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ee ENEZUELA. The Conferences Between Me sngas and Gene- rai Bruzual—Disagreeme'g and Battlee— Monagas’ VictoryAdvr ace and Assault on Oaracas—A New Cab’met aud Provisional Decrees—Falcon’s Reaction—The Western Tnenneete ‘Sr. THomas, July 15, 1868, The news from Veezueia is dated to July 7. ‘Fhe conferences, between Generals Monagas and Bruzual terminated on June 19, without any agree- ent having been entered into for the conclusion of the civil war, Neither party would cede anything to ‘the other and of course all kinds of compromise be- came impossible, and a new resort to the arbitra- ment of the sword was the ensuing consequence, On the 224 ultimo General Monagas (José Tadeo) attucked General Bruzual’s forces at Chacao, a small village a few leagues from Caracas, and after an obstinate fight of four hours’ duration obtained quite an important victory. Monagas’ army numbered about 3,300 men, formed into two divisions com- manded by Generals Gregorio Monagas and Luciano Mendoza, and subdivided into six brigades led re- Bpectively by Generals Domingo Monagas, Tomas A. La Rosa, Rafael Adrian, Martin Vegas, Mariano Lo- pez and Tomas Pacheco. The chief of statfof the army was General Luis Loyel de Goda, and first adjutant, General Miguel Acevedo. Besides these generals there were halfa dozen more of the rank employed in less preminent positions. Bruzual’s army scarcely amounted to 2,500 men, commanded Dy him in person, the next in command being Gen- eral Aristeguieta, The division leaders were Gen- erals Rafael Marquez and Leon Colina. After his victory at Chacao General Monagas pressed on to Caracas, and on the evening of the same @ay attacked the place. He met with but small suc- cess, his troops failing in nearly all their assaults. On the 23d the two armies rested in close proximity to one another, but without engaging in any hostile manifestations of consequence. On the 24th Monagas, who ‘had been reinforced by ®@ small detachment of militia from Barlovento, under General Venancio Pulgar, and the irregular bands of Generals Escobar, J. G. Quintana and Bello (less than four hundred men, ail told), renewed the attack upon @aracas, and after many hours of tolerably hard fighting found himself at night master of most ef the city. Early the next morning the combat ‘was recommenced, and by the afiernoon Monagas was able to call the capital of Venezue.a his. ort Ban Carlos was the last position held by the parti- gans of Piuual, and was surrendered by Generai Aristeguieta upon the condition that ail the ofiicers should retain their swords and personal properties, and that all in the fort should be treated as prison- Pi Ee War and then rejeased on parole, which was ne. The oficial report of the loss on both sides in the battle of Chacao and in the fights in Caracas foots up M2? killed and 704 wounded—about fifteen per cent of the forces engaged. The loss of the Monagas army, compared with that of Bruzuai, was as turee to one, Which is accounted for by the fact of its having been the attacking party. Among the prominent insur- gents Killed were General Mariano Parra, a member of Congress from Barquisemeto and a volunteer aid to General Monages, and Colonels Coupril, Madriz and Machado. General Brazual wa Wounded nor captured, He succecded in effecting his escape, and his wher abouts on the 6th inst, were unknown—most probably Porto Cabeilo, Since the capture of Caracas{Geueral Monagas has host of his adherents, as Pachano, his last, but not least, an; he certatly er. aa a perfect Falstat X that this Gil commanded troops of hie master John in Coro, 1 rather think the famous two person- -— in his mind when he wrote of “Jack and Gil, ‘Who went up a hill,” &c. \4 ‘tebe health of this island is excellent, but the wea- er is vi warm, The arth of July was celebrated in the Colegio Vargas, the principal of which, Mr. L. M. Diaz, ar- ranged an exhibition for the evening of that day in commenarstion: of ATA CAD. for aterm ~ claration was read by one of men, the son of an American resident in Maracaibo, The ora: tion was delivered by Mr. J, F. Billard, an American teaching in the institution, and Mr. James Faxon, United States Consul here, presided and closed the exercises with some very happy remarks. After the exhibition the faculty and Fad adjourned to Mr. Faxon’s residence, where they were very hospitably entertained by the consul and his worthy lady. The Fourth has rarely been better celebrated here, and the few Americans in Curagea will not soon forget the occasion. be a great general; In view of the HAY TI. Sxinave Proclaimed Emperor by Himself— The War Parties Clussified—Negro As- sumption and African Battle Song»—Mate- rial for a New Nobility. Kinoston, Jamaica, July 14, 1868. Things inj Hayti at the latest advices (July 9) had become desperate in the extreme. Murders were frequent and foreigners were rather freely disposed of. In consequence complications were inevitable. Salnave had prociaimed himself Emperor of Haytt. On Sunday, July 6, processions of the lower classes paraded the streets of Port au Prince, shouting, “Vive ’Empereur! Vive Salnave !” Five insurgent leaders from the vicinity of Leogoane were shot with- out trial on the afternoon of the 6th, The two parties now at war in Hayti are known by the expressive titles of “Lizards” and “Cacos.”” The firat support Salnave, while the second, known as well, bitterly oppose him. These names originated during the carnival « few years back, when politics found vent in songs to the beat of the dram. In one of these songs occurred the following lines:— Dere ia no house De Lizard don’t ib in! Dere in no tree De Lizard don't climb in! ‘This was interpreted to mean that there was no position to which the laborers of Hayti might not aspire, end this doggerel, having been set to 4 popular air, was sung with great zest by all the lower orders of society; the children of the upper classes learned it from their nurses, ‘The lizard affords an exceltent idea of insignificance coupled with skill and agility. The higher ciass party found vent for the declaration of their sentuments in the same humorous way, styling themselves “Cacos,”” after a black parrot that feeds upon Hzards. They sung a@ doggerel, with the following chorus:— De Cacos, 01 de Cacos, ob! De Cacos'eat the lizards, oh! ‘This affords an inkling Into the character eagaged in the present struggle in Haytl. cos are the better ¢ he people— of those The Ca- e proprie- tary party. The “Li ”” are the lower classes, la- borers, artisans, a n, &e., Who support Sal- have, who understands his party well. There is nip in his present plan, He well rs of the revolution will not expose zens bel to the inaufrrection, and sent them to Fort aa rine, where thay erie ont ‘They were Generals ulier, and Lochar, Mr, M. Danton, the richest man in Leogoane, a Mr. ‘Tigsiade, On the morning of the 7th all'but the last were shot by the orders of Salnave. The Ameri- can Minister made an appeal for execu- tive clemency for the men, M, Alexis Toussaint, one of the ablest men of Hayti, has been appointed or eelanve his Minster of Finance, and has accepted the position. ‘The reaction for Salnave appears to have extended to Jacmel. Eighty of the citizens of that place had arrived at Port au Prince. They had asked for arin8 and propaged returning to Jacinel to initiate a coun- ter revolution, Mr. G, Eustis Hubbard, an American, left Port au Prince on the 2d inst, in the United States steawer Contoocook for Key West. He goes to New York with $20,000 in gold, wherewith to pay the repairs of the Galatea, retained in that city for the money due on her, The United States steamer Penobscot and French steamer Sur Coup were at Port au Prince, lier Britannic Majesty's steamer Muilet had gone on a fourteen days’ cruise round Hayti. Attack of the Mountaineers on Jacme!—An American Man-of-Wur Required—Dangers of Navigation on the Coast—General Salomon Invited trom Paris, Sr. THomas, July 15, 1868. Thave advices from Jacmel, Hayti, to the 10th tnst. A large number of Piquets (mountaineers) attacked this town while General Victor Rebecca had gone towards Leogoane with his troops, and threatened to destroy it. The gallant youngsters of Jacmel kept them at bay until Rebecca, who had been sent for, returned, when a desperate fight ensued, in which the General was wounded and the Piquets routed, with a loss of one hundred and thirty men. ‘The next day General Fadette Tallms, his two sons, General Jean de Nis and Colonel Marceilus Point-du- Jour were arrested and shot without trial, on suspi- clon of complicity with the Piquets, General Jean de ore a leading Piquet, after atiacking, taking and pillaging Lanse-a Pitré, aud assussinating the commander of the place, General Toussaint andjhis two sons, fell like a mad hound upon Grand Gosier, He was reported at iny latest advices as being on his way to attack Jacmel* The American Consul at that place fs said to have demanded a man-of-war from his government for the protection of American lives and property, which he considered in great ioopandy. ‘The author- ities have forbidden the lamp of the lighthouse to be Inghred at night, and thos the dangers of navigation have been greatly increased. The whole of Hayti is 1n such @ state to-day that the leading and most respectable men of the repub- lic are hailing General Saiomon, now in Paris, as the only man capable of re-establishing oraer and tran- quillity in that misruled island, where commerce and strangers suffer more at present than in auy Other part of the world. ST. DOMINGO. General Social Disorganization—The Baez Muster aud March—Cabral’s Manifesto City Prisons Gorged—Trade and Finance. PUERTO PLATA, July 5, 1868. ‘The state of society and the conditition of political affairs are in the same disorganization noticed a Month ago. Those in authority have done nothing to ameliorate the situation, and hence the spirit of discontent and the inclination towards revolution every day. grow in strength and dimensions. General Ramirez Baez and Colonel Lamar have themselves to lead an attack, and therefore so long as he shows preparations to repel an assau there is little au Prince being take out he will eveniu: ert's troops and that { lert Azua with considerable forces, the first for San Juan de la Maguana and the second for Neiba, to been declared by the leaders of the revo Provisional Executive of the republic, E et of six members, with e Speaker of C ‘oreign Relation Marcos Santana is the Minister of Finauce policy of this inet has already been foresh: pue of conciliation to ail parties, an trictest order has been preserved, President and ‘ c ot of prosecution had beea indulged in partisans of Bruzual. ree granting commemo- ais and decorations to all tuose engaged with him in the batt! hacao and the taking of Caracas, The medals for t nt Col Colonels and G Land ¢ for ai! other of the way shall be printed in lewers of gold the words, erator of Caracas.” These successes of Monagas were celebrated tn Caracas ov July 4 and 4 witha Ze Deum, proces- sions, receptions, illuminations aud gratuitous theatrical representations, ‘The acting American Mr. Pruyn, ace nied by all the attach: gation aud by 3 ecial American Comiisstoner to Venezue e first day of these celebrations called Monagas and felicitated him upon his success, ‘The; also visited Soublette, Blanco, Villegas and other Prominent mea of the revolution for the same pur- ribbon, upon. whic a, uy pose. They even Went so far in their goodwill as to make the family of ex-President % (lately in New York, but I belleve now in Buenos Ayres) the re- cipients of a cali. Both Mr. Pruyn and Commi missioner Talmadge took advantage of the day— being the anniversary of American independence— to infict upon General Movagus long and realy Fourth-of-Julyish speeches, to which answers be- @omingly brief were returned. Most of Venezuela now ‘knowledges the au- thority of Monagas. A few of the most active of Falcon’s supporters, however, have gathered a very respectabie force at Puerto Cabello, and with the aid Of the flotilla of five vessels in the bay are capabie | of giving their opponents considerable trouble and annoyance before they are conquered. Troops in tar, “etschments had left Caracas for Puerto Ca- Delo, Ana Wontyas wel! departed for the same Gestination on the eth That; to poyronalt ‘Rend the siege of the place. Hopes that the Falconista would surrender e with out any additional shedding of biood, since very liberal terms Were to have been offered them by Monagas, The news from Coro announces the capitulatton of the town to the “Biues,” or Western insurgents, add- fog that Geueral GU, Falcon’s representative, had Jeft the State, supposed for Puerto Cabello. Generals Oarrera and Gulan, the leaders of the “blues,” pro- posed to next operate against Yaracui and Barquisi- meto with their forces, about 1,500 in number. It ‘was not known in Caracas whether the “Blues” ‘Would accept or reject the revolution as Monagas’ but it was supposed they would join in. General Miguel A. Rojas, well known as the author of the famous Antimano Seay hy with Bruzual, and his brother, General Rufo Rojas, have both written to Bonages om Teques, under date of July EN e the! General offering to ir submission to him, Miguel aoe it will be recollected, was recognized by the “Blues” up to the time of the Antimano compromise Ki, the leader of the revolution against President Icon. General Antonio Perez, another leading revolu- tonist, bas aiso asked to be allowed to submit to the successful man off the hour or to be permitted to quietly leave the country. Falcon’s Flight—The Street Fight in Cara- he the siege in disgust and return to their Thus he will be leit master of the situation yescome to Salnave's asst wes from the woods of t tory his Imperial Excellency is jolus ald earidoms of the empire sy all wish to become noblemen ve, and fight desperately for the » ‘The Commander-in-Chief at the a duke in prospective, is a coal black $ colleague aives, intended at quis, With thein the eplaced the bow and the soap lather. If iphis te World's nobility is sure to gain he accession to tts ranks of the Duc du Violon and the Marquis des Razoires, will quit to the United States—Salnave’s Position. Por av Prince, July 1868, The United States steamship Contoocook, Rear Adinirai Hoff commanding, leaves to-day for Hamp- ton Roads, Mr, Hollister, the American Minister re- sident in this republic, sends a special courier and bearer of despatches aboard of said ship to the United States government, aud it is said that in this mission the future welfare and prosperity of Hayti are deeply interested. President Sainave suill holds his position. He will probably win the day on account of his bravery, and it ts believed that the revolutionists are shy of at- faoking him, Cape Haytten and Gonaives hoid good for him. On the Ist inst, foraging partiea of rebels made an attack on Salnave’s lines, and another attempt was made to-day, but with the same result—the Caco were repulsed with loss. A general attack has not yet been made, Both Port au Prince and Gonaives are closely besieged. A Mission Salnave’s Intrenchmente—Order to Refugee ExilewAmerican and British Diplomacy in ConflictSecretary Seward on Shelter for Politiss’ Odeaee- SanTIAGO DE CuBA, July 17, 1868, By way of Jamaica we have news from Port au Prince to the 1ith inst. Salnave has had a number of successful skir- Mishes with the Cacos, but they did not in any man- ner help his cause, since after each he returned to his intrenchments, He had issued a decree banish- ing ail the Haytien refugees in asylum at the differ- ent foreign consulates, giving them three days in present from my hands. takably been well received and extensively read by resist General Cabral, who is reported to have oceu- pied Banica with alarge body of insurgents. In Santiago the government is organizing troops, but it is not known where they are to be sent. A large and strong column has left Moca for Guayalin, the latter place being menaced by the revolutionary General Polanco, whose headquarters are still at Hatos. There are other military movements and in- surrectionary demonstratious rumored, but in such intangible shapes as not to merit a further notice at The last mani so of the Cabral party has unmis- the Dominicans, and has done much to weaken the cause of President Baez. 1 give the concluding lines of this revolutionary document, to wit: sole obstacle to the happiness and prosperity of the people of St. Domingo. If he be a man With a single Ree of patriotism left in his breast let him retire rom power and thus assist ina reconciliation of partics aud prepare the way for @ reorganization of the republic upon bases that will make her happy and prosperous. Let him refuse to retire end a long and unrelenting civil War must ensue’? Reports from the capital show that not a single cell of the public prison remains unoccupied, For each political prisoner that is taken out and sent into exile two are immediately brought in, One of the unfortunate victiing of President Baez's enmity has been sentenced to death by a military commission, tit the execution of the sen'ence has NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1868. at tncendiarism have been made, In one night two stores were burned down, One was the property of an American who had recently settled here. MEXICO. Exeeutive Pursuit of the Insurgente—Juarez Still Insecure—@alvez and Lopez—News of Santa Anna—Fears of an Invasion. VERA Croz, July 20, 1868, As every day increases the number of those who, digsatisfied with the government, adopt a new politi- cal motto and declare openly against the acting state of things or who avail themselves of the political mantle to commit all sorts of depredations, murders and pillages, the government has decided, as far as its means will allow it, to pursue those bands that ruin the country, paralyze commerce, destroy travel and render impossible the intercourse of peaceful citizens, Colonel Medina captured, on the 18th ultimo, some of the insurgents, who had fortified themselves on the Cerro of Tejoloto, in the State of Mexico, On the 20th ultimo Antonio Flores, Magistrate of ‘Texcoco, captured some of the band of Julio Lopez, near San Vicente Chicoloapan. The prisoners num- bered twenty, fully armed and equipped. On the 22d ultimo General Rafael Cabrioto, in the State of Pucbla, with the forces under his command routed at Zacatlan the insurgents, capturing sixty men with but little loss to his command. Notwithstanding these apparent successes of the government, insecurity prevails. The greatest num- ber of the insurgents have taken refuge in the sierras. On this account more troops have been sent from Jalapa to the Puebla Sierra to reinforce those already in campaign. General José Maria Galvez, who held different commands under the emfire, managed, until very recently, to remain uncaught, thus escaping the severe punishment inflicted on all those of his class captured up to date by the very liberal government of Mexico, His antecedents Were of such a nature as to insure for him his immediate execution when- ever taken, Some troops, under the command of an officer of the name of Sheridan (Carlos), arrived at a village called Potreros, where they discovered in one of the houses a man thought to be Galvez, aud without entering into researches shot him without trial or any sort of judicial proceeding. kamon Garcia and Matias Estrada, commanders of insurgent bands, have been totally defeated at Potrerillos, State of Mexico. The first was killed during the action. ‘The steamer Marsella entered this port on the 13th inst, The news she brought caused considerable commotion, The Mexican Consul at New Orleans wrote, under date of June 26, that Santa Anna’s emissaries were Ci sper an bey pore ond in that city with the intention of making @ landing at some point of the Yucatan coast or on the Rio Grande borders, ‘his news, coupled with that from Havana to the import that Santa Anna Was about purchas- ing @ man-of-war and was 01 izing troops, created great excitement, especially in government circles, and all possible precautions are now taken to guard against a surprise. Night after night armed men patrol the streess, the guards of the forts are doubled, the batteries are mauned and guns kept ready. How long this vigilance will con- tinue 1s hard to tell. Late news from Tamaulipas apprises us that strict orders have been given for che immediate orgauization of the national guard throughout the State. All these precautionary measures indicate very glearly that the government has certain information concerning Santa Anna’s plans, and that it is re- solved not to be taken unawares, Julio Lopez was executed at Chalco on the 10th, as traitor, for having pronounced against the govern- ment, A band of insurgents, under the order of Noriega and Luts Leon, who had united, is menac- ing Vachuca, The government troops have occupied Mineral del Doctor, in the Queretaro Sierra. ‘The insurgents remain concentrated at Jalpan and the Pinai del Amoies, As Congress at its last session did not choose to close the matter relating to the Mexican Railway and ratify the concession granted by the President to the English,holders the company has been in doubts as to the value of the charter they act under, and have abstained from entering into even the neces- sary expenses for keeping up that portion of the road already completed. ‘The reported ill treatment of Generals Ortega and Paton! at Monterey has been oficially denied by the autiorities of that place. Oeneral Escobedo has had three spies who were ks io in his lines executed without trial of any kind. Mr, William Schenck, the director of the silver mine in Guadalupe, in the State of Mexico, was kilied on July 4 by the government troops at Potre- rillos. ‘This was accidental, and happened in the midst of @ skirmish with a band of insurgents, Mr. Schenck was a German, and was on his way to Mexico city for the purpose of marriage with a lady of his country. ‘The United States steamship Marblehead and H. B. M. steamship Niobe are anchored olf Sacrificios, Later intelligence from Puebla announces the oc- cupation of Tlaltauque and Zacapoaxtla by the OUR SUMMER RESORTS. CLIFFWOOD SPRINGS, N. J. CLIFFWoop, July 31, 1868, ‘This quiet retreat, situated on the high bluffs which overhang the western shore of Raritan Bay and look- ing out upon the ocean over the barren point of Sandy Hook, ts, like all other pleasure resorts, fing up very fast with summer sojourners, The visitors are nearly all from New York and Brooklyn, and are made up mostly of families which are bleased with that necessary appendage to the complete happiness of wedded life—children, We have no four-in-hand establishments here, neither have we fashionable or fast turnouts of any description, if, for the sake of peace, I except the doctor’s two horse, four seated, rattling vehicle, which the young folks valgarly cali the ‘‘carry-all,”” that conveys the gers at twenty-five cents a head to and from the steamboat landing. We hi ‘No set balls here, no formal hops, no diamond Ger- mans; but we have dancing of the rustic order every night (if we can tax @ player) which affords all the Tequisite pleasure, and gives infinite enjoyment to that portion of the com; which intend to take @n active part in the movements of the next gene- ration of men and women. We have the country here in all its midsummer Flory, and we enjoy it, too, free from the finery and e ‘forms of fashion, and devoid of the gewgawg and trumpery of style. We waik the fleids over and over again, and always find sufficient in the fuluess of nature to occupy our minds. We bate tn the blue brine as it comes roiling in fresh from the ocean, and we ¢ in the pleasin time (keep th sentiment from President Berehh of catching wea fish. This is summer life in the country, this.is what we came for and this we enjoy. “John, get the boat ready.” THE SUMMER SEASON ALONG THE JERSEY COAST. NEVERSINK, Highlands, July 31, 1868. Along the coast of Jersey, "Te ‘time now, they say; From Sandy Hook, at évery nook, ‘To the breakers of Cape May. ‘These highlanda in the suinmer green ‘Are glorious to the sight And Long Branch at the ath, hour Isa vision of delight—bal ha The summer segson of 1868 in Jersey, which in the beginning promised only to be a failure, has enlarged into an uaexpected success, Long Branch is a busy, populous settlement of beauty, wealth and fashion, and the same report comes up from Atlantic City and Cape May and from all the intermediate stations along the coast and from all the cosey summer nest- ling places and retreats among these charming hills and lovely inland lakes of the Shrewsbury inlet. The Raritan and Delaware Bay and the sea- shore railroads are doing as lively a pas- senger business as they did last summer, and the Shrewsbury river steamers—the Sea Bird and the Helen, the latter farmers’ boat—come down each day from Chambers street with such lists of passen- gers, freight and baggage, servants and carriages, as to raise the question, Whence come all these people and all these equipments for a summer frolic, and whither are they bound? ‘The hotels and boarding houses at these Highlands all the way round on the one side to Port Monmouth and Keyport, and around the other to the pretty little village of Ked Bank, have no right to complain, Thompson’s establishment, annually enlarged, 13 the first house vo fill and the last to be emptied along the whole line. It is so handy to town, and being reason- able in its charges and com/ortable in its appoint- menis, and a very paradise for vhe little ones, it is a favorite place for city men of business with families upon their hands, who insist with papa upon a suin- mer furlough by some inland river or lake, or moun- tain, or by the sea, and here we have them all. There 18 not so much of glare and glitter and noise and confusion this season as during the flush times: of the war in the holiday movements of our summer birds and butterities of fashion, but much more of substantial comfort and enjoyment; not such lavish squanderings of cash in contingent expenses, per- haps, but quite as much in essentials, inciuding many things not deemed essentials in town. The ladies, young and old, married and single, never looked More charming than they do this season, be- cause never, since Adam was born, have the ladies’ fashions been more tasteful, graceful and beautiful and so abounding in pretty varieties than they are now in their adaptations to the country. Ca song her whole seacoast line, hills, plains and val rat villas, bony a and villages, hotels and boarding houses. is now in a blaze of glory, and here the surf, the river, the hills and the woods keep us out of doors from morning till night, and often when the moon shines bright the day is lengthened in our Pieasant excursions in our little river steamer, tle A. T. Stewart, built expressly for these expeditions. Come down, itr. Bennett, aud see for yourself. We are full, bat, as they come and go, we have always Toom for a few more. fofves of General Alatorre, the imsurgents having been postponed until an appeal made to the Supreme Court be disposed of. The appointment of the President's brother, Colone] Damian Baez to the Governorship of St. Domingd, has caused great dissatisfaction in that city. This personage has always been notorious for his want of patriotism and enmity to and institutions. He is known jo have yepeatedly declared, while at Curacas, that e thought republics only fit for fools and sentimentalists. May he not then take advantage of his position. to assist the European monarchs ii their designs upon the liberty and iepen dents tt St. Domingo? The Boletin Mercantil, of Porto Rico, announces that President Baez had solicited tne pro- tection of Spain. This news, I admit, must be re- ceived with some reserve; but if in any way true upon rehom gould the President rely with Maer confideni aid tn this monarchical scheme than upon his brother Damiah, so thoroughly imbued with monarchicai doctrines? The report from Porto Rico and the appointment of Colonel Baez form a suspicious coincidence as to time, The reported failure of the miasion of Fabens and Jessurun to the United States has unquestionably caused a change in which to embark, and piedging them protection while doing so. About sixty refugees had, in conse- qnence of the decree, left in @ French vessel. Mr. Hollister, the American Minister, was the first to comply with Salnave’s orders and to tell those that had sought protection under his flag that they must leave his house within forty-eight hours. They did 40, Most of them taking shelter in the house of the British Chargé d’Affaires, Mr. St. John. This tle. man, it seems, the action of the Ameri- can Minister in severe terms, which gave rise to a disagreeable scene between him and Mr, Hollister? There can be uo question of the American Minister having completely backed down = high ea tion taken by him less than two months ago. He no longer beards Sainave, but now does all he can to stand well himseif with him, This may be because cas—List of the Monagas Cabinet—Adairs tm Curacoa, Crracoa, W. L, July 7, 1868. In my last of the 7th inst. I told you of the advance Of Monagas on Caracas and of the fight of Falcon to ‘this island. On the 23d ult, the Genuinos entered the city of Caracas, when a terrific and sanguinary fight en- sued, lasting through three entire days, the 23d, 24th end 25th, The whole number o¢ killed and woanded on both sides, from the most reliable information, ‘Was about 2,590. The fighting was hand to hand in mearly ail the streets; (he Aercest struggle, however, took place at the cathedral. Here a party of Bruzualists had taken possession of the towers of the edifice and from them poured a galling fre on their assailants, They were nally dislodged, however, and on the evening of the 25th General Monagas was master of the city, General Colina, Bruzual's general-in-chie!, was wounded and taken prisoner. Bruzual, finding his forces defeated, fed from the city, with General Aristeguieta, who succeeded Colina in command, and in aday or two reached Puerto Cabello, where he proceeded to defend him- elf. He has since left Aristeguieta there with 700 med and gone to Barquisiineto wo confer with Patino, the petty tyrautyof that province, a former peon, With a view Ww raising fresu supplies of men anil arms. On the whole this battle in Car appears to have been the moat terrmbie in Venezue history. Both parties fought with desperation aud large num- bers of the best men in Caracas were among the victims. General Rojas, the qnoudam chief of (he Fevolutionists, who betrayed them in the ‘agree. ment” of May 15, seems to have been “counted out” f™ this fight.‘ If the would-be pactflcator took any part in it it was a secondary one. General Monagas, immediately after his victory, sronreuss to instal a provisional government. * This now the existing autuority in Venezuela. Its offl- cers are as foliows:— Dr. Gutilermo Teil Villegas, Minister of Exterior lations: Mr. M. A. Marcano, Minister of the Inte- mor; Mi jo Santa Anna, Minister of Customs; General Domingo Monagas. (a nephew of the chief), Minister of War: I icanor Borges, Minister of Public Credit, and Dr. Antonio Parejo, Minister of ‘These individuals elected one of their number in place of Bruzual, and the choice fell on Mr, Vill , Who is accordingly now acting as President of the republic. Mr. Villegas bears an ex- cellent reputation as an intelligent and patriotic man, Such men give character to the revolutionary in the meantime orders have been issued for the ‘gssembi @ general convention to organize a ent Serine This will probably be con- mmated next winter, and then it is to be hoped ‘that poor, Venezuela may bave at least a of instructions received from Washington, for it was said in Port au Prince that Secretary Seward had | written to Mr. Hollister that he should not have re- ceived in his house the poiitical fugitives from Sal- mave’senmity and wrath. It was furthermore as- serted that the United States were determined to recognize no other government for Hayti than that of Sainave for the term of years he had been elected to serve, all revolutions to the contrary notwith- standing. This assertion had gained strength from the departure of the American Consul from Port au Prince for Leogoane, the headquarters of General Pétion, for the purpose of persuading that generai to return, With his followers, to their allegiance to Sai- nave. M. Achille da Courthtal, lately French Consni at Vera Cruz, bad arrived at Port au Prince to tempo. | rarily relieve Count de Méjean, French Chargé @’Atiuires in Hayt. Two French subjects had been assassinated, one by an Itallan doctor named Albert ini, and the other by the city guards. M. du | Courthial had investigated the two occurrences, aud was anxiously awaiting the arrival of the French | Aciniral of the West ludies to take some action in | the preinises, | Sainave bad furnished arms to the countrymen of the South, known as “Piquets,” and these were wen- the policy of the President, and now other means of support than those to accrue from the sale of Samana are to be found. Whether a Spanish pro- oo be among these a month or more will OW. fe A son of President Baez died at tewig ond on the K th ult., and it is said his body will be brought to Domingo City for interment, I make no report upon commercial transactions, for the good reason that there is nothing doing worth noticing. This will continue the case so long as Mme country shall remain deprived of a circulatit me- dium. The paper currency of President Cabral was bad enough; but still it was preferable to the present no-currency of President Baez, It was reported that ,000 in specie were te arrive from New York to I up the an chasm, but none believed the re- port and it is now exploded. ——s Reinforcements for Cabral. Sr. Toomas, July 15, 1868. The Dominican Generals Lupeyron and Valverde arrived at Jacmel, Hayti, from St. Thomas, by the. English packet on July 3. They there met the late President of St. Domingo (General Cabral) and were aboat to cross the frontiers separating the Haytien from the Dominican republic together, to join Gen- erals Mamzueta and Ogando at Ouanuma and Bara- hona, who had prociaimed themselves against the continuation of General Juan Buenaventura Baez in the Presidency. They had quite a number of fol- lowers and were hopeful of success. Public opinion is very much against General Baez, and the general belief was that he will full very shortly and will have to return to his friend Jesurrun at Cura joa. An English Loan to Baez—The Security and Interest—Mineral Resources=Reported Sale of Sai to the United States, Sr. Dominao, July 9, 1964, The Boletin announces and members of the gov- ernment confirm the statement that leading Lon- don bankers have loaned $2,000,0#0 to the Baez gov- ernment. The rent of Samand will secure an inter- est of five per cent on the loan of $2,000,000 withont embarrassing the om House revenues or being acing Leogoaue, Goave and Jucmel. M. Raty sad, lute private secretary to Geffrard, had | | gone to dh | ton. lovements in the Field=An English Vice Consul Taken Prisoner=The Reaction—Gold for New York. Krvostox, Jam., July 10, 1868, The West Indian steamer Plantagenet, from Liver- pool and Port an Prince, arrived here yesterday | morning. The news brought by her from the Haytien capital reaches to the 7th inst. Salnave atili holds is own. There had been three engagements on the La Coup road, but they had not caused any perceptible alteration in the military situation, Inasaily from Fort Bizanton Salnave’s troops had succeeded in reaching @ part of Faubert's lines and had spiked one of his cannons; afterwards they returned safely to the place from whence they had started. All persons residing on the La Coup Toad hart come into the city because of the exposed situation of the locality. Among them was the Aterican Minister Resident, Mr. G. HL, Hollister. goane, has been the government corvette Syivain seized by this Yessel, and ‘Mr. Deakinau was found among the passengers, bearing on ti reon de- spatches trom the insurgents, Ho asserts that he was on his way to Jamaica to buy provisions for Mira. oane, Which if almost ia a state of famine, and hat he knew voting of the contents of the so-called aken prisoner by the officers of @hort eeason of repose. PO cane Dhabentierd despatches. He has been tmprisoned in Port au Prince. In some portions of the country a strong reaction has set in in favor of Salnave. Le goane and Mira- goane have pronounced for him. Place the inbabitwot captured five tm the former oltt- cmel 10 embrace the cause of the revolu- | Mr. Deakman, the Britisa Vice Consul at Mira- | A schooner Was | feit by the people. The sale of mining sites, which by the conditions of the State geological survey to be verified for immediate use, Wiil 0¢ su@icient to pay the principal | of the loan in jess than five years from the gold flelds alone, the geologists say. Baez isan adept in state strategy and takes caro | toleave no national resources open to the use of | enemies, Samand and the mines are both removed beyond the reach of revolutionary ambition oy lls keen diplomacy: It haa been falsely reported that Samand was About being sold to the United States, Not one member of the Cabinet and but member of the Senate would vote for asale, I repeat to you, from the highest authority, that when the veil is lifted the world Will fnd its commerce ermiched by a new free wrt and the Dominican government strengthened ny the sympathy aud protection of all the civilized Powers on both sides of the Atlantic, In brief, Raen aspires to make an international bend of Samana. BAHAMAS. | Dariff Reform—A Money Loan—Trade Dull— | Negro Troubles. Nassat, N. P., July 10, 1968. ‘The act regulating the taritts colony expires | this year, A tew measure will be introduced this | session. The import duties will be tessened and provisions from tie United States will be admitted | on more favorable terms than heretofore, A Dill is to be introduced by the government abolishing pub- he executions. The colonial government is in treaty with the home government for a joan of $100,u0u to pay om unsettied claims. Business continues dut!. have taken place. The Several bankruptcies | aud perfectly unintentional dev: evacuated them upon his Sr. ‘The rainy season has set in in earnest, and semi- daily showers are the result. This is the case not only here, but throughout all portions of the country that 1 have heard trom, CUBA. The New Naval Measurement Law—How Vessels Are to Be Measured and the Duties Ihnposed—Santa Anna in Trouble—The Tel- egraph as a Liberating Agent. Havana, July 25, 1868. A royal decree that appeared in the Gaceta Oficial of the 20th is of great interest and importance tothe commerce of all Spanish possessions, and therefore demands a passing notice at my hands. By this de- cree the kilolitro, or cubic metre, becomes the legal ton for the burden measurement of vessels coming into Spanish ports. The Custom House regulations relating to the collection of sanitary dues in ac- cordance with aridles 682 and 683 of those reguia- tions and the reduction process of the existing ton- nage of all national and foreign vessels to the kilolitro standard are arranged in conformity with the law of July 19, 1849, and form fifteen of those adopted by the permanent Commission on Weights and Measures. The arrangemont for these (articles 682, 683) is extended and applied—First, to the tariffs and regulations relating to the premiums for the construction of vessels of more than 400 tons; second, tg the prohibitionary admission of vea- sels of foreigh timbér that do not possess this capa. city; third, to the payment of the tariff duties apper- taining to iron and wooden vessels when making their entries; fourth, to all other operations and deeds connected with the custom revenues, 1° ig not to have any retroactive effect, but is only ap- plicable from its pubiication, and no recl ious or claims for damage or injuries arising from its ex- ecution are entertuinavie by the government. The latter provision must necessarily insure the decree an unwelcome reception Irom American shipowners aud masters. The change in the standard repre- sentation of the ton unity and the divers compli- cated provisions for a compliance with ihe altered condition of measurement will but add to the many embarrassments and complexiies now alread the Way of American commerce with Spanish poi No doubt many cases of unpremeditated error ions from the requirements of the law must arise, and to fine and punish the innocent iufractors without avy allowed opportuaity of appeal to the good sense and justice of higher parties ia unwise, uojust and even tyran- nical. You may be sure that there will be an in- creasing percentage of impositions and outrages upon Awerican commerce to report on accouat of tus decree. The already compicated relations be- tween the American government and the Cuban authorities must become more #0 UNUL patience and forbearance sali cease to be virtues, and the Ameri can peopie, rising in their might, shall require trom Spain, without the alternative of deciension, that & more enlightened, honest and liberal policy be foi- lowed towards American commerce, " Ex-General Santa Anua has had the editor of EL Pays brought before the tribunals of spain, in Havana, because of an art which bis ex-Alteza deemed highly detamatory aad was published in the columns of that paper on tie 17th inst. The ex-('re- sident of Mexico deciares fis ability to saow how badly represented and viitled he has been by said editor, The case was opeued and then postponed for “a few days.” ‘The citizens of Santiago de Cuba and other places have petitioned the Captain General to be allowed to communicate direct by telegraph with the United States and Europe without having to reveal the secrets of their messages to tiird parties in this capital in order to have them forwarded, as bas hitherto been done. His Excellency has promised to remove the obstacies in the way of such a cousum- mation, after consulting with the telegraph officers, AQUATIC. | Prospects of an International Match. Epitoe or BeL.’s Lire, Lonpon, GLAND The Ward brothers, desirous of testing the relative merits of the oaramanship of Great Britain and the for $6,000 a side. Distance five or six miles straight away. The race to be rowed In either country, on waters to be mutually agreed upon, We will give $1,000 to any crew willing to visit the United States for expenses, or will take that amount and row in England. Communications by steamer or telegraph addressed to care of editor New York HERALD w.il | G. Remsen, H. R United States, will make a match with any four men | SHARON SPRINGS. SHARON SPRINGS, Jitly 80, 1568. ‘There are two seasons at Sharon during the sum- mer. The first of these—the July season—is just closing, and hundreds who have been here since the hotels opened are winging their flight to Newport, Saratoga and the other fashionable resorts. The sec- ond season, which begins with August, will witness the arrival of hundreds to take their place from the seaside and the mountain. There is thus a sort of interchange going on between the various watering places. Those who spend July at Newport spend August at Sharon and those who like Newport in July prefer Sharon in Angust. Sharon has been unfortunate in having had to undergo the annoyance of @ protracted dry spell. The weather has not been very warm, but the roads and the country are covered with dust. Driving— and there are many fine turnouts here—has been less enjoyable in consequence. It has rained all around Sharon, but the tantalizing drops failed to make a visit to the Springs, By the way, @ curious haze has obscured the sun all the past week. The diurnal luminary has not been seen save as a ball of fire looming through the haze for all this time. The moon at night is a dimly defined disc of light. Ie it cloud or is itsmoke? There is a story current that it is caused by great fires prevailing in the Canadian forests. Life is very staid at Sharon this season. There is Aquiet dignity about everything and about every- body which prevents hubbub and turmoil. The Pavilion, aristocratic aa ever in its acropolitan post- tion, looking very like one of the oid Greek tem- les in its grove of Ne eee the more Fashionanie visitors. e samé families have the same rooms beneath its roof year after year. The Eldridge House ts the sociable hotel, with its greater throng and its less ceremonious ways. The Sharon House, limited as are its dimensions, can boast many fine Yankee girls—it is the native house, euch a designation may riitted. Hall and Union Hall are the resort wealthy cecaen Bom 4 cA. soe fan jeal of money re] onrners thi win. i Vanderbilt is at of St. Louis, said tty tte of Cubans here is very large. y le Cuban with black hair, biack eyes and such dar- ling little. mustaches, engross the parlors and porches. Mexico is represented by the one-legged General U1 He is staying at the Pavilion, which opened on the 1st of June and has about three hun. dred on {ts register. It was one of the earliest to receive visitors. The following of There the sojonrners this season, the Pavilion. The Weil brothers, of to be worth ten millions, are at the Co! New Yorkers are at the Pavilion:— James 8. Johnston, R. Macfarlane, Mrs. Binckerhor and son, Fermin De Solo, Angel L. Sarria, Kovert Seaman, Mrs. C. B. Rogers, J. R. Ceatero, Aibert H. Gallatin, W. H. Gebhard, Mra. M. Mora, J. M. Me- Lean, D. Bixby, i.outs Delmonico, L. t. Ponvert, John Edwards Pierrepont, Mr. and 0. HL. Shepard, Re Kems nd W. Irving Graiiam, General Ferrero arrived here yesterday from Kich- fleid and Cooperstown, whence he has taken a faucy to do the distance to Albany by stages. John Minor Botts is at the Eldridge. He has been in very tii heaith and was confued for some tine to hia room, but is now about and discusses politics with something of his old enthusiasm. He says he intends taking (he stump in the fall for Grant and Colfax. Bishop Conroy, of Albany; John C. Ten Eyck, of New Jersey; Join L. Strat of New Jer Colonel F. Montoas, of Cuba; Colonel Boswell, of Kentucky, aad K. MeCarthy, of Syracuse, are also at the Eldridge. Horatio seymour is expected every day. Rooms have been engaged and are reserved for lim. Mrs. Peter Cagger and fainily have a cottage. ‘The season at the Kldridge began on the 16th of June, The house now entertains about 125 As already observed, the company i a very sociable one. Tn addition to the hops, for which ali the hotels, tn fact, have provided excellent bands of music, there are Ling charades and tableaux, so that time 1s ps ml the most agreeable manner. Bowling ten pins is astiine with the ladies all over the Springs, ‘and many of them have become quite pro- ficient in making ‘spares’ and “strikes. At Congress Hall there are L. Rosenfield, Max Schafer, Peter Brinjes, Samuel Christ, Heary Rubl, A. Fatman, Herman Bache and George W. Krager— names well known in the German mercantile circles of New York, The Congress opened Jane 16 and has been filled the whole time since. It has now about 240 quests on its register, yf has the following, among other ion Hall has ing, among, other i a favorite immediate attention. eget ; JOSH WARD. HBNRY WARD, CHARLES WARD. fruit season has been & very prosperous one and the supply equals the demand, ‘The negroes are in a bad way and several attempts GILBERT WARD. Naw Yous, Jwy 27, 1868, ste:—l iH i family; Cocrmc Liehtennelnand nenlp, of New York; Mrs, peas noe Yorks ours faa faiaily, chiet York inistomm 3 Mr. appraiser. i] York it iser New Yor! Hnaraa, and 5 tae sone apprai a Jpnte: J. J. Augarica and family, Cuba; Messr¢. + & Abra, Cuba; Mra, Thorpe, of New Yorks Messrs. and Miss Fisher, of Bal:imore; Superv G. N. Herman and fainily, of New York. , At the Sharon House re are some sixty guests, Jolin Farrel and'is Semiman ef Sow Youve and Wiad Mary P. Temple, of Pittsburg. te oe _ There 1s not the same opportunity at Sharon as at Newport and for a display of horsefleah, but the turnouts, nevertheless, are quite numerous, and the eqalpages. many of them quite elegant. ‘There is very ‘ttle racing stock. but a good many pea tsi teams aud several good runners under the Ba le. ‘Theodore Beach, of New York, hi batt ora bars : ‘k, has a Brett and @ eter Winne, ol any, has the hand: horse in Sharon, which he drives ia alee oe bugay. oS . T. Longstreet, of oy pyite) has’ magnificent span of dapple grays and a Bre:t. John Tweddle, of Albany, has a fine span of blacks and an English phaeton, Richards. Mason, of Philadelphia, has a single horse andbuggy. The animal is a hundsome roan and very fast. Judge Barrett, of New York, is expected to-day with a pair of blacks and a light wagon. The fastest pair at Sharon belong to Captain Graf- ton, of New York, Oneis a gray aud tie other @® bay, and he harnesses them to a top wagon. ones Buss, Jr., of New York, drives a stylish pair of small blacks to a top wagon, T. V. Butler, of Paterson, drives a gray and toa high park phaetou. ? H, T. Livingston, of New York, has a pair of gray geldings and a phacton. David Stewart, of New York, drives a pair of bays and a phaeton, David Stewart, Jr., rides a thoroughbred mare, which, it is said, does her mile in 1:56, ‘There are several establishments at Congress Hall stables. Jesse Seligman has two nice biack horses and a high park puaeton, Fred. De Barry has a light phaeton, drawa by a black mare and a white horse, with harness mounted with prince’s metal. Joseph Kolmer has a chestnut mare for the saddle. = ours are not far from two thousand sojourners at Sharon. a bay MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES, Mrs. D. P. Bowers is playing Mary Stuart, Eliza- beth, &c., to crowded houses in Virginia City. “Under the Gaslight’? has been successfully brought out at the Duke of Edinburg theatre, Melbourne, Australia. The Tarrian’s menagerie of wandering minstrels are still travelling through the South, haunted by the uneasy shades of the music they have helped to murder. An accomplished and beautiful young lady of this city, quite well known in operatic circles, has re- cently sailed for Paris, with the intention of qualify- ing herself for a speedy début in opera bouffe. ‘The redoubtable Tony Pastor and his Africo-must- cal-terpsichorean troupe forsake the appreciative “Hubites” Tonle and on Monday evening next will inaugurate the regular season at thetr own re- ished and renovated headquarters tn the classic wery. Hartz, the illusionist, is still Noating ahead, and has succeeded at last in reaching the plous town of La Crosse, Wis., where he is edifying the human por- tion of the population by stabbing a basket, and is likewise astonishing all the precocious little “bricks” of the place with his dexterity at shuMing the cards. ‘The last ‘Flash of Lightning’ matinee will be riven to-lay at the Broadway theatre. ‘This evening it will Mash its heart-rending splendors upon New Yorkers for the last time, and will be followed on Monday evening with the patriotic Irish drama of “Trodden Down, or the Lost Cause,” Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watkins sustaining the principal ro/es. The alterations and inprovemeats now being made at Wood's theatre and museum will be com- pleted in time to admit of its being opened on the sist inst, The Simonpure “Siamese Twins’? are to be added to the collection of curivsities at this estab- lishment. Chicago, the “Lake City” of the “Sucker State,’? the safety vaive of society’s morals and the recog- nized hoine of the “bare back,’ “leg” aud lilegiti- mate dramas, is improving rapidly. The la‘est intel- ligence from that delight(ul and pious “Eden” is to the effect that the “Museum theatre” has been leased for Sunday periormances during the coming winter by a German dramatic company. Comiment is un- necessary. Kelly & Leon's Minstrels appear in the burnea cork versions of “The Grand Duchess” and “La Bell L-N” on the 10th inst. at the Park theatre, Brooklyn. Mr. Edwin Kelly is not at # grove with the troupe, but will be one of its chief attractions when it re- turns to the enlarged and tmproved quarters that are now being prepared for it in this city. The ‘Saints’ of Salt Lake City have been for some time past plunged into rapturous ecstacies over the acting of Madame Methua Scheiler; but some of the saintly critics have been excessively annoy and worried by the crying of a large number of babies in the circles of the “theatre. it is now proposed to ob- viate this crying nuisance by giving the bubics a box to prevent thei from going into ters, ir. Mark Smith, the retired monarch from the tiresome “Kingdom of Ding-Dong,” aud the embryo “stage manager” of Edwin Booth’s new theatre in this city, commences an engagement at McVicher's theatre, Chicago, on mext Monday evening. Mr. Smith, with anything like a fair or fairy chance, wul be pretty apt to make his mark among the suseepti- ble Nos aoe At the Buitaio Academy of Music the summer sea- son under the new management promises to be a success. “Stars” and “other novelties” are to be in- troduced in rapy succession to the benighted Buffa- lonians, a sample of whick is a new piay that is even. now in active rehearsal at this establisment, entitled “He's Got Money.” Should this plece fail to draw the enterprising manager wil probably realize that. “He's not got money,” at least not quite so much as he expected to have. It is reported that the manager of Howe's circus, on exhibyion at Kingston, Canada, absquatulated, with ali the funds on Tuesday night. The ‘‘taiented artists” immediately struck for higher wages, which being refused them resulted in a Opole collapse of the entire concern. The engagements ahead were cancelled, and the circus ‘fixins’’ are now being shipped to the United States, where they are owned. jor Fortuna, an eminent baritone and fine lyrtc artist, who was at ene time professionally sssoci- ated with Parepa-Rosa, died recently at Limi South America, of yellow fever. At the bis death Fortuna was a member of Signor Bianchi’s Italian opera troupe, which was givi operas at Lima with fine success when last hear ym. The rumor for some time current that Napoleon has consented to the production of “Ruy Blas,”? which has been so long proscribed, is confirmed by the fact that a letter has been addressed to M. Victor Hugo nesting his sanction to the following cast:—Kuy Bias, M. Berton; Don ir, M. Paulin Menih; Yon Salluste, Lacresso! re; the Queen, Mile. adéle Page. “FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC. ITEMS. Some interesting relica were recently found at Authieux eur le Port St. Owen, France, which appear to date from the Roman occupation of the country, consisting of the remains of the apparatus used by the ancients for warming their houses, Among them were found the furnace of the stove, and pipes through which the hot air was carried throughout the building. The Journal des Connaissances Midicales of Parie publishes an interesting account of the varieties of tannin obtained from different plants. It is the astringent principle of the barks of trees, and exists in large quantities in the horse chestnut, now a very common plant, which proves to be quite as useful a8 it is ornamental. The tannin derived from it Is white, soluble in water, aicohol and ether. Ex; to the air it becomes red, owing to its absorption of oxygen. It imparts a m color to the salts of iron, but it will turn them violet if @ little potash or ammonia be added. 1t Mt a eH gelatine, but exerciwes no action on emetic. Its concen- trated solution is, pa at least, precipitaied either by sulphuric, hydrochioric or metaphosphoric acid, but uf acctic acid be added there will be ‘no precipitate, There will be one, on the contrary, with the sulphites of ash and soda and hydrosuiphate of ammonia, The precipt- tate so obtained is soluble in water containing acetic acid; this shows that itis pure tannin, which may also be obtained separate by the addition of a few crystals of rock salt, Acetate of lead will throw it down in the shape of a chamois colored masa, sotu- bie in acetic aci | at the common temperature. When heated at one hundred degrees Centigrade with sul- phuric or hydroch!orid actd, the watery solution of the tannin obtained from the horse chestnut becomes red and deposits flakes of a cinuabar hue; when in contact With potasi itis transformed into phioro- giucine and protocatechucic acid. There ts, more ove new one mentioned by our anthor, which he calls capsulic, because of his having extracted tt from the capsules or shelis of the chestnuts gathered in 1856, While, singular to say, none of those of the following years contained any. The tannins ex~- tracted froin chinoya, ratanhia, &c., behave in the same Ww! niy with diluted acids they yleld glucose, anda Which is peculiar to each Kind of tannin, 4 which, consequentiy, in trade goes by the ctive names of Peruvian, ratanhia, chinova red, on. ‘At @ recent sitting of the French Academy of Sciences an account was given of a curious — ce of the effects produced by terrestial elec’ riel iy. A M. Devaux, an official of the Paris Gas Company, being on the sth of June, at ten P. M., in the Kue Thouin, at the time of the storm, suddenly felt him- seif sinking down on bia i while, at te 4 moment, he was dazzled by a bright flash of light- ing. It fui seusation in the region of the sitomach, and? wad Netzed with fits of trembling that lasted two d On examining his boots he t that nearly all the screws been wrench ees peons juerel ‘ked that this was owing to Senn, ‘called the return shock, which taker plac when the electricity of a cloud combines with th’ of the earth; in which case a person near the SDs and chat with former fluid, may receiv’ one, and thus even ity Marshal Vaillant remarked shat a simi cident occurred @ few ago found to his astonish: securing the soles had ihe that caso the man Was Connes. In ils of which hed disappeared. 7° und at some distance from the body, e