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WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Mint. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur [p1or's Revence—~ AcroRS ON 4 StRIKE—LitiLe Sus, dc. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— ‘Tam SKELETON HAND. Afternoon’ and evening. PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.— TONY Vantery ENTERTAINMENT, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Suaumer Nicurs’ Con- cunts. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and $a avs.—Dix Scuorne Hevena, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad- way.—Screnck AnD ART. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, N x ieee io. 683 Broadway,—Scrence New York, Friday, August 1, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE NEW PARTY MOVEMENT IN OHIO! THE FIASCO OF THE LATE ‘COCKTAIL CON- VENTION’? — LEADING ABTICLE — Fourra Paar. OHIO’'S BURNT OFFERING! OPINIONS OF THE PRESS AND PEOPLE ON THE LIBEKAL SACRIFICE! THE CONVENTION REPUDI- ATED BY THE DEMOCRACY—Firtu Page, SPAIN GROWING WORSE! SALVATION BECOM- ING IMPOSSIBLE! ALMERIA BOMBARDED BY THE INSURGENTS AND VALENCIA BY THE REPUBLICANS! THE SEVILLE RE- VOLT! CARLOS IN BISCAY! ALICANTE DEMANDS ASSISTANCE—FiPTH Pas. SLAVERY IN THE ANTILLES! THE PORTO RICAN DEPUTIES IN CONFERENCE WITH THE SPANISH COLONIAL MINISTER — Firra Par. FRENCH LOYALTY TO THE POPE—IMPORTANT G RAL NEWS—Firta Pace. ENGLISH RADICALS OPPOSE THE MARRIAGE NT TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH— AGEOLET WINS THE GOODWOOD CUP— Firti PaGe. ANOTHER BOSTON CONFLAGRATION! HALF A MILLION SWEPT AWAY—FovurrTn Pacs. JEALOUS - DESPERATION! A MAN CUT AND SHOT AT! THE ATTEMPTED MURDERER ALMOST KILLS HIMSELF—Tentu Pace. A DRUNKEN HUSBAND CHARGED WITH BEAT- ING HIS WIFE TO DEATH! HER NEW- BORN BABE ALSO MALTREATED BY THE BRUTE! HER SAVINGS THE INCENTIVE TO THE CRIME—TentH Page. & CUNARDER CAUGHT IN & CYCLONE! A HUGE WAVE DRENCHES THE TERROR- STRICKEN SALOON PASSENGERS—TentTH Pace. A BRILLIANT RACE DAY ATSARATOGA! TRUE BLUE ASTONISHES THE TURFITES BY MAKING THE FASTEST TWO-MILE TIME ON RECORD—SIXTH PaGBE. ADJOURNMENT OF T'HE VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS AFTER PLACING A STRONG TICKET IN THE FIELD! THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR PROSPECTS—FirTi PacE. TROTTING AT DEERFOOT! THE WINNERS OF THE UNFINISHED EVENTS! INTERESTING TEAM RACE NOT CONCLUDED—HORSE RACING AT CLEVELAND—SIXxTH PAGE. THE PRESIDENTIAL N DEPARTURE! PRESS COMMENTS ON CHSARIZED REPUBLICS AND OUR PERILS—SANDWICH ISLAND DI- PLOMACY—Tuirp Paar, COMMODORE B. 1’S YACHTING PRIZE CUPS—SING SING PRISON MATTERS—SixTH Paor. EDUCATION AND RELIGION: } ADDRESSES THE UNIV! TION AT ALBANY ON SE LIGIOUS EDUUVATION! OUR PRE 'YEM AND ITS EVILS—Tarmp Pace. ART MATTERS—THE FREE METHODIST CAMY MEETIN IGHTN PAGE. AN EASY TONE PREVALENT IN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FINAN OF ENGLAND RATE REDU BUSINESS—NINTH Pace. OUR FOUL MARKETS TO BE AGAIN FAVORED BY THE SANITARY FOLKS—LEGAL, MU- NICIPAL AND FEDERAL OFFICE BUSI- NESS—EIcuTH Pas. THE LAYMAN THROAT-CUTTING CASE—CRIMI- NAL MALPRACTICE—Eicuta Pace. THE MERCBANT PRINCES OF THE UNION YS, THE RAILWAY KINGS—GREEN STILL “EOONOMICAL’’—THE ASSESSOR'S STORE- HOUSE FIRE—THE POOR CHILDREN— Tainp PagE. THE | TREASURY Junsey's Mbrver Ertpemic counts another victim. A Bavarian, named Konkel, is ac- cused of causing the death of his unfortunate swife by striking her some days after her de- livery of a child. The case is full of revolt- ing instances of bratal depravity. Try Sanatooa Races Yzsrerpay drew im- ‘mense crowds to the track, and a fine day and ‘8 fine course were there to meet all who came. "The two-mile dash must have been worth a day's journey to see, not merely because it "was the quickest on record, but because it ethibited crack riders as well as crack horses in keen contest, We regret the flasco in the hurdle race, because the ladies believe rin hurdle racing above all other manners of ‘ppeoding horseflesh on a race course, It ia #0 exciting, you know! BANK | NEW YOKK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The New Party Movement in Onid— The Fiasco of the Late “Cocktail Convention.” The liberal or the “anything to beat Grant” republicans of Obio have, in the solemn formalities of State Convention, just concluded their labors in bebalf of the organization of a joint stock opposi- tion party, on a new departure, calculated to attract the attention, if not the support, of all honest men. They have adopted a platform in which they declare substantially that par- ties have no claim to infallibility ; that both the democratic and republican parties have outlived their usefulness; that the republican party, in tho full enjoyment of the public plunder, is awfully corrupt; thet there are too many government offices, and that they ought to be reduced; that all those money subsidies and land grants from Congress are wrong and pernicious; that in govern- ment affairs there should be a strict con- struction of the constitution; that we want, on the basis of qualification, reform in our civil service; that duties on imports, so long as such duties are necessary, should be imposed for the purpose of revenue only, and not for the purpose of benefiting or enriching private individuals or companies or favoring particular branches of industry at the expense of the whole people ; and, finally, “that it is the duty of the govern- ment to repeal all laws that favor capital to the prejudice of labor.” Upon this platform these Ohio liberals have nominated a half-and-half ticket, headed with a democrat, the object and tho calcula- tion being a fusion of the democrats with this movement, just as the Baltimore National Democratic Convention of July, 1872, fell into line with the liberal programme adopted at Cincinnati. But Mr. Brinkerhoff and his Ohio liberals have evidently been counting without their host in their experiment to re- peat the Cincinnati drama on the basis of another democratic surrender. It is given out among the democrats of Ohio that, in view of the presumptuous proceedings of this liboral Convention at Columbus, no other courso is left to the “old liners’ but the ignoring of this liberal movement, tho nomination of a regular democratic ticket and a vigorous fight under the old party banner. In trath, it appears that this liberal or illiberal State Convention was such a mixture of heterogeneous and impracticable clements, such a strange compound of sweets and sours and bitters, as to be fairly entitled to the distinctive name of the ‘Gumbo or Cock- tail Convention."’ We give on instructive and interesting special despatch on the subject this morning from Columbus, from which it seems that this Cocktail or Gumbo meeting more nearly resembled a meeting of Communists than a conference of sensible men, and that the republican party of the State could well afford to pay the expenses of this liberal Con- vention, in consideration of tho services it has rendered to the republican cause, in detaching the democratic party from this liberal, or rather illiberal faction. Our cor- respondent says that the democrats will never join this liberal movement, but will hold the largest State Convention on the 6th of August, and nominate the strongest ticket they have had for years, and that the Convention will be attended by politicians from all parts of the country, inasmuch as new issues will be brought forth of the highest moment to the democracy and all the anti-administration ele- ments of the Union. This late liberal affair at Columbus, then, which was thrust into the foreground in’ order to dictate the terms of a coalition with tho democrats, may be pronounced a fiasco. True, several conspicuous democratic leaders, such as Pugh and Ewing, gave it their countenance and encouragement, and true it is that the platform adopted was the embodiment of the suggestions of Mr. Groesbeck, particularly on the tariff strict-construction questions; but with all these liberal devices of conciliation the great body of the Ohio democrats are satisfied that they had enough of this réle of second fiddlers to these liberal repub- licans in their Baltimore submission to the decrees of the original Cincinnati liberal gathering, especially in view of the net results of that ney departure. If there had been any appreciable strength in any State secured to the democratic party from this coalition, if this party had not been sen- sibly weakened in every State from this incon- gruous and incoherent alliance with the liberal or anti-Grant republicans, there might be still some inducements and compensations worthy of consideration in view of the sup- port of Mr. Brinkerhoff and his little band of political bushwhackers. It is apparent, however, that, from the Presi- dential figures of 1872, the masses of the democratic party are satisfied that the liberal republicans as a balance of power signify nothing; that they are but ‘a sounding brass | and a tinkling cymbal,” and that their claims, pretensions or threats are of no consequence. Accordingly, the Ohio democrats, a few days hence, will hold a State Convention on the fundamental idea that, as in 1872, the liberal republican movement as a democratic base of operations proved ‘® delusion and a snare,” the old historical party of Jefferson and Jackson will act for itself in refer- ence to its future course, and will follow no more the treacherous will-o’-the-wisp of liberal republicanism, What, then, will be the new departure of the approaching Ohio Democratic State Convention, which is to be attended by leading politicians from all parts of the Union? We may expect much of the old platitudes and clap-trap in the new party ritual; the usual twaddle upon strict construction, retrench- ment and reform, corruption in high places, and so on; but what shall we have from the Ohio democracy tn the shape of a well-defined and distinctive scheme of governmental policy ? We apprehend, from the letter of Mr. Groes- beck on the subject, and from the twaddling resolutions of the late Columbus Cocktail Con- vention, that at least an effort will be made in the democratic assemblage for the new depart- ure of free trade, unequivocal free trade, and in connection with a declaration against rail- way and all other monopolies and in viewof a fusion with the farmers’ granges of the West. But from the general objections of the demo- cratic press to the adoption of this dogma of free trade, we dare say that tho unequivocal proposition will be rejected and that a Janus- faced resolution, as usual, adapted to the cli- mate of Pennsylvania or that of Illinois, will be agreed uvon. Wo should not bo surprised, however, if this approaching democratic Con- vention, speaking for the party, uot only of Ohio, but of the country at large, were to pro- claim itself emphatically against a third Presi- dential term to General Grant, as a precedent which, if adopted, may lead us from the Re- public to the Empire and from the will of the people to the rule of Cxasar. Upon this idea, adhering to the examples of Washington, Jef- ferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson, the Ohio democracy may gain some strength in promptly taking the ground for an immediate amendment of the constitution limiting the Presidential office to one term or two terms. Upon what other question can the Ohio dem- ocrata raise even a ripple upon the waters against the party in power? The Cincinnati platform of 1872 will not answer for 1873; free trade is a two-edged sword, which requires the most delicate handling; the one-term Pre- sidential proposition has been fairly tried against General Grant and overwhelmingly rejected; but a constitutional limitation to one or two terms is a proposition which will chal- lenge the support of the people, and here, then, is a point fora positive line of action. As anegative party, the democrats have been run to the end of their list as negatives. They should now take a new departure for positive measures of action, and in. breaking ground for a constitutional limitation of tho Presi- dential term they may cut the ground from under the feet of the administration and the republican party. The Government and the Ku Klur, Attorney General Williams, in‘a letter pub- lished elsewhere, explains the governmental position regarding the Enforcement act and the Ku Klux prisoners thereunder convicted. The Prosident’s desire to be clement will be well received by the country. He will pardon the prisoners already convicted, except, as Mr. Williams intimates, in some exceptionally grave cases. Tho Ku Klux organization is said to be broken up of its own volition, and the government thinks that there is no necessity for scaring the hot-headed young Southrons when they have voluntarily placed themselves on their good behavior. Henco a nolle proscqui will be entered in such cases as are not already decided in the courts, with the exception of gravo cases of outrago, similar to those for which prisoners already convicted, will not be immediately pardoned. We are not informed where the President and the Attorney General will draw the line be- tween the pardonable and unpardonable, the offences to be prosecuted and those not to be prosecuted. Referring to the latter, Mr. Wil- liams says:—“There are, however, but few such cases within my. knowl- edge.”’ Persons evading the law who are chargeable with Ku Klux offences are infermed that they may return to their homes without fear of molestation under the same exceptions. It would be desirable, wo think, since the Attorney General has opened the matter, that he should make the distinc- tion emphatic by either citing the exact grades of crime still prosecutable or naming the par- ticular untried cases which will be followed up. This would remove a great deal of uncer- tainty and make men more ready to return home—let us hope to loyalty and law-abiding. The amendments to or modifications of the Enforcement act, which it is the governmental intention to propose, will probably define the difference in prosecutable crimes above al- luded to. Should this be so, there could be no objection to stating now what they shall be. We shall be rejoiced indeed to chronicle all facts tending to show that tranquillization at the South is not altogether the quiet of the vanquished under the heel of the victor. When the South has discovered in earnest that black and white can live together and respect the lows without recourse to degrading and violent practices the problem will be solved. The carpet-bagger and the Ku Klux have mutually produced each other, it being diffi- cult in many States to say whether the intol- erance of the Southern white or the unscrupu- lousness of the carpet-bagger was the first to call the other into being. If the South gives up attempting racial Bourbonism at the ballot box and settles down to labor, the carpet- bagger will find his occupation gone and everything prompting him to go also. Itisa dream, perhaps, that he could remain and be- Gome honest, We are impelled to the thought, however, by the concluding lines of Burns’ “Address to the De’il,"” where he says: — Fare thee well, auld Nickie Ben, An’ wad ye tak’ a thought an’ men’, Ye aiblins might. The prospect in either case is, we regret to say, not very encouraging. Communistic Insurrection Spain, The revolting ‘“reds,"’ who havo rebelled against the republican government in Spain, do not appear destined to gain their ends. The HeEratp despatches indicate that the tebels are determined to give trouble; but their failure to progress far with the country at large is marked. They ap- pear to have set fire to the ancient town of Seville in four places, on the plan adopted in Paris; but they have not achieved much to boast of in the way of destruction. The fighting at Almeria, with the insurgent repulse, is not encouraging to the supporters of the latter. Power for mischief they undoubtedly have. A number of war vessels going round shelling places is something not to be despised, and a tendency to petroleam and torches is not pleasant ina neighbor. So far as converting the entire country to their views, either by moral or sabre suasion, is concerned, they are not in a position to hope for success. Their movements give the Carl- ists an opportunity to push on vigorously, but even the latter have commenced to meet with reverses since their effort to extend their oper- The in ations southward. The Madrid govern- ment, indeed, seems still to hold the best position, Tho Oarlists and ‘the “reds” have apparently reached the end of their thether. If the government can only attract a livelier feeling of respect among the people, the Republic may triumph defi- nitively before long. Its greatest wants are good generals and money ; but if it had the first it would soon possess the second. The soldiers have remuined generally true to their allegiance, but as their leaders are, in a mili- tary sense, of little account, this fact has not had all the weight in deciding the issue to which it is ontitlct. The fighting at Valencia proceeds, and the capture of the city, when accomplished, will probably result in terrible and bloody scenes, Spain, as Allison haa aaid of France, has drawn the sword to settle all her ills, because she has been so much gov- erned by the sword. British Parliamentary Opposition to the Royal Marriage Dowry Bill. Premier Gladstone's proposition to grant an annuity of $100,000 to the Duke of Edin- burg upon his marriage with the daughter of the Czar Alexander has been opposed with great energy by some of the members of the House of Commons. Mr. P. A. Taylor, mem- ber for Leicester, a radical reformer and an advocate of universal suffrage, protested gen- erally against the ‘frequent applications by the Crown for grants of annuities to the royal children.”’ He tendered some advice to Her Majesty Quuen Victoria as head of the family, and alleged, in conclusion, that the allowance would be “wrung from a reluctant and indig- nant people.’’ Mr. Taylor found some sup- port. Mr. Gladstone censured the tone in which the economists set forth their argument, and was quite emphatio in his support of the principle of the right of the Crown to look to the Parliament for a proper provision in such cases. The British nation has been ever gen- erous towards its rulers, and there is little doubt but that the Ministry will make fresh political capital in the rural districts from its defence of what will be described as the dignity of the monarchy. This position may serve Mr. Gladstone during a general election among the bumpkins who have not joined the agricultural labor movement and their landlords who love royalty because they aro little .kings themselves. Tho hard and ever pressing necessities of the peo- ple who sweat and toil in the great cities of Britain will go far to cause them to sympa- thize with Mr. Taylor's argument, more par- ticularly as his platform for popular advance and reform in the system of government in England is based mainly on the simple plan of the United States, as it was founded at the time of tho American Revolution. The Duke of Edinburg will obtain his fortune and an excellent wife, but if England is at all dissat- isfied with the vote which was recorded in the Commons last night the fact will go far to cloud the matrimonial festivities. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. + Secretary Belknap returned to Washington yes- terday. Congressman T. C, Platt, of Oswego, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, i General J. B. Stonehouse, of Albany, Is staying at the Astor House. Colonel B, 8, Compton, of Michigan, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Congressman F. E, Woedbridge, of Vermont, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander Charles A. Stone, of the United States Navy, is registered at the New York Hotel. Governor Horace Austin and Senator Alex. Ram- sey, of Minnesota, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister (whose succes- sor is on his way to this country), yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The War Department has been advised of the death in Paris on the 7th ult. of Colonel Liewellyn Jones, a retired officer of the United States Army. Mr, Sargeant Simon, M. P., seems to be an Eng- lish Sir Boyle Roche. He lately began a speegh on the Judicature bill by saying, “I cannot keep silence without saying a few words.” Monsignor Mermillod has appealed to the Fed- eral Assembly against his expulsion from Switzer- land, and asked for a termination o! his illegal exile from his birthplace and proper home. Ex-Vice President Colfax and wi'e arrived in Chicago on Wednesday and left yesterday alter- noon for a trip through Minnesota and Dakotah, in company with Senator Windom, of Minnesota. The Duke of Edinburg thinks, just as the London Telegraph courtierly expresses the idea, “It is pleasant when the scent of orange blossoms is wafted over the somewhat flowerless flelds of politics.” Henry Meiggs Keith, the Costa Rican Consul Gen- eral to Vienna, yesterday returned to the Metro- politan Hotel. He has been detained in this coun- try arranging for continuing the construction of the Costa Rican Railway. Secretary Richardson, who was announced to leave for Long Branch last Saturday night, did not vacate his seat in the Treasury Department, but will spend a few days with his family next week, leaving on Saturday night, The Secretary of the Navy says that Marius Duvall, who stands at the head of Medical Inspec- tors with the relative rank of Commander, shall answer to the charge of shooting indiscriminately some of the marines at Annapolis who invaded his strawberry patch. Senator Charles Sumner arrived at the Brevoort House, from Washington, yesterday afternoon. The Senator 1s again in very good health, and was but little fatigued by his journey from the capital, He will pray caine bg alehine Yn'ifas. sachusetts to-day. Bishop Lachat, the Swiss infallibility champton, was lately shame(ully treated on a Lake of Lucerne steamboat by a party of Swiss choral singers, He was jeered at and abused, and the only passenger with pluck encugh to denounce the rioters was an American mulatto woman, Garibaldi is again out in eulogy of the Paris Com- mune and the International Society, He says:— “If the devil were to found @ society for the pur- pose of putting down sovereigns and priests I would proudly enrol myself in its ranks.” Tue priests probably believe that Garibaldi has already joined such a society. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT, LONG BRANon, N. J., duly 31, 1873. The President, accompanied by General Bab- cock, returned from Kingston this afternoon. DEATH OF AN ASSISTANT NAVY PAYMASTER, PORTLAND, Me., July 81, 1873. George W. Brown, paymaster in the United States Navy, died at Alfred to-day, aged twenty- nine years. MURDER AND SUICIDE IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 81, 1873, A terrible murder and suicide took place this evening in this city. The victims are Ed- ward Schusterreiter, aged twenty-eight years, and his wife, May, aged twenty-six years, to whom he had been marricd two months, They did not live well together and bave constantly quarrelied since their marriage. He was thrown ou’ of work two weeks olf? and they lived with the wife’s father, at South Second street. Alter supper this evening they retired to their apartment, on the third floor. About went o nive orclock the wife's father uy stairs and found the ite son-in-law ying on the floor. On investigation is daughter was found another apartment also dead, throat cut from ear had evidently been a terri between them, as marks of blood were foun both rooms, Schusterreiter had killea wife with @ razor and bad putan end to his own life b; taking corrosive sublimate. No noise of quar- reling or disturbance nad been the other members of the family. ted = & horrible spectacle, rrible gashes in her throat, alarm was instantly given, and a crowd soon gathered ground the house, of which the police took chi , Jealousy is ae to have been the cause of the er in terrible trage A BRUTAL OUTRAGE ON A WOMAN, Rocuester, N. Y., July 31, 1873, A married woman, Mrs, Nancy Fox, forty-five years of Age, was outraged to-day in the absence of her husband by two villains, who threatened her life. She was held by one of them, while the other violated her person, was perpetrated in the town of Penfield, deed ten miles irom this city, Neither of the criminais haa hoon arreateds WASHINGTON. eer FIRE IN BOSTON; WasHinoton, July 31, 1873. Another Conflagration—The Huge Buildings of The Nationality of the Virginius fs no longer in doubt. The Captain of this vessel, who last shipped her crew under @ com-. mercial agent of the United States, proposed to discharge them, under the terms of the enlistment, in two months or at the expiration of the voyage. ‘The vessel being cleared for the United States, having compieted her mission by landing arms in Cuba, the crew were tnformed that their services Would not be needed after reaching Kingston. To this both the American and foreign members of the Crew objected. They claimed that they were enti- tled to the three months’ extra wages for discharge in @ foreign -port—all the wages allowed American seamen under the American flag. The question was referred to the Treasury Department, and to-day Secretary Richardson de- cided that that was the uniform view of the De- partment. The State Department therefore in- structs the Consnl et Kingston to distrain the Virginius by requiring the authorized payment of three months’ extra wages to American seamen discharged tn foreign ports, and otherwise to with- hold her register. Rewards to Informers of Revenue Frauds. By circular No. 96, revised, dated July 31, 1873, under section 39, the act of June 6, 1872, ten per cent of the net amount received and patd, or ac- pted in compromise and received, is fixed as the maximum limit of reward to persons other than officers of the Internal Revenue for information leading to tho detection and punishment of per- sons gaiity of violating the internal revenue law or conniving at the same, in cases where such expenses are not otherwise provided for by law. This is an increase from six per cent as fixed by circular 99, July 17,1872, The change is to apply to cases in which the information has been or shall be given on or after July 16, 1873. A Fight for a Patent. In March last the Commissioner of the General Land Office issued a patent for the Las Animas grant, containing 26,518 acres, in Santa Clara county, Cal, and forwarded it to the Surveyor General at San Francisco. After the patent had been sent to the Surveyor General the opponents to its issue applied tothe Commissioner for a sus- pension in delivering the patent, and asked for time to produce further evidence which they claimed would alter the case, This request was granted, and the Commissioner immediately tele- graphed the Surveyor General to hold the patent. The patentees then sued out a writ of replevin, in the Twelfth District State Court at San Francisco, which the Sheriff attempted to serve yesterday; but the Surveyor General refused to give up the patent and telegraphed Commissioner Drummond as follows :— The Twelfth District Court ofSan Francisco has served a writ to replevy patent of Los Animas ranche. I have refused, and the Sheriff now has possession of ny room and intends to break open he safe in the morning to obtain the la What shall Ido? J. R. HARDENBERG, Iuternal United States Surveyor General. To which Commissioner Drummond replied as follows:—‘Hold the Los Animas patent. Consult the United States District Attorney and take all legal and necessary steps to prevent @ forcible seizure of the patent.” Attorney General Wil- liams also telegraphed the United States Attorney there to consult with the Surveyor General and take all necessary steps to prevent interference with that officer, This is regarded as rather a remarkable case, the State Court, it 1s said, having no right whatever to interfere with the United States authorities. The Comct Seen from the Naval Observa= tory. Rear Admiral Sands, Superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, reports to the Secretary of the Navy to-day that Professor Hall, of the Observatory, last night observed the comet discovered by M. Borclly, at Marseilles, France, July 27, and recently announced by a cable tele- gram to Professor Henry. The position of the comet is as follows:—Washington time, July 30, 12 hours, 28 minutes, right ascension, 1 hour, 16 minutes and 23 seconds; declination, 7 degrees and 88 minutes south. Motion small and to the south- east, Death of a Lawyer. Thomas E. Lloyd, a leading lawyer of this city, died this a‘ternoon. The Daty on Dutch Metal Scraps. Du‘ch metal scraps are dutiable at thirty-Nve per cent, less ten per cent as @ manuiacture of brass, The article cannot be classified as old brass, fit only for remanufacture. Currency Statement. The following ts a statement of the United States currency outstanding this dat Old demand notes. Legal tender note: Legal tender notes (series of 1869) One year notes of 1963.. Two year notes of 1863.. Two year coupon notes of 1563. Compound interest notes..... Fractional currency (first issue) Fractional currency (second issu ) Fractional currency (third issue). Fractioual currency (fourth issue, WETICE) 5.55550 00essoeersessv eye ) 21,999,176 Fractional currency (fourth issue, sec- ON BEFIES) .. 6... e ee eee eeecenes foe 11,436,617 Total..... 401,086,887 WEATHER REPORT, DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE th Novae Green| WasHINGTON, D.C, August 1—1 A, M, Probabitte pa ie On Friday, for the QGuif and South Re lantic States, continued cloudy weather and numerous local storms, with prevailing south- westerly winds. For the Ohio Valley south- west and northwest winds and clear or clearing weather. For the Middle States south- westerly winds, cioudy and threatening weather. For New England east and south winds veering to southwest, increasing cloudiness and possibly local storms. For the lake region west- erly winds and clearing weather, but with occa- sional local storms, 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 year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. 1872, 1873. 7 76 3:30 P. M. 4 90 78 6e. M, ™ 85 81 OP, 73 78 85 12P. ui} perature yesterda: 81 Average temperature for corre last year... 12% NAVAL ORDERS, WASHINGTON, July 31, 1873. The following order to Chief Engineers in the Navy was made to-day:—Edmund P, Suluce {8 or- dered tothe Worcester ag fleet engineer of the North Atlantic station; R. M. Sertelman a8 inspector of machinery afloat at the Navy Yard @t Boston; ». W, MacComb is detached from the Worcester and ordered to the Ports- mouth Navy Yard; 0. A. Loring as inspector of Machinery at Boston, and ordered to continue there on special duty; 1, Williamson from the Portsmouth Navy Yard and ordered to the Pensa- Cola as fleet surgeon of the North Pacific station. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES. Mr. Henry Irving will appear in the character of Richelicu, at the Lyceum Theatre, London, in September. Sir Michael Costa has accepted an engagement as conductor, for the season of 1874, at Her Majesty’s Opera, which ts like again to occupy tts old quar- ters at Drury Lane. It is stated that Mile, Desclée is an able pianist nd organist, and can sing well—indeed, 50 well, that, with more power, she would be capable of aring in opera. 7 ih new opera, ‘Jeanne 4’Are,” Is already in active preparation at the Gafté, for ‘which theatre it has been secured by the manager, M, Offenbach. Most of the score has already been delivered. The few privileged persons who had a look into it declare it worthy of the composer of “Pawal’? and “Roméo et Juliette.” the Dock and Warehouse Company Half a Million Dollars’ Worth of Merchandise Destroyed. Boston, July St, 1873, : ‘The “Hub” has again been visited by a conflagra- tion whioh, although not covering a vast extent of territory, involves at least a loss of half amtttion. ‘The fire occurred in the immense buildings of the National Dock and Warehouse Company on Lewis? wharf in East Bosten, and was first discovered at half-past three, and not until nearly midnight was it got under control. The building was along brick structure, three stories and a halfin height, surmounted with a high-pitched roof. It extended from the ferry slip several hundred feet up Lewis street, terminating in @ large four story building. ‘The latter was supplied with heavy fire- proof shutters, and these were instantly closed, thus effeetually protecting it from the lames, The destroyed building was owned by the National Company. It was, in reality, @ block of three ware- houses, extending literally from Lewis street through to South Warf, numbered upon the latter from 40 to 49 inclusive. A brick party wali separ- ates each of the houses, and all were packed and crowded with goods of a very infammabie material, belonging to a large number of con- algnees. Each house contained four stores on the ground floor, and THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY stowed under this one roof was simply immense. It was mainly sugar in bags, gunny bags, jute io bales and butts, jute cloth, &c., with some wool. All this stock had been taken in from the vessels at South Wharf, and awaited the owners’ orders for removal. The principal owners were J. Gardi- ner Curtis (Curtis & Peabody), N. & D. Goddard, William Perkins & Co., Henry Gardner, B.S. Pray, George McKay, Sewell, Day & ©o,; William F Wild & Co. and Mills, Edwards & Co. There were also many others who had greater or less amounts peered in the building, including several New York rms, THR SPREAD OF THE FLAMES was very rapid, extending from the centre of the building, where the fire broke out, in both direc- tions and shooting high into the air, A dense cloud of black smoke burst forth from the roof and the windows, and hung like a pall over the locality, conveying the impression that the fire was more extensive in amount of territory covered than it really was. Indeed the general impression from & view of the fire in the early stages from this side of the water tended to produce the fear that a sit territory was doomed to destruction. ‘he fallacy of this idea was soon dispelled, however, on nearer ap- roach to the scené, and, while it was almost acer- ainty in twenty minutes after the sounding of the alarm that the entire building must be destroye it wasas certain that with the ready means al hand the firemen would be able to prevent any further spread. Meantime the flames were twin- ing and twisting themselves in and ont among the bales and bags, penetrating every crevice in the closely packed mass of material and lapping ee he looser parts of the stock as if they had been specially prepared for the purpose. The fire seemed to hang with a despera- tion calculated to defy the offorts of the men, and seemed eey quelied on one spot fer a moment only to burst out with renewed force in another, After it bad been raging for about filteen minutes THE ROOF SUCCUMBED and then the water began to tell with greatest effect. Three quarters of an hour later a por- tion of the front wall fell into tho street with @ crash, whicn brought to mind the Hano- ver street disaster, and which caused a shock of anxiety forthe firemen who stood almost under it. No one was injured, however, and into the breach thus made half a dozen streams were quickly directed with such otfect as'to allay all fear of a further spread of the fire. PART OF THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE. ~ Only a few ofthe owners of the property In store could be reached to-night, and they were un- able to give ai reliable information as to their loss and insurance. Mr. Loring con- which 18 totally de- sidered his Danae stroyed, worth $40,000, on which he holds the Liverpool, London and’ Globe Company's policy for about $35,000. In the building was fully half a million dollars’ worth of merchandise, the salvage on which will necessarily be small. Most of this is underwritten by Boston offices, the risk baving been considered a peculiarly safe one. The Clinton, of New York, had $1,500 on gunny bags, belonging to Atkinson & Co., and the Lamar and Commerce, of the same bia had $5,000 each on sugar in Nos. 40 and 42, The crowds of people who gazed upon the burning building from all points of vantage can only be numbered by thousands, ‘Ihere was @ universal disposition among all classes to suspend business of every kind and rosh to look upon the scene of destruc- tion, Upon this side of the water the wharves aud docks were crowded with men, women and chil- dren, while hundreds sought the tops of the build- ings near the water's edge. oon after the fire broke out, owing to the threatened destruction of the terry house and the blockade of Lewis street, the South ferry boata were stopped, and the mass of the people infested the wharf and boats of the North line. Numerous as was the crowd of ee bin upon the Boston (proper) side, tt was simply a handful compared to the multitude which thronged all the direct ap- proacies to the fire, There was little disposttion manifested, however, to encroach upon the do- main of the firemen, and the latter had excellent opportunities to put lorth their best eiforts, HOW DID THE FIRE OCCUR? During the fire Mayor Pierce, Alderman Cutler and ether city magnates were on the ground, Just how the fire originated will probably never be Known, but there is one thing as to its cause which seems at least plausible. The ten stores are pe fein by double iron doors, which are well calculated to prevent the spread of fire from room to room; but, unfortunately, a gang of siaters had been at work in the building for several days past, and this afternoon they had these doors open to get at their work. It is also said that one of their number was smoking at one time, and, if this is true, it pe that the fire was in some man- ner caused by his pipe. THE GIFT OF COUNT SCLOPIS. Presentation _te_ she xeeusn Aes of the Plate Given “by “the Unitea States—Diplomatic Correspondence— The Count’s Letter. The following is the translation of a note ad. dressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy to the Minister of the United States in that country relating to the presentation of plate in behalf of the United States to Count Sclopts di Salerano, the Italian arbitrator in the Geneva Tribunal :— Roms, June 2, 1873, Mr. MinisTeR—I have the honer to aunounce to be that in conformity with the desire expressed yy you and instructions given by me the Preiect of Turin has consigned to His Excellency Count Sclopis di Salerano the gilt from the government of the United States of Norta America, in acknowledg- ment of its gratitude for the part taken by that personage in the labors of the Tribunal of Geneva. ‘The presentation of the gift took place in official form, and the Prefect having expressed himself in the terms of the despatch of Mr, Fish, communi- cated vo me by you, His Excellency Count Sclopis replied in words, of which lam happy to transmit to you here enclosed a report sent to me by the Prefect himseif. In the hope that the act, of which you were pleased to confide the execution to the government of His Majesty, has been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the government of the United States and of yourself, I take Pog deciggs of the occasion, Mr, Minister, to renew to you the assurance of my high consideration. VISCONTI VENOSTA, Mr. G. PERKINS Marsu, Envoy Extraordinary and ‘Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Statea of America. REPLY OF COUNT SOLOPIS. Ireceive with the liveliest, and most respectfa) feelings of gratitude the splendid testimonial that the government of the United States has destined for me, in re ition of services in the discussion and decision of the question called ‘Alabama Claims.” In the discharge of the duties of arbitra. tor, assumed by me at the express command of our august sovereign, acting upon the invitation contained in the Treaty of Washington, I am con- actous of having acted with the most ate im- partiality, and with all the diligence that the hature of the matter called for and my strength could give. Iam rejoiced to have been able, to the feeble extent of my ability, to contribute to a work of great pacification, and I appreciate beyond measure the recognition which been Manifested by the government of @ great opto, who have with the government ot Her Ber Majesty given an admirable oxaney, which I ‘will bear its fruit in the future. The demon: jon which tarough you, Mr. Senator Prefect, has been made to,me is a very at honor tomy house, and I beg to express to | evel ment of Bis Majesty how prol repy teel 1 beg you also to transmit, to the illustrious Min- ister of the United States at Rome the expression of my gratitude and aifection. Finally, I oongratu- lave myself that for tire performance of this cere- mony has been chosen the personage who presid over the administration of our province with#o much distinction of personal merit, appreciated by all who with myself have the good fortune to find themseives in OMcal relations with him, THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS’ SESSION OLOSED. Povauxeersts, N. Y¥., July at, 1873. ‘The three days’ session of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, of the State of New York, rT . This evening there was a parade of the Poughkeepsie organization, and the Grand | oMcers were escorted to Cg conoert and \¢ soirée In the Kirchner Building, Nearly all of the delegates nave leit far homa.