The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1873, Page 4

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SUPPLEMEN WITH qT. “Kew York, Thursday, August 14, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. el To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE QUESTION OF CHANGING THE MODE OF ELECTING THE PRESIDENT’~EDITORIAL LEADER—FovrTH Pace. SPAIN GIVEN ANOTHER CAUSE FOR A QUAR- REL WITH PRUSSIA! REFUSAL TO DE- LIVER TO A DETACHMENT OF LOYAL SAILORS THE VITTORIA AND SALAMANCA! A NAVAL STRUGGLE IMMINENT! A MOST IMPORTANT CARLIST VICTORY! CAPTURE OF A BRITISH BLOCKADE RUNNER—FurTH Pace. THE CARLISTS IN POSSESSION OF THE NORTH OF SPAIN! NATIONAL ABANDONMENT OF THE TERRITORY! CARLOS ON THE ALERT! MORE ARMS EXPECTED—FirTu Pace. DON CARLOS IN THE BASQUE PROVINCES! ROYAL ABNEGATION OF SELF! PASSING A PERILOUS POINT IN THE DARKNESS! CAMP JOLLITY—SixTa Pace. SPAIN’S MAGNA CHARTA! THE CONSTITUTION ADOPTED BY THE CORTES JULY 17! A MOST EXCuLLENT INSTRUMENT! IN- HERENT RIGHTS GUARANTEED TO SPAN- IsH FREEMEN—SIXxTH PaGE. PAPAL GRATITUDE FOR AMERICAN SYM- PATHY | CARDINAL ANTONELLI’S ADDRESS TO THE FAITHFUL IN THE UNITED STATES—Firri Paae. NASSR-BD-DIN SAILS FOR CONSTANTINOPLE— METZ TO BE RESTORED TO FRAN RUMORED FATAL STEANSHIP COLLISION FirtH Pac. A UNITED STATES MAN-OF-WAR AT KINGSTON, JAMAICA, WITH SEVENTY OF HER CREW DOWN WITH YELLOW FEVER—Firta Pace. GLOODY INDIAN BATTLE IN THE REPUBLIC. RIVER VALLEY! A PARTY OF PAW ATTACKED BY A SUPERIOR FORCE OF SIOUX WARRIORS AND DRIVEN FOR TEN HOURS! HORRID WORK WITH THE TOMAHAWK AND SCALPING KNIFE— Firta Pace. YACHT STRUGGLES IN THE SOUND EW YORK CLUB VESSELS, DRIVEN , HAVE A GLORI- SPORT—Firtu Page. DAMAGE BY THS “NOR'EASTER!” PERTY SWEPI AWAY IN IDENTS ON MARYLAND SYLVANIA LINES—Firta Paces. IN THE LOWER BAY!” THE UNFOUNDED ‘ORT OF DISASTER TO A LONG BRANCH STEAMER—Firta Pace, PRESIDENT GRANT IN MAINE! HANDSHAKING EXTRAORDINARY! SPEAKER BLAINE 3 HONORS MISS NELLIE GRANT—Fourtu Pace. PENNSYLVANIA, I0WA AND CALIFORNIA THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION iN ION AT HARAISBURG! CONVEN- TION OF THE IOWA ANTI-MONOPOLISTS— TENTH PAGE. FIRES AT HUNTER’S POINT AND IN THIS CITY— CUT 10 PIECES—TenTH Pace, THE CHIEF WATERING PLACE IN THE KEY- STONE STATE E SHADOWS OF DE- PARTED GREA 3 LINGERING AROUND BEDFORD SPRL THE PLACE IN BUCHANAN’S AND IN TOM SCOTT'S TIME—TuoIRD Pace. ; MR MURRAY'S THIRD LETTER FROM THE 4 tH = FASHIONABLE = SUMMERING iS ENGLISH AND AMERI- CANS PE! A TRAGEDY AND A COMEDY—Tuinp Pace, PROROGATION OF THE NEW DOMINION PAR- LIAMENT! THE PACIFIC RAILWAY CRE- DIi MOBILIER TO BE LOOKED INTO! 7TU- MULT LIN THE HOUSE—SixtH pace. MINISTERING TO THE DESTITUTE! THE EXCUR- SION OF THE POOR SICK CHILDREN’S SOCIETY! A BLESSED CHARITY EAR- NESTLY PROSECUTED—SIXTH PaGs. “ECONOMY” AGAIN ARRAIGNED! EBTORS’ PRISON SUPPLIES! THE HEALTH BOARD RECEIVES MORE LEGAL BACKING UP IN ITS WAR ON NUISANCES—E1guTa Pace. GOODWOOD! MASSING OF BRITISH ROYALTY AND ARISTOCRACY TO WITNESS A GRAND RACE MEETING! INCIDENTS AND WIN. NERS—BRAZIL—NEW YORK AND BROOK- LYN LOCAL ITEMS—QUEER “REVELA. TIONS” OF A “MEEJUM’—E1anTH Pace. 4 LIFELESS 'CHANGE! WALL STREET IN THE DUMPS—Nintn Pace, SARATOGA AND UTICA PARK RACE ITEMS— THE STAGE ACCIDENT ON THE WHITE MOUNTAINS—Six1n Pace, ROMANCE OF AN AFRICAN &ING—WATERING PLACE GOSSIP—TaiRD Page, Tae CaNnaDiAN Panuiament is prorogued, and with all the pomp and glitter that our vain friends across the border could command. The Governor General went to the House of Commons in state, He was pleased to close the session, begged leave to convey his con- gratulations for the very nice acts passed by the Parliament and thanked the members for their diligence. But His Excellency, by the appointment of a commission to investigate tue Canadian Crédit Mobilier scandal, raised @hornet’s nest in the House, For a time the scene of disorder and vituperation rivalled even one of the darky legislative sessions in the South, It is apparent that the Blue Noses do not entertain Proper respect for the maj- osty of a viceroy, ee mn ‘| that NEW YURKK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1873.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ‘The Question of Chenging the Mode of Electing the President. Tho agitation of the third term question and the nascent Cwsarism involved will tend to draw attention to another important one rela- tive to the Presidency, of which little, com- ; paratively, has been said. We refer to the proposition of Senator Morton to abolish the present plan of voting for President and Vice President by the Electoral College and to make the election be by the direct vote of the people. Last Winter the Senator submitted a resolution to the Senate for instructing the Committes on Privileges and Elections to inquire into the defects of the present electoral system and tho best means for remedying thom, On Janu- ary 17 ho called up this rosolution and made an able speoch on the subject. In an editorial article the following day we commended the object, though not prepared to endorse all the views of Mr. Morton. Subsequently the Senate passed the resolution, The Sena- tor, as chairman of the committce, has been, it appears, at work industriously since the adjournment of Congress, making the necessary investigations, A short time since our correspondent at Washington in- formed us that Mr. Morton had arrived in that city for the purpose of availing himself of the facilities of the Congressional library and cer- tain unprinted records, in order to prepare a report to Congress. It was said at the same time that, in view of the inertness of Congress on questions in which it is proposed to restore to thebody of the people their privileges, he intended to prepare and submit for the adoption of his committee such a report as will go ring- ing through the country and arouse the press and people to demand a constitutional amend- ment. He expects to carry his committee unanimously in favor of the reform contem- plated, and to advance considerably a measure for that purpose in Congress during the next session, Two or three days ago we were informed again from Washington of the labors of the Senator there. It is evident, therefore, that he is intently earnest in the work, and that really he means to make a report that “will go ringing through the country.” He seems to have received fresh inspiration from the recent third term and Cwsarism discussion. Although Senator Morton is an ardent and able supporter of General Grant's administra- tion—its Ajax, in fact, in the Senate and on the stump—and though he is almost as much of a political consolidationist and advocate of a strong central government as an imperialist might be, it is but fair to give him credit for the best and most patrivtic motives. We be- lieve he is not following up so vigorously tho movement he commenced asa foil to throw the people off their guard and to draw their attention from the third term question, but, on the contrary, that, rising above party or personal favoritism, he is patriotically endeay- oring to bring about a change in the mode of electing the President before the Presidential election of 1876. He has said frankly what his own views are with regard to electing the President. ‘He would prefer that the Presi- dent should be elected by the people as one community, giving the election to the man who received the highest number of votes, without regard to State lines or municipal divisions, so that the national character should be fully represented in one depart- ment of the government.’’ But he assumes the smaller States, without which }an amendment to the constitution could not be carried, would not consent to such an obliteration of State lines, and, therefore, he | proposes that the direct vote for President shall be by districts, each State being divided into as many districts as it has members and ators in Congress. Of course the majority in each district would decide how the one yote in that district shouid be cast for Presi- | dent, and each district vote would be g' indepondent of the votes of other districts in the same State, This would do away with electors, electoral colleges and the voting of States as States. We suppose Mr. Morton will go into the history of the debate on this subject of choosing a President when the government was formed and quote the eminent statesmen of that | period, both on the strong government sido | and on the side of States rights and the federative principle; and this might be very interesting as well as instructive; but, in reality, the question is, not what was or might have been adapted to this country at that time, but what is suitable now under the changed condition of things. The electoral college system, happily, has not produced any mischief directly, though indirectly it has fostered the arbitrary rule of oanenses and conventions; but accidental circumstances might at any time have plunged the country into trouble, We are never sure that the electors will cast the vote of a State as the taajority of the people wish or have decided, or that rival sets of electors may not claim to cast the vote of a State, and thus, perhaps, leave it to a party majority in Congress to defeat the will of the people. Mr. Morton properly remarks on this subject:—‘The proposition that Congress has power to sit as a canvassing board upon the electoral votes of the States, admitting or rejecting them for reasons of its own, subverts the whole theory by which its appointment was con- ferred upon the States; makes Congress the judge of the election and qualifications of President and Vice President, and by the operation of the twenty-second joint rule gives that power to each house separately, as in caso of its own members.” Then, the actual practice of the Electoral Col- lege is not in accordance with the theory and intention of the framers of the government, and, indeed, could not well be under the growth of the representative democratic principle in this country. It was supposed that the electors, chosen for their high standing and intelligence, would exercise their own judgment in the choice of President and Vice President, having due regard, of course, to public sentiment. In practice they have become the monthpieces only of the popular majority. They are like the fifth wheel to @ coach, useless and powerless, unless they should cheat the public for party or per- sonalends. And this is one of the possible cases, which might plunge the country into serious trouble, that it is proposed to avoid by a direct vote of the people. ‘The greatest difficulty, probably, in the way of getting the American people to change the constitution is that the proposition appears to strike another blow at what remains of the federative principle in the Republic, taking away, apparently, more of the reserved rights of the States and concentrating more power in the national government. Under the plan Mr. Morton prefers, the whole community voting as a unit, as the election in France for Louis Napoleon as President was conducted, the objection would have great weight. It would be a very radical change in this republican government. But the plan he has adopted of voting by districts, every State having as many electoral votes as at present, removes the objection to a great extent. Still, that would beachange in a measure of the old State rights theory of the government, At present, as is known, the electoral vote of the State is counted upon the total majority, though that majority may not be more than one vote. It is, in fact, the State that casts the electoral vote. But if we understand rightly the plan proposed by Mr. Morton each district will have its vote counted. New York, for example, might cast seventeen district votes. for one candidate and sixteen for another; whereas, under the present system, supposing the seventeen dis- tricts had a majority of all the voters of the State, the whole thirty-three would be given for one candidate. This proposed change would certainly give a fairer representation of public sentiment in the choice of a President, taking the Republic as a whole, and we cannot see how it would endanger the reserved rights of the States. True, federal power has made of late years great encroachments upon the lines of State authority through amendments to the constitution and the laws made to execute them, and through the exercise of doubtful powers, which may create fear of admitting further changes. Siill, this should not prevent aremedy being applied to admitted or dan- gerous evils. As was said before, we do not see that any danger can arise to the federative principle, so far as it has been preserved, or to our institutions, in admitting the vote for President by districts directly, If it should be thought there would be danger some middle course might be devised. At all vents, the electoral college system does not answer the purpose intended, is a useless appendage to our government at best and may lead to serious trouble. There could be no better time to discuss the question than the present, and as the Chairman of the Senate Commitieo on Privileges and Elections, under authority of Congress, is earnestly at work preparing a report on it the opinions of the press and public sentiment should be evoked. Repub- lican and democratic institutions may be as much endangered by not remedying evils when they are known to exist as by mcre theoretic or experimental changes. Prussian Interference in Spain. The special Heraxp telegram from Madrid. which we publish elsewhere, affords proof of tho accuracy of on» arst anticipation that Prnosian naval interference was a very deli- cate, if not daring, act of imperialist policy, A force of Spanish sailors, numbering eight hundred men, have just been despatched from Alicante to Escombrato with orders to take possession of the two iron-clads of war which were turned over to theuses of the radicalist “yeds,’’ or intransigentes. These vessels were, as our readers will recollect, subsequently seized by Captain Werner and held in the name of Emperor William, with the view of preventing them from going out as pirates. The moment of danger having passed, Presi- dent Salmeron now seeks the restoration of the vessels, but the Prussians refuse to deliver them, Captain Werner, the original foreign captor, whom it was said had been ro- called from the Mediterranean command for his act, alleging that he must com- municate with Berlin and receive in- structions from his government before he takes further action. This has brought the Spanish loyalist sailors to a sudden ‘heave to’ in a very dangerous position, While communicating with the Germans they were exposed to the fire of an intransigente battery. The progress and incidents of this affair tend to draw the line between repub- licanism and imperialism still more distinctly before the eyes of the peoples of the Old World. The Board of Health Eurnestly at Work. A decrease of nearly one hundred in the number of deaths in this city last week from that of the week before is the best certificate of success the Board of Health could wish. This reduction appears, by the statements in the weckly report of the Registrar, to have taken place essentially in the class of infants below five years of age. It is, no doubt, mainly attributable to the sanitary reforms effected by the Board, and should encourage and stimulate it to follow up with vigor the crusade against filth, stench and disease 60 successfully commenced. The banishment of the offal nuisance, the cleansing of market filth accumulations and the disinfecting of offensive localities and seizure of unwhole- some fruit throughout the city should not be allowed to stop. No handling of street dirt, garbage and manure in immediate contact with our greatest food depot should ever again be permitted. The choked gutters at Catharine Market should be at once cleaned as the Sanitary Inspector suggests, by tearing down the stores which cover them and obstruct the streets. Bone boiling, fat ren- dering and all such stench-producing opera- tions should either be wholly excluded from the city or only permitted under the most stringent provisions for protecting the health of citizens. There are offensive and danger- ous places yet to be exposed in and about most of the minor markets. Plenty of work yet remains for the Board. Let it not be weary of well doing. ‘ When the city is rid of nui- sances, thoroughly drained, paved and supplied with water enough to wash the streets daily, we may expect to rank as the city of lowest mortality among all the great cities of the world. To effect this should be the aim of the Health Board. A Burtish Conreapaxy Manrse Traber Seep By THE Spanianps.—A British steam- ship landed a large and very welcome cargo of munitions of war at Fontarabia, for the use of the Carlists, yesterday. She stood out to sea immediately after the’ delivery, but was captured by « Spanish man-of-war and towed into the harbor of San Sebastian. This is quite important. It will tend to still further complicate the naval situation in Spain; but it may thus, strange as it appears, hasten a settlement of the troubled situation which pre- vails on the peningula, oe RE The Storm—Its Causes and Remedies Against a Repetition of Its Effects. The rain storm, which yesterday commenced its progress through the Middle States, appears to have been very general and to have been marked byan excessive rainfall, capable of doing both much good and much harm. The reports represent it as reaching ‘from Lake Erie to Virginia and bringing with it some severer winds than have been felt since the 1st of July. It is said that the amount of rain in the Middle States near -the coast has been deficient as compared with last month, but yesterday's and to-day’s precipitation will be likely to make up such deficiency. It is barely possible that this northeaster indicates a breaking up of the Summer and the introduction of Autumnal weather. It will at once greatly relieve the severity of Summer, and by delug- ing our scaboard cities wash out their filthy streets and improve the sanitary prospects. A general storm of this kind, with such heavy and torrential rains, is to be dreaded along our railway and canal lines, and already the telegraph announces many bridges washed away and trains delayed and endangered. This storm was reported as likely to occur in the shape of a number of local storms and rains, but they seem to have suddenly mar- shalled their forces for the production of a considerable and widespread moteor. The rising barometer or aerial wave of high pres- sure and low temperature which was reported yesterday is intimately con- nected with the formation of all our dan- gerous storms, because they are supplied from its crest with high winds, and its coldair serves to chill and condense into torrents of rain the vapor which the previous southerly winds have stored away in the atmospheric reservoirs, The great difficulty ofour meteo- rologists foreseeing such a gale as wo had yes- terday lies in the fact that these cold storms, breeding air waves, descend upon us from the country lying north of the lakes and steal unobserved southwardly over a region which as yet is closed to the weather sentinels. It is evi- dent that, ifnecessary, the governmentshould enter into some international arrangement by which the outposts of our signal system might be pushed northward, even to the vicinity of Hudson Bay. The storm and its effects will probably be felt for the rest of to-day, and it is to be hoped that our railroad au- thorities will exert the utmost vigilance to avert the accidents and delays that are sure to follow such heavy rains. If, as it is proba- ble, the gale emerges from the land into the Atlantic this morning, it may be expected to increase in violence, and will no doubt be dangerous to our coasting vessels from the Chesapeake Bay to Oupe Cod. The teleyraph brings us important intel- ligence of the effects of the storm which has just raged along the coast. At Long Branch the waves dashed against the bluff, compelling a removal of the bathing houses, and on the railroad which passes through that well- known Summer resort the track was washed away in several places. A number of discon- solate pilgrims from the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting sought refuge in the halls of gayety and pleasure at the Branch from the merciless rain which drenched them and the fierce wind which made shuttlecocks of their tents. The worst, we fear, has not come yet, as such a storm is likely to have been attended with dis- astrous results along the coast among the ship- ping. The Lower Bay was in a ferment yes- terday, and sea sickness was the rule, not the exception, among pleasure seekers, What mast it be on the broad Atlantic, with a lee- shore in the distance and damaged gear alone available to keep a ship off jagged rocks and treacherous sandbars? The Pennsylvania Republican Con- vention, The Republican State Convention which met at Harrisburg yesterday has not done much honor to Pennsylvania or the dominant party. The renomination of Mr. R. W. Mackey is not one that will commend itself to the majority of the people of the State, even though he should be re-elected. It seemed due to public decorum and decency that his nomination should not be pressed in view of the charges which hang over his head. But it was apparent for weeks beforo the Conven- tion that his endorsement had been deter- mined upon. The absence of Senator Cam- eron from his home at the time for holding the Convention was significant of this result, and the excuse he will be able to make for himself—‘‘Thou canst not say I did it’’—fol- lows as a corollary of his absence. In every respect the nomination is one to be deplored. Without assenting to or denying the charges which have been s0 boldly made agaiust Mackey, it was on general principles a nomination unfit to be made. This is no time to name men for important places in the State and national governments who are under suspicion. It appears, how- ever, that it was for this very reason that Mackey was renominated. The dominant pol- iticians have resolved to force his endorse- ment from the people, and thereby secure a triumph for what is known as the Penns; Iva- nia Ring. Both nominations—that for Jade of the Supreme Court as well as the State Treasurership—were given to the western part of the State, and Philadelphia and the East are expected to find their reward in the en- dorsement of their political leaders, Itisa hard bargain, but one apt to be made in cor- rupt times. The resolutions contain nothing worthy of remark except the one calling for the reduction of taxation; and this, we infer, is not intended to have any specific meaning. Ispran Mcagprrers.—Much as we have to regret the mistaken policy of the govern- ment in regard to those redskin fiends who occasionally indulge in murders of the most horrible description on tho Plains, yet it is to some extent encouraging to know that the two bravest and best known chiefs in the United States Army, Generals Sherman and Sheridan, are thoroughly aware of the treacherous nature of these rascals and as thoroughly disgusted with the course adopted towards them by the powers that be. A party of Sioux indulged in some atrocious murders a short time ago and escaped scot free, on account of tho wide range of territory over which they depredate and the small number of troops placed there to take caro of them. General Sheridan asks permission to punish these scoundrels when they get home with their booty, and General Sherman wants to quarters near United States forts. Of all the blunders which may be placed to the credit of the present administration nothing can be cited more glaring or inexcusable than the immunity extended to indian murderers. Don Carlos with His Army in Spain. The presence of Don Carlos, at the head- quarters of the royalist army has afforded a fresh impulse to the conduct of the operations of the campaign which he is waging for the re- covery of the Bourbon crown. He had his chief position at Alvana on the 9th inst., as we are specially informed by a Hzraup tele- gram from that point. Don Carlos had but few soldiers under his personal command. Ho acted mercly in his capacity as Commander-in- Chief of the royalist forces. Under this com- mission he made careful note of the opera- tions which were being executed in the ficld by his Generals, Dorregaray, Velasco and Lissaraga. Our: report goes to show that he has good reason to be pleased. The republican forces had abandoned all the fortified positions in Navarre, with the exception of four, some of which are to-day in sore strait and in danger of capture. The monarchy men looked also to the coast in ex- pectation of the landing of a cargo of war munitions destined for the use of their army, which they have since received. The Spanish Bourbon Prince thus, as will be seen, keeps his eyes steadily directed towards one objective point—Madrid. He represents a cause which has a fixed centre—this at least--and it is ex- ceedingly difficult to pledge his failure, when we come to regard the political vageries and party domoralizations which distract the mind of his radicalist opponents. Potty Spitefal Conduct of the Small Dominion Officials. In the matter of the arrest and imprison- ment of the Minnesotians by the Dominion authorities on the charge of attempting to abduct the soi-disant Lord Gordon, the little colonial officials have manifested @ meanness of conduct that should be rebuked at once by those in high author- ity. While there is no love for these Western “Yankees”? among the conceited Britishers across the border, we do not suppose there is any disposition to carry persecution to the ex- treme—to hang the invaders, for example— but the temptation to swagger and show their “little brief authority’? over these “Yankees”’ is, we suppose, irresistible. What a fuss over this precious and slippery Lord Gordon, who, by the way, has slipped off again just when he was wanted! Surely the Governor-General or the British government will order the release at once of our citizens, and not let them be kept in a miserable prison and treated as if they were criminals of the highest grade. From the temper of the poo- ple of Minnesota it will hardly bo safe to per- secute these men on a technicality and to gratify the revenge of Mr. Gordon. We are glad the Secretary of State is moving in the matter, and have no doubt the British govern- ment will act in 9 different spirit than that with which the little colonial officials have acted. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The Shah cost Queen Victoria £33,000 and the nation £7,000. Signor Antonio Zimello wants to bridge the Bos phorus from Pera to Scutari. Mayor H. G. Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, is stay- ing at the Albemarle Hotel. Judge T. W. Bartley, of Washington, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Chief Justice W. B. Richards, of Canada, is regis- tered at the Westmoreland Hotel. Orville Grant, brother of the President, has gone into the wood pavement business. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Grace, the great batsman, is going to Australia with a “team” of champion cricketers, United States Senator John J. Patterson, of South Carolina, was in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Ex-United States Senator James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, is to edit a new paper in Chicago. Hon. Alexander White, member of Congress from Alabama, was in St, Louis on Monday. Ex-Mayor K. ©. Barker, of Detroit, Mich., is among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major General George L. Hartsuf, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ben Butler wore a major general's uniform and bestrode a horse at the encampment of the First Massachusetts brigade, at Framingham, last week. Ex-President Millard Fillmore is seventy-three years old, Fillmore and Andy Johnson are the only ex-Presidents living, and neither of them was elected to the office, Mr. Fillmore, as Vice Presi- dent, succeeded President Taylor, who dicd a littie over@ year after he was inaugurated, and Andy Johnson succeeded the lamented Lincoln. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES. Pra Nilsson sails for this city on the 23th te The version of “La Fille de Madame Augot” which the Oates troupe intend producing at the Olympic, ig by Mr, H. J. Byron. The famous “lightning calculator” is so popular in London that at one of his recent exhibitions 200,000 bottles of ginger beer were sola. It is said that the French classical ¢rama in- spired Offenbach with such disgust while he was Musical director at the ThéAatre Francais, that he revenged himself by composing “Orphée” and “La Belle Hélene.”” Herr Tanovetz, the great chefde olaque of Viewna, who died recently, usually employed only a few Persons to lead in the applause, preferring ‘quality to quantity.” The general subject might be made an interesting study by New York theatre gvers, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence arrived in this city by the Scotia yesterday. Mr. Florence brought with Lim @ new domestic drama, called “Christmas Eve,” in which he expects to make the character of Joe Stammers, an eccentric old man, as great a success a8 bis Bob Brieriy, Mr. W. 8. Gilbert, the dramatist, was recently fined twonty shillings and costs, at the Westmin- ster Police Court, for refusing to show his season ticket upon the Metropolitan Railway. Mr. Gil- bert insisted that the production of his visiting card ought to have been sufficient, as he was a well-known holder of season tickets. Everybody has been laughing at the author of “The Wicked World” in consequence. A German translation of Wilkie Collins’ drama, “The New Magdalen,” is soon to be bruught out at the Carl Theatre, Vienna. The play seems to be popular all over Europe, and in this country the leading character has been seized upon by most of the bad and some of the good actresses. Nothing can be funnier than to be told that Miss Annie Firmin, Miss Relen Temple and others of like talents are playing Mercy Merrick. Mr. F. B. Chatterton, who has just entered upon his second lease of Drury Lane, begins his season (September 20) with “Antony and Cleopatra,” abriaged and arranged as # spectacular play. Miss Wallis, a young actress, who recently made her début at the Queen’s Theatre, and Mr. Ander- 800, Will play the leading parts, ie scenery to illustrate the play will comprise a view of ancient Rome, with a grand celebration in honor of An- tony and Octavia; the naval battle of Actium be- tween the Roman and Egyptian galleys; the THE PRESIDENT. General Grant at a Publie Recep- tion in Augusta, A TREM:NDOUS HANDSHAKING FEAT. Miss Nellic Grant Honored by Speaker Blaine. note Avavsta, Me., August 13, 1873, The President passed a very quiet morning at the residence of Speaker Blaine, and at halt-past eleven he and party proceeded in carriages to the Soldiers’ Home at Gus Springs, six miles out. There the inmates of the Home, so closely identified with General Butler, received the President, and an artillery salute was fired in bia honor. After a careful inspection of the buildings and farm attached—which certainly refiects credit upon the national government—the party repaired to the residence of the Governor, General W. 8. Tilton, where a substantial dinner awaited them. The greater part of the alternoon was spent et the Home, and then the guests of the Speaker returned to his residence for rest and refreshment, A num- ber of admirers of both sexes called and paid their respects to the distinguished visitor, who needed considerable rest to fit nim for the fatigue of hand- sbaking at the evening reception at the State House, A general invitation had been given the citizens to attend the reception, and by eight o’clock the halls, aisles and every ante-room were well filled by persons anxious to see the President. Not until about nine o'clock, or an hour after the appointed time, were the doors of the Executive Council thrown open, when the eager visitors crowded in, saluted the Governor and were each in turn as they passed in single file presented to General Grant, who shook them by the hands and greeted each one with a quiet smile. When [left the room, twenty minutes after he commencement of the introductions, the Presi- dent had shaken the hands of 445, and still showed no signs of a desire to relax his efforts to gratily for once the cager masses who swarmed in as ear- nestly asever. The Governor and the President both executed their parts with an easy grace. In the rear of the Governor and the President was an assembly of leading members of Augusta, society, the President’s children and the family of their entertainers, One of the striking incidents of the reception was the appearance of an ungainly veteran of “the late unpleasantness,” dressed in very ragged clothing, and carrying in hie arms 8 young voter of fully ten years of age. The President clasped his bony fingers as tightly as those of the most fashionable, and the apparition disappeared, probably deiermined to vote on the third term principle. ‘the ie ey for to-morrow morning has not been fully decided upon, but it is expected that he will take @ short trip down the Kennebec and return in time to receive the compli- ments of the masses who will attend the reception given by Speaker Blaine. General Burt, who had charge of the party to this point, for some unexplamed reason suddenly left to-day, and Colonel H. 8, Osgood will have charge while the President is in this State and on his tour to North Conway and the White Moun tains, The President, it is stated tu-night, has requested the expulsion of all tne correspondents who represented republican apers from his spegial, that leaves for ckland on Friday morning at six o'clock should Hite get on board, butso numerous are the regular trains that the press representatives can be present at all demonstrations made to him. ‘The character given to the Governor’s reception to-night would seem to show that the President can no longer claim to be travelling in a private capacity, for all who were in attendance were presented to him as the President of the United States. To morrow afternoon he will drive with Senator Morrill and invited guests, including Senator Ham- lin and wife, Senator Cameron, and Speaker Blaine And wife. It is expected that all the Congressional delegation from this State, the Governor and fam- ily and members of the State government will at- tend the reception, which is intended more di- rectly a8 a compliment to Miss Nelle Grant, A Short Sea Trip for the Executive. PORTLAND, Me., August 13, 1873, The revenue steamer McUulloch leaves here to Morrow noon for Rockland to take President Grant to Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, on Friday. Oo Saturday he will go to Bangor in the McCulloch and return to Augusta by special train in the evening. On Monday moruing he goes to the White Mouu- i tains by railroad, } CUT TO PIECES, —_——. Probable Fatal Result of a Quarrel in Fifty-first Strect—A Man’s Face, Chest and Arm Terribly Mutilated. James McGuire and Daniel McCauley, two labor- ers, board at No. 522 West Filty-first street, a housa kept by Patrick Hostigan. About two weeks ago McGuire and McCauley had a quarrel about a job of work the former secured alter it had been promised to the latter. About nine o’clock last evening the two mea began again to talk over the old grievance, and in afew minutes were engaged in @ lively quarrel, each calling the other the vilest names he could command. Hostigan, who was lying ona bed im the room where the men were quarrelling, took part in the discussion, and seemed to warm up quite as fast and to as great a degree as either of the principals, Vituperative epithets were soon passing to and fro in the most promiscuous mam ner possible, and at every moment the triangular WAR OF WORDS WAXED HOITER until finally Hostigan sprang from his bed and dealt McCauley three terrible blows with some sharp instrument, The wounded man sank to tha floor bleeding profusely from a@ horrible gash across is face, beginning a little over the left eyebrow and extending down- ward tbrough his nos ry upper lip,’ both of which were bisected clean {0d the hone, anothét in thé right arm, above the elbow, and a third in the right chest, The wound in the chest will, in all human probability, prove fatal, the in- strument with which it was inficted . having been driven between the eighth and ninth ribs and into the chest to a considerable distance, McCauley was removed on a stretcher to the Twenty-second precinct station house, where he was attended by Drs. Ward aad Harwood, both of whom tiink the poor tellow’s chances to live are very smnall indeed. Hostigan, his wife and Mcfiuire were all ar- rested—the two latter being held as witnesses— and locked up in the statton nouse. On being brought in Hostigan was ooarateae WITH HTS VICTIM, ' who instantly recognized him as the man who did the cutting, saying, “That is the man; he struck me three times with a knife.’ Hostigan, on the other hand, says he knows nothing about the stabbing, and his story ts to the effect that all he did wags to push McCauley out of the house, and that. if any stabbing was done it was in the street, and not In his presence, His wile, as also McGuire, denies all knowledge of any cut- ting; but, unfortunately for them, a great quantity of biood was found on the floor of the room where McCauley says he was at the time of the assault and also in the ballway. The police found Mc- Cauley in the street, it is true; but he says—and, doubtless, truthfully too—that iter he was stabbed he was thrown out 0) une house. S Search was made for the instrument with which the work was done, but whether It was obtained or not is as yet unknown. The only knife found on or about the premises which could have been used with such terrible eifect is a large butcher knife, which was periectly c'ean and free from alt blood stains; but the fact that nearly an hour elapsed between the cutting and its boing known by the police doubtiess accounts for the instru. ment's immaculate condition. McCauley was removed to Bellevue Hospital im an ambulance, an’ Captain Killalee was still ene gaged at alate hour last nightin trying to find @ bloodstained knife and some person who wiil ac- knowledge to have seen the stabbing done, RUMORED L088 OF A YACHT. Provipence, R. I., August 19, 1873, The schooner yacht N. F, Dixon, carrying the mails and passengers from Biock Island to New- port, had not arrived at Newport at a late hour to- night, being several hours overdne, New- port 18 agitated by @ rumor, whicl we cannot verity, that the vessel was Seen bottom up olf Point Jadith this after- noon. About one hundred strangers were on the island, some of whom would, doubtless, like this boat to return to the main, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Preparatory orders have been issued from tho, Navy Department to Rear Admiral L. M. Golds. borough, commanding the Wasbingten Navy Yara, to take command of the Asiatic station, rolieving Rear Admiral Jenkins, Admiral Goldsborough wilt know by what authority they take up their Temple of Isis, and a realization of the gorgeous spectacle of Qleopatra in ber barge. gail from this country to take charge of the feck early in November. see, gs