The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, . All busimess or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hizpatp. Letters and packages shoul? be properly No. 221 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadwi Toirte parcel Mit. Matinee vai eee BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Cicar Girt oF Cusa—Bxetna, THe Sewine Macuine Gint, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Turgs Yeans in 4 Man Ti Afternoon and evening. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.— Ice Kino—Tux Mopocs. Matinee at 23. pe CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Sumuze Nicuts’ Con. outs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6183 Broad- ‘way.—Sciencx anv Ant, DR, KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scrancz anp Art. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Saturday, August 9, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. The Contents of To-Day’s Herald. “THE CITY PUBLIC WORKS! COMPTROLLER GREEN AND HIS OBSTRUCTIVE STRICT CONSTRUCTION POLICY’—LEADING ARTI- CLE—FovuntH PacE. STEAMBOAT HOLOCAUST ON THE POTOMAC! BURNING OF THE WAWASSETT! TERRI- BLE SCENES ON BOARD! UPWARDS OF FIFTY PASSENGERS LOST—FourtH Page. LONG LIVE HENRY V.! ACCEPTANCE OF THE THRONE OF FRANCE BY COUNT DE CHAM- BORD FROM THE LEGITIMISTS—INCREAS- ING REVENUE TO THE FRENCH GOVERN- MENT—PRUSSIA’S INDEMNITY NEARLY ALL PAID OFF—FirTi Pace. SPANISH INSURGENT CITIES SURRENDERING TO THE GOVERNMENT TROOPS—ENGLISH CABINET RECONSTRUCTION—MORE OCEAN TELEGRAPH FACILITIES—CHOLERA IN THE PRUSSIAN BARRACKS AT BERLIN— WRECK OF AN AMERICAN WHALER— Firty Pace. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE HOSPODAR OF MONTENEGRO! SKETCH OF HIS LIFE— Frrra PAGE. DIEPPE! HERALD CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE FAMOUS NORMAN WATERING PLACE! LIVELY SKETCHES OF FRENCH SEASHORE SOCIETY—Tairp Pas. LIFE AT LONG BRANCH ! THE RACERS AT MON- MOUTH PARK—TaIRp Pacr. WONDERS OF THE YELLOWSTONE! THE “BAD LANDS” OF ALKALI AND DUST! SUFFER- INGS OF THE TROOPS—TENTH Pace. INDEPENDENCE BELL ! PHILADELPHIA'S CEN- TENNIAL RELIC! ITS HISTORY AND THE LIFE OF THE NATION—Srxta Pace. THE LAST EXECUTED MEXICAN CHIEFTAIN! MANUEL LOSADA, THE “TIGER OF THE ALICA!"" HIS WONDERFUL CAREER—SixTa PaGE. ANNUAL CRUISE OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB! A SLOW RACE ON LONG ISLAND SOUND—SIxTH PaGE. THOTTING AT BUFFALU PARK! TWO FINELY CONTESTED RACES—Firtu Pace. THE STEAMSHIPS ERNST MORITZ ARNDT AND ALABAMA! THE FORMER PROBABLY SAFE, AND NO TRUTH IN THE REPORT OF THE LOSS OF THE LATTER—Turrp Pages. METHODISM AT OCEAN GROVE! A FASHION- ABLE CAMP MEETING—TuIrD PaGg. EXECUTION IN NORTH CAROLINA! HARLEY JONES, A NEGRO, HANGED FOR THE MURDER OF ROBERT MILLER! HORRIBLE SCENE, CAUSED BY THE BUNGLING OF THE OFFICERS OF THE LAW—FIFTH Pace. A SMALL WAR BETWEEN THE COMPTROLLER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS! SHARP LEITER FROM MR. VAN NORT—SixTH PAGE. PROCEEDINGS IN THE HEALTH BOARD! THE DANGERS OF UNRIPE FRUIT! OFFAL AND THE NEW YORK RENDERING COMPANY— EIGHTH PaGE. fHE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND CITY IM- PROVEMENTS! WORK ACCOMPLISHED— EIGHTH PaaE. CITY REAL ESTATE ASSESSMENTS! AN ALLEGED QUEER EXHIBIT—EicuTH Pace. CORONER'S INQUEST IN THE EIGHTH WARD MURDER! COMMITTAL OF COBURN—COURT PROVEEDINGS—EIGHTH PAGE. THE SUMMER TIDE IN WALL STREET! MONEY ACTIVE AND SECURITIES STRONG—GEN. ERAL MARKETS—NINTH PaGE. Aw Inpuan Ficut on THE Prarss is re- ported elsewhere as having occurred between the Pawnees and their ancient enemies, the Sioux, near the Republican River, Nebraska. One hundred of the former are reported killed. The red man seems resolved on taking the problem of Indian extinction into his own hands. Tae French Inpemnity To GepMany.— France has completed the payment of the third quarter of the last milliard of the war indemnity to the Prussians, This fact proves that France is really the most wonderfully recuperative nation of the Old World, and also that her home in- dustrial resources are almost inexhaustible by reason of their rapid accumulation, Prussia is placed on her ‘‘last quarter,” but Bismarck will no doubt bear himself bravely in that sad financial contingency. Srager Onsrructions have become a matter of sufferance in this city, and few raise their voicesagainst them. Yet, if we mistake not, there is a law against such nuisances. The streets of the city are popularly supposed to be the property of the public. Building contractors think otherwise. In this wonderful reform age of ours would it be too much to direct the attention of the police and their superiors to the many violations of the law which meet the eye in all the cross streets up- town? ba Tux Revenve axp Customs Returns oF France for the first six months of the present year show that the Republic has been taking less from its neighbors and sending them more—that imports have diminished and the exports increased. The total revenue of the nation from all sources was 516,000,000 francs, «4 very large increase over that of the corre- sponding period of 1872. France has adopted the words “Industry, patience and honesty’’ as herr and wader this inseription France ver joung and always truitful, ee tte The City Public Works—Comptroller Green and His Obstractive Strict Construction Policy. ‘The lively discussion in the Board of Appor- tionment on Thursday over the appropriation of money for paying the debts of the city and for public works brought out the characteristic traits of Comptroller Green, He showed him- self to be, what every one believed him to be, a strict constructionist of the first water. No Southern secessionist ever construed the con- stitution more strictly than he the laws relative to paying money from the city treasury, and, no doubt, he would risk the health and credit of New York or bring other disasters upon the metropolis, just as the Southern strict con- stractionists endangered the Union, rather than yield to necessity or a doubtful point of law. Besides raising quibbles about paying the’ laborers and for the work in laying the Croton pipes, he opposed the appropriation of a fow thousand dollars for clerk hire and stationery, requisition for which was made by the Com- missioners of Accounts, In the first case of the call for three hundred thousand dollars for work on the Croton pipes, in addition to the two millions already expended, there was the appearance of some reason in asking for delay till the full estimates could be furnished; but the Comptroller knows very well what money will be required of him and could prevent de- lays, which obstract public works and submit the poor laborers to great inconvenience, if he chose to dogo, Inthe case of the three to four thousand dollars for clerk hire his objec- tion appeared so captious and unreasonable that the Board, and particularly Mayor Have- meyer, became irritated. Mr. Green harped upon the law; ‘‘he did not see at present any authority of law;’’ he wanted time “to examine the law,’’ and so on through- out the discussion. The Mayor was so provoked that he expressed his thought in rather strong language. ‘‘Well,”” he said, “Iam for doing it with or without law, or under the law we have got which directs this work to be done.”’ Of course, he did not mean to violate the law. His mean- ing may be fully understood from the subse- quent remark, that ‘if the law directs docks to be built the Dock Commissioners ure not expected to do the work at their own expense, even if they do get their salaries. The work must be done, though, and the money raised to meet the expense.’’ He said that both he and the Comptroller did things which were paid for when there was no express provision of law. Cases arise, no doubt, of urgent necessity in the public service, in which, in the absence of express law, officials have to use their discretion. It is so in all governments. While we would be the last to condemn neces- sary vigilance in a financial agent or. not to commend him for having due regard to law, we must say that the Comptroller strains the law, or his own conception of it, in a spirit of cap- tiousness and to the injury of the city. To use a homely expression, he is ‘penny wise and pound foolish.”” In his efforts to save a few dollars he damages the city, directly or indirectly, to the amount of thousands. We have noticed this incident of the sharp controversy in the Board of Apportionment by way of illustrating the exceptional position Mr. Green occupies among the city officials, his disposition to oppose and obstruct the views of others, his assumption of authority and his pretence of the virtue of economy. He forgets that it is not always economy to avoid spending a dollar. A man who should refuse to buy props for his house when it is tumbling down would hardly be deemed economical. But it is not as obstructing directly and unnecessarily the public works and service only that we complain of the Comptroller. He is in a position to suggest and promote improvements either under exist- ing laws or by recommending legislation. In this respect he has great power for doing good, He might, in fact, make himself renowned as the benefactor of the city. But he has no ambition of that sort. He would rather have the reputation of a miser. Judging from his past conduct, the public works might sink into decay and the city be- come a byword for filth and ugliness if he could withhold the expenditure of money. Fortunately the provisions for such improve- ments as have been accomplished and are going on were made before he went into his present office. It grieves him, possibly, to be compelled to furnish the means, and if he could only find some defect or doubtful clause in the law he would probably de de- lighted. Any one who goes to the Battery and con- templates the improvement there, looks at the fine stone piers and docks adjoining that were commenced some time ago, and then casts his eye at the rotten piers and wharves from that point all along the North and East rivers, will perceive a striking contrast and the dif- ference between large and liberal views of city improvements that once prevailed and the wretched parsimony that exists now. No great commercial city in the world is more favorably situated for making commodious and beautiful piers, wharves and docks, and hardly any have worse. They disgrace the city, Yet the work that was projected is suspended through a false idea of economy and want of public spirit. No doubt the best system of improvements along the whole water front on both sides of the island could be executed without any loss to the city or any unneces- sary burden upon the taxpayers. With all the superior advantages and facilities that would be given to shipping the dues charged ship- masters and our merchants need not be in- creased. A vast revenue, fully sufficient to pay interest on the cost of the improvements, might be derived from warehouse sites along the docks and wharves. Then, what a convenience and saving it would be in the handling and local transportation of merchandise if, in connection with such @ beautiful sys- tem of piers, wharves and docks and- adjoining warehouses, there should be freight as well as passenger railroads along the rivers and crosswise into the business centres. The filth, obstruction and confusion we now see on the side of the rivers and by the shipping would be removed in great part or entirely. Look, too, at the markets, particularly at Washington Market. Instead of being sightly and clean—clean enough, as it ought to be, for ladies to visit—it is simply disgusting and disease broeding. Washington Market and all the downtown markets, which are much in the same con- dition as that, should have handsome struc- tures. be well drained and be kept as clean as NEW YORK HERALD. SATURDAY. AUGUST 9, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. @ parlor; and we tell Mr. Comptroller Green and the other city authorities that these places could be made to pay better than they donow, just as improved piers, wharves and docks could, It would be economy to spend money in such -needed improvements, if properly made. So of the streets, avenues, boulevards and uncompleted parks. Improving the streets and keeping them in order, and completing the work on the avenues, boulevards and parks, must add greatly to the value of property, increase assessments, promote the health of the city and bring many millions of money yearly to New York, through the attractions it would present. ‘True economy is in spending money judiciously and liberally to improve the me- tropolis, and we have no doubt our citizens generally heartily concur in this view, what- ever Mr, Green or other city officials may think. There is great latitude afforded for this under existing laws, even if strictly con- strued, and whatever additional legislation is necessary can be easily obtained. All that is wanted is a broad view of the matter and pub- lic spirit on the part of the authorities. General Butler’s Defence of the Back. Pay “Steal.” In the far West it has been usual in weigh- ing ® man’s moral character to make ‘‘game- ness’ balance a multitude of moral obliquities. The mail robber won a certain respect from the Sheriff if, when the latter shot him down after a three days’ chase, he was still “gamo’’ enough to kill a couple of the posse comitatus before yielding up the ghost. The feeling exists everywhere uhder certain modifications, and General Butler, in his salary-grab letter, addresses himself to this sympathy with criminal ‘‘pluck’’ instead of to a cer- tain Mr. Briggs. He defends the salary bill on grounds that few understanding the matter have attacked. Where it is utterly indefensible, except on Rob Roy's cattle-lifting principle— That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can— he quotes precedent. Outside of this he is savagely personal and shallowly sophistic. However it may soothe his own soul that others have done wrong before him, it is an apology that we shall not endorse and a principle in ethics the people will not accept. That he hammers away at his opponents in the republican party is all fair, and the harder they are hit, when they deserve it, the more we enjoy it. Bad as his arguments are, they have the element of courage in them, and although that is something in'an age of double-dealing and on the hearthstone of cant, we shall not be blinded either by his rhetoric or the vigor f his fight in his own cause. It is just here to state that the clamor against the President for accepting ‘back pay” is utterly without foundation. His increase of salary for the present term was made legal during the previous one—a perfectly legitimate transaction so far as he is concerned, his having to sign the bill not affecting the just- ness of the increase one way or the other. The President, the Cabinet and the Judges of the Supreme Court should receive salaries commensurate with their positions and the dig- nity which the latter forces them to maintain. Rich as a nation, we have no right to exact that our highest officials should all but beggar themselves in the nation’s service, as many of our Presidents have done. Into this part of the matter General Butler ingeniously wedges his boldest argu- ment for the Congressional ‘‘steal.’’ Poor members of Congress should be protected from themselves and their manifold tempta- tions by salaries giving them enough to live upon in the costly atmosphere of Washington. ‘The Congress of the Crédit Mobilier revela- tions and whitewashing sorely, indeed, needed protection of some sort. Jobbery and corrup- tion in every form had run riot through it, and General Butler, who defended Oakes Ames, now admits, in addition to the ancient plea that rich men found it difficult to be good there, with poor men it was impossible. To all who had fallen or wore likely to have done so, he therefore wishes us to believe that it was necessary to pay a premium on their iniquity from the national Sreasury. By way of illustration let us sup- pose that a servant had dickered, jobbed and plundered his master in all directions for the two years for which he was hired, and that at the endvof the period he raised his wages for that two years to guard himself against the dis- honesties he had committed. Outrageous as this would be, it is General Butler’s defence of the back-pay ‘‘steal.’’ The man who raised the salary of his office to prevent himself or his successors from falling in future into the slough of dishonesty wherein he had wallowed we would call a remorseful man, or, possibly, a weak, well-intentioned man; but nothing would save the servant whose case we have taken from being considered an audacious rascal. General Butler has made the best and certainly the loudest defence of the back-pay “steal,” but he has not cleared any of the foul- ness from the stain which the transaction has left upon the republican party. This letter, and all the half-hearted apologies already made to the contrary, the ‘back pay’’ will be @ pregnant question for the republican party at the polls. Where the General attacks his enemies in the Bay State and in the press he is much more effective. He has given Messrs. Sumner, Wilson, Dawes and Governor Washburn a nut to crack on this business which may prove too hard for their jaws. Respectability and anti- back pay are the points on which Mr. Dawes and Governor Washburn hope to beat down General Butler in the State Convention. The General, it appears, is ready for them witha tu quoque. The galled jades of the press whose withers are wrang by General Butler's statement that their correspondents are obliged to hold government clerkships to live in Wash- ington may wince without our sympathy. But, as in the case of his Congressional prece- dent, we remind the General that no two un- worthy or base actions will whitewash each other until the world is composed exclusively of mean, dishonest or idiotic individuals. Aw Eastern Prince w Danorr or Assas- stnaTion.—By telegram from Vienna we are informed that the life of the Prince Hospodar of Montenegro, Nicholas the First, was attempted by assassins yesterday. His High- ness was severely wounded. His predecessor on the throne, Danilo the First, was cut off from life by the hands of murderers. The sudden death of Prince Nicholas, particularly by assassination. would agitate the Eastern people deeply and widely. Many diplomatic complications would arise. Vienna, Rome and Constantinople would be specially moved, and without doubt Berlin and St. Petersburg would sympathize anxiously and acutely. Prince Nicholas and the neighboring com- munities have good reason to be thankful for his narrow escape. The Fusion ot Bourbon Interestse—The Prospect of a Restoration. Count de Chambord has, as we are informed from Vienna, again accepted the throne of France. The tender was made to him by a deputation of French legitimists some short time eince. Ho has now directly replied, ac- cepting. He always and ever accepts; it is ‘according to dynastic rule and in accordance with the creed of Divine right. Whether the King de jure will be more lucky in his crown realizations just at present than ho has been heretofore remains for solution. He argues his case with great ingenuity, as will be seen elsewhere in the columns of the Heraup. From Vienna we learn that the Count aforesaid, who hopes to be Henry the Fifth, has politely returned the visit of the Count de Paris. The interview, we are told, lasted an hour. It is said that the Oount de Paris formally acknowledged the Count de Chambord to be the head of the house of Bourbon and of the royal line of France. It becomes evident that, for a time at least, a re- conciliation, so far as the two princes are con- cerned, has been effected. Looked at from a royalist standpoint, a reconciliation of the heads of the two houses—the elder and the younger—is, in present circumstances, the one thing needful. De Chambord, thongh mar- ried, is childless, and there is every reason to believe that he will be the last representative of the elder branch of the Bourbons. At his death De Paris will be the recognized head of the Bourbon family. It has long been the de- sire of the French royalists to bring about a reconciliation—the plan being that De Chambord shall take the throne, De Paris being recognized as heir ap- parent. De Chambord is fifty-three years of age and De Paris is thirty- five. It is no longer doubtful that Mac- Mahon favors a fusion of the interests of the two honsea; and MacMahon, more than any other man to-day, is master of tho situation in France, The imperialists are understood to be more or less in favor of the restoration, the Prince Imperial being yet too young to allow them to push his claims with any prospect of success. It does seem as if a determined attempt were about to be made to stifle the Republic. The Assembly is omnipo- tent, and if the Assembly is determined to restore the monarchy there is not, so far as we can see, any power in France strong enough to hinder them. MacMahon may be strong enough to play the réle of General Monk ; but the French area peculiar people, and it would not be at all wonderful, strong as Mac- Mahon is with the army, if he should be found counting without his host. France is evidently on the eve of another crisis, and it remains to be seen how she will comport her- self. The Republic ought not to go down without a struggle.” A royalist restoration will not make the Empire impossible, nor will it quench the hopes of republicans. The old factions will remain, and the struggle for supremacy will be resumed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Hon. Josiah Quincy ts looking around Bangor, Me. Ex.Speaker Galusha A. Grow was in St. Louis on Wednesday. Mr, Cummings, the labor reform leader of Massa- chusetts, is dangerously ill, » General Joseph Finnigan, of Savannah, is regis- tered at the Metropolitan Hotel. United States Marshal S. P. Packard, of New Orleans, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Speaker Blaine was in Boston on Thursday. He 18 preparing to receive the President. General 0. 0. Howard, the military philanthro- Pist, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Hon. Horatio King, formerly Postmaster General, was in New Bedford, Mass., on Wednesday, Treasurer Joseph Price, of the Great Western Railroad of Canada, is at the Brevoort House. Governor H. C. Warmoth, of Louisiana, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, having come from Saratoga. United States District Judge E. H. Durill, of New Orleans, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bishop Wood and the Revs. august J. McConomy and James Mulholland, of Philadelphia, are at the ‘St. Nicholas Hotel. Rev. Mr. Cuff, which would be a very appropriate name if it ended with a y, has charge of the colored camp meeting at Orange, N. J. The brigand Francisco Le Piane, who since 1866 has been @ terror in Calabria, Italy, has surren- dered himself to the authorities. Vice President Wilson is the guest of flon. John B. Alley, at Lynn. He proposes to take an airing on pleasant days along the beach road. A man in GriMn, Ga., has nearly completed an- other flying machine, which can go to Europe as easily a3 it can go to California. No doubt of it. Seerstary Belknap left Washington yosterday morning for Orange, N.J., to spend a few days witn General Marcy. He will return to his post on Tuesday next. His Excellency Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, is absent from Ottawa, the seat of gov- ernment, and the Toronto Globe hints very strongly that he had better be at his post attending to his business. A man named George Woods, on Sunday last, in Pittsburg, drank too much whiskey, got cramps and died before night. The Coroner's jury were divided as to whether it waa the cramps or the whiskey that killed him. J. P. Holcomb, who figured conspicuously asja friend of the Southern Confederacy during the re- bellion, and leagued with Jake Thompson to infect Northern cities with smallpox, is a hopeless invalid at Capon Springs, Va., and is not expected to live. Freeman N, Blake, for several years past United States Consul at Hamilton, Ontario, was enter- tained on the 1st inst. at a testimonial banquet given at the Royal Hotel in that city on the oc- casion of his official retirement. The Board of Trade also forwarded to Consul Blake a letter, with accompanying resolutions, expressive of their esteem. John Livingstone, brother of the African explorer, was @ guest at tho banquet. The Grand Duke Alexis has not allowed himself to accomplish what is said to have been the real object of his tour around the world. His heart is still loaded with love for Mile. Jonvoskt, the daugh- ter of the Czar’s former tutor, and his constancy is rewards with permission to contract a mor- ganatic marriage with her. Such love alliance will not prevent the Grand Duke’s espousal of a Prin. cess for political purposes, The Paris Figaro'g latest anecdote is that Sir Bartle Frere, while in Africa, became separated from hia party in the forest. Coming upon a hut, its occupant, an old negress, gave him some eggs to make an omelette, While preparing this ho noticed what he thought were small mushrooms hanging from the roof. Seizing some of them againat the remonstrance of the negress, he put them {toto the pan and they gave flavor to his meal. Soon after the owner of the cabin entered and angrily toid Sir Bartie that those suppositious muchrooms were his war trophies and the ears of his slain enemies, DREADFUL CALAMITY, it is gupposed, drowned, having jumped overboard to escape the Names. ‘The fire was first discovered about tweaty min- utes before eteven o'clock, and Kenney states that The Steamboat Wawassett in less than ten minutes the vessel was enveloped Burned on the Potomac. OVER FIFTY PASSENGERS LOST. Flame and Smoke Drive Off the Firemen. NO BOATS OR LIFE PRESERVERS AT HAND DISTRESSING CONFUSION. Passengers Leap Overboard and Are Carried Away. NO ASSISTANCE AT HAND. Striking Two Hundred Yards from the Virginia Shore. Statement of the Barkeeper on Board. Burning of the steamer Wawasset on the Potomac. Wasuinaton, D. 0., August 8, 1873, The steamer Wawasset, of Washington, with a large number of passengers on board, was burned off Acquia Oreek this evening. Report says fifty Persons were loat, Particulars expected. Details of the Dreadful Disaster. FREDBRIOKSBURG, Va., August 8, 1873. ‘The steamer Wawassett, running on the Poto- mac River, between Washington and Curriman, took fire about twelve o’clook to-day at Chatalon landing and was destroyed. She had about 150 pas- sengers on board, and between forty and fifty lives are lost. Six bodies were found up to two o'clock— three white ladies, one child and two colored children, Miss Virginia Warborg, of Giymont, Miss bettie Saunders and a child from Curriman are among the dead. The others have not been recognized. George W. Cook, of Warsaw, Va., ssing. Captain Wood did not leave the boat until forced to do so by the flames. The fire was first discovered in the engine room. Statement of “Doo” Kenney, the Bar- Aseeper. A Teporter at midnight had an interview with “Doo’’ Kenney, the barkeeper of the Wawasset, who is the only one of the passengers or crew of that vessel that reached Washing- ton to-night. He came up to this city on the steamer Express with an excursion party from Piney Point. The latter vessel sighted the wreck about four o’clock this afternoon and picked up Kenney, who had been sent out in a smail boat to come up to Washington. The passengers and crew of the Wawasset, were at that time all cared for at Stewart’s wharf, near tne scene of the disaster. Kenny states that the Wawasset left here at six o'clock this morning on her regular weekly trip to Cone River, witn 117 registered passengers and quite a large cargo of freight for river landings, dust before reaching Chatterton’s Landing, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, about five miles below Acquia Creek, and after the whistle of the boat had been blown as signa‘ of her approach to that landing, the steamer at the time being about athirdof a mile frem the shore, FIRE WAS DISCOVERED IN THE HOLD and the hose was attached immediately, but be- fore the men could reach it the confagration became general, as the fire had been burning for some time. The fire had been smouldering, it is supposed, for some hours, and ‘upon opening the hatches it burst forth with great fury, driving the men frota the hold and completely baffling all attempts to subdue it. In an instant the wildest confusion prevailed on the vessel, THR PASSENGERS BECOMING PANIO-STRICKEN and frantic with fear, very few having presence of mind sufficient to take care of themselves. The steamer was, without @ second’s delay, headed for the shore, on tne Virginia side, and in a few minutes ran aground about two hundred yards from the Virginia side. At this time the flames had spread with fearfal rapidity, and in the excitement many jumped overboard. Several of them jumped into the water before the steamer struck the bottom. She was provided with BUT TWO SMALL BOATS, and in the frenzy of the moment one of these boats ‘was thrown overboard and lest by the passengers, who, uncontrolled, were endeavoring to launch her. Captain Wood, of the ill-fated steamer, and his assistants are said to have used every effort to control the passengers, but without avail, and but for this disobedience of orders many who were lost would have been saved, The vessel was well provided with life preservers, but in the panic it seems that none of the passengers secured them, and this fact also added to the lamentable loss of life. Over forty passengers were drowned, among whom were :— Mrs. Reed and three children. The wife and children of Policeman Reed, of this city, and his niece, whose name has not yet been ascertained, Adeline Jenkins, a chambermaid, and a deck hand, name unknown. Mrs. Virginia Marbury, of Glymont. Miss Bertie Sanders and a child, of Currioman, Va. ‘ Up tothe time that the express in which the narrator of this statement arrived left the scene of the wreck but five or six bodies had been re- covered, and the confusion was so great that a farther list of the names of those lost could not be obtained. Among the saved was a Mr. Wise, of this city, and J, Wilkin Massey. Kenney states that Captain Wood was the last man to leave the steamer, and the pilot, Mr. Bos well, was surrounded by the flames before he left the pilot box, which was not until after he had run the steamer aground. The flames spread with such rapidity that the tiller ropes were on fire be- fore the vessel struck ground. All Luose lost wer, tn flames, and now lies where she was rep aground burned to the water's edge. Chatter- ton’s Point is just opposite to Maryland Point, and THE SURVIVORS OF THE DISASTER have been made as comfortable as possible at Stewart's and near that place, where they will remain till about nine o'clock this (Saturday) morning, at which time the steamer Georgiana will take them on board, expecting to reach this city about nine o'clock P, M. About one-half the passengers on the Wawaaset were women and children, many of whom were en route to the country places along the Potomac, to spend a short time pieasuring with their friends. There were quite a number of colored people among the passengers. THE WAWASSET ts a sidewheel steamer of about three hundred and fifty tons, and was engaged in running between | Wastington and the landings along the Potomac. She was insured for $28,000. When she left here this morning it was supposed she was in perfect order, and the origin of the fire is at present unm known. THE ORBW OF THE WAWASSET consisted of Captain Wood, a clerk, two engineers, two firemen, a barkeeper, four deck hands and 8 chambermaid. Assoon asthe particulars of the disaster be- came known to-night—quarter past one A. M.—great crowds collected about the wharves and the steamer Express was boarded by hundreds of persons anxious to learn the fate of friends on the ill-fated steamer, but as the registry list was destroyed, no positive particulars as to mames could be gained It ts tmpossible to obtain a correct list before the arrival of the survivors on the Georgiana, which ia expected at nine o'clock P. M. to-day (Saturaay). HIP YEE TONG. The Inhaman Celestials Before the Courte—4 Horrible State of Affairs in San Francisco—How a Woman and Her Husband Are Taken Before a Secret Society. San FRANcisco, August , 1873. Eight Chinamen, members of the secret tribunal of the Hip Yee Tong Soctety, were on trial to-day before a jury at the Police Court, on a charge of conspiracy to extort money from Lum Yat Sung, by threats of death on his failure to pay $350 as a price for his wife, who escaved from the keeper of @ brothel, to whom she had been sold. Lun Yet Sung swore that soon after his marriage he was summoned and taken before the tribunal of the society, where thirty men were present and the door secured by an armed guard; that Ab Yee, one of the prisoners, told him he must pay the money or return the woman or he wou'd be Killed; that the Hip Yee Tong Society would spend $10,000 to secure his death; that he pleaded he had no money, when they ‘finaly gave him two days’ time to raise the amount and re!eased him, when he fled back to the Mission School tor protection. Sung remains at the school and does not go out uuless escorted by white men. Dr. Lob Shi, who speaks English fluently, was sworn to translate a large number of documenta which were found by the police in the rooms of the society. He translated several. When he came to one in which a record was kept of the sale of a woman to the Keepers of a brothel and punishments in- flicted upon her, he refused to go any further. ‘The ie i admonished him, but still he retused to Proceed, The Court threatened to send him to jail, but he would not obey and finally he was eres till Monday to consider the mat- r. A complete translation of all the documents found is in the hands of the authorities. The trial will continue on Monday next. Great crowds of Chinamen are watching the pro- ceedings in the case with eager interest, WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIBF SIGNAL OFFICER, } Washington, D. C., August 9, 1873—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer has risen over the lower lakes and the Middle States, with northwesterly to south- westerly winds and partly cloudy weather; generally calm, clear weather and rising baro- meter prevailes in New England; falling baro. meter, northeasterly to southeasterly winds and partly cloudy weather in the Northwest and upper lake region, and thence to Kentucky and Missouri southeasterly winds ; partly cloudy weather in the Gulf and South Atlantic States, with light rain in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Probabilities. For the northwest and upper lakes, and thence to the lower Ohio valley, falling, barometer, south-easterly winds, warmer and partly cloudy weather; from the lower lakes to West Virginia, northeasterly to southeasterly winds, generally clear and tempor- arily cooler weather ; for the Middle Atlantic States northerly veering to southeasterly winds, clear and slightly cooler weather; for New England northerly winds and clear cooler weather. For the South Atlantic and Gulf States southeasterly winds, falling barometer, warmer and partly cloudy weather with light coast rains in the evening. 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, HeRa.D Building :— 1872, 1873. oT “4 rage perature yesterday. Average temperature for cort last year THE OUBAN CAUSE. Home Guards of pe: Firing the Susceptible Heart of Ne York. Syracuss, N. Y., August 8, 1873. General Thomas Jordan addressed a large meeting at the City Hall this evening in behalf of the Cuban cause. Mayor Wallace presided and made a briet speech, expressing sympathy with Cuba, and said the time thereol, d come for @ practical manifestation Much enthusiasm prevai'ed. THE OANADIAN 0. M tigating Commit- ited Next Week. TORONTO, August 8, 1873, The Pacific Ratlway Investigating Committee will present ® report next week, the Do- minion Parliament reassembling on Wednes- day. The committee, being ene by want of authority to take sworn testimony, has made little or no prope in toe investigation. The supporters of the Ministry favor an immediate prorogation; but the by dite lcag demand that the committee must first given full power for the purpose of the inquiry they have in hand, TEH EIGHTH WARD MURDER Identification of the Body. Thomas Percy, mate of the schooner Benjamia English, of New Bed/ord, Mass., and Captain G. T. Jones, of Bergen Point, callea at the Kighth pre- cimet station house yesterday afternoon and saw the studs and suspenders taken (rom Garson. They then went to the Morgue and iden- tiled the body of the man who was murdered in the grocery store at the corner of Greene and Broome streets on Monday {ast as that of Captain James Hardwin, of Fall River, captain of tne aboye vessel, He has a wite and several children at New Bedford, Further teati- mony was given by a eard found in one of hia pockets, bea ng the name ot the frm of Cofin & Goodward, relating to a force pump, and contain. ing instructions ag to tts use. Instructions were given and arrangements made to have tue bode forwarded to New Hediord jog yuspal | a