The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1858, Page 2

2 AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our London Lonnvon, Oct. 22, 1858. The Weather—Watering Places—The Royal Fumily—M. P's on the Stump—The Atlantic Cable—A Frenchman with a Loaded Pistol versus a Newoastle Editor—Lord Ward and Her Majesty's Theatre—Amusements. ‘The weather for the past three days has been quite in the London style—foggy nrorning, rainy and sunny days, bright starlight nights, with zigzag currents of alternate heat and cold, The weather at the various seabathing towns is said to be wet and windy, and the visiters are migrating homewards, though 40,000 of them are reported to be stil! at the one sided marine village, Brighton. There is nothing at all stirring in London, save in the great thoroughfares, where the accumulation of men, women, horses and vehicles are ‘toujours au cable." ‘The grouse and deer stalking season is just at its close. The Queen, Prince Consort, and the “royalettess,’’ have Jeft Balmoral, and are at Windsor, where Albert will return to farming, and investigate the matter of his eldest boy and the maid with the milking pail M. P.’s are still boring their constituents with addresses as uninteresting as the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth or the dércute of the Spanish Armada. ‘The Atlantic telegraph wire, like hope at the bottom of Miss P.’s box, is still at the bottom of the sea, and in con tinuity too, for, for the last two or three evenings, very intelligible messages have been received from Newfoundland. The defect is evidently on our sidey for although communication has been restored from New” foundiand to Valentia, and from Valentia to Newfoundland, Similar results do not appear to have attended the extra- ordinary and dangerous efforts to the cable, to overcome the existing obstacles, with a view toa perfect working. The Vicomte de Maricourt, the young French dragoon who lives with his pater, the resident French Consul at Newcastle, has been fined £5 for presenting a loaded pis tolat the head of the English editor who lampooned his father. That a most unjustifiable attack was made by the editor is as undoubted a fact as that the intimidation used by a young or old man was equally cowardly. A Joaded’ pistol withm an inch of the olfactory organ is a propinquity more than disagreeable. The Frenchman was much’ checred, and the English editor considerably hooted as they left the Police court, Lord Ward is said still to sigh after the Cardinal's niece, and to “oscillate” between Gye and Smith for the lessee ship of Her Majesty’s theatre. It is universally desired that Mr. Lumley may yet be enabled to remain at the head of this establishment, which it appears he will only be able to do on paying the long lord £10,000—the interest due on the £150,000 advanced. He is gone to Paris, and Mr. Guy to Italy. Although Mr. Charles Mathews, like a worn out mem ber of the P. R., is slow in his movements aud de liveries, he was never more attractive in London, The re n under £250 a Mrs. Mathews, though scarcely more than fit fo: asiness, iS a great card st novelty at the Olympic is the “Red Vial” of e Collins, the author of the “Lighthouse,”” which ceipts of the Haymarket have never by night Mr we shrewdly suspect to be little better than an adaptation Wilki of a French piece called ‘Le Phare.”’ Mr. Collins had been favorably known before as a clever story writer, and e comes before the public with a certain pri commands success. Truth, however, com te that, if the tir ntation of the “Red \ all, it is due rather to y and enthusiasm of friends than the unbiassed on of public voice. Indeed, we see no on which any well founded hopes of succes couki ased, for a more clumsily woven, more improbable onstrously revolting drama has not been put upo ce the production of that piece, full of horrors known to old play-goers as the “Butchered Babes and the Slaughtered Parents.’’ For melo-dramas of this calibre and which suit the coarser tastes of uncultivated minds there are theatres specially adapted, where those who en joy the horrible may have their nerves excited to their hearts’ content; but we that such a concatenation of revolting incidents—howeve weil supported by the admirab ing of Messrs. Robson and Add:son ani Mrs. Stirling—ean ever become able to the highly cultured and intelli fore whom these artists are accustomed to poisoning of a merchant by a chemical agent containe: in a“‘red vial,” to bide the consequences of a thef: committed by his housekeeper, is the salient incident o! the piece; but the victim swallows an antidote instead of the poison, and he is thus thrown into a trance, so closely representing death that bis body is expos house purposely to give him a chance—should he s of soucding an alarm and getting aid. Well, this revolt ing se is actually put upon the stage; the seeming corpae revives.gounds the alarm, and rises from his bier ip a state too horrible to think of, much less to bebold He recovers, it is true, and bis thief of a housekeeper is poisoned in hig stead; so all ends happily. Now incidents like these, we@naintain, form no legitimate basis for suc cess, especially when not wrought up by a first rate mas ters band. ‘Ju sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas,” said the great Napaleon; and we incline to think that Mr. Coline’ mogptain, with all its pretence, bas only produced attempting the horrible, he has failed, by the ridiculous instead, We eve, too, that de fects 80 abundantly pervade the prening to make it acceptable to lympic is quite absurd. If Mr. Wilkie Collins, therefore wishes for the honors of successful dramatic authorship he must take some lessous in nature's school, become 4 student of human character and passions, and learn the art of weaving bis incidents consistentiy—not imagine that ‘a dish of horrors will satiefy the cravings of those who are wont to find in the drama intellectual amusement and enlightenment ing Jobn’’ at the Princesses is still all the rage, and the Pyne and Harrison English Opera comp: ere more successful than last season. The Barn liliamses, Me Kean Buchanan, the Reids and the Christys, are all doing well in the provinces. Albert Smith will not be ready with bis Chinese entertainment till January next Our Vienna Correspondence. Vimwwa, Oct. 10, 1858 Death of the Chevalier Negrelli—The Regency of the Prince of Prussia Locked upon as Favorable to Austrian Policy— Projected Meeting of the German Creditors of American Railroads—Murder of the French Consul at the Island of Kor—Increasing Animosity of the Turks towards Eu ropeans, dic., de Chevalier Negrelli de Moldelbe, the great Austrian engi peer, and member of the Suez Canal Commission, died af ter a short illness. and left the field to bis rival, Mr. Ste phenson, against whom be had recently discharged one of bis tremendous philippics. Chevalier Negrelli was an un- pretending but devoted servant to the house of Austria, ead the first practical engineer who, from practical obser- vations made on the epot, pronounced the project of uniting the Mediterranean and Red Sea by 9 ship canal Without a single lock, perfectly feasible. This opinian prevailed in the first commission, composed of R. Stephen son om the part of England, Paulin Talbot on the part of ¢ und Chevalier Negrellion the part of Austria. Ne erelli sounded the port of Pelusium, re-examined the le velling of Boordalon and pronounced for conducting the canal throd¥h the lakes of Timsah and Menzahleh to the roadetead of Pelusiom. The French member of the com mission embraced the view of the Chevalier, and Stephen son bas since been exposed to the severest attacks of the coutincntal press. He chose to answer some of these from hie seat in Parlioment; but was boldly charged by Negretli with never having seen and examined the jocalities in re gard to which he bad publisbed his opMions. In 1855 Lesseps, the French engineer, at the bead of a new commission, examined the same subject, and came to the same conclusion; and the international com mission of 1856 only corroborated what its predecessors had done. England, naturally enough, does not wish a canal to be built across the Isthmus of Saez, because this would give the States of the Mediterranean the comstwite trade to India; but if the project is really feasible it will be executed in gpile of ber opposition, as has repeatedly been suggested by France, Russia and Austria, On this subject the report of Mr. Stephenson j« not an offset to those of Les and Negreili. The Chevalier Negretli will not easily be replaced by Austria: but the regult of his labors is, nevertheless, a lasting one, and will nop} changed by his successor. The money required for tp” enterprise, not the physical obstacles ty v« tag Fra overcome’ render the task a difficult on¢ me Great rejoicings are going on here in al! government Circles at the assumption on the part Prussia, of the government of that king porsved by Prussia toward Austria, f eight years, has been anything but {rie it & here ascribed, not to the King, whose disease is pre bably of longer date than has been announced by physicians, but te his ministers and to other infuer Berlin. The change now about to take piace in net of the Prince of Prussia is expected to be a complete reconciliation between Austria and to an international policy whose centre of g Will be in Germany, and not im Paris or St. Peters Such are the views expressed bere: w not yet officially announced pe presumed, however, that the Prince of I’ M the Prince of * fia, who for the Iast year has been kept in a position er t by @ mere cotery, will not ¥, and not play into their had ‘become very unpopular in rity rowe esteemed gbeut er. If beret 4 n. his late acts mation on bis part to reapect the const tations of public opinion. Though nent by the sole will of hie brother the King, a6 expressed in the royal decree a ome able only to bie Got, be bas, in his acceptance of the task, acknowl the constitution, and artie of that instrument, which prov case in whieh the King is incapable of carry it erument. He has. ip wence, called the ¢ wether for the 20 of month, to receive the it, and to pledge the oath as Regent on Uh The Krous or fer jail party in Prussia, which is most opposed w A tri, is Supposed thereby to have re A We quite, and’ to be destined henceforth to exercise but very title infigence on the government. The diemigea! of the Minister of the Interior (his voluntary ros fation was a forced one) is looked upon as beginning of a radical change in the adminietration of 1 country, including both the internal and extarnal po ic fad af a return to that individual responsibility whieh for fome time past. had rely disappeared from the m. Pagetnent uf public aimite. The Uhanibers, whet w meet On the 2th inetant .wi!! probably rem: two days tb seenion, (simply W go through the ceremonier,) after Phick they Wil be dismissed, thew term of service bay. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1858. F precisely the minister who hag at in the election | government. The year 1848 lives still in the lution.”’ But even a return to constitutional forms will be hailed by the people, if not as an earnest of well intended progress, at least as the terminus of the reactionary move- Austria, as T said in the beginning, is anxious to be on terms with Prussia, not only to derive moral aid and sup- ut also to overcome the objections which, up to this mo- ment, Prussia has made to the admission of Austria into the German Zollverein. Austria has made every conces- ‘sion to secure that otieets but Prussia was inexorable, and but recently, at the Zollverein Conferences held at Hano- ver, opposed all the leading propositions of Austria, which the laier declared indispensable to her entering the Ve- rein. Conferences will now be re-oj here in Vienna, and it is hoped that the Prussian missioners will bring different instructions with them from Berlin. Austrian statesmen now go 80 far as to assert that the late war between Russia, pas and France would have been entirely avoided Russia and Prussia cor- dially, in their views. Austria, they say, never intended to oppose Rusgia in heredetermination to put an end to the sick man in Constantinople. Turkey, which will not even hold together now, toplease her allies, was to have been overthrown by Russia; but Austria, Eng- land and France were to come in and help to divide the spoils. If, then, these Powers disagreed on the new geo. graphical ‘divisions that were to be established, the fight was to take place, and the peace that would have followed would have been a lasting one. Every one can now see that the fight must be fought over again, under auspices very different from those which ushered in the last war, and that they may be accompanied by events which may change the whole face of Furope. The position of Prussia led to what was then considered the vacillating policy of Austria, and produced the very events Prussia endeavored to avoid. It remains now to be seen whether Austria and Prussia can agree on the Easteru policy. On the internal posi of Germany an agreement is absolutely indispen- sable. The German creditors of American railroad corporations and especially the holders of Erie second mortgage, are to have a meeting at Frankfort on-the-Main, for the avowed purpose of shaming these corporations into “propriety.” Thope they may succeed; but the German creditors must have patience. It is not the American railroad companies which have taken in the German capitalists, but the Ger- man bankers, who invariably recommended those stocks which they were determined to sell—selling their customers in the bargain. For years back the best American securi ties were thrown on the London market. When that was clogged, France was resorted to, till the appetite for high rates of interest was supplied by the Credit Mobilier and other similar institutions. When Paris aud London could hold no more, Hamburg and Frankfort were resorted to, with more or less success. You take it for granted that the most worthless securities, which neither the Eug- lish nor the French would take, were offered and accepted by the Germans; but that the bankers, notwithstanding, made a pretty penny out it; nay, it may even be presumed that the largest profits were realized on the poorest stocks. Iam glad now that the creditors have a meeting: but I hope thes will not pass resolutions offensive to their American debtors. If they will examine the list of Bri- Ush railroads, they will find that these, too, are at a con- siderable discount, and that the most sublime moral effort is not sufficient to reanimate a drooping market, or in- crease the receipts of a company which Bs to sustain an active competition with parallel roads. The president and directors of most of our companies would be glad to receive from Frankfort-on-the-Main any friend- ly advice that the German creditors inay be disposed to give; but a loan would be far more acceptable, aud perbaps better applied. It is pompously announced in the p that several American ministers and consuls will, by their presence, add weight and con. ration tothe meeting; but whether this is intended merely as an attraction, similar to the announcement of popular speakers at meetings for a political purpose, re- mains to be seen. We have news here of the murder of the French Con. sul at the Istand of Kos, and also of the murder of Miss Creasy, an Eogih lady, in Jerusalem. The trath is, the hatred of the Turks towards Europeans is on the increase, and the measures of intimidation resorted to by England and France to prevent popular outbreaks only defer the period of a general persecution of Christians throughout the Turkish empire. Inthe Danubian Principalities the dissatisfaction with the result of the Paris Conferences is general: akan Ghika is there openly supporting Nicolas jesco, his relative, for Hospodar of Wattachia although Golesco belongs to the persons who, by the Paris Conferences, are pronounced ineligible for that dignity. The Turkish question, as I have often expressed, is more complicated than ever, and a reorganization of that em. pire under Mahomedan auspices is entirely out of the question. The very stimulants now administered to the “sick man’? are sure to kill him. Our Baden Baden Correspondence, Bavew Bapen, Oct. 18, 1868. The Last Harwst in Germany—Palling off in Cereal— Gambling at the Baden Tables—Lady Players—Ezpenses of Living at the German Watering Places—The Princess o Prussia, de., he. Baron de Bruck having gone to visit his estates in Croa. tia, the political salons of Vienna are almost deserted, and a trip to Baden, which can be accomplished in two days, is quite refreshing in the beautiful weather which we have had on the Continent during the last ten days. The trip from Vienna here is what Lieutenant Maury would call ‘sailing im the are of the great circle,” by the way of Frankfort, Dresden and Prague; but some thirty thousand people are at work between Lents; in Upper Austria, and Vienna, and the cars will run on that railroad on or about the first of December. I shall probably be there by that time, and give you some account of that journey. From Lentz to Munich, in Bavaria, the railroad is not finished and will not lp this year; bat when it shall be completed, the railroad from Paris, by the way of Strasburg, Stat gardt, Munich and Lentz to Vienna, will be almost an air line, and you will be able to accomplish the whole dis tance in less than forty-eight hours. How small Europe becomes by means of raflroads, when you are able to pass the whole length and breadth of empires which pre tend to govern the world, whose armies are counted by hundreds of thousands, and whore ships “qnell the floods below,’ im less than twenty-four hours! There will be but two countries left, after a while, that will ap. pear spacious,even to the traveller—the United States and Russia, Even Spain will have ber railroads, and with them a new civilization and new wants. Having travelled over a large portion of England, France and Germany , I can report, from occular evidence, that the crops of cereals have, in uone of these countries, been abundant, and that, from the continued drought, the grain has not attained its usual size, There is, therefore, @ deficiency in many parts, and prices have not receded. ‘This is the reason why the free importation of grain into France has been continued for another year, not—as has been stafed in some of the French papers—a gradual ap. Proach of the French Emperor to the system of free trade. fimperor is determined that his soldiers and the laboring classes shall have cheap food of = good quality, and that consideration in his mind outweighs all the other reasons which the advocates of the protective system have urged in favor of a duty on grain. The potato is abundant on the continent, and of the very best quality. Tot has in most places entirely disappeared, and with it all the theories which have been built upon it. As to the vintage, the quantity of grapes is even more abundant than last year, but their quality is considered somewhat inferior. ‘wine, in consequence, will not be so good as last year: but it will, nevertheless, be of a superior quality provabably exceeling the vintage of 1825 and 827, and perhaps approaching that of 1846. Last year's vintage has been the best since the comet year of 181, and scarcely inferior. if not surpassing it ve best vint age previous to that time was 1783. bat very little of that ig now in any market, the fashion of drinking compara tively new wines having almost entirely expelled the old brands. The wine, after a number of years, deteriorates in strength and flavor, though the interest continues to grow on the capital invested in it; and it is as ridiculous to talk of wines, a drop of which is worth a guinea, as of a beautiful girl of seventy five, whose maidenish caprices re tempered by age. The green flavor is now all the rage, nd the wine of last year is already drank at the rich ble. Who, in this age of steam and telegraph, for wine of half a century, nursing in the cellar? etting out for Baden | naturally thought I should the town still full of strangers; but a stroll around Convereatvion House last evening convinced me that I In apite of the beautiful weather moon shining bright enough to read aud write by; and the air being not unusually cvol—there were not in the Conversa however, were al cream of the hawt and whee nen persons on the promenade, and Ha the except a few gamblers most rechere te quartier de finane ell Known celebrities add fo much to the and gaveties of the place, have taken flight homewa How they will bé able to live till May | cannot guess. jut moet of them retain the'r apartments for the whole year When the season ie coming to a close, the lady gambler: vho. during the summer, only drop a Napoleon or so on the green table, are permitted by the etiquette of the place to take seats.and to make themeeives at home hey are then permitted to play misére, that is bett low ae five francs on trente e quarante, and ax florin at the roulette. It ie impossible for ladies to amuse themselves more innocently, especially if the poor things have come to the end of their purtes, and have scarcely enough left to cross the Alps to winter in Italy. For th credit of the Baden Bank, however, be it said. that no one jones al) bis money bere without receiving a sufficient eum “a to leave the place. Humanity ever shndders at the sight of the victims of vice. Men and women are no sooner as dead bodies ver al riyned than they disappea lowed to encomber the ¢ of @ vestel during « fight Their sight might discourage the combatants. There has been tome very big gambling here this season, and some | persons have been magnificently smashed. A Vienna Denker, for instance, after winning two hundred thonsand france, lost two millions, including 2a) his own and much reditors’ Aji this money wéht to enrich the farmer green table and to beautify Baden. The whole fashiouah ‘id. therefore, was benefitted by the romp. ere im, awed, BO Ketter Fowl W ruin thaw & gambler « ney ton German watering place, and it panes throngh | 2 perfect hower garden. Forty five thousand people have Vos year vieted Baden, aud msuy of them went bome eer from the union of the two great Powers of Germany, _ ‘lighter than they came. Many of er wast heme baggage foes, with even \heir ee nlp. Es «Juck,”” vi a . rumors are constantly circulated the ‘bank is broke,” of has a continued run of bal luck,” though eve ry run op roken bank to esta) is! firmer basis. True the ‘Chambers the var » 6 States of Germany haye re; talked the + ndal of the banks at the German but (1 repre- sentatives of the are not comn il faut, and know but the wants of 8) ety. It is admitted on all bands, even by +f poiiti- cal economy in Berlin and Heidett that but f the ga- ming tables, the political and juence of he Ger- man watering would ly destr ed, and that th irths wt least of itants of those places would be obliged to make a by hard labor. Take away the game from Baden, it will aed be- come a wilderness, instead of the fancy of ng girls and respectable le cannot always make love, | who are unlucky at cards are bh oreryths else. Without such a he! reaped a urn in a German wartering place would be intolerable, Raden 18, Tyrone a lie ihe wesiner 4 | now, having not only grown ridiculjusly expensive, bu also less agreeable in a social pointof view. What has | heretofore rendered a stay in Baden p attractive was the free, unrestrained intercourse of agreable people—it was | the reunion of the democracy qistocracy. This has | much changed of late, owing to pople who would sot | themselves up as exclusives. Thete want to walk, eat, drink, drive, and do everything eg apart, and thereby | often oecupy Positions more ridicil than enviable, The ladies, for the purpose of avoidng the crowd, or per- haps for the more rational desire ¢ having all the nice men to themselves, have set upachb, and make it their especial buses to watch with more ‘than maternal care over the young men entrusted tothelr keeping: They teach th for the men’s sake—not to speak, dance or ride with, nay, not even to low anybody but them- selves; and’ by that means cultwate and refine their I must admit that the ladies’ patronesses are all known for their high bresding and gentle- ness, aud that some of them are among the rettiest and most bewitehing. divoreées ot all rope. With the charity of the grand monde, no moral or intellectual qualifications ae, I presume, re- quired for membership. It is sufficient that a lady, bi sides being rich or noble, should either be nothing buta coquette, or what most sensible men prefer, no coquette at all. But the ordinary class of people who frequent watering places do not appreciate this superior degree of refinement, and accordingly prefer for their summer amusement some more unpretending spot, where they can throw off the restraints of town life and the classification of rank, sufficiently offensive even in large towns. Those people begin to seck the baths of Ems, of Carlsbad, Ma- rienbad, Toplitz, Ischle, Tegernsee sud the like, dispens- ing with both the clubs and the gree table. is year there will be no grand: chasse auc cerfs, the races having already proved suflicieitly expensive. There was, however, an abundance of cmcerts and plays by French actors from Paris. We shall also have somo pri- vate theatricals. The season, on the whole, was a bad one, our own American countrymen having principally shoue by their absence. They seem to have followed Talley- rand’s advice and made themselvesregretted, That regret seemed to be the only thing here which came from the heart; for no people in the world ar more lavish in their expenditures than American travelers. They seem to have al! pockets full, and to be determined to empty them with both bands. A very fine Caliornia watch was of- pred me by a pawnbroker the othe day, at av ‘ice, with the arms of the State engraved on thy those of the United States on the frat. It was a hunting watch, which, after the owner was Irained of all his loose h, was pawned to keep up the roelette. ation! The same pawubroker also dhowed me a number of ladies’ watches, diamonds, broocles, necklaces, brace- lets, and—would ‘you believe it ¥-wedding rings, that were not pawned by husbands, Where the symbot of h, plighted at the altar, thus tavels from hand to hand—where the return of the pled of wedded love a pend on the turn of a card, great grides nave alr been made towards its forfei Vomen ou; togamble. Pope, the nasty ‘See how the world their veterms rewards, A youth of folly and an age of ards. This is a libel; but where youth and seauty handle cards folly is sure to follow. " Baden is, notwithstanding, a most delightful place, with a bakny air and bewitehing scenery; and there are also some very excellent people here “who are not tempted by” the dissipations of the place, but, like bees, suck honey while others distil poison. These people form a very charming society, aud enjoy themselves at little cost. (ne iady vas here nearly the whole of last summer, ranking all by birth, position and accomplishments, and yet the most retired in her con- duct—the very pattern of a wiftand mother ! This was ‘the Princess of Prussia, wife of the now Regent of Prussia, mother in law of the poet Grand Duke of Baden, and whose sou, the future King of Prussia, married the Queen of Engiand’s daughter. Her rimenis here were so simple and so plainly furnished that I douot much whether one of your Fifth avenue ladies could be persuaded to move with them. The number of pe-scns in her suite was inconsiderable, and her toilet was it nothing distin. guished {rom that of every other respedatle woman. She often walked out alone, seldom had more than two horses in her carriage, and was affable and gr-ciows to all with whom, designedly or otherwise, she cme in contact. If her secrets were known they would be found to consist ‘mo that Christian charity which would never let the le band know what the right one doeth. Ore act only—a pub- lic one, and therefore allowed to be meitioned—I will des- eribe as exhibiting at once the true wemanly character of that Princess. The reigning Grand Duke, who married hor daughter, bas a son, now one year old, and on bis birthday the Princess of Prussia, his grandmaher, gave a féte. ‘The locality for that purpose was the charity school at Lichtenthal, a village connected by spree drive with the town of Baden, and the guests wre the charity chil- dren, who, on that ‘occasion, were eitertained by their royal protectress. Every species o cake be furnished by French, German or Italan pastr; was laid an embargo upon for that oemsion, and several wagon loads toys were furnisied for distribution among the littie urcbins. Toe Grnd Duke and Grand Duchess were also invited, together qith their little one, one rear old, the hereditary Prince Baden. All came and joined in the love feast. Wheneach child bad re- ceived its toy and cakes the Grand Ducal babe was al lowed to play with them, and the bture Prince and his future subjects mingled their pleasurs in merry peals of laughter and delight. The act neede no comment. The fete required no master of cerem@ies, and American ‘mothers will have no difficulty in appreciating the cha. racter of the woman that gave it. Our Toledo (Spanish) Corespondence. Toxpo, Oct. 9, 1858 The Difficulties between Spain and WexicomAlleged Dis covery of Perpetual Motion—Inunaation at Cartagura— Destruction of the Caswangar Amerian Steamship by Fire ot Cadis—The Madrid People Lsappointed of their Water Supply—New Araangemens for Carrying the Mails between Cadiz and Havana—She Late Storms in Spain, de., de. j ‘One of the organs of government informed us for the thousandth time that the difficul between Mexico and Spain are about to be settled in jarnest; that it is in. formed, through a means that cann@ be false, that it is definitely resolved to act immediatdy and with energy on the questions at issue. and that itaas reason to believe communications of grave import have been exchanged between the two great mediating Povers and the govern- ment of Spain. It also sets forth the »umber of troops on the shores of Cuba about to be ordemd to act for the dig- nity of the country and to maintain jhe position of Spain and ber just influences in America, More than twenty vessels of war are at this moment, ij says, in the waters of Caba and the Gulf of Mexico; mom than twelve thou sand men are about to be added to by equally excellent ti ‘Dow ready for embarkation, tad the Treasury of the Island has more than three milous and a quartor of dollars in hand destined for this expecition. A Canon of Segorb, who las redded for some five months past at Aranjuez, bas, it is said, made the dis covery of perpetual motion. A royal order has been issued to Spanish Consuls quire of the masters of all vessels sailing from to the Spanish colonies to express on the in addition to what is already required, the value of the goods on board. This is said to purpose of arriving at more certain data commercial statistics of the government beyond sea. Cane. is at this moment inundated from the sea, the water breaking through the Madrid gate, hating risen four yards above the city walls. The streets and public squares are flooded to a height of three feet, doing damage in the warehouses and in ihe maghames of the Custom House The members of the military force of the place have worked to their waists in water, saving private property. and it is feared some lives have been lost: Ab officm| despatel from Cadiz to the Minister of Marine announces the destruction at the wharf in that port by fire, on the morning of the 24th ultimo, of the American merebant ship Cashangor, it having ¢ the coals about three o'clock—every effort on the part of the forces on shore and im the gu pastas proving iD sufficient to extinguish i. At the last accounts the bull bad burned to the water « edge To the commercial house of Brooke & Co. of St. Jago de Cuba, has been granted, without the ability to under let the construction and use of a railroad, twenty-two kilo. meters in length, between Santa Catalina de Gaago and Cerroguayao, with the right of continuing to Caimavera estimated to cot $268,000 Asemi-oficial paper of Madrid announces positively jorat of the Queen has examined and ap proposed for giving to For support for and foundation for a large Spanish Ht says that it is intended to send out naval force, oolo ® wivis of her Majesty being ndation of suck an establishment is being of Spain a well as of Africa A few days since, by order of the government, the Pres dent of the Commission on Archives, (of whose appointment | and object I haye before given you a very exact acconnt,) } Senor Lafuente, went to Alcala de Herrares, with tw other gentlemen of the commission, to examine and as erta\n if the arebiepiscopal palaces of that city could by possibility be made avai for the purposes ol roment, in establiehing there the at central ar | chives of the kingdom. The formidable work. the diversion of the river Lozoya nto Mulrid, which the government for some years has | had in band, and lately finished at a cost of about six and | a quarter millions 6 conducting the waters a dis | tance of nine leagues, i ved eurldenly, to the great re. wameneed among re public disappointment purpose without heavy additional expend i time. A little time hack 1 was disco filtration exist ed in the Work, and a! found, a sufficient remedy ayplice returned, flattering the exyectat that throngh ite Abundance would be years the mort pictnresque and comfortable capital in the world. Inthe midst of this renewed confidence, wh brightened a thousand plans of public improvement Private cnterprise, there suddenly appeared messengers at Madrid with tite Rew that jaldier tiresome ia lakou h extent a8 to make search the was id again the "volume of the inhabitante ed ina fow Sive and expensive works had been completed; and the chief Of the engineers, Lucio del Valle, was almost self, breaking into exclamations of grief, which nota... that his friends could say ‘to tranquilize. ‘The subject now for con): eration is the character of the Strata in which the riv-r is enclosed, which, though roc\y atthe bottom and firm at the top, is im the intermedia'» The great mistake has been in presuming to put up sucha work witios watergate to met «nd correct, if possible, accé- jents. The government has just iseurd a circular, under a do- cree, that it will receive bids for carrying the mails be- tween Cadiz and Havana for a period of eight years, leav- = on the Ist and 15th of every month. The to be performed in new iron ‘steamers, cight in number, of new materials throughout, each of 2,300 tons burthen, with a force of 800 horse power (measure- ment of Watt), or, if over that number of tons, not to ex- ceed 3,500, the power increasing at the rate of fifty horse to every 1b0 tons, or more, if necessary, to fill the terms of speed according to contract—the service to begin next year, the carriage of the correspondence per se to be with- out charge; the capacity of movement to be thirteen miles to the hour, and the mean rate of way, going and coming, ten miles the hour. They are to receive on board two appren- tices of engincering, and the soldiers and sailors the vernment desire to send to the Antilles, paying therefor 17 to $20 per head. Each ship 1s to go armed with two thirty-two pound cannon, with a crew of eighty-cight sailors, supplied with twenty carbines, twenty rouuds of ammuni- tion, twenty cutlasses and twenty pikes. The trips are to be made by way of Porto Rico, Santa Cruz and Tene- riffe, stoj es at each pce not to exceed twelve hours. In the event of the joss of a ship she is to be rey by another, and one year will be allowed for constructing a new one, and every new iyention or improvement the government deem necessary is to be added from time to time. The ships are to be at the disposal of the government, the lat- ter giving one month’s notice of intention, and paying @ fair consideration for the time they may be in use; and in the event of a war it may take them, paying their full value. On any failure to make a trip there is to be a for, feiture of $50,000 for the first, and for the second failure $100,000. The government will give its assistance to th contractor asum to be determined on, of which th Council of Ministers will fix the amount on the day of rey ceiving the bids. The destruction of fruit trees and vives by the late storm is described to have been very great in the pro vince of Alicante. The Huerta of Orihuela is said to be completely denuded, whole groves of olive trees having been prostrated. Some other towns have escaped with only the loss of the vintage, which had been very promis- ing. The greater part of the wine and oil in Benemasot has been lost by a hail storm. In the province of Malaga the storm was also destruc tive. In Velez several editices were biown down, and ia Daimalos three dwelling houses. Our Relations with Spain. (Translated for the New wane from the Cronica of Oct. 27. i One of the journals of this an has published an article under the title of Our Relations with in.” The object of the article is to maintain the assertion made in the last message the President of the United States to Congr to the effect that the Spanish government found no other reason or excuse in responding to the demands and_recla- mations of the American Minister at Madrid than the fact of the American government not having paid to the Span- ish government the indemnification due in the matter of the schooner Amistad. Among the reclamations of the United States agaist Spain are selected as the most im- portant the one per cent of amortization, at compound in- terest, stipulated in the treaty of 1834, and the losses sus- tained by American commerce in consequence of the re vocation by the government of Madrid of the decree of the government of Cuba in 1846. Asa matter instigated by the feeling of self interest, these suggestions might be lowed to pass without any dread as to their effect in deceiv- ing the public judgment, by simply mentioning the inte- rested partiality from whieh they emanate. But it is a fact that there are in the world influences to which the contemptuous or charitable silence of rath serves a8 a corroboration of the most calumnious and fri- | volous accusation; therefore we will address a few re- marks to the writer of the article in question, for himself and those who give faith and credit to him. We do not know what is the tone or what are the reasons of our gov- ernment in replying to the reclamations of the United ‘States Minister in Madrxd; but we can safely assert that never, since President Polk recommended, in 1847, that the Spanish creditors in the matter of the schooner Amis- tad should be indemnified, has the uon-fuitilment of that I on the part of the government of the United put forward as an excuse by the Spanish gov- ernment for the non-fullilment of obligations on its part. In the diplomatic documents subsequently to 1846, that have been profusely published, ou the demands and recia. mations of this government, we have rarely seen the case of the schooner Amistad mentioned; and in the recent Black Warrior reclamation the Spanish government paid it to the entire satisfaction of the United States govern- ment, without, perhaps, alluding in its many official replies to the pendency of that grave case of American bad faith. We bad believed, on the contrary, that her Majesty's government had, as it were, forgotten that reclamation in its relations with the government at Washington, either 80 as not to increase difficulties which the former had not at ali provoked, or because the enormity of the case was so grave, and compromised so much the national honor, that Spain could not demand justice of it without being prepared to exact it to the last extremity. If her Majesty's government still requires payment of the reclamation ip the Amistad case, as a preliminary to all discussion on subsequent reclamations and demands, it is a matter of which we are entirely ignorant; although, if the fact were 80, that position of the Spanish government would be, in our opinion, the most dignified, fit and proper There are, doubtless, people who differ with us in that opinion; there are those who think (hat a Spanish bark, in the hands of African assassins, who, after haying committed butchery on board, spared the lives of two Spaniards only that they might navi the ship—that these two Spaniards, in the waters, and almost within one of the principal ports of the United Beates, asking relief from an American v: that the tribunals of the United States in imprisoning, one side, the Spaniards who ask, and have a rig! their tion, and, on the other, aiding and protecting the black assassins, and the officers of the American ves- ‘the booty to which they say they are entitled salvage of the vessel—there are, we say, those who think that all this presents a pictare so odious and repugnant that it is well worth keeping it exposed to the eyes of the moral world on the first floor of nach sac 4 gallery, whilst other differences that have arisen through similar injustice have not been definitely settled. Bat, pigy Ud this may have been the so-lauded prinei- . Bui What of the $50,000 proposed by Mr. ‘ cut down by Congress, and recommended by Presidemt Polk, shall reach the original Amistad Those unfortunates sold, years ago, for a mouthful of bread, their claims to capitalists of London and elsewhere: so small was the faith repose’ in the American government and in the feebleness with which, up 40 that time, the Spanish government protected its citizens abroad. and so great also was the terror inspired in them in the prisons of the United States by the injustice then practieed by that country towards ours. The Spanish government has not ided the one per cent amortization of the debt stipa- fated in the convention of 1834; and that is one of the re- clamations on which, in the opinion of the writer of the arti- cle in question, the — at Washington should in- sist. Tie loee' whi that Poe! ernment can our they cannot be made in the United States. The loss is t Spain, which, having been able to redeem the whole capital of its debt by a little larger disbursement than that which it now makes anno- ally in the payment of the interest, and. being even able to redeem It to-day cheaply, with a little proper skill, car- ries traces of being perpetuaily a tributary of the United States, Still less foundation bas the demand, which the writer of the article desires to bave prosecuted, for the joes caused to American commerce by the revocation of the decree of the local authority of Cuba in 1846. That decree, freeing from duties certain articles of importation remained subject, by its very context, to the approval of the higher government of the mother country; and it is clear t] upti! the obtaining of that sanction, it could not have the force of law, and every merchant who ventured to import such artidtes, while the measure had gove no farther than a project, did eo on bis own account and at hie own rik ut if there be a eountry in the world that has least right to complain of loss through a measure which never could be unjust—as the Spanish govern ment could never iinagine that the eupidity of some merchants would make them ran risks in calow lating is assent to the mere proposition of an inferior authority—that country is the American Union the writer of the article may be, he ought to » upset caused in his country by the sudden e of the chief personages of the Union, of school to which be belonged, se r eloquence of the Massachusetts acturer, in 1842 the Congress of the United States believed that it suited the condition of the poblic treasury and of national in » reform the tariff in a protective or restrictive ommittee hawing been pointed which favored the increase of import duti report was approved with all despateh, and the law was ta strict observance imposed the Custom House officers of the country. Spanish and merchandise, to® much greater extent than thet to whieh the adventorers who bad faith in the pow s.bility of a future Spanieh law were compromised, were on their way to, or bad already arrived in, the United Stairs, trusting in the virtae of & law of the United States actually ip The losses which ensued to Spanish commerce were quite considerable ; tt we do not know that our Commerce bas done more than censure the preci- pitation with which the American Congress proceeded, withont disputing its right to increase or diminish its tar fares Ukase Relative to the Appanage Peasants in 5 ppanage [Translated from the Brussels Nord of 4th August, for the New Vouk Herat. Desiring to grant to the peasants of the a ages the ersunal ant proprietary rights enjoyed by the other free classes, we decree as follows:— 1. The existing restrictions in the laws and in the regu lations of the appanages, and in virtue of which the poa eants of the appanages could neither bay nor sell unin habited lands without the formal and nominal consent of the apponage department, as well as those which forbade the peaeants to dispose of the timber on their own lands without the consent of the same tment, are abolish ed. We grant henceforward to the of the ap: Japos Ue + git of buying, acourding to their free di brat legal meane, from persone of ir Class an from those of other classes ip society, uninhabited i also tho right to depose of (ueir owu lands to whommoever to bry my tecasmaee important and i weet an im in virtue which each individual was one thousand five hundred roubles of silver on his transition into the mer- chant class, and six hundred roubles on his passage into that of the bourgeois—are and remain abolished. ‘They will be replaced by the law which rules the pea- sants of the crown on this point; and conformably to the rules appended and confirmed by us; the ts of the appanegee are permitted to pass into the urban and rural cl , with the consent of their direct chiefs, on condition that they shall have fulfilled their obligations | the commune. The heads of families passing | into the urban classes will pay besides, like the peasants the family will pay | twenty roubles each in the firstcase, © ‘fifty Lopecks in the second. This money will be dapealied in the pension fund of the com- mune for soldiers on the retiring list returning to their 8, The widows and daughters of appanage peasants may marry men of all conditions, without being subjected to tax. bes ° ‘The rules by which, in all questions of law concern. ing the appanage peasants, the attorneys of the appanages alone were allowed to plead or answer before the courts, and which forbade the peasants to appear in court or to appoint their own proxies, are abolished. Henceforth the appanage peasants, in their law suits and complains, and generally in all their civil , affairs with persons belonging to another department, are authorized to appear and to plead in person in the courts and justice chambers, observing, however, the following conditions:—That, in affairs concerning the rural com- munes, the agents appointed by these communes and confirmed by the of those communes shall alone have access.” Independently of this, the peasants of the appanages are authorized, in case they may wish to do so, to confide their interests in the affairs above mentioned to the attorneys of the appanages; and consequently we impose on ‘the appanage officers and on the attorneys the duty of giving aid and protection to the appanage pea- sants in all their affairs which are brought before the courts or justicé chambers. In places where there are no appanage attorneys, this obligation falls, acccording to section 2,184 of volume 10 of the Civil Code (edition of the year 1842), on the government and district attorney 5. The appanage peasants are anthorized to contract all sorts of obligations and make contracts, and to make wills according to the rules which bind the peasants of the Crown, and all written contracts made between appanage peasants shall be legalized by the administration of the appanages according to the cantonal direction of the estates. 6. These measures apply equally to former military colonists at present placed under the direction of the ad- ministration of the appanages. 7. It will be necessary to modify, according to the ex. tension of rights now granted to the appanage peasants, the sections of the civil code which correspond with these new measures; and for this purpose you should pat your self in communication with the director of the second section of our Private Chancellor's office. You will be careful to have promulgated and executed the present de- cree according to established rules. (Translated from the Brussels Nord of August 5, for the New York HxxALD.) RULES CONCERNIHG THE PASSAGE PEASANTS OF THE APPANAGES INTO THE OTHER RURAL AND URBAN CONDITIONS. 1. The peasants of the Appanages wil! henceforth have the right of passing into the other free rural or urban conditions with the consent of their direct chiets. This right will belong as well to individuais as to their families. ‘2. The individual, or family, in whose benefit this transi tion will be operated, is obliged to ask from the rural commune to which he or they belong a decree of libera tion, drawn up according to the legal form, and attest- ing— a. That the family demanding the right of transition for itself or for one of its members, does not belong to the first two lists of recruitment, or that, if it does belong to either of them, it has presented a substitute or a regu- jar discharge. 6. That the family has paid its taxes and other financial obligations, that it owes no private debts, and that all its dues have been paid up to the Ist of January of the fol- lowing year. c. And finally, that those who desire to pass into another condition are not under sentence or subject Jo legal proceedings. Besides, the communal decrees of liberation couceruing portions of families or individuals, shall attest— d. That the parents of those persons who desire to pass into another condition consent to that transition, or that the parents no longer exist. ¢. That in the portion of the family which remains in the first condition there shall be n0 children in non-age, who, in consequence of that transition, would remain Without parents and without the means of subsistence; or, in the opposite case, that their subsistence has been pro- ‘vided for by the of the family whose condition has been 5 In fine, the decrees relative to the passage into the urban conditions shall attest that the person who into another condition does not belong to the ike sects, who capnot enter into the urban conditions. OBSRRY ATION’. —Those who have not arrived at the age of 21, can only enter into the urban conditious ip company with their parents or of the relatives in whose family they may be living, Their individual and personal transition is forbidden. 3. The liberating decrees of the rural commune cou F THE RUSSIAN | Murder of a Courtezan, LAST MOMENTS OF THE VICTIM, FORMERLY A mig- ‘TRESS OF YANKEE SULLIVAN—A GLANOK A? uke FORMER LIFK—THE MURDERER AND HIS CONDITION. {From the Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 1. to-day to lay. before our readers the |, of Spoculianio revolting. highly respectable ly; the com (os of those Fost N famil, , . shut’ out of the pale of and contumely of the use and violeace. COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRAGEDY. In Lodge street, betweon Seventh and Gano, lives a Mrs. Caroline Davis, a successor to the notorious Mra. Wheeler, who for many years kept a house of prostitu- tion, and it is said became rich upon the iniquitous wages she received. Mrs. Caroline Davis carries on the same vile business, and has a house full of unfortunate females for that purpose. One of these was 4 woman named Kate Beareau—at least such was the name by which she was known—of about thirty years of age, who had been an ia- -mate of the house for four weeks. On Saturdy evening, shortly after 9 a’clock, three young men, whose names are Charles Cook, the son of an esteemed and wealt citi- zen; William Seiter and William Swift, visited the | and’ were introduced to some of the inmates, one of whom—the unfortunate Kate—yor Seiter le over. tures to, which it seems she repelled, when he told her that he had plenty of money to give her, to which she made answer, that if so, “‘ he had better give it to bu siater.’” ‘THR FIRST ASSAULT. Seiter, who is said to have been partially under the ia- fluence of liquor, exclaimed with an oath that no womas: im her should mention his sister disrespect le and seizing her by the wrist, he bore her against the She struggled desperately, but he fully succeeded im throwing her upon the floor three separate times, when, it is said, he inflicted twelve kicks upon her head, broast and body. He did not, however, succeed in reducing her to a state of insensibility, for she still struggled witt and contrived once more to regain her feet, when she at- tacked him with fury, and was getting the better of him. ‘THE POUBLE ASSAULT AND MURDER. At this time, Cook, who had been so far a quiet spec- tator, rushed forward, and with the exclamation of “Never mind, Bill, Pll master her,’ he caught the wretched victim by the throat and endeavored to choke her; she, however, succeeded in slipping from his grasp, and stooping, picked from the floor a heavy earthern- ware spittoon, with which she aimed a heavy blow at hig head, but twice failed hitting him. Cook still followed her up, when a third effort shivered the spittoon upom his forehead, inflicting a severe wound. She then made towards the door, and about this time Seiter left the room, exclaiming, ‘ Cook, kill her, kill the d—d ——."" Swift also left at the same time. Before Kate could aua- ceed in effeeting her escape, Cook, who had drawn a for- midable knife from his pantaloons pocket, again had hold of her, and in asecond afterwards he sneer it in her side, between the eleventh and twelfth ribs, which latter ‘was’ partially cut, the blade also entering the lungs, which proved the immediate cause of her death. fell to the floor, bathed in her blood, the sanguinary evi- dence of which Had plentifuty besprinkled her murderer, who, having replaced the fatal weapon in his pocket, stood gazing upon the prostrate woman, his countenance betraying the innate fear and horror he felt at his owa act. Thus she lay for the space of two minutes, whem raising up one arm, she looked up at him and exclaimed that he had stabbed her. HER LAST MOMENTS. She was then informed that she could not Itve tong enough to obtain surgical aid, whereupon, in tones ren- impressive by the close sppruach of death, she ad- ed herself to God on behalf of her parents, her hus- band and her child, but not one imploring sentence did she send to the throne of grace for herself, Thus did ahe pray, the life still Mowing steadily from her side, whem the voice sank to a murmur, which, in its turn, was speedily hushed; the eyes became fixed, the muscles rigid, and in fifteen minutes from the time the fatal blow was inflicted she was no more. A SLIGHT GUMPSE AT HER HISTORY. She was an Irish woman by birth, and is said to have formerly been a travelling companion and mistress of the celebrated pugilist, Yankee Sullivan. Since then she set- tied in New Orleans, married and had a child, when she left and came to this city as chambermaid upon a steam- boat. She first applied to the mistress of the house im which she met her death for a situation to do the house- work, but was advised, on account of her personal charms, to relinquish that comparatively honorable but menial po- sition, and become one of the boarders. Her career was short, and will serve to “point a moral,” as many a simi- lar close of life have adorned more than one tale. It is conjectured that Beareau was an assumed name. AFTER THE MURDER. The pale and horror stricken inmates of the house, whose gaudy finery looked like a sad mockery in thus seene of riot, blood and death, in the meantime clustered, a terrified bevy, around their ill fated sister. ‘The Coroner was sent for, but he did not obey the sum mons until eight o'clock yesterday morning, the landlad; and her boarders in the meantime being left te keep watok over the victim of aubridled fury. ‘TUR INQUEST, At the hour previously mentioned the Coroner summon- ed a jury and examined the following witnesses:— Caroline Davis sworn—Testified that the deceased's name is Kate; all that I know of her, she has been here three or four weeks; she is Irish by birth; should judge she is about 22 years of age; believe she said she one child living and four dead; ber husband is in New Orleans; Sa- tarday night about eight o'clock, three men named William Seiter, Charles Cook and William 81 my house; Mr. Cook laid down on the went out and shut the door after him, girls in the room where Mr. Cook was; the back room; Isent some of the gir! at this moment heard something fall; I where he was, and he told me that he was sick; in a few moments he got up and came into the sitting room. Mr. Cook was: Kate, the deceased then came aow! when Seiter jumped up and took her by the and led her out of the room into the hall and pid | i i E H cerning the female sex need merely certify that the parents | ber if she would up stairs with him; she said no; consent or that they no longer exist, and further, thatthe | he replied that if she would show him to ber room he person claiming the benefit of the right of transition is not | would give ber some ;, She replied that he had under sentence or subject to legal proceedings. When | better take the money home and give it to his sister; she passage into urban conditions is claimed, they must certify | then started to return to the sitting room; Seiter followed that the claimant does not beloug to the i sects. aud struck her; just as she had entered the room she fell 4. If none of the above mentioned obstacles exist, and if | upon the loor, and he kicked her while down four or five the desiring to into another condition have | times in the breast, stomach and other portions of the performed all their obligations to the rural commune to | body; she got up, and he knocked her down again, and whieb they belong, the commune cannot refuse them a | said, “You d—d b—h, you shan’t throw my sister decree of liberation. In case of refusal, the appanage | up ‘to me: he then kicked ber agaia awful office can, On the complaint of the claimant, collect all the | over face, and body; she then raised and regeired information and give a eertificate. called him o “son of a beh.” again knocked , The rural commune’s decrees of liberation shall be | ber down and kicked her as ; She raised legalized by the local administration of the ay h again and repeated the epithet, and afterwards 6. The persons who pass into the condition of | beat her in the same manner; he must have knooxed her borgeois or into the rural condition, must, after | down some dozen times, possibly more; Cook here ini*¢- having obtained their decree of liberation, apply to | fered, and said, addressing deceased— You shan't throw the society into which they to enter for a | up bis sister to him,” her down and her decree of reception. If the person ring to pase into | six or seven times before he , both: Sayre sd jon pay a year's taxes in advance, | then caught hold of deceased dragged her to the door, the society has not the right to refuse its consent to his | and said they were going to put her in the watchhouse reception. The who pass directly into the con- | and have her locked up; they asked me to open the gate, dition of merchants, as well as those of the female sex | and J told them that I would do nosuch thing; they re- who pass into the other conditions, can dixpemse with the ped by saying that they intended to have ber’ arrested certificate of reception. together with all im the . the deceased struggled and 7. The family or individual passing into another con- | wrested herself from the two men and turned away, and dition, after hay Obtained a certificate of reception, | walking into the sitting room picked up @ spittoon; I at ehall present it in form of a petition to the Appanage | this time left the house and went after the police; 1 office, without the of which the transition | returned they were still at her, I said the officers were cannot take place, Fu , the individual going into the | stil! at the gate, which wasnot so—I only said it that I clase of merchants shall pay forty silver roubles, and if | might intimidate them; Seiter, at this, said—Come, let + inte that of the irgeois fifteen silver roubles. | as go,” ‘Swift and himseif; passed out a or several members of the same family change | through the in out towards the gate, he called their condition, the head of the family shall pay the total | out to Cook “to kill the d——d b—h:" Wm. Swift then of the sums above mentioned on his own account. For | returnd and endeavored to get Cook to go out with these i. to do; T then opened the gate % retarned to the room 5 in sent after be oy registered wards saying they could not find them; I then went . a deposited to the credit of sa- | out myself; a colored woman tiving told me that perapnnated rs returning to the appananage lauds, | she had just heard the officers rap; boty iY and added to the capital of their retiring pension. Pea. | street and met the watetman, and told him “that there eants into the other rural conditions are not sub. | wasa man killing a woman, and I wanted him to come Jeet to the tax. and arrest him,’ he asked me where I lived; [told him “« LF) office will communicate immediately ’ I was re- with the to alk gy those bad killed ber—that she desire to pase into . Farther, when she lived aboat tea are peasants imto another cond: she asked for a drink, office must y Communicate with the Department hich ¢ not bear (vedomstvo), under which the applicant desires to be | her say who did it; Seiter was a little in ; Cook and Placed, and be assured that there is no opposition on the | Swift were sober. part of that administration. Julia Durand sworn , and testified—tI saw all he top ae %. The Finance Chamber, after having examined the | J bad been down stairs about ten minutes when Seiter ° documents presented to it, register the applicants in the | ed up to the deceased , Kate Beareau; Lo Ape condition they choose, from the Ist January of the follow. | hali together; be talked about 1 ‘told him that be ing Year tnd at the same time erase tbecs from the roll | bad better “take it home to his abe then came t they are leaving. into the parlor; Seiter followed and knocked ber down; 10. So long as the peasant of the Appanages is not con- | attempting to rive, he again knocked her down; I think firmed in the condition he desires entering into, he is | that he knocked her down @ dozen or more times; be obliged to. the taxes and acquit himself of all tas vill kicked her in the breast, side and back, deceased asked dues, and in case of absence from his village, to have the him ta ether slone on or «ing he threw her down upow legal passport wherever he may reside. the sofa and choked her, upon the sofa, and at the corner ——_—_$___ Sean i" es ay A ee ‘The Capture of Fort Duquesne. Cook “Let's take watoh house,”’ at TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ae See AY BK stg ke Prrmancna, Nov. 4.1838. | fm the potas Obok said." "he ‘was' a watchman and would The citizens of Western Pennsylvania are making ar- | master her,” whereupon she seized upon a spittoon and 7 struck at him twice; he dodged the blows, after which he rangements to appropriately celebrate the 25th imst., the in seized and choked her, saying, as he did so: “If centennial anniversary of the capture of Fort Duquesne, or. | ghuce me lll kill you,” calling “hee at the same time very in other words, the overthrow of the French and the os on a then struc bag pe oe pe with tablishment of the Anglo-Saxon dominion in the valley of | the siittoon, breaking it to pieces; Cook wi og the Obie. This event, to us, is of peculiar interest, bat in pobd into MT Somehaeg’ Coa and ra ber oa many respects of the highest importance to the whole | knife into her left side, he en I American people. The grandest project ever matured in | 80d then rushed ont of the house ime the Yard: Seiter the French Cabinet was the line of military fortification®, | jeaving the room. the Bight between Cook and deceased as a basis of colonial settlements, designed to connect | lasted about thirty minutes. Louisiana and Canada, and permanently establish French Rosa MeCline sworn, and saw the dienity scendoncy in the valleys of the Mississippi, Obio and St. | between Seiter, Cook and the deceased; it commenced Lawrence, and consequently to confine the Anglo-Saxon | between Seiter and the deceased; I saw him knock ber dominion to the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountains. | down some twelve of fifteen times: he kicked her each The great Napoleon's dream of Russian and Asiatic con. | time he knocked her down: I saw Cook knock down and quest did wet equal this, The war with the French and ick the deceased three or four times; he also choked de. Indians. to counteract this ambitious design, culminated (so far as we are concerned) in the capture of Fort Du queene, on the 25th of November, 1758, of active field service of these campaigns Col. Washington acquired that confidence in himself, that enlarged military experience, and that recognition of his eminent merits by the then colonies, which led the Continental Congress to vest in him the higher responsibilities of Commander-in- | Seiter bad left previous to Cook's stabbing deceased. Chief of the Revolutionary army. It is therefore emi nently proper that the centennial anniversary should corfinemor ated on the seene of former action. ‘We propose a grand procession of the citizens of Pennsylvania, in which prominence will be given municipal, county, State and national officers who honor the event by their presence, he mili and forces, the civic societies, literary and it ons, the various trades and home and abroad, which may the whole to terminate in the desire to be rg itek— site of the old fort. where In the five years | minutes after she was cut; deceased, after she Of industry at | Cook; they arrested Cook just as he was passing ont af the upon the floor, turned over and said she would kill Cook stood without speaking, looking at deceased, moment or 80, and then left the house; 1 heard Sei to Cook, “Kill her Charley, kill the dn Behe’ x gate; | heard Seiter call deceased harsh names, but [ did (road Du- | not hear him tell Cook to kill her. queane depot, erected om the RRO, aes delivered in the a The jury find that the deceased ora meee iran boon invited to deliver bis ad- | means of a knife in the hands of ( dress on Washington” in the evening. William Seiter was an aceessory to the deed The various committees themselves that nothing | Holcomb, B. Noble, M. A. Packer, G. W. Rocky, A shall be ‘on their to make all their arrange- | Alex. Pondry. ments worth: ‘that memorable occasion. The railroad ARREST OF THE MORDRRER AND Ane PRiEKDe, conypamies W) roads centre here will Issue excursion Shor uy afer the wiurderous b Cove jet tay lows: . 4 company with Swift, who, after Scitor had eocaped, stil ‘We cordially invite to be And participate | lingered about the premisos. They ‘were, however, with us im the of the inst. rostod before they bad gong many paces. Seiter wag