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THE TESTI- MONY AND THE REPORT OF THE SECRE- TARY OF THE NAVY’—TITLE OF THE EDITORIAL LEADER—SixTm Pace, SECRETARY ROBESON’S REPORT UPON THE POLARIS MYSTERIES! A CLEAR STATE- MENT OF THE EVIDENCE! OBSCURE DE- DUCTIONS THEREFROM! THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN HALL AND THE ALLEGED POISONING | BUDDINGTON’S DRUNKEN IMBECILITY! THE DASTARDLY ABAN- DONMENT OF TYSON’S PARTY AND THEIR MARVELLOUS RESCUE! SCIENTIFIC RE- SULTS—THinp Pace. THE LATEST SPANISH INFAMY! HISTURY OF THE IMMURING OF MR. PRICE ON “STRAW EVIDENCE!” HIS RELEASE AND “GOOD LUCK”—FourtH PAGE. THE ‘TURMOIL IN OUBA! VOLUNTEERS THREATENING! INSURGENT AOMVITY! COOLIE AID IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEFENCES—Eiau7TH Page. THE FAMED GUERILLA CHIEF OF THE OLD DOMINION ON STATE AND NATIONAL POLITICS! ARDENT ADVOCACY OF A THIRD TERM FOR GENERAL GRANT! WHAT THE SOUTH WILL GAIN! A “WALK-OVER” PREDICTED—SEVENTH Page. IMPORTANT LATE CABLE AND GENERAL TELE- GRAPHIC ADVICES—NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY—SEVENTH PaGE. YESTERDAY'S REGATTA! A VERY INTEREST- ING RACE! THE PRIZES OF THE HARLEM PLEASURE NAVY SECURED BY THE DUD- LEY, JOE JEFFERSON AND MARY EMMA— Fourtu Page. THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE ATHLETES PREPAR- ING FOR THE GRAND INTER-COLLEGIATE AGONY ON THE CONNECTICUT! THE CREWS AND THEIR STATUS—Fovrtu Pace. TWO FINE RACES AND A WALK-OVER AT JEROME PARK! THE HEAT AFFECTING EVEN THE ENTHUSIASTS! THE WINNERS AND THEIR RECORDS—TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD TO-DAY—FovukTs Page. ENLARGED CABLE FACILITIES! 443 MILES OF THE NEW ATLANTIC NEWS LINK SUC- CESSFULLY “PAID OUT’—SEVENTH PaGE. THE KILLING OF JOHN DUFFY! HIS MURDERER COMMITTED TO THE TUMBS! THE EVI- DENCE AND VERDICT—THE LITERARY REVIEW—FirtH Pace. A GREAT FIRE DESTROYS A PORTION OF BUR- LINGTON, IOWA—TeNTH Pace. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS AT HUME AND ABROAD! WALL STREET OPERATORS “HUGGING” STOCKS—REAL ESTATE NEWS—NintH PAGE A BRAZILIAN FINANCIER IN DISGRACE! SE- CRET SOCIETIES AND THE CATHOLICS! TELEGRAPHIC PROGRESS—NEWS FROM PERNAMBUCO — ARGENTINE RECEPTION OF MINISTER WHITE—EiGuTH Page. CHEERFUL FACTS FOR CHOLERA DREADERS— LEGAL NEWS—WORK FOR THOSE WHO WANT IT—THE PROSPECTS FOR A BET- TER DOCKAGE IN THE METROPOLIS— Firtu PaGE. 4& FULL BENCH OF POLICE JUSTICES NOMIN- ATED TO THE ALDERMEN! HOW THEY FEEL OVER 1T—NEW FIRE LADDER— NABBING A BOND ROBBER—MISS ANTHONY'S BAD LUCK—ART—Eouru Pace. A BOT DAY AT “THE BRANCH”—COMMENCE- MENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AND RUTGERS FEMALE COLLEGE— Fouts Pac. Tar Navionat Assempty or France has decided to permit General Ladmirault to prosecute M. Ranc for his press strictures on the government formation under MacMahon, despite his plea of privilege asa member of the legislative body, MacMahon is, as he claims, an old soldier, and one not likely, by ny means, to prove a jokist. ‘Tae Betoun Government is exceedingly anxious, and no doubt honestly so, to main- tain its neutrality towards France on the border. A French Communist General, who bas fussed about a good deal in his time, has been warned that if he enters the Belgian Territory he will be arrested and handed over to the French suthorities. The General will be likely to steer clear of MacMahon. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Polaris Yavestigation.The Testi- mony eud the Report of the Secre- tary of the Navy—Accuracy of the Herald Account. The report of Secretary Robeson and the taken by him in the Polaris investi- gation, which we publish elsewhere to-day, will be found deeply interesting and strongly confirmatory of the accuracy of our first and exclusive descriptions of this unparalleled case. It was o mistake, we think, to have ever made the investigation a secret one, although Secretary Robeson was, doubtless, actuated by the best motives. He may have considered it his duty to prevent unnecessary sensationalism about the sad affair and to pro- tect the names and reputations of the parties who have had as yet no opportunity of de- fending themselves. But the public have rights as well as the missing explorers. They are entitled to demand an ac- count of everything that transpired at this secret investigation, and the Secretary of the Navy, we are glad to see by the publica- tion of his own views as a sort of commentary on the evidence, recognizes this right on the part of the public. In order to learn what is demonstrated by this report and what is proven by the evidence it will be of interest to summarize here the leading points in the re- port and testimony of a case so highly im- portant to the public. In his report to the President Secretary Robeson states that he associated with him- self as examiners in the investigation Commo- dore Reynolds, the senior officer of the Navy Department; Professor Baird, of the Smith- sonian Institute, and Captain Howgate, of the Army Signal Service. These gentlemen, by their position, learning and expe- rience, and the interest evinced by them previously in the expedition of Captain Hall, wero admirably suited for a calm, dispassionate and thorough examina- tion of the particulars of the case afforded them by Captain Tyson and his party. The Secretary feels great reluctance in publishing the stromg expressions of feeling on the part of some of the witnesses against Captain Buddington, but he wisely concludes that. it is better that the testimony should be given to the public intact than to give occasion to sensational and alarming conclusions by suppressing any portion of it, At the same time he wishes it to be distinctly understood that the Depart- ment, in the publication of this testimony, ‘neither makes nor declares any judgment against Captain Buddington.” This is but simple justice towards a man who is absent and unable to defend himself. The prin- cipal result of the investigation was to suggest the necessity of immediate relief for the lost explorers.’ The Navy Department not being provided with a vessel suitable for Arctic navigation, Seeretary Robeson proposes to fit out the steamer Tigress, of the sealing fleet of New: foundland, and’ to send her in search of the Polaris. This vessel was built purposely to contend with the difficulties of the Polar Sea, anda special interest is attached to her for being the rescuer of the survivors on the ice floc. The United States steamer Juniata precedes the Tigress, and will start at the earliest practicable moment to Disco, and, if possible, to Upernavik, for the purpose of carrying forward the neces- sary coal and supplies, communicating with the authorities of Greenland, obtaining information and sending encouragement to those on board the Polaris. Thus it will be seen that the Navy Department displays laud- able zeal and energy in the affair, and that every exertion will be made to clear up this dark mystery and to extend aid to the missing crew. The testimony of the survivors of the ice floe, taken by Segtetary Robeson and his. associates, bears out in its principal features, as well as in its minute details, the graphic story told by the Heratp a month ago. The arrival of the Polaris in Robeson Straits, the highest latitude yet attained by an Arctic voyager, 82 16; the barrier of ice islands that stopped her further passage north; the heroic exertions of her ill-fated commander to pene- trate the mysterious sea beyond; his sad and unexpected death; the resistless upheaval of the ice against the vessel, causing her to leak; the removal of stores and provisions to one of the huge floes that surrounded the ship; the final separation in a wild Arctic night, when the Polaris broke loose from her moorings and disappeared in the storm and darkness, leaving the forlorn party on the ice to their fate; the frantic attempts made on the next day by Captain Tyson and his companions to call the attention of the men on board the Polaris, then within signalling distance; the weary six months on the ice floe, drifting from Northumberland Island to a short distance from the coast of Labrador, and the wel- come rescue of the nineteen men, women and children by the sealing steamer Tigress, form the same plain, unvarnished tale that was flashed across the wires to us from Newfound- land four weeks since. Even the particulars of the sickness and death of Captain Hall, which, according to the testimony of some of the witnesses, would indicate foul play some- where, and the conduct of Captain Buddington, explained by the same parties, are entirely confirmatory of the accuracy of our first and exclusive accounts. The Investigating Com- mittee think that Captain Hall died from natural causes, as, in their opinion, there was no one among the rescued party capable of giving a sufficiently particular account of the nature and symptoms of his fatal sickness. It is necessary, therefore, to wait for the tes- timony of those who remained on board the Polaris before any decided opinion can be given in this ead affair. The committee also favor the idea that the separation of the Polaris from Captain Tyson’s party was purely accidental. The failure of Captain Buddington, however, to respond to the signals made on the following morning, re- mains to be explained. The scientific results, also mentioned in the Herap account, are, unfortunately, of a limi- ted character, owing to the loss of the papers containing Mr. Meyer's records and observa- tions, but many of them are very interesting. The existence of a constaht current in a southerly direction, and the exploration of the open Polar Sea,as laid down by Kane and Hayes—which proves to be a sound of con- siderable length—will prove a fruitful theme of discussion for our learned societies. Public interest is now fully awakened in the fate of the missing steamer and in the solution of the mystery surrounding the death of her intrepid commander. A hearty God- speed and safe return will go up from every heart when the Juniata and Tigress leave this port for the regions of eternal ice. The former vessel is under the direction of Commander Braine, an officer of long and varied experience, and the latter will be placed in charge of Captain Greer, whose reputation for skill, courage and perseverance in the discharge of duty stands second to none in our navy. With two such vessels and such officers there is every reason to hope for a a.complete explanation of all the circumstances attending this ill-starred expedi- tion. It would be unjust and cruel to condemn Captain Buddington without according him @ fair hearing. Therefore, although the gravest doubts and suspicions may be awakened against him by the testi- mony of the rescued men, the public must, in simple justice, suspend judgment on his conduct until he has an oppor- tunity of answering these charges in person. Experienced men are about to brave the dangers of the Arctic Sea to enable him to give his version of the story. Whatever tho ultimate result may be, the strange, eventful history of the voyage of the Polaris, and the unparalleled sufferings of the party in the ice floe, will never fade from the public mind. Shall President Grant Have a Third Term? The redoubtable Colonel Mosby, a gen- fleman who kept the good people of Washington in a constant state of worri- ment d@ting the civil war, gives some excel- lent advice to the Southern people regarding their attitude towards the administration. The ex-chief of raiders is convinced that opposi- tion to the policy of President Grant on the part of the people of the South tends only to prolong and increase the evils under which they labor, and that the best means at their disposal to displace the carpet-baggers will be found in uniting in the support of such a sagacious administration as the present one. He is further of opinion also that General Grant is the best friend of the Southern people, and that his intentions towards them are of the kindest and most honorable nature, but have been hitherto frus- trated by divisions among the people themselves. ‘‘I think,’’ says Colonel Mosby, “that General Grant is the ablest man in America. LI believe he has the kindest feel- ing, especially towards the Confederate sol- diers, and I have never heard an expression from him indicating that he had any less respect for a Confederate than a Union sol- dier.’’ Such is the opinion of a soldier who fought against Grant, and who accepted defeat in a Christianlike spirit by becoming the warmest advocate of his conqueror. The Colonel is tired of politics, and proposes to reserve the power of his eloquence until the next Presidential election, when he will put on his war paint and take the field for the idol of his political thoughts. Hoe thinks that the Southern people, will have an excellent opportunity at the centennial celebration of the great Republic to retrieve the terrible blunder they made last Fall and to carry General Grant triumphantly for the third time into the Presidential chair. Here we have the first war-blast and doughty proclamation of the next Presidential campaign. There is nothing, we believe, in the constitution of the United States to pre- vent the Amegican people from electing and re-electing General Grant to the Presidency as often as they deem fit, and if old age overtakes him in the White House no one can be justly dissatisfied while the great American ‘‘Barkis is willin’.’’ The people are sovereign in this country, and their will must be respected. Theretore we salute the fiery Colonel, and wish a long and prosperous career to the present incumbent of the White House. The Utah Judiciary Troubles. By this time it must be nauseating to the reading public to notice that, time after time, Brigham Young, an ignorant but astute re- ligious fanatic, puts at defiance the legitimate forms of government which the Republic, for the development of the country, has seen fit to adopt in the Territories under its immediate tutelage. Two weeks ago we drew attention to the ridiculous farce of legal proceedings in Utab, in which the juries of the federal Courts could only assume an existence by the united consent of the litigants, and that all criminal jurisdiction was virtually at an end in that Territory. By telegrams from Washington yesterday we learn that the federal govern- ment is now awakening to the fact that the Henaxp's representations were not only true in fact, but are demanding serious attention. The Attorney General's department throws the responsibility of this confusion upon Con- gress, and no doubt with good reason holds the representatives of the nation responsible. But while it is the clear and indisputable fact that the lower House has been slow to look at Utah affairs within the last three years, and so deal with its enormities as the House had done in former years, it is a melancholy truth that, just in proportion as Brigham Young’s commercial dealings with Eastern merchants have become profitable and desirable to continue, so in that ratio has he derived strength in Congress. At some fature time it may not be amiss for the Henaxp to ventilate the measures taken by some of the foremost mercantile houses of this city, Boston and Philadelphia to prevent the action of Congress in dealing directly with Utah. How humiliating for a proud nation to listen to the daring and ranting psuedo- prophet when he stands up before his poor, confiding people in his Tabernacle, and tells them that he can at any moment buy up Con- gress and the government officials whenever it pleases his fancy or his necessity may de- mand such services! It devolves upon President Grant to be clear and emphatic in his support of the federal authority in that Territory,’and the whole nation will endorse every constitutional means that can be devised for ridding the United States of the scandal of barbarism in Utah; and, as Brigham Young gets clear through his brain that the march of civiliza- tion will not be retarded by his whims and nonsense, he and his New York dry goods merchants, grocers and shoemakers will wind up their wireworking at Washingtom The Commencement Season—Our Col- leges and Their Work. It is scarcely worth while every time the Commencement season comes round to re- mind our colleges that the young men they are sending into the world are thoroughly un- fit for the battle of life. Tho cry for a practi- cal education as opposed to the classical cur- riculum is only too likely to become the merest cant. The young clergyman, the young lawyer or the young man of business will not find the rudiments of the natural sciences more useful than a little Latin and less Greek. Tho college professors are right when they tell us that the subject of study is of little importance when compared with the mental training it affords. If it were possible to give the college course a practical turn, so as to supply young men with a mental train- ing and a stock of special information suited to ¢heir pursuits in life, it would be well enough, peraaps, to do so. In most of our colleges the course is suffici- ently full, and varied to admit of this; but few young men at college know what their future pursuit is to be. The ‘destined clergy- man becomes a lawyer, the destined lawyer a doctor and the destined doctor drops at once into some subordinate clerical position. Young men cannot be fitted out with a stock of special knowledge for callings which neither they nor their parents are fitted to select, The whole matter is a matter of chance. and it finally resolves itself into the Proposition that any mental training is better ‘than none, and that it is better to know some- thing of classical literature and mathematics, acquired as they must'be by hard study, than merely to skim the surface of modern thought. After years of complaint that the colleges do not fit young men for the batt\g of life, it may be well to inquire if this is the fault of the colleges. The battle of life is one of two things—the earnesé struggle for bread or the vulgar ‘pursuit of wealth. These can only be learned in the shops of the mechanic or the marts of business. No college curriculum ever can embrace them. A college course, whatever branches of study it may include, is quite as likely to unfit as to fit men for useful lives. A collegiate education means, to a cer- tain extent, freedom from the toil for mero bread; if it means toil at all it is in a sphere superior to ordinary labor, pro- fessional, literary and scientific pursuits. The poor man’s son is lifted above his fathér’s social position, and on his return from college he too often looks with horror upon the coarse ways of his mother and sisters. The farmer's son forsakes his parents’ rooftree for the stifling air of the city. Examples might be cited indefinitely, and they would all go to prove that a little learning is dangerous thing. We are not sure but that the Pennsyl- vania Dutchmen are right in refusing the accomplishments of a higher education to their daughters, because they unfit the girls for farmers’ wives. Strauss’ waltzes will not har- monize with butter-making any more than Beethoven’s sonatas will blend with the music of the threshing machine. The vale- dictorian at Yale or Harvard is not the man to steer a plough or take charge of a shoeshop or corner grocery. These things are not the fault of the colleges, for collegiate instruction presupposes that the four years’ course is only the foundation for a life of study. We would not discourage any one, not even the humblest, in an ambitious yearning after a college diploma, but we would remind all such that it divorces them from their former lives and is quite as likely to lead to failure as success. ‘When we come to grapple with this subject of college education we find that, view it as we may, our thoughts become a mere bundle of platitudes. There is much plausibility and much truth in anything we may say on either side of the question. Philosophers of a cer- tain school—practical philosophers, without culture, who have constituted themselves the champions of education—have for years be- littled the mission of the colleges. They sneer at the presumed ignorance of the college graduate and his inexperience and unfitness for the world, All “practical men” join unconsciously in this ridicule; but even to these it is a matter of surprise how apt the ignorant graduste is to learn. Harvard sends her sons to New York, and in a few months they have mastered the mysteries of the me- tropolis and marked out a future for them- selves. All the professions are recruited from the yourg men who come out from our col- leges at this season of the year. Put what estimate we may upon their knowledge of Homer and Horace, we are bound to admit that theyshave acquired aptness and self-re- liance. Many of them fail, and, failing, sink out of sight; but the rest go on, growing stronger and stronger. The poor as well as the rich have their opportunity, though for both it is at best a nomadic existence in a new sphere from that in which they were born. To us the objection to the college course is not so much that the young graduate is un- fitted for the pursuits of an intellectual life as that he is unfitted because dissatisfied with any other than intellectual pursuits. The colleges seldom send recruits anywhere than to the professions. But are the colleges to blame for this? We think not, and we think, besides, that they are accomplishing a work far greater than was to be expected from them, say ten or fifteen years ago. Im the last decade none of our institutions have been more progressive, more alive to the demands and spirit of the time, than our colleges, Harvard and Yale and Cornell, by means of the lavish gifts bestowed upon them year after year, have, in fact, become universities ready to teach anything young men want to know, Tho optional branches of study at these in- stitutions are remarkable for their variety, many of them having special schools for the pursuit of special subjects of inquiry. The School ot Mines of Columbia College isa case in point. The sectarian colloges, too, have rapidly advanced. Princeton College, under its now President, Dr. McCosh, is taking a proud position; Lafayette College, at Easton, has been enriched, and of course vastly improved, by the gifts of its friends. Every- where there is progress, except, we believe, among the colleges of the Roman Catholic Church. Rich Episcopalians and Presby- terians and Methodists have taken pleasure in enriching their institutions, but wealthy Catholics seldom give their colleges a thought. Wero it not for the devotion of instructors, who receive no pay for their services and givo their time and experience wholly through de- votion to their Church, Catholic colleges, now ata standstill, would be going backward for thé want of means to compete with other in- stitutions in the advantages of education. This cannot long continue after attention has been called to it,.and then we may congratu- late the country on the general and generous Progress. A few years more of growth such as we have recently witnessed will not leave the advan- tages of a college education open to such free discussion. Mental training can be united in our colleges with much practical instruction, and in a few years more each student will pursue a special curriculum’ adapted to his position in life, his plans for the future and his mental and other capabilities. The ‘‘prac- tical man” will then have to forego his pleas- ant and congenial duty of howling at the colleges, and collegiate education will not circumscribe men to the narrow limits of pro- fessional and scientific callings. Public Baths and Public Health. A series of highly interesting experiments was recently made at St. Petersburg, which have an important bearing in sanitary sci- ence. The object of the experimenter was to determine the precise effect of suppressing the excretion of the skin, and the results pow- erfully corroborate the long known physiolog- ical fact that, if the skin of animals be painted over with séme material impervious to gases or vapors, death soon ensues, It is the boast of civilization to utilize the discoveries of science, in meeting the wants of the race; and the facts lately brought to light by the Russian physicist, Socoloff, re- vive, in augmented force, the old appeal for public or free baths. Eminent scientific ob- servers have often suggested that the scarcity of water, in the dry and heated term, is the main cause of great mortality in our large and busy metropolitan cities; and it is not im- probable, if one-half the pains and money now squandered upon street cleaning—never half done—were devoted to furnishing free baths for the poorer classes, who toil and sweat the year round, the decimating fever, sunstroke and other Summer diseases would be more directly reached and their powerful spread effectually checked. It is well understood that the human body may endure excessive heat from without, and its temperature, so long as cutaneous perspira- tion remains free, continue moderate and healthy. Physicians have often exposed themselves in dry air, with a thermometer ranging above two hundred degrees Fahren- heit, and felt no evil consequences; but the power of maintaining nearly their original temperature is due to the cooling effect of rapid perspiration. If the body is immersed or exposed in a highly humid atmosphere—as we find it is in our seaport cities in Summer, wfaly when the streets are drenched with ‘, to be instantly evaporated by the fiery sun—the erhalation from the skin is suddenly checked, and the temperature of the over- |- worked and overheated body feverishly rises four or six degrees higher than that of the hot, humid air. Under such circumstances the body becomes exposed to the most dangerous inflammatory secretions within and liable to be instantly overcome. The poorer classes, living in crowded tenement houses, with scarcely water enough to allay thirst and no possible means of enjoying the luxury of a daily bath, at the first exposure to violent exercise, under a fierce succumb to its power, while the infant tion is left to pecs in filth and squalor. There is no sanitary movement of recent origin which surpasses in importance the beneficent design, now agitating, for remedy- ing this great want of the thousands who annually perish through lack of the real water cure. In remote periods of history the bath was regarded as a luxury peculiar to the rich. The old Roman baths of Diocletian and Titus, the royal baths of Mexico and those of the Peruvian Incas, of solid gold, supplied by silver conduits, are among the most splendid relics of the past. But we have it in our power to leave more honorable and enduring monuments to posterity in the construction of such public works as will offer healing and health-giving Siloams to the poorer classes of the people. If any municipal institation can justly be called charitable and Christian it would pre-eminently be this. Cannot some of our municipal authorities devise the ways and means for testing it on a practicable and economical scale ? The Grangers Moving. Western exchanges continue to report the doings of the patrons of husbandry or farmers’ granges in their several localities. The In- dianapolis Journal (republican) complains that the granges now organizing in Indiana— and there are a good many of them—are inva- riably officered by democrats, which calls from the Cincinnati Commercial the remark that ‘if the republican leaders want to retain their hold upon the farmers it would be well, perhaps, to cease lecturing them about the impropriety of their conduct in mixing politics with their business, and give heed to the evils of which they complain.” The suggestion is well timed. The Chicago Times (democratic), in discussing the subject of the farmers’ move- ment, remarks that the enormous impetus given it by what it calls the new political economy party by its victory in the recent Illinois ju- dicial elections, is an “‘amazing fact.’’ In Livingston county the farmers have already cleared the decks for a second contest next Fall against the monopolists. The farmers in Towa, through conventions in Washington, Wayne, Polk and other counties, will present candidates for the Legislature and for local offices, and have called a State Convention to nominate State officers in August next. The Ohio farmers have proclaimed that the ‘‘pres- ent tariff system is robbery of the Treasury.” This seems to be the prevailing sentiment among the farmers engaged in this movement, although in some districts the old protective tariff party still has adherents. Taken alto- gether this farmers’ movement, or this politi- cal economy movement, or this movement of the patrons of husbandry, or by whatever name it may be called, is progressing with rapid strides throughout the West, and pene- trating the strongholds of the old parties all over the country. That it will exercise a pow- erful influence in the coming Fall State elec- tions there is no doubt, and thus pave the way for the Brent x national contest in 1876. / THE WI WELLAND OANAL. St, CATHARINE, ‘vB, Canada, June 10, 1873. repairs ira to tho Welland Canal have been com- toda navigation 14 again requmed, ‘ . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. John Bright 1s as conservative in Quakerism a in politica, Bishop John Sharp, of Salt Lake City, is at tht St. Nicholas Hotel. General E. Shriver, of Maryland, is staying at thé St, Nicholas Hotel. ‘The Brazilian Minister, Don A. P. de C. Borges, at the Brevoort House, Ex-Congressman William Willtams, of Buffalo, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor J. M. Rice, of the United States Naval Academy, ts staying at the Brevoort House. Lady Mary Herbert,. sister to the Earl of Pem broke, has entered the Roman Catholic Church. Emile Ollivier. who resides near Biella, in Italy, lately visited Milan, to confer with Prince Napoleon, Professor Spencer Baird, of the Smithsonian In. stitute, yesterday arrived at ¢he Fifth Avenu¢ Hotel. Vice President Wilson's health is rapidly improv~ tg, and he has retired to the country to recu- Derate. Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, was at the Fute Avenue Hotel yesterday, but went on to Washing: ton last night, Prince Torlonia, the “Roman banker, has offered his villato Father Beckx, General of the Jesuits, and his followers. Paymaster Albert 8. Kenny, of the United States Navy, isat the Hoffman House, having just re turned from the European station. Captain Montague, of the British Army, who ts at the Clarendon Hotel, after a long tour in this coun- try, will sail for home on Saturday. Queen Victoria gives mych of her time while at Balmoral to visiting the people of the vicinity, ea pecially those related to her personal attendants. ‘The Archduke Louis Savator, the third son of the last Duke of Tuscany, is making a voyage of ex- ploration along the Meditterranean coast of Africa in a yacht, The Marquis of Lorne’s scheme to establish @ fund out of which to augment the small salaries of clergymen of the Church of England, is not re- ceived with favor. ‘The Duke of Wellington’s estates at Illora, Spain, are called “the foreign territory’ by the peasants thereabouts, though they have always denounced the presentation or the land to the former “Irom Duke.” Lieutenant Governor John C. Robinson and State Engineer W. P. Taylor arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last evening, They will to-day, with other members of a committee, make an inspection of the city’s water front, Mr. William Killigrew Wait fs likely to walt some time for admission to the British Parliament aa member from Gloucester, Sir Willlam Guise and others having petitioned for his rejection on the ground of fraudulency at the election. Mr. A. B, Meacham, of Oregon, the Peace Come missioner who 80 narrowly escaped massacre with General Canby and the Rev. Mr. Thomas by the Modoc Indians, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. He is on his way from Washington to Oregon, being summoned to testify before the Military Commis- sion which ts to try Captain sack and his comrades. Miss Rye has been given, rent free for two years, the house in Great Coram street, London, in which the mysterious: murder was done several’ months age. She will use it as @ house of recep- tion for destitute children, The Charity Commis- sioners, who own the building, have strangely been forced to aid Miss Rye’s benevolent labors by the popular belief that the house is haunted. THE CHOLERA. ‘The Disease Increasing in Memphis, but Decreasing in: Nashville—Unfeunded Reports from Knoxville. Mempuis, June 19, 1873. ‘The weather is again hot and sultry, and, con- trary to general expectation, the cholera is again increasing. There were thirty-three deaths to-day, nineteen of which were from cholera. NaSHVILLF, Tenn., June 19, 1873. Twenty negroes and four whites died of cholera to-day. The weather was more favorable to-day than Wednesday. KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June 19, 1873. The statement published in the Nashville Banner yesterday morning that cholera prevailed here, that thousands were fleeiljg to the mountains and that there was a per! Panic, is incorrect. There is not and has not been asingle case of cholera here. The undertakers report fewer deaths up to the present time for the last five weeks than any one month during the Winter. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIRF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINoTON, June 20—1 A. M. Probvabiitties. For the Southern States, east of the Missis, sippi, light to fresh winds, mostly from the south- ‘west and northwest, and very generally clear or partly cloudy weather from the Ohio Valley and Missouri; tor the lower lakes and Minne- sota very generally clear and somewhat cooler weather and northerly to westerly winds, dimin- ishing to gentle and fresh; for the Middle States and lower lake region clear or partly cloudy weather, and gentle fresh and occa- sionally brisk southwesterly to northwesterly winds, with lower temperature over the latter; for New England occasional rain areas over the northern portion, but followed by winds veering to fresh and occasionally brisk southwesterly and northwesterly, and generally clear weather. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last hae, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. 1872, 1873. E M 2 96 Average temperature yesterday.. 8 Average acres for corresponding date last year.. 80; THE SEATED TERM IN THE CITY. Yesterday may be said to have been the drat day of the heated term in the city. The thermometer ‘was at 70 degrees at six o’clock A. M., and the mercary continued rising dring the forenoon and afternoon, until, at three P. M., it stood at 96 degrees in the shade, the highest point reached this Summer. At six P. M. it had fallen only six degrees, but a breeeze about that hour set in which tempered down the atmosphere and enabled the hardy sons of toli and the dwellers in tenement houses get some little reireshing rest. So iar this » heither at Bellevue nor at the Park Hospital, naa there been a single case of cunstroxe, It was feared yeaterday that inert ve would be m: Pang suderers, but the heated term had not yet hi time to o produce the usual state of exhaustion, and fortunately no person succumbed, John Pattit, aged sixty- ont, and residing at 127 Cannon street, was found last evening at the corner of Grand and Bast streets, overcome by the heat. He was removed to Bellevue Hospital, DISCOVERY OF GOLD MINES. Good News for Wyoming or a Neat Real Metate Advertisement. Laramie Crty, June 19, 1873, Considerable interest and excitement prevaila here over the recent discovery of rich and exten. r gold mines about the headwaters of the Sy rem Fier River and its tributaries, Experienced reliable men, who have been = etn, re Fa jon, report tl whic po tay ag ‘Atty miles which will pay $10 per day to the mane Several partica ai are paving s here for those mines to commence work. The | ee ig some thirty-five or forty miles from this city. 4 FAILURE OF PROVISION MERCHANTS, St. Lovis, June 19, 1873, The following provision dealers failed here yess terday:— Harris & Thomas, with Habtlities to the amount Of $600,000; Guthrie & Co., Habilities $250,000; Cheatham, icin & Co,, liabilities $375,000. ‘The Segrogss amount of meat on hand and bought for tavare, for which these firms are lisbie, These fms are indetied eve, New “Orioaa Ol cinnati, Loutsville and Chicago. |