VOLUME XXIV-NO. 134. fXTEDDINO CARDS, INVITATIONS YT for Parties, Ae. New stylos, MASON A CO., 907 Chestnut street. doSOlmw tfl The celebrated (original Ber wick, ME.) BERWICK SPONGE CAKE. MAPE-ANB-SOJiB'ONI/T---- —> BY gl 00 PER BOX DIED. BON3ALL.—On Second day morning, the 12th Inst., in the 72d year of her ugc, Mary B. Bonsull, wife of Ed ward 11. Bonbail. Hor friends and those of the family arc invited to at tend her funeral, from bor husband’s residence. No. 145 School Lane,Germantown, on Fifth-day, the 16th inst., ut 3 o'clock P.M, Carriages will meet the 2 o’clock train from the city at the Germantown Depot. * liRAY.—On Monday, 12th Inst., Samuel Bray. The relatives and friends of the family, also Keystone Lodge, No. 771, A. Y. M., are respectfully invited to ut tend the fnnerul, from his late residence. Elm street, be tween Thirty-fourth uud Thirty-fifth (late Mantua), on Thursday afternoon next, IGtli Ihsr ~ at 25$"o'cV>ck. To proceed to Mount Moriah Cemetery, [hewxork and Baltimore papers please copy.J • . * GBAFF.—Suddenly, on. Monday afternoon, Mrs.-Ju. dlth Graff, widow of the late Frederick Gruff. Funeral from her Into residence, 1337 Arch street, on Thursday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. , " WITHER.—On Monday, 12th laflt., Sarah' A., daugh ter .of .thelate Jacob W.itruer... ....... ... • .. F mitral from Ur. Boardman’s Church, Twolfth and Walnut streets, on Thur»carahee. the new fall Shade. Plain Silk# from §125 to 66 per yard. Eure cod diver oil, citrate ; JOnNjg. BA.KER & C0.,71!! Marftotßt,. SPECIAL NOTICED. B*l© and THE MOST FASTIDIOUS PRONOUNCE WANAMAKER’S NEW .'TOOK Of FALL OVER S u perb ! ! • Kveiithos? who hare-no- d<«jire to purchase are invited t,. examine these U-;*U. Th:y are *• AVorks of Art.’’ [£P» LYONS GROS GRAIN BLACK SILKS, #1 73 i _ 82 OOT " 82 23 j 82 50 82 75 I 85*0 ’> A. YARD. 83 25 93 50 ' 84 OO I 81 50 ! 85 00 i BESSON & SON, MOURNING DRY GOODB HOUSE, No. 918 CHESTNUT STREET. se]3 3trp . Horticultural Harvest Home. AUTUMNAL EXHIBITION Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, HORTICULTURAL HALL, BROAD STREET. Tuesday, Wednesday,TTrarsday* Friday September 13,14,16 and 16, Froip 10 o'clock A. M. toIOP.M. MUSIC AND SONG. Promenade Concerts Every Evening, By invisible Musicians and Singers, concealed within a Bower of Plants. Germania Band* Chorus of 100 Voices. ADMISSION ~ FIFTY CENTS. be 13 Hi |K3* REOPENING OF DIVINITY SCHOOL.—The address to the Students of the Divinity School of the P. E. Church will be delivered by the Dean, tho Rev. Dr. GOODWIN, on THURSDAY AFTERNOON at 4 o’clock, in the Church, of Our Saviour*.West Philadelphia. Tho friends of the school ate invited to bo present. It IKS* THE GREATEST NOVELTY OF the ago is the Hess Seli>Watkring Flower Casket, for holding nntural dowers, now on exhibi tion at the Horticultural Fair. Manufactured and bold by the inventor, sel43r UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYL- Udy VANIA.—The CollegoYoar will open on THURS DAY, September 15. Candidates for admission will pre sent tliGinsolyes for examination qt 10Jio?clock on that day. FRANCIS A. JACKSON, seslotrp§ ' ; ; Secretary. Irs» IF YOU WANT THE ORIGINAL White Mountain Cake, go to DEXTER’S, 240 South Fifteenth 6treet. • aol2-m w flm lpa NOS.~ISIB Vi£r and 1520 Lombard street, Dispensary Department, —Medical treatment nd medicine furnished gratuitously o the poor POLITICAL NOTICES. KF Republican Invincibles of Philada. first gen of the campaign. REPUBLICAN; MASS MEETING, Under the ffifspicoa of the Republican Invincibles of Philadelphia, On Wednesday Evening, Sept. 14, • AT OONOERT .HALL, , CHESTNUT STREET, ABOVE TWELFTH, ... The meeting will be addressed by • Hon: R. Stookett Mathews) of Baltimore. LADIES ESPECIALLY INVITED. : ALEX. P. COLEBBERRY, President.- .1. EBEN HARKINS, Secretary. A. WILSON HENSZEY, . ’, , Cljairmnn Committed on Mootings. sol23lrp§ “wIL Naturalization OommlttoowUl act daily at Mr.N, fc>OBY-b r 4IC-Librar>’ street* from 10 until 2 o’clock. JOSEPH It: ASH, Chairman. R E P U ff LI C : G. BYIION MOBBE, 902 ABCII STRF.ET. enSCt j CHESTNUT STREET. let Di*li ict—BENJAMIN-F. HECKLE. M “ IH»N. CHABLEB O'NEILL. 3d >•- - HON. LEONABD MVEBB. itu >• HON. WILLIAM B. KELLEV 6th “ ALFRED O.IIABMEB. COATS let I'istrict-nAMUEL P. THOMSON. 2d “ WILLIAM 11. STEVENSON. VI - WILLIAM KELLK.Y. Hh •• WILLIAM ELLIOT. 6th • WILLIAM DUFFY, Oth “ COL. CHARLES KLECKNEK. 7th •• ROBERT JOHNSTON, ah- *• WILLIAM L. MARSHALL.. I'th “ WILLIAM H. PORTER. 10th •- JOHN E. ItEYBURN. Uth .SAMUEL M. HAOEIt. 12th ■ JOHN LAMON. 13th '• JOHN DUMBELL. nth •' JOHN CLOUD. '■ ~AD AM ALL-BfI&JHT. ]«h - WILLIAM F. S3IITH. I,'rh - WATSON COMLY. 15tl, •' JAMES MILLER. By order of the City Executive Committee. JOBS L. HILL, President M.’c' •]!^:| L '-° Cr ' n ' } Secretaries. S*H I? 20 22 21 27 23 ocl 3 i 6 0 7 S 10 11 Headquarters Union Republican Citj Executive Committee, September loth, 1870. At a meeting of the Committee, held on the afternoon of the above date, The report of the Sub-committee, appointed to reorganize the Twenty-sixth Ward Execu tive Committee, was received, as follows : The Committee met in pursuance of resolu tion passed by this body and organized said committee by the election of the following officers: President,.. Joshua . Russell Secr etaries, Robert T. Gill and Alexander Stewart, when the following resolution was unani mously adopted: Pesolved, That this Committee/fecognize the Committee as above organized as the only Republican Executive Committee of said Ward, and the following as the ' Ward ticket: Select. Council.— James B. Alexander. , Common Coimo/’t—Captain Win. Thornton, Robert Briggs. N-/.0 0l Director? —Francis Gwynn, Sr., John R. Huhn, John Kessler. Constables— Alexander McNoil, .John Laird. By order of the Union Republican City Executive Coinmittoe. JOHN SI. HESS, 123 S Columbia avenue, [£§?■ Second Congressional District. At a meeting of the Oflicers and Executive Committee of the Union Republican State Central Committee, held at the Girard House, on Wednesday, the 14th day of September, the following resolution was unanimously adopted, viz.: . Pesolvcd, That the Republican City Execu tive Committee having decided that Hon. CHARLES O’NEILL is the regular Republi can candidate in the Second District, the officers, of the State Central Committee, in conjunction with the Executive Committee, wbowere charged by the State Commit tee , with the general management of the campaign will use all their exertions to se cure the election of Hoti. OHAS. O’NEILL. -- JOHN COY ODE. Geo. W. Hammijusdy, M. S. Quay, lB7O, 1870. SHERIFF, TEN FRAMES VhM S IBM Walnut hr . PETEB POLITICAL NOTICES. tt'p” UNION JUDICIARY. Judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions: A EDWARD M. PAXBON, THOMAS K. FINLF.TTEK. Judge of the District Court JAMES LYND, COUNTY. Sheriff: WILLIAM B. LEEDS. Register of Wills: WILLIAM M. BUNN, Late private 72d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers Clerk of the. Orphans' Court : SEItOT. JOSEPH C. TITTERMARY CITY. Receiver of Tares : ROBERT 11. BEATTY. City Commissioner : CAPTAIN JAMES BAIN CONGRESSIONAL. Senator—Third District BENJ. F. THOMAS. ASSEMBLY. 1105 Chestnut Street. JOHN L. HILL, President. Joiix Mtl’n.i.oi'on,) c M.ahshai.u C. Hong, J Secretaries. It* Secretaries, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER H, 1870. THE WAR IN EUROPE THIERS IN ENGLAND His Interview with Earl Granville— The Result—Full Particulars. [By Cabli-.J London, Sept. .13.—M. Thiers- arrived in London yesterday He was accompanied by live ladies of his family, including Miss Pre yost-Paradol, who have come to seek refuge in England during the war. Their baggage tilled four cabs, and as no room could be found for them in any of the hotels, they went to the French Embassy. Interview With Karl Granville. Tliisafternoon Earl Granville called oil AI. Thiers at the 'French Embassy. Although M. Thiers came fully, ciualified by the . French government, he could not be received in. Downing street, as the English government will not yet Tecognize the republic. Earl Granville,,however, conferred, with him. is the representative of the. de facto government of France, Bemi-offieially. The Earl exhibi ted all.his well-known courtesy and suavity. Karl Granville Palavers Tillers. His Lordship said: “ I hope you will allow me to express the deep regret with which as an individual I have seen so many misfortunes befall France, a country allied in so’ many ways with England. If my earnest wishes could be of. ahy aval 1, peace would 'soon ’re store to her hor former prosperity.” ' Thiers Replic'lnUh IHsullr. AI. Thiers replied : “France is quite , able and determined to defend herself against all-J foes; but she earnestly desires peace, and it is/ for that reason that by me she now asks Eag-f land, upon whoso action all the powers ot Euroi>e are now waiting, to join them in se curing for heT snch terms of peace as she can honorably accept. She will accept-no terms that are not honorable.” -, Karl Granville Deprecates. Earl Granville replied; “I do not see how England can interfere, but I think I may say that, while preserving a strict neutrality, Eng land will present to Prussia any propositions ofi'ered by France, and act the: part of. a sin-. cere friend. It cannot, however, be expected that England will join any power in utterlno - threat to Prussia ; nor can England eve- -'t 1 tively promise to urge uponPrussi' V,b« iceen" tance of any oiler which Fra*:' oe m „ he dT posed to make to heT ” ma - v 00 ms r_ Tlilera Clones the Subject. Thiers firtaly but courteously said upon ‘bis that he saw nothing to be looked for from England, then, in the matter, and that the ne gotiations undertaken by Continental powers, with a hope of England’s co-operation, must probably be suffered to fall through. ’ The in terview shortly after ended. K Meet of tlielu tor view In London. Upon the making public.late this afternoon, Qf the above interview an impromptu meeting of the people was called, and a great crowd assembled in Trafalgar square. . There were many speakers, among them Air. Odger and Mr,Justin.AlcCartby, and the government was denounced in the bitterest and mast uh meamred terms for its course towards the French republic. The Cabinet was declared to be a Cabinet of treason to human Tightsand to the peace of Europe. . The ex ample of America was invoked, amid the mast tremendous cheers from the multitude. Jmnicusempplause. that if the right of the people to establish a re public in Fj-ance was to be denied it would soon become the duty of the people to estab lish a republic in England. A great demo cratio meeting is called to be held in Hvde Park on Sunday next, and it is in contempla tion to form a grand democratic possession in honor of the establishment of the French re public. Democratic meetings are announced with the same object in Manchester,Birming ham, Preston and Edinburgh. — World. The Austro-Rnsslan Combination. London, Sept. 13.— The Journal de St. Petcrs burn, at hand to-day, contains nothing of the character of certain extracts professedly made from it in telegrams sent to this countrv re cently from Belgium. On the contrary, it ex plicitly says that “ an understanding has been reached by two powers hitberto.neutral, with the object of uniting to put an end to the war, and causing it to be succeeded by a peace which shall not leave the defeated party the pain of losing any portion of its territory.” Tbe two powers here spoken of are under stood to be Russia and Austria, the signs upon which I have so often observed to you of an anti-Prussian joint action of these states being greatly multiplied Bince the return of Count CliOtek to Vienna. Prince Gortchakoli is re-, ported to have said- at-dinnerropenly t- 1 - We are disposed to forgive 1854 in the present most satis factory behavior to us of Vienna.'' -World. ■' . Death Taking Up Arms Himself. Ostexd, Sept. 13.—Late advices from Se dan, by way ot Charleroi, inform us that the German armies have been compelled to move from the frontier, not Only by constant deser tions into Belgium, but by the outbreak of a typhoij type. The mortality.both in the Ger man army and among the inhabitants of that region is fearful. The improvised hos pitals are gorged, i and the sick and the dying in many cases forced to lie to the-inclemency of the weather, which is very-bad. A single Bava rian regiment has lost more men by illness since the surrender than in the four, actions in which it was engaged before the surrender. Nothing but the skeleton of the regiment re mains. Ah awful stench pervades the air for miles from the thinly covered graves of the fallen and from tho putrefying remains of un buried horses. The pestilence is spreading through the villages in the vicinity. It is in tended to establish a sanitary cordon on the Belgian frontier.—ll'o rid. f By Cable.] on to no.in;. The Italian Advance. London, Sept. 13.—Telegrams from Florence announce to-night that the advance of the military divisions of Bologna and Pisa had yesterclay afternoon advanced as far as Monte Rotondo on their way to Rome. The Zou aves of Colonel Charette retire before them as they advance, and no collision has taken place. The understanding arrived at by the Italian Government • in the cohterences between Monsignor Nardi and the Italian generals, of which I some time since notified you, has been communicated bv the ministry of Victor Emmanuel to the foreign representatives. It is believed tbe opposition made to the final entry of the Italian, army into Rome will be absolutely nominal, all tbe ablest advisers qf his Holiness concurring in the j'ollyjofjiuy attempt at hos tilities. The ' f'-■•eminent, of the King of -JtalyM((torsr-his Hoitness the most, positive as tsurajieosr’that-JiisJfjdependehce ana authority in all spiritual afiairs shall befully guaranteed, together 1 with bis absolute of tho Vatican Palace, of the Leonine cityfand of all the ecclesiastical .edifices,.excepting tho convents, which cahqotr be sutt'erea to-exist in their present condition ,ijf the , populav vote shall confer ou the Italian monarchy the oity- and ■ Btate-of Rome. - It.is not thought heroCthat - the-Pppe-will accept the propositions of the Italian government; but ' itis not seen that anything call bodoiib tb iire veut tlie-consuinination- of the Italian plan, wore it even desirable to prevent it. The tu mor of the Pope’s intention to seek refuge, on. board a British man-of-war is . denied authori tatively. The gfriendly relations betwoen Italy and England make itimpossible thatsuch a step can be permitted by the British govern ment,—World. J ■ ■ The Bepnbllc&a Platfbrm. The march on Borne, althouglTlt is cou dntited under the shadow of the royal flag of .Italy,us really moved forward By,' the moral force of Ilepublicanism of the Italian people, which U more powerful than the throne. King Victor Emmanuel is the servant of the popular will. What this will is. and in what direction, It now tends, was expressed a short time since in a manifesto of the Universal Republican Alliance, issued in Alilan and circulated by its central committee of the southern provinces of Italy. This document testified to the impa tience of the republican party of Italy to dis play their fiag in its entirety, “only one fold of which has as yet been seen,” and to march forward. One passage of the paper runs thus: Our clones am nil re publican. Dante, Michael An celo, Ferruccio,Galileo, Savonarola, Allied, Giordano Bruno. Foscolo. Arnaldo de Brescia —allthoseivereaol- dicrß of tli.-jt grand idea. And when tho other States ot Kurope indulged in the aleep of .elaveß our comninnpa— isolated .. detachments of -a great amir— sustained a gigantic struggle against tyranny, ami indicated in the Lomnard League the .future conimouwealth of the nation. At present It la no longer to the detached towns that we ought- to look, but 'to a union of th'-ni, grouped among themselves, in order to give to the conutry unity with liberty. Are we not the eidOßt of the Latin race ? And under the shadow of our tlag are there not to-day visiblo two grand iigures which have no wpiai among any other pconlo—Garibaldi and Mazafnif The proclamation has affixed to it the words: “Liberty! Fraternity! Equality! Labor!” The seal is red and with the same legend. The Temporal ConditionofUiePapitcy, .. When the Italians arc installed in-Rome the civil administration will be beset with a num ber of first and perplexing difficulties. The chief one of these will be the matter of public finance—a list of embarrassments to which the King of Italy -has already become slightly familiar in Florence. The Papal Trea sury budget is really in a bad way, notwith standing the contributions of the faithful during the Council. The civil executive, of Rome lias not published a regular budget of income and expenditure during the past fotfr years. One of tho latest and most reliable ex hibits of the Treasury Exchequer Depar>— „ : of his Holiness shows that the ann- „. of the Papal government *”-3 snue usual sources amo"-' .■' 1 tS] e oc°Si elm nn £;0 »■ -Hltfl lR .lw)4 to *n)j000>000 401 -•j>'JOO,000. The public debt at the hu _.e date was stated as follows: „ Francs. ConFolHliiUd 150^00,000 Rothschild and Barodi 10an..... 110,000,000 Pensions, 6undry charges and donations... 90,000,000 Loan of 1800. 50,000.000 Consolidated ( Marcjj. lo 61) 10,000^)00 Consolidated (November, 1861) 30 ,000,000 Loan of 1563 .7. 20,000,000 T0fa1.........:....,..... ......... ..„460,0M.5W So that in the begtnntngot 1805 the Pope was, commercially speaking, insolvent, if to owe one hundred millions of dollars in gold; and to be unable to pay the interest, deserves to be called insolvency. Besides his territorial revenue income the total result of five years’ collections of Peter’s pence was thirty-seven millions of francs, or about five and one-halt millions of dollars, or seven millions and a half of francs annually contributed by two hundred millions of Catholics—something less than ninepence sterling a head. Cardinal Antonelli on ttie Papal In- fallibility. "A letter on the above subject has recently been addressed by Cardinal Antonelli, from Rome to'the Apostolic Nuncio at, Brussels, and has been forwarded by the latter to Archbishop Manning for publication to the “faithful” in . England, and the latter Tirderetl“nt“ta~be "read ■“aloud - tn““all _ tU'e~ churches and chapels of the Roman C oinmunion. _t.hrojigho.ut. his archdiocese on Sunday last, as he “ lindLs a want of accurate knowledge still to exist in some men’s minds on the subject.” The translation of the text of the letter runs as follows : “ It has been made known to the Holy See that some among the faithful, and perhaps even among the Bishops, also, are ot opinion that the Apostolic Constitution, which was put forth in the ses sion of the (Ecumenical Council of the Vati can on the 18th day of the month of July last, j will not he of obligation until it has* been j solemnly published by some further act of the Holy See. How strange, however. I such a supposition is, any one may easily ! know. The Constitution in .piestion had the most solemn publication possible on the very day upon.which, in the Vatican Basilica, it was solemnly confirmed and promulgated by the Sovereign Pontiff in the presence of above 500 Bishops ; in consequence of which it was, according to the well-known rule, made obligatory for the whole Catholic world, without need of any other publication what soever.” [By CnM*.J ROUMANTA. Tbe Recent Insurrection. I.nMiON, Sept. 13.—Some furtherparriculars of the abortive Roumanian insurrection, al ready announced by telegraph last week,have been received from Bucharest. The:, revolu tionary party, which has great influence in the towns of Pileschti.Crajova and Plojeschti, took the opportunity of the departure of the greater part of the garrison of the latter town to organize an outbreak. A mob of sev eral hundreds of men passed through the streets, arrested the prefect, and proclaimed a republic. The firemen and National Guard fraternized with them. The company of in tautry, which formed the whole of the garri son. remained in the barracks, and the insur gents thus were enabled to seize the public treasury and the telegraph office. Aprovisional goverumentwas appointed, with -M. N. Go lesco, late Minister President, at its head. This government, however, did not hold office long. Troops wore sent from Bucharest, upon which both the insurgents and their leaders took to flight. Several of them were arrested soon after, including M. Goleseo. Another in surrection, in favor of the ex-Prince Uouza, has taken place at Turn-Severin, but it has also been suppressed without bloodshed.— World. [By Mail,] A Most Dolorous Procession of country carts, moving vans, and even hand barrows filled with the cares and penates of pea-ants within twelve miles of Paris have been passing my window since OA, M. There are not less than sixty vehicles an hour. The expression of the people in them is stolid despair. Their swarthy features were rigid as marble. They looked straight forward. More than once people on the sidewalk wrung their hands and sobbed, “Mon Dieu ! - Quel malhcur! Qofl malheitr ! Quel malhcur'.” The peasants’ heads did not swerve. I question if they hoard the wail so completely were they wrapt up in thoughts of their ruin. While I was at my window a shopwomau under mo appealed: 11 Oh I Monsieur, was the like of this ever seen in France before?” “ Yes, the Napoleons have never failed, to bring such scenes to France,” I answered. She ejaculated : “Oh : they are done for now. He . and Ig petit (the Imperial Prince)-will never see Paris again.” .-pons Jotllai:. - ■ " . The'Uhlans. So muclbhas been said, of. tho uhlans, aud so little is known o'f,them', that the following portraiture of this .'military type will he ac cepted with satisfaction, with some grains of alfowancej'or the writer’s exaggerations : t, “The French appetito forpicturesque char acter is happily insatiable, and the artistic in sight qf the, spectators of the war has not failed to pick out ;a personage whoso individ uality is a very marked one. indoea, partaking as it (loes of 'a' half melodramatic "atid half humorous type. ? This is tlie Prussian uhlan. •He is a horse-soldier—>a lancer; and the war riors of his name.with whom we have hitherto been most familiar wore tho Anstriau uhlans, in their scanty white tunics, their tight blue pantaloons and lace-up- boots. Tho Prussian uhlan of 1870 seems destined to fill in French legendary chronicles the place which during the invasions of 1814-1815, was occupied bv the Cossacks. “ He is a great traveler. Nancv, Bar-le-Duc, Commercy, Bheims, Chalons' St, Divier, Chauniount, have all heard of him. The uhlan makes himself quite at home, and drops in, entirely in a friendly way, on mayors and corporations, asking not only himself to din ner, but an indefinite number of additional uhlans,who, he says, may be expected hourly. The uhlan wears a blue uniform,turnedup with yellow, and to the end of his lance is affixed a streamerjintimately resembling a very dirty white pocket handkerchief. Sometimes he hunts in couples, sometimes lie goes in threes, and sometimes in fives. When he lights upon a village he bolds It to ransom; when he comes upon a city he captures it, making it literally the prisoner of his bow and spear. A writer in Blnelnrood’t Magazine once drove the people of .Lancashire to madness by declaring that, in the rebellion of 1745, Manchester “was taken by a Scots sergeant and a wench but it is a notorious fact that Nancy submitted' without a mnrnrar to five uhlans, and that Bar-le-Duc •was occupied by two. When the uhlan ar rives in a conquered city he visits the mayor; and makes his, usual inordinate demands tor meat, drink and cigars. If his demands are acceded to he accepts everything rrith a grin. If he is refused he remarks, likewise with a grin, that ho will come again to-morrow with three-thousand light horsemen, and he gallops away; but in many cases he does not return.. The secret of the fellow’s success Jie3 mainly in his unblushing impudence, his_ easy mendacity and that intimate' knowledge of every highway and byway of the country, which,’thanks to thb military organization of - the Prussian army, he has acquired in the regimental school. He gives himself out to be the precursor of an imminently advancing army, when, after all, he is only a troldly ad venturous free lance,-, who -ball' ridden thirty miles across country on the chance of Dicking up something in the way of* infor mation or victuals, ■ Ojuh*. one more touch t 0 ioinpiete "the portrait of the iiuian His veritable name would'seem to.be .nans Breitmann, and his vocation that of a ‘ bummer;’ and Breitmann,we learn from the preface to Mr. Leland’s ballad, had a proto type in a regiment of Pennsylvania cavalry .by the name of Jost,- whose proficiency in: /-bumming,’ otherwise ‘looting,’, in swearing, fighting and drinking lager beer, raised him to a pitch of glory on the federal side which excited at once the envy and the admiration of the boldest-biishwhackers and the gauntest guerillas of the confederate host. ITEMS OF.GENERAL INTEREST. The First French Easle In Berlin. • A correspondent of an English journal, writing from Berlin, thus describes the cere monious entry into thaf ctcy of the first French eagle captured by the German troops : “Two officers, one of whom wore many decorations—his companion beiDg a lieutenant of the Sixth _ Silesian infantry regiineut, by whom the trophy was taken—sat in an open carriage, holding between them the object of curious and joyful regard. The eagle itself, a remarkably line specimen of carving and gild ing, was perched on the top of a pole ton feet high; and beneath the imperial bird waved the French tricolor. This honored standard, which was not rclimpiished without a severe struggle, was won from the Thirty-sixth French infantry regiment. As the carriage, preceded by two of the mounted police, passed under the Brandenburg Gate, on its way from the -POtsdom- Railway—station,-the- guard turned out and presented arms. The eagle was taken first to the house of the com mandant at Berlin, and afterwards" to the" iSehloss, where it was presented to the Queen.” A Carlons Story. The following curious; passage is from a Roman Catholic journal of London, generally well informed and careful irfits statements : The secret societies have been at work again ; and because the Emperor was ever faithful to the Holy See, they have had their impious revenge on him. Bismarck, the head of the German sect, has had his way for the time, and France and her ruler, because of their joint fidelity to that church, whose eldest son her Emperor is proud to be styled, are marked out for destruction. But that very fidelity shall yet be her salvation : and, though it maybe that God for His own purposes chooses to" seem to humiliate her, it is only that he may briDg her nearer to himself, anil in the end restore her to her rightful place amongst nations. Adsitfausta diet, Strasbourg- by Night. A correspondent within the fortifications of Strasbourg vividly sets forth the scene pre sented nightly in that beleaguered town: ‘•Day is the time for rest in the lines before Strasbourg. At night men gird up their loins and prepare for work.; then pioueers and fatigue parties go forth to their labor under the friendly cover of the darkness; and then, too, in their turn, the French gunners peer into the night and open their heaviest fire on every speck of light that indicates the presence of the foe, and on every spot where they think it likely that working “may be going on. The view of the beleaguered town at uight from the calu of the Lion d’Or, at Brumath, was beautiful—beautiful, but awful. A great con flagration lit up the lurid sky iu the direction of Ruprechtsau, and the trembling townsfolk whispered among themselves that tho ‘Min ster’ was in flames; they were wrong, for in tho morning the tall cathedral spire still pointed grandly to. the. sky. Instantanoous flashes as of lightning issued every second from the heavy canopy of smoke,- and were followed iu a tew moments by. tho dull rever berating roar of the heavy guns, while every notv and then a shell would Durst in the air, scattering points of vivid light through the blackness of the night. It was beautiful, but the beauty was internal, like that of a tiger, or of the ocean in a storm. At midnight the lire was raging terribly, and the whole sky was lighted up with the brightness of the flames.’ Aifother correspondent,on the Prussian side, says : The conduct of the French commandant, General Ulrich, I am sorry to say, has ren dered) the people about here indignant. He has wilfully directed his fire on the entirely defenceless town of ICelil, and absolutolv gutted it. lam not exaggerating. What "1 here state I would not have believed but on the authority of ocular demonstration. Kehl does not any longer exist. There is not ono house in it that is not move or less battered to pieces. It is a mass of flaming and-smoulder ing masonry. Such scenes of ruthless devas tation are in the character of tho proceedings of the French in the days of Melac ; and the result is a furious exasperation on the part of an absolutely ruined population. Alsace and I.orrnlue. Tlui Provincial Correspondent publishes an article, headed " Germany’s Wishes with re gard to Alsace and .Lorraine.’’ The article says: V " V These provinces which wore torii away from tho German Empire have become France’s chief points of support for monaciug attacks upon Germany. How ■ should it be possible, after tho glorious victories of the German army, after the-re-conquest of two old Ger man provinces, and after the heavy and costly sacrifices by whioh.ourtriiunpli has beon gained how should it be possible to avoid, the ir resistible conviction that tho honorrind the safety of Germany - imperatively demand the removal f of.‘ tlie lasting' shame—a' Gnmian country serving as astartingpointfor German enslavement? Tho European Powers, true to the attitude of neutrality which they have as sumed, will not arbitrarily endeavov to arrest tlie consequences of tlic wav, so long as no substantial European interest is not injured by PRICE THREE -CENTS. me conditions of the treaty of peace. The German people, however, is conscious that in its demand it does not aim at any preponder ance over other nations which might endan ger the so-called European equilibrium, but which it intends-to wring' for itself and for other nations from the old enemr of the peace of Europe. The War and the Paris Shopkeepers. Alas for the shopkeepers of Paris ! their in terests are suffering terribly from tlie state of siege. Everybody who can get away is either going or has gone, and the gay shops of the Kite de la Paix and the Palais Royafare de serted lw that noble army of tourists who used to spend their money so freely on exorbitant trifles. Tradesmen and clerks are seated, like owls in the desert upon the chairs once re served for the accommodation of their wealthy customers, and they hang around the doom with a disconsolate air vainly waiting for the coming man. And how they smile and fawn, if by any chance they are called upon to show their,goods to some ultra cou rageous foreigner who has braved the dangers of being shut up in the about-to-be-beleaguered the hope_qf picking up. bargains!, .It. . is indeed a great time for adventurous people of the Toodles stamp; you can buy what you went at your own price, for the Bon Marche and Coin de Rue will make any sacrifice t© get rid of their stock. “So offer refused” is the motto adopted everywhere, for nobody has any money, or at least no one seems dis posed to spend it save for necessaries at this time, when a week may see them forced to. -fly,Hke Eneas fronaTroy,with their household- —— goods and Infirm relatives on their, shoulders. The powdered flunkey who used to open, the door to I.aure’s customers has gone to the .' wars, and the neat little sonbrette who has taken his place can doze away the. weary hours without any fear of being caught nap ping. There are no more rows of fashionable coupes stationed in long, files before Worth's or Pingaid’s emporiums of taste; and the great Auguste’s occupation is,(like Othello’s, gone. Like Xchabod all the purveyors 1 to fashion and luxury - can cry out that their glory has departed: while doubtless they gnash their teeth and say: How long, O Lord, ' how long!— Paris cor. A. Y. Post. Will Hnssia Interfere ? A correspondent at St. Petersburg, writing oil the 23d lilt., says: “The general impression here is that the Government will soon aban don its neutral attitude; and many even say that it has remained neutral too long already. Judging by appearancear^whlch^ho : in diplomacy least of all to be depended upon —the Government has, since the return of Prince-Gortchakofi', turned from its oid Prus- sian leanings completely, to the side of France.- General Fleury, the French Ambassador, is received with marked distinction at Courf: the Smperor is constantly seen walking about with him inclose conversation, and leaning on his arm. On the loth there was a grand religious service In the French chapel, !_aa usual, and the Emperor was represented not. only by a general officer, but also by . the Di rector of the Foreign Office,. Baron West manu. It is currently reported here; and the rumor is believed a in . welMnformed quarters, _ that: the Government , has pledged itself not to allow a diminution of the territory of France under any-circum stances. An understanding to this effect is stated to have been arrived at with Austria and Italy, and the latter State, as the one most prepared for war, is to lead the attack on Prussia should she refuse to accept the terms to be proposed by the neutral Powers. ’There is also a vaguereport that'England isTrrsbme rr_ ~ way or other involved in this understanding. That Russian diplomacy is very active just now is certain, and the semi-official contradic tion in the Journal de k't. Petersbourg of the evidently premature news published bv a Bel gian paper about an agreement between Rus sia and England to prevent a dismemberment of France, loses much of its force by being coupled with the assurance that ‘ Russia feels a very sincere sympathy for Franco,’ and/tke admission that *it is probable that the wishes of these two Powers, which,remained neutral during the conflict, will now unite with the object of putting an end to the war * * ■* anil causing it to be succeeded by a peace which shall not leave to the defeated party * * * the pain of losing a portion of its territory.’ ” COTTON. Annual Statement of the Cotton Cron or tbe United States for 18(50-70. [From tho Charleston Courier.] The summing up of the crop of 18G0-70 is 3,203,828 bales, an increase in production of 845,439 bales over 18G8-G9. This inorease has been mainly absorbed by European countries, as will be seen by the annexed comparative statement ef foreign exports for the past two To Great Britain.. To France To North of Europe, Spain, etc Increase... 720,790' After making the necessary, deductions, there is left for home consumption, North and South, 901,8-12 bales. AVe .ha.ve put down .for Southern consumption 112,000 bales, which in cludes 12,000. hales taken for consumption in Virginia, and counted in the exportsfrohi that State, leaving for Northern consumption 852,i 812 bales, against 840,720 in 1809, showing an increase of 12,122 bales. > From a letter dated Ist inst., received from B. F. Nourse, Esq., erf Boston, Chairman of the Statistical Committee of. the Manufac turers’ and Planters’ Association of the doited States, an increase of 1 per cent, in Northern consumption is assumed the past year, over that of 1808-Oil, which shows an increase of 8,407 bales, thus making, according to Mr. Nourso’s assumption, the past year’s consump tion 849,127 bales. Our figures show the North ern consumption the past year to be 802,842 bales, a difference of only 0,710 bales. The value of the crop of the past year (1869- 70,) maybe put down in found numbers at $320,000,000. This immense amount of money has been of incalculable benefit to tho entire country. The summing up of the crop exceeds the estimates of the most sanguine in the early part of the past season from a half to-three quarters of a million of bales, which proves the utter fallacy of the many advance state ments of growing crops, which are heralded throughout Europe and the Northern States for the purpose of affecting prices. Such statements work great injury to the planter as well as the buyer and consumer. —The Prussian Cabinet Is pretty well repre sented in the German army. Of the. eight ■ ministers two are unmarried, .the Count of Eulenberg, Interior, and Camphaussen, Fi nance, while another- Minister has no sons. The other live Ministers have' sent eleven of' their sons to the army. The Prime Minister, Count Bismarck, has two sons in the army, the Minister of War, Vonßoon, hasfoursohs, . OountTtzinplitz has ono son, tho Minister of Agriculture, Von Selehow, has two sons, and the Minister of Justice, Leonhardt, also two sons in the army. Of these eleven sons five are officers and six non-commissioned officers orprivates. . sir.” said an astonished landlady to a traveler who had jnstsent his cup forwardfor the seventh time, “ von must be very fond of coffee.” “ Yes, madame, I am," lie replied,” or I never should have drank so much water to get a little,” 1809. mo.- ..1.478,849 989,492 .. 341 >,481) 224,188 848,844 , 233,650 2,174,123 1,447,327 1,447,327 '