The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HE JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —— 411 business or news letters and telegraphic Aespatches must be addressed New Youe Bena. d Letters and packages should be properly sealed. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the ‘pear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12, Velame XXXVIII., jo, 238 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vagierr Syrestaureent, oR, SUE, Rese NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Bouston ste.— Tas Suter Ouse” pre a HOUSER, Bighth av. and Twenty-third ) Nigut’s Daraw. \ METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 58 Broadway.—Vanserr Mwreantamousr, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ‘Wtrect.— Mint, i BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burravo Bui—Marxep wos Lirr, . Woop" ISEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Mazanone, ierooon and evening. 1 Y THEATRE, 798 and 790 Broadway.—Orena Bours rts Puss Ds Mapinu AxoOR. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, betweon Houston Bd Bleecker streets.—MErHisTO. .. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svmman Niauts’ Con- ‘wears, RDA NEW _YORK.MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No, 618 Broad- ‘way.: (Ok AND ART. DR, KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 68 Broadway.—Souxcn anp Anr. TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Tuesday, August 26, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Be Sracaslas! ELIE To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION SIDE BY SIDE! WRERE IS THE REMEDY?—EDITORIAL LEADING ARTICLE—Sixra Paas. DIABOLISM IN-KANSAS! A GERMAN HELL- HOUND, FOUND GUILTY OF SIX MURDERS, SUMMARILY STRUNG UP BY HIS EXAS- PERATED NEIGHBORS! HIS FIRST WIFE KICKED TO DEATH, HIS SECOND, AND THE WIFE AND BABES OF A MAN DWELL- ING NEAR BY, KILLED IN COLD BLOOD— Firte Paog. MICHAEL BRODERICK EXONERATED BEFORE THE CORONER'S JURY! THEY DECLARE THE SON KILLED IN SELF-DEFENCE! THE FATHER BAILED—Fovurrs Paas. THE THIRD TERM QUESTION DISUUSSED BY THE GERMANS! THE “UNEASY” ELE- MENT IN THE PROBLEM! THE REPUB- LIO'S BASIS—Turmp Pas. ANOTHER RAILROAD DISASTER! AN EXPRESS TRAIN ON THE SOUTHSIDE ROAD THROWN INTO A SWAMP AND FIFTEEN PASSENGERS INJURED! NARROW ES- CAPES FROM DEATH—Taimp Page. FALLING IN LINE AGAINST BACK-PAY BUTLER! THE SUPPORTERS OF WASHBURN AD- DRESS THE VOTERS IN FAVOR OF HIS RE-ELECTION—Tu1Rp Pace. PREPARING FOR THE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL! THE UNION DIVIDED INTO FIVE DISTRICTS AND MASS MEETINGS TO BE HELD! THE REGULATIONS—TentH PaGE, LARGE DIAMOND SEIZURE AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE! 200 TAKEN FROM A MINER— THIRD PAGE. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BOONTON, N. J.—THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE BY THE BEL- FAST (MAINE) CONFLAGRATION—SEVENTH PaGs. RACING EVENTS AT LONG BRANCH TO-DAY AND AT PROSPECT AND HAMPDEN PARKS YESTERDAY—TENTH PaGE. ‘NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—IMPORTANT GENE- ERAL NEWS—S8VENTH Pace. BARATOGA’S SUNSET! THE BIRDS OF FASHION FLYING HOMEWARD AND THE COMING GLOOM ALREADY DARKENING THE HEARTS OF LANDLORDS! THE RACES, WATERS AND HOTELS—FiFta PAGE. CONFLICTING TESTIMONY IN THE ITALIAN KIDNAPPING CASE! THE LEGAL WAR IN THE HARLEM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH! THE COMPTROLLER AGAIN BEATEN IN A SALARY LITIGATION—FourtH Pags. PHILADELPHIA’S TRANSATLANTIU BALLOON FIZZLE—REMOVING THE RENDERING BOAT—THE BLACK CROOK PICTURES— BANK “ DEFICIT *—FourTH Page. APPOINTMENTS OF NEW OFFICERS AGITATING THE ASSISTANT ALDERMEN! JUDGE FOWLER'S SALARY! THE GAS CON- TRACTS—FirTH Pacz, PACIFIC MAIL STOCK A FEATURE ON THE EX- CHANGE! MONEY, GOLD AND RAILROAD BONDS FIRM—-FUNERAL OF A JOURNAL- IST—E1GaTa Pace. To Our Excuanozs.—We are in receipt of many letters asking whether the Heratp in- tends curtailing its exchange list since the new law affecting postage went into effect, To all these and to all publishers interested wo desire to say that we notonly wish to retain all our present exchanges, but to in- crease the list to the extent of at least five hundred additional newspapers. Taz Weatnen.—We have had for two days ® lucid interval from our late two weeks’ siege of clouds, fogs and storms; but from present indications and weather reports we shall soon ee eed rain, The hotel men of our sum- watering places have suffered and may gaffer from these rains of August, bat the country at large will gain immensely from the general good soaking of the thirsty land. 5 Mpamunox to Nort Canorma.—Ro- ferring to the influx of immigrants into Vir- ginia a North Carolina paper puts in o timely word in regard to the inducements held out to immigrants to gather upon the broad planta- tions of the “Old North State.’ And what “may be said of North Carolina in this respect may be said of nearly every other Southern State—namely, tHat they comprise the best field for industrious men, especially those of the agricultaral class, to settle in in the coun- try. The “voice of the croaker’’ ig now only occasionally ~heard in the South, and the advent of the hardy immigrant from all parts pf the world is bailed with satisfaction by sensible people everywhere, Without dispar- aging the advantages offered to the imm it who seeks @ permanent home in the West, it i¢ bat just to epeak of the indace- Ments offered te those who desire to settle Under tho more genial skies of the sunny Barberism and Civilisation Side by Bide=Where Is the Remedy? ‘The appalling details of the sufferings of Mary Rowland and the cruclty of the step- mother and stepsister, Mrs. Rowland and Miss Baptist, in Philadelphia, as given by our cor- respondent, show what fiend-like beings in ‘human form exist in the midst of our civilized society. Indeed, the catalogue of dreadful crimes which the press has to record from day to day is enough to startle the community and to raise the question whether, with all our boasted civilization, we are not retrograding. Very often the vile and maddening stuff sold for liquor at the: numerous grogshops, corner groceries and bars, sets the brain on fire and arouses the worst passions, and then murder follows. The orime in Qarmine street is another out of many cases in point. Even a night's sleep did not cure Broderick of the effects of the poison he had taken as a beverage. Under its influence he felt no restraint, and he murderously attacked bis own chil- dren, killing one son and dangerously wounding another. How many crimes, alas! have we to notice from the same cause? Sometimes, however, murder is induced by cupidity, or springs from an inherently wicked and oruel nature, Suche crime as that at Philadelphia, which is almost a murder—a sort of slow murder by systematic cruelty— could only be papain by those whose hearts wore utterly ed. We have read of avaricious and cruel-hearted schoolmasters of the Squeers type, of unfeeling and unscru- pulous taskmasters, and not unfrequently of cruel fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law, but never of such deliberate and persistent bru- tality as that at Philadelphia. It seems, really, that the more pretence of virtue there is in some communities the more appalling are the crimes committed in them. hia claims the merit of being a very moral and orderly place, and, weare willing to admit, a large portion of its population is respectable. Still the revelations lately made by our correspondents show that in no city is there grosser immorality, though frequently covered over by an outward show of decency or by @ veil being thrown over it, There isa good deal of the same Puritanical spirit in Philadelphia as in Boston, which makes a show of respectability at the front door, while the side or back door is open to vice and un- cleanness. It is just this sort of hypocrisy which hardens and demoralizes a com- munity and leads to such horrible cruelty as that of Mrs. Rowland, as well as to the frightful orgies in Phila- delphia that have been exposed in this paper. There is in juxtaposition with our boasted civilization, particularly in the large cities, a fearful amount of demoralization. Where is the remedy? Better police regulations and a more vigilant police force would help to re- move the evil, But what is most needed isa maore general and higher order of education. Then, those who assume to work for the morals and salvation of the community, the minis- ters of religion and the churches, pay little attention to the poorer classes. They, to- gether with the wealthy, could do much more to instruct and reclaim the vicious and to break up’ the haunts of vice. It is a sad re- flection that in the midst of our Christian civilization, and where costly churches are erected in almost every square of our cities, crime should be so rampant and vice prevail so much. Nine-tenths of the murders and other crimes of violence in New York and other large cities arise probably from drunkenness, and gener- ally from that maddening drunkenness which the poison of adulterated liquors induces. It is unnecessary to go into the anatomy of drunkenness to show how different intoxi- cating drinks affect individuals or how differ- ent natures are affected by them. Drunken- ness is bad enough from any kind of intoxi- eating drink, from the best wines as well as from the worst whiskey. Some natures, too, are set on fire to madness and deeds of vio- lence by any intoxicating drink, and some- times by a small amount of it comparatively. But every one knows that the poisonous com- pounds sold at the numerous grogshops, cor- ner groceries and bars in this city havea much worse effect than good wine or pure liquor. They brutalize people and make them crazy, and, even when the fumes of excitement pass off, leave the victims in & morose condition. Men become tigers first and bears afterwards, and are ready in both their savage conditions to commit deeds of blood. The worst passions of Broderick, as we have instanced, were exhib- ited when in a stupefied condition in the morning after sleeping away to some extent the drunkenness of the night before, In his case, no doubt, as in many others, the poison he imbibed operated after the first exciting effect passed away. There is murder in it all the time, whether the brain is violently stim- ulated or subsides into cruel moroseness, The verdict of the Coroner’s jury in the case of Broderick, that the slaying of his son was justifiable homicide, does not change the fact or affect our argument, This extraordinary verdict and the evidence that led to it tend to show in the strongest light the frightful de- moralization of certain classes of the commu- nity which results chiefly from the use of in- toxicating drinks. There is no specific law, we believe, to pun- ish the adulterators of liquors and those who sell such compounds, or, at least, none that will reach them. That there ought to be every good citizen will admit. Though it may not be easy to frame a law that will reach the evil, and harder to get one executed in this city, the Legislature and police can do what is needed if they choose. The Legislature seemed to have got a scintillation of light on this subject when it passed the act of the 29th of last May, giving the families of those who might suffer from injury or death by intoxication a claim for damages upon the sellerg of intoxicating liquors, By this act every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person who should be injured in person or in consequence of the intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any person, shall have a right of action, in his or her name, against such per- son or persons who shall, by selling or giving away intoxicating liquors, cause the intoxica- tion, in whole or 1n part, of such person or per- sons, All connected with the selling of liquors, or owning the premises where liquors are sold, who may be interested in or know of the sell- ing of intoxicating liquors, are liable for damages under this law. The action is, how- ever, by civil suit, and the penalty isa fine of from two hundred dollars to five hundred. But this does not provide a sufficient remedy for the evil. Few civil actions will be com- menced on account-of the expense and incon- venience of prosecuting them and the small amount of the penalty. The grogshop keepers will laugh at this law. The police, who are generally on the best tarms with the liquor dealers, will do little to enforce it. A comprehensive law, simple and direct in its provisions, is wanted, not only to make liquor dealers responsible for the injurious results of intoxication caused by them, but to make it criminal to sell adulterated liquors; for such vile compounds are the cause chiefly of the marty rows, bloody fights, stabbings and murders we have to record from day to day. Make it criminal or liable toa heavy fine, or both, to sell adulterated tiquors, and there would not be, probably, half the terrible crimes that uow 0c- cur. ‘There would be little difficulty for detectives, informers, or citizens who had the welfare of the community at heart to buy and have analyzed the liquor sold and to bring offenders to justice, Then the numerous un- licensed groggeries should be hunted down by the police, the number of licenses issued should be more limited than at present, and the license law, a8 to the hours of keeping open liquor shops and bars, should be en- forced. Above all, the policemen should be held responsible for the execution of the laws on their beats, and if there be not a sufficient force a larger one should be employed. The prevention of crime, the morals of the com- munity and the reputation of the city call for such action as we have suggested. With all our claims to a high state of civilization, there is a barbarism existing that some uncivilized tribes are not guilty of. We need a better and more generally diffused system of education for the masses, one that will make them see and feel the value of morality and the interest they have in the well-being of society. To ac- complish this our lawmakers, the ministers of religion, the press, the wealthy and all classes should unite in their efforts, To edu- cate and elevate the mass of the people will do more to check crime than anything else, Samuel Baker on His Recent Central African Expedition. In tho letter which we have laid before our readers from Sir Samuel Baker on the Upper Nile toa personal friend in England, on the result of his recent Central African expedition, this king of explorers among the wilds of Africa says that Egypt now extends to the Equator; that the Lakes Albert Nyanza and ‘Tanganyika are one sheet of water; that there oust be a general reform in the Soudan be- fore any great work (in the way of internal improvements) can be accomplished there; that on his expedition to and from the equa- torial Nile lakes he had to fight his way through many obstructions, including hostile tribes and slave traders; that his whole party narrowly escaped destruction; that the slave trade on the river is suppressed, and that “when I see the Viceroy I shall be able to manage matters for the future.” In all these details we have the confirma- tion of the Hznatp despatch of some weeks go from our special correspondent at Khar- toum, on the Upper Nile. The particular point of universal importance in this letter is the confirmation of the despatch, in refer- ence to Lakes Albert and Tanganyika. Sir Samuel, over his own signature, and in this letter to a friend in England, says:—‘The Albert Nyanza is one sheet of water, including the Tanganyika Lake. You may imagine the future results of steam navigation.’ _ He re- peats this solution of one of the most per- plexing of the Nile mysteries as an established fact, and we are thereby strengthened in our impression that on his re turn to Cairo he will establish it before the world, although it is generally thought that, in the interests of African redemption and civilization, the news istoo good to be true. Sir AvapaMa mx 4 Bap Wax.—According to the editor of the Tuscaloosa Times, the present condition of Alabama must be truly bad—to use the expression of the Times, ‘‘appalling.”” Her treasury is - bankrupt, hor credit is anni- hilated, labor is demoralized, onerous taxes crush her peoplo to the earth, Her pub- lic schools are threatened with suspension, corruption reeks in all departments of her State government, and 60 on, until the dark picture becomes more and more dark and gloomy. ‘What has brought about this sad condition of things in Alabama?” asks our Tuscaloosa contemporary. And he replies that ‘‘but one truthful response can be given to the interrogatory, to wit—The rule of the scalawag, the carpet-bagger and the negro, has been the architect of this disastrous overthrow of the fortunes and hopes of a great Common- wealth. A ‘black man’s party,’ organized, manipulated and controlled by native apos- tates and hireling adventurers has done the mischief.’ Without pretending to suggest what might be done in this terrible emer- gency, we may be permitted to remark that such groanings as the above are not likely to attract either the immigrant, the manufacturer or the capitalist to the State of Alabama—a Btate among the fst in the Union in her natural resources, her Prolific goil and the generally high character of her’ s Paepanma wor Actioy.—The Buffalo Zs press (administration) is much gratified at the hopeful prospects before the republican party in this State, and believes that by using a fair amount of exertion it can easily maintain its present commanding position, It is evident that the republicans are preparing for action in all parts of the State, although it is what is termed in political parlance an off yeer. Meanwhile, it may well be asked, what are the democrats doing? Private accounts from the western part of the State aver that the democ- racy are sadly demoralized in that section ; that they have as yet made no arrangements for the coming contest; that the active mem- bers of the party—those who arrange ite machinery and set the concern in working order—are all adrift, without rudder or com- pass or a helmsman in whom they place con- fidence, If the republicans are preparing for action itis about time the democrats were beginning to think of something of this kind. ee Tae Svcvtan or Zanzrman, it is reported, is going for the benefit of his health to England in September, We rather incline to the opinion, however, that, should he undertake the voyage, it will be more to patch up seme compromise on the East African slave trade than to pateh up his demoralized constitution. Auxiliaries to Lyric and Dramatic Art — Shakspearian and Operatic Spectacic. Shakspeare was not only the greatest, but time has proved him to be the most fortunate, dramatist of any age. Before opera became the chief pastime of ‘‘our best society” and spectacular drama the delight of all classes, the dignified demeanor and ponderous elocution of the Shakspearian actors were greatly ap- preciated by cultivated people. But as a knowledge of art became more generally dif- fused, as the musical drama grew in power and magnificence, as the brush of the scene painter became an essential aid to the inter- pretation of passion and emotion, the truth gradually asserted itself that Shakespeare was a poet rather than a dramatist. This is the reason that Forrest was the last of the old school of actors, Nowadays art has gentler methods of expression than from Kemble to Macready and Kean to Forrest. Modern taste will have nothing to do with the thundering eloquence of the old stage, but demands delicate acting as the foreground of a picture of ex- quisite beauty. It is mot because the ballet is wicked and society degraded that this much abused ballet became 80 popular a few years ago. Worthless plays attained the highest success through the combined influence of the p@Btry of motion, gorgeousness of attire and splendor of scenery. People would not listen patiently to Hamlet's soliloquy, or Macbeth's speeches, or Othello’s ravings, when they could hear Greppo cry out that he wanted to go home from among hob- goblins, which seemed the realization of wildest imagination. A room in the palace of the duke or a plateau before the castle was no recompense for the grotto of Stalacta and the illuminated gardens of the poetic world. Men bogan to say Shakspeare is for the study, not the stage; and it was almost a matter of calculation when the great Shakspearian pieces would cease to be represented. Partially owing to the universality of Shak- speare’s genius, and partly to the good impulse of sensational spectacle, the glorious old plays exhibit renewed youth, when it was expected they would expire from senility. An example of this is seen in Mr. Daly's revival of the “Midsummer Night’s Dream’”’ at the Grand Opera House. Its chief claim to recognition is not in any particular point evolved by the piece, but in the complete embodiment of the Shakspeare ideal in @ transient reproduction, There were other great representatives of the character of Bottom before Mr. Fox played it. Other lovers rehearsed the love lines with a sweeter elocution before it was produced at the Grand Opera House. The byplay has often been as well done. Burton gave us a more elaborate picture of Fairyland. His production of the ‘Midsummer Night's Dream” we remember as one of his greatest works, and that, too, in the very infancy of scenic art in this country. Mr. Daly's revival isa mere dramatic episode, limited to a few performances, and yet it is satisfactory to the imagination and entrancing as a picture. It is in this that we recognize his artistic skill. He has made us forget that Lysander and Demetrius, Hermia and Helena talk about their love in Shakspeare’s lines instead of act- ing it according to the domands of modern taste. Their surroundings are such that we see in the picture the Shakspearian story whether we hear the lines or not. In the chil- dren’s ballet we have the wood fairies’ dance. In the frolicsome Puck there is relief from the incongruity of grown up fairies. But, as we said before, it is not for any one of these things in itself that we recognize his merit, but in his quick apprehension of the meaning of modern art and his ready applica- tion of artistic growth toa noble purpose— his provision and liberality in giving us a Shakspearian spectacle. Unlike the trashy spectacular pieces, it is not intended to run for a season by the aid of meretricious de- vices, for in another fortnight all this beauty will have vanished. Burton’s great knowl- edge of Shakspearian art enabled him to ob- tain a great success years ago, but we doubt if even he could have so popularized Shakspeare as to have presented the ‘‘Midsummer Night's Dream’’ in the magnificence of which it is capable for so short a run. Turning from this theme to sensational spectacle, as it is in ‘The Black Crook,” we find ourselves in a different atmosphere—a different world. Here the poetic is suppressed and the weird and unnatural or the sensual obtrades. Tho grotesqueness of thé incanta- tion scene is unobjectionable—it is merely the attempt to paint a picture which shall reveal one of the fantasies of the alchemists. What we object to isthe art impurity in the pan- orama. The management and the artist could not fail to know that ‘‘The Rake’s Progress,"’ upon which two of the pictures are based, would be an improper substitute for ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress.’ Hogarth made vice at- tractive, and, admitting the ability with which Mr. Morgan has remodelled the ‘Orgies at the Rose Tavern” and the ‘‘Rake’s Ruin at the Gaming Table,” the effect of these pictures is the same, The nude figure in the painting called ‘“‘woman”’ may be defended on artistic grounds, but the purpose tor which it is in- troduced is indefensible, Besides this, the viotures on the Spéning night were open to the onatie of neice the faces of living men, more or less broadly Thus it will be seen that there have offences against both taste and morals. Soene Work or this kind can be no real auxiliary to dramatic art except as it gives an impulse to achieve- ments equally fine in the domain of purity and the realms of beauty.’ Of course mere scene painting is not spectacle, but when the ap- pliances which go to make spectacular drama are applied to pieces of sterling worth, eo ag to render legitimate art alluring, a great vic- tory has been gained over the Evil One, though the Evil One was first to suggest its possibility. Spectacle is in every way as applicable to lyrio as to dramatic art. If it is noble to clothe Shakspeare with everything that study and progress can give, it is in all things as noble to apply the results of such study and progress to music, Indeed, music is itself a stage adornment resorted to by the trafficers in sensational spectacle. They must not be allowed to appropriate successfully what does not belong to them. The coming season of Italian opere promises two new pieces of the lyrio drama—‘‘Aida’”’ and “Lohengrin” —both of which ave to be magnificently mounted and supplied with costumes as rich in every way as the costumes of the sepantional stace, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1873. ~TRIPLE SHEET. This is the way to drive vulgar plecesin fine! attire from the boards. Let the best comedy and the greatest operas be made tempting to the eye and the imagination as well as the ear, and the people will turn away from the trash and show that what they reverence is not the coarse, but the true and the good and the beautiful. pipe Bete ess Lis. Tas Ko Kuvx m Kznrvogy are evidently carrying things, in the interior of that still unreconstructed and late and semi- rebel State, with s high hand and with » de- greo of ferocious audacity that, but for the convincing evidence presented, would appear incredible. The Louisville CourterJournal gives a list of eighty-six Ku Klux outrages committed in three counties of the State since 1870, varying from “warnings to property holders against negro labor to arsons, pillages, whippings and murders;"’ and the correspondent furnishing the list of these crimes says, “That the Ku Klux have com- mitted twice as many as the time and means at my command have enabled me to gather, there can be but little doubt,’ The worst of itis these outrages are still continued. We ere gratified, therefore, to learn that our enterprising Louisville contemporary has taken hold of this business, as with a fixed resolu- tion to put an end to this public scandal and this great disgrace to Kentucky, and we hope that his activity in behalf of law and order will result in prompt and decisive action by the State authorities, for upon them falls the scandal of these Ku Klux atrocities, the re- sponsibility and the duty of their suppression. A Great Cuancz or Tae Cumars Oot West, from the Rocky Mountains to Califor- nia, is evidently in progress. We learn from Salt Lake City that they have had in that basin this month more heavy showers than ever before in August, and this increase in the summer rainfall from Wyoming to Nevada has, we are told, been steadily going on since the completion of the Union and Central Pacific iron artery across the Continent. It is thought that these lines of iron rails have much to do with this remarkable change in the rainfall of the Far West.. It may be so; but if so, the building of two or three more Pacific railways will be worth a thousafid times over to the country all the cost of their construction. Tae Broapwary Wrmentnc Worx goes steadily on, and is evidently an improvement which will bea great gain to the city. We want various other street widenings and rapid transit from end to end of the island, in order to stop the tide-of emigration from the city and to fill up the waste places of the island with handsome stores and comfortable houses. But, as large bodies of clashing poli- ticians move slowly, we suppose that all ex- pectations of any more city improvements during the present year may as well be aban- doned. Where reform means simply the saving of money there can be but little re- form except that of saving at the spigot to waste at the bunghole. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. -———— Mr. Tilley, Minister of Finance of Canada, is be made a K. 0. B. Lieutenant Governor Denver, of Nevads, ison a visit to San Francisco. Mr. A. K. Syester, Attorney General of Mary- land, is on @ visit to Baltimore. Edgar K. Afgar takes editorial charge of the Worcester, Mass., Press on tho 1st of September. The Washington Star says Attorney General Wil- Hams is soon to take a vacation trip to New York. Hon. Thomas ©. Platt, member of Congress from the Twenty-seventh district of this State, was in Albany on Saturday. The St. John, N. B., Globe feels a degree of pride in being able to announce that at the reception given to Lord and the Countess of Dufferin in that city every man was sober. Gilbert ©. Walker, Governor of Virginia, will de- liver the annual address at the Virginia Agricul- tural State Fair in October. General George B. McClellan and ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, were in Hagerstown, Md., last week on railroad business, Itis announced that United States Senator Matthew H. Oarpenter, of Wisconsin, will not prosecute the 7Zribune for libel. The Governor General of Canada has presented a medal, called the Dufferin medal, to be competed for annually by the oarsmen of St. John, N. B, Nepakakwajidan and Wapackato, two Indian scouts, have been dismissed from the United States service. se—Too great fondness for fire-water. Elder Erastus Snow, Brigham Young’s right bower, who has been on a visit to his relatives in Canada, Vermont and Rhode Island, bas returned to Salt Lake City to look after his wives. The following is @ revised and corrected list of the Washburns:—Elinu B, Washburn, of Illinois, Minister to France; Cadwallader ©. Washburn, Governor of Wisconsin; William B, Washburn, Governor of Massachusetts; Peter T. Washburn, ex-Governor of Vermont; Israel Washburn, ex- Governor of Maine; W. E. Washburn, defeated candidate for Governor of Minnesota; Henry D. Washburn, ex-Member of Congress from Indiana; Charles A, Washburn, of California, ex-Minister to Paraguay. YACHTING NOTES, The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Palmer, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Stuyvesant, from NGMDOE Nettie, NT-Y.C., Mr, Follett, fro acht Nettie, N.Y.Y.C., Mr, poo es HY.1.0 ae P pido ‘acl ine, 1. ¥.0,, . * from City Island for New York. re NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, — WASHINGTON, August 25, 1873, Lieutenant Commander J. W. Dickens has been ordered to the Asiatic fleet, Surgeon Bogert to the Marine Barracks, Washington, and as Recorder of the Medical Examining Board. Lieutenant Com- mander James G, Grier has been detached from the receiving sbip Ohio, and ordered to the Asiatic sation; Lieutenant J. W. Greenleaf, from the Naval ObserPaw:,, and Lieutenant R. 0. Carmory, trom the New Haithenre, S24 ordered to the Asiatic station; Master JOHN A. Rorrie OB, Pg | qaty Vermont, and ordered to Newport @f to! Vice; Surgeon George A, Vooke, from 8] at Washington tothe Marine Ren desy Phila- jurgeon H. 0, Nelson, from the Marine Barracks, Washington, to duty in the Medical Bureau of the Navy Department. The United States steamer Alaska is under or- ders to proceed to Cadiz and report to the Rear Admiral commanding the European station. Be- fore leaving this country the Alaska will make @ trip to Newport, R. I. ARMY ORDERS, WasHineron, August 25, 1873. Major Thomas PF. Barr, Judge Advocate, bas been .| ordered to duty at tne headquarters of the Depart- Ment of Dakota; Major A. B. Gardner, to head- juarters of the Department of the South; Second jeutenant Carl F. Palfry, of the Engineer corps, to the Department of Mathematics, at thaUnited States Military Academy. HIGHWAY ROBBERIES IN JERSEY OITY. Late on Sunday night Mr. George Matthews, while passing the corner of Steuben and Warren streets, was stopped by @ gang of thieves and robbed of some money and & watch chain worth Mati no man. he iScsrae ieee es aes e heat of toou oxoebt trom quisldo partion —$—<—$— ——$—5————— re ee, peatesunats cel as Ay, > WASHINGTON, August 25, 1878. * The Modoc Captives, ZL With the approval of the sentences of the Modog captives by the Executive aud War Department, the question of dealing with the Indians of that tribe ia ended with the United States authorities here so’ far as the six murderers who are to be hanged Os, the 84 of October are concerned ; but others of that "* tribe are charged with serious offen. °s, for which it is known the Oregon authorities have requested from the government tneir delivery into the cus- tody of the State officials, the Indians now being held by the general government. The conduct of these Indians, preceding as well as subsequent to the capture and trial by @ court martial of the? leaders in the plot and assassinations at the lava beds last April, has been officially communicated here, and it {s certaia that the proper department will give due consideration tothe request that they be given ap to the State authorities. What the Gefinite result will be is not at present known, though it is probable that within ten days the’ Whole matter will be decided, The Reported Fight Between Indians and Colonel Custer’s Command. The War Department had not received any in~’ formation up to the closing of the Department to-day of the reported fight between Indians and ‘ Colonel Custer’s command, p Lively Competition for the Transatlantic, Mail Contracts, , ‘The present contracts for the Transatlantic mail service expire on the Sist of December next, and there will bea Itvely competition by the various. steamship cOmpanics to secure the contracts for next year. Tho service is now divided between the Williams & Guion, White Star, North German Lioyds and Hamburg-American packet companies. The Inman line, it will be remembered, was de< feated last time by the Williams & Guion line, the, latter showing that they made the greatest speed.. ‘This year the Inman line has new steamers, which they claim cannot be beaten, and will, they say, show better time than their competitors, The law fixes the compensation to be paid for the services. but the Postmaster General, in awarding tne con« | tract, selects the vonsels of the greatest speed. No Dilemma in the Internal Revenue Bureau. Statements have been publighed that the Inter-’; nal Revenue Bureau finds itself in a dilemma, on account of the selzure and destruction of tax-paid. malt liquors in Massachusetts. Upon inquiry at that office it 1s found that no dilemma exists there, whatever may be felt elsewhere. The special pro~ vistons of the statute, the decisions of several of the State Courts and the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the License Tax cases reported in 6 Wallace, are thought to clearly define the rights and Mabilities of the general gov. ernment in the premises. Postal Cards Between the United Statet and Newfoundland. ‘ ‘The Postmaster General to-day addressed a letter to the Postmaster General of Newfoundland ap. proving of the proposition of that oMicer for a re< ciprocal exchange of postal cards between tha United States and Newfoundland on the sam@ terms as are in operation between this country an: Canada. These terms provide for the exchange postal cards by fixing an additional one cent stamp” thereto. Appointments by the President. ‘The following appointments have been made og the President:—Herman Bendell, of New Yor! United States Consul at Elsinore; E. 0. Sammis, Florida, Consul at Stuttgart; Theodore T. Gil! ham, of Nebraska, Agent for tho Omaha Agency Warren S. Lunty, United States Attorney for tl Western District of Virginia. The commissions of the following postmaste! have been signed by the President :—). 6. Burke, Union City, Pa.; Thomas D, Thomas, Hyde Par! Pa.; D. A. Baldwin, New Milford, Conu. The George Wolfe _ Disaster stigated. si macs Thy .The Secretary of the Treasury to-day ordere: Supervising Inspector Carr, at Memphis, to pro at once with the investigation into the cause the disaster tothe steamer George Wolfe, on Red River. Meteoric Showers. The following report of a mcteoric shower h: been received at the Signal Office tn this city fro. the observer at Colorado Springs, Colorado Terri¢ tory:— y On Wednesday, the 18th of August, a meteort¢ shower of some magnitude occurred at this plac continuing from mine P. M. to eleven P. M., ani again on the 14th inst., from three A. M. to tout A. M. but owing to the unfavorable circumstance: such as the sky being almost totally obscured fro1 nine P. M. to forty minutes past nine P. M., bj dense masses of cumulus and stratus clouds in the, orth, northwest, northeast and east, and i addition, WA 4 to the prevalence of a high wind, varying from fifteen to thirty miles an hour, blowing in intermittent | from _nortia, to northwest up to 10:20 P. M., the phenomeno: could only be partially observed. From that time’ the wind decreased to sight miles per hour. tween the hours of three A. M, and four A. M., Aud gust 14, the sky was clear and the wind almost at calm. The party of observers consisted of Gener: Beebmer, Observer in the ‘al Service of ti United States Army; J. H. Smith, District Observe: of the United States Army; George Summe: Architect and Engineer of the Fountain Oolony Colonel Moody, editor of the Colorado Spri rofessor F. Whittram, of St. Louis, Mo, The observations were taken from the Me~ Tidian Stone, erected at this place by Professom Kamps, of the United States Coast Survey. Fifty< eight meteors were observed in all. ‘ Discovery of a New Comet. ’ Anew comet has been discovered at Paris by M/ Henry, Ascension, 7h. 27m.; declination north, 5¢ deg. and 30 min. The comet is bright, and its mo tion is fowards the east. THE AMERIOAN SOIENTIFIO ASSOCIATION. PORTLAND, Me., August 25, 1873, The general session of the Science Association was held at ten A, M. to-day. Among the ladt present was Mrs. Thompson, who gave $1, the association. F. A. Barnard, F. W. Put Asa Gray, Joseph Lovering and J. 8. Ne’ f were appointed @ committee to obtain an act of incorporation for the association, A number of Members accepted the invitation of President Chamberlain and visited Bowdoin College to-day. The following new members were elected :—G, Wz Carlton, of New York; Edward F. Mason, of Boston; George T. Talbot, of Portland; Hermann Knapp, New York; 8, E. Swann, of Brooklyn, and 8. HY Tewksbury, of Portland. To-morrow the association goes on a clam bake to Old Orchard Beach. In seotion B, the firstpaper read, was by Profes? sor G. Browngood, on the question, “Do Snak Swallow their Young?” The object of the pape: was to show that certain snakes give protection their young by allowing them to run down thel: open throats, to emer in whon the dan st The paper atiolteds somal Genstie ‘Giscussiont The second ir was, “Remarks on the Or! of Insects, and on the Antennial Character of terfliesand Moths.” This paper consisted princi pally of anprononncable names, y Professor Gili read a paper recommending a tem of arranging ‘specteno muremo 80 a8 af) articles easily. Professor Burt Green Wilder read an essay the cerebral fissures of mammalia and the limits alagrams. their ee ry eeereen with 5 Prorasor 3. 8. Newberry read a r on some fishes from the tock of Oni “thee ming dit Rent dpb ce = With dim the sue mn devo geology b+ ay woerry ead a paper on deposits in thd mertean ort tents! strata, Considerable dis- cussion followed. *— _ . During the afternoon atid evening some sevent; papers were read. The tomorrow morning oo, sion will begin at nine o'clock, and the reading ef the papers filed will pe completed. This even+ ing e chemists organized a meeting a the Aldermen’s room, with the choice Professor Latimer as President and Professes @. &. Monroe as Secretary, A committed was Mf ped to request the Standing Committed to & meeting in 1874. The evening was takea up in ea gome new apparatus. The asso lation goes to Old Orchard to-morrow, #130 on aq excursion over the Portland and Ogdensburg Rail. road to Upper Bartlett, It is thought the tion will finally adjourn on Thuraday or Friday, GENERAL JOHN F. BENJAMIN SHOT. Sr. Louis, Mo., August 25, 1973, A spectal despatch from Hannibal, Mo., sayt’ that General Jonn F. Benjamin, of Shelbina, way shot today by James Hariey, his gardener. The ball entered the General’s left side; by it i mot known whether the woun jangerous character. The affair we Ur some. business transactions, waiey iF in tt merty reoregonted this district in Congress,