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'We and Mary Ann Ball. In the 21th veer of hit age.
His retatives and malt- friends are eepectf ally Invited
to attend hip funeral, from his father's residence near
Tacony_,Am Wednesday morning, Aug. sth, at le o'clock.
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BARR.—On the 4th Mat .nr, Harry Allen. infant son of
• , ebn D. and Ann L. Barr, aged In weeks. '•
fthTTLE.—On the evening of the Ist inst., Anna Sinton
Bettie, daughter of Chartres and Deborah E. Bettie, aged
1 year and 3 motiths.
The relative• and friends of the family are respectfully
invited to attend her fuveral, from the residence of her
parents. near Haddonfield. N. J., on Fourth day, the 6th
MEL, at I' A. 51., without further notice. ••
BOND. --On Saturday morning, let host, after a linger
ing illnese.George _Meager Bond,in the forty-third year of
his age.
The Male friends of the family are invited to attend
the funeral. without further notice, from his late reel.
deuce, No 1436 North Thirteenth street on Wednesday.
at 3 o'clock Y. H. To proceed to Monument Cemetery.*
CHERItY.—'I his morning. Saturday. august first,
Err, Henrietta Cherry, in tier sixty.tifth year.
Friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral,
from her late residence. tO4 North Broad street. (this)
Tuesday, ath inst.. at 3 I'. sf. •
D rCol hSEY.—Ou the 4th instant. Andrew Crawford.
infant son of Samuel G. and Lizzie 0. Do Coussey. •
HOGG.—On the 2d Instant, Mr. Win. Hogs. dr., aged Ei3
years.
The relatives and friends of the family are respect-
fully invited to attend hie funeraLfrom his late residence,
No. nil Hanover street: on Wednesday afternoon, at 2
o'clock. without further notice. Piocced to Laurel Hill
Cemetery.
LAMB eitT —Dn tli . e*first instant. Eerie), infant eon of
Lewis and As driana Lambert •
P a Lta Efl.—On Sunday morning. August .d. Kate. wife'
of Mr. John Palmer. and eldest daughter of the late James
Ward. Esq.. of Leesburg. Newt eiveY.
The relatives and friends of the family are invited to
attend the funeral, from the residence of her husband.
20:r2 Locust street. on Wednesday morning, the sth inst.
at 9 o'clock. Funeral services at Bt. Patrick's Church.
lutermeni at Cathedral Cemetery It
REPPLIE It. —On the evening of the 2d Mot,. at Anda
lusia. near Reading, Pa.„ Kate, youngest child of Jno. G.
and Agnes H. Reepaer, aged edx months. •
nOle AL.—On the 2d inst., tilde Roes, infant daughter
of Charlton H. and Agnes Royal. aged four months and
two weeks
The relatives and friends of the family are respertfuLly
invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her
parents, No. 4E54 Clinton street. Germantown, (this) Toes.
day afternoon s at 3 o'clock.
SCHR.EINEB..—At Marcus Hook, on the morning of the
2d inst , Lizzie 8.. daughter of Win. II Schreiner.
'1 he relatives and friends of the family are invited to
attend her funeral, from the residence of her brother,
Richard C. Schreiner. WV Summar streete. on Wednesday
afternoon. sth inst., at o'clock. 'lO 'proceed to Mount
Vernon Cemetery.
Slit , BEtt.—On the morning of the 3d inst.. in the sth
year of her age, Fanny Cochran, daughter of Samuel L.
and Annie B. &mbar. ••
TOWNSEND.—At Mt. Washington, Md., on Eighth
month, 2d, Jane 8., wife of Samuel Townsend.
I'ELLOLI .—At White Haven. Mdon the 3d instant.
Dr. G. T. Yelloly, in the 48th year of hie age.
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ROW (Wednesday) MORNING. at 9 o'clock, to proceed
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PHILADELPHIA. August 3d. 1868.
An all-wise Providence bas removed from our
midst our late fellow-member and Vice-President,
JOSEPH T. VANKIRK.
His death was sudden and under most painful circum
stances.
As a husband and father his place cannot be filled, and
his lose as a business man, a public spirited citizen, a
noble patriot, a true friend and sincere Christian, will be
mourned by sit
A loyal Luton man, he was one of the :original mem.
hers of the National Union Club and continued an
active, wise and faithful director in its affairs,
The officers and members of the Club are requested to
ineet at the Club House, on WEDNESDAY MORNING,
, the - 6th instant, at 9 o'clock. to attend the funeral.
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AN EDITORIAL EXCETELSION
The party was well assorted.
Boston, Now Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Pittsburgh; Chicago and, even New York had
their -representatives. Boston sent the veteran
Thos. B. Fox, for the Transcript; John Brown's
friend, James Redpath, for the 'Tiler; W. T. W.
Ball, for the Traveler; W. F. Hutchins, for the
Post; E. Wright, for the Journal; Chas. R. Blies.
for the Congregationalist; and B. E. Pierce, for
the Watchman and Reflector; and BO the "hub' s
was well taken care of. New Haven contributed
that Radical Democrat, Butler of the Palladium;
Philadelphia aunt J. W.Asch for the North Amer
ican; and J.W.Forney, Jr. and W. Nevins for the
Press; J. L. Hamelin for. Seymour and the Age :
Francis Wells for the Evnrnio Beni.nrm.
and Hugh Dellaven for Third street. Balti
more contributed one good fellow, F. Fulton, of
the American, and his trunk. Pittsburgh detailed
T. P. Houston for the Gazette ; M. J. McGann for
the Post ; Dr. Fleming for the Despatch, and
General Medical Director; and Jos. C. Purdy, for
the Commercial. Chteago sent George W. Rust
from the Times, and ought to have sent some
more, but didn't. New York had that prince of
good fellows and encycloptedlas, Chas. A. Dana,
of the Sun, and his other son, Paul; I. E. Clarke,
for the Evening Post; George W. Bows, for the
Express ; E. D. Faulkner for the World; G. X.
Richardson, delegate at large ; and. last, but not
least, J. G. Hubbs and B. D. Page, balance and
driving-wheels of the excursion.
"Where ish dat batty now ?" (lions Breit
mann.)
Scattered again to their various homes and
sanctums, detailing- the wonderful things that
they did and saw and experienced, while the
Union Pacific Railroad Company carried them
over a pleasant little trip of 4,500 nAles, to show
them that-therc is a "Far West" to this big settle-
aunt of ours, and that there is a railroad ou
here,-in-actual-iron-and-stone-and-wood,-as-wel
us in pamphlets and maps and _rnspe_e_table ne ws
papers.
The exenrsioniats are home again. Many o
them. with crowded note-books, are hard at
work, detailing all manner of valuable and inter
esting mastics, demonstrating the great re-
sources of the West, and singing the well-de
servod praises of the Union Pacific. Doubtless
they will dp it well. Some of them will get their
figure, wrong. The editor that — did" the Chi
cago stock yards will give you a million more
hogs shipped from there last year than were re
ceived ; but what is a million of pork, more or
ices, to a city like Chicago? The statistician of
the shoemaking trade of Benton, Wyoming
Territory, may be relied on, if he gives
his, researches in that branch of fron-
tier trade. . The Congregationalists of New
England will soon learn that there is a
active demand for lead-pencils along the.extreme
western line of the U. P. R. R. Pittsburgh is al
ready receiving from. the , industrious Houston
voluminous accountia of the Orruilfaese, with a
graphic account of the Mormon emigrants.
(Houston! Houston! don't we all know that you
concocted that obituary scene out of that fervent
imagination of yours?) Hamelin will give the
readers of the Age glowing accounts of the tri
umphal march of the Seymour Club, and the po
litical prospects of the West. He will report
k;peecbes that ho did not hear, and interviews
with Frank Blair that it is impossible
that he should remember. Fulton will
give the Baltimoreans the commercial,
moral and social statistics of Chey
enne, Laramie and Benton, partly cribbed from
our own investigations, during the dog-watch.
Possibly he will digress to Newport, and to the
horrors of lest baggage, and to railroad poetry
The Sun will be irradiated with Dana's sagacious
observations, and Paul will narrate in private
circles how he met, but did not vanquish, the
venerable chess-editor of the Butt.umn. Butler
will let New Haven see where the best interests
of her capitalists lle,and without embarrassment
(spelled with one r), and without innuendo
(spelled with one u). will demonstrate that If he
cannot be Pope of Rome or Senator of the
United States, the presidency of the U. P. R. R.
Is the next highest office in the gift of a free and
enlightened people.
And so on with all the rest
We shall do none of these things. We have
said somewhat elsewhere in the Evc3 , .1124; Bi.-Luz-
TLN, of the practical questions of the U. P. R. R•
Our present purpose is merely to tantalize and
provoke common folks by telling them a little of
how we went riding
"Out into the West,
Out into the West, where the sun goes down,"
for it makes a great deal of difference when one
has 4,500 miles to ride, whether he finds it pleas
ant or not. We found it pleasant. It was done
in this way.
The party assembled, at the invitation of the
Union Pacific Railroad, at the Astor House, New
York, where there was a general acquaintance
making and a pleasant little dinner, We should
have started at 5 P. M., westward, but Fulton
lost his trunk ! Fulton had no business to bring
a trunk, but he did, and then had it carefully
sent to the Newport boat! Of course, the whole
party was arrested by this unhappy man's reck
lessness, and after recovering their sleeping-car,
which had run off with the 5 o'clock train on the
New Jersey Central Railroad, by telegraph, a
departure was effected at 8 P. M. on Tuesday,
July 14th, 1868, bound for the end of the Union
Pacific Railroad. It took the party as much as
fifteen minutes to become intimate with each
other.
Breakfasting at Altoona, not much better than
another Pacific Railroad excursion did, a year ago;
dining at Pittsburgh, very comfortably, we Fort-
Way ned it into Chicago on Thursday morning,
and toot refuge in the Sherman House. We
should have mentioned that the weather was hot.
But it makes a great difference how you are
traveling. If you have a comfortable sleeping
coach all. to yourselves, and not too many of
you; 11 palm-leaf fans are plenty and ice
abundant; if the floor is nicely carpeted and you
can take your boots off; also your hat, your coat,
your vest, your suspenders; if you can wander
"Up stairs and down stairs
And in my lady's chamber"
as you please; and then if you can have such a
magnificent thundergust as we pitched into
head-foremost, when the road was dustiest and
the Hubbs thermometer highest; then it is not so
bad.
At Chicago, everybody was naturally glad to
see thirty live Eastern Editors. Smith—excel
lent Smith of the Republican--got us first, and on
Friday morning we all stepped into his steam
tug and went to see the crib,—the Great Organ of
Chicago. The Lake was beautiful and so was the
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY; AUGUST 4, 1868.
clear, cool breeze. Two miles out into the pure
Michigan waters, those Middle-State Yankees,—
for Chicago is nowhere near the West,—have
sunk a five-foot shaft and poured a torrent of the
finest water in the world all over their beautiful
city. It is a grand work, and Chicago destzvea
much glory therefor. Coming back to the hot
city, another thundergust welcomed us with its
temporary refreshment, and,dining sumptuously
at the Sherman, Friday afternoon saw us start
ed for Omaha, .on the Chicago and North
western.
Now most of the party saw railroad traveling
for the first time. Also Pullman.
Entering the depot, we are ushered into the
"Omaha" and "Montana"—Pullman's Palace cars
They are simply two elegant apartments,
drawing-room and bed-room on wheels. Furni
ture,brussels and turkey-velvet, gilded and inlaid
black walnut, , marble wash-stands, plate-glass
doors and windows, and a' fine up, ght cabinet
organ! Also attentive and quiet servants who
do everything and never speak, and who,
"Soon as the evening shades prevail,"
transform these beautiful parlors into elegant
dormitories, with spotless linen, comfortable
mattrassei, gorgeous blankets and more gorge-
Otlti rep curtains, within which we .soon learn to
sleep the sleep of-youth; - innocence and: virtue.
Friday night and Siittirday morning we never
stop, save for an occasional meal, when we all
invariably order "Iced tea!" Let those who come
after us in hot weather remember the wise sugges
tion. We have now reached lowa and the region
of good railway limb.. Plenty of gOod 'tea,
(iced, remember!) good milk, beef, mutton,
chickens, all manner of vegetables, pastry and
berries. Moreover, the table-cloths are clean,aiad
you are
_permitted the luxe or of naakins and
time to wipe your mouth. 'The East knows
nothing,* yet of railroading, and, therefore,
cannot be expected to "eat" its passengers as the
West does. Though there will be somewhat of
an exception to make when we are coming home
- over the Mitatiroszl.
It is Saturday aftemoon.. We have had ;muddy
9ld Missouri in eight for some time, and, in the
distance, unknown Omaha. At Last Council
Bluffs comes to us, or we come to it. A caravan
of handsome barouches and teams awaits us, and
in a:little while we are groaning and pulling
across the turbid current of the Grandfather of
Waters, and are on Nebraska soil at last, fifteen
hundred miles west of Philadelphia. We are' in
Omaha, and making pre!' nary ablations at the
friendly Casement House.
Although we have arrived at Omaha we did
several things before we reached there. Re had
examined thoroughly Into the political condition
of the States through which we had passed. In
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and lowa we had taken
votes on the train, and found Grant and Colfax
in an overwhelming majority. We only voted in
our own cars. It was much easier. We found
we stoat Grant, 26; Seymour, 4. This was en
couraging. Then we calculated ten cars to the
train. This gave Grant 260 and Seymour 40.
Then we estimated fifty trains in all parts of the
State on that day, which produced the magnifi
cent result of 13,000 to 2,000! The four Sey
mourites offered to beat us at cyphering, If we
would allow theth coffee-grounds, but this un
reasonable request was sternly refused.
Then the Democratic quartette got a Seymour
campaign songiit Chicago, and we magnani
mously sung it for them to an accompaniment
on Pullman's Great Organ, but, by some hocus
pocus, the words got twisted after a little while
into another shape, and ran in this wise, to their
great disgust:
From old Atlantic's rocky shore
To soft Pacific's coast.
Comes up the chorus o'er and o'er
From Grant's unconquered host.
Beneath the flag that waved so long
In victory, where he led,
Again goes forth the gallant throng,
hile Grant goes at the head.
Firm! firm! steady!
Where our chieftain towers;
Let Seymour bear the "Stars and Bars,'
The "Stars and Stripes" are oars.
The same old fight we fought of yore,
When Grant our victories won,
We fight at North and South once more,
Till freedom'a work is done.
For Seymour's "friends," whom once he taught
In eighteen sixty-three,
Once more are to the ballot brought,
To breakdown liberty.•
Firm! firm! steady, &c.
While Grant and Colfax lead our line,
Let Blair and Seymour shout,
Though rebels North and South combine,
Their forces we will rout.
"I cannot be your candidate,"
Said Seymour—what he meant
Was—what he did not like to state:
"I can't be President."
Firm! firm! steady, &e.
After the song got twisted in this way, they
did not want to sing it so much.
We also interrogated all small boys upon the
local politics of the various wood-and-water sta
tions, and in the few cases where Democratic
preferences were expressed, we rapidly converted
the western youth to a more wholesome doctrine,
Half a dime was the highest price paid in any
case.
At Omaha, the Republican newspaper was
turned over to the party to edit for one day, and
John Phoenix never produced a greater medley
in the San Diego Herald than did we. The Demo
cratic editor of Omaha, with the keen sense of
honor characteristic of his race, begun the next
morning to quote the melange of the Republican
as the serious sentiments of the paper, without
note or comment.
Also at Omaha, the enthused Republicans got
up a vast meeting, at which all the editors were
Introduced with the handle of "Honorable,"which
almost made them feel like Congressmen, amid a
blaze of blue lights, Roman candles and rockets,
that would have done credit to Jackson and the
Union League. It is needless to say that the
speeches were of a very high order, and were re
ceived with "loud and prolonged cheers." Also
with "laughter and great applause." This was
about all the politics of the °recursion. Nobody
was hurt. We must take a look at Omaha and
and then begin our journey westward.
—The Rob Roy canoe, whose voyages have
afforded pleasure to thousands of readers as well
as to its solitary occupant, is making the trip
down the Lake of Galilee, the Jordan and Dead
Sea, and will thence go through the Suez canal
to the Red Sea, and return by the way of the
Nile.
—Mr. Gladstone is reported to wear this most
hideous of white hats, which is "made of some
kind of thin cloth, which contracts and wrinkles
in the middle and bulgea out at the top like a
balloon under- inflation. It is as long as - the
smoke pip o which sticks out of a wandering show
man's cart." And his frowsers are said do be no
better. • ,
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
The Crops—The Emperor In the Conn
try—French Atlantic Cable-The (Areas
Market , Fire—Extraordinary Murder
Trial—Velocip ode litteee*
[Correspondence or the Philadelphia 'Evening Bulletin.]
Pants. Tuesday, July 21st, 1868.--:The "wea
ther and the crops" form the great and natural
interest or the season, and not for years has such
a season as-the present been known in this coun
try. The harvest has now, in a great measure,
been gathered in full a fortnight before the usual
time in most districts south of Paris, and another
week of such weather will complete the same
operation further north. A few days ago loaves
of bread made from this year's flour, and grown
In the neighborhood of Fontainebleau, were
presented formally to the Emperor at the Palace
of, that place, as specimens' Of the fine quality
and:precocious maturity of the produce. His
Majesty has manifested his interest in the agri
cultural prosperity of the season by making
long excursions to various farms in the Vicinity
of hie residence, and convincing himself with his
own eyes-of the superiority and abundaece Of
the yield. He has more especially inspected the:`'
magnificent grape-growing establishments of the
district, where the famous Chassells grapes of
Fontainebleau are produced,and sent off to Paris,
in the autumn, at the rate of some ten thousand
baskets daily, forming the chief riches of the
locality. Nearly a month ago, a dish of these,
perfectly ripe and in the finest condition, grown
in the open air, was placed on the imperial table
at desert;—an earlier primeur ' or first fruits of
the vine, than the oldest enitivatomean remenr__
ber. The Emperor tk r a wonderfully busy
minded man, and pays great attention to all these
sorts of things. When in the country,
be is always going about his grounds
and woods like a private gentleman,
devising - improvements anii - direcffng - his work=
people himself. • A friend-whotas just - returned'
from a visit at the Court tells me that day after
day he might be seen occupied in boring for
water after the American fashion, with tubes,
And that ho has engineered no less than eight of
these borings In the gardens of the' Chateau, su
perintending, and often working at them with
his own hands. As usual, I see the French haVe
set up a claim to this invention, as they always
do to the premiere idle of everything under the
sun; as though, because a thought has once,
perhaps, accidentally flashed through a man's
brain, he is to be entitled to the same credit as if
he had brought its results into practical opera
tion. But his Majesty has now left off boring for
water at Fontainebleau, and gone In quest of the
healing waters of Plomblares. The Empress and
Prince remain behind, and will rejoin him at the
Camp of Chilons, where the imperial party is
expected to stay over the 15th, and celebrate the
fitemilth the army;—another homage paid to the
virtues of the Chmsepot and the military exi
gencies of the age. .
I mentioned the other day the convention
which had been signed here with the French
government for a new Atlantic cable between
France and the United States. The Moniteur
now further announces that a Committee of
Patronage for expediting the undertaking has
been formeded under the presidency of M.Drouyn
de Lhuys, member of the Privy Council. Messrs.
Elie de Beaumont and the. Comte de Mallet,
with Vice Admiral Trehouart, all Senators, form
part of the Committee.
Passing by the Central Markets, the scene of
the late fire, one "noses" immediately, in this
hot weather, the savory smell of the terrible
cook-shop which was there so lately in operation.
Bands of workmen are still employed in excavat
ing from the vaults of the butter, cheese and egg
pavilion, the masses of scorched and burnt up
fat which are there accumulated. But the stench
was so overpowering that the men could not
stand it; and recourse was obliged to be had to a
company of vidangeurs for a supply of their dis
infecting composition, to pour into the
vaults. When it is recollected that in
the course of an average year something
like 25,000,000 lbs. of butter, 300,000,000 eggs,
and 15,000,000 lbs. of cheese are stowed away in
these gigantic receptacles, it is easy to conceive
what a conflagration the consumption even of
the existing stock must. have occasioned. The
poultry pavilion, which had also been injured, is
now again open and in full play. In its vaults
stand five immense stone tables, on which, every
month, more than 200,000 fowls are immolated.
A good (103117' will slaughter you sixty fowls a
minute, and a good plumeur pluck you a chicken
in five minutes as bare as your hand. It is an
extraordinary sight to see them at work. The
original project, which I mentioned, of uniting
these markets to the. Strasburg station by an
underground line, has just been revived, and is
now likely to be carried out.
An extraordinary trial has just been' concluded
at the Court of Assizes of the Seine. Mario
Fleutot, a servant living in a family near-Paris,-
was accused of having murdered her mistress and"
set fire to the house in order to accomplish a gi
gantic robbery, and her mother was arraigned as
an accomplice. After a protracted trial, which
was attended by much larger crowds than in the
present hot weather can be attracted by any of
the theatres, the pair were found guilty, with ex
tenuating circumstances (though what they were
it is hard to disCover,)and were condemned to hard
labor for life. Murmurs of approbation fol
lowed the reading of the sentence ; the mother
betrayed no emotion, but a smile was observed to
contract the lips of the daughter. No sooner
was this perceived by the public, than cries of
0 She's laughing, she's laughing," mingled with
others of " death," were heard on every side,
though she took no other notice of them than by
a stare of bravado at the shouters. Great were
the excitement and indignation amid which the
audience retired, whilst the mother and daugh
ter, who are never to see each other
again, left without exchanging• a word.
Here are materials for a drama,
which Alexander Dumas might turn to immense
account, rivalling even the success of his "Mad
ame de Chamblay." By the way, that insatiate
writer is passing the summer at Frascati, near
Havre, and indicting epistles about himself and
his doinge, which - are- perfect master-pieces of
egotism, IL ough of a kind that is more amusing
than offensive. •It must be.delighthil to be al
ways so delighted With One's self.
_ 7 Etla son, too,
has just - published a wonderful laudation of hid'
in a preface to one of his (the son's) comedies,
beginning ".t i t toi, grand homme!? _
VelocipedesaroliterallyA`all the ge, at present
in Paris, even' 1u the very streets, where they
may be seen shooting ahead of all other convelf
anus with_imperturbabWaltill and impertinence.
EIDIZOPEAN AFE'AilltB
LETTER FllO3l PARTS.
In the Bois de Boulogne regular races with them
have been established; and in tho south of
France, near Toulouse, there was a race,not long
since, between a velocipedist and a horseman for
a distance of 45 miles, which the latter only won
by 25 minutes, after a run of 6 hours. The re
sult, It is said, might even° have been reversed,.
awl the inanimate have beaten the animate ma
chine, bad not the former been impeded by a
strong head-wind which was blowing the whole
time.
LETTER FROM VIENNA.
The Army 11111—Hungarian
The Civil Marriage and School Laws
—A Grand Consolidation Scheme—
Napoleon and his Prestige.
['Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Builetiml
VIIIZINA, July 18, 1868.—The discussions about
the army bill in Pesth are drawing to an end,and
an understanding between the Hungarian and
ffisleithan Ministry has been arrived at. Hun
gary is Aealrons of forming a militia organiza
tion within her territory, which is objected to by
the majority of prominent Austrian officers of
high rank. That syritem, if once, introduced in
Hungary. would have to be imitated in Austria
also, and the regular army here, as perhaps
in every other country, does not believe in
the efficiency of a militia force, no matter
how " well it may be organized and trained.
On this point, however, Hungary will find sup_
port on the part of the sovereign, as well as of.
the Minister of War himself. The latter, having
had opportunities during the campaign of 1866
of testing the militia system in the Tyrol, is now
a sincere advocate of it, and has fought the bat
tle of the militia reserves against many prejudices
which were and are still current in military eir
frig,
to the exertions of ,the Minister of War as to
those of Count Andrassy, that the Emperor has
himself become a convert to it. Hun
gary is, therefore, likely to carry its point
on t nt_scorer—and—the—completion—of—the
Hnngarian army bill may _be looked for
at an early date. The people of Austria cannot
but take a lively interest in the practical execu
tion of the civil marriage and school laws, which
find such energetic opposition on the part of the
clergy. The conduct of the latter is so as to pro
voke just contempt on the part of the sensible
portion.of our population. The churchmen, from
the Archbishops down to the last monk; behave
more like ignorant maniacs, than like theologians
and Christians in their denunciations of the new
institutions. They will, by their foolish oppo
sition, create more converts to the new
order of things than convince the laymen that
their doctrines are the right ones.
Paris papers are discussing a new question,
which will, however, in all probability, turn out
to be an unprofitable one for France, on account
of the opposition the plan will meet with on the
part of all Europe. I refer to the scheme of con
solidating Belgium and Holland with France. It
is well known that numerous French agents
are operating in Luxembourg as well as Bel
gium, trying to smooth the path for the
realization of the plan and to prepare the
mind of the public for startling events, but
His Napoleonic Majesty evidently labors under a
sad illusion, if he imagines that any of the great
Powers of Europe will over allow either of the
above named kingdoms to become a French pro
vince. Ten or twelve years ago, when the
French empire was in its glory, the raising of a
similar question would have caused less surprise;
but Napoleon's prestige is gone, and it is thought
that the French Emperor had better devote his
attention to the improvement of the financial
system in his own empire than pursue illusory
plans of annexation,which would turn all Europe
against him and inveigle France into a disastrous
war.
AUSTRIA.
1 elegraplis, Extension and Receipts—
Riots in Trieste and Plan of Mantel.
pal Secession.
The Debatte of Vienna publishes a report of M.
Maby, Director of the Austrian telegraphs, from
which it appears that the extent of the latter in
the Cisleithan countries is 1,913 German miles,
with 4,617 miles of wire, besides 1,253 miles of
lines used for railway signals. In the course of
1867 seventeen new offices and forty-six auxiliary
stations were opened, and, in all, 858 were at
work at the end of the year. Those in Hungary
are 135 in number. In June, 1867, a treaty was
concluded with Turkey, and in September five
others with Switzerland, in virtue of which a
great portion of the English correspondence with
India has been diverted to the Austrian lines. In
the year 1867, 2,217,929 despatches were sent off
from the Cisleithan offices, producing a receipt
of 1,512,922 florins. The whole revenue of the
telegraphs for that year was 2,330,000 florins and
the expense 2,200,000.
A communication from Trieste in La Frame
of Paris has the following: The party which is
working for a complete Italtanization and an
eventual separation of the town from Austria
knows very well that the moment is not yet
come to throw aside the mask; provisionally it
only wishes to obtain what is possible, And parti
cularly the concessions which will lead towards
~.its ultimate object. These are : The transfor
mation of the German College into an Italian
— Otte; the disarmament of the territorial Slavonic
militia and the dissolution of the military po
lice, to be replaced byte municipal guard. The
first of these measures would give the final blow
to the German element here. The second would
deprive the State of a vigorous support and
alienate from it a population which forms on the
coast a powerful counterpoise to the Italian ten
dencies, at the same time, as this people would
be more accessible to propagandism, either Ital
ian or Panelavist. Finally, the third item would
place the powers of the police in the hands of
the municipalty, where already the influence of
the Italian element, supported by the power of
the tribunes, is so groat that the councillors of
the Austrian party hardly dare to appear at the
public sittings.
Disturbances continue all over Trieste. On
the 14th of July numerous assemblages were
formed; the director of police, Kraus, had his
hat broken and was obliged to draw his sword to
free himself from the crowd which menaced him.
A rumor of the resignation of Baron do Bach
having spread, the town was suddenly illuminated.
The windows of the Bishop's residence, which
were not lit up, were smashed, as well as those of
a merchant who several times refused to do as
other people did. One of the territorial guard
was wounded in a row and carried to the hos
pital. The same night numbers of peasants were
seen entering the Place armed with guns. A
young man was killed the previous day near the
Cafe Ferrari. Mortuary notices were placarded
on all the walls inviting the population to pay
the deceased the last honors. An unknown hand
wrote at the bottom of the posters, Vendetta. The
police did not appear-uneasy at these threatenit.m .
symptoms. Thp_funeral took place, and an im
mense crowd was present, but _no disorder oc
curred,
A Slave Triide In Ettroee:
Tho .Pal/ Mall Gazette says: A most_ : .extra
- --
ordinary slave txade seems to be going on at
this moment in Switzerland. It appears that
certain "noble" families in Austria, chiefly in
Rungary-and Croatia, who cannot afford - to keep
E L FETHERSTON. Publisbei.
FRIGE THREE OgislTS
a French governess, have for some time been in
the habit of procuring small children of from
eight to twelve years of age, from the French
cantons. (Fribourg, Neufchatel, &e.) These,
while serving as playmates for the "high, well
born" children, teach them their French, such as
it is. In many cases, however, the small whip
ping boys or girls, loft utterly unprotected and
helpless in their owners' hands, are brutally
Ilt
treated, and in the end driven out of doors
to starve on the roadside. The matter has be
come so flagrant that the Government has had
to take notice of it. A case which occurred
quite recently has, indeed, caused an• official. re
monstrance and an exchange of notes between
Austria and Switzerland. A certain noble 'in
Warasdin had bought a little slave girl for hht
family v and after a short time turned her out.
with a Whole florin "to go to Vienna with." The
child; ten yearil of age, was picked up at the.
roadside in a melancholy condition, and bodily
forwarded to the Swiss Cbarid d'Affaires,,
Tschudi, in Vienna. The Federal Council are
about to take energetic steps for the suppression
of this disgraceful abuse. .
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Longfellow will remain in Europe two years.
—The three leading illustrated papers of Paris
are bankrupt.
—"All Right" is in Madrid, and has performed
before the Queen,-who is all wrong.
—Long. Branch has over 6,000 visitors, and
2,000 of them live in cottages.
—The elephant Romeo has boon on a rampage
again in Indiana.
—The first home in San Francisco was built
in 1845.
—Another English marquis has been ruined by
turf operations.
-oswe_go is to have a convention of church
choirs. To be consistent it must be quarrelsome.
—Chicago consumes 18,000,000galions of water
tinily.
—John Brougham is reported to have cleared
$17,000 by his "Lottery of Life," at Wallack 's.
—Edwin Forrest is to appear at Booth's new
theatre, the fourth - ck of 1 .- noenivr
—The difference
answer-to-a-letttre=
he other rornoß j.. rewrn.
—lrma, the prima donna at Niblo's, is twenty
five years old, a native of Paris,and..a daughter
of a tenor-singer of the Grand Opera.
—Lord Palmerston's Aetna was unveiled at - 1
Romney lately,with eloquence from Earl Russell,
Earl Granville, and Mr. Lowe.
—Woman shows her fondness for unity by al
ways wanting to be won.—Ex. Yes, but it Is one
with a double-you.
—Lotta has quarreled with her manager, and
won't play In the "Fire-Fly," at ViaHack's New
York.
—Mrs. Hoey is said to be writing her recollec
tions of the stage. She has lived a long while
and seen a great deal.
—Connoisseurs say there is not a bottle of pure
wine in the United States, nor has there been for
twenty-five years, Bosh !
—A swimming school in Frankfort displays
the following sign in English : "Swimming in
struction given by a teacher of both sexes."
—Gunn, of Bt. Louis, wont off with his neigh
bor's wife. Gunn was not rifled, but his neigh
bor was.
—As a remedy for mosquito bites, keep a vial
of glycerine at hand; and apply freely to the
bites. It will relieve the irritation and swelling
at once. One applidtion is generally sufficient.
—Fox's martyrology has become an electioneer
ing document in England in the Interest of the
opponents to the disestabllshment of the Irish
Church.
—Says the New York Leader, the Boston caulk
ers are on a strike, and the song of the ship
builder is,
"0, come! 0, come to mo."
—A well-to-do farmer living in Lewis Valley,
La Crosse county, Wisconsin, the father of two
children, poisoned himself because a pretty girl
would not have him. He willed his fortune - to
her.
—A rich Weisbadener gave 40,000 florins to ,
educate poor children on the day the Luther
monument was dedicated.—Ex. It would be
hard work, we imagine, to educate them in one
day, even with 40.000 florins.
—Several hundred families, styling themselves
"Friends of Jerusalem," are going to leave Wur
temberg in August next, and settle in Palestine.
They baao their creed on certain chapters of
Jeremiah.
—The driver of a stage coach near Coopers
town'
in this State, was asked if his was an emi
grant stage. "Well," be rejoined, "I don't know
about the Emi, but it is a darned good Grant
stage, I know."
—Among the notables stoppingiu Stockbridge
Mass., are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern,
James Parton (husband of Fanny), Charles El
liot, Robert Carter, Charles A. Bristed, and
Henry D. Sedgwick.
—The controversy about the genuineness of
the poem attributed by Morley to Milton waxes
warm in the London papers. One of the prettiest
conceits in It has been traced to Martial, but Pro
fessor Morley still insists that there is no doubt
that Milton really wrote it.
—Felix Mendelssohn's son, Dr. Charleslien
delesohn-Bartholdy, is a professor at the Univer
sity of Heidelberg, a pleasant magazine writer.
and one of the most a.greeable, conversationists
hi Germany. His father loft him comparatively
little property.
—Tom Placide, the famous old comedian, mar
ried near New Orleans, the other day, a woman
to whom he made love forty odd years ago. Pia
tide has been bachelor ever since, and of late
an impecunious bachelor, and the lady has been
lately left a wealthy widow.
—Chinese printers are employed at the com
positors' cases of the two English papers pub
lished in Hong Kong, and attain wonderful ra
pidity and accuracy m their work, setting both
reprint and manuscript with facility, bat without
understanding a word of what they are working
upon.
—A woman at Limoges served out her huaband,
who was given to the amusement of wife-whip- •
ping. When ho fell asleep she strangled him with
a cord, and then dissecting the body, carried it
piecemeal out of the hor.ce and left it at various
places about the city, the operation consuming
some days.
—Queen Isabella and her court drink all the
best sherry, for which they pay a lower price than
the miserable article exported to transatlantic '4
countries is sold at to American importers.. 'The
Queen of Spain drinks sherry in the morning, at
dinner and at supper. She dislikes champagne, ,
and doe: not tolerate French wines in her cellar.
—The Parisian police confiscated, recently, a,
brochure compiled exclusively from the writings
of the Empero - Napoleon. As author of the
pamphlet was named on the title page a certain
M. Noel Opansioul (an anagram of Louis Napo
leon.) Great was the mortification of the police
when they found out thai. they had been made
the victim of a vary clever hoax.
— ft I Amor that General Grant had been am
bra: .311 . 3y Indians on his recent tour gave °cell
s / for the following effort of the Western muse,
• 4 ch appers4ml in the Hartsville (Tenn.) ildetle:
Erlysse4 Grant who went out West,
To trade in fors and skins,
Was Thomas-hawked and Scalp-I-ed 4
By the bloody -
-A young student of theology in Berth/ has
shot his betrothed, who was rather fast and rift- -
-culed his supplications to lead a more moral life.
Afterliring the fatal ballet,at her, he tried to re
load the . pistol with valid/ he had shot her; but
before he could do so'and put an end to his ems,
life, as he intended to do, he was apprehended„
- and the pistol was wrested from his
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