The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1873, Page 6

“ W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hepat. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Volume Xxxvimi..... tteteeeeseses oee-No. 244 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaniety ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burrato Bu.i—Mirkep vor Lirx, = THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, Sth st and Sd av.—Vaniery Entxnrarnmenr. BRYANT’S OPERA HO Twenty-third st. corner @v.—NuGRo MinsTREL! Ce * HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco Minsrexis WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Dick, tax Cuxvaiiee. Afternoon and evening. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Usep Ur—Krnny. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.—Orera Bourre—La Fux pk Mapame ANcor, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets, —Mxruisto. 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WITH THE PRESS STRANGLED AND 2,000,000 COURTIERS TO COMMAND, IS THERE NO DANGER t—Fourta Pace, SPAIN DRINKING THE DREGS OF THE CUP OF CIVIL WAR! THE CORTES REFUSE AMNESTY TO INTRANSIGENTES! ANOTHER CONSCRIPTION! MUTINIES AND RAILWAY DESTRUCTION—SEVENTH PAGE. THE FINAL SCENES AT THE SIEGE OF VALEN- CIA! THE RUIN LANDMARKS OF THE CiTY! CAMPO! TRY—SEVENTH PAGE. ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE HREAK! THE LINE FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PORTU- GAL AND BRAZIL SNAPPED NEAR MA. DEIRA—SEVENTH PAGE. THE BRITISH CABINET! AN IMMEDIATE RE- CONSTRUCTION NOT PROBABLE—SEVENTH Pace. VIENNA IN DREAD! THE INTERNATIONAL AND JHE CHOLERA! AMERICAN RESIDENTS IN | VIENNA! THE SESSIONS AND VALUE OF THE PAT CONGRESS—THIRD PAGE. TING THE GOSPEL SEED AND POINTING OUT THE TARES TH. HAVE ALREADY SPRUNG UP! STATE AND CHURCH EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG SIN A SOUL LEPROSY! TRUE FAITH! THE PROMISE IN GOD’S WORD—EicuTi PaGs. BUTLER’S KNIGHTS GIRDING ON THEIR GOOD SWORDS FOR THE GUBERNATORIAL STRUGGLE IN THE BAY STATE! THE “MIGHTY MORAL” ELEMENTS OPPOSED TO HIM! BOSTON BLUE BLOOD IN A SHAMEFUL ROLE—Tuikp Pace. INTENSE EXCIFEM ! OVER THE KELSEY AFFAIR AT HUNTINGION, L. J.! STATE- MENTS OF HIS BROTHER AND OF THE CORONER—PROBABLE MURDER—SEVENTH PaGE. THE WALL STREET BOGUS BOND AGUNY! A TERRIFIC OUTBURST EXPECTED TO-DAY— TRANSATLANTIC BALLOONING — TENTH Page. 4 TRADE ANALYSIS! THE WARP OF IMPORTS AND THE WOOF OF EXPORTS! LOW FREIGHT TARIFFS ON CORN, COTTON AND PETROLEUM A VITAL NECESSITY! WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE NEW YEAR'S AND HAVE YET TO DO! TRADE WITH THE SOUTH—FirtH Pace. METROPOLITAN REAL PROPERTY AND WEST SIDE IMPROVEMENTS! THE ACTIVE IN- CEPTION OF FALL TRADE—FirtH Pak. THE GEM OF THE BAY! STATEN ISLAND AS ITS INHABITANTS, ENTS, AGUE AND 'D BRIDGE CON- TION WITH THE JERSEY RAILROADS— Fourti Page. THE NEW FEMALE PRISUN ATTACHED TO THE KINGS COUNTY PENITENTIARY! HOW THE PRISONERS ARE KEPT AND THE WORK THEY vO—Teyrn Pace. THE MONETARY STATUS AND THE PUBLIC TREASURY! WHAT ONE M. COULD DO! REMEDIES FOR STRINGENCY—NOT CHOLERA—NINTH Page. THE LONG BRA H EXCURSION—THE BROOK- LYN TREASURY MANIPULATIONS—THE | SICK CHILDREN’S FUND—Pirra Page, | PASTORS PLAN Our Crry Poririciays are returning to their accustomed haunts, and the caldron of re- | form for our fall elections will soon be boiling | again. Pea i | Crossine tHe Lrvz.—We do not refer to the sun, but to business, The Ist of September | marks the line between pleasuring in the | country and delving in the town. In other words, our summer holiday season ends with the last day ot August, and the business sea- | son for the fall and winter reopens on the Ist of September; and having crossed the line will be to-day the return of our ab- »s from the country to the town. heavy sent ‘Tue Rernesninc Suower which fell upon the city yesterday afternoon did more work in street cleaning in thirty minutes than our city tathers have done, perhaps, in thirty days. ‘Thankful, therefore, should be our Sanday excursionists caught in this rain, notwith- standing the spoiling of nice bonnets ahd new dresses. This is the law of the ureatest pe d nation this period is only sweet, bright seven- teen. time, and look at us! population, the third in territorial size of all * the nations of the earth. Above all, when we are as populous as have over one thousand millions of souls! shall actually have one thousand six hundred millions, while even the average population of poor wretched Spain would give us over three hundred millions. Think of it! And then our possessions, our gold and silver, and iron and coal, and wine and wheat. What have we not? In railways alone four times as many miles as six times as many as France, more than four times as many as Russia and Austria com- bined. Was there ever such prosperity, so much sunshine, so much air, such fatness in our fields, so much gold in our treasury? And yet this moaning, uncomfortable Heraup in- sists that we are all going to the devil in full steam and tide and no one to say ‘“‘Beware!”’ known Jeremiah, we should have skipped him qt the club and descended from the omnibus when we saw him mounting the steps. We need not be reminded of the thanklessness of the task of criticising Grant and his party, and calling attention to a state of public and private morals resembling those in France after Austerlitz, and in the Roman Empire be- fore the accession of Augustus. suppose a historical parable or two, and see NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Leaping Mlagara—A Historical Para- ble for the Day=How to Arrest Coos ma. Itis not a very pleasant or cheering task, this to which the Henaxp has applied itself in relation to the present condition of political affairs. We have no doubt, if we had access tothe newspapers of the time, we should find that Jeremiah was an unpopular person, who found pleasure in frightening people and dwelling upon their sins. It is so much more delightful to look up at the blue, bending skies, and bask in the sunshine, and drink the bracing air, blowing fresh from pine tree forests, and lap the cooling waters, and shout in the ecstasy of animal exaltation, as our boat speeds merrily on, heedless of wind and weather. Nothing more delightful, we re- peat, if we did not know that Niagara was beyond. : If any nation can leap a political Niagara it is the United States of America, We are 60 young, so fresh, so joyous, so abounding in resources, 80 rich; the blood of May is in our veins, and we have dared and achieved so many things, and are so far ahead of the old and decrepit nations that we fear nothing. It is the charm of youth that every day has its sunshine and that it feels it will live forever and forever. It has no to-morrow, and scorns yesterday. And we—why, we are only a hun- dred years of age this coming 1876! Toa A century old in our national morning We are the fifth in China we shall When we reach the density of Belgium we England, three times as many as Germany, Even so! We have no doubt, if we had But let us where its consideration brings us. We are reading the history of the United States. We selves, calling the dotations “salary.” Mem- bers of Congress took fees as attorneys from clients who desired their votes, and there was scarcely a Senator or member in those days who was not paid as an “attorney” by some corporation. And although there is no record that Washington himself engaged in any busi- ess pursuits, his secretaries proved them- selves active and able men of business, so that in a little time they were enabled to earn, in an honorable way (the historian avers) fortunes large enough to justify their building of man- sions at the seaside for occupation only in summer. We read also that as a consequence of this increase in wealth and the deadening of the moral tone which justified business specula- tions and large gains in the White House, there came a spirit of flattery and subser- viency to the President. Rich Senators, with the money of English widows and clergymen; the quacks, with eight horses to their car- riages; the managers of revolutionary loans, who became rich by clipping the coin as it were; railroad princes, with their lemans and bands of music; successful smugglers and the whole class of wealthy citizens vied with each other as to which could make the greatest show. The stories of this social com- petition are so extravagant that we suspect our historian of exaggeration, for we read of routs and revels that recall the times of the French Regency. So prevalent was this spirit that there came a desire for a perpetuation of the power. The Secretaries who were amass- ing fortunes, the Senators who could sell mining shares and not be rebuked, the Con- gressmen who could raise their salaries and still be powerful in the councils of the Presi- dent, the quacks and railway princes, their lemans and horses, formed a powerful party. And Mr. Burr and his friends, each of whom saw in his own ambitions the impossibility of advancement, proposed the renomination of Washington fora third time. The country was shocked with the suggestion, and some journalists who ventured to attribute the idea to Mr. Burr were set upon by the quacks and the Congressmen and the Senators rich in back pay and the money of English widows and clergymen, and denounced as alarmists. Calmer men were paimed and would not be- lieve it; for, as they remarked, ‘How much better to have remained loyal to George than to endure this thing! How much wiser to be fragment of the mighty British Empire than astraggling kingdom away off on these sea- eoasts! How much freer we could have been with our ultimate right to remove a ministry that did not please us than now to be under a perpetual Presidency which is really a dy- nasty, surrounded by a court of the worst men who ever gained power !” Well, shall we continue the parallel? What Americans could read such a record of Wash- ington’s administration and not weep over the fall of one who was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his country- men? And yet does not the history of the learn that George Washington has been elected to the Presidency. His Secretary of State is Thomas Jefferson, his Secretary of the Treas- ury is Alexander Hamilton. The other Ministers are colleagues worthy of these illus- trious men. Washington begins his work with the love and admiration of the people as a great and successful soldier, even as Grant began his work. All promises well, but in time we read that Aaron Burr and other politicians are dissatisfied with the adminis- tration. They do not like the manners of Mr. Jefferson or the measures of Mr. Hamil- ton. They pou’ then conspire, then compel Jefferson’s retirement. The President nomi- nates him to the Bench and they reject his nomination, and there is great joy in every barroom of the capital. Then Hamilton goes out and the joy is complete. The men who take their places are so obscure that the historian spells their names incorrectly. In time it is alleged that Mr. Burr received without pay, and avowedly to influence his votes in Congress, certain shares of stock from a corporation which divides eight hundred per cent profit per annum, by appropriating money and lands generously voted by Congress to build a national railroad. Mr. Burr swears this is untrue, but he also swears, to account for the possession of certain money, that it was a present from a govern- ment contractor, made to him, a sworn legis- lator! In other words, in endeavoring to avoid the suspicion of perjury, he admits he was bribed. We read further that there was great indignation in the country and a motion in Congress for the impeachment of Mr. Burr, and that, to console him under these censures, Washington wrote him a letter expressing his satisfaction and affection. As it to emphasize these professions he appointed another Con- gressman who had taken part in the illegal appropriation of money to be a Minister to a toreign court. We continue our studies and read that Washington made an effort to reform the civil service; that the effort continued until a New York politician craved larger pay, when the President suddenly abandoned the scheme, to the great joy of Mr. Burr and his friends. Moreover, we read that there was a fondness for money and speculation in those days; that large fortunes were made out of revolu- tionary bonds and supplies to the patriotic army and from the inflation of currency and appreciation of gold, so that it become com- mon for corporations to employ agents at the Capitol whose profession was the purchase of legislative votes. So widely was this profes- sion extended that shrewd business men affixed values to the votes of certain legis- lators. We learn from historians and satirists that society showed the effect of this morbid, unhealthy condition; that wanton women rode in public places with six horses to their carriages, while successful quacks made iormal calls on the President in carriages drawn by eight horses; that, in short, the common test of a gentleman was the number of horses he drove at one time. We read fur- ther that an American Minister at a foreign court endorsed the issue of large quantities of fraudulent mining shares in a foreign city; that these shares were largely purchased by widows and clergymen who had faith in the name of a Minister from the great Republic; that a Senator in Congress was a principal in this remunerative transaction, and yet all the time was the bosom friend of the soldier-Pres- ident. In time it became the maxim of the administration that public service should be the means of private profit. Oarrying out this maxim, the Congress voted large sums of for the greatest muagber. L money to the President, his Cabinet and them- last two years answer every condition we have imagined under the administration of Wash- ington? Is there a single tint in the picture that is exaggerated or overdrawn? Is not General Schenck Minister to London, and is not Senator Stewart rich with the gains from Emma Mine shares, and were not those shares sold to English widows and clergymen, and are they not to-day, a worthlessissue? And is not Mr. Colfax living in retirement, regarded by the American people as an unworthy man, as a legislator who accepted bribes, and does he not cherish the endorsement of Grant? And isnot Mr. Bingham carrying in his stained hands the honor of the Americans States to a foreign court? We repeat, is there a single tint in this picture overdrawn? And is it wise or honest or brave for the Hmrranp, or for any journal that deals fairly with its readers, to be silent and say these things are not so merely because we would they were otherwise, and because speaking the truth pains men in power? The men in power are nothing com- pared to the issue which assumes new gravity every day. We are not dealing in extravagant thetoric. Weare not warring upon Grant. We do not care the value of a feather whether republicanism or democracy rules, but we do feel despondent and anxious in the presence of the spirit of Casarism which flames over our public life, corrupting and debasing it, reducing the Supreme Court to the level of a caucus, and making the administration of the brave and high-minded Grant as weak and unworthy as that ot Pierce or Johnson. What are all our wealth and prosperity without those virtues in the absence of which there is no curse like the curse of gold? What example in onr present public life invites the emulation of the young man fresh from home and fireside? Why is it that the name of America is so despised abroad, and that, in spite of the fact that we raise a larger surplus of taxation over expen- diture than any other country in the world, our credit is the jest and the pity of foreign mar- kets? It is with ourselves that this is so. Cesarism never comes from Cmsar, but from the debasement of morals which generates ambition, arrogance, insincerity, falsehood and display. When we speak of Grant's ad- ministration and this third term treason we deal with symptoms, not causes. The cause is in our own homes and hearts. Reform our own lives, be more worthy of Ye men who founded our Republic, be more exacting with our public servants, and we shall conquer Cesarism as surely as we conquered treason and slavery. Tux Lona Istanp Hornor.—We give in another part of this paper the latest intelligence from Huntington concerning the awful Kelsey mystery. The village and neighborhood are reported to be in a fearful state of excitement, apprehensions being entertained of a disturbance of the pub- lic peace. While awaiting the issue of the Coroner's inquest we defer any further re- marks on the chain of circumstantial evidence, which apparently establishes the fact that the human remains so strangely given up by the «a are those of the missing man, Kelsey. For the present, we would urge upon the citizens of Huntington an orderly submission to the authorities and the processes of the law. The scandal which has fallen upon that commu- nity will only be aggravated by violent mani- festations of public indignation. It is the duty of the community to bow to the su- premacy of the law, and to assist in every possible way the officers and courts of justice in clearing up this horrible mystery. The Lessons of the Puilpits. Solomon has put the query in the mouth of the sceptic, Wherein hath man pre-eminence over the beast? Rev. Professor Aiken, of Princeton, answered it yesterday to the Uni- versity place Presbyterian church. God hath made man the lord of the earth and set him over the works of His hands. But man’s pre- eminence, as well as his strength, consists in his ability to love and obey God. Science coincides with and corroborates Scriptural revelation in the declaration that man was crowned with glory and was manifestly designed for lord- ship among the other works of God. But the inspiration to success in this as in all other things comes from God and is helped onward by science. All humanity, with its littleness, feels the need of help from the Divine power. Man must, therefore, Mr. Aiken thinks, know nature and worship God. But fortunately for the mass of mankind who have little or no knowledge of nature, they can worship God too. It becomes an important question to every one who expects to gain heaven to know what degree of fitness God requireth of us ere we enter that blessed estate. Rev. Dr. Chapin told the Murray Hill Presbyterians yesterday that they must have cleansed hearts and souls and minds purer than they brought into the world before they can enter therein. Heaven is the inheritance of believers, but it is not pur- chased by gold nor earned by the sweat of the brow; it is ours because of our relationship to the great God our Saviour, whose it is and who has prepared it for His people, and is preparing them for it. After the summer's vacation Father Bjering resumed services in the Russo-Greek chapel yesterday, but did not preach. Next Sabbath, however, he promises to give his congregation and all others who may attend an outline of the history and doctrine of the orthodox Greek Church, founded by John Chrysostom and Basil the Great. This, of course, will be something worth hearing, coming as it does from a priest of the Church who is familiar not only with its theoretical but with its prac- tical and spiritual beliefs also. Rev. Mr. MacFayden ministered to over three thousand people in Lefferts Park, Brooklyn, yesterday, and called them all to repentance, giving as a motive therefor that which John the Baptist gave the thousands who waited on his ministry—namely, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. It may not be always so near—in- deed, it may not be so near many who heard the preacher yesterday, orthe many more who will read the sketch of his discourse in the Heraup to-day, and this Mr. MacFayden urged as a reason for immediate and heartfelt repentance. The Rev. Father Kearney discoursed about the kind and the value of the education which is to be imparted in the public schools of this city from this day forth until the next sum- mer vacation. He highly exalted Catholic schools, and strongly urged the congregation gathered in St. Patrick’s to send their chil- dren to those rather than to the public schools of the city, and bade them be exceedingly careful about their children attending Sunday schcol. The story of the healing of the ten lepers, as related by St. Luke xvii., was made by Dr. McGlynn to typify ‘‘the greater miracle of cleansing men’s souls from the leprosy of sin in the sacrament of penance.”’ The Saviour's command to them to show themselves to the priest was made the foundation for the asser- tion that “priests are gifted with the power bestowed by Christ when He breathed upon them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whosesoever sins ye forgive they are forgiven,” &c. Many seek the remedy and are healed, he said, but comparatively few are grateful. Rev. J. M. Freeman uttered some broad catholic truths yesterday in St. John’s Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, when he said the business of a minister was not to make men Methodists, or Baptists, or Presby- terians, or Congregstionalists, but Christians, Christ should be above sect or party in the mind of every'true minister, and He will be. One thing is essential in a genuine religious life, and that is, that men seck Jesus and follow Him from pure motives, But those who search the Scriptures for the purpose of picking flaws and finding contradictions Mr. Freeman declared were only seeking Jesus to put Him to death again. Dr. Ewen, of Philadelphia, preached at Long Branch on the new birth, what it is and what it does for men. It is a change in man’s relation to God, and by its development fits man to become the peer of angels and the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ. This change can be effected only by faith in Christ, through the influence of the Holy Spirit upon the hearts of men. The Doctor gave illustra. tions of evidence of this change, and cited the late Admiral Farragut as a shining example. Rev. Father Moynahan, of New Orleans, preached in St. Patrick's church, Jersey City, on the school question, giving the usual argu- ments against the godless common schools and urging Catholics to send their children to their own denominational schools, But he wants the State to pay them back the money they have given it heretofore in taxes, that they may support their own religious schools. This he thinks will secure increased harmony between Catholics and Protes- tants. The preacher paid a deserved compli- ment to the press, and especially to the Henatp, for its pre-eminent liberality towards all creeds and classes. It respects, as he declared, the convictions of every party and makes no violent attack upon any, Services were held at the Five Points Mis- sionand at Sea Cliff camp meeting yesterday, sketches of which will be found in other colamns of this day’s paper. Ovr Fatt Trape.—We submit to our readers this morning a carefully prepared chapter on business prospects for our opening fall season, on our imports and exports, our cotton crop and crops of cereals, on transportation, freights, the money market, our Southern trade, &c., from all which we are glad to an- nounce that the conditions and indications of the present outlook are very encouraging. The summing up to which we refer will be found very interesting matter to all readers for the first of September. Misery Loves Company, and so now what with the forgeries discovered of our Central Railroad bonds in New York, and what with embezzlements of city funds unearthed, the two cities should feel now comparatively com-, tortable as next door neighbors ee Te ey eee ee een ee ee The War in spain. The news from Spain by telegram, dated yesterday, supplies nothing that is novel or of very great importance with respect to the progress of the Iberian war. The Madrid Cabinet has reiterated the ministerial resolu- tion to. crush out insurrection. As a first means to this end the Ministers will ask the Legislature to sanction a military conscrip- tion bill of a very rigid character. Repub- lican troops mutiny here and there as usual. The Carlists continue to destroy a deal of property, and the mails, when in transit by railroad near the frontier; but whether war reprisals of this description tend to the benefit of the cause of roy- alty remains to be seen. The Portuguese government has forwarded a batch of twenty- seven prominent Spanish intransigentes, who sought refuge on the King’s territory, to Southampton. The Portuguese Crown re- mains in a very delicate situation, it must be confessed, with a Spanish civil war raging almost at its door; but it is equally patent that the forcible exile of a batch of political refugees, including Pierrad, from Portugal to England presents curiously as a remedy. Perhaps His Majesty of Portugal wishes to test the claim to eternity of the constitution of Great Britain which has been made in the boast that no matter in what disastrous battle a man’s liberty may have been cloven down, the first moment he touches the ‘sacred soil’’ of Britain he stands regenerated and disen- thralled. ~ The Late Cyclone in Nova Scotian and Those Fisheries—A Fearful Record. The late August cyclone, which it was sup- posed developed on the coasts of New Jersey, Long Island and New England its greatest force, was, it appears, a gentle nor’easter in these regions compared with ita terrific strength and destructive work along the seaboard of Nova Scotia and the neighboring British provinces. From our first reports of it we were led to the conclusion that the damages to property from this storm were compara- tively light, and that few, if any, losses of life had resulted from it. But from day to day our succeeding reports of lives lost and prop- erty destroyed make this unprecedented cyclone for August doubtless the most dis- astrous on the eastern seaboard of the New Dominion of all the disastrous storms in that quarter of which any record exists. It appears, for instance, among numerous other resulting losses, wrecks and damages, that twenty American fishing schooners from Gloucester and ten from Beverly, Mass., were cast ashore on Magdalen Island; that forty American fishing vessels were lost on the north side of Prince Edward Island, and that only eighteen lives were saved out of all the crews; that over said jsland half the crops are destroyed; that six square-rigged vessels were wrecked on the northern coast, and that the crews of two.of them were drowned; that dead bodies and wrecked materials are floating ashore daily there; that wharves, bridges and buildings were blown down or seriously dam- aged thxoughout the island, and that the Col- lector of Customs at Magdalen Island reports fifty British and American vessels ashore there. These scattering details will furnish an idea of the general work of destruction in those provinces of the Eastern fisheries involved in the fullest development of this late sweeping continental nor’easter. We fear, too, that the worst is‘yet to come, in the losses of life, and in the sufferings and embarrassments resulting to the industrial interests directly involved on the land and the water. Itis remarkable as it is fortunate that none of our transatlantic steamers, incoming or outgoing, were caught in the merciless grasp of this wild tempest. WATERING PLACE NOTES. It is proposed to change the name of Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, to the Cottage City. Vice President Wilson has left Martha's Vine- yard much improved in health, Hon. William Claflin, ex-Governor of Massachu- setts, is at Congress Hall, Saratoga. Five governors and fourteen ex-governors of States have visited Saratoga Springs this season. The colored cook at one of the hotels in the White Mountains isa dancing master during the winter months, The Boston Journal invites all the summer so- journers to hasten home and join in the attempt to defeat Ben Butler. A large party recently left Sing Sing for the Adirondacks. Among them were a number of ladies and children. Mr. Isaac Sherman, of the firm of Duncan, Sher- man & Co., bankers, of this city, is located with nas family at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, in West Virginia, are to be sold at auction, including seven hundred acres of land and all the buildings thereon. A mineral spring, which has been pronounced superior to any other in the country, bas been dis- covered at Lyndeboro, N. H. A hotel for summer boarders will follow of course. Commodore J. H. Strong, United States Navy, will leave Saratoga this week, under orders for Pernambuco, Brazil, to assume command of the South Atlantic squadron. He is now stopping, with his wife, at the Clarendon Hotel. The members of Mayor Havemeyer's family, of this city, and Governor Washburn, of Massachu- setts, were present at the ball given at the Sea View House, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, on the 26th inst.; but tuey did not participate in the ter- tivities. The panic at Bar Harbor, Me., over the ravages of typhoid and scarlet fevers will seriously affect the prospects of that hitherto promising and flourish- ing watering place. Perhaps it was lucky that President Grant was caught in a fog while on his way to that place, and compelled to put back. Avon Springs, in this State, 1s an old watering Place, which continues to hold its own, but in- creases Very little in popular favor. It is an an- cient Indian town, situated on the east bank of the Genesee River, and has in its immediate vicinity springs of different curative properties, which are known respectively as the Sylvan Spring, the Lower Spring, Long’s Spring and the Magnesia Spring. ‘The great Saratoga regatta will take place on the | Jith and 12th days of September. This regatta is | open, iree to ali amateur rowers in the United States and Britisn Provinces, and the indications at present are that it will prove the grandest event in rowing that has yet taken place in this country, Already entries have been received or promised trom Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, Savan- nah, Ga,; New York city, Albany, Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Pa.; Maine, Massachusetts and other States, The race will be for four-oared shells, pair oared shells, double scull shells and single scull shells, The prizes, which will be very elaborate, are being manufactured by Tiffany & Co., of Now York, and will cost $3,000. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General William F. Barry, Commandant of the “artillery Sehool at Fortress Monroe, who has been sojourning for the past month at Capon Springs, West Va., returned home yesterday morning muct | improved in health. $$ $$$ LE WASHINGTON. —_-+-__ WASHINGTON, August 31, 1873, ‘Treasury Programme for September. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York that during the month of September he may sell $1,500,000 of gold on each Thursday and buy $500,000 of bonds on the third Wednesday—in all $6,000,000 of goli—and buy $500,000 of bonds. Back Tax on Weiss Beer. By a decision of the Internal Revenue Depart ment in 1871 weiss beer and all other beers not hav- ing more than twoanda half per cent alcohol were exempted from the usual beer tax of $1 on the barrel, The Internal Revenue Department not only intends to again levy that tax, but insists also that weiss beer brewers shall pay the back tax for the last two years, which the department under that decision failed to collect, The Tax on Spirits Shipped for Export. A reply from the Internal Revenue Commissioner to F. A, Boyd & Co., commission merchants in New York, ts to the effect that when @ person ships spirits in bond for export he cannot, after its arri- val at the port of shipment, on changing his mind, pay the tax on the spirits there afid be relieved from his export bond, An Old Washington Landmark Going. Beau Hickman, who is known throughout the country by reputation and familiar to visitors to Washington for many years, was yesterday stricken with paralysis and now lies in a hopeless condition. Meeting of the ate Transportation Committee. The Senate Select Committee on Transportation will meet at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, New York, on the 10th of September, an@ not the 4th of that month, as has been stated. There will be present Mr. Windom, chairman, and Messrs. Conkling, Conover and Davis, of West Virginia, The New York and Boston Buildings. Supervising Architect Mullett left Washington on Friday night for New York and Boston, to attend to business connected with the Post Office build- ings in those cities. Congressmen Drawing Increased Pay. With one exception such of the members of the House of Representatives—their terms commenc- ing 4th of March last—as have drawn their monthly pay have taken the full rate unaer the new com- pensation law. The one excepted has drawn at the old rate. ‘The McGarrahan Case Once More. Mr. William McGarrahan, well known in connec. tion with the litigation against the New Idria Min- ing Company, will soon leave Washington for Cali- fornia, where he has entered suit for $5,000,008 against that company for quicksilver taken from the mine. The case will be tried before one of the courts of that State. THE ATLANTIC BALLOON VOYAGE. Opinion of an Eminent English Aero- maut—ls Professor Wise Making Mis- takest=—The Current Blowing trom West to Bast and the Lifting Power of Gas. * [From the London Daily Telegraph, August 20.) To THE EpiTor OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:— Sir—Much that is interesting to scientific men and to aeronants will necessarily be associated with this projected transit of the Atlantic by means ofa balloon. The promoters of aerostation, includ- ing practical men like myself, will, | am sure, give the distinguished gentlemen a welcome reception. In the meantime it is tobe hoped that the aerial party will, look well to their figures, for if the at- tractive programme already put forth is a speoi- men of the data upon which they build their hopes I fear very much of it will require amendment. It is to be regretted that several inaccuracies occur. will allude to three. First— The intending voyagers appear to set out, atleast in heir calculations, with a firm convic- tion that at about 10,000 feet above the earth there uniformly exists a current blowing from west to east, and that it travels at the rate of from 40 to 150 miles an hour. This idea was somewhat favored by the celebrated Mr. Green, and was said to be borne out by his numerous ascents. I can only say, however, with due deference to high authority, that it requires confirmation, and that my own experiences, inclusive of the scientific ascents, do not establish this theory. Secondly—An extrava- gant conception as to the rate of atmospheric movements is again shown by the supposed speed at which well known voyages were made—such as Mr. Green’s to Germany and M. Nadar’s to Hanover. so far from their having been made in six hours, I beg to say they both occupied three times as long. Thirdly—The Americans appear to think that the lifting power of illuminating gas is “35 pounds for each 100 feet.” If this were so they might well add cumbrous appendages to their balloon, and rely upon great ascending power; but the fact is, they can only reckon upon each 1,000 feet, instead of each 100, lifting 35 pounds. Then, again, we read that “600 gallons of oil and the same of benzine were used for the first dressing’—and a rare dressing it must have been, too, considering that each gallon of oil alone would weigh 9 pounds. But there is yet time to correct false deductions— hence the liberty I take in pointing afew out. A voyage from America was first talked about in the year 1840, when Mr. Green explained how it could e properly attempted. Then Mr. Wise, just thirty years since, offered to undertake it if funds were raised. Some ten years back Professor Post Office Lowe, who didn’t go, next came forward. And now, thank Laercrig it is positively to be accomplished, and what is more, through the instrumentality of the American Daily Graphic. In wealthy England, even under the auspices of the British Association, I met with no such encouragement to co-operate in exploring the upper regions. I built a large balloon entirely at my own cost. The voyages which I was paid for (Ido not speak complainingly) were remunerated at a far less rate than my mere public ascents, and nearly one-half of them were owing to my freely and gratuitously offering tne use of my car in the interest of science. There is something bold and chivalric about this transatlantic expedition, and true Britons, aeronauts ong the rest, will give a hearty and fraternal greeting to our American cousins whenever they shall arrive by balloon. I remain, obediently yours, RY COXWELL. TOTTENHAM, August 19. DEATH OF THE OLDEST JOURNALIST. Savanna, Ga., August 31, 1973. Jacob N. Cardo, Sr., who has been connected with newspapers at this city and Charleston from the beginning of this century, died last night, age@ eighty-seven, He was the oldest living editor in the South, and was engaged on papers to within the past two years. DEMOLISHING A BATH HOUSE. Narrow Escape ot Half a Hundred ‘Women. The hour of eleven A. M. yesterday found be tween forty and fifty women bathing in the swim- ming baths at the foot of East Sixty-fifth street, They were having a mgh old time and enjoying themselves to a superlative degree, when suddenly there came a tremendous crash, and before the frail. creatures could give the inevitable scream the tug- boat M. R. Powers, a schooner and two canal boats, which she had in tow, came crushing through the bath house, demolishing things geyerally ana: frightening the fair bathers nearly to death. For- tunately, however, no one was hurt, but it wilh Cost $2,000 to repair the bath house, A WOOL HAT PACTORY BURNED. BETHEL, Conn., August 31, 1873, The wool hat factory of E. Sturdevant, one mile east of Danbury, was this morning, about five o’clock, burned to the ground, incinding two smals bandbox shops. Nothing but the books and papers: in the safe were saved, The loss. will probably ba about sixty thousand or seventy thousand dollars. It 13 impossible to give the amount of insurance, The cause of the fire is not known, There wasa large stock in the factory, asit was worked to ita full capacity. The fire will throw a good many out ofemploy ment. vl FRIENDSHIP DRIVING PARK. Prrrspura, Pa., August 31, 1873, The first meeting of the Frien@ship Driving Park Association closed yesterday. The race was for @ purse of $1,300 for horses which had never beaten 2:40, It was won by Belle Berksley, Skylark com. ing in second, Bight horses started, Winner's time, 2:303%q —2 :38 4 —2 538 by REGATTA AT NEW HAMBURG, PovoHEREPSIB, N. Y., Augnst 31, 187% In the regatta at New Hamburg, yesterday, sia ‘matlboate Were entered, and the race was ver @ sixteen-mile course. Irving Grinnell’s yzont Pid- get won the champion dag. and the ‘cnetls the second oriae 4