The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. gore JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘WooD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Tacx Cava. Afternoon and evening, BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Orgra Bourrx—La Fittx pz MADAME ANGOT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, betweon Houston and Bleecker stree's.—Mrenisto, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5i4 Broadwav.—Vaaimry ENTeRTAUNMENT. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Fox 1x 4 Foo—Oun Paru's Bintapay, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Fouston sts Tnx Buick Onoow” GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Kighth ay. and Twenty-third at. —M ips OMM ER Nicuy’s Devax. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 545 Broadway.—Vanuerr Ewrertainwent, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirleenth stroct.— Uso Ur—Kennv. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burravo Bu.t—Margepd wou Lire. OENTRAL PARK GARI Oxers. Summex Niguts’ Con- TERBACE GARDEN THEATRE, 5th st, between Lex- Angton and 3d avs,—MAURER AND SoMLosaen. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—Sownce anv Ant. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scixnce anv Ant. i TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, August 29, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ° To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE ATTEMPTS OF THE PARTISANS TO WARP THE DISCUSSION ON CASSARISM! .THIRD TERM PLATITUDES” — LEADER — SixTH Pace. A THIRD TERM FOR PRESIDENT GRANT AD- VOCATED! AN OFFICIAL VIEW! WASH- INGTON “NO GREAT SHAKES” IN THE “PATRIOTIC BUSINESS”—Fourta PaGE. THE THIRD TERM PROBLEM, THE VACANT CHIEF JUSTICESHIP AND THE PREVAIL- ING MONOPOLIES AS VIEWED AT THE LONG ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT SUMMER, RESORTS—Fourra Pacg. WAR IN WEST AFRICA! GREAT BRITAIN DE- TERMINES UPON A UNION WITH THE FANTEES FOR THE PURPOSE OF THRASH- ING THE ASHANTEES! A MILITARY EX- PEDITION TO BE DESPATCHED IMMEDI- ATELY TO NEW GUINEA! A NATIVE ARMY TO BE ORGANIZED—SEVENTH PAGE. DISASTERS BY THE RECENT TERRIFIC ANTI- CYCLONIC GALE IN NOVA SUOTIA! FLEET AFTER FLEET OF VESSELS SWEPT ASHORE, AND WHARVES AND DOCKS, CROPS AND FRUIT DESTROYED—SsvENTH PaGE. GLOUCESTER, MASS., THREATENED WITH DE- STRUCTION BY FIRE! THE FLAMES, DE- FYING THE FIREMEN, RAPIDLY CONSUME SEVERAL BLOCKS OF WOODEN BUILD- INGS—SgvENTH Pace, BTARTLING “SOCIAL? MOVEMENT IN LEIPSIC, GERMANY! THE GARRISON DISTURB- ANCES TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BY THE RED FLAG PARTY, AND THE POLICE AND MILITARY IN ABEYANCE-—SEvENTH PAGE. CLEWS TO THE NATHAN MURDER! A PRIS- ONER IN THE SAN FRANCISCO JAIL CON- FESSES TO CONNECTION WITH THE AF- FAIR! THE “DOG” AND THE KIULING— Sixta Pace. RUMORED CAPTURE OF A UNITED STATES FORT BY THE KIOWAS AND COMAN- CHES—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SEy- ENTH PAGE. 4N ENGLISH FIRM REFUSES TO ACCEPT A VIENNA WORLD'S FAIR MEDAL—THE BREAD QUESTION IN PARIS—SEVENTH PaGE. THE OIVIL WAR IN SPAIN! BARCELONA MUTINEERS CONDEMNED! DON CARLOS PROTECTING THE RAILROADS AND TELE- GRAPHS—SEVENTH PAGE. ALARMING ROBBERY FROM THE BROOKLYN TREASURY! A DEPUTY TAKES $203,000! THE VITY REIMBURSED! DETAILS OF THE CASE—BRUTAL MURDER—Tuigp Pace. GRAND TURNOUT OF THE MAMMOTH AND SHADOWY PEOPLE AT THE CONNECTICUT CLAMBAKES! A THIRD TERM DESIRED! A “GA-LORIOUS” TIME—Tairp Pace. THE BENCH AND BAR ON THE QUESTION OF THE CHIEF JUSTICESIUP! OF VIEWS AS TO THE PROBABLE AP- POINTEE! THE DIGNITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE POSITION—FovurtH Pace. TWO THOUSAND UTES IN A GRAND COUNCIL AT LOS PINOS AGENCY! THE VICTIMS OF | THE REC 'T BUTCHERY NOT UTES, BUT ARAPAHOES—ELEVENTH PAGE. BPAIN'S WAR UPON CUBA—THE CESPEDES-SUR- RE a NARD! RSONAL SKETCHES -Firtiu Pace. VERITY OF THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT—HIS ARE AND PECULIARITIES—P KNEW HIM—Firrn Pace. STIRRING DOG FIGHT FOR IG CHAMPIONSHIP: 3 “BRANDY” IN THIRTY-NINE E1GATH Page, THE HEA show of active military operations; but they should remember that Spain's difficulty is Cuba's opportunity, and profit by it accord- ingly. Now is their time or never. Smucerine Tunoven raz Mams, it has just been discovere United States Treasury which is practi House Inspector is to be placed in the Post Office, before whom all suspected letters are to be opened. All parties, therefore, who are concerned in this contraband correspondence will please take notice. They have been over- doing the thing, and they are found out. Breap 1 Pants.—There is an ominous mut- | tering among the dangerous classes against the high prices which they now have to pay for bread. This danger must be removed or there will be trouble which may be strong for the existing government. It was the bread question in Paris which precipitated the first French Revolution. Marie Antoinette won- dered why, if the hungry people could not get bread, they did not eat cake; but she did not fully comprehend the difficulty, and we know what it cost her and the Bourbons, Tur Fextans.—The Fenian Brotherhood of the United States have been holding this week, ot Military Halty in this city, their Twelfth Annual Congress. What they now Propose to do for the bearding of the poor old British lion we are not informed; but we are aa nee they do not meditate this another invasion of the Canadas. The Canadians, therefore, need not now be alarmed by the apparition of the Fenian Congress, A DIVERSITY | SRSONS WHO | is a method of defrauding the re | toaconsiflerable extent. Accordingly, a Custom | ‘Tre Attempts of the Partisans to Warp the Discussion on Cosarism— Third Term Piatitades, In conducting a discussion which has as. sumed the proportions of that on the tendency to Casarism in our government we might have expected that many attempts would be made to divert it, to misrepresent it. It was hardly to be hoped that the crafty on all sides would refrain from twisting the facta and the conclu- sions into all mantier of unrecognizable shapes, as their own small or their parties’ large inter- ests required. It is more than human nature should demand of politicians. We are, however, determined that these petty and transparent devices shall not succeed while the Hunaun's voice can prevent them from doing so. From two sides the army of fact-distorters come, and, though their objects are diametrically opposed to each other, they each adopt the ame ground on which to erect their respective edifices for the deception of the crowd. Tho two armies are cémposed ot the office-holders, the would-be courtiers and the specious con- spirators who turn the legend of the great republican party into a source of revenue, on one side, with the growling remnants of cop- perheadism and the hungry and hopeful lead- ers of the new-pattern democracy on the other. Their common ground is to assume that all the Heravp has said of Cosarigm im- plies that President Grant is to be our Cxsar. Nothing could be falser. The Hxraup has too strongly marked its high opinion of the President's patriotism to need any correction of this false impression, so far as these columns are concerned; but we take this opportunity to remind the disputants that their subterfuge is discovered and their won- derfully ingenious reasoning from false premises traced back to its spurious source. Assuming, or rather pretending to assume, that the Heraip embodied in President Grant all the dangerous centralizing qualities, relent- less ambition and unscrupulous use of power which are the means towards Cmsarism, the place-holder raised his howl that the great soldier and President of the nation had been so Slandered that he felt himself obliged to call for a third term being conceded to the President—and himself. On the same false assumption the copperhead, the ex-rebel and the ultra democrat attacked General Grant by every opprobrious term known in the Billingsgate of politics. Such a despot, indeed, did they paint our worthy President that the only cure seemed to be his immediate removal and the placing of a demo- crat in the Presidency and themselves in coun- try. post offices. We bring their transports to an end by bringing the question back to its proper issue. It is not whether President Grant is a Cesar ornot, but what the facilities are for him or a successor, without his patriot- ism, to strangle in the future our liberties and grasp permanent power. Whether the per- manent power once attained takes on the purple of the empire or remains in a black frock coat is a minor and unnecessary part of the discussidn. In another portion of the Heraip will be found some extracts froma very long article in the semi-official organ of the administra- tion. It takes all the false grounds we have indicated, and concludes with its only point by demanding the re-election of President Grant for a third term. The argument is dis- ingenuous, because it avoids all arzuments anent the state of things which is drifting us to Cesar and makes it all personal to Gen- eral Grant. There is a strong suspicion of unmanliness in the course of a partisan who puts forward his leader to receive all the blows. It is, we know, much safer to take this course, because by placing all the responsibility on the President the partisan shields himself behind a strong man, while he is free to chant fulsomely in choice stump rhetoric the praises of his heroic shield. Itis not a little sur- prising to find in the lengthy article alluded to that “itis a positive absurdity to attempt | any serious discussion of dangers to this country from what these alarmists call Cxsar- ism.’’ If the semi-official organ wishes its argument to be treated as a joke we might un- derstand this sentence ; but men will be guilty of much greater blunders than this ina solemn article on the subject it slights who wish to mask glib toadyism and selfish anxiety behind an air of supercilious indifference. The ser- vices of General Grant in war and peace, his ability and modesty, are freely acknowl- edged by the Hxraup, and they do not | enter into the question except incidentally. A noticeable feature in the article is a deprecia- tion of General Washington’s judgment for his declination of the Presidential office for a third term. We can fancy how softly this will | be whispered into the President’s ear by his tempters. ‘There is nothing sacred in it,” | cry the semi-official organ and Alexander H. Stephens in the one breath. In the pure atmosphere of patriotism Washington saw further into the future than those around his | feet. Mr. Adams might say in 1815 that he would have had no scruples were he in | | Washington’s place, but he was not. When, in order to show how desirable it is to in- vade the great tradition respecting third terms, it is necessary to belittle the clear judgment of | the Father of his Country, the courtier is put to strange and pitiable shifts. Ah! friends of the snug places and little minds, your desecra- tion will not repay you. It is a poverty- | stricken array of arguments, wherein all your illustrations show how sacred the | tradition was on the part of the illustrious | Presidente, and wherein none but the short- | sighted and superserviceable, like yourselves, | received the rebuffs. ‘The acceptance of a | third or fourth term by Washington would | | doubtless have seen the country in the hands | of Cesar before now. He put away | from him the temptation, and so created | barrier against Crsarism which nothing | but a third term can remove. If | the country was in an enfeebled condi- | tion then and Washington's party feared the results of a change, what parallel can our | third term champions find to-day in the | mighty and prosperous nation which has | placed General Grant at its head? We need | not refer to the reasons which made the great Jeffers'n retire after his second term. | The resolutions of the State Legislatures that wished otherwise count for very little | beside the austere refusal of the sage of Mon- | ticello. | In Wednesday's Heratp we placed before our readers the views on this matter of the ex- Vice President of the Contederacy. Mr. Stephens does not venerate the edent of either. T#S elament at the th which Mr. Stephens represents thas venerated very little that Washingtou respected in his day. In common with others who have already spoken on the matter he is willing to take any risk; for they persuade themselves that they have nothing to lose, and what we lose at the North they do not care. It is the merest platitude to say that while the legislative and judicial portions of the government preserve their independence there is no danger from any number of Presidential terms. What, we may ask, is to prevent a corrupt and powerful coalition from filling both with its creatures, if the combination were kept in power for 4 number of Presidential terms? But we come back toa point in our argument which those should consider who, like General Butler, multiply Presidential terms as fast as be would ‘back pay’’ to buy “butcher's meat’’ withal. There is to be no danger, not a symptom of danger, to our liberties in fhe process. One man and one party are to be preservod in power, with the railroad monopolies and the great moneyed interests clustering closer and closer around the party, allying themselves therewith, and no harm done. Grown arrogant with power it would face the people with defiance. Would such a combination give the people any chance at the polls? With the memory of olden freedom the people would not submit without a strug- gle—and then. The incipient Cwsar might go down in blood and_ the nation might learn to guard its rights better than before, but demoralization that would call forth such an: effort is not eradicated in a day of even successful battle with despotic power. Not in President Grant do we expect to find a Cesar. He has none of the _ characteristics, as his friends say; but if the ‘sacred tradition’ be broken down to sanction in the future further inroads of centralized power the way for the imperator is laid open. ‘The Heratp, as above and beyond party, has brought forward this issue and will maintain itin its proper bearings. Sir Samucl Baker’s Latest Report on Lakes Albert and Tanganyika. The latest intelligence from Sir Samuel Baker on Lakes Albert and Tanganyika reduces the evidence as to their being one and the same lake to the questionable reports of native mes- sengers and traders. In his letter to Sir Henry Rawlinson, of July 2 last, from Khartoum (the point at which our special correspondent met and obtained from the intrepid explorer the news first communicated to the worla that the two lakes indicated were one lake), Baker Pacha sayg:—‘‘The news of Livingstone’s safety received here is most cheering; but I am astonished at his account of an examina- tion of the north end of Tanganyika that there does not appear to be any connection with the Albert Nyanza. Since I wrote to Sir Roderick the King of Uganda, M’tese, to whom I had entrusted the search for Living- stone, sent messengers to me at Fatiko (in the Albert Lake country), saying that his men had been to Ujiji, and declared that Liv- ingstone had left that place long ago for the west side of Tanganyika, since which nothing was known of him. They also reported that three white men had been to Ujiji, but had returned.” “Further,” says Baker, “‘the envoys sent by M’tese all assured me that the Tanganyika is the M’Wootan N’zige (Albert Nyanza), and that Ujiji ison the eastern border; that you can travel by boat from Ujiji to the north end ot the Albert Lake ; but you must have a guide, as some portions are very narrow and intri- cate. From my experience of the high water grass, I should expect islands and floating vegetation in the narrow places described. I am by no means fond of geographical theories, but the natives’ descriptions were so clear that I accepted it as a fact that the Tan- ganyika and Albert lakes are one sheet of water, with narrow, marshy straits, overgrown with water grass, through which you require a guide.’’ In a letter to the late Sir Roderick Murchison, published in yesterday's Heratp, Baker Pacha reiterates those views as gained from two native merchants of Karagwé. These may be considered as official reports from Baker to the London Royal Geographical Society, and, while we regret that they do not establish the fact assumed, we regard the tes- timony submitted as furnishing at least a clew to the solution of the still unsettled mys- tery of the sources of the Nile. The native envoys sent up to search for Livingstone, from the report of their mission, were evidently at Ujiji. They report that Livingstone had gone thence to the west side of Tanganyika, and that nothing had since been heard of him, and tnat three white men had been at the village, but had returned or gone the way they came. From the confusion of the native reports generally we may surmise that this piece of intelligence refers to Mr. Stanley's Heranp expedition party. Livingstone and Stanley parted at Unyanyembe, and not at Uj far, then, Baker is supported in assuming it as a fact that the two lakes mentioned are one continuous lake, or that the Tanganyika— the southern end of which is marked as reach- ing the eighth degree south latitude—is the tountain-head of the Nile. If so, the mighty Nile, flowing through forty degrees of latitude, will, probably, in its windings, give us a river in length exceeding four thousand miles ; for the Mississippi, which has a more direct course through its twenty degrees ot latitude, is, by the line of the stream, over three thou- sand miles in length. But if we accept the testimony of these native African messengers of their reported journey to Ujiji, how are we to account for the river which Livingstone and Stanley found flowing into the Tanganyika at its northern end? This river may be a strait connecting the two lakes, and the strong current seen pouring into Tanganyika trom the North by Livingstone and Stanley may have been the back water from some heavy equatorial rains in the Albert basin; for in this basin of some seven hundred miles in length, including the ‘Tanganyika, the equatorial rains are heaviest in the northern section directly under the Equator, where the mountains are the highest. The river Rusizi, then, does not overthrow Baker® acceptance of the reported fact that the Tanganyika and Albert are one and the same Inke, or that they are separated only by narrow straits and islands of tropical water grass. Captain Selfridge found the great river Atrato, of South America, in some places where it is deep enough for the heaviest ships, pearly bridged over by a dense growth,of grass _ AUGUST 29, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Bs Dt iN with the strong current of the deep stream flowing freely underneath it. Notwithstanding, then, the river which Livingstone and Stauley found flowing into the Tanganyika, at the northern end of that lake, and notwithstanding Burton's report of its elevation, which places said lake eight hundred feet below the Albert, the evidence of M'tese’s envoys, that the two lakes are one, may yet beestablished. Assuming, how- ever, that the Tanganyika has its outlet in the Indian Ocean, we have still the great interior chain of lakes discovered by Livingstone to fall back upon as the system connecting with the Albert Lake and as the true sources of the wondrous Nile. This lake system, though on a larger scale, is similar to that beautiful lacustrine plateau of Minnesota, which, in its hundreds of charming lakes, gives us the head springs of the Father of Waters, of the Red River of the North and of the great St. Law- rence. LGivingstone’s elevated African lacus- trine plateau, west of the mountains which separate it from the Tanganyika basin, may furnish from its numerous lakes the head stream of the Nile or the Congo. Pursuing the Lualaba River through these lakes on its downward course, we hope he will come out in the grand old Nile; and next, with a reliable exploration of the still unknown region between Baker's and Livingstone’s lines of travel, we hope that the two lakes, reported by the envoys from the King of Uganda as one lake, may prove to be so. Let us suppose, for instance, that the Tanganyika and Livingstone’s interior lake country belong to the Nile, have we not here a vast elevated equatorial basin of rich lands and products, which may, if Egypt follows up the success of Baker, be developed into a great centre of production and of trade with all the great trading nations, and during the present generation. e fhe Broken Granite Pier. The extraordinary character of the accident at the newly-constructed granite pier at the Battery has excited extended interest, and is a topic of conversation all over the city. Whether the accident was the result of imper- fect engineering, or was occasioned by the use of a flimsy description of stone, or from the careless filling in of loose earth, or from whatever cause it arose, it is manifest that there is something wrong somewhere, and it is fortunate, perhaps, that it occurred as it did, before the oxtended system of stone docks and piers on the North and East rivers in contemplation had progressed any further. Some means must now be provided to prevent similar accidents in the future, otherwise, in case of storm or cyclone in our harbor, for example, vessels may drift from their moor- ings, and, coming in contact with piers con- structed as the one under present considera- tion was, demolish them altogether. What we require is that piers and bulkheads shall be so constructed that, instead of giving way or being shivered to pieces by vessels propelled at a slow rate of speed, as was the case with the City of Limerick, they shall constitute, as it were, an im- pregnable bulwark, and if anything is to be demolished it shall be those vessels that are recklessly or by accident driven against them. The whole subject is an important one, and our engineering scientists cannot employ their spare time in'a more suitable way than by making a thorough examination of the subject and spreading their views before the public. Reckless Driving in the Park. We continue to receive communications giving accounts of the inefficiency of the po- lice arrangements at Central Park, and es- pecially concerning accidents resulting from fast and reckless driving. A few days since the vehicle in which a gentleman was quietly riding was run into by a wagon driven by an intoxicated person, and the result was serious bodily injury to the gentleman and the almost complete demolition of his vehicle. No police officer could be found to make an arrest, although the outrage was witnessed by a num- ber of respectable people. When notice of the affair was given at the Park police station the only satisfaction the injured party received was that the police force in the Park had been so much reduced that it was impossible to cover all the space necessary to secure the ob- servance of the Park regulations respecting fast driving, and, it might be added, in regard to several other matters in which the public generally are interested. It is poor economy for the authorities todo anything calculated to lessen the attractions of the Park, which is, or ought to be, the most lovely place of public recreation on the Continent; and the people will hold toa strict accountability those who may be guilty of remissness in the premises, Raproauist AGiration In Germany.—The special Heraup telegram from Leipsic which we publish to-day supplies a very serious ink- ling of the disposition which exists among certain classes of the Germap people for the commencement of a radicalist agitation, which may be directed in the healthy path of pro- gressive reform, or towards a communistic realization, just as its leaders direct. Leipsic, the second city of Saxony in importance and a chief seat of German commerce, has been disturbed during the past few days by military insubordination and. democratic demonstra- tions. The ‘‘Socialists,” as the reformers are termed, appear to have obtained complete con- trol in the ancient town, and evince a disposi- tion to take the law in their own hands. This latter means, in reality, to override the existing law. ‘This intelligence will attract earnest attention in Berlin, and well it may. The men of Leipsic may demonstrate, eventually, whether German imperialism is perfect and infallible as a system of universal government in Fatherland. Tux Pexnsynvanta Democracy Have Serriep tar Question, What shall we do with the liberal republicans? by leaving them out in the cold. In other words, the Penn- sylvania democrats, having adopted the old line democratic platform of their Ohio brethren, the late copartnership between the | old historical party and the liberal republi- cans may be cons:dered as definitely dissolved and finally abandoned. Tur Repvp.icays of Wisconsin have joined in the general hue and cry against the back- | Curiosity’ was excited to see him in a part made “The little dogs and all, | pay Congressmen, ‘Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart, bark at them;”’ and yet bold Benjamin, as the champion of | this back pay, appears to be gaining the inside track against the Puritans in the old Puriaan Commonwealth of Cotton Mather. Wonders will never caswe, a British War in West Africa. Tae Henaxp special telogram from Lon- don which we publish to-day supplies Proof of the fact that Great Britain is drifting into a larger war iu West Africa’ than was generally suspected. The con- flict which has been raging between the Fantees and the Ashantees during some con- siderable time past threatens the safety of British territory at Cape Coast Castle. A Cabinet Council convened at Downing street yesterday for the consideration of the situation. Ministers decided to despatch Sir Garret Wolseley, with a staff of distinguished subal- terns, to the interior of West Africa, and to re- inforce and consolidate the royal forces now serving at the station. Queen Victoria will ally her power with that of the Fantees. Her Majesty's troops will march inward from the coast to the seat of the native tribal war, and, it is hoped, will retura to the shore line head- quarters in March, 1874. The Ashantees must be driven back and the palatial town of Coomassie be burned, if necessary for the more rapid furtherance of the Avglo-African operations. This special Heraup intelligence comes in complete confirmation of anticipa- tions which we have previously expressed, to the effect that England would soon find her- self involved in a considerable African war, and be thus compelled to undertake the very difficult and dangerous work of stamping out the Ashantees. « Tae Work or rae Garanars begins to tell. Considerable reduction has been made in the rate of railroad freights on some of the long lines to and through the West. The farmers are thus beginning to show their power by organization. Though the farming interest is the largest and most important one’in the country, and those connected with it are far more numerous than in any other industrial pursuit, the farmers heretofore have not exer- cised, asa class, the influence they might; but this is all being changed. The grangers’ movement, if conducted properly, must have a great effect. The railroad power is not likely to yield to any small or ordinary pres- sure, but it is becoming evident that the farmers’ combination can bring the monopoly to reasonable terms. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, oo Baron Watson, of London, is stopping at the Astor House. Count d’Eulenburg, Prussian Minister of the In- terior, has left Berlin for Ostend, Admiral William de Rohan, of England, yester- day arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain A. K. Hughes, of the United States Navy, 1s registered at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. M. Thiers has left Paris and intends to remain in Switzerland until the 25th of September. The Belgian Jockey Club has resolved to request the Count de Flandres to become its president. The King of Bavaria will procecd to Vienna and spend two weeks at the Exhibition in September. The German Minister to Washington, Baron Schloezer, is about to leave Berlin for his post of duty. Prince Milan, of Servia, {s now on a visit to Vienna, whence he will travel to Berlin and London. Sir James Anderson has decided not to contest the Dumfries Burg (Scotland), at the next general election. Sidi-Mant-el-Din and Sidi-Mohammed, sons of Abd-el-Kader, have just leit-Damascus to visit France. Governor Grant and lady, of Jamaica, sailed for New York from Kingston on the steamer Atlas on the 27th inst. defferson Davis has resigned the Presidency of the Carolina Life Insurauce Company, it was such @ libel on his career. Herr Von Kendell, North German Ambassador at the Italian Court, has been compelled to leave Rome on account of ill health. Mr. Butv’s recent speech at Waterford on “Home Rule in Ireland” has received an elaborate expla- nation at the hands of Mr. Butt himselt. Bishop Koelb says he will be avenged on the Ger- mans for closing the Fulda Seminary. He will henceforth refuse to ordain a state university student for a priestly office. Italy’s Crown Princess is attracting attention at Schlaugenbach in Germany. Count Launay and his Countess left the Court at Berlin to visit ner. Of course it was all in the service of Victor Em- manuel. Berlin reports state that Captain Werner, who has made himself so widely Known by his seizure of the Spanish iron-clads, bas been appomted Director of Naval Constructions at Wilhelmshafen, in the place of Captain Prezewisenski, of the imperial German Navy. The British Treasury accounts of expenditures in the West African settlements during 1872-73 show, under the head of “Aborigines,” charges of £837 53. for boarding and lodging native chefs, and £120 128, 8d. for boarding and lodging Africans rescuedgfrom slavery. Postmaster James, of this city, is at Washington in consultation with the Postmaster General in relation to having an officer of customs detailed to the Post Ofice here for the examination of valuable importations, such as diamonds, jewelry, &c., through the mails, The Seventh German Protestant Assembly has been convened in the University of Leipsic in the presence of a large number of people. Among those present were Pastors Richter and Thomas, of Berlin; Mr. Fretivel, representative of the British and Foreign Unitarian association in London, and delegates trom Chicago and New York. The mother of Bou-Mezrag, the Arab chief con- demned to death for his share in the last Arab in surrection against the French, arrived in Paris some days back to solicit the lie of her son. Her efforts have been crowned with success, as the President of the Republic, at the intercession of Madame MacMahon, has signed an order for a commutation of the man’s punishment, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, August 28, 1873, Commodore Alfred Kantz is detached from duty as Lighthouse Inspector of the Seventh district and placed on waiting orders. He will be relieved by Commander Henry B. Seeley, who is detached from the Naval Rendezvous at Boston. YACHTING, * At the regular meeting of the Brooklyn Yacht Club eight new members were admitted, and Mr. K. T. Barker, ex-Mayor of Detroit, was elected an honorary member. Mr. Barker is having @ yacht built by McGiehan, of Pamrapo, which is nearly completed, and will be started for the Western waters next week. Yach Note, Yacht Vindex, N.Y.Y.C.,, Mr. Center, from New- Port for New York, passed Whitestone yesterday. WALLACK'S THEATRE. “Used Up” and “Kerry” were substituted last night at Wallack's for the play of “Mimi.” The change had the effect of drawing @ large audience, as Mr. Boncicault’s Kerry in the sketch of that name is well and favorably remembered by those who witnessed his rendition of the character when it was first produced at Booth’s Theatre. To many, no doubt, his Sir Charles Coldstream was new and famous by the acting of Charles Matthews, Though suffering irom a bad cold, he played the | character well and was rewarded frequently by | hearty applause. Miss Kitty Blanchard played ‘urzel very wally and the remainder of the cast was acoaprably rendered. ‘The littie sketch of “Kerry” concluded t's perormance, and Mr. Boucicault sustained the repatation he’ pre. viously won by his adm render! of the fami “ad bérvaate ta, the faully of Gerald tasmatdy, THE NATHAN MURDER A Prisoner Named Irving Confesses Being an Accomplice. Where the Ship Carpenter’s “Dog” Came From. THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. How They Entered the House and “Fin- ished the Old Man.” i SAN Francisco, Avgust 28, 1873. Aman named Irving, in jail here, confesses tha¥ he is the murderer of Natuan in New York. He Says the housekeeper's son got him to do the mur~ der at the suggestion of Washington Nathan, He thinks the name of his confederate was McNally. The following is the substance of his coniessiom made this evening:— “The dog was stolen from a ship carpenter's chest. I know where his shop ts. We entered the house at the basement, The housekeeper’s som went in and left the latch up, so we could get im without trouble. After we got into the cellar L heard the bell ring nine. It seemed to me we were here in the dark an hour or an hour and @ half, {t seemed @ long time; per- hapa tt was not 0 Iste when & man came down and said, ‘I've fnished the old man.’ We went up stairs, He had struck the old man five or six times on the head, Whem he saw he was going to fall, and, being afraid the fall would startie the folks, he caught hold of hin and laid him down, “IT have got in my house in New York some Pacifie Mail stock, some Boston, Hartiord and Erie, an@ some other things. There is a small memorandu book I took from the old man, seve pages of which are in Hebrew. ‘There - are some names in it. There is Albert Oar- dozo, Samuel Lewis Cummings, of Fourteenth street, and Dr. Leo, We only got betweem $6,000 and $7,000. The safe was open when we went up stairs. | went from the cellar. I stayed there while the man washed his hands and face; he had blood on them. When we left the old man’s room he stopped to look out of the door, As he did so he took hold of the castings and left blood marks, There were prints of his fingers. “We thea concluded we would not leave the house that night. {It was opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel, There were a good many policemen around. We were afraid we would be seen and arrested. We stayed till about six o’clock in the morning. Just as we went out the front door @ man was passing on the other side of the street with @ tin pail. He looked at us. Then agirt came along—a shop girl. She looked around and took particular notice of us, e “My wife isin New York and I have a daughter filteen years of age. I do not want to telt you the names of either of these men, because it may not be right. I. have told the Chief of Police, but 1 qm afraid they are not going to work about it the rightway. I have ‘been expecting to see it all come out ever since. I don’t want to be hanged, but Iam willing to auf- fer a just punishment, I was born at Sunnyside.) They call it Irvington. Iam related to Washingter Irving.” The man confessing the murder of Nathan say# his name is John T. Irving. He came here ow ‘Tuesday, as a satior, on the British sip Coulna- kyle. He confessed to the second mate and gave his name as Brown, He was thought insane. A. Commission of Lunacy could not determine; but he appears sane. He was remanded to jail, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, August 28, 1873. The New York City Mail Delivery. Postmaster James, of New York, was here to-day, and had a long interview with the Postmaster, General relative to creasing the efficiency of the: delivery system in New York. Mr. Creswell com- mended what had already been done, but did not want the good work to stop there, He wanted the delivery system made as good as the London plan,; and promised Mr. James to sustain him in every- thing he did to execute this order. He left to- night for New York, and will proceed at once to carry out the suggestion of the Postmaster General. . A Custom House Inspector at the New York Post Office. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day instructed Collector Arthur to detail an inspector for duty the Post Office in New York, to aid in collecting customs revenue on all packages from foreign countries subject to duty. Death of a Prominent Temperance Mane A private telegram from St. John, N. B., say@ that John O'Brien, Secretary of the Catholic Tetal Abstinence Society of America, died there yestere day. The University of Vermont. By direction of the President, First Lieutenant James E. Bell, of the First artillery, has been de- tatled as Professor of Military Sctence at the Unt- versity of Vermont, at Burlington, relieving Cap- tain L. L. Langdon, of the First artillery. DANGERS OF THE RAIL, Six Men Wounded by a Railroad Acci« dent in Indiana. TERRE Havre, Ind., August 28, 187% A collision occurred to-day on the Vandalia Rait- road, one and a half miles west of this city, by which six persons were badly injured. An en- gine, with a paymaster’s car, coming east, jumped the track on account of the spreading of a switch and ran into the engine of a gravel train standing on a side track, Both engines were totally wrecked. The following are the names of the injured:— J. W. Conlogue, formerly Superintendent of the road. Frank McKeen, acting paymaster. James Southard, fireman. Jacob Sacks, engineer. James Ross. Laura Glaris, None of them are fatally injured. poe hah ite: Act A BAILROAD AOOIDENT IN PENNSYLVANIA, Downinetown, Pa., August 28, 1873, The passenger train on the Pennsylvania Rail- road, which left Philadelphia last night, collided ster Valley intersection with the rear ock train. Three cars and the caboose tter were thrown irom the track, and the of the tlagman, John McDowell, was Killed. The engine, express and bi cars of the passenger train were thrown from the track, and the road was blockaded, The passengers escaped uninjured, OBITUARY, David Barnett, Ex-Judge David Burnett, of Paterson, N. J., die® in that city yesterday afternoon at an advanced age. He started the Paterson /ntelligencer in the year 1825. He was Surrogate in 1845, and Olerk off the Bowrd of Chosen Freeholders for nine years previous to 1955, He served as cashier of the ol® eople’s Bank, and also of the Passaic County, National Bank, for many years, and was @ mam of excellent local reputation as a citizen and neighbor. WASHINGTON'S NEWBURG HEADQUARTERS. Newsura, N. Y.,Angust 28, 1873, A committee of citizens have undertaken to im- prove the appearance of Washington’s Headquar- ters in this city, nowin a a dilapidated condi- tion, The expenses will be deirayed by private subscription. The War Department at Washington! promises co-operation. erelary Belknap ti ordered thirty canpons—ten Spanish, ten Mext and ten pieces taken from the rebels—to be sent here to be placed on the Headquarters’ ground. ‘Tae SAN FAANCISCO CADETS, accompanied by am escort of one of our crack militia regiments, wit! visit the Grand Opera House this evening to sea 14 Midqypuner Nigav'a Dryam,” + ey) , « ¥ ‘