The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1872, Page 6

| { | { py ee 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. olume XXXVIL i iyerscrssssssracss MO, 249 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Tavurs—Our Naigu- foxs, SuITH AND BROWN. “ WOOD'S MUSEUM, way. corner Thirticth st— 7, THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER. Afternoon and Ev.ening “OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Rep PockerBooK. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. -Arouxp Towy; x, Sicuts or tux City. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street —Ixiox; on, Tux Max ar tue Ware. \_ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Diawonns. \. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Eighth jav.—Ror Canorre, \ BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth wpvenue.—THE Beuws; Tux Pouisu Jew. { park THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Poor Gezxtieman— For Wiss | wan Lsy, A! BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twonty-third st, corner Pibav.—Nuano Mixstextsy, ‘Eccunraiciry, £0, THENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Neeno Mun- 8ST. 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( 1—Advertisements, “R—Advertisements, Sraicaieme Outs The Louisville Bourbon-Hard- shell Democratic Convention; A Day of Jubi- lation—A_ Night of Doubt; O’Conor and Adams Nominated; Immense Enthusiasm Followed by Flaceidity ; A Platform of Reac- tion, Progress and Standstill; Scenes Among the Delegates—The Feeling in the City Ke- Veins the Candidates. 4~—The Light Weights: The Battle Between Cham- bers and Edwards for the Championship and $2,000; One of the Best Fights on Record— Municipal Affalrs—Trotting at Fleetwood ‘Park—-Amusements—Yachting—Aquatic-— uarterly Payment of Pensions—The Russian Count Again—Alleged Fatal Case of Clubbing by a Policeman. SJnteresting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Caging the Outlaws—Sister Mary of Stanislaus: Examination As to Her Sanity—Brutal Seamen—The Dunn Homicide: Investigation Before Coroner Young— Schoeppe’s Trial—The American Institute— A Bank Robber Breaks Jail. G—Editor ials: Leading Article, “The Syracuse and Louisville Conventions—The arpect of Politi- ! cal Affairs’—The Burning of the Steamship America—Amusement Announcements. Y—The Council of the Crowns: German Defini- tion of the Imperialist Entente in Berlin— The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Spain, Austria and Hol- land—Additional Details of the Loss of the Steamer Metis—Miscellaneous Telegrams— Shipping Intelligence—Business Notices. ‘inancial and Commercial: Money Steady at Five Per Cent; The Market Revealing a Hard- ening Tendency; Gold Dall and Unchanged; A Further Reduction in the Rates for Bills on Europe; Decline in Government. Bonds; A Purchase of Five-Twenties for the resent Fund; The Pacitic Mail Speculation; A Rapid Decline and a Smart Rally in the Stock; Can- ees Extent of the Damage by the Loss of the America; The Doubting Thomases Who Think the Report a Hoax—The National Revy- enue—Brooklyn Affairs—Board of Assistant Aldermen—Marriages and Deaths, | O—Advertiscnents, JomSyracuse: Proceedings of the Twin State Con- . ventions Yesterday; Committees of Confer- ence Appointed to Arrange a Fusion; The Fight for Governor Narrowing Down to Church, Kernan and Beach; Will Church Run; The Formal Proceedings and Inner Workings of the Conventigns--Advertise- i, ments. 1t--Advertisements, dvertisemen ts, Tse Loss or THE Amentca.—By a special despatch from Nagasaki, Japan, under te of the 81st ultimo, we have odditional fletails of the sad disaster in which the steamer oe was destroyed, with serious loss of t ife, on the night of the 24th. The fire, which roke out after the discharge of the pas- engers for Japan, spread so rapidly that those ptill on board, bound for Hong Kong, were bliged to leap into the waters of the harbor, leaving all the baggage and freight. In the The Syracuse and Louisville Conven- tions=The Aspect of Political Affairs. The Liberal Republican and Democratic Conventions at Syracuse adjourned yesterday till to-day, after having appointed conference committeds with a view to harmonize the two parties on nominations. There will be no diffi- culty, we presume, about a platform on which both can stand, and we suppose the nomina- tions for office will be so divided as to ulti- mately bring the liberals and democrats to united and earnest action. Senator Fonton seems to be the leading and active man on the side of the former and Samuel J. Tilden on the part of the latter. Though the conference committees have adjourned with- out deciding, upon nominations, it is said Chief Justice Church will be nominated for Governor, though he, like Mr. O’Conor in the ease of the Lonisville nomination for Presi- dent, had requested his name not to be used ; but he might not decline a nomination should he be pressed to accept by his friends and ur- gent political considerations. It is generally believed that no better nomination could be made. He is, probably, the most popular man in the State, He was elected to the office of Chict Justice bya majority of over eighty thousand votes—a larger majority than any man ever received in this State. Considering the importance of making the best nomina- tions for State offices, with a view of exercising an influence on the Presidential election in Now York, the Conventions should select tho strongest candidates from both parties, and in doing this Judge Church is probably the most available for Governor. It is said that in the division of the offices the Congressmen at Largo will be given to the liberal republicans. The Louisville Convention has reached the stage of fuddle which its enemies desired should overtake it. After nominating Charles O’Conor, in spite of the.warning of disincli- nation tacked on to the end of his letter to the Convention, they telegraphed him of the fact. A reply was received, which, to say the least, was vague. In other words, he begged off. All this time the Convention, happy beyond their most sanguine expecta- tion, went on with the work of arrang- ing for a vigorous canvass, when a despatch arrived that O'Conor positively de- clined. Their hopes were dashed. The cup of Bourbon pressed to their thirsting lips was shattered by the hand that gave respect- ability to the movement. It was un- kind; the Convention felt it was ungenerous, and were only saved from adjourning in dis- gust and despair by a Fabian resolution to let time fight it out for them by daybreak this morning. Whoever may be nominated now will not make a serious inroad on the Greeley party. In losing O’Conor it has lost the spark of vitality which galvanized the corpse of ‘democracy as it was’’ into a ghastly semblance of being. It leaves the ‘‘un- known quantity’ in a very unsettled posi- tion, but where the country can afford to leave it. The fight must now be a square one between Grant and Greeley. The action of the Louisville Convention to-day may be an entry into the ‘Adams’ cemetery,” as a dele- gate expressed it, but the prestige—bubble as it was—is gone. Mr. John Quincy Adams was evidently disposed to take the nomination for Vice President if Mr. O'’Conor had be- come the candidate for President. He says, in his letter to Blanton Duncan, which must be considered as addressed to the Convention, that ‘‘in case there should be any real general inclination to couple my name with Mr. O’Conor’s it would strain my sense of honor to refuse jt in such a fight.” He might not accépt it with any other name. His expressed conyiction that the movement would be a _ formidable one with Mr. O’Conor as the candidate for President, will show what he thinks it likely to be without him. He will scarcely stand up alone under such a load as the Bourbons would be in their battle, which they acknowl- edge hopeless from the start. : The platform of the Louisville Convention fits the nominees, and it is fair to presume yponfusion und haste it is strange that the loss pf life was not larger than is reported. The jéws in Wall street was yesterday received with considerable disbelief, and many parties ptrongly suspected the report to be a stock- jobbing canard, and Pacific Mail stock under- ent some violent fluctuations in consequence, ‘A Beavrwur Exampre—That of the broth- ‘prly love which prevailed yesterday between fhe Liberal Democratic Convention and the Aiberal Republican Convention at Syracuse, . Woenr Ane Tuey?—It was hoped, and Yhere was some reason for the hope, that in Vermont the Cincinnatr republicans would ‘give the democrats a lift that would cause them to shout for joy. But these Cincinnati Xepublicans have not turned out worth a cent In Vermont. But’ they say they will do better in Maine. Very well. We will wait to sce ‘what they will do next Monday in Maine, Rovon Treatment of THE GENTLEMAN FROM Nepaasxa.—At the Louisville Convention yes- terday, when Nebraska was called Mr. George Francis Train rose to protest, but was called ‘to order and expelled in the midst of great hissing and noise. Verily, a prophet is not ‘without honor save in his own country, Tar Sreamvoat Owsens’ Convention—Tae Propuce Deters’ Coxvention.—Conventions and combiuations of all sorts are the order of the day. In all trades and occupations people of kindred interests find it for their advantage to form clubs and coalitions. Rarcly a man “plays a lone hand” unless he holds all the high cards. New York steamboat owners met vn Tuesday to perfect their organization and name delegates to a National Steamboat Con- vention in Cleveland on the 24th inst. There it is proposed to discuss the important sub- jects of steamboat disasters and the means of avoiding them. Threo appalling catastrophes occurring since the Convention was called will surely emphasize the topic and claim for ita thorough and careful consideration. Sug- gestion of changes in the established legal reguiations of steam navigation will be ma- tured and commended to Congressional action, Pork packing, beef and ham curing and cog- nate matters aro the staple of the other meet- ing’s objects, and they are to be further pon- dered and digested at o National Convention in Cincinnati on the 18th inst. It these wor. thy representatives of a most important branch of trade continue to so rogulate matters that the people may have cheaper and better food Shei Conyention will not hayo been 4 yain, i that the majority of that body care more about maintaining the old-time principles of the democratic party than for success, Though they could hardly hope to succeed in either getting a majority of the elec- toral votes or of reaching the Presidency through the House of Representatives, should there be no election by the people, they prefer to have the principles and organization of the party preserved, even with defeat, to success with Mr. Greeley as the standard bearer. The platform reasserts the old State rights dogma of the democracy, and proclaims to the world that ‘principle is to be preferred to power.’’ The democrats assembled at Louisville seem to have little hope of electing their ticket, for they exclaim, in a sort of heroic despair, ‘The pangs of minorities are doubtless excruciating; but we welcome an eternal minority under the banner inscribed with our principles rather than an almighty and everlasting majority purchased by their abandonment.’ This inflated language may be quite poetic and heroic, but will scarcely be considered as very practical in this age of po- litical and governmental changes and trans- formations. Holding to fundamental princi- ples is right enough ; but under the progress of the age and mutations of political life the true principle is to accept the inevitable and to do what is best both for the time being and the future. These old-line democrats are, how- ever, latitudinarian enough when they are looking for votes. They have thrown out a bait to the labor reformers and workingmen’s unions. One of the resolutions of their plat- form declares “that tho interests of labor and capital should not be permitted to conflict, but should be harmonized by judicious legislation,” and that, ‘while such a conflict continues labor, which is the parent of wealth, is entitled to paramount considera- tion." This proposed interference with the social, domestic and business affairs of life does not harmonize with the other declarations of the platform limiting the functions of gov- ernment to the utmost. If the Louisville Con- vention can capture the votes of the labor re- formers and other workingmen’s organizations by this action, the result may complicate still more the Presidential question. - It is clear, then, that the Prosidential clec- tion is involved in ag inuch uncertainty as ever. All the political moveménts and events ear upon that issue, Local affairs, of course, have their influence, but are seldom predomi- nant on the eve of a Presidential election. The voliticians, aud gyen the greater part of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, | the people, have their ‘minds fixed on the great quadrennial event. It is the pole of magnetic influence. Home political ques- tions—that is, those of the States and municipalities, which affect moro directly the interests of our citizens, do not engage public attention as much as federal politics, and particularly in the election of President. This is secn in the larger vote polled at a Presidential election than on any other occasion. Though there may be more votes cast at local elections gene- rally during the few months preceding the election for President than at other times, that is not caused by unusual interest in local affairs, but chiefly by the bearing these clec- tions have on the great struggle for federal power and patronage. This has been so to a great extent throughout the history of the re- public, but it has been more marked and striking of late. The federal government has acquired, through the growth of the country and population, and since the war, through its enormous revenue and expendi- tures, a vast accession of power. Then the tendency of the political changes that have resulted from or followed the war has been to centralize power in the federal government, and, as a consequence, to nationalize the ideas and aspirations of the people. The apparent enthusiasm which followed immediately the action of the Liberal Repub- lican Convention and the Baltimore Conven- tion, and which appeared to be kept up for a time, has subsided. The combined movement startled the country by its novelty and seem- ing earnestness and unanimity. A host of prominent and able men fathered it, and all went on swimmingly for awhile. The elec- tion in North Carolina was really more favor- able to the combined party than to the regular republicans; but in losing the Governor, though by a small majority, an impression was left that the republican party was still strongly intrenched, and that the opposition was weaker than expected. From that time a reaction appears to have set in. Mr. Gree- Icy’s popularity seems to have been waning. The election in Vermont has shown that the rogular republicans ~hold their power in that State, and even among those New England farmers who, it was thought, might be favorable to Mr. Greeley. Then, at the same time, comes the Louisville Conven- tion to ventilate Mr. Greeley’s character and pretensions, to spread broadcast over the coun- try damaging arguments, and to crente adiver- sion. True, there is time enough yet to make a vigorous campaign if the candi- date of Cincinnati and Baltimore has suf- ficient elements of popularity in’ him or the movement he, represents is pop- ular. Much will depend upon the State of New York. Should the Conventions at Syracuse make the right nominations, and the combined parties work vigorously, they may carry the State both in the local and Presi- dential ejections, Mr. Greeley, no doubt, will carry most of the Southern States, and if, in addition to these, he can get the vote of New York, he may run a close race with General Grant. He might even reach the Executive chair, But a great deal of work has to be done and more enthusiasm must be awakened for Mr. Greeley, or, from the present aspect of the political contest, General Grant will be re~ elected. ci \ The Meeting of the Emperors. The Berlin demonstration promises to be conducted on a scale of more than usual mag- nificence. It revives the memory of the First Napoleon and of the Champs de Mars, Al- ready tho show has commenced. The Em- peror of Germany, with the Grand Duke Nicholas and a large and brilliant staff, has made his ‘fppearance in the Tempel- hoff Gardens. For Sunday and the following days the programme has been arranged. On Sunday the three Emperors will worship at their respective churches;’ afterwards they will lunch at Babelsburg, and tho day will close with a soirée at the palace of the Crown Prince at Potsdam. Mon- day and Tuesday are also provided for; } and the presumption is that the show will be as grand as is possible, Princo Bismarck has returned to the Prussian capital from his tem- porary recess in the country. He visited the Russian Chancellor, Gortschakoff, yesterday, and had audience of His Majesty Emperor William subsequently. The imperialists ap- pear anxious to calm the apprehensions of the peoples with respect to the intent of this royal Congress. A German press, said to be inspired from the Berlin Cabinet, announced yesterday that the entente cordiale between Germany, Rus- sian and Austria will be perfected ; that the new order of things growing out of Sedan has been accepted, and that the Old World may hope for peace and remain perfectly reassured, evenin the face of the grand military fetes which will be celebrated. In fact, we are told by this Prussian writer that Napoleon's fa- mous ejaculation will be almost repeated in a pluralized form—‘The Empires are peace ;"’ but it remains to be seen whether the pro- clamation will obtain full credence. Berlin demonstration is, in. faet, méant to teach the World that the European centre is no longer at Paris or Vienna, or even at London; but the thonght- ful men of the world think for themselves, and many of them are of the opinion that the tide may turn sooner than some people imagine. Paris has had hey day, so has London, so has Vienna; Berlin rejoices to-day; but Paris or London may rejoice to-morrow. To France this Berlin demonstra- tion must be especially painful; and it will not be wonderful if jt should recall fhe memory and hasten the restoration of the Empire. At all events we cannot call this Berlin demonstration either a wise or a politic movement, Bismarck sees far; but cyen ii Pi -- The Jersey Police War. thé faite | ‘Addquired by our neighbors of the Jersey Commonwealth runs serious danger from the developments of the police war. In direct opposition to our ideas of the law and order which should flourish among a rigor- ously virtuous people, such as our neighbors claim to be, we are confronted with spectros of peculation, fraud and deceit, which almost make us imagine thal the ghost of Old Tam- many has emigrated to the land of Jorsey. Certainly nothing so disgraceful ever occurred in the worst days of the rule of the Ring as the controlling of the police bya body of men convicted of malfeasance in office, It is some- thing that Mayor O'Neill refuses to acknowl- edge the black shgep, but the successful tick they have just played on that public function- ary in obtaining money without his consent from the treasury reveals a state of morals among some of his associate officials which contrasts strongly with the pious pretensions of the people who elect them to office. Jersey, like a woman, has little but its reputation to depend on, and if once that is lost the result to this very sanctimonious community cannot fail to be disastrous. Such a consummation would be full of bitterness for the patriotic soul of Jersey; but unless some remedy is ap- plied in time there can be no escape. We would strongly advise them to adopt the same measures that succeeded so well with our- selves, and get rid of their dishonest officials with the least possible delay. The Metis Disaster—Finding of More Dead Bodies. The additional details which are daily com- ing to light make it evident that the loss of life in the sinking of the Metis was greater than was at first computed. As the only persons who were in a position to give even an approxi- mate idea of the numbers on board the ill- fated vessel were interested in representing the calamity in the most favorable light, little re- liance can be placed on theirtestimony. That this is painfully true is rendered evident by the finding of other bodies, when the number of living and dead already rescued from the waters exceed the official com- putation, The agents of the company seem to have confined their statements to those whose presence on board was capable of proof, or, in other words, they have given only the number of the registered. Those in the habit of travelling on our river steamboats know that there are many people who never go to tho trouble of registering. It is therefore to be feared that we shall never know fully the extent of tho disaster; but what we already know is sufficient to prove that there was a failure of duty somewhere. We hope the government will not fail to institute a careful inquiry into all the circumstances of the collision. It ought to be possible to throw such safeguards about travelling in comparatively smooth waters as would prevent terrible loss of life within easy reach of the shore. There can be no doubt in the minds of thoughtful men that had the supply of boats on the Metis been equal to the accom- modation of the entire number of the passen- gers and crew, as they ought to be, the loss of life which resulted from the collision would, in all probability, not have occurred. For this reason we demand a thorough investi- gation, and the adoption of such rules for the government and equipment of passenger boats navigating in home waters as may in the event of accident secure to the passengers and crew something like an assured means of escape, intilplelerie crabs higges RES : Pere Hyacinthe Takes His Partner. When Martin Luther, the ex-Augustinian monk, in 1525, took unto himself a wife in the person of an ex-nun, Catharina Von Bara, ho justified that very human proceeding by avowing that it was done ‘to please his father, to tease the Pope and to vex the devil.’” The ex- Carmelite monk, who, according to our special despatch from London, wedded Mrs. Emilia Jano Merriman, an American widow lady, before the Registrar at Marylebone Tuesday, might give the same reason, with some modifi- cations. If it does not please his father it pleases himself, and that was probably a strong reason with the great Reformer, who could no more go ngairst his conscience than little George Washington could tell a lie about the cherry tree he chopped down with his little hatchet. | Thero must be something highly humanizing in the Reformation, fox bluff, King Hal, although « layman, went heavily into the mat- rimonial business as soon as he had ‘teased the Pope’ by assuming the spiritual leader- ship of the English Church. The holy man in this instance has reached the good round age of fifty-one years, and, although he waited to be nine years older than Luther when the latter contracted matrimony, it shows that shaking off the shackles of the Ro- man Church will lead tho true reformer into a voluntaryfissumption of the bonds of matrimony. An interesting feature of the civil wedding on Tuesday is the reported fact that tho bride was one of his con- verts in Paris, so that the con- version is now happily mutual. If the mellow tones of the great preacher's finely modulated voice captured the penitent’s soul, they also, it would appear, captured her heart. Sydney Smith, that pious joker, will be recalled perhaps in his en- deayors to describe how an Anglican bishop would pop the question; but if he first took the precaution to preach his sermons at her for a month or two the difficulty would be greatly removed. Of course Charles Loyson is now a private individual, and his celebrity as o churchman belongs to the past, but he cannot dissociate himself from it. A man of simple life and secluded habits, such as make up tho bead roll of the celibate monk, he emerged, like Luther, by of rebslfion ‘against Rome, from his cloister to find himself the lion of a hundred isms, Whei gach & fin is placed on the marriageable list wo can imagine how many romantic maidens sighed for the hand of the monastic hero who rose against infallibility in man. This very act was a con- fession of human weakness, and would give the devout pretenders renewed hopes. It would be enough to turn an average man’s head, those lustrous orbs raised to heaven and Hyacinthe; but the ex-friar kept his level. He must have felt that he was bound to marry to escape his fair besiegers, 9g. ¢ had been obliged to throw off the Gowl to save himself from going against his conscience. Scorning the. advice of the elder Weller to his son Samuel, he married a Indy who had been mar- ried before and whose first husband was dead. His story hag been called romantic; his life has been dramatic, and now that the play ends in marriage we may indulge the hope that the name which his bride re- signs for his may be a thorough description of himself hereafter, But is this the end of Hyacinthe? CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 4, 1872. General Hazleton was nominated for Congress from the Second istrict of Wisconsin by the re- publicans yesterday, and Alexander Mitchell was nominated by the democrats of the First district to- day. : BAutimoRre, Md., Sept. 4, 1872. Hon. William M. Merrick was to-day renomi- nated for Congress by the democrats of the Filth district, and Hon, Stevenson Archer renominated by Lhe democrats of the Second diatricly DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ERIE, PA, ore The Reed House Destroyed=The De- spatch Office and the Ellsworth House in Great Danger. Enr, Pa., Sept. 4—Midnight. The Reed House, the principal hotel in Erie, is Row burning. The building will be a total loss. ‘The fre was caused by the explosion of a kero- sene oil lamp in a servant's room. The Datly Despatch building and the Ellsworth House are in great danger. The particulars of the loss cannot be ascertained before morning. A slight rain is falling. The Entire City Threatened with De- struction—Fire Engines Sent from Buf- falo—Niagara Falls Called to Aid the Houseless. NiAGARA FALLS, Sept. 4, 1872. The Chief Engineer of Erie, Pa., telegraphs that a fire is raging there which threatens to sweep over the entire city. The principal buildings are already consumed, Buffalo sends, at half-past twelve A. M., two fire engines, in response to the third summons, The Mayor telegraphs here for ald for the home- less poor, WASHINGTON. Wasuinarton, Sep. 4, 1972. Alexander Stephens’ Letter to the Presi«- dent About the Ku Klux Prisoners, Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the late so-called Southern Confederacy, has addressed ® letter to the President deploring in this enlightened age the retention at Albany of the prisoners convicted under the Ky Klux law. He proceeds at much length to give his opinion on the subject, and, believing that the punishment al- ready suffered has condoned, to some extent, for past offences, earnestly entreats the President to extend to all the Executive clemency prayed for by Gerrit Smith, in the cases of three, and further recommended by the Chief of the Secret Service division. The magnanimity of such an exercise of the pardoning power, now that the government has shown itself capable of suppressing all kinds of disorders in the once insurrectionary States, would be akin to that which has heretofore recom- mended general amnesty. The Trial of Judge Dent. The trial of Judge Dent to-day for assaulting Henry Reed was very funny. A lively war of words was carried on between the assailant and assailed, Reed indulging in the word “coward,’’ and Dent comparing himself to Cromwell, whom he resembled in “keeping his powder dry” by provid- ing himself with a stick for the occasion. Judge Mills confessed he was much impressed by Dent's eloquence, and showed his appreciation of it by fining him $100. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Shee Signor Mario, of Strakosch’s troupe, who arrived Tuesday on the Russia, is stopping at the Everett House, Mr. B. E. Smith, of Columbus, Ohio, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Father Alexander Gavazzi is sojourning at the New York Hotel. Mr—Leonard Jerome is among the arrivals at the Hoffman House. Ernest Berger, of Berlin, Prussia, is at the St. James Hotel. Hon. Oakes Ames, M. C., has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander W. Tyler, United States Navy, is stopping at the Grand Central. John Quincy Adams, who has received and ac- cepted the nomination of the “straight-out” dem- ocrats at the Louisville Convention, has arrived at the Brevoort House. Baron Lederer, Austrian Minister, arrived in the Russia on Tuesday. He has been for several months in Europe, and will make his appearance soon in Washington, where he is looked upon as one of the most distinguished of the foreign Ambassadors, both socially and politically. Monsignor Guibert, Archbishop of Paris, and Monsignor Chigi, the Papal Nuncio, have received Cardinals’ hats from the Pope. Chief Justice Chase left Boston yesterday morn- ing for Narragansett, on his way to Washington. He has been passing some weeksin New Hamp- shire, and his health is greatly improved. THE PRESIDENTIAL GAMPATGY. The Liberal Republican Headquarters. The Glenham Hotel Headaqdarters were somewhat excited yesterday over the double disasters of Ver- mont and Louisville. There was no attempt what- ever to seek consolation in the result in Vermont, except by saying that they expected nothing else, and, as to O’Conor’s nomination, one gentleman consoled all by announcing that it was the last hopeless struggle of a weak old man. Judge John- son was immersed above his head in bi terday, and kept his corps of clerks work. Colonel Allen is absent at Syracuse at Nba but will return to-day, when he will doubt- less wake up the headquarters toa knowledge of the fact that they must work to win. There were a number of visitors present during the day, but the: did not remain long enough to do more than re: the despatches. The Democratic Headquarters. Affairs were unusually quiet at the Spingler House Headquarters. Mr. Gallagher had charge during the absence of Augustus Schell. There were few visitors and not much correspondence, The Regular Republican Headquarters. The gentlemen of the Grant Headquarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel were somewhat jubilant over the Vermont election, and on the strength of their victory they claimed Grant’s election as sure. Telegrams were recelved throughout the day from all sections of the State. Among the visitor uring the day were General Tarbell; H. H. Wells,“of Rich- mond; General Burnside, of Rhode Island; R, 8. Tuthill, of Nashville, Tenn., and J. Seayer Page, MR, GREELEY’S MOVEMENTS, Philosopher Greeley repaired to the home of a friend in Brooklyn yesterday, where he proposes to remain until Friday. The despatches received at the Glenham Headquarters from Vermont were for- warded to him during the day, THE WEATHER; - ~ Want DaPARTHRNT, OFFICE OF THE CUIEF SiGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept, 5—J A. M. * ewerenetat. Probabilition. amin jn dutoe! +i Pt raed Winds backing to southerly, rising tempetatute, increasing cloudiness and areas of rain for New England during the afternoon and night, and for the Middle States during the day; south- easterly to southwesterly winds and cloudy weather for the South Atlantic States, Dy bt probably areas of rain during the a mate fad aight Dartly cloidy weather an southerly winds from Tennessee to the 3 fresl and occasional brisi soutneny a d_ southwesterly Pinas generally cloudy weather and areas of rain om Kentucky to Lake Erie and Michigan, with diminishing preseure; winds veering to westerly and northwesterly and clearing weather for the Northwest, toward which an area of low barom- eter is now apparently advancing, The Weather in This Cliy Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- piece with the,corresponding day of last year, a8 indicated by ing a ao at Hudnut’s Phar- acy, HERALD Building :— mgt 1871, 1872, 8 (09 1871, 1872, 62 9:30. M. 61 M. OALIFORNIA. The Alleged Diamond and Raby Dis- coveries in Arizona. SAN FRANCI800, Sept. 4, 1872, The collection of diamonds, rubies and sapphires recently exhibited here as coming from Arizona have been sent to London for identification, if possible, by the parties claiming to have recently sold them to Americans. The disbelief in the onuineness of the reported discoveries is increas- ing here. At a very largo and enthusiastic mass meeting of citizens held in Platt’s Hall last evening, resolutions were press fully endorsing the Atlantic and Pagide Railway project TUK STEAMSHIP AMERICA. Herald Spécia! Report from Japas by Way of London . Sudden Outburst of Fire on Board the Pacific Mail Steam- ship America. j The Vessel Burning Duriig a Night and Totally Destroyed. Mails, Freight and Luggage Gone Down. Jumping for Life from the Flaming Sides. Several Chinese Killed and Some of the Officers Missing. —_— The Treasure Recoverable and State- ment of Amounts, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Heratp has been received from our cor- respondent in the British capital : — Lonpon, Sept. 4, 1872. A Heraxp special telegram from Japan, dated at Nagasaki on the 31st of August, has been delivered in this city, by which the American correspondent supplies a report in detail of the total destruction, by fire, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamer America, which was lately employed in trad- ing between the Japanese and Chinese porta of Yokohama, Hong Kong and Shanghae, and San Francisco. THE VESSEL IN PoRT. The Heratp despatch says:—Tho mail steamship America, of the Pacific Steamship Company’s line, arrived in the harbor of Naga- saki on the 24th ult., in the morning. a SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF FIRE ON BOARD, “{ At the hour of eleven o'clock at night, tha same day, the freight dock took fire, and the whole ship was involved in flames immedi- ately afterwards, THE SHIP A TOTAT, LOSS. Prompt efforts were made to extinguish the conflagration, but they were unavailing. The fire burned on during the entire night, and the steamship America is totally destroyed. MAIES, FREIGHT AND LUGGAGE LOST, =} The Hong Kong mails, the freight, with luggage of the passengers and of tho officers of the ship, have been lost also, JUMPING FROM DECK TO THE WATER, The sudden outburst of the fire, and the rapidity of its progress subsequently, forced all hands to jump from the deck and sides to fhe Water, with the hope of saving their ilyeg, ‘Thoto was no time for manning tha i 108s oF iif. ‘ Six Chinese were killed during the confusion which prevailed, Ten Chinamen, the engineers of the Amere ica, the storekeepet, steerage watchman and the cook of steamer are missing. t THE TREASURE. ; ‘The treasure is recoverable, It amounts to $1,500,000 in specie, a portion of it being! Japanese silver goin, Eleven hundred ond fourteen thousand dollars had been shipped for Hong Kong, tho remaining $386,000 went down in the specie trunk with the vessel. INQUIRY AS TO THE CAUSE. The cause of the disaster was not, or is not yet, known. THE NEWS IN THE CITY, Fluctuations of the Stock—The Talk om Wall Street, i The destruction of the steamship America in one of the ports of Japan was the theme of general dis-, cussion yesterday in Wall street and in all busi-. ness circles, The vessel was valued at $1,017,000 and her cargo, with the specie on board, footed up, another heavy amount. At first there was great doubt as to the truth the rumor on the street and old and cau operators were incredulous and alluded to the hoax YFhich was gotten up some time ago, in regard i the Henry Gnaiiésy of tne same ing, “75 799M HYS Purposes. Pacific Mall stooxs tpn 0 Aya ang. pe mained steady. it % int morhing anid after falling to 69 it again rose to 72, Captain Baby, the general agept of the Pacifi Mail Steamship Company, received & ciespate stom Mr, Lane, an agent, which was dated at Yoko. hama, asking if another steamer was destined to replace the America just burned, and also stat- ing the same condition of facts which have since’ been reported by cable to the HeRALD, The vessel! itself will be a total loss, it is believed, but the $896,000 in specie will be recovered, the captain ig assured. : } At present it is not expected that any more . plete details can be received of the disaster, an@ will not be until the steamsi§p China, of nd Pacific Mail line, will arrive at San Francisco, ont or about the 28th of September, when the mails will be forwarded to Now York, i There was great doubt for a time as to whet! the America was burned at Yokohama or Nagae sak. Nagasaki is 600 miles distant from Yokox hama, which ts the Rort of Jeddo. « The loss of life communtcated by the special cable despatch in the HERALD was unknown at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's, 48 Wall street. ‘The HERALD, as usual, this morning gives as full tats ag have been received just at present, THE EXECUTION OF MOBRISSEY, Preparations for the Hanging of tha Matricide. BvFFALo, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1872. Grover Cleveland, the Sheriff of Erie county, hat completed his arrangements for hanging Patrick Morrissey on Friday next, for the murder of hist mother, Governor Hofman has refused ta respite the prisoner, and the latter has resigned himself to hisdoom, He was engaged to-day tm arranging for his funeral after the execution, selecting pallbearers, &c. Morrissey has nehaved im an exemplary manner during his confinement in jail, The execution will take place in the jaik yard, With gs mugh privacy as pag Jaw will DOruay