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POLITICAL NOTICES.
O^Ef]iublicaDExecu(iveCoinmittee..
NINTH WARD.
At a meeting held this date the following
preamble and resolution were adopted:
Whereas; The Hon. Charles O’Keil has re
ceived the nomination of the Republican
party as their candidate for Congress from
Second District; and . .
M ’hereof, The Bepnhijcau City Executiye
Committee and' the 'officers; and the Execu
tive Committee of the Union Republican
State Central Committee, have endorsed said
nomination; therefore,
Kcsolvcil, That the Republican Executive
Committee of the Ninth Ward fully approve
and ratify said nomination, and that this
action be published.
JOHN E. ADDICKS,
President.
William Preston, ) „ 'A .
EpwikE. Levan, i fcecretarles - se 'jl 3trpi
Eg* 1870. 1870.
SHERIFF,
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jelfl it oc l 2rp| ..
THE UNION .REPUBLICAN
OtEr Naturalization Committee will «et dally at Mr. N
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IN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE
i?&W» u 3£g“Dty of PhiladolpWB.--Entuto of ANN
ju.BICPAItDS, deceased*—The Auditor appointed by
the Court to audit, settle and adjust the first nndfiual
•account of WALTEII I). BELL, Executor of the lust
Will and Tcstameut of ANN M. BICUABDS, deceased,
and to report distribution of the balance in the hands of
the accountant, will meet the parties interested for the
purpose of bis appointment* on TUESDAY, October
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Walnut street, in thecity of Philadelphia.’
se2l_w f mfit* 11. 0. TOWNSEND* Auditor.
IN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE
CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.—
Ififltato of SAMUEL PILLING, dec’d.-Tlio Auditor
•appointed by tho Court to audit, settlo and adjust the
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the estate of SAMUEL PILLING, deceased, and to
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ante, will meet the parties interested, for the purposes
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o ® o0 * No - ? S» *««•
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A BBISH WITH TJBB M|)MSS,
Scalps Taken.
A correspondent of tlie Alta California, writ
; ing from Camp Grant,Arizona Territory nays:
f A scouting expedition which left this post
| ’lie ULst uit,, under command of Lieut. A.
•• I*. Cushing, of the Third Cavalry, returned on
j the <>tli inst. The Lieutenant's command can
't sisted of Lieut. Burke, Acting Assistant Sur
; geon TL S. A.'. sixty-live enlisted men and
■ three A 1 exiean scouts. Mr. ■!. Feliaer accom
; punied the expedition as a volunteer. Lieut.
; Cushing, after four davs’ march, found in the
1 vicinity of Massono Valley, a band of Apaches
, posted in an inaccessible position, which he
I intended to surround by making a detour to
; the left; but owing to the extreme roughness.
: ot the country, be was at last obliged to relin
| ouisb the attempt; but succeeded in destroy
i ing their camp of about eighteen lodges; to
! gether with a large supply of mescal and a
; patch of line corn. After making complete de
! structipu of their camp the command pushed
! forward in the direction of the Apache Moun
tains, where, on the Ist iust., they found, near
, AJiso Creek, a trail of some Indians, followed
itnp and surprised the red-sltinsin tlieir'campi
i. uting them to flight and killing eight. The
! J ndians, Dumberi ng abonr.twenty-ftve: in all;
returned the lire ot our men brisklv, and at
t-everai points stubbornly held thei r‘ ground:
ami would yield only when compelled to do
'O by the ri lie and revolver. Our loss was
one man killed . and . one horse
slightly wounded. Sergeant Taylor, First
• Cavalry, during the heat of the tight
was engaged in a hand-to-hand light with
Karge, Sub-Chief of the Apaches, who was
much his superior In strength, and had it not
been for tbo timely intervention of Mr. Bel
rner. who delivered the contents of a ride in
the latter's side, immediately despatching him
-t- t ‘happy hunting-grounds ' the fate~of
the -ergeant could not be doubted. The re
peated successes which have attested Lieut.
Cushing's operations agaiast the Apaches,
show- that promptness to determine, bravery
in the encounter, and vigor in pursuit, in this
kind of warfare, insure success.
A LEGEND OF NIAGARA.
Den tbs In the Rapids and Whirlpool.
It is a standing tradition of the Niagara In
dians, shared to a great extent now by the
white people in the vicinity of the Fails, that
the •• (.'-.eat Spirit’’ or Thunderer of Waters
must have annually four victims sacrificed
to his power. Curiously enough, a year sel
dom passes during which at least four per-,
sous are not drowned, either in the Falls' or
the whirlpool below. This year an old man of
more than 70 years stepped ‘into the breakers
above the Palis, and, losing his hold, was
swept over the frightful cataract. At De Vaux
College, a. student, daring his companions to
wade into the whirlpool was sucked into its
terrific eddies, and instantly disappeared to he
seen no more.. A few days afterward a drunken
father, adventured, with his two children and
a reprobate companion, into a boat above the
rapids, and in their drunken, orgies the little'
ones were thrown out and drowned, though
the two" drunken wretches escaped. So far,
therefore, the Indians believe implicity in the
fourfold sacrifice, and each year’s disasters
confirm their belief. -
FACTS AND FANCIES.
The Prussians have just driven the poor
old Baroness de Beumont from her chateau
for the third time. They first forced her to fly
in ’:i2, then again in 1814. and now at the age
of ninety-four she is once more obliged to
abandon her home. The baroness lives a few
miles from Montmedy, at the chateau of
Grand-Verneuil, where apartments were pre
pared to receive Lpifis XVl.during his flight.
They were never occupied by the unfortunate
monarch, who was stopped at Vareunes.
—A transcendental sheet published some
where in New England is of the opinion that
the gifted Gilmore was divinely inspired when
he conceived the idea of his great Boston
Jubilee. “ ForP.S. Gilmore was but the fitting
instrument or means used by a Higher Power,
the universal and omnipotent Father of
harmonies, to place before us this divine
enjoyment.”
—The San Francisco butchers use no ice for
their meat, and need none. In that dry
climate meat keeps a long time without ice,
and improves rapidly as long as it remains
sweet. The consequence is, the butchers can
keep their meat several days before exposing
it for sale, and it is then tender and in the
best possible condition for the table.
—The other day, when the battery in the
Victoria Gardens, at Berlin, was celebrating
the German victories by a salute of a hundred
guns, a short pause ensued between the firing.
“ Well, well, are they going to go on soon;
asked an impatient citizen “if they do not
hurry up they will be behind, and another
victory will have to be saluted before they get
through'with this one.”
—lt is said that Lord Lytton is at work on a'
new five act play for.representation. '
—Will somebody explain how womeil can
.lisinm positions as'.postmasters without “ rob
There is a prospect of a famine in Cin
cinnati, beer having gone up five cents a
glass, owing to the war news, and Ger
mans are restricted to sixty-five glasses a day.
—The English ohurcli pays its twenty
Bishops an annual salary of s7BG,soo—an
average salary'of about S2Bvooo each, the high
est salary being that of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, which is $75,000'a year, ‘
—Chalons is the great seat of the champagne
wine trade. There is one merchant there who
holds Jbnr' million bottles as his ordinary
stock—His_cellars,-excavated- in-tbe-chalk--
rock, are six miles Jong, and are traversed
with tramways, through which loaded wagSpi
"are driven. Vr^-* 5 !
O. KOPP
DBIFF iT 4 PAQ®.
rch street,
Confirmation of the French Flctory at
ThK»»..HeaTr XossM of the Prussians
—The Orltaua Line Clear for the Pros
ejit—Paris Provisioned Tor Two'months
- —Trocho’s Policy.
London, Sept. 20—Evening— A special at-
Tours telegraphs that the Prussians sustained
a very serious check yesterdays in their at
tempt to cdt-the line of the Orleans. Rail way.
After their repulse at Invissy and before the
Fort of Ivry they yesterday undertook
to force a passage and secure control of
.thejinc._Theywcre._.met-in
from Corbeil upon the main trunk of the Or
leans line at the hamlet of Vissons, a vil
lage commanded by low hills and buried in
"„°9 . • b y tbe French. The Prussian column
of thirty thousand men was encountered by a !
French force of about equal numbers, posted
in the most advantageous position, and with
formidable artillery. The engagement was
extremely severe, and lasted nearly six hours;
a fresh column of nearly 20,000 Prussians came
up after the battle had gone on for three
hours and attempted, by a flank movement,
to enter the woods. The slaughter here was
learful. The masked batteries of the French
mitrailleuses kept up so continuous- and terri
ble afire that the cavalry and infantry of the
Prussians were decimated and repulsed along
the whole line. They finally fell backin disorder)'
hotly pursued by the French , who cut off their
.retreat upon Cobell and the Essone, and drove
them down tbemain line of the Orleans road,
more than three miles through Salighy "arid
Epenay-sur-Age, and back again about a mile
and a half, upon the village of Mouthbery,
where a forced stand wasmade in the Buigun
dian Cemetery. The Prussians were here
routed and driven in --disorder* back towards”
.their main body, being compelled to evacuate
Cobell at the same time arid reeoneentrate
upon Melun.
TbisAictdry clerira for the. present the*' Or
leans line, which is the - only communication
between Paris and the provinces now open.
Flying parties of. the Prussians have suc
ceeded in cuttiDg all the other roads at points
more o- less remote from Paris within a circle
of thirty, mi les, and In every case they have
caused proclamations in French to to be, dis
tributed, denouncing death to all. working,
parties attempting to repair the mischief
done. ; ; ,/
Paris is abundantly provisioried for’ riiore
than tsyo months. .Bread is nowiio dearer
than it was before the siege began, and meat
is actually cheaper. This results naturally
from three causes; The diminution in the
number of consumers, over three hundred
.d.ho.nsaml persoiLsJiaving, it is estimated, left
[ Paris during the‘last fortnight, for theadop
; tion of rigid economy by families and citizens,
! and for the reorganization under strict disci
pline of the commissariat of the troops bv
General Trocliu.
Genera] Trochu has introduced in the gar
rison of Paris a sternness of discipline not
known in the army for years, and' With re
sults already visible in the perfect order of the
city, the bearing of the soldiery and the gen--
**ral high spirit which pervades the whole
metropolis. There is much' alarm, however,
among the shopkeeping classes at the arming
ofthe working classes, upon which General
Trochu has insisted, arid which he is carrying
out under a full.understanding with the chiefs
of all the societies of the workiDgmem
Your special from Boulogrie-sur-Mer tele
graphs a renewed attack-of the Prussians in
force from Po’ntoise, on'the Northern Railway
of St. Germain, upon the'fortress -of Mom
Valerien. There are no details beyond the re
pulse of the assailants with loss. He tele
graphs also that the tidal boats between Bou
logne and Folkestone were taken oft' this
morning. The Thames Bteamers to Boulogne
and Calais and the Southeastern Company's
boats continue for the present their trips. .
The Feeling In London—Russia's Policy
•—The French Red Beimblleansr
; — A t i esj «U cli t oih e uV. Y. World isasfoiloivsj-
London, Sept. 20.—A Cabinet meeting was
held this evening, but adjourned after waiting
till 10 o'clock in vain for news of the result of
the interview between Jules Favre and Count
Bismarck. Nothing positive had then been
attained; hut the despatches received early in
the evening here intimate that Count Bis
marck has manifested a disposition to recede
Irom his extreme demands,and that he will in
duce the KiDg to consent to treat with the
provisional government as soon as its powers
shall have been confirmed by a constituent as
sembly. He objects, however, to an armis
tice.
There is no longer, any doubt that Russia
has made what amounts to a positive threat
that she will not permit the territorial aggran
dizement of Germany. This is continued to
ms from the highest quarters ; and to the at
titude of Russia, taken in connection with the
growing indignation of the English peoDle at
the course of Mr. Gladstone's government,
peace must be attributed, if peace is now
reached. The Russian fleets are fitting for sea
At Cronstadt, and, as.l have repeatedly noti
fied you, the Russian armies on the Polish
frontier are ready to assume the offensive at
once, if necessary.
Tbe Stock Brokers Eenp Up.
The Stock Exchange here is buoyant to-day
over the news that Prussia appears to be medi
tating an lioßtffable withdrawal from the dan
gerously increasing complications of the hour.
Stocks of all kinds are advancing, and there
were heavy investments to-day In foreign se
curities. ■
The Bed Kepnbllc Reported Growling.
Rumors are, however, afloat that the ex
txeme radicals at Lyons and Paris are bitterly
opposed to peace at this time, and desire to
pi osecute the war for the overthrow of royalty
throughout Europe. They are said to be plot
ting the overthrow of the provisional govern
ment should it accept a peace which involves
the dismemberment of the republic.
The Imperial Mind Under the Hummer
Fourteen fine horses, belonging to thfl stuff ,
■of thCTts-lihbpei'bfoi'tm’e^irfOTCuweM'isolii
to-day at Tattersall’s. Four of them were
American carriage-horses. They were sent
from Belgium here, and brought fair prices.
Tbe Invading Forces.
- Ortend, September 20.—Your special from
Bernii teiegniphs that the., forces, now assem
bled before Paris number four hundredLthoii
sand men, and that Prince Frederic Charles
has over a hundred and fifty thousand men
between-Metz und Rheims. From Namnr I
hear that the pestilence of Sedan iaspteadlng
throughoutthe Invading •armies., lt.ia aggrip..
-vated ‘•by the~wiiter of the~]imestbhe districts,
and the_ ti;oops not inured to , .cam-I
paign life_ are suffering. fearfully. This I
state of things is further made worse by the
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,1870,
FIBST EDITION.
THE WAR IN EXROPE
THE PEACE QUESTION
Details of the Negotiations
A FRENCH VICTORY
Accounts by Cable and Mail
fßyC'atle.J
“ THE JUIJI4BY OPEK4TIONN.
Russia Puts on tbe Screw
dreadful rain-storms and the prematurely chill,
. (.amp weather. Great dissatisfaction is openly
expressed m IS orthem Germany at the treat
ment of General Von Steinmetz, who is
thought to have been sacrificed as too popular.
• i on Moltke is reported to have abandoned
the notion, if he ever held it, of trying to storm
JParis. He mil seek to compel its surrender
by starvation ; and is reported to havepledged
™ f ™ that within three weeks not a morsel
of food shall enter the city --World.:.;--''."
orricui report of results at
SEDAS.
More 4 ban 87,000 Officer* and Men Snr
onn‘,^?h d 7r' lro * al Hots-du-lombal 137,-
000—The Captured Correspondent!*.
Londox, Tuesday, Sept. 20.—The special
correspondent of The Tribune -at Berlin writes
°® l *] e 18th: “The filial official figures
of the capitulation at Sedan are 39
generals, 230 staff officers, and
2;o9fi line officers, beside 000 officers of
various grades discharged on . parole. The
number of. privates surrendered and trans
fprteu-tuf.o Germany is 84,433 ; 23,000 .were
made prisoners during the battleo,ooo
escaped into Belgium; 20,000 were; killed and
wounded—total, 137,000
“ Mitchel of the. Co.risdtutiormel and Paul
Cassagnac are at Breslau.
u Gens. Sheridan and Forsyth continue to
receive assiduous attentions from. Bismarck.”
[By Mall.]
After the Battle.
A correspondent of the London Times,
writing from Florenville on Sept. 4, says:
heard dreadful accounts' of the horrors
still to he seen in the tillages and fields where
the recenfeDgagement occurred. Aladyand
gentleman wearing the GenpyA’crbSs iol'dius
they had yesterday vfsitedavillage about six
teen rfules from this-—I should say the remains
of a village, lor it had been burned. The scene
there they described as being beyond all de
scription horrible. •■'- It appears that the
peasantry inhabiting it had fired.- upon
and wounded and killed several of
the 1 German surgeons while in the
act pf attending to wonnded soldiers, and, as a
reprisal and measure., of. warning., for L.the
future, the village had been burned. The
work bad been done so suddenly, quickly, and
effectually, that the women and children bad
been, unable. to escape, and their bodies,
charred, and blackened, many of them still
burning; lay about the village , street, mingled
with the heaps of French and Prussian
soldiers who had fallen in. one of the most
desperate encounters of the war. “ You had
better not go to see it/’ said the lady, ‘.‘yon
will never be able to forget it all the days of
your life.”
A correspondent of the London Times writes
ironi Florenville September i
- The appearance of the. town of Douzy—l;
have called it indifferently town antj village,
for though it had only a population of a little
over 3,1100, the stamp, and substantility of
many of the houses, as far as one.could judge,
were more that of -a town than of avillage;
the appearance of the place I cannot' better
describe than by saying that itlooked as ifofie
great thunderbolt had fallen upon and in one
•moment destroyed it utterly: The human ,
bodies had by this time been removed from
the street, but the charred 'remains of helmets
and shakos, and the stocks of rifles, ‘ with
every here : and there swords'
and bayonets and every sort of
weapon, showed that while the -flames
were raging all round them, and the helpless
women and children were literally being
roasted alive in the houses and .in thestreets,
the maddened combatants did not cease from
the battle, but died no doubt in numbers,
-he.m.m.ed in .by. the .fiames.while they—were
fighting. It is almost impossible to realize
that such things can have occurred in this age
ot civilization, and that humanity and civili
zation and Christianity should be disgraced by
lionurs that seem the very outcome of hell. It
is like an evil dream ; but it is to be hoped
these terrible events will leave the world
wiser for the future.
" The completeness and suddenness of the de
struction were evidenced by numberless little
■ circumstances—such as the burnt remains of
birds and animals one would have expected of
all other to escape—dogs and pigeons, afid
even cats in large numbers.
Hundreds of people betook themselves to
the cellars, it is said, and there perished of
suffocation. Nowhere could there have ap
peared an asylum for the miserable people—
raging flames and suffocating smoke inside
their houses, and outside falling walls and
.roofs, and men like fiends incarnate fighting
amid the flames and the blazing wreck.
] l walked aboutthrough the dreary streets.
Here and there wretched old men and women
I-were hanging about the ruins of their houses
| in a sort of stupor apparently. Some of them
were weeping and sobbing. “ 1 have lived GG
years in this town,” one poor fellow said to
me; “ I was away from home when this Oc
curred, and now I don’t know whether any of
my family are left Jams* .or ..whether
uot all burled in there,” pointing to the ruins
of his house.
Horrors of the Battle-field.
A correspondent of the Paris Journal has
the following: “At Givonne I saw avast
trench more than half a mile long and six feet
deep. In it French and Prussians lay side by
side, no longer enemies, but brave men united
in death. On a mound of earth was a general
and an aide-de-camp. ,1 approached and
found that it was Deß ailiy. He was an in
capable officer, but be died like a soldier..
•“ The grapeshot bad torn open his breast to
show that he had a heart. Fragments of a
shell had fractured his left shoulder, entered
tho. abdomen, shattered • the, .thighs, anti
ploughed into the forehead. He was so dis
figured that had I not been told that it was
him 1 should never have recognized him. His
aide-de-camp, quite a young mau, had re
ceived a bullet through the head.”
FRANCE AND AMERICA.
Minister Wnsbburne in Congratulation
of tbe Republic, and the Republic In
Reply. > -
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs re
ceived from the United States Legation the
following note:
Sir 1 have received the communication
which you did me the honor of addressing to
me on the sth inst., in which you inform me
that, in virtue of a resolution adopted by the
members of the Government of National De
fence, tbe Department of Foreign A flairs has
been confided to you.
In return I take great pleasure in announc
ing to you that I have received a telegram
from my Government, by which I am given
the mission of recognizing the Government
for the national defence as the Government of
France. 1 am, therefore, ready to communi
cate with this Government, and to treat with
it on all matters growing out of my position
and authority. _
In making this communication to your Ex- .
celiency, I beg that both yourself and each
member of the Gpyerment will accept the con
-prjatnlatiouj hp.fcafcib'e! A’meiferx.spcdidBiiantF -
of the Ufiiied States Government. They have
learned with pleasure of the proclamation of
this Republic, which has been established in
Paris without the, shedding of a drop of
blood, and they are united, both at hoard
and in tlieir 'sympathies with this
great,iiioyeiiioptjvyhich.they.hope.and. he-.
fleve to be pregnant vyith glorious results for
the French natiofi ’afid’ror humanity. The
people of the United States, who have enjoyed
for nearly a century; the'' ‘innumerable bless
ings of a republican form of government,have
~the..,deepest;jßterest.ijtn.-ithoAefl'ortB-of-the- -
French nation,, to which they are'
| bound by tUe : ilbS s:of; traditional friend- ,
I-sliip, and which seeks to establish institu
tions bywhich' l the '.inalienablo right
5£J} V in working for the welfare of all
shall be secured both for the present generA-*
Uon to id for posterity. Finally, I win say to
your Excellency that ! congratulate myself 6n
having to deal with one so distinguished as
yourself, and whose elevated character and
devotedness to the cause of humanity and of
free institutions, is so well appreciated in nr
own _ . _ Wasubuki.'e. :
'The French Reply.
The reply of Jules JFavre in behalf of the
- Government-reads -thus: :
Sir : I consider it a happy augury for the
■ re aoh RepubUc that it should have obtained 1
as its first diplomatic support the recognition
of the Government of the United States. No
one is better qualified than the represen
tative of a people which offers to the
\°i . t! ;. e . salutary example of
absolute liberty to recaU, in terms
an( i. elevated, the..,inappreeiable
benefits of republican government. Youliave
founded your wise and powerful institutions
on independence and civic virtue, andltf spite
•f, the .terrible ..ordeal you have passed
through, you have preserved With unshaKen
firmness your faith in that great principle of
liberty, whence naturally proceed ■ dignity,
manners and prosperity.
' Aii nations who are masters of Own
destimeaonght to aspire to walk in your foot
steps. _ They can only be truly free on condi
tion of being devoted, courageous, moderate,
and of taking as their.motto the love of labor,
and respect for the rights of all. This is the
S amine of the Government which has
een born in France out of themelancholy
crisis provoked by the follies of despot
ism ;. bnt at the hour in which it has hewn
founded, it can have, but one thought
and fhat is to rescue our .
grasp ofthe enemy. Here, again,' it is con
fronted by the example of your courage and
perseverance. You have maintained a gi
gantic conflict, and yon have conouered.
Strong m the justice oi our cause, rejecting all
thought of conquest, desiring only onr inde
pendence and our liberty, we have unshaken
hopes of success.; In the accomplishment of
this task, we reckon upon the-support of all
of true fading, and of all Governments
interested.in the triumph of peace.. The sup
port of the Cabinet of Washington, even did
it stand alone, would give us this confidence.
The members of the Government request me
to express to you tbeir united gratitude,and to
transmit its expression to. your; Government.
h_or my own part, I am both proud and happy
of the choice which permits me to be the
point of union between two peoples united
in the past by so many glorious recollec
tions, and in the present -by so many noble
hopes. I thank you likewise for having ex
pressed with so much kindness to myself per- .
Honally. aregard fvhich l cordially reciprocate,
as well as my desire to-edhsolidate more and
more the relations of affectionate esteem which
oughtforever to unite us. \ ’
! Accept the assurances of the'hlgh consider
ation with Which I have the honor to be, Sc..
[Signed, |. ~.x_ Jur.Es' Favre. ; .
wab Notes
_ —The Berlin Xational Zeitunr/ states: “ The
German victories in the field have been fob
lowed; by. a victory of good taste in the way of
fashions. . The champions of chif/iions'.have,
been routed. No decent lady wears such, an-
Unsightly appendage tiny longer, and nobody
rbas retained-them bufthe demimonde.” ' This
Ji *. another evidence of the ingratitude of man
kind. Scarcely has misfortune overtaken the
h rench Empress, when the fickle ladies of
fashion desert- her cause. Nothing remains
now of her achievements, as the crinoline and
the waterfall, the two creations of her genius,
..have disappeared. _ L
—Two Prussian regiments, having comnut
.led.excesses in-the-Httlc- -French towns of
Falkenberg and Remilly, such as pillaging
houses and destroying property, Count Bis
marck has ordered the names of these two
regiments and those of their officers, to be
published in all German papers. The Ger
mans have reimbursed the French inhabitants
as tar as was in their power. A rigorous ex
amination has been instituted by Bismarck,
and the regiments sent to the rear, being
stripped of their banners and all emblems of
honor. The guilty regiments were the Second
Hesson Darmstadt Infantry and the Twelfth
Prussian line.
—lnstead of one treasure chest of the French
army being captured, the Germans captured a
good many, but, unfortunately for them, they
did not contain much. The largest pile they
got bold of at one time was two hundred thou
sand trancs.
—The 18th day of the month seems to beun
lucky for France. On the 18th of October,
the great battle of Xieipsic was con
cluded: the 18th of June, 1815, is the date of
tlie battle of Waterloo; and a new date, the
18th ot August, 1870, the battik of Rezon
yille lias joined the other two disastrous
dates. •
—Tho Eighth Regiment of Prussian Cuiras*
two~~regt-"
menta of Jfrench carabiniers* . dispersed them,
and took a battery of six guns and two
eagles. It was eight hundred, men strong
when the battle commenced, and only one
hundred and forty-three were alive when it
was over. All the officers were killed hi the
battle. ;
—•eSoh-, of Paris, says General Trochu
expelled the Germans from Paris for their
own welfare, lor he had reliable information
that the leaders of the insane mob ot Paris
were organizing a plot to murder all those in
•oiiensive citizens—ln fact, get up another edi 1 -,
tion of the Sicilian Vesper.
A JIABISE niSr£BY SOLVED.
An Abandoned Vessel at New castle.
The "Wilmington Commercial, says:
It was briefly noted in yesterday’s Commer
cial that an abandoned bark had been picked
up and brought to New Castle. The vessel
was boarded by E. J. Quillian, mate, and Jas-
Qutlhan, seaman, from the schooner Joseph
!’■ Comegys, of Frederica, and taken into tne
Breakwater, whence she was towed to New
Castle by the tug America.
At the time the vessel was boarded there
was no one on board. A hen was found alive
in a chicken coop, showing the vessel had not
been long abandoned.
The cabin was in the clothing
and beds having been removed. On the
table was a quantity of “hard tack” and
corned beef—an untouched meal—wine bot
tles and sardino boxes were scattered about in
prolusion. In the cabin were four stuffed-seat
rocking chairs, evidently freight. The vessel
now lies at the coal wharf, and is in charge of
Deputy Collector Aydelotte. It is believed
that her cargo consists of logwood, coffee,
wines and liquors,
The above facts are from our correspondent
at N ew Castle.
On inquiry of the Custom House officers of
this port, we learn fchafE the vessel’s name is
. the Paodi Cayenne, of Bordeaux; and that she
hails irom Maracaibo,and is believed to be laden
withv coifee and .hides. In the was
’iuu...V.r letter [lbiffrom Ciiiiunn rrrisisf
■ton,. of the steamship Crescent City,’giving di
rections as to signals, &c., In case the hawser
seemed likely to part, showing that the
steamer had had the vessel in tow. "
In the New York of yesterday, the
arrival, of the Crescent City is noted, with an
extract irom. her log showing that on the 17th
Inst., (15 miles South of Barnegat she took off
the crew pf the hark Inez; (British), from
Maraoaibo <to'New York, she being in a sink
ing condition: The Crescent City/had previ
ously had the hark in tow.
—-ItseeiuBaltogetherprobablo-that--tbiB'-was
the same, vessel, as, there Is no mention of the,
..steamer, talcing another in tow, .and the loiter *
found in tlie bark’s cabin shows she evidently
had this one in tow.
PRICE THREE CENTS
HARETZSK AND FISK.
Tle Bow Xeatentar.
is ,^ I ?^ Marer,;,el£ ' a3laf 6tttont
wlucll and-James
I have Lad charge of all the business of ar
ranging the operas of the Grand Opera House ,
but my arrangement with Mr; Fisk did not
specify that X should not conduct at a concert.
I tried to get Mf. Fisk t,o come to a detiniter
understanding about my engagement for the-,
; season, but he put me off an* never kept his
: appointments witfl me,: but he- ptit iay name'
:SJ,i ls circulars as musics?' director. XXe
- 6n tl£ > ldea °f Hitoson’o
mg at all, because he didn't brine
her, and, when r conducted
. I lf r i irst co u nce F t > threatened to - settle me. .-it-,
tried very hard to eotHiim to p*rt the entire
management of the musical season at) the
t f rim 3 t )pe r a House its my hand*, as he had--
m7nfi lB^v^ e 38 dlrect ® r > .out he not only put
,Siti? ft fi, witb va £ ue promises, but. interfered
ttoripei t 6 subh-ad
extent that I began. todoobt the success of the 1
boufl enterprise and his desire to dc-anythine
more with opera bouft' than to have '
..?» own btHe;fi,n-,:out of It Hfe
m,d « r uiwt^^ a dOMMa; u MUe - Moatatand, :
and exhibited her everywhere, even walking,
her round the; theatre during rehearsal when/
she was wanted on the stage. ‘'Whenlrembh''
t?/ ! .. ,^ Uen 1 wentover to conduct the re
hearsal, this morning, "he insulted me by call--
mg me a thiei and a liar before the whole
:JL°J which-I knocked, him down.
-Thats all-there-ia-about itr'- rd liave erivoii
him a lesson, to remember, all ’ his,life 6 if it
had not been for the interference rdf the •
stage-manager,who kicked me in the face when.'
I was down, and who will be legally called to
account for it. What Fisk wanted to do with
me was to drive me round like his four-in
hand. It could’nt be done with such an old
bird; I didn’t object to bis baying' horses and
furnishing them for all the prima donna’s and •
chorus girls in the bargain; why should!, if
the Erie stockholders didn’t: but when he
-interfered in the rehearsals"ana trnmpedTlp-a “
silly charge of theft against me because I con—
duel ed the Nilsson concert, why, I got mad ;
wouldn’t yon? ’
- ~ „. , later Scenes. '
. * ls k occupied a prosceni um box at the ■
Academy last evening with Mile. Montaiand.
To© facial marks of-the -scrimniage i& tho'
morning were concealed beneath the esthetic:
touch oi art. Late in the evening Air. Maret—
zelr took possession of another proscenium.,
box on the opposite side ofthe -
the champions then scowled at; eaah <¥the*i*
through their glasses, and tried to- magnify-" ■
the. bruises which had .been so artfully con
eeaJed. " r . *r~-- * _- 4 v . :v-7i
;.T 1 *® Trlbnne’e, Version...
, An unlooked-for scene occurred yesterday
afternoon at the rehearsal of the iiew Opera l
Boufle Company at the Grand Opera House;
, x -, - uel:ze k> the woll-known impressario.
bad been engaged, it appears, by Mt. FLsk aa '
conductor of the -MontalandOperaßonfie
Company., On Monday night, howover, Mr.
Maretzek appeared, at Steinway. Hall as
lead er of the- orchestra- of - the'N llssbn com-'
,PWi.and ;yesterday..afternoon -he visited
the Grand Opera House to conduct .the miisi- ,
cal part of the' opera boutte rehearsal. Tli©
masculine and feminine “ opera boiiffers” had ■
all assembled, and Mr. .Maretzek .was about to .
wave his baton as the signal for the com
mencement ofthe magic strains, when James
bisk. Jr,, dressed in his ' usual extravagant, ; ---
manner, appeared upon the scene. Going ur>
* are tzefi, Fisk accused him of being a
thief and a scoundrel Itseems that Maretzek -
did more than conduct the Nilsson' concerts. '
He had charged . Fisk,. it was al- -
leged, for his (Maretzek’s) passage
to and from Europe. Notwith
standing that Fisk had paid his passage in-ad— »
vance, Mr. Maretzek, on being accused by his
former employer of being a thief, rushed on
Fisk and struck at him. Fisk parried the -
blows and returned the: compliment with. ,
vigor, and the less skillful in the “ manly art ”
Maretzek came out of the tight With a black'
eye, disfigured nose; and disarranged clothino- '- :
while Fisk retired “ witbout a scratch,” only •
slightly discomposed, but occasionally cliuck
l} 11 ? over his triumph,andsayingthatklaretzek, '
beside being ungrateful, was a foot, whom he..a
would whip if he ever had the temerity-to ar>-...
proach him again. . ' ' .
A RANDOLPH IN TROUBLE. / ,
One of tbe Descendants of Focalionta.'*--.
In Distress. ,
A man applied for ipdgings at the Bridge
port Station-house, Mondav night, who gavft
the name of Wm. H. Bandolpb. He said ho- i •
was a relative of John Randolph, of Roanoke,
and son-in-law of ex-Go.vernor, Wise. He was ‘
horn on the 10th of August, 1800, attended. - <'
school at West Point,- and graduated .in 1H25.
At the breaking o.ut of. the.rebellion he earn— >. =
State, and cast his fortunes in the*-: •
Southern scale. At-that time,. he stated
he was , worth at least §1,000,000,. con-'" ■
slsting principally id real estate and nCg’roeftl’ '
He entered the Confederate service in 1861 i
for active duties in the field, and was assigned/ -
a command.’ At the battle of Boahqke Island,
he conimauded the Seventeenth Sbnth ’CiirO-. 3 ;1
lina regiment. In that engagement..he was. - n
wounded and carried from the Island-, to .the*
main land. Ho spoke with much' warmth and.
apparent intelligence of the unhappy diffli- ’ ■ '
culty between his renowned rehttiveanti ;
Henry Clay, and. notwithstanding tho defeat
of the South in the late rebellion ho still clings r '
to the idea that it. was. right.’ His story'was --
told with so much straightforwardness that ir
it were not true it was well put up.—Agio
Ilwen Palladium.
A BE3IABKABEE DISCOTEBY. *
A Ship Found In a CaIIUmIASMSH,
By many it has been held as a lhaory that;
the Yuma desert was once an ocean bed. At
intervals pools of salt water have stood for a.
while in the midst of the surrounding waste of
sand, disappearing only to rise again in the
same or other localities. A short time since
one of these Saline lakes disappeared, and a
party of Indians reported the discovery of a
.•• big ship” left by the receding waves. A
party of Americans at ouce proceeded to tho
spot, and found imbedded in the sands the ’
wreok of a large vessel. Nearly one-third of
tb,e forward part of the ship or bark is
plainly visible. The stump of the bow
sprit remains, and portions of the timbers
of teak are perfect. The wreck is located forty
miles north of the San Bernardino and Fort .
Yuma road, and thirty miles west of Eos Fai- V
mos, a well-known watering-place on the* i
desert. The road across the desert has bee’ a
traveled for more than one hundred.-year a.
The history of tho ill-fated Vessel can, ©j.
course, never be known, but the discovery ©f
its decaying tinibors in the midst of what Vka» <
long been.a.desert-.. wl|l . .furnish. savans vciti* .-. t,
food for dicussion,. and may perhaps furnish
itgpdfifiui. atid- ip th e -’eiifci mm qucaiibna’ 1 *"
of science.—/.os Auyelos Mew*, Sept. 9. ”
—The following is the scandalous manner iii
which that beautiful ; ballad, “ The Last Koso
of Summer,” was massacred at a fashionable
concovt: ■
“’Tiz ze las’rose of zummaro,
. Betl tying alone, ’ -
All eesl-u-u-illy garapauytms
; Are fated urn dawn.”
-A oolored poet of Memphis lifts reduced
Fifteenth Amendment and- the Eoforce
atrbilt-to-rhymert&'-followirr- —~
It is a sin to steal a pin,
f A crime to cut. a throat—
But a darned sight bigger to stop a nigger
From putting iu his vote.”