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The friends and relative* are invited to attend the 'funeral. from hie late residence, High street, on Tueeday morning, at 10 o'clock. • BLOOMINGDAI,E,-00 the 11th Inst., Louis Charles, infant son of Charles and Caroline Bloomingdale, aged 7 months and 0 days. The relatives and friends of the family are Invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his pd tents, 612 N. Broad street, on Tuesday afternoon,'nt 2 o'clock.* CIIANCEL,L,OII—At Germantown, on the I ith Instant, •csroline Chapter, widow of the late Henry Chancellor, in the fifty.flfth year of her age. • COPE.—At Germantown, on August DOA .1. Cope. The male friends of the faintly are invited to attend 'the funeraL from his late residence, No. fie Talechocken street. on Wednesday nest. at 4 o'clock. P. M. •• MAK Haturday, 10th instant. Merry. daughter of tire late Richard Drake, Esq., of England. • SCla'ollA2d.—At Yonkers. on Friday. August 0, the lion. William W. Scrughon. Justice of the thiprerrie t, in the 48th year of hl4 age. YP.E ds LANDELL HAVE Tim BEST ARTICLE OF NI Black Iron Barege. two yards wide ; also. the ordinary analitiel vic - RE LANDELL E Halal reduced all the Sunnier Silks and Spring Drees tkvylei ATIEF. CONNAR D • Paper M anufacturers, 44 N. Fifth street, bfandacture to order the finest grades of Rook; also, sagerrol quality , Book and NOWOUPCIII, at short tt no ,tsa. SPECIAL NOTICES. ter TIFF SIiEItIFFALTY. To the Edi fore of the Sunda!, liierateli. 11.1 VIP. in the article signed -lerlekyard." in your pip' •of e,iterdny. an attack L.l tnade upon the military and political charaeter of General Prevo4. Although the it 1 tier bre,. t een es idently toidnformed, as a friend of t, oh and Mstire I cannot permit it to pass without cot'. I.•etion. -]n regard to the General's career at a soldier. Early in Me lie was eppointed'hy the lisle G,114!r/11 Frank l'atterson Aysistant Adjutant General on his staff. And part in the battles . of the Peninsols, Yorktown, - Williamsburg. Seven Pules, Pearl' Orchard, Gton. dale and Malvern Hills. ll...miming in broken •lwalth from the swamps of the Chiekaliominy, he was invited by the Corn Exchange Association to take command - of the 'Pith itialment P. V.. which Ws,. or ARP tliz , (l under their soperintendrnee lie connuanded •the Corn Exehange Regiment at Antietam And Slier. lierd.t.,‘ Ty At the latter battle lie COO ..terirely tPOI/10,4, led after arrow! lninith.. twairtge -ea his eUrattor, be returned to hix real avid, -end fed it at the battle of Chaneeltur,rille ills wound not rermitting him to continue la active senice, he well transferred to the Veteran It. serVe Corps, and was in cornmsnd of the depot camp as lisrrish , trg. after that of the camp of rebel prisoners •t Elmira, and sultsoittsmtly of the depot camp at Springfield. Illinois. For gall ;tat , condnet on the field he was breveted Brigadier. Gen •ral. I append a copy of a letter of that gallant soldier, Major General t:Berle. United Stott - re army. which will satisfy. .any one in regard to General Prevost's military record: /11:Al.krARTEM DInTILICr or Tetas. • CiAI.VrATON. Texas, March Z. 1567. i • Adjutant-General United States Army, Washington, D. C.-eit.s.test.: I have the honor to recommend for the tip. tadntinent by brevet. in the volunteer service, for gallant :services In the field, Colonel Charles M. Prevost as Brier filer-(;sacral. Colonel Prevost was badly wounded whilst. 'bravely leading his regiment at Shepherdstowit, Va., in lASI. and was cotapelled to leave the field _of ter the battle •of Chancellonwille on account of his wound. Colonel Pre vost is sit gentleman of high worth, way an exeelleut sol talang into the field an exesilent regiment (114th .Pentowlyaulii lt/litotes/no, and he deserves honorable 'mention by his tountrr. • I am. air, very respectfully. your obedient 'errant, [Signed) CIIARGES GRIFFIN, Brevet MajonGeaeral. From the moment the first pm was tired npon Fort builder to the present. General l'revost has been an article -tr.fanber uf the Republican. parry: he rotel for Mr. Lin- Of. tea tone ( f the l'ice l'readentenf the carat nutting -;;..front of the Union berfavelaed fall, arid the axeertion 'that he did not rote tact fall is net at rust by the fulloteing Kertirteate: Sri YNTII PUErtS VT. TWENTY-SEOOND WA My . Alig,iptof one own • We. the undersigned. hereto: certify, per. nasal knowledge. that General Charles M. Prevost voted She full Republican ticket at this l'reeinct, at the election 'set Getoher. Tafel. thlignedt FREDERICK L. SMITIL Judge of the Electfou. ANDREW CASSIDY, . Window luppector. CAARLES N. RG, Irr.oEertor. E o Clerk:. WILLIAM SHERMER Return Clerk. WILLIAM 1.. SMITH, LEMUEL ZELL, Executive Committee WILLIAM DUNLOP. lA4 jostice be done to a gallant toddior. ItaIOFFICE OF TIIE JEFFERSON FIRE ISSUR uee Company - of Philadelphia Whereag„ We the - Directors of Tile Jefferson Fire Insur an.: : Company of Philadelphia arc deiirotip of CY:DrefAlu n 1,117 erne of the loss we have sustained by the death of ear late President, George Erety, Esquire; th'erefore he it li...olved, That the intelligence of the death of our late president is received by this Board with sorrow and un felt:lc d regret.. Resoimf. That in the discharge of his duties as Pred. dent Of this Corupiiny.-he .ever man ifestert . it lively , sad -earnest interest in its success, and that the 'energies of his mine; devoted to advance its repotution by prompt. 11(”13 and,fairness in the full discharge of all its obliga tions. . That in his death we have lost an honest cud intelligent officer; and the community - a valuable citizen. Roolrett. That we sincerely sympathize with lils be reaved family, and that a Committee of the Bo trd be appointer*. to convey to them the condolence of this • Resolved, That the members of thls Board attend the L nerd in a body. By order of the Board. PHILIP E. COLEMAN. Secretary. August 12, 1887. titQ stir PEUWEE SCIENTIFIC COURSE LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. The next term commences THURSDAY, September Candidates for admission may be examined the day 'before (September 11th), or on TUESDAY, July 30th, the day before the Annual Commencement Exercises. For circulate, apply to President CATTELL, or to Prof. It. B. YfIUNG3IOI, Clerk of tho Faculty. JY9O-tf EASTON, Perm., July. 1867. epg-i•Pr. BicELROY'I3 PIIILADELPHLA CITY DIREC ""`'' -tory for 1866.—The Publishers inform their friends and the public that the above work will be issued at the usual time. The canvass will commence as heretofore, and, by a careful selection of experienced canvassers, and a strict attention by the compilers, we aro determined to make the Directory for 1868 a reliable and full record of the names and locations of all business men and private -citizens. Grateful for past encouragement, future pat ronage reep"tfulb- solicited /. MOELROY a CO.' aulo-3trri 637 Chestnut street, 2d floor. a ir NOTICE. THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL Wards of the St. Marrs Hospital, cor. Frankford road and Palmer street, are now open for the reception of patients. All cases of accident received gratuitously, if , presented within 24 hours after the reception of the in -MU. The Sisters of St. Francis give their personal at. 4endance to the sick. Apply for admission either at the Hospital, or Mother Agneso, Convent of St. Francis, Reed street, above Fifth. atal2t rpf air Lombard Street NOB. 1518 AND-1520 treatment and medicinenPrfnaaPderatti=martlig 'Tile Position or ex-Nenator Harris, of Nov York. To the Editor of: the Evening Journal: Siu—My attention has been called to what 'purports to be a letter written by me—though signed " Ira E. Barrie—and published in the New York herald .of this morning. No such letter has been writ ten by me or by my authority. I have not been in the city of New York singe the 13th of July, 'nor have I seen the herald's article beaded "The New Crisis." I have nd knowledge of its con tents. The' fabrication imputes to me senti ments which Ido not entertain. lam earnestly in favor of the Congressional policy of Recon struction. I believe it right to enfranchise the negro. NOr are the statements of a personal character attributed to me any nearer the truth. My two sons served "under the Union flag," but neither of them has fallen. Nor le it true that I Lave purchased a plantation in Alabama, or that I contemplate removal thither. In short ; I pro .nounce the publication a forgery—false, both in its statements of facts and in the opinions it as- cribes to me. You will oblige me by the publi cation of this note. • In,t. HARRIS. Albany, Aug. 10, 1867. EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. LETTER FROM PARIS. Kforreepoodenee of the Philadelphls'Evening Brdiettn.l PARIS, Friday, July 26, 1867.—1 n my last letter, having come upon the specimen of Russian ordinarragricultural life with which the present Exhibition supplieg. us. I was led to draw a stri king, but not unfriendly, I trust, or disparaging contrast between it and the'superior advantages of the same class in America. But the knowl edge of her populations and their habits and ways of life which the Russian Government has so widely and Ingeniously thrown open to all the world in the' , Champs de Mars, does not by any means stop at the point of the yeoman or peasant-farmer, whose dwelling and degree of cultivation and intelligence ,I then endeavored to describe and bring home to your readers. Closely adjoining the Russian Isba, in the Park, and again in the gallery of .the Palace itself which is devoted to clothing and habill ments, we find illustrations of a class of subjects of the Czar for which we should seek in vain for any equivalent in America, unless we took it from the native and indigenous inhabitants of the prairie, or of those northern regions which have been just ceded to the government of the United States. The exhibition of 1867 is especially rich In the matter of national costumes.. and a whole treatise might be written with edification and instruction upon this cate gory only of the vast assemblage. Russia, Sweden, Denmark. the East, France herself (where, however, such local distinctions are rapidly disappearing) have emulated each other in producing types of their different Provinces and the people who inhabit them. But per haps none of them have attracted more attention than the strange group which lines the portion of the Russian galleries above mentioned. I saw the Emperor and Empress pause before these figures one day. and look at each other ns though they were asking themselves whether . they had any such subjects within their dominion, or what they would do with them if they had:. And, indeed, the first thought which passes through one's mind is whether the figures represent what is human or not. They reminded me of the sensation which I remember once came across Inc in the British Channel in very "dusty" weather, when, after a long voyage, we were off Dull, and at a moment when you could not see further than your hand for fog. a couple of Deal boatmen suddenly emerged, apparently from the water,but in reality from a boat alongside. I believe I thought they were seals which had mistaken their way, . unutterably " wet " were they and their "skins," which were all that was to be seen. It is difilcult to say what one might take these inhabitants of. Polar Russia for, if left to one's own imagination. But fortunately they are " ticketed," and so save one the trouble of further conjectures. We learn by the cards upon-them that, they are Ostiagaes, or Ostiacs, of the extreme north of Siberia, on the Obi ; and certainly a rap so little emerged in feature and expression from something not human, or one more calculated to enforce the humiliating theory that men at least (if not women) were once mon keys and wore tails, I never before beheld. There is a female and her "brood" of young ones, wi) (or whieb) It is impossible to look at without pity, mingled with humiliation. I imagine from their countenances that intelligent human nature could scarcely begin lower down than this. So here. then, may be said to be the starting point of the great Belavonic race, which now overshadows all Europe. At least the next step to Cossacks and Kurds of the Caucasus takes us at once a long way ahead; though these latter, if exhibited alone and without such a set-off as this Ostial rKe, would look "wild" enough for anything. Outside, in the Park, we have speci mens of the dwellin g s of two, of the nomadic tribes of Russia, but unfortunately no representation of the inhabitants or of their cus toms. The tents are rude enough for anything. One Is conical, and made of the bark of trees, and called an Ourassa. and belongs to the, tribe of Jakouts. The other, round-shaped and covered with e ‘ oparse woolen elopes, is called a rourta, and usisd by the Kirghis. 'Both arc wholly devoid of interest of every kind. But we arc greatly in debted to the Russian Government for having placed all these things before us, and made the Russian section the most complete illustration of the Empire in all its imposing vastness and variety of any of the assembled nationalities. We see clearly what Russia has done, is doing. and has yet got to do. We see the life and ma terial of life and civilization of the Prince on. the banks of the Neva. and the Ostiac on those of the Obi; and we can trace the progress from the latter to the former,through the stages of Kurd and Cossack and the well-to-do and now fortunately emancipated serf and peasant farmer. As I have said, here are abundant materials, standing temptingly side by side, for drawing out the comparative course of develop ment and the respective lines of civilization taken by the two mightiest Empires in the world, and whose future destiny it seems to be to wield the supremacy of the two hemispheres between them. At present all is contrast and dissimi larity. Whether the two systems of organiza tion will one day modify and more or less resemble each other, is a question which only a distantluture can disclose. 4 .1 t. 5T11.1." I have only space to add, as I am glad to be able to do, that the Franco-Portuguese difficulty is, thanks to Mr. Harvey's tact and firmness, as good wattled, and that the American citizen, whose"nationality has been violated, will bo liberated and sent back here in a Portuguese ship-of-war, with proper compensation. (Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa owes its inclination, as everybody knows, to a:settling of the groUnd. From this circumstance, and the natural rising of a eity's level, it introduces itself to the modern traveler standing in a pit.. A shallow fosse, with usually a little water in it, and neatly encrusted with stone, goes round the edifice. As I approached, with the intention of ascending, I descried the custodian morosely sitting on the edge of the stonework and bathing his feet, as it were, in the pit. On my making as if to enter he quietly, barred my passage with a swollen arm and hand r a long exposure in his bath had given a' dropsical succulence to his tissues, - and began to..ropeat some king formula in Ittlian. It was not a moment to kindle one of my inspirations in the knowledge of tongues, but I managed to coin= prehend the gist of what he was saying. To HASH STEPS. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1867. ascend legitimately you must be not one person, but three. , No one could go up alone. Chafed by this arbitrary rale, so slighting to my individuality and so inhospitable to the world of single gentlemen, I began to arise—in what. language I am sure I do not know—with my stolid opposer. All in vain; be simply placed himself (a pretty accurate stopper) in the door way and exhibited the printed regulations. 1., tried corruption—take three fees; he was spot less integrity. I tried pathos—l had come far, and was going soon; he was marble. I tried hu mor—did I resemble a suicide? was he atraid of receiving me from the top on his head? I ap peared to be sending him to sleep. Then I salted him to accompany me himself—he cer tainly had in him the making of two men. The demand excited him to a stormy and rather alarming vivacity; he cast a glance up the stair case, weighed his protuberant stomach in his bands, exhibited one elephantine leg, became purple, drew his wrist across his brow, and asked if the signore wished him to burst himself. I am certain he had never seen the belfry in his life. The ascent, so simple a thing heretofore, began to seem impossible. I raged inwardly, and threw an eye of despair to the tempting dis tance, where, almost hidden by the buildings, the Maritime Alps interlaced with the Appenines under a purple Italian heaven.. It was the de cline of a golden day. I should never forgive myself if I failed to watch it from the bending tower. . tinder these circumstances it was with more. pleasure I greeted two wandering priests who presented themselves than I ever felt in presence of a priest before. Two t.lack forms of priests, crossing the solitary little square which holds the sacred monmnents of old Pisa aparetranquil and meditative as two laaacewho had come out into the field at the eventide. Their faces looked amicable under the shade of their broad hats. the brims of which were commencing to roll up on three sides like the withering petals of some g - reat black rose; and from the shoulders of each de pended that thin and narrow cloak ,or vail, streaming out as they moved in a pump-handie mariner, which I have never seen but on walking priests and on opera villains who leave the scene undulating their mantles handsomely upon them. Presenting myself. I respectfully desired their company to the summit. Their acquiesence, which was kindly, prompt and' cordial, might have been extended to my Testure, but certainly was not to my words, which were quite incomprehensible to them; for when I followed up my question with a remark equally meant to be in Italian, they observed that they did not speak German, and when I tried them in French they gave me the old familiar "Nun crmtptenny." I next essayed Latin, and was getting terribly bogged in a reminiscence from Virgil. when the man who had said that he did not"cumprenny,"observed,in a hearty brogue: " Now, if you did but speak English, Sur"—and the little problem in foreign exchange was solved. He was a: native of Dublin, _ twenty:five or twenty-six, - studying at the College of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Rome, and now released on a short furlough after the recent commemorative ceremonies at St. Peter's. He'had the appropri ate pages of his Murray detached from the vol ume and fluttering in his hand, and was transit', ting them to hi!s companion in a fluent Italian, very different indeed from mine. He was a "proper" young man to look at, as he bared his bead and measured the height of the tower with his dark Irish eye, exposing the heavy black hair which tumbled picturesquely over his forehead and well nigh concealed the microscopie tonsure on his crown. His robust figure, forward brow and large passionatelps spoke of the tempera ment that ao seldom strays into the, order, and which, when it does, transplants thither its fall and unrepressed impulses of dominion and fervor. Soon the steps of the ascent were being counted off immediately before my eyes by the comely and able calves and heels nerieti new acquain tance,r t who, good-humoredly urging his comrade iu,advanee, trod d he staircase from under his feet with the rmness of a machine. And thus the two hundred columns uncurled them selies around us, and the eight lofty stories placed themselves successively beneath us, and the giant bells hung at our feet like a cluster of extraordinary flowers as our heads rose into a tide of ambrosial air. 1, Four pure monuments of the pelmy days of the Church were at our feet—the Belltower, the Dome, the Baptiitay and the Holy Field/ In that adorning and caressing light they seemed perfect, complete and vivid, not only beautiful, but strong. For the moment I forgot that they were despised and deserted by the Pisans them selves, and left as spectacles to the throng of Protestant tourists. I almost forgot my habitual estimate of the present weakness and decadence of the papal theory. For my companions, cradled and nurtured in an undisturbed and restricted circle of opinion, this weakness did not exist. Peter's chair was still,what it was in the days of the fighting popes—a throne to be wor shipped arid carried forward and battled for—a throne puissant to reward its devoted soldiers. On the west was a Silver slip of the sea. On the south the distant spires of Leghorn. To the east stretched the warm kno, looking like gold. Against the north, deliciously stained with a vio let suffusion, the marble heights around Carrara, rich with possible statues and the unknown future of art. A little tug happening to come laboring up the Arno at that moment, I made some idle remarks about the possibility of Garibaldi being come, The possibility was closer than I then thought. The Irishman, who was examining the mountain line with my opera-glass, took me seriously. "Let him come, and all his archers! What can he do to the Anointed ? Ah, sir, to the sense of faith, Saul is long since dead upon the mountains. And David sits weeping for him on his throne." I thought I perceived in this little rhapsody all the native fancy, as well as the inaptitude for po litical insight of the Celt. Hardly repressing a smile, I hastened to make some reply which would turn the conversation into amore ordinary channel. I praised the scenery. . "Yes, Italy warms the heart of the believer," pursued the young priest, unconscious that to some believers Italy presents aspects that are rather baffling "What a privilege to live, like these Tuscans, always near the footstool of St. Peter! Yonder isa beautiful shrine,to have been carried into as a three day's baby, to be baptised. - Do You know sir, I should like well even now to be, dipped In that font of jewelled Carrara We have seen inside?" - • •, - "It is large enough for you, at any rate," I ob scrved, recollecting the noble proportions of the basin, "but would your; baptists hate Wit any more effectual?" , ' . ' OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. "The water would hate been warmer, at least," he said, "Wel), I was born under the- Northern rains, and I cannot help thinking it would have been a privilege. I should have liked to have knelt, from my boyhood, among the mar ' bles of a cathedral like this. I should have to have listened to the bells from this strange tower. I should like, when the end comes, to cover me with Ate Judean earth of the Campo Santo yonder:" . • Looking over we could see the holy earth, so gorgeously framed in its four-square arcades ; rich shadow was spread upon it; but the four° aged cypresses that defined its corners rose into the sunset, and the tips of their lofty cones glowed like sombre taper-flames. I quoted the sense of • a musical passage in Les Odeurs de Paris. "Oh s people of the CHRIST!" says. Venillot, "oh, babes whom He has made ! Oh, cemeteries of Chsistian fields, where the tombs, covered with 'tweet herbs and flowers, gather into the shadolv of the church-spire ! Over these tombs, watered with tears from the oldest time, the living have unceasingly poured out their prayers, while the sacred earth was never touched but with their knees!" "I do not like a Frenchman," interrupted the collegian, brusquely enough. "I like him least of all when he is eloquent." Aware that lieu'llot, while defending the church before the Parisians, has defended it with a very slender endowment of the Christian spirit, I re frained from saying much for him. But I could not help putting in a good word for Pere Hya cinthe, the Paris missionary, whose discourses. full of warmth, refinement and charm, seem to me, as has been said of the writings of Addison, as high as his age could bear. "I do not like French eloquence," persisted my acquaintance, "there is something naturally windy and false in the Gallic mind that preventa it from achieving any utterance acceptable to a Briton." • . I did not respond. I am never very fond of seeing the Briton display, in his contented man ner, what I think his least holieful trait—his want of adaptability. Theetudent, perceiv ing that something was ‘nt quite right, changed the subject once more, and began to speak of the mother church with all the filial tenderness of a devotee. .114' spoke of her an tiquity, her splendid past,her venerable symbols, the attractive robe of spirituality she was able to throw over the burdens and toil of ordinary life. ills fluent Irish eloquence surprised his companion, who leaned in silence against the iron rail, and regarded: us alternately, forgetting the.hindscape. He spoke of the serious, studious life of his Roman college. He painted for me, with a little tender Jesuitry, that amused and titillated me, the serene existence even a stranger might lead in the pale cloisters of the monastery. He described his experience at . the convent of Monte Casino-L-between Rome and Naples —and it was like a reminiscence of some young Milton ittlialy, er rather like a dreamy passage- from- It Here, is the grandest monaatic ea ta aliment in Europe, the Roman,savants pass the heated term of summer. In a library said to -possess forty thousand volumes and a cloud of parchments and manuscripts, there is the mate rial for every kind of study. The Italian poets collate Dantes of the fourteenth and fifteenth cen turies; historians root out the diplomas of Lom bard Kings and the bulls of forgotten Popes; monks from Germany excavate the treasures of medieval music—toccatas and finales and fugues whose faintest echoes have long since died- from the lower air. The hospitality is perfect—there is no poor-box, and you are hardly allowed to present a recognition to the domestic. You pass the day among the archives and the eh:Nue-cent° editions; you dine among the brothers in a fres coed refectory ; you worship in a church only less sumptuous thanlit. Peter's; you sleep close to the moon, and with the dawn the clouds, floating upward from far beneath our feet, !Nat ter around you in snowy folds, an v I the f f i morning panorama of the mountains. -I could only reply, with another, fiend who was eq'tilly familiar with the monaStery, When will science provide for her faithful'what religion in the feudal ages has done for hers? When shall we have a laic Monte CasinpV "I recollect besides," I ad}led, "what a glorious time Byron had studyingrArmenian at an Laz ero, in Venice. By the, by, can you explain the relations between the Armenian faith and the Greek Church?" / "You are awye," said he, chilling suddenly, " that there is n such thing as a Greek Church; as for Byron,/ " , With the best intentions, I had insulted the unity of the true religion. What reply should I have,got if I had happened to use the term Pro testant Church? Escaping from this dangerous ground, as I bad been escaping from so many spots of dangerous ground, r took a leap to another tussock, as it were, which appeared "all tranquil and serene—as Irish boys are always green." I began with- the ritual movement among Alm English students, so flattering, as I thought to the Catholic influence tor the century: "There appears to be a large proportion of young minds coming straight over to you." The return was more uncompromising than, ever: "They are coming straight to us," said he setting his teeth, "or they are going straight to eternal perdition as fast as they can ride." I give his reply in his own words, as exactly as I can remember them, to show with what strange te nacity the Romardsm of the day clings to its dig nities in the midot of apparene ruin. He went en to explain that the_ blessed Church dislikes the half-measures of a Pussy even more than the full antagonism of a Luther. What good ever came out of half-measures? What benefit do these silly boys expect to get from their vest ments and genuflections, their chasubles and in tonings, while their hearts are afraid of the full surrender? These things, which they make their playthings, are but 'the symbols of the faith, blank and empty until filled with the good tidings of Rome. Thu children, leaving the collegiate retirement to mingle in the world, will forget their playthings; their souls, unchanged, by the true consecration, will be dissipated and lost among the errors of the time. , "Meanwhile, the future is not lost. We have, in our college, an institution lately endowed, called the Collegio Plo. Here we aro at this mo ment instructing no less than fifteen brethren, lately called Protestant or Anglican clergymen among the heretics in. the blesaed,falth." 1 was quite willing by ilds.,time to leave the. blessed faith to the quiet enjoyment of its future, and proposed the descent We went down, the two saints and the sofltari infidel, from the last .rays of sunset into'.the'sluidovi of the world. Shall 'I soon forgot .the beautiful spectacle that ,awaited us below?, A tint, tich and soft as a perfume, was climbing, moment by moment, from one white arcade to another of the leaning tower: the lt...ter, bending from the sun, hung flower-like over the dark and dewy earth. Slowly the crescent-shaped edge of orange lifted, lifted, along the intrica cies of the shaft. At the top, it seems to repose a minute, entangled in the gothic fretwork of the cornice and among the murmurous cups of the cluster of belle; then. all at once, like a dream, or a kiss, it was gonc—and a white lily hung where a tiger-lily had seemed to hang, a tower of pallid splendor across the sky. "It is Clytie nodding toward the sunrise," said the Irish poet, inspired by the moment, I sup pose. Walking together along the brown and hurry ing Arno, we pursued our doctrinal discussions as far as the elegant little chapel of Sta. Maria della Spina. But yon have had enough to com prehend the attitade of Catholicism at the foun tain-head in 1.867. ENFANT PERDU. MAXIMILIAN'S DEATH. Mo Written Confirmation of Ins Ego. fusion. (From the Memorial Diplematique. July mi As we cannot with propriety publish the name of the writer of the letter given below, we think it our duty to retain the original, in order, if necessary, to prove that we have confined our selves to printing it word for word. The missive in question runs thus : I beg you will begood enough to announce the following facts, which are incontestably au thentic, and in case of need I can further furnish official evidence of my assertion. M. Barandia ran, Mexican Minister to Vienna, has had several interviews with Baron de Beust and with the Un der Secretary of State, Baron de Meysenbug rela tive to the frightful intelligence of the execution of the Emperor Maximilian. From these conver sations which took place on the 19th, 20th and 21st Jul} , it appears that the government has not receivedany official written despatches confirm ing the news of the sanguinary catastrophe. The last communication from Baron de Wydenbruck, Minister of Austria at Washington bears date the 30th of June, and was written on receiving the intelligence forwarded through New Orleans. However, the Baron gives not the slightest de tail respecting the execution, nor has he given any since. Captain Gra.ler, commanding the Austrian frigate before Vera Cruz, who is stated to be the, forwarder of the telegram addressed to Washington, has sent neither courier nor written despatch. The Austrian government is, therefore, entirely with out written judicial proofs of the death of the Emperor of Mexico, and the English government and that of the United States are in a similar position. This it is that explains the course taken by Lord Derby lu begging Lord Redeliffe to withdraw his motion for an address of con dolence to the Queen. I have the honor, tte. After reading this letter the presumption ap pvan3 to be that the absence of official informa tion respecting the tragical end of the Emperor Maximilian is the reason why this painful event has not yet been made known. to the Empress Carlotta. Caelotta.Said to Have Been Poisoned in Mexico. [From the Memorial Diplomatique, July 80.] If we trust a letter froarTriestei written - by a person worthy of iNr. ad n ce s . thosuspielowthat the Empress Carlot,' a had heen poisoned before returning to/Europe no longer appears to be, a mere hazard. The practiced eye of so able a practitioner as Doctor Rulkens was struck with the abnormal symptoms of the august patient. However violent and painful may have been the emotions which the Empress has experienced since her departure from Mexico, they could not, according to the laws of pathology, be the only cause of the mental exaltations and moral pros trations which alternately succeed each other, and seem to defy the resources of science: It is certain that in the mouth of July, 1866, her Majesty, after having embarked at Vera Cruz, was seized with a sleeplessness occasioned by a flow of blood to the head, and which continued during the whole voyage. Since then symptoms have been constantly remarked indicating a pro found alteration in the blood, which, from her Majesty's youth and robust constitution, cannot possibly be explained otherwise than by the per nicious action of a physical agent. Everything, therefore,tends to the belief that some subtle poi son had been administered to the Empress by the traitors. by whom the Court of Chapultepee was only too closely surrounded,and that her Majesty in leaving Mexico earned with her the germ of the frightful malady which broke out on the 9th of October following at Rome. In` fact, a few days .aftdr the departure of the Empress cer tain Arherican journals, probably initiated into the terrible mystery, pretended that during the transit from Mexico to the port of embarkation her Majesty had given manifest signs of mental alienation; that news, then premature, was to be verified a few months later. The Empress her self instinctively suspected the truth; for as soon as her mental faculties began to be troubled she was beset with the idea that she had been pois oned, and she still remains under the influence of that conviction. Our correspondent terminates his letter by an nouncing that the royal patient is going to be submitted to a treatment calculated at the same time to calm her mind and neutralize the effects of the alteration of her blood; and if, as - Dr. Bul kens hopes, this treatment succeeds, a cure, slow without doubt, is still possible. TIIJ ROMAN CHURCH. Pope Pins the N inth to the Catholics of England and Scotland. The Pope has forwarded the following answer to the address sent him by the Catholics of Eng land and Scotland during the Convocation in Rome: Beloved Sons—Health and Apostolic benedic tion. We congratulate you, beloved sons, that you show yourselves true offsprings of saints. Proof of this is that grateful remembrance with which y ou foster the blessing of the faith, 'puce carried from this Roman chair to your • island, and of late restored and lucre:Lied. Proof, too, of that holy transport with which you commemorate the constancy of your fathers and their sufferings for the Catholic faith. Proof, again. of than unquestioning obe dience to this Holy See, whose primacy of honor and jurisdiction you aasert ; whose doctrine you declare that you venerate and embrace with your whole heart ; whose civil rights you hold sacred and necessary unto the free 'government of the Church ; to which, in fine,you acknowledge your 'self most devoted, and promise tv better and per petual adherence. • And, indeed,. „You could pit forth nothing more excellent than these duties, which are the signal approval of your faith, and nothing to no more agreeable, to whom they give the greatest delight, beeause we desire nothing more than that all should have one soul, one heart—all be one with us, so that we all may be one in Christ. United with this Holy See, your fathers fought, and suffering with for titude the loss' of goods, imprisonment, tortures and death. handed down to you the faith which they had received whole and entire and sealed 'with their blood. And u, closely treang in these noble footsteps up yo to this time, have sus tained, together with us, a more perilous, though it may be not so ferocious a form of conflict; but it was with the assurance, that so long as you were fixed in this, rock, against which.the gates of hell.,eintill..not'.prevall,,NietoZy. must he with • yilu •!, . Go , on, then ,! ) over:, in 4,4lmq:the • Wore itteqyj prqefe,te#oolezwith..ua to:tontead by the., 8ti1*,,..0;;• glidlee., ,l against , . the . haters of" religigk, ,lil Arth.; , .. ondetwor yet more i etudlouP, tq, ,tk to , 190 d by yaw zeal end .761#404t 4A lo.leb, hO taketnieo delight persev6re • • Prayer; and, acquitting' younielyeg E L. yrnmisTox. publighEr. PRICE THREE CENTS. as uteri, wait for the Lord, who, at length pro veiled ,upon by entreaty, will scatter the darkness of errors, stißdisturbaaces.Jmd, without doubt, restore the reign of Justice and of pmce. We augur for yow the joy ofthis result. and the akin dance of all heavenly 'grates; in taken whereof, and in witness likewise of our paternalgood will and kindly affection, we moat lovingly impart to all of you, and to the who of Eneand, par Apostolic benediction. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's,'on the lfith day of July, 1867, of our Pontificate the twenty second year. Prim P. P. IX. Firit!NClE. Eugenie at Sea-. Her MaJeatrahhotil taw the War ShlrrateChertrommi • (From Galignant's Messenger, &SY f , The Empress arrived at two o'clock on fistiar day at Cherbourg from Brest in' the' yacht, and was saluted by the forts-and vesselif the harbor. Her Majesty shortly after went 'ter visit the iron-clad ship of the lineWont:ay and afterwards the American frigate Frunllini, miral Farragut was not on board, having lift ha the morning for Paris. - The Empress afterwards went to' the - military port and distributed some decorations. • In the evening a dinner of twenty cover* took place on board the Refine Hortense, followed by aw reception and concert on board the Magenta. Her Majesty afterwards returned to the Inverld, yacht, which left yesterday morning for Havre, which port the Empress reached in the evening, Her Majesty, after a short delay, left by specialt train, passing through Rouen by the station of the, Rue Verte at half-past nine, and arriving at the Tuileries towards one in the morning. The Prince Imperial—The Heir Anna.. rent in Convalescence. _ [From GalignamPe Meesenger, July X] A letter from Luchon has the following: The health of the Prince Imperial of France leaves , nothing to be desired. The waters of this place have produced a most marvetous effect. Mahn perial Highness makes excursions daily, accom panied by Gen.Frossard, his governor; the Mar quis d'Espeuilles, aid-de-camp, and Dr. Bartheg. He will return to Paris about the 4th of August. The guides of Luchon, some short time back, learning that the Prince was soon to , commence riding excursions, presented him with a whip of honor. These men have an incredible address in the use of their whine. Under the balcony of the Prince Imperial one of them left the ranks and beat a hunting call. The rest instantly an swered, and so admirably together as to produce , the strangest effect. The Prince was delighted, and did not conceal the pleasure he experienced from this novel spectacle. He asked twice that the cortege should file off before him and repeat the performance. \\ The Stanton quarrel. The Whshington correspondent of the New York Herald has the following: =ED= WASHINGTON, Ang. 11.—I am informed to night that one cause of the delay on, the part of the President in removing Mr. Stanton is &dis agreement among his Cabinet members - as to the propriety of the step. Yon will remember telegraphed last meek that Messrs.,fieward.and Weed were opposed to the reMoyal Mr.,gtaik ton, and I have, reason to believe `that 8, - was correct. It is said that . Mr. 13ewaill taken so decided a stand in the, nuitteiusle t Anise occasioned a bad feeling in therg • t t fiewszian APinnliaLbeet:-. • , r -theObinet tile hes en 1. tt : "771,"1^' 'Toaster, andluts -- biutzneatly - eVerYt fig- 11 own way in the matter of appointments. The Olga agd t conciliations that have so often disgusted the friends of the President are euppesed to .have ' been the result of. Mr. fleward's unwise counsels. Mr. Johnson now, perhaps, sees his mistakes, and is anxious. even at the eleventh hour, to remedy theni by something like decision of chit acter and promptness of action. It is said that lie has resolved to request Mr. Seward to resign in a note of somewhat equal, politeness and brevity to that delivertrd to Secretary Stanton. Should this be true—and I do not pretend it is, for I cannot make the statement on authority— it is believed Mr. Adams will be recalled from England, and offered the portfolio of Secretary of State. . It is said, moreover, thieMr. Randall Anil Mr. McCialoch are not altogether to be depended upon in their fidelity to the Johnsonbm policy. People say that the former contemplates re signing at an early day, and that he desires to do something that will enable him to regaiothe confidence of his party. As to Mr. McCulloch, there are many rumors, one being that the Presi dent believes his Secretary of the Treasuiy had brought discredit on the Administration by art pointing improper men to office, and that his management of the national finances has net been all that was expected of him. The ru mor as to the difficulty between the President and Mr. McCulloch places matters at such an ex treme point as to mention the namOof a proba ble. successor in the person of Moses Taylor; of New York. Ulu. ETANTON'S REASONS FOR REFUSING TO RESIGN —ANOTIIF.IL SOUTHERN REBELLION TO BE CRUSH- ED OUT. It has been stated here on very good authority that one of the reasons which actuated Mr. Stan ton when he refused to resign at the President's request is that he has received information •of a scheme which it le said is on foot for arming mili tary ,nrganizations in the late insurrectionary States, whose ultimate object is another assauft upon the goNernmont, and ho has determined to remain at his post to thwart their designs. It le futher said that one of the causes of the late rupture between the President and Secretary of War was the refusal of Secretary Stanton to assign to a militia company of Maryland, cod posed mainly of returned rebel officers and img diets, a battery oflight guns for which they had applied. The President is said to have directed , him to furnish the battery, but that Mr. Stanton , declined, and still refuses to do so. THE ITIETEORS. What is Seen frona_Greenevieb Obser- vatory. GREENWICH OBSIGWATOItr, ENGLAND, AUgllEtt 10111-11.1dnight.—The astronomers employed. here are engaged ip making observations of the. August meteors. The night is clear and the moon very bright. Singe; the hour of nine o'clock to-night, but low meteors have been seen, and none of thorn brighter than stars of the third or fourth magnitude. The observations made to this moment con firm the statement that the radiant point of the luminaries is in the conotellatiou Perseus. AU the meteors yet aeon are green. Sletorte Dispp?.y_as. Seen at Potteat. - .' - kimpste. , (Correopondenoo of the New York Herold. , rouoinucErsix, August 11.--At about : tan o'clock last event g the wind was front the northeast, being lig t. At half-past twelve the sky to the northwafd was comparatively; clear; and the wind had shifted to the "Mirthateet, a cooler atmosphere.prevailing , „ taltertly agter one o'closk this morning an entirely clear sky • Was visible, and at that hour a brilliant meteor shot from the northern tb the oritittera horizon. • It was followed liy several, Othere, neither , of which, howevdr, was as brilliant in' apppttilitee us the first. From one ; till , top. 4. m, over 6016147: meteors were connted, and om that time' 1W half past three A.,M. thericereased in num_bent po fast that they could not be cotinteo. ',' 'VIM of them were, of great ,torillianey and pros a splendid appdarance. All the while the OtVOO quite cool and ,the . sky clear. By f ur 9,..000t A. M. the celestial `exhibition had euntrsthized. T EXTORT Cotnenous. —" Youhl , 4 001 4 0 4 1 01 0.• In eet, l ' ete 8o;opon22 eald to the eekieFiegtel.o:_. 'Wd soon Imprcive, under , yO4 Aftle es, the neglected teeth salt to the Etozopetrr.
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