The New York Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorm Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly gealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. mga OE Oe Obst, The EUROPEAN Epirion, every Wednesday, at Six Cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- serted in the WEEKLY HERALD and the European Edition. JOB PRINTING Qf every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.— Mia. ons BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Sxeixtox Hanp— ‘Tnx Monkey Boy. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bro Poverty Fiat. 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EMPEROR WILLIAM, OF GERMANY, TO THE | AMERICAN METHOD 1 CHRISTIAN | UNITY ADVOCATED—SEVENTH PAGE. FROM NEW LONDON TO’ NEWPORT! MAGNIFI- CENT RUN OF THE VESSE OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB! THE STRUGGLES FOR THE BENNETY AND THE DOUGLAS PRIZES—Tuirp Pace. DUTDOOR SPORTS! THE WEST END CLUB EVENTS AT MONMOUTH PARK A DECIDED SUCCESS! GLOSTER AND ST. JAMES THE WINNERS OF THE AND 2:30 RACES AT UTIGA PARK—Tuirp Pace. CLOSE OF THE SECOND RACE MEETING AT SARATOGA! AN IMMENSE CONCOURSE WITNESS ANOTHER WATERLOO FOR THE | FAVORITES OF THE POOLS—THE ATALAN- TA BOAT RACE—TuiRp Pace. FOOT RAUING AT PROVIDENCE, R. L! FOUR THE, EXCITING CONTESTS AT WASHINGTON PARK—THE ATLANTIC BASE BALL CLUB SORELY WORSTED BY THE “MUTES"— THIRD PaGE. HORSE THIEF MURDERED BY A MOB—THE PROSPECTIVE YIELD OF COTTON IN THE SOUTH—LEGAL SUMMARIES—DRAIN- ING THE HARLEM FLATS—TentH PaGE. THE FRAUDSIN CUSTOMS COLLECTION! WHO ARE ON THAT “BLACK LEAD! IMPORTERS “IN A BAD BO: THE LESSER LIGHTS TO BE SNUFFED INSTEAD OF THE GREATER—SEVENTH Pace. WHERE DIVINE SERVICES WILL BE HELD IN GOTHAM TO-DAY! THE CORRESPONDENT | CORPS ON SPIRITUALISM, UNIVERSAL | SALVATION AND THE IMPROPER QUOTING OF SCRIPfURE! CHURCH DEDICATION! MINISTERS’ DOINGS—FovrtH PagE. PRESIDENTIAL PEREGRINATIONS IN MAINE— PERSONAL JOTTINGS—S: PaGE. POLITICS IN THE EMPIRE CITY AND STATE! THE POLITICAL MAGNATES SOJOURNING | IN SARATOGA GIVE THEIR VIEWS AS TO THE CUMING SLATES FOR THE NOVEMBER ELECTION! LIBERAL [HE TAMMANY- APOLLO, COALITION—Founri Pace. GENERAL IMPROVEMEN! IN 1HE FINANCIAL TONE YESTERDAY! UNITED STATES SECURITIES IN LONDON! THE BANKS | LOSE $3,000,000 IN THE EXCESS OVER | LEGAL RESERVE—THEATRICAL NOTES— Firta PAGE. Postat Senvice Exrraorprnary.--'The other | day a letter was mailed in the lamppost box | against the Henaxp office for a friend at 100th street, in this city, and on the third day after it was delivered. But this is not a single instance of the inefficiency of the postal | service. Letters to parties inthe neighbor- hood of Harlem are frequently two days in teaching their destination. Only think, a letter could go from here to St. Louis in the same time it is going from one part of the | city to another. Evidently a little reform is needed here. We notice the fact for the pur- pose of calling the attention of the Post Office authorities to their sleepy local subordinates. | Activiry oF THB Mint.—It appears from our Washington correspondence that the Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the Philadelphia Mint to work to its full capacity in coining gold and silver. Like instructions have been given to the mints at Carson City and San Francisco, The coinage at San Francisco will be exclusively trade dollars and double eagles, and will amount for the month to three mil- lions in value, It is said the monthly addi- lion to the stock of coin has averaged three and a half millions. The trade dollar, as is known, is intended chiefly for exportation, and, #e presume, the double eagles are expected to be used in the same way. The recoinage of gold at the Philadelphia Mint is progressing The Passion for Ohange—Is It Working for Good or It si We are apt, when viewing the past, to be swayed alternately by the two sources of opinion thereon which are represented in the regrets of an old man for his youth or in the exultance of a young man, who, fired by what he is and what he may be, thinks age vener- able perhaps, but only in so far as it sets off his own vigor by the contrast. So the antique is exalted or humbled by to-day as the fit takes us, The passion for change is, as we all know, and as Horace said to Maconias long ago, a living pleasurable pain to the human mind everywhere. Some ages have been more favorable for its supremacy than others, and some peoples or races have thrown them- selves at its feet in those ages with a devotion that seemed as if it would never weary; but it did weary, and the passion died for the time or was abandoned to others. Assyria, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome had each their passion time, and we acknowledge the blaze of that passion, while the pathos of the mound of Kouyunjik, the ruins of Persepolis or Ista- khar, the Pyramids, the Acropolis and the Coliseum fills us with a sacred sorrow for what, like the might of Babylon, is “gone on the wind.”’ We turn with a single thought to the present of steam power, the telegraph and the printing press, afd all the long toils and gorgeous achievements become mere unprofitable dust, to be shovelled out of the way and out of mind. We forget that all the rise and fall, all the growth and decay, were not the mere accidents of circumstance, but the bold, if sometimes blind, mastery of the passion for new thipgs, as the Romans said. If we have somewhat trampled the ir- regularities of this passion for change and in general trained it into the paths of produc- tion, instead of letting it destroy as quickly as it shaped, we are far from having reached a criterion by which the selection of proper means for proper ends can be infallibly judged. We have climbed up laboriously to the position we hold. What rocks of old error we have tumbled down any freshman will tell you with confidence ; but, save where moral truths are relieved of ancient cobwebs and science has been able to fill up old pitfalls and mark out firm footholds, where will the present strike its heel upon the past and be certain that it has struck an error or a wrong? ‘They had republics, empires, kingdoms and theocracies as we have now. They were as little satisfied with either then as the world is to-day. Since all exact criterion was lost and fact confounded philosophy, optim- ism took refuge in a platitude, as the best it could do, and hungered after “the greatest good of the greatest number.’’ It was only ‘devil take the hindmost’’ with im- proved facilities for getting away from the Spirit of all Evil and the Father of Lies. But ever since man left the eavage state the greatest number have had the least good things, and, progressive as we are, there seems no reason to believe that we can change all that inaday. Emperors professed the platitude because they wished to blind their peoples, and republics have professed it to blind themselves. Socialism, as it is called, goes a step further and guarantees the greatest good for all; but there isso much that looks very unlike good in their programme, which is always per- fected, and they possess in general so few of the good things themselves that the All-good in a Phrygian cap is readily taken for just the reverse. ‘They are cutting throats about the matter in Spain just now, and probably will be for the twentieth time cutting them in France in a little time tocome. Where John Adams prophesied that we would be celebrating the Fourth of July in fireworks forever we are | menaced with Caesar before a hundred years have passed, not in the impalpable ghostly form that startled Brutus on the eve of Philippi, but with strong devil-fish arms that may call forth an effort which Victor Hugo might imagine, but the nation does not realize, before the monster can be laid to rest. The passion for political change has been sated in the masses, and the few are stricken with it to forge fetters for the Repub- lic. In England they are busy levelling, with gradual progress—levelling down, say, those who cry for the monarch and the few; level- ling up, say, those who want to make sovereigns of all. Between the Archbishop of Canter- bury and Mr. Bradlaugh, between the Duke of Argyle and Joseph Arch, the question is the same—to let alone or to uproot, whether religion or title to the soil. His Holiness the Pope represents religious faith in its most conservative form; Professor Tyndall repre- sents faith in its most radical shape. The one invokes the power of Heaven; the other defies it, and those who sneer most at the Pope’s appeals to Christ shudder at the scien- tist’s profanity. The young man who believed he could have given valuable hints to the Cre- ator, if he had been consulted, lived, no doubt, to lose that complacent confidence in himself, If he married a lady of high temper, that had appeared an angel in his wooing hours, it was sufficient to accomplish all his friends could wish. An age fancies itself om- niscient or omnipotent, yet it stumbles across a hundred failures to one success; but the | struggle is glorious, and one success is worth all that has been spent on it. Here, in New York, the aspects of the pas- sion for change may be closely studied. We kicked out the Tammany ‘Ring” neck and crop, and immediately reshaped things in the name of reform. Montague went out and Capulet came in, and we are not at all satis- fied with the successor. They had a ‘slap- dash” way of stealing and spending in the Tammany time; our reformers have gone to the other extreme, and give us a crafty hon- esty and a corner-grocery style of expenditure | which hinder the city's progress and dissatasfy | the people nearly as much. So the average citizen, whose eyes were in former times of- fended by diamond-studded loafers at the City Hall, and who now beholds there a deputation of unpaid laborers, retires home in disgust and cries ‘a plague on both your houses!’ | But the passion for change will be up in arms again full soon, and another set will be pil- loried for what they did and what they failed to do. No sooner has the orator launched into the starry firmament to sing the praises of the iron horse and the speaking lightning than he hears shouts on all sides against monop- olies. Merchants want a double-track freight line to the West and everybody wants opposi- at the rate of three millions a month. The ew trade dollar is much liked by the bullion dealers of London, by the Chinese and by for- oigners generally. tion cables to Europe. What shall be said of our theatres? The decline of the drama is the parrot cry of the Nestors who saw great ators in great vlays in their heyday. We do not hear so much of the poor actors and the poor plays they fittingly mur- dered. Realism, sensationalism and what is called emotionalism chase each other in mad frolic amid gorgeous “setting,” and the critics vacillate between ecstasy and despair, and then look heavenward in vain for fixed stars in the firmament of taste. The vanished stars have never been measured by any rule that a new generation can understand, so the adorer of the past makes his idol a thing in the darkness, and the postulant of the present puts a bold face on the matter and just as blindly pronounces the idol a fraud. This is a farce behind the scenes; but the passion for change goes on, and why should we weep though the fun be very sorry and very foggy? It will last our time, and that is all that we want. We build Mansard roofs on our houses because they look well, and when our houses burn from the top down we cry down with Mansards. If our men have a pos- sion for change, does not Dame Fashion repre- sent its most marked embodiment for4vomen ? A head of hair built up on the Chinese model, and a form toriured into an ostrich curve, in the name of a pseudo-Archaism, may never commend themselves to posterity; but we can indulge the bitter hope that posterity will do even worse. The way in which a Saratoga belle will become sentimental over the state- ment that Arab maidens dress now just as Rachel dressed when Jacob came up to the well, is a curious commentary on her anger that the cut of her evening dress is four weeks old. Religion is a delicate matter to touch when we talk of mutation; for it is supposed to deal with the unchangeable. Yet how many of our worthy ministers that shine in their pulpits on Sunday and in the Heratp on Monday are racking their brains for some- thing new as well as something true to say? Our schools are touched with the passion, and when one school is fighting for high education and another for broad education, some fight for the narrowest as the best. Those smitten with song rush into wildness, vagueness, scn- suousness or inanity, and each ‘is anxious to know which will be recognized a century hence as the school of to-day. Let them all struggle and push on, the passion for change is healthy on, the whole. We would neither stagnate, as China does, nor become a world of mad Utopians. If many men are young there is much gray hair in the world. Tho escape valves where the change-passion may find harmless vent are many. Long ex- perience has proved that the world will with- stand an extraordinary amount of this pas- sion ill-directed, while it is always the better for a successful experiment. If in its tri- umphs this age is eminently self-conscious, the next will smile patronizingly at our vanity and accept the success without thanks, So, as the passion for change is a pleasure and some- times a profit, let us be pleased while we may. The Spanish Imbroglio. The Heraxp special despatches from Spain give the features of the situation. The news, although slightly more encouraging, does not permit us to hope that the end of the present trouble is near at hand. Cartagena still holds out against the government, and makes pre- parations for a protracted and bitter struggle. | ‘The Carlists in the North not only maintain their position, but add victory to victory. Biscay and Guipuzcoa may be said to be completely conquered ; the town of Berga has fallen before the Carlist troops, and prepara- tions are being made for a concentrated at- tack on the Province of Aragon. The gov- ernment, however, shows some signs of life andenergy. A bill has been approved by the Cortes, calling out eighty thousand of the reserves; and it is possible, after all, that the Republic may come forth from the strag- gle victorious. Meantime the war ships of the world gather in increasing numbers around the Spanish coast, and it Becomes more and more evident that, while Spain may work out her own ruin by intestine war, she is not to be allowed in any way to disturb her neighbors. The Carlist sympathizers are en- deavoring to make an international question out of the seizure of the English steam yacht, Deerhound. She was seized, it is stated, in French waters, and was decoyed into the power of her captors by the latter hoisting the English flag. It was certainly a good use to make of the Union Jack. The Spanish government should take no heed of this red- tape threatening. Murovezrs sy Inptans on the Plains are be- coming dangerously frequent. just now. The horrible fate of the two ladies in Wyoming Ter- ritory, the particulars of which have been already published in our columns, and the outrages which are constantly taking place wherever these pets of the government can find a defenceless object to attack, should open the eyes of the chiefs of the Interior Depart- ment to a sense of duty and to the necessity of promptly and severely punishing these reserva- tion scoundrels. The United States troops pursue them and undergo danger, privation and fatigue in trying to proteet settlers against them. What can our gallant cavalry do when the government protects these redskin cut- throats on their reservations after they have imbrued their hands in the blood of women and children? If the government will follow General Sheridan's advice, to allow the troops to punish marauding Indians after they reach home, and to strike them wherever they find them, murder will become too expensive luxury for these children of the Plains, and they will entertain more salutary respect for their Great Father in Washington. Tax Vienna Prizzs.—It has often been said of the British government that in spite of its great naval and military resources it is never prepared for war when the occasion arrives. It begins to be fully ready only when the war is ended. It seems to be much tho same with the United States in the matter of exhibitions. We made ourselves a laughing stock at the London Exhibition of 1851. We have done the same at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. At London, however, before the Exhibition closed we commanded attention and won our laurels. And so, now, at Vienna, we are to have nine first class prizes. Four prizes are to be given us for our excellence in methods and general progress of education and schools. Asimilar number of prizes rewards our me- chanical ingenuity. One prize comes to us for our display of cotton and cotton products. Let us be thankful, but let us not rest. The Centennial Exhibition will be a moré severe teat than that ot Vicnna, Spirit of the Religious Press. While some of‘our religious contemporaries are discussing the lie and the bearings of “Mr. Beocher’s theology’ Mr. Beecher or his associates are discussing in the columns of the Christian Union the mysterious processes by which old-fashioned Western camp meetings have been transformed into religious watering places. The editor insists that it is a mis- nomer to call these gatherings camp meetings any longer, and Methodists might as well make up their minds once for all that ‘the camp meeting element must decrease and tho watering place element increase * * * To project a red-hot camp meeting into a com- munity of weary people seeking relaxation is an impossibility, and these places have fallen into disfavor with the professional camp mecting Evangelists." The editor honors the old-fashioned camp meeting for what it has done, ‘but it does not flourish well on sandy beaches where there is surf bathing, and its hearty amens grow weaker among the refinements of Martha’s Vineyard, Ocean Grove or Sea Cliff."" The Union also discusses the logic of law as represented in the reported petition to the Governor for the par- don of Frank Walworth, and recommends a Court of Pardons to supersede the Governor in this matter. The Independent has a leader on ‘The Ethi- cal Test’’ in religion, in which it ridicules the orthodox idea that we are held responsible for Adam's original sin. The doctrine, it declares, “contradicts the first principles of morality, [for] if anything is certain it is that guilt is absolutely personal and inalienable.” It adds of the orthodox theory that— By prescriptive right, by priestly authority, sach a dogma may be Kept in vogue for a time; but it is no more {enh that it should hold a permanent place in the beliefs of men than that human sacri- fices should be perpetuated in their worship, The Independent has articles also on ‘‘The Domestic Manufacture of Pauperism” and “The Limitation of Church Property.” The Golden Age makes the entrance of Drs, Talmage, of Brooklyn, and Deems, of this city, into the domain of journalism as editors an occasion for some serious picks at ‘‘the religious press,” which it accuses of being ‘almost wholly destitute of religious reading.” In the following paragraph it accuses us of trying to injure its fair fame: — Every Sunday morning the Heraip includes the Golden Age in its notices of the religious press; and thus, combining with other slan- derers of ours, it has almost ruined our reputation, We sincerely trust that the HkRaLp—a journal which was never so good, honest, and helpful to the public as now—does not see in the Golden Age any of that all-abounding and totally-pervasive worldliness which distinguishes the religious press, ‘The HERALD itself, on Mondays, is more a religious journal than any of the dozen or twenty sectarian presses whicn it notices on Sundays. We can only say that we are sorry our con- temporary is so confused about its religious status, which eyerybody else recognizes, If not religious, what? The Methodist finds in the present distracted condition of Spain ‘‘a great lesson’ for Amer- ica, and says :— ‘ There could be no more impressive comment on Roman Catholic education, no more startling warning to American citizens against the at- tempts of Roman ecclestastics to interfere with our own public education. And then it asks, Have the priests produced any other results by their training of the com- mon people than are now seen in Spain? The Methodist cites France and Italy and South America as sustaining its own view of this teaching, and bids Americans ‘‘strike with paralysis any arm that Romanism may stretch out against our State education.” In another editorial our contemporary shows in its own way how Catholicism is advancing backward. The Christian Intelligencer has a leader on “Carrion and Carrion Merchants,” by which it means vulgar criminals and the daily papers that parade their base crimes. It thinks. the wanton display of criminal intelligence in the press tends to increase crime, and it asks what must be the moral effect of this graphic and sympathetic parade of crime and crim- inals. It thinks our homes, pure as they are, would be a great deal purer if it were not for such newspapers, and it wants to know how they can be fenced out. The Liberal Christian (Unitarian) has a long and a strong leader on “‘Theism, Free Re- ligion and Idealism in Comparison with His- toric Christianity.” All that is implied in the title is touched upon in the body, and the re- sult is an insidious denial of the divinity of Christ. The Christian Leader (Universalist) talks learnedly about ‘Baptism and Salvation’’ in answer to some High Church writer, who ascribed to baptism certain meretricious quali- ties. The Leader finds that os a Christian ordinance it possesses none. The Christian Advocate applies the lance to Mr. Beecher’s theology and finds in his late profession of faith through the Christan Union many things which should not be accepted without careful examination. His separating the intellectual and the emotional in religion, his portriyal of the typical theologian and other features of that profession are ranked as false to the originals they were designed to represent. The Examiner and Chronicle (Baptist) de- fends the orthodox pulpit from the charge that its ministers do not preach enough about moral honesty, because if they did, it asserts, so many embezzlements, defalca- tions and failures in business and the like would not take place. The Examiner also refers to a discussion now going on in the British press touching the number of criminals who have been trained in Sunday schools. Such statistics, it says, prove nothing more than that schools are now so numerous that children can hardly grow up without spending some time in them—it may be days or it may be years. The Observer, noticing some recent arrests of wealthy and well-bred thieves, comes out in defence of the street Arabs, who, it insists, should not be charged with farnishing all the recruits in crime. The Observer also tells its readers ‘‘How to Know the Truth,” and has something to say about ‘Collegiate and Academical Institations.’’ The Bvangelist thinks Father Dealy's pres- ence in the late Convocation of the Regents of the University of this State was a bid for the job of educating the State by the Jesuits. It very politely refuses to employ such school- masters, and points to the results of kindred education to that proposed here in Italy and Spain. Church and State (Low Church Episcopal) asks, in an editorial, ‘Shall the minister face the people?” and in answer declares that “Christ is present in the souls of the disciples vastly more than he is in or about an altar.” It therefore argues that if the ritualists want to turn toward Christ they must face the veonle NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. . oe rr es ‘and not show them their backs. Ithasa leader also on the ‘Revolution of Errors,’’ show- ing how certain of them have risen and disap- peared, while the truth has lived ‘and tri- umphed. The Freeman's Journal has an editorial on “Spain,” in which the Carlist cause is advo- cated. It has one also on “The United States and the Conflicts in Europe,’ in which it takes the ground that this government should not “sympathize with the bastard republics of Europe,”’ but should rather help to reinstate the ousted monarchs of Spain and France. Who are they, and when were they ousted? The Tablet has a rejoinder to the Methodist on American education, and the Review pays its respects in like manner to the Christian Advocate and other Protestant journals, while the Catholic Mirror basa ‘‘feeler’’ for pilgrim- ages and shrines in the United States. The Jewish Messenger thinks its coreligion- ists do not maintain Judaism, and the Jewish Times has an able article on prison reforms. General Spinner On Resumption of Specie Payments. Treasurer Spinner has finally concluded, as also has the German editor to whom he ad- dressed the letter published in our issue of yesterday, that resumption of specie payments is put off until ‘the balance of trade shall be in our favor.’’ When that time comes, he adds, ‘resumption will be easy; in truth, it will from that cause come of its own accord.’’ Our government and the people too will learn that in time. {t is just what we have saidover and over again. For Congress to pass a resolution simply declaring that there shall be specie payments, while our gold and silver are demanded by foreign creditors in payment of the balance of trade against us and interest on our indebtedness abroad, would be like the Pope’s terrible bull against the comet. If by any chance specie payments should be forced, as was the case in England shortly after the close of the war against Napoleon, in 1815, this country would, as England did, find it impracticable to maintain a specie basis until the conditions of trade should be favorable to such a course. Tho effort would, probably, seriously disturb all the channels of business and cause general bank- ruptey, as it did in England, but could not succeed. When we can keep the precious metals in the country, or, to put it in another way, when Europe will not demand them in payment of the balance of trade against us, in addition to interest on our large indebted- ness abroad, we can safely return to specie payments, and not until then. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Miss Anna Dickingon has gone to Colorado. ys izra Cornell, of Ithaca, is staying at the Astor House, Judge Hughes, of New Orleans, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. - Colonel J. H. Baxter, of the United States Army, is at the Hoffman House. Hon. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, has gone to St. Paul, Minn. Ex-Governor Hoffman and family have returned to London from Frankfort. Lieutenant N. Sargent, of the. United States Army, is at the Sturtevant House. President J. F. Joy, of the Michigan Central Railroad, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonels Benton, Laidley and Crispin, of our army, are in Europe, inspecting new ordnance there. There are two ministers in Lock Haven, Pa., who were formerly journeymen printers, They were devils also. It is said that United States Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, has an income from his mining property of $800,000 a year. Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Church of this country, has been presiding over a German-Ameri- can Methodist Conference in Wurtemburg. Alderman Van Schaick has arrived in Paris, with the purpose of studying the French system of finance, to apply it to New York city finances. Joseph P. Police, a poor machinist of Atlanta, Ga., by the death ofa bachelor in Charleston, 8. C., fell heir to $52,000 worth of property and $1,000 in gold. The true Arthur Orton is said to be now on his way to England from Australia, to claim a legacy from his mother. The Tichborne Claimant may feel easy if this is true. Agirl named Lucinda Smith, at a ball in Mays- ville, Ky., called a justice into the room and sighted a revolver at Charlies Brown. They were married then and there. Fred Douglass is in Boston. He is preparing q lecture on the life and times of old Ossawatamie John Brown, who was hanged by Governor Henry A. Wise, in Virginia, for trying to get up a negro revolt at Harper's Ferry. Monsignor Cavalchint, formerly the Chamberlain to the Pope, recently died in Marseilles of apoplexy. He separated from the Papal Court on account of the dogma ot infallibility. It is said that Charles T. Sherman, United States Judge for the Northern district of Ohio, will find it convenient to resign before the meeting of Con- gress. Some hard stories have been told about him. An old lady natned Hancock, at Chickopee Falls, Mass., has lain on one side for five years. The phy- sicians say that any change of position would cause her death. Her disease is water around the heart. Mr. Jenkins, the author of “Ginx’s Baby,” thinks he can make himself @ great statesman if given a chance, by the borough of Dundee, in whigh he is now contesting with anotner writer, Mr. Fitz- james Stephens. Hon. Stephen A. Cobb, member of Congress from the Second district of Kansas, has sued the Wyan- dotte Gazette for defamation of character, claiming $10,000, The libel consists in the Gazette saying that Cobb lobbied in the back pay business, was only captain instead of colonel in the Indian ser- vice, robbed the government of $19,000 and at- tempted to bribe a witness in a suit in which he was attorney. General Crawford, of the United States Army, who is in Europe on a six months’ leave of absence, attended a late review of the Foot Guards in Hyde Park. His escort was General Sir Hastings Doyle, late Governor of Nova Scotia, who presented the General to the Prince of Wales and distinguished military men present. He has been made a visité ing member of the United Service, the Junior United Service and the Travellers’ Clubs, OBITUARY, Rinaldo Rinaldi. The journals of Rome mention the death of Rinaldo Rinaldi, the !ast pupil of Canova. He was born at Padua in 1793, and executed his first statue when only fourteen years of age. It was @ figure representing St. Anthony, and is now iy the Church of Arcella, near the latter city. He went to Rome when he wastwenty, and then asked Canova to accept him among his pupils. The great master was oue day s0 struck with a group which the young man had just modelled that he exclaimed, “You are a born sculptor! Would to Heaven that you were my son!” The principal works of Rinaldi are his “Cassandra” and the “Return of Ulysses to His Nativ nd, and a “St. Stephen,” which may be seen at Rome in the Church of St. Paul, outside the walls, Princess Eleonore Schwarzenberg. ‘The death, in Germany, is announced of the Princess Eleonore Schwarzenberg, sixty-one years of age. She was a person of remarkable beauty, and create’ something of a furore in Lon- don in 1838, on tne occasion of Queen Victoria’s coronation, to which her husband had beep deputed by the Augtrian government, THE PRESIDENT’S TOUT, An Attemp' ia a Beveuue Cat~ ter—Fun in » FogcThe President and (Male) Party on #& Primitive Island Sleeping in Improptu Beds—The Retur to Bangor, Banaor, Me., August 16, 173, The Presidential party, consisting of Generag Grant, his three children, Speaker and Mra, Governor and Mrs. Perham, Senators Cameron, Morrill and Hamln, Mrs. Hamlin, Mrs. Morrill, Come gressman Burleigh and wife, Congressmen Haig an Walker, Speaker Blaine’s somes ead daughtes,, Mr. Pullen, editor of the Postiam@ Press; Williany Colder and son, of Harrisburg, Pa.; Clarence Hale, of Portland; ex-Attorney General T. B, Reed, Henry Brown, Colonel 4H, 8. Osgood and Mr. A. 8. Washburn, of Hallowell, returned to this city at two o'clock to-day in the revenue cutter McCullough, having failed, on account of the weather, to reach Bar Harbor yesterday. The fog was so impenetra- bie when they had reached @ point about twenty- five miies below Rockland that the pilot was una- ble to direct the course of the vessel. They lay at anchor for some hours, hoping that the fog would lift, but night coming on, and the weather deing Still as thick as ever, the trip was abandoned.: Then a difficulty presented itself; the cutter could only supply sleeping accommodations for the ladies, and the President and his male friends be- gan to consider the difficulties of slumbering on bare boards, Finally it was decided’ to advance in search of land and habi- tations. The anchor was weighed, and the’ cutter slowly and cautiously felt her way through the mist. Soon one of the Fox Islands was dis- covered, and North Haven, a lobster fishing sta- tion, was made. Then the cutter lay to, and the gentlemen, disembarking, scattered on a tour of observation, that resulted in the weicome discovery of a house capable of housing all the male mem- bers of the party. & IMPROMPTU BEDS were provided, and tlie party took this little incons venience very good naturedly. Considerable raim had fallen, and they had to wade through mud and slush to rewch the haven of rest on: shore, where there were no mosquitoes to interrupt} the President’s quiet repose through the long watches of the night. Morning at last dawned, and the party, amid jokes .and sallied hurled at each other, crept into their pantaloons, coats and boots, and, after their ablutions, fell im and took up their line march for the cutter. Mrw Pullen, who was the life of the party, was sent out as a scout to get the bearings, and the others, keep- ing in sight of his gigantic figure, that looked like @ stage ghost fast dispelling into mist, picked their. way in bis tracks. The press guide finally espied the welcome cutter, and, with a whoop, was soon over} her bulwarke. The gentlemen at once sought the ladies and passed the usual compliments, There being abundance of provisions on board, a substan- tial breakfast was served on the way up, Colonel H. 5. Osgood acting as steward ahd commissary subsistence. Tbe only point touched at was a placa twenty-five miles below here, where some went ashore for a brief period to, admire the supert Summer hotel and the region round about it. From here Senator Hamlin telegraphed to tha proprietors of the Penobscot Exchange to prepara dinner at three o’clock for thirty-five of his guests.- Un the arrival of the cutter at the wharf a num-; ber of citizens were ashered but no demonstra- tion was made beyo! @ Ari lute in* honor ot the a ‘pent anish 8 Mai about to land. The entire party reached the hotel gt twenty minutes pete three, and about four o’clock the coyers were lifed, the napkins openc® , By corks eXtracted, and at the present writing tf Hamlin’s party are still attending to the’ cravings of their earls A few 0} i residents,’ including Captain Charles A. Boutwell, editor o! § the Whig qnd Courter, also participated in the’ dinner, which was splendidly served. Narrow Escape of the President and Party from Shipwreck and Death—The Revenue Cutter at One Time Lost in the Fog. Avesta, Me., August 16, 1873. Since my despatch of this afternoon facts have been given me by reliable gentlemen, connected with the cruise of the McCulloch in Penobscot Bay yesterday, that justify me in the statemen® that the President and party had a narrow escape from shipwreck, if not death, The facts, which some of the party induced the reporters ta overlook, lest they would cause alarm and com- Ment, are briefy these:—Before the party em- barked Secretary Robeson, fearing the storm would reach the main coast about the time of sailing, telegraphed the commander of the cutter,. “Do not take President out into salt water.” Not- withstanding the Secretary’s solicitude the party embarked and went out in the fog. About three o'clock, when she had run some twenty-five miles, fecling her way carefully’ through mist impenetrable twenty yards distance ‘ now slowing down, until the motion of the vessel, as she steamed through the blue waters, upon! which there was scarcely a ripple, was almost im- perceptible; now speeding forward, then coming to a full stop; then cautiously feeling for, a buoy or changing her course a’ pofnt; the singular movements on the deck: attracted the attention of members of the party, who crowded the companion ways and invaded’ the quarters of Mr. Grant, the pilot and the chart! room of the ship. Immediately confusion reignédj on the cutter. Each member who had appeared! from below had something to suggest as to the ‘oper course, and the pilot became so, annoyed! tha the missed No. 6 buoy, by which he was endeav- oring to steer, and, losing his bearings, the cutter steamed hither and thither for some point of land from which to take peatings. Every now and. then the lookout would sight a dangerous rock before him a few yards, that was only avoided by the great watchfulness of the officers, who put. the vessel about, only to begin a new search for’ the course. All the pan, voted themselves lost) in Penobscot fog, with threatening rocks in front standing up like grinning demons out of the mist, and concealed ones beneath the surface. The more advice the pilot received from the non- professionals the greater was his contu- sion, Before he was aware of it he had made a circuit from Nash Island. ‘The vessel made the Isiand of Deer thoroughfare at last and steered for the waters of the Isle Anhaut,, but the sea ran so high that some of the ladies became seasick, and contentious arose as to whether they should proceed or return. The pilot, said he would either goon or return, as General Grant might desire. The President decided upon the latter course, and the vessel returned. I con- versed with the ‘chief engineer, who, while. retusing to admit that they had becm lost at any time, admitted that the pilot was dis- concerted and lost the buoy. There can be no doubt but many of the party were fearful of the ship being wrecked had they gone out in the in- creasing storm that madly washed the sea into convulsions afew miles beyond the point where the President wisely decjded to put about. The party left Bangor at seven, and, arriving here at twenty: minutes past ten, drove to Mr. Blaine’s, where they, will spend Sunday and then hie away to the White Mountains, THE EIGHTEENTH WARD COUNOIL. A Very Loquact Time at Oriental’ Hall Last Night—Great Threats—Little,. Business and No Results. j ‘The members of the Eighteenth Ward Comncil of Municipal Reform met last night, in accordance with the adjgurnment of Saturday evening, at Oriental Hall, corner of Third avenue and Eight- eenth street. Elial F. Hall occupied the chair as president of the meeting. The first om t urgent business was the reading a long eon of names recommending per- sons as inspectors of elections. A debate atter- wards came up, in which the action of the munt-; cipal government was severely censured. this, Alderman Falconer and Mr. Jenuy took an active art. Mr. Jenny spoke at great length of the; Blanaers of the Mayor, the Comptroller and other! city officials, What he said would be too old a, story to bear repetition, The meeting on the whole seemed a farce, and its workings scarcely, worthy of recognition. It seemed to a second uprising of the old Bowery reformers who made themselves ridiculous last ye: THE WESTON MURDER. 'Two Women Arrested on Suspicion=Mrse' Weston’s Detence. ALBany, N. Y., August 16, 1873. The women Lowenstein and Weston, brought here from Brooklyn on suspicion ot be iret the Weston murder, were subjected to an examina~ tion to-day, It is thought Mrs, Weston will bo cn to show that she took no part in it, per tow: 4 contrary, was taking steps to arrest Sm en- stein on 4 charge of robbing her husband. SECRETARY DELANO WITH THE INDIANS. Sr. Paut, Minn., Angust 16, 1873, Secretary Delano and Indian Commissioner Smith left this tity to-day to visit the Sissiton Indian Agency. It isthe intention of Secretary Delano ta mn the frontier for the purpose prooraining | versoual knowledge of the sendition and wants of the various Indjan trite.