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CONFLICT—VICTOR EMMANUEL EN ROUTE FOR ViENNA—THE GREAT EASTERN’S RECENT CABLE FAILURE— NINTH PAGE. *QIOTING AT TRALEE, IRELAND—AMERICAN CATHOLIC APPROYAL OF THE ATTITUDE OF THE PRUSSTAN CLERGY—Nivtu Pas. 4 POLITICAL CRISIS DESIRED BY ENGLISH JJPERALS—PROPERTY DESTROYED BY SWOLLEN RIVERS In SCOTLAND—NintH PaGE. FRANCE ENTIRELY FREED OF GERMAN SOL- DIERS—FRENCH PROTESTANT PROTEST AGAINST THE MONARCHY—Ninta Pace. THE SHAH AND HIS VIZIER-SEVERE STORM AND DISASTERS IN CUBA—NINTH Pace. BAKER PACHA’S SUPERB DISCOVERIES AND EXPLOITS IN THE SOUDAN! BITTER NA- TIVE OPPOSITION AND PERFIDY! THE GREAT LAKE PROBLEM! SLAVING! CLI- MATE AND GOVERNMENT—SfxTn PagE. THE UNITED STATES SENATE CHEAP-TRANS- PORTATION COMMITTEE WARMLY WEL COMED AT MONTREAL. CANADA! THE PEOPLE OF BOTH COUNTRIES UNITED ON THE GREAT QUESTION OF UHEAP FOOD— TWELFTH Pace. JUDGE HOAR AND THE WASHINGTON CITY BAR ON THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP! MR. CONKLING, MR. EVARTS, JUDGE MILLER AND JUDGE CURTIS CONSIDERED—SkvexTa. Pace, AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL TRIUMPHS IN AUS- TRIA! THE EMPEROR'S VISITS TO THE EXPOSITION! THE RURAL SCHOOL HOUSE AND THE MOWERS AND REAPERS—Sixtu Pace. THE YACHT REGATTA OFF THE “IDLE HOUR!” AN ENJOYABLE CONTEST! THE AND TE ING WINNERS DETAILS—REGATTAS AND ROW- SEVENTH PACE. ‘TS AT FLEETWOOD YESTER- Y—BROOKLYN’S TREASURY FRAUDS— THE REFORMERS—LOCAL ITEMSfkxTa Pace. AMERICAN INT TS, SPANISH MISRULE AND SLAVE IN CUBA—FourTeestTu Pak. CRURCH AN; STATE, RAILWAY AND BOUND. ARY RIGS r AZIL—IMPORTANT DE- CISIONS AND @ RAL BUSINESS IN TBE COURTS—Turrteem! Pace. TUE RUSSIAN CZAR TO ARBH*ATE BETWEEN PERU AND JAPAN IN THe COOLIE IM- BROGLIO—AFFAIRS IN CHILE @SD CO- LOMBIA—ART—THE “FRISCO” cADuSS~ SrixTn Pace. 4 MUBDER MYSTERY SOLVED AT LAST—THE LIFE INSURANCK PAILURE—THE«SWABI- ANS—SEVENTH PaGE, Tse Yerrow Fave at Suxeveronr,®."2., ‘has become so terribly fatal among that a 0- fortunate population as to make its visitatio * there one of the most remarkable outbreaks af. that dreadful epidemic of which we have any record. But, as at Norfolk some twenty years ago, the predisposing causes and all the con- ditions needed for the fullest developement of this pestilence existed at the outset, and with the subsidence of the disease the people of Shreveport will have so dearly learned the lesson of sanitary precautions as to be as ex- empt hereafter as New Orleans has been since the war trom any panic-creating returns of the yellow fever, .NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET, YORK HERALD | 72. onsen: Timeti en! Rucasion—t9 the American Republic a Failure? ‘We published on Sunday last an article from the London 7imes of the previous day, received by a special cable despatch, com- menting upon the discussion on Cwsarism which was commenced by the HznaLp some time ago and has since been taken up by the most influential political journals in the United States. The great English organ, with its natural prejudices against republican in- stitutions and in favor of a monarchy, bas seen fit to applaud as a public good the spirit of Cesarism which we have deemed it our duty to expose and condemn. The strong- est argument it has adduced in support of its views is that the evils in our Ameri- can form of government arise from the incessant changes which are consequent upon our frequent election of a Chief Magistrate, and hence of a national administration. Yet, when we look at the history of English ad- ministrations since the time of Walpole, we note that the average duration of the Ministries has been three years and eight months. Moreover, in the time of the pres- ent ruler of Great Britain the tendency is to come more and more closely in unison with the Swiss system ; for none of Her Majesty’s Ministers fave remained consecutively in power for a longer period than six years, and only those Ministries which have had at their head statesmen as illustrious as Sir Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston, Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone have exceeded in their official life the limit of a single term of the American Presidency. Therefore the argument of the Times against our present form of govern- ment, based upon the alleged evils of the in- cessant change in the Presidential office, fades in the light of English history. But we can understand how the London Times would welcome a radical change in the sacred traditions of our republican govern- ment as it would have welcomed the success of the Southern rebellion, and as it applauded the career of Louis Napoleon, his death blow at the French Republic and his effort to estab- lish a monarchy in Mexico. We can well picture that silent, obscure and shallow monarch walking through the ambassadors’ circle at the Tuileries, as was his custom on New Year's Day, and felicitating an American Minister, Cesar’s envoy, upon the advantages to the cause of order and good government resulting from the continued re-election of our President. The London Times, the representative of Napoleonism and Cesarism, the representative of the wealthy power, of the Bank of England, sees in the possibility of the continued re-election of one man to the chief magistracy the end of those sacred republican traditions which have made America the home of liberty on this side of the Atlantia, and the hope of all to whom hberty is denied in any part of the world. This is the era of reaction and change. The combined forces of monarchy and abso- lutism are making a desperate struggle to regain and retain their power. The progress of the Carlists in Spain; tho revival of the cause of the Count de Chambord in France ; the bold attitude of the Papacy in Italy ; the revival of toryism in England; the threatened downfall of Bismarck in Prussia, are all pleasing to the ultramontanes. What could be more gratifying to the great English journal, managed as it is by a man of clear intellect and cool discernment, and represent- ing all these struggling forces, than the triumph of the reactionists in America? ‘Such a triumph would be more gratifying, indeed, to the monarchists and absolutists of Europe than would have been the triumph of the slave-owners’ rebellion or the successtul foun- dation of the Empire of Maximilian, for it would be the death of all that is republican in the great American Republic. For our own part, if we are to have a per- petual Presidency forced upon us, as the Lon- don Times hopes and prophecies; if we are to violate the sacred precedents of Washington and the fathers of the Republic as mistakes and follies, let us rather consider the whole American system of government as a mistake; the war for freedom, the declaration of inde- pendence, the constitution framed by the wise and good men who gave us our liberties, all the treasured traditions of our history as blunders, and return at once to the good old flag of our ancestors, the red flag ot England, which has “braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze,” Rather than a bastard republic which would be a lie ond a mockery, let us have a real throne, real kings anda real con- stitational Parliament. lf we must have a Crown let us have one that comes from the Plantagenets, and not a sordid diadem dug from the dust and mire of political ambi- tion. Let us have legitimate aristocrats, tracing their blood and lineage to the Cru- sades, and not an aristocracy of parvenus ; let us have an anointed king like Henry, and not a childish demagogue like Thiers, or a helpless boy-Prince Imperial, if, as the Lon- don Times assures us, we are really embarked on the waves of a new and desirable destiny, and are to remember that Cxsarism was only possible with the Romans when they had be- come hallowed by centuries of credit and honor. No. While we accept this contingency, let us rather recognize as Americans a more se- rious duty and a graver responsibility, for our history has inspirations as ennobling as those of. Numa Pompilius and Junius Brutus, Having fought for independence and gained it; Having made on honorable, if not alto- gether successful, struggle for maritime rights in 1812 against the gigantic power of Eng- land : Having proved to Vice Presidents, like | Xayou Burr, that fame and genius could not save evil deeds from shame : | Having under Jackson crushed out such treason as nullification by the declaration that the Union must and should be preserved: Having vindicated the national sovereignty against Mexico, showing magnanimity unusual in the day of conquest and annexation by treating the conquered Republic as a neighbor and friend: , Having condoned tho selfish ond almost crin tinal conduct of General Scott, in Mexico, in withdrawing our troops from the capital, by non inating him for the Presidency of the United \ States, and making him General of the ug ir o onsolidated the Union and emanci- pated the sla ves bya cruel and oppressive war: our fathers in founding republican institutions, and commanded the respect and admiration of all mankind by our achievements in industry, science and art, we feel that we are not pre- pared to surrender all, to dishonor all, in order to meet the demands of an ambitious and desperate party, and to remand the gov- ernment to the hands of men who are only exhalations—creations of our civil war. There is a Masonic legend which tells that when, by the sympathy of union and inter- change of thought among the peoples, the representatives ot all nations shall finally as- semble in the same lodge, there will then be given the final crowning degree. We have striven to realize this beautiful conception ; to unite under one flag and merge into one citizenship the people of all na- tions of tho earth—Germans, Scandina- vians, French, Irish, Italians, and even Chinamen, whose coming reverses the order of nature—that the tides of emigration shall flow only Westward. We have boundless re- sources; a climate that in one day, so vast is our extent of territory, will show seventy de- grees and zero on the thermometer—midsum- mer heat and midwinter cold. We have the means of living in luxury within ourselves, in- dependent of all the outside world. We have millions of acres of land ready to spring forth into productiveness at the touch; great rivers and inland seas to bear our commerce; a min- eral wealth that ages cannot exhaust. We have hoped to develop a people with the ulti- mate power to create a universal masonry of humanity, and to reap the rich fruits in the enlightenment and happiness of all mankind. With these high hopes in the American heart we dare not feel that our national career will end in disappointment, shame and anarchy; and such, we are convinced, would in- deed be our fate were we to gratify the hopes and realize the prophecies of the London Times. It is in this belief that we have raised our warning voice against that spirit of Cesarism which, if left unchecked, would speedily verify the predic- tions of the English journal. To us parties are nothing; individuals are nothing; politics are nothing; our government is everything. ‘As a soldier, as a ruler ond as a man we respect and honor General Grant, and we have given his administration a discreet and valuable support. For these very reasons we are the more jealous in guarding the nation against the danger which threatens it; against that spirit of Casarism which, under the mask of a third term, would impose upon us a life- ruler and strike a fatal blow at republican government to the gratification of the com- bined reactionists, monarchists and absolutists all over the world. We love our people. We have warned them. A Tale of Three Cities. By this title, which smacks of the novel literature of the day, our readers must not suppose we are going to write a romance ina paragraph. We mean by the three cities New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, and instead of romance we refer to facts, known and read of by all men. The tale is the municipal corruption and the crimes of muni- cipal officers of these three cities. We might really say the tale of many citics, including especially Washington, Newark and Phila- delphia, for corruption and thieving have prevailed there as well as at and in the neighborhood of this metropolis. Here, however, in the three cities particu- larly named, we have pretty much one com- munity. True, the municipal organizations are different, and one of the places, Jersey City, is in another State, yet commercially and socially they are but a part of the metropolis, though separated by the North and East rivers. They seem, too, to be under the same or like influence morally. The stupendous frauds of the Tammany Ring, though exposed, and though the offenders are overthrown and fugitives from justice, have not made our neighbors more virtuous. The escape of the Tammany rascals, so far, appears to have in- spired in the rings of Brooklyn and Jersey City and the high municipal officials there a sense of immunity and shamelessness. Look- ing at the easy escape of Connolly, the defiant resistance of Tweed to the laws and law officers and at the fizzle generally of all the efforts, to bring the culprits to jus- tice, the Brooklyn and Jersey City treasury plunderers concluded, no doubt, that law is a farce, or that, at all events, the money they could steal would compensate them for whatever ptinishment they might have to endure, The failure of punishment for crime begets fresh criminals. And when the highest official— yes, in the federal government, condones or honorr, even, those guilty of dis- honesty, Low can we expect anything but general demoralization? The evil is that men in office, particularly in high office, are too apt to look upon thieving or appropriating to themselves public money as a slight offence, as if there were any difference between robbing the people or an individual employer. Robbery is robbery in one case as in another, and, it there be any difference, the robbers of the public treasury are the worst criminals. What we want are able and honest prosecut- ing attorneys and inflexible justice in the courts to bring these official rascals to exem- plary punishment. Tue Suan anv THE Granp Vizrer.—As soon asthe King of Kings reached home he got into a Teheran passion and popped his Grand Vizier jnto prison. The royal anger is re- ported to have been fotlned By That official's attitude towards Mr. Reuter, to whom he and other Persian officials havea rooted dislike. It was, of course, to be expected that the Grand Vizier's head would roll independent of his body, according to the fine Persian manner of treating objectionable public servants; but the Shah has learned of civilization on his ‘Western tour. Here our rulers pat people on the back who have betrayed public trust, give them certificates of character, send them to foreign missions or promote them a little. These lessons were not thrown away on the Shah. Before his visit he would have decapitated hie Colfaxes, bowstrung his Binghams and sent his Sheppards to the shambles. He has changed all that. Instead of making the Grand Vizier's crime against Reuter’s Board of Works a capi- tal offence he makes him Governor of a capi- tal. It may not be considered a promotion, but the Shah, like other reformers, must begin by slavishly copying others; he is only o beginner and will improve. The Grand Having. fin ally, vindicated the wisdom of | Vizier will Sind balm in Ghilap. if not Gilead. and as a little quiet will do him good he will seek Reshd with a thankful heart. He must, if he has heard of America, wish that his royal master had come here and studied our ways on the spot. Recent Changes in the Eugiish Min- istry—How ‘Long Will Mr. Gladstone's Power Last? Rumors of further changes in the British Ministry were current in London yester- day. The way in which these rumors take shape is curious enough. The Lon- don Daily Telegraph is Mr. Gladstone's favorite organ. Its large circulation cnables him to appeal in its columns to that large, rough-and-ready, little-reasoning, impulsive community which is more dear to him than the leas accessible aristocratic or commercial circles, and its powers of hero worship are gratifying to his vanity. When, therefore, we read in ita paragraph to the effect that “it is stated—and, we believe, with truth—that a change in the Postmaster Genoralship will shortly be made’’ we know that the Premier has once more shuffled his hand, and that Mr. Monsell is doomed. His successor is, as yet, unnamed; but as the other more important Sppointments are completed they can now be judged on their merits. Of Mr. Gladstone's exceptional capacity for the discharge of the duties of Chancellor of the Exchequer there can fe no question, for it has been proved in trying times and admitted even by his stanchest antagonists. That he was a born financier, like the -late Sir F. Baring, or even like the late Lord Wolverton (Mr. Glyn), whom he was in the habit of consulting on fiscal matters, cannot, perhaps, be said; but it is certain that his budgets, when serving under Lord Palmerston, have been the most popular, and at the same time the most financially successful, of late years. But how will Mr. Gladstone be able to tripli- cate the characters of First Lord of the Treas- ury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons? This last addi- tional position has been thrust upon him. He did not seek it; he did not, like Nick Bottom, cry, ‘‘Let me play the lion!"’ He was already overworked and tasked beyond his strength; but his colleagues saw that unless a little more of the burden were shifted on to his back the whole affair must collapse and topple over, and, knowing the desperate te- nacity with which their leader clings to office, they represented this to him and he con- sented. More than once during the past ses- sion the Premier has been absent from his place in the House, owing to illness, and those who watch him closely have noticed that his always attentiated physique’ has become more gaunt, his cheeks more hollow and wan. © Mr. Gladstone is approaching the age mentioned by the Psalmist as the span of life; and, though his predecessor, Palmerston, led the House of Commons and rode down to the Derby when an octogenarian, it is not given to the present Premier to follow in the footsteps of the joc- und Irish Viscount. It was because he rode down to the Derby, because he took interest in field sports and amusements of all kinds, because he had been blessed by nature with a remarkably equable temper and never lost any opportunity of enjoying himself, that Lord Palmerston retained his mental vigor and bodily elasticity so long. Mr. Gladstone is by nature impetuous and irsitable. We question whether he knows 9 racer from 4 clothes horse, or whether he has ever stumped a stubble or breasted a mountain brae with a guninhis hand. During such little leisure as he can snatch from political toil he devotes himself to other work. Like Charles Lamb's “Susan Battle,’ he ‘relaxes his mind over a book,’’ and exchanges the gas of St. Stephen's for the midnight oil of the scholar. Such pursuits do not tend to longevity. The man is already too hard worked and too much harassed without this heavy extra responsi- bility, and it is probable that what will with very little doubt happen next year, the expul- sion of himself and his party from office, will be the lengthening of his life and the saving of his brain. With the exception of Mr. Bruce all the other shifted members of the Cabinet present the appearance of round men in square holes. The office of Lord President of the Council, which Lord Ripon vacates, and to which Mr. Bruce (called to the peerage under the title of Lord Aberavon) succeeds isa sinecure. Mr. Bruce's peerage was probably bestowed upon him as some amends for the unlimited badger- ing which he has received from the Pall Mall Gazette ond the Saturday Review during his whole tenure of the Home Secretaryship. He is a rich man, with enough to support the cost of a coronet, and in his new berth he will have nothing to do, and will do it very well. Bat what shall be said of his successor in the Home Office, Mr, Lowe? Of all ill-judged appointments this is unquestionably the worst. Mr. Lowe's removal from the Chancellorship of the Ex- chequer was necessitated not merely by the fact that he was a great failure ns a financier, but because, when speaking as the mouthpiece of the goverment, he let his bitter temper get the better of him, and on more than one oceasion uttered unpardonable rudenesses to members of the House who had addressed him with questions, as well as to the public, who had waited on him in deputations. It is allowed on all sides that his temper is ungovernable and those bitter words not to be restrained. Why, then, is the man who is afflicted with them placed in the position of Home Secretary, where, more than in any other, he is brought into official rela- tions with the boa and liable to constant questioning in thé House? All matters con- nected with the unpaid magistracy, the yeo- manty forces, the deputy lieutenants and the country gentlemen generally (who cordially hate Mr. Lowe) have to be dealt with by the Home Secretary. Jam, jam minaci murmure cornuum Perstringis aures! Already we ‘‘see the front of battle lower,” and have little doubt that the coming down. fall of the Ministry will, early in the session, be accelerated by some ungracious act, some bitter gibe of the new Homo Secretary. As it became absolutely necessary to silence Mr. Ayrton, whose coarse, rough brusquerie and professed ignorance of and indifference to matters with which it was his duty to be acquainted had disgusted alike the min- isterialists and the opposition, and as Mr. Ayrton, having tasted official loaves and fishes, declined to give them up without an equiva- lent, it became necessary to do something for 1 bisa, ‘Phis something wag te revive the oflice of Judge Advocate General, an extraneous should make the owner liable to criminal pro- kind of demi-legal, semi-military position, to | cess, which no appointmont had been made since Mr. Davison, Q. C., after holding office a few days, was found dead in his bed. The duties, which are not very. im- portant, were discharged by the deputy, an Trish barrister named O'Dowd, and some thou- sands a year were saved to the revenue, This proceeding-of Mr. Gladstone's is exactly on a par with so much that he does, which is the result of undervaluing his opponents. By this act ho has given the conservatives a hustings ery. They will ask the Gladstonians, ‘How about Ayrton’s appointment?” and when the word “retrenchment” is mentioned opposition candidates will remind the electors how a lapsed office was resuscitated for the purpose of giving a sop toa barking dog. As for Mr. Adam, who succeeds Mr. Ayrton, he has the advantage of being a gentleman and one who is popular in society. Every one hasa kind word for ‘‘Willie Adam;” but beyond this he is no more fitted for his office than was his predecessor, which is saying a good deal. As we have said before, the new Postmaster General is yet unnamed. The London Times recommends that some man of influence and determined will should be appointed—one who would insist on holding the reins of office himself, and not be influenced by Mr. Scudamore. We venture to think that it will be tound that there is no need for all this energy. It is most probable that Mr. Scudamore, who has worked in his department with energy and assiduity alike marvellous; who, in his blind ‘zeal for the service,” has again and again refused offers of double his official salary from large business companies appre- ciating his extraordinary powers of organiza- tion, will be disgusted by the ingratitude he has experienced and remain content to ‘let things slide." Mr. Monsell was appointed to please the Irish Roman Catholics. There aro ever plenty of malcontents of all classes, and Mr. Gladstone can offer the Postmaster Gen- eralship as a bait for the allegiance of one of them. 4 We have left Mr. Bright's return to office to the last, because we think it of very slight importance, ‘‘Zes absents ont toujours tort,” and during Mr. Bright’s enforced retirement he has lost much of his old prestige. His name is no longer one to conjure with, and some of his printed comments on public affairs have wounded those whose faith in him was strongest. In the sinecure which he has accepted he has no power to wield beyond that of extensive church patronage, which will be oddly placed in o Quaker’s hands, and but little greater opportunity of serving his comrades than he had in his retreat. Finally, itseems to us that the shuffling of the cards has been imperfectly performed, and that before many months are over English public opinion will call for a new deal. The Grangers and Their Dangers. That which was but a short time ago a simple organization among agriculturists for mutual protection and benefit has grown to be a giant power, affecting the commercial and political As well as the agricultural inter- ests of the country. We refer to the Grangers, or the Patrons of Husbandry. In this wide- spread influence of the Grangers it may not be out of place to suggest an idea or two that may enable them to avoid dangers that always beset similar organizations, when not strictly confined to the special purposes for which they were originated. In the first place they should beware of the intrigues of political tricksters, who are ever ready to seize upon organized bodies like theirs and shape them to suit, their personal uses and to insure their personal aggrandizement. It matters not which party may have its represen- tative demagogues in these organiza- tions, it is certain that neither of them will work for the especial benefit of the masses who compose the bodies. If there is ® selfish, sordid mortal in the world it is your professional politician and chronic place seeker. Hence the Grangers should avoid this class of people and set their faces as hard as a stone wall against their machinations. In the next place these Grangers should not while reposing confidence in their acknowl- edged strength and influence, demand too much from the monopolies of whose exactions and extortions they have just reason to com- plain. Let them move carefully and judi- ciously in working out the reforms they seck, and not embarrass valuable roads by unneces- saryand untimely pressure. There are not many branch roads, independent of the main trunks, that are able to pay dividends, if they even succeed in moeting their runhtng expenses; and these roads are constructed with a view to open up new terri- tories and farming lands, and thus benefit the agriculturist. It is difficult now to raise money to complete roads already in progress, and the work on some of them in the West has been entirely suspended in con- sequence of the inability of the companies to sell their bonds. In others, and we need go no further than New Jersey for examples, freight 1s rotting on the lines of some roads, because the bonds of the companies aro dead’ on the market and funds cannot be obtained to construct double or more tracks, The rail- road business in some sections is, no doubt, overdone—some companies may be nothing short of absolute frauds—but at the same time this is no reason why healthy and useful roads—roads that do a legitimate business at reasonable rates for freight and passenger travel—should be condemned, and by unwise action be compelled to suspend operations altugether. While the Grangers are calcu- lated to accomplish much good in the way of raflroad reform, let them not overdo the thing, and, by endeavoring to obtain too much, make a failure and create disaster all around. A Tramy Ronnina Over a Cow has before now resulted fatally to the passengers. In Michigan two persons were killed and several injured by this means. In districts thinly populated, where the roads are not fenced in, the straying of cattle on the track is a frequent cause of danger and delay. Great carefulness is necessary on the part of en- gineers. Farmers and stock owners along such routes are greatly to blame for the negli- gence which so often makes such dangers to the travelling public end in dis- aster. The matter should come within the ¢ognizance of the law in the various States. Where the chance of actual loss will not make cattle owners careful a fine for the neglect should follow every case of such stray- ing of gattle. while the loge of lives therefrom Sir Samucl Baker's Expe Expedition. At last we have an authentic and impartial Sccount of the results of the great expedition of Sir Samuel Baker to the equatorial regions of Central Africa, The Heraup corre- spondent, writing from the capital of the Soudan, supplies full account of the operations of the indomitable British traveller and the Egyptian troops under his command. Although the main points have already reached us there is much in the letter to increase our admiration of the leader of the expedition, even if we cannot perceive any great geo- graphical triumphs which he has accom- plished. A few badly informed writers and silly critics have undertaken to belittle the labors of Baker Pacha, yet it is needless to say they have made no impression on people of sense or reading. The expedition of Sir Samuel Baker is not a difficult oenter- prise’ to understand. He was com- missioned by the Viceroy of Egypt to go up the Nile, cross the Nubian Desert and, together with a command of two thousand men, proceed to the great basin of the Nile and annex the fertile regions about the Equator. This work Baker Pacha has done, and he has accom- plished it in the face of the most extraordi- nary obstacles. The lot of the explorer is never an easy one in any land; but it is in Mahometan Africa particularly perplexing. Among the black men a white man is a devil ; among the Moslems he is fouler than vermin. Laziness, treachery and brutality are the characteristics of your sworn subordinates, while an open enemy's mildest weapon isa poisoned arrow. Sir Samuel Baker ‘had learned these facts when he mingled with the Hamran elephant hunters on the frontier of Abyssinia, and later, when he passed through the Kingdom of Kamrasi to taste the sweet waters of the Albert Nyanza. Therefore, when he accepted the command of the expe- dition, which has cost Egypt over five million dollars, he was acquainted with the people with whom he had to deal, and it remains to his credit that he has measured out leaden severity whenever the occasion required its exercise, As we believed from the first, there is no evidence, beyond the mere gossip of the unre- liable natives, that the Tanganyika is con- nected with the Albert Nyanza. If the explorers’ tests are worth anything, itis a physi- cal impossibility that these two sheets of water should be so connected, because it has long been accepted that the Tanganyika is more than a thousand feet below the lakes of Speke and Baker. Even if this barometrical proot were not convincing, the visit of Stanley and Livingstone to the head of the Rusizi River sets the question at rest forever. There is no geographer or scien- tific authority who ever dreamed that the two lakes were connected, and we affirm again that it is just as sensible to ssy that Lake Ontario and Lake Quinsigamond are one and the same sheet of water. While we regret that Baker Pacha was not enabled to launch his steamers on the lake of his own discovery we do not the less appreciate the value of his exploration. He has led the largest expedition of the character known to modem times; he has broken the back bone of the'slave trade; he has put the wild ‘natives of Central Africa under Anglo-Saxon disci- pline; he has replaced corruption and cruelty by honest government and justice toward the negroes, and above all he has demonstrated the feasibility reducing barbarous sections of the earth to complete subjection to an organized government. In fine, we believe that the India of Africa has begun its progressive march, and that Sir Samuel Baker should be honored as the pio- neer of its development. Tue SuorEs or THE Buack Sea anv Bos- PHorvs have been swept by a violent storm, which has caused a terrible and most fatal de- struction in property and life. Seventy ves- sels were wrecked, and two hundred and sixty- five corpses have been washed ashore at one point on the coast. Fitful gales seem to give premonition, in various parts of the world, of the approach of a severe winter. Tue Last or tae Genman Troops left French soil yesterday morning at half past nine o'clock, and the French are left to themselves, where they have often found their worst enc- mies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. poe 4 Judge Clarke, Of Cincinnati, is at the Fifth Avee nue Hotel. Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, is at the New York Hotel. General Burnside and ex-Speaker Grow are stily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman William A. Smith, of North Caro ina, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman Thomas H. Canfleid, of Ver- mont, 1s staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. President Grant was entertained at the house of General Patterson, in Philadeiphia, last night, Professor Benjamin Pierce, of the United States Coast Survéy, is stopping at the Brevoort House. Mississippi sends Samuel Tate, Jr.,as a cadet to West Point, and S. L. Powell, of De Soto, to Annapolis. The Rev. James Mather, of Langbank, Scotland, scrambled up to the summit of Mont Blanc without & guide on the 224 ult. “Mr. Percy Turner, Omef Engineer of the Panama Railroad, is lying at the point of death, and not ex- pected to survive from day to day. Mr. George Linnaeus Banks, of England, who is called ‘The Poet of the Poor,” is coming here. Is his titie the euphemism for “a poor poety’? ‘The Mexican veterans have decided to organize societies for mutual benefit in the several States and to hold a National Convention in Washington in January next. When the name of Bragg was mentioned by the orator of the day at Cooper Institute on Monday last the silence among the large audience was ab- solutely painful, Simply because ex-Governor Aiken, of Soath Carolina, is on a visit to Savannah, Ga., one of the papers there wants to know why he left an Aiken void in the Palmetto State. Peter Donoghue, one of the California pioneers, who left New York in 1847 for the Pacific coast, and is now one of the Wealthy men of San Francisco, i at the Continental, Philadeiphia, Henry Pledge, charged with throwing his wife out of a second Noor window, has been committed for trial by the Southwark, Engiand, police magis- trate. Pledge duly ticketed, but his wile is in no hurry for his release, “Fielding Combs, an old citizen of Monroe county, Mo., brother of General Lesile Combs, o! Ken- tucky, and with him a soldier in the war of 1812, died near Paris, Monroe county, on the 4th tust., aged eighty-three years.”” Hkkatp advices from Panama, of September 6, report as follows :— Mr. Thomas, United States Minister to Pero, arrived by the Ocean Queen and returned to tum Dory by the ateanjanin<maillo an the 1s, wr