The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ——_e—— All business or news letters and telographic despatches must bo nddressed New Yore Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. ADVERTISEMENTS, to @ limited number, will be in- serted in the WEEKLY HeraLp and the European Edition, Volume XXXVIII, The Presidential Succession and the Question of Ceosarism in Connection with a Third Term to General -Grant. In the fifth month from the inauguration of ® President of the United States for a second term, if under the ordinary conditions of a state of peace heretofore controlling the question of the succession, the discussion of this subject would be but a waste of ammunition on the empty air. Nay, under the existing extraordinary condition of our political par- ties and of the political issues of the day, the question of the next Presidency, wholly de- pendent upon the course of intervening events, would be as profitless a theme tor speculation ag the probable yield and value of our Southern cotton crop of 1874, but for the instrumentalities, the ways, the means and temptations which point to General Grant as the republican candidate for 1876, It is the probability of this alarming innovation, this rude unsettling of our established White House limit, which brings at this unusual time the Presidential succession before the American people, and upon this pre- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Mimt. ROWERY THEATRY, Bowery.—Lire i te Bace- woons—Macic TevarEt. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Rory O'More. Afternoon and evening. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sumen Nicats’ Con- ons, ap BST NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad. way.—Scrmnck anp Ant. DR. KAIIN'S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway,—Science ano Ant. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Now York, Saturday, July 19, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the HMerald. “THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION AND THE QUESLION OF CHSARISM IN CONNECTION WITH A THIRD TERM TO GENERAL GRANT !"—-LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE— Fount Page, AGAINST AMERICAN CH/SARISM! WHAT THE PRESS NAS TO SAY ON THE DANGERS FROM THE THIRD-TERM INNOVATION— SIXTH PAGE, TWAIN'S PADISHAH STAR ON THE WANE! THE ASIAN RULER’S WONDERMENT OVER THE ELECTRICAL NEWS APPARATUS! A COM- MAND DISOBEYED! BARON REUTER'S SCHEMES! A PARSEE PETITION—Firta PAGE. THE COLLEGE CONTESTS ON THE CONNECTI- CUT! MR. BLUAIKIE’S REVIEW OF THE CONDUCT OF THE AFFAIR! MAGNIFICENT SCENES—TENTH PAGE. RUSSIA'S KHIVAN CONQUEST! RIVETING THE KHAN’S CHAINS! AN AMERICAN DIPLO- MAT ND A LONDON CORRESPONDENT DETAINED BY THE KHIVANS—Fietn Pace, OSCAR THE SECOND AND HIS QUEEN RE- CROWNED IN THE NORWEGIAN CAPITAL! A SPLENDID CEREMONY! THE LEGISLA- TIVE APPROPRIATION FOR EXPENSES— Furr Pace. QUEEN VICTORIA SANCTIONS THE RUSSO-ENG- LISH MARRIAGE CONTRACT—GERMANS FLYING FROM RUSSIAN -MILITARY SER- VICE—FirtH PAGE. CARLIST HOPES FOR BELLIGERENT RIGHTS! SANTA CRUZ ABANDONS THE CAMP AND RETURNS TO THE CHURCH—FirTH Pace. THE CHINESE EMPEROR'S AUDIENCE TO THE FORKIGN AMBASSADORS! PRESENTING THE ADDRESSES! THE EMPEROR RE- PLIES—FIFTH PAGE. ANOTHER CREDIT MOBILIER SCHEME FOR ROBBING THE PEOPLE! THE NEW DO- MINION PARLIAMENT MANIPULATED IN THE INTEREST OF THE CANADA PACIFIC RAILWAY! “PLACING” HALF A MILLION WITH TITLED HONORABLES—Turrp Page. GENERAL QUESADA'S WORK AND HOPES FOR CUBA LIBRE! CESPEDES’ WIFE! THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONGRESS! MEXICAN RECRUITS FOR CUBA—SIXxTH PagE. A NEW CUOIEF FOR THE AMERICAN COM- MISSION AT VIENNA! MR. SCHULTZ ASKS TO BE RELIEVED—FirrTH PaGE. UDDERZOOK'S HORRIBLE BUTCHERY JENNERSVILLE—IMPORTANT NEWS—Firtu Pas. NEWPORT AND PURGATORY! A DOLOROUSLY DULL SEASON SO FAR AT THE FASH- IVNABLE RESORT! POINTS THAT WILL REPAY A VISIT! THE DWELLERS IN THE COTTAGES—E1GutTH PAGE. THE POPE AND HIS VISITORS! QUEEN ISA- BELLA’S PILGRIMAGE TO THE PONTIFICAL SHRINE! ITS POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE! MARFORI AND THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS NOT RECEIVED—SrxtH Page. CAPE MAY'S MASSIVE LION! PHILADELPHIA FASHIONABLES FAVORED WITH A VISIT FROM THE DUKE OF LEEDS, R. N.! HIS POSSESSIONS, CONNECTIONS AND SPREE— THIRD PaGR. THE SANITARY WAR BE! RENDERING STENCH-HOLDS STORMED! THE FILTHY BOOTHS ADJACENT TO WASHINGTON MARKET TO BE REMOVED— EigutH PaGE. ARMS FOR THE POLICE! TER AND THE Ri OPE: Page. CLOSING SCENES AT THE N GROVE CAMP MEETING—HAYTIA —THE JERSEY CITY BANK CASE—Sixtu Pag. INTERESTING TURF ITEMS .FROM ENGLAND— MONMOUTH PARK—QUICK TRANSIT IN BROOKLYN—A STARTLING STEAL—TuiRp Pace. VENTILATING THE ABUSES OF THE STREET- CAR SYSTEM—LEGAL SUMMARIES—THE GOLD QUESTION—ITEMS FROM THE SUM- MER RESORTS—Eicnra Pace, AT GENERAL TOE MAYOR'S LET- QUISITION—PINANCIAL ATIONS IN THE METROPOLIS—Nin7a Tar Intse ‘‘Txam’’ Canrtep Orr the Elcho Challenge Shield at Wimbledon yesterday from the English and Scotch contestants. When we observe that Don Carlos carried off @ bay horse presented him by an Irish sympa- thizer we shall see that more injustice is being done to Ireland. It never rains but it teems, Tae Fura oy tux Sraeets has been once more considered by the Board of Health and some stringent resolutions have been passed. The uptown offal sheds have been ordered to be burned and their pestiferous contents re- moved. The booths around Washington Market are ordered to be pulled down. Other nuisances are ordered to be abated. What we would ask is, Will these resolutions and orders be carried out? We have had enough delay. Han lers from one depart- ment to anotacr and leaving the filth to rot at the sweet will of the flery sun is not the way to ward off pestilence. Cireumlocution im such matters isa defiance to the patience of the community ling the ord ! THE OFFAL AND | liminary issue we have an embarrassment which cannot be too soon considered and adjusted, We aro admonished by a prominent admin- istration journal (the Rochester Democrat) that the people will hesitate long before offer- ing any man, even one who has earned so much considoration at thoir hands as Genoral Grant, a third term, and that he will be moro scrupulous to accept than they to proffer; that the austere example of Washington cannot be lightly disregarded; that nothing but some dangerous crisis should induce this nation to choose even its greatest man Chief Magistrate for a third term; that such an example would be pernicious; that there is, however, no dan- ger in reference to General Grant; that o plainer or less ambitious man than he never held the office; that he carries no mark of the grasping usurper, but bears himself simply as a man who has worthily performed a great work and is content to rest upon his laurels; that, in short, he is one of those men who are satisfied with saving their country, and would rather rest after the task than begin a new struggle to take away our liberties. These are encouraging words; but accepting all these assurances of safety and all these guarantees in behalf of our amiable and modest President, they do not satisfy us, because they do not re- move the danger. ‘The danger is not with him, but with the groat party and all its powerful appendages of which he is the recog- nized head and most popular and acceptable leader. The austere examples of Washington are losing their original force. They are becom- ing too slow for the busy, bustling, demoral- ized, money-making age we live in. Henry Clay would rather be right than be President ; but the old inquiry, ‘Is it right?’’ in tho moral code of our political parties, has been superseded by the new legend, ‘‘Will it pay?’’ In this matter the demoralizations resulting from our late civil war, we sometimes fear, have entailed upon us a heavier burden than our national debt. Principles are nothing in this day with our President-making politicians apart from their selfish interests. A move- ment which will not pay they will not support; a movement which promises good dividends they will push to a conclusion regardless of principles. Will it pay the republican party to relieve General Grant upon the expiration of his present term in the nomination of another man for the succession? That is the question, The answer, too, is at hand in the very silence of the republican journals touch- ing the probable standard bearer of their party in 1876. Not one of them has a candi- date to suggest ; not one of them feols itself at liberty emphatically to declare that Gen- eral Grant is out of the field or to consider the door as closed against him from the examples of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson. Whether it is from the fear of unseasonable rivalries and divisions in the party camp or from apprehensions of losing caste among ‘the powers that be,’’ the republican press is singularly reticent upon this question of a third term to General Grant. The republican party is embodied in the administration, and in the patronage and in the financial interests and power of the adminis- tration there is a combination of political forces which appear to be irresistible. In this view the political power possessed by any pre- ceding President was but a bagatelle com- pared with that of General Grant. Down to atime so late as the administration of John Quincy Adams the current expenditures of the government were but some thirteen mil- lions a year. Down to a period so late as_the administration of Buchanan the patronage and the favors of the President had hardly an appreciable weight in the councils of the party looking to the succession. Favors distributed were as nothing to favors denied by the | President, to favors expected from a change in the White House. Pierce, from an unsatisfactory disposition of the New York Custom House, as much, perhaps, as from the bad odor of his Kansas-Nebraska bill, though an active candidate for a second term, was cut off withone. Polk, aspiring for a second term with all his patronage of the Mexican war, was superseded in his party convention of or of Tyler and Fillmore (to say nothing of Johnson), on the basis of the administra- tion patronage, each to secure another term, were simple ridiculous, But under Lincoln, with the stupendous ex- penditures of the war against our Southern rebellion and with the enormous budget of new offices and enriching and corrupting favors in appointments, contracts, agencies, passports and a thousand good things, there was a revolution in this matter of Executive patronage, and a concentration of forces in the President's hands, which doubtless had as much to do with Lincoln’s nomination for a second term as the actual necessities of the war for the Union. From Jackson to Lincoln the one- term principle had practically been enforced; and through this long interval the President's offices and honors were hardly a make-weight in the administration party conventions ; but with Lincoln the President, with his hundreds of millions of collections and disbursements, and with a dutiful Congress to back him, be- came not only the embodiment of his party- but the master of the political field. Under the pre-existing order of things, the office- seekers being more powerful than the office- | holders. we cannot doubt that Lincoln. asa | Zoroastrians, as the case may be. 1848 by General Cass. And, lastly, the efforts | republican candidate for a second term, would have been superseded by Chase. Now, witha dutiful Congress behind him, and with oll these thousands of honors and emoluments, and all these hundreds of mil- lions of collections and disbursements in his hands; with all these national banks, bonds and bondholders of our national debt under his control, and with a gold reserve in the Treasury found useful in a political crisis for the regulation of Wall street—with the con- trol, in a word, of a financial system upon the manipulations of which all our material interests and all classes of our people, from the railway king to the street vagrant, aro vitally interested from day to day, where is the limit of the President's power in reference to the succession? It he had arrayed against him a powerful opposition, like that which frequently baffled the designs of Jackson and which constantly engaged him along the whole line of his defences, there would be nothing, perhaps, to tempt General Grant to the un- tried and dangerous ground of a third term. But with the electoral vote of thirty-one States and a popular majority of seven hundred thou- sand as tho issue of the late fiercely contested Presidential campaign, and with the liberal republicans and the democracy all adrift, whero is the opposition army which, in 1 republican movement for a third term to General Grant, can successfully dispute his passage? Let us suppose, then, that this formidable host of office-holders, contractors, banks, bond-holders, financiers and powerful cor- porations have combined to secure to General Grant a third term, how can his party conven- tion resist these forces, and how is he to resist the call of his party? Accepting the call and re-elected upon it, why may he not be elected again and again, until hardly the formality of an election remains to mark the passage from one term to another? This peril to the Re- public lies in this foreshadowed precedent of a third term to General Grant. He may not desiro it, he may wish to retire, he may now recoil from the very thought of another term; but he may be tempted beyond his strength. The one-term principle may be 4 fallacy, but the limitation to two terms is a barrier which, in passing, we pass to Cesarism. We know not and care not to inquire what were the reasons of General Frank Blair for his declaration in 1868, that it General Grant were advanced to the White House he would remain there. It is sufficient for our present purpose that all the signs of the times point to his nomination for a third term, and that, conceding to him the highest patriotic motives should he accept this perilous honor, it is still sufficient that we pass through this gate from the Republic to Cesar. Are we, then, unreasonable in submitting that, as General Grant is absolutely master of the situation, we cannot too soon have some authoritative declaration in his behalf that he is not, and does not intend to be, a candidato for another Presidential term? We are cer- tainly within the line of safety and wise pre- caution in suggesting to Congress and to tho people the propriety in the interval to 1876 of a new amendment to the constitution, not only simplifying the work of the election of President and Vice President, but limiting the President to two terms, according to the wise and good example of Washington. Whe Shah Going Home- Mr. Twain is relieved of a great responsi- bility in the departure of the Shah from the shores of Great Britain. Long shall the memory of the Persian remain in the land of John Bull, and, as his doings have been described by one of America’s most favored children, long shall the pathetic story survive on this side of the Atlantic. The shining Asiatic will carry back to the land of his sires no more consoling thought than that which tells him he has been chronicled by Mark. Weary of sight-seeing and sound-hearing, he will return to Teheran longing for the con- genial quiet of his palace, relieved by the pleasant occupation of signing death warrants or ordering more taxes. Our despatches re- port that the Shah is hurrying home to quell an insurrection somewhere. He is afraid, evidently, that he may arrive too late for the fun of chopping off the heads of the rebels—when they are captured. We are not informed whether he will take Baron Reuter along to share in the august sport, byt it might do the latter good if he went. Mark hazards some feeling hopes that the Shah will take back some impressions of good govern- ment from what he has seen. He will have his choice between Russian, Prussian, Eng- lish and French ideas in the matter of just government, which, if they do not confuse him too much, may give him some useful hints. He will have splendid § couragement in the matter of standing armies, for instance, Then, too, Russia will give him the knout; Prussia will give him a good, safe press law; England will give him a Lord Mayor's show and a Dissenters’ Burial bill; France, through her Assembly debates, will teach him the glories of free speech and how to bury Voltairians or All of them will give him an idea how selfishness can be masked in servility; and when he has learned that the Lord Mayor has been made a baronet for entertaining royalty in the city he will establish a great Persian “Order of the Royal Free Lunch’’ for the encouragement of his hospitable subjects. He will have learned that poverty, misery and crime are as close to European palaces as to his own, and this one touch of nature may make him think more kindly of the outer barbarians he has been visiting. He is said to have mistaken tele- graph poles for gibbets, and as we have no indication that his error has been corrected he may enlarge on the thought by hoisting Baron Reuter on the nearest one, when the Baron refuses to hand over any more than the stipulated share of the profits of their little partnership. Court Ceremonial in Pekin, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China received the foreign ambassadors accredited to his Court at audience on the 29th of June. The important fact has been stated in the Heraup, By cable telegram from London we have to- daya very interesting report of the Court ceremonial which was observed on the osca- sion. Eight hundred mandarins were in at- tendance on the youthful monarch. The people were out in great force, but the sight- seeing citizens were obliged to remain outside the palace gates. Here they had an oppor- tunity of witnessing the entry and exit of the divlomata. and wera no doubt, duly im- pressed with what they beheld, as loyal Asiatics should be. The gift of tongues ap- pears to have been accorded to the courtiers who were assembled in the throne room. The Russian Minister read an address to Toung-Chi. This was written in French. M. Bismarck—a good name in o 4diffi- culty—of the German Legation, repeated the words in Chinese. ‘The Emperor of China replied in the Mantchee tongue. Prince Kung, of China, reiterated the speech of the Emperor in Chinese. His Highness (Kung) knelt down before he commenced, and re- tained the kneeling position to the close of the oration. Kung felt, no doubt, highly honored. It is to be hoped, however, that his system of Cabinet attitude will not come into favor with the chiefs of the outside Christian govern- ments, China is now fairly ‘‘open’’—a grand advance in the path of civilization since the period when Lord Macartney entered Pekin in a wooden box. The Emperor of China gave a private audience to the Ambassador from Japan, which may indicate, perhaps, that the Asiatic potentate is not even yet com- pletely on ‘the square’ with the other am- bassadors. Our Croton Water Supply=The Late Drought and the Welcome Rain. The statements of Commissioner Van Nort (published in yesterday's Heranp) in refer- ence to the somewhat alarming effects of our late unusually dry Summer upon our Croton water supply cannot be too strongly impressed upon the people of Manhattan Island, as a warning against all wasteful and needless ap- propriations of our invaluable Croton water till assured that the danger is ovér. Commis- sioner Van Nort says that the drought of this Summer has been the severest upon the sources of our Croton supply in the history of the De- partment; that, but for the large extra storage reservoir recently provided by the Department at Boyd's Corners, there would have been be- fore now a terrible dearth of pure, fresh water in this city, and that it will be ‘ta touch and go”’ should we escape without a water famine in the Fall; and that, in the event of only a moderate rainfall in the interval, we can hardly escape this possible famine. In other words, we shall need copious rains from this time till September to prevent the enforcement of lim- ited allowances of Croton water to our million of people whose health and lives so materially depend upon this precious article. The exhausting effects of the drought we have suffered this season may be partly under- stood from the scanty rainfall over the region of the Croton springs and lakes of the last three months as compared with the same period of 1872. For May, June and July of this year, down to Thursday last, the rainfall has been only some four inches, or less, over the Croton district, while for the same period last year the rainfall was thirteen inches over said district. Now, assuming the drainage of our Croton sources to cover an aren of fivo hundred ‘square miles, the difference, as officially reported, in the rainfall over this district between this and last year, for May, June and July, is the difference between a lake of five miles square and five and a half feet deep and the same lake reduced to less than two feet in depth. In other words, this year’s scanty rainfall over our Croton district, for the period indicated, as compared with last year, has been equal to the extra exhaustion of areservoir five miles square and nearly four feet in depth. The supreme importance to this metropolis of the rainfall over our Croton watershed may thus be comprehended, especially when it is remembered that all the fresh water, including wells, springs, streams and lakes, and all the waters of the inland salt lakes of our globe, including that im- mense salt lake, the Caspian Sea, are drawn from the ocean by evaporation and discharged upon the Jand in rain, hail and snow. Twelve months of drought or less over this Continent, without the supply of a drop of water from the skies in any form, would dry up all our springs and wells and all our shallow lakes, salt and fresh, and all our rivers above the tides from the sea, and would reduce our deepest inland fresh water lakes to basins of brackish or salt water, from an ex- hausting evaporation of their fresh water ele- ments. But, thanks to Providence, we have no such calamity to fear. Compared with many other countries we are secure from ex- hausting droughts, though, from the sweeping destruction of our forests, we are preparing the way for them. Meantime wo hope that our late season of continued dry eather was ended with the heavy thunder wont Viki bountiful downpouring rain, which came upon this island and tho surrounding cities, islands and mainland on Thursday night last. We have been perplexed to account for the extraordi- nary storms and inundations which through June and July have deluged the Northwestern States, while east of the Alleghanies the parched fields have reminded us, on every hand, of the dry season in California. We hope now that the spell of this alarming drought is broken, and that even before the close of July the country east of the Al- leghanies will be abundantly watered and that all fears of a failure in our Croton supply for this Summer may bo dismissed. Russia and Khiva—The Peace Treaty. We print this morning a special despatch from our correspondent at Tashkend, giving the particulars of the treaty which has been concluded between His Majesty the Czar on the one hand and the Khan of Khiva on the other. According to the terms of the treaty the Khan is to pay, in the way of indemnity to Russia for the expenses incurred by the war, @ sum of money equal to two millions of roubles within ten years. In considera- tion of this payment the Khan is confirmed in the possession of his throne. Russia, how- ever, does not immediately abandon Khivan territory. As a guarantee fur the payment of the indemnity money the troops of the Ozar will continue to occupy Kungrud, and an advanced Russian fort is to be built on the banks of the Oxus, near Khiva. It re- mains to be seen how this treaty will satisfy England. It has always been understood that Russia gave the British government satisfactory assurances that Khiva would not be annexed or permanently occupied. Under this treaty the Khan virtually becomes a vassal of the Czar and Khiva a dependency of the Russian Empire. The publication of the treaty will, no doubt, cre- ate a stir in England, and stormy scenes will be witnessed in both houses before Parliament adjourns. Russia, however, has accomplished her purpose. and. unless an ait NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. appeal be made to the sword, the growl of the British lion will be unheeded. It is undenia- ble that the situation, as between England and Bussia, is rendered more delicate by this treaty arrangement. The two great rivals are brought nearer each other, and the position which Rus- sis has won in Central Asia will prove of | mighty advantage in further aggressive efforts. It will be seen from the despatch that Mr. Schuyler, the Secretary of the American Lega- tion at St. Petersburg, has roturned to Tash- kend. After experiencing considerable diffi- culties in his travels through Central Asia he was favored at Kurgan with a glimpse of the Khan at the distance of some five hundred feet. Mr. Ker, who is now known the wide world over as the author of the ‘‘Irreclaimable Old Savage,’’ and who travels in Central Asia in the interest of the London Telegraph, has fallen into the hands of the Russians, and is detained by them on the Jaxartes. The Canadian Credit Mobilier. The story specially telegraphed to us from Montreal and published in the Hxrarp to- day discloses a state of rottenness in the New Dominion which may well excite our republi can lobbyists to greater efforts than they have hitherto made in the line of bribery and cor- ruption. Indeed, our pet statesmen of the Forty-second Congress have reason to re- proach themselves for sins of omission in late and early hours of legislative grab in view of what the simple provincial men of high estate have accomplished. And doubtless hundreds of men of mark in our political ranks will, as thoy read, mourn the want of nerve in past administrations by which man- ifest destiny was not made more manifest in the annexation of the Canadas, To them it will appear a shame that such goodly loot should fall to the lot of men and brethren who nover let off a Fourth of July oration. Our Crédit Mobilier operations were conducted with pusillanimous caution ; tracks were care- fully covered, and it was well arranged that no statesman of standing should ever show the cards he held. Few of our Christian statesmen and exemplars of virtue put their views concerning their expectations in the way of shares and stock to paper, and cer- tainly no Cabinet officer, as far as we know, sent an ultimatam to the distinguished deceased who had the putting of stock ‘where it would do the most good,’’ demanding for himself a pocket full of plunder. They do these things better in Canada, Assuming, as we have a right to assume, that the letters, receipts, &c., which we copy from a Canadian paper really passed between the Hoax Ames of the Canadian Pucific Railroad and the parties to whom they were addressed, there is no room left for doubting the superior abilities of the ‘‘God-made”’ persons on the other side of the border. It seems that Mr. McMullen, who was taught in the school of Chicago, endeavored to make a favorable arrangement with certain Canadian officials by which his ‘friends’ would have a big finger in the railroad pie to tickle the palate of the faithful of the Do- minion. He did make an arrangement, and the making of it seems to have cost his “friends’’ a sum of money in bribes and presents fairly staggering in its total. When made, however, the arrangement was repudi- ated; the ‘right honorables’’ pocketed the money and gave Mr. McMullen to under- stand that the thing was a mistake—the Cana- dian Pacifie Company was a Canadian railroad company, and no Americans need apply. The upshot of the affair was that the “parties of the first part’’ have now the British-paid-for railroad from Anywhere to Nowhere in their own hands, and the parties of the second part, McMullen & Co., are left severely out in the cold. Emulous of the fame of the late Mr. Ames, Mr. McMullen has exposed the faithlessness of his confederates, and indoing so has managed to set the Do- minion in a rage. The existence of the present government is imperilled, and there is no way of escape for the thrifty statesmen of that region other than by a first class white- washing committee of the American patent. We have run to earth our Crédit Mobilier foxes, and hope to see them, one and all yet living, eventually trapped, and we have nothing but sympathy for the good people of Canada, who are loud in their anger against the corrupt half royal government under | which they live. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prime Ministe? Bennett, of Newfoundland, is in England. TIE OF Bora. an + General J. L. Neagle, of Coluiitia; §,-0., 1s at the St. Nicholas Hotel, That rising man, ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow, of Texas, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator William Sprague, of Rhode Island, at- rived at the Hoffman House last evening. Admiral Alden, who has lateiy returned from the European station, is at the Brevoort House, State Comptrolier Nelson K. Hopkins came from Albany to the Fifth Avenue Hotei yesterday. Mark Twain’s brother, Orion Clemens, has retired from the Rutland (Vt.) Glode, O’Rion should now help his relative to retrieve O’Shah. Senator Casserly, who arrived in California on the 5th inst., brought with him over ten tons of franked matter from Washington. Mary Handley, the young woman who caused the arrest of “Kate Stoddard,” was in Danbury, Conn.» @ day or two ago, Roscoe hunting, perhaps. General 0, E. Babcock, President Grant’s private secretary, was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday morning, but has returned to Long Branch. M, Ranc has taken up his residence in Switzer- land, “His offence is Rank, it smells to heaven,” say the Right. “He has done notuing Rong,” say the Left. Presten Powers, 4 son of the late Hiram Powers, arrived in Boston a few days ago from Florence. He is visiting friends, and intends staying in that vicinity some weeks, Dr. Pratt, of the Corning Gazette, is feared by his friends to be insane. The Elmira Gazette thinks “it ought to take a great deal to get a man out of such @ head as the Doctor has.” Dr. ©. H. F. Peters, Director of Litchfield Ob- servatory, sailed on Wednesday in the Silesia for Hamburg. He goes to attend the Convention of As- tronomers, at which arrangements for observing thea pproaching transit of Venus are to be made, The Shah, desiring to sce Ear! Russell, was taken to Pembroke Lodge, where the Earl acknowledged in French the honor done him by the visit to nis small house. The Shah readily replied, “Petite maison, grand homme,” and so began a conver- sation. Hermann Koontz is the alias of a New York sharper who is flooding Vermont with “sawdust circulars,” and notifying bis correspondents that they should in “shoving the queer’ “always ab- stain from the use of strong drink, for in that there is great danger, as a person knows not what he might say when drunk.’ Minister George Williamson, who is now at the ———_ , mission next Tuesaay to the five Ceiiral Americas republics, His official life will be one long paying out of mileagé, all for himself, although upon the great “divide.” In cases Of diplomatic aout ne will fall back upon the handy Andes, Such are his instructions from the State Department. WASHINGTON. it ke oes Wasutnaton, July 18, 1873. The American Dead in Mexico To Be Cared For. Congress authorized at its last session that the President should provide out of the ordinary annual appropriations for the maintenance of United States muitary cemeteries, for the proper care and preservation and maintenance of the cemetery or burial ground near the city of Mexico, in which are interred tne remains of oMcers and soidiers of the United states, ana of citizens of the United States, who fell in battle or died in and around the city of Mexico. The graves of the soldiers are not distinctly mark ed, but the graves and tombs of some of the officers and citizens buried there are neatly: enclosed with the usual evidences of respect, For quarter of a century the cemetery has been in charge of the United States Consul, but has now been transferred to the War Department, and wilt be subject hereafter to the rules and regulations, afecting the United States national military ceme- teries. Colonel Mack, Inspector of Cemeteries,’ has just received a number of photographio views of the cemetery, and wil: visit the place next Fa with the view of making such improvements ag may be regarded as necessary. Lights on the Detroit River, The Lighthouse Board has given notice that the Detroit River Railroad and Bridge Company has been required to maintain throughout each night hereaiter, during the season of navigation, a system of lights te mark the draw in their bridge over the channel between Trenton and Crosse Isle, Mich., known as the ‘American channel.” The system ts such = that, when the draw is closed, three red lights, arranged in the form, of a triangle, = will be shown to- vessels, The highest “middle” light will ve im- mediately over the pivot of the draw at an eleva tion of twenty-eight feet above the level of the ton. girder, and the other lights will be placed at the summit of the side frames at cach end of the bridge next the draw span. When the draw ta open, three green lights wiil be displayed as above, Internal Revenue Decision. The Attorney General has decided that no par- ticuiar form for the presentation of a bona Jide claim to the Commissioners of Internal Revenue for the refunding of taxes illegally assessed i necessary to prevent the Statute of Limitation from running against it, but that the presentation of a claim to a collector of internal revenue is not & presentation to the Commissioner, within the meaning of the stat THE ALABAMA INDEMNITY FUND. In the transmission of the Alabama indemnity fund of $15,500,000 to the United States the Eng- lish government availed itself of three American banking houses in London—J. S. Morgan & [o., Morton, Rose & Co. and Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co, The bankers determined to transmit about one-half through the ordinary channels of ex- change, and accordingly Drexel, Morgan & Co., of New York, have drawn bills for £1,600,000 (about $8,000,000) on the London houses, and sold — that amount being placed to the credit 0: Englan on this side. It is not the intention of tha bankers to transmit any additional sumin thie way; but the balance is to be sent over through the bare ae ep of five-twenty bonds tothe amount of $7,500,000, a considerable portion of which hava already ‘been obtained. The transaction in ex. change Was Managed quietly, at the instance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was airaid of the effect puolicity might have on the market, ‘The bonds will be turned into gold at par, making the tuli amount of the indemnity. THE POLARIS. Mr. Clements Markham, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, on the Results of the Expedition. ‘ {From the Ocean Highways for July, 1873.) Mr. Clements Markham, of the Royal Geograph: cal Society, London, after speaking of the valuable geographical results acquired to science by the Polaris expedition, says :— Another very important feature in the voyage of the Polaris is the lact that she was salely driited out into Baffin’s Bay from a high northern position in the strait. This proves that toe asceriained current keeps the ice in motion and carries it south, thus preventing any long ioterruption of the navigation. ‘he safety of a government expe- dition is thus assured, for itis quite clear that the dangers of the Arctic regions are, in most in- stances, the direct consequences of despatching urequipped and inadequately supplied vessels, ° Witif ufidisciplined crews, The reaily unavoidable dangers are thoroughly understood, and most ot them can be obviated by modera appliances and experience. Two vessels stationed at suitable dis- tances could keep up communications with each other, and with the whalers which annually (re- quent the “North Water” of Baitin’s Bay, while, under the most unforeseen and improbable contin- gency, a safe retreat would aiways be kept open. There 18 @ third feature in the voyage of the Polaris which strengthens the argument in favor of exploration by Smith Sound, At the Winter aD in $138 north, the climate was milder than it is further south, and animal life abounded, including musk oxen, This account corroborates that of Dr. Hayes, who was abie to supply his men with plenty of iresh provisions in the less hospita- ble region near the entrance of Smith Sound. A esau expedition, with properly organized junting parties, will be able to obtain considerabi¢ supplies of fresh meat, and thus add to the pros. pect of maintaining tHe meu in health and vigor. Grand Central Hotel. will atart on bia verinatetic Under such gireinstances there is no healthier eluate thar. that of the Arctic regions, ‘These Considerations are sufficient to show that the highly important scientific results of Arctic explore in can be secured without undue risk, and with a reasonable assurance that no disaster involving loss of life or lealth is to peetine, hended, The system of Arctic sledge traveliing, which is gow thoroughly understood, will insure the examination of a vast extent of new country {ii Various dire"tions from the wintering positions of the two shipsy 22d the navigabie seasons will enable the expects ‘om to obtain valuable informa- tion respecting the by “rography of the now une ‘ole. e story of Arctica pedi Pn chesiiag and invigorating one. 4 “as added more and Each sneceeding enterprise owledge; and, in more to the stores of human the present day, when the trac mey, "1s Of explor. ing are well _Khown, and men of «lence, thot clearly enumerated the important prow. resuita will be solved and the numerous vainable “vr otig that will be derived from the labors of an a“. g expedition, the reasous for despatching one ha, acquired tenfold force, , THE NEW ATLANTIO ABLE, : The following despatch has been received by the’ Anglo-American Cable Company’s agent in thie city :— ‘ The telegrapli ficet arrived at Sydney, Cape Bre- ton, last night. The cabie irom Placentia waa ee thirty-five miles trom Sidney, the Hibernia having paid out all she had on boar AS soon as the shore ends are laid the Edinburgh will lay the. other cable from Sydney to Placentia, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, First Lieutenant Samuel E. Tallman, of the Engi- neer Corps, is to be relieved from duty at the West Point Military Academy on the 1st of Septem. ber and ordered to report to First Lieutenun® George M. Wheeler, in charge of the exploring ex pedition west of the 100th meridian. THE MURDERED MARSHAL, Conclusion of the roner’s Inquest. The inquisition in this case was wound up by the Jersey City Coroner yesterday. The murderer, Jacob Mechella, his brother and a few iriends were, present. A youth named George Jaquins testified to having seen the prisoner follow deceased and stab him in the back; they clinched and struggled on the street; Mechella made movements o1 his arm as if stabbing Stephenson in the breast or stomach; Stephenson fell on the lumber an® rigoner shortly afterwards drew the knife across is own throat. John Martin, a cart driver, core roborated this statement and identifled the’ pris oner; when the latter was unable to cut his own throat with the knife he tried to stab himsel® in the breast. Elias Sager testified to substan« tally the same facts as the previous witnesses de< osed to, ‘the jury then retired and svon brough® in a verdict that “John Kk, Stephenson died from stab wounds inflicted by Jacob Mechella on the litte day of July.” The jurors ordered that their fees be given to Marshal Batley for the relie! of deceased's: wife and family, ‘The prisoner was then lodged once more in the County Jall to await his trial for wilful murder, THE CANADIAN PAOIFIO RAILROAD. SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 1873. The first staxe for the survey of the Canadian Pacific Railroad was driven at Victoria to-dare '