The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1875, Page 4

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Our special correspondent in the South, Mr. Nordhoff, in a letter which we print to- day, gives some suggestive hin's about the future and imminent reconstruction of polit- ical parties in the Southern States. If one may trust his observations it wou!d appear that the republican party has made a curious blunder in keeping the Southern States so long in a condition of pclitical pupilage. The intention has, no doubt, been on the part of the Southern republicans to keep themselves in power in their States bythe help of the federal government ; but the evident result was to put off a final and ratural settlement of politics there, and now, when this has been accomplished, in spite of them, in Arkansas and Alabama, and cannot be much longer | delayed in Louisiana or even in Mississippi, | the Presidential election is so near at hand that it seems probable the democrats will be able to hold the white vote together until after the national election in 1876. If this | view is correct, it would seem that the repub- lican leaders would have dore more wisely to have suffered the Southern people to manage their own political affairs two years ago, or | directly atier the last Presidential election; in which case it is probable that the recon- struction of pariies would have been ccm- been an opportunity tor the republicans to recover before 1876 some of their lost ground in those States, ‘lo mass the colored vote and depend upon that did well enough fora while; but it led inevitably to a massing of the white vote, and the result we now see in Ar- kansas, Louisiana and Alabama, which are substantially in democratic hands; for, after the exposures of this spring, it is not prob- able that a fraudulent returning board will once more be allowed to cheat the Louisiana conservatives out of an election. Our correspondent believes that Southern | as whigs and democrats; and he remarks that he bas everywhere discovered whigs, and | found them entertaining a traditional dislike | and suspicion of the democrats, with whom they have united only to rid themselves of the local republican misrule. probable that wherever this is accomplished the white party, whateverit may be called, will disintegrate. Its success is necessarily fatal to its continued existence. It would be an unheard-of phenomenon to find the whole brains, energy and wealth of a community per- manently enlisted in one party. We are not surprised to hear that even in Alabama, where the democra!s are hardly settled in power, independent candidates are springing up in the local elections. It would be remarkable were it otherwise. What the old whig strength may be in the Southern States it is, we suppose, impossible to tell. Louisiana, Mr. Nordboffremarks, was in old times and by its sugar industry, which has always demanded | protective duties, a strong federal and whig State. Arkansezs had also a numerous whig element. But the redivision of parties in all those States, though it may be influenced by old associations and traditions, will be mainly ruled, we suspect, by other motives; the per- sonal ambition of leading mep, the discontent of the ‘‘outs,” the blunders of the ‘ms,” dif- ferences upon points of State policy, and not a little by federal appointments. General Grant might easily, in the lust six years, have built up a respectable and powerful republi- can partyin the Southern States if he had takon the pains to select for ‘ederal appoint- ments, not only within those States, but in the Cabinet andin some prominent foreign places, men of ability who have a following among the intelligent people of the South. looked chis opportunity to secure for his party | a substantial and independent foothold in the Southern States. Had he been, not a states- Tue New Postat Treaty.—The articles of the General Postal Union, formed at Berne last year by representatives of nearly all civil- ized countries, are published in anotber col- umn. This treaty is of great value in insur- | ing cheap, speedy and secure communication | between the nations which have sanctioned it. Frexcu Poxrrices. ‘he proposition to an- nul the election of M. Burgoing 1s likely to in- spire a lively debate in the French Assembly. | M. Rouher is expected to predict the restora- | tion of the Empire—another example of the readiness with which men believe in that which they desire. Tur Care May Recarra has attracted a large number of visitors to that popular wa- tering place, and the presence of General Grant has added tothe interest of the event. Our correspondence describes the arrival of | the fleet yesterday, and the run of the new | yacht Mohawk, the saucy Sadie, the Resolute, the Idler, the Madeleine and other well known vessels from Sandy Hook to the Cape. man, but merely a politician, instead of a military ruler, he wouid have seen here a great opportunity at once to build up his party and to smooth the way to a harmonious political settlement in the South. But he knew only how to rule by main strength; and he has preferred to use the Southern States as a kind of refuge for political lame ducks and personal favorites. Such persons could not build up a party there. They had no influ- | ence except among the negroes, and these will slip out of their hands as soon as federal interference ceases. The result is, as we see in Mr. Nordhoff’s bas written. The brains, the influence, the po- litical weight, all that goes to make up a live | party, are solidly arrayed against the republi- i | cans. In Arkansas and Alabama these are disorganized; in Louisiana they are ready to disappear whenever General Grant takes his mailed hand off the State. In Mississippi Tae Dotiymount Matcu.—The details of | the great rifle match at Dollymount are given | in our letter from Dublin elsewhere and are | exceedingly full of interest and amusement. | It was evidently as faira match os ever was | shot, and had several exciting features which | are finely pictured by our correspondent. The Americans were, of course, the objects of curiosity from the immense crowd of thirty thousand people, and Colonel Gildersleeve, | General Bodine and General Dakin were re- garded with especial interest. One of tho mysterious events was the display of the code signal of the Henanp at the targets and the words ‘‘Armstrong nearly dead,” caused thousands to sympathize with that mythical person. Tur Sranisn Wan.—There seems some pros- pect that a decisive campaign will be fought in the North of Spain. Had the Spanish com- manders only exhibited a little of the evergy they are now credited with in pushing for- ward the operations against Don Carlos’ fol- | lowers in the beginning of the struggle Carlism would now be numbered among the things of the past. Notwithstanding, the menacing condition of affairs at Madrid the success of Don Carlos could offer no better guaranteo of peace than does ‘Alfonso's government. The preten- tions of the Church party also naturally ex- cite the fears of the liberal portion of the com- munity, and as the return of Don Carlos to the throne would probably be followed by a demand for the restoration of Church prop- erty the people of the southern and central provine:s would not be likely to submit to his government, even though he should suc- coed in reaching Madrid. And this event 1s not likely te occurs ton and havea feud with the Governor. No- where down there are the actual federal | office-holders men of influence in the com- | munities in which they live; and it is hope- | less to expect of them to get a respectable po- | This is a blunder which | republican party the next | litical following. may lose the election. Its danger was seen long ago by such men as Vice President Wilson ; and if his advice had been taken at the White Honse we should have seen the President call to his | Cabinet and appoint to important federal places just those old whigs of whom our cor- | respondent speaks—men of first rate ability, of traditional influence in their States, and with a numerous following. Ot course, to in- \ Grant it would have been necessary to change his Southern policy. But pretty much every- body, except Marshal Packard, Senator Spen- agent, Hinds, now sees this to be necessary anyhow. It was the business of statesmen and rulers to foresee it, It is too late now for force bills and other coercive measures. Even if the Supreme Court does not in the fall declare the Enforcement acts unconstitu- tiona! the country will not tolerate a repeti- tion of such election outrages as have been practised and exposed in Louisiana and Ala- bama. It is too late for a deputy United States marshal to shoot a hole through his hat and then cry out ‘Ku Kiux!’’ and summon federal troops. On whatever principles or policy political parties may divide in the South we judge it to be too late now for the division to affect the Presidential election. The South will proba- bly “go democratic,” except, perhaps, those | pleted by this time, and there would have | parties will rearrange themselves substantially | It appears | It has always surprised us that he totally over- | letters, that there is to-day substantially no | republican party in those States of which he | the only republicans who could make the | party respectable are ostracized at Washing- | duce such men to accept office from General | cer, General Grant and the unlucky mail | two unfortunate States, South Carolina and Mississippi ; and there is not the least doubt that this event, so perplexing and uncom- fortable to the republican party, must be laid to the door ot General Grant. Such men as Cassy, Packard, Kellogg, Spencer, Pease, Brooks, who and whose like have been the President's Southern organizers, have played out their few winning cards and are now done. They will hold place while their mas- ter can hold them in; but they have no politi- cal influence; on the contrary, they would be a dead weight to any party which should ad- mit them to its membership. They can or ganize a third term movement, and can do very much to carry the next republican Prosi- dential nominating convention for Grant; and if that is indeed his object they are stilt the most useful men hecan get, If his recent letter is rightly understood by those who be- lieve that it isa bid for a renomination, then, in- deed, he is now,as he has always been, shrewd in the choice of men to do his will. But even then he could only ruin the republican party. The Pulpit in the Summer Time. If an army, encamped at night in the neighborhood of the enemy, should sud- denly learn that, by order cf the General, the pickets bad been withdrawn, thoalarm would be naturally great, and every soldier would be- come 4 sentinel and watch for the advance of the foe. This city is ina condition resem- bling that of such an army. Many of its clergymen, who are the picket guards and sentinels of the Church, are absent upon their summer vacations, and there are no soldiers | now upon their deserted and important posts. | The enemy has marshalled his forces around | the metropolis; temptation and sin extend | their skirmish lines, and the common foe of religion, with his terrible artillery, threatens to bombard the town and to move at once upon its works. In this state of affairs there | isbut one safe course. Every citizen must | become his own clergyman. Far more atten- tion should now be given to religion than at | aay other time of the year, for the community is in the summer deprived of many of its ablest protectors. It is true that our eloquent | divines need rest, and we are far from com- plaining that they take it; yet the fact of their absence should arouse the public to a sense of its insecurity and cause the community to | organize itself into a religious vigilance com- | mittee until the close of the watering place | season in the fall, Fortunately, however, we are not wholly | without clerical protection, as our reports of | the sermons delivercd yesterday show. Some of our ablest ministers continue in their pul- | pits, and encourage the hope that a general | | backsliding of the laity will not result from | | the enforced exodus of the clergy. There is | the discourse of Dr. Porter, President of Yale | College, at Plymouth Church; the admirable | | argument of Mr. Hepworth at the Church of | | the Disciples, upon the helpfulness of the | Scriptures; the sermon of Dr. Deems upon | | the value of religious work; Mr. Sweetser’s exposition of Christian spirit, and others which will at once warn trom the wrong and | encourage to scek the good. These faithful | soldiers are at their important posts, and per- haps their increased energy and devotion will | compensate for the temporary absence of | their brethren. 3 France and the Centennial. | While all tho principal nations of both | continents havo signified their intention to assist at our great Centennial Exposition our ancient ally, France, has taken the lead in zeal, enthusiasm and efficient preparations. The French Assembly has voted a credit of | | six hundred thousand francs to be expended by the French Commissioners in enabling the exhibitors of French fabrics and products to appear with advantago and éclat. It will strike people as a singular contrast that our national government has done nothing, that | it has not appropriated a dollar, and that the government of France has devoted so large a sum as six hundred thousand francs to the | Exposition. This handsome vote of credit | was almost unanimous in the French Assem- | bly. There were nearly six hundred members | present when the vote was taken, and out of | | this number only thirteen voted in the nega- | 1 tive. This insignificant handful belonged | the Right. Only a small frac- | tion of the extreme monarchists op- | posed the appropriation, intending there- | by to express their disapproval of our republican institutions. This weak dis- play of petulance was illogical and historically } inconsistent. It was the old French mon- | archy that assisted our struggle for inde- pendence. It was Lonis XVI that recognized | | the infant Republic of the West and formed an alliance with it a dozen years before the out | break of the French Reyolution. The Mar- | quis de Latayette and the Count de Rocham- | beau were loyal subjects of that French King when they were fighting in the cause of American independence. The insignificant baker’s dozen of the Right who voted against | the appropriation for the Philadelphia Centen- nial are logically and historically inconsistent, because it was the old French monarchy that stretched forth its helping hand and intro- duced our country into the family of nations. Even if France had not caught the republican | contagion, even if she had maintained the throne of the Capets undisturbed to this day, she would have reason. to rejoice | in the greatness of the nation at whose birth | she assisted. It was under the old monarchi- | | cal régime that our illustrious Franklin was the pet and tbe lion of French society, | and France has no reason to be ashamed of to so greata man. The most splendid eulogy ever pronounced upon a mortal man was the saying of a French orator that Franklin “wrested the thunderbolt from the skies and the sceptre from tyrants.’’ This, however, was after the French monarchy had fallen. But in our struggle for independence it was monarchical France, not republican France, | that became our ally and champion, and that was a party to the treaty by which our inde- pendence was acknowledged. scendants of Louis Capet continued on the throne there can be no doubt that our Cen- tennial would have been warmly encouraged by France, nor that the greatness of the na- | tion she aided in founding would have been an object of pride as justifying the generous policy of Louis XVI. We rejoice that nearly all the French monarchists, as well as all the French republicans, are disposed to claim the noble share due to their nation in the Ameri- | can Revolution. | beauty of the past, the great physical culture | Rapid decline or unexampled excellence will the part she took in awarding his just fame | tire confidence in his honesty and capacity, Had the de- | ‘Ihe Coming Regatta, As the day for the great intercollegiate con- test on Saratoga Lake approaches the interest in that event becomes deeper and more gen- eral. Everything touching the training and tance, and, while there is besifation on the part | | of even the most experienced and observant boating men to risk a judgment on the result, | this only quickens the scrutiny into the rela- | tive merits and faults of the rival oarsmen. On this account the speculations as well as the facts in our Saratoga letter this morving will attract general attention and prove an intelligent basis for futrr2 comment and com- parison. All the crews—thirteen in number— are now on the lake and engaged in co: s'ant preparation for the regatta. It will be ob- served that many of them since their arrival at Saratoga have greatly improved under care- ful coaching, so that, with one or two excep- tions, the crews of the present year way be fairly claimed as superior to those which took part in previous races. This is a matter of which we ought to be especially proud. It shows growth, and growth is what was most to be desired from these annual contests, When the Uni- versity races between Harvard and Yale were first projected the use of the oar was almost alostart in this country. Physical culture was still in its infancy, and skill and knowl- edge were yet to be gained by trial and ex- perience, To these early contests, so full of faults as we see them now, boating in this coun- try owes everything that it is or expects to be. They gave an impetus to rowing which nothing else could have excited, and not the Collegi- ate Association only, but the Harlem and Schuylkill navies, and, indeed, all of the best of our boat clubs, can trace their existence to the interest in the races at Worcester and Springfield. Out of them has come more than victory for one or other of the contest- ants—more even than the magnificent fleets which havo sprung full grown into being like so many daughters ot the greatest of the gods; forall the growth and skill and | of the present and the high hopes of the | future are the fruits of these earlier endeavors | of the youth of these two New England | colleges. Important as have been many of the events of previous years, the coming regatta at Sara- toga will mark an era in college boating. be the result of this year’s race. In this view one or two suggestions made by our corre- | spondent are doubly important. The lengih of the course is a matter of the gravest 1m- portance, and the committee having in charge the preparations for the regatta must see to it that the distance to be rowed does not differ even a hair's breadth from the course | of last year. Uniformity is the first step practice of the crews is of the utmost impor- | | next Mayoralty, it will not enhance his rep- elsewhere in the city. In fact, ne ratner seems to relish the sickly stench and to re- | gard it, as Disbecker regards it, as a fragrant | perfume, A short time ago Mr. Green was | far more offensive to Alderman Vance’s nos- | trils than are the foulest pest holes of the deadiy flats. But while the A!derman’s championship of the abominable anui- savce may gain him the favor of the garbage dymping Disbecker ani make him the choice of Jones & McQuade for the utation among the citizens as a professor of organic chemistry. The unfortunates who are compelled to live within the influence of the mephitic vapors of the flits would no doubt rejoice to compel Mr. Vance to undergoa practical experience of the nuisance for a few weeks during the heated term. Indeed, it would seem a practical method of setiling the difficulty, and at the same time be an evidence of sincerity if the Alderman should take quar- ters in the neighborhood fora month, Alder- man Simonson follows in the wake ot Mr, Vance, and not only fails to discover any un- pleasantuess in the Disbecker stenches, but argues that as the flats have been there for years without doing much harm, they cannot be very dangerous now. But then the sage Simonson must remember that Diebecker has not been in offisial existence for years and that contractors have not received from him the facilities for cheating the city and cre- ating a foul, deadly pest hole in our midst. The minority Aldermen may as well make up their minds that the people understand the unworthy object of thvir reprebensible action as public officers and the hypocrisy of their affectation of regard for the city’s interests. The Harlem flats are to-day a peril to the lives of amillion of people. Diseaso and death are in their plague breeding vapors, and if we escape a pestilence during August and Sep- tember it will be only by good fortune or tho beneficence of Providence. The republican Aldermen only vote to perpetuate the danger in obedience to the instructions of their party leaders and as a partisan act. In so doing they violate their oath of office and forfeit their claim to be regarded as honest repre- sentatives. Unless they speedily revorse their action their official reputations will bo as unsavory as the stenches that fail to offend Alderman Vance’s nose as he drives by the Harlem flats. England and America, The peace of the world would rest upon an uncertain foundation if the relations of America and England could in any way ba disturbed by the comments of foolish jour- nals. The best antidote to such folly is si- lence, and we are rather surprised that any correspondent should have thought the opinions of the London Standard upon the celebration of the Fourth of July in Lon- don and upon the amiable speech ot Lord . toward permanence, and both are necessary | if the tu'ure is to be made worthy ot the past.. | The timing of the boats, especially in the excitement of the finish, is a matter of even | more significance. It is best it should be | understood in advance that the results of the | regatta will be thrown away if there is to be | controversy over so much as a second | of time or an inch of space. More | depends just now upon these two points | than on the training of the crews even; for | both skill and endurance will prove of little availif there are to be any misunderstand- | ings, either as to the time or the course. We make these suggestions now that there may not even be an excuse for failure in these re- spects. In regard to the regatta itself we can only | repeat what we said yesterday—that the race | promises to be a well contested anda brilliant | one, and that most of the crews seem to pos- sess in an eminent degree the skill which is the first accomplishment ot an oarsman. We have no desire to name the winning crew in advance, but continue to hold to our previous | wish that the best boat may come im first at | the finish. There never was a time when a/ fairly contested race, free from accidents as | well as other faults, was so important as in | the struggle which is to take place this week, | and we are bound to admit that our high | hopes of the coming regatta are tempered by | the anxiety incident to so important an | occasion. The Harlem Flats Aldermen. Tho Aldermen who have seats in the Com- mon Council of the city by the grace of a partisan charter, without any constituencies at their backs, have suddenly become enam- oured of the contract system and justify their championship of the Harlem pest hole stenches on the ground that, should the rot. ting flats be filled by day’s work, done under | the supervision of the Commissioner of Pub- | lic Works, the city might be robbed. No | doubt dishonest officials can rob the city, either by allowing the foul refuse of the streets to be used by contractors in filling in lots in violation of the law or by cheating on the material and labor required to abate a | deadly nuisance by covering up the pestilen- | tial filth, But there are two points which | prove the insincerity of the Harlem flats Aldermen when they make this excuse for | their obstructive action in the Board. When Commissioner Van Nort, a republican Com- | missioner, was at the head of the Public Works Department, they had 10 such scruples as they now pretend to have in re- | gard to day's work, and when Commissioner Porter was named by the Mayoras Mr. Van Nort’s successor these same republican Alder- | men indorsed his appointment, voted for his | confirmation and openly expressed their en. | This being the case, they impose upvn the credulity of the citizens of New York when they pretend that they deteated the ordinances | providing for the immediate protection of the city from the danger of a pestilence becauso they are opposed to day's work or because | they thought Commissionor Fitz John Porter might rob the city if they gave him authority to abate the nuisance at once. Their excuses for their partisan action are the more con- temptible since they know that the expense would not fall upon the city at all. Alderman Vance, who won a temporary popularity a short time ago by assuming an indignant opposition to the cavillings and | obstructiveness of Comptrolier Green, goes a | tittle surther than some ot his associates, and | declares that when he drives in the neighbor- | hood of the Harlem plague spot he does not discover any offensive smells or anything | ism in England, like Chauvinism in Franco, | proper subjection. | capital has been in flames, as it was before, | Joss ot her great empir». that can be considered detrimental to tho | health of the citizens living in the locality or | the most harmonious families, there 1s always } Dufferin on Canada and the United States worthy of being cabled. The London Standard is an important newspaper, but it is pe- culiarly representative ot what may be called the Cockney element in England, Cockney- Junkerism in Germany and spread-eag!eism in | America, is a manifestation of national ignor. avee and vanity, slightly surcharged with patriotism. It is arrogant, confident, over- weening; believes that there is no world out- side of its own; that it represents all the | yalor, all the patriotism; that the duty of ! the government is to hold itselt ready to make | war upon all other governments and regulate matters religious and political. Cockneyjsm thinks that the mission of England 1s not*only to fight Europe, and especially France and Russia, but to keep the United States in This country will never be what it should be until the British tars come over and give it a dressing. After a few towns have been burned; after the from the brands of a British army ; after New | York has been put uncer contribution and America has a realizing sense of the power of England, then there will be peace, and the English mind will no longer be disturbed by | Yankee arrogance, We have a corresponding | feeling in America, which has no memory of the Revolution but its bitterness, which re- gards George III. and Lord North as tho monsters of history, longs for contests with England, would take Canada to-morrow, and rejoices in every evidenes of diplomatic mis- understanding which may bring England into war. What the London Standard represents in England there would be no difficulty in find- ing adequately represented in our own jour- nalism. These phases of public opinion are peculiar, and are only worthy of considera- tion as eccentricities. Between America and England there is nuw an honest, generous, manly friendship. This friendship grows | | from year to year. Itis based upon respect | and esteem arising out of constant business and social intercourse. Every American who visits Europe and every Englishman who | visits America becomes a missionary of good | feeling. There are many things we may not | like in the Englishman andin England—man- ners, customs, climate—just as there are many things the Englishman may not like in America—our free and easy ways, our ten- dency to bounce, and the manners and cus- toms of our frontier towns. But under all this superficial manifestation in the character of the two countries there 1s a wealth of kind- ness, frankness and honesty which leads to the warmest relations of respect and friend- ship. The principal grievance with the Stan- dard is that some of our eloquent. fellow citi- zens in London found it necessary to cele- | brate the Fourth of July. The Standard | thinks this the height of bad taste ; that only | Americans would bo guilty of such a thing as | taunting England in her own capital with the We are willing to | admit that any celebration ot the Fourth of July based upon this spirit would be in the highest degree unworhy. But we know General Schenck, Colonel Forney and the other gentlemen who took part in the Crystal Palace celebration too well to suppose tor a | moment that they would show anything but | the kindest feelings to England, At the same time what is there about the Fourth of July that it sbouid be offensive to England? The event it celebrates is im no way a disgrace to England. It is not a disgrace to the father | tbat the son when he has reached manhood should want to go out into the world and | make bis way. And if there should be a quar- rel about it, as qaarrela do sometimes arise in | Oldate. & juster reeling arter—a feeling based upon respect and a better knowledge of each other, This is the homely and sensible view of the American Revolution. The separation of the two countries was inevitable, and the quarrel that came ove of the most painful and deplo- rable in history. If the great men of that doy—Burke and Chatham and others like them—hal been allowed to counsel there would have been no quarrel. But, at the same time, we cannot but respect the feeling which led George II. and his ministers to fight for their provinces. George IIL. is by no means an ideal king, and there are many points in bis character that we cannot admire and that led to great disasters to his people ; but we re spect his sturdy, obstinate resolution not to surrender America without a struggle. That resolution was at least worthy of an English king. And when we see what we ourselves have done in the past few years to save the Union we can understand the feeling which animated the stout, persistent soul of this ruler, Therefore, when we celebrate the Fourth of July we by no means celebrate the discomfit- ure of England. That is the smallest phase of the ceremony. We have seen nothing in the many centennial events which we are from week to week commemorating—in the speeches and poems—to show the least un- kindness to England. On the contrary, the ideal ‘‘red-coat’’ of our youth, tho villanous «Britisher’”’ aud malignant ‘‘tory,’’ have faded away. The more we look into the history of that time the clearer we see the virtues on both sides—the gallant soldier who died for his king, the loyal geatleman who abandoned home and possessions rather than disavow his sovereign. These are qualities which we have learned to respect, more particularly since our own time has seen thousands dying for a flag andin obedience to a sentiment of loyal devo- tion tothe Uvion. This is the spirit in which the fair-minded men of both countries should contemplate and commemorate the Revolution. And poor, vain, foolish, loud-talking bluster- ers like the Standard will only be listened to in sport and derision, as idle men who‘know not what they say. Rapmw Transrr Scuemzs.—The degree of rapid transit we possess in the clevated steam road, although inadequate to the wants of the city, is enough to prove the enormous advan- tage of a complete system. We elsewhore printa careful review of the different plans, and do not doubt the conclusion that the scheme of an underground railroad is as un- popular as it is difficult. Probably more than one plan will ultimately be required, but the pressing want now is a road which shall bo quickly built and cheaply put in operation, The extension of the Elevated Ruilroad to Sixty-first street is one step in this direction ; the construction of a good road on the east side would be another. But to these ques- tions the Commissioners will doubtless give their earnest attention, and thus far the public has every reason to be satisfied with the zeal they have displayed. . Carn Voor mm Anrwrep.—After a legal struggle of three years Carl Vogt has at last been returned to the Belgian government for trial on the charge of murdering and robbing his master. This case is the most interesting of modern times, for in it not only was the fate of the criminal involved, but the interpre tation of the extradition treaty between the United States and Belgium. Extraordinary precautions were taken to guard Vogt’s move meats during his voyage from New York and to land him safely on his arrival at Antwerp, which are described in our mail report to-day, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lotta, the actress, is among the late arrivals a the Glenham Hotel, Judge W. F. Alien, of the Court of Appeals, & Tegistered at the Hotel Brunswick. Counts Herhomberg and Redienbacter, of Aus tria, have apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Brevet Major General John E. Smith, Uniteé States army, 18 quartered at the Grand Central Rotel. Senator J. P. Stockton and family are at thi St. Cloud Hotel. Mr. Alexander Mitcheil, President of the Mil waukee, St, Paul and Pactflc Railway Company, t at the Hoffman House. Frank Moulton and General Pryor are at tht Mansion House, Long Branch, Tne hotel wat yesterday visited by hundreds anxious to catch a glimpse of the great witness. Rev. George F. Siegmund, formerly of this city, and well known as the translator of the Protestant Episcopal Prayer Book into classical German, wa ordamed to the priesthood yesterday moroing tt Buffalo, N. ¥., by tie Rignt Rey. Bishop Coxe, oj Western New York, assisted by Rev. Messrs, Hobart, North and Hyde, Seyyid Barghash, Suitin of Zanzibar, compares Queen Vicwria to the mountain of lodestone in the “Arabian Nights,’”? which arew the nails out | of the sides of the enips that passed that way, “for so do the hearts of the Englishmen I have met seem to be drawn, as by & magnet, to Her Majesty.” He can get any terms he wants on the | slave trade as long as he talks that way. News from France. Tno Paris opinion Natton- ale informs its readers that there 1s a panic in this city regarding the scarcity of women; that ontmis account the male population begins to leave; that Congress is disturbed aboutit; that there 1s a proposition to give brilliant /éres here to draw women [rom ali parts of the country, whe will then be kept here—as the Romans kept the Sabines, England has anotner claimant, His name is He claims to own @ portion of the prop- erty possessed by Earl Fitz» illiam, and he has se cured in his favor the sympathies of the SheiMeld ‘Yichborne and Magna (harta Society. They went with him, and, after a battle with the Barl’s keep ers and Jarmers, cut the grass on acertain ficid aud carried it away. More in the courts, of | course. A real remedy for seasickness, says the Journat au Havre, is said to have at last been discovered, The formula varies with tae state of the water, vhe constitution of the individaal and the more or Jess liability to suffer from tout distressing mal- ady. The following ts the receipt tor very rough weather:—Chloral, three grammes; distilled water, fifty grammes; currant syrup, sixty | grammes; Freach essence of mint, two drops, Half the mixture to be taken on embarking, Admiral Rous’ touch on cockfighting has roused up t.e enemy, and here is a siory they tel tn quotation irom the Gentleman's Magazine tor Apmil, 1789:—Mr. Ardesoif was very fond of cock fichting, and had a favorite cock on which he had won many profitable matches, The last pet he laid upon this bird he lust, which so enraged him that he had tie bird tied to a spit and roasted alive before # large firs, The screams of the mlx | eravie vird were so affecting that some gentiomen who were present attempted to in'er » Which so enraged Mr. Ardesoif that he seized @ poker, and, With the most furious venemence, declared that he would kili the first man who interiered; but in the midst of his passionate asseverations ne fell down dead onthe spot.” Now, if a photog. rapher could cateh the face of Henry Bergh, Kaq., | Just as he floishes the last sentence, tt would ape pear less melancholy than usual,