The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1870, Page 4

‘The Regicide Conspiracy Against Napo- leon the Third. Its Inception, Progress and At- tempt at Execution. How the Plot Was Discovered in London and the News Commu- cated to the Emperor. Secret Radical Caucus Tiial of the French Monarch and His Beath Voted. American Interests in the Papal Council and American Musical Progress in Rome, The Suez Canal—Cash Receipts, Traffic and Defects of the Transit. The German mait steamship Donau, Captain Ernst, from Southampton on the 3d of May, arrived at this port.yesterday morning. The Donau Linded a news. paper mail—not perfect in file—and our spectal Eu- Topean correspondence, which 13 very important in etall, dated to the day of sailing from England. Im Paris, May 1, at the Opera, a performance took place for the beneflt.of Mile. Nilsson, comprising the cantata of “St, Cecilia,” words by Choviey, music by Benextct. The performange was a gre and Nilsson, Faure and Colin were warmly ap- ALondon jonrnal states that the inscription writ- ten upon a white marble, with capital Greek letters, Over the west door of the Greek church in Soho in ‘that city, can be interpreted as follows:— Inthe year of salvation 1677 this church was poe the Helientc race, the King being the Most me Charies the Second, the lelr to the throne being the Porphyrogenitos ee in the pur- ¥e) Prince, Lomi James, and the bishop being the joat Reverend Henry Crompton, at the expense of the and o! the rest of the bishops and nob‘es, and by the assistance of our Humbileness (ihe Bishop) of Samos, Joassapn Georginos, from the Isle of Melos, A large Joss or idol, sent home from China by Ad- miral Keppel as a present for the Prince of Wales, arrived at Sandringham, England. ‘The figure weighs thirty hundred weight, being made of metal. It is not of great height, but of masstye proportions, Cardinal Prince Schwarzenberg’s pamphiet, “De Summi Pontificis Infalivilitate,”’ whicn was printed ‘gt Naples, had been ordered by the Emperor of Aus- tria to be translated from the Latin into German. A general congregation of the Ecumenteal Council terminated the discussion on “De Parvo Cite. chismo.” Tie first portion of the papers referring to the schema “De Roniano Ponttjice’ were dis- tributed, The King of Italy was entirely recovered from his ‘attack of fever and able to return to Florence, Don Henri de Bourbon published a letter relating to the duel with the Duke of Montpensier, in which bis father was killed. He says:— Me was the support and consolation of four poor children, whom he educated with all the affection of his heart. His slayer has deprived aso: the conso!a- tion and hope of our life; but he has not, and never can, extinguish within us the dignity to reject with scorn the $6,000 he has deposited, aud to wait uptil some day we may settle cur account better with Jess moncy. My od and never to be forgotten farther was incapsbie of in- juring anybody, and if he treated Pon Antonio de Bourbon with bitier hardness he was not moved by any bastard intentions, He was impelied by a Spanish sentiment ef independence, of dignity and Justice, and by the shame and indignation of an honorable man; and these same mlives will eter- nally infucice his sons, Enrique de Bourbon, Fran- isco de Bourbon and Alberto de Bourbon. La Concorde (a French journal) annonces that England was not one of the Powers wiich, sup- Ported Count Daru’s note to the Papal government. Lord Clarendon, it says, after hearing the note read, justified the reserved attitude of the British government towards the Council, on the ground “that the court of Reme is never strong except when attacked, and that it has always been very feeble whenever 1t has assumed the offensive.” The installation of the Karl de Grey and Ripon as Graud Master of the English Masons was to tako Place on the 14th of May at the Irreemasons’ Hall, London. It was expected that nis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who holds the distinction of being a Past Grand Master, would be present on the occasion, and on the same evening the postponed festival, to which ail Masons “in clothing” are aa- missable, would be held in the grand hall. None of of the outer world admitted. The Mémorial Diplomatique of Paris states that Count Beust has instructed Prince Mett>ruich to de- clare to the Cabinet of the Tuileries that Austria woul? reaaily join in any collective step to prevent future atrocities mm Greece, in aidition to the collec tive action of England and Italy. It was announced that fromthe 21 of July next @elngie prepaid le:ter from North Germany to the United States will cost three silbergroschen via Bremen or Hamburg and four silbergroschen via Engiana. Inthe English House of Commons Mr. Winter- Hotham expressed his incredulity as to the progress of Roman Ontholiciam in England, and excited hilarious cheers by asking how many dociors, law- Jers or artisans deserted Protestantism, and - declar- ing that the converts were almost all ‘women, par: sons and peers.”” The May anniversaries had commenced in Eng- land. The-annual meeting of the Wesleyan Mission- ary Society was lield at Exeter Hall, London, May 2, Mr. W.S. Allen, M. P., in the chair. According to the report the income during the year amounted to £145,750, The document dwelt at length upon the ‘work of the missions, which had beea ‘or the most part of a satisfactory and encouraging character.” Lord Derby was @ wituess before tie Diplomatic and Consular Services Committee of the English Parliament. The Earl was In favor of competition, as it tended to sustain (he standard of the qualifica- tion. He alzo considered it essential that those who enter the diplomatic service should be, “in every sense of the word, gentlemen.” From the published return of the expenditare at the late Sonthwark (England) election it appears that each vote polled by Mr. Odger cost him a frac- tion less thau three shillings, whiie every vote re- @orded tor Sir 8, Waterlow involved an expense of #1 128, 24a, The attention of the London guardians was dl- rected by the Poor Law Board to the present mode of administering relief to the outdoor poor, witha view to its amendment, Inthe Court of Queen's Bench, London, May 2, the publisher of the Liverpool Porcupine, who was Aately convicted of libel upon the managing director ofthe Merchant Trading Company, was senterced toa month’s tmprisonment “for a first class misde- ameanant.” In the case of Elizabeth Williams, who had been ‘convidted of perjury in the Godrich divorce case, and and-who was to have received sentence on the sixtn ay of the term, the recoznizances were estreated. ‘The defendant ‘haa fled to America, and caunot bi reached by the extradition treaty.” - The inquiry into the circumstances of the late fatal occurrence at Blackfriars railway tunnel took place,and terminated ina verdict of accidental death, In the week ending April 30 the tota! number of Poat UMce velegrams sent out for delivery in the city of London showed an increase of 736 upon the returns of the preceding seven days. ” Phe English eight-oared boat races of the summer term, commonly cailed “The Eights,” commence on " May 10 and continue until Friday, the 27th. In Ireland a man named Fyfe, of humbie position, living near Enniskillen, brought an action against @ lady named Hamilton for breach of promise of mar- Flag, Damages are laid at £500, The defence will be of the contract, aua @ pica that the Was made under duress and threats, FRANCE. ane Oey The Regicide Conspiracy—Its History from the Inception of the Plot—Intended Action and Meaus and Weapons of tho Conaspiras ters—The Bomb:s Taoir Desiga aud Fabricas tion—Gustave Flourens aud the Radical Malcontente—How an Italian Banker was Implicated, By the European mail at this port yestorday we have the following spectal history of the regtcide conspiracy in Paris, With a report of the motos, means and weapons of its alleged promoters and their symputhizers in Eugiand aad France, PARI8, May 1, 1870. The political powder barrel on which we have been sitting for some timo nearly exploded last ¥rl- day. During the day a report that the Emperor had been fired at disturbed the public mind and the Bouree fell. I knew for a fact that no such attempt had been made, although for two days past the au- thorittes had been on the lookout for a “dangerous” man who had arrived from Eng'and. The departure of M. Ledru Roilin fer London, although an meident of a trivial nature, was suMelent to arouse the sus- pictons of the lynx-eyed agents of ihe Prefec aie, ‘They believed that he sas cognizant of some coming event with which he did not wish to be en- tanglea, and they took their precautions accord tmgly. The London police forwarded tnformation that a man had quitted the Engutsh metropolis with the intentioa of assassinating the Emperor. He entered Paris and rematned here for two or three days without detection, Friday evening it was re- ported that a man answering his description had passed the night with a fille soumise in the Buttes des Moulins quarter. He was immediately arrested aud forwarded to Mazas. M. Bernier, the Juge @ Instruction, who has been so rougiuy handled by certain portions of the press with respect to the supposed complot—declared to be unfounded except in his own imazination, but which | have long since told you really does exist—proceed.d (0 interrogate the prisoner, He is a deserter from the Seventh infaniry, only twvanty-two years of age, named Beauri, On being searched th was found in his possession a six-barrelicd revolver, loaied; a letter, bearing the London post mark, signed Gustave Flourens, coutalning minute directions, and 100 francs, which Beauri had recetved tie same moraing to facilitate his escape in the event of his having peen successful, In conseyuence of his revelations the police at once arrested three persons in the neigiborhood of the Boulevard du Prince Eugdae. At the house of one of them @ large case, containing cartridges and bom, was discovered, together with bottles filled with an explosive substance, supposed to be plerate of potassium, and a receipt for mak- ing ptcrate concealed with other papers in two busts of Lamartine and Garibaldi. At Bellevilie the police attempted to arrest another in- dividual, Who shouted :—“ Help! brotners, they ar- rest a republican!” and the a gents wero immedt- ately surrounded by roughs who succeeded in res- cuing the prisouer. In all there nave been about forty captures effected ; amongst them are several of the chivfsof the Société Internationale. A con- ductor of the Northern Railway has also been ar- Tested, charged with having accepted for trausmis- sion from Belgium a large quantitity of revolvers or- dered from a guasmith at Liege by French repub- Iican refugecs. It is belleved, however, that the con- ductor is not implicated in the plot. THE BOMBS, This morning the Figaro gives woodcuts of the bombs. ‘They are ingentously constracted and about as ugly looking customers as I have ever seen. The repubiican papers, of course, pretend to disbelieve thé whole afuir. I can, however, state that the plot is the cause of great anxiety to the government, that all the bombs and ringleaders known to exist have not been yet discovered, and that the Emperor does not leave the Tulleries, RADICALISM. M. Jules Termina, the editor or proprictor—pos- albly both—of one of those journals which spring into existence, splutter tor a few hours and then disappear, was arrested — yester- day morning iu consequence of having out- ously insulted the Emperor at the anit. plebiscite meeting held at the Folies Bergeres on the previous evening. On that occasion he read an act of accusation, drawn up in judicial form and cou- cluding with the condemnation of the chief of the State to hard labor for life. ‘The Commissary of Police declared the meoting dissolved, and thé andience left singing the “Mar- seillaisg” and shouting ‘Vive la Republique!” The accusation, which js fn pinnsing instance of the use made by the ‘reds? of the ubery of speech ilo has been accorded to them, déclares tht on the 2d of December, 1851, Chariea Louis Bonaparte, caled Napoleon ILL, incarcerated a large number of citi- zens; thit on the three followimy days, in Paris aud tie departments, he assass.nated, by men in his pay, citizens in a state of legitimate detence; that some 10,000 citizens Ww assassinated and imprisoned during: e subjected to massacre and pillaze; 1857, 1863 and 1899 citizens were pre- Vented exercistug thelr civic rigits; that thelr votes were faisified; that in placing his efligy on the coin he had count ‘ted and alvered it; that during the past nineteen years he has turned to his own profit and that of those in iis employ the publ moneys; that for hts own interest he had launched the French armies on fctendiy countries; that these crimes are punishable by articles 93, 302, 91, 97, 110, 114, 182, 84 and 85, With death. As, however, the pun- ishment of death (although still existing in the codes is abolished by public conscience), the French people condemn Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, calied Napoleon IIL, to hard Jabor for life, The present judgment wi!l be distributed tnroughont the territory and su!miited for the approval of the French people, Surely this Was enough to make the mildest commissary of po- lice change color like @ chaieleon. The government has permitted unitmited license of both tongue and pen. In regnital the Emperor and hts Minwtry are accused of fear, and moreover it is publicly advanced that the violent speeches and the aitempis against his lite are police concoctions invented to influence the public mind prior to the voting next Sunday. ‘The authorities have therefore determined to prove by the arrest of all who outrage the Emperor at ths public meetings, that the polica haye had nothing to do with these demonstrations if left unchecked will produce most disastrous consequences. ‘The popular orators of the day advocate and endorse murder. In @ recent letter I alluded to the unmistakabie invitation made by one “spouter” to assassinate the Emperor. Atanother meeting a young “‘speechifier"? shouted, “But there is courageand courage. I pinch prefer the courage of Mégy to that of Gustave Flou- rens, who only Knew how to arrest a commissary of police.” An explosion of applause greeted this an- nouncement. ay shot an unfortunate policeman in the execution of pis duty, arid who nail exhibite » mK Nélice tO Justify eveh temporary anger, and ould cbtistder It to be a case of cold-blooded Tour: der, The leiter found on the man arrested yesier- day implies that Flourens encouraged the assa:sina- tion of the Emperor, so that he will probably gain the unenviable no‘oriety of being considered worthy of companionship with Mégy. We live in strange limes, The wre'ched journals which spring up Hhe mushrooms do infinity of mis- chief, Last night, between elght and nine o'clock, a c?oud of roughs marened towards the Quartier de la Villette. shouting, to the tune of the Lamplons, “A la Villette!) “Vive Rochefort !? “Vive he. fort” I went up shortiy afterwards, out saw nothing of importance. On my return I saw ex- hibited at one of the kiosks @ new weekly news- paper, The Atheist, 1 invested three sons and be- came the bushing owner of a publication whicn ts a disgrace to any Christian country. Tbe quotation of fourteen words will give you the principles advo- cated by “Z'atnée—Journal des Matérialtstes— ‘We wish to sufle in the heart of the people the belicf in God.” 1862, and that m 18 EXTRADITION, M. Cernuschi, I have just been informed, 1s ex- pelled from France, Of course you are aware that e came here without means; was tong by the fovernment; becaine a banker, and 13 now worth 100,000 sterling. His money Was made in the Danu- bian Princtpaities loan, Me recently gave 1,000,000 francs for Shares In the Siécle, in the hope of becom- ing political director of that journal, and he has, moréover, enriched the funds of the ireconcilables with 100,000 francs. His interference with politics has secured his expulsion from French territory. ENGLISH ACCOUNTS. Life and Story of the Regicides. (Paris (May 1~—Evening—Sunday) correspondence of the London News.) Of course nothing 18 talked of but the plot, which 1 proceed to. give a summary of the | ic telligence, ‘The Figaro and Gaulois publish en- gravings of the bombs seized, which are twonty-tivo in number, and far more terrible than those used by Orsini. These sketches will bi the reality of the Plot home to the convictions of the mulitade far more than any written description, and the Jaulots Very likely does not exaggerate when it says that the plot will swell the majority for the empire on the plebiscite by at least half a militon of votes, The name of the first conspirator arrested is re A aud not Beaurl as printed In the Journal Opiciel. He ts a Foung man ttle over twenty. He Was born in Barcelona of French parents, but came to France when young, received education aud took a degred at college as Bacheior of Bcieuae. He speaks tmpetuously, and with a strong gouthern Socent. Ho refused ‘powluvely t say epything about his famtiy, but answered _qnestions relating to the plot of which he is in a very straishtiorward manner. He said he book @ republican from his youth apy and eon wa my he had en- gate republican ideas in his regiment, ito ed to tie Seveuth ine regi. mment, in which he Was mad» @ corporal, but his siripes wers cat of and he was sentenced to Months’ tmprisonmont for making away with Lia necessaries, His own version ts that he lost a patr of shocs aid was unjusily treated as @ thie!—treatment which disgustod lim with the military service. Ag soon 03 @ came out of prison he deserted, but re- turned to ais regiment after the amnesty of August 16. Towards tho end of last year he was aen'enced to two months’ ‘imprisonment for swindling. Alter tius he froquenily attended — poilticat mectings at Bellovile and La Villette. His superior oducation recommenied iim to M. Gustave Fiourons, when he visited the Prince Eugene barracks tn the hope of sowtug the seeds of sedition aim ng the soldiers, Oa January 10 he de- sorted again, "nd appeired inuntiorm at the fuueral of Victor Nots, He was Mruished by M. Gustave Pl nh) With mouey tO escane to Urusseis, and from Busses he wentto Engiand, In London he saw Floureas and another deserter from his reg’ Ment named Fuyolle, He alieges that M. Flourens urged him to attempt the Kmperor’s infe, ant that ne, belug destitute in a country the language of which he could not speak, cousented. In despulr he resolved to sacti- fice lis Iife ia the hope that at least ho might render a service to his party, Beaury does Bot appear to have received in all more than about £25 in London. “considerabie” sum of money said, in tie outs of last ight, to have been found aboui lim was only 100 francs, the remnant of a remitiince ot 14) francs which he recetved on April 29, A letter from M. Fiourens, signed only by the Christian name of Gustave, but the handwriting of which is said to be perfectly well known to the police, was found upon him; also a draft of a letter of hts own to M, Flourens, in which he sald “the amputation”’—meaning the assassiuation—of the Ezuperor will taxe place betiveen two and four o'clock io the afternoon of April 29. “1am ready.” Beaury was cetiainly @ model conspiratur to carry ali this evidence of his guilt about htm. He is a very «is- creditabie Brutus, on account of the two unlucky convic\tona for swindling recorded agatast him. ‘the ¢ of ihe conspirator who, as I mentioned turday, Was roscue.l irom the police by a mob, is ousselle, it was tn his lodgings at Belleville that mbs were found. He has not yet been cap- i members of the Internation) Asso- ciation have been arrested at Lyons. The arrests in iween forty aud fifty. The bombs wire mantutactured in Paris, In many respects they show very great sclentiio adaptaiton tothe end for which they were intended; but ther: 13 a want of finish, owing probably to the absenee of the handl- eraftism reyuired for cortain detais, A Journey. men who took part in the fabre.catton of these missiles ts) under jock and key. Marshal Lebwuf went not jong ago to visit tie armory tn which they were made, and complimented the head of the estabiishineat on his manutactures, Tie Gau- lois contrad ¢.s as a ruliculous canard the state- ment that the conspiravors meant to biow up the Tuileries, Tie bombs, the defect of which 13 that they are exceedtagly dangerous to haudie, were to be thrown from @ Leight outof a window. A very greai dificulty of ihe “instractiou’ will be to show What reasonable prospect Beauri had of executing his fell purpose within che precise two hours of April 20 mentioned in his confession, The London poiice telegraphed to Paris three days ago that Beauri, a suspicious man, had leit London for Paris, ‘The arrest of Beauri was effected in person by M. tagranae, the principal aide-de-camp of the Prefect ‘of Police, M, Pietrt. M. Protat, an advocate, was arrested this morning on the charge of belonging to a secret society. Some of the papers Say that in endeavoring to escape he fired at M. Clement, the Commissary of Poiice, seut vo take him; but auother version is that M. O:ement aren athim, At ail events he is now ina ceil at ‘azas. The Emperor Tried by a Secret Tribunal. (Parts (April bain correspondence of London jews. On the subject of the new plow, which seems to be more real than the on? now for neariy three months in the hands of M. Bernier, the Judge of Instruction, a special edition of the Journal Ofictel, published this eventag, contains the following luformation:— For some tine past the police have boen on the track of & conspiracy against the Iifo of the Emperor, Yestor- day moraing at nine o'clock the poice at the named Beaurl, arrived from England. He bad upon him aauat of money, a loaded revolver and a letter from London, written by an tadtridual greatly compromised in the plot of February. his document, coupied with Beauri's confession, leaves no doubt as to his object in coming to Fe or as to his intention to carry out his project immediately. in the course of the even- ing other tudividnais were arrested in the Belleville quarter. At the dwelling of ono of these persons there was found a box filled with bombs, @ quantity of powder, and also a porte for mang. OF or Liar conspirscy appears conn wil r Sfisiruction® as ‘to. “which i Pousluded, now nearly concluded, The principal managers of the Jntervational (Pariman sec- tion), an illicit assoclation, the centre of which {snot in France, have been ar ‘M. Lermina has been arrested for an offence against the Emperor's person committed at a public meeting. M. Lermina was the mover of a bill of indictment agaiust the Emperor, proposing a plebiscite to de- ciare him gality of a capital offence, but that the re- public wisi tng to abolisi the penaity of death only sentenced im to penal servitude for life. The meeting at which this ec- centrio motion was made is the only one hitherto dissolved during ail the “plediscitar; period” by the Commissary of Police in nd- ance, Even in this. instance the comm Nay, after listen{ng to much violent language, seemed asleep untithe heard the Emperor de-cribed as Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparie, alias Napoleon III, Then de started up from his seat and declared the meeting dtssoived, At many of thoso meetings, several of which have been attended by 3,009 or 4,000 people, cries of “Vive la republique” aud “Down with the Emperor’ have been uttered without molestation, Up to a certain exient the governinent beijeves itself @ gainer by this outrage of the opposition, and shorthand ‘writers are employed to take down all the most intemperate passages of the speakers, which befure the plebiscite are to be coliected together and largely distributed In the provinces, with the view of corroborating M. Olli- vier’s statement in his first address to the clectors of the Var, that republicans only scek to pillage and cut throais, The ordinary reporters of the Senate and Corps Législatif were detatied for this duty; but, though offered hign pay, refused to perform it, They were willing enough to attend any meeting and tye afail report of ali that might take place, but they would not do police duty and pick out ereaise passages to serve a particular purpose. Other peo- Ple, however, have been found todo the service re- quired, and in all probability an interesting collec+ tion of irreconeiltabie eloquence, published In an attractive form, together with the latest news of the Bot just discovered, will appear next week, and ave a great effect upon many well-disposed persons. WHAT THE CONSPIRATORS INTENDED -T0 DO, The conspirators intended, we are told, to blow up the Tulleriee with picrace of potassium, ALLEGED SYMPATIIIZERS, The Paris correspundent of the London News writes upon this point thua:— Several papers connect M. Ledru Rollin's sudden disappearance from his villa at Fontenay-aux-Roses ith this plot. M. Cernuscht, the Italian banker, who suuscribed 100,000 francs Lo the anti-plebiscitary fund, has, in compifance with the reiterated de- mands of M. Paut de Cassagnac, becn expelled from France, pursuant to the undoubted law which en- ables government to send away any foreigner with- out reason assigued. Three ages accomplices of Geauri have been arrested on the strength of con- feasions made by him. M. Germain Casse, of the Marseillaise, is arvesied. Beaurl, the Figaro asserts, had upon him a@ letter from Lendon of a most compromising character, signed “Gustave Fiourens."” Lhave already mentioned the arrest of three accomplices, ‘the Figaro, in a second edition, says that a fourth, whom lt was attempted to arrest on the Boulevard de Belleville, exclaimed, “Help, brethren, I am o republican by and that he was thereupon rescued, A gueer story told 1s that papers relating to the conspiracy have been found Concealed in the hollows of busts of Garibaldi and Lamartine. “Very many’ arrests are reported to bave taken placv in the course of the day. A jee of @ train of the - Northern Railway has been arrested on a charge of having brought into Fra: & quantity of revo vers ordered at Liege vy French republicans. The Figaro, however, Which has the best police information, suggests that he probably had no guilty knowledge. The bombs seized are said to be in the form of those crown cakes called *‘Savarins.” They are constructed on a principle far more destructive than the appic-looking bombs of Orsini. Baurie bee longed to the Seveuth regiment of Chasseurs, and ‘was one of four deserters in correspondence with M. Flourens. Since he came to Paris from London he seems to have obeyed the instructions he received, never to sleep twice in the same place, but he was at length betrayed by a girl of the town, employed by the police. The Soir, the Jatest evening paper, says the arrests amount to forty-two, and that the instruc- tion will be carried on “most publicly and rapidly. The Plot of 1852—The Priuce President First in Danger. (From the Paris Siécle, May 2.] Yesterday's plot remmds us of a foryotteh incident pf the début of the present régime, In the antumn of 1852 the Prosident of the Repubiic went on a pro- vinctal tour to give the rustics an opportunity of showing their imperialist feeling. The reception had been so far chilly, when, suddenly, the tele- graph apprised the country that an inférnal ma- ohine had been discovered at Marseilles, and that the ‘Savior of Society” had been providentially saved by the vigilance of the police, The announcement produced @ good impression. The machine was minutely described. The timid began once more to tremble. The Presidential tour was henceforth triumphant. The police announced the arrest of the chiet culprit, an individual named Gail- lard, He was formally examined, and it was given out that he would shortly be brought to trial. The Presidential tour came to @ close. The Senate pro- claimed the President ‘Emperor,’ the people rati- fled the nomination by eight millions of votes, and the plot vanished into thin air. The infernal ma- chine and the machine man, the conspirator and hig pao, disappeared and have never been heard ce. How the Intended Murder of the Emperor was Firat Discovered=The Plot in London. Lonpvon, May 2, 1870. From the consideration of public matters [ turn to @ very serious subject—namely, as to how the mur+ derer and the intended murder of Napolcon the Third was discovered, About a week ago gan Boglish gentleman, @ it- crary Man, went by chance to dine at a foreign eat ing house in Sobo kept bya foreigner. While he was cating two Freuchmen came and sat at the table next him, but before they commenced talking one of them addressed some remark in French to this gentieman, He was tired, and, as he telia me, very sulky, So, not wishing to enter into conversa- tion with these dubjous-looking Frenchmen, he pre- tended he did not understand what the other said tohim, The one foreigner thea observed to the other that they might speak in safety, for the Englishman did not understand thelr language. He then com- menced to talk very freely, and my friend could not bat hear all they sald, the more 0 a3 he really doos tand and speak French like a native. With. out, therefore, wishing to do so lie overheard all that they tiiked about, and vory soon learned that a plot Was on foot to murder Napoleon If, and that a Frenchman named Baar or Be.uri was to leave Lon- don the next moriuing for Paris with the In- tention of carrying out this devilish design. Deemlag tt his duty, ag it undoubtedly was, to give such information as he could to the poltce, he at once went to Scottand Yard and tola hls story to one of the chief oficiais there, Theo latter hardly believed that theve wasany thing serious in the affan, but after some considerable hesitation consented to telegraph what ke had heard to the Kue do Jerusalem in Paris. He did so, and the result was that the inten murd.ver Was arrested with a Dumber of papers upon his person that gave the French police a clue to-reveral of his SORIA, ‘the plot has been hatched in London, ana was to form part of the programme for @ general rising of the revolutionary party throughout Europe. Isee that many of the London papers, with their acoustomed aud utter recklessness, throw doubts upoa tho whole affair this morning. But the trath ig as [teli you. English journalists would have sung a very diferent song if the plot discovered had been against the life of Queen Victoria Instead of agatast the life of the French Emperor, ROME. Progress of the Council—E£piscopal Debates Tho Constitution De Fide Passed—Tho Amori- can PrelatesThe Fete of the Cervarna— Grand Turnout of the Artistic World of Rome—The Oostumes, Procession aud Scones—Singing “John Brown” amid Roman “£vvivas.”? Rome, April 25, 1970, Yesterday the Ecumenical Fathers gave us their first day’s work tn the way of results by voting the constitution de fide, This constitution consists of four chapters, embracing eighteen canons under that headeviz., five under the heading of “God the Oreator,” four under ‘“Reveiation,” six under “Faith,” and three under “Faith and Reason.”* Here wo have, thon, @ new decree for the government of the Church passed unanimously by the 644 members present at the third public session of the Vatican Council of 1869-70, The devoted organs and oracles of Jesult- ism are already shouting hosannah, and regard the resuit as @ complete triumph for their policy. Now for infallibility: my latest information is to the effect that it will be taken up immediately, and out of its turn, among the sehemas, or bills. Withal the decree passed on yesterday (Sunday) is regarded generally as rather @ small result for five months’ constant deliberation, However, in the cyes of the faithful, it settles the world to rights, by branding with a solomn anathema all free thought, the free thinkers themselves, all opinions contrary to the tenets of the true faith, as heresies, schisins and dangerous ideas of modern umes, while defining the Creator and Divine revelation, All ‘hat they are beginning to claim as something, and that the fathera are a wise set of men to have promul- gated that something. No doubt the fathers wore called and chosen for such purposes; and it is not in vain that these solemn words are inscribed over the- door of the Council Hall:—*Docete omnes gentes, ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus Giebus usque ad con- summationem se@cult," It will soon become the fault of the world (omnes gentes) if it does not aliowy itself to be taught the right road to salvation ac- cording to the fathers (quite a happy family now) assembled within a few yards of the choir in which once sat St. Peter. I may mention‘bere that several accounts have been put forth in European newspapers, incorrectly in- formed and laboring under an hallucination as to the ‘extraordinary liberalism”’ of the American pre- lates, stating that these latter tad, on several occa- sions during the debates, made opposition speeches, and even gone so far as to hand 1m to the presidents of the congregations written motions against the eStablished order and run of things in the Council. Nothing can be farther from the truth than such statements. I know to the contrary that they have been entirely submissive to, as they are completely at, tne mercy of the Holy See. Not for a single instant have they assumed any initiative either of ideas or of action. Since their arrival In Rome thore never has b.en a gathering of men more mum than they nave been; they have only in two or three ee Re fed thet pants = cote in with the tune of an fnfatlible Pope. Thig nas heen 2, not because these prelates sho’ Any bane iv ing for high honors, for a cardinal’s hat or the papal tiara, as Dupanloup and Manning have done now and then: it 1s because they are entirely dependent here for their influence and’ standing, a3 Well a3 at home, upon the good graces of the pontifical curia, and those good graces can only be secured by the moat passive obedience. 1 have belore had occasion to remark that the American archbishops and bishops grow consideraply in size by the time they arrive in their capltal—wnich is not Washington, but “Roma.” Here they become at once grander Reraonanes than they ever were or will be at home. Their tone and manners undergo, as it were, an mstantaneoua change, and, instead of being the mere meek repre- Seatatives of 5,000,000 Catholics, one Would suppose that they posseaaed the whole of America a3 a piece of property in their own name and that all ameri- cans were their subjects. Such, in a word, wouid seem to be the signification of thelr “airs? and “brag.” I know of instances where they have re- fused to put themselves to the slightest inconve- nience to accommodate Americans passing at Rome, and who desired to have little mnocent curiosity fatisfed in regard to visiting the sights, which are ail Kept more or ivss under tne pontiiical seal, or to visiting the vacant Council Hall. Not only 80, but they have been disposed to be gruff and majestic. towards all Americans who could be dubbed by thent heretics, Protestantism may be 9 “big thing” in American cfties, but1t must be made into a small nut at Rome: such seems to be the ruling motive of their resent eur. It seems that they are neither here as American citizens, nor a3 representatives of the freest country in the world, nor as liberal orators and thinkers in behalt of the best interests of Uatholi- cism, but simply a8 a fifth wheel :to tne gaia coach of Pope Pius IX. J ‘often hear around me the greatest astonishment expressed that the vescovt Americani should be here only to count a380 many dummies; aad the Italians, who tae 4 behind the curtains and are thoroughly in- formed a8 to the true state of affairs as well as to the character of the various foreign delegations here, are unable to comprehend how such men are raised up and sent abroad from the United States— “gli Statt Unitt!” They seem to lose siglit, against thelr ordinary custom, of the vast strength of Jesu- itic teachings and of that little human frailty of strut- ting upjand down before the spectators in tne gallery. teed amuser la galerte” is & very good French ex- pression. OUTDOOR ENJOYMENT—SINGING ‘(JOHN BROWN” NEAR ‘THE VATICAN To-day Rome has been enlivened for the last time during this season of Roman amusements now brought to end. The foreign and native artists turned out en masse to celebrate the fete of the Oervara— & spot some seven miles ontaide of the city, where the German artists have been in the annual habit of carrying on @ spring caruival of fun, musto, wine an beer bibbing, This year the sete was observed as it has not been for the past fifteen years, Ihe Waole tribe of the brash and the chisel turned out in the procession, which left gtne Porta Maggiore at eight A. M. and wended its way slowly through the Campagna to the designated place of rendezvous, of breakfast, dinner and games. It was the queerest sight conceivable to see the costames, the riders and the ridden. The Vebruary carnival in the Corso is net acircumstance in comparison, All had at heart to do their level beat, and it may be said that the sere of the artists Was a success, as we knew before- hand it would infallibly be; for the artiats col- jected in Rome from all parts of the earth have @ sufficient leverage power within themselves to turn a woyd. All Rome Was out, moreover, to assist at the Spectacle, The {ance was headed by a troop of Cossacks (all artists in that appropriate costume); then came a detachment of oman sol- dters (dressed precisely in imitation of the head, body and footgear of the legtons of Julius Oesar) then musicians, ditto; then the chariot of the Em- peror (Vitellius 1 think he was named), who rode along drawn by acouple of oxen, gaily caparisoned in bright streaniers and shfubbery. The Emperor wore @ crown of laurel and was attended by the Jfamilares of court—doctors, cooks and prime ministers ad hoc; then musicians, again; then the provisions ‘and arinkables, also drawn by oxen; then gay cavaliers, costume @ la Santaisie; then a deputation of the same and any number of outelders upon donkeys. ‘The donkeys were the feature of the day, perhaps on account of neck possessed a peculiar knack of stubbornly stopping on the wayside to eat grass, and subse- quently running foul of the musicians and of the provisions and of the Imperial suite in a lump generally. At such moments things became somewhat mixed up, and it required ali the energy of the marshals and of the detachment of lancera (de facto soldiers lent-by the Pope and under the command of a major) to get beasts and men and masic to go along again in proper trim. Breakiast was consumed at a hait-way station on the road, each member or invited guest drawing bi Taions of two eggs, bread, ham and wine on the atvomgth of @ cont medal worn on wie shoulder and the grotto drew at 8 vara and ‘epread “out in the pre cincta round about forthwith, Speeches, to: inner, races, were then the order, and heartily were they ail gone through with. Jollity became the general io until nightfall, when all concevned returned under the shadows of St. Peter's towering dome. ‘The route was lined from end to end with curious spectators, and the return into the city was ex- tremely frolicsome, as wine had flown fast and freely during the day—not enough to produce any intoxication, however. It was truly the Derby da} of Rome; it way really curtous to see ‘suc! queer costumes, suck pitiful aud diminutive teams as the donkeys, such bamdsome equipages, all tra velling back in the most mixed up style, croasing each other's paths and constantly getting tanglea uo in @ poll-mell mass, Many ladies were present, ‘Tho foreigners carried the day. The American ar. tisis, I need scarcely add, did honor to the occasion aad to thelr name. I observed several of them rigged ont in costumes which at home would have rendered them unrecognizable, if not positively iu- dicrous, But here, aud on this particular séce, nothing is at all ridiculous; all ts for fun—pour rire, as the French say; high position, reputation and etiquette and all that were submerged in music, wine, wit and laughter, On the way back { fell in with a Jolly lot of Americans and kinglish (all artusts, but not costumed, and only wearing the baiocco or cent medal ou the breast), driviug in a stylish four horse bi iiions, beils and altogether stylish such @ procession and on such a desert thoug! always grand looking old waste as the Campagna Romana, mY the time I got in hearing distance of tho break know already who were its oc cupants. They were Singin: “Jonn Brown” and Fr familiaritios of thi or to the bent of thetr heart andthe top of their voices, With mouths weil opened we kept ths jolly old songs stirring the air until we got well within the streets through the “porta jlore,”’ or major gate, and astonished the natives to their fill, The Italian spectators and lis- Vaners who lined the route on either side could make nothing more out of tune and words than this— “Sono Americans e Ingiest (They are Americans and Bngliah, ‘They could not chime tn with the re- frains, but they oould smile upon the scenes and gvod naturediy applaud the singing “barbarians,” pee best Grey prea ine eg Lda v Geld r up now thea, “Viva gli America: viva gti Inglest,” 2 r THE LOST ONEIDA. A Statement from One of the Surviving Seamen— Ths Bombay Hailed jand the Guns Fired— Wore the Officers Drunk?—How Captain Eyre’s ‘‘Suspsnsion”’ Made Him Chief Mate. — Peter Norman, matnmast man of the Oneida, Which was sent to the bottom of the sea by the Bom- bay, called at the HzRaLp office yesterday and gave the following account of the disaster:— We left the port of Yokohama about a quarter past five on the evening of the 24th of January, amid the cheers of the Russian men-of-war, two or three French vessels aud two British ships. We had been about an hour and a halfon our way—it was a star Ught night and very cold—when we were struck by the Bombay, We made her off a half point of our starboard bow; then she turned to while we put our helm hard 8 star- board, and the mext report from the quarter- master, Mr. Wooley, was that she was a point and a half on our starboard beam. It was then impossi- ble for us to get nearer to the shore in safety, and when we went down we were in twenty fathoms of waver. When we were struck Mr. Stewart, the ex- ecutive officer, cailed out, “Steamboat ahoy; stand by us; yon have cut us down;” and a reply came back, “Helio,” but the Bombay con- tinued on her course. Three guns were then fired, after the magazine had been broken open nd just as the Bombuy was astern of us. The guns were fired by Mr. Stewart, Mr. Adame ramming them home and James Olark, yeoman, holding the cartridges in hig arias. Captain Williams was lyin, in bed atthe time pen from rheumatism ani the effects of a wound he had received during the of Fort Sumter. He was carried pp to the deck b, we and William Begley. ir. Muldaur fold that the ship was going down, and to get into the boat. "How much water have you gott” he askec “Fifteen fathoms and no bottom,” was Muldaur’s reply, “Get the boats clear and save yourselves, officers and men; men, man the forerigging; get aloft”’—and the order to the men was obeyed as though there was ne danger impending. The cap- tain added, “I asked for poats and they wouldn’t give them to me.” The water had by this time reached the bridge where the captain was standing, and in another moment the ship went down. The majority of the oMcers were at dinner when the Collision took place, and the statement that there was a grand Jjoilitication going on aboard, and that the officers were under the influence of liquor, 1g a Me, Without color of truth, This I declare before God, who 1s my judy The morning of the day we left Mr. De Loi e American Minister, paid a visit to the foreign men-of-war, and they saluted him and the Oneida returned the salute, The guns were again loaded to return the salute which we expected from the Russian corvetie, but as she only carried six guns she only dippod her colors, without firlog. It was in tuis way that the guns were already loaded when yen e@ were struck, and how they were et gulckiy. Me hed Jy enree Y 103 a8 a sl ny stress, and it Was ne rst firé that the magh- zthe was broken open to get ammunition. The last explosion was made just as the gtins touched the water as the ship was going down, and was in that way half smothered, The opinion of all the survivors was and is that the court held at Yokohama was @ mere whitewashing affair. {[t had on i¢ three persons who were employed in the pomnpany to which tha Bombay belonged. The Bombay leit ‘ed about twenty-two days aires the oourt wag held, and Cap- fain e went oul in her as chiey mate, although he was virtually captain. The survivors fee! ter. ribly over the fate of their lost comrades, and will never rest till they are avenged in some way or another, ifthe United States government does not do them justice, and show the world that the Amert- can flag 13, juotwithstanding English sneers to the contrary, & protection to her citizens, OLD WORLD ITEMS. The Pruzstans now have rifled cannon that will safely throw grenades. The Paris Art Exhibition of 1870 is remarkable for the paucity of military pictures, Cataneo, the murderer of General Escofficr, has been sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude. The Society for the Suppression of Oruelty to Ani- pesegi Paris, is out agaist frying small fish and eels alive, At Creuzot, in France, where the strikes recently took place, there are 1,480 proprietors, of whom 1,230 are workingmen in the shops. A statistical work on the German #9 uletions of Europe has been published by Herr kK, The author fixes the entire number of souls at Mty-four Millions, including the German-speaking Jews, Anew painter, Benjamm Constant py name, has executed a striking allégory. Fortune aud Renown knock at the door of a poor wretcit, extended expir- ing on his miserable pallet. Death opens the door, with this answer to the visitors, ‘Too late?! In the Belgian Chamber of Kepresentatives on Saturday the financial bjli abolishing the duties upon salt and fish, lowering the rate of postage, and in- creasing the excise duty on alcohols, was agreed to by 79 votes against 7. The Sultan of Turkey has made Sulina a free Ports 80 that merchandise, excepting such as ts sent from there to the interior by land, inay enter and go out free of duty. Foreign tobacco and cigars, as well as Hest arms and munitions of war, are not in- cluded. Some Paris merchant has proposed to the Marsetl- Taise and other papers that vehemently defend the Goctrines of the workingmen’s strike associations Uhat they shall try the plan of carrying on their busi- ness by @ general association of the proprietors, ertitors, printers, folders, carriers, mail boys, &c, The Prince of Wales is about to visit St. Peters- burg on political business it is said, Being the hus- band of one of the daughters of Christian 1X. of Denmark, it is {howe that he will endeavor to in- terest the Czar in favoring the rights of the Danish crown in the Schleswig-Hoistein question, The number of locomotives built in Berlin amount- ea in 1861 to 99; in 1362 it was 166; in 1863, 124; In 1864, 146; in 1866, 149; 1m 1866, 186; fn 1867, 104, and in 1868, 250, In the same years the number of raii- Way carriages coustructed was 1,883, 1,263, 1,112, 960, 1,486, 1,716 and 1,917 roapecuvelr. The number of workinen employed in making machines is at pre- sent about 18,000, Negotiations have been opened between the Aus- trian government and the jeauers of the Czech party. Count Potocki informed them at the outset that the Ministry entertained most conciliatory views, and were earnestly bent upon arriving at an understana- ing upon the basis of the constitution, The Czech leaders are desirqus of continuing the negotiations with persons in the confidence of the government, On Kaster Sunday the Archbishop of Milan, Italy, in hig sermon spoke of the Infutlibiuty of the Ghurclt in such manner as clearly to exciude it in the per- sonal sense. The fainous Father Passagit the Archbishops of Milan and Turin and the Bishops of pS oo Brella and Pinerolo are am: the Italian relates who have declared against the new intal- ibility dogma. GENERAL NOTES. Canterbury, N, H., has a woman's rights assocm- tion, and debates on the enfranchisement of the iair Bex Are Not infrequent, Edward F. Hill, of Belmont, N. H., has slain a hawk. which aad jn, acountemed 10 apread itself to the extent of seven fee! ite e pri the robi of the Lime Rock a 25,000 peak Het Be aaa es THE LATEST BOND SENSATION. A Story of a Woman's Love and s Women’s Ou pidity~The Romantic Gide of Bond Stealing—Love and Money, ‘The examination of Tenoredo Cruz, 4 Cuban, was resumed yesterday afternoon at the Tombs Police Court, before Judge Dowling, when the following re- markabie evidence was adduced. Mr, Doolittle ap- peared for the prisoner, who was committed for tral. ‘ Anna Cruz sald—T reside at the Westminster Hotes and have resided there four weeks; I first knew Tancredo Cruz at Matanzis, Cuba; I have known him intimately; I have travelied with him, about two years ago, twice from Havana to New York; I am his sister-in-law; was married at Balttmore elgnt years ago; Iam widow; I have not the marriage certificate; my husband died three years ago at"Matanzas; 1 have lived.tn Cuba on and off for seven years; I staid in Cubaa year the first time £ Went there; when I left at that time I came to New York; I lived at the Comstock House twice, then at Earie’s Hotel, then at a boarding house in St, Mark's place, at Pacific Hotel, at a boarding house near Central Park, Revere House, Westuinster Hotet, Prescott House; I was SICK AT THY PRESCOT? HOUSE on the 18th of Aprtl, 1870; he did not occupy my room with me at the Prescott House; he cid nos have access to my rooms; [ had @ physician while there; Lemployed him; I sent a servant for him; £ had my children at the Pacific Hotel; my husbarid's mame was Theodore Cruz; he did not live with me at the Pacific Hotel; Cruz came to my house at Matanzas; I first met his brother at Baltimore, six months before I got married; [ had no business in New York before I went to Cuba; did no vusiness in Cuba; I have had a great deal of money duting the past eight years; my hua- band gave it to me; I have had about $40,000; I dined out with Cruz twice, once at Central Park and once to get $1,000 he borrowed from me; I went with him to No, 40 Broadway fer that purpose; Tient him the money on the 18tli or 20th of duiy, at tue Com: stock House; J was WITH HIM AT MALLARDS once last Octobe; he took me to No. 40 Broadway at ten o'clock; reinaised there until four o'clock; he told me he would have some trouble in getting the money and for me to wait until he came out; I re- mamed In the carriage reading; the ovachman wag not the same Wio took me to the Central Park; 4 have bought and sold bonds in the city New York; I have had no moneys that I had reeeived from od other person than my husband; IT am acquainted with Fisk & Haten; first be- came acquainted with thent three years since; Cruz introduced me to that firm, stating I had bonds for sale; I exchanged ten-forty bonds for Oentral Pacific; £ had bought the ten-forties at Fisk & Hatch’s; never kept an account there; the first bonds ‘were registered bonds; I have had flve-tiventy bonds; my five-twenty bonds were not registered; the Cen- tral Pacitics were not registered; I never placed any bonds in the possession of Cruz to be sold vy him, ‘This was the only EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION, and the prisoner made the following statement:— Tencredo Cruz, sworn, said:—I was bora in Cubay I first met the complainant tnere; my family reside there; [have no brother; I have two sisters; I arst saw the compiainant abont eight years ago; my rela- tions with the complainant were confidential and inmate; she lived with me as my wife; I was never married to ber; I have rented several houses for her in Matanzas and in Havana; I supported her in those houses; J lived with her about a year bofore her first child was born; the child was tanzas; I have gtven her. about come with her from Havana to New York two or three times; I have entered her name as my wife at different hotels; we came down just now’ from Saratoga; we went to Fisk & Hatch’s to change her Gve-twenty. bonds; I had an account with Fisk & Hatch last March; she converted $35,000 worit of five-twenty bonds and changed them for their equivalent in ten- forties; after this we Went to Saratoga; she after- Wards converted these into Central Pacific bonds— this was in October; when we went to Hae vana she gave me four of these bonds to raise money to go to Havana; I sold two be- fore she went to Havana; the other two I Kopts Isold tne two to Hutley & Dougherty, No. 11 Wali street; I got about $1,809 for them; of this I changed $600 into Spanish gold to give to her, and nan it to her and gave it her in currency; she came back from Havana this year, and has lived at the Revere House and Prescott House; she was there registered as my wife; we went away in a carriage, and of the $1,800 I handed her $1,690; we went to Thirteenth street and Third avenue, in the carriage, where we Were boarding; I paid two weeks’ board pill out of THE PROCEEDS OF THE CHECK, amounting to $148; we went to 40 and 42 Broadway, and then she told me she wanted to sell the other six bonds; we went to 11 Wall street and offered the other six for sale; they said they could not buy them until the following Tuesday; we wanted the money for her to go to Europe, and we went round to Fisk & Hatch’s, and there 1 sold the six bonds, and gut $1,000 in gold certificates and balance in an: backs, altogether about 000; she was al is time in the carriage; ‘we drove again to 40 and 42 Broadway, aud she went away tn the carr! to go tothe hotel; that afiernoon 1 went to a friend on Staten Island, and came back the next day, that was on the 10{h of Apel the name of my friend is Egteban Rodrigues; ho is o friend of my father; my ‘whe {the éomplaiiant) las had four children, tWo of Which have died, of which I am the fatni these two children are IN EUROPE, AT THEIR UNCLE'S. Counsel for the prisoner applied for an adjourn. Ment in. order produce witnesses’ evidence to show that the parties had lived as man and wife to- gether, and regtste their names on the hotel books in that way. -This Justice Dowling declined to grant, stating that he had already given abundant time for this to be done, In default of $10,000 ball, Urisonge Was committed to the Tombs to await his trial. THE ATLANTIC AND. PACIFIC RAILRIAD. WASHINGTON, May 12, 1870. An impression has been somehow created in the pub‘lc mind that Congress has thus far done nothing to ald the construction of a Southern Pacific Rail- road. The facts of the case”are, however, just the other way. The government has already mare pro- vision for 8 Southern road through onr Southern tier of States end Territories to the Pacific coast. By law approvéd July 27, 1868, Congress granted the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company a charter to bujld a railroad through Missouri, west. of Spring- field, Indian Territory, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Sonthern California. In the Indian. Ter- ritory the branches from Memphis, via Van Buren, Arkansas and St. Louts, via Springfeld, are to con- Neot, the main trunk of the road being rather below the parallel of Memphis. By the same act Congress gave the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Company of California alter- nate sections ot public laud running the whole length of the road, the right of way through the publig domain, land for workshops and depots, and ail the coal and iron mjnes discovered on the alter- nate sections within the prescribed limits, These agricultural and coal and iron lands nave greatly appreciated’in value since 1860. Of course it is not claimed that the money realized from their sale, ag the work Reoateanss: Will build the road, but it will give a healthy impetus to the construction ae or ihe the company to raise money on mortgage onds. ‘There is, therefore, no truth whatever in the con- stantly refterated allegation that Congross has pro- vided for Central and Northern Pacific railroads and left the South out im the cold. Additional legislation may be needed in minor matters, but the three great through lines have been provided for, ambitious deaiers in railway ffanchises to the contrary not- withstanding, PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION. While other corporations have directed their ener- Fics to manipulat the bond market, the South acific Company of Missouri and the Atlantic aud Pacific Company have been quietly engaged im the construction of their road: Inasmuch asthe trade of New York would reach the main trunk via its St. Louis branch, through the State of Missouri, work was first commenced on that section. Two hundred and five miles of it aré finished and in operation, and fifty miles more will be ready for the cars early in June. The Gas- conade and Ozark mountains have been conquered, ote es tron Lorse is rapidly approaching the Indian TTItory. Avout fifty miles further west, at some suitabio point on the South fork of the Canadian river, the two branches, from Mempnis via Vau Buren, Ark., and St. Louis, via Springfield, Mo., unite and pro- hrough ceed westwardly bye single line to and tl Southern California to the Pacific coast. The completion of the first 205 miles was duly cele- brated at Springfield, Mo., last week by a large con- qourse of people. The usual number of speechep were made by Governors, members of Congress ant other celebrities from all parts of the Unie ‘The management and control of the South Pacific and the Atlantic and Pacitic Companies ts iu the hands of some of the soundest business nicn in New York, Boston and St. Louls, who are well kuown ag having ample capital to carry out the enterprise, Among them I may mention the names of Messrs, Francis B. Hayes, Andrew V. Stont, Joseph Selig- man, Frederick Billings, Andiew Pierce, Jr., Oliver Ames, Uriel Crocker, Isaao Rich and others, ‘The raily on the Atlantic aud Pacific road are now peat at the rate ofa mile and a hall per day. The line, as will be seen by a giance at a map, accom- modates ail our Southern States. When the noith- ern provinces of Mexico Cy annexed to the United States we may need a fourth line of railroad through to the Pacific. At present tt is believed the three lines now provided for will answer every Due