The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1873, Page 6

8 . NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. TRS SE EES JAMES GORDON BENNETT, =} PROPRIETOR. Volame XXXxVIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. \ WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth — Mint. ‘| BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe! vrae Moxker Bor. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— ‘Poverty Fiat, Afternoon and evening. ‘ THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 514 Broadway.—Vamimry ENreRTainMent. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—!'ux ix 4 Foo—Oun Puu's Bintabar. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Buack Caoon, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanirrr ENTERTAINMENT, Semen PARK GARDEN.—Sumyzr Nigurs’ Con- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- way.—Scigxce AND ART. DR. KAIMN’S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway.—Scrunca anv Aart. “TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, August 18, 1873. WHE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ,To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE WATERING PLAOES OF THE WORLD! * LOUISE MUHLBACH’S LETTERS FROM EMS"—EDITORIAL LEADER—SixTH Page. (LOUISE MUHLBACH’S LETTERS (IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH) FROM THE IMPERIAL GERMAN WATERING PLACE! THE KAISER AT THE BATHS AND ON THE MOUNTAINS! THE FAMILY OF THE RUSSIAN OZAR! COUNT LEHNDORF’S FORTUNE! EMS FREED FROM THE GAMBLING HELLS— THIRD AND FOURTH PaGss. {NORMAN WATERING PLACES! FECAMP IN RE- LIG1OUS GARB! DEVOUT BEAUTIES AND MATRIMONIAL BLISS ASSURED! THE TRAFFIC IN WATER FROM SACRED ; SPRINGS—FirtH Paas. BEASIDE GLINTINGS! BATHING AT LONG BRANCH! THE OCEAN GROVE PEOPLE AND CAMP MEETING CRITICALLY ANA- LYZED! THE AUGUST sSTORM—EigaTu PAGE. BPANISH CONVICTS DEFENDING CARTAGENA AGAINST THE CARLISTS UNDER GENERAL CAMPOS! THE GERMAN AND BRITISA CONSULS RETIRE! FATAL FIRE UPON ENGLISH AND FRENCH VESSELS OFF BILBAO—S8VENTH PaGE. AGRAND INTERNATIONAL FAIR FETE HELD IN VIENNA! THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FEATURE OF THE EXPOSITION! DISTIN- GUISHED GUESTS PRESENT! THE PRIZES SECURED BY ENGLAND AND AMERICA— SEVENTH PacE. RAILROAD HORRORS! A PASSENGER EXPRESS TRAIN RUN INTO BY A BIG COAL TRAIN AND ELEVEN TRAVELLERS KILLED OUT- RIGHT, THIRTY-FIVE BADLY INJURED AND SIXTY ALMOST KILLED BY STEAM! CULPABLE CONDUCT OF OFFICIALS— SEVENTH PaGE. SANDWICH ISLANDERS MEMORIALIZING THE KING TO REFUSE TO CEDE THE PEARL RIVER TERRITORY TO THE AMERICAN UNION—SEVENTH PaGE. CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN THE CIfY AND AT THE SEASIDE! SERVICES AT THE CAMP MEETINGS! CHURCH DEDICATION! THE SERMON COMPENDS—MERRIVK CAMP MEETING—E1GaTH Pace. PROGRESS REPORTED FROM THE ARCTIC SEARCH PARTY ON THE TIGRESS! “SAIL- ORS” SEASICK! THE RECEPTION AT ST, JOHNS—TENTH PaGB. SHADOWS OF COMING POLITICAL EVENTS! SENATOR CAMERON'S VIEWS ON CESAR- ISM, THE BACK-PAY SWINDLE, THE GRANGERS AND HIS POLITICAL CONTEM- PORARIES! BUTLER HIGHLY PRAISED— Firt Paces. PHILADELPHIA CENTENARY OF FREE- DOMIN AMERICA! THE TEN PLANS FOR THE EXPOSITION BUILDING SELECTED BY THE COMMITTEE! THE MEMORIAL HALL—ELEVENTH PaGE. NEW YORK YACHT CLUB AT NEWPORT ! DIVINE SERVICE HELD YESTERDAY !| THE PROGRAMME FOR T0-DAY—EXCURSION ENJOYMENTS—Fovrti Pages. POSSIBILITIES OF CAHSARISM—THE BUTOHERY OF THE PAWNEES BY THE SIOUX—REAL ESTATE—ELEVENTH PAGE. =——-~ Avornern Terpeiz Rawroap AccIpENT 18 reported by which eleven persons lost their lives, with a large number of others so badly wounded that many more must die, The accident happened near the station of Lemont, about twenty miles from Chicago, a coal train running into a passenger train, completely de- molishing one of the carriages. The passen- ger train had the right of way, and the crim- inal recklessness of the conductor of the coal train seems established ; but the station mas- ter at Lemont was equally guilty in allowing the train to proceed. Those are crimes which must be punished if we would make railroad travel secure. Tur Porviarn Demonstration To Ex-Przst- pent Turers at Belfort shows that the services of the vencrable statesman are not forgotten by his countrymen. Belfort, it will be re- membered, is die of the towns held by the Germans until redeemed by the payment of the indemnity. It has now been evacuated, and M. Thiers has fulfilled a promise made that he would visit the town after that event. No people are more patriotic than the French, and we can imagine the joy they manifested on this occasion. To be relieved of the hated foreigners and conquerors, and to meet the man who, as chief of the nation, had provided and paid the indemnity, ond thus restored Belfort to France, might well bring out the flags, the illumination, the serenade and the enthusiasm as described in our cable telegram published yesterday. ' Tue News rrom Mexico, dated to the 10th inst. in the capital, is of a novel and rather Pleasing character. The prospect of changes in the Cabinet is canvassed and talked over in & quiet and quite constitutional tone, The government of the Republic is anxious to ro- new diplomatic relations with England, France and Belgium. President Lerdo will have the support of a majority of the Con- gress. This majority is, however, opposed to any concessions to citizens of the United. States. German industry is closely speculat- ing for mining profits in Lower California. The Republic is in perfect poace internally— &n unusual condition; so much so as to be almost wonderful, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDA(, AUGUST 18, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Watcring Places of the World— Louise Muhibach’s Letters from Ems. ‘The doings of humanity in the protty places where Nature holds out her lovely arms to the weary, heated denizens of cities, are worthy of note while Summer holds her sway. In Winter sociecy nestles in furs as it glides to the theatre, the opera or the ball, and blazes forth in diamonds and rich attire when the warm precincts are reached where the goddess of Fashion holds her pleasuring. It is ag though the cold of Winter contracts social particles as it does the mercury, while the Summer weather expands them as the mercury rises with increased caloric. Presently the particles lose all cohesion, and evaporation sets in, or rather sots out. Soci- ety becomes a vapor, and is swept away at the mercy of the fashion winds, that blow from all points of the compass, like the storm in the “Qdysscy."”” To complete the somowhat ex- tensive figure, we may say that the society vapors condense into very exquisite dow, or pour down like a phenomenal rain, according to the circumstances, upon the places where Fashion has written her name for the season, in blue skies, yellow sands or on hoary moun- tain tops. The Hznaup has faithfully followed tho pleasure seckers in their flights to rural or marine retreats. We havo told the story of Summering all over our own land; French watering places have beon described; Eng- land’s Brighton has been celebrated here, and to-day, in the English and German languages, we present our readers with the story of Ems, in the valley of the Lahn, from the graceful pen of the gifted German authoress, Louise Mihlbach. It is but just that our German fellow citizens should have an opportunity to read their favorite authoress in the sonorous periods of their great vernacular. We have had no native emperors to describe yet in America, and ever may it be so; but we may, without any taint to our republicanism, take up Louise Miihlbach’s description of imperial life at Ems. We describe the Summer outings of our President when he goes among the people, because, as the Chief Magistrate of the nation, he cannot altogether relieve himself of his public and official character. The people are interested in the movements of President Grant, and this interest, at once a mark of respect and vigil- ance, is one of the penalties of exalted posi- tion. Without, therefore, obtruding on his privacy, it is the duty of o great public journal to chronicle the chief citizen's trips, unlegs they are of the simplest private business character. The newspaper must cheerfully bear ‘the expense and the President must cheerfully submit because both are simply servitors of the people. We chronicle the movements of the great Kaiser because he is the ruler of a race which has sent so many sturdy thinking millions to our republic, and who form so important an element in the citizen-thought of tho nation. Where the erect form of Kaiser Wilhelm may be seen, with the handsome Count Lehndorf by his side, many notabilities of the German high world are certain to be in proximity, singly or in groups ; and what the high-born dames ad- mire and the gallant courtiers do will also be of interest to those who remember the courtly splendors of Vaterland or those who lack in- formation upon the connecting links between emperors and ordinary mortals. We catch a glimpse, too, of tho Empress of Ger- many, and of a piece of imperial eti- quette which has simple human nature at its base, when the imperial couple cross over to Jugenheim, there to felicitate the daughter of the Czar on her betrothal to the Duke of Edinburgh. We have said it was humanity ; and so it was, for the Grand Dachess Marie is the grandniece of the Kaiser, and her fature husband is the brother of the future Empress of Germany. With all this lofty relation- ship Miss Mihlbach pities her, for oa woman's reason. Then, two generations of the Czar’s family pass in review, the suffer- ing Czarina Alexandra and the present Czarina Marie, with a glimpse at the Ozar himself, ond all centred in the little town celebrated for its mineral waters and its gambling tables, its gossip and its suicides. But the gambling tables have gone since the Kaiser came, and our fair correspondent tells us that the suicides go there no longer to blow out what little brains they have left when their money is all gone. That is better, no doubt, for the soul of Ems, though we are not astonished to learn that the harpy population feel the loss to their pockets so grievously that they have no gratitude to the Parliamont which gave them a chance of going to heaven hereafter. Upon a careful reading of the portions of our home correspondents’ watering place letters which relate to hotel proprietors and hotel charges, we are not surprised to learn that they agree in the main with Louise Mithlbach’s reflections upon the exorbitant rates and loud-tongued grumblings of the Ilotelbesitzer at Ems. To be rapa- cious and to grumble are what the water- ing place hotel keeper claims as his rights. When the gaming tables at Ems were jingling with gold coin and the pop of the suicide’s pistol awoke the mountain echoos all went merry with tho hotel man, and he charged what he liked. Now that these things are not, he charges as much as he can. Probably the difference is not much, fora hotel kecper’s tariff is limited upwards only by the paying capacity of his guests. Our citizens paying Preposterous prices at Saratoga, Lake George, Newport or Long Branch will herefrom take all the comfort that companionship in misery can superinduce. Our watering place correspondence during the present season has not only given the city- pent reader a salt breath from the sea ora fresh broeze from the hills and valleys, but has brought all those fortunate enough to enjoy the pleasure and discomforts of one watering place a fair picture of the balanced bliss and bane of all the others, Tho letters of Mr. E. O. Grenville Murray from Dieppe and Tréport have given us faithful pictures of the Frenchman and, above all, the French woman as they frolic and dip in the water, talk epi- gram at the table Dhdte and scandal at all times. *We have the English ists, Mr. and Mrs. Saob, and the dashing young, red-trousered French officer grouped as the ‘‘season’’ groups them in France. Mr. classes mingle like the big stones and the little ones on the beach, and everybudy blesses his “‘heyes’’ and grows hale on sea air and brown stout, Brighton is said to have land without trees and sea without shins, but she tour- | has humanity in jolly thousands, and that is everything. Our own Long Branch wants trees; but who ever misses them when the hotels and the cottages are full? Tennyson might look down from the English cliffs and mutter: — Break, break, break, On thy col a stones, Osea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. But Mr, Murray and Mr, Yates have had no such restraint upon them as that which the poet implies, Asa result the holiday seeker at Coney Island or Rockaway, as well as the cottager at Newport or Long Branch, can com- pare his lot with the Englishman ond Frenchman by taking his Henawp as well as his tumble in the surf. Tho graces of Fashion and her fettered votaries at Saratoga have been depicted in all their repose or aban- don, ond the cooling, curative waters have been descanted on for the benefit of those who do not drink them. To turn from tho vivid actuality of Saratoga to the quaint, old- fashioned rustiness in life around Bedford Springs, whose fortunes have waned in ‘a dozen years, is as instructive as it is interesting. To tako the delicately graphic picture of Newport as it is and lay it beside the presentmont of rough-and-xeady Coney Island is to compare the opposite poles of the Atlantic Summer world among the breakers. It is vory stately and very quiet vs. very rollicking and very noisy. The Pilgrims have lett their grim traces behind them at Newport; but the merry spirit of the old Knickerbockers who baptized Konyn Eylandt two hundred years ago in Hol- land schnapps has survived in spite of the cor- ruption of the name. Where the placid, pel- lucid waters of Lake George lie embosomed in the hills that saw the long border fights be- tween the English, French, Indians and Ameri- cans, our correspondents have been prompt to tell us how the hills, the lake, the hotels and the guests look at present, and with what gift of imagination the inhabi- tants endeavor to enhance the beauties of nature. The grand panorama from the sum- mit of the Catskill Mountains has been rolled out, showing the looming grandeurs of the peaks and the rich green and gold of the val- ley, with its broad silver band where the Hud- son swoops to the sea. From the White Mountains to the White Sulphur Springs the story has been told of how Nature, in all her moods, calls in the present tense to mon and women that they may become rejuvenated in her embrace, To tell the whole truth, how- ever, it was necessary to say how far people enjoyed it; what obstacles of prosaic baggage- masters, crawling trains, badly kept or over- priced hotels, were placed in their way, from Bedford Springs, with its deserted hotel office, to the curmudgeons who put fences round Niagara on the American side of the Falls. To all these the letters of Louise Mihlbach, spicy, gossipy and historically anecdotic, will come in pleasant contrast. Our German fellow citizens are invited to the feast in their native tongue, and the English-speaking reader will find them in translated form as attractive and picturesque as in the original. The Splendid Rescarches of the Chal- lenger Expedition—A Submarine Sa- hara. Tho Challenger, which carries the great circumnavigating oxpedition, though wearing a warlike name, is doing a splendid service for peaceful science. The latest intelligence of her submarine explorations tells a wonder- ful and instructive tale of the floor of the North Atlantic. It appears that this dark and long unfathomed territory, which, however, cannot be said to bear in its caves Fall many a gem of purest ray serene, is divided off into its own districts, as distinctly marked from each other as the various geo- graphical districts on the earth's surface. Among these deep sea tracks, that of the globe- gerina mud is the most extensive and com- monly met with, and it is frequently found that when the dredge hauls up the specimen of this ooze it contains as much as ninety-five per cent of the skeletons of a single species- of globegerina. But the lately reported ro- searches of the Challenger establish the existence of a peculiar and immense subma- rine zone of ‘‘red clay,’’ the distinctive fea- tures of which are that it refuses to effervesce with the acids by which it is tested, and also, with the exception of the fewest skeletons of foraminifera, is lifeless. Running from the Canary Islands to the West Indios this sub- oceanic province extends one thousand nine hundred miles, and covers the sea fidor from St. Thomas nearly all the way to the Bermudas, ‘The naturo and source of this deposit and the causes of its peculiar distribution in the deeper parts of the ocean,” says Professor Wyville Thomson, in his latest letter, ‘are, therefore, questions of the highest interost,”’ but he has not yet published any solution of the phenomenon. At first sight it might seem most probable that this “red clay’ deposit, sheeting, as it does, so large an area of the sea bed, was due to the current-drifted sediment emptied by the Amazon, the Orinoco, the Mississippi and also the West African rivers into the basin of tho North Atlantic. The floods of the Amazon discoloring the sea water near its mouth, its muddy water has been distinguished by sailors several hundred miles from the coast, as also has been the turbid volume of the Mississippi after its emergence into the Gulf. With Titanic energy, we know, water is doing its work of continental erosion and transport ing its sediment to the ocean; and we are told by scientists that in its highest rise the Ganges transports to the sea nearly three thousand tons of sedimentary matter. Vast as this deposit would be—equal annually, in the single case of the Ganges, as Sir Charles Lyell calculated, to the weight of forty-two of the great Egyptian pyramids—it can hardly account for the extraordinary and expansive “red” zone discovered by the Challenger. The effect of enormous erosion and the transference of great river currents like tho Amazon and the Mississippi could not pos- sibly extend over so vast a region ag this ‘red 00ze"’ province, but would at most terminate in the formation of submarine banks similar to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, We may therefore dismiss the river current, even | when assisted by the carrying power of the Edmund Yates gives us the cream of English | Atlantic bottom has been overlaid with the seaside life under the Brighton cliffs, where | ocean current, as the agency by which the red coating. There was a still mightier or more far- reaching agency than that of water concerned, and this, in the view of the Challenger physi- cists, was the agency of the winds. They cite, in confirmation of thig viow, the rocks of the Bermudas, which aro evidently formed simply by the blowing up by the wind of the fine cal- careous sand, the product of the disintegra- tion of the coral, shells and other skeleton constituents of the Bermuda reefs, The sand washed in by the waves is caught or blown up by the strong winds into sand hills forty or fifty feet high, and these wind-blown or eolian formations (as they have been called) spread in- wards on the land, often burying the stumps of trees and overwhelming large tracts of country in a comparatively short time. The rain water, which contains carbonic acid, dissolves the coral lime, and the solution it forms, percolat- ing thyough the bed, deposits a cement of car- bonate of lime between the particles of coral sand, which soon cohere and petrify. Be- sides the evidence adduced by Professor Thomson from these remarkable rocks and sand formations at Bermuda we may add that the wind phenomena of the tropical Atlantio afford other proof that the African and South American Continents contribute largely of their impalpable red dust toward showering down onthe Aflantic bed the reddish covering in question. The sands which the great stream of perennial easterly trade wind raises in the Desert of Sahara are carried to great distances at sea, filling the air -of the Canaries to the height of Teneriffe (fifteen thousand feet) with a dense haze of ‘“‘red dust” and cover- ing the decks and sails of ships far away from the shore. This samo red sand from the great African desert during certain winds reaches France and Switzerland, where, in tho former, the celebrated ‘blood rain,” and in the latter ‘the red snow’ are formed by the falling of the moisture and sand together. And like immense clouds of red dust are raised in South America during the dry sea- son and transported northward by the south- east wind. There is every reason, therefore, to con- clude that this submarine region of ‘red clay” is due to the winds ; and what is much more interesting, if this be so, then it may be expected that, from tho position, direction and distribution of these colored patches of ocean bottom, the microscope will reveal the long desired data regarding the high air cur- rents of the atmosphere which shower down on the sea the dust which Thomson's dredge brings up from the abyssal waters. Should it be so—and the truth of nature's realities is stranger than fiction—then, under the eye of physical research, the floor of the aqueous ocean will be made a mirror to reflect the in- visible and inaccessible phenomena which exert their power in the upper aerial ocean. The discovery of theso remarkable phe- nomena is fraught with universal interest, and the labors of the Challenger expedition- ary corps have been already crowned with signal success, May we not hope that its triumph may, at an early day, provoke our own government to fit outa similar explora- tion ? OP ain tom a Ba Worthy and Worthiess Sermons. Plymouth pulpit has been charged with issuing an emasculated theology. The charge bas been denied by its pastor, who claims tor himself eg much orthodoxy and as much ‘ petsonal independence 8 Gan be conveniently or consistently yoked together. During his vacation his congregation, or that portion of it which belongs to the home guard, has had some little opportunity to compare Mr. Beecher's theology with that of his temporary. supplies and to render a ver- dict accordingly. Whatever we may have thought or said heretofore concerning the theology of Plymouth pulpit or its pastor, we must confess, from the specimen before us to-day, that Mr. Quint, of New Bedford, can take the prize for presenting the very best skeleton—the most emasculated the- ology—that has ever yet appeared in that place. Our faithful representa- tive declares that it was a string of anec- ‘dotes told in an after-dinner kind of talk, but with no indication that he was preaching a living gospel to dying or even to thinking men. Nor indeed was he. His gospel was dead, and not living, and we have no doubt that any right-thinking man, not in the same business, will readily agree with our verdict. The text was one of the grandest in the Bible from which to preach a thoroughly practical Gospel sermon. But we have instead a mass of twaddle and silly anecdotes to illustrate the great doctrine of Christ's sympathy with humanity. The Saviour, if He notices it at all, ought to pray to be delivered from such friends. ‘What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord? He that hath o dream, Wt him tell it; and he that hath My Word, let him declare it.’’ But why should any man pre- suming to bea minister of Christ present such nonsense to a Christian audience as the gospel of Christ? We aro sick of it and the people are tired of it, and hence the complaint that the churches cannot be filled nor kept full. Dr. -Duryea, we are told, described the proper methods to be adopted in leading others to salvation, and, in doing 60, it is intimated that he denounced the preaching of hell and damnation to sinners, ‘In order to quicken a man towards his own salvation * * © it will depend a great deal upon the simplicity, tho manliness and the natural everyday way of our expression the number of souls wo save” But all men ote not made alike, nor are they influenced alike. While, therefore, some men may be moved towards God by His manifested love and goodness, others may require the terrors of the law and the old Methodistic idea of hell and damnation to drive them Godward. It must be ad- mitted that comparatively more souls were saved under that old un- polished style of preaching than are now brought into the kingdom of grace or of God by the silver-tongued, smooth-worded, cush- ioned and padded or emasculated theology of the present day. It will not do, therefore, to discard all old ideas or forms simply because they are old, any moro than to cling tena- ciously to thom, for the same reason, Dr. J. B. Wakely corrected the erroneous idea which some men entertain that it matters little what they believe so long as they are sincere in their belief; but, as the Doctor re- marked, “sincerity docs not sanction error,” and yet the men who so loudly and strenu- ously insist upon the sincerity of their belief as all-sufficient are the men, in nine cases out of ten, who either believe in nothing or in a lie. Christianity has its positive side as well as its negative. There are things in it to be be- lieved as well as things that look like it to be cast apide aud disbelicved, And aq 9 man thinketh in his heart or believeth so is What his soul is that the manis. Thoughts are things now as always. Rev. Mr. Evans presented thé crucifixion of Christ as the pivot truth of the gospel. It was what Paul loved to preach, and it is what we should preach now; for society was then about what it is now, and the systems of philosophy and the mythological superstitions of those days could no more save the people from their sins than the like things can save them now. Hence Paul did not preach salvation as attain- able by one’s own executive ability, but alone by faith in the Crucified One; for, Ho died the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. At the dedication of the Catholic church in Harlem, yesterday, Dr. Spalding preached a sermon on the Church as the civilizer of the world. If he méant by the Church the whole body of believers in Christ, then we accept the proposition in its fulness of truth. But if he meant only his own branch of the Church, albeit it may be the largest and most wide- spread, the truth of the proposition is limited in its extent. It is true that in the Church the highest liberty is proclaimed—the liberty of the soul to act in obedience to God's laws. But is it not equally true that the Church has sometimes bound the body so that this liberty of the soul was a mockery? And while the Church has been the light of the world and the salt of the earth, and in a measure the civilizer of mankind, it has not been as earnest nor as faithful in these things aa its Lord designed it to be nor as the importance of the interosts committed to its keeping demand that it should be. ‘Bishop’ Snow must have an exceedingly keen, prophetio perception of the things to come. He lives altogether in the future and his dolight is not with the sons of men but with the beasts and false prophets and like characters of the ante-millennium period. He sees the end of anti-Christ and a time of trouble im- pending, but he is apparently too selfish to tell us how we may escape that time. If the immortality of the soul be a false and a pagan dogma, as the Bishop asserts it is, we ought to know what effect his time of trouble will have upon us here, for if ‘the time’ is prolonged some of us, according to his theory, will be so sound asleep in the dust that we shall know nothing and care less for all his prophecies, But if he is to escape, and he intimates so much, he ought to let us know by what means, that we may escape also. Wedo not like the Bishop's glory- ing in the gory life blood of his enemies as ho does, Itis not much like Him whose ‘mes- senger’ he pretends to be. It smacks too much altogether of another and a different spirit. At Long Branch, yesterday, Dr. Ormiston of this city preached in the Reformed church there on the wondrous prayer of Moses, ‘‘Show me thy glory,"’. ond set forth the mighty effects of the answer to that prayer upon all his after life, At the dedication of the Catholic church in Astoria Bishop Loughlin, of Brooklyn, gave the people a discourse on ‘preaching Christ crucified,” which, for breadth of view and simplicity of style, we commend to readers and preachers. The Church, he dedlared, was not made for any special class or particular people; it was designed to be immortal and universal. Nor is the work of preaching to be confined alone to the priest or the minister; the people must aid in this work also. And then we have Christ’s promise to be with us always even unto the end. The Merrick folk continued their camp meeting yesterday, and had preaching by Revs. Mallory and Worth. They intend to close their meeting this evening, so that per- sons who may not have visited the place will have the opportunity to-day to do so. Tar Cuidiic Conprrion or Spam is still further illustrated by a gape despatch to the Henatp this morning, by which it appears that the insurgent authorities in Cartagena have released the convicts to take tip arms in behalf of disorder. They must be reduccd, however, to sad straits when they are willing to set this element loose to prey on friend or foe. ‘Vienna has had another grand display. A cable special to the Heranp this morning de- scribes the farewell banquet given by the Bur- gomaster of the Austrian capital in honor of the closing of the Exposition, Distinguished gentlemen from every part of the world par- ticipated. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Governor W. A. Burleigh, of Dakota, is in Chicago. Admiral Hobart Pasha, of the Turkish Navy, is in Switzerland, A Mr. 8. B, Johnson has retired from the Litchfield, Conn., Sentinel. M. Ulysse Pic, @ well known Parisian journalist, has become insaue. Horace Austin, Governor of Minnesots. was in Chicago on Saturday last, Wes. Allen, tho notorious convict at Sing Sing, is reported to be dangerously iil. The rebel General Jubal A. Early has been elected President of the Southern Historical Society. Ex-United States Senator samuel C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, was in Norwich, vonn., on Saturday. Prince Napoleon is in Corsica, taking part in the deliberations of the Council General of Ajaccio, Elias Durand, a druggist, who served under Na- poleon L, died in Philadelphia on Tharsday last. Lieutenant Colonel Fred. Grant, son of the President, left Chicago on Wednesday last for tho East. M. Emile Ollivier ts at Wittel, in the Vosges, and will not return to Paris until the end of next month. Secretary Richardson arrived at the West End Hotel, Long Branca, from Washington yesterday alternoon. Dr. N. B. Lippincott, of the Treasury Depart- ment at Washington, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Governor Edward F. Noyes, of Ohto, who isa candidate for re-election on the republican ticket, has but one leg. Licutenant Governor Robinson, of Prince Ed- wards Island, has resigned, and will leave next month for England. Dr. Mackarnoss, Archbishop Wilbertorce’s suc- cessor in the See of Oxiord, is likely to succeed him in that of Winchester, An ex-United States Treasurer a few days ago applied to General Spinner, the present Treasurer, for & position as messenger ip his office. The personal property of Mr. Samuel Sinctatr, late publisher and largest owner of the New York Tribune, at Croton Landing, is to be sold at auc- tion, Governor John J, Bagley and United States Son- ator Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan, were in Cni- cago on Saturday last en route for Duluth, Minne- sota, and the Northwest, Eighty-eight young ladies are on the lists of the Michigan Unlyorsipy at Apa Arbor, Forty-two of hem are for the literary course, thirty-seven for the medical, and four in the law school. Two Poughkeepsie editors went to Stanfordville lately for @ little fresh air, and wore put under surveillance as burglars, 4 residence in the neigh- borhogd having been robbed that morning, Rey. W. it, 4. Murray suddenly left the Adiron- dacks and retyrned home, He had been deer, contrary to the game laws of the State of New York, and it 13 gaid the constabies were alter him. Elijah Newton resides in Clermont county, Ohio, and is 110 years old. It is said that he once re- fused to exchange forty yards of Kentucky jeans for the lot om which the Cincinnati Post Oflce now stands, THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR. The Executive Attends Divine Service with His Family—The Programme for the White Mouatain Trip. Auausra, Me., August 17, 1373. The President passed the Sabbath recovering irom the fatigue and excitement attending the cruise in the fog on Friday and Saturday and the festivities at Bangor. He and his family attended the Congregational church, with the family of his host, and listened to 9 sermon by the Rev. Mr. Dale, temporary pastor. The aiternoon was spent at Mr. Blaine'’s residence in the company of a few gentlemen who dropped in to bid him adieu on the eve of his departure from the State. Senator Cameron, tt is understood, will return home, as havo nearly all the politicians and oilice-holders who have followed him up and down the State. At nine o'clock to-morrow the party, accome- panied by Mr, Blaine, will leave for Portland in & special car. They will here take the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad to North Conway, where dinner wili be served, a!ter which thoy will pro- ceed up the mountains to Crawiord Notch, and pass the night at some point in the mountaing not yt decided upon. On Tuesday, under the escort of Governor Straw, of New Hampshire, who will succeed Mr. Blaine se the entertainer of the President, the party will cross over to the Connecticut River, and stop for the nignt at the most convenient point. The fa- ture route will likely be by Lake George to Sarma toga, which will be reached Wednesday or Thurs- day. It is not now known how long a period will be spent at the latter place, or where he will next direct his steps. ey Celebration of the Presideni’s Silver Wedding. WasHINGTON, August 17, 1873. It is announaed that on Friday next the Presi, dent will celebrate his silver wedding at Long Branch, on which occasion there will be present not only the immediato relatives, but several members of the Cabinet and a host of friends from ‘New York. RESCUED FROM DEATH. Two Brothers Faint While Down a Poisoned Well—Heroic Conduct of a Young Man Who Descends Into the Foul Air and Rescues Them. Sonanton, Pa., August 17, 1873 Ata late hour last evening Bellevue, a suburb of Scranton, was thrown into a atate of the most in- tense excitement, owing to the rumor that two brothers, named Kerrigan, were sutfocating in am old well fifty feet deep, charged with foul air, & large crowd of persons congregated ot the mouts of the well, some peering into its dark, deadly recesses, while the women ran to and fro, wail ing and wringing their hands, exclainiing that the brothers had perished. It seems that Patrick, one of the brothers, descended to clean the weil, and Was overcome a the noxious gas and fainted away. His brother, Mic! oh most by a protere cations ssachod ot Faaiok tee tened down to his assistance, when he, too, fainted from the effects of the foul gas. Some persons whe saw him descend, not seeing him return as soomas expected, looked down the well, but no sound or sign of fe came up, and immediately the news spread e fire on @ parched prauric, until bun- dreds from the city flocced to the scene, yet no one yolunteered to descend, Drs. Fisher and 0’Brie 1 all sides, of Scranton, henpened to pass at the time, an they cut down clothes lines, from which a cable ‘was improvised strong enough to draw up two or men. At length a young man named Golding volun- teered to go down and snatch if possible the perishing brothers from the jaws of death, Bis conduct ww forth ahearty cheer. The rope was aroly axed pager pls arms, and he was provided with another around one of the brothers Kergjgan, Siowly he was lowered, whilo the multkude were muto in breathless suspense. At length ne wy rave to the surface by chael Kerrigan, aro woo be a io fastening succeeded rope. Ker wi eto less. seiantSa ths rope around Fatrick. but an drawing jus 8 TO) ie to tl suriace the noose “utp d from his shoulders to nis neck and in this condition he was drawn to the top, when aero all the symp- toms of strangulation. eyes were obtruding, his lips purple and the blood oozed from his mouth. brothers carricd in an apparen' tion to their homes, where they still lte in a oritt- cal state. The heroic conduct of Golding in de- ascending the derciog well and saving the brothers from an inevitable death by breathing the subtie aud noxious atmosphere, is highly commended om WEATHER REPORT. gee . Darakruner, Orrice of mill pare Orincan,} ‘WasHINGTON, Augast 18—1 A. M, Probabiitties. For New England continued high but slowly diminishing pressure, variable to southeasterly winds, slightly rising temperature and clear or partly cloudy weather. Fur the lower lakes. afd thence southwestward to Tennessee light easterly to southerly winds, ris- ing temperature, with areas of lignt rain For the Middle Atlantic States continued high but slowly falling barometer, northeasterly to south- westerly winds and rain, followea by clearing weather and rising temperature on Mon- day. For the South Atlantic and Gulf States rising barometer, southeasterly to westerly winds, with generally clear weather,’ except on the immediate coast, where occasio: rains are probable. For the upper lake region and the Northwest, southeasterly to southwesterly winds, low barometer, with partly cloudy, warmer weather and possibly local rains. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temg2rature for the past twenty-four hours im ion with the corresponding day of last Elegy licated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HERALD Building :— oy, Hen 1ST 18t2, 183, soos Ot ci 68 8:30 4 rH x 1 66 OP. sl 9A. M.. 79 «63 OP. 1806 12 M... 88412 P. 1% oF Average temperature yesterday 1s Average temperature for corres; last JOOP s.e..eeeeerees eae 80% A HOREIBLE DEED. A Father Kills His Wife and Cuts His @wn Throat in a Wood—A Helpicss Child W itm s the Crime. Smarorta, Ont., August 17, 1873. A man named Scott, a school teacher, arrived here from Detroit on Friday, and went to him father’s house, five miles from here, Where he mes bis wife and child. They started on Saturday morn- ing for Mrs. Scott’s father’s place, This morn! & man passing. the woods near by heal the child wn J On searching he found the father and mother quite dead, with their throats cut. It is supposed Scott cut his wife's throat and then his ow! No motive cau be assigned for committing fhe horrible deed. An inquest will he held to- morrow. OBITUARY. William M. Meredith. ‘The Hon. William M. Meredith, one of the moss eminent lawyers of Pennsylvania, died in Phils delphia yesterday, at the ago of seventy-seven years, His earlier years, after attaining to man-, hood, were exclusively devoted to bis profession, © public position except that of a tcabee ant Proaident of the Pennsylvania Constis tutional Convention of 1538, till the advent of Prest. dent Taylor, when he became Secretary of the Trousury, Mr. Meredith retired upon the succes sion of Mr. Filmore, in 1860, aud was succeeded by Thomas Corwin, Ho was also for a short time Geary’s Attorney Gencral, Strange to Gover Mereuiti’s pubiic career ended much as it began, for he was & member and President of the peegent Canstituyonal Yoavention af hia Aiate,