VOLUME - XXIV.--NO. 99. FIXED EARTH CLOSETS ON ANY Boor, in or out of doors, and PORTABLE EARTH commorzs. for nee in bed-chambers and elsewhere. Are absolutely free from offence. Earth (Beset Com pany's office and salesroom at WM, G. RHOADS', No. DM Market tart et. " • ats29-tf DIED. fintlTE—ln the city of Charleston, S. 0., on the 29th Of July, 1670, Sarah Pope!! Smith, in the 96th year of her age, born at Woodstdo House, Essex England, daughter ofJobn Pogson Smith, Esq., and widow (tithe late Judge Peter Smith, of Petershoro', New York- STEM - A N .—Suddenly. on the 241 lost., at his late resi dence, 1929 Comae street , P. ter Stogie!). • . The relatives and friends of the family aro respectfully invited to attend his funeral. on Saturday morning, 6th lust., at 10 o'clock, without further notice. To proceed to Glenwood Cemetery. 400' ARCH STREET. 400 EYRE & LANDELL, Are supplying their Customer* with At Gold 12% Premium. L"K 151"8 PURE COD LIVER OIL, CITRATE L Magnesia.—JOHN C. BARER. A C0..7118 Market et. SPECIAL NOTICES. SUMMER - STOCK 'KEPT FULL AND COMPLETE AT JOHN WANAMAKER'S, 818 and 820 Chestnut St. U•Natatorium and Physical Insiitute, BROAD Street, below WALNUT Salool fur fT ,- .441) kt,xei and all ageg PUPILS RECEIVED AT ALL TIMES Tl, rrwt timid porsons taught to swim In from O to JO EXTRA ANNOUNCEMENT On. and niter teal y 4“3:36Q11 tickets will bo minced tifty ten, per cent. Per—dds desirous of taking lessons that object to join ing the iegialar classes, can make arnineements for ht rict It privar.- lesrnos uu moderate term s . For further particubsr,eit or address • J. 4. PAYNE .9: BRO. t! 4trp" RAW:). ARTF.Itti III.: lON RE Jcy -P UItLISIA X CIT - Y _EXECUTIYESIO.II.ALUTT_LE fIq~TIIV;IXI2T STREET. _ _ - At a .51.elfilat LAO on lAly fr.r. the follow• lUK,utnnngother pr , re•terlln;ze. was adopt,d That the C 4 mv,htl,,n to nominate a candi date for nth.• or the First Itt-rtres.-ntath.. Dis• trir t be 111:(.'O\ Y ENED .and a Jllll-Conanift , .e of Three I.e t,d from this CU) Execatt; e Committee to errert the p‘ankanP,lll Organ iT.flt lf,trilyrrv•of. ief ~ rll.,nre ther. , v,ith, the lleh•gat,s elect(-4 tr, said I.'..nrel.lien rtiki. th-• 1..; ~. rn-r of SIXTH - and 10 ler,' ERSO.N.....streets, on TlitiliziDAY. Atgus: 10 A Ili., for the purpose of follteing a ( - 141 , 4 141 M .i n notn i. nation: - I3y ardr , r of Ilk, Itvinit,li , :un City Thcernti". Com anent (711.ititLE6 W. ILIDGWA'i, is Pr . .! , .i(ltqes,_prr_tiiilinf.. 1 0 CULLOUCTIL,_ e 0' lION ,ecro.ta GI. y •th fr, r'rAtf jubCEDAR CHESTS AM) FUR BOXES ON HAND AND MADE TO ORDER. • TIIALII7IISiLIft. nsy3 to ill 3airplj • 277 CALLOWHILL STREET. HOWARD HOSP - VrAL; - NOS. - 11118 and 1523 Lombard street. Dispenaary Department. —Medical treatment nd reedleineinrnishedgratnitatuay o tire poor EXCURSIONS. - - 31 E E-- T I N G vV AT orly:AN GROVE. NEAR LONG BRANCH. Trains leave Philadelphia, Walnut Street Wharf, Tin Camden and Burlington Co., and Near Jersey Railroads, At 7.00 A 31. and 3101'. 31. EXCURSION TICKETS, including State from Long Branch to Ocean ()rove and return, F.l 5 25. for BOUND' TRIP. Tickets nautili procured at Office, 92 8 Chestnut street, or at Pt Illnut street %% hart before departure of trains. W. H. GATZMER, Anent. PHILADELPHIA, July 29, 1970. THE COURTS. QUARTER SassioNs—JudgePaxtion.—ln the case of John W. Baldy, rt?iitzf Welsh, and Wm. H. Duncan, charged with the commission of an outrage upon Miss Jervis on South Broad street, bri the night Of July 14th,lheThiry yes terday afternoon rendered a verdict of guilty. Charles Balentyn a journeyman baker, pleaded, guilty to the charge 01 stealing a sil ver watch from Gotli b Fritz, lay"Whona he was einplOyed. Louis Henry pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing a ball of yarn troth the -store No. 310 Market street . ; • Henry "Jones and Michael • Touldue, two boys, pleaded pithy to,the charge of the lar ceny of, a horse and wagon from Chestnut Hill, which were taken from them as they were in the act of selling.theni. OsWald Mitzel pleaded guilty to the charge -of stealing a sliYer urn from the Harmoniq Singing Society, and a horn from the Lieder -tafel- Society. --- He stolethe - articles at, night, and when arrested, dug the urn up from under the root of a tree in Franklin Square, and told where he had pawned the horn, so that it might be recovered. ANOTHER SENSATION. la it Silver Or What Peculiar Spring [From the SnMultw Condor:l A point about half - way between this city and St. Louis, Gratiot county, and a short dis tance from the Gfatiot plank road, was the scene of unusual excitement during the past 'week. On Friday, last week, while laborers - were engaged in digging a well at the locality named, eighteen feet from the surface; a strata or bed of granite rocks was struck. This bed of granite is made up of fragments; large and small pieces, having a gravelly appearance. There was no dirt or sand. Pieces of this granite rock, or granite formation, were pre served on account of their peculiar appearance -and remarkable weight. The piece shown to us has the appearance of quartz, .of granite, agate, and sparkled in places with what seemed to be silver sand. Several pieces were taken to Saginaw City, and • one was brought to this city. It has been examined by a number of gentlemen who profess to be, and should be, posted in such matters, who assert that the glittering substance is genuine silver. As stated before, this discovery has created considerable excitement in the neighborhood, and several, parties are on the ground digging. A small piece of silVer taken from the large quartz brought here is now in possession of - a gentleman of this city for a test. From what 'we have learned of this matter, we are unable to give an, opinion, nor can any one, probably, at this time, say that silver in _paying quanti ties can be found on the ground. There is - one - peculiarity about 'the !well that might be mentioned. ,Shortly after this granite r-boulder-formation-wart-reached-i-thawell-be gan filling with water, until the whole was completely filled and the Water bubbling over. The water is in constant motion, not unlike an eruption, _and a peculiar gas with __a _strong smell issues from the ground. Those who have visited the oil wells of Canada.sa,y that the smell,is unlike that found In the 0.1 regions, where the gas is so strong that it can . be, used and burned the same as that manufactured at the worIM. • - •' • • • —The now Crispin shoe company in. North AttaxitS have egun'operritiOns ivith good,proti pects of success. • • 1.1 1 . ,• 1• • ' .. „ . i ... 1 - .. . . -_. , . . .. . . . , . - ,- -,--7A --- . - ' .. • '• . . . . . • . -_, ..., - , .,„ F , -....,-, : -• • •- L: , ~ . -----". - ':i '•• - , ( P- ' 1 . ‘ 11 '7 . .. , _ _ ....,, .:.. - '''....0... . . . . . . . . .. ATLANTIC CITY Fancy Dress Carnival at the Excursion • House—Brilliant Scene. [Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Bulletin.) ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 4.—The grand carni val and bal masque came off at the Sea. View Excursion House last night, Great prepara tions for the affair had been in progress for several weeks past, - and the gentlemen who bad charge of the affair left undone nothing which would add to tbe attractions of the oc casion or the pleasure of the guests. "The City_ by the .Sea'!, was. alreadV_ pretty well filled with people. It is n: ot that the present population is larger than it has been at any one time before, since Atlantic City was founded. In order to accommodate those who desired-to visit the place_ merelyto take part in the festiVitiei of last night, Mr A. H. Boardman, the very poPular Conductor of the Express train, had :to add several cars to his train yesterday afternoen, and the later train also-brought- an- extra - lot - Of - passengers:" . . The large and, convenient ball-room at the Sea View House was very tastefullyatecorated con for the occasion At the : upper end of .the room there was a handsome fountain, sur rounded by tropical plants. The pillars and chandeliers were all neatly entivined with evergreens and bunting, and the walls were decorated in a similar manner. From each chandelier several-small-silk.-flags-were hung, and between the chandeliers were suspended cageS containing canary birds. In the ceutre of the room there -was a fountain of peiremed water, and along the ceiling there were numerous banging-baskets') con tail ing -rake •flowers. The entire arrangethent of the decorations was done in the most taste ful manner, and the appearance of the room was very line. Niue o'clock was the hour fixed for tee opening of the ball, but long before fharti tile the passenger cars running to the SWil View House were crowded, and carriages were car --rythig-gnests-frtim—tire various hotels. The poi dies and sitting rooms of the horse were soon filled. A lot of fine, fireworks were then set oft by Prr f .lacksoin, The tall was opened at nine o'clock precisely, with a grand march performed by the ewe- Innen orchestra—the dancing music being under charge of William E. Brill and the pro menade baud tinder Prof. IL Otterkinich. The iSlaster of Cerenionies and Floor Managers, clad in black dress •Coats, white vests and %%him pants, led off. Then followed a long lint. of ladies anti-gentlemen with and without mask.s._ Tim number of-those-whoappearettin. t a ney..,sosturnes....._ „quite —large.- ...Tile I °tides-% of Liberty, Paul-Pry, Meroutio,Lalla Rook"), a Mike, LOnis Napoleon, two or three Quakeresses, fi-Count, - - - somecavaliers :anti Liegrish' joekeys, a' 'collide 'of: demons', and a few al wenn n _all __appeared .kk-tbie gay - There WM also a sprinkling -of Yankees, school-boys; peasant girls. vivandi- ' ,-res. - motiks, nuns,e. The ladies Who were not in fancy NAN* , NVOI all dressed in a rich ate! • elegant manner, anti- the 'gentlemen mostly appeared in full ball dress. I tilting the 'batch thee!..pl,__w -aLineivel.,_interesting n t,--The-entird- floor - was=- - orc apt edrwi promenaders and three rows of benches on eel' side of the room were fully occupied by spect pion. the march concluded, the dancing began. The programme was very well arranged. and the-floor managers -performed their duties in a :a refill and satisfactory manner. Everybody hail the fullesr-opportanityfor.enioyment, and Hfi - rib - or was alicays filled with dancers, there was no over-crowding of sets in unad ri Iles or eollisions in waltzes, the eonseqll'illec of too many participating. The attendance at the tall was exceedingly large, rind totally :.beyond the expectation of the Committee of Arrangements. It is esti mated that the number of people inside anti outside—for many were satisfied to congregate about the windows and take a peep through the blinds—was between three and four thou sand. About midnight the guests began to disap pear, but many remained until the programme was concluded, the dancing having , _ been con tinued until an early hour this morning. Everything passed off in the most agreeable and satisfactory manner, and nothing occurred to mar. in the slightest degree, the pleasure or enjoyment of the guests. 'This bal masque was not only successful in every particular, but in the decorations of the ball-room, the number of the participants, the variety of fancy costumes, and other many pleasing and attractive features, , exceeded anything of the kind ever given at the sea shore. All of the gentlemen engaged in making the arrangements of the atlair are entitled to praise for the excellent manner in which they discharged their respective duties, but much credit is due to Messrs. Charles Schnider, Wm. F. McCully. and Wm. , -D.- Kendrick, who. by their personal efforts ~and zealous labor, con tributed so much to add to the success of the ' festivities. The following is a list of managers, .&c.: - abi•lee of Cerenumies—Charles t3 , .minder. ?Thor Itirr:ctorx—Lonis Ricketts, G-. W. Crist. Finn' ..11aim.fp.rs—Wm. F. McCully, B. F. Ducomb, W. P. Mange, J. McCully,,Jr., Chas. Jefferson, Wm. D. Kendrick, George A. Eno, Arthur Orr, R. E. Epstein, J. S. Borgenski, H. C. Van Bail, D. B. Aitken, A. W. Grant.. Committee of .Arrang6»e?&—John C. Black - , S. T. Lineaweaver, Hon. John P. Starry'. Wm. Wetherill, M. D., John Romraell, Jr.,. Hon. James M. Scovel, E Claxton, William 'M. Stuart; H. Whiteman, John W.,Wallace,,las, B. Dayton. Joseph N. Peirsol, John F. Starr, Jr.. D. IL Mundy, C. C. Haffeltinger, E. liretzmar, L. Ricketts; R. M. , 3litche,son, D. C. Spooner, Arthur Orr, John Godbou, T. J. Beckett; G.'W. Middleton, J. G.-Whiteman. Reception Committees-Robert Frazer, D. E. Patterson, Geo. Woelpper, Bodine Coffin, T, H. Bedloe, A. Schaurier, John W. Wallace, R. M. Mitcheson, Geo, W. Hinkle, Geo. H. Macy, Jacob Keim, J. H. Clements, B. H. Brown, A. H. Boardman, Geo. D. Glenn, Jos. H. Borton. committee , on Decorations—John C. Black, Louis Ricketts, H. Whiteman. F;tiwto , : Committee—H. Whiteman, S. T. Lineaweaver, John C. Black. Conintitmc on Music-John S. Paul, S. T. Lineaweaver, Wm. E. Brill. Railroad Coimaittee—Robart Frazer, D. 11. Mundy, H. 'Whiteman, L.' Evans, E. Collings, J. G. Whiteman. • DICKENS'S SONS ~ AND .DAUGILLERS. Some Ipteresting• Facts. The London Figaro supplies some facts con cerning the family of Dickens that have not previously been mentioned in connection with Lis death : . •‘Though so much has been, writtenand said about Charles Dickens,it may not be generally known that he had ten children, two only, of whom are dead. Two were daughters—one of-whom is-Mrs. C-A.--Oollinsrand-thc,-ottker unmarried. Tile single one bids fair to be a good novelist already three stories`, from her pen have appeared in All the Year Rosin 'Aunt Margaret's Trouble‘,' 'Mabel's Progress' and 'Veronica,' and ,have gained a deserved popularity. - :Of the six 80128, the eldest con ducts All the Year' Round , and has made a few efforts in various magazines; one, the young est, is still at college ; one is in the navy ; two are sheep-farmingin and one is in India. Those.who know Millais's picture of 'The Black Brunswicker,' may be interested to know that the lady there depidted is a gOod ,likeness of Mrs. Charles IRE WAR IN EUROPE Latest War News—The British Govern. meat Sinew Nothing About the Secret Treaty. • [By th e Atlantic Cable.] LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 3.—The Doiln News gives an important contradiction to the statement of the Paris Debuts re specting the secret treaty. : The Debuts says that the treaty was not secret, but, as project reduced to writing and vaguely formulated, it was within the cognizance not only of the GOverntnents .of France and _Prussia, but of the English and Belgian Governments. The u-xt itself, it Is said, was in the hands of the English Government from the very be ginning. To this the Deily responds, without any fear of well-founded contradic tion: "We take upon ourselves to assert that our Parisian coternporary is misinformed. The text of the projected treaty was never in the hands of the English- Government, and first came under their eyes when it was pub fished in the rimo.7 Tile /Vacs_ auggesta_tbat-any-- member-of- Parliament who wishes to be • officiallyas-, sure(' of the absolute ignorance of the For&ign (Mice, has only to put the question to elicit ,a. distinctly negative answer. Napoleon Attended In, the Pleld by His kbyslefan. A special from Paris,: writing on Tuesday, says that Dr. Nelaton joins the army uo. the Pretext of organizing an ambulance corps, but everybody knows that be goes as a special attendant upon the Em peror, the state of whose malady does not per mit him to dispense with his most trusted phy sician. • The Fortifications of Paristo be Pat - la a ,Coualtion of Defence—Hopes of a !Short Mar anti French I/bettor) DyksrOut. . LOOO., Thursday, Aug. 4,1.30 A. M.—The correfTendent of the Dad?! News •in Paris writes, on the 2d inst., that the enthusiasm for the war Las entirely disappeared in that city. It is now evident that war with Germany means a prolonged struggle against 1,000,000* of armed combatants determined to defend' theirinVireentitry, and if possible to give the French such a lesson that hereafter the Em peror'S peculiar mode of making his reign an era of peace by attacking his neighbors will be rendered iinpossible. - The announcement that the fortification.s of Paris are to be _placed in a condition of de fence, and the Emperor's admission that the war will be a long one, have singularly damp the,ardor °I those _who imagined that within a fortnight a glorious peace, which would re-establish the supremacy of French arms, was to be signed in Berlin. The Pari ians are still told that- the_ _Germans _are nembling at the idea of. encountering - iififFiii7- k'ese- and Turco*: but these legends havelost their eilect. G. W. S. . 11 ) bl all . 1 . Spanish Opinion of the War. _ The _"Madrid correspondent of th e says: \i'llate.ver may happeb, I must inform' yoa that-public- opinion. is divided here on--this matter. Some wish ,France may prove suc cessful, while others Prussia - . lint - _the jour nals caretall;y ahStain from sympathizing with . one or the other i _strougly advise the gevern uient_to_ohserve_m_strict neutiali.ty,.and es - - lire:2s a wish that the war may be confined to the Rhine. if Russia, - which is not probable,' should throw her Sword into the scale, it might hap pen that, from _Lisbon to St. Petersburg, and iroro_Landon_to Coustantinople,Europe would tie the prey of a general 'conflagration. In an ticipation of events, our Repu blicans'have met irferder to look into 'matters and see what line -of conduct - they - ought, to 'adopt in : Case the map of Europe should be altered by the vic tory of either of the combatants. I can assure you that all have been unanimous in deploring the blindness of the men in Spain who would at any sacrifice seek for a king in Prussia, withoutsuspecting they were hrowing a brand of discordwhich might one day be prejudicial -to the interests of Spain. They also regret that the Cortes should have been dissolved at so critical a period, and have decided that the Republicans should be, by means of the pre.ss, urged to organize ,them selves, in order to be prepared for all future events, and be in a position to repel any for eign monarch that the conquering party met attempt to impose upon Spain. The pretender, Charles VIE, is said to have gone to Paris incognito. M. Olozaga was in ormed of the. fact, and hastened to ask the French Government to , order him to leave France. He is noW,on the frontier of Spain, where his partisans are bilSily at work, as well as in Portugal. If they rise they will, as they liave always done, eatise a uselesS effusion' of blood, for they are in a great minority in the country. 11 he French Occupation of Rome—rltra. montane ViOWEI. The Paris .3fondc (Ultraniontauei of July 18, makes the, following comments on the con templated evacuation of Rome:.To abandon Rome to-day would be to certainly deliver it to the revoiution,-to repudiate the policy followed for twenty years, and to sell the \ - icar of .1 esus Christ for a price scarcely above the thirty pieces_ of the Gospel.. Those who be lieve the French Government capable_of this nfamy do injustree to its foresight, as well as to its probity. Is it about to select the present moment to inspire alarm in Catholic consciences, and create a fear that a war commenced by treason is not to terminate gloriously for our flag. Na poleon I. also at a certain period of his luStory sacrificed the temporal power to his policy; some rime 'after the Spanish war broke out, which was the-first of the reverses of the . Em i.ire,--and the prelude of the -Russian These great examples remain engraved la the minds of the people, and there is -no fear that at so short a distance they-will be forgotten. Beside the affiance of Italy purchased on this condition would weaken' the government within more than it would fortify it without, hecanse it would break the bonds which attach It to a party in -France, and like a tree without roots it would fall at the first-shock. It is even making little of Italian honor to make at this hour such a calculation ; it is to make of Italy a political free lance; °tiering his sword for sale to all Europe, fighting against Austria to have Venetia ; , against France to have Rome. France has made- her, -armed her, and, al mitted her among nations. It matters uot ; all these recollections are not to be weighed as equal to a single city. If Italy was capable of this ingratitude she would be as dangerous for her allies as for her adversaries, and in that ease it would be in order not' to recall our army of occupation but to double it. "For Wtiterloo." Le Pays says: "It is for the past, for the 'present, and tor the future 'that we are about to light. ;- It ,is for the past--for Waterloo, a lugubrious name, which , reached us like a sob echoed by two, generations of men. It is for the present; fora cold and premeditated insult. It is - for the future, in order to prevent Prus sian steeds frOm - coming to browse on our. corn,'and-their Masters• Trent') ravishing: our daughtersi'--And-ho*-noble-is this , mission of France! , "She fought•at Alma and Sebastopol tq save Turkey, She fought at Solferino to deliver Italy. And now__lter :generous hand . _ is stretched forth to burst the binds of Gerntarty. Men of 'Hanover and Denmark, who for four years have held out your suppliant chain laden bands, hope now I Ye Saxons and Ba varians,.who tremble for your independence, take eouragel:France is coming, France is approaching ; you are going to be free. This is not a war of conquest, nor a war, of ill 'V, WIWI. it is 'a war of deliverance' and of 'honor," ' I ii) THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1870. Notiopale declares that " France never used her sward in the service of a greater cause, for this cause is her own '• it hi ller preponderance in the World that she is called upon to maintain. The question ie whether, as Prussia innocently flatters herself, France, with all the grand recollections and glorious hopes which she represents; is about to descend to the second rank, and to yield the first place to the domineering, rapacious and cynical spirit of Prussian policy." "The question is,w heater the nation which, since the Crusades, bas put her hand to all great causes, which has not only labored at her own deliverance, but aided in -the deliverance of the United States, of I3elgium, of Greece and of Italy, is going to allow herself to be supplanted by the egotistical Power which protes!,es and practices, without Concealment, the maxim that. might is right. It is not only the future of France, but that of Europe itself; which ie involved in this solemn . conflict." Hard' n Napoleon. The Prussian Press is very earnest, and, it must be said, somewhat abusive. The Berliner Borsen-Zeilvny credits Napoleon In. with "an eminent_canacitv--for-crushing-the freedom of ,bis country, and a diabolleal contempt for all human laws," and now "the Worn and wasted autocrat demands additional. hetacomhs" -but "Louis Bonaparte may happen to.find hinaself at the termination of the contest, as he. well merits to be, dethroned, dishomired and dis avowed, alone with his torturing gout and the pangs of an evil conscience. To bring this about. Germany will strain every nerve, con gratulating herself that a catastrophe has at length come to put an end to the chronic state of, apprehension which threatened to become the permanent condition of Europe." The Zvkitnft calls fora French revolution : " if there is ever a right of revolution this is a case in which it ought to be exercised ; and the French nation must -bear, :Alio. ; responsi bility of all tbe . rnisery and bloodshed which their Government brings upon the world. Let the French nation, in the last moment, .make themselves the masters of their own fates,and give the other governments a healthy lesson for all coming times." The N. Triburie agrees with our views that the skirmish at Saarbruek has no signifi cance. it says : _ . The Milan. at Saarbruck was of oven lees importance than appeared by the_first report& It - was the intention of the Prussians to aban don the town on Sunday last, but the move ment was delayed until the advance of the French on Tuesday. Only two companies - of . _Prussians held it and picketed the heights; which, from the south side of the Saar, com mand the town and the valley. The hills on the north Si /ea the Saar at this point appear to be two.,„or_three ,miles back froth flfe i iver, rind --- th-tikese - it seems the - Prus= :iatis have retired. -- if - the French attempt to cross_in force at this point they will have to cross the valley to find the enemy stroiW posted on - the bills beyond, a situation not unlike that of Gen. _Burnside - at , Fredericks burg •th front of - the enemy on Marye's Heights. - There istiothingwhatevcrinthe - despatches to indicate that the French.intend to cross the Sear at thi point - iia force, or_that 'the F'rns sians in - giving up the-town to French pickets have abandoned-'their line of defence from Treves and Saarlouis eastward to the - Rhine. Thit French reports glorify, the capture of Saarbruck. as an important achievement, but they are evidently framed with the design of amusing_Paris-during,the long and inexplica ble delay in advancing. A European correspondent of the New York Post' sars Sine 1813; the German national feeling has never been so earnestly and deeply aroused as t is at this moment. For days the deSire of all Germany was for peace; no one had the slight est idea that France would declare war against Prussia. When the telegram, announcing that ‘• the war is declared" came, a feeling of sad ness, I might say, overspread the whole Ger man heart; but this was followed at once by a universal feeling of deep indignation at Na poleon's threats, and an enthusiastic accept ange of the gage of battle, the marks of which I have shown above. It remains to give you a few, extracts from the German press, to show you how; deep and universal the feel ing is. The war cry in Paris, " To the Rhine," was answered at once by all Germany with Becker's celebrated Rhine song : • Ste sullen ihn nicht haben; den freien deutscheu. Rhein :'' t They shall not have the free German Rhine!) The Germans forgot their own quarrels and enmi ties in the hour when the news canielthat •the French were moving on the Rhine ; for the German national pride and love of existence is centered in the possession of that river. Baden, Wurte.mberg,Bavaria and Hesse did not he.sitate a moment to declare their inten tion to support the North in the contest for the Rhine; and the new provinces forgot all their past misfortunes in their anger at the conduct of France and their zeal for the na tional cause. -In.Cassel, the capital of Hesse- Cassel; the King, on his way home to Berlin, was enthusiastically cheered to lead Germany o n, and when he arrived at Berlin a hundred thousand people met him and shouted• •To the Rine:" lustily In Frankfort , on-the-Main;where two weeks ago the Ring of Prussia was the most unpo pular man. in Gerthany, the national feeling is shown everywhere; the troops marching through the city are greeted and cheered by many thousands of the inhabitants, and on the evening after the declaration of warthe paith of the city paraded the streets, and .as sembled in ono of the public squares, where they sung the national hymn and "The Watch on -the Rhine. 7l ', : Never was there such a revOltitiolCof public `opinion and feeling; and all are ready to tight for the fatherland anti the Rhine. Another Theory for the Protracted Stay of Dr. Llcluzratone in Africa; [From the Detroit Po,LI A letter has been received in this city from a Detroit lady now sojourning in- Syria, which assumes to shed some new light on the myste rious detention , of Dr. Livingstone, in Africa. The writer made the acquaintance of Captain Burton, British Consul at Damascus, a man noted for his travels both iu the New World and the old, and in a position to he well in 'formed as to the tribes of Central Africa and Dr. Livingstone's adventures among them. tie says the doctor's recent stay of two years or thereaboids,, like all other troubles, had a woman at the bottom of it. He was first persuaded, much against his wish, to marry a rude and blustering native:princess, and when he afterward proposed to leave Mrs. Living stone, in order to prosecute still further lus topographical investigations, his fond father in-law and motberdn 7 law interposed such strong objections that he was virtually kept t prisoner, and thus it happened that the honeyMOtra was so .ontrageonsly, prolonged. • Thellaptainsays the reason this fact had never been Made public is that the doctor's friends, feeling outraged .by, the transaction, have succeeded until recently in keeping it secret. The letter adds that . " Captain Btirten himself "married thc handsomest woman in England,". so' that he can hardly bo moved with envy, toward his fellow 'traveler, and as he sneaks . fourteen different languages, his ca pacity for tolling tho truth would be consider- • —A populAr the'atro is be' built in St. Pp tersburgvtlis #ll4e'Of adolit3sion tO which. j.k} not to eicOeil Celt cents. The Saarbrnek Affair. Intensity of German Enthusiasm. DR. LIVINGSTONE THE !SILVER SPRAY DISASTER. . Additional Particulars—FUME-men r t _or the heetlud Clerk—Loss Eitimeted at (>le° 0.0. I From the Oinehmati Enquirer, Aug. 2.) The city was again shocked yesterday morn ing by the irr elligence of motile- disaster to her marine interests, and the tragic death of several of her well-known river men. The first news of the disaster was received about nine o'clock, and front that time till late in thilleven lug the greatest anxiety prevailed to learn the fate of those on board. The majority of the crew resided in either Cincinnati, Covington or Newport, and the fact; of course, con tributed in a no small degree to keep up the, feverish excitement which prevailed. The facts in the case, while being sorrowful enough, are not, we are pleased to say, as bad as at first reported. The ill-fated steamer Silver Spray was built at Brownsville, Penn., and finished at Pittsburgh in January, 1864. She was 155 feet long, 37 feet beam, 6 feet hold. and had a capacity of 650 tons. She was built by Captain Shuman and others, and received the machinery of the' old W. 7. Illaclay, with the exception of . -the boilers, ' .which were - put in new. She continued -in • the trade for over a. year with 'the old machinery but in. -1865;- as- it did-not ap pear to work well, it was removed, a new out fit being furnished from C. T. Dumont's shop in this city. When built her machinery con sisted of three boilers, 38 inches in diameter, 21; feet long, with two flues. She had two lever engines. with 17-inch cylinders, and five feet stroke. The machinery put. into her at Dumont's shop consisted of two lever engtrtes, - with cylinders 18 inches in diameter and 6 feet stroke. Her boilers were the same, wo be lieve,as firstput into her. By.inspeetors she was rated as B No. 2, and was worth at the time of the accident between $12,000 and $15,000: - .Attkr ifsing her for some time . she was sold by . her builders to Captain Penton and others,. and by them transferred to Captain John S. Patterson, who owned her at the time of the accident. The Silver Spray, under command of Captain John S. Patterson, her owner, and running under the auspic es of the Cincinnati and New _Orleans Packet Company, left here on What has proved to be her last trip, on Saturday night, July 9. She had a good cargo, and her downward trip proved to be a most successful one. - She left on herreturn trip on Monday, July 2:5, with a fair trip, and having the barge Monarch,well laden, in tow. She was in com mand of Capt. Jourdan, Capt. Patterson for some reason or other having returned to this city by rail. Her cargo and that of the barge ern braced between '2OO and 300 tons, and in cluded nearly 100 crates of crockery. The steamer passed Memphis on Sunday, and reached what is known. as Pacific Place, just thirty - Akve-nailes above_ihat city,shortly, -after. . midnight. It was at this point -the explosion .took'place. Mr. Singleton, second clerk of the boat, says that the explosion took place at precisely the time the watch was being changed, and -that in rrn instant - both - the boat and barge . wero en;: - veloped in flames. Nothing was left for those who werettot killed outright but to plunge into the river and make ler - land, the nearest point-of which was more than 300 - teet from the - burnin - steamer. The - dark, and this, togetheravith the intense ex citement whie - b prevailed, was the cause of so many lives being lost,*which undhr other cir cumstances might have been saved. Most of the books of the steamer were lost, and there is a tumor-current- that- Sii,ooo in currency -T which was in the safe, is also missing. How true this is, we are unable to state. The Spray; as we-have already - said, was valued at Sl 2,000, and was insured for $10;000. The-Insurance Companies will -not-probably be liable for the loss, they having a clause in all policies_ exempting- themselves from loss in all cases of explosion. The barge Monarch, which the Silver Spray had in tow, was valued at 54.000 and was insured for 53,000. This loss will uroliably have to be paid, and Capt. John Kyle, President of the Eureka Compa ny, signifies his intention of doing so at an early date. Immediately after the explosion both the Spray and barge floated down the river about two miles and grounded on a sand-bar, where they burned to the water's edge. They are both a complete loss. NIAGARA FALLS. Where the Cataract will be in 5,000 Year*. The beauty of mathematics will be apparent to the naked eye from calculations which. we find in Harper's Magazine. The writer has been to Niagara Falls, and he informs us as to some little matters which it is well to fully understand. '• As the fall recedes a little mote than a foot a year," says the contributor, " by examining the character of the rocks and the dip of the strata, we can predict the appearance which Niagara will present for 200 centuries, providing that in the meantime no change' takes place in the present order of nature. , Thus, in 5,000 years the main fall will be a little above the head of Goat Island ; _the Ainerican will ' have ' disappeared and Goat Island - will be an island no longer. The height of the fall will then be twenty feet less than it now is. !Another 5,000 years and the height of the fall will then be reduced by forty more feet, -In 10,000 more-years-the gorge will-have lengthened back to the head of therapids, and all that constitutes the present .Niagara will have diSappeared. There will he no great cataract ; but in its 'place a rapiwith a de scent of 250 feet in four miles." It may be well enough to discourage sensitive Americans re garding their greatest natural curiosity; but there are vast numbers who will exclaim of the person who worked out the- above, that they, are " cenfounded_mean.7 ..Suppose : the CalculationS are true; What is the use. - of making them, anyhow? ATTEmPTED MURDER. ]lfystGrloos Occurrence. I From the Middletown (N. X.) Press. 4 .1 Mr. , Ira DOrrance, Milted' States - Mail Agent, sends us. from Cochecton. the follow ing particulars of a mysterious and murderous occurrence which took place at Bethel, Sulli van county, on last Saturday night. Between eleven and twelve o'clock - on that night, Joseph Coit (formerly a driver of the Middle tovin and Monticello stage) was horribly cut and hacked with an axe, by some- party 'un known, and for what motive the - bloody as sault was made is a mystery. Colt was cut hadly about the face and back. lie was asleep at the time the murderous assault was made, in the house formerly oceupied by Thomas Aiklam. A servant girl was alarmed by the screams of Coit, and in her fright jumped out of the window and leaped from the stoop of the house, by which she was so much injured that she cannot live:: No clue has yet been obtained as to the party who com mitted-the assault, and it is hard to conjecture its object. Nothing is missing from the. house. Some suppose that robbery was intended, and that the noise made by Colt and the screams of the Woman caused the robber to beat a hasty retreat: 2leithe Got nor the woman:W•re. : ex , ' pected to liYO at the latest aecounts. Merchants' Insurance Company of Chicago. AGENCY AT ,PHILADELPHIA, August 4, 1870. —Editor Bulletin:' -We hen . ` leave to correct the report of the heavy loss of this Company by the recent fire in Peoria, 111. The Mer chants' only had $3,500 at risk on nll the pro perties destroyed. lf, however, their losshAd been as large as that iu the newspapers, it wOuht bate been cheerfully and 'Prohlptly met. The iiseetz of the Merchants' are Oyer $B7OOO. • OAI3INE, Duiads,'AgelttS. PRICE THREE CENTS. FACTS AND FANCIFEEL —Americans are HAld to be the test' wearers of gloves of any nation-in thew rld, -.—California's proudest boast just now is a four-legged chicken. —An Indiana miner is the 1 Vman to fall heir to 4ii0,1 00 In England. —They say Fanny Fern will stop - writing-- after this year; —Washington Trying's biography has ap peared in a German translation in &din. —A bear broke away from a menagerie at Kansas City - last - week; and made-it - warm - 10C - - the crowd. _ . —Two Indiana boys went gpaning, and ,oa.n seeing a rabbit, fired, and brought down Ilia companion. —Miss Likelike Kewaulteaseowalsanakakai reads the choir in the Kawalahoe Charon,. Sandwich Islands. —A Newark thief defied arrest byarminr with a bar of red-hot iron. The officers didtk't t : strike while that iron was hot. —A London newsboy has been ariested for; obtaining money under false _pretences . : ing "Death of th N e - Emperor apoleon." — , lanauschek'wEnglish is unwso tit3arly per-A feet that it is thought she willhave no further % use for the German, except to dance it. —Not long age somebody started a news— paper called The Eve of Mississippi. That eye.' is now closed in death. —A western paper thinks this a good year for lions—the circus kind, that chaw bands,, keepers and lemonade peddlers with healthy regularity. • —lt has been discovered that the war-maps now being published in the papers are made by putting cheese on a pine board and lettlag- , —Some workmen in tearing down a house in Jay county, India i ! a, :outlet $1,2701n. and silver. it is fe.tred there will not be another old house stauding in Jay . county in a week. —A Southern editor finds it necessary to re-• mind readUrsAliat the phrases " done-corne7- and " done gone" are more simply and ccir reedy expressed by the words "come" and:. "gone." —The last "mineral spring" has been dis— covered in Nevada, which throws-up ;pure.' chicken. soup. if the soap is not hotter than some boarding-house soup,' we don't blamc the.. spi ing for "throwing it up." —A Detroit lady who eloped. from her husband has returned, and, the papers say, is.' resting from her fatiguing journey, her bus-, band doing the housework. That man is a Christian. or a confounded fool. =Atmospheric. brakes are now in operation on several of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway cars. Trains on which ads. brake is used can be stopped almost in an in— stant. —That New Haven man who tixed - utra tab , in which to cool himself•ottin hiswellThaving, - , tested its contrivance, says he'll "clever coWd-- eil do hotly to Susped hibself - ciciwd a well !' m We suspect he's; not so,.well as he was. —The tobacco _monopoly' of the :Frone.hi Government pays well. fifty-six years,or - . ircim 1811 to )887, the net profits of the G tiverri=”! went Tobacco Establishment were about-- "ii 00,000,000, or ari average- yearly ,income Government of over 816,071,000. —The Elmira boys R=ho started : - tbir - 1351ti- More. in a slat; with three baskets - of - &rain pagne, ii keg of lager, a demijohn of whisky,. and a loaf of bread, have arrived there._ ; the.- loaf of bread was in a good state of preserva.- tion. —A Trenton paper mattes the improbable.. announcement that on a recent visit of tbo editor to the Capitol building, he found two.of the State officers reading the Bible. or course, no ono puts confidence in any , such,. statement. —A bottle of Rhine wine, corked and sealed,, and the glass globe of a lamp, still perfect, have been recovered from the wreck of the United States transport Housatonic sunk in. Charleston Harbor by a rebel torpedo during the war. —A Utica lady supposed she swallowed three false teeth, got sick, and just as she, of ready to die a neighbor's boyfound the. teeth in the backyard, whore she had a cough ing tit, when she recovered, without a coffin fit. —McKean Buchanan is up at Milwaukee playing Flomt't, and a paper there says: "I ea forced the impression at times upon ,) hist audience, that before them stood thorgal.; Ilqinlet." Those Milwaukee people, were always pretty easily forded.—Ex. ' —A passenger on the Albany train pat , hiso , heart out the window at Spuyten Duyvil. briti,ge, and when he took it in his head wasn't. on. He was the most surprisedest - Ma - it - yaw ever saw. His funeral occurred the next —X. Y. hoitocrot. , . —The Sons of Temperance, iu Trenton, J., - had a can 'of ice-water prepared for"-a... meeting on a recent bat evening. Somounre= generate member added a bottle of , sVhills7;l and they drank it all up. They never noticed, any annual taste till it was all gone._ —Smith looking over the garden fence Of Ws , friend Jones, Tate on aatiffday afternoon,'B - avr: Junes in the act of digging angle worms., "Jones," said he, "Lhepe yeu are not going, to break the Sabbath." "No," replied 'Jcines,' as he drew out a fat fellow, "I expect to make. a mlole day of it." —The Western papers, having,positively as sorted that Mr. Simmons vas killed by a mow- - ing machine, his bereaved widow comes . outia i card demanding a retraction, as : .'.` the. hanented Mr. S: met his deathWhile'rePairing; t hog-pen, and.f do 'not want 'a false impres— sion to go abroad." —A California editor has.been interviewing, a cinnamon bear. Ho describes the condaet, of the interviewed as touching in the warme r ~ so much so that he was constrained to leave. with him several locks 'of hair, his overcoat, and a portion of his right hand, as keepsakes„ in memory of the occasion. —A story is told, illustrating how fast'citieg are built up in the West, to the effect thab traveler laid down ou a vacant lot in'Chicago to sleep, and in the morning found himself w a cellar, with a five-story building built over him. Occasionally you will find an old fogy' who doubts that story. . ; —You have all read the affecting sto,rxabout, the Albany lady wh, has not spoken •to her husband in twenty years. , Well, the reason is, he has been dead just thationgth of tin:qv. It. seemed, all the timo since we read that Am,. as though there was some catch" in it, as no woman could stand it that long unles she hasp an impediment in her speeelL 7 N. —An Indian meal at Detroit consisted•o4 herring, a bolOgna, some crackers anti lan plc. After giving his • squaw and papooser a slice of bologna, Big. Dural rilnog the halal:lce. of the bologna into his mouth,. The, crackerg followed like:. lightning, • the. berri:ng weoti down bones nude% arid;-itallieliarvestaPpM went rattling .down his classio throat, , ‘tl7( leaped to his feet, ith a"• wheel)! Gittuno Cent—get lager beer!"' -It-is - said that the -King 'of- Sweden's brother Is in Chicago; and has been the d'fbr sometime, in needy eircutustance;. 5'. • b3l , son of Oscar I. and an actress by the name ot Boggvist, and a perfect picture of Carl He is not allowed to go into the Swedhsla. army, or in any public office, ou account of the Queen I)owager's hatred toward him. H eon be'seen at most times at 81 South 'Welk, in tbe emigrant, oitioe. 08,11.111-110 is IlSalmor . IfooviAt.
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