The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDA NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIII. No. 24 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— Rup Vay Winkix. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 685 Broadway.—Vaniuty EpTertainment. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burrato Bii—Ossxor InTEREST. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Dick, tHe Cuxvaliex, Afternoon and evening. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.— Usen Ur—Kexry. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 780 Broadway.—Orena Bovurre—La FiLtx DE MapaMx ANGor. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets,—Mernisto, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadwav.—Varrery ENTERTAINMENT. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Union square, Broadway.—Fux ix 4 Foo—Mitky Wits, near NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Buack Cxoox, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third #t.—Mipsusmen Nicnt's Dream, HOOLEW’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— Baw Francisco MinstRELs. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Summer Niguts' Con- cunts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—ScreNcr AND ART. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway.—Scrance anp Arr. TRIPLE SHEET. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of tho Herald. “THE EXTORTIONS OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN AND WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COM- PANIES! ANOTHER LETTER FROM MIN- ISTER SCHENCK”—EDITORIAL LEADER— SIxTH Page. GENERAL SCHENCK THROWS A SECOND BOMB- SHELL INTO THE CAMP OF THE TELE- GRAPH EXTORTIONISTS! THE NOTE OF THE LONDON MANAGER OF THE ANGLO- “AMERICAN COMPANY AND MR. ORTON’S “REMARKABLE PAPER!” A FEARLESS EXPOSURE OF THE GREEDY OVER- CHARGERS—TuHIRD PaGE. BRITISH ENTANGLEMENTS IN SPAIN ASSUM- ING A WARLIKE CHARACTER! THE BRITONS RESIDENT IN CARTAGENA LEAVING IN HOT HASTE! BOURBON MOVEMENTS AND RECRUITS—SEVENTH PagRe. ABOLITION OF THE INCOME TAX SAID TO HAVE BEEN RESOLVED UVON IN THE ENGLISH CABINET—FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN WALES—Seventu PAGE. THE PRESIDENTIAL RE- CTIVE PROBLEM! MR-@.ORATIO SEYMOUR GIVES HIS OPIN- IONS UN THE DANGEROUS CONDITION OF THE REPUBLIC! HOW CESARISM MAY EVENTUALLY ACCOMPLISH ITS PURPUSE— Fourti Pace. {HE BOGUS BONDS! A MORE EXTENSIVE SWIN- DLE THAN WAS AT FIRST PPOSED ! A LIST OF $800,000 WORTH! SOME SHIPPED TO EUROPE! THE FORGERS, THEIR HAUNTS AND THEIR DUPES—SEvENTO PaGE. SPECIAL {TEMS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPI- TAL—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—TenTH Pas. EFFECT OF THE GRANGE TERNAL COMMER NENT! THE A Pace. (THE KELSEY TAR-AND-FEATHER MURDER! LYNCH LAW FAVORED! AN IMPORTANT NEW WITNESS—SEVENTH PAGE. 4 MANDAMUS AGA. ! THE COMPTROLLER AP- PLIED FOR BY THE RIVERSIDE PARK COMMISSION ! BRODERICK INDICTED ! LEGAL SUMMARIES—E1cuTn PaGE. A “LONG LANE” OF MUNICIPAL FRAUDS IN NEWARK! THE PEOPLE DETERMINED TO FIND THE “TU ’ BIG “RAKES” MADE BY OFFiCIALS—FourrH PaGE. CHE KINGS COUNTY ANACONDA PREPARING TO GORGE ITSELF ON THE OUTLY MOVEMENT ON IN- | DISASTERS IMMI- ERCHANTS MOVING—Tatrp NG TOWNS! THE LITTLE PLACES REJECT THE HEAVY TAXES—Fovrru Pace. RODMAN’S DEFALCATION ! THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRUST COMPANY ON TIE AF- FAIR-A SAD RAILWAY CASUALTY— FEARFULLY SHARP—Firr Pace. MICHAEL C, BRODERICK INDICTED FOR MUR- DER IN THE FIRST DEGREE—THE FALLEN BUILDING CALAMITY—FourtH PaGE. DNITED STATES TREASURY AND FINANCIAL AND CUMMERCIAL BUSI ! THE AUGUST REDUCTION Ob THE PUBL DEBT! THE EFFECTS OF THE RECENT FORGERIES—Firtn Pace. A FACTION FIGHT FOR A SCRANTON SCHOOL—SEVENTU PAGE. (PA.) Tue Brirtse Navau Compiication ix Spain with respect to the seizure of the national iron- clads Vittoria and Almanza remained in a very delicate and rather difficult position on the 30th ultimo. The Cartagena insurgents were in correspondence with Vice Admiral Yelverton on the subject of the future disposi- tion of the ships, and, judging by the contents of our latest telegrams, the end is not yet. Ssockra Conxprrion or Our Sraert Pave- meEnTS.—Probably never in the history of New York as a city have the street pavements been in o more dilapidated condition than they are at this moment. As if to add to the natural beauties of the rat trap now occupied by the United States government as a Post Office, in Liberty, Pine and Nassau streets, the wooden and other pavements have been allowed to be- come almost impassable for ordinary vehicles. In Nassau, between Beekman and Spruce, there is acircular conglomeration of paving boulders that would amaze a native of Central Africa on his first visit to New York. The wooden pavements in nearly every part of the city, a8 a matter of fact, are worn out and have become almost as intolerable nuisances as have the reform city authorities, in consequence of their delay in not having these pavements properly repaired and their miserable economy in conducting the affairs of the city generally. ‘These matters should be reformed altogether, and as soon as possible, or the city of New York will soon become a disgrace to the civili- zation of the nineteenth century on the Ameri- can Continent. Tae Prorix’s Panry.—The democrats and liberal republicans of Wisconsin have united to call a State Convention, and to try their Chances in said State as the people's party. cases call for desperate remedies; Dut the world does move, The Extortions of the Anglo-American and Western Union Telegraph Com- pantes—Another Letter from Minister Schenck. We publish in the Hxnap to-day another official communication addressed by General Schenck to Secretary Fish on tho subject of the excessive charges made by the Anglo- American and Western Union Telegraph companies on transatlantic messages sent through the cable and over the land lines of the latter corporation to points south and west of this city. Some timo since our Minister at London brought to the knowledge of the United States government the fact that a combination exists between the two companies in question, by which such messages are taxed o much higher tariff per word than is charged on home messages transmitted over the West- ern Union lines from New York to the same points. This statement was substantiated by quotations from the published rates of the two companies. It was shown that on a cable despatch sent from London to Washington the Anglo-American Company in the former city collects, besides the regular rate for the cable service to New York, an additional tariff per word of more than ‘double the published charge of the West- ern Union Company on messages passing between New York and Washington. The same excessive rates wore proved to be ex- torted on messages destined to Albany, Buf- falo, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other large cities, and even on those passing only to Brooklyn and Jersey City. The exaction was shown to be the more outrageous from the fact that the excessive tariff is collected on the address and signature of the cable message, while, in accordance with the rules of the Western Union Company, the address and sig- nature are entitled to go free. Genoral Schenck based his exposure of this unjust practice upon the immediate ground that the government of the United States is a sufferer thereby, being compelled to .pay on all de- spatches passing between Europe and Wash- ington a double tariff for the land service between New York and the national capital, amounting in a year toa very considerable’ item; but of course the whole business com- munity is interested in the matter, and it would have been equally the duty of our Min- ister to have exposed the extortions of ao for- eign corporation enjoying privileges from the United States if the government had not been the loser of a dollar by the exaction. There have been two attempts to reply to the first statement put forth by General Schenck—one by the President of the West- ern Union Company here, the other by the General Manager of the Anglo-American Com- pany in London. These replies are charac- teristic of the parties from whom they ema- nate, The Western Union, bold in its sense of power, half denies and half justifies its alleged extortions. Seizing upon the asser- tion made by General Schenck, that the ex- cessive tariff is divided between the two cor- porations in the proportion of one-third to the English company and two-thirds to the American, Mr. Orton avows that no such arrangement exists. He quotes the rates to some of the most distant points, to which few, if any, cable messages are ever sent, in order to refute the charge of extortion, and he shrewdly seeks to befog the issue by referring to the charges of the Western Union on mes- sages received in American cities outside New York for transmission through the cable. He also meets the Minister's solicitude by the statement that the despatches of our govern- ment are sent over the cable at half rates. The brief letter addressed by the manager of the Anglo-American Company to General Schenck can scarcely be dignified by the name of a reply to the Minister's statement. It is simply a waspish complaint of the ‘“un- warranted strictures’ alleged to be con- tained in that statement, and a rather imperti- nent assertion that the government of the United States has ‘‘only paid half the current rates of the (Anglo-American) company for some years past.’’ General Schenck’s present communication to Secretary Fish is in response to the letters called forth from the officers of the two companies by his first exposé. He shows that no demial has been made by either corporation of the main charge, that a ‘‘sys- tematic imposition’ is practised by them in the collection of a tariff more than double the regular published rates on all cable messages passing beyond New York to the South or West, and by the imposition of such excessive tariff on the words contained in the address and signature to such messages, which are entitled to go free over the Western Union lines. General Schenck argues, justly, that if the despatches of the United States government were in reality transmitted at half rates over the cable, that fact would not justify the extortion by the com- bined monopolies of an excessive tariff for the land service; but he explains that the pre- tended concession to our government is in reality only an arrangement by which ciphers used in an official despatch for the purpose of secrecy shall not be charged double rates. The exaction of a double rate for cipher de- spatches is one of the greedy tricks of the Anglo-American Company. It appears, how- ever, from the admission of Mr. Orton, that, while the United States government is suffered to eseape this unwarrantable charge, it has to submit to the grosser imposition which Gen- eral Schenck has so happily exposed. The extent of this imposition on the business community is now more elaborately and clearly set forth by General Schenck ; and it is shown by a full quotation of the tariffs of the two companies that on nine-tenths of the cable messages going beyond the city of New York the Western Union and the Anglo- | American corporations combined extort and divide between them, in some proportion or another, more than double the legal and just charges of the former company. We have frequently had occasion to con- demn the extortions of the telegraph monopo- lies. Recently we opposed and were instru- mental in preventing the imposition of double rates for cable messages during the existence of the Vienna Exposition, when the use of this means of communication was more than or- dinarily a public necessity. It is to be re- that in our attempts to bring the tele- to make the most wonderful triumph of mod- ern science that the world has ever known an advantage to the whole community instead of a special privilege of the wealthy, we have not had the support of the entire press of the coun- try. Wo have advogpted # ‘uovermuneat tele graphic system because we know the grasping and unscrupulous character of wealthy mo- nopolies and the readiness with which they sacrifice the public interests to their own greed of power and gain. Many of our con- temporaries have opposed the government system, under the apprehension that the tele- graph would become a partisan instrument in the hands of a political administration. But the impudence and avarice of the corporations will, before long, convince all disinterested minds of the absolute necessity of placing this important interest under the same control as the Post Office. In tho impo- sition now exposed by General Schenck, as well as in the recent disposition evinced by the Anglo-American Company to take advantage of the demands of the Vienna Exposition to extort double rates for messages, we can see how insecure are the public interests in the hands of the monopolists, At the very mo- ment when the people most need to use the tele- graphic wires freely the companies are the most likely to practise extortions and impositions. The Vienna affair was certain to increase the business of the cable, and the corporation was immediately seized with the desire to meet the increased demand by advanced charges. The completion of the cable to Europe gave a large additional business to the Western Union land lines, not contemplated when tho latter were constructed, and immediately the Cable and Western Union companies combine to make this additional business pay an un- just and excessive tariff. Ordinarily, the larger the trade the lower the prices; but with telegraph monopolies the rule is reversed. The greater the public demand for the tele- graph, and the more urgent the public neces- sity for its use, the higher are the rates exacted by the greedy corporations that hold the wires under their control. ‘The outrageous character of these over- charges on cable messages can be readily un- derstood by a very slight examination of the subject. If a merchant in New York desires to send a message of ten words, exclusive of address and signature, he takes it to the Western Union office and pays thirty cents for its transmission. If the same message should be sent from London to Philadelphia, and should contain seven words in the address and signature, it would be charged nearly one dolar and twenty cents for its transmission from New York to Phila- delphia, in addition to the full cable tariff from London to New York. In what- ever proportions this plunder may be divided there is a clear extortion of ninety cents more than the legal and regular charge, to be shared between the two corporations, and this neither Mr. Orton nor the manager of the Anglo- American Company pretends to deny. It is evident that against such gross imposition and greed there is but one certain protection. The cables between the two continents should be taken by the two governments and worked by them on fair and equitable treaty stipula- tions, and our own government should assume control of all the lines in the United States under the authority given by Congress. We should then have a complete and harmonious government system in existence, working as efficiently and as beneficially as the Post Office and doing the people's business at the lowest possible rates. It is to be hoped that General Schenck’s persevering exposure of this newly developed outrage of the private monopolists will arouse public attention in Europe as well as in the United States to the importance of the subject, and will induce the British and American governments to take some speedy and effective steps towards the establishment of an international cable system in union with government postal telegraphs in both coun- tries. The Central Railroad Bond Fo: and the Effect in Wall Stre The speculators in Wall street have had a lively time over the Central Railroad bond forgery. To increase the excitement there was another piece of rascality in that quarter, the absconding of a clerk, temporarily employed, with thirty thousand dollars in gold certifi- cates, money and bonds. Then the Rodman plundering case over in Brooklyn helps the fever. Of course, all those holding and deal- ing in stocks and bonds feel more or less excited at such developments, and it is said there was some hesitation among dealers yesterday morning as to buying. But, looking at the well known elasticity of Wall street and Wall street men, we judge the affair was pretty well discounted on Saturday and that little effect was seen after the first morning hours of business. It was naturally a theme for gossip and speculative opinions among those who live in an atmosphere of sensation, and there are always a number of stock operators who seize even the smallest event to disturb the market. They live by such disturbing causes, and, therefore, are ready at all times to exaggerate them. The extent of the forgeries is not yet known, but it is generaily thought they will not exceed two hundred thousand dollars, and that a large amount of them will be got at or be pre- vented from negotiation. Commodore Van- derbilt does not think there will be much loss or inconvenience. One good effect this for- gery discovery will have will be to cause the brokers, bankers and dealers to scrutinize carefully the bonds and stocks they hold. But will it make them more careful in the future? Will they not return, after the excitement is over, to the old easy-going and confiding way of doing business? A great deal of the crime which prevails in the financial world results from the carelessness of the principals in busi- ness establishments. The eagerness to make money and the gambling propensities of Wall street make criminals of many weak men when temptation lies in their way. Against the professional forger or thief there is no safeguard but constant vigilance. Let us hope the detectives will not fail to find the guilty parties in this Central Railroad bond forgery and that the criminals will be pun- ished. To allow such crimes to go unpun- ished has a fearfully demoralizing influence in the commun} ty. ry graph within the reach of all our citizens, and | ‘Tue Cauirornta Evxction for a State Legis- | lature takes place to-day. It is regarded by both parties in the State as a matter ot great importance, inasmuch as upon the party complexion of this Legisla- | ture will depend the choice of ao United States Senator in place of Eugene | Casserly, democrat, whose term expires March 4, 1875. The general result of this election is, moreover, looked for with some interest as a sign of the drifs of public opinion in reise Y, SEPTEMBER 2, 1873.—TR. ence to the Presidential succession, and in this view, it appears, the democrats are thor- oughly awake to the general advantages they will gain in carrying the State in this contest, while the republicans appear to hold the issue as very doubtful. General Butler’s Massachusetts Cam- p2ign—The Real Issue the Pr dency. We published yesterday a very full and com- prehensive exposition of the present political commotion in the ‘Old Bay State” of the friends and enemies of ‘bold Ben Butler” in his prosent campaign for the insignificant post of Governor of Massachusetts compared with his present position in the national House of Representatives, and of the reasons which have determined him, sink or swim, to stake his political fortunes upon this venture. Our correspondent upon this interesting subject says that General Butler desires to be Gov- ernor because he feels that he must conquer his enemies at home before he can aspire to any new achievements on the broader field of national politics; that ho sees plainly enough that he could not go before a national conven- tion as a candidate for President with his own State against him, and that his great object in this local contest against the Puritans of the old whig party—he having been a Southern rights democrat—is the endorsement of Massa- chusetts for the next Presidential council of the republican party of the Union. This explanation, substantially derived from General Butler himself, solves the late per- plexing mystery of the spirited and embit- tered struggle between the Butler and the anti- Butler republicans of Massachusetts for the State Convention which, on the 10th inst., will meet at Worcester to nominate the party candidate for Governor and for other pur- poses. As the nomination of this Convention will be equivalent to an election, should Butler secure a working majority in this nominating body the victory will be his. He will be chosen Governor of Massachusetts in Novem- ber by the people, and, thus possessing the endorsement of ‘his State, the great impedi- ment which has so far hedged him in will be removed, and he will be free to contest the national field with Blaine, Conkling, Morton and the other high-reaching Buckinghams of his party. We judge, too, from our special correspondent’s specific information on the subject, that Butler will secure the Worcester Convention for which he is so vigorously fighting, and that, backed by the national administration and its henchmen, ho will be the next Governor of Massachusetts, against all Puritan bolters and opposing forces. The question, then, recurs, How can the Pres- idential schemers who are actively engineer- ing for another term to General Grant har- monize their programme with that of General Butler? They may persuade him in 1876 to ac- cept, on the ticket with General Grant, the party nomination for the Vice Presidency as a convenient stepping stone to the White House four years later. Was it not by this process that General Jackson advanced Martin Van Buren to the dignities of the succession, and may not General Grant do the same thing for his faithful friend, General Butler, upon an issue (the back pay bill) where a bold cham- pion is now to the administration worth a thousand timid apologists such as Morton? And, having declined the Vice Presidency on the ticket with Lincoln in 1864 because he thought then his services would be more valu- able to the country in the army, why should not Butler, in the event of a third term to General Grant, be remembered in 1876 for his self-sacrificing patriotism in 1864? At all events, Butler’s bold battle for the advance- ment of his claims by Massachusetts, in the view presented, rises to the importance of a strategic movement for the Presidential suc- cession, and hence this great excitement in Massachusetts. ef the Autumnal Storms. The first of the great autumnal lake gales was yesterday announced as central near Lake Ontario, moving eastwardly, and, in anticipa- tion, atan early hour the storm-warning flag was flying on the upper New England coast. The arrival of this first instalment of the equinox is apparently the harbinger of an early fall, and the close of a summer among the most remarkable on record for its short- lived, but high thermometric ranges, its cold midsummer tempests and its phenomenal The First Lake rainfalls. In some sections of the country the temperature has been excessively low for the season, and the August precipitation has exceeded that of last year by one hundred per cent, and of the August of 1871 by nearly two hundred per cent, The weather reports of yesterday morn- ing left no doubt that New England and the St. Lawrence valley and the surrounding ocean, recently harrowed by the great Nova Scotia anti-cyclone, would be to-day the scene of another violent gale. It is not to be hoped that we shall escape a few warm days in this month, but with the breaking up of the hot season the absentees from the cities will soon return. Reopening the Public Schools. The public schools reopened yesterday with @ full attendance and a general appearance of pleasure among teachers and pupils that the work of the school year had begun. It is an event that ought to be of the widest and most general interest in the metropolis. Nothing so affects the stability of the Republic and the welfare of society as the education of the chil- dren of all classes. The public schools should be neither for the rich nor the poor, but so perfect in management and curriculum that poth rich and poor will find them the best places for the education of their children. In a city like New York this is feasible. Our schools do not afford that scope in the course of study, that thor- ough appreciation of the advances made in science and thought, which are necessary to their success. Private institutions are out- stripping them in many respects, and espe- cially in modern languages, natural science and music. A gentleman who desires his son to learn French and German can only have his child taught these languages by sending him toa private school. This entails an expense ot from one hundred to two hundred dollars a year—a burden which laboring men and poor widows cannot bear. The public achools of New York ought, in fact, to be a great university, rivalling Harvard in the facilities of instruction they afford to the young men and womep of the metropolis, LPLE SHEET. UE EEEEEEIEEEEEEEeee PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge J. G. Abbott, of Boston, ts at the Brevoort House. Professor Aggareis, of Cambridge, is at the Ever- ett House, General R. M. Kennedy, of Sovth Carolina, is at the Grand Central, Col, J. M. Davis, of Mississippi, is quartered at the New York Hotel. Judge J. W. Lea, of New Orleans, yesterday arriv- ed at the Grand Central. Ex-Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General Clinton B, Fish, of St. Louis, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Viceroy of India will not return to Calcutta till the middle of December, Rear Admiral Almy, of the United States Navy, is stopping at the Astor House, Lieutenant Colonel Von Voost, United States Army, is at the Brevoort House. General W. G. Mitchell, United States Army, is registered at the Coleman House. Judge Julian Hartridge, of Savannah, is among the late arrivals at the New York Hotel. Lewis B, Gunckle, M.C., of the Fourth Ohio Dis- trict, declines to grab, and threatens the grabbers. Mrs, Abraham Lincoin has been stopping for several days past at the Montreal House, Montreal. It is recorded that the man who originated the first lana grant died poor and miserable. Was not that Adam There are 4,000 slaves at Quiloa, East Africa, of fered at from half a dollar to $3 each without find. ing @ purchaser, Vacation is over, and most of the school cnildren in this and the New England States recommenced their studies yesterday. A postmistress in Pennsylvania employs her hus- band as head clerk. Whois the master and who the mistress in this case ? Henry Forward. driver of a St. Albans (Vt.) scal cart, has fallen heir to $32,000 by the death of an unclein England, A brother gets as much more. ‘The wine makers and grape growers of Pleasant Valley (Hammondsport, N. Y.) are in ecstacies over the magnificent prospect of the grape crop thie year. That there is “nothing like leather” is evidenced from the fact that one of the pioneers of the leather business in Boston is still living at the age 01 nearly 100, ° Operations among the tobacco manufacturers in Lynchburg, Va., have been suspended on account of wet weather, thus throwing many laborers out of employment. The nomination of Judge Gray for the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Ovurt of Massachu- setts is regarded by the local papers as one emi- nently fit to be made, The President has appointed Emory P. Beau- champ, of Indiana, United States Consul at Aix la Chapelle, and Taylor Bradley, of Nebraska, Indian Agent Jor the Winnebago Agency. The meanest man in Virginia nas been discov- ered in the person ofa colored individual, who de- manded three cents jor oll consumed in watching over the dead body o! a neighbor's child. They have discovered a Prometheus near Athens, Ga. It appears, however, that while he is chained to a rock the vultures are only those who fleece the country people who are hoaxed to visit the ccene. Gyles Merrill, fourteen years Superintendent of the Vermont Central Railroad, has resigned. It always did require a great deal of resignation among tue employés of that road to run it success- fully. . Postmaster General Creswell has received inti- mation trom a third party that Postmaster Booth, of Brookiyn, N. Y., will resign his position, but has not yet received any such notification from that gentleman. A Brahmin, having embraced Protestantism, was baptized by the Rev. Charles Gilder, in Trinity church, Sonapore, near Bombay. He was named Augustus Fortanatus Grey. Brown would have been better. The report that General Burriel was killed in an engagement ketween Spanish troops and insur- gents near Santiago de Cuba having been denied, it is thought tiat there was not so much of a gen- eral burial there alter all. General Sheridan has left Montreal for the White Mountains. Previous to his departure he was serenaded at St. Lawrenco Hall. He thanked his friends for the demonstration. Speeches were also made by Consul General Dart and B, Devlin. Coles Bashford, Governor of Wisconsin in 1856 and 1357, and who will be remembered aa the hero of the famous Bashford-Barstow gubernatorial imbroglio, has decided to remove toSan Diego, Cal, He has been Secretary of Arizona Territory since 1868, but hia family have resided in Oshkosh, Wis. The Postmaster General of Madras, India, has a very mean estimation of linguistic talent. He ad- vertises for a clerk for the Madras dead te\ter ofMce who can read and write English, Hindustani, Arabic, Bhora, Guzerati and Mahratti, and all this for thirty rupees per month, The linguists will be able to tell the Postmaster that the pay is too little. They should inform him of the fact in all ALL QUIET AT FORT SILL, Sr. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1, 1873, The Leavenworth Times of yesterday states that @ letter was received here on Saturday from Fort Sill, dated August 24, which makes no mentiou of Indian troubles or of apprehended artacks. NAVAL INTELLIGENOE, Arrival of the Powhatan from Halifax— List of Her Officers, The United states steamer Powhatan, Captain J. ©. Beaumont commanding, arrived at this port yesterday irom Haliiax, and anchored off the Bat- tery. Annexcd is a list o! her oMcers:— Captain Commanding—J. U. Beaumont, Lieutenant Commander and Executive Oficer— James O'Kane, Lieutenar F, M. Gove and J, M. Grimes, Masters—T. M, Elling and J. P. Wallis, Surgeons—S, D. Kennedy; Assistants, 8, A. Brown and M. H. Simms. Paymaster —.. G. Dungan; First Assist- ud Assistant, Harvie eorge Cowie. Cadets—R. K. Leitch and L. W, Wooster. Gunner—Joseph smith, Boatswain—J, B. Aiken. Sailmaker—G. C. Boerum. Carpent’r—Iisaac Cooper. First Lieutenant Marvines—J, C, Morgan. Captain's Clerk—J, de 6. Higgins, Pay Clerk—d. A.D, Elvis, The United States steamer Lallapoosa arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday, with naval supplies, The Uniied States fagship Worcester, Captain Wiliam D. Whiting, bearing the fag of Rear Ad- mural G. H. Scott, See ce North Atlantic fleet, was still at anchor of Her Maiesty’s dock- yard at Bermuda on the 29th ult., and would leave for Noriolk in a few days, to arrive about Septem- ber 10, All were well on board, The United States ship Wyoming, Commander Wiiham B. Cushing, seven days trom Hampton Roads, arrive) at Bermuda on fuesday, August 24, and anchored near tie fagstip, All well on board. The Wyoming experien ed rongh weather during the late gale, having split sails, carried away gear, &c. she was to reinain a jew days and then leave for Kington, Jamaica. Orders. Chief Engineer J. Q. A. Zeigier has been ordered to duty as inspector of coal at Philadelphia; Gun- ner William A. Ferrier has been ordered to the Narragansett, in Magdalena Bay, Mexico; Chief Engineer Edward B, Latch has been detache, from the Congress, in the Kuropean fleet, and or- dered to return home; Chief Engineer J. W. Whit taker has been detached irom duty as inspector of coal at Pbiladelpbia and ordered to the Congress, in the European station; J..W. Thompson has been detached irom the Richmond and ordered to the Omaha, in the South Pacific station. YACHTING NOTES. The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Alarm, N.Y.Y.C,, Rear Commodore Kings- land, trom Newport for New York. Yacht Dreadnaught, N.Y.¥.0., Mr. Stockwell, from Glen Cove tor New York. MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNORSEIP, Boston, Sept. 1, 1873, Pall River, to-night, elected fliteen delegates to the Republican Convention—all anti-Butler, Ded- ham, Yarmouth, Harwi Pittsfield and Holyoke se sourbetlee daupates, Maiden and ‘North. ir WEATHER REPORT. Wak DsPARTMENT, Orvice oF THE CuixF SIGNAL Ovri¢gs, Wasuinerton, D, C., Sept. 2—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The storm centre on Sunday night over Lower Michigan is now probably central over Northers Maine. Brisk and high winds have prevailed from Lake Michigan to New England and the St. Lawrence Valley, with cloudy weather and rain areas; partly cloudy weather and occasional rain areas have been reported from the Gut Coast; the temperature has fallen from the Ohi¢ Valley and Missouri to the lakes, but risen in th¢ South and Midale Atlantic States; the barometer is highest over the Guif States, Probabilities, For the New England Middle States and lower lake region gentle and fresh northwest to south west winds and clear weather are probable; for the South Atlantic and Gul! States east of the Mississippi light to iresh southerly and westerly winds and partly cloudy weather, witn probable areas of light rain on thé coast; from Missouri and Tennessee northward over the upper lake region, light to fresh winds, mostly from the west and northwest, and gener- ally clear weather, except possibly areas ot light rain in Tennessee and Southern Kentucky during the morning.” Areas of light ram will probably Prevail during the morning from Southern Vir- ginia to southern New Jersey. The Weather in This City Yesterdsy. The following record wilt show the changes ta the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872. 1873. 12M. 73 84 12P,M Average temperature yesterday. see Tl Average temperature for corresponding date last year.......... 69% “THE LATE STORM, TORONTO, Ontario, September 1, 1873. The Marine and Fishery Department has received & dispatch from Magdalene Islands, stating that fifty vessels, American and British, were wrecked in the gale of the 21st ult. OBITUARY. Daniel M. Barringer. Daniel Moreau Barringer, of North Carolina, died at his temporary residence at White Sulphur Springs yesterday evening. He had been pros trated by a lingering illness, and expired at forty- five minutes past six o’clock in the evening. Mr. Barringer was born in Cabarras county, North Carolina, He graduated at the University of North Carolina in the year 1826. Having se!ected the law as a profession, he commenced to practise at the bar in the year 1629. He was elected a member of the State Legislature the same year, and continued to represent a constituency fora number Oj years subsequently. In the year 1835 he was a member of a convention which was com- missioned to amend the State constitution. He was Representative in Congress irom North Carolina from the year 1843 to 1849. President Tay- lor appointed him United States Minister to Spain in the year 1849. He continued to discharge the duties of the same office at Madrid under Presi- dent Fillmore. Resigning his position aiter @ term of tour years, he travelled extensively in Europe. On_his return to America he was elected to the State Leg slature of North Carolina. He de- clined a re-clection in the year 1555, and imme- diately aiterwards retired irom public life, devot- ing himself to literary studies and pursuits. He was electe! a delegate to the Peace Vol 38 of 1861 and also to the Philadelphia National Union Convention of 1860. He was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of North Caro- lina in the Greeley campaign for the Presidency. John Lindsay. r The British press reports the death of John Lind- say, Director of Chancery lor Scotland. Mr. Lind- say was born in 1792, at Kinblethmont, in the par- ish of Inverkeillor, Forfarshire. He had been im the habit of spending tie summer and autumn months in the village of Kilchattan Bay. It was at his residence there that ne expired, having at- tained the age of four-score years. Mr. Lindsay took a great delight in the study of science, He was eminent as a lawyer, and perhaps equally emi- nent asa botanist. Ia his death the Archwological and Physical Society of Bute .osey an attached mem- ber, an earnest worker and liberal contrib- utor. He was a member of the Society of Writers to the Signet. During the govern- ment of Lord John Russell he held the honorable and responsible office of Crown Agent for Scotdand. After retiring from that position he held for nine ears the.principal clerkship of the Court of Session, Just sitting, as he himself Recenenicred used to say, in the chafr of Sir Walter Scott. Ince 1847 he had been Chiet Director of Chancery for Scotland, an oilice which now by his death falia to be abol- ished. It 18 an ofice of no great importance, and because of that the present Government’ de- termined to suppress it, along with not a few others; but out of respect to Mr, Lindsay, and mindtul of the services to the country which, as Crown Agent and Clerk tothe Court of Session, he had perfor..ed, they paid him the well-earned compliment of sug;ending their purpose with re- spect to the directorate o/ Chancery as Hone as he lived. Mr. Lindsay was an LL.D. of Edinburgh University. John O' Rielly. Commander John O’Rielly, Governor of the Naval Knights of Windsor, has died at his residence, Travers’ College, Windsor, England. He was in his eightieth year. Deceased succeeded Commander ackginnd Governor of the NavalK nights in Novem- ber, 187: DROWNING OF FOUR MEN. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1, 1873. The steamer Jay Cooke, plying between here and Put-in Bay, ran down & yawl boat to-day contain- ing nine men, Four were drowned and one had his shoulder broken. Tne accident caused great excitement, A LAWYER'S OFFIOE ROBBED IN BROOKLYR, The office of W. B. Whiting, 371 Fulton street, Brooklyn, was burglariously entered last night. The thief was observed and pursued to Willoughby street by William McConnell, of the Central oftice, who succceded in capturing him. When searched at the Washington street station $100, some cloth- ing and pawn tickets was found in his possession. The prisoner gave his name as Henry Clark, and was locked up to answer. ATTEMPTED SUIOIDE. About two o'clock last evening @ woman named Louisa Super, sixty-three years of age, residing in Williamsburg, attempted to drown herself near the Grand street ferry. She was pre- vented from consummating the rash act by a citizen and was taken in charge by officer Post, and carried to the Thirtcenth pre- cinct station house, when she was attended to, and thence sent to Bellevue Hospital. She gave ag @ reason for the attempt a cancer in the breast and ili treatment by her children. OHBISTIANITY IN CHINA. Roman Catholic Piigrima; im the Cee lestial Fiowery Land. It appears from a letter published in the Osserva- tore Romana trom Monsignor Longuillot, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Nankin, that religious pilgrimages aro beginning to be as fashionable in Ching as they are in France. On the 1st of May, says Monsignor Longuillot, a procession went to the mountain of Seo-Se, on whose summit there is a temple dedicated to the Virgin, under the title of “Auxilium Christianorum.”” He adds that, according the unanimous opinion of the Chinese, 80 magnificent a festival had never been seen there belore. Seven missionaries and a yt number of Europeans, including upward of oNenty of the most eminent inhabitants of the town, took part in the procession. The total num- ber of persons present was upward of 15,000, At least 2,000 of these were Christians, and 1,200 had previously taken the communion. The heathen, jays Monsignor Longuillot, were deeply touched at ot of so mauy believers and at the pious ich they displayed at their prayers, a th et mil processions were to tal lace durit ilar @ place duri the whole of the month of May. ‘a ng TELEGRAPHIO NEWS ITEMS. eget in" Nebraska todapr Amoug tte provisiss ee Sholishing leteerioe fa thee Beate ©) Drovwvoms one John Dimond, an unmarried man, of Staatsburg, was K bya train on the Hudson’ River h Poughkespeto, on Sunday might, and killed. wrod: &S The Convention of Italian societies in sessi Ieee Ketiestaty satie ta Coaer hes a i a Children’whtton has been care ed on fo long by pedronee Pe eR