The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1873, Page 8

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. icetetore-itiobond JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVIII..... seeeeeeeneeeeee ..No, 257 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 685 Broadway.—Vaninrr ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hanpsome Jacn— ‘Manxep ror Lire. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Hauusr. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— “Vantere‘EXTRRTAINMENT. ,,corner Thirtieth st.— WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw ‘Bux McCu.tovan, Afternoon and evening. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth strcet.—COLLEzn Bawn, BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Ormna Bourre—La Granve Ducnesse. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—SINBAD THE SatLon. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanisry ENTERTAINMENT, UNION UARE THEATRI Union square, Broadway. —Tux BELiEs oF THE KrtcuEn, near NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston sts.—Tax Back Croox. 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THE LONDON TIMES FAVORS A LIFE TERM FOR THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS! THE HEROES OF THE REVOLUTION’ SNEERED AT! OUR ELECTIONS EXCITING COCKNEY RISIBLES AND DiSGUST—NinTH PaGE. ANOTHER AND MORE SUCCESSFUL SORTIE MADE BY THE CARTAGENA INTRANSI- GENTES! CORTES CONFIRMS THE GRANT OF EXTREME POWERS TO THE GOVERN- MENT! BAD NEWS FROM THE SCENE OF THE RAILWAY EXPRESS DISASTER— Nunta Pace. CUBAN SLAVERY ABOLITION! INSURGENT AT- TACKS UPON THE SPANISH FORCES RE- PULSED—Ninta Pace. SLAVE TRADE HORRORS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN! A BRITISH SLOOP CAPTURES A SLAVER FILLED WITH DEAD AND DYING! 260 DEATHS OUT OF 800 SOULS—NintH Pace. FRANCE JUBILANT OVER REGAINING HER FREEDOM! FRANCO-AMERICAN GRATULA- TION! VERDUN AGAIN GARRISONED BY THE DEFENDERS OF THE TRICOLOR— Ninta PaGE. THE RACE FINALE AT PROSPECT’ PARK! THE PEOPLE PRESENT IN STRONG FORCE! DETAILS OF THE FOUR SUPERB RACES— TWELFTH Pacs. SUNDAY MORNING READING! THE SERVICES IN THE VARIOUS CHRISTIAN TEMPLES— SixTH PAGE. LOWER FREIGHT TARIFFS! INTERESTING STATISTICS FROM THE PRODUCE EX- CHANGE—Firtu PaGE. YELLOW FEVER IN THE SOUTH! A PANIC IN SHREVEPORT, LA.—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—NInTH PAGE. MORE OF THE DREAD WORK OF THE LATE CYCLONE! TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE— EiauTa Pace. Wrrn Srxry-rwo Conumns or ADVERTISE- wents the Henaup of to-day comes to its NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ‘wne English Ally to am Amerienn | tnrow its considerate care for us aside with | warmer praise could not well be uttered. a CoosareLife Term Logie from the Alabama Builders. One of the best arguments yet advanced in support of our position on the tendency to Cesarism in our government will be found in the special despatch to the Henaup which transmits the opinions of the London Times on the question of a third term for President Grant. If we have complained of the silence of the President on this momentous question and the evasive utterances of his most inter- ested supporters we were all the while morally certain that we should soon be able to gauge accurately the amount, quality and location of the forces willing to co-operate for an assault on the citadel of our liberties. From the be- ginning we Have clearly foreshadowed the gradual sapping advances with which the siege would be conducted by whomsoever dared to compass the audacity necessary ‘for the attack. We have shown how the process could be accelerated by the blundering sallies of those well-meaning people who rely upon their own patriotism and lack ‘comprehension of the plans, positions and numbers of the besiegers, We have shown what false lights by night and deceptive cries by day-the citizens would be tortured, misled and con- fased by, while the Cesar, like a panther, was gathering his iron sinews for the last death- dealing spring. Now we have unmasked another foe—a foreign one. From England, of all nations in the world, we are absolved from taking advice upon our internal affairs. Never in our history, from the day on which she hauled down her flag at the Battery, have we had to record a single action by which it could be made certain that she bore honest goodwill to America for America’s sake. International arcadianisms aside, it is not in the order of things that she should. Her form of government, her aristocratic castes, her commercial exigencies—in a word, her institutions forbid it. The instincts of self- preservation in her ruling and governing classes alone would account for it. We have had one war with her since 1783, and thrice since have we been on the verge of another. If she has not been plain-spoken with us ex- cept when impressing our seamen or firing on our cities, quarrelling over boundaries, bully- ing us in our dire extremity or building and manning ships to sweep our commerce from | the seas, we have by this time been able to separate the poison grains of her animus from the gilded chaff of her rhetoric. To this con- summate knowledge of her tactics is due the era of apparent goodwill which has followed the payment of the Geneva award. In such a season it has been England's fashion to platitudinize for us in terms of oily patronage as complacent as they are interested. The editorial of the London Times, which will be found elsewhere, is in perfect keeping with England's traditional attitude—a fair expression of the cheerfulness with which she would contemplate the annihilation of demo- cratic government on the American Continent. But we cannot afford to let the words of the Times pass with the natural and sweeping condemnation which Virgil put in the Trojan’s mouth—to fear the Greeks even when they come with gifts. A close examination shows that these gifts of advice from England are worthy of our study.. They indicate exactly what allies the third term conspirators can boast; but they do much more. They carry forward the logic of such a course to all but its ultimate end with a frankness which will startle those on this side of the Atlantic who have persistently denied that any such results, could flow from placing General Grant for a third term in the Presidential chair. When, in admitting how a third term would lead to a fourth and thence to a life Presidency, it stops short and tells us that the ‘‘notion of despot- ism’’ may be dismissed, it shows either com- plete ignorance of the situation or a shameless perversion thereof to suit its special ends. The irresponsibility of the office, the immense official machinery at its command, ‘the cu- mulative force of ‘public plunder” in the hands of its followers, are negations of any light worded dismissal of ‘the notion of despotism.’’ There isa special undercurrent in the Times’ article which we well know is intended for the behoof of that unfortunately growing class in this country—the pertume-fingered andifferentists and the wealth-selfish. They millions of readers, The good prospects of | alone, of the American people, can take com- the fall trade could not receive a better illu- stration. A glance down the advertisement directory on the first page will convince even those, who have no business with business what a wonderful variety. of industries seeks the public attention through the medium of a first class newspaper. The Henatn’s business barometer generally betokens ‘set tair’’ when advertisements run into the sixties. Free France Ooncratunatep rrom AMen- tca.—A Hzkaxp special telegram from Paris reports the accomplishment of the complete liberation of the soil of the Republic by the re- tirement of the Prussian troops from Verdun. The fact was followed by the immediate and simultaneous display of the national ensign of France at all points of the municipality amidst ascene of fraternal rejoicing. The French residents of New York congratulated their brethren in a message forwarded by cable, so that the day was made perfectly joyous not only for Verdun, but for France in the Old World and the New. French troops have entered the military quarters of Verdtin. An Irem ror Taxpayens,—In the City Record of yesterday we find the following :— DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, NEW York, Sept, 9, 1873, CHANGES OF SALARIES, September 2.—Isaac 8S. Barrett, Comptroller's Office, irom $3,000 to $4,000 per an- bum, to date from September 1, 1873. September 9,.—Robert J. Quinlan, John Meehan, Peter Daly and Philip Maher, messengers in Bu: reau_ for the Collection of Assessments, from $2 50 per diem to $3 per diem each, to date from Septem- ver 1, 1873, DREW H. GREEN, Comptrolier, In Mr. Green's office the salaries paid are many thonsand dollars greater than the sal- aries in the Comptroller’s department under Connolly. While other departments have de- creased their expenditares since the expulsion of the Tammany thieves Mr. Green has in- creased those of the department over which he presides, We now find him raising his own bookkeeper’s salary from three to four thou- sand dollars and the pay of his own messen- gers from two dollars and a‘half to three dollars a day at the very time when he is cut- ting down the salaries of all other depart- ments and driving poor scrub women into the Courts to recover the vittance due them from the city. | nation that protects them. bookkeeper, | fort in the patronizing complacency with which a portion of the English nation: will always regard an attempt to sap the founda- tions of the American Republic or an en- deavor to effect changes in the distinetive features of our democratic government which, once accomplished, would weaken, if not de- stroy, the hold of great principles upon us. Ever ready, when the eyes of thjs class are upon them, to shed crocodile tears over the abuses of our system, this portion of the English nation can deftly pour into willing ears @ specious encouragement to the use, against such abuses, of remedies to the English taste. Thus the Times does not mince matters about how desira- ble it thinks the gradual extinction of elections would be, but gives a sop to the indifferentists, which they will only be too glad to use, like all shirkers of duty, as an apology for themselves. When it says:— “Elections, without limit in number, from the conduct of which the better part of society is excluded, are not so great a good in them- selves that we could wish them preserved in the spirit as in the letter of the wishes of their founders,”’ the culpable indifferentists may acquiesce, but none others, for even all the wealthy are not above doing thar duty to the When it proceeds to argue that under Cesar or life-President— for the terms are convertible—the process of “appointment” of men to public office would be rendered “less degrading to themselves,’ we recognize the touch of the aristocratic caste that would degrade the entire nation to a race of serfs rather than take their places ata primary or.spend an hour in a twelvemonth at the ballot box; who would abase themselves at the foot of a throne and never know that their manhood, their birthright had been sold for the spangles of a flunky. These are the men who will listen with unaroused indigna- tion while the austere example of Washington in making his diadem out of a people's love is mocked at by slippery time-servers here and insidious enemies in England and elsewhere, It is but necessary to examine the pitiful array of safeguards which the programme of the Times would leave us when its life-President had'made ‘a scandalous abuse of power’’ to the scorn it deserves. The London Yimes may join hands with the over-zealous friends of President Grant, but the people will differ with them on im- Portant points, We have in nowise stinted the praise due to our soldier-President for his great share in saving the Union from destruc- tion.” His fame in that is assured, but it is not improper to suggest that it will be limited within its just bounds. We need not resort to the probability that had not the genius of General Grant become manifest when it did some other master soldier would have sprung from the teeming brain of the Union to lead our armies to victory. We leave that and all other possibilities aside, and give General Grant all the guerdon he s0 well deserves; but the people of the United States, having given the lives of half a million sons and brothers to save the country, will deny that the credit of putting down the rebellion be- longs to any individual, While they admit, as they must, that General Grant rendered ex- ceptionally efficient service, they will refuse to assent tothe proposition that his services in saving the Republic from others constitute @ reason for permitting him to destroy it for Taking it as a whole, the article from the Times instructively indicates by what easy gradations the third term principle will lead to o Presidency for life or practical adminis- trative Cxsarism.' Out of the mouth of Eng- land we learn how favorably the un- wholesome doctrine appears in her eyes. We have before referred to the ignorant or intentionally deceptive manner in which the logical conclusion of » Cmsar—a despot— is avoided, while we are invited to cut down all salutary venerated precedent, and, if neces- sary, tear up the constitution to make for our- selves a life-President. It must induce the thoughtful to observe that the one involves the other by probable, if not necessary, degrees, and should lead every American citizen who loves his country to determine that this first step in the downward course shall never be taken with his consent. When the monarchical powers of Europe, struggling in one form or another with the advancing democracy, pause to take comfort from this attempt of the selfish and the time- serving to cripple our liberties, we may well say there is cause for being on the alert, We have seen the ray of hope which the dis- cussion of this question gave to the French imperialists and legitimatists, past praying for as the definite triumph of their causes may almost be said to be. It is a comfort to England, as we now observe, and if the Kaiser of Germany and the Czar of Rus- sia could be heard from they would doubtless think that the more democracy as a success in government is discredited the better for themselves. We take our stand by the peo- ple in this matter, and ask them thoughtfully and resolutely to preserve intact every particle of liberty which the great generations of the Republic have given us. It is the voice of the highest, broadest humanity calling to all time, as wellas the voice of self-preservation, bidding us beware to-day. Brilliant Operatic and Dramatic Promises=Nilsson, Salvini, Tamber-= lik. Both American art and American taste have grown so rapidly in the last few years that foreign artists who come to us must be of the best to prove acceptable. We are no longer content with a tithe of operatic promises in their fulfilment. When o great singer ora great tragedian comes from the Old to carry away the plaudits of the New World he must bring us something besides a great European reputation. Mario had come to be a tradition among us, through his achievements with Grisi at the Academy, nearlya quarter of a century ago, but when he returned last season to exhibit the wreck of his remarkable gifts his coming was ‘as .painful to us as to him. What kindness we showed him was the kind- ness of remembrance. Those who come to us this season can expect no such indulgence, and we are not aware that any of them look for plaudits except those that are well earned. They come to us as artists, and must be judged from the art standard. We might except Miss Nilsson from this rule, in so faras it relates to forestalling an opinion, for we know her powers too well to hesitate concerning them. Of the artists who aro to support her we have heard nothing but commendation, and we are led to “expect the best ensemble yet seen at the Academy of Music. The Henatp has always vigorously opposed the star system in opera, and consequently it is a pleasure to look for- ward toa season which promises something better than a company composed of only one artist. a But Miss, Nilsson is, after all, exceptionally great, and she cannot fail to repeat her tri- umphs of two yeursago. Her merits as an artist are universally admitted and admired, and her voice has never for a moment been impaired. When she went from us before it was to gain greater triumphs in St Peters- burg, where she shared the honors with Mme. Adelina Patti. Her successes and her adventures she makes the topic of avery pleasant conversation witha HEraup writer this morning, telling us something of the winter she spent in the bleak capitals of Russia, and revealing just perceptibly enough to make it piquant the joy of the artistic life. After her present season itis not impossible that she may rest from the severe labors of the last few years, but in any event neither she nor her admirers are likely to forget that America shared in her earliest triumphs. Miss Nilsson has done much toward the growth of musical taste in this city, and as the leading prima donna of the year, in a season when the honors are to be hotly contested by other artists, she is likely to place the American public under still greater obligations, In another fortnight her stately presence will be seen and her superb voice heard in her highly idealized creation of Marguerite, in ‘Faust,” and it is hardly too much to expect that her reception will be an ovation. With such an artist and such support as we are led to ex- pect the season at the Academy must be something that will exceed in brilliancy all the others which preceded it. We also print the report of a conversation with Signor Salvini, the distinguished Italian tragedian, which has many points of interest; and with it we publish 1 communication from highly enthusiastic correspondent who has often seen Salvini play in Italy. Words of only a tithe of what we hear of him be true he must indeed be a’ great actor. His first appearance being made in ‘Othello,” a play 8o familiar that his Italian lines will interfere very little with a full appreciation of his act- ing, it will be comparatively easy to measure him near his real worth. While we prefer not to express any opinion in advance of his appearance, we commend the letter of our correspondent as worthy of perusal now for subsequent comparison. In addition to the other great artists who are coming to New York this season is Signor Tamberlik, a slight sketch of whose life we print this morning. All the world knows that Tamberlik was great, and he comes to us with the Havana judgment of the last season that he is great still He sang there with ac- ceptance, but still-we would not be understood as proclaiming anything in advance in regard to him. He comes as the merest novice comes, not to be judged by his past reputation, but by his present art in its entirety. And so we shall treat ‘him, forgetting his reputation if he is great no longer and proclaiming his merits if he is still the king of tenors, In all this there is, indeed, promise of a great operatic and dramatic season—a season exceeding in brilliancy the earlier expecta- tions that were formed of it. Only what is claimed to be greatest in Italian and European art is offered us; but even of this we want to judge for ourselves and compare it with | American art. The lyric and operatic stage of this country is vastly benefited by the presence of the really great artists of the Old World, and we shall be the better able to vie with Europe in music and the drama by bringing among us what Europeans regard as the best they possess and setting it side by side with what is the legitimate growth of our own city. Review of the Religious Press—What They Say and What They Propose To Do. The coming Conference of the Evangelical Alliance in this city, in October, is the subject of @ leading article in the Observer (Presby- terian). Distinguished men, representatives of the réligious thought and learning of the ages are already arriving. Among them are some of the best of German theologians and Christian scholars, French pastors and authors, British divines and laymen, members of Par- liament and others. Among these arrivals are Drs. Dorner, Krummacher, Kraft and Christ- lieb, of Germany; Coulin and Pronier, of Geneva; Astie, of Lausanne; Stoughton, Angus, McMillan, Harrison, Aveling, Tyler, Harris and others, of London; Arnot, of Edinburgh ; Charles Reid, M. P.; Rev. Dr. Smyth, of Londonderry ; Professor Jones, of Wales, and some thirty more. The Observer remarks that ‘in the great- ness of the subjects to be discussed, the rela- tions of the Conference to the interests of evangelical Christianity on the earth, and the learning, worth and influence of the members of the Conference, this is to be one of the most important and interesting assemblies ever convened on this Continent. It has no political or ecclesiastical significance. It represents no church or party. It is a volun- tary meeting of the friends of free thought and Christian work, who come from all lands to confer in regard to the interests of Christ's kingdom. To take a part in such a convoca- tion, to contribute to its success, to entertain its members, to attend its deliberations is a privilege for which every Christian will be grateful and glad.” The Observer has also a timely article in re- gard to the ‘Rights of the Dead,” with special reference to the recent desecration of the burial ground in Bloomingdale. Says the writer?— About thirty years ago, when the removal of the bones from the vauits of the Brick church was agi- tated, the question was taken into the courts, and a very elaborate and learned opinion, drawn up by Hon, Samuel B, Ruggles, was affirmed by the Su- preme Court, and, as it was mainly founded upon common law, it may be regarded as an opinion that will stand good for alltime, It was then held, and the decision acquiesced in and carried into effect, that the resting place of the dead may be rightiully disturbed when public exigencies, such as the growth of cities or the removal of churches, require it, Butin such cases the corporation in whom the fee of the soll rests must, at its own ex- pense, remove the remains to a suitable place agreeable to the wishes of the kindred, and over the remains erect 4 monument suitable to the 1or- mer condition in life of the deceased. The closing portion of these remarks should be remembered by those who have kindred buried in all the downtown burying grounds, notably St. Paul’s churchyard, which must in a very few years give way to the immense pressure upon it, in accordance with ‘‘public exigencies.’”’ The Evangelist discourses upor. the ‘‘Presby- terian Element in and About New York,” and shows by statistics the great strength of Pres- byterianism in New York city and vicinity. Comparing that strength with that of the Methodists, the Evangelist says: — If our Methodist brethren nave ‘been given to boasting” unduly, they are now fairly in the way of recovery from it. The case, as it is, is surely atly to their credit; but only that denomination is wise which bentpheon sf forgets the triumphs of the past, looking not behind, but before, keeping its eyes not upon its neighbors, bu? upon the great fleld yet to be possessed. The Independent asks: —‘‘Is Hell the basis of the Kingdom of Heaven?’ and after some considerable argument concludes that the lower place is not the sole basis of the sublime upper The same paper also enlarges upon the “Progress of Ritualism,” and con- cludes that there remain ‘but two courses open before those Episeopalians who are un- willing to countenance sacramentarian doc- trines and usages. They must either revise the Prayer Book or leave the Church. If they intend to revise the Prayer Book they have no time to lose. Every year the majority against them is growing larger. All the ec- *clesiastical tendencies are upward rather than downward.” It would be strange if tendencies’ were otherwise. The Christian at Work, with its motto, “Evangelical, always; sectarian, never,’ is now fully lagnched upon the sea of religious journalism, Rev. T. De Witt Talmage at the helm. In an article entitled ‘Dulness the Worst Heterodoxy,’’ the editor suggests that ‘the most dangerous foes of Christianity are not the Renans and the Theodore Parkers and the Frothinghams, who openly assault the faith of the Bible, It is so evident to all Christian people that such men are on the wrong side that their influence is compara- tively limited. But it is the indifference and the dullness on the part of those who profess Christianity that do the worst damage.” Our pious friends should wake up, shake off their lethargy or the Christian will really ba at work among them, “ecclesiastical PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sir Charles Ditke is again to stand for Uhelsea at the coming election. Attorney General B. H. Brewster, of Pennsyiva- nia, is at the Brevoort House. General Phil Sheridan and General Forsyth, of his staff, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. President Grant and Secretary Robeson were at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for a short time yesterday. A Bombay Brahmin recently died at the age of 110 years, Bostén Brahmins are overcome by re- spectability long before that age, The ex-Queen Isabella’s husband has brought suit to attach so much of her property as will secure to him the 150,000 francs lately awarded by a Paris tribunal. Secretary Richardson left Washington last night for New York, for the purpose of visiting his family, at present staying in this city. He is to return to Washington on Monday. Consul General Torbert, of Havana, is staying for afew days at the Hoffman House. He is for a Short time on leave of absence from nis official post in Havana, where he has won popularity and respect, The Rev. Payne Smith, Dean of Canterbury, left the Brevoort House yesterday and took steamer for Albany. He will visit the lakes, make the tour of Canada and return to New York via Bangor, Portiand, Boston and other cities. The true Sir Roger Tichborne is now reported by & sea captain, in a letter to the Valparaiso Matt, to be chief among the natives of Byron’s Island, in the South Pacific. He is tattooed from head to heel and hardly to be known from a native. Rev. T. O'Gara, Catholig clergyman of Chicago, was rescued from drowning at Cape May, on Thursday, by a lad under fourteen years, named Jacob Knecht, residing in Pine street, near Seventh, Philadelphia, and in a cottage of his parents here. Both were swimming outside the breakers, when the strength of the gentleman gave out and he called for help. The lad swam to him, seized his shoulders, and brought him through the surf, when other bathers aided them. Mr. Scott ran in to his waist in his dress suit, The lad is of slight build, but an excellent swimmer. He declines reward and avoids praise, The reverend gentleman sojourns at the Atlantic, and has recov- ered, f ‘WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Sept{“13, 1873, Resignation of Governor C © and Appointment of His Successor. The President has appointed Alexander R. Shepherd to be Governor of the District of Colum- bia, vice Henry D. Cooke, resigned. The commise sion of Mr, Shepherd was transmitted to him to- day. The following correspondence between the President and Governor Cooke was made public to-day :— DIstRIcT OF COLUMBIA, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1873, His Excellency U. 8. GRant, President :— Dear Str—I beg to tender my resi; tion of the office of Governor of the District of Columbia, to take effect on Saturday, the 13th inst. I am urged to this action by the fact that the combined de- mands from my private business and my public duties have been so exacting that 1 am no longer able to meet both or either of these demands as thoroughly as [ could wish. Yet it has been my sincere orenee so to administer the govern- ment of the District os best §o promote the welfare of the people of ‘all classes and to advance the national bln to that position which it ought to occupy. ‘his purpose has been ably seconded by the other officers of the District government, and especially by the Vice President of the Board of Public Works and my other associates of the Board, whose energy, courage and comprehensive judgment have achieved, such brilliant results. I have also to thank you, Mr. President, for the unvarying confi- dence you have reposed in me, and for the sub- stantial encouragement and support you have given to me and my associates in the arrangement of the affairs of the District. With sentiments of great regard and sincere respect, your obedient servant, 'H. D, COOKE. To this letter the President replied as follows:— Lona BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 12, 1873. DEAR Sin—Your letter of resignation of the office of Governor of the District of Columbia is received, and it is with regret that I accept it. You being the first Governor of the District of Columbia since the present form of administration has been applied to it, lam aware of the labor you haye been called upon to periorm in organiz- ing and systematizing new modes of administra- tion, and also how zealously and ably you have performed those duties, Under your administra- tion of the affairs of the Territorial government of the District of Columbia, assisted, as you have been, by able and energetic supporters, the national capital has advanced towards what it shoula be with a rapidity that astonishes and pleases every one who been away from it Jor a few yeurs and returned, If your successor in the office give the satisfaction you have property owners in the Dis- trict of Columbia, the people at large, and all who have an interest in the national capital, will have reason to congratulate themselves on the new form of goyernment given to them. Yours, truly, U. S. GRANT. To H. D, CooxR, Governor o! the Territory of the District of Columbia. Appcintments in the Board of Public Works. The President has tendered the appointment of member of the Board of Public Works to Dr. Jonn B. Blake, now President of the Metropolitan Bank, who was Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds under President Pierce, and in other days known as a prominent democrat, but of late years as a friend of Grant. + Henry A. Willard has been promoted to the Vice Presidency of the Board in place of Mr. Shepherd, who was Vice President, but who becomes Presi- dent by virtue of his appointment as Governor. The Credit Mobilier Suits. Attorney General Williams leaves here to-night for Hartford, Conn., to look after the Crédit Mobilier suits, which come up in the United States Court there on Thursday next. He will have a conference with the government counsel, and re- turn to Washington next week. PIGEON SHOOTING. Members of the Narragansett Gan Club at Work Again—A Day of Great Sport— Matches and Handicaps Shot—C. A. Post, W. P. Dougias and Sir H. Stafford Northcote the Winners. Newrort, R. I, Sept. 13, 1873, Contrary to expectations members o! the Narra- gansett Gan Club shot three matches and four sweepstakes to-day. The contests were from five traps and the birds used from’ England—lively and diMcult to hit. There was a large number of spectators to witness the shooting, all of whom were greatly delighted with the entertainment. The following are the SUMMARIES. NARRAGANSETT GUN CLUB, NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 13, 1873,—PIGEON SHOoTING—Handicap match of 2% birds each, from five traps. C. A. Post (28 yards)—1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1 A 1, 1,1, 1,1, 1. Total, 18, Killed, 15; missed, 3, ‘Sho ut his opponent. Pierre McCarty (20 yards)—1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0,0, 1,0, 1. Total, 17. Killed, 6; missed, 11, SAME DaY—Match o1 15 birds, from five traps, 27 ‘ards? rise, bar art Post—t, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1,1, 0,1, 1, 1. Total, 11; Total, killed, 9; missed, 2. Shot out his opponent. Pierre McCarty—1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0. 10, Killed, 3; missed, 7. Same Day—Matcn of five birds each, from five traps, twenty-five yards rise. Sir H. Stafford Northcote—1. 0, 1—2. A. Barbauson—0, 0, 0, O—0. Same Day—Handicap Sweepstakes; five birds each, irom five traps. Sir H. 8. Northcote, 26 yards—1, 1, 1, 1, 1—5. B. L. Deforrest, 30 yards—t, 0, 1, P, Mevarty, 27 yards—0, 1, 1, 0—2. C. H. Bridgeway, 25 yards—1, 1,°0, 0O—2. A‘ Barbauson, 25 yards—0, 0—2. Same Day—Second Handicap Sweepstakes; same conditions of birds and traps. W. P. Douglas, 30 yards—0, 1, 1, 1, 1—4. Sir H. S, Northcote, 27 yards—1, 0, 1, 1, 0—3. V4 McCarty, 26 yards—0, 1, 1, 0O—2. - L, Detorrest, 30 yards—i, 0, 1 0—2 ‘ Bridgeway, 25 yards—0, 1, 1, 0—2 Snelling, eon 1, O—1. E. A. Post, 26 yards—0, 0—0. Same Day.—Third Handicap Sweepstakes, same conditions of birds and traps. E. A, Post, 28 yards—1, 0, 1, 1, 1—+ Sir li, 8 Northcote, 27 yards—1, 1, 1, 0, 14 © st, 20 yards—t1, 0, 1, 1, 1 Douzias, 30 yards—1, 0, 1, 1, 0-3 S nm Deforrest, 30 Lt gees gg o-l. P, McCarty, 26 yar: The ties Were then shot off withthe annexed resul ont 8. pera 1,1—3: ©. A. Post—1, 1, t se t- 8. Day Se Fourth handicap sweepstakes ; same, AM conditions of bird’s sti W. P, Dot 90 yarde-1, 1+ 0, 14, Sir HS. J ‘2% yards—t, 1, 1, 0, 0—3, wr ati, 4 AOE ot ST Suolllag. a Yards—0. OmDy eee THE GREAT GALE ——_— The Schooner Tyro,,of Brooklyn, Gone Down with Allon Board, THE DEAD OF THE BRIG‘ELLEN. Other Disasters and Terri- ble Loss of Life. Hauivax, N. 8., Sept. 18, 1873. The disabled cylinder of the steamship Clty of Bristol having been suMciently repaired to war- rant the ship attempting to resume. her voyage to New York, she proceeded at two o'clock this aiter- Noon, Additional particulars of the great gale @nd the melancholy loss of life are still com- ing to hand. The schooner Tyro, of Brooklyn, N. Y., went down off Old Harry Head, Magdalen Islands, with all hands, twelve in number, Nothing has since been seen of the wreck except a board with the word ““Tyro’’ painted on it, which drifted ashore. The crew consisted of Spencer Smitn and his three sons, Nathaniel, Josiah and Spencer: Hiram Godfrey, Willard Dexter, Henry Horne, Jonn A. Monser, William Monser, Jr., Joseph Wen‘zilt, James Pentz and F. Jones, Most of them were married men, with families, THE BRIG ELLEN, wrecked off Cariboo Cove, Straits of Canso, is om an even keel in nine fathoms of water. The fore mast is broken below the cap. ‘The mainsail ts single reefed. The coal cannot be saved, The bodies of the crew were found—those of the cap-! tain and his son in the cabin, the former standing and the latter lying down. Their chests were lashed ready to go ‘on shofe, The lashing of’ the boat was cut and the painter fast. There were found also a carpet bag and some letters, showing that evidently there was a passenger on board. ‘The bodies of the captain, two seamen and a pas- senger, who is supposed to be James McMullen, were recovered, and have been taken to Arichat and buried. THE SCHOONER ANN, Captain Grimes, of Arichat, is missing. She was was from Sydney, coal laden, for Halifax, and, dur- ing the gale, was seen off Devil’s Island, her crew working at the pumps. As she was an old vessel, there is no doubt but that she went down with all on board, consisting of five persons. The Captain leaves @ widow and five children at Arichat, THE SCHOONER EUREKA. Further particulars concerning the loss of the American schooner Eureka, of New York, at Black Point, C. B., have been received. An empty box and cover have been found on shore in the vicinity of the wreck, The letters “W. D. M.”’ are cut om the inside of the cover, There was also found s memorandum book with the name ofJohn J. Morse, written in penclton one of the leaves. On tne 6th inst. a body came ashore at Cape Dolphin, and om the 8th inst. the bodies of a man and a woman were washed ashore inthe same vicinity. It is thor they belonged to the wreck. The hatch-com! of the vessel is marked with the following figures :—‘156,68, No. 8,649.” The hull was sold to- day by order of the consular agent of the United States at Syaney. A number of vessels which were ashore in Syd- ney harbor during the gale have since been floated off, and are now undergoing repairs. Several of the stranded vessels have been sold at prices rang- ing from $65 to $300. ‘ne American schooner Sadie E. Caller, wrecked at Sheperd’s Bar, Cow Bay, has been contracted toa be taken off for $6,500. Commander W. Frost, of the government schooner J. W. Dunscomb, at. Borer Teports the ship Scotia ashore at Port Rich, Newfoundland, dismasted and broadside on the beach. She has @ cargo of pine, which is not disturbed. The wreck- ers were exasperated on account of the action of the crew of the Dunscomb in proteciing the and threateried to take thelr lives. They woul endeavor to set fire to the ship if possible. The Scotia will probably go to pieces the first westerly wind. She was working and striking amidships. The wreckers have apparently endeavored to de- stroy everythin, the bowsprit and catheads and cut away the lan~ yards to dismast the vessel. The cargo may pos- Bibly be saved if attended to immediately, e steamer Alhambra arrived from Charlotte- town this morning and proceeded to Bostun this afternoon, WEATHER REPORT, Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHinoron, D. C., Sept. 14—1 A. M. Probabilities, For the New England and the Middle States and lower lake region the pressure will increase, with falling temperature, fresh and occasionally brisk north and northwest winds and clear and clearing weather, For the South Atlantic States partly cloudy weather and occasional rain areas, the wind veer- ing to northwest and north, with clearing weather and lower temperature. For the Gulf States east of the Mississippi north and northeast winds, lower temperature and partly cloudy weather, with occasional loca) rains, For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley light to fresh northerly winds and clear, cool weather, with probably frost at night in the latter. For Missouri, Iowa and the upper lake region generally clear, cool weather, and the winds gener- ally shilting to south and southeast. Frost will probably prevail at night over the northern portion of the Middle States, the lake region, Minnesota, Iowa and the northern portion of Missouri. The Weather in This City Yesteraay. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last Berl as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. 1872, 1873, 2 80 63 3:30 P. M 62 6P.M. 3 74 «867 OPM 7 77 12P. 65 sure yesterday. 6956 Average temperature for corre: @ last year. 15 Average temperature for corresponding week last year.. . + 15% Average temper THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE The President and General Sherman te be Present at the Re me TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 13, 1873. The committee having charge of the coming re- union of tne Army of the Tennessee received let- ters to-day assuring them that the President, the Secretary of War and General Sherman will be present at the meeting. The letter announcing the purpose of the President comes from General Babcock, and is as follows :— LONG BRANCH, Sept. 9, 1873. The President directs me to hon dl that it is bis in- tention to be present at the meeting of the Army of the Tennessee, at Toledo, and that he trusts gag willoccur to prevent. I ig! % to be with him. . Yours truly, 0. E. BABCOCK. STABBING AN OFFICER, Another Candidate for the Gallews. Next door to the Twenty-ninth precinct station house, which is situated in Thirtieth street, be tween Sixth and Seventh avenues, lives aman by the name of John Hogan, a man of violent temper and an insatiable thirst for liquor. Upon several, occasions it was found necessary to arrest him and, confine him in acell until he should have recovered from the effecta of drink, Last evening he was) on one of his periodical drunks, and, as usual, was. making @ vast deal of noise, Oficer Mbtiganyten the mounted squad, attempted to quiet him, and im so doing urged him to go into the house, where, if he must Ye boisterous, his noise could not be heard by the netghbors. Hogan was ugly, and would neither be quiet nor go inside the house; whereupon the officer told him he wouid have ta arrest him. This seemed to enrage Hogan, for he at once whipped ont a knife and plunged it INTO THE OFFICER'S AMDOMEN. Gorman ran into the station house and got hiv clu) and then returned in search of Hogan, wh Yad meantime gone into his house and up stairs ue Officer followed in and overtook Hogan at tire head of the stairs, where a desperate straggie ens sued, Gorman using his club treely, waite Horan plied the knife again, stabbing Gorman in the back andarm. With the loss of biood disappeared the officer’s strength, and he was compelled to ORY FOR ASSISTANCE. ‘This speedily came, and when Gorman wastakon to the station house it was found that his mjuries were te very serious nature, and he was at once removed in an ambulance to his bome, No. 45 Pike street. Hogan was arrested and locked up, and will be taken to the Police Cowst this morning. possible. 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