The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1869, Page 5

EVROPE. The Inman steamship City of Brooklyn, Captain Brooks, from Liverpool the 10th, via Queenstown the 11th, arrivedhere last evening. She brings details of our cable telegrams up to date of sailing. ‘A society has been formed in the Evangelical Vereinshaus of Berlin for the propagation of the Gospel in Spain. The young Count Charles Walewskt, attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, has been ap- pointed Third Secretary of Embassy at London. Asudden rise in the Are, a torrent in the Mau- rienne Alps, has caused some damage to the Mont Cenis Railway, the twojbridges of Tennett having been carried away. ‘A ministerial Council wag held in Paris on the 9th instant, at which it was resoived that a short séasion of the Legislative Chamber should at once ye held for the purpose of swearimg in the new members, ‘The session is to commence on the 28th instant, The son of the Czarewitch, born on the 7th, bas received the name of Alexander. A private telegram from Constantinople, published by the Vienna Presse, announces the conclusion of & treaty regulating the ques‘ion of the frontier line be- tween Turkey and Persia. M. Dariste, French Senator, has entered an action for defamation againt the gerant of the Birnais and M. Gustave Fould, with damages laid at 100,000 francs, the Bint announcing his intention, if suc- cesstul, to apply the money to the charitable estab- Msnments of Lescar (Basses Pyrénces), AtArsac, France, the lightning recently fell upon the church during aivine service. About thirty per- fons were more or less seriously injured, and a part of the roof destroyed. On the 9th the police arrested a Dablin printer for having distributed documents of a treasonable eharacter among the military stationed at Cork. In these productions the soldiers as well as the peo- ple were calied upon to enter all gun shops and pro- vision etorea and to appropriate their content The prisoner was brougut before the magistrates at Cork and remanded. The periodical elections of members to the Second Chamber of Deputies of Holland has been held, and in the eclty of Amsterdam the three liberal candi- dates were all elected, The result of the provincial elections is not yet kuown. It is announced that General Fieury, aide-de-camp ofthe Emperor Napoleon, has been appointed French Minister at the Court of Italy. General Fleury has already fulfiiled several important diplomatic mis- sions, and the Patrie says that his appointment at the moment when a marked rapprochement is tak- ing place between France, Austria and Italy is a fact of the utmost interest. The results of thirty-one dections to the Holland Chamber of Deputies have come to hand. Of the succeasfal candidates twenty are liberals, fourteen of whom sat in the last Chamber, and eleven are conservatives, of whom three are new members. A second balloting will be necessary in five electoral tricts. : old man, attired in ecclestastical costume and Wearing a long white Beard, has been seen for the Jast few days in the streets of Paris. It is Mgr. Dupona, Bishop of Azoth, in the kingdom of Siam, who has come to Europe to be present at the Gene- ral Council. This prelate was born at Arras; he has Sesided in Siam for the last thirty years, The Paris “atrie says that several papers, in enu- Merating the artillery force of Prussia, have de- Clared that it consists of 8,000 guns, and that of France ig numericaliy inferior. ‘Without entering now into any comparison,” says the Patrie, “we may perhaps be allowed to remark that France pos- sesses a total of 8,845 guns, the bulk of which are newrified cannons, or old pieces which have been altered, and that our artillery enjoys a very high re- putation in Europe. An analysis of the rolls of the peerage shows that 80 far from the ‘descendants of the Runnymede Darons” being numerously represented in the pres- ent House of Lords, only three peerages of the thir- teenth century survive, There are four peerages of the fourteeuth century, seven of the fifteenth, twelve of the sixteenth, thirty-five of the seventeenth, ninety-five of the eighteenth and 233 of the nine- teenth. The new patents issued since Earl Grey's ‘accession to power in 1830 are 163 in number, and Of these 123 were created by liberal and forty by conservative governments. ENGLAND. The London Times on the Late French Elections. In 1866 the Minister of Public Instrpction published a colored map, showing the staie of elementary edu- cation in the ‘departments, according to the census tables of the annual conscription. Taking thismma} a8 a guide to the recent elections, we find that, wit poareny, an exception, wherever the standard of na- Rional education is highest, the candidates of the jon have distanced their oficial competitors, dt bitter parody of a celebrated phrase, in ‘which @ Paris contemporary sufms up these educa- tional and electoral statistics—L’Empire c'est Vigno- rance— only too well justified. = Surely this is not the sort of basis for a dynasty to satiaty 4 thoughtful and intelligent sovereign. All the false doctrines of rash and irresponsibi advisers cannot persuade him that at this period of the nineteenth century euch a people as the French ‘will resign themselves to the tyranny of ignorance. Besides, in some slight degree this mass of 10- Tance is decreasing every year, and as the circie of popular intelligence widens, the majority of the Batistied shrinks, like the Peau de Chagrin im Bal- wac’s story. ‘ To gain, however, a clear view of the trie mean- ing of these results of the second ballot, itis more fusportant to fx atterition upon the electors than ‘upon the elected; upon toe relative numbers of the majority and the minority in ‘the constituencies where official or Independent candidates bave been returned, and upon the glasses of the population whfth that majority and that poy severally and distinctly represe’ It will be found that fn a considerable portion of the count well as the town constiwiences, the candidate Of the liberal minority has run the oficial nomi- nee very hard, aud when the moral and material re- sources of the admiuistration against an obnoxious intruder in isolated localities are weighed in the balance, the mere apparition of any but oficial can- didates seems in most cases almost miraculo: It is absurd to suppose that in clecting @ candidate of extreme opinions the ulations of commercial ard industrial cities, and of all the great centres of inieliigence and activity, are alming at the de- Molition of existing society, or the violent subver- m of the peace and order of the commu- nity. What they mean ts simply to choose the man ‘who presents hipeclt as the most uncompromising adversary to thd rultng power, and this they do sometimes without much regard to the political ca- po of the candidate of their choice. But the nsformation of the majority in the new Corps Legisiatil will be more striking even then the nime- rical increase of the Wiens tong With such minorities beliind them they 10 longer be the docile and compliant acclatmers of every Minister who demands their unquestioning confidence and assent. One of the causes of the decline and fall of the Firat Napo- leon was the servile acquiescence of the great bodies of the State, which 80 easily degenerated into deser- tion and insult when the master’s fortunes began té wane. It may be reserved for the wiser experience of his nephew to learn the value of & representative assembly which has the courage to assert its prerogatives in due season. His best friends and welkWishers can but hope that he wili be wise in time. Before the Chamber whith has just been elected has fuldiled its constitutional term of existence (he Prince Im- ‘ial Will be legally ot » Perhaps this paternal lection may assist the Emperor in seizing one of ose supreme opportunities which once lost are tr- recoverable. It needs no gift of prophecy to fore- nA 4 his conduct at this critical juncture will be ate. The Post Office and the Telegraphs, The following imforwation is communicated by the United pe lectric Telegraph Company (Limited):—The Post Office have completed the! Tangements, under the Telegraphs Act, with the Wiwie of the telegraph companies for the purchase of their undertakings; and have nearly settled their arrangements with the raliways. The amount of purchase money required ig now, therefore, so near), ascertained, that @ reliable estimate may be arrived at ofjthe probable financial resuit to the country. The mpney Will be raised at from three @nd a half to three and @ quarter per cent., and the revenue derived from the telegraphic business shows ® return of between five and six per Cent upon the sum required, and ¥ refore & | net gain to the national revenue, The basis of wenty years’ Retehase of the net receipts of the companies, as xed by Parliament under the act, includes the plant a9 well aa the will of the business. The act of 1844 prescribed twenty-five years’ purchage of the net profits and of the prospective profits of the rail. Sevorbone tether present ment is far more pk mare cone counry than exlating precedents —. The Irish Church Binney Speech Not - Spoken» ‘om the London Daily New; . peech Not Spoken” ts the ito. of wn ietter to es Lom! Chaucelior into which the Bishop of Fly compressed what he would say in the House of Lords it he had not made up his mind to leave the speaking to the Archbishops and tne Irish Drelates. Tha Bishop's letter te very candid NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1869—TRIPLE and moderate. He is “fully alive to the anomaly of a Cnarch contaming bat 908,00 worshippers treated ag the Church of @ eople num! near! and he pl bering 6,000,000 joes not doubt that Mr. Gladstone has brought for- ward his bill “in a spirit of anxious desire to rem- edy a grievance, to conciliate a nation and to do even-handed justice to all.” For all that he is an earnest opponent of the Disestablishment aud Dis- endowment bill, which, altnough 1t will leave the Church, ip proportion the number of ita meinbera, the richest church in Christendom, he describes as one for “turning it out empty-handed upon the world”? * * * If the political value of the Bishop's letter is small, there is a passage near its close which all parties in the Church may read with profit:— Ifthe Churches of Great Britain and Ireland cease to be national, still their sphere of intluence has spread so far and wide that, by good and steady orgenization, the whole nglican communion may perhaps be kept, as one pa triarchate, united and independent. It cannot be done if every private opinion and every sectarian prejudice be Pp the good and dis- Union of the whole.” But if clerey and laity will. Join to- gether with mutual contidence, if Sgainst extreme practices, wor el otnaiaeton rac ni rat Teolated and insubordinate cot Ht they will renounce bit- fer recriminations, aud, above all, discredit and discounte- nance violeat religious ‘periodicals’ (on the one side or the other, there may be a hope that United Anglicanism—at home, in America and in the colonies—may hold fast Catuolic, primitive and evangelical truth, though its national- ism may lave been scattered to the winds of heaven, Other- wine there is no hope but of reabsorption in Rome. The italics are the Bishop’s. It is not pleasant for members of the State Church—and it is still leas pleasant for the shonouaty Protestants outside 1ts pale, who, according to the measure of their power, are responsible for its establishment—to be told tnat it has so traimed up its children ¢hat they are in im- minent danger of being absorbed tuto the Charch of Rome. But itis always best to know the truth, The London Star on the Alabama Question. It is a great peint gained that so many errors have already been exposed and refuted, and that we once again fee) ourselves standing on firm ground, We hope that the people of both countries will resist the temptation to depart from the region of facts, The story of @ tripartite alliance agaist the United States 1s one of those canards whic are very apt to puzzle even sober people, and to place common sense at a discount, According to this report negotiations of some kind or other are on {foot for the union of Great Britain, France and Spain in a treaty which contemplates the possi- bility of war with the American republic. We be- lieve that so far as the responsible statesmen of this country are concerned these negotiations are a pure figmentgf the imagination, and we ace inclined to tmnk that both the Emperor and the government of Spain have domestic troubles on their hands which Will indispose them to emburk in so magnificent an undertaking as an alliance, offensive and defensive, with England, The facts with which we are actually confronted are sufficiently serious without the intro- duction’ of an element of romance into the ques tion. There has already been a great deal too much of taik for the mental health of yg nation, and for this reason it might be as well if the threatened de bate in the House of Commons did not come oil. Everybody is satisfied with the statesmanlike ex- planation of Lord Clarendon, and for the present the further solation of the problem may salely be lett in the wise hands te which it has been entrusted. ‘The nation has confidence in her Majesty’s advisers. Debates in the House of Commons may provoke furt. er misunderstandings—at all events, they can serve no useful object, and we should be glad if our ssaiaiahore would tor a time exercise the wisdom of silence, Dreadful Boiler Explosion at Bingley. The London Times of the 10th inst, contains the following heartrending account of a boiler ex- plosion, which was attended with considerable loss of life:— A very disastrous boiler explosion, supposed to have resulted in the death of not fewer than twenty adults and children, occurred yesterday morning at the works of Messrs. Town & Son, bobbin turners, at Bingley, between Bradford and Keighley. The workshop of Messrs. Town was situate on the north bank of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and in the rear of the Natfonal School, Park road, the two build- ings being separated by the playground of the school. ‘The premises of Messrs. Yown consisted of a large workshop about fifteen ated long by fifteen in width, and two stories in height, boiler and engine house and offices. The boiler house stood between the workshop and offices, and over the latter were two rooms Occupied as @ dwelling by Mr. J. Town, Jr. The explosion occurred about ten o’ciock yesterday morning. The boller was lifted from its base into the air, and fell a shapeless mass about forty yards off. The works and cottages were levelled with the ground, large, stones being, huried jong distances. Workmen wuo were on the burding, persons in the cottages and scholars in the playground of the National School were instantly overwhelmed and buried beneath the ruins. A great number of willing hands immediately engaged m the task of dismterring those who had been so sum- marily baried in the ruins, and yesterday afternoon the result was reported as follows:— Dead.—Mr. Town, jr.; two children of Mr. Joseph Midgley, Park road, manufacturer; @ child of Mr. Timothy Lister, Park road; two children of Mr. Nay- lor, grocer, Ferrand lane; William Thompson and Wiliam Tindall, workmen of Messrs. Town, aud child of Mr. Thomas Wright, saddier. Injured.—Mr. Town, sen., and also Mrs, Town, jr., and Henry Town, #0n of the latter, both of whom are not likely to recover. Aiso three workmen, viz.:—Joseph Murgatroyd, Hope street, Keighley; Thomas Smith, Keighley, and Sharp Butterfield, Framceliffe, Bingley. The dead and injured were removed to the Na- tional School, and a number of surgeons {rom the surroanding district rendered prompt ald to those who were suffering. Some were removed to their homes and some tothe Bradford Infirmary. The search for missing bodies was being prosecuted yesterday afternoon. The cause of the disaster is not known. FRANCE. The Provincial Elections. Up to the present time (June §) the ballotings have reguited in the return of thirty-three opposition ana independent and twenty-five official candidates, Whoge names are as follows:— Official:—MM. Gaudin, Perras, Conedia, Mathieu, Faiabot, Genton, Bucquet, Chartreuse, Rouzin, Haubville, Thouvette, Babonin, Sizerage, Gour- aand, Kerjequ, Dein, Coste, Vignat, Lebreton, lerte, Charpin, Pamard. Mallet, Jounston and Her- e. Non-official:—MM. Esquiros, Gambetta, Boduin, Desseaux, Lecesne, Caly, bstancelin, Karante, Bas- tide, Rampon, Dommartin, Wilson, Hesecque, Bar- theiemy, Pontatis, Picard, Yvoire, Tassin, Daru, Jeuveucel, Choiseul, Cocheris, Montpayroux, Geve- lot, Larrien and fould, M. Forcade dela Roquette, Minister of the Inte- rior, addressed, Jane 8, @ circular to despatch to the prefects, announcing thatin the fifty-nine elec- tions Oe @ second balloting was ne- cessary, thirty of the successful candidates were either supported or unopposed by the vernment; twenty-eight on the other hand, belonging to the opposition, and the returns from the second circumspection of the Finisterre has not yet come to hand. The final result of the elections throughout France gives a majority for the government of 213. The third and independent parties will be represeted in the Chamber by 42 de- puties and the radical party by 35, SPAIN. Cuban Mattors—Ofticial Information Received by the Minister of War—Dulce’s Resigna- tion and Its Effect—Unsatisfact: News from the Ever Faithfal IsleWhat the Peo- and the Members of the Cortes Think— Rodas—Strange MapRID, June 3, 1869, The Captain General, of the island of Cuba, in a communication dated the 15th of last May, states that the commanding general of the forces in the Eastern Department of the island of Cuba, Count Valmaseda, has come up with the rebels several times and has killed ninety of them, among whom are the chieftans Grau, two brothers of the self-titled Gen- eral Acosta and two aid-de-camps of Cespedes, and has taken possession of arms and warlike stores. The Commanding General of Cuba says that on the 234 of April last, that the refugee rebels were wandering about the positions called Ramon, which are about fourteen leagues from that city, beaten and pursued by our moveable colpmns; but he determined to at- tack them, which be did, and, although they were strongly intrenched, they dispersed after the first shots, leaving ta the power of our troops a self-titled colonel and commander and other prisoners. This feat, although it has not afforded ail the material advantages desirable, yet hag had great moral in- fluence, causing the surrender of 160 rebeis and mak- ing the others understand they will always be pur- sued by our soldiers, General Pelaez writes from Santa Clara, on the 4th of last month, that the cavalry colonel of militia of Guinez attacked the rebels near Siguanaca, killing ten and taking possession of arms and horses, The communications received from the Department of the Centre docs not fail to be satisfactory, Several families, .con- viuced of the proceedings of the authorities and Spanish troops towards those who present themscives, have abandoned the hill country, and have placed themselyes under our protection. Gen- eral na states that the works On the raliroad between Nuevitas and Pu have received jerto & great impulse, and that on the 4 bof present Bing cra wipatage Kemper, "HR a o aire, eval took Ceuta after BY -y liked five cannon found there, and destroyed the defenses and trenches made by fhe revela, ninety-nine of whom surrendered themseives, On the 3d, Brigadier Lesea’s vanguard, while con- ducting @ convoy to Puerto Principo, found a trench which stopped the pass in the centre of the wood of Alta Gracia. This trench was taken by storm by two battalions. One was of the Arragon regiment and the other by the regiment of the Queen, Our loss Was a field gilicer. subaliern and five soldiers, two oMcera and Swenty-ciaht soldie rg being wounded. By this relation it is easily under stood that the re- beilion 1s approaching its couvlusion, and that the Jew symptoiny of its existence do not consist Ip its resources, but ip the deceit in which the country people are enveloped ana made to believe that they will be shot whenever they present themselves to h guthorities or the military chiefs, and that this faisenood is vanishing before the humane conduct observed towards those repentant rebels who surrender themselves, Despatches were receivedyesterday by the govern- mens from General Domingo Dulce, stating as tol- lows:— Commission of Chiefs and Volunteers of Liberty have asked me that I resign the command to my second, I have General Caballero de Rodas come here !mm dingel . sail from Havana day after to-morrow. Hawana,June 3, 1869 ey DO MENGO DULEE. BAvaNa, June 2, 18669. T have taken charge of the military and politica: command of this wland. ‘It is urgent that the Propri tary ugeeral ee rive here immediately. PINAR. ‘The government is in @ quandary. The people are exe and expectant of some great calamity that hag occurred in Cuba, and no one dare give utterance to their fears or frame their ijipato aay chat which Shey sang like to say. It is a pitiable sight indeed to behold & nation struggling 40 speak and every mandumb. Such is the tes ‘Spain presents to-day. Noteven the most hydrophobic radical republican or Carlist Las a word to say. Though every journal quotes the teiegrams and gay that though the news ig pregnant with fo:ebodings, they know not what to make of it. The members of the Cortes asked the government what it all meant; that if it was conve- nient to the Executive power the Cortes would like to know something more about these portventious telegrams, Poor Admiral Topete, with some- thing like @ groan of despair coming hollowly from his bosom, rose up and said:—Genile- men Diputados, tor your information J will read the telegrams, after which you will know about it as much as the government knows, ‘The above telegrams were read; then expianatorily ‘Topeve gave his personal upinions about them, which amount to no more than that ‘we ail know the high noble qualities of the Captain General Dulce, and we may rest assured that the nobie patriotism ot our noble volunteers of liberty in Cuba is un- equalied; but further we know nothing."’ 18 1t not @ sad thing to see a country like Spain tasking itself to suifer tor fifteen days, compelling itself to wait fifteen aays for the mail, when two or three tele- | exten would explain all in two or three days? If spain had only @ NEW YOKK HERALD, that short, unsatisfactory, portentious telegram would never have been seat without explanations enough to satisfy all accompanying it. A ramor is current to-day that Dulce has had something to do with the rebeis, and that the volunteers did not like it, and they therefore, without any ceremony, ordered him to leave. Caballero de Rodas left Madrid yesterday for Cadiz. To-morrow he will leave that porton the steamer Almansa for Havana. Five thousaud men will leave m_ two or three days aiter him for the same destination, ‘This “Gentieman of Rhodes,’’ for that is the interpretation of his euphonious name, breathes fire and fury, and cruel marder glares out of his cruel eyes, Said he, slapping his hand over his heart, *‘I will have nothing to do with @ither Spanish or Cuban republicans, for was not the gentieman of Rhodes born a gentleman?’ Imagine this man of destiny sailing now to Cuba from that saying of his, The first Caballero de Kodas was the grandfather of the present one. The new Cap- tain General w a soldier of ability, and he is Supposed to know military business better than any other man in Spain. He is about forty-two years old, of short and stout proporuons, not grossly stout by any means. He ts full of energy; tlery, quick in action, prompt to decide. Duice ‘has a more cun- ning brain thap Caballero de Rodas, but the latter 18 by lar the best soldier, Rodas is supremely proud and cruel. His large, vitreous eyes, could not be kindled by the light of mercy. His very face, though heavy at the first glance, stamps him as a man whg could execute extremest measures without remorse. His lips, though not thin, are always drawn closely together, and his chin is exceedingly Eero impertinently 60. He has a very xed look, and when he meets ‘a man in whe street he always’ endeavors to stare him out of countenance. The soldiers and people cali him the ‘Butcher,’ on account of his crueities in 1854, and jast year at Maengos and Oadiz. He rather likes the name than otherwise, and the oftener he hears it the more protrasive his chin gets and more vitreous his eyes appear. You will probably hear something from him when he has arrived at Cuba. The government are not all satisfied with the re- cognition of the Cubans as belligerents by the Peru- vians. Very little has been said yet about it. A telegram from London yesterday announced that 800 Americana were about to immigrate to Spain for the purpose of torming a colony. General Robert B. Lee and several other Contederate gen- erais are among the number. RUSSIA. The Russian Press on American Sympathies— Russia in the East=The Orthodox Faith, St. PETERSBURG, June 2, 1869, In one of the @MH3t numbers of the Moscow Gazette I find @ long and clever letter from Washington, evidently written by an American and calculated to afford the most unalloyed gratification to all who, like myself—and their name is legion—bear a sin- cere and friendly feeling to your country and wish for the closest possible intimacy with your nation. It is @ remarkable fact that, however high party spirit may ran, and however bitter parties may be on each other with respect to most questions of inter- nal as well as foreign policy, this is the one point on which most hostile opiniona meet. The righteous- ness and expediency of a fast friendship with the United States is a thing too universally ‘acknowledged to admit of any great amount of discussion. It ts not often you hear any doubts on the subject, and very rare indeed to hear it discussed in a downright sceptical or even hostile spirit, Perhaps-in no instance does the national sound political sense,more clearly manifest itself. ‘The general good feeling is at present at its height im the expectation of the new American Minister, than whom no person could have been selected more agreeable to the government and to the public. If it 1g indeed true, as the Moscow Gazette Washington correspondent says, that there is,a notion among the American public that the Alaska Territory has been ceded to the States only as a special act of friendship on the part of our Emperor, they are not far from the mark, for, as he very weil observes, it was not those paltry seven millions that could have tempted him to part with so important, if out of the way portion of nis dominions, nor would tt have a ceded to any other power for ten times the iu im. Another strong claim of America on our kind feeling the invariable sym- pathy she has stown to our co-religionaries in the East; and. as for Asia, she is rather likely, if anything, to become a link between us than an occasion fot ‘ife; for the people of Asia cannot but very soon draw a line undoubtedly favor- able to both nations between their policy and the policy of tle English in East India; far if they will take care of their own power and interests, netther wiil they leave the indigenous populations unat- tended to nor treat them with tl-concealed con- tempt, under pretence of introducing their own high standard of civilization, As for China, all my political friends fally agree With the Moscow Gazétle’s Washington correspond- ent when he says that the completion of the Pacific Railroad opens a new and incalculably vast era tn the history of that country, and will scarcely more affect its political and commercial relations to Ame- rica than to Russia, Indeed, this is a subject so immense and fertile with possibilities that it Is next to Impossible, Io not say to grasp ali its prova- ble rings and future results, but even dimly to conjecture them. That something grand will ome of it can be felt but not asyetexpounded. One thing may be predicted, however, with considerable certainty—it is thata revolution Fae be produced in our business transactions; half what was done through New York will now be turn the opposite way and go through San Francisco, of course ing China on the way, for there is exactly such an increase of attraction to our tea-growing neighbor among Us a4 there appears to be among your coun- trymen. We begin at last to awake to the fact, ob- vious enough, it would appear, tuat a good under- standing with our Asiatic neighbors Is, if anything, rather more fmportant than with our European ones, and that ronere our young peopig have more business to study Chinese and make pleasure trips to Pekin and Yeddo than to learn Paris slang and spend their time aud money in Paris cafés, or, per- haps, tn still worse places, ‘here is one other question which bids fair to be- come an additional and very serious link between our two nations—I mean the religious one. We can- not but follow with intense sympat! tion the progress of the Greek ort! America. Our attachment to the ig a national trait, which forms one of the principal ements of the Russian charater, one of the main and deepest springs of thi actions of which the nation has smost reason to be proud. It is go inti- mately bound up with our history, our traditt custoins, early associations, with all that we hol dear and sacrod, that we never can forego tts tn- fluence, Our noble and affecting church rites afid prayers, identified with our veaerable Sclavonic mother tongue, have ahold on our imumost being which neither time nor distance can ever loosen, for it tetis on the heart long aiter the reason has as- sorted its own independent way, We may have spent ears of our youth in Catholic or Protestant coun- of us do; we may become estranged of our birth im all external things, carve out @ philosophical and religious path for ourselves—as W! th} and indi- vidual will not?—we may lean towal estern political theories, and be rages, into deplorable extremes; but never to our day, tacagh we had lived to @ Sneering old ‘age, will @ Sonia eens, e'ecaued te our , if prese’ paexpeceay, we a ceased to seek taem for years, be it from negligence, indifferentism or More or less deeply rooted conviction; and not @ scholar of the gchool of Feuerbach and Bachner, Hota statesman of the school of Metternich and Talleyrand, not a hardened sceptic or revolutionary agent will be ashamed to own that at some un- guarded moment of his life an unexpected gust of joense atmosphere or strain of church chant, in its touching grandeur and simplicity, has moved him to Warm, unreasoning human tears. For our religion 18 not one of the braing only, nor one of the senses and tmagiuation, nor is it something abstract, separate from and inde- endent of the politieal and social lie of the people. jt ié @ notorious historical fact, so notorious as scarcely Lo need demonstration, that whereas Catholl- cism has always had a dividing status in statu tendency, away of loosening and suppressing all really sacred tfes and substituting, self-created im- inary ones, the fufuence of the Greek orthodox Church has been exactly contrary throughout his- tory. ‘The most glorious national remembrance, the sweetest, most lively associations of childhood alike endear it to us, It is a beautiful form of worship; at the same time it ts the national raliying flag; it | airongest political link between &3 and all of our race or our religion; it 13 the embiem of slavonic unity of the renovating, invigorating element to whom a8 undoubtedly the future belongs in this hemisphere as to you Jt belongs in the other hemisphere, TURKEY. Important Works on the Danube. The works directed by the European commission of the Danube are being carried on actively under the surveillance of the delegates, According to the international convention the banks of that river from isacktchia in Bulgaria to the sea are to remain free from all constructions, servitude or obligations whatever, From that branch 1,200 cubic fathoms of gravel and stones have already been dredged, and there 1s reagon to believe that the complaints of the European commission will lead to the re-estab- lishment of the navigation on that part of the river and place that material at the disposal of the engineers, ‘The works are besides at present .1n @ satisfactory state; the St. George’s channel is now maintained at the same level; the cutting through the M delta—so called from its form, appears likely to be terminated in @ few months, and the greatest activity prevails in the port of Sulina. The system for conveying the earth ashore, employed when the canal from the port of Amsterdam to the North Sea was being constructed, has been adopted here with great success, and the dredging machines are able to dispense with the use of lighters. The resuit will be a considerable saving of expense in cutting through the delta. The navigation Is be- sides very considerable, as between the Ist of Janu- ary of this year and the 16th of May not less than 878 vessels entered the Danube; as 161 were remaining at the end of last year, the total number in the river was 1,039, The departures were much less numerous, and consisted only af 487 ves- sels of over 80 tons, and twelve of smaller burden Consequently 590 were stillleft. When that result 1s compared with the returns previous to the work of the commission, the influence of that undertaking on the state of the commercial and maritime airairs in those waters will be seen, the increased security oifered to vessels having developed the transit ina large measure. To mention only the port of Sulina, there‘are at’ present lying there sixty-tiree vessels, of which twenty are English, sixteen italian, eight ‘Turkish, elght, Austrian, and several! French, Nor- wegian, Mecklemburger, Rouman and Greek.” GERMANY. Trade in the Zollverein. In the year 1363 the state of trade in the whole ter- ritory of the Zollverein contrasted favorably with 1887, and this was more particularly the case with re- gard to Berlin. In the past year, indeed, confidence had not quite returned, but there was a marked im- provement in most branches of business. The trade to rye and wheat did not attain its usual dimen- sions, but on the other hand flour, barley and oats were gold in increased. quantities, ‘The spirit trade was unusuaily brisk, the consumption and exportation surpassing those of 1867 by 4,000,000 of quarts and being 7,000,000 more than in 1866. In spirits of wine a good business was also done. The consumption of flesh meat in Berlin exceeded that of the preceding year by six and a half percent, and a greater quantity of gro- ceries was used, especially m the second half of the ear. The consumption of Berlin beer and other inds was remarkable. Tnere were in this city forty-seven breweries at work, besides several new ones in course of erection. In wines of the Zoliverein there was likewise an increased Consumption, ag well as in imported bottied wines. The coal trade was very active. Of English coals 200,000 centners more than in the previous year were consumed, in consequence, no doubt, of the high prices of Upper Silesian coals during the past year, eth} partly from a very brisk exportation to Austria and partly from Increased activity in the Silesian tron trade. Business was more lively in iron and metals. In the first six months of the year there were large transac- Uons in rapeseed oil in consequence of extensive speculation in this article in Parts and Hamburg. The use of petroleum !n lamps has increased about fifty per cent, and the trade in linseed oil, palm oil other commodities of that class exceeded that of 1867. The woo! business alone showed a falling off, and prices still continue to sink, in consequence oi importations from abroad, FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A. W. Powell, his wife and children and two mis- sionaries are reported to have been murdered by the natives in Abyssinia. General Hartmann will command the autumn Manceuvres of the Bavarian army at the camp of Schweinfurth, which are to commence about Sep- tember 1, The troops are expected to number about 18,000, s An unusual flow of emigration from Norway and Sweden has passed through various British ports during this year, mostiy en route for the United States. The number that has passed via Leith and Glasgow since the middle of March averages 350 per week. The cause is a partial failure of the crops in those two countries during the last two seasons, The Duchess de Riarlo-Sforza, having made a de- posit of $12,000 in excess of the sum for which the late M. Berryer’s estate at Angerville, France, was sold, will probably become the definite purchaser. The total price will then be $76,000. At Pesth, the Captain of the city has summoned the Mayor before the Court on account of the un- cleanly state of the streets and alleys. Aserious riot took place recently at Laibach, be- tween a procession of gymnasts and the peasantry. Several persons were killed and wounded before the military could restore tranquillity. Paris has a population of 1,700,000 souls—viz., 750,00 men, 700,000 women dnd 260,000 children. Of these there are 400,000 of independent means, government employes, lawyers, doctors, &c.; 100,000 are connected with the schools, hospitals, prisons, &c.; 200,000 follow various degrees of commerce; 1,000,000 are,engaged in manufacturing; 35,000 are soldiers. Paris has also 1,800 steam engines, repre- senting a power of 10,000 horses, equal to the power Of 35,000 men. FOREIGN ART NOTES. The Koucheleff-Beskorodko collection of pictures ‘was recently sold ia Paris:—“The Woman Taken in Adultery,” Paul Veronese, brought $3,600; “A Flock of Sheep,’ K. Dujardin, $3,800; ‘‘Pasturage,”” Cutp, $4,000; “A Village Féte,” Teniers, $5,000; “Ola Man,” same, $5,020; “The Dyke,” Ruysdael, $5,360; “Hunt tn a Forest,” A, Van de Welde, $9,900; “Bull Fight,” Paul Potter, also $9,900; “Hermit,” Greuze, $11,100. The whole sum realized was $117,620. A curious discovery has been made in the old church of Saint Gervais, Paris. Some persons who were repairing the woodwork at one of the sides in the left ofthe nave discovered a secret door giving access toa small chapel, hitherto not known, the walls of which are entirely covered with excellent paintings in the Rénalssance style, in good preser- vation, This church is extremely rich in artistic relics, possessing among other things a fine Albert Durerand a remarkable Perugino; besides some stained glass of Jean Cousin, the father of the French school of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A shameful act of vandalism hag just been perpe trated in the Cathedral of St. Julien, at Le Mans (Sarthe). There exists in that building a magnificent tomb, attributed by some to Noyau, by others to Gervais Labarre, and consisting of a group in terra cotta, composed of eight persons, life size, repre- senting St. Peter supporting the Saviour, who is lying in his grave clothes; St. John consoling the Virgin; Joseph of Arimathea at the feet of Christ, Mary Magdalen, and Mary, the mother of James and John, Two evenings back a wooden shoe maker, either from motives of anti-religious fanaticism or when under the influence of drink, entered tne church, and with a hammer knocked off ail the heads of the group. The man was arrested, but the loss to art is most serious. THE MASSACRE OF AN ENGLISH PARTY IN ABYSSINIA, From further information received at Newport it appears that Mr. Powell was pt! gen by a Mr, Maccree, a Scotchman, who also met with the same cruel fate ag the others forming the party, In, 8 ay ir. Wes! communication, dated the 7th the English Consul at Alexandria, writes to Mr. Mac- oree’s brother, giving @ short account of the pro- gn of the party previous to the massacre, In is he states that Mr, Maccree had taken Mr, Powell to @ rather dangerous part of country, aud it would have been had ie Qnother directio: would have been safer, th ng ore frienly, and ero equally as good sport in hon hunting might be obtained, Then the consul admits that has i been recelyed of the cruel murder of Mr. Powell, Powel, their child, and Mr. M: by the natives. Two Swiss mis- sionaries are to have brought the news to tho British authorities, and preparations were in pro- to start phe po up the country in order, possi! to obt further particulars, ig letter adds that unless prompt retaliation follows the brutual massacre the natives will take courage, and it wilwmot be safe for oy, Englishman to visit the country, Mr. W. H. P. Jenkins, & brother of Mrs. Powell, ia, it appears, about to go out to Alexandria, sone to make every possible inquiry respecting the SHEET. BOOK REVIEW. SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS IN Maxcr, GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND; OR, EXPERIENCES OF AN AMERI- CaN JOURNALIST IN Evurorg. By Edward Gould Butfum, author of “Six Months in the Goid Mines,” &c., &c. New York: Harper & Brothers. Mr. William A. Buflum, a brother of the late Mr, Edward Gould Buffum, has presented in this volume @ judicious selection from a mags of letters, sketches, studies, &c., left by, the distinguished journalist, whose untimely death in Paris a few months ago Spread grief throughout a widely extended circie of friends. The preface gives a brief biographical sketch of the author, whose individual cast of mind, ‘a8 well as his varied experience as a traveller and nis long training as @ jousnalist, eminently qualified him to produce just such a book as this, a book at once entertaining and instructive. The Harpers have published it not only in their best style, butat a most opportune moment, The demand for summer reading is now at its height. The thousands of fashionable tourists who are leaving this port for a trip to Europe will find Mr. Buffum’s “Sights and Sensations in France, Germany and Switzerland” a delightful and serviceable travelling companion. At the same time the thousands who are to spend the summer at home, either in town, in the country or on the sea shore, may, by the help of this little book, and by “makiug believe hard,” enjoy many of the pleasures of foreign travel while they escape all its annoyances, The very titles of the twenty-two chapters which compose this work revive the most interesting asso- ciations in the minds of all Americans who have been abroad. To enumerate them may best indicate the range of topics selected by the editor:—The Bubples of Champagne; Trente et Quarante at Hom- bourg; A Tramp in the Bernese Oberland; The Mont Cenis Tunnel; The Quartier Lat What the Paris- jans Eat; The Hospitals of Paris; The Closerie de Lilas; The Foundling Hospital of Parts; A Chamber of Horrors; The “Spevialité de Pumpkin Pie” (Mme. Busque); What and How Much the Parisians Drink; A Flying Trip in the Country; Parisian Theatres; Distinguished Negroes; Learned Institutions and Lectures; “Down Among the Dead Men” (The Cata- combs); The Chigoniers of Paris; Visit tothe Chapel of the Tuileries; The Cemetery of Pere la Chaise; Religious Freedom in France; Rouen and Its Ro- mantic Reminiscences. Here 1s certainly an attrac- tive variety. A striking merit of these pages is derived from the fact that they do not record the hasty, confused and often erroneous impressions of a traveller who has just landed in Europe. On the contrary, they are the fruit of close, careful observations during a pro- longed transatlantic residence. No more accurate, condensed and complete account of the champagne district gan be given than that in the, frst chapter, orof the gambling at Hombourg, in the second, or ot the Mont Cenis tunnel, in the fourth; and so we mignt go on specifying aimost all the other chaptere. The author's ‘‘healthy love of see- ing” and his quick and broad sympathies with nature, and particularly with human nature, are revealed alike in the Bernese Oberland, in the Alps and in Paris. His vein of tenderness is disclosed in the touching simplicity with which he telis the story of “‘My Neighbor, Little Aglaé, the Flower Maker.”? Throughout the work he exhibits the tact of the practised journalist, who must learn to write about precisely what tne reader is inter- ested to know. He does not hesitate to give information which some writers too readily take for granted is already familiar to everybody. Moreover, he always gives his own impressions instead of retailing those of others at second hand. Many books of European travel can be interesting only to their compilers, and should not have been printed even “tor private circulation.” But Mr, Buffum’s volume bears no resemblance to such books. It will doubless be more heartily welcomed by the public than any similar work which has ap- peared since the publication of the late Mr. Sander- son’s “American in Paris.” M. Jales Janin thought so highly of that clever book as to take the trouble vo offer it to the Continental public in a complete French disguise. We append a few extracts from Mr. Buflum’s “Sights and Sensations: — SONG AND STORY VS. REALITY. Song and story have thrown so much romance about vine-growing regions and their inhabitants that one who gathers lis ideas of them from song and story is liable to imbibe very false views, This champagne district, for example, in which the w iniuated and enthusiastic lover of nature and of ro- mance would hope and expect to find beautiful land- scapes, broad and smiling plains, veriant river banks and green and sunny hilisides, ail covered with @ luxuriant grow of the vine, and peopled with hardy, happy race, whose a occupation after the labors of the day to dance and make love, and, im overflowing foaming fagons, sing Anacreontic songs in honor of the vine, will very much disappoint him in the reality. The soil of this whole district is white and chalky, abounding in carbonate of lime, which makes it very disagreeable to the eye. “Thisfcalcareous soil seems force an adapted to the growth of the vine, the culture of which is more easy, as the earth is light, andgwithout compactness, In fact, upon these light calcareous soils nothing but the vine will flourish, Song and story usually convey the idea that the people in the vine-growing regions are not only ex- ceedingly happy, but exceedingly virtuous; in fact, living evidences of the truth of the motto, ‘Be vir- tuous and you wili be happy.’’ So far as the female poruon of the laboring class of the residents of the Champagne district 1s con- cerned, am sorry to under the ne- cessity of dispelling this illusion. Is it some peculiarity im the climate, or the chalky soll which reflects back the sun’s rays with such borning force; or is it something in the wine, that makes Reuns, the great commerciai cen- tre of Champagne, one of the moat eligivie telds of operation for the labors of the Moral Reform Society that I have ever discovered in France or out of it¥ ‘These tall, well formed aud pretty Champenoises who “have left their father’s house” and the labor in the vineyards, and come to Reims to work at dressmaking orto tend shop or labor in the woollen manufactories here, and who, witn litte bundies in their hands, dressed, with their rich, luxuriant growth of hatr unconfined by cap or bonnet, may be seen in great numbers skipping over the trottoirs about eight o'clock in the evening, on their way home from work. These young ladies, although apparentiy very “happy,” and certainly exceedingly pretty, it ig said make no claims to being “virtuous,” The ‘¢ Who oMiciates in the splendid catuedrai, whose , heaven-pointing towers ought to attention of these young womer to higher things, is said to be calied upon much more frequentiy to baptize infants who m of knowing their own fathers are profoundly lacking, than he is of those begotten and born in accordance with the strict rules of pro- priety, virtue, law aud the Church. These are mel- ancholy facts, and may furnish interesting subjects msideration t0 moral chemists and analyzers. is the cause of it? Is it the wine, the chalky soil, the’burning sun, or the cathedral? THE VALLEY OF AARE. All, through this wild and beautiful valley the scene was rendered still more picturesque by numer- ous mountain torrents falling in fleecy, sheety clear- ness from the heights above a ora scatieriug their spray around us as they fell. arer, who had once made a trip to the Yosemite Valley in California, had during all the former portion of our tramp, whenever had expressed particular admiration for any nd feature of the scenery, been in the habit of dampening m ardor by giving his nose an upward infection and say- ing that “it was nothing to Yosemite.’ In fact, a little childish pettishness had grown up in both of ‘us, and |, in oon whenever | saw pot g on the route particularly Lag ge | retorted by asking if he had seen ‘anything in Yosemite equal to that?’ However, during that day in the iias. lithal, this beautifal valley of the Aare, we ae our inage in the presence of these grand old mountains and leaping cascades, and after that I heard no more of Yosemite, THR FLOWER MAKER IN THE QUARTIER LATIN. In the back room, Egg mine, lived a littie flowermaker, Agiaé, and her mother. The pretty, patient tittle creature plied her busy Sogeee from daylight in the morning often till the night was far pepe for with the two or three francs a day which she earned, she found it diMcult to support herself and her poor mother, who was confined to her bed half the time with rheumatism. One aay, after { first moved into the house, 1 heard @ tap at my door, and, opening it, found this pretty lctie girl standing there, she bad heard that 1 was an era , nd Francois, Who never could get tt out ot his stupid bead thall all e¢rangers came to Paria to study. medicine, had told her that 1 was a doctor, and she wanted me to come in and gee her mother, Who was laid up with one of her rheumatic attacks. I undeceived her as to my fession, but, inding her mother was really very fisent for @ medical friend, whose treatment ly relieved hor. After that little Agiaé and I ¢ great friends, and many @ long winter evening I sat in their humble, tli-furnished m, ing to and talking with them, while jitue Agiaé worked array, ot her roses and man,” she lilies. Her “you ag seller's son in the next bull ig who took fer to the gallery of the Porte St. or the parterre of the Bobino on Bund ings, told Agiaé that she must not be so agreeavie to the étranger; but this did not prevent her, when I was tll for a week, from bringing her work {nto my room and soicping, a4 in her cheerful manuer as blithely as a bird, Then ft ‘was all ar d that when | received the 100,000 francs, which was the first prize in the Montene- grine jottery, in which there were several tmilliens of Uckets, of which | possessed four, costing five sous each, Agiaé Was to nave a dot of L wont say how many francs. aud wag to marry the rain seller's sou, shortly. 5 and was to be one of the groomsmen, and the old Jady was to live with chem, and a plate was to be set for me every Sunday, and the grain seller’s son was po shop of his own, and we Were ali to be as ¥ as possible, Njreamn dreams! We saved her aelicate little body from the horrors of the fosse commune; and now when I stray into the cemetery of Mont Par- nasse my feet involuntarily lead me to a littie green grave fragrant with springing violets. Upon the eadstone three wreaths of (numorteiles are banging and beneath them is chiselied the name of *‘Anglaé. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Theatrical affairs in this city, after a week of un- Precedented duiness, will this evening experience a slight fillip that will unquestionably prove welcome— in the present general dearth of musical and theat- Tical novelty—to the piaygoers of the metropolis, At Booth’s theatre Tennyson holds high revel in @ dramatization of his poem of ‘Enoch Ardeh.”” The piece has never before been produced in this city, although during the past year it met wittmconsider- able success in the provinces. It 1s dividedMinto five acts and as many tableaux, and Will be brought out with new and superb scenery and in that careful style for which this house has long since become famous. The piece has been admirably cast and will probably prove as mueh of a success in this city 4s it did elsewhere, Mr. Edwin Adams will person- ate that most careless of husbands, Enoch Arden, and Miss Blanche De Bar will sustain the role of Annie, the wife who was too much married. Tennyson will likewise hold possession of the boards at the Fifth Avenye theatre, where Mr. Charles Reade’s dramatization of his pastoral poem, ‘‘Dora,” will be the attraction. Tms piece Was played in this city about a year ago at the Broadway theatre, with Mrs. Bowers and Mr. Jack in the leading rdles, but did not attract much atten- tion, and was withdrawn after a few representa- tions. At the Fifth Avenue theatre, however, It bids fair to meet with quite a different result, {t wiil be produced with all the accessories of new scenery, &c., and will be interpreted by a company of clever actors from Selwynu’s theatre, Boston. Miss Lizzie Price, from the Arch Street theatre, Philadelphia, will sustain the role of Dora, and Mr. Frederic Robinson, of Selwyn's theatre, will per- sonate Farmer Allan. The attraction next in order is the reappearance of Miss Lucille Western this evening at the Grand Opera House in her great dual character of Madame Vine and Lady Isabel, in the highly sensational play of “East Lynne.” It is over a year since Miss West- ern last appeared in this play before a New York audience, and during the interval she has travelled professionally over nearly the entire Union. She will doubtless be welcomed back to the metropolitan boards by a full house of ner old admirers. Miss Western has taken a lease of the Grand Opera House for a short season, where she intends bringing out a number of her peculiar sensational plays, in each of which she will appear in the leading role, and will be supported by a strong company. The next event of note mentioned in the pro- grammes is the return of the Waverley from bur- lesque to the legitimate. This evening the theatre above mentioned opens, under the management of Messrs. Brookes & Coleman, with a good company and with very encouraging auspices for a successful summer season. “The Old Curiosity Shop” will be the attraction, with Miss Rosalie Jack in the dual character of Little Nell and the Marchioness. Mr. Brookes appears as Dick Swiveller and Mr. Coleman as the irrepressible Quilp. At Nibio’s the grotesque and funny Clodoches on the “light fantastic’ ure still attracting large au- diences. Notwithstanding the frightful state of the weather they nightly work their audiences up to a “red-hot” excitement by their harmiess and amusing mancenvres, and never lati to receive the cooling and soothing balm of an encore for thetr artistic trouble. The heavy “Sinbad.” with the Thompson troupe in gold fringe and golden hair, is still the prelude to this enjoyable performance. “Mother Hubbard,’ with its burlesque whimsij calities and pantoniimic tricks, bids fair to run throughout the entire season at Wallack’s. The bal- let of bewitching brunettes and natural blondes is to allintents and purposes just the style of perform- ance suited for the summer solstice. It is light, airy and graceful, and is, furtnermore, enjoyable. The transformation scene, too, would be enjoyable were it not for the Clown, Pantaloon, Colambine and an English policeman, who nightly thrust themselvea in front of it for the delectable purpose of tumoling about upon the stage in a manner quite uncalled for and useless, thereby detracting from the ever-chang- ing beauties of the scene in the background. This should be remedied at once. A word to the wise is sumicient. “Hiccory Diccory,” at the Olympic, glides smooth- ly on the noiseless tenor of his way. His way very evidently is a winning and successful way, and the only noise heard is the loud applause of public ap- proval with which he is nigttly greeted. The pan- tomime is improving, and so are the Kuraifies, who have long ago succeeded in dancing themselves into the good graces of New York playgoers. The last week of the minstrel, gymnastic and circus combination at Wood's Museifn ts announced. Two performances are given daily, at which the Gregories assist in their daring breakneck acta, and Mile. Gertrude’s stuffed monkies ride spirited and genuine dogs. Mr. Edward Eddy will make his appearance at this establishment next week In a sensational dramatization of ‘The Wandering Jew.’* The Bowery, with Blond Fanny Herring, doth intend dazzling the eyesof the Boweryites with the glitter of “Ye Field of ye Cloth of Gold” this even- ing. Zanfretta likewise appears on the tight rope. At the Theatre Comique Charley White is present- ing a series of light entertainments that are attract- ing large audiences. His performances consist of comedy, farce, pantomime and burlesque, all tn one evening: Tony Pastor announces the last week of the sea- son at his popular Opera House. “The Female Fili- busters, or The Siege of Long Branch,” is the new drama for the present week at this house. If the Piece is as good as its name ts long it will be certain to prove attractive. Bryants’ Minstrels have witnessed with the ut- Most complacency the closing up of their big brother, Tammany, and so intensely delighted are they there- at that they hold a ‘‘Peace Jubilee” this evening and ‘every evening during the week, to which their friends are invited. “Ixion” is stillon the bills at Hooley’s Opera House, Brooklyn. Miss Jennie Willmore and Mr. Felix Rogers appear in the roles of [xion and Mi- nerva respectively. Sie Fee COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. COURT OF GENERAL SEssI0NS.—The People v: Stephen H. Malony, felonious assault and batter, Same vs.. Audrew Teared, attempt urglar’ Same vs. Andrew Baldwin, burglary; Same vi David Marsh, James Hayward, forgery; Henry Webb, grand larceny; Same vs. John Smith, do.; Same va Charies Kuhiman, do.; Same vs, Thomas Smith, do.; Same vs. Charles W. Fairchila, George Moore, do.; Same vs. Albert Pietronskte, Otto Aruoun, obtaluing goods by faise pretences: CASE OF ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. {From the Albany Evening Journal, June 18.) Noble H. Johnson, & weil Known merchant, of Coeym: made a complaint at the Police Court ainst William P. Sigsvee, heretofore engaged tn the: milliag Dusiness at that place, for alleged false pretences, The defendant was arrested by otficer pally recveraay and examined this morning. Dis- trict Attorney Peckham appeared for the prosecu- tion and Matthew Hale for the accused. Sigsbee become embar in business, and to relieve himself from it sought @ loan upon morty ige. Johnson took a mortgage on the 30th March la-: ‘or $3,700, He had caused @ search ‘to be Je in the county clerk’s ‘eee and had food, as he supposed, but one mortgay res corded. Sigsbeo, as claimed, asserted pr <itively that the one was the only incumbrance on the pro- perty, It now transpires that there ts anotlier mort- ease for pe is was ynolds of this Len Tt ia a 1809, and tl was recorue: is no mention of it in the index to’ mortgages in the Clerk’s Office, It vas indexea as being given by Snyder instead of Sigsbee—that essential, and as It haa proved isastrous santas, having been made by the cler! mi: the index. Tne defendant claims that he did not make the assertion imputed him, and that he did not intend to mi for further bearing til ———___—__——_-_ A Ware Mocking Binp.—On Saturday last we eaw at the store of Messrs. H. W. Thomas & Co., 0 white mocking bird; it had just attained its feathers, i which tly white; its eyes are pink, and ii4 appea renee othe wise nillar to the sweet song.er 80 common to this country. It was i near the depot of the M. and A. R. R., apd was "he only. hed in the nest. It remains to be seen oether che albino mocking bird can warvle the sweet notes of fis species. —Federay Unione June Mie