The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘ PROPRIETOR, seen MO, 214 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, -Powery.—O.iver Twist, run Worxnovsx Founpiina—Tux Ipior's Revenos, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Tux Sxeixton Hanp.—Afternoon' and evening. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA BOVE ae Bowery.— Vawary Entxntainaznt. Matinee at 2 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Mimt. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sumuxr Nicuts’ Con- cuRts. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and 3d ays—Dix Scuoxwe lixiena. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad- vay.—So1zNce AND Aur. DR. KAHN'’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scrence amp Aart. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Saturday, August 2, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE NEW YORK MERCHANTS! THE FARMERS AND THE RAILROADS! AN IMPORTANT QUESTION TO BE SOLVED"—LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC—FourTH PAGE. SPAIN’S CHAOTIC STRUGGLE! THE INSURGENTS: ROUTED NEAR MALAGA, WITH EIGHTY- SEVEN KILLED! A GOVERNMENT RAID IN SEVILLE! THE FLEET OPENS FIRE UPON SAN FERNANDE! INSURGENT NAVAL MOVEMENTS—FirTH PaGE. HORRORS OF THE ANARCHY IN SPAIN! THE DEATH OF CABRINETTY AND DE- STRUCTION OF HIS CORPS! EXECRABLE ACTS OF BOTH COMBATANTS! THE STATUS OF THE SOLDIERY! DON AL- FONSO’S PERSONAL VIEWS EXPRESSED TO A HERALD CAMPAIGNER! A SPARTAN SPANISH PRINCESS—SxconD aND THIRD PaGEs. SPANISH PERSECUTION OF CARLISTS IN CUBA! SEVERE FIGHTING WITH INSURGENT CU- BANS—FirTH PaGE. TRAVELLERS’ PERILS! SAVAGE COLLISION BETWEEN A PASSENGER EXPRESS AND A FREIGHT TRAIN ON THE HUDSON RIVER ROAD! JUMPING THE SWITCH! FOUR PERSONS DANGEKOUSLY INJURED AND MANY OTHERS SEVERELY HURT— Firti Pace. AN ATROCIOUS MURDER DOUBLY ATONED FOR IN BALTIMORE! NICHOLSON AND HULLO- HAN EXECUTED FOR THE BUTCHERY OF MRS. LAMPLEY! THE “PIOUS” PaIR ON THE GALLOWS—SrxTH Pace. MURDER INCITED BY JEALOUSY! THE DE- TAILS OF THE SCHUSREITER TRAGEDY IN PHILADELPHIA—SixTH PAGE, HEATED DEBATE IN THE ENGLISH PARLIA- MENT ON THE GRANT TO THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH! ELECTION kIOTS! A NEW TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP—FirtH Pace. RACING IN ENGLAND! THE G0ODWULOD FINALE! DRUMMOND AND VICTOR CARRY OFF THE PRIZES—Firrn Pace. GERMAN EVACUATION OF NANCY AND BEL- FORT! THEY BURN ALL THEIR EFFECTS NOT TRANSPORTABLE! FRENCH PRU- DENCE! THE COST OF THE WAR—Firta Pac. THE BENNETT YACHT CUP PRIZES—FINE TURF EVENTS AT DEERFOOT PARK AND CLEVE- LAND—Firtu Pace. ITEMS FROM THE SEASIDE CAPITAL! WHAT THE PROMINENT MEN ARE DOING! RUB- BING AGAINST THE WHITE HOUSE POST— FOURTH Pace. DEFYING PUBLIC SENTIMENT! THE OFFAL RENDERERS TAINTING THE WATERS AS WELL AS THE AIR OF NEW YORK! THE CITY STREETS AND WEST SIDE NUI- SANCES—EicuTH Pace. THE WAR AGAINST THE SANITARY BOARD IN THE COURTS! THE PEREMPTORY ACTION AGAINST THE EPIDEMIC BREEBDERS— TOWAGE ABUSES—EiauTH Pace. KINGSBRIDGE ROAD SURVEYS! CUTTING DOWN THE BILL! ITALIAN “MUSIC” SLAVES— THE COULSON MYSTERY UNSOLVED— EIGHTH Pace. WALL STREET NEWS AND BUSINESS! PACIFIC MAIL IN TROUBLE! GOLD EASY AND MONEY ABUNDANT—THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT—THE HOPOKEN SAVINGS BANK SUSPENSION—NintTH Pace. A HUNGRY GERMAN STABS HIS WIFE WITH A SWORD IN NEWARK—FINANCIAL STATUS OF THE METROPOLIS—THE CITY OFFICES— Sixtu Pace. STARVING CHILDREN—VERDICTS AGAINST THE PRESUMED MURDERERS IN THE SCHULE AND LUNNEY CASES—CLEARING UP THE McBRIDE MYSTERY—CUSTOM HOUSE aF- FAIRS—Sixtu Pace. THE ‘Tae Doxe or Eprvsvrcn’s MarrtacE Downy Bru. has excited a considerable amount of animated debate in the British Parliament. Premier Gladstone was worried by the radicals yesterday with questions concerning the cash, the duration of the donation and the church ceremonial which will be observed at the wedding. The Minister became slightly restive under the operation of the privilege rule. He characterized the “persistent opposition as indecent,” and positively refused to reply to a question relative to the ecclesiastical form of the marriage—whether it will be according to the Greek rite or that of the Church of England. This query may, notwithstanding, be repeated in very influential circles in Tax Cuorzna in the West and Southwest, since its departure from Memphis and Nash- ville, appears to be most virulent aud fatal in small country villages. Doubtless in the drinking water and in the neglect of sanitary precautions in these places the pestilence finds the food it delights 12. Small villages, no less than large cities, are subject to the penalty of cholera, in a cholera season, if they fail to do their duty in precautionary measuros. Anp Now tne New Yorx Liserats are in motion, and they contemplate a resurrection in November. How many men can they mus- ter? That was a mystery which, last Novem- ber, “no fellow could find out.’ But they were like the Dutchman with his pig—it didn’t weigh as much as he expected, and he always knew it wouldn’t, Thow-Cran Vessets or Wan are & new ele- ment in Spanish insurrections, and the worst of it ee Py Pay no attention to the fulmina- tions © Cortes, but go on with their bom- bardments from point to point, without any other apparent purpose than to test the de- structive power of their Lombshells, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT; The New York Merchants—The Farmers amd the Railroads—-An Important Question To Be Solved. We published yesterday some very interest- ing facts in connection with a movement among our city merchants upon the all-impor- tant question of the ways and means whereby @ cheaper system of railway transportation between the West and this port may be se- cured than that which we now possess in any railway monopoly or combination. We are pleased with this movement among our mer- chants, for north and south of us active meas- ures are in progress to divert from New York the great traffic of the West, of which this port should be the cheapest outlet. We are gratified also to know that our merchants have, in their consideration of the subject, reached the ultimate question involved—viz., that the time is at hand when, if no other remedy be offered, ‘the government must run the railroads or be run by them’’—and that the necessities of the West and the East call for a national freight railway betweem the two sec- tions under the cheapest possible rates for the maintenance of the road. In this movement our merchants, in co-operation with the West- ern granges, may, even in the interval to the next Presidential election, bring their batteries into effective action. No one can have observed attentively the rapid growth of the numerous and widespread farmers’ granges and kindred associations in the West without concluding that it is an im- portant movement, and one caleulated to have considerable influence in our politics and on economical questions, Itis buta year or so since these organizations sprang into exist- ence, and they have assumed the proportions ofa giant in their infancy. They extend throughout the Northwestern States and are spreading beyond. Already they count in the aggregate hundreds of thousands of members. Although they do not appear to have yet any well defined plan of action or effective combi- nation they have a common grievance and ob- ject in view—namely, the want of an ap- proachable market for their products and the intention of finding one if possible. The rail- roads being the greatest and best means of transportation, these, of course, have first at- tracted the attention of the granges, All of them are placing their batteries in order for an assault upon the railroad monopoly, as they call it, and its high rates of charges. Some, however, do not make this the princi- pal object of attack, and nearly all, or all, have other objects in view. By way of showing both their rapid increase and their purpose we may state that the Order of the Patrons of Industry or granges numbered nineteen lodges in Missouri on the 1st of February, and that they are now estimated at four hundred. In other States there has been probably something like a corresponding increase. In Missouri the question of cheaper river transporta- tion engages their attention as much as that of the railroads, as well as the improvement of navigation from the Missouri River to the Belize. Then, in this State, at least, they are intended to be a kind of co-operative societies to enable farmers to escape the burdensome charges of middlemen, something after the manner of the workingmen’s co-operative as- sociations and stores in England. For ex- ample, ata meeting of the Executive Com- mittee of Missouri granges, lately held, it was decided to purchase farming supplies and materials at wholesale, and there was a good deal of talk about establishing manufactories of agricultural implements, of beet sugar and other things. The tariff is a subject, too, not neglected by the Patrons of Industry, and, as might have been expected, they advocate the principle of free trade. They denounce un- sparingly railroad and other rings and mo- nopolies. What is best of all the leading men of the Order in Missouri urge the importance of education. The objects of the Order in some of the other States are somewhat differ- ent, according to local circumstances, or greater prominence is given to a particular ob- ject in one State than in another ; but, as was said, there is a purpose in common to resist monopoly, and particularly the railroad mo- nopoly; to secure cheaper transportation and a readier market, and to promote generally the interests of the farmers and industrial classes. A defect, probably, in these organizations is in their having something of a Masonic secrecy and useless forms. While it may be well to show care in preserving the respectable charac- ter of the Order, and to exclude worthless indi- viduals, especially the professional and trading politicians, anything like mysticism, exclusive- ness or vain forms will lessen their usefulness. That would be inconsistent with a great move- ment to effect social, economical or political reforms. Nor will the granges accomplish much unless they combine for action and con- fine themselves to a few specific objects upon which all can agree. Unity and cohesiveness are necessary. Their platform should be simple, not covering too much ground, and referring directly to their industrial interests. With such an organization and programme they might prove a blessing to the country, hold corrupt politicians in check, and say who should control the government. The leaders of political parties begin to see the importance of the movement and are coquetting with it; the democrats on the free trade principle and the republicans with propositions of internal improvements. Thus there are breakers in the way ot fhe very start, Hostility to monopoly and cheap transportation are the questions. Education and co-operation may become important ones hereafter. The issue between the Western farmers and the railroads arises from the want of cheaper facilities to market for farm produce, or, in other words, a lower rate of charges for trans- portation. Itis an antagonism of rival inter- ests, though we think the difficulty might be So overcome by mutual concession or by legis- lation as to make these interests identical or reciprocal. Lower rates for transportation would necessarily increase tho amount trans- ported, and, therefore, the railroads could afford to charge less on account of their in. creased business. But the trouble is railroad corporations have no souls, and believe they are all-powerful. They have controlled legis- lation in the several States and have dono much as they pleased with Congress. They have watered their stocks and issued bonds largely in excess of the capital invested in tho railroads or of the cost of constructing, equip- ping and working them. The fictitious wealth thus created has been divided among the managers, aud they now ¢xnect the public to pay, in the way of freight charges and passage money, interest on The Anarchy in Spain. The latest news from Spain is a little more this bogus capital. Inflating their capi-| hopeful for the Republic, the tidings of the tal in this manner, without any good foun- dation for it, they may have acted within the letter of the law or beyond the reach of existing law; but injustice has been done, nevertheless, to the public. In fact, with this pretence of chartered privileges and protection of the law, together with their influence over courts and judges, the railroad corporations have been guaranteed generally in their stock-inflating schemes, pretended capital and overcharges. They forget that railroad charters have been granted ostensibly for the public weal, and that when they set up overstrained chartered rights and the in- terest of fictitious capital against that they violate the principle upon which their char- ters were conceded, though they may act within the strict letter of the law. We have no data at present to. show how much in the aggregate the stock, bonds and capital of the sixty-seven thousand miles of railroad in this country have been augmented over the actual cost or bona fide capital invested; but the excess, probably, amounts to thirty or forty per cent. The total cost of the railroads in operation is set down. at’ $3,159,423,057, or $55,116 a mile. The actual cost was not, probably, over $2,000,000,000 par- ticularly when we take into account the vast amount of lands granted and other aid afforded by tho gov- ernment, The difference of interest on these two sums, if deducted in earnings of the railroads, would reduce the rates for freight and passengers twenty-five per cent at least. We refer, of course, to the railroads in the aggregate, and not to particular ones. It should be borne in mind, too, that railroad property increases in value and in its earnings with the growth of population and the progress of the country, and, as a consequence, that there ought to be a corresponding reduction of rates. But whero is a remedy to be found for the evils of which tho farmers complain, and from which every branch of industry, particularly inthe West, suffers? The movement of the granges is the first step. Tho Logislatures and Courts of some of the Western States have been compelled already to take action for the protection of the public against the railroad power and monopoly. As an evidence of the influence of this movement we notice thata new schedule of railroad rates has been made in Dlinois, reducing the rate of freights about five per cent. It will be better, perhaps, if the different States will regulate tho railroads within themselves—that is, if sufficient pres- sure can be brought to bear upon the Logisla- tures, the Executives and the Courts to over- rule the mighty money power of railroad cor- porations. It is better to avoid going to the federal government for a remedy, if possible, for there has been of late, and is, too great a tendency to concentrate power in it at the cost of State rights and personal liberty. Still, in view of the almost irresistible influence of railroad capital and managers over State authorities and legislators, we fear there is no sufficient remedy to be found out- side ot the federal government. Congress has the power, undoubtedly, to regulate the busi- ness of the railroads, The constitution says it shall regulate commerce among the several States, and no one can deny that the railroads are the great arteries of commerce among the States, as much as are the rivers and seaboard, and more than were the high roads in former times. Should the State Legislatures fail to do their duty to the people in this matter it will devolve upon Congress to ignore and for- bid fictitious railroad capital, to prevent the public being charged to pay interest on that and to bring rates of freight and passage down to a reasonable interest on bona fide in- vestments. If we mistake not the movement of the farmers’ granges, backed up by our New York merchants, will have that result. But it should be independent of existing politica parties, and nothing should be done unjustly to capitalists or invested rights, or that might tend to check railroad enterprise; for, with all the evils of monopoly, creation of bogus capital, corruption and dangerous power com- plained of, the railroads are a great boon to the country—yes, to the farmers as well as to every other class of citizens. Thore is a cor- relation of interests, if the farmers and rail- road corporations can be made to understand that. To make these harmonize and to do jus- tice toall would be the solution of the difficulty. Troubles Among the Politicians, The democrats in Indiana seem to have got into hot water among themselves, and the trouble promises to end in the establishment of another democratic organ in the place of the Indianapolis Sentinel, which does not ap- pear to give satisfaction to Governor Hendricks and his friends. At the same time grumbling has broken out among the republican ranks in Maine, and the malecontents aro meeting in county conventions and openly expressing their dissatisfaction with the way things are going. Our readers are familiar with the hubbub that prevails among the democrats in Ohio, and with the determination expressed by their new party men and the liberal republicans to keep up the fire against the radical republicans. As a sort of windup of these little family jars among the politicians, East and West, an inky war broke out in Georgia between two dis- tinguished politicians that section—Goy- Gas tal ol woos Boke e Johnson. The latter affair has, however, been amicably settled, and order again reigns in Atlanta. One would think that, with the dog star raging, these politicians would en- deavor, in some manner, to keep themselves cool. But, as they choose to make trouble and keep up heated controversies among them- selves, all we can do is to admonish them of the danger of overexertion, mentally and physically, with the thermometer at nearly Tue Stanat Bunxav reported yesterday “for the New England and the northern part of the Middle States increasing southeast and south- west winds, falling barometer, cloudy weather and numerous local storms;"’ and yesterday we had the report from London that “rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, pre- vails in the neighborhood to-day.” We bave noticed such coincidences before, and certain remarkable agreements in the heat in London and New York; but they have never yet, wo believe, got up into the nineties in London, and so far New York again yesterday, as usnal, carried off the remium. government victory at Malaga being a cheer- ful indication for the friends of order. But one triumph cannot dispel the cloud which overhangs the country ; one successful battle cannot uproot anarchy so deep-seated. The real condition of unhappy Spain is photo- graphed in the letters of the special eorre- spondents of the Hznaup which we print this morning. The cruelties described in one of these letters are heartrending. The alcaldes, or may- ors, of the smaller cities in the insurgent dis- tricts seem to suffer every class of outrages which an infuriate mob can inflict. Ono of these, the Alcalde of Alcoy, was dragged naked through the streets, and two members of the Town Council were drowned in baths of pe- troleum and their bodies afterward burned. These stories are almost beyond belief, but there are so many of them told from day to day at Madrid, and Spanish cruelty is a thing so fearful in itself, that it would be more won- derful still if they were not true.- Another of our letters this morning gives a very different account of the courtesies which pass between the Carlists and the government troops. We are even told that the Carlists, on vacating Leiza, ordered a hot breakfast for the pursuing forces, and that wine enough was supplied for 20,000 men. Is this the way Castafion and Nou- vilas fight each other? The same letter de- scribes the blundering warfare of the republi- can Commander-in-Chief. Then we have a graphic account of the death of General Ca- brinetty, shot by his own troops before they voluntarily surrendered to the Carlists. We have also an interview with Don Alfonso, and, altogether, the series of letters is most inter- esting, giving an exceedingly graphic as well as a very painful picture of the anarchy which oxistsin Spain, A Double Execution at Baltimore. We have printed nothing more painful in a long time than the account of the religious ex- ercises and the reports of the speeches of the two murderers, Hollohan and Nicholson, exe- cuted at Baltimore yesterday. Right as their devotions were, sincere as the repentance of these men may have been, devout as was the Christian spirit which breathed through every word they uttered, that scene, witnessed as it was by fifteen thousand spectators, was not in itself edifying. But it has a lesson which the teachers of religion would do well to heed. Had these men been taught in their youth the simplest truths of Christianity, had they not been in ignorance all their lives of the plainest edicts of morality, they would not have been brought to such an inopportune confession of their faith. A murder like that of Mrs, Lampley is not committed except by men who have been permitted to grow up as heathen among churches and preachers and zealous workers in the Young Men's Christian Association. Apart from this lesson, taught in a way too terrible, the effect of the sceno can not be said to be good. It may oven plant disbelief in hearts which never knew disbelief before. The slayers of a defenceless old woman, wolves in the prisoners’ dock, lambs on the scaffold, were not fit to speak in the presence of the multitude the mystic name of which both the murderers testified. Is it not best that the condemned murderer should go to his death without making public proclamation of his hopes in the hereatter? This is a priviloge not accorded to men who have lived blameless lives, and in cases like those of Hollohan and Nicholson, more men will scoff at their con- version than commend the proclamation of their faith. If murderers in Maryland must be allowed to make speeches at their execu- tions, the innocent should at least be excluded from witnessing what to many persons wil look like impiety. Tue Accrpent on THE Hupson River Ran Boap Yesterpay, although not of the magni- tude at first reported, is a warning which should not be neglected. The tide of travel to the Summer resorts calls for unusual vigi- lance on the part of railroad officials, and neglect in the slightest detail, particularly at this time, must be considered highly criminal. Either the switch on the Hudson River Rail- road at Tarrytown, on which the freight train which caused all the damage was moving off the main track, was not in good condition, or there was some defect in the trucks of the car which “jumped” the rails. Although the sad death of a brakeman and the severe injuries sustained by some of the passengers gave a tragical aspect to this disaster, it may be considered providential that a repetition of the New Hamburg slaugh- ter did not occur. There cannot be too much, perhaps there is not sufficient, precaution against disaster on a road which is so con- stantly traversed by trains, An occurrence like that of yesterday calls for a searching in- vestigation. A mistake ot a minute in time, a flaw in an axle or wheel, a heated journal or a defective switch may causo a wholesale tragedy any day. Therefore the Tarrytown calamity should put all railroad directers and employés on their guard, particularly now, when a large proportion of the public are in search of cool retreats. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. —s Joseph Arch, the English labor agitator, is com- ing to this country. General J. G. Foster, of the United States Army, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Sefior Pesquera has been re-elected Governor of the State of Sonora, Mexico. State Senator Townsend D. Cock, of Queens county, 1s at the Sturtevant House. Congressman Freeman Clarke, of Rochester, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. vhief Justice W. B, Richards, of Canada, yester, day arrived at the Westmoreland Hotel, The Marauis of Bute has been lecturing in Lon- don on “The Shrines of the Holy Land.”’ Lieutenant E, H. Leutze, of the United States Navy, is registered at the Hoffman House. Ex-Vice President John ©. Breckenridge, of Ken- tucky, yesterday arrived at Barnum’s Motel. New Orleans, despairing of getting rid of Col- lector Casey, asks to be deciared a tree port. Postmaster General Creswell and iamily lett Long Branch for Washington yesterday afternoon. George E. Marsh, paymaster of the Ohio Falls Iron Works at New Albany, has ku-kluxed $20,000 of its funds. An idiot named Becker proposes to jump from the Suspension Bridge at Cincinnati into the Ohio on Monday. Mr. T. T. Cooper, the explorer of Burmah and Western China, hag been appointed British politi- cal agent at Bhamo. AQ old man named Rbinebart, worth $25,000, died at Sandusky, and willed (dat only $7 26 snow be paid for his funeral. H. Bendel, late Superintendentiof Indian Affairs in Arizona, has been tendered the appointment as Consal at Elsinore, Denmark. The Cimeinnati Enquirer thinks George E. Pogh has outlived his usefulness; 1n other ‘words, that he is no longer @ Pugh-ilistic politician. Rev. Fanny W. Roberts, of Kittery, Me,, has been licensed by the Governor to marry parties, Most ladies can marry without a Governor's permission. M. Rouber has been visiting the Empress Eu- génie at Arenenberg, where also is Prince Napoleon, who spends his timein pistol practice and rowing. Commodore Rodgers, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and Commodore Ammen, Chief of Navigation, are visiting at the Portsmouth (Me.) Navy Yard. Some time ago Benjamin E. Bates, of Boston, offered to give $100,000 to Bates College, at Lewis- ton, Me., providing an equal amount could be raised. That amount has been secured and Mr, Bates’ offer will be made available. A Liverpool (England) lawyer is in & mental snarl, produced by the facts of @ divorce case which he is conducting. His client, a Swede, mar- ried an English woman in Germany aad went to live in England. The woman has now run off with ® Russian, and the elopers are now residing in Italy. The mixture of nations is crazing that s0- ecitor. The Boston Evening Traveller publishes the fol- lowing :—‘‘A Washington correspondent telegraphs that Mr. Wilson is about to undergo a formidable operation and it isthought he may survive.” On the contrary, Mr. Wilson is much better than he has been at any time since his illness and is steadily improving. . No operation whatever is or has been contemplated, Garcia, the Spaniard, who was convicted two years ago, with M. Calyodo, director of the Italian opera, for cheating at play, but who escaped pun- ishment by fight, lately returned to Paris and ap- pealed from the judgment against him. The Court decided that Garcia had allowed too long a time to pass belore entering his protest, and was only urged to submit it by the destruction of doc- uments during the Commune and the death of wit- nesses, Can Professor Tyndall longer doubt the efficacy of prayer? The Shah was to have visited Clividen, England, but a Mr. Walker and eight other saintly men, belleving that the visit might lead to a dese- cration of the Sabbath, prayed for Divine aid to prevent it. Four days of supplication were re- warded by the absence of the Shah from Clividen, ‘The congregation of the Wesleyan chapel, in Maiden- head, England, took the holy Mr. Walker's story to their hearts. A MAINE CHANCE, Si ee Grant Invited to a Little Game by Morrill, Who Likes the Ermine—Pleas- ant Prospects for the Republic. Accounts from Matne state that President Grant is expected in Augusta noxt week, but it is not posible to state the day. The fact of his coming has been kept very still, and people outside of the favored circles had no knowledge of it till it leaked out in the papers, and then it was at once announced that he was coming on a private visit with his family, and that mo public demonstration would be made. That this visit means more than ia thus made to appear on the surface may be relied upon, Mr. Blaine’s real purpose in bringing about this visic is to induce the President to appoint Hon. Lot M- Morrill Pete the United States in order that he (Mr. Biatne) fifdy bé elected himself to the Senate in place of Mr. Morrill ai an advanced po- sition from which to operate for the Presidency in 1876, and every possible influence will be brought to bear on the President to accomplish this purpose. Mr. Morrill will be opposed at the close of his term on account ofhis voting for the salary grab, and it is said he is not averse to becoming the successor of the lamented Chase. He is un- doubtedly as well qualified to periorm the duties of that exalted position as either of the Senatoria! candidates named. A ROWING FIZZLE, The Sculling Match for the Champton- ship Of—Nice Pettifogging of the Prin- cipals. PITTSBURG, Pa., August 1, 1873, Tn the early days of the week there were rumors that the sculling match for the championship and $2,000, between William Scharff and Henry Coutter, {} was off, owing to the men disagreeing in the ar-! rangement of the preliminary details. This rumor, upon investigation, proved too true, and yet there were hopes that one or other would yield the point before to-morrow, the day fixed for the race. Meet ings of partisans of the scuilers have been held every day this week, the last one to-night, when it became manifest that the matter in disagreement could not be amicably arranged, and, consequently, for the present, the race was declared off. According to the articles of agreement Scharff was allowed the privilege of sclecting the course, and he desig- nated the Monongahela River, starting opposite Nineteenth street, rowing thence up the river toa point two and a half mijes. Coulter readily agreed to the course, but insisted they should start from the upper end of it and row down to Nineteenth street, and thence to the place of starting. Scharil’s men offered to toss up as to the starting point, though still claiming that under the articles of Seren they had clearly a right to name it. To this Coulter's party dissented. Scharf’s vack- ers next offered to leave to the referee, who was yet to be appointed, the privilege of construing the articles of agreement, and saying ‘rom what point the start should be made. To this Coulter’s party also objected. On this trivial matter the parties disagreed, and, as the diMculty could not be set- tled, the race was finally declared off. Coulter's obstinacy comes in for severe comment, and, it is claimed, that he wished to crawl out of the race, and this was the only loophole of escape. He is @ giant in strength and weight compared with young Scharff, who is @ stripling of twenty-three, but who, it is said, can outrow him. Betting all along has been in favor of Scharf, In conversation with your correspondent to-night Coulter said for his part he ‘Was willing to start anywhere, but backers of his would not allow it. Another meeting will be held to-morrow night with a view of getting the men to agree to row over the course on which Hamill Ward, Walter Brown and Coulter rowed. Scharff claims the championship and says he is prepared to deiend his claims against allcomers. The stakes @re still up. THE CHOLERA. Citizens of Murfreesberough Panic- Stricken—Fourteen Deaths a Day. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., August 1, 1973. The latest private advices from Murireesborough, Tenn., state that there have been fourteen deaths from cholera during the preceding twenty-four hours, a very large mortality for the size of the town. The citizens were ae stricken, and all who could were feeing to the mountains, In Ohio. Co.umavus, August 1, 1873, There nas been no cholera in this city for nearly a week until this morning, when a convict died at the Penitentiary. Mortality Missouri. Sr. Louis, August 1, 1873, The Evening Despatch learns from a gentleman just arrived from Poplar Bluff, Butler county, Mo., that cholera has raged there violently. Thirty deaths had occurred out of a total population of less than eight hundred, The mortality was largely confined to railroad hands, but several citizens had died. The disease has now nearly abated, Eight Deaths in Carmi, I11., in One Day. EVAansvILur, Ind., August 1, 1875, The Journal's advices from Carmi, Mll., say that cholera has broken out there with fearful force, and that eight deaths had occurred in twenty-four hours up to one o’clock P. M. yesterday, making fourteen deaths since cholera made its ap ance there about a weck ago. DROWNED AT NEWPORT. Newronrt, August 1, 1873. Mr. Herman K. Hopps, of Wisconsin, late a stu- dent of the Baptist Seminary, Newton, Mass., was drowned this morning while bathing off the beach, Mr. Hopps was a graduate from the University of Chicago and twenty-seven years of age. body ‘Was recovered at six o'clock this evening. Hanivs%, August 1, 1873. The annual yacht race for the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup, which (ook ‘place to-day, Waa won by the sper, LONG BRANCH. Glimpses of Seaside Soe ciety. The Great’Tom MeCahill, His Big Blue Fish and His Sulky Warming Toward',the . Cosar—Scratching Against the Posts* of the Seaside White House, Lone BRraxeu, August 1, 1873. ‘The report of the illness of Mr. Dent, Presiden Grant's father-in-law, was much exaggerated im some of the New York papers. The old gentleman, Who 18 eighty seven years of age, was. indisposed, but not so much as to occasion any alarm on the part of the family; and, so far trom the President's return to Long Branch having been hastened by the intelligence of Mr, Dent's condition, he did not hear of it until he was on board the Long Branch boat, Mr= Dent has of course attained an age when a slight attack of illness may at any moment prove » serious matter, but his general health is good, and except as to hia memory his faculties. are butslight- ly impaired, THE WEATHER, THE BATHING AND THS FISHING We have had another cloudy, showery day, an@ the recent storms have left the ocean somewhat Tough for bathing. The water yesterday and tos day has been of a delightful temperature, but. the waves are heavy and apt to mix the bathers up im & very miscellaneous manner. A long string of water nymphs and sea gods, young and old, fat nd lean, are occasionally bowled down by a breaker! as effectually as the pins in an alley are tumbled over by a goou player on a ten-strike. The scratche, ing in the sand and the clutching for the rope when @ boisterous breaker sweeps back to the sea! after spending its fury on the beach, is a sight to; be remembered by the lookers-on. After all, hera, is glorious fun in surf bathing. Formality disap- Pears under itsinfuence. ‘The lady who sweeps ast you in the dining room or pare ore, with her long train, without deignil to cast a glance upon you, and, witha sort of touc! me-not air, is rei to Grasp your arm in tl breakers with Reccard Mailiarity, Then th screams of delight and the ringing laughter tha’ sound above the roar and the dash of the wav. are unmistakable indications of the genuine en« joyment of surf bathing. Still water bathin: in comparison is as milk and water chamaaae If the storms have been bad for @ bathers they seem to have broughé especial good fortune to the fishers, for the hauig have been something astonishing this week. Mr. Thomas McOahill, one of the landmarks of Lon; Branch on the road, in the ball room, on the beac! and everywhere else, caught a blue fish this moi ing weighing nearly fifteen pounds, and landed 1 safely in his sulky. I believe he caught it of Pierce,’ the famous fisherman of the Ocean House, who had reckoned up his morning's work by the hundreds of pounds for the past three or four days, RNT ARRIVALS AT THE BRANCH. the recent arrivals at the Branch ara United States Senator Brelingnuyaen and General Wistar. Commissioner Van Nort is here with his family, cooling himself every evening after his heated tilts with Mayor Havemeyer an@ Com} troller Green in the city during the day. It robably the invigorating influence of the sea air shat has recently enabled him to administer such severe and da doses of literature tothe Mayor and Comptroller. Havemeyer and: Green should come down to the Jersey coast and wash the cobwebs of spite and petty jealousy from their brains in the healthful waves of the Al 10, and then they might find some duties of their offices to transact more important and more bene. ficial to the city than the prosecution of a wordy factional war against one of the leading depart- ments of a) Sapegrernmene, * SHALL T 1D) AY! SEASID) is eas SE PE gRt UE The proposition that the nation shall furnish the President of the United States with a Summer resi- en: Long Branch is wari, d by all th fatal aAWwepaffershereabouts and the jourde | Amon; ‘spapers hereabouts, an: rnals tha: have opposed the foe sition have been haule: over the coals, ‘ell, why not? It is general cousidered an important matter to keep the Presi= dent alive during the term for which he is elected,’ and the experience of the past has not made the American people very anxious to undergo a repetition of the experiment of Tylerism, Filmoreism and Johnsonism. When we remember’ the Crédit Mobilier developments we may well hope to be spared the necessity of supplying the place of General Grant with any Congressionaf material. A Summer in Washington is enough to undermine a tolerably strong constitution, and & do not see why we should not supply our Presidents witha regular seaside residence, where the business of the government can becomfortably attended to during the‘heated term. Certainty no more desirable locality than Long Branch, for health and convenie ence, could be selected in any part of the country, unless it might be the borders of the Central Parke in New York. But then it will probably be as we! to wait a while, at all events until we age certain what is to be the fate of Cxsarism., if we are to have General Grant as ow permanent ruler he already has two fin and valuable residences at Long Branch, one ot which he occupies himself, while the other is occu- pe by ene of the brothers Seligman. Either could e easily turned into an imperial alace, or the twa could be united in one splendid establishment... Besides, a Cesar could build a Leng Branch palace for himself, without asking the nation’s consent, or could even seize upon John Hoey’s magnificen& house and park, and appropriate them to himself,) taking off Mr. Hoey’s head if he should object. So, on the whole, we had better wait and see if we — to have a Cwsar before we purchase a Presiden’ residence at Long Branch, A thunder storm of extraordinary force broke! over this place to-day. A waiter in the Allem House was killed, and three horses were struck dead in the field. THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION. Progress of the Military and Pioneers im the Wilderness—General Stanley Push<= ing On—Off for the Mussel Shell. YELLOWSTONE RIVER, July 28, 1873. The Yellowstone Expedition, which arrived a& this point, twelve miles southwest of Giendive’s Creek, on the 15th inst., completed the crossing the command on the 24th, and after sending t! Key West up the river to 0’Falion’s Creek to allow" the engineers to finish the line for crossing the, proposed road, is ready to move on west. ‘ General Stanley takes filty days’ supplies, an@ expects to return by the 15th of October. The stockade at the crossing is guarded by a squadron of the Seventh cavalry and a aan etna the Seventeenth infantry. The command rts for Pompey'’s Pillar and the Mussel Shell thig. morning. at five o'clock. ARMY INTELLIGENOE. In accordance with the act of Congress of March: 8, 1873, authorizing the Secretary of War ta purchase lands for the United States in the State of Texas for sites of forts and military posts, the Secretary has appointed a board, to consist of Lieutenant Colonel S. B. Holabird, Deputy Quarters master General, Major A. P. Morrow, of the Ninth cavairy, and Captain W. 8. Gentry, of the Nine-teenth infantry, to assembie at San Antonio, Texas, on the 5th instant, or ag soon thereafter as practicable. The Board will be governed by the require. ments of the act of March 3 and suck instructions as it may receive from or througle the Lieutenant General Commanding the Military Division of the Missouri. Particular attention wilt be given to the data bearing upon the title of the lands, The proceedings of the rd, with the ap- roval or disaporoval of the commanders of the Be artment of Texas and of the Military Divisiom of Missouri, will be promptly forwarded by the lat- ter to the Adjutant tion of the Secretary of War. “WAVAL ORDERS. Surgeon G. 8. Beardsley has been ordered to they Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va. Licutenant 0. 0! Todd has been detached irom special ordnance: duty and ordered to the Wyoming. Master Charieg A. Bradbury has been detached from the Worces~ ter and ordered to the Coast Survey steamer Bache. Ensign Nathan Sargeant has been detached from the Coast Survey steamer Bache and ordered to the Alaska. Surgeon B. H. Kidder has been dew tached from the Naval Hospital at Norfolk, Va., and placed on waiting orders. THE BOSTON FIRE, } List of the Losers the Insurance ord fices Concerned. Boston, August 1, 1873. Among the owners of merchandise burned in ¢! East Boston bonded warehouse last night were the! following Boston firms:—Sewell, Day & Co., R. Saf Pray & Co., Wood & Co., A. ©. Lombard & Sonse, Benjamin Goddard, H, Gardner, J. Curtis & 008 William Perkins & Co., W. F., Weld & Oo., Baker~ Morrill & Co., and many others, Sifsbee & Pick man, of Salem, large importera of hemp, saffer an estimated loss of $150,000, which i partialky insured. Among the companies ’ holding na the roperty,deatroyed are the followin, Boy! ay Boston, $36,000; Liverpool and Lon ‘and Globe, ; $30,000; Clinton, of New York, $1,500; Ellison, Hollis & Co., agents for several Now York coms D ‘old risks to the amMOUNt Of $40,000, Panty thousand dollars of the in urance 1s distrib. uted amung the Royal of Liverpool, Insurance Company of North America, Ireurance Company ot the tate of Pennayivanta, Pennsylvania In. surance Company and th, American Insurance Company of Philadelptta, neral of the Army for the aca,