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6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 187 NEW YORK HERALD} BROADWAY AND ANN SJREET. Arminius, The present and the future are so largely made up of the past that the aspirations of modern nations and peoples ean find fit ex- pression only in the celebration of some typical event. In America we are now cele- —_ brating the Centennial of the early battles NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | which brought independence to the colonies after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | and made us a nation. Ireland, seizing an a ‘ occasion less important in itself, but not less editions of tha Naw Your # yin be signifiéant when we consider the purpose sent free of postage. ‘ which gave life and meaning to the festivi- —_-- — rs : | ties, has just utilized the hundredth anni- THE DAILY HERALD, published every | Versary of the birth of O'Connell to celebrate day in the yer, Four cents per copy. the achievements of the Liberator. In both Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | cases the perpetuation of what had been menrth, free of postage, to subscribers. gained inspired the celebration. In America Ali business or news letters and telegraphie it was political independence and in Ireland despatches must be addressed New Yorx JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR | religions emancipation which had been achieved; but in neither case was it the Hina, | actual event which served as the occasion Letters and packages should be properly | that was commemorated. These centennials sealed, are the embodiment of a national idea, the ie past being recalled merely to express the — ranications will not be re- | j.ntiments and feelings, hopes and purposes turned. ~ at the bottom of the national life. Germany, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | i# the same manner, yesterday celebrated an | event old as the dawn of Christianity, and HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | zecalling dbecciemmalen\ eiihas keckeaiicn PARIS OFFICE--RUE SCRIBE. | with the disciplined legions of the | Subscriptions and advertisements will be | Roman Empire under the first of received. and forwarded on the same terms | the Cwsars, but equally full of the modern : | purpose to which all history is a con- as in Now ‘ical __. | tribution. Hermann, the Cheruskan, is sim- ply the type of German unity. For centu- VOLUME XL-. é pelea, cain al iat = | Ties he was a mere hero of romance ; and it AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. | was not until a strong national feeling took SEMEN IS a . possession of the German mind that the Ar- easionas ecuusn cannes. | minius of the Romans became a reality in Be Perap's, Hignodrome, ) POPULAR CON: the Hermann of Germany. As he was the % . = | first to bind the tribes together he becomes, | after the lapse of more than eighteen hun- HHEATRE, eixG 100 | dred years, the apostle of German unity, and FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Twenty-elghth street. near A BUNCH! OF BERKIES, at 8 P.M. FAST au Vokes , a statue is raised to him as the embodiment gin on | of the national idea, All this is proof, not THEODORE THOMAS CONCERT ek. M so much of such trite maxims as that lis iceiatees ‘elaine | “History repeats itself,” nor even of the no- Fhird avenne, between Thirtieth and Thirty-Grst streets— | tion that the present can find lessons of wis- VARIETY, af 8 P.M. i fi A a geo dom in the experience of the past, as of the nt Oper LITSCHEN ayp | disposition of the modern world to make the sug | heroes and events of the past the embodi- Woeet Sixteenth street — FRITSCHEN and CHIL! WOOD'S MU: of Thirtieth street—THE BLACK | ment of the sentiments and aspirations of the s} locum. Broadway. corner AVENGER, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Si Sh GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fichth avenne, cornor Twenty-third st WORLD IN ELGuTY DAYS, ats P. | present. Germany in the nineteenth century | would care but little for the deeds of the | hero who overcame the legions of: Rome if | the spirit which inspired him had not been | identical with that which moves the German people to-day. Hermann, the Liberator, is more completely the representative of their present thoughts than any other hero of their history ; and so it happens that a statue is raised to him at Detmold, and the whole na- tion assembles to do honor to his memory | and his deeds. If we turn fora moment from the consid- eration of the purposes of this celebration to every Sunday during the season between | the contemplation of Arminius as a historical New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake | personage, we shall find him one of the fair- George, Sharon ‘and Richfield Springs, leay- | est characters drawn by the Roman historians ing New York at half-past two o'clock A. M., | of the enemies of Rome. Neither romance arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., | nor tradition gives us a hero in whom are so and Niagara Falls at a quarter to two P. M., | evenly blended both virtue and valor, Ar- for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay | min, the barbarian, learned all the graces Hxnatp along the line of the Hudson River, | and all the arts of Roman civilization without New York Central and Lake Shore and | losing either his patriotism or his prowess. He Michigan Sonthern roads. Newsdealers and | acquired skill in arms in the camps and cam- others are notified to send in their orders to | paigns of Tiberius. He was a Roman citizen the Hxnaxp office as early as possible, For | and commanded a German contingent in the farther particulars see time table. camp of Varus. His culture must have been stan Silas asi as great as his genius to have commended him to the esteem of a chief who, though not a greaf soldier, was the first gentleman of the Roman Empire. He was, besides, even WOE Te ee while serving the conqueror, the favorite of Persons going out of town for the summer can | his countrymen and the hope of his country. have the daily and Sunday Herat mailed to | Young, ardent, brave and skilful, trusted in them, free of postage, for $1 per month, | the Roman camp and loved by the German auxiliaries and the German people, he was of all others best fitted to essay the task he market was steady, Western Union leading. ‘1 it ‘ Gold sold at 115 1-4 9 113 3-8 a 1131-8. Rail- | U2dertook. It was his mission to unite | the tribes and conquer the conqueror. road mortgages and governments were firm. | x upon his work no ob- ; Having entered mey without change. ~~ orn stacles could deter him, nor could treachery, ‘Tne Investicatixa Commnrrer of emigra- | even, swerve him from his purpose. Begin- tion affairs yesterday examined Mr. Richard | ning his attack while the legions were on the METROPOLITAN THEATRE, ee ne anes at 2 P. Mand at TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1875, | THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, To NewspeaLens anp THE Pusiic:— The New York Henaup runs a special train From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be hot and partly lowly, with possibly local rains. Watt Srnzer Yesrenpay.—The stock O'Gorman and Commissioner Lynch, whose | march, he continued it until they were over- interesting testimony is published in another | come and destroyed. Even at this day the column. | battle ranks with the great battles of history. Z é | It was full of dramatic incidents, and was as ee Srateet ue | far-reaching in its consequences as Sadowa can, Sherman & Co. have filed in court by | 5. sedan. It was an event that will endure Pee panes anes Pettus Spas forever, not in history only, but in the hearts ore ‘ arg te of the German people. Germany was born list of the creditors and a schedule of the | osong the ie aides Mpeg Se tha pt —, ow en Careless te the slaughter of the Roman legions; and although formation of busirices men. ) Rome would not forego her hold upon her Tue Froops.—Augnst this year is remark- transalpine possessions the power of the able for the rainfall in this part of the coun- | Pei ry ata forever, i — , which already exceeds by far the usual | %™P2 OF Germanions was ® Darren honor, ee eae , | All this was the work of one man, and the average for the whole month. ‘The storms of | 4 “ x Jast week caused floods in New York and | world's annals tell of no brighter achieve- After eighteen centuries of vicissi- New Jersey, the damages to which aro de- | Ment scribed gh letter from Piermont, The | *4es—centuries of, darkness and a new and destraction to property has been great. | long era of light and progress—-the victory of | Arminius is undimmed in the pages of his- ‘Tre Corsasion on Tim Bay.--Is there no , tory, and years only add to its lustre. Indeed, Jaw that forbids racing of steamboats on the | We 8°° this morning that the splendors of Bay, or is there ng authority to enforce such | modern warfare, the triumphs of national a law? On Sunday the pilot of the North- | unity and the growth of political freedom all field, a boat engaged on the Staten Island \ contribute to tis renown and make Lim anew ferry, went a mile out of his proper course to | the apostle of German nationality, race with another steamer, and his reckless- ness and contempt for authority resulted in collision which injured one man and has The celebration at Detmold was one of | great significance. Well might the Emperor | of Germany and the princes and magnates probably caused the death of another. Te- sults, however, can do more than aggravate the original crime. The pilot who was | guilty of this outrage on the public should ‘be dismissed by the company and then pun- iahed by the law. Let the Staten Island Ferry Company remember the indignation which the explosion of the boiler of the | ‘Westfield created, and trife no longer with | the safety of the public, | of the Empire take part in such a pageant. In honoring the Liberator they were honor- ing themselves. But to the German people | the celebration Was even more significant than to their rulers. If there had been no Hermann there would have been no Ger- many. His achievements in the first century of the Christian era gave the world the greatest empire of modern times. It is not for this reason, however, that Germany to- Tar Bovercavit-McWave Surr.—Mr. Dion | day is especially reverent of his memory. His purposes are but the reflex of modern | Boucicault, having been sued by Mr. Robert | German thought ; his victory is the embodi- MeoWade for libel, has made a full answer to | ment of the highest and noblest German as- the charge in the document entered in the | Supreme Court and elsewhere printed, It is | alike dear to princes and people, History a bold affirmation that Mr. MeWade hai no affords but few such examples, and the na- right to claim the authorship of “Rip Van | tion is rich indeed which possesses so great Winkle.” From the tone of Mr. Bon an exemplar, The American Centennial coult’s answer we presymo he intends | would be a barren féte had we no Washington | the | to represent for us in the story of his achieve- to make, the battle upon merits of the ease, and to justify his | ments the great glory of the nation’s birth. | In the absence of O'Connell the thonght and charges on the ground that they are true | and were made in the interests of justice and | purpose of Ireland would be withont form or for the proper information of the public. | expression. German unity is best typified The Court has as yet taken no action upon | in the romantic story of the victory of Ar- Mr. Boneicault’s application for the dis- | minius. In no respect is the romance uissal of the complaint, of his life de t, The myths of pirations, and it is on this account that he is | the Middle Ages have nothing so pa- thetic as the captivity of Thusnelda. No Roman matron, not even Calpurnia or Octavia, could have brought greater honor to her husband than this captive German wife conferred on Armin after her father's treach- ery compelled her to grace the triumph of Germanicus. In poetry as well as in patriot- ism the story of hero and heroine is alike | satisfactory, Any nation situated as Ger- many is to-day wauld have seized upon it with avidity and held it up to the world in all the prismatic colors of national vanity and exultation. This is what Germany did on the Grotenburg yesterday, and of all peoples | in the world we at this moment can best un- derstand the feelings of pride and gladness which entered into this German celebration. No nation could have taken a wilder delight in a great opportunity than we took in Con- cord and Lexington and Mecklenburg and Bunker Hill; and so we can almost join in the song of thanksgiving which echoed through the Teutoburger-Wald yesterday as it was heard eighteen hundred and sixty-six years ago. The cable brings us a full report | this morning of the ceremonies and rejoic- ings, and we read the story as one full of gladness and delight. A whole people took part in the pageantry. It was a grand and imposing spectacle, fully warranted by the time and the occasion. The best soldiery in Europe contributed to do honor to the first German victory, and these soldiers, like the auxiliaries of Arminins, were also Germans. It was the homage of the present to the past and the future—a great nation bowing reverently to the ideal of its own greatness. The Hermann monu- ment is a testimony to an event in German history as marked as anything in the story of any modern nation; but the procession of princes and peasants which gathered round it is full of a deeper meaning than the ideal statue, which has signifieance only because it represents the one great fact of German unity. In view of the importance of the event itself, and the greater importance ofits tendencies, we have surrendered much of our space both yesterday and to-day to the ac- count of the festivities near that out of the way German town, brought near to us by the telegraph and the common instincts and aspi- rations of humanity. If personal liberty and universal toleration come with unity, all the world will share in its blessings, and the cele- bration of yesterday cannot fail to be a great impulse toward the love of freedom as well as the love of country. and His Northern Visit. Some time since the Committee of the Win- nebago County Agricultural Fair, in Illinois, invited Jefferson Davis to visit the fair and deliver an address. Mr. Davis accepted this offer in a graceful and courteous letter, say- ing that it would afford him great pleasure to visit a country that he had not seen since it was a wilderness. As soon as the announce- ment was made there were many expressions of indignation on the part of those truly loyal men of the North who regret that the war ended before the destruction of every citizen in the South. We learn from Chicago that a meeting was held at Rockford, Ill., by the Grand Army of the Republic, at which resolutions were passed to the effect that it was an insult to the loyal citizens of Winne- bago to “invite the archtraitor Jeff Davis to address the relatives and surviving friends of thirteen thousand men murdered at Ander- sonyille alone by his orders.” They say, furthermore, that they will not attend the fair nor do anything toward making it a success if the Board brings forward this “archtraitor and coward.” When we heard that Mr. Davis had ac- cepted the invitation to visit Iinois and deliver an agricultural address we were grati- fied. It was a kindly thing on the part of the farmers of Illinois to invite Mr. Davis. It was a courteous thing for the ex-President of the Confederacy to accept it. A good deal of bitterness that belongs to the recent war un- justly centres around the person of Mr. Davis. This movement of the Grand Army of the Republic is an illustration of this in- justice. If Jefferson Davis is an unwelcome guest ata Northern agricultural fair then no other Southerner who fought in the war can bo welcomed. “We do not seo where the members of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic draw the line between Jefferson Davis and General Longstreet, unless in this that Mr. Davis preferred to cherish the convictions with which he entered the rebellion, while General Longstreet, with more wisdom and courage, has accepted the doctrines of the re- publican party. Mr. Davis was no more responsible for the rebellion in the South than any one of athousand other men. In fact, before the war, while the question of seces- sion was under discussion, he was among the more moderate of the Southern leaders, There were twenty members and Senators in the Congress which preceded the rebellion more active than Mr. Davis in bringing about hostilities and gnore responsible for the result. Mr. Davis and his colleagues in that Congress followed a public opinion in the South, and did not lead it. Mr. Davis was put atthe head of the Confederacy simply because he had more character than most of the Southern leaders. Even as it was the Confederate Congress almost elected Mr. Toombs, of Georgia. The election of Davis was the expression of a conservative senti- ment even in the Southern Confederacy. As President of the Confederacy Mr. Davis did his duty as well as he knew how. He did what any other Southern leader would have done in the same place. He stood by his | post to the end, When he fell he fell with | the Confederacy. Therefore, to deal with Mr. Davis as in any way more responsible for the rebellion than any one of the conspicuons men of the South before the war is to do him a great injustice and ourselves a discredit, Jefferson Davis | The wisdom of Mr. Davis coming into a hostile community to deliver a leetnre upon | any subject might be quostioned. It is prob- ably the penalty which he and all men like him who have held supreme station in rebel- | lion must pay, that he must accept failure ag | or advancement, We think it would have been a gricious thing for the people of Tlie nois to have accepted his act in the | which prompted it. These memb of the | Grand Army of the Republic represent only | the dismal memories of the war, This or. | closing to him any opportunity for display | ganization is known to be political and secret in its character. gIts members use their army record for selfish political purposes, The true soldiers of the North and South have forgotten everything of the past except its glory, and they think only of their opponents as chivalrous and brave men, We never hear of this Grand Army of the Republic ex- cept when it makes the mischief that is tak- ing place in Illinois. The business of its leaders seems to be to fan the expiring flame of civil wrath and diligently seck offices, An act like this in IMlinois, this rejection of the kindness and courtesy of Mr. Davis, will do more towird exasperating the South and in- tensifying the bitterness of feeling which it has long been the aim of patriotic men, with- out distinction of section or party, to extin- guish, than anything that has occurred for a long time. There is not a true Southern man who took part in the Confederacy who will not feel that he cannot be welcome in any community which renounces the President of his Confederacy as an “‘archtraitor and coward.” The Third Term Question. There is nothing to be gained by conduct- ing the opposition to this dangerous innova- tion as if it were a personal opposition to President Grant. The arguments against a third term would be equally cogent if General Grant were a Washington or a Jefferson. Whatever democratic politicians may think | of President Grant's personal character, he has the confidence of the republicans in a larger measure than any other citizen belong- ing to their party. In some important re- spects he possesses the confidence of the country at large, especially on that feature of the financial question which the Western democrats have so imprudently brought into fresh prominence.’ If the Presidential election should turn on that issue the per- sonal trnst in General Grant's fidelity to the principles of his veto is so strong that his party would be tempted to renominate him. Even apart from this question the republicans would make him their candidate next year if he were now in his first term instead of his second, It is not what the democrats think of his personal character, but what the re- publicans think of it, that can have any in- fluence on the action of the Republican National Convention. The democratic party will not nominate the republican candidate, and the only danger of a third term lies in the possible action ofa political party the great body of whose members feel no personal hostility to President Grant, but cherish toward him sentiments of kindly respect and admiration. An unscrupulous, personal war would only strengthen him with his admirers, who form a majority of his own party. To allege that General Grant is a weak, incompetent or unfaithful Presi- dent is no more a valid argument against a third term than it would be against a second term, and it tends to confuse and obscure the real question. The onlf effect of reckless personal vilification would be to help the President's third term aspirations by a revul- sion of republican feeling against what his party deem unjust attacks. Aside from tho third term General Grant is the strongest candidate the republican party could bring into the field in the great campaign of 1876, and so far as opposition to the third term is put upon personal grounds it tends to defeat itself against a candidate who stands higher than any rival in the confidence of his own party. It is not by personal attacks and depreciation that his nomination can be defeated, but only by a general conviction in the republican party that even a wise and patriotic President could not be safely elected a third time. The various precedents by which the lim- itation to two terms was established derive their whole weight from political and not at all from personal reasons. Nobody doubts that Washington would have been as safe, wise, able and useful a President during a third term as he was during the first two ; but that illustrious patriot had the sagacity to foresee that the precedent of a third term would be of evil tendency, and his magna- nimity forbade him to accept it. The same remark applies to Jefterson, who was pressed to serve another term, but declined with un- hesitating firmness, pleading the example of Washington and supporting it by a strong statement of reasons why none of his sueces- sors should deviate from it. Jefferson would have continued to be a great and useful President if he had been constantly re-elected during .his life; but, like Washington, he foresaw the possibility of that station being sometimes occupied by men of un- scrupulous ambition, and that some men of that stamp might subvert our free institu- tions. At the time of Jefferson's first elec- tion we had a narrow escape from Aaron Burr as President, and, with a man like Burr in that office, the principle of perpetual re- eligibility would lead to the most dangerous ¢onsequences. It is the duty of President Grant to ponder the example of Washington and to reflect on the weighty reasons assigned by Jefferson for following the precedent, In his inconsiderate letter on the third term General Grant put himself in op- position to the views of those illus- trious predecessors. He asserted the right of the Lag to re-elect the same President as often as they please. This right was as perfect in Washington's time and in Jefferson's time as it is at present, but it was their opinion that the people should bo warned and protected against their devotion to popular favorites. It was the desire of the people to bestow a third term on Washing- ton and Jefferson ; but it was the firm con- yiction of both that the popular will was no | rule of action for the President. Their far- reaching sagacity looked to the future, While they knew that their own re-clection would be attended with no immediate danger they Tnstead of strong! did in erting,, third- conseqnences, as President Grant his term lotter, thay the will of the people should be the popular unqualified refusal. supreme, they thwarted ¢hoice by an abi We wish General ( might rise to their level and look at thi ject from their standpoint. He may the opinion that, with his acquired experi+ ence, he would be « more nsefal President during a third term than when he was now to the office. But if the repablican party, and even if the whole country, should adopt this opinion it wonld be his clear duty to act as Washington and Jefferson acted in a similar state of public feeling. Instead of defending the rightsof the people to re-elect the same President: as often as they please General Grant ough to have made the abso- lute and irrevocabée withdrawal from the field a choice of which his great prede- cessors set the exanaple on grounds which he alone, of all their successors, has ever undertaken to impugn. “The Slumbering Voleano.” It is painful to com‘emplate such a contin- gency in these midsummer months, but unless matters are brought toa peaceful solu- tion we shall have «a political earthquake before many days. The giant writhes under the burning mountsin. The Enceladus of modern democracy i# not disposed to rest patiently any longeyy under the oppressive burden. As often as he turns his weary sides Ho shakes the solid isle «aid smoke the heavens hides, Every breeze from Saratoga tells of his suf- ferings. As our reporter, aman of unusual discernment and whorwrites Saxon tersely, puts it, ‘John Morrissay howls.” He howls through a column of the Henatp’s compact, expressive type. Assathe O'Morrissey is a statesman for whose ‘words and acts, es- pecially for whose act, we have a profound respect, we listen to hiis howls with diffident and anxious attention. The, O’Morrissey howling, this great, powerful, but unappre- ciated statesman in the @iroes of deep despair, is calculated to inspire any peaceful com- munity with alarm. When our reporter mentioned the name ef Wickham to the frothing giant “the most intense disgust overspread his features.” Then came ‘‘knit- ting of the eyebrows, which showed a storm was fast gathering.” Atfter this was ‘the curling of the lip with th most ineffable dis- gust,” and ‘one resistless flow of manly in- dignation.” Then the great statesman ‘‘re- laxed the stiffened musoligs of his face,” but only for a moment; for “when he came to dwell upon the misfortanes of his bosom friend Hayes it was ‘in alow tone, evidently struggling to master his anger,” and, finally, after varying phases of ernotion and anger the massive leader gives this piercing wail :— “Oh! this is an awful thigg they have done to me, an awful thing.” An ordinary @litician im a state of mental distress—such a man as O’Waterbury, or O'Roosevelt, or O’Costigan-—might excite the sympathy of the commurzity. O'Morrissey in anger has a wider signification. There is no knowing when the stormy may come upon us. So long as O’Morrissey- was kept within the limitations of Tammany Hall, so long as he was humored now and then by the nomination of a bosom friend like Jemmy Hayes to an office for which he was defeated, so long as he was Wlowed to spend money without limit for “the good of the party” he was peaceable and sweet. But the lion at feeding time and the lion when he has been neglected by his keepers is a differ- ent animal. When Morrissey howls it means something. It means that the Tammany leaders are about to have a Yively and pro-, longed controversy; that they expected the O’Morrissey, the descendant of an Irish king— of no less a monarch than the; great Tipton Slasher, who reigned in Donrrybrook king- dom, and never threw up the sponge or failed to walk to his scratch when time was called, a statesman of capacities and wide range and reaching sweep—to- quietly sit down and be kicked out of Tammany Hall by John Kelly. This is a reflection upon human nature. No wonder Morrissey howls. He has before his eyes the ever present appa- rition of his bosom friend Jemany Hayes, who, after having spent thousands of dollars for ‘*thejgood of the party,” was treacherously stabbed during the last canvass. He would be less than a man to endure this sad and sorry sight without his soul buraing in his bosom. Nor do we venture to say what will be the effect upon New York politics of tike O’Mor- rissey at large and howling. If ‘the giant should burst from his prison and mpset the mountain what would be the result? Is there no way to avoid this disaster? Cancnot our Irish kings see that in their dissensions they are simply inviting the enemy? Do they not remember in the early days of their glorious history that the foreigner onily suc- ceeded in invading Ireland when her kings were divided and contending? Here, hover- ing upon our borders, we have a harde of robbers and ruthless aliens, hungering for our homes, for our subsistence, for our wives and children, as eager to possess this land as the De Lacys of the past were to possess the lands of that glorious monarch Brien Bo- roihme, who now rests with God. EH New York should pass from under the control of the Irish kings there is no knowing wha the result may be. Bean-munching Yankees from Cape Cod would swarm into our Comp- troller’s office. A horde of adventurers :from Connecticut who have spent their lives in selling hickory nutmegs and cedar hams=will ocenpy our court houses, our commissions, our different departments. The sons of* the O'Kelly, the O’Donohue, the O'Conner and the O'Neil, the brave boys of Mullingar tand Tipperary, who have governed this great «ity with so much honor and profit, will be tum i ed out of their places, even as their ancestors were driven to wander in foreign larels. Nothing will be left for our Irish kings but to diligently labor on tac Fourth avenue tm- provement at one dollar and sixty cents a day. Unless this quarrel should be adjusted, and we can bring oir royal masters to a | proper harmony and sonfidence, before maxiy months we shall have the O'Kelly and the | O'Morrissey and tie O'Murphy and the | O'Roosevelt and the O'Hayes and the O'Creamer, armed with the necessary pick felt constrained to resist the choice of the | |speople by a sagacious apprehension of future | | Yoko upon our geat metropolis the danger and the incisive hanmer, Dlasting rock, dig. ging up the soil ant diligently adjusting the embankments in he neighborhood of Hea- lem at one dollar ad y cents a day, ata Yankee taskmastes driving them to theotr work. [tis to awid this calamity that wo implore our loathrs to beware of the slua- bering voleano w Saratoga, and not to ioe | with which it is mw threatened, mm Crops IN dunorg are backward bo cause of the unaétled weather, The flood: the @rought am the potato disease havd | combined againt the Old World agricul | | turists, | | mand sustenance, The Canal Frauds. The second and third reports of the Canal Commission are presented to the public to- day, and the facts which Messrs. Bigelow, Magone, Orr and Van Buren affirm fully justify all that Governor Tilden has lately suid of the corruptions in the canal admin. istration and the necessity of reform. The Denison contract is the special subject of the second report, and is based upon the testi- mony of Mr. Horatio Seymour, dr., who examined the work and found that it was worthless, and upon the admissions of Mr, Scott, which prove that the charges made by the contractor were fraudulent. False estimates, false measure- ments, false charges for material, seem to have been the rule under the contract with Denison. This person, against whom the Attorffey General is instructed to bring an action, has applied to the Canal Board ta cancel his contract, on the ground that there is no available appropriation to pay him, and that the remaining work can only be done as extra work. Yet the report shows that his Dill against the State amounts to fifty thousand seven hundred dollars, under a contract which only provided for an expenditure of ten thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars, When the character of his work is considered the Commissioners may well refer - to the effrontery of his application, and add that the reasons he assigns for requesting the cancellation of his contract are, if possible, more fictitious than his estimates. The true reason, they say, is that he is at Inst . required to give the State an equivalent for what he has received from it, and that further depredations have been made impossible. The third report refers to the contracts of John Brown, and shows an equally bad condition of affairs, The Com- missioners are right when they affirm that “it is difficult to regard this pretended im- provement from any point of view as other than a profligate waste of the public, money in the interest of a knot of land speculators and lawless canal officers and contractors,” and the public will support Governor Tilden in his effort to punish the robbers of the State treasury and enforce reform, irrespec- tive of persons or parties. Tae Inpran Fraups.—The Assistant Secre- tary of the Interior, Mr. B. R. Cowen, pub- lishes a reply to Mr. William Welsh in respect to the Indian frauds. It is prefaced by a definition of the nine mistakes the latter gentleman is said to have made concerning Mr. Walker; but, as Mr. Cowen says, Mr. Walker’s antecedents have little to do with the charges against the Indian Department. This statement is to the effect that Mr. Welsh has failed to give the proof of the charges he has made against the Indian Office, and that by this neglect he has made himself partly responsible for the abuses of which he complains. Mr. Welsh, however, might complain of Mr. Cowen with much greater reason for his evasions of the real point. Tae Yacut Racz Yesrerpay.—There was too much rain and too little wind yesterday to make the race of the New York Yacht squadron a perfect success, but the club made the most of its opportunity. The prizes offered were won by the shooners Rambler and Restless and the sloops Vision and Genia. The Idler was unfortunately becalmed at a critical point, and thus lost all the advantages she had gained in position. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Sherman and Cyrus H. Field are in Quebec, At Vichy a very rich lady was caught stealing lace in a shop. Paymaster Georgo H. Read, United States Navy, is quartered at the Hoffman House. Count Litta, Italian Chargé d’ Affaires at Washington, is sojourning at the Breyoort House, Mr. Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain John Mirchouse, of the'steamship City of Montreal, is staying at the New York Hotel. Brevet Brigadier General Oliver D. Greene, United States Army, is residing at the Sturtevant House. Bayard Taylor and family, on a short visit. to Nova Scotia, left St. Jobn yesterday morning for home. Baroness de Bussierre, of Paris (formerly Miss Holla. day, of San Francisco), has apartments at the Hoffman House. Prince de Camporeale, of Italy, arrived in this city yesterday from Newport, and took up his residence at the Clarendon Hotel. Licutenant General Sheridan left Chicago yesterday morning for a visit tothe Pacific coast, He will prob: ably arrive in San Francisco about the 23d inst. One of General Spinner’s theories is at fault. He said women had not the courage to steal more than $2 at « time, and a Treasury woman has stolen $20, Thus Spinner was just $18 out of hi’ reckoning. This is what they say in Ohio of Uncle Dick, whom the inflationists regard as their great leader in those parts:—‘The Hon. Richard Schell is a host in himself and {is a leader of immense influence with the masses.” Why does not Mr. Green compel his man Kelly te compel his man Wickham to remove the Police Com missioners? Or is the police, as it is, satisfactory to Mr. Green? and must the people stand it on that ac- count? An enraged woman, with a knife in her hand, pursaca her lover, of whom she was jealous, through the Parig streets, People jeered at his flight, and, ashamed, he turned and waited for her to come up, when she plunged the knife in bis throat, and he died in three minutes, A Georgia man’who rode om t& #eo the Coroner the other day, confidentially remarked to the individual that it was astonishing to see how high a nigger ina watermelon patch can jump when you fire at him from behind, The Coroner smiléd slowly and then proceeded to hunt up a jury.—The Capital, It was lively on the French ship Finisterre, There were 1,200 persons, without counting a hundred galley slaves in the hold; and off Donegal arose the ery of fire. Sure enough there was fire mthe hold. On the ship were 500 pounds of powder and 2,000 bombshells. Every | One reflected on eternity. But there was a brave captain and a disciplined crew—so they put the fire out, In July @ diver in submarine armor working at a wreck on the coast of Normandy was seized by a devil fish, who held fast to a neighboring rock. His com- ‘ame to his assistance and was seized also, It wag with great difficulty they could give the signal that they needed help. Others went down. Cutlasses were brougbé and the.monster’s arms were hewed off, Prineo Laseairs sued five churches in Rome, under the Roman law, He ¢laimed descent from Constanting, who was the liberal patron of these churches, Under the canon law the descendants of the patron may do. His demand was rejected, not be- cango it was not good in Jaw, but because the descent from Constantine was not satisfactorily made out, Dr, Kenealy, who is, of course, nothing if nota Tich- borne man, bas protesicd in Parhament against the lenity of Colonel Baker's sentence, Tichborne is sen- tenced to hard labor, but Baker is sentenced to impris- onment without hard labor, Kenealy thought thie ho ponishment, Buta member mentioned that when the learned Doctor way once found guilty of brutal treatment of his illegitimate gon and sont to prison fay month ho thonght the penalty severe enough, thongh there was no hard labor in it, Kenealy thought this reference to his personal history unnecessary and ua. pardouable,