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POLITICAL NOTICES
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SHERIFF,
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.Re
publican City Executive Committee, the, sarious Re- ,
publican Ward Executive Committees will elect three-
Delegates Irmo each.Ws:rd to it . Convention, to ~ be held
in the Old County Court- House,. Sixth- street, below
Chestnut, on DIONDAY, September 12i 1270. for the pur
pose of revising the rules for the government of the
Cnion Republican Party. By order of Committee.
JOHN L. HILL, Preeident. .
Jour McOuLtmvon, s o 6 rotarin '
DI. C. norm, a 1113.8 th 3ts
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Gentlemen;
Coolly
At the station they stop for a few minutes,
and are treated by _the citizens with beer,.
bread, cold meat and cigars. Yesterday I Vet: -
unteered my services to the Committee. All
the boys of about twelve years of age are giVen
by their parents to act as aids. Par.. several
hours I had three cars out of each train to
take care of, a train arriving at very short in
tervals. I had one man and four boys to help
me, but it was very hard work. Still it was
very interesting, and gave me a fine oppor
tunity -of seeing the material of a Prussian
army, and I must confess a more splendid
bodXof men mortal never looked upon. The
Twelfth Hussars Were particularly fine. They
were not only splendidly-built young men, but
also the handsomest fellows one could see, and
their fine manners showed that most all were
of good family. A young officer thanking me
for.my activity in seeing my section particu
larly well cared for, we exchanged names;
he was Prince-Henry of Pless. In another
train I had Jaegers_, consisting of every matt
a furster or huntsman, splendidly armed with
rifles. This train having to stop a little
longer, I asked them; after they had taken
their lunch, for a chorus, aud.they sang "Die
Wacht am Rhein,! and a hunting-song, or
" Jachtlied," in beautiful style., Another train
of particularly-gay - boYa At - just - - passing our
windows. They have dedorated their car with
evergreen. This enormous' array is_.a reserve
of about . ?.00,000. After this has `passed,
another" army Of some 250,000 will arriVe, its
second reserve, to rehmin' here , in _Frankfort
and environs.
The whole of Ifrankfort tuts received :: notice
to prepare to receiv'e this array' en qupilier.
Althouch,as an American;.i coald'dernand 'ex
emption from receivingiroopi,l know full well
they (the soldiers) 'Will 'apply at every house,
and I cannot reconcile it to my' feelings
to tern a poor,tired,hurigry man - from my door;
besideS my 'sympathies and feelings are' ,all
with Germany. in this struggle, and, as besides
I have my business here,' feel it rightl should
do all' in my power,' so fbave bought a 'num
ber of military beds, &c., and have arranged a,
story of my house to take some soldiers, and
one or two officers, and intend providing
liberally for them, and before each man leaves
1 am going to give them a flask of bandy,
cigars, &c. The enormous power of the, Ger_
man army,.noi - only in its numerical strength,
which will undoubtedly be ono and a quarter
millions, but in its perfect organization and
equipment, and particularly in its splendid
material, all being perfectly trained, poWerful
young men, will, in my opinion, overwhelmthe French.
1870.
The full power of all Germany is being put
forth at once,and the reaultwill be seen in a very
few days ltut_how_sad,_how fearful to think,
of the enormbus number of these , fine young
,men who Will, be killed or maimed. While
writing this I noticed cars containing..Narth
ern Cavalry stopping•in front of our windows.
.1 went;down with young Corliss, who is stop- .
ping with us, to talk to '.the boYS. One flue
young fellow, his face the perfect embocifment
of sturdy honesty and good-heartedness, got
out, at my request, to receive some cigars and
brandy; he was the only one who could tall;
Hoch-lDeutch, all the rest being - Platt. - - They
were all from Holstein; nd the, neighh . orhood .
of Hamburg, and this young fellow was,
from the immediate vicinity Of Ham
THE WAR IN EUROPE
Wan CORRESPONDENCE.
better from a Phll/Wl°lo:dna Abroad.
[The following is an extract of a letter under
date of August 1,4870, received hi this city
from-Mr. H. G. Mochring, a - citizen - of Phila.-
delphia, now residing in'Frankfort:],
Napoleon's Mistake.
I was in Belgium, at Ghent, when sud
denly the declaration of war took place! lat
once started for. Frankfort, and barely, with
trouble, arrived here. Napoleon speculated
on the jealousy of South Germany against
Prussia, or, to be precise,of Bavaria, Wiirtem
berg and Baden against that power, and
imagined he would have them as allies. He
further supposed Saxony would be apathetic
at best, whilst Hanover, Nassau, Hessen and
a number of smaller States would open
ly join the French. He hoped, moreover, for
the aid of Austria and Italy,and with all these
delusions he wickedly declared war without
the slightest cause or reason..-
Words cannot describe how much ho was
mistaken ! At the word that the French
were to enter Germany to posseSs themselves
of the left borders of the Rhino, i,t was like a
Hash of lightning over the whole of Germany,
and the thunder of indignation arose from
North and South, from East and West! All
internal dissensions were forgotten! The old
spirit of 1813 bur.t, forth in a blaze of national
enthusiasm and patriotism! The whole Ger
man nation flew to arms, and amidst the uni
versal war cry not one dissenting voice can be
beard ! On all sides one hears the beautiful
swig, " Die Wacbt am Rhein."
The German
The whole of the populace capable of bear
ing a musket flocked to the unfurled banners
of Germany, and a spectacle is presented
which baffles all. description.. The plan of
Napoleon to hurl an army, simultaneously
with his declaration of war, into South Ger
many, was completely thwarted, as Baden,
Bavaria and Wurtemburg - forthwith declared
war and pent their troops to the frontier. The
brave.-Bailensers - blew - up the bridge between
Strasbourg and .ITehl, and the French, instead
of a sudden surprise and quiet - and easysuc 7
eess; iound — tlietuselves obliged to entirely
change their campaign plans, and to concen
trate for greater force. This has delayed their
onset until now, and this delay is fatal to their
chance of any success. Within the days that
have elapsed, the CietwanS_.have...thrown.
least an army of 500;000 men on the frontiers,
and still troops are pouring forward in a _per
tett avalanche. Whilst I write these liries an
army of enormaus,size and power is passing
before our- windows; it is the army of the
middle districts of Germany, (slagdeberg,
- Merseberg, & anti - Saxony. It has:been
passing all day and night for two days now,
and appears to have no end! It _Ls in,trains
of forty-five to fifty cars each, drawn two
locomotives, all full inside, and outside tattle
roofs of the cars soldiers are clustered like
bees'
Scenes on the Raft.
PracticaLAmerichtt Sympathy.
burg. It made one's heart bleed to think
that such a good-hearted, honest' fellow was
being led to the 'slaughter • field. When tfie
signal came for the train to start, he reached
out both his handS, one to Corliss one' to me,
with hearty expressions of thanks, and even
Corliss burst out with a string ; of deep execra
tions on Louis S'apoleon and the rascality of
the French Ministry.
Guard Cuirassiers are passing now—men of
enormous size and strength.—Hark ! 'a roar of
cheers. Saxon artillery with a black, red and
gold banner elevated on the top of the middle
car of their train. Now another train full of
merry, witty Berliners; they have chalked all
kinds of inscriptions on their cars : " Express
to Paris direct," Scc., $ c., and their fun causes
roars of laughter among the lookers-on. They
pass, and regiments of Pommern follow.
There is brawn and muscle In each of those
fellows enough to make up half a dozen
Frenchmen ! All Germany is pouring forth,
and such a splendid force of fine young men !
The most heartless person cannot look on un
moved. Who will take care of the widows
and orphans'? Germany is not a wealthy
country like the United States. Oh ! if I were
only over there I would"go round in all the
.bops and machine establishments, and beg
dollar for dollar until .I got a BRM sufficient to.
alleviate some of the misery! Surely one'dol_
lar from every man in- America who has sym
pathy for the German nation is a sum which
no one would miss, and how 'much good I
could do:with it here. H. G. M.
(By ble.]
IRE PRUSSIAN Ca
SUCCESSES CON-
Finn ED.
the Blain French Army Retreating...
Prussians 'harassing thrir March.—
Bazaine Near Verdun.-.ho Prospect of
a Great Battle for Some Days.
Lo - finoN, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1870.—1 n the
absence of Prussian telegrams there is noth
ing to show what forces,- either Prussian or
French, remain near Metz ; but there can be
little doubt that Bataine-, after hesitating till
:t was almost too late, has withdrawn the
main bodpof the French army westward; and
that the Prussian forces have ha
rassed his retreat by ufiremitting-atta-ckx-on
- bis -- fiank - an - d --- rear. -- suc - F . circum
stances no general or decisive engagement
_fought_unle.ss—tile 7 Prussians—had
moved rapidly enough cut off _the French
retreat. the Prussians seem to have crossed
the Moselle both above and below - Metz, large
forces , remaining at -the same time before that
city, ana there is no knOwn base for Palikao's
statement in the Corps Legi.slatif that the Prus
sian attempt_to_cut-od Bazaine- had talled, - for
- there is - no evidence that it had been made in
such force as to compel Bazaine to choose. be-.
t wee - n abandoning the direetline to Chalons .
and accepting battle.
The latest accounts place Bazaine- at Etain
la village twelve miles E. N.E. - of -Verdun];
tut the French appear to.have - no information
as to.-the disposidon,or - strength - of - the Prti,-
, -ian columns threatening his march. If it be:
true, as the French give out, that' Metz is held
by a mere garrison,. it may- he many days be
fore a great battle can be forced by the Prus
sians or accepted by the French at may point
west of 3letz. Meantime there is likely to be,
as during the laist three days, a continual sue
.-ession of encounters between the_ beads of
Prussian,;coluninti Alia - the rear guard - of the --•-
Ur Man.
England Bound to Protect Belgian Neu
' trality. •
[From the London Spectator.]
The air is loaded with rumors about Bel
gium. Our deductions from them all—from
Mr. Gladstone's speech, froth Lord Granville's
hpeech, from the military preparations, and
from the attitude of the Belgian government—
is that the British Cabinet has resolved to!pro
tectthe independence of Belgium if necessary
Ity force ; that this resolve has been communi
cated to both belligerentn, and that assurances
tolerably satisfactory , in character have been
obtained. What those assurances are will be
explained to. Parliament before the session
ends, an event said to be fixed for next Satur
day. .
nevertheless, the gox - ernment, being quite
in earnest, on Tuesday demanded £2,000,000
and 20,000 additional,men, and obtained-them,
only seven members of the crotchetiest and
Teace.sopietiest.kind, voting.in_ttie negative..
he recruiting offices are already thronged,
the arsenals are at work; the;Tartillery, which
has been discreditably starved in the matter
of horseS, is to be' brought up to its full
strength, and the iron-clads in reserve are to
he commissioned. All this.is well, even if we ,
have not to tire a shot; but, as -we. have ex;
planed elsewhere, we could wish to see a
little more consciousness of the:magnitude of
his task in Mr. Caldwell. If Lord Lawrence
could only speakiiwhat a War Minister he
would make .
The ISltnetion.
- '-
The Tribithe has t ll e • following upon the at
tude of the two armies :
It is clear only that' the French have retired
owly upon Verdun, harassed every step.
he prussiana.reoving by parallel lines . and
eeking continually to interpose a Strong- cel
l= between Bazaiue and MaeMahon, whose
ire of retreat Ls.a,score,of miles Ilirther,senth .
Ilan - that of - Bazaine,;have.; seized I evel;y:op
,)ortunitY to strike at the retreating columns.
The continuous and repeated engagements
of which, we . have r , had intimations , for
the - last"— two or - three. days - — have
doubtless been brief,',., desperate combats
between the heads of 'te Prussian columns
and exposed portions of the French.. :Their
results are not frilly known:- The-French claim
the advantage in one of these combats, said to
have been fought at pravelotte on. Tuesday ;
but the advantage ailed , was nothing, More
than the maintenance of their "If the
statement that Bazaine'S army WAS at Elan be
true, it is clear that one res tilt of thes s efee§tient
attacks was to force the French from the-main
road to Verdun.Can the Fgench reaoli Chalons,, and' can
they hope to make,astand there.? These are
the surmises which will naturally, suggest
them Selves as: long as tlie present silence is
maintained. The purpose of the Prussians is,
of course, to push Bazaine from his direct line
of retreat, by Verdun and Chalon's, to Paris.
To accomplish that is to secure.fog them- .
selves the shortest line to aris, and
to that end every effort of the victors will
be directed. The position' of the French army'
is certainly, a precarious one, and , the an
nonneement that the Prussians are between
it. and Chalons would create no greater aston
ishment than the statement, made little more
than a week ago, that - the, French' lines on the
Satir:-.had been broken and MacMahon de
•feated. If he succeeds in reaching Chalons,
Bazatne'S . condition will 'not be greatly Un
provnd. ..111acillahon may join him there, as
,their lines of retreat converge at that point;
and he will have added , to his force two hun
dred thousand men. But the men are not sol
diers to stand in an open field on an unfortified
plain before the deadly fire of the needle-gun.
To his own broken army Bazaine WOuld thus
add a demoralized mass capable only of eat
ing, and be forced to continue the retreat from
Chalons to Parts. Either alternate . seems
terrible one for4the French army.. '
General War Notes! •
—The Empress telegraphed to the Emperor
saying that she desired to go to Metz to see
him, to
.onabrace her Km,.and to 81towitoraolf.
to tho army, and endeavor go increase the en
thmiabin for the war,as Wise* to be increased
iv'sizch cases by a woman's presence. The
Emperor replied, thanking her for het' wishes
and, intentions, but reqtlesting her not to'carry
these out, as he should have left 'frfetz before
t.he could arrive there, and he waS• unable to
tell her where she could find him.- - -
—lt is said that General Von Falkenstein has
arranged an elaborate system of telegraphic
communication with all the stations along the
Pfw•sian coast. A. portion of the French fleet
having appeared of Skagen on Friday, the
General was informed of the circumstance
from various quarters within a few seconds.
—The Soir tells a story of a conscript who,
the other day.asked his sergeant how far it was
to Benin. " Berlin, conscript, is 350,000 Prus
bians off." This mode of measurement was
not foreseen in the metrical system.
--The trains passing from Belgium into Prus
biafare new unloaded at the frootier as the lines
are mined on the Belgian side, and it is feared
that a violent shock might, cause in explosion.
—Gent Garibaldi las telegraphed in reply to
an inquiry about an advance on Rome : "The
day Matt - here will be some chande of success
you will receive orders."
THE EMPRESS IN ENOLA ND.
•
A Fair 'Hit.
The Baltimore Gazette has evidently oflicia
information about the reported flight of the
.Empress Eugenie to _London. It says
"The London Echo, an evening paper of
small circulation, has the unspeakable honor
of announcing, without qualifidation, that the
Empress Eugenie, accompanied by the, Prince
ri
Impeal, has arrived in- London; and has
taken suburban lodgings (furnished?) at St.
John's Wood.
"- We may add, as equally authentic, that
the first week's rent was paid in advance, and
that two well-known friends of the family es
corted-the illustrious fugitives - frOln the rail.:
road station, and gave their joint assurances to
the - that - lief new
lodgers were respectable.'
We are furthermore privileged to state
that the lodging house in question is a de
tached residence of brick and stucco, of the
cockneyan order of architecture and of ele
gant design. It has gas and water laid on
and the usual domestic conveniences. The
Empress is lodged on the first floor front. This
apartment, tLough small, is snug, ,and is -ren
dered still more cheerful by a portrait of the
- lamented Smitlfers in a blaecoat_with
gilt
--buttons, a buff waistcoat, and - a white. shirt
voluminously frilled. The portrait is regarded
rESulit hers as--a.---great-woidt-cifart,litif
the name of the artist is, we regret to say, un
known. The Prince Imperial is lodged On
the Same floor, hut in the rear apartment, and.
from his windoWs has the great advantage of
an excellent. view of the brickyards 0 . . f " the
- United Britons' Building Association.
' - Finally - ,we - add, asa fact well worth put
ting on record, that ,James Tibbs, a of-boy,
who who is in the habit . of bringing'ars...Bulithers
her daily supply of beer,_ :was the first to ideii-•
tify . the Prince Impperial. ' The Prince kindly
exhibited to him the bullet he picked up after
the affair at
_Saarbrucken.• He likewise en
-tend into many interesting details in regard
to that skirmish, - which, if the youthful Tibbs
could remember—we regret to say he does
not- the Edo would only be too happy to pub
lish as a valuable.cotarilintio - n to the history
of the war, and certainly - quite as trust
wort by as much that has already appeared in
the daily journals."
Cartons IPropbeey by Talleyrand.
To what extent , can men prophesy, and
he gift confined to the just made perfect?
Talleyrand is made to speak as fellows in his
• :Memoirs:"
"We must not delude ourselves; the Euro
pean equilibrinizt,of which we laid the founda-,
den at the congress of Vienna, will, not be
eternal. Some day it will tumble,but it prom
ises us some years of peace. What threatens
to break it up at a penod more or less distant
are :he aspiratons which are becoming uni
versal in the centre of Germany. The neces
sities of defence and of a common danger
have prepared their minds for German unity.
This idea will centinue.to develop, and some
day one of the great Powers who form part of
the confederation Will form the desire to real
ize this unity for its own profit. Austria isnot
to be feared, '.being cOmpesed of scraps and
morsels, and, having no unity at home, she
cannot drew:not , exporting it abroad. It is
Prussia, then, that . should be. watched. She
will try the venture; and, if she succeeds,
then all the , - ediaditions of. the balance of:
power will bechanged,and it, Will be necessary
to seek for Europe a new- bitsiSand a new or
ganization."
Having examined the Mike or less diffidult
circumstances amid which thi4-itioditstruetion
will be effectetly , •M. Talleyrand' indicates
France as being the haitionlioSV interested in
combatting the' unifiCation • movement or in
seeking to be cOinpetistitedfOr it. All this reads J
as if written after the facts= instead 'of - many I
.) ears before them • • •
Clicking oft' 4fie *ranch, Press.
The Paris 'Re.'rei, 'Speaking of, M. Oilivier's
measures. for Silencing:lye - French press as
'regards military.matters, reminds the public
;hat not only Was:tinth 'often concealed under,
the .F first Empire; as in the.caSe,of the defeat
at Trafalgai', which was described to be the
.tispersion of the: French fleet by.a gale;'but
:-o late as 'the Crimean war.the relatiens. Of the
!..ohlfers were, left 'inOtte] uncertainty with
regard to their fate., After having made light
ofand almos i t'clenied_the disease and:mortalitY
n hich existed in,, the armyof • the East, the
Jianiteur at length decided; several months' af
ter the end of the`war to publish official sta
tistics of the mortality .ha the army during the
ampaign. %lip.report made the total of' the
dead - 62,000 'lit "round numbers, .This paper
had no sooner . appeared than an English mill-,
t ary phYs i clan wbo - published a scientific work
on tlie Crimean war denied this statement in
the Medical Times, and'averred that the; num
ber of the 'dead amounted to half aq:Much
again as the, figure .announced in the
,Notii-
Oztr. The Medical' Times was right, the a ctual mortality was aibre than' 95,000 ! M. 011ivier
has so far departed' from the old system' that
he will allow all,' that concerns accomplished.
facts to be priblished, and' all the' official de
spatches whioh 'arrive from the seat of war
will be put at the disposal ot the journalists.
- .
Itliserable Organization of the French
. . Army. '
Speaking of the failure of the French army
to advance into:; Prussia, a Paris correspond.- 1
cut of the Pad Mall Gazette says: - ..
} 1,,V1y, then,r•has no such forward Movement
'taken place 't For this good . reason, that, if
the French soldiers were ready, their commiii-.
sariat was not. , We need not go by any of the
rumors coining, from the 'German side ; wo
have the evidence .of.. Captain Jeannerod, an 1
old French officer, new correspondent of tho I
Temps with the array. • He' distinctly states
that the distribution of • ,provisions for a cani
paign began'off the Ifit - Or Witgustonly • that
the troops wore short of i field-flaslM,:coOking
tins, and other. camping. utenSils;;that the.
meat was putrid and the' bread - Often'Musty:.
It will be said, we'fear; that sofat the, ri,rtnY of
the Second Empire , has .been beaten , by the
Second Empiteitselt , l , t7nder a regime which
has to•yield bountiss ; to , its supporters by all
the old regular establishmeans of 'jobbery;
it cannot be expeetetll t 'the 'systemwill
.
stop at the iritendetice`of the army. Allis' war,
according td X.Amiher's confesston;was pre
pared long ago I the laying iu of stores, as
-pecially-equjprnontacym-ewently one„ef!the,
least "conspiethins :ports' of' the preparatioti;
and yet at thiit velly
,Poiriknuch ; Irregularities
occur as to cause nearly a week's delay at the
most critical period of .the eampaigu, • .. •
• 'er -French Wars.
' 'Mortality of Font.
At Marengo the Freub: l /,ind 8,000 men,
the Austrians '30,000,C and ~ 0 :..90 were either
00,000 French, 80,000 Atudrians ab: ( I Russians ;
killed or Wounded. At Auster,:ttz there were
killed and wounded, 23,000. Atje,Zia, 100,000
French, 100,000. Prussians; - and
wounded, 34,000: - At Wagram, 150,000 lettir`tieh,
C:',0,000 Austrians ; killed and wounded. 24,000.
At Borodino, 125,000 French and same nuin
her of Russians; loss in killed and wounded,
EO,COO. At Leipzig, 150,000 French, 280,000
allies ; 50,000 killed.and wounded. At Water
loo, 68,000 French, 67,000 "English; 14,000
killed and wounded. At Solferincv 135,000
French and Sardinians, 136,000 Austrians;
loss in killed and wounded, 27,000. At Sa
dowa, 200,000- Prussians, 200,000 . Austrians,.
&c.; 28,000 killed and wounded. And the
French paper which gives these figures adds
significantly :—"And now there are 800,000
men in presence of each other with improved
means of destruction:" .
.The Genbans in Russia.
The Germans of St. Petersburg have sent
the following address to Count Bismarck :
In themetropolis of 'the 'great EaStern . EM.-
pire a handful of your countrymen have met
to offer our thanks to the King and yourself
for the work you have so nobly begun, and
which, under God, you-will bring to a happy
termination. -Our number is small, but it in
cludes Germans from every part of our com
mon country, from the Belt to the Adriatic,
and even from - free Switzerland. May our
union here be a good omen for.. the future of
our native land? Germany forever! King
William forever! Bismarck forever!
The following telegram has been received-,
from the Germans of Moscow : -•-
To his Excellency, Otto von Bismarck, Ber
lin. Germany-forever! King William for
ever! Bismarck forever! Forward with
God far our King and country!
THE TRAGEDY._ AT. -BI NG RAM P roN
N. Y.
- Fungi her Paitlenlars---The Whole lilllare
Aromird and in Pursuit of the Murderers.
The following additional details of the tragic
affair at Binghampton 'have been received :
At about 7.30 o'clock in the morning three
men crossed the Chenango river and landed in
the town of Binghampton, in the rear of a
dry goods store kept by the Messrs. Halbert
Bros. With the aid . of the necessary imple
ments they effected an entrance into the stilre
from the rear. - After having rambled
about. the- place _generally --and=--packed
a quantity of goods so that they
could be easily
Zau~c=upoir~a~ied — tn tie afore In
which two
clerks, in the employ of the firm, were. sleep- -
ing. Observing signs"of restlessness on the
part of one of the clerks, the- burglars. ap
proached the bedside, and while one of them
held a burglar's chisel over the clerksin - a men
acing inanner, bade them 'giy.o_ttoitlatm at the
- peril-Ofi4fieir lives.. One of them, however,
Merrick by , name, was not to be intimida
ted. _Ho_ grappled .- with - one
'men and bade his fellow-cleric hand
him his pistol. A pistol which : had been
deposited under the pillow to meet an emer
gency of this_ kind .was .handed to the-brave ,
young man. He drew the_ weapon _upon the -
midnight marauders, but it missed fire. While
he was again preparing to discharge it-one of
the desperadoes shot him through, the head.
He fell" dead at the feet of his companion. As
soon as they had committed this deed otblood
the three burglars took to their heels: They
hoarded the boat in which they had crossed
and proceeded to row to the opposite shore of
the river. : - _ .
Merrick's fellow-clerlc gave an alarm. The
fact that a murder had been committed spread
like wildfire through the town. A general
alarm was rung and the whole town was
aroused: . The fire companies turned out in
anticipation of a run, but when they found
out thatone of their fellow-villagers bad been
murdered, they left their engines standing in
the streets, and .proceeded to bunt the mur
derers.. Half the town had soon assembled
tiPen'th.6 bank§ of the river. At that time the
inen - had almost crossed. Some men took a
boat andluarted in pursuit of them. Some
:.hots were fired at them, but with no evident
pfiect. The' burglars still pursued their course,
and, reaching the other shore without appar
ent injury, , are supposed to have effected their
escape. ..
A coroner was notified of the affair and he
took the remains it Cbarge.
The mUrdered man Was a young man about
21 years -Of age. His parents reside in Han
, ock and they were notified vesterdav by a
Fellow-clerk of the tragic death of their son.
The remains will, after the inquest, be taken
io Hancock for burial. . ,
Merrick was a highly respected young man,
and urns soon to have been wedded to a beauti
ful Vounk girl * residing net many, miles from
his home: • • •
MEADE VllO.ll TUE INDIANS.
A Physician cauturtd. by the Snvages
and Releamed by a iiquaw.
The Corinne (Utah) Reporter *Os
By a private letter from Mr. W. L. Russell,
dated_Salt Lake-City,- Augas4-10,-wri ilearn that -
Dr. S. 8., Merplu, who, was reported in the
()Mafia Ilera 4 l as killed at Bitter Creek on the
;
nth' of 'July, 'when hiS party wore attacked
thereby the 'lndians, has turned up at Virginia
t'ity,.ltlonthua.' U: Penrose, of Jefferson City,
Mo.,:was killed in that fight, but Dr. Merple
was thrown from his horse in attempting to
rescue Penrose, and captured. The Indians
took hixn acres& Sweetwater toward-the-Big .
Born Mountains, and on the Ist of ,August
they encamped ou the north side of Badwater
,Cree.k, abOut ten miles from Wind River.
That night, by a young squawirbvirig his
thongs, he escaped, swam the Wind River,
and crossed the mountains Mirth of Fremont's
Peak. On the sth he fell in with a party of
'miners, with whom be came to Virginia City.
The Doctor was from Philadelphia, and it is
reported there that he was killed with. Pen
rose.
FACTiS AND I'ANCIEN.
'e scarcity of sardines for edible pur
poses, it is stated; is not due to the deSertion
of the coasts of France and Spain by those
limb,: but to .-tho! fact that ,the sardines are
pressed into ; oil, which' is shipped to Liver
pool, 'England,for the manufacture of soaps.
.Withinithe last twelve MonthS it is reported
that 1,000 tons of sardine oil have been im
ported into'LiVerpobl p where it sold readily at
froni Sl6O ; , to, slhB gold; a ton of 252 gallons ;
that is,' nine peones. to. the gallon.' This do.
ihand at Liverpocil is mentioned as an induce
nient for Americans to enter into the manu
facture of fish-oil. • ,
—The iqngest lived people in the world
appear, to.-be , Freiich • Generals. Think of
Baragukt D'Uilliers, growing furious. under
1 - I b 3 setentr-rivu 'sears at net being sent to' the
trout; Cliangarriieri•iat sevontY-seven, lament•
-
ing in tipnbltslied_card hizi!f_bitter-sorrow"
iiiitireTeeiling a command; and laStly, the old
Duke de Montemarti offering him Self and the
fr BOrrUpSavore at Jena in the first dragoons."
The patriotic faith • e fsuch irascible oldrgentle
inenliaa.s sopething,sublime in it.—N.
r—Before departing, for, the wars .the Prince
Impala!, who,uSed,ter wear his hair rather
long and ciarlibg, bad 'it cut 'to the French
military regulations, which is not quite so b&•
coming;:but 'Whibh• his mother thought stiited
him extremely-well; 'Before leaving he gave
a lock'of his hair to all the ladies of the Palace,
The. Empress euperintended the preparation
afr - the,young. - ,soldier's — kit; -- and - packed7his
trUnk,with her own hands. As usual on occa-
Siena when firmness and energy are required,
she shoWed to great advantage, and bore the
)arti 11 with much fortittnis.
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE
LETTER FROM ROBE.
[Correspondence of the Phtia..Evening But
Ronx, Italy, July 29, 1870.-This hay beCeisa
week of considerable excitement, and the to
ports each day have been of the most contixt
dictory kind. In the morning every one -bele
!loved the French troops were leaving 'C r ivital
Vecchia; some, more positive, would say they
had already left, and the very saine informant
who had declared is the morning that the.
Emperor bad need of all' his troops,..wouldun
bluShingly eat his words, when. the, reports
later in the day informed' us that the troops
were still at Civita Vecchia,- and - would ex- -
Claim: " Oh no, the Emperor will, leave, them
there ; ; what does he want of them? Only 'a,
handful!
.You'll see; they will be left !!'..
Evacuation of Rome.
Soin the face of th e s eiticonsistencieS,'.veliat '
Was one to believe? My information from . -
the FrenclrEmbassy has been uniform, hew:
ever, and the events of yesterday prove tha'
it is reliable. On the night. of thelfith
I was told that if the Pope declared the defi'-'
nition of Infallibility, on the following' Won--
day,.._the_l.Bthof Jol3'; the' troops would - be
withdrawn. On Tuesday, 19th, rheard'
the same source that the Italian Government
- would protect,the Pope against the Reds; and
that an alliance was forming to- that effecthe-'
tween the Emperor and 'Victor Emmanuel.
Yesterday morning General Dumont asked'
for an audience at the Vaticarti When he was
received he said he had come to take leave of
the Pope. He wished to_inform-His-Holineas
t bat he and all - his division of occupation had'
been recalled, and he communicated-to-the.
Holy Father the official despatch received by -
M. de Banneville, the. French Ambassador,•
which is something like the following:
" The present position of the French Gov
ernment compels it to withdraw its 'troops
which aro in the Pontifical States. Besides;
there exists a convention between this GoV-;
ernmenrand - the Italian cabinet: The Govern-'
went - of - Florence_ pas engag - to - difend Piu.a
IX. in the place of France, and to occupy,
nee d be, the Pontifical territory.
As General Dumont deft the Pope, Pius It'
turned to his Court attendants and exelaithed
" Let them go ! Let them go ! But 'this.
time we hope it will be in earnest"
- Forthe threatof withdra*ing the French'
troops-has- been-so-often employed;-whenever!:
the Papal Government has shown- itself:
troublesome._ to. manage,,that - the- - -Pope has'
grown impatient atits too frequent - use. Tile'
poor old gentleman-was sorely tried, but Made`
no remarks or. comments upon the insulting(
iiifi rmation contained in the despateliabiiiit- -
the Italian Government taking the position
of protector in the place of France. This' a )
too bitter a thing to speak 'upon. The - Pope=
could hardly trust himself, I fancy.. .O
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Fiencirr
Chasseins left Rome. By the sth of August!
the French army or occepation will be gone ;: -
then "Italy will belong to.theltalians.":"The
next step -will probably be a Mazzini-Gari..:
baldi invasion ; then the Italian troops will'
have an excuse to come and chase the - hemise,s> .
Ron yes from the walls of Rome, and " occupy
the Pontifical territory!;'
Roman Feeling.Nigainst. the French.
The feeling against the French is very
strong among the Roman people. The other
evening, at the theatre in the Mausoleum••of
Augustus, there was some slight allirsionmade.
to the French in the course of the. play; and
the hissing which ensued was startling, I
cially in the present state of affairs. 'BUE ottlY
startling for the moment,. for the Rennin is
not a lighting nature. " EVen - the Vega
not fight in Rome." There is something' in'
the very air which predisposes one inthati
sort of peacefnlness called by the barbarous ; !
cowardice. If the Italians and • the - , Gad- c
baldians come to blows at the gates of Rome, ;
it will be the old story of the wife, the. man
and the bear; the Romans will take the wife's,:
stand, " not caring which beats."
French Notions of the Roman QuetitiOiti.
It is amusing to' hear the French talk on the
present occasion. Last evening 'a
officer, Who served for two years Afrlca,'
and carries a ball in his foot
,as'a . themory ;
his service called to see me, and I entertained ::
myself and my_visitor_bydraw ,--Teut7:-
upon this Franco-Roman questien, i ,The
French, be it remembered, . feel , :at heart, ,
ashamed of abandoning the Pope to the wolf,!
like mercies of the Sardinian, and to hide this t
they reproach the Papal government'- • I
"Voila ! the fall of the temporal power;" ex •
claimed my visitor, who is true„ son
Grande Nation and Grande `Aimee;` "and
of that refreshing - boasting which sounds
very harrulees An a Frenchman's mouth,
beeause so childlike' and absurd, "Behold the
downfall of the temporal, power. Ten con
tallies ago we built it and by us it will be de- •
stroyed ! We established it Out of gratitude..
to a Pope, who did much for France ; it is
now destroyed by a French sovereign, who is
disgusted with the ingratitude of the Court of
Rome We have submitted to this ingrati
tudefor twenty-two years, but all the time
Napoleon 111. said we must not act too;
sharply."
1. suggested that the time had arrived fir.,
Italy to become a nation; that there wail a:'•
growth Mining nations as with Man
vidually. recalled the history, of Savoyand
Piedmont, in which the leaven of true national
vitality had existed when the rest of Italy,was
dying out 1, spoke of Emmanuel Philibert,
who, after the peace of 1559, established his.
two united duchies, and made of them a boule ,
yard of Italy. This boulevard • has 'gone ott-• •
growing until it is now the nation, and in
spite of King, Emperor or Pope - Italy - Malt . •
be one:, Itis - the people riewadays who, make
.and who destrOY:;, build and The, ---
French Emperor himself says he only fellewa
where the people lead ; so the , present state ;
of affairs is a result of popular influences too,
strong for either the Emperor or Victor Ern- .
manuel to. resist. They may control; but, they
cannot arrest,,the coming rash of Italians to •
seize on the ;capital. ' - • •
A Frenchman can ,never hear patiently ,
the possibility of Rome becoming the capital •
of Italy. Romelas always been the mythiCal
_pcisSesSion efall Christian_ Emperors as weir.' '-
as - Roman. - The first Napoleon had the same
ambition which - agitated "the German Em
perors of Past ages, and his son. had for hire