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TUESDAY. AUGUST 10. 1871.


An island in the Malay Archipelago has been depopu
lated by tidal wave over 400 lives being lost. 60
The particulars Of the second days battles in Corea are
published this morning. g. The British Government
has refused to accede request for the extradon OF
the Communists in England. Queen Victoria is indis
posed. -= The Mohammedan rebellion in Northern
China is Of serious character. terrible typhoon
has caused great damage in Japan.
Eighteen lives are supposed to have been lost by an
explosion in PittstoD coal mine. -Four lives have
been lost and many persons injured by steamboat ex
posion on Chautauqua Lake. go ]. c. Bancroft Davis
has been appointed Agent the United States the
Alabama claims - The schooner Columbia and yacht
Oracle won all the prizes at the Boston regatta. 80 An
extensive fire has occurred at Goldsboro, NJ c. 80 Sec
rotary Boutwell, has Withdrawn the and II per cent
bonds of the u. s. Loan.
The Scott Centennial is celebrated to-day. - The
Police aud the City Sanitary Inspector report on the con-
dton of the streets. Cold 112i, ll2s ll2s. Their
mometer. 7So, III, 7So.
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY AUGUST 49, 1871

an answer. Gov. Hoffman must remember
that these are not partisan attacks such as
sometimes are made in the-heat Of campaign.
We do not know that the Health Officer is in
league with the carpet dealers, plasterers,
chair makers, and so on, who are plundering the
public under the protection of the Tammany
Ring, and we have made no attempt to charge
his oppressive and dishonest conduct to the
record of tho party by which he
was appointed. If the Quarantine abuses are
TO make part of the next political issue, 1t
will be because the Democracy choose to
shoulder the responsibility by covering over
the wrongs and shielding the offender 1t
seems to us they have quite enough to answer
for without undertaking that Yet the DEM
ocratic press and the Democratic Governor Ig-
more the disclosures with which'the whole city
is ringing, and appear to believe that the
threatening deluge is not going to be much OF
shower after all. Defending the spoliations
of the Ring and protecting the extortions OF
7 the Health Officer, they force the most chart
table to regard them as the representatives OF
political rascality and organized theft. Are
they satisfied with the situation'
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the delegates as were under the influence of
Mr.. Thomas Murphy aforesaid, Collector of
the Port. The pretext for this was "Tam-
many influence" "Police interference" &C.,
&c. We assert with undoubting confidence
that every delegate who remained after the
boilers had left worked and voted for Gen.
Stewart l.. WOodford and the entire Republican
State Ticket. few of them probably de-
clincd to support the Ledwith or local inde-
pendent Democratic ticket, for which some
Thirty Thousand Republicans voted, getting
small thanks therefor. Still, voting the Led
with ticket was, in our judgment, the right
thing to do, and we urged it upon all Repub-
licans. The independents did not, probably,
give us a hundred votes for our State Ticket.
The boilers from the Union Republican Cen
eral Committee did not try to perpetuate
themselves. They neither voted at the cleo
ton last December, when the present General
Committee was chosen, nor did they hold then
rival election. They waited till this sum
mer, when they could organize under the
auspices of a State Committee controlled by
Federal Office holders and seekers, and now
PROPOSE to discredit and supplant the regular
organization at the next Republican State Con-
yentiOn,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

Another accident has taken place lii 'ho an
tbracite region. near Pittston. Eighteen men
were at work driving gangway in mine
which was known to be dangerous by reason
If bad ventilation and the constant generation
of the two deadly gases, choke-damp and fire.
damn. It seems to have been tho custom to
work in this dangerous place with open
lamps-the general practice, we believe, in
most of the anthracite mines. An explosion of
fire-damp took place, and portion of the sub
terranean tunnel fell in, imprisoning the miners
engaged in extending it, to perish by suffooa-
ton from carbonic acid gas, if, indeed, they
were not instantly killed by the explosion
itself. Accidents in coal mining are inevitable,
and English statistics show nearly constant
ratio in the number of deaths to the quantity
of coal mined. But this fact only proves more
plainly that proper precautions for the protec-
ton of miners lives have not yet been en-
forced by the authorities of Pennsylvania.
Coal mining ought to be much safer In the
anthracite regions than in the English mines
yet, while there is six times more coal mined
in England, there are certainly fewer of these
terrible slaughters.
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WASHINGTON.
THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON

DISPATCH FROM MINISTER sCHRNCK-1uv 49,
POINTNENT OF CHIEF-JUsrICR coCr.,'n..
CONFiRMED--J. @. BANCROFT DAyIs no n'.
TIE AGENT FOR THE UNITED sr.,a,
ASSISTED BY CHARLES C. BEAMAN. Jp n
THIS CITY. w
WASHINGTON, Aug "a dispatch f,o..
Minister schenck confirms the truth OF the ca,, O,
gram that Sir Alexander COckbnrn, Lord ch,e,n.'.'
of England, IL TO be the English arbitrator AZ c..
under the Treaty OF Washington, and sr Rounde o.
mer The counsel.
1t has already been announced that the Hon cs,.
Francis Adams is TO be arbitrator HIsnov,.-
tainy known that Assistant Secretary % state q p.
croft Davis Is to he the agent Of the United states
British agent has not yet been announced. This Gov
eminent has as yet appointed counsel Mr. Cb,,,e.
O. Beaman, jr, OF NewYork, IS employed 10 assis, N,
agent Of the United States in the preparation Of a.
cases before The tribunal OF arbitration Mr. Peam,n q
the author Of volume entitled The National and p
vate Alabama Claims, ana their final and amicabe ss
uoment."
The Hon. robert g. Hale ~ Ncw-York, the arent ana
counsel on TIE part 81 the United States Tor the caas To
come before the Commissioners TO ST In Washington i.
now here on business connected with his Office.
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THE GOVERNOR And THE HEALTH OFFICER.

The charges against DR.. CarDOchan which
have lately attracted so much notice are not
new. They have been whispered about town
all Summer. They have been touched upon
In several of the papers from time to time !;
and although the magnitude of the exactions
was probably not suspected until we published
our complete exposure on the 18th inst, it has
been no secret to anybody familiar with city
analrs that abuses existed in the management
OF Quarantine affairs which threatened serious
damage to the commerce of the port. We
nave at last given all the facts, converted
vague suspicion into proof, and presented an
indictment against the Health Officer which
cannot be passed over in silence. DR.. Carno-
chan has not found it convenient to publish a
reply to these charges, nor have any of the
other persons implicated in the extortion
oiiered syllable of denial or excuse.
several days ago we reminded Gov. Hoffman
tna' ne had duty to perform in this matter.
Dr. Carnochan is his appointment The Gov
ernor is responsible for his misdeeds if he is
retained In Office after this exposure, and we
DO not understand how Mr. Hoffman can re-
main blind to the serious obligation which
now calls for his action. Yet we do not hear
that he has taken steps to order an investiga-
ton. or that he has asked DR.. Carnochan for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

The Hilisborough Recorder (N C) tells the following
anecdote IL isa Conservative" White Mans"
organ and we must think the laugh comes in on the
other side. Hear it:
"Goldsborough gave go majority against Convention.
The negroes in swaIms nfest the city, One negro got
hurt some time ago. and Dr. Kirby. an excellent pbys
can kindly attended TO him, and probably was the main
means OF saving his life. The negro seemed very crate
full and afterward did fencing for the doctor for
which he was duly remunerated. On election day, tho
negro came to tho doctor, and wanted him TO show
him the way TO vote. The doctor told him the
best way was to vote with him. They started side By
side for tho polls, and, just as they got near to
the large mass negroes around the box, the doctor
pulled out the White Mans ticket and showed it to the
negro The negro sorter baked, scratched his head
and said 1T seems me orient to vote dat ticket
AN right says the DOCTOR the next time you get into
Distress and are dying for help hope you Will call on
Demoerat 10 help you' The negro scratched his head
again. well, boss said he 1T seems to me ia IS ae
best for dat He voted the straighout Radical ticket
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

With its usual accuracy, our friend The Ne,r- York
Times pronounces the story of Lord Chief-Justice
Cockburns appointment as arbitrator, under the
Treaty of Washington improbable, for this reason,
among others, that the famous Tichborne case is
before his court" The Tichbome case is before the
Court of Common Pleas, over which Sir Alexander
Cockburn ceased to preside twelve years ago. The
name of his successor ChetJustice Bovill, has &C.
Cured so often the reports Of this celebrated trial
that it is surprising any journalist should forget it.
The office of Sir Alexander Cockburn is Lord Chief
Justice of England and he presides over the Court
of Queens Bench.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

England is again agitated by the difficult question
of Sabbath Observance. Mr. Bruces bill for stopping
Sunday trading prosecutions, mainly carried on
against shopkeepers under the statute of Charles H.
seems to make no progress inthe House of Commons
Mr. Taylor proposes TO put end to these prosecu-
TONS which are principally of crossing sweepers
and small shop-men, but his bill has been refused
second reading. and fines still levied upon the
old women who venture to vend watercresses on the
Lords Day. But those who advocate the repeal of
the Ac; of Charles III. have now adopted different
System of tactics. A summons against the Lord
Mavors coachman for engaging Oh Sunday in I'M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15
In n long communication, Mr. d. N. Stanton, Presi-

In long communication, Mr.. d. N. Stanton, Presi-
dent of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
Company, elsewhere details the particulars of the
negotiations between himself and Mr. Mckay, with
reference to large payment made to the latter OF
cash. notes, stock and bonds of the Company. These
transactions have given color to report referred to
some days ago in our Washington correspondence,
to the effect that this Mr. Mckay the representa-
tive of Gov Lindsay of Alabama, who was to receive
this property as a consideration for not Selling the
railroad as he was authorized to do by law, for its
failure to make good the interest on railroad bonds
indorsed by the State Whether Mr.. Stanton does or
does not make out his case against Gov Lindsay, he
certainly furnishes interesting chapter of tho diff
cuties of new railway enterprises in the South, and
piquaut narrative of the circumstances which led
him to believe that he was dealing with the author
lied representative Of the Governor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

necessary labor was applied for and refused Sim
liar summons against the coachman of the Marquis
of Lorne was also denied by another magistrate.
Mr. Ingham, who had been in the constant habit OF
fining the old women. was asked for summons
against the tradesmen of PrinceTeck, for supplying
things to KensingtOn Palace on Sunday; and this.
too, was refused. The magistrates have therefore
practically repealed the Sunday act far the rich
and the royal are concerned, while the convenience
of the poor is totally disregarded. All we have to say
at presents that Sunday law which the rich may
break but which the poor must observe is necessarily
q legal humbug.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

We hear great things of the Grand Duke Alexis
of Russia whose visit to this country is anticipated
Especially are we told that he can swear in twelve
languages, so that he must be a perfect master Of
the useful and ornamental Art of Objurgation. He
is also fond Of champagne wine and cigars q fact to
which we respectfully call the attentonof our Alder
men. His bliard-playing being pronounced excel
lent, we are not without hope-that he may be per
suaded to make match, contendng with some of
our American champions for the golden cue or other
metallic sign of conquest in this department Of human
ambition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

While he is about it, the Secretary of the
Treasury might as well sweep away all the
Nuisance of present-giving in the Department
Of which he is chief. He has very prop
erly reminded the Revenue Marine Service
that all presentations to officers of plate.
swords, and other articles of value, are
preiudicial to discipline and good order, and
are strictly forbidden. Let him now go step
further and bar out of the whole ,Treasury
service all presents from subOrdinates to supe-
riors, and all complimentary resolutions Gas
well, and the Treasury will be pruned of a
nuisance Other Departments might appropri-
atcly copy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

The national balance sheet has been made up,
and it presents good footing The receipts of
the Government for the year ending June 80,
1871, were 1888, ,9A SO; expenditures for the
same period were 1922 H. 1888 25. This includes
the $125,57G,565 paid out as interest on the
public debt; but it does not include $3.50, 1885,
1y IS expended in purchase of bonds for the
Sinking Fund, which would give total net
expenditure of s442,912,335 48. But the show
ing is a good one, and vindicates the Govern
ment economy. Even if it were less frugal
than it is, an extravaganza could be borne
with patience while we have the whole truth
told MS in a perspicuous manner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

The Pittsburgh Gazette says of Mr.. Greeey's aver
ment lin his letter to Tilton) that he would not, in
all cases. consider one violation of marriage vows
reason for divorce,
This, OF course is applicable TO the male ser only as
even The TRIBUNE philosopher would not attempt TO
argue that a wife might commit adultery only once,
and be forgiven by her husband"
As Mr.. Greeley had said, in the yery.paragraph on
which The Gazette comments,
"You and agree that husbands have no rightfal i'm
munty in such matters which ought not also to be
accorded 10 wives"
We submit that this is rather rough.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

Here is sweet church quarrel in Freedom, n III.
Years ago Elias Towle paid $500 for ameeting-house
bell, with the understanding that half the sum
should be reimbursed. This was neglected, and
twelve years ago Towle brought suit against the
church to recover the $50. There have been two
trials of the cause, and in both verdict for
the plaintiff. Now the Court refuses a new trial,
and the verdict has been reaffirmed. The whole
town of Freedom has all this while been agtated by
this cOntroversy-no tempest in a teapot was ever
more violent. The costs have been tremendous, and,
not to mince the matter, sillier piece of business
we never heard Of and we do not want to hear of.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

We do MT like to appear uncharitable, but really
the average Brton of the lower sort does indulge in
brutalities, sometimes hardly to be matched among
the most savage tribes Lately, in Bristol. England
woman was arrested for disOrderly con-
duct and it turned out that her disorder was that
of the mind her husband having sold her to another
scoundrel for $50, under some bear-bemuddled no
ton that he had legal right to do so. The man
who disgraced the name of husband had received
the money, and was much inccnsed because his wife
had refused her assent to this little commercial
transaction. If we have any cases of this kind in
this country the parties to them keep remarkably in
the shade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

There was fine conjunction of longevites IN
Boston the other day. Father Cleveland aged 100
years, made a call upon Mr.. James r. Rogers aged
1902 years. The old clergyman read to the somewhat
older lsyman the XXXIyth Psalm. after which there
was prayer and Mr. C. gave poetical composition of
his own TO Mr. r. When hears of these instances
Of long years il is little notifying to consider the
low average Of human life. Hardly are our teeth
set ON edge by the sour grapes deyoured by our
prandfathes. before we are relieved nom that and
all other disagrcoablo sensations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

We notice with some alarm that Chicagois to have
City Medical Library. This ostensibly is to be for
the use of the doctors, and we sincerely hope that
the general public will be kept severely out of it.
II is well enough for man OF woman to have some
anatomical and physiological knowledge but unless
our readers want to suffer most of the complaints
to which flesh is heir, we advise them to abstain
from all works on the theory and practiceof medi-
cine. Many unfortunates given to such reading
have been known to have severalof the rarest and
most recondite diseases within period of six
months. being cured of one only to fall prey to
another.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

The report of the Sanitary Inspector pub
lished to-day, reveals condition of things
which is not hopeful for future healthfulness.
The city has not been visited by any scourge
of disease, it is true, but we are not yet out
of the Summer term; and, with the sitting
heats of dOg-days, we cannot tell what pestl-
lence may come Stagnant water, garbage,
defective drainage and noisome nuisances pol
lutte the streets and poison the air in many
parts of the city. The parks look pretty, but
the slums are horrible. 1t is high time that
"our vigilant City Government" so mindful
of the welfare of the people, did something
for their health.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

A London dispatch brings MS some account
of an appalling calamity, reported to have
occurred in the Malay archipelago, by which
the small island of Tagolanda was temporarily
engulfed by tidal wave. No dates are gwen
out it is very likely that the disturbance was
part of the convulsion of May /, when earth
quake, hurricane, and volcanic ernptlons
afflicted the Philippine Islands. The island OF
Tagolanda is just north of the Celebes ana
tho islet of Camiquin, the pivotal point OF the
Philippine phenomena, is about three hundred
miles further north. The details Of this last
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

Minneapolis, MIMI, dispatch very aptly
shows how Indian wars too often begin. A
party of friendly Chippewa Indians, accused
of stealing, are attacked by settlers and two
of them killed. 1t was of use for the
white murderers to give themselves up to the
authorities. Justice will never reach them in
a community where nearly every man likely
to perform jury duty believes that Indians are
merely vermin. But if the frontier Is not
speedily reused by an Indian war of revenge,
it will be because of Gods mercy to those who
were gliltless of any share in the Offense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

Heavens! George Francis Train turning up again
various aud voluble and viyacious as ever!
Where should he more appropriately be than at
Barney, Ireland, from which celebrated place he
writes that he is taking two Turkish baths day.
and recovering his health. When he Is himself
again, he is going to France TO organize French
colonization in Nebraska, beginning with triiie OF
100000 French Communists or so. So far as we can
make it ont. he has transferred his gushing phan-
thropy from Ireland to France; and his fixed pur-
pose is clearly proved by his refusal to make any
speeches to Hbernians, though he has been impor-
tuned warmly to do so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

fine and Just remark lately made, as we are told,
by the Crown Prince of Prussia is worth repeating
Some of us" he said may not admire OF love Re
publicanism but it impossible to hate it as ii
is impossible to hate Nature herself" This
is an admission of tie normal equity of
democratic principles of government. Ma
tons may not entirely or at all secure
the blessing of self government fortune may deny
it to them as it sometimes denies well-rounded
career to individuals; experiments may turn out
failures, but the truth of the principle remains
challenged by honest thinkers, while suffering man
continues TO dream of it if only impracticable
ideality.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

We have this morning the report of another
destructive steamboat explosion. small
steamer on Chautauqua Lake, while taking in
wood at Whitney's Landing, was wrecked by
the bursting of her boiler, four persons being
killed, and fourteen wounded. We shall prob
ably hear from the experts again; and, posi-
bly,, after few more hundred lives have been
taken by these mysterious accidents, we shall
have an intelligent opinion expressed on the
causes and prevention of steam boiler explo-
soDs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

Mr.. Greeley's Letters from Texas and the
Lower Mississippi with his Address TO the Farmers OF
Texas and his Speech his return to NewYork, are
now ready in a handsome pamphlet edition. Price, Is
cents or five copies for 81, postage paid Orders ad-
dressed to this Office will be filed the principle Of
First come first served"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-15

A letter published to-day gives us sketch
of the opening session of the British Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science, lately
convened at Edinburgh. Such names as Hulk
ley, Herbert Spencer, and Sir William Thorn
son are nova days associated with the organ
ization
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GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC FESTIVAL
SYRACUSE, Aug. 14.-Post Libby, No o. y,
the Grand Army OF the Republic, to-day celebrated ""
anniversary OF ts organization in kaisars Grove ro,
BaIey No a. and three companies OF the iSth ReslH'n
we're present from oswoso. under tho command NJ AH>
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Of THE TrmUNE, agent in Philadelphia to receive
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four hundred lives being lost, it is said. Du'
we hope the story has been exaggera'eo' 40
such stories usually are.