'GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor.
VOLUME XXL-NO. 114.
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MARRIED.
1100K---CONNOLLY.--On the lath Net., in Balthriore,
by the Rev. Dr. Foley, of the Cathedral, Joseph A. Hook,
of Philadelphia, to Amelia Connolly, of Baltimore.
KELLER—MeCOMBEY.--Angiist lath. by Rev: F.
Crouch, In Allentown, Pa., George L. Keller, of Philadel
phia, to Ellrmhoth C. McConisey. of Lancaster.
DIED.
LIECK.--tin the lath Inst., Annie E.. wife of T. C, Bock,
and daughter of Catharine and the late John McCormick.
The relatives and friend," are renpoctfully Invited to
attend the funeral...from the residence of her mother,
Mrs. Catharine McCc.' ertnick. 215 Lombard street, on
Thursday afternoon, Ana. f.l, at 4 o'clock. 3t
IIRECIll:M114.—on Saturday. 17th instant, bier Anna
Itrecheinin, relict of the late Louis Brechemin, In the 82d
year of tier age. •
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully
incited to attend her funeral, from her late residence, No.
=t4 Routh Second street, on Wednesday afternoon, at 3
o'clock. 2t
BULL—On the 19th inst., Richard Bull, in the 8,4 y.
of his age.
BUTLER.—Ors the Itlth inet., at thither Leland. Georgia,
Pierce Butter, of Philadelphln.in the Sethyear of his ago' 2t
ENNUI. —in 'Baltimore. on the lath instant. Harriet A o
wife of Thomas ri. Hanle."
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11A IIBLI:T.--On Sunday, Aug. 18th, at Corinth. Missbt
eippt. Howard Harbert, in the 27th year of his' age,
youngest non of Charles Harbert, of Philadelphia, •
JOKES.—e,in Second-day. the Mb inet., Rowland Jones,
In the *di year of lit age.
The relatives and friends are invited to attend hie
funeral. from hip late residenre, in Wood street, Burling
ton, N. J.. on Flf tb-day, they'd inst., at 3 o'clrwit., I': M.,
without further notice, ••
81NGEIZI.Y.—This morning, Pasuelia A., wife of Win.
lit BinEedY. and daughter of flionian C. Jones, in the 324
year of het age.
Due notice of the funeral will he given. •
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iCorreapvtdeace of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Ramon—you will remerubt'Hill i pretty picture,
called Suter . ... Not at thane—one of the most fanci
ful of French painters . . exhibited as his master
piece in the Nairn of 1866, The Mimes at Pompeii.
Like all his works, it was Greek in treatment, the
figures looking pure enough to have come off an
antique vase ; the Painter's life, which haalatterly
• been a vibration between Rome and Naples, scorn
. hilly Obliterates twenty centuries of. history, and
dwells anion existences that breathe mythology,
and wrap themselves outwardly in the peplum
and chlamys. His picture, accordingly, looks as
if it might have been painted by some ithodian
exile. You see, glimmering in a cool, silvery,
unearthly light, the long colonnades and vacant
streets of Pompeii, the unroofed walls, the dried
fountains, the chilled hearths; while overhead hang
the pensive muses, pale, impalpable figures rising
like exhalations from the ground, or sorrowfully
floating from chamber into chamber.
.This fancy
.comes again and again to one who has made 're
peated visits to Pompeii. Even thus,you are fain
'to think, the genii of these resuscitated homes
must steal to them sometimes on bright nights;
must repeat in secret the holy modes and pieties
of those swept and garnished rooms; dwell and
idle there from dewy hour to hour in the moon
light, and enact again the dearest familiarities of
a vanished society.
The domestic places which the Pompelans have
'left to us areof such dainty dimensions, indeed,
that you can hardly take them more seriously. It
•is difficult to people them with the figures of pon
derous, brown Roman) citizens. Yon can ani
mate them more comfortably to the mind with
some sort of celestial patronesses, who will dis
pose of them in a kind of heavenly game of baby
'houses, and arrange the household schemes and
interests and scandals in the grave and fatal way
with which children legislate for their Nuremburg
villages.
It was not until after two daylight visits that I
succeeded, in obtaining from the Director of Ex
cavations the liberty of Accompanying, by moon
light, au artist who was studying Pompeii by a
night effect. Sitting, Yankee-like, on the table of
lions in the audience-court of Cornelius Rufus,
with the soft light silvering the marble locks of
July unknown host,whose bust was regarding me,
I felt a breath of the old life come back and
inform the painted halls. Picture the scene.
'The pillars and pictures still firm,—the quiet
artist working among them as if he had always
lived there,—the owner's portrait all tranquil and
hospitable,—the homes of his neighbors on every
side,—Vesuvius, that had done the magic and
mummified for me this town of ancient Italy,
.sleeping behind me in the moonshine,-=was it in
conceivable that I felt the old civilization crys
talizing and shaping itself in my mind with the
strangest distinctness.? The furniture and uten
sils traveled back from the museums and placed
themselves 'once more against the vivid wails.
The. braceleted and jeweled skeletons were re
clothed upon with flesh, mantled with the glow
•of life, and draped with the stuffs whose tissues
printed themselves, nearly a score of centuries
since, upon their beds of ashes. That fair girl
meek from the Naples museum, that moulded the
•.---..f . ...t.(.ift).: . :' .. .''...':_ .. •.. -.. t.'''''.'..'.' . ..'..._ . .''7 : i,':.',1(t.'5*,,
image of. its innocence and beauty into the dull
mire so long ago; seemed to rise and .fall• beside
mc, hung with pearls that Looked like_dew in_ the
moon. I was on the verge of a tender sentiment
with a female who was a thousand years old at
the birth of my great-great-grandmOther.
And the houses around me were perfect, with
the odd exception of the roofs! Strange irony of
an intermeddling fate! It is the roof that baffles
our curiosity about our neighbors' affairs. But
for the roof the aeronaut would be the confidant
of all of us. When the romancer sends his hero
for instruction among the various phases of life,
it Is the roof that vanishes or becomes transparent
at the fairy's wand. In a conspiracy with our
impertinence, destiny has blown away the roofs
of this entire city, but has laid a finger on nothing
else. The volcano nods upon all the picture of
an old arrested life; upon its business, and feasts,
and worship; upon Its touching family scenes,
and upon niany a secret that the citizen meant to
guard forever, and which he would have con
cealed In an agony of shame from every eye; the
volcano nods upon its work, sleeping under the
moon and stare.
In the day when these drellings were covered,
the volcano was hung with kardena of the grape,
a sinewy and luxuriant vineyard from which
Spartacus had woven scaling-ladders when he
made the crater his fastness during the servile
war. Beneath and beside the tossing acres of
leaves and br aches stretched the flat acres of the
roofs that re •v are opened. Each roof was a
square frana vhich left exposed an uncovered
court and fo ,taro in the middle, like that which
collects the bowers in the place where lam
sitting. Sta, , ies, and porticos with
. gaudlly
painted columns surrounded the courts: and
there was the dining-porch, half open to the
day, with its crescent marble table and cushioned
beds of bronze: and there were the small, dim
offices and rooms of this old life clustered
around the square—the porter's cabinet,
the picture-gallery, the roll-room or
library, the room of archives, and the guest
chanbers, all strangely little and gloomy: So
much for the public and for sacred hospitality.
• Behind, if the master was wealthy, lay his harem,
surrounding its own proper garden, which was a
fanciful. tasteless bower of shell-work, statuettes,
mosaic fountains, and plants we can identify,
still by their embers. Meantime his whole street
front, except a most insignificant and narrow
entrance, was a crowded border of pigmy shops
surrounding the building as stores surround an
American hotel: such tiny booths all' :of them
that the tradesmen must have been forever
crowded to their own doorways or into the
street, Just as you find them in Naples to-day.
The grandest householder was not too fine to
vend his own oil and vintage by proxy in these
cells, which often communicate with the mansion
by interior passages.
Meantime the ladles could lounge, if the day
was fair, in their Own secluded back-garden.
When there was rain they must retire to their own
apartments, whiCh were surely _little mines of
ennui. But few pieces of furniture, and room for
but few. The Sultana,shivering in the dark closet,
might wearily re-arrange the curls of her wig, or
clean out the last of a rouge-pot, or review her
'elegant bratrelets and hairpins and fibula). When
she lifted lier idle eyes, they might encounter the
sullen espionage of the slave who abode in his
little cabinet at the entrance to prevent intrusion;
or, piercing the obscurity of the chamber, they
would light upon a far mote grateful figure—
some exquisitely poised stranger, some Mercury,
or Ganymede, or Iris, who had floated into the
room and settled in the centre of a panel with its
garlands still rosy and its 'robes eternally flutter
ing.
That was her tribute from the conquered Greek ;
the true legacy of Apace. The Pompeii frescoes
are far from being above criticism, but they
glow still from the -light hand that the Greek
had, and was able to pass to no one else.
Pompeii possesses of the ancient p,ictorial art,
the unique collection of the world.' Some have
gone into raptures over their beauty. In the
seventeenth century when, s.pechnens were rare,
a certain • Roman painting, now placed in the
Vatican library, and called the Nozze A klobrandini,
aroused the warmest enthusiasm in Ponesin, then
sojourning in the Eternal City; ho praised it as a
thing priceless, made a large and careful copy
with his own hand, and strengthened from it the
classical tendency of his genius. The similar
relics at - Pompeii have in our day Suffered
the deterioration of abundance; as they
became cheaper they were slighted, and
it is usual now to regard them as an an
tique form of paper-hangings'. They are
not nearly so low as that., but may be compared
to the lithographs and mezzotints with which a
citizen of our day adorns his parlor. They have
usually a manufactured air, as of copies multi
plied with facility from popular originals. A
discrepancy often appears between the 'prentiee
touch and the masterly conception. The design
is generally more free than accurate, telling of
the knack of the artist who had drawn the same
things forever. Considerable evidence remains
to point to a race of female artists as partial
paling in this trade of mural decoration. The
tints are always laid on lint and distinct.—a mo
saic of shades. This method, though the oppo
site of that practiced in the renaissance of Italian
art, has taught its manly trick to some of the
best contemporary painters—from 3leissonier,
who employs it on miniatures the size of his
hand, to Couture, who uses this vory Roman art
to point his moral in that withering picture, the
Orgie Romaine. ENFAtiT PERIM.
THE HOLY LAND EXCURSIONISTS.
The Italians Very Suspicious of the
Iteligions-Minded Americans—They
are elated 'Under close Watch at
Leghorn.--Taken for Garlbaldians.
NAPLES, Aug. 1 1867.—During the whole of
last week while the American excursion steamer
Quaker City lay at Leghorn, a government gun
boat was anchored close by, and a vigilant watch
was kept upon her.
Victor Emmanuel's people refused to believe„
that the excursionists were other than Garibaldian .
conspirators, with the darkest designs hidden in
their breasts. When any of the pleasure-seekers
had occasion to return to the ship after nightfall,
they were faithfully followed by the police boats,
and on one occasion the executive officer of the
ship, Captain Bursley, and several passengerS,
narrowly escaped arrest.
The excursionists will be attentively watched in
Rome.
The Crops and Weather at the South.
Monimc, Aug. 19.—01 d factors here who are in
correspondence with most of the cotton States,
put dowd the crop of the present year at .from
two and a half to two and three-quarter millions
of bales. The Alabama crop is doing finely. The;
receipts of cotton at this port during the coming
year (out of the new crop) are estimated at four
hundred thousand bales.
The grain crop of the South this year will be
more than, sufficient for its wants.
OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY.
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1867.
THE CUBAtc,
The Trip of tfiC"bitritia oni Tfavain a
to ey Weut..Laying the Cable...lie.
ceptton at Chorrera.. Ihe Return to
Is ey ‘Vest-..Parting of the Cable..
Grappling; to Pieces er l t--no Success
--Certainty of the Cable Being Laid..
The Compttny Protected from Loss.
[From to- day , sti. Y. Herald.]
CARLE STEAMSHIP NARVA, OFF KEY WEST.
Florida, Aug. t, 1867.—1 regret to say that I am
not In it position as yet to announce the annexa
tion of Isabel's "ever faithful isle" to the United
', States by means of the electric telegraph, owing
' to an accident that occurred in drawing in the
slack to make the splice. I will, however, give
you a detailed statement of our operations for
the steamer that leaves Key West on Sunday or
Monday, with the hope that by the time it
reaches you I will have announced by telegraph,
that the lost cable has been found and the 'Thee
effected.
The steamship Narva, of Norwood's Bartle
Line of steamships, Captain Dowell. R. N. R.,
commanding, bearing the cable, arrived off Ha
vana on the morning of the 26th ultimo. but did
not enter the harbor owing to the prevalence of
yellow fever. General Smith, President; Vice
President Nenninger; Senor Arantave, Inspector
of Cuban Telegraphs; Mr. Everett, Engineer of
the Telegraph Company, and your special corres
pondent went off on the tug Union , and the same
evening the Narva sailed for Key West, where
she arrived at daylight on the 27th, as already
announced by telegraph in a special sent, by way
of Punta Rosa.
The Narva was about twenty-six days making
the trip from England. She is an iron vessel of
large tonage, built more with a view to capacity
than speed, and is admirably suited for the service
in which she is now engaged, - being very steady
under steam, and she rides a heavy sea without
much motion. Her officers are Captain Dowell,
H. N. B.; Messrs. Nesbett and Watson, mates;
Mr. Turner, engineer; Dr. Dunlap, surgeon, and
Mr. Charles Williams, pilot. She has a double
supply of men and nineteen cable hands. As she
has been chartered for this service the vessel is
under the direct orders of engineer Webb, who
represents the contractors.
'An entire week was consumed in erecting the
gear for paying out the cable. Fears were enter
tained that a longer delay would result, as very
stringent quarantine regulations had been estab
lished at Kt,' West by the military authorities.
But General Smith obtained from General Pope,
commanding the district, an order-excepting the
vessel from the quarantine regulations, and on
.Saturday morning, August 8, at daylight, the
Narva steamed out to a buoy five-eighths of a
mile from the island, accompanied by the United
States war steamer Tahoma, Captain Stanton,
and the light-house steamer Fountain, Cap
tain Dove. The Spanish man-of war
Francisco de Asis, Captain Montenegro,- bearing
Commodore Alvarado, Captain Polo, of the port
of Havana, Vice President Nenninger, and a
commission representing the Spanish Telegraph
Company, arrived on the previous Thursday, and
followed the telegraph fleet out to witness the
laying of the Key Weet end of the cable. At
half past 6A. M. the Narva commenced paying
out the large shore end, that bad been coiled
upon a lighter. A warp line was soon run as
hose from the Nerve, which lay off five-eighths of
a mile,
and was made, fast. ' The lighter was
started ashore at twenty-flve minutes past 11,
and'at one P. M. It was landed, and communica
tion had.by signals between the telegraph houses
and the ship at twenty-five minutes past 2. '
The fleet remained at anchor.tintil the meming
of the 4th, when the Narva sailed at half-past six,
paying out the cable at the rate of about threu,
and-a-half milesper hour. At serenteen infants'
past twelve P. H. she attached the cable to the
“nun" buoy, and let go twenty and ahalf miles
from shore._ The afternoon was consumed in
placing buoys to mark the cable end, which con
sisted of seven miles of large, twelve-and-a-half of
medium and one of deep sea.
The Narva, proCeeded by the Francisco de Asis
and followed jay the Tahoma, arrived off Havana
at daylighT4 the 75th, and, after a few hours'
May in an aging preliminaries, fell down to
Chorrera, the point selected for the Cuban end,
four miles west of Havana, where a small inlet
puts in about five hundred meters, and upon
which stands the old Spanish castle of the Torreon.
The point is well chosen for the reception and
preservation of the cable. , The depth of* water
near the shore is from nine fathoms to two hurt
died and five at one mile distant, and one thou
sand at less than fifteen miles, when it gradually
slopes until it finally reaches the Sand Key light
bearings.
Only a single wire now connects Havana with
Chorrera, but the company contemplate putting
down a subterranean wire two feet in the Solid
rocky formation, which will enable them to
work in all weather:and give them an entire sub-
marine and subterranean line from , . Cuba to
Punta Rosa. not subject to atmospheric influen
ces, and proof against rain, lightning and
thunder, which in this part of the country is very
frequent and severe.
At half-past ten we anchored off Chorrera,
half a mile distant, and in a very few minutes the
indefatigable captain of the port, Jose Polo de
Bernabe, late commandant of tile frigate Carmen,
was alongside in his tug to proffer assistance in
the work of landing. A consultation was had
with Mr. Webb, Captain' Polo departed for Ha
vana,, the decks of the Narva were stripped for
action, and by noon everything was ready. Half
an hour after Captain Polo came steaming
out under the royal standard, accompanied by
a flotilla of ten launches and boats' crews
in tow. As they eased up by the Narva and the
neatly dressed tars of Spain rested upon their
oars, exclamations of adiniration were heard
upon every side. Astern of us frowned the old
castle of Torreon, standing boldly out in the
foreground, while in the background rose the
casas of the creoles, decked with bunting, upon
wing). were displayed appropriate mottoes in
honor of the enterprise. Strange to say, in
honor of an 'international work of • this
kind, the Stars and Stripes were nowhere
visible. At this early stage of the work,
hundreds of the inhabitants of Havana and Cho
%sera lined the shore, while the road leading from
the city was dotted by elegant equipage's, hacks
and volatile, and silver studded liveries, heading
for the telegraph house. Several steamers made
excursion trips from Havana at $2 per person,
and steamed around the Narva. The bay per
haps never before presented so gay an appear
ance, and the Cubans certainly gratified their cu
riosity, as far es outside work was concerned.
None werendruitted to the decks of the vessel.
A few minutes before one the warp line was
run ashore and made fast, the cable was coiled
into one of the launches, and at half-past three
P. M, it left the 'ship in tow of Captain Polo's
boats, Messrs. Webb, Pearce and Polo accompany
ing it in a gig. Then the energy of Captain Polo
and his men was exhibited,and the sailors seemed
to partake of the enthusiasm of the spectators on
shore, as they pulled the heavy coil ashore and
placed the end, at -half-past five, inside the inclo
sure, which was guarded by an ardent police.
Just before the landing of the cable the Captain
General arrived, and shortly after the Governor
Politico, the Director General de Administration,
and civic authorities, who were admitted within'
the inclosure, as well as many of the ladies of
aristocratic families. The cable was placed in a
trench connected withthe telegraph station, and
at half-past six communication was had with the
ship through the entire length of the cable.
Mr. Donovan remained on shore to test the
insulation with Mr. Crookes, who presided in
the electric room of the Narva,and the ceremony
of landing the ; cable having terminated, the
crowd dispersed, the fleet of sail,steam and oared
boats departed,and the cable.fleet alone remained
at anahor.
Mr. Webb intended to start at once for the
buoys off Key West, but tile receiving instrument,
being out of order, it was impossible to. test the
insulation: He consequently remained until
next evening, with the view„ of paying out the
cable at night,and making the splice by daylight.
The instrument was soon repairqd aud during Mo.
evening McMrs. Donovan and Crookes chatted
through the cable. •
The evening was spent in examining the charts
and soundings. On board the Nava an excelleng
dinner was served up in the evening, in which,
Captain Polo, Prince Hereditarie Alberto de
Monaco, of Italy, Maj. McFarland, of the United
States army, Senor Arantave, and sonic Spanish
racers joined us in drinking success to the un
dertaking.
At Id-past four o'clock on the morning of the
Ctb, Mr. Webb's men stood by the cable, the
Neff° movecrotr, slowly tightening up the slack,
and gradually increasing her speed to two knots.
At four o'clock and fifty minutes the large size
went over the stern sheave and the medium size
commenced, the vessel Increasing her speed
slightly. Everything went on smoothly, and we
were all in the best of spirits, when, at half-past
five, one of the five turns of cable round
the cylinder was pushed over the others
by a disarrangement of the guiding plow,
and for a mortient alarm took possession of the
uninitiated spectators lest the sudden strain
should part the cable. Webb, ever on the qui vice
_instantly gave his orders, the engineer applie;l
his lever, and the shin obeyed like a "thing of
life" and reversed, when we all breathed freer.
The critical moment had passed and the machi
nery and ship were under thorough control. A
few minutes only were required to readjust the
plow, and we again started at the rate of one
knot. At twenty minutes to six P. M. the me
dium size ended, and the deep sea cable came
bearing down the cylinder at a rapid rate as the
Narva increased her speed gradually to three,
four and finally to five knots.
The Tahoma, with General Smith on board,
left us early in the evening to go to the Nun buoy
as a pilot for the Narva. The Francisco re
mained by us. During the entire night the cable
ran out finely at an average of about four and a
half knots.but the lights of the Tahoma were lost
sight of, and as Mr. Webb was under the impres
sion that an easterly current was driving the
vessel to the westward, he deemed it advisable
to change her course more to the east. At half
past six A. M. on the 7th about eighty-one miles
of cable had been paid out,, and there were no
signs of the buoy, Sand Key, or the Tahoma.
As the distance was about seventy-four miles
from Chorrera to the buoys, and we had run fully
that many miles, eta quarter past ten the Narva
stopped and the Francisco was consulted as to
the bearings. It was evident we had sailed too
far eastward. We lay-to in a pouring rain that
made it impossible to see aynile ahead until noon.
In the meantime it was found that there was not
a sufficiency of Cuba cable to reach our buoys,
and it was spliced to the Punta Rosa
cable. About noon we signalled the
British steamship Alice, of Liverpool, for
her bearings. She left her course, ran up beside
us and gave us the bearings, from which it ap
peared we had \ steamed many miles off our
course. Turning to west northwest by west, at
a quarter past twelve P. M.,we again commenced
paying out the cable. At a quarter-past three
sighted the Tahoma, and at five reached the
buoys, making the trip in twenty-four hours and
twenty-five minutes from Chorrera, or twenty
hours and twenty minutes under steam. Prepara
tions were at once made to make the splice. The
vessel was reduced to slow rate of speed,and a long
detour of about a mile made to the left of the
Nun buoy, to which the Key West end was at
tached. The Nerve then changed her course and
steamed back toward the Nun for the purpose of
drawing in the slack, and during this operation
the cable parted balf a mile from the vessel, as
was discovered when the broken piece was drawn
in. This occurred at half-past seven. Opinions are
divided as to the eanee of the break, but ills more
than probable that it was caused by the cable com
ing against some obstruction, as the half circle
was being contracted by tke power from the
vessel, and had the slack been drawn in on a
straight line the accident would not likely have
occurred. There was a pretty stiff breeze at the
time,blowing at right angles to the current, and the
vessel could not lay to when the obstruction was
encountered. The high wind made it impossible
to grapple that night, and the Narva ran us near
shore for anchorage.
THE DOMINION OF CANADA.
Election Agitation of the Irish and
ulieds”..-4Fell. Davis on a Solitary
Promenade—Care for Ills Daughter's
InlormotAgainst Sur
ratt. ""
MONTREAL August 17,1867.—1 went to a rouge
meeting here'lastnight. Monsieur Meddric Lane
tot, the prominent rouge candidate to represent
Montreal as against Cartier;having returned from
a tour to New York, received a perfect ovation
from Young Canada, and Yqpng Ireland com
bined on the occasion to escofillhim through the
streets in a carriage ,. decked with bouquets- and
drawn
were in regular Irish style. Ir. LanetOt t s
opponents-in the press had circulated the report
that his / Visit to New York was solely to get his
pockets filled with gold and greenbacks—though
be certainly couldn t have picked 'cm up 'So in
Wall street—in order to influence the elections in
an annexation sense. It was on account of this
report that the meeting was held, speeches being
made in French and English—l had almost said
in Irish, so many of these were present. The
orators, though inexperienced in the stumping
art, made aver) , good bout of it, duly convicted
their "calumniators," and uttered some very sen
sible views, standing as they do on a
platform of common sense and justice,
as opposed to that of ignorance, blind fanati
cism, aristocratic intrigue and fraud. I find that
the papers this morning call Lanctot "a little
demago ," and lay great stress on their con
victions at our citizens will not so stultify
themselves elect him." But from the fact that
they besto many columns upon him I conclude
that they really look upon him as being some
where in the race. Indeed, I gather on good
authority that he stands a good chance of elec
tion, as Cartier is universally regarded as being
too much of. a eider with the Britishers, and is,
consequently, called a traitor to his French
nationality. They • say "he regrets not being a
thoroughbred John Bull, fauoris-cotelette and all."
The papers this morning aro also taken up
with Mr. McGee's revelations upon Fenianiann_
but, from their looks, it would seem they could-.
not possibly do much damage to the celebrated
confraternity.
I witnessed a somewhat curious sight yester
day. I saw Jeff. Davis walking all alone in
Notre Dame street, tend immediately recognized
him, though he seemed to be at that point of the
street incognito to the passers. He was dressed
in a black suit—he has.a very neat, tidy appear
ance always—wearing a felt hat, broad brimmed,
Southern fashion, and carries a cane. But this,
be, it said en passant, he did not appear to need
at all; for he walked perfectly erect, And with a
very dignified step, diagonally across the little
square in front of the cathedral, -and entered
Little St. James street. Before he had gotten
through the square, however, ho was recognized,
and after he had entered the street'quite a crowd
gathered at its entrance. All eyes wore strained
to catch a good long glimpse of the perambulating
celebrity until he had passed two long squares
and out of view. Several remarks were made by
members of the crowd; but there was no noise
or other demonstration, and Mr. Davis walked
on entirely unconscious of the assemblage so
quickly gathered in his wake to stare at him.
It was quite droll. "And that's Jeff. Davis."
"Where's lie putting up?" "At a private house."
"Where is he going now?" "He's walking out
for exercise or going to pay somebody a call."
"How straight he looks."llls.hair itt yet quite
dark behind," &c. •
The other day,' met a little girl who is au
intimate of the :Saerd Cmur Convent, and who is '
now passing her vacation outrAde Its walls.
Chatting; away; in a very lively way, she re
marked that she knew Miss Davis at the. Con
vent; that "she wanted to inai.e herself Catholic,.
hut-Monsigur Jeffen3sonn Do' viz came And took
her away:" It la true thetAb e -.child wats t a ken
away and Matto bir's ! Gkedon's sellool, although,
I would not vouch for the cause alleged for such
a Course; more especially as it would have really
been poor return for all the good offices and
sympatl&ing,friendship received at the bawls
and hearts of,l'ope, Cardinal, and the rest 415 f
Catholiedom.
St. Marie, the discoverer of Surratt, Is here,
dressed as fine as a fiddle, and promenading with
a huge revolver slung around his waist. Proba
bly he is on the lookout for Surratt's deliverance
from jail; for It is reported that his fears are
tolerably lively on that point. He displays im
mense handfuls of gold on entering the stores
and bar-rooms, as I hear, but is everywhere
despised in the clty.4—N. V. Herald.
THE LOSS OF THE SACRAMENTO.
Additional Reports of the Disaster....
?he Men at Sea on a Raft•. Sufferings
and Relief... Bravery of a Colored
Allttn....Naines of the kermess Saved.
[From today's N.Y. ilorald.l
MADRAS, India, June 21, 1867.—Being a pas
senger on the steamship Arabia, from Calcutta to
Madras, I send you these few particulars of the
loss of the Sacramento:
We coalled at Coeonada'and proceeded on our
voyage, when we fell in with some of the crow of
the Sacramento. Most of them were on a raft
and some of them were in a boat. The waythey
got drifted out to sea was as follows : It had
commenced to blow fresh and the tide had
turned. This raft carried most of the men on
shore. When they were drifted out to sea they
were all on this raft. One of the ship's boats
drifted near them, and one of the men swam off
to her and made her fast to the raft, which light
ened the latter a good deal, so the boat acted as
convoy to the raft.
The poor fellows were glad when they sew us..
When we came up to them-we stopped the engine
of the Arabia and they gave us three rousing
cheers; I myself returning the compliment
warmly. The poor fellows had suffered severely
from bruises. A good many were washed, off the
raft and would have been L. owned, only for a
colored man that swam off to them, fetched
them back and saved them. He ie a very good
man. He was the last man in the. boat when we
hoisted her up to the davits of the steamer. The
'men speak well of their captain. He was the
right man in the right place. He refusdd to
leave the ship. I never saw a better sample of
men on any ship than the men we picked ap.
They never lost their discipline. When the
boatswain piped the Sacramento crew on the
port side, they all obeyed the order at once.
I took quite an interest In the men and. their
country too. I have lived some time in, the new
British Kingdom or Dominion, in that line and
religious town they call Montreal. I incloso you,
from a Madras paper, a list of the names of the
men taken from the raft, with the Journal's
report of the loss of the Sacramento, as follows:
Intelligence has been received at Madras of.a
mishap to the United States war steamer Sacra
mento on her voyage from Madras to Calcutta, .
-which was communicated to the Marine official at
this port by the Master attendant at Coconada on
Friday last. The Bacramen to was proweding.from.
Madras to Calcutta, by way of Coeonada,where
she was to have called for coals but unfortunately '
went on chore 18 miles south of Hope Islam}, and'
has now become a total wreck. The British India
Steam-Navigation Company steamer Ambla,Com
mender RIX lantinc, on her voyage from Calcutta.
to Madras, picked up on the evening of the. 21st
June at 6.30 P. M. (lope Island light-house
bearing W. N. W.,distant ten miles), a cutter and
a raft belonging to the. Sacramento, on board of
which were the following officers and men :--
Lieutenant Commanding George M. Bache;
First Lieutenant of Marines, Henry A. Bartlett;
Assistant Surgeon, P. Babcock; First Aseistant,
Engineer, IL Able; Second Assistant Engineer
Fred. L. Millar;' Third Assistant Engineer. R. D.
Taylor; 3lidshipman Murray 8.. Day; Captain's
Clerk. Howard Walker; Pay Clerk, J. S. Stim
eon; Sailmaker, J. Bradford; the Master at Arms;
the Parser's Steward; seven firemen; three sea
men; seven marines; in all twenty-nine souls.
t , The raft and cutter left the wrecked steamer
about thirty-six. hours previous, and had been
without water or food; they were taken to Co
conada and put on board an American vessel
lying in the Roads. The commander of the Sac
ramento is safe at Coconada, and other parties
are reported to have left the steamer 'on rafts,
but whether they have been saved or not, is un
known.
TENNESSEE.
The New Delegation to Congress.
NASIIVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 9, 1807.—Gov. Brown
low's majority will approximate 50,000. We send
a full Radical delegation to Congress. The Legis
lature elected is overwhelmingly Radical. Not
one Conservative in the Senate and three or four
in the House; and, of course a Radical—probably
General W. B. Stokes-,will be elected to fill the
*ace now not very creditably oceuPled by Mr.
Patterson, son-In-law of the President. With the
members of'Congress returned by this election,
Messrs. Maynard, Arnell and Stokes, the
public are well acquainted. Of the
new members John Trimble is by far
the ablest. He belongs to the aristocracy of the
South, is a man of liberal culture, high social po
sition, and of considerable wealth. He is deeply
read in German philosophy, cherishes the most
liberal views of society and religion, and is re
barded as a "philosopher." He made some very
itter speeches during the canvass, but his nature
is generous, and it is hoped that in his present
high position, all classes of his fellow-citizens—
not excepting the late rebels—will share the be
nefits of his moderate counsels. James Mullins,
of the Vth District is a most singular man, and
he will make numerous sensations In Congress.
Of his sterling devotion to the
Union and the Radical party no one
ever entertained a doubt. This is his
chief merit. He is about 50 years. of age has
the appearance of a hard-working blacksmith, is
a terribly earnest man, pays no more regard to
critical English than to criticizing Rebels, and
speaks on all occasions, and during all the time
allowed. All the boys say: "Hurrah for Mullins!"
D. A. Nunn, of the Vint& Distriet,who takes the
place of Leftwich, is a plausible, courteous, sen
sible young man—a lawyer by profession. He
will make a good, quiet representative. R. R.
Butler of the Ist District, is tall, lean, gray-eyed,
cold, and Scotch-looking. On the whole, our
delegation to Congress will be talented, respecta- '
ble, and interesting.-t-N. Y. Tribune.
MEXICO.
The Executions at San Jacinto, Pue-
bla and Other Places.
[Orizaba (July 2) Corrmondenee of the New (Meant.
- acayanc..l
Since the Ist of March last have been shbt at
San Jacinto, Puebla and other places north, Im
perial officers, prisoners of war, to the number of
two hundred. This does not include the exe
cutions at Queretaro and the capital. At
these places were captured fire hundred officers.
There is yet no published list of those who lately
fell. Fourteen Generals fell into Liberal hands
at Queretaro. How many of these have been
shot is not known, but all will be. The public
know of the Emperor's death, and of the death
of Mlramon, Mejia,Mendez, Costa, and seven
other Generals. Cabinet officers have also been
executed. In the capital the record is not yet
made up It is only {mown that a course simi
lar to that of Puebla has been pursued. 'The
same General commands. To give some blea of
the proceedingh in these places it will o.my. he
necessary to State that Gen. Diaz entered 'she cap
ital at 9 in the morning, and at 3 in t:ne after
noon the Minister of Justice, Tares, ar 4 d another
one of the Ministers of Maximilian., were shot.
No General escapes, but few ,Col,dueir,, 11 0 civir
Officer of note, and those who anrnot s h u t su ff er
n from imprl onment fro two to six sears. Captains
ri t so n n o fioerostwthoanyesao I .l3l %perial officers. pris
rs It. would bo safe to
g s t o o e
state
soners' of war, French, A:ustrian, Belgian and
Mexican, have been shot Unce the first ofltfarch,
and the work goes 0 , ,A yet. The butchery has
been indiscriminate in, many ,places; in Puebla
not one wa§eparcql,,, , - .. !
F. L. 'ammonia ramisitar.
PRICE THREE 'CENT'S?
FACTS ANIP FANCIEST'
—King Alfred's old bonen , liarvir bees►_. raked Opt
—The English drama is nor a enema in Payter.,
—The 'faller' Admiral PC7l3llllO' in reported bp
sane.
-14fra. Jeff. 13a119 has arrived far Richmond!
from New Oricanik.
—The late Wllliarce.E: Aytoutr Wits - r Viz ugliest
man in Scotland.
—f,. N. and Engdik went Ca' see' Sothern
play Dtmdreary.
—The Swiss. government Has' andett. 15,900
Peabody runes. „ •
—Mr. Jones went to sler.p.►'on a alitdble sill its
Cleveland, fell to the • grout d,•and 16avotr, oink in
teresting widow.-•
.
—Austria smoked a thotaand miflon egroim
last year. .
—lirkmoli gives choice ulionvroni broakflustit 4 at
Long /Thumb.
—Denver papers Inv WI • indiserinsinallb'
slaughter of the Indians.
—A dancer in fit Petbrsliumy was presental
with a bouquet that Wed an enidro carriage:
—Modesty is like a sober fiewtr," says CM Lon--
don Fsa; it takes no more than
—The Queen of Wurtembuir r has' gone tar
Ostend for the Ostendsible objeevof'sea-bataing.
—The Liberals say Maximilian did 'not. die
gatre—that he broke down entirely^ Net before
he was shot down—
—A New York paper publisherthe fact Watt:
Queen Victoria's feet are large and -darner She -
should use them upon the writer.
—Children who "from their age are , incapable
of appreciating the talent of artists"' are not ad
mitted into Paris theatres.
—Mr. Arthur Skctchley will sail fronaLiverpoot
In the Persia about the end of this month.. He is
a very poor humorist.
—Madame Ristori has, through the E'belety for
the Encouragement of Dramatic Art "at• Florence,
offered a prize for the best comedy.
—Agassiz read a paper at Hartford on "The
Circulation of Blood In the Skate." The mac
roles of the skate say it stops the clreuPation of
the blood
—A servant girl, living in a family .near Liver
pool, has unexpectedly come into a fortune of
£200,000 by the death of a relative itim:te of the
colonies.
—A dealer in forage bag been murdered in.
Paris by a butcher, who dismembered the body -
and threw the limbs int& the Seine. The •sue-.
petted party has been arrested.
—Albert Edward is going to Baden-Baden for •
the races (groans from Exeter Hall) and will be the
guest of the, Duchess of Hamilton (more groans,
and cries "He is a bad 'tin himself").—N.Y.World.,
—Ex-Glov. Buckingham. of Connecticut has -
paid one-half the cost of a $P3,000 church build
ing at Buckingham. Tama county, rOW9r, beside
giving a fine carpet And Bible. So much - for •
Buckingham.
—Here ig rather a good little French COIH111.: •
drinn : Qttette difference y entre lalirenlikiti
lettre dune *Liao et eon clocheri ' 1 4 a ,pniniihre •
lettre d'unoeglige est tine yoyelle; et son cloolter,..
vane eaves, c'eat la glean some !
•
• --- 31188 Lotta is playlag h 4 Nem' York in •a, Ter--
'sion of "The Old Cariosity shop," written tor ,
ter by. John Brongharn. she takes the part ,of
both Little Net and The Marchioness, and, in'the
atter character has the audacity to introduce' a
banjo solo. Quite a Lot o' characters. • •
—There is a plum of entertahunent in that:
Cl limps Elys4e, Bar* on_whlcityoanuty jeati
in large capitals, without
_punctuation; thew*
words, "Cafe English Spoken Here." "Cafe Rum.
glish" Is a good name for the sort of language yqa
get with your Mocha.
—An elegantly dressed lady, evidently a Span
ish woman, is attracting attention by promennt- •
ing Broadway without any bonnet. Can't inuk
gine why she attracts attention. There hasn't
been a bonnet (worth speaking of) seen on Chest
nut street, for a year. •
—The Cologne Gazette, received in Pala on the,
31st ult., contains a column and a half intlanit.
There must be something in the German edition,.
which the editor knew would have occasicuied 111.
seizure at the French frontier, antithereforti
special edition was prepared for French readers
-Some . 360 converts recently left Wales ..and.
Scotland for Utah. ' The ladies are described as
healthy, ruddy and buxom, and they bring 'stew
seven thousand dollars in money with theta- A
'They may be ruddy now, but they will soon lose
their old complexions and assume a no homy'
off. (An Utahny one T , welygp to explain.) , ,
—The Freedmen's Relief Association in•.thls
city received, the other day, the following..com- -
position from a freedman in one of their..schoola
in the South, He has known his letters but. a .
few months i "I was jest satin.doun diamonds:4c_
. thinking I would make a big man or heakut7. : -..
head studying, for no man do not know . hOlSSlssati
I *ant to lure but me and God."
—ln a recent number of- the N. Y. Lferatd the
editor reminds the public that President Lincoln
tendered him the mission to France. Au..old,
Roman maxim declares that "we should ,say.
nothing but what is good of the dead,P but how,
we should like to know, could Bennett say a
worse thing of the departed President P—Bostms
Post. •
—A bottle was recently , picked • up. on. the
English boast which contained a slip of paper
with the following written on it : "Dear friends,
our ship is just going , down. We are..ort, the
Boston Band Deep. Our ship is the Grenadier o
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Whoever Ws re
turn it to 21 (illegible) street. Gateshead.; Good
bye, and God bless you on laid."' '
—The Genoese Gazette says: "A few.days -back
person bathing between Verniglitino andBestri;
in the Gulf of Genoa, was seized by a large-pbly.-
pus, and the creature so interlaced its-nneiterotes
tentacles around lurn, tliat he
spite of all his efforts, to free, hirase4 mi., watt.,
dragged under water and drowned. lioM,ot.thtt
other bathers ventured to go to hisasidattuice,o
. ,
-3'renelt local papers give a, =law 312001141 t
the result of sinking an, artesian the 04 4
partnient of _Hide, near, Narbonne. , liihan:.the.
depth of 180 feet had. been attainediatatream.df
carburetted hydrogen gas rushed , 136,0 g • og l e,
which, being lighted, has ennthiltiMil• tO • tbao l .
steadily with a red. dame. Ataug wath.tbul_
water flows, which is stated•to.taa-extroWAY
,
bitter and cold.
—The :tendon:: to very saretestioi Lerd,
Stanley's refusal,to send :in exptdiOon to. Mufti,
shale. The Frozmeh•paper points, out how coin-.
pletely Lord Ealmeraton's policy, has been. abaft
doped, and says: "Theadorus lea great mcoaareh
and hencefoblia EngHallam' who, m the isiteresta.
of:science and humanity, unture , among thee&
barbariansotrost realtion only upon,Godiend,tinun,
selves, for Lord Pabaerstou is dead."
—The day boat from. A:bany to. Ne IV/ xork,
Wednesday last, carried the ex-robaliGenerals.
Beauregara and Magruder among her passenKars.,
They incited considerable attention. litia nelaMidt
by a passenger that Magruder applied, to .
denten who was quietly smoking bin cigar, fop*,
light, for ; hie own, but was rebuketawltN. !KKon:11,
have to excuse met I lost two kNaPa,bY 4
t# 1-
fernal rebellion, and hallo sworn , o have
friendly intercourse with any mitt Whet' took wil
ling lot or part in your treason: o, e •
- horrible secident 'llloy ooeurredinFng
land on the Bristol and Exeter Railroad. A young
gentleman and his safe entered a compartment r
In which there were no other passengets,
roused by shortly alter the train had started were rOUStla,bY
a crash of glass ; and' beheld the 41004 face " a
dead man, ., wh ich' ha 4 been violently foteed
through the plate KISH{ of the window of the
carriage, while his body was hanging enfold°.
When the train stopped at the next station It.
WRB discovered that its guard had left : Wa.b°_xi.
and, standing , our. the top of the carrtage, , '111142
been watching the gentleman and his We; and
that, passing under a bridge; he had s cup shtick
by the side o f the arch and (Tutted tO, dettAr,,