=lll GIBSON ItACObIC. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 99. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE dayS beffire, , Whealefractired lifslsktilL, Thei Count was nearly ninety years of age; and but for thiS fall might haVe liVed to a hundred, as. , many. of tlds'king4iVed 'ffiniily haVe';: , fOt :hel ~,. , „ , „ , . .•,,. .. _ waS a hale, hearty man, vigorous in mind 1 Correspondence at the _ thiltt.Eiwilieentillothi.L. , fl.nii body. Like the Pope, .his brother; he Was., Piazza. in SPAgNA,*()*(3, Italy, Tuesday, veryactive, and Walked out every day in all' ..lady '2O, l'Bo.--ThOre . is a secret Printing-office: kinds of Weather: '. Count Mastai Ferretti was at the Vatican. The oath - taken by the era- an unambitiona man,. Itiid never. Sought to plOyt.s, neVer tudivtilge . the subject of theirsl profit by his brother's high position, 'lnformer work, is of the most sidemn and sacred nature. i "times the fal i nh.;sot ,,, t.h . 6 . ; ropwi brtre . gdi him To report how long they work and how busy i ' they arnis no infringement ef this oath., Their i founded decal ad:Vantages in' Rome; they: have : princely, families, and accumulated labors lately have been iagreat that One:of the 1 large fortuneS; but this ' cannot_e said Of :the pctsons empleyed told a friend. of. Mine that family of Pius IX. -- While His Holiness sets he earned a seudi a day over and above his I I this example of Christian modestyaud fugality, usnalpay. So pushed are they with work that . 1 howeVer; according' to report some of 'lds they even take their .feste. daYsi which feW i Cardinals are far from following it . Cardinals Romans are Willing to yield. Of course, this I Anfonelli and Berardi, who are ' high official work is the preparatory labor of the Council 1 personages, have :not lost their chances of Those of 11.4 who are book. gournionds hardly , making both: position and fortune.- They are ever think hoWmany libraries- there are In i both' very. rich; , and, Cardinal ' Antoneffi's the world that would he totally uninteresting i brothers, who were of plainbirth, are Counts, to us. The ,Stemp(fria (11 Propaganda Fide, or iand live very elegantly. h . . aprimeria Polyglotta—the Propaganda book- 1: 'Xhe :Florentine Goverament passed a law Store—is only a short distance from the piazza, called the Law •of SUpPression and Couver di spagna, at the corner of Capo le Case and Sion, for the purpose of abolishing and confis- Via Propaganda: .: Its windows: have in them . eating eceleSiastical property. Apropos to this idles . of learned boOks, With Latin and Greek law Victor Emmanuel has lately issued a very Utica. Sometimes a black letter Work, with curious decree, by which he excludes from the broad :Margins, Rhin:dilated capitals and rod action of this I i'mm the treasures 'of St. Janna rubrics, is spread out; this volume is to tempt i tinsi , at Naples, and the Chapel of the Sagra the learned who pass, by. I often leek into i Litteia, at Messina. The reason is that the these ' windows and say to myself, here are i pennlar love for these two devotions is so great books of which .Z have never- heard, whose''' they cannot be meddled with. ' ' words probably have shaken thrones, plunged : The St. Januarius Treasures and Miracle 4 Whole , people in confusion, and goy' are probably betterlnewn to you than' the erned great : councils,—not a line , Sagra Littera of Sicily. Aa I was at Messina oftheni could I read if I had the chance. It, 1 last autumn, I had an apnotte-ity 'of seeing is a grew - comfort for me to stand there and ! and itamiag. something about this • curions feel this. for often I have just left Spitlitever's I tradition. , In the strange old Cathedral, built eonnters and shdves—the delightful book- ~ b y Rogei. of Sicily, there is a chapel which store 'on the Piu7-4 di S Pag"it7 - with tuy eyes ciMtaitis a letter translated by St. Paul from full of ranging, My. heart overflowing with '; Hebre' AV into Grra4r, written originally by the grief anti iris mind 011 " d with'stern .t.""°iY" to i' Virgin Mary, Mother of Christ, to the people deny myself every pardonable luxury- Of dress i• ef Messina, in reply to a deputation which _so dear to a weak-minded woman—in order i ~ . , , , they sent to her at Jerusalem. to obtain • some captivating out. unattainalim . This letter is d ated Al E r Hi ctom a ym i s volumes, vlitise leaves contain, I think, just. a iiii. nostri NUL indictione 1., HI. at'illat iiiteuvut everything I. wish to I t how.. berms jmiii hula XXVII., feria V!' Of course Thenover at the Vatican Printing:office !Hell 'authenticity of this letter has provoked as are hd""riufi ,night' mid daY at' "til"r i -iii. wany loiarned „doubts and defences as any I "arfled tonnes, the •• contents .o will" other famouS miraculous possession . of - the I ea ii never reail,—another "" s 'ilatie". ! Catholic Church. The unbelievers say Con- A hinfiwOulau of ruin" , when she I ra: 4 a i stantiae. Lasearis invented the letter. In 162.0 wader- delicat•child, was turned loeSe in au i a learned jesuit, Melchior Inchofer, wrote a i old lion ber garret to play. There she ! great in-"folio volmtie to prove the trutleof the “browsed," as Charlet. Lamb says, . anon;{ !'liblY '4.lpistle. ' HoweVer it May be, on the sth some old hooks that bud been packed away in I of JiuM every year, the :"Testa dell' sagra the garret. SIM read and read, and grew so i Littera," is celebrated with great pomp and greedy that often she felt sink at heart at the ; grind preciiioaa, and Victor Emmanuel, Who t !taught that some time nut only the.-se books ' Iris 'not spared sisterhood nor brotherhood,' Wank( be read throttgli; but all, the beaks in I Who intends to subjeetthe clergy to the army the world. , The, desolation of such a prospect, eonserintioli;and has taken Muni' property slue' told rife, itii(l , _ to be a rf . qd ,agenyto,..her on all sides, finds it Twig , prudent to leave mi. I iaai Iltil"C 1 4; 1- Iteart• If slue Could only has e touched the costly tributeSacceraulatedareand known of ' these' Vatican 'l , -oinmes ' soil tb, , ,t i • Ciiir.,, t, , ,,,,, , f 6 u.n0nif4 91ii.-,,;.e.- or r..iiin..... suoerstl- Propaganda toinehe might have found corn- i "riot .—just as fort as I do. 1 Last Wednesday,. the 15tli of July, the •Far , Apropos of this Propaganda book-store, a nesina palace, or villa, in which are Raphael's roguish friend of mine went into i't last win- frescoes 'of Aptileins' fable of -PSyche, was ter and inquired 'for Greek Testaments. ~ open for the last tape this summer. Da next When the price by the hundred or thousand I opening will be the 15th. of . September, and was told him, he leaned on the counter coati- , there is .a' rinnot that the owner Of, this. villa ilentially, and asked, in choice Italian, what intends to shut up these beautiful frescoes en per ventage they took off for institutions of s tirely from the public. I mentioned the rumor learning. The salesman stated, and wished to to a friend Of: Baran Visconti. The Baton is know what institution ? - all-powerful In such matters, and my friend is "In America—the 'United States—for a to inform Visconti of the report, in order to Presbytdian Theological College," : replied draw-his attention to its being in: opposition my saucy friend, with a perfectly cool face, to a Roman law which forbids individuals The book-dealer shook his head, took the to shut up from the public celebrated works of joke very : geed '-naturedly; both burst out art. The owner -of this villa has-already de laughing, and it ended by ray friend buying prived artists of the upper galleries, where for himself .a flue and :costly Greek Testa- are the architectural paintings of Peruizi, merit. . s Giulio Romano's feesnoes,and_ Sadoma!s_ --- Setar th - e - Entopean governmeffShave not J frescoes of AleXander and Roxama, and the . noticed the T approaching CEdunenieal Vatican FartriWele - Darins and Alexander,' COmicil officially. Prince Hoheulohe's circular The Ginlio Rointnio freseoes 'can be given note fit ,the only official document that has up freely, but the Sodoma picture e are a loss - been published; and thatWas - notaddressed to M any one W'iShes to study'the\frescoes of the Court of Rome. =that period; for-in-order-to order to find a specimen cif Count de Beast's reply to the Prince has Sodoma, it is now necessary to . go to Siena, as , lately been published ‘ in full; and is supposed there is no other fresco of Sodoma in Rome. ' to expreSs the - general feeling. The Count The Faineaina Villa, which used to be the says that any government that wishes tomain- N tfapolitan Academy of Att, was leased seven rain the doctrine of 'liberty of worship intact, years ago by the ex-King of Naples on very has no right to oppose the convocation of a strange conditions to its present 'proprietor, Council by the Catholic Church; especially as a Spanish Duke, Bermudez do Castro,a noble the summening er Such a. meeting is iii cop- man , wbo was formerly Spanish Ambassador formity with all the traditioas of that Chinch. at Naples when young King Francis held the What the Council interakto do is not known throne. Yet. .There is every reason to hope that the The length .of this lease is ninety-nine Bishops who go to Rome from far and near ye:tali-and the Duke paid the King for this will carry with them an exact idea of the prac- 'term the enormous sum of $3OO, no more—no tical necessities of theage, and introduce into less ! To bp sure at the time of the leasing, the Church deliberations a new and useful the villa was 'in a horrible state of dilapida element. •If the Council makes any encroach - lion, and was fast, going to ruin. The Duke m ots mi the rightS of civil powers, each State has spent large sums of money in putting it is in It position to present , a rethoustrance to into perfect repair. He has had the walls Rome, to have such an understanding „ with strengthened, the foundations fortified, the "each other as inbe able to guarantee their, in- floors relaid, and the whole place—grounds ffividual nteregiitives, and to , guard against and an—completely restored. He does not any encroachments being made without the pay a rent of $3OO, but just the simple sum for authority of each State. Count de Beast adds the whole length of time. I wonder who will that he does not think a diplomatic conference own the beautiful Farnesina in the year of is necessary.. Everything must be avoided grace 1008, and where the descendants of which could seem like a restrictionin anyway Francis Bourbon and Bermudez de Castro of the' liberty 'of the Catholic Church:, will be? Alater rumor in Rome is that the Southern The amusements of the Remans during the European governments haVe ag,teed to take summer are very pretty and sensible. Every part ;with the German States in a common afternoon, from 5; to 7 o'clock, !there is a manifestation against any political decisions theatrical representation in a building on the of the Council 'which may bii .censidered as site of the old'Mausoleunt of Augustus. 'The infringing on their States' rights. ' , ~ company is very good, the Plays are well A curious communication comes in the jour- chosen, and it is a pleasant ,motle of studying Mils froM Prague. The special organ of the Italian. Two evenings in the week, at the old Tcheque faction;, the PoProki-'says that a PiaZza . Colonna, on the Corsii, there is a free petition is to be addressed to the tEcninenicid musical entertainment by the various military Council; Which will dek'fiar a radical ,revisitui - bands. The. place presents a curious_ sight; ' of Sohn Husa's trial, which took , place four Yon” - Might almost .. walk "'OVet ' the heads . '•centuries and a half age at 'the Council df of the crowd—it is so dense. The surrounding Constance. Thil Pokrok quotes certain judi- eetfes andbooths do a fine business in the way ..cial doctimenta; especially sonic • Which beat ,Of ices and lemonades, and, the young men and .'on canon law,that'ate In favor of this request. maidens do not neglect, the chance for flirta- . In the ancient: Councils there used to to tions and agfeeable intercourse. Secretaries to take notes of :the proCeedings ; ,On Sunday evening there is also an enter- , these used to employ the TirOnian notes, as the tainnient in the garden 'belonging to the ancient Roman shOtt-hand.Was called. Mod- Barbermi grounds,' Where every afternoon ern stenographYWill play an Important part the ancient game :, of Palleriela played. Tins ' in this First Vatican Council. There is a Col- Sunday, evening gayety is a little more select lege of Eccletdastical StentigraPherS, for some and finer than the PiaZza, COlonna frolic • A of whose members seats' are to be arranged on small suni is paid fer . entrance, and the ladies the floor of the Council. • The Latin language and gentlemen go ,in full dress. They walk , alone Will be used in the Council debates, Of and talk, eat : ices; listen to the Inuni, and course, brit as the various Bishops prOnotince _ enjoy the pretty little lire-balloons which are Latin with a different' accent, there win be sent up from *fano' to time At : cilet,ta., the . rs idisplayed, , boa (et or final piece fik stenograpbers of all natioaS present ' ,p ,of rewo , Last Tuesday the Pope's eldest _brother, ',' and then the crowd disUersen' , . . Connt Gabriel Mastai Ferretti, died, at :Slid:: . Onlast 'Sunday evening the.sky was So red gaglia, from the effects of a faille had a few towards the Ripettl that we thought a that. LETTER FROM ROUE. . ' . , . • , • •, ,' t,' t. ; . . '-- -, ,', ' '.. l ' . , il; , 1,. ,_, , ~... .., _:. f ! ..! ~ , ,-.. ' 1.,- . . , _ , ,L."'.4 ' '.. -_-- •• 4 . 0 .1 t & _t. '..-- , `-.,- , , —,, -t , I .', , •'•,- -,, .i s ....., .i - t =,,' ~ . , - : . • . 1 , _. ..... ,t -' . - : ,1 ' , -3 3' _3 = '• ' ''' '- ' r t , ' , • . , ` , , .3 , • ' ' ': • ''l i .',.' c ' 3, ' ' PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1869. s garden had been started orethe. Tiber shore. The morning we: learned that -it:: was.'' a display offireworks not 'quite so harmless as those giVen at theßallone (larder!. 'lt was a, large lumber-yard on the Tiber, .Opposite,:the Ripetta, that was hurned, and: the loSs 'Mahe; tuifortunatelY;sso,ooo. Not a pleasant' Sunday 'entertainment; . The government of Rome ' is purely' ecclesi 7 astical; as we all know.: I am Often amused .when, I Lear the complaints or. comments of en.ne, of the citizens. The: Whole Whole afthir: re 'Minds One.of a large and the opinions Of the, ci • zenr; sound like the- grtunbhngs : or views of college stUdents. Like -a college control, the governmental spirit is paternal, and it must be admitted that the Romans • Show a great deal of filial obedi- - enee.- They are a Mild, easy set of peopleot remarkable for bravery, not very fond of work, and delighted with festas, processions and display. An application was made lately to the 'goverrithent by a Man to rent the Pincian Gardens for the evenings during the'Summer. Be intended to hire hands and have bootlis for ices and refreshments, and give a few fire, works. Theplan seemed delightful-quite an improvement on the hot street coins and the crowded Piazza Colonna. But the sober Ecclesiastical Dons who control such matters shook their heads and refused. They, said it might lead; o wgreat deal of immorality. The Biazza Colonna i 4 dimlylighted. The citizens requested the Government to have a few more gas jets put on when the balks play, Thuriday and ti'unday evenings. The Govern ment refused, The resentment was shown just as college boyS at Mine . would express it. A little company of young men paraded, last Thursday, in the crowd, with tcorches, and when the gend'armes asked the reason, they said it eras because there was not enough light. Of course they were made to ex tinguish their torches,and they behaved much more obediently than college boys would have done under the circumstances. It seems a pity that more .aVenues are not left open to civilians in Rome. Ecclesiastics fill every post. ' Even an advocate can only carry his case a certain distance. When Pius IX. returned, in 1):93, a promise was given that all profeßsional avenues should be open to the young men; but the subsequent practice eX , the government • has not fulfilled this prnmise. The only pursuits for educated young men, outside of the fine arts, are those of arelimolOgy and architecture, and it niust be confessed that the Roman arelecolo:,, , ists are very learned, capable and industrious men. But the Roman is an Ecclesiastical , Govern ment, and it is very natural that the deity shopld wish to control in everything. The city is Well goVerned,the people well eared 11w, and thtq.e.are feiver govertiniontai ataises than in any Other adniinistration of - Europe. twerytning goes t on regularly • and decorously, and if the young men ~ do grumble once in awhile, the present troubled state of Italy . makes them sub mit with patience to being governed with collegiate discipline. Moreover, the experi ence of their revolution has not been agree-. able. The Roman is not a fighting people--it does not love bloodshed and disorder ; it loves better a gay testa, a dazzling procession, to work when it pleases, and to "take wine ease in mine inn," at a city calre and trattoria, or campagna osteria, where it can drink wine, eat macearoni, and lounge 'about at will. LETTFR: FROM PARIS. (Correspondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] PARIS, Friday, July 23,1£89.—The . first act of - the - neirreomedy - rna - be - noW - saitt - to - liave _been.played _out; and iwish-thewhole-work, when we come to see the denouenzent,-may not prove to be a " Comedy of Errors." The _closixtg_Seenes_sa_far are certainly-notas-en eouraging as the opening. We began with the - Ihterpellation :Ira the Message--two things, apparently, closely. united. together iii the rela tions of cause and , effect,' and promising to produce good fruit. We end, for the mo- )11 ent at least, with the maintenance of . an abrupt, arbitrary and indefinite proro gation' of the Chamber, and the elevation of ex'::"Atinister of State Rou- her to the Presidency of the Senate. The nomination of Baron Datid to be Grand Officer of the,Legion of Honor was regarded, and justly interpreted, as the sign of a reac tionary spirit ; but what shall we say of placing a minister who, was the personifica tion of reaction, and who-has retired before a disposition of the Chamber threaten- ing to condemn him' as such—what shall we say of placing this man at, the head .of the- other division of the Legislature, just as it is called upon to carry out the very measures which have coin pelledlds resignation ? Surely, if ever there was an example of putting the "wrong" man in the "wrong" place, this- is one. But, as Dogberry, or some one like him, says : There is tt Heaven above all ! It is in vain to attempt to fathom the "depths" of the IMperial policy, or make out what it really means and intends. We were told that M. Rouher was "going to Switzerland," and possibly he may turn his baek • 'for the present ~ upon. 'his new honors and duties, and with commendable modesty and discretion, leave the Senate to transact without him a business for which he onght neither to have stomach 'nor conscience. - But lam afraid he is'not gone yet. And if he reniaing,and enters at once upon his functions, then, Ithink, the fate of the ~ qibera.al retails-4" which have. to passithrongh MS manipulation can scarcely be doubtful. He was so eminently successful in burking the projects' of poor 31. Emile ()Uhler after they had blossomed in the letter of the 10th 'January; 1868, that the Em peror could scarcely place in safer or surer hands the task of effecting the same process upon the promises contained in the Imperial Message of 12th July, 1869. Nous verrons. The decision of the Government to maintain the prorogation indefinitely has, I think, been of service to the Liberal party in general. In the first place, it has rendered the promoters of the, Interpellation suspielouS, ; and makes them more determined to hold together, and to adhere to their line of Polley., until haVe Si';en the promises which Emperor has made fairly carried into effect. With this . , , view,:,.abOut , :eighty, members of the, Cento.; . . ffittiche'heldaTmeetingi - beforel leaving Pails (most Of the' others :;hatt already gone); and passed a. resolutiotC" to the effect that they OUR. WHOLU , CO.MTItY ANNE BREWSTER -erty" - which_preirails_in_America,thatany position" was ever dreamt of. There is a re port that the Germans now want anothCr cable of their own, to be independent of the French, and that the• capital is about to be raised for the purpose of laying one. SEIBUBE OF THE SPANISH GUNBOATS The Laws Enforced Strictly . Against Spaniards and Cubans Alike. The N. Y. Times Says: For several weeks past certain shipbuilders of this city have been briskly, engaged on a number of net . vessels, fitting 'therm out after the model of gunboats, and oreparipg them for service. There seems to have been very little public attention devoted to the vessels, except a brief mention of them in the daily newspapers, in which it was rather vaguely claimed that. they, were intended for the Spanish Navy. 'Yesterday, however,. a fresh and exciting interest was given to theM by the action "of the Grov ernment authorities• in this city, who pro ceeded in a decisive and summary manner to take possession of them, alleging that they were designed to be nsed against Peru by the Spanish Government. They were seized at the iron works of C. H. Delamater, at the foot of Thirteenth street, North river, where they were anchored preparatory to receiving their engines and other machinery. They numbered altogether fifteen vessels, all of which were in an unfinished state. The vessels were seized by Deputy-Marshal TurneY, who acted under orders trom Marshal Barlow. He accomplished the task intrusted to him without any trouble, lot meeting with ally resistance or obstructions. Marshal. Bar low's warrant for their Seizure was made on the recommendation of District-Attorney Ed wards Pierrepont, who had previouSly pre pared attachments against each and everyone of the suspected .vessels. The attachment pro vided that the veAselsT ;should .be Kehl. a iffoper investigation was aiade 'into their character and the purpose for which they were built. After they had been attached they were placed under the close surveillanCe of a. revenue cutter, which lllt4 especially detailed for the purpose. The apthorities would not announce the source of their intelligence. " THE MOTIVE. FOR INTERFERENCE. It was reported that the Government au thorities made prizes of the reputed gunboats, on the , ground_ that they were being con structed for hdstile enterprise; that they were to be employed • by Spain in conducting a war against Peru; a• • power friendly to the United States, which would be. a violation df e the neutrality laws. Information wag also received -that guns would be placed` on board of them.: preyious to their sailing . 'for their destination. Instructions concerning the seizure were repr6sented to have been sent • from Washingtou,,although• no definite par ticulars about-'them-could be aSeertained on inquiries it the proper channels. Another Ireport was, circulated •• that the vessels were' designed as patriots ou the' Cuban coast, in 'Order to protect the landing- of 'filibustering expeditions from the,Unitoti States, Itis pre= " and 'objects of the; InterPeilation," and .only. ,'"adjourned to the next icon Vocation of the Chamber:" Imu in formed ..that nothing could be - more firm and. decided than - the lalignage . td* stch - mennsr 31 . .! Segris ,and 81. Latour-du-SfOulin ;(to whom the Emperor recently proposed'to take oftiee the.' new ministryi at'tint. meeting, that Mifess the:promises made be really. and - eitee tually Carried out during the interini,the mint ent must look' forward to .'an,,immediate resltseitation of the Interpellation- when, the chamber, meets again in o,ctobcr or .Novexu- • Tber: ---- The--Gauchei.of-course f are7triore -'exas peritted-than ever at having the debate on the " contested elections cut short, as they say, by a • sort , of tifinisterial covp<Petat played off against the Chamber. And even , the Right itself is di pleased at seeing fifty-five of Its members lef . in the position of not knowing whether they are'deputies'or not. The Emperor Mts been conipelled toWrite to 31: Du 2Nkiral, the sPokesman of these "fifty-five," and to :who) he bad almost made. the ',promise that the Chamber slteuid meet again, to apologize and excuse himself, and try to pacify them. I fancy the truth is that,even tad the Emperor wished it, as he is said to have done, lie could hot induce his present ministers, weakened as they are in influence, and without the aid of M. - 11.ouher, to face the Chamber, in its pre sent temper and Ins position, 'on such a ques tion as the contested elections. The Secretary of Prince Napoleon has pub lished a lettjr to the effect that "for four years and more" the Prince has "taken no part in iheConncils of the Government," and pointing out that he gave in his resignation Of member of tile Privy Council in 1865, and has never resumed it. In reference to what I recently wrote 'you respecting excursions to the opening cere mony of the Suez Canal, I may just call :Men- . fion to the communication which has been Made to several of the British Chambers of Commerce, by M. de Lessenk; announcing that the inauguration will.take place on the 17th of November next and three folloWing days, during: which the Canal will be Open to all Vessels, free of dues. After the 41st the pas sage dues will be levied at the rate of 10f. for every pa&senger and for every ton.' The • notice addS, what one can scarcely even yet, in this age of wonders, credit until one has seen it accomplished, that the Canal will be opened on the 17th, "hi all its final dimensions, in its' whole width, and in its complere'depth of eight iiietrek" If this be really carried ont i Alie opening :ceremony will be well worth being present at. The period fixed upon Snits inlnniablY with the Progranime put, for Ward So Spiritedly by the Italian rail Way 'companies, aitdl give,S just tlietine, necessary fora visitingi,the ebitit cities at'ltaly at •an advantar , eous h 1.0. - 1,.,1,-:. - weperitinot the:year; netore aa"4ning off. further eaStWard, to meet a warmer temperature. There •is little doubt, I balieve, that as yet the Empress tof the French holds to her Eastern excursion, and , that her pres'enee will give great additional eclat to the splendid and interesting scene. But neither her Majesty•nor the Emperor will, I fancy, proceed to Corsica, as intended, for the cele bration or the centenary of the First poleon. The crisis at home will keep them both too - anxicios for them to venture to be absent until it is safely over, at least for a _ time. The__Emp6ior reiponded to the telegram which I mentioned,as being sent to him from St. Pierre, by replying that "he congratulated the promoter+. on the happy success d their great undertaking, and-returned thanks for being informed of it" The French people 4ircifhpleautre of the fact-of-"ne-further opposition".being intended to the _landing of the cable in the United States; but cannot re- concile it to their idea of. the "unlimited lib- THE MAZYNER OF THE SEIZURE tended that this iii the real object for which the vessels are intended, but Mite abtSence of any confirmatory evidence the. statement ap pears to be highly . improbable. nEscnirrforc,or THE VEssELs. , ACCotding to all accounts, the gunboats were contracted for by .the Government of Spain with, the Dearth:der firm. The vessels - Were all built of the same size and style; 105 feet ,long, between perpendienlarS, feet beam, 8 feet deep, 170 tons register, and 5 feet 8 inches draft of water. They were constructed of the best material, on handsome models, and Were to be perfectly clear; with the exception 'of' a 100-pounder pivot gun on the bowi'a couple ,of howitzers, and the masts and steer -in; . apparatus. After "the boats 'teceited . their armament, coal, men and supplies, It was expected that they would, lie, so low in the water as to present very little surface to an enemy. The endues Were to bp constructed on Mr: John Ericsson's plan for twin screws, and were expected to propel the vessels at the.; rate - of eleven knots an hour. It was proposed to have launched the vessels abefit the middle of September, and' to have had them ready for service by the first of January. It is said that fifteen vessels of the same description are being built in different seapoit cities in New England. MESSAGE r.ncp3r COLONELS RYAN AND CUEMTEIL The two fugitive Cuban filibusters, the:re doubtable Colonel Ryan and Colonel Currier. his aid, have jointly written to Marshal Bar low from, their . preSent retreat in Canada, ask inghis permission to return to New York on giving their parole to appear for examination or trial, and to hereafter refrain from commit ting further violations of the neutrality laws. The letter is dated at Niagara Falls. The wii ters of it represent that theY are anxious to come here to attend 'to some " pressing private business matters, but do not intend any harm,-.:L: having no; opportunity, to engage in another Cuban expedition, even if they desired to do so: Some days ago Mar shal Barlow listened to a similar application made to him personally by .Colonel Bocan on behalf of Colonel Ryan. • Marshal 'Barlow says that the requests. of the Colonels cannot he complied with, as neither of them is on the footing of the men juSt liberated from Fort Lafayette, none of whom had; so far as known, forfeited bonds to appear for exami nation or trial, or to refrain from-violating the :Neutrality laws; whereas, both Colonels Ryan and Currier had given, forfeited and violated bon& for . these purposes:, " THE COFFIN OF ST. BLAIRH. A Curious Relic. The P«11 .Mall Gazette says . "Travelers visiting. Venice ought to knew of a spot whose very, existence had been half forgotten; but which has lately been made cessible. Whether because of a general change in the relative level of the Venetian lagoons and the mud-islands that support the city,: or of a social subsidence of the soil under the great weight of the,Church of St. Mark, the ancient crypt gradually sank beloW ithe level of the adjoining canal. After several in effectual attempts to, resist the influx Of water by raising the pavement, the effort was aban doned as hOpeless. Somewhere about-1580 the original entrance gas walked up; and for more than two centuries the, place seems to have remained undistattekkfty„aStgel clesiastictil antiquary called to Mind the fact that The marble coffin believed to contain the body of St. Mark had 'been left in the centre of the crypt, supported on four stone columns. The cathedral authorities were Moved 'le ad tion:. an opening was made through one of the small windows in 'the. vaulting of the roof. The crypt was found half full of salt water, but the precious relic, supported at a height of rive feet above the pavement, was round untouched. It was solemnly raised into the church, where it has since remained;, the opening was again closed, and for a further period of over. sixty: years one of the most curious portions of this wonderful fhbric was lost to sight—almost to memory. Thanks to the energetic interventioßofSignor thepreseut active Prefect of' Venice,. it is now as accessible as when first con structed., When the water had been pumped out, and the layers of` concrete - removed that had been introduced to raise the level of the original pavement, : there was nO - .great . .difti- ! culty in making the structure quite water tigkt_by means et (Mcellent_hydraulie-cement,- the materials of which are found near Berga mo.-- The architecture is of greatintereAt;"aitid will doubtless furnish matter for much discu.s= sion when more generally known." LINT OF PATENT'S. - - • List of patents issued from the United States Patent Office for - the: week ending August 3; 18i9,'and each bearing that date: Safety, for Conarro and L. Gemmill ; Warren, Pa.'_ Pipe T01114.R. Crain, Shaffer • Farm, Den nison Yost Mee,. Pa. ' Device Or Barrels.—J. C. Curran, Philadelphia, Pa. Oes Barrier.— J. R. Fisher, Reacting, Pa. ,Slowp • Extractor.,—D. C Fra.suer and P. Ginter Siddonsburg, Pa. Coained, Plow and Culticatop.—S. Huber, Danville, Pa. • Maeliiiiej:ar...lM•ing Gliain.—W-3lalick, Erie, Pa. B . Potts, Harrisburg, Lock I`id.-41. ltosamyer, Rochester, Pa. ('ore Phenter.P. Shellenberger, town, Pa. L'alanring the Keys of Pianos, ele.—F. J. Stein hauser, Lanmster, Pa. Rotary Spacle.—B. E. Sivertsou, Pittsburgh, Pa. .''/care Pulled.—J. B. Vanuan and N. P. Cra mer, Carbondale, Pa. We Ming _lfadanc.—C. F. "Walker, Benford's Store Post-otlice, Pa. Seed Planter, Fertilizer end Plow , Combilicd.— B. C. Eaves, Orangeville, Pa. Decoy D Foster, Philadelphia, Pa, Railway Greemuan, Scott town shin. Pa. firaw,:r Knob ,Laba.—F. H ale and W. Manley, Philadelphia, Pa. Wider C:ouler end Refidgerator.—J. Hinde niyer and C. C. Savery, Philadelphia, Pa. Keittal Fabrie.—M. Landenberger, Jr., Phil adelphia, Pa:, assigner to M. Landenberger Co. Sfyyi Drill.—Solomon Mickley, Dover town ship, and S. Leathery, - Warrington township, Pa. Railway Rail Chair:—.7. H. Teahl, Ebeiy's Mill, Pa. • • Meant Eogity. P. ;Willoughby; :51.iiptiens 7 burg, Pa. • , , IN-Issulis.—SteconPuniping Engine—Robert Allison, Port Carbon, Pa. Railway Fray—G. WestenbouSe, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pd. ' ' Asbury, Phila 7 delphia, Pa, assigner 'to Enterprise Manutiu, taring Co. _arm End or a Setteo-L, j. Beesley-, Philadelphia', Pa., assigner to Thomas .T. Close, Cook Range-,J. T. Hess Philadelphia, Pa. Cook /?Einge-4. Clitibrd Siioek, Phiadel phia, Pa. . , FEANciti D. PASTORIUS, Solicitor or Patents,. Northivest corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets. • • ' J --'rho following is in tbs. introductory edit°, rial of the Boise City (Ittalio) chronicle,: t. I BALITTAToItv.'! " We,have started a paper. "Name-- , Ca . Pita/ Chronicle. "I'rineiples—Deintioratio tnthe hilt, 4 .‘ Object-LT° make a living,' " Offiee-On Main. street, about three hun dred yards below the Overland Hotol, opposite .an old oyster can in the road. ti And we'll run it or 'bust!" P. L. nningfOli. Pultisiier - r4O,4 . :.T.tf4Eri'o.:KNTS., racievt;;Avm JPAVICCUOIP --The "ElAtli Mazda" l'bllatit-lpitla an apt abominable 1i -!'of Val . /61114m. ---Steam .rtm Macaibmalz* roads in tlie sit irbs of --Paris pleas•ore -trainS :ire arganizruge: for the Suez canal. . iklaneliester eons - tuned • 20,000' bottibtr Of ginger beer at its 2rfsh (Murat dernOnsivratliani. , . —Hans Christian' Anciersse2rehis neverillaXr. .1 1 Ioyarriensing , ' Prison otinnOt" , larged all at once; cangstmotle 'kg - rim:Peep cells ? I large -force or Chinese Trabinters - ithif - been' employed to, worl - upori a4corgiaii road.. The Georgians alittalting —Whatever advantage's there lAt9r lie in.14 : 4 lug in the van of the age-,„ there' i.§. - ,ce'rfaialy: room for improvement it the vehicle.; ' , . —Quick work of an lowa 'couple coup'- . ship of fifteen minutes and a •divorce.after hours of Wedded life. • —Judge Stroud is now kroown- abositi r Cinr..-- cert Hall as Queen Bess, because he is , the'last olthe•Two-doors. • • • • . • —Has a prisoner agood. titre to .. Moamtin= sing under the horribly defective deed' of coal- ' veyance by which lie gets there? • . . • —The principal objection to Petty's r..".iland; as a reformatory. settlement, i 4 that it L . A-not wholly land. —The Fifa Division P. M. fellows call to, re-: view by their • Major-Generda, , f being voiced.' (Which his nameit Ftevilist.) —Judge Stroud was so Confused y the Crow cert Hall case that he could not ., tell 'a wlittO• • woman fre.fn an, egress., - —Why would Judge 'Stroud. increa.se the. *. area of Concert Hall Icy tumbling dokvn hatch Way ? IlecauSe he would decide.that he was going to annex it. • • —A perspiring youth beingmsked at•••dinner what vegetable he had a mind for; faintly rei plied that the ,choice of his mind was stewed', ,, : to-matter. -The Proposition to:change the'pathe of the - island in the Delaware to , Tread-Mill Island; - and put the HouSe of Correction there, meets with some favor: -.The Democrats have candidate for the Supreme Court • named Cyrus Pershing. - .Whether he is' a descendant of Cyrus the Pershin', ornot, we don't knew: —The annexation of, the Grand . 4)uehy or Baden to PrUssia is so obnirlious tof the popu -1111(mi-that since January last 1,400 'neOple have emigrated to America and . young., fool is spading up La*rence county, in this State, in search of a fortnue of !4In0;000 which a fortune-teller informed him has been buried there. " —An Ittiva tliwnets ahead of all other places in the ~ liy haVing a shOWer of gravel, the pebbles ranging from the 'size ofa• • pigeon shot to.that (WA hett'S egg. -Consul-General Hetz, 'of the SWisS Coiiz federation; is visiting, the North West; fhid stood places.for the settlement of sundry of hies country f .people, who are. to come Out nest --That was a laughable occurrence at Daven port,lowa,of a husband's taltinginagneWa and inb?yoalizqviiSl - 41 1 i;04141fruly - WirilleettOilft life in Spite of his explanationg to the physi-' • • —The spirits have got into a new business. in,lndiana.' They transpo a rted &bouquet from - Jetlersonville to Terre. Haute,and 'defrauded the Government of a three-cent stamp , by taking a letter along with it. - They • call the new system a fast express white, line. -A Rev. Honse married a Rev.. No(m to a Miss Cook, at the residence of Timm Gates, on June 29th, at "Waterford, Corm., 'whereupon all the rural papers are making attempts at jokes on 'the names. The llestern Chrestion— calls thewhole operation. a ",curions nuxtapo sition;" which is the worst and best yet Said.,- —A literary gentlermui in London ) a great beiicver in was recently -- inciuc_ed,.. at the recommendation Of spiritual rapping, to take a red-hot coal out of a fire, as it could not barn him. The bright youth did so, and - to the great delight of his brother- and sister spiritu alists had to dropit, being ConsiderablY in his boastful search after science. --Here-isla-rather-good-politicalepigranri spired by the Ohio canvass: • . THE ROSEY oww. "Old Rosey" is just now the Copperhead Cheers In Ohio; but then it is perfectly clear.. ' - Zrhat this is noiie*freak_:-for-trkanyAl t eAr r , That tribe has been famed. for their love of "the Resey's," And carrying the badge at the end of their noses. —Wine -in the win&groviing regions- of California is cheaper than milk. In - Anaheim. - end Los Angeles common 'wine is bat thirty cents a gallon; milk costs‘tifty:. Even a com-t , mon strong 'wine is but forty cents. Tuo, . Imume county a large skilled wine-raiser offers four thousand five hundred gallons 'of excel lent wine at twenty-five cents per gallon. , In„ the same region milk is forty . cents. Iu Co- • lema the price of the two Is the, sanie--4orty, cents. In Sonoma good wine is forsalc,at forty cents the gallon, and Milk at the. same.- price. —Two thousand people watched the great wasikub goose feat'on the pond at . . The contestants sat in an ordinary ..wash-tub,, to which was attached six pairs ,of: . geese r guided with an ordinary carriage-Whip. One. team came to griet! by the breaking Of the wheel goose, and the driver itiundered in the. mud. Another goose dove and kicked, a rear' goose in the eye, which -made confusion, and. the match was a draw, though. Bob Sunr,tOok. the prize by leading his tenth first over the-. • home stretch. . , , --A Wisconsin paper, the Jefferson Boner, tells a strange story of the conduct.ot a Ger.. man physician. A. German woman,,just fronts, the old country, with her husband and family". had a child born at Baltimore, while on the was; as neither she nor the child was in good health, and the doctor thought the. laftter could not live, after consultation' luotween Little. and theparents, at Jefferson, it, leas devicled that as the child could not. live, taro best plan would be to administer poison, and put the little sufferer out of the way at o.nc6. , pbysician administered the dose, and in ,a few minutes the child was a corpse. —3fr.John Forster's life of Walter Savage:' Zander draws forth tile following : BW* ruvrkt of the latter's character fror,ii, the AS/plator:. "As a member, of society, if be half nut been,. luckily a man ot genius, -Limiter would' hovo been simply intolerable; lie VMS , song away= front school,. he was sent away Irma, college,. he quarrelled with his lather, boAnarrelled; with his brothers, he quarrellpiliwlph;his \rip). • and children, be quarrellti, with,l4 landlords,: lie quarrelled with his tenants. ^. .lie hated tii6;, Tories; be contemned the. Whigs, Ws. ;ONa: countrymen were odious to Wing ha also,de.„ . tested the Fume*. his . gontempt Atm the Bulbuls was inabotindedi. , be. .c 01141 ,, not, endure the AnteriekAls; ho loathed,the He supposed himself- to. lore ;',the Turits,,but,, fortunately for them; he abstained' fronkyisit--. ing lionstantinOple s NeverthelesS„:•genins„; though it often 'makes bittWenernies, secures-; - also warm and faithful .griantals, and l 3l - r. ter, inspired by the WereAry ofr suell, a friend.- ship, has contrives to present his. old Watch _ the reader as, in num' respect+, &lovable- creaks tare. lie.was getterqus,aua outspoken; capa ble of strong attagnments, and without aAv , l • thing little or' ean in his nature. After . his ebaracter now is comparatively uniraPort4 anti we shall therefore put it aside. at once by.' saying that we do not believe him to 'kW* been of sound mind." 11MM1211=2112 _r.
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