Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 4, 1875, Page 12

' 1 i = » THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1875.-SIXTEEN PAGES. FOREIGN. Ths Carlist Army Past Thinnlg out v by Desértion. Acsonnt of the Assassination of the English Engineers in India, Unveiling of the Maximili ' Monument-at Trieste. " Interesting oBuuget of News from the French Capital SPAIN. . . N GARLIST DESEETIONE. MUDRD, April 3.—The Carlist General Saballs has bad o interview with Gen. Campos, at Olot, under & flag of truce. There is reason to bo* lieve thst he will soon giva in his adbesion to King Alphonso aod, in return, his present rank will be recognized by the Government. Bince the issus of Gen. Cabrera’s manifesto, 224 officers have left the service of Don Carlos and entered France. Of tifese, nide wera Gen- erale. 1any others surrondered to ths Alphon- sists. Loxpox, April 3.—Advices from Spain rspre- sont the prospects of peace as increasing daily. One hundred and eighty Carlist officers have al- ready given in’their submussion to King Al- phonsa. . — INDiA, THE MASSACRE OF THE SUEVEYING PARTY. ~Nxw Yonx, April 8,—A Calcutta cqrrespondent writing of the massacre, in.the Loga hills, of the surveyng party cnder Lieut. Holcomb, ays: *‘The beads of the alain were taken off by the survivors, to preveat their bsing paraded in the villages of the Nogas, as thoss savages think 26 much “of the capus as American Indians do of ES sealp. The nomber of killed and wounded, so far a5 can be ascer:ained, are eighty killed, ffty- one sligntly wounded, and fifty-two unhurt. The supreme Government intends sending two regi- ments forward st once, when the massacre will be avenged. The orders to these regiments are to extermi root and branch, ait of the vil- Iages and villaper of what are known as the BSanun and Nenuvillages of the Naga Hill tribes. The savages numberod nearly 200, and obtained zecens to the camp of the surveyors under a pre- tense of bringing presenis to the officers ‘and eelling provisions, eta., to the remainder of the party.” —_— Fe =04 AUSTRIA. s ‘Trrestx, April 3.—Ths ceremony of unveiling the monument to the memory of the Iate Emparor, ‘Maximilian, took place In this city to-day in the presence of the Emperor Francis Joseph, the Archdukes, Ministers, and an immense con- oourse of people. Great enthusiasm was exhib- ited, speeches were made dwelling upon the mer- 1ta of Maximilian, and expressing thefattachment ~of the inhabitants of Triests to tne Imperial hmgix The Emperor, who was deeply moved, cordidlly thanked tho people for their menifesta- tiona of loyalty. 2 THE ITALIAX EOYAL FAMILY. VIERNA, March 20.—According to advices of the Presse frpm Italy, 2ll the malo members of * the Royal family—the Crown Prince Umberto, Prince eo, Duke Thomas of Genda, and Prince Eogens of Carignan—are to coms to Vemice. If not prevented by the delicate state of her health, the Crown Princess Mar- garet will ba there too. As for the Duchess of Aosta, ehs is pre- vented by iiiness. Besides the Ministers, the Presidents both of the Senate andof the Cham- ber ero to accompany the King, and s nunzber of Benators, Deputies, and otber distinguished per- sonsges, have asked to join the cortége, and to prescated to tha Emrercr. The Boyal Princes will embark on board the Italian squad- ron aad sccompany the Emperor to fhe cosst of Dalmatiz. GERMANY. THE CATHOLIC CONFERENCE. . ~ Beer, April 8.—The confersnce of Roman Catholic Bishops, at Fulda, hes cloeéd. A mess- age was received from the Pope conveying his blassing asd urging the Bishops te persevare. - 2 e SAN DOMINGO. A CLATI AGAINST TIE UKITED STATES. Bux Domxxae, April 8.—1It is stated that this Goverpment is being hard pressed. About 2,000 of its citizens, victims of Baez’ action whilo un- der the immediate protection of the United Btates ehips-of-war,” present a claim on the ‘ United Ststes Government for logses and ibjoriea to the Goveromeat and poople arising therefrom. The foundition of 1his claim hss been taken from tha epech of Senator Bumner of March 37, 1871, on the viola- tions of_internstional law and usurpations of the war powers. Tho Goveraomen: intends, it is m2d, o pressnt a claim for 85,000,000, but hss not yet decided how or by whom they will present it, having ne diplomatic representative in Washing- ton. The argumens the Dominican Government will submit in support of this claim recites atl abont Bsez’ accesaion to power ; his attemot to * ¢ispose of the country, and thelease of Samana, daclares he was maintsined in power by United Btates troops, and wascompelled tafles when they o to support him; that while occupying Jhis Presidency, protected by United Ststes ships. be plundered the tressury of a large portion of i8 revenue, and ill-treated citizens. It al- Indes to meny other faczs in regard to the relations betwoen ihe United Siates and Beate Domingo, which have occupied attention during seversl yeara, and declares that, the acts of the United Statez Government were in viola~ tion of international law, and that if i8 respon- xible for the losses and injuries mmnf by e protaction of Basz. ’ —— . CUBA. WEW TELEGRAPL CABLE, Orxxrustos, Cuba, April 8.—Steamers Hoop- #r and Great Northern have arrived here from Ponos, P. B., with the telegraphio cabla. g FRANCE. - THE ACADENY. Panre, March 20.—There are now seven eandi- dates for the two vacaut seats in the Academy caused by the deaths of ML Guizot and Jules Janin. The candidatee are M. John Lemoinne, Cbarles Blanc, Jules Simon, Charles do Mazada, wditor of the Revue dex Devz 3ondes; Dumas, Secrotary of the Academy of Bciences; Gaston Boissier, Professor of Latin Poeiry in the Col- lege do France; and Augusie Langel The alection will be keld on April 20, PEEMANENT COMIITTER OF THX ASSEACDLY. # The Permavent Cormittea of the Assembly, ‘which is to meot during the recess, was nomi- nated to-day. It consists ¢! soven members of the Right, ive of tha Right Centre, two of the Lavergue group, which vorges ou the Left Centre. four of the Left Cantrs, and seven of the Laft. AECONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES. A report preseoted by M. Waioweki on behalf of the Budget Commitiee upon the reconetruc- tion of bridges or bv-roads destroyed daring the war, shows that 214 bridges have been com- 2t a cost of 5183220, afid eight are Dbeing consiructed or sdontto be b cogt- ing 190,400f., while indomnitiox and_other exponses smount to 40,000f, masking 8 total of 5,413,620f. Of this sum 344,387f. has yet io bs voted, xund i is pro- possd to spread it over three years, and to de- fray it cot of the 8,750,000(. annually voted 28 subvontions to tbe departments for the com- i s. The question whether the nd, are entitled to an indem nity for the inf between the destruction and restoration of the bridges bas not yet bean do- cided by the Judges. LEGISLATIVE HALIS,, Soms Dognfiu wero to-03y ‘to examine ths of AL Joly, Architect of the Asgambly, 83 to e location of the futuro Senxia. e proposes that the 800 Souators shon!d rmeet in the hall now occupied by the Assembly, which ia. za is well known, quite- inzdaquato for ita pres- ent purpose, wherease i1t won!d be well adapt- for s lesa Dpumerous hedy like the to. The future Assmbly, wiich will qgouain oaly 500 members, sboatd meot, it 13 E in what ia called the Cour Verie. ey ing passengers in 12 mioutes to & terniinus im- mtdiately benind the two Chambers, avoiding tha loss of time and inconvenienca now wmyoived in the distance between the railway station and | the Assembly. TIT FISHERIES. Two miltion fraacs are_expended on the fish- eries, and the sum expended in this branch of trade will not "be thought excessive when it is remembered thst there are 13,000 boats employed on the e-fisheries of Brit- tany. Brittany alone exports anoually 10,000,000 boxes of sardines, though msvy of these little fish are reaily young emelts and herrnnga. Between 500 and 600 vesscls, amount- ioz to 30,000 tous and manned by 12,000 men, ara employed in the Frooch cod fsberies, and tho weight of the fish isccloniatad at about 40,000.000 kilogrammes, and the valoe from' 16,000,000 to 18,000,000 francs. A large number of fishing- boats have just left the French ports for the fisheries round Irelzud and Newfouadland. Di- eppe, Fecame, Grauville, and Dunkerque fur- nish {he grea'er propcrtion of them. Among the impotts 1nto France from Newfoundland s an 1m- meuse quankity of cod eggs, which are pickled £0d used as ground bait for the eardines. TIFORTS AXD EXPORTS. French imports during Juavary and February amouated 5 0,639,000, and the expor:s to §00,« 891,000f. Tho former show & decrease of 4l,~ 000,000f ovar 1874, therp being a reduction of 25,000,C00{: onarticlea of food and 81,000,000f. on Taw materia's, with an sugmentation of 15,000,- 000f. on mann{actured goods. Theexvorts ox- hibit an ivcrease of 12,000,001, over 1874, snd oxceed the figares of any former yoar. A RIDING FEAT. Next summer a number of Russian officern havo resolved to emulats Licnt, von Zubowitz's femous ride £Am Vieona to Paris.” They are to ride from St. Potetsburg in twenty-one doye. Ope of thess oficcrs—3. Iledve- doveky—has just - ridden - with an orderly from St. Petersburg to Moscow in nine days, although the roads wero covered with ice, and there were occasional falls of snow. Both riders and horses arrived at their journey's end in good health and condition. They were sev- eral times stopped on the way by zen'ous offi- cials, who could not understand the object of their haste. The distanco is 698 vereta. THE POILADELIHIA EXHIDITION, . Bu telesravh to the London Times. 4 Parrs, March 19.—pIr. Washburne, the Ameri- can Minister_at Paris, lately addressed himself {0 the Deputies and princiral merchants of Paris, requesting them to furm & Commities of Patrons to make the necessary ai rangements for mext vear's Universal Exbi- bition at Philadelphis. This appeal hss been rcs sponded to, and the Committee has been formed to-dsy. The President is the Marquis de La- fayeite; the Vice-Prosidents are MAL Dietz- Mornin and Wolowski; aud tho Secretary, AL Flotard, a membor of the Assemby. The Com- mittee consists of MM. Laboulsye, Foray, Max-Richard, ~ Arbel, Jullien. Johnston, Fourcand, Dupouy, Ducarre, Mangini, War- nier, Chiris, Fraissier, Bulsan, Joubert, aod Pascal Duprat,—being members of the Assembly, representstives of shipping, commercs, mann- factures, and of tho chief maritime, manufac- turing, and commercia! centres. The names chova given includo also political economista and publicists, aud the_cotposition of the Com- mittes gives reason to believe that it wiil stimu- Iate the zeal of French, and, conssqaently, the emnlation of foreign exhibitors. SPRINGFIELD, The Stock-Yard Kiil Pnssed to o Third Roading in the Kouse--=Charges Agninst the Ruilroxd and Waree honse Commussion Sustined--=Air. Hopkins Explatns. * Specisl Dispcteh to The Chicaze Tribuna, BPRINGFIELD, April 3.—After the prescntation of another resolation, calling upon the Commit- tes op Corporations to report the same back to the Honse, the bill providing for the regnlation of stock-yards and placing them under charge of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, was this morniog returned again to the House without recommendstion by the majority of the Commit= tee, and with_ tho recommendstion that 1t pzas by McCoy and Gordon, of the Committes. * T'hia biil Las been baried in committes since early in the session, aod, until to-day, ail efforts to res- urrect it failed,—all of which served to excits in the minds of members s determination to put the bill throngh. Accordingly, when McCoy moved to have it taken up oo consideration by secticns, tho motion was carried by a decided majority, Tho bill provides that no stoci-yard companv shzll charge, demand, or receive mors thao o fair, reasonable rate for trapsfer, recaiv- ing, handling, etc., live stock, or for hotel bills, and, upon conviction of charging or re® ceving, etc., moro, shall be od not less than 8100 for the first offonss, and 500 for the eecond and subsequent offenses, It also provides agsineé discrimination, and laces stock-yards under espervision of the %{ih\nd and Warebouss Commiseion. i After verious smendments had been proposed and voted down, the Granger element ordered the bill to a third reading. Thers is no prospect of its passage in tho few dsysthat remsin of this session. REVENUE PILLS, The Revenuo Committee’s bill, relative to tax appeals, was passed, and goes to the Scnate. 8 Revenuo Committeo reportod adverssly a bill aboliehing the Btate Board of Equalization. Bogue's Revenue bill, providing that moneys and credits shall not bo subject to equalization of State or County Boards, was ordered to & third reading. ¥ . THS RATLROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSION, - The Select Committee sppointed to investigate the cbarges contained in Toe Trmuxe articie of the 18th ult, in relation to the Rsilroad and ‘Warehouse Commission, will on Monday renort, finding suid charge true, and submitting furthor testimony in support thereof, HOPRINS' STATEMENT. - It vas telegraphed to several of the papers, from Sprivgtield, that Speaker Haines had said to Mr. 8. P. Hopkius, of Cook, that he might go home, 23 no maro bills were lifcly to pass; aod that ssid Hopking repeated tho remark to Mr, Lce, s Democratic membor, who called the atten- tion of tho Speaker thoreto, and recaived an nu- satisfactory reply. Such, in substance, was the report. Mr, Haines has procured frpuiAls. Hop- kins the following-donial thereof * Seanvarrenp, IIL, April 1, 1875.—The Hon, E. 3, Haines: Brm: I bhave moticed a sistement in reveral Rowspapers (o the efect that I had roported thet you had said to me that,you intended to prevent any further businsss or Igialation in tho House atthis sesgion, In justice to both youand myself, I have deemed it proper 1o state, in ‘terms not to be misun- dorstood, that T have never Teporfed any much thing, peither hsve you ever mid any such thing tome. Toura reapectfally, 8. P. Horxuia, RBIVER NEWS: » THE MISSISSIPPL. Bpertal Ditvcich to The Clicaao Tribuns. LaCrossg, Wis., April 8.—The Mississippi is now clear of ice between this city and Browns- ville. The steamer Vigor, srrived here to-day from Brownsville, reports the river below that point full of ice a distance of 2 miles. This epaco will probably be clear by. to-morrow, Joaving an open river to the south. The ica still bangs on above LaCrosso. Speciad Disoatch ™ The Chicaes Tribune. Broux City, Ia., 4pril 8.—The steamer Peninsh, which wintered here, belonging to tbe Kountz Line, got eaught in the ico-jam 2t the leveo this forenoon. Her hull was badly damsged. She filled with water and sank immediately. She can probably be raised. The smount of damage is vot,stated. ‘Che river is fallof ranning ice. The water is riging fast, and weather fine. Thers was a warm roio last night. No snow in sight. Spectal D:epatch to_Itia Chicaao Trioune. AcGreoon, Ia., April 3.—This. geagon the ice bas not interfored with the pontoon transfer bridge of the Chicago, Milwsukeo & S, Panl Bauroad. The rivar 13 abous clear, IN MICHIGAN, Special Dispatch to TTie Chicaco Tribuna, @RAND HAVEY, Mich., April 3.—Tha ice gorgs in the river at Battle Point, the head of the Big Boom, has given away, and isnow coming down tho river with great forco and violence, No pastioular danger is spprebended irom it, a1 the 108 i 3l broken from psasing through bridges above. The onlv daoger auticipated is from drifiwood. A light rain prevaled this morning. The river has_risen some 3 faet in twenty-foar hours. The Detroit & Hilwaukee RKailroad ridze was injured yestorday afternoon. but is repaired azsth, 8o that no trains were delayed. Tugs have kept the river open all day. THE ILLINOIS, Spectal Dispates lo I'he Chicezs Tridune, LaSaxry; Iil, Aoril 8.—Tho etesmer Potrel, from St. Louis, arrived here this morning, tow- ing tyo csnal-boat . Thomss Scott from Bath, loaded with corn for Chicago, and departoed light to tow five bargea of ice from Lake Dopue for Memphia: & THE SENATORIAL EXCURSIGN.- NEw Onrzaxs, April 8.—The Senatorial ex- ‘oursion party bave finzlly concluded to mss the Goveroment vessel placea =t theiwr sorvice, and will sal to-morrow morning in the stesmer of Despatch, for Vera Cruz. The party and five ladiea ~ HAVANA. Rejoicings over the Departure of Capt.-Gen. Concha. Hiserable Accommodations for Trave elers—--A Hotelless City. An Hour on the Prado---The Langnishing Benoritas--~-Spanish Facility in Making Eyes. Devout Penitents—Aimes and Opera Bouffe Matolred Againat the Can-Oan. Bpecial Correspondence of Ths Chicage Triduns, REJOICINGS OVER CONCHA'S RECALL. Havaxa, March 22.—Notwithstanding that & more intimate acquaintance with the Cubans and Cuba has somewhat modified my first im- pressions, yet,I must admit that my cntry into Havana was made under very agreosble circam- stances, amidst the besting of drams and o the festive strains of Spanish melodies, the souunds of which still linger with mo ‘as [ write these lines. The day of my arrival happened, as I was afterward informed, to be one of the few enjoy- able days that tho citizons of Havane have wit- nessed doring the year just passed, and theiren- Jjoyment was oot duo to any frenk of nature which made their already delicious climate more exhiliraling than usnal ; neither was it tho anni- ‘versary of any fate upon which the Ravznese de- light to do honor to some patron saint of their Churchi or of their iels, It is trus ths: the day was a beautiful one, tho atmosphers having the offect to oxhilirats . the body and transfuso & new element of life acd and vitality through all the goros of thoss who bhad just arrived from a colder and ae- verer climate, but theso kinds of days are not rarities here, and to this, then, the display of sll the unusual bustle, oxcitement, and malody can- not be ascribed, The real cause must be looked for in tho imzgination of the citizens, Who re- garded a8 a blessing an act of the Bpanish Gov- eroment, which deprived them at tho same timo of their Captain-General, Marquis de Conchas, and a fow millions of Spanish dollars, which, &g rumor, aod moro tian faint ons, his it, ho car- ried away with him, . Even as wo entered the harbor (passing to tho left the grim old castie, the Morzo, out of whose, soowling casemont thero sbot forth 8 momentary flash a8 we stoamed by, aad to our xight, leaving the Baltorso de Ia Reins), we wero greeted with the beating of drums and othar evidences of a bustle andsmn excitomont guite nuusual;to this home of the Dolce far miente. As wo spproached nearer thucity, and could view from the deoks of tha steamer HAVANA, Le as it Iay stretched out befors ua like 2 huge pan- orama, its sppearance, though not grand or im- posing, wss, nevertheless picturccque, and, in many rospects, illustrative of cities of too Orient, with whir:%eil hos magy points in common. lm- mediately before me, as I stand on the decks of the steamer looking towards tho sonth, lies the maio part of the city, with its variogated groups of low, dirss-looking housss, the walls of which represant sll colors known to ths painters of modern times ; occasionnlly a palace with = handsome garden stonnd it is seen hidden among these hovels, zod, as if ashamea of ita soperiority, it walls Dbave been painted to suit the colors. that predominate on the exteriors- of its neighbor.. These hovela zud palaces, standing ride by side, are a3 prominent in the Callos de Obrapein and on the O'Reilly as they aro on the San lgmace and 10 tho Mercederes, stroets which are mawmly devoted to bankmg and to the wholesale busi- pesa interests of the city, while in ths former the retail trade holds sway to a greater extent. At the head of the O'Reilly ia seen the Prado, which casta in the shade of ita braoches the Palscio deGobgrnador, tho low, white residenca of ths Capiain-General, 23 well s saveral otior palacsa formerly devoted to residenco parposes, out now used a3 cafes orhotels of infeior rank, — for, with the exception of the El Telegrapho, and of the Ban Carles, there are E NO GOOD HOTELS hers. A good hotel for Americans would be accaptable to the many of our countrymen who vigit here; and, as Col Sellars would say, “There's millions in it.” Allowing tho eye to wander further fo the west and south, the paoorams changes; tho hovels dissppear, and in_their stoad bousss of some pretonsions to architectural beaity, with carefully kept gardens and expensive carriage- houses, appear in view. Thero is also less mo- notony in the appearanco of the strests, for in this portion of the city thoy are broad, cloan, and airy, while in the part beforo Qescribed they are nacrow and dirty. Bat for the winds thst continually sweep through them, they wonld bs very likely to breod some pestilence. ~Again, in the modern part of the city, orrather separating the ancient from the modern part, PARES not unlike those in Chicago, especially South ark, but with more shade” them, zre judi- ciously distributed ; though in a city like this, whers everythingis baiit with due regard to tho climate, where the housos seem to be all doors, wiodows, aud varandehs, aud where the rooms of botels havo lees'of privaoy than of sdornment, ‘parks scom saperfinous. ITE PROMENADR. The common peopla, however, mako little nee of the parke. preferring the Prado, or Prom- epade of Havana. I cannot call to miud any similar scene in any other land, where s0 much gayety, so much incipient immorality, and so much beauty and frivolity sre gathered in so short o gpace of timo. The mind is dazed at the sight, and uaconsciously ‘one refers to the al- manacto determine whother it is carnival time, Seated on tho promenade, or lounging 1o listless manner zlong these Paseos, del Prado or del Isabel, are the bean mondo of Havana, the habit- ues of tife warehouse, the bank, and the gam- bling-raom, the “flaneurs” of Havans, all chatting with one another or flirting. with the senoritzs, wigo drive in volantes or Victorias along the shady ayenumes. Occasionslly they halt their teams to converss with some- cava~ lier, but generally they allow their oyea and their fana o expross their feelings for them. To overy compliment paid, be it from friend or stranger, they pay dus at- tention, often requitiog in ¢miles, many times the value of the very poor articls which the stern sex of Havanese call wet. Tro dark-syed beauties hero are easily satisfied, end when a vory charm- ing ono told me that thoy espect this sort of adultution, which compliments their forme mare- than their minds, I had nothing 1o say in reply. S G o;'n!mv?'.s i sre, by the way, very graceful and very enter- taining, aod it is difficult to find any society more pleasing and fascinating than that of sowno belle of Havans, if she is demrous of pleasiog. -Apart from ths grace which scoms nataral to her, sho is abls to illustrate with her eycs every word her mouth utters, sad thig constant pliy of her foaturee, though it may at first appenr to ths stranger to ba rather free, becomes, after a sbort_acquaintznce, 8o much a part of the conversation that to suddenly stop it would in offect be the same a8 removing the san from a beautiful landecapa which had gained its warmth of color and of beanty from its rags. fliflm th? r};mdt:,wl n;end the huls to the north and east of the city, and from thair height I a stretched out before mo ¥ i - THE ENVIRONS O TIX QITY. Thera s little attraction here, for, with the ex- caption of the plantations to be seen at s dis- tauco, the eye emcounters the same ob- jects \secn in all . sonthern’ climatos,— groves of -irees heavily-laden with the fruit ndtaral to the soil, which, in ' this case, is the orango acd the banaos, with ucgroes reposing in tho shedo of their branches ;- with hove wod there & sprinkling of tho pala or cocornut tree, the frat and branchos of which have become u gourco o considerablo industry and commerce on this igland. But &8 I agam look toward tho city proper one cortain white spot in the centre theroof atirects me, and as tnis white object, which occupiep neatly one whole square, the Tacatre do Taicon occupring only & small coruar :;Qxallg & apot ofu congiderable interest_both to iban a8 well as to the stranger. . form you at oncs that it is b el fibs 1s THE SPANISH CASINO, where all the misery that 15 entniled on hatched, aud from here it in propagated throgph- :::ut':m Icngthllnd brezdth of tbe igland. I V0 occasion i i oy to wpeair in detail thersof In alowing tho eye to wander to the right to thiee points of tho lsad whero the Bay of Havana is celisd the Inlet of Tallopiedrs and that of Atares, the evidences of ihe growih of tho city will bo dia- tioctly befors us. - From the Atares Castle, guarding the fnlet of that name, is seen to tho Jeft the Westorn Bailroad, with its dopots and warohouses, that ars oontinually filled with the rich produce of the goil of Cnba. From hers, al- 80, i8 8aen the Campo del Marto, and jn the dis- tance tha prison and police~conrt hold sway at the end of the long, shady avenue called tho Paseo del Prado. As if iu protection to the prison, the Castle de la Punta rises majestically from behiad the traes, overlooking both prison, comt, and citizeng, though it ia again subserv- ient to the Morro Castje, on the strotch of [and oppoeite. The Apostlés (a battery of twelve of them) are alzo uscfully employed in filud'mg the harbor and entrance to this most obedient CATHOLIG CITY. - Havana is econsidered a city of devotees. It ‘was certainly a surprise to me to soe the Cathe- dral, as well as the churches of Saota Clara, Santa Catalina, Ursulina, San Francisco, Sants Domingo, San Isidoro, and San Guadaloupe, all well filled with devont worshipers on one and the semo _evening, whon I took occasion to sat- iafy myself as to the numbers of true chucch- members there could be in a city a8 immoral an Havana. I mustsay, however, that with the ex- coption of a few senoritas who were in the con- fessionals, the majority of thoss in aitendauce wers of the poorer class, in_ sl Catholic countries, convents are plentiful bere, though I am informed that there Las never yet been heard a causa of complaint, from any source, regarding the treatment re- ceived, or that any inmale 18 held against her will. This will bo considered more satonishing whea it is known that the Jesuits have contro! of several of these iustitutions. besides con- trolling charchos and considerable church funds of their own. ¥rom the charch lo the theatro ‘would usually bo considored a difficult leap, but, a8 I havo to pussths Teatro da Tacon on my way to the Ghurch Santa Domingo, I will allow the enticiugmelodiosof * La Fillede Madame Angot " tobe my excuso fordescending fromacontompla- tion of the sublims to that of the ridicalous. THOE THEATRE, which_ia ritusted ia 2 corner of the block occu- pied by the Spanish Caaino, is crowded aa I en- ter, and if Madsme Aimes is not coining money on this evoning then dead-heads must be very nu- merous 1n this city. However, every one gesms delighted with the zn!anm‘mont, and as the “waltz, "0 well-knownin the ¥ 1he Fille de Mad- wme A." is being performed, storms of applause forca its continued re-suactment,—but then this is the first performance. ** La Fille will be ban-~ ished soon euough, when the Can-Cnn comes,” was prodicted by a iocal hypochoudrisc here, and g0 it was. After & short time, La Fille did mope and commence to twitl her dresses in the usual opera bouio style. How could it be ex- pected that she would be an aitraction acy longer, whon the Teatro do Lersundi offered for =2 smaller price of cd nisston to furuish the Filles who would bave no dresses to twirl, but tvho would demonstrata the practicability of the no- clothea system. To gay that the Lersundi was crowded nightly, would be but to repeat what Senor Castenon told his remlers evel morning in tho Vot de Cuba, which. with the Diario del AMaring and tho Boletiro Comercial, constitutes the press of a- vana. Secor Castenon ought to koow whether the Testro was crowdsd, for he had a private box for his own uge, and I will state privately that cortains areconsidered a noedioss lnxury bee fore a-box in the Lersundi Thestre. To even hint at some of the ambiguities and immorzlitiea tha theee Dames co Cancan wero guiltv of, and that in presence of the most distinguished mem- bers of tha bar, tho eristocracy, aud tuo learned professions of Cubs, aod of maoy strangers, wou'd Jisgust yoar readers, as it disgusted me. The ocher theatre here, oot mentioving the host of petty 7ariety-shows, which havo a par- ticalarly BpamshHavor, is the Salone de Louvres, whicki ia the home of fhe drsma or of such itin. erant shows 28 appeal to the esthetic tastes of the Havanese. 0. L. AL TEE DUELLO, An Affatr of Honor at St. Louis As. sumes & Queer Phase. Special Dispetch to Ths Cliizago Tribune, 81. Lous, Mo., April 8.—Journzlistio cireles in this city have been excited for s day or two over rumors of sa impending duel between Mr. Hyde, of the Republican, and Stiles Hotching, editr of the Zimes and Dispatch, and membar of the Leg- islature. The facts in the matter transpired to-day. It seems that Hutchins, to silence the importunities of a lady friend who inssted that he sbould fight Hyde on sccount of the latter's fiercs attack upon him in the Repub- lican, wrota out a formal challengs to Hyde, which he’ intrusted to a friond to show to the lady, but mnot to go any farther. The note fell into tho hands of Gen. J. O. Shelby, lateof the Confederate army, and Bhelby instsutly copveyed it to Hyde. As soon as Hutchios found that the noto bad been seut to de, he sent =znother friend to that gentiomon to say that he must not e any xotice of the challenge it con- tammed, because it was mever intended to be delivered, Hyde, however, had declived to so- cept the challerge in the usual form, but seut an inmtation to Hatching o con- sult his own convenience 38 to the time, place, and manper in which 20 seek satisfaction by &n_attack upon him. In the meantime, Gen. Sheloy learned of Hatchins action in sendinga friend to explain away his challenge, and, being.a devotea of the code of honor in it striclest sense, conceived that it was now lus ducy to both whip Hutchivs for kis cowaraice, snd offer to fight Hyde in case that gentieman should insist upon carrring out the wory programmes Gen. Shelby bas not yet chas- tisad Hutchins, bat he has sent a note to Hyde supouncing his readiness to take up and pursue the quatrel in cse tue challenged party shall insist apon the letter of the codo. The whole thing Is regarded by well-informed parties as a conspiracy on tte part of the rng. Hyde bas beon fighting for o long tme, to draw bind into & fatal difficalty. Hyde will not figt 2 duel, but he can be depended on to defend himself effectively in cnso of an attack, and those who know him best Dbelieve that hie will not require much pratext to begin hostali*ies himself at the first opportunity. The affair crostes mach ioterest here, and is ;xot unlikely to reach @ Rerious result before ong. ' CASUALTIES. % DROWNED. * Special Disatch to The Chicaas Triduns, DusuQug, Is., April 8.—The drowning season was fairly inaugurated to-day. This afterncon Reter Winters and Thomas Quigly, ‘while " hunt; g ducks io the vicinity of Eagle Point, noder- took to cross the river in & small skiff. They made about 100 yards, when the craft upsot and ‘Winters was drowned. The other man was res- cned with great difficulty, and is now mora doad than elive. Tha deceased has a wife and five children residing at Farley. . A NARROW ESCAPE. Special Disvateh to The Chizago Tridune, LaSavrx, I, April 8.—~Four young men of this city, employed in the caré of ice-barges at Lake Dopue, sttempted to cross the lake in a small boat last“Thursdsy evening, during a gale, whon the boat capsized and sunk. Chey swam to somo willows standing doep in the wator, and clung to lhem uatil they were rescaed. The, wero in the water an hour, and narrowly ompaz drowning. DIED IN A CISTERN. Bpezial spateh to T'he Chicano Triduna, Dsa Moiwes, In., April 8.—Edwia Whitcomb Waa at work in a cistern on Walput street to- day, and oot coming bome at 6 o'clock soarch weg mado for him. Ho was found dead in the eciatorn. He leaves s wifo and infant chitd. + FATAL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT. N, April 8.—A young lady named Anna Grimos was killod this afterncon by being thrown from s carriage at the corner of Erio and Buperior streets. Bhe fell on tho curbing and Il;lfictnlr’odhar Daceasod resided at AMead~ ville, Pa. SR o T NAVIGATION ON LAKE ERIZ. Baxpusky, 0., April 2—The steamor Golden Eagle arrived horo yosterdsy from Put-in Bay, boidl the first arrivalof the sesson. She ene counterad considerable heavy floating ice. She rotwrned to the islands to-day, and will make regular trize hezeaftor. * ZELDER CANNOH. Bart Laxe, April 3.—The caso of George Q. Cannon, for polygamy, was appealsd by the prosecution to tho Territorial Supreme Court, and bonda af 85,000 given for his appearanca, THE -WEATHER. ‘Wisntsarox, D. C., April 4—1 a. m.—Yor the TUpper Laks Region, nod thencs southwortward to the Missouri Valley, cocler and partiy clondy weather, with northerly to wosterly winds and rising barometer auring the day. CAADINAL KPCLOSKEY’S CARRIAGE. N Yong, April 8.—The stats carriage of Car- dinal McCloskey waa placed on exhibition to-day by the manufsciurers. If {8 &n eight-spring . Berlin coach of unpretending appsarance, but of finest vrgrhanngllxlsz.k‘ Its h;e:gl;t 18 1,060 pflundz; The body while the cunging pat 18 painted ik groon. Tt tin lned with blue matin. The few ' mountings such as the handles af the door and settings of the Iamps, are plain silver. Tha Cardinal’s coat- of-arms bas been hsudsomely emblazoned on the door. 7t consiasof a shield, vert, bearing three crosslets, argent, oo a chevron, gules, be- tween two stors, in s sheaf, and a flower-de- luce in the bese,or; The crest is a double crozs- let, or. The carringe will be drawn. on state oo- casions by heavy plack horses, with silver- mounted harness. 1t cost £3,000. THE LAWLESS MINERS. The Latest Situation in the Penniylva~ nia Conl Eezions—Gov, Aartranit’s Froclamatien. Mavos CRUXNE, Pa., April 2.—The whole min- ing region of Carbon County is now free of raders, and the l%\udan is tranquil. The offi- cers of the Miners® and Laborers’ Benevolent As~ sociation are counseling and advising its mem- bers to be true to law, order, and their Associa~ tion. . LaSatzx, TIL, April 2.—The several cosl com- panies of LaSallo and Peru hnve acceded to the compromise demanded by the miners for 99 cents per ton for miniog, and work waa resumed v . Porrevrire, Pa., April 3.—At Donalson, in the westoin gection of this county, heretofors uo- disturbed, a gang_ of men, armed with pistols and clubs, attacked men at the West-end colliery at night, and also attacked the homes of & num- ber of nnion men and did much damage. - HARRISBURG, Pa., Aprjl 8.—Goy. Hartranft has issued & proclaaation, ¥ which he says : Wirneas, It is represented to mo that me that in the Counsies 0° Lu erms and Schuylkill, certain evil- disposed persons have combinad _themsefves together, in violation of mhv{i’nu{‘i‘nt tdr'orml-n l:;fi;ll(&nx citizens, and placing life ane P y the.r St g diardsly cogbet et il orca and armna ore intruding upon tho righty of the indi- viduals and corporations, and preventing well-dis- posed persons from the pursult of their lswfal em- ploymentsnd avocation ; and, W Itis made the duty of the Execative to tako care that tho Iawa be properly executed, ‘Therefore I, John T, Hartranft, Governor and Com- mander-in-Ohzef, do command all such evil-disposed persons in aforesaid and other counties to dispersa and depart from farther unlawful comtinations and demonstrations, and to return without de'ay to_their homes, and all such persons are hereby notified that Af thoy fail forthwith to comply with this command the Sheriff of said counties shall call for whatever military aid may be necessary to preserve order, pro- toct life and property, and enforce obedience to the laws of the Commonvrsaith. FLozmoY, Pa April 8.—A delegate masting of the several branches of the Miners’ Union belonging to this rezion was held horo to-day. 1ia object is supposed to have some bearing on the works at Monut Pleasant. Rumors are circulating of a mass-meet- ing of miners be held om Mon- dsy. 'The merchantd. of the town who formed part of the Bherill’s 8E0 on Weduesday 2nd Thureday havo incarred the opposition of the miners. A grocas wagon, sent to Eberville tp-dsy to deliver goods, was stoned out of town, sod the drivar obliged to return without delivening his goods. Several of the merchants, ordercd out to assiss tho Sherilf, fearing to incur the ill-will of the minors, e~ fused to preferriug to risk the penalty, WASEBINGTON. The President’s Mexican Policy—Tae Yeilow Fever Scare. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ‘WasmxaroN, D. C., April S.—The reports that the President bas' formally declared & certain policy respecting raids upon the border, and that that policy fore- shadows menaciog eveutualities, are of & sonsational character. Tho President has com- plied with the, application of Gov. Coke, of Texas, so far as o concentrate the troopsio Toxas along the border for tho protaction of the Rio Grande, but rothing liXe any agzrosaiva war- like policy bas been®letermined, or evan formal- 1y conaidered. - (20 the Aszocialed Press.) THE YELLOW FEVER. ‘Wasurvaroy, Apnil 3.—Rear Admiral Mulla. ney, commanding the North Aslantic sguadron, reports that one Spanish man-of-war, lying off Havana, has forty casea uf yellow fever, and another thirty-six esses. No cases have ap- peared in any United States steamer a3 yet. The Unitod Btates sicsmers Plvmonth, Ossippeo, and Shawmaut are sachored off Kéy West, and have been or- dered on a cruiso ‘in & more northern lctitude, and other vessels of the North Atlansic station havo been ordered to make Pors Eoyal their beadquarters. The Collectoréht Key West telegraphed that thece have been only throa sporadic casos of yellow fever. No'other casca and no rcal causs for THE BEECHER TRIAL; Testimony of Henry M. Cleveland. New Yorx, April 8.—The iliness of Henry M. Clevoland bas made it necessary that his testi- mony in the Boocher trial should be taken at his residence. The examination began yesterdsy afternoon, at 5 o'clock, Mr. Cleveland reclining in bed while answering questions, which, with the answers, wers taken down by a stenogra- pher, and are to be written out and read in the court at the conclusion of Mr. Beccher's testimony. At 6:30 a recesa was taken for dinner until 8 o'clock, when the examination wes resumed and coutinued until sboue '6:30. The examipation will bs resumed 1n ‘the same manner cach afternoon notii the testimony is concluded. Tho testimony of Mr. Cleveland is rogarded a8 important by both sides, on account of -his confidential relations with Beecher in reference to matters at.issue on the trial, and his consequent knowledge of important facts relating thereto. i The Supervisors of Brooklyn have refused exira pay to the jurors on the Tilton-Beecher cage, and voted down a resolution that the Supervisors indorse the bill pending st Albany, providing for the extra pay of the jurors. POLITICAL, * e LINCOLN NEB. CITY NOMINATIONS Special Ditpaleh to The Cnicaqo Tribune. Lrvcor, (Neb.)April 8,—The nominses of the Republican (onvention to-daysre: H. J. ‘Walsh for Mayor; J. 0. Ford, Treasurer ; C. E. Cox, Marshal; O. T. Boggs, Clerk. Peoplos ticket: N. O.:Brock, Mayor; B. P. Fisher, Treasurer; P. H. Cooper, Marshal. THE CLEVELAND MAYORALTY CrEvELAND, O. April 3.—The Domocrats of this city to-dsy’ nominated N. P. Payno, for Mayor. SPELT WELL. Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Cramepatay, I, April 8.—Oar most qxciting spolling-match of the season took place this evening hetwoen twelve members of the young Iadies' literary society of the Industrial Uni-’ versity, and an aqnal number of lawyers. Tho largost hall in the city was densely packed, and tho contest lively and exciting. E. B. Smith, a lawyer of this county, wag finally succossful, and bss now the reputation of being beyond de- feat. —_———— BLOOMINGTON ITEM. . spectal Dispateh to The Chjeago Tridune, Brooxixaroy, IIl,, April 3.—Judgs Tipton to- day gave a verbal opinion on the bond of 8 F. *Dallof, Circuit Clerk. Some time since Dolloft, who by irregulatity in official daty has become quite obnoxious to the people, was ordered by the Court to produce & new bond, which he failed to do within .the proper tume, aad the question | was raised as_ to the Jegality of iis xpproval Judge Tipton decided that the bond was valid, and that he could spprove it, which e did in open courk. THE GERMAINE MASSACRE. Bypecial Dispatchto T icago Tribune, Eixaas Crry, 3o., April 8.—Gen. Bherman passed throngh thia city to-day, en route for St. Lonia. Io sn interview with your reporter he said that all of the Germsino girls wouid be taken care of for life by the Govorniment. The Indisns who commisted the masescre of their parents will be'eent to Florida, and there bs held s prisoners of war. ENGLISH FAILURES. Loxpox, April 8.—~Wilaon, McLay & Co., met- al merchants, have suspended, owing to diffical- ties arising from their American contracts for é-;gs_ Their lishilitics are estimated at $1,000,- Harreax, April 8.—The lisbilities of Prion & Bous, commigzion merchants, who are insolvent, aro 972500, NORWAY’S POET. " ‘The Life and Works of Bicernstierne Bicernsen, Poet, Dramatist, and Novelist. ¢ The Dawn and Full Glory of a Magnificent Genius, . Edouard Schure’s Biographical Sketch- Brief Qutlines of a Story and a Play, It is only in our own days that the Scandina- vian natious have began to play » first-class part in the political and intellectual history of Eu- rope. They bave had scientists like Linnesus and artists like Thorwaldsén, but their names are not in any way connected with great revolu- tionin politica or in thought. This is to be sc- counted for, in grest pact, @y their geographical isolation from tho rest of Europe by tha severity of their temperature, connected a3 it ia witha slowness in the mental operations ‘of the inhab-~ itants characteristic of a1l Germanic nations, but of the Scandinavians more thsn any other,— for there tho purely Germanic character has pre- served itseif in its originality more than any- where else. . THE LITERATURE OF DESMARK, . thanks to its relations with Germany, which have been always more or less intimate, is of older dato tasn that of Sweden or Norwsy. But from his ver; c<use it is perheps loas original. Its greate poet,” Oehlenschlaeger, is as much Germsu a8 he is Danish. Denmark received ber. first impetus to litesary activity from Gormaoy, It has now a spl.2ulid cataloguoe of names to ex- hibic. Wo nea:. mention only Andersen, Grunt- wig, Arestrupp, Winther, and Hertz. The 8wedes are the Frenchmen of the North; and their firat attempta at literature were tormed after Frénch models. Not tilt the timo of Teg- nor and Geyer did their writers begin to have a character peculiar {o themselves. They asssrted their independence %t French and German models, and found in the remnsnts of their ancieat Gothie material enough to fire thej gonius, Tegner stanas at the head of this net and national school. e Norwnz, in1ts literaturs as in its geography, shove & marked difference from Donmark aod Sweden. It is the real Scandinavia—fit coun- try for a ntrong, robust poet to be born in or to live in. 14 18 one loog chain of moontains, some of them covered with thick forests and crowned with everlasting snow. At evers step the trazeler mee:s with narrow valleys, abrupt precipices, and gigastio casaracta. The valleys are separated frow one anotber by impassabla barriers. and men live divided from their faiio>s by the haod of Nature. One may travel whole days witnout meeting & humsn habiistion. There is uotbing to compars its lines of snow- covored mountans with, save the ocean or the sky. Yet Norway has beautiful as well as sub- lime scenery. Lakes smile away down between 1ts mighty hitla. Villages dot its valleys, Lz sammors ato marvelonsly dolightfal. Sach is the country of Bicernstierne Bioorn- sen® NORWAY'S ¥IRST GRFAT POET AND NOVELWT. He w4s born in 1832 10 oue of the mcst isolated portions of Dovrofield. His rather was tha pas- tor of a small nillage czlied Orikoe, in the vory beart of Norway. Naiore was hia first teacher, Ho grow up among scenos of Alpine sublimity. The immense walls of gray ro the frgat- ful torrents, and the forests, nwoke in him the poetic eentimeat. The Litls church of which his fatber was pastor left an imvression on his young mund which was nover effaced. 'It was, 28 Schure remarks, the only visible sign of the ideal world he bora wilhin. The religion of a auffering God seems peculiarly sppropriate to a iry like Norway, where man 1a called to & lifa of hardship and of never-endiug straggle. In bis exrliest years our poet was loft fo himself, without companionghip. The Pible, tha popular stories of 1 country, and a fow sagas, were his g::y reading during the lonz nights of the avian winter. He tells us, however, that the winier was his favorite dcason, and he recalls with xest how he ueed to elide down the mountain with the swiftness of the storm. His father -was afterwards treosferred o Romsdal, and here Bioernatierne wunt to scuool, but, like 2 graat many othera who afterwarda became re- markable, by no means distinguisaed himself in Lis studies. He was, even as a child, a dreamer 20d a poet ; but hia dreaming was supposed by &lt around him to_be stuEidicy. and they conse- uently made him the butt of their ridicule. The affectof this on the embryo poet was not lost. It soured and irritated him; and the taunts of his school-fellows account for the oo- cesional bitterness and fiercenees to be found 1n his prodactions. % 'WHILE STUDYING AT QURISTIANIA, Bioernsen mede two visits to tho theatre of the place. No sooner had he scon s performance than bis future career was determined, and he wrote his first play before he had so much as read & drams of any kind. His play was sccept- ed. The moro he went to the theatre, the more he ssw the imperfections of his firat attempt, snd ho wished to withdraw it. He feit his powery bat was unable to resch his idoal. This did ne, prevent tus criticiaing the productions of otherso end he began to iy dowa the law of dramati, art to authors, actors, and the public, —x3 proceeding which = neither authors nor actors . relisned. He' bhad to pay dearly for his youthful presumption. He was rallied, hated, and slandered by the. literary clig) of Christiania, and fically excluded from together. Shaking thedust of Norwny s feet because it would not receive him 28 a literary prophet, ha tarned his face towsrds Denmack, snd repairedto Copenhagen. Inthe Danish Capital he found hosts of friands, and a short tims aftor his arrival there published hia * Norwegian Stories,” which soon gave him a reputation throughout all the North. Later he be- cemedirectorof the theatre at Bergon, established a papar at Christianis, and visited Rome, whers he wroto his grest drama ** Bigurd." His coun- trymon af lasz, with few excertions, hailed him a4 their groat literary representative. Wo have now all of Bioernsen's life not contained in hia works. He has distingaished bimse!f as o lyric poet, as a dramatist, and as & novalist. I3 LYRIC POETRY. Hia firat efforts wore tho songs which are found ioterspersed among his plays. Theso are vory simple, but attractive and full of ex- quisite melody, It wers imposarble to give any idea of them in a proge transiation. It must have contributed not a littie to Bioernsen’s popu- Iarity that he is thoroughly Notwegian, and that bo bos chosen the subject of theso songs from tho old Pagan uicries of his country. STORIES. Among his rusticstories there is one extremely singutar. Thrond was tho son of very poor pa- rents, who lived in a dale lost on s bigh tacle- land. For miles around not a honse waa nesr. Up to his tonth year the child's parents wers his only acquaintances. , One night & gypsy asked for lodginge st the' ont-of-the-way farm. Ho was received; but, taken with the fe- ver, ho died thres days . aftor. The fact of his &eath was concenled from the child, and the gypsy's fiddle waa given to him as a presont. His father taught him how to play it, and it excited & wondetful influence on the child. He imagined it filled with a whols world, According as he learned to draw music {rom it he gave each coto & pame, and thought he discovered in it his fother’s and- his mother's yoice, a5 well ad’ that of the departed gypsy. Seated on the nill, he played sll diy. Ho glayed, as it ia expressed, the woods, tho fairiea, all that he eaw or Luew. One dsy curiogity led him to the nearest village, which be had pever, seen before. Therc was o wedding to e celebrated, and he offered his services as musicisn. Thoy wers accepted, s0d ho marched at tho head of the party, thivk- ing that “*bride ana bridegroom, the young snd the old, the birds, tho woods, tho heavens, the BuB, eangaccompaniments to the vibrating chords of his inatrument, if oot audibly, at least with? all their heart. He walked on intoxicated, and was pot aware of the ground under. hie feat.” Tho sight of the village, of the many housss and windows, the gay dresses of tha crowd, the chioch and the ringing bells, was toa much for Lim, and quite turned bis haad. His fingens trembled over the cords, and be begmnina frenzied manver to phy an air woich be did not know himself. His eye grew tronbled, and a strange hallacinstion a0k poesession of him. Tho Eypsy was geated on the top of the balfry mocking him. “It seeméd to him that the vivlin would go up to tho gypsy if he could not sacceed in bring bim down from thobelf:y, The muaic changed into undulasing cionds, ths belfry 1nelined towards him with the gypay stil on it, the houses danced about, tha torreats ascended up the rocka. Then his mother rushed oat of the cromd: ‘In the name of Heaven, what are you playing, Thrond ?” He looked at ber, gave way, aud then it seemed to him zsif he fell down into m bollomless gray abyss.” When be camé to himeoif again, ha ran across the fields, and did not stop until far from the yillage, Hia fssd impulse was to bueak ths fatal instrameat ; but hs bethought hi; n then seemed to im that he for tho first Ly understood all that he hsd lived, seen 54 learnsd. He thought uf hia rocks and hiy naidy mountains, and began o cry. When ba russn he decided not o break his violin, but to te o artist. The bistory of our poet's real inner lirg is, says hig critic, Mr. Edouard Schure, not unljy that of this thoughtless fddler. Lite by Bioernsen lived at first in closs ntimacy wyy tho imposing aspects of Natare, and thought and sang with all the enargy of his soul apon the world, he neither knew how to sxpyas nor to gontrol the emotiona which overpowerey bim. He belisved himsslf struck powertess gy | the very moment that the conscician of his talent came to him - Eipn the despair —of the _artist who by reached the end of his folly, but at tua time discovered his trao course in ife. - Jre b regoived to become an artist, and to dey a;mntry! |:lhm_l léhr;ell%n-gonntrymem £0 tall th story of their hard and simple life. Tattod 1o bl codenvers -7 e Holaany ‘The most characteristio of his Tural slateiay are the staries of ““Arne” »nd tne *Fij.e Maiden,” the latter of which at leaa is to ko Log in English. . HIS DRAMAS, But Bicernsen’s ambition was not o ba « fied by tho compoetion of stories, or depict, the Norwegians of to-day. His great anbitiog waa to be the father of the Scandivavian diazp, and, if he has not entirely sacceeded in thig ta bas the morit of bavig come very near to i, His predecessors in the same field wero the Daya Oehlenschlager and the Swedo Tegner. Is. But these had not gone beyond - ina surfaco of the national charscter. Tny heroic traditions of Norway had alws-g & singular attraction for Bioernsen. Tha a'cre enth and thirteenth canturies of our err, ths pa= riod at which fancy and fact aro aaangely mixad in Norwegian history, and when the B:a-Xiizs had extended their power to tho Orc.dss, Ince Iand, and over all the Northern sess, 18 tha img in which his imagination was most xt hows, zud in which it loved to revel. We have [spaca _to refer to but ps of his dromas,—his fist. It is ons of those domestic tragedies which aboasd. ed among the iarls of the olden time, Houlda i8 the last survivor of a famuly that bad alwars been at war with the Aslaka. ~One s, ber father was carried to ber home Ialied. the sight, the mother, too, died, bapp her dsughter eaid. Boulda, tho orpkin tor, is led by force to the honso of ta: and brought up with the sons of her enemics. She grow up wid i them. I walkod,” she says, ‘“am. mon as if in the twilight of gigansic forceig whose tops whisper to ore anothes w: their foec reigos the silenca of I welsed disquieted among the leafle.s seeking & way out and finding none.” of Aslak are isken with the kaughty b: bave many a brutal struggle to deten:ina she shall be. She hates them all, bat, to of their importunities, favors the st Gudleik. Sowe time after, she mests X o, Chief of the Norwegian armies. She s towards him. and fizes him to tho =pot ity look. She saysto him a litde later: I, the fault that, when we mct below there, church, we both turned deathly paiz?” that moment thay are ons, with 8 pa iisn may be inferred from the character of (L Bat she is still Gudieiks wifs, the =l Aslelt. She excites her Tover to offer him s cationPand Eiolr kills bim. Here ibo ¢ begins. Eiof has to decide whether e low in the path that Houwlds pointsjuus, ter the extermination of her enemy with her in exile to Iceland. Loveurz s iim it. Ambition holds him back. Iia Lnaky decides to cost his lot Wi hers, but the Queen’s Isdies st spare B for him. He had teen attached to ¢ne of thom, by pamo Swaohildo, snd they sudderls wiber ., her into his presenco in the forest of tio fioyal® castle.. He ia overcome by the re o of all the past, and by the sweetness znd ¢ of his first love. He agreea tomsc: night at the ball. Houlda, ldden in had witnessed the interview betwacn i Swanhilde. But sle lkmows tha:, promise, he will retarn doring the n. g, 5 be had previously promises, er to Iceland. He comes, ale and sad, bot not to er. He comes to bid her good-! sooner, however, bears her voice tha Lz captive again. Kuowing, howevar, b tion, she says to bim: *‘He thatis love is worthy of death; and, should ru: huodred yoars, yon will never unde:atz bave loved you, A wholo Lfetime woul enough to maxe up for what I have s day. Therefors, Liolf, drag thyss! ; me 1f thoa canst. In thy strong boic: i b covered thal which might bavo risod o o 2 dizzy hoight. ttached myself to thie, and, by high fleaven, no ome ever Leid ma er. If you*® can bear me <o mo longer, you must fsll with me. I sball carry you down to the ebyss.” Sh? hal sazed the “wooden house to be surrounded by men, and had ordered them to piace a fice all about it. The burning hou:? Ia. Honlds, radisnt with a gloomy jo Eiolf, fascinsted even to the last by uer 2 The beat part of this drama is tho tragic goand- eur of the heroine. The other principal dramas of Bi)er **Betwoen the Battles” and * Emg 5. The example of Bioernsen hus no: L on the Northmen; and, dating’from him be sxid they have sntered oa & new litur: o0z, ¢ & TEE BPACK HIL Alleged Flaws in tho Yrcaty WiA the Sioux. Special Dispateh to The Chicago i) Wismxros, D.C., April .—Ax 1 element in connection with the ab: any portion of the tresty with the Sioax is the relation of that treaty to ths State of Nebrusls. The treaty by which the Biack Hiils were caded to the Sioux is known a8 the Shermsn-Angur treaty of 1868. By this treaty, either with or without design, a considersbls portion of ths lands contsined, in the reservations created by that treaty had been surveyed by tho United States, and had been occupied by_sctilars under ths pre-emption and homostrad: Tho settlers have been unwilling to yiek they considor are their vested righbts or tha 1aws of the United States, and the S:alcof Ne- brasks has maiutained that the Generat Govern- ment might not lawfylly make a trezty coding 3 reservation within the State of Nabrud to Indisns withont the _comsent or sanction of that commonwealth. Dy tis terms of the treaty, the Indians heve tho to hunt on tie North Fork of the lLiepul River 8o long as there are buffaloes to justify the chase. No umpire is provided by tho trealy to determine the fact whetaer thy nawber of buffaloes justified the sesrch ufder ths torms of the testy. The Reprosertziives of Nobreska raise the point that the Indians wao are parties to the treaty)hava forfeizd thelz rights, and that tho_treaty consequently may b doclared void. The causes for which it in claimed that the treaty may ba sbrogated ‘are two: fust, = that the nomber of buffalo dées mot now justify tin chese in the valley of the Republican Liver; socond, that the terms of tho treaty wera violate ed by the Sioux in their fight with the Pawnese: Tho last point is mude cn tho ground that all Indian treaties oblige the conoirsctiog Iudiscs to keep the peace with al] tribes with which thoy may have formetly bacu®s war. THE AMERICAN RIFLE TEAM. New Yorw, April 8.—A sabscription entertaiz- ment to-night in the Acadomy of Music, for the benefit of the fond to meet the expenses of tha American riflemen in their contest in Iicl:cd next summer with the Irish tesm, nstted £4.009. —————, PARDIRED. Mrems, April 3.—Gov. 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