The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1873, Page 4

4 . NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the ‘rar, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WoOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, coraer Thirtieth st— Rosr O'’More, sfternoon and evening. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth otreet —Mimi, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack AnD THE Baan AL K—A COMKDIETTA. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sumuxn Nicuts' Con- Canrs, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brcadway.— Scumaice any Ant DB. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 683 Brosdway.—Scruxcx ‘ap Art. WITH SUPPLEMENT. SS — Sew York, Thursday, July 17, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE GROWTH OF MANLY SPORTS AND EXER- CISES IN AMERICA!"—LEADING EDITO- RIAL TOPIC—FourTH Pas. LATEST FKOM THE UNIVERSITY REGATTA COURSE! PROSPECTIVE SUCCESS OF THE STRUGGLE.—FirtH Pace. THE TWO-MILE RUN FOR THE BENNETT CHAL- LENGE CUP! THE NAMES AND UNIVERSI- TIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE ENTERED! EXCELLENT SPORT ANTICiPATED—FurTu Pace. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE SPANISH MINISTER OF MARINE! WORKMEN LN- CITED TO RIOT IN BARCELONA! TREAT- MENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR! THE CAKLIST FORCE! WAR VESSELS TO GUARD THE BISCAY COAST—FirTH Paar. FRENCH OFFivIAL PROHIBITION OF UNDUE REJOICING ON THE OCCASION OF THE GERMAN EVACUATION—LMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—Firri Paces. ROWDIES ALMOST MURDER A POLICE OFFI- CER! A VILLANOUS ONSLAUGHT WITH CLUBS AND REVOLVERS! ONE OF THE ROUGHS BADLY HURT AND TWO AR- RESTED—TENTH PaGE, A MOST REMARKABLE MURDER CASE! THE JENNERSVILLE MYSTERY DEVELOPING SOME CURIOUS PHASES! ANOTHER MUR- DER MORKOR EXPLAINED—TENTH Pace. JOHN BULL TO PAY THE ALABAMA CLAIMS IN AUGUST! IMPORTANT TREASURY DE- CISIONS! CALEB CUSHING AND FERNANDO WOOD—FourtH Pace. * THE FILIBUSTERING EFFORT AGAINST HON- DORAS TO BE REPELLED! NEWS FROM THE CENTRAL ADD SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS—THE SPANISH HUNT OF THE VIRGINIUS—FirTa Pack. ‘TO THE RESUUE! THE JUNIATA AT ST. JOHNS! THE LOCATION OF THE POLARIS! HOW THE SEARCH WILL BE CONDUCTED! SOMETHING FURTHER ABOUT BUDDING- TON—SIXTH PaGE. A CHEERFUL ‘CHANG’! THE WALL STREET BULLS HARD AT WORK! GOLD STRONG A D MONLY EASY—NIntTH Pace. JERSEY OITY’S MALEFICEN® POLICE CHIEF AND DETECTIVE ON TRIAL! A MISSING WITNESS FOUND! STRONG EVIDENCE OF WRONGDVING—EicntH Paag, THE ALDERMANIC GUN STILL “HANGS FIRE” ON THE POLICE JUSTICE NOMINEES! THE MAYOR THINKS FRESH PRIMING MAY BE NECESSARY! A SIXTY-DAY RECESS— EIGHTH PaGE, RACING AT LUNG BRANCH! BEATRICE CARRIES OFF THE THESPIAN STAKES, STOUKWOUD AND PREAKNESS THE T'WO-MILE HEAT AND LONG BRANCH PRIZES! A GROSS OUTRAGE UPON PASSENGERS—DEERFOUT PARK—SIXTH Pace, DANA'S TRIUMPH! JUDGE BLATCHFORD AF. FIRMS THE RIGHT OF EVERY CITIZEN 10 JURY TRIAL WHEN ARRAIGNED FOR CRIME! GENERAL LEGAL IfEMS—Eicura Page. THE KILLING OF MICHAEL KIRWAN—REALTY IN AND NEAR THE METROPOLIS—EIcuTH Pace. CORONER'S INQUIRY INTO THE MURDER OF MARSHAL STEPHENSON—MELROSE MUR- DERERS ARRAIGNED, AND ONE VERDICT OF GUILTY RENDERED—EX-SHERIFF O’BRIEN’S CLAIMS—SIxTH Pack, METHODISM AND ITS MISSION WORK IN THE PAST CENTURY! CLOSING PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CENTENARY— Sixt Pac. Watt Srreer yesterday exhibited signs of unusual activity. For ten days past there has been a steady manifestation of strength, which, being reported by letter and telegraph to absentees at the watering places, produced its results in outside orders that added to the ordinary volume of Summer business. This Summer speculation is essentially welcome, although not unexpected. It is the sequence of adroit combinations made by a few, yet based upon actual facts known to the market which only awaited an assertion of responsible paternity. This being given, the market be- came immediately responsive, encouraging and full of promise. The excitement growing out of the statement concerning the Pacific Mail Company in the early hours of business was very strong, but it subsequently yielded to the speculative influences generated by the general buoyancy of the market. Tux Burrtsn House or Lonps is about to be robbed of one of its most ancient rights. During o long and nobly historic past it hag been the final court of appeal for Scotland and Ireland as wellas for England. For this go-ahead age, however, the House of Lords is found too slow, and a bill is now before Par- liament and in hopeful progress having for its object the establishment of a Supreme Legal Tribunal whose decisions shall be final. Should this bill pass into law the House of Lords will cease to be the final court of appeal in the three kingdoms. The change is needed, but such # change must be regarded asanother blow at ancient and aristocratic Privileges. In this case England is following the example of the United States. Tr Is Assenren by well informed citizens that the damage done to uptown property by she so-called economy system practised by the present city government amounts to » greater , stan in dollars and cents than ail the Taiii- _Tuany thieves succeeded in stealing from the ity Treasury in the heyday of their villanies. Baw is this for reform? ka NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDA The Growth of Manly Sports and Exerelses in Ame: To the lovers of manly sport the inter-Uni- versity boating regaita on the Connecticut River at Springfiold to-dsy will be of the highest inicrest. It is little better than twenty years since the first race of the kind was rowed in the United Sta‘es, when Har- vard beat Yale on Lako Winnipiseogee. From that date, with but little intermission, rowing has steadily advanced in favor among our college youth, and the fact that eleven institutions, bringing out fourteen crows, have occupied traning quarters along the beautiful river for wecks past and will contend to-day shows that it is the pvt athletic sport of our Universities. The example of the two great English Universities, Oxtord and Cam- bride, has doubtiess done much to stimulate our youth; but the sciwnce of the oar has been taken up here with a vigor which is all American. It is unnecessary here to enter into any discussion of the ‘‘style”’ of rowing which is least injurious or most con- ducive to ep:e:; in fact, so long og muscleand stamina are differing quantities in young men each style will have its champions. What we wish to see is that, whatever style may be adopted, the conditions of boat racing will be such ag commend them to the more sober- thinking physicist as to the most enthusiastic undergrad that ever longed for victory in his freshman year. The healthy mind in the healthy body is the ideal of the modern student, as it was of the ancient, and nowhere more than in America should this be fostered and encouraged. The young men who study Greek and Latin have every scholarly induce- ment to cultivate their bodily strength, if they only can picture to themselves the competitors in the Olympian games of which Pindar has so sweetly sung. To be sure, they bad no boat races there, and the six-oared ‘‘shell’’ and the slid- ing seat were things that had no place even in the poet's imagination. But the buildiug up of a muscular, agile frame, that makes a man so selt-helpiul in his bat.le with the world, was the motive of all the games, as it should be with our young men to-day.” The long training to which the Greeks subjected their athletes, and the perpetual muscular education which the Romans bestowed on their gladia- tors, show that this high cultivation of the physical forces is not to be reached without care, perseverance and self-denial Unfortu- nately, the ‘‘specials’’ of that period did not preserve diurnal notes for us of the ‘‘form” of the men as they trained for the wrestling, leaping, running, boxing and quoit-throwing ; but, as Hercules is reputed the founder of the games, we must conclude that the ideal of manly strength and energy was a high one, in fact the highest, ss he who looks upon the exhumed antique marble torso of the hero will confess. Nature, however, has wisely declined to place Herculean strength within the possibilities of every one, and it is, therefore, a matter of interest to all young men that they should discover how far it is prudent to push the development of their muscles without injuring their health, From statistics carefully compiled by an old ’ varsity “oar,” in England, it has been established that the training, severe as it is, has not mate- rially impaired the health of those who rowed in the annual races over a very long period. It must, of course, be remembered that the two eights are the manly flower of the Univer- sities, and as such they should enjoy a longer life-average than their fellows. But it is un- doubted that even where a subject has been reputed of the highest grade of bodily strength the training process has been fre- quently overdone, with evil results, which tell not merely in the particular struggle for the sake of which it is endured, but throughout life. It will not do to strain after being a Hercules for half an hour, only to find one’s self @ prematurely decrepit Tithonus for the bal- ance of a long life, without ony friendly Aurora to turn one into a grasshopper. The evils of overtraining in the matter of boat racing are well presented in the sad case of Renforth, who died at the oar in a cham- pion race; and, indeed, the curious case of Ellis Ward, who failed so signally in the race with Biglin at Springfield on Tuesday, is very much in point. It may be mentioned that our correspondent, Mr. Blaikie, himself a famous University “oar,” dwelt particularly upon the superfineness with which Ward had been trained, and gave his opinion that Ward's condition was too “fine,” even fora shorter spin. After six minutes and ten seconds of racing work he flung up his hands and be- came blind for a space. The doctors said it was vertigo, but the conclusion generally will be that it was overtraining first. To all young men ambitious to ‘feather'’ themselves into fame these should be serious lessons. Rowing is a fine exercise, bringing all tho large mus- cles into play, and is beneficial in moderation to almost every young man in ordinary health. Before ® course of training is undertaken, however, ft should be assured that heart and lungs are perfectly healthy. Tendencies to disease in the heart may, under the trainer's severe coaching, be developed into the disease itself, and rheumatic and pulmonary diseases are frequently brought into deadly activity by too great and prolonged a strain upon the frame. The man sound in wind and limb can generally go through a course of moderate training with positive benefit, The sum of all advice on the matter is—Do not train at all unless a competent medical authority assures you that your system can bear it; do not train too highly in any case. The sport of the ‘‘scull’’ and “sweep,” of course, does not cover the manly sports and exercises, on the growth of which we have to congratulate Young America. Yachting has obtained position here which Europe may well envy, and all the indications are that the future of our white-winged sea-skimmers will be still more brilliant. It is, unfortunately, a sport not within the reach of so many as boating, but it is better for the wealthy than most of the lazy modes of spending money, and has health, cheer and manliness to recommend it. Canoeing, as an organized sport, has made great strides within a very few years, and, of course, what can be said in favor of the oar is true of the paddle. If base ball has lost some of its highest interest the crack clubs have themselves to blame tor it. Ugly rumors About games not played with a view'to gain honor by winning, but money by losing, have injured what we have grown to call the ‘national game.'’ As o healthiul avort for the younz it will, we trust, nevor fail to com- mand its nines in every school and village thronzhont the land. The Enzlish gaiue of cricket has never had the consideration here which os a game it deserves. The popularity of base ball will perhaps account for thir more than anything else, La Crosse, too, a capital game, has never managed to get much south of the Canadian line. Running and walking races are among those which are as old as.man and will endure as long, Tuey should be encouraged every- where, and regain something of their ancient eminence as sports. Here again we may nole the baleful influence of the ‘‘professionals."’ A two-mile foot race will be among the sports to-morrow. If the ‘manly art’’ has fallen into disrepute, it is because the gentlemen of the P. R. have of late proved themselves indifferently plucky and especially mercevary. We do not for a moment desire that anytuing should save prize fighting from a deserved ex- tinction; but Tom Hughes, Charles Reade and Bulwer have made us wish that muscular Christianity here knew more about boxing gloves than Deringers. The “turi’’ has an immortal charm which, it seems, no amount of jockeying can destroy, and for its example of equestrian exercise we hope it never will decay. A handsome young man can display his figure and do him- self mcre good on the back of one horse thun behind a pair, There is another out-door suriseaen! which, however tively grim, should receive more attention it receiven— namely, rifle target firing—not on the debauch- ing, begging plan of the politicians’ target companies, which, Heaven be thanked, are no more, but in connection with the volunteer regiments of every State in the Union. The matter has been brought to a fine point of ex- cellence in England and Belgium, and should not be neglected by us. The subject of calisthenics is a wide one, but the advantages of a regular gymnasinm have been demonstrated so abundantly that we need only note with gratification their rapid rise and spread. In Germany they have had a great deal more to do with her late vic- tories on the field of battle than people sus- pect, and to that class of our youth to whom out-door sports are all but denied they aro invaluable. To our young men in the various colleges of the land we would recommend the legend of Hercules for study. When they leave Alma Mater behind them it will need no oracle of Apollo to tell them that the field tor their labors is a wide one. Coming to shape ina large degree the destinies of a generation, they will find Nemean lions, Lernean hydras and Erymanthian boars in their path which mere book acquirements will not master. Quickness of eye, readiness of hand anda quantum of trained physical forces will often help out the brain when difficulties acumu- late or danger is ahead. A continent is ours, young athletes, not a small peninsula and a few islands, and we need every manly quality ot hand, head and heart to make it more than it is the prosperous home of a great and free people. All the labors of Hercules together are inconsiderable by the side of this. The Miserles of Street Car ‘Travel. With the mercury up in the nineties and a pitiless sun converting New York into a huge oven those who are obliged to remain in the city experience much difficulty in keeping themselves in any kind of comfortable condi- tion. The beautiful Park, of which® the metropolis may justly be proud, affords a wel- come retreat and cool shade to the tired and heat-suffering family after the sun has do- clined to the horizon. There are other re- treats up town and in the suburbs equal in attraction to anything afforded by the watering places. At Thomas’ Garden and on the banks of the East and Harlem Rivers an hour of rest and enjoyment may be obtained every day. But to reach any of these desirable oases in the desert of a wmetro- politan Summer it is necessary to ride in the street cars. The amount of suffer- ing, inconvenience, insult and, at times, posi- tive injury one has to endure at the bands of the conductors and drivers of these cars is suf- ficient to counterbalance the pleasure and en- joyment realized at the end of each trip. The stury of street car outrages is of no recent date, but it meets with indifferent hearers in the sordid and heartless corporations to whom interests so dear to the city are entrusted. On some of the east side lines this Summer this evil has become intolerable, and the Park and its charming retreats seem to be prac- tically shut out from a large proportion of down-town residents. When on indignant passenger relates his or her wrongs to the public there follows the usual ‘‘whine of the overworked driver or ill-paid conductor,” as if that would be a sufficient excuse for inso- lence and abuse. Many families are com- pelled to endure the heat in the best way they can in their own houses, not venturing to trust themselves in the evening to the tender mercies of a ruffianly conductor even as far as Fitty-ninth street. Overcrowded, ill-venti- lated cars, cach with its squad of thieves and drunken rowdies, and insolence, profanity and general ruffianism are not calculated to inspire any peaceable person with a desire to visit those sylvan retreats ‘‘so near and yet so far.” As for the directors of some of the city rail- roads, they are proioundly indifferent to the rights and demands of the public. As long as they can pocket their dividends and make those coveted articles as large as possible the conductors and drivers may do what they please to outrage the feelings of street car passengers, Don Cantos in Spam.—‘‘His Majesty the King of Spain,’ Don Carlos, re-entered the national territory on the 15th instant. He issued a proclamation in which he calls on the people, the volunteers particularly, to come forward and save ‘‘dying Spain.’’ The word “‘dying’’ is singularly, and in a melancholy manner, appropriate to the present condition of his country, if we are tr judge by the con- tents of the news telegrams which we receive daily. But will monarchism cure the evil? Fmstiy, rae lst or Jury; secondly, the 10th of July; thirdly, the 15th of July, were the periods assigned by the city authori- ties for the removal of that fetid focus of foulness, the bone boiling and offal rendering establishments on the North River. And yet they still remain to impregnave the air with their distillations of poison. How much longer, O ye cowardly city rulers, must the abomination continue? Y, JULY 17, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Sanitary Condition of the City— Oar Lateit Oficial Reports. The latest reports to the Sanitary Bureau of the condition of the streets of this me- tropolis will go far to confirm the pre- vailing opinion that New York w_ the most filthy city in the United States. A fow ivoms from the report of the Sanitary Superintendent, Dr. Day, of the 15th inst., will serve to justify this opinion. In a whole section of streeta ‘‘collec'ions of stagnant water, throwa from houses, sre constantly found." All the streets in the Five Points district are “filthy with strevt diri, slops and garbage." East of Second avenue all the streots are represented as in the same con- dition. Inspector Rober's, of the Twenty-first ward, reports his streets clean, excepting Broadway alley, ‘which is very filthy.’’ Upon the whole, however, th» strvets clean and now kept clean are far more numsrous than the filthy ones, but these are so scaitered over the city as to be enongh to infect the whole city in case of an epidemic, Dr. Day says that in thickly populated, il!-paved cobblestone strects, where the inhabitants are entirely indifferent to sanitary considerations and throw their slops and garbage m the gutters. right behind tho sweepers, there is need of daily cleaning. If 80, we have only to say, let such streets be daily cleaned, but, at the same time, enforce the law upoa the inhabi- tants. But from poisonous sewers, cesspools, tene- ments, sunken lots, filthy market places, slaughter houses, bene boiling and other nui- sances there is more to be feared in regard to the general health of the city than from the offal, dirt and garbage of the streets. We are pleased to see that the Board of Health are looking into these abominations with an eye to the remedy, but we fear that the Summer will be over before they can announce that the remedy has been applied to any considerable extent. Twenty-four inspections of all sorts of filthy places for one week is a good report from the inspectors, but the removal of tho various and numerous nuisances inspected is the main question. Meantime the gencral health of the city con- tinues remarkably good. For instance, for the two weeks ending July 5 and July 12, of the present year, our city mortality was, for the first week, 683, and, for the second week, 690, while for the corresponding two weeks of last year the deaths were, for the first week, 1,591, and, for the second, 1,022. This is an en- couraging comparison ; but Dr. Harris says that this Summer all the large cities of the United States continue to report a moderate rate of mortality, and in the towns that have suffered from the cholera in the Southwest tho saving effect of sanitary duties performed has been very marked. And so we should not forget in our present comparative exemption from epi- demic diseases that pestilence may be lurking near snd that Providence helps those who help themselves. The Polaris Expedition and Petermann's Letter. We print this morning the judgment of Dr. Petermann, one of the most eminent of living geographers, on the results of the Polaris expedition. The Doctor says :—‘‘Lo me the geographical results of the expe- dition appear of extraordinary value. At any rate, they are the highest that any vessel, among the numerous expeditions of all mations to the North and South Poles, have ever ac- complished since many centurics.”” This is strong language. Yet these words are from Dr. Petermann, written ir the editonal rooms of the Mittheilungen—the first authority on geographical science. We need not say that we entirely concur with him in his flattering but conscientious opinion, expressed with so mush honest enthusiasm. Nor is it necessary to add that we commend that fine sentiment of the German savant when he writes— “Placed in a similar position (to that of Hall) the same thing has happened to me and my friends in Germany, and it will always remain thus as long os the civilized governments of the world devote their millions to the in- crease of their armies and the scientific ob- jects only figure in the budget for the crambs; and as long as people, who are willing to add to the little knowledge we have of our earth, have to go begging for small contributions.” The judgment of Dr. Petermann, being the first decided opinion given by s fearless geographer abroad, will revive scientific in- terest in the discoveries made by Captaim Hull and his command; and as Americans we may well ask, after this recognition, if we have not yargely benefited the world in fitting out the Polaris expedition and now in hurrying to the reséne of those captives still in, their Arctic bondage. The Dr. Proposition to KFuand the Debt. Supervisor Van Schaick has submitted to the Committee on Finance of the Board of Supervisors a proposition for funding the city debt which is worthy consideration. It is to create a loan of one hundred and fifty million dollars at five per cent interest and payable in a hundred years. With the proceeds he pro- poses to pay off the present debt, estimated at one hundred and ten million dollars, which bears seven per cent interest, and to apply the balance of forty million dollars to city improve- ments either projected and commenced or that may be deemed useful. He supposes, of course, that the loan would be floated at par. We du not see why five percent city bonds having such a long time to ran should not be disposed of at par. In that case the interest on the whole one hundred and fifty million dollars would not exceed that which the city now pays on its debt, whilea round sum of forty millions would be obtained for improve- ments, If the loan can be made and the sur- plus sum realized be properly applied the city would gain a great deal by the financial operation. There is much to be done in the way of improvements—mueh that is necessary. and that would add greatly to the value of property and business—but our citizens are not willing to increase the yearly interest bur- den at present. The plan of Mr. Van Schaick, if it can be carried out, would farnish the money needed for itaprovements without in- creasing the burden of taxation, The propo- sition desérves consideration. No Crry x THe Wortp, except this, would tolerate the existence for a month, much less for years and years, as is the case here, of those nuisances, the fat boiling,and offal ren- dering establishments on the North River, within the heart, as it were, of one of the most populous portions of the city. City “LIGZNCZ. PERSONAL IN! Judge T. W. Bartley, ot Washington, is at the St. Nicho'as Hotel. General Georze P. | sta, of Washington, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Rev. George P. Wilson, ® well-known Boston city missionary, is dead. Count F. Le Petro, of Italy, yesterday arrived at the /iith Avenue Hore!, Congressman L. 8. Gunkel, of Oho, is staying at the Fitth Aveaue Hotel. Ex-Congressman A, H. Rice, of Boston, is staying at the Fith Avenue Hoel. Congressman James M. Leach, of North Carolina, is at the Grand Central Hotel, Juage A. de BK, Ha. hes, of New Orleans, has ar- rived at the Fifth Av nue Hotel. General Hartsut, of the United States Army, is registered ut the Sturtevant House. C. T, Hulburd, tae Super ntendent of the new Post Ofice buildiny, is at the Astor Houae, Cuptain Davis, of the Lighthouse Board, has been ordered to tnsject all the lighthouses on the Lakes. Alexander R. Shepard, President of the District of Colum ‘ia Board of Pubiic Works, is at the Metro- politan Hotel. General Von Moltke has taken a leave of absence for the Sanuner, and ia residing on his estate at Creisa, in Silesia. Thurlow Ward wil! leave this city to-tay for Ridgefield Springs, His health is not yet restored, and be is only just able to walk about. Fisher Ames Hiidreth, bro: her-in-law of General B. F. Butler, formerly Postmuster 01 Lowcll, Muss., editor, Sheriff, &c., died on the 9th instant, President Grant, General Babcock und ex-Secre- tary Borie came up f:o:n Long Branch yesterday morning and are still at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Thomas Jordan, of “Cuba Libre” celeb- rity, is addressing meetings in Western New York in benali of the independence o/ the ‘Queen of the Antilles.” Sylvester Brown, of Ashtabula, Ohio, when ad- judged not guilty of the mur. er of his wife, rose Up and sat ‘Gentiemen, I think I can stand soda water on this!” Ex-Governor Washburn, of Massachusetts, has been dined and wined by the Bar of St. Join, N. &., chiefy iormer pupils of the ex-Governor in the Harvard Law Schvol. Riding toget..er in a carriage in Lexington, Va., one day last week, were @ nephew oi Judah P. Benjamin, a daughter oi Jefferson Duvis and a granddaughter o. General Albe.t Syaney Johnson. Acertain M. Paul a'Hormoys baving been ap- pointed Preect of Chauma>t, France, Edmond Avout’s paper, the TLE, Siécle, assuming that the name d’Hormoys iw fictitious and veils that of M, Eugene Lambert, asks two per‘inent conun- drams:—“Is it proper that the oilictal acts of a Freiect ld be signed with @ fictitious name like @ vaudeville at Dejaze:'s Theatre; and is the Freuch administration a masked palit” Mr. 8. R. Bryan, the Su,erinteadent of Foreign Postage 01 Japan, yesterday reached the St. Nicho- las Hotel from Washington. ‘ihe mission of Mr. Bryan from Japan ts to negotiate a postal treaty with our government, and to accomplish his pur- pose he has been consulting Secretary Creswell and other Post Office authorities. Air. Bryan is an American sod was formeriy connected with the Postal De,artment at Washington, but resigned his place there to go to Japan to fill his present position. WATERING PLACE NOTES. Commodore Vanderotit and family have arrived at Congress Hail, Saratoga, where they will spend the season, the Commouore dropping into New York occasionally to attend to business, The sport of the guests on Mount Washington last week was suowbailing, in which ladies took great delight, Watkins Gien is well patronized thia season, ana the Glen Mountain House presents an animated appearance. Skirmishing with swarms of black flies and draw- ing in three-pound trout is the excitement of the guests at Monson, near Moosehead Lake, Maine. Bath, Gardiner ani other towns on the Kenne- bec, in Maine, have many New York and Boston visitors tis Summer, Hon. and Mrs. Jesse D. Bright and daughter, of Covington; Mr. Holden and family and George W. Keck and family wilt summer at Deer Park Hotel, on tie Baltimore and Onio Railroad. Genersi William Myers, United states Army, is quartered at the Grand Hotel, sar.toga, Ex-Governor Waimoth, of Louisiana, has re- turned to the Grand liotel, Saratoza, a.ter a short visit to some friends in Massachusetts. Hop. Demas Barnes ana famiiy, of Brooklyn, are @t the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. Henry A. Harlbut and fauily, of New York, also occupy Tooms there, D. D. Acker, of Acker, Merrill & Co., is at Sara- toga with bis family. General D. H. Rucker, Deputy Quartermaster General of the United States Army, with Colonel T. G. Baylor, of the Orduance Department, and Captain F. H.Corrie, of tne Marine Corps, have secured quarte*s at the Grand Hotel, for a goodly Btay at Saratoga, Proiessor C. G. Heberman and wife, of New York, arrived at the Grand Hotel on Saturday. W. B. Asten, of New York, has quarters witn his friend, Major Leland, at the Grand Hotel, during his usual stay at >aiatoga, this season. The presence of the Mixed Commission on British and Afferican claims in Newport is @ matter of & good deal of interest to society, and the occa- Sion of increased entertainment in the way of din- ner parties, 4c. General Joe Hooker and fimily are at Congress Hail, Saratoga, where Major Eastman, of Pough- keepaie, 1 oO & Sojourner. M. De Riva and iami.y, of this city, have taken @ suit oO: rooms at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, At Newoort, on the afternoon drive down the avenue, Young America, male and female, strains its earer republican eyes to catch @ glimpse of Count Corti; the Italian Minister's aristocratic face or Sir Stafford Northcote’s English visage is earnestly perused, and Jenkins whispers, in the slow passage of the carriage, “There's Mr. Rus- sell Gurney and Calderon Carlisle and Mr. Clive;’” and Young America, catching these soit-sylia- bled names, adjusts its eye-glass with renewed in- terest. Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, has a cottage at Narragansett Pier, near the residence of Blacque Bey, the Turkisn Mini-ter, The party of the season at Swampscott was the house-warming given by the guests at tlotel Pres- ton last week. The hotel is on Philip's Beach, and was erected by Mrs. Harriet Morgan, of Cambridge. A party of Chelsea youths are camping out at Plymouth, two parties are getting their tents Teady for camping at Chelsea Beach, and still un- other are preparing to take up quarters on Breed’s Island, POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. —+ Davis tor President—Governor Hendricks’ Position. ‘The Indianapoils Journal (repubdlican—Senator Morton’s organ) learns that @ quiet movement is going on in democratic citcles with @ view to bring out General Jett 0. Davis fur the Presidency, not Jef Davis, late President of the Southern con- federacy, as might be supposed, but Jeff U. Davis, of the regular army, and of recent Modoc fame. The movement has already gained consider- able head and is particularly pleasing to those democrats who are in favor of @ complete new departure and throwing themselves on the mercy of the people. By the way, Governor Hendricks 18 strongly in favor of- the party turning its back on the past, but we are not iniormed whetner he tavors the candidacy of Davis or not. It is barely possible the Governor thinks there is one man in the country of superior claims whose name modesty would forbid him to mention. ‘The St. Louis Democrat says Mr. Kasson, of Towa, was not a back-pay stealer, not having been member of the last Congress. He was elected last Fall from tne Des Moines district, His prede- censor, we believe, was Mr. Paimer, who put his back pay into tie Cuicago Jnter-Ogean, of which he ja now the editor, Jeff C. WASHINGTON. —_—>+—____ WASHINGTON, July 16, 1873, ‘The Geneva Award To #e Paid on the 61h of Scp'ember. Tt is stated that the Geneva awad, amonutinete $15,509,000, will be paid at the State Department on tue thofSeptember, The seventh articie of the Trea'y of Washington provides tnat the! grow sum awarded shali be paid io coin vy the govern. ment of Great britain to tue government of the United States, a+ Wasiingt no, witain twelve Montos ‘aiter the date of the award. Forsome tume the British xoverniment was puzzled Lowto fuldl the treaty, when tue syadicate proposed te make the pament easy, On the 6tu of June fast they made an additional subser.ption vf $29,000,090 wo the Five Per Ceut Loan, and the cai was at once made for tht amount 0) five-twenty bonds, most of which are heid in Euope. AS fast as they ure presented in Loudou tuey are bougut by the Syndicate ior the. british g verniment and deliy. red to our financial agent, A. G. atts, Wao Das already advised ths Secretary of the Treasury thar he has recenved $3,000,000 of the smouut called am by the ciroular of June 6, and igieress on wich ceases Septeuber 6 Toe tited States Treasuror ackDowled.es the transaction vy issuing god certilic.te ‘or the amount o/ the bouds, payable to the syndtoure or their order ou tie 6th oi September ut his office ia Wash oyton, Tn se cvrtiflcates, to the ‘amount uf the award, will be made puyaule ty Sit Edward T.orpton, the Britsh Min. ster at Wasiazton, aud on the duy due he wilt demand of tno Treasurer payme st 10 fuil, receiving ac sin certificate which ne, wiil make payav'e to Hainillon Fish, secretary of State, Wio will acinowleigo its receipt asa full, Pertuct and fina settivmeut o: ali ciatms upon Great Britain growing out of the depredations of the rebel cruisers. ‘he check ior the amount will then; be paid intg the Treasury, the tlye-twenty bonds cancsiled and sitbscr.puon made to the sume amount to five per cent reg.stered bonds, How long the claimants will be kept ont of their Mouey depenls upoa Congress, but im the bill making provision ior its dist: iba ion it is intended to apply the interest acoumulaced by the invest- mont in flive per cent bonds to tie payment ot ex- penses already incurred or that may hereafter be incur.ead in the settlement of these claims. ‘There is also another item of ex- peuse to be provided ior. The Syadicate is entitled under tie terms of tho contract to its fall commission for the subscription made by the goverament to its own loan, wiich will amount to over §.10,v0. she whole auonat of the award must be kept intact, so thut this expense wil have to be pal. out Oo: the Treasury in the final setue- ment with the Syndicate, The “Lord Gsrdou”’ Affcir a Tempest in a State Depacimoat Teapot. The arrest of Gordon im Manitoba by United States aetectives is looked apon here as involving no difficulty o: a diplomatic natare. Ii the officers | made the arrest ulegally acioss the British boun- dary lines they are ameuab.e to the British courts, and the State Departwent can oniy interfere to the extent of asking a remission of any penalty that may be awarded agains: them on the grouod of want of criminal inveut; and asa matter of tncernational courtesy, there is but little douvt that the request would be granted. I it should be deemed by the British autuorities that Taylor, tue United States Consul, has transcended bis powers, or is in any Manner improperly mixed up in the afair, the Governor General of the Dominion of Qanada, to which Manitoba belongs, may revoke bis exequacur. For this there ts no Temeuy, agit is t..e right und custom of every nation to refuse a continue! recognition to diplomatic or consular agents who may in any munner have made tuemselves objectionable to tue governments to which they have been accredited. (onsal Tayior is @ Citizen 01 uuinnesota, ‘rom which State ha wag Sppointed. It is believed that he has acted as be deemed tne duties of his ofice required. | Whether there 1s any proper cause of complaint against him can only be asceriained on tie reception by the State Depar.ment of the cumplete details of the transaction. It is said be wiil be fully sustained in Whatever ne has done jor the prover protectin of Ame ic.u citizens or in uphoiding tie dignity of the country oi whica ne was 4 representative. The whole ails , however, is deewed here but a tem- pest na teapot, Caieb Cusaing Versus Fernando Wood’s Dog—\ Curious Case. A suit of a novel description has been entered be.ore the ‘istrict Courts in this city by Caled Cushing, A neighbor of his has & dug which keeps up an incessaut barking both day and night, very much to the unuoyauce of thiy distiugaished gen- tleman, He claims that it disturbs his rest at night and very Materially interferes with his studies and the transaction of business durins the day; that both his health and his projessioual duties suffer thereby, and he asks that damages be awarded nim to the amount of $4,000 against the owner of the doz. Though tne case May seem somewnat amusing it contains tne important point as to whether any person can keep an aniwal, even within his own enclosed pruperty, which by its noise inter‘eres with the peace and com.ort of the neighborhood. The decision, thereiore, is looked tor with some- thing 01 interes by the quiet and sleep-loving peo- ple of Washington, and should tue veteran lawyer and dipiomas.et win his case, it will be but the pre- cursor of many more suits of @ similar character, unless the owners of the nowlug and barking nuisances should take warning [rom the verdict, and so effectually muzzle the animals as to prevent ‘ny more complaints. It will be a queer comptaint to QGushing tor the Washing‘onians hereaiter to remember wim in connection with ‘‘the dog days.” It appears t..at the nominal de/endant, Mr. Kelly, 1s in charge of Fernande Wood's residence, and the dog is the property of the New York Representative. Beiore drawing up his complaint Mr. Cushing coa- sulted with a well-kuown Spanish barrister, who sustains inumate professional relations with Mr. Cushing, and who advised him that In spain both the law and the aduinistration of justice at all times afforded ample protection to the suiject in such cases, 80 that ooth by the civil and the com- mon jaw Mir. Cushing deems his case complete. Mr. Kelly rekes upon @ pai.-up corporat.on license to justily his reteniion of the dog. Judge Miller and the Chief Justiceshipe ‘The name of Justice Samuel F. Miler is promi- nently urged jor the Chief Justiceship, and his per- sonal friends are among the President's intimate advisors, It ts urged against him that he tsnot a valuabie member of the republicun party, while his decision in the New Orleans slaughter house case is asmost unan:mously condemned by members of the bar as one, it is said, wnoily in the interests of monopuly. Gencral Howard Objects To Be Tried by ao Military Coert. It 1s understood that General Howard demurs to any form of trial betore a military tribagal la con- nection with his administration of the Freedmen's Bureau, He justifies this objection by expresaing his opinion that in the present jeeling of army ofti- cers against his views on the Indian question, s@ ‘well as their constant prejudice against the repre- sentation of the army in the management of the Freedmen’s Bureau, he could not ve certain f jus- tice at the hands of a military cuurt. It is the im- ression that the War Department will accommo- Bate itself to General Howard's Agi} and an- other Congressiona: investization will be sug- gested on the assembling of Congress in December, Rapid Growth of the Grangers Move= ment. Owing to the rapid growth of the Order) of the Patrons of Husbandry, the headquarters of the Nattonal Grange wili soon be removed from George- town to Washington, where the secretary’s office will hereaiter be located. since the 1st inst. about 350 subordinate granges have been or- ganized, making the total number of granges in operation to date over 4,700, with wn, aggregate membership of about 350,000, The Order seems to be growing most rapidiy in the Stete of Towa, which now has 1,750 granges, Missouri, Indiana, Ninots, Mingesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. In response to requests from different States several additional general depaties have recently been sent out by the Na- tional Grange to organize subordinate granges. There are at present State Leng ag Some ¥ u Ulinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansa: Michigans” Saatesots, Minsisetppl,” Missouri, New braska, North Carolina, Ohio, South Caroma, Teo- | nessee. Vermont and Wisco