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4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STIIKET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Vol?e XXX? 1 N?. a (HI AM'JSEIEKTS THIS EVE1II1 NtBLO'S GARDES, BroaJw*y.?AOBOBS tub CONTImbmt. WOOD'S MI'SRT'M, Bmuwtr, oornor SOth ?t-PtrformtacM allerui.au *nJ erealn?~LES MioKKablw. BOWKRT THEATRE, Pow*ry.-TnB Dumb Man or MAMOHXSTKB? HCMI'TY DCJUTr?TUB POAOUBBB. GLOBE THEATRE. 79 llr.>ad?-ay. - M AZBPPA, OB TUB Wllj> Hobsb or Tabtabt. UNA F.nwivji THEATRE No. 7*1 Broadway.?TUB Bbb^bb Family or Lell Rim?bbs. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway Sciimbdbb?Nbw Bono* ami Dancbh. WALLACE'S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th iiraet.? Eltib. .T9K.T_I'J\fT<)R_,S OpERA HOUSE, Ho. SOI Bowery. A BttAil-nA i UUUK. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.?tubodobb TllOXil' Scmmix Nights' Cokcbbto. TERRACE HARDEN, 68th utreat, bntwcen Lexington and 84 BV*. JCLIKN'M COltCBBTfl. BROOKLYN RINK. Clermont avenue, near Myrtle areHue SCMMKB hVENINti CONCKETS. New York, Friday Jnly 81. 1871. IMIUII OF TO-DAY'S HKRALD. Tags. 1?Advertisements. '2?Advertisements. 3?Crushed iiy an Awningr?A New Ltqnor Law In Connecticut?Wild Uea^tJ lii New YorH?Advarttaemooi*. 4?Editorials: leading Article, "Irish-Americans on tlie Late Klot?The Political Reaction ana tne Dangers wuich Tlioy L?o Not Soem to Com prebend"?Tne Pleasures of the President: Our Chief Executive Vwltlug Duichess County?Aquatic ? Yachting?Weather Report? Keutacky and Great Kastern Railroad? An orange bllver Robbery?Amusement Announcements. O?France: Important Reduction In the French Buugst; More Explosions at Viucennea? England: Tne Purchase System in tbe Army abolished?News irom (.eriuany, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Mextoo and the West Indies-Severe Earthquake shocks In Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts?News from Washington?Miscellaneous Telegrams?Now York Cliy News?New Publications Recoived?Views or the PastBusiness Notices. 6?Military Excursionists: The Seventh Veterans ami the Fortv-seventh Up the Hudson?Laura D. Fair: She Tells the Story or Her Past Life? The Schuetzenrest?Popular Education?Conte->teu Claims?Funeral or the Late C. V. 8. Roosevelt?Miscellaneous Teleprauis?The National Game-Board of Assistant Aldermen? Another Fatal Kerosene Burning Casualty? Brooklyn Affairs?Fire lu Broadway?New ttrtinswicks Political Puzzle?Death of the Double-Headed l hlld. 7?'Tne Erie Railway War: Tne Motion to Restra'n Erie from I.-sulua More Shares: Close of ihe Argument; The Decision Reserved?Proceedings in the Courts?Department or Public Docks? Eniigratlou Affair?Leasing of tne camaen ana Amuoy Kuiiroau? cotton Storage?Fatal Artray in a Saloon?Financial an<l Commercial Reports?Domestic MarKeta? Proceedings of the Boarl of Assistant Aldermen?Marriages and Deaths. S?Review of the l.lot: official Report of the Seventh. Ninth and Elgtity-fourth Regiment*; Belcher ou the Pattle: Pecuniary Rewards to Imured Policemen?Shipping Intelligence? Advertisements. Sctb Silentio?The Maryland Democratic State Convention on the new departure. The Rochester Democrat says that the famous order No. 57 "was written ajear ago." la not that setting it a little too far back ? Henrt Ward Beecmeb has come to the rescue of the principles of law and order. In the Christian Union tbia week he takes a bold stand. The whole question of the riot of the Twelfth in its religious, moral and political aspect is just opening. The Police Board has distributed ten thousand dollars of the Fund for Wounded Policemen among the members of the force injured in the late riot. This fund was established shortly after the bloody days of July, 1863, and it serves a very handsome purpose just now; but if there had been no such fand < the people of the city would have seen to it < that the services of the policemen on that day ' should not pass unrewarded. ' , The Whole Spanish Ministry has resigned. But the crisis will probably be of a short duration. The parties hitherto hostile to the government observe a conciliatory attitude, and, to judge from the cable news that King Amadeus 1b consulting with the leaders of the different Darties. we infer that the new Cabi net will include, if possible, a member of each, and thus take away all farther causes of contention. The growing popularity of King Amadous, adds our despatch, will help to smooth the road toward a satisfactory settlement of the difficulty. Earthquakes are becoming most unpleasantly frequent in our neighborhood. Here is a serious one io New England?one about which there is no vague uncertainty, no whispered intimations that it is but the wiod or the car rolling o'er the stony streets. This New England sample of an earthquake asserted itself by rocking buildings, ringing bells, rattling windows, knocking down plastering and making a deep, rumbling noise from M tine to New Hampshire. What sort of terrible commotion is threatening us when staid and decorous New England goes through fuch an unseenly shaking up as this? A. H. Stephen's, having gained nine pounds since be became editor of the Atlanta Sun, the Louisville Courier Journal fears YQM wncn ne weignea nirnseir insi ne oaa one of his editorials In his pocket. This reminds us of a little storj. Before the war a party of gentlemen were being entertained by the hospitable host of "Liberty Hall," Mr. Stephens' residence in Georgia, when the conversation turned upon the ex-Congressman's weight. Mr. Stephens said be then weighed ninety pounds. "Ninety pounds!" exclaimed a guest, "is that ull?" "Oh," returned little Aleck, with manifest pride, "I have weighed a hundred !" Pukhident Grant is eminently a peripatetic President. He does not believe in the Mikado barbarism that would keep the Chief Magistrate forever secluded from the gas* of the people, thus encouraging him to grow rusty in ideas and run to old Bourbonic notions. From Long Branch the President made a trip to Dutch ens county recently, viewing the beautlfhl country seats there, inspecting One imported cattle, and making himself generally social and neighborly. Oa his return he stopped at Poiighkeepsi? long eoough to review a gallant regiment of onr National Guard from Brooklyn, and thus gavo the patriotic young men composing it a pleasant token of encouragement that they will doubtless long cherish. After this be returned to his cottb? sea at Load Branch. J MMmHmm mm tkm Lata Riot?Tk* Political R?tet)m a *4 Mm Daacera whlck Tkey Oa Nat 8mb la Caayra* baa<. Our Irish-American Journals and many of our Irish-bora citizens are boiling oyer with indignation in reference to tbe course of Governor Hoffman and tbe conduct of the National Guard and the police, Id tbe protection of tbe late Orauge procession, to tbe extremity of breaking beads and shooting bullets. On Wednesday evening last at Breroort Hall, for instance, an indignation meeting of IrishAmerican citizens was held, for tbe purpose of protesting against tbe line of action adopted by tbo Governor, <fcc. The leading orator of tbe occasion, starting from the warlike inquiry, "How can we aveuge the blood of the men which bas been shed ?" and following it with such questions as this, "Shall Orangemen and Know Notbingism rule this city ?" proceeded to say that "women bad been made widows and ohildren orphans for the caprice of one man in Albany," that "Governor Hoffman | should never again receive the votes or irlsh| men," and bo oq. The orator having concluded hi* remarks, a series of resolutions wero adopted, among which was one declaring "that we hold Governor Hoffman responsible for all the blood shed by his murderous militia on that day," and "that we will keep him in memory should he come forward to look for our suffrage for any office." That this feeling of hostility to the Governor among our Irish Qatholio population widely prevails cannot be doubted ; for within the last few days, at various points in this city and Brooklyn, they have been hanging him in efiigy as a dead man, "a traitor," "a Dutchman" and "an Orangeman." Our IrishAmerican journals, fired with the same spirit, extend their wrath to all the defenders of our patriotic Governor in this business, Including the Hkraxd, with all the other journals advocating the maintenance of the law, American liberty and constitutional rights. In all these proceedings of our Irish adopted citizens there is manifestly a purpose to carry the delicate and dangerous question involved into our party politics; and it is upon this perilous business that we would speak a word or two to the parties concerned touching the political reaction wbiob tbey would invite and the political dangers which they do not seem to comprehend. We stand by the constitution and the laws of our country. We maintain the equal rights of all men, of all races and all creeds, under the law?the rights of the white man, the red man and the black man; the rights of the Catholic and the Protestant, of the Ribbonman and the Orangeman. We contend, notwithstanding all the melancholy killing and maiming of men, women and children on the 12lb of July, that In the action of the Governor, the local authorities, the military and the police on that dreadful day the rights of all men under our laws were vindicated, including the rights of the Irish Catholics, m well as those of the Irish Orangemen, and that this vindication of equal rights and fair play being in value beyond any price that can be paid for it, was cheaply maintained against combinations of rioters on the 12th of July, who were out in defiance of the law, and in defiance, too, of the express instructions and warnings of Archbishop McCloskey and his clergy from all the Catholic churches. We refer to those instructions and warnings given out on the Sunday which ushered in the week marked by the insane attempt of lawless rioters to override the supreme law of the land and the , authorities of the city and the State. ] The Catholic Church and all good Catholics , stand unspotted before the world in reference ] to this riot Had the wholesome and Beaton- , ible advice of the Catholic Church been followed in this matter there would have been no riot and no bloodshed, llad the constitutional authority of the Governor, embodied in hia proclamation, been regarded by all parlies under tfte protection of oar equal laws there would have been no riot. The responsibilities and the bloody consequences of the riot rest upon those insane and lawless men who, in defiance of all law, human and divine, took the law into their own hands. If these guilty men, therefore, and their abettors, undertake the the game of vengeance in party politics they may enlarge this little breeze of a politicoreligious excitement into a roaring whirlwind. Nothing more disastrous to the democratic party or to the Catholic Church in the United States could be devised than an extensive political movement of Irishmen aiming at "vengeance" against the Governor and officials concerned In the maintenance of the law on Via 19th nf Jnlv There are in the United States, of all sects and outside parties, some thirty-four millions of Protestants, against lome five or six millions of Roman Catholics. The mass of the Catholics are democrats, and it is the Irish Catholic vote of this city which has given Tammany Ilall and the democracy the possession of this city aod State. Let it be understood, then, that we have in this city an organization of Iiish democrats whose main object is to reverse the decision of the last 12th of July in our streets in reference to Orangemen's rights, and we shall soon bare similar organizations in all our large cities and towns, the vei 7 existence of which will enable the republicans to sweep New York, city and State, and the whole country. Indeed, we suspect that tbe conflict of jarisdictlon and opinion on this subject among our constituted authorities has settled tbe business for the Empire State In November. In any event, no scheme could be devised more advantageous to the republicans, or more disastrous to tbe democratic party and the Catholic Church, than an Irish Catholic agitation in support of the utterly defenceless conrse of onr late rioters, and for "vengeance" against the upholders of American law and liberty. It will be observed that the Journals of the leading Protestant Churches and the Protestant clergy have actively entered into the discussion of this late riot, its causes and consequences, as bringing out Into bold relief the intolerance and despotic designs of the Irish Catholics and the Catholic Church in this free country. Of course tbe injustice of such sweeping assumptions is at onoe apparent to every dispassionate mind; but In times of high religious or political exoitement passion rules the hour, and justioe must stand aside till the storm rolls by. Tbe Know Nothing epidemic was made up of intolerance, prejudice, Injustice I and madness, aod yet It raged through all the . NEW YORK HERALD, : country tor several years, broke up and demoralised the political parties of the day, and eveatually resulted in a now organisation of parties, though it left nothing but a bad name behind it. Yet still the elements of Know Nothingism exist over all the land, and the late events in Rome have served to quicken the vigilance and distrust here on the part of our Protestant sects against the Pope and Mother Church. At the same time, "the high-reaching Buckingham#" of Tammany Hall, in connection with the Irish Catholic vote of this great city, have operated to intensify this Protestant hostility to tho Catholic Church and the demooratio party throughout the country. We submit, then, that tho only course of wisdom on the part of ino Deads or tne Uatuoito uaurch and the leaders of the democratic party is to see to it at onoe that there shall be do Irish political organization formed to agitate the reversal of the decision for law and order involved in the enforcement of Governor Hoffman's proclamation of equal rights. Of all things to be avoided in this country by the Catholic Church is a political quarrel with the Protestant Churches; of all things to b9 avoided by the democratic party is a religions agitation with the republicans. Both these dangers are now threatened by these foolish Irish-Americans seeking "vengeance" against the enforcemont of our laws. We call upon the Catholic clergy and the democratic sachems of this city to look Into this matter, for to the Church and to the party it is a matter of life or death. The Canadian* and (ho American Coasting Trade. It appearo that parties on the northern, northeastern and northwestern frontiers of the United States are largely engaged in violating the laws regulating the navigation and coasting trade of this country. Iron ore from American ports, for instance, is transported to points on the Canadian side for the purpose of in violation nf uuttlnn (wnntir nf * w. wvvavM *"V"V W* the aot of Confess of July 20, 1866, which prohibits the lading of goods, wares or merchandise upon any vessel belonging, wholly or in part, to a subject or subjects of a foreign country, to bo taken thence to a foreign port or to be reshipped to the United States on the frontiers. Ore so shipped has been seized at Erie recently, and it is said other shipments have been made that are liable to seizure. It is believed at Washington that parties violate the law intentionally, and that it has been the practice to do so for some years paBt. It will always bo difficult to prevent violation of the navigation and coasting trade laws, as well as smuggling, along Bucb an extended line as that between the United States and the British American possessions. In fact, it will be almost impossible, and to prevent thiB even partially would require a little army of office holders and involve groat coat to the government Treaties may be made with England of the most liberal character to regulate the trade between this country and the bordering colonies, and we might approach reciprocity of trade; but there most always remain difflcal- , ties as long as the people of this North American Continent are under separate governments. It will always be embarrassing. Such a political anomaly as that of two nations, of the same race and language, existing separately when their territory joins for thousands of miles, and when their trade and ] intercourse are so extensive cannot last long. The North American colonies ought to be- , come a part of the United States. Our repub- | lie must extend over all North America. The , iggregation of the people of the sumo race and j luncrmir* nnii?r nnA lynvftrnmonl ia l)i? and tendency of the age ; and here, where the i geographical conditions are bo favorable to unity, and where we are maturing model institutions for the rest o! the world, it is more necessary than elsewhere that there should be no separate or different forma of gorernment and no conflicting commercial interests. lastead of yielding to British interests or proclivities the United States ought to adopt a policy of firm but kindly pressure to bring about annexation. With annexation custom houses, trade regulations and a host of officeholders could be dispensed with. This would be the proper solution of all the border difficulties and trade restrictions between these sections of the North American Continent. The HtattH ! Kftlny Folly. A number of oar Irish adopted citizens, exasperated at what they conceive to be the unfriendly conduct of Governor Hoffman on the occasion of the late riot, have exhibited their sentiments by hanging the Governor in effigy. This is a silly piece of business at best; but if Ihey wish to make a great man of Governor Hoffman his enemies could not pursue a better course. Precedents in that direction are numerous. Washington was hung in eflUy by the tories in the Revolution. Patrick Henry was not ouly hung in effigy, but came near being hung in earnest by the oriAmiofl nf IiHart v Tnm fAffflraAn u na Knn? in effigy before he became President of the United States, although he had written that immortal document, the Declaration of Independence. General Jackson was hung in effigy because he throttled the monster, the United States Bank. Martin Van Buren was hung in efflgy because he established the Independent Treasury. Daniel Webster was hung in efflgy in all parts of New England on account of bis celebrated 7th of March speech. In which be pitched into the abolitionists right and left. President Lincoln was hung in efflgy in the South many times before the war. And last, but not least, the patron Saint of all Ireland, good old St. Patrick, has been hung in effigy a thousand times on every 17th of March, and no harm has come of It either. Therefore, if our Irish adopted citieena, the rampageous fighting Tipperary and Kilkenny element, desire to make a great man?almost a second St. Patrick?of Governor Hoffman, let tbem keep on in their folly of hanging him in efflgy. Tint Pott8vii.i.e Mintr*' Journal remarks that the resignation of "Big Injun" Purker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs will give satisfaction, as his course was damaging to Grant's administration. This is another case of "Lo! the poor Indian." But perhaps the descendant of the famous ''Red Jacket" has plenty of wampum, and can for the futnre smoke his pipe of peao* In peaoo. "Let htm have FRrDAY, JULY 21. 187L Am Irish Firebrand Dolac Injury to Irishmen. If a certain class of Irish orators understood the tnjurj they are doing to their own conntrymen by their violent harangues it is charity to them to believe they would desist from their wicked efforts. But we fear that most of them are demagogues so selfish that neither knowledge nor wise counsel can keep them from making the ridiculous threats in which they are indulging. Hen who are drunken with a sense of their own importance are as unreasoning as the crowds which follow them, but their foolish words do injury not only to themselves, but also to those who act with them. Every Irishman in New York will be compelled to suffer for the wicked cry for vengeance which oomes from these firebrands. The radical journals print their flnaA/tKAa ay T i K aIaahUit am/1 IIia ??Ka1a a/mi n puuvuog tw mu aiaui k*J% auu mic huuid vuuutry will bear with disgust their wicked and untruthful assertions about armed ruffians striking down innocent men and women for the crime of looking upon foolish Orangemen. This is no time for angry threats against Governor Hoffman or ill-timed praise of Mayor Ilail. Both did their duty as they understood it, and the responsibility for the riot Is not with them. A few hot-beaded men are alone to blame for the blood shed on the 12th of July. And it now badly becomes them to talk about their blood cnrdled in their souls when they Baw the dead of Wednesday, because, while they might well stand aghast at it, tho threats with which the words are accompanicd show that they are not sorry In their hearts. Even now they want more blood, and, like the radical journals which are preaching a religious warfare, they are trying to excite one part of the people against another. These m ATI mil at nnt fnrnral thai It urn a iha TTnifail States which saved some of them from the penal servitude of a felon, and that it is dangerous to abuse tbe hospitality which was accorded them. Governor Hoffman is far above them, and Mayor Hall in no way neods their friendship. By tbese wicked speeches they may do injury to those whom they profess to serve, but they can barm only their friends and be of service only to their enemies. The riots are past, and the narrowness and bigotry which begot them will soon pass out of the minds of men unless fresh outrages and new indiscretions keep them al've. This is not Ireland, bnt America, and it the Legislature must prevent Orange processions in the future it must also ignore Ireland. Any one not blind by partisanship or reckless of honor or honesty can see this. These reckless firebrands are doing the greatest wrong to Irishmen which either Englishmen or Americans have ever attempted against Ireland. Unless itiicjr tiro a-uuteu iu umo iresn uioousneu may follow the bloodshed of Wednesday, and more widows and orphans may mourn because the reckless counsels of reckless agitators were heard with respect. Tke Gravity and Fan ef tbe "New Departure." The shafts of wit and ridicule sometimes accomplish more than the soundest argument. Hence if the Southern or the Western or the Northern anti-departure press begin to "poke fan" at the new movement the "eminent gravity" of its supporters it is not unlikely wiil eventually be seriously disturbed. Among tbe democratic papers most earnest m opposition to the measure is the Mobile Rf.gister, a journal we have been ' 1 to believe was at first inclined to think favorably of Lhe new movement. But now it gravely declares that "a cowardly party never wins political Dailies, ana ine democratic party cannot be marshalled and inspired for victory under a time-serving banner." This is plain talk. But while the Mobile paper discourses in this plain manner its Forest (Alabama) namesake takes tbe humorous side, and says it "has beard of condensed milk, potatoes, meats, Ac., but condensed radicalism is the latest thing out." "It is put np," it continues, "by a few democratic editors expressly for their democratic friends who wore unable to swallow the article in its crude state. It is called new departure.'" Again, it is related that a Kentucky farmer being asked what he thought of the new departure replied that it appeared to him "as if some impationt democrats, seeing the radicals going to tbe mischief on a down grade, with the brakes off, had determined to beat them by jumping on the cow-catcber." That is not a bad idea, provided tbe "cow-catcher party" land ahead at the White House station. The Louisville Ledger takes a Scriptural view of tbe departure by saying, "Our first parents in Paradise tried the experiment of a new departure when the tempter led them to the fatal tree, whereon grew tbe fruit of prohibition. In consequence death, with all our woes, was introduced." Being essentially dead now, we suppose the Ledger means to make tha national democracy ''deader" by belaboring it in its defunct state, as tbe clown in tbe circus does the departed coon. But, notwithstanding all this, it is plainly to be seen that there is an undercurrent con nectcd with this new departure which gives the radical republicans no little uneasiness, while at the same time it affords the radical democrats material for some small fun. Thb Chicago Republican sent a reporter to interview Judge David Davis, of Illinois, aod sound him on the Presidency. The Judge accepted the interview, complimented the paper, paid fifteen cents for a week's subscription in advance, and said he would accept tbe nomination if tendered him with any degree of unanimity. "But," said he, "I don't want the thing stirred up in the papers so soon. That's wbat killed McClellao, and it will kill any man. There is no surer way to defeat a man than to put bim in nomination too soon." Therefore all that has heretofore been published about Judge Davis being an aspirant for the democratic nomination has been given without that gentleman's authority. Nevertheless, his name might as well be Included in the list of entries for tbe four-mile raoe over the Presidential course in 1872. Tub Official Reports of the Seventh, Ninth and Eighty-fourth regiments, engaged In the quelling of the riot on the 13th Inst., have been submitted to General Varied, and are published in another column of the Hkkalo this norntiub Tfc* IkoUOM mt tkm PmkM Saratov. The purchase system In the British army has been abolished at last. One of the last and most important restiges of a feudal age has become a thing of the past The abolition of this Iniquitous system has only been a question of time. The Earl of Derby, who, by the inheritance of his father's talents and influence, may be looked upon as the leader of the tories, had abandoned it. And yet, now that the event has come to pass, it has provoked most stormy manifestations in both houses of Parliament. No pen can describe the excitement in both houses, says the cable despatch, when it was announced that the government had decided to abolish the purchase of commissions in the army. The liberals were loud in their enthusiasm for the bold conduct of the Premier. The tories, baffled and beaten, were amazed and bewildered, and did not lrnow how to fm>? their discomfiture. Mr. Disraeli, the forlorn hope of the tory party, had either lost his customary assurance, or had thought further opposition a hopeless task, for be did not take up the gauntlet which Mr. Gladstone hurled at the opposition. The House of Lords, ever mindful of its own class interests, set itself in determined opposition against the measure, In the teeth of public opinion, but it now finds itself swamped by publio opinion. By gracefully yielding it might have avoidod the bitter mortification of hoinrr noorrnl/wl I wwiuava* VI igllUl cu UJ tUU ^UVUI IlIllVUl. Direst blow of all is the abolition of the purchase system to the Ilouse of Lords, which, though less demonstrative than the Commons because of ita higher sense of decorum, felt still deeper the importance of the occasion. Mr. Gladstone has astonished his friends by his bold polioy. Like a resolute pioneer, he laid his aze to the root of the rotten tree and felled it with ono blow to the ground. Affairs in Porto Rioo.?The news from Porto Rico which we print to-day shows that honesty cannot prosper in the American colonies of Spain. Captain General Baldrich has shown himself the friend of the people over whom he was appointed to govern, and yet this is made the pretext for his persecution by the mean Spaniards of that island, who depend upon Spain to assist them in destroying the Creoles or West India descendants of the Spanish people. The Yzquierdo party are only seeking a pretext for murdering the natives of the isiana, ana tue volunteers wno are crying "Viva Yzquierdo" make the "Segundo Cabo" the instrument of their base purposes. Spanish intolerance and dishonesty are destroying Spanish rule in the West Indies; but perhaps anarchy and degradation are better than Spanish dominion. Racing at Long Buanoit.?The second summer meeting at Long Branch will commence on the first day of August and continue four days. In addition to the original announcement of three races a day, the association have decided to give a valuable cup for gentlemen riders on the third day of tbe meeting, and on the fourth they give a purse of three thousand dollars for four mile heats. This valuable purse will undoubtedly bring together a fine field of horse3. The stables now at Monmouth Park comprise Messrs. Withers', Cottrill's, San ford'8, McGrath's, Babcock's, Bannatyne's, Parks', Weldon's, O'Donahue's, Lloyd's, Morris', Ddnnison & Crawford's and LUtlefleld's. To this list will be added to-day General Buford's, Doswell's, McDanicl's and Drane's, from Saratoga. Tha prospect for fino racing at the Branch never was better. General Siiekman has again expressed bis sentiments on the Presidential question, almost as forcibly as when be wrote to us that if be were nominated he would not run and if he were unanimously elected be would not serve. Tbis time he tells a Herald correspondent that Grant is the man for re-election, that the country is quiet and prosperous under bim, and that he ought to be and will be made Chief Magistrate for the second time. He says the Ku Rlux does not amount to much down Sout'j, for if the torror that is reported among the negroes actually existed there could not bare been this year a larger crop of cotton than the general average. Very sound reasoning this for Sherman on both divisions of the subject. Trm Orleans Princes, who have pledged themselves not to take their s^ata in the Assembly, in order to avoid political agitations, are in danger of being excluded from that body altogether. A republi 1 I J- 1! iL-i can int-iuuer nun idhuu n niuuun hi hi, all those Deputies who are absentees beyond a limited timo should forfait their seats altogether. It' bis motion should pass the Count do Paris will find bis prospects for the kingship somewhat blighted. Blighting his prospects for the crown is exactly what the proposition aims at. KENTUCKY AND GREAT EASTERN RAILROAD. Cincinnati, Ohio, July 20, 1871. Abnut three months ago a railroad company was organized here known as (he Kentucky and Great Kastern Railroad Company, with Colonel S. w. Morton, or New York, ax President, A. J. Hodde as Vice President, and Generals Fremont and Banks, Judge cutler, of Marietta, Ohio; J, M. Duke, of Mavsvllie, Ky., and James T. Urady, of Pittsburg, Pa., as directors. This was destined to construct a railroad from Cincinnati to Catlettsburg, Ky., under a charter granted by the Kentucky Legislature last year. It now appears that this Is but a small part of the company's purpose, and that their real plan is to build another rallroao from Cincinnati to New York city through Kentucky, across West Virginia to a point In Virginia, thence by roads now constructing through York and Reading, I'a., to the eastern terminus. Those interested claim the new route to New York will be I'M miles shorter, by measurement, than the route i>y the Pennsylvania Central; and in equall/. Ing distances by reason of curves and grades the new route will be the Hbortest by a little lea* than aoo miles. It is announced tli.it work will he commenced In Keutucky wltuin three mouths, and that the whole line will lie finished in less than tbroo years. AN ORANGE SILVER. ROBBERY. A rather mysterious midday silverware robbery took place veateraajr In Orauge, N. J. The family of Mr. J. L. Hmallwood, residing In Centre street, partook 01 lunch at the usual hour, wvl at it used the ordinary quantity of silverware. Lunch over, tne latter was cleaned and laid in the pantry, so as to be readv for use at dinner, when the male members came home from New York In the evening. Before that time, however, dtacovery was made that too silver bad disappear*!, no one knew exactly when or how. A Birict search was made and all the servants closeiv questioned, but no clue was elicited indicative of i where tHe sliver had gone. It transpired, lioweveo, that on the p recoiling day a good-lqoklng fancy soap Apedler visited t,ne mute and W4s treated to dinner by the girls. Hn was about twenty-two years of age. wore > /ray coal and. light pantaloon*. The police off Orauge and N<v* York are on tbo crttf vive tor him^. 1 *' >'r I 111 l? ?.- ^ THE PLEA8URE8 OF THE PRE8IDEIT Our Chief Executive Visiting Dutchess County. Spending a Day at Mr. Dinnnore'* ia StaAitf* burg, and an Hour at Poaghkeepsfo-Be* I turn to Long Branch?Social Sight* and 8cenes Aloag the Boate. I POUOH KEEPS IE, JOty 30, lST*. V. 8. Grant, President or the United States; Colonel Pomey, of the Philadelphia press-, Ooverner Bullock, of Georgia; Charles Chamberlain, Hear* Sanford, Pred Grant, Frederick Lovcjor, John Hoev and Colonel E. E. Sandford reached Staataburg. DutcheBH county, nine miles north of here, at halfpast one o'clock yesterday afternoon, via the Hudson River Railroad. They were met at the statloa by W. B. Dlnsniorc, with two barouches, when theur were rapidly driven 10 THE DINSMORB MANSION, a short distance off, where a flue collation was to readiness. The hospitable host soon relieved the distinguished guests of all restraint, and for a while all enjoyed thcm-elves heartily. Alter refreshment* were served the Inevitable cigar came to the front and then a pleasant chat was Indulged in. An hour later. In the cool of the afternoon, Mitt President anu his party were by Mr. Dlustnore escorted to the grounds adjoining and shown valuable SPBCIlfltXS OK IMrORTRD OATTI.R, for which the Staataburg Dlnsmores are noted. They are indeed splendid specimens aud were greatly admired by the President. Alter supper, the weater being tin propitious, the party remained Indoors and spout tue time lu social conversation. This morning all rose bright and earlv, feeling niucu reire-moa and, bein&r encouraged by clear weather and a bracing nortwest wind, resolved uitou ANOTURR RIDE. Mr. Dlnsmore's horses and carriages were ordered op. and ouce more the President and irlends took to tho road. Tney first drove to the depot, where the President Informed me that they would leavo Maatsburg 011 a special train at hair-past three o'clock this afternoon for New York, and arrangements were made at the station accordingly. Then fresh cigars being lighted the carriages containing the Chief ltuler of the Nation and his rriends whirled a war towards tbe Van VUet and Paulding farms, over smooth ro&da and at a spanking galL AT KVKRY TITRN OP THK ROAD the President lound much to admire In Dutches* county scenery, and so expressed himself. All returned to Mr. Dlnsmore s at early dinner hour, where a splendid repast was partaken of, then more cigars and then to the depot. The train was In waiting, and when the party got on board ft started FOR POUUHKKKI'SIK. nere the visitors disembarked an 1 waited for tbe fast train. While at the depot they were captured by Mayor H. 0. Kastman and c luveved to Eastman Park, where the Prest lent reviewed the Forty-seventh Brooklyn regiment. After the review, wnlch occupied about ten minutes the party took passaqe on the fast train and proceeded to New York, where a special steamer was to be lu readiness at Thirtieth street to convex the President to Long Branch. Durtinr his stay at staatsburg TUB VILLAtiRKS were m ecstaclos. The President expected that Collector Murphy and General Porter wonld join him this morning, but they tailed to report. Colonel Forney left tne party at staatsourg and came to thi? city to eujov an hour's chat with Ills lricnd Hudson Taylor. He rejoined them, however, at this station aud proceeded with them to New York. The President's visit was purely or a social nature, therefore there is nothing unusually Important to chroniote relative to nis movements. Ketarn of the Presidential Party to Loafc Branch. Long Branch, N. J., July 20, 1871. President Qrant and his sou Frederick, accompanied hv fiollf>e.tnr Mnrnhr nf Now Ynplr* CnlnnM Forney, or Philadelphia; William Fleias, John lloejr and Charles Ohainbf rlaln, arrived liere from Staatatmrg this evening. Tuo President proceeded direct to bis cottage. YACHTING. Aaaaal RecaUa of the Orescent City Yaefca Clah. Nbw Orleans, July 20, 1871. The annual regatta or the Crescent City Yacht Clot), over the usual course, a triangle or flfteea miles, took place to-day. Six boars wore entered, one or second ciass, two or third class and throe of rourth class. No boat* or the ilrst class were in the race. The Restleas won in second class?time. 2n. 19m. 30s.; Minnie Preston in tnird class?time. 2h. 3Jra. 30s.; Jessie In lourth class?timo, 2b. 44m. 308. Yarhilnw Nairn. The tollowlng passed through Hell Qate yes to*, day:? BOUND BAST. Yacht Jessie, Nelson, from New York ror He# London. BOUNT> KOtlTH. Yacht Sappho, Douglas, from Olen Cove ror No* York. AQUATIC. The University Races at HprliurH.-ld?Rasa Time Expected?Sickness of lw? of ih> Harvard Crew. SraiNoriBLP, Mass., July 2), 1871. The arrival or collegians this evening have been qnlie numerous and the interest In the (Tulveraity races is increasing. The single scull race promise* to be an ex iting contest. Ellis Ward is the ravortle and Ten Kyck is backed against butler by metropolitan visitors. The Harvards now complain that two or their men are sick with diarrhea an>l arc quite weak. The? were out upon the river this afternoon. However, and pulled over the course, as also did the o-hor crews. It. Is thought that the single s<-uli race will be qulto rast. bets having been made that the two miles wilt l>e finished in fifteen Minutes or better. Norwitlk. HrMgeport. BRinoBroRT, Conn., Jul* 20, 1871. There has been considerable excitement among the lovers or aquatic sports to-day, owing to a race oetween two boats, one owned ny Henry Bishop, of tlits place, and the other by Francis Bnrntt, of . South Norwalk. The boats were both large slxed sailboats, about twenty feet long, and the prize waa ' n nnrno nf tinn. ThP rnnruA wnu from HAaui<la Partr to near tue Lightship, about tea miles from the martin# point, a large fleet attended the j racing boats (torn tne city dowa to tba starting point, and the harbor presented a very livelr appearance. At about twelve o'clock ' the boats started, with the wind blowing rery ; fresh trom the northwest. The Norwalk boat kept k a short distance ahead for tne flrst few miles, bat ''< did not rliie so well in the heavy sea as the Bridge- i1 port boat, and when about six miles from the start- (' ing point, sailiug beiore the wind, the Norwalk boat. J went under, shipped a heavy sea andnpset. There 7, were Ave or six men on board, ail of whom clambeie-t upon her keel and held on till rescued by U>? " tuff Stetson, wlilcn was steaming noar with a crowd of spectators. he overturned i>oat was rlghtea and towed iiack to Bridgeport by the Stetson, while Mr. Bishop's boat sailed over the entire course, beating i>ack to the city Ui very fair lime. Tne tie?j< ting was largely in favor or the Bridgeport boab prior to tUja race. She wins the parse, or ooujcm. WEATHER REPOHT. Wl* DirARTMCNT, V , Okfici of this Chhik Or?icnBvI Wahhinotum, July ai? l a. ml | . SururtMln fior'iM JtMt Twrnty-fotir Hour*. Tfce barometer/has rises vary ireueraUy since Wqanesday night r/?n the Rock* Mountains lo the.Atlantic, but tosst no on um Oulf coast, wftere It waa quite low Thursday morning, and tn the Northwest, where a local depression ousted. The temperature has fallen especially at stations In tho Middle and Rastecu 1 states. Wink northwest winds prevailed tw a ah'yrt time on Thivsday morning on the middle Atlantic, but light winds and calrjs are uow reported from all station*. Partially cloudy and clear weather has provailcft during Thursday east of the Mississippi, exeeptnut an area or clouds in Ohio ana Iudlana. I'ru'HiDUitiM. Clear weather with lower temperature ts probaM* for Friday for the l^akes, and pleas-ani weathor will* , rising barometer will probably contluuo oa th? I AtiauUo Coast and the Cult