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BROADWAY, EMERSON'S MINSTRELS.—Granp Siranee ENTRICITIES. Matinee ut 2, THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, between 2d ‘and 34 avenues.—Cunan MinstRELs, NEWARK INDUSTRIAL ha ind ii Washington treet, corner of Court, Newark. N. |, AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 634 Band 64th streets. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Granp InstruENtat Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— 4np Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. Wew York, Saturday, September tA 1872. antares ae = = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. + Pacer. 1—Advertisementa, 2—Advertisements. Story of Shipwreck: Burning of the Bienville on Her Way to Aspinwall; More Than Twenty Lives Lost; The Slumbers of the Passengers Broken by the Cry of “Fire!”’ The Hatches Battened Down; Escaping from the Crackling Decks in Small Boats; Three Days of Thirst; Five Boats Reach the Land, the Sixth Lost: ony ee the Surf Off Eleuthera Island and Loss ine Lives; Anne Brahn Wanders Away id is Lost; Search for the Missing y Boat; Captain Maury’s Report of the Disaster and the Story of the Chief Engineer; Full List of the Saved; Forty-two Arriving Here by the Steamer Morro Castle, and Thirty-five at Bal- timore by the Schooner William McGee; Names of the Lost; Heartrending Narratives ‘of Danger, Toil, Pain and Death. @—Livingstone’s Handwriting: What the HERALD Has Proved and Why; An Array of Fac- Similes and a Mountain of Proof; Another Letter to John Livingstone; Americanisms and Scotticisms. B—Livingstone’s Handwriting (Continued from Fourth a). 6—-Editorials: Leading Article, “The Nominations at Syracuse—A Weak State Ticket—The Road ‘iumph for General Dix”—Amusement Announcements. Y=—The Council of the Crowns—The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Spain, pt and Abyssinia—Mur- der and Suicide—The Presidential Canvass— Execution of a Matricide: Patrick Morrissey meg ne at Buffalo Yesterday—Important to the Perfume Trade—Business Notices. S—“Truth Will Prevail: Is Louis Noe anys But a Fraud? What Mr. E. Joy Morris, Ex- Minister to Turkey, Knows About Henry Stanley—Yachting—Custom House Affairs— Curtis and Cardozo—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Obi- tuary—Oll on Fire—Large Fire in Jersey City—American Bible Socicty—Seizure of an Micit Still in Irishtown, Brooklyn—A Woman Run Over and Killed—The Burglar Policeman: William J. Aiken Sentenced to the State Prison for Twenty Years—Election Regula- tions—Railroad Casualty. 9—Financial and Commercial: A Steadier Tone in the Money Market; The Rate on Cail Five Per Cent; The Gold Clique Credited with Throwing Up the Sponge; Gold Declines a Half Per Cent and Recovers a Quarter; Decline in Govern- ment Bonds; Sunshine and Shadow at the Stock Exchange; A Forenoon of Depression Gives Place to a prclens of Joy—Newark Industrial Exhibition—Intemperance, Desti- tution and Death—Marriages und Deaths. 10—A Story of Shipwreck (Continued trom Third Page)—Schoeppe’s Trouble Over: Sudden Close of the Trial; The Prosecution Breaks Down; The Prisoner to be Acquitted To-Day— The Metis: Continuation of the Investi- tion Into the Cause of the Disaster— ‘he Pennsylvania ilroad Fined in Tren- ton—Items from Albany—The Railroad Dis- aster in Ohio—The Straight-Outs in Indiana— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. fi—Trotting at Hall’s Driving Park, L. I.—Horse Notes—Street Cleaning—Advertisements. Al—Advertisements. Tae Eorrmanx Demonstration AGArNstT Asyssmta.—We are assured from Cairo by telegram that the Egyptian army has not ac- tually invaded the soil of the Abyssinian roy. alty, as was charged against the officers of the Viceroy in o late despatch. The troops of His Highness stand prepared for such action Bhould it be deemed necessary; but it is al- Jeged that the overt act has not been consum- _ dated. Several thousand armed Egyptians Btendon the border-dividing line, but keep- fing, so far, their own side of the point of de- ‘marcation. The Viceroy’s people charge that this step has beén forced on them by the threatening attitude of the Prince Kassab. It is easy to perocive, notwithstanding, that ‘the elemenfs for a very important movement, vas bgteieen Egypt and Abyssinia, are in mo- yon, and that they may give rise to a very dangerous quarrel between the potentates, Tae Boanp or Pouce on Execrion Inspro- fors.—All good citizens will approve of the action of the Police Board in reference to pro- tecting the purity of the ballot box in the coming election. That body have resolved to investigate the qualifications of all whose names are suggested for Inspectors of Election, with the view that no man whose character is not clearly above reproach shall be allowed to act in this position of trust. Rarely in our political history has there been an election in which greater interests centre than in that ‘which is now approaching. National, State and municipal questions of extreme gravity are to be decided, and the feelings of our citizens ‘will be most warmly excited. All honest men desire that every qualified citizen shall be allowed to vote, and none other, and that the ballots be faithfully guarded and truly counted. Let the free and fair expression of the public sentiment determine the election, and there need be no fear that other than the best candi- ~Gates will be chosen. Anorare Pernoteum Fimer.—A fire in the oil- works at Sixty-fifth street and North River yesterday proved the inability of our means to gave a building in which a coal oil fire once starts, and the absolute necessity that all stores of that hazardous material should be ‘widely separated from other buildings. This Summer has witnessed several instances of destruction of property from this source. ‘We have had the great fire at Hunter's Point, 9 severe fire in Jersey City and now this one. Oilworks are almost sure, in spite of every caution, to frequently burn up. Should they not, thon, be strictly banished from any near neighborhood with other combustible prop- gry? i republican ranks. It will then be none but the very strongest names should be chosen, The important place at the head of the ticket, the Governorship, had long since been conceded to the democracy, as the major part of what they would get in exchange for their support of the Cincinnati nominees. This was natural, as the strength of the ‘“un- terrified” was assured, while the New York liberals were among the shades of the ‘‘un- known quantities.” But this rendermg up of the first place on the fusion State ticket, if it recognized democratic num- bers, at the same time imposed a respon- sibility upon that party never apparently com- prehended by them. This tribute to their power seems to have been accepted by them in the shortsighted spirit of an ordinary “divide” between traders; as something that, being their own property, they could do what they pleased with. This appearance of politi- cal myopy cannot be excused on the ground that the partition of the slate was unexpected as far as regards the Governorship, for, what- ever difficulty may have existed up to the last moment over the minor places on the ticket, that was conceded to them from the start. As if additionally to warn them of the necessity of an iron-clad nomination, the ticket made up by the republicans at Utica with General John A. Dix at its head was daily exhibiting its strength under their very eyes. They had, furthermore, to consider the fact that last year’s overturning of the corrapt Tam- many “Ring” in New York city had lost the State to the democracy, and a tyro in politics should know that possession is nine points out of ten in the possessor’s favor. All this was lost upon them, and they set about their nomination as if they were building a party ediftce without windows and with only a back door; they left no opening in front for any one outside of the democracy to creep in, but just space enough to allow any one in the edifice to walk out. Such, in effect, is Thursday’s nomination of Francis Kernan, of Utica, for Governor. It is not our purpose to breathe a word against that cultivated gentleman's private character ; but his record politically is that of an extreme democrat, and, however fit to represent the coalition ticket of Baltimore and Cincinnati in a general sense, he is not cal- culated to attract a single republican vote from the party led by General Dix. Added to this record is thé fact of his known strong religious views and the consequent danger citizens as deeply rooted in other creeds would apprehend from his elevation to the Gubernatorial chair. It may be lamentable that a question of religious opinion should weigh in a canvass ; but that it does weigh cannot be denied. The princi- pal danger feared in this direction, outside of the very stupid objection to his religion gener- ally, is that the public school system might suffer through his possible endorsation of sectarian appropriations. His friends already hasten to allay this latter ‘bogey ;’’ but where so much apology is necessary, republi- cans, with a strong State ticket of their own anda man after their own choosing at its head, will conclude to risk nothing by going over to their old politigal fog, we however, is more to the point, is that this mat ter will tend to lose him as many votes in his own party as the best man they could name would be likely to draw from the opposition. It makes a very bad showing for the elec- tion in November, and we expect to go¢ it thoroughly ventilated before many days, Respecting the Lieutenant Governorship, which was given to the liberals after they had struggled unsuccessfully for the Congressman at Large, the same myopic course Was followed. Whatever folly the democrats might commit in naming an unattractive candidate for Gov- ernor, it was at least to be expected that the liberals would avoid any such mistake. They, far above their new yoke fellows, should see to it that their nominee would be a man equal in every respect to the occasion, and calculated to draw as much as possible from the party they themselves had so recently left. Their candidate should be above the suspicion of any combination with any of the forces which incline more and more to make the State a prey to certain great corpo- rations. The wave of reform which over- turned so much of the trading politicians’ setting up had its meaning for the rural dis- tricts as well as for the city. In thecity we had Tammany drawing all corruption to a focus which could be seen and struck at; in the rural districts was the insidious and often intangible monster of huge corporations, whose malign influences were felt over wide tracts. The great railways, which twist like serpents through the State, possessing the attribute politically which the boa-constrictor has physically of squeezing the life out of those within its coils, were as much warred against in the moral of last year's revo- lution as Tammany itself. Besides this, it uttered o thunderous protest against the restless trading politician which ought not to have been despised at Syracuse. But its can- didate, nevertheless, was Chauncey M. Depew. There were scores of men among the known liberals who could have been selected without damage to the ticket, whose virtues might even be negative. There were at least a dozen whose names would have added strength to it. It was not, then, shortsightedness, but posi- tive blindness which allowed the liberals to nominate Mr. Depew. This gentleman’s inti- mate professional connection as a lawyer with the great railways we have referred to should have forbidden his nomination. There are men undoubtedly who, no matter what their private interests, could be entrusted with fairly deciding in public affairs ; but the long-time politician, who has run the gauntlet of party and clique, cannot aspire to that exceptional trust. However pure he may be, he must submit to this popular want of confi- dence as the penalty of his success in the other capacity. The nomination would appear to have been made rather in defiance of this popular feeling than in ignorance of it It was “cut and dried” in the first place, and bore With these two names of Kernan and De- pew as the net result of the combination con- ventions at Syracuse, we have no hesitation in saying that the failure of the Bourbons at twenty Vermonts or these nominations belittled their movement, and by a mixture of ignorance and reck- secured for their own candidates to the Presi- dency. The Imperialist Assemblage in Berlina The Radical Reunion at The Hague. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria arrived in Berlin, from Dresden, yesterday, and there joined his brother potentates of Russia and North Germany, and the more juvenile mem- bers of their respective houses, who awaited hiscoming. Emperor William received Franz Joseph at the railway station, the ceremonial of greeting being conducted in a manner pre- cisely similar to that which he accorded to the Czar Alexander the day previous. The Emperors of Austria and Germany rode through the streets of the capital side by side. They were greeted by the utterance of the most vociferous applause on the part of the people; a fact which itis to be hoped will not by any means disturb the equanimity of the Czar, as demonstrating the unanimity and universalism of the Ger- man Panslavist idea. The monarchs enjoy a gala time. The opera, the army, the Cabinet, the gardens, with Court fétes generally, occupy all their time by day. Bismarck is near, as is Gortschakoff. The men of counsel have been in deep consultation. They Save had an audi- ence of the Emperor of Russia, and in this audience may perhaps be found the solid sub- stance, the very csscntial, of the business of the meeting of the Emperors in Berlin. No such magnificent assemblage has been witnessed in any of the capitals of Europe since 1814 and 1815, when the crowned heads of Europe and the great generals of that day rested from their labors and luxuriated in victory in the fair capital of crushed and ex- hausted France. , A very different sort of meeting is now being held at The Hague, the Court capital of the Kingdom of Holland. At this meeting thers aro no crowned heads, no princes, no grand dukes, no great generals, no prominent statesmen, no man of any world-wide reputation, no man known, for anything except for the extrava- Gance of his Opinions in regard to human government and the rights of property and the conduct of society. It is noteworthy that while at Berlin we have the representatives of law, of order, of power, of all that is best in modern i we do not know that there is among the sixty-nine delegates, including the three women, one respectable name, one name that commands world-wide or even general respect. In externals there is a marked contrast between the congress at Berlin and the congress at The Hague. In one particular, and in one particular only, do they resemble each other. It is the object of the one and the other to concert measures for the better government of the nations ; for, in spite of all protests to the contrary, we must cling to the opinion that the Berlin gathering is not without a political purpose. Of the two it is difficult to say which we should rather see having absolute control of the nations and peoples. Despot- ism would be the result in the one case. Chaos would be the certain result in the other. It is not at all improbable that from both con- ferences we may have some fruit ; but we do not expect that the fruit from either tree will greatly benefit mankind. We are as little hopeful of any good thing from the crowned heads at Berlin as we are from the philoso- phers at The Hague. It ought to be a matter of rejoicing to us that on our free and wide- spreading soil such conferences are, if not im- possible, unnecessary. We need not the International and we have no place for the Emperors. The Alabama Claims Arbitration. The telegrams from Geneva and other places which we publish in the Henaxp to-day afford conclusive point in verification of the in- ference which we expressed yesterday, based on our report from Washington, that the Alabama claims arbitration is practically con- cluded. The members of the Geneva Tribunal have drafted the Court documents, revised them, translated their contents into the different languages and complied with the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, down almost to the very technicality of the signing and seal- ing of the documents. This final act will be completed, we are told, on the 14th instant, after which the arbitrating governments will be judicially informed of the judgment. The Swiss city is joyous over the result. Its in- habitants will wituess o grand entertainment of State, given by their government in honor of the event of the scttlement, and then they will say adieu to their distinguished visitors. There are conflicting statements as to the amount of the award which has been declared for the Americans. The total is made to range from fifteen to thirty millions of dollars. But this is not of great impor- tance, provided a grand principle in interna- tional fw has been vindicated, and that the essentials of a rule for the guidance of great nations, in case of future wars, has been climi- nated for friendly elaboration. ‘tling in water. i i a ev REE z Ht i & EE AL Ha gfe. feerE ;tedt Fry i Fe that the waves constantly threatened to fill and sink them. Captain Maury’s conduct is spoken of in admiring terms. He seems to other than that the Bienville should have had far more and far better appliances for putting out fire and for saving her passengers and crew? Besides those brought by the Morro Castle, thirty-five persons from the burned steamer have arrived at Baltimore in a sailing vessel and six at Wilmington. In view of the appalling nature of the disaster, we may be thankful that so large a portion of the precious lives aboard the fire-ship have escaped in safety. While we weep over the dead and sympathize in the sore bereavement of those who have lost loved ones, let us fervently sup- plicate the Almighty to preserve those ‘‘who go down to the sea in ships.”’ The Metis Disaster. An official investigation into the cause of the disaster which overtook the steamer Metis has been commenced. So far as the evidence of both officers and crew is known to us it points out clearly that tne collision and subse- quent loss of life are directly attributable to negligence. It might reasonably be expected that the officer in command at the time of the collision would have ordered « strict and scarching examination of the hold as soon as lp» felt the shock. It appears, indeed, that an examination was made, but in such a careless and bungling manner that, while the forward compartment was filling with water at an appalling rate, the sailors and firemen were reporting that all was safe. The fault here lies not with the men who mado these reports, for they simply told the truth, so far as their observation extended; but it is by no means 0 easy to justify the officers for not having every part of the for properly ex- been felt by the officer in command undoubt- edly he would not have been satisfied with the partial examination of the damage his vessel hadsustained. But the incident of the gollisjon seems to have had but little impression on the mind of any of the officers, as is proved by their hasty dismissal of the Nereus before they had Tearned the exact amount of the domage they had sustained. When the schooner struck the Metis another steamer was some little distance behind in her wake. Having observed the collision, the Nereus stood by the Metis until dismissed by the signal of “all right’ from that ill-fated vessel. Yet ten minutes later the fires of the Metis were out and the ship rapidly set- There can be no sufficient excuse offered for such indifference to the pos- sible consequences of a collision that jeopar- dized the lives of some two hundred people. It is altogether a secondary question, 80 far as the public are concerned, whether or not the right lights were shown. What we have to insist upon is that when anything in the nature of an accident occurs on board a pas- senger ship every means shall be promptly used to secure the lives of those on board. Nothing must be left to chance or hazard. It was clearly the duty of the officers of the Metis to discover for themselves whether or not such damage had been done to their ship as would render her unseaworthy. To have omitted this shows them to have been reckless to a criminal degree. Had there been no help at hand their conduct would not appear soreprehensible; but, though there were hun- dreds of lives depending in the balance, they acted with the most perfect indifference until the danger of their position could no longer be doubted. In the first moments ot the disaster a steamer was at hand to render all help needed, and it only required the exercise of the most ordinary prudence to have prevented the fear- ful loss of life which ensued. It is to the credit of the officers that as soon as they fully recognized their position they displayed com- mendable energy ; but even then want of dis- cipline was painfully evident in the way in which they allowed the boats to be appro- priated in part by the deck hands instead of reserving them for the women and children, The whole scene is suggestive of painful re- flectio:s acete"the manner in which our steam- boats are officeredand manned. We hope the attention of the inspectors will be drawn to this subject, and that some regulation will be introduced into the steamboat laws that will compel responsible officers to act with a rea- sonable amount of prudence or expose them- selves to heavy penalties. ALovw. m ree Pourrica, Evewents.—The week which is drawing to a close has been in a remarkable degree ful! of the excitements of political party conventions, East and West, with the Vermont election thrown in as a special and general sensation. And the week just before us, begmning with the Maine elec- tion on Monday, and followed up with politi- cal ratifications, fireworks, cannonadings and processions, herq and elsewhere, will add keep i in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In- and Nebraska; and then we shall able to see what is coming in i Fn £ Livingstone’s Ohirography to the Herald—Oar Fac-similes To-Day. It will, perhaps, be one of Dr. Livingstone’s Greatest surprises on his return to civilization to find that incredulity should have existed anywhere as to the identity of his letters to the Hzrazp. He would surely ssy that he had written enough in his time to place within the reach of any intelligent person the means of judging whether they were go or not. When an enterprising contemporary hastened to per- ceive a similarity between the writing of Liv- ingstone and Stanley, and on that to found an opinion, there were undoubted specimens of the explorer’s chirography at hand, had they been sought for, which would easily have proved the opposite. The onus of disproof, which our contemporary took upon itself, might have directed it to seek these specimens; but it was not done. The Herawp felt the security of ite position and did not annoy itself about them. They were, however, kindly brought to the Heap, and we thus reprint to-day our fac-simile of Livingstone’s letter to the editor of this journal, written at Ujiji in November, 1871, with a3 much of these contributions as we can find space for in fac-simileform. These include a portion of a letter addressed by Dr. Livingstone to the President of the American Geographical Society, written on the River Shire in January, 1862; portions of & letter to Williar: F. Stearns, Esq., of this city, and formerly of Bombay, written from Zanzibar in February, 1866, and a letter of authority to Mr. Stanley, dated Unyanyembe, March, 1872. The most careless glance at these letters will convey the same impression as the closest analysis. They exhibit over ten entire years a fidelity to a long-formed style of writ- ing, which is particularly striking. The words “that,” “the,” “to,” “and,” “but,” &&., which may be found in all of them, are dis- tinctive of the man. In the letter to the Geographical Society, as in the letter to the Henatp, the words ‘Geographical,’ ‘‘Africa,’”’ *miles,” &c., will be found exactly alike, with the exception that in the first letter ‘“Geogra- phical’’ is, of course, written with a capital g. The process of further examination we leave to our readers, merely adding that, for our part, we were convinced always of the authen- ticity of the letters, the smallest shadow of doubt that could have existed being put out of the question by the knowledge that no one short of an idiot could have hoped to palm off as genuine an entire letter written by another hand and purporting to be Livingstone’s. The amount of omniscience necessary to manufacture such a fraud suc- cessfully is, happily, out of human reach, Here we ate content to let this matter of the great explorer’s handwriting rest. We have done what we deemed necessary to establish for all people the truth of what we put forth astrue. The authenticity of our letters had been called in question, possibly, as we said heretofore, for the most humanely generous of purposes; we have now given ali this doubt- ing Thomas business its coup de grace, and'the accomplishment of this necessary feat will be our apology to the readers of the Heraxp for troubling them further with the details of this process of ‘ a Ay on the wheel.”” Acquittal of Dr. Schoeppe—Thé Value of Selentifie Evidence as Seen in the The trial of Dr. Schoeppe for the murder of Misg Steinecke is virtually at an end. The =: vill be somewhat startling to the public who have felt such an absorbing interest in the question of this man’s innocence or guilt. There is something in the mystery that sur- rounds deaths from poisoning that irresistibly attracts the imagination and fixes public atten- tion spell-bound on every detail of the drama. In the case of Dr. Schoeppe the evidence of guilt was far from conclusive, and if it had not been for the production of the will, naming him as the old lady’s heir, which seomed to supply a motive for the crime, it would have been impossible to obtain a verdict against him. It appears now, from the evidence elicited on the last trial, that the family of the deceased had no suspicions of foul play antil this will was made known. The prospective loss of property, however, aroused their suspicions, and the charge of murder was the consequence. It is unnecessary for us to recapitulate the facts here, as we have furnished the public through man who thas cruelly gambles with the lives of his fellow beings or the system which en- trusts the decision of such delicate questions to incompetent persons. Modern chemistry is frequently called upon incases of suspected poison with satisfactory results. When the researches of its distin- demonstrate the existence if eis : death could not possibly have resulted’ from the prussic acid which Aiken im- agined he had discovered. With this overwhelming evidence before him the Judge felt called upon to express his opinion that there was really no evidence of guilt against the accused. He publicly thanked God that, by the interposition of Prov- idence, the former Court and jury had been spared the commission of a judicial crime, This, in effect, was a charge to the jury to set the prisoner free; but the legal charge, re- viewing the evidence, will not be deliv- ered until to-day, when Dr. Schoeppe will leave the dock a freé man, cleared of the weight of an awful crime, under which he has lain in a state of suspense for some years. If an innocent man can be thus exposed to the most bitter and poignant suffering through the ignorance or malevolence of an individual, the sooner the law steps in to regulate the evidence of so-called scientists the better. It is clear that ina case involv ing the life and reputation of a human being none but the men whose knowl edge is beyond question ought to be employed by the government. To make use of obscure men is to encourage char- latanism and to make the State a party to the placing of a stigma on the character of a citizen on insufficient grounds, or even to the commission of judicial murder, which has only been avoided in the case of Schoeppe by the ‘interposition of Providence.”’ WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 1872. A Circular to Gaugers Regarding the Fermented Liquor. The Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue three weeks ago issued a circular to gaugers, Te- Quiring them to gauge all packages used for the sale of fermented liquors. The order was issued in the belief that the packages used had a capacity greater than was represented by the stamps re- quired for eighth, sixth, fourth, half and whole bar- rels, and in that way'the government was annually defrauded of considerable revenue. In case gaugers found packages exceeding their pretended capac- ity—three-tenths of a gallon—they were instructed 8 of the’ Re srt FEE tenes ory he brewer declined to reduce the package ¢ @ ‘proper por on The reports received from guagers re- thé Gpinion heretofore entertained at the Internal Revenue Bureau, and show that tne gov-, ernment is really profiting by the sale of beer in casks now used. The reports, for instance, show that barrels which should contain thirty-one gallons, average only thirty; half barrels from fourteen to fifteen gallons. Fourth-barrels, which should contain seven and three-fourths gallons, average only seven. The same in proportion of sixth and eighth barrels. This revelation will un- doubtedly astonish dealers in lager and cause consternation among the brewers, The officials are somewhat puzzled as to what course they will now pursue. Having undertaken the task for the pur- pose of protecting the revenue, justice, they say, demands that the gaugers should be required to brand tne exact capacity of each package. The loss to the brewers in barrels and casks alone will be very large, for while provision was made in the circular for cutting them down to the proper Measurement, the department failed to give in- structions for stretching them, This was generally regretted among the officials to-day, and the ques- tion will probably be turned over to the clerk who invented the original order. The Acting Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue, who signed the original order without suspecting any deficiency in the quantity of lager, is more likely to act upon the case as he finds it, and to-morrow he will issue an order requiring gaugers to brand the exact capac- ity of each package. Investigation of Steamboat Disasters. ‘The Acting Secretary of the Treasury to-day or- dered Mr. E. B. Beckwith and Mr. Philo B. Hovey, Inspectors of Steam Vessels at New London, te continue the investigation of the disaster to the Metis, and to procced with it as rapidly as possi- ble. In this district the burning of the Nevada is also being investigated. At New York the recent collision on the Harlem and the accident to the Bristol are being investigated, and the burning of the Bienville is next on the list for oMcial inquiry. Supervising Inspector General Nimmo returned here this morning. He has confidence that the investigations ordered will be thorough and tm- er 4 Miscellaneous. ‘The baiances in the Treasury of the United States at the close of business yesterday were :—Currency, $9,431,003; coin, $72,743,444; including $20,009,800 in coin certificates. Attorney General Williams will address tne ree publicans of Philadelphia on Tuesday evening next. THE WEATHER. War DEPARTMENT, OF THE CHIRF SIGNAL Orrtc aR, Wasminxaton, D. C., Sept. 7—1 A. M. Probabilities, Clear weather for the Southern States, with light to fresh southerly winds; southeasterly to southwesterly winds and generally clear weather for the New England and Middle States, with rising temperature; southerly and southwesterly winds and generally clear weather during the day from Southern lilinois to Ohio and Southern Micht- gan; rising barometer, northerly to westerly winds and clear and cooler weather prevail by morning Wisconsin and west be erred cece innate aud Michigan by al during the evening. ‘The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- corresponding day of last au the thermometer ‘at Mudnues Phare i ies 3:3 S71, 1872, 83° 80 x uta yesterd wn temperature