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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.
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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
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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.