The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII..........++0+++++ +++. 210 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tus Buguxsque or Sinnan, THE Salton. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— ‘Tas SKELETON Hand. Afternoon and evening. NY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.— syjuury ESTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 234. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Mimi. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Susmen Nicurs’ Con- CERTS. NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad- ‘way.—Scrence anp Aut. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway,—Sctencz AND ART. TRI New York, Tuesday, July 29, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “OUR POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY LEAD- ERS, AND THEIR MOVEMENTS, EAST, WEST AND SOUTH’—TITLE OF THE LEADER—SIXxTH PAGE. SPANISH ANARCHY! IMPORTANT CARLIST SUC- CESS NEAR PAMPELUNA! A NAVAL BAT- TLE PROBABLE'IN THE HARBOR OF CAR- TAGENA ! THREATS OF MURDEROUS RE- TALIATION BY THE PIRATES’ FRIENDS! CARLIST BELLIGERENT RIGHTS DEBATED IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT! PRUSSLA HEDGING—SEVENTH PaGE. THE PARISIAN FUROR OVER THE SHAH! MESSRS. EDMUND YATES AND GEORGE W. HOSMER NARRATE THE DOINGS OF THE PUISSANT PERSIAN AT THE GRAND OPERA, AT DINNER, AND AT THE GRAND NIGHT FETE! HALF A MILLION OF SPEC- TATORS! BRILLIANT GAS ILLUMINATION— THIRD Pace. HE PEDIGREE OF THE PERSIAN POTENTATE, HIS GOVERNMEN', LAWS, SUBJECTS AND THE RESOURCES OF HIS REALM! AMERI- CANS IN PERS A DISGUSTED DER- VISH! INTERESTING AND CONCISE FACTS FOR HERALD READERS—TurRD AND FOURTH PaGEs, AMERICAN CHSARISM AS VIEWED BY THE AMERICAN PRESS—THE AMERICAN DE- PARTMENT AT THE VIENNA FAIR—THE BRITISH WEST INDIES—Firru Pace. YSMAIL PASHA’S NEW HONORS! THE FIRMAN FROM THE SUBLIME PORTE! THE LAW OF SUCCESSION! THE PAYMENT OF AN- NUAL TRIBUTE—RECENT LITERARY PUB- LICATIONS—Fourtu Paae. FRANCE ABOLISHES THE SHIPPING TAX— THE VATICAN AND THE SECRET SOCIE- TIES—THE ENGLISH ROYAL MARRIAGE— SEVENTH Pace, ” KELLEY AND TAYLOR ROW A MATCH FOR £200 A SIDE ON THE TYNE! THE LATTER VICTORIOUS—SEVENTH PaGE. RUNNING THE CUBAN BLOCKADE! THE DASH- ING PLUCK OF THE VIRGINIUS OFFICERS— SUCCESS OF THE VARIOUSEXPEDITIONS— SEVENTH PaGE. A NEW CROP OF REVOLUTIONS SPRING. ING UP IN MEXICO—NATIONAL CAPITAL ITEMS—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— SEVENTH PAGE, “WES” ALLEN’S REVOLT! HE THREATENS TO BLOW UP SING SING PRISON! HIS WEAPONS A KNIFE AND A POUND OF NITRO-GLYCERINE—SEVENTH Page, A NEW CITY PRISON AND BRIDEWELL! RE- PORT OF THE COMMISSION! WHAT THEY RECOMMEND AND DISAPPROVE OF AS REGARDS THE TOMBS AND BELLEVUE— FIrtH Pace. * ; THE DELIA CORCORAN MURDER MYSTERY! THE CORONER’S JURY BEFOGGED! THE MISTY “TESTIMONY” AND THE VER- DICT—E1cuTH Pace. TROTTING AT GLEN MITCHELL—CROP PROS- PECTS—THROAT CUTIING AT ASTORIA— DEATH OF A JOURNALIST—FirtH Page. SANITARY STATUS OF THE MARKETS! THE OPERATIONS OF THE HEALTH OFFI- CIALS—THE OFFAL MEN DEFEATED—AN AMATEUR PRIZE FIGHT—E1GHTH Page. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS— THE METHODIST PREACHERS—Nintu PAGE. ‘THE RAPID TRANSIT HOPE AND ITS PROSPEC- TIVE FRUITION—TAXES ON UPTOWN PROP- ERTY—BURNING OF AN ARMORY—BROOK- LYN'S “TRUST”? COMPANY—GREAT STOCK SALE—EicatH Paar. LEGAL SUMMARIES—AUGUST CAMP INGS—ELEVENTH PaGE. MEET- Taz Vreormm Rervpuican State Conven- ‘Tron will be held to-morrdw. There is con- siderable interest felt in regard to the nomina- tion for Governor; but the probabilities are in favor of Colonel R. W. Hughes, the candi- date supported by the administration. Ex- Governor Wise does not seem to be anywhere dn particular. A Srantumna Episope of prison life oc- curred yesterday at Sing Sing, in which the notorious ‘‘Wes’’ Allen was the prominent figure. He refused to accompany a body of his fellow convicts to Auburn Prison, enforc- ing his arguments against the transfer with a | threat of blowing up the entire establishment by means of some nitro-glycerine which he | had concealed in his cell. The jailers are in- clined to keep at a respectful distance from this demonstrative gentleman, who appears to | be master of the situation for the present. A pretty commentary om the discipline of the State Prison, when convicts are permitted to furnish their cells with nitro-glycerine. Tax Onto ‘Pucn’’ Democracy.—The Cin- cinnati Enquirer remarks that George E. Pugh | was almost always something of an eccentric | gentleman, and that his eccentricities increase | swith age; hence it is not surprised to know that he is to be the champion of the new party | at Columbus on the 30th. The “Pugh party’ would hardly be o sufficiently euphonious mame to run s new political machine by. ‘Better adjourn over and try something better. | Taz Repost or ComprnoLuer Grezy on the location of the new City Prison, which we pub- lish this morning, favors the old Tombs site, together with the block occupied by the rail- toad depot and the Arsenal block. All these blocks are the property of the city. Tae Boston Ieraid asserts that “the fact that a newspaper is an ‘organ’ of any party, Church or man, throws a doubt upon its veracity. The independent press can afford % tell the truth,’ Yes—and tell it at all times, Our Political Partie: and Party Leaders, and Their Movements, Hast, ‘West and South. Although the political ebb tide from the great upheaval, “‘the tidal wave” of our late Presidential contest, has gone down to dead low water—although all our approaching an- nual State elections, with an interruption only here and there to fill a Congressional vacancy— will be directly contested upon local candidates and issues, there are yet, East, West and South, certain party movements afoot which, from their bearings upon the Presidential succes- sion, are entitled to passing notice. Con- spicuous among these movements are the let- ters trom W. 8. Groesbeck, of Ohio, on the forlorn situation and political necessities of the democratic party, the impending State Convention of the Ohio liberal republicans, the awakened fears and indignation of the re- publican Puritans of Massachusetts against the irrepressible General Butler as a candidate for Governor over them, and some passing changes from recent shakings of the Southern kaleidoscope. Mr. Groesbeck, within a few years past, has become one of the recognized apostles and authoritative expounders of the democratic faith, and since the decisive defeat of the old line dernocracy, ander Seymour and Blair, in 1868, he has been a democratic favorite among their probabilities on a new departure, With others among the chief of his party he was cast aside in 1872 for the bold joint stock adventure under Greeley and Brown; but from the fearful collapse of that glittering balloon he survives, and stronger than before, as ademocratic oracle. His opinions, there- fore, touching the past misfortunes and pres- ent necessities of his party challenge our re- spectful gttention. He says that the demo- cratic party, ‘‘blundering constantly during the last ten years and shattered by many defeats, surrendered finally ‘at the last Presi- dential election;’’ that this surrender cannot be recalled, and that ‘‘it will be wise to lay aside the old organization and enter into a new one.’’ And this new organization he pro- poses to call the liberal democracy, a blending of part of the title of each of the high con- tracting parties of the Cincinnati and Balti- more coalition. And he would frankly accept the fixed fagcis resulting from the late war for the Union, and in the platform of this new opposition party he would oppose all forms of monopoly and centralization; -and he would hold fast to the reservations of State rights, local self-governments and a strict construc- tion of the constitution, and he would lift high and without equivocation the broad en- sign of free trade, and carry the war into Africa against a prohibitory tariff. This is Mr. Groesbeck’s diagnosis of and prescription for the marasmus of the demo- cratic party. {t is the Cincinnati platferm over again, with this important difference : the Cincinnati ritual, in igaoring the issue of free trade, was the transformation of an origi- nal free trade movement into the play of ‘“Ham- let” with the melancholy Dane omitted, in order to save ‘Pennsylvania and to secure Mr. Greeley. Now, Mr. Groesbeck thinks, the time has come to bring in the ‘‘ melancholy Dane,"’ when the democracy, abandoning their life-long policy of temporizing and compromis- ing upon the tariff question, should face it without hedging upon the ultimatum of free trade. But the experiment has been al- ready tried this season, and the re- sponses from the democratic press have been so heavily against the desperate adven- ture that it may be considered as definitely rejected. THe old party which achieved one of the greatest national victories under the flag of ‘‘Polk, Dallas and the Tariff of '42,” is not yet prepared to march under the shib- boleth of ‘‘direct taxes as a substitute for custom houses;’’ for this is the meaning of unequivocal free trade. Dismissing Mr. Groesbeck, then, as failing to provide a universal panacea for the compli- cated ailings of the democratic party, some healing specific and some ‘diplomatic half- way house of rest’’ may, perhaps, be provided for both the interested parties in the Liberal Republican Ohio State Convention, which is to meet at Columbus to-morrow. The two parties concerned, however, appear to be rather in the way to a final quarrel and sepa- ration than in the mood for a new marriage anda new honeymoon. Still, as it is under- stood that Mr. Brinkerhoff and his liberals hold a balance of power indispensable to democratic success, the counsels of Mr. Groesbeck may lead to another trial of the Cincinnati coalition; andif so, in Ohio, we may have from this beginning the shaping of the opposition elements for the Presidential succession. Thus leaving Ohio, for the present, we will turn a moment to the political uproar in Massachusetts. When General Grant, in his masterly report of the operations of the Army of the Potomac in that grand and decisive campaign of 1865, referred to General Butler and his column at | Bermuda Hundreds as being as utterly help- | less there “‘as if tightly corked up ina bot- | | tle,’’ he little dreamed that in support of his | | political programme in the administration of the national government General Butler would | some day become his right hand man in the | stanch old Puritan Commonwealth of Massa- | chusetts. But so it appears to be. The | excavator of Dutch Gap was for a time disposed to be independent, but, having learned wisdom from experience, he now fights under the broad | pennant of the administration. His experi- | ence which brought him under the wing of General Grant may here be briefly recited. Long ago General Butler was seized by the brilliant idea of be- coming Governor of “the Old Bay State." He was defeated in the Worcester Convention in 1871, after a severe struggle, and then | allowed Governor Washburne’s re-election without opposition. Finding in the outset that the great sachems and the little chiefs, the leaders and trumpeters of the republican camp, were arrayed against him, he went out | into the highways and byways to drum up an | independent following among the women's rights women, the labor reformers and those absolute temperance men whose motto is “touch not, taste not, handle not the un- | clean thing.’ The women’s rights women were delighted with their new champion, the labor reformers hailed him as their prophet, and the temperance prohibitionists accepted him for # brief space as another Daniel come to judgment, General Butler, however, soon discovered that there was no hope for a third | the most offensive kind. Barrels of fruit and | have all the means at their command to do | Sanitary cleanliness is attained. party in Massachusetts. He accordingly changed his plan of overations. and. with the zeal of an inspired reformer, took the field for the republican candidates in the elections of last year, In his great effort at becoming the Governor of Massachusetts two years ago General Butler travelled from county to county and from town to town stirring up the Seven Sleepers of the ancient Commonwealth as they had never been startled before, end at length he so alarmed the old Puritan conservatives that throughout the State, drums beating and colors flying, they were leagued as a band of brothers for his defeat, The Convention met, the battle was fought, Butler was defeated, and, frankly accepting the situation, it was thought he would trouble the straitlaced Pharisees of the republican party no more as a candidate for Governor, or that he would at least wait until called for in that capacity. But they were mistaken in their man. Taking time by the forelock, General Butler is out and up again for Governor and for the republican nomination in the Septem- ber Convention; and great is the excite- ment thereby created among the orthodox, and dreadful are their apprehensions of the consequences, They do not admire him, and they are afraid ofhim. They say that heis an unscrupulous politician, an audacious dema- gogue, and that, having advocated ‘Old Thad Stevems’ greenback plan” for the redemption of the national debt, and having eulogized the Crédit Mobilier speculation asa good thing, and having volunteered as the leading de- fender of the ‘‘back-pay abomination,’’ they recoil from the thoughtvf the possibility of his becoming the Governor of proud old Massa- chusetts. Nevertheless, they fear that Butler is the coming man, inasmuch as they have been given to understand that he is the candi- date of General Grant; and we presume the Republic will survive even should Butler be successful. . This Massachusetts excitement over General Butler, however, will show how small a mat- ter will serve for a tempest in a teapot, in a season like the present, when no great national issues are directly before the people. The issues of 1872 have served their purpose—the issues for 1876 will be shaped by intervening measures and events at Washington, and from present indications the succession will be provided for by the admin- istration. The republicans evidently so un- derstand it, from Maine to Texas, and from New York to California; amd the opposition elements are universally acting upon the con- viction that whether General Grant oro new man will be the republican candidate in '76, his platform will be the measures and prin- ciples of Grant’s administration. Nor will the friends of Speaker Blaine, or Senator Conk- ling or Senator Morton or Secretary Fish, or any supposed available republican for the succession, dare to suggest his claims until General Grant shall have spoken upon the question of a third term. Accordingly, while the republican press is silent upon this subject, the present movements of the opposition ferces of all sections and fac- tions are harmonious in their opposition to the administration, though otherwise they are all adrift. From time to time some new de- parture for the democratic party is thrown upon the winds, but only to be blown away. One of the most thoroughgoing was pro- mulgated the other day from a meeting of the democrats of Allen county, Ohio, and it was a proposition for a new opposition party with a new name broad enough to cover all the oppo- sition forces of the Union. But this proposal meets with the same overwhelming objections as the motion to establish the democracy squarely upon the platform of free trade. It will not do. The new opposition move- ment recently inaugurated in New Orleans, on the basis of the most liberal con- cessions in civil’ and political rights to the blacks, on the other hand, can hardly fail of great successes, if in good faith generally adopted throughout the South-and carried into universal practice. From the simple an- nouncement of the overture much good has evidently resulted in harmonizing the two races in Louisiana. The political situation in Virginia is somewhat perplexing, inasmuch as the veteran old-line whig and democrat, ex- Governor Wise, announces his readiness to take the nomination as candidate for Governor of either the administration or the opposition party, provided they give him only one competitor. In summing up our conclusions from this review of our political field they may all be reduced to the brief statement that, while the adminis- tration and the republican party are resting upon their oars, and while the opposition elements are adrift and still vainly casting about for a new departure, the whole shaping of the fight for the succession on both sides depends upon the question, Is General Grant to be again the republican candidate? ‘ The War on the Nuisances, The Board of Health seem to be content with their first raid on the bone boilers, and show a disposition to tolerate them in their new quarters on the river. This is indeed a change for the worse, in a sanitary point of view, for the disease breeding odors can be more widely diffused on a crowded water thoroughfare than in a single district of the city. The removal of these bone boiling and fat melting nuisances from the North River is ® necessity as imperative as the destruction of their sheds and offal docks. There is no ex- cuse for dealing gingerly with a sub- ject of such vital importance, and the health authorities will be held responsible for the consequences if they neglect to finish the good work they so auspiciously begun. A great deal, too, re- mains to be done at Washington Market, the vicinity of which is yet littered with garbage and encumbered with sidewalk obstructions of 4a heaps of vegetables barricade the sidewalk at every step in this part the of town, and barrels full of garbage lined many of the streets dur- ing the hottest hours yesterday. No half way measures will suffice when the health of a great city is at stake. The Board of Health their work thorougtfly, and they must not re- lax their exertions until the grand object of Taz Ricumonp Whig advises “the colored people, who, under the teachings of the car- pet-bng leaders, formed themselves on a race line, to abandon that line altogether.” But having fought it out on that “line’’ for so long a time, are they likely to abandon it without some good and sufficient reagop ? Poor Spain! The condition of Spain grows worse from day to day. A cable spocial to the Hemaup from Cartagena informs us that the trouble over the mutinous men-of-war continues to be & most exciting cause of alarm, and an engage- ment between the mutineers and the govern- ment was not deemed Though one report isto the effect that the act of the German commander in seizing the mutinous vessels as pirates has been disavowed, it seems more tikely that he will he sus- tained by his government. Indeed, our special correspondent informs us that both the English and German govern- ments have instructed their Consuls to treat the rebel vessels as pirates. The arrival at Cartagena of additional English and German men-of-war strengthens the opinion that armed interference is contemplated by the two Powers. If the Carlists or the insurgents should retaliate for any interference with the rebel ships by these great Powers and carry out the threatened massacre of all foreigners in Cartagena, an armed protectorate would in- evitably be placed over Spain. It is not to be assumed fora moment that Germany would submit to the murder of her Consul and people without exerting her strength to allay the internal disorders which make such crimes possible, This is indeed a dark hour for the Spanish Republic, Spain seems incapable of submit- ting to any authority whatever. The world hailed with acclamation the news that Isabella IL was driven from the throne, but only dis- integration has followed. For a time Prim held the country in peace, but the Italian King the grim old general gave to Spain soon found that he had undertaken an impossible task in trying to govern an intractable people. Since Amadeus gave up his throne in despair the Spaniards have been showing themselves more and more intractable. The operations of the Carlists have never been of suflicient importance in themselves to imperil the Repub- lic if the Republic had the support of an earn- est and loyal majority. But the truth seems to be that there is no majority in Spain. A majority of the Spanish people do not want Don Carlos for their king. There is not a majority favorable to the aspirations of Don Alfonso. If either succeeded to the throne to- morrow it would not be many days till his government would be in as extreme peril as is the Republic to-day. Spain is a country of factions, none of which ever unite for any purpose. Even the friends of republican government are divided into fac- tions, which are fighting the Republic. Itthus comes that internal disorder prevails all over the country ; that the English Parliament dis- cusses the question of allowing belligerent rights to the Carlists, and that a foreign pro- tectorate looms up in the future for the Span- ish people. ee AS The Shah Again and Che Empire. Seldom indeed has a prince been féted as was the Shah of Persia by England and Franée, whatever his puissance or merits as a man and rulor. He has not only been feasted by emperors, queens and royal families, cheered by populations, subjected to the freedom of cities in gold, snuff boxes and deafened with municipal ad- dresses, but his tour through Europe has been recorded in the Heratp by some of the most accomplished writers in the Sys lish language. This morning Persia, her monarch, her population, her resources and industries, her religion and literature, are laid bare to our readers in the neat diction of Mr. Grenville Murray, while Mr. Edmund Yates and Mr. George W. Hosmer present in vivid language the extra- ordinary festivities by which Nassr-ed-Din was regaled by the French Republic. Though the Shah is the chief diamond ‘among all the literary jewels strung together by our graceful writers, his insignificant person and bald po- litical importance reveal to what little pur- pose a State may bow its hospitable head toan Oriental prince. Yet France was never more gorgeous in her hospitality to a royal visitor, and Paris, as we read from the graphic letters of Mr. Yates and Mr. Hosmer, has rarely ap- peared the glittering, blazing capital of a population always gay and frivolous in peace if always cruel and bloodthirsty in war. Whether at the opera, where Mr. Yates found assembled the chief dignitaries of the Repub- lic, and les grandes dames of the long hidden society of the Bourbon and Orleans factions, who now come forward to worship a crown, even if it be so poor a head-gear as that which replaces the black tarbouch of Nassr-ed-Din; whether it be at the Trocadero, which com- mands a sweeping view of the Imperial city, and where our correspondents beheld a sight which they almost shrink from attempt- ing to describo ; whether along the grandest of avenues in the world—the avenue of the Champs Elysées ; whether at Versailles, amid the dazzling illuminations or in the Bois, where Mr. Hosmer estimates were assembled half a million of people. The reader can understand why it is that these festivities have occupied so largely the attention of the world. By turning from these memorable scenes to the letter of Mr. Grenville Murray we read for whom and for what all this has been done. Beginning with his name, Mr. Murray tersely summarizes the history of Persia since Nassr-ed-Din became its god. He exposes the comparative honesty of the Prince, the aggregation of imports and exports, and draws a poor exhibit for the lessee of that stagnant land. Not content with political and commercial detail, he examines the social and religious institutions, and felicit- ously describes the Prince of Persian hordes. In fine, we have Persia in a nutshell—a na- tion that would not make a respectable State in the American Union if we throw out the meaningless numbers of ‘‘souls.’’ Niagara Faxts, 8 resort in which the voice of natare, in her most sublime aspect, is min- gled with the importunate clamor of swindling hackmen and unconscionable landlords, has found an advocate at last. A correspondent assures us that all the talk about Niagara nuisances is exaggerated. He even commends the fencing of the Falls on the grounds of the work being done by a joint stock company in- stead of the hotel men and the immunity from hack drivers enjoyed by the visitors inside the fence. We fear that the public, especially those who have been victimized so often by the notorious harpies in that neighborhood, will not be willing to accept this roseate state- Persian NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. pocketbook in hand, to the ‘‘stand and de- | we have pointed out the difficulties and dan- liver” of such worthies, at every step, his ad- | gers which sppear to threaten his ambitious miration of the stupendous work of nature is | and arduous enterprise. considerably leasened. Fencing Niagara Falls seems to us very like Mrs, Partington’s expe- rience with the Atlantic Ocean. Is the Transatlantic Balloon Voyage Feasible? The project of a transatlantic voyage in the air, which Professor Wise is so busily ma- turing, was so bold and startling in its nature that the scientific authorities seem to have been completely taken by surprise, and, as re- gards the issue of the voyage, are almost en- tirely non-committal. This is much to be re- gretted, for the acronaut himself is not a physicist and can hardly be familiar with the varied. physical phenomena on the nicer knowledge of which success may depend. Pro- fessor Henry has written a letter, in which he expresses himself so guardedly that the main point of his suggestion, as far as we can gather, is the prudential plan of first trying to cross the Continent before attempting the transatlantic trip. But, notwithstanding the caution of our scientific authorities in speak- ing their mind, we may, without presumption, venture to test Professor Wise’s reasoning and the feasibility of his plan by some facts which have apparently been wholly disnegarded in the popular discussion of this subject. The successful transit of the Atlantic, ac- cording to the views of Professor Wise, de- pends upon his finding an upper or westerly current moving steadily and rapidly onward from the meridians of the United States to those of Europe. There are many observa- tions of such a current made by scientific ex- plorers, but they are detached and fragment- ary, and they cover only very short periods of time. In 1858 the present Astronomer Royal of Scotland found on the Peak of Teneriffe, in the Canary Islands, a steady southwesterly wind from the 18th of July (with little excep- tion) till the 30th of August; and this fact is really the chief tangible evidence of a perma- nent upper current blowing from the south- west. It must, however, be borne in mind that Teneriffe is near the coast of Africa, and over North Central Africa the thermometric average during June, July and August reaches the fearful height of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the mercury seldom falling below 90 degrees at night and by day commonly mounting up to 120 degrees. The equatorial regions of the Atlantic to the southward and southwestward of Teneriffe are far cooler, having a mean tem- perature of about 82 degrees, and the conse- quence, of course, is that towards the super- heated soil of Africa on upper monsoon current is created to supply the indraught from the expanded air ascending. This is felt on the peaks of the Canaries in greatest force when North Central Africa is receiving the outpoured torrents of solar heat— that is, in the very months in which the observations were taken and the southwest wind was noticed on the cone of Teneriffe. It is, therefore, cvident that the inference of ® permanent and steady upper current from the west, belting the entire North Atlantic, has a very slender support from the Teneriffe data, upon which so much stress is laid. But the positive side of the question is as strong as the negative. It is known that after the Autumnal equinox, when the sun fixes itself vertically over equatorial South America, that Continent becomes intensely heated. Through the Spring and Summer of the Southern hemisphore, the sun being nearer than to us in our Spring and Summer, the heat is more intense, and, with the arrival of October and November, the last named Continent is all aglow. The lands and plains, which in the rainy season were richly car- peted with verdure, are suddenly parched and cracked wide open, every vegetable organism — withered as if by a breath of flame, the very air is filled with particles of carbonized dust, and the burning steppe, to quote the words of Hum- boldt, lies stre tched before us dead and rigid, “like the stony crust of a desolated planet.” The effect of this heated equatorial Continent, as Herschel has so well shown, is to set in ascensional motion the entire column of air resting upon it, and this enormous sea of su- perheated air, after rising into the cloud re- gions, flows off to the northward to form the great “‘November atmospheric waves,’’ which were so marked last Fall and are noticeable every Fall. It is highly probable that during the prevalence of this aerial movement from November to March, or during the sun’s ver- tical stay in equatorial South America, Profes- sor Wise’s supposed westerly or southwesterly wind prevails, flowing laterally off from the ascended columns from the South American Continent. It is, however, hardly probable that after the vernal equinox, certainly not after the Ist of June or before the Ist of No- vember, any steady upper current suitable for an aerial voyage of three thousand miles can be found to do the bidding of this gallant aeronaut. Moreover, it is worthy of attentive reflection that if such an upper current existe in August and September, while yet the sun is not below the line, the current must neces- sarily be at a much greater distance above the oceanic surface and much harder to reach (this upper current has never yet been reached on the loftiest summits of the Andes) and navigate than during the Winter season, when it is known to be comparatively near the surface and to sweep the North Atlantic as with a mighty besom. It is well known that in August and Sep- tember the Continent of North America, then highly heated by the Summer's sun, is a re- gion of low barometer, toward which aerial depression the surrounding atmosphere presses from all sides. If, therefore, there existed in August a strong upper current from the trop- ics along our Eastern seaboard, on nearing the latitudes of New York it would be deflected toward the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay by the prevailing monsoon-like indraught; so that @ balloon, falling into it, instead of being wafted toward Europe, would, obeying the re- sultant forces, be more likely to sail due north- ward. These considerations strongly indicate the wisdom of postponing the aerial voyage (ifthe suggestion is not too late) till November. The solution of the problem, whether a westerly upper wind ceaselessly girdles the globe, is one of great scientific interest, which, however, should be investigated with great caution and deliberation; and we confess to the fear of Professor Wise being drifted away from his desired course or being disappointed altogether of finding his steady, swift upper current from mept, When visitor is obliged fo sompomd. | tbo wep, We shall bope fos the barb althourh The Viccroy and Sultam Shake Hands. We publish in another column the full text of the Egyptian Magna Charta, by which the Khedive acquires an individual sovereignty never enjoyed by an Egyptian Prince, whose status has been that of a vassal of the Porte, It will be seen that “my illustrious firman,” while writtten in the balmiest strain of Ori- ental condescension, constitutes the Viceroy almost an independent monarch, and concedes to him powers the absence of which during his brilliant administration has been the real hin- drance to a sound government, suitable alike to natives and Europeans. Yet, while the con- cessions seem numerous and important, the Sultan makes stipulations about coinage, flags, troops and iron-clads, which indicate that he is not prepared to abandon his pretensions to the absolute mastership of his whole empire. But the significance of this rare document lies in its concluding lme—a phrase which the torpid man of the harem must have coolly chuckled over as he signed— “You will be most careful to remit every year in full and without delay to our imperial treasury the 150,000 purses ($3,750,000) of imperial tribute.’’ Tue Crxcrenatt Commercial (liberal repub- lican) gives @ more rose-colored view to the movement of the opposition in Ohio than any of the regular dgmocratic prints. ‘A little while ago,’’ it says, ‘the critical question among the liberal republicans was whether they could secure a respectable co-operation among the democrats. Now the question seems to be whether the liberal democrats will not largely outnumber the republicans in the rush to the front.” Is there no danger that this tremendous rash between the two sections may end in a “‘jam’’—like one of those periodi- cal ice jams on the Susquehanna or Ohio— where all hands will stick hard and fast until the sun of some opposition success shall send them bounding on their way to the haven of victory? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Congressman P. M. Dox, of Alabama, is staying at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor William A, Graham, of North Caro- lina, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. State Treasurer Henry Page, of Arkansas, 1s regis- tered at tne St. Nicholas Hotel, J. C. Fiedeldey, a Cincinnati Councilman, was are rested for disorderly conduct on Friday. Laura Fair has struck a balance sheet, and ands it cost $11,100 to settle Crittenden’s case. Professor Dana, of Yale College, has been chosem @ member of the French Academy of Sciences. Chief Justice Doyle, of the Bahamas, who has been at the Clarendon Hotel for several days, will sail for Europe to-morrow. Queen Victoria is at Osborne, on the Isle of Wight, whence she will return to Windsor previous: to making a trip to Scotland. . Baron Gustave de Rothschild wants the Shah to ameliorate the condition of the Jews in Persia, and the King of kings says he will. His Majesty the Emperor of Germany has deco. fated the Shah of Persia with the insignia of the Schwarzen Adler-Orden, emblazoned in brilliants, A Shaker basket maker at West Pittsfield, Mass, has inherited $24,000 from a relative in Ireland. He proposes to shake the basket business immediately. The Shah is an author whose style Persian scholars say is pleasing and intelligible. | His book was an account of his journey to Kerbela and Nejjet, near Bagdad, The King of Sweden and Norway has appointed Louis . Bagger, tormerly managing editor of tue Washington Patriot, to the position of Vice Consul of those countries in the capita’. Dr. Sigi, editor of the Bremse,a comic journat published in Munich, has been fined and sentenced to imprisonment for printing an acrostic referring to personal characteristics of Prince Bismarck. A woman named Capanori, aged fifty-seven years, has killed her husband, an old man of seventy years, in Jesi, France, to become a widow and thus procure the discharge of her son from the army. The Prince of Wales keeps at -Marlborough House a mark book, in which is noted the progress of his children in their studies and the praise- worthiness of their conduct. Perhaps his future subjects are doing the same for him. Z Mrs. Mary J. Hartwell, of Columbus, Ohio, heard @ voico say the other night, ‘Your brother William is dead,” and she awoke the old man with her screams. A letter came next day from Dayton announcing that her brother was well, and hada paving contract. Mr. George Philip Stanhope’s claim to tne title of the Earl of Chesterfield has just been admitted by the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords. The new peer is descended, like his three immediate predecessors, from the eleventh son of the first Earl of Chesterfleid. A Cantonese Celestial, named Sew-nang, who ts connected with @ firm, general storekeepers in Nagasaki, has applied to the native authorities for permission to enter into a matrimonial alliance with a Japanese young lady, named Omio. No reply will be given until the Saga authorities have been communicated with, but itis expected that permission wili be granted to enable the inter- esting event to take plage. Mr. M. R. Waite, of Toledo, Unio, has arrive? at the St. Nichelas Hotel. Mr. Waite’s friends think his efforts in the Alabama case, in which he was of counsel for the United States before the Geneva Tripunal, would be properly rewarded with the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. They have urged nis appointment upon President Grant, but he intends to wait some time before making choice between Mr. Waite and other candidates. President Grant, accompanied by Postmaster General Creswell and Generai Babcock, arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel from Long Branch yester- day afternoon, It is arranged for the Presidential party to leave this city on the steamer Mary Powell this afternoon at half-past three o'clock. On arriv- ing at Kingston they will be driven to Generat Sharpe's residence. Wednesday morning carly a special train on the New York, Kingston and Syra- cuse Ratiroad will convey the visitors to West Hur- ley, Where fleet horses will be in readiness to carry them to the summit of Overiook Mountain, where they will re all night, returning to Kingstom on Thursday, and on the evening of the lavter day there will be a reception at General Sharpe's resi- dence. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Rear Admiral. Case reports to the Navy Depart- ment the arrival of the Wabash at Tries'e on the 6th inst., having visited en route Geneva, Palermo, Messina and Syracuse. The movements of the other vessels of the European squadron are re- ported as follows:—The Shenandoah has visited Barcelona, Tarragona, Valencia, Cartagena and Malaga, at all of which she interchanged the usual courtesies, and founa quiet ness and good order prevailing, though there were some disturbances between the arlists and republicans outside, The Congress has visited Gibraltar and Soutuampton, and at last: reports, 6th inst., was avout jeaving tae latter place Gal rhe Wachuset hae visited Gibraltar, Cadiz, a port in the Bataric Islands and Marseilles, Was at last date, 26th ult., and after leaving that place she ts to stop at Ajaccio and Her arrival at Trieste was expect ~ Messina. ‘The Waoash wouid leave on the 2iat inst. for Corfu, Assistant Surgeon Charles Smart, who has been on duty at Fortress Monroe during the past two years, has been relieved and ordered to the Do | aes of the Platte. Assistgnt Suraqqn Frank. leaghapy Fay ay ea Nye.