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the daily press for their stupidity in the use
of such terms as tri-weekly (for thrice a
week) funding, and consolidating :
"The daily press of this city stumble upon
strange blunders. Some may be the result of
carelessness, a momentary relaxation of the
sleepless vigilance necessary to conduct so
vast a machine as a dais newspaper,newspaper, but
others can only arise from simple ignorance.
Thus, for example, we are told that one re
sult of the visit of Mr. Anthony Troll ripe as
agent for the British Post ()thee
has been the establishment of a tri
weekly mail to Europe. Considering that
for six months past there have been three,
and sometimes four mails a week to England
and the Continent, this is a very wonderful
discovery, and reflects great credit on A. T.'s
diplomatic powers. If we had been told that
the British Post Office authorities had deter
mined to drop all favoritism, tp/resort to no
more subterfuges in order to pay more money
to the Cunard line than to any others, and
givejhe carrying of the mails to the lowest
bidder, the visit of their agent might have
been considered a success; but iftie has only
done what the daily Press credit him with, he
had better have staid at home. Probably he
has done, hi fact, a good deal more.
"But it is when the newspapers meddle
with finance that the contrast between the
solemn and portentous tone and the evidently
_hopeless muddle in the writer's mind pro
duces, from its very - absurdity, almost the
effect of wit. Like Mr. Weller's alibi, which
was a certain defence against any kind of
action at law, so 'funding' seems to be the
universal solvent of all our financial troubles.
There is only one phrase more absurd, and
that is, 'consolidating,' which is used in
one paper apparently under the idea
That, as 'consolidation' implies increased
strength, so, if our national debt can
be consolidated, our credit will be
strengthened. It would be just as absurd to
call our Government Securities 'Rentes,' as
to call them 'Consols' or •Funds.' We may
rely upon it that altering their name will not
-change their nature. If we must go abroad
to find a name for our indebtedness, perhaps
we shall import that of 'Assignates' for our
greenbacks, which would be just as appro
priate as that of 'Consols' for our United
States Securities, though of less pleasant sug
gestiveness.
"Meanwhile we should like to know what
'Funding' - -the five-twenties or ten-forties
means, ad. by_ what possible confusion of
- ideas the' confiscation of part of the stipula
ted interest can be so termed?"
EUROPEAN A.FPAIRB
LETTER FROM PARIS.
The New Cable Project—The Proposed
Boole—Cables Already in Existence—
The Good that will Result from the
Union of Franco and the United
Atates—Speech by Jules Favre—The
Lantern°. •
I Conreepondenee of Iho Philada. Bally Evening Bulletin.)
Panes, Tuesday, July 28th, 1868.—The conces
sion of a French transatlantic cable to Baron
Erlanger, of Paris. and J. Reuter, of London, is
evidently sot intended to remain a dead letter.
The Monitear of yesterday reverts again to the
subject in an article which is worth attention.
The official print insists upon the fact that the
'telegram is now no longer's mere luxury, to be
resorted to only on great occasions ; but has be
come a thing of daily use. France, it says, in
1863 sent 1,755,000 telegraphic despatches; in
1867 she sent 3,219,000. Sub-marine v cables
are being multiplied all over the world.
There . are four between England and
Ireland. Two from the East coast
of England to Schleswig and Hanover. Two
more from `England to Holland. Another from
the, same country to Belgium. Sweden has one
to Prussia. „Even Spain, one from Barcelo,
the Balearic Islands. Italy communicates t• \ a
with Elba ; Sicily, Malta, and so away on
`Alexandria. and the grand line of India and
China. Two lines unite Europe with Asia by the
Bosphorus and Dardanelles. What part, it is
asked, has France yet taken in these great bonds
of union ! She Is united to England by three
puny cables across the Channel; but has not yet
succeeded in opening a communication even
with her own Colony of Algeria, though
the projecte4l _fr.m Nice through_
Corsica seems at last to promise to wipe away
this reproach. English ambition, meanwhile,
aid the force of the Anglo-Saxon maxim that
"Time Is money." have solved the problem of
the Transatlantic Cable. The ifoniteur
the "gct eralide.a en tertained"that this success has
slats that it has been achieved by patient study,
labor and scientific re...careh." It is tithe. It
says, that France should fill up the link that is
wanting in telegraphy, and save Europe the ob
loquy of sending all her despatches to
America across the English and Irish
Channels. Look at the map, It says,
and you will see that the true line be
ta een Europe and the United States is from
Brest to St. , Pierre Miquelon and thence to New
York : the first a section of 2,688 nautical , miles,
the second only of 950. Recourse must be had,
it allows, to Ettitislt forges for a cable of eight
In ilbuns of metres ; but apart from that "there is
no material impossibility why the President of the
t •nitcal States should not address the first telegram
to the Emperor of the French by the 15th of
August, 1869. The 31,niteur estimates the com
mercial movement between Europe and America
at fifteen millions daily: 2,000 European cities cor
responding regularly with . the United States.
Competition, it insists, will only increase
the communications and the receipts of both
bits ; just l as has been the case
in the French transatlantic steamers from
flat re. where the demands for passage are so
great that the Chamber of. Commerce is con
stantly demanding a weekly instead of a fort
nightly line, in order to rid the port entirely of the
English boats. The Americans, the MoniNur
concludes, are busy, on their side, with the pro
ject of a Pacific cable ; and "soon French com
merce ought to be able to learn every morning
the price of silk at Shanghai, gold at San Fran
cisco, and cotton at New Orleans !"
It is to be hoped these aspirations may soon be
realized; for certainly both France and the
rated States must desire as soon as possible to
be made independent of England for instanta
neous communication with each other. The
above article has doubtless been published in the
official journal with a view to a share list and
subscription of capital, which will probably be
forthcoming shortly. One can hardly doubt
that the money will be easily raised in a country
a Inch has subscribed the capital for the Suez
Canal. to say nothing of Italian loans, and which
has even lent money to the Mexican Empire.
Another, and, it is to be hoped, final debate on
the last mentioned disastrous affair, occupied
the Chamber the wtmle of Friday and Satarday
last, when Jules Fevre administered a crowning
eastigatioreto the government on that "darkest
and dreariest incident of its ill-judged American
policy." All the iniquities of the Jecker 'affair
and everything connected with it were once
more laid bare with withering contumely by the
great republican orator; and once more M.
Itouher made the best he could of a bad story,
and talked magnificently about abiding the 'judg
ment of posterity" as to the "grandeur" of tlie im
perial designs in Mexico. It would be hard to say
now whether the Chamber feels most ashamed of
the "grandeur of the imperial designs," or of its
own pusillanimity in yielding to them and vo
ting the money to carry them out. And 1 fancy
it is this consciousness of its own delinquen
cies in that respect, rather than any real convic
tion of the justice of the claims of the Mexican
bondholders, which induced it to vote the latter
an indemnity of four millions of Tellies, on the
condition only of giving up all the securities
they at present hold, or any further claim to be
derived from them. But it is very hard that the
French nation ahonld have to make good, to any
extent whatever, the losses of men who chose to
speculate by lending their money to Maximilian
at eleven per cent. and the chance of a gros lot in
the lottery. Any right to any compensation,
under such circumstances, certainly appears
more than doubtful, and has been accorded more
to the political exigencies of the Government
than to -..a sense of equity.
The final report on the new loan has been pre
sented, fixing the amount de anitively at four
hundred and twenty-nine, instead of font hun
dred and forty millions. It is supposed now that
it will be issued about the middle of next month.
The success of the new journal, the Lanterne,
edited by M. de Rochefort, of the Figur°, is
something quite unprecedented. For nine num
bers it paid to the Tintbre,or official Stamp Office,
the sum of 46,975 francs!—and it sells more than
100,000 copies of every issue. Its Coarse and
virulent attacks upon the government, made
not upon any principle, but because they "take,''
must be regarded as the chief muse of its popu
larity ; for Its literary merits are by no means re
markable. An amusing mode of extinguishing
it has been adopted by the Minister of
the Interior, who has just sent it a
Communique, or k ricial rectification of some
of its assertions of a length that - would
drive almost everything else from , its pages, were
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 18.:.
it to be inserted. The editor is decidedly bothered,
and has announced his intention of bringing the
matter before ,the Court to ace whether his
"light" can be legally put out by this process of
suffocation. It is a forlorn hape, however; for
while an individual attacked in a journal has
only the right to a reply of double the length - of,
the attack, no limit is assigned by law to govern
mental self-defence. There will , be little sym
pathy, moreo'ver, with the irrepressible satirist
in judicial circles.
An appeal made on behalf of M. tlules Favre's
paper, 1' Electeur, from the senten‘of the Sixth
Chamber of Correctional Pollee, which, as I
mentioned in a former letter, condemned it to a
heavy fine, has not been successful. The Impe
rial Court confirmed the sentence, and also con
demned the printer to another fine for, omitting
to make the deposit of a number of the paper
prescribed by law, previous to publication, at the
Prefecture of Police.
Another journakealled the Tiers-Parte,is aboat
to appear under the auspices of M. Emile 01!i
-vies, the distinguished "independent " As he is
reputed to be "full of himself' in a pre-eminent
degree, he will probably be more occupied with
shovving his own merits than the defects of the
powers that be, and thus may escape the vexa
tions of prosecution. Laughable stories are
told of his personal vanity,and statentents.or his
heroic refusals ofoffice have been recently
fished in so pretentious a way, that the Figaro
declares the next exposition will contain three
great pictures representing M. Emile 011ivier in
the not of refusing, "energetically," the portfolio
of M. Ronher ! As a second instance of how
heavily the French press instill taxed, it may be
mentioned that the above journal states that it
bas paid 40,194 francs JaLtamp duty between the
Ist and 15th of July;rail epublication of 53,000
aumbers-dally.
AUSTILIA.
Baron BensVs Reply to the Papal Alio.
entliom
- Vms - tqs, July 24, 1868.—The following is the
fulttiTaturtlie-desp-atelitencritly-sent-by-Bitron
wr.ri 12z.nat to Rearnn Ilitametonhc.rer reflrrifi micelle-en
to the Papal allocution :
VuorriA, July 3, 1868.—1 have recently re
ceived, with you, reports of the 22d and 23d
June, the text of the aline:nit - tn. of the Holy
Father in the consistory of thy 22d. Since then
I have acquainted your Eltc,p,liency by telegraph
with the unfortunate impre which that
manifestation has produced here. our explan
.tions• given in your despatches of the 23d nit
have been unable to mitigate the effect
of the words of the Holy Father. We cer
tainly appreciate the friendly feelings expressed
for the person of the Emperor, and his Majesty
is certainly not insensible to that mark of defer
,nce. We would believe that, as your Excellency
affirms, the Pontifical allocution, compared to
many other documents of the same nature which
nave emanated from the Holy See, does give the
idea of the existence of a certain tendency to
moderate its expressions in so far kis the views
held by the Church will permit. 'Nevertheless,
it is a fact that the language which his Holiness
uses in reference to the imperial government and
the new institutions of Austria Is so severe that
we consider we have a right to complain thereof.
I do not on the present Jecasion desire to enter
into a controversy little in accordance with my
entiments of respect for the Holy See and with
my desire for conciliation. Still I cannot
mit a few observations on the subject, which I
equest your Excellency to bring before the no
tice of the Court of Rome:
In the first place we cannot recognize the
necessity of the Holy Father following certain
precedents and of employing towards Austria
the same procedure as towards those • other
( °entries of whose conduct the Pontifical govern
ment has had to complain. Can, indeed, a com
parison be made ? Have we laid hands on the
territory, on the possessions of the Church !'
Have we oppressed the Catholic religion or its
ministers? Apart, however, from such instances
as besides the case, we may. I believe, boldly
affirm that there is no country iu Europe
where the Catholic religion has so privileged a
position as in Austria, even now, despite. the
laws of the 25th of May. Nevertheless,
this fact should have been taken into account,
and the imperial government should not have
been reprobated in the same manner as those zo
vernmente who are in opposition to the Church
and the Catholic religion. We can easily under
stand that the Holy Father has thought it indis
pensable for him to protest against the laws
which modify the situation created by the Con
cordat of 1855. Indeed, we fully awaited some
such steps, and we should have accepted it in
silesee. even had its form been less conciliatory
than we could have hoped; but we can* allow
the condemnation of the fundamental . / laws
on which the new institutions of
the empire repose to pass with
out objectiob. Those laws are not in question.
In thus attacking them the Holy See deeply
wounds the feelings of the nation and imparts to
the real difference a bearing much to be regretted
even in the interests of the Church. Instead of
simply disagreeing with such or such an applica
tion of the principles winch servo as the founda
tions of the actual government of Austria, and
which are the results of a happy agreement be
tween the people and the empire, it Is the princi
ples themselves which have been reproved. The
Holy See thus extends its representatives to
those objects which we ..in no way can regard as
under its authority. It envenoms a
question already too calculated to excite
people's minds by placing it on a looting
where political are mixed up with religious pas
sions. By the condemnation of those laws which
limit the principle of the liberty of the Church,
while at the same time they offer a compensation
for the privileges lost it makes the assumption
of a conciliatory attitude •• by the government
more difficult. It may not be out of place to re
mark that those laws expressly guarantee to the
Church the posseesion of her property in Aus
tria. That stipulation proves that the laws in
question are not of a character unfriendly to the
Church; since she is thereby maintained in those
rights of which in so many other countries she
has been deprived. It is not for me to judge
how far this last consideration may serve
to soften the feelings of the Court
of Rome on this point. That which, in my eyes,
does not offer a shadow of doubt is that the peo
ple of Austria will find a consolation in remem
bering that mote than one Catholic country obey
laws analagous to ours, while at peace with the
Church, and above all that there exists in Europe
a grand and powerful empire whose tendencies
towards liberty and progress have always been
allied with a most decided attachment to the
Catholic faith, and which, governed by laws
equally abominable, yet has been fortunate
enough; even up to the present time, to meet
with the indulgent sympathies of the Holy See.
My , despatch of the 17th of June last foresaw the
unfortunate results which would be produced by
the allocution if it were not couched in more
moderate terms.
I regret extremely that the Court of Rome did
not take my prognostications into account. They
have since been entirely realized. I do not be
lieve that the Catholic population of the empire
shows a greater zeal to-day. for the interests of
religion than in times past. On the contrary, we
see the attacks directed against the Church, the
clergy and the Pope redoubled in their ardor,
that hostility would have been restrained within
its narrowest limits and been most easily ap
peased if the special questions affected by the
laws of the 25th of May, had only not been
touched upon in the Pontifical allocution.
Before concluding I must here express the
painful surprise we have felt at the appeal ad
dressed to the Hungarian bishops in the last Ben-
OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY.
'tenets of the allocution. It appear: to me that
the Court of Rome ought to have congratulated
herself at the perfect tact and reserve with which
these matters have, up - to the present time been
treated in Hungary. It did not appear desirable,
from any point of view, to arouse afresh differ- v
elites and to increase the difficulties which still
exist. But, above all, it was not to the interest
of the Court of Rome and it appears tonllgop
porton) to excite the national sueceptibW7 of
the Ilanganans The mere appearance of for
eign pressure"will produce in that nation a result
altogether at variance with the wishes of the
Holy See, and we shall behold a storm gather
against the legitimate influence of the Court of
Rome as strong as that which has broken out on
this side of the Leitha.
Such, M. le Baron, are the observations which
have been suggested to us by reading the Ponti
fical allocution. You will be pleased not to keep
his Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State in
Ignorance of them. We shall, nevertheless, per
severe in the way we have traced out first and
foremost. While continuing to maintain intact
the rights of the State and to make the laws re
spected, we shall allow the Church to enjay in
peace the liberties which those laws guarantee to
her, and we shall strive to intreduce into the
mutual relations of State and Church a spirit of
conciliation and equity which will, I hope, be
reciprocal.
Your Excellency will be the faithful inter
preter of these sentiments, and in so doing you
will also be acting in conformity with the views
of the Emperor, our august master.
BIfXST.
The Pall Mall Gazette has the following : Ros
sini, whose operas are very much more likely to
be the Mtge of the future than " Tannhaiiser"
and "Lohengrin" has published in the Rivista of
Milan the following letter to the director of the
Conservatory of Milan, in the conclusion of
which (as, we need hardly point out) he makes
reference to the more or less musical composi
tions of Herr Wagner :
Illustrious Maestro Rossi e —Nothing could be
more agreeable to me than to receive your letter
containing the interesting statistical
ference to the pupils at the Conservatory - of
Music, which your-haye.pitrted for many years
with so much solicittillts. Intelligence, with
truly exemplary devotion. I was not ignorant
of the brilliant results which you had obtained
_durlng_the_laat_twenty_y.earsaind_i_haie_mneh_
pleasure in offering you, dear maestro, to you
mirably seconded you, the tribute of sympathy
and the sincere eulogiums which are duo to you,
and which spring from the bottom of my heart.
The child of a public musical establishment
(the Communal Lyceum of Bologna), as I am
proud to declare myself, I have always been the
friend and defender of Conservatories, which
must be looked upon not as nurseries for genius,
God alone having the power to bestow that privi
lege, but as fields for emulation, as great artis
tic vivariums destined to supply concert-rooms,
theatres, orchestras and colleges.
On the other hand', I have read with regret in
some rest) -ctable journals that it is the intention
of the Mt ster Broglio to abolish our Conserva
tories of nate! I cannot understand how any
tuch intention could be discovered in tluir-tin
fortunate letter which the Minister addryfied to
me. I can Swear to you, dear maestnti, on my
honor that in the said co respondent between
the Minister and myself there was not the least
allusion to-this proposition. Could I have keep
a secret of so much importance? Bo
tranquil. I promise you that if ever
the ,preject in question assume , a
eerie. ' character, I should, in my little
sphtre, be the warmest advocate of the Conser
vatories, in which, I hope, the elements will never
be introduced of those new philosophical princi
ples which would make of the musical art- a
literary art, an imitative art, a philosophical
me.loprea equivalent to recitative free or mea
sured, bearing accompaniments spiced with trem
blo and other devices. Be convinced, Italians,
that the musical art is entirely an ideal art, an art
of expression. and do not forget that to please is
at once the basis and object of this art.
B,IMPLE MELODY, CLEAR RHYTHM.
Be sure, dear maestro, that these new philoso
phones are simply the advocates and defenders of
those poor inu.ical composers who have no ideas,
uo fancy. . .
Luus Deo! Pardonme the ennui lam causing
son, and count alwaPi on the sympathy of your
admirer and servant, ROSSINI.
The Pull Mall Gazette says: The Russian
journals are pushing their hostility to Prussia to
the verge of provocation. In an article pub
lished the other day by the Goloss the Prussians
are accused of bragging and, "boundless arro
gance," and are reminded that It was Russia
hie'', in 18111, had "laboriously fanned Prussian
patriotism into a flame." "We Ru,slans know,"
the Gcloss continues, "that when the Prussians
gain a victory there is no limit to their self-con
ceit; they must be slapped in the mouth (sic). and
then they 'will become as small and quiet as
could be wished." The Russians endure, it
adds, the pretension of Prussia "to be the ar
biter of Europe," because they know that
France will not fail to bring her to her senses.
"Herr Von Moltke's speech is a challenge to
Russia as well as France. Never will Frenchmen
eutlir that this Prussia, which was once a
French prdvinee, should claim the position due
to their Emperor, or that France should, like
Germany, be under the surveillance of the Prus
sian police." As a significant commentary to
this article may be mentioned au example of the
tre4tment the Germane receive from the Russian
GOVernment, which is now going the round of
the German press. M.' Villnyeff, Inspector-Gen
eral of Schoole k in the Kingdom of Poland,
arrived the Other day at Lodz, a manufac
turing town chiefly inhabited by Germans,
to inspect the school there. He began by
asking some questions of the pupils in Russian,
upon which the schoolmaster, a Protestant cler
gyman, observed that in compliance with the
regulations on the subject he had been teaching
the children in their mother tongue. To this M.
Villnyeff replied that - he was examining them in
their mother tongue, and proceeded with his
questions. He soon tonnd, however, that the
children could not understand him, upon which,
turning angrily round upon the schoolmaster, he
exclaimed, "These; dogs (sabald) seem to know
nothing." "But they are taught in their mother
tongue," replied the clergyman, "which is Ger
man, not Russian." "German is not their mother
tongue," returned M. Villnyeff. "All the inhabi
tants of Russia are Russians, or if they are not
they should be. We are not in Germany here."
end with these words he left the school, threat
cuing to report the master to the authorities.
Foreign Items.
From our European exchanges we clip the fol
lowing items of news:
—The Overland China mail of the 12th.of June
says that Her Majesty's gunboat Algerine, Lieu
tenant-Commander Domville, had an engage
ment with eight heavily armed pirate junks on
the 3d of June. One junk of eight guns. with a
valuable cargo, was , captured, and the remainder
were driven off much damaged, darkness' and
shallow water preventing the Algerine from cap
turing any of them.
—The marriage of Adelina Patti. so often an
nounced and so often denied, took place on the
29th of July at a Roman Catholic church on the
Clapham Park'road. The Marquis de Caux was
the happy bridegroom, and the Duke of Man
chester and Mr. Costa gave away the bride, who
looked more beautiful than over in her simple
but appropriate toilette. Signor Mario, Madame
Grist, Madame Titiens, - Mr. Gye, and a number of
operatic andlashionable celebrities Were present.
The Prince do la Tour d'Anvorgne, the French
Ambassador ,and the Secretaries of the French
Legation were Patti's witnesses of the marriage
contract. Miss Harris, Mlle. Rita, daughter of
Mario, and Mlle. Zanzl were the bridesmaids
The parties will leave at once for Thu Continent
'Letter From ROffrint.
usetan Hostility to Prussia.
—We read in the London Morning Post: "On
dnesdaylast a brigade was sent out from Ald
ershot as a eying. column. There were nine
cases of sunstroke, and subsequently clOty-seven
of the men went to hospital.
• —With regard to the German expedition in
search of the North Pole we are told that Dr. Pe-
Lerman has received news from the expedition
dated the 20th of June. The highest latitude
reached'by them was 75 deg. 20 min., from which
point Greenland was in sight. The crew were in
good health and spirits, and the ship in good
condition.
—The London correspondent of the Paris Lib
erg says:
"Dr. Posey, bead of the Anglican Church party
which bears ills name, has just abjured the An
glican faith and been converted to Roman Ca
tholicism. This example has been immediately
followed by Dr. Hamilton,Bishop of Salisbury
who has also gone over to Catholicism, giving up
an income of £5,000 a year. The Bieck, which
reproduces the news, expresses the opinion that
there is no probability of the latter example be
ing imitated."
—ThelNew York Tribune correspondent says:
"Notice Was taken last night in Parliament of
the generous spirit shown by tilt Philadelphia
Library in restoring to the British Government
the collection of British State papers found in
that city. Mr. Ben tin* asked that the corres
pondence relating to this gift might be published.
and the Government, through Mr. Sclater-Booth,
promised that It should be. He stated, what has
been before made public in America, that the
Qovernment had by way of acknowledginent,sent
to Philadelphia-Library-Committee a eel- as far
pub shed of the and Meinorials
of Grea Britain and Ireland, Chronicles
and of the Calen- ,
data of tate Papers, with fac-similes in photo
zincography the Domesday-book and other
national - MSS., being in all 156 volumes, uni
formly bound. This, said Mr. Selater-Booth was
a grateful recognition of the honorable and dis
interested feelings which prompted the gift of
the Philadelphia committee. One might wish
that international exchanges of this sort were
more frequent. The gifts in this ease were of
exception al--value- -and-- importance r -but—much
slighter offerings go far to concilitato good feel
ings on both sides. And your true Englishman
has a profound appreciation of any manifesta
tion of good will which .costs actual money. It
is to him a kind of guarantee of genuineness not
otherwise to be had."
French Musical and Dramatic
'o s.
The Cminental (Paris) Gazette contains the
following"ftems of interest:
—Mme. Victor Hugo is at Paris, her son, Mr.
Charles Hugo, has just left for Spain. Mr. Vic
tor Hugo is flniahing an historical drama in
prose, entitled "Mme. do Maintenon."
—Mr. Wilkie Collins bas written to protest
against his novel "The Woman in White," being
adapted fer the French stage by any but himself.
The Gaite had announced it, but it appears Mr.-
Collins had already entered into prior engage
ments with the manager of another theatre, and
Is writing the drama at the present moment.
—The result of the last examination at the Con-
servatoire is, that forty-nine pianists more are
now allowed to have free circulation over the
face of the globe.
—Mlle. Julia Hisson's debut at the Grand Op
era in Verdi's "Trouveren was a great success.
Her voice being a full mezzo soprano, it was
Fomew h a t injudicious to attempt the part of
I..i:onora for her first app'earance, as it was writ
ten for a soprano, but it is evident the debutante's
design was to show all that came within the range
of her powerful voice. Mine. Hasse and Mine.
Gueymard have now their equal in Mlle. Hisson.
She is but twenty years old, and in personal
graces has been as richly gifted by nature as by
the muses.
—We arc told that Mr. Auber, who is now
eighty-seven, is the youngest celebrity in Paris,
and we like to believe what print tells us; also,
that he cannot stop in bed, that he lies down at
three, and is up again at five ; gets through all
his visiting by ;half-past nine, and either com
poses operas or puns the lest of his time. We are
further informed that he presided over the exami
natiops at the Conservatoire, and most excusably
fell asleep during the performances, which(fact,
however, did not prevent him from awarding-the
prizes when the ceremony was over. While he.
•A as asleep he found fault with some and qualities
'n others, which the jury, who were wide awake
did not notice. Mr. Auber is a wonderful man.
—There is great excitement in the mu Ical cir
cles at Brussels concerning the Festivals which
aie to be founded next year in that capital in
imitation of those held in Germany and England.
The Belgians are probably fond of imitations,
JIM it were well if all they undertake could meet
with the same adhesion as these grand musical
treats. We are glad to hear that the managing
authorities will object to'have fifty-two pieces exe
cuted in one day. We think this a great Improve
ment; more than a feast is surfeit. Speeches
which last over ten hours, nod concerts with
programmes by the yard, are .mistakes quite as
serious as sermons which are somniferous.
FROM NEW YORK.
New Yons, Aug. 10.—The association of Gor
man-4merican teachers, which meets every two
weeks in this city, have submitted a report of
the educational system pursued by them to the
Superintendent of Public Instructitm in Wash
ington. It appeals that German children going
to the regular schools in this country usually
forget the language of the Faderlmd, and the
schools were first organized to do away with
this state of affairs. They have, in the course of
time, been greatly improved; until now they are
claimed to be equal CO the beat schools in Ger
many.
A list of the officers and crew of the bark
Henry Trowbridge, all of whom were lost, shows
that all of them, except the captain, were from
New York, the captain being a resident of New
Haven. Three of the dead seamen were found
in the forecastle when the vessel was first discov
ered, and yesterday another dead body was found
in a bunk, making the fourth which has been re
covered. The list numbered ten altogether, so
there are six still missing, besides the captain's
wife and children, all of whom are supposed to
have taken to the boats and been swamped.
There is some excitement in the city over the
report of large trains of diseased cattle being on
the way here from the West. Professor Garage°,
of Chicago, some time ago investigated the cause
of a disease supposed to be similar to the present
one, and reported that there was no danger in
eating, - the meat or drinking the milk. An inves
tigation of the slaughter-houses at Communipaw
yesterday disclosed the fact that most of the meat
there was diseased. Over ono hundred car-loads
of cattle have arrived at Bergen since Saturday,
and sixty-nine arrived at Communipaw yesterday.
A Congress of Antiquaries.
An International Congress of Archteology and
History has been organized by the Society of An
tiquaries of the Rhine, and is to be held at Bonn,
from the 14th to the 21st of September, under
the honorary presidency 'of Prince Frederick
William of Prussia, and the presidency of Herr
Nuggerath, president of the society, and Herr
von Quest, keeper of historical monuments 1n
Prussia. The regulations are similar to those
for the International Congress held last year
at Antwerp. Discussions on politics and
religion are forbidden, and German is to be
the official language of the meeting. There
are to be three sections; primaeval antiquities,
- pagan antiquities, and antiquities of the Chris
tian era. An exhibition will be held, in connec
tion with the c ongress, of objects of art and an
tiquity, selected ,from special collections or
churches, which are little known and of peculiar
interest. The churches of Schwarz-ltheindorf,
Heisterbach and Cologne will be visited, and
other excursions v(ill take place at the close of
the Congress. Persons wishing to take part in
the Congress, the fee for which is three Waters,
should address the President of the Society of
Antiquaries of the Rhine at Donn.
F. L. FETHERSTON. Publisher.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
FACTS AND *ANOVA:R.
—Eight hundred Americans are summering at
Dresden.
—Undercliff, the seat of the late Gen. George
P. Morris, is for sale.' •
—The public baths in Boston were patronized
In July by 326,972 persups. '
—A diamond valued at £4OO has been found In
a Canadian river.
—Walt.. Whitman never had an income of Over
$9OO a year.
—Four and five pound po,tatoes are California's
latest boast. They are pommel de terre-ble.
—St. Paul. Minnesota, has exhibited sweet
clover eight feet high.
—A not over-fond husband in Newark, N. J. ,
murdered his wife because dinner was late.
—Swinburne, Bays a London letter, is writing
a drama which he calls "Bardanapaltis."
—Tad Lincoln bad a narrow escape from being
killed by a railroad train the other day.
—Eugdnie is organizing a Chinese museum at
Fontainebleau.
—Verdi's latest opera is on Falstaff. It will be
done verdi-grease.
—Pio Nono is a very good billiard player not-.
withstanding his avoirdupois.
—Mr. Boncleault announces that after his
- present engagement in Dublin he will withdraw
from the stage.
—The floods near 13altimore threW 3000 opera
tives out of work. It was the flood that led on.
tbmis-fortune.
• —Piles have been driven one hundred and sixty
feet In Ban Francisco without finding hard
bottom.
—General Kilpatrick is coming back from Chili
to attend to his private business and to be on
hand during the campaign.
—Dirty people bathe in Lake Cochituate, ant!
Boston,is troubled with disagreeable imaginings
concerning its water.
—The Moimons are manufactuzing iron in
Utah. Long since they turned their altention
Meat
—A Jena critic pretends to have discovered
that Byron's "Werner" is a translation from the
German.
—Memphis has a brick-throwing and window
smashing ghost. But they ex-pectre catch and
- smash hint.
casting sheep's eyes at each other. Nothing in-
Sultan about it.
—Robert Lincoln is said to be beginning to re
semble his late father in persokkal appearance.
He is very successful in business.
—Chicago has at last put Its foot down and
prohibited the use of steam whistles except for
locomotives and steamboats; and that is what we
ought to do in
,Philadelphia.
—Mr. Boole, once City Inspector of New York
and candidate for Mayor, and now an inmate of
Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, escaped the other
day, but was recaptured.
—A well-known politician has written a politi
cal comedy, introducing the prominent charac
ters of the time, and Is seeking - a publisher.
Magnificent theme!
—The London woman who had four children
at one birth was rewarded with $2O by the Queen.
But the husband thinks this nothing like a com
pensation.
—There is a rumor that Jaufalea Eyre is to be
the next Governor of the Dominion of Canada.
Nice thing to be a province of Old England, and
to be governed by her cut throats.
—Seven smart Lowell girls went to Europe
alone some time ago, traveled all over the Conti
ndnt, and two ot them in the time found hus
bands and E ettbrA down for life.
—Young women are to be taught by the gov
ernment of Prussia how to tend wounded soldiere.
A detachment of flying ambulance wagons is set
apart for this purpose.
--nA Memphis grand jury have returned a ver
dict of murder in the first degree, while the mur
dered is alive and well. It is thought the jury
will rescind their verdict or kill the man.
—The London Telegraph begs the cockneys to
leave off their black clothes and wear linen suite'
during the hot weather. The Idea had never oc
curred to the sufferers.
—Seven years ago no pickerel or black bass
were in the lake near Lakeville, Mass. At that
time a number of fish of this species wore put in
to the lake. This season several tons of fish have
been taken.
—Miss Kate Stanton is related to Mrs. Eliza
beth Cndy ditto, is sojourning in Germany, and
astounds the natives by making speeches in favor
of woolen's rights and other exclusively Ameri
can institutions.
—The Dayton (Ohio) Journal is informed by a
gentleman who has jast returned from a tour
through the valleys of the Great and Little
Miami, that the peach crop in that section will
be very large—in the latter valley one of the
largest ever knoWn.
—The equestrian statue of Leopold I. has been
successfully erected at Antwerp, Belgium. The
figure is of bronze, and weighs nearly eight tons;
it is four-and-a-half metres in height, and the
pedestal is elevated nearly six metres from
( the
ground.
—An engraving has recently been made of one
which IVSIB executed just one hundred years ago
by Paul Revere, of Boston, representing the Bri
tish troops landing in that city, Friday, Septem
ber 30th, 1768, for the purpose of " supporling ye
dignity of Britain and chastising ye insolence of
America."
—The :1 Ibion says, that "as to Mr. Burlingame
- himself—no Englishman and no friend of England
can , have other than the kindest words for him.
Be has bean steadily among those—a minority we
sometimes fearkL-who have sought to allay the
bitterness of feeling toward the mother country,
which is a legacy of the late civil war::
—Sgna-ga-na•ba, an old chief of the Ottawa
Indians, died recently, and a medal was found
hanging on his neck which he had worn for flfty
four years, and which was presented to him in
1814 by the British Government for the part
which ho took in killing and scalping American
whites at the River Raisin massacre.
—There is a story told of an Irishman who
having newly arrived In an Eastern State, was
asked, during an election, on which side he would
vote. "Ye have a government here, I suppose?"
questioned Pat. 'To be sure we have," was the
ready response. "Well, then," said the Celt,
with a malicious wink, 'just you put medown as
voting against that, anyhow.
—At Peterboro, writes Mrs. Cady Stanton,
there is a base ball club of girls. Nannie Miller,
a grand-daughter of Gerrit Smith, is the captain,
and handles the bat with a grace and strength
worthy of notice. It was a pretty sight to sea
the girls with their white dresses andblneribbons
dying, in fall possession of the public square,
last Saturday afternoon, while the . boys were
quiet spectators of the scene.
—Mario, the tenor, still holds his own. The
critic of the QUetli. says: "By Patti's side is a
Romeo of nearly three score years
a gallant cavalier of twenty-five. When he sings
not, the illusion is complete; when his voice is
heard, the wreck of a Mario is recognized. But
to hear that artist deliver the recitatives,to watch
his elegant carriage and chivalric deportment,
then is the conclusion come to, what tenor
breathing can yet approach the singer, even in
the winter of his once incomparable organ.?"
—Madame de Bolms Ratazzi, wife of the Ital
ian Minister Ratazzi, has been blographed by, an
admiring Frenchman, and her translated biogra
phy is now floating through the American
papers. The book sate published last year con
tained so much se.andal and personality
about
Florentine dame% and masculines that the unfor
tunate Ratazzi, received no less than fifteen chat
lenges in a single month, Lnckily,rihe position
as Minister excused him from noticing them.
What a tr.easure of a wife I