The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1866, Page 5

War Imminent Between Co- lombia and Venezuela. MOSQUERA AT THE BOTTOM OF IT. MORE TROUBLE BREWING IN PERU. Montero Organizing Opposition to President Prado, The Appointment of John R. Tucker, Late of the Confederate Service, as Admiral, the Cause. A Loan of Six Millions Of- fered to Chile. ~~ . § FOR DEFENCE. &o, &e. PREPARATi &e, The Pacific mail steamship New York, Captain W. Wier, left Aspinwall on August 11, and arrived hore yos- terday afternoon, We are under obligations to Purser Gerdes forthe prompt delivery of our files anddespatches, ‘he New York remained eleven days after her time at Aspinwall waiting for the sicamer Golden Age, and left a few hours af\er the arrival of the steamer Northern Light at Aspinwall, The cause of the Golden Age's deter tion was the breaking of her shaft on her way from Francisco, She had to be towed back from Acapulco ‘ofan Francisco, This explains the delay of about a week lu receiving our regular South American news. Tho fo Sheplar & Jnusan & Kerap Welle, Fargo & C Vota! amount Seeeeeee $10,216 0U3 BOGOTA CORRESPOHDENCE. Bocora, July 18, 1866. ‘The Federal Congress, badgered and cajoled by Mos- quer and bis friends into a state of indifference as to the fate of the country, bas finally adjourned, Its dis- solution took place on the 4th of July. Nearly all the pet cchemes of the President hed been disposed of —the majority, of course, in a manner agreeing with the wishes of their wily originator, Among the most important of the measures before Congress, and the one most affecting tho interests of your New York capitalists, was the bill anthorizing ‘TK HYPOTERCATION OF THK PANAMA RATLECAD RESERVES ‘a: security for an English loan of $7,600,000 which Mos: quera contracted previous to his departure from the Court of St. James, By the terms of the contract with the raiivoad company all the property of that corpora- Con reverts to this government in tho year 1875, upon the payment of $5,000,020. The value of the rail- road bas grown to double what projectors aud = duldera anticipated. In the face of a vastly better offer from the present owners, Mosquor morigaged the reserves, m London, at a ruinous rate. Tho approval of Congress was wanting to legalize the Ay pothecation, and that body Onally pas-ed tho bili, with various modifications of the original proposition. One of the material exceptions is that “the mortgage on the ond shall not be foreclosed without the special consent “of the Congress of that day.’ This is a new way of “caisiug the wind,” and the way the matter stands at resent the American talista will be the gainers The transaction, amie teeee months bave rah gf I predict that Mozquera, if he etill continues fn power, will voluntarily offer to surrender the reserves to the present owners upon the payment of a sum of money #uMe:ent to relieve bis more pressing ne easier, Notwithstanding the fact that the Grand General, upon his accession to power, refused to allow this country to Join the alliance against Spain, under plea that the state of her finances wovlt not admit of it, he fs now doing his utmost to drag her into oandary quoetisa. which about an old Qi r among things forgotten. Pendi tations for war have actually decided iu favor of Coloma, efther by peac: tion or by war, it will throw the wealthy State o° Mara~ caibo within the boanderies of ths country. Heretofore ft Las been tactily placed under the rule of Veuszue'a. ‘The most rigid silence is maintained in goverament cir- cles with to the plans of Morquere, andthe Sonate deliberated with closed doors; but the unusual activity of the troops, together with the hints tat have oen thrown out by those who have worm d into the secret, lead me to belfeve that the danger of a war is actnaily iraminont, ‘The bad policy of Mosquera Is being strongly combatet by the opposition party. An anonymous writer of th's city, popularly supposed to by nove other thaa ex- President Murillo, in a pamphlet printed for gratuitons cirealation, 2ays:—'Uniled as we are to the Venezuelan lation by ties of blood, by tradition, by the same terests, and by remembrances of olden times and glory ‘won together, we cannot look with indifference apon the attitude of the President in this international question, ‘Jald before Congress, and considered by them in secret sessions, exclu even their mivister (Venezucian), with whom all dif jes, of whatever kind, should have ween arranced.’” Paxama, August 11, 1866, + The South Pacific steamer Limena, Captain Uloowfeld, ‘arrived at Usls port on the 29th of July. | The steamer Pern, Captain Hail, also from the Sonth, arrived on the 8d iast. Cam indebted to the pursers for the usual favors. ‘Yhe appointment of John R. Tucker as Admiral in commaud of the Peravian wavy scoms to have wounded the feclings of the native officers, They have protosted strongly against it and, no doubi, should Predo insist upon Tucker assuming the command of the fleet, thoy will back up their protest by the most decisive action. Montora, who was nominally in command before, leads tho digaliveted party, and throatens to ivaugurate a de- ‘termine! warfare against Prado unless the demands of himself and companions are complied with, Being in possession of the strongest ships in the service, he un ‘doutedly Las the inside track of lie government, and ae he Is well known to be a man evor ready to sacrifice the Interests of his country for his personal aggrandivement, it is foared that he will exocute bis threat, Tt was by this man’s aid that Prado was enabled to overthrow P It is no wonder that bis bold, unserapatoas epir’ under the restraints imposed by his compadre. howevor, bas not agrowl to the demants of Wokterd. A corespondent writing to the Caroni-l-, of tha clty, eayar— This Monier, trae to bie antecedents, cannot live witht exciting ‘and conseqiently he gonsptred inst the authority ‘that sent him, inatend of obeying * an " “ seiete, It ls even reported thas he insnde raisin m a councl aves the officers who bela Ly atened the Dane od panne ricken (om ¢! oo iiedt Cue Vi As wre are A Pardo 4 thea to mma the fori follow in will a pF {f wo except thove naval ee iy oot . ae yw eee ie who detent te see & foreign officer in tb: or olry. Perhaps they foresee that ~ sorte terror eee mest ise co eurrender the veasels, they ee nnd (he aeatstance of the foreign i" Mio minister ta enrrying cut his plan for placing the squad ron wider the command of so able an oflicer as Ad Tueker. indirect ie od or a Shae ‘WAR AGATHRP e although it had mot re compl cations Were d i tn siz 5 ave ‘attempted her», and are just now very dull, which were heard throughout the republic previous to a few discont These subject of considerable correspon NEW. YORK HERALD, - be —_— eraments thr, soaid have to be settled by force ; tended to be ay near the bat so sno former conntry has placed herself in direct | 1st of po ‘though tt eisai as ineros a ee ee America in | able that the affair may be postponed till the Dies y Oho weed woe Sesokh vane is alt er probable thas | of September (the Fourth of July of Chile), Bi pte Ppa td rar Mae Deda ane aren Matar af War bas ‘& decree establishing sulabeorbing wing names Great activity was observed in the Military Bureau at po rr OF VALPARAISO. dns, ua "bn Seca “oi Rowers | nlane fant Bes, Yea pa at command of General coals, | Another detachment waa | Andes, ‘divin Pagudo, and Callao, | Thosa Mogdalens, another, under com- | works are possible, mand of General Llanos, to Panama. i no guns mare Man mansied say an next Lotter I 4 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BCUADOR. will give a description and chart of tho new defouces. The town of Monte Crist!, capital of the province of | David Clark has been appointed consular agent of the Manati, in Ecuador, and which had between 2,800 and | United ‘States at Conatitucion, in this republic. Seo inbaniinas, was tho scene of a dreadful conflagra- ion on the afternoon of the 11th ultimo, that reduced nearly the whole of it to aahes ‘Three hours were en®i- OUR LIMA CORRESPONDENCE, destroy over seventy- houses, ouly capi- — tal of au many famtlen, which are at present reduced to Lima, 28, 1806. mentees, i@ total logs is appraised at half 4 million The Peru vian Fourth of July began on ua@ morning of sroyed, 1s boing the bert part of ie, having been de- | yesterday, and will continue for some four or five day Tho steamer sane sae = ahh to come; for the 2d of May is now enrolled among the 10 8 er Salvador, Captain arrived at | great days of Poru and the enthusiastic populace can- this port on tho 30th of July. ‘Tho political intelligence is without Interest hr a oy a: of | 20t wait for the annual anniversary, Its effect is plainly The Costa | visible, although this is nominally the celebration of the civil war in Guatemala make up the budget. government has contenoiee for A CHAIN OF TELEGRAPHA, sxlgnding. from Punta Arenas, on the Pacific, ya Caribbean Sea, 28th of July. As I write, the usual quiet of to San | the city is disturbed by tho roll of artillery from thence to @ convenient place on the | 89d the clang of martial music, Flags are waving, soldiers are marching, people are thronging the streets THE iwTHMUS. Matters on the Isthmus still maintain thelr unwonted | “24 balconies; everything is given up in order to par- pieepeye politically and otherwise. It is said, however, Mosquera, with his usual irrepressibility, has already engaved to kick the present government of ‘this State out of oflice, There must be a fair degree of truth in the re- posh as four hundred goldiers—a legion to these peoplo— ave been ordered to Panaina. We, the poople, native and foreign, of this (od for- saken country, have heretofore blessed the name of the Boston Ice Company as an justitution mainly contribat- ing to make life on the Isthmus bearable, Judge, the: of the universal horror aud dismay when the agent of the Ice Company suddenly announced that, owing to the “protracted voyage of the last ship, the supply of ice | reached us that had become nearly exiansted,” and consequently the sale of it would be suspended until after the arr} tho noxt yessel, Talking of a : ACH AND ICE COMPANIRS ON THR ISTINNT! naturally suggests the observation that thore is a splen- did opening for competition in this particular branch of | enco of General Prado. trade on the Pacific coast. Tho Boston company have always enjoyed the monopoly Lere, and the dealer clears 200 per cent on every shipment. Why, then, is there Not some competition it a field so comparatively clear ® General Fitz Henry Warren, who recently entered upon the a ities of Minister to Guatemala, haa returned to Panaunteg® row for Washington, What's Iu the wind ? NCO COIRESPONDCNCE. Santiace, Chile, Fuly 16, 1866. Nothing of isuportance relating to the Spaniah-Aimeri- can war hus transpired ance my last letter, The govern- ment of Chilo expects a renewal! of hoatilities In a few montis, bat is in possession of no information whatever on the aubject. Nothing las been done toward nego- tiating for pece between Chile and Spain, nor is there any prospect of its being attempted very soon, Public eutiment here ix advorso to peace with Spain, and the wish Is geaerally exprosaed that the republics of South America may nover renow friendly ‘relations with that Power. How long this enmity way continue remains to be seen; but there is mo doubt that many months will clapse before any adjustment of the present difficulties is over undortak OUT SAH TIE ALLIND SQUADRON of Chile aud Poru is atill in the}oay of Valparaiso, uuder- guing repairs and fitting out for any emergency that may arise, The Chilean gnnboat Esmeralda is ‘in the dry dock, and is to receive new boilers. The governméat proposes to construct the boilers in Valparaiso; but the prose and many of the government officials are of the opinion that they can be procured from the United ‘States in les time and at leas expense than will be re- quired to build them here. The Esmeralda needs a great deal of ropair, and is at prosent unfit for active service, The Peruvian frigate Apurimac and the trans- port Chalnco have gone to Callao, also for repairs, and will probably enter the now dry dock there. ‘The iron-Clads Huascar and Tudependene’a are still an object val of | ticipate in the national rejoicing, Could one only think of the present the scene would be pleasant enough; but unfortunately there jaa troublesome future to be pro- vided for. That prospect is in painful contrast with the one immediately around us. So far as the future is con- cerned everything is unsettled. In one of my former leiters 1 advised you of ‘THE APPOINTMENT OF JOHN R. TUCKER, of the late Confederate navy, as admiral in the Peruvian sorvice, and of bis departure from Callao to assume com- mand of the squadron at Valparaiso, The news has just Captain Montero has himself assumed it the bag and refuses to recognize a er. lontero wi be tho late revolution agains’ Peret! and. doubts It was on thal account that he was taken Into the confid- It it bo true that be has turned against tho government in the manner reported he tichly deverves to moet a traitor's fate, ~ It is the gen- erel expectation and hope that the Dictator will take Prompt measures to crush cut this latest attempt at dis- obedience, Should ho fail in this his days are num- . h the fron-clads and the corvettes America aud Cnion Montero could ravage he coast and give as- sistance to any party which might riso in his favor on lard ‘The next steamer will bring more definite mfor- metion, Thon there is the old qnestion of a Presidential elec- tion. Will Prado convoke Congreas and present bimeeli for the suflrages of the people, or will he proclaim bim- sodf Dictator for ten yearst AsT said before (he future is attogether unsettled. THE SPANTA YECRT. By arecent arrival at Callao we learn that the ma- Jority of the Spanivh fleet had reached Tabiti, the Bere guela under stem, on the 9th of. June, and ‘the Veace- dora and Marques de ja Victoria on the 13th. The latter had one hundred men on board it! with scurvy. The Numancia was momentarily expected, as also the Blanca, ‘The five vessels named were atl to sail to Manilla, The rest of the tleet had gone to Montevideo or Rio Janeiro. ‘The vessels which reached Tuliti were all out of coal, and would be obliged to leave there under sail. The Bereny was inaking a great deal of water, and ras i od undor repairs immediatey ou her arrival at ‘tanith, WOONDS OF ADMIRAT. NUH, The wounds of Admiral Nunez are said to be Ko bad that little hope was entertained of his recovery. LITERARY NOTICES. History or cur Arnantie Tetroraru. By Henry M. Field, D. D. Charles Scribner & Co., New York. Fact is stranger than fiction, and this plain, unvar- ished tale of struggle and victory—a bravo struggle for twelve long years, a vielory won by the uulon of selence and skit with indomitable perseverance—is infinitely more fascinating thau any novel. A single chapter, the Fourteenth, in which the intrepid Canning * for the lost cable, outweighs ihe whole of Vic- of great curlce'ty, and are da'ty visited by numbers of | #*avples for none people. ‘Their completion, which was prevented in Ka- | '* Hugo's “Poilers of the Sea,” with its pedantry and by their sudden departure*for the Pacific, is being ag it consists principally of erna- mental work, they cuoald sova be placed in perfect trim. Chau.es are also being mado in their crews, many“of the men who cawe out in the fron-clads having Lad no expe- rience at sa, and having found themsolves eniisted in the capacity of omlinary seamen, whereas they ex- pected to be emplozed ns mechanics, ke. In addition to Ubls, a large proportion of the crews are red of such characters as could be hastily gathered about the wharves within the few hours intervenin; tween the order for the sudden departure the iron-clads and their exit trom port, and includes mon of nearly overy national ty. These evils are being rem he- | are incalculable, stretching far away into the dim, affectations, its impossible situations, its monsters of bis own creation, {ts abrupt transitions from the sublime to the ridiculous, aud all the pomp and fury of bis swollen phrases. Field and bia outerprising associates are the true Toilers of the Sea, and this Great Eastorn and this Ationtic Tolograph cable may well be called 2 marvellous vomance of 3.\ tization. The possible conseqneuces of this successfal enterprise known future, ‘‘along the !ine of timitiess devires.’’ But itis a rpliet to be informed ‘hat the cable teelf, untwisted died as speedily as possible, and the two iron-clads are | and at full length, would ouly reach to the moon! ‘Mere expected to be placed on a competent war footing Ina short time, Considerable enthnsiasin was maniiested by the Chilenos in Valparairo, when the irou-clads frat arrived, in favor of a grand entertaininent to the Pera- vian officers; but this soon died ont and the attempt to raice funds for the affsir proved a faiiure. The Peruvian officers have now taken the matter in hi pore to give an immense ball to the naval officers aud citizens in Valparaiso, A meazuificent walk-a-round is anticipated, " APrAIRG (% CHR The threats of revolution the late Presidential election have almost entirely figures give but a vague impression of vast spaces. Bat it is a curious fact, ascertained by an exact computation, that if all the wires of copper and of iron, with the layers that made up the core and the outer covering, and and, and pro- | the siramds of yarm that were twisted into this one knotted sen cable, were placed end to end,Ahe whole Jength would reach from the earth to the ) wage Dr, Field. A salient feature of Dr. Ficld’s volume is its consclen- tous distribution of praise among all directly or indi- ceased, and the subject is seldom mentioned, except by | rectly concerned in the great enterprise of which it is a Jed spirits, whose in distant provinces, aud who li from the officiata at Santiago, Some, however, aro mon of wealth and considerable influence in thetr respective disircts, aad those predict a revolution in six moutha. very little apprehension of euch a catastrophe, ud the country seems to have before ita fu. however, record a! once minute and full. His object, he declares, is not to exalt an individual, but to give a faitbfal re cord, that ia every line the stamp of truth; and to do jnatice to all, on both sides of the Atlantic, who have borne a part in a work which wil! do #0 mach ture of uninterrupted peace aud prosperity, except what | to link together two great nations, acd to promote the nay come from abroad. The act authorizing the government to accept the 1X MITLION LOAN offerod by the National Bank of Chile, has passed both lous s of Congress; bat a few ameudments added by the Senate renders it neceseary for the bill to return to the House for th concurrence of that body. The loan ig at eighty-five, and bears interest at eight per cent. This will relieve Chile from the cwbarrarsments which she hag Inbored under during the war aud cnable her to per- fect her seacoast defences, With the four veasela en rout: to Valparaiso from New York, and the large number of heavy gans recently pureliaced abroad for the new menof-war to be fittd out her, Chile will peaceful intercourse of mankind, The record is com- plete, from the early speculations of scieatif: minda to the phavt realization of the idea of telegraplic communication between the Old World and the New. Tn 1843 Professor Morse, in a letter to the secretary of the ted “tates Treasury, bad detailed the results of certain experiments im the harbor of New York, to show the power of electricity to communicate at great dix tances, concluding with these prophetic words —‘' The practical inference from this law ir, that a telegraphic have & nary by po means insigaificent, Hor fortifica | communication on the electro-magnetic plan may with tions are also easing at Valparaieo, aud that port promises soon to come *trong enough to repel any teet that ix likely to be brought against ut. Neyotiations are stilt pendina for pt TAR (PON CLAD PUNDRRRERE, bat it is not very probuble tisat cle will be purebased, Our government, aud ay the le of New York, Would «caresly permit so formidable a means of defense to pass from their hands, and evcn it parmission could We obtained to take the won clad ent of our waters it is donbd'fal whether Chile cold raise the money for #0 large an outisy in one single javestment, ‘ork on INTERNAL IMPAOTEMENTS has been resamed and new railvonds are being pushed to completion, Tue Southern road from Santiago has heen extemted from San Yervaudo, thirty miles onthe | Mr. Cyrus W. proposed rovte to the agricultural region and parts of Southern Chile, and the exteusion of the Tongoy road the new coppar mines, is to be commenced om the Let of Angst, The telegraph is alo going up between Coquimbo and Caltera, and in the South, conuecting the several ports. A telegraph from ranaue to Santiago, and theuce over the Cordiilerns to Buenos Ayres, isa Peravian government and capitalists here and abroad. Peru is aptious commence the work at once, Duliding the Line throagh her own territory from | ginal with Mr. Field, north to south, bat lacks the cash. It i« posed that the wilt rum along the const Panama to Coquimbo, and theace to Seating, chil will oom have a telerraph to Caldera, and from that point to the northern limits of the repabic compara. Uvely little work would be necessary to build the Bolivia Las bat « narrow strip of territory to be crowed, and next comes Pern, ador anxious for the eatabliohment of the line, and will ren- dor all the aid io thetr power. he railroad: king of South America, Lae received a number of letters from General Prado un th subject, urging Lim to Peru, with the view of taking bolt of the and also to consider proporeit for constructing the GRRAT RALLEOS) OF FR THE CORML FR connect ‘auenoe 206 the exhanstless riches of eastern Peru, General Prado would commence these works to-mor row, did the finances of Meru admit of it, So long as er treasury remaime in ut embarraged Con- dition, there does not seem wach we im b me | the subject of these great enterprises; bat cor. respondence thar far has shown that the Peruvian gov ro- ernment is in earnest, and, with aee\stanee, would accompileh the wndertaki Fre advantages of such ituprovements would be i table Tr TRLEORAPE from Buenos Ayres to Panama would soon be met the extension of the lines of the United States, with the Russian telegraph, would unite New York with ail the commcreial centres of the world. Intelligence from Lima intimates that a about fo be built between that city and Callao, Sneha roed is needed very moch, and would seom pey for it welt, h a proper *y stem of totte, patie CT okt . anal oft ‘Yulnarasa’a grad analversary tal end final pe the city checked ently seapveced, Oe, sraemmente Santiago General Kilpatrick merobers of the aiplomacie corps and other gosets at, his residence “wn o'clock V, M., and at Eee Slee to ovicesoeste tbe Gay. ieey meant were Sevan tas etaen ee paw gs a | rae and by Lieatenant Campbell, of the United States searora, in behalf of the navy. In the General received a number of friends nd the fqgtivities of the day wore pro- Sess wars om | attracted hia attention; but he and New Granada ave | once to come | terpriae deserves to be told, certainty be ostablished acrow the Atlantic ocean! Starting as (his may gow seem, T am confident the time will come when thie project will be realized.” Daring the winter of 1849 50, Mr. FN. Gisborne conceived the project of a telegraph to connect st. John’s, the most easterly port of America, with the main continent; and about tho same time the Right Kev. Dr. Mutlock, the Cathole Bishop of Newfoundland, promatgated in a st. Jobn's newspaper the importance of the geographical position of that island in the event of a telograph ever being carried actom the Atlantic, In January, 1854, Field reeetved =a call from Mr. Gisborne, who deecnibed the route of his proposed New. foundiand telegraph. After Mr. Gisborne left the hyuse “ Mr, Field took the globe which was standing In the lib. rary and began to turn it over. It was while thus stndy- ing tho globe that the idea first occurred to him that the ndence between the | telegraph might be carried further stilt and be mado to span the Atlantic Ooea This idea, although not ori- new to him, the previou speculations of erientiic minds ow the subject not having “was to be the instru- ment in the hands of Providenes to carry it owt.’ The encouraging replies of the savant Maury, and of Profeaor Morse, to inqiririesgaddremed to them by Mr, Field, at Arcided him upon the course Which he has followed through gloom and sunshine to the hour of triumph. His brother t# right in saying “the atory of such an en end familiar as contermpo raneous accounts have made || to the pablic mind, this volume will be welcomed a+ telling for the frst time the an, Lima and Callen with the head waters of the | whole story, bringing many new facts to light, and illu. minating old oves with livelier interest, According to the author's promise it renders jastice to all concoraed — the projector, the Inventors of such indispensable instruments aa Brooke's deep-sea sounding apparatus, the paying-out machinery of Everett & Appold, the galvanometer of Thomeon, snd Willoughby Smith’s new and ingenious process for testing the cable every instant, manufaeturere of deep sea cables, the engineers, elec- tricione, capltalivta, naval officers, seamen and cabin boys, workmen, “ their wives and babies; distinguished visitors, the Prince of Wales, the road i# | Lord Lieutenant, Lady Franklin, end the Knight of Kerry; myriads of rejoicing sympathizers in 1858 0n both sides of the Atlantic; the friends constant throughout the ancertatnties and disappointments of twelve years, until success crowned the work in 1866—all are gratefully remembered in these pages, and nots few reashoess ts tn by name, The mysterious name of De Santy, for in- stance, stands out conspicnously. De Sauty is no longer a myth, but © electrician, duly certified as in charge Of the electrical department” Guring the expedition of 1865. Finelly, the journalists who have chronicled the vary. fortunes of the enterprise are not forgotten by the author, who duly affixes Li. D. tothe name of W. HL Russell, “the well known correspondemt of he London Time,” compares “one of the Owert deseriptions of « storm at sea” in s letter by Mr, Wooda, another cor. & Connection with the expedition of 1865, Bayard Tayior, — “(he wollen vn travetion ' and Pita James 0 frien, 9 ‘upos for the | very brilliant writer, who afterward fell in our civil war, . portion, bas just been printed. SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, . 1866, fighting bravely for bie adopted country,” adds:—“But Mr. Mullaly, who appeared for the Hunan, was the Most persevering attendant on the telegraph, and the most indefatigable correspondent, He accompa nied not only this expedition, but several others, He was on Yoard the Niagara in 1857, and again on both the oxpe- digions in 1858; and on the final success of the cable pre- pared a volume, which was published by the Appletons, Giving the history of the outerprise, This contains the fullest apcount of all those expeditions which has been given to Mao public, I have had frequent occasion to ro- fer to bis book, and can bear witness to the interest of the narrative.’ Thus handsomely are acknowledged the | Contributions of the Henacp to the history of the Atlantic tolegraph, a history which its spocial telegrams from Europe daily continue and tilustrate, Feutx Hour, rue Rapicat, A Novel. By George Eliot, author of “Adam Bede,” “The Mill on the Floss,” etc. Harper & Brothers, New York, Notwithstanding all her advantages of experience and culture, and her great and undeniable gifts as a delinea- tor of character aud of rural scenory and life in England —aualities which have placed her at the head of the feminine writers of the day, particularly in the class of modern novels of purpose—the author of Felix Holt has again adduced a proof of the presumption (presumption, indeed! our lady friends will exclaim) that it t# @ very dificult, not to say impossible, task for a woman to equal the foremost among the first class novelists of the mas- culine gonder, Sir Walter Scott has no successor, and Baron Lytton, of Knebworth, no rival in the thronging multitude of lady-novelists. The same inartistic com- position, shadowy figures, artificial and clumay plot, and the same sudden and unsatisfactory dénouemeni, which disappoint the reader in other works of Miss Evans, dis- Appoint him in Felix Holt. The hero himeclf, with all his sriktns ¢ lites, |@ yotn type of any class of men actually living in Bpgland. He bas simply been evolved from the depths of the author's mental conselocaness, like the camel of the Gerthan natiyalist. Ho Js the croa~ ture of her own brain, like the pious and impoesible Unele Tom of Mrs, Beecher Stowe. Equally finpossible and unreal appears the heroine, Esther Lyon, Although her characier, as well as that of her supposed father, the dissenting minister, and that of Transowe, the liberal, who divides with Felix Holt, the radeal, both her interest and our own, aro more distinetly outlined; yet all these tgures, together with the enperflaons one of Mrs, Transome, are defect- ive in the filling in, in modelling and color, have Precious little flesh and blood about them~in a word, lack vitality. Lik other works of Mise Fvans, it abounds in clover but somewhat diffuse writhay, and ts enlivened by pretty bits of description; but, like then also, it fs not a masterpicee, Denis Dosyr. A Novel. By Annie Thomas, an- thor of “On Guard” and “Theo, Leigh.” Har- per & Brothers. Miss Thomas belongs to the same school of writers of novels of purpose aa hor exemplar, Miss vane. shows less discretion and, perhaps, occasionally iore vigor in her photographic reproductions of the new va. Hotlos of English life, engendered by advanced ideas, “20 called,” such as tho soctaliet, the young chari'st orator, the broad church parson, the philosophical skep- tic, the disciple of Compte, or of Spencer, or of St Colenso and Kenan, The works of the latter, by-the by, belong, by some characteristics, to a species of aonti- imental, religious novel, In this book, an “iron gray, clover, cool bishop,’ a Hercules (“but nearly sixty, and though kin‘, get cautions’) for an Omphale, im the person of a Mrs, Donne, who i¢ also wert ou ‘a younger, stronger Hercules,’ in the person of the Bishop's chaplain, “the rising light, the pet of the press, the man on whoin the fetters of the church would be powerless ore long,” aud a Miss Conway, a governes, who has b-en transformed into Lady Aliondale, are, with my Lord Allondale and Captain Denis Donne, conspicu- ous figares in a cunningly ized up set of peopic A Live's Lessons. By Mrs. Gore. Tur Dean's Daconrex, or Tae Daya Wer Live Ix. By Mrs. Gore, F, A. Brady: New York. Neither of these works seem to differ much from the innumerable other novels by the same author. The same old changes are rung on the same old belle. Tax Onrnane anno Canes Wrest By Mre. liphant. ‘I’. R. Peterson & Bros., Piiladelphia. A novel. By Mrs Oliphant. w York. KK. Ne Mrs. Oliphant must be added to the long catalogue of lady novelists who, like single-apeech Hami'‘on, ex- haust themeelver in the production of one remarkable work—(Mra. Oliphant’s was “Zaider,”’ if we recollect aright)—but, unlike him, don’t know enough to end with that. They fatigue themvelves and their readers with countess impressions of their unique original—each muc consive impression fainter than the last, “Mien Mar- Joribanks,'’ however, has excited rome interest among novel readers, who are dying to know how her name should be pronounced. It should be pronounced, aver some, as if spolt, “Merchbanks,” as Cholmondely is pronounced “Chumly,’ in England, and Tagtiaferro, “Toliver, and miraleie dicta! Earoughty, \ Darby,’ in Virginia Misoz.tanca: comprising Reviews, Lectares anil Easays on Historical, Theological and Miscell. neous subjects. By M. J. Spalding, I). D., Are bishop of Baltimore. Messrs. Join Murphy & Co.: Baltimore. ‘The fourth edition of this work, from the pen of Arch bishop Spalding, bas been iseued by the publiebers in two volumes, of which the first, embracing the bistor\ al During twenty years the most reverend author has ably and zealously defended the cause of the Catholic Charch on American soil; end the foriy-seven papers, now revised by himself, which make up the volume Lefure us, have, no dou, each compliched good service for that institution at the part cular period when it was called forth by the circum ners, and the tone of fecling and conduct of ii» aulag onista. The splendid porition which Catbolieity at present enjoys in the United Statee, towering above the parrow minded prejudices of « past age, end faliy protected by the constitution, renders the work, as the author iatend+ it should be, purely historical, It contains, however matter for serious reflection, and is worthy of perineal by all classes of our countrymen ss setting forth intelli. gently and without reserve the sources from which ite foria of worehip and faith of the Catholics were assailed down to the period of the Know Nothing movement, in the epring and summer of 1866, as well as the argurnent= by which both were so forcibly, aud as we see effectually, defended. The public evidently regard the publication as the book enjoys already a rapid vale. By John Brown, M.D. Second Series, Ticknor & Fields: Boston. This “author's edition” of the Second Seriee of “Spare Hours’ has been nicely printed at the University press in Cambridge, The frontispiece is a portrait of the author, and the Initial paper, “Jolin Leech,” is appro- pristely iMustrated. This paper and the papers entitied “Thackeray's Death’ and ‘Thackeray's Literay Ca. reer, are among the most interesting in the volume, Of course, the anthor of “Rab and His Friends!’ wrote “More of our Dogs’ and the ' Vee for a Dog Home,’ Bat he adds a very readable paper, “ Miblioman's,” from the “exquisite pen’! of his ‘comsin and friend, Jobn Taylor Brown,” probably because he chore to add it And we can think of no other reason for his dedicating the book “To the Memory of Abraham Lincolm,”’ onlews another may have been suggested, secording to the Inw of accidental association, by the name of Joba Brown, Rovat Trernes. Henry Ward Beecher, author of “Life Thoughts,” ee aod Ears,” &e, Ticknor & Fields: Boston. In a prefatory note to this volume the author gives Mr. Fielda two littic items of bibliographical interest. He explains how he found at London “a book by myself, of which I bad never beard, sod heard ones, through « friend, of a New York publisher who was preparing to tasue ae 8 reprint of an Eogieh work what wae really ap Englich reprint of Mr Beecher s Views aa@ Raper ‘encon in Religion,” under a new tile The fret book was made up of extracts Whien rome one had taken from his sermons published every week end framed into book entiied “Royal Trothe | Sit editeus of this work bad been publisbed abroad in 1902, and Wr I W. B. knows pot bow many ince, “The book,” he adda, ‘Ma therefore mine and not mine. I furnished the ton tents, but neliher selected them nor gave them « name’ However, he decided to edit them, ae they “had beew ‘useful abroad and may do good at howe, im part, because the selections are short and can be read in moments when « book demanding hours would be rejected Serinis. ‘The Catholic World for Raptember (No 14 vol TI) tras been invoed. It contains some very able original articles, while ite transtations from foreign Catholic works bare been mate with mech care aod are, evident ly, rendered with talent and acuracy. A pew story on titled The Godfrey Familiy, or Questions of the Day is announced to be commenced Ip the Ortoler a imber ‘The thirty fourth ewmber (vol TL) of the Mt Abbe Darras’ “History of the Catholic Cherch.” with intro. duction and votes by the Archbishop of Baltimore, is Jost Crow the prow of the publisher in New York, . 5 TARY. Clastanalt eatontey there were sixty-four deatha, and day of taeting aud er has been appoiuted. In st Joule there wore thirt;-flve deaths for Lhe twonty four hours ending at noon today, sad durivg (he same time ~~ | iB Chicago tem cases and four deaths. CHO: A IN NEW Yorx. | oral Logan t# seriously if to-day with an aggree vated diarrhama and crampa; but bopes are entertamed (int he will speodily recover, % AN INCREASE OF CASES REPORTED. Progress of the Epidemic in Brooklyn. ae. The Cholera in Lo New Ontmans, August 18, 1966 Twoaty-six deaths from cholera for tue twenty. our + hours ending at six o'clock this morning aro reported, Accounts from the upper and lower parishes spent the a (home cholora as fataily provalent auoug the (reedinen localities, BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE. Mesinicest Donarions,—The wit of the late Peter Rice, merchant, was admitied to probate by the Surre- gate of Brooklyn, last week, Among the bequests named were the following —To the itoman Catholie Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn, $2,000, two th Cathelic Orphan Asylum ‘of i Gasooe yao Protestant Episcopal Asylum of } York, 2,000; te the House of the Good herd, in Now York, #2,000, rire New York Magdalen Society of Now York, ‘Tamves ow roe Rawrace.— Karly on last Friday morning the office atiached to the marble yard of John Shuster, No, 18% Court street, wes entered by burglars. After f ced operatons ow tho money vale by boring a bo the lock, an ing the cavity with powder, This thoy explod the rate reainted their attempts, aud thoy left the prom eon as they came, $4,000 Lad been placed in the eale during the day, but Lad been subsequently removed ty the bookkeeper, Hiceway Ronneny.—Yosterday morntug, sbout hale Past ono o'clock, Mr. B. J. Bropby, residing at 412 Untow street, while returning to bis home, was met on tho eor- nrof Court and Union streets by a gang of rowdies, » down and robbed bim of bis de. ke. The builetin of the Hoalth Board yesterday reported 4n incroase in the number of new casos of cholera. This port must be received with caution; for one or two of the names, “Sarah Bolan,’ for instance, have already been givon to the public, If, however, the cholera was even increasing, tho reason for it doing so fg plain. The Tecent disagreeable, sloppy weather having beon followed by an unusually cold “spell,” the sudden change could not fail to operate unfavorably upon those who had pre viously exhibited cholorale symptoms or around whom the local incentives to cholera were abundant. MANY CASMH REPORTED NOT CHOLERA A recent circumstance which transpired has proven what the Herarp hus often said, Many of the caves re- ported as cholera were nothing of the kind, nor did they ip any respect bear a resemblance to tho genuine disease, ‘The case in point was that of a woman residing in one of the obscure portions of the town, who f excesses had become physieally weakened to sink beweath an attack of acute diarrhwa m1 0 | the | had neither cramp nor collapso, bat died me atanning s Meal CRO SERUOR fe a 0 taining @ sana . Me. from debility, caused, oy _kother bs nat ed, by | war not orto injered, The rogues escaped. the diarrbom, “A ptivate praciitiouor asserios thai the | How ne Fiasken rae Oro Womax.evimmy Owews, @ caso was nok cholera, but a sanilary inspector declared | ye that disease, und ihe woman was reported ay ig died of cholera, when, tn reality, she had pot ‘Tue name and residence of the woman are unknowa. RKMOVING PATIENTS TO MOSPY ALA There has been a groat want of prudence exhibited on the part of somebody in the removal of cholera pationts frou their residences to (ho, hospitals. Whon | the premises are ina filthy Cond tion instant remove! te | man of Hiberuinu prociivition, was arrested early yoster- | day morning by an oMcer of the Forty-ffth prectaet, While walking along Bighth street, B. D., droased in Co male attire, ‘The ofllcor when ho tint saw the prisoner thought it was rather an up orfermale peram On @ closer #eruth er felt bound to ¢ " ma coarse volce and 1 discloned correct; but when thoy are cleaily and well ventilated mi Mara son tavkie ub tor inven Ba it \s almost criminal to disturb the patient, On several | f forenoon the prisatfer was iaken before Juaies occasions the proprictore and residents of houves have ¥, when In mitigation of hix conduct he enid he got protestod oainst persone sick with cholera boing ould won ‘dry’! ie the night before, and the fo remain in their nidet, although assured that tue diss | iw iin wouk hid bis clothes, and he therofors, to cus Was not contagious. Notwithstanding the bratality | f . : ; ink the old lady, donnod of the reqaost, and the ered by the attend. | ors iiruk’ when the off tng phy sieian, the unto’ nts were Te : : : tice divcharged tho prisonor with a reprimand ALONTOAN Exers, — Alderman Thomas Ennis of the Pitue ward, who was seriously injured by belng ‘pushed from the curb stone in Hudson , near Naseau sirect, by otter niow, of the Forty-fourth precimet, and sus tained what was conslteved a fracture of the sontl, wttit deathe were hastened, whon th 4 if lot undisturbed. ‘Dr. Dalton, who has done everything in hiv power to ald the sick, shonid issue an order directing the sapiiary inspectors to absolutely refase to remove a person sick with cholera anleds the condition of the premises diauaud auch re moval, so the and by bein might bay ROWETINES REQUIRED, remains in an uncovaclous and eritient conde Some time ago it was proposed by Mr. Setnitztoor- | tion, Hie sent! was not fractured, but the braw ganize a corps of nurses to attond cholera patients ained a severe shock, The officer at their own recidences, but no measures wer) taken on the proposition. Will Mr. Schultz fnslet upon some- | duty in tying to disperse crowd of rowdios who Wore ting of the kind being done, wnd tous save many liv disturbing the poace and endangering the safety. of which will be lost if the rerova: to hospitals from some | jiod Le officer at Orat urted the effect of morat Lines a distance of three miles » coulmued in | hud not the dewired result, wheu ke TARY We MoRT. erman Eons was mere bystander, but ha in New York for the wae tin the crowd he mot with the yesterday B si no whe as lay eveuin Lieb te ty now suffering, Was not, howe supposed that the mortality would ye excoed that of the previons week, while it was likely to At nine ' opiock the allay cecurred was in the dveharge of tee ” The report of de unfortubate ac Menaxeuont Cone on Dnownrne be somewhat lors, yesterday morning, two Little boyy, Robert Miller, aged OFPICIAL. 186 OF © ue thirteen yeary, rewiding at Nu, 226 Peart street, and Ba Tho following is the lat of eho ier cases as reported in steuial sled aicmennl. ved iu, 428 Vent the bulletin of the Health ourd for tho twenty-four | Ward Cauley, syed nine yoars, reaiting et Ne, Me Voagt hours ending at two P.M, yoxterday ee. Tha toya were avin. tee Sarah olan, 459 West Tweuty stxib street, dew, setting out of is depth, Miller wees Margaret Doley, Third avenue, near LOSth etree Haun Melville, J79 West Forty sixth street, dead Mary Cabiil, 37 Haxter street, dead. Sows Cahill, 87 Baxter sirect dead, orm Petrie, Sixty -cighth sirect aud Eighth avenue, b were drov ned Peat —A child nemed Reawe 0 corner of Migtt- street and Fourth avenue, while playing wit watches yesterday, set ire to hey clothes and wae Darued to death. MOVEMENTS OF ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. Pwsuecren, August 18, 1808. Alexander TH Stephens teft for Milledgeville thie worniag. It was impossible for him to remain ia the elty any longer, owing Lo Important bosinens enyage- His physical health han prevented him from he intended, but it i» possible Northern cives Roaxen 10 Homes, three years olf, residtog a Cow pad, Cecolia Skinner, (colored), No. 4 Thompson street Nail McAliiser, 627 Woat Twenty sixth street Char Copning, ats Tenth street. Patrick Keenan, 608 East Thirteenth #troat, Catharine Baker, 126th street and Kioomingdale road Jobo Marley, 126th strest and Kleventh avenue, Mary Morley, 126th street and Eleventh aveuue, dend A man, 231 Katt Thireents #treet Feaward G, Benson war taken frum Seventh precinet wtation Louse fll with cholera, and died five minutos after reaching the hospital yesierday morn ug. Charlotte Glow, Sixty seventh street ead Ninth avenue, CRMTINICATIR OF WRATH ‘The following list of cortificates of death were inaned from the office of the etree during the twenty-four hours ending at two P. yeuerday Maria Muller, 274 West Fortieth sicoet. died Augnat 17. Mary Marley, Kieventh avenue aud 12bth street, died An y Charles McCunn, 361 Madison street, died Angust 17 yi Murphy, Battery Barracks Hospital, died Au- ust 17. : Jacob Patri, Sixty-eighth sireet, neer bighth avenue, died August 17. BATTERY PARRACKS HOWITAL The following report of tue above mained cholera bor 7 M cout lie bi ‘ nc noe where Ith 1NG6._Dupiex Kiliptic.- Pall Bachtone. pital was made yesterday -— Seldted ice 5; vomaouie to a 4. 7. BRADLEY" ‘ED MOUHE HOHTTT AI. ceLunnat The following was the report :—Kemaining last re — port, 9; discharged, 1; admitted since, 2; reiuaiuing, 10 DUrLE® Rit WARD) ter aNd. ned The following 4 made yeoterday showed thet O8 DOUBLE SPRING the disease was abating on the {eland.—Died, 2. There sikrire. were no admissions, The names of the dead wer Wilbeim Sohtenoog and Ann Wainawitch, both Germans. PerLie me rire reve. The Superintendent of (mt Door Poor yesterday THE LATIST OTYiLe® Ant NOW MADE made lowing report of the puimber of deatha from v eholers fa tho inetitut ous on Blackwell s Igaud and ga ia Rellevne Hospital «ace last ropor.. —iellevue 1) pot REND or Bi he the 5) Lanatic Asylum, Charity Hoapiral ot ESER\ & their PREPRCT and ‘There has been one ods inty the chol of the Workhouse since las. repo ¥ The following are the nan.der of caves of acute » rho and cholera at present under treatment —1 -_ Asyinm, acute dlarrhaa, 4, cholera, 3 Hellevue Ho pial, cholera, 2 Total, ¥ noute diarrhare have orcnrred Cemetery or Raudall'# Idan’ suce bast report The Fane ASD rh rripmmi® The following table gives a corp the number of deaths from eho On the i8ths day of August duriog the (wo past and pres FLESTOLE and ED. They combine cmt GANeh of IPTC the RTANDA No new cares of cholern or) Alror How aKine mate of JT ie UNIVERAALLY » seporiay Ie SACRE nd or heme nN nt epuemice — AT WHOL BS ALA bY | tie EX CLUMIYE vvag- ew von TOMBS aed SOLE OW NEECOF PAT per Deaths a Wnts RUADLEY & CAME, . Chambers and rade _¥. yer bse A | alsoat WHULERALE by the DEAUING JU) August 18, 1806. 5 : : ” — Angust 18, IMO % ame Avgast 8, 184 ‘ ‘ - = Angust 18, 1506 poe eRe “ 7 WURIN Ree The Cholera in MHreokiye res WATER The cholors, i will appear from the reporie of the fast twenty-four hourt i siiahtly on the imeresee, and thus far ina more virulent form. The canen reported are of avery den and fatel irpe— most of those attacked dying It also wtated that the us On resists theefert of medi ty cave by the Lospital men for this slate of a recent widden changes of nerease the tender oles to cholers on account of the fo iv gona to make « coven ‘This may or mey not be the cane fore wiaied ; the diese law yet many that will rennin for ‘clare meds yof the ' werner sOLD BY Att. The reason ser GA ner & 6e OTITEN AND INVIGORATE. vette. supe OC water oot dim, oe For the werk by arph Liree Myers . or A. 4. Mey badion whe €% ae “9 Moderne J (RAS Mammarial Bolin amt BeAward Gleason, 18 Kamm | etree! die the 17 y ves Canal ceeet, Sold og Jelia Matthews, King rire=t, omar Conover, died on (he th. Thotass Gor, King riteet, near Colin ot ra iy 1h Folia Honsehitd, 9% Carll « Withatn Conley. 80 North #itth e°ree Hl Thomas Hudeon, 218 Arb aed p « among hi, mn iv Dye The Theet ty the Wer + a Destory, oh Varedey vir ‘, aad fidelity. bet by the dinmare, 204 Get penteniny ane of the attendants whe hao di + Warld ta Care Maptares during Ow last two weeks, aauetie ff Condition of Afivies at Quarnutine. ‘ pin Bet ® Dr Bisertl, Deputy Beste Mt or at Quarantine. rey a8 follows tirover & Haber's ¥ wipe Wectte oe rat aie Fase No new enare of © $0 reper Tilo siscrage postongre trees the Ws Uee bctmade 9 Avent 18 16 The ot are Hater n were BIRERLA, Deputy Howie ‘The Cholera be the West ayy og Lesters. Privee Paid fo LT hare totwe "pais (ee ‘ Bashers * Titan te Mel ree oan at Gemeral wilibagt PL fod >» 4 4 Cas teprayed ripe Vinwned bd Leann. Tekst ee 10) Marten Cuwano, ave The cholewe ie st ten « Shewlden Boaces, BE ty Sher ina Wenere ghiss, bet deeling waewber is Uuicage, Ta Deus boniaes, be haan) rest