The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ui JAMES. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ————— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Mimt. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Drama or Licurmuna Bos. ‘woop's MUSEUM, Begaaway), corner Thirtieth st.— Erxm-s-Cuongs, Afternoon and evening. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sumuer Nicurs’ Con- cunts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad. Wway.—SCixNCE AND ART. DR, KAHN’! ade HN'S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway,—Scisncs TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, July 24, 1873, THE NEWS 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. OF YESTERDAY. “(FROM THE DARKENING CONFUSION OF SPAIN A BRIGHTENING PROSPECT FOR CUBA!” LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SixTH PagE. POOR SPAIN! CARLIST RECOGNITION DIS- *QOUSSED BY THE FRENCH REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT! DUKE DE BROGLIE AND PRESIDENT MACMAHON FAVOR IT! SPAIN WEAK MILITARILY! A FRESH ARMY LEVY! PRUSSIAN PURSUIT OF THE PIRATES—SEVENTH PAGE. THE CHAOS IN SPAIN! OPINIONS OF THE SPANIARDS RESIDENT HERE AND OF THE COMMANDERS OF THE SPANISH IRON- CLADS! THE NAVAL INSUBORDINATION! QUESADA ON THE HAVANA BANK—Firta Page. NASSR-ED-DIN'S DIVERTISEMENT! “FREE LANCE” PLUCKS THE MASK FROM BARON REUTER! PHILOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PHASES OF THE TOUR! THE FINE WRIT- ING AND GRAND ENTERTAINMENTS OF THE “CIVILIZED” BRITISH! ENGLISH REPUBLICANISM—FourtH PaGE. PERFIDIOUS CHSARISM! STIRRING CONDEM- NATIONS OF THE SCHEME OF THE PO- LITICO-IMPERIALISTS! A GLOOMY PRES- AGE—FiFTH PaGeE. CHSARISM DENOUNCED IN THE FRENCH AS- SEMBLY—FRANOCIS JOSEPH TO VISIT ST. PETERSBURG—SEVENTH PaGB. PHILADELPHIA WARRING UPON HER CRIMI- NAL CLASSES! A QUICK ANSWER TO HERALD EXPOSURES! VISIT TO THE DENS WHERE ABORTIONISTS, SORCER- ESSES AND PROCURESSES POISON THE CITY’S SOCIAL LIFE! THE ARRESTS MADE—Tuimp Pace. HEALTH AUTHORITIES EARNESTLY AT WORK! THE BOOTHS AROUND WASH- INGTON MARKET TORN AWAY LAST NIGHT! THAT INJUNCTION VACATED— THIRD Pace. PARTIAL EVACUATION OF FRENCH TERRITORY BY THE GERMANS—THE CURE OF SANTA CRUZ IN DISGRACE AT THE VATICAN— SEVENTH PAGE. OROSSING THu LINE! MR. BLAIKIE ON THE COLLEGE REGATTA AND THE QUESTION OF HARVARD'S VICTORY! LETTERS FROM HARVARD AND CORNELL—Firta Pace. (HE REVOLUTION IN ST. DOMINGO! AN IN- SURGENT VICTORY IN THE NORTH! TOTAL ROUT OF THE FORCES OF BAEZ— SEVENTH PaGR. ROM AMERICA TO EUROPE IN FOUR DAYS! A DAILY STEAM FERRY TO BE ESTAB- LISHED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC! ONLY A WEEK'S TRAVEL FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK! A MOST COMFORTABLE, SAFE AND SPEEDY SUMMER ROUTE—ELEVENTH Paces. AMERICAN FINANCES EXPLAINED BY THE CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN FINANCIAL BUREAU! OUR CREDIT IN EUROPE! SPECIE PAYMENTS! THE GENEVA AWARD! THREE TERMS FOR ONE PRESIDENT— Fourtu PaGE. RAILWAYS IN AMERICA! THEIR COST AND THE BENEFITS TO THE COUNTRY! BUSI- NESS IN THE WALL STREET EXUHANGES— NINTH PAGE. THE WAR IN AFRICA! BURNING OF THE TOWN OF ELMIRA BY THE BRITISH! BATTLES WITH THE NATIVES! GREAT DISTRESS AND SUFFERING—ELEVENTH Pace. DISEASE-BREEDING OFFAL! THE SICKENING STENCH AT THE RENDERING COMPANY'S DOCK! MARK TAPLEY SUPERINTENDING THE JOB—PITY THE POOR—FovurtH PagE. BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY TROUBLES— LEGAL AND MUNICIPAL NEWS—WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA—Eiautn Pace. “DEFENCE” OF THE CANADIAN MINISTRY AGAINST McMULLEN’S CHARGES—TURF NEWS FROM SARATOGA, CATSKILL, BUF- FALO AND MONMOUTH PARKS—FirTH Paar. PHILADELPHIA’S BIG RESERVOIR! COST, $4,000,000! CAPACITY, 750,000,000 GALLONS! AREA, 104 ACRES—THE JENNERSVILLE HORROR—Eicuta Pack. DUR From St. Dominco we are informed that the insurgents in the North have met the troops of President Baez in battle, and that the latter were totally routed. This intelli- gence, should it be fully confirmed by later advices, is really important. Now tnat Wasntnoton’s Heapquanrers at Morristown, N. J., have been purchased and will soon be occupied by the State Historical Society why would it not be a good idea for the next Congress to purchase the home of Jefferson, at Monticello, Va., and put it to some useful and patriotic national purpose? Gaunenat Jackson, as the defender of New Orleans against the British army of invasion, found it necessary incidentally to disregard the judicial authorities for the safety of the city. We commend this excellent example of Jackson to our health authorities at this time for the safety of the city. “Covorep Fouxs’’ Bounp ror Saratoaa,— The colored citizens of the Empire State are to have a grand mass meeting at Saratoga on the 6th of August for the purpose of express- ing their thanks for their Civil Rights bill and of testing the virtues of Congress water and Saratoga fried potatoes. They will prob- ably have also an opportunity for testing their civil rights on the occasion and of giving some grotk to the lawyers. A Roven OComrrment To Ma. Lowz.—At ) farmers’ meeting in Kansas the other day the following preamble snd resolution were adopted in reference to the Congression- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. From the LDarkening Confusion of Spain e Brightening Prospect for Cuba. Is the experiment of republican institutions in Spain destined to prove an ignominous failure? The ominous intelligence from that distracted country—that the crews of five of her choicest ships-of-war have mutinied and gone over to the terrible Commune; that the government has issued a proclamation denouncing those ships as pirates, and authorizing their capture ond treatment as such by any Power on the high seas; that an English member of the Interna- tional brotherhood is in command of one of the revolting vessels; that the government has expelled from the public service Generals Contreras and Pierrad, and has removed the civil governors of Cordova, Murcia, Ponteve- dra, Leon and Orense; that another revolt- ing province has declared itself an independ- ent canton; that the Carlist force of five thousand men, after sacking and burning the city of Igualada, is encamped around its ruins, preparatory, perhaps, to » movement upon Barcelona; that the authorities of this, the second city of the nation, in anticipation of on attack, have or- ganized a committee of safety; that the mayor of a city has been slain in a street fight, and that the assassination of that distin- guished public servant, Marshal Serrano, has been attempted in his city of refuge, even upon the soil of France—forms a budget of startling events which promises anything but a speody deliverance of the Republic in Spain from its thickening embarrassments on every side. Our special despatches point to the im- minence of the recognition of Don Carlos by the French government, the restraining power in this respect being more fear for the effect of such a recognition on the French people than want of sympathy tor the Bourbon cause. All the elements of a state of anarchy are here—treacherous civil officers, a disaffected army, a mutinoud’ navy, revolting cities and cities laid in ashes by armed bodies of insur- gents, and ruffianism, treachery, suspicion and alarm everywhere in the general demoral- ization. Since the conspiracy of the Prince of Asturias against his father, in 1807, the pre- vailing order of things in Spain has been that of a state of war, from foreign invasions or revolutionary factions; but never before were the elements so broadly developed as now for a civil convulsion reaching to the bed rock of her political institutions, souvenirs and traditions, Down to the expulsion of Isabella the civil conflicts of Spain were simply the conflicts of rival claimants for the crown, in which popular rights and popular wrongs were only played upon by successive demagogues to cheat the people. But with the expulsion of Isabella there was a reyolu- tion which signified something more than the removal of one Bourbon in ‘order to clevate another to the family throne. It meant something more than the expulsion of the Bourbon family. Prim and Serrano thought it called for the establishment of a new royal house, to be founded upon the introduction of a new king from the royal family of Ger- many, England or Italy. In searching for this new king Prim inveigled Napoleon the Third into his fatal war with Germany. When the foreign gentleman desired was found in the courageous Amadeus of Italy the advancement of the young Italian to the Spanish throne was the death warrant of Prim; and when at length, disgusted with incessant intrigues and conspiracies against his authority and his life, Amadeus threw up his profitless commission and returned home, there came with his retirement the proclama- tion of the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the Republic. With Figueras and Castelar as its chief en- gineers, encouraged by the United States of America and strengthened by the example of France, it was thought for a time that the Republic in Spain, by gradual departures from the legacies of the Kingdom and by careful approaches to popular sovereignty, religious liberty and equal rights might be permanently established. But the disturbing forces which have since broken out, and the darkening confusion, which, in the conflict of ideas—revolutionary and conservative—have settled upon the country, seem to threaten to poor Spain the feast of horrors of the first French Revolution, in which the landed nobles were dispossessed and butchered, in which the Church was displaced by the God- dess of Reason, and “liberty, equality and fraternity’ were proclaimed from day to day in the hideous work of the guillotine. The republican government at Madrid fails to satisfy the extreme factions on any side. It is too radical for the conservatives and too conservative for the radicals. It is too regardless of sacred things for the Church and too considerate of the claims of the Church for the International and the Com- mune. It is a government which, despised by the Bourbons, denounced by the Church and suspected by the radicals, has only the strength and the prestige of possession upon which to stand. It may, nevertheless, still baffle and defeat all its enemies, but it may be overthrown ina day. It still might have been strong enough against all opposition at home, in the sinews of war, to waintain the loyalty of the army and the navy but for the men and money wasted in the vain effort to sup- press the Republic in Cuba. Should the Republic in Spain be overthrown it may be charged, more than to all other causes, to the war upon the Republic in Cuba. Prob- ably not less than one hundred thousand Spanish soldiers, during the last five years, have been sacrificed in Cuba, and millions of money have been expended for the suppression of the Cuban insurrection for which there can be no return. From these heavy drafts upon Spain for the maintenance of her possession of Cuba the government at Madrid is reduced to an empty treasury with no resources of credit, and it has so far depleted its army that it has become powerless against a few thousand bold insurgent Carlists. In the case of a government the soldiers and sailors of which, to any considerable extent, have no sympathies with the revolutionary principles upon which it is conducted, but who regard it rather with contempt and derision than re- spect, money is indispensable to their outward loyalty. The present government at Madrid has no money to give them, and hence these revolts and disaffections in the Spanish army and navy. And here a few figures, touching the finan- cial condition of Spain, will serve to show why the government can.no longer meet ite | current obligations. The statistics on the subject before us of 1860 will answer for this purpose. In that year the revenues trom the State and its colonies were $96,784,045, and the expenditures were $96,313,378, and the national debt was $674,254,955. The army, ona peace footing, numbered 79,696 men ; but with the reserves, for the contingencies of war, it numbered 232,738 men of all arms. The navy comprised 137 ships-of-war, of which 29 were sidewheel steamers and 59 were screw steamers. There were also at that time 34 steamers under construction. Since that day a dozen or more powerful iron-clads have been added to the service. The number of men employed in this formidable armada was, all told, some 25,000. All the costs of these expensive warlike establishments have been drawn from the 15,500,000 of people of poor Spain and the 2,000,000 of her colonies. The country, whose exports are $73,000,000 in value, against $52,000,000 of imports, has a respectable balance of trade in its favor; but with taxations and expenditures of $96,000,000 a year, with a debt in the background of $674,000,000, with all the embarrassments and discouragements to industry of sevoral generations of civil war, with her cities over- run by vagrants and desperate adventurers and her mountains swarming with revolution- ary banditti, with a people impoverished and disheartened by the collectors and robbers, with a sod to a great extent worn out by an exhausting system of cultivation, poor Spain, we fear, is bankrupt to the point of a financial collapse and demoralized to the verge of anarchy. But had this republican government of Spain in the outset recognized the claims of Cuba, and had it counted the probable costs of a war for the suppression of the Cuban Republic, and hed it offered to the Cubans their inde- pendence for the sum even of one hundred millions of dollars, there would have been a surrender to the Republic in Cuba which would have been the gain of & hundred millions to the Republic in Spain—a sum of money which Spain has not possessed at any time for more than half a century. As it is, the difficulties of Spain are the opportunity to the Cubans, and it is possible that President Grant's opinion of last March—that before the expiration of six months the independence ot Cuba will be effected in consequence of the many embar- rassments of Spain—will be verified. We hope that the Republic in Spain will in the end come off the victor; but in any event we hope that General Grant’s prediction in refer- ence to Cuba will be fulfilled. The Fight Against the Nuisances. The Board of Health are now fairly on the warpath, and have made abrilliant commence- ment in the right direction. The bone boilers still distribute noxious gases with a liberal hand from their rendering boats, which are anchored in the middle of the Hud- son River, opposite the city. But the fiat has gone forth, this time no empty threat, and the rendering company will have to seek fresh fields and pastures new to carry on their pestilential business. A pe- rusal of a reporter's experience in a visit to the Inte slums of the | bone boilers, published in another column, will convince the stoutest stomach of the urgent necessity of the action of the health authorities. And yet these dealers in filth affirm that their business is not at all dele- terious to health, and that the adjoining neighborhood could not suffer in the slight- est degree from the sickening effluvia en- gendered by their work. There will be, naturally, an outcry against the bone boilers wherever they next locate themselves; but that is no reason why a great city like New York should be compelled to endure their presence. The raid on the marketmen took place last night, and was a complete success. The pro- posal to remove only five fect of the unsightly booths which encumber the streets adjoining the market was not considered sufficient for sanitary purposes, and a clean sweep was made of all. A temporary injunction granted by a Supreme Court Judge in Brooklyn raised the spirits of the obstinate marketmen, but the news that this injunction was partially vacated at a later hour in the day brought them down again to a state of despon- dency. The marketmen and the Board of Health will have a hearing before the Court this morning, and a definite settlement of this vexatious question will likely be attained. Meanwhile the guardians of the public health have not been idle. They did good work last night, which will show corresponding results in a very short time. Yet much remains to be done, and a much-necded sanitary measure would be to declare the entire market, as it now stands, a nuisance. The whole structure is rotten and filthy, and should be replaced by an iron building with ample sewerage and ac- commodations for the transaction of busi- ness without offence to public health. Both Washington and Fulton markets are a disgrace to a great city like ours, and the sooner a radical reform is put in operation in both places the better. The health authorities should now call upon the Department of Public Works to pay some attention to the horrible condition of many of the streets on the east side. In many places the pavement is in such a dilapidated condi- tion that the street cleaners cannot rid its nunferous receptacles of garbage and dirt. This work of sanitary reform must be thorough in order to be efficient, and all municipal departments should lend helping hand. The persistent efforts of the Hznatp have awakened the authorities to o sense of their duty, and will not be relaxed until we can point with pride to New York as a model of cleanliness and sanitary excellence, Raxss rm Juny in the great valleys of Cali- fornia are about as unusual as snow in Florida in January; but this July there have been such general showers of rain on the San Joaquin and Sacramento lowlands that the farmers thereof are afraid these extraordinary rains will damage the corn fields. Our opinion is that the Californians ought to be thankful for such a refreshing break in their long, dry and withering Summer season; bat they are a stiff-necked generation, and nothing but their usnal nine months’ Summer drought will satisfy them. Last Caut.—The Brinckerhoff liberal re- publicans are to hold a State Convention in Columbus on the 30th instant. Outside aspi- rants for the next Presidency will please take notice. The Herald's Latest Revelations in Philadelphia. The remarkable correspondence which we print from Philadelphia to-day will doubtless astonish many thousands of our readers who are acquainted with the inner life of our sister city. To come into close contact with crime is neither novel nor pleasant. Volumes have been written on the misery and degradation in the cellars and garrets of densely populated cities, where the vilest creatures that walk and represent the human form are thrust in with pure-minded but poverty-stricken women and contaminate by their presence the atmosphere around them. By their vile- ness, like the boa constrictor springing for its prey, subduing by a frightful fascina- tion. New York has supplied abundant ma- terial for the philanthropic pens of con- temporaneous historians, while the East End of London, the slums of Seven Dials, the Quartier Latin and other purlieus of Paris have been more fruitful sources of criminal information. But authorities have differed widely on the question of throwing open to the gaze of the world the inmost re- cesses of haunts horrible in their character and disgusting by location, Men of high Christian and social standing have advocated the neces- sity of charitably throwing a veil over these plague spots in our midst and of hiding them from the general view, lest the knowledge of their character and objects should prove more baneful to society than would be overbalanced by their exposure and overthrow. The mission of the Hrnatn's correspondent in the present instance has been with a class of criminals the most difficult to reach, and who for that reason have so long plied with success and comparative security their revolt- ing, fraudulent avocations. The ‘spiritual me- diums,”’ the fortune tellers, the abortionists, the magicians and sorcerers, whose special profit it becomes to waylay the unwary, to prepare a snare for the young and giddy, and, by their vile arts, blight the fairest hopes of thou- sands, have been making their harvest in the face of the Christianity so much boasted of in Philadelphia. Deception and infamy lead to shame, but, once having their victims dis- graced, their most fruitful source of revenue is in the attempt to cover up the traces of their villany. The young girl, bright and blooming, curious from a strange superstition that these wretches create in the minds of the young to have their fortunes told, ‘‘just for fun,’’ enters the ‘office’ that in too many in- stances proves the most serious step of her life. But the open fraud they practise. Our correspondent gives the names and address of those whom he visited and handed over to justice, and among them one who actually located a sister never having had an existence, and had the audacity to describe to a man in the full possession of his senses his mother, who was ‘‘neither young nor old, neither long norshort, nor stout nor lean,’’ and the ‘“‘sister in a distant land, in a city she could not see and in a street she could not name.” Such unqualified humbug should not only be exposed, but should be punished equal to the misery and torturo it ofttimes brings to its victims. We are glad that the Mayor and the police of the Quaker City see the importance of the disclosures the Henatp now makes through its cor- respondent, and that the base creatures who traffic in human beings more wilfully than ever did the planters of the South, who deliberately undermine the moral laws, hurl to destruction some of the fairest of God’s children and set at naught every ordinance of modesty and decency, are in a fair way of receiving the just punishment of their crimes. Highwaymen on the Rail. The story of the attack upon a train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad on Monday night by a small party of highway- men reads like a chapter from the life of Dick Turpin or Claude Duval. As in the days of old a single horseman intimidated a coach- load of passengers, soa half dozen gentlemen of the road, in this case, deliberately robbed the express car and started off without being molested. A singular circumstance is con- nected with this daring robbery. The con- ductor of the train could not find among all his passengers a revolver. This will surprise to no small extent those who believe that every one travels in the Far West armed to the teeth. There is a greater degree of depravity in the conduct of the highwaymen of the rail than ever the gentry of Blackheath contem- plated—namely, the fiendish attempt to wreck the train, which, happily, did not prove suc- cessful. Men who would coolly plan and en- deavor to carry into execution o wholesale slaughter, such as the wrecking of a trin might cause, should not be permitted long to pollute the earth with their presence. Justice is swift and sure in the West on such occasions, if halt- ing and erratic in others. The country in the vicinity of the scene of the outrage is aroused against the ruflisns, so that Judge Lynch will probably dispose of them without calling upon the regular authorities. The death of the brave engineer, John Rafferty, who clung manfally to his post, and by his presence of mind and heroism averted a wholesale catas- trophe, is the saddest circumstance connected with the affair. The immunity from outrages of this kind which our railroads enjoy is very gratifying, when we consider the dangers en- countered by travellers in some of the countries of Europe. The opportunities for murder and plunder on our roads are so fre- quent and easy that we may congratulate our- selves that they are so seldom taken advantage of by desperate characters. Yet the speedy punishment of such highwaymen as were en- gaged in this last nefarious enterprise is needeg to dispel the feeling of insecurity which must fill the mind of the traveller on the iron road. But while justice deals sternly with these wretches the grand heroism of the engineer should not be forgotten, and his family in Chicago should be placed beyond the reach of want. ConstrrorionaL Exection 1x Norra Cano- u1na.—An election in North Carolina is to be held on the 7th of next month, for the purpose of adopting or rejecting certain proposed con- stitutional amendments, Among the number is one changing the timo of the meeting of the Legislature from one to two years—that is, that thore shall be biennial instead of annual sessions, and another proposes to relieve the Legislature from levying a tax to pay interest “told ‘Tar Stato,"’ for wo find it is also proposed to dispense with the services of » Commis- sioner of Public Works, there being no public works in progress in the State; but the tax Proposition smacks too much of repudiation to be hurriedly or carelessly passed upon, We hope the good people of North Carolina will not suffer their financial reputation to be tar- nished by winking or blinking at the repudia- tion of the State’s indebtedness in any shape. As they vote on the 7th of August so will they be known to all the world. Mountain Weather Stations. . The scientific public will be interested in learning the recent attempt of the Signal Bu- reau to extend its mountain weather observa- tions to two of the loftiest summits on the Continent. A fow years ago an eminent scientist scaled the volcanic sides of the Peak of Teneriffe, in the Canary Islands, and his moteorological researches at a great altitude proved of the utmost value to the science they were designed to promote. For some weeks the Signal Bureau has been at work in taking instrumental and other observations on Mount Mitchell, in North Carolina, This towering point of the Appalachian chain, known as “the Black Dome’’ ot the Black Mountains, rises from a valley, the mean height of which, above the ocean, is two thousand feet; and its sister peaks, which attain the height of six thousand feet, are counted by scores. The ‘‘Black Dome’” itself rises four hundred feet higher than Mount Washington, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and is the culminating point of the whole Allegheny chain, In studying the Winter weather reports from Mount Washing- ton, the interesting fact was elicited last year that the cold aérial waves which cross the country from west to east are not, when they reach the Atlantic States, high enough to sub- mergo this mountain, since the thermometer at the summit read higher than at stations near the base. Several other valuable deduc- tions regarding American meteorology and storm movements have been obtained from the Mount Washington data. But, in the caso of Mount Mitchell, there is a far richer promise of learning the play of the great atmospheric machinery and currents, ‘The former mountain lies so far beyond the inter- tropical belt that the meteorologist cannot expect to encounter on its icy apex anything but the polar blast, relieved occasionally by milder local winds, But the ‘Black Dome” in North Carolina appears admirably located to exhibit on its summit the successive phe- nomena of the Summer trade winds, and in Winter the return trades, the observation of which, on Teneriffe, proved so instructive to Piazzi Smyth and to other scientific investi- gators. - Not content, however, with stationing its sentinels of science on the top of Mount Mitchell, the Weather Bureau is also about similarly occupying, on the opposite side otf the Continent, the splendid lookout from Pike’s Peak, correspondingly the most ele- vated point of the Rocky Mountains within the United States. This will afford new fa- cilities for investigating the meteorologic con- ditions which give the Pacific States and Ter- ritories and the adjacent country their charm- ingly uniform and salubrious climate, as it will also enable the office at Washington to make more accurate forecasts of all Eastern weather affected by that of the Rocky Mountains. ‘When these and other new arrangements for widening the scope for atmospheric research are perfected we may expect many interesting and instructive results. The Prussians Preparing to Evacuate France. The Prussian troops have commenced their homeward march from the hostaged territory of France. Two of the pledged towns were freed on the 22d instant. Gene- ral Mantenffel will remain for a short time at Nancy, but for a short time only. When he marches away the Verdun district will be the only French territory held by the Germans. France will be restored to complete freedom in a very short period. She deserves her liberty. The patience of her people under a very dire and humiliating mis- fortune and the financial punctuality of her government have been and remain beyond all praise. The home resources of France are, it may be said, inexhaustible ; the energy of her people for national recu- peration undying, and, apparently, invinci- ble. The Shah of Persia was amazed at the appearance of the army, number- ing eighty-three thousand men, which was lately paraded before him at Vincennes. It is elaimed that French soldiers never before ap- peared to such excellent advantage as on the occasion of the inspection by His Majesty, and some of the Paris press writers assert that their rulers can call forth new legions by “stamping on the earth.”’ Tus Paruapenpuia Cenrenntat.—The idea upon which the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876 is based—a grand cen- tenary celebration of the promulgation of the Declaration of Independence—is in itself sufficient to set at rest any quibbling about the propriety of selecting that city for hold- ing a world’s fair. Every part of the country recognizes the justice of this, so it cannot be a matter of municipal jealousy. New York, which has no occasion to be jealous of Phila- delphia in anything, would be least likely to be jealous in a matter where mere patriotism is sufficient to decide in favor of our sister city’s pretensions. So far, indeed, is the metropolis from being jealous of Philadelphia that the best assistance New York can give towards making the exhibition a great success will be cheerfully given. We shall work os hard for that end as if the exhibition were to be held in this city, that the centennial anni- versary of American Independence may show such an exposition of the development and progress of the country as will be worthy of the Republic and the people. Lacar yrom Ixpiana.—A new and effulgent light comes from Indiana in the shape of o declaration in the Indianapolis Journal (the organ of Senator Morton, the war-horse of the administration) to the effect that the Congressional Back-Pay Salary bill, “being tainted with fraud, the whole act is wrong,’’ and that, consequently, “President Grant's salary can be reduced to the old figure.” It ‘can ;’” but will it be? ‘When Senator Morton makes ® movoment in that direction from his seat in the Senate the on the State debt. The first may beall right | people will begin to think that there is still aud proper, the way things are going in the | “ome virtue left in Ayraouse.’’ A Hianpsomms Comprneenr to AmEnicam Azrmans.—One of the most and instructive facts connected with the visit of the Emperor Francis Joseph to the American de- partment on'Tuesday wns that he praised the intelligence of American industry. ‘Your arti- ficers,”” he says, “are thinking men, and your, labor seems inspired by constant and active intelligence." A handsome compliment, we say, evidently well meant and tastefully pat. One hundred years have done much for us, thanks to our public schools. Wo have no aristocracy to patronize industry; but we have; ® great country with great wants, and the struggle for precedence makes men think, and‘ our public schools render labor at once active and intelligent, It will be well if the Old World can learn the lesson in time. A little more of the school and a little less of the patronage would bea gain. We are not yet industrially or artistically at the top of the tree. In a few years we shall have few rivals. Tae Vatve or tax Darx WraTner Re- Ports is now so widely acknowledged that their omission from a newspaper for a single day is felt by a very wide class, Those con- nected with the transmission of the ‘“Proba- Dilities"’ should, therefore, use all possible de~ spateh in circulating them. ‘The ungtacious attitude of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany in this respect canses n nightly delay in forwarding the forecasts obtained at such trou- ble and expense. Thero is nothing creditable to the company in this. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Baron Liethers, of Berlin, 1s staying at the Metro. politan Hotel, Ex-Congressman Roswell Hart, of Rochester, is at the Glisey House, Lieutenant Governor Archibald was sworn inte office in Halifax yesterday. General A, G. McCook, of Washington, is staying at the Union Square Hotel. * President Andrew D, White, of Cornell Univer sity, is at the Hofman House. Governor John 8, Bagley, of Michigan, yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Secretary of State Henry C, Kelsey, of New Jersey, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressional Delegate J. Bb, Chaffee, of Colorado, is registered at tae St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congresman F, E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, is registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Comtesse Blondell Von Loedebroeck, of Belgium, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. Mrs. Julia Purinton, the editress of the St. Louis Ladies’ Magazine, 18 at the St. Nicholas Hotel. J. E. Scripp, formerly business manager of the Detroit Tribune, is about to start o new daily in that city. Itisto be hoped tnis pilgrim, Scripp, will have a strong staff. A straight-out democrat is about to start a daily In Titusville, Pa., whether in a straight waistcoat or not.18 not stated. Tie straits of his party sug- gest this Bloomingdale thought, Colonel Colin, a brave oflicer, who commanded one of the best regiments in the service of France, has been cashiered for expressing republican sens timents and being triendly toward persons known to be earnest democrats. A precocious St. Louis belle, aged only twenty- five, has just married her fifth husband. The other four are said to be alive and doing well. Her mar- Triage ties may be ‘‘linked sweetness,” but they are not “long drawn out.’” Victor Emmanuel, it is reported, is to be excom- municated by the next encyclical of the Pope. The Papal edict willbe read in St. Peter's amid the greatest solemnity; the Cathedral will be draped witn black and yellow tapers will burr on the altar. M. Besley, editor of the Francais ivi Paris), is directly opposed to the tenets of his father, a Com- munist, who has written from his retuge im Switzerland, to the Soir, bewailing the perverse- ness of his son ‘in violating all the traditions of his family.” Colonel Hay, @ candidate for Parliament from a Scotch borough, recently speaking of the family of his contestant, Lord Dunglass, said:—“‘They are the most infernal vulpicides that were ever foaled.”” And this Colonel Hay is an aristocrat wno defames republicanism and prates of the amenities of our Political discussions, Miss Jex-Blake and the other combative ladies who, having got a medical education in the Edinburgh (Scotland) University, tried to compel further privileges from the senatus of the institu- tion, have just learned from a full Court that their knowledge of the healing art was gained through the favor or error of the senatus, “And the hon and the lamb shall lie down together.”’ On the day of the recent destruction of the Jewish Synagogue in Bordeaux by fire, Car- dinal Donnet sent his Vicar General to the Grand Rabbi to declare his concern jor the disaster and offer assistance toward rebuilding the temple. Shortly after Protestant ecclesiastics offered the same kind offices. This was no Rabbi’d fanaticism. Captain Hunt, Secretary of the Tichborne De- fence Fund, having sued the London Times for de- claring that he had never been a captain in the royal artillery, was nonsuited. He was shown to have been a paymaster in the royal artillery, with the honorary rank of captain, which Chief Justice Bovilie announced entitled him only to that grade jn the army, and in no special branch of the forces. THE CHOLERA, pesierantete SALE In Wheeling. WueEe.ine, W. Va., July 23, 1878, One death from cholera was reported to-day, In Indiana. EVANSVILLE, July 23, 1873. Two cholera deaths were reported at Carme, Il, to-day. It is reported the disease is subsiding near Princeton, Ind. At Mount Vernon the panic isover. Two deaths were RT ea to-day but no new cases, The stores are being opened and busi- ness resumed, and a more cheerful state of affeirs prevails, In Kontucky. Cincinnati, Ohio, Jaly 23, 1873. , There were eightecn deaths from cholera at La» grange, Ky., during the last three days, In Cincinnati. Crxomnatt, Ohio, July 23, 1873, Only one death trom cholera was reported at the Health office to-day. Nothing New Developed—Udderzook im Prison. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 23, 1873. A special despatch to the Hvening Telegraph, dated Westchester, July 23, says:—Nothing new has been developed in the Goss murder case within the past two days, except the finding of the ho shi the body to Baltimore which Waa ound ta tl Prine of the burned building. Udderzook’s mother spent an hour with her som this morning. Most of the time was spent im prayer by the mother, who believes her sonto be atley, yet hopes that he may be able to prove his innocence. He is calm and collected, dresses with care an@® is polite to the last degree with all callers. Rhoades, his | ped ape toga has not an ae reported, nor e be, as no evidence Obrained against im,” OOLBY UNIVERSITY, WATERVILLE, Me., July 28, 1873, The trustees of Colby University met this morn- ing at ten o’clock. A formal acceptance of the position of President was received from Dr. Rob bins, and arrangements were made for his inau- guration to-morrow. The name of Coburn Halt ‘Was given to the new building, containing a labora- tory and cabinet, in honor of Mr. Abner Coburn, who has been a generous benefactor of the College. The vacancies occasioned by the re: 4 tion of Professor Hamlin and Tutor Taylor will be filled at an adjourned meeting to-night or to-mor- row. Twenty-three trustees were present, among them Senator Hamlin and Josiah H. Pkeruooa. The ‘mlcrology for’ 1872 and 18h was altel was read by Professor