The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1873, Page 6

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New York, Sunday, August 24, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “ANOTHER METHODIST SCANDAL! CAMP MEETING AND REAL ESTATE SPECULA- » TIONS "—EDITORIAL LEADING TOPIC— Sixt Pace. 4 MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMBOAT BLOWN UP 4T THE “GRAVEVARD!” TWELVE PER- SONS LOST AND FIFTEEN WOUNDED! DE- TAILS OF THE DISASTER—SgvENTH Pags. MODOC MURDERERS 10 EXPIATE THEIR CRIMES UPON THE GALLOWS! SIX SEN- TENCED AND THE PRESIDENT AND SEORE- TARY OF WAR APPROVE THE FINDING OF THE COURT! TO BE HANGED IN ORE- GON ON THE 3D OF OCTOBER—SgveNTA PAGE. THE SPANISH NATIONAL FLEET BOMBARDING CARTAGENA | THE INSURGENTS WELL SUPPLIED AND KEEPING UP A YIGOR OUS DEFENCE ! BERGA AGAIN INVESTED! A CARLIST MUVE UPON MADRID PROMISED! BURNING MARRIAGE REC- ORDS—SEVENTH PaGE. DUC DE BROGLIE ON: FRENCH IDEAS, Mac- MAHON AND THIERS! THE REPUBLIC BATTLING AGAINST LOOSE PRINCIPLES! THE PRESIDENT A MODEL OF HONOR— SEVENTH PAGE. THE VIENNA EXPOSITION! THE FIRST POR- NEW YURK DERALD, SUNDAY, Another Methodist Scandal—Camp Mect- ing and Real Estate Speculations. The growing corruptions of the Methodist Church have been cause for great grief among some of her purest and best members, In- crease of numbers and wealth has brought with it luxury and ease, religious dissipa- tion and loss of manly integrity and upnght- ness in different quarters. We saw a few short years ago how the whole Methodist Church was scandalized by the revelations. published concerning the corruptions existing in tho Book Concern in this city. Again last Winter certain politicians, also prominently connected | with the Methodist Episcopal Church, were shown up in a rather doubtful, if not disrepu- table, relation to the country in the Credit Mobilier and other well-known corrupt schemes. And now we have another scandal which in its local aspect promises to ontrival the famous Book Concern frauds. It appears | to have originated also where that scandal was hatched—in the Book Concern building. There would seem to be some fatality about that magnificent structure, else why so much trouble arise there within the brief period of its occupancy? It should be’ understood, however, that there are many departments of church work conducted in the building and that each is independent of the other, so that a scandal originating in one department does not necessarily taint another. Indeed, the heads and attachés of the different depart- ments have hardly as much intercourse with one another, though in the same building and sometimes on the same ‘floor, as outside parties have. This explanation may be noeded in vindicating the editor of the Christian Advocate (who steadily and strenuously op- posed Dr. Lanahan in the Book Concern fraud case and as steadily opposes modern camp meeting schemes) from any odium which may attach to his assistant in the matter which now threatens to disturb the peace and har- mony of the Concern, if not of the churches of this city and vicinity. The case is briefly this:—About two years ago four persons—two ministers and two lay- men—having an eye to the main chance, pur- chased nearly two hundred acres of wood and meadow land near Glen Cove, on what is now known as Sea Cliff. They subsequently organ- ized an association known as the ‘Sea Cliff Grove and Metropolitan Camp Ground Asso- ciation,” to Whom they transferred their right and title to the property, reserving to them- selves, however, a few acres for personal. use. Books were opened and stock sold, and on a certain day in the Spring of 1872 the stockholders and a few others took a ride up the Sound to see their property gnd select their lots. The lots were sold, not to the highest bidder, as justice and the wants of the association would seem to require, but were selected by the purchasers of stock in the order in which their names appeared on the books of the association. At TION OF ITS HISTORY IN GERMAN! THE FINANCIAL PANIC AND THE CHOLERA! A TWELVE-MILLION DEFICIT! EXTORTION- ATE CHARGES OF LANDLORDS—SEveNTH PAGE. FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION IN ENGLAND! A FREIGHT AND AN EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED! TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND MANY INJURED—SEVENTH PaGE. KING VICTOR EMMANUEL, OF ITALY, TO VISIT THE PRUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN RULERS— THE NEW IRISH HOME-RULE PROGRAMME— SEVENTH PAGE. MADELEINE AGAIN CARRIES OFF THE HONORS FROM HER SISTERS OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB! A FINE RACE FOR THE DOUGLAS CUP! THE VISION CARRIES OFF THE SLOOP PRIZE—Turrp PAGE. SAFE ARRIVAL AT SUEZ OF SIR SAMUEL AND LADY BAKER AND THEIR PARTY—SEy- ENTH PAGE, SUPERB TURF SPORT AT LONG BRANCH! THE MONMOUTH PARK EXTRA MEETING IN- AUGURATED UNDER MOST FLATTERING AUSPICES! RACING DETAILS—TuuRp PaGE. RELIGIOUS NEWS AND MINISTERIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA! THE PREACHERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS FOR TO-DAY! THE DOC- TRINE OF UNIVERSAL SALVATION— FourTH PaGE. THIRD-TERM PROBLEM! EX-GOVERNOR LETCHER, UF VIRGINIA, AND EX-ADMIRAL SEMMES ON THE PRESIDENTIAL FUTURE! SOUTHERN INDIFFERENTISM—Tuirp PaGe, IDENTIFICATION OF ALL THE MEN FOUND IN THE FALLEN TENEMENT! A BOY SAID TO BE MISSING! THE TH WARD HOUSE WRECK AND CARELESS CONSTRUCTION— Firtu PaGe. THE THE Tue Mopocs to sz Hancrp.—In another ‘ column will be found the death warrant of the Modoc murderers, just issued from the Secre- tary of War. As we anticipated, Captain Jack and his confederates have been found guilty of murder in violation of the laws of war, and * they will be hanged at Fort Klamath on the 8d of October. The country will rejoice at this consummation, for it is only by hanging the principal Indian murderers and marauders that wecan expect to deter tribes like the Modocs from committing outrages like the treacherous assassination of General Canby | ‘Through- | | with her wealth became a problem to her. and Peace Commissioner Thomas. out the Modoc war the Hera advocated this policy as.the only one applicable to the cas of these brutal savages, and we expect the best results from its enforcement. It was the only wise course under the circumstances, and we may count upon its having an excellent in- fluence on the savage tribes disposed to imi- tate the example of Captain Jack and his band. A Disastrous Strampoat Exprosion on THE Mussissrpr1 is among the news items of our home despatches which we publish this morn- ing. Since the war the Mississippi steamboats have been remarkably exempt from ruinous explosions, collisions, fires and snags com- pared with these casualties on the river before the war. But from the blow-up of yesterday it would appear that the Mississippi steamboat men are getting back again into their old time habits of negligence and recklessness of human life. We trust that this St. Frandis Island calamity will at least be considered worthy of a searching investigation. oomilbeipletansenne ‘Tue West Exeventa Strect Burra D1s- asten.—No further deaths are reported among the unfortunate workmen, we are glad to say; but eight killed and six wounded is a sufficient | commentary upon the culpable carelessness ot the responsible parties concerned in refer- ence tothis melancholy affair. If the laws ‘we have for the protection of life are not re- Bpected as they should he in the matter of putting up or tearing down buildings, the penalties should be enforced; if our laws are insufficient in this matter they should be a previous meeting of the stockholders fifteen trustees were elected, and these men selected each for himself two choice lots in lieu of salary for the trust and responsibility imposed upon them. These, however, did not satisfy the greed and the longings of the fifteen, and at a subsequent meeting they voted them- selves each one choice lot more in lieu of fur- ther compensation for their trouble and care, Roads were at once graded and laid out; a magnificent tabernacle was projected; a reservoir was constructed and water was dis- tributed in pipes and tanks throughout the grounds. Another plot of some seventy acres of land was added by purchase to the original, and the entire cost was over eighty-two thou- sand dollars. The various improvements made cost over one hundred thousand dollars more, and since last year the trustees have expended other sums, which increase their entire expenditure to nearly three hundred thousand dollars. Last Fall they had sold, to pay the running expenses, and, provided they should sell all, the lots surveyed and offered for sale at the rates then asked, they would clear over half a million dollars profit. But there came a hitch in the sale of lots, and thereby hangs the tale which is now likely to bring some of the trustees to grief. It became known that there remained a mortgage of twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars on the ,original purchase and a further mort- gage of six thousand dollars on the second tract bought by the Association, and pur- while new comers looked shy of the mortgage and showed no disposition to invest. A happy thought struck one or two of the trustees, They would remove these ugly incumbrances; but how? The assistant editor of the Christian Advocate appears to have matured a very simple plan, in this wise:—Mrs. Elizabeth Langdon, a wealthy Christian lady and a widow, residing at Thompson Station, L. L, who had previously been brought under religious convictions at Sing Sing and had determined to consecrate herself and her prop- erty to the Lord, was to be the unconscious victim. How she could do the most good She was the owner of a fine mansion and four hundred and thirty acres of land. These, together with additional buildings which she reared, she converted into homes for orphans and aged persons, schools, church, &., and placed the whole under the direction of the New York East Conference, who appointed an advisory board to superintend its affairs. Two hundred and fifty-one acres more wero bought and added to the original demense, and the whole was surveyed and laid out in building sites and sold to persons of small means on easy monthly payments. The enter- prise was doing grandly, when the reverend editor and his associates of the Sea Cliff Camp Meeting resolved to get the entire establishment transferred to Sea Cliff. Mrs. | Langdon, believing that she was dealing with Christian men and with men of honor, who would not take undue advantage of her com- paratively defenceless condition, , partly and conditionally accepted an agreement which bound her to transfer her six hundred and eighty acres at ‘‘Beulah”—the new name for the old Thompson station—to the Sea Cliff As- yocution, in consideration of sixty-four acres (with a slight reservation), which the latter gave her in exchange. She was to assume the burden of the mortgages also, the existence of the smallest one ot which, then nearly due, was carefully concealed her. The Asso- ciation took upon thei ves the burden of a six thousend dollar mortgage on the newly acquired “Beulah” property. The price these Man Tamm according to their own estimates, lots enough | chasers who had invested threw up their lots, | don for her land was thirty thousand dellars for the original and thirty dollars an acre for the additional two hundred and fifty acres, while they demanded from her for the sixty- four acres fourteen hundred dollars an acre and the assumption of o thirty-five thousand dollar morigage. And because it was tor &° benevolent object, as they alleged, they sold it thus cheap—at a profit of only one thousand dollars an acre. Then they bound her to lay out the new ‘Beulah Home” in lots and sell them, and to pay over to the Association the proceeds as fast as re- ceived, in sums of five hundred dollars, until the entire purchase money was paid. But these gentlemen would not’ trust the lady one inch, nor allow her to consult the Advisory Board of the Conference, as she desired. They insisted on securing the balance cue them by mortgage, payable in three years, principal and interest. They then published the fact to the world that the mortgage had been raised, and the sale of lots became brisk once more, and at an advanced price. "Thus matters stood last July, when, Mrs. Langdon having moved to this city and opened 8 ‘Beulah Mission” in the Seventh ward, with her assiytant, Miss Almira Losee, and some of her prolégés, visited Sea Cliff during the camp meeting. They did not like the cold treatment they there received, and their suspicions were awakened in regard to the real estate matters. existing between them and the Association. They, therefore, agreed to a proposal to cancel their agreement, which had not been signed or sealed according to law. The representatives of the Association, however, refused to cancel, and made all sorts of promises and protesta- tions, and sought finally, by direct and indirect means, to get from Mrs. Langdon ceftain houses and lots of which she is the owner in this city. Their persistence not only annoyed her, but increased her suspicions, and she plumply told them she would consult a lawyer ere she had any further dealings with them. Seeing, then, that their scheme was likely to be exposed, they went straightway and filed the “memorandum” in the Suffolk County Clerk's office, at Riverhead, L. I, notified the old ‘‘Beulah” tenants not to pay any more rent to Mrs. Langdon, and claimed owner- ship of the property themselves, Mrs. Lang- don’s complaint has been filed in the Superior Court of this city, and W. H. Du Puy, D. D., L. Battarshall and Charles Applegate and their associates are called upon to answer. The lady asks that the alleged agreement be de- clared null and void, and that she be awarded damages in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. This isa brief summary of the origin and standing of the Sea Cliff Association, and, so far as can be ascertained,.the complainant's version of her relations with the Association. This Association is a close corporation, re- volving, as it were, in circles and rings. One revolution brings out the Sea Cliff Camp Meet- ing Association, with certain persons as offi- cers and trustees. Another revolution brings out the same men substantially under the name of the “Long Island Improvement Association,” but with different officers, while a third turn causes the Sea Cliffand New York Steamboat Association to come to the front. And the same men virtually own and ran each Association, so that we have here rings within rings, or wheels within wheels, and an amount of mystery connected with an institu- tion whose every act ought to be as transpa- rentas the noon-day. It doés seem to us that the sooner the entire management of this, as of other similar institutions now spreading all over the country shall be,transferred to the lot own- ers, the better it will be for them and for the churches to which they belong. The Association have filed their answer to Mrs. Langdon’s complaint, and have given their version of their dealings with that lady. From these it would appear that they them- selves Were the victims rather than the vic- timizers, and that Mrs. Langdon has become financially embarrassed, and seeks by this suit to evade and avoid performing her contract toward them. In such cases, of course, the truth can be known only when it is brought out in court; but, whichever party may be in the wrong, the Methodist Church is none the less scandalized, and the camp meeting enter- prise at Sea Cliff will be almost certain to suffer by it, i The Divorce Case of Mrs. Brigham Young No. 17—The Conflict of Juris= diction.” ‘ Before Judge Emerson, at Salt Lake City, the demurrer of Brigham Young in the case of Ann Eliza Young, or Mrs. Brigham Young No. 17, for divorce, was sustained against the jurisdiction of the Court. This judgment, it appears further, is in direct conflict with the opinion of the United States Judges, MeKean and Hawley, and virtually of the Supreme Court of the Territory; but as the case will come up again in October next, and in the United States District Court before Judge McKean, the decision, of Emerson will doubt- less be set aside. This conflict of jurisdiction between the Territorial, or Mormon, and the United States, or Gentile Courts, will eventu- ally be carried in another appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. In the meantime we expect Congress will meet, and that in his annual message the President will renew his recommendation of last session for such a reconstruction of the organic law of Utah as will make the laws and authori- ties . of the United States supreme over the Territory. Had the President's urgent representations of the necessity for immediate action on this subject been properly respected at the last session all these squabbles between the Territorial and the national Courts would have been ended then and there. We dare say, however, that @ bill for the reconstruction of the Territorial government of Utah, according to the Presi- dent’s recommendations, will be passed before the close of the coming winter, and that thereby all the various causes and instrumen- talities operating for the extinction of Mor- mon polygamy will be greatly strengthened. Generat Butver's Szconp Campaign FOR Governor in Massachusetts promises to be more lively and exciting than his first, and with far better prospects of success for him. Governor Washburn is the champion of the old orthodox Bourbons, who ‘never learn anything and never forget anything;’’ but Butler is backed by the powers that be at Washington and by all their henchmen and dependents in the old Bay State, and ‘‘the King’s name is a tower of ‘strength.’’ And set het arith the ald Ranshe aml the young radicals, the liquor men, the prohibi- tionists and the labor reformers and all the loose odds and ends of the republican party, this gubernatorial contest is now so inexplicably mixed up that only the Republican State Convention can settle it. The fight is for that Convention, and as it does not meet till the 10th of September there is a good margin yet for Butler. BSNS PMS Spirit of the Reiigious Press—What « Few of Them Have to Say About Coosarism, Only a few of our religious contemporaries have as yet taken up the subject that is agi- tating the secular press all over the country, to wit—‘‘Cesarism,” or the proposition to elect General Grant for a third term. In due time, no doubt, the religious press will be- come awakened to the importance of this all- pervading topic and proceed at once to exer- cise its poweriul influence among pious peoplo in regard thereto, The Independent suggests the following ¢con- siderations in respect to Cessarism as likely to be embodied in General Grant: — First, there ts no evidence that he has the desire of being re-elected for a tiird term; second, there 18 ws uutiv evidence that the republican purty pro- pose any such result; third, if Gene.al’ Grant Should be nommated and re-elected, the tact would be due to tue excelience of his adm.nistra- tion, commenging him to the contidence of the American peopie and disposing them tor tis Teason to continue wim im office; fourth, the con- silcution wisely imposes no restriction upon the re-eig.bility of the President for any number of times, and taus eaves the whole question to the Popuiar choice wt each election; fifth, it is not possible tor the Presiuent grossly to abuse his powers and put the liberties o: the people in pera-without rendering himself liable to remova) 1roin Oftice by impeachment. “Now, gentlemen,”’ continues the writer in the Independent, ‘‘iet these. simple, common sense considerations furnish you with, at least, a few morsels of comfort. The next Presi- dent, whether General Grant or some one else, is the man whom, in 1876, the people will elect in the constitutional way. At the time they will be entirely competent to settle the question for themselves ; and, should they re- elect General Grant,.it is because he is the man of their choice. If this be Cwsarism, then so be it. It is the Casarism which in- heres in the very nature of a republican gov- érnment.”’ The Boston Pilot (Roman Catholic organ in New England) remarks that, while it does not see any actual cause for alarm at the supposed contingency—the re-election of General Grant for a third term—it thinks that the considera- tion of the subject cannot but be useful and beneficial. ‘It is always well,”’ continues the editor, ‘that a republican people should keep before their eyes the spirit or genius of their government ;’’ and he is ‘‘glad to see that the question is called up in a time of political peace, when it stands a fair chance of being discussed on its broad merits.’’ The Pilot adds, on the same subject :— ‘The HERALD has lately sent its reporters to ‘“‘in- terview” the editors 0! some of the eading papers aod thus obtain their personal views on the mat- ter, As neurly all those editors had bejore written articles on the subject, the interviewers’ work muy be open to a charge’ of supererogation; but we are pieased with the result, nevertheless, Spoken words very Rar Ree ee always, have more vitality, more personality, in them than the same words written; and we think the personal opinions of a number o1 leading professional jour- Dalists, men trained to think aud analyze, are valuable and instructive. The Christian Union has a cheerful article on ‘Camp Meeting Time," the montn of August being characterized as the “joy month in the Methodist calendar’ and the “blossom time of the Methodist Church.’’ Says the Union in this connection: + Rome finds room and need for her splendid car- Ginais and her barelooted friars. In like manner Methodism has been always hospitable to all ec- centricities of churacter, to all conditions, ranks and possibilities of men. The rest of us look askauce upon singularity, We want our Christians of a prevailing pattern, The Methodists insist only on the love o! Christ in the ert el accept the broadest non-conformity of head. Thus the “ex- rience’ Oi every Man nas @ dramatic interest jor every other man. Hach is an individual soul not jess than an equal member of a sect. The hearty sympathies and comradeship which enrich the home are taken to the meeting house. They are expressed in the deep “giory: nd “‘amens,”? the “well done, sisters,” the “bless the Lerd, brothers,” the general hand-shakings after service and the habit oi calling the preacher “brother.”’ The Tablet enlarges upon the Papal allocu- ‘cution of the 25th of July, declaring that it challenges the attention of the world, particu- larly that portion of it in which appears a direct and dire condemnation of whosoever lays his finger sacrilegiously on the garment of the Church—the ecclesiastical property. “This,’’ adds the Tablet, ‘is most important, for the words of the Vicar of Christ have passed from the long tried and vain region of protest to excommunication. Moreover, all contracts of any kind, with reference to eccle- siastical property, he declares and redeclares absolutely null and void.’’ Continues the writer: — To some this may seem the meaningless or use- less threat of a feebie old man, to Whom nothing is leit but the faculty of cursing. ‘fo us it is very diferent, it means much, and has been well con- sidered.’ It means that, in view of the possible restoration ot the temporal power, with the estates of the Church, to the supreme head of the Churca— @ possibility Which, to our thinking, is very iar irom remote—the persons who, despite the many and solemn warnings of the rightful lord and master of the stolen property now up at auction in the Italian market, are rash enough to make in- vestments in that property—the sentence of ex- communication, which many of them may disre- gard now, apart—are signing and making contracts which they know are valueless, and which, when the reckoning day comes, when the property is a to its rightful owner, are so much waste paper. The Freeman's Journal treats on the subject of medicine, the editor giving his preference to what he calls the “heroic system,”. an idea of which may be gathered from the follow- ing:—‘‘Our doctor,” says the editor, ‘bled us, by a few ounces at a time, over one hundred times, till all the old stagnant blood was out of our veins; and he gave us ever so much hydrarg. sub mur. (otherwise calomel) and goodly doses of antimony, and, altogether, the old heroic treatment. But he fed us up mean- time, making us eat beefsteaks we didn’t want to eat, and. drink beer and the like we didn’t want to drink, to make new blood, which it did, and to expand the vital organs, which it has done.” ’ Tho Methodist thinks that, although the Poy may be a prisoner in the Vatican, his power to curse is still left him, and he uses that power freely. The latest objects of his wrath are the evangelical Protestants who are laboring among the people of the city of Rome. Under the authority and in the name of the Pope an ‘invitation has been issued to the faithful to at- tend the commemoration of St. Peter's libera- tion from prison, ‘in order to appease the wrath of God, excited by the progress of Prot- estantism in Rome.’’ The Methodist thinks that the text df this document should be read by every American. His Holiness, doubtless, would have no objection. The Heaminer and Chronicle bas an article on the ‘‘Cowardice of Virtue,” which, e#hough a do some little behind time, may, n good. It says:— There probably enodinen anehing never was nat nad AUGUST 24, 1873—TRIPLE SHEKY. | ‘ might not have rescued the city of New York from the hands of the miscreants who wore plundering its treasury and corrupting its morals. Yet these citizens, like the inhabitants of Meroz, whom the 1 of the Lord cursed bitterly, did nothing. Asin New York, so on the higher and wider -political stage ai Washington, ‘Th ational councils have never been without me Whose clarion call of honest and indignant Patriotism would certainly have roused the land and struck dismay to the hearts of corruptionists. Appalling as the Sogencracy of the country at large may be, there is virtue enough left ior our compiete redemption, It unfortunately happens that the loudest of these ‘‘clarion voices,” just at this time, seem to be engaged in the labor of proving that one of the most corrupt acts of the last Congress— the ‘back-pay salary grab'’—was a highly honorable and virtuous transaction. The Jewish Times discourses on the “Union of American Hebrew Congregations,” in which the present movement in that direction is decried. The camp meeting fever is still maintained in various parts of the country, and the good work of revivals is still going on. An Austrian View of the Exhibition. Since the 1st of May, the day on which the doors of the mammoth building in the Prater were formally opened to the expectant thou- sands of the Donaustadt, the Hrraup has closely watched and duly chronicled the prog- ress of the World’s Fair. The gorgeousness of the opening ceremonies and the presence of imperial and: royal personages could not atone for the incompleteness of the building and the lack of discipline and promptness in the general management, and we unhesitatingly declared so at the time. The disgraceful con- dition of affairs at the headquarters of the American department in due course re- ceived the attention and condemnation it deserved, not only in the United States, but throughout the entire Continent of Europe. As the work of completion and arrangement went on, and when the Emperor paid his official visit and dispensed his congratulations and “well dones,’’ we kept our readers fully informed, praising where praise was due and Pointing out whenever occasion required the deficiencies and omissions. But the American scandal and the want of energy on the part of manager, contractors and exhibitors do not complete the list of complaints. There are evidences of rapacity and deception in the Mosaic city, daily becom- ing stronger, that may well appall the visitor and lead him to ask who the Fair was intended to benefit most—the exhibitors and the world of science and industry, or the avaricious politicians, court flunkies and dishonest hotel and boarding housekeepers. It is these home subjects that our Austrian correspondent broaches in his letter, printed elsewhere to- day in the German language. Here is a wide field for reflection. To read the cleverly worded paragraphs of the Austrain journals it might be supposed that the outside world had been treating them after the manner of the schoolboy whose jealousy leads him to calumniate those-above him in his class ; that, instead of being practieally a failure, it was a grand, a glorious success, and that the self- abnegnation and generosity of their citizens would leave a halo never to be effaced in the history of the Empire. How far these things are true our correspondent shows. He says that the Exhibition, so far as concerned the general visitor from abroad, has brought to light a threefold swindle. Splendid and abundant accommodations were promised the visitor at rates that could not interfere with the most economical. He shows that never were apartments so badly fitted nor prices so exorbitant and unjustifiable. Amusements were to be on the same ample and luxurious scale, yet he gives instances where two hundred and fifty dollars in gold was charged for a seat at the opera, Clothing and outfits suddenly became extraordinarily expensive. Every one—the housekeeper, the manufacturer, the hotel ‘‘tout,’’ the milliner, the railroads, and even the inevitable cab driver—considered the visitor his special prey. In vain the City Council called for moderation. Travellers must eat and drink and lodge, wear clothes and ride in carriages, and occasionally re- quire a chair to rest a while at the Exhibition, and all who had the necessary commodities determined to rob and have robbed to the fullest extent. Next came the. cholera. Perhaps no one was responsible for the arrival of this terrible scourge. But the same spirit of deception and dishonesty seems to have been apparent here. For weeks the official local papers absolutely denied its existence, although the Board of Health had possession of cer- tificates showing where the cholera had car- ried off its victims within the city limits. The visitor was told not to notice the sensational reports, but to come. Eventually visitors came. When the cholera could no longer be smothered, Prince Auersperg and the city authorities, in the face of previous protesta- tions, went to work to disinfect the city. Is it wonderful that after this visitors left, or that they advised their friends tp avoid the metro- polis onthe beautiful blue Danube? Had the people and the authorities been wise a medium course would have been adopted and the sub- sequent vexations and failure avoided. Baron Schwarz has, doubtless, committed grievous blunders, but he is not responsible for the wholesale system of swindling that is practised in the city of Vienna. Vienna Sm Samvzt Baxer zn Rovre to Caro,— By telegram from Egypt, through London, we are specially informed that Sir Samuel and Lady Baker, with their companions and attendants, will leave Suez-for Cairo to-day— an interesting event in the more modern his- tory of African exploration, and, it may be, quite important as regards the future of the East. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Tom Corwin’s grave in Ohio is unmrked. Rev. Robert Collyer is opposed to dead-heading ministers on railroads, General J. H. Simpson, United States Army, was in Chicago on Friday last. There is & Danbury in New Hampshire, but it does not contain a News man, Hon, Alexander H. H. Stewart, member of Con- gress from Georgia, is at Staunton, Va. ‘The wife of a Methodist mimister in San Francisco Proposes to walk 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours, Hon. Charles Abell, ® State Senator of Lonisiana, is on a visit to his friends in Yantic, Conn, Governor Joel Parker says in twenty-five years the American metropolis will be in New Jersey. Guess not. A Titus (Pa.) artist is to paint the portrait of Mr, Martin er, Judge of the Supreme Court of this State. " Mre Marton wife af Tinited Rtates Senatar Qitvar | ‘the ioilowit P. Morton, of Indians, has been quite sick at in- dlanapolis. ‘Tne Karl of Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, and the Countess of vufferin, are on 4 visit to St. donn, N. B. Mr. James Baird, a Scotch ironmaster, has given £500,000 to the Scotch Cnurcn, to be applied sololy to religious purposes. " Moritz Yon Baumbach, the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Consul, yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, Gambetta intends to avoid prosecution by the Permanent Committe’ of the Assembly by going te England to make his vacation speeches. Between two and three hundred of the descend- ants of David Hitchcock went on a picnic to Unxte Spring, Southington, Conn., on Wednesday last. Ex-Alderman Bengley, of the 'wentieth ward of the city of Chicago, has been sentenced to three Months’ imprisonment for contempt of court. Mr. Hugh Murray, ex-licutenant of the Pontitical Zouaves, and nephew of Bishop Horan, of Kings- ton, Canada, has leit Kingston to join Don Carlos’ army in Spain, i Captain Delacombe, late in command of the Eng- lish troops at San Juan Island, arrived inSau Fran- cisco on tue Loth instant, on his way home to Eng- land, He has been absent six years. The Countess de Vogué, the wife of the French Minister at Oonstantinople, and her daughter, were recently saved from drowning in the Black Sea by @ Mr. Palmer, an Engi.sh gentieaan. Hon, James F, Wilson, Who was eight years in Congress trom lowa and who is now governmer* director of the Union Pacific Railrvad, left Oma on the 20th inst, for the West on oficial business. Rev. 5. W. Clemous, of tne Troy Conference of the Methodist Church, recently Whipped the pro prietor of the Mohican House, at Bolton, N. Y., for calling him a dirty dog, and had to pay $3 tow justice of the peace tor ais trouble, According to report the author of “Ginx’s Baby’’ has shown himself in Dundee, where he contested with Fitzjames Stephen and another for return to Parliament, to be @ veritable Jenkius’ Baby. After the anuouncement of the poll, which showed both himself and Mr. stephen to have been deteated, Mr. Jenkins anaounced that he had overcome his admiration for Mr. Stephen, and would at any time and any expense contest that borough against him. Mr. Alsopp, M. P., recently elected, is of the well known firm of brewers, and Mr. Boord, the new conservative colleague of Mr. Gladstone, trom. the borough of Greenwich, is a distiller. ‘the Pall Mal Gazette hence conceives, from these and several previous cases, that ‘‘a share in a brewery or dis- tillery is now almost as useiul to. a political aspir- ant as a pocket borough or a dominant county in- fuence under the old system.”” A philosopher once said that the “true way to the minds and hearts‘o! _ tne people is through their stomachs.” THE HERALD AMONG THE WILD PAWNEES — {From the Norfolk Journal, August 21.) The ubiquity of HERALD correspondents 1s one of the marvels of the times. An earthquake never happens, in whatever remote corner of the globe, without shaking up @ special correspondent of the HERALD; @ great shipwreck seldom occurs but @ HERALD mah is among those who have escaped by the breadth of a hair; # battle in Khiva or a horse thiet lynched in some unheard-of hamlet in the West, it is all the same—the greedy eyes of a HERALD reporter devour every circumstance of the one and the other, it is, thereiore, no matter of wonder to find that a HERALD reporter Was among the ill-lated band of Pawnees during the recent bloody battle with ihe Sioux. Of all places im the world, tt would seem “most improbable that a newspaper Correspondent should be wandering about with a band of wiid Pawnees; but there was the HERALD mab, note- book in one hand, a revolver in the otuer aud bul- lets and arrows singing about his ears as thick ag hail. Harper has recentiyy given us graphic pic- tures of the Western trapper, scout and indiao tighter. We tancy that the wild Western journatise or newspaper correspondent, in certain situations, Would afford as striking 4 subject for an arust wuo can delineate a novel character. THE AMERIOAN SOIENTIFIO ASSOCIATION. PORTLAND, Me., August 23, 1873. At the morning session of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science the following new members were elected:—Robert H. Richards, Boston; Mrs, «lizabeth Whittier, Plymouth; N. B. Whitaker, Providence; Lorenzo Watson, Provi- dence; J. ©. Munroe, Lexington, Mass.; 8S. H. McAllister, Akron, Uhio; Miss Chadeagne, Jersey City; J. W. Chickering, Washington; Dr. George F. French, Portland, and Josiah Curtis, Washing- ton. ‘Ten new papers were received and referred, Section B was divided into twe sub-sections, on¢ devoted to biology and the otuer to geology. Asa Gray, W. B. Hough, G. B. Emerson, J. D, Whitney, k. W. Hilyard, J.S. Newbury, L. H, Mor- gan, Charles Whittlesey and W. H. Bremer were appointed a committee to memorialize Congress in regard to the preservation oi forests. A committee Was appointed cousisung of the four highest officers O/ the association to watt on Mra, Elizabeth Thompson, oi New York, and tuank her jor her gift of one thousand doiiars. ‘The association then broke up into sections, ‘The discussion on Proiessor Fowler's anti-evolu- tion paper was continued tn section A by ur. Daw- son dnd Provessor Morse. The discussion was brief and no new points were brought out. Dr. Dawson then gave 4 description of a specimen of sigillaria showing marks 0! fructttication. In section A Proiessor Wheilden read a paper om the Arctic regions, their geography, climate, ocean currents and other phenomena considered with reference to the atmospheric theory of an amelio- rated climate and an open Polar Sea. He did not consider that the pnenomena sustamed the theory. In the geological sub-section Proiessor ©. Hitchcock read aa admirable descriptive paper om the geology of Portland and vicinity. The association adjourned at half-past twelve o’clock to allow the members to go on an excur- sion down the harbor in the revenue cutter McCulloch. ‘The attendance is continually increasing, and a large number o1 papers will be Submitted. THE PHILADELPHIA MORGUE INVESTIGA- TION. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., August 23, 1873. A hearing was had to-day in the case of Deputy Coroner Sees, Superintendent of the Morgue Bax. ter, and McEwen, the driver of the Coroners’ wagon. The two former are charged with trafick- ing in dead bodies, and the latter with robbery. ‘The testimony showed that a gold watch had been avoien, irom ‘ne body of Mr. Munce and pawned by McEwen; that the body was removed to the college with the clothes on, and the Superintendent oi the Morgue jailed to keep # record of the clothing or property, as required by law. The witness testified that Baxter looked a little like the man who vook Munce’s body to: the College, and that he had eee pide taken other bodies to that piace. There was no direct evidence against the Deputy Coroner, but he and Baxter were held for a iurther hearing. McEwen was committed. LONG BRANOH OVERFLOWING, LONG BRANCH, August 23, 1873, Fourteen railway carriages came down on the six o'clock run from New York to-night, alk crowded with visitors to the Branch. The hotels to-night are again filled to overflowing, CREEDMOOR, Good Practice Shooting Yesterday—In. terest in the Association Increasing. A large number of the members of the tonal Rifle Association assembled at Creedmoor yester- day afternoon. The weather was fine and the shooting good. At least sixty members parcipt- tated and ail the targets were in use. A number of sweepstake matches took place, but only one was oiliciuily reported, Wuich was between mem- bers of the Jwenty-second and kighty-tourth regi- ments trying their hands, first at zou and then at 500 yards, Messrs. Maguer, Dunning and Kouse Jost their iast shots on the 500 yard score on ac- couyt of the expiration of the time for the maten. The interest in the enterprise 18 increasing and new members are being added to the association every day, Five shots were ailowed; buil's eyes, 4; centres, 3; duters, 2; highest possibie score, Weg 22533 23-15) 4432 3—15) 20-6 Ra $234 4-12) 0222 2~ 5) na -| 2522 2-11) 2300 0~ 5 nda 2233 3-15 30042— y) Qed 208239 u2023— 7) Be 3423 $15) 2243 0214 3343 3-16) 4543 15 222954 20020~% 2333 415) PER a 2202 410] 000 yo—y 2222-11) 604 sucis 22320-91094 u0— 4 HUE IES 09 gdo- *