The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-20


the subsequent disposition of the money,
whether for charity CT for personal uses, signi-
fies nothing The money rightfully belongs
either to the members or to the public Treas
ury, and there is no halfway ground of COM
promise in disposing of it We infer from
Senator Cameron's Jealous support of General
Butler that Butler is the administration can
didate for Governor of Massachusetts,. We con-
lecture that as President Grant approved the
appropriation bill embodying this back-pay
amendment the Massachusetts, republicans
will meet the difficulty of condemning But
Ter without reproving the President-an i'm
pediment which they cannot overcome-and
that the Republican State Convention, brought
to this crucial test will find the nomination
of General Butler duty towards the admins
tation which the party cannot escape. We
may be mistaken in these conclusions, but
when Senator Cameron throws his whole
weight, as he has done. in support of General
Butler it may be safely assumed that he is
speaking as.one having authority.
Remarkable Episode in tho Late voy-
age or the Arndt-An Important Les
son to Seamen.
An episode in the recent voyage of the
steamship Arndt, after she lost her propeller
as reported, is so remarkable and instructive
as to merit special attention. The disabled
steamer was signalled by the Vile du Havre
on the 10th inst. in latitude forty degrees
forty-seven minutes, longitude sixty-two de-
grees twenty-one minutes-about five hundred
and fifty miles due east from Sandy Hook.
The Vile du Havre, it appears, supplied her
with the newspapers, which she had taken out
the day previous when she LETT this port; and
the press dispatches containing the Signal
Service probabilities of easterly winds for
the Middle States decided the captain of the
Arndt to base his course accordingly. If the
forecast was true the steamer, now reduced to
her Sails might hope to run into port upon
this &C streak of good luck )" and sure enough,
for the next two days it proved true to the
letter, the vessel, under the anticipated winds,
doing some splendid sailing. Commenting
upon the unanticipated arrival Of the late gale
(Which it appears was due to meteoric condi-
tions existing north of Canada, beyond the
present scope of the weather observations,
the Baltimore Sun cites the experience Of the
Arndt as most brilliant offset and signal sue
cess in prognosticating the course of the
winds, thus rendering "Old Probabilities F"
triumphant in the hour of exceptional defeat.
But If the predictions to which we refer could
be utilized by steamer or sailing vessel more
than five hundred miles from shore, as we
have seen it actually was used it sug-
utility OF the daily forecasts by distribut-
ing them freely on outward bound ves-
sells. It often happens that q storm centre
destined to be one Of great violence after it
has advanced Eastward beyond the Middle
States seaboard is reported while yet in the
Gulf or Mississippi Valley, two or three days
before it can get of the Atlantic coast; and,
during the interval, vessels leaving our sea-
board ports might easily communicate Ito
those ships they speak inward bound) any
alarming intelligence OF storms approaching.
This interchange OF signals might be mutually
beneficial to both the outward-bounder and
the inward-bounder, since it is no inirequent
thing for vessels steaming eastward to be over
taken unawares to-day and become disastrously
entangled in cyclone from which the vessel
she passed yesterday had just emerged. But
not only would such exchange of information
be useful to ships sailing on parallel lines in
opposite directions, but also to those crossing
each others tracks at right angles. So that,
by arranging an additional device in the
marine signal code, thousands Of coasters and
small craft might be warned of coming dan
ger, and countless large vessels sailing to and
from Southern ports, while yet several hum
dred miles off the coast, might receive the
benefit of the cautionary signals and storm
warnings.
The storm which in all probability over
the Inflated steamer City of Boston
three years ago might have been in this way
indicated, both foreseen and avoided by nu-
and many other specific illustrations could be
adduced of the feasibility of connecting the
land meteorologic conditions with the previ-
sion, by vessels far out at sea, of the weather
they are likely to experience.
The Government and the Press In
France.
We learn that the French government has
or forbidden the sale Of twenty
republican newspapers in the provinces
70 A..