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‘pte TRISH HOME RULE. Immerse Demonsirations in Sup- port of the Movement. The People Aroused in Scotland and in Ireland. Lonpon, Angust 16, 1874, Am immense home rule demoustration took place at Glasgow to-day. ‘The procession was a mile in length and 20,000 persons attended the mass meeting. IN IRELAND, Az equally extensive meeting was held ta Dun- gannon to-day. Among the speakers was a Mr. O'Connor, of New York. FRANCS, ————— An Election ‘or the Assembly—The R publican’ Abead on the First Returns, Panis, August 16, 1874. An ejection to fill a vacancy in the Assembly was heid in the Department of Calvados to-day. Par- tial returns indicate the success of the republican candidate by the following vote :— Aubert, republican....... + 4,700 Delaunay, Bonapartist. » 2154 Fontelle, legttinist. aoe: 1 THE EMBASSY TO ENGLAND, Count Jarnac has been appointed Ambassador of France to the Court of St. James. Death of An Eminent Statesman. Panis, August 16, 1874, M. de Forcade-Laroquette, the eminent states- ‘man, died to-day, aged fitty-tour years, President MacMahon on a Tour—The Bonapartist Candidate EKlected at Calvados. Panis, August 16, 1874. President MacMahon left Paris last night on a tour through Brittany. Complete returns irom Calvados show that the Bonapartist candidate elected, having received 20,000 votes. The republican candidate polled 15,000 and the Jegitimist 5,000 votes. BAZAINE. ‘His Wife Assumes the Re'ponsibility of His ape. Panis, August 16, 1874, ‘The Oologne Gazette publishes a letter {rom Mme, ‘Bazaine to Minister Chabaud-Latour, in watch the lady declares that the first account of the Mar- shal’s escape was substantially true. She says she planned the affair herself and had no accomplices except one of her relatives, The Ex-Convict Marshal in Communica- tion with Eugenie. Lonvon, August 17, 1874, Tre Datly News says Marshal Bazaine has ar- Fived at Spa and M. Rouher nas gone to the Cha- teau d’Arenemberg to consult with Empress Bugetite. SPAIN. ‘The City of Vittoria Relieved by the Repub- licans. Lonpon, August 17—5:30 A. M. The Standord’s special despatch trom Madrid feporte that the republican General Blanco has felleved Vittoria. He captured twenty cannon ana several con- ‘Voys from the Carlists, who retired to Estella. General Zaballa has beon recalled from the fleld 0 Madrid, DENMARK. The King Bound Homeward from Iceland. LONDON, August 16, 1874, ‘The King of Denmark has arrived at Leith from eeland. 4& DBUNKEN MURDER. A Strong Web of Circumstantial Evi- dence—The Supposed Murderer Uncon- scious of His Crime Until Afterward. KEENE, N. H., August 16, 1874. Aman named Allen Craig was found, at about half-past eleven o’clock last night, on the sidewaik near the Eagie Hotel, lying in a pool of biood, ‘With bis throat cut. He was removed to a barn, and died in about twenty minuies, without being able to give any account of the cause of his mis- fortune. Soon after he was removed another man, who ved to be Willam A. McLaughlin, was found lying in the ditch near by, apparently insensiple, snd ander bim lay his hat aud A BUTCHER KNIFE. He was also taken to the barn and in a short time came to, mot appearing to be hurt, but very drunk, le was placed onder arrest and taken to jail, mak- drunken inquiries as to wnat he had done, and asking if it was he that killed Craig, Oraig has been for many years foreman in Fos- ter’s tannery and McLaughlin was also employed there. Craig, McLaughlin, Daniel O’Keeie and Otho Conarey had been together visiting the ‘saloons and dringing during “he evening. There ‘was no proriens quarrel between tue men, and MoLaug! claims to have no recollection of snyching that occurred between the time that the party left Baker's saioon and when he revived and ‘waa placed under arrest. The knife is identified 101 to McLaughlin. It had been ground bim last Thursday by a fellow work- request, Craig was fifty-four years old and leaves @ family. McLaughlin is young and bas & wile and child, ¢ 1 cononzR’s JURY “was on Sunday afternoon by Mr. G. F. Starkweather, acung Coroner, and a post-mortem examination was made by physicians. The wound ‘was ntly made with two cuts of a knife, and a resulted from loss of blood. The evi- dence is very strong that McLaughlin is the mar- Gerer. He admits the ownership of the knife and &@ piece of cioth which he had wound around it sometime before it was found on the ground near the murdered man. All of the party of four were very drunk when last seen and somewhat quar- Selsome. PATHER AND 80N DROWNED. Sad Aceident in the Conewago Rapids, Penasylva BHABRsBURG, Pa., August 16, 1874, Colonel 8. S. Fisher and son, of Cincinnati, who ‘were en route to Havre de Grace by water, having embarked in a small iron boat at Elmira, N. Y., while passing through Conewago Kapids, about fourteen miles below Harrisburg, on Friday atter- noon, were drowned. The boay of the father was found below the oo to-day and isin charge of @ relative at York, That of the son has not been recovered. Colonel Fisher’s Public Services. OMcrinnaTi, Onio, August 16, 1874. Colonel Fisher was Commissioner of Patents in Grant’s first Cabinet, and one of the ablest patent lawyers in this is count MALIOIOUSLY DROWNED, PHILADELPOIA, August 16, 1874. Henry Dirksena, aged twenty years, while fish- ing in the Delaware from the Spruce street wharf this afternoon with two companions was pushed into the river by one of them, named Kdward Kendall, and drowned. The action was observed y, Jobn Hillman, who gave an alarm and had endall arrested, The other one escaped, No cause is assigned for the act. DROWNED IN NARRAUANSETT BAY. PROVIDENCE, R. L., August 16, 1874. Marvin Ryan, ® printer, was drowned while bathing im the bay this alternoon. DROWNED AT CAPE ELIZABETH. PORTLAND, Me., August 16, 1874. D. W. Clark, of Boston, aged thirty years, and a t the Ocean House, Cape Elizabeth, was ques -a@rowned this afternoon while bathing, He was seigea by cramps, The body has been recovered, Jor the Assembly was | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1874.—WITH ee BRITISH MINERS IN MASS MEETING. Fifty Thousand Men Assembled: in Opon-Air Council. (SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THK HERALD BY CABLE.) Lonpon, August 16, 1874. Fifty thousand miners assembled in mass meeting on Durham race course yesterday. DEMOCRATIC ORATORS ON THE STAND. The men were addressed by Messrs. Mac- donald, Lloyd Jones and Bradlaugh. AMERICAN FIELD SPORTS IN ENGLAND, Se Games of Base Ball and Cricket at Sheffield. Lonpon, August 16, 1874, The American base bail players appeared at SheMeld yesterday. AN INTERNATIONAL GAMB AT CRICKET. A game of cricket, between the Sheffield Club and twenty-two of America was begun, The Americans won the toss, went to the bat, and mad@ 132 in their first inning. The English- men then went in, and, when the game was sus- pended for the day they had jour wickets down, with eleven runs. THE BOSTONS BEAT THE ATHLETICS, During the aiternoon the visitors gave an ex- hibition game of base ball, nm which the Bostons | beat the Athletics by @ score of 19 to 8, A OROWD OF SPRCTATORS. The weather was fine and about 1,000 spectators were present, SARATOGA SPORT. The Entries for the Amateur Regatta, Saratoga, N, Y,, August 16, 1874, ‘The entries for the amateur regatta have so far turned out tobe more than satisfactory. Some | fifty-five entries have already been received as fol- lows:—Single scull shell for the championship of the State .of New York, 7: for the double scuil shells, 5; for the senior single scull shells, 13; ‘or the pair-oared shells, 6; for the junior single scull shells, 12; for the foar-oared shells, 13, the crews of which are from the following clubs:—Of New York city, Atalanta, Athletic and Gramercy; of Bergen Point, N.J., the argo- nauta; of Hoboken, N. J., Atlantic; of foronto, Canada, Argonaut; of Albany, N. Y., Beaverwick Matual; of Buifalo, N. Y., Buifalo; of Norfolk, Va., Chesapeake; of Charleston, 8. ©., Palmetto; of Chicago, Il., Unicago Scullers; of Allegheny City, Pa., Duquesne; of Grand Haven, Mich., Grand Ha- ven; of Bath, Me., Gleam; of Portland, Me.. Ama- teur; of Washington, D. C., Potomac; of Green- 4 wapbhaka; of Union Springs, N. Y., Union epunee of Savannah, Ga., Vernon; of Sag- inaw, Mich., Wahwahsum, and the Saratoga Row- ing Association. ir, William Woods, of New York, has been ap- pointed referee. All complaints against any entry lust be filed with Cominodore Brady previous to the 20th imst., accompanied by sworn afidavits. The racing is fixed to begin each day at eleven o’clock A. M. The prizes are to be awarded on “he grening of the last day of the races at the ‘own alk. NARRAGANSETT PARK ASSOCIATION. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Augast 16, 1874, The entries for the fall meeting of the Narra- gansett Park Association, which is the last of the grand circuit, close to-night, A NEGRO WAR. The Followers of Two Opposing Candi. dates in South Carolina Waging Bitter Battle—Blood Already Shed— The Jail the Only Refuge from the Mob. CHARLESTON, 8. C., August 16, 1874. Georgetown county, in this State, is the scene of @ dangerous contest between negro factions, led by Bowley and Jones, negro members of the county, in which the negroes have a large ma- jority. A Bowley meeting on Wednesday was broken up by the Jones faction, and one colored bystander was dangerously wounded. Runners were sent out, and armed Jones negroes poured into the town daring the night, Some of them next morning attempted to kill Bowley, and at midnight on Thursday there was heavy firing, which was found tobe an attack on the house of Jones, who was slightly wounded. Some other slight casualties occurred. On Iriday Bowley’s house was attacked, and Bowley, to save his hie, surrendered to the Sherif and is in jail. On Saturday, at noon, the excitement was still in- tense and the town was filled with armed negroes, None but radicals are in the riot, The white citt- zens are alarmed lest some careless word or act should cause an attack on them, which they have no means of meeting. JUDGE LYNCH IN GEORGIA. A Negro Murderer Tried by a Mob Jury and Shot. Avausta, Ga,, Augast 16, 1874, Captain A. F. Butler, who was shot by a negro, died at eleven o’clock last night. The citizens were so exasperated at the unprovoked murder that sev- eral hundreds of them armed themselves and marched to the jatl, where the Murrell brothers were confined, took both of them out and carried them to the parade ground. A jury was impro- vised, when both Gabriei and Mike Murrell as- serted their innocence. Atter three hours of in- vestigation, on the sworn testimony of an eye witness of the murder, Gabriel was taken back to jail and Mike shot to deatn, at three o’clock this Morning, TEMPERANCE PARTY, ALBANY, N. Y., August 16, 1874. At acounty temperance convention for Warren county, held on Friday last, under the auspices of the Sons of Temperance, a resolution was unanim- ously adopted, approving the recent action of the Grand Division, in favor of an independent probibition party, opposed alike to the republican and democratic organizations, FIRE AT A WATERING PLACE, GREENBRIER WHITE SULPHUR Springs, Va., August 16, 1874, } A fire occurred this morning, at four o'clock, destroying Worsham’s club rooms and William J. Colwell’s handsome residence and the stables at- tached thereto. The fire originated in the stables, The loss is about $10,000, which is partly insured, The damage to the Springs property was slight, FIRE AT OAPE MAY. Care May, N. J., August 16, 1874. At two o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the froning establishment of Ellen Jordan, on De- catur street, near Washington avenue, and de- stroyed that and four other buildings, occupied ag follows:—Gallagher’s store, for the sale of Japa- nese goods; Mrs, Grimth’s candy store and the cottages of John McGettigan, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Peter Hastings, o! this place. The flames were extinguished alter the eastern side of Mc- Cann’s Greenwood Cottage had been burned of, The total loss will not exceed $15,000, FIRE IN MISSISSIPPI, CanTon, August 16, 1874. ‘The north side of the public square was burned last night. The fire originated in Harp's store, supposed to have been caused by an explosion ot coal ol, The loss is estimated at $100,000; insur- ance, $20,000, ne va, FIRE IN POUGHKEEPSIE, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, August 16, 1874, Clark & Van Dyres’ carpenter shop and iumber yard were destroyed by fire at one o’cloek this morning, The loss is $3,500, on which there is an insurance of oniy $500. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. FIRE 1N 8T, LOUIS, St. Lovts, August 16, 1874, Fire in the wholesale boot and shoe house of Carney, Starr & Co., 314 North Main street, about one o'clock this morning, caused damage to the stock to the amount of $35,000, mainly by water, The entire stock in the honse was valued at $150,000, on which there was an insurance of $125,000, di- vided as follows :—$20,000 cach in the Phoenix and Home, of New York, and North British and Mercantile; $15,000 in the Royal of Liverpool; $10,000 each in the Liverpool and London and Glove, the [mpertal of London, the North Amer- ican of Philadelphia, the Hartiord of Hartiora, ‘and $5,000 each in the Manhattan of New York and the Fire and Marine, ot Springfleid, Mass. The fire 18 believed to be of incendiary origin. Legislature, each of whom seeks to control the | THE SCANDAL. a+ Yesterday's Developments in the Beecher and Tilton Trouble-An Interview with Tilton—Moulion Declines to Speak. Yesterday was a day of rest to those who have been active in the manufacture of material for creating @ public opinion in reference to the Brooklyn scandal, The members of the Investi- gating Committee, with the lawyers attached thereto, left the city early on Saturday for the country and the seaside, They will return to-day, and laborious days and nights will be spent by these gentlemen in preparing the report for the Examining Committee, It was announced yester- day, at the Plymouth church service, that on Friday evenng next the committee hope to present their report to the Examining Committee, and if 80 it will be arranged that it can be read publicly, and if neediul, by pressure of a large audience, from the Olivet stand in the church, adjoining the lecture room, It is, Vowever, by no means certain that the committee will be ready to report as | early a3 Friday next, and in that case the regular Friday night prayer meeting will be held, Mr, Beecher spent yesterday at his farm at | Peekskli. He wilt leave there in the | course of a few days for the White Moun- | tains, where he intends to stay until Octo- ber. On leaving Brooklyn on Saturday he showed | a@ delight only surpassed by a schoolboy | on the eve of his vacation at the | prospect of getting away to the mountains, where | he can luxuriate in the idleness of listening to the | rustling ol the leaves of the trees, watching the Night of the birds and having a truly rural rest for the next two months, undisturbed by ‘mutual | friends” or “the first man of the age.” The present address 01 Mrs. Tilton is among the things not generally known. For prudential reasons it | is thought betier to keep Mra. Tilton in secinsion, as Mr. Tilton, it 18 said, has lately expressed great anxiety to see his wife. The Plymouth church people who were seen yesterday manifested confidence in their pastor that indicated that nothing which Moulton can say will ever be likely to shake, TILTON WILK. REPLY TO MR. BEECHER, A reporter called upon Theodore ‘Tilton at his residence, in Livingston street, last evening, aod Jound him lying off on his favorite couch, the crim- son rep lounge in the back parlor, He was sur- rounded by u pile of crampled newspapers, which had evidently been carefully read, news columns aud editorials alike, by him, Mr. Tilton, who has | contributed so much to space in the papers durin the past two months, iooked pale, latigued an depressed in spirits, like one who was begrimed Me the floating ashes of @ once happy ideal home. He was unwilling to converse upon the subject which has been for so long a time uppermost in bis. mind, but in answer ro the inquiry a8 to whether he had anything to say in regard to the cnarges made against him by Mr. Beecher he saiad:— | “When the others have spoken I will reply to Mr. Beecher’s statement and retute what he has stated.’? He was o! the opinion that Frank Moulton would return to Brooklyn without delay, and would publish to the worid the most concia- sive evidence of what had been charged by him, A reporter asked him whether the case would not uow | come before the courts, and he replied, sneer- ingly, “1 Was Dot aware that the courts were in session Sunday.” VHE VEILED LADY WITNESS, It will be remembered that among the witnesses who testified betore the Plymouth Council, at the Monroe place mansion, about two weeks ago, was a iemaie who was relerred to ay the “veiled lady.” This witness, who is now @ music teacher, was employed as a seamstress in Mr. Tilton’s house. She testi- fled that while so empioyed she was upon two separate occasions approached in a highly improper manner, while in her sleeping apart- ment, by Mr. Tilton, who made indelicate over- tures to her, which she virtuously and indignantly | resented. Subsequently she was sent out West to | a boarding school, not to screen Mr. Beecher, but to save Tilton trom exposure. Moulton om His Dignity. PORTLAND, Me., August 16, 1874. Several newspaper men atiempted to interview Moulton during his stay here, but he was reticent | upon all points. In answer to the question if he intended to reply to Mr, Beecher’s statement he said, ‘1 do not think that it would be right for me to answer that question any more than for a law- yer or iriend to reveal the confidences o! hisciient | or friend.” Moulton lett in the afternoon train pales rday for Bay View to spend Sunday with enerai Butier. WEATHER REPORT. sey oaearehs War DkPARTMENT, } OPFICE OF THB CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, August 17—1 A. M. Probabilities. Over the South Atlantic and Gulf States the pressure will increase, with stationary and falling temperature, winds mostly trom the northeast and southeast, partly cloudy weather and in the latter rain areas. Over Tennessee and the Ohio Valley stationary to falling barometer, rising temperature, east to south winds and generaily clear weather. Over the lake region falling barometer, rising temperature, southeast to southwest winds, partly cloudy weather, and over the upper lake region occasional rain areas, vuver the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys and the Northwest, winds veering to west and north, partly cloudy weather aud occasional rain areas, followed by rising barometer and fall ing temperature. OVER NEW ENGLAND AND THE MIDDLE STATES GENERALLY CLEAR WEATHER, RISING TEMPERA- TURE AND STATIONARY TO FALLING BAROMETER, WITH EAST TO SOUTH WINDS OVER THE LATTER AND | SOUTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER THR FORMER, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in. the temperature jor 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:— 187: 1873, 1874, 86 85 1874. 8A. M.. 68 =3:30 P. M. . 67 «=6P.M.. + 80 73 4 OPM + 76 72 3 12 PM. 73 70. Average temperature yesterday... a Average temperature tur corresponding date last year.... . HEAT AND DROUGHT AT MEMPHIS, MeEmpnis, Tenn., August 16, 1874, The excessively hot weather during the past week has produced more cases of sunstroke than ever known before in this latitude. The Board of Health reports fourteen deaths from this cause. Reports {rom the surrounding country state that the crops are suffering very much from drought, MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL SHERMAN, CoLumBus, Uhio, August 16, 1874, General Sherman writes from Washington tnat he will attend the Soidiers’ Reunion at Caldwell, Ohio, on September 15, and from there wili come to this city to attend the reunion of the Army of the Cumperl BISHOP OHENEY IN CANADA, 4 OTTAWA, August 16, 1874 Bishop Cheney, of the Reformed Episcopal Unarch, Chicago, preached to large congregations this morning and evening, In the afternoon he per- jorroed the rite of confirmation in St. Andrew's church. INTERNATIONAL SCHUBTZEN FESTIVAL BaLrmore, Md., August 16, 1874. Large delegations, representing the various Schuetzen societies, arrived to-day from Philadel- Phia, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Mil- waukee, Savannah and Charieston to atvend the General International Schuetzen Festival, which commences in this city to-morrow, The delega- tion from Philadelphia numbers over 175. A large number are expected {rom New York, Washington aod Richmond, Va., to-morrow, The festival will continue during the week. ANOTHER KEROSENE FATALITY, New Haven, Conn., August 16, 1874. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. ann Comfort, of Fair Haven, @ young married woman endeavored to kine a fire with kerosene oil, The oll can ex- loded and her clothes canght fire, She was fatally burned beiore the flames were extin- guished, aud died auring the evening, FATAL AGOIDENTS IN CANADA. MONTREAL, Canada, Augast 16, 1874. The two men, Beaudry and Forrest, who were burtea in the ruins of the house that fell yesterday Morning died in the afternoon, The iateat report from Richford is that Mojor Munson, a victim of the Southeastern Townsbips Ballwaw acaideat. diad at midnight Friday, | | government suil debars the foreign development | under the chronte revolutions of the country), or | tive, from the fact that those provinces are sepa- |. Played to this country, and it ts claimed that in WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON. Angust 16, 1874. Condition of Foreign Trade Commerce. The following extracts are trom the recently published annual report on the commerct.t relu- tions between the United States and foreign coun- tries :— By treaty with forei; General Powers the public slave markets in Turkey and tts dependencies have been abolished, Slaves, however, are sold in consider- able numbers in Damascus, Aleppo and in all Oriental towns, and ure largely owned by Moslems in Syria. Although wine and lquor are prohibited by the Koran tneir use is very common among the more wealthy Lurks, who are ambitious | of emulating Europeans. Beer not veing prombd- ited by the Koran, its introduction tnto the coun- try was greeted with great satisiaction by the lol- lowers of Mohammed, Since the discovery of petroleuin the use of ojive ou ior lights has almost entirely ceased in Spain, Osaka, ip Japan, lias de- creased 1n importance to foreigners as a sulppiog port, while Hiogo has more than made up the dil- ference on acvount of both ports, there being for the year just passed an average ‘gain in the ship- | ments to the United States of more than seventy per cent over and above previous years. Osaka 18 reported to have a population of about 2,500,000 iubabitants, Whose incieasing wants are suppiled by European merchants established at Hiogo, who meet te requirements of those people through the Osaka (Jipanese) merchants, woo assume the position of middiemen, It will thus be seen that Osaka ia indirecuy of muci im- portance to foreign merchants. In the matter of marine udvancements there is little to note beyond tue purchase of a iew els. ‘The having been suppiled with increased facilities, i now coiling gold and silver assayed to be the | equivalent of Uvited States gold. It may not be | unimportant to add that all these severa! depart- ments are uncer the direction of and conducted by British emp.oyés, The restrictive policy of the of the rich coal mines that he on every hand, From examinations during the last year it is proven that the surrounding region is one vast coal field, of a bituminous and anthracite nature, and, with proper devel- opment, could supply the Kast with coal lor periods Ol years at a nominal cost o1 $3 or $4 per ton, AS it is the mines oi ToKasima only are being worked by foreign appliances, with a growing outturn, at a market value of $5 to $8 50 per ton. The foreign commerce of the west coast of Mexico ts almost-entirely in the hands of Germans, Spaniards and English. In Guyamas the leading merchants are Mexicans and Spaniards. There is no American importing house, and only one com- mission house of any importance. European car- goes, a8 a role, are bought m Germany and Eng- Jand—where the importing house is well known— on twelve and eighteen months time, and sold on arrival at irom six to eight months, while Ameri- can goods, purchased for cash or on short tume, are seldom sold on a credit longer than from thirty to sixty days. ‘The re- | sults are that” Amercan’ merchants and others bringing goods Irom the United states Ov steamers aud sailing vessels (always in small quantities in comparison witu full cargoes trom Kurope), and paying iuil duties, are unable to compete with the German, English and spanish houses on the coast, who now and always have controlled the importing trade or: the Pacitic, and this explains the reason why American commerce on the West coast has such a small foothold, Un- leas the abu-es belore mentioned regarding large importations are remedied by tue faitufal adinin- istration of the import laws (which 1s dificult by a speciai commercial treaty with Mexico, se- curing an exemption or reduotion of duties tor American manufactured goods, our commerce and wade wih this coast, under the circumstances, are not able to cope with that ol Europe. Statisiics of Our Trade with Canada, The oMciil visit to the custom houses on the Canadian border and to the United States consu- lates and customs oficers of the chief cities of the Dominion, from which the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics has lately returned, was for the pur- pose of securing more accurate returns of our ex- ports to and immigration from the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, The returns are now defec- rated irom this country in many places by a sur- veyor’s line, Or, aS at Niagara, by a bridge, and merchandise valued at millious, shipped from the Eastern States and New York, annually crosses in cars without being returned to the bureau, as must be done when shipped in vessels. The same maccuracy exists in Canada in regard to their ex- ports to tnis country, To supply the omissions in the international trade Dr. Young went to Ottawa and made arrangements with the Commisssioners of Customs in the Do- minion, under which each office will in futare furnisn detalied quarterly statements of imports from the other country and also for the fiscal year just closed. As, no doubt, the Recipro- city Treaty will excite considerable discussion during the next session of Congreas, it is the de- sire of the chief of the bureau to obtain and sub- mit to that body statements as full and accurate of the trade between the two countries as already exists between the United States-and all others, The Political Record from 1872 to 1874. The Hon, Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, has just puvlished bis “Hand- book of Politics’? for 1874, being a record of tm- portant polltical action, national and State, from | July 15, 1872, to July 15, 1874, 1tis shown in this | volume that the last two years have developed unusual activity in political thought, The princi- pal facts of the period are presented with tables of elections, appropriations, revenues and expen- ditures, currency distribution ana pupdiic debt, atfording a mine of interesting information, The District Goard of Audit, The Board of Audit of the District have decided Not to recognize transters of claims peuding be- fore them, but will issue the certificates to the parties in whose name the claims are presented, Transfers of the certificates of the Board must be made in such form as will be satisfactory to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. A considera_ bie porwon of these claims are held in New York, The Expenses of Territorial Govern- ments. The First Comptrolier will shortly tssue a circu lar to Secretaries of Territories imiorming them what ofMicers can be employed by Territorial Legis- latures. This will be done to prevent the incurring. of unauthorized expenses, MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES. Matilda Heron reappears a3 an instructor of as- pirants for stage honors. Signoriua Brambilla, the prima donna, has be- come Signora Ponchiellt. J. L, Toole, the favorite comedian of the English stage, opens to-night at Wallack’s. Mrs, Conway’s Brooklyn Theatre opens to-night with a new play—“Olive, or the Mystery.” The Portuguese government gives the opera mauager of the Teatro San Carlos, at Lisbon, $30,000 subvention for a season. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is studying the rove of Kdith Plantagenet in Balfe’s “Talisman,” at her beautifal summer residence at Cold Spring on the Hudson. M. Arban, the cornet piayer, threw up his pro- fessorsh'p in the Paris Conservatoire because they would not allow him to go to Russia on a tooting toar. “Norma” was givon a few weeks since at Mel- bourne, Australia, with the following cast :—Pollio, Signor Rosnati; Oroveso, Signor Dondi; Adaigisa, Signor Tamburini Coy; Norma, Signora Palmieri. Some very clever inventor has succeeded in ap- | plying electricity to music, and there is a posst- bility that the existing defective orchestras will | be replaced by musical automatons warranted to play with absolute correctness. Wili no one in- vent an automaton actor who will do for the author what the new machine promises to do for the composer—render him independent of sticks ? Barry Sullivan, the renowned tragedian, has been engaged by Messra. Jarrett & Palmer to com. mence their season of 1875-6 at Booth’s Theatre, and afterwards to give performances throughout | the United States and Canadas. The contract calls | for 150 representations, for each of which he is to receive 100 guineas, It Is fully ten years since he | the meantime he has advanced to the very tront of his profession, A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette relat an incident which took place in Covent Garden one evening last month. At the end of the opera, | when, amid a hurricane of applause, Mlle. Albant was called before the curtain, @ gentleman in the | stood, we have in the presont stance a comet in grand tier threw a bouquet and a box at the prima donna, The latter umiuckily struck her in the eentre of the forehead. The author of this ca- lamity was observed to throw up his arms with a gesture Of despair when he saw the lady place her handson her torehead and retire to her private room. The restoration waa a little assisved by the ' SUPPLEMENT, | that [very naturally sought tor the cause oi the | comprehend the effects that would follow if a ATMOSPHERIC QOMETARY INPL. ENCES, To Tue Eprror or THE HERALD:— On the 30th of July, 1874, 1 made an adriel ex- ploration from the city of Philadelphia, under she direction of the meteorological section of the Franklin Institute, with instructions to make such Observations as the day and circumstances would invite, keeping in view the marked disturb- ances of our atmosphere for some time past and during the proximity of Coggia’s comet. The main experiment designed in a series of balioon observations to be made was to ascertain the quantity of solid matter contained in the air in the form of anima) and vegelabie spores aud particles Moating over cities, as provided for by A. Purves, Esq,, 10 his contribution to that end, but being de- ferred until the necessary instruments were pre- pared by Dr. William H. Wadl, scientist of the In- stitute, I took with me, as assistants, my niece, Mrs. Thling, and my grandson, Master John Wise, they being intrusted with the thermometer and barom- eter. The day was clear and warm, and the sky overhead slightly dotted with cumulus clouds, but these disappeared before we ascended. It oc- curred to me that Coggia’s comet during its peri- helion passage would necessarily cast a penumbra over and through the atmosphere of our planet, and that this might be the cause of the extraordin- ary meteorological disturbances that assailed our earth with “cloudbursts” and floods, Now, it is an established meteorological law that the tem- perature of our atmosphere diminishes with the height in regular order. So Ihave found it in my thirty-nine years’ experience in cloudiand ta wy 446 atrial voyages, with only one exception, REMARKABLE INCREASE OF HEAT. T had no idea tnat when I should make my 447th ascension—the one in question—that [ would meet with such decisive meteorological conditions con- firmatory of the presence in our atmosphere of a disturbing cause, reasonably to be attributed to the action of Coggia’s comet, Before leaving the earth I had the thermometer secured in a paper shade, where, at the moment of leaving the earth it marked 72 degrees (Faurenheit). Another ther- mometer, exposed in the car, marked 81 degrees, ‘This instrument was broken in the ascent. I had intended to have the two noted all the time, but owing to this accident the shattered one was the only one used. At one minute past four P. M. we cul loose ‘rom the earth, aud now, without a de- tailed barration of sights, sensations and incidents, I wili briefly state the resuits obtained, As we rose we lelt much lke approaching a vast confagra- tion, and the first remarks of my assistants were, “ALUt it getting hot up here?” As tue aneroid gave the altitude, so did tne thermometer register np Increase O/ beat. This seemed so remarkable to me, and go adverse to my long aérial experience, phenomenon. , The sky Was clear of clouds except on the outer circulur horizon that bounded the view. In nime minutes aiter we cut loose trom the earth we rose to an altitude of 5,400 leet over the southern portion of the city, and the thermometer marked eighty-one degrees. From this moment fortwo hours and fliteen minutes tue foliowing observations were made, and in order to be more | certain of their correctuess I looked over the m- struments in the hands of my assistants 1 held the watch, and, whenever I called time they would answer With temperature and height. The aneroid tnarked the Jeet of altitude on its vernier, VARIATIONS OF URAT AND ALTITUDE, ime. Altitude, A. M. Fact. Start. on 0,009 Culm, balloon stationary. 4 09 5,40 Hazy: Sa0 Balloon slightly agitated. 80 Air hazy and striated. S90 Far) Mist, and excessive heat 409, was telt here, 5000 Out of the mist. $19 ESRSSSLRESSRSES EES: 3 = cvtsuronsonevenzansanseae) teed Pf Mea eACEAOAGATOTTT RAR een ememeeny 450 1,280 i009 1400 2oso 240 850 32 350 | 35 490 Mist. 40 5,75) 45 cu | Objects very distinctly 6 43 580 seen below. 5) 70 5300 00 70 8,500 05, a voy 16 3 La At twenty minntes past six we struck the earth in the vowa oO! Vineland, N. J., forty miles from the starting point. From this place 1 reascended with the boy, leav- img the lady behind, ana rose to the helgnt of 4,500 feet. ‘Ihe view Was greatly expanded in tho twilight and the ocean shore was well defined when viewed from the greatest altitude and at a distance within flity miles. Our point of view was @ pivot round which the Delaware River and the capes north of its mouth semi-circled on our hori- zon. As seen by the tabulated notes above, the tem- perature increased as we rose, and this was suf. ficient to induce a deep interest to my ouserva- tions, it will also be seen that the temperatures are Very irregular in regard (0 altitudes, but in | this due allowance must be made tor tue times of fluctuation of perpendicular and horizontal move- ment of the balloon, When we entered hot strata it always felt like approaching a conflagration, the heat producing an unpleasant sensation on the hands and face. My assistants were consider- ably scorched, and I felt 1ts-effects myself as iorci- bly a8 the application of a mustard plaster. In addition to the thermometric revelations, 80 adverse to a normal condition of atmosphere, my attention was drawn to @ peculiar shadow that overlaid the city. from @ northwest to southeast direction, This penumbrous shadow was well defined tn its marginal ines, because it was dark, while the town northeast and southwest of it ap- peared as white as chalk, as did also the neighbor- Ing towns within the range of Wilmington, to the | south, and Norristown, to the north, both of | which were plainly seen. AS we receded from the | city the shadowed part vanished into a very dark colored obscurity, while its outer precincts were still visible as babitations. This phenomenon, coupled with the striated appearance of portions of the atmosphere, very naturally led the cogitat- ing mind to Frauenhoffer’s spectral lines. These appearances were 80 marked and the anomalous | temperatures experienced so expressive that nothing could satisfy my conjectures of the cause 80 well as the idea that THR ATTENUATED ENVELOPE OF THE COMET ‘was transmitting beams and rays of sunlight with focal power {nto our atmosptiere, and thus pro | ducing positive and negative lines as we find them under the spectroscope. It iurther induced the thought, may not all the convulsions and ex- traordinary disturbances of our atmosphere owe their origin to (he movement of cometary bodies jalling between our planet and the sun tn their erratic ~— visible and invisible to our ocular owers tg My conjectures I give simply as such, and asa natural outflow of inductive reasoning. In my thirty-nine years’ experience in the upper air I never found an increase o1 temperature as [ ascended. Once, in the month of October, | found it a little Warmer up in & mist, 9,000 teet high, and only once, and then without those widely differ- ent conditions of but a few minutes of time apart as experienced in the present instance. THE STRIATED PORTIONS OF AIR, a8 noted, seemea like twitchering beams, such as we see over @ heated surface in the suniight, and these spectra seemed not remarkably strange tn themselves since we often behold phenomena of tha: kind in appearance in the aurora voreails, ‘The dark beam or brush, that stretched out over the city, was more remarkable since it was not a cloud shadow, because there were no clouds | the grantees should be called at once. Th ee % the phenomenal anomalies of temperature we ex. erienced, What other Cause shali we attribute hem tor JOHN WISE. PHILADELPHIA, August 13, 1872. THE LAST NEW OOMET. J. R. Hind writes irom Mr. Bishop's Obsere at Twickennam, England, August 1, thus:—~ ree consecutive nights’ observations of vmet of Marseilles, received from M, ve calculated @ first approximation appears the comet will not reack about the 26th inst., bat ts al- ng from the earth, being dis- ‘e time of discovery about rh tt may conttnue visibie in ral weeks, it 19 not likely to meneral interest, like the this hemisphere, The nee to those of any Mr, vatory . “From th, the new a Stepnan, ha, to the orbit, Bh its perihelion an ready slowly rece, tant’ from ‘us at ti. 55,000,000 miles, ‘Thon, g00d telescopes for seve, become an ovject of any comet which has juat lett elements bear no resemdty, comet previously computed.» INC:PIENT Ri@A, The Loss of a Watch Resafti Freo Fight—Police Officers Sta. Clubbeda. ut the Yesterday Jerry Hannigan, a brakemaw me Grand Central depot, went on a spree withise w friends, and tn the aiternoon visited several 10, saloons in the Twentieth ward. In one of these saloons Jerry lost mia watch, but who took it he could not tell, About four o'clock he was tol@ that a man named Harmon, aiso a brakeman, be longing to the Thirtieth street station, had the watch, About three hours atterwards Hannigan met Harmon on Tenth avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets. He immediately charged Harmon witn having the watch, but Har- mon denied the charge, A large crowd having ie eren around the two men, Uficers Smith and lish, of the Twentieth precinct, came up and dispersed the crowd, Shortly a(terwards Harmon went into asaioon in Thirty-second street, keps by 4 man named Mike Connolly, and called fur a drink, He had hardly dispoted of the beverage when Hannigan entered with several iriends and commenced un ouslaught on Harmon, who fought bravely, bus all the glasses in the saloon bein, used up he had to rely on his fists. In the fignt Harmon got worsted, but managed to escape to the street with only a severe cut over the eye. The men on Watch outside the saloon gave the signat to those witiin that the pohce were coming. Bue betore they a!l could get out they wore surrounded by officers Smith, Fisher, and Klish (the latter be- ing in citizen’s dress), and arrested on their way up Tenth avenue. The officers were now assaulted by a crowd o! roughs, who followed them, throw- ing stones ana everything available at them, Klish, who Was nearest to the crowd, received several kicks and blows from stones ana sticks about the body. The oficer, while detending himself, broke his baton into splinters. The police having been reintorced, the crowd was at lass broken up and tne prisoners locked up in the West Thirty-seventh stre t station house, THE CONCORD SAVINGS BANK. Report of the Legislative Examining Committee—Culpability of the Board of Trustees. ‘ng in a red and Boston, August 16, 1874. The committee appointed by the Legislature at Concord, N. H., to investigate the affairs of the National Savings Bank at Concord, has made its report. It will be remembered that thia is the bank from which W. W. Storrs, the treasurer, abstracted over $50,000, the defalcation becom- ing Known in December last. ‘The committee express their opinion that the most casual exami- nation of the books at any time during five years would have detected fraud; yet, notwithstanding the bank trustees pretended to make exam- inations four times a year, the evidence tended strongly to show tnat no ex- amination whatever was at any time made of Storrs’ books by the President, trustees, or any of the committee of the bank until aiter the defaication was made public. The committee charge the trustees with gross negiigence, which does not admit of an apoiogy, and strongly con- demn the action of the trustees in neglecting to tnatitute criminal proceedings against Storrs and allowing him to escape. after expressing their Opinion that notwitastanding the defalcation and shrinkage of Values from the money panic the bank 1s to-day solvent, the report closes with @ recommendation that a mecting of present managers of tne bank should receive t unanimous indorsement of the meeting, or @& change should be made, and payment tn full should then be resumed. No other course suggests itself to them as practicable or likely to restore publio confidence, HORRIBLE MURDER IN OHIO, CoLUMBUS, August 16, 1874 Charles Cromer, while drunk last night, visited & house of ill-iame and threw a lighted coal oil lamp at Kate Maiden, one of the inmates, The lamp struck the wall, throwing the burning ol) om the girl, buroiug her s0 severely that she cannos recover. 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The elaware, visible irom Trenton to the Capes, could in places be seen looming upon the horizon cloud bank, while at others tt seemed suomerged under the horizon, and this was reasonably the result of the striated condition of the air, When near the | Delaware, and while swinging over it, its bottom Was distinctly Visible Within tne space of a jew miles each way. Even the river bottom grasses were clearly discernable, although the Delaware is a turbid stream. THR CAUSES OF ATMOSPHERIC COMMOTIONS. As it has ever been my practice to relate things | asl see them, and to state the instrumental ol servations as Exhibited by the instruments, I here- with submit for general criticism and analysis the btained in my earnest and best ¢: wubserve science and human progres: Was considerable electrical action manifested in going, up and down, as also in passing through ifferent regions. Having no electroscope I could only notice it in the attractions and repulsions of the fine sand used for baliast, and in the small Ussue paper cards that Were thrown out from tac car, ‘The observing and studious scientist wil! readuy. great lenticolar body as translucent as the en- Velope of a comet ts should be. placed between a Planet and the sun, While we have Irequent at- Mmosphertc convulsions from causes little under its perihelion pass going between the earth | and’ the sun, a a eoatve datum, and one that | should not be overlooked lightly in its metcoros | logical aspect. A flimy cloud or a ficid of mist, as | is occasionally met with by the observing aéro. naut, never {ails to remind him of vhe effecta of heat'and cold attendant upon these interventions, in their en and reflecting forces. 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