VOLUME XXIV-NO. 132.
Wedding gauds, invitations
for Parties, &0. How styles. MASON A 00., 907
Obostnut street. deSOftnwtfS
fpHE OELJEBRATED (O!
-1 WIOK. MK.) .
BERWICK SPONGE CAKE,
HADE AND SOLD ONLY "
<5l 00 PEIt BOX
DIED.
ALDEN.-At Newport, B-1.1 Sept, loth, Col. Brad
ford It. Aider, (tate D. S, Army.) ■ - ■ ,1
funeral s.rvicea at Laurel Hill Chapel, at 1 o’clock
P. M. on Tuesday next. ■ _' > ■
De SILVEB.-Oq the 10thInit., Harrison T. Be Silver,
relative. and friends are respectfully invited
to attend hla fnnoral, from hla l»to realdence,T2» Bpruco
Btreot. ou.Tucisday afternoon, the I3tb .instant, at 3
o’clock. ' . • ' •
GlttAßD.—Onthollth Instant. Augustus Girard.
Tho frit-ads and relatives of the famllr are respectfully
invited to attend the. funeral* from his late residence,
No. 2328 Green street, on Wednesday morning, the 14th
iiiHi,. nt 9 o’clock. iDteinieutat Wilmington,Del.
LOVE.—This morning, 12th Inst., John Lore, In his
83d year.attho residence of bi« son, John B.Love., *
A\ XTMEB.—This Sarah’A.t daughter, of Ja>
cob Winner.' ;
EYItE L*AJS DBLlTOl? JSN TO-DAY
-6 New Shades of Brown BHk.
a. *» : Green Silks,
4..“ ,: ** ; _ v .
the hewr'fall fibaido.
I'lain Silks from 2S to $6 per yard.
T>X7BB COb LIVER OIL,. CITRATE
L Magoosia.—JOlU* 0. BAKER & C0..713 Market st.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
BOYS’ CLOTHING.
SCHOOL BUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITB.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
SCHOOL SUITS.
.JOHN WAN AM AKER’S
818 and 820 Chestnut Street.
3J?* Fruit and Floral Exhibition!!
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,
Sept. I3tb to loth, INTO.
Promenade Concerts Every Evening.
A GRAND DISFLATIS ANTICIPATED
ft 7-strp
UNIVERSITY OK FENNSYL
VANIA,—Tbt? College Tear will open on THUBS
DA V, Bepf«»robi*r 15. Candidates for admission will pro-
Aent themselves for examination at lQJfi o'clock on that
tiav; rRANCTS A; JACKSON 7 V
lu-fi lOtrp? * Secretary.
you want the origin at,
Whit* Mountain Cake, eo to DEXTER'S, 245
houtb Fifteenth street. »el3m w flrn lps
HOWAED HOSPITAL, NOS. 1118
and tax Lombard street, Diipenwry Department.
—Medical treatment nd medicine turn la bed gratuitonalr
o the poof ....
~ FtiLITMiAL NOTICJE3.
g'f* Eepublican Invincibles of Philada.
first gln of the campaign.
EEPUBLICAN MASS MEETING,
Under the auspice* of the
Republican Invincibles of Philadelphia,
On Wednesday Evening, Sept. 14,
AT CONCERT HALL,
CHESTNUT BTBEET, ABOVE TWELFTH,
The meetihff*wHli)eaddresßed by .. i
Hon. B. Stockett Mathews, of Baltimore*
LADIES ESPECIALLY INVITED.
P. COLEBBEBHY, Proeident.
J. EBEN HARKINS, Bocrotary.,
A. WILSO& HENBZEY, j
Committee on Meetings.
kh!2 Jtrp§ '
lB7O. r ; . 1870.
SHERIFF,
WILLIAM R. LEEDS.
je!6 tl ocl2rps . ,
Naturalization Committee will aet doily at Mr N.
SOBY 416 Library street, from 10 until 2 o’clock.
- JOSEPH B. A9H, i
ee6tf»j)s 1 t : ’ J/ - Chairman.
WANTED— A SOPRANO SINGER IN A
Quartette Choir of an Episcopal Church, in the
northwogt part of the citv. Salary $l6O per annum.
Addrow 0., at this office, with references. sel2 2trp*
•fIT ANTED TO PIXBC BLASE ..AT IJG-
Tf Boat, 17 or 18-inch cylinder. Address, with full
Jiarticulars, ago of boat, condition of boiler, Ac., and
oweat price for cash, .
M. GOODWIN, Engineer,
143 East Thirty-third atroot,
New York Pity.
B<‘B-61rp*
FOHSALE.
-FORSALE—EDGEWATER-BEAtT-
Huf. tifully located on the Delaware—Modern Country
Residence (new), aud large lot of ground. Busy of ac
cess by river or rail. Very, high ground. House fin*
ished in the most complete style. Bath* hot and cold
water, range* heater, *c.,&o. Will be sold low. FRED.
BYLVEBTKR. 200 South Wurthatreot spli tf§
TORKNT.
fi ,£° B P B ONB VEAB, one
IJiii of the-.finest fnmiahoa four-story brown-utono
housoß in the city, situated near Bittouhouße Seuare.
Kent, 8300 por month. Addrosß H. 8., oQlce of tho
Prt.,3. Bel 2 m w f-3t*
—lt iB curious that a - Latin epigram—an
acrostic too—written in 1814 against Napoleon
J., should now be applied, to. Napoleon 111.
We give the and reproduce the
acrostic in the translation: , .. ..
Nihil eram, Naught I was once. •
Augustus factus suin, And was.made Augustus
Populorum catnifex, Peoples’ butcher, r. '
Orbum lurbavi, • Overturned the world.: ;
IjibortatemsuppressijLiberty was iaid low by
Ecclesiam deatruxi, . Even sothe .Church.
Omnia fni, •••• Once I was all In all. .
Hihil ero. . : Now I shall be naught.
—The Committoe of tbe ! Crystal Palaoo
Bible Stand have caused copies-of the' Pour
Gospels, of a handy size, tp"bb’distributed ;
among the troops of the two nations now at 5
■war. •' •', ■
Hotes of a Trip to and Upon the Lajke
Snperlor and Mississippi Railroad.
:ginal bek-
The Lake System Linked with the Miesfs
slppl River.
G. BYBON MORSE,
902 ABCII BTBEET.
seB 6t§
Inauguration of the Railroad which
, Spansthe Wotcr-Slicdof America.
My last letter, published this day ■week, de
scribed the ceremonial excursion of August
24th for the purpose of opening the road, and
broke off abruptly," for reasons connected
with the mail service', at the approach to-the
grand slate-regionof the St. Lotlla river.
7 lie Slate Region ol Minnesota.
.The siate deposits were explained to ns by
Mr. Thomas Arnold, Superintendent of the
Great Mining Company,who received ua nCar
the station with generous hospitality in his
own house, A practical man and an original,.
Mr. Arnold is one of those whose domicile is
the last expression—the final. envelope and
cuticle—of the individual. ■ Here in the lonely
wilderness, between the roaring ot the.- river
and the endless sough ot the hemlocks, he has
constructed the most bewitching abode of
comfort, which comes upon the traveler like a
charm. The house is in the likeness of a
Swiss cottage, all rustic-work, bark-work and
mantling greenery, from whose deep balco
nies hang trailing vines, and up to whose
threshold stretches a quaint garden of plats
and rock-work, such as they set up for the
third act of Fault. The figure of the owner
conics in appropriately. Gallant Thomas
a piactical-looking man in top-boots
and a full suit of the finest corduroy, with cap
to match, received us with a hospitality which
spoke the opulent miner. On the front of his
gable ran the word Welcome in evergreen.
1- or motto, besides the date, was set up the
character Alalia— appropriately characterizing
an enterprise whose beginning indeed we
w ere seeing, but whose unclosed future may
put to shame all of Dr. Johnson’s reveries,
among the casks of Mr. Thrale, about “ the
potentiality of growing rich beyond the
dreams of avarice.”
This fine specimen of practical grit—with a
face roughly blocked out, and au eye like: a
jewel in a-rock—was, he says,'conceived and
born in a slate-quarry. He has made-slate the
school of his life, and- Lis earliest sums and
copies were done, with a - fragment of the
fallen material, upon the framoless facets of
the native slate itself. -He has. grown up to
tue business, and has thoroughly studied the
f‘>nnarions of York county, in this State, and
of Canada- The opinion- of such an expert,
wlien called upon to pronounce on a newly
iound .deposit, is pretty valuable. When he
throws into a new mine hia enthusiasm, his
time, his knowledge, and a round lump of his
hard-earned money, there can barely be-a
doubt about the promise of the scheme. Mr.
Arnold thinks that the Slate-Dalles of the Sti
Lotiis will,in Shakespearian phrase. cheVir him
ever or disseat him quite. A deposit of-such
extent, stretching for twenty miles along the
river, and indefinitely either way, does not
exist elsewhere. Practical qtiarrymen from
Wales, in his employ, grow enthusiastic and
declare that they never saw Buch indications,
even in the famous “ Festenec.” This, they
say, is to be the grand emporium out of which
the prairie-cities of the west are to be roofed ;
timberless as many of these plains are, and
annually growing more completely so, this
deposit must be a wealthy boon for the whole
M ississippi valley. No other slate-bed occurs
west of our own Peachbottora quarry in Penn
sylvania. In a short time, with proper de
velopment, the splendid slates of the St. Louis
may be furnished almost as cheap as shingle,
and the catastrophe of fire,which has scourged
so terribly the hopes of every single.city of
the west, be stripped of half its terrors. As
for quality, the slate exhibited is close,
pure and flat as that of Pennsyl
vania. Three dykes have been opened, known
as A., B. and C’., and two of them, B. and C.,
are now being actively excavated. The devel
opments are superb, and our tourists ex
amined with interest a leveled quarry of great
extent, flat as a huge floor, and rich and close
in its dark granulation.
(Editorial Correspondence of tbo Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin. I
Preliminary examinations were made three
yearn ago, by Mr. Arnold and a corps of ex
perts, and the surface indications promise that
ten thousand quarrymen at least could bo pro
iitably employed. The chartered company is
now working away, with a capital of $200,000,
every cent of which is prudently and jealously
watched by the astute Superintendent. His
desire is, not to be too eagerly pushed by the
investors of the East, but to be allowed to
thrust the enterprise forward by tried and
tested degrees, according as experience shal]
dictate success. “ You see, I’ve got my own
pile on it,” says Mr. Arnold.
To an opinion so trusty I shall add an
oilicial one, that of Thomas Clark, State
Geologist of Minnesota. ' He made a report to
the Governor, in the year 1864, in which he
declares the supply to be literally inexhaus
tible, and predicts that slate shingles can be
furnished therefrom at a cost little, if any,
greater than the pine. “If one-fourth of this
slate area proves available,” says Mr. Clark,
“—and doubtless one-half will—itjwill yield
one thousand millibns of tons.”
Slate aa Scenery.
Taine, wishing to give an idea of the lovely
beauties ot the Naples region—Bai®, Ischia,
Procida and Capri—as seen under mist near
sunrise, can only compare them to a Boft grhy
crayon design by' a master, or else to "the
bluish tints of slate, breaking pure out of its
dewy crevices.’’ And, indeod, the melting
liueß of this most placid and relieving of rocks
are most valuable; to the.artistic eye, as they
rise among the awful-pines in a Qontinuous
wall of Cyclopean architecture, or match
against their smooth cheeks the pale aster of
the wood, or sproad a foil behind the running
tires of the golden-rod. But I have said all
that I should, and mpre than I meant, about
the romantio scenery ot the Dalles,
r , So long ** thi® rdatf jfpllpws the St. Louis, it
climbs by,a very'preolpltous ascent, tho grade
being some,four hundredfeet,- I suppose, in
a courso of twenty . mUes.. For -so. far, the
route is curving/ difficult,—and (imperially
'beautiful. ‘The lofty trestle-bridges, l 'built of ■
gigantic trees accurately 'squared, aid fitted to-'
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER I*2, 1870.
i getber like a titanic baskot-work, rise firm yet
tough to tile height of the knobs and. knolls,
ninety, ahundred, and even 106 feet high. One
of the'viaducts has a grand sweep, of distinct
and confined radius, so that the rider on the
engine sees the rear car'reflected in his pol-;
isbed lantern. All the caprices which make
up the interest of the Catawissa road are here
magnified—and beside, the roaringand foam
ing uncentamlnate stream, broad as the MLss
issippi’at Saint Anthony.
Our party, in two separate visits, examined
these slate-quarries of the St. Louis. As I
did not, however, chance to see the blasting
in this particular place, I may copy a para
graph from the description of John G. Wil
liams, Esq., of Minneapolis, who has con
tributed' an accoimt of the operations to the
St. Paul Press:
“ Great slate dykes (says Mr. Williams) rear
their tesselated fronts like some ancient ruin,
defiant and frowning. Soon the regular,
almost measured reverberation of ' click,’
‘ click,' as the iron drill slowly but surely
enters the deep bosom, of each rock, tells that
the war has commenced. Soon the deep
ravine, the forest; the hillside; give back, in'
measured tones, the echoing voice of that
element, called .into, requisition, by human
skill, force and will. The tall rock is shivered,
and then comes the great grand blast. Twelve
hundred pounds ot powder are placed deep
beneath the mass ot roek. The fuse burns
slowly but surely. At last the rugged mass
pulsates, heaves, tosses, and away go tons of
ragged, broken fragments, separated never to
be united again; a huge material type of tar
too many eprsodes in the world's great his-:
tory.” - - : ■ Enpant Pkkdu.
THE WAR IN EUROPE
LBjNCaMe.l
THE qiTSTIOX or PEACE.
Bnsslaaiid Austria Working for Peace—.
England Opposed to the Republic—
Coast rck In f'nvor of Peace.
Pakjs, Sept. 10, 1870. —The Legations of
Russia and Austria are bnsily at work in the
interests of. .-peace, and, it is believed, they
would already have secured an armistice had
nut the English government blocked the way
by i(s neutrality and half hostile attitude. : '
The English government is believed to hate
n secret understanding with the King of Prus--
sia adverse to the wishes of Count Bismarek,
in order to secure, if possible, the suppression
of the republic. ’
I have it on high authority that Count
marck desires neither Alsace nor Lorraine,
and is anxious to secure peace as soon as pos
sible. But King William is bitterly opjposed
to any negotiations ' with ' the republican
authorities, and insists upon advancing to
Paris to crush the revolution before the fever
can extend to Germany.
King William Determined Sot to Recog
nize the Republic.
OsTENDj.Sept. 14, 1870.—The latest intelli
gence from the Prussian headquarters is, that
in reply to the.propositions made through the
Austrian legation, King William declares that
be williisten to no propositions of peace only
m the Tnileries and.' from the imperial gov
ernment.
The Empress In England.
London, Sept. 11.—The Empress Eugenio
is still at the Marine Hotel, in Hastings, at
tended by Ferdinand de Lesseps, Madame de
I.esseps and Madame Thierry. All the ladies
of the court who came with Her Majesty to
Belgium remained in that country. • •
The mother and Son.
Her meeting with the Prince Imperial on
Friday morning was most sad and touching.
The Prince threw himself weeping into his
mother’s arms, sobbing, “O, mori pauvre papa!”
The Empress behaved with extreme dignity
and tenderness. Ho newspaper in Hastings
yesterday alluded to the arrival of the Em
press ; the secret being kept by common con
sent. In the course of the day a messenger
with letters from them both for the Emperor,
indorsed by the Prussian Embassy in London,
left Dover for Ostend on his way to Wilhelms
bohe. The Empress sent for all the news
papers of the day immediately after her arrival,
and watches the course of events with the
most lively attention. Last .evening her
Majesty was indisposed, and a physician was
sent for. By an extraordinary coincidence
Dr. Blackstone was called in, who, twenty
two years ago, in the same town, attended
Louis Philippe, then newly arrived as an exile
from France. This morning . her Majesty
made her first appearance in public at Has
tings. She attended mass in the morning at
the Catholic chapel with M. cfeLesseps, Ma
dame Thierry, and the Pripce Imperial. A
great crowd assembled about the chapel. As
she passed through the ranks of the people all
took off their hats with a general impulse of
respectful sympathy, .which th©. Empress ac
knowledged by gravely bowing, and the
Prince by taking off his cap. The Empress’s
face was full of subdued but visible emotion.—
MViV.
fßy Mail.]
The Strasbourg Cathedral Clock and
Library. r
(F rein tho Hartford Tlmos.]
One ol the most -lamentable results of the
siege of Strasbourg,leaving out of view the loss
ol human life, is the injury which the bom
bardment has inflicted on the noble /cathedral
and its wonderful astronomical clock. The
vast cathedral, which, perhaps,more than any
other one thing, has made the name of Stras
bourg celebrated, is one. of- the finest -Gothic
buildings in Europe. It was founded A. D,.
504. The choir was built by Charlemagne ;
probably about A. D. 800, though it was
not completed until 1339. The material of
which the cathedral is built is a brown stone,
very much resembling our Connecticut Port
land freestone, so extensively used in
Fifth avenue. It was obtained from a quarry
at Wassebonne, in the valloy of Couronne, a
few miles from Strasbourg. The architect of
the existing edifice was Erwin von Steinhach,
of Baden. One JohnHuells, of Cologne, was
the architect of tho peerless tower. Its spire
is the loftiest in the world. Its height, 466
feet, surpasses St. Peter’s, and is about equal
to that of the Great Pyramid. The greater
part of the entire structure was destroyed by
lightning in 1007, and the restored edifice was
begun in 1015 and Completed in 1439. The ca
thedral is in every part richly decorated with
sculptures; and the western front, rising to a
height of 230 feet, is, or was, particularly fine
with its wealth of statues, ornamental carv
ings, and bas-reliefs,_ It has a circular win
dow's feet in diameter. The Prussian heavy
artillery has made, it is said, a ruin of part of
the vast building.
The astronomical clock, tho produot of a
German clockmaker, in about the year 1550,1 s
a marvel of ingenuity and mechanical skill,
and has no counterpart. It performs not only
the seryice of a olock, but exhibits the days,;
and the months, and the years; the process of
the seasons; the signs bf the zodiac, and the
names and the movements of the heavenly
bodies; At each quarter-hour an angel comes
out and strikes one stroke on a bell; at every
hour another angel comes and strikes twice;
and 12,- meridian, a figure of Christ appears,,
accompanied by the twelve apostles,
all , of/whrimi mbve around a central
point’ and "pass in, out of sight,, by
another,,' door, the stroke of twelve being
given, and a cock flaps his wings and crows.
The clock is fenormous Ini size,'like everything
withthe vaat'oatkedral,.and is
-invisible frdm the outside street—the spectator
'passing through the nave of the "cathedral , ,10
, see it. It has suffered .from fire and violence
before the present year, having been out of re
pair and motionless since - the revolution of
1793, until the year 1842, when it was repaired
by a watchmaker of Bas-Rbiu, and . has been,
in operation since. It is to be hoped that this
ingenious piece of mechanism has' not, been,
irreparably injured by the present bombard
ment} '
The Joss of the Strasbourg library—a vast
collection of 800,WH) volumes, including many"'
collections of pare and curious monkish parch
ments—is total and irreparable., It can never
be replaced by aDy collection hereafter made; .
It was the slow result of a thousand years;
and its destruction by fire, caused by the Prus
sian hot shot, is like the burning of the Alex- ’
andrian library in this, that of a great number
of the works destroyed no duplicates can over
be obtained.
The City of theVictors—A Scene of.
Mourulug. ,
[ From the Buffalo Courier, J
We are permitted to publish the following,
portion ofa letter from a young lady from this
city who has for the last two years resided in
Berlin, and is now detained there through the
war; '.a:.. -• ;\ -• y-A
Berlin, Aug. 25th, WtO.—ify Dear Mother :
Whaf do you think about these fearful battles
we: are having over here, and all for no rea-'
son ?-. .War has never seemed so dreadful to
me.as it has lately; armies and battles which
before appeared as a dream have suddenly be
come-very real. Berlin was so gay when. her ~
soldiers went away ; they weDt so willingly
and took,leave so cheerfully ; and now almost
every house is mourning. The regiment called
the ling’s Guards, composed, of the finest
younwmen in'Berlin,left'abont two weeks ago.
Theyftjpassed under our windows, bands play
in&j?flagB flying, and horses prancing,
; 01W of the prettiest.sights 1 have ever, seen;;
apd now, ol the whole regi'meut, only four are
nnwounded. Somany that we know by.sight'
are dead; and yet Berlin is the victorious
city, and people rejoice over their victories
and seem never to think of their fearful cost.
I wonder if you are much interested in this
European struggle and get.reliable news?.
Perhaps you hear both sides, and are able to
judge of afiairs much. better than we can.
The King sends his despatches to the Queen,
reporting his victories, &c., &c., and the. city
is illuminated, the and we
hear the same thing is done in Paris
for same battle. Of course we be
lieve King William, and I think we have
reason to do so. There seem 3 to.be no danger
ot Napoleon’s being wounded at present; he
keeps, far enough away from the firing. We
are all disappointed in Napoleon. Every one
thought he had a great big plan of some kind,
and was going to do great things. Per.haps he
did have a big plan, and: these little Germans.
’ with “ Little 3m tz” at their head, destroyed it.
Every one now thinks the war cannot, last
much- longer. Metz must! surrender before
long, and Then the, Germans think a visit to
Pans will be both easy and agreeable. Some
great changes must happen soon. I wonder
what they will be.
Y'our loving daughter, A.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
Appearance of the Field of Gravelotte—
The Awlnl Slaughter.
Murat Halstead, in his letter to the Cin
cinnati Commei-cial describing the battle-field
of Gravelotte has the following: "
Here, there, everywhere the ‘poor fellows
bad been tumbled over. We came upon a
Frenchman: whose head had been knocked
off'by a earmon shot. There remained of it
two scraps of skin, each as large as your hand,
and on one was his mustache and the end of
his nose, and on the other a patch of the hair
ot his head. Another had been struck in the
centre of bis body and alnaost crit in two: Tbe
shoulders and head were left, the hairy knap
sack and red can still clinging to them,
and below the bloody mass his coarse
shoes and white gaiters were visible; his face
was in the dust.’ Another French soldier had
been disemboweled by a fragment of shell,
and tbe fatal missile had torn open his panta
loons pocket, showing a large piece of hard
brtad and a bit of meat. A tall Prussian,
dead, was at full leugth on his back, his helmet
half biding bis swollen face—the eagle that
adorned it with the legend “ For King and
Fatherland,” and the buckle of his hilt show
ing in conspicuous letters “God with us.”
On the north side 6i the road, was - a slender
little French soldier lying on his face, his
gun in his hands. He had been killed
as he was making ready to fire, and had
crouched in the collapse of death like a pitiful
little animal. A triangular rent in the band
of his red cap told that he had been shot
through the head.. At his side was a larger
man, through whose naked head a ghastly
I arrow had been plowed, and from it the torn
brains issued. His cliassepot was clutched in
his stiff hands. In the same neighborhood
was a French Colonel, not disfigured
at all by. his death wound. I think he
bad not met his death instantly, but
bad been struck in the thigh and died
-from loss ot blood. He- had,-it seemed,
attempted to do something to staunch
the flow of blood, and finding it vain, had
composed himself for death. He'was as neat
a corpse as ever you saw; . His spurs were still
on bis heels, bis kepi on his head, his hands
by his side. His clothes had been opened
about bis breast by some one in search of
\aluables, I sunpose,. and there were articles
scattered about, showing that he had been
careful in camp to be-neat. Among them
were a tooth-brush and a box of tooth-powder.
Tim dust from the Pagis road had powdered
him. His features were, not swollen or dis
torted, but clear and colorless, andhis friends
would have recognized him quickly as in life.
How it happened that iu the same groups
of dead some were hideously affected by the
sun, black and monstrous, with details of hor
ror in their appearance that-1-must not men
tion. while others were pale and waxen, every
facial outline dejicatglypreserved,! do not
understand. •■■■ •’ ’ ’ : -
Some of the most terrible of the pictures of
death were among the-fallen horses. -There
were expressions of uhuttbrablo fear and suf
fering in their dead faces. The wild eves, the
expanded nostrils, the open lips displaying the
full length ef the teeth.' In some of the’faces of
these noble animals every bairseemed to tell a
tale of of the horses in
death were as various and fascinating In thoir
interest as those of the men. Oh for an artist
to have made a study of them! Here is a
grand bay.horse, phot through by an unex
ploded shell,bis left shoulder crushed and a
bole in bis flank half as large as the head of a
flour barrel. ■ Stricken down with his legs un
der him and his chin in the dirt, there was
in bis staring eyes and startling grin the sug
gestion of a. horrible shriek. Here was an
other, shot through ,the head, and prone on
Ins side. " lij. bis struggles .he i had
toru the clo'ver sod with Ins feet, and the
bloody froth, 1 ; blown far' from his nostrils,
spoke of the desperate agony of his dying
breath. A beautiful young mare, in whose
satin skin and handsome limbs, and graceful
head, tipped,with painty ears, any horse fan-'
cier would haVe detected the marks of gentle
blood, had clasped b, er legs as if they were hu
man arms; agdffistf her body; which had been
shot through. Mauy were on their backs,their
legs extended, ffo numerous were they that,
glancing over the' jleld, -horses’ legs could be
seen sticking-ttp ok a'll sides, making a display
that would have been grotesque if it had not
been hideous..,. ~..
The little totviEof • Vionville was heaped
with .The garden walls wei;e over
thrown; the.: houses tJUlVered with shots, and
one that had been fired in the .battle still burn- -
-lug. Evoryhoukeihadibeena slaughter-houso;;,
The Prussians had. removed pearly, all their
dead, - biff the Frenoh corpses:were, so- thick
that one' eoulct but think tho battlo had been
for them, at this point, a massacre. Extend
ing across the Paris road, from Vionville
southward, was- a line on which the French
had stood, their faces toward Paris. How
many miles of corpses there were here, in a
a row; revealing the ground on which the
French had made their last stand ou the sec
ond day, Ido not know, but I certainly saw
two miles of them. Traces of the ferocious*
energy with which the French had sought .to
hurl back the overbearing legions of Ger- 1
many, were still to be seen in tbeirdead faces.
A few bad the look of meekness and resigna
tion, as if death bad not come before visions
of peace, but the many bad a fixed fierceness,
quite tiger-like. ~It was remarkable that this
wild animal aspect was not noticeable among
the fallen Germans. Their attitudes in death
seldom expressed intensity of action, while
the French, in very many instances, had evi
dently received their mortal hurts when every -
nerve and muscle was strained with the ex
citement of some furious endeavor.
A STOBY OF THE SEA.
Thrilling Tale of Storm and Shipwreck
Tlie Spanish Briar national Dashed to
Pieces in a Cyclone—-Sailors Washed
Overboard—The Captain and Five -
of the Crew* Floating on -
the Ocean, Die of Hnn
- ger and Thirst. ■
- The H. Y. Herald says:
The Brig national. <5,
a thoroughly built craft, capable of encounter
ing the roughest weather,left Aguadilla on the
18th of August last, with 500 bales of cotton
and‘Bl4 bags of coffee, under command of
Captain Pablo Berdageur, who, with a ’crew
of nine men and a boy,started on their voyage
to the port of Barcelona, with joyous songs
and hearts beating high at the prospects of a
safe and speedy passage. They proceeded so
pleasantly for the space of eleven days that
their wishes seemed certain of fulfilment, bat
the hour of the dreadful catastrophe which
sent so many of their souls to final judgment
came soon after,
A Cyclone.
On the 28th of August the wind had been
blowing fresh and continued into the night,
but it was nothing like a gale of wind; The
next day, the 29th,/the tempest burst upon
them, and so sudden was the cyclone, or re-_
volving hurricane,that no time’couTd' be had to
reef the sails. Efforts were made to run be
fore tlie storm, but the attempt, was fruitless,
the vessel* broaching to. and the high-rolling
sea carrying every portable thing before it and
almost engulfing her. • W ith every second the
maddened wind blew more furiously and tore
the sails from their fastenings as if they were
paper balloons,-and other seas washed the
deck from stem to stern and . every boat was
carried Into the ocean. /Nothing could be
done with the vessel. The gale gave a whirl
ing direction. This was"the~criticar"m6ment.
Could the struggling vessel have been got be
fore the storm she might have lived anil ridden
out the cyclone in safety.
The Crew’s Efforts.
Captain Berdagenr communicated to his
crew, as well as Tie could, their per Hy-but-at
the time he had no fear that the vessel would
be wrecked He felt the severity of the terri
ble storm, but was confident that he had a
good vessel. The “broaching to” was unex
pected ;it came-snddeulv ns the storm, anrb
desperate work was necessary. As soon as
this occurred the sea poured upon deck and
down tho companionway and forecastle in
volumes, until it was four or five feet deep.
The masts wore attempted to be cut away, but
the wind was blowing worse than a hurricane,
roaring louder than thunder, and the sea chop
ping terribly ngly and dashing in wildly from
all quarters, until at last the masts, as one
more frightful mass of seething waves struck
them, went by the board. Duriug the first
moment of the vessel’s calamity some of the
crew were below, and when the sea poured
in upon them they found themselves buried.
Fifteen Feet Under Water,
and they only fought their way, strangling
and gasping, to the deck ' by the utmost
heroism ana coolness. One of these furious
reas had swept two of the men who were at
the wheel overboard, and they were instantly
lost- ,
Nothing could be done, it was found. The
mate and one or two of the crew lashed them
selves to the of the masts. The cap
tain obtained his chronometer and log book,
meaning to save them if possible, and then
the nine souls
Awaited Their Fate.
They were not long in suspense. Tho vessel;
by the heavy thumping it had received, began
to go to pieces, and its dismemberment was
soon complete, and in the gales, tornadoes, cy
clones, lashing seas, overwhelming waves ana
the whited forms of the crested billows there
was but little cheer for the/ almost drowned
marinem. At last, drifting aboqt subordinate
to the waves, a vast, wild sea washed, like the
report of a cannon, over them, and instantly
the captain and seven 1 men and boy found
themselves on a portion of the deck house,
which had been split from the hull,
Floating iu Mid-Ocean,
;witli these frail, thin plunks only beneath
them. This was in the afternoon of the 29th
of August. Little did these men know what
was in store for them. Little in the midst of
that horribly angry ocean did they reflect,
what their sufferings and their deaths would
be. Hundreds of miles from shore, with
nothing to eat nnd in a vast desert of water,
with “ water, water everywhere, but not a
drop to drink.”
Twenty-four Hours.
The storm subsided in part almost as sud
denly as it came, but the sea was running ugly
and dangerous. The men moved cautiously
about the frail work that kept them from the
bosom of the ocegn, and at first calmly talked
of their condition. - Constant watches were
kept for Bail, but none, appeared. //Nightfall
drew on and without anything to stop the
gnawing of hunger or the quenching of thirst,
they again lashed thomselves as before, and
awaited day. It was with heavy hearts that
tho sufferers returned to their places with but
little hope left to encourage them. They slept
quite profoundly--that might, the first, and
when
Day Again Dawned:
these poor Spanish men looked one to another,
shook their heads, but said but little. The
rest of the story’can soon be told. Day passed,
night again came, and hunger and thirst mad
dened the weakest, and in their delirium they
jumped overboard. Thus went out the life of
Jose; the cabin boy, and thus terminated the
existence of others. The third and fourth
days two of the crew died and dropped into:
tlie sea. The fourth day the' Captain sue-:
• eumbed and liis body: fell into the .watery
waste. ’The fifth day but three remained, the
mate/ Pablo Alsina, and two .of the crew,
Augustin Obiol and Joaquin Peras. Lashing
themselves to the wreck, but with their hands
so as they could use them as well as their ex
hausted condition would aUow-them, to, these
men were also about to give up in despair.
Five .days clinging' to a’ wreck—five days with
out ~ : ■ '/,' ; ' 1 .’■• ~ ’ ,
:■ -, - Food or Wafer I - .
’ There arenotmany similar cases on racord. 1
The testimony of tbo three survivors is that
- hftebthe third day the thought of food soaroiily ;
entered theirminds, but, the burning thirst,
drove thend to distraction.. Five days without,
a drop of water! what a iulraclb of suffering ? ’
PRICE THREE CENTS.
> what heroism that can outlive such a terrible
: ordeal? ; It came to be through this fearful'
: parching 1 - that the men could hardly talk. Each !
■ tongue was swollen and hung within: tha>
{mouth. As it touched the roof of the mouth
it seemed to glue there and scaled off in large
pieces.
Deliverance at Inst.
; On Saturday morning, the 3d ihsfc.,. the first
sail that was seen by the men on ‘the 1 wraofc
came in sight, hnd new hope was' hforuin thtf*
wretched beings, fortunately the veseejhafcv
preached them, and was near enough to on
serve their signs of distress. It proved tube 1
v - The Bark Gazelle, '
of New Haven, Conn., Captain Black, bound
rom Bt. Pierre, Martinique, to thisport, with.
a cargo of Sugar and molasses, and the story
of these waits of the ocean is best told iff the 1
unpretending.words of. the vessel’s -logbodk,
as follows:
September 3, iat. 29 10, lon. 67 17r-At, half
past three P.M.we passed several bales' of
cotton, when.we lowered a boat andpicked ;
up two of them. At four P. M. saw a wrock
with persons on board making, signals of dls- .
tress; pulled down -to them and 1 found what 1
appeared to be the upper part of; a vessel with
cabin house., On this were men—the mat*
and two of the crew of the Spanish brig Ha-' !
cional, from Agnadilla, P. 8., bound to Barce- '
lona, with coffee and cotton. 1 We took them •
on hoard and cared for them. .
The portion of the deck was all that was
left of the brig, wrecked on the 29th of Au
gust. Subsequently we picked up other bales ,
of cotton, fourteen in all, when we squared
away on our course. 1
Yes, “Cared For.”
' As the boat of the Gazelle went along side,
of the wreck it was evident that the three men
were in aperishing condition, and could not
have lived many , hours longer. They woro
kindly lifted on board, and every attention ;
paid to them by the kind-hearted Captain
Black and ills crew. When taken up they i
were almost naked, as they had been for three >
days, the washing seas having -torn. their
clothes into ribbons, and in that manner some
portions of them clung to their ■ bodies. 1 The '
sun had fearfully blistered them, and great
blotches-were on their faces, hands, areas
and bodies. 1 The mate was the stronger -
of the trio, bat his right hand was badly man?
gled by a splinter from the falling mainmast, ;
and it had festeredand swollen to a fearful de
gree. The weakest of the other two was '
Obiol, who had wounds all' over his body, 1
made by the action of the salt water, which t
had cracked the joints, and then their opening
exposed the'mtiscles in a horrible manner.
His left eye was swollen ; and black, the ; side-:
ofif.havingbeen badly cut open by some
falling stick. They had been almost reduced .'
to skeletons.. All were given a teaspoonful of
brandy at first, but even this was too much
for their shattered, systems, and very soon
after its ministration Obiol became uncon
scious. This man required constant attention ;
and nursing to save hls life,'and nothing was7~
left undone, bv direction of the captain,; to
this end/ Besides his own efforts the captain 1
entrusted him to the care pf Jas.A. Goddard, 1
one of the crew, a coloied young-man; who,
by making soups anti giving them and all the
delicacies the ship's stores afforded tb the‘sick
man atreguiar intervals; soon had the satis- :
faction of seeing him walk about.•
WAR NOTES.
The French fleet in the Baltic, whose gal
lant- “officers and men” are sucking their-'
thumbs while their countrymen : are being: r
slaughtered by the wholesale in France,, are
very much annoyed by a little Prussian
steamer called the “Grille,” which 1 reconnoi- 1
tres around the formidable squadron: almost
constantly. The little vessel carries only
guns, but they have an extraordinarily -long
range, and so it is enabled to harass the clum- :
sier French vessels continually. The shape of
the vessel makes it faster than any vessel the,
French have got, so that it can Steam' off 1
whenever an attempt at chase is made.' The
French, aware of this fact, do. not. try it .any. ;
more, but send a few shots at the plucky little
vessel whenever it comes too near. 1 ‘
—When M. About in his letters to the Soir
gets away from himself, his letters are ex- ■
tveuiely interesting.. The following passage
felicitously reflects Paris in its new aspect :
“ Pleasures which formerly constituted thu
great business of life in Paris are so no longer.
Drilling, working, meditating, there ,is,no ‘
longer time or inclination for amusement.
The capital of European good living, whither
M. Haussinann attracted all the eaters*! the
drinkers, the flatterers of the world, has
within a few days assumed a Spartan
aspect. The theatres are closed,. except four
or live which play to empty benches., .Dress
has become plainer; a ggy toilet’ would be as
discordant as a false note. War has restored
the credit of poverty. "We may no w venture
to walk, and we no longer fear to ask four
friends to dine ofl' beef and potatoes.’’
—Astalwart soldier from Pomerania; who’
almost fainted at his arrival In Berlin from the;
terrible heat.in the crowded cars, was tenderly,,
cared for by one.of the ladies of tUo.Sanitary
Committee. She pressed a large bottle of eaa 1
de cologne into his hand, and then hastened to
procure him some refreshments. Eanoy, her,...
astonishment when she returns to find ,
Eatient standing bale and hearty, who hands '
cr the empty bottle, which he had drained tdi:.
the last drop, with the remark that the drink
had refreshed him wonderfully. '
. —While the German soldiers acknowledge
the bravery of the French troops bf the line,
they speak in unmitigated terms of contempt
of the fancy. corps which were deemed tno
crack troops of France, like - the - Throbs, - the ‘
Zouaves, and the Spahis. At the battle of
Woertha whole battalion of Zbuavas asked
for quarter on their knees. A Wurteinburg
officer, writing to tbe Sclaoaebische Merc'ur from
ibis battle-field, writes that he had stood oppo
site the famous Zouaves, and that they had
shown themselves arrant cowards, unworthy
bf the name bf soldiers.
—The Duke of Saxe-Coburg wrote to his
Duchess : •• What fatigues during three days f
(16th—18th). Two battles I was on horseback’
for thirty hours without a chance of getting a
morsel'of bread, or a drop of water or wine to
wet my lips. Not one ot us had any resources
but those he carried aoout him. Yesterday
evening I got my first spoonful of soup. Wo
were so worn out that sleep was an impossi
bility. The noise was frightful. I fear. a re- .
newal of these terrible days. God preservo us.’’
The insufficiency of the help for toe wounded ;
was confirmed by another letter, from the
Duke of fcaxe-Memingen. The misery and
suffering are beyond all conception. All tho .
localities are crammed with the wounded; no
surgeons—no bandages. If 9uoh was the suffer- -
ing of princes, what must have been the misery- -
of the soldiery ? .
—When the Pope received the replyfromt.'-
the King of Prussia to the mediatory letter ;
the Father had addressed to him there waa
great excitement In Roman diplomatic oircles.
Pius 1X.,. usually very frapk ' and ofitspoken/ ’
was at first quite reserved; Ho raised hls hand 3 1
and exolaimed, “ Halm < noSlra ex • inimicis
.nostrisl ” Just how the Prussians are in high
favor at Rome, At Viterbo the officer in com- -
mand asked permission to; fortify the passes
of the Tiber and the rallrpad to Florence. .
,—A Berlin paporstates: <*One of the Tur- ;
coe captured’at the’ battle of j
stated that lie liad arrived on the field wjth, . .
his regimont; from Africa, at 12 o’clock noon. ,
De was captured at l'P. M. Next morning at
’ 5 o’clock, he bceakfasted at Frankfort.aad'oh ■ ■ ’
the sameOvening, at 6 o’clook, he .tuß or?,
• supper.iu Berlin. Tho .line from Algeria
.Berlin, it will’be seen,' Is open for travelers.
■who axe expedited with the greatest despateiu*
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