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The New York herald., 1879-08-24
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
David Davis is too unanimous.

David Davis is too unanimous
Jenny Lind is nifty eight years old.
The ex- press Eugenie will not go to . convent
at all.
Senator Thomas W. Ferry. of Michigan. is at tho
Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines has filed another bill
against New Orleans.
Lady I.onsdale is said to be tho handsomest woman
OF the London season.
Senator James B. Beck. Of Kentucky has loft
Providencc for Saratoga.
London Worid-'.Evcry Russian is not only
Panslavist, but political agent"
The London Graphic says that the Americans
too Jealous of their httle continent"
1t Is since the beginning Of the Zulu campaign
that General Thesiger has become Lord Chelmsford
The st. Louis Repubiicdn says of the administra-
tons civil service policy, "The bars all down at
last"
Mile Coyon is gaining musical honors in Paris
because her fine voice resembles Alboni's; and she
is only sixteen.
wild Bill"--James b. Hickock. OF Ilinois--who
was shot and killed three years ago. has become
thoroughly petriGed.
Garibaldi is losing his popularity in Italy. Most
of the journals against him. He threatens
wisely to write pamphlet.
The nine salmon sent by Princess Louise. from her
own catch, to the Queen and the princes. were VOL
coined with great deal of enthusiasm
Archibald Forbes. the English war correspondent
whose long and quick rides have excited much
comment, used to serve In cavalry regiment.
Mr.. Tden says that need the good, old fash
Toned politics of our forefathers. Now let us at
tach old oaken buckets to the Croton hydrants.
DIR. Schliemann, ths explorer. speaks Russian,
English French. Spanish. Italian. Portuguese
Dutch. Polish. Swedish, Arabic, and ancient we'll
as modern Greek.
Edmund Yates thinks that in the big commercial
and manufacturing cities of America, of which Pitts
burg. Chicago and st. Louis are types, Sara Bern
hardt would not draw ono hundred aud afty dollar
houses.
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
CHINA AND JAPAN.
Homo KONG, j uly IL, 1870.

HOMO KONG. July II. 1870.
determination is loudly expressed in the cspitaA
to maintain the Chinese position in Kashgaria and
meet Russian approaches with Q determined resist
ance If necdful.
Recent traders reports from Shanghai show
great dminution in British transactions. while
American commerce was nearly doubled in the past
year.
Great praise is awarded to the Chinese government
for extensive improvements In lighthouses, buoys.
&C., all along the coast.
YOKOHAMA July 20, 1879.
Great excitement was caused by the breaking OF
quarantine by the German merchant ship Hesperia.
acting under the orders of the German Minister aud
consuls.
An epidemic is raging in southern ports which
q majority of physicians pronounce Asiatio
cholera though or two regard It dit
fcrentiy. OF its fatal effects none doubt.
Quarantine which has been imposed at Yokohama,
is fully respected only by the United States Envoy.
The British Envoy overrucs 1t and substitutes
process of his own invention, Notwithstanding the
reno insurance and protest of the Japanese govern
mcnt. The German Envoy utterly disregards
IL, bringing in German vessels protected by q man
of-wars boat, and landing passengers and cargo by
means of boats of the description. Diplomats,
complications consequently anticipated. but the
proverbal lack of frnness of the Japanese govern.
ment is apparent in all measures relating thereto
thus far taken.
THE AMERICAN TREATY.
The question OF the authorship Of the hnal clause
in the recently negotiated treaty between Japan aud
the United States has been revived by the receipt of
renewed positive assurance from Washington that
Secretary Evarts claims IL his own. Notwith-
standing this assurance Mr.. Yoshida who
recently Japanese Minister to the United States
persists in stating that he is responsible for its in.
sertion having received orders to that effect from
his superiors here The contradiction IL probably
uniinp portant. but causes considerable commAnA
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
CABLE NOTES.

A FIRE at Sofia Friday night destroyed the
artillery barracks and much material.
The Times despatch from Vienna says that the
ground to be occupied by the Ausrians in the Novi
Bazaar district not extend twelve leagues beyond
the River Lin.
The Turko- Hellenic Boundary Commission hold its
first sitting at Constantinople August a. safvet
Pacha Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs. will ha
the date of the next meeting.
william Elliott. of Blyth. the Tyneside scucr has
challenged Robert W. Boyd row race over the
Thames for E2O0 side, the match to take
place six weeks after tho between Boyd and
John Higgins. which will come of on tho Thames on
the 3Oth of September.
The New York herald., 1879-08-24

Unfortunate Difficulty in California.
The even tenor of tho workingmen's
movement in San Francisco was rudely
disturbed yesterday by some pistol shots
which took effect in the body of Rev. l.
S. Kalloch, the workingmen's candi-
date for Mayor Details of the de-
at this distance from the scene
an opinion cannot be intelligently given.
1t is impossible, however, not to recognize
that the abnormal political condition Of
California, consequent upon that tearfully
wonderful work, the new constitution, is
at the back of the whole affair.
1t is to be deeply regretted
that the pistol should have been
appealed to as the arbiter of question
which could have been effectively settled
at the polls; but, again referring to the new
constitution, we would say that the respect
able people of California are wrought up
to degree of earnestness and pas
sion of which the East, with its
cooler blood and less influential ignorant
classes, can have only the faintest concep
tion. Further details of the unfortunate
affair will be awaited with great interest In
the meantime the good sense and force of
CALIFORNIA; better classes may be depended
upon to save San Francisco and the State
from what at this distance would seem to
be an impending serious disturbance.
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
The Fall Elections and Presidential
Candidates.

The fall elections begin with that of Cali
fornia on the 81 of September--a week from
Wednesday. No Presidential candidates
fate is involved in the result in California,
unless, indeed, Senator Booth has privately
INDUCED the hope that lightning might
strike him.
Early in the following week comes the
Maine election, in which Senator Blaine is
interested. The Maine election, however,
will not decide Mr.. Blaine's fate as q can
didate. Even if the State should go
strongly against the republicans he will
not be hurt. Maine is small State, cast
ing a small electoral vote. Mr.. Blaine's
strength lies in the Northwest, and though
he is probably anxious to carry Maine for
his party its loss this year will not weaken
him. Indeed, it might even help him, out
of the consideration that if Maine is a
doubtful State Mr.. Blaine's candidature
would make it safely republican next year.
Then comes Ohio. There the result is
undoubtedly of the greatest importance to
several candidates. Mr.. Sherman would
be weakened if General Ewing should carry
the State by considerable majority. If,
on the contrary, Ewing should be defeated
this would remove Senator Thurman from
the category of available Presidential candi-
dates, and, of course, General Ewing too.
The November States will have even
more important bearings upon next year
New York, if it should go republican,
would lessen the democratic chances next
year. Ii in Virginia the democratic party
should get badly beaten, which is not i'm
probable, that must also have an important
effect on next year, aud the result in Penn
sylvania will cause one or other of the two
parties to despond. AS to Mississippi it
may pretty safely be said that every inde-
pendent they shoot down there is equiva-
lent to the loss of at least halt dozen
electoral votes to the democrats next year.
AS SO much of the Presidential cam paign
is to be decided in the preliminary skir-
mishes of this year let us all hope that the
real struggle will be short, sharp and deci-
sive, and much less exciting and noisy than
that of 1876
The New York herald., 1879-08-24

portant waterways it would be difficult to
provided Tor. Perhaps it might be sug-
gested that the penalty is too light, for the
reason that if offenders are only rarely
caught the law ought to give them stinger
when it does lay hands on them, in order
that its severity might deter by example.
But then if law is farce. if it is mere
form of words without force, what does it
matter what penalty it assigns to any
offence? Here is statute which
declares that certain act is u
misdemeanor and designates how it shall
be punished; which creates an officer
whose especial duty it is to make up the
cases for the public prosecutor under this
law and here are the forbidden acts SO
commonly perpetrated that two reporters
who pass four days in the lower bay come
home with four well defined cases in their
notes and record of about twelve thousand
cubic feet of rubbish dumped in the differ
ent channels or on the shoals of the lower
bay. And meantime how does the State
inspector created by the statute earn his
money? What does he do about it? He
bites his thumbs, apparently. We cannot
learn that he moves in any more effective
way than that. He has excused his indif-
ference or his incapacity hitherto by de-
claring that the stealth Of the practices de-
feated his vigilance. He could not obtain
evidence. But our reports show that the
fifteen scow loads whose history we have
traced went down the bay and were dumped
while it was broad daylight, in contempt of
that diligent investigation required of him
by the statute.
Now, a great deal may be said about the
misconduct of the Police Commissioners in
this connection and the misconduct of
other city officials, and it is, perhaps, all
true; but their indifference to duty is so
we'll recognized that people have ceased to
discuss it. 1t may be argued, also, that
the dump system is foolish way to dis
pose of the garbage. There are fifty other
important points in the case. But all these
are for the moment beside the issue. The
point just now is on the simple statute
about garbage in the bay shall that be
violated with impunity as it now is every
day and night? If a law of the Legislature
actually in existence and adequate to the
purpose cannot be enforced what is the use
of prating about going to the Legislature
for remedy?
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
GENERAL GRANTS JOURNEY.

ENTERTAINMENTS AND FESTIVITIES IN YoKo-
HAMA-vIsIr TO AN ANCIENT sHRINE-THa
LooCHoo QUESTION.
YOKOHAMA, July 20, 1879.
Entertainments in honor of General Grant
continue to occupy public attention. Since last
account he has visited various colleges, and
pronounced the cadets of the military school as
promising body us any similar seen by him
in Europe. He witnessed the annual ceremony
of the opening of the principal river Of
Toxic, which consisted of brilliant night
congregation of illuminated boats, and the most
successful of all displays in his honor, a thcat-
rical performance especially prepared. On
July II General Grant and party went to the
shrine of Iyeyasu, the founder Of the great
Tokugausa family, ut Nikko, famous
and sacred resort 100 miles in the
interior. They return early in August.
Their future movements undetermined but
it is supposed that the party will visit the
Hakone Mountains and Baths Fugiyanca
Uapan's highest mountain); Kamakura, tho
ancient capital, and sail for home the end Of
August A still more elaborate entertainment
awaits him on his return from the country.
THE LooCHoo QUESTION.
General Grant finds himself burdened with
unexpected questions in relation to Eastern
policy. During his visit to North China both
Prince Kung and the Viceroy, l. Hung Chang,
laid before him their side Of tho Loochoo con-
troversy asking him to his influence with
Japan to prevent q serious misunderstanding
between tho two Empires. The General is be.
ieved to have replied that the other side would
doubtless express themselves as strongly from
their standpoint when heard, and, though Q
rupture would he lamented by all observers he
did not see that he had any right to interfere.
The Japanese authorities ON hearing this took
great pains to prepare documentary vindica-
ton OF their claims, which has been submitted
for the ex-President's inspection by the Cab
met This appearance of over-anxiety does not
commend itself strongly to spectators generally,
Japan's supremacy over tho Loochoo Islands
being so plainly defined and thoroughly estab-
lshed as to need no superhuous demonstration
But the circumstances interesting as show
ing the weight attached to General Grants in
tuence and the favorable view taken Of thai =.
gentleman by both governments.
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
Desperation OF the Grant Movement.

Desperation Of the Grant Movement.
A report comes from Washington, which
is one of the headquarters of the Grant
movement, that the people engaged in that
enterprise have determined not merely to
nominate the General anyhow, but that
they mean to drag his name into the Con-
vention for a general scramble. The cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun writes -
The Grant people. by tho way. say that Grants
statement, in his interview with the Niceroy OF
China. that he will not again be candidate for the
Presidency has no effect on them. They propose to
go right ahead without consulting his wishes, and
place him in nomination.. as they feel they do
with ease. They say that Shermans candidacy only
helps Grant for the reason that the more candidates
there with some positive strength the moro
complicated will the opposition to Grant become,
and the result will inevitably be that Grant will
have to be taken last resort just Hayes had
to be taken ut Cincinnati.
Surely nothing more is needed to prove
that this Grant movement proceeds inde-
pendently of General Grant, and without
the least regard to his comfort, dignity or
good fame. They use him merely as
common Office seeker.
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
LATEST CABLE NEWS.
The Zulu Campaign Not
Yet Ended.
LIEUTENANT CAREY INDICATED.
Burial OF DR.. Mosely at
Zermatt.
CHOLERA IN BELGIUM.
LIEUTENANT CAREY INDICATED
CHOLERA IN BELGIUM.
Death Of an English Missionary
in Africa.
[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ]

LONDON, August "a, 1879.
The Paris Figaro publishes special despatch
from Brussels announcing that cholera has ap-
peared at Ostend and in Western Flanders.
The Paris EstaJettc says M. Gambetta will
shortly have an interview with Signor Carroll,
the italian Premier, and proceed to England III
the latter part Of August.
King Alfonso will return to La Granja on
Tuesday, where he will hold O council. Seniors
Silvela and Magela will probably be appointed
Ambassadors TO Vienna to solicit the hand of
the Archduchess Marie Christine.
1t rained again yesterday with great severity
in England. The floods in Oxfordshire are the
highest ever known in summer. The Oxford
race course is inundated, and a great many per-
sons are rowing over the course in boats.
The Paris Pat,1e states that an interview was
held on Friday in France between the Count de
Chambord and leading legitimists, at which it
was decided to pursue policy Of temporiza-
ton. This announcement lacks continuation.
The interview is not mentioned by legitimist
journals.
The London Missionary Society has received
q telegram from Alden announcing that DR..
Mullens formerly the Foreign Secretary of that
society, died of peritonits on the 10th Of July.
DIR. Mullens had gone on his own urgent request
to assist in establishing mission ON Lake
Tanganyika.
LIEUTENANT cAREY's vINDIcATIoN.
The Times announces that Lieutenant Carey,
in addition to the official notification of the re-
versal of the sentence of the court martial in his
case, has received letter from the Duke of
Cambridge, Commander-in- Chief Of the British
Army, reviewing the circumstances of the death
of the Prince Imperial, and concluding with the
opinion that after the surprise Of the reconnoit-
ring party by the Zulus resistance was impossi-
BILE and retreat imperative.
ENGLAND's LABOR AND TRADE.
The reduction of five per cent In the wages OF the
calico weavers at Oldham came quietly into force
Friday. The weavers that trade is bad
that opposition to the reduction is useless 1t is
believed that tho spinners will also yield
to the reduction, although they express
much dissatisfaction. The Oldham fustian man.
ufacturers have agreed to reduce the wages
of about 81 per cent. Three thousand
operatives will be affected by the reduction. Ten
thousand looms engaged in this branch of trade
in which there has not hitherto been any reduction
of wages Other reductions pending in the Clos
sop and Todmorden districts. The Manchester
Guardian in article reviewing the general position
of the cotton manufacturing industry, says 1.-The
winter will be Of the most severe experienced
for time past. and the position OF operatives
will be considerably aggravated if they have suf
fer another reduction. Some of the manufacturers
state that the only alternative of closing the
Will be another reduction OF ten per cent in
the wages of the operatives"
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
alton. that secocoeni and his myrmidons should be
shorn of their barbarous power"
From the London World.l ]

LORD CHELMsFoR D's OPPORTUNITY.
1t Is well known that. Immediately Sir Garnet
Wolseleys appointment, Lord Chelmsford's brother.
the Lord Justice of Appeal. sent telegram by
special steamer from Madeira apprising Lord
Chelmsford of the fact and urging him to
do something ut all hazards. What
the result? Instead of waiting for a few
days longer which after these months of
delay he might well have done. for the proper de-
velopment of his plans-which were that General
Creaock should make u flank attack with his brigade
to catch the Zulu army in q trap and utterly
rout 1.-THE makes preclpitate advance snatch es a
partial and transitory success. aferward
making undignifed retreat. and all this to serve
simply his private interests and thwart those of
Sir Garnet. this is not then the other horn OF
the dilemma presents itself. After all. this great
Zulu army was a mere windbag. which one well
organized brigade Of English troops. prop
erly led. could pierce and dissipate. and all
this waste of men and treasure is due to
the incompetency of Lord Chelmsford himself.
Sir Garnet wolseley has. it appears. work still
to do. He will not ind it to lay hands Getty
wayo. ana until the Zulu King is secured the
cannot be said to be at end. But it now enters
upon practically new phase. and will degenerate
into guerilla warfare of very troublesome kind.
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
THE MATTERHORN DISASTER
BURIAL OF DIR. MOsELY, OF BOSTON, In THE
ENGLISH CHURCH AT ZERMATT.
[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD

BURIAL OF DR. MOSEIY, OF BOSTON, In THE
ENGLISH CHURCH AT zERMAIT
[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD1
LONDON, August %, 1879.
Mr.. Matthews, president of the Alpine Club,
writes from Zermatt, Switzerland, saying that
the remains of DIR. William o. Mosely, Jr., of
Boston, who met his death recently in the Alps,
have been buried in the churchyard of
the English church at Zermatt, beside
victims of former accidents on the
Matterhorn, and that his effects have been for
warded to the American Consul ut Geneva. A
full account of the catastrophe shows that DR..
Moscly had been complaining Of the restraint of
the ropo throughout the excursion, and had
with difficulty been persuaded from releasing
himself sooner. At point the descent distant
about twenty minutes walk from the hut the
rope was taken oil. DR.. Mosely shortly afterward,
refusing the guides proffered help, endeavored
to vault over projecting rock, stumbled and
fell into the snow beneath down which he slid
his back, almost succeeding in stopping him.
self with his elbows But the surface of the
snow was unfortunately frozen. His body was
found 1000 feet below where the accident
happened
The New York herald., 1879-08-24

Tue WEATnER.-The meteorological con-
iitions have become exceedingly connlica;ed
over all the country east of the Rocky Monn-
tains by the northward movement of cyclonic
storm from the Western Cult. This dis s;urbance
is at present moving slowly over the Gulf States
in northeasterly direction, but it is likely to
develop more energy while passing over the
South Atlantic States and prove very severe
OH the southern portion of the Middle
Atlantic coast districts. The disturbance
that was moving the St. Lawrence
Valley, rs stated in yesterdays HERALD, has
reached the coast line as Nova Scotia, and the
pressure within it has fallen considerably. The
area OF relatively high barometer that was over
the South Atlantic coast districts has receded
into the and become nearly dissipated.
There are slight indications that "A rise will take
place In the pressure throughout the ex-
.rcme Northwest; but it is not likely
" rise above the mean for some DAYS.
Rain has fallen in the central valleys, Middle
Atlantic aud Gulf States. 1t was heaviest in
le latter district and was accompanied by
electrical disturbances i'll the first mentioned
sections. The weather was fair in the North
west and Rocky Mountain regions. The tenn
pefature fell in all sections of the country. ex-
cept the Middle Atlantic States, where ii re-
manned nearly stationary. The winds have
been frou fresh to strong in the Gulf
States brisk in the Northwest and light else
where. The weather over the British Islands,
although at present comparatively fine, is uD-
settled, and is likely to become stormy by this
evening. The weather in New York and its vi
cinity to day will be warm and cloudy, with
rains. Tomorrow the same conditions are
likely TO prevail, with increasing winds.
The New York herald., 1879-08-24
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST sEooooENI-A CHIEF

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST sECoCoENI-A CHIEF
STILL FRIENDLY TO cETYwAYo.
Sir Garnet Wolscley. according to tho news from
Durham. recently ordered Colonel Lanyon to suspend
further hostilties against sccocoeni, believing it
polite. pending tho settlement of Zulu affairs to
give that chief the least possible reason for SYM
pathy with Cetywayo, who might attempt a june
tion with Secocoeni Tho forces, before acting
against the chief, Were Withdrawn for tho
patrol OF the Transvaal border. Sir Garnets action
was condemned at the time. Secocoeni being an
enemy OF long standing The reasons for Sir Garnet
Wosocy resuinng the campaign against the chief
limited at by the correspondent of tho DAILY 7ec-
grdph:--" First and foremost. tho chief secocoeni
has to be subdued. for not only is he the leading
Transvaa chief, but he is the accomplice and tool Of
Cetywayo, who is in close commun ncation with him,
and upon whom the latter can fall back in
case he retreats from zululand; and should
the Zuus once get into the and Businesses
OF the Lulu mountains 1t would require the whole
British army to tackle them The country Inhabited
by Secocoeni-the watershed of the Olphants and
Crocodile rivers and the region of the Lulu noun
tains which country Is strictly Transvaal territory
is also In the direct line Of route for the railway and
highway between Pretoria and Dolagoa Bay-the out
let Tor the Transvaal and the finest harbor in South
.irica-and 1t is therefore an absolute necessity. II
The New York herald., 1879-08-24

IT Is PROMISED that the spirit OF Robert Dale
Owen will be called up to-day. Poor Robert {!
He was an amiable, virtuous, tcnder-hearted
man while he lived, and left this world in the
full belief that he would find the better one
which his many good qualities entitled him to-.
Why should he be dragged back again, and in
August tool
The New York herald., 1879-08-24

ANOTHER SET of "instalment' furniture deal
ers came to grief yesterday, and returned seized
goods under suggestion of twenty years i'm
prsonment, the extreme penalty of robberies of
their peculiar kind. Let the good work be kept
up until the insalment men learn to do business
according to business principles The city needs
no new schools of burglary.