«bsqn; rncocK, Editra.
KiBBIED
’4pBS§SSRSS&E£
the n^h^Satr 1 Krlends* ceremony, on
county Cfa.) paperi.
llthlnat the morning of the
toSaU?pV?^ri.vv£'J? - Harbaueh, Wffliim H;Brooks,
Rnnc n™Jffs , TS k ’S u i >f tS “ city. Mo Cards. * - .
•w TnSS.T??S MA §f' - 5 a tto nth 1 st. by Bev. Henry
Jrf Sfe 88 - H. Burr to Henrietta M., daughter
o°Thursday/Oct llth,at
TOviT?i?2 ln f> cll > Herman town, by the key. Jan.De
Ti J Rect^, . r ' Byword S Harlan to Catharine
this city 6 ™’ dau *‘ ll ter of Mr. Samuel Leonard, all of
j.'ffßlGgT—rneiLY.—On October 6th, 1868, in PhUa
'S,?!? 11 !?. by the Her. P. Coombe, Henry Spangler
» 681 eon of Joahna Wright, Ksq., of this city,
No Card ’Joylor Kelly, of Baltimore, Md
„ ‘ DEED.
B .T 8 < ?, day eyentog, the sib Inst., Isaac
81et year of his age.
tioSwiftvSFrr 8 !.? 16 , 1 !? 8 ?f the family, and the mem-
Trttart^r. t £SoSps} ol ii.^ I * al society, are respect! ally in-
BB c r yß o P n e. @W of the latljudgeWTl' Boora
*“*
Oct. loth, Mrs. Mary Cimobßil
daughter of the late Conrad and Mary WorLnatl
llie relatives and friends of the family are respect
’s?f t^.al } en<l |he funeral/ from the residence
h^’ 1 ?' laW L Wlri4 Helffricht, 240 Sonth Front
111 ® U lh lnsl * at l o’clock, Jf.M. *
residence, at Champlost, Charles
76th year of his age. •»
9thinatant * Mar y Margaret, wife
nd of the family are respect
ably invited to attend this funeral, from ihe residence
<£ otL fe i her »P^? Bt Keen, N 0.219 Blchmond street,
on Saturday , the 13th, at 9 o’clock. *
SCm)PIEJjD.--On Thursdaymornlng, October llth.
Lane Schofield, aged 77 years.
.Thereiatives and friend-* of the family are invited to
attend the funeral, from his late residence, 257 South
Twelfth street..on Monday morning, at 11 o’clock. **
smTH.--On the 9th Inst., Wo. £. Smith, in the
57th year of his age. . *
The relatives and friends of the family are respect*
folly invited to attend x the funeral, from his late reai
deace, 620 South Sixteenth street, on Sunday, the llth
inat., at 3 o’clock, P.M. To proceed to Mount Vernon
-Cemetery. •*
WIi.«LTAMK—On the morning ofthe 12thInst..after
illness. Mrs. Elisabeth. C„ whe of'B. J.
Items, in the 514 h year of her age.
The relatives and friends of the family are respect*
fully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence
<of her husband, No. 1004 North Slim street, on Monday
.morning, 16th inst., at 10 o’clock. 2t
LaNPSLL IMPOBTKD FOB FALL
Bt. Bemud Woolehdoakings.
pjSSi e eS wls ' MosalC WCK,lan Sl “ wls -
Mmgnlflcent Plaid PonllTm.
BPECIAI NOTICES.
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In addition to the general Course of Instruction in
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Knowledge and scholarly culture, students can pursue
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and Mechanical! MINING. and METALLCTitGY
-A BOH iTEAjTuBB, and the application ofChemlstry
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COMMEBGJB, of MODBBN L 4NGUAGEB and PHIL
OLOGY; and of the HISTOB V and INSTITUTIONS
of onr own country. Bor Circulars apply to President
OATTELL, or to Prof 8.8. 10UNGMA2S,
Easton, Pa. April i, 1866. Clerk of the Faculty.
my3-6moj • •
•JUxS” PHILADELPHIA
• BBEWBBS’ ASSOC 1 ATION,
Office, No. 30 South SIXTH street.'
Your attention la called to the Philadelphia Brewers’
Association, which Is now In operation, and brewing,
since July 16th,
. alb, pobtkb and bbown stout,
• The quality of which is not excelled by that of any
other Brewery in the Uruted States; the best materials
only are used, and best attention given to meet the wants
of the consumer. -
The Association Is incorporated by Act of the Legis
lature, and being npon the mutual benefit plan, each
.'Stockholder becomes part owner of the Brewery Fix
tures, eta, ami-30 secured bom any risk of loss, while
the price of shares being almost nominal, and not sub
ject to any additional assessment, the benefit derived is
immense.
. The stockholders receive their Ale, eta, at cost, so
fthat they save nearly one-third of the price now being
ipald, and besides this saving, the profit upon Biles
made to others, who are not stockholders, and to
-whom full price is charged, will be divided among the
Stockholders semi-annually; this dividend alone, oe
yend doubt, will make It a desirable and rtro,::_jle jn
-vestment.
To secure these advantages the trade shonld sub
scribe at once, as the amount of Stock is limited, and
' will be sold to none hat dealers.
r KT Full particulars given and samples shown at the
Office of the Brewery, 30 South SIXTH Street.
„ THOMAS J. MABTIN, President
DEKNis P. Deai/y, Secretary. ocs rptf
il|r7S» OFFICE OF THE MEBBIMAC MINING
'UJy COMPAUT OF LAKE BUPEBIOB, 132 Wat.
HUT street. Philadelphia, Oct. 11,1866.
NOTICE TO BTOCKHOLDEB3.
An liutallment of |l (ONE DOLLAR) per share on
•each and every share of the Capital Stock of the Com
pany is this day called; due undpayable on the nth dm
next, at the Office or the Company. 132
■WALNUT street,
By order of the Board of Directors.
SAMUEL P, DABLINGTON,
Secretary.
ocl2-f,s,tnoli}
REPUBLICAN INVIN
SK-y CIBLES. Philadelphia, October 1!, 1866.
The UncUrsignß<l_call .upon. all members haying
'TORCHES and other property belonging te the Cluß
to return the same to the Hall on or before MONDAY,
the 15th Inst. " ■
■WILLIAM McMICHAEL, President.
GEORGE TRUMAN. Jb., Marshal.
, T: „„ W.HABBY MILL KB,
Chairman of Com. Torches andTranspareucies.
„ EZRA LUKENB,
Chairman of Boom Committee.
ST'S* nobtb; pennstlvania baulboad
IMf AND GBSkn LANE BTAI lON.
The residents of Germantown can have superior
... ’ - LEHIGH GOAL .
'S!“* ver ? <i J fc<) them from the above place at is 00 per ton.
frompt attention given to orders addressed to Box 62,
-Gtrmantown Post-office. Office,ls South Seventh street,
.PhUadeiphla.or to yaidat Green Lane Station.
cc2lmrp BINES & SHEAR?.
ir§ to T S23?C®.j--The Stockholders of the PETRO
STEAM BARREL COMPANY, are re
tomeetatthe office oft he' Company. 808 Wal*
™ WEDNESDAY. October 17th. 188»,atll
'.2rinve£&o£ he “ report a.m the Commutes
. GEOBGE NICHOLS,
PBrLADixrgiA, Oct. 12, m 6 ° f COI Ti l gS
ANNUAL MEETING.
o<a %gg JOHN H. ATWOOD, Secretary.
ITS* NOTTOE.—THIS IS TO NOTIFY THK
-public and my friends that my name published
-- as one of the Vice Presidents of the Democratia mee2
.Sub held on the 7th instant, was used without mv
“ knowledge or consent, as I am a Kepnbltcvn.
E. Y. BHELLMTnn,
SOWAXLD HOSPITAL, Nos. 1518 and 1620
„i / Li t £E nbl ? <l steeet, Dtopensary Department. Medl
jalteeatment and medicines fyjniahed gr%tui(onsly
AMUSEMENTS.
Dbamatic.— At tie Walnut, for his farewell benefit,
Mr, J.H. Hacfcett appeals ln“BipVan Winkle’’ and
In “Monsieur ilaliet,” To-naorrow Is his last night,
and on Monday we have Mr. Edwin Booth. At the
* Chestnut Mr, Owens repeats“ Solon Shingle” and “The
To-morrow the second' Owens
At the; Arch to-night, for hs
D. E_Bandmann appears In his great lm
-ESS?S?^SL?t^?¥ nle t- “Naiclßse” Is In rehearsal.
“A^ftlS-Mtoevemng. 6 * 018 Ameylc “ l
“* fii ven nightly at Na.
. Monal HaU. There will also boa matinee to-morrow-
ASsaMBLY Heller closes his en
entertainments to
‘SnlagemStSSb^ma^ratßue^S°noWnlgllt' “*
6i^^^m^ N md^tte E progf^iSa Ü Bre la mo 0 st r e^
•ceiient.
XrAßOßrtrf .“-George Anderson was oom-
this morning, by Alderman Ihtz. to answer the
«barge of the larceny of a vest and a pair of panta from
hiuiiea’s hotel, at Broad and Carpenter streets,™ “ ofll
£For the Phila. Evening Bulletin.]
BASH STEPS.
The Pardons of Brittany arenot especially
ceremonies ofexpiation. The term is used
for the observance of a Saint’s fete. These
fetes are always on a Sunday and are the
Breton’s grand holidays. They are; his
only parliament. I -asked a peasant the
Celtic word for Assembly and was answered
—Pardon. Brittany possesses scores of
saints unknown to the general calender,
and with that advantage is able to invite
the inhabitants to more pious merry
makings than there are weeks in the year..
All the obscure little chapels, rotting in tbe
damp by themselves in the solitude of im
memorial trees, torn up to the sun once in
theorbit of the world and take a lustre.
Girls decorate them with muslin flow
ers; priests Are off pistols In them at the
elevation of the Host; urchins In lawn
shirts fumigate them with spice; worship
ers kneel and fill them. Then the hoar of
opportunity passes, the tide of success
tumbles out and oblivion supervenes for the
rest of the'year.
All to the Pardon of Saint Yves went
my landlord, his monstrous dog Mathurin
a nameless young man, whom I shall not
mention again, for trimming, and I. Words
cannot express the resemblance of our boat
to some extraordinary old washing-tub.
At our least motion—even at some of the
wider vibrations of, Mathurin’s tail, it would
mistake its side for its head, and try to
move crab-fashion. Yet the landlord and
the yonng man whom I shall not mention
again accepted it with firm belief, and re
spectfully rowed it with a pair of oars that
had seen life, and were both tied np in
splints like fractured legs. . -
As we moved around a craggy point and
entered an arm of the sea, the luitrcms water
changed color beneath ns; and where it
dressed itself upon the sand in ranges or
little hoary curls like those of John Wealev.
wetossed out the lump -of granite that
served ns for anchor, and disembarked A
crowd of fishing-boatß had already arrived•
some were emptied, and some were await
ing toe opportunity to push in and dispose
of their fair crews. The girls who loaded
down these boats were fae-similes of each
other, at the back view) the forte of the
Breton Js tradition, not invention. Every
girl dashed back the sunshine from a great
cap and a broad ruff liberally daubed with
starch and indigo; and every girl absorbed
the sunshine into the depths of her system
through her narrow doth gown, which
Bmonldered on her back with a sullen glare,
and diffused a h°t smell. Every girl had.
besides, her simple black rosary, and her
prayer- book in Breton, which it would have
been bad taste to ask her to read.
; The forte of the Breton is tradition.' The
girls carried into the chapel beneath their
collars a beautiful, tender, babe-like faith
m Saint Yves, and his chapel, and his do
ting anachronism of a church.. I may have
few sympathisers among my readers, but to '
me toe faith isln iteell a chimed and price
less pearl, to be sought after and enviously
treasured, -If anybody else thinks so too
be will probably have to ceme at least as
far for it as.the chapelof Saint Yves. What
is the faith aronnd us but a languid logic, a
(dully balance of probabilities? What is
the average modern Protestant but the poor
cat in the adage, letting I don't like to think
so wait upon Mr. Renan? I repeat, for toe
beautiful spectacle of faith you are mostly
indebted to some gentle idolater, like mv
Breton girl with her illegible prayer-book.
I think it is so beautiful a spectacle, myself,
that there are moods when I am able to copy
Wordsworth in that start of his that is so
confusingly unlike Wordsworth. I could
be a pagan, suckled in a creed out-worn,
just for the privilege of getting a gleam of
something rising from theses, green-haired
and evident. In the Millennium -we shall
doubtless find the trust of the child wedded
to doctrines worthy of a man; but pending
that, let me go in and kneel a little while by
the poor peasant-girl as she turns her beads
and appeals, to Saint Yves, the Confessor,for
lus intercessions. .
In a small church jnst outside the village
°f Port Manek, there is a miraculous statue
or Saint Nicholas. If a girl pricks his calf
with a pin on the day of his fete, and be
lieves, she will know whether or not she
shall be married before the next anni
versary. If she is to be wedded, the leg will
bleed. Many searching applications of
more or less trustful pins have reduced the
legs of poor Nicholas to mere nmbreiia
bandies; so he has been furnished with
“Ise calve 3, like yourself in private theatri
cals, with the convenience that the shams
are as sensitive as the originals.
West of a small town called TrSgunc,
there is a rocking-stone.ohe& used by Druid
priests for consulting Chance, and now
turned to the advantage of the village cen
sus. If a bride who loves her lord, will
perform an easy rite upon this stone, her
• wish will be granted.
A sorcier lately cured a young carpenter
well known to me, of a fever, by a strict
pressure, upon the pulse. More than one
doctor, and plenty of phyßic, had proved
vain. The man was in the artiole of death,
and was pulledont by the wrist as afore
said, all'at once. < He told, me so.
!.1 saw in the chancel of Saint Yves a quan
tity of little images in white wax, hanging
either side the altar. They were all inpto
, portion, and all small. One was a pigmy
leg; one a head the size of a cocoanui; one a
torso in miniature, with a fat paunch like
toat of a little Chinese Joss. There were
likewise cratches, and they also were small.
The seCTet resided in a spring outside the
door, . which, upon ttie saint’s day has virtue
fo , r .difpasesof children;hence the statuarv
of Lilliput; the saint needs a waxen memo
ranaum, or he might exeit himseif uoon
the wrong leg. - “ “
A L B *# 6 £ ooden image of the saints bal
ance by the inevitable Virgin and Child
stood in a, niche beside the Star. He was
hung from the shoulders down with tinsel
strips resembling gigantio
His form was quite lost, bht his head was
set niildly on the hook-markers life« tbo
head ofaWlj .
sion, The (Virgin and heir Babe were turned
mto mere bouquet-holders.: The »ih>r
draped witofresn laces and covered witti ’
to anything horticultural. : **
with Its cnrtseyings and
sprinkUngs and pistols and censers, and llt
tfe lndulging in the cWce of
shrieking at toe top of their voices with the
certainty of bemg listened to, Was but a
ofseve ? did
not impress me with a sense of number as
it did the peasant girl, because I happened
to know that several of them were dum
mies—laymen, dressed out in robes to iml
fete priests and look effective. But the at
tentive kneeling figures crowding the pave
ment, crowding the doorway, and crowding
the green hollow; around the church to a
•gieet height up the hillside, were beautiful,
with the believing faces I had come to see.
And I was impressed and touched when
they came to the special litany, of Saint
Yves, Confessor, and the voices of all my
peasant girls, reverberating from the floor
and re-echoed from the grassy.hillß, made
a- soft music in his honor. .. ‘*Saint Yves,
ConfessOr,” they sang over and over again,
answering the base voices,, of the priests,
; esh Holy Mary to plead for thel forgiveness
of our Bins, which we confess through
thee.”
The crowd was tremendous, and I thought
toe pastilles in the censers a benevolent
idea. I had difficulty in penetrating, al
though in good time; and upon the com
mencement of the mass the chapel, filled up
instantaneously, like the neck of a bottle,
and overflowed : aronnd the landscape.
When we all came out the breezy air was
delicious.. All was life and pleasure, and a
French Sunday. A peasant was standing
under toe eaves, selling to the highest bid
der certain votive offerings of grain whioh
lay in the bags around him. The auctioneer
was toe only fat Breton I have seen: My
■ landlord told me that he was a weaver, ana
toe sedentary calling must explain the ano
maly; toe rest of his race are the race of the
lean, sad Cassius. Over his head, as he
stood clamoring for bids, I happened to
notice a red line or thread, which passed
guite around toe church, and went out of
its way to take a loop about a stone, cross
standing near by. This upon examination
proved to be an endless wax taper, of: toe
kind used for igniting toe gas: at, home; it
waß an offering, and may have been sold
after the wheat, for all I know.
We moved about through the strange
crowd, my host, his guest, and his dog;/toe
last was strongly agitated, and his taS, dis
tracted between the impulse to waggle and
the impulse to drive through his legs, was a
monument of indecision. For my own part,
I cannot get over my amazement at meet
ing a peasantry identical with the subjects
of Henry of Navarre, and I peered hither
and thither with the curiosity that never
slakes/ now at a bride, the bosom of her
jacket covered with embroidery, the tinsel
glittering through her lace cap, her neck
tied with velvet streamers set with stamped
trinkets, and a downcastairofexquisitehe
roinism;now ata dandy, with a ..cross or
ehalice.or candlestick beautifully worked on
the back of his violet waistcoat, and his
mass of streaming hair invaded by toe shirt
collar, all rigid with stitching and starch,
and set along the edge with a > tinkling row
of links; now at the babies brought to HrinK
of the fountain in their best cJotbw, their
little invalid feces set in close ' caps
trimmed with gilt lace or needle
work, and trolling about at toe bottom
of vast incloßUres of upright ruff. Haring
infancy this ornament is worn standing, in
the Queen Elizabeth manner,and the blessed
child's head in oneof them is like a bon-bon
in a paper horn. At little girlhood the
starch relents, and the structure fells aronnd
the shoulder. The innocents when applied
to the sacred[spring usually refused to drink,
with a touch of Protestantism that I liked.
Their more pious mammas reclaimed them
promptly, with the lightnings of the church
and toe thnnder-claps of toe nursery. In
other cases the child was not produced, but
prudent fathers might be observed carrying
toe enchantment off in bottles, like Vichy
water, for home pharmacy.
A lively business was doing all around
toe church. There were booths for the sale
of every sort of cheap ornaments, rosaries,
crucifixes, silver rings, gay braids, and va
rious kinds of haberdashery. There were
all sorts of lotteries and games of chance to
gratify the Breton’staste for the mysterious.
One of the few games of skill was a kind of
pitch-penny into an inclined sieve, the elas
tic bottom of which will toss out a coin un
less thrown just within the rim. My com
panion, to whom games of the disous, from
counters to quoits, were an old and cheap
success, astonished the crowd and dismayed
toe proprietor. He threw with perfect accu
racy, almost broke toe bank, forgave the
greater.’part of his winnings, and scattered
the rest among a crowd of beggars, escaping
amid a chorus of vociferous prayers for his
future happiness. The piety of this ni«<;s of
mendicants is inexhaustible, and of a mar
ketable quality. The peasants appreciate
toe cheap advantage of their paternosters,
and are;quite liberal with their centimes, a
copper the size of a three-cent piece. lam
an aristocrat, and never give less than a
6ou. For this sum I purchased the devotions
of a very dirty old woman, who went on
her knees three times around the church in
my favor, telling her beads audibly, and all
toe while, without ah instant’s distraction
from the search, examining the spectators
for the next client .
: A different aspect of poverty presented
itself shortly after, and one that it will be
difficult to forget. We had finished luncheon
in a quiet ehady place remote from the
throng. The salt tide was filling and dimp
ling below us, and the tour terelles were
sighing in some covert overhead, when a
slender and comely boy of sixteen sud
denly passed before us without any noise.
He was very ragged and miserable, and we
gave him or our leavings with'the pursy
liberality of men who are full. That lucky
boy got a mutton bone from which the
meat had only been whittled like a lead
pencil; his avaricious teeth snapped on it
8, sharp grinding noise; I was re
aninded of the story in the other day’s
paper, of the man, who was observed
writhing, in a crowded Paris omnibus, his
face lived with horror; I‘lhave sat on my
teeth; and they have bitten me.”
Our caprice further, endowed- the poor
youth, with some orOpes, large buckwheat
cakes baked incredibly thin, and peculiar
to Brittany, I believe. It gave us pleasure
to see his hollow white cheeks distending
with the paste. / After some' further experi
ments in the luxury of this sort of self-de
nial, we bethought ourselves of a. glass or
two of wine remaining in the bottom of a
bottle. The eyes of the boy, which had been
steadily downcast, at this point lifted and
met our own. I don’t know when I have
been more terrified than when those appeal
ing eyes,'hollowahd scintillating like some
Spanish beggar’s eyes in a Murillo, looked
mto mine and quietly ran over with tears!
They overflowed With tears"above the edge
of the glass, as hemeekly turned it up over
his nose, and then he hid his face in extreme
shame, shamblhd off with arhalf-kiok at the
dog, who had already began to lick his an
kles, and Vanished; The big landlord and
I:looked at each other, rather »gtu«t, There
is something so saorea In the tears of a boy
of sixteen, the time of a hoy’a pride, that T
was fain to connect the wine, in some inco
herent way, with the wine of Cana. I could
not make It ont 9 but a glance at the drained
gla&s carried me off at once to the first mira
cle* and the prodigal Master treading out frfa
that the merriment should
not flag, was Indeed a noble" Pardon! -
, f ' ;
Omt IVHOIiE COUNTRY,
The Interminable War—- Fearful Loss
of Life in the jungles of Paraguay—
A Call for More Men—tTheMlies In
; Critical Condition—The Treasuries
of Brazil and Buenos Ayres De
pleted—A Strong Party Opposed
i to the War—The Strong Po
sition of the Paraguayans—
The First Movement of
Gen. Polidoro—The Next
Effort by General Mitre
—He too Retreats
—Losses in Three
Days, on Both
. Sides, 12,000.
What is Said About General Lopez
and. His Army—The Wool
Market* - United States
' Ministers-Naval.
Buenos Ayres, Aug. 13,1866.— This ma j)
leaves Buenos Ayres undera cloud of de
pression Buch as X have not seen in these
many yeara. The war with Paraguayproves
a formidable undertaking. The Allies have
manmuvred well, and have marched into
several evacuated places, and have accepted
the surrender of prisoners, once to thenum
ber 0f 5,000 or more; but the battles are in
decisive. Both parties claim the victory!
and they about equally share the losses. No
camp has yet been routed in battle, no field
taken by force, and the loss of life has been
fearful. All parties deprecate the war and
dread its results,as it begins to draw heavily
on the treasury, and already has taxed hu
man life fearfully. At present there is a de
mand for more soldiers. Thirty days are
gjvenin which all are required to enroll,
and mom the enrolled 3.006 are to be selected
to go to the seat of war. The marshes and
j ungles of Paraguay- are as fatal as those of
India, ana already the diseases of the camp
have carried off more than the r»n.int«ps 0 f
oattle.
j Treasury is exhausted, arid the- best
mode of replenishing it is.attracting serious
attention. The old mode of issuing paper
money has been tried here till the dollar has
gone down from 100 cents silver to A. and
any suggestion of a. new issue of paper
numey produces great alarm on ’Change,
we imports are already high, they must do
higher, and it is proposed to add a duty on
exports, chiefly wools, and thus cripple the
pastoral industry, the only really productive
one in this country.
Tb e monetary crisis in Brazil has seriously
affected the supplies for the war. A new
ministry has been formed, and it is under
stood that the powerful party opposed to the
war on Paraguay can only be defeated by
some speedy and telling victory over the
Paraguayans.
These discouragements are not lessened
by the recent news from the army.
The allies are losing vast numbers of men.
Their recent battles have been bloody and
undecisive. Gen. Flores who took to the
front 5,000 men, has not over two battalions
left The Province of Corrientes invaded,
called out the militia, and as the whole
was exposed they went unwillingly, leaving
homes entirely unprotected. By battle
skirmish and picket by disease and deser
tion, they are now said to be reduced to 62
men. A friend from the army writes that
nine-tenths of them went to the Province of
Entre Bios.
The position of theParaguayauß is strong.
Hnmaita is their great fortress, and between
the Allies and it they have their army and
four lines of fortifications. In their present
position they have a good natural defence
in the swamps and jungles, and they have
occasionally a stone wall, and in one place
they can set 50 men safely against 500, A
recent trial of strength, moßt hotly con
tested, gave the Allies no material advance.
On the 13th of July the Brazilians took
three batteries from the Paraguayans. It
was a hard contest, for the Brazilians lost
one whole battalion of 400 men. On the
16th the Paraguayans retook ene of these,
which commanded the other two. On this
day there was a very general engagement,
and so fearful was the strife that at times the
Brazilians were fairly intrenched behind the
dead bodies of their comrades.
It was on July 15 that Gen. Polidoro as
sumed command of the Brazilians, on the
removal of Gen, Osorio. All he knew was
that the Paraguayans were making batte
ries In a wood in front. Early on the 16th
•he sent two regiments, who, with two guns,
drove them away; He then called up 15,000
men to scour the woods, and they soon came
up to a deep, wide ditch, and immediately
a masked battery opened on them. An ef
fort was made to storm, bnt it failed, and as
the host-retreated they were followed by
8,000 Paraguayans, who were waiting for
this turn in aflairs. The Brazilians stopped
in the first wood; rallied, and ' before sun
down drove them hack to their intrench
ments.
On the 18th, Gen. MitrS attempted to dis
lodge the Paraguayans in the wood in front,
and he dashed down in' force, sweeping
everything before him, until they came to a
lane between two marshes, 12 yards in
width, and here they were enfiladed, An
effort to send out a flanking force failed,
and the Paraguayan reserves'arose and fell
upon the retreating Argentines. The Ar
gentines did as the Brazilians had done the
day before, and rallied in the wood, when
16,000 men came upon them, and the Argen
tines held theirground ;till their flank, was
reached by the enemy’s cavalry, and they
retreated.
,1a these three days’ fighting it Is believed
that the loss on each side was about equal,
and in killed and wounded It Is said each
side must have lost 6,000 men.
The army of President Lopez, though
it has lost so many thousand of men. is still
formidable. He is said to he receiving re
oruitSnrqm yarious quarters Of the plucky
little Bepublic, and the spirit of the people
is far from being subdued. A deserter to
the Allies says, that Lopez has throe en
campments, one part holding the Allies in
check, one at Humaita, and One at Villa
Pillar. *
: At Cerro Leon hehaa a general retreat for
sick and wounded men, and 4,000 women
spive inthifl hospital, audmany of thesfiMO
SOUTH AMEEIOA.
[■Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.]
; «g*stffiag’sjagassiaa!g
youths m France studying engineering and.
various professions, tending to make the
army and r avy. independent of foreigners.
Porto AlegrO, the long-coining Brazilian
General, with his 10,000 trooDs and 12 000
horses, has at length arrived, and his com
mand is incorporated with the "Allied armv
.to thebattieof the 18th, CoL Palleia of
.Uruguay Sell at the head of his troops. He
was one the finest officers in the service, a
fine scholar and good man. We owe more
to his faithful men than to any otheif for the
details of every-day life in the Allied camp.
He was taken to Montevideo and buried in
great pomp. More than 10,000 people as
sembled, overhelmed by a sincere and
general sorrow.
. My view of the warand the state of things
is not a bright one. . I reflect the state of
public sentiment here at this time. It is a
desponding tbna. ; But I am heartUvwith
the Allies in my preferences, and Iheartily
look for their success. ‘ •
’ The state of the market here is not at all
buoyant. The probable increase of the
tariff at Washington has suspended allsales
of wool at,this place.
. 3?tt. neW 5 Minister here, Major-General
Asboth, and Mr. Btruthers,'the new Consul,
have not yet arrived here, though their
appointment has been known here for some
time.
The Shamokin United States war steamer
of eight guns has been in this harbor for
some weeks. She is preparing to go up the
river to carry Mr. Washbume? United
States Minister to Paraguay. He has been
here nearly a year, wailing to get through
Lne lines. - - -
. Brazil is about to send here three more
iron-clads.
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS.
THE “REVOLUTIONARY” STORY.
Opinions of -To-Day's Hew York
Papers.
We take from to day’s New York papers
the following editorials in reference to the
report published in yesterday’s Ledger as to
the questions said to have been propounded
to the Attorney General, by President
Johnson:
rFrom to-day’s N. V. Daily News 1
The Telegraphic Hoax.
morning papers yesterday, purporting to be
a senes <ff questions put to the Attorney-
General by the_ President, as to whether
Congress is a legitimate body and ought to
be so recognized by him. The stow was
a manifest forgery on its face and could not
be regarded as authentic, except on the
consideration that the President had be
come insane. The idea that he should
decline to recognize Congress as a legiti
mate body, after having signed such of its
measures as he did not veto, and after a
vast majority of the people had declared in
its favor, is too preposterous for serious
consideration. The statement was manu
facturered for the purpose of speculation in
gold and stocks, and was a performance
that should expose its author to public con
demnation, if no more palpable punishment
can be inflicted. ’
The President has a right to endeavor to
impress his views on Congress, and make
its action conform to his ideas of what is
prudent and right,if he can possibly do so.
If this fails, he may veto their action, bnc
there his authority ends. The respective
powers and duties of the Executive, the
legislative, and the judicial branches of
the Government are strictly defined by
the Constitution, and no one has any
right to encroach upon the province of the
other. The President can veto an act of
Congress if he regards it unwise or im
proper, and the courts may set it aside if
they deem It unconstitutional; beyond these
restrictions Congress is supreme. The Pre
sident, therefore, having exhausted his
power in attempting to restrain Radical
legislation, has no further duties or respon
sibilities in the matter. The people have
decided against him, and from that decision
there is no appeal.
On the other hand, the more intemperate
and brutal of the Congressional politicians
proclaim their intention of signalizing the
meeting of Congress by theimpeachment of
the President and his immediate arrest and
imprisonment, the plan being_ to lock him
up and try him afterward. The President
has done nothing worthy of impeachment
nor could he be legally convicted for any
violation of duty of which Congress
can take cognizance. He acted from a
sense of duty, and his motives were
patriotic and conscientious. The people are
his masters as they are those of Congress
and they alone have a right to reverse his
action at the legal tribunal of the ballot box
Congress and the President should adhere
strictly to constitutional forms, and neither
imagine that power temporarily possessed
s»n be used with impunity to destroy the
rights and independence of the other;
and gratify partisan malevolence or per
sonal caprice. There is ample room and
verge enough within the sphere of constitu
tional limits to effect all necessary legisla
tion, without revolution or the disruption
of society. Congress is nowin the ascendant,
and it is its duty to secure the re-admission
of the South on some fair, and equitable
terms, and- allow the country to enjoy the
advantages of the dear-bought peace which
our soldiers have achieved,or their triumph
will be short-livedf A breath can unmake
them as a breath las made..
[From the N. T. World.!
The Philadelphia Canard.
Had the report been true, we do not see
that there was anything in it to justify
much alarin. The competency of the pre
sent Congress may fairly enough be ones-'
tioned; it has repeatedly been questioned*
and if the President' shires tiie" doubts
which have been raised, it would be per
fectly regular for him to seek the adviee of
thelaw-officer of the Government. But
we suppose there is no point involved
in this question on which the President’s
own reflections ’ have hot already
given him fixed opinions, and that there ft
therefore no necessity for ? sin application to
any legal adviser. The President’s duty in
the premises is rather a question of high
policy than of legal interpretation. If he
meditated a different course from the one he
has-been pursuing, he would more appro
priately consult his Cabinet than his law
officer. But, of bourse, nothing of the kind
is in contemplation.
iThe President has informed the country
pften enough that bethinks the Southern
F. 1. FETfiERSTOK, PubMisr.
Senators and Representatives are- ezolnded
in plain violation of the Constitution. Bat
whether this infringement’ impairs the con
stitutional authority of Congress to dis-
SrS I ®® ordinary legislative functions, is a
different,question. Congress'; is -liable,’at
any session, to do unconstitutional acts; but
the only legal consequences is that those
particular acts are void. They dp not effect
® r j®pair the authority of .Congress as a
legislative body. All ifs other acts are just
as valid as if it had not, in those particular
instances, transcended its' constitutional
limitations. ' • ■ / ■
° : * -s *• ; »■:
theory of the Rump Congress is,
thatitis a constitutional body which,has
H™Joi trat ? <i ohtrdgeousiy unconstita-
H;E 8 , 8Ct8 : Congress passes an uncon-,
to day, and a constitutional
constitutional, law is
just as valid as if the unconstitutional ohe
haiTreftLlrf 1 v If ’ yeara ago, Congress
had refused to examine the credentials of
the members from Rhode Island, it would
have been guilty 1 of a plain breach of the
Constitution; but probably no court would
have decided that a law passed in the ab
°^e Island members was
destitute of binding force. That State would,
indeed, haye been entitled to redress; but
the only source of redress would have been
the justice of the citizens of the other States.'
achng tbreugh the Congressional elections!
.2* o.reprobation id too severe for the coiners
of such a despatch as that which was pub
lished yratefday morning. It was doubt
jess the invention of speculators who wished
to influence the gold market by practising
ppon the tears of the country in the present
inflammable state of the public mind Pre
sident Johnson has again and again recog
nized the competent of the Romp Congress,
by every form of official intercourse, and by
approving the greater portion of the laws it
has passed. Those who were taken In by
the Philadelphia canard have only to blame
themselves for their want of wariness ia
supposing that the President was about to
stultify himself by condemning his own offi
cial acts and adding to the present danger
ous excitement by attempting a revolution
afyJr®r£es® of the just grievances of the ex
cluded States.
'i A BEJsehlevons Falsehood '
: ; _[FromthsK.Y. Tfmes.l
9 9 9 There are several considerations
which might have deprived the statement
of some of the importance attributed to it
even if it had been true. (L) If the Presi
dent had made the inquiries alleged, it
would not follow that his purpose was to
refuse to recognize the existing Congress.
To \ “fve been ; the very reverse*
(2.) He has already recognized it by sending
messages to it, by sighing bills: which 1
it has _ passed, and thus making them
law, and by putting those laws in execu
tion. He could not nbw reftise to regard it
valid without stultifying his own action,
(3.) Jieconld do nothing in the premises
without the concurrence of a portion of the
members,sufficienfwith the Southern mem
bers, to make a quorum, and there is not
the slightest reason to suppose that he could
obtain that assent. (4.) Action on his pait
of the kina supposed would be illegal and
and revolutionary. ahd ; would contradict
the whole tenor or his conduct both (facial
and per£onal, thus iar.
The President and Congress—The Phila
delphia Gold Gambling Canard, '
[From to-day’s New York Herald.!.
Wall street was considerably excited and
and exercised yesterday over the gold gam
bling canard in the shape of a Washington
despatch to a Philadelphia journal, in
'which the President was made to ash the
Attorney General of the United States cer
tain questions as to the constitutionality of
the present Congress, broadly conveying
the idea of a meditated Executive coup
d’etat at Washington, and a new civil war
between the supporters of Congress and
the believers in the President’s
pohey of restoration. As soon as
“us babble was touched at
Washington it collapsed, but meantime it
had its effect in a spasmodic rise 'in gold
whereby the parties directly interested in
the tnck doubtless turned it to some account,
all the feols on ’Change not being dead vew
But outside of Wall street, in connection
with some of the President’s unfortunate
speeches on his late ill-advised western ex
cursion, this gold gambling canard pro
duced a painful sensation from apprehen
sions that it mightprove to be founded upon
tacts.
The infamous cupidity which, at such a
crisis as this in our public affairs,
not at such diabolical experiments upon,
the public pulse as this Philadelphia fabri
cation cannot be too strongly condemecL '
The guilty parties in this affair we hope
will be exposed and punished as tar as
the law and public opinion' can reach
them. Btit there is only one way in which
the game of the gold and stock gambling
fraternity in regard to the President’s
future relations with Congress can.
be blocked, and that Is' by a proclamation. .
letter or public speech from the President
defining his position to be in favor of the ;
adoption of the constitutional amendment
of congress by all the excluded Southern
States, and as fast as possible. That will put ' ■
an end to all distrust and. all apprehensions
and all gold gambling inventions as to his .
future treatment of Congress, and will put
him at dnee in a position of strength and.
confidence before the.country. s
- LFrom the New York Tribune.]
Bevolutlonlzing Geld.
Weuoted yesterday the startling despatch
from the PMladelphia Ledger, in reference
to the President’s overtures to revolution,
not.without a reserve of doubt as to its
troth. The ledger still asserts that its re
port is authentic and indubitable, but has
not given its authority; Mr, Johnson and ■
Mr. Stansberry positively declare the des- r
patch to be absolutely false, and this con
clusion must be accepted. The effect of the '
forgery upon the gold market was more do- -
cided than that of any news received. -
since the end of the war. Gold, which
opened at 151, ( _rose, on the announce
ment, that' the President had addressed :
- these revolutionary questions l to the Attor- ;.
hey-General, to 153|; and on the denial
of its troth fell suddenly to 150 J, closing at
.151 J, This fact has given reason’lor the
suspicion that the telegram wasmanufao- •
tured in the- interest of gold speculators, and
'it is currently reported, as at least aoon- -
firmation, that- a stockholder in the
has recently been a large buyer of gold at a l '
much less price. Par tun6s have been made
upon the strength of this falsehood,-but its '
prompt exposure prevents any permanent
>rise. to gold. ,We hope the perpetrator eif '
the forgery will be ferreted outandpunlshed
Cas hedesMves to i he l wiia.ttie2ie(%rer oweathe ;
publio a full explanation of ; the mSnner in <
i S^ r ! tende ? toformit lo“-
, L oi Lfe 6 Philadelphia joumalß the iedjei'
baa hitherto been one of the least sensa- -
tional.a feet which obtained for the
despatch much of its credibility. But it to
a melancholy truth that the chief plausi
bility of the report 'Was derived from the.
(Contffiged on thejiwtPago.}