The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velume XXXVIII. jo, 212 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, ywery.— Vauiery Entertainer. iad LLACK'S TH Wall Ace FATE, Broadway and Thirteenth BOWERY THEATRE, Bow Tax Ipior's WOOD'S MUSEUM, B; rs Th _ aie SeKueron LeanD! Afesooe aaa seeing ett St CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sumuxr Niguts’ Con- cERTS. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., Lex- ington and 3a avs.—Diz Scuonx HELEuNa, batrann tex NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, . ‘Way.—Sciznck AND Aut. peepsiaae DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway,—Sornce H SUPPLEMENT. WIT New York, Thursday, July 31, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “SPAIN! CHAOS CONTINUED AND THE PROS- PRCT STILL DOUBTFUL’—LEADING EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—Fourra Pack. SPAIN'S CIVIL WAR AGONIES! THE CANTONAL REVOLT AND THE PROVISIONAL GOVERN- MENT OF MURCIA! CONTRERAS THREAT: ENS ALMERIA WITH BOMBARVMENT! A BATTLE AND DEFEAT OF THE CARLISTS! PROPOSED CESSION OF NAVARRE TO FRANCE—FirTH Pas. CARLOS’ WAR UPON THE SPANISH RE- PUBLICANS! GRAPHIC PICTURES OF MOUNTAIN BATTLES, ROUTS AND RE- TREATS! THREE ENGAGEMENTS | SANTA CRUZ IN GOUD FRAME! A ROYAL LETTER— THIRD PAGE. FRANCE PREPARING FOR A RETURN TO THE MONARCHICAL FOLD—THE MEETING OF THE PATENT RIGHT CONGRESS—Firta PAGE. OHIO'S LIBERAL LIBERALS! THE ALLEN COUNTY MOVEMENT PROMISING WELL ! ISAAC C, COLLINS NOMINATED FOR GOV- ERNOR—Firtu Pace. VIRGINIA CONVENTION NOMINATES HUGHES FOR GOVERNOR! GREAT AGI- TATION |! THE OLD DOMINION UNDER THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT—FirtH PaGE. “OLD SOLDIERS!” A GATHERING OF THE TIME-HONORED HEROES OF THE BAY STATE—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— FirtH Page. MEXICO’S ZONA LIBRE! RESTRAINING FREE TRAFFIC AND SMUGGLING GOODS INTO THE UNITED STATES—Firri Pace. THE TROTTING AT DEERFOOT YESTERDAY! FINISHED AND UNFINISHED TROTS— SPLENDID SPORT ON THE CLEVELAND (OHIO) COURSE—Tentu Pags. INFAMOUS DOINGS OF THE CHINESE HEATHENS IN SAN FRANCISCO! A SECRET SOCIETY FOR THE PROCURATION OF PROSTI- TUTES—FirTH PacE. THE BIRRELL FRATRICIDE! ALECK’S VERSION OF THE FRACAS! THE MOTHER AND FRIENDS ENDEAVOR TO SCREEN THE MURDERER- Eicutn Pace. REVOLTS IN AND ESCAPES FROM SING SING! THE PRESENT MANAGEMENT AND THE “MORAL SUASION’ HUMBUG! CONVICT MUSIC—EIGHTH PaGE. UNEQUAL TAXES UPON NINETEPNTH WARD PROPERTY! AN ALDERMAN’S VS. A SQUATTER’S RIGHTS—THE MONETARY DON THE THE SITUATION AT HOME AND ABROAD— NINTH Pace. THE SANITARY WAR CARRIED INTO THE COURTS! LEGAL SUMMARIES—CLEARING AWAY MARKET FILTH—THE RENDERING STENCHES—THE DUMPING GROUNDS— E1cuta PaGe. ‘Tae Onto Lignan Convention yesterday nominated a ticket nicely adjusted in the mix- ture. The democrats get the Governor and the liberals the Lieutenant Governor and At- torney General, the candidates for Judges of the Supreme Court being divided equally. The platform is a very long document, which has no peculiar significance. It now only re- mains for the democrats to accept the work of the liberals and the ticket and political issues Spata—Chacs Continued and the Pres- Peet Still Doubtral. Our news from Spain this morning, as will be seen from our despatches and graphic let- ters, is of the most unsatisfactory, if not slarming, character. The Cartagena affair is still unsettled, and seems to have organized into determined resistance. A Provisional Directory and a government for the canton has been formed by the Reds, with Contreras tits head. Contreras has gone out with the veusels seized by the insurgents and demands the surrender of Almeria, Yesterday suc- cesses were reported for the Carlista, and to- day we have a report of a victory for the gov- ernment troops. Then there is a report of the intended cession to France of the terri- tory north of the Ebro. This is one day’s budget of the news from Spain, and it difters little in the general outline from each morn- ing’s story. Away from the fact that we in this ropubli- can country have a deep interest in Spain—in Spain as she now is and as she soon must be— we cannot call the news either very interest- ing or very instructive. The fate of Spain is still as dark and as doubtful as when, three years ago, the throne of Isabella crumbled. Since that time how strauge has boen the his- tory of that now most unhappy country. Prim, after the downfall of Isabella, was the master of the situation. It was, as we think, his honest desire to establish the Republic. He did his best ; but his bost in that direction proved a failure. Finding the Republic im- possible, and knowing that a monarchy was most in general favor, he bethought himself of a strong dynasty, and opened negotiations with the powers at Berlin. Our readers are all familiar with the Ems affair, with the blundering of Benedetti and with the unfortu- nate and disastrous war which followed. De- feated again, Prim, still yielding to what he thought was the dominant sentiment in Spain, sought and found a King in the person of Amadeus, second son of the King of Italy. We require not to recapitulate the events which followed—how the young Amadeus, with his amiable Princess, came to the land of their adoption and to the people who had chosen them, and how in that dark Christmas season the advent of the royal pair was made memor- able by the butchery of Prim. It was a dark deed, that murder of Prim. Spain was to blame for it; and as Spain was guilty, so has Spain suffered. The death of Prim was in ‘itself enough to frighten a brave spirit. But Amadeus, over these frightful blood marks, moved on to his place, and, in spite of much kind advice to the contrary, accepted the throne and the crown. The terrors of the situation did not dismay him, and even after from her own past and profit by the lessons of her own experience. May the result be good! There will be found in our graphic corres- pondence, furnished at great expense and ob- tained at vast personal risk, a detail of the mountain warfare of surpassing interest. When the cable fails the mail supplies the deficiency and gives brilliancy and complete- ness to the rough picture photographed by the electric spark. But the grouping is not changed—it remains chaos and anarchy. The Discase-Breeding Nuisances. The Board of Health have so far shown resolu- tion and pluck in their war upon the offensive nuisances which were so long tolerated in this city. ‘They have driven away the bone boilers and fat melters, and have let light and venti- lation into Washington Market, The offal boats have been removed from the river, and the lower bay will henceforward have the benefit of the filth and stench from which the city suffered so long. The removal of ob- noxious booths and obstructions from the down town markets will prove of incalculable advantage, and the health authorities descrve much praise for the work they have done towards improving the sanitary condition of the city. But they must not think that their work is completed. Much remains to be done before the metropolis of America can be considered in a state of preparation against the assaults of Summer epidemics. Thereare dumping grounds, hog killing establishments and ill paved and worse smelling strects which demand attention. The Board of Health must make a clean sweep of all nuisances before their work may be declared finished. They have shown © most commendable spirit and a desire put in practical shape to rid the city of its numerous plaguo spots. We require of them constant vigilance and earnest work until the metropolitan Augean stables are thoroughly cleans Mr. Groesbeck and Party. Taking the hint from Mr. Groesbeck’s recent letter on the necessities calling for a new departure by the democratic party, Mr. Brinkerhoff’s Liberal Republican Ohio State Convention has been doing its best to accom- modate him; but now whether its over- tures will or will not be accepted by tho “unterrified democracy’ is the important question which remains to be settled. Mcan- time Mr. Groesbeck, like the man on the fence, has taken a convenient position for jumping down on the side, right or left, on which the hare and the hounds may come driving by. He goes for the democratic party; but what isthe use when, from its the Democratic the cowardly attempt made on his own lifeand on that of his Queen he clung to his position and strove to do his best. Long after he had found that life was in peril, he found that labor was in vain; and even then he reluctantly resigned place and power. The reluctance was not that he was either afraid or tired, but that he found conciliation of the factions impossible. The resignation and retirement of Amadeus— how these were hailed as republican triumphs ! The peaceful and bloodless proclamation of the Republic was, the wide world over, re- garded as proof that the Savoyard King was a legacy of the folly of Prim, and the general conviction was that Spain had at last found her liberty and her proper sphere of action. How the world has been deceived! Ministry has followed Ministry, President has followed President in almost alarming succession, and since the retirement of Amadeus popular talk has it that no Spanish Cabinet has enjoyed for more than two wooks the sweets of au- thority. Figueras, Pi y Margall, Salmeron, each has inspired hopes, but all have failed. And after three years Spain is not without reason to regret the steps which were taken to bring about the fall of Isabella It has been a sad three years’ history; but the end is not yet. Insurrection at Cartagena, insurrection at Valencia, the greater part of the North in the hands of Don Carlos and his friends, the army demoralized, mutiny in the navy, foreign Powers on the verge of interference—what is to be the result? Who can tell? Most cer- tainly the Republic ought to win; but the re- publicans are divided; and, if there is any of Mr. Groesbeck’s new party are made. The trouble is, however, that the democrats have been so long in the habit of making platforms and tickets for themselves that they may do these things again this year. Tae Fre at rae Untrep Srares Apprats- er’s building, on New Church street, last night, was of a very serious character, the loss being nearly two-thirds of million dollars. The efficiency of our Fire Department was signally shown on this occasion, and a whole- sale destruction of the surrounding property was averted by the promptitude, discipline and gallantry of the various companies sum- moned to the scene. Such a fire, in another city, would probably have attained the dimen- sions of a Boston cr Baltimore disaster. It trath in the old proverb, a house divided cannot stand. Since the fall of Isabella and her favorites the world’s ears have been dinned with the words ‘‘thata federal repub- lic was the one thing needed to give Spain prosperity, happiness and peace ;’’ but the proclamation of the federal Republic has begotten license ; and in all the great centres ot population the Communists, as the Com- munists were known in the late dark days in Paris, have prominently come to the surface. Salmeron, who is now in power, is evidently doing his best to re-establish authority and to restore order ; but what proof have we that he willbe more successful than were Figueras and Pi y Margall, both of whom have retired in disgust? Don Carlos, who is now on Spanish soil, and who—according to the authority of a appears that the building was not of the fire- proof character which might be expected of a structure in which such a quantity of valuable goods was stored. Certainly the national government should select for its buildings in this city something better than a mere shell, in which a fire, once started, would have full eontrol. An investigation into the condition of such structures should be held immediately and appropriate action taken. . Some Orner Conorrn than Coroner Kessler should make the investigation to-day into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Coulson. It is scarcely to be expected that Mr. Kessler will reprimand himself if it should appear that he failed in his duty in the pre- vious inquiry. Tae Frnst Case under our Civil Damages Liquor law came off in Newburg on Monday fast, in which Bernard Mitchell was mualcted fn the sum of fifty dollars for the alleged sell- ing of liquor to the husband of the prosecut- ing lady. But Mitchell is going for an appeal, and teetotallers are going to see it through. Iv is the test case for the law. Tae Lare Boowtrroy Rams in this corner of our State have, we are glad to hear, re- lieved the Croton Water Department of all ap- prehensions, for the present, of the exhaustion of our Croton springs and lakes; but still our citizens should take care not to waste our Precious Croton, for our rainfall for Aggust and September may be very scanty. British Minister, speaking in the British House of Commons, is most unquestionably making progress—may be able to make his way to Madrid; but what thinking man, who knows the sentiments of the Spanish people or the sentiments of any section of the people of the South of Europe to-day, believes that the advent of Don Carlos in Madrid would imply the restoration of order? Don Carlos in Madrid, if that should ever be @ fact, would not mean either peace or progress. It would mean only that, through the unhappy divisions of the friends of liberty and progress, the representatives of the thoughts and opinions of the Middle Ages had won a temporary triumph. It is well, we think, that Germany is not disposed to make trouble with Spain. It is well also that the other Powers of Europe, stand aloof. Foreign interference would be vain and use- less without foreign occupation, and it would require centuries of foreign occupation to alter the character of the Spanish people. Like England during the great rebel- lion, like France after her great revolution, like the United States during our own great civil war, Spain onght to be left to herself aud permitted as well to find out her own weakness as to work out her own regen- eration. Foes cannot teach her; friends can- not help her; her case is in her own hands, and she ought to be left to herself. But as Spain now is, our faith in her people is not exhausted; but, if she is ever again to take her nlace among the nations. she must learn repeated blunders of the last ten years, the party is broken up? Hoe goes for the old democratic faith ; but, being all in rags and tatters, he would cast aside the old breeches and got a new pair made to order and of the latest fashion. He would not abandon the good old party name of the democracy; but then he would freshen it up a little by calling it the liberal demoeracy. He would like to get intoa new church out of the rain; but until the new church is opened he will remain in the old one. In short, Mr. Groesbeek’s position is that of the greatly embarrassed old lady, of whom it is said in certain matters of faith— She would if she could, But she will and she won't; And she 'i be dished if she does, And be dished if she don’t, Tae Brrmse Panuament anp THE Roya Manruoz.—One of the difficulties connected with the position of Prime Minister of Engléhd in these modern democratic times is the possi- bility of a marriage of o prince or princess of the blood royal. Every fresh marriage of the kind implies the necessity of a new Parlia- mentary grant. The Duke of Edinburgh is about to wed the only daughter of the Ozar of Russia, and Mr. Gladstone asks for s modest annual increase to the Duke's income of twenty-five thousand pounds, or one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. In the Houso of Lords the allowance was granted unanimously and with- out debate. In the House of Commons there was slight opposition, but Mr. Gladstone hoped the House would not mar by uncalled- for parsimony the union of two young and loving hearts, especially when it implied the friendly alliance ot England and Russia. Of course, the appropriation will be granted. Queen Victoria has reason to be pleased with the manner in which she has been able to dis- pose of her sons and her daughters, and the ‘settlements’ the people are compelled to pay them. Vict Prestpent Witson, we regret to hear, is so far broken in health, from his late touch of paralysis, that it is probable he will be un- able to resume his post as President of the Senate in December, and possible that he may be permanently disabled. We hope not; but in the worst event, under the constitution and the laws, a vacancy resulting from the death, removal or disability of the President or Vice President is provided for. General Wilson worked himself down in the late Presidential campaign, and he is now suffering the conse- quence. A total abstinence man and a tem- perance leader in reference to intoxicating drinks, we see in his case that intemperance in work to mind and body has also its pains and penalties.. We had another example of this kind in the melancholy and premature death of Mr. Greeley; and the late Vice President Colfax had a narrow escape from the natural penalty of too much work and too little of recreation. The subject abounds in examples of warning, but those we have recalled will suffice for the present. Tue Cxonena appears to be feartully fatal among the small settlements of Kast Tennessee and in Southwestern Virginia, a region bear- ing the reputation of being the most healthful in the United States. We have noticed that in districts where the soil rests immediately ona limestone formation the cholera is apt to be remarkably virulent and difficult to bafile. Doubtless there is some chemical prop- erty in limestone water which favors the disease, and in all limestone districts, there- fore, we would advise the people to use rain water as far as possible, especially for drink- ing, as preferable to the purest and coolest water from their limestone springs, We have been advised by an experienced West Indian that in a cholera season he hag known, in an infected district, much good to result from the boiling of spring or well water for drinking purposes, and even of rain water that is be- coming stale, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1873.—WiITH SUPPLEMENT. The Threatened Grasshopper Invasion Monday the presence of » large army of grass- hoppers on the wing will not be pleasant news to the farmers. The American home of these herbivorous tribes seems to lie in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah, on whose arid, dusty soil they multiply in im- mense numbers. From these districts, it would appear, the present multitudes hover- ing over Iowa have been wafted in the winds of Summer. The July report of the Agricul- tural Barean states that the Colorado beetle has advanced eastward to New York, and has appeared in devastating force through the West. The invasions of these myriad devourers of the precious fruits of the earth, like the noisy march of the locust bands, have been at times attended with most serious consequences to the land, such as famine. and pestilence. Though apparently feeble foes to the Autumnal harvests, they are not to be despised, and the entire agricultural community should be on their guard and be, prepared for their arrival, especially as experi- ence shows that their advance may be checked and their ranks thinned. Grasshoppers do not belong to the same family as the locusts, bat they are very nearly consanguineous, and when they begin their devastations early in the season are ex- ceedingly deadly to vegetation. They have not the power to leap as high nor to sustain so long a flight as the locust, and hence it is, perhaps, that they frequent and prey upon the grass and herbaceous leaves rather than on the leaves of the higher trees. They have no particular habitation, but are found in almost all coun- tries; though in many districts they have a green color and elude observation, not being distinguished from the foliage and grasses. In the tropics so bright and highly colored are their delicate wings that they become conspic- uous. In the West Indies a species of grass- hopper has been justly charged with the de- struction of the sugar cane crops, and it is not impossible that in this country these leaping preyers on vegetation may be- come equally dangerous. The European species are immensely prolific, laying, it is said, more than two hundred eggs. Fortu- nately it generally happens that these swarm- ing armies of the insect world do not ac- quire their voracity and numbers till near Midsummer or afterwards, when the vegetation has become too hardy and far advanced to be fatally injured. Their numbers, it is contended by skilfal and ex- perienced agriculturists, may be vastly diminished by a little labor. When the trees and shrubs are examined in Spring or Winter the eggs are often found in large quantities, and these can be easily removed and de- stroyed. It is also asserted that by sweeping over the foliago and grass with a light net early in the morning, while the insects are yet inactive and not as sprightly as during the heat of the day, thousands of them can be caught, and, when scalded, afford fine and palatable food to the poultry and pigs. The clouds of grasshoppers reported on Monday as hovering over the country around Sioux City, Iowa, probably made their way thither from the dry plains and the hotter regions of the Southwost. In 1854, and frequently before, they had pene- trated in Summer from the West around the northern part of this State and ravaged the pastures. Although some of these insects have been seen on Long Island this season, it is not likely that the army, now in Iowa, can move en masse across the barrier of the Alle- ghany Mountains into the Middle States. A New Curvesz Question.—The story of the practices of a Chinese society in San Francisco which comes to us this morning looks like an afterthought of the politicians. It is quite likely there is a good deal of truth in the tale, sufficient truth at least to make the allegations a matter of inquiry by the police; but that organized societies exist for the traffic in women, as alleged, is scarcely possible. If they do exist it is one of the most astounding discoveries ever made in a civilized community. Hundreds of women are said to have been sold in the Chinese quar- ter, and yet none of them have ever been heard of except Ah Sing, who escaped, al- though the police were unable to find her pre- viously. Either the allegations are gross ex- aggerations or the police of San Francisco is utterly worthless and inefficient. An Lurorrant Discovery.—Our city author- ities having discovered the wards pf this still dirty city, in which overcrowded tenement houses, with all their attending evils, do most abound, should proceed accordingly with the work of cleansing and deodorizing all the pesti- lential holes and corners thereof. Coronet R. W. Huacurs was nominated for Governor of Virginia by the Republican Convention at Lynchburg yesterday. The re- calcitrant democrats of last year, headed by Wise, Lyons and Mosby, took no apparent in- terest in the Convention. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. er General M. T. McMahon, of Texas, is at the Union Square Hotel. Judge W. F. Allen, of Albany, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Secretary Belknap left Long Branch for Washing- ton yesterday alternoon. Paymaster George F. Bemis, of the United States Navy, is at the Astor House. Sir Elihu Washburne is the title given our Wash- burne there by the Paris press. Generai J. B. Hood, of New Orleans, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staff, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Alexander White, of Alabama, is registered at the Coleman House. Randolph Rogers, the sculptor, has returned to the Fith Avenue Hotel from Saratoga. Colonel W. D. Wilkins, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House, Archbishop McCloskey is spending a few weeks at Portland as the guest of Bishop Bacon. Colonel Barrett, of the New Orleans Pic, is lying ill at the Kirkwood House, Washington. Willtam Penn's cottage in Philadelphta is a lager beer saloon... “To what base uses,” &c. Mrs. Henthon, widow of a naval officer, at Cin- cinnati, on Saturday became insane on an Ohio River steamer. Charles ©. Leonard, of the St. Louis Democrat, an old-time humorist, who invented the “sheet-irou cat,” has quitted journalism, Senator Spencer, of Alabama, and Judge Noah, of Tennessee, are intown. The Senator proceeds on trip to California to-morrow, The editor of the Cincinnati Gazette calls the editor of the Commercial a pig. Are not all “Porkopolisites”’ descendants of Ham or No-eu? Mrs, General Gameg having caiged her suite for $20,000,000 worth of New Orleans property, {s wait- ing at Memphis, Tenn., for Judge Dureil’s impeach- ment to take possession. There is a personal misunderstanding between Governor Smith and ex-Governor Herschel V. John- son, Of Georgia, that the pistol is expected to settle satisfactorily to one or the other, M. D. Mahony, Lord High Sheriff of the county Wicklow, Ireland, yesterday arrived on the steam- ship Java, and is staying at the Brevoort House, He will be in this country for several months. Pe a OG a The Convocation in Session at Afbany— Liberal Views ef State Support—Reso- lutions on the Usefulness of Legislative Recognition and Appropriations. ALBANY, N. Y., July 30, 1873, In the University Convocation to-day an invite» tion was accepted to attend the meeting of the National Teachers’ Association next week. All ac- tion relative to the report of the Committee on Coins, Weights and Measures was postponed one year. Dr. Oscar Atwood, of Plattsburg, read a paper on “The Moral Elements in Teaching ;” Pro- fessor A. G, Hopkins read one on “The Study of Latin,’ and Professor Shackford, of Cornell Univer- sity, on “The Asthetics of Language.’’ The Com. mittee on the Educational Interests of the State reported the following resolutions :— Resolved. That in the continuance of the appropria- tion tor academies and academic departments of Union schools by the Legislature of the State, which enlarges the scope and the usefulness of academic normal clastes and which required the academics to respond to the bounty of the tate by furnishing free tuition in higher studies and by admitting pupils from the common schools to the Regents’ examinations, aud when succeastul in such examinations to a participation in that free bigher tui. ‘we gratefully recognize the reafiirmed policy of our noble Staie permanently to care for and cherish this im- portant class of our educational institutions, whose pros- perity stands so vitally related to that ot both the cem- mon schools te which they are a needed saapleroant and the colleges which they supply with student Resolved, That the Regents of the University be re- quested to establish a second and higher examination, which shall require studies equal in amount to those fixed by this convocation in the action of 1871 as the basis for entrance, to college, Resolved. That the Regents be requested to secure the estaplishment, on some proper basis, of a permanent teachers’ department in those of the academies and union schools whose patronage from students preparing for teachers will warrant it, with such a course of study ‘and methods of training as are demanded tor professional aching. Resolved, That the Reonts be solicited to car effect the exchange of coliections through the n the State Museum of ral History, assisted by various institutions, according to the recommendations made in the report of the committee to this body at the session of 1871. The resolutions were adopted. PURIFYING QUAKER CITY SLUMS. ch ae The “Herald” Placing the Board of Health on the Right Track—A Pious “Cull’d” Millionnaire Who is Opposed to Chloride of Lime. PHILADELPHTA, July 30, 1873, The people of thts city are just beginning to realize the beneficial results of the HERALD's exposé of those filthy, epidemic-breeding theroughfares— Alaska, St. Mary’s and Bainbridge streets. The Mayor himself became so impressed on account of their miserable condition that a ew days ago he ordered a special meeting of the Board of Health, the object of which was for them to take the matter into serious consideration, and arrange a plan of operations, and the result now 1s that the Board’s agents, after @ thorough overhauling of the tenement houses of those streets, have reported upwards of one hun- dred as nuisances and unfit for human habitation unless thoroughly renovated and fumigated. No- tices were also served on the owners and tenants of these dens, to the effect that unless they attended to this matter promptly they would be ejected, and the sxpenses of tumigatiog and cleansing the prem- ises woul performed by city ofiicials and the expenses for the same duily charged against them. Up to last evening Dearly one hundred had complied with the order, and whitewash and chloride o1 lime now render the atmosphere in those neighborhoods comparatively pure, The only serious trouble the Board's officers have encountered so far has been with REY. DR. EDDY, THE AFRICAN PREACHER, who owns in the vicinity of a hundred tenements tn the section of the city placed in the category of “nuisances” by the health inspectors. This eben utterly refuses te budge an inch, and deciares that if any effort is made to force in the doors’ of his tenement rookeries by the officers he will sue the city for damages. To test his _ sincerity Health Ofticer Addicks was instructed by the Board to open the campaign tn Africa, and he did so with flatiering results, and the Board were laughing in their sleeves at their success ; but just here the reverend man and brother showed his hand on applying to the Court, and succeeded in suemg out a preliminary injunction restraining the health authorities trom interfering with his prop- erty. In five days the case will come up in Court, and some interesting developments in relation to the filth and misery retgning in Phila- delphia’s Five Poiats will be further ventilated. The Rev. Joshua T. B, Eddy is supposed to be one of the wealthiest colored men in the country, his for- tune being variously estimated at from one hundred and flity thousand to two hundred and fiity thou- sand dollars, all or a greater portion of which he has amassed by speculating in real estate and sell- | and acts, He is topics, and diligently ut asa landiord he is ing religious books great on religious searches the scriptures. relentless, and ts rough on the poor darkies who fail to pay up promptly. He livesin a poorly tur- ished house of Lis own in Alaska street and min- gles but little with his colored brethren. The Board of Health are confident that by the close of next week thev will accomplish their ends, aud com- pletely renovate the slums, thus following to the letter the HERAL dvice. LAUNCH OF AN OCEAN STEAMSHIP, Valuable Addition to the New York and Mexican Mail Steamship Line—The City of New York Afloat. The screw steamship City of New York, built to the order of F. Alexandre & Sons, for the New York and Mexican Mail Steamship line, was launched at two o'clock yesterday afternoon from the yard of her builders, John Englis & Sons, Green- point. The launch was what old shipbuilders desig- nated a beaatiiul one, and was witnessed by seve- ral hundred persons of both sexes. The ship is a screw propeller of 2,400 tons burthen, with a substantial iramework of live oak and hack- matack, planked with alee pine. The following are her dimensions :—Length at water line, 247 ieet ; deck measurement, 250 feet; breadth of beam, iets depth of hold, 27 feet; carrying capacity. ons. Her patting’ now nearly completed at the Quintard Iron Works, this citv, consists of a ver- tical engine of 56 inch cylinder, with 58 inch stroke, and @ surface condensor and return tubular boiler; Selon screw of l4feet diameter and 22 feet pitch. ‘fhe keel oj this substantial and handsome ship was laid early in February last, and Captain Jonn Deakin, who is to be her commander, thinks that he will be able to take her on her trial trip during the latter part of next month. The ceremony of “christening” was dispensed with, the wine usually wasted on such occasions being put to as good use. THE HOBOKEN SAVINGS BANK. Another Panic and Anticipated Ran— “We Only Want Our Moncy.” Faster than the telegraph a rumor was circu- culated through Hoboken yesterday that the full extent of the defalcation of Fred. Kienen, the absconding cashier, had become known and the bank was insolvent, Who or what gave rise to this report is yet undetermined, but im a very short time after it went abroad ®@ crowd of anxious depositors, mostly servant girls and poor workmen, U Savings bank in Newark street and began to e lively demonstrations, a that all they wanted was their money. The bank officials very prudently and promptly paid off th r ie pi c- stricken book-lolders, and eRe the institution open beyond the usual hour, It is stated on good authority that the DBPARTURE OF MR. SHEPPARD, the President, from the city was the foundation of the mischievous rumor. Mr. Shep has obtained leave of sbaence for ree months, and he has gone to rusticate, not dreaming that his exit would be the occasion ofa panic, Itis further asserted that the direc- tors recently elevated to the Vice Presidency Mr. Hazen Kimball, which proceeding seemed to indi- cate that there had been a screw loose somewhere. While there is every ground for confidence in the Management of the institution, it certainly would go far to strengthen that confidence if the direc- tors were to pubiish a fall and clear statement of the present condition of the bank. This would be the most effectual means of quieting the needicss alarm that has once again been created by persons desirous of injuring the mstitution, THE NEW OITY PRISON. The Mayor, Comptroiler and President of the Board of Aldermen met again yesterday to con- sider, as @ commission, the question of the loca- tion of a new City Prison and Bridewell. Nothing of particular interest was transacted. A resolu. tion was adopted aathorwing the Comptroller to designate an agent to obtain information as to ap- ropriate locations and valuations oO! Sites for the Bow prison, and to report thereon at the next meeting, to be held aubject to the call of the Mayor OA CDAITIIAN: putin an appearance at | WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, July 30, 1873, The Forthcoming Debt Statement. The public debt statement, to be issued om the 1st of the month, will not report the full agvount of new fives issued and five-twenties redeemed, for the reason that all ponds redeemed have to pass through the books of the Register, Auditor and Comptroller before being credited to the Treasurer of the Unitea States, from whose books the debs statement is made out. This necessarily takes & great deal of time, and more than usual now thas 80 many of the clerks are away on their Summer leave of absence, thus reducing the clerical force, which, when full, is just suMcient for the ordinary current business ; so that, although the Syndicate have received and paid for fifty millions of new fives, but little more than thirty millions can ap- pear in the debt statement, Syndicate Settlement. The Syndicate to-day made their fimal settle ment with the Treasury Department for the $50,000,000 of five-twenties called on the 1st Maren jast. Senator Morton’s Plan of Electing the, President and Vice President of the United Sta Senator Morton arrived here to-day for the pur- Pose Of availing himself of the facilities of the Con- gressional Library and certain unprinted records of Congress in preparing his report tor the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, of which he is chairman, upon the proposed election of the Prest- dent and Vice President of the United States by direct vote of the people, instead of by the inter- vention of Electoral Colleges. ‘The Senator is accompanied by the commitree clerk, and intends to devote the ensuing «aya of his sojourn to arduous research and annotation upon the matter now uppermost in hia political thoughts, He intimates that his bill and supporting speech of last session contain the sub- stance of his mature thought and investigation upon the subject, but recognizing the truth of the remark of his tndustrious predecessor in this par- ticular fleld of relorm, Senator Benton, that aselect body like Congress is always mert on questions which propose to restore to the body of the people privileges which they have granted away, he in- tends to prepare and submit for the adoption of his committee such a report as will go ringing through the country and arouse press and people to the demanding either of a constitutional amendment, proposed by Congress to the State Legislatures, or by the State Legislatures to each other and to Congress. The Senator, too, finds no cause of re- gret in the fact that for once in his Senatorial ca- reer he 1s engaged in an important work that ia neither sectional nor partisan, and which nothing but the worst political malignancy can construe into a design for his own advancement before the country. At the best, he claims no more than a ready perception of a popular dis content with nominating conventions that cannot much longer endure, and a willing- ness to meet such a sentiment half way. Mr. Morton’s pian of reform, which is that of di- viding the States into Presidential districts of equal population and contiguous territory, and giving each district a single vote for President and Vice President. would, in his opinion, if adopted before the Summer of 1876, strike such ablow a& the caucus tyranny ‘ of party conventions that Cwesarism, if there should be any danger of it under the existing electoral plan, would be impossible, or, what is the same thing, possible only in the event of the masses being as enamored of the idea of perpetual office- holding as the army of office-holders now in pos- sezsion. Senator Morton, in his reports, intends to go back to the debates in the Constitutional Convention over the mode ofelecting the President and Vice President, and show how the best and most logical minds there present, at the head of whom was the illustrious Franklin, pointed out the mconveniences and dangers of the metho® that prevailed, and argued eloquently for entrust- ing the people directly with the determination of the one question that really concerned them more than any other in the federal system. He wilt show, too, the mistaken reasons on which the conservatives in the convention carried the point and fashioned their Presidential election upon the aristocratic models of the Venetian and Genoese Republics, while fearing that they had already conferred too much direct political power upom the general mass of the people. He will refer to the cases of Jefferson and Burr and Adams and Jackson to illustrate his assertion that the Electoral College system, besides being useless as a medium of selecting men of better character and attainments than could be discerned by enthu- siastic and unthinking direct voters, can become, through intrigue 80 dangerous as to precipitate civil war, and that such danger grows with the lapse of time, and is, by the nature of the systems more dangerous now than ever, and will be so hereafter. The district system is sup- Ported by the Senator in preference te the plan preferred by others of giving every voter in every State a direct and independent vote tor President and Vice Prest- dent, because it gives more practical force to the wishes of contiguous communities and interests, and restrains the power of such log rolling com- binations as carry prohibitory tariffs and fraudu- lent internal improvement bills. This was the plan recommended by an illustrious Senate com- mittee that sat upon the question nearly fifty years ago and brought in a report that contrasted the merits of both plana of voting; and though the logical argument 1s admitted to lie apparently on the side of individual voting, the practical view of the qucs- tion demonstrates that the result of a vote by districts organized as proposed would be much nearer a pure, impartial expression of the popu- Jar will, Senator Morton expects to carry his committee, unanimously for his plan, and hopes to advance the measure consider ably before Congress as early as next session. An Official Despatch from the Com- mander of the Tigress. A despatch to the Navy Department, from Con mander Green, announcing the arrival of the Tigress at St. Johns, on the morning of the 23d inst., after an eight and one-half days’ passage from New York, says:—‘‘We had a moderate gale of @ few hours’ duration, in which the vessel showed herself to be a good seaboat, As steamer she may be classed a five-knot one. The engineer proposes to make @ change 1m the furnaces, which may increase the speed. I expect to sail for Disco in two days. We saw our first icebergs off Cape Race.” Texan Finance and Texan Politics. Governor Davis, of Texas, left here to-night for that State, He represents that at any time he could have placed in the North the $900,000 of Texas bonds at eighty cents, bat expects withia thirty days to place them at ninety cents. While here he presented documents and made state ments to several departments which, he thinks, will lead to the removal from office of Postmaster Clark at Galveston, Postmaster Whittlesey at Hous. ton and Major Ochiltree, Marshal of the Kastern district of Texas, Treasury Decision Respecting Import Daty. The act of February 14, 1873, provides that gooda on shipboard and bound to the United States om the 5th of November, 1872, shail not be subject te the differential duty of ten per cent imposed by the President’s proclamation of October 30, 187%. The Treasury Department holds that this ace applies to all goods on shipboard at the date mentioned for transportation to the United States, though the vessel may not have sailed until asad sequent date, A Comet Discovered at Marseilles. Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, has received information that @ comet way discovered at Marseilles, on the night of the 20tm inst., by Borrelly, It is in the right ascension one hour and fourteen minutes, south declination seven degrees aud thirty-two minutes, Moticg, southeast, A Suit for the Recovery of Colored Cane sequential Damages. To-day Bnoch tten, for George N. Dailaa, colored, entered a suit against the Atlantic, Missis. sippi and Ohio Ratiroad Company, doing business im Virginia, for ejecting him from the cars and rex fusing him a Fourth of July passage from Lynch- burg to Christiansburg, in Which $5,000 damagea are claimed f i - }