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The bonds not surrendered on or before the jet of Octo her nexttwill be paid at maturity, in accordance with their tenor. iny2re. t octl BRADFORD, Treasurer. i tifibr LIFE: I •SURANCF... TELE HAND-IN-HAND Mutual Life Insurance Company wtebes to obtain a number offload Agents to canvass for Life Insurance. To well qualified men very - favorable terms will be allowed. Apply at No.llB south Fourth street jral-f m w.6t rp• efir IyLARDtSPITAL NOS. 161 S AND IMLot street, Department,—Medical nvatmen and :ntetticintn furnished grab:Wort/fly to the poor. gar NEWSPAPERS,, BOOKB. PAhiPEIMETIII,: WASTE paper. dr.e.; bought by E. UNER. anV-f re 613 Jayne ! !treat- CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Deported Discovery of Gold Fields— Intense Excitement Prevalent. [From the London Times. (City article.) July 2 Advices from the Cape of Good Hope tend to confirm the report recently received with regard to gold discoveries beyond the Transvaal Repub lic. Some of the accounts hi circulation are of the wildest description, but setting these aside there is reason to believe, not only that de posits exist, but that they are very rich and extensive. They appear to be situated About 100 miles from Fatchefstrom, a town on the, , outhern border of the 'Transvaal. and the route is reported to be healthy and abounding in game. It is also alleged that the chief is friendly, and anxious to come under British protection. There is a tradition that the Portuguese sent an expedition in the sixteenth century to work these mines, which failed through the prevalence of fever and the poisonous fly described by Dr. Livingstone as destructive to horses and cattle. It ascended the Zambesi as far as Sena, but those who did not perish turned back, and no attempt has since been made. Some of the Cape travel ers know the line of route well, and farther and more distinct particulars may, therefor, soon be expected. Natal is the nearest seaport to the district. and expeditions will most likely be organized from that colony as well as from the Cape. Should the expectations enter tained be confirmed even in but a moderate de gree an impulse will be given to that and the other settlements which will speedily retrieve the depression of the past few years. The following extract from a letter written by a merchant or dinarily of sober views, and dated from Cape Town, the 4th ult., indicates that the discovery has created a frenzy even greater than that which always arises under such circumstances, and which almost invariably ends ivilsappointment: " Reports of the existence oT extensive gold fields beyond the Transvaal Republic appear to be fully corroborated, richer and more extensive, it is said, than anywhere else. In fact, It is thought the ancient Ophir has been struck. What do you think of gold in heavy veins imbedded in white quartz—auriferous quartz—in thirty differ ent localities, and immense surface strata, rich in gold, the one twenty-two miles broad and the other sixty miles long, with parallel veins, and a width of from two to three miles?" —California is famous for her roosters. The headless rooster, poor fellow, is dead. A new claimant for the attention of the public is about to take his place. Santa Clara county claims the honor of producing him. This chanticleer sports a pair of genuine horns, two inches in length. They are firmly set upon his head, and In texture resemble miniature cow's horns, or the ordinary spurs of his tribe. • 41 ** - * co , b , f (JE,1),C,1111,1111( Omaha is a capital specimen of a real Western city, although, since the removal of the seat of government, it is no longer a specimen capital. (That would be considered a first-class pun In Boston.) Very pleasantly located upon the west bank of the Missouri, it forms the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. Tho business part of the town spreads all over the natural levee, and the ascent and crest of .the beautiful bluff that rises,' half a mile back from the river are rapidly being covered with handsome and substantial frame, brick and stone residences. It is a very pretty town. Handsome blocks of four-story stores; two or three very neat and pretty churches; two or three very good hotels; an "Academy of Music;" two daily newspapers, and good-sized ones at that; a trotting course. and quantities of splendid horseflesh; a biz State House crowning the bluff, its occupation gone, and ready to be turned into a College or anything else that seems good in the eyes of the Omahaese: a sulphur spring that smells and tastes strong enough to &like the fortune of two' watering placds ; billiard sa loons unsurpassed in Philadelphia for size and appointments; and beer as good as the best. The shops of the Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha will put Altoona to its trumps ere long. Great substantial buildings, where artisans in wood and iron and bras,, and copper make everything hum again with every imaginable tulle which, with saws and sledges, and lathes and planes. and flies and hammers, and all the other instruments of the mechanic's orchestra i can discourse such discordant, but suggestive, music. Store houses crammed with every conceivable kind of supplies from a needle to an anchor. No body along the seven hundred miles of Union Pacific ever sends to General Purchasimg Agent Frost— for -- anything - - ttrat — he — is - not - ready for , The other a.v„1_,,,1f mr27-tf4 wanted up the road to cover some stores from the weather. The wire made a little mistake and called them "painters." Frost couldn't imagine what had started up the Fine Arts so snadenly in the Black Hills, but he Is ready for all emergen cies, and when the next train reached its western destination, out step my six painters, pots, brushes and all, prepared for any job, from a landscape to a "S. T. 1660-X" on the side of the "Elk Horn." or any other mountain. Yon can't catch Frost out of supplies, and as It requires about everything to build a Union Pacific Rill road, he just keeps everything on hand. There should be a special chapter on Frost, only there's DO room. Sunday at Omaha was a quiet, roasting day. Thermometer varied,accordlng to locality, from 103 to 1O) in the shade. Nevertheles. some of the party went to church. Bishop Clarkson belongs to the live description of the Episcopate, and he has builded him.a,verypretcy church in Omaha, whieh is" thO Cathedral town of Nebraska, so to speak. Unfortunately the worthy Bishop was off on a tour, There was a large congregation, a small organ, a choir evi dently divided in sentiment on the question of orientation, (our sympathies were with the soprano.) a mild but zealous young clergy man who—will grow older after a while. Union Pacific Railroad shops, of which we have already hinted; to a processional drive around the neighboring. country; (who among us will ever forget that delicious moment., when, heated by the perpendicular rays of Nebraska's sun, and guided by the unerring instincts of Faulkner, we drove up to that hospitable farmhouse, famed fer its honest, wholesome cider, and--didn't get any?) to numberless visits to the tempting soda fountain of the enterprising and genial Ish; to a State dinner at the Casement House; to another processional drive to theSulphur Springs: to that astonishing Republican meeting at night, where Boston. New York and Philadelphia spoke their pieces, as though we were all veterans of the stage instead of quiet knights of the Gradually it became Tuesday. On Tuesday morning the U. P. part of the business, proper, began in real earnest. First, Fulton secured his trunk. Then the party, under the chieftainship of Frost, took posses- EiOil of the train, and the trip across-'the I.T. P. R. R. began. After this manner we went: Locomotive and. Tender. Caboose Car. Kitchen Car, with ice -boxes, cooking stove, head-waiter, two cooks, two nantrymen, three waiters—supplies indefinite and inexhaustible. (There were men on that' train that would have spelled that, inexhanstable.) Ordinary First-Class Car. Extraordinary First-Class Sleeping Car. U. P. R. R. Director's Car. All these things are necessary for a properly conducted editorial excursion. And we were properly conducted: his name it was Wadsworth; part of the time, Gilman. ' All that Tuesday we went tearing across Ne braska,wondering at the splendid crops; admiring the solid road ; studying the changing scenery ; stopping at a prairie-dog village, where skillful marksmen missed every shot; flying past little for tlets, where ten soldiers made one garrison, out in the middle of some boundless prairie ; DINMG Did you ever sit down to a regular dinner party of fifteen, running thirty miles an hour? Prob ably not. We aid. every day, on the U. P. Also breakfast and supper. None of your make-shift meals, but a regular good, hot dinner. Beef_ steak, mutton chop, broiled chicken, broiled ham, corned beef, pot-pie, tomatoes, potatoes, beets. onions, hot rolls and biscuit, fresh bread and but ter. nuts, almonds and raisins, possibly a stray glass of litimm or Dry Verzenay, cafe noir and ices, just to top off with. Bill of fare different every time—pastry and confectionery. We dont want to make people too uncomfortable, but this was the way the ti. P. R. R. managed us, and we bore it angelically. Between times, we did variously. Chess and whist; books and naps; conundrums and puns; (from the Bostonians, of course); observations of the road and country; once or twice, a mos quito fight, the battle-ground some siding where we waited for a contrariwise train. Some times a ride on the cow-catcher. There we have you again. Did you ever ride on a cow-catcher? We did. That Tuesday evening,. five of us perched on that anti-vaccine machine, and rode us triumphantly into North Platte, after r night fall. It's an add sensation. _ Nothing before you but the long track and the open country, Behind you the thundering engine, hurling you forward so that every tiny insect in the evening air is dashed into your face like tingling spear points. Very exhilarating, very exelting—not at all safe. Alil EDITORIAL EXCURSION. Monday tvas given to an exploration of the PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868. We rode a hundred miles that day and the next on that giddy seat, and the day after a little grease-spot or two kept us off, and in ten minutes after, bung went a steam-cheat or valve, or some such thing, which would have first scalded and then pitched us in front of No. 18. Moral.—Advice to young men contemplating a ride on a cow-catcher. Don't! We got into North Platte, 290 miles from Oma ha, after dark, and had a good supper. We were minded to tarry there all night, but we had a misunderstanding with the mosquitoes, and de termined to go on. Society is not entirely set tled yet, at North Platte, and ono of the Platte waiters concluded the supper by shooting one of his comrades, by way of an anchovy. Off again westward. The mnsquitoes went,with us about forty miles, just for companionship, you know, and then we saw them no more. All night "On to Cheyenne!" Wo approach• Cheyenne through a lovely valley, bounded by undulating; grassy hills. Then up on to a broad table land. Wo sweep by large Indian amp, picturesque with Its smoky tents and grazin droves of horses. We are stilt perched on our dancing, rushing cow-catfter, and the morning light and cool prairie breeze and the - clear, blue sky all 'rowel our semiett to' more than common keennepown through a winding, narrow, steep cut, all out on to the table land again, and lo ! up rises on our left, as by magic, a grand range of snow-covered moun tains, far away in Colorado, glittering in the early sunlight. Up rises on our right, at the same moment, the Black Hills of the Rocky Mountains, which we are presently to explore. The scene, in its suddenness and gran deur, is one of nature's most magpiflcent panoramas, and we sit feasting our eyes on the rich treat, until another tarn of the road, and some low adjacent hills, cut it off from us again, and with the snort of an over-driven steed,' our good locomotive glides us into famous Cheyenne. We - have - mude - rmrl2. are r.oar out of "Vo.e.-Stat-f.14 . ,i.,•nd in--the, nnwly fledged Territory of Wyoming, near the eastern slope of the Black Hills. An hour is given to a rapid scout through the stores, newspaper offices, and other business places of Cheyenne. We glean un hasty intelli genre of the population, prospects, manners and , customs of the place, and are off again. This day's ride is across the Laramie Mountains, and as we climb up a grade of ninety feet for thirty odd miles, we enjoy an unbroken succession of such mountain pictures as do not fall to the good fortune of many railroad travelers. A wilder ness of lovely wild flowers of all colors and shapes cover the hill-sides and little valleys. Snow-peaked mountains bound the distant horizon. Endless wierd-shaped formations of red granite rock present themselves on either side. Winding perpetually upward and onward, the narrow iron pathway goes searching its way among the tangled hills, until at last we halt upon the summit of the highest point which is to be thassed between Omaha and the Sierra Nevada, 8,262 feet above the level of the sea. Here we take a rest, all climbing to the little observatory that crowns the very highest point, and renaming it Mount Page, with appro priate ceremonies, in honor of our tried And trusty leader and manager, of whom, perchance, more anon, for he was a Page who—but we spare nis blushes. z4lll t.{o WI ZW:VAPF:.I 41 VA U t 4: LETTER FROM. PARIS. French Ideas] of American Ileum:Ha tion-Th e Chamber of Deputles-The Annual Budget-Theatrical Subsidies -Tobacco Statistics-Government el. gars. (Correspondence of the Philada. Ta ail v Evening Bulletin) PARIS, Friday, July 23, 1868.—1 t is almost un necessary for me to say, that, of all the American questions, the one in which the people of this capital, and. I presume. of Europe generally, take most interest, is that which most nearly touches their own pockets. I mean, of course, the question of American Bonds, and the all-im portant consideration for foreign-holders of whether the principal and interest are to be paid in gold or currency. A good many of these se mrities, more perhaps than is generally sup posed, are held by small capitalists, or s rendei s. as they are called in this country, who, being pre-eminently greedy of high interest for their money, invested in dmeri can stock during the war, just as they did in Italian and Mexican, and just as they are fond of doing in all loanb which offer prizes, or other speculative ventures and attractions. Now, of course, there are great indignation and bitterness manifested amongst these creditors of the United States, at the bare idea of any change in or viola tion of the terms on which they cousideted that they advanced their money. Their view of the matter is soon told; and It seems only fair that I should submit their plea to the just appre ciation of the American public, living, as I do amongst a friendly people, who are such old allies, and such really sincere admirers and well. wishers of the United States and all that belong s to them. What they say, then, is this : When we bought American bonds at the height and peril of the war, we risked, and we were well aware that we were risking our money for the sake of obtaining a far higher rate of interest than we could obtain at home. But what, they ask, were the risks which we then contempla ted, and which we were aware of, and were prepared to abide by? They were, that the North might be beaten or exhausted in the struggle, and be unable to pay us; that France and England might interfere, the war become universal, inde finitely prolonged, and our claims and our money alike forgotten or buried amidst the general crash, They were, even the possibility that a victorious South might prohibit the payment of a Northern, just as the North has prohibited that of a South ern debt. These and other similar risks and con tingencies, we even purposed to encounter, and did encounter, confiding at once in the strength Ind courage of the North and the jus tice of her cause, at a moment when both seemed to be greatly doubted by other peo ple. These risks we were prepared to run. Bat what we were not prepared for was, that after the dangers Which were foreseen were past; after the strong and the just cause had, as we hoped and anticipated, prevailed; when we thought that all had come right at last, and flattered ourselves that we (and our friends too) were fairly out of the woods—what we least of all expected was.. that our interests should In any Way suffer from the Very success of those in whom we had trusted. All other riskii could be =foreseen and calculated, but this certainly could not be, nor was. We staked our money, spite of all risk, on the valor and good cause, of the North; the latter have prevailed, and yet OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. our trust and confldenco therein aro to avail us nothing! To fled our property in jeopardy from our very friends, just as we were congratu- lating ourselves that both it and they vete safe from our common enemies does seems rather hard measure; something altogether beyond our calculations, or anyrisk to which we ought in fairness to be exposed. Such is the language which (not entirely with satisfaction or gratified national feelings) I occasionally hear around me In this capital; and I have thought it only fair to state it frankly, for the consideration of our people at home. He that steals my purse, says the greatest of Anglo-Saxon poets, steals trash. But he that "filches my good name" robs me of that which nought can o'er restore, and leaves me poor indeed I I pass no further judg ment on this weighty question than to express the hope that the goat American people will allow no one, not even themselves, to "filch" from them their "good name," but will place themselves, as to all that regards it, like Cresar's wife, "above suspicion." Our new American organ . in Paris, the Conti nental Gazette, makes. I see, the following re marks this week on the above subject : There is but one right way, it says, to reduce the interest of the debt. It is' the way which has been already pointed out at home, viz., so to improve our crealt that capitalists will seek to loan us money at lower rates of interest than we now , pay, and must continue to pay, so long as repudiation, In any shape or degree, is threatened or suspected. There Is no other way, it adds, to secure this end, without the sacrifice of the national honor. Every mem ber of _Congress, and every. citizen-who--listenerto any proposition for diminishing our burden inconsistent with this principle, is simply aiding to " postpone the restoration of the public cred it." Such is the language spoken in Paris by the only direct and local organ of American senti ments published among the French people. - - The - F,cnch Deputies are hoping - to - get through their session and their weary Budget by to-morrow. Among matters recently discussed are a few which present items of sufficient interest to deserve a passing notice. For in instance the subventions, subsidies c granted by government to the theatres, came on for debate the other day. We learn from M. Jules Favre's speech that the Grand French Opera gets a sub sidy of 1,200,000 francs a year. The Theatre Francais 265,000 francs; the Lyrique and Odeon only 100,000 francs each; the Conservatoire (mu sical) gets 220,000 francs. It will be observed how vast the disproportion is in these allowances, though it is hard to say why. Perhaps the small subsidy granted to the Lyrique explains the recent bankruptcy of M. Carvalho, director of that theatre, and hus band of the celebrated French singer, Mme. Miolan Carvaiho. At the same time the sum of near a million and a half was voted for repairs of the Tuileries and Louvre, amicb3t the fruitless murmurs of the, opposition. When the cost of manufacturing tobacco and cigars was discussed, it appeared that the gov eminent establishments for this purpose (tobacco being a monopoly) have increased,within the last ten or twelve years, from ten to seventeen, be sides fifteen additional warehouses. The receipts now derived from tobacco amount , to 217,000,000, being an annual progression of about 8,500,000 since 1853. But the retail price has been raised from Bto 10 francs the kilo. (of 2 pounds). The Government Commissioner, in replying to objec tions as to quality, affirmed that the French cigar of 5 centimes, or 1 son, was "superior to any thing sold in the world at the same price," and . 1 think he is right. He said, also, that the Go vernment was beginning to manufacture real Havana cigars in Paris, by means of an agency which has an establishment in Cuba, and pur chases the leaf on the spot. In explanation of the cigar depot adjoining the Grand Hotel,which must be so well known to many of your readers, and which the Opposition foolishly attacked as a • 'privilege" (a privilege, indeed, for the public!), the representative of the Government replied that the Administration had been authorized to sell there, directly, cigars at an exceptional price, (up to a franc and a half a piece), because such valuable merchandise could not be sold indis criminately, or exposed to be deteriorated in shop windows. The large sum of seventy and a quarter millions of francs was then voted for Government manufactures generally. The Post-office estimates were voted at sixty three million , , the receipts amounting to eighty six millions. A vehement prctest was again entered against all dabbling with private letters by the Pollee or the'Prefects. The Latest Statement an Regard to the Empress Charlotte's Condition—A Sad Picture. [From La Memorial Dlplomatique, July 13.1 • There is unfortunately too much reason to fear that the recovery of the unhappy Princess will be neither so speedy nor so complete as was inferred from the improvement which took place on the removal of Her Majesty from Miramar to Laeken. Withdrawn from the rigorous isloation to which she was ordered by the medical men at Miramar, and having returned to scenes dear to the recollections of her youth and t) the bosom of the royal family of Belgium, where she is surrounded with the most frectionate attentions, the dejected spirits of the Empress Charlotte appeared to revive, and she teemed by degrees to assume her former serenity. Her Majesty beguiled her leisure with painting, and by keeping up a correspondence with the members of the Imperial family of Austria, and other friends, in walking in the beautiful park of Lacken, or by carriage exercise in the environs of the palace. She took her meals regularly in company with the King and Queen of the Belgians; in short, with the exception of certain little restraints which were still necessary, she ap peared to be in a fair way of perfect recovery. Suddenly, in the beginning of June, on the approach of the anniversary of the tragedy of Queretaro, symptoms of internal agitation mani fested themselves to such a degree as to occasion apprehensions of afresh attack of delirium,which soon developed itself. The Empress is now a prey to the most extraordinary excitement, ag gravated by the excessive heat and the want of sleep, to which Her Majesty Is subject. As at Miramar she has an invincible aversion to every description of food, although she herself orders every morning what she would like to have at her . meals. Slid refuses to sit at the- taole, and will not taste anything unless it Is offered to her by Queen MarieLlenriette, her sister-in-law, who takes a seat by her side and feeds her like a child. At bedtime it oftens hap- , pens that the Queen is, obliged to use her per sonal influence to prevail upon the Empress to I retire to rest, It is altogetherineorrect to state, as some, journals have done, that the Empress. Charlotte seeks an opportunity of escaping-from the Palace of Laeken to returtito Miramar. On the contrary, notwithstanding the disordered state of her mind, she is able to feel the value of the care whichls - taken of her by' the King and Queen of the Belgians, who watch over her with the most tender solicitude, , and she fears POOR cs.sLoTTA. nothing so tnneh as the possibility of her departure for Miramar. The apprehension, indeed, of such a contingency constantly afflicts her, and in a great degree occasions her want of sleep. In physical health the Empress continues to be as well as possible, and her medical ad visers are of opinion that the only efficient remedy for , the present attack is by all available means to snare Her Majesty every kind of emo tion. This will explain wny all other persons excepting the members of the royal family are prohibited from seeing her, and , why she is allowed to receive no correspondence of a nature to make any impression upon her mind, which imperatively demands the most perfect repose. The Riots at Trieste. A Vienna correspondent writes as follows: Severn"incorrect versions have been published by the papers hero of the disturbances at Trieste, and I am enabled to furnish some information on the anbjeet from a local authority on which you can rely. The real cause of these disturbances Is the hostility prevailing between the Germans and the Italians of the town. After the cession of Venetia to Italy, the Italians of Trieste hoped that the Government would grant them, if not a complete autonomy, at least some concessions to their nationality. These hopes, however, proved groundless, and the Government, instead of protecting the Italians, openly favored the Germans In every possible way. German schools were established in purely Italian districts, German officials, wore appointed in the local offices, and two well-known adherents of the old system of German absolutism, Herren Bach and Kraus, were appointedgovernor and director of police respectively. What the immediate cause of the disturbance was I have not been able to ascer tain, but it is certain that it was a demonstration of the Italians against the governor and the sys tem he had introduced. The rioters repeatedly cried 'Evviva l'ltalia ! Abasso Bach !' and a man who raised the cry of 'Evviva l'Austria !' was at once ducked in the grand camel by the mob. The_ riot _seems to have produced_ a great impres sion on thengovernment, and it Is said that Herr von Bach will be replaced by Baron Wiillers torff, late Minister of Commerce. Confederation of Prussia and ,instrial The Pall ,11,r11 Gazette contains the following: A correspondent atVienna,writing on the 18th, - sayst --- "4he - project-of-n, <pp, ochement - between- Austria and Prwsia Is a good deal talked about here. Baron Benst, It appears, has recently opened some confidential negotiations on this subject through certain persons at Dresden who are on a friendly footing with the Courts of both countries, and although these avertures were at first received with suspicion, the sup port of several influential politicians at Berlin, including General von Moltke, has now been secured to the plan. The coldness which has recently marked the relations of Russia and Prus sia, combined with some very full explanations which have been made semi-officially to Prussia respecting the interview at Salzburg, seems to have contributed principally to this result. The object of such an understandin would of course, be strictly pacific, as it would g considerably di miniph the chances of a war between Prussia and France on the one hand, and between Austria and Russia on the other. The Proposed Commission at St. Pe. tersbarg. The London Past, while It considers the assem bly of the proposed commission at St. Petersburg to discuss the question of the employment of ex plosive materials in war Is very desirable, thinks there are almost legitimate grounds for expecta tion that the commission may possibly have other matters of great international interest brought before it. Among others, that of a par tial disarmament would naturally be discussed. and under peculiarly favorable circumstances. The Loss of the !United States Steamer r. ti wan co. The Victoria Co/onigt has the following details of the loss of the &manes: "It is our unpleasant duty to record the loss of this vessel, which left our port on Tuesday, July 7th, on her way to Sitka. The facts of this event, as gathered from the most reliable sources, are given as follows : On Thursday morning, the 9th Inst., at 1; 15 o'clock, while proceeding through Shadwell Passage, Queen Charlotte Sound, northwest coast o British Columbia, taking tie inside channel, or that on the west of Centre Island, the Suwanec struck on a rock, the exis tence of which was previously unknown. This channel is represented in the charts as clear of danger, and the directions on entering it in, the Vancouver Pilot instructions, distinctly State the passage to be clear on either side of the is land. The robt on which the vessel struck is aboutg 1.30 yards from the west side of this island, and, as already stated, is not marked. Unfortunately, soon after the accident, the tide fell rapidly, and the vessel broke to pieces and may be considered a total wreck. The water was perfectly calm at the time. The Captain, we understand, exonerates all parties from blame. Fortunately, Her Majesty's ship Sparrow hawk was met by an officer of the Suwanee on coming down fur assistance, and he returned with her to the ill-fated vessel, so that in every probability all the light stores, ammuni tion, arms and personal effects of the officers and men would be saved. Despatches were for warded to Admiral Hastings, who immediately did everything that could be done to render as sistance. and despatched the gunboat Forward to Port Townsend, to inform Admiral Thatcher, U. S. flagship Pensacola, of the untoward event. It appears the Suwanec (double ender) was not a strongly built boat; her plates are described as very light, and totally unsuited for a ves sel carrying her armament. She was built for river services by Government, during the American civil war. The manner in which she broke to pieces seems to confirm this statement. But although no one may be to blame in the mat ter, we cannot but state that the wreck of the Suwanec is an accident which we regret in com mon with thti community. Of course, there will be an official examination, and we trust it will end, as we are led to accept, in a fall exoneration of all concerned, and as the result of an accident that could neither be anticipated nor prevented— especially as by the courtesy of our own author ities the Snwanee was under the charge of Go vernment Harbor Master Cooper." The Spanish Troubles. A letter from Madrid of the fah of July in the Independence Beige mentions the names of three clandestine journals circulating in that city—viz, the Exterminator, the Revolution and the Revolu tionary Bulletin. The two last named occupied themselves with the Queen's private life, and the first pointed out for popular vengeance a certain number of persons well known for their revolu tionary tendencies, whose places of residence were given. These papers are said to be widely circulated In Madrid and the pro vinces. The same correspondent says that the Queen of Spain has unreservedly approved the repressive policy of the Cabinot,and the min isterial journal, El Espanol, defends it as the only course If was possible to adopt. "The opposi- I Lion against which wo have at this moment to struggle, (it says,) is not ono of those oppositions that arc disarmed by a mere change of persons or modification of the policy of the government. What is now wanted, what is imperatively and Impudently demanded, cannot be granted by any ministry In which the legitimate Queen of Spain, Donna Isabella 11. of Bourbon, has placed her confidence. —Cardinal Antoinelll's suffering of late so much from the goat has been brought on by his gluttony. His epicurean habits have grown so much on him recently that he spends every day several hours at his dinner-table, and eats more pyres de foie grets and similar delicacies than any. wady else. Rome. —An American manager has made an offer to the actors of.the Theatre-Francais, the best dra-_ matic stock company in The world, o make" a two-months' trip to the 'United States, and play in Boston, New York, Philadelphia,. Baltimore wad Washington, the receipts to be divided among the actors, and only a percentage to be paid the manager. F. L. =IEIISTON. Pablisbet PRICE THREE OENTS FAMES AND FANCIES. - 7 Walruesla. has apple and peanut stands. —Gladstone has teen burnt in effigy by Orange men. —Twenty-ilvo millions in gold from California In 18G7. —Did it ever occur to you that an organist is necessarily a pedal-or? —The sea side watering places are;ravaged by mosquitoes this year. —Bishop Quintard has collected $30,000 la England for his Southern Episcopal University. —Mrs. Lincoln will visit Scotland as the guess of a Scotch clergyman, her relative. • —Browning is said to be getting too stout for a poet. Ho will now go in for adipoesy. —Marriage licensee are published In the West— ern papers. —Blerstadt has sent home a now picture, a, view on the Tuolumno River, Oregon. —lndiana Democrats will not allow Frank Blair to speak in their State,.under any pretext. —Tea cultivation Is becoming an Important matter in Southern —The"Winter's Tale" is to be the opening piece at Booth's Theatre, in New York. —Bayard Taylor is coming home to attend the golden wedding of his parents next October. —lt is estimated that four million clolidre worth of lumber has beeu consumed by fire in the' Canadian forests this season. —A large number of dead ailed were lately picked up on the Connecticut ahoala at Cromwell Conn., killed by the hot weather. —Several German Princes will offer orders to Mr. Longfellow, whose poetry is much liked byr the German aristocracy. —Horses are sold at Hawaii for two dollars and a half a piece.—Er. A small piece, we sup pose. —Napier-has- introduced - 11a fashton Of raw beef hash in the English cuisine. The theory of diet Is a raw-ng ono. —Some pecnnione maniac has paid $3OO for a million cancelled poStago stamps, collected by a. lady of Yonkers, and she has given the money to _a_church, —The Inventor of a no ins lief% to the 'soliciting firm in New York a model mimic of solid silver. The inventor lives in Colorado, and could not afford to use iron. —Miss Reignolds, having dosed a successfal engagement in London, is making a provincial tour, commencing at Liverpool, July 13th. She has been received there with enthusiasm. —They say Blair's name is a 'tower of strength' in the West. It is all of that.. Here in Hartford ho is remembered as a fine specimen of a leaning tower.—//art/brd Post. —A telegram has been received from Hon. Schuyler Colfax, at Omaha, in which he states that be positively declines any public demonstration on his trip to the mountains. —Russia works energetically sometimes. It in now building a railroad from Koursk to Tagan— rog, and has 40,000 workmen on the line to do it. up quickly. —Fish eggs are a Walrnseian dainty. The In:: dians collect them by sinking pine branches Ire the water where the fish spawn, and eat then raw. —From recent investigations it appears that the prime minister of the ex-King of Hanover offered a small poet, Fischu. ono hundred florins for an epic on his master, in which he must be fre9uently compared with Henry the Lion. —The faverite charger of King Theodore Is said to bo a miserable little Wretch of a horse. Its only claim to the name of a charger, Bays a. writer, is that It asks six-pence a head of every one to see it. —The present season large numbers of the lo— custs have found their way to Great Salt Lake, on the shores of which, it is stated, they lie a foot deep, dead, as the waters of the Lake are rather sally, even for locusts. —Cardinal Bonaparte Is treated by kis col— leagues, and by the aristocratic prelates of Roma generally, with extrenie coldness and even dts-- ri.spect. The Idea that he should be .elected. Pope after the death of Pius the Ninth le openly ridiculed in clerical circles. —A hungry , man, dining at a Cincinnati restaurant, spread a piece of bread with a lump of butter which he scraped up from the table, and swallowed It, but, wcs horrified when told by the waiter that there was a little plate under ther butter. He thought at the time it was rather hard butter. —The Pope,it is : , elie,Ted,is dissatisfied with the Commander-in-chid of his mostly army. and, If the Florence raione is correctly informed, a very prominent General of the ex-Confederate army has been asked to take the position at an anonal salary of ten thousand scndl. The Pope is un wilfin,, to entrust the place to a French General, plenty of whom are anxious to obtain it. —Eighteen vessels were captured as slave-tra ders in 1867, by her Majesty's ships Wasp, High flyer, Lyra, and Penguin, on the East coast of Africa, with three hundred and thirty-three slaves on board. The vessels were destroyed. On the West Coast of Africa her Majesty's ship Speed well also captured a brig with ninety-six slaves -The Paris PreAqe reports that the health of the . Princess Charlotte is in no way improved,but that, on the contrary, her reason wanders more and more. She has formed the design of going to Miramar, and the eTeatest pains are necessary to divert her from this project. It is feared she may make her escape from the château of Lac ken, and hence all the exits of the building are strictly guarded, and the number of sentinels doubled. —A clarions custom was observed at thegreat annual French shooting fete at La BadoullOre, which hos just taken place. The marksman why can hit the bird called the popinjay in the breast. is honored with the title of King, and, should he be the victor three times In , accesslon, is called Emperor. This latter dignity,which Is only con ferred two or three times in a century, was this year gained by M. Pierre Fargere, a bell maker. A heavy honor for simply poppia' jays. —Whether a criminal is of noble birth or not seems still to make a great deal of difference In Austria. Julia Ebergenyl has been appointed - supervisor of the other female convicts at the Neuburg penitentiary. Chorinsky, her lover and. necompliee,has been sent to the Bavarian fortress of Passau, where his father pays for has board. and where he suffers almost no restraint what-- over, except that he is nct oermitted to leave the, place. —A professorship of mouern literature has been offered to the German poet, Ferdinand Freili grath, who lived eighteen years in England, by the trustees of ons of the foremost universities in the United States. Freiligrath is perfectly-fa miller with the English lar.gnage, and has pub lished one of the best collections of English and. American poetry. His friendship with Lonfel low dates back to 1845, when he paid to his "great friend beyond the ocean" a graceul trib bate in one of his most popular poems. —The Southern Review must afford forcible readlrg for these hot days. Regtudine an article published in the July number. on '3lr. Bancroft as an Historian," the Charleston Courier says: "Tins most unprincipled of all the modern quacks of history has his bide taken off, and the effort is made to take off the plague spots by the free use of turpentine and acid. 4 ' *, His his tory, in fact—so called—Ls neither more nor less than a collection of mouthing, pamper, atiltlsh fourth of - July orations, _clumsy in the stole of its declamations, of false assumptions which are baseless, and of falsehoodsdellberately planned, with dishonorable purpose, and freqnentiv_oritb. malice, spite, and - all manner of venom. "'here is a curious resemblance between the face and bead of Mr. Bancroft and all his wrltingy. There never, perhaps, was a white man in , thls or an y country whose head and face more Immediately possessed you with the Ides of a baud-box.
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