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

4 NEW YORK IERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. pain sie oe Ts JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowery.— Tox Kixg—Tux Mopocs. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brondway and Thirteenth street. — Mim. BOWERY THEATRE, Eowery.—Tax Ciaan Gin or Cona—Bertaa, tax Szwixc Macuins Ginn. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— nex Yeans in 4 Maw Trav. Afternoon and evening. CENTRAL PARK GARD2 Summer Nicuts’ Con- CERTs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad- ‘way.—Scixnce anp Ant. shall DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scimxce an Agr. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Monday, August 4, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “POLITICAL MOVEMENTS OF THE DAY! THE DEMOCRACY AND THE LIBERAL REPUB- LICANS "—EDITORIAL LEADER—Fourta PAGE. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE AT THE VIENNA EX- HIBITION! THE NEW AND OLD CHIEF COMMISSIONERS! WHAT MAY BE LEARNED FOR OUR CENTENARY! A CHAPTER OF GOSSIP FROM VIENNA— THIRD Page. TROUBLED SPAIN! A CANTONAL SCHEME! CON- TRERAS A PRISONER ON BOARD A GER- MAN WAR VESSEL! CARLISTS CONCEN- TRATING—FiFra PaGE. NEWS FROM CENTRAL ASIA! RUSSIAN LOSSES IN THE CONQUEST OF THE KHANATE! FREEING PERSIAN SLAVES—Firti Pack. FEARFUL RAINFALL IN PERU! THE CITIES OF LIMA AND CALLAO FLOODED! HALF A MILLION DOLLARS’ WORTH OF PROPERTY DESTROYED—\irtH PaGs. ARRIVAL OF THE SHAH OF PERSIA AT VI- ENNA! HIS VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION— FurtH PaGE. “FREE LANCE” AND THE SHAH! A SPECIMEN ENGLISH NOBLEMAN! AN EXEMPLIFI- CATION OF WOMANHOOD BY THE MAR, QUIS OF LORNE—Turmp PacE. A HOT SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES! THE SER- MONS DELIVERED BY OUR WORKING DIVINES! WORDS THAT BURN—THE SICK CHILDREN FUND—Eicura Page, A GREAT QUESTION IN THE MARCH OF IM- PROVEMENT! SHALL NEW ENGLAND BE ISOLATED? A LINE OF STEAMSHIPS BE- TWEEN LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO—E1cHTH PAGE. THE ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB OFF FOR A CRUISE! THE VESSELS COMPRISING THE FLEET! THE CRUISE OF THE BROOKLYN CLUB! YACHTING NOTES—SixTH PAGE. THE AMERICAN BRIGHTON (LONG BRANCH) PLETHORIC! THE CROWDS FROM NEW YORK! SATURDAY NIGHT HOPS AND A SUNDAY SERMON—SIxTH Paae. THE NEW MASONIC TEMPLE IN PHILADELPHIA! ITS PROPOSED DEDICATION! GREAT GATHERING OF MEMBERS OF THE MYSTIC TIK—Firth PAGE. A WHISKEY STORM IN BOSTON! PROHIBITION- ISTS IN THEIR ELEMENT! LIQUOR DEAL- ERS STAMPEDED—Firru Page. k WALWORTH! AN INTER- N WHAT TRAE LADY URDER AND THE RE- PORTED APPLICATION FOR A PARDON— SIXTH PaGE. THE LIFE OF LIZZIE LLOYD KING: A STRANGE HISTORY—SixTH PAGE, CHAMBERS AND SEDDONS IMBROGLIO! A SABBATH MORNING ENCOUNTER! CHAM- BERS DECLARED THE WINNER IN FOUR- TEEN ROUNDS—TEstTu PAGE. NEW YORK POST OFFICE! WHAT POST- JAMES HAS DONE AND Is DOING! ING STATISTIES—SECOND PacE. WEEK ON WALL STREET! THE THE THE THE PAST FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY | GENERALLY! GOOD PROSPECTS! SOME CURIOUS FIGURES FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT—THE COTTON AND BREAD- STUFFS MARKETS—NIntH Pag. Boston’s Srrrtr Is Troverep.—Not con- tent with forcing the best liquor in the State nto the neighborhood of Pemberton square the Police Commissioners want to get control of the beer. Constables en- trusted with the Prohibition Department have been officially decapitated, teetotal fervor has risen higher than Bunker Hill Monument, a grand raid is threatened throughout the region of the blue laws, and every mon not entisfied with Washburn “straight’’ or Butler ‘‘sour’’ must henceforth take his ‘‘tot,’’ be it alcoholic, schnapps or common beer, behind his bedroom door. Let State street restaurateurs tremble. Germany anv Bexerum.—It is rumored that on an early day the King of the Belgians will “mect the German Emperor at Frankfort, Political importance will, of course, be at- ftached to the interview. In view of the ap- proaching final evacnation of French territory by the Germans it is quite possible that Ger- many may be williug to enter into friendly glliance with both Holland and Belgium. Belgium, it may be taken for granted, will be ‘Bnxious to have Germany fora friend. It is well known in some quarters that French am- ‘bition is already looking in tho direction of ‘Belgium in search of compensation for the Yoss of Alsnce and Lorraine. An alliance swith Germany may thus become a Belgian mecessity. The rumored interview seems to dicate that Germany and Belgium are on terms; and it will not be matter for sur- if, in the hour of her need, Belgium ould find in the German Empire a good and ‘a powerful friend. A Carrrat Twice Buxssep.— Washington has Bven worse nuisances than country office-hunt- yrs to contend against. Cushing unearthed the yellow dog and brought him into Court. A Mr. Bamburger now indicts the iron horse and hungry looking cattle trucks. Can’t some | ne discover the flying blue pigand make up a trio for the District Justices ? Tax Viena Exposrrion.---We print an- pther interesting letter from Vienna in the Heuary this morning. Aside from the details our correspondent gives in regard to the American colony on the Danube, his letter is particularly valuable and suggestive touching pur own great exhibition in Philadelphia on the centennial anniversary of American Inde- pendence. Political Movements of the Day—The Democracy and the Liberal Repub- cans. Since the time of Monroe, that peaceful political time, distinguished as “the era of good fecling,”” when party lines were obliterated and the poople were “all federalists and all republicans’’—since that lucid interval, that transition epoch from the honest simplicitios of the fathers of the constitution to the corrup- tions of the public plunder—there has to this time been no intervening period marked by the general monotony and dulness now reign- ing in tho administration party or by the gen- eral demoralization prevailing in the opposi- tion ranks. Can it be that, with the lapse of half a century, we have completed a political cycle which brings us round again to the obliteration of old party lines and to a Presi- dential scrub rece, as in 1824, preliminary to a reconstruction of our political parties upon new men and new issyes? If the political conditions of the two periods—the period of Monroe’s administration and the period of Grant's—were substantially identical we might count with some confidence upon simi- lar results in both cases, But under the second term of Monroe the old op- position federal party had dissolved and disappeared ‘and ‘the old controlling Congressional caucus of the republican party had lost its prestige. Nor were there in 1824 any great questions of governmental policy cal- culated to divide the people into two great hostile party camps; and so it was that upon the personal merits and popularity of Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Crawford and Clay that campaign for the Presidential succession was fought, and was finally, in being carried to the House of Representatives, determined in favor of Adams. From that point, and from the hue and cry of ‘bargain and sale’’ raised by the friends of Jackson against Clay in the election of Adams, we have the shaping and the direction of all tho vicissitudes of our political parties and of the country and the government down to this day. The clection and the administra- tion of Adams stand as the landmark, the dividing barrier, between the honest and fru- gal administration of the government under “the fathers’’ and the conduct of our political affairs under the baleful ensign that “to the victors belong the spoils.’” From Jackson to Grant this maxim has been the supreme law of the party in power and the inspiration of the opposing party. Our existing political conditions, then, looking to the Presidential contest of 1876, are so widely different from the situation of things in the interval from 1820 to 1824 that a scrub race for the succession is hardly possible, although, from the existing divisions among the anti-administration forces, they may be divided upon two or three differ- ent Presidential tickets, as were the opposition forces against Jackson in 1832, aud against Van Buren in 1836, and against Buchanan in 1856. From the present movements of the demo- cratic party and the liberal, or anti-Grant, re- publicans we think it most probable that each of these parties will have a Presidential ticket of its own in 1876. To the democratic party the results of the fusion movement of 1872 utterly repel the thought of a repetition of that profitless experiment. Not a State can be named in which anything was gained from it; nota State can be mentioned in which the democrats did not lose heavily from the exper- iment. In tho outset it was supposed that the name of Mr. Greeley as the democratic candidate on the Cincinnati liberal platform would command the balance of power in North Carolina, and that the opening victory there would mark the rising tide of a sweeping revo- lution. But North Carolina was a disappoint- ment. The crucial test was then transferred to Vermont and Maine; but they, too, only betrayed the weakness of the Cincinnati liberals as a balance of power. There was still a hope of a change ond ageneral re- action from the October elections of Pennsyl- vania and Ohio; but the next morning after theso elections it was known throughout the Union that it was all over with the democratic ticket adopted from the Cincinnati Con- vention, and that the November Presidential contest would go by default for Grant and Wilson. We have the evidence in those November returns that everywhere the demo- crats had become disheartened and de- moralized by their ‘‘new departure,” and we have had nothing in tho subsequent move- ments of the party favoring the idea of a resumption of this most unfortunate coalition. The Ohio liberals, under Mr. Brinkerhoff, in a State Convention the other day at Co- lumbus, adopted a platform of democratic principles and a compromise ticket of demo- crats and liberals, as the protocol for another alliance, offensive and defensive, with the de- mocracy; but the democratic journals give no encouraging responses to the movement. On the other hand, from their emphatic denuncia- tions of the proposed coalition and their general demands for a return to the old party, the old faith andthe old flag, we anticipate from the Ohio Democratic Convention of the 6th instant a ‘mew departure’ to the old tabernacle. With this result in Ohio we may assume that the democracy in all the other States will pursue the same course in reference to their approaching State elections, aud that the liberal republicans, like the labor reformers, the temperance men and other outside factions, will bo left froe to act for themselves, including such incidental arrange- ments in bebalf of this or that local candidate as they may deem expedient. Upon the main point---the resumption of the late coalition be- tween the liberal republicans and the demo- cratic party---we expect a definite abandonment of such coalition by the democrats, and that the action of their forthcoming Ohio Conven- tion will be accepted as the law to the party throughout the country. General John Cochrane, with his liberal republican committeo at Saratoga, has appa- rently been canvassing the situation with refer- ence to this contingency. We apprehend that he will meet the crisis in acting upon the con- clusion that the late coalition, offensive and de- fensive, between the liberal republicans and the democracy was dissolved with the death of Mr. Greeley, and that it will not be renewed, but will be formally abandoned, and that tho democratic party of Ohio, in their State Convention of this week at Co- lumbus, will speak for the party throughout the United States. We anticipate, accordingly, not au incongruous fusion of the opposition clements in 1876, a8 in 1872, but | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST - their division upon several candidates, as in 1832 and 1836, and another triumph to the party of the administration. General Grant | is master of the political field. With his enor- mous patronage, his national banks and bonds and debt, and his four hundred wil- lions of Treasury collections and disburse- ments, he holds a positive power as the head of the government and the head of the repub- lican party, compared with which the power of any preceding President was but a baga- telle. Considering, then, the unity and strength of the republican party and the weakness and divisions of the opposition ele- ments, there will be no Presidential scrub race in 1876, as in 1824, even should General Grant, following the examples of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson, de- cline to be a candidate for a third term. Blectric Meteorology. With the spread of the network of our meteorological stations to the West Indies we shall obtain a firmer basis of calculation of the phenomena—cyclones, squalls and waterspouts—which make navigation in those waters so perilous at certain sensons of tho year. The addition of an accurate notation of the electric condition, currents and dis- turbances all over the territory under the charge of the Weather Bureau at Washington will prove also, we believe, of immense service, for it cannot fail to increase the accuracy of the wea- ther reports, already of such value. The idea is admirably conceived and is fully justified by the present condition of electrical science. Tho attempt to utilize electrical premonitions is gnid to date far back in history, when the old Roman castles on the Adriatic were equipped with iron-pointed bastions, to which the guards on duty presented their iron hal- berds, and when they percejyed the spark gave warning to the farmer and fishermah of an approaching storm. But the elaborate re- searches in the field of atmospheric electricity within the last few years amply sustain the old popular notion that this mysterious agent is one of the almost invariable precursors of severe tempests and in a form that is unmis- takably cautionary. In his very recontly pub- lished work, bearing directly upon such prac- tical use of the electrometer as a weather glass—hardly less valued than the other instruments of the meteorolgist—Sir William Thomson, of Glasgow, has shown that certain conditions of weather are beauti- fully indicated by the strength and character of the electric currents in the air, and he has also strikingly confirmed the views of Becca- ria, a famed Italian philosopher of the last century. Lecturing inthe Royal Institution during a rain storm, Thomson quoted the old scientist's observations and tested their cor- rectness by his own instruments, which, it was afterwards found, had enabled him to make a brilliant prognostication of clear weather, verified, as it was, before the lecture was over. It is, unfortuyately, too truo that tho elec- tric ocean which envelops the earth is less known and studied than the marine fauna and flora of tho deepest valloys of the Atlantic bottom; but enough is alroady discovered in the former domain to warrant a hopeful and extensive system of continuous research. In- vestigation conclusively shows that in serene weather the carth’s surface (including in that term the surfaces of the sea, of the vegeta- tion, the buildings and inhabitants) is, as a rule, everywhore negatively, or resinously, electrified, while all meteoric bodies, flying birds, clouds, fogs, &c., not in contact with its crust, but floating through its atmosphere, are oppositely affected with positive electricity This well known fact affords the basis for such reseatch as we speak of, since the eleo- trification of any station must remain per- manently the same in degree and kind until it is disturbed by the passage or approach of electrified air orstorm clouds. An observer noticing a varying and unusual proportion of the electricity at any station furnished with an electrometer would, therefore, have timely intimation of advancing clouds and other atmospheric commotions which would be of great value for the purposes of weather tele- graphy. That such deductions would not be useless is proved by experiments and prog- nostics already made by eminent scientific observers. The celebrated Saussure and his fellow traveller on Mont Blanc once observed spontaneous flashes from their bodies, ‘and even sparks were emitted from their metallio buttons, just as they noticed in the distance a dark thunder cloud nearing their lofty view point. Similar electric premonitions of ap- proaching tempests have been recorded by Humboldt, Arago and all mountain explorers. For several days preceding the terrible English storm of October 23, 1859, Admiral Fitzroy recorded extraordinary disturbances of the electric currents in the telegraph wires above ground, and Mr. Varley, the electrician of the Atlantic telegraph, noted very strong deflections in the submarine cable currents. So marked and so many are the electrical indications provious to the East Indian typhoons that Mr. Piddington, the Calcutta meteorologist, with many others, held that the origin of these meteors was exclusively electrical. And the great Glasgow physicist alluded to in the outset of this article, in his electric observatory on the island of Arran, has noticed that when he could not perceive an east wind which his electrometer had warned him to predict, he immediately found by waves coming inshore that the wind must be actually blowing a short distance out at sea. It is evident, therefore, that the endeavor is not premature to employ the clectrometor and electroseope in the network of signal stations and thusto put electricity—that great magi- cian of the atmosphere—under rigid surveil- lance. The knowledge of natural lawa thus acquired will also be alike doubly valuable to the mariner (by enabling him to anticipate and avoid the stealthy cyclone, squall or water- spout) and to the intelligent physician in practically applying the principles of medical meteorology. — Ok The Latest Great Conflagration. One great fire rapidly follows upon another, and in two years the valuable parts of four cities have been burned—Chicago, Boston, Baltimore and Portland, Oregon. Seven yoars ago Portland, Me., was destroyed. This latest fire seems to have been the work of in- cendiaries, and, when tho extent and wealth of the city are considered, it was perhaps the most disastrous. Twenty-three blocks were burned and one entire block was in flames before the firemen got to work. With the assistance sent from Salem and Vancouygr the whole force | contending with the fire numbered only seven engines. Nearly all the important buildings in the city are gone, and the loss will probably reach two millions of dollars, with an insurance not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars. One hundred and fifty families are houseless, and even the churches are being converted into dwellings. These details show a sad want of precaution against such a disaster, but what is saddest of all is that it should be the work of fiondish men urged into the commission of the crime by @ general and fearful malice against mankind. One of these villains was caught in the act of setting fire to a building six blocks from the fire, and he was so mildly treated that he was only sent to jail. No punishment could have been tov severe for scoundrel so heartless and depraved. In re- gard to the burned city it seems useless to repeat the warnings of the past. If the authorities of large cities cannot be induced to take every precaution against fire after the fate of Chicago, Boston: and Baltimore they will not be warned at all. The Ministers’ Meditations, Yesterday was proclaimed in the Catholic churches of this diocese a triduum, or three days’ devotion, with special prayers for the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope and the deliverance of the Roman Church from her present tribulations. This event was im- proved by Rev. . Father McQuirk, in St. Stephen’s church, to elaborate and explain the doctrine of indulgences. He refuted the idea held by non-Catholics that an indulgence is a license to ein, and, citin the language of the catechism, adodared that it is nothing more or less than a ‘“‘remis- sion of the temporal punishment due to sin after the rs has been remitted.” Woe fail héwWoter, to see in this explanation ‘shy Tall refutation of the idea it was used to condemn; for if the recitation of a certain number or certain forms of prayer for three days, or any other number of days, can secure the remis- sion of the punishment due to sin there isa strong probability that the subject of this pardon will repeat the offence again and again, knowing that he can escape 80 easily. It is the adequacy of the punishment, coupled with its certainty, that will deter men from the commission of crime, and not a knowledge beforehand that this punishment will be lessened or remitted altogether. The illustrations of the two kinds of punishment and the remission of the temporal are not, we think, very well chosen either, and students of the Bible will readily perceive their faulti- ness. The good father makes the mistake very common to superficial theologians of con- founding suffering with punishment. They are distinct and not a unit, and any argument based upon their unity of course falls to the ground. Prayer is the most important duty imposed upon mankind, It is a desire of the soul found everywhere among men, pagan or Christian ; and whether it be an instinct im- planted in us by God, whether the desire spontaneous in eac! or be taught by sire to son, aud thus be handed down through all generations, as Dr. Deems remarked, it is useless for us to inquire. It does not make the fact different. From the highest to the lowest, all men, everywhere, have &t some time in their lives felt the necessity and in- dulged in the holy service of prayer; and, despite Mr. Tyndall's test, no true prayer, as the Doctor said, goes unanswered by God. What interest docs God take in us or in vir. tue aro questions, Mr. Jutten. gid, which have been rolling from side to side in world for centuries, until they have become the slumber- ing place of many souls. And the occasion for this strange remark wasa comment upon the Saviour’s exclamation, “My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?'’ But why such questions should be seriously asked by any one, or why a doubt should arise in the mind of any reasoning being in regard to God's interest in virtue and in virtuous men it is hard to conceive, when every day’s history furnishes examples abundant of His regard and care for such, and when, also, His re- vealed Word is so full of assurance of the same thing. And yet there are men who read neither the daily record of God’s care nor the written assurances of His word, and who therefore doubt and ask these questions, Dr. Ormiston, whom tho sultry days of July or August have not yet frightened off to the country or the sea shore, preached a sacra- mental sermon, giving prominence to the idea that God is present in symbols and emblems, and yct because of our limited knowledge of Him and His manifestations we fail to under- stand the doctrine of the atonement, or how God the Just can save the unjust. But here, as in many other forms of natural and rovealed truth, faith must accept what reason cannot comprehend or explain, We know that God does save guilty men, that He does pardon their iniquity, transgression and sin, and this knowledge abides with us, though we may live and die without being able to explain its philosophy. Dr. Dowling gave the second of his series of discourses on Church history, showing how corruption crept into the early Church until it culminated in the Popedom as it exists to-day. The effect of the corrupting influences referred to by the Doctor-——namely, the destruction of the independence of the Churches—is what he bade his audience beware of here. Rev. Dr. Partridge, of Brooklyn, preached an excellent sacramental sermon, in which the memorable occasion of the “Last Supper,” the guests who were present at that meal, the right use of the sacrament and the blessings that flow to Christian hearts from a worthy participation therein, were all brought out in living truth by the Doctor. And were 4t not for this blessed sacrament and that of baptism, as the Doctor very properly re- marked, the union between the Church and her living Head would long ago have been broken, The German Catholics of Greenpoint dedi- cated a new church yesterday, on which occa. sion Rev. Father Rector preached. There are so many good things in the sketch before us we regret to find, even by implication, such a contracted view of God as is implied in the statement that “it is in a Catholic house of worship where Ho will seek ever to abide.” We remember that the Scripture declares that God is no respecter of persons; hence He does not love one class or sect more than an- other. It also declares that those who wor- ship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth; hence wherever such worship is ren- dered it is as acceptable to God.as if it were offered in tho grandest ox most venerated , 1873.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. cathedral on earth. Ministers of every sect and name should learn by this time that God is not what our selfishness or our ardent en- thusiasm may picture Him, and that He can- not be measured or affected by the littlenesses which affect us. Rev. Mr. Fadygen, of England, tempo- rarily occupying Dr. Scudder’s pulpit, sermon on consecration of our- selves and our wealth and all to God. Rev. Dr. Kynett, of Philadelphia, delivered ® money sermon in the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church at Long Branch, in behalf of the Church Extension Society, of which he is secretary. His view of the progress of Christianity was quite hopeful, and if it pro- gresses in the future proportionately with the past, within three centuries the millennium may be expected. This is rather a long time for those to wait who are looking for that event next year, or. certainly not later than the Centennial of American independ- ence. The Doctor’s statement of the open- ing fields and the ripening harvests for mis- sionary laborers is substantiated by what we read and hear through the press and by the telegraph daily. And while there are many draughts upon the pockets of Christians they cannot pay one cent too many for the bless- ings which the Gospel has brought to them and to the world. As they have, therefore, freely received, they should freely give. The Russians in Central Asia. The Henan special correspondent at Khiva telegraphs, by way of Orenburg and London, an interesting report of the war, cost and con- Hequencés of the Russian occupation of the Central Asian Khanate, The despatch records the history of the campaign to the 11th of June. General Kaufmann’s army sustained some serious losses in killed and wounded, as did also a detachment of the Russian Naval Brigade, which was landed for the duty of co- operating with his command. The gain to the Muscovites compensates very fully for the casualties. This gain is material, territorial, strategic, and of moral import. The city of Khiva is a poor place. The rural surround- ings are, however, fertile and beautiful, and inhabited by a peaceable and, apparently, re- spectful population. General Kaufmann dis- armed the stronghold, seizing quite a num- ber of cannons and a large supply of munitions of war. Tho Russian Grand Dukes who served with him displayed great gallantry in action, having remained under fire, in one of the battles, during several hours. This affords a point of moral gain to the cause of the Romanoffs. A triumph still more grand in its consequences isto be found in the fact that the Persian slaves have been made free, and that the power of the Russian martial law, instead of being turned against the umfortunate Khan or his court retainers, has been directed, ina very exemplary and effective manner, against sho plnseholding iagk menters. Will the Tas: sions rest on thelr laurels and retire from the country? We think not; at not imme- Tately, This opinion Is matt hy the fact that the victorious invaders threaten to take the Turkomans in hand for punishment, ac- cusing them of treachery, cowardice, theft and rapine. Itis an exceedingly difficult matter to get rid of a military and war reformer—a fact which has been amply demonstrated by the conduct of the British in Asia, Africa, and Australasia, and still nearer home across the channel from London. The Hzraxp corre- spondent, the only foreigner in General Kauf- mann’s camp, speaks in terms of praise of the treatment which he received, as an American, from that distinguished commander and his subalterns. The Public Situation in Spain. The telegram from Madrid which appears in our columns to-day indicates that the Spanish Cabinct is still deliberating on a plan for the formation of a project of can- tonal government for the country. Whether the Ministry deems that this change of system would tend to consolidate the executive by sections of districts, or whether the members of the Ministry are working for a change merely does not appear. The Germans have taken a hand in the work for pacification, Kaiser William's naval officers having locked up the dashing insurgent Contreras on board the imperial ship Froderick Charles—a simple plan for a radical cure so far-as Contreras is concerned. The foreign navies off Cadiz have interfered to prevent the insurgents attacking the arsenal, s0 it may turn out in the end that a few gallant Jack tars will accomplish more good for Spain than have many armies. A provin- cial Chief Justice asks the Cortes for authority from the hall of Parliament. Better, perhaps, permit them to go and look about for now members. The Carlists appear to be pressing on in the Basque territory, Navarre and Cata- lonia, so that the chance for future rule in Spain lies between a Bourbonist monarchy and the moderate democracy as it is repre- sented in Madrid. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Richardson arrived at the West End Hotel, Long Branch, from Washington Saturday afternoon, OBITUARY, M. Philarete Chasl Despatches from Venice report the sudden death, in that city, of M. Philarete Cuasies, aged seventy- five years, @ Well-known professeur and littérateur, He was the son of a professor of rhetoric, who em- braced the cause of the French Revolution with ardor, and, quitting the robe for tae uniform, he | became a colonel. At fiiteen he was apprenticed to a printer in Paris, with whom he was arrested by the police of the Restoration on @ charge of Plotting against the State, and remained in prison for two montis, owing his deliverance to Chateaubriand, He considered bis liberty in France, and went over to England, where he remained for seven years in the printing ofice of Messrs Valpy, superintend- ing the reprinting by that firm of the Greek and Latin classics, He then returned to Paris, wrote | in journals and reviews, in tne Débats, Revue des Dens 3 , &c., and competed jor Academic rizes, In 1827 he shared tuat of eloquence with . St. Mare Girardin; translated the ‘Titan’ o! Jean Paul Richter; was in 1887 mamed conservator to the Mazarine Library, and in 1841 Professor of the foreign languages literature of modern Kurope, at the College ot Robert s. Chew. By telegram from Washington, "under date of yoa- terday, we are informed of the occurrence of the deatn, during the afternoon of Sunday, of Mr. Robert S. Chew, Clef Clerk of the State Dopart- ment, Who has been ill with paralysis for several weeks past. He was sixty-two AE hyd of age. Mr. Chew was appotnted to a clerkship in the partment {rom Virginia, and was cmpioye nearly forty years in that department of the gov- ernment. Ae had y varied experience with Tespect to public affairs and their routine overy- day management, and was much esteemed by his more iminediate’ assootates and a wide olicle of friends, 3 | form one of the vestrymen, to prosecute the Deputies who lately seceded | ora WASHINGTON. Minnesota Representatives at the State Department. Diplomatic View of the Gordon Gordon Arrests. A Sequel to the “Yellow Dog” in the District Courts, Wasuineton, August 3, 1873. Senator Ramsey at the State Depart» ment About the Gordon Gordon Arrests, Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, accompanied by Governor Horace Austin, of that State, and Mr. Strand, of New York, who was at one time counsel for the bogus Lord Gordon, arrived here yesterday €nd had a lung conterence with Mr. Davia, Acting Secretary of State, respecting the policy which our government should pursue in the matter of the @rrest by the Manitoba authorities of Detectives Hoy and Keegan and. other American citizens, charged with assisting the officers in abducting Gordon Gordon, The particulars of the caso aro well known. The feeling in Minnesota is so great against the authorities of the Red River country that Senator Ramsey considered it his duty to under- take the journey to Washington, and by his per- sonal influence endeavor to interest the State De- partment in removing the cause of great indigna- tion on the part of the people of his State against their foreign neighbors. Mr. Davis assured his visitors that everything would be promptly done consistent with the peaceful relations of the Imperial government of the Dominion and that of the United States. The correspondence might nec essartly be prolonged if the question of jurisdiction of territory shoulu be raised where Hoy and Kee- g@an were met by the Custom House oficer and compelled to surrender, but of the ultimate result he had no doubt, It was not the disposition of the Canadian authorities to countenance incivilitics on the part of provincial oMccrs. Certainly this would not be expected when misunderstandings of long standing had been so amicably settled by treaty and since an era of good ieeling and international friendship had been inaugurated between the British government and her North American colonies, It was represented to Mr. Davia that unless this dificulty was satisfactorily settled and some satis faction made for the brutal manner in which citi- zens Of Minnesota had been treated by the Winni peg officials it would certainly lead to much trouble hereafter. The manner in which not only Hoy and Keegan, but subsequently Messrs. Fletcher and Bentley, were treated had been severely denounced by the entire press of Minne- sota, and in this the people of Minnesota generally concurred. The attention of the Acting Secretary was further called to the acts of the officers in apprehending Gordon. The eminent counsel who advised that he could be taken wherever found, the good intention with which they proceeded to execute the duty assigned them, the absence of improper motives and the readiness with which they surrendered when halted by the customs ofictals—this, it was argued, should receive the welght it was. entitled to by the Dominion government. ™Mr. Davis again assured the party that the Department of Stato would follow prompt wu lage of ale Races au bal leleing go th that if the prisoners are released ey, shall appear to answer in the Canadian Court the charge made against them. ’ Senator Ramsey and Governor Austin leave for home to-morrow evening, and are entirely satisOed with the result of the conference and the measures taken to fuldl the purpose of their visit. Delicate Questions=The Yellow Dog and the Iron Horse. The precedent recently establisted by the Police Court of this district in the case of Caleb Cushing va, the yellow dog, through his guardian, Thomas Kelly, is likely to prove troublesome to the Court, Yesterday W. U. Bamburger, a citizen of South Washington, caused a warrant to be issued for tho arrest of KE. L. Du Barry, Superintendent of the Baltimore and Potomac Rat!road, on the charge of maintaining a public nuisance by allowing the filthy stock cars to stand over night on the tracks traversing the public streets and avenues of the city, making the air unheaithy and residence in the locality intolerable ; also inallowiug the whistling, ringing,sleep-destroy- ing engines to make night hideous, all to the dis- comfort of the peaceable citizens of the city, whose property has been injured, and whose health is endangered by this public nuisance. Mr. Bam- burger thinks he hasaright to the protection 0) the Court, and is determined to find out whether the iron horse has more right® than the canine species. The railroad company has engaged emt nent counsel and wil) test the validity of the de cision of the Court should it sustain the charge brought by the plaintiit. A Mean and Sacriligious Robbery. Yesterday afternoon some vandal entered Old Christ church, Alexandria, famous as the place where Washington worshipped, and turned the jurniture upside down, destroyed all the music, saturated the cloth cushions and prayer books with oil, removed tie silver plate from Washing- ton’s pew, besides committing many other depre- dations. It was undonbtedly the intention of the party to set fire to the ancient edifice, but the sox- ton fortunately had occasion to visit the church, and, seeing what had been done, hastenea to in- Returning, one of the doors was found open, which leads to the bolic: that the scoundrel was secreted in the butlding when the sexton first entered, and in his absence made good his escape. Six Millions of Gold to we Sold in August. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to buy half a mil lion of bonds on the second Wednesday, and to sel! oue and a haif millions of gold each Thursday dur. ing the month of August. In all, to sell six millions of gold, and buy haifa militon of bonds. The Mexican Commission. Some weeks may elapse before the United States and Mexican Commissioners choose an umpire in the piace of Dr. Lieber, deceased. In this they will act with deliberation, being desirous of select. ing some gentleman of eminence having the conf. dence of both countries and of undoubted qualifica- tions fur the important position. The new Mexican Commissioner is now engaged in making his family arrangeraents. He has already created a favorable impression on those with whom he has been brought In business relations. The New Trade Dollar. The coinage of the new trade dollar will now be pushed forward rapidly, especially at the San Francisco and Carson City mints, where active preparations are being made to coin # large uum. ber. In Philadelphia about one hundred thousand pieces were coined up to the Sist ult., some little time having been lost in trimming down dies, &. Now the dies are all perfect, and the Director of the Mint expects to be able to supply the demand for the new dollar in a very few days, A Usefal Work. Captain H. W. Howgate, of the Signal Service, leaves to-night tor New York, to perfect arrange. ments for making the telegraphic connection be. tween the Signai OMlce and Lif Saving Stations, on the New Jersey and Massachusetts coasts, pro. vided for by Congress at its last seston. A ROW AMONG THE ROUGHS. John Murphy and Pat Geoghan, two well known pugilistic roughs, engaged in a regular rougt-and tumble figit in the latter's saloon, in the Bowery, last evening, during which Murphy was very care. lesaly handied, and received severai severe cuts about the head and face, Giasses, bottles and chairs were ireely used, and, taken all together, | the combatants had @ real lively little time of it, precinct Marpay was taken to the Seventeenth reciaa? , atation house, where his wouuds were witer which he was sent home, a the step already taken to, aflay the bitterness of feeling, and secure if possible