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THE ISLES OF SHOALS.
Teller from John Quill. ,
Perch Fishing In tho Burf~A Tough
\lnrn-Tho Appeldore Reveille—Tho.
Dlount D,sert DixnHter—The Skipper
Culled John—Cod Fishing—Cruelty to
Dumb Animals—A Tribute to Nep-
tune. ,
[Correspondence ot tbo Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
Appkldobe Island, July 25,1868.— The visitor
to these Islands who has an unreliable stomach
that Is susceptible to sea-sickness, finds it ad
visable to confine his piscatorial operations to
the immediate vicinity of the shore. Here, with
very little effort, he can have such luck as wonld
secure for him at home a Waltonian reputation,
although the inhabitants hereof are apt to think
very poorly of the nenal results.
Tbe islands aro of voleanieformation, evident
ly, and their edges are ragged with wild masses
of granite rocks, which the fierce unceasing ac
tion of the sea has worn away so that on every
side there are miniature bays; long alleys up
which the water rushes and retreats with the
re gularity of clock work; precipices seamed and
gashed by volcanic heat, and tho after action of
tbe surf for centuries; short stretches of peb
bly beach, and . snug little covbs, wherein a fleet
of tiny boats fnight ride at anchor in the wildest
storm. Along these shores, close in upon the
rocks, sea perch can be caught by millions,and the
timid angler need do nothing more than climb
over a ,few immense boulders, and seating himself
upon a preluding rock, use his rod and line to
betler advantage than ever before in his life. The
perch ore from ten to fifteen inches long, of a
dark brown color, and will weigh from half a
pound to a pound and a half. The best plan,
however, is to fish from a boat, and for this pur
pose we pressed into service tho immortal “ Un
cle Billy,” who Is the bold navigator of one of the
most ancient, unseaworthy, ricketty, seml-de
caycd, dilapidated and generally insecure old
row-boats that ever floated upon the bounding
billows. With this craft, and an anchor com
posed of a stone affixed to the thinnest twine I
ever saw off of a sewing-spool, Uncle
Billy would paddle to within a few feet of
the spot where the surf breaks upon, the roekß,
nDd after heaving his anchor, would prepare for
sport. 1
WiUiaih is a character in bisway. He was bom
and bred—if bred at ah—among these islands
and although his ideas are original and brilliant
enough, his experience -of this wide world is ex
tremely limited. Of course, we furnished him
with a great deal of information, and whenever
anything of a surprising character was compre
hended by his venerable intellect, hjs eyes would
open wide for a minute or two, and he would
slowly ejaculate,
“Waal now ! I j-ust want to kneow!”
While he was cracking the clams with his teeth
and dragging tho miserable shell fish from its
skeleton preparatory to baiting the hooks, I re
galed him with the story of a fishing exploit in
which I once figured.
“ Uncle Billy, talking about fishing, would you
believe it, that once down at Cape May, I had a
bite and pulled up to find a perch on the lino.
Before I got him more than half out of tho wa
ter, a mackerel jumped up and swallowed him.
I pulled on the mackerel, and before I gave him
a second jerk a codfish took him at a gulp. I
thought I had the cod certain, but a sturgeon
swallowed him, and I hadn't more than got his
gills above the surface before a shark ate him at
a bite, and a whale did try to swallow the shark,
but I was too quick for him and got the whole
mess safe in the boat.”
Uncle Billy bit a elam shell In half, replaced his
quid and gently drawled: —
" Waal now ! I j-nst want to kneow!”
But he believed it and seemed almost ashamed
to let me catch perch after such an experience.
Close by the side of ns was a Sheer wall of rock
which rose ud ont of the sea rugged and bare, ex
cepting where the sea-weed had clung to th e
crevices. Against this the heavy surf rolled with
a thundering noise, and the waves with wonder
ful tenacity seemed to hug it close and creep up
its face until the long swell recoded, and the
water came pouring down in thousands of minia
ture cascades of surpassing gracefulness and
beauty, dashing the Bpray all over us. But it was
3 glorious place for fishing. No sooner were the
lines overboard than there were vigorous, hungry
bites, and in an instant the shining fish were
floundering about in the boat, and Uncle Billy
had a fresh clam between his teeth ready for the
hook. We counted our spoils by the dozen, and
when we tired, it was worth more than the sport
of angling, to lean over the side of the
boat on the way home, and gaze away down into
'the transparent depths of the ocean, and see, fa
thoms below ns, the curiously shaped s%a-weed
tangled in rich luxurious growth, like the rank
foliage ef a jungle, and to see lying there su
pinely, monstrous lobsters, vividly green in the
emerald water, great lazy crabs, purple and gold
jelly-fish, and to watch the brown-backed perch
and scarlet bream darting away from the plash of
the oars. To a man who had fished only in the
muddy sea off the Jersey coast, this clear, pellu
cid water and its myriad forms of .animal and
vegetable life, was a marvel, and it has not lost
its strange attractiveness by our familiarity
with it.
But perch fishing is not considered sport here.
To the islander, eod and mackerel are the only
fish worth taking, so we determined to undertake
an expedition in search of the former.
It is best to start early in the morning, and as
they are somewhat primitive here, not to say
romantic, it need not seem snrprising that the
jolly landlord wakes his guests with numerous
prolonged and melancholy blasts upon a bngle.
Yon turn over three or four times In bed, have a’
nightmare in which you think you are being
serenaded by a band of demons who are vainly
trying to play a combination of the Dead March
from Saul and Le Sabre demon Pere, then yon
dream yon ore at the opera, and the orchestra
has been Bmitten with sudden madness, and at
last, jnst as a bald headed maniac is trying to blow
ont your brains with the trombone, yon wake to
reality and try to induce the landlord to play the
balance of the score in minim rests.
On the morning In question, we proceeded to
an early breakfast, at which we were attended by
a British gentleman who says his namo is
“ ’Enery.” : Henry ls effective and prompt, but'
his mental vision is not clear, or when I sent
him out for raspberries he would not have come
hack and sold:
“We ’aven’t hany raspberries sir, but we ’ave
some very nice cold ’am.”
Ham, however, is a very poor fruit to substitute
‘or raspberries, so we left the table and pro
ceeded to the boat.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1868.
This is a little schooner rigged yacht, manned
and commanded by a skipper whose name Is
John. Into the “ICelplo” then, clamber Fitz
Smith, O'Jones and myself. It. is a bright and
beautiful morning, and the wind is blowing
stlfily from the northwest, so that tho skipper’s
heart gladdens with the thought of reaching tbc_
fishing ground expeditiously. John we find to
bo an expert He is an o,ld mackerel fish
erman, and strangely enough, while he is relating
bis experience, he tells us that he was present at
Mount Desert last year, when that boat went
down which carried with it Bev. Mr. Chaso and
his wife, and thoir friends. His was the yacht
that ran down to give them assistance, bat,
alas! it was too late. But one person
was found; drawn into tho vortex
of the sinking boat, all the rest had
gone down into the shuddering depths never to
rise again. The sea woq ninety fathoms deep
there, and though patient,'earnest and intelligent
effort was mode for many days to find the lost
ones, and bring at least that little consolation to
the bereaved and afflicted friends at home, it was
in'vein. There will never be any resurrection
for them until the Lord “shall call His own again
from the deep of the sea.” John says the acci
dent was entirely attributable to the inexperience
of the poor youth who managed the boat. He
did not reef his sails to meet the heavy
in attempting to pnt about, he" turned in Sio
wrong direction, and the boat sank as if it had
been a stone.
Hoisting his sails, and filling a huge basket
with clams for bait, the skipper heads his little
craft for tho channel between Star Island and the
light-house, and in a few moments we are in
the open sea, bowling along over tho crests of
the waves at the rate of twelve miles an hour.
The sea is very heavy, and the tiny shell of a
boat is tossed abont as if it were a mere atom;
and an atom it seems, with all its precious freight
in that wild commotion of the mighty waters.
The landsmen begin to get a little nervous; Fitz
Smith thinks “perhaps we might have some luck
in near shore.” Mr. O'Jones says he isn’t
afraid, but he asks the skipper just for
Lke sake of keeping up the conversation “whether
a boat of that size was ever upset around here?”
In case an emergency of that kind should ever
occur in future years, Mr. Fitz Smith- wants to
know “what is the best thing to da always when
a boat capsizes ?’V O’ Jones says that he never
‘cared mnch for deep sea fishing anyhow, and
suppose we just turn back and try our hand at
perch,” The skipper named John only smiles
serenely and says there Is no danger, while the
little craft dashes bravely on from wave to wave
aß if it were everyday fun for her, and she didn't
care how heavily the white caps break against
her sides.
Ten miles out, and the islands have nearly dis
appeared. The light-house can be descried dimly
in the distance, and the tops of the Gosport
houses. Off to our right lies the island schooner
“Pilgrim.” The skipper Is cooking breakfast on
her, while the landsmen are hauling in the cod so
fast that we grow impatient to begin the sport
Skipper John takes soundings, and the lead
touches bottom at thirty fathoms. Over goes
the anchor, and the cable whirls off the coil with
tremendous rapidity. By this time the Bea has
subsided into a long, heavy swell. At one in -
stant we are on the crest of an enormous wave
and can look down from our supreme height upon
Lbe Pilgrim's deck. At the next we are in the
trough of the sea, and the schooner’s topmasts
alone are visible. The lines are baited, three or
four clams being on each hook, and they are
tossed over. Down sinks the lead until nearly
two hundred feet of line reels off, then the lead
's lifted a short distance from the bottom, and
nearly instantly a bite is felt, a sharp pull and I
have him. O' Jones’ hooks one at the same time.
We straddle the thwart, place our feet against
tbe boat’s side, and prepare for a long,strong,and
an ali-by-yourself pulL Two hundred feet of
lice aro to be hauled in, and all the time I can
feel the great fish tugging and jerking and strug
gling at the other end. Presently the heavy
line comes over the side, and in one minute tbe
skipper catches hold of the prey, and a mon
strous cod lies sprawling and gasping
on the planks. Mine is a monster nearly
four feet long, and weighing thirty or forty
pounds. O’Jones has one nearly as large, and
before he can land him Fitz Smith is in an agony
of excitement,hauling away with might and main
upon another enormous fellow. The skipper is
kept busy bringing them over the side. He does it
in a cruel style. His thumb goes in one eyeball
and his finger in the other, and in comes the fish.
Let not any member of the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals ever go fishing
with the remorseless Skipper John. The bites
come thick and fast, and in a short time thirty of
ihe largest codfish I have ever seen lie in the
boat. It has become warm work by this time—
our arms are tired with constant hauling in, and
our hands are gashed with the running lines.
The excitement is somewhat less, too, and the
lazy swell of the sea begins to tell on the fisher
men. Fitz Smith thinks he will not fish any
more. "He is tired, and that confounded coffee
don’t agree with him. He will just lie down a
minute or two.” He lies down with his head
over the bows, and up comes coffee, breakfast
and all, a morning offering to old Neptnne. Mr.
O’Jones informs me confidentially that his bile
has been troubling him for some time past, and
he thinks an attack is coming on now. He
wants it to be “distinctly understood, however,
by all hands, that he is not sea-sick. Not at all,
only his bile ” and over goes the head of
O' Jones and up comes his matituiinal meal. The
skipper smiles a calm smile, and winks know,
ngly. He thinks it is time to go home, so the
anchor is dragged np, the sails set, and off we
go, deriving comfort on the way from seeing the
Pilgrim’s passengers lying prone upon the deck
in all stages of sea-sickness.
That was a gallant and memorable day's sport.
There is not such fishing anywhere upon the At
lantic coast, at least at watering places, and if
the pleasant and genial proprietors of tho Appic
dore House would only pay a-littlo, just a little’
more attention to their cuisine, I could he artily
recommend the Isles of Shoals to everyone who
is in search, of pure air and healthful and noblo
sport. John Quill.
—Berryei’s eon is a scapegrace, who forged the
name of his illustrious father under thousands of
promissory notes, which ho sold to Shylocks at
one-tenth and one-fifteenth of- their face. His
father has redeemed nearly all them, and as soon
as one of them has been paid, he prosecutes the
usurer for buying them at less than their value.
At least twenty ol the scoundrels havo already
been fined and imprisoned for this reason; and
the holders of the remainder of the forged paper
have resolvdd to keep it until old Berryer, who is
worth several million of francs, is dead. Berryer
lias never once objected to paying the notes on
account of their being forgeries. ,■
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
[Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
Pauis, Friday, July 17th, 1868 A newspaper,
called the Ward, which enjoyed a certain reputation
-some fen Tears back as a supposed organ of-the-
Russian Government, but is now entirely depen
dent on its own cxertionß—or inventions—has
just endeavored to amuse the public at this drill
season by telling them what the Emperor thinks
about his own assassination ! Of coarse, the Em
peror’s sentiments on this interesting subject
are given ipsissimis verbis, in the very words of
the imperial spokesman, and os they were de
livered, “ in the presence Of a numerous circle!”
The Emperor Napoleon,it appears—who deserves
the epithet of Napoleon tho Silent almost as well
as his Dutch prototype, William, of famous
memory—has suddenly become quite communica
tive and un-rcticenton the most delicate subjects'
and entertains his visitors at Fontaine
bleau by telling them “what he sup
poses would happen if he was kilt!”
L think I know something of the sort of
conversation which goes on in pnbllc at the
Palace; and 1 think, also, I see the astonishment
expressed on tho faces of the bystanders were
the Emperor himself, to broach such a topic aB
the above, of still more, were it to b& broached
by any one else. However, let ub see what the
Emperor (according to the Word) has to say on
the point: He begins, as usual, with the assertion
that the “grandeur and prosperity of France’’
are his only occupation. Ho adds, in the samo
Napoleonic language, that “Providence is evi
dently his friend.”
Need it be said that he assures France that her
only chanco is to “Btick to his dynasty ?” Or
that his “mission” will certainly be accom
plished ? They may kill me,-eays~Nap©leon;'nay
they may kill all my immediate family; but the
nation wonld still seek out some distant grand
nephew, as the Servians have sought out Prince
Milan, to uphold the standard of the Empire.
And then the Emperor (still according to the
Word) rising to a climax, exclaims to
his astonishedJisteners: “The party which imbues
its hand in blood never profits by the crime!” It is
a pity that Marshals St. Arnault and Magnan,
with de Moray and others, were not still living to
hear the letter sentiment. Bnt it must have ap
peared iin pen fort even to General Fleury, if he
happened to be standing by at the moment when
It is supposed to have been uttered! But enough
of this nonsense, and of the Word and its “Imagi
nary conversations.” Fortunately no one thinks
any longer about tbe assassination of the Empe
ror, and leaßt of all perhaps the Empe
ror himself. Bnt he is a fatalist, and has some
strangtj Ideas abont the rising, waning and
setting* of his “star.” The coming year,
too, is fall of 6trange predictions, qnd is said to
,be big with portents by somnambulists, spirit
ists and all who profess to read the future. The
announcement oi the .Ecumenic Council of
Rome, with the strange and mysterious power
and inspirations which such an Assembly arro
gates to itself, is regarded by superstitions minds
as tbe culminating point of the wonders which are
to mark the year of grace 1869. I have seen the
strangest, nay, I will confess, even the most start
ling combination of figures, dates and circum-.
stances respecting the course of future events,
evolved by the calculations of these modern as
trologers.
Perhaps the Emperor, who did not disdain the
hallucinations of a Hume, may have been indulg
ing in his fatalistic vein on Buch points, and have
dropped ont a word or two, which may have
served the Word, or its informants, to hang a peg
upon.
There has been published recently at Paris a
journal of a new form called La Lanterne. It
is in the shape of a little book, with a very dis
tinguishable red cover; and tho contents, when
you open it, are precisely those of a news
paper, cut up into pages and following,
consecutively, with the advertisements at
tho end. When La Lanterne appeared,
it made a profession of “Bonapartism” in so dis
guised a form of kten satire, that in several
foreign journals, the French correspondence of
the London Times for instanee, the inaugural was
published as though it had been serious! But
the cleverest thing is on the outside red cover of
La Lanterne. The latter words are inscribed in
capitals, and from the letters L and Nis sus
pended the lantern, which gives its title to the
new organ of such dubious principles. The
question is certainly not solved by the above
title-page: for, query—Does the hieroglyphic sig
nify "Louis Napoleon, the lamp of France,"or
"Louis Napoleon «la lanterne!" The Procureur
General has never ventured to ask for the deci
sion of the Sixth Chamber of Correctional Police
in the point, and the Lanterne itself, if appealed
to as to which solution was the true one, would
probably tell you that you might “take your
choice! ”
The recent death of M. Viennot has made
some commotion in the literary world, in which
bis various productions both in prose and verse,
especially his fables, had given him a conspicu
ous place. Although ninety-one years old, he
was engaged upon two tragedies at the time of
his decease, and was looking forward to the pro
duction of one of them next winter. A greener
old age has rarely been accorded to a maker of
books. Lord Lyndhnret Is his only modern
rival in intellectual longivity. In his youth, M.
Viennot was a soldier, and was twice made pri
soner by the English. On one occasion, his life
was saved by a manuscript tragedy buttoned
nnder his uniform, which stopped the course of a
bullet. He (was a member of the Academy
and had been a peer under Lonls Philippe. A
enrions compound of wit and absurdity, ho was
always laughing at others or being laughed at
himself. It is said that he used to bore the King
so much with interminable tete-a-tetes, that his
good-natured Majesty begged the protection of
the Queen. Accordingly, the latter would do her
best to entertain the formidable talker when ho
went to the palace, until at last ho expressed an
apprehension that the royal lady, despito her
years, was becomingmore fond of him than his
loyalty relished. Thfe was repeated to the old
couple at the Tuilerles, whom it greatly amused;
and the King declared he would sacrifice
himself for the future to preserve the honor o
his wife. When a member of the Chamb£? of
Deputies in 1833, Viennot voted for the laws of
repression after tho April dmeafe, and In doing
so Bftid,with exquisite frankness, that he “wished
for the repose of his country because on it de
pended his own!”—a confession which might be
ropeated-by a good many patriots of every epoch.
As it is always woll to do a charitable act, I
should liko to iDform your readers that in Gulig
nnni's ifessetiyer an advertisement has been re
peatedly inserted of a French widow lady, of
EUKOPEAN AFFAIRS
LETTER PROM. PARIS.
agreeable aspect and unmentloncd hge, who
wishes to marry. a gentleman that knows the
world, or a retired trader not more than forty
five, with an income o e about 20,000 dollars in
gold. In return, she will bring him “ the title of
Count, a chateau, ar ‘ a patrimonial landed in
heritance.” This ought certainly to be a tempta
tion in a country, where retired traders with am
ple pockets are not rai a, and whore the titlo of
Count sounds bigger than it does here, where
Counts are countless. 80 many American dam
sels aro taking to themselves noble partner*; in
Europe, that citizens of the other sex; may well
be permitted to follow their example. “In this
connection,” it may be mentioned that Miss
Adelina Patti will positively become tho Mar
quise de Canx before the end of the month.
GERMANY.
Austrian Politics—Tno Queen ofUng.
land’s Visit.
The Memorial Diplomatique, of Paris, remarks:
The German journals have for some time been
much preoccupied with the shooting match
which is to take place at Vienna at the end
of the month. A general expectation prevail
that the occurrence will not pass over withou
some political manifestations of a character
more or less hostile to Prussia. The Austrian
Government, however desirous -it may be
to avoid everything of a nature to give umbrage
to a neighboring Power, has had to declare that
it could not possibly prevent the projected meet
ing without violating the interior laws of the Cls-
Leithan countries and without injury to the
commercial interests of the capital, which neces
sarily expects to derive a profit from the meeting.
The most singular point is that this institution la
of Prussian origin, as the Schwerin Ministry con
ceived the idea of it in 1859 and organized it at
that period in connection with the lamous asso
ciation of ihe National Vcrein.
A letter from Gotha, dated the 11th of July,
says: The Prince Royal of Prussia arrived here
to-day on his way to the Chateau of Rainharria.
brunn, known for its romantic situation in the
midst of the forest of Thuringia. The Princess,
with her infant children, has already been in
stalled there a week. The Queen of England,
who was at first expected to pay a visit to the
castle, will not do so; she will, on the contrary,
arrive during the first week of next month at her
daughter’s, the Princess Alice of Hesse. Her
Majesty will afterwards stay at Rosenau, near
Coburg. Since the death of Prince Albert she
has always retained, on affection for this residence.
SJEAIA.
The Cnptain-uencral to tbo Troops.
Count Cheste, the Captain-General of Madrid,
has addressed a most extraordinary order of the
day to the troops under his command. Its ob
ject is to point out the dangers of military insur
rections—one of the most cogent arguments he
uses being that these military rebellions “don’t
pay," viz.:
“No more pronnneiamentos. comrades!—no
more shame nor dishonor, and let the bitterness
of past disappointments serve as an expiation
lor pa6t error. After so many years what re
. mains of oil the promises so lavishly made what
remains of all the flattoring . hopes held out to
you ? Nothing. The leaders themselves, who
had apparently turned their crime to good ac
count, have not been able to enjoy its fruits in
peace. Generals, officers and soldiers! let your un
swerving fidelity become henceforth the powerful
link that shall bind up forever the dislocated ma
chinery of the State—the bulwark of the holy
religion of oar fathers, the firm support of our
beloved throne cemented by yoar blood at the
loot of the cradle of Isabella 11., the mini-ring in
strument of legality and justice. May Spain, in
her hour of trial,find under the protection of your
strong but obedient bayonets the peace she seeks,
the quiet she requires, and the prosperity which
awaits her. What greater satisfaction can well
born hearts expect ? What greater honor crown
generous brows ?
“ThE,CaFTAIS-GeNERAI,,CoNT>E DF. CIIF^TE.”
This novel document, being given without any
explanation and without date,, it is difficult to
Bay whether it was issued before or after the
banishment of the generals. The tone corrobo
rates the impression thatM. Gonzalez Bravo mav
be trying his hand at “saving society.”
RUSSIA.
Connection of tbo Baltic xvitb tbe
BlacK. Sea,
The long-expected project of connecting bv
means of a direct railway the ports of the Black
Sea with the Baltic, so important to the develop
ment of Russian commerce and industry, wul
soon be on accomplished fact. It is stated that
the general director of railways, the Chevalier
de Openheim, has obtained from the Roumanian
Government, upon very favorable terms, the con
cession to extend the Lemberg-Czernowitz
and Suczawa line from the latter place
to Jassy; and the lino from Odessa
to Kischoneff being already under
construction, it may be safely
assumed that the connection with Odessa wiU
soon follow, thus completing the connection be
tween the Baltic and Black Sea. This new line,
which will soon be completed, was originally
commenced under the auspices of the Roumanian
Government; and there is no doubt that the
traffic of the Lemberg-Czernowitz Railway, es
pecially after the opening of the JasßV line, which
will be connected with the Odessa line, will soon
show surprising good results, independently of
the State guarantees. A concession has been
granted to construct a railway between St. Pe
tersburg and a port on the Baltic, as also a line
connecting Rybinßk with the Nicolai Railway.
Foreign Items.
By the mail that arrived in New York last
night we have the following items of Foreign
news:
The Fall Mall Gazette commenting upon Gen.
F. P. Blair’s first letter, says in reference to its
author’s allusion to the restoration of the fi
nances after that of the Constitution: “ This is
taking up a bold position, but its weak point
lies in the fact that the people have thus far over
and over again pronounced against It. Whether
the temptation of saving monoy by acting un
fairly toward the national creditors will induco
them to change their decision remains to be
seen,but at present there is no indication of such a
conversion. European observers will continue
to believe that they will reject any propsition of
which dishonesty is the principal recommenda
tion.”
In the action for damages brought by the
United States against M.Armand,tho French ship
builder employed by the Confederate authorities
to build certain blockade rtmners, the Imperial
Advocate summed up his speech by calling upon
the Court to reject the claim made by the U nited
States. The Court decided upon postponing
judgment for a fortnight. ■ .
Prince Napoleon recently received on board his
yacht a deputation of Poles, and after thanking
them for their address, expressed his sympathy
with their sufferings in the tangible form of a
hundred thousand francs.
The Madrid telegrams at length condescend
to notice the events which everybody out of Spain
has been talking of the last ton days. Here is
iho latest despatch: “Previous to their exile, the
Duke and Duchess do Montpensier had refused to
comply with the order of the Spanish Govern
ment, on tho gronnd that an Infanta of Spain
could only receive orders direct from tho Sover
eign. Queen Isabella thereupon signed tho decree
exiling them from Spain. After this stop had
been taken tho Generals belonging to tho Liberal
Union Purty were also all exiled without exemp
tion. The Police continue to tako measures both
in Madrid and the Provinces, for tho expulsion
of all superior ofllcors suspected of adherence to
the Liberal Union or the Progressist Party.” A
later despatch states that tho Dnko and 'fiuchess
of Montpensier had resolved, to remain at Cin
tra, in Portugal.
F. I. EETHERSTON. PuHfefar.
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FACTS Ann FANCIES.
Campaign Song.
—Tbe correspondent of the New Fork Timor
with the Pacific Railroad Editorial Excursion l
sends a letter from Omaha, in which he inserts’
tho following song by Mr. Francis Wells, of tide*
paper. It was composed upon the route, and'-
was sung with hearty enthusiasm by tho whole
party: t
From old Atlantic’s rocky shore
To soft Pacific’s coast,
Comes up the chorus e’er and o’er
From Grant's nnconquered host,
Beneath the flog that waved eolong
In victory, whore ho led, ;
Vgain goes forth the gallant throng
While Grant goes at tho head.
Firth! firm! steady! where our chieftain
towers;
Let Seymour bear tho ‘'Stars and Bars,”
The “Stars and Stripes” are ours.
The same old fight we fought of yore,
When Grant our victories won,
We fight at North and South oncomore,
Till freedom’s work is done.
For Seymour’s “friends,” whom once he toughs
In eighteen sixty-three,
Once more unto the ballot brought,-
To break down liberty.
Firm! firm! steady, &c.
While Grant and Colfax lead our line,.
Let Blair and Seymour shout, -
Though rebelß North and Bouth combine,
Their forces wo will ront.
“I cannot be your candidate,”
Said Seymour—what ho meant
Was—what he did not state: I can—
Not be your President.
Firm! firm! steady, &c.
—The place for red currants—tho Red Sea.
—A North Carolina negro "prophet" foretells
a famine'! . 1875.
—The husband of Harriet Prescott Spafford as
pires tc be Consul-General to Havana.
—Miss Braddon is -oming to this country, It is
eaid.
—New rendering bv Grant—“l propose to
tight it out on this line if it tabes all Seymour.”'
—Henry Ward Beecher’s son has been admit
ted to the Freshman Class of Yale College.
—An lirshmau going into Kerr’s China Hall,
tho other nay, asked for an egg-stand to lay on
tbe table—a real case of a bull m a china-shop.
—Voorhees is on record as calling. General
Blair “the Prince of Blackguards,” and ho knows,
for he is in that, line himself.
—lt is snid that' London contains fully ten,
thousand persons who support themselves entire
ly by their pen.
—Tho English people are as anxious to have Miss-
Ryo carry away their surplus women as the Cana
dians are to get them.
—lt is said that Fitz-Hugh Ludlow’s painful
story “The Household Angel,” in Harper’s
Bazar, is founded on facts.
—The names-of Dickens’s children are Mary,
Kate, Charles, Walter Lahdor, Francis Geoffrey,
Alfred Tennyson, Sidney Smith, Henry Fielding',
and Edward. Lytton Brnwer.
—Farmers In Mlnnesotii carry tuba mid water
pails into their fields to contain the potatobaga.
which they pick off as thev would so many ber
ries. In some instances th’c bug crop is largm
than the ordinary yield of potatoes. ifjf'
—Here is a good riddle: ; '
Lovely I was, loving, and belov’d,
Yefme and mine a tragic fate befel: . '
Howbeit, in Shakespeare’s pages it has -proved'
To be nilied to Comedy as well: ’ -
But now my name if you would have me tell,! ,
Let this be answer for the answer sought!— , '
Already it is told you. though a spell
Holds me incog., and this be telling nought.
But he must be a very Pyramus for lovo whrK
will discover the name of Thiabo in this tangle of
words.
—Rossini’s joke on Offenbach is to pipy one of
the latter’s operas through with two "fingers.
The wiser course would bo not to play them’ at
—The Independence Beige hae the following: .
“A carious story is in circulation about tho Bey" '
of Tunis. This potentate, it is said, not being
able to pay iho Indemnity claimed by France.wos. m
informed that the Kasanader had forty millions l *
of savings concealed in a cistern, and* thatin. '
consequence of that discovery his Highness wa»
in a position to give Franco six millions, six to
Italy, six to Prussia, as much to Ac. W..
The money gave him opportune as-cistern-ce. '
—Within the present year General Bheridan, ■
whose opinion of Grant is certainly woll worth. , ¥
having, wrote as follows to a friend:
"It is, perhaps, needless for me to tell you how ’
light my heart is on account of the glorious re
cord in front of which Gen. Grant now stands,
before the country. Tho country now begins to
appreciate that his was the only hand which,
patted me on the shoulder and gave me encou
ragement, when I, almost alone, stuck up my
little battle-flag at New Orleans to assist a second.,
time in saving the country and preserving the,..
record of our soldiers. Had Grant, Sherman,
and myself, and others, gone over to. the enemy,
much darkness would have come upon tho land.
Two solutions were necessary for die settlement,
of the rebellion. Tho first was to. take away T ;
from it its military strength. That was done at
Appomattox. The second, to tako away-iti poli
tical strength. That will bedone next-Novembeiv
It will be a short campaign, but as- decisive as. :
Appomattox.”
—A critic in Putnam's Monthly is severe on Ris-*f
tori: "So far as art is concerned, it is our duty,
to say that Mario Antoinette and tho White Fawm
are on precisely tho same piano. The one ap
peals to the tiger in our blood,, and the othor tor’
the ape and goat that lurk in us. Amd the eviL
that Is In this ploy is one that is- in man,,-.- others -
in Riston's list. She chooses subjects that admlfe
this mode of treatment, and she forces it Into
those to which it does not naturally belong. No
thing can be more repulsive to the sense of art.thar.
the last act in her Elizabeth. It. is untrue to na
ture. It is untrue to history. It is a scene at;
which the delicate mind revolts. But it is cbo a. ;
scene which need not have been so- presented.
Dalnroehe, in his noble picture, has madu it
deeply affecting in its grandeur. As we rea£ the,
story In history, itstirs the heart with awful pity-
Butlt was perfectly possible to see Riston H »•„
and to refrain from either tears or pity.”
—One of the recent excursion party from Chi
cago to the Rocky Mountains writes as fbOowa
to tho Journal of that city: A few more ei.cur- \ , ;
sions of this sort Into the barren regions of >be»
Western Plains will entirely disabuse the jublicf]
mind in regard to that country and its. 'pro
ducts.’’ The mnch talked of cities of the Plalna
are evidences rather of barbarity than ot civiliza
tion, and as it Is simply impossible that they can ;
ever become self-sustaining, it is only a ouestifrn
of time os to their statua cur existence. Lett no
fanner bo tempted into the emigration to. the
sterile plains of the Far West. Lct;n<ome- ’
chanlc be tempted to try his fortune, in a
region where tho supply of artisans is already
in excess, of tho demand. Let-.no ttsrtuno
huntor be lured to tbo gold mines by Ifimchau
sen stories relative thereto. Tho testsstony is
decisive cm this poigt—thore is nothing to bo ;
made at mining except with costly machinery"
and apparatus requiring a fortune to procure.
The prodnets of the country are Indians, antelopes:,
deer, elk. prairie dogs, wolves, biiffalas,nd parched *
graßS. f all these tho crop is very poor, except
In the n .ter of prairio dogs, which jump out of
their burrow. and bark at tho twins, parched
grass and antelope. Thore is not a buffalo be
tween the Rocky Mountains and th o North Platte,
tho settlers say, very few wolves and compari
tlvely few Indians. Not an Indian was seen by
our party after leaving North Platte, beyond
which the “ home of the red man"-hsapcs<f a : :; -
trated nearly'four hundred, ' :