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cess, if any drama of this sort does. Those who
are partial to spectacle cannot demand 'anything
more beautiful in design and execution. The
scenic effects are rich and magnificent, and they
have the greater merit of startling originality.
The costumes are peculiar, and often exceedingly
Handsome. The dancing of the ballet troupe led
33onfanti and Sohlke is of the best- description.
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%lye than it is intrinsically, by her excellent act
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AT TILE A3TEEICAN this eveningithere will be
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entertainment besides.
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SHORT NOTES BY A SUMMER
TOUUNST•
The New Opera House In Leipzilfr--
something. Concerning the Dresden
s•Voiieltrlese.».. .
teorressoadsnes of the Phlls.Evanins Ballotin.l
Pants, 16th August, 1868.--Whilst sojourning
in Leipzig, about a week ago, I took' ousel= to
examine the magnificent new Opera House that
stands opposite the Musetun, upon 'the sinteknO
and beautiful Augustus Platz. The opera for the
evening was Fleitoir's every pretty, piquant Afar
.
tha, and its performance every way worthy of
the renowned city wherein It was given. Kapp
chilly was the orchestra deserving of all com
mendation. It comprised some sixty of the'
leading musicians of the theatre itself, and of the
(anions Gewandthaus, and it executed the-various
accompantmenta with infinite ;'precision • and
matehleas taste. , The troupe upon e ,atage
consisted of the regular vocalists who hold °Per
=anent position here trader the government cof
King John but I noticed more thin ...he name
underlined as furloughed because , r minuet
vacation privileges or Bicknell& In , - the Lea
.
nel of the evening . was a tenor from Frankfurt,
on the Main, put deism upon the play-bill as
"Gast" (Guest.) it is rather of the costly edifice
and of ,Its Interlard' equipments, however, that I
would write. •
The Royal Opera House, of. Leipzig, then, was
erected between the yeara 1864-67, after plans by
Oberbaurath, (chief building advisor,) Lang
hens, and developed under the personal superin
tendence of a builder, named Dose It presents
a vast palatial front of piston stone, with six
arched alcoves, underneath which runs a car ,
rine-way, resting upon the street. Surmount
ing these, rise as many symmetrical pillars which
support the elaborately carved fagade beneath
the two sloping sides of the roof. On either
side of said columns a beautifully rounded bastion
like edifice swings around to the rear,
where a marble pavilion and terrace invite the
promenader le the entr'actes to the cool shades
and gushing fountains of the Schwanenteich
(swan-pond,)) in a garden through which run
many avenues far around to the magnificent rail
way stations of the city. 1 have no meaes of
knowing -its actual proportions, but the entire
edifice cavers a vast area—second only to the new
building now in course of construction in Paris.
Its cloak-rooms and lobbies, restaurant and other
internal features of the kind, are very spacious,
and most elaborately frescoed. Splendid por
traits of Mendelsaohn Beethoven, Mozart and
other renowned tone-inasnere, grace
,the elegant
portals of the various places of entree. The Au
ditorium contains an imnienseparquet,and a con
tracted parquet circle, but above these rise five
sweeping rows or tiers.. Immediately touching
the:spacious stage, the eye takes in nine very
roomy private boies- a three abreast—the central
on either side devoted to the use of the Royal
family. They are very elaborately aurrichly fur
nished, and as in all other parts of
the theatre, present a background
of crimson plush, like ours in Philadelphia. Not'
the least noticeable in this'-beautiful temple of
the Muses are the universal flatness and taste
fulness of thegiltcareing. along the entire front
of the tiers, as well as the artistic finish 'of the
numerous frescoes upon the, ceiling. The chan
delier that chiefly serves to illumine the and
torium, is rely inferior to that of the Philadelphia'
Academy, in Its construction as well as in the
quail tity, of light supplied. ..As to acoustic effect,'
there - stems to be no flaw In that particular, and
what though its size be enormous, the Lady
Harriet of the evening filled its every pars with
no seeming tax upon her physical powers; and the
large audietice Wooed with decorous attention,
despite the discomforts of a high Fahrenheit
temperature. The opera in all of the German
cities commences at 6P. M. and closes at 9, thus
affording enthusiastic votaries of music to pass
a couple of hours before midnight in the num
biziess-gasdet
beautiful music for three silber groschen.
On the Brunt Terrasse, along the Elbe, at
Dresden, one may have a concert of five parts—
comprising waltzes. quadrilles, and opera pot
pourris, intermingled with a solid symphony of
Beethoven, for the past named price.
And speakinp of this latter city brings me to
its yearly so-called rogel-totise, a wild, anneal
earnavalistic fair, which requires no second view
to remain ever memorable.
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vo el-
.Tiobne,Gel g rnin res w ge d °Jeliesllloiriwits
firs t Ek.o hundreds years ago the nobility and gentry of Saxony
were wont to meet upon an open field just out of
Dresden, to essay their skill at shooting down a
wooden bird at from considerable altitude with the
old-fashioned cross-bow. And this custom ob
tains to this very day, only that from year to
year it has gradually become the occasion for a
vast concourse of people of all conditions, and
an opportunity for the sale of knick-nacks from
impromptu booths, outside shows, and, In short,
a fair of such proportions as almost to eclipse
the far-famed Leipzig ...lfe.me.
When I came uponaliegrormd, late in the after
noon of a Saturday, the throng was so dense as
almost to defy locomotion. So I flanked the
area by a wide circuit and came upon the shooting
temple--a very prettily constructed receptacle for
the actual subscribers to the sport and their ac
coutrements. Immediately in front arose a
perpendicular pole to the height of eighty to
ninety feet, surmounted by an already well
riddled image of a colossal bird. The eogel
waesers had been essaying their skill for some
days prior to my advent, and there was nothing
left or the mark but a somewhat attenuated body,
one wing, and a well perforated head.
" It must require an immense amount of skill to
strike the object at all at that distance. What
would be a trifling feat with' a rifle becomes ex
ceedingly difficult with a lead-laden arrow from
an antiquated cross bow. But there was one
elderly individual—a Herr vonlomehody—who
causasome of the c fly at every • shot ;
and every one upon the ground seemed to accord
the grand prize to him, as a foregone conclusion.
The man who kept the tally called forth each
marksman with a loud voice ,• Herr Hof-
Possamentier so and so—Herr Haupt
mann des 19ten Regiments, . Potstau
s en d ,r-Hof-Lieferant Musikalien Hamad
ler Leuth—Baron Von Schre,ckenstein—and fifty
other high sounding professional. commercial,
or nobility titles. Passing from this central
point into the long avenues of booths, the meta
morphosis was that of a first class pantomine, at
the moment when cavaliers, princes and fairies
undergo the magic.al transformation, and the
down with a vociferous " How are ye," knocks
down • Pantaloon. The Seine at four o'clock,
when each petty exhibition commenced its of performance, beggars all description.
Each had its quartette or sextette of brass instru
ments—the performers attired in grotesque
costumes—engaged in an attempt to drown
the ~tones of its ' rivals, in a manner
that made the two opposite election bands, at
EatansWille a trifling matter.. -
And above the horrid, discordant dirk arose the
hoarse shoats of the 'outside showmen in frantic
efforts to lure the Saxim peasantry Into forsooth
the Theatre Francais, the Cirque ea miniature, or
the Lebende Rieder (Living Pictures, or Model
Artistes.) Hundreds of - revolving wheels of for
tune, placed in front of a vast array Of knick
knackl;from a handsome clock, in glass case, -
down to a bit of soap, threw oat to the gaping
crowd the lucky or unfortunate numbers of
those who had essayed to win' by th4tmode of
lottery.' Here was to be seen a circus rformed
entirely by apes, clogs and ponies, in. froat of
which a genuine Amedean_darkel . ,—clad aa a--
. a e, danced. a veritalhe Virginia - hoe-down; by
way of alluriug the gaping crowd; there a small
tent put forth a daub representing Neptune and
his Nereids, with an inscription promising a
living display of the same, by artistes from the
- Jardin Mahal° de Faris. The man with
the dancing bea too, had his
booth; so be of the ha ppy Family, • and the ser
pent charmer, I noticed nine different wizzards
from "Calcutta and various parts of China and
Japan." licenen sue dem Theater , kben, (Scenes
from theatrical life,) promised illustrated episodes'
from behind die coulisses whatever that, might
mean, and as I stoo d in front of this
place, the outside showman, grasping my
arm very confidentially, assured me in
an under-tone "no pictures; real woman,
and the show is for gentlemen only." And bi the
midst of all this mad carnival, more than one im
provised beer saloon lured the thirsty with the
announcement of " aechtes Saieriachte.Bier aria
Cultnbach,;' and a good concert' thrown in. -An
enormous business these temples of Gauffnintta
`did ! Beer is cheap here, and thepoorest peasant
may 'drink himself full without a ruinous , drain
upon his exchequer.
I shall not endeavor to .compute the numbers
of revolvh3g, or sia.called flying homes and car ,
riages, • or the, multitudinous platforms :for the,
merry waltz and. polka. As far as the eye could
gtarp the scene, one wild tumultuous whirl of
' rustle mirth and rough gaiety swept on with
'ever-increasing Abandon. And at night the entire
Vogel uiese was illuminated by a succession of
gorgeous fireworks, ordered by the Bing, and
executed by some of the foremost pyroteeimitits -
of Germany. By this time all of the hitherto
pent-up working classes of , Dresden had been
added to the dense throng of the day; and the
glaring effulgence of, eackparticular piece in the
programme lighted up, fully one hundred and
fifty thousand fam, all radiant with pleasure.
Frightful Accident to an American In
thki.vitzeriantt—A Hair -- breadth
lti•cape.
A correspondent of the Boston GaLe• Ile Benda
the following account, of a thrilling adventure
upon 3 SW/3s glacier:
Au American gentleman has been the hero of
a hair breadth escape in Bvritzerland. He went
up to Mt. Blanc, intendlnp to ascend the mond
tal-- at least as hilgh as La Calotte. When he
reached Les Grandllulets he found the weather
so threatening he determined to abandon his
original design. There were several parties -in
the hat at Les Grande inlets and their guided
were unanimously of opinion his decision was '
Judicious. lie had for guide a German from
Zermatt The several parties at the hilt
merged into one caravan fer security's
sake. these mountain excursions
all parties lash themselves together with
ropes, so that it any or many of them tall, the ,
strength and skill of all the guides may be ex
erted tctprevent the fall from proving fatal. The
pa tbs never quit or always abut on some abyss
many hundred feet or yards deep. The German
guide from Zermatt refused to join the Ro
man or French guides who were the pioneers
of all the other parties found at Les Grande
Mulcts. He was jealous of them and feared
they would accuse Min of behag unable to
come down the mountain alone. They ridi
culed him for his refusal. Finding him
proof against their laughter they set out. In a
few minutes he with the American gentleman
followed them. When the Gentian and his em
ployer reached the first wide crevasse to be met
the latter tripped and fell. He brought down
the guide with him. These crevassasare to be
crosfed only by ladders. Lnpleily the crevasse
formed so narrow a curve where they fell they
were able by thrusting their feet into clefts and
by supporting themselves on theirarms to save
themselves from falling into the abyss six hun
dred feet deep under them. Evidently they could
not long remain in this position. The guide
very injudiciously began cutting steps with his
hatchet In the ice (which be still retained) care
less of the danger into which the least slip would
plunge himself and his employer. A slip was to
be feared, for he was almost blinded by the blood
which flowed from a dreadful gash he had re
ceived on the forehead when he fell. The Ameri
can had escaped uninjured. • The guide who had
most exerted himself to deter the German from
coming alone • down the mountain had kept a
constant watch on his movements whenever he
i • it • It 111
set out soon after the caravan. Fail
ing repeatedly to see him at places where
he should have been discovered,the Roman guide
became uneasy and at last resolved to go back to
make sure no accident had befallen them. He
found them in the dangerous position I have de
scribed. He communicated with the caravan,
which made all haste to retrace their steps and
when they saw what had occurred they lent their
role to be used in the salvage of the unhappy
men. The guide fastened the rope around him
sell ard then fastened it around his employer.
They were sately drawn up. The American gen
tleman betrayed no emotion when at last he was
rescued from the jaws of Death.
Sctange Conduct
_oi Queen Victoria
in Paris.
The Paris correspondent of the Boston Gazette
TV riles as follows of the extraordinary behavior
01 Queen Victoria in Paris:
The Queen of England has given great offence
here. Her wanton disregard of etiquette
(which is almost the only virtue to be found In
courts) is un onable. The - French Colart hu
mored her w • s as if she had been a spoilt
child. All the customary forms insisted on (and
on which the French lay a great deal of stress)
whenever any foreign vessel of war or state
enters the roadstead of a navy yard were waived.
The State visits of officials were dispensed
with. The Emperor sent his own
courier Charles to arrange_everything
that the Queen might be ascomfortable
as possible. As the Western railray's imperial
train had no sleeping cars that of the , Eastern
railway was sent down to Cherbourg. The mo
ment her yacht anchored a telegram was put in
her hands; it was dated Plombierea,and was from
the French Emperor bidding her welcome to
France and offering her his best wishes. With
characteristic sellishness and, indifference to
others' wishes she ordered the curtains of her
- carriage - to-be - drawn-as-elose'as-possiblei and in
this way they remained until Lord Lyons ap--
peared at the door in the Paris rail
way station. She had scarcely been ush
ered into her rooms. at the English Em
bassy than she waved everybody out of it. She
remained by herself until breakfast was served.
No persons were admitted to the breakfast table
except her children. The moment breakfast was
over she went—still all by herself—into the Em
bassy's garden. Here she sat under a tree read
ing one of Prince Albert's favorite authors until
the Empress was expected. Site made no change
hi her attire. She received the • Empress in the
traveling dress she had worn all through the
night. As soon as the Empress's outrider was
seen, the Queen went to the porch of the Em
bassy to greet her. Their suites were left
in one drawing-room and went to the state
drawing-room next the throne-room, where they
remained in conversattoillialf an hour. In the
course of this conversation the Queen said to the
Empress : "Use your gracious influence on the
Emperor, Madam, to prevent a war which tears
children from mothers." After the Empress
withdrew the Queen retreated to the'garden and
took up her book. Consternation reigned in the
Embassy. Was not the. Queen going to return
the Empress's visit? After waiting three-quar
ters of an hour Lord Lyons went to the Queen
and reminded her the Empress was expecting-her
visit. _ The_Queen replied the. Empress could not
expect her visit, she had seen how ill she was.
Lord Lyons reminded the Queen had 'been
agreed before her arrival the Empress should pay
the first visit and the Queen should immediately
return it. The Queen replied she Was entirely
too ill to go anywhere, and it w'as absolutely im
possible for her to visit the•Empress;.it had al
-ready-iaskedlier-povrerterthentive-
the Empress's visit. The Queen got up, quitted •
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
the garden, went to her room, and there re
mained till dinner-time. Meantime the Empress
and her suite waited impatiently at the Palace
of the Elyede for the Queen to make her appear
ance. Tbe Em reel to give as little trouble as
possible to the Queen had considerately made the
Elyeee her residence for the day. The Elyse© Is
not , thirty yards from the English Embassy.
After waiting three hours the Empress undressed
and returned to Fontainebleau. Lord Lyons is
'said to be extremely mortified by •this incident.
Nell !musty be. Dinner was served the Queen
'at six o'clock. She allowed none but her family
to be present. Lord Lyons was invited to the
royal. table neither at breakfast nor at dinner—a
want of cirertetiy and breach of etiquette without
precedent; After dinner the Queen left for
. Switzerland.
re aria, ,/aundatiott-411n Expected
-
. . Attack. ,
. _
A Correspondent in Rome writes:
The iioneof government continues its efforts to
make, the , world believe that a new, Garibaldian
Invaslon , threatens its existence, and, deriving its
information from the Italian bishops respecting
the `preparations of Garibaldlan"committees in
"marionsliarte of the peninsula, frames diplomatic
`aieei . oil* thereon wherewith to demonstrate to'
thetatholie
_powers that the Holy Bee is again
in danger. Such. sepresentations, however, are
entirely unfOunded, as are the reports which have
found Admittance into several Confluentsl jour
nals ofmines having been discovered under the
new l'Ortoll the Aventine liiii,in Rome,of sentries
having been shot at their poste; of cannon
being placed at • the gates of the city and
all the taverns outside the walls closed by supe
rior orders. It is, doubtless more than ever, the
policy of 31ie Papal governinent to spread the
try of alarm at the present moment, when in
consequence of a convention having been sig ned
on the 31st nit In Florence between the French
Ambassador, De Maralet, and the Italian Web?,
ter. Menabrea, regulating the payment of a por
tion of the Pontifical debt by the Italian govern
ment„ there is every probability that the latter
Will request and obtain the withdrawal' from
Pontifical territory of General Raordes brigade
of French, troops, which still occupy the, pro
vinces of Chita Vecchia and Viterbo.
Apropos of the weather, I must allude to the
almost unparalleled occurrence at this time of
the year of a sudden and violent inundation of
the Tiber on Thursday last, owing to an enor
mous waterspout, as we must call it rather than
storm of rain, which on the preceding day burst
over the provinces of Sabina and ilmbria, whose
rivers and torrents are chiefly tributaries of the
Tiber, and swelled the latter river in a few hours
to twelve feet above its usual level. The
damage committed all along the course of the
various streams, so , suddenly swollen into
furious torrents, was evident at Rome by
the carcasses of sheep and cattle whirled
down by the yellow current, with occasionally
the corpse of some poor shepherd or herdsman;
haystacks, straw huts, palings,
trees and great
quantities'of melons and other fruit, and hemp,
the staple products of the provinces of Riots antl
Terri. Considerable depots of lime were also
waited from the mountains' sides into the Tiber,
and - consequently fish were killed by thousands,
and netted or even taken out of the.water by the
hands of the common people, who, like wreckers
on a dangerous coast, were all the day employed
in hauling to shore the plunder of all sorts borne
down by.the impetuous element. , Everybody who
could get into or manage a boat did so on the
occasion, and others with ropes, hooks and nets
got their share of the prey. As to fish, it was
haWked about- the city at a soldo, or cent, a
pound.
The excavations at the Emporium were, of
course,' flooded and some damage done, bat for
' tnnately the precious blocks of marble lately dis
covered were not washed away, although one of
the workmen was, and with, difficulty, saved
from drowning. The masses of precious ancient
marbles now restored to light are being trans
ported to the Belvidere court, in the Vatican,
and will be devoted by the Po pe chiefly to 'tile
restoration or adornment of religious edifices, in
consideration of their having been chiefly quar
ried by persecuted early Christians condemned
by the Roman emperors ad metalla. Some of
the finest, however, are destined to the moan•
etib-it---the-C-ampo - Salgo cum
memoration of the battle of Mentana. His Holiness
gives other blocks to the churches of Bt. Paul at
the three fountains, the Pantheon, which is to be
repaved with giallo antico, and St. Thomas, of
Canterbury, in reconstruction at the English
College near the Farnese Palace, but devotes the
chief part of the marbles to the completion of the
great basilicas of Bt. Peter and Bt. Paul extra
muros. The more precious specimens of pietra
Jura are to be employed in the decoration of
altars. Some are to be sent as presents to Lima
and Peru, and some very rare agates will be em
ployed in a new altar which the Pope is about to
enact in the Church of Bt. Andrew della Valle in
honor of St. Andrew Avellino, the saint, who is
especially invoked for protection against apo
plectic strokes,
The New President of Princeton (N. J.)
College.
[Flom the Dublin Evening Dan. of Angina 1 5th-]
lhe Rev. James McCosh, D. D., LL. D., of Bel
fast, having been appointed to the-College-of
Princeton, United States of America, his many
friends in the Northern Capital decided that he
should have a more substantial memento of the
high respect felt for him than mere words indi
cate. They accordingly, in a very short time,
raised sufficient finds to present him .'with a
suitable testimonial, and in the articles selected
show refined taste, combined with a strict re
gard to the neefuL The testimonial consists of a
very handsome silver engraved hexagon coffee
pot, teapot, sugar bowl, cream ewer, hot milk
Ong, slop bowl, tea kettle, twenty-aim-inch sal
ver and waiter. The following inscription is
inscribed upon the'salver:—"Presented to the
Rev. James McCosh, D. D., LL. D.. President of.
the College of Princeton, United States, as a
memorial of the respect and attachment of the
many friends of various denominations he la_
left behind him In Irehuld.—Belfaat,Augnst,lB6B
- n all the tithnt articles the Doctor's monogram
is engraved in a very tasteful and artistic man
ner. A very beautiful, massive gold bracelet,
intended for Mrs. McCook', accompanies the
above.
A Copenhagen correspondent speaks of two
Yankee girls who are making a sensation in mu
sical circles thereabouts. Their artistic names
are Arlie Carle and Mlle Calisto, and European
cities give them high praise. A gentelman of
great musical taste, who saw Mlle Calisto in "La
SOMElambula," said:--"I assure you had I heard
her sing at the opera in Paris I would have ap
plauded her. Calisto is a New Hampshire
woman, who might easily pass for a French wo
man. lahe is small, piquant, with something of
the coquettish air, of Adelhaa Patti. M'llsaCarie
has the same aplomb and savair faire as her lively
companion, but her air and appearanc6 betoken
her New England origin. 3l'lle Carle made a suc
cessful debut in opera at Copenhagen.
The First Bale of North Carolina
A Newburr,t, N. C.. letter says :
"'The first bale of New - Cotton raised north of
Georgia this.year was • eold'at public auction in
Newborn, North Carolina, amid' much enthusi
on_Friday_lasi, ar323,-‘e per pound, . James
.IL'Atotrrhead &Co,-being the purchasere: - .lt was`
taken to New York flee of charge 'by Murry
line of steamers, and will be sold - there t aae
.
"On the 28th ult., at Newburn; a iittle
boy 10 years old- atabbed, with a large, butcher
knife, and s almont ,instanthr UN: ' 1
-- git4 - while -- quarrellitk on tyeTjttent: about• a
ROILLE.
IRELAND.
Two American Singers.
Cotton.
POLITICAL.
nobert Letter Indoniing
• Grant and Colfax. •
Among the letters read at the Republican mass
meeting in. Richmond, Va., last week, was the
subjoined from Mr. Robert Bolling, a connection
by marriage of the Lee family. The Richmond
correspondent of the Petersburg Express, in re.
ferring Wee letter, says : "I need not say- that
it has excited the most profound surprise and
regret, here, and many wish sincerely that it
bad never been published. That such a man
could have conceived and uttered the sentiment*
which this letter contains, no one here could
be persuaded to believe." The letter is as fol.-
_
lows`:
.Stn;; I hive the honor to acknowledge the Inv/-
Asthma of your Committee' to address tne Grant
and Colfax ratification meeting,. to be held-in
Richmond on Ale 25th inst and would .gladly
accept it but, for "9.. unavoi dable absence from
the State at that +l ,, e. For all the,poverty, au
guleh and oppression'which the people of Vir
ginia and the whole South heve endured with un
exampled fortitude crone .lpril.l7, 1861, down to
this very moment,. the Democratic party is, in my
humble judgment,wholly responsible; and all the
oditina which they have succeeded in attaching to
the, Republican , party' She Democracy, richly
of
deserve.. The peace and prosperity the whole
ccrantry and the existence of the Federal
Union is now more definitely threatened Mania
1860. The:Warlike intent was indignantly-dis
claimed., To-day ititpubliely declared that "se
cession l not dead; that the lost cause is to le
regained," and that in, the event of the election
of Seymour and Blairit is substantially declared
that the Federal army shall be compelled to enh
vert the loyal State GoVernments now estab
lished. Neither by the. bullet or the ballot can
those State Governments be subverted for some
time to come, without involving the Whole coun
try in a war of such magnitude and horror that
in comparison with which the late rebellion
was a pastime. In fact, the Democracy are
already as bad as their word, and even mow
a merciless, savage warfare, to the full extent of
their power. Is waged upon all men, white or
black, native or foreign born, who do not enlist
under their banner. Slavery more intolera
ble than that which has just passed away *exists
in full force throughout Virginia—the enslave
ment of the human mind. The exercise of the
right of private judgment and freedom of speech
is sought to be punished or controlled by the
most inhuman denunciations, slanders and
threats of social, political and commercial out,
lawrv. Blair pledges war. Grant pledges peace,
I
and honestly believe that upon the election of
Gen. Grant, the peace and happiness of oar peo
ple wholly depend. Very respectfullyyours,
ROM BOWAN°.
The Attempted Assassination of State
oenator Wheeler, of orkaanato—ills
Own Account of the Affair.
A Chicago paper publishes the following letter
from Hon. Stephen Wheeler, addressed to a near
relative in that city, giving the particulars of the
recent attempt to murder him
"Lrrrem Roca, Aug. 16, 1868 —Dear On
Tuesday, the 4th inst., I started from Searcy with
the intention of coming tOthis place to attend
to a little businessiz and then leave here on
the Saturday following for Chicago. I had my
plans laid for a good visit to yolt;,but the demon
•of rebellion is , not dead yet. On my way to the
steamboat landing, about fifteen miles from
Searcy, my assassination was attempted. When
about half Way for Searcy to the landing, two
men suddenly rode upon me with drawn re
velvets, and demanded my surrender, 1, being
unarmed, complied with their very polite re
quest. After robbing me of my money, watch,
they' ordered - me to go into the
brush with them. I knew very well
what they meant. They Intended '
that I should not come out alive. I made up
my mind to make an effort for my life. They
kept cocked revolvers drawn on me all the time,
and after I had taken two or three steps from
the road, I made a leap, and away I went for
dear li fe, the assassins following on their horses
and thing at me as I ran. Fortunately, but one
shot took effect, that passing , through my right
arm, near the shoulder, inflicting a: very painful,
though
not dangerous wound. _ Ft th onto ,
th
- r tek
- •
nn. - eibrush, 'eluded their pundit,
and made my way to a house several mile.) dis
tant, where I procured a mule, and went on
through the woods to Duvall's Bluff.
"This is the legitimate fruit of the teachings{
of the Blair Democracy. The plan for my assas
sination was laid by prominent rebels in and
about Searcy. They have,boasted on the streets
that no Radical shall live in that county after
Seymour and Blair are elected, and they are
now attempting to carry out that programme.
"Since this affair the assassination of another
Republican State Senator has been attempted in
another part of the State. Mr. Barker, of Crit
tenden county, was shot in his own house,
through a window, by some unknown person.
three buckshot taking effect in his head and one
in his arm.' He now lies in a very critical con
dition. One of the men who attempted my life I
have known for two years; he is considered a re
spectable man in the community, and is backed
tip by the public opinion of that community.
'I cannot say wizen I will come North now.
My plans have been frustrated, so I cannot toll
what I shall do. * *
ESOP JA.PALN.
Tbe Br bellion.
A Japanese correspondent of the N. Y. Times
says: "The internecine war goes on. The Southern
Princes made a cats-paw of the Mikado, and suc
ceeded in ejecting the Tycoon. And now the
puissant Aktzu, the impersonation of valor,awecps
down from the North, and puts his own sword in
the balance with that of his kinsman Stottsbashi,
and at hie back. in_full force, is-_ the Tokugawa
clan, while other Catalog', hitherto neutral, are
preparing to join him.Chosin ' one of the would
be triumvirate, has returned to his dominion,like
another Achilles, to brood over some slight: re
ceived at Kloto, and the latest report, in the least
reliable, says that a portion of the Northern
annyitimarching toward Moto, resolved-to-4lva
directly with the Nikado, peaceably if they can,
but. forciblyif they musk
The knotty problem will work itself out
gradually. The Japanese themselves begin to see
the'absurdity of having two rulers—an Emperor
with limited authority, and a de facto vassal
holding the reins of government. The one, at
best, a mere puppet in the hands of the other.
The troubles can result in ono way,-the estab- •
ilahment of a firm and liberal form of govern
ment, and the complete overthrow of the anti
quated feudal system, which, like those bodies
preserved in a vacuum, has remained intact until
the breath of modern civilization crumbles it to
dust.';
Frightful Scene in a Illenagoric-A Lion
Attacks its lELeep-er
.• 'A - terrible accident occurred at the exhibition
of Ames'S — Menagerie, at Madison, Indiana, last
week;in which. - Herr Lenge!, the famous lion
tamer, was seriously wounded, and narrowly
escaped instant death. He had nearly completed
,his usual performance in the lion's cage, and was
in the act of thing off his pistol as the
,fan-de,
when one of the lionesses sprang furiously at him,
and tore the flesh in shreds from his arms and legs.
The unfortunate man's bones snapped, under the
terrible violence,, and all the spectators were
stricken with fear, expecting to see him killed
outright. The employds of the menagerie, hOw
ever, quickly realized the peril of the situation,
and`made a furious attack on the lioness with
apears and lances. They succeeded, with some
difficulty, in beating her off,and in rescuing , their
comrade; who was .immedintdly placed ander
treatment, and his. Wounds dyessed. The crowd
speetators Were thrown t into , great pouf - Liston
4 ttb-feoria--titirtbei '
lives, fled 'fielli , thelaceve, but fortaaately none'
were injured,
u STEPIIIIN WHEELER."
F. ItNniERSTON. Publigher.
EAM MMI*ARCLESip
—SWELTERING. . •
—Blair swears.. '
—Consumption killed Idenken.
--Swedenborg was a bachelor.
—Planchette bl a plain cheat.
—Wllllarn Penn was a carpet bagger.
—Tbe latest monogramic mania attacks boil
knobs.
—Now why don't some of our "wickedest
men" reform'? •
—Boys, after all, are only men in a nutidahotit
—The public singer who "draws" the best f
the piping mosquito..„
—Sahara is the name of a desert diocese creakd
by the Pope.
—A contortionist. at Long Branch does the
Grecian bend backward&
—Anna Dickinson'a new novel is to be 'eutitiedi
"What Answer" --not anser, recollect. • -
—One of the idenktm's admirers has Waited
rive thousand franca for her horee. .
—A young woman died in Baltimore froin
being "suddenly spoke to."
Cr•intean War fa not selling nearly
so well as was anticipated.
--Coolie said to lose five per cent. a month by
being exposed to the weather.
—Victoria's false teeth are said to greatly im
prove her appearance.
—An exchange asks: Can an account of a
naval engagement be called the sea-news of war?
—Offenbach has sent a new opera, "La 'Wl
chole," to the Varieties Theatre.
—Ned Buntline is doin temperance lectires
in Ban Francisco. the '`awful example."
—Porten, his boiled kis ,
tlantic articles into :a ~.'
book called "limoking and Drinking." '
—"Awful" Gardiner Is settled on a farm irt
western New York. He is a lawful market
gardener now.
—A, Paris musielan burst a blood -vessel while
blowing a trombone—blasted his prospects and
killed himself'.
—The first question that ever disturbed men
was the woman question, and it will probably be
the last.
—M. Ambroise Thomas. the composer of the
opera of "Hamlac has been named commander
of the Legion of Honor.
—The Rondout (New York) Freeman Says :
"Graduates to Vassar College are to receive , the
degree of 'Queen of Arts,' so that the first
knave that comes alongwill take them."
—The Saxon government has Just presented to
the Chambers a bill which proposes to , abolish
the penalty of death, as well as certaht corporal
punishments still employed in the prisons.
—The great telescope at Chicago is said to be
unused and rusty, the, aselstant astronomer con-.
fessiug that he does not even know how to set
it—such is the story of a Montred paper. ,
—A pestilent rebel writes to a ~C opper' head
sheet that ''the ball is moving on." The; fellow .
doubtless has it attached'to his leg'. Let it move ;
old chap!
, •
—Says a tasteful editor: The find nine hundred '
and ninety-five thousand times we heard "Ottion- - ''
pagne Chtsrlien,wcs likrsd it; bat now we are be
ginainsg to tire of it.. • ' "
—A.slster of J. Allen, the "ex-wickedest man,"
has been twice married and once divorced from., ~,;
the same man in Chicago, and now she wants sir
second divorce.
-It has been .stated by a savan recently that
Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed over
twelve thousand years ago, bat' he knows no
more about it than other people. Probably not
as much.
—Jefferson Davis has been obliged to retreat
from the hotel in Liverpool which he first made '
his residence there, and go to the private house of
an American merchant; to escape - expressions of
popular contempt,
—lt seems that the differences between France
and the Bey of Tunis are not all settled. The latter
agreed to appropriate the tax on olives to pay
his debts, but Instead of doing so he is using it,
for his own purpose. ,
Euphemism Is a high art in California. A.
p.per of that State speaks, of an enterp rising and
highly successful murderer as having a wonder-
Oil talent for bereaving any family he does not
happen to like."
—On account of the scarcity of water in the
St. Lawrence, none of the iron steamers at Mon
treal are now allowed to run the rapids. A
wooden boat is sent out to meet the iron steamer
and take her passengers. _
—The professor of geology at Oxford,England,
Mr. Philips, has started for Naples, with an in
tention to visit and examine Vesuvius, and to
test, by actual observation, certain views con- '
cerning volcanic phenomena to which he has
been led.
—A man who was never heard to swear an
oath, sing a song, whistle a tune, or utter a
prayer, and who was never intoxicated, and
never had a lawsuit, has recently died in Lincoln
county, Tenn., at the age of 91 years. He was
too unusual to live. 'Death was better for him.
—The illustrious Tetzel, with whom Martin Lu
ther bad a little_ unpleasantness-during -the early -
stages of the Reformation, seems to have -risen
from the dead In the goodly city of Hamburg.
The Chief of Police, a gentleman by the name of
Weber, has ordered all stores, cue., to be closed
on Sundays, but those who pay a certain fee into
the police fund areilpwed to keep open.
a
—The editor of journal in a small Western
town bought flve pounds of powdered sugar. He
found it was mixed with plaster, and announced
in his paper the - next day that if the grocer who
had so shamefully cheated him did not make
amends he would publish his name. before 9
o'clock in the morning he had received five pack
ages of five pounds each. There were just five
grocers in town.
—The Sandusky Register has the following: "P.
V. Nasbylectured at Kelley's Island last Satur
day evening. A good story is told of the Island
Democrats, many of whom, on Friday and--Bat
urday, earnestly urged both Republicans and
Democrats to attend the meeting and hear sound
Democratic doctrine, as they were going to have
Narby, of Kentucky, there. Among the most so-
Helloes was Barney Me---, one of the leaders of
the Island Democracy."
—The manager of the famous Thalia Theatre,
in Hamburg, has published a card, in which oc
curs the following passage: "The Thalia Thea
tre will not risk its well-earned reputation as one
of the foremost German dnamatic institutions by
pandering to the vicious taste which, from Paris,
threatens to invade the theatres of all countries.,
Obecene plays, deriving all their Losportanee front
exposing female forms to the gaze of prurient
curiosity, will not be performed at this theatre;
Authors who are infamous enough to write mai
play s, publishers who are mean enough to Wine
them, and actresses who are shameless enough to
make the leading ri:les in such playa epeelatiett,
need not apply to us, we do not want to , have
anything to do with them." .
—A correspondent of the Daraavflle (N. Y.)
A deertiser, who has just visited the Shakers at
Groveland, writes: „"We saw no , dancing, no on-•
conch movements of the body,. nor, , anything, in
fact, that struck us at being - out of plane hi the
worship of God. We were lcss'favorablyatrack
with the appearance ,of 'the , people-them:tem
-than with anythin else we saw.-- They were.
most of them, both men and womest;_a_thin and
cadaverous-looking : set. - They lookedastif- their
lives were spent in crucifying the flesh. Though . .
they seemed to be ' healthy and cheerful withal,
they had none of that plumpness and roundness _
of contour so pleasant and satisfactory to loot
upon . Indeed, they all•looked to us as thoAd% - •
- thev worked _Joe hard... The women espemOY
:lolled as atvugittleywerelfeaer'
Out in, the endeavor to keep everyt so o = 6B
flivoly clean." '