GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-m 88. FOREION CORRESPONDENCE LETTER FBOJI PARIS. ' ((Jorrcspomlenco oftlio Philadelphia Evening Bullotin.J Paris, Friday, July 9, 18G9-— The sounds Of tlio liberal, or as it might tvoll bo called, tlio “liberating” movement, are ringing out all over the country, and everything goes on as merrily as marriage-bells. The doom of “im perial” institutions, in, the arbitrary sense, at least, of the word, has been struck, and the Jcnellof “personal government” lias tolled. One hundred and ten signatures already cover t he demand for a restoration of the national liberties, which the Constitutional party lias put forward with a rapidity and energy which has surprised every one, and none more perhaps than the advanced liberals, who find the wind taken completely out of their sails, and themselves obliged to follow, instead of assuming the lead. They have resolved, in fact, to await the result of the discussion upon the proposals of the tiers parti, before bringing forward any of their own. The attempt, too, made by >l. Itouher to countermine the liberal movement, by in ducing M. Du Mirai,and such of the majority as still remained steady to him,to get up interpel lations of their own,in amodifieHhberalsensc, . which would allow him to adhere to them— this manoeuvre has failed. The, tiers-parlt, therefore, have it all their own way, both' as against the ultras and the government,andare daily drawing recruits to their ranks from both sides by the power and attraction of suc cess. It is impossible to say how far the de fection may”aot go, nor by bow many deputies the resolutions demanding vital reforms and changes in the principled' the government may not be signed before they are laid before the ji ©use. There will then be a great debate —such a debate as has not been heard in France for twenty' years and more—for it will be a debate on a radical reorganization of the institutions of the country. If, after the debate, the Emperor yields, he may still' hold his ground; if not, he must- look out for the deluge. But that things should go on longer as they are is acknowledged on all sides a to be impossible. The went her here has now become and seasonable, and’Paris has assumed its usual summer aspect. The Tuileries Gardens, and other places of similar resort, .are filled nil day witb-family groups’of bourgeoisie with their bonnes and children, vt’ho giva each other ren dezvous ■ there with their friends, to sit, and work, and read, and gossip and. ■play in the open air, instead of in their confined and small apartments. Out-of-door life is the great summer luxury, of the middle-class Parisians, and they enjoy it to tlie full/ livery day, in the Tirileri.es Gardens, too, an admirable military band p)ays from five' to six o'clock, when, for three sous, you, may sit under the, trees; in a comfortable , ann,-chair (one of those delightful . iron chairs, with spring seat and back, which they make cheaper .and better in • France than, anywhere else in the world)—and hear as good music as from the Grand . Opera. The arrangements for this public concert en picine air are now admirable, and very superior to what used to be the case. The band is stationed in the centre of an oval space, sur rounded by noble trees, and forming a de lightful natural music hall. Within this, chairs are placed in regular order, and programmes of the performance politely handed ronnd by one of the hand, and posted; up on the trunks •of the neighboring trees. The scene on a fine summer afternoon is often quite beau tiful, and the place a great resort for old re tired'French veterans, who rarely stir out. of Paris. Changarnief frequently takes his seat there, looking now very old and broken broken in spirit and career, perhaps, more than in age, though there is still fire in his eye, as if he thought “his” turn might come yet. But the chief part of theaudienee are the ■ bourgeois class, - who remain in town after the fashionable, world has taken its departure, to eount the gains of the season and eiijoy their leisure. There, i* always a, large admixture also • of . blouses; for the French ouvrier has a real and genuine taste: for, and often, i. considerable knowledge of music, and is quite capable of appreciating the compositions of the best masters. The performances by such bands as those o’? the guides, or the gardes de Paris, or the imperial guard, is first rato; the solo parts being played by allowed to hire them selves out as professional musicians at a very high price. And all this cheap and pleasant and, elevating luxury is placed daily at. the eommaucl of the people for three sous, or for nothing at all if they like to stand and listen instead of being scrited. Another great feature of Paris out-of-season and out-of-dodr life is the concierge and his family. There he sits, with his wile and chil dren, at the door of every private hotel or fashionable residence in Paris, rejoicing in “ nothing to do,” with no staircase to clean, nor portc-cochire to sit up and open till five in the morning. He. brings the chairs and half ; tlie furniture of his narrow logo out into the" deserted street, and takes his ease all day long. There are whole" avenues in Paris, at this time of year, where, in the evening, you see nothing but these groups at the door of every mansion, all the other .occupants of which have flitted to the seaside, Switzerland, ora German watering-place. . The mention of Switzerland reminds me of letters I have received from friends in those parts, and the? weather they describe. In the Grisons, the Engadine, and even down as low as Coire, snow has fallen very recently in large quantities, and one fact mentioned is that the temperature registered on the 21st of June, the longest day, of the year, was in many places the Bame as that registered on the 21st of December, the shortest. In some parte, as in the Schuytz district, for instance, the cattle had ..been obliged to. be- brought down again from the high pastures, to prevent from perishing from oold.and hunger. 'Flocks of sheep had been buried under avalanches, and early travelers and tpurists had been •obliged to resort to sledging in order to get on their way. I see, however, that more recently a first ascent of Mont Blanches beenaccom plislied, though not. without diilieulty and danger; so that the weather has probably mo-; derated, and a fine autumn may be anticipated after tlie late unusual inclemency. ... .• ’ . Tlie harvest and vintago in France seem, on the whole, to promise well, now that fine JDaxlji <f timing lulktiu weather, has set iu again. Friends in thp West write me word that wheat and barley will be ready to cut by the 'last week of-this month, and that tho yield will he above, an average. In the southern and central districts, from Bourgcs to Lyons, the accounts are about the same, though somewhat less favorable east wards and towards the Jura mountains and the Vosges. On the whole harvest, perhaps, a, good average may bo calculated. The vine yards, also, i>romise well, though backward, in consequence of a cold and wet June., There are at this moment two of the most .cele brated wine-farms of France for sale in the market, the Eomanea-Conti, and the Clos- Vougeot, both in the Burgundy district. The size of the former is only some three acres, and its produce rarely exceeds ten casks, averaging about 300 bottles each. The price asked for this precious estate is 100,000 francs. The farm known as the Clos, or inclosure of Vougcot, contains something more than one hundred acres, entirely surrounded by a wall, whence its name, and yields, on an averajgjg about two hundred or two hundred and ten casks of wine, though it has sometimes pro duced five or six hundred, and sank again as low as eighty. ; It is now oflered for sale at the price of 2,000,000 francs. The produce, how ever, of both these celebrated vineyards is still disposed of, I understood, for some years to come, to the Compaf/nie des yrands vim de Bourgogne, in the Bue Boyale, of this city. CRIM E . ' A Cincinnati Tragedy. [From the Ciilclunatl Chronicle of July 20.1 A terrible tragedy, resulting in the self ilrowning of a husband,the probable shocking death of, the wife, and the orphanage of four small, helpless elril<,lfen, occurred early this morning. ' . Tlie name of tlie husband was John Maher, and that of the wife had been Mary Gamble. They had lived together seventeen years. For the hist two or three years, with the exception of an occasional job of tailoringj he has done nothing for the support of his family, the wife, at the wash-tub, having’ to provide—all too scantily—the hsmd%nd clothing for her children, now reduced to four, out of eight born'to her. , . They occupied asingle room, in the second story of a house on tlie southeast corner of Columbia and Face streets, where they had lived for three years. Hot withont bit terness of feeling and harsh words had the wife endured the burdens thus imposed upon her; and not without shameful abuse had he resented this natural manifestation of human weakness. ■/' . Hot much is known of the scenes immedi ately preceding the catastrophe of this morn ing. During the night Maher came home, drunk as usual, and his wife refused him ad mission into" their only room, where she and her four children were sleeping. She had the' door locked against him, and he remained out nil night. He was seen at midnight, sitting on. a box in front of the house. The next , that wits seen or heard of him was.this morning at live o’clock, when Mr. Duffy, wbo sub-lets the room occupied by Maher, heard a rumpus in tlie room, and ran down to quell the disturb ance, Ho heard Maher ask fov a dollar, that he might go away and leave her. She refused.: to give it to him. He then asked for a clean blurt; but the poor wife either; had none for him, or was so exasperated that she would not gratify him to Quit extent. Then followed a scuffle, a thump upon' the floor, and steps hastening out of the Toom. ' As Mr, Diifly reached' the door, he saw' Maher rushing down the steps. Looking in, he was shocked to see Mrs. Maher lying on the floor; her head bloody, and an ax by her side. He gave an alarm, and hastened after the fu gitive. He pursued him down Bace street toward the nver. At that early, hour there was nobody in the streets to halt him, and on heiwent to the river, up Water street, to the Louisville Mail boat, lying at tho foot of Vine, across, her bow,' and leaped into' the river. Soon bis head appeared above the water, and floated a moment to the stern, where a plank was thrown out to him, and he might have caught hold of the yawl, but he turned away from them, and sunk to rise no more alive. Beturaing, Mr. Duffy found some neighbor women washing the blood from the almost lifeless woman. The first blow had almost cut off the right ear, and the second had sunk a deep gash in tlm right temple. The axe was cliill as a grubbing hoe, or it- would have cleaved her head in 'two. Dr. Maley was sent for, who dressed her Wounds, but thinks there Ls little prospect of her recovery. When we called at the terrible scene we fourid a sister of the unfortunate woman and two neighbors taking care of her and her little group of children, the eldest a girl of twelve, unci the youngest less than a year old. It was a sad sight, and, helpless to render any desira ble service, we.turned from the scene to other and constantly varyingseenes of life, generally brighter, but too often with hues of darkness and woe. Since the foregoing was written, we have learned from Dr. Maley that Mrs. Maher’s wounds were not necessarily fatal. The blow in the temple did not fracture the skull, but inflammation of the brain renders her uncon scious, and may terminate her life. She will be taken to the hospital this afternoon, and her brother will take one of the children: The Doctor informs us that Maher called at his office last night, between 10 and 11 o’clock, and solicited a recommendation to get work in the Garden of Edon. He was sober then, and promised to do better if he would only help him to employment. For the sake of ‘his family, the Doctor gave him a note asking for work. But it must nave been that the weak man, elated with the prospect of earning some thing and again bringing happiness to his family, took a few drinks in congratulation of his good resolution, and so became the brute and fiend he was. Sad Suicide. [l'rom the Cincinnati Times of July 20th.] This morningjahout half-past eleven o’clock, Emil Gaworski, a young and handsome Polander, very genteely dressed, entered Washington Park, and, when reaching the northwestern part of it, deliberately pulled out a pistol, as is supposed, shot himself in the heart, walked a few -paces, and fell to the earth a corpse. The' Tact was unpereeived by those in the park at that hour, though the report of the pistol was heard, and attracted attention to the lifeless form of the young man, crimsoning the grass with his blood/ The news ofthe sad actsoon became known, and orowds flocked to the spot to gaze upon the unfortunate suicide. . ! ■ On the arrival of the Coroner his pockets were searched,-and-», letter ißdited in-German was found therein. Astranslated to usit reads in substance as follows: “One hour bqfore death—My name is Emil Ga worski. I have been trying to kill myself for the last two weeks, and regret exceedingly that I was not killed, while fighting in tlie Union Army. Let none of my friends who may read this mention how I died to my poor mother and sister. Adieu, dear home.” There were some other papers found in'.his pockets, but nothing’ giving any further ex planation in regard to the reason why he coni mitted the act. Some metallic cartridges were also found in his pockets, hut, strange to say, the pistol with which- lie Bad committed the fatal act had not been found when we left the PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1869. scene. When ho fired, doubtless, he threwthe pistol among the shrubbery which skirted the promenade. 1 " . A gentleman , who was present ''was ac quainted with the deceased, and stated that he' had hoen acting as bar-keeper at the hotel at the southeast corner of; Third and Broadway; formerly the Winud House. He had been,ho further said, in this country some eight or ten years, and. had received a splendid education. - EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. I’KIISNIA. Fourth of July In Berlin. [Correspondence of tho N. Y. World. J Behlin, July G. —lndependence Day was, as usual, celebrated by the American colony assembled to dine—for this once—in the hand some hall of a restaurant in the neighboring city ofCharlottenburg. In the centrejof one side of the apartment was hung a familiar portrait ofjwesident Washington, which has often tariffed a part of the decorations atsimi- as it formerly belonged Wright, by whose widow was given as a souvenir to his faith ful butler, Schmidt. On either side of it were placed the stars and stripes of the Bepublic, while the Prussian eagle, with his gilt crown, looked down from the white and black ensign festooned above. Almost in front of the pic ture sat the chief guest, Privy Councillor Bruns, the present Dean of tlie law faculty of the University, and a distinguished professor of civil law. That this: learned gentleman might, have an opportunity of conversing in any modern language he might prefer, care was taken to place Mrs. Young,of Detroit, and Mrs. Mitchell, of Chicago, beside him. It turned out, however, that be was quite at home in flieir own vernacular. ■ Quite half of the. rest of the company, some thirty in number, was made up of young ladies, one charming bevy being matrouized by Mrs. Hoffman, of New York, and another by Mrs. Fuller,ot Chicago, both of which ladies must have been grateful for the kindness of the spruce young men who displayed great readiness in assisting .them in the care ot their Charges. Grace having been ' said by theßev. Mr. Barstow, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, a very elegapt dinner, accompanied by equally poor wipes, was served. When the,table became pretty well dotted with champagne coolers, and the roast was under consideration, it seemed time that the orating—for orating there must be when two or three Americans are gathered together—should commence, and so it did. First, of course, came the sentiment, “The day we celebrate,” which was duly drunk, after being prefaced by very brief re? marks from Mr. Mac Lean, and. 'by three hearty cheers from all. Then followed, doubt less under application of .the principle of doing in Germany as the .Germans do, the toast to bis Majesty, the King of Prussia, and of tlie North-German .Bund. Privy Councillor. Bruns spoke for bis sovereign very gracefully lip bis own tongue,, and with that loyalty of expression which marks the language of a people with principalities and powers many. Beferring to the. United States,. lie said that Americans must be pronounced fortunate, in that they bail a national birth day, to which they could look back wjth pride, and winch they could celebrate with fond remembrance. In Germany there had been lately born a new state, if not a. new. nation, and the man who had principally gui ded the aflairii during its birth-struggle, con trolled them'still; no the Union, which, after the manner of republics, seldom called a mili tary man to bo its Executive, had cheseti Tor ' this high office the man who'successfully con cluded its last struggle for life. He begged, then, to propose “ einen toast auf den Herrn, General Grant, den' Presidenten der Verein igten Staaten. Er lehe liocb! nnd abermals lioch! und riochmals hoch!” . • The reply to this was made by Mr. Mac- Lean, who said that he had on several sim ilar occasions during tlie preceding adminis tration been called to a like honor, and that he now, as then,. contended, that every citizen should render honor and support to him who had been chosen President. He thought it surprising that those from whom the new exe eutive had a right to expect assistance-r-the ruling majority in the Senate and Congress— should have hampered him by a statute which was as contrary to the doctrines of public law taught ifi Europe as; it was to. the experience of efficient governments. He mentioned, among the reasons why Americans abroad could respond heartily to the toast, the tact that the President and Secretary of State had shown a determination not to be led by even their own party into extravagant demands npon foreign powers, nor into conniving at breaches of international law. \ Sir. Tomkins, of Providence/ most happily proposed the (among Americaps never for gotten) toast, “The Ladies,” winning showers of smiles from his fair clients arid provoking frequent interruptions of applause, to which small hands contributed no little part. Then , came toasts and sentiments numerous, includ ing “The 1 University”-/with - which was’eou j "pled tbe name of the eminent juristpresent at i tlie board, Count Bismarck—“ Mr. Bancroft,” whoso absence was much commented upon, though due, I believe, to some misunderstand ing. . A gentleman connected with tbe Nord daulsche Allyemcinc JZcituny l in answering for ! “The Press,” glorified that institution as ft ex ; ists in the States, and the laws; or rather the absence of laws, controlling it,in pretty strong j terms for an attache of a ministerial journal, i Queer enough, some itinerant domine deli | vered himself of a toast ft) religion—^whether ; it was greeted with hqEcans I have forgotten, ■ but think I may safely affirm that to have | been the case, for the company had become quite cheery by that time. The musicians sta tioned on tho balcony, seeing the merriment, commenced a rollicking air from one of Offen bach’s comic operas. This bull was outdone by the one with which they commenced. The musical committee-map found that he could not lead his pipers into the mysteries of “Hail Columbia” and “Yankee Doodle,” but grewi enthusiastic when be had made them compre hend “My Country, ’tis of Thee;” but he _omitted to mention the order of exercises, so the hymn to the sweet land of liberty was drawled out as a pman to the king, and “Heil Dir im Sieges Kranz” swelled the acclamation for Independence Day. ; It was 9 o'clock; betore dinner was over, yet preparations were speedily iriade for a dance , anti probably it cariie off, though I cannot say with certainty, for,' thinking it the proper thing for a staid bachelor, I left the lads and lasses to their hop. Before I got away Iheard the ladies praising the committee, and. I be lieve tbey spoke of Mr. Tondpkins,-of- Bhode ■ Island' Mr. Hill, of Georgia; Mr, Harice, of Hew Y ork, and perhaps others; these, at any rate, receivedjionorablo mention. A War .Steamer Sent after a Haytian ..Frtvateer. ... [Corri'Bjioudoncoof the How York HoralJ.] Washington, July 21, 186!).—The United > States steamer Seminole/ Cbiniriander E. H. Owens, which left Norfolk, Va., onthe llth inst., tinder sealed orders on a secret expedi tion to the Haytian waters, is, now-understood tohnve sailed ibr the purpose of capturing the Haytian privateer Hero. This iatter vessel Bas long been preying extensively on Ameri can commerce in that latitude: It/Ls stated on semi-official authority that the orders of Com mander Owen are to capture /the Hero and bring her at once to Washington. Engineers Smith and Van Claine, of the'Gosport Navy- Yard, a number of extra . Officers and a full crew and armament left onthe Seminole, and it is expected slip will be hqard from shortly. The last heard of the privateer was that she was seen in Gonaives Bdy with an Ainerican OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. schooner in custody; tho captured vesselflying the St. Domingo flag, with tho American en sign beneath.'. The Haytian privateer is also said to have a largo amount or specie onboard, which materially enhances the value of the prize among the crew of the Seminole. Navy officers here are looking anxiously for further intelligence. .News Received by the Junto in New ; York. ■■...■ . [From the N.Y. Bun of July 21»t.J The news which the Cuban Junta received from their correspondents in Cuba by.the ar rival of the steamship Columbia yesterday, is cheering and satisfactory. Among other things, is the announcement of the landing of another expedition of troops from the United States; who shortly after disembarking attacked two regiments of Spanish vo lunteers, and routed, 1 them, taking • two hundred: prisoners, among them Colonel; Villaverde. , The officers and men of the Spanish navy werealso much alarmed at learn ing that a few schooners from Hew Orleans, laden with submarine torpedoes, arms, and ammunition, hail landed their cargoes and sailed on their return voyage. Hopes are en tertained that tlio Cuban flag will float over Morro Castle by New Year’s. The conduct of our Government meets with unanimous con demnation in Cuba, some going so far. as to assert, that. under no consideration will they consent to the annexation of Cuba to the United States. . Major Bios, with sixty men of the Spanish troops, had had a sharp engagement with the Cubans near Manzanillo on or about the 10th inst. Twenty of the latter were .killed and twelve captured. The Spanish loss was not given. ■ • . , FIXAn ESCAPE OF GEN, EVAN. ’’ On Sunday night Cols. Byan and Currier es caped from Gardiner’s Island, and yesterday th.ey were in the Clifton House, Niagara Falls. ■ When tlie marines and deputy marshals under Marshal Gregg landed on Gardiner’s Island, Island last Friday,and took off all the men from the cafup and elsewhere that they cOuld find, bringing them, as has already been re ported, to Fort Lafivyate,they had left behind -Cols. Byan and Currier and abont 40 (not 70), including some of the principal men that had been in the army—the.flo wer.in fact,of the fili busters. Duringthe chase and the capture of . the filibusters by the marines and Deputy Mar shals; upward of 20Q shots were fired, some of tlie filibustersTeturaing in earnest the fire, and both Currier and Byan narrowly'escaped with their lives- A short time after the cdmpwas surprised by the officers of the law, the Cu bans'singled out the Deputy Marshals and opened a fire upon them. -It-was positively asserted by Col. Currier that he had not only shot one of the Deputy'Marshals, but that he. had seen his arm in which the shot had taken effect fall helpless to his side.. If such is the case, why has it been kept a' secret?, Which one of the Deputy Marshals, or men, was it that was shot? • con. cukeier’s disguise. But to continue. When the last boat-load was only a short distance Irom the shore they were hailed and put back to receive a note from a large-framed man in common clothing, having a heard all over his face; the letter was directed to the officer ih command ofthe force, who was then on board the cutter. The large framed mail with a beard,in common clothes, who spoke to the boat-load of marines, was Co). Currier himself, who had bytkat time re loaded his weapon and was with Byan standing bn the beach watching with heavy hearts the lap* iflCiag all tHoir de.eielaid’plahsfpr a glorious campaign against the Spaniards in Cuba. The note sent was a mere piece of bravado On the nart of desperate, huntedmen, to let the officials know that their principal prey was yet openly and avowedly on the island. It is well known that some time ago Colonels Currier and Byan, and one or two other principal officers, entered into a secret compact never to be taken to a dungeon, such as tbe abominable den in Ludlow street, alive, and pledged each other that they would stand by each other to the bitter end. THE ESCAPE FROM THE ISLAND. ' Last Sunday night a sailing yacht, belong ing to ol - commanded by a Capt, Bennett, which had at first been engaged by Byan for S7O to carry his men, left the island for this city,bringing about forty persons. EverytEing . had been done so noiselessly, yet so swiftly, that even if the United States authorities had any soldiers stationed ih those waters they would have suspected nothing. Within two hours after leaving the island that night they were seen in Sag Harbor in company with Judge Merrill,. Mr. French, Mr. Sleight, and Others, and shortly afterward again embark ing on the same yacht, they reached the Con . necticut shore,and made their way to Canada ' WHAT BYAN AND CURRIER BAY.' Byan and Currier say that if. those ofthe men who wers left in New York’ had joined them in season all could have embarked and reached a point where their whereabouts would have been unknown to Marshal Barlow, whence they could ultimately have' embarked for Cuba. They add' that the failure of the expedition rests with Senor Alfaro and others, as bad they not given all up when only a part were seized, ana /thoy haa attempted to save what they could, their loss would not have been so great. The pecuniary loss is estimated atsioo.ooo; . , As the Cuban Junta refuse to aid any one of tpe men that have been enlisted by-their paid, subordinates, a number of them are about to institute suits against the Junta for the pay •promised'them of $3O per month in gold, the bounty that had also Deen promised them of an additional $5OO iri gold, and also their lost clothes. • YELLOW FEVER IN NEW YORK BAY. Tweifty-ißve Deaths on tbe Saratoga. [from tho No-hr York Times.] When the United States sloop-otVwar Sara toga lay at Havana, last spring, that scourge of the topics, the yellow fever, broke out among her ctew. One of its first victims was John Paul Quinn, the ship’s surgeon. “She was immediately ordered by Admiral Hoff, commanding the North Atlantic Squadron, to sail for a northern; iatitude. Accordingly she came to Newi York, arriving here on the 19th of Juno. She was quarantined in the Lower Bay, and the tide-wheel steamer, the Frolic, despatched toiher. To this vessel were, re moved the healthy men of the Saratoga’s crew. They remained on board for'two weeks, and, noifurther case ol the fever ap pearing among them, tyere transferred to the United States receiving-ship Vermont, where they still remain. On hoard of tl)o Saratoga, since her arrival, a great many men have tiled, among them the following officers in addition to the surgeon, who died' at Havana: Wm. A. - Van . Vleek, Lieutepaht>.Obmiiander,died June 29; George A. Flagg, Lieutenant, June 20; Herman C. Baebel, Lieutenaint, June 26; Samuel G. Blod fett. Master’s , Slate,. June 20; Wm. E. Mc lullen, Captain’s Clerk, June 22; Hiram L. 26. ; Since she left Havana there have been .twenty-five deaths on board, and quite a num ber ot eases wbo are now convalescents. Ten days ago the remainder ofthe crew,being con sidered quite well) wore transferred to the Vermont, sq that iriow the vessel lies in the Lower Bay with btit a few men on board to look after her and see that she is thoroughly cleansed. Every tiling that can he done to dls^ 1 infect rind purify h<jr is being done. Tb make' assurances doubly/sure, she will be kept at her present rinchoriige ’ until the cold weather sets in; when she. will he brought to the Navy Yard to discharge her stores. All his officers: have been detached and have gone to their homes. Only Caiitain Whiting remains to care for his men. THE BEVOLUTION IN CURA; DISASTERS. The Late Accident on the Union Pacific Railroad. [Front tho Omaha Bojmblicnn, of July 18.| The late railroad accident on tho Union B'a cifie was caused'by. the heavy rains having washed the earth from under the track at the eastern end of a fill on the grade just above Antelope Station. The up train approached tbe spot about day light on the morning of Thursday last, at tlie usual rate of speed. The track being perfect, and the engineer discovering no evidences of any disarrangement, did not slacken the en gine at all, but allowed her the accustomed stroke. v The baggage and mail cars piled themselves up rather promiscuously, while, the passenger cars werescarcely injured. A young man named .Tno. Dwyer, who was stealing a ride on the platform of a front car, was instantly killed. On his person was found a diploma showing lnm to have beenagraduate of the Medical College at Dublin, Ireland. Several letters of Introduction from prominent Eastern men were also found in his pocket, with $1 in money, fclt is supposed that he wns.sliort of moans, and too prowl to ask a \ ride, hence adopted this means to procure transportation to some point further west. The fireman,, Mr. Melvin Shears, of Cold Water, Michigan, was also instantly killed. His body .was. sent to Sidney on the return train; and will be taken to ills home in the East. The baggage and' mail cars were Tiadly wrecked. The passenger coaches sustained but little damage. Several, passengers were slightly injured, and the engineer somewhat scalded. Mr, S. S. Daniels, U. S. Mail Agent, who is our authority for the above informa tion, had his left limb slightly bruised, but not seriously enough to lay him up. The damages to the road were soou repaired and the trains in running order. ■ » Cnrlons and I*alnl'ul Accident. A young man named Edward Nolde, em ployed as a salesman in the wholesale bat store of B. H. Edelen S'Co., on Main with a very curious and distressing aceident-rit noon yesterday. He bad ' sat down to dinner at bis home, on , Chestnut street, and was taking a drink of water from a’glass tumbler. Before he had swallowed tlie first mouthful of writer be discovered that be hail swallowed several sharp sewing needles. He gave a tre mendous congli, and finally succeeded in spit ting out one or tlie needles, but two of them nad beepme fastened far down his throat, and had lodged so severely: that they could not be forced either down or up. They caused him great I tain, and it was with some difficulty he could ireathe at all. A surgeon was at once sum moned, who; after examining the location anil position of the needles; announced that they would .have to be cut from the throat. An in cision was therefore made large 'enough through which to extract the' needles. Al though the operation was performed very Scientifically and skilfully, the young man suf fered intense pain, anti is now unable to move Iris neck in the least from one side to the other. The wounds will heal shortly, however, when the unfortunate young man will Arid re iiei.—Louisville Express, July 17th. POLITICAL. A Southern View of, Packer’s Nomtua- The Savannah Republican, a Democratic paper., says: ) v ’ ,“Itis a rare thing for the Northern Demo crats to make a judicious nomination. In deed, since the South has been left out of their councils,. the party appears to have lost its . brains. There seems to be a fatality that drives them away from every road that can possibly lead to victory.- They appear incapa ble of teaminy amjthiny from the past. It is their blunders alone that have kept alive the Badical party, which has 16ng since been con demned by the. Ainerican people. In the late Presidential campaign they not only brought out a ticket that was obliged to be beaten, but took special pains to. secure its , defeat by putting the party , on the defensive in a long and silly string of irrelevant resolutions. In the States they have been guilty of equal folly. With the excep tion of Hofiinan, in New York, and Bose crans, in Ohio, they have blundered in almost - every nomination made since the close of the war. The Pennsylvania' nomination on Tues day afl'ords a striking example. They could have had the services of Hancock by anything like a unanimous nomination, and his name would have put a Democratic victory beyond a peradventure; but no, ihey must go off into a wild goose,chase after, a ‘ copperhead’ iwminee, a well-known partisan,-who will keep his mi nority party together and the opposition quite as firmly united.” Tlie Erie Railroad Slaughter.' [Correspondence ofthe Now York Times.] Port Jervis, N. Y., Wednesday, July 21, 1869.—The engineer of the freight train, Grif fin, still lies in the jail at Milford, Pa., await ing the September term of court for a trial. In the meantime efi'orts are being made to bail him out, and yesterday a party of bis friends from Susquehanna went to Milford to make 1 application to Judge Sluirswood, of the Supreme Court (who is temporarily stopping there), for the discharge of Griffin on bail The application was granted ami the amount of bail fixed at $2,000, wßich Iris friends were prepared to furnish. Subsequently the amount was fixed at $lO,OOO, which amount has not yet been raised, anil tho probability is that tbe prisoner will be obliged to lay in jail until his trial. ' On Sunday a man came to Port Jervis, rep resenting himself as a relative of the lost Ger man family whose remains were interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. He says they are John Kruch, Elizabeth, bis wife, anil their three children, and that they were going to Girard, 111. They started from Morn.sania,N. ' Y., where they resided lor some time. The gentleman had oomo on to make arrangements to effect a settlement with the Company for their loss, for tho benefit of the heirs, which would bo $25,000, He failed to satisfy the Company as to the identity of the bodies, and did not succeed iu effecting a settlement. The wounded at the Delaware House arc rapidly gaining, and will return homo in a few days. There are only three of them re maining, one of whom, Carl Baer, the Ger man lad, has sent for,his mother and brother, in Prussia, to comb over to this country. The claim for damages for his father’s death Ims not yet been settled. John Flowers, one of tho injured, started on Saturday for La Crosse; Wis. ' \ —Some of the feats of cost-office clerks are wonderful as a magician's surprises. A letter bearing the post-mark of some obscure station •village recently came to the Paris Post Office. It bore no address but this: “To my buz Bunn. a barr Shoo her inparigi.” _ Well, it the h'uBband/"the bear showman in Paris, to whom it was addressed. —The Indianapolis Mirror says: “A party of Muncie ladies, headed by Mrs. Frame, tbe re vival lady, recently visited tbe saloons of that city for the purpose of holding prayer meet ings. Being unable to effect an entrance at a certain Marie Wallings, they organized ou the sidewalk, whereupon the ungallant proprietor proceeded to i>iuup water oil them through a ■garden engine: Ho may see a time when, ■looking away off there across the fiery gulf, lie will see Mrs.. Frame in Abrahanrsbosom,' while he thinks regretfully of the precious fluidl whibli iiri so prodigrilly wasted o'n tbe oc casfon'of- Khfijirayer meeting.” .He will be in another Frame of mind, then, doubtless, F. I. EETHERSm Publisher. PRfOJB OiSN'fS FAtlB A.VI» t’ABfCIES. [From Ifcirper’H Miiguzim*. : &T: Betrothal. O for one hour of such enchanted light As made a fairer daytime in theskv, Jitn on the wiUow-bitnk we aat that night. ■My old-time lore andrl! ----- • ’ so tow and tenderiv, . listening trees above iis lean: A 3 seemed to mo That fell at last between. w ay ,fi,? atiTl £ on its quiet thoughts* r Jjike >vater*]ilies on a tranquil lake: i And ijove unknown, because un sought, ' '■ Lay dreaming half awake. . ; ■Ah> Love is lightest sleeper ever known' whisper, and he started plain to. view; e heavens seemed oar storv grown While yet the moon was new. ‘ And when she spoke, her answer seemed tha ■ - ' while Sweeter for sweetness of the’llps tliattold Setting a precious word within a smile— A diamond ringed wlthgold, Then bloomed for us the perfect. cenLury- flower■ ■ ■; 1 - Then filled the cup and overrau tlie brim • And all the stars processional; that lidur. Chanted a bridal-liyfnn.' ■' Ah, Time, all after-days may fly away, Such joy as that thou hast but once to give, And Love is royal from his crowning-day. ' Though kingdomless he live. ; —Millard Fillmore and Thurlow Weed have made up. —Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker , wept before the Secretary of the Treasury on. Tuesday. Mr. Boutwell was unmoved. —lt is said that under the new system of extracting alcohol from, garbage, a palatable article ofbeer may be obtained from old boots. —TlieNew York Times.thinks that General F. P. Blair at Long Branch, instead of being the right man in the right place; was a tight man in a tight place. , —There is a horHe'in. Northern Illinois, six years old, nameless and unknown except by its owner and trainer, which can pace a mile in two minutes and twelve seconds. —lt is proposed to form an inland State out of Eastern Oregon, Idaho, and a part of Washington' Territory, and a coastwise. State out of the rest of Oregon and Washing ton Territory. ■ —lt is calculated that the quantity of beer annually produced in Europe exceeds 1,200,000,000 gallons. Bavaria produces most in proportion to her population, and. Russia least. —The .century plant at Rochester, N. Y., draws many strangers to that city, some of whom have come purposely hundreds of miles to see it. It now shows the beautiful pyra midal form of flowering, and will soon be in blossom. —A little gill named Katie Pitt has received a premium in Platte county, Mo., for commit ting to memory 13,637 verses of the Bible. At last accounts she was still alive, although it may be doubted whether she can survive the ■l4,oooth verse. WePitty the poor child; —The dressmaker’s account which the Prin cess of Metturnlch.submitted to her husband recently, before leaving Paris, was of 112,000 francs (.£4,480). Unlike Prince Bariatinski, who last month flatly refused to pay ,10,000 itancs.(£4oo) fora “petite toilette de matin en crepe de Chine,” his Excellency, the Austrian Ambassador opened his purse like a prince. Madame la Pnncesse then produced the bon net hill, which amounted to 2,250 francs (£330), This his Excellency paid again, remarking this time, with exemplary resignation, “My dear, I have noticed that in proportionas your bon nets diminish in size the prise ’ of them in creases. One of these mornings we shall be having the milliner bringing nothing but the' -Wll.-—; . ‘ —A novel has just been published at Little Rock, Arkansas. Its author is Captain It. H. Crozier, and its title, “The -Bloody Junta; or, the Escape of J, Wilkes Booth.” The leading actors in the assassination conspiracy play the principal parts' in this romance. 1 The Junta is composed of Booth, Payne, Atzerodt, Mrs., Surratt, and others, and directed by a certain Coldheart, •whose purpose is to make himself king. Booth is not killed, however, in Gar rett’s barn, but abeautiful girl: named Flora Louran dies in- his place, and the military Soft" her corpse, as that of the assassin, e purpose 'or claiming the reward. , —A letter from Niagara says .-—The most marked change is visible this spring, perhaps, that has ever"been seen by .the oldest habitues, and there is a very evident alteration in! the appearance of the mighty wonder. The cone in the point of the Horse-Shoe Fall, where the ‘•green water” is seen,/ has given away ajiout thirty i'eet, and the, even, regular curve has been transferred to more of a triangular shape. It is estimated from the size of the gorge made that from one hundred and titty to two hun dred tons of rock must have given way. There : is also a marked change in the appearance of the American Fall. The side toward Luna Island has worn away, leaving a sharp nro j iection. Should this give.way and form a noi- I low, the American Fall would form the out | lino of a-complete lotter S. • The appearance of I the rock is shelvy, so that it would he no won : dor should this happen ere many days,although it may not happen for years. , . —A Paris correspondent writes the follow ing: “ Let me tell you.of a catastrophe that ■happened' recently in the Bats. One of the best, ‘international’ gentleman riders was taking his pleasure there?—such pleasure, that is to say, as may be had in a Victoria at 2f. 7 fie. per hour. Calmly reflecting on good things iu general, and his next good thing m particular, I he went mooning up and down the shore of | the .great, lake. Suddenly liis conveyance halted and aroused him "from his reverie. ;. ! Looking"up he saw his steed—a proud animal —consuming something. "What do you think it was ? Why, only the straw-colored Chignon ; of the lady in the Victoria in front of nim. • Picture the face of the victim of this latest ‘ rape of the locks,’ and the look of detestation . which she bestowed. After all, he was not to blame; nor, indeed, was the horse. If ladies have straw-colored tresses, they really must bo prepared to he eaten lip alive by ignorant, horses which have, perhaps, been kept a little • short, and see the tempting bait-dangling be fore their eyes.” . - frontier females do not "seem to un-• < derstand the necessity of taking the census,amt naturally resist such things. Such was the ■ case m Cheyenne. To one Sir. Pierce, the col- . lector," said: “What is your ago?” and,she replied: “That is an impudent question and I ' _wunit tell you. 1 ' “Well I shall put you down •at thirty,” "said “Pierce. “Fin, !dnly" twenty l "" “ seven, indignantly exclaimed the now < thoroughly enraged lady. The record was corrected accordingly. ■ “Madam,” said Mr. Pierce W another lady, “I have been at your house twice to take tho census.” “You had ■ better not let mo catch you there taking any thing,” answered the independent woman. “I want to know how many childron yoti • have ?” asked Pierce, walking into a house: : “What’s" that your business?” answered the dtunej “so long as we don’t nskyonto keep them ?” “I am taking the census and must know,” pursued Pierce. “Well, I guess some body has been a takin’ yours, and you’d better, be hunting them up, young man,” vociferated •' the dame. -■' ......
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