0110.xf ,ITIACOCK VOLIM tiirAhicir. U. TI The Tragedy of Itaidgisaark.;irge tet, • gen,ko,f lit!! Hourtflo. , Messrs. Lippincott 84 Co. have in press a Collection of the poems, headed by. a fine trUggdYrNidelKli , vo ...a_CMiii/ated.Aung.e.r t the pen ' 'of the author 'of " The 'V.ideista's Daughter!' Prom 'advance sheets furnished by the publishers, ,we are enabled s Urinate an exaniination of theie welcome 63iniositions: Beside the &awe' "Konigstrutrk," and, the ballad entitled The Legend of the Hounds," e4uPa-fourtetn-sho . Nun4zup-NAL: the ca lectibri, half 7 of, , w)11411 4, - are pattiotie, These latter have been seen and sunand — TO - VI - 41g the pane — from the dates of the sev eral eceaslonS . which called. them ' forth many of our readers know by heart the splendiriflyrie; with its Prancing *erotic of " Cariil6L''Sherldan,"' and most'are fatal= too with the'.admirable ballads of " Fort Fishiri'l with . 4 Captan SennieS;C 14" the Ode on ;Thanksgiving Day,„ DIA ,and the Hymn for the Union Leagne, The more ausy fairied cflprta nocv for the Kist a affect be yond the circle of the author'ir Private friends 19 . 11,'4erec t ognlzed as' permanent additions try um ' tontitre's' 'literature. ,T Stich a drainaA Ids " Hanigsmark" bais assuredly not been con ferred upon American letters since the last perfonnatit;e,of the author.bbuself. . The story bf :4 1 1C.iinigrimark" carrier us back __to the last century, and to the heart of a small, corrupt court,_ rotten with every kind of jealousy and intrigue, the Court of Hanover, under the Peet9F, l'%rnest Augt tus ; This ruler, • A man upon Whose soft and waxen youth • Vice stamped the'counterfeited seal of age— . A knave in folly's service, wbo has worn Her tawdry livery till it, hangs in rags', • , Af I;4l4li:harp:elbows— •-• . resigns in age the sensual pleasures he' is no longer.capabic of,for theintere.sts of ambition:* he gratitiell a burning wish for the extension bf hiss electdrate by marrying the heir apparent,, Prince George . , to the heroine of the drama, Prince : W/401Thu%, of , Zell; Wbose territory will eventually' fall to tile crown of Hanover.by the union. The unhappy Princess,Joitied to a de lxtuebed:yontn who insults his tenderest and pleasantest duty hy las prolonged is wretched in the alien palace, distant: from all she held dear in childhood. • • ' • • •-• yonder l'4)lll ' lA: 22 ' bloyonderit tiiearocus 242 At backward Zell.' Here they have violets: In plenty., They, I said ; not, we, but they I cannot earn to call this place my honie. • Derpite the cereittonious parade ' • - '• That,'hy, one act, divoreed - •from Zell the hand It gave to Banover—dc.pitelhe claims Of Wife andMother,„"and.ther,liartili:relliffr With which idly fatiterdisarows'hli blood, And bids me look to those around me here For conifOrtlatti;atill A granger.; #.l 3ly truant heart haunts round the wonted home It fears to eater. Areadinz'stern rebuke,' And ttolei, and sighs, and wistfully complains, Hugging the door-pust which it dares not pass. .1 know tot why 'Wis. If I Compare Poor Zell with wealthy Hanover, I Annie " My frugal home. Bat,' ah, my heart is blind, And is not dazzled though%nreyelids wink. So, tomv.,partinl vision, .ZelLappears , A pay4dtse, and At least a purgatory ;for through. it , X;ltoPe rolo okYParoato'zigattl . . . .„ , The evil . spirit of the Hanoverian ' Conti, is the Counter N'on. Platen, the • fat onto of the , Elector, whoni.adVancing years and chilling blood - have left at leisure to become into that awfullftit power about any. Court, a, Jealous female mischief-maker. Among the retalifeni of the Elector is &young mail Zell,named' Honigsmark, the old playmate of Sophia, a comely and brilliant youth. In the spirit of the time and-place helm had himself, though of generally noble impulsom, a season of. dal-' liance; ':With'the practise" and pre, suutably mature beauty, Countess von Platen. Such a woman. never forgives . the man who has loved her; . and Kilingsmark, who luti.mounted the grades of advancement through her intinence, and from nothing has become Count and Colonel of 'the Guard, is to be thwarted, pursued, and flintily , . done to death by her busy, ,vindictive and implacable finger. She is determined that an other odious intrigue, no less an one than that between the splendid favorite Kernipimark and the friendless Princess on . Whose hangs the future peace of the realm, shall be fanned and kindled; and she is the firebrand that can start the:.flame: Sophia ikt all innocence and lily-like purity ; but she. loves to •converse.‘vitb the brat e, noble geneious•but half-spoiled courtier Who, has t ilayed with 'her in „infancy „among, woods of Zell; one of their interviews occurs in thelirst Act;. the soliloquy of Kiinigsmark at its termination, in Which the human , part of him almost yields to a disastrous/desire, White the purer flame of his manhood escapes, from, the foul temptation, and inspires aheroic reso lution, gig es the key-note of the man. icoNzomm.i.nx. . Had I no fear inyprayerswonldaiioer Heaven; I'd call ou Heaven to bless her. •How dare So stained with sin, so draggled and bemired With the vile cleavings ot my reckless course, Insult her innocence with;my foul, love?, , Her swinish husband's brutal appetite - , But errs by instinct : I have given a mind Stored with more riche than - be ever knew To the same service. In regard to her,' I tun Prince George's better•but in this, That lam not her husband. Heavenly 'gifts, I have peverted to most earthly ends. , My beartcmY - infellect; my subtle eyer 'That lays the mYsteries of hinnanity As bare to me as the dissector's knife • The bodValiecrets—that-traliseelident. been, Imagination by which poets talk Full front with angels and attain to heights Of wondering knowledge A from which reason tunuf +. ' . x r Dizzy withWeeknes§—these I have debased— To vrliat?.4 . ,•••to mean ambition' •avartqeLl •4. And the poor triumph of frail woman's tears. I loathe nay lite. I km:m*4ot where,to.Wde From the sharp glance of Memory. Henceforth The hetietAiithtif urkstathre shall consiikad, l .. 'Die out amid its ashes. Hear me, Heaven! I'll sin ne more.; , , • Thernischief-rnaking CountesalVoir Platen, .outraged at the incorruptible innocence of this gentlik' nature, arranges a proof of • incontinence, very Suggestive of lago,•and the handkerchief, and the tragedy of Cyprus. She causes, the Princess's glove to be stolen fel) her, under pretence of wishing to t :". take ent"thei, embroidery. , At a ball, she at`l{onigs . Mark's feet, and allows heMell to be, seen reevingaWav, from 'him, to such a. manner as to seem file owner of tlie ' token. I The retr,eating, robes, and the cypher .nn , the, I glove, are taken for Sophia's, the latter justly;' the husband sees them, and ruined. „' He is banished . , yet, kindly, by the old Elector,' who loves -him well; he is to accompany the travels,of—the„ In the little village ei'lgatthe, ,Austria bluff Prince; Max,—whose character; , 43 , tile •I Was,lateWTepresented,' by, is the bent.drawn hi the, piece ;:;be 5e11:,.: the manager's sew taking We part iof speaks some half dozen times, but every word 1 Son." Intim apple peens the actor let go the put:, into. his , niouth.goes to stampi,lik,e- the ) arrow before taking good aim 'and the child's graier rile, his dull, good, brave, Vier 7 ,t pye-was' out. Ilirshrleked aloud and fell inan character. ,It was . Max who Was put lap in convulsions. TIM audience rushed upon to stealing the, glove, andho is _ madeto.do'it the stage te,wreak,l - engeance upon the mana withn lumbering honesty, or transparent,effort.t ger for having ventured son in.,-such ii' ,of dishonesty, that, is the , most piquant place, but the poor man ran for his life: • r. • '' ':11 -i''''''ll4;l •'( " . ";"* l ` , .t ;'-'' 4- !i•l''.T fr",•l , ( 1 *-; ---'d '' e, , ', 't -,-.: - -, tct , i ",„ ;.- -'— ,'' t . 4: ‘,-„ , .„:, , .., ~ „ „,, , „., , 3 ~.,,...,. , r ~ ...A.,' ~. 4,, , r, ' ',,.. +,, -. , t,''.r.f 7 . ' '-:. 4 -'. '' ? ' r't , ' '' , "M ' ;' , '"F `Zl'' ' I .' , "F ~ t., , '' ' r .% ' , ; ' L '''.••• ...p.1,,n ..", 1 . ' , '. , ''''': ' '•' . '' - ' ' - 4 ''' . , .'" - 44 t •-• ,I' ' '• ' ' ,'' r ' .1.. % , . 'F 1 , 5 . '. • _ , - , -c -- . ~.,,,..,...,: . 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Sophias's exquisite sense yields to -no soph istas 1 Iliosc e blameless feelings . which my heart has leveryTbrough,trial r -that fair ntemOry,, ,•-• • , Which mitdo the. thought of you itiseparable:• - - From home and childhood, and array yourself Against my virtno, as a dangerous man To be tatspected; walebed and held at bay. henceforth „ I shall nottrust you•as of old; I shall not dare to look into your face,, With thcca)ut ecintidence of innocenc, Lest careless trust should leave some door LE.rit, Sophia.] dent ,tn''''terribt , .... in a ly grim Mrdi , giFicsas cdarSe.ar narrative. , ~ , Sopha's position, as a Wife 'auspeaUsd by. ok dull, libertine luieband; becomes intOlerrablefi 1 and, she arranges her ;Mini for flight. lairdon mark,, on ..the , eve of Ids own)banishment, braves' every dallger .. to . day farewell at her clionkber - dpor. wim.lemaleyllhdo,ortbe.PlaY t Ithe ever-watchful van Pinter', is ,sipprttuld of the rendezvous, and:rms herself with a war. mist from the Elector' for his death. , :Tier character. mixed' as' .01' human frames are mixed, conies out distinctly in her ' horrible meditation while ::awaiting . her .. victim, the princelyeoldier she has loved : :.. .. :r , "K vong-Tass-4*-ow4ATEN. ''- ' '''4 l , _.........._______ 'Ralf he Shriek? ' The err will haunt - AndTdown-thepleasaiit , tfoundttf- of-earth -forever r, he%t',. a man; he will not tohtiek,,A *hat Jibe atinggle—beg for inercY,-.4ield?,— Shall I, relent' • , 'Heaven!' , Paltds all my fancy: it la KiinigtutiarTr-:=" His fair face - . hacked—his ''bosom • red with „blood—• ". , s , •. . His filmy eyes rolled upward :; against heaven, In fearful wonder, staring for the soul Just ;:parted 'from, them. Shall I— ;' Hu! to mock My growing 'weakness, see,. the man drairs Swelling with insolent arrogance; his li Carling witheneers and insults that defy' My feeble inenaces, and acorn my love. Itemor:ie can have.no agonies to :match ~ The gnawing of unappeased revenge! lathe suspense that occurs while the mar= derers are, waiting,i4developed the final inter view between the hero and heroine, in which the confusion 'ofvice,and virtue is very like, real life, but not, quite sharply cut enough, perhaps,, for the exigencies of' the drama: Konigsmark ir in the tortures of unrepent ant love, yet unwilling 'to compromise his 80 /% 1 4- Philip Itiinigsxnark, This is all ',wrong: To.roetis cruelty—. . 31 wit would ould eraise For ambushed hire iO eiifer. Imust ~ raise lletweett - us.two the harriers of,the world, The'guards of etiquette; and wipe, away; As a false picture of my fantagy,' - The play mate s children in,the grourids,ef So they part in iniitYef heart, as well 'as of deed, lt is the chrism -preceding a noble death.. The Count leaves the chamber, :•iniven, Sad, exiled; the corridor, whose po- Ation as the only passage to,the chamber com promises the retreating hero, is guarded by one of Kiinigsmark's own subordinates, Batt., main, who has been detailed'and disguised for the bloodylrositiess.:e E.iiidgsmark's :death is wholly noble. Wounded and bleeding, he de clares before the Elector, the wicked Countess and the spectators.who have rushed to the scene, the immaculate virtue oeSophia. SOPHIA Peace ! he would speak. ° K NIGB3IARK. Yonr Highness, hark to me. I ant dying, as you see; I lie almost Within the outer judgment-court of Heaven, Nearer by , leagues than you who stand around: Falsehood cannot avail me. Hea.r me swear, Standing before the awful bar of sin, That, even in thought, the Princess is as pure As the white dove that,l masts the silver morn In her tint flight. IBW ar it, o'er and o'er! The action clOses witl the death of lionigs mark. the dragging off of the hapless Sophia from Ids warm body, and the swoon of Van Platen, a punishment all too transient for that plotting revengeful spirit. It must be remem bered, however, that, the intrigger's wrongs has been very deep andreal, and that Boker, like Shakespeare, doek not carve his villain'all out of ebony; the compensations and contra dictions of nature itself are apparent in the „mixed and diVersely-stirred spirits he creates. Of "liiinigsmark," as a whole, we may say , that though at lacks the variety, and sharpness suitable to an acting tragedy, and though the reader's interest in the hero is inartistically impaired by his unnecessary . inwerfections, the movement is_still dramatic throughout in a high degree, and the poeticbeauty of many, passages rare and deep. It really', gives us . hope§ for the future of a form of, compo sition we had thought entirely abandoned. Whatever, about this: fine work of art, seems to be inferior to tlieideal ofpure drama, is due to,the uninataigeable course of the real events; for the conduct of the 4tragedy is as remarkable, for its scrupulous ,adherence to historic truth' as it is, all things'considered, for its power in moulding and making capital out of that TilIE DRY Effects Of timDrought in Jersey. slt seems that several points in New-Jersey 'are just now 'severely suffering froM 4 scarcity of, water, and, in some places not only water that has giyen out, but feed also. , At EnglishtoWn,' in Monmouth county, the al3- Bence of any rein'for four or five weeks . has resulted very seriously. .411 the wells are dry. or nearly so, , and . the. water that, or in dinarily .wod not be, . kept•"", in , the hbuses a moment • is now !hoarded as a miter would his money bags. Mr. Smock, the hotel keeper, 'states that if thepresent drought continues the farmers are in danger of losing not only their cattle; but the greater portion of the corn and other cereals. At Jamesburg and Roadhall, in the, same county, a similar state. Of affairs exists.. YesterclayAt Morristown the; good people , were greatly-alarmed , in conse qUence of its haying'gone abroad that the re s ery(iir which naostly suppliei the to*,lthafi,run, dry. In this case,, however it; was not altogether: the prevailing drought. that ca,used , ' the atop : , page of. the 'supplies; but thballegotreokless. waste of 4vaterlw the ,employes ;of the. Morris , and Essex Railroad.. The locomotives have always procured water from' the ;.reservoir. The people , havo•begUn Ito hunt up nliAhe old welts that had been disused for years Past.- 1n Passaic, as• Well Os in parts of Morris county, the farrnerS are beginning to fear a'seriovs loss of crops shopht the dr,ougth continud.• A , large quantity y of corn: has aTreatly heen .partially =KIM PriIIiADELPRIA TilUßSbAir AUGUST 26,1.869. E.,..0ii7f1**ii — 5i.,*. : . : : ,.,-, - ,':...•:.', , : i i e 7:',: : , • , • The folloWing is au extract of a letter dated Ifoutrar, 1AI:1g-to below August 24.—0 n Saturday,. the 14th ' instant, when leaving Lame "(Delanco) I had not;he slightest idea that it would.he•-for.thet last time before Starting tp sea • but,l lusituitt than - sooner' arrive din thecity , n I reeeived dOs to rePdtA to our ship,,sho being ready..., I Propose fct'giVe you a slight sketehof the •uti; , leoked-,for detention which has occurred to his,: • thinking' it will urbve interesting by piii; 'if for 'nothing else than its fridiculonsness. We hauled out into the stream about 7 P.N.; 14th,inst., Ut , owingto impilstrainatdlitytte earry-ar vessel-of-611r sii - e-dou u and - but - 111 tra IL night, ,we were compelled to lay-to.tintils • , the lffth hist; when We:steamed down, ... L air • hands making ready' for yetAti be made se such as- making boatti'fait; &c. We;geteralli4throughout the . ship 'were, engaged. the ., business: of :our : different. posinort of when, within half a nodle of,Fort D,elawani,lablank , ..cartridge, was fired front ibe';',evenue,,eiitter Maud ,aeross otir bow. thir•Captain not knowing therneaning of thiti;', still - understanding 'the Intention, , hove -to, shortly after 'Which' we wire' boar d e d •by a' Lientenant?AbbeY,athe'reienuelservite(thaf wild and turbulent and deep sea service), who 1 hi/out:tell us of,orderfroutthe Marshal's' otlice to stop our ship-the Government heing under the impression we were filibusters, pi rates, blockade-nmners, or soinething „else muddy desperafe. Fancy the ludierousuesit df this to tis•who kneW so well , the peaceful' intention of 'our stew:tier. But also 'Consider our. chagrin when we were informed that 'the' ordeniwere for.us to return to , Rhibuielphia, below, which we are and have becarlying since.; "So near): and , yet so far," as the ,sortg goes ; for verily these gentlemen of the revenue pro-, Jession seem to be well pOsted in the method of keeping 'innecent persons prisoners, and we have -not a chance to communicate with friends only by letter—then by one Iteverme officer in particular, an engineer (Dins more, by name), who sometimes conies aboard, doing Lieutenant's , duty.. Our letters are turned and twisted ,as if he ex pected to find an, eleven-inch gun in them. By the other officers' of the cutter we are treated considerately—we, in , return, extending the full hospitalities of • our amply stored ship.' The horrors of such : a life,'„as we have expe rienced within the last ten days colYMt,Pe de eri bed' 'The sesPense attending our ' - anxiety to know whether, justice will be , dune our owners . is'in itself enough to craze one. Then the idea. of remaining so near those we love and esteem, yet unable to see them, is very tantalizing. Both combined make a composi tion of excruciating. torment with which roan has been, :heretofore; unacquainted.' monotony is, sometimes broken in this wise: , • lbrough the day we...will sometimes amuse ourselves watching the -antiqi ,of Admiral Dinsmore (the aforesaid engineer); lie has a, Ntenderful eye for pryina.'inte out-of the-way'. places (so lie imagines) : Then again we faney: we can discern , the fond of a friend on one of he` Gloucester ferry boats, which pais to and • fro every minutes. But at night conies the time' when all of our "energy is called forth, and indeed we forget past and anticipated troubli in taking care, of , the tinte,that is. 'lt seems to me that swallowi, night hawks; bats and all others of the - winged tribessalio live by eatinginosquitous, could .do thnving 'business - here. 'The atmosphere abounds with the torments. You would "laugh to see us roaming with pillows:-and , blanloitsr' about , ship, seeking a cool place, away from the • immmers. But no ; all of our effbrts are Unavailing, and it is " .nothing. to ice, each other with swollen lips or eye-lids or , noses in the morning, when meeting on deck: of this conies well to relieve• our minds; but, indeed, our d e sire to startuway is very great. We hear our owners have entered suit against. the 'United States for damages by detention. - .• DIATTERS IN GENIES An Important Article. In Europe olive oil, in some way or other, plays a most, important part in domestic .economy.ll3 - not only a source of light, but to a, greatextent of life itself. Were the olive crop to fail, .a largeportiotrof Southern Europe must perish. The countries which produce the olive produce also corn and rice. Olive trees areiong-lived. There is one at Resico r . Italy, which can be *proved to be more than seven hundred years old. Popularly-,-at least, according to the Anglo- Saxon notion--a Frenchman is one of the thinnest and smallest of mortals, and as a fact the French physical type has not been thought, much of in l.urope. 'While the English stood Highest and. the Austrian last, the Frenchman ranked midivay. But:; during the present generatiop the Gaul, if not affecting the "rest of his allies in perfidious Albion, has t•hown a taste for the solid beef and mutton, the-open-air exercise and sea-bathing whieli have done so much'for John Bull. The result is thafa different: race 'of Frenchmen is now growing up, and, if the inferences of they cor respondent who notes this fact be correct, the Bonapartes of the future will rule a set of niuscular ,Christians Who, unlike the lean and hungry Cassius in physique, will bp also un like, him in a fondnesa for revolutious and con tpiracies. All of whickrinnit be truly ,consola tory to hit imperial Majesty. A it:tarlatan c 6 allculantihn. , ,A writer in the Revue ices Dena: Mondes tells the following anecdote : " Four years ago • a tanner' of • Dijon, who had aftirmedothat the French budget , represented in bank notes the .height of the steeple of St.,Benigne, was cited before the Correctional Police on,a charge•of seditious .language.., In • court, however, the maintained his assertion with vigor, and was acqtatted. The judges, in fact, dvinced Some shrewdness' on the occasion, and admitted implicitly that the accused was not in error. A thousand, notes of 1,000 francs piled up have exactly,ten centimetres (four inches) in height. Taking the budget ;in round numbers at two thousand, millions, the notes in question saperposed would attain a height of two hun dred metres. But; according_tu the Annttaire du 811 Matt des - Longitudes, - the' sPire of St. Benigilo is ''onlY ninety-twooll . nd 'a half Metres Parisian Independence. ..As an illustratien of the habits and customs of T'aris life, the following anecdote is-related in the (ion 1{).113: .At 4the -restaurant .La. Tete 41%tpirepon the Place of,St. Own'. a , party of gay. roysterers were at dinner. A carriage, in which two ladies were seated, drew up, oppo site the door. ` One ofthe cocottes looking recognized Queen' attended - by a lady , Mlle. Christiana, of the Itouffesicallim for: pen and' ink, instantly wrote on one of her cards: MOonze--;We arc dining in a private room, and would feef,vory happy Af you would share the dinner of a party of actresseswill out on a lark. I promise you that the, papers ; ll'not be any the Wiser.."" _`: " CeittsTt.niv . A, f‘ Who is looking at yeti from the•window." The invitation was' confided to a reluctant waiter, who was 'lnduced to give it to the Spanish Queen., Much annazed.,lsahella. r l -lauded the card to head3r-in-waiting,andme ehanically looking saw' her correspondent at the Window, watching the resultof her in . Beer Enough to Float a Navy. ALearned professor of Munich publishes souwourious statistics ooneerning.the amount of beer annually consfuned% In Europe. The total.quantity naanufa,otured , he estimates at thejradigiou„s. figure of tlye tlinuSapfl taillfons OM WOOl4lO COUNTRY. National Sizes. of litres; more than enough, as he ;wet% to *pat the whole Prussian navy.. ;The average numher of litre& consumed per , inhabitant in 18080vas in Bavaria, 134; England,ll3; , Bel gium:l,SO; Austria, 22; Prance, 20; 'Prussia, 19; :bah; 2; -. Ramis and Italy, 1. iteferring to the; htrge quantity drunk in his native. eonntry; the Algthor owns that • he Is personallyrespon siblefor six litres a day,: or •2,190 litres •pet DisAinneits., .4,oeldient on tbie Pennsylivanfre ltailtroeult. A^bgay halt. last twelve o'clock ott ifonday tiight ,tite,mutilated remains of an unknown man were found on the track'of the, Pp:R(4,A tailrottd; just at; the curve abort; Pancit:rthis' side of Wilkinstinig. ' They were plekeit up by the freight train going East 'and' carried to Vilkinsburg.'Yesterday Morning Coroner Clawson visited that' place, atal ; ' , ,ern- N a,puelling, a jury,. heard •the follevvinglevt-r 3, Mc ne, engineer., of, locomotive *9,65; which had been sent out tol remove , a wreck from the track at Irwin's Station; testi•L' fied'tlt he stopped at 13rinttin'ti , Station, and While examining , his engine discovered elots ((Chiba:fon the pilot. He remarked' to the' 'fireman that lie thought they, , bad,,run" •over, somebody.: They went on toirwinN Station and returning, at half-past ono . yeitterday, found a desPateb at Itrinten's Sta.-' tiOn stating that a man had beetirkilledifin the eitiVe - , near IVilkinshurg.: ' The fireman of the engine testified that he sa*tleceased at the Union Depet on the even ing,of the h 2 kl. ; He went out on the 'Home womi Accommodation train. at. ;84) P.„31., riding on the front platform of the, baggage H ear'.' .eiwanted to go to Braddock'ii;yiut the Conductor 'informed bim that the tram only went to Homewood, and he said that would,' 043.E , ' Witness told the conductor he had better' ;get the man ()tithe platform as he was drunk, tut" :deceased refuse(' to go, saying that he could hold on. He . had a bundle and a bevel square with bite. Another witneas tiestifled that he conversed" With the deceased' two weeks' ago at Fort Perry, and he told him that 'he Ives a coal ; miner and employed at 'John McCloskey's coal-works at Fort Perry. I. ' At this point the inquest was adjourned ,un til four o'clock this afternoon at Fee ; David son's eflice. It is thought witnessm( can be, proeured by that time to'identifythe'debeased,' and the jury also desire to 'examine' the per sons who found the body., The,deceased apparently about thirty-five'yO:rs orage,sdark complexion, black' hair and light moustache. He, wore a black sacque coat anti %lack Kos muthhat. The body, as before 'stated; Was' frightfully mangled, and will hardly bear re 4 'cognition.. it will be brought to Devore's tor. interment.' M , The train - on which the deceased , went out oti - onday evening only took him ' as 'far ,as Efiiniewood, and it is presumed that while walking along the track. he was struck by gine 65 and killed. The' engineee - r thinks, however, that lie must, either have:been lying or sitting on the, track woen it passed, over , him, as he saw nothing of him, and knew not• of the accident until he discovered the bload. The manner of the accident will 'hardly be de termined, as no one saw it. Everything has been done to sectire a clear course and a fair race, and I apprehend no in terference otit biers, anti no obstruction of the river by steamboats and barges, as has often been the ca.se heretofore. Neither crew has done much work to4lay, and to-Morrow' they a ill do none at all; The headquarters of , the Harvard men have keen' crowded ;with visitors, among Nvhom yesltrday were Charles lleadel Minister Motley,. M.oran • Secretary of the Ainerican Legation; T. H. Dtidley, United States Consul a t Liverpool, and others, all of whom will return for the race.=—Neio York Tribune. THE BURLINGAME MISSION. *False „Reports. The Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Time,; following, which is important, in view, of the cable despatches from London to In an extract from the Shan,ghae Yeuis . Let ter;,.4lthi eh a find the New York Times of the IlOth rif July,l Ace the following statement: "It is understood that a gentleman compe tent to the task is busily engaged in the pre paration of a pamphlet on the Burlingame Mission: Some interesting developments riot calculated to place the Mission in a very fa vorable light May' be confidentlyt looked for." The Pekin letter from which.' this is taken bears date May 26. The above is another of the insidious efforts which are making to damage the Mission to which I recently called ' your attention. .Unable to effect anything with the 'Chinese Government, which reposes the utmost confidence in Mr. Burlingame and his colleagues, the English and,lPfench cliques in Pekin and Shanehae whose interests are likely to be damated by their , success, are 'resorting to the most unprincipled means to convey an impression abroad that the Embassy has exceeded its Powers, and that it has, fallen under the dis-.. pleasure of the Imperial Government. AS I proved to you in a recent letter, - nothing can he further from the truth. The most perfect understanding continues to exist between the members of the Legation and the aAlministra, tion at P;ilcin.. The object of the pamphlet al-. laded to is to create a belief that the English translation which has been made of the in structions given to the Embassy is an unfaith ful one, and that the original document does not authorize the steps which Mr-, Burlingame has taken. The reply to these assertions is very simple. The Correctness of the translation has been certified to by, Dr. Martin, Dr. Williams and Mr - Brown, three of the most eminent Chi neSe scholars of whom Europe or. Anierica can boast. But if their attestation 'did not exist, the fact that the Embassy is in monthly. cominunication 'with the Chine Le. Govern- ment; and that the - latter has been kept. regularly posted as to the proceedings -of Mr. Burlingame and"his colleagues, and its signified its crdial approval of Croy step that has been taken„weuldbe suffi cient to disprove the assertion that they had in any way exceeded their - instruction. The object of the calumny Whieh has been circu lated through a variety of other channels, is to , throw obstacles in. the way of the,Mission at. the European Courts by creating an haves. sion that the latter have to deal with negotia tors who are acting on • their own: discretion, and not on "their , written instructions, and whose proceeding may be repudiated by the Chinese Government. ; - The author of the pamphlet annotmced - by the •Shaughae paper is .an individual named von Gumpaph, an AUstrian, I believe; ~by birth, who has resided a good many years in China, and ; who haS, .become noted there for his eccentricities,;' Among the number of wild theories which have 'emanated from his brain' is one whieli - Seekfi'toproVe that the globe is much smaller- than geographers compute it to be, and this .fact he . attributes the many blunders That, are made in .naviga tion, and the umuerouashipwrecks that result from them.. ,He possesses about as much knowledge orChinese "ai he does of . Sansexit; and therefere his assertions the . Matter in question are:justAS itincli untitled to credit as his startling scientific diScOveries. -His "mares' nests" can. be counted by the. dozen, but tlais last one . exceeds all its predecessors in bold ness and impudence., ; • witr, moan ox now. . „ DDavid . A Salt Lake correapoadent of the Corinne Reporter writes as 'foilciwai . under date of August 19 • . . Preaching in the City last Sabbath was ani mated. David Hyrum Smith preached to-4t large congregation of polygamists, twenty. having been selected from each Ward in the city, to " represent" Brigham, which crowded independence :Halite its, utmost capacity. Con spicuous among these repremitatives," or•;, dered thither to crowd out the follower:: of the , smiths, was.the bald pate of Bishop Woolley. than whom a' , more . notorious and indecent polygamist and law-brealzer never arrived at . his age outside of , the' State's ' ptison.. David - Byrum is said to have preached' an affectingliermon, replying in seyerebut digni fied Language to the slurs cast 4ipon his nieMer by one of his cousins, who is a staunched er care care' Brigham, melting the hearts' of eveu the basest and most, 'hardened ppolyglinioirS =cleft_ the , :hall,--anth :removing 't t..Ya con , siderable extent • the stigma' cast upon: his mother by Brigham and his minions ^fit the Tabernacle, in the afternoon., a member of Congress from South Carolina , formerly: a Methodist preacher, visiting this city, livered an, able and deep . sermoU--one in tended ' fair the hierarclv„_•blit_w =died y portion OrfliFebliz` gregidion. ; ? • TUB IBTERBATIONAJL. BOAT RACE; (Audition and Virospeets of, the iiinevard - Lormori; Wednesday; August 25; 1869.-1 saw the Harvard crew bid night for the first time after a fortnight's absenc,e, and was de, lighted to observe a marked /improvement In their style and pace. 'Both crews made to-day, 'thelast roil. over the wholecourse which they will take before the race. A difference Of 13 seconds is reported in favor of 'Oxford, but it is not truStworthy,- Oiford having taken a back start - in order to get up a good - headway.' Both crews exhibit great t3owe'r: The style of Oxford is'an9itestionably the better of the two,, their crew is the leavier, and their pace extraordinary. Harvard, . • however,: is, in superb condition, and perfectly. confluent.' The rowing''of the 'Amerieam• is, far 'from finiltless, but their•boat goes ' alongwell; and their prospects are decidedly promising. It is' not at all unlikely that the race \trill be a very. close one. The arvard men have determined, to use the new boat built, for them by Elliott,- -which carries them better and makes greater t• peed, than , any other they have tried. No trouble of any kind is tenred, but every Pre-. caution has been takvn against foul play, and a= Wong, guard is kept constantly over the The Harvard , crew have spent the last two nights at bturgiss's, house: They wish me to contradict the English statement • that , they have ailepted 'the EngliSh style. All the Crew, say that theyy, pull the, sante stroke as last year, bnt for all that they show an - immense change for the better.'' • . There seems to have been a little trouble: about :the referee. • , and Oxford 'wanted to , change, but Harvard, I am . glad - to say,.very properly sticks to Mr. Thomas,Hughes.,.. In, cousegnence of this, C'hitty.reftems' te,aet as utupire,refusing to serve under HUgheS;arat the probability is that there Airi.lll'l)6 no urnz pires at all, but Buglies will be selecteitas sole - referee. -, TbiAis the best arrangenient, by all • odds, that could be tuade. • - CITBA.. The Proposition for the Purchase of the Ysland•..Cespedes's Government Con. sentinw. , Wksittisnri*, Cithan envoy; Mr: Lemus, is awaiting here with ' iety'intelligence concerning the negotiation 4 known to 'be In. progress between' Minister Sickles and :the Spanish government. Mr. Lemus is fully posted as to the nature of the proposition Which General Sickles under in structions from Secretary Fish: has made to. Regent Serrano and his Cabinet with regard -to Cuba.' This' 'proposition". was communicated Some Weeks ..ago , to the Ces pedes government :in Cuba; and Mr.:Leinus was authorized to approve it as the represent ative. of the patriotic Cubans. Upon receipt, Of these, instructions he .immediately com- Municated them to Mr. ish This put an end to the' niovenient on the part of the Cuban Junta to oppose thepurehase of Cubit from Spain and :the protest which it was. announced had been prepaed by the Junta to' be forwarded to the President and Secretary of. State was withdrawn. Al thelast adVices which Mr.Lemus received,through Secretary Fish of course, Spain had not reoeted,'SickiesN pro position, nor had 'it. been accepted. The SpanfsliGovernMent had' asked time to con sider it, and' General Sickles was ,hopeful of its acceptance. Mr. Lemur does not credit the cable despatch published ,ft few days ago an nouncing the acceptance of the proposition by Spain. If such had been the fact, he is coml., dent that Secretary Fish would have been in formed of it 'quite as Soon as the-agent - of the AseOciated Press in London. Mr. Leiruis says if Spain does not agree to Sickles's proposition within two or three months, it will no longer be valuable to the Cubans. At, the end of that time they • expect, to be in a condition to warrant, them in refusing any. proposition to: purchase the island from SPain.. If the nego tiations fail it is thepurpo,;p: of the Cuban leaders to make the island Uninhabitable; and thus drive at once the Spaiiia,rds and': them selveS from it. They Will destroy everything. , calculated to sustain life. .:Rather than see the struggle assume this shape Mr. Lemus „thinks the Government of the United States will in terfere on theground of. humanity, in which course it is believed she would be sustained by all the civilized nations of the globe.-N.. 1. H erald: • ' 1 A 'BEATY. STRIKE. A Silver Cave Discovered in : Nevada, r • The Treasure City (Nevada) News says : • , : 7 - "The largest, or rather - the longest, deepest,: and most brilliant cavern yet struck in Treasure ;pill was Opened by the south ore 'breaA, forty-'foot of 'the ' Belmont' ShatVof the Consolidated Chloride Flat Com.; pany, day befdre yesterday. The cave IS about: tour feet wide, three feet high, dips to the: south at an angle of forty-five degrees,- and, may be descended to a depth of one hundred feet. At this point the cavern:is choked or partly obstructed. by Nese rocks and detached stalactites and masses of oriental alabaStet. To what depth it descends below this point Is !unknown, but it will be opened within a few days.and explowl thoroughly. , The face of the ore: breast: around the en-: trance-to this cave is sintilariwappearamMttr other portions .of, the mine in the vici nity—ore extending doWntlie wall for several feet. Next conies ten twelve feet ? top, bottona and sides; of COMPact and capillary alabaster, partially altered to quartz; then vein crossing to.the southwest, at an angle of fifty degrees;' (Astern bergite or flexible silver ore, implanted in erystals, forming fan-like aggregations common to silver ores of this , character. This lakes us twenty feet:dOWn i from the ore and, sixty feet from the surface. Hero the compact opaque alabaster gives witty on all Bides to borahform stalactites, and' the sulphate to carbonate of lime; passing rapidly from' the inilkwhite selenite to tlin'golden Masses of capillary dendrite,. which glistep by, Candlelight like the pendulea of a eliautteher • :* "11.0klob r , small and great arches swoop ciVetibitsses ,Ofthe nearly e Ven roof, and reap. peat in The main' cavern far below, the roof proper maintaining its height from the floor with. great regularity. Some of these arched cavities would permit the pa4k4age of a unto , • - ifrtl , y7,,‘,E , ••.-:••.:? , ..ff xt:•• .• . : • '" :• •'• • • 1;1 .4 . ••;;? ,•; 4,1 t . ‘..; ' • 1." .r; :b • \±' ' • • ; -;•,‘ ~..r4 ''' ''' L,l42ll4l6ol%.`,.'lidiitalier. PRIOIIFTHREE'ZENTSO I • ten Or tweiVe feet fee rholitopVerrtlid arch atti down to the main (meninx awns, t a blirty feet, to the starting point, while others arstuit short that, one can hold a candle at =rim& bilKth and ace the hglit of it through therarelL Siuchot the "compact alabaster, where *lkea,ie . deu driqa. and, beantiful As _cr...moss',agia% • 11 4 0 - cavern hi nearly uniforsti, in• stab down iftlXuus depth' of one hundred feet, hut in phases urf i lete the Boor is' covered with mina Corlett ciniipd 118 4 to crawl.thtough like a snake: ,The air is pa tro, and Candles linrrt . freely elating to exploredP. . i< • -141 /erg 1461 .0 - X 2 StairißiL; - _. - .• . •"1 7 751 1 -7, Mgr TWO . 0 . 34 . 111 1 1 0 • Two seas arisid the *OW , • - In the moonshine:in:4:ft wad spaedifee,:, NOw sprehitlifthi3 silieereligh4 '; Now sadden;;and-wallowd;dttikle:. The one heals billowy tnotionl >1 j• . , And from bud to iand,it g,leame • The other Sleep's wide ocean, . '• • ; t And its Olinin,ring" wares are dreatetts • The cint , witii inatinuit and roar • , Beam fleets -toned 'coast rend islet;, • .'" • The:other; without si'sbore, Ne'erhnew the track of aptilots • ; ; . , 13•romarratc, _ • , . -4. babe d,rura—a weal*oammdrara;- —There are live AniericanaiuthqPrenektC penitentiaries. , —Gen. Beauregard il3 interested inti, pateutt right of a new, kind of slsite.! . • •• • —lt is not improbable tbatthcataliaticapital, will be, removed tq ,Napleti.. • • -• 1. w.f(?) . 0.N.• 24011114,0ne° aipopulartenqr singer hi. knxis, is dead. , • • ~, • - • .; ' is soon to visit Rads, to confer. witis o.ardquas to ,the libretto ciS•a new oppra..l Anton Rubenstein', the greatest- of. living pianists, is.eiimingtoArrierlea this fall ot early ' • There are in F:rance leastilfty actor and actresses 'who pretend. to be illegitimate eldldren of the great Rachel: ' ' ` • ' -111 Bniesels telet,..-raphio despatches are mit iniamppost boxes and regularly collected•by carriers. ' • • • •• " • . The remnant of the SeralinoleintUans•iirl Florida,.:complain of. outrageotts .treatristantlr from their white neighlmrs:, • • • —The Berlin Bazan•is said to bratty' paid•ltso , publishers', during the last. •ten• yeate,•proilta, . amounting to pear;y.one million,dollars. • : ..:Minnesota: ; railroad') conductor , latelg stopped his train 41 hunt prairie chickens ; and , ,caused ble passenger's. to )niss ail their connec,-' 7 —Ale-New York Stat:thinksthairllyrotic;64.- larsithould liefeafter 'have,a new nathe; if ever a man's choler wat• Itgitiii.ll - tateste • be:about these times.". lte., •", 4 - ill '; The RUFHi an Got ertiment,lithtaid•• , to • haver- effered,thirty-tive -zisillialfingdourdstlitrium" liorgitese's•relebratedqpietugesignnettri Qr. ei elm masters.- ;, I if 03 1,-; —Ring touisoffiltioxia,luismAtetiiati to Gothe, which Is to' be. tion of the splendid:oBllw l'S‘ftnn*llt,itt.,::l4lAln, on the 'Atli Atigust; •Garibaldi lioped g et. ph, 4 ". shin( franes'fot the nciiyriglit'ofthis novel.:bay';‘ro & VerbnerkhovOn, , ' 11at , IrletOn' HMO's publishers; otilired %im nnly tail tthnn--. • ralsd. • „ ! • . • . —They say, • in Beriir;.; thatc, old: 'Kihgt..% ,is always under the yintimpnw c ' • of stroug doses, of morphine , when,. he *pt c peant on parade, or of other public peca ens.. One of the:Georgia editore. object:44o proposed editorial cottitentihti is that.Statiiio. l ' lt ktys that the afrair will °When. end "we tint get drunk at' hiraej.kiti•Whislq: - .: 11 '_• that we are used t0. 4 -1;1•": '• • t,' • ; •!' Vv.!" , —A German lady in Chieagat Wait& tG litlvery4t the largest, pearl in - the world. It , is .t;fald , to be oval ; about two inches Icing, an leavab ; uable that no money in the Country eouldpprtrr —Victor Hugo's publisher,s say. that hi° iloninie qui l it sold • better taum. any of Ms.:: previous uovels, a statement which. shrew& literary men are disposed to consider rather wide of the truth.' , . —The famous old Waterloo drinnmer. bby. at the Hotel des Invalides, in Paris, died there on tlpi 27th of July.. He had. lost both of 'feet at Waterloo by a spent cannon. bgill, and livedlor over fifty years at. the Hotel des —George Sandsaid recently that. she' NSW% " - writing now every day a great deal snore..:; matter than twenty years ago, when., she had been at the height of her.fame,aud .every body was tuil of her " Consnblon andi _ ridlon."' ' • =The New York correspondent of.the reac , tionary Berlin , Cra.ss Gazette, says thatthere are in that city plenty of shrewd sporting men who 1 , are ready to bet large 81111111 that AndrevrJohro.,:r• - ' t•on be the nest Bresident AX, the United ! States. 4 . . -Arian in :Cincinnati, who. had . been. ar'l * r: ‘,., I rested es.a vagrant; protested that he had tt - . re:pilot trade, and calling, to; Wit, SmOlcitige x '.: (Mussed for total eclipses of the aim; and asA!'.'2, tliese, oeCur only a few times 'in a COntury,.he,. . .: was not to blame for being out of employmenti. a good deal. —Mr. Banding brings the history of:his e* perience down to the Max of this , , l y . ear.f DIA,'.; E . ring.ha five years beS never varieun..eigb mere than a few pounds, and, 1w ,lia.S;N:ven;i:, k ventured to ,extkeriment with tbe forblddete: , , 1 , elements of diet, in order to diSC ver,whicht ;Y elements the most prOduptive of fat.. Sag r,.• takes the —Au accident in Chicago was 'lately' txtraed • to good business account. A bantling, which, was :?in process of, raising by, means of,jaak „•crews; fell about six feet and , swashed every pane of glass• ilk the structure. The gromad-t -tloor was, occupied.lbr a saloon, winch, , r thriving business. among the crowds .ho, flockett to the spot to see the result, o4' the, - • —An exchange says that some weelis..since woman, in one of the counties in the south west of Missouri, hung herself 'because her: husband:went tot California. The next week ' • , inure thiut.• a dozen husbands ' neighborhood started fur California, but their , wives "couldat see it.” They wouldu;trhange —worth a cent.; A Ban Francisco corzespondentol, the . St.., Lows Democrat defends the Chinese agatust,„ the, charge of immoralities so ,frequent y. brought. against them. He s ay theyt are treniely charitable avd iiboial, honest espe-.' cially in small things; temperate and peacda-' , . ble and that as reshilents compprej. very'faVorablylvith any other class- quiets; peaceable, inoifenalve men. —The Lteee tells au anecdote of ow, of, , th os . stihstantial wen of New Harrett,Wllailoo,llem , chosen to the deacon's office iu . ,ose of' ! Congregational churehes in. that city. about.' -% the time that Att,, ,, tir's Jeptha, now in,tlte:XtdV* 6 -; art gallery, was the subject of generaetturi.rert sation. ,Two raernbers °tithe ehttreltwerti'dis4' , cussing the new appointtuentareit oixe;.,osthorii , rentarked that he feared -Demon. B, , s jid r e t : know the "scripter" enoughfor 111..4C0CC9.1,,,, "Why," be said "I'll priava T. . two, 'weighed down almost by thO r gravitf of thee. matter in band, proceeded tcitthe State Of the worthy deacon and asked lam if (mind tell' who was this Jeptba and his. dawltter_ _that everybody was milting about. , good dea-, eon suspended work:for a few minutes to - false- a good think, and liftrn, • poraleting the quesA tien for a little while;alowly auttwered, "Jett , tha:---h't see—yes—:iFtreptlut--why; w:n--of course -I'of, -.lOptlia;--lte was atto Oe" Napoleon's marshals." 4 ''l,4
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