GIBSOF PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIH.-NO. 86. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE liKkTEB FIIOM ROHE. The Attempt to uni Major tMbbia nt Florence—More Crime In the Peninsula - —Brigand* Gap tured~-Kx-Kiust Francis - and the Pope—Cool Weather-—A Great Jesuit Festa—Eissct Agaln-The Colli seuin at Sight—Scenes of the festival -.-American Visitors to Home, Ac. tOorrcHpoudcnce oftlio riiiludolphla. Evening Bulletin.] Piazza di Bi'AONA, Bomb, Itai,y, Monday, Juno 28,1809.—1 mentioned in my last letter, of the 22d of June, the attempted murder at Florence of Major Lohbia, of the Staff Corps, and Member of Parliament. A friend, who has had a letter from'Florence lately, tells me that the excitement in the Chamber of Depu ties was, the day after Lobhia’s attack, very great. .The public rushed to the tribunes, and' the deputies on both sides of thio House were in a high fever. M. Ferraris, Minister of the Interior, a per son who is much esteemed, related the affair, and gave wans praise to Lohbia for moral and physical courage. Tills tribute did riot Ap pease" Lobhia’s friends, however, nor keep th em in cheek. Two deputies of the Left paid Major Lohbia had been watched and followed by strange men for some time, until at last, to baffle his unknown spies, he had slept in the daytime and paid his political visits at night, and to iirotect himself, carried about him. a braco of pistols. Another deputy related that some days before the attack took place, there was a telegram received at Naples announcing the assassination and death of Lohbia, and also of another person, an accuser of the to bacco contract. Between the old square of St. Maria Novello and San Lorenzo, in Florence, in front of the railway station, where sits the statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere, is a net work of small streets,—a very lonely place, especially at midnight. A Professor Mar tinati, editor of an opposition paper—the Zenzeit)—and one of the witnesses before the ■Committee, lives in one of these streets—Via Ainorino. Lohbia had been visiting this politi cal friend of his, and left him a little after midnight. As he turned tho corner of the street, he was attacked. He tried to throw off the dagger blow with his arm, hut failed. It struck at his heart, hut as I mentioned before, a huge pocket-book saved him. Strange to say, this pocket-book contained the papers re lating to the tobacco inquiry. The Major fell under the blow, anil received also a blow on the head, from which his hat preserved him. By this time he had out his pistols; one un luckily-hung fire, hut alarmed his assassin, who fled. The wounded but plucky man fired a second shot, but in vain,—the dastardly fel low’s heels saved him. Tlris attempted assassination of Lohbia; Count Itigherami’s murder; a Homan emi grant who was stabbed lately at Florence, di rectly in front of the Cathedral, at 9 o’clock in the evening—are assassinations .which have all taken place within a month, and prove how desperate matters must be in the Italian' gov ernment. We feel as if we were living in the middle ages, when street-tights and stabbings were nothing out- of the way in Florence. Balderini, the Director of the National Bank in Florence, was the one who tteated and con cluded the tobacco operation with the Minis ter of Finance and the foreign capitalists. Of course he must be the leader of wrong-doers, if there has been any corruption. Ho has com menced an action for slander against his ac cusers. -.. The - great tobaccoscandal haditsorigin in a libel that appeared in a low, common uewspap'er. ' Lobbia’s accident has set afloat a deal of scandal, and it is now said that the at tackon tlie Major was meant to intimidate the witnesses. Doctor Zanetti, the venerable Senator aud surgeon, who extracted the bal from Garibaldi’s ankle after the aftair of As promohte, happened luckily that night to be nenreuoughto attend to Major Lobbia. He pronounces the wounds not dangerous—the. one on the head the most troublesome and ; painful. The robber bands of Ferrigno and Carbone were attacked by the National Guard near. Naples, last week, and were worsted. Ferrigno was killed, and some of the brigands were ta ken prisoners. This reminds me of a story I heard yesterday about Fuoco, who was for merly.oue of the ex-King of Naples’ Forest Guards. Now he is the head of a brigand band, and is called the terrible Fuoco. Lately the Duke and Ducliess of Saxony were captured by his band. Soon after, Fuoco stepped up to the carriage and asked with a bow whom he had the honor of addressing. When lie heard their names, he handed the coachman a five-franc piece, and told him to drive, ou. ’ As the carriage left, Fuoco again bowed, and said: - ' “Your Highnesses will be so good as to ex' cuso my men', and carry away a favorable re collection of the poor Neapolitan, Fuoco.” The Duke and Duchess sent Fuoco a su perb gold watch and' chain, worth four thou sand frants. It is said that the coolness which is supposed to exist between the Court of Borne and the ex-King of Naples was caused by this very Fuoco. The story is this—(l do not vouch for its truth, aa it came to me out of the regular channel of news): King Francis and his Queen have a great regard for their old servitor, Fuoco,and when ever-he chose-to come to-Kome his-home has,- of course, been the Farnese palace* Thn Ital ian government complained of this to the Homan authorities. Cardinal AntonelU men tioned it to King,Francis, and requested that Fuoco should ..not receive _ harbor and. pro tection from the; ex-King, as it caused diffi culty. ■ 1 The King grew very angry; and went to the Pope to relate his , wrongs.. To his surprise,the good old Pope,who loves the Neapolltan Bour-. hons as, if :? they ; viere his own kinsfolk, re mained silent, and showed very plainly by his manner that ho' agreed with Cardinal ’ Anto nolli." Straightway,according to my informant, the young folks at the Farnese Palace felt; so wouuded tind angry thatthey resolved to leave Borne, and did so, in the very face of the dis approval of tho Pope-and his Ministers: We hear that the Empress of Austria, who expects the birth of a child in the early winter, has gone to spend some weeks with her sister, the Queen of Naples,who is near Popenhofen, in Bavaria, on the banks of the Starhamberg See. ■ '•*e are having a very , cool midsummer, al- j though the lost two days] have been tolerably warm. We have been unable to wear any thin clothing so fat; and a friend wrote me last week from Paris that no was wearing winter flannels—the clothes he had not had on. since February. Snow, according to : the Italian journals, fell on Lake Como last week. : In the Giomale di Roma, some days ago, Father Secchi, the; celebrated astronomer; published the following account, which may be the cause of this unseasonable weather “The sunis at this moment at a period of an" unusual prcvalenee.of spots. On the morning of the 7th of June, thirty-three principal ones were counted; dispersed in seven or eight groups. Their number is rapidly approaching a maximum. .The whole surface of the sun is covered.with them, and they present the ap pearance of a mass of white flakes on an ash colored surface.” '' We are in a state of high festa at Borne: Since I -wrote last, we have .Vhad one of the great Jesuit fetes—that of Saint -Louis or Aloyßius of Gonzaque—which was celebrated, with great pomp and splendor: and bald op eratic music, at St. Ignatius, the church of the Boman College; also, the fete of St. John the Baptist, 24th of June, when the Pope went to St, John of Bateran,to celebrate mass in grand pontifical style. But the most curious pari of this fete was its Vigil, which was considered in the Middle Ages to be a sort of WaJpurgis night. For many years St. John’s Eve has not been cele brated at Borne, but it has been revived for three years past. Bast Wednesday, the day of tho Vigil <23d), an eminent archsclogical friend wrote to me to make a rendezvous under ; the Arch of Titus for the afternoon, from whence we might go together to study, in the Palace of the C’tesars. The note ended with—“Do you know there will be this evening, at midnight, a great popular reunion on the Piazza of St. Giovanni di Baterano ? It is a curious tiling, well worth seeing, and the custom goes back to the middle ages, when people believed iu sorcerers and Butins.” We were glad to hear of this Bateran frolic, and resolved to go. In the afternoon, how ever, we drove to the Arch of Titus at the hour appointed, but, like Bosalind, were too punc tual. As there were no lovers in the party, the delay was of little, consequence; moreover, the spot is one where we love to go and study for hours. Por the hundredth time we examined the varioussculptafes and looked into the carvings of the Septan Lucernarum —the. seven branched candlestick which, as everybody knows, is in one of the bas-reliefs that are on the piers under the Arch. The people of the middle ages called this the Arch of the Seven Candela bra. This bas-relief represents a procession in which are carried thesacrcd spoils taken by Titus from the Temple of Jerusalem, —the Golden Table, the Silver Trumpets, and the Golden Seven-branched Candlestick. I bad just read in Gregorovius, the popular and learned writer on Borne, that the fantastic figures carved on this candelabrum in the bas relief prove that it cannot be a correct image of the one that was in the Jewish temple. While we were examining it and its curious carvings with onr glasses, a strain of wild, beautiful music swept over the air and mingled with the song of the nightingales in the Orto Farriesiana, on the Palatine Hill, which we had just been admiring. We dropped onr glasses and Gregorovius, exclaimed in one breath, “Biszt !”and walked swiftly across the Sacra Via to thepath that runs under the great musician’s windows. San Francesco di Bomano, in whose con ventual buildings Biszt has his apartments, is : not far from the Arch—only just across the road. We saton some blocks of. stone, which are near the windows, for some time, and listened. Imagine the scene, and admit that it was ah exceptionable and delightful one. There were •the Coliseum, the Palatine Hill and the Sacra Via, with the two arches of Constantine and Titus in plain sight; ‘an invigorating sea breeze blew; the sun shone brilliantly; the sky was of the richest blue; prickly pears and fig trees, pomegranates arid cypresses, gave us a rich coloring of blood-Ted and purple, rose color and dark green. The wild, bewildering music came floodiug down from the old Con vent windows. Some men working in the Con vent cellars were singing in \ harsh, shrill voices, far enough off, however, to make only- a.strange; peculiar dissonance, and to sound like cobolds, gnomes and other earth spirits: The nightingales seemed to bo intoxi cated with the sun, sea breeze and wild Hun garian music; their song grew fuller and richer, and we felt as if we were all ears and eyes, . , !. '■ “Amt took in strains that might create Seoul Under the ribapf death.” About halt-past eleven, that evening we drove tip to the Lateran piazza. After we left the -Piazza de Sts. Apostoli we found a crowd going in our direction. We drove through the Via AlesBandrina into the Forum. As we ap proached the Coliseum, the grand old ruin stood out glorified in the fair light of the mid summer full moon. The rocky, Craggy top lay against the sky, picked out with curious dis tinctness, and through the . lofty arches the stars twinkled. On the opposite Side of the Viadel Colosseo the pomegranate trees lay under the dark shadow of the Coliseum, but the blood,red blossoms of the delicious fruit threw a rosy haze over the darkness. The Via San Giovanni was filled with a laughing, singing crowd. In the open doors of houses, on the door sills, were placed dishes, of saitj holy water and a broom—for tlio su perstition tells that the witch cannot pass a 'threshold thus guarded until she.counts every wisp of broom; the salt and: holy water .keep her from finishing., the task, and, preserve the family from bad luck. Flambeaux 1 were fastened against the walls. Gay booths stood on either side of the road, all the way up to the church; they were ablaze with candles, and stuck full of large and small bunches of flowers—huge lienvy-odored mag nolias, creamy white, with rich brown-green leaves, pomegranate blossoms, wall flowers' and cafnations,. The air was voluptuously •laden with the-spicy fragrance-of pinks find lavender, (jpigelia, as lavender is called, is at its harvest on St. John’s Eve, and is one of the charms against ’ the Witches. 1 Oh Tuesday night the flower-vendors had it made tip into little clubs or mallets,'about; the size and some thing the shape of a dumb-bell, the blossoms PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1869. turned inward, and theatoms forming a cover ing and sheath. Men arid: hoys, women and • children, ran about with long stems of garlic, the blossom on the top, arid this garlic stood in long bun dles at each flower stall. We bought each of • us a garlic stock, for it was the charmed wand that would! protect us against all assaults of i the witches, Butins, Bohemians, sorcerers, : Zingari, or whatever other evil demons were .supposed to. be running about, seen or un seen, in various disguises, on this holy St. John’s Eve. ' l There were brilliant lemonade bootlis, too. The flower-venders flashed -their torcltes around and over their warfe;-and cried out “ gnardo qua, la frcscliezza”—(“ look, here :. these are the freshest flowers.”) . At the giuly-ilhuniriated lemonade booths they chanted out “Bimonada! Acqua fresco! ” and huge blocks of hard snow brought in from the neighboring mountains lay in among the golden lemons. The cigar men screamed ont the; excellence of their wares, and the streams of light from the torches which the marching, singing crowd carried, shot sharp gleams into many a dark corner arid shadow, arid looked like veritable, glancing,,darting Butins. , Twelve o’clock midnight struck just as we drove into the back piazza of the church. The fine old Bateran basilica, with its towers; the curious crowd; the mingling of moonlight and. heavy shadow; the flashing of the torches, the merry cries of the gay mob, created a strange, weird effect. The Triclinium and its Mosaics at the end of the Scala Santa build ing, and the ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct, sdeihed to. be enveloped in a mysterious shadowy light. The outlines of the church, the statues on the roof and the old St John’s Gate were wrapped up in moonlight sheen and black night shades, and a weird, hazy depth spread out into interminable dreamy distance over the far-off landscape of Alban Mountains and Appenines. Groups of persons were gathered together in different parts of the vast piazza, and on the green sward that extends to Santa Croce in Gierusalemme. A witcliy light blazed ont from these crowds, and wild peals of laughter hurst from the people. We drove to the outskirts of several, and stood, on the coachman’s box so that we might look over into them. We saw men sweeping the ground with itheirblazing torches, in order to make the ring wider and playfully force the crowd back. When the ring was formed, several couples dashed iu and whirled around in a wild Pyr rhic movement, to the rhythmic beat and ’bell of mandolins. It was a half waltz arid half frolic madness—the Boman dance Salta reila. • As they danced,the crowd pressed in and in, with wild jeers and teazing cries. Then, when the ring, grew too small, the torch-bearers again swept the ground with their Mazing Brands, and with hoots and shouts tbe men and women jumped back to avoid the flames pfthe hurtling pitch and turpen tine. : We drove around until half-past one o’clock. When we left the piazzato return home, the fun was approaching a pretty mad height. Several carriages of the Boman nobility were pointed ont to ris. Among them was a sort of omnibus drag,filled with ladies and gentlemen, which we were told was Prince Aldrobandini’s turn-out. The horses and carriages, men, women and children, were mixed'up together. A Boman -crowd, when bent on fun, is the best-natured one in the world,and not at all afraid of horses. Carriages are allowed to drive right into the middle of any crowd, and Bomans and horses seem to he comrades. All the way into the city, asfarasthePiaz,za Vcnitia, at the end of the Corso, we met bands of men, women and children, with violins and fifes, playing merrily—all on the road to the witches’ frolic of St. John’s Eve. ' . Visitors from the United States are always arriving in Borne, it seems. On Saturday evening Buchanan Bead had a handsome little supper party. Besides some of the leading American and foreign artists, Ives, Bosetti, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, &c., there were Mon signor Nardi, Mr. Grant (the banker;, Dr. Taussig, Colonel Dunn, of Now York, and Mr. Groesbeek, an eminent lawyer of Cincinnati, and Ills two daughters. , The supper went oft' gaily. About eleven o’clock, after supper was over and some of the guests had left, a small circle of intimates col lected near the large open windows of the drawing-room, which look down into, the Fiazza. While we were laughing and talk ing, the man-servant threw open both doors leading to the ante-room,"and announced “M. l’Abbe Liszt.” Then came & finale to the evening well worth recording. Buchanan Bead recited for the eminent musician his great war-poem, “Sheri; dan’s Bide,” the history of which had been already explained to Liszt by Dr. Taussig in German. Liszt listened with close attention, for he understands English very well. After Bend finished,Liszt applauded the rhythm and music of therecitation as muchas the poem. . Then Liszt went to the piano and played for us some soft, melodious, swimming music, which agreed well with the sight beside him— the large open window through which flooded in the moonlight from ceiling to floor, andfrom which we could see, as we listened to his mar. vellous music, the broad Fiazza below, the Spanish steps,the Trinita de Monte towers and the Virgin Column, and hear the plashing tinkle of.the waters in the old Boat Fountain- j To-morrow is the greatest/«<e of all the year- It will he St. Peter’s day. To-night the city and the,dome and church will be illuminated; to-morrow night there will be grand fireworks on the Janiculum Hill. The Pope leaves Borne, a few days after the fetes, for Castel Gandolfo, to remain some time. Additional troops are to bo sent to garrison the Alban district during the Pope’s residence at Castel Gandolfo. The report of the quarrel between Cardinal Antonelli and Baron Arnim, Prussian Min ister, is not true, ‘ They are on the best of terms,mid each is too good a diplomatist to get Into a perHonal/UilUculty. . : ■ - : TheEoyal-A«ademy-of~Art3r»t--Berlih;'-is founding a school for musical 1 practice, in ad dition to the one it has for musioal compo sition. Joachim, the great violinist, has ac cepted the Directorship of the- instrumental • part, and Stockhausen is to take charge of tlio vocal department. „ Ann* Bhewstek. ' OURWHOLE COUNTRY. On the 26th, General Vasco Alves Pereira was sent with two brigades of cavalry to oc cupy the rest'of the railway ..which ends a little beyond Pnraguary. This was success fully done and forty prisoners were made. All the prisoners made up to then were in general stout men.: They knew nothing of Lopez’s po sitions and intentions, haring been a long time away from his main forces. Thirty-two wagons were found at Paraguary, all in good order. The only damage done to the railway was the destruction of a bridge twenty-six feet long, two miles on the near side of Paraguary; but this was soon replaced, and the wagons were brought to Pirayu, at which place the Comte d’Eu established his headquarters, it -being opposite to Ascurra pass,- behind which Lopez was said to be posted. A reconnois sance was made on tbe 26th, but little infor mation could be gained in consequence oftbe woods. The porta of Villeta and Angostura' being nearer than Asuncion, orders had been given to land the cattle at those ports and to explore a road by Yaguaion,'lta and Gurainbare, _.—Faraguaxy is forty-two miles from Asuncion “and'about hair way W Villa Kica." The rail- " way proposed between Paraguary and Villa Bicais not constructed. ; FltOM THE SOUTH ATLANTIC. Arrival af the ii.A Steamer Guerriere Their. S. steamer Guerriere, flag-ship of the South Atlantic; Squadron; arrived ; off Sandy. Hook last nigjit, after a rapid run from Bio Janeiro, beating tbe mail-steamer South Ame rica, which sailed the same day. A correspon dent of the Bcixetin sends ns the following memoranda: The Guerriere, flag-ship of Admiral'Davis, Went into commission May 20th, 1867; left Boston for Bio, June 28th, 1867; arrived m the Bay of Bio, July 27th, 1867. . ■ . officers:; ... Jlcar-Admiral—VhaileH H. Davis. Commander—V. M.Bamsey (Fleet Captain), taking the vessel home; ; Lieutenant Cbmmandcrs-±(E 8. McDougal, A.' S. Barker (Fleet), E. T. Woodward. Lieutenants— G. E. Wirigate, and C. H. Bock well. ■ Masters—S. Hubbard, B. E. Ohcnery. Ensigns—li. M. Bysle, B. McShane, J. G. ' Surgeon—hi. Duvall (fleet). Passed Assistant Surgeon —J. Hugg. Assistant Surgeon —B. B. Brown. Paymaster —K. Washington. . ' Chief Engineer— C. H. Baker (fleet). Eirst Assistant Engineer —B. I’ottq. Second Assistant Engineers—AE.Guy, N; Boss and B. B. Hanneman. Chaplain— G. D. Henderson. Captain of Marines— P. It. Fendall. Second'Lieuiehaiit of Marines—& B. Neill. Boatswain —H. Dickinson. Gunner—E. Mack. . Carpenter—E. Magee. ■■■. Saifmdker—J. A. Birdsall. As Passengers —Bichard P. Beary, Charles H. Pendleton and George M. McClure. News from Bio. The Guerriere left the Bay of Bio on the 25th of June at 1.30 P. M., the American mail packet South America leaving the same day and at 10 A. M., for| Hew York city. The Portsmouth and Kansas were in port ; the Quinnebag and Wasp were in Montevideo. Mr. Kirk, the new Minister to Uraguay, &c., had arrived in the steamer on the 20tn of June. Gen. McMahon, U. S. Minister to Paraguay, was at Buenos Ayres. Captain Woolsey, for merly in command of the Guerriere, remains in command of the squadron. Commander F. _M. Bamsey, chief of stall, brought the Guerriere to the United States. This officer was married on the 9th of June, 1869, in Buenos Ayres, to one of the sisters of our Minister, Mr. McMahon. Gottsehalk was giving monster concerts at the Opera House. Mine. Bistori had arrived, and was to open on the Ist of July. At the Alcazar Theatre, La Perichole de lighted the Brazilians nightly. The Guerriere brought home about fitly des titute Americans, mostly from Alabama, who had emigrated to Brazil after the rebellion was put down. They were quartered pn the gnn-aeck, and made as comfortable as pos sible. They were entirely out of conceit of Brazil Tbe War In Paraguay- The Anglo-Brazilian Times, of Bio Janeiro, June 23d, contains the following : In a despatch dated the 29tn of May the Comte d’Eugives an account of, his advance. Having received 2,000 horses he determined, although there was none as reserve, to ad vance upon the enemy, and if possible to se cure the railway toParaguary before the Par aguayan, sines could warn the enemy. General Mitre also agreed to march, but was unable to start on the day appointed. Accordingly the army, In two corps, set out on the22d, a column, under General Joao Manuel. Menna Barreto, having started two days before by San Borenzo amljlta to cover the right flank. A force was sent to Patinho Cue to observe the enemy and prevent him destroying the railway bridge there. On the 23othe First corps reached Itagua, and the Second Patinho Cue. On the 24th a halt had to he made, because of the trarisport mules being-tired out and of the rations grving - out. A force was sent to occupy the Taquaral station and take Patinho Cue in reverse: The enemy, however, burned his camp and with drew, leaving the bridges and railway unin jured. General Joao Manoel Menna Barreto’s column,rejoined the First corps inconse quence of orders sent to that effect. A force from it had that morning surprised a guard at Yaguaron, taking three and railing three. On the 25th the First corps set out in a heavy rain for Pirayu, a flanking corps inarchiug by the railway. Onpassingthe defile of Guazuvira the plain of Pirayu was entered, on the other side of which the. mountains held by Bopez were, and at the base of which a camp was seen on fire. Colonel Manduca Cypriano’s brigade was ordered to cross the Pirayu and make some ErLsoners; but owing to the difficulties caused y the Pirayu river and its swamps, the enemy got into the wood. However, Colonel Man duca dashed at another camp further off, at Cerro Leon, and succeeded in killing thirty and making twenty prisoners; losing only one killed and orie wounded. Meantime the Cerro Leon Bailway station and the railway bridge on the Pirayu wore secured by troops from the vanguard. Six wagons were got at Cerro Leon, three of which were handed over to the Argentines, General Mitre having sent on the San Martin regiment of cavalry to take place amid the vanguard. A locomotive was also got; but part of its works had been carried off. At Pirayu a boiler and some pieces of another locomotive were also got. The prisoners said the rest had been sent to the mountains some time before. . The Second corps was stationed at Taquaral to guard the first passes of the Pirayii and to protect a- stretch of tbe railway, while the Argentine army, which reached the plain of Pirayu on the 27th, undertook to guard all the positions and roads between Taquaral and Pirayu. The telegraph wires had been re moved to the mountains; but as the posts remained the line was re-established by the 29th. The possession of the railway and the new positions of the allies out the enemy from making raids between Asuncion and Angos tura - The accounts given by the American offipers, who went to Ascurra, throw doubt on the truth of the numerous alleged executions by Lopez, just as the reported wholesale slaugh ter of 400 prisoners at Lomas Valentines is 1 partly contradicted by the release’ of eighty seven by Colonel Coronado’s troop. The Ame rican officers say they saw Caminos alive and", at liberty, and Venancio Bopez, the sister and the mother,also existed. : -- • Two hundred and thirty-tlirec vagrant Par : aguayans at Asuncion were arrested on May 18, and sent to Buque to bo set to work re ceiving pay." '■ ' ; ' ■ : . The Brazilian troops at Bosario on being re inforced by those under thecommaml of Gen!; Camara undertook operations against the' Paraguayans at San Pedro.> By theaid of the squadron the : brigade landed in the Jejuy, seized San Pedro and marched.against, the. Paraguayans stationedpn the* hills of Sargonto Bomas, to the number'of 1,200 men, under the command of Col. : Galeano. An engagement iookplace onthe’3oth of May, in which If is said the Paraguayans were disastrously routed with' a loss of 500 killed and 300 prisoners, together with twelve small field pieces, two flags and some arms and munitions. It is also said 100 non-combatants were taken, No, official details of tbe' actions have yet been published. The loss reported by the victors was eighteen killed 1 and eighty wounded. i A column was sent from Pirayu under the command of General Joao Menna Barreto to | march upon Villa Bicaand form a junction ; with the troops of General Portinho. On ar- | riving at the Tebicnary it was found impossible .] to cross it on account of its high state of water and the entire absence of boats. However, a force of Paraguayans, was found posted at Sapucaia, and General Barreto at once pro ceeded to attack it: A short, hut severe fight took place, > twenty-eight Paraguayans were taken prisoners, and the rest of the garrison were, it is said, killed. About 4,000 non-com batants, gathered from the country lately in yaded, were found in the woods, and wore Sent to Asuncion. No official detailedaccount is at hand. Up to last dates General Menna Barreto had" not been able to cross.-the. Tebieuary, and notMng had been heard of General Portinbo’s brigade, which was supposed to. be marching from the upper Parana in the direction of Villa Bica and Pirayu. By a map of the present seat of operations it appears that the highlands wHch Bopez pur poses to defend are fringed on their west by a ] range of steep mountains, presenting seven or eight difficult passes. The widest gap is that of Aseurra, which Bopez has made his head-' quarters, arid where he is supposed to have about 7,000 men. All the other gaps, difficult of access by nature, are said to nave been further closed by a formidable series of abattis. The ground is generally swampy at the base of the range, and a Large lagoon exists, of ten miles in length, to the north of Pirayu and Taquaral, intervening between the/ railway and the range. A branch railway,of six miles in length, runs to. Cerro Beon, which is an ad vanced spur of tlie range, and is, about four miles to the south of Aseurra. Pirayu, the Comte d’Eu’s headquarters, lies about seven miles west. of : Aseurra. Para guary, near w'hieh the constructed. railway ends, is thirteen miles to the southeast of Pirayu. Pirayu is about forty-two miles from Asuncion and thirty-five from tbe Paraguay at Angostura. Caacupe, Lopez's foundry and arsenal, is about five miles to the northwest of Aseurra. Peribibui, bis present capital, is about twelve miles east of Aseurra and lies directly on his line of retreat still further into the interior. All the range is covered with timber, thereby rendering knowledge of the Paraguayan defences difficult to obtain. Upon the third Bopez sent in a reply to the Comte d’Eu’s response. In it he sent a copy of the note of November 20,1865, and accused -the allies of suborning deserters and forcing the prisoners to light against him, sneered at the small number of Paraguayans the flag had been granted to, said be felt easy as to the re sponsibility thrown upon him, and concluded by taying that be knew of what desertefs had reported regarding his putting hundreds of his prisoners to death, and would read the Para guayan official documents respecting such matters with the greatest interest whenever they might fall into his hands; hut, however, neither did he think hlriiself required to dis cuss what deserters and prisoners had said of the treatment shown by the allies to their prisoners. .... ~ President Grunt at Lone: Branch. Stetson House, Long Branch, July ID, 18(>D.—The long expected event has taken place. The President and suite have arrived and are now domiciled in this establishment, where they will remain at least two weeks. At half-past seven A. M. the United States steamer Tallapoosa was signalled to'the south ward, close in shore, and immediately every thing became bustle and excitement. She approached slowly, and it was eight o’clock before she passed abreast of this nouse. As she did so two guns were fired, which, were replied to by the Stetson shore battery. With a good glass the President was distinctly to be seen standing near the pilot house, sur rounded by his friends and the officers of the steamer. Handkerchief-waving became the order of the morning, and many uncombed heads, without the chignon, were seen to pro trude from the numerous hotel windows, in order to have a look at, the passing steamer and her distinguished passengers'. At nine A. M. a special train left the station here for Port Monmouth to meet the party. Mr. Charles A. Stetson, Jr., and some mends of the President,and your correspondent, were the only passengers. A rapid run' of twenty eight minutes was niado, anil as we reached the end of the pier the Tallapoosa was about making fast. Borne delay was experienced by reason of low water, but at last a gang plank was got on the wharf over the steamer’s bows, and alter the baggage had been sent ashore the distinguished party lauded, the President, with Mrs. Grant, being the first, followed closely by the rest of tlio family and suite,, Beyond the station hands and those who went down in the train there was no one ou the pier. At a quarter past ten A. M. all wore aboard the train, and we started, and in thirty minutes were safely at the station here, where several private carriages were in waiting to receive the party, But few persons were at the points we passed, and there was ap parently no excitemont or anxiety to see the President—less, even, than I expected. A rapid and pleasant drive brought us to the hotel, and as wo passed the different houses the inmates gathered upon the porches and balconies to witness and welcome the new comers. . _ On arrivaJLthe President-and party retired to their apartments, and in a few minutes everything was as quiet as if nothing unusual had occurred, and no stranger at the Stetson House would have imagined that the Presi dent of the United States was within its walls. The party consists of the followingbersons: . President U. S. Grant and wife, Miss Grant, U. B. Grant, Jr,, Jessie Grant, G. D. Grant, General Creswell and wife, General Comstock and wife, and A. E. Boric. There is no programme laid out for tlio President during his stay that I know of. A; hall is to be givon him at this house somo time j this week, and I suppose that other arrange- ; monts for his pleasure will be made; but as he comes, I may say, unofficially, he will, I ex pect, not only do as he pleases, but will avoid .as much as possible the display that is any thing but pleasant to a person who for a time requites retirement from the careS and worri ment of official lito. He looks well and is well, considering what he has gone ' through since liis inauguration; but two weeks of salt air aUd sea-batlung will do him arid his no harm.;, ■ ,v.- 'After taking some refreshments the Presi dent and family., went in bathing on the beach. In ’the 1 afternoon the party rode out and was noticed nud saluted by the guests at the Braucbv The President intends stoppingsbmo time here. A meeting was held this evening by tho F. I. EETHEKSTON. Publisher. FRIGE THREE CENTS guests of. tfie Stetson House-and'residents of .Long Branth, and it was resolvrjd'tlhat'a grani’ bad stonld be given in honor ofthe Prestdent at tlie Stetson House on Monday evening next. July ‘X.-^Heral<T. FACTS AVI> FAUfCIESk. Bliss McAsh. Iwoct Miss McAhli hasawentjfch;jrpffix*; : Am! a. thoroughbred horaein.the'i'oiyte talcc air on ; . ’ fl>r seat irt the saddle's perfcctton—But, ah t What a balance she’ll liave, whetr the/ old' hoy with Charon - - ’ On the Stygian waters is making &hplas&J 1 She iUjk: one •■. of ten thousand*!#. Bweet r 3f£ssf~ McAshv : ■ ■■ ■ Sweet Miss McAsh has a chignon immense; And the smallest of waists lier maid’s efforts can compass. She is dressed without any regard to expense, • And her milliner’s hills must a-prettv rouh® sum pass. Face, figure, ana fortune for cutting a-dasb Are the pleasant possessions of sweet Miss ■ ■ McAsh., ■ . ■ ■ . Sweet Miss McAsh, she has suitors galore Lord This and and Sir Somothintfr' Orr Uther, Of captains a dozen—civilians ascore, - And the Hon’rable Blank, who’s a; Duke’s ' . only brother; ,•• And their: teeth at each other they all of thenn gnash, For each of them’s djrtng for sweet Miss Mo . - Ash. Sweet Miss McAsh has a smile fbr them all— But never an answer for any among them; And nobody knows where her favor- may fall— . , ■ And no one would wonder if over she flung. ■ them. .-.■■■ ■ In her choice of a husband she will not'bo rash, She takes everything coolly, does sweet Miss' McAsh. . Sweet Miss McAsh! Oft in secret she sighs—- Yet she’s young, and she’s rich, and, she’s • fair! It is funny! But she knows there are some things that wealth never huys, That you’ve less chance of getting, the more - you have money! “Oh, Riches may ride in a gilded calash; But Love goes afoot,” murmurs sweet Miss \ McAsh!. —The Susquehanna is in good rafting-order. -That- “notorious Connecticut carpet bagger,’’ Asa Packer, is in town. —A butting match is one of the features of a negro tournament in Tennessee. —lt was cold yesterday at* Atlantic City;. John Quill telegraphed for his skates. Ice was seen on the bar. ' —A Western man advertises -his .wife, who has left his bed and board,“with a gentleman, named Decker,” , ; - . —Why should the Pennsylvania oil counties - he surrounded by water? . Because they are ile-lands. —Tom asked an old “ten-percent.” Jwhat he wanted. to. accumulate So much - mouey for. Says he, f ‘you can’t take it with you when you die, and if you could it would melt.” —ls there a word in the English language: that contains all the vowels? Yes, unoiies-- tionably. Is there a word that contains all the consonants?—Yes, alphabet. " —A masquerade hall is announcediat- the- Wliite Sulphur Springs, Va. Among the - managers me General Robert E. Lee, GencraL Henry A. Wise, General R. L. Whlker and 1 , other heroes of the late Confederacy. —A Frenchman, Monsieur Bluin, has adapted to his velocipede a pair of sails, andt in a fair wind skims along like a terrestrial nautilus, at a rate exceeding the greatest speed! hitherto attained with the ordinary vehiclb propelled by the feet. —Down ' on Chloride Elat, says' a. White Pine paper, there is a miner’s oatum built out of ehunks of high grade chloride ore, esti mated at $2,000 atom The house is 10.-feet square, and the rock in its walls, if crushed, would yield about $75,000.. That house is-for sale;' ■ . . —An army lieutenant in: Detroit has been,, making some experiments in, torpedoes. He procured a few very loud ones; with which to - scare his juvenile friends off the 4th of July, and on taking his seat rather emnhatically In, ahorse car, off went the torpedoes, and up. went the lieutenant towards the top.,of the car.. No lives lost, but some funds misappro priated. —Ah insane manin ,! White Pigeon recently burned 81,100 In greenbacks and buried,the nshes. He had just received* the money for four years’service oh a farm, which he had suddenly taken a notion to leave. He ex plained that he used the money in thissinguiar and unprofitable way “to bear him through purgatory.” He bad given no indication of . insanity before. —A late number of a popular, .illustrated journal' has a wood-cut of a young.wife knit ting a tiny stocking by the side ora cradle in. . , wlnchliesja Sleeping infant,-—the picture being entitled “Not a Girl of the Period:” A lady l'riend suggests that this young wife must belong to a very late period, or she wouldn't be finishing oil'the stocking at die top, as ac cording to lier best recollection our grand mothers didn’t knit that way.. I —A member of tbe Connecticut IVegtolaturo was told by a fellow member that it was a. “good day for the race,” “What race?” said the Shad-eater. “Human race,” said the joker. The shad-eater was so impressed; with the sell that he tried it on a friend-after the following fashion: “It’s a good day for the trot." “What trotV” asked the other. “The human race" shouted the joker, who flattered himself lie hadsaid a good thing. j —Times are hard ,in the mining country,- Seveii business firms in -Treasure City were closed out'by the sheritf in one day last week» And this in spito of the number and richness Of our mines and the necessity of a large popn- - lation to develop them. Trade in all the towns- - -of the district is exceedingly dull; and the- ho- - tels are doing a smashing business—smashing: up.' The largest hotel in Treasure is in thus condition, aiid the one in Shermantown haa • been closed for some weeks-past. I —The “Boston Directory” for 18(59 to a. j volume of one thousand two hundred and. ! seventy-two pages. The whole number of r ' I names is eighty-five thousand four lutndred I and eighty-eight; ah increase of five thousand ' two hundred and thirty-seven over last year. There are eight hundred and sixty-four Smiths, sixty-nine ofwhomaro “John; 11 of Browns ! there are seven hundred and sixteen; "Whites, j three hundred and fifty-five; Gfreons, one bun ! dred and seventy-three. . j —Elihn Btirritt will have to look out fbrhia ; " laurels.' There is a man in-the Brooklyn navy yard who has for many years done the work and drawn the pay of a machinist, who has yet found time during ail this while to gratify a yearning thirst for knowledge. It may bo surprising, yet it is nevertheless true, that ha- , i has mastered the French, German and Italian . , tongues, mado himself partially acquainted - , with Hebrew, and obtained, a thorough t knowledge of botany and geology. Ho con -tihuesffo^srofk 'oUrm>ia“day r ;te?-4ay r -'at tha--'- ; —'■ navy-yard bench, spending all his nights and - noons in study, and husbanding all hto earn*' . ings to purchase books, of which he has. a -U- \. brary of nearly eleven hundred volumes. Ha to certainly a remarkable man, and has ledtho life of h recluse and yielded to a seemingly natural thirst for knowledge. - - "'■ |U ’•isffi I' • \ t ■/l ,-j Jt t i ’-v. i n.\„t u'n \i *'< ./ -v r i ’ *■« r
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