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EUROPE.
Napoleon's CaWnet?M. Plcard's Approach
to the Premiership.
Bible Revision in England and President
Grant's Aid in the Work.
British Plan for Beunion of the
Churches.
Tbe Cunaru mail steamship Russia, Captain
Lott, ftow Liverpool the 18th and (Jueenstown tbe
19th of June, arrived at this port at an early hoar
yesterday morning. The Batista lauded our European
special correspondence dated to her d ay of
galling from England. The newspapor mall fllef by
the Russia were anticipated to a great extent by
those to hand by the French mail steamship Perlere
on Monday.
A letter from Constantinople, of June 8, to the
London Slarulara, speaking or the great tire in the
Turkish capital, says:?
The London insurance offices that will suffer most
by this unprecedented conflagration are the Royal,
the Imperial and tho Sum. The total amount falling
011 them, nowever, will n >t, u is confldenly stated,
exceed ?16o,0u0. The two Swiss offices, which do a
large amount of business Here, will a:so suffer considerably,
but an immense amount of property was
totally uninsured. The lowest estimate made by the
police authorities of the number of people who have
lost their lives exceeds 500. The calamity has not
ue. n at all exaggerated, in all its naked deformity
It la realty borilbie.
The North German iron clad war vessel Koning
iVllhelm, Captain Uenk, bearing*the flag of Prince
Albert of Prussia, Admiral of the North German
bavy, arrived at Spltheail (Eng.) June 17, from
?leL
1 Dlstrrbanccs were feared among the tin-plate
Workers at Coaklev, near Kidderminster, England,
then on strike. At midnight a messenger was seut
to Kidderminster for a large body of police. No
Hot. but men "in an excited state."
In the Court of Common Pleas, London, In the cose
?I Iniuan vs. Jenkins, which was fur an alleged libellous
statement In tho London Times that plaintiff
kiad sent the City of Boston to sea overloaded, the
court alUrmed the order of Justice Blackburn th it
riafonilunt ahmiWl Answer nn irititrroirutorv ufntlnir
whether lie bad sent the communication to the London
Times for publication. ?
Tde Emperor Napoleon replied to an address presented
to hiin by the Town Council or Southampton,
England. He says the sympathy manifested towards
lum with reference to the recent design on his lite
touches him deeply, and In it "he sees a fresh proof
of the ties of frlendsnip which unite France and England.
Be trusts most heartily they may ever continue
so."
M:ss Elizabeth Garrett was received as doctor at
the Ecole de Medicine, Pails. She had taken as her
thesis the subject of "Headache"?not a very interest
ng questl>n?but alio treat2d it so brilliantly
that the board at oacj gave her the diploma.
| Tamberlik, the singer, arrived in I'uris.
, In Ireland the Orangemen were mating the necessary
preparations lor the approaching anniversaries
of July 1 and IX Thirty thousand are expected
to assemble at Llsburu. The authorities are taking
every precaution.
The idea of a federal parliament for Ireland seems
likely not to bi abandoned by the gentlemen who
are endeavoring to create a movement In the country
In favor of the project.
The O'Conor Don had given notice of hla Intention
to move in the House of Commons fur a return of the
names aud number of matriculated students in each
course of the faculty of arts in the Queen's Colleges
of Ireland, with the value of all scholarships or exhibitions
held by each student.
The three hundredth anniversary of the nulon to
Russia of the Don Cossacks was celebrated at NovoTeherkask,
under the presidency of the Cesarevltch,
who Is hereditary Chief Atta;uaa of the tniie. Telegrams
ol congratulation poured in from all parts of
the empire during the ceremonies.
A Dublin journal of the 18th of June announces:?
The last act or the Mexican tragedy is about to'be
played. The unforuma e Empress Charlotte is dying;
aud even the sorr iw.tig members ol her family must
look xorwaru to litis sad iasi scene 01 an us a nappy
release.
The London Globe ridicules the Scotch national
spirit, wiilcli, after "an advantageous and maU'rial
un.on with England," proposes to celebrate the victor/
of Bannockburu by ere-Ung a flagstaff on the
scene of Bruee's violory. It would venture to suggest
aome such celebration for Ireland, only that "it
considers Irish blood too ebullient for an English
paper to venture to suggest the commemoration of
auy battle wherein the Milesians ber.r the tyrannous
Saxon." It excepts from the list even Fontenoy,
which, despite the silence displayed on the subject
l>y Thomas Carlyle and Voltaire, U appears to consider
was won by Irish arms.
Ilia Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Napier of
Magdala, U. 0. fi., Commander-in-Chief in India,
was suffering at Peshawur rrom a slight attack of
fever, which deiaiued his Lordship on the frontier
longer than wa-. at first intended.
A Pari* letter ol the lTUi of June reports as follows:?
Your readers may like to know the names or the
four respectable persons to whom l'rirn successively
offered the GroAu of Spain, and who proved their
respectability by refusing it one alter another,
liere they a'e:?Don Ft rnundo di Bragaa/a Coburg,
ur Portugal- Prince Tiioinas of Savoy, Duke of
Genoa; Count d'Eu, and Prince Frederick of Ilohenzollern,
a catholic ollxer of Hussars in the Prussian
army.
A good story Is told by one of the Greek newspapers.
One of the military commanders having
offered a reward for each brigand's hea l brought in
the supply soon became so extensive that suspicions
were aroused. Inquiry was set on foot and disclosed
the fact that with au eye to the "main chance" the
o-called brigand hunters made raids mto neighboring
#11 lag en, plundered them aud then turned the
beads ol their victims to account.
The Waivlerer, of Vienna, publishes the following
telegram, dated Constantinople, 13th:?
M. Gilbert, Frencn Consul, has been attacked in
the environs of Erzerouin by brigands, who completely
stripped him. lie hardly escaped with his
life. The Ambassador of France has presented au
energetic potest to the Porte.
FRANCE.
JfnpoleonM Cabinet?ill. Pleura'* Prnwpcet of
the Premiership? What Will the Euipcror
Do f-Adrucc or Ui'trrat ??lleiorm but No
Finality C
Pakis, June 17, 1870.
Ton speak, In ft late letter iroin Paris, of the possible
advent of a Cabinet headed by 11. Heard. I
was much struck by trie remarks you have made on
the recent political revolution of tlic distinguishes
orator of the "left," as well as by the conclusions
you have drawn.
A ministerial combination that would result in the
emry into office of M. Picard and his friends Is certainly
not a contingency that may be called Improbable.
It may even be said that they are more likely,
comer or later, to be the successors of M. Enifie
?llivter, from the fuct that no other iractlon of tlie
Chamber 1h in a position to prevent their ascendancy.
The attitude of the preeminent to-day may be
likened to that of Napoleon I. when he entered Russia;
for it has Uiree tilings to do?to retreat, remain
stationary or advance. Retreat la Impossible and is
contrary to the purpose of the Emperor. Various
symptoms Indicate that the actual situation is not
likely to last long. There Is nothing left, then, but
. to advance, in this case what man unites so many
requirements as does M. Plcard ? He alone has It in
his power to form a ministry in the futile; and, believe
me, It would be a great error to suppose tnat
the Emperor would hare the least repugnance to
confide to him the supreme direction of utfalrs. j>apoleon
III., whose political intelligence is for some
strange reasons often disputed, yet knows enough
of the men and events of his time to prevent his
hesitating or accepting the services of those men
who represent that great popular party on which
(Ue empire is founded and to wluoh it owes Its force.
I do not shrink from affirming that 1 heard the
Chutf ?i Wjejjune utt?r the loiiowing words some
NEW YOJ
thing Km than a >ear ago, bat certain!? long before
the event* wulch gave birth to the Cabinet or January'i
(that of Emile Olllvier):?"I do not nee," satd
the Emperor, on th > occasion alluded to, "any kind
of objection to taking for Minister either M. Heard
or M. Jules Favre. Such nun as these can never
hart the empire. My natural enemy Is the tiers
parti" (the middle party).
You observe the Emp tor was not the victim of
any Illusion, out understood perfectly the daugor of
an alliance nlth the "left centre," and how could
he be mistaken? The "le t centre"?Is It not the
party or half measures, of hair liberties ??in a word,
the party of tae liuurgeoisit (the middle classi, that
Intractable enemy of the popular lever, universal
Miff a^o, and consequently the Iocs of the empirer
If i he Emperor nave power to the men of tiie "loft
centra," li he rcoently called them about hlm, it was
simply because he felt that to get rid of them the
best p an was to let tliem use themselves up, which
they certainly have managed to do In a singularly
short sj.ace or time. To-day they are Judged l>y their
acs aud discredited by the faults taey have committed.
It is a singular fact that the Olllvler Cabinet has
not, in the whole p. ess of Paris, a single organ to
deend it, or hardly one that does not attack it.
Aimmtf all the.-e dally journals of so rnauy various
shades there is not ono that dues not asaall the Ministry
with reproaches and criticisms of the bit tore t
kind. Everybody hears of republloaa Journals and
ol' imperialist Journals, but never or a ministerial
Journal. Surely the Emperor lias nothing more to
fear from the "left centre."
It Is not too much to say that the men of this party
are likely soon to disappear lrom the poiiuoal scene;
while u is also true that those who aided tObuild up
the empire are either dead or retired into private
lire. Who, then, remain r Why, the men who repiesent
the revolution of '?j?those whose opinionare
in accoru wuii tue popular mind, it is to me -e mat
the Emperor will appeal lo aid him In his eifo:t to
establish bis dynasty on bases Htlll utor" solid.
Faithful to His past, to his origin, to Ills tradition*,
he means to plant Ills foot once more on the hoi! of
the revolution, and, like Anttras, derive lroin Its contact
a news youth and greater fore,-.
Let us, thon, together salute the advent of the
Plcard Cabinet at no distant day, which la only Hie
logical result of tae Imperial policy.
The Minion to Wuhlnftoa-.)!. Prrvont-ParadoPa
Political Enemlea.
[From Gallguani's Messeutfer of Paris, June 18?
KTMing.]
M. Prevost-Paradol s nomination as Minister at
Washington lias called lortli satirical appr<#latlon*
from several journals, and Home ot the writers are
extremely bitter. For instance, ibtAuftuo UM
pen of M. P.iUi de Cassagnac, lias the subjoine d philippic:?
He knows English so well! the journal* have been saying
for the iast six months in speaking of tlie new Minister. But
why not the Kmbassy to Loudon, km Uere the Orleans Princes
could bave communicated wltb tbem so uiucb more free y ?
Ai presentthw Will he Obliged lo send their Mim to Washington.
Such behavior on the part ot the trench Ministry I*
really not considerate. . nj have you noticed tba. the -hm hu
'>;li 1 in ileslKiiatin'i t.ie new diploma. 1st, a his Ills title
of Memhre de I'Acadi aiic t rancalse. Had lie been mi Orpheonist
ot Suresnes, or u member of tue Society tor tin; Prevention
of Crueity to A nlii , or even of the Hygienic Association
to pi ot?* attain*', the abuse of tobacco, any such tUle
would have been I efcijluret 114 a special luurtl, as some ueuiblance
of reason wa\ als aituly 11 be found! To be a member
of the Institute, then, ih really something. fc.vi leutly,
since it Is equivalent to saying thai a man is an Orleauist.
The Aveiiir Rational is alsoexiremely severe, and
the Union makes the lollowing observations :?
The Ot'ml- has undertaken the tank of Justltying the nomination
; anil Its rare lor Its new position compels it to al ow
that lis coilauoraior " may have committed more than one
error, ami have so.iictun ;s let himself go too lar or have
fallen Into mUtak.es j" but .nat converted organ hastens to add
that M. 1'ara 10I " has constantly declared that his opposition,
thorough as It was, would cnan^e into support when Fram e
should recover the enseuiiul conditions of free government."
We have followed for fifteen years the polemics of the writer
who has just passed over to the service of t1iu hmpire, and
we are compelled to assign a somewhat recent
date to the political Indifference which does not pay heed
either to tbe form or origin of a government. Tito new
diplomatist owes his reuown to tlic sharpness of his pen
against tbe Imperial r?#i?t?; his attacks, Unelv pointei,
^.iu,,*d fur lil.n I i.u tturlulii ..I IKo i .... !?...? ?rl. . U >1. .11.. I..,I
lu the epigrams against the ruling power an i which to-day
flinilus at till) praises bestowed on It by the convert*. If one
could feel surprise at anything now-a-dayi. one would ask
how It happens that all this load of wit and uliarpnes* can
suidenly be laid at the loci of that Mn jesty so many time*
exposed to Its raillery. A certain eflort oi imagination la
even now required to picture an ambassador of th? Imperial
government in the *hape of a Fiibscrlber to the Baudin
monument and a former editor of the Cyi., ier tin hiii-nn-i r,
which was eight times warned) twice suspended, oncc condemned,
an<i in the end suppressed as a punishment tor it*
well Known article, "Le falurrenier."
ENGLAND.
The Revision of the Bible?l'reaident (.rant's
Aid in the threat i nd Holy Work.
[From the London Standard, June 17.]
Mr. Bux on Iwrdiy mended Ins case for transferring
the re.lsion of tue Scriptures to a royal commission
by changing the terms of tils motion, ho as
to Invite the co-operation of the government of tlie
Uni ed Mates. Originally lie < ailed upon the Hoiimj
of Commons to iiilirin that "it is de-nabe the work
should ue placed in the hands of a royal commission,
Instead of being left to a committee of
convocation,'" but upon further consideration li?
omitted all reference to convocation, and simply
moved for an address praying the sovereign to
invite the President of the. united states to concur
with h>r Majesty in appoint in* commissioners to revine
the authorized version of the .Scriptures." Now
it is a debaiab.e question whether the work of revision
sbould be left to a committee appointed by
convocation: but, as the Premier and Mi-. Beresford
Hoiie pointed out last, niglu, there can be very little
doubt a< to the inadmissibility o Mr. Buxton's second
proposition. It is, of course, highly desirable
tnat we should, If possible, produce such a version
as may be acceptable to the thirty odd millions of
English-speaking people on the oilier side of th,- Aclautic,
but if tins is on y to be secured by the co
operation oi American divines Lucre are onvious (ill*
Acuities lu the way. Biblical hMMI are Jfcw aud
far between in Avusruxi, and it unfortunately happens.
trom tliclr position in the religious world, tnat
the ihree or lour whose services might be acceptable
would by no means contribute to render the new
version popular among their countrymen. Moreover,
there it? u tunaaiuental Hindrance to the proposed
Joint action or the President of the United
Males, seeing that the constitution expressly and
designedly bars the chief magistrate aud his
colleagues trom ldeuUf.vtng themselves in their public
capacity with any dl-tiuciiveiy religions movement.
As Mr. Hope reminds us, the influence of
Jefferson was successfully exerted to ex iude anv
reference to the existou-e of a .supreme lining or
any olllcial recognition ot ChrtHliuniij. Kven if this
obstacle cmld be remove I. n a..a i n t <>e wise to
overtook the dangerous miitrace vkkk the largo
and flourishing ltoiuuu Caiii > ??? luulty would
exercise in tue composition <>. urM-rvnu oont.ngnt.
The sects are .<i WW, MM *> * Human Cat holies
are a powerful and un tnl t*? i iIm ii efforts
would be directed, not -op .?? the Protestant
version as u> nnug h > ' *>' i .n> with the
Koiuisu version. I> i . iliat
Mr. Huxton's proposition to i-atiM American cooperation
was un after-inu ur'.l, mil that Ills in un
object Is to take the (pies ion out of tiienandsof
convocation as the representation of the Estab.ished
Church. The meuib r lor Last Surrey asserts with
perfect truth that the authorized version Is the property
not of any particular Church or sect, but of
the nation at large, and, us a corollary, that no one
Chnrch or sect is entitled to monopolize the work of
revising it. But we are not aware that either convocation
or the Church have set up any clulin of this
kind. Perhaps, as the largest and most influential
Christian body In the eufpire, the church of England
had a right, and was in some measure bound, to
take the Initiative; but no one who examines the
constitution of the proposed committee and remembeis
that the most eminent Biblical scholars, totally
irrespective of Church or creed, were mvUed to
share In its labors, can doubt that convocation
approached the work in the largest
and most enlightened spirit. We can understand
aiul sympathize with the protest of
churchmen iikc Messrs. Henicy and Newdegate, who
shrink from tampering with the authorized version.
VVe think their fears are exaggerated aud that they
overran; the danger or making the text of the Bible
a subject of "iree handling but they at least take
up an Intelligent ground of objection. But we cannot
understand why theCiturcii of England is to be
deoarred from playing a pionilnent part in a work
in jrhlch she is so vitally interested aim in which the
scholarship or her clergy entitles her to take the
lead. Mr. Percy Wyndhum considers that ecclesiastics
are unfilled by their professional habits lor the
work of Biblical revL-lon ; but is not tills equivalent
to saying that experts are specially dlsquaillled, or
that an architect is the last person to be consulted
about a design for a house, or a railway
engineer about a tunnel or a viaduct? it
Is easy to sneer at convocation as Mr. Buxton
does. It Is a venerable, but, thanks
to State tyranny, un almost impotent body, and it is
simply absurd to speuk of lt as given to "usurpation."
Posi-ibly it might become very tyrannical and
despotic U it had the chance; but, considering how
It is fettered and gagged at present, it would be as
reasonable to charge a man bound hand and foot
with abusing his liberty. All that convocation has
done hi this instance is to take the initiative 111 giving
effect to the almost unnersal demand lor a revision
ot tne Scriptures. It has nominated a committee
to undertake the work, which comprises, in addition
to au Impartial selection irorn the most learnea <
divines of the church, all the most eminent Biblical
scholars among the Non-con tor mist bodies who could
be induced to co-operate. No one can doubt
the bond fides with which the committee
has been chosen, ami we question whether
Dissenters will not be disused to appiuuU
rather than condemn the zeal which
prompted convocation on behalf 01 the Church In
taking the Initiative. We do not hesitate to say that
umler no other auspices would the labors Of any
body of revisers have had a chance of finding a
general acceptance. Mr. Butxon contends that the
work ought to be undertaken by the state; and Mr.
Gladstone and his supporters appear to have at unci
perceived the awkward anachronism which would
result if a liberal government were to assume the
supervision of a purely religious enterprise just at
the time when it Is the policy of the liberal party to
break down every tie which links the State with religion.
Oi|geourse Mr. Gladstone did not justify ills
oppositlon"to the motion upon grounds like these.
He declarlB that the government were decidedly opposed,
as a matter of principle, to placing
such a work as the revision of tne Scriptures
in the hands of anv civil or public body. He
admitted it wa* highly necessary that the revision
should be proceeded with, but professed himself
persuaded that it could not be usefully undertaken
w state, aud that itvas undesirable that any
KK. HERALD. WEDNESDA
version should ?e prolttootl under circumstances
will n would warrant the Impreuion that it was
Imposed upou the country by authority. The present
version, it is well to remember, was tho fruit of
long protracted In bom. and was not adopted us the
authorized verson until It had been stamped by the
acceptance of a wuoie century. Reminding ttie
Hou-o that the motion, If carried, would compel the
government to ask for a verv considerable sum of
money, the Premier insisted that It would be best to
le.tve the matter in iho hands of those who were
properly interested in It, and for Ills own part he
was not disposed to censur convocation ior undertaking,
at its own cost, and ou its sole responsibility,
the conduct of a gr at work of public li^jfuluess.
Mr. liuxtou was fain to withdraw ills motion.
Reunion of the Uhirrhei,
fProm the Pall Mali Gazette, June 17.]
A meeting of an extraordinary character Is announced
to be held at the rooms of the Architectural
Exhibition .Society, ,n Conduit street, next Monday
nigh'. All who are "interested in the reunion or
Christendom" are invited to attend, and they will be
asked u atllrtn ttie following resolutions:?
X. That In new or tbe religious condition or mankind, of
whom orer two-third* are Kill heathen, and or the nr-are
caudal and ditlloultles caused by the unhappy divisions
among Christians thta meeting (leiiret to record its oouriotion
or the paramount Importance of the reunion or East
and Weil rouud the pnmauy anciently recognized by both
a'.llte, as well far securing the io'e^rlly as for promoting the
dissemination or the Christian faith.
8. I'hat the only a (equate remedy tor the social and religious '
dangers of England, and tbe surest guarantiee for the future
of English Christianity, lies la her restoration to visible unity
primarily with tbe Churches of the Western Patriarchate,
and then with tbe Eastern Churches aLin.
Lord Bitot will take the chair, and the speakers
will include both Anglicans and Koma i Catholics.
Among the names announced are those of the Karl
of Limerick, Mr. Lowder, Mr. George Nugec and
Mr. Oxenham.
ROME AND AUSTRIA.
Infallibility In Hungary.
[From the Liverpool Post, Juno 18.]
The North (Jenrwn Correspondent, the most valuable
medium for obtaining an Insight into the Intri.
tcies of Oerman politics, contains an Important
statement with reference to the contemplated action
of the Austro-Hungariun government in regard to
the dogma of infallibility. The Hungarian bishops
wlio favor Infallibility have been threatened byine
governn.cii with the loss of their teiiipotalitle?in
case they assist the project of the J'sult party in
Home, or if they attempt to promulgate Uie infallibility
dogma in their dioceses. The Rmnan Curia
lias a'so been Informed by tbe Hungarian government
I iat It will sane.ion no measure the Curia may
feel o ill d upon to take again-1 tne anti-lulat Iblllst
?fi ' IttlCT UI IlUMKii;/. 1 UU.K BlUlCHlDUin UilTt uicutou
considerable excitement both m Germany and In
Rome.
HUNGARY.
Population nod Food.
[From GaligQaul's Messenger, of Paris, June 18.]
lhe Hungarian Minister 01 Commerce lias just preseated
lo tue Empetor France Joseph a report on
the recently terminated census of (tie population in
tu.it country. We extract from tU it document tlie
following retime:?''^ttie cenatu taken iu we territory
appertaining 10 tin- Hungarian crown was
meant to a-certain the change* winch have taken
during the last twelve years, as Hit' la-t was held in
l*u7, when theie were l7?s,f>i,j lnuab turns. According
to this iresh one there were, iu all, 16,4'J9,ii i8
souls, thus dis.rlou ed:?Hungary 1'coper, 11.100,183;
Trausylvaula, 2,119,107; Crotla and KcUvonia,
l.uia.wod, and the military conllues, 1,185,0.13. Thus
th re Is an increase ot l.tiii0,72)? ii 1-47 per cent."
A letter received from Pesth states that the liarvent
is now in full activity in Southern Hungary, and
that It gave promise ol an exti iKUUinary yield both
for quantity and ipja'ity. The continued rains In the
early spring have al*o been very favorable to the
oatrf and grass, which are most plentiful. To Judge
by the orders already arriving from Western Europe
Hungary will have a considerable exportation both
ol cerea.s and hay. ,
GERMANY.
<'ctboiic Warning to ltome*
The Augsburg Gazette, of June 17, publishes the
bisiio;>s against the close ol the yeuural discussion
on the scheme ot lnlallibilliy.
A letter irorn Colonue in tue same journal says:?
I learn from a pood source that the Catholic deputies of the
Reichstag and the Prussian Chamber of Deputies--MM.
Keichenapertier, Malllnkrodt, Windhorst, Ac.?have declared
against the Inlulllbtiity of the l'ope, in a letter addressed to
the Holy FnUier hlmst'lH and In which they at the Mime time
point out the latal elfecta that dogma might have lor tho
Catholic Church In Germany.
JAMAICA.
The I>tiria Aground In Kingston II arbor?
Financial Reform*?Losi of the .Schooner
Willy?Wreckers and Negroes Steal Ilor
Cargo?The Kainy Seat-on?Di?rntublinUuieul
of the State Church?Other News.
Kingston, June 36, ts~o.
Tlie telegraph steamer Dacia, which arri v'ed here
on Monday morning with .sir Charles Hrlglit and the
cable, has not yet got oil' the mud bank on which
site ran In coming up the harbor. The captain, Tor
some reason not yet explained, did not tak.- u pilot
on board. The steamer Suffolk, with her Majesty's
steamer Myrmidon and her Majesty's steamer Vestal,
have been trying to get her off without any good
result, and they have now commenced to lighten
the Dacia, in the hope that this will relieve her. The
company are paying some t hlrty pounds per day on
eacn of two ships which arrived some time ago with
the cable, and the present delay Li estimate?l to cost
the company who have undertaken the "laying"
some ?10,010. There are some forty-eiirLt ol- flity
operators at present locate I in Kingstou waiting for
distribution among the telegraph stations on the
other islands.
Tho financial return for the quarter ending the
30th of this mouth promises to show verv favorably for
the government and the financial skill ol the Grant
ana Rustiworth administration. The revenue receipts
considerably exceed the estimates for the
year, ami mere is utmost a certainty 01 mere neing
a surplus quite equal to that of last year, which, it
will be remembered, was ?58,80 >. This floes not
speak badly lor the prosperity of the country under
' crown government."
The revenue oitlcers in the examination of parochial
airairs have discovered that several "Mali
personages" who were 111 "high lavor" In the days
ot the delunct House of Assembly, have never paid
a farthing of the taxation to wliicii they were liable.
The government having found this out has no respect
of persons, and are pushing to; a "settlement
01 arrears." A compromise has been proposed; but
the government Indignantly rejects Hie proposition,
saying, "the peasantry pay their taxes, and the better
clashes should give no trouble."
Several houses and stores in the parishes of Hanover
and Westmoreland are completely under water.
The average rainfall there in one week was twentyseven
Inches.
The British schooner Willy, from New York bound
to Honduras, with a general cariro, was wrecked a
few days ago on BucknowM Reel, opposite Hopewell
estate, on t lie northwest of Jamaica, near to Lucea.
Great efforts were made to save as much of the cargo
as possible, but the violent conduct of the wrecker.-",
and the plundering propensities of the negroes, were
beyond all description. Knives werelreely used and
cargo plundered even In the face of me constabulary.
Llovd's agents are exerting themselves to get
back the stolen property.
The rainy season has passed off, but not without
doing some extensive damage in the western parishes.
All the bridges between Lucea and (ireen
island have been washed away by the lloods. In
Hanover a hundred and Qity acres of mountain land
came down with a run, and 111 West morel and, in the
middle of some ol the nugar estates, there is enough
water nccotnulated to float the largest frigate afloat.
A bill for the gradual disestablishment of the
Church of England has passed the Legislative Council.
It provides for ttic transfer of Church property,
lor the management of the affairs of the Church by
the ministers. memt>ers and adherents of the Episcopal
Church resident in the Island, for the constitution
of a representative synod, and for the exercise
of Church discipline in congregations.
There was a large sale of property in Kingston,
out or the Court of Chancery, last week. The prices
which the several houses brought at the public competition
were perlectly fabulous and shows how
greatly property has increased In value in Kingston
niiuiu tin: iunt jCiii ui tn w.
Since tnti abolition of the tonnage due* on 1st
AprU iust there baa bewi a very larsre increase In
the number ol vessels arriving to load and for orders,
and the great bcnetit of tills financial concession
on ihe part of the government lias been felt ail
over the country where shipping call in to load or
seek provisions. Next year the government propose
to abolish the lighthouse dues.
OUR LATE iilDIAH GU??TSlimted
Tail Boyinic Horaea.
[From the Sioux Citv Journal, June lu.j
Spotted Tall and his party were out yesterday
morning visiting the ditterent sale stables, for the
purpose of buying a good American horse lor each
member of the party. The government foots the
bill, having igjfM d so to <io in response to a request
made by the Indians while In Washington. The
redskins thought It was one of their rights to have
good horses to take them home from the terminus ol
the railroad. Old Red cloud perfected a slmllai
negotiation. .Spot gave evidence of his being n
good Judge of horseflesh in his examination of the
points and dualities ol the hOTM. He went through
similar movements and ({estates as his white brethren
go through, with the exception that he spoke
not a word until his investigations were concluded.
Then he turned to Captain 1'oole and sai l something
that sounded very mucn like "d?n heap good,"
and Captain Poole concluded the bargain. About
four o'clock yesterday afternoon .the party left tin
city, Hot 011 horseback, but by carriages. The carriages
will carry them as far as Yankton, where they
(are expected to lav aside a little of their elegance,
straddle their free horses una go ou tUetr savagt
way rejoicing.
\
0
Y, JUNE 29, 1870.-TR1PL
CHARLES DICKENS.
ItcniiulNcoiiccs of the Man, tlie
Novelist and Parent.
His Memory on fte European Continent, in Eng.
land and in Private Cirole??The Play of
Piokwiok? A m?r ican Experiences?A be
Lincoln's Dream and Iti Effect.
The ceremonial which wa<* observed at the funeral
of Chares Dickens Inside of Westminster Aobey, as
well an tlie funeral cortege itself and the names of
the chier mourners, wero fully described and set
forth by cub.e to.ok rums in the Hekald the day subsequent
to UU interment.
To-day wo havo by jnall very many interesting reports
relative to the deceased writer's life aud the
estimation in which he was held. These incidents
reach us from many and various sources, thus:?
DICKENS' LAST LETTER.
[Prom the London Atheneutn, June 18.]
Mr. Charles Kent has kindly consented to our
printing what 1b in all probability the last letter
ihat Mr. l)l<kens wrote.
On Thursday, bjlore his death, when Mr. Kent
went to keep the appointm mt, Mr. Utckeus wan
lying unconscious, and was within a very lew hours
01 hut death. The "opal enjoyments" refer to the
tints of the sky:?
UAltai!ill Place, Hinoiiam ut Rooukbtki,)
Kint, Wedueaday, June 8,1870. {
Mr Di\b Kent?To morrow Is a very bad day for me to
m*ko a call, a* In addition to my imual office builneia 1 bar*
a man ol account! to nettle. Hut 1 hope X may be readr for
you at three o'olock. Ii I can't be, why then I shan't be.
You muni really get rid of tbeie opal enjoyment!. They are
too oveipowerlug. '-Those violent delight! have rlolent
end!." I think It wa! a father of your church who made the
wliu remark to a young gentleman who got up ear.y (.or (laid
out taie) at Verona, fcver affectionately.
To Cuakles K.E.NT, li?i. CHARLES DICKENS.
HIS FORTUNE.
[From the Loudon Telegraph, June 18.]
Charles Dickens leaves, iuc<u ling Hie value of bis
cop.v rights, nearly ?80,000 lor his family.
The fourth, flftu ttmi sixth monthly parts of "Edwin
Drood" a e completed, ana the outline ol the remaining
portion (4 the story has been ho drafted in
Dickens' waste-book that Wilkie Collins, who, it is
understood, lias consented to finish lite tale, will
have no \cry dlillcuU undertaking before lain.
OBJECTS OK AltT.
The pictures ami other objects of art which bolonged
to wr. Dickens are to be sold by auction by
Messrs. Christie <* Manson. His library he lias leit
to Ins eldest son. Ills manuscripts and papers are
at present in the bauds oi his executors, Mr. Foster
aud Miss llogai in.
DICKENS AS A MAN OP SCIENCE.
[From the British Midic.il Journal, June 17.]
How true to uatuie, even to their most trivial details,
almost every diameter and every Incident In
the works of the great novelist whose dust has Ju.it
been laid to rest really were is best Known to those
whose tastus or whose duties led them to frei,uent
the paths of life lroin widen Dickens delighted to
draw, but aoNs except medical men, caa judge of
the rare fidelity with which he followed the great
Mother through the devious paths of disease and
d? ath. In reading "Oliver Twist" aud "Doinbey and
Son," or the "Chimes," oreven "No Thoroughlare,"
the physician oitun felt tempted to say, ' What a
gain it would have been to physic ir one so ke^a to
observe and so laciie to describe had devoted bis
powers to the medical art." it must not
he rorgntten mat nis description or necuc (in
" Oliver Twist") has found lis way luto more than
one standard work in boMi uieUtcine an?i surgery
(Miller's 'principle oi surgery," second edition, p.
40; also Dr. Aitkin's "Piactice of Medicine," tliirJ
coition, vol. 1., p. Ill; also several American and
French books); that lie anticipated the cduieal researches
of M. Dux, Broca, ana Uughllugu Jackson,
on the connection of right hemiplegia with aspiiasla
[Vide " Do in bey and Son " for the last Illness 01 Mrs.
SKewtoii); ana that his descriptloiis ot epilepsy la
Walter Wilding, and of moral and menial insanity lu
characters too numerous ty mention, show the hand
of a master. It is leeble praise to add that he was
always just, and generally generous, to our proi'esslon.
Kven his descriptions of oflr Hob Sawyers, and
their less reputable friends, always wanted tt?e
coarseness, and, let us add, the unreality, of Albert
Smith's : so that we ourselves could well afford to
laugh with the man who some: lines laughed at us,
but laughed only as one who loved us. One of the
later edorts ol his pen was to advancj the interests
of the Kast London Hospital for Children; and his
sympathies were never absent from the sIok and
suffering of every a^e.
THE DESIGN OF PICKWICK?DICKENS Oil SEYMOUR?
We quote from the Albion the following article oa
tlie death of Mr. Dickens:?
At a moment when one of the least looked for of
events ill it could most poignantly mock contemporary
prescience Is literally eclipsing tliejgayety of
nations, as the autli .r of the "V.inlty 01 Human
Wishes'' said on the deuthof the Dickens of the Johnsonian
era; wnen. In the words ol that national and
universal expositor of human feeling, amid the
scenes of certa n 01 whose conjurations (tiailsidii) ne
not inappropriately passed away, at much about the
same age, lu tnc fulness ol almost equal fame,
every on" among us said:?
Beg a hair of him In memory,
And, dyiug, mmition It wllhlti oar wills,
bequeathing it an a rioh legacy
Unto our isaue?
It may not be an inadmissible souvenir of the all
mourned idol to state here, that the lirst lines ever
Mr. Dickens composed were submitted unconditionally
to the writer ol these remarks?submitted as
the merest matter ol professional literary business,
haphazard, without any Introduction or Intervention
of any Kind, and without critic or autlior having the
faintest Idea or each other's individuality. It Is,
perhaps, not a too extravagant hypothesis to surmise
that, had the judgment been adverse, there
might never nave been another appeal elsewhere by
the hand which has held tue whole reading world in
captive admiration to Its uniltirndtnoas spells ever
since?a period of some thirty-five years. The story
lias often been told, always Imperfectly, and by
noue more Imperfectly than by Air. Dickons,
both on the comparatively late occasion
or the Boiin controversy, as to whether
the early designs for "Pickwick" were most due to
Himself or to the unfortunate suicide, .Seymour, and
lu certain prefaces to collected editions of anterior
date. It is well the truth should now be told properly,
though the llrst consequence of so doing must
be to deprive Mr. Roebuck's duelling antagonist, the
late tierinauically erudite Dr. Biack. many years editor
of the once great whig dally organ, the Morn iuj
Chronicle, which at the period in question had disastrously
drilled into stock jobbing hands, 01 tne long
enjoyed credit of being the discoverer of the genius
of Dickens. He did not discover, but he recognized
It when developed, and, moreover, he utilized it for
the story telling and social sketchiug purposes which
just then burst out in divers journals, experimenting
on the supposed awakening of the masses to the
sweets of intellectual recreation under the Cyclops
hammer of Cyclopiedlac Brougham and the penny
knowledge dlffus rs. Of the e Black was one of
the most ponderous; so much so that It was
said used to turn to tit. Thomas Aquinas by way
of unbending from severer toil; hence his perception
ol the sudden requirement of a suddenly created
light literature was all the more singular. But as to
discovering the genius of Dickens, there was really
nothing to discover at the time we speak of, anil
there is no merit due or claimed In reference to the
approval of the maiden composition alluded to. In
lact, it had no distinctive merit whatever to warrant
its being singled out from scores of things of the
sort produced by "the mob of areiitlemeu who wrote
with ease" In those distant days when the "literary
gent" was happily unknown. ItB length, Its suitability
at the moment to typographic exigencies of
space, was the element that chietly determined its
admission Into tiie periodical down whose editorial
box, In Fleet street, It was furtively dropped, without
a word as to the author, who simply signed
"Boz," rather by the way of facilitating an "answer
to correspondents," m the event or expected rejection,
than with any view to the maintenance of a
signature destined to become so famous.
At that time the Old Monthly, as it was called, to
distinguish It irom the New, about which latter Colburn,
with Campbell for editor, kept blowing such
trumpets, was still a puissance, though It had lately
parted with Its principal contributor, Rev. Dr. Croly,
whose Salathlel was yet in the now of its original
success; and his "Notes of the Month" wero always
a piquant feature, even in au age ol trenchant and
|iUinilCU ['ClIUiUUBillp* l UUt'l V1UIJ ItiC llIUgU/<IUC
was ardently tory; but it hftil become the property
or Captain Holland, formerly one of Bolivar's aidesde-camp?a
high bred man of a type now passed
away?most variedly accomplished, and the centre
of a congenial circle as girted as himself, Including
many who afterwards made the fauie of Fra/.er.
Holland's Hispafiolan liberalism, stimulated by the
hot and turbid English reform imitation, still seething,
and the Campbell and Colburn competition,
led lmn to look for fresh blood to revive
ttie drooping circulation. Hence one reason
why Dickens, then buoyantly radical, was drawn
thitherwards, although there was nothing whatever
political in the slight initial paper, of less than half
a dozen pages, he ventured upon. Nor was there in
the three or four similar ones he after war us lurnlshed,
and which attracted only the most cursory
notice from his fellow-contributors. These articles
sunieed, however, to induce Dr. Black, an old friend
of Ills father's, to recommend the acceptance of
others like them, but of a mere ' social" character,
in the arter manner of the master, for uelVs Life?the
proprietor of wnlch was lavishing large means, in
i every lorm of publicity, upon his three journals,
i morning, evening and weekiy. Then the successor
' "her Majesty's Van" (Peel's newly-devised homelike
vehicle for conveying prisoners to and from the
police courts), and a lew more of the like category,
i though printed in the smallest and densest newspaper
type, some two-thirds of a columu in length,
obtalne.i in all journals the extensive quotation
i which led to Hie Chapman and Hall alliance
that resulted in "Pickwick," and in the
; unexampled celebrity thereupon supervonlng,
1 and sustained vrt'scendo to the last. Unique in all
. things, Dickens was pre-eminently singular in this,
! thai, though "a gentleman or the press" to a degree
undreamed of in tne vocabulary of the right
' honorable personage who affectedly disavows any
, other escutcheon,he had no assailants, no traducers,
: no enemies. And for this reason, that, without
being iu tiie lea-t mawkish, tuit liuutiug or mealy
E SHKETf.
mouthed ?on the contrary, being Hie most outupoVen
extirpator of stitui*. lmpo tuie.and. in tii-> own aliexliuu-itiro
phrase of "reeksuttlsm," ho ucvertheI
ess traduced, maligned, aiitirlzed nobody. Not even
hi# ceuaoni. For he hud many nucd. It would be
like descending Into tlie cataoombs of criticism, bo
to speak, to unearth proof# of how leading journal*,
now blatant 111 lilspo-iihumnuspraise, once ridiculed
his pretensions to d?lin*ate anything beyond the
Marionettes at apeep-Hhow; what iubiiani clapping
of hands there was over Jupiter's pseudo-classic
Joke, Proeumbtt huml JJoz, tn reference to his lirstf
and last drumatlo fiasco, "The Village Coquettes,"
under Braham's management, at the St. James, a
Suarter of a century back; and what a titter of saronlo
approval Has evoked by the Superfine Reviewer's
pedantic scod. that Mr. Dickens' reading
appeared to be c mfined to a perusal of his own
writings. Ilia first steps were beset with Klgbys,
whose ' slashing artlc.es'' cried out, ' This will never
do !" pointing out how thorough a cockney he was
once his foul was olT the flagways of the hills of mortality,
and anticipating the late vixenish verdict
of a certain screaming sister of the sensational
school, that his works are stores of pothouse
fileasuntries. Ho won his way into universal favor
II virtue of an ill assimilative geniality against
which no predetermination or resistance was proof,
as in the ease of Bvdney Smith, who, with characteristic
candor, avowed his lntoleianoe of wnat he
believed to be the cant of lilckeuB' popularity, aud
promptly ended in becoming an enthusiastic apostle
of the propaganda himself. On that dogma we are
all of accord?all lnfainnllists. An Ecumenical
Council of the Kugllsh aud reud ng races and races
all over the earth Ib sitting, and forever will sit, in
sinecure guardianship of the faith as in Uoz, and In
hU hierarchy of pleasauiest and most practical
b ^neflcences?ameliorating the lot of man by preaching
aud teaching the duty and the beauty of sharing
the common burden and enduring the mutual infirmity?and
so forever keeping green the memory
01 a name second to one only in his country's
annals.
orekn in the memory.
Long obituary notices or Charles Dickens are given
in the lullan papers. Tho Dlrxtlo thinks that 8am
Weller aud the "modern TartutTe" in "Martin Chuzzlewlt"
will be immortal, like i'erpetua an 1 Don Abbondlo
in Mauzoni's "Promessi Hposl," which have
become popular types or character.
The Nazuine, or Florence, speaks of the deceased
as the greatest or modern Kngiish novelists, and says
that his death will no doubt be lamented in Eugiaud
as a national calamity. It thinks that tn his pictures
of are and manners ids humor sometimes degenerated
into caricature and his passion became
melo-dramatlc, but that thc.->e faults were mere
Bpecks on the sun. visible ouly to the scientific observer
and depriving the beneficent luminary of
neither light nor heat. "1'liat lie was," it adds, ":or
live aud thirty years at once the most esteemed
novelist and the greatest social reformer or his fellow
countrymen is a Just title of glory that no other
modern writer has possessed lu an eijuai degree."
There will be monuments to him in marble and
bronze, tlie Nazione says, but his finest monument
wia ue me k "Hi iiu aid ior me poorer cius >es.
HEMIN18CEN0H3 OF JIM YOUTH.
The editor of the Loudou 9rauhlc relates some
particulars of His personal acquaintance with the
late author, as follows:?
The first time I saw the idolized Hoz In (he flesh
was at a fancy fair iu the Painted Hall of Greenwich
Hospital, held, 1 think, ror the benefit of the Shipwrecked
Mariners' Society. He was then a handsome
> onuk man, with piercing brlgut eyes and
carefully arranged hair, much, in lact, as he is represented
In Macllse's picture. The last time I Haw
him was a few weeks since, when I had the pleasure
ol meeting hiin at dinner. To all outward appearance
he then looked lUe a mail n ho would live aud
work until he was four score. 1 was especially
struck by the brilliancy and vivacity of his eyes.
There seemed as much life and animation In them as
lu twenty ordinary pairs or eyes. 1 was also struck
by his sailor-like aspect, a peculiarity observed by
many other persons. Yet, except nis two voyages
to America, he had not been much on the s. a and
was not, 1 believe, a particularly good suuor. Hut
we all know h.s sympathy for seamen, and l think,
without being fanciful, that his nautloal air may in
part be attributed to early Portsmouth associations.
On this occasion Mr. Dickens conversed with me
chiefly about Mr. Carlyle's writings, for whose
"French Revolution" he expressed the strongest admiration,
as he has practically shown in his "Tale of
Two Cine.;;" and he also related some Interesting
anecdotes, one of which 1 may venture to transfer
to print.
AMERICAN EXPEKIENCES?ACE LINCOLN.
It was related to Mr. Dickens by the late Mr. Edwin
M. wanton, the famous Secretary of War
In the United States Cabinet. On Good Fri
uny, low), mure was a uao:net uuuncu at wasnington,
and Mr. Stanton chanced to enter the council
chamber some time alter the other members had
assembled. As he entered he heurd the President
say, "Well, gentlemen, this is only amusement. I
think we had better now turn to business." During
the meeting he noticed that Mr. Lincoln was remarkably
grave and sedate, and that instead of
strolling about the room, as was his usu.il wont,
dcaliug out droll remarks, lie sat bolt upright in ills
cha.r. On leaving the council Mr. Stanton aski'd
one or the other Ministers why the Prest tent's manner
was so peculiar, and received the following explanation:??'When
we assembled to-day Mr. Lincoln
said, 'Gentlemen, 1 dreamed a strange dream last
night for the third time, and on each occasion something
remarkable has followed upon it. Alter the
first dream came the battle of Hull run (Mr. Dickens
could not remember the second event), and now the
dream lias come again. 1 dreamed that 1 was in a
bout on a lake, drilling along without either oars or
sails, wneu?' At this moment you," said the
Minister, addro.-smg Mr. Stanton, "opened the door,
whereupou the President checked Himself" and said,
I think we had better turn to business.' Ho we have
lost the conclusion of the dream." And it was lost
lor ever. Tne Council met at half-past two, und on
the same evening President Lincoln lay dead, slain
by the pistol shot of Wilkes Booth. 1 cannot avoid
drawing a parallel here. We shall never know the
end of Mr. Lincoln's dream, and the "Mystery of
Edwin Drood" remains also an inscrutable mystery,
parted from us by the impenetrable curtain of dcatn.
Posthumous fame is but a poor thing when it is
based simply on intellectual achievements.
FAME.
Charles Dickens'fame rests on a snror basis. His
chief merit, to my thinking, lies In the Tact that In
ali his creations, humorous or pathetic, be irresistlby
drew the sympathies of his readers towards
the cause of the humble, the suffering and
the oppressed, and I flrmly believe that
mujh of the benetlcent legislation of late
years is due to his teaching. If he had
nnt.(?rprl Parliament. hA wmilri nmltiihlT hnvn mailt*
but au indii'ereut figure, for he cared little for mere
party polities; but at his desk, pen lu hand, lie
wielded a power superior to that of a whole House
of Commons, and It is to It is'eternal glory that this
power was uniformly exercised for worthy ends. It
Is no small matter in an ag when the contrast between
wealth and poverty, bfttween inordinate luxury
and utter destitution, grows dally more startling,
that a man of genius should, for a whole generation,
have used ills mental gifts for the purpose of
bridging over those ternble gulls in modern civilization.
f
A BUST IN MBM0R1AM.
A London Journal of the 18th of June says:?
In fulfilment of an Intention which had been recently
formed by the deceased himself, Mr. Woolner
has been commissioned t?y the lam ly to execute a
bust of Mr. CUar.es Dickens. On Friday last, the
sculptor visited Oadshlli for the purpose of talcing a
cast of the deceased's features.
ST. THOMAS.
The Failnre of the Annexation Treaty?Relor
mi Promised?The People ContentSevere
Earthquake In the Windward
Islands?Rising of the Hea?Wreck of the
Schooner S. R. Soper.
St. Thomas, June 15, 1870.
The long agony Is over, and St. Thomas?albeit her
people were as willing as Barkis?has failed to become
part of that great system of States which
makes up the federal Union. We are once more out
of suspense and under the protecting tegls of Denmark,
which fact has been proclaimed by the Governor-In-Chief
in the name of his Majesty the King,
whom long to reign over us may Heaven grant.
Many reforms In our local laws are promised. This
failure of negotiations would at one time have
created a deal of sorrow, as the people In mass were
sincerely desirous of forming a Dart of the great republic;
out there has been so long a season of dallying
and uncertainty that any termination of the
question liud come to be greatly desired; and so,
though unfavorable, it is now received with entire
eatls: action.
Passengers from the Windward Islands report
that several very severe shocks of earthquake were
experienced on tne morning of the uth, at ten
minutes past nine, and considerable damage was
done to wail buildings. The sea rose to a gn at
height about the island of Gtta laloupe, and when
returning the violence was so gre.it that vessels
were carried far out of the harbor. From present
data it is impossible to estimate tnc extent of country
affected or the amount of damage done.
The United States and Brazil steamer Merrlmac,
brought among her freight two boxes of retorted
gold from the Orinoco Exploring aud Mining Company,
valued In American gold at This
company seems to be in a very healthful condition,
for by every steamer to New York tliey send two
boxen of this gold, valued at. from $20,000 to $jo,ooo.
From St. Croix we have a report of the total
wreck of the schooner 9. R. Soper, of Provlncetown,
Mass., which took place on the ntght of the :?d 01'
May, ana was communicated hy Captain Robert D.
Eldndge, who with tweuty-two men arrived at that
Sort, on Saturday night at ten o'clock, lu three whale
oats, in forty hours from llird's Island, where the
schooner was wrecked. They had saved about lao
barrels of oil. Tlie captain ami crew were in bad
condition. It is reported the captain loox parage
to .New York in the Merrlmac.
From Porto Rico we learn that the crop Is drawing
to a close. Tonntge In full supply and weather favorable
to growing crop. The ex-Captain General.
Don Jose Laureatio Nanz y Ponce, who had been
passing a fortnight here, took passage In the Shan*
nou for Europe. While here a spiendld entertainment
was given him by the International Cluo.
The dock w suU down, aud th? vrobpetrt of raiting
it is auialu
CUBA.
Spanish Accounts of the Second
Lauding of the Upton.
Her Cargo Said to be Captured?Lono and Otter*
Escaped to the Mountain*?Captured Corr*
pondenoe?Anticipated Return of the Captain
General?End of Military Operations-Spanish
Squadron Bound to
New York?Heroio Conduot of /
Cuban Women?The Release
of Joseph Duany.
t
Havana, June 22,1870.
Account# concerning the second landing of the
(leorge B. Upton are furnished us through Spanish
sources. According to these her cargo was dlsem- <
barked at a point between Puerto del Padre and
Glbara, about one league from where she previously
landed. She brought twenty-one inen, commanded
by Colonel Lotto, who. It will recollected, was at the [
head of tbe party whlen captured the Spanish coasting
steamer Comandltarlo mine time since. Soon
after landing they were surprised by a force under
the Captain of the Partldo Manlabou, as mentioned '
In a previous despatch. Six were killed and one /
uuyiureu. ills UUICIn iron w cue luuuuwiui ill
Cliaparra, whither a force was subsequently sent in
pursuit by Ferrer, military commandant of Uoiguln. ''
The following names of those killed are given:?
Nicholas Sanchez, Manuel Mestore, Jos') Joaquin
Zortibiile and Francisco i'uonte. A quantity or cor- y
respondence and documents was found, among
them the following:?
Colon, Atplnwall, June 8,1870.
C. Cari.ob Manuel Cebpeoeh, I*re?(uent ot tbe Kepuullc of '
Cuba:?
Ai I announced to you tn my previous letter 1 have juM
completed the tint expedition in 1'uuta Brava. It is coionosed
of Colonel Mariano Louo anil the citizens Manuel
Mestre, Jose Jua<iuln Lelte Vldal, Manuel Kspln, Jon* Collaso,
Nicholas Sanchez, Francisco ruerites, Francisco Dunuy,
Miguel Batista, Aguttln Batista, Carlos Deginjo, Andrea
Vaflnts, IMdro Portlllo. Francisco Torres, Jacinto tlebla,
Manuel Uuta, Adolfo Lelle Vldal, Ftrtundo Justls, Josa
Mena, Arturo Lstrada, Euloglo de la Cade, Francisco Barreto.
I
1 forward you a copy of the invoice of munition*, 4c.,
which it carries. It comprises- lirat, the armament which the
Junta or New York aeni to Aspiuwall to the care of colonel /
Mariano Lono; second, that winch remained disembarked at
tbe time of tbe llrst landing, and which procce led to Aspinwall
to the caru of the a(,ent there. I am glad to have received,
at the point of disembarkation, tbe correspo iden'-a i
for >ew York, for detention lu re liaa been of great IncoD- )
venieuce. Uod know* what further detention remain*. I remain,
Ac., J. V. (Ji.S.i EKO.S.
Also the following:?
GENERA!. BKPOnt.IOAN JflNTA OP CUBA AND PtJFBTO)
Rico, Broadway, New Yokk, May In,lo'O. {
Colonel Mauiand Loud, Asplnwall:? t
lUiiiiNnLiuiiEi) Fellow Crri/i-.M.? I enclose to you Invoice
of the eilects winch the (). B. lipton brings to you.
Kor causes which I will explain to citizen hduardo Cisner ?,
and which were not controllable bv us, the armament which
remained ill Naa-.au docs not come. 'I'bo Junta baa seen
with naln that you bave departed from received instructions,
not proceeding in accord with the person in charge oftha
Agency at l'anatua, in the absence of l'-duardo Clsneros a*
was recommended. We consider it proper to act with the
greatest caution in this delicate matter; for the (lightest in- .
advertence on our part wo ild be taken advantage of by our t
enemies, and cause a loss ot' tbe immense ventures made. K,
.1 i' lutii'roa will nmke known to von v. I:at Jordan savs as to
proper pi.ice ol dlatimb&r&atluu. " 1 remain your*, with much ^
coimlderailon, AlIiiUKL ALDA.M A, i'rcHidout..
Then follows a list of articles contained in the lu- ,
voice, comprising l,6i7 carbines of various descriptions,
powder, surgical effects, clothing and a great
variety of war material, some boilers and other
tlun^ii. Although it Is claimed that the capture
made comprises all of the second cargo landed by
the Upton, yet the Cubans Insist that a sood portion
ol It was taken into the interior by Loflo and others y
who were moving towards the mountains, and that
captured was the small part left beliiud for want of
transportation. It Is now announced that the re- t ?
turn ot the Captain General is close at band, and
that ho will reach this capital some time before the
first of July.
We are furnished with little ol importance from ?
the Camaguey. The steamer Tnuufo, which arrived
here Monday, brings news from Puerto Principe to
the 17th. The system or burning estates which caa
oi. made use of by the Spaniards for shelter and protection
under the orders of Cava la is going on w.tli
unexampled energy and tne Jurisdiction Is last becoming
a desert. Tne following places, esiates and
farms, are among those reported dest.oyed:?Cau- ,
nao, Maraguan, Porcayo, Yaguajay, Caobabo,
Zaragozano, Hato-urriba, Naja/.a, San Pedro.
Jmiagiiayu, Guaicanamar, Sabana Grande, Alumna,
Sibanicu, Quaimaro, San Miguel, Cascorro, Iilaya,
Meala K-jcua, Corojo, Monte oscuro, Vcrtioutes, s.^a
Carlos, Judas, Qrande La Guanaja, Yayabacoa, Guanauiaca,
Magarabomba, Sauia Cruz, ban Cerouimo,
tinayabal auu Conception. The t'unal says that
since the 4th of November, 18&), there has not gone
over the railroad one barrel of aguadiente, one box ?
of sugar, one loot of lumber, one uercc of tobacco or
one cake of wax, the products of the country. TUa
military operations are few and of no Interest. There
had arrived lu the city Don Jose Maria Al iana, Don
Antonio Pia y Monge and Don Uregorio Garzla, Peninsulars.
residimr in Holimln. who lor thirteen months
had been prisoner* among the Insurgents. The usual
long list or presen.ados lire published, made up
mostly of women and children. ,
The Captain (iene.al has or late commute! the
sentence of three persons iroin death to imprisonment
for teu years. Matters arc equally at a standstill
m the Eastern Department. Valmascda would
seem 10 bo In liayanio, from which place we have
dates to the 18th. The rains had set in throughout
tuat Jurisdiction and Mau/.aullio, compelling a practical
cessation of operations. A lew detachments
arc sent out over tiic better roads, but accomplish
no.lilng.
The season for the prosecution of the Insurgents Is
over, and .v.'odesto Diaz still holds his position "in
the cradle of the insurrection," from wh.ch, according
to the promises of Vaunuseda, he was t > have
been long since driven.
Uat ;s from Santiago de Cuba are to the 17th. The
B tudpra Esvailol contains a letter dated Mayan tho
4th, announcing ttiat an attack had been made on ?
ttie encampment of Donato Marmol on the 2d. He i
was intrenched, but a-> usua; lied on the approach
oi the troops, leaving behind a quantity ol war material.
ltlsstated that Marmol himself was wounded '
In the head; fourteen prisoners were taken and afterwards
shot. The chief, Don Carlos Maria Del^auo,
was among the prisoners, but was not shot with the
fourteen. It Is stated that on the islst of January,
18UJ, this chief caused to be killed by machetes sev en .
Spanish prisoners, for which reason he, with seven s
other Insurgents, was taken to the scene of tho
tragedy and then shot. Among those kihed by Delgatlo,
as stated, wore two worthy priests.
The Spanish account claims that the effects captured
and destroyed on the 2d amounted in value *
to $20,000, but doubtless this is srreatly exaggerated.
On the 5th a small encounter took place on the hill
Uato, within the Jurisdiction. The insurgents had
constructed a number ol huts inside of lntrcnchments,
which they abaiidoued alter a little firing.
Throughout the Clnco Villas and in Santl Esplrim /
the usual unimportant encounters are reported. Private
accounts from Trinidad state that matters are
more man usually unsewieu in uiaijurisuicuoii; uiai
tlie ln.surgeuts are appearing in large numbers arid
are committing many devastations on estate*, wluie
tbe operations against them are entirely void of
res ill to. ?'
A Manzanillo paper of recent date relates a few
Incidents concerning tlie women or Cuba, from
wliicti can be realized that Jauaticism of patriotism
and hatred of their Spanish rulers which actuate *
them, and to which in lair part may be attributed
the perseverance with which this struggle is carried
on against so many adverso circumstances. As stated,
soon after the rising in the districts of Yara and
others a column went out Irorn the city
mentioned, commanded by the unrortunate Lieutenant
Colonel 1). Rafael Jerez, who was alter wards
killed in Nagua, lor the purpose 01 attacking certain
encampments. On arriving at the place occupied
by the insurgents I hey fled; previous 10 which a woman,
holding in her hand a iri-colored bauner wuh '
a single star, which she waved to and fro, crying out
"Death to the vlla and shameless Spaniards I" and
Vim Cuba i-iOre / She was the wife or GeDeral
PeJro Cespedes del Castillo, and a sister or the so- '
called President of the republic. She abandoned
her home and took the field lor the purpose of sus- ?taming
and encouraging tlie insurrection. At the
deleave of Las Tunas a woman was seen on horseback,
animating the troops, anil was heard to cry
out "At them for lhey are lew ami dying of
hunger l" She was the wife of citizen General Rubaicaha.
Two young ladles, daughters of a Spaniard residing
in tnat Jurisdiction, also left their homes unci
united themselves to tlie insurrection. On arriving
in the Held they cutoir their hair and adorned themselves
with blue ribbons, and devoted themselves to
encouraging and sustaining the forces. In Uayamo,
previous to its occupancy by Valmaseda, says
the journal mentioned, the women were very
bitter against two prisoners which fell into the
hands ofthe insurgents. They adorned their dresses
wuh colors similar to ihose of the Cubau ilag, and _
with stars, assisted in preparing ammunition ami
encouraged ail tlio.^e acts of vandalism perpetrated
by the lusurgent forces. In Manzanillo lor months
the women carried letters to and iro, served a* y
spies, furnished such supplies as they could, ami lu
every way possible assisted the patriot cause.
From Colon there has Just arrived here news of an
engagement between the insurgents and the "Chapalgorries,"
in which the latter lost considerably.
Luis Will, Consul of the North German Conferat)on,
has received lrom the Regent the Royal American
Order of Isabella the Catholic. As this gentle- '
man in his omcial and private relations has been a '
consistent and persistent friend of Spain, doubtless
he is entitled to this cheap reward.
Owing to the ouergetlc remonstrances of Consul ,
Hoiwrnl Tit*l<ili> t>w? Atiutrlnan p.lf.lzpn JmtAiih lliift'if *
arremud ou .suspicion oi being ttic Bon oJ Count
Duany, lias been released. Mr. l)uauy hus aunoied
liiticU from liiH conilneuieni, ami Uumutccs uUJ
(icniunUeU ft via lue Sinimau gum'wmiu