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Thefuneral will Mho place on fourth,day, the 10th instant, at 3 o, chair; from the residence of tier parents, lan. tIU3 Green street. 31 ITCIIELL .—On Saturday, A tigo4 Rh. 1870, Archi• bald Mitchell. Thr, male friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. Val Curates Ftreet, on Wednesday morning, the 10th instant, at 9 o'clock. . NFALLlS.—Stuldenly, on the 7th inatant, Mr. George in the 70th year of hie age. TLf.:._relatiietuindidends.oftbeinmilY_arD mot:cattily_ invited to attend the funeral, from hie late reatdei cc, Na. 1334 Lombard street, on Wednesday afternoon, the 10th Instant Funeral cervices at Salem M. E. Church, corner of Lombard and Juniper strecte, commencing preclaelv at 4 o'clock. :iCATTItROOO.I/.—On the 7th loot, Edward Garrett, sun of Thomas and Sarah G. ficattergo.l. aged 7 months. The interment will take place from the re-Hence of Ids gratidinother,--Abigail. S. - G , rrett, Upper Darby - . 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L' I . I:ENE LIABEET, Principal, Nazareth, North ampton 04 , unty, Pa. null ltn§ rriti E LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, SOITTH _1 Bethlehem. Pa. Term opens Sept. 1. Applicants examined August 29th and :an It. HENRY COPPEE, LL. D., Preiiriont. au?. Irm SPARAGUSAND PEAK—FIVEITUN dred eases Green Peas and Asparagus, for sale by _JOSEPH D. BUSSIEII & CO., IPS South Delaware _Avenue. THE FENIAN:PRISONERS. Gen. Grant in St. Louis. A mass-meeting of frishthen was field in St. 1.01145, on Thursday, to consider the pro priety of petitioning General Grant, on his arrival in that city; to pardon Generals O'Neil, Starr, Donnelly and others, now serving out terms of imprisonment for participation in the Fenian raid on Canada. There was a numer ous attendance. The following resolutions were offered and adopted : Resole:eV, That we, the Irish nationalists of St. Louis. i n mass-meeting assembled, do de sire, while. we unreservedly and emphatically condemn the suicidal policy of our imprisoned fellow-countrymen, thatled them to abuse the privileges and violate the,laws of this country, to express for them in their unhappy and hu miliating condition our brotherly sympathy and desire to ald them by all legitimate and honorable means in our power. , .pcsolreq, That it is the sense and desire of this meeting that in view Of the approaching visit of our President to this city, that we petition and pray him to extend to our mis-; guided but gallant countrymen, Gens. O'Neil, Starr and otherS, now suffering, in prison for their late violation of our neutrality laws, his Executive clemency, and to restore them once more to liberty and friends. Regolva!, That it Is the desire and. hope of the Irish nationalists here assembled that our many friends and' American sympathizers throughout the country with our cause will. oweml_us_tbeilL aid. _. and_ induo_nceinpc titiouing our Chief .Magistrate for the inter vention of his clemency in behalf of our im prisoned' countrymen. The following gentlemen were appointed to present "a petition to Gen. Grant when slated: The Hon. Nathan Cole, Mayor; . the Hon. Erastus Wells, M. C.; Judge Thos. J. Daily, Col. Alton R. Easton, Col. Ferdinand Meyer, Mr. M. W. Hogan, Mr. James Mcßride, Dan. ()'Madigan, /risk .21 7 eivs ; Capt. Peter Kelley, Capt. John Tobin, Capt. Richard T. Brophy .and - Vapt. Peter. Madden. " ' TUE •WAR IN EUROPE LETTER FROM PARIS. [Correspondence of the Phila. Erening Bulletin.) . Thelintentie Tuesdayjuly 2flth,lB7o.—As I antici tv pated in my last : the excitement of the past week, so far as Paris is concerned, has now entirely died away, and the French capital is now full only of dust, heat and emptinels. 'rho heat has been something-fearful, at , of a quality which is even worse to bear than its ~inteneity..._l _mean „its intolerable dryness. The sky looks like, that which hangs over a Sahara desert, so hopelessly would it be to expect one drop of moisture from its bronzed and fiery aspect. One might fanny, with the Welch Glendower, that the Heavens were about to be on tire, in order to chastise the wickedness of men for the atrocity of this-most unrighteous war. Hardships for the Soldiers—The Cause . • ' • • less Wiir. To look up to the sky gives one the sensa tion as though all springs were to be dried up and all things- creeping 'on the face of ' the earth were about to be condemned to die of thirst. God help the poor fellows who haVe soon got to make forced marches, and tight, and lie wounded perhaps for hours under this tropical sun, without-a drop of water to cool their: tongues.:. And for.-what :'-Because,-first, two Sovereigns and their two Governments have quarrelled about a " point of honor," and excited two-nations to take up their quar rel! 'A eandidateship :for - throne which hardly any one can be found to accept; eon. veisations, accider.tal meetings and fur/k/feu ! dos bet ween a punctilious old king and - an intrusive French Minister in the pub lic gardens of , a watering place: an imprudent telegram sent to a newspaper and dignified into an, official note and a. pre7 meditated afiront,—these are the paltry (-wises v% hid, are to eevastate the centre of Europe and add' the scourge of war and -slaughter to those of drought and scarcity. I persist in :alit:ming that this conflict is, on both sides, a scandal and a disgrace to, humanity and to Christianity, to civilization and to the nine teenth century.. • Ne_poleonin the Field. But to return to facts, or at least to the few that are still left us to chronicle or comment upon here, before the - grand drama _opens elsewhere. The Emperor is not yet gone, -fithi- , tigh f n gbie After'fourion of supplies for he imperial itat major and its - mess have been wisp:itched aloriithe line , to Nancy. Napo leon 1 l 1., like Napoleon 1., always " keeps his even.in_ field. - .the Prussiaits ever take his camp they Will find it. well gar. eished with silver plate. Napoleon, - L. drank his hot chocolate from a huge silver boWl even during the retreat from RasSia, when thousands of poor soldiers, the , sacrifice to . praile_..anffandfition r wero- -their—last -tied in the snow. Deliberate Preparations for the Conflict. Nothing denotes more the sense of the Mag iiitude of this conflict which is entertained by those who have brought it on than the delibera tiveness fill well - as extent of their prepare dons. The - Emperor is - evidently nelhurry to tiegimand desires first to have all ready and to leave all safe behind him. The Ofileid Jourfird of yesterday actually announced that measures were being taken to put the fortifi cations of Paris and the sue rounding forts in a state of defence ; and orders have been given to clear the ground for a certain distance be yond the walls. News Channels Closed. No stronger avowal could have been made of the perils' and possibilities which may lie ahead. The Ofilciel Journal has also at once ' shown that the prohibition to publish any in telligence whatever from the army is not in tended to be a dead letter, or to be allowed to be evaded in ally way. The 1' iguro and other newspapers having endeavored to cater to the public curiosity and impatience ,by giving a low details which are probably pnrely hypo thetical, have been at once warned to desist by the organ of the Government. We shall know nothing bere save by the official tele grams. Almost every one who hits attempted to go down the line to Metz or Strasbourg, with any view of gaining information, has found it necessary to come back as useless. Privateering. The Government has announced officially that no privateering will -be allowed, and that in all other respects, also, the principles laid down by the Congress of Paris in 1556 will be observed, even towards the vessels of Spain and the United States, although those nations did not adhere to the,declarations then made. The Chambers. The Chambers have been closed " by de m ee.,!.! not simply "adjourned,," as desired by the independent party. The differenceis that in the latter ease they could Meet again when they -In the former case, they can only meet when summoned by the crown. Napo leon 111. remembers, perhaps, the action oven of the subservient Senate in 1815, and does not wish to return to Paris after a defeat, should he meet with one, only to find his de position voted, The universal feeling, how ever, is that defeat would, in the present case, be equivalent to deposition. Volunteering. Volunteering goes on briskly, and it is alleged that 100,000 volunteers have been en rolled, which is quite possible among an excitable and militarypeople like the French. On the other hand, I know that the mobiliza tion of the reserve and garde mobile is telling cruelly upon the middle and industrial classes. Many small stores and establishments have been closed altogether, and the agricultural interests are suffering severely the loss of bands; which Were already scarce in the rural distrieta Napoleon's Proclamation. The Proclaniation of the Emperor has been published, and will have reached you. It is_ _specious and moderate in. language, and ap-. .pealsi of course, to:11 - eaven. , fps the___Justieci °I bis cause; But his preParations show that Napoleon 111., like his uncle, places his con fidence largely in liaVing .his side les Plus ffros , bala Mons. _ • The Etinperor keeps up•the Appeal to revo lutionary passions which I have bad occasion to notice as being made infavor of the war. Ho speaks, somewhat imprudently, perhaps, of the :parch of the French armies across kerope in the ':014 tevolution, 1870. and says that his flag represents now the Bathe principles ' and will call forth the same detotion. .I. agree with hirn in the latter expectation, so far as France is concerned. But :the - appeal will tell as much against him as for him; and will certainly rouse German enthusiasm to resist to the utmost French aggressilms like those which marked the beginning of the. present century'. The Foreign Circular. The tState paper published by the Dile do Grammant in the shape of a circular to his diplomatic agent abroad, is a remarkable docu ment, and deserves attention. The fact there alleged that M. - de - Thile pledged the - honor - Of Prussia, in 31arch, 1869, that the Hohenzollern candidature should not• be brought forward again, certainly demands an answer and an explanation. [By Cabß.] THE ATTIIIU DE -1, OF ENGLAND. England Itesoived, to Maintain the Neu trality of lielgium---No News From Either A rany-,-treneral Trochn Ordered toMetz---the Baltic hovel Expedition PILMII polled!. 1 . 0- NleoN,lB7o, .j. 30 A. M.—Glad stone's iiiincinucethent in the !louse that the `English Government had at last made a sp6- Otte proposition for Belgium's protecfion, is welcOmed with a sigh of relief and a feeling that England has once more vindicated her pysition as an European power. Disraeli only expressed the - general feeling of the' House when saying that.hee -.rejoiced that ,Govern went is resolKed to maintain the neutrality and independence of Belgiutn, and that he ac cepted the declar anion as the avowal of a wise and spirited_ policy, not. less_ wise because ew Ministerial statements," the Daili of the fide will say. " have been received with more general satisfaction. To their many claims to the confidence of the Crown and to the support of the' people, Government hay now adued another, which if it does not tran scend, at least equals, any which it was before. ,•i,titb ti to mge. - 4 !The sagacity; moderatioir, and - at - the - same time boldness of its foreign policy, present a strikibg contrast to the isolation which has been suggested on the one hand, and the inso lent and purposeless needdilug which has been practiced on the other." There is nothing from - either army up to 14 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning. (.4 I n. Troche, 'who was to have commanded the Baltic expeditionary corps, is gone to Died, atm the Baltic enterprise is indefinitely postponed. THE BATTLE -OF W EISSENBE Bing-11111Intri- Anxious fOr Action—The AiSsatilt out the French Outposts oudl.ts Results. Lozs I - Kr2s - , Aug. B.—A special correspondent writes from Mayence on Thursday: - This-el - ening xame a despatch from Weis- , senburg.. announcing- a If.russian victory and t be. o::cui:',ation of. V. eiesenburg. I have seen the oliicial despatch and obtained the follow ing additional details: ' The King, on his arrival at Mayence, called a council of war, and urged that Hie.sooner he v...N inacti vitv ceased the better, and pre-sid an advance. His opinion was adopted ~m 1 orders telegraphed to attach the French outposts in the neighborhood of Landau and NV elssenburg. A Prussian force composed of two line - regi ments, one regiment of Bavarian troops and ~ _ ,me artillery, together about 9,006 strong, .rove the French before them into Weissen burg. . Tli artillery was then bronglit..up_and cpened - on flieTortilications of the town. The. own soon caught fire. Seeing this and some confusion among the French troops, the Prus ,ians could no longer he restrained by their officers, who were anxious to reduce the town by cannonade. 1 he soldiers rushed forward. with the bayo net and surprised the French; who, not ex pecting an infantry attack for hours to come, were barricading and entrenching. The Prussians lost heavily, but,took eight hundred prisoners and the town. The greatest enthu -iasm prevails here, and there is an immense crowd about the palace waiting to cheer the King. The dime correspondent writes from May ence, Friday midnight: Half the prisoners taken at Weissenburg were first marched from the citadel to the railway. They put a good lace on the matter, and showed true French Ltaiety. The large crowd received them growing packages of tobacco and cigars to heir beaten foes. The soldiers all belonged to the Seventy-fourth - regiment of the hue. The officers were allowed to retain their swords, and will be paroled on reaching unieh. The other 400. taken at Weissen burg, went late last night to Erfurt. There %t ei e SQV in all. .As before, wine and cigars were catered by the Germans, but the French desired to pay for everything. The privates were tlisarmed, but kept their Steel bayonets, heaths and knapsacks. I personally know bat the French story of 25;000 Prussians at Sam-brut:lr is false. NAPOLEON'S INDECISION iiimanke's Opinion of toe Emperor of the French in his history of the Crimean war, Kinglake, the historian, maniftsts a remarkable hostility throughout the work to :Napoleon he gives the following summary on Napoleon'S uncer tainty of purpose : In general melt are prone to find out con sistency-in the acts of. rulers, and to. imagine ihatilinnUerfess acts, appearing to have dif ferent aspects, are the result of one steady design : but those who love truth better than s.Nminetry will be able to believe that much of the conduct of the French Emperor was rath er the eili:ct of clashing purposes than of du plicity. There are philosophers whO iniagtno that the human mind (corresponding in that respect m ith the brain) has a dual action, and that the singleness of purpose ob served in a decided man is the result of a close accord between the two engines of thought, anti not of actual unity. Certainly it would appear that the Emperor Louis :Napoleon, more than most men, was accustomed to lin ger in doubt between two conflicting plans, and to delay his final adoption of the one, and his final rejection of the other ' for as long a nine as possible, in order to find out what might be best to be ultimately done by carry ing on experiments for many months together with two rival schemes of action. If we accept this as a point of view from which to intimate the doubt and hesitation that Napoleon 111. has manifested since the commencement of the war, the matter, may be explained as a mental characteristic—other wise Napoleon is not usually the slave of an infirm purpose—then probably his enfeebled health and immense anxiety have led to hesi tation in his plans of action. Attitude of Italy and Austria. The WaAington Correspondent ofthe N; Y. . . . --- Tte - report - that - ItaltiS - Comingto - tlitnitd'a Francois distrusted by various persons who sympathise with the French cause, and they think the arming of troops under Victor Emmanuel is abut the first stop in-the -plane to seize Rome and overthrow the Pope. It is held by-our oil - 16418.05t if there is a secret treaty between France and Italy it must come to light in a few days. The French sympa. thisers do not feel hindlyloward Austria, .and Some of them strongly condemn the eflorts by .Napoleon 'a Ministers to win over that power. They saY big one paper in Aivtria oupports TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1870. the French bide, and profess to believe that Austrians Will soon abandon the pretence of neutrality and declare openly for the Prus-; sianFi. The French Minister, by order of his Government, formally asked the United States last week to issue a proclamation of neutrality, &c. Those in position to know something of the President's purposes think be will soon conclude tg du so, though ho said on Friday_ evening, jtat before'he left here, that be had not yet determined what course to pursue. Pinvoleores A bdication Thought Possible. The same correspondent says Those in the circle having access to the French - Legation seem to think that a mistake has been committed in calling together the 4:'9rPS _They.:say.it-can.do no gook-- and the speeches of those who oppoSe Na ooleon's,pose will excite the mob, and be likely to produce disorder, The abdication of Napoleon is one of the things thought to be possible. Opinion is very much divided as to what may or will be done by the French fleet, in the Baltic. Those who regard Napoleon as already about vanquished say the fleet is of no con quence, and can do nothing to help him in hibernergency. Some of the officials believe there is a friendly understandingof not an ac tual treaty, between France and Denmark, and argue that the fleet will soon begin opera tions with Elsinore ae abase, and u.solts,guns and th 6 nifty to forty thousand men it is re parti,d to carry so as to give the Prussians a great deal of trouble. 9M.olllvler's tnotlicial Statement—Far thrr 4 °laments of the London Press. - The - followingis the letter - of'DiiErnile 0111-r vier to a friend in England on the publication Of the proposed secret treaty between France and Prussia, which has been referred to in our .cable despatches: .P Ali I ti; duly 2G, 1870.-=-Mg.Dea - r . Friattcl : How could you belieye there was any truthin the treaty the Times has published ?- I assure you that the Cabinet of the 2d of January never negotiated or concluded anything of the kind with Prussia. I will even tell you that it has negotiated nothing at all with her. The only negotiations that have existed 'between us have been indi lief, confidential; Mid had Lord Clarendon for their int ermediary. Since Mr. Gladstone slightly raised the vall in one of his speeches, we may anew ourselves-to say that the object of those negotiations, so honorable to Lord Clarendon, was to assure the peade of Europe by a reciprocal disarmament. Yon Will admit that this does not much resemble the conduct of ministers who seek a pretext for war. You know the value I set upon the confi dence and friendship of the great English nation. The union of the two countries has always seemed to me the most essential condi tion of the- world's progress. And for that reason I earnestly-beg : 7 yod • to contradict all those false reports spread by persons who have interest in dividing as. Ilre - have no secret policy hidden behind our avowed pulley: Out policy is single, public, loyal, without afterthoughts tatrirms - peitsees; we do not belong to the-school of those who think force is superior to right ;-ive believeion the, contrary, that good right will always pre vail in the end ; and it is because the right is on-Cur side in the war - now beginning that, with the help of God, we reekon : upon vie- The War News to the Holy Clty-•lufal ltLlltty nun the httord—Santmosts to the hinighte liomE, July 16, 1870.—The shrill clarion of oar so suddenly and-startlingly sounded on %be Francoatru.ssianafrontier has not failed to prpdtice,a. thrilling effect upon the Court of 'tome, for the delays and difficulties that were foreseen - a fen days ago, with respect to the promulgation (tithe infallibility dogma, have vanished, as if by enchantment, and that cere mony is positively announced for Monday next, the 18th inst. No doubt Pius IX. bears in mind the old proverb;" Delays are dangerous," and resolves to carry his hardly won attributes into effect before the incalculable contingencies of war may render them mere abortive schemes. Two days ago a German prelate, the Bishop of Wurzburg, residing at the Austrian ecclesi astical establishment of the Anima, died of Roman fever in its most violent form, called nermceosa, together with his servant, after only eight hours illness. They had been talting a carriage airing in the cool of the evening after a sultry day, but on returning home.they were both seized with shiverings, then delirium, and finally death. With such examples, and the war news be fore them, it is not surprisibg that the fathers should be most urgent to complete the bust bees before them on the best terms that they can obtain, and then take flight as speedily as possible. -- A general s , ift,e peat is expected for Monday night and Tuesday morning.- On account of the suddenness of this wind up the splendor of the accompaniments of the ceremony will not be so great or complete as it' there bad been a little more time to prepare thi ut. The principal point of interest remain ing is to know how many and Which of the opponent bishops willremain to thunder out their eonphwet actually in the Pope's hearing. several haVe already left Rome, satisfied with their protest in the general congregation, and 1 lie government does not object to their going, Mindful of the 'ltalian proterb, " A pllllO WO O) ." • 4 l he Knights of Malta now in Rome are so few in namber that they do not suffice for a guard of ' honor ; so that this morning the Su perior of-the Order - telegraphed to--Naples for. ten .Knights of that priory to come to Rome directly to mount guard in the Council Hall on Monday morning. The latest despatches show that the Ger mans aro concentrating their attack on the already weakened French right wing, audrare determined to use up, if possible, the French eorps warm f'e. stationed originally at St. Avoid, General Frossard; conimanding, and at thtscho, General Do Failly commanding. There is no longer the least doubt that this niameuvre has been in a great measure suc cessful, from the fact that the French positions at Forbach, St. Avoid and Bitsche, have been carried by the Germans at the point of the bayonet, after very severe lighting, and with great loss in' killed' and ouneed to both sides, ending in a full retreat of the French forces, who left the victorious Germans not only in possession of the battle field, but who also lost many prisoners, the baggage and supply trains of two divisions, and other trophies of war. The French forces seem, however, to have retreated towards Metz. At or near Metz the main body of the French army is still in position, and no fight ing of importance has been done by the French left and German right wing,oxcepting the attack on Thionville: General MacM ahou has evidently succeeded in collecting his beaten forces at Saverne, in the rear of Strasbourg itridllaguenan, and on lni — railrond — liii - e — tO -Nancy, a view of joining the main army at Nancy. It is also said that the French were in full retreat on .Nancy arid Chaloui, and bad given up' their position at DI etz---a position selected by them selves on account= of its strength.. It is very possible, even• probable, that the French will take . n their net line of de fence behind t ie Mesle, with Nancy as the centre ; but that wofdd not at all necessitate the evacuation of.Metz, which is necessary to the defeuce . of that line.' A rumor that Stras bourg has or will , be - - - Lgiven up is also - to -be THE SECRET TREATY. . Atleetionate salutations from your sere ant, 184001 o.l,Livi ROHE. The Latest Situation doubted. Strasbourg is a strongly fortified rlace, and could easily be defended for months to conic by an army of not more than 30,000 men against one of 100,000 men. The Germans have no such force to .spare. for- the--purpose; and if they had would not employ it in that war. Strasbourg is undoubtedly an important place and the possession of it to either party is of great value, for it is not only a strong fortress, but the capital of the Alsace, and the possession of it is not only a military, but also a political and moral advantage ; but with all that the Germans will not be able to lay siege — nythe place and divert 160,000 men from. their operations in the field. The French_ are formidable - adversary, which will shortly become again most evident —for there is not only a great.battle preparing near Metz, or, perhaps, between that place and Nancy, but before the Germans get there they will have to do some more hard fighting in the passes of the 'Vosges Mountains., and, _if_ their victories continue to be bought so dearly and at such a heavy loss of men, they will want every man in the field, and cannot afford to bother with out of-the-way fortresses during this war. King William and his generals: seem to be fully - aware of the difficulties to. be , overcome; and certainly show no disposition to underrate their enemies the Freneh,for, it. is rumored. that they mean to move into France fully 800 - 000 met], including their armies now in the field. The German lines, thus far, begin at Stierck, opposite Thionville, and extend over St. 'Avoid, Bitsche, Worth, and Lutz to Flagenau. All these places are only a few miles each .distant_.front _the. frontier,.and- -although the war has thus been practically carried into France, it is still confined to the very frontier ; and speculating how long it will take the Germans to reach Paris, atlhis stage of the conflict, is entirely futile.. , JEFFERSON DAVIS. Some Pretty Severe Last Words”--Pol. lard Pitches into the “Great State - In an. " In the Baltimore American, Edward A. Pol lard, the historian of The Lost Cause," goes for .letlerson Davis-in the - following energetic style : BALTImont, August 6,1870.—1 t had been hoped that Jeilerson Davis would rest quietly in the grave dug by his own hands; But the spirit of undying vanity in this man has lately burstedthe confines of-a --tomb-that we sup posed to be inviolable, to roam the country, and to shock what remains of conscience and of a sense of proprietyin the South by maud lin recitations, and by reassurances of a con ceit that we had thought happily laid and si lenced in the lasit.obscure refuges of human failure and disglace. Think of•this man re cently_addressing_some-Suriday &boa/ chilfiren, eniphis, and forcing au occasion so puerile auffsimple to speak of himself as regarding_ " the ovation" (sr , in the newspapers) as done to him as a representative of Constitutional liberty;" think . of this man set more: recently sinking a romantic and theatrical attitude on top. of Lookout Mountain, and proclaiming there, in sight of disasters that his telly Oatised,' and where it had made a very monument of :graves, his memory smitten .by._ such. a scene, that -- " the SOuthern people had nothing to re gret in the past ;" think, yet further of this inan traveling out of his way to the Virginia spri t t 0.." lionize"- there—this man standing before his bacchanalian audience, the greatest murderer of his times, the Assassin of a country, clothed as with a garment in the wasted and-unrequited-blood of more than a hundred thousand of his countrymen, deliver ing this sentiment: " May your prosperity be as wide as your borders, and all your homes be peace ! ."' 4t. It is but seldom that men who have lost great causes in history have been satisfied to live on in the scenes of their former greatness, and amid the ruins they have precipitated on their country. A brave and decorous man is unwilling to suffer from such contrasts of his former condition, or to put himself in a posi tion to be constantly stung by the reproach 's of his countrymen. The dignity of exile has generally remained for those who have wrecked the hopes of their country ; and even where the law has suffered them to live on the theatre of their former career, the instincts of decency have led them to withdraw to foreign lands rather than remain in brazen insensibil ity to public indignation, or In conceited blind ness to the littleness into which they have fallen. The 'only possible explanation of this de praved braving of public sentiment is the un dying vanity of the man. It is that charac teristic vanity which Mr. Davis displayed during the whole war. The same wretched, lunatic conceit yet binds his eyes, keeps him a " superfluous laggard on the stage." and makes the poor tinselled wretch insensible of the vastness of the public contempt into which he has fallen. If Mr. Jefferson Davis was a man of sense he mig,ht see how far he was ruined and ties -1 ised in the Sbuth ; and if he was a man Of any dignity, sooner than have returned to a land which stands the living and reproachful witness of his folly and degradation, and be calling public attention to himself, as he is doing to-day, he would prefer to have died in the coldest embraces of a foreign country, the narrowest home of exile. Can he not know, realize that his career is finished, absolutely tinished on the face of this earth? It is the great man who knows when his career is en ded, when the last stake of fortune is gone, and nothing remains but the decency of death. Jefinrsou Davis may not avoid — notoriety ; this should cling to him; hut let hiM not.„nilatake attolnioA• which-he secures off his reappearance among' the wrecked fortunes of the South as fame. He conies back not as an apparition in heroic robes among the scenes of .former greatness ; not as a figure adorned with misfortune, and with kindly sorrow on his brow, the imper sonation of a lost cause ; there is no ghostly grandeur—it is the evil genius of the war come back to us with the putrid finger of decay, and the dead phosphorescent gleam of the tomb for lth ornament. If thus to draw public attention back to his shrunken greatness; if thus to torture the imagination that would willingly close its eyes on the past; if thus to revisit the land where the bones of tens of thousands of his countrymen, which lie had put under the harrow, have not yet mingled with the clay, and still stare from the shallow trenches of the battle-field—if this be fame, if this be greatness, it this be the honorable satisfaction of an exile, then was the return of Jofterson Davis to America a well-chosix one, and his present career ,, Of-self.exhibitiou,isoble: einployment ; otherwise, the black and darnna We stalk of an evil spirit back to the-seenea its iniquities and crimes. -•- The wretched man rests under a peculiar accumulation of guilt. Condemned in the North as ,a traitor, he is yet also condemned in the South even by these who would have been glad to have stood'' , fellow-traitor" with him; as the spoiler of the cause- he espoused-p and, holding_these - doubt& titleS to iniaMY, 9. 1 1. which hititory has given but few examples, he yet ventures to return to a country in no e.xtreniity of which be can go without some accusation to face or some reproaches to eis. counter. It is AO adventfire ,oither of ilisilao vanity or hardened insolence. —The reporter of a Salt Lake newspaper believes that he, has made himself famous by "interviewing" George Vran'eis Train. The dialogue occupies several Columns. Mx. Train; as usual, spoke a great deal withciAt anything: _ ... , _ PRICE THREE CENTS THE GREAT YACHT R4.03E. • Triumph of the Dingle at New l'Ork tee. terday. The Tribune says. • The Queen's Cup is not to be taken back to England by the Cambria. She made a gallant -eflort yesterday to reclaim it,' bat i t is not to be re-won with the ease and dash with vrhich it was taken in the ,memorable" contest of, nineteen years ago, when the result Was •an pounced in the open eonfession, Which seerned to do the British soul good:."First-the America-; second—not hing;" — lnto - the ra.c.t; - o yesterday the best yachts of the' New Yogr Club. entered with a spirit which was. 'cotriphl entary to - therrEnglislicontestant;: and tue. winner herself, though broken with long seri. vice in the war and with age, came forward to do her best to retain the trophy of her former victory. The Cambria had just :triumphed in along andelosely-contested race over one of the Swiftest schooners of the Nets York - Sq rid& ton and one of the must daring sailors ,of -the club.. There was reason, therefore,----for trusting the issue, and to put forth every 'ef fort on the part -of American yachtsmen to win the race and maintain their right., to , the cup. • „ _ . Propitions weather - and winds eombind with this strong spirit of rivalry to produce one 'of -the. quickest 'raced'`bit record. The win4:Ong yattit, the Magic ; made the run to and around the light-ship and therfce to the stake-boat in the Narrows in 3 • hours, 33 minutes, and 54 seconds. The America, which ensue in fourth, was fifteen minutes behind; while the Cambria,' marked eighth in the contest, was 27 minutes, I.3...seconda behind the winner. "Her late contestant, the Dauntless, was only one minute and twenty: three seconds behind. the Magic, and beat the qambria's time by twenty-tour minutes, forty seconds. The contest was spirited throughout, and-the Beene in the' bay picturesque beyond description. No-race of 'the' kind in - New -- York harbor has ever been witnessed by such DlllllbsrA as on steamers at sea and from the adjacent shores watched this international contest. • • I'ACTS_AND FANCIES. —Savannah liar eentNorth a half-grown gator, twelve feet long. —Peter Cartwright 7 is still able to preach oc casionally. —Soule of- tho North Carolina - pap - ers art) printed nith blue ink. —Miss Ingelow is writing a story for children, the scene of which is laid in Florida. —A young colored woman in Beloit, Wis.", has taken a - contract to paint a house. • . , —A Vermont lady found a .bigrattlesuake coiled under her pillow, one morning _, —Napoleon bragged so much about the little boy's baptism Of lire that it was quit& natural to . send him back to Font-ate-blow —Rondout (N. T.) young ladies are oreaniz,: ing a society tor the encouragement of loon who desire to marry: • -• young.ladies"- and-a pig havebeen: running a loot-racent Belvit. The pig -won", and the ladies lost their pork steaks. —A sweet Ohagirl xvent for her nialigner with a revolver, and lodged three balls in his corpus, before he could take it all back. —What with the chassepot andi-the leer and the baptism of fire, the French ar.uy cannot be said to be deticientin weepin's —As a good diet for young men who are practising of mornings to take - part in rowing races, we recommend the early rows potato. —A swimming school in Frankfort-on-the Main announcesiu English:.-geiwimming in— structions given by a teacher of botlfsexes.',_ —The Omen's Cup yacht • race proves the Dauntless to be the fastest vessel afloat. She was only beaten by Magic. —The Journal o.lll , lel's laments over the French defeat bound as if Napoleon had got, nothing by his attempted invasion of Prussia but some Pline Whine. —A New Orleans paper. has discovered that self-destruction implies a suspension of the love of life for the time, at least, during which the act of suicide is committed!' —The French enamellers guarantee "per manent beauty" for 500 francs. It takes a month, during which the patient "must iaot think of washing nor even blow her nose" —A resident of East Bridgewater, Mass:, finds apples on his trees roasted by the intense: heat of the sun, during the past few days, to the depth of half an inch! —The library of the British Museum now contains 1,000,000 volumes, and is doubling itself every fifteen years. it is overwhelming to think of the amount of trash accumulating. —A Frenchman offered a bet that Berlin would be captured before the llith inst. Fritz does not like being bantered, and pro poses preore rari (,Poi.l is French for bet, and sounds just like Paris!) —A newspaper philosopher says very truly, there are only, two classes who really enjoy the watering places—the rich who have cot rages of their own, arid the very healthy %rim can sleep anywhere and digest anything. —The rain which has been wanting in Eng land and France as well as in the United titates this summer, has all gone to Russia, Lai pt and Asia 3linor, where it ha's fallen in extraordinary amounts. —A female factory operative of Waterville, Me., died a short time since from the use of jute switches. Thu autopsy revealed the fact that the skull had been perforate by vermin, and the brain partially eaten away. —The story that an English capitalist is ne gotiating for the purchase of the Milwaukoo elevatorS --- arose4rom: the circumstance of - a. gentleman's dropping in at a restaurant- and asking for "'alt dozen hoister,s." —A dry-goods dealer in Michigan recently, invented a tire-escape, and, singular enough, Hite Dr. Guillotine, was himself the first to test its practical-utility ; but the result was note the. same, for it proved his savior. —A wild-cat attempted to rake a baby out of. itz; cradle in a cabin near Mankato, Mina, but' a little blackqutd-tan dog attacked' the cata mount, and fought it until the mother came in.. and drove the wild beast out with a brand of: tire. —A man and young lady in Chicago .quar— reled over the ownership of a small dorg,amt:. each seizing a leg nearly enforced King Solo mon's celebrated decision in the infant! ea4e,... when an officer arrestedi both. ll'dmvifi's ./...iteihi! has Salle law excluded women from the throne.or. France—' The Kingdom of France being, too.: noble to be governed by m'woturtm,' - eS it Said. Accordingly, the history of France , shows. our.; iong line of royal mistresses riving in sermet, for mischief; while More Zinglumd points to the reigns of Elizabeth Mad Anne and Victoria to show how usefully h*C./Illatl, may sit upon a throne." . . w—The Leader gives tho following aoranuat of a misfortune which it Asserts. hamlet, ed to a gentleman at -Long : .Branch the et/JET day:: Auioug the persons at Long Urancli is the family of Blank, aradical Baptist, of New Jersey. Mr. Blank says of himself that re cently, one morning, he took wtiat he thought was, a train for Now YOrk, but .whon he. Stopped be found himself in re crowd,.monding towards he knew ircit _whore. What was his pious amazement to beholeTt, soon. after he en, toted the groundS, a' group of pretty-looking.' horses running as fast p:s over they.coulclalong,. a round road. tine was'ahead of the rest, .an , the time was 1.80. ,no never was so surprised in' is life. It to.'ust hare licen the .r.9.9es;`„, Everybody coiyitiscrates: Mr, Bla _
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