The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERAL NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1873—WITH SU Climatio Inmuences—vur Santtary Chances and Duties in the Heated BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, — JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No, 207 Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS TWAS EVENING, D'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— BumcOncnss. Afterencn anf evenion: vg WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Min. :ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Drama oF Ligurmxa a CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svuwee Nicwrs' Con- ckets. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad- Way.—Science anv Ant. ti WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Saturday, July 26, 1973. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “CLIMATIO INFLUENCES! OUR SANITARY CHANCES AND DUTIES IN THE HEATED TERM"—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE— Fourtn Pags. A CARLIST FORCE MARCHING ON MADRID! FOKCED LOANS TO BE EXAOTED BY MEN OF-WAR! A FRESH ARMY CALLED FORTH BY PRESIDENT SALMERON! THE IGNIS FATUUS OF FREEDOM FOR CUBA—firTH Pace. CARLOS’ LEGIONS ASSAILING THE FOE! A BITTER WARFARE WAGED BY THE EN- ‘THUSIASTIC ROYALISTS! A CAVALRY CHARGE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP! EARS WORN AS TROPHIES! A GRAPHIC BAT- TLE RECITAL—TuiRp Page. EVILS OF CHSARISM! FURTHER OUTLINING OF THE PERILS TO WHIGH THE REPUBLIC IS EXPOSED IN THE THIRD-TERM INNOVA- TION—SixtH PaGE. CXSARPHOBIA AND CHIVALRIE! SUGGESTIVE OBSERVATIONS OF A HERALD OORRE- SPONDENT AT THE SUMMER CAPITAL! MARK ANTONY MURPHY AND THE OF- FICE-HOLDING COHORTS IN A NEW GAME ! DEVOURED BY SHARKS—Srxta Pace, BALTIMORE SWEPT BY A TERRIBLE FIRE CY- CLONE! A HUNDRED HOUSES CONSUMED INCLUDING THE ACADEMY OF ART AND TWO CHURCHES! LOSS, $1,000,000! NO LIVKS SACRIFICED! A FURNACE SPaRK IMPERILS A GREAT CITY—Firru Pace. MAP OF THE DISTRICT CONSUMED IN THE BAL- TIMORE FIRE—FirTa Pages. RUSSIA'S CONQUERED KHANATE! GENERAL KAUFMANN CONCLUDES THE TREATY WITH THE KHAN! THE VASSAL TO PAY TWO MILLION ROUBLES INDEMNITY, ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND SURRENDER A SLICE OF HIS TERRITORY— Firta PacE. THE PERSIAN RULER TO EMBARK Af BRIN- DISI FOR HOME—THE TICHBORNE CLAIM- ANT SEEKING CASH AID FROM AMERIOA— THE GERMAN LAGER RIOTS—Firti Paces. ‘BAFFLING BUTLER! MASSACHUSETTS DE- CLARES AGAINST THE BACK-PAY GRAB- BERS! GOVERNOR WASHBURN’ EN- DORSED—TexTH Page. CUBAN REPUBLICAN ADDRESS TO TAY CAPTAIN GENERAL! A PROFFER OF SERVICES! PATRIOT ATTACK UPON A SPANISH DIVISION—Firtu Pace. ANOTHER TELEGRAPH CABLE SUCCESSFULLY LAID—IMPORTANT LATE NEWS—Firtu Page. ANNULLING NUISANCES! THE BOARDS OF HEALTH AND POLICE AIDING EACH OTHER! SANITARY ACTION—THE SMELLS— EIGHTH PAGE. THE SANITARY AUTHORITIES AND THE MAR- KET BOOTHS! ANOTHER NOTICE SERVED ON THE MARKETMEN—ADONIS IN THE CHURCH—NINTH Pace, PUSHING FORWARD THE PUBLIC WORKS OF THE METROPOLIS—GREAT FIRES IN THE LONG ISLAND FORESTS—LOCAL ITEMS— E1autH Pace. THE COMPTROLLER RISES TO EXPLAIN! WHY THE PUBLIC WORKS ARE NOT PUSHED FORWARD—MARINE NEWS—TENTH Page. T@E BLUNDERS IN THE CONNECTICUT RE- GATTA! REFEREE BABCOCK’S REPORT! TWO IMPORTANT ERRORS—Eicuta Paae. THE BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB FLEET IN THE SOUND! THE LOPER RECEPTION—Sixta Page. EXECUTION OF CHARLES A. RUSSELL, FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES CRO1TY! STRONG APPEALS FOR MERCY! THE DIABOLICAL SAND CLUB—A PRINCE IN JAlL—Siuxta Pace. INFAMOUS BLACKS! AN IRISH GIRL SACRI- FICED TO BESTIALITY! A DAMNING DEED ON THE HUDSON—SixTH Pace. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS AND BUSINESS! THE EFFECT ON WALL STREET OF THE BIG BALTIMORE FIRE! THE MOD- ERN GOLD STOREHOUSE—Ninta Pace. LEGAL SUMMARIES—A WOMAN STABBED— BURNED TO DEATH—SEcOND PaGE. “ALL 1s Quiet on THE Potomac” —Ditto on the Hudson, in front of Washington Market. How ts Tu1s?—We have heard it said that if the Fulton Market were destroyed the Brooklyn people would get up a real market of their own. Why not? Srxfeey Per Cent iy Favor or New Yors.— Yesterday the heat again rose in London to 85, while in New York we aspired to and per- spired at 101 in the shade. It was, indeed, a terrible day for Gotham. Svrrnession.—The Spanish Cortes has passed a bill suppressing the refractory Spanish Admiralty, and the next thing may be the suppression of the Cortes by the Admi- ralty. Quien sabe ? Tae Cnorera does not appear to be any nearer this city than it was a week ago; ‘but, with a few days more of the terrific heat of yesterday, it will be apt to steal a march upon our Sanitary Bureau, unless they work as if the pestilence were at our doors. Kou Kxvx Inpicruents, it sppears, aro ended, and Ku Klux offenders held for trial or punishment are to have the benefit of a liberal margin of clemency. This is & good idea for Southern reconciliation, particularly as the Ku Klux Klans have been disbanded and dispersed. Corowen Grezne, the veteran of the Boston Post, declines the honor of running as the democratic candidate for Governor of Massa- chusetts, He, no doubt, adheres to the good old democratic doctrine of Massachusetts, of keeping the party in the State “conveniently small.” And he may have a weakness in favor of his old-line democratic colaborer, General Butler, 80 far we have enjoyed one of the most moderate Summers on record, and, though still in the midst of the heated term, wo have reason to be alike cheered and cautioned. The thermometric range in New York, during the months of April, May and June, fell decid- edly below that for the corresponding period of the two previous years; and July's mean range will probably be much lower than the normal mean. In the health reports for the week ending July 12 there were 690 deaths, and in the previous week 683, against 1,591 and 1,022 in the respectively corresponding weeks of last year—a most wonderful differ- ence, to be explained in part by sanitary pre- caution, but chiefly by the remarkablo weather which has prevailed. It is of the highest interest to science, both sanitary and meteorologic, to trace this weather to its physical causes. There are strong reasons for referring it to the marked and seldom equalled fall of snow during the past Winter on the vast and lofty line of the Rocky Mountains. Our roaders will remem- ber this fact, in conneetion with the dis- astrous snow storms of Minnesota and Utah, in which so many human beings perished. The accumulation of an extraordinary snow fall and ice formation on the Rocky Moun- tains, it is obvious, would have a decided effect on the season of its dissolution. Had this dissolution been sudden the desolating floods of June would have been far worse than they were in the rivers of the trans-Mis- souri region ; but the melting of the glaciers and avalanches has, apparently, been gradual and gentle, while the effects upon the atmos- phere have been most marked. We know from the science of heat thatin the liquefaction of one cubic foot of ice heat enough is with- drawn from the surrounding atmosphere to lower over four hundred times the same volume of air one degree, and when we apply this fact to the liquefaction of tho Atlean ice masses that sheet and pinnacle the Rocky Mountains through thirty degrees of latitude and twenty of longitude we discover the secret of those vast waves of cool air which, even in Midsummer, are launched at intervals from these Western ranges and borne by the westerly winds eastward towards the lakes and the Atlantic seaboard. Indeed, at the very period when the sun’s sway is most undis- puted, from the 18th to the 23d inst., one of these refreshing and invigorating aerial waves, as shown by the weather reports, was passing from the great plains over the lakes and de- scended over the Ohio Valley, the Eastern, Middle and South Atlantic States, with aston- ishingly high barometers and low thermom- eters. These physical phenomena explain alike the previously unexplained delicious coolness of the Pacific seaboard climate in Summer and the occasional propagation of this coolness to our own Atlantic seaboard. But it must be borne in mind that when the dog days of August come the cause assigned for this climatic result has ceased to have its full force; the snows of the Rocky Mountains, whose meltings Fremont found to swell the volume of the North Platte as late as July, vanish with that month, and the real dangers of tho Summer, ina sanitary point of view, are then made manifest. In the occasional though very transient reliefs from excessive heats and from droughts we have had much to encourage the hope of escaping this year with- out the great prostration experienced last year. The high temperature of the last two days should not be taken too discouragingly into calculations on the general result. But, as we said in the outset, we have reason to be cautioned by the approach of the malarial and really the most trying month of the Summer. Let the health authorities and the private citizen, encouraged so far by the sanitary conditions of the city and by the favorable weather vouchsafed us, vie with each other in waging relentless war against everything that can invite or: feod the pesti- lence or the epidemic. The indications from the Board of Health, so far, have been almost as encouraging as the results springing trom the weather. Within the past three days the booths at Washington Market have been demolished and much filth cleared away. Other sanitary reforms in other parts of the city have been accom- plished. All this is well as far as itgoes ; but the trouble is it fails to go farenough. The action against the fat boilers has been mere child’s play. No manly, straightforward, determined effort has been made to compel the rendering companies to respect the. health authorities or to quit a business which imperils a whole city. The Board of Health, at its meeting yesterday, made some progress with the details of the suppression of nuisances, but the absence of a broad plan is made all the more perceptible. The business of a rendering company is one unfit to be conducted in the midst of 9 teeming population. Foul odors breed disease and death constantly, and are ever inviting pesti- lence tothe houseg of the peopl: Ape it is not rendering companies ni to which this remark applies. There are other branches of business besides fat melting, as oil refining and compost making, which are quite as det- Zimental, The Board of Health should seo to it that all these nuisances pre eared away, however powerful the organizatio: whic tain a pees. area science can render them ious, 80 that they may be carried on without detriment to the Seon. It is now almost im- possible to ‘pies up and down the East River on account of the pestilential odors which come from either banksnywhere from Fortieth to Seventieth street. The west side is infected above Thirtieth street to an ev iter ex- tent. To abate and remove these is an immediate duty. There is no good reasdn for tard the growth and improvement of the city, and when an epidemic appears they are tho breeding places of the plague. Nor should the work of the Board of Health stop even here. That body has in its keeping the security of a great city, and it is bound both in the present and the fature to see to it that the trust reposed in it is not disregarded. It is not owing to any foresight on the part of the health or city authorities that we have so far escaped any great calamity. Had it not been for gentle breezes and a tempering atmosphere the cholera, which visited other cities out of the range of the Rocky Mountain sweep, would their continuance, for at all seasons they re> lesson of this immunity—unless, indeed, the sultry heats of August should rob us of our immunity—we must go to work now to get ready for other Summers. There must be no relaxation in street cleaning at any time, and all the places in the city’s thoroughfares likely to breed pestilence must be repaired before another Summer comes upon us. Un- fortunately Commissioner Van Nort, in his letter to the Mayor, shows that he has no money to remove the plague spots from the streeta, owing to the stingy policy of the Comptroller, through whose influence the ap- propriation asked for, which was not half as large as it should havo been, was cut down one-half. Does Comptroller Green wish the community to regard him ag in a great degree responsible for any pestilence which may come? He seems to invite such unenviable distinction by nefusing the money necessary to close the water holes in the streets. These places must be repaired, cost what it may, and the pools of stagnant water in the excavations about Central Park must be filled up to pre- vent them from breeding malaria in tho future.as they have done in the past. The Harlem flats need immediate attention. This will be in itself a great work, but it is a work necessary to be accomplished. Apart from the grave considerations of health, this is o thing demanded by the development and growth of the city. All those parts of the city above Fifty-ninth street, on both sides of the Park, including Lower Westchester, must come under the supervision of the Board of Health, that the malarial districts may be made healthful for the teeming popu- lation that is seeking a home in upper New York, Rapid transit, when it comes, as come it will, must not be allowed to carry the people of the metropolis to or through unhealthy localities. We want a healthy as well asa great city, anda wise policy at this time—a policy which can foresee and provide for the needs of the future—can give us both. The Henraxp has often advocated liberality toward the new and magnificent city which is spring- ing up asif by magic in the upper part of the island and beyond, and is soon to be the better half of the metropolis. If the malarial influences are removed and the trades which breed pestilence are compelled to go clse- where for carrying on business—the present war upon nuisances being conducted to a successful and permanent end—this vast me- tropolis will not always be compelled to trust to the favoring breezes of heaven to save it from the devastations ef the plague. The Spanish Chaos—Our War Corre- spondence. The Spanish situation becomes more and more involved. Contreras has assumed an independent and chief command. His title is that of President and Commander-in- Chief of the Land and Sea Forces of the Canton of Murcia. He has, over this signature, addressed a circular memorandum to the foreign princes, and will thus astonish, should no more serious consequences result, Von Moltke, Bismarck, MacMahon and the Duke of Cambridge, in the matter of official designation. The Germans have liberated the crew of the mautincer vessel Vigilante, dreading that the Prussian Consul at Cartagena and the members of his family would be shot if they persisted in holding their captives. The insurgents have delayed the seizure of German vessels three days in order that their commanders may have an opportunity of communicating with the government in Berlin. This Prus- sian implication in the Spanish national diffi- culty presents usa really interesting feature of the Peninsular situation. We publish this morning another interesting chapter in the history of the Carlist invasion of Spain. Since the date of this correspond- ence the cable has supplied us with a quan- tity of bewildering despatches, The Hmnatp correspondents in Spain, with rare fidelity to duty, have followed all the operations in the field; Figueras was interviewed when his voice governed the destinies of the nation; Don Carlos in his moun- tain home received a Heraup correspondent and told him of the royalist hopes and fears; Serrano has spoken through these columns, and the doings of Castelar, Pi y Margall and Salmeron are now a part of our daily history. The déchéance of a King; the enthusiastic proclamation of a Republic; the outburst of a religious war; the extraordinary phenomenon in the character of the curé of Santa Cruz; the overthrow of ministry after ministry; the hoisting of the red flag in the cities and the mutiny in the fleet—these area few of the main events which have figured in our columns. This morning we give valuable space to letters which picture the camp. life and battle scenery of one of the powerful fac- tions. Weare told of the strength and dis- cipline of the Carlists; of their splendid march to Orista; of heroic cavalry charge on & mountain top, and of cruelties to the dead and wounded which disfigure even sucha mon- strosity as civil war. We hope that the Ibe- tian Peninsula will soon be rid of this bloody strife, and that Spain will find that repose which she poeds so much. SanaTooa Races—The first day of the Summer meeting of the Saratoga races on Thursday was ong of ost turf. “There were three capital races, all splendidly contested, and, with the exception rider on the American radtty all interesting and satisfactory. The will be of the most brilliant character, will, doubtless, prove an irresistible magnet to all lovers of equine sports. Yesterday, being alullin the regular racing programme, was enlivened by a few contests between trotters at the American Baden. The popularity of the sports of the turf hag been on ie increase here for some years. Tho races have been, so far, oO striking example of the eagerness with which our people rush to a well-managed course. Let managers of racing parks take @ hint accordingly, and racing will be a national sport, as in England. Tue Destructive Fre among the woods, fields and farmbouses on the castern end of Long Island yesterday should serve as a warning to all owners of such combustible property along our railroad lines to be on their guard to the end of our dry season against the dangers of sparks and red hot cin- tions for the safety of the woods and fields of dry grass along their respective lines. In par- ticularly dangerous localities liable to be fired from railway sparks and cinders it would pay all concerned to establish a guard during the passage of the trains. A Large Fire in Baltimore. The news that a large and destructive fire had broken out in the city of Baltimore caused considerable excitement in this city yesterday. Happily we are not called on to record a calamity equalling or approaching in extent that which devastated Chicago in 1871 or Boston in 1872. The map in another portion of the Henan will convey an idea of the ground swept by the flames and its pro- portion to the rest of the city. The loss has not been accurately estimated, and is placed variously between half a million and a million dollars. It is not known to what extent this is cov- ered by insurance. The origin of the fire in a planing mill shows how dangerous businesses of such # nature are in the event of a conflagration. In the Chicago fire, it will be remembered, the lumber yards in the vicinity of the place where the fire first broke out gave the first fearful impetus to the flames until they gathered force to leap the bridges over the river and desolate the great business heart of the city. The breaking out of a fire in a lumber yard or place of similar inflammable nature should be the sig- nal for the most energetic action by the fire department. Indeed, some spe- cial provision of law should make it incumbent upon the owners of these danger- ous business places in a crowded city to be pre- pared to quench a fire upon their promises at its first outbreak. The destruction of the buildings consumed yesterday has rendered a great number of families homeless, and it is to be hoped that philanthropy will not neglect the sufferers in the Monumental City. It is additionally fortunate that this burning of the poor people’s houses will not, as in the case of Chicago, entail any deep suf- fering from exposure in an inclement season. Already the opinion is given that this calamity is only a “blessing in disguise,’’ on account of the character of most of the build- ings destroyed. The prompt action of the Fire Department, which worked with com- mendable energy, probably prevented a spread of the area of disaster. The water supply does not appear to have been all that it should have been, Cities should not wait for the visit of the flames before adopt- ing proper precautions. ‘T'wo churches— the Central Presbyterian and the First English Lutheran—were burned; but the fine cathedral happily escaped, as did the Catholic Church of St. Alphonsus, although the orphan school attached to the latter was almost entirely destroyed. No lives were lost. Baltimore will, we suppose, be considered for- tunate in her escape from a greater devas- tation. The Massachusetts Republican War Upon Ben. The doings of the select circle of Bay State republicans that convened yesterday at Hamil- ton Hall, Boston, are destined to mark an odd era in Eastern politics. The democratic party is in such a condition as not to awaken the slightest fears in the republican breast of Massachusetts, and hence one might imagine that the nominations of a decorously wire- pulled convention would suffice for all office- filling contingencies. But the painful and pointed rhetoric of yesterday, reported faith- fully elsewhere, tells us this is notso. Tho speakers, with considerable unanimity and occasional indirectness, came down to the ad- mission that the party was in great danger, and that Ben Butler was the awful spectre which overshadowed them. They remember how nearly that individual captured the State Convention two years ago, and they tremble at the prospect of a second attempt, which may prove more successful. In spite of the yeoman’s service which the hero of the powder boats has done for the republican party, the gods of radicalism thero still profess to regard him as a presumptuous carthy Titan rather than one of their celestial selves. When he wants to be Governor of Massachu- setts they declare guerre aT outrance and hurl oratorical rocks upon him which, we have no doubt, he will return, The main grievance against Benjamin at present is his boastful paternity of the disgraceful ‘‘salary grab.” It is a strong point, indeed ; but we fear that the disinterested will recall the fact that General Butler was just as malodorous in their respectable nostrils two years ago as at PLEMENT. not have passed us by. If we would learn the | agers, too, should be held to proper precau- | independence of the Khanate. A portion of the territory of Khiva is to be taken by the Russians ond banded over to Bokhara in return for assistance rendered by its ruler to the imperialist invaders, Such is the sub- stance of the new Russo-Asiatic treaty. If the Khan of Khiva has been made indepen- dent under Russian guarantee he has positively gained by the war; but it is more likely that he practically becomes the subject of Russia, The Ozar is, as it appears, determined to try the efficacy of the divide et impera system by a bonus to Bokhara. England has prac- tised the rule during very many years. in British India. Ithas worked pretty profitably; but has, in several instances, proved exceed- ingly dangerous to her power oven after the most delicate management. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Pope now walks without the aidof a atick, Earl Spencer, Viceroy of Ireland, is in Switzer- land, Judge “Dick” Busteed is at Wiesbaden, with his family. The Shah has been blackballed in White’s Club, London, That Lyman Tremain 1s to be Chief Justice isan Albany rumor, Judge KR. B. Carpenter, of South Carolina, is at the Coleman House. Senator William Sprague, of Rhode Island, is at the Hoffman House. Congressman J. H. Ketcham, of Dover Plains, N. Y., is at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is staying at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Governor E. F. Noyes, of Ohio, is among yester- day's arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Don Santiago P. Cahill, of Lima, Peru, arrived in this city in the Rising Star from Aspinwall yester- day. Mr. H. N. Young, United States Consul at Santia- go de Cuba, yesterday arrived at the Sturtevant House, President Grant has been invited to be present at the Grand Army of the Republic encampment at Troy. Colonel Jennyns is to succeed Colonel Robertson Ross as Adjutant General of the Dominion of Canada. The third son of the Khedive of Egypt is to enter the Prussian Dragoon Guards to obtain a military education. The ex-Empress Rugénie is to spend the Autumn months at Braemar, Scotland, at the advice of her Physicians. Ivis stated that “Jubilee” Gilmore will abandon the Hub and take up his residence in tnis motropo- lis, Heaven preserve us! SARATOGA. Lovely Weather at the Springs—A Hub- bub Among the Military Men—Scenes in Congress Park—Surprises for the Age—Balls and Hops. Sararooa, July 25, 1878. This was another day of bright sunshine, with a delicious breeze to temper the sun's hot rays, So far, indeed, the weather has been delight- ful here, and its continuance is snxiously prayed for. Of ali dull places save me from a fashionable place of resort of rainy or gloomy day, when ladies discover that fine dressing and the display of rich toilets lose their attractions, It ts absolutely love's labor lost, So far Saratoga has been successiul and has nothing to complain of in this direction. The afternoon open air concerts, the evening promenades and the nightly hops divide the business of pleasure most admirably. THR GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. This morning there was quite a little stir about town among the military men, and, to judge from the number of Coloneis and Generals, not to speak of the Captains and Majors, one meets in Saratoga, 1¢ might readily be tmagined the nation was pre- paring for war, and was just now allowing its officers to take one good long drinx before going to do or die for the flag. The occasion og the flutter to-day was the visit of the State En- campment of the Grand Army of the Republic to Saratoga. Shortly after eleven the Grand Army, or that portion lately encamped at Troy, arrived and made quite a good show as they marched down Broadway to Congress Park, where they bivouvacked. Gilmore, at the head of his celebrated band, gave them @ serenace after the chaplain had invoked @ benediction on not only the “Vets,” bat on everybody in the town. A speech of welcome was made by Generai French, to which one of the big guns among the visitors responded. This was all in Congress Park under the trees, and within drinking distance of half a dozen of the springs, Soldiers as a rule drink water when there is nothing else convenient ; so they pitched in pretty liberally, not, however, until they had removed those flerce looking bearskin caps, which struck terror into the hearts of the children who with their nurses roamed about the Park. CONGRESS PARK This same park is the great resort of the little ones, and here they really enjoy themselves beneath the shade of the trees. The injunction to ‘‘Keep off the grass” is conspicuously posted all over the the ee ees But many a tiny foot treads the for- bidden ground and many a dainty littie body in frocks and frills indulges in a roll down one of the grassy siopes, which help to add to the beauties of the park. YOUNG CHILDREN AND OLD. The children, too, seem the better for the romp, and it is far more characteristia of childhood to romp and \ play, as it used to do in what was called “the goo id times,” than to, play ladies and cavaliers until midnight in heated ballrooms and parlors. But things are changed, and we live in nm the age of surprises, Ancient ladiea nowadays want to of modern date, and will strain & potut to be 80, No ‘fashignable lady now ever reaches fifty, anc, to judge trom the way that questionable young ladies dress here, thirty is present. We fancy that the General, with his charming delight in being soundly abused, will not omit making the most of this. Among the leading republicans present yes- terday was Congressman Dawes, whofleaded_ that his heart was in tha work, bit that he Ra ae upon Ahe sick fist. Tn fact, since lonesty’ was Wixed up ig the Crédit Mobilier basiness this invalid-ing, if in- tended in a political sense, is not at all sur- prising. Still, he tomes to the front to help hurl Plymonth Rock upon Ben Butler, but whether ‘he is without sin sufficiently to in- dulge in this large stone-throwing we leave Massachusetts and ji . . Rt important feature of the move? memoral days ii “the ‘annals of tho | ment is its indication of what will come to political parties entrenched behind sure ma- jorities. To avoid the appearance of division Qf the mishap which befell the most popular and conflict at the polls the real fight for place is taken backward o step behind the party Conventiom, more and moré eliminating le from @ choice in the selection. The bn ree General Butler may be of the gravest kind, yet it is worth no- ticing that the ‘‘welfare of the party’’ requires @ body of republicans to direct the citizens in the primaries whom they are to select as dele- gates, in order that the candidate selected by the delegates may be of the kind suited to the leaders when he comes before the citizens for the mere formality of their votes. But if Butler capture the Convention in spite of all, what then, O select circle? am anknown age to the great majority. After su, perhaps it is aa well that it isso, Pleasure Kaows no age, and if in its enjoyment we forget @ year or oraraeae Ce we are pat ‘repeating the Pes jon of custom, like Ory, bein, quite ny true, Deans Gres “ye BATTS AND Hors, ~ “At Congress Hall there will be a full dress ball given to-night. It will be the first of the season, and on to-morrow night the Grand Hotei will le: off with @ grand masquerade. A soirée dansanle and Promenade concert will be also given at the Gand Union Hotel; but of all three the mas- fide at the Grand Hotel promises best if the gossip Being, round is to be taken as iver tion. Gilmore's i Ta aga loadgr, joudt, helps to the popularity of the hops 8* Sie Grand, * NAVAL OBDERa, emma WY Strong, to the cottimand of the | juth Atlantic station; Lieutenant Commander James P, Robertson, to the Receiving Shi L pendence, at the Navy Yard, Mare Isiand, ijeutenant Commanders, Thomas L. Swan, to the Naval Academy; A, K. t, to the Michigan; utepagt George A. Durand, £0 fhe Receivin, Hip Perm oges eurgeon A. Hoghiing, to the Naval Hospital, Annapolis; Paymaster D. B, Ba- tione, to fhe Shenandoah; and Frank Olark, to wag Receiving Ship Ohto. red.—Commodore Yates, Lieutenant Com- manders C. E. Clark, George P. Rigan and C, G. Train, trom the Naval Academy, and placed on waiting orders; Lieutenant Commander Charles A. Gridley, from the Michigan, and placed on wait- ing orders; Lieutenant Commander D. W. Mullin, from the receiving ship Independence, and ordered to be in readiness for service; Lieutenant Com- manders G. K. Haswell, from the Naval Academy, and placed on waiting orders; OC. J. Buckler, from ordnance duty at New Yerk, and placed on wait- ing orders; Medical Director Duval, from the Nayal Hospital at Annapolis, and placed on waitihy orders; Paymasters Schenck, from duty as flee! ymaster of the North Pacifié fleet, and Woodhull, from i Shenandoab, and ordered to settle ac- counts, ARMY ORDER By direction of the President, and in accordance with the act of July 2, 1866, First Lieutenant Thomas Ward, of the First artillery, is detailed as fessor of military tactics at Union College, Tae Rvssun Treaty wire Kuatva.—Tho Bonenectady, N.Y. Russian General commanding the Ozar’s army in Central Asia reports to St. Petersburg that he has concluded a treaty with His Highness the Khan of Khiva, on behalf and in the name of His Majesty Alexander II. paper provides that the Khan shall pay two millions of roubles to the Russian treasury, and abolish capital punishment in his do- ders from the loromotives, Railroad man- | mipiqns. Busia, jn goturn. omarpptess the The state peep indes (sloop) YACHTING NOTES, The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Tidal Wave, N.Y.Y.C., William Voorbis ana friends, from New London for New York. N.Y.Y.C., Mr, Center, from ort Jefferson for New York. Steam yacht Fearless, N.Y.¥.C., Mr. Lorillard, cruising eastward. The yacht Nimbus (sloop), A.Y.0., Commodore William Peet, from Bridgeport, and the yacht Ger- trude, U.Y.C,, Dr, Vanderbut are at anchor fot Whitesjque, Jacob BELGIUM. Fatal Explosion in a Coal Mine. TELEG?AM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BRUSSBLS, July 25, 1873, A telegram from Mons says an explosion of fire« damp occurred to-day in a coal mine at Framleres, Five miners were killed and several injured, TROTTING AT SARATOGA. A Day of Variatt: s—First Day of the Mitchell—Sleepy D' d Wins the Race—The the Alabama Stakes and Steeple Chase. Saratoga, N, Y., July 25, 1873. For the amusement of the boys here, who, by the. new arrangement of racing, only on every other day are compelled to submit to a day’s idleness, the Mitcheli Brothers have arranged a foureday trotting meeting, to take place at their track in the Glen. The first took place this afternoon and itattracted quite a large attendance, the track being in fine order. The following is a summary of the race:— GLEN MironELL, Saratoga, N. Y., July 25,— Purse $100, for horses that had never beaten 3:42; mile heats, best tnree in five, in harness; $60 to the first, $25 to the second and $15 to the third. D. Clum's b. @. Sieepy Dick. 1 J. pe be g Dave .. ‘agne! 0. Van 8. g. Silver Tai George In; . &. War Hulett James McKee's bik, g. Frank Pag: Jonkins’ b, m. Wi ces siccese W. E. Week’s b. m. Mollie Smith. Time, 2:44—2:45 4 —: Before the start Frank Page was the favorite over the field at the odds of twenty-five to twenty. Alter considerable scoring they got well of, when Page showed that he could do anything else but trot. He hopped, skipped and jumped all over the track, and was beaten two lengths for the heat, by Sleepy Dick, in 2:44—the half having been trotted in 1:23, After selling a few pools with the fleld aga slight favorite over Dick, they again made Page the choice at about even with the fleld. DURING THE SECOND HEAT he acted worse than ever, MoKee, who was driving him, making but little effort to steady him. He was, however, beaten for the heat; but the judges, deeming that McKee had not done right, declared him distanced, much tothe disgust of those who had backed him bofore the start. They also placed Hulett, who had finished second, fourth for similar conduct, giving Silver Tail second place and Dave third, In the third heat McKee got up behind Silver Tail, and again tried the same style of business as he had done with Page; but Silver Tail could not stay with Sleepy Dick, and the heat waa left a Oght between Dick and Dave, The finish wag good and exciting, Dick beating Dave by a head, and thereby winning the heat and race, Dave get- ting second money and Silver Tail third, The return from the Glen to the Springs was a hot, dry and dusty one; but, after a hurried wash and hash, the pool room became the attraction. The black board showed that the probable startera for THE ALABAMA STAKES, a dash ofa mile and an eighth, for three-year-old fillies, worth $3,050 to winner, were Hunt Rey- nolds’ Buchu, “McDaniels' Cora’ Linn and Black Bird filly, McGrath's Tabitha, Walden’s Minnie W., Rice & McCormick’s Sunrise, Cottrell’s Sally Wat- gon and Doswell’s Lizzie Lucas. Wat- gon sold for $100, Minnie W. for $60, Sunrise and Lizzie Lucas for $45 each, McDaniels’ for $40, and = Bucha and itha tor 10 ei $: ach. For the three-quarters of a mile the entriea are :;—Quits, Math, Valley Brook, Crockford, The Nurse, Artist, Harry Bassett, Gray Planet and Pen- nock’s Rebecca T. Price colt. Of course Harry Bassett was made the favorite, selling inthe drat ol for $185, Crockford bringing $75, Artist $4 Mate $35, Gray Planet $20, The Nurse $15 and Val- ley Brook, Quits and Pennock’s colt $10 each. Sub- sequently Bassett sold for $210, Crockiord for $90, Mate for $70, Artist and Gray Planet for $30 each and the others in the field for $20. THE STEEPLE CHASE, usual course, has five entries—Duffy, Viley, Lady Lawler and a dark one Snedeker's stable called Buck. He iding, by Simon Kenton. Inthe first | ae oes rought $300, West $100, Viley $05, and suck and Lawler $35 each. The day’s sport prom- ises to be @ good one. To-day has been hot and dry, and the track is almost sure tobe fast. The hotels have rapidly filled up, and there will no doubt be # large attendance. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHI8F SIGNAL OFFICRR, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26—1 A. M. Probabilities. On Saturday, for the Gulf States, rising barome- ter, southwest to northwest winds and generally clear weather, with rains onthe immediate coast, For the South Atlantic States, southeasterly winds and partially cloudy weather, with local rains; for the Middle Atlantic States, westerly winds and clear weather; for New York and New England, southwesterly winds, partly cloudy weather and numerous local storms; for the lower lakes, southwest winds, veering to northwest, with clearing weather; for the Ohio Valley, north- westerly winds and clear weather; for the upper lake region, rising barometer, northwesterly winds, partly cloudy or clear weather. over the 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 ear, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnat’a, harmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. THE GALLANT SEVENTY£IRST. The New York Dons on a,Visit to Con- necticut, New Alaven, July 25, 1873. The Seventy-first regime@at, N. Y. S. N. G., arrived in this city on board the/steamer Continental from New York last evening, and are now the. lions of the town. They were met at the boat by the Seconda fegiment, ©. N. G., under Colonel Smith, and received @ hearty welcome. About nine o'clock {the two regiments marched up town and ived @ brilliant reception, The streets Se tomer With Pedpie, who shouted their welcomes, and from all points rockéts and blazing colored lights were fired, making the scene one of a brilliant and stirring character. The Seventy-first were conducted to the Union Armory, and, after a brief greeting by Colo- nel Smith, Mayor Lewis delivered an address of welcome, to which Colona Yose appropriately re- jo tne re \ oat to the steamer, where ¢| pent the n' ~ This morning fey aren first, in fatigue uni- form, with members of ti Jecond, Were taken by the steamer Isaac P. Smit! vin Rock, where boa A dat of a clambake and enjoyed themselves high eee itt i this seaside bagi affords, ree a’cloc! reas parade was held by the peda Py adjoining thé grove, after which they eturnéd to the city, and, donning full dress uni- forms, with white pants, made a strect companied by the officers of the Secon: Thebujidings along the line of march were gayly atiired with flags and bunting, and a large assem- blage of citizens congregated to witness the ageant. a At six o'clock the regent eld a dress parade on the public square, which was also witnessed oe arade, ac- regiment. a lal number of peopte. In the evening the re, mental band gave a concert on the square before an immense audience, At the same time the om- cers of the Seventy-first and Second regiments, with the Mayor, Common Conneil and other oficera of the city government, sat down toasupper at the Tontine, Wi Was partaken of amid toasts and speeches, THE OHOLERA. In Cincinnati. Crnornnatt, July 25, 1873. No deaths from cholera were reported to-tay. ‘There have been no deaths from either cholera or cholera morbus since the 20th of July. All the deaths reported since occurred prior to that time. The week before last the total mortality from all diseases was 178, last week it was 177 and this week it has been 141. In West Virginia, Wueeiina, West Va., July 25, 1873, One death from cholera last night and one to-day is reported, Two other cases in the city to-day it is expected will prove fatal. THE LORD GORDON HUMBUG. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 25, 1873, According to the latest reports from Fort Garry, the Custom House officer, Bradley, who released Gordon after his arrest by the Americans, stated to 8 correspondent that the arrest was made 110 yards south of the boundary line agreed on by the British and American governments, Hence they Cauadians are at {pull iu the matier.