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An Englishman Murders Two or his
Ship's. Officers and Is Himself &Hied
by an American.
[From the Anglo. Brazilian Times of July A]
The Dutch vessel Fennichiana arrived at Per
nambuco upon the 25th of June, with a cargo of
jerked meat from Montevideo. During the
voyage the following scenes took place : On the
18th the first mate, J. J. de Groth, ordered an
Englishman called James Rudger, shipped
at Montevideo, to take the wheel from
lam, when the latter struck the mate
upon the head and knocked him down. He
then cut his throat and threw the body into the
Bea. The cook, J. Biemhold, was awakened by
the splash, and believing some ono had fallen ,
overboard, began to shout, "a men overboard,"
and to throw planks and ropes into the water.
While thus engaged, Rudger sprang at him, split
his head open wlth a hatchet, and threw him
Into the sea. V.lO captain and second mate were
awakened by tlie noise, and the second mate, in
coming np the companion -way, was struck at,
but,missed, by the hatchet wielded by Rudger,
and he Jumped back, whereupon Rodger closed
the hatch and piled chains on it to
prevent' it being opened by them.
Ho then called the two remaining men, an Eng
lishinan named. Nicholas Chester ; and an Ameri
can called John Hughes, and forced them, by fear
of him, to obey him. He then told them that he
was about to scuttle the vessel and abandonher.
but they persuaded him to wait until `the vessel
was near land.. On the 21st, Rndger uncovered
the hatch to see what was going on inside, and
- while so doing Captain Hatch attempted to shoot
him with a gun, but this missed fire. Rudger
then hastily closed the hatch and called to the
xnen on deck to put a large stone on top. While
lie was waiting for this the Captain Bred at
guess, but_ tho ball only scored Rudger's leg.
This, however, had the effect of alarming him,
and he ordered the boat, to be got ready while
he himself made preparations for firing `the'
vessel; but bis.companions agaiti dh3suaded him
from leaving . _ her. so far from hind.. At , night
Cheater went to bed, Hughes was at the wheel,
and Rodgers, who had not slept .for three days,
laid down near it, armed and with his hatchet
close to him, telling Hughes to waken him when
land was in sight. In a few minutes he was fast
asleep,' and'Htighes then left the wheeVand seiz
in thei hatchet, buried it in Badger's . head, who
tried to rise and drew his knife, tint fell dead be
fore a second , stroke. Flag:hes then shouted that
all was safe, and after throwing the body into the
nea, opened the.hatch, whereon, aftersome hesi
tation, the two imprisoned men came on, deck.
.No money or other valuable property existed
on board to tempt cupidity, so that the ferocious
conduct of Bridgers must Lave originated from a,
oaaniactil thirst for blood
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LETTER. FROM PARIS.
Torogation Off the Corps Legislatiff—
Causes of the Emperor's Action—
Jiinaneial I Natters—Paris Deserted—
Everybody at the Watering`Places--
Prince Napoleon's Tour—The Wine
Crop.
[Correspondence of the Philada. Bath , Evening Bulletin.)
Pants, Friday, July 31, 1868.—At the close of
the sitting on the 28th instant, the President of
the Corps Legislatif read the imperial decree of
prorogation, and the Chamber finally broke up
for the session of 1868. Although every member
knew that thls was to be the case, and rejoiced
to get away at last from inch a burning oven as
Paris has been for the past: two ' Months,' yet it
was felt that the dismissal was somewhat abrupt,
and seemed to say how glad both ministers and
Emperor were to get rid of those who
claim at least ~ t o.:ire in some sort the
representative of the people. ,The Chamber had
just voted the new loan of 429 mlilions o reduCed,
as I mentioned, to that amount fimii 440 mil
lions at first demanded;by an amendment of the
ComsalseloP. accepted Si list by the Connell, of
State. And then; tredreely.hadthe money been
secured; when quick, presto, the toe of the Impe
rial boot is applied to the , fundaniental portion
of the Imperial Constitution, and universal suf
rage and all connected with it, is sent about
its business. I don't mean to say that
these were the actual sentiments which
animated the decree; but some how or other the
termination of the Legislation session wore
the above look, and seemed to show how little
love warLlost between the Parties about _to_sepa,
rate. M. de Morny, who was celebrated for hie
courtesy and tact, used to put a better-appear
ance upon matters by generally addressing a neat
little farewell speech to the Deputies before dis
missing them. in which he would praise (very
- ureeh — in - the - tont ofn
.idinohnaster ad
*-C*577 before the holiday-sr
the zeal and devotion displayed Isy
the Chamber for the Emperor and his
Government—sometimes even condescending to
mention the country as well—and conclude by
urine them to carry the same admirable senti
ments with them among their constituents, and
bring them bad:again for nse the next &melon. Bat
on this occasion the close of the session has been
all hurry-scurry, and the Budget, the Mexican
Indemnity and the Loan, protracted to a shame
fully late period, have been brought forward,and
voted with very little real regard to the public
interests. The last vote of the session, indeed,
is worth just one moment's explanation, by
way of illustrating one point in the
corking of the Imperial Constitution. All bills
are first sent by the government to' the Connell
of State, and presented by the latter to the
Chamber, which then refers them to a Commis
sion. When the latter makes an amendment, it
Proposes. It to the Connell of State; and if that
body agrees to it, well and good, there Is then no
difficulty. Bat if it does not, and the difference
is referred to the House, the latter cannot adopt
the amendment of its own Commission, bat is
allowed no choice bat to throw out the
whole bill- Thus, when the Commission on
the Loan proposed, at first, to reduce the
490 millions demanded to 411 millions, and
the Council of State would not consent, the only
course the Chamber could have adopted to sup
port its commission would have been to have
to have thrown out the entire loan; it could not
vote the 411 millions only. The government re
lies upon the Chamber not having the courage to
proceed to extremities, and thus practically gov
erns its votes through the Council of State. In
this way it was that the Commission was obliged
to compromise, and agree to a loan of 429 mil
lions, instead of 411. And then, having squeezed
all it could out of the Legislature, the govern
aunt dismisses the Assembly without even so
much as thanking it. The session began on the
18th of November,lB6', and closed on the 28th o
July, 1868, the longest period since the re-estab
lisnment of the Empire.
With the dispersion of the Chambers, the de
sertion, the desolation it may be called, of Paris
has become complete. Fortunately for the few
who are still left behind the intense heat has sod
denly diminished, and clouds of rain have see
m( ded to skies which for weeks have blazed like
a furnace. Crowned heads and ministers are
now disporting themselves in every watering
place of Europe. The Empress of the
French is almost the only one who re
mains stationary, or almost so, at Fon
tainebleau. Her Majesty came into town two
dal s ago to preside at a last Council of Ministers,
before the general break-up; and is now, I fancy,
expecting a flying "call" of, a few hours from
‘'her sister Victoria of England, who is soon to
land at Cherbourg, and pass by Paris on her way
to Lucerne. The visit, however, will be strictly
private, and unaccompanied by- any external
demonstrations. The Parisian bourgeois are pre
paring for their fete of the 15th of August, which
they are likely to have all to themselves this
year; for even the few strangers whom it still
attracts to its now almost worn-out festivities
are, like every one else, eager to seek cooler
retreats than the streets of Paris.
The government here was recently accusel of
an intention of making the elections of deputie s
depend upon a relative, instead of an absOlate
majority of votes, as hitherto required. The
Minister of State denied this the other day in the
Chamber. But I have good reason to believe
that such an intention was really meditated,
though it may have been since abandoned. Very
often now It happens that the "government can
didate" has two opponents, who together poll
more votes than he does. On the second ballot
one opposition candidate withdraws, and his
voters then poll for the other, who is thus almost
sure to be elected,. It is the apprehension of thi s
result being general at the next elections which
causes the , government so much anxiety, and
proves to Wiwi much its prestigehas diminished
among the population.
I believe: there Is no foundation whatever for
the rumors of a pretended alliance, more than
what exists at presentr.between..the governments
of France, Belgium. and Holland.
The Prince - Napoleon; who haS returned from
his tour in - the'East, is now coasting in Uri yacht
along the, shores of Algeria and-Tunis, and is said
to bo ,about to,proceed to Spain to'give some
wholesome Imperid advice' to "our Cousin Isa
bella," whose frealisi• tlie:',.taiperof fears; may end
1 n placinga son of Louis Philippe on the throne.
The Emperor feels, also; that snub a reedt would
be hailed with - sathrfodtion by most peOple—
except himself. . Just as I write the abovel learn
that Prince Napoleon has fended from his yacht
ht St. Nazaire and come on to Paris. .
The accounts of the wine crop in Burgundy
PHILADELPHIA, .WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1868.
and hear Macon and Lyons, are magnificent.
The vines, say the local journals, "literally bend
beneath the weight of the grapes." The vin
yards of Beaujolais appear to be particularly fa
vored, and there the fruit has already attained its
full size, and begins to ripen. The proprietors
are in the highest spirits, and expect a splendid
yield, both as , to quantity and quality. As a
specimen of the productions of this exceptional
season as to fruit, I may mention that a musk
melon was purchased by a friend, the other day,
in the Paris Central Market, weighing 44 pounds,
and measuring 4 feet 2 inches in circumference.
The Emperor of Russia and his family are at
Kissingen ; the King of Prussia at Etna ; the
King and Queen of Belgium at eitta. . All royalty
bent on amusement' and recreation. The
Emperor Napoleon seems to be giving himself a
completehellday at Plombleres, and is reported
in eT e
11 nt health. He walks daily about the
little town, stopping to talk to: anybody ; some
times to the Cure, sometimes the Mayor, some
times a flower-girl (especially if the latter be
pretty), and in fact seems to be bent upon making
himself generally agreeable to all clams of his
subject&
The Manlege ofJ Adelina Patti.
' The Morning Herald furnishes the following
particulars of Patti's marriage, which took place
July 80, in London :
The long-talked of event in the musical circles
of Europe has at length taken place—there is no
longer an Adelina Patti—she is now Madame la
Marquise de Caux. The favorite "officier ordon
nance" of the Emperor of the French, and aide
de-camp of the Empress, as director of the Court
"cotillion," has carried off the prize. The mar
riage ceremony in France is both a civil contract
and a religions service, but as Rim. been decided
the nrifOrt ericmid be celebrated in this country,
the formalities became more complicated. Thus
the publication of "the banns took place at the
Maine of the prat arrondissement in Paris.
Here is a copy of the publication thereof.
"M. Louls-Sebastien-Henri de Roger de
Calauzac.- -Marquis de Caux,-fiLs - du - Comte -
t-t de Demoiselle /lug. et :de 17e-.
uemenement femme du Due de Va et
Wile. Adele-Jeane-Marie Patti. proprietaire, fille
de M. Salvatore Patti et de Catharine Bhirza,
ten tiers." The legal status being thus established
in the French capital, the domicile of the Mar
quis, then came the exigencies of English and
' , tench law with reference to London. The first
installment of the forms required was effected
last Monday, at the French Consulate, in the
city. His Grace the Duke of Manchester and
Mr. Costa were the witnesses of the contract for
Adelina Patti, and the Prince de la Tour
d'Auvergne, with M. Mare, the Secretary of the
French Embassy, officiated as "temoins" for
the Marquis. Now, so far as regards
Fn nch law this contract Is binding, but not so
with relation to the Church, and the
religious service was therefore performed vester
dsy, at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Clapham
Park road. Although as much privacy had been
exercised as possible, the marriage of a popular
prima donna could not take place without its
belrg known. The chapel was therefore com
pletely filled, and an immense crowd was col
tected at the exterior, unable to penetrate into
the edifice. Shortly after II o'clock the bridal
procession walked up to the altar. The brides
maids were Mdlle. de Candea (daughter of Mario),
Mdlle. Zanzl, Miss Mona Harris, and Mdlle.
Louisa Lan. The bride would have been weighed
down with the presents ofje welry she has received,
but with excellent taste all ornaments were dis
pensed with. She wore a white satin dress with
a very long train, trimmed only with a small frill,
the body and sash of the same material, trimmed
aith Brussels lave. The blonde vail covering the
bead, and orange blossoms, with the hair simply
dressed. composed the coiffure. The uniform of
the bridesmaid was a white muslin dress, with
light blue sashes and trimmings, and white tulle
bonnet decorated with forget me-flats. Father
Plunkett was the officiating priest. The marriage
ceremonial, with the exchange of the two rings,
the mutual declarations, and the giving of the
small coin concluded, low mass was performed.
The :marrlagejcertificate was duly signed in the
stt y, by the same witnesses as at Monday's con
tract. The ages of the newly-married couple were
given as 25 for the bride,and 42for the bridegroom.
The wedding breakfast was given at the resi
dence of Mdlle. Adelina Patti, Pierpont House,
A thensroad, Clapham Park. About 60 guests
were invited. A large tent was pitched in the
garden, and gaily decorated with the flags of
Italy, France, Spain, England and the United
States, the countries in which the fame of the
gifted artiste had been established. "The health
of the Marquis and Marchioness de Caux" was
proposed by Mr.C. L Graneison, who gave a short
sketch of the career of the prima donna since her
but at the Royal Italian Opera, dwelling par
ticularly also on the virtues of the artiste, which
had won for her so many friends in pri
vate life. The toast was received with
great enthusiasm. The Marquis and Mar
chioness left town in the evening for Paris, on
their way to Switzerland. Toward the close of
the ensuing month Madame Adelina Patti—for
that will continue to be her professional name so
long as she remains chrtthetstage, which will be
for two years more—will appear at Hamburg for
12 representations. In October she will reap
pear in Paris until December, and will then go
for two months to St. Petersburg, returning to
the French capital to complete her engagement at
tie Italian Opera House up to May, when she
lii again visit this country for the Royal Italian
Opera season. It may be necessary to explain
that, according to the French laws, no
forfeiture of title accrues, if any lady,
or gentleman, being noble, sings on the
stage. It was Louis xi - v., by an ordinance
dated March. 1672, countersigned Colbert, crea
ting the Academy of Music, who maintained the
prfilleges of the nobility if any members thereof
took to the stage. Alboni sang when she
was Countess Popoli, Sontag was the Countess
Rossi, Mario is the Count of Candle, Pauline
Lucca is the Baronness Von Randen, &c. La
Marquise do Canx will be received at the French
Court, the Empress of the French, who took a
hteat interest in her marriage with the Marquis,
aving personally told Adelina Patti that her
rank would be duly recognized. The newly
married couple have received the congratula
tions of the Prince and Princess of Wales, as well
as those of many leading members of the English
aristocracy.
The Quten's Speech.
At the time of ;the prorogation of the British
Parliament, the Lord Chancellor proceeded to
read her Majesty's speech, as follows:
My Lords and Gentlenten-1 am happy to be en
abled to release you from your labors and to offer
you my acknowledgments for the diligence with
which you have applied yourselves to your par
liamentary duties.
My relations with foreign Powers remain
friendly and satisfactory.• I have no reason to
apprehend that. Europe will be exposed to the
calamity of war, , :nd my policy will continue to
be directed to se tire the blessings of peace.
I announced to you at the • eginning of this
session that I 4id directed a! expedition to be
sent to Abyssini oil! & • envoy and others
of my subjects det s : r dby the rulerof that coun
try in an unjust captivity.
• I feel sure that you will share in my satisfac
tion at3he Completesuccess—vahlett-hae-attended
that expedition. After a march of four hundred
miles through a difficult and unexplored country,
my troops took the strong place of Magdala,
freed the captives and vindicated the hotior of my
crown ; and by their immediate return, without
one act of oppression or needless violence, proved
that the'expedition had been undertaken only in
obedience to the claims of htmanity-and in fulfil
ment of the highest duties of my. sovereignty.
The cessation of the long•continued efforts to
promote rebellion in Ireland has for some
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY
time rendered unnecessary the exercise of -the
exceptive of exceptional powers. I rejoice to
learn that no person is now detained under the
provisions of the act for the suspension of the
habeas corpus, and that no prisoner awaits trial
in Ireland for an offence connected with the Fe
nian conspira.
Gentlemen o ft he House of Commons: I have to
thank you for the liberaltupplies which you have
voted for the public service.
My Lords and Gentlemen: I have had much sat
isfaction in giving my assent to a series of meas
ures completing the great work of the amend
ment of the representation of the people in Par
liament, which has engaged your attention for
two sessions.
I have seen with satisfaction that the time ne
ar sarily occupied by this comprehensive sub
ject has sot prevented von dalling with other
questions of great public ,interest, and I have
gladly given my sanction to bills for the better
government of public schools, the regulation of
railways, the amendment of the law relating to
British sea fisheries, and for the acquisition and
maintenance of electric telegraphs by the Post
master General; and to Several Important meas
ures having for their object the improvement of
theta*, and of the civil and criminal procedures
in Scot land.
By the appointment of a Comptroller-in-Chief
in the War Office a considerable reform in army
administration has been commenced, which by
combining atlome and -abroad tire various de
partmenta ofninitary supply under one authority
will condueelo greater economy and efficiency
both in peace and war,
It Is my intention to dissolve the present Par
liament at the earliest day that will enable my
people to reap the benefit of the extended sys
tem of representation which the wisdom of Par
liament has provided for them. I look with en
tire confidence to their proving themselves wor
thy of the high privilege with which they have
thus been invested; and I trust that, under the
hiessingLof-Divine Providence, - the
their opinion of those great questions of public
policy which have occupied the attention of Par
liament and remain undecided, may tend to main
tain unimpaired that civil and religious freedom
which has been secured to all my subjects by the
institutions and settlement of_my_realizt_
. .
PUBLIC OPINION OF TLIJS BPF.F.CLI
'rho -1- .
speech on prorokitlim of Parliament.
The Telegraph says it is unusually well writ
ten.
The' London News says that the Queen is made
to talk Dianelism, and discovers something un
constitutional in the allusion to the Irish Church
question. The people have not to decide, as it is
made to say, whether civil and religions freedom
shall remain unimpaired. The question is, shall
the past monuments and vestiges of the civil in
feriority of the Irish nation, and of the ecclesias
tical ascendency of a scanty minority, be swept
away, and civil and religious freedom receive its
full development in Ireland?
The London Herald feels assured that the peo
ple will respord to the royal aspiration and sig
nify their will that those institutions which are
the guarantees of our civil and religions liberty
shall be maintained unimpaired and not sacri
ficed for the gratification of party interests and
individual ambition.
The London Times remarks that the congratu
latory reference to Ireland can only be satisfac
tory as the ii:elnde to a resolute attempt to root
out the cause of Irish discontent. In the para
graph alluding to the Irish Church the Times
discovers an attempt to denote the way in which
the new electors should use their power; but Mr.
Disraeli's phrases can exercise no greater influ
ence because he has embodied them in a royal
rucsbage.
The American Leg&oh for the Pope-A
tieneraPs liepiy to the American
Bishops.
PARIS, July 30, 1868.—T0 the Editor of the N.
Herald.—DßAß SIR: The publicity given to a
very uncalled for personal attack upon me by
four venerable Catholic prelates of America In
the Tablet, of New York, needs some reply, and
I trust that your columns will give a place to the
Orly vindication of myself which I care to offer
—the answer of the Pontifical Minister of War
to my report announcing the failure of my mis
sion to the United States:
MINISTRY OF AR3IS, MINISTERIAL DIFIRAII,
Rode, July 25, 1.868.--Ily Dear General: I have
received the letter which you were so good as to
address me on the 19th inst. I now forward
you the instructions of his holiness on the sub
ject of the question of the American volunteers.
These instructions, which are very formal,
SR. the entire abandonment of the project of
raising troops to which you had devoted your
generous efforts. In notifying you of this de
chien, which thus closes your mission, it is for
tee a satisfaction of conscience more even than a
uty to do justice to the zeal and devotion of
hich you have never ceased to give proofs in
this matter. It was through no fault of yours
that your mission was not attended with all the
succt ss which had been hoped for, and I trust
that you will know how to merit by your self
bnegation and submission, as you have hitherto
dune by your intentions and your actions, the
dratitude which attends all acts of disinterested
evotion. I beg you to accept the assurance of
that gratitude in the name of the Pontifical
Al iny and in my name personally, and to be
lieve always in my sentiments of high consider-
The General Minister of Arms: KAnizLErt.
To General Carroll Tevis.
I will only add to this:
1. That the project for raising volunteers from
the United States did not originate with me, but
was first started by pome gentleman in St. Louis,
Mo., whose repeated letters to the Pontifical Min
ister of Arms represented that both men and fund s were ready.
2 That I was chosen to organize the move
ment because I was considered capable of so
3. That it was never the intention to violate the
laws of the United States.
4. That I am in no wav responsible for the
opinion entertained by the Pontifical govern
ment of the devotion of all the clergy to their
chief.
5. That I have always maintained that the
speech of the worthy Archbishop of New York to
the Canadian volunteers, as quoted by the Now
York Herald some months back, and the phrase,
"Let but an intimation bo sent from Rome that
men aro wanted and America will do her duty,"
or words to that effect, was simply a figure of
speech, and should not be interpreted as a
promise of anything.
lam at a loss to conceive the object of the at
tack upon me; except that it was prompted by a
determination to defeat at any, cost a movement
In which they were unwilling to co-operate
themselves, but which „might have succeeded
without their assistance.
ruropeAM Items.
The Paris correspondent of the Herald, under
date of July 81st, furnishes the following:
—Mr. and Madame Van Zandt (Signora Van
zip') are just now in - 'Paris. Mrs. Van Zandt
played a very successful engagement at Covent
Garden, London, the past season and has engage
ments for two seasons to come. The Americans
made a great hit with oar English cousins the
past summer. Mrs. Van Zandt will probably
sing in Paris, at theqtallenS, this winter, a splen
did engagement having been offered by Bagier.
--General Dix baVing - Tecetved_a cage of three
weeks from the State Department, will soon leave
tor England to rejoin his family, which is spend
ing the summer on the seashore. The legation
will remain in charge of Colonel Hoffman, or of
Mr. John W. Dix, the very industrious assistant
secretary.
—Grand preparations are being made for the
fete of the 15th of August._ The Emperor will
undoubtedly be here, and it is not impossible that
the Queen of England will also be present on the
occasion.
HO=E.
CARROLL TEVU3
—Mr. Lorking G. Meade, Jr., of Florence, has
just passed through on his way to the United
Skate._ He has sent on a very finely conceived
design for the Lincoln Monument, at Soringaeld,
ill., which has attracted a great deal of attention
among the artists in Italy. His design will doubt
less receive from the - Committee on Designs the
attention its great merits entitle it to.
—A flood of Enallsb tourists is setting towards
Switzerland. The fact that her Majesty the
Queen will spend some time there has turned the
tide of travel in that direetien. The lines of
travel are crowded, and the hotels are over
flowing. The bulk of American tourists are al
ready among the mountains and lakes of that
glorious republic, and all Switzerland hears
the metaphorical ring of the almighty dollar.
—lt is a bad time for people of moderate means
to try to loiter among the popular places of Hel
vetia. The landlords are rapacious to the las
degree, and American tourists are so easily min
died that it is almost impossible for an old tra
veler to escape open robbery from these Swiss
hosts. A new guide-book should be written, or
the old ones' corrected, each year. Otherwise
nothing can be done to correct present evils in
the travelers, world.
—Mr. Cyrus W. Field appeared in Paris yester
day like the Hash of a comet, and like the Comet
he has disappeared, leaving no tale of his future
movements behind. The electric spark does not
begin to- get about with half the rapidity that
marks Mr. Field's wanderings.
—The heat, thanks to a storm, is much .less
oppressive. We begin to live again, in Spite of
cholera and all manner of summer
Poles in the Russian Army.
The Moscozs Gazette hall lately published a ae
ries of articles with the object of - showing that
the number of Poles in the Russian army and
civil service is far too great for the safety of the
empire. In the last of these artlelealt says that
in- the - army - one - Officer Iti - five Is ti - Piße and a
Catholic, while only 8 per cent. of the rank and
file are Poles. In some of the garrisons as many
as 90 per cent. of the officers are of Polish origin.
The following, it adds, is the proportion of Po
lish officers in the various arias of the service:
In fantry,23. s_per_cent_;_ca.valry,ls.7- per-cen
reserve cavalry, 82.6 per cent.; field artillery, 21.6
macrve Liiitry, .G.U.3 per e -ut.; Wand-
engineers, 22.2 per cent
ÜBITUAEUE
Adah Isaacs Menken, the actress to whose ex
ample may the successful origin of the nude drama
be attributed, died in Paris yesterday. In the
noontide of life, surrounded by everything that
could render the intoxicating nature of her pro
fession even more charming,she has been sudden
ly called away. The European journals have, in
their notices of the,late Miss Menken, during
her recent professional visit to P aris, men
tioned that on several occasi s she had
been prevented from sustaining her role through
sickness, but no indication of a fatal illness
was given us until the news of her death reached
here last evening by Atlantic telegraph. Miss
Adah Isaacs—for such was her maiden name—
was born in Chicago. about 1832 , . and was, con
sequently, at the time of her decease, about 36
years of age. She was well educated. Her first
husband was Mr. Menken, to whom she was
espoused ere her extraordinary adventures had
made her name celebrated. In 1860 Miss Menken
was introduced to New York by Mr. James
Nixon, then proprietor of the circus in Six
teenth street. Previous to this, her liaison
with John C. Heenan in California, to whom
she claimed to have been married, after her
divorce from Menken, made her far from a
stranger to the quid-nuncs of Gotham. Heenan's
subsequent disavowal of the marriage will still
be fresh in the public mind. By this time in
deed, Adah was the subject of public attention in
a most remarkable degree, as a woman of un
numbered conquests. Miss Menken's success on
the stage has been attributed to her fine figure,
easy carriage, and thoroughly debonnaire de
portment. Shortly after the breaking out of the
Rebellion she became the help -meet of Mr R.
H. Newell, bibtter known to the literary world
as Orpheus C. Kerr. This alliance, how
ever, as in the preceding cases, was far
from being happy, and be fore a year
bad passed the nuptial tie had been again broken.
In 1864. Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of the Thea
tre Royal, Astley's, London, engaged Miss
Menken for a season, to appear in the drama of
Mazeppa, a piece with which her name will be
forever connected. This was produced at Easter,
and for an entire season, and indeed part of the
season following, was the rage of the English
metropolis. Despite the storm of criticism her
appearance in the character of Mazeppa evoked,
the season was an enormous success in a pecu
niary point of view. The season lotto wing, Miss
Adah Isaacs bleaker': appeared in the original
drama written for her by Mr. John Brough um,
entitled The Child of the Sun. Tuts. iti
predecessor, was an utter failure. After this,
Miss Menken _herr time in Europe, and
during the , esent year was playing in P uric to
crowds oases. Tb 9, more recent celebrities
with w om her name has been associ tted in un
enviable notoriety, were Alexander Dumas, the
novelist, and the young English poet, Algernon
Swinburne,whom rumor has credited with being
engaged in editing a volume of the lute Miss
Menken's poetical compositions.—N. Y. Tribune,
HAY lir.
A Hairs in Port au Prince—lite Distnis.
sat of Refugees by the A merican
I Minister Desired.
PORT AD PRINCE, July 28, 1868.—The govern
ment here is very confident. The President re
gards the British Chargé d'Affaires as the author
of the rebellion and considers British interven
tion as the cause of the present condition of the
country. The American Minister has observed
the strictest rule of non-intervention, giving, with
Admiral Hoff, Commodore Boggs and Captain
Eastman, such moral support as is usual in such
casts. Jacmel is surrounded by the government
troops and soon will be retaken. The common
people are loyal to the President if left to them
selves.
The insurrectionary -chiefs, who are early,
white, are the only obstaele'in the way.
The story reported in the Kingston papers that
the refugees had all been turned out of the Amer
ican (Jonsulate is a wicked falsehood, which the
author has beerhobliged to apologize for. The
American flag has covered for many weeks two
hundred persons, Ind they have all been fed by
the Amencans. and
of the other powers
have furnished any food to refugees. It was a
political falsehood got up for filibustering pur
poses.
Accident ftt the Grant Reception in
Galena.
[From the lalalona (Ill.) Gazette of Agg. al
Lieut. A. V. Richards met with a severe acci
dent last evening, while engaged with the artil
lery detachment at firing the' cannon. It was
caused by the premature discharge of the gun.
Lieut. Richards was handling the ramrod at the
time, standing almost in front of the gun. Tao
ramrod was still in the gun, and the discharge
burled it a distance of thirty roda", to Bench
street. Lieut. Richards was thrown a distance
of ten feet from the gun,
and his face, arms and
body badly burned. The flesh on his left arm
and breast was shockingly torn, probably by
the wadding from the gun. The boys at once
picked him up, and it was soon ascertained that
no bones were broken, and that the wounds wore
not likely to prove fatal. The worst fears were
that one or both of his oyes were destroyed, as
he was unable to open either. of them. He rested
quite well last night, and his physicians think to.
day that neither of his eyes are permanently in
jured. His injuries are principally flesh wounds,
and not dangerous. Gen. Grant called on him
this morning.
Mr. J. H. Bascom, of this office, who was'
thumbing the vent, had his thumb and hand
quite severely injured. Powder was blown into
his face and left eye, but his injuries arc not so
bad as to confine him to the bowie.
F. . L
F.RIGE THREE CENTS.
FACTS AND EAriollip;
—Says the Boston Gazett3 in an old number
of the Carpet Bag we and the following poem by
the late Charles G. Halpine. This was long before
the advent of "Miles.O'Reiley," and the verses
were published under the signature of " Charles
Broad bent."
di
In early days ere Common Sense
And Genius had in anger parted,
ThAy made to'friendship some pretence
Through each (Heaven knows) 'diversely
hearted
To hunt for mushrooms once they went,
Through nibbled aheepwalka straying onward,.
Sense with his dull eyes earthwanl - bent,
While Genius shot his glances sunward.
Away they go, on roll Mahouts,
And towards the West the day-god edges,—
See ! Genius holds a wreath of flowers,
Fresh culled from all the neighboring hedges
Alas 1 ere eve their bright hues flit,
While Common Sense (whom I so doat on !)
Thanked God " that he had little wit,"
And drank his ketchup with his mutton.
—Ed. Forrest is in Boston.
—Queen 'Victoria's chief cook gets $3,600.
—A Providence lover married a damsel in court
rather than stand her breach of:promise suit.
—When's little love leads to marriage, may
be-said that mite makes rite.
—The first passenger horse railroad In Pater-.
son, N. J., is under way.
—Wolves are ravaging the sheep folds of Rota
ton, Me.
—Five thousand people walked in the funeral
procession of Father Spaulding, at Louisville.
—Thorean's Walden Pond has become a haunt
of picnickers.
—Maly Clemmer Ames say&
_vinnie Reant's
Statute of Lincoln is a "ghostly Corpse in clay."
—George c oun t ry , opera singer once well
known in this died lately near Milan.
—Mrs. Commodore. Vanderbilt has been
stricken with paralysis.
—A desirable_place for_hot_weather—the—tens--
pie of Isis.
or we sink."
—The New. York Herald rejoices that the
• French government prohibits its circulation in
that country.
—TheQueen has decorated a drummer and a
private with the Victoria cross, for gallantry in
the assault upon Magdala.
—The only leading cities in the Union which
have no - quarto dailies are Washington, Boston
and Baltimore.
—Mrs. Lincoln, having abandoned her pro
jected European tour, will spend the remainder
of the summer at Cresson Springs.
—On the same day Peoria, 111., had'a riot, e
robbery, an elopement, a suicide and several fu
nerals.
—Two Chattanooga sports have made a bet on
the election, in which the loser is to eat a fall
grown rat fried in butter.
—Mrs. John Tyler, now in Washington, is the
only widow of a President on whom Congress
has not confefred the franking privilege.
—The Prince of Wales seems infatuated with
Schneider. The "infatuation" began and was no
torious in Paris.
—A pning swell wishes to know if living on
tighter. the Isle un
of Wight made Alfred Tennyson a
—The Chinese giant Chang, eight and a half
feet high, is one of the sensations of the London
st. eels. Changhigh would be a good name for
him.
—ln Nevada, a contemplative Digger Indian
eat watching a party of base ball players, who
seemed to him to be working very hard. Turn
ing to one of them, he asked: "How much you
get one day?"
—Flies are all dying in Nashville, and it is re
marked that the manner of their dying is similar
to that which has been observed several times be
fore the coming of a sweeping and terrible epi
demic.
—The Geneva (N. Y.' Courier says: "At att auction held in this vile last Saturday. bio
g,raphy of ex-President Pierce, with a steel-plate
el gloving, was offered, and the highest and only
btu that could be cotained was me ceni a at which
sum it was struck off."
—Mr. Murray will shortly bring out a history,
by Earl Stanhope, of the reign of Queen Anne
until the Peace of Utrecht, which .7111 be a con
ecting link between the conclusion of Lord Ma
caulay's history and the beginning of Lord Stan
hope's (Lord Mahon's.)
—"A Head" of the New Orleans Crescent hair
had an interview with "Artemus Ward" through
the medium of "Planchette," and the spirit of the
humorist said: "I'm Ervin to Jigger up how I
could give away $25,000 at my deth, when, ac
cording to reports eence, I didn't hey but five."
—A cotemporary says that whenever the month
of July has been unusually hot, the following
month has been correspondingly cool. It is in- -
7atiably true that the warmest Julys are followed
by the coolest Augusts, and rice versa. If this
law ie followed this year, the thermometer this
month will average only about 65 degrees.
—The Washburn brothere, Israel, Sidney,
Elihu; Cadwallader,Charles, Samuel and William
A. D., residents of nearly as man; States as there
are persons in the family, have erected a summer
teslacnce on the old homestead at Livermore,
Blaine. Ills a beautiful spot, with mountain
scenery in the distance, and bordered with fine
old elms. The new mansion is sufficiently spa
cious to accommodate the" Brothers," their wives,
ar d children, and such guests as they wish to-In
vite The father, Israel Washburn, Esq., up
wards of eighty years of age is still liviug, and
in excellent health. Here these families meet
each year, in a social reunion, which lasts during
the entire "hot season."
—Not long ago the Vice-Chancellor's court in
Lot. don was occupied during the whole of one
day with a case involving a copyright to a song.
The words were slightly different and there war:
no sense in either. Here is one stanza of the
song in dispute. It should be 'laid that "Sally"
is supposed to be in jail for a petty offence, and
thet singer proposes to take her thence to the
by thermal altar:
Now Sally she was a feminine fair;
And to me was beyond compare;
How much I adore her carroty h. - ir
I'm sure I really can't tell.
Her father sold bak'd taters in a tr. -
Her brother he was .a tall policeman;
Her mother a washing and ironing began;
Shan't I be glad when Sally comes home;
When Sally comes home, when Saiy eolne
home;
Shan't I be glad when Sally comes home;
'For she's coming home in the morning.
—The last volume of Guizot's memoirs is ex- -
cmdingly interesting, and shows that l•mais
Philippe was constantly haunted with fears of
his impending downfall. Queen Victoria told
Guizot one day she knew ot no, old man whom
the liked better than the Orleans King. "You
Monsieur Guizot," she said' to the Minister,
"your royal master eo naected, so olite,
cud yet so eimple-hearted." u An ff d then she p told
him that, when she visited the court of Louis
Philippe, the King promenaded one day with her 6
along the magnificent peach-trellises in the palace -
garden of
(Ted with peaches so large didt -- ftne that the
Queen buret Into an Exclamation of delight, and
said to the King she would like to eat one. The
old King climbed up the trellis; plucked the finest
peach he could find, and presented it to her Brit-
:mule Majesty. The Queen took it, but seemed
not to know kow to get it peeled. The King,
however, immediately_ drew a knife from his
pocket and presented it' to Victoria, saying-,
laughingly, "A man like me, your Majesty, who
often had to live on forty sous a day, carries all
such little practical Instruments about him."
ON. Pallslfir