The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1870, Page 4

4 EUROPE. ‘Napoleon’s Cabinet---M. Pieard’s Ap- sproach to the Premiership. Bible Revision in England and President Grant’s Aid in the Work. British Plan for Reunion of the Churches. ‘The Cunara mail steamship Russia, Captain Lott, from Liverpool the 18th and Queenstown the 19th of June, arrived at this portatan early hour yesterday morving. The Russia landed our Euro- pean special correspondence dated to her day of sailing from England. The newspaper mail files by the Russia were anticipated toa great extent by those to hand by the French mail steamship Periere on Monday. A letter from Vonstantinople, of June 8, to the London Standard, speaking of the great fire in the ‘Turkish capital, says:— ‘The London insurance offices that will suffer most by this unprecedented conflagration are the Royal, the Imperiai and the Sum. ‘The total amount fall on oy however, will not, ib is confidenily at " exceed £150,000, ‘The two Swiss offices, which do & large amount of business here, wiil aso suffer con- siderably, but an immense amount of property was ax | uniumeured. The lowest estimate made by the licé guthoritfes of the number of people who have fest their lives exceeds 500, The calamity has not on at all exaggerated. In all its naked deformity ‘at is really horribie. The North German iron-clad war vessel Koning ;Wilhelm, Captain Henk, bearing*the flag of Prince \Albert of Prussia, Admiral of the North German Navy, arrived at Spithead (Eng.) June 17, from Kiel. | Disturbances were feared among the tin-plate ‘workers at Coakley, near Kidderminster, England, then on strike. At midnight @ messenger was sent to Kidderminster for a large body of police. No riot, but men ‘‘in an excited state.”” In the Court of Common Pleas, London, in the case ‘or Inman vs. Jenkins, which was for an alleged libel- fous statement in the London Times that plaintia® had sent the City of Boston to sea overloaded, the ‘court affirmed the order of Justice Blackburn that Gefendant should answer an interrogatory stating ‘whether he had sent the communication to the Lon- don Times for publication. 4 ‘The Emperor Napoleon replied to an address pre- sented to him by the Town Council of Southampton, Engiand. He says the sympathy manifested towards hum with reference to the recent design on his lite touches him deeply, and in it “he sees a fresh proof of the ties of friendsnip which unite France and Kkng- land. He trusts most heartily they may ever con- tinue so.” Miss Elizabeth Garrett was received as doctor at the Ecole de Médicine, Paris. She had taken as her thesis the subject of “Headache’’—not a very inter- est ng question—but she treated it so brilliantiy that the board at ouce gave her the diploma, ; Tamberlik, the singer, arrived in Paris. \ In Ireland the Orangemen were making the neces- sary preparations for the approaching anniversaries of Julyland 12 Thirty thousand are expected to assemble at Lisburn. The authorities are taking every precaution. ‘The idea of a federal parliament for Ireland seems likely not to be abandoned by the gentlemen who are endeavoring to create a movement in the coun- try in favor of the project. The O’Conor Don had given notice of his intention to move in the House of Commons for'a return of the names aud number of matriculated students in each course of the faculty of arts in the Queen’s Colleges of Ireland, with the value of all scholarships or ex- hibitions hela by each student. @iThe three hundredth anniversary of tne union to Russia of the Don Cossacks was celebrated at Novo- ‘Tcherkask, under the presidency of tle Césarevitch, ‘who 1s hereditary Chief Attaian of the tribe, Tele- grams of congratulation poured in from all parts of the empire during the ceremonies. A Dublin journal of the 18th of June announces:— The last act of the Mexican tragedy ts about to be played. The unfortanaie Naipress Charlotte is dying; and even the sorrow.iig members oi her family must look forward to Uus sad last scene of all as @ happy Telease. The London Glove ridicules the Scotch national spirit, which, after “an advantageous and material union with England,” proposes to celebrate the vic- tory of Bannockburn by ereviing a flagsta:t on the scene of Bruce’s victory. It would venture to sug- gest some such celebration for Ireland, only that “it considers Irish blood too ebullient for an English paper to venture to suggest the commemoration of any battle wherein the Milesians beat the tyrannous Saxon.” It excepts from the list even Fontenoy, ‘which, despite the silence displayed on the subject by Thomas Carlyle and Voltaire, li appears to con- sider was won by Irish arms. His Excellency the Right Hon. Lord ‘Napier of Magdala, G. C. B., Commander-in-Cuie? in Indla, ‘was suffering at Peshawur from a slight attack of fever, which deiained his Lordship on the frontier longer than was at first intender A Paris ietter of the 17th of June reports as fol- Tow! Your readers may like to know the names or the four respectable persons to whom Prim successively offered the Crown of Spain, and who proved their respectability by refusing it one after another. Here they are:—Don Fernando di Braganza Coburg, of Portugal: Prince Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa; Count d’Eu, and Prince Frederick of Hehen- zoliern, @ Catholic oilicer of Hussars in the Prussian army. Agood story is told by one of the’ Greek news- Papers. One of the military commanders having offered a reward for each brigand’s head brought in ‘the supply soon became so extensive that suspicions ‘were aroused. Inquiry was set on-foot and disclosed the fact that with an eye to the “main chance” the #o-called brigand hunters made raids into neighbor- ing filages, plundered them and then turned the heads of their victims to account. The Wanderer, of Vienna, publishes the following telegram, dated Constantinople, 13th:— M. Gilbert, Frencn Consul, has been attacked in the environs of Erzeroum by brigands, who com- plete stripped him, He hardly escaped with his life. The Ambassador of France has presented an euergetic protest to the Porte. FRANCE. ne Napoleon’s Cabinet—M. Picard’s Prospect of the Premiership— What Will the Emperor Dot—Advance or Retreat ?—Reform but No Finality ¢ Panis, June 17, 1870, You speak, in a late letter from Paris, of the pos- sible advent of a Cabinet headed by M. Picard. 1 ‘Was much strack by the remarks you have made on the recent political revolution of the distinguishea orator of the “left,” as well as by the conclusions you have drawn. A ministerial combination that would result i the eniry into office of M. Picard and his friends 1s cer- tamly not a contingency that may be called improb- able. It may even be-said that they are more likely, sooner or later, to be the successors of M. Emile Ollvier, from the fact that no other traction of the Chamber is in a position to prevent their ascend- ancy. The attitude of the government to-day may be Ukened to that of Napoleon I. when he entered Rus- Bia; for it bas three things to do—to retreat, remain stationary or advance. Retreat is impossible and is contrary tothe purpose of the Emperor. Various symptoms indicate that the actual situation is not likely to last long. There is nothing left, then, but to advance, In this case what man unites so many Tequirements as does M. Picar’ He alone has it in his power to form a ministry in the futuge; and, be- lieve me, it would be @ great error to suppose that the Emperor would have the least repugnance to confide tohim the supreme direction of affairs, Sa- poleon IIT., whose political intelligence is for some sirange reasons often disputed, yet Knows enough Of the men and events of his me to prevent nis hhesitating or accepting the services of those men ‘who represent that great popular party on which the empire 1s founded ang to which it owes its force. Ido not shrink from affirming that 1 heard the ‘Chies of the State utter the following words some NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘thing !ess than a Year ago, but certainly long before the events witch gave birth to the Cabinet of Janu- ary 2 (that of Emile Oliivier):—“I do not see,” said ‘the Emperor, on the occasion alluded to, “any kind Of objection to taking for Minister either M. Picard or M. Jules Favre. Such men as these can never hurt the empire. My natural enemy is the ters Parti” (the middle party). You observe the Emperor was not the victim of any illusion, but understood perfectly the danger of an alliance with the “left centre,” and how c ould he be mistaken? The “ie't centre’—Iis it not the party of half measures, of half liberties Yin a word, the party of tue bourgeoisie (the middle class), that fntractable enemy of the popular lever, universal suf: peer consequently the foes of the empire? If the Emperor gave power to the men of tue “left centre,” if he reeently called them about him, it was shoply because he felt that to get rid of them the best pian was to let them use themselves up, which they certainly have managed todo ina singularly short space of time, To-day they are judged by their crs and discredited by the faults they have com- mitted, Its @ singular fact that the Ollivier Cabinet has of Parts, a single 01 to not, in the whole prom de‘end 1t, or hardly one that does not al it. Among ail these datly spurte of so many various shades there is not one that does not assall the Minis- wy with reproaches and criticisms of the bittere-t kind, Laci grt hears of republican journals and of imperialist journals, but never of @ ministerial journal. 81 She Emperor has nothing more to ar from the centre,"” It is not too much to say that the men of this party are ukely soon to di ir from the poitiioal scene; while 16 1s also true that those who aided tatbuild up the empire are either dead or retired into private life. ‘ho, then, remain? Why, the men who repre- sent the revolution of '8)—those whose opinions are in accord with the popular mind. | Lt 18 to these that the Emperor will appeal to aid him in his effo:t to establish bis dynasty on bases still more solid, Faithful to his past, to his origin, to his traditions, he means to plant his foot once more on the soll of the revolution, and, itke Antwus, derive frum its con- tact @ new youth and greater force. Let us, then, together sulute the advent of the Picard Cabinet at no distant day, whici ts only the logical result of tue tmpertai policy. ‘The Mission to Washingtono—M. PrevostePar- adoPs Political Enemies. (From Galignani’s gi of Paris, June 18—- svening. Ld M. Prévost-Paradol's nomination as Minister at Washington has culled forth satirical appra®iations from several journals, and some of the writers are extremely bitter, For instance, tue Pays, from ‘the pen of M. Puui de Cassagnac, has the subjoiaed phi- Lppte He knows English so well! the jou in; for the last six months in speaking of th Bul why not the Embassy to London, as tuere the Orieans Princes could have communicated with’ them so much more freeiy ? ‘At present they will be obliged to send their letters to Wash- ington. Such behaviér on the part of the French Ministry is really not considerate. And have you noticed tha: the Jour na! Gfiw/, ip designating the new diplomatist, adds his title of Membre de Academie Francaise, Had he been an Orphe- onist of Snes, OF a member Of tue Society tor the Preven- tion of Crueity to Anitna's, or even of the Hygienle Associa. tion to proves! against (ho abuse of tovacco, any auch tile would bave beea registered as a special merit, as some Kem- blance of reason was absouutely to be found!’ To be a mem- ber of the Institute, then, is really something. Kviiently, since it 1s equivalent to saying that & man fs an Orieanist, The Avenir Nationa! 1s aiso exiremely severe, and the Unwon makes the tollowing observations :— ‘The Dédaty has undertaken the task of justitying thenomt- nation ; and kis cace for its new position compel it to allow that iis collavorator “ may have committed more than one error, and have 80: 8 let himseif go too far or have falien into mistakes; but that coaverted organ hastens to add that M. Paraiol “has constantly declared that his opposition, thorough as it was, would change futo support when France should Fecover the easeutial couditions of free government.” We have foliowed for tifteen years the polemics of the writer who has just passed over to the service of the Empire, and we are compelled to assign a somewhat recent date to the political indiffereuce which does not pay heed either to the form or origin of a government. ‘the new diplomatist owes his renown to the sharpness of his pen against the Imperial reyime; bis attacks, finely pointe opened for him the portals of the Academy, whiwh delighve fu the epigra ust the ruling power'ana whlch to-day st it by the converts. If one could feel surprise at anything now-a-days, one would ask how it happens that all this load of wit and sharpness can suddenly be laid at the feet of that Majesty 50 many times exposed to its rafilery. A certain eflort of imagination ts even now required to picture an ambassador of the Imperial government in the shape of w subscriber to the Baudin monument and a former editor of the Cys rier du Limanciey which was eight times warned, twice suspended, once con- demned, and in the end suppressed as a punishuicut for its weil kuown article, “Le Palefrenier.” ENGLAND. The Revision of the Bible—President Grant’s Aid in the Great ind Holy Work. [From the London Standard, June 17.) Mr. Buxiou hardiy mended bis case for transfer- ring the revision of the Scriptures to a royal com- mission by changing the terms of hia motion, su as to tuvite the co-operation of the government of thé Uniied States, Originally he called upon the House of Commons to aflirm that “it is desirable the work should be piaced in the hands of a royal commis- sion, tmstead of being left to a committee of convocation,’’ but upon further consideration he omitted all referemce to convocation, and simply moved for an address praying the sovereign ‘to invile the President of the United States to concur with her Majesty in appointing commissioners to re- vise the authorized version of the Scriptures.” Now itis a debatable question wiether the work of revi- sion should be left to a committee appointed by convocation; but, as the Premier and Mi. Beresford Hope pointed out last night, there can be very littic doubt as to the inadmissibility 0: Mr. Buxton’s sec- ont proposition. It 1s, of course, highly desiravie tnat we should, if possible, produce such a@ version as may be acceptable to the thirty odd millions of Engush-speaxing people on the other side of the At- lantic, but Lf this 18 on'y 10 be secured by the co- operation of American divines there are obvious dif- ficulties in the way. Biblical scholars are few and Jar between tn America, and it unfortunately hap- pens, from thelr position 1n the religious world, that the three or four whose services might be acceptable would by no means coatrivute to render the new Version popular among their countrymen. More- over, there 18 @ Tundamental nindrance to the pro- posed joint acuion of the President of the United States, seeing that the constitution expressiy and desiguedly bars the chief magistrate and his colleagues from idenufying themselves in their pub- lic capacity with any distinctively religions move- ment. As Mr. Hope reminds us, the influence of JeiYerson was suc fully exerted to exclude any reference to the existence of a Supreme veing or any ofiicial recognition of Christianity. Even if this obstacie could be removed, it Woald not be wise to overlook the dangerous intuence which the large and flourishing Komen Cath community would exercise in Lue Composition wf Amertean cont.n- gent. The sects are at war, bat “~ wan Catho- lics are a powerful and united te wear efforts would be directed, not so mwer neve the Pro- testant Version as Wo bring ft i.» hermeny with the Romish version. Ii is obVeus however, that Mr. Buxton’s proposition to emist American co- operation Was an ufter-tacaght, aod that his min object is to take the ques.ion out of the nands of convocation as the representation of the Estabiished Church, The member tor Bast Surrey asserts with perfect truth that the authorized version is the pro- perty not of any particular Church or sect, but of the nation at large, and, as a corollary, that no one Church or sect is entitled to monopolize the work of revising it, But we are not aware that either con- vocation or the Church bave set up any claim of this kind. Perhaps, as the largest and most intiuential Christian body in the enfpire, the Church of England had aright, and was in some measure bound, to take the initiative; Lut noone who examines the constitution of the proposed committee and remem- bers that the most emineat Biblical scholars, totaily irrespective of Church or creed, were iviied to share in its labors, can doubt that convoca- uwom approached the work in the largest and miost enlightened spirit, We can under- stand and sympathize with the rotest of churchmen like Messrs. Henley and Newdegate, who version shoutd be produced under circumstances pal sareak ae ipteatncrien ane — pon the count Y authority. The pre- sent version, it 18 well to remember, was tho frait of long protracted was not adopted as the authorized verson until tt had been stamped by the acceptance of @ whole century. Reminding the House that the motion, if carried, would compel the government to ask for a very considerable sum of money, the Premier tusisted that 1b would be best to leave the matter tn the hands of those who were Properly interested in tt, and for his own part he Was bot disposed to censure convocation ior under- taking, at Its own cost, and on its sole responsibility, the conduct of a great work of public usefulness Mr, Buxton was fain to withdraw his motion, Reunion of the Churches. fi {From the Pall Mall Gazette, June 17.) A mecting of an extraordinary character ts an- nounced to be heid at the rooms of the Architectural Exhibition Society, in Conduit street, next Mond: nigh’, All who are “inverested iu the reunion 0! Christendom” are invited to attend, and they will be asked ty affirm the following resolutions:— 1, That in view of the religious condition of mankind, of whom over two-thirds are silil heathen, and of the grave scandal and difliculties caused by the’ unbi divisions among Christians this meeting desires. to recor ‘convice tion of the paramount importance of the reunion of Eust ‘and West round the primacy ancient! zed by both alike, as weil for securing the integrity as for the Gissemination of the Chriatian falg & ‘That the only adequate remedy for the social and religious * d the surest guaranties for the future Lord Bliot will take the chatr, and the speakers will invlude both Augucans and Koman Catholics, Auiong the names announced are those of the ‘t of Limerick, Mr. Lowder, Mr. George Nugée and Mr. Oxenham, ROME AND AUSTRIA. Ivfaliibility in Hungary. {From the Liverpool Post, June 18.) The North German Correspondent, the most valu; able medium for obtaining an insight into the ntri- cteies of German politics, contains an important statement with reference to the coutemplated action of the Austro-Hungarian government in regard to the dogma of infalhbility. The Hungarian bishops who favor intailibility have Leen threatened by gio government with the loss of their temporalities in case they assist the project of the Jesuit party mm Rome, or if they atiempt to promulgate whe infulll- bility dogma in their dioceses, The Koman Curia has a'so n informed by the Hungarian govern- ment that tt will sanciuon no measure te Curia may feel called upon to take against the anti-tuifalibtlist prelates of Hungary. These statements have created considerable excitement both m Germany aud in ine. HUNGARY. Population and Food. (From Galignani’s Messenger, of Paris, June 18.) ‘The Hungarian Minister oi Commerce has just pre- sented to tie Emperor Frances Joseph a report on the recentiy terminaced census of the population in that country. We extract from thit document the folowing returns:—‘The census taken in the terri- tory appertaining to the Hungarian crown was meant to ascertain the changes which have taken during the last tweive years, as the last was held in 1867, when there were 13,763,514 inpabitanis. Ac- cording to this tresh one there were, in all, 16,420,238 souls, thus disiribuied:—Hungary Peoper, 11,109,192; Transylvania, 2,119,107; Crotia and Sclavonia, 1,016,906, and the military confines, 1,185,033. Thus there 13 an increase of 1,660,72)—12 1-47 per cent’? A levter received from Pesth states that the har- vest is now in full activity in Southern Hungary, and that it gave promise of dn extrgorainary yield ‘both for quantity and quality. The continucd ratus in the early spring have also been very favorable to’ the ais and grass, Which are most plentiful.. To judge by the orders already arriving from Wesiern Europe Hungary will have a considerable exportation both of cereais and hay, , GERMANY. Cothoiic Warning to Rome. The Augsburg Gazette, of June 17, publishes the Latin text of @ protest by a certain number of bishops against the close of the general discussion on the scleme of mfaliibility. ’ Aletter irom Cologue in tue same journal says:— Tear from,» food source that the Catholle deputies of the Relchstag and the Prussian Chamber of Deputles—MM. Relohensperger, Mallinkrodt, Windhort, &c,—have declared inet the iniullibtity of the Pope, in aletter addressed to the Holy Favuer himsel® and in which they at the same time point out the fatal elfects that dogma might have tor the Catholic Church tn Germany. JAMAICA. Tho Dacia Aground in Kingston Harbor Financial Reforms—Loss of thé Schooner Willy—Wreckers and Negroes Steal Her Cargo—The Rainy Season—Dixsestablish- ment of the State Church—Other News. GSTON, June 36, 1870, ‘The telegraph steamer Dacia, which arrived here on Monday morning with Sir Charles Bright and the cable, has not yet got off the mud bank on which she ran in coming up the harbor. The captain, for some reason not yet explained, did not take a pilot on board, The steamer Suffolk, with her Majesty's steamer Myrmidon and her Majesty’s steamer Ves- tal, have been trying to get her off without any good result, aud they have now commenced to lighten the Dacia, in the hope that this will relieve her. The company are paying some thirty pounds per day on each of two ships which arrived some time ago with the cable, and the present delay is estimated to cost the company who have undertaken the ‘laying’? some £10,000. There are some forty-eight or filty operators at present located in Kingston waiting for distribution among the telegraph stations on te otner Islands, The financial return for the quarter ending the 80th of this month promises toshow verv favorably for the government and the financial skill of the Grant ana Rushworth administration, The revenue re- ceipts considerably exceed the estimates for the year, and there is almost a certainty of there being asurpius quite equal to that of last year, which, it will be remembered, was £58,895. This does not speak badly for the prosperity of the country under “crown government.” ‘The revenue officers in the examination of paro- chial aifairs have discovered that several “nigh personages” Who were in “high favor” in the days of the defunct House of Assembly, have never paid a farthing of the taxation to which they were hable. The government having found this out has no re- spect of persons, and are paring tore “setiiement of arrears.” A compromise has been propored; but the government indignantiy rejects the p: ition, saying, “ihe peasantry pay their taxes, and the bet- ter classes should give no trouble.” Several houses and stores in the parishes of Han- over and Westmoreland are completely under water. ‘The average rainfall there in one week was twenty- seven Inches. ‘rhe British schooner Willy, from New York bound to Honduras, with a general cargo, was wrecked’ a few days ago on Bucknow’s Reef, opposite Hopewell estate, on the nortiwest of Jamaica, near to Lucea. Great efforts were made to save as much of the cargo as possible, but the violent conduct of the wreckers, aud the plundering propensities of the negroes, were beyond all description. Knives were freely used and cargo plundered even in the face of the constabu- lary. Lioyd’s agents are exerting themseives to get back the stolen proper ‘The rainy season has passed off, but not without shrink from tampering with the authorized version. We think their fears are exaggerated and that they overrate the danger of making the text of the Bible a subject of “iree handling ;” but they at least take up airintelligent ground of objection, But we can- not understand why the Onurch of England is to be deoarred from playing a prominent part in a work in which she is so Vitaliy interested ana in which the scholarship of her clergy entitles her to take the lead. Mr. Percy Wyndham considers that ecclesias- tics are unfitied by their professional habits for the work of Biblical revision ; but 1s not this equivalent to saying that experts are specially disquaiified, or that an architect 1s the last person to be consuited about @ design for a house, or a rathway engincer about a tunnel or a viaduct? It is easy to sneer at convocation as Mr. Bux- ton does. It is a venerable, but, thanks to State tyranuy, an almost impotent body, and 1 1s simply absurd to speak of it as given to ‘‘usurpa- tion.” Possibly it might become very tyrannical and despotic uf it had the chance; but, considering how itis fettered and gagged at present, it would be as reasonable to charge 2 man bound hand and foot with abusing his liberty. All that convocation has done tn this instance is to take the initiative in giv- ing eifect to the almost universal demand for a revi- sion of the Scriptures. It has nominated a commit- tee to undertake the work, which comprises, in ad- dition to an impartial selection irom the most learned divines of the Church, all the most eminent Biblical scholars among the Non-coniormist bodies who could be induced to co-operate. No one can doubt the bond jides with which the committee has been chosen, and we question whetner Dissenters will not be disposed to ap- plaud rather than condemn the zeal which prompted convocation on behalf of the Church in taking the initiative. We do not hesitate to say that under no other auspices would the labors of any body of revisers have had a chance of finding a general acceptance. Mr. Butxon contends that the ‘work ought to be undertaken by the State; and Mr. Gladstone and his supporters appear to haye at once perceived the awkward anachronism which would resuit if @ liberal government were to assume the supervision of a purely religious enterprise just at the time when it is the policy of the liberal party to break down every tie which links the State with re- ligion. Oif{course Mr, Giadstone did not justly his oppositior the motion upon grounds like these, ile declar@ that the government were decidedly op- as a matter of principle, to placing such @ work ag the revision of the Scripwres im. the hands of any civil or public body. He admitted it was highly ne y that the revi- sion should ke proceeded with, foted «mre himself Tsuaded that it could not be us lly undertaken ry the State, and thas ib Was uudesirable that any doing some extensive damage in the western par- ishes, All the bridges between Lucea and Green Island have been washed away by the floods, In Hanover a hundred and tilty acres of mountain land came down with a run, and im Westmoreland, in the middle of some of the sugar estates, there 18 enough ‘water accomulated to float the largest frigate afloat. A bill for the gradual disestablishment of the Church of England has passed the Legislative Coun- cil, It provides for the transfer of Church property, tor the management of the affairs of the Church by the ministers, members and adherents of the Epis- copal Church resident in the island, for the constitu- tion of a representative synod, and’ for the exercise of Church discipline in congregations. There was a large sale of property in Kingston, out of the Court of Chancery, last week. The prices which the several houses brought at the public com- petition were periectly fabuious and shows how greatly property has increased in value in Kingston withto tne last year or two. Smee the abolition of the tonnage dues on ist April jast there has be@a u very large increase in the nuntber of vessels arriving to load and for or- ders, and the great benelit of this financial conces- sion on the part of the government has been felt ail over the country where shipping cail in to load or seek provisious. Next year the governinent pro- pose fo abolish the lighthouse dues. QUR LATE INDIAN GUESTS. Spotted Tail Buying Horses. + {From the Sioux City Journal, June 19.) Spotted Tail and his party were out yesterday morning visiting the diterent sale stables, for the purpose of buying a good American horse tor each member of the party, The government foots. the bill, having agreed so to do in response to a request made by the Indians while in Washington. The recskins thought it was one of their rights to have good horses to take them home from the terminus of the railroad. Old Red Cioud perfected @ similar negotiation, Spot gave evidence of his being a good judge of horseflesh in his exammation of the points and qualities of the horse. He went through similar movements and gestures as his white breth- ren go through, with the exception that he spoke not @ Word until his investigations were concluded, Then he turned to Captain Poole and said something that sounded very much like “d—n heap good,” and Captain Poole concluded the bargain. About four o’clock yesterday afternoon ,the party left the city, not on horseback, but by carriages. ‘The car- riages will carry them as far as Yankton, where they are expected to lay aside a little of their clegance, straddle their free horses and go on their savage way rejoicing, \ CHARLES DICKENS. Reminiscences of the Man, the Novelist and Parent, ~~ His Momory on the European Continent, in Eng- land and in Private Circles—The Play of Pickwick—. morican Experiences—Abe Lincoln’s Dream and Its Effect. The ceremomal which was observed at the funeral of Charies Dickens inside of Westininster Aoboy, a8 Well as the funeral cortége itself and the names of the chief mourners, were fully described and set forth by cabie telegrams in the HERALD the day sub- sequent to his interment, To-day we have by mail very many interesting re- Ports relative to the deceased writer's life and the estimation in which he was held. These incidents Teach us from many and various sources, thus:— DICKENS! LAST LETTER. {From the London Atheneum, June 18.) Mr. Unarles Kent has kindly consented to our printing what is in all probability the last letter that Mr. Dickens wrove. On Thursday, before his death, when Mr. Kent went to keep the appointment, Mr. Dickens was bigs Byer ygpresed ad Was within a very few hours of his death, The “opal enjoyments” refer to the tints of the sky:— ou at three o'clock. If Ican’t be, wi ‘ou must really get rid of these opal enjoyments. Tay, are too over cowering. “those. violent delights have violent ends.” [think it was a father of your church who made the wise remark to u young gentieman who got up ear.y (or staid yt out lave) at Verona. ver affe rs To CHARLES KENT, aq. ‘CHARLES DICKENS. HIS FORTUNE, {From the London Telegraph, Juue 18.) Charles Dickens leaves, inc.uting the value of his copyrights, nearly £30,000 for his family. ‘rhe fourth, fifti anu sixth mouthly parts of “Edwin Drood” ave completed, ana the outline of the remain- ing portion of the story has been so drafted in Dickens’ waste-book that Wilkie Collins, who, it 18 understood, has consented to fintsn the tale, will lave no very diticult uadertaking before hum OBJECTS OF ART. ‘The pictures and offer objects of art which be- longed to Mr. Dickens are to be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie é& Manson. His library he has leit to his eldest son. His mauuseripts and papers are at present jn the hands of his executors, Mr. Fuster and Miss Hogarth, DICKENS AS A MAN OF SCIENCE. {From the British Medical Journal, June 17.) How true to nature, even to their most irtvial de- tails, almost every character and every incident in the Works of the great novelist whose dust has just been laid to res¢ really were is best Known to those whose tastes or whose duties led thei to frequent the paths of life irom wiich Dickens delighted to draw. But nod, except medical men, can judge of the rare fidelity with which he followed the great Mother through the devious paths of disease and death. In ing “Oliver Twist’ and *Dombey and Son,” or the “Chimes,” or even “No Thoroughiare,’’ the physician oiten felt tempted to say, “What a gain tt would have been to physic If one $0 keen to ‘ve and so facile to describe had devoted his owers to the medical ari.” It must not forgotten that his description of hectic (in “ Oliver Twist”) has found 18 Way into more than one standard work in both medicine and surgery (Miller's ** Principie of Surgery,”? second edition, p. 46; also Dr. Aitkin’s ** Practice of Medici ” third eaition, vol. 1, p. 111; also several American and French books); that he anticipated the ciinical re- searches of M. Dax, Broca, and Hughitugs Jackson, on the connection of right hemipiegia with asphasia (vide ** Dombey and Son”? for the last ilness o1 Mrs, Skewton) ; and that lis descriptions ot epilepsy in Walter Wilding, and of moral and mental insanity in characters too numerous ty mention, show the hand of a master. It is feeble praise to add that he was always just, and geuerally generous, to our proies- sion. Even his descriptions of ofr Bob Sawyers, and their less reputable friends, always wWwauted tye coarseness, and, let us add, the unreality, of Albert Smith’s ; 80 that we ourselves could well atford to laugh with the man who sometimes laughed at us, but laughed only as one who loved as. One of the later efforts of his pen was to advance the interests of the Kast London Hospital for Children; and his sympathies were never absent from the sick and suffering of every age, % THE DESIGN OF PICKWICK—DICKENS OR SEYMOUR? We quote from the Albion the following article on the death of Mr. Dickens:— At a moment when one of the least looked for of evenis that could most poignantly mock contempo- rary prescience is literally eclipsing thejgayety of nations, as the author of the “Vanity of Human Wisbes’’ said on the death of the Dickens of the John- sonian era; when, in the words of that national and universal expositor of human feeling, amid the scenes of certa'n 01 whose conjurations (Gadshill) ne not inappropriately passed away, at much about tie same age, in tue fulness of almost equal fame, every ope among us sald:— Beg a hair of him in memory, And, dying, mention it withia our wilis, Bequeathing it as w rich legacy Unto our issue— it may not be an inadmissible souvenir of the ali- mourned idol to state here, that the first Ines ever Mr. Dickens composed were submitted uncexdition- ally to the writer of these remarks—subimitted as the merest matter of professional literary business, haphazard, without any iatroduction or Intervention of any Kind, and without critic or author having the faintest idea of each other's individuality. It 13, perhaps, not a too extravagant hypoihesis to sur- mise that, had the judgmen) been adverse, there might never have been another appeal elsewhere by the hand which has heid tae whole reading world in captive admiration to its multitudinous spells ever siuce—a period of some thirty-five years. The story has often been told, always imperfectly, and by none more imperfectly than by Mr. Dickens, both on the comparatively late occasion of the Bon controversy, a8 to whether the early designs for “Pickwick” were most due to himseif or to the unfortunate suicide, Seymour, and in certain prefaces to collected editions of anterior date. It is well the truth should now be told pro- ey though the first consequence of so doing must. e Wo deprive Mr. Roebuck’s dueiiing antagonist, the late Germanically erudite Dr. Black, many years ed1- tor of the once great whig daliy organ, the Morning Chronicle, which at the pertod in question had disas- trously drifted into stock jobbing hands, or tne long enjoyed credit of being the discoverer of the gentus of Dickens, He did not discover, but he recognized it when developed, and, moreover, he utilized it for the story telling and social sketching purposes which just then burst out in divers journals, experimenting on the supposed awakening of the masses to the sweets of intellectual recreation under the Cyclops hammer of Cycloprdiac Brougham and the penny knowledge diffusers. Of these Black was one of the most ponderous; 80 much so that it was said hp used to turn to St. Thomas Aquinas by way of unbending from severer toil; hence his pereecen, of the sudden requirement of a suddenly created light Hterature was all the more singular. But as to discovering the genius of Dickens, there was really nothing to discover at the time we speak of, and there 18 no merit due or claimed in reference to the approval of the maiden composition alluded to. In fact, it had no distinctive merit whatever to warrant its being singled out from scores of things of the sort produced by “the mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease” in those distant days when the “literary gent” was happily unknown. Its length, its suit- ability at the moment to typograpmc exigencies of Space, Was the element that chietly determined its admission into the periodical down whose editorial box, in Fleet street, 1. was furtively dropped, with- outa word as to the author, who simply signed “Boz,’’ rather by the way of facilitating an “answer to correspondents,” in the event of expected rejec- tion, than with any view to the maintenance of a signature destined to become so famous. At that time the Old Monthly, as it was called, to distinguish it irom the New, about which latter Col- burn, with Campbell for editor, kept biowing such trumpets, was still a puissance, though it had lately parted with lis principal contribuior, Rey. Dr. Croly, whose Salathiel was yetin the flow of its original success; and his “Notes of the Month” were always a piquant feature, even in an age of trenchant and polished penmanship. Under Croly the magazine was ardently tory; but it hid become the property or Captain Holland, formerly one of Bolivar’s aides- de-camp—a high bred man of a type now passed away—imost variedly accomplished, and the centre of a congenial circle as gifted as himself, including many who afterwards made the fame of Frazer. Holland’s Senet liberalism, stimulated by the hot and turbid English reform agitation, still seeth- ing, and the Campbeli and Colburn competition, led him to look for fresh blood to revive the drooping circulation, Hence one reason why Dickens, then buoyantly radical, was drawn thitherwards, altirough there was nothing whatever political in the slight initial paper, of less than halt ‘a dozen pages, he ventured upon. Nor was there in the three or four similar ones he afterwaras fur- nished, and which attracted only the most cursory notice from his fellow-contributors. These articles sufliced, however, to induce Dr. Black, an old friend of his father’s, to recommend the acceptance of others like them, but of a mere “social” character, in the after manner of the master, for Bel’s Live—the proprietor of which was lavishing large means, in every form of publicity, upon his three ee morning, evening and week'y. Then the success of “her Majesty's Van’? (Peel's newly-devised hex2ze- like vehicle for conveying prisoners to and from the police courts), and afew more of the like category, though printed in the sinallest and densest news- paper type, some two-thirds of a column in length, obtainea in all journals the extensive quotation which led to the Chapman and Hall alliance that resuited in “Pickwick,” and in the unexampled celebrity thereupon supervening, and sustained erescendo to the last. Unique in ail things, Dickens was pre-eminently singular in this, . that, though “a gentieman of the press’? to a de- ree undreamed of in the vocabulary of the mght honorable personage who affeciedly disayows any other escutcheon,he had no assailauts, no traducers, no enemles, And for this reason, that, without being in the least mawkisi, tuft huntipg or mealy- ‘and last dramatic flasoo, “Phe Viliage 0 1e mouthed —on the contrary, being the most outspoken extirpator of shame, Lun) Hare, And, in bis own all- exbaustive phrase of “Pecksnitsm,” he neverthe- Tess maligned, sitirized nobody. Not even his censors. For he had many such. It would be like descending into the catadombs of criticism, 60 tospeak, to unearth proofs of how leading journals, now blatant in bis posthumous praise, once ridiculed his pretensions to delineate anything beyond the Marionettes at @ peep-show; what jubl he rears 1c Joke, Procumbit. under Braham’s management, at mes, eg of a century back; and what @ titter of sar- onic approval was evoked by the Superfine Re- viewer’s pedantic scott, that Mr. Dickens? reading apl to be confined to a perusal of nis own wi gs. His first steps were beset with Rigbys, ‘Whose “slashing articies’’ cried out, ‘This will never do !” pointing out how thorough a cockney he was once his foot was off the flagways of the hills of mor- tality, and anticilpaung che late vixenish verdict of a certain screaming sister of the sensational his ‘works are stores of pothouse won his way into universal faver in virtue of an ill-assimilative geniality it which no predetermination of resistance was proof, as in the case of Sydney Smith, who, with characte- ristic candor, avowed his intolerance of what he believed to be the cant of Dickens’ popularity, and promptly ended in becoming an enthusiastic apostle of the propaganda himself, On that dogma we are all of accord—all infalitnilists, An mentcal Council of the English and reading races aud races ail over the earth is sitting, and forever will sit, in sinecure guardianship of the faith as in Boz, and in his hierarchy of pleasaniest and most practical beneficences—ameiorating the \ot of man (3 preach- ing and teaching the duty and the beauty of sharing the common burden and enduring the mutual 1D- firmity—and so forever keeping green the memo: SE aeee sect Xo one only in his country’s GREEN IN THE MEMOR’ Long obituary notices of Charies Dickens are given in the Italian papers. The Dirilo thinks that Sam Weller and the ‘modern Tartutfe” in “alartin Chuz- zlewi” will be immortal, like Perpetua and Don Ab- bondio in Maazoni’s “Promessi Sposi,” which have become popular toes of character, ‘The Nazone, of Florence, speaks of the deceased es the greatest of modern Kngiish novelists, and says that his death will no doubt be lamented in England asa national calamity. It thinks that in bis pic- tures of iife and manners ‘his humor sometimes de- generated into caricature and his passion became melo-dramatic, but that these faults were mere specks on the sun, visible only to the scientific ob- server and depriving the beneficent luminary of neither light nor heat. “That he was,’ tt adds, ‘lor five and vaiety Years at once the most esteemed novelist and the greatest social reformer of his fellow countrymen is a just title of glory thut no other modern writer has d in an equat degree.’ ‘There will be monuments to him in marble and bronze, the Nuztone says, but his finest monument WL be the gvod he did for the poorer ciasses, REMINISCENCES OF HIS YOUTH. The editor of the London Graphic relates some particulars of his personal acquaintance with the late author, as follows:— ‘The first time I saw the idolized Boz tn the flesh was at a fancy fair in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, held, l think, for the benefit of the Sitp- wrecked Mariners’ Society. He was then a hand- some young man, with piercing brigit eyes and carefully arranged hatr, much, in fact, as he 1s re- resented in Mactise’s picture. The last ume I saw im was afew weeks since, wien I had the pleasure of meeting him at dinner, 6 ali outward appear- ance he then looked like @ man who would live aud work until he- was four score. I was especially struck by the brilliancy and vivacity of his eyes. ‘There seemed as much life and animation ta them as in twenty ordipary pairs of eyes, 1 was also siruck by his sailor-like aspect, a@ peculiarity observed by many other persons. Yet, except nis two voyages to America, he had not been much on the sea and was not, | believe, @ particularly good sauor. But we all know his sympathy for seamen, and 1 think, without being fanciful, that his nautical alr may m part be atiributed to early Portsmouth associations. On this occasion Mr. Dickens conversed with me chiefly about Mr. Carlyie’s writings, for whose “French Revolution” he expressed the strongest ad- miration, as he has practically shown in his “Tale of Two Cities; and he also related some interesting anecdotes, one of which I may venture to transfer to print. AMERICAN EXPERIENCES—ABE LINCOLN. It was related to Mr. Dickens by the late Mr. Ed- win M. Stauton, the famous Secretary of War in the United States Cabinet. On Good Fri- day, 1865, there was a Cabinet Council at Washing- ton, and Mr. Stanton chanced to enter the council chamber some time afier the other members had assembied. Ashe entered he heard the President say, ‘Well, gentlemen, this is only amusement. I think we had beiter now turn to busmess.”” During the meetng he noticed that Mr. Lincoln was re- markably grave and sedate, and that iastead of strolling about the room, a3 was his usual wont, dealing out droll remarks, he sat bolt upright in nis chair. On leaving the couacil Mr. Stanton asked one of the other Ministers why the President's man- ner was 80 peculiar, and received the following ex- planation:—**When we assembled to-day Mr. Lincoln said, ‘Gentlemen, I dreamed a@ strauge dream last night for the third time, and on each occasion some- thing remarkabie has followed upon it. Alter tie first dream came the battic of Bull run (Mr. Dickens could not remember the second event), and now the dream has come again. J dreamed that I was in a boat on a lake, drilting along without either oars or sails, wnen— At this momeut you,” said the Minister, addressing Mr. Stanion, ‘opened the door, Whereupon the Presidei#t checked himself and sald, ‘I think we had better turn to business.’ So we have lost the conclusion of the dream.” And it was lost forever. The Council met at half-past two, and on the same evening President Lincoln lay dead, slain by the pistol sbot of Wilkes Booth. 1 cannot avoid drawing @ parailel here. We shall never know the end of Mr. Lincoln's dream, and the ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood” remains also an inscratabie mystery, fet from us by the impenetrable curtain of deatn, ‘osthumous fame is bat a poor thing when it is based simply on tatellectual achievemen.s. FAME. Charles Dickens’ fame rests on a surer basis. Ais chief merit. to my thinking, lies in the fact that in ali his creations, humorous or pathetic, le irresisti- by drew the sympathies of his readers towards the cause of the humble, the suffering and the oppressed, and J firmly believe that much of the beneflcent legislation of late years is due to his teaching. If he had entered Parhament he would probably have made but an indiirerent figure, for he cared little for mere party polities; but at his desk, pen in hand, he wielded a power superior to that of a whole House of Commons, and it is to his'eternal glory that this | was uniformly exercised for worthy ends. It 3 DO small matter in an age when the contrast be- tween wealth and poverty, between inordinate Iux- ury and utter destitution, grows daily more start- ling, that a man of genius should, for a whole gene- ration, have used his mental gifts for the purpose of Psine: over those teriiple guifs in modern civiliza- jon, A BUST IN MEMORIAM. A London journal of the 18th of June says:— In fulfilment of an intention which had been re- cently formed by the deceased himself, Mr. Woolner has been commissioned by the Jamily to execuie a bust of Mr. Charies Dickens. On Friday last the sculptor visited Gadshili for the purpose of taking a cast of the deceased's features. ST. THOMAS. RRA aoe a The Failure of the Annexation Treaty—Re- forms Promised=The People Content— Severe Earthquake in the Windward Islands—Risiig of the Sea—Wreck of the Schooner S. R. Soper. . Sr. THoMas, June 15, 1870, ‘The long agony is over, and St. Thomas—albeit her people were as willing as Barkis—has failed to be- come part of that great system of States which makes up the federal Union. We are once more out of suspense and under the protecting wegis of Den- mark, which fact has been proclaimed by the Gover- nor-in-Chief in the name of his Majesty the King, whom long to reign over us may Heaven grant. Many reforms in our local laws are promised. This failure of negotiations would at one time have created a deal of sorrow, as the people in mass were sincerely desirous of forming a part of the great re- public; but there has been so long a season of dally- ing and uncertamty that any termination of the question had come to be greatly desired; and so, though unfavorable, itis now received with entire 8a tis‘action. Passengers from the Windward Islands report that several very severe shocks of earthquake were experienced on the morning of the 9th, at ten minutes past nine, and considerable damage was done to wail butidings. The sea rose to a great height about the island of Guadaloupe, and when returning the violence was so great that vessels ‘were carried far out of the harbor. From present data it 1s impossible to estimate tie extent of coun- try atected or the amount of damage done. ‘ne United States and Brazil steamer Merrimac, which arrived here on the morning of the 13th, brought among her freight two boxes of retorted gold from the Orinoco Exploriug and Mining Com- pany, valued in American gold at $: 8. + This company seems to be in a very healthful condition, for by every steamer to New York they send two boxes of this gold, valued at from $20,000 to $30,000, From St. Croix we have a report of the total wreck of the schooner 8. R. Soper, of Provincetown, Mass., Which took place on the night of the 23d of a and was communicated by Captain Robert D. Eldndge, who with twenty-two men arrived at tliat ort on Saturday night at ten o’clock, In three whale ats, in forty hours from Bird’s Island, where the schooner was wretkea, ‘They had saved about 130 barrels of oil. The captain and crew were in bad condition. Itis reporied the captain took passage to New York in the Merrimac. From Porto Rico we learn that the crop is drawing toaclose. Tonnage in full suppiy and weather fa- vorable to growig crop. The ex-Captain Generai, Don José Laureano Sanz y Ponce, who had been passing a fortnight here, took passage in the Shan- non for Europe. While here a spiendid entertain- ment was given him by the International Clup, ae on is SUL down, Aud the prospect of raising 1g au CUBA. Spanish Accounts of the Second Landing of the Upton. Her Cargo Said to be Captured—Lono and Others Escaped to the Mountains—Captured Corre- spondence—Anticipated Return of the Cap- tain General—End of Military Opera- tions—Spanish Squadron Bound to + New York—Heroic Conduct of Cuban Women—The Re- lease of Joseph Duany. HAVANA, June 22, 1870. Accounts concerning the second landing of the George B. Upton are furnished us through spanish sources, According to these her cargo was disem- barked at @ point between Puerto del Padre and Gibara, about one league from where she previously landed, She brought twenty-one men, commanded by Colonel Lofio, who, it will recollected, was at the head of the party whicn captured the Spanish coast ing steamer Comanditario some time since. Soon ‘after landing they were surprised by a force under the Captain of the Partido Maniabon, as mentioned in a previous despatch. Six were killed and one captured. ‘The others fled to the mountains of Chaparra, whither @ force was subsequently sent in pursuit by Ferrer, military commandant of Hoiguin. The following names of those killed are given:— Nicholas Sanchez, Manuel Mestore, José Joaquin Zertibide and Francisco Puente. A quantity of cor- respondence and documents was found, among them the following:— Conon, Aspinwall, Juno 8, 1870. ©, Cantos MANUEL CRSPEDES, Presluent of the Hepubllc of ube: As announced to youin my previous letter I have just completed the first expedition in Punta Brava, It {a com Eee ‘of Colonel Mariano Loo and the citizens Manuel festre, Jose Juaquin Leite Vidal, Manuel Kapin, Jose Col- luso, Nicholag Sanchen, Francisco Puentes, Francisco Duauy, liguel eat it ust! jatista, Carlos jo, Ané Vall OBO do Torres, Jactao Hebiay ata, Isidro Portillo, rancisco Tol h Manuel Guia, Adolfo Leite Vidal, Fernando Justis, Jose Fe ad Arturo Estrada, Eulogio de la Caile, Francisco Bar- reto. * 1 forward yor opy of the invoice of munitions, &e., which itearrles, It comprises— first, the armarneat which thd Junta of New York sent to Aspinwall to the care of Colonel ‘Mariano Lono; second, that which remained disembarked at the time of the first landing, and which proceeded to Axplt wall to the care of the ayent there, I um glad to have ceived, at the point of diseinbarkation, the corresponden for New York, for detention here has been of great Inoon- venience. God knows what furticr deteation remains. I re- main, &¢., JF. Also the following:— , GENERAL BEPUBLICAN JUNTA OF CUBA AND PurRto R10o, BROADWAY, NEW York, May Ly, 1970. Colonel MARIANO LONG, As DISTINGUISHED FRLLOW CITizeN.—I enclose to you in- voice of the eifects which the G. B, Upton brings to you. For causes which I will explain to citizen Eduardo Cisneros, and which were not controllable by us, the’ armament which remained in Nassau docs not come. The Junta has seen with pain that you have departed from reeeived instructions, not proceeding in accord with the person in charge of the Agency at Panama, inthe ubsence of Eduardo Cisneros as was recommended. We consider it proper to act with the greatest caution in this delicate matter; for the slightest in- udvertence on our part would be taken’ advantage of by our nd cause a loss of the immense ventures made. I, J. Cisneros will make known to you what Jordan says as to proper place of disembarkation." I remain yours, with much consideration, MIGUEL ALDAMA, President., Then follows a list of articles contained in the in- voice, comprising 1,557 carbines of various descrip- tions, powder, surgical effects, clothing and a great variety of war, material, some boilers and other things. Although it is slalmed that the capture made comprises all of the second cargo landed by the Upton, yet the Cubans insist that a good portion of it was taken into the interior by Lofo and others who were moving towards the mountains, and that captured was the small part left behind for want of transportation. It is now announced that the re- turn ot the Captain General 1s close at hand, and that he will reach this capital some time before the first of July. Weare furnished with little of importance from the Camaguey. The steamer Triunfo, which arrived here Monday, brings news from Puerto Principe to the 17th, The system of burning estates which can pe made use of by the Spaniards for shelter and pro- tection under the orders of Cavada is going on with unexampled energy and the jurisdiction is fast be- coming a desert. Tne following pers, esiates aud farms, are among whose reporied destioyed:—Cau- nao, Muaraguan, Porcayo, Yaguajay, Caobabo, Zavagozano, Hato-arriba, Najaza, San Jimuguzya, Guaicanamar, Sabana Grande, Altamira, Stbanicu, Guaimaro, San Miguel, Cascorro, Blaya, Meala Recua, Corojo, Monte Oscuro, Verticntes, Sun Carlos, Judas, Grande La Guanaja, Yayabacoa, Gaa- uamaca, Magarabomba, ,Santa Cruz, san Gerouimo, ‘Guayabal aud Conception. The Fanal says that since the 4th of November, 1860, there has not gone over the raiiroad one barrel of aguadiente, one box of sugar, one foot of lumber, one tierce of tobacco or one cake of wax, the products of the country. The military operations are few and of no interest, There had arrived in the city Don José Maria Aidana, Don Antonio Pia y Monge and Don Gregorio Garzia, Pen- insulars, residing tn Holguin, who tor thirteen months had been prisoners among the insurgents. ‘The usual long list of preseniados are published, made up mosuy of women and children, The Captain General has of late commuted the sentence of three persons from death to imprison- ment for ten years. Matters are equally at a stand- still in the Eastern Department, Vulmascda would seem to be in Bayamo, from which place we have dates to the 18th, ‘The rains had set in throughout that jurisdiction and Manzantlio, compeiling a prac- tical cessation of operations, A lew detachments opel ned out over the better roads, but accompitsh nothing. i The season for the prosecution of the insurgents is over, and xodesto Diaz stil holds his position ‘in the cradle of the insurrection,”? from which, accord- ing to the promises of Vaimuseda, he was to have been long since driven. Dates from Santiago de Cuba are to the 17th. The Bandera Espanol coutaias a letter daved Mayart the 4th, announcing that an attack had been made on the encampment of Donato Marmol on the 2d. He was intrenched, but a3 usual fed on the approach of the troops, leaving behind a quantity of war ma- terial. Itis stated that Macmol himseli was wounded in the head; fourteen prisoners were taken and af- terwards shot. The chief, Don Carlos Maria Delgado, ‘was among the prisoners, but was not shot with Lae fourteen. {tis siaied that on the 3lst of January, 1869, this chief caused to be killed by machetes seven Spanish prisoners, for which reason he, with seven other insurgents, was taken to the scene of tho tragedy and then shot. Among those kilied by Del- gado, as stated, were two worthy pnesis. The Spanish account claims that the effects cap- tured and destroyed on the 2d amounted in value to $20,000, but doubtiess ts is greatly exaggerated. On the 5th a small encounter took place on the hill Gato, within the jurisdiction. The insurgents had constructed @ nuinber of huts inside of intrench- ments, which they abandoned aiter a little firing. Throughout the Cinco Villas and in Santi Espiriva the usual unimportant encounters are reported. Pri- vate accounts from Trinidad state that matters are more than usually unsettied in that jurisdiction; that the insurgents are appearing in large numbers and are committing many devastations on estates, while the operations against them are entirely void of ts. res A Manzanillo paper of recent date relates a few incidents concerning the women of Cuba, from which can be realized that fanaticism of patriotism and hatred of their Spanish rulers which actuate them, and to which in fair part may be attributed ‘the perseverance with which this struggle 18 carried onagainst so many adverse circumstances. As stated, soon after the rising in the districts of Yara and others a column went out from the city mentioned, commanded by the unfortunate Lieuten- ant Colonel D, Rafael Jerez, who was alterwards killed in Nagua, for the purpose of attacking certain encampments. On arriving at the piace occupied by the insurgents they fled; previous to which a wo- man, holding in her hand a tri-colored bauner with a single star, Which she waved to and fro, crying out ‘Death to the vile and shameless Spamards |’ and Viva Cuba Libre! She was the wife of General Pedro Cespedes del Castillo, and a sister of the so- - called President of the republic, She abandoned her home and took the fleid for the purpose of sus- taming and encouraging the insurrection. At the detence of Las Tunas a woman was seen on horse- back, animating the troops, ang was heard to cry out “At them for they are few and dymg of ein ¥? She was the wife of citizen Generai Ru- aicaha. Two young ladies, daughters of a Spaniard resid- ing in toat jurisdiction, ‘also left their homes and united themselves to the insurrection. On arriving in the fleld they cut off their hair and adorned them- selves with blue ribbons, and devoted themselves to encouraging and sustaining the forces. In Bayamo, previous to its occupancy by Valmaseda, saya we journal mentioned, the women were very bitter ys two prisoners which fell into the hands ofthe insurgents. They adorned their dresses With colors similar to those of the Cuban fag, and with stars, assisted in preparing ammuniuon and encouraged ail those acts of vandalism perpetrated by the insurgent forces. In Manzanillo for montis the women ‘carried letters to and iro, served as Spies, furnished such supplies as they could, and in every way Mert) assisted the patriot cause. From Colon there has just arrived here news of an engagement between the insurgents and the “Cna- palgorries,” in which the latter lost considerably. Luis Will, Consul of the North German Confera- tion, has received from the Regent the Royal Amevi- can Order of Isabella the Catholic, AB this gentie- man in his oMcial aud private reiations has been a consistent and persistent friend of Spain, doubtiess he is entitled to this cheap rewara. Owing to the energetic remonstrances of Consui General Biddle, the American citizen, Joseph Duany, arrested on suspicion of being the son of Count Duany, has been released. Mr. Duany has susfored much from his confinement, and damages wi ba demanded from tue Spauish goveraucae ‘