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4 NEW YORK HER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET: JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRI ETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic Wespatches must be addressed New Your cara 4 —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_— THE DAILY HERALD, pubitshed every day in the + No, 223 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, _ ex Kinc—Tux Monocs. ait * WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadws eared oudway and Thirteenth BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tue Croan Gint or Wvea—Bertua, THe SEWING MACHINE GinL, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— /Tunex Years in 4 Man Trav. ‘Afvernoon and evening. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5l4 Broadway.—V aniety EENTsRTAINKENT UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, ‘Broadway.—Fox wv a Foc—Oup Pam's Bintupay. near « GENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Soumer Nicnts’ Con- \ounts. NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broad- \way.—Somnce anp Ant. , DR, KAUN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Screxce yan Anr. WwW New York, Monday, August 11, 1873. ITH SUPPLEMENT. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Hierald. : “THE REMEDY AGAINST CASARISM! 1T WILL BE FOUND IN A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE QUESTION? —EDITORIAL LEADER— FourtH Pag. POSSIBILITIES AND EVILS OF CHSARISM— ARTISTS’ WORKS—THIRD PaGE. PROGRESS OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR! HEAVY CANNONADING AT BERGA! THE SURRENDER OF VALENCIA! THE FLYING “REDS” HOOTED BY THE PEOPLE! THE LOSSES IN LIFE AND PROPERTY! FOREIGN CONSULS AT CARTAGENA SEEK REFUGE ON WAR SHIPS—Firri Pac. LAST OF THE OLD BOURBONS! CHAM- BORD’S PLANS FOR THE REGENERATION OF FRANCE UNDER LEGITIMIST RULE! RS SHARPLY CRITiCISED! UNI- SUFFRAGE AND FREEDOM FOR THE ARSAL THE PRESS—FIFTH Pace. AUSTRIA AND THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD—IM- PORTANT CABLE AND GENERAL NEWS— FirTH PaGE. 2 VESSEL COME UP Tu THE RE- OF THE LAW?—TenTa Pace, THE LATE CONFLAGRATION AT PORTLAND, ME.! TEN LIVES LOST AND OVER A MIL- LION DOLLARS’ WORTH OF PROPERTY SACRIFI | HEROISM AND BRITISH SELFISHNESS—Firtn Pace. & SON OF A CRUSADER! M. DE BRIMONT’S DEFAMED “CHARACTER! FRENCH ES- TIMATES OF AMERICA! COMPARIS‘ THAT MAY BE “ODOROUS” TO JOHNNY CRAPAUD! PLEDGING HIS WIFE'S JEW- ELRY—SiIxTH PaGE. THE GRANGE MOVEMENT IN AMERICA! OB- JECTS OF THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY, THEIR NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND MODES OF OPERATION! POLITICS RE- PUDIATED—TaIRD PAGE. PUBLISHING THE GOSPEL! THE GIST OF THE SERMONS THAT WERE PREACHED YES- TERDAY! A CORN PLASTER PEDLER— EigutTH Pace. DAMP DEVOTION! WHITE AND COLORED CHRISTIANITY PROCLAIMING THE GOS- PEL OF FREE GRACE IN FOREST AND SEASIDE TEMPLES! REALTY AND RELIG- ION! D. DS AND H. D.’S—Erenra PacE. HE CRUISING PROGRAMME OF THE NEW YORK YACHT SQUADRON! THE FLEET TO ASSEMBLE AT GLEN COVE TO-DAY—Sixta Pace. BOLDEN EFFORTS OF THE ST. JOAN'S GUILD! THE SUFFERINGS OF THE SICK POOR ALLEVIATED! THE PROPOSED EXCUR- SION! A CALL FOR HELP—SixtTH Pace. HOME AND FOREIGN FINANCES! WHY ENG- LISH CAPITALISTS PREFER OUR SE- CURITIES! SPECIE PAYMENTS PROBABLE IN FRANCE—NINTH PAGE. OCEAN, BAY AND RIVER EXCURSIONS YES- TERDAY—NUDE BATHERS—ITEMS FROM THE SUMMER RESORTS—REAL ESTATE— Sixta Pace. SALT WATER OAY AT SOUIH AMBOY, N. J.— SECOND PAGE. Tae Canuists continue their war operations in Spain, so that the Spaniards are quite likely NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Wil Re found in a General Diseussiow of the Question. of the purposes.of the Hznaxp in calling atten- tion to this grave and important question. the Republic a great deal has already been done to provide against the evil. With tho knowledge of the danger will come the remedy. We wish, therefore, that the press and the people would discuss the subject in all its bearings, and we shall rejoice to see this discus- sion even more universal than it has beon already. We desire to have fulland exhaus- tive investigation of everything that can be said on either side of the question. Czsarism in a republic like ours is not a matter to be lightly put aside, and the American people when once fully aroused to their duty, whea properly inspired with the gravity of the question, will not allow it to be dismissed with levity, but demand that it shall be settled in a way by which all peril may be averted. The leading journals have been obliged to take up the question, and we print articles this morning illustrative of this necessity. “The discussion that is going on in the news- papers on the subject of General Grant's second re-election is at least premature,” says one, and the other finds “the wonderful chattering” about Ceesarism “‘infinitely amus- ing,’’ and then takes a hand in it, These papers, so late to speak, have only spoken at last as the echoes of public sentiment. Tho one isastanch supporter of the administra- tion, and adopts the ‘well, what of it if the people want it’’ theory. The other is ‘a disinterested and passionless spectator,” and would like to regard the question as an alge- braic equation which must be wrought out on profounder principles than the simple x ax=b. But either journal may be sure that if to three Presidential terms are added other re-elections all these and the almost unrestrained executive power of the American Chief Magistrate will be equal to Casarism. The pcople see this, or fear they see it, and even in deprecating the discussion admit its necessity—a policy followed by our contem- poraries, which are compelled to argue it, whether they would regard it as premature or look upon it with the repose of a disinterested observer. Many persons are likely, with one of these journals, to say that it is useless to pro- voke this discussion at so early a day and to aver that among a people so enlight- ened and so strong in their devotion to re- publican liberty as the people of the United States Casarism is a mere phantom, or at best only a newspaper sensation. These admit too much, for Cwsarism could not be made a newspaper sensation if it were the phantom they pretend it is. Again, there are persons who say it is the result of a conspiracy to precipitate the very thing it pretends to combat, while others declare it is a dodge of the copperheads to destroy the republican party, which saved the Union and now rules the country. Such comments, though they are to be expected from the many-sided vjews of a many-sided people, are unworthy of men who would look upon the dangers which menace the Republic with the eyes of patriots and of states- men. We grant the honor due to the repub- lican party. We highly appreciate its services and the unsurpassed services of General Grant. But all these things are entirely outside of the question. It is no argument against providing for the perpetuity of the Republic to allege that the republican party saved the Union. The American people cannot be blinded to the fact that the preservation of this Union was not the work of any party or any man or set of men. The people, rising in their strength, accomplished this grand result, and the re- publican party only served as a nucleus around which the patriots of the country ral- lied to preserve the integrity of the Union. They were inspired by a generous love of liberty, and not by a desire to keep one party in and another party out of power. In this country there is always an intelligent and patriotic majority which is beyond the control of party, but which gives to political organizations their successes or their defeats, This element, forsaking the whig party, left it to die. The same element, in turn for- saking the democratic party also, kept itina state of decrepitude for years, and now it, too, is dying. It is not in the nature of things that the republican party should be exempt from like treatment, and from the very moment the people discover that it is untrue to have enough of war during the present season of military contention on the penin- gular. They still kecp well up to the Pyrenees, Tur Lgss To Unrortunate Portianp (Me.) by her latest fire will reach a million dollars. Yesterday evening the fire was still burning among the stored corn, and holiday people came to gape at the bright spectacle of ruin. If ever a town needed a thorough overhauling in matters pertaining to conflagrations it is Portland. She had better retire from the effort to compete with Chicago, even in the matter of blazing corn. It is too costly. Tne Frxe Weatner Yesterpay was taken dvantage of by our citizens in New York to “throng the parks, squares and places of public resort. A little fresh air is a good thing, and in Central Park the pretty pictures made by the moving groups of holiday-clad people ‘enjoying the light breeze were a pleasure in themselves. en ics Tar Case or THE Burxep Potomac Sreamen Wawaser will now pass into the region of official inquiry, where so many similar catastrophes have been tied up in red tape or covered with official white- wash. Fifty-six bodies have been recovered, and it is believed the total loss of life will reach seventy. It is terrible to think that insufficient means of escape on river steamers and habitual overloading with passengers are never officially discovered until after a calamity has occurred. New laws are passed from time to time, but until inspectors are made to learn the effects of their remiss- ness in a penitentiary, laws, however strin- gent, will secure little to the endangered tray- elling public. Tne German Navau Orricers on the coast of Spain have received orders from Berlin di- recting them to keep a sharp lookout for the fleet operations of the Intraagisentes. Kaiser William wij) pot learn to talk Spanish in that he to liberty and is unwilling to provide against tho dangers of the future its doom will be pronounced. It is this same love of liberty—the desire to preserve our noble Republic from the dangers which, like the coup d'état of Napoleon IIL, may spring into life in a night to destroy it— the wish to raise it above the will, the integ- rity or the forbearance of any man or set of men—that impels us now to sound the alarm. There is danger where there is no provision against it. No one in Rome or in France supposed that Cesar or Napoleon would seize imperial power. From the one came the im- perial purple, a long line of absolute rulers and the very name for despotic power. In the other was found the worshipper and imitator of Casarism—a Cesar greater even than Cesar himself. If Rome or France had no fears we must not forget that the liberties of both Rome and France were destroyed. Even our discussion of Cwsarism has developed ten- dencies of which we were not before aware. It has shown the existence of dangers which could only have been suspected. We cannot close our eyes to these developments when we see among the elements which enter into this discussion a willingness on the part of a num- ber of republican papers to advocate a third term for General Grant. Even moro signifi- cant is the silence of some of the most influ- ential administration organs. Everywher« there are signs of a settled determination to again re-clect General Grant, and we observe with pain an apathetic acquiescence on the part of many good people in this programme, Twenty years ago—even five years ago—the } question of a third term could not have been raised. Previous to the present time it would have been impossible in behalf of any Presi- dent. That we are not in the same happy con- dition to-day is evident from the comments in which many of the good people to whom we have just referred sometimes indulge. “The coun- trv is going on woll enough.” thoy say. “Why One of the good results springing from our | There articles on Cessarism is the general discussion | lic. they have provoked. » This was, in itself, one | mere nonsense.”’ ‘fhe Remedy Against Coesarism—It | not ro-clect Cieneral Grant if the people wish it?” is “We are prosporous. The country happy. The people are contented. is no danger to the Repub- This talk about Cmsarism is ‘We do not believe that General Grant wants to be Presideat for another term.’’ ‘Under no circumstances ‘In attracting timely ‘attention to a danger | would the President consent to be again o which may some day destroy the liberties of | candidate, and 60 it is waste of time to dis- cuss the possibilities which may spring from a third term.” This is tho kind of talk that makes the situation more dangerous. In pros- perous times the perils to a republic are always beneath the surface, But many a noblo ship has sunk when the sea was smooth. The indolenco and apathy of prosperous times are even more dangerous toa nation than the corruptions of a busy era, If Casar had been always busy in foreign wars and had brought fewer captives home to Rome he would not have been able to make the Roman people captive. If France had not been intoxicated with success and in conquering the world for- got to keep herself free Napoleon would never have founded an empire on the ruins of the Consulate. The approaches of tyranny are always insidious, and liberty is generally de- stroyed through the apathy of freemen only fit to be slaves. Jefferson has told us that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It is a pain- ful sign that some of the American people are willing to forget this axiom and to substitute for it remarks and comments like those we have just quoted. In these things we see, and the great majority of the American people cannot fail to see, that the dangors to the Re- public from Casarism are not chimerical, and that the third term possibilities are a real peril. We have acquitted General Grant all along from any complicity with any conspiracy looking to his re-election. We would not do the President the injustice to suppose that he wishes to set aside the traditions of the Re- public, almost as strong as a constitutional provision, that he may hold the reins of office for a longer time than any of his predecessors. But as good men as he have been overcome by flatterers and place hunters. As good as he have become despots and lived only to perpet- uate the one-man rule. Should he be again re-elected, it might easily become a matter of form that he should be re-elected over and over again. Finally even the form might be dis- pensed with, for then it would be only forbear- ance on his part that would preserve the sem- blance of liberty. This country is too great to be at tho merey of any man, under any con- ceivable circumstances. Instead, then, of wasting time over little jokes about Casar and Ulysses; instead of making divisions by un- manly and unjust charges against the private character of General Grant; instead of draw- ing overfine theories in regard to free trade and tarifis for protection or for revenue; instead of purposeless twaddle over dead issues and indulging in heated and violent language about copperheadism and niggerism, we should address ourselves to the real ques- tion of the hour and avert a probable danger by providing a remedy in the beginning. A general discussion of the question will bring out the remedy, and we ask the press and the people to ponder and talk over it till this remedy has been found and the danger no longer exists. The Next King of France, Perhaps. We give to-day an interesting interview held some time since between the Count de Cham- bord and a Heraup correspondent. This as. sumes new importance at this time, from the fact, reported by our special telegraphic despatch from Vienna published last Satur- day, which announced the formal acceptance by King Henri V. of the French throne, ten- dered to him by a deputation of French legit- imists. When the conversation took place, equally as now, the last of the old Bourbons considered himself King of France, unjustly hindered of his rightful prerogative. He believes it his sacred duty, as well as his as- sumed right, to wield the sceptre; and his con- versation shows a curious mixture of religious faith in his divine commission with ambition to guide the destinies of a great nation. In his strictures upon M. Thiers, who then ocen- pied the Presidential chair, he displays de- cided ability to dislike a rival for popular favor; while his prophecy of the failure of that ancient advocate of constitutional mon- archy as the Chief Executive of a repub- lic shows some appreciation of the req- uisites to success in one who would govern France. As an exposition of the Bourbon political creed the reader will, perhaps, be surprised at the quasi progressive sentiments uttered by Chambord. These, however, like most platforms, will bear various constructions. He announces him- self a champion of religious and educational freedom, of universal suf- frage and army reform. The religious freedom which he would be likely to sus- tain may be gathered more from the fanati- cism of the Extreme Right, as evidenced in the outrageous Lyons Civil Burial bill, which condemns free thinkers dying in that city to be buried when the offal carts are doing their morning’s work. His idea of educational freedom on the laisser aller principle, when progressive nations are educating their chil- dren, is a very childish mode of escaping from an all-important question. The guarantee that the State will take no heed in the matter looks very much as though the Church would be entrusted solely with the business. <A Bourbon favoring universal suffrage will pro- voke many guesses as to how he purposes to control it or what use he oxpects it to be to the dynasty. His delicacy in pointing out the army reforms reminds us of the fact that there would be an immense number of young nobles anxious for epauletted coats and cocked hats on the event of a Bour- bon succession to the throne. On the ticklish subject of the press he is more guarded, favoring “liberty, not license,’’ which might mean much or nothing, according to the royal caprice, should King Henri V. come to control the French army as well as wear the French crown. Should that time ever come, possibly the divinely appointed sover- eign might also judge it his duty to exert upon his subject voters a control of their bal- lots, as he accuses others in authority of havingdone. The French people may wrangle and plot, make and unmake dynasties, establish and overthrow republics, choose and displace administrations, but we can hardly believe they will go back into the last century to do homage to Bourbon royalty with only such improvements oq the Count de Qhgmbord in the character of Henry V. proposes. Tho army and the Church on his side may make his progress to the throne easy, if ail the royal factions are united; but it will simply give tho world time to take breath before the curtain rises on another scene of change, most prob- ably a violent one, << a The Patrons of Husbandry—A New Social, Economie, and Political Elo- ment, In another part of to-day’s Hxnaxp is a de- tailed account of the secret order which, under the title of ‘Patrons of Husbandry,’’ is intro- ducing a new element of force into our national politics, for working in villages, country districts and States it may reach a step beyond. Our Washington corre- spondent has sought information at head- quarters, and given us statements of its originators and prominent guardians, as to its condition, objects and prospects, Started six years ago, it appears not to have really taken root till 1871, in which year over one hundred gtanges were organized. Since then they have spread with singular rapidity, particularly in the Western, Northwestern and Southern States; and they now number over five thou- sand granges, having a membership of three hundred thousand, with no indication of any early check to the extension. Thus it is evi- dent that the order has in it capabilities of exerting upon the future course of our national policy and politics an important power, not to be ignored ky those who seck popular prefer- ment or to guide governmental action. As stated by its sponsors, the main objects of the Order are to elevate the social and intellectual character and condition of our agricultural class, and to enrich it by bringing it into direct communication with manufacturers and freighting corporations, in order to save the farmer from the exactions of the army of middlemen whose commissions and profits so seriously enhance the cost of all ho buys, while they reduce to the lowest figure his returns for products sold in the seaboard markets. The talisman of the Order, in its financial aspect, is cash. It seeks to teach the farmer that with cash, through its organiza- tion, he can buy far cheaper than through the village trader, who is willing to give credit, for which the purchaser has to pay an enormous premium, It buys for him his harvesting ma- chine and for his wife her sewing machine, for much less money than he could procure them from agents; and for him it makes contracts with steamboat lines and railroads to bring his grain, cotton, rice, cattle and other pro- ducts to market at rates which will greatly enhance the value of those articles to the pro- ducer, In dealing with capital its policy is diplomacy, not war. It negotiates with manu- facturers and freighters, rather than fight them. After it has a large accumulated capi- tal it may make itself felt in the construction and control of those great trunk freight rail- ways which, first proposed some months ago by the Hznaxp, are now so urgently demanded by our leading business men as the necessary conduits through which the life-giving cur- rents of trade may circulate in all the length and breadth of the land, North and South, East and West, connecting all sections with each, like the arteries in thehuman body. By association it would relieve the farmer from the effects of isolation and dependence upon others who live at ease on the results of his toil. A ritual, with obligations of secrecy, appears to be used as the cement to hold the constitu- ents of the new Order in place and give it op- portunity to crystallize and develop. For the present it protests it has no political aims. Its chief engineers at Washington were in the service ot the general government when the Order was originated. Some ef them still are. In some of the Western States where its num- bers are large, in spite of its declared freedom from political objects, it already enters largely into the calculations of the politicians. If its increase in the interval between now and the next Presidential election receives no check it is certain to largely tinge the complexion of caucuses and nominating conventions. Earlier its influence must be felt in our legislative and congressional halls. Members, sure of the support of the granges, will hold old political fealty less in awe, and the power of the secret Order will claim the attention of the lobbyists who claim the ability to ‘fix’’ matters in our manufactories of law. The Order appears to be under the guidance of men of tact, having the ability to commend their new scheme to a large class which considers itself cheated by those it feeds. They wisely abstain from keeping an “organ.” So long as the Order confines its operations to legitimate and worthy objects it can be content with the notice and criticism of the independent press. When it finds paid organs a necessity it’ will have sunk to the low level of a political party. Spanish War Operations in Spain— The Situation at Vaiencia and Cartagena, Telegrams from Spain, special to the Henratp, which are published elsewhere in our columns, report the progress and conse- quences of the civil war at Vulencia and Cartagena to the 8th and 9th instant respec- tively. The statements are favorable to the cause of the Madrid Republic. They afford evidence of the power for vigorous action on the part of the Executive, and, also, of a determination by the Spanish Min- isters to use this power promptly against the treason of radicalism and the violence of the “reds” equally and relentlessly for the restoration of order. Anarmy of ten thou- sand men, commanded by five generals, was despatched to Valencia, and demonstrated against the municipality when in insurrection. The troops of tho line were supported by a strong force of artillery. The first effect of the language of tho big guns was to separate the conservative element from that of the radicals, and then again to eliminate the more healthily progressive radical from the Communists and Intransigentes. This pro- duced a want of cohesion in the rebel camp. It induced the divide which ever precedes the advent of the constitutionalist impera under like circumsiances, The Valencia radicalists proposed terms for a surrender. A parley en- gueé, It continued during two days. The Spaniards, at the expiration of this period, sent forth the ultimatum of unconditional sur- render. The mon of the “‘red’’ cap were not equal to the occasion, They regarded their own blood as being more precious than thot of their more peaceable neighbors and the stranger pon-gombatants, #0 they took uv the flaunting flag of liberty and retreated to the’ port of Gras on board a steamship, which car- ried them toa neighboring suburban seclusion away from Valencia. The ultras were hoot- ed by the populace as they went off. This is not to be wondered at, for they left death, damage to trade and the absolute rain of valuable property, toa very sad ex- tent, behind them. he foreign consuls at Cartagena have sought shelter on board the war vessels lying off that port. The German naval commander has liberated General Con- treras, On the whole, judging from the con- tents of our special despatches to-day, we incline to the opinion that the Spaniards gon- erally, as a people, are regaining possession of their citizen senses, and that they are just be- ginning to realize the enormity of the excesses which may bo committed in the name of lib- erty by men who do not understand what lib- erty means, and would be the very first to prove false to its inspiration, provided they were permitted o enjoy it, The Sermons Yesterday in the Churches end Camps. . The range of thought presented in our batch of sermons to-day is not very varied nor is it remarkable for originality of conception or beauty of presentation. The topics are for the most part old and venerable, and their attire has also the appearance of age. Sim- plicity and directness are tho leading char- acteristies of the truths which we send forth to-day as the utterences of the pul- pits yesterday. That aman should purchase that which of right belongs to him may appear strange to our minds, but that God should pay a price for the human race to restore it from sin unto salvation is incomprehensible. His we were by right of creation, but because after we had sold our- selves to sin and were in bondage to iniquity, as Dr. Tucker remarked yesterday, our souls were as infinitely dear to God as was also the life of His Son, and because of this great love to us He gave His Son Jesus to die for us. God has therofore a twofold right to us now, and we are dearer to Him than even the angels, by virtue of this double right. We should therefore glorify God in our bodies and in our spirits, which are His. As modern society is constituted it is true in a broader and more important sense to-day than ever before that no man liveth unto him- self and no man dieth unto himself. And be- cause this is so Rev. Mr. Findley illustrated and enforced the duty of men living to honor God and seeking the good of their fellow men for Christ's sake. Since we cannot prevent the direct consequences of our lives and con- duct and influence upon others we should constantly strive to live pure and holy lives, for piety and goodness are sure to bring hap- piness to every household. If eternal vigilance is the price of political and social liberty how much more so is it true of soul life and soul freedom; and as this spiritual freedom can be maintained only by prayer and watchfulness Dr. Cheever sought to impress these duties upon his hearers yes- terday. The great feature in the Catholic churches yesterday was the announcement of the triduum, which is to be inaugurated on Tuesday. Dr. McGlynn’s discourse had reference to this ser- vice and incidentally to the duty of self-denial, without which ‘‘we cannot expect our prayers for the Church to be efficacious.’’ But with this clement mingled with their prayers the Doctor has no doubt at all that the safety and triumph of the Church are already assured. The man of prophetic proclivities who holds forth in the University chapel every Sunday afternoon, and spends his time abusing the devil and the Pope instead of trying to lead sinners from the power of Satan unto God, yesterday contented himself mainly with a dis- sertation on the parable of the ten virgins, from which he drew the comforting (?) lesson that we are all fools to believe that there is such a place as ministers and priests call heaven, and which is supposed to be the abode of the faithful after death. This earth is to be roasted up and remade for our habitation, and here we are to dwell forever. Tho ‘‘Bishop’’ could not, how- ever, finish his exposition without firing his popgun at the Pope and the Vatican and the scarlet-colored lady. Rev. Mr. Quint, of New Bedford, occupied Plymouth pulpit, and discoursed sympatheti- cally on mothers’ love and the duty of sub- jection by children to their parents. The camp meetings now in session in this neighborhood furnish their quota of: religious thought for our columns to-day. At Sing Sing Dr. Vernon, of Pittsburg, (formerly of New York Conference) preached a sermon on the new or divine life which is imparted by God to every believer in Jesus, Experimental reli- gion—the testimony of moral consciousness— is the great form in which God now shines upon the darkness of this world. Dr. Vernon explained somewhat the nature of this experi- mental religion, this new life which God gives to the believer, and called upon those present who were without the knowledge of this life to seck it at once, . Very unwisely, as we think, and very selfishly also, the trustees of Ocean Grove closed their gates yesterday against visitors from without, save such as were provided with passes. If any phase of religious life more than another can give to the unconverted an unfavorable impression of religion, and especially of Methodism, it is this exclusiveness and the manifestation of such a spirit as is seen in bolted gates and stalwart policemen guarding them. If camp grounds are to be converted into religious prisons better they had been left alone. Their ostensible purpose and aim is to save sinners and to build up believers; but on the day when the sinners flock in mul- titudes to hear the Gospel in the groves they find thomselves like sheep without a shep- herd, standing outside barred gates. This is not the freedom of the Gospel nor of Meth- odism. Dr. Robinson, of Philadelphia, preached there yesterday on the spirit and life of the words of Christ—a sermon, no doubt, that would have benefited the hundreds who were kept on the ontskirts of Zion. We see that though so many meetings are in progress here and there within a radius ot twenty-five or thirty miles of New York, Merrick commands a fair share of attention. About one thousand five hundred persons, we are told, were on the grounds yesterday, to whom Chaplain French and his son-in-law, tev. George Lansing Taylor, preached—the former on “God’s Dealings with Nebuchad- nezzar’’ and that manarch’s conversion, and wD ote the dying tigf Gat be should be with Him Paradise. . The colored pewple who are gathered in the woods near Orange, N.J., listened to a sermon yesterday from Rev. Cherles 0. Wyckoff, and another on the night previous by Rev. N. HL Turpin, formerly of Sullivan street church, New York. The colored.campers at Port Richmond, 8. I, had a e accession of white folk at their camp yesterday, of which they availed themselves to raise ifty dollars ta defray their expenses at the meeting. had to make three attempts, however, they succeeded. This money~bogging businesd at camp meetings, where visitors are charged so dearly for every privilege they have, is be. coming an unmitigated nuisance and am injury to tho spirituality of the meetings. It should be stopped. i Papen ory eye nt ved ig ad | The Cholera Outlook in the West. There can bo no doubt that the fatal field of cholera in the West is widening, and the malignity of the epidemic is more aggravated. The now discase maps of the census report seem to show that the month of August is the harvest month for this great death reaper;' and the fact may account for the increasing ravages of the terrible Asiatic scourge. Thera is, therefore, additional and potent reason for the sternest vigilance at this time in our mex tropolis, which has thus far wonderfully esd caped, and which, by unsparing sanitary pre« caution, may pass this critical month um scathed by the dreaded plaguo. The new census report shows that the disé tribution of cholera in the State of New York has heretofore been about ten per cent fox June, thirty-two per cent for July and August, after which month the average is ten por cenf for September. These are the percentages fox the male population, which is, it appears,, nearly twice as much exposed to attack as the female; but the distribution of the disease months is nearly the same for both classes population. ‘These figures, deduced from our own last census data, corroborate the admirable paper of Dr. Pettenkofer, the celebrated Munich physician, furnished the Henanp through itd Munich correspondent, and recently pub« lished in these columns. The reasoning Dr. Pettenkofer is very powerful in favor the view that the seasonal influence is con« nected, in all probability, with the climate, temperature and rainfall. The cholora statis tics of Prussia from 1848 to 1860 prove thaf in North Germany this influence is undeni-¢ able, since the mortality for August and Sep-« tember is by far the largest item in the tere rific total. Dr. Pettenkofer thinks that tha dryness of the Summer is favorable to tha spread of the epidemic, and cites two in« stances in the history of Munich—viz., tha cholera seasons of 1836 ang 1854. These ara widely separated dates, Had the cholera ap- peared in two consecutive dry seasons it would be more philosophical to suppose that they justified the view of the Munich scientist. But it must be noticed that the native home of the cholera lies in the Gangetic Valley, a region steaming and saturated with moisture—indeed, a region whose moat marked climatic feature is an excessive, absolute humidity. The effect of water in de- composing the offensive matter of large cities, both animal and vegetable, is well known, and, ceteris paribus, it would seem more rea- sonable to expect greater immunity from the cholera during a summer of ordinary and not excessive rainfall, Tho rainfall statistics for July will probably show that the experience of different sections of this country is very checkered. There has been an excess along the Alleghanies and in the Northwest, but if would appear to have been otherwise on the immediate coast and seaboard of the Middle States and in the Southwest. The reports of rainfall that have been published would, there- fore, according to Dr. Pettenkofer’s view, look favorable for us as showing conditions unfavorable for the spread of the cholera in the belt which intervenes between the Middle States and the afflicted West. But every suck consideration should be made absolutely sub- ordinate to the supreme duty of exhaustive sanitary precaution. When we reflect on the fearful decimation by the disease, even in healthy countries, ag England, where, according to the Registrar General’s report, in 1848-49 it carried off 53,000 persons, we cannot be too inexorable or too imperative in our demands for such une sparing and exhaustive sanitary measures as will, at any rate for a time, keep the great enemy at bay. If we can safely pass August without an epidemic the prospect of final ew cape will be much brighter. OBITUARY. A. G. Allen. A.@, Allen, aged about fifty-five years, died im Washington, D. C., after a few days’ illness. He was a native of New Hampshire. After serving ag Navy Agent in Washington throughout the Pierce administration he adopted journalism as a profes. sion, being first known as a correspondent, and afterward successively was attached to the edito- rial stad of two Washington papers, He was held in high estimation, William W. Clark. William W. Clark, formerly Professor of Natural Science in the State Normal School at Albany, died in Rochester, N. Y., yesterday morning, at the age of forty-nine years. He was the author of the law fixing the standard of weights and measures of the State. In 1849 he assisted in making the State geological survey, and tn 1852 made a similar sur. vey in North Carolina with Professor Emmons, of Albany. Terence A. Murray. The Austraiian papers report the death of Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, President of the Legislax tive Council, at Sydney. The deceased, who waa in his sixty-third year, came of an Irish family, and was educated in Dablin. Early in life he emigrated, with nis father, to New South Wales, where, in con- sequence of the disturbed state of the settlements, he was soon placed in the commission of the peaci and administered the police affairs of the distri for several years. He was elected a member of tha first Colonial Legisiature, and alter filling several offices was elected in 1862 to the post which he held until his death. He was knighted in 1869, aud ob tained that honor on account of the reception ot the Duke of Edinburg at Sydney in the previous year. ‘ THE CENTRAL PACIFIO RAILROAD IW TROUBLE. ’ SAN FRANCISCO, August 10, 1873, The Sacramento Record, the recognized organ. oj the Ventral Pacific Railroad Company, violentiy-ns sails the several prominent capitalists of San Francisco who were recently negotiating for the purchase of a controlling interest in said com. pany. This declaration of war is regarded wite surprise by business men here, a8 the railroad company is notoriously indebted to the parties as gatled on call loans to the extent of $2,500,000, gold, borrowed to pay interest on Contral Pacific bonds, The cause 04 the rupture is supposed to ba the refusal of the capitelists (6 complete the pra wosed purchase,