Daily evening bulletin. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1856-1870, August 30, 1869, Image 1
Oft PEACOCK. yaw, NEW' PTIBUCATIONS, Diary, Iterniniacencei artd_ Correspondence of itierlryt'rabbßobinson. Selected and Edited by Tborriaa Sadler. , 2 vols. Boston: Fielda, Osgood & Co - _ People hail) eel - wired this ,book to IRfifwell's tire of Dr. Johnson. it is like, only in being very faseinating. In, fill essentialqualities the two booksare wholly different. ,Boswell wrote about one man, whom he followed and fawned , on, making himself generally a very despicable "figuredilhe-narrittivOT=Cfablilltribow; ever, was toady to'no One, as While totally evoid - ofvanlty;teral -ays appears as_a_ manly, cultivatedgentleman. He lived for ninety-two Years, for he was born May "15th,1775, and died February sth, 1867. From his youth to the last days of his life he was a student, a lover of letters, and the friefill and Companion of literary Men, not Only in England, but` also on the Continent. C.lrabb Robhtson went to Germany in 1800 and soon settled at Weitnar to study.'He also stndied at Jena, and spent tauchllmi in other cities: He becaine acquairite4 with all the leading literary, men of gm time, and some of his most delightful 'reminiscences are derived from such acquaintance.: During his long life he made frequent - visits to Germany awl other 'parts of the Continent, attd there is hardly °. celebrity of any kind of whom he has not'sontething to' relate. a sample of his style we copy the following notice of Madame de Stael, whose acquaintance he made at Wei mar inISO.C. She bad extiresied a desire to make his acquaintance On the 28th of Januaryltirst waited on her. Ivats shown into herbed-room,'for which, not knowing Parisian custorns, 1 was unprepared. She was sitting, most decorously, in her bed and writing: She had her night cap on, and her face was not made up for the day. It was by no means a captivating spect.aclei but I hall a very cordial reception, and two bright, black ekes smiled benignantly un me. After a warm expression of her pleas,tue at making my ac quaintance, she dismissed me till tome o'clock. On my return then, 1 found a very different person, the most accomplished Prenchwonmir surroundedlry adtakers, some Of whom were themselves dtstinguished. 'Among them': was the aged Wieland. There was on this, and, I belies e,'On almost every other• occasion; but one lady among the. oils: in this instance. Frau von Kalb. de Stael did not af fect to.conceal her preference for, the soeletSr of men to that of the other sex. If 1 mistake not, this dinner WAS followed by, live Others: during her short stay at Weimar' t but. my metnorluala do not enable , the to ash the exact dates of the, conversations to which I have novr to refer. - , 'She, “BlionaparrA 'sw3t his. Marshal to think it. was €7l94laincourt----t' to say that he would hot:permit tare" to receive con pony ,* that be , knew 4 was, his enemy, and that Tay botit.c' was open" to all' Ids' enemies. I might remain at Paris if I and therefore I set,out on this journey. I do not think it. pntdent to ter to England at present. Buona parte pretended,aud it was, asserted by order in the govertunent newSpaperi, That his dis plehsure with me eras not on, account of him self, but because `I was a partisan of foreign literature, and thereto& a depremitor of the glory of France." This I may say, that, she had a laudable anxiety to obtain , a knowledge of the best German atitliors, and, for this rea- son she soughtmy society, and I--was not un willing -to be made use of 'by her. She said, and the general remark is true, "The English mind is in the middle between the German and the French, and is,a.rmedinm of communi cation between them. I understand you bet ter than I do any German with whom I have over spoken." But this, it..must be borne in mind, was at the beginning of her residence in Germany, and long before her .acquaintance with August Wilhelm Sch/egel. . One day after dinner the Duke came in. She introdUced me to him, saying, "i'ai .votdu connaitre la philosophie allemande; j'ai frappe la pbrte de tout le monde—Robinson mil Pa ouverte." The day . aftershe said to me: "How like an Englishman you behaved yesterday-! When the Duke came in you were in the mid -:dle-otastory.ancl-aftera-slight-interruption you went on with it. No German would have dare.d.to_do_this._.WitikasoYereign it is always_ understood, that he is to begin every subject of convex:Q.glen. The others answer questions and follow." I answered, "I see 1: was quite -wrong; I ought not to have gone on:' "Per haps not; but I was delighted with you for doing it." This subject was introduced by her in connection with the remark that she could at once see whether or not a German was ac customed to good con:many, but not an Eng lishman:' Then she abruptly said, "Are you rich?" Lat once felt that this was not a com plimentary-, question; especially so introdticed, so I answered evasively,," As youplease to take it; I ameither a rich Imam `of 'letters or a poor gentleman" and with that she was content. She expressed hertz pleasure. atllie manly arid independent tone of any conversation. with the Duke, and ;her eonterapi, for ,tbe servile habits of some of the Germans. • When. alone with ber, it. was mygreat aim to make her feel the transcendent . excellence of Garthe. Buti failed. She Seethed' utterly incapable of realizing wherein his -excellence lay. But she caught 'by sympathy a 'portion of that admiration which every one felt for him. Among those excellendes which she was minable to perceive was that, of naivete. I read to her some lialf-do'zen of Grtethe's epi grams. She, cotdd not, . ccrmprehend these. She was , precisely what 'Charles .4.mb:4-sup poses-all the Scotch to be—incapable of feeling It is Very apparent - hi:it - the correspondence -..•0f Gcetlie• and 'Schiller, that'. these , two great po considered her visit to Weimar as an in iliction. Schiller would not go near, , her, and `Gtithe Made`, himself 'Scarce.' ' There' was a report that' site extorted: from the• latter, by .some on To,chter,” this,rcPlY Madamesl am •more than sixty years ' But, this was not after his fashion. I know; however; that she "dld speak irreverently of ' 'that masterly work, , land provoked me to the utterance , of a very rude Observation: •I . ' said, „Madame, yous •n'avez pas ,compris Goethe/ et 'voitsne le coni prendrez JainaiS•'! Her eYO • tiashed,--she stretched'out her fine arm, of • which she was • justly vain, and said • in , an • emphatic,. tone, "Monsieur, comprensis tout, ce qui merits , d' tie compris ; ce queje ne comprends n'est, rien." I bowed lowly. • This was said , at,: the., t able. • After dinner, she gave,' me me her .hand • very. ld _ was •angr3Plbr' a moment," „:„ she said, t.but it is all over now:" I belie% ~ ~- , ,•=1: '. 1 - _ '',. ',--.- '„ ' :, . . . .. , ',.'-' ,'" ` . ..• 4 --. , ' 0 ,- , ' o ,''' l ";`';.' ,•,-,,' _ ' ,`.-' ,x,' ,- ~-,• -., •." ,:: - I, 7."-' - ' - ', ','• L- ~ . 1 - .. . ~., . .'I• , , . . j• 4 • ';'. • • ••• ~.: • • • 111.- owe the favor I, experienced fronx - her to any perfect frankness and eVenfteedOin. There are hundreds of such anecdotes of the people with whomlobinson r . View •is also much that is interesting iii. lifs account of his experlerice as 'a,'Terries `correspondene ; Denmark'and in ,Spiin--the latter Wine at the time of Sir iTelfrflfoore's illetatred 'expe diti on. Ills account of Lis experiences as a barrister it law in Er:gip/It are also entifrtain= ing. But; after all . the most charming reading t t in-,-.lusziocintuta-vf4dairamatim. with 'Charles Tatab and 'his sister, With the WordsWortheoleridge- - Sout - bey - Talfotird, Lander, Regers, Lady Byron - and - other - it that we love to hear of. lie has sometbing to say Or all the orators, authors, actors, actresses and, artists of ,the long period in which he lived. EO'Neill, dmund Treriti, Mrs . SiddonS, Miss= ifacready, Ellen Tree, Pasta, Lady Blessington, Count d'Orsay, FlSK min; Gibson, Thorwaldsen, Eastlake, Chantrey, and scores of ethers bore in his lively pages. Indeed, there is scarcely any noted personage that lived in Europe from 1800 to Ifn about whom there is not something fresh and pleasant - said by - this delightful racon teur. And "yet 'these two bulky volumes *- Uhl only about a twenty-fifth part of , the abim,- dant material left by Robinson for his editor's use. There is a promise given of other volumes in the Inture, and Mr. Sadler has made the se lections for these with such good judgment, arid, has in the preface, in his notes, anti in the eonnecting passages of the work, shown himself so capable, that there can be rio doubt that the sucpeediug v9!tunes will be equally 'attractive and dellehtfuL Robinson'some of R allusions to Byron and Lady Byron are interesting now. We subjoin a few extracts. In the diary, under date fof .Nity 17, 1.33:3, he writes: This =ming was spent, in preparations for intr journey. , With Seven' .we looked into Thomaadsen's studio. '11.3 has a r very *le statue of tintenberg---fine for its significance. It is pretty rather than elegant. lam told it has been denied admittance into Westminster 41bbey. it is too late to be ;particular on such an occasion. Surely a memorial to so anti-re ligions'a'poet as Byron may be admitted where the inscription. is allowed to stand Life is ajest and all things EillOW it, I thought so once and now I know it. Ilunsbit lold,Wordsivetth that Lord Ityrbuhad an impression be was the ofli3pring of :t-demon. in a morbid moment such , a. thought tuay have seized him. Amin on September 13, of the same year: 'Dr. King called, and in the everangl called by:desire of Lady - Bymn—a call which I en joyed,. and which may: have consequences. ilecolleming her history, as the widow of the most. Cantons, though not the greatest, poet' of England in our day, I felt an interest in going to her ; and that inteßk was greatly heightened when I left. From all I have heard of her, I 'consider her one of the best women of the day. her means and her at will are both great. • She lives to do good , 'says Dr. King, and I believe this to be true. On the 12th of April, 18543, Lady Byron, in writing to Alr. Robinson, regarding a new magazine, makes the following remarkable statement concerning her husband. The author of the article on Goethe appears to me to have the mind which could' dispel the illusions surrounding another poet without de preciating his claims (not fully acknowledged by you) to the truest inspiration. Who has sought to distinguish the holy from the unholy in that spirlt?—to prove by this very degrada tion of the one how high the other was ? A character is never dope justice to by extenuat ing faults; so Ido not epee to nisi boniun. It is kinder to, read the blotted page. • • • I thank you for the proof you have given me of a just confidence in my sympatby,by telling me of your ' being left. I had wished to . knbw whether your, relative still lingered. You will neter be alone in the human world.. In. regard to Lord Byron's religious opinions, Robinson-Lady Byron mites Mr. ion -March 5, I _ .recollect_only Abase__ passages of DL Ken nedy's book which bear upon the opinions of Loid - Byron. - Strange as it'nmy seem, Dr. Ken nedy is most faithful where 'you doubt his being so. Not merely from casual expressions, but from the whole tenor of Lord Byron's feelings, I could not but conclude he was a be - Bever in the inspiration of the Bible, and had the gloomiest Calvinistic tenets. To that un happy view of the relation of the creature to .the Creator I have always ascribed the misery of:his lifp. It is enough for me to remember that he-who - thinks - his transgressions above forgiveness (and such was his deepest feeling) has righteousness beyond that of the self satisfied sinner; or, perhaps, ' of the half - awakened. It was impossible for me to donbt that, could he have been at once assured of pardon, his living faith in a moral duty and love of virtues ( 4 .1 love the virtues which I cannot claim') would Juice conquered every temptation. , ' Judge then, how I mast' hate the creed which made him see God as an avenger, not as a father. My:own impressions. were just the reverse; but ~could , have little weight, and it was in vain to seek to turn his thoughts for long from that:idle ; flu with which he Connected his physical peculiarity , as A. stamp. instead of being , made.lappier by any apparent good, he felt that every blessing would be turned into a curse to him. Wlio, possessed orsueh ideas, could lead a life ofleye and service to , God or man - They, must, . . measure, realize' them-. selves: - "The worst of it is, r - do believe," he. said. I, like all connected .with him, was broken against the rock of predestination. i may be pardoned for": referring to his frequent expreSsicm of the • sentiment , that I was only sent- to • show him >the baPPinesS: , "he was for- , bidden to enjoy..: You will now better under stand why." The Deformed, Transformedn is too painful to me for, dlscussien. Sincewriting the above; !have read , letter to, the ',Emperor of Ru,sSia,Some passages of, which ,seepa,applicable tolhe prepossession I have de scribed. I will not mix - up leSs serious matters with them, which fors forty years have not made less than , present still to , . As Americans, .we look in the volumes befOre us for some expression of-Robinson's opinions• on Manor topics. But there KM not many such, the , editor probably • h nking most of his Enolislf readers in, Making his _ihst selections But we - find that Ilohipu's", detestation i,of =SE slavery was maintained consistentkr thmighfot his long life. His friend', Dr. Boott, 'an Atne. neon by.birth, was trained in the old Weli sterkui compromise school, ancrtheymusklarve had:many sham discussions on American Shp. very. Here.'s an illustration. front the '4114.-ji "Nov. 8, 1852.---Called on BoOtt. He re proached me with inconsistency because I was , intolerant of those who'upheld slavery:in order• to save the Union, and yet was tolerant 'to wards the governments of Europe who. kept' the people hi slavery. J toye_lk,ott.....a.pikt t gs our sk The - re lusious _to the rebellion in this country are not frequent in Mr. Saffier's selections: Still, though Robinson was, 86 when thorebel lioie began, he ntanffeitry took great interest in anti: iejoiced, at the preservation of the Union. 'by the estinetion of slavery. On Nevember 27th, 1864, he, writes of his friend Jackson "He thinks favorably of th election of Lincoln. for a second Presidentship. On American matters he and I think alike." March 18th, 1865, he,,writes : "From Mr., Worsley I heard of President. Lincoln'S inaugural speech. has fixed me more decidedly than ever in faVor of him personally. it is an earnest, honest speech. As to slavery, he speaks both solenudy and wisely. The sufferings of both North and South are just retributions. No boasting. Those who have endeavored to. do right first will suffer the least." April goth,le writes; ``kOr, tbe present ten in the assassination of President Lincoln, the intelligence of which came to-day.;" and the editor adds in a note that Robinson "was deeply afiected by 'this ruffianly attack on the noblest person in Auterilli,',and ascribed it to ' Spirit engendered' hy slavery.'" ne was' now, however,. ninety years old, and his diary contained only brief memoranda of the events of the time. :The pmeeful deathof .;mbb Robinson seeins Co have been conformed to his happy and use ful life. For he was not a mere talker, letter tlriter and table companion. There is a dura ble memorial of his usefulness in the Flavntan Gallery and the Flaxn;tan. Fund of University College. 'There are also incidental allusions in various parts of these volumes to many acts of liberality and kindness. He not did profess authorship, and therefore has, not been Well knoWn7 otitaide of tfie :ehsele" Of 6 :i)brsonal friends. But -this posthumous publication gives him a distinguished place *n literature and best of all, he males the'llierary men ;of the past to live over again in his delightful l? , ?es. - - - EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. MILMDER OF A COII4TE4S. Terrible Crime Iwo Railway Carriage. (Auguid 10) Corretpondence London Times.) Every one here has been horrified by the details of, a murder which;was committed last Thursday night; in a tint-class carriage of the night train from Romp to Florence. The vic tim was the Coutessa Armand.% Sartores Ri brandi Cattaiieo da Novara.--n long name, but you- must take it as it is. Separated from her husband, to which it is neceggary to allude, she came from Voghera,in the north of Italy,to Na ples about a fortnight since, and took lodging; at San Paolo, a village near Nola. Here she was in the habit of receiving every evening :•everal officers of a cavalry regiment, among wham was a Lieutenant Negri'. One evening. last week the cries of the Countess, in a halt suffocated tone, were heard beseeching for help, on which the landlord, Signor Contieri, went, out on, the staircase, tired a shot,and met Negri running down, He then went to the Countess, who confessed that she had come to San Paolo in order to see .Ne,,o-ti, who brut ome letters or papers of hers, which Ile refused to •give up; that ,after her ",society" had left her that, evening he returned, having sent away the servants under some excuse and closed the doom, when lie endeavored to force her to write a letter to her friend stating she had committed suicide. What could have been the motive for this can only be imagined. On her hesitating to do this he snatched a-dagger from her band, which she carried for sell-defence, and was in the act of striking her; when she fled to another-- room, - followed -= by - her - rmaddetied' lover. The chigger waa_agam. ulifted, Nvhen the pistol shot tired liv the landlord seemed to paralyze him, and he made his escape. In Contieri's apartment she remained all the night; and Negri returned:to ask her pardon, insisting also ou remaining in another room, On the next day (Wednesday) several of the officers of the regiment, hearing of the affair, came to the house to protect the Countess,who determined to return to Voghera the next day--Thursday last.' Two officers;and the landlord, contieri, accompanied her as far as Caserta, where they-let-her, the Countess refusing their society any further, adding that she no longer had any fear. On the train arriving at Isoletta, the station on the Roman frontier, the body of the unfortunate woman Was tound extended on the floor of the car riage, a revolver at her fee l a l ViStol shot in her head, and her hands covered with bloed and cut as if by glass. More than this is not, kno:ivn at. present. -Some; assert: they. saw Negii :get- into a third-class carriage; dre.ssed as' . a in flui‘,'..tanaci train7by' which the • Conittess left, alut,',lthathis 'twig , was foundomar. her. If '50,,." he. is - ;ausyiented. of having. walked, along the footbeara,•'to; her carriage, and of -flaying 'allot, her through thewindow„,,,OfAiiro: nothing has, yet, been beard 4 •• Th,ls,lnarrible tragedy, which .I,report almost in the same was that - it ,is described in all tlielournals.otNaples; has ' , Oreateclhere an immenseLsensatiorri ~all deMils it!is most, revolting,and,might furnish, another Mrs: Radelifte with Mated4foriasehaational rentance." 'highly resiieetable sjoUrnal, in defending Negri': against , the irepttationof. theft, also - "stiya`l'lliere can -be ' no`., ground for the Ltsusfneichr :iii` , the lain:Tie. Cfact ; of his.,having.-,.loveda „woman so. desper ately as to nituder "He was not, a Mau vai,s sujet.'' 'Was well-born, rich, honest, and 'only vain." In • another, passage hie is described,. tut "unfortunate." Thus it. is that crime is condoned, and , that, a sympathy with it, generates that prevalent,: 'sontimental feeling against capital punishthent,: Wonder ful to relate, however, Neapolitan juries.have within, the last two_ . mouths , brooght, in yer diets' three,cases nrithout " attenuanti pircos tanze." Justice still hesitates ; there' are the Ceurt-of. Appeal and the • royal mercy to be invoked. The "probp)ll;ties Are that the sen tences of three heinous 'murderers will Pc commuted.' ' Lord Palmerston's Diary. • The London. I? eeord, spealting,of the diary of the late Palmerston as hi preparation at ',the hands of Sir Henry Buhrer,lobSerVes : diary, is said, to be full -of • iMereat and distinguished by all thelate -, ‘Pretriter's ' finest elmacteristies , It oom mences'iylion vhS OUR witixii cotivrair. sixteen years of age, andit ends at the close of 1.1330,.'when he assumed office M Foreign' /Sec irelary. But at present no continuation' of the diary has been round among his lortiship'S_pa pers,and it has none of the attributes of a wellan record. _lt is replete.- with, interest, trind4t,tmaffected and simpkovithoutlin afoot • of gaffi or ill nature, but shor3 and condensed, as itthe style had been formedlatlnrthe model of the sententious brevity of ,Tacitus. It seelet‘toltave been originally. desiguetl in its present form chiefly- to-explain• why he left the tones and took;office under the ,whig Earl Grerr-n , change which, according: to Lord. • „„A • *tonkcatrairous.sense - of7huluar,,iand• le justified by the fad thht he , was tin/ 'seated for the University of Comb • • • toting in ihyor of Roman . Catholic enianciPa althotigh-there had been an established' conipact, according to which that question was' to have been an open one." The diary will that his long term of service as Secretary of War was not, from the want of many overtures to accept higher offlcev. Peepstratleas. for the Great (*lnnen. A game correspondent writes The work of the Council Hall in. St. Peter's is proceeding . rapidly. The cardinals' 'seats are already visible at the extremity of the apse ;'•the two lateral chapels, which willserve as supplements to.the great Council Hall, are inclosed and the great hallis being enclosed also, , elev'en altars contained in its area being thus temporarily withdrawn from the publie celebration of. divine, offices, The new - design, besides being more grand and simple than preceding one, will also afford a ,saving in the execution of 10,000 scudi. The young ecclesiastical students selected to be come stenographers of the debates in the Connell hive made suck progress in that art that they have been allowed to siispend their studies during the vacation .custAmia.ry in the present hot season.. ' His Holiness has decided that a universal exhibition shall be held in Rome.during the Council, to be opened.. to the public on the Ist of. February next, aud. to, remain, so for four - months. In order that this ' exhibition may have a character suitable to the Church it is to consist entirely of works of Christian art. Another project connected with the Council is to have placed in.the vast arena of the Vati can Basilica the portraits ip mosaic of all pre ceding Popes who. have held (Ecumenical Councils. Cardinal Borrorueo, who lives in the Alfieri palace, Proposes to open. his noble saloons to .the assembled bishops of Christendom during the 'duration of the Council. How to lodge so many prelates is already a, matter of 'serious consideration. The Pope has taken many apartments in palaces at his• own expense, so as to be, able to. offer hospitality to the most distinguished bishops, and. one of 'these resi-. 'dences, in the Bongo liu 00, is already occu pied_ by the Austrian Bishop 'Fessler, ap pointed Secretary of the'•Council, who has ariivedßome and is hard at work. Supposed Suicide of a. Clergyman at Norfolk. The , ,Norfolk Ereninglientld, of Friday,,,gives atl account of the;sudden disappearance and supposed suicide of a clergyman in that city. He gave his name on arriving= the 'city on the 14th of August as Rev. Dr. John M. 'Brandt, of the First Lutheran Church of Al exandna, and spread a report amongst the people that his purpose was to establish in Norfolk:a church of the same denomination. Since ten o'clock on 'Wednesday night he has not been seen, and being missed, his room at the hotel was searched, and the following letter found: Nei:YOLK, August 20, 1869.—Y0u need not be frightened on finding me dead. It was my wish long ago tadie..,l - am tired. of a life of suffering and, misery, as , 1 have ledit-for years.. For years I -- have vainly struggled against slander and calumniations, until at last it has torn from my very ho4oin the woman I love and consigned ins to a life of starvation and misery. 1-have not a cent to save my life, no way of gaining anything, nor any hope of getting anything to do; for people and too Christian to trust a poor man without a heap o grand recommendations. A man may be as grea a scoundrel as helikes, if he only has recom. • mendations he is sure to get a position ; but the honest man, who wishes nothing but to serve 'his- fellow-men, to do • his duty faithfully and thus make an honest living, must be Persecuted, hated slandered, until he is entirely ruined. I have fought this miserable propensity Of men for twenty years. lam now tired of it, and desire rest, and, therefore, have gone wh.ere alone I can find it—in the grave. I hope that, at least, --that-will.be_igranted me. -It is -my last- and only wish to be allowed a grave. the proprietor of this nice hotel forgive me that I went-into-bis -house-without Inemisloparibr iny hoard. _l _wished, for_once,tafeel human being again. May the - thpught that lie cheered up the last moments of a poor, rin happy wretch, console him for the loss Of his money. Please send the letter you will find to its' address. May the Lord bless all who have ever been kind to me. May He forgive. me and receive me in mercy. Reported Robbery of the Ilan Francisco [From the Sae i'raeelseo Alta, August 21.1 • The settlement 'of the affairs of the retiring officers of the United, States Branch Mint in this city has proceeded satisfactorily. and :-moothly until within a few days past, when. it has been discovered that a deficiency bas suddenly been made in, the coiner's depart ment of $lB,OOO. • AS is alleged, on high autho rity, this deficiency has been made, undoubt ediy, since' the first of August. Up to• that date all 'the . transactions of the coiner's , department, like those of, the inciter and refiner's, have been found in, the satisfactory condition which always char= . acterized them. But since ' cleaning up and. final settlement began, the operatives have' been muck.dernorahzed bypartiesiumningout • and in,with' threats and reports ofremovalandl changes of subordinates, and the expectant of- . ficials have had their share of responsibility in this confusion. The. theory. of the officers in charge is,that the $lB,OOO alleged to, be: missing . has been abstracted in a lump by Some person or_ persons who have had access to thebullion, ifi the - ctistinik_ef •sybieh , Ahey :had " no' responsi-* bility,--Tha-transaction'-'is-not-a , delaleation; but if the gold' has 4 disappeared it is a' down right theft of , bullionby]persons as yet ,un known. Great efforts be made , to , elear up the affair,. and, if the figures still show the deficit to exist, , the. thief may. yet ' faa dis covered. This matter will occasion real regret everywhere, 'as; if it had not been for this un , . expected piece of dishonesty on the 'part of irresponsible , persons;• • the 'attain; of • the Branch Mint .would . have. been chased with great credit to all concerned. '. . hie Two )Pfirtles. The. Wasinngtoneorrespondent of the N. Y. Herald says . . • With regard to the condition of politim in Texas' General Olathe ireptirt , that the' hues between the Hamilton and the, Davis parties are:being'.clCarly, drawn, ;and that 'men are tabiog sulesr on . ;:clistiuotivev.:party -,guestion.‹ The Democrats rally to the support of Hamil ton while the Itepublicau.s; aro catisolicitnitv4 ROME. CRIME: TAD OCCURRENCE. JOHN 31. ,BELUVDI4 rox.rrtcs TExAs. arotmd Day, , xt is.esfimated that; there are' from 16,000 to, 20,000 men in the Democratic* party of Texas who will' refuse to vote' for Hamilton on strictly personal grounds. They are of the extreme Southern , school, and - either refuse - ''to - , Vote' • at all. or else run , a Candid/der of <their own. General Clarke thinks lifmnilton will get a portion of the negro vote in certain:sections of the State, but Davis will , get , ,the mass of it. Ilamilton, it is raid, has alienated .nearly all the Northern men residing in TeXaB from him by denouncing some of them , as "covet-bag gers.° They seem a little terideron t; . ItaveTurtid'e - Common-canSe agalilst : ten " on that account. .Tha canvass'promises . • P P n_Apvcitittgand-a--bitter-unn-FowineW personal animosities, between the different candidates, and lathe present) aspect of affairs it iss diffienff to tell who will be elected. MATTER* EV 0 . Southern (Vinton ettAl Tlie Rieltmond. aridly is not at all pleased at the possibility of , the election ; o Andrew Johnson to the &matte:. ru ConeedingthiAitones, it contends thatitusli be adraittbd; that be is a most Unfortunate champion ((trigs friends - and it asserts that "the poor South/ Ines bad enough of. his support s and would .gladly be delivered.; of it TcrreVer more." 'lt further sayn that itohas !nom faith in) the ability - and wil lingness lA/President Gisant to aid the- South than it has in exl;Presi'dent Johnson. The Ancletie•lllairliner. Henry Crabb litobinsonta diary contain' s the following historY o 1 Colinidge's " Ancient Mariner :" "Wordsworth's conversation has, been. very interesting lately, and had not so bad a me.. •mory tliat a few hourssidliee to obscure all I have heard, I mightinsert manya remarkable opinion ; if not fact. He gave an account of 'The Ancient Mariner,' being written in Devonshire, when he and: Coleridge were, together. ,It was 'intended. for the Monthly Magazing,nnd was to pay the exp enses of a journey. llt win, - to have been a joint work,., but WOrdsworth left the execution to Cole-, ridge, after suggesting much of the plan. The. .idea of the crane was suggested by a ,book of travels, in which the superstition of the sailors with regard to the albatross is mentioned. Wordsworth Wrote many of his lyrical ballads at the same time. Coleridge "Wrote the firit four lines of 'We are Seven' " • - 'Salt Lake Mang. A letter from Salt Lake. City says: • It is a singular fact that Salt Lake has within the last half-dozen years risen some nine feet, and the point we visited is submerged farming land, the fences of which are still.standing the water. Par up the hill-sides, bounding the valley, may be seen the well-marked wa ter-line showing the height formerly reached by lake. Should it ever reach A similar height the Mormon problem will be solved so far as Salt - Sake , City is concerned, by the burial of the place, a hundred' feet or more under the brine. The Mormons account for, the rise in the lake by the unusual amount,:of cloudy and rainy weather of late years by, which the pr'ocess'of evaporation has been re tarded ; but as they seem -to count also _upon" a permanent increase' in the rain-fall of the, valley' in consequence of its' being brought into cultivation, the same causes ,which have' produced the present rise.in ; t.lie lake ,tuay , continue to operate until it bas overcome the moderate elevation of Om eity,abeve it. What la a True Democrat. This interesting es:min:drain is:ansivereil by the Mobile Tiibune, in. a •recent ,issife. • That ablelournal says: "It a true Southern. man haS any ' political. statns•in a national setwe,lie;is a•Democrat.' The only men at the North in whose view he honestly coincides are those who duringthe war were called 'copperheads,'•and who since the conclusion of the war have protested and voted against all the enactments of. a.corrupt Congress. The true Denwerat believes that the reconstruction laws ought:lo be overthrown at the point of the . federal. ,bayonet, neeeleary, and that .the. negro should be deprived of. the right of suffrage illegally conferred upon him. "When we abandon those principles we abandon the Deinocratic party and with..it • the forlorn hope of restoring the Government as it was." What does , Mr. John Winer Adams, of . Massachusetts, say to that: definition? • And will not • the Mobile Tribune• tell a curious. public what it thinks of Mr. Adams as a Demticrat ? A Floaer, Brigade.. A London journal suggests.. the forination of a flower-girl brigade in that city. Fashions in dress; it remarks;-are always changing; but the custom of wearing dowers in , the 'buttOn hole is one of the Englishhabits which hag survived every vicissitude of sartorial fortune. Yet, with,all, this national demand, the public supply of flowers is strangely, inadequate. The 7‘.1.1e of violets and moss-roses in the streets :is confined to a • number• of. dirty, 'ragged, slip"- shod_women.-whoyas-La--rulerunne—begging with their nominal industry—whose.look and. air suggest:the vision of , gin shops . and back slums in ot tre f. - -'llchls; - ' country air, - and bright eedors—and_in:_whase bawl% the very freshest of fresh flowers can: hardly' fail to look sullied and tainted; But "%, - eke'a, regular recognized brigade of flower-girls to be estab lished, flowers fresh.and of every description, could .be-readily obtained. • . 't A Dead Beat. Alew days ago the Board of Visitors at one of the London 'workhouses were approached .by an old pauper, : who relatetitu them ,art.ex traordinary story of the reverseh of fortune to which he bad , been subject. 'bad several times - icon l:irga fortunes in trade, and - agthany tiniee, been redueed tb,abicet poVerty. His last Misfortune bad been caused' by the Thilure of .ovcrend, Clime'' , 4 Co.; who. had defrauded , him Out ofE7o,o43o;.find he was now too old to try,again._...lforeoy.er, he was at relative of a, distinguished peer of the realm, who had very cimelly refused to give him the slightest aid. The story ,got into the' newspapers, and the, guardians . of theVorkhouse soon received an avalanelgi.ef letters containing money for the 'unfortunate old gentle Man.. One lady sent a cheek for .±lO and an offer to provide a honie for life for the 'poor old man: on her .estate Hampshire. But at this :moment it turned.out that the. old moke had been romancing, and that there was not the slightest truth in any of:,' the stories he had related. the Money was all sent back' to the benevolent dOtiers,nrai the victim Of Overend,.G,urnoy&'Co. was Sent to exercise himself on , the,crault:., ' _ . , - Railliroad - Accident , Netliko Oill City . •, (Prom ;heT~fuac,lUusutnl~l;Aug. On NVe..(l ll n.sdaY last, frightful accident oc on the Ifraiiklin - Brancli of the. Atlantic MA Great - Western Railway; - a - gliert - diStaiide 'beloW Oil City,', : by.lithich-seven -persons Were more or less injured. , • It Seems that an•engine ;with a caboose attric‘hed left Oil 'City:for :Franklin, and proceeded: at a• very fast of speed until near the road. crossing -above Reno,: when it struck a broken rail and pitched over a - stone wail into. the river,, distance of about' Sixteen 'feet: It was. iinmediately.' . followed by the cannose f which.struck • oh' end and remained in, au upright position. :There were five persons in the.caboose; ala dy passenger, Mr.l4' , •..!W. ...Mitchel), ••of Franklin, two brakemen., and a • conductor,. all Of, whom were more .or leas se ' ye . re,Vbrinsed 'find Can.., Onr the_ eneino,-tho enginee,r"Whose mune is COoner;•and . who. lives.atlifoadville, was badly" bruised 'and TIM :fireman was slightly' in -.,..,.. . ,_. • kif,.,the 'branch is out of repair and in 0 *litget'Aus _ was yesterday. tet uro9o- Ow (.4 mild ury,.. F. rank lin, by Coustable. Men toil, _of Ve4oleata Centro, ti.s. .11-nui4ance. ' . • EOM s•• • - L pßningroN. • e's IPAOII,FAU!Mt.,EMitIM. • • ,• • , - -Doretins teem faX.otnfoit imtkingSketched. —Maggie Miterikrraddir4t le _going, upon • tte stage again. ' • ' , - —Edwin Adams in haring a -very successful engagement in Chicago. . —Omaha grows at the rate of thirty 'housed a day. --It costs twenty dollara to see Rfsteri. - at -- Wilmingten,-Xertli earnlina dreSstatlaf:l4 r herrtp atiarT'arttlie73 ''• late pep - alar lamplighter. • ' • •,___-=-Bri:liara---Yetteg--earcenntranicates sainttrall."':-.: for.pro '•-4 IV, but'-stints,P-110 the- church and 71 , 17 , 7 - :' • swears . . • elf. • . , ~ , - , 7 . I .i . ';.' • —Detroit is matittitaettfringtverrigerator cars, • ' to carry nine tons of meat and three tons of ice. , . , • —Mrs: Lander, who is still' lir, ' , .ZurePer, will i't.• soon rettimand play atimerotts engagements .; —John Rrengham was appropriately over- 4 • come by the;prefientarion of &sold:cigar-case' I ~ from - his San Francisco-admirers. —A man in Imre in hist stages= of collo '''''' t sumption was haft' Week - haptierdi hi, u lt ., ~ - • mersion,and thinks his health waatliefirby int. ,•, - • , '--General treckinkidge. has inadfrliiit 'first ',.'•.''' .4a •• ~.. appearance since the war ' as an istiVoeite at ' l ' . , .-:. the Lexington bar. 11f:elands a/ very, good" „.--,,,..,,,...,' ~ plea. , i .. . ' it ; Z l 4 1' —A respectable faniale'llas bbetu cibtacieli-' in stealing the wreaths' of imidertellbst.frettn'-' - I ' I' 4 - •,,, the tombs at l'erela Chaise, Theis,tuulteseiling -. '' "-,, them. . —Four Americans in Paris have mrudimery »at . liberal offors to the Hridslalcatifirsifor*efr ,l:- extensive champagne establikihmebtf, a t %,.:;,,,,;-!,,,,. Rheims. - '• —.M.' C'hembini recently died at Nei hart. ' ..,0 1 7-' -, • posia'ssed a remarkable collection•ofthe musit"l:4'3 li , , ,4tv cal works of his illustrious father. , He. °Ht.:. a t • ej Or ateolzfor a long time as inspectov oft the 14- , ' Museum nseum of Eine.Arts. • . ,- ' i''' , ' , ,t-'''-' 'O. 4 • , . --Mazzini was, simultaneously with dal-seat- '.' •', '•• pulsion from the southern cantons,'lanai a nionsly elected free citiken •ef-Zthelit(the most intelligent of all 'the ,cantons:) Mr. Sainburne has written a sonnet onathe . ,:ii . '' , ' .;,•• event, to, appear in the l'ortnighily li'ettleid: .. l 4.4..; . ,' , . —St. Augustine, Florida whichlis filled tvith ' = r , . invalids from the. North during: the winter 45,4•,' months, has become a great resort of. South- '• •,-' - erners hi the summer. - Cool sea hreezes,. an even temperatare and fine bathingnse -its. as.• • tractions xn the latter season. '. • -- i —The present, topic- of discussion 4in , the t English papers is the •wretchedi moans • of; ,, transpertation,betwepn England '- and. Fiance, but though there are ,numerous letters 11l the • - ' ' 1. journal's 'on the ' subjct. the' prosmet • ofin 's.,•. , itiO4 movement is Very slight: ' • '' -: ' -- -,The Cincinnati Eltaifirer 'Ptililishits Gene- r. ral Rosecranfea letter,"-with the' renxtrk-thatit, - ,'"' avill•bd more heartily admired foritafranfauata.;at ~ ~..4g than approved for its - wisdom, ,'and .its.-effectr,, , 4" on the,whole, will be to increase; if ••ppasible. o ,',,,' the generaljoy of the Democrats thatq'endleo. ~. 1- •'.• , ton is their candidate. ' ' •„ . • , -,Experiments are, being made with, a view to supplying the inhabitants of •New.: Y0r1t,.... with hot air, fo r , cooking and heating„pan•t posei;through pipes. This beats a ntta lo wag, who propesect to supply eaeb:h4ifusehold. with the correet time by means ofpipes from, - a sun dial. The' New' York hot ainpipes will be run through Hell Gate.. '•. • , ~..I .. ... —Apropds of thd boat-race com ii es ii the re mark of the Archbishop of Canterbury dpoa the day:before •the Sayres-Heenan mill : "I. - ',,. • must decline to discuis, such &revolting topic. as the combat of these - two brutes ; neverthe- • • less, I think that, from , the extraorciiiiatymtus- eular development of the man,Sayrep, he will • :. ~. .- conquer the American I" •' ' •N/ - -4 , ,." - : , -General Sherman talks of remqvirtgithai r -:na‘ headquarters of the army to St. °Lows, , where- .fl he likes to live,-from WashingVn; Wheret - lity- --- ,,-, hates to. 'We believe, howeveri.that a clause i t•al of a law .must be changed before this' can be ',-'•,' 0 done,and this 'would incidentally brirg out the sIiONV of hands in favor of a rem oval , ot, the.e.aP:-. 1- • ital and against„ ~, - : : ' ~ , • . —The London Tentes having called ;the - crowding after the Prince and .. Princess of • t. -;,, Wales, at Wildbad, "exuberant loyalty,': an 'l.,, • ••` i A ~.....1 Englishman writes to thatjournal to 1 declare -• •<, that it wa.s nothing but ‘ eltrusive snobbery," anti the Times has the' good seitse to. stand corrected by Publishing, the letter of it; - cor- respondent. , : • , - • —The Richmond Exazatiner says • that -"the most noticeable topic at the White , Sfilphiir. this slimmer is , that of the yonngladies, some, • ten days since, vying with each other to : obtain ..g • a kiss from Mr. Peabody, who held,a sett of' igil levee for the occasion. It was 'the 'last ."11end,, , z2..___:,•_._ - of Ine - kna - nof`the - Sinah - to t the - North" Rift 7 why bend their knees to kiss Mr. Peabody? .... ~ at • , • , , .. ~ _ ......—Dakota•-Territory will soon =be 77 '• at the doors of_the Uniett. Villages Grp . wid:L.L......_____, fo - b - e - iiiiinging up there rapidly: Afore than •. five thousand persons have emigrated. to , the , ••• territory, this slimmer. The present population , , 4: - is reckoned at, twenty • thousand,. and fatty- •-- .r. ~.... seven thousand Acres of land have lately been taken, up under the homestead ;and; Pire•-:"- ..ptioit idws bY actual settlers.' ' • .. i .„,... —C.I 01., Madison ~calita, ifrather-htda 1 wat • all al l the late Senator ,Douglas t haS tctrittem .:7-:!•• a ion& ' • , letter, whirls is published in the Chtpage'arua- eel, in reply to 141 r. li'art,on's article , on!,,the . . Washington lobby iii: the - Septeaaber - -Atlantic. Colonel Cutts . denies the 'charge 'tb"dt:Mr- ~ Douglas secured the - passage ofethe bid. anflp-, ^.4 olis and Cincinnati , Railroad Rand Grratik•bill through Congress by corrupt means, - and pre sents a history of the facts of that grant • , , —The Atlanta (Gx.) Nett , Era tells___VS' an as tomuling story of a. gentleman in, tkat city "who experienced, the rare delight .of.sta.nd- ing within the colors of tUraintloWv Fie • could." it Says "WONT his handabouniatheni, titi and enjoyed a very close Inspectian.of the. bedatiful iris." Had the Neva Ara! , osialy,tulded, that he was enabled to NValit aroutt4',' the ~; bow and to view. it from all sides, ,Its story would have been complete • ; —The ex-Duke of Modena, "the xicuist gsasp ing and tyrannical of the former 'Hapsburg princes of Italy, has been,sentenoed topaci an indemnity to the political.priscoare onzilpta, after his expulsion -.ion iktolienti„;lm dragged away.-with him in ordeito liavntbem incarcerated Alautua mad.' ' The Prince alleged the incompeteupy of, the 'Rica tribunal,' but judgment rifavin - g•;bd e en7a Qt g. __firmed ti-the-Court of-Appeal-of G-ttiottf he is now obliged to settle up; ---At, the locossotive work.. 4 in', Taunton, Mass. it very novel, macbtne, dj_ssagnedo for height, service on the Paicitti,t. ,t - tattrOadi blinding. It looks like two engineajolited; it. has st.x driving-wheels eit ia,e side; „plui wbigbs 1',5 or tie tons: the boiler, 1,5c38.,Nd1 91ig , -and en its top in the centre 'tte - tillb s34tief t hs of the engineer and fireman, 'itrearri4sltS'fiwn wood and water, dispensing. *lac ai . 'tittofier ' and can be driven in ekthet.,4,iotton - , o4:llAu u r well. The maciline 11 - 111 he *PizitedebArthe —Cast-iron tubes for water toi 4 ' new made in Englami by turning )ti "uric end ci-on ically,_and boring - out thti ends , n 1 the tubes to which it is to •1)e #ittedat , lke-,satne angle so that the end of' one tub maybe inserted into the other without the addition of the ordinary cement. The juneticih - IS effected very, qUickly, and the joint isperteetry tight. rives thirty sit incheS clintnoterliave been.,perfeetly Joined in this way.,' - C1.11s•erpool has :IWO 90' mile & of gampipe-xvith this Joint, nett the Teak- F rid age is to be laugh lebs time IR other cites- 1 - , -AZilt , :' , ,,•!1l , ~.•- • ,....:.,.f.:4"), - .4 ' ;'l, - • ' a'''' . ',.,,•'; - : 14-IV•i.>,'l,-'l*^.l-44 .. '. -. l'•'2.l*f.• * Z l . . - ; . ".i•••.! , :',. , ~.,<' ',' t. ,, ,', :, 4 ' ',, , •,,, ,V,;'„Wli =MEI ' ) , 7 ' )). •