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|K3* REOPENING OF DIVINITY
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Divinity School of the P. E. Church will be delivered
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AFTERNOON at 4 o’clock, in the Church, of Our
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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 '