The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1873, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, fs “YORK General Butler, as a candidate for the office of Governor of Massachusetts, occupics the conspicuous position of chief defender of the amendment to @ bill, passed in the closing ‘Volume XXXVIII....,...........+000.N@- 232 | hours of the last Congress, for the relief of ee. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ‘ROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 oY, MET! a ; Broadway.—Vanierr aEwrestavacert, Mi WALLACK'S THEAT! istreet.— Miat BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Sxe.eton Hanp— “Tux Monxxy Boy, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner T! — ovenry Fiar. Afternoon and evening. marae THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 ! Entxgravoent. Mines atthe. ea ore UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Uni y Broadway.—Fux ix Foo—Oup Pair's Biatubar .q,NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Pri Rousion si. Stas Besce Onde Menace et eee tet GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eigh’ 4 thi. 6t.—MipsumMER NjQn7’s — Pe een CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Suuuxn Nicuts’ Coy-) CERTS. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and Sd avs.—Der Warrinscumixpe, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- Way.—Scienck AND ArT. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway.—Science AND Art. New York, Wednesday, August 20, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “GENERAL BUTLER'S - POSITION AND PROS- PECTS! THE BACK-PAY QUESTION! VLEWS OF DISTINGUISHED POLITICIANS’! — LEADER—SixTH Pas. WEATHER WARNINGS! THE GREAT WORK OF THE STORM SIGNAL BUREAU | gBXPLIOA- TION OF THE “PROBABILITIES |? THEIR TKANSMISSION TO THE VARIOUS STATES! THE OLD SYSTEM AND THE IMPROVE- MENTS—Fourrs PaGE, A MAP OF THE TERRITORY PROTECTED BY THE WEATHER BUREAU—Fourtu Pacs. THE SPANISH REPUBLICAN FORCES DF. FEATED IN A SEVERE BATTLE NEAR BERGA! ARMS FROM THE DEERHOUND SAFELY CONVEYED TO THE CARLISTS! CORTES ENGAGED ON A NEW LOAN BILL—SBVENTH PaGE. SPAIN’S WAR ON THE CUBANS! SHARP GUE- RILLA FIGHTING! THE DONS WORSTED! HEAVY LOSSES OF BOTH COMBATANTS— Firra Page, BAKER PASHA’S RETURN FROM THE SOUDAN! THE STEAMSHIP ON WHICH HE IS A PAS. SENGER SUFFERS AN ACCIDENT NEAR SHADWAN ISLAND, 300 MILES FROM SUEZ! ASSISTANCE SENT! A FORMER DISASTER AT THE SAME PLACE—SEVENTH Pads. THE NEW YORK CLUB YACHTS START IN A DENSE FOG FOR MARTHA’S VINEYARD, BUT ARE FORCED ‘10 PUT BACK! COMING RACES—SEVENTH PaGE, GRANT AND THE THIRD-TERM PROBABILITIES DISCUSSED BY THE POLITICIANS AT SAR- ATOGA! WHAT REVERDY JOHNSON SAID! FUTURE WORK OF THE DEMOCRACY— TuiRD Pack. C#SARIZING THE REPUBLIC—GENERALS CAM- ERON AND BUTLER AND JUDGE HOAR— A HEARLESS WRETCH—THE PUBLIC HEALTH—Turep Page. COMPLETION OF THE HOLYHEAD (ENGLAND) BREAKWATER! A NUMBER OF WORK- MEN KILLED BY THE CAVING OF A TUN- NEL—THE RACES FOR THE YORKSHIRE OAKS—SEVENTH PaGE. THE CLOSE OF THE VIENNA EXPOSITION—IM- PORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SEVENTH Pace. NEWS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! THE MODOCS! ACHEEN AND THE DUTCH— TENTH PaGE. THE HUDSON RIVER HORROR! A HERALD RE- PORTER SEEKING FOR SOME LIGHT ON THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF DELIA ! STORIES OF THE ACCUSED! VONFLICTING ACCUSATIONS—EteutTu Pace. TRACKING A MURDERER! THE CAPTURE OF LOWENSTEIN, CHARGED WITH THE WESTON BUTCHERY—PROBABLE MUR- DEK—LEGAL SUMMARIES—BROOKLYN JAIL FRAUDS—EIGcnTH PaGE. E, C. GRENVILLE MURRAY AT ETRETAT! HOW THE FRENCH FASHIONABLE SUMMER RESORTS ARE MADE AND WHAT THEY ARE AFTERWARDS! BOHEMIA AF ie BREAKFAST TABLE AND IN THE DANCE— Fourtu PaGEg, NO CHOLERA IN TENNESSEE! THE FATAL WORK OF THE EPIDEMIC AND ITS DIS- | quiry will probably not appear this side the PERSION! BLACKS THE PRINCIPAL SUF- | opening of the Republican Presidential Con- FERERS—FIFTH PaGE. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS! REVOLUTIONARY AGITATIONS IN PANA- MA, GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS! AMERICAN TARS IN DRAMATIC ROLES LV THE HARBOR OF RIO—Firra Pace. OPERATIONS IN WALL STREET AND THE NA- | TIONAL TREASURY ! THE TREASURY DEFICIT EXCITING THE RMANS! 1S THE SYNDICATE SHORT TH PAGE. Tax War mm Spary.—The cause of the Carlists appears to progress still hopefully in Spain. By telegram Perpignan we learn that a severe engage ment has just taken place between a larg! force of the monarchy men and three columas | of government infantry. The battle was fought in the open country between Berga and | Caseras, and resulted in a rout of the republi- cans, with a loss of two hundred men and one cannon. The Carlists claim to have obtained one thousand seven hundred and fifty Berdan | rifles in the cargo of the yacht Deerhound. | The Bourbonists have again entered the town of Estella. They appear, indeed, to have re- ceived a fresh inspiration just of late, and act with great animation under its influence. The Spanish Cortes is in the meantime discussing the project of a new loan—a point of great attraction in the Madrid legislation. more | from | As Awmzrican Homz ror tHe Roman Pov. | ‘rury.—A special Hxnatp correspondence from Rio Janeiro, which appears in our columns to-day, alleges that an opinion, almost a be- lief, exists in that city to the effect that His Holiness Pope Pius IX. secretly tavors a Vati- can policy indicative of a removal of the chief seat of government of the Roman | Catholic Church, subsequent to his death, from Rome to the territory of the Brazilian Empire, thus fixing the centre of the great religious propagandism in America, The writer sets forth some curious reasons in sup- port of the position, The new Pontiff, wise in his generation, as he will most assuredly be, might do very much worse, and may not, Perhaps, do better, particularly when he comes to consider the chaotic condition, both | the Old World, the members thereof, now universally known as the “‘back-pay grab.’ By this act each member of the expiring Congress was awarded some five thousand dollars extra pay for his RE, Broadway and Thirteenth | services to the public during said Congress, notwithstanding his implied contract with the United States, which, down to the hour of the approval of this back-pay bill, morally bound him to serve for five thousand a year. Herein lies the cause of the general public indignation against this so-called ‘‘back- pay grab.” Itisa gratuity from the public treasury voted to themselves by the custo- diuns of the Treasury in the form of a defi- ciency bill. But while morally no member hase right to this gratuity many members who have pocketed it, and others who have turned it over to some charitable purpose or purposes, justify their course from the law and trom precedents, and generally plead the plea that upon five thousand a yeara member of Congress could not decently live in Wash- ington. The principle involved is either right or wrong. We hold that these Congressional gratuities to members of Congress are all wrong; General Butler boldly contends that they are right, and without qualification justi- fies this “‘back-pay’’ bill as lawful and proper. And itis mainly upon this issue that his friends are laboring to secure his nomination for Governor by the approaching Republicun State Convention, and it is chiefly upon this issue that his adversaries, or the Puritans of his party, count upon his defeat. In this connec- tion the views of Senator Cameron, the chief engineer of the republican party in Pennsyl- vania, in regard to this back pay, and in refer- ence to the public character, services and claims of General Butler—as given in the Henawp of Monday last, ina letter from Bed- ford Springs—will doubuess operate powerfully among the Massachusetts republicans in be- half of Butler's nomination and election for Governor. General Cameron freely ex- presses his ‘‘profound love and admiration for General Butler,”’ and says ‘the is so very able and has all that indomitable courage and political training which I s0 much admire,” and that, though op- posed by all such ‘‘week-kneed sisters’ as “your Forneys, your Ourtins and your Colfaxes, your Garfields and Daweses, and Wilsons and Hoars, yet he towers abovo them in ability and honesty, and in everything else that is noble and good.’’ This enthusias- tic endorsement of General Butler is continued in the statement by his admiring Pennsylvania friend, of ‘‘ Butler's splendid conduct at Bal- timore, when, with his brigade of Massachu- setts soldiers he clutched that city from thed very grasp of the rebels and opened up com- munication between Washington and the North,” and did it, too, ‘‘in direct opposition to the orders of General Scott.’’ But the most remarkable bit of history in support of General Butler that has appeared in print since his seizure of Baltimore, is that communicated from General Cameron to the public, through our correspondent from Bedford Springs, from which it appears that when it was thought he was of more service to the country.” | gramme of the national administration. | taken your back pay?’’ ‘Why, certainly I have. | earned in my life; and do you suppose I would | devils are doing in returning it?’’ | follows the argument that ‘the miserable pit- | | the rich only?’ and that “there is a chance | for the Hzranp to do a good work in securing | the issue upon which General Butler | }is to stand or fall in Massachusetts. He is before the people of thai fn politics and of creeds, which prevails in | the samo responsibility each in taking his determined to run Mr. Limcoln for a second term it was the desire of Lincoln, Stanton, and Cameron that General Butler should be placed on the ticket with him for Vice Presi- dent; that the offer, accordingly, through a special committee, was made to him; but that Butler said ‘‘there was nothing in the Vice Presidency, and he preferred remain- ing in command of his army, where he With these remembrances and associations of the war, it naturally follows that General Cam- eron hopes ‘that Butler will be elected Governor, because he wants to be, though I would rather have him remain in the House or come to the Senate.’’ But, after declining an offer which would have made him Vice President of the United States, instead of Andrew Johnson, why should General Butler descend to a contest for the Governor's chair of Massachusetts as the ultimatum of his po- litical aspirations?’’ The answer to this in- vention of 1876. Meantime, we cannot resist the conclusion that the hope of General Cam- eron of Butler's election as Governor of Massachusetts is a leaf in the political pro- The happy accord between the venerable Senator trom Pennsylvania and the enfand ter- rible of Massachusetts is complete in com- pletely covering the ‘‘back-pay grab."’ Says Senator Cameron to the question, ‘‘Have you It belongs to me as much as any dollar I ever act the demagogue as some of these poor And then tances we are paying our public officers are | tending to the absorption of these offices by better wages to our public servants.” Agree- ing in this opinion that they are too poorly paid, this is not the question before us, nor State as the leading advocate and defender of this back-pay bill and of the right of every | member concerned to the gratuity, and we are thus called to inquire what are his prospects in this connection. He is fully endorsed by Cameron and Carpenter and other Senators, and by Fernando Wood and other members of the House. The democrats of the late Con- gress areas deep in the mud as the repub- licans tre in the mire of this public scandal. It is hardly a party question, yet it must be met by the Massachusetts republicans in sup- port of the back pay with their nomination o/ General Butler. The views of James M. Scovel, of New Jer- sey, upon this matter, and upon Cameron and Butler, which we publish this morning, as the opinions of a Greeley liberal, are really re- treshing as the opinions of an independent thinker. He is correct, too, in his judg- ment that Hoar and Butler, in the matter of this back pay, stand under. pe’ Serr aye the subsequent disposition of the money, whether for obarity or for personal uses, signi- fies nothing. The money rightfully belongs either to the members or to the public Treas- ury, and there is no half-way ground of com- promise in disposing of it. We infer from Senator Cameron's zealous support of General Butler that Butler is the administration can- didate for Governor of Massachusetts, We con- jecture that as President Grant approved the appropriation bill embodying this back-pay amendment, the Massachusetts republicans will meet the difficulty of condemning But- pediment which they cannot overcome—and that the Republican State Convention, brought to this crucial test, will find the nomination of General Butler a duty towards the adminis- tration which the party cannot escape. We may be mistaken in these conclusions, but when Senator Cameron throws his whole weight, as he has done, in support of General Butler it may bo safely assumed that ho is speaking aseone having authority. A Remarkable Episode in the Late Voy- age of the Arndt—An Important Les. son to Seamen, An episode in the recent voyage of tho steamship Arndt, after she lost her propeller, as reported, is so remarkable and instructivo | as to merit special attention, The disabled steamer was signalled by the Ville du Havre on the 10th inst. in latitude forty degrees forty-seven minutes, longitude sixty-two de- grees twenty-one minutes—about five hundred and fifty miles due east from Sandy Hook. The Ville du Havre, it appears, supplied her with the newspapers, which she had taken out the day previous when sho left this port; and Service ‘‘ probabilities " of easterly winds for the Middle States decided the captain of the Arndt to base his course accordingly. forecast was true the steamer, now reduced to her sails, might hope to run into port upon this ‘‘ streak of good luck ;’’ and sure enough, for the next two days it proved true to the letter, the vessel, under the anticipated winds, doing some splendid sailing. Commenting upon the unanticipated arrival of the late gale (which it appears was due to meteoric condi- tions existing north of Canada, beyond tho present scope of the weather observations), the Baltimore Sun cites the experience of the Arndt as a most brilliant offset and signal suc- cess in prognosticating the course of the winds, thus rendering ‘‘Old Probabilities” triumphant in the hour of exceptional defeat. But it the predictions to which we refer could be utilized by a steamer or sailing vessel more than five hundred miles trom shore, as we have seen it actually was used, it sug- gests the very wide extension of tho utility of the daily forecasts by distribut- ing them freely on outward bound ves- sels, It often happens that a storm centro destined to be one of great violence aftor it has advanced Eastward beyond the Middle States’ seaboard is reported while yet in the Gulf or Mississippi Valley, two or three days before it can get off the Atlantic coast; and, during the interval, vessels leaving our sea- board ports might easily communicate (to those ships they speak inward bound) any alarming intelligence of storms approaching. This interchange of signals might be mutually beneficial to both the outward-bounder and the inward-bounder, since it is no inirequent thing for vessels steaming eastward to be over- taken unawares to-day and become disastrously entangled in a cyclone from which the vessel she passed yesterday had just emerged. But not only would such exchange of information be useful to ships sailing on parallel lines in opposite directions, but also to those crossing each other’s tracks at right angles. So that, by arranging an additional device in the marine signal code, thousands of coasters and small craft might be warned of coming dan- ger, and countless large vessels sailing to and from Southern ports, while yet several hun- drod miles oi! the coast, might receive the benefit of the cautionary signals and storm warnings. The storm which in all probability over- whelmed the ill-fated steamer City of Boston three years ago might have been in this way indicated, both foreseen and avoided by nu- merous vessel which encountered its fury ; “HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST’ 20, ler without reproving the President—an im-« ys 8 should come together with hostile intent there would be a tremendous explosion of some kind. Activity of the Cubans In the Field. The news we published yesterday from Havana, purporting to come by telegram from Puerto Principe, shows that the Cubans are active and their operations. They wero in force in the immediate neighborhood of Puerto Principe, and that is coming near to settled and important part of the island, as well as to the strongholds of the Spaniards. It is reported that a body of Cubans, under the command of Maximo Gomez, attacked a force of Spanish cavalry, killing thirty-one and capturing nineteen horses. After a short en- gagement the Cubans fell back, according to their usual tactics, Another engagement is reported at the village of Yeguas, where the insurgents were repulsed. Whenever a disaster to the Spaniards is reported through Havana we may be sure it has not been exaggerated. The probability is that it was much worse in this case than represented. The patriots never had so good an opportu- nity as at present to advance their cause and to seoure their independence, and perhaps never may again. The terrible civil war in Spain, the chaotic condition of that country and the prostration of the finances and credit of the government make it impossible .to ‘prosecute the war in Cuba vigorously. Should the conflict in Spain end in the restoration of monarchy—as it will, probably, through the action of foreign governments—a greater effort will be made again to subjugate the and many other specific illustrations could be adduced of the feasibility of connecting the land meteorologic conditions with the previ- sion, by vessels far out at sea, of the weather they are likely to experience. The Government and the Press in France. We learn that the French government has suppressed or forbidden the sale of twenty republican newspapers in the provinces since the commencement of this month. This is the sort of republican liberty they have in France. Of course, such arbitrary action toward the press is all in the name of France always are. At this rate of suppress- ing the newspapers there will soon be few left. We Americans would think there were little freedom or republicanism in this coun- try if the press could be thus squelehed. We are not afraid of what the French authorities liberty of the press. In fact, the freedom of the press, as Junius said, is the palladium of civil and religious liberty. The leaders of the Left in the French Assembly will, it is said, make an energetic protest against this war on the newspapers; but that, we suppose, will have little cffect upon the decided reactionary course of the government. President MacMahon may be right, the French people may not be capable of enjoying liberty; but if they are the suppression of the newspapers is as unnecessary as it is inimical to republican institutions and freedom. Prstors anv Corrrz ror Two.—General Butler writes to some parties in Hartford who desired to secure the job of hauling the stone which, it was alleged, he had contracted to fur- nish for the new government building in Hart- ford, denying the report; and concluding as follows: —‘‘This instance will show you how false all other newspaper stories about me are, and that the lying rascal who edited The Courant knew this was false when he put it in.’ Does not this savor a little of pistols and coffee for two, a belligerent visit to Bla~ order, as the veriest acts of tyranny in| son money to flee to this country. Cubans and to fasten the grip of Spain upon the island. Now is the time for the Cubans to put forth all their strength. tho press despatches containing the Signal! Asyenaany or THR BATTLES or Cuvnv- BusCO AND ConTRER«S.—To-day (August 20) is the anniversary of the two most decisive If the | battles fought during the Mexican war. We refer to the battles of Churubusco and Con- treras, which were fought on the 20th day of August, 1847. There should be some official recognition of the event by our city authorities, for many brave New York boys perished and many others wero severely wounded during those bloody fights. The survivors will, no doubt, extemporize some celebration of their own. We learn that some of our citizens intend to entertain the resident survivors of the warin an appropriate man- ner on the anniversary of the surrender of the city of Mexico, September 14. By the way, would not this be a good time to inquire what has become of that monument which was to be placed in Greenwood over the graves of our fallen Mexican heroes, and for which a large sum of money was contributed nearly a quarter of a century ago? The money was raised, but the monument, we believe, never was, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Kelly, of St. Paul, Minnesota, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Chief Justice Sandford E, Church, of Albagy, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. and Mrs, A. Raymond, of New York, are at the Grand Union Hotel, at Saratoga. Secretary of the Treasury Richardson left Long Branch yesterday alternoon for Washington. General Barringer is still sick at the White Sulphur Springs. The chances of his recovery are very slight, Miss Rose Tilden, of Cleveland, Obio, arrived in this city yesterday from Rio Janeiro, in, the steamship Ontario. Mr. William Spaythe, publisher of Zoho Amert- cano, of Rio Janeiro, arrived in this city yester- day in the steamship Ontario, Colonel F. H. Noteware, Superintendent of Immi- gration, of Nebraska, is in Italy, arranging for the imuiigration to his State of a number of peasant farmers. Mr. Montague Bernard, D C. L., one of the Treaty of Washington Commissioners on the part of Eng- land, is likely to be appointed Baron of the Ex- chequer, Mr. Whalley, &® member of the British Parlia- ment, who has been at Quebec some time coliecting evidence in the Tichborne case, leit that city on Monday night for New York. Captain William Norton Perse, of the Royal Ar- tilery, was prevented irom entering @ stall in the Princess’ Theatre, London, because he had not on a white tle, He naturaily made @ row, aud was, of course, arrested, But white ties are not hereatter to be required for entrance to the stalls in tue Princess’ Theatre. Mr. Benjamin Peixotto, our Minister to Roumania, has written tothe Mémorial Diplomatique, of Paris, to deny that he had been recalled trom his post at the desire of the Keumanian government, for mis- representing 114 action in regard to the Jews to our government. Mr. Peixotto was away from Bucharest jor seven months previous to July. Per- haps this absence justified the rumor. Lady Elenborough, who was recently reported to Lave died while accompanying her husband, an Arab chief, on a desert journey, 18 still alive and reaiding tn Damascus. She 1s in good ,heaith, and thinks she will not depart from her nomadic lord for some time yet. She is now sixty-six years old, and itis forty-three years since she eloped from Lora Ellenborough with Prince Schwartzenburg, Franz Eggs, a Swiss of the Canton Valois, was some time ago unfortunately compelled to conquer his father’s desire to marry his servant by kill- ing his obstinate old papa. The elder Eggs lived for some time, and gave his parricidal Franz lately became desperate over the failure of his family to meet him here, and, returning to Europe, he ventured into Switzerland, where he was arrested and wili be tried for murder, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, HERALD correspondence from Panama, under call the license of the press. When @ coun | date of August 10, reports as follows:—The United try is really free there is no danger from the | States steamship Benicia is expected here about the 10th. When last heard from she was at La Union, Salvador, where she had put in in search of fuel. Not nding any, she continued to Amapalas, Honduras, but was not likely to be any more suc- ceasful there; 80 it is jikely she may be ubliged to come down ail tae way under sail. Naval Ocders, WASHINGTON, August 19, 1873, Captain Pierce Crosby has been ordered to duty as executive officer of the Washington Navy Yard Lieutenant Simons has been ordered to the Naval Academy. Lieutenant Commander Charies a Pen- dieton and Ensigus W. Hadden and D. D. Stewart have been detached from the Pensacola and ordered to return nome; Lieutenant J. K. Progs- dai, trom the Omaha, ane Lieutenant 38. W. Very, from the Lancaster, and ordered to return home. The Naval Court Martial at Annapolis. BaLtimoRs, Md., August 19, 1873. ‘The naval court martial for the trial of Medical Director Marcus Duvall, Rear Admiral Goldsbor- ough presiding, convened at Annapolis yesterday. Dr. Duval was arraigned under the tollowing charges and specifications :— First C) .— Assauiting with a deadly weapon and wounding enlisted men of the United States rine corps. Ma pectioaton.—That on oF about the 4th of June, i or hear the Naval Hospital at Annapolis, Md., Medicai Director Marcus Duvall did, without waraoing, With malicious intent, discharge a doubie barrelled gun at and wounded Private Johu Vur- densburg or to the Clitton House, Canada? Ex-Governor Hawley, the editor of the paper referred to, is a fighting man, and, like Gen- gratuity from the public Txensuxy. and that Gaal Builes, bas smelt gunpowder, I they cell and Drummers Frank F. Donovan and W, 0, Jey, of the United States Marine corps. rqe Second.— scandalous conduct. The speci floation in the second charge recites the alleged facts asserted in the specification above. Dr. Duvali pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Court tuen adiourned uml te-daye . LOUISIANA, MeEinery’s Appeal to the Citizens to Cail @ Convention, and Select a Committee to Petition Congress to Save the State from Rain. New Ontaans, La., Aug. 19, 1873. In response toa communication from the citizens of Monroe, as tothe proper course to be pursued regarding Louisiana affairs, Mr Joun McEnery writes a letter advising the calling of a State Con- vention in December and the appointment of a “committee to appeal to Congress. After review- ; coursé of events in Louisiana during the past year, Mr. McEnery says the present deplorable condition of the State demands, for her rescue from certain ruin, the adoption So, remodiaet either nth? rescue. of hsr corruption pervad! Sepectwent ing almost every do; imen' by tue united action of the intelligent and honest people ot the ae or an utter surrender of the tate to the federal government, trus' that that government pd institute an honest home pareen ment that will spare the people the con- iscation of their property now gradually going on, and consequent inevitable bankruptcy and ruin, To any one educated in the theory and genius of our government the latter alternative is hard to accept, but any government promising a better futur2, however irregularly instituted, is prefer. able to one promising certain impoverishment and general bankru: toy. When peopie find themselves surrounded, as we are, by desperate and straitened circumstances— commerce de ig, agriculture demoralized, cape tal with Mercu! Sate flight, real estate de- pressed and deprecia' fifty per cent since Gov: ernor Kellogg's rule, and, in fact, all values on. the dectine this in a State of boundless re- sources and simply and alone due to the fact of bad, dishonest and illegitimate government, pos- sessing neither the confidence of the people at home or abroad—tit is natural that they will accept relief from any hand that extends it, and will not Had to goles as to the regularity or irregularity of the authority exercised; but I hope fate is not so imperious that we shail be driven to accept 60 desperate a remedy. Let us hope better o1 those who bold our destiny in their nands, Let us appeal earnestly fo Son eee trusting that that honorable body, casting aside all political prejudice and party rule, will do ampie justice to a mach wronged and injured people. THE FARMER POLITIOIANS. A Grangers’ Mecting in Boston: Boston, August 19, 1873, A Meeting was held this forenoon at the Com, mercial Exchange to listen to explanations of the principles and purposes of the farmers’ granges, There was asmall attendance of business men and others interested in this movement, or desiring to learn its objects. The meeting was called to order by the Presi- dent o1 the Exchange, Edward Kemble, who in- troduced J. 0, Abbott, General Deputy of the Patrons of baie aS Mr, ABBOTT stated t he appeared in the capa- city of a farmer, and to represent the evils under which this class had long suffered, and which it was the purpose of the or; ation he repre- sented to remove. He had established three sub- ordinate granges in Western Massachusetts, and hoped to Organize a grange in Boston. He would welcome to the order not only every farmer but those in sympathy with the effort to regulate the great transportation question now frequently agi- tating the public mind. At the conclusion of these remarks the meeting was closed, the speaker inviting those interested in forming a frenge to retire into an ante-room to consult with him. MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLIOAN STATE COH- VENTI Boston, August 19, 1873. The Republican State Central Committee to-day decided to change the time of holding the Conven- tion at Worcester to September 10, as the hall was engaged trom september 17 to the 24th. PENNSYLVANIA EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE, WILEESBARRE, Pa., August 19, 1873. The ninth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Stats Equal Rights L2ague convened in National Hall to-day, about hundred aelegates, from all parts of the State, ere in attendance. The President, Mr. William Nesbitt, of Altoona, cailed the meeting toorder ateleven A. M, After a committee had been appointed and some financial legislation at- tended to, the toliowing resolutions were offered by Mr. Wm. 8. Fortin, of Philadelphia, and unani- Mmously adopted :— Resolved, That we declare our unfaltering adherence to the republican party, and regard it as the sure ex- ponent of the highest progressive sentiment of the day, and that we endorse it as the best qualitied instrument w ure to all Americans the complete exercise of tucir constitutional and natural rights; that we endorse its nominees, and are fully satisfied ite mighty achieve- ments, which are numbered ag the great teature of wis reraraable age of progress, ived, That in full belief that this party is the uncowprotnising friend of humanity, we place our tull rehance upon it, and teel justified in calling on all loyal men to uphold’ it as the grand advance o: frocdom’s Zolved, That in President Grant, the representative head of the republican party, we tind’a triend as true as he 1s a soldier brave and a patriot impartial, and that he stands ed to use his influence to secure a national Civil Rights bil, and that we petition Congress to enact the same at the next session. Resoived, That, while we look with condemnation and horror upod the efforts of the tusionists of Louisiana to obtain a recognition by Congress ot their traudulently returned candidates, or in their etforts to have anew clecuon ordered, we nave the administration of the Hon. ‘William itt Kellogg, a8 the constitutional choice of the State, legalized by ‘the courts, acknowledged vy the President, sanctioned by public sentiment acquiesced mm py the people, Resolved. That we commend to the Intelligent, ous and warm-hearted peop.e ot the Meera Nor those noble adopted sons of Louisi: jorris Chester, Hon. A. E. Bar! . ain and Hon. Henrl Burch, whose able advo- H. Inj cacy 0: coustitutional Liberty, governell by law. and con- vincing ap eg AD of the real merits ot the question in- volved in the deserving ot the warmest than! dom and equal rights, In the evening the Convention was addressed by Senators Ingraham, Barbour and Burch. PENNSYLVANIA DEMOOBATS, Colonel Wright Elected as Senatorial Delegate to the State Convention. WILKESBARRE, Pa., August 19, 1673, The Democratic County Convention at its session to-day, elected Colonei Hendrick B. Wright as Sena- torial delegate Lo the State Convention; also iour Representative delegates. A resolution, c.ndemaatory of the back pay steal, was unanimously adopted. SANTANTA AND BIG TREE The Two Indian Murderers Sent to Fort Sill, Ostensibly to Attend Native Council—Their Probable Rel jem Ex- citement of the People of Western Texas. ellogg-MeHenry imbroglio, make them ot the votaries of iree- HUNTSVILLE, Texas, August 19, 1873, By authority of Governor Davis, Santanta and Big Tree were tarned over to Lieutenant Hofman, of the United States army, to-day, and left to-night for Fort Sill. While not so stated, this release, no doubt, means a pardon for these two bloodthirsty chiets, Ostensibiy they are sent to confer with a council of their people, to meet October 1, but no one here opelleves taat they will ever return to this prison. The people of fexas, especially those on the trontier, learn of their re- lease with great regret, and it will doubtless in- fuence very heavily against Governor Davis, who 1s Low seeking tie nomiuation for re-election at the Dallas Convention, which 18 to meet to-day. Itisa question tuat almost the whole of Texas, and espe- cially the western counties, will take as a bitter trial tn toe face of the recent Indian outrages, OBITU ARY, The Duke of Brunswick. A telegram from Geneva, under date of yester- day, reports as follows:—His Royal Highness Augustus [Louis William Maximilian Frederic, Duke of Brunswick and Launburg, is dead, of apoplexy. The will of the Dake of Brunswick leaves the whole of his landed and personal estate to the city of Geneva. The Duke of Brunswick was born on the 25th of April, in the year 1306. He was the son of Duke William by his wile, the Duchess Maria Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Louis, hereditary Prince of Baden, He assumed the reins of government on the 2th o: April, in the year 1831, at the request O1 the Germanic Diet, upon the occasion o: the compulsory flight of his elder brother, the late Duke of Brunswick, whose name became, subse- quently, well known in society. the Duke, just now deceased, was a Field Marshal in the ser- vice o1 the Kingdom of Hanover and a General of cavairy in the Prussian army, He prevented a Tevolution in tus dominion im the year 1848 by timely concessions w the He leaves no family. His vert to Pare ant for man act of national war Win ayes Oe irora father, Frederick war With France. ak aed service in the wars He commanded 7,000 against Napoleon tho German troops raised in his dominions, leading his | | 18th of Aprii last, while on his way to the Tombs PMN Whe held ah | Police Court, ‘This officer, having learned thet celebrated regiment of it the biaci Brongwickers, in person. Napoleon from Eloa he teok the tield, ang was killed in the battle of Quatre Bras, on the | se ot June, in the year 1815, leaving lis two sons to tl juan Fourth, King ol Lord Byron has immor- talized the n fame of the soldier, in his de- scription ot the Preach a@iarm which broke up the ball festivitdes eat and hurried the d troops to’ Wat the Duke he says:—“He rusped ipto the deld. and foremost fightin, fell’? & @ their uncle, George the | ‘His Trip Among the Mountains—The Jealousies:. of Rival Hotel Keepers and Stage Owners— The Ascent of Mount Washington- Henry Ward Beecher’s Hospitali- ties—Departure of Speaker Blaine and Continuation of the Presi- dent’s Trip to Saratoga. Twin Mounta, N. H., August 19, 1873, The appearance of the President in the mous-- tains creates considerable interest, but no demon- stration of applause beyond what is found at the railway stations. Still, he is everywhere treated with the conrtesy duc one holding so high an office. He breakfasted this morning in the Palace dining room of the Kearsarge House, North Conway, and while so employed was presented with the hotel register, with the request that ne would place his autograph upon it, He complied at once, and-wrote U. 8. Grant, Washington, D. C. Breakfast over, the party, which is being constantly thinned out up by the scattering of Maine office holders, who hang about him, took possession of the six o'clock train of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad for Gien Station, where carriages were im waiting to convey them to the White Mountains and Mount Washington. Tne announcement of this selection of the Glen route created much comment and some indigaation on the part of some'of the stage owners and hotel proprietors who “bleed passengers on the Crawford House route as well asthe Glen route. It appears that a delegation, headed by Henry Ward Beecher, visited the Pres- ident at Conway yesterday, and tendered him and his friends the freedom of all the hotels om the Orawiord side, which he accepted, and Mr. Beecher at once telegraphed to this point the acceptance ofthe offer. During tne night three coaches and eighteen horses travelled down the mountatns to Upper Bartictt to receive the distinguished party. Meanwhile JEALOUSY arose between Colonel Osgood, of the Maine party, and Governor Stearns, who was delegated to do the business on behalt of the State of New Hamp-~ shire, thatresulted in bad feeling being engendered. While the representatives of the rival States were trying to reconcile their @ifferences the hop was in full progress, and the President was forced to wait some time for some one representing this State to escort him to the ball room. The proprietor of the Gien stage lines, chagrined that that route was to be slighted, with the aid of friends, prevailed upon the direct- ing authority to abandon the Crawford route, and about nine last evening, after the stages had started from here, as Ilearn from Mr. Beecher, be received a telegram from the party declining to come by this route. The President’s baggage, how- ever, was sent this way, and lay at the Bartlett station some time, the drivers being so im- dignant at the change in the programme that they wanted to leave it on the platform. After the im- dignation had somewhat cooled the baggage was put on the stages and brought through to this point, the agent declaring he would charge $76 for the stages going down the mountains. The report got circulated thatthe party would cross over Mount Washington and spend the night at the Twin Mountain House, and many visitors hurried up, via the Crawford House, to this point. The clerks at that house, however, told them that there were no stages for the Twin Mountain House antil four o'clock, although two left at halt-past two. The tourists who were thus misled, however, arrived before the Presidential party, and patiently awaited their coming. The President, leaving Glen station at hall-past six A. M., arrived at a hotel in the Glen about eleven, aad after a brief halt fer luncheon and toafford the party an opportunity to admire the picturesque scenery surrounding them, stages were again entered and the task of CLIMBING MOUNT WASHINGTON commenced. The ascent was very tedious, but tt was offset by the grand views presented. The mist-covered summit of the mountains gave them the appearance of snow-capped peaks. About two o’clock the Summit House was reached, and there the tourists dined and devoted some time to an examination of the signal station and other points of interest. About six o'clock A. M. the Maine members of the party, with the exception of Speaker Blaine, took their departure and descended to Conway, while the President, Mr. Blaine, Governor Stearms. and Mr. Grant’s family descended to the base of the mountain at Ammoosic Station and took stages for this poiat, which was reachea at haif-past eight. The appearance of the party at this crowded centre drew together large numbers from the cottages. and adjoining hoteis, until fully one thousand were present to witness his arrival. Judge Poland, of Vermont, here joined him, and he and Henry Ward Beecher welcomed him to the hospitalities of the house. Ere long Mr. Beecher appeared in the crowded halls.and announced that the President. would be PLEASED TO SHAKE HANDS with all who. presented themselves, and gaves general invitation to them to retire tothe parlor and be presented. A few, probably twenty, chiefly ladies, availed themselves of this mvitation, the ceremonies not lasting more than five minutes. The party then took supper in the public dining. room, and, retiring to the veranda, entered the carriages to be driven tothe depot, where a special. train was in waiting to run them through to Bur- lington, There, it is expected, they will catch the morning steamer on Lake Ohamplain. As the President drove from the hotel @ portion of the guests gave him three cheers. At nine o’clock the special left. General Grant expects to reach Saratoga to-mor- row evening, and, taking in Lakes Champiala and George, to arrive at New York Thursday evening. From that point he will go direct to Long Branch to celebrate on Friday his silver wedding. Speaker Blaine to-night took leave of his guests here and will return home. The balance of the trip now will be in the capacity of a private citizen. The moun- tains swarm with fashionable life, 16 being almost impossible to get a bed anywhere. unless engaged in advance. MASONIO. Preliminary Exhibition Drill of Knights Templar Before the Dedi- cation of the New Hall at Philadel- hia. aig PHILADELPHIA, August 19, 1873. In connection with the approaching dedication of the new Masonic Temple here, agrand dem- tration. of Knights Templar will take place at the Academy of Music and Horticulturul ‘all, the to be conuected by a bri Ou the ember, the evening velore the dedica~ Pipi ights will give an exhibition drill, NEW YORK ODD. FELLOWs’ CONVENTION. ALBANY, August 19, 1873. The Grand. Lodge of the Ladependent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of New York met here to- day, several hundred delegates being present. Committees, on Credentials, election of grand officers, certificates for grand lodge degrees ana returns of subordinate lodges were appointed. Past Grand Master J. E. Smith, of Coanecticut, was introduced and received with the honors, a8 was also Past Graad Master Poud, of Counecticat. The Grand Lodge decree was con- ferred upon nearly two hundred Past Grand Mas- ters, who were in attendance for that purpose. About the same number are stili awaiting their turn, The Committee on Elections. reported tha following duly elected as officers of the Grand Lodge for the ensuing year:—Grand Master, ‘Thomas P, St. John; Deputy Grand Master,, Cbaries Vandervoort; Grand Stebbins; Grand Secretary, Charles V. Clark, Graud Treasurer, Jacob Russell. BECAPTUBED. It will be remembered that Thomas Murphy, alias Dublin Joe, escaped from Detective Farley on the bgp Murphy was in Philadelpbia in durance vile—ne having beeu arrested by Letective Taggart, of thas clty—procured the necessary papers tram Governor ing and Went on to Philade\ylis and brought te prisoner to this City lastevening. He was locked up at Police Headquart whence he wtli be taken to Court morning, Itis to be presumed that Detective lay Will keep & tighte on Dis, pau als ‘TMA be dq oer ai: