The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and fifter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henaxp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per mnonth, free of postage, td subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches, must be addressed New York Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. + Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ecerenseocoreves, NO, 239 VOLUME XL. ..+0-++ ; AMUSEMENTS 'TO-NIGHT. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, foot of Houston street and East Kiver.—Afternoon and even- ing pertormance, DARLIN! B. ‘Twenty-third street and Sixth a ‘TON & REED'S MINSTRELS, at 8 P. 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NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1875, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To NewspEaters anp tHE Pusiic:— ‘The New York Heracp runs a special train every Sunday ‘during the season between New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leay- ing New York at half-past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at a quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpar Henatp. Newsdealers and others are noti- fied to send in their orders to the Herarp office as early as possible. For further par- ticulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and clear. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henarp mailed lo them, free of postage, for $1 per month, Wart Srreer Yesrerpay.—Stocks were unsteady, with a declining tendency. Gold sold at 113$a113}. Government and rail- way bonds were firm. Tax Exrra Meermo at Monmovrn Park | draw NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Georgia Troubles. the affair. Atany rate it deserves thorough We print elsewhere to-day a number of | investigation. interesting details from a correspondent concerning the plot for a negro insurrection in Georgia, which has stirred up the people of that State. We are not surprised that the confessions of negroes which our corre- spondent sends us’should have created great excitement, The counties in which the colored demagognes operated are in the heart of the cotton raising district, whero farmers and planters live isolated with their families among a dense negro population. The plantation negro is still an extremely ignorant and gullible creature; in politics he has been, ever since emancipation, the prey of white and black demagogues, who led him, in the earlier years of reconstruction, into Union League clubs, secret and oath- bound organizations, which were used mainly, if not altogether, to enable shrewd political leaders to manipulate the colored vote according to their own wishes. In Georgia the Union Leagues have, for some time, disappeared, and a new secret society, whose members should be armed, should hold midnight musters, should have vague and important purposes and “generals,” each with a “staff,” was pretty certain to in a good many of the ignorant blacks, to whom anybody who will promise “forty acres and a mule” seems to be an angel from heaven. ; The narrative of our correspondent and the depositions he sends us all show that only the most ignorant blacks were led into their secret organization. The town negroes “were too sharp;” they would have nothing to do with it, When we come to read the so-called ‘‘confessions” we see what vague and stupid ideas were disseminated by the leaders. One says they were “going to get equality,” and explains that by this he means they were to kill all the whites and take all the lands, which were to be divided into forty acre patches, All the money of the planters was to be put into a common treas- ury.. Another testifies that he was told they were to kill all the whites and then hold mass meeting. He adds that they were to give as little of the crops to the whites as they chose. This poor creature does not ap- pear to have been able to see that after kill- ing the whites these would hardly be able to receive a share of the crops, Another un- derstood that they were to take axes, hoes and brickbats, and kill all the white men and the ugly women. He adds that the members of the conspiracy were required to take a secret oath, and they were assured that if they broke this they ‘‘would be handed over to Grant, who would punish them ;” and several witnesses testified their expectation that if they divulged the secrets of the society ‘‘Grant” would punish them. They add, also, that the leaders told them the land belonged to the government and the negroes had a right to take possession of forty acres each. Some expected help from the North or elsewhere. ‘General” Rivers, a South Carolina negro militia general, was expected, with two thousand men, but he publicly and emphatically denies any knowl- edge of the affair; and he appears to have been found quietly living on his farm. ‘‘General” Morris, a Geor- gia negro, who appears to have. had a semi-idiotic passion for the splendid uniform of a militia general and who made an impression on the blacks by talking of his “staff,” ran off ‘like ascared dog” when he saw the Sheriff at a distance. Finally, most of the witnesses believed that the murder and robbery were to come off on a certain day; but it does not appear who was to give the order, and beyond the mass meeting to be held in a country village there is so far no trace of a plan for the future. A Georgian writes us in some indignation that the Heranp does not appear to have ap- preciated the extreme gravity of the affair. It is natural that he should think so, To a Southern planter living in the midst of the negroes a mere hint of an insurrectionary plot is a serious and exciting matter. In al- most all the affairs of life he is apt to under- value the courage and enterprise of the negro. The lower class of Southern whites show this constantly by their contemptuous language, by their readiness to attack a black man or to cheat him, and it is a fact that the negro in most cases invites such began yesterday with a good attendance and four excellent races. Tae Inuro1s Banprrrt.—We have further details this morning of the operations of the bandits in Williamson and Franklin counties, in Illinois, The story is avery remarkable treatment by his tame submission. But when there is a rumor of conspiracy then panic spreads very rapidly and often unrea- sonably. In the present case we do not mean to underestimate the danger from Iceland. i We publish in another column a letter from Dr. Hayes, who represented the HraLp last year at the Millennial Celebration in Ice- land, and who is well acquainted with the country of which he writes, There has hardly been on the face of the whole earth a more singular exhibition of the conflicting forces of nature than that which has been seen in Iceland during the past few months. How frail seems to be the crust on which we live, when, almost without notice, the whole rocky foundation is broken asunder, as it has recently been in Iceland, through thousands of square miles, and into the midst of enor- mous reservoirs of ice and snow are injected liquid fires, which first flood the valleys below with water and then overwhelm them with rivers of redhot lava, and at length bury the whole with hot ashes, which, mounting into the air from countless crevices in the rocks, fall, as a shower of snow may fall, over farms and villages, spreading everywhere an asphyxiating cover- ing, until men, women and children, hitherto happy in their primitive little homesteads, fall down and die of suffocation, and cattle, sheep and all living things are overwhelmed by the Great Destroyer! The picture is the sadder that we had such pleasing accounts from Iceland last year. How proud were the Icelanders then over their celebration, the parallel of which was never known be- fore! What a scene of misery and deso- lation now succeeds to previous prosperity and contentment—the island rent and tor- tured through a third of its entire area and at least a third of its population either de- stroyed outright or rendered destitute! We indorse fully the views of our correspondent with respect to the need for material assist- ance to these Arctic sufferers, And when we reflect that the Iceland winter is a period of darkness; that the ground is then covered with snow to the depth of many feet; that communication with the outer world will be cut off for several months, and even intercourse between the farms and villages will be at best difficult, and that the population, never more than eking out a bare subsistence at the best of times, now become burdened with those whose homes have been laid waste and whose farms have been buried in lava and ashes, it is difficult to imagine anything more distressing than their prospects for the next half year. In thus calling public attention to the subject we but echo a sentiment already keenly aroused in Denmark and England, as Dr. Hayes has shown in his let- ter; and in doing this we but perform a necessary duty of journalism by recording events, however sad they may be, transpir- ing even in the most remote and inaccessible quarters of the world. We heartily join with the London Times and other English journals, as well as those of Copenhagen and Reykjavik, in suggesting that prompt and efficient aid be rendered to the unfortunate Icelanders. The Vacancy in the Court of Appeals. Since the death of Judge Grover there has been much random speculation in the press respecting his temporary successor, who will be appointed by Governor Tilden, As Judge Grover died within three months of the State election the vacancy cannot be filled by the choice of the people until the general election next year, and Governor Tilden’s temporary appointee will serve until January 1, 1877. Several journals, in which such a display of ignorance was not to have been expected, have mentioned Mr. O’Conor has a possible appointment to a seat on that bench, Mr. O’Conor, having been born in 1804, is now seventy-one years of age, and the Staté constitution does not permit any judge to serve beyond the age of seventy. It declares that “no person shall hold the office of justice or judge of any court any longer than until and including the last day of December next after he shall be seventy years of age.” If Mr, O'Conor had been elected with the other judges at the time the present Court of Appeals was created he would have been obliged to retire at the end of last year. Even if Mr. O’Conor had not passed the legal age there are ob- vious reasons why Governor Tilden would not think of appointing him. He could not do so without making himself, in public esti- mation, an indorser of Mr. O'Conor’s recent bitter attack on the Court of Appeals, and he has disclaimed all connection with that at- which, fortunately, the planters of three counties and their families have escaped. one, and the more that we know of it the more surprising it becomes. Tue Disrrimvtion or Tickets for the Poor Children’s Picnics is one of the most glad- some sights the metropolis presents. In another column is described the distribution of the tickets yesterday for the excursion which takes place to-morrow. A Specs or Wan.—It is so long since we have had anything like the famous Greytown affair that a chance to bombard a few Tripol- itan forts on account of the recent insult to the American Consul would be hailed with delight by the navy. Admiral Worden is to hold himself in readiness for this mission; but we presume the matter will be satisfac- torily arranged before he gets an opportunity fo shot his guns. _ Geyxnat Sarn scarcely needed the in- ‘orsement of the Board of Aldermen in the work he is doing for the reorganization of the Police Department. We know of no surer »way of bringing a necessary movement into eneral contempt than by such absurdities gas Alderman Blessing’s resolution. The ‘Commissioner, we are sure, cannot look upon Gt with favor, and not even Dogberry himself ‘would have conceived a thing so unnecessary so inappropriate. ‘Tur Farcnr or rue Bayx or Carrrornta is Jone of the most startling financial events of ‘the season, Both asa political and commer. ‘cial power this institution exerted great in- ‘fluence, and the effect of the failure upon all the interests of the Pacific slope must be im- mense. Jt is to be hoped, however, that the ‘disaster will to the adoption of sounder iness Piola on the Pacific than have But what we think of even greater impor- tance is the good conduct of the white people in the circumstances. They have behaved admirably. “Not a negro has been shot or injured,” writes our corre- spondent, and there does not ap- pear to have been any lawlessness or violence whatever. Governor Smith and the local authorities acted promptly and re- mained masters of the situation. The law has taken and is taking its course, as it should. Nothing has happened in the South for some time which has shown such genuine self-restraint and respect for law among the mass of the white people as this affair; for the provocation to ‘‘crush out” a plot or con- spiracy among the blacks by savage butchery is very great and very natural. It is in this aspect that the affair is most important, and we hope that the Governor will take care that justice be conspicuously done, If it is proved that negro leaders did really conspire to rise and murder the whites these leaders should be hanged according to law, and the investigation should be searching, But the innocent should be pro- tected and made to feel safe. We trust also that the investigation, which is to be begun on the 30th of this month, will be directed to the causes of the plot. It may be that one or two unscrupulous negroes have sim- ply taken advantage of the ignorance and credulity of the black field hands whom they worked upon. One sees traces in the depo- sitions of the old ideas which were circulated soon after the war, when scoundrelly whites went abont the South telling the blacks that the government would givethem ‘forty acres anda mule”—a promise which was sometimes tack in a conversation with Chief Justice Church. As the decision in the Tweed case was unanimous the appointment of one judge in seven would amount to nothing beyond introducing an element of discord into the Court. Moreover, geographical fitness requires that Judge Grover’s successor be taken from Western New York. If Mr. O’Conor’s age did not exclude him, his inclination would ; for there has, probably, been no period of his life when that great lawyer would have con- sented to accept a judicial position. Gov- ernor Tilden will probably try to make a se- lection of such marked excellence that his appointee will be continued on the Bench by the choice of the people. Rarw Transit is too important a measure to be hindered by any action of the Common Council. If the questions suggested by the resolution of Alderman Gross arise at all they must be settled in the courts; and it is almost an impertinence in the Board to con- sider them in the present state of affairs, What we expect just now is that the Rapid Transit Commission shall designate the line of the proposed railway, and if this is done within. the time required by the statute the principal difficulty in the way, whether it is legal or constitutional, will have been met and determined. ‘Wan ox Corompia.—As we anticipated some days ago, the troubles between the State of Panama and the United States of Colombia have resulted in declaration of war against the Republic. Fortunately, we are able to print simultaneously with the announce- ment of this declaration on the part of Panama 1 history and analysis of the mis- renewed at elections to capture the colored vote. Many o poor plantation negro still the rule in the past, and though much g will necessarily be the result the can hardly fail to"be a salutary ono, believes that ho will some day receive his ‘forty acres and a mule.” But there may be understandings between the State and the general government, The story will be read with interest, notwithstanding the resort to arms is a common device in the South Amer- ® deeper and more important meaning in | ican republics, American Credit Abroad. The advantages of good credit, founded ona high character for commercial honor, important in all countries, are incalculable ina country of immense undeveloped re- sources like ours. There is no othercountry in which the material basis of solid credit is more unquestionable, but the capitalists of Europe are fast coming to the conclusion that the moral basis is wanting. Mere ability to pay is not sufficient to secure confidence, unless accompanied by a disposition to deal honestly with creditors. The swindling management which has prevailed in several of our railroad and mining companies has been a great blow to American credit. It will be many years before the frauds perpe- trated in the name of the Emma Mine, the Southern Pacific Railway, the Northern Pa- cific, and the losses incurred by the holders of Erie stock, will be forgotten. There are even more powerful causes which bring for- eign capitalists to astand and repel them from American investments. _The West- ern crusade against railroads and the laws passed in Wisconsin virtually confis- cating railroad property make it dangerous to own such property until the question shall have been decided by the federal Supreme Court whether the individual States can fix rates of fare and freight at their pleasure, and annihilate the value of railway bonds by depriving the roads of their resources for paying them. In the eyes of foreigners, what is possible in one State may be prac- tised in all or in many, and if a popular out- ery against railroad charges can be made effective in legislation, and if the federal courts leave such property to the mercy of the States, foreigners will shun American railroad securities. The Western crusade is over for the present, the pretexts for it hav- ing been taken away by the recent railroad war, which reduced prices by a ruinous com- petition, also calculated to depreciate such property. But there is no security against similar outbreaks of popular feeling when the roads shall again charge remunerative rates. The inflation agitation in Ohio also tends to undermine confidence, for if the in- flationists should get possession of the fed- eral government no foreigner who has givena credit in the United States can expect to re- cover more than a fraction of his property. Foreigners can sue in our courts, but they can collect their dues only in the currency of the country, and when this has been ren- dered worthless by inflation the enforcement of their rights by the courts will be a shadow and a delusion. The fountain of all this discredit is the action of the government, which has blunted the conscience of the people and debauched their sense of moral obligation. It is the government which is educating the nation in knavery. When the government declares by statute that men may repudiate a great part of their debts; that people who borrowed money consisting of dollars worth a hundred cents may lawfully discharge the obligation in dollars whose value has varied, at differ- ent times, from thirty-seven cents to ninety, it isnot to be expected that a majority of citizens will retain a clear and steady sense of right. When the cheating of creditors is thus authorized by the law of the land, when all stable ideas of value are confused and upset, when the people are taught by the laws that paying back less than they bor- rowed and promised is consistent with hon- esty, itis no wonder that thirteen years of such education has lowered the tone of general morals and diffused rascality and rottenness through so many of the walks of public and private life. The most important step to- ward re-establishing that moral basis of American credit without which our great re- sources can inspire no confidence is the re- turn toa currency which is not on its face a lie. Horses. Apparently the better part of our history in regard to horses is in the future; for although the past has its glories, and bright ones too, their full splendor is dimmed by relation with many facts not altogether satisfactory; and at their best these glories were in a great degree local, while the turf promises in the future to have with us the greater strength of a national interest and a national taste, There is an undoubted progress year by year. There are more races; they are better man- aged and excite a constantly greater interest; they are better attended and by people that formerly neglected this pastime altogether; there are more ‘‘millions in it” and there is more taste for it than there ever was before; and the effect on the breed of horses is very great. Indeed, the time is not far away when our stables will turn out the best horses in the world, and England will send here for good blood in the equine race as she now does for fresh blood in the finer strains of horned cattle. This will be mainly a con- sequence of natural facts, which the horse breeders will utilize. In England, the horse left to himself would become extinct; in this country, left to himself he weuld thrive and improve; for his natural habitat is a land of great plains with a dry continental climate, and the damp climate of England induces in the horse the same diseases of the respiratory organs of which it is so fruitful in man. In England, however, all animals increase in bone and muscle; and this peculiarity of his English home has given the thoroughbred his splendid frame and size. Placed in a climate such as ours, where he retains these and breathes an air almost as fine as that he breathed on his native plains, he must reach a perfection that may now seem only ideal; and this is the immediate tendency and must be the ultimate result of the extensive intro- duction here of the best blood from British stables, ‘Tux Conszaiston in the Bay between the Twi- light and the Northfield was an accident that should not have happened at all, and from present appearances the responsibility will be placed where it properly belongs. If it is satisfactorily established that the former crowded the latter out of her course no pun- ishment can be too severe for the reckless disregard of human life which is involved, Warer.—The question involved in the water problem is twofold—the question of purity and supply. General Porter, in his communication to the Board of Aldermen, assumes that the quality of the Croton is good, and suggests asa remedy for the in- sufficient supply more large mains Our Coming Guest. We observe in one of our contemporaries that Lord Houghton, better known in literary and political circles as Richard Monckton Milnes, has arrived in Canada and is about to pay a visit to the United States. His Lordship is one of the best known characters in English life. He has long contemplated a visit to America, where his name and works are favorably known, As a poet, a traveller in Greece and Turkey, the author of the “Life of Keats,” as a political writer and a conspicuous figure in London society, Lord Houghton’s advent will be especially inter- esting to our people. We do not know how long he will remain in New York, but we pre- sume he will make an extended tour through the country. The visit of Lord Houghton to America may be regarded as the opening of the season, Most of the tourists who come to the United States arrange to reach here about the begin- ning of our fall months, The London sea- son is over and they can easily reach the New York season, which begins two or three months later. We are always glad to wel- come foreigners to our country, and espe- cially foreigners of distinction. There has been a custom for some time of giving these gentlemen “receptions” at our clubs. We have in mind a dozen such festivities, by which English authors and public men have been received in great state, with speeches, ban- quets and song. Now there is no objection to any club entertaining its guests in its own way, but this business of taking possession of anoted foreigner as soon as he arrives, marching him into a club, dining him in the presence of a conglomerated, hastily gath- ered mob of all kinds of people, with speeches afterward and a reception, is a phase of our American life which English- men from Dickens down have never failed to satirize, We have in New York six or eight clubs composed of artists, actors, bankers, negro minstrels, showmen and woman's rights champions, who lie in wait for distin- guished foreigners. There is as.much emu- lation among their members to obtain a cele- brated guest as there is among cabmen at the station to find passengers for their hotels, So active has this competition become that be- fore our European steamers reach the dock, while they are passing through the Narrows, they are boarded by these club agents and the guest importuned to name a day when he will “accept” a public “ovation.” We can think of no more frightful experience than to be compelled to stand up in a New York club room and to “receive the congratulations” of the people. It is an invasion of privacy. It makes a public spectacle of a private gentle- man. It turns the guest into a raree show. It is sure to be attended by some absurd and ridiculous demonstration, and can scarcely fail to make an unpleasant impression upon the mind of the person it is intended to honor, We trast that Lord Houghton will be spared the infliction which we fear is in store for him. A worthy English author said, some time ago, in London, that the perils of the Atlantic were nothing to the perils of a reception by a New York literary club. The best way to treat a foreign. guest, especially one as honored as Lord Houghton, is to show him all courtesy when occasion deserves; to allow him to shape his own course ; to permit him to have as good a time as he pleases, and, in short, to mind his own business undisturbed. Another Scandal. We have o painful story all the way from Saratoga that the Hon. John Mor- rissey has not been practising what he preaches. Our readers will remember we published a few days ago an eloquent and turbulent interview from this statesman, in which he complained bitterly of the leaders of the Tammany democracy, because of the reduction of the wages of the laborers from two dollars a day to one dollar and sixty cents. It now seems, if this story is true, that Mr. Morrissey himself, in the employment of labor at Saratoga, pays fifty cents a day less than what is given by our authorities in New York. We can hardly believe this story, and yet it is so important that we give it this publicity in the hope that it may be promptly denied. Nr. Morrissey’s reputation as a statesman and the leader of a party depends upon his frankness and his courage. How can he come to New York and champion the woes of these unfortunate citizens from Mul- lingar and Tipperary, who build our uptown improvements, when in his own business and in the disbursement of his own funds he limits the wages of their fellow countrymen? What is fish in Saratoga cannot be flesh in New York, and the Honorable John should promptly put his fist upon this story and destroy it. Ovr Inerricrent Potice.—On Wednesday morning a man named John Hughes was attacked by highwaymen near the Hacken- sack Bridge, in New Jersey, and yesterday the perpetrators of the offence were captured, and are almost certain to be punished. This is in marked contrast with the conduct of the New York police. Two weeks ago Miss Ade- laide Lennox, the actress, was robbed of jew- elry to the value of twenty-five hundred dol- lars, and, though the thief was known, the detectives of the Central Office have been unable to obtain any trace of him. A few days later a man was shot at Fifteenth street and Ninth avenue, in broad daylight, and, notwithstanding the fact that the shooting was witnessed by a number of persons, no clew has been found which is likely to lead to the arrest of the murderer. On Sunday last Mr. Noe, whose death is announced in the Heraxp this morn- ing, was fatally wounded in his own store by a burglar, and his murderer is as likely to enjoy as complete immunity as did the mur- derers of Mr. Rogers, in Twelfth street, or Mr, Nathan, in Twenty-third street. In all these cases ordinary intelligence in police administration would have secured the cap- ture of the criminals; but it is a remarkable fact that, while crime has been unusually fre- quent within the last fortnight, not a single important arrest has been made. A Remanxantx Tracepy is the shooting of a supposed highwayman by Constable Hamer, of Jamaica, and tho subsequent removal of the body. The whole matter ought to be thoroughly sifted, especially as the personal courage in the case teaches a salutary lesson. The Burglary in Greenwich Street. The public will be grieved to learn that Mr. Noe has died from his injuries, His unhesitating seizure of the burglar, with a view to drag him into the street and deliver him into the custody of the police, was so courageous and manly that it is impossible to withhold admiration, and if he had succeeded everybody would have praised him. But that method of dealing with a burglar was really unwise, and it fur- nishes a warning which people will be likely to heed. Burglars are desperate characters, who will seldom hesitate to take life if the way of escape is closely blocked. They are more likely to be armed than not, and no- body who grapples with them can have any assurance on that point. Mr. Noe, being un- armed himself, made a thoughtless mis- take in trying to force the burg- lar from the roof down to the street through several darkened stories. He made a great mistake in not searching every Part of his clothing on the roof in the full light of day. Burglars more commonly ply their vocation in the night, and when they are caught in the act it is better to alarm them and let them make a hurried escape, unless the discoverer happens to be armed. It is always a blunder to go in search of them with a light, which gives them an easy mark and increases their temptation to shoot. The example set last winter by Mr. Van Brunt cannot be safely imitated except in cireum- stances which give the assailant a mani- fest advantage, A person going in pursuit of burglars should always take the precaution to be armed, if arms are within his reach; but if not it is better to scare them and let them run, Fe- males staying in a house alone should never make a light, which not only enables burg- lars to fire with a sure aim, but discloses the fact that they have nothing to fear from any- body but defenceless women. Had Mr, Noe been as thoughtful as he was courageous he would have retreated noise- lessly down stairs as soon as he detected the sounds made by the burglar in attempting to pry open the skylight, have gone quietly out in search of a policeman, and had arrange- ments made for returning with a force suf- ficient for arresting the culprit in the act and preventing his escape. He might easily have been caught in flagrante delictu without danger to anybody, Tae Internationa, Reaarra at Saratoga closed yesterday, Mr. Courtney and his as- sociate winning the double sculls race. This was the third victory during the regatta for the Union Springs oarsman, and more than justifies the rank we accorded him after he won the State championship for the second time on Tuesday. In the four-oared race the Atalantas, contrary to expectation, car- ried off the prize. In view of the impor- tance of the latter of these events we present in the Hznaxp this morning diagrams of the position of the crews at the start and finish. Photography and the telegraph unite in giv- ing us a picture of the scene which could ba obtained in no other way, and the diagrams may be depended upon as absolutely correct. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain Brabagon, of the British Army, is registered at the Windsor Hotel,“ Rev. Dr. T. K. Conrad, of Philadelphia, ts residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. J. H. MeVicker, of Chicago, is among the late arrivals at the Windsor’ Hotel. Lieutenant S. M. Ackley, United States Navy, ts quartered at the Albermarle Hotel. State Senator D, P. Wood, of Syracuse, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The German historian, Herder, has beeu commemo- rated in a French book by C. Joret, Lieutenant Governor H. G. Knight, of Massachusetts, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Schuyler Colfax arrived in this city last evening from Newport and is at the Everett House, A new book on maritime law, by Mrs. T. G. Bowles, will contain an attack on the “Declaration of Paris."’ Rev. W. H. Brantner, of St. Lonis, and Rev, George G. Hepburn, of Schenectady, are at Barnum’s Hotel. _ State Senator Wells 8. Dickinson, of Bangor, N, ¥., has taken up his residence at the Metropolitan Hotel. Lieutenant Commander Silas W. Terry, of the United States Nayal Academy, bas arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘An important geological work is Mr. G. H. Kinahan's “Valleys, and Their Relation to Fissures, Fractures and Faults.’” Mr. John Jay Knox, Comptroller of the Currency, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington. Mr. T. B, Blackstone, President of the Chicago and Alton Railway Company, is stopping at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. The public executioner at Barcelona having recently resigned more than 500 candidates applied for the vacant post, M. A. Guillemia has issued his new work on comets— “Ces Vagabonds du Ciel,” to use the author’s expressive French phrase. M. Albert Sorél has thoroughly treated the document- ary history of the last great European war in his ‘‘His- toire Diplomatique de la Guerre Franco Allemande,”” Dr. P. W. Joyce, a zealous Irish antiquary, has pub- lished the second series of ‘‘The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places,” which the Saturday Review pronounces an interesting and Intelligent work, Mr. F. W. Palmer, of Chicago, who was appointed on the Commission to treat with the Indians for the pur- chase of the Black Hills, telegraphed yesterday to the Secretary of the Interior, declining to @rve on that Commission, It is understood that the marriage of Mr. W. HL. Gladstone, M. P., eldest son of the Right Hom. W. E. Gladstone, with the Hon, Gertrade Stuart, youngest daughter of Lord Blantyre, will take place the last week in September, Senator Allison arrived on Wednesday night at Coun. cil Bluffs, lowa He was joined yesterday by the re- maining members of the Commission to treat with the Indians for the sale of the Black Hills, and left for Cheyenne yesterday, ; ‘Here and There Among the Alps,” by Miss Plunkett, a lively English woman, avoids the hackneyed routes and the squeezed oranges of travelling literature for the less known bat equally lovely paths of the Gentelthal, the Engstien Alp and Mount Titlis. The book contains much humor and sound advice to lady pedestrians, Among the arrivals at the West End Hotel, Long Branch, yesterday, were Governor Hartranft, the Poun- sylvania nominee for the Presidency; Senator Freling- huysen and family, and William D. Bishop, Presiden: of tho New York and New Haven Railroad, with bis family. The London Examiner pays this compliment to ‘William Dwight Whitney, of Yale College:—“As a com- parative philologist Professor Witney has many peors and some superiors; in the general application of the results of comparative philology to the solution of such problems as have been just cuumerated he is as yot un- equalled.” ‘That dream of scholars, a universal index, is again vigorously urged in @ pamphiet by Mr. J, A. Cross, of London, He proposes that each great library, learned society and publishing firm shall take a portion of the work in hand, and that a central office be established ta which their respective contributions shall converge, He proposes not one alphabet of all literature, buts separate subject index for each great division of humas knowledge, to be published as an independent work, and bought by those interestod in that gpecial atudy,