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Killed by a Fall
'The Buffalo Courier of the ath says that
'the residents in the neighborhood of the inter
beetion of Canal and Commercial streets,
'Butlitlo, were quite startled Saturday evening,
:about half-past eight o'clock, by the sudden
crash of a falling wooden awning over the
grout of Diebold s store. Upon repairing . to
the spot they found the body of,,a man- lying
in the midst of the wreck, who,' upon exam
ination, proved to be quite dead. :It seems
that a man named Thomas Hines, a boatman
Arho lived in Rome, while in an intoxicated
condition, fell asleep on the window-sill of the
Large brick building over Diebold's store,_ . and
'while in this unconscious state, felt ont; - alight- -
Ing On the awning as above stated.. The force
*with which he struck must have been great,
is the awning was completely shattered; and
the unfortunate man was instantly *killed
Mimes was a young man, but we are unable to
$1311 , y whether married or single.
—A California paper says: "Rufus Long, a
Xnonte doaler, cut . his wind-pipe with a razor
:it Ely. There was a woman at the bottom. 7
:it must have been a mighty big wind-pitie, or
t small woman at the bottom of it.—Ex.
—M. Albert Wolf, ono of the most brilliant
'writers on the staff of the Paris Figaro, is a
:Prussian, and has retired to Interlachen, until
alle AVM' shall be over.
THE WAR IN EUROPE
Napoleon and! tile Prince Imperial Ems:
Ong Paris•.-The Secret Treaty—iluz.
sling the Press—ltegeney oft ue Empress;
roepsßioldlng.
Florreftpfindence-ofther-Phihr:ETrninc-Bullettnl
PARIS, Friday, July / , /,1870.—The Emperor
and the Prince Imperial; with Print , : Na
poleon, left St. Cloud yesterday - morning at 10
o'clock for Metz, where their arrival Ims been
since announced and a proclamation pub
lii-hed to the army. The party did not pass
through Paris or along the Boulevards7tlS - is
expected, but took the circular railroad and
avoided the town. The consequence was that
there were no popular demonstrations, and we
missed the curious spectacle of a Napoleon
111. and a Bonaparte being conducted through
the streets of his Capital by his faithful sub
jects singing the iffir,seillaiBe ! It is' very for
tiiriatelhat thepeOrile Or the 02.* gait kiioic
only the first verse of the famous revolutionary
hctnn. Some or the following stanzas contain
allusions which are hardly suited to royal or
imperial cars. In the public recitations which
hav'e taken Place at the theatres and else_
where - , - all - suelloflensive-expressions-as those
which relate to the death of kings and other
t 3 rants have, of course, peen carefully ex
p;: aged.
SIS
The publication of the Franco-Prussian
treaty has made a prodigiiins noise here ; and
though no one believes that the document is
absolutely authentic in the sense that it was
drawn up and approved by both governments
as the accepted basis of future action, vet
most people do suspect and believe that there
is "something in it:'' anti that some such
arrangements entered Into those "imirvatiei,"
the ./o?m,u/ Offieie/ itself admits to have '
taken place Laween the two governments.
In fact,._ people suspect that these two big
bullies would hate been only too glad to patch
up their own differences and come to an
understanding between themselves, at the
xpense of their smaller neighbors, if they
--enrild only egret= aboutl'ernts.--Tinfwe-oreTstill
in the dark on the subject, and especially with
_r-gard to the main-point-of whether the .pro--
pr,s(d contlition in the- draft treaty came
from France or Prussia._
Who is Guilty.
Chestnut
St.
France says they emanated from. Bismarck
l-imself." But front Berlin-it is asserted that
ILe document which has been published is in
lic hand-writing of M. Benedetti. The latter
Minister is said to . be already disarace for
not hating sooner made known to . the Due de
(tram - int Bre despatch which he (Benedetti:
himself wroteto Nr: de La Valette, in March,
1-s4i9. and on-which-the Dnke !having found it
out himself) bases hisalki: -- gation that Prussia
-it that time pledged her word of honor never
t o sanction the-candidature of Prince Leopold-
If. in addition to the above /ap,us, 3r. .Rene
torti has so far committed himself and hisgov
ernment as to reduce to writing, in his own
let al. such a document as the one in question,
and then allow it to get out of his possession.
it must be confessed that French diplomacy
has been sadly at fault.
The newspaper; here are furious at being
muzzled." The Fiyaro publishes sensation
articles headed " The Law of Silence." full of
abuse of K. 011ivier, his new press-law and his
circulars to the law officers of the Crown call
ing on them to enforce it strictly. A great
many other journals are protesting vehemently
against the -ame measures, and some are for
combining together to publish no news from
the frontier at all, either official or unofficial,
and to take no notice either of defeat or vic
tories.
Ib:WS to be furnished by the Govern
ment certainly promises to be meagre enough.
There is to be a news-oftice opened at the
Ministry of the Interior. Each of the Paris
journals is r• invited" to " accredit one of its
staff to this °dice, which "will he open from 8
A. M. till midnight." and will communicate
" all the official news" as it arrives. Will it
communicate "all" the news which arrives ?
I have great doubts myself of the fact, and so
apparently have the journals and the public.
But, at any rate, by this means a beautiful
" uniformity" of intelligence will be secured,
and the public mind will not be harassed by
contradictory statements'
The state of siege has been Ileelaretl in the
Departments (Atli° Moselle and the Haut and
II:is-Rhin, and woe be to the unfortunate
news-monger who shall henceforth be caught
in those parts " without a pass from Roderic
He must stand the chance, or meeting
with rough treatment.
The Empress, as you will 1E0;1' learnt, is ap
pointed Regent, to act according to instruc.
ions entered in the Book of State, iu accord
ance with the Napoleonic traditions of the
First Empire. Before leaving, the Emperor
wrote to the National Guard of Paris to say
that be " trusted to its patriotism and devotion
o maintain order in the capital, and watch
over the safety of the Einpre." I suspect
the patriotism and devotion" spoken of will
'l.:Tend largely upon the tidings to be published
hy the news-office at the Ministry of the Inte
rior. The opinion is universal that Napoleon
lights for his crown.
The news of the evacuation of Rome by the
French troops is spoken of as authentic by
the semi-official press, but is not yet confirmed
in: the official journals. The ultramontane
and religious journals are furious at the sup
'position. Theyni»ces says that "all Catholics
will be deeply wounded," and that to entrust
Rome to the Italian ,government is a "detesta
ble mockery." threatens, France
with the direct vengeance of Heaven if she
sacrifices Rome to Italy. Many persons here
helieVe that'as soon as ever the French troops
have quitted Rome Garibaldi will appear once
•• more upon the scene of, his former exploits.
Skirmishing.
It would be useless for me to repeat here the
aecounts of the two or three petty encounters
• and affairs between advanced posts of which
you will have already beard. But all present
' intelligence goes to show that some time
„will
most probably yet elapse before anything Se
rious takes place. The Prussians are said to
have almost disappeared from the frontier,
LETTER MORI PARIS.
The Secret Treaty.
Ylozzling• the Pre
Scanty News
JR.* geney of the Empress
The Evacuation of Rome
I.IIIJESDAY, AUGUST 11,1870.
and are evidently not disposed to be the at
tacking party. The French array will have to
go in search of them ; and to cross such a
river aS the Rhine and traverse such a country
as that between Coblentz and Mayenee, and
advance into the very jaws of the German
qUadrilaterah are not operations to he done in
Ths first battalions of the fiord(' mf,bile
mare_bed_to_thosailway station..4:e4crday_urt_
their way for the camp of Chalons, where they
are to he_ massed arid exercised; They are
composed chiefly of young men (Fut of stores
and offices. Their brand new uniforms sat
very awkwardly upon them, and they had a
very undisciplined and, I thought, not very
willing look. Wheitenrolled they were taught,
to look upon the duties required from them as
" mere matter of form," and now they sud
denly find them converted into a very unpleas
ant reality.
. [By Cablp.)
THE' LIIPEBIAL IMBECILE.
Napoleon Blind to Him own. Incompeteu
. IN Determined to Benda (lie
loinniond.in.elbler of the Army.
LoNpo.X, Wednesday, August 10—Evening.
—The latest " oilicial 4 despatch, dated Metz,
August 9, evening, states that the Emperor
went that morning to the headquarters of
Marshal Bazaine, who resumed command of
the troops -" concentrated-at - Metz,'-' -This- is
an indirect way of contradicting 'the rumor
that Marshal Bazaine was to be made Gene
ralissimo of the whole Army of the Rhine.
• The Emperor is blind. to his own incom
petency, and, disregarding the, i r iatversalbut,
try against it. will cling to the chief command
of the army until another defeat exhausts the
national patience. He gives out that he never
will return to Paris alive, unless as a eon
lierer.—TrilM/te.
The New Minimtry.
Another despatch from the same source
says:
"The incoming Ministyy is immeasurably
worse than the outgoing. Its appointment is
a reckless defiance to public opinion, and I do
not believe it will laiit a., week unless a great
victory should be gained by the French.which
is not at all upon the cards. This population
is in no moodlo be rifled by the Cassaignae
and Jerome David clique, and the garrison of
Paris is not strong enough and not united
oiough to put down any popular rising.
The National Guard, as they sit - at the
tables in front ofthacafes, say openly_that_all
he Generals who have brought France to her
present state, and above all the General-Com
manditig-in-Chief, Must be changed. Accord 7
isg to the latest news the Emperor has riot re
signed hithself to giving up the pernicious
ultimata' against which all France clamors."
illy Man..]
The -Latest Appeci. of Affairs.
Order prevails in Paris, and - the people are
cviiicntly becoming more-amtmore united in
, lefence of their country. The fact, however,
!hat the Prince Imperial has been sent to
Lr,nri n, and`that tire - Empress's - - jewels have
been sent with him, betrays the distrust of the
Intmc which eNisls in the inner Imperial cir
les. 5? - ,
As an indication of the unanimity which
prevails iu Paris in regard to the prosecution
~f the war, it is worth while to notice that
Deputy E eratry, one of the most inflexible of
all the "Irreconcilables,” has brought forward
a proposition in the C;0,7,s Lc!ris./dhf feir
an ox
traordinary levy— of troops. It would
I.robably he as much as any- Deputy's
life was worth to propose the relin
quishment of the struggle at this stage.
The asi.iitaiiCeS which Lave reacted us from
one or two bitterly prejudiced sources, that
this war was unpopular in France, are put to
confusion almost every hour by the news
ss hich comes from Pans. The Provinces as
well as the capital are overflowing with en-
Ihusiasm. Everywhere the people are crying,
irus b, Prusse—a very easy thing tb cry,
idit a very difficult thing to accomplish.
Position and P.trength of the French
Forces at the scene of Hostilities.
The Coiritrice dp.l Ems r),;:t of yesterday
, iontained a, special despatch from its Paris
..orrespondent, 'dated 'the tith inst., in which
The following report is male: Gen. Fr2ssard's
'corps has entirely rallied under the walls of
Metz. Contrary to the reports of the enemy
Failly's corps has not been engaged, but
is also within the entrenched camp of Metz.
fly the addition of the Third Corps under
;en. de Caen. Gen. Bazaine has now under
Lis immediate orders at Metz. 150,1100 men.
The Eighth Corps, or Imperial Guard, is i'
clielion from Meiz to Nancy, while at Nancy
there is part of the Fourth Corps under Gen.
Ladmirault. Marshal MacMahon has at
Saverne, where he was instructed to stop, the
remains of the First and Seventh Corps, num
bering about 50,000 men. The Sixth Corps,
under Marshal Canrobert, has arrived at
!liiilons ready to enter the -theatre of hostili
ties. All these form an army of 330,0011 men,
, NehlSiVe of the Garde Mobile, which has
commenced to enter Lorraine. ,'Phis report is
xeeedingly reassuring under the circum-
-lances.
Victor llttroa on the War and 'Woman's
Duty.
Victor Hugo has addressed • the ladies of
Guernsey as follows:.
Lad : Again some , men have condemned a
part of the human race to death, and a desper
ate war has commenced. This is neither a war
f liberty or of duty, but a war of caprice.
Two peoples are about to destroy each other
tor the pleasure - of :two prince.s . .7While thinkers
are perfecting civilization, kings are perfect
dig war. This will be a, frightful one. Some
are annimmced—a gun that will
kill 12men : a cannon that will kill 1,000. It
is no longer the pure and free waters of the
great Alps that. are to How in torrents into the
Phine, but human blood. Mothers, sisters,
daughters, wives, shall weep. Von are all
about to go in mourning; some because of
their own troubles ; the rest because of the
misfortunes of the others.
Ladies—what carnage ! what a conflict must
follow the meeting of these, unfortunate com
batants ! Allow me to address you a prayer.
Since the ignorant forget that they are brothers,
be their sisters : come to their aid, and make
lint. All the old linen of our houses which is of
no use can save the lives of the wounded.ft
be fine to have all the women of this island
employed in this fraternal work: it will be a
glorious example - and a great benefit. Men ilo
evil ; let you women supply the remedy ; and
since on this earth there are had angels, let_
you be the good ones. If you resolve to do so,
and commence, in a short time you will have
a considerable quantity of lint. We shall then
make two equal parts, and shall send one to
France and the other to Prussia.
An African Changarnier Asks for a Cow-
mission.
I From the London Times.l
. The. French papers state that the Emir Abd
el-Kad6r has addressed the following letter to
the Minister of War: "Praise be to God. To
the very valiant Marshal of France, Minister
of War: Excellency—We have learnt 'by the
voice of fame that France is about to make
her powder speak. against her enemies, the
Prussians (whotn may God,. confound); and
that your,very powerful Emperor Napoleon
ill. (upon ' - whom may Heaven • shower its
bounties) has. determined to place in the front
ranks of his bravo soldiers the sons of French
Africa,
, who has fought against • the 'French
would be.the last of believers if he did .not in
this coming war place himself at the service
of his adopted country ; his tried sabre claims
the honor of being among the first to march
p,l{
against the Prussians. The Emir Abri-el-
Kader, therefore, begs your Excellency to lay
his humble petition at the foot of the glorious
throne of Napoleon 111. (to whom may God
grant victory.). From the servant of God,
Abd-el:Kader, Ben Maid 114.cigp Brous.sa, 6
Radii et Mani of the year of the ...gira,.1237:" .
The French Regeney...Napoleou'rt
De
cree Appointing the Empress Regent.
The following is the text of the decree of the
Emperor, conferring on the Empress the title
-Equi-pPWere-of-Regent-: ..„
"Napoleon, by the Grace of God and the na
tional will, Emp . eror of the French, to all
whom these presents may concern, greeting:
Wishing to give to our well-beloved consort,
the ElClffesN, a proof of the confidence which
we have in her; and having the.intention to
place ourselves at the bead of the army, we•
have resolved to confer, and do hereby-. confer
on the Empress the title of Regent. to exer
cise the functions of that charge as
soon as we shall have left our • capital, in con
formity with our instructions and orders, as
we shall have given them in the general direc
tions of the service which we shall have es
tablished, and which will be transcribed on
the book of the State. Our intention is to
,communicate to our Ministers the said orders
andinstructions,.and that in no case the • Em
press can depart from their rigor, in the exer
cise of her functions of Regent. We destre
that the Empress shall preside in our name
over the Council of M inisters. We do not, how
ever, intent! thatt he Emmess-Regent shall au
thorize by b e r signature the promulgation ofany
law other than those now pending before the
- Senate, the :Legislative - M(ly, and the Council
of State, referring ou that subject to the orders
and instructions above-mentioned ; we order
our Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice
and Public Worship, to communicate .the pre
sent letters-patent .to - the Senate, which will
inscribe them on its hooks, and publish them
in the /iv ertii t ac s Lois.
Given at the Palace of the Ttiileries, this Mad
day of July. 1870.NAtso.E0s.
Countersigned] EMI I. E Gt.t.tvir.n,
Minister of Justice.
THE PRINSIAN RING
A Monarch of M en---4 Magnificent Front.
[From the London Times.]
There was a gleam of helmeted heads and
plumes and of orders and uniforms around the
Queen as the train passed on, acrd sonic) said,
There is the King," and others said, It is
the CroWn Prince . ," but the glimpse was
iratasieut.-and the clouds of dust, which fol
lowed in our track on:this most dusty of rail
roads put all in eclipse. In another libur or
so we wen in Berlin, and emerged into streets
with meal ill plain clothesprOen - eilirig iu
some sort of military order, with small
escorts of soldierty, to the railway station.
Many of these wore decorations medals,
t•i bands and en , sses—which spoke of service in
i s 3ehleswig-Holstein and in Bohemia. They
were sober, orderly - men, quiet, unexcited,.
and perhaps all the more anximisto. fight--- hard - to end
been called away so suddenly from hearth and
home—men mostly •of twenty-live and -- up
t‘ rads, several in each band belonging ap
parently to the well-to-do bouefroisie or better
dass of artisans. Large cavalcades of horses
in better spirits were led off in fours in the
111 E. (11TeCtiOD.
Detachments of troops were passing all.day
down the Lime-tree walk, and at fi o'clock the
King drove through the streets to the station
in a Prussian tirosky, and was received with
uncovered heads and a buzzing sort of sup
pressed cheer as he passed. He " looked every
inch a king," plumed and helmeted in strictest
',Mier tunic—a real of the days
when kings led sunjects to battle. What a tine
ohl head and front it !
Ihestarrrp_ofilmparator i.. them already,-
and it would not surprise one very much to
h•arn that in an hour of stress that old man,
NN ith his piercing blue eye and ,ipeu brow,and
line lip, curved under his massive white
moustache, would cut the Gordian knot of a
eonstitution with a swift, sure sword. Cer
tainly he is not the sort of man one would like
to worry fy)ront popti/o in a watering-lace.
And then he has a faith: he believes," and
be is sure that. H 4 in whom he believes has
placed his cause beyond the reach of human
harm.
It is observed. »evertheles,;, that the King
is not in his usual joyous spirits. He speaks
with devout confidence, and trusts in the
justice of his quarrel ; but his Majesty is grave.
The Crown Prince, too. seems, it is said, to
feel the influence of the tremendous events
which are impending, and surely if the designs
of Prussia were warlike the royal family can
not have regarded them with favor or have
lru•iicipated in the desire for a conflict which
'.roses them so much anxiety. although they
do not express any apprehensions as to the
ultimate result.
National Union—Trent "Beyond the
The Kifig of Prussia issued the following
proclamation July 27, evening:
lin theoccasion of the approaching struggle
for the honor and independence of Germany,
I have received from the communes, the cor
p,,ratimis and private uerSons of all classes of
he Fatherland, and from all the circles of its
children, even from beyond the seas, so large
a numher of_nianitstations uf devotedness
I hat. I feel compelled to proclaim loudly that
Accord, and to add my thanks and the
:-sui allot?, that I respond to that fidelity of my
4.; vrinan people by my unalterable steadfast
ness. The love for the common country. the
unanimous ulyriing of the German races and
of its princes, has set aside and reconciled all
,liilerences and discord. Germany, more
cited than ever, will tind that factas in
righter • gliatantee.that thb war will bring a
uni do peace, and that from the bloody seed
v ill spring a blessed harvest for liberty and
,crinan union.
The New French llinistry
We publish upon an inside page a sketch of
the new French Premier. Following we give
brief sketches of other prominent members of
the cabinet :
Prince floury do In Tour il'Aiivergne,
Minister or Foreign Affairs.
This Minister is descended from one of the
most ancient and distinguished families of
France, dating back from Alfred, created
Count of Auvergne by Charles the simple,
Bing of France, during the latter part of the
ninth century. Many of the members were
lanums as statesmen or soldiers, and the entire
line has held a prominent position in France
ft,r nearly 1,000 vears, The genealogical his
t of this family is a most interesting one.
Tim subject of this sketch, Prince Henri
;odfrey Bernard Alphonse, is the chief of the
bratch of Lauraquais, into which the house
has :verged, and is now known by the title of
Prirce de la Tour Auvergne-Laurnquids. He
was born at Paris on the 2:3'd of October, 1823,
his lather being Prince Charles Melchior Phil
lip. Bernard. - At the time of the coup (VOW
iu 1852 he WaiV a, young man of twenty-nine
years of age, and was' distinguished for his
abilities, Al iplematio, and otherwise.
- By pyoofiptly_M*l:g s:: 6.11i65i on to .the
empire he Was received into Alie TaVer.Of 'the
Emperor Napoleon, and after the lapse of a
few years was named Senator of France, hold
ing that position with credit. In August, 1851,
ho married to Emilie Celeste de Moutetilt des -
Iles, bY• whom Milled one child;'a boy; born
in June, 1852. His wife died at Florence on
the Bth of • March, 107, and he has 'not mar
ried again:. . _
• Before 1803 Prince do la Tour trAuvergne
held uo special diplomatic position under the
empire, althongh helrecpeuthr took an fictive
,part in the: political affairs'Of Prance, On the
13th of Otitober cif that year, however, he was
appointed Ambassador' Extraordinary and
libuiSter Plenipotentiary to the Court. Of St.
.c :~
beus.~~
James,an 1 in the December following arrived
iu Luntion and presented his credentials.
Mince then he has held this distinguished po
sition with marked ability. In all of the
measures in which the French government
Las taken part since his appointment he has
been an active agent. To the ntlibe of 11IiniSter
of Foreign Affairs he brings much experi
ence, and will doubtless administer the duties
of his'office with as much skill and;tact asany
of his predecessors.
Bigault-De Genoa Minister of Mu.
The newly-appointed Minister of Marine
is an admiral of the imperial navy. He was
horn at Rochefort, on the 12th of April, in the
year 1807, and admitted to the naval school of
France in 1825. He entered the navy in 1830,
was captain of a fidgate in 1841, a member of
the Admiralty in Paris in 1853, and-Rear. - Ad ,
aural of the naval brigade operating against
Sebastapol in 1854. In the year 1856
he was despatched to command the
fleet in the China sea. 9 and there
co-operated • with the. British' at the cap
ture of Canton in 1857. He was, promoted
( ; rand Officer of the Legion . of Honor in 1855,
and created Senator in 1860. In the month of
Jamiary, 1862 ' he took command of the squad
ron 'in the Mediterranean; and was 'ndmed a(b
miral January 27. 1864. He was Minister of
Marine in 1867. The Admiral has paid much
attention to the development of the French
iron-clad .fleet, and is a practical as well as a
scientific officer. He is a writer as well as a
navigator, and has edited some two or three
popular works in Paris. -
Baron Jerome David, Minister of Pub-
lie Works.
This eminent statesman was born in Rome,
June 30, 1822. He was appointed a Captain
soon afterjoining the:army,•and as poon.as he
engaged in political life lie :was Speedily
elected Mayor of Langon, and member of the
General Council for the canton of St. Sympho
den. He has occupied the position - of member
of the Cop L , Vhilallf for the Department of
the Gironde since 1859, and has been a Vice
President of the Corps for several years.
luseph Brame, Blinister of kulalle Iu
struction.
JoSeph Brame, for a long time favorably
known in French political circles, was born at
Lille, January 4th, 1808, and was elected a
member of the General Council for the Coun
cil of Czyooing. Ho was called to be a member
of the Coro Legislatif of the Department du
Nord in IM7, and proving an acceptable rep
tentative to his constituency was reelected in
186:;, and again in 1869. He has since achieved
a de: , erved reputation as the authorof "L'Emi
gration des lades."
Napoleon's Predictions.
1n 1839 Napoleon wrote a remarkable work,
Le.,4 Nupotet . mb•mws, in which he' gave a
prophetic glance at the future wars of Europe.
He said:
" One nation is urged on against another,
and the one is employed to accomplish the
subjection of the other. : The:Freneh i liberate
flit; Italians from the yoke of Austria, Ger
many and lsnglantl, rennin_ neutral, for_what
do they care about the Austrians in Italy ?
'I hat is -the first war. When the power of
Austria is hfolien,' then comes the turn of
neutral Germany and-Prussia,—without Ads
tria,but with the aid of the Italians."
That is the second war: by which the Ger,
man question, the Rhine and Danish question;
the Scheldt alluvium •fitevtion=tliat
orporation of I3elgiuni and Holland in
France—will be solved. The third war will
he directed against England. The object or
pretext will be to free the oppressed nationali
ties,..the_lrish and Scotch, as well as the colo-
Mes, from the English rule-to break the
power of England on sea, and to dismember
Great Britain. Whatever Power can dispose
of ships‘of-war must help. Then the great
Western Empire of ti,e Napoleon dynasty
I e complete, and the other half of the world,
the Eastern Empire, is Russia, against which,
after she has been the ally and the auxiliary,
the last war will be declared." .
The second of these wars has begun. Are the
rest to follow ? The first Napoleon said that in
fifty years Europe would he Republican or
Cossack. Prophets are apt to hurry things.
The French soldiers going to the front call the
Germans Cossacks. The end of this war may
be the union of France and Germany—of all
Western Europe—against Russia, or Eastern
Europe and Asia. In these complications Ame
rica is scarcely mentioned.
MURDER IN ERIE COI:WTI'
A Mon Poisoned by His Daughter's Para-
moor. •
[From the Eri.• Dispatch, Aug. t ., th. J
Yesterday afternoon vague rumors of a ter
rible affair at Walnirt Creek reached us, but it
was not until late last evening that anything
definite was known here. The following are
the facts: Louis Hartman (brother of Peter
Hartman the gunsmith, of this city), a farmer,
about forty-five years of age, lived at Walnut
Creek, about four and a half miles southeast
of the city. He was a widower and had
daughter between thirteen and fourteen years
old. but as large as most girls several: years
older.
Charles Gottlieb Kraenger,. a young Mall
about twenty-two years of ago, worked for
Michael Kribehel, a noghber or Hartman's.
It - was more than suspected that•Kritenger
was on terms of crinfinaddlitiniacy With Hart
man's girl, and became the subject of neigh
borhood talk. On Sunday night. Kraenger
and the girl had been in the barn about nine
o'clock and then went to the 'house. Her
father was then in bed. Some of the neigh
bors came to the house to rout young Kraen
ger out.,.lit were deceived fry the,girl as to his
whereabouts, and While they were up-stairs,
she let hiM out from where he had been hiding
behind the pantry door. Yesterday morning
he was there at about half-past seven o'clock
and stayed about the premises. That is all
that knoWit until the girl's father, Louis
lartman, was discovered to be dead, ou the
porch, between eleven and twelve o'clock. The
supposition, based upon subsequent facts, and
given previous to the examination or the
corpse by the snrgeon, is that either Kraenger,
or the girl at his request, had given Mr. Hart
man a drink from a bottle furnished by Kraut
ger. The girl denies knowing anything of it.
Kraeuger offered to treat John Roemer and
Joseph Hensler from a bottle he had, and gave
the bottle to Roemer. .Hensler declined and
told Roemer to hand the bottle back. He did
so, and Kraenger spirted some of the contents
at Hensler. It struck him on the right side of
his face and a little fell on his breast. His
right eye is burned out, and the place on his
breast has the flesh burned to a crisp. The
girl got a little on her dress; and it burned
holes-wherever it touched. The neighborhood
was • soon aroused, and one man named
Schimpf drew a bead on liraenger with hiS
gun, but some woman prevented him from
shooting.
FATAL' ACCIDENT.
.
A Illatt Drowned off the Nottth- of : the
Braudyntob—llis Body Not Itocovered.
LaSt Saturday at noon the Sloop Dexter,
with a bay party aboard, left Philadelphia.
On Sunday last, at half-past ono in the morn
ing, as she was lying off the mouth of the
Brandywine, John IVicAtee, one of the party,
fell overboard. and was drowned. Deceased
was a single man, about 33 years old, five feet
six inches high; of sandy complexion, with
moustache:and goatee, and pock-marked. On
. hia - left 'arm was picked a crucifix and his
Whole . liarne. All etibrts to recover his body
have been so far unavailing. Should it be die-
covered, the finder will confer a favor by re
porting the fact to the Chief of relief:4-11W-
Mint/ten COMMerciet.
PRICE 'THREE CEN rs.
FACTS'AND FANCIES.
—Anna Dickinson's friends deny that she
ever planned, or thought of planning, a joint
leciure tour with Olive Logan. .
--,A..swarm of bees settled on a Man in Illi
nois and settled him. ,
—An Indiana girl took.her father's horse to
aid her elopement, and was arrested for steal
ing the animal by her grieved parent.
--A floating match is the latest Long Branch_
nonsense. The winner lay on his back threo
hours and forty minutes.
—Eight cents is tile regular fee of a " regu
ar Chinese doctor.
—"Wild Bill has been again killed by' an
Omaha paper.
—A Frenchman has invented a machine to
bitch on a gas-burner, that will do washing,
cooking, ironing and many other things. It is
about two Bridget-power. ' • "
—An lowa man aptly advertises F " Kero
sene and coffins."
—Parisian ladies carry summer muffs of lace
and pertumery.• '
—lf you are ever invited to breakfaqt
with Queen Victoria remember that Rye P. AL
is her hour. '' ' •
—Ubicago tells of luscious large baked mos
quitoes on ber eating-house tables, and Jersey
is dying of envy.
—Pressed for time—Egyptian mummies.—
X. O. T inies.
—A man in New York is glad that his silver
wedding - is - over as . he had - to *return thanics
for-two hundred and six ice-pitchers.
—A gentleman at Scranton lest his-nose by
trying to look into a room where he was-
not wanted.
=An - inventor of a "machine - to facilitate
marriages" has sent a model to the Patent
(db.ce at Washington.
country paper had a heading in its war
neas, " The Bombardment of Harmer." It
was written " Hanover," but the compositor
has a girl by the name' f Thinner.
—An !indignant htisband at Richmond drO*6
an intruder to the top Of the house, where he
had the choice of stepping out of the window,
or looking into a six-shooter just entering the
door. He jumped.
—A Pittsburgh magistr- ' de, -who is -also an
undertaker, dispenses justice in his wareroom,
with the parties seated on coiling.
—Charles Black, who murdered a man and
his wife in Mississippi, was identified and ar-;-
rested in Indiana by means of a tax receipt:
This should serve as a warning to all murder;
OrB not-to-pay-tbeir taxes,
—Rev. Olympia Brown wrestled with the
Apostle Paul in the recent Woman Stitfragn_
Convention at Saratega.
voluble of the orators, and was relied on to fill
up all the intervals.
—One hot night, recently, the sleeping-cak
on.a train gave a:stuldea lureh,-and.threw the
occupant of an upper berth into the aiSle:FllS
companion suddenly awakening, shouted to
Idilaskiog It he - Lad -- thllen from - " hisThed
" No," was the reply, " I've just melted and
run 0ut."..,
—Butler's Dutch. Gap Canal has become :a
huge frog pond, and is tilled with the liveliest
kind of frogs, whose bind legs find quick sales
in the East at big priPes. Halt the resideots
in the' comity are"frogging" that pond, and
all of them are growing rich. Benjamin is
said to be meditating a suit for royalty.
—A place called Mountain View, Virginia
boasts of corn seventeen feet high. The Cleve
laud Herald remarks that such stalks might
witi as "low" in a game with Qhio:eorri but
would have no show for " high," as the Buck
eyes-raise it i3O enty-one feet and over. Lipari.
this the Leaven Worth Times says: We believe
hey raise very fair corn in Virginia and Ohio,
but if it grows no higher than that mentioned
above, the less said about it in the newspapers
the better. It is not unusual in Kansas to see
ears of corn that measure eight feet, and is
can only be gathered by the use of ladders, or
by cutting the stalks down with an axe, as
t hey fell trees in Maine.
—Mr. Spurgeon made remarks at the laying
of a corner-stone of a Baptist chapel a weaß
or two since, in which he said : " It makes me
sick at heart to rind out the great seers who
have been telling its we are getting near the
millennium. It seems to me they are some
thing like the Irishman who could foresee
backwards. I wish these kings of the earth
would sometimes do their own fighting in
stead of getting their soldiers to fight for
them. It would not be a bad idea if Napoleon
and the King of Prussia would come over to
England and fight it out. lam quite sure the
police would wink at the matter, and for my
own part I would be quite willing to hold
their coats, and I would cheer each one on,
and say flit him hard; I think he deserves
it'
A FEARFEL TRAGEDY.
A Dastardly Murder in Buffalo.
The Buffalo co ,, f-c.i' of the Sth says:
" Last evening, , about half-past,eight o'clock.,
news came to the police that a murder had
been perpetrated among the denizens of what_
is known by those living across the creek
! as • the island,' which is the neck of laud
formed by the Blackwell canal and the bay.
Th e inhabitants there are of the lowest class,
cut eti from inter-course with their fel
low-beings in the city except by ferriage, and
outlawed front all the amenities and decencies
of Ide by the grossness of their tastes. They
live iu filth, and literally from hand to mouth.
Even among themselves 'they say of
selves: are a hard set,' and even the in
habitants of the far-famed 'patch' cannot dis
pute the palm o ith them in this respect.
The murderer was a young man named
-Michael O'Keefe, who i.s, described by those
who know him as an utterly desperate char
acter, a sort of Ishmael, even among, his
neighbors recognized as one to be feared and
dreaded, and the victim was an old man
named Mahoney, who lives the island,'
about opposite to the foot or Indiana street.
As soon as the news of the murder was
brought to the police station No. 1, which
was promptly done, Captain Donahue had the
island surrounded, and O'Keefe was arrested
by Officers Wolf and Gorman, substantially
as detailed in his affidavit below. Our re
porter visited the scene of the fatal encounter
within an hour after its occurrence, and
„at
that time the reurikrer was in the custody of
the police. The two men were near neigh
bors,but one shanty separating their domiciles.
Mahoney was about seventy years old, and is
reported to have been quiet and inoffensive,
except when in liquor. The general Cain-like
character of O'Keefe is as we have stated. It
appears that the two.were in a saloon of the
lowest order, a law steps :from their. houses,
kept by a Mrs. Speigel. After going out: a
quarrel began, partially the result. of some old
grudge,in which Mahoney seemS to have boat
.the aggru.sor..
The moving canse,:fieeorditig4o-the-4eSti,-
mony `of John Foley . and John A. Patten,.
taken last night 'before Superintendent Doyle,
bath of Which water Side characters were pres
ent at the fray, was a pipe belonging to Ma
honey Which O'Keefe had captured; In re
drunken way, according to the .testinfony of,
these witnesses, the old man imbeeilely at
tacked O'Keefe, who appears to have:struck
him rather unwillingly. Afterwards the testi
mony is that Mahoney followed up O'Keefe,
Who struck. him again, knocking him down,
and this second 'blow was fatal. The Wily
showed nu marks of violence except those
which might be produced upon an , man
by a blot , / from the list of a, MuSettlitr young
man.",