The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1877, Page 4

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be very warm and fair or parlly cloudy, with rain in the late afternoon. Wate Srreer Yesrervay.—The stock mar- ket was active, and shortly after the open- Ing there was another serious break in the values of the principal stocks. This decline Jasted almost all day, with a slight rally at the close. Gold opened at 106g, fell to 10614 and closed at 1063. Government bonds were lower, while railroads were irregular but generally lower. Money on call continues very easy at 11g a 2 per cent. ‘ Jerome Park will present w brilliant appear- ance to-morrow, if the present fine weather con- tinues. i Paxics were threatened but averted yester- day in two Catholic churches during the services of the feast of Corpus Christi. In one case the thin drapery around a statue, and in the other the drapery of the altar, caught fire, and the worshippers, remembering the recent calamities, were of course*alarmed. The courage and cool- ness of the priests soon convinced the people that there was no danger, but the incidents prove that too much care cannot be taken in the decoration of altars where candles are employed. Tue Great Trpan Wave of May 10 was, as we predicted in yesterday’s Huratp, experienced at the Hawaiian Islands. The despatches an- nouncing this fact are published elsewhere this morning. Our theory regarding the extent and direction of this volcanic disturbance is there- fore fully sustained. That the wave wus higher on the eastern than on the western side of the islands ‘can be accounted for by the meeting of two masses of water on the latter side which had passed one to the northward and the other tothe southward of the group. The phenome- non farnishes an interesting matter for the study of scientists. AyorTuER Drarn From Doa Brre.—The use- fulness of a bome for dogs, such as Mr. Bergh proposes to establish in New York, has new illus- tration in the death from hydrophobia reported in our despatches from Hartford. A gentleman * sitting in his oftice is intruded upon by a vagrant cur and in attempting to expel him is bitten and dies a month after. With a good dog law this cur would have kept where he could not harm, and it is the protection which a home would give to citizens which con- stitutes one of its greatest values. Of course, wise philosophers will say that this gentleman died from fright, not from rabies; but the fact that he did die from the efects of a dog bite ought to settle the dog question in the opinion of « sensible peop Mr. Giapston RECEPTION at Birmingham by u throng of thirty thousand people and their indorsement of his policy has important signifi- eunce. It shows that if England should go to war with Russia in defence of Turkey it would hot be with the full consent of the nation and that strong anti-war party would be formed. The hold which Mr. Gladstone gained by his denunciations of the massacres in Bulguria is weakened, but not wholly lost, and he is yet able to embarrass the British government, even though his motions were voted down over- whelmingly in the House of Commons. Tis appeal is now made from Parliament to the people, and he probably inspired the resolu- tions passed by the Birmingham meeting de- claring that England should join with the other Powers in demanding of Turkey better guaran- tees for the protection of her Christian subjects. Tue Wratner.—Yesterday a generul rise of temperature occurred east of the Missouri River and chietly in the central and eastern districts. The isotherm of 70 extended from the coast of Maine northward of Quebee and thence curved irregularly southwestward and westward over the lake region to Milwaukee, whence it bent northward and southwestward, embracing the centre of Lake Superior. The isotherm of 80 extended from Long Island westward in a series of curves projecting northward to embrace Albany, Detroit and Chicago and thence south- westward below Omaha. Two detached areas of 80 of sinall diameter occurred outside this line, one at Marquette, Mich., and oue in Canada around Quebec. T’ e directions of the two isotherms, how z 1 ‘steep thermal gradicnts over Lake Ontario and near Chicago; also in the St. Lawrence Valley, | oo Lake Superior and westward of the Lower Missouri. On these gradients or in the regions where they occur sudden and violent winds are likely to be experienced either in the early fore- noon or approaching sunset. To add to the complications in the Northwest—that is, the | region between the Missouri and Mississippi vulleys—tho barometric differences are exceed- ingly great, thus creating a condition highly favorable to the development of local tem- | pests or tornudocs. The storm now ccutral in | indicated is one of exceptional avd rain, and the region severity both as to wind as it is closely followed by a falling wire the change after ita passage will be severely felt. ‘Che pressure continues low in tho South and Northeast, unattended, however, by what could be called bad weather. Local storms of lightning, rain, and possibly hail, will occur at different points during the warm and may be expected every evening at oe tan and vicinity while it lasts. The weuther at New York to-day will be very warm | and’fair or partly cloudy, probably with rain in the late afternvon. ] NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1877—WITH The Brutal Tramp. We do not need to urge the anthorities of Newark to prompt and severe punishment of the tramps who on Tuesday so brutally outraged a poor woman and her daughter near that place, New Jersey justice is both swift and severe; and the people of New Jersey are therefore relieved of many of the | perils and terrors from vagrants which are too patiently endured by the people of some other States, notably our own. We have heard of a gentleman in New Jersey who, finding a tramp on his place, who had begun to be uncivil to the servants, collared him, showed him to a big dog, and then marching him to the gate said, “If ever I see you on this road anywhere I'll take you to the county town at once and have you putin jail fora year.” Not only did not the tramp reappear, but other tramps have ‘ carefully -avoided the neighborhood ever since. There is no doubt that vagrancy is becoming systematized in our seaboard States. We have seen mysterious marks on gateposts in the country, and on doorsteps in the better parts of New York, which, there is reason to believe, are notices put up by | tramps to warn or encourage their fellows. | Atsuch a house they may safely apply ; | such another is to be carefully avoided; and | these hieroglyphics tell the story to the vagrants as they wander over country roads 4 or through city streets. In England tramping has long been a sys- tematic pursuit, a kind of profession which is followed year after year, and the mem- bers of which even divide the country among themselves and do not poach on each other's preserves. They gather in London and other large cities during the winter, and the early spring draws them out to the country to beg and steal, and to rob and murder where they imagine themselves safe against apprehension. It does not matter whether trade is brisk or the reverse, whether work is easy or hard to get; the tramp is nota man looking for something to do. His pov- erty is professional, and an old proverb | describes him ag “‘ looking for a day’s work, but praying to Heaven he may not find it.” In fact, the tramp is a confirmed vagrant. | Why should he not be promptly and univer- | sally dealt with as such? “If a man will not work, neither let him eat,” says the Scripture. Almost all our States have vagrant laws, but they are not enforced; if they were the tramp nuisance, which is be- coming more serious every year, would be quickly abated. In fact, the light sentences which too many of our judges, in city and country, give for ruffianism are a fertile cause of the social disorders of which the country tramp is one example. Not many weeks ago here in New York a notorious ruffian who had been so long defying the laws that a “gang” was named after him, was convicted of having, in company with two others, broken into a tenement and out- raged a woman and her daughter, and he was sent to prison for three months. It was said in excuse that the women were of doubtful character, and it was shown that they lived in a very wretched part of the town ; but it was not pretended that a very brutal and unprovoked outrage had not been committed. To send the perpetrator to prison for three months for it was simply to encourage the rest of the ‘‘yang” to other crimes. We notice that the Bollinger peo- ple, near Newark, are also saitl to be wretch- edly poor and debased; but we hope New Jersey justice will not be blinded by this plea. The Vagrant law of New York covers the case of alltramps. If it were faithfully ex- ecuted vagrants would quickly leave the State, or at any rate the neighborhoods where it was enforced. It needs for its en- forcement the ready and constant co-opera- tion of good citizens; but this is equally true of many other laws. By chapter 20, title 2, section 1 of the Revised Statutes it is pro- vided that ‘all idle persons who, not having visible means to maintain themselves, live without employment; all persons wandering abroad and lodging in my 2 * out- houses, market places, sheds or barns, or in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves; all persons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door, ~ ae * shall be deemed vagrants.” Section 2 declares that “it shall be the duty of every constable or other peace officer, whenever. required by any person, to carry such vagrant before a justice of the peace,” kc. Section 3 pro- vides that “if such justice or other officer be satisfied by the confession of the offender or by competent testimony that such person is a vagrant within tho description aforesaid heshall * * * commit such vagrant, if he be not a notorious offender and bea proper object for such relief, to the County Poorhonse or to the Almshouse—a poor- house of such town or city—for any term not exceeding six months, there to be kept at hard labor; orif the offender be an im- proper person to be sent to the Poorhouse,” then to the County Jail, ‘‘for a term not exceeding sixty days, there to be kept, if the Justice so direct, upon bread and water only,” for a term not to exceed half his term of commitment ; and section 12 directs that no person thus committed as a vagrant shall be discharged before the expiration of the term for which he was sentenced. We have quoted the provisions of the statute to show our country readers in this State that they are not without remedy for | the tramp nuisance of which they complain, | The law is quite sufficient. There is no danger that either the poorhouses or jails will be overcrowded, for the tramp is tog careful of his comfort and safety to expose himself in localities where the people com- bine to execute the law. He will move very rapidly out of a neighborhood which he | discovers to be dangerous. Solitary con- finement, a bread and water diet, hard labor, have great terrors for this able-bodied vagrant. But there remains still another | duty for the farmer or country resident. Where a beggar or tramp thre. tens or at- tempts violence he ceases to be a mere | vagrant, and becomes amenable to the law | asa criminal, and itis the duty of the citizen whose family is thus attacked, and of the neighborhood in which it happens, to hunt down the offender as though he were a wild beast, and bring him sternly to justice. A fellow who takes the occasion of a house being left in charge of defenceless women to threaten and insult them is no better than a wild beast; he deserves no mercy from the community ; the heaviest sentence that our laws provide for such an outrage is too light for his deserts, Public opinion everywhere should require that the tramp be severely dealt with. If in any case he is honestly poor and really seek- ing a way to earn a living, this can be easily established; but such cases are rare. The army of ill-looking fellows who infest the country roads within a hundred miles of New York are not looking for work ; they are look- ing for something to steal. They kindlethe forest fires ; they creep into barns to sleep and set fire to them with their careless pipes ; they prey upon hen roosts, and their sharp and evil eyes spy out the defenceless houses in remote neighborhoods and communicate their discoveries to their friends, the burglars. To this kind o powerful dog is a terror, and they enter no gate where this honest animal is kept. A burglar alarm disgusts them; the bark of a terrier kept in the house is an unwelcome sound'to their ears; they seek farmhouses and residences where ‘there are no men about”—that is to say, they are cowardly | beasts’ who need only a favorable opportu- nity to commit any outrage known to the rogue’s calendar. They are formidable only because our rural communities have become unaccustomed to act in concert and have grown used to depending upon the con- stable to enforce the laws without their help. But no community can safely do this for along time. Wherever the mass of the people cease to co-operate readily with the officers in the apprehension of offenders against the law there the vagrant and crim- inal classes presently find sufficient safety to tempt them to their callings. K The MiMtary Situation in the East. To summarize our latest despatches from the Danube and Armenia it is only neces- sary to state that little change has taken place in the relative positions of the belligerent. armies in European Turkey. Both sides are actively preparing—the Rus- sians for an advance into and the Turks for the defence of Bulgarian. The arrival of the Czar at Ploejesti will probably be followed by an attempt to cross the Danube at several points by the Russian centre and right wing. Widdin, therefore, is likely to be one of the first of the Turkish fortresses attacked, because it will be deemed important to isolate as quickly as possible the Turkish forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Armenia the position of the Turks has not improved. Ihe Russians are gradually investing Batoum, while Kars continues surrounded and cut off from any aid. The reported recapture of Ardahan is not credited either in St. Peters- burg or Constantinople, although the Turk- ish Minister of War has officially announced its reoccupation. According to a despatch from Constantinople, dated yesterday, no confirmation of the report has been re- ceived from the Turkish headquarters at the Songalu position. The removal of Mukhtar Pacha from the command of the army of Armenia and his preposed court- martial for malversation in office shows how deplorably demoralized the Turkish military system has become. It appears that he claimed to have over sixty thousand men under arms, while the real number was only thirty thousand. It is supposed that he drew supplies for the larger number, thus defrauding his government. In any case his removal for cause must have a very depressing effect on the army he commanded and which, although holgling a strong posi- tion, is outflanked and outnumbered by the Ruésians, A fear of Russian iron-clads in the Mediterranean keeps the Egyptian con- tingent at Alexandria. The ‘lurks are, however, organizing an escort for the trans- ports. The revolt of the Circassians, al- though an embarrassment to Russia, does not seriously affect her operations in Arme- nia, The retreat of the Russians on Baja- zid, if true, is doubtless due to want of forage and supplies. England’s Welcome to Grant. General Grant reached the English me- tropolis at five o’clock yesterday afternoon, and was received quietly at the St. Pancras station by Minister Pierrepont, Consul Gen- eral Badeau, Lord Vernon and a small party. The journey from Manchester was marked by hearty greetings and welcomes at the @everal stations, and imposing demonstra- tions were made at Leicester and Bedford asthe handsomely decorated cars reached those places, ‘To some of the addresses that were made to him Gencral Grant replied with an ease and _ sincerity which will no doubt make our British cousins wonder how he came by his title of the silent President. The secret probably lies in the fact that our soldier President detests forms and shams and political in- trigue, and he had good reasons for his taciturnity when he found himself sur- rounded by politicians whom his judgment told him it was dangerous to trust. His welcome in England isa genuine outpour- ing of a nation’s respect and admiration, and as such General Grant receives it and responds to it with an unembarrassed and earnest sincerity. There is aconversational, unpretending style among Englishmen at home which will suit General Grant’s taste, and we shall be mistaken if the ex-President does not win a genuine popularity in Eng- lish society during his stay on the other side of the Atlantic. Bathing for the Million, Two of the free baths are to be opened to the public to-day, if possible, and the others are to be in a condition to receive their crowds of eager visitors within the next week. There will be six of these bathing houses in operation this summer, and with our extended line of water front we could well afford to give the people double the number. As it is the accommodations will be greater than in any previous year, and the management is said to be decidedly improved. Careful and competent persons have been selected as bathers, especially in the female department, and the wise rule has prevailed of selecting as attendants ex- pert swimmers, who are capable of giving instructions in the art. A more welcome boon than these baths could not be ex- tended to the poorer classes in New York during the summer season. They do more to promote and vpreserve | | the public health than all that is done by the incapable Board of Health the year round. They are an inestimable comfort to all whose means do not enable them to leave the city during the hot sum- mer months, but females are especially ben- efited, since they could not bathe at all but for these free houses. Hundreds of lives are, no doubt, saved through their instru- mentality, since boys and men who use them would in their absence incur the dan- ger of open river bathing. We hope next year to see the number of free baths in- creased. Indeed, we see no reason why an additional bath should not be constructed at once and placed at the Battery. The peo- ple would not begrudge its cost. Peace Propositions in Earope. Persistent efforts to make peace between Russia and Turkey are evidently on foot. They are most heard of in the news from Berlin, which may be due either to the fact that they are German efforts, or that, by whoever made, they are made to Russia through the German government as one that has no immediate interest in the quarrel and that is in sympathy with the stronger Powér. They seem to be inspired with an unusual energy and without a very obvious occasion. Peace propositions may properly follow a great success on either side, and are commonly the consequence of such an event ; but to treat the fall of Arda- han as an occurrence of this nature seems to argue an undue disposition to find a pre- text. From the first rumor of the likeli- hood of war the German government, in all public utterances, expressed its hope that peace would be preserved, save on the one occasion when Prince Bismarck declared that he saw uo reason why Russia should be discouraged from doing that which Ger- many would do if she were in Russia’s place, But though it spoke for peace the German government made no urgent repre- sentations on the subject to either party, and if the present propositions are, as appears probable, of German ori- gin, they indicate that some new view of the situation in Enrope is sud- denly taken in Berlin, and that it is thought desirable to endeavor to secure conformity with that view in the attitude of other Powers. pit is possible that the Germans deem the course of events in France threatening enough to justify the attempt to secure peace in Oriental Europe by the abandonment of their former atti- tude of reserve. If they are persuaded that an ultramontane Cabinet means to embroil France with States that have taken decided position against the temporal power it isa natural consequence of that opinion that they should anticipate the occurrence of a war in which they will have an immediate interest, and that they should desire to have their hands free and be be- yond all possible complication in the East. ‘They cannot be safe from possible complica- tion while the war between Russia and Tur- key continues, with its necessary implica- tion of English and Austrian interests, It is, therefore, not unlikely that tho German government is pressing upon Russia its de- sire that peace should be made, and is de- claring to Turkey that she must accept terms that will satisfy the moderate de mands publicly made by the Czar, Prospect of a Row. We fear that the Mormonic tragedian, Rignold, has uncovered a sort of Pandora’s box in giving to the world the inaugural play of his Salt Lake edition of Shake- speare. We cansee troubles innumerable in store for Romeo and his six Juliets, as there probably will also be for Othello with his half dozen Desdemonas and other Shake- spesrian polygamists, who will, no doubt, follow from the Rignold répertoire. Now, the lady in the baldony scene of Shake- speare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet” certainly re- ceived a distinct promise from Romeo that he would make her his wife. Indeed, with no little skill she cast the hook right into the gills of the gallant as neatly as an avail- able swain could be landed at Saratoga by the most expert angling mamma. ‘If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage,” says the lady, ‘‘send me word to-morrow;” and Romeo did send her word on the’following day and by the mouth of a witness. Now, if Juliet the second kept the appointment in Friar Lawrence's cell, ar- ranged by and with Juliet the first, and Romeo there married her, we do not see what escape there is for the bridegroom trom a breach of promise suit on the part of Juliet number one, with heavy damages claimed. We are willing to leave Judge Brady to de- cide whether the alleged uncertain light in the balcony scene would be a sufficient de- fence to the action, especially as there is evi- dence that Romeo had previously seen and recognized the real Julict (Rignold’s num- ber one) before that night encounter. Then, again, if it was Juliet number one who occupied the chamber in which she mistook the singing of the lark, the herald of the morn, for the voice of the nightingale, and whose finger was not adorned with the mar- riage ring in the ceremony performed by Friar Lawrence, certainly the lawful wife, Juliet number two, would have good ground for a divorce suit against Romeo without going to Chicago for it, and any New York judge would give heralimony on the plead- ings, to say nothing of the nanghtiness of Juliet number three, who ought to be ashamed of herself. We have no patience with Juliet number four, who voluntarily got herself into hot water with the old man and woman -of the Capulet family by passing herself off for their original daughter and refusing to marry Paris. Now, any modern young lady ought to be well pleased with the offer ofa Paris wedding, and as there is no proof whatever that Juliet number four ever had a husband, it seems to have been an unac- countable blunder on her part not to have snapped at “the gallant, young and noble into her arms. Nevertheless, as Juliet num- ber four owed no sort of allegiance to the senior Capulet, she certainly would have cause of action against that abusive old bull- dozer for calling her a ‘green sickness car- | rion,” a ‘‘baggage” and a “tallow face.” Friar Lawrence might well fear a criminal prosecution for administering dangerous drugs to Juliet number five; but as the potion was transferred subsequently toJuliet gentleman” who was thus thrown, as it were, | SUPPLEMENT. number six, who swallowed it and put the last of the Juliets tosleep, it would probably be difficult to bring the act home to the friar. The trouble is not likely to end, however, with the death of Juliet number six. It is not difficult to puzzle a coroner or a coro- ner’s jury, for they are not generally blessed with much discernment; but in the name of the two Dicks—Croker and Flan- negan—we ask how any ‘‘Crowner” could decide on the identity of the female who stabbed herself with Rignold’s dagger at the entrance of the Capulet tomb, or decide whether she was or wag not a genuine Juliet, and who would be entitled to the property found on the body? Mexico from a Texan Standpoint. We learn that Mr. Schleicher, who repre- sents in Congress the Southern or border district of Texas, and who is an exception- ally able man, has communicated to the President his views and those of his people on the true Mexican policy, and we have reason to believe that these views struck the President and Secretary of State as emi- nently just and sensible. We are of that opinion too. Mr. Schleicher is totally op- posed to all schemes looking to the acquisi- tion of Mexican territory. He believes that our government ought, first of all, to give to the Mexicans positive and public assurances that the United States have'no such designs, so as to do away with a suspicion which has, he sees, stood in the way of cordial re- lations between the two countries. He be- lieyes that the Lerdo government, which is the best in his opinion that Mexico has bad for many years, will, before long, be re-established, and that we ought to cultivate with that the most friendly and intimate relations, giving it moral and, even if it should be necessary, material support. He thinks that, this done, it would be easy to so improve our commer- cial relations with Mexico as to secure to us agreater share in her commerce than we now have; and he hints that, once persuaded that we do not mean to steal their territory, the Mexicans will join us in protecting the border, and will take no offence if our troops shall pursue murderers and robbers across the line, The policy thus sketched is sensible, honest and statesmanlike. We are glad to believe that it has the favor of the President and Secretary Evarts ; and we shall rejoice to see the administration quiet the not un- natural apprehensions of the Mexican peo- ple by a positive declaration that we are their friends and do not mean to grub their territory. We ought to command the trade of Mexico; but to do that we need, first of all, to convince her people that we have no criminal designs against her. “It Will All Blow Over.’* One of the possibilities of economy in city expenditure is in the abolition of the Board of Health. It would save a great deal of money, and, as to the care of the public health, we should be without that Board just as well offas we are withit. There are few modern additions to city administration in which there is the possibility of so much advantage to the public as in a good Board of Health, for the recognized function of such a body is, in hot seasons and in cases where disease becomes epidemic or exten- sively contagious, the really important part of government. Money spent on a Health Board is therefore well spent if the Board pertorms its duty. But ours does not. It intentionally and wilfully neglects. all that it should do, Thus we have the name of the ie and the expense, but no benefit. x reporters lately unearthed in Brooklyn an» extensive manufactory of virulent poison known as swill milk; and Mr. Bergh, with an energy and percep- tion of the importance of the case worthy all praise, initiated proceedings to expose the establishment and, if possible, break up its traffic. Wakened up finally by the actions of others the Board of Health comes feebly forth to co-operate in the suppression of this great evil. Is that the method by which desperate abuses are to be extirpated in a community like this? Very clearly not. It appears to be the tactics of the Board of Health toshut its eyes to all that it should see; but if abuses are forced upon it by others to stand still as long as possible in the hope that the noise will ‘blow over,” to belittle exposures like that of the Bliss- ville distillery as mere ‘newspaper sensp- tions,” and to take feeble action only when it cannot be helped. But the gentlemen of the Board of Health may be sure that this swill milk agitation will not blow over, and that they have not wasted their energy in giving it some attention, We intend to thoroughly expose their shortcomings in connection with this most extended and ter- rible evil. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sunsot Cox is in Washi ngton. Chicken salad is now cut biadere, Nebuchadnezzar liked his spinach raw. President Hayes’ policy is not to dig canals, Sprink!e sult on the chop while tt is evoking. ‘The New Jersey editors will this yeur visit Watkins | Glen. Re | Senator William W. Eaton, of Connecticut, is at the | New York. | Reur Admiral Henry K. Hoff, United States Navy, is | at the Everett, Mr. H. K. Thurber, the great grocer, has arrived howe from Europe. Bishop Coxe says that he is only a target carrier in | the vineyard of the Lord. General Comley, of Columbus, Obio, is in Washing- ton, aud Obio feels lonely. Verhaps a man never feels more sheepish than when { be dons his first pair of spectacios, | An aimond-eyed Chinaman was talking to a peanut- posed American yesterday afternoon, Yonkers Gazette: ~‘Much of the charity that begins at home 1s tov feeble to get out of doors,” Cold rice pudding is now decorated with flowers, which make the dessert blossom like the rose, It 18 elegant to stand jn the fresh sea breeze at Rockaway and breathe 1m the pretzols of the air. A young man determined to spond his boneymoon playing croquet; and now his kneepan js mashed. For the making of tea the water should be poured on the leaves the moment it bolls. Never let tea stand. Perbaps tho worst time ina man’s life 1s when he | wonders whether ho can get the night key out of nis pocket. since Saturday last, returned to Washington yesterday afternoon, When you were balancing a stick of asparagus, like a fishpole, did you ever think you were a fish biting at the end of a line? Secretary Evarts has left Washington to be absent a few days, during which he will probably make a flying trip to his country home in Vermont, Attorney General Devens, who has been in Boston | GENERAL GRANT. Another Ovation on His Departure from Manchester. HIS JOURNEY TO LONDOM Greeted at Leicester ana Bedford with Civic Addresses, FLAGS AND FLOWERS EVERYWHERE Met at London by Lord Vernon and Mr. Pierrepont Great Crowds at Pancras Station, but No Speeches + [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpon, June 1, 1877, General Grant rose at an early hour yesterday morning, and, accompanied by several members of the Manchester Common Council, visited the vari- ous canal depots in the city, He subsequently took adrive to the Crescent and through Salford to the chief cotton manufacturing district. Wherever he Was recognized by the townspeople, and especially by the operatives, some of whom had beenin the United States, he was enthusiastically cheered, At ten he made various calls, returning the visit of the Mayor and taking his formal Jeave of that fancy tionary. DEPARTURE FOR LONDON. At the London Road Station an immense crowd had gathered to see the hero depart for London, He was accompanied to the platform by Mr. Crane, our Consul at Manchester; Mr. Galloway, Consular Commissioner; Mrs. Fairchild, the Mayor and May- oress and General and Mrs. Badeau, with the agent of the Pullman Company and the Superintendent of the Midland Railway. Tne factory girls were out almost en masse in their working attire and joined in the huzzah as he entered the station® The ex-President bowed twa or three times in acknowledgment of the cheers and exclamations, then walked directly ta the drawing room car, which had been set apart for him, Mrs, Grant looked somewhat fatigued, Dut her husband never looked better. Several Americans bad arrived from London to make the journey to the metropolis with him, and he at once entered into an animated conversation’ with them, WHIRLED THROUGH THE “BLACK” COUNTRY. As the train moved out the cheers were renewed, but as it was @ special fast train there was but little time to acknowledge them, and the distinguished party were soon whirling through the sombre look- ing districtsof Lancaster, whose elegant buildings formed astriking contrast to the black bills and vaileys of the coal district. Passing Stockport there were a few flags and some citizens stood gaping and yelling apparently as we went by, but it was impossible to distinguish a word. Crossing the line between Lancashire and Derby the scenery suddenly changed and the General remarked that almost every foot of land was utilized or under cul- tivation. Huge factory shafts stood up in relief against the clear sky in the direction of Nottingham, reminding one of the great iron worksof Bethle- hem and other places in Pennsylvania, A WARM RECEPTION AT LEICESTER, The first stopping place was at Leicester, the chief town of Leicestershire. As the train glided quietly into the station there was @ rush to see Grant, but as the Mayor and his advisers were pres- ent the police formed a circle so that only the favored few could approach the visitors. The station was beautifully decorated with bunting, the English and American fags hanging in festoong over the principal doorway of the station opposite to which the drawing room car was stopped, Rich bouquets of fragrant flowers were sent. in by @ number of ladies to “Mr. and Mrs, Grant.” There were more ladies on the platform, indeed, than gentlemen, The Town Councilmen greeted the travellers by re= moving their hats, and the Mayor proceeded to read an address to Grant, offering him the bospl- talities of the town, and referring generally to hia career and achievements, as had been done at Liverpool and Mancbester. Grant re plied in afew well chosen sentences, referring ta the kindness and generosity evinced in the address, remarking on the antiquity of their town, its founs dation by King Lear, and the honor it had of retains ing the duss of Richard IIL, the hero of Bosworth fleld. The Mayor expressed the hope that he would return at some future day to visit the an« cient landmarks he nad referred to and accept the hospitality of the Mayoralty. Grant could not prome ise definitely, but in all probability he will aguim visit the town. Alter partaking of a déjeuner an@ a general introduction to the company the party re-entered the car and left for Bedford. + STULL, ANOTHER ADDRESS OF WELCOME. At Bedford the fact of his arrival and reception in Leicester had been already posted ap by the telegraph operators outside the office at the depot, and when the Mayor of Bedford greeted the ex- President he told him how glad he was to hear of his stopping at Leicester, and then he, too, made an address, terming Grant the Hannibal of the Americau armies, and praying that ne might be spared to enjoy the honors and rewards which would continue to be heaped upon him. In reply Grant thanked him and the good people of Bedford, beg+ ging to be excused from making @ speech, as he had discovered how impotent he was in that respect amid the eloquence of English offictals, He raised some merriment by referring to the principle of supplying a substitute. Flowers and flags were in rich abundance here also, some of the mottoes re ferring to different episodes of our late war. HLS RECEPTION AT ST. PANCRAS. The reception at the terminus of the Midland Railway (St. Pancras station, Euston road), in this city, Was comparatively tame. He was met by Min ister Pierrepont in behalf of the United Stated and Lord Vernon, Huge crowds ‘thronged the entrance to the station and cheered loudly, | but there were no speeches, Grant, Mm ; Grant and Badeau entered Mr. Pierrepont’s | carriage and were driven rapidly down Tottenham | Court road into -Oxford street, thence westward ta | the residence of the American Minister, r ’ i