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-@ramatic resurrectionist whom we need. If he bestows vitality where other actors give mechanical motion, if he proves that he has ‘etudied the rhetoric of human nature as closely as the words of his part,-the syntax of flesh | Fire in Havana and a Square of and blood as religiously as the sentences of ‘the dramatist, all that we can hope is that he ‘will reach the people at large as well as that ee NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OUBA. City Buildings Burned. mall proportion nicknamed society. It will $8,000,000 of Property Destroyed and ‘be cause for very serious congratulation if the ‘three enterprises we have specified leave be- Twenty Lives Supposed to Have Been ‘hind them, when the season shall have passed Lost—Terrible Scenes Amidst away, @ stronger and more wholesome influ- ence than that of fleeting fashionable exalta- | ttion. The Orthodox Ministry at Work. Yesterday may be said to have opened the fall campaign of the pastors and churches vagainst the sins and wickedness that lurk among them, destroying their vitality and thindering their usefulness. As it became them, therefore, the sermons were direct and pointed. Dr. Dix, presenting the Lord Jesus ‘Christ as an example for our imitation in all ‘things, took occasion to contrast the Bible ‘with other books, and, while they perish, this thas lived for ages because of its theme. The ‘Doctor maintained that those who do not follow Jesus to-day are as blind as Bartimeus Alarm and Terror, ‘TELEERAM TO THE NEW ‘YORK HERALS. Havana, Sept. 7, 1873. Last night the square of buildings known as Plaza Vapor was reduced to ashes. ‘The fire broke out simultaneously in the four corners of the square, and is supposed to have been the work of incendiaries. The loss is estimated at over $8,000,000. It is reported that twenty lives were lost. THE SCENES around the burning square wére exciting and terrible. Parents threw their children fram the baloo- ‘was in the days of Christ upon earth. He thinks the glow of the world and dazzling pageantry of the day, directing the minds of ‘men in channels that are not right, cause the dissensions in the Church and in the world. ; Dr. Deems also held up Christ for his People’s imitation, and the Bible as the perfect, flawless mirror of the spirit of Christ, who, being in the form of God, took upon himself aalso the form of a servant, The form in the spiritual world was that of God; the form ‘upon this earth was thatof man. Man-God— ‘God-Man; this was Jesus, who loved not His -life, even unto death, that He might save a wuined race; and the standard in the world ‘to come will be the measure of our love to ‘Christ, and not the value of our worldly pos- wessions or titles or honors. _ The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, late of Belfast, Ire- Jand, who was instailed over the Scotch Pres- bDyterian Church in Fourteenth street, yester- day, also held up Christ as the soul's great object of worship and adoration and imitation. His ministry among them, he said, should be of Christ and Him crucified, always. Jesus Ohrist, he declared, should be his key-note, and certainly none other is needed, and no ‘better can be had. Would that every minister in the:land could make such a declaration and ‘then have the courage and the grace to stand ito it, Notwithstanding the repeated failures which history presents, and the equally numerous failures which our own experiences reveal, of the impossibility of a man trying to serve two masters faithfully—God and Mammon—we yyet see men laboring with might and main to do this very impossible thing. Hence they must be reminded oft and again that it cannot be done, and that it is the part of wisdom to Give up the fruitless task and serve the Lord only. This Dr. Quinn did yesterday in the Cathedral. He did not, however, as some theological teachers do, condemn the accumu- ation of riches. While he cautioned the peo- ple against placing too much interest and trust in them he showed how they might be ‘made a means of grace and salvation to many @ man. And surely, apart from such uses, wealth is valueless. On the same general topic Father Gleason, in St. Francis Xavier's church, presented the three classes of men indicated in the text and context. The righteous, whose lives are devoted exclusively to God and His cause; the claves of Mammon, to whom religion, duty ‘and conscience are dead letters, and between these two the lukewarm time-servers, who pre- tend toserve God, but hold on to the world with both hands. Alas! how numerous this class is in every church! The Rev. Mr. Bjerring began yesterday a series of sermons on the faith and doctrines of the Orthodox Eastern Church, from which it appears that in some very important points Greek Christians differ materially from the Latin Church. While they accept seven sacraments, as taught in the Scriptures, they hold to them spiritually, rather than literally, and in many things they approach more nearly to Protestants than to Roman Catho- dics. Rev. Dr. Clarke yesterday presented some exceedingly ludicrous and absurd ideas about ‘vacations. He would like to see all the stores in the city shut up, Wall street deserted and mo paper published in any part of the world from the beginning of July until the begin- nies to aave them from the flames. SPAIN. Cortes’ Consideration of the Appointment of an Executive Chief—Senor Castelar’s Eleo- tion Considered Certain—Situation of the Sieged at Berga. TELEGRAM 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD, MADRID, Sept. 7—5 A. M. The Cortes on Saturday discussed the appoint- ment of a chief of tne Executive power. Sefior Pi y Margall made a speech defending his administration of the government. Late in the afternoon the sitting was suspended and was resumed at eleven P.M. It lasted all night and the House is still in session, CASTELAR’S CHANCE FOR CABINET POWER, The election of Sefior Oastelar is considered cer- tain. He is looked upon in the Cortes as the savior of the country. On acceding to power he will probably appoint Don Espartero Generalissimo of the armies of Spain, Marshal Serrano Com- mander-in-Chief of the forces in the North operat- ing against the Carlists, and General Concha Cap- tain General of Catalonia. BERGA STILL IN SIEGE. The garrison of Berga, besieged by the Carlists, threatens to evacuate the town unless supplies arrive soon. FRANCE AND GERMANY. The War Indemnity Paid in Full and the Soil of the Republic Free—Prussian Notifica- tion of the Fact of Liberation. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Sept. 7, 1873. The French government has received notification from Berlin that France, having fulfilled all her en- gagements, the occupation of her territory by the German forces is legally ended. The evacuation of Verdun by the Germans has begun. IRELAND. Public Sympathy with the Fenian Prisoners. ‘TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Dupin, Sept. 7, 1873. There was an unusually large meeting at Clon- tarf to-day in favor of the release of the Fenian prisoncra, MEXICO. National Response to American Courtesy—Coin- age at the Mint. TELEGRAM TO ThE WEW YORK HERALD. City oF Mexico, August 31, Via HAVANA, Sept. 6, ists. } United States Minister Foster has extended an invitation to the Mexican government to partici- pate in the Centennial Celebration to be held at Philadelphia July 4, 1876, President Lerdo de Tejada accepted for his gov- ernment the invitation, assuring the Minister that Mexico will make great efforts to be worthily represented at the exposition. COINAGE. The Mint has coined 525,000 new eagle dollars. FRENCH PATRIOTS IN RICHNIOND. PORE RES Seo LT 2a Celebration of the Evacuation of France by the Germans—A Tribute to the Ea- terprise of the Herald. bi RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 7, 1873. The resident French citizens have celebrated the evacuation of France bythe German troops by a grand banquet at Gerot’s Hotel. M. Favien pre- sided. About 100 persons were present, and the ning of September. We do not see wherein his | aflair was elegant, patriotic and exceedingly plan looks well, either near at hand or afar off, and the most charitable opinion we can pass upon it is that it is put forth simply and purely asasensation. It is absolutely Utopian, and any attempt to realize it would be the most supreme folly and madness, and the reasons ‘will appear to the mind of every sane man. Better have no vacation at all from the cradle to the grave than have such a one even for two months. Mr. Talmage, having resumed his services dn the Academy, Brooklyn, slashed right and eft yesterday at the sceptics of the present day, who, when we come up to take a full, old-fashioned drink of pardon and comfort out of the Gospel ‘well, tell us that it is not fit to drink, and offer ‘us instead the wells of philosophy, art and science, For our boyhood faith they try to substitute Atlantic Monthly religion. They offer us mint juleps of worldly stimulants, ‘when nothing will satisfy us but a drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem. Wonder how Mr. Talmage became so familiar with the fancy drinks of the day? He would not exchange the poorest room in an earthly house for the finest heaven that Huxley or Stuart Mill or Darwin ever dreamed of. Their heaven has no Christ init. We cannot so conceive of any life lived for the good of mankind as ‘we believe these men are living and have lived. It they do not follow Christ as we do that is no evidence that they do not follow Him at all. And we have no. doubt that the last great day will reveal many disappointments when Dr. ‘Talmage and others like him will see many in heaven whom they never thought could enter into the pearly gates, and many outside who seemed when on earth to be able to read their titles clear to mansions in the skies. The Rev. Mr. Orcutt, at Long Branch, taught his congregation something about the echeme of redemption, and showed wherein it suited the wants of all men and is free for all. in character, Resolutions were adopted highly complimentary of Thiers’ administration and express- ing great confidence in that of Mac- Mahon, Sentiments and responsive speeches followed, replete with congratulations to the French Republic, and especially commending Thiers for the deliverance of France from the Ger- mans and for the wonderfully recuperative power of the French people in paying off the last indem- nity of the war. A vote of thanks to the New York HERALD, as the greatest journaiin the world, was nnanimously passed, and that journal was highly complimented for its enterprise in furnishing the French citizens of the United States with the latest, most authentic and earliest news from their native country. At midnight the company broke up. republican unanimously PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Roswell D. Hatch, Commissioner of the New York Fire Department, is visiting Washington. Ex-Congressman Israel T. Hatch, of Buffalo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, preparing for a canal campaign. OBITUARY, Lady Byron. A London journal records the death of Elizabeth Mary, Dowager Lady Byron, an evept which oc. curred at ber son’s rectory, Kirby, Mallory, Leices- tershire. Her ladyship, who was in her eightieth year, was daughter of the late Mr. Saccheverel Chan- dos Pole, of Redbourne, Leicestershire, and mar- ried, 18th March, 1816, George Anson, seventh Lord Byron, Who died 2d March, 1868, by whom she leaves surviving George Anson, eighih and present Lord byron. , Fenwick de Porqact. M. Fenwick de Porquet, whose name has been widely known in Great Britain for upwards of half acentury in connection with French and other foreign scholastic works, has died in London at the age of seventy-seven years. He was the son of Captain Fenwick, an English officer, and was born in Paris in 1796. When quite @ young man he Crossed the Channel and commenced his career as @ teacher of languages in England—adopting his mother's name, De Porquet, for that purpose, His puplis included many names afterwards eminent, ‘and during tne last fifty years he wrote and pub- lished upwards of seventy works, the carliest, La haps best Known, being “Le ‘Irésor,” which has Jong heen @ text-book in the English echols, Washburn— Expectation of Lively Times at the Worcester Conventi: Intended Rebuke to the Administra- tion by the Anti-Butlerites. Boston, Sept. 7, 1873. ‘The political barometer begins to indicate that it is all up with General Butler. Even those who were sanguine, two or three days since, that he would get the nomination of the Worcester Con- vention of Wednesday, are now forced to admit that chances are decidedly against him. The more recent causes foreshadow his defeat by over 100 votes, but the irrepressible candidate will, never- theleas, push his claims until the end. The town of Gloucester has elected him as @ delegate to the Convention, and the Gem eral will be on hand +%o look alter his own individual interests, and itis fair to presume that the proceedings will not be otherwise than lively and entertaining. There will be numerous contesting delegations from all sections of the State, and much time will be consumed and much wrangling ensue in determining the claims and rights of rivai bodies. In fact there are so many disturbing questions of this kind to be considered. that it is likely the convention will not reach an adjournment before the end of asecond day, Of the delegates thus far chosen 386 are understood to be Washburn, or anti-Butler, and 293 are pledged sure jor the Essex candidate, and 47 @re denominated as doubtful, This is the estimate to-night of the Boston Advertiser, by which it appears that, with tie doubtiul on the Butier side, he ts still forty-six behind. The editor of the Boston Journal figures up even a heavier balance against Butler, Estimated that with all the doubt- ful on his side he ts still ninety-six behind. ‘There are still 369 delegates to be elected; but as these are to be chosen (apis be the western part of the State, it is hardly probaole Butler will even hold his own from the present. It will thus be seen that THE NOMINATION 18 LOST TO HIM, ‘unless there are some very numerous and remark- able changes among those delegates popularly supposed to be in the interest of Governor Wasb- barn. ‘The question as to whether or not General Butler ) Will bolt in the event of the Convention going against him tsa yet unsettled one. The General has been very reticent when approached upon the Subject, and, it is the opinion of your correspond- ent, hag not come to any definite conclusion about the matter. If he finds that he is oy beaten it is probable that he will gracefully yield. On the other hand, ifhe thinks he is ‘cheated out of the nomination’—to use his own words—and his friends see tit to vote ior him tor Governor, it is almost certain that he will not object. Concern- ing the possibility of a BOLT OF THR ANTI-BUTLERITES, if they should fail to win in the Convention there is not the slightest doubt. The prominent Wash- burn leaders have admitted this all along. and, however confident they may be, they will go into the Convention repeated to secede it things do not goto suit them. I understand, from a reliable source, that itis seriously contemplated by Mr. Hoar and some others in the interest of Governor Washburn to give General Grant ana his admin- istration an emphatic rebuke for a fancied or real interference in this little Massachusetis squabble, and that it will be done in the shape of a resolution embodied im the series reported by the resolution committee. It is no secret that all the federal office-hoiders in the Eastern section of the State have been actively engaged in the Butler interest, and it is not denied that even General Grant has favored his cause so far as it has been prudently possible for nim to do, Never- theless, a rebuke to the national administration by @ republican convention in Massachusetts will be a singular spectacle and one which will indicate that there is at least one State that will array itself against Cxsarism. There will be a meeting of the State Central Committee to-morrow to decide upon @ President of the Convention. Congressman Gooch was selected a few days ago, but he now de- clines the proffered honor. Among the names I now hear mentioned are those of Dr. Loring, Mr. Boutwell, Mr. Hoar and Mr. Dawes. Later Returns. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 7, 1878. The Springfield Repudiioan has now returns irom 742 delogates, neariy three-fourths of the whole number to the Worcester Convention on Wednes- day, divided as follows:—Washburn, 394; Butler, 819; doubtful and contested, 29. There are 350 delegates yet to be elected, of whom 45 come from the four Western counties, 56 from Worcester county and 258 from the eastern part of the State, 62 each from Essex and Middlesex counties, tne former of which is one of Butler’s strongholds. Of tne 101 delegates to come trom the western part of the State the Republican estimates that Washburn will have nearly three-fuurths, and of the remaining 258 avout 125. As Wasiburn has now a clear majority of 46, giving Butler every doubtful vote, the fe- publican considers him sure of 100 majority in the Convention; but it is quite likely to be 150, and may rise to 200, Boston, Mass., Sept. 7, 1873, The Journal's returns tor delegates tu the State Convention, so far as heard irom at a late hour to- night, stand 418 tor Washburn, 316 tor Butler and 39 doubtful. There are 333 more delegates to be elected, which will make 1,105 the number to be sent, CALIFORNIA POLITIOS. The Herald and the Campaign in Cali- fornia. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— As part proprietor of the Bulletin and Daily Call newspapers of San Francisco will you allow me to correct the erroneous impression that they are republiean journals ? They are, and always have been, inaependent in politics, and do not hesitate to sustain or condemn the acts of either party or of the national administration as they seem to deserve. No man or party ever secures their sup- port except on the ground of personal merit, The HekaLD 18 right in its appreciation of the significance ol the late election in Caliiornia. The result was a triumph neither of democrats nor re- publicans, but 01 honest, clear-headed men of both political parties, who were independent enough to ignore party organizations when, through the management of adroit wire-pullers, they had fallen under controi of the most oppres- sive ratlroad monopoly that ever cursed a State. ‘The verdict 18 a notice to the Central Pacific Kail- road Company that it must get out of politics, attend to its legitimate business, abandon its irri- tating system of hostile discrimination against locaiities or individuals, and cease debauching pri- mary meetings, political conventions and elections, with a view to forcing from the people subsidies for the enrichment of the contract and finance ring—the Crédit Mobilier of the Central Pacific Railroad Company. When that notice ts heeded the popular war 01 seli-defence against the ring will cease and the independent people's party will resolve into its origiaal elements. J. W. 8. POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. pARETATiione vravwrlreniel To-day the State election occurs in Maine, and there 1s scarcely any excitement in the State itself on the subject. No doubt the republicans will sweep the State by an increased majority, although upon a reduced vote. The “Busy Bees” of Massachusetts—The bold Ben Butler men. The Boston Transcript (anti-Butler), September 6, avers that the Washburn delegates lead the Butler 51 votes, and have @ majority o! 24 over Butler and the doubtful. The last count showed:— For Washburn, 317; for Butler, 268, The actual assembling of the Convention on the 10th may show a different figuring. ‘The Lynchburg Republican says its radical friends seem to be a little bothered in raising money with which to prosecute the campaign in Virginia. The Boston Traveller (Butler), September 6, affirms that, ‘if the gains for General Butler at the caucuses yet to be heard from are in proportion to his gains up to the present time, he will have at least flity majority in the State Convention. The dele- gates classed as ‘doubtul’ in the organs of ‘the third term’ candidates are Butler men.” There 1s a shocking degree of discrepancy between the Butler and anti-Butler press regarding the com- plexion of the approaching Convention. ‘The Cincinnati Gazette states that Governor Noyes 1s making @ splendid campaign in Ohio—and it might have added, not making much noise about it, either. “Where ts Vice President Wilson?” is a conun drum now beng propounded in Massachusetts. He is not usually silent in similar emergencies, The Chicago Inter-Ocean avers that the Tribune of that city exhibits a remarkable ignorance of the facts when it claims that the so-called “reform party” has assumed a tangible and vigorous shape im Minnesota, Wisconsin and other States, The fact ia that in these States the party is especially Weak and powerless to accomplish any tangible Tesuits in the way of success in the coming election Of State officers. Wednesday next, (September 10), will be the day, the “awful day,’ of the rise or downfall of the Butlerian power in Massachusetts. The earth quakes as it contemplates rm result, and yet the Salem Quakers, it is said, foing for “‘boid Ben,” I Governor Washbura. Of Massachusety—there are so many of them, that it's well to de particu- lar—shouid fati to get the republican nomination at Worcester on Wednesday, will he be regarded as a “lost Pleiad” from the Washburn constellation in the political firmament ? The Richmond Enquirer notices, as “a change—" 1t used to be Lincoln, the Gorilla, Now itis Mosby, the guerilla. The Petersburg Jndex does not believe there is a white radical in Virginia, native or foreign, who does not either hold an office or seek one. Have Diack radicals no similar aspirations ? ‘The Norfolk Virginian avers that the relatiors of the Anglo-Virginian with the negro have nothing of austerity in them. “The white man here,” adds the Virginian, “deals kindly toward bis former slave, and when want or sickness or death invades the homes of the freedmen they do not seek the acalawag or carpet-bagger for ald or sympathy. On the contrary they go to those who know their faults and their virtues, their excellencies and de- feots, and in their extremity ‘old master’ or ‘old master’s’ family rarely, if ever, failed them.’” WEATHER BEPORT. Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL Srincxn,} WASHINGTON, D, (., Sept. s—1 A. M. Symopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. An area of diminished pressure, accompanied by areas of light rain, has moved southeastward over the lake region; it has been followed over the Northwest and upper lake region oy rapidly rising barometer, northwesterly winds and generally clear, cool weather; generally cloudy Weather, rain areas and northerly to easterly winds have prevailed in the Gulf and South Atlantic States; cloudy weather, with light ratna, is now reported from Virginia to Eastern New York and Western New England, Probabilities, For New England cloudy weather, with rain, is probable, the winds veering to westerly and north- erly during the day, with clearing weather, For the Middle States and iower lake region rising barometer, northerly and northwesterly winds and clear, cool weather, excepting possibly Ught rain on the coast. For the South Atlantic and Gulf States northerly to easterly winds, generally cloudy weather and rain areas, For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley clear weather and light to gentie winds. For the upper lake region generally clear, cool weather, diminishing pressure and winds adually shifting to southwesterly and southeasterly. For Missouri, Jowa and Minnesota falling bar- ometer, winds snifting to southerly and south- easterly and clear or partly cloudy weather, and possibly rain areas in the latter, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in 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, HexaLp Building :— 1872, 1873. 1872, 1873. 1 8770 60 66 63 Average temperature yesterday.. i% Average temperature tor corresponding date last year... 7 SHREVEPORT, LA, QUARANTINED, New ORLEANS, Sept. 7, 1873. The following was received here yesterday from Shreveport :— Owing to. the prevailing malignant fever here and the consequent panic in the Country, our cit; has been quarantined by the jnterior points, an trade In consequence is paralyzed. P. H. LINDSAY, President of the Shreveport Board of Trade. YELLOW FEVER IN TEXAS, AUSTIN, Sept. 7, 1873. Conflicting reports come in regarding the preva- lence of yellow fever in Galveston, Houston and Shreeveport. Itis rumored that the Central In- ternational and Great Northern and Texas and Pacific Ratiroads have been blockaded. It is im- possible to ascertain anything of a reliable charac- ter. A perfect panic prevails in Galveston and Houston, and the northward bound trains to-day aud last nignt were crowded with people flying from both piace: AGEAIN ELEVATOR BURNED. CHICAGO, Sept. 7, 1873. About three o’clock this morning a fire broke out in the Fulton elevator, corner of Canal and Kinzie streets, and destroyed the entire building. The elevator was one of the oldest in the city. It was owned by Jesse Hoyt & Co., of New York, who bought ita few days ago at public sale on foreclosure of a mortgage held by them on it ana other eleva- tors oi Munn & Scott. The price paid was $75,000, which was regarded as more than its value, It con tained 120, bushels of corn and 5,000 of oats, valued at $50,000, The grain Was ail insored, but in what companies cannot at present be learned. ‘The Vere Was insured for $20,000, about half Its value. CAPTURE OF KU KLUX. Lovisvittx, Ky., Sept. 7, 1873. Advices to the Courier-Journal from its special correspondent detailed to investigate the Ku Kiux outrages in Owen, Henry and Franklin counties, Ky., state that he, assisted by several citizens ot Owen county, on Saturday captured two men charged with belong concerned in the murder of George Wilson on tae Brown plantation. One of the parties arrested will turn State’s evidence, It is reported to-day that ten more are arrested in Owen and Henry counties, charged with velonging to the Ku Klux. A NEGRO MURDERED, BALTIMORE. Md. Sept. 7, 1873, Two negroes, named George Chase and Elijah Miller, while intoxicated, quarreiled on Saturday ait ernoon, in the Blue Ball Tavern, on the Phila- delphia turnpike, about seven miles from this city. Chase drew a large clasp knife and piunged it into the side of Miller, who died in hali an hour. Chase ‘was arrested, BAILROAD DISASTER Lovisvice, Ky., Sept. 7, 1873. Acollision occurred on the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, at eleven o'clock to-day, be- tween a regular freight and an oil train, Seven cars of redned ofl were burned. One man, whose name is unknown, was killed and his body burned in the wreck. HORRIBLE RAILROAD AGOIDENT, An unknown man was run over by the Washing- ton train, bound north, at four o’clock yesterday morning, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Penn Valley, near Bristol,Pa, He was {rightfully mangled, and died instantaneously. “P, J. Hogan, St. Louis, Mo.,”’ was Marked on nis valise and diary, He was apparently thirty-five years old, and had a workin; man’s attire no money. Coroner Corson ad- journed the inquest at Morrisville for unaccount- able reasous. The Stanley mystery remains still unsolved owing to his dilatoriness in not proceed- ing with due tnguiry. Morrisville people censure him for his apathy. A STABBING AFPRAY. About twelve o'clock yesterday William Hurley, @ young man twenty-six years of age, residing at No. 29 Washington street, while in Rector street was stabbed in the neck and face by some un- known parties, who made their escape. The wounded man Was carried to the Park Hospital, when an eXamination showed that he was para- lyzed from a wound in the back of his neck, the spinal cord being injured, He remained insensible during the day, and consequently he was unabie to ive any account of his assailants, who up toa late four had not been arrested, A HERALD reporter, who visited the hospital last evening, was in- formed that Hurley was still insensivie, and his case Was pronounced extremely critical by tne at- tending physicians, CHOKED WHILE EATING HER SUPPER At the Trenton Almshouse last evening an in. mate, named Mary Cooper, while partaking of her evening meal, accidentally choked herself and died in a few minutes, She was seventy years of age. Acoroner’s inquest resulted in @ verdict af acci- dental death, CRUSHED BY A TRAIN. Coroner Young was yesterday called to 129th street and Eleventh avenue to hold an inquest on the Lody of Margaret Smith, a woman fifty years of age and born in Ireland, who died in the Ninety- ninth street hospitabl irom the effects of injuries received the aiternoon previous by being run over on the corner o1 Eleventh avenue and 124th street by a train of cars belonging to the Hudson River Railroad Company. The body was badly crushed and mutilated. It was rumored that the accident was the result of deceased's own carelessness, but that will be determined by the investigation. SEPTEMBER 8, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. UNCLE SAMS TRUSTS. Business at the Custom House, Pen- sion Bureau and Post Office. DOINGS OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS. ee Vacancies at the New York Custom House—Civil Service Rules To Be Applied in Filling Them—“Statesmen” Anxious to Servo Their Country—Payment of Quar- terly Pensions—Postal Affairs. “This ts the season of the year when matters con- nected with federal offices are quite active. The officials who are fortunate enough or have the means ro indulge in a summer vacation have mostly all returned from the rural districts, and have hung rod and rifle and hammock, net, bob and sinker on the wall, to remain there until the next heated term, and the Nimrod of a few days ago has settled down to hard labor in downright earnest, The first one to come back was the inde- fatigable Collector, General Arthur, apd his trip to the Brazos improved him wonderfully. There 1s considerable activity existing in im- portations, as every arriving steamship brings in large quantities of goods, Withdrawals, for sev- eral days past, have been greatly on the increase, and the cause of this activity may be noted as two- fold—first, the commencement of @ brisk fall trade, and, second, the sudden droping off in the Premium on gold. SHORT OF HELP. Ever since the resignation of Mr. James as Deputy Collector of the Third division, and his Promotion to the Postmastership, the vacancy thus created has never been filled. Colonel Des Anges, his chief clerk, has discharged the dual duties of Deputy Collector and his own. In this same division another vacancy has existed, caused by the resignation of Mr, Harvey Major, Deputy Superintendent of the Custom House and assistant to the chief clerk of the ware- house division. This happened about the Ist of April. Shortly after Mr. John R. Lydecker, Special Deputy Collector, and in charge of the Fifth division, was promotea to Storekeeper of the Port, thus creating a vacancy in this department, which has not yet been fillea, As the business of the Custom House has been retarded considerably owing to these causes, the Collector has deter- mined not only to secure oMcers for the existing vacancies, but has applied for and received au- thority to appoint three additional deputy col- lectors, In oraer to carry ont this purpose aud the law reguiating such matters General Arthur has appled THE CIVIL SERVIOR CODE, and ordered an examination oi applicants for the peat waiting to be filled, for Wednesday, the Oth inst. The competition will be for tnree addi- tional Deputy Collectors, four $2,000 clerkships, several clerks at salaries of $1,200 each and two night inspectors. The two latter named positions may be contested by outsiders, but for the former only the present employ¢s of the Custom House are eligible. Four candidates were examined a short time ago for the vacancies in the Third and Fifth divisions, from which the two showing the: highest standard of proficiency will be selec:ed by the Collector. THE RUSH FOR OFFICE at present is immense; especially is this the case on the eve of an election. neral Arthur is beset on all sides by “curbstone statesinen,” each one laboring under the delusive impression that he is @ political Atlas, on whose shoulders rest the wel- fare of the country; and, to carry the burden, this man gad thawman should—nay, must be appointed. In this emergency the enactment of the Civil Ser- vice law has proved a boon to the Collector. ‘The “statesmen” are well received and as politely referred to Mr. Fred J. Phillips, the Collector's pri- vate secretary, who — furnisi tie pa- triots with blauks to apply for appointment, subject to the Civil Service ruies. This duty Mr. Phillips exercises with so much suavity of manners and good grace, that the “patriots” cannot possibiy take offence. I there is a hard- working ofictal anywhere, Mr. Phillips certainty is one. Late and early he is at his de: nd in the course of a day he is called upon to answer thou- sands of questions and is interviewed by as many more individuais, QUARTERLY PAYMENT OF PENSIONS. Many a heart was made glad on Wednesday last, and many a poor widow who had anxiously awaited the coming of the 4tn of September has been able since to supply her little ones with a “square meal.” On that day the third quarterly payment of pensions to soldiers and suilors of the late war, anu their widows, was begun by Pension Agent Silas B. Dutcher, in the basement ol the Custom louse. At this payment the biennial medical examina- tion is made by three experienced surgeons, wiio constitute the New York Bourd. They are in at- tendance from eight A. M. to jour P, M. each day during the month, personally, to examine each male applicant as to the continuance oi his dis- ability. tvery pensioner whose certificate does not i express terms exempt him therefrom, or whose disability ig Dot of a permanent character, such a8 loss of arm, leg, &c., is subject to being examined. Said examination, however, does not apply to seldiers of 1812, as these are ‘‘survivors,’’ and not classed as ‘invalids,’ If the surgeons, in their physical investigation of the pensioner, discover any recovery trom the wounds, or that the degree is iess than that for which he was originally rated, his pension is re- duced and payment made accordingly. This, how- ever, does not prevent him from making applica- tion for an increase whenever, in-the judgment of the surgeons, his disability is increased, The utmost care has to be exercised by the sur- geons in their examinations, jor if a mistake is ; Made in this certiticate and payment granted thereon they cannot recall it to rectily tue error, and the soldier is put to the trouble and expense of renewing his application. Drs. T. Franklin Smith, J. F, Ferguson and M. K. Hogan compose the Medical Board at this office. Under the law the Commissioner of Pensions has authority to appoint additional surgeons during the period of biennial examinations if the exigeacies of the service de- mand it. Among the pensioners whom Mr. Dutcher ays are Governor John A. Dix, the venerable Thurlow Weed, General William Hi. Morris, Dante Drew, the millionaire; Louis Lounsbery, born 1801, and others. The amount these ‘vets’ of 1812 re- ceive is at the rate of $8 per month. Polly Buck- ingham, the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, died since the last payment of pensions. at the ad- vanced age of ninety-six years. She was next to the oldest pensioner on the New York list. The oldest pensioner is Dolly Leve, who comes at every payment to the oitice tor her stipend, and, under the weight of ninety-eight years, looks remarkably well preserved. Thus far about $100,000 has been paid out. The medical examination progresses slowly, and in consequence Mr. Dutcher, with his additional help, can easily pay all who apply with their amended certificates. The present payment will probably continue for two weeks. POST OFFICE AFFAIRS are rather quiet, but the ge activity existing there remains unabated. Whoever has anything to do with handing the mails must work for # living—there are no_ sinecures in this branch of the government service. Postmaster James has not abated ove jot trom his energies in bringing the management of his office to the es ae state of periection, and his system of rapid deliveries is a genuine success, The new letter boxes for the Post office have been placed in position by sections, one at a time, from the closing of the office on Saturday night to Monday morning, in order not to interrupt busi- ness. Four thousand of these boxes are now up and the balance will be added ina few days. On the completion thereof, Mr. James —- to make an innovation in delivering mail matter, whicn will not only be & great accommodation to the public, bus wil astonish the “natives.” SUICIDE OF A WOMAN, At half-past nine o’clock last evening a German ‘woman named Margaret Kamm, residing at No. 2 Mcadougal street, diea from the effects of arsenic, taken by her for the purpose of suicide. On Sat- urday jast a stranger called at her house and rep- resented to her that he was master of a Ger- man association, of which her husband was @& member, and that he had_ procured for him @ sitaation as watchman in a place uptown where he would receive 75, @ per month, and that he wanted $50 for security. Believing his story, the woman gave him all the money she had in the house and he went away. Upon her husband’s return she told him what had occurred, when he pronounced the man a swin- dler and reproached her jor her stupidity in giving away her money. It is supposed this affair so Rite upon her mind that she resolved to destroy erself, and 80 took the arsenic for that purpose, as ho other cause can be assigned for the rash act, “REDDY THE BLAOKSMITE.” Willtam Varley, alias Reddy the Blacksmith, was arrested last night ina den in Houston street, by Roundsman Murphy, of the Fourteenth precinct, for committing an assault upon a man named Tully, who lives in Mott street. The dispute be- tween the parties arose, as usual, about prize fighters, when “Reddy,” with his accustomed “readiness,” attempted to blacken the eyes of the r half-drunken man who happened to differ th him. Varley was locked up at tne Pourteenth precings ‘station house, and will be aent before \ Judie Dowling, ot the Foub, this SUNDAY’S STEAMBOAT EXOUR-- SIONS. Up the Hadson and Down the Bay Tending Towards the Termination of the Season—The Excursionists—Final Sabbath Trip of t! Plymouth Rock. Though chilly blasts swept over the seaboard of America, giving joy to the doctors, who pine om account of a paucity of practice, and the misery of influenza to those who delight to devote Sunday to Picnics and pleasure, the steamboats which ply between Gotham and the beautiful places of recre- ation in the immediate vicinity of the Island of Manhattan were well patronized yesterday. The morning dawned brilliant and (air, a fresh breeze drove fleecy clouds across the azure sky, but the gray tint in them was so faint that it did not deter even the most apprehensive lady ON PLEASURB BENT from leaving her Lares and Penates to care for themselves, and embarking aboard some one of the Many stately and splendid craft hebdomadally dedicated to the service of those who love to quit @ crowded city, with its malaria and monotony, and win a breath of fresh air, soul-wafted (rom the lungs of Eolus, Cold and bleak was the morn- ing, 80 chilly that materfamilias insisted upon ner little Nock donning redingotes and muters, while she guarded herself with a “waterproof,” and meek Benedict was compelled, for the sake of har- mony at home, to array bimsell in his last year’s overcoat. The steamers on the North River route conveyed @ happy crowd o! excursionisis UP THE HUDSON, and when the vessels touched at the landings of Pleasant Valley or Fort Lee joyous throngs might soon be seen wending their way up-hill to lager, pretzels and contentment under the trees, Rockaway holds higu favor in the cyes of our Milesian citizens, and upon the silvery strip of sand which girts that lovely shore, upon whose tawny sands beat the musical waves that echo everlast- ingly the song of the poet who celebrated them, there were visible yesterday hundreds of visitors from the Empire City, who came “upon tne beach at Rockaway” to have a happy hour or two, Coney Island is never furgotten by Sabbath plea- sure seekers (or monte men), and yesterday the number of passengers conveyed to the arid isle was almost as large as when vhe midsummer sum scorched sinners in the city and a dip in the surt or a salutiferous smell of salt alr was accounted by the secular far more efficacious and health-giving: than a course of salts and senna or libations trom Saratoga’s springs. ‘The Seabird ran across the bay and to the High- lands of New Jersey, treighted with merry, laugn- ing parties of persons bent on pique-nique; 1 Seawanhaka ran up the beautiful Waters of the Sound to College Point, Great Neck, C4 Island, Sands’ Point and Glenwood well laden wit! pee le, and the Nelly White glided gently down a port with a littie crowd who WANTED TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS. Amoag the many excursions of yesterday from this city, however, was the final one which the magnificent palace steamer Piymouth Rock—weil known to fame tn fashionable circles—will make om Sunday during the present year, This noble crate. Steamed swiltly away from the foot of Murray street as her bell sounded the tocsin of assembly at twenty minutes to ten o’clock A. M., and upom her decks were grouped in artistic elegance BEVIES OF BEAUTEOUS MAIDENS, fresh-faced matrons, with resticss children and plethoric wicker-baskets, and dapper dry goods clerks and barbers’ assistants who yearned {or # breath ot the briny, The old stagers of either sex could easily be distinguished; the acumen dis- played by them in selecting the cosiest nooks and the best seats “out of the wind” gave evidence that they had “been there before.’ Besides those to whoin the trip through the beauteous Narrows to Sandy Hook and out to Sea Girt was @ novelty, there were latter al dressed damsels in silks and garments finely woven, natty kid-gloved exquisites, who looked as. if they had just emerged, phoenix iike, Irom the sacred pyre of a bandbox, and stout, ruddy-faced “parients,’? whose broadcloth betokened respecta- bility, and whose egotistical, commonplace ver- biage carried with it a sowpgon o1 shoddy or “‘ile.’* They landed at Sandy Hook and took the train (or Long Branch, these would-be-thought high-toned folks, in company with a tew ofthe real membera of American aristocracy, who had been compelled by untortuitous circumstances to postpone their voyage to Long Branch until the sabbath morn. But all hands were jolly—they always are aboard the spacious steamers of this line—no ruManism or any conduct that can be considered bad by the oM- cers was tolerated, and everything went yester- day, as usual, “merry asa Marriage bell,” that chimed in harmonionsly with tke dulcet musio that Keating and his merry musictans discoursed. The day was tine throughout, thongh decidedly cold towards its close. Rain was expected dur the afternoon, for the sky became overcast wil surly clouds, but none fell until long alter the various excursion steamers were hitched to their nightly docks and the juvenile portion of the popa- lace Were snugly tucked tn their littie beds, Even When the Seeds of Consumption the harvest need not be death HALE'S 0 AND Tak, taken in the are. sown, HONLY OF HORsHOUND early stages, will a The Weekly Herald Contains all the news. Only $2 per year. The only Weekly Newspaper in America, Published every Thureday morning. 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