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AGHTiTl0x AN WEsTC HIS Elt.

The Annexation Project Viewed by the tn--
Acknowledgement Boundary Lines OF the
observation-disclosures OpIni0ns--What Tam.
many Intends to DO.
In view OF contemplated project TO annex a por-
ton OF Westchester county to New YORK consdera-
BILE agitation at present exists among properly
holders in the lower towns, whose opinions
diversified their interests are varied. Thus the
residents in the extreme southern portion OF the
county regard with unlimited appreciation the pro-
posed measure whereby they are to be made part
and parcel OF the metropolis while their neighbors
living few miles distant from the city limits
Loud in
DENUNCIATIoN OF THE SCHEME.
bill has already been drawn up for presentation
to the Legislature at lis approaching session winch
seeks to incorporate the towns OF Msrrisania West
Farms, Westchester Yonkers, Eastchester, Pelham
posed boundary line commencing at the northwest
corner OF the town OF Y0nkers on the Hudson river,
ana runnas thence along the northern line Of me
la5t-named town to the Bronx river, thence con.
tinuing in northerly direction TO Long island
sound and taking In the towns OF Eastchester and
New Rochelle The project meets With
DECIDED OPPOSITION
IN the towns OF New Rochelle, Yonkers and East
chester, where It's opponents contend that II an
nexati0n must be regored to the projectors thereof
ought to csntent themselves with the absorption OF
the three lower towns first and, IN such event, run
Hudson river to the present northwestern boundary
OF the town OF West Farms, at Kingsbridge. thence
along the uOrtnern line 10 Tue brOuA TNCf,
and along the course OF that stream
to the nsrthern line OF the town Of
Westchester. thence along the castery line OF
that town to Eastchester Bay and Loug Island
Sound. In the three towns named there are about
$4,000 inhabitants. large number of
THE YONKERS PEOPLE ARE ESPECIALLY HOSTILE
to the proposed measure, preferrng to be incorpo.
| rated as separate city, retaining control ever
the entire township rather than risk the tate Of an
| ncxation. The local press has been agating the
| mOment0us subject for some weeks, ana IL ia eX
pected that public meetings for fun anu free discus
sion Of the PROJECT viii shortly become epidemic II
| the territory around which the Tammany Leaders
have resolved to throw the agls Of their benign pro
l teotten
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The Temporal Power.
ST.. JOsEPH's CHURCH,
crv.rrs NI.Si-r Ice - lNrn 4

III,
SIXTH AVENUE, Dec. IL, 1870.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD-
The wrong impression created in certain circles
by an incomplete report of some remarks made by
me at late meeting In this church has compelled
me, In self-defence, to- make statement which
have thus far delayed publishing, in the hope that
1t might possibly be avoided The meeting referred
to was that which called for the purpose Of pro-
testing against the invasion Rome by the Italians
l am sure that any enc Of the large audience which
was present upon that occasion will bear me out In
the statement that / expressed MY sentiments
openly and at some length IN favor OF the address
which was then submitted fer endorsements The
sinple remark which was reported and which was
made incidentally st the end OF my address, had
bearing entirely different from that Which was given
TO it in the report and certainly understood by
the audience III the sense In which 1t was given.
Taken In connection with what preceded il 1t was
clearly understood to signify that sympathy and
moral support for the Holy Father, and not volun-
teers supplies. Intended as the main objects
OF the meeting
The foregoing particulars may be testified to by
any one who was present upon The occasion.
EDWARD A. DUNPHY.
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10 pass IT, 1Ne fdDk OF &c pIraI that had
never been conferred in this country before, ana one
which never ought 10 be conferred hereafter He
moved that the rules be suspended and that the
bill be put on lis passage. The molten was agreed
TO by two-thirds vote, without DIVISION, and the
bin was passed.
TIE REGULATION OF RANK IN THE NAVY.
g. W. SC0FIELD, rep.l Of Pa, introduced bill
to regulate the rank In the navy.
INTERIOR TRANS PoRTATION.
Mr.. NIBLACK, tdem1 OF Ind, offered q resolu-
tion insructing the Committee OH Commerce to
inquire what additional legislation was necessary
lsting PROVISIONS OF law tor the transportation OF
imported merchandise 10 certain interior points OF
the United States. Adopted.
THE REVENUE REFoRMs
Mr.. KELLEY, Tep.) Of Pa, offered the following
resOlutlon:-
Resolved That the true principle Of points
created NJ war measure to provide extraordinary
ployment, at the millions doars annually OF an
army Of assessors collectors supvaors,
repeal OF IT at the earliest day consistent with the
o 81 and ppo ana "s al sn
retained distilled spirits tobacco liquors,
collection Of any sum from internal taxes
The resolution was adopted ~ ls4 70 6, these
voting in the negative being Messcs. Asper Aver,
Benjamin, COX. Finkenburg and Smith OF Ten
nessee.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
MI INGERsoLl, !rep.l Of H., introduced bill ia
authorize the building OF d military and postal rail.
way between WASHINGTON ana New York. also the
bill making no Treasury notes receivable IN part
payment Of customs duties. Referred.
ON motlon of Mr.. ScHENCK, the Committee Of
Ways and Means was discharged from the further
consideration Of the two bills OF last sesslon:--.srC
enaDle United states citizens TO register foreign
built vessels ana 10 ADMIT TO registry in the p0r
Of he united states certain IRON and composite tor
elln built vessels, and they were referred to tn
\ Committee Oh Commerce.
4 Mr.. MkEcrR, rep:l or Pa, introduced bill 4
4 amend the General Bankruptcy act.
MIR. LAwrEEcE. trep.l Of ONO, Hnered a resolution
calling unon the secretary oi state Tor copies OF Til
! correspondence Of Nh. Shellabarges, Minister Z
Portugal, relating 10 public documents Ia the libra
| rles ol foreign Ministers. Adopted.
| MORE REVENUE REFORM MEASUREs,
MIR. Cox offered resolution raciting that the ord
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The Case of Real.

Governor Hoffman has already declined to
commute the sentence of Real but it is re-
ported that additional pressure is to be brought
to bear upon the Governor to secure this
change in the punishment of Real. Fortu-
nately the Governor is man who needs no in
struction at the hands OF journalists, and,
without having his attention specially called,
is competent to see every point in such case,
whether it relates to his duty, to humanity, on
the one hand, or to the law on the other. But
as statemen: is addressed to the public as
we'll as the Governor, and seems to propose to
operate on the Executive through popular sym
patty, it seems proper to observe that the
story now told is not in accordance with what
was shown on the trial, and also that it in
wolves one mischievous thought. 1t implies
that Real was found guilty not because he was
guilty, but because public sentiment, Mortified
by many murders, required victim. y This
same argument has been used recently in an
other case. This is only another way to state
the view of Jack Reynolds-with qualifca-
ton Hanging is played out, unless there is
public excitement and ''victim" Is neces-
sary. 1t is strange from what material we
make victims.
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The Meteorological Phenomena of the Ats
lantic Race.

The Meteorological Phenomena of the Ats
laniic Race.
The meteorological phenomena recorded in
the logs Of both yachts in the late ocean
race are very curious and suggestive The
Cambria, for instance, had fifteen days Of the
twenty-three Of the race in which there was
more or less rains-heavy rains and gales
being the rule The Dauntless has only seven
days marked by rain, but more days of thick,
foggy weather than the Cambria. The gen.
eral course of the Dauntless was about four
hundred miles south of the course of the
Cambria. The questions suggested by these
facts are, why these prevailing rains on the
Atlantic, while the Continents on each side
has been subject to dry, heated term, with
out precedent for half century in Europe
and North America? And why this excess of
rain along the northern course of the Cambria
Our theory is, first, that from an increase Of
combustibles drawn into the sun the earth,
and especially in its northern hemisphere, is
mainly indebted for its extraordinary droughts
and heats of this summer In the second
place, the heat of this season having extended
further towards the North Pole than usual, an
increased quantity of icebergs have been
loosened from the shores of Bafin's Bay, and
by the Arctic current, which comes down that
bay into the main ocean, have been brought
out into the Atlantic, where they have acted
as condensers Qike the Alps and other snow
covered mountains) of the vapor from the
ocean, which otherwise would be discharged
upon the thirsty land on both sides. The
Dauntless, having sailed a course south Of
than the Cambria, which, for two days,
reports icebergs in sight. The atmos-
phere along the course Of the Daunt-
less was not the condensing atmosphere of the
route of the Cambria. Hence, while the
one ship experienced more fog, the other had
more rain. Such, briefly, is the best explana-
ton we can give of the meteorological phe-
nomena of this ocean race in contrast with
the drought and terrible heats prevailing at the
same time on both sides of the sea. The curl
open new field of inquiry to science touching
the annual rain fall of the dry land in connec-
ton with the causes operating to increase what
we may call the wastage on the sea in one
year as compared with another Let any man
of science compare, for example, the logs of the
Cambria and Dauntless with the weather record
Of those twenty-three days in the same lati-
tudes on the American and European Atlantic
coast, and he will find most interesting sub
ject for investigation.
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TIE CHINESE .MAssAoRE.-A despatch re-
ceived at Paris on the 9th inst, overland.
announces that four French vessels had ar
rived before Tientsin, the scene of the re-
cent Chinese massacre, which was so horrible
in its details that, for time, the press of Eu-
rope and America refused to lend it credence-
Unhappily the tragic story has since been sub
stantially confirmed. But the same despatch
to which we have alluded announces also that
Schong Ho high Chinese functionary, has
been appointed Chinese Ambassador to Paris,
with instruction to offer ample satisfaction to
France for the outrages committed on French
citizens. The advantages Of the Burlingame
treaty have thus been signally manifested.
Under the former relations of foreign Powers
with the Chinese empire. the four French mem.
ofwar would have lost no time in opening fire
on Tientsin. But now that the Chinese empire
has, by the Burlingame treaty, been brought
into regular relations with the rest Of the civ
ilized world, local and temporary outbreak OF
barbarianism can be satisfactorily atoned for
without resorting to the less civilized remedy
of war. m
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Some Of the Financial Effects Of th'
War Already Visible.

War Already Visible.
The Bank of England begins to take pre-
cautionary measures in consequence of the
war between France and Prussia. 1t has
raised the rate of discount in order to hold on
to its specie, and thus is providing for eventual
tiles as well as to check the drain that might
be made for war purposes on the Continent.
has decided to pay out silver only, which
means, we suppose, that it intends to hold on
to the gold reserve. We hear at the same time
of failures beginning at the London Stock Ex-
change. 1t is estimated that the depreciation
Of securities of different kinds in England, in
GLIDING foreign stocks, between July and IL,
was about five hundred millions of dollars. If
we take into account the decline of the French
rentes, Prvssian securities and all other
European stocks, both up to the 18th of July
and since, the fall in values must be enormous.
1t was said that the house of Rothschild alone
had lost about twenty millions of dollars. OF
course there must be vast number of suffer-
ers who are not as well able to bear loss as
the Rothschilds, and the consequence will be
failures and a general financial disturbance
Should the war continue long, and especially
if it should spread beyond France and Prussia,
there will, no doubt, be fearful crash.
Under these circumstances what will be the
effect upon the securities and financial affairs
of the United StatesP As matter of course
our securities have declined in common with
all the rest abroad. This is the natural con-
sequence of the connection and sympathy
which exist in the monetary world, and is
Independent of the intrinsic value of stocks.
But in the end the credit of those nations that
are not involved in or directly affected by war
must rise. Though there may be less money
to invest than in time of peace the securities
of great neutral and prosperous nation like
ours will be in demand and will rise high COM
paratively. We need not be alarmed, there
fore, about our credit abroad, however long
or widespread the war may be- After the
declna which takes place at first in sympathy
with the FILL of securities in general in European
markets there must come reaction. People
will be glad to find such safe and profits
means of investment as the United States Offer
under the disturbance and uncertainty o.
things in Europe We advise both the govern.
ment aud our bankers and stock operators te
look at the matter in this light and to prepare
for future contingencies,
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suited in the premises. Spain, however, may
fret and fume as she pleases. She can do
nothing unless the war becomes general. In
that case she may take pleasure in teaching
France that she has the right to choose for
king whom she will. Perhaps the most i'm
portant piece Of news is that which announces
the determination Of Napoleon to withdraw his
troops from Rome. II is evidently Napoleon's
intention to win over Italy to his side by this
movement. Will the evacuation of Rome by
the French troops make the Italian people the
allies of FranceP At one time it would. Will
1t now? Time must be allowed to tell Rome
is one Of the biggest questions which Europe
has to settle. Turkey and the far East enter
into the growing complications, and 1t is diff
cult to say where or how the war is to end
once it has been begun. Earl Granville
stated the European situation to the British
House of Lords last night during a scene of
intense excitement. He pledged England to
neutrality The most important point Of his
Lordship's address was made in his official
declaration that ''no insult was intended to
King William" by Benedict at Ems. The
British frigate Warrior is to convey the
Princess Royal of England, wife of the Crown
Prince of Prussia, home to her mother, in Eng
land. Another Napoleonic paper has been
brought to light, in which the Emperor asked
Switzerland 'Where does France end and
where does Italy begin?"
Look at the situation from what point of
view we may, we can arrive at no other con-
clusion than this, that Europe has been on the
eve of no such crisis since the wars of the
First Napoleon. We do not wonder that men
given to the study of the Apocalypse should
recognize in the approaching conflict the battle
of Armageddon. 1t would be strange-would
it ?-if the year which has been specially
honored by the proclamation Of Papal infalli-
bility should witness the downfall of the Bona
parties, the extinction of the Mohammedan
power in Europe, the removal of the Pope
from the chair of st. Peter and the final de-
struction Of the temporal power. Strange,
certainly, but who shall say-impossible9
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TRIPLE SH E E T
New York. Friday, July %. 1870.
CONTENTS OF TO-DAY,s HERALD.

PAGE.
acknowledgements
acknowledgements.
S-Yachting: England Exulting in Triumph; The
Cambria and the America at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard; The Coming Contest for the Queen e
Cup-Cricket-Organiz OF the Board Of
Indian Commissioners in this City-Personal
int INTEL Of Admiral Farragut-
The Chinese Emigration Question:; Proposed
Reform In the Treasury Department: The Ku
kluk Khan IN North Carolina TO be Extermi-
MANA Shrewd Move.
4-Europe: France on the Eve OF War with Prus-
STA; Duke de Grammont Reporting King VIII
Iiams Defiance TO the Empire; Scenes In the
French Legislature and the Streets Of Paris;
Special History Of the HohenZollern Negotla.
tons in Madrid Napoleon Insulted France In
a,I Blaze; Germany United and the PEOPLES
Episode Of the Heated Term-Lady Franklin
In Cincinnati.
S-Mdsummer Retreats: A Lively Day at Long
Branch Watering Place Notes-Long Branch
rance Demoraiizatlon- OF Docks:
The Docks to be Put IN Proper Condition With
out Neutrality-suspicious. in 81. Louis-New
York City News-A Pair OF Bigamists-A
6-Editorials: Leading Article on the secret Treaty
Project, the European Crisis-Amusement
Announcements.
1.-THE War: Napoleon Leaves Paris for the front;
Parting from the Empress and Address to the
Guard Of Paris; Great Battle Imminent; Re-
The Secret Treaty and Other Papers, British
Cabinet Statement to Parlament-Tele-
graphic News from All Parts OF the world
ObItuary-Oppostti0n to Tammany-Special
Police Changes-BustneSs Notices.
S-Central America: The Government OF Columbia
and the Subject of Education; Severe Earth
quakes In the Republic of Guatemala-The
Murder OF Colonel Buel-AnOther Boston
Fire-The Cowtan Infanticide Case-Proceed-
ings In the New York Courts--The quaker City
as a Gambling Hell-Base Ball NOtes-Chess
Matters-Suiclde OF a New Yorker In Balti-
more-Howes Cave: The Romance OF the Sub
terranean World.
0-North Carolina: Affairs in the Alleged Insur
rectionary District-The Cold Spring Robbery
and Murder-Runaway Accident on Broad
way-The New Lighthouse at Long Beach
Our City Sewerage System-A Tax Decision
Financial ana Commercial RepOrts-Mar-
riages and Deaths.
Hottie Ladies' Behind the Counter: Sunerfngs and
Tribulalons Of the aeswomen-Proposed
Masonic PcnIc-The Prize Rng-ShOoting and
StabbinR Afrays-The City Hall Outrage
The Board OF Health and the Fat Meters
Man Imprisoned by His Wfe-A Super
natural Battery: Building Struck by Light
ning-Real Estate Matrers-Epilepsy In the
Street shipping Intelligence Advertise
ments.
11-The Caucasus: From Turkey to West Asia
and Scenes by the Way; How You Journey
from Constantinople to Tns; Sighting the
Caucasian Range; Jasons Trip; Three Thou
sand One Hundred and Thrty-three Years
Ago; Russian Aristocracy, Amusements, Re
llgiOn Penance and the Army.
12-The Caucasus continued from Eleventh Page)-
The Lost Girl Of Waltham-Old Fashioned
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Our Central American News.

Our correspondent in Panama furnishes us
with the latest news from Central America.
The canal treaty still continues to attract
attention, and, after some alterations suggested
by the American Minister, it passed the Colon
bian House of Representatives. The President
of Colombia has achieved noble work in
securing for the republic the advantages to be
derived from a national system of education.
The sum of one hundred thousand dollars has
been appropriated for the establishment Of
schools based upon q system similar to those
in this country. In fact, our schools are to
serve as q model for those to be established
in Colombia. While the Colombians copy our
educational system they feel loath to emulat Q
the policy pursued by the government in the
treatment of the Cuban question. From
present appearances it seems probable that a
coalition of most of the Spanish American
republics will be formed to aid In securing the
independence of Cuba and Porto Rico. This
is bold move, and Colombia is foremost in
the lead From Guatemala we learn Of severe
visitations of earthquake during the month of
June. They are spoken of as being very dis
astrous. The town Of Cuaginiguilapa, in the
department of Santa Rosa, In the southern
part of the republic, has been almost entirely
destroyed. All the public buildings were
thrown down, and only the miserable little
huts of the poor survived the shock.
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WALL STREET ANXIOUS FOR SENsA-
71oN-Now that the yacht race is over and
that the French and Prussian armies maintain
q very provoking peace-seemng, as the
Hibernian expressed it, to be very much at
peace In their fighting-Wall street wants a
novelty in the sensational line for the purpose
of arousing the activity of the markets. Gold
has gone to sleep with the continued ''All
quiet along the Rhine, and the brokers are
suffering from ennui. A good, big battle,
with plenty of exciting Details is now neces-
sary to start the gold speculation into life
again.
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An Anxious Ina uiry.
An AnxiOus InquIry.
An intelligent reader sends the following

An intelligent reader sends the following
note -
NEW YORK, Thursday, July %, 1870
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Will you be so good az to explain 70 the public how
1t came to pass that you distracted from the Post
once the special correspondents letter to the TIT
0une from the seat OF war; The Tribune publishes
to-day what you had yesterday almost verbatim. 1t
Is not fair that you should surreptitiously possess
Yourself OF the Tfb,ne's correspondence ana publish
Il as your own after which you allow the letter to
pass on to its rightful owner Explain, SIR Explain
or own up. QN TdE COhNEh
Mr.. 20 in the Corner" is very polite, but we
hardly know how to answer him. We can
only assure him in the most solemn manner
that we have stolen nothing from the Post
Office or any other Office. 1t is certainly true
that we published long war despatch on
Wednesday which the Tribune published as
its special the next day; but that is something
we cannot help. Our columns are open to the
world, and all the papers help themselves libe-
rally, and If our contemporaries can make
good Especial dispatches" out of our old mat
ter that is the cheapest way to get them.
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A VERY CRUEL CAsE-That Of the heartless
fellow who elected poor sick woman from
her wretched home into the street in Newark,
by which treatment she came to her death in
three hours. The effrontery with which the
svicting landlord himself notified the Overseer
of the Poor that he had turned the woman out,
sold her furniture, pocketed the proceeds. and
that the unfortunate creature was dying on
the sidewalk, is unparalleled. A bad feature
in the case IS that the woman was not in
this wretch's debt at all, the sale Of her fur
niture more than covering the paltry indebted
ness Of few dollars. 1t is evident that Judge
Lynch does not hold court In Newark, where
this landlord Yslu abroad
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DGuntleSS.
Total miles sailed. 2,

1t seems incredible that the Cambria should
have made but thirty-six miles on her last day,
while the Dauntless made one hundred and
eighty. 1t is known that on Tuesday morn
ing at ten o'clock, when the Dauntless was
boarded by pilot, she was informed that the
Cambria was twelve hours ahead. This was
only thirty hours from the lightship, and in
that time, therefore, the Dauntless gained over
ten hours on her competitor, but even this
does not account for the disparity.
1t will be observed that the greatest distance
made for any single day was by the Dauntless
on the 2Oth-two hundred and twenty-five
miles. Next to this was the Cambrias run of
the 9th-two hundred and twenty miles.