF THE NINE- TEENTH WARD AS THE POINT D’APPUI! A HEATED DISCUSSION—THE ALDERMANIC STANDSTILL—Firra Page. “LETHE’S WHARF! THE DISMAL SWAMP OF FLORIDA! LAKE OKEECHOBRE EX- PLORED! A REMARKABLE CRUISE—THE SIXTEENTH STREET STABBING—NintTH Page. STOCKS PROMISING A WALL STREET FLUT- TER! THE B SS DONE IN THE VARI- OUS EXCHAN 3 YESTERDAY—REAL ES- ‘TATE—BROOKLYN LOCAL AND MUNICI- PAL ITEMS—Eicutu Pace. THE SUMMER “GREEN ROOM” OF OUR ARTISTES OF THE STAGE! HOW THE MULTUM IN PARVO CLUB LENDS WINGS TO TIME—Fovxtu Pace, THE COURTS—MRS, RICHARD TWE! RAL—FIFTH Pac. MR. rHE D'S FUNE- Ayorure Ocean Sreamsuip Lost.—The In- man steamship City of Washington went ashore on Gull Rock bar, seventy miles west of Cape Sambro, on the coast of Nova Scotia, near Cape Sable, on Saturday afternoon, in a dense fog. Fortunately, no lives were lost. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1873.—TRIPLE ‘Tre fFresidential Office—Is It Consist- ent with True Republicanism !—The Danger of Ceosarism. Those who suppose that General Grant will need a third term to give his fame fulness and enable him to finish his work do him grave injustice even while they would flatter and appland. Upon this theory resta the only argu- ment that can commend itself to his mind in favor of a renomination to the Presidency. Cesar was told that his victories in Gaul, his triumphs of administration in Spain, and the wealth and power he added to the Republic, could only find compensation in a dindem. Napoleon was told that he alone had the skill and statesmanship to save France. The one ascended a throne; the other was stabbed on the steps of athrone. The Presi- dent is surrounded by men like Mark Antony and Talleyrand, who speak to him as they spoke to Cwsar and Napoleon. Before them lies a contented, happy, prosperous country, caring only for money and lands and harvests, incredulous about political affairs and neither seeing nor caring for the danger. This was precisely the situation of Rome. Cssarism was not known until it had reigned in the person of many emperors. Now, we lay it down as a cardinal maxim that, great as any man may be,*the country is still greater; that when it is necessary to place any one man above the country some- thing is radically wrong in its institutions. We have a Presidential office, with noble, use- fal attributes, but in many essentials as royal as the office of the Czar. There is no limit to what a popular President can do, for we saw in the time of Mr. Johnson that impeachment, as a constitutional expedient, was as useless and obsolete as the punishment for treason in the common law of England. We do not say that a President could not, or rather would not, be removed for any extraordinary per- sonal offence, for crimes against society like those of Charles IL. or George IV.; but only a revolution like that which overthrew Charles I and James IL would remove a President who had become politically obnoxious. For good or for evil, there he stands, immutable in his high office, above all power and responsi- bility. In some respects our constitution is no better than the constitution of England which tol- erated Charles I. And the circumstance is painfully apparent that a large part of the rul- ing men in the republican party are negatively committing themselves to the principle of Cesarism in the renomination of President Grant; that, in other words, they are silent and acquiescent, and, for fear of wounding the feel- ings of General Grant, say nothing on the question most interesting to the people and to friends of liberty elsewhere. General Grant is a brave and sincere Ameri- can. He has those qualities no less than Crom- well, who did not hesitate to dissolve his Par- liaments at the point of the bayonet to become Lord Protector and leave his sword and office to his son. Napoleon Bonaparte was a brave and sincere Frenchman, and wrote essays on liberty, and served under the convention which obeyed Robespierre. But this did not render the Consulate and the Empire impossible. It is so very easy to tell a successful soldier—or any man, in fact, who may have attained supreme power—that he comes from God to save the State. With the increase of luxury and wealth there is always 8 party craving the distinctions, the com- plaisances and social gratifications of a court. We are told the presence of a court encourages business and elegance in manners, high and gentle courtesy and a spirit of honorable emulation among men. And what are all the treasures of the vain and aspiring if their pos- sessors are only as other men and have never @ coronet ora star? There is the powerful class, who have all the country can give them, and dread nothing but change. And if by any means they could dispose of their honors and offices as they.do of their gains, how happy would they be! Behind is the timid and conservative class—what the French would call the bourgeoisie—who fear every election as mariners do the northerly gales or the desert pilgrims the dreadful sirocco winds— the class who saw in the probable success of Mr. Greeley the paralysis of all true business interests, the shrinking of all values—chaos and panic. To these men Cxsarism becomes @ principle, for they have no patriotism that is not purely selfish. The interests of the country are identical in all respects with their own. And behind these classes we have the political element, which subsists on political ventures, as the pirates of the Grecian Archi- pelagoes used to subsist on the captured ships of Venice and Genoa, and who would care little whether the President was for life and wore a crown, so they could pursue their gainful calling. The fact that we stand in presence of a con- tingency involving the liberties of the coun- try is conclusive that in our constitution there is a radical error. We do not associate Gen- eral Grant with our comments upon the danger of Cesarism. It is not a crime in him or any capable man who has served the State to accept or crave any of its honors. He has said and done nothing in the matter to justify any criticism on our part. If he were to declare at once that he would not be a candidate for re-election | it would not lessen the force of our criticisms. We are striving to draw the attention of the Had this disaster occurred at night, as on the pecasion when the ill-fated Atlantic struck | Mar’s Head, near Cape Sambro, there is a probability that we should have had a similar tragedy to record. The fogs in the Bay of | Fundy, west of Cape Suble, are proverbial for their density, and many ao gallant vessel has met her fate on that dangerous point of land. ‘Tor Suan or Persia, Nassr-ed-Din, is evi- Gently a lineal descendant of Al-ad-din, and is | bound to maintain the honor of the family as | srich and generous prince. Before leaving | London, it is said, he dispensed eight thousand | dollars to the servants of Buckingham Palace and twelve thousand dollars to the policemen who were stationed there during his occupation of the house. At this rate his excursion fund of twenty-five millions will be considerably reduced by the time he gets back ‘into his Summer palace at Teheran. « ‘Tre Russian Souprmers 1x THE Karvan Ten- matory have liberated ten thousand Persians who were held as slaves by the Khan and his officers. Many of the freedmen have claimed the protection of the Czar. This is rather a | magnanimity. novel réle for Russia, but an exceedingly pru- donk ope wader uresent cirvumstances, country toa danger that may come at any time—a danger inherent in our constitution and laws. A declaration from General Grant now that he would not be a candidate for re- election would be an act of magnanimity on his part; but the country does not care to have its liberties at the mercy of any man’s France has shown us a lesson in her treatment of M. Thiers which is preg- nant with meaning. She shows that her re- publican spirit is true to republican principles, Nor in the recent crisis did we for a moment spair of France. While prominent English journals feared that France would fling itself over the precipice of a new revolution and that the streets of Paris would run with blood, we held to the contrary, because we knew that France would be true to herself. That nation has shown us the meaning of the wise prin- ciple of rotation in office, What she practises now, however, she has learned in tempest and fire. The moderation and wisdom of to-day, the patient and daring patriotism which compels a monarchical assembly, elected by a panic-stricken and cruelly oppressed France, and a President who is Marshal and Duke by the favor of Napoleon, the lessons of 1793 have at last come to frui- tion. This is the logical result of French history and the politics of French statesmen from the rise of Mirabeau to the fall of Thiers. What France teaches us now, and what we should be swift to learn, is, that perfect freedom is only to be found in a nation where the gov- ernment is thoroughly and constantly subordi- nate to the popular will. The spirit of Casarism was exactly the re- verse of this. Cmear was necessary to Rome. So let Cesar be crowned. Cromwell was the saviour of England. So let him reign for life as Lord Protector and his children in his stead. Napoleon was the supreme genius of French valor and military skill. So let him be Emperor of France and King of Italy, and let his brothers and sisters reign also, that his glory may be full. We call this Cwsarism, and we do not at all see how it differs from the spirit that would renominate General Grant because the “country needs his services.’’ Are we not to suppose that the services of General Grant are at the command of the country, whether he is in the White House or a private gentleman on his Missouri farm? And if General Grant is an indispensable President, are we capable of self-government? If any man is indipensable the sooner we throw our constitution into the sea and return under the sceptre of Victoria the better for our peace. For the lesson we have not learned has been learned in England. In that country Parliament has control over the government, The control is not as direct and simple as that exercised in France by the Assembly, and there are many forms and offices in the English government that might be avoided; but the spirit is alive and grows with each advance of the English liberal party. Noman has had any marked domi- nance in England since the time of Marl- borough. The elder Pitt and Wellington came nearer to Marlborough, but none of these men were as strong as General Grant is to-day, as Lincoln, Jefferson and Jackson were in their day. The spirit which made Jefferson—but more especially Jackson and Lincoln—so puissant was only a form of the Cesarism which is making itself a power in our politics. In those days the people were not as susceptible to its influence as now. Strange things have oc- curred in America; the public tone has be- come lowered ; Congressmen have grown rich from bonds and subsidies which they voted out of the Treasury; a company of thieves have held New York under their hands and robbed it of millions; forgery and per- jury have become political accomplishments, and seats in the Senate are bought with money, as the purple of the Casars was bought when the Pretorian Guards were in power. We have no Protorian Guards, it is true; but the men of whom Mr. Colfax may be regarded as the most prominent example—the Pretorian Guards of the republican party—have made Cwsarism possible in our time, and have com- pelled us to open an issue with the people which has not had its parallel in gravity since the foundation of the government. Sir Samu Baker’s Success—The Great Inland Sea. The Herat special despatches from Khar- toum, at the junction of the Blue and White Niles, respecting the triumph of Sir Samuel Baker in his expedition to the Equa- tor, contain, in addition to some particu- lars respecting the plan of government and military occupation of the country, information regarding the great lake system of Central Africa which will prove of absorb- ing interest to geographers. Sir Samuel, it appears, contends, on what grounds we have not yet learned, that Lake Albert Nyanza is one and the same sheet of water as that known further to the south as Lake Tanganyika. He illustrates this further by the statement that ships may be launched above Murchison’s Falls and navigated to Ujiji. If this be true, by garrisoning and strengthening the terri- tory already annexed to Egypt, the power of the Khedive might be felt far down the centre of the Continent, with Lake Tanganyika as a base of operations. It looks like the repeti- tion of Russia’s réle in Central Asia from many points of view. Tue Cxoxera has so far abated in Nashville that the Robertson Association, a volunteer sanitary society, which has devoted itself to the relief of sufferers from the disease, has been disbanded, and many physicians have been dismissed who were engaged by the authorities to wait upon cholera patients among the poor. But in disappearing from the city the disease has broken out in the towns and villages of the surrounding coun- try, and in Murfreesboro and other places in that direction it prevails toan alarming ex- tent. It thus appears that the epidemic has made Nashville a base of operations, from which, having conserved its available mate- rials there, it is diffusing itself on all sides into the neighboring towns and counties. Starting from New Orleans, the disease in its progress up the Mississippi has visited Mem- ‘phis and other points along the river up to its junction with the Ohio at Cairo, from which point it has pursued the line of the main stream to St. Louis, and the Ohio to Louisville and Cincinnati, and, rumor says, to Pittsburg, At all events the cholera, as an epidemic, starting from New Orleans up the Mississippi, is moving, by the line of the Ohio, eastward ; and our city authorities will be guilty of a gross neglect of a most important duty if, pooh-poohing suggestions of danger, they. remain inactive and console themselves with the delusion that there is no cholera as an epidemic in the country. ‘Tre Success or THE Lona Brancn Races, which opened gloriously on the glorious Fourth, at Monmouth Park, is encouraging to those who believe in the popularization of wholesome sport. To-day, the second of the meeting, promises to stamp the idea of admitting the masses free to the race- course with a seal of approval which will, we trust, induce other proprietors ot racing grounds to throw their gates open to the pub- lic without let or hindrance. The fine spec- tacle of a ranning race is one that must be enjoyed by tens of thousands of human beings before it reaches the scenic acme, There is always plenty of unoccupied room on 4 facecourse which might as well bg dedicated to the use of those who cannot pay admission fees as left untenanted. There is a good programme on to-day's card. We hope the racing will justify expectation, and that the weather may be as fine as to serve and respect the Republic, show that | yesterday, Marie Lataste’s Prophecy—Rome Sep- tember, 1870, and Rome September, 1873. In another part of the Hznaxp to-day will be found the final letter of our special commis- sioner sent to Rome on the announcement of the critical condition of the Holy Father's health some weeka ago. He went in the ex- pectation of being called upon to chronicle the close of the eventful Pontificate of Pins TX., beloved asa man, honored as a prince, and revered as the head of the Catholic Church during a quarter of a century, and the choice of the successor, to whom the Sacred College should commit the onerous trust, so well and So long held by the present representative of St. Peter. No one will doubt the sincerity of our commissioner in rejoicing over the failure of his specific mission resulting from the assured convalescence of the Pope. Having failed to see a change in the occupancy of the See of Rome he has had his eyes and cars open to perceive the actual condition of the new Kingdom of Italy, and he places the facts before us to-day in a picture most sad to contemplate, King Victor Emmanuel ‘the gallant,’’ as he is called, though admired for his bravery and military prowess in years bygone, lives at Rome in the midst of a people who hate him, scowl upon him, insult him in every manner possible. Though famous for his courtesy towards the fair sex, Roman dames turn their backs upon him in return for the royal salute. Men, ss he rides in the streets of the Eternal City, noeg- lect the ordinary civility of removing their hats, and, instead of demonstrations of popu- lar approbation, his name is coupled with im- precations. By the clerical party, which is large, able and energetic, he is considered an absolute wrongdoer, who has robbed the Papal | throne of its rightful temporal sovereignty. They pray and work and hope for his speedy expulsion and the restoration of power to their beloved father, Pope Pius IX., and his successors in the Vatican. In this labor of love they are specially encouraged just now by an alleged prophecy uttered before the accession of Pius IX., which, foretelling many details of the present Pontificate, has so far proved to be a truthful anticipation of coming events. This prophecy named September 20, 1870, as the beginning and September 20, 1873, as the close of the forcible exclusion of the Pope from his temporal sovereignty. In the near approach of the latter date the leaders of the clerical party are filled with vivid hopes of the sure fulfilment of the prophetic utterance of Marie Lataste. Since our commissioner's letter was penned a very serious ministerial complication, still undecided, makes it cer- tain that there are actual difficulties in the path of the Italian King which may justify the confident expectations of his foes. Italy is ground by enormous and unaccustomed taxation; yet her present rulers find it impos- sible to defray the expenses of a suitable military establishment. Priestly prayers and citizen unwillingness to meet large assess- ments work jointly against the dynasty of Savoy; and, coupled with the hope of help from France, these may be found strong enough before the Autumnal equinox to raise such a storm as to make it wisdom in Victor Emmanuel to imitate his son, the late King of Spain, and leave Rome as Amadeo quitted Madrid. At all events, whether we give credence to the predictions of the new prophet or not, whether we accord with the Vaticanists as to the efficacy of prayer, which is one of their chief reliances in this conflict with the Italian monarchy, it is evident that the gallant King feels fully that uneasiness which so oft besets crowned heads. He and his family are unpopular. He is hated as the foe of the Church. All royalty is rejected by the large number of Italian republicans, who earnestly hope, with Garibaldi, that the opinion of President Grant may prove cor- rect, and that ‘Europe will finally adopt the republican form of government.’”’ With such elements of disturbance fiercely at work in the Italian capital it is not at all incapable of belief that any day may bring news of critical importance from Rome. Latin Europe is lia- ble to political as well as physical earthquakes, and the report of an Italian revolution need occasion no surprise. ——_—_— The Canada Pacific Railway. The Board of Directors at Montreal have accepted the terms of Sir Hugh Allen for the construction of the Canada Pacific Railway. Assuming that this contract means business, we shall have within a few years four trans- continental railroads north of our Mexican boundary—the Canadian, and our Northern, Union Central, and Southern Pacific roads. And there will be scope and verge enough for them all, for each of these lines is so far sepa- rated from the next that each will have a great section of the country to itself between the longitudinal line of the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, and each will have its own settlements and trade to build up en rowe and some advantages of its own on the Pacific Coast. The Union Central Pacific, the pioneer line, is doing a business which ought to pay hand- somely; the Northern Pacific, on the eastern division, is in operation to Bismarck, far up the Missouri River, and on the western side it is making good headway. The Southern Pa- cific, upon which they are at work actively, having the shortest route and easiest grades, will probably be finished before the Northern Pacific, or within the next three years. The Canadian road—well, we must wait till they actually break ground upon it before we can enter into any conjectures as to the probable time of its completion. We have no doubt, however, that Sir Hugh Allen is in earnest and means to build the road. : Tue Meettna or Tue Boarp or Supervisors yesterday, on the valuation of city property, was, from its discussions on the subject, cal- culated rather to discourage than to gladden the hearts of the taxpayers. What the per- centage of the year’s assessment is to be seems still to be very doubtful. We have been led to believe that it would be only two and a half per cent; but Supervisor McCafferty says that, instead of this, it has been increased to six per cent. But the matter has been referred to the Committee on Annual Taxes and Assess- ments, and perhaps they may make it some- thing less than six per cent. Otherwise, if city retrenchments result only in the suspen- sion of city improvements, with an increase of taxation, we should prefer another programme of city reform, SHEET. Engiana and Spain in Mr. O'Kelly’s Case—His Release Probable. After having passed more than three months within the walls of Spanish prisons Mr. O'Kelly, the Hzrarp commissioner to the Island of Cuba, finds himself to-day as far from trial as ever. During all this time he has remained in ignorance of the charges to be preferred against him, and never has been fora moment certain but that by some bar- barous freak of a drunken soldier or rash official he might lose his life without time to utter n protest. It is curious, indeed, that the government which claims his allegiance should, contrary to its habit, submit to this prolonged outrage upon one of its subjects. England has with some reason boasted hitherto of the protection which she affords to those who have a right to stand beneath her flag. Why she has borne with this insult from an insignificant Power whose very exist- ence she is studious not to recognize is mys- terious. It will be declared a shameful neglect of imperative duty that England has permit- ted Mr. O'Kelly to be dragged around from prison to prison and subjected to indignity atter indignity without a chatge bemg stated or the semblance of what even the greatest felon could demand—a trial. It is ay ex- traordinary lapse from a high position among the nations which England has permitted her- self to suffer in this matter. As far as the Spaniards are concerned, Mr. O'Kelly seems to be as great a white elephant on their hands in Spain as in Cuba. Having arrested him without canse, and solely be- cause he trusted in that problematical thing— the honor of a Spaniard—they have not been able to discover a means of ridding them- selves of his presence which would consort with their ideas of what is due to Spanish pride. Having erred in Cuba, the stupid spirit of hidalgoism prevents them from being just in Spain. Wo are informed from Madrid that the Colonial Min- ister has ordered Mr. O’Kelly’s removal thither, and that there appear to be good grounds for expecting his release. The poverty of power in the hands of the Spanish government may be some excuse for inability to put down the Cuban and Carlist rebellions, but it does not justify the detention of a prisoner whose impartiality and neu- trality have been proved. Deeds suchas the prolongation of Mr. O'Kelly’s imprisonment are of those that weigh most heavily against the honor of Spain, against her chances of being recognized as a civilized Power in the world. There is now no fear that the Spanish govern- ment will attempt to take the life of our faith- ful commissioner; it seems probable even that he will be released without the farce of a trial of which we have heard so much; but the dishonor of every hour of his imprisonment will fall upon Spain in proportion as she is believed amenable to the laws of any- thing higher than savagery. His speedy re- lease is the only act of reparation in the power of the Spanish government. It can afford toswallow what remains of false pride in his regard, and get a difficulty out of its very difficult way by setting him free. The United States and Mexican Claims Commission, The deadlock in adjusting the claims be- tween the United States and Mexico, in con- sequence of the term of the Commission appointed for that purpose having expired, has been removed by a renewal of the treaty and extension of time. The new Mexican Commissioner to prosecute the work has ar- rived, and, therefore, it is expected the busi- ness of examining claims will be resumed at an early day. A most curious feature about the Mexican claims against the United States, and one very characteristic of Mexican charac- ter and policy, is the magnitude and number of alleged losses or damages brought forward against our government., There have been presented nine hundred and fifty-eight claims. How many more will be raked up no one can guess. Of the one hundred and fifty acted upon, and for which awards have been made to the amount of eighty-six thousand dollars, the Mexicans claimed the modest sum of nearly twenty-two millions. At this rate Mexico would claim over a hundred millions in all. The whole of the border terri- tory and all in it are not worth that sum. Besides, the alleged depredations were made for the most part by Mexi- can Indians, and not by our Indians or citizens. We hope our government or Commissioner will not be influenced in the least by such enormous and unfounded claims, which are made, evidently, as a set-off to the just ones of the United States. Mexico owes this country a large debt of gratitude for pre- serving her national integrity; but she does not show it in these monstrous and groundless claims. While the government and people of the United States desire to be generous to the neighboring Republic they cannot tolerate such pretensions or allow our peaceable citi- zens on the border to be despoiled without compensation. The set-off of bogus and ab- surd claims will not do. Tue Porrican Camparan IN Vinorvia.— The Abingdon Virginia and Lynchburg Re- publican (conservative) agree that the conser- vative candidate for Governor of Virginia “should be chosen because he is the man for the times; has the requisites for success— ability, honesty and merit; not because he aspires to the position, nor because of any in- dividual claims, real or imaginary, which he or his friends may choose to assert.’’ No matter what section such o candidate may hail from, the Republican thinks that one with the above qualifications will sweep the State by an immense majority. The cam- paign for the gubernatorial nominations is be- coming quite interesting in the “Old Do- minion.”’ Tue Famous French Dvet—M. pe Cas- saGnac Wounpep.—By telegram from Paris we are informed of the fact that MM. Ranc and De Cassagnac, having eluded the vigilance of the police, met in deadly combat yesterday morning. They fought on the neutralized territory of Luxembourg. M. de Cassagnac was wounded, dangerously it is said, and M. Rane becomes, in consequence, the politico-legisla- tive and fashionable celebrity of the hour. 'The causes which excited more immediately to the hostile meeting are set forth in our col- umns to-day, as are also the more prominent events in the public career of the combatants. ‘The latest despatches from the field report that | M, Bane was also wounded, ~ . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. J. Condit Smith, of Buffalo, is staying at tht Fifth Avenue Hotel. Jem Davis is being inundated with visitors at the New York Hotel. Colone! Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, is at the New York Hovel. Clement 0. Clay has arrived at the Coleman House from Macon, Georgia. Tom Hood, son of Thomas Hood, is coming to this country. ‘One more 'fortunate!”’ Ex-Governor 0. A, Hadley, of Arkansas, yestor- day arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Charles Bowles, of Bowtes Brothers & Co., is visiting Mayor Joseph Brown, in St, Louis. ‘The Spanish Minister, Admiral Polo de Bernabe, has returned to the Clarendon Hotel from New- port. Surgeon James McMaster, United States Navy, died at the Naval Hespital, Chelsea, Muss., on the 4th instant. A feminine lawyer has just won her first case tm Chicago, The strong points in her plea belore the jury were youth and beauty. Women and Chinese are said to figure among the clerks in the Bank of California. The former fre- quently figure in every bank. M. Clement Duvernois’ new halfpenny paper in Paris, La Démocratie, designs to prove that only the Empire can succor the working people. James M. Foster, the first white man born im Kokomo, Ind., died on the 2d instant, His father, literally “the oldest tnhabitant,” survives him, ‘the venerable ex-Ju:tice Neton has been iif lately, but is now again going about his home at Cooperstown, N. Y., showing wondertul vigor for an octogenarian, A wild man, in nature’s suit, has made his at pearance in the woods between Sauk Rapids and Little Falls, Minnesota. A Sauk Rapidite “hopes” it is his brother-in-law, Senator Bayard, Dr. N. K. Davis, Colonel Edgar Montague and Moses Walton, have been elected honorary members of the Society of the Alumni of the University of Virginia. Colonel William H, Heiss, General Superiatendemt of the International Ocean Telegraph Company, headquarters at Havana and Key West, has arrived at his home in Brooklyn after an absence of twe years. Congressional Delegate R, C. McCormick, of Arizona, 1s at the Hoffman House. Mr. McCormick has been compelled to give up his purpose of going to Europe on the steamship Pennsylvania, which starts on her first trip on Thursday, from Phila- delphia. A Winona (Minnesota) paper puts @ little local incident in this way:—‘dMirs. Len Brown and Mr. George Poits eloped together—the one being @ husband and the other a wife. Brown is after them with pistols for two, and Winona is not happy.” The Philadelphia Age aptly remarks that a “maiden speech” was once a mere figure of speech for the first effort of a young lawyer or a new Con- gressman. But now it has become a reality, and the fair sex perplex Courts and startle audiences with their “maiden efforts.” A China woman was sold at auction on Granite Creek, Idaho, lately, to a Chinaman named Stix, who has already six wives of this kind and half @ dozen of another. The latest Mrs. Six brought $575. It would not be strange, when she enters John Six’s family, 1f things went to “sixes and sevens.’? Here is @ little note for the scientists. In Oswego, at six o’clock on the morning of the 1st instant, there was noticed on the stone sidewalks avery peculiar jelly-li%e formation, which, when put under a magnifying glass, appeared: like cella containing animal life. No one seemed able to ex- plain it. Perhaps it was a “sell” altogether, An old man, crippled with rheumatism and ao companied py his family of four, arrived in Kansas City, Mo., on his way from Indiana to a town im Kansas State, and was immediately robbed. ‘Whereupon the St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald remarks “4f people going West will continue to go through such @ wicked place they deserve tobe robbed.” Poor consolation that, A Nevada paper relates how a couple of home made savants were discussing the cause of the saline character of the water in the Great Salt Lake. Said one, “Well, it’s my opinion that there’s an underground connection with the Pacific Ocean, and it’s filled with water irom the Pacific.’* “But,” said the other, “Salt Lake is 7,000 feet higher than the ocean; what do you think of that ?”" “Think of it! why I think it bursts my theory all to thunder.” Mr. 8, I. Clemens (Mark Twain) was recently entertained at a most recherché banquet, given at the Langham Hotel, London. The opportunity of his visit to London was embraced by Mr. J. M. Bellew in order tooffer to a distinguished Ameri- can literary man some small recognition of the hospitality which was everywhere shown to Mr. Bellew himself in America during his late visit. Some fourteen gentlemen, distinguished in litera ture and art and on the stage, were invited ta meet Mr. Clemens on this festive occasion. After dinner his health was proposed by the host, assur- ing him of the hearty welcome he would every- where receive in England, emulating the reception which the Hterary world of New York and Boston extends to all English men of mark who visit the United States. Mr. Clemens, in a speech replete with the drvest humor, which drew orth laugh- ter and applause from all around him, briefly thanked the company for the honor done him, and hoped to be able to reciprocate the hospitality of the evening at some future day in his own house at Hartiord. EARTHQUAKES, Rumblings at Jamestown, N. ¥. JamEstown, N. Y., July 7, 1873. At about twenty minutes past nine o’clock on Saturday morning a shock of earthquake was dis- tinctly felt, causing a breaking of crockery, throw- ing picture frames irom the watis, &c. The occur- rence causes considerable excitement here, Buffalo Shaken. BurFFALo, N. Y., July 7, 1873. Another shock of earthquake occurred at siz o’clock this morning. The only damage done by the shocks of yesterday was the throwing down of @ chimney in the centre of the city. CHOLERA IN THE WEST. In Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Jaly 7, 1873. Seven deaths from cholera were reported at thy Heaith office to-day. In Memphis. MemMpnis, July 7, 1873. There were twenty-two interments to-day, only three of which were from cholera, In Nashville. NASHVILLE, July 7, 1873. The total number of deaths Sunday was twelve, of which seven were from cholera. The total num- ber of deaths to-day was four, none of which were from cholera. A special despatch from Chattanooga reporta thirty deaths there during the last forty-elgnt hours, filteen of which were from cholera, ROBBERY AND PROBABLE MURDER OP A LONG ISLAND FARMER, Sergeant Riley, of the Tenth precinct, arrested Theodore Gambia and George Robbins, colored, last night for having, as alleged, beaten and robbed John Dennis, a Long Island farmer, on the Jamaica road. Mr. Dennis had been to Washington Market and disposed of a load of produce, for which he had received $90, and was driving home last Friday night. When the wagon reachea his house Mr. Dennis was found in the bottom of it, in an insensible condition and covered with blood, AwWrench which he had in the wagon was covered with blood, and there were several wounds on his head and face, which had been caused by biows from this instrument. Inquiry was made at the toll-gate, and the keeper stated that when Mr, Dennis passed through the Bs he had two negroes in the wagon with him, and from the description he gave of them they were identified as Gambia and Robbins, two desperate characters, Knowing that Mr, Dennis had the money with him they improved the Ui sthng A it is sup) when they got @ good distance above the gate knocking him senseless and then pn him, Mr. Dennis has not been conscious since the aa- Sault, and his recovery 18 said tobe impossible, Several of the Long Island farmers have recent: been robbea on the road, and they will, no doubt go prepared to protect (bempelves in tie iuture. See nee