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6 NEW YORK HERALD —- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ———_—_—— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Pea Volume XXXVII. 237 ENTS: THIS EVENING. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Varisry ENTRRTALNMENT, "NION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Pa Et Un IN 4 Foa--Oup Pmus’s Bintupay. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tue BLack CROOK, t GRAND OPERA HOU Eighth ay. and Twenty-third St.--MipsuMMER NiGHT": METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanizrr ENTERTAINMENT. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway street.— Mim, = BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burra.o BiLt—ManxeD ror Lirk, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Metamona. Afternoon and evening. 7 and Thirteenth ° BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 780 Broadway.—OreRa Bourrr—La FitLy pe MADAMK ANGOT. OLYMPIg THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleeder streets. —Mxrmisto. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Summer Nicuts’ CERTS. N way. DR, KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Science Ap Ant. i TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, August 25, 1873. Con- YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- NCK AND ART. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald.’ “GENERAL GRANT UPON *OZSARISM! WHAT THE HERALD DISCUSSION HAS ALREADY ESTABLISHED "*— EDITORIAL LEADER— SrixrH PAGE. THE PRESIDENT ON HIS RENOMINATION! “ALL DEPENDENT UPON THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!” COLFAX’S FATE! BUT- LER THINKS THERE IS NO VAUSE FOR FEAR! A CUMMIXTURE OF VIEWS UPON CASARISM—THIRD PaGE. ADIEU TO EMS! THE KAISER AND THE NO- BILITY AND THEIR FOLLOWERS DEPART AND THE IMPERIAL SOMMER - RESORT . FORTHWITH SINKS TO INSIGNIFIGANCE! LOUISE MUHLBACH’S FOURTH LETTER, IN GERMAN, AND TRANSLATED—SEVENTH PAGE. THE MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT CALAMITY! C. TAIN CARTER’S VERSION! FOURTE DEAD ALREADY RECOVERED! NAMES OF THE INJURED—Sixtu Page. NEWS DRIFTINGS FROM THE BEACH AT LONG BRANCH! PRESIDEYT GRANT TO ATTEND THE MONMOUTH PARK RACES Tu-MOR- ROW! THE HOPS ON SATURDAY! A FROG POLKA! THAT GOLD DEFICIT—Firt PaGE. SUMMER LIFE AT MALVERN, ENGLAND! OUT OF SEASON AT SARATOGA, IN SEASON AT THE ENGLISH SUMMER RESORT! THE JOURNEY FROM LONDON AND WATER CURE SCENES—FirTn PaGe. TROUVILLE, THE CELEBRATED — FRENCH WATERING PLACE, AND ITS NEIGHBORS NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. General Grant Upem Ceosarism—What | there is nothing to fear from the encroach- | almost sure to encounter in every new circle @ | considered simply ridiculous, The earth can ments of centralization. He thinks that an | group of workers who give her warm wel- | no more exist or move without His ever watch- the Herald Discussion Has Already Established. With a multitude of counsel, wherein, ac- cording to ancient authority, them is wisdom, the question of Cwsarism continues to be developed. We can safely say that, wide as the discussion has been, we have seen nothing to alter our views in the slightest degree. Where they were not concerned in those estimates of personal character which are liable at any moment to receive a shock, because of the manner in which new circumy stances discover unexpected traits, we are the more confirmed in the absolute strength of the position we have assumed. Above and beyond all party differences is the unassail- able fact that, centring in the ganglion of railroad, financial and monopolized money interests generally, the office-holders’ combination, the republican party's am- bition and the prostration of the democratic party are ‘all the materials for the subjugation of the people to one man for an unlimited time. We have further argued that the placing of President Grant in the Chief Magistracy of the nation for a third term would bring the danger closer to us—would, in fact, place the sword within easy grasping distance, which could be wielded by the first bold and skilful man that came to power in cutting away our liberties ata blow. In answer to the first portion of our argument we have seen nothing that even attempts to be a contradiction. Premises and conclusion have been acquiesced in by all— tacitly by some, vehemently by others. This alarming condition of affairs, which the peo ple face with a vague fear and an irresolution as to how it should be combated, is intensi- fied, we hold, by the alleged movement to place General Grant for a third term in his present office. Against this accretion of danger we have two distinct demurrers, which are as follows:—Say the office-holders and more violent republican partisans, ‘‘We can and will, if you provoke us, place President Grant in office for the third, fourth, fifth or tenth time, and you shall see that there isno danger.” Say the sanguine, the enthusiastic re- liants upon the popular will, ‘‘The first symp- tom of an attempt to change the form of our government would see Cesar, his satraps and his cohorts annihilated, horse, foot and dra- goons, inaday.’’ There is too much hastiness for a well-considered opinion and too much petulance and party braggadocio for sin- cerity in the first demurrer; the second means civil war. The violent partisan, if he Bas not. absorbed all his patriotism in selfishness, would soon shrink from the conse- quences of his words. Selfish as he might be, he could not close his eyes to the fact that he was not telling the truth. The reliant patriot, with his cure through blood, might be effect- ive for the time, but the morrow of revo; lutions is the most dangerous of all days to the liberties of a country. We cannot, there- fore, see any cogency in the argument which would insidiausly induce the people to allow their life in freedom to ebb away, merely to gratify mingled selfishness and vanity in a ON THE COAST! ARCHITECTURE, ART AND THE LAW OF INHERITANCE—Firta Pace, PORT DALHOUSIE, IN THE NEW DOMINION! A REMINISCENCE OF MRS. LINCOLN! CANA- DIAN AND MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS— ITEMS FROM THE SUMMER RESORTS— FirTa Pace. DEVOTIONS IN THE CITY, AT THE SEASIDE AND AMONG THE MOUNTAINS! INTER- ESTING TOPICS DISCUSSED BY THE MIN- ISTERS OF GRACE YESTERDAY! MR, BEECHER HEARD FROM—Fourta PaGE, MUMBO JUMBO OUTDONE! THE SOULFUL SPIRITUALISTS IN THE AGONIES OF* HARMONY! NO FIGHT WORTH RECORD- ING—TeNTH PAGE. VIOLATIONS OF MORG JE LAWS IN PHILADEL- PHIA! CORONERS’ OFFICE REVELA- TIONS! THE DEPUTY CORONER AND MORGUE SUPERINTENDENT UNDER BAIL! SELLING THOMAS MUNCE’S BODY— ELEVENTH PaGe. THE NEWEST FURM OF SLAVERY! HOW THE RANKS OF THE ITALIAN MENDICANTS ARE RECRUITED! THE TREATMENT ON THE VOYAGE AND IN AMERICA OF THE YOUTHFUL ITALIANS—Eiauru PaGE. THE GRAND COUNCIL OF THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE, IN OCTOBER! PROSPECTIVE ACTION! A BONE OF CONTENTION— EIGHTH PaGE. DEFINITIONS OF AURICULAR CONFESSION FROM THE LEADING ANGLICAN BISHOPS— ELEVENTH PGE. FINANCIAL NEWS AND REFLECTIONS! PORTS AND EXPORTS! THE GOLD AND STOCK OPERATIONS—OBITUARY NO- TICES—NINTH PAGE. IM- Senator Morton a Lirrie on THE Fence.— Senator Morton, in a speech at Athens, Ohio, on Saturday, before'a large gathering of re- publicans, to open the political campaign in that State, touched upon the Congressional back-pay grab. He did so reluctantly, how- ever, and only when urgently. called upon for his opinion. He. said he did not take the back pay and never expected to take it. This announcement created applause, showing that even among the republicans of the West the back-pay action of Congress is denounced. But the astute Senator saw at once the neces- sity of protecting his party by saying a favor- able word for his republican Congressional Colleagues. He remarked, therefore, that while he entertained views against voting and taking back pay it was due to other members of Congress who voted for aud received it to say that they thoug This special plea back-pay grabbers. t they hada right to it. Omo Cononep Por. Repen1ion or 1 ricians.—The administration whip, in the hands of Colonel Bob Harlan, now the special mail agent of the government, | could not subdue the rebellions colored folks at their Conveution at Chillicothe, Ohio. The plucky Colonel Bob, seeing that his colored brethren gave signs of in- subordination to the administration and re- | publican party, tried to force a resolution upon the Convention endorsin’'the party and General Grant, but the Convention would not have it. He did his duty to the administra- tion, however, and showed that he was worthy of his office and the confidence reposed in i} him, for he vociierated loudly and abused to the top of his lungs the men of his race then in convention assembled, But it was ineffeo- tive. The colored people of Ohio are not sat- isfied with the republican party and the ad- ministration, and had the manliness to refase g will hardly save the | class, a party or a man. The blood cure would, then, be in order; and that is what we should earnestly strive to keep from ever being a necessity. The brave picture drawn by Mr. McCullagh, of the St. Louis Democrat, of General Logan carrying a tattered battle-flag to raisé the people against despotism, is one we might well sympathize with if things had come to that pass; but we want peace and liberty for our picture all the time. The risks of third, fifth and tenth terms, supplemented by the risks of crossing bayonets with the pretorians of an American Cesar, are all too great to make us stay our hands just now. The opinions of several prominent men upon the matter will be found in another por- tion of the Heratp. They include what are given as the expressions of the President him- self, the opinions of General Butler, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, and others. On Saturday we gave space to the perience in politics. We have called upon the President foran authoritative repudiation ot a desire for a third term in office—for a rejec- tion, to stand for all time, of any offers that toadying courtiers or selfish politicians might make of sucha third term. In reply to a question embodying this he quietly said: — “You forget the fate of Colfax. Will it not be time enough to refuse when the | refusal is at my disposal?’’ There is some good-humored cynicism in this, reply, which implies that he is not so sure of the thing called party favoras to hazard a re- fusal of what’ he has not been offered. It, however, may be interpreted to mean more, if the crigics are more adverse to him than those who listened to his words. Our opinion of his republicanism and patriotism will not allow us to give his words any more significance than they present at first sight. Side by side with it our correspondent places General Grant’s part in a conversation which took place when Mr. Johnson was Presi- dent. They show that if President Grant should be hereafter induced to continue in office he would not have the excuse of believing that the country’s salvation depended upon it. The latter, we doubt not, will be the reason adduced by those poisonous flattefers whose | coarse natyres will not see its absurdity or even its impropriety. Toned down, it would be the | keynote of the moneyed interests, the monopo- | lists and the unblushing office-holders. Here is what General Grant said, and what, we have | no doubt, is in President Grant's mind when he | hears the honeyed Words of the bolder syco- phants exalt his virtues and his importance to | the nation now and forever: —‘‘When an officer | thought success depended upon his existence army discipline required that such an officer should be disabused of his conceit. And when I hear politicians prate about what can | the party do without them I say to myself, ‘What will the poor country do when that man dies?’ It seems to me such notions are incon- | sistent with our form of government, where no | man has absolute authority and all are | dependent upon the will of the people.” These | sentiments are worthy of a man who'loved his | country too well to further, in his own interest or that of any set of men, a state of things lead- ing to the overthrow of his country’s liberties. These words of his will ennoble his memory long after he has passed away if he but act up to them through the hard press of temptations which beset him in the exalted position he so saying they were, even unde= the party whip | deservedly holds. General Butler characteris- in the hands of Colonel ‘*, Hatten ticaliy places himself among those who believe opinions founded on the elder Blair’s long ex- | attempted usurpation of permanency in the government would cause tho to be “‘swept away as if by a whirlwind.” But there have been things that no whirlwind could shake, and perhaps General Butler knows 28 well as the best of us what these things are in governments, civil or military. His English illustration of the want, for many centuries, of an attempt to seize the government is un- happy, out of all parallel, and, what is more, inexact, He thinks the ptople can give power and resume it. This isa well known platform platitude ; but the war to which Le Points and the state of gov. powers before and since emphatically falsify the assertion, which, perhaps from long use, he believes as a verity. Mr. Blair found himself astonished when he viewed the question how much the tendericy to ‘strong government’’ was being made desirable. “He pointed to the democratic party,and to the farmers’ granges asa remedy. The democratic party may, it is true, be resurrected by some cause at present -ubforeseen, but the outlook in that direction will appear brighter to the man who keeps his mind’s eye fixed on Jefferson's times rather than on our own. The, farmers’ granges, in the form Mr. Blair sees them, would bring us to that undesirable state where the political movement is of class against class, instead of the healthy combat wherein parties of all classes speak and vote against parties similarly composed. Mr. Whitelaw Reid confides in what he forcibly terms the ‘hard, horse sense”’ of the President to guard us from the danger we would avoid. He points to Messrs. Conk- ling, Morton and Blaine as those most likely to expect the succession, which, be agrees with the Hzraxp, it will be entirely in the hands of see that the more theequestion is agitated the more visible the patriotism of, the effort be- comes which would arrest the tendency to Cesarism before it is too late. In closing this article we point once more to the President's words on the “all-importapt-man” idea, They are worth preserving. Religious Coquetry. We never dovetail with our own ideals. Bulwer was a very different man from the Kenelm Chillingly of his latest years. Per- haps it is partly the impatience we experience in this endeavor ‘to be what we would like to be that makes some of us fly from one form of religion to another, vainly seeking in each something that shall lure us from our self- disapproved selves. Hence we have the class of religious coquets, people who flirt with personal piety, and, because they do not find in one sect all the peace they hanker after, presently fall in love with some other. It is in vain to argue with such persons. If you entreat them to remember that consistency is a jewel, they will tell you that they prefer the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, and that that is all they are after. They are -peculiarly susceptible to the subtle magnetisms of friend- ship, and for a Damon of this stamp to become a Mussulman it would only be necessary for his Pythias to bea Turk. Yet it is among the female sex that most of these variations are to be found, and she who is developing for a medium this year may not improbably next year think of taking the veil. Nothing is more surprising than the quantity of excellent reasons the religious coquet can give. When, after a number of months, you find her taking an interest in her Bible class and her Dorcas society, you are only prevented from complimenting her on her consistency by the reflection that this admirable system is, in all | probability, the beginning of the end, and that, by the time you next see her, she will | have exchanged the Presbyterian catechism | for the Episcopal prayerbook and be deep in questions connected with ritualism and auric- ular confession. If you impagn her motives and suggest that the bias of personal friend- ship has something to do with the change, she assumes that injured look which it is so diffi- cult for a tender masculine heart to with- stand, and when you leave gives you a paper | on the laying-on of hands, together with the latest sermon by the bishop of that diocese. If she lives in a place where the books she wants are not readily procurable she entrusts you with various little commissio: the sequel to which is that the next time ps, Br | that way you find yourself bearing to her aset of choice tracts on prayers for the dead or a portable library on church government. We must not be misunderstood as ridiculing a taste for serious or even sectarian reading. It is a perfectly proper and creditable one, and without it one of the best means for staying vice and strengthening virtue would fall into decay. Weare only pointing out the tenden- cies of an ill-balanced temperament, with a strong religious basis, to fly from one for of belief to another, imagining that each change is for conscience’ sake and wilf last forever. We have said that it is among the gentler sex that these caprices are usually met with; but among men also there are a quite appre- ciable number of instances. Who has not been surprised, not to say outraged, by more than one defection of a favorite minister? There are some clergymen who seem born to run the | gauntlet of religious belief. Sceptics before they enter the ministry, they often settle upom acreed that has been consecrated by ages of assent. For some years a minister having some such antecedents as these will preach upon this platform until circumstances induce him to modify his belief, and he delivers a farewell sermon before a weeping congregation which mourns his heresy, As the years pass on the same scene is repeated by him at intervals, and by the time he has reached forty we find him veering around toward scepticism | again or endeavoring to make a final stand as the pioneer of some unique religious society created by himself, It is not wonderful that something of the reputation of the, coquet should attach to clergymen of this description. They fallin love with. creed after creed only to jilt tiem all at last, and by the time they reach the average boundary of human life it is no unusual thing for them to turn their backs on the ministry altogether and take to writing | psychological novels or the invention of yeast powders or some other pursuit equally usefal to mankind. Yet among all the caprices and inconsisten- cies of the religious coquet there is some- thing to admire., While the mood lasts the pious flirt does an amount of useful work which might well arouse the envy and emula- tion of staider brethren. If it be a woman who betrays the foible in question, she is President Grant to devise. We are glad to’ come and speedily persuade her to forget the pangs she suffered in separating from old associations. If it be a man he is often able to take a leading position at once, the ordeals which he has passed through giving him a publicity as of one who has been persecuted and spoken all manner of evil against talsely for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. Thus a good deal of work falls into the hands of the religious coquet which probably no one else could perform so readily or so well, since he is stimulated by the fact that the eyes of all with whom he has broken are upon him, not less than the eyes of all those with whom he has just pledged faith. But when we come to dissect the conscience of the class of vacil- lators of whom we have been speaking we confess to being considerably in the dark. Analyze as you will, you cannot discover their hidden nature. Like the ways of the Almighty, it is past finding out. The Livingstone Relief Expedition. The latest tidings from the Livingstone Re- lief Expedition, under Lieutenant Cameron, are not very encouraging. After the return of the Herat Expedition the Royal Geographical Society, emboldened by its success, sent out Lieutenant Cameron, with an effective force ond abundant supplies, to reinforce the old and iron-hearted traveller. Cameron and his party arrived at Zanzibar on the 13th of January. It was of the highest moment that they should have at once pushed inland, crossed the swamp belt near the coast and planted their camp on the high plateau before the rainy season set in. Delay after delay was allowed to retard their advance, and not till May last did they get fairly under way. It now appears that Cameron has taken a more southerly route than that pursued by the Heraup Expedition under Mr. Stanley, and the event has proved unpropitious. The canebrake and long sword- grass, through which the line of march has necessarily been cut, have been almost im- passable, and rendered taking correct ob- servations and bearings almost impossible. The letters last received give Cameron’s im- pressions of the East African natives, which agree with those of the Hzzatp Commissioner, and convey the idea of ‘‘men far better off than the majority of English laborers.’’ Their huts are well built, they have abundance to eat, indulging in the use of tobacco and other luxuries, and in the interior enjoying the charms and profits of the pastoral life. The reports which had last reached Zanzi- bar represent the military power of Mirambo as waning, but still defiant and likely to offer resistance to the advancing relief party, as it nears Unyanyembe and Ujiji. The party under Lieutenant Cameron goes with orders to make their way to Livingstone wherever he may be found, and, on finding him, to place itself, with all its resources, entirely at the Doctor's disposal, for further geographical exploration or for any service he may assign to it. Thus going it will, doubtless, render valuable aid to the great geographer, and enable him to settle many obscure points which his solitary re- search has found impossible for him to clear up. Livingstone’s fame and labors are the property of the whole world, and any ex- peditionary force sent to succor him will command the good wishes and sympathy of the whole civilized world. The Pith of the Pulpits, The bracing blasts of yesterday tended to fill the churches, and very fair vacation- time audiences might be found in all the sanctuaries that were open. In the Tabernacle Baptist church Rev. Wayland Hoyt preached to a crowded house on the complete- ness of Christian character in Jesus Christ. In Him and by Him the soul of the ‘sinner finds its glory and its redemption, and hence our hearts should render to Him perfect love and obedience. Though no man, as Mr.” Hoyt intimated, might be able to live up to his professions and to his duty, yet when Christ standeth by the regenerated soul God the Father can: find no flaw in its character, for we are complete in Him: Rev. Mr. Quint occupied Plymouth pulpit yesterday, and, evidently profiting by our strictures of his last Sabbath effort, he preached a sermon which has much more of the marrow of the Gospel in it than that. Christian obedience was his theme—a most excellent one for any pulpit. It is a duty as thoroughly enforced’ in the Scriptures as any duty can be, and yet it is perhaps as much neg- lected by Christians as any other. It is by obedience that we first become children of God. The idea of obedience involves the idea of law, and Christ is the end of the law. Hence a man who lives in disobedience to the law of God lives under the wrath of God. But while obedience is thus made neces- sary it must be rendered heartily as unto God, and not for any pleasure of our own. It must be an obedience that takes up the cross daily, and none other can stand the test of tempta- tion. While this sermon was being delivered in his own pulpit Mr. Beecher was preaching to @ country congregation among the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His church was improvised in the parlors of a hotel, which were packed with people, to whom the Plymouth pastor preached an eminently practical sermon on the fruits of the Spirit as they. are developed in the believing soul. The process of growth and development of these fruits—love, joy, peace, &c.—was amply and plainly illustrated by a variety of metaphors. One fruit is the development of another, and hence love begets joy, and when joy becomes perfect peace is the result. Camp meeting Christianity Mr. Beecher character- ized as hot house religion. But it is not sufti- cient. What men want is.a religion that will hold all the year round inevery place and un- der all circumstances. ‘‘Religion,” said Mr, Beecher, ‘is God's hotel tuble, where the guests call for what their particular inclina-. tion suggests.” He does not see true unity in the Catholic Church, nor indeed in any Church where thgse fruits of the Spirit do not grow and ripen. An infidel, in the true sense of the word, he considers an impossibility, and so do we. . Rev. Mr. Harris, in the Alanson Methodist Episcopal church, presented a very simple and logical view of tha doctrine of the omni- presence of God, and scouted the idea that law is something separate and apart from mind. The theory that God made the uni- ° ful care than our bodies can move without the consent and the impulses of the will. The doctrine of election or reprobation received a share of Mr. Harris’ attention also. He pro- nounced it a contradiction and wholly impos- sible for God to decree one lot of beings to be saved beforehand and another lot to be damned. ‘If that is the God I am to wor- ship,” said the preacher, “let me be a Jew again.” And who would not rather be a Jew, or, indeod, a pagan, than the’ worshipper of such a God? if Rev. Mr. Miller, in the Murray Hill Presby- terian church, exalted the faithfulness and power of God tokeep the believer, and re- marked that, ‘‘If we belong to the kingdom of the Redeemer, we may stumble but we will not fall. We shall rise again through faith.” And faith in the Lord Jusus Christ and the power of God is that which can and will keep us; and this faith is the gift of God, freely imparted unto all who seek it aright. * + The ‘Rev. Father Flynn, in St. Stephen's Catholic church, pointed out to his hearers the signs by which they might show whether they loved the Lord or not. ‘If we really love God we will do our utmost to please Him” and to obey His holy law. And in loving Him “‘we give our hearts’ affections to an infinitely perfect being.” The claims of God upon our love and obedience, based upon our creation and redemption by Him, were forcibly pre- sented by the preacher, and the opportunities that we have for manifesting our love, and the beauty and symmetry which it will impart to our moral characters, were also set forth. While it will compel us to hate sin it will enable us to love the sinner, to bind up the wounds of the afflicted@nd to spmpathize with him in his troubles and misfortune. In short, love to God will beget love to our neigh- bor also, and on these two loves hang all the law and the prophets. . The Catholics of Greenpoint laid the cor- ner stone of a new church yesterday, and were briefly addressed by Bishop Loughlin. Rey. William Lawrence, of Patchogue, L. L, tells us the difference between enthusiasts and men of earnest faith and zeal. ‘‘No Chris- tian man who pursues the path that God has marked out for him can be an enthusiast, be- cause he uses appropriate means to gain a worthy and attainable object; whereas all who do not yield to God’s mode of obtaining for- giveness of sin, and who put forth no earnest effort to reach heaven, are open to the charge of being enthusiasts.’’ This is certainly turn- ing the tables altogether, but we think Mr. Lawrence has pushed his point a little too far. «“Enthusiasm,”’ he tells us, ‘‘is not to be meas- ured by the quantity of its fervor, but by its quality. A man may properly be called an enthusiast who lifts anything out of its proper sphere of worth and pays it the service which his own fancy alone has made it merit.’’ But “it is not possible to lift religion out of its position,” and hence we infer no man who is truly religious can be truly an enthusiast also, Is this true or is it not? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge O. A. Lochrane, of Georgia, is staying at the Sturtevant House, Ex-Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Lieutenant, Governor Pinchback, of Louis- iana, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House. ~* Assistant Paymaster W. ©. McGowan, of the United States Navy, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. . Lieutenant Commander Felix McCurley, of the United States Army, is registered at the St. Nicho- las Hotel. Sir Andrew Clarke, the new Governor of the Straits settlements, will leaye England tor Singa, pore on the 5th of November, His Excellency Terashima, Japanese Minister in London, will leave for Japan by the French mail ofthe 29th of Auyust. His departure from Eng- land is necessitated by ll healtn, His successor is not yet appointed. Baron von Butzow, Russian Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General in Japan, who has had charge of the German Legation in that country during the absence on furlough of Herr von Brandt, has re- ceived jrom the Emperor of Germany the insignia of the second class, or Knight Commander of the Prussian Order 0: the Red Eagle, in recognition of his services.” A sailor, recently discharged from the United States steamer Palos as a time-expired man, has attempted to commit suicide in the Cosmopolitan Tavern, Hongkew, China, by taking laudanum. ‘The pdlice took charge of the man and brought nim before Mr. Bradford, tne Acting United States Con- sul General, when he said jamily troabvle and the fact that he had recklessly spent $160 of wages had tempted him to the act. He was discharged. THE NEWHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, August 24, 1873, Many of the mevabers of the new Congress have alrehay drawn pay. The Clerk of the House has prepared a list of those w.rese seats are uncontested and who are entitled to sala%¥ Without question. Some interest is already expressed here concern- ing ‘the organization of the Houde, Gentiemen who have given the subject consideration Bay tliere seems to be no contest with regard to the ré-elec- tion of Mr. Blaine as Speaker, Mr. McPherson as Clerk and Mr. Buxton as Doorkeeper. It 19 not certain that Mr. King will be @ candidate for re- election as Postmaster. The most serious opposi- tion Will be against Mr. Ordway for Sergeant-at- Arms, arising from local causes in Washington; but his friends, nevertheless, assert that he will be successful in his canvass. YACHTING NOTES. ‘The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Clio, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Thomas B, Asten, trom Newport tor New Yor! Yacht Rambler, N.¥.Y.C., Mr. W. H. Thomas, from Newport for New York. A BLAZE IN WILLIAMSBURG. A Row of Five me Buildings in Grant Street on Fire Last Night. At about eleven o'clock last nignt a fire occurred in the two-story frame building No. 198 Grand street, Williamsburg, occupied by Mr. Goldstein as @ clothing store. The fire spread rapidly, extendin, to No. 196, occupied by Adam Schmidt . as = ashoe ares thence tu No. 194, occupied by Mr. Brainerd as & gentlemen's furnishing store; theace to No. 192, occupied as a store and resident by Mre, Corde- lier, a dealer in furs and hats; thence to the iliu- 1, V: g origin of 5 minating oil store of H. ©. Vaughan, The orig) | the principal buildings destroyed are the* stores of the fire was not ascertained. At one o'clock this morning the flames were still raging, and there was very little hope of saving the block. Up to midnight the oniy buildings destroyed were those Owned by S. turtle & son. ‘They were smail frame structures of comparatively little value. The entire loss will not probably exceed $20,000. LEGACIES OF A PHILANTHROPIC LADY. Hantrorp, Conn., August 24, 1873, Mrs. Sarah F, Wright, of this city, who died last week, left $5,000 to the Home Missionary Society and $5,000 each to five philantaropic institutions Of this city. sol Seapine A METHODIST CAMP MEETING. | is nearly $500,000. MaptrorD, Conn., August 24, 1373, At the Methodist camp meeting at Fiainville to- day about 7,000 people were present. The meoting verse and thon lett it @p take care of itself he | civscs on Wednesday Oext THE GEORGE WOLFE EXPLOSION. Fourteen Dead So Far Found. STATEMENT OF THE CAPTAIN. The Cause of the Explosion Still a Mystery. Names-of the Killed, Wounded and Saved. MeEmpuis, Tenn., August 24, 1873. The steamer Julia arrived here about eleven o’clock to-day, bringing most of the survivors of the ill-ated George Wolte, among them Captain Henry S. Carter, her commander, who was con- siderably bruised about the head, and had his leit leg also badly bruised. Captain Carter states that @ short time before the explosion he had gone to hia room to take & nap, leaving the mate on watch, and the first he knew of the accident was that he felt himsgif lifted into the air witha severe shock and tell with the débris on the lower deck, As 8000 as he could extricate himself he glanced around and saw that the forward part of the cabin and “texas” had been blown away a(t to the boilera and thatsome of the timbers had taken fire, Hie first thought was to extinguish the flames, which, with the ald of @ few others and a heavy rain which was falling at the time, he soon suc- veeded in doing. Meantime one of the crew, waa had been but slightly jnjured, seeing tuat the wreck had drifted near the shore, jumped out with the headline and made her fast, when It was found that the boat had been but little injured, except as already stated. As soon as the fire was extin- guished everything possible was done to relieve the sufferers, The Captain states she had ONLY TEN OR TWELVE ‘CABIN PASSENGERS, = only one of whom was lost, Mr. Neison, a pian@ tuner from New York, aged about sixty years. Owing to the condition of Mr. Wilden, the clerk, who was severely burned about the chest and throat, 1t was impossible to obtain a list of the passengers from him, and thg books were all lost. Miss Kebecca Cohn, of Jefferson, Texas, who was accompanied by her cousin, W. Solmonsby, ef Paris, Texas, states she was on the forward guard of the boat, and, owing to the severity ot the storm which was raging, remarked, “Let us go into the cabin,” and just aa she rose the explosion occurred, and she wag blown into the river, where, seeing 2 man neat her, she grasped him by the neck and he told her tocatch his left arm or she would drown both, which she did, and soon after @ spat came floating by, which he seized, and they held to it, floating down the river for along dis tance, until the barber of tue boat came to theit assistance wiih a‘pole, which her preserver caught, and, still holding on to the spar, they were safely lagded on shore. Miss Cohn was considerably bruised, She could not learn the name of the mau who saved her, but he was one of a party of tour belonging to the Transatlantic Circus, M4 ‘The passengers speak in the highest terms of the conduct of the officers, especially of Captain Car- ter and the steward. Notwithstanding that the former was severely injured, he was most active in the work of reheving others and extinguishing the fire, NAMES OF THE DEAD. ‘The following is a list of those lost, as faras has been ascertained :— Peter Helpler, second engineer. Mr. Nelson, of New York, . Mr. Dawson, wife and two children, of Shreve port. : G. H, White, of Michigan, belonging to the Trans atlantic Circus. ‘ Seven colored rousters, four of whom were found and buried, NAMES OF THE WOUNDED. ‘The following are the wounded, all of whom re side in St, Louis, except when otherwise stated:— Captain Carter. Joseph H. Widen, clerk, severely in the head and chest. James Donohue, pilot, left leg badly sprained. James Conanan, bruised about the head. Cole Boren, pilot, sughtly inthe head and body. John Coursen, engineer, right shoulder sprained, — McCarthy, barkeeper, slightly bruised and scalded. Harmon Mahaffy, steward, slightly. James Smith, third cook, left arm and foot scalded. Mrs. Frisbie, Shreveport, cut in the right side, and her daughter Lena, ankle sprained. LIST OF THE UNHURT. The following persons are unhurt :— Mrs, Freeman and two children, Alabama; Miss Flies, Shreveport; Mr. Ober, St. Charles, Mo, ; F. H. Ellis and lady, L. J. Bowen, Joe Moore, Charlie Freehouse, M. L. Banagan, Ira Center, Ed. Hogan, M. B. Williams, M. L. Saville, and the following colored rousters:--Willis Wood, Frank Thorp, James Dawson, George Hooper, James Jones, Bill Burgett, Ben Banks, Charles Shirus, Alexandet Julian and John Couslin, a white fireman, The following colored rousters are in the hospital at Galena, badly hurt:—Billy Burton, of Nashville; _ Birt Noahby, of St. Louis; Perry Reedy, of Bowling Green, Ky. George Chattman (colored), of New Orleans, ‘was blown overboard and drowned, The engineer states that Mr. Helpler, the second engineer, who was on duty at the time of the ex- plosion, was one of the most reliable and compe- tent men he ever saw, and can give no theory as ta the cause of the explosion. The last seen of Mr. Helpler was by the carpenter, who saw him try the gauge, and just as he put down the stick the ex- plosion occurred. Persons on shore who saw the explosion state that bodies and fragments of tim- ber were blown sixty feet into the air. Captain Carter and the survivors speak in warm terms of the assistance rendered by the officers ot the G. 0, Check and Julia in relieving their wants. ‘The second clerk, Edward Black ; the mate, Henry Bustr,and the steward were left in charge of the wreck. The others left for St. Louis on the Julla, FIRE IN BELFAST, ME. . os ‘The Flames Fanned Into Fary By s Strong Gale=—Nearly All the Whars Buildings Destroyed—Estimated Less $500,000. Beurast, August 24, 1873, A most destructive fire broke out here this afternoon, at two o'clock, the weather being dry and a strong gale blowing from the north, It com- menced in Dennett's sail loft, north of R, Sibley & Bros.’ wharf, and spread with fearful raptdity along the wharves, a8 far as Carter's shipyard and marine railway, crossing Union street and extending to High street, consuming all the buildings in @- southerly course as far ag -the house of E. K. Boyle, on High street, where the fire was stayed. Over 125 buildings were destroyed, mostly of wood. The whole loss, a3 near as it can be estimated to-night, Excepting on the two steam- boat wharves, with @ single exception, all the prominent wharf buildings are burned. , Among RK. Sibley & Son, Pitcher & Gorham, J. W. Fred. erick & Co., W. B. Swan & Co., Daniel Lane, the Beifast foundry, W. Pitcher, & Sons, five houses; Carter H. Coes’ ship yard, with one or more ves- sels on the stocks; Mr. Cooper, lumber yard; Matthews & Co, sash and bind factory; ©. Re Thornies, sail loft; D. W. Dyer & Co, marine railway. In High street the valuable house of James Gilmore, -the Jostah Farear House, the Carter House, the Frothingham House and the houses of Messrs. RK, W. Stephenson, D. W, Dyer, Asa Faunce and E. K. Boyle were de- stroyed. Atleast one hundred and thirty families are rendered homeless, A large number of per. sons removed their furnitare, among tuem, Mr. W. H. Burrill, Mr. T, Thorndike and many oftiers on Church street,