New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-04
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

ForrIGN.-A statue of Theirs was inangurated at
Nancy Yesterday. - The French Senate and
Chamber OF Deputies have been prorogued
4o meet in Paris. - The Panama Canal
shares are at 2 francs discount in France --
Lord Chelmsford has resigned offensive operations
are still under consideration IN the British camp IN
South Africa.
DoNEsTIc.-Sinee Friday there have been TWEEN
tv-six new cases of yellow fever at Memphis and
nine deaths the mortality Is decreasing. ----
collision OF steam yachts has taken place on the
St. Lawrence ana the licenses of two captains
have been revoked. = There was an enor-
nous crowd at Ocean Grove YESTERDAY. ===-
The new pavilion at Chautauqua Lake has
been dedicated. -- Some of the property OF
the Rev. W. II. n. Murray has been attached. 2"
Solicitor Rayuer is of opinion that the four boats
seized IN Mississippi for carrying negroes North
carried those people from necessity and as an act of
humanity. =- Cotton in Texas is maturing early
from lack of ram
CITY AND SUBURBAN-A committee of the Cen
trail Taxpayers Association will make report
charging the Court-H House Extension Commissioners
with unlawful expenditure of money. =- There
were thirteen cases Of sunsTOke in NeW-1orh
and vicinity Saturday and yesterday tye
of which were fatal. - Charles L. Weeks, the
betrothed lover of Miss Brownell. who recently
committed suicide at White Plains, is missing from
his home in Brooklyn. = Gold value Of the legal
tender silver dollar 412l2 grainsl, S6.Ol cents
Stocks active and higher, closing quiet, but firm.
THr Manufacturers local observations in
dicate clear and partly cloudy weather, with slight
chances of light showers late in the day. and posi-
bly, lower temperatures. Thermometer Yesterday:
Highest 90; lowest, 76o; average, S24l'
Persons IeaUing torn TOR the season, and Sum
aer frqrellerS, can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
MALTA 10 them, postpaid, JOr 81 pen month, the
od6ress being changed as often as desired.
Onr staff correspondent in the Black Hills
gives in the letter printed on another page a
running description OF the stagt-coach ride to
Deadwood through the wild country OF Ne
braska, letting us have some interesting
glimpses, by the way, of the Wild lie OF the
cattle plains. These include close look at
yeritable buffalo, and some respectful Obser-
walton of the Nebraska "cow boys" whose
general bearing may be inferred from the fact
that many of them have left Texas for Texas
good.
There is an interruption to the too steady
succession of New England defaulters, and
this instance is the most melancholy OF all re-
cent cases The cashier of the Canal Bank OF
New-Orleans, who has held that position for
more than thirty years, has been detected III
thefts of the usual kind. There is pathos in
the announcement that there will be no
"prosccuuon,D which renders it fairly impOssi-
bic 70 quarrel with such q decision, though it
is not strictly just to society. The thought OF
the old cashiers many years of service no
doubt diSarmed the severity of men to whom
the disclosure must have been real shock.
The battle of Ulundi has not proved the
overwhelming victory it was supposed TO be by
1he British press. News sent from Cape Town
eleven DAYS after the battle leaves the ques-
ton Of peace or war still in doubt, and indi-
Gates that as CetywayO has retreated
20 his northern stronghold he will be tardy in
resuming peace negotiations. The British
Government is undoubtedly anxious to bring
the war TO q close, but 1t seeks at the same
time for occasion TO revive the cry of Peace
with honor" Cetywayo's mulishness stands in
the way of this political strategy, and may
prove very perplexing.
If things go on as they are going now. it
will not be long before the dangers of those
who 90 down TO the sea in ships will be as
nothing to the dangers of those who 20 out
In steam yachts on the st. Lawrence. The
terrible accident of the other day was all but
repeated on Saturday, and strangely enough
by the same boat as before. This time the
boat which was most in danger, and which
was, like the other, well crowded with pas
sengers, was promptly beached, and no lives
were lost. The Government Inspectors have
revoked the licenses of all the officers con-
cerned in the first accident, and have un-
doubtedly done what was right.
letter from our regular London CORE
spOndent, in describing the universal exulta-
ton of the Tories over the victory obtained
at the expense of the once despised Zulu,
gives a more crcumstantial account than has
yet been had of a striking journalistic achieve
lnent. Mr.. Archibald Forbes, who has been
called before now the greatest of war cor
respondents, brought the first news OF the
battle to Sir Bartle FreTe, and was thus the
first to announce the victory to the British