. V i Ai___ L .. . a vk it . ...--_ t.l Viiiii _ . . . ir , ......; ~__...:.__:‘,.,..........._ _ ... . ,___,... _ a.. __.,...z.r.:14, 1 :,..7.,... __ _ _ I , , ti ____.___ . t) ________ _ _. . _ Ivy— • --- -±__---..- ,—_—_ _ Oil lyli 1 / 1 '"-r --. CI - 2:1g3'1";*. : .:' ~ _ ,---s-,;-. - - .‘ , .v.e. -- - - VOLUME XXIV.-NO. 101. I'IXED EARTH CLOETS ON ANY floor, in or out of doors, and PORTABLE EARTH COW' 8101 , ES, for use in bed-chambers and elsewhere. Are absolutely free from o mice. Earth illoset,Com 'any's office and salesroom a • WAL G. RHOA , No. 3221 Market street. ap22-tfi - - JOHNSON —On the Ltit inst., Sarah A, Johnson, aged Ei years,. lt he re qttiv es and friends of invited to attend the funeral, front her son's residsnce, 1522 Coates street. on a,onday afternoon, at 4 o'clock. Trr - prorred to Lau -atittirt • . K UGLE Lt.—Suddenly ,thie morning, Mrs. Eva Kugler, _Due noticayall_be_glvemof_the_f n nem'. * . ICHOLSON .—tho the •Ch Inst., Mrs. Jane NichoftToli, 'vile of James Nicholson, aged Al years. the relatives and friends of the family are respectfully ins lied to attend the Inborn!, I rout the residence of her husband. No. 1134 South Fifth street, on Monday atter. 110 toll. At 3 o'clock. To proceed to the Wharton Street Church Vault. NOItION.—On Thursday, August 4th, Charles F. limit-p r at Ids country residence. The I elativus and friends are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, front his late residence, 1521 arch titre- f. nn ru elnlny tn. rn inn. 9 111 inst., at 11l o'clock. "• PENINGTON.-.-On the nth inst., in .the 11 5th year of his Aso. Li, , u•Priont Lawreuco renington, late of the United States Navy, 1/1"4 u n do friends are invited to attend his funeral, on 31o»aar. A tiring Mb, at o'cl , •ck. from Ins lute reel t.2ls lit irtn.. ,, tr-it. W , •‘4l PtilntiolDhin , 4 00EYRE ARCH STREET, LAN YELL, Are ing their en-lotners with BLACK 'SILKS At Cold I"; Pzenalum. DUI It COD LIVER, OIL, CITE,A.TE Mitgneela.—JOHN U. BAKER & C0..713 Market et. SPECIAL NOTICES. ALL Sizes and Styles FINEST CLOTHING. JOHN WANAMAKER, 818 and 820 Ch - estnut St. Natatoriunt ami Physical Institute, BROAD Sirvet, below WALNUT &Lool for Loth seem and all ages. I'L PILE. lIECFAVED AT ALL TIMES iluad I.;(l,rsons tau Lt to Willl 1u from 6 to 10 EXTRA ANNOUNCEMENT Ota oh a!ter to-doy aea,fert ticket: , trill be reduced fifty ft, v..- rerit of to it 11114 1 , 4K.013 , that ohj*-ct to join ing, ti:c .t ti;tu ler elort,v4, =aka. arraugeuteuts for vtriclly prirav 1..-Pono "n terins. F.r forth 1 e4ll or addrees J. A. PAYNE & DEQ. MIEN= PH DELL 1-1 I A - AVG LTBT 1; 1,47 , 1. -C - .7 PIYOF. BENJAMIN It. MoCLfIRG, LEADE.II t LIBERTY aILYER CORNET BAND: Sir-16 e. the_ undersigned. appreciating year ciTt in behalf oft' e cithtens of Phllarlicipiiis and el tio::') in organizing for their RE.CREATION mid A M EN T the . celebraten NEW YORK BAY EX• ICLIti,ILN.n. to rider 3 tia_the compliment ef_ Excur, t op the Nov York Bay, stopping in New York City lootire. and passing Long to ranch on the trip. If tlii; twuld prove acceptable, you will name the day would best auk your convenience, and oblige tour rexpectfull Dircully, , Wm. D. Kendrick. W - -'- G-G. I T. Gill. John Trenwith, ! John F. Mooney, Ht hart Peitz.ohn h, Hill, E. V. . C.. Greene, ! J Lawrence Tobin. Shmut 1 P ,10111.0, John Viel4ll. 11 in. C Glllivgh nt, I Harry C. Selby, Richard Ellis, John Do Barger. Jetneii )leGough, Win. Me,zonigle, Thos. IdeLle% itt, t John SWeetlel, Clove. A. Porter, Charles Bell. %cm. Moocher. and others. PIiiLADKI.PIIIA, August ith, WO. 151, ro. , Win. F. lit:Cully, Esq., Gen. W. C. Baxter, 'Robert T Gilt, Eton., nen. John F. Mooney, Wm. D. liondnek. Esq.. and other, , , Gertit,nieu : Your communication 01 the let instant, teriderinq me the compliment of a NEW YORK BAY - EX( 1.111.b1 ON. has born received. I appreciate most heartily the kind sentiments embraced in your missive. and th.u.k you oincerely for It. 1 accept of the proffered offer, and will name MON• ItAY , August nol, 1570. Most respectfully yours, Itj BENJAMIN K. McCLURG. rob ON FREE EXHIBITION, At CIIARLE: , P. RASELTINE'S GALLERY .112-S CIIESTINFT STREET, Famous Pabortanic Viewe of Berlin, Potsdam, Cl.arlotteni•org. Ci•bleori lieidOberg, Wtilalur.Erf urt, Rms.R . aileci-Raderi.Wiee- Widen. Br uercln, Amt.terdare, Wa terloo, Liege Y grog, Rot terdam, Utrecht, gc. . . of the Berlin Ittromn, wilt interior kll'S a all the roOtiiSin the various royal palaces of Prubsia. Particular attention is drawn to the fact that lu a few s 100 'views on the Rhine, and its Fortifications, as Y.:ever before seen -will be exhibited. uus-2trp F.Us- OWARD HOSRITAI - NOS. 1518 and 1.5 a) Lombard street, Dispensary Department. —Medical treatment nd medicine furnished gratuitously o the poor RELIGIOUS NOTICES. SIXTH PRESBYTERIAN C H.QReH —Rev.,' B. Oookcy, Pastor, will preach at half past 1' A. M. and at 8 o'clock P. M. • It" FIRST PRESBYTERIANCHURCFI, wftAbiligton sqUesTe.—Noruing eery ice ditrinc thi ,, month. Hey, Wm. C. Cattell, D. D., Pre•Mtem f a ayet , will preach• It' Eu. REV. A. J. IiVICETT, I). D., WILL inn eh in the Arch Street ➢t. E. Church. Broad. hew Arch, ennday meriting, at 11Bi o'clock, "Strangers . tl% Bed. It' — ST. CLI XIE.I , IT'S CHURCH, TWE N. . tietla and Cherry streets.—Service (Choral) and f'.3erinon, to.morrow evening, at 8 o'clock. M this ser vice the seats will be free. autheSt* REV. R. C. 'MATLACK WILL preach at the Church of the Nativity to-morrow (Sundaj)---morning, and administer the communion. .Service at le 3.; o'clock. .1e 11L - . FIRST REFORMED CHURCH, corner Seventh and Spring Garden streets.— 'Bev. Thomas X (err, Pastor, will preach to-morrow, at Pr.; A. DI. 18 P. M. Strangers welcome. 10_ EVE 'ING SERVICE AT SPRING Garden Mall, N. W. corner Spring Garden and Thi.teentli streets, will be resumed to-morrow evening at o'clock. Sermon by entities Campbell. Subject •• ligion ; what it is." The morning service for the I.ord'a Supper and worship as must. It` VCALVARY PRESBYTERIAN elluich. Locust •Areet, above Fifteenth.—During this month the congregiv ions of the West Spruce Street :and of Calvary Presbyterian Churches will worship to gether in Calvary Church. Services at 103 i" A. H. Rev- _Thaddeus Wilson will preach to morrow, It' • cb UNION SERVICES-CENTRAL Presbyterian and Third Reformed Churches.— m e y C. NV ad ow orth,D . D., will preach to-morrow morn ing, hi the Central Presbyterian Church ( Eighth and Cherry streets), at 103 i o'clock. and in the Third aieformeil Church (Tenth and Filbert streets), in the evening at 8 o'clock. It' 10. OPEN AIR SERVICES thefl.llEPiCeli of the Young Meu's Uhr ciatiou, SABBATH AFTERNOON (D.Y. lowinp places: Secoral and South streets, 3 o'clock. Cemetery-Lane,: . Second street - , above York, Seventh and st. Mary streets; - Independence Square, Preaching b'y Ilev. T. A. FERNLEY. Gray's Ferry road and Bainbridge St., Nineteenth and Ridge avenue, Fourth and Bainbridge streets; by Hie Toying Men's Christian Association of the :First Presbyterian Church.-- - Jefferson Square. ..Tlroad. and Master etreete. 'Address by HENRY H. tiIiILLINGFORD, Esq., Broad and Aicb streets, Broad and Coates streets, Broad and - South. streets, Twenty-second and Federal streets, Almond street wharf, 7 o'clock. Emotion street, rear of Ninth and Bainb tat 735 o'clock. Wilder's Woods, below Germantown,4 0 Germantown avenue and Nicet own lane, West Philadelphia—Thirty-sixth au r•venUO.fß.. Ovi.vrsrille, 6 o'clock. THE WAR IN EUROPE The French Government Stops the Trans inhision of Ale , wes About the Weissen burg Defeat---It Rakes a Great Impres sion In !Kohloud French account of the Weissenburg defeat re ceived here up to 1 o'clock this morning. The • ' 1 correspondent of the Tritrulte in P. '. telegraphs that the official despatch is in Lis - possession, but permiasion - to telegraph - it is - re fused. The Prussian victory has made a great im pression here. The Daily News of the Gth will say : "henceforth we may look for an ex change of really hard blows. The French Emperor cannot afford,-under-present circum stances, to consult merely military interests in the movements he orders. The moral effect of this defeat at Weissenburg must, be wiped wit at whatever price it may be necessary to pay. It is understood that Marshal M acid alien, when the unexpected blow was struck, Was just returning from a long and se rious conference with the Emperor, having probably : carried away with him a plan of the • campaign.. -NV liether irent interfere with this plan or not, all that we know of the character of the French army bids na look for a serious attempt to avenge their deft at." • Lh OF THE SA ARBRIICK AFFAIR. X4l al bon e_ rrespondent._ Wltneftseii the wag'. meni— Ihe First Experiment Vi it is the 111 I traillense—A Prussian Battalion Breaks In Disorder. LorsPori, Thursday, Aug. 4, 1870.—The special correspondent of the Tribune with the Erenchltirces sends an account of the afrairat tSaarbruck. On the 2d inst., at BA. M., more t re ups mere 'expected at the railway station, Marshal Lelanuf had just passed toward Gen. Trossard's headquarters on the way to the heights of tiptelierun. A French officer gave our correspondent a place in his carriage. lie r. ached the adtanced posts as the men of the hall Regiment of the line were busy buckling en their knapsacks. 1 hey only knew that the order was " For 1N ord. - At 10 o'clock the videttes of Canoes brigade mere sent to the front, the infantry tidily advancing under'cover of the wood, T ; ITntiiti the road in parallel dines, artillery alai all descending the bill. On reaching the plain the infantry rapidly deployed, skirmish ,is mere thrown_well out, and the battalions t, ere massed. in the rear, additional artilltery oas ittaced in position on the heights. The - line then traversed the valley', fol tt ed by the battalions, and keeping the same , :i , tance. The heights on the other side of the talky,- which overtook Saarbncir,were reached ithout serious ofiposition. The artillery now opened fire at once, the Prussiani batteries on the other side of the river replying vigorously. The - division of lb-infra!' bataille Massed upon the road front T d eri:a' tcifiaarl:ruck, -moved--up ; and the-at tack-began-in earnest.- At 12 - o'clock the , Ern : .eror arrived, and the cannonade- was brisk ;tit along the line. A Prussian battery at the • utrance of a wood - near the village of Arneval, hutting the French tire too hot, limbered up :tad moved to the rear, 'while a battalion of t' tit-shin infantry retired at the same time in ,;cud Order by way of-the-Saar. On this battalibn the first experiment was c.atie with lititrailkiism and with decided ef ii:ct. for the battalion. was soon: broken, and disappeared in disorder behind the nearest cover. At two o'clock the French aga n ad vanced, and the ground just held by the Prus sians wilx occupied without further - resistance.: E eteand therewere_ lying_ a few Prus.siaus dead and many wounded. There was cannon lig toward Saarlouis, during the engage• went. but it gradually gtegq„weidier• - A nothsv correspondent writes from Metz, (.11 the ei-ening of the 2d, that the French had ti killed and 1 - I0 wounded. The Prussian loss is not known; it is reckoned at 250. In a train with the correspondent from Saarbruck, there came 14 prisoners, and among them a son of the ex Urand Chamberlain of the Duke of Nassau. A staff officer, sent by the Emperor, arrived from Forbach to question the prisoaers, and with orders that they shall be kindly treated. At nine o'clock, strong columns of infantry, n ith cavalry and artillery, leaving Spikren, took a position between the village of Arne val, the Bahlberg, and the slopes of Saarbruck. This movement was sustained on the left in trent of Forbach by the First Division of the Second Corps; other divisions supporting the right; the whole body numbering 25,000 men. The Sixty seventh Regiment, form ing the head of the column of the Second Division, opened lire in skirmishing order on the enemy, who were very well posted in the upper-part of the valley. When the French hail deployed the struggle was brief. Within twenty minutes the Prussian infantry was in toll retreat. The enemy's artillery, posted at the edge of the wood lu the rear of Saarbruck., opened on the French troops, who advanced under its lire and established several batteries on the heights above the Saar. The cannonade then stretched along the en tire line from Ludwigwald, a mile and a half to the right 60 Saarbruck, to the extremity of she Surest of Arneval... In Like rear of the vil lage of the same name, firing continued with violence until half-past twelve. The eneiny' tire gradually diminished, and their forces fell hack. The French advancing, picked up two Mead and seven wounded men. During the action the bridges over the Saar wire blown up. The French are now repair i I,g them alio Prussian forces numbered n r boo.. There - was a sharp .canuopade heard toward the village of GroSsblittersdOrf, which was occupied by the Third Division. he lino Millions toted iu Parliament teppomed by one—Bright Fayorm a Re benne Attitude. Lorinori, Friday, Aug. s.—lt is believed that there was strong opposition in the Cabi net to proposing the credit of two millions re cently voted, and that LorVe resisted it, from unwillingness to part with his surplus, so vo l.. mently that one moment he talked of re signing. Bright, so far as able to share in Goveriiruent councils, has approved a reso lute policy. The story that England has presented an ul timatum to France and Prussia respecting Belgium was generally discredited in the House, and was considered to be finally ex ploded by Gladstone's answer. TUE NEIUTRAL POWERS. A Special Mission oDenmark---Only Taco esseis of the Frauds .Fleet at Copeck iksit en— the Press of Denmark Against A rat minty. Loisnox. Friday, Aug. 5, 1870.—The special correspondent of the Tribune writes from Co penhagen, on Sunday (31st), that the Marquis of Cadore was expected daily on a special mission and with instructions for the French fleet. Only'two French vessels were yet there —the. Thetis and .the Flandre. The Danish press is almost unanimous to the effect France can have Denmark's assistance if UNDER iatian Aeao• ot the fol- 4 o'clock Railroads and Their Mtaidons.-The Distance from Point to_Po►nt. The following are the stations and distances on the principal German and French railroads which intersect the seat of the present Europ ean war. The Rhenish Railroad runs in a northwesterly direction along the left bank of the Rhine from Bingerbrueck at the mouth of the Nahe River to Cologne, having a length of ninety-five mile.s. The following , are the principal stations on the railway and their distances from the starting-point : Bingerbrueck, Bacharach, 8 miles ; Ober- Wesel, 12! miles ; St.Goar, 161 miles; Bopard, 2'3 miles; Cappelkin, 35 miles; Cobleutz, ZrB,i o'l o'clock. 5 o'clock ridge streete, 'clock. 434 o'clock. baccoster SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1870. . miles; Neuwied, 461 miles; Andernach, 49 miles; Brohl, 53.1 miles ?.Breissig, 56 miles; Singzig, 591 miles , Remagen, 611 miles; Rolandseek, 66 miles ; 68; miles ; Godesbeig, 70 miles •, Bonn, 741 miles ; Boisdorf, 78 miles; Seehtem, 821 miles ; Bruebli 85 miles; Cologne, 95 miles. From Neunkirehen in Rhenish Prussia east stations and diStances are:—Ritis ers lanten in Rhenish-Bavaria, 29 miles ; Neu- ••• ; Worms, 81 tulles. The railroad from Germer _skim to Spires, in Rhenish-Bavaria, near the Milne, is 7 - miles in length. From Frankfort on-the-Main, south, along the Main-Neckar Railroad, the stations and distances are as fol lows : armstadt, miles; Z wingenberg, 20; miles; Auerbach, 28 miles: Benshhelm,3o miles; 11 cyperiliiini, 33 miles; 'Weinheim, 391 iniies Friemriclifeld,4B miles; Manheim, in Baden, ; miles. From Kehl, in Baden, on the Rhine, opposite Strasbourg, the railroad stations, to the east, with their distances are liark.2; miles.; Eegelshurst, 4 mites; Appen wr imer (junction), 7 miles.. From lilanheim iu Baden, reltith- along . the s Baden Railroad running nearly parallel with the Rhine, the principal stations 'and their distances are • 11 •miles; • Langenbruken, 261 miles; Bruchsal, 32} miles; Carlsruhe 46 miles ; Ettlingen, 503 miles; Muggen strum, 56 miles; Rastadt, 61 miles; Oos 1 : 6 3 miles; Buell, 09 miles; Achern 79 ruile4,; Renchen, .83 miles ; Appenweier (junction), 86; miles; Ofienhurg, 92' miles; Friburg, 131 miles; Basle, Switzerland, 170 ' miles: - : From Stuttgart,in - Wurtemberg,north- - west, the station:4mA distance's are : L udwigs burg, 9; miles • Bietigheim, 15 miles; Mueh leeker, 29 miles ; Maulbronn, 3.31 miles ; Bretten .39; miles • Bruehsal in Baden, 49 . /4-run Tans , northeast the- stations and their distances are,;; Rheims, 991 miles; Charlerille, 153; miles ; thence southeast—Se (lan, Ms miles ; Monti:Deity, 201; wiles ; -Lun en\ on, 214! miles; Thionville, France, 2413 miles , From Paris, east, the stations and their dis latices are : Nancy, T2O miles; thence, north, 0, Metz, 244; miles; thence, east, to St-Avoid, :r751 miles; Forbach (France), 287; miles. } rum Paris, east again, the stations and dis tances are : Luneville, 240 miles ; Avrtcourt, intik ; Sarrebourg, 2681 miles; Sarerne, miles ; Strasbourg (France), 3121 miles. From Strasbourg, across the Rhine, to Kehl, he distance is 12i miles. 4 he &Mtn:tents of Frenchmen Toward the Prussians of Para,. I From the Courier des EMt5111.11.3,1/j.." Figaro.") In the last few days Paris is traMdigurated. This Paris of revolts, this ris-of June and .1 annary, this troubled, divided Paris, lace !tiled by numberless factrons, has suddenly and as by enchantment bt:eonie, that which it always was-in the. greate'st crises of our his t try, the soul of France the aus-ance Guard iiJ ttie Nation. At the tint alarm cry all those small guar : do , have subsided, the hostile Cortex "have ad journed their bitterest disputes,—there has ten a iiational truce of hostilities, and all hearts have joined in the unanimous cry " Fatherland is in danger And the mother - basgiven hei sons, the ife her husband, the citizens their money, old men haVe offered their feeble assistance, 0 /mien their brave hands and indefatigable ,:elotion. Belleville has fraternized with the l'oulevard Montmartre and Chassee d'Antin. '1 he Church has blessed this national arma let tit: Eight centuries have passed since this li,ystic call, " God wills it." The West has sun against the East. Ty-day the Ntr hole of Lunithatell _France rises_at the nationals.peal, Honor wills it." For it is an old act.- tint we_are_going to settlethe final li •i -,.ation of Leipsic and Jena. This war whic. -ets the four corners of the universe i u a fever is rather a war of races than of principles. It is the old Gallic blood which revolts against he German blood. Therefore we hope that the battle will localize itself between the bel ligerent nations, and that other nations may emain attentive but neutrabif not indifferent, witnesses of this inevitable duel. France has no hatred. Its pride has received utlicient legitimate satisfaction to be able to rive to its opponents the alms of disdain. But Prussia remembers bloody injuries. To her, Leipsic has not been the revenge of Jena. Wood alone can blot out the hatred which diterior humiliations may have put asleep, nut have not strangled. This profound, in eterate, indestructible hatred is inherent in lie soil. One feels it floating in the air. In a romance animated by the purest breath .1 patriotism in the production,entitled "Prus •tan Terror in Frankfort in 1866," Alexander l)inas has marvelously depicted the feeling ith which the dwellers on the bank of the Tree are tilled : It is," says he " a sort ofmonomania, most which troubles the limpid spirit. One 'toes not more readily become a popular Min .ster in Berlin than by promising, sooner or titer, that war with .France will be declared. One is no poet except' when one writes or has written against France a lampoon styled, 'Le Ithiu, Leipsic, or Waterloo." These poetical hallucinations have in these iast days conic within the domain of reality. Even before the declaration of war had otfi tally sanctioned hostile acts, French women nt the streets of Berlin have been subjected to he most odious outrages, and our country uen were driven to the frontiers at the point of the bayonet. It seems that in view of the savage manifes ations there should be in the French heart nly one unanimous feeling of disgust and a iolent desire of vengeance. And still we nave found in our Chambers men, who repu diating all patriotit3 'deaf to die voice of national honor, have 'Cynically pro tested against our respectable and legitimate -usceptibiltties. 'These Prussians of France, these emigrants n our midst, these allies of the future Gerinan mpire, all those who voluntarily have severed themselves from the, mother country to open The doors to foreign invasion, all those who would turn the national war to the profit of the civil war—all those we repudiate as not belonging to our family ; and we nail for tver the fratricidal names to the pillory of publicity. . Let all of them be cursed in the towns and iu the country! May the doors of castles, houses and huts be shut to them, and may they find an asylum only in that cursed Prussia, the country of their adoption and predi lection. AN INIPORIANT QUESTION. Is Prussia Liberal? [From the Boston Commercial Bulletin.] It may be as well, in the present state of popular interest in the Frauco-Pruss an war, to inquire how much there is in the a-sertion echoed through a largeproportion of the press, I bat Prussia is a liberal power. History does not he. Our predilections for one side or the other may be warm. But we must not ignore or falsify the lesson it teaches. Is Prussia the - t hampiqn- of—liberalism—of—Europe—What— ever may be the prejudices against France, history shows that, in the true sense of the word, Prussia has never been liberal, and is 1 . not now liberal. Was it not Prussia that deluged Europe in war to, wrest Silesia away from Itus tria, in order to make the Silesian a nation of slaves? Was it nbt Prussia that was the chief villain in the tragedy. of Poland partitioned? Was not Prussia the first to let loose her dogs. of war upon that great uprising for liberty, the French Revolution, and the last tQ cal them off? Prussia has never once fought for freedom; she has never once championedthe cause of an oppressed people. she has to this day persistently kept down thei rising spirit of independence within her own territory. But she has a hundred tithes fou ,, lit for conquest, for greed, to secure 'her royal race, to make despotism permanent. Neither is the calm of Prussia that of a united Germa ey Prussia has absorbed Germany, not Germa Prussia. William I. is the modern pe rsonation of the diVine right of kings, and hates republicanism with all the stubborn hatred of his haughty nature, and,, Bismarck,' sii - falTriiiiiheing the conciliator of the people, is the promptest and most dogged foe of the piiptilar_witant.___When_meraelLias_P_rust-_ sin is'the liberal apostle of continental nations, we cannot forget that she is still 'a relentless • I yraut- over unhappy .Poland ; • that she still sisisOil coercing Schleswig-holstein to obey her will; that. S e has throttled Hanover, ant has greedily grasped Fr elskfort. Tl:eyehlira ane Nassau ; that she still assumes to govern with arbitrary power and the prowess of her arms, not only her own people, but tbomeands- of people who detest her, and whose liberties she has filched without rhyme or reason. WH7 DID THEY WEEP? The Prince's Tranquilit3r. . , The :Star - the following •on a no* famous cable despatch : • • thrilling announcement of Napoleon to: the Empress about the scene at Saaroruck, when the little Prince Imperial picked up the bullets which fell around him, to use as al ley-tors," and all the s oldiers " wept at his tranquility," raises a question in psychology which has not been.equalled in interest since the men.orable discussion which once arose upon a passage of Holy Writ: We arelold in the Book of Exodus, that Jacob, on his first-meeting with his bride, " Kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept." Now, the firubleni is, " Why did he weep?"—and the NVhbleyange.of, solutions,whethethe enter , tainmeut had not proved to be what he ex pected, whether he was overwhelmed with grist that a thing so delectable had been, at So late a period of his life, for the first time experienced, whether he was only putting forth a tearful appeal for another Installment of the same, etc., etc., sr e are willing to leave to the careful and 7candid reflections of the reader. But the ques tion before us is one, of more recent and mere practical interest. Why did those gray-beards weep at the little Pram() 8 tranquility? Were they sorry that the ball the young cub picked up hadn't hit him? Had they been rejoicing at their victory, and on suddenly coming upon the Man and the Boy, in whose special behalf they were, shedding their Hood, d id the crying arise from a sud deneffort to "laugh on 'the other side of the mouth?" Was it done by platoon, and be canse it had made a part of the "order of the day ?" -These suggestions are proffered in modesty not as conclusive.; but only as contributory to a t.atikiictory solution. The great question stillremainS—Why did they weep? Another View of-It. The Newark Courier has the following arti cle upon the same subject:.. :FIAT -- NOISLE T.OI ! Rise him for hid mothei."—Bruant Cash Bianca, whose imperturbability "on the burning deck" enrolled him as the most famous of tender-aged heroes,• has stood a long while without a playinate in his little niche in the big temple of Fame. It is a lonely place for a small boy, and the company he has to keep are all so old and ugly, besides being such tremendous fellows! Yesterday, Master Casa was about the only young gentleman that i.oetryand history thought well enough to their heads about, at least so far as to hand down his baptismal name. " * Louis. the only and darling son of Mr. and rs. Louis ti. Bonaparte, the Atlantic tele raph announces to America, " has smelled powder" at Saarbruck, and in the words of his in papa, " was admirably c 0 , , ,/ and little im pressed." * * * * Of course this boy baptized is now a child of fame. Now let Mr. Abbott sharpen his pen arid do up the precious Imperial II infant for diver Optic's magazine or the Young Folks' tionthly. Let him picture for the youth of America the scene at Saarbruek ; tell them how Master Louis, on his two foot high Shet land pony, with his tin sword drawn and riash ieg in the sun, dashed up to the front where lie cruel bullets stormed, and there, in sight of two big, armies coolly picked up one of those deadly missiles from off the battle-field, put it safely in his breeches pocket, slapped his little hand ou it, winked his eye, and then rode away at his papa's heels. If this incident moved the whole French army to weep, think of the oceans of juvenile tears that Abbott and only Abbott can bid gush. Let 'Pm gush, as Mr. Ward, under the circumstances, would have said. Our lads have had too long a cry over Casa Bianca. It's time they had something fresh. ft's . here in the person of Lu. Bona parte, who, bid by his stern parent, rode right to the front, where the Millets (fallen ones) were as thick as chestnuts after a shower. Let there he peace now. If Napoleon the Third w ent to battle to get a bit of warlike prestige for his son, it's '‘ arove." When Billy Tell was doomed to die Or shoot the pippin oft his baby's head, He said: ' Hold your mouth, shut your eyes, Or I might shoot you dead.'" DIbTRESSINbi OECUIIRENCE. Heroism of a Boy—lle :Attempts to Rescue, a Lady from Drownims and Both are Drowned. A melancholy accident, invols big the death ( , 1: nvo persons - by -drowning.. under circuttn ,tances of a peculiarly distressing nature, oc- Lured at Rye Lake, Westchester county, ew York, a day or twosince. ft appears that a party of young people residing in the neighborhood had been enjoying a picnic in an adjacent grove, where innocence clasped hands with mirth and every eye sparkled with childish joy. During the afternoon a little group, consist ing of a young lady named Bart, aged about floteen, with a younger .sister; Jacob Roach, aged fourteen. also with a youthful sister, ,eparated themselves unobservedly from their companions and sauntered to the edge of the lake. While there Miss Hart incautiously at teninted to stand upon a large stone, from u lirch she slipped and fell into the water, which at that point is thirty feet deem With out a moments hesitation young Roach, who was an excellent swimmer, heroically sprang into the lake to rescue his companion, and twice the brav e boy succeeded in bring ing her to the surface, but failing to find any thing to which he could cling, and becoming exhausted with his almost lifeless burden, the two sank together and were drowned. Some, men who were working in a field on the op posite side of the lake, and witnessed the gal lant efforts of the boy to save Miss Hart, reached the spot in a boat shortly afterward, in the hope of affording assistance,, succeeded in recovering the bodies, which--were buried in One graVe - on; the - followi rig ; (.14y... The he role boy, who-perfitted while ;attempting to save the life of bbi companion, was the - only son of a Widowed mother. ' --A )roung lady in Tennessee has at last - had her persevera.nce, in looking under her bed each niaht, rewarded by finding a negro con cealed there. Bewas interviewed by her re latives and messed ha his checks. —A London journal advertises a-" fairy air pillow, wbicb weighs buttwo ounces, and when marinated pan be isacked in a note en velope ; also a pookot life-preserver, weighing, three ounces" —An old lady in frennesseo, hearing of the European war; i ls'burying her valuables. Bb.© feats another visit from tho Yanks. THE RIAUSEIL WILISE :AT THE GRAND =3:l The Beene of Ho Fir.t Public Singing We translate from an enthusiaStic Part/- reporter : Those who were present at the impromptu national spectacle last t,i ,ht is the Opera House will not forget it. —Tho-piece--was-i'lleeevr but-the-atteitti of the public was hardly directed to the work ..f..,Aubet.. It was known that the " Marseil wculd be given for the asking, and the ..udience only awaited the most appropriate :eornent to call for it. It was in the second act that the cry went up from every breast. The patriotic duo - had just been encored ; "Amour sacre de la pa trie," sung with infinite heart and energy by Villaret and Devoyod. "The •MarSeillaise '1" was heard from every part of the house. The manager made his appearance. " Gen tlemen," said he; " obedient • to your desire, . . . . . we; have the honor to announce that Mme. sass will sing the Marseillaise' for the finale . of the third act." How long the beautiful ballet of the Dumb Girl appeared to the auditory! The whole crowd panted with impatience. Finally; " Masaniello' 2 -sent np his-great cry for vengeance; the populace rushed back, brandishing their weapons ; the tocsin sound ed. Breaking through the crowd, the ample _ .tatric . •figure:or the. cane appeared, draped the white pepluth, and waving the tri-colored banner. Au immense "brava" prevented her commencing for at least five minutes. "To your feet, gentleinen,7' cried a voice from the paiqUet ; and every Where, in the fauteuils and boxes, up to the dome, men and women rose up. A general silence followed. Marie :Sass intoned the national hymn. What a. wonderful artist!! How the soul of a nation's revolt against a pitiless adversary seemed to pass together into her blupd! A thrill passed over ttit. b9u;•e. whf,44 with her superb voice she gave out that savage apos trophe of the refrain : • .‘ March on! It is craven blood must "fertilize the land !" The enthusiasm became indescribable; the' e ntire house, men and women, took up iu uni son the terrible and magnificent chorus. In one box" Emile de U-irardin was shouting, " Vive l'arniee!" He seemed sorry that he could not for this ones change the author's pen for a tetioes voice to play his part in the scene, We believe we heard the voices of -- M. Maurice Richard (Minister of Fine Arts) and 31. Haussibann (ex-Prefect: wedded in a patliotic duet. The Duke, and Duchess de 3101/chy thought no longer of the endearments . of the honeymoon in their box . : their, eves were if:jilted up. with„patriutism. ,The, war lever swelled all these bosoms, and love of country arose in every heart. And dowers, clowns tied with tricolored ribbons, fell at the feet of the transfigured singer, who was, for that occasion, the heroic Muse of Warlike France. LOUIS KOS VTLI An Interview with Him inttis Retire• Some months ago. says the Boston ,hoovia/, the Boston Lyceum Burcau comailsNioued a celebrated lecturer to travel through Europe tintil be KOsf-tithi - ann - , - as it was re pi,rted that he was poor, to of - 1017_11'm a series - 4 4 lucrative &rig ageinent with" lyeiFutn4 t nited States. We are permitted to quote trim an interesting letter just received from the gentleman referred to, dated Geneva, .Itilv 18: "With nerves still quivering from the dizzy Alpine cliffs over which the Lieuis Railway has just launched me here from Italy, I hasten to report the execution of the commission Nr Lich you entrusted tome. * * * In a re tired quarter in the royally-forsaken city of Tulin, piazza Cavour, over an hum wine tavern, I found the lonely Magyar—a sedate, rather dignified-looking gentleman of apparently-sixty years of age,w hose demeanor, though grave, exhibited much affability and courtesy. •I When I had laid your proposition before im, and conveyed an assurance of the delight hich his acceptance of it would afThrd the republic, he expressed his deep regret that it %%as beyond his power to entertain it, averring hat he had retired entirely from public life and was now a recluse from worldly affairs '1 o.tbis, as a rejoinder, in order to remove any impression that a visit, such as was proposed to America, would involve his ifiterfereuce in or contact with political matters, I described to him the character and organization of American lyceums, and the work done by the Boston Lyceum Bureau for them, showing t hat the discourse you desired from him would require only his views upon some social or lit erary topic, apart from the atmosphere of pol itics altogeth'-r. I added likewise, that while gratifying and instructing others, it would scarcely fail to be a subject of intense interest to him to have an opportunity of comparing the America of his day with that of the ',res t ht, and of - observing what twenty years could do in the Great Republic. "He then warmed in conversation, and said : ' I dislike giving you a cold negative, Ltd lam not the man I was ; I have had heavy domestic afflictions; I want nerve, and as for addressing a number of people, I have almost forgotten - what 4:fuhlic --- srieaking was Imn in truth a chahgling. Were Ito go any where, it would be to America. 'But,' he added, why want me? Are you not a nation of orators' "'But,' I said, none, Signor Kossuth, such as con.' . . I then touched upon the delicate ground of pecuniary consuleratious, and he immedi ately observed : 1 have very little money, but 1 have very kw wants and I am enntent.- " ' Will nothing move you, Signiar?' said. "' I repeat,' he added, ' were - I to go any where it would be to the grandest country in the world, your America ; but I think, from the sample before me, you can do without Kos suth. Oh! spare my blushes! but I am a faithful witness, and he had to pay a compli ment in return for mine. "The upshot, however, was his emphatic determination to speak in public no more unless duty to his own country demanded it. He regnested me to say, however, that he felt, highly flattered by the invitation and grateful for the consideration regarding his ciretuu stances.l —A letter from Foochow says they are ex hibiting a Chinese criminal in - a wooden cage. where he will stand until death. He is about twenty years of age. His crime is kidnapping children. Ile stands in .he cage with nis head through a hole in the top, his toes barely touching the ' flooring. Thousands - gather around - him every daylaiighing and - jecrilig at him ; there he stands with his ankles , chained together and his hands tied behind him Some one hadimt a few bits of broken bricks in the cagei•and at - titnes - he would try, by standing tiptoes on one foot, to bring the broken brlcks,together with the tither, as he could raise himself up a little, and ease the weight from his neck, He.made rather poor vivtikk of it. as hecould,notsee. the pieces, ands had to direct his movements by the: sense of, • touch _ only. His sufferings must •be. great, as. he has been standing more thansiiventy hours.' Another man that was caged up the same Way lived abottt six days. • dress for the concert-room—Organ-di. muslin with fluted flounces. PRICE THREE CEN T S. FACTS AND FANCIES. —Mrs. Charles Dickens has been seriously ill since her husband's death. —A Pittsburgh female was lately scalped in a row with three others. Within the last ten . years Nova Scotia Las produced nearly $4,000,000 worth of gold. atrimony is said to have cured Jenny —Worrell-of-stuttering:— —A Terre Haute (Ind.) Judge has given a roan a divorce on account of his wife'S.horri hle profanity. —Pittsburgh's modesty is . offended.by scores of men who practice pulling in wherries on the river every evening, innooentof costume. —'ihe Charleston (Ill.),Courier says a‘young lady of that place as been celebrating her wooden wedding by marrying a blockhead: —Violet ink is used altogether., for love let-. tem, because it fades out so beautifully, mat leaves no sign. • - —The rush to the Yo-Semite Valley this year is unusually large.. Already more - than tratelers have gone thither. —Louisa Mithiliach has just., completed. novel which she calls "Eugenie, or the Mis tress and' Empreas." Shakeup;" the "Alaska Re rigerat or," and the " Alps let:bolt," are newly invented summer drinks. —A physiological teacher having put up in his clitsg4bino the device; Men. snna in corpore miio, one of his'young - lady ptipils*rote under it, wnl ivernien's —A young somnambulist recently, in the Imtbor of Provinoetown, Mass., leaped ov'er board, was rescued, and only awoke after safely reaching tbe Meek. —A dwarf woman, nineteen years of age, wets recently deserted by the Side Showman of a circus, in Kansas,- and would have starred onl3 for the kindness of the people. -Tnb Fithian had engaged to tray her $25 per month. —A Western _editor, denioralized by the brat. says that at ninety-eight degrees in the afternoon the thermometer indicated twenty e minutes past two o'clock. The mercury rail the editor were both on time. —The U9•ei727.wie, ti German ;iierary organ, rays that Dickens's "Pickwick _Tapers' Vliatheipated the German mind from the ore i.:tmitiating influence - of French fiction, and bad a most powerful and healthy influence on (.4t rthan literature.' -A Virginia editor wrote something - about Lis "Alma Mater," and the eddpositor set It " audn-water." --The,: funeral oi'-tho--cona positor was quite largely attended by hill brother printers. TIM editor hds been ex . ou crated. —A physician residing at Camphelltowni- - - t - steithen-county, having been duly assessed, as _ he upposed. as a "physician " and standing early to cheerfully pay the tax which should 01 to Slvell the national treaSury and decrease t lie national-debtifound hard been rated aid taxed as a' " butcher." - . —An artist :of an illustrated paper called upoh Superintendent Jourdan, of-New York, and requested permission to "sketch" the inuiderer of Mr Nathuu. The Superinten- , dent informed the gentleman ho w:ould be bappy to ateounnudatk him, but at present it 1 - 1 - power - to do so. —The London Daily Neivs,in speaking of the litallerollB summons notices to; lierunitas in England - Th - 04e to mintary• duty at home, says ;1;u the documents resemble a Bank of -Eng land note,atal that the penalty for not respond ; ug loss_of_property_aud eittzemship,and Mee 3 ears' penal servitude it afterward can 'lit wit hi fi - thelimi ts - o f-ttre-eitiffito. —The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor says : " Colonel Boudinot, of the Cherokee Nation, has in training a splendid elk, which he pro poses to exhibit at the State Fair in this city, in tieptember next, and will enter it against the fastest horses in trials of speed. We may calculate upon an exhibition of fast time that will far eclipse the greatest record of Bonner's famous Dexter" —it will be an intense relief to newspaper readers on this side of the Atlantic, says the Cleveland Leader, to know that the Emperor has finally started by specialtrain for the front of the army. The announcement that he was going was a great thing at first, but by con slant daily repetition for two weeks or more it grew very tiresome. —A good story is told of a clergyman resi ding at Calais, Me. In the kindness of his heart the reverend gentleman invited a foot; man to get into his wagon and ride. The clerical gentleman asked his companion "if he was prepared to die," whereupon the latter leaped from the wagon and tied to a place of safety, doubtless considering the gnestion synon moos with " Your money or your lift !" —A young woman of lowa valked a distance of forty miles last week to have hef:iitlftreated7: for tbothache.' her lover hearing that she had' left borne suddenly, and believing that she had eloped with a rival, instantly set out in pursuit. After traveling, thirty miles . he encountered her returning alone. In the staid ise and pleasure of the moment, he for got his heartache and she forgot her toothache. —Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has two broth ers, named Moore, who bear such a remarka ble resemblance to each other that the law oil 11.1'S recently failed to discover "which was which." One of them was "wanted" On a charge (.1 abandonment, and the officer arrested the v% meg wan. Whet.' brought before the much ife she scrutinized him closely, and ,uuld not .be certain. thatit was _not_ her Lind until he . - - -The widow of Marshal Niel, although in perfectly good circumstances, exercises a most despicable parsimony. The correspondent of a Vienna paper says that one day lately, in walking about the city, she noticed some superb ruses in full bloom in the window of a coacierite. " Will you sell them to me?" she asked.' Even a concierge is sometimes subject to tits of gallantry Mingled with patriotism. - No, Madame," was the reply; "but I e ail ' be proud if you will accept them as a preBent from me." The lady graciously accepted the gift, and the honest concierge carried the dowers to her house with her own hands. Whereupon, this gentle lady thanked him, and, taking out her purse, °tiered him the magnificent sum of two copper sous; at the same time saying to the Adjutant of the late.' lslarshal, who was standing near her, "One ic.t do something for such people!" Beside other large sources of revenue, she had but jest received an additional annual penSion of 12,000 francs. —The Colony of Victoria in Australia has 'LIN fitly commenced the exportation of a new Art He of merchandise, viz.: leeches. The leeches found in the River Murray have quali ties which render them formidable rivals of t :•peckleti leech of Northern Europe. They hitt. freely, do not stick too tight, and do their office in such a workmanlike way that no in flammatory wouridjs on_the_patient's skin. These advantages have been duly appreciated, and in the Murray district as much care is taken to preserve the leeches as in Norfolk to preserve partridges. Not satisfied with sup plyingthe little blood-suckers - to Colonial-suf— ferers, the - leech-farmers have recently ven tured upon sending a consignment of them to England. They were packed in soft clay taken. from the bed of their native river and have ar l . rived safe and sound atter their long journey in &straw appetite, doubtless. and eager tip, strike a vein. It is a historical fact that fcng land has bled her colonies by wholesale for nturies past, but this, is believi3d, te bathe . :* list instance on record where one-or them has attempted to retaliate by phlebotOmizing the mother cautery.
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