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Sa oR EIR “SUR eto oc YORK HERALD aby Coml Question im Its Immediate ‘NEW BROADWAY ‘AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic " @espatches must be addressed New Yore D. + Letters and packages should be properly Rejected. communications will not be re- Yurned. + NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. and Prospective Bearings. the first things that should be done is to | government will barely permit him to carry a | not be the democratic candidate for the United abolish the duty’on that article. Tho British The question of coal supply has become an North American colonies could and would exceedingly interesting one both in England and the United States. The newspaper press every point of view. But it claims attention on somewhat different grounds in the two coun- tries. In England the coal fields are mens- ured, the weight in tons of available coal esti- mated, and the time calculated approximately when the whole amount in the island will be supply the large cities and vast population along the Atlantic seaboard with coal cheaper than it is now obtained from Pennsylvania. This would be an immediate relief, and, a8 was said before, it would be just as reasonable to tax the food we eat as it is to impose o duty on this other prime necessity of life—a duty which only goes to benefit these same coal and railroad monopolists of Pennsylvania. consumed. The area of the coal fields being | Here Congress can act directly and efficiently. limited and known, and the annual consump- tion being enormous, Parliament appointed a commission of able men to ascertain what THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the | the quantity that can be reached or mined year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Volume XXXVIMI................. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 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YTHE COAL QUESTION IN ITS IMMEDIATE AND PROSPECTIVE BEARINGS”—LEADER— SixTH PAGE. due sHAu, IN AvsiRia, AT THE EXPOSITION AND IN LOVE! HE 18 HOUSED IN THE LAXENBERG PALACE! ALL ARTICLES OF HISTQRIC VALUE FIRST REMOVED! HIS ASIATICISMS, DISCOURTESY AND PUERIL- ITY—Fovurry Pace. a FIERCE BATTLE NEAR BERGA, SPAIN, RE- SULTS IN A DEFEAT OF THE CARLISTS, WITH 90 KILLED AND 300 WOUNDED, IN- CLUDING TWO GENERALS! COMMUNISTS SENT AGAINST CUBANS—SEVENTH PaGE. BANDITTI DISPERSED IN ITALY—A CONSERVA- TIVE-LEGITIMIST RUPTURE IN FRANCE— SEVENTH PaGE, ANOTHER TRANSATLANTIC CABLE BEING LAID, BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL— THE TICHBORNE TRIAL—SEVENTH PAGE. PRESIDENT GRANT'S SILVER WEDDING ANNI- VERSARY! THE YOUNG CAPTAIN'S WOO- ING AND “THE GREAT CAPTAIN'S” CLIMAX OF HONOR, PROSYERITY AND HAPPINESS! A BRILLIANT FAMILY FETE— Tarr Pace, QUAKER CITY MORGUE HORRORS! MUNCE, ONE OF THE “UNKNOWN” FOUND IN THE SCHUYLKILL, ROBBED OF ALL VALUA- BLES! OFFICIALS PREYING UPON THE DEAD! A SYARTLING CHAPTER—Tuinpd Page. & WESTERN EDITOR HAS NO FEAR OF CESAR- ISM! HIS TRUST IN THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE! SHERMAN AND SHERIDAN — Firrit Pace. BUPERB YACHT SAILING! THE MADELINE, N.Y.¥.C., WINS THE BENNETT CUP, MAK- ING THE QUICKEST TIME EVER RE- CORDED! A SPLENDID, CLOSE RACE! THE DOUGLAS CUrP—Skventu Pace. THE NEW PLEASURE VESSEL OF MAYOR BARKER—AID FOR THE SICK CHILDREN— Fourti PAGE. BLOODY WORK AMONG IRISH AND FRENCH BRICKYARD EMPLOYES—BROOKLYN PO- LICE MYSTERIES—Tuirp PaGe, THE CONVICTS IMPRISONED. IN SING SING FOR LIFE! THE CRIMES THEY WERE SEN- TENCED FOR AND HOW THEY PASS THE TIME! THE VEILED MURDERESS! THE SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECT—Tenta Pace. ‘NEW DOMINION WATERING PLACES, COMMERCE AND POLITICS! A DULL “SEASUN” TO NORTHWARD | ST. CATHARINES! EN- LARGING THE WELLAND CANAL—E!enTH PAGE. ‘MR. MURRAY'S TOUR OF THE FRENCH SEASUN RESORTS! THE PEOPLE OF HONFLEUR AND TROUVILLE AND THEIR PURSUITS! AN HISTORICAL REMINISCENCE! HIGH PLAY AT THE CASINO! A DONKEY RIDE— i Eiauru Page. Prarriine DETAILS OF ITALIAN CHILD KID- NAPPING! THE ST. PATRICK’S SOCIETIES IN COURT! FORCED SALARY PAYMENTS— WHERE WAS MURPHY?—ELEVENTH PAGE, ‘IMPOSING MASONIC CEREMONIES PROMISED THE PHILADELPHIANS! DEDICATING THE BROAD STREET TEMPLE—THE WAL- WORTH TROUBLES—FULTON MARKET FRUITERERS—ELEVENTH PAGE. THE P. R. “MILL” ON LONG ISLAND! JOHN PAUL DEFEATS IKE SMITH FOR A STAKE OF $400—Firta Pace. GENERAL DI CESNOLA AGAIN—MUSICAL ITEMS—FirtH Pace. @HE RACES AT BRIGHTON, ENGLAND! THE BRILLIANT CLOSING WEEK “SUSSEX FORTNIGHT’—MODERN PROG- RESS IN PALESTINE—Eicurn Pace. FINANCIAL MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE! THE BANK OF ENGLAND vIS- COUNT RATE REDUCED! ACTIVE BIDDING FOR OUR GOLD—Nintu Pace. OFF FOR CYPRUS AND THEATRICAL Anorner Ariantic CanLe.—The steamer qwith the wire on board has left Lisbon, Portu- for the purpose of laying a cable between ‘that point and Rio Janciro, Brazil. This will ye an important addition to our Atlantic vables, with a regularly connected line be- * tween Brazil and Key West, and we cannot Woubt that with the establishment of the cable etween Brazil ahd Portugal land and water Jines connecting with it will rapidly follow from all the South American States, in addi- tion to a through line from Rio Janeiro to Key West and thence to New York. Ovr Ratxy Season generally comes in May. This year, with a downfall that has astonished our Summering watering places, it has come in August, and the losses thereby to our coun- try hotels will, we apprehend, be heavy. We &re, with these heavy rains, too close upon September to count upon a profitable season Ot the seaside or the springs, OF THE | is, and how long, at the average rate of eonsumption, it will be before the whole would be exhausted. There was some difference of opinion among the Com- missioners both as to the available quantity and the time when it would be consumed, Some, thought coal at a vast depth, where the heat approaches a hundred degrees of Fahren- heit, might be ‘worked. by the application of scientific improvements. Others thought not, Hence, as there is a great deal of coal in Eng- land lying at a depth where the temperature is so high or higher, the estimates differed. Still all agree that the period of exhaustion is limited, and this is variously stated to be from one hundred to two hundred years. Some few writers on the subject make the time less and some more. Probably the coal fields of Great Britain, calculating the present rate of con- sumption and average yearly increase on that from the steady increasing demand, will be exhausted in little over a century. Of course this calculation is based upon the supposition that no discovery of any substitute for coal will be found. Then, a great quantity of the best coal has been taken out of the mines, and what remains of superior quality will be first mined. The poorer qualities will be ex- tracted at increased cost as time advances. Here, then, we see a sufficient reason for the rise of price in England and the fear ex- pressed as to the future. The manufacturing and commercial greatness and wealth of Eng- land came from her coal fields more than from anything else. As coal cannot be imported as cheaply as it has been raised at home there ‘is ¥ reason to conclude the price will rather ad- vance than decline. In the United States coal remains high, and the price is being forced up from very differ- ent causes, Our coal fields are well nigh in- exhaustible ; at least, they are so extensive that no time could be reasonably fixed for their exhaustion. There will be an abundant supply mahy centuries hence, though our popu- lation may be counted by hundreds of mil- lions, We mean both anthracite and bituminous coal, for though the former, as far as is known, is limited chiefly to Pennsyl- vania, there is in that State an enormous amount. Why, then, is coal so high? and why has the price been advanced? The price of Scranton coal at auction in June, 1871, was four dollars and eighty-five cents a ton ; last month it brought four dollars and ninety-six cents. Now it is said the rate will be ten cents aton higher during the rest of the sea- son. Even the vast abundance nature has in store in this country and the increasing facili- ties for working and bringing coal to market prove of no advantage to the consumer. In- stead of getting coal cheaper, as improved means for working and transporting it are developed, it becomes dearer. In brief, the whole community and all our great industnal interests that need this valuable article are at the mercy of the railroad monopolists, who not only charge what they please for transportation but have bought up and obtained control of the worked and convenient coal fields. The Reading Coal and Iron Company, it is said, has spent thirty millions of dollars in buying up mines and lands in Schuylkill county, and this com- pany is owned by, or is, virtually, the Read- ing Railroad Company. Other railroad com- panies may not have the power to grasp as much as this gigantic corporation, which has a considerable monopoly of the coal carrying business, but they are all as ambitious and selfish, and are aiming at a like control over the markets of the country. Practically, they. own the State of Pennsylvania, and dictate what they will to the Legislature and the execu- tive authorities. The people of New York and other States are taxed heavily, though indi- rectly, by such stupendous monopolies. A tax on the food we eat would not be more oppressive than on fuel, and yet these corpo- rations can, with impunity, impose an exar- bitant price on coal, in order to declare enor- mous dividends and to enrich themselves. Unless some means be found to check the grasping cupidity of the railroad companies in Pennsylvania the whole coal region of that State will soon belong to them. Now they have a complete monopoly of transportation, and,.as a consequence, charge pretty much what they please, or control the market priee by regulating the supply. With the possession of the coal fields their power will be absolute. We refer to coal particularly because that is the theme of our article; but the railroad monopoly has its grip upon the industrial pursuits of the country generally. The farmers of the West have felt this and are organizing to protect themselves. The railroads have seized a large portion of the public lands through the power they have exercised at Washington and over the State governments and make the hardy settlers pay both a high price for these lands and extravagant charges for transporting the products. Everywhere the evils of railroad extortion are the same—in the thickly populated North as well asin the West. Every citizen who sends his produce to mar- | ket or travels is charged rates to pay dividends | On nominal or inflated capital. One-third, at least, of the nominal capital of the railroads, | taking them throughout the whole country, is fictitious and never cost a cent. The argu- ment some urge, that the railroads are a great boon, and, therefore, that the people ought not to complain of high charges, ‘is a poor one. We admit that the capital bona fide in- vested should receive a reasonable profit. Nor would we impose restrictions that might check enterprise in making railroads. But the public should not be called upon to pay exorbitant rates for dividends on bogus capital. The same reasoning will apply to the coal menopolists who appropriate the coal fields and forestall or withhold the supply in order to enrich themselves. Where are we to look for a remedy for this Nothing would tend so much to bring the monopolists to their senses. But, apart from the blessing this cheapening of coal would be to the poor and people at large, it would go far to promote manufacturing industry, which depends much upon the use of that article. Still, that would bruise only one of the heads of the hydra’ monopoly. Aroused public sentiment is necessary to influence, Congress and the State Legislatures to make such laws as will restrain unscrupulous and grasping corporations. Congress has the constitutional power to pass usury laws to protect the people, and why can- not that body reach a species of oppression far more intolerable to the mass of the people than usury? The farmers have begun to at- tack vigorously some of the monopolies, and notably that of the railroads, If public opinion can be aroused—North, East, West and South—both the federal and State govern- ments will be constrained to act. The same power that created monopoly or has given vitality to it through special or general laws can destroy it. The interest of the general public is the first thing’ to be considered. Then, if the pressare of public sentiment be brought to bear forcibly upon the monopolists, they will be apt to yield. If we mistake not there'is a mighty conflict coming between the industrious masses and the great monopo- lizing corporations, and the people and press should be prepared for it. The Silver Wedding at Long Branch. Good wives are like the Commandments ; they are given to us tokeep. Probably no one throughout the length and breadth of the Union more deeply appreciates this fact than the man to whom Providence has committed the welfare of thirty million Americans for four years longer, and to whom gossip ascribes the ambition to continue taking care of them during the term of his natural life. In plainer words, President Grant celebrates to-day his silver wedding, unless the undue notoriety which has been given to the affair by the administration journals shall induce him to refrain from any commemoration which would seem, eyen indirectly, to invite publicity. This is an occasion in which the principals ought to be more gusceptible to congratulation than at any previous period in their lives. We hope that the friends of Presi- dent and Mrs. Grant will absolve us from any desire to peep into that domestic privacy which to-day is hallowed by the recollections and associations of a quarter of a century; but it is the doom of a popular ruler to be inter- esting to the nation which he governs, and the discipline of public state teaches him to tole- rate good-humoredly the curiosity felt by the people in that portion of his life in which his personality is strongly interested. To, the best of our knowledge and belief no President has ever previously celebrated a wedding of this description during his official term. In fact, it is given to few to enjoy the echo of their honeymoon after a lapse of twenty-five years. And, besides, so many silver weddings are, after all, only silver-plated weddings, and the plating rubs off as soon as the guests have de- parted and husband and wife are left facing each other alone. Few married couples have mutually strengthened and sweetened each other through two and a half decades. Few can at once congratulate themselves on @ happy and prosperous career, and point to a happy and prosperous family, refined by good education, cultured by intercourse with the best society and possessing that physical and mental stamina which argues a not very heavily shadowed future. We shall not pry into this silver wedding or present a vulgarly minute catalogue of gifts and donors. If President Grant should ever become invested with the purple with which some people seem as though they would like to clothe him it will be time enough for us to take advantage of the opportunity which, in common with other imperial potentates, he would doubtless be willing to concede to the reporter. But the silver wedding of the president of a republic does not ape the osten- tation which on a similar occasion might be shown at a foreign court. It is said that the motive for placing the wedding ring upon the fourth finger of the left hand arose from ® superstition that a vein from that finger communicated directly with the heart, and that the magnetism of the blood therefore kept up a continual sympathy between the heart of the bride and the golden circlet which the bridegroom's touch had con- secrated. The idea is a pretty one. There is truth of imagination in it, if not truth of fact. Lending ourselves to this neat illusion for a moment, we can imagine, were it true, how quick must have been the sympathy of the President’s wife as year after year she watched, first her husband's plodding stead- fastness and then his gigantic upward strides. Some thought like this is perhaps wérth being incorporated in the picture which the public will paint for itself of the President's silver wedding. To remain king over one womanly heart for a quarter of a century is better than to have assumed the Cwsarship of thirty millions of people fora few brief checkered years. a Tux Rovauist Cause in THe Frencn Par- LIAMENT.—The attempt to effect a fusion of political interests between the French conser- vatives and the legitimists in the Assembly, in the interest of the Count de Chambord, has, according to a Paris press authority, been brought to an end suddenly, The reason which is put forth as the cause of the sus- pension is that it occurred on the question of a national flag, under, we presume, the new or restored régime of government. Whether the difficulty is with respect to the shape of the ensign, its color, the material or the device we are not informed, but it is, no doubt, of trivial import, such as almost always inter- rupts Bourbonist projects. Count de Cham- bord should wait until he gains the right to float a national flag. No good in an Irishman | sind and increasing evil?’ As t9 coal, ong of in Ireland criticising or worrying over the Janke ox paggern of o rife when the Eng! blackthorn cudgel. Spiritual Plenics. As soon as @ grain of common sense is dis- covered in the average Spiritualist we shall be ready to treat bim with seriousness and re- spect. It would bea pleasure to us to have the opportunity of doing so, for we are not unwilling to confess that we are tired of smil- ing at his absurdities, Those muscles which express laughter twitch and lose their self- command when they are kept long on the strain, and we should wish to avoid the shame of being betrayed into an involuntary grin at the very moment when our Spiritualist had accidentally done something admirable. Still, that any inadvertency of this kind will befall him is not much to be feared. His habit of being ridiculous would he second nature to him had it not always been first nature—a nature with which he is so thoroughly satu- rated that there seems no possibility of wring- ing him dry. He cannot talk or behave like other people; he cannot go to church like the rest of the world; he cannot even attend a picnic like his material neighbor. If he writes a book it is full of words, to understand which a glossary is required, but not always furnished. If he attends a convention a sort of spiritual ruffianism is almost sure to make itself felt before the adjournment. His public preaching is disgraced by squabbles of which @ scullery maid might be ashamed; his pri- vate séances are a compound of lies, cunning and almost idiotic credulity, and his periodic picnics are such a scramble of effeminate men and virile women as are probably presented by no other set of believers on the face of the earth. The pjcnic which was to have been held at Pleasant Valley on Tuesday, but which an ad- verse fate prevented being celebrated as fully and brilliantly as was anticipated, is one of a long series of spiritual fétes champétres running through the Summer and Autumn of every year. We repeat that when a sensible person takes the lead in one of these festivals, or when, at any spiritual entertainment or con- vention, anything is said or done smacking of ordinary reason and intelligence, we shall be ready to treat those who participate in it with gravity and respect. It is impossible not to esteem the victims of illusions when they do not interfere with decency of life and practicality of aim. But when a concourse of half-brained men and women meet together to prove the immortality of the soul by pretended inspirations which demonstrate merely their own amazing vanity, ignorance, credulity and self-conceit, the charity with which we should like to treat them is blown away in a strong cloud of dis- gust. So far from proving the immortality of the soul, if anything could make us disbelieve that consoling doctrine, it would be some such spectacle as this; for it is a question whether souls like theirs would not misapply the immortality they claim, and endless life ceases to be an unqualified blessing if sensible people are to be plagued through oternity with the vagaries of these psychical moths. That some brilliant intellects are to be found among the Spiritualists is not to be denied ; but* you will find quite as many among an equal quan- tity of lunatics. The demand that we make is, we think, a moderate ove. It is that the average Spiritualist shall do something ra-. tional. Asa modest beginning—for we will not be too exacting at the start—suppose he attempts to hold a picnic like other people. There will be balmy weather yet before the Autumn is over; and ere the Winter shades draw nigh it would really be grateful to us to know that the Spiritualists had done some- thing at which it was impossible to laugh. The War in Spain. Télegrams from Spain, dated in Madrid yesterday, bring intelligence of quite an animated character, particularly with re- spect to the progress of the war. The Madrid government announces the occurrence of a bloody battle between the republican and Carlist insurrectionist forces near Berga, end- ing in a byilliant victory for the government army. The Carlists sustained a most severe defeat after a desperate conflict. They had ninety men killed and three hundred wounded. Generals Saballs and Tristany, two of the most valiant and faithful of Don Carlos’ com- mandors, were laid on the field wounded. The siege of Berga has been raised and the insur- gents are in full retreat from their position of threat against the municipality. The Madrid Cabinet has evidently become more animated. It continues its endeavor to place a new army in the field. A suspension of the civil rights of individuals, under certain circumstances of military necessity, is to be proposed to the Cortes as a ministerial measure. 1n the mean- time Don Carlos remains in the field and in very formidable strength. His friends in England, os in Spain, appear to be exceed- ingly active ; so it is quite likely that we shall hear of another battle in a short time. A number of prisoners taken by the government troops from the Carlist and Communist mus- ters, at various periods, are to be despatched as reinforcements to the Spanish‘ army in Cuba. We apprehend that this party will con- stitute a very bad lot, and we are sure that it is being put to a very poor and rather danger- ous use by the Spaniards. ‘ The New York Republicans—The Call for a State Convention. The Republican State Central Committee have appointed Wednesday, September 24, as the day and the city of Utica as the place for the meeting of the State Convention, which is to nominate the party candidates for our State offices to be elected next November, and the platform upon which the party will fight this impending State battle. Very little public. interest is manifested at present in reference to this political contest; but the fact that the prevailing idea among the people seems to be that the democracy of the city will be apt to rise in sufficient, force and unity to recover the balance of power in the State will give to this Utica Convention a degree of political importance which will involve, to some extent, the shaping of the next Presidential contest, Upon the Legislature to be chosen in this coming elec- tion will devolve the election of a United States Senator in the place of Fenton, anti- Gran+ or liberal republican, whose present term draws to a close, and upon the question of his successor we may anticipate a sharply defined and animated contest for the Legis- lature. From present appearances Mx, States Senate, and as the liberal republicans can do nothing without co-operation with the democrats the question recurs, Upon what basis, if they combine at all, will the demo- crats and anti-Grant liberals combine in this coming Fall campaign? The Ohio democracy have taken a new departure back to their old party sanctuary." Will the New York democ- racy fight it out on this line? We think it likely that they will follow the lead, as in 1871 and 1872, of their Ohio brethren. What, then, will become of our liberal republicans? We cannot answer, and so we await further devel- opments. The Chief Justiceship. The appointment of a Chief Justice of the United States is perhaps the most solemn and responsible duty which can fall to the lot of any President. The highest judicial office in the country is one that cannot be filled from the ranks of the politicians or as a matter of personal favor. Neither is it proper that it should long remain vacant, to be made the sport of politicians in their intrigues for place, A sufficiently long time has elapsed since the death of Chief Justice Chaso to make the choice of his successor a serious and imme- diate duty with the President. In naming the new Chief Justice President Grant cannot, and we are persuaded he will not, act upon personal or political reasons. A man of great ability, large learning in the law, sterling character and unimpeachable personal worth is the only one to fill the office. So much depends upon the worth and wisdom of the Ghief Justice that the very liberties of the country may be said to be in his keeping. A judge, willing to be the tool of a party, a faction or a clique, would be more dangerous than a hostile fleet. A weak man in this great office would be powerful for evil. A politician, ruling in the Court as well as in the caucus, would be disgraceful to the Republic. Abad Chief Justice is more to be feared than a bad President. We know these considerations will weigh heavily with the President, and it is fair to assume that his selection, which we trust he will speedily make, will be based upon’ reasons in harmony with them. Horrible Revelations at the delphia Morgue. Seven weeks ago a gentleman, while walking along the banks of the Schuylkill, at Philadel- phia, was startled by an unusual object a little way from shore. At the first glance he was inclined to doubt his eyesight, but, mastering the thrill of horror which began to creep through him; he fixed his vision more intently upon the object and assured himself only too certainly that what he beheld was nothing less than a human corpse standing upright in the water, in the ooze and slime of which its feet had got entangled. To drag the ghastly spec- tacle ashore was a work requiring something akin to heroism. It wasa task which almost any man would have shrunk from, and which no ordinary man could easily have brought himself to perform alone. Once accomplished, however, and the body lying on the shore, there were revealed to the gentleman’s wistful scrutiny the worn features of a man seventy years old. The body was large, though spare. A stoop was manifest in the shoulders, the hair was somowhat gray, a scar was visible by the right eye and one ot the hands was crooked. There were no marks of-violence on the per- son, and no plausible solution presented itself to the many questions which flashed through the gentleman’s mind, Proper assistance was called, the body was taken to the Morgue, and an advertisement was inserted in one of the Philadelphia papers describing the dead man’s appearance. The next day, July 5, a despatch came to Philadel- phia from the Pittsburg Chief of Police, stating that a man named Thomas Munce had left his home the previous Wednesday, July 2, and desiring that any information concerning him might be immediately forwarded. Somehow no one seems to have identified the body found on the morning of July 3 with the description sent by the Pittsburg Chief of Police, and it was not until the posting of a placard offering one thousand dollars reward for definite in- formation as to the whereabouts of Thomas Munee, alive or dead, that any connection be- tween the Schuylkill corpse and the Pittsburg requisition seems to have been established. The minute description on this placard in- cluded mention of a gold hunting-case watch worn by the missing Thomas Munce, and numbered 3,415. By judicious maneuvring the Philadelphia police finally discovered that such a watch was in the possession of an up- town pawnbroker. The story of the pawn- broker had a certain air of mystery, but forms, an important link of a very singular chain to which several, perhaps many, other important. links are wanting He says that on July 16 (about two weeks after the dis- covery of the body) a young man brought him the watch and asked him to loan him five dollars on it, refusing to take more. The money was loaned, the young man went his way and the pawnbroker saw him no more up to the date when the police made their in- quiries. This must have been about the 3d Phila- or 4th of August, for the detective’ who was immediately set to watching the shop watched night and day for two weeks before the young man returned there, and this brings us to August 18. $ 4 With the reappearance of the young man, who returned to claim the watch, the plot thickens. He was, of courso, immediately ar- rested. If the pawnbroker's story is strange, the young man’s is still more so. His name is William McEwen, and his occupation is— what? Nothing less than that of driving the “dead wagon’’ and removing dead bodies to the Morgue. He it was who drove the body of Thomas Munce thither. But then there was another corpse in the wagon, and this second corpse was ina box. The box was so large that the remains of Mr. Munce were pushed against the driver, and the dead man’s watch fell out, almost into William McEwen's hands. McEwen kept the watch, held his tongue and got new works inserted into the timepiece, in place of the old ones, which were damaged. And now comes a third point, which is more remarkable still, William McEwen drove the body to the Morgue; but who drove it away from there? No one appeared to claim it, and after a certain interval it dis. appeared and was found only a day or two ago. For all such details as are yet known we refer the reader to a full report published elsewhere in to-day’s Manaup. Enough, that Featgn wil alr & good deal of careful mani, Se ae ae ey pulation on the part of the police, it was traced to a house at the corner of Ninth and Spruce streets, a building which, our correspondent states, his some connection with the University of Pennsylvania, There it was discovered in an immense vat awaiting dissection in company with fifty other bodies. Tts features were compared with a photograph of the missing Thomas Munce forwarded from Washington by one of his relations, and im addition were identified by William McEwen. In connection with this tragedy, which be- comes doubly distressing when one rememberg that Mr. Munce was wealthy and pit deranged, we can suggest no questions whi the reader's fertile mind will not have framed already. The reading public is, alas! toa familiar with the tragedies of daily life not ta have acquired considerable ingenuity im framing plausible hypotheses. All that we can do in this early stage of the investigation is to point to the letter of our correspondent, which, amid much speculation, contains material sufficient to employ the logic and imagination of the most acfive and sym pathetic minds. : PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge J, P, O'Sullivan is staying at the Fifth Ave nue Hotel. Kate Field has returned to Paris from the Pyrenees. State Senator Jarvis Lord, of Rochester, is atthe Metropolitan Hotel. R The Pope received from 1819 to 1873, 170,000,008 francs as Peter's Pence. General Leitin, of Washington, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman F, E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge “Dick” Busteed has returned @ Paris after a short Continental trip. Ex-Senator James A. Bayard, of Delaware, has ar rived at the New York Hotel. i Ex-Congressman John Rogers, of slack Brook, N- Y., is at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Duke and Duchess of Teck have left Engiané to spend the autumn in Germany. Ex-Congressman D. J. Morrill, of Johnstown, Pa., is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel.” Our Minister to Brussels, John Russell Jones, is spending his vacation term at Ems, Judge Homer A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain John Mirehouse, of the steamship City of Montreal, is staying at the New York Hotel. Minister John M. Francis is ona visit, with his family, to Paris, from his post at Athens, Greece. Lieutenant Commanders F. J. Higginson and W. ©. Wise, of the United States Army, are at the St. Denis Hotel. General 0. W. Mead, of St. Paul, Minn,, the Gen- eral Manager of the Northern Pacific Railroad, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Sefior E, de Quiero, the Portuguese Consul at Rio Javeiro, has returned to the New York Hotel from a short trip into the country. - Mr. Kelly’s big dog the Paris American Register “believes to have been the first cause of Caleb Cush- ing’s invective against Chief Justice Cockburn. Chaplain James J. Kane, of the United States Navy, 8 spending the Summer in Nova Scotia, at the residence of his college classmate, Mr. Stephen Tobin, M. P., ex-Mayor of Halifax. Count Arnim, the German Ambassador at Paris, recently left Carlsbad for Ragatz, in Switzerland. ‘He has had his leave of absence extended and will not return to Paris until September 15, King Louis of Bavaria is becoming anti-Jesuitical, He recently refused to receive a deputation of Ultramontanes, who wished to present a petition against the extension of the anti-Jesuit law. Tennyson has not accepted a baronetcy for him- self, as has been reported, but has procured the honor for his eldest son, who is now at Oxford. The younger Tennyson is said to have much of the poetic ability of his father. Herr K. Schlozer, the German Minister at Wash- ington, who has been on a visit to Germany dur- ing the past two months, was a passenger on the steamship Holsatia, that arrived here yesterday. He is now at the Brevoort House. ATark named Karasulo/, formerly a resident of Saratof, Russia, alter five years’ imprisonment, with his wife and child, for not practising the rites of the Russian faith,has now been sent te Siberia for speaking against the orthodox Church. Mr. Francisco Lamadrid, of this city, the newly appointed diplomatic agent of the Republic of Cuba, to the Governments of Peru and Chili, left this city yesterday by the Pacific mail steamer Ocean Queen for Aspinwall, en rouée for the Pacific. Mr. Gerard Start, M. P., says that since their de- feat on the Irish University Education Bill, the members of Her Majesty’s government have sat “on the Treasury Benches with their hand@ on their breasts, looking asif they were a lot of beaten gamecocks without a single peck leit im them.” THE PRESIDENT. Departure of the Tourists from Sara- toga—En Route for Long Branch. Saratoga, August 21, 1873. ‘The President and party arrived here last evem ing and are quartered at Congress Hall. A recep tion was held at twelve o'clock to-day, and about five thousand ecple were presented to the President. He has enjoyed his trip exceedingly and is in excellent health and spirits. He will leave here for New York city on the three o'clock train to-night. LONG BRANOH. i The Weather Clearing Up—Waiting for the President’s Return. LONG BRANOH, August 21, 1873. President Grant is expected to return to Long Branch to-morrow. The weather cleared up with afine rainbow this afternoon. We had a few light showers, but the indications now are for clear weather. The first race of the extra meeting will certainly take place on Saturday at Monmouth Park. PHILADELPHIANS RETURNING HOME. SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, 1873, ‘The Philadelphia party Jett for home this morm ing. They expect to reach Philadelphia on the 30th instant, OBITUARY. M. Lefevre. M. Lefévre, @ well known French writer, has just t St. Sebastian, of sunstroke. He was the sucker of @ “History of the Old House in Paris.” . Edward M. Cope. ‘The death is announced of the Rev. Edward Mere. dith Cope, the Sentor Fellow oi Trinity College, Cam- bridge, England. The deceased was senior clagste in 1841 and a junior optime in the mathematical tripos of that year. He was a candidate for the professorship of Greek in 1867. PUNERAL OF THE LATE WILLIAM M MERE= DITH, PHILADELPHIA, August 21, 1873, ‘The funeral of William M. Meredith took place at noon to-day from his late residence. His remains ‘were conveyed to Christ church, the following dis- tinguished gentlemen acting as pall-bearers:— Judges Read, Stroud, Cadwalader and eat J. 3. Barclay, William Darlington, Peter and H. J. Williams, The carriages were few in number, only conveying the pall-bearers, members of the ve ae 2 aud househoid servants. The church was filled with the friends amd acquaintances of the deceased gentleman. The services were con- ducted by Rev. Drs, Foggo and Hodge. The inter- Ment took place in the family vault in the oid burial ground of Christ church, at the corner of Fiith and arch streets. AN ADDITION TO THE JARDIN DES PLANTES, | PHILADELPHIA, August 21, 1873, The will of the late Ellas Durand directs his son to “present all my botanical works to the Philadel. f Natural Sciences, to be placed in Phe botaieal room for the use of workers, and to save them the trouble of ranning to the library,’ and also to “have my collection of botanical speci- mens seourely packed and sent by express to the Museum ot the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, France, to pe added to a larger collection which presented to phat Dsteawan UA) 86%)?