The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1876, Page 7

secretaries, no appointments of relatives to vffice, This would be bad for the political fortunes of Edward Cooper and A. 8. Hewitt. But Grandfather Peter will never permit a jon.or a son-in-law to throw a scandal upon his administration. _ At the same time frankness compels us to say that Grandfather Peter's canvass is not encouraging. But the canvass is young. The people are not aroused. It may be, when the favorites are in the field, the eyes of all honest men will turn toward honest old Peter, even.as the great Republic of Venice turned to the aged Dandolo. History, it is said, repeats itself, and who knows but that when the Marine Band begins to play in front of the Capitol at noon on the 5th of March next it will be glorious old Grand- f.ther Peter, with his inaugural, who will listen to the music? Baisrow’s mule case would be an advan- tage to him as a candidate for the Presidency. It has enabled him to swear that he is an honest man. Miner Points in the Republican Can- vass. The withdrawal of Blaine sends fifteen or twenty States drifting: The personal power and magnetism of Blaine will be missed. If he can control his partisans we shall have a shaking up of the dry bones, It is now un- derstood that so far as the ex-Speaker has any control over the Convention he will sup- But the uncertainty which this produces is favorable to the Great The first great Convention of the republican party, that which nominated Lincoln, was in some respects like this soon to assemble at Cincinnati. When the party met there were three or four leaders in the advance, as Conkling, Morton and Seward was leading, with New York behind him, with certain West- ern States in his favor, and the general sen- timent of the republican party throughout the country demanded his nomination. But there was a Great Unknown, who came to the front in the person of Abraham Lin- port Washburne, Unknown. Bristow are now. coln. It was an advantage to Lincoln that the He was at So when his name was mentioned he had ten thousand neighbors to howl in his favor. And they bawled and howled with such wffect that the measured eloquence of Evarts, vho spoke for New York, and the burn- then national politics as the leader of the Wisconsin delegation, were of no effect. It became necessary to nominate Lincoln to preserve the peace, The.holding of the Convention st Cincinnati will be an advantage for Mr. Hayes, especially if the weather is not too warm and the Cincinnati boys are in good A well drilled claque is of as much use in a convention asin a theatre on the first night of a new play. The friends of Conkling outside of New York need have no anxiety about the voice of the State. The Hon. Thomas Murphy, Colonel Howe, Mr. Davenport and’ other Jocal statesmen will see that the music, vocal and instru- mental, is supplied. A couple of thousand vf New York boys under the experienced pommand of these gentlemen will make a noise that will astonish even a State which Convention was held in Chicago. home and his friends were around him. Ing made oratory who his of Schurz, appearance in shouting trim. glories in the much-resounding Allen. It is an open secret also that there were some quieter methods used in behalf of Lin- Ho had friends discreet enough to throw a couple of cabinet portfolios into the balance when it was trembling. One was tossed to Indiana and the other to Pennsyl- vania. Indiana received the Interior for Caleb B. Smith and Pennsylvania the War Office for Simon Cameron. But there will be no trading at Cincinnati either on the part of Conkling or Washburne. It will be 8 square fight and an honest victory if either coln. of these gentlemen wins. Ir Bristow réally means to hav @ popular support for the Presidency let him remove some of the odious restrictions that surround the Custom House. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Farm hands are wanted in Michigan. Sixty thousand people Irve in New Haven, Conn. An English critic thinks that coroners ought not to work by the piece. When the fast train reached Chicago Rose Eytinge yent Lawrence Barrett a beautiful bouquet, A Paris, Ky., man telegrapted to his father in Ger- many and received a reply within tour hours. M. Gallenga says that the rivers aro the eyesores of Italy, and that the Arno 18 a disgrace to Florence, Henry Watterson denies that he has ever received a . Penny irom Mr. Tilden or from any of Mr. Tilden’s agents. At Bangor, Me., the fashionable amusement is mak- ing excursions on the river om rafts. One party nam- dered 130, The gossip about Theodore Tilton’s being drunk while lecturing im the West, results, when sifted, in favor of Tilton. Sir J. Hannen, an Englisn judge, says it is impossible Bowadays to tell from a lady’s manner whether she 1s Fespectavle or not. Liberty, says Montesquieu, consists principally in the impossibility of being forced to do a thing which the Jaw doesn’t command. Mr. Bowles thinks that if the republicans nominate ‘Washburne the democrats will pat Judge Davis against Dim so as to carry Iilinois. Womanly modesty has been likened to an onion, ‘which is composed of successive folds, and these being Stripped off one by one, there is found to be nothing Tet, The Atheneum, on authority in musical matters, “ML. Offenbach’s first concert at the Philadelphia Centennial Festival was a very great mukes this mistake :. Buccoss. It is claimed that the new treaty with the Sandwich Islands will resuit in the extermination of the islanders the irruption of Chinamen, who will work on sugar plantations, Mrs. Livermore is a mothorly-looking woman of Ofty, and she says that to a proposal of marriage girls frequently answer “Yes” when they are aware that they onght to answer “No.” In Sunday morning's matl we received from Mr. J. A. Pierce, of Chicago, a copy of Thursday's New Yore Henao which he bought in Chicago on that day at Jen minutes past ten o’ciock P. M. The danger of resiriction in liquor selling in Evgland 's said to be that the moderate drinker would be made the drunkard frem petting all the lyaor he wanted in an underhand way. book, declares that the Declaration ot Independence has been a source of infinite mischief, and that the passiohate and de- matory rhetoric of that document has loft a stain to 1s hour on most of the political oratory and writing incomforiable withont keeping Jolin Macolm Ladiow, in an Engi of the United States, ‘The Bzaminer says that the want of breeding shown by the average Engishman of the lower middle class ~— gtrikes us as less offeuvive than the positive bad breed- ing constantly exhibited by many of the cints above them, who seem to think their position insecure unless Impertinence, asserted with sapercilious a a eA anne aT" | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1876—TRIPLE CABLE NEWS| ™ BRAZILIAN EMPEROR. From’ All Parts of the Old World. Italian Honor to American Nationality. French Workingmen Not Likely To Be Rep- resented at Philadelphia. SPANISH CONSTITUTIONAL CONCESSIONS FRANCE. THE INDUSTBIALS’ DELEGATION FOR AMERICA NOT WELL SUPPORTED. Panis, Jane 4, 1876. The Droits de ! Homme says the proposed sending of a workmen's delegation to the Philadelphia Exhibition threatens to be a failure, as scarcely $10,000 havo been coilected, which will barcly suffice for twenty-five dele- gates, A COMMUNIST MURDERER SEXTENCED TO DEATH. A prisoner named Diard has been sentenced by court martial to suffer death for taking pattin the massacre of the Dominicans at Arcueil during the seige of the Commune, GEORGE SAND'S HEALTH. Lonpox, June 5, 1876, A Paris despatch to the Daily News says there is hope that Goorge Sand is now out of danger. SPAIN. CABINET CONCESSIONS TO PROVINCIAL LOY- ALISTS, Maprip, Juno 4, 1876, The dill suppressing the fueros has been introduced in the Senate, CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS, It provides that all Spaniards rhall be Hable to mill- tary conscription and taxation alike, with these exoep- tions :—Persons in the Basque Provinces who supported King Alfonsu during the late war arc exempted from conscription for ten years, and those who suffered per- secution for the Alfonsist cause are exempted from payment of taxes for the same term, THE STATE OF SIEGE, San Sepastiay, Juno 4, 1876, General Quesada has ordered the stato of siege in the Province of Santander to be extended, Several suspected Cartists have been expelled from Biscay. ITALY. COMPLIMENT BY THE CROWN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Rous, June 4, 1876. King Victor Emmanuel has accepted tho Honorary Presidency of the Philadelphia committee for the ereo- tion of a statue of Volumbus, RUSSIA. HEAVY FAILURE OF A COMMERCIAL FIRM. Loxpox, Jane 5, 1876, The Manchester Ezaminer publishes advices from Moscow that the firm of Perponshoff Brothers, ox- tenstvely engaged in Siberian and Asiatic trade, have failed, with liabilities estimated at 1,000,009 roubles - $800,000 gold. THE INDIAN WAR. ADDITIONAL MURDERS BY THE REDSKINS— MORE BUCKS TAKING TO THE WARPATH—RE- INFORCEMENTS ORDERED TO THE SCENE OF HOSTILITIES, Cusrexxz, Wy. T., Jane 4, 1876. Three men were killed by the Indians this morning on Cedar Creek. forty miles south of Sidney and twelve miles west of Riverside, The Indians are thought to have been Cheyennes on their way north from Re- ticad Valley. Acourier who arrived at Fort Laramie to-day from the Red Cloud Agency reports additional departures of young warriors for the north. Eight companies of the Fifth cavalry have been ordered from the Department of Missouri to Fort Laramie. One hundred and twenty Snake Indians have been enrolled at Camp Brown, all well armed, and have started to meet General Crook to co-operate with him in the campaign. CAVALRY TO BE CONCENTRATED IN THE BLACK EILLs, , Sr. Lovurs, Jane 5, 1876. Detachments of the Fifth cavalry at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, and Fort Hayes, Kansas, aro under orders to proceed to the Black H country, and will start as soon as relieved by the infantry now en route to those from Fort Leavenworth. It is the intention of the government to mass all the cavalry inthe Black Hills region and garrison tho frontier posts with infantry. THE GOVERNOR'S VETO. THE EINGS COUNTY BOARD OF CHARITIES BILL NOT APPROVED. Avnaxy, N. Y., Jane 6, 1876, Governor Tilden has deposited in the Secretary of State’s office the bill entitied, ‘Au act to provide for the creation of a Board of Charities and for a vetter administration of the public charities in the county of Kings,” with the memorandum, ‘‘Not approved.” The Governor proceeds to say:— ‘This bill creates a novel and eccentric int in which it vests the authority to appelat k commlcrion et twelve persons, who shall be governors of the charities of Kings county. in the county Judge and the sheriff of the county, who are to meet at the office and to upon twelve persons who are to constitute such commission, and if they do not aj within ten days the County Judge is to appoint six and the Sheriff is to appoint six of the governors, and if elther fails for twenty days to appoint his share, the governors ap- nt are to fill. the vacancies. the — appointments ¢ appoint one ball of the governors. In practices nore will be named by the County Judge and six iff, 1¢ practice whieh has grown up in administrative boards of dividing public trasis among the individual members as if there were a private property in the patronage involved In them is itself an abuse of power ands breach of trnst, Thix bill mands such a distribution between two public officers and for the purpose of effecting such distribution between two political parties it assumes that the main consideration that the spotis of office should be tairly divided, and ig- nores the rights and interests of the publi in the adminis tration of official trusts, thev snail either be choven by the people of tne locality or appointed by some natural and appropriate organ of the peeple of the locality. it cannot be sw that the people voted for the County Jndg: or the Sheriff in comtempla- tion of the appointment by those offieers of per- sons to govern the charities of the great count of Kings The anthority created by this bill is conferred. on them after they were in office, There ix nothing in the na- ture or funetious of thelr offices to suggest the propriety of such « device. After showing the evident unfitness of the Sheriff for the performance of such duty as the bill requires of him and the evils ot the character of legisiation repre- sented in the bill, the Governor says :— Of all the gentlemen who have favored the bill, with whom [ have had interviews, ve approved such « method of appointment ws x permanent system, nor hare any professed to regard the Sheriff asa nt of anfe depositary of such ® power, or offered any sort of J ation for ® scheme hitherto totally unknown in the laws or polity of this state, THE NAVAL CADETS. INJUSTICE DONE IN THE MATTER OF THE LATE ROBBERY AT THE ACADEMY. Wasnisarox, June 4, 1876. Admiral Rodgers has authorized a published state- ment that part only of the cadets who recently resigned at Annapolis were involved in the alleged robbery at the Naval Academy, As all the names have been extensively published without distinetion it is jast to say that Cadets Jobn G. Mason, of Obio, and W. i. Osterhout, of Pennsylvania, were not accused as prin- cipals, but became involved as witnesses before « board ot first class men, to whom, ineteed of to a court of officers, the examination had been intrasted. They Dave asked the Sccretary@f the Navy to reinstato them to answer such charges as may bo preferred, which, it is understood, he will de, -. , VISIT OF THE IMPERIAL PARTY TO NIAGATA— THEIR IMPRESSIONS BEFORE THE GREAT WON- DER OF AMERICA—A COMPANION WITH TRE FALL OF PAULO AFFONSO, NraGana FAs, June 4, 1876. The imperial party arrived here this morning at half-past eight o'clock. Owing to the destruction of some bridge on the Pennsyivania Central Railroad, the Emperor and suite were obliged to pass through Emporium and Buffdo. From the latter point a Spectal train conveyed them to the Niagara station, where they were wholly unexpected. After a short dclay, waiting for the arrival of carriages, the party were driven to Fulton's International Hotel, where Tooms were already prepared for their reception. His Majesty the Emperor wishing todrive atonce to visit Prospect Park, he was a little amazed to find that in a free country he could not do so until after church hours. Their Majesties remained in the hotel until the hour of service at the Catholic church, where he ATTENDED MASS with all the members of his suite. After divine ser- vice their Majesties drove down to the American Falls, The Emperor was very much struck with the magnificent scene presented, and said that Magura was fully equal to all he had heard of it. Comparing it with the grand Brazilian waterfall of Paulo Affonso, His Majesty said that Niagara was the more beautiful, but that Paulo Affonso, in savage | grandeur and mass of water, prevailed over its American rival. The Empress also expressed her- self charmed with THE MAGNIFICENT SCENERY of the Falls, and it was universally conceded by the members of the suite that Niagara alone repaid the troubles and annoyances of the voyage to see It. As a souvenir of the imperial visit His Majesty ordered that a photograph of the whole party should be made, showing the Falls of Niagara in the dis- tance. The order was executed on the spot, and several negatives of the imperial party grouped about the Emperor and Empress were successfully taken. THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE. was then crossed, and His Majesty found himself on Canadian soil, where he could command a complete view of the various falls. His Majesty, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Coburg, the Visconde De Bom Retiro, Vice Admiral De Lamone and Chevalier Arthur Macedo, descended the path leading under the Horse Shoe Falls and penetrated under the immense sheet of spray. is Ma- jesty leading the imperial party. Dressed up in yellow looking oil suits, the imperial party cut a strange figure and got thoroughly well ban- tered by the Empress on the beauty of their per- sonal appearance. As there was a good deal of wind the expedition under the Horse Shoe was any- thing but pleasant, and before the visitors got back they had been treated to A GOOD SHOWER BATH which was certainly cooling. Visits were then made to the Museums, whose owners made a good harvest. In the evening Goat Island was visited, and their Majesties greatly admired the grandeur of the rapids. They say the visit to Niagara has been one of the most delightfal incidents of their Ameri- can tour. At three P. M. to-morrow the Emperor, Empress and suite start for Montreal, passing by rail to Toronto, and thence down through the Thousand Islands. The Duke of Saxe Cobourg returns to New York. He will rejoin their Majesties at Philadelphia. CUBA. MAXIMO GOMEZ FIGHTING FIERCELY WITH THE SPANIARDS—THE INSURGENTS REPULSED. Havasa, June 4, 1876 ‘The town of Ciego de Avilla, in the jurisdiction of Santo Spiritu, was attacked on the night of May 26 by the insurgent leader, Maximo Gomez, with 1,600 men, most of them mounted. A GALLANT DEFENCE. The place was defendod by a garrison 400 strong, The insurgents wore repulsed after desperate fighting, and retired without being pursued. LOSSES. ‘They lost thirty killed and about seventy wounded, The Spanish casualties were two officers killed and three men wounded. MURDER AND SUICIDE, SAD RESULTS OF POVERTY—A WOMAN AND CHILD THE VICTIMS. Sr. Lovrs, June 4, 1876. At a coroner’s inquest which was beld at Belleville, Ill, yesterday, on the bodies found in the woods near there on the 2d inst., the barkeeper of the Tiemanao House, of Belleville, identified them as those of a tam- ily that stopped at that bouse from the 4th to the 3ist of May. The man registered as Joseph May, of Evans- villo, Ind., and leit a trurk at the Tiemann House, in which was tound photographs of the deceased persons and a hymn book with the name Christian Becker in- seribed therein, The suppositton is that the woman was a sister of George Becker. The verdict of the jury was to the effect that Mi sbot the woman ana child and thon killed himself It 18 supposed that poverty led to the act. THE DEVOURING ELEMENT. GRIST AND SAW MILL BURNED. Portsmoutn, N. H., June 4, 1876, ‘Aggrist and saw mill at Hampton, which ts owned by a Mr. Walker, was burned last night, The loss is esti- mated at $8,000. Insarance small, BOX FACTORY BUBNED—THE LOSS AND IN- SURANCE. Bartmorg, Jone 4, 1876. The box factory of J. H. Thiomeyer & Co., which was situated in Ubier’s alley, between Charles and Hanover streets, was burned this morning. Loss, $14,000, It was insured in the toliowing uamed companies :—Koyal Canadian; Bangor, of Maine; Aliemania, of Pitusburg; Sun, of Philadelphia; Germania, of Nowark; Virginia State, and Standard, ot New Jersey. DESTRUCTIVE STORM. Lenaxox, N. H., Jano 4, 1876, The heaviest thunder storm whieh has occurred in this vicinity for years passea over here last night. Three inches of rain fell in two hours, washing out the highways and badly damaging the crops, THE LIGHTNING struck the barn of J. W. Gorrish, which in situated about a milo from this village, causing a fire which en- Urely consumed both the bara and its contents, Mr. Gerrish’s losa is estimated at $3,000 and is partially covered by insurance. MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. Wan Drranturst, Ornics oF THe Crixr SigxaL Wasuixotos, Juve 5-1 A M Probabilities, For Monday, in the South Atlantic States, rising barometer, ovolor northwest winds, clear or clearing weather will prevail. For the Gulf States, stationary or higher pressure, diminishing northerly winds, shifting to warmer, southerly on the coast and generally clear weather. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, stationary or rising barometer, northwest to southwest winds, cooler, lotlowed by warmer, clear weather. For the Upper Mississippt and Lower Missonri val- Jeys, southerly winds, failing barometer, and warmer, clear weather. For the apper lake region, westerly winds, cooler followed by warmer, partiy cloudy weather, For the lower lakes, cooler north and west winds, rising barometer and partly cloudy weather. For the Middle States, cooler northwest winds, rising barometer, clear or partly cloudy weather, execpt pos- sibly on the immediate const, For New Engiand, falling followed by rising barume- ter, northeast to northwest winds, cooler, cloudy and rainy, followed by clearing weather. Tho rivers will change but tittle, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- parisqn with the corresponding date of Inst year, as mdicnted by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Hera.p Building :— Isis, 1876, 1876, ~% cy ~ i 70 Sverese temperavere for corresponding dave inst ie OME, ..ssncsccecescccsrsccecsesererceseressess OOM ACROSS THE CONTINENT. The Trip Safely Accomplished in Eighty Hours and Twenty Minutes. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION IN SAN FRANCISCO Details of the Concluding Portions of the Journey. THE APPARENT AND REAT. ‘TIME. Max Francisco, June 4, 1876, ‘The Jarrott & Palmer transcontinental train arrived here at 9:39 A. M., local time, having left New York at 12:42 A, M., New York time, on Thursday, 1st inst, In other words, the trip across the Continent was made in eighty hours and twenty munutes, calendar time The trip since leaving Elko station, where my Jast despatch was dated, was won- derful for swiftness over mountain range and through doep valleys. As cach station was passed the excite- ment grew apace, and the party was received with that enthusiasm and hospitality peculiar to the Pacific coast, THE SUCCESS OF THE TRIP bas caused groat satis{nction this side of the Slorras, and, thongh the people are accustomed to great efforts, our journey across the Continent elicits wonder and astonishment hero in California, Everybody seems gurprised that the party is not fatigued toa degree of exhaustion, and the ovation we received was ono only to bo expected on this sido the Sierra Nevadas, Indeed, the closirg scenes of our journdy ‘were more exciting than any that preceded, for we wero treated more like heroes from a battle field than as men who had peaceably sat in a railroad ear to bo whirled across the Continent on half time, None of the passengers, sensiblo as they were that the achievement was wonderful, ever dreamed that the people of a whole city would turn outen masse, on a bright Sabbath morning, to welcome eigh- teen or twenty gentlemen who would rather slip out of sight than face a multitude of oxcited citizens. But so itis Ever since wo set foot on the pavements of San Francisco we have been surrounded by THROYGS OF PROPLE who, if any one opened his lips to a personal friend, clustered about him, eagerly catching the few disjointed sentences dropped by a speaker who had crossed tho American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific in less than three days anda half. I now go back to Eiko and resume tho RECORD OF OUR JOURNEY. On leaving Kiko at 4:25 P. M., aftér bidding you good night, we ran the saine locomotive, No. 149, some 300 miles; yet not a journal was heated, and the .en- gino seemed to be in excellent trim. The sconery, though made monotonous by the eternal sago brush, was sufficiently varted in formation to give renewed in- terest to this portion of the trip, THR SPEED despite the curves and grades was tremendous, tor wo mado fifty-five miles in Otty-four minutes on this divi- sion. At Carlin we met the eastern bound train that had left San Francisco Friday morning so that, though we had scarcely a fourth of our journey uncompleted, this regular train had been nearly thirty-three hours in doing a distance wo subse- quently accomplished in less than half the tima Several of the passengers were residents of New York, and as soon ax we stopped they ran to the Henatp correspondent and asked for the latest news, Thoir wonder cannot be described when tho correspondent pulled from his pocket copies of the Hxgatp printed in the office Thursday morning. Nothing more impressod me with the gigantic stride we had made in travel nan this inci- dent. Of course I cannot indulge ir the Juxury of describing by telegraph the wonderful scenery along the route of our journey last night, so 1 will contne myself to giving your readers arivi sxeton of our experiences having the last sixteen hours of our long and eventful rio on a rail, The Central Pacific decided to run engino 149 from Ogden to Oak- Jand, opposite this city, a distance of 881 miles. The feat seemed impossible, yot it sas accom- plished. It was, however, a risky experiment, and none of the party would caro to assist in another such demonstration of mechanical power, It must also be said that in using this solitary engine the Central fost fully one hour in stoppages consequent upon the condition of the locomotive, and thus robbed ‘us of thas time in crossing the Continent. The officials of the road wore, however, earnest and untiring in their efforts to secure success through the entire trip. Torun such an engino pearly 1,000 miles was powerful test of iron and steel. I sit in the Paiace Hotel with a steady tabic, at last, under my hands. I am free to confess that none of the party who knew anything of railroad travel were ignorant that the periment was A DANGEROUS OB, thongh we had at the time no appreciation of danger, as the cars ran smoothly, and the care taken by the officials was constantly manifest, On the route beyond Truckee we found Mr. Fellows, the Saperin- tendent of the Sacramento and Oregon divisivn, in charge of the train, he having on the day betore instracted the officials along the line to insure our safety. At Winnemuces Engincer Rice took charge of the locomotive to Wadsworth, a distance of 135 miles; thence Engineer 8 RK. Jenkins had his hand on the Jevor a distance of 70 miles, when Smail reeentercd the cab and ran us into Oaklaird safe and sound, THE TOTAL DISTANCE | travelled by the locomotive from Ogden wns 881 miles, the time 22 hours and 38 minutes; average speed per nour, 40 miles, The fraction gained by the preceding four roads over this average was sufficient to make the AVERAGE SPEED for the entire trip fully forty-two miles per hour, As there will no doubt be considerable controversy over the actual time consumed on this trip, I subject a minute calculation furnished mo by Professor George Davidson, Chief of the United States Service on this const.’ It affords a clearer conception ot the time tn all its phases than any amount of descriptive writing I might be Inclined to indaige tn. Diflerence in longitude in time between Jersey City pier and various points, on Sao Francisco Bay, from the United States Coast Survey record :— Oakland Point, west of Jersey City pier, 3b. 13m, 1s.; Onkinnd ferry slip, west of Jersey City pier, 3b, «13m. 10%; = Market = strect’ slip, west of Jersey City plier, 3m, 13m, 278, With the above data and tho reported time of the arrival of the lightning train this day we obtain the actual time of runaing as follows :—Between Jersey City and Uak- Jand Point, lightning train lett Jersey City pier June 1, 1h, 3m. ; arrived at Oakland Point June 4, 9b. 22m. ; apparent running timo, 80b, 19m., and difference of longitude, 3h. 13m, 7s. ; actual time occupied in running between Jersey City and Onkland Point 83 hours, 32 minutes 7 seconds, Between Jersey City and leaving Oakland ferry slip:—Lightning train lett Jersey City pier June 1, 1 hour 3 minutes; boat left Oakland ferry slip June 4, 9 hours 29 minutes; apparen, running time, 80 hours 26 minutes; add difference of longitude, 3 hours 13 minutes 16 second—actual time occupied in running betwoen Jer- sey City and Oakland ferry slip, within the corporate Himuts of the city of San Francisco, 83 honrs 39 min- utes 16 seconds. Between Jersey City and Market street ferry shp—Lightning train loft Jersey City pier Jane 1, 1 hour 3 minutes; arrived at Market street ferry slip, San Francisco, 4th, 9 hours 43 minutes 18 sec. onds; apparent time, 80 hours 40 minntws 18 seconds; add difference of longitude, 3 hours 13° minutes 27 seconds; actual time occupied in running between Jersey City to Market street ferry slip, San Francisco, 83h. 53m. 45s, By these caicniations Hgnatp readers will reo that we jeft New York ‘city by the ferry at 12h. 43m. A. M., June 1; arrived at Oak. land wharf, within San Francisco limits, 9b. 20m. on June & The time from New York city to San Fran” cisco, alter allowing for difference of timo exactly cal- |. Calated, was 68h. 69m, 16s, ; the time from Jersey City what motive is / J | SHEET. to San Francisco, actual timo, difference of longit=-- allowed, 83h. 39m, 163, THE ARRIVAL. T pew jamp from the train in the city of San Fran- cisco. As the morning papers had intimated the Possible arrival of the party about nine o'clock, thero was & great concourse of people at the wharf to witoess thé landing of the excursionists, and all along Market street the sidewalks were thronged with cittzens demonstrating their grati- fieation at the safe arrival of the lightning train. As the carriages were driven into the inner court of the Palace Hote! tho crowd burst out with enthusiastic shouts of welcome, Royalty could have received no greater token of respect and admiration than were show- ered upon every traveller as he alighted from his car- riage. The spacivus office where we had to rogister our names was at once filied with acrowd pushing forward to catch a glimpse of our dusty countenances. A dozen bands grasped ous, and we were in actual danger thereby, Thero was associated with the curiosity manifested a very gratilying snterest in our personal safety, for it could hardly be expected that such @ lengthy trip, at such remarkable Speed, could be accomplished without giving rise to the apprehension that accident was at least possible. OUR RECKPTION Was truly genuine, and improssed us with the enthust- asm of the generous, hearty citizens of the Pacitic slope, whose better acquaintance wé sball all be glad to cultivate during our short stay among them. Warren Leland, the leasee, had prepared a breakfast for the party and we found assembled the leading citi- zens of San Francisco, headed by Mayor Bryant, awaite ing our entrance, Atter a hearty meal the prophesied San Francisco breaktast came to an end with toasts and congratulatory speeches by Atlantic aud Pacific speakers, who thus clasped hands across the entire Continent. The enormous bundles of Thursday’s Hxrauns brought by your agent were meanwhile seiling at fabulous prices in tho streets of the city, and thus the transatlantic journey was ended and passed into the history of the centennial ye: WHAT IS THOUGHT OF THE FAST TRAIN IN THE ‘WEST—SOME FAST TRIPS ON THE NEW YORK CENTRAL ROAD, Boston Post:—‘Tho fast tratn across the Continent Raturally raises the question, Why \18 it that fast travelling on tho rail isn’t more popular in this country? Riding at tho rate of sixty or seventy miles an hour is said by competent authorities to be no More dangerous than riding at tho rate of forty or fifty miles an hour, and railroad kings like Com- modore Vanderbilt, Colonel Scott and John W. Garrett are uncasy when making less than a mile a minute, In England wuch faster time 1s mado on the Tailruads than in this country, the express trains over the Great Northern Railroud usually making between sixty-nine and seventy miles an hour, Tho highest speed ever attained on the English railways ts seventy- eight miles an hour, while in this country the lastest ‘me on record was made by a train running from Syra- cuse to Rochester, N. Y., the distance—eighty-one miles—having been accomplished in sixty-one min- utes,’? Chicago Intev-Ocean, June 2:—"'The special excur- sion train from New York to San Francisco, which ex- pects to reach the latter place on the fourth day from Now York, was whirlng through New York, Pennsyl- vania, Objo, Indiava and Illinois yesterday, and at this writing seems likely to accomplish its feat, It ran 444 miles yesterday without stopping—a feat uncxampled, as Mr. Boyd teiegrapha, ja the history of the world, ‘The train arrived in this city at ten o’clock last night, and a few minutes Jater the New York Henano ot yea- terday morning was delivered at this offico,” Clinton (lowa) Age:—The Naw Yorx Hrratp of yesterday, June 1, 1876, was received here at half-past one A. M. this morning, having been carried 1,051 miles in twenty-one hours and jorty-five minutes, a feat never before performed and probably for somo years will not be repeated. As a matter of record and for further information about the inst train, we feproduco in the columns ot the Age of this date, June, 2, 1876, an article from the New York Hxrarp of Juno 1, 1876. This article was put in type before two O'clock, and at ten minutes past two A. M. the Age will go to press and will be distributed throughout the city, #0 that we piace upon the premises of our city subscribe: xtracts from the New York Heratp, clipped from the paper itself, which paper was printed only some twenty-five hours belore the same was re- produced in the Clinton Age.’? Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazette:—“For tho first timo in the history of the world the New York morning papers wore received inthis city before sunset of the samo day. On yesterday evening at seven o'clock we re- ceived the New York Herat of Juno 1, addressed to the Gazette, eighteen hours from tho time it left the press, Bennett, the proprietor of the Hgratp, bas the energy and push to be successful, and the prosperity of the Hxraio isa living witness to his untiring energy. The Heraup was carricd from New York on Jarrett « Palmer's {ast transcontinental train which Jefe that city yesterday morning for Francisco, where it will arrive in three di and twelve hours. Such an undertaking, if predicted even twenty years ago, would bave been considered chimerical, A trip from ocean to ocean jn eighty-tour hours. The first ninety miles was made in ono hour and forty min- utes, The train was on time at this city. Twenty-to passengers were on boar, including the correspond- ents of the London Zimes, the Journal des Debats and the Heraup, The train ‘consists of a locomotive, baggage car, a combined commissary and smoking ¢ anda Pullman palaco hotel car. There are but fivo rincipal Ka places between New York and San Princesa. ‘This trip no doubt will stand as the fastest time and Jongest continuous run on record for years to come, FAST TRAINS ON THE CENTRAL ROAD, In 1871, Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt, who was West, having been telegraphed to mect the Commodore in Albany, Jett Chicago on a special train, and at Cleveland at- tached to the regular ‘‘Atiantic expreas,”’ which had been held there two hours. This train consisted of eleven cars, but it made up the timo lost, so that the whole ran from Chicago to Albany was mado in twenty hours, and to New York im twenty-four hours, The poeuliarity of this ran was that, out of the whole distance of 981 miles, 630 miles wero made with a roguiar train, much above average size, making the stops on the time table to set down and reccive passengers and baggage. In 1872 Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt, accompanied by some other persons connected with the road, left Buffalo on a special train at twelve noon, and reached Albany at twenty minutes jo six P. M., rrnning a distance of 300 miles in 340 minutes, including stoppages. The speed of this train while in motion was uniformly sixty miles an ‘hour, the extra forty minates being consumed inthe stoppages. No especial preparations were made for this run, and it may be considered ono of the fastest on record. Tie Heap early in tho present year ran a special train from Niagara Falls to Syracuse, a distance of 158 miles in 157 minutes, making two stoppages. Allowing four minutes for each of these stoppages the running speed of this train was about sixty-four mi and considering the distance rum at that ra steadiness and comfort of the train it may fairly sidered the best run ever made, On the second day of Jast month a “special” was run from New York to carry the directors and others to the Lake Shore election at Cleveland.. The distance js 60 miles, and the time between termini was thir- teen hours and ten minutes—being an average speed of forty-eight miles an hour, including stoppages, The continuation, at the same averoge, to Chicago woula have made the time to that place about twenty and ove-baif hours, These trains were special only in that they were not Ou time schedules, but they, and a large number of others like them, were run without any previous prep- aration. Of the regular trains there was the Herat train ran daring the summer of 1875, which mado many long dashes, including one of thirt} e miles, at the rate of seventy-five miles per hour. “fast mail? ix, however, the most striking example of # rapid regu- lor train; its time between New York and Cleveland, 630 miles, is fifteen hours and Ofteen minutes, the average speed, includ stoppages, being forty-one miles per beur. Th is somewhat reduced beyond Cleveland, as there 1s more time to spare, but if con- tinued to Chicago, as woult be perfectly easy, it would reach that place in a little Jess than twenty-four hours, It now makes it in twenty-six hours, This train has four large and heavy cars and carries from thirty to forty-five tons of mati matter, and It has to be run with a steadiness of motion that will enable tbo postal clerks to do their work almost as well could in an office, On its first trip it consiated cars and nado @ huinber of extra stoppages, but the time was accarately maintained. During the period of nearly nine months in which it has now been running, there have been but three or four occasions when it was not precisely on time. There is not, prob- ably, an example anywhere of such pertect success in running a heavy train at a high rate of The ple connected with the railway mail service of the Pont Ofties Department, who have made extensive in- vestigations of the subject, say that, all points consid- ered, this train bas not its equal in the world, SHOT BY A NEGRO BOY. Cunrexse, Wy. T., Juno 4, 1876, A young lady named Jennie Martin, Gfteen years of age, while walking on Eddy streot, of this erty, last evening about eight o'clock, in compnoy with a Indy friend, was shot in the head and instantly killed by » negro boy, aged twelve yours, Tho iad is now in jail, nnd the ay eee Daren eee that he fired the shot from 8 five bat whether iatentionally or from is y MARINE DISASTER. Bostox, June 4, 1876. During the storm last night the schooner H. & Barnes broke from her anchorage at Rockland, Me., and went ashore. She |ics in an exposed situativg, full of water. A CHALLENGE FROM O'LEARY. Saw Fraxcisco, June 4, 1876, O'Leary, the pedestrian, on the Ist inst, sent a chab lenge to Vaughan, of Chester, England, who recently walked 120 miles inside of twenty-four hours, to walk two matches, one of twenty-four hours and one ot ix days, either in the United States or England, for £500 to £1,000 a side. VELOCIPEDE CONTEST. A great champion velocipede contest for $£00, be tween D. Stanton, the champion of England, and Wilk tam Butler, champion of Keatucky, will take place at the American Institute Rink, Sixty-third street and Third avenue, on Thursday, the 8th inst, The distance 1s twenty miles, and the raco will commence at eighto’clock P. M. THE EXCURSION SEASON. The first annual excursion of the St, Peter’s B. and D, Association will bo made on Thursday next The tug boat H. H. Edge ana the barge Caledonia will leave Vanderbilt's Ianding, Staten Island, at eight A. My Stapleton filteen minutes later, and so on around the Island, stopping at each landing, till Elm Park reached at ten o'clock, There will be Do postponement even if the weather should prove stormy, and the pro coeds of tho affair will be devoted to the benefit of the ehureh from which the association taker its name. At Elm Park, on Thursday next, Father Barry's parishes will also bold their annual picnic. A steames will leave the foot of Whiteball street every hour os that day for the Park. BAPTISM ON CANARSIE BEACH. Yesterday afternoon tho pastor and congregation of St. Mark’s (colored) Mission of Williamsburg repaired to Canarsie Beach for the purpose of baptizing a num ber of converts who had recently joined the church The mission is Methodist, but they believe that th eunuch that Phillip baptized in the wilderness went down into the wator, and that, therefore, they must d¢ likewise, The announcement of the ceremony attracted a con sidorabie crowd, mainly of irroverent whites, whose de- rogatory remarks was the only thing that marred the ceremony. One male and six females were baptized, during the afternoon by Rey. Thomas G. Veitob, ase stated by Deacon Thomas Brown, the eflect on the bap- tized being to raise them to an extatic condition, which found vent in shout or song or dance, one woman 08 her way to the shore falling prone into the water. The People of Canarsie seemed averse to the ceremony and it was only alter urgent entreaty that the pious cole ored people were enabled to hire a stable in which to effect their toilets. Their ordinary wearing apparel was exchanged for along robe of black serge extending from the neck to the ankle, the bottom hem being filed wit’ shot to hold st down in the water, After everything had been arranged the pastor stood at tho edge of the water and appoaied to the crowd to deal gently with thom, and if they had no respect for the day or the ceremony to act both in word and deed ae if they were ladies and gentlemen. The was fective, except in one instance, and tho map oflending was so profancly abusive that he was led away by other white men, Mr. Veitch then entered the water, and remained there about 150 fect from the shore until seven had been baptized, Deacon Brown escorting them from and to the shore, Most of the women were young, and after being baptized seemed greatly aifected, either y the water, the cere- mony or the umque singing by the choir and cong tion, who stoot on the shore dispnting their position with the rising tide, and raising their voices im wild melodies during ghe entire service. At any rate they seemed possessed for the time being with an excess of vitality that impelled them to shout and jump in the water and on the shore until, wiped down, they had resumed their ordinary apparel and were ready for the homeward train. Thirteen more convorts will be bape tized the first Sunday in July. OBITUARY, JOHN H. SCOURIIELD, M, P. : A cable telegram from London, under dato of thiq morning, reports the occurrence ot the death of Joha HL Scourfleld, member of Parliament for Pembroke shire. Mr. Scourtield was sixty-eight years ofage, He was the only son of the late Owen Phillips, Esq., ot Williamstown, but adopted the surname of Ins i pains Avn Elizabeth Scourfield, daughter of Heary Scour: field, Feq., of Robeson Hall, Perobrokeshira Ho wss educated at Harrow and Oriel College, Oxtord, and gradnated Bacholor of Arts, third class in class 1m 1828, and Master of Arts in 1832. In the year 1! he obtained a royal license authorizing him toassume the name of Scourfield, He served as High Sherif! of Pembroke in the year 1833. Ho representet the con- stituency of Haveriord-wost from the month of July, 1852, till the month of November, 1868, when he wag elected member tor Pembrokeshire. In politics he wag a conservative-l ral, COMMODORE VANDERBILT. Commodore Vanderbilt was in a decidedly improved condition yesterday. His appotite was slightly im- proved, and ho partook sparingly of peaches and straw, berries m addition to his beef tea, He was sleeping soundly at midnight. ANOTHER INSANE WOMAN. Annie O'Hara, a married woman, aged thirty-five years, ot No. 348 East Seventeenth street, has been roparated from her husband two years. A few days ago she visited Philadelphia and found him living with another.woman. Returning home she threatened to commit suicide, and early yesterday morning ran out of the houso with the intention of drowning herself at the foot of Nineteenth street. She was prevented an officer, who had her removed to Bellovac Hospi where it wa und that sho was insane, She was consignd to the cells, LITERARY CHIT CHAT, Professor C, Lassen, the greatest of European San- serit scholara, died at Bonn last mouth, aged seventy- six. His great work was his ‘Indischendischo Alters thamskunde,” in four volumes, ‘ Mary Wolstonecraft is tho subject of some biograpl- cal papers in the Fortnightly Review, ‘A life of Henry Thomas Buckle, by Mr. A. H. Huth, who accompanied him in tho Eastern tour.which ter minated in bis life, is in the press, M. Renan has published an interesting volume of “Dialogues et Fragments Philosophiques, ” Archbishop Manning's new work, ‘he Glories of the Sacred Heart,” will be issued in this country by the Catholic Publication Socioty. A new and great book for music lovers will be Rich- ard Wagner's ‘Leben und Wirken,” by Curl F. Glasene nap, to be puplished at Leipzig. 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