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8 W THE CRUST, ‘A Descent Into the Dancing “Kens” and “Dives” of the Sixth Ward, “Scotty Riley’.”” Booting Ken—A Congress of Foot pads, Burglars and Pickpockots—Mary McDer- mott and ‘Slouchy” Dancing a Straight Jig— The Italian Dance House ia Baxter Sireet— Organ Grinders’ Little Girls and Boot- blacks and Newsboys Gyrating in the Intoxicatiny Waltza—How ths “Patrons” Live and Sl epand Eat in Their Dons, wd EE ‘The woodwork ts solted and greasy, and the planking in the narrow hallway, which opens ona wretched court, has been worn lato hotiows by the thousands of feet which have passed here, weary ‘With misery and hunger and shaine. Many of those fect have ere this beeu ued together when taken from the river and the Morgue, and to-uight, while the flickering lights trem penny dips burn and spat ter beliiud noisome window paues in the dreary court, gaunt (igures im tatters, whose features are pinctied ‘rom hunger or whose eyes, once bright, are @imned by drink and dissipation, grope about ike birds of prey. Betore ascending the taumble-down stairs at the back | of this cours, the special policeman, Who accompas nies the writer, a low sized, stout maa, with @ | face fringed with an ample palr of saudy whiskers, grasps my uri and says q “Now don’t mid what you see hero; it's really the worst place in the Sixth ward, and there are | some pre hard cases in ts dive. This is ‘Seoity t ‘3,7 No. 15 Baxter street.” We both t t tbe stairs very slowly, feeling our Way with both hands, and oecasfonally BESMEARING THE TIPS OF OUR FINGERS with some ylutinous substance remaining on the bruce Wis, al tervals. Shouts of hoarse, unmu- sical 1augbter broke on the drams of our ears, and these shouts came (roin a dark Nall, at the eud of | which long lances of light s(reamed out on the dirty | and Jagged wa: “Puey re alt women here,” said Caddell, the spe- | enil, “aud a precious nice gang they are, to besure.” | At toe doorway a group of vold-faced and yau- | duy dressed women—none over twenty five years of age—ivet us, and seeang that we wanted to enter the apertmenis they all felt back near a hot stove, but one who swwod in the doorway in an impudent Way, and who broke out into oud imprecations and showered over our heads, eyes, limbs and vodies tn gencral @ reeking hot volley of damnation and ob- acenity. “Wotthe Hades are you browzing around here for ut this tm: 0 night, you pair of scape gallows? | Are you goin’ Lo treat, or are you A PAIK OF BILES Pd like to know ?”” “sh a mice eclmen of woman ain’t she?’ sald the peliceman to the writer, who fell back a luttie staggered wader the tongue of this furious hag, Who was probably about twenty-eight sears of . go, of comp exiow with raddy cheeks, and having an immense gach which stretched trom the base of Ler iorebead—seamed with villany. and erime—to ner left ¢ “That’s Mary McVe.mott, She's got A HEART AS HARD AS A SION and has served aterm in tue Stace Prisen, I don’t Teally think sh.’d take anything out of her reach. Cap.aia Jordan kuew hee well and 1 suppose Cap. | taiu Kennedy will have her one oi these days by the back of the neck. Que of the women, with a toss of the head and a twirl of her skirts, walked over behind the sickening | and nauseaing hot sove and bounced her person into @ ricketly chair, sayiug at the same tme:— “Ldows think y¢z 71) Take much of thim cus. tomers, Mary. They’re com n’ around PUITES’ ON AIRS. And I suppose that fellow—: tall wan—is a medl- kal siudent, nosin’ to see what he can fd out, too. Divii blow yez, for a pair of beats, are yez goin’ te treat?” | “Me lady, ifye don’t keep a quiet tongue in yer head,’ said the poticeme Frank Cartdell, “ye'll have to Like u walk in ihe cool air. What are you all he dod t getuer for in tms room’? “Weil, 1 you want to kuow, we are waltin’ for him, and we pay twelve deliars a tmonta for the room ov twenty-seven dollars for the wio.e fure,’? said the vicious beidame caded McDermou, with a L. i } gi. The room had a dirty table, o Beals of wi.ch long Les of COUKKROACH INFANTRY hing iu and out, aud tve forlorn look- | and around the were debonuc! ing chiirs, Whose legs seemed — paralyzed, The udvieiiece was adorned—or, — rather, dsigued—vby @ few seaitred and gro- tesqiie tguies of delf, and, straaze to Bu there Was a gaudy print representing e' great act of sacrifice pertormed by tne of ian, pearly 2,000 years ago, tor jon ol mankind, with the bool, tie ant the nails fastened cruelly in the What a picture to hang im this den of ‘The women’s laces were | Lrrtuie to 100K at, $o low, abandoned and lost to | sbaie Were they In every Imeament. Oue girl, in auswer oa question which 1 ventured to put ty her, | auswered boldly aad without Lesilation, “What do we do for alvin’? why AINT YoU GREEN ? } or are you only playin’ of, which? If you want to | know, W's justths. We catce men Up here, get | tuem 10 take a drink, and tool tac, and then we go out a‘back Way and leave them twiddiing thelr | Titwos. Are wechicves? you say. May be weare, | and jay be We are Worse, aud that’s all you can git ; Out of 18.” I went down the stairs after this, folowing his , Maud tuuvorousiy, Yor 1 expected to fall through a Toten pluuk OF Cun against an assassin witha | dludgeou ora knife, and we presently came tuto a Jong aud wacrow room, Which nada bar in at aud | Yas crowded with people of both sexes, The pro- prietor of the de fai sacred | ouscure birds of might ‘OTTY RILEY,’? a beetic-browed fellow, witi sandy monstache and goaiee, and a th.ck overcoat of black, rough cloth, was very wuch stooped or “:ound-shouidered,’”? 4 DENG (Ne var, Bud Was engaged in dealing out murder, burglary aud suicide at fe cents a giass to hos customers. There wasa man plaviag an ac. | cordeon and auother Shaking a tauiborine at one en) o; (he yoom, seaied on chairs, and these two were the only human beings in the apartment who Qui nol Lave a scowi of v.llany aod murder tn their suces, (One tal fellow, WiID a cap, Whose eyes were Oi a deadiy leaden blue, stood up behind @ projec ton oi he var and eyed Inyself and Lae piliceman Willi no iricudiy look, Were it not for the presence | oi she repr seniative of the taw and of force I was quite sure that three or fuur of those fellows would | LOL besiiate Lo SUMP ON THE STRANGER, { Dent his life out <uck blows and empty nis OC ALLS. { Peary Me ermott, * of the place, had pre tuto the barroom by BONE OL as tnduhsing in some of her cavice puluy a qnar they Want to Look at . heither of tem; (Ys a pity about’ them, ani give them a cold i yer mice sno amt you,” tisome lemaies, and ail the aud carrion birds echoed the shout @ Seouy Riley | nd sli" stood “Let's ave to the fur nid ene! up on the midule of ou her lips, 1m ORTHODOX WALE AROUND, » look ex Mmurder in her & sidyctry,’? said an ati peg & Tot with Mary. e adant of the | Pay tor yer wus a tall, ragged looking farriner, ) eee as If he had not slept in a ded since breaking out of the rebeltion, He commenced to v siowy to jus full heigat, unt be i iwo fueles on the hour. 2 AWAY WITH THS MUOZIK,” wine he adyanced one foot and » in agale, the tobacco jutce | he corners of bis wouti 12 | T opened the Jaws of his dirty | Was @ prelatory rattling thum, on jouchy” and the McDetmott Woe | Ubi & Water street fore and | emed to take ummepsely onovan’s Alley” and “Kell round and ferward wud | foul binds, aud the smoky tose from so of we Hoor ay their gauinly shoes patteced and feil, und the | shouted wud Hl MUCH FREEDOM, i 1 encouraged the with remarks that} have turned the hair of pious isaac Walt | ad gestures were made and ints given that | bare caused Cotton Mather, had he ne: | to long for ihe seclusion OL a Vast wilderaess. | ay your fooling, student,” said a ring- Jeader of the gang to the whiter. “votdo you waut | as o du? I suppose you want &@ Man bo ereep to you, | Can't you co eB here > | weap watitout ping to yeu, Pd like to knows | jis fellow bad vulidus JAW aad @ foyelcad . rt, rd wentt Ose U meu 'y | before, did you, you bloody ola preacher?” asked | house keeper by nignt. | wile to Antyunio Conueo, The woman bad dar | dirty neck, pulled a heovy gold watch from hig ) gpig to the Tending strains of the music, and feud } NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1870.—TKIPLE SHEET. feeblest description, interlarded with small jokes and a woman for all purposes of thls Baxter strect | feeb pointless guecdotes, ‘hen we had a scene, which did not ran down, from the roots of his hatr and. to the eyebrows, more than an ineh and a quarter, t heavy: “pour les Blegs*s,”? a3 well pluyed as it could be by He. wae S riaity Doly 1OHOw, 66 ‘AS wan, 10.ROuInS Fe te ie re ginaed with wine, Favart and coquelit, n act of eHlurace,” and two Go to him; it is th, by 5 acts of “The isanthi LS 1@ actresses Wore CUT A THROAT WITH BIS LONG, TALON-LIKE FINGBRS, Ro i eis band -tn ahine, CE cigs ype oun nea Duder tbe pails of which was vsible nearly a pint of earthy, Diack matter, . “Well, 1 tuiuk tie conntry ts goin’ to the devil,’ sold a huge red-iaced girl with a black Astrachan | sucque and mult of the same material “1 suppose Us HO Use in tryin’ to get a drink from a free luacher wha'somever you may say to wim,” and with thut | she Jopped down on a kench, | A woman Low entered, with her head and face | thd up in dirty white bandages, aua by ears and | neck covered with purulent “and disgusting sores. She was very drunk, and reeled all over We apart | What They Sey 2vd Do In Paris~Thanks ment, amid the derisive cheers of the sor ne | to Bismarck. gaug, im an effort to clutch at tie railing or pro- Jectiou of the bar, Calling tor a drink, she was told A correspondent, writing Agen Parla on the 29th by the proprietor to i October, says:—In yesterday’s Chartvari the King of “PROJUCE TEN OINTS.!? ssia appeared in the character of Van Amburg, She fumbled throngh the mass of rags which | PFussit appeare yy ey i * served a3 a garment (or the lower part of her body, — With the British lion licking Nis boots; and we shal and, With wWuch dimeutty, diccovered a lonely aud qoubtiess be furiher tiuuted here with our huwill- agy ten cent stawp,Wiich she HELUY Held 10 ating position, since Count Bismarck has just turned Lack a number of English residents desirous of quitting Paris now that beef Is scarce, allowing er left hand, the barman at tne same bine measure ug out im the glass ubous two inches deep Of vill nous gin, Vis she seized, vod heid ce glass ‘before the Mame of the gas jet in ap unsteady manner, Abd 4 y6-.cans and Kisslane to proceed on thelr journey. of a member of the government, and altuough the thea, raisitig 1 Peat ton: wire A QuLP. | Phe moult 13 keenly ue a e house waa.Jilerally crammed tull there were enough m ered ab Were Jount i everal “yo MNVot are ye. tls? to do, you old cruiser? Dive Glatt or Cwsarian, aud prelorlauisiny witamoutal | gtht Segura apereneny an vest utes Tae ant to break the’ glass, blast your Where is the exe at A requ. meu, wn a day ‘here ts binds eu apd Anaya, oe Mae os eave be la to bea yrest theatrical revival, which will, 1 hope, len cig ts: 3 ramparts, the separation of Church and tate, ol despise the graces of sceuel 5 nabs oman iiaied away from, tho! Dak, ere fouudation OF gratitiious and obligatory instruction, | i f vein as hpi Points. but Scotty Riley Was too qiuck for her, and Ge CAMACe tut OW Te uation De ie aera ‘rom the Glasgow Mall, Nov. 5.J he ran around tne bar aud gsipped ker arm uDtl the Mee URPER Geran at hitatiice wie 1 i pSheaeoioapy ey onl poor wreich seieamed aud handed dln the tex cent jal nelal. | In anolher pontian at his ‘lecture th A beleaguered correspondent writes from Paris:— Plump in orankeu error. Sita ctigt DIM MietOrteat Haines Chillin fOr mutants, |g 1 Fegret to chronicle a very. sad aftatr—perhaps ry goo’ me arm, und strike some one of your ue ve stor os iby ae OF AUSLANCE, | the ony Serious offence Liat has disgraced We wucn- size,” sue whimpered, and she rather tell out than te Place Lovaie, ee igeys: me) ay the pages tea Paris since 19 investinent. From the opening walked Out Of (he ro0In Ou LO ine Bireet, % Sevign’, ig AS bie mon, Aes gc! ties of tue siege, the Sisters of Charity of the Hospital At Us monient the back of the writer was turned | 4 wore Jovlish cliange Nas wen made by the Muwe Cochin have distrivuted every day, to all poor pers on (ne assem tage, avd while he stool surveyiag Of Paria, who has decided — bear Shall ré- sons who caied oo them, Wilk ior Infants aod the tie scene ie felt a quick, heavy biow on the back of Place Prince ray ak age cory soring tras Patriarch . A Woman who lives in We neighborhood did the neck from sowe persons hand, and, turning Of Kerby, tue frlead of Fredericx ne Great, Who jor come for her usual supply the over day until & round, discoverei Mary Me) ermoct returning, but COUN Write such Verses as these on M, de Roubise, yory iaie nour, Sie was luformed by the Sisers tne De Fatty of Louis XV.i— j that by this time vey little milk was leit, but Heros du Nord, je savats bien | that they would give her all they could spare. Boe rooeayes xe ie derr\-ree. | Her ves was taseu from her, and alterwards 10 Des sohtuts du foi tres cbr. tien | turned three-quarters fut, ‘the woman became x dul vousiallies ate xrudpieneys angry and insolvut aud uporaiied the nuns for not is to disposess the honest seldicr who so often fought keeping ior tur a proper ailowance, as she came against Prussia and woo recused to listen to the wile revuiariy every day. So¢ weub off, threatenuag Kant overtures of the ailies, which seduced the wish ively menaces the Sister W ose duly it was 10 king OF Naples, but had no elfect ou the Viceroy Of — qistripate tie Wk among the poor, Next day she Maly. came Duck ut the ordinary time, and seemed an- AL Klux Pyat having declared in the Combat that reven than before, shouting, “1 must pay of Marshal Kavaime had sent @ colonel to the King of tat nun” On the tiird day she contrived to | } ol is uer father and to such @ life 43 white kid gioves of society, the eifect of which wien | ; mnie na ea vildan condemned her, 4 imported into classical plays, was extremely de- ‘An liour in Baxter street aiter dark gives a ter- pressing, Maubaret, struggling in such a costuin@y, ribly poweriul picture o: City Wie to those who may = with the part of a fine old Koman father, was pain- Wish to examine iis darkest Unb fully iil at ease, and tne tlusion of the scene was of —— course entirely lost, Mile. Agar brought the per- NOTES ON THE WAR. formance to a close by singing the “Marseilaise” as whe alone can slag M, though she too evidently felt the Joss of that Conventional costume which, as a j heighvor remarked to me, makes her show her tine arms.” ‘The maniy and moving strains of the great chaat seem particularly )pprovriate in Mile, Agar’s: | month, tor, With her swarihy skin, burning black eyes, and Wild gestures, she looks the very 1mper- sonaiion of that spirit which Kouget de Visle frst translated into melody. Many times a day has tio song been heard during the iast three months; but iv Has Jost none of its erect, and the audience visibly wemnbled with excitement when the trumpet- lke chorus arose, As au eXperiment the opening of the theatre was A greal Sdovess, 80 Kreat that nota place was to be liad three hours a‘ter the periormauce had been announced, LT only got mie through the kindness ina ve ligevent way, with her lianas well up, irom the bar, Wuile Bhouts 01 wugaler irom tie burglars, tleves Ana MeamMous Women ut tie dexterity aud quickLess of the biow Hiled the room, “You never got A BELT IN THE LUG the festive MeVermoit, and the writer was coin- pelled to acknowledge that he never uid receive a blow from beuMd, 11 baxter street before. | Alver this burning insult we leit the den of Mr. “Scoity Rule,” and went up the street a snort dis- tance, siopplug ot the place owned py Prussia to treat concerning the surrender of Metz 1M jy sinuate herself—perliaps vot oo gently—into the an itanan’ nained Antonio Conuev, No, | the name of the Emperor Napoleon, the edtior bas passage Uiat leads into tne kitchen of ihe Sisters, 82 Baxter street, This gentleman combines , Leen severely haudicd by the National Guards, and and then, snateliug a desb-knife (rum a tabie, sne | the copy of the Combat pubiicly burned on te | Boulevards, A large quantity of saltpetre has been extracted from the catacombs. THE USEFUL AND THE ORNAMENTAL in his line, uniting pleasure with business, Mr. Conneo Is w erocery naa by Gay and a dance © Dunng We day, and unul nine o’cieck at nigol, he veuds suydT aud la and hard baked loaves vi bread to the trish wandere! 1n 19 SecUion Of the Sixth ward, and cheese, olives, pickles, sardines aad talian wines to tie country. iLen and Women of fs Wao possess the neediul. When oight falls he hus a dance house, waere the frugal sons of labor may embrace the tupelul god- waylaid her charitable fee. When the Sister had finisned her distribution of food and reiurued to the Kitchen the woman plunged the kulfe inw ber | breast, the effect Delug to injure fatally one of her | lungs, For three or four days the poor nun Lins , gered; ou the Gith she died. Bazaine’s Defence in the Newspapers. { A mali telegram from Brussels, dated on the 4th | insiaut, at eat o'clock in the evening, reports | thus:—"'Marsiial Bazame has written a ietter to the | Nord, bearing date the 2d instant.”? Napoleon's Prison. Dr. Max Hirsh, editor of the Gewerkverein, has (November 4) just been tried at Berlin for having dess terspichore, in the pe ony ey the half grown I hav: read your political builetin of the Ist of Oc- published an article m his paper complaining of the tasaneh the crowded streets ene ciett® BH d8¥ tober, ta witch you reter to Al, Gawbeiia's procia: manner in Which the ex-Emperor has been treated Mr 32 lange and DOWNTITAL groce ye oe en eto ue ea ite at Witheimshohe. ‘The article stated that Louis Na- store. plies of dark, rouad os stand | Sway " - “ ser 1 6nall make to tits lying lucubra/lun is to send You th: ordey of the day (already published), wi Was add) essed lo ine army a@iter the Couucis 0. War held on the 29tu and Zot of October, M. Gambeita does not seem to ve aware of what he is saying, or | Of tue position in which the army at Metz was paced when be sugmatizes as he does its chiel, who poleon, who was Ue chicf cause of the war, had been received by the Prussian government with all | the honors due a ruling sovercign, and that it almost looked as if the government intended to bring him back to Paris, adding that such a proceeding would deeply offend public feeling im Ger- lug on Wp of each other, and. there aw | Wine branded with the eulgmatical tides of 130s of St,” “Maivasia,” “Barbera,” “erachette,” “Mosco.o," “Nebiolo,” “Gorguouino,” and oer hard names, all deeply BURNED IN WITH A HOT TRON, Mr. Conneo is @ sligutly built maa, with a thick aarp “eye pemie Struggled lor turee months agalast forces douile many. ‘the government prosecuvor characcerizea rir mierpsliion SaOshd He cacorted Ge trek nie Sel, ahd Whose elective strength | Ys” article “ae wa insure to. te King, who Piosaetiie: testis aan ator) bitten pil up. 1 received Bo euiamunicutious had personally ordered Napoleon to be sent his parlor, wich 18 @ ro0uL about tx fool -qnare, Nap Went at Tours, notwitusianding made to place ourseives in relauion. j ary of Mets had oue marshal, 24 generals, 2,140 | Ollicers and 42,800 men struck by the enemy’s ire, to Wilbeim-houe, and directed ali the arrangements for his weatment there. ‘ine de ence Was con- ducted by Dr, Lasker, one oi tue most eminent mem- bers of the “nawouai liverai” party in the Prussian and to which no objection could Le offered but ihe cockroacues Wu0 Tuamed ureund in Lewiluered Biate on the wails. Here a haudsome woman in the prime of Ii c ave onc oy * aud ib made itseli respected in every ight | Chamber. He said that it was notorious that the Whose tace must have vnce bee very beautlial sat | an which i6 engaged. Such an army could Sunect disused so. the ardolehad kesh untavorabig. | Befiees fa ge hd “i vie but ta the | not ve compu: of traitors and cowards. | conumented upon in various classes of society, aud Southern italian, Tis was Maddeleua © Famine and disorsauization alone caused the arms | g newspaper Was evideatly justifled In expressing to ail irem the bands of Ue 60,000 real Combatauis | the opiuions Oo: Men as io Whose patrietisin there ) Who remuiued, Tae artuliery and cavalry were With- | could be no doubt. No asilusion was made to the out horses, it haviug been necessary to Kili tiem to | King in the arucie, which was soiely directed | alleviate the privavious el the army, Max the latter | gcaiust the policy of Prussia and her government, | not displayed quck energy and patriotism ib would | Jrg cnet object Was to Oppose the alleged plan of | | have hud (o succurny tu the frstorwightol Oclover, | restoring Napoleon to We throue, and this was an When tie rations were already reduced to 306 gram | act ior Which, ia» Consutuioual Slate, whe govern- | Ines, and liver on to 200 grammes ol bad bread. Add | Ment, and pot the King, must be made responsiote. to this dark picture Ue Jactol there being 20,900 | As tor Di. Hirsch, he had, as a memoer of the North and wounded, with their medicines on the point | German Bund, supported the government in every Siouate eyes aid a grave, Maironiy fac ailozeiher out oi place in a Baxter sireet den, “Will you Dave of the Vine of Brachetior esked Connee 0; Mr. Caddell aud our reporter, “Well, as Julius Suyzar said when he crossed the Alps iu search of Hannibal, I don't care if 1 do TAKB A HACK AT I1.)? Ipray hero observe tiat Mr. Caddell ts a police ofticer deeply versed in mstory, and 1s considerabie ofa poet, Laving been the laiher of many sweet inat si | verses, i b ee Lea peroneal ves sure irom the effects | question wha’ relaled to the present war, and nis nef! set po | of ne torrential rains. France has always been d vaper tiat he was au ardent patriot. an of the type known as tho “snoozer” bs x fs | newspaper suowed Bp ‘oe ne sae oe ee See eat | ceived ds io Our pasion, 1 kuEW LOL WY; Dut the | _ ‘Ty tins the goverument prosecusor replied that he | and he browsht a botue with a huge label bearing | truth will one day preval, We are conscious of | readily acknowledged the patriotism of Dr. bilrsch, tue whiteicross of. Savoy on its face. He was aitects | M@Vings done our duty. but that he lid Lasulied ie King all the saine, lng to brash imagmary cobweos irom the neck of et Ulumately the tribunal sentenced the unfortunate the voile, Frou theeasements edge depencea a Private Letters from the Thentre of War.. | editor 10 Wo Monts’ Imprisonment. box of miguonerte, belaying Uke taste of some woman!y hand in the aparine Conneo poured % Paris— inguishe. out hres giasses of a fuid which was of w red cotor now of, Parlers distinguished race Lyset aces akin to claret, bat witi the davor of a Malaga wing, | Pursuing her studies and doing her work awid=¢ the Tuese glasses Were iiited ssieuuly and dratlucd, wile | tucmoil or the siege, and who is following ihe sortte THE “S3NOOZER” PASSED OV } e) — and tmmediateiy fell asieep 00 & conveitent cheese | Parties to gather fresh materials for her paintings: An American lady, long resident of Boston, but PSR eNIENTE Stravbonrg Cathedral. Strangers are naturally inuch more anxious | about the cathedral than about anything else— | even the rutn of hundreds of houses; and vo the | Minster are their first steps directed. And they are VOX. ; Writes every ten days per balloon to ner husband, | we becn sixteen years in dis trad,” sata | who was compclied to return to this country on im- | 784! for shops and dweling houses can be readily Conneo; “I come de muguilico city of Genoa-ah, a | portant business, In ® letter of recent dute she ' rebuilt, but what living wan could bring back the spieud.d city, gentlemen, Wil you have of the | glories of such an eaifice as this masterpiece of vine of Biachetty morey No? Or Malvasiay No? | Writes ay follows:— Siiitir vot BiohiGack fk wow Hatt gina’ waddo wine Ikeep de dauz house at nm i nave | 1 am doing something im painting every aay. | | the injuries sustained, though con-iderable, are not | The cathedral has suf- Peeples who are mooch respe eves, | There 13 scarcely anylumg thougit of but the war, My wife, Maddoiena, is frou. too,” Here the | thesieze, and tO get euough to eat, and to make @ | such as cannot be repaired, woman shot a giance of her passiouately dark eyes | tire. ‘Tlis week our portion of meat for each grown | fered most at he nerthwestern corner of tne uave. al tie deiecity | person is cut down lo about oue-eighta of a pound | Outside, several of the smail, slender columns, and “conueo couttnued—Some of my customers are | per duy, and will soon be to one-tenth of a pound. | mucu of the super-delicate Uracery that inakes the | laborers 1a the ceutrate Perco; L suppose dey get | ti is thouzht there will be fresh meat abeut a mouth | puridmg look, to use Whewell’s Words, as thougn tree dullarsa day; aod some dey are strest sweep. er. Now people begin to eat horse meat freely. | a, were enclosed in a cxse of woven stone, are ers; you dem in Broadway at nigat, bey? Yesy | ‘Two weeks ago horses Were sold lor tea cents each, | knocked away; while in the window nearest to the DLY ARB ALL HONEST & | or given away, for want of food. Now these same | Wonderful “rose” of the western front there 13a Dea dey come up stairs to daace to have d@ | horses would bring sud franes to eat. | terrivly ugy rent. ‘The glorious painted glass Mime | amooseineiment Wier I give de dance tree nights de | varis ism good condition, when we think it has | eyery window of the cleresiory, as Well as ine larger week. Wien de po ice co ue sometimes dey ull ran | stood the siege almost six Weeks. General Trocnu | windows of the nave, beirays no end of holes, down frightened, beeos dey dou’t know de ways ol | g; he has his plang and ‘Mat he is sure oO! success | caused provabiy by small splinters which have hi de country mooch yet—dey ruu out im a back door | without the provinces.» He is waiting tor guns to be | pily been Soiuie of the or- powerless against stone, whea Captain Kenney comes aud come t de store. | maue, He cailed tor subseriptions for 1,000 more | gan pipes have been broken, and the gaudily deco- Limport iny cheese and I seli some of it wholesale. | caunon, ond to-day’s papers say that the Hsts are | Taied cus 1s defaced, ‘The absurdiy celebrated | Tam worth eigvt or ten thousana dollars, irish | aiready filled fur 1,000. A large nuraber are to be | clock—a mere elaborate mechanical toy, which ex- women don’t buy pickles or preserves.” Gelivered by November 15, | cites the astonishiuent of many wio fall to appre- “They buy pickics, butnot ‘There are several hundred thousand Frenchmen | gjate we ldvely proportions oi tne buiding—is in- at in @ quiet way, an Jearotag ama @) be Lacy aa hear puak | tact. ‘fhe injury done to the most conxpicuous eb- again. } Geo ‘Trochu does not thie oO make any great | the city, Indeed, 18 very much iess than could Would you like to see de dance, zhentlemen®” ' attack before the last of November. It fe cer- | Sect, Deexpentels audit jg inanifest that tue he askeil, aud assenting, we followed we iiauan op | tuiniy een a great thing that the French have Kept | Germans must have lake immense pains to avoid a litte narrow stairway, having three turns, wilch of ile bombardment of Yaris almost six weeks. ‘IN@ | the historical edifice, the glory of a city which taey Was hidden tn the wail and had am opening through | forts and the bouts onthe Seine have aismounted inteuded to make their own. tir floor like a trap door. Up the trap we went aud | the batteries as fast as the Prussiaus have mounted. found ourselves in a room abuul Gweuty feet wide | them. by sixteen in Jength. Tie place was combortably lwent outside of Paris, as far as the village of filcd by a motley assemblage of people. Auum- | Issy, during ine last great combat, when tt is sup: ber of ariialoe Gacwslee Uanianon ed teen poser Geo see Rpense poate ad tie Pheratct ‘ 4 BIG who got in between two or three fires) 1,200, I saw years oj age sat on @ beuch near a broken win- Ht noke aud fash of the caunon, the movement | Shop opposite the northwestern corner ts completely dow, and @ uumber ef boys, some ol Whoin were | of the troops and the burning oi the palace ol St. | gutted. Of the handsome theatre—the scene of the evidently bootbiacks and not a lew grown Up Rews- | Cloud, I met some of the Prussian prisoners ag | r ri of the slege—little more th: boys, sat or siood around the room, A few of the | they were ig marched into PAM ‘All Paris 43 | a Bae nn ea fait Bix statues 07 ae adulis were dark, scowling-looklag brigaads, and | working to keep off the Prussians, aud, when ail ig | Me outside walls remain, e oe oue teliow, who wore a heavy comforter around his | ready, to make a grand attack, Ishal! not be sur- | prised if we keep along about like this for several | trousers pocket and lueked St the bour, Caplain ; weons longe thimk Paris can stand tue siege for | Kennedy, of the Sixti preciact, who was in the | three months Toner by living upon rice, &c. visitng party, saw this man, and asked Counco, Last Sunday Mr. Frangats, Mr. Cordier and son, Who seemed up here ia the dance house to ve a | Rosa Bonheur’s si-ter and’ husband, ali dined with diferent man Irom the grocery and cheese Conned, | rn: ey all seemed to enjoy it very much and said “Who Js that man with the gold watci?)” Thad a delicious littie dinner. “7s man’ Ah, he 13 a laborer in ze Centrale No charcoal is to be bought; coke and coal are Parco; he get very good wage—tree doliars aday— | scarce, and very little gas 18 allowed to be burned. | he dunce by-and-by,”” The stieets are sO dark and still that {am almost | A GOLD WATCH AND THREE DOLLARS A DAY afraid to go out with the bonne in the evening at } in the Central Park; 1 had heard of a Sixth avenue | seven o'clock. 1 do not need to go out often, Paris | car conductor who nad built two brown stone houses | js yory quiet and orderly. Mr. Corder is having Ms. Muritilo, puts his head through the gup aud grins at from his honest earnmygs, aud also of a retired bar- | statues pac K Who wore diawoud breastpins and had pur. i a tosend to New York’as soun a che |) Font Se ama Ge Paris, and would eeper who ‘e (awou Ss id 5 var Is over, "3 o Van. Cuased a yact pus a honest laborer ta the Ueuiral My Soe SG IND. dance on nis fatuer’s coain, As you fldnez about Park at tiree dollars a day, Who also supported a | MOVES OF LIVING be ae TO tSE MEAT AS GOOD } gtariug into the shops, where gaudy pictures of anuy and wore heavy cod’ watches, I never vefore oi Mattel Tnrcos and zouaves are exhivited, side by siae with had encountered in my peregrinauons, S “Vou, Stephano, give us Ze danse, LEY ZB LITLE GIRL DANSR. You see, sir, ine man who dance with the girl he preserves,”? said Mrs, | bent her eyelashes The Streets of itrasbourg. Many of tne houses round about the Cathedral &c., still grape their mantles witn diguity round their stony figures, though twoef them have lost thelr heads, Everywhere about the town are evidences of the intensity of the iron hat! poured upon the inhabl- tants’ heads, Just above the front ot a handsome shop 1s an aperture, and as you enter the place to make some little purchases, a little imp, recalling by nis black eyes and white teeth the boys of y date o! o ays, ely | through a winaow which reveals nothing but a mass ee oe BE Geechee Sy Hie, i Teleton to te of ravbish, ‘The front of the house remains intact, mode of living ut the interior has been burned to the ground, pay ten cout to the bar, but the girl, sue pay nothing We have been lacking in nothing put butter, and I | Sigits such as this are to be met with in almost at nil tor ze danse.” don’t Know when T have had so jew trouvles on my | every sirect of the town, and at every lew yards the Stephano savin the corner of the room, near a bar | mind, and ff tus lasts mach longer I shail positively | progress of the foot passenger is impeded by long Wiuch measured about four f jong, aud Stephano, | grow fat. It seems that it Is net Paris whichig | poes stretched from the curbstones Lo the top of Who Wasa little weavencd-iaced weaZ ed Malian, | blockaded, but the rest of the world. What wiil the | the ground door, denoting that there is danger to strnck upa dreamy sort of an air, Sulied for waltzing | girls do for Paris fashions ths winter? We pay ten | the passer-by from the insecurity of the house. In i lever plats it is far different, One side of the i in aninstant, Tue crowd of persous in the room, , sous apiece for eggs and lard is four franes a pound, | the hich touwed like an attic forsiowing away lumber, | We are to dine to-day on a roast sirloin of norse, its | place, forming the Musee, is completely burned, and \racted slowly, ike the folds oi & suake, into a | odor fills the house, bat the flavor of the meatis like | here, a¥ in other comparatively open places, tae Je, a3 a young iad, with the lines of juventie de- that of v sO. | rans are heaped some four or five feet hizh, In pravily woven iu tie fibres of bis face, siepped into Tue places of amusement are all closed, but on | some quarters tue destruction of property has been ine Centre of the room to dance, He wore a round- ! Sunday, the 22d, there was a concert, and there hag | On @ Wioiesale scale. The whole district bevween about jacket, Was perhaps fifteen years of age, and | been a theatrical ropresentation jor the benefé of | the Canal des Faux Remparts and the outer tortil hai bis Crousers at ihe lower end stutfed into his | artists, We should like to look into the world around | caiious—that ts to say, ali the streets, long and short, weil worn bu aie had an Us, but no one is permitted to go up into the towers | Wide and narrow, which communicate with the RIFUL DUDGER” LOOK, a to see What 13 going on outside the walls, Steinthor, the Porte de Saverne und the Pore Na- and seemed “very Hy” to What Was going on, Paying 4 . trouale, ave in ruins: his cen cents wiih tite asain ption oF f nan Of thirty Be ee ee ee ‘houguly estimating the extent of the devasta- years of age, he seized a youuggitl Jess m years tuan | The Tollowiag extract is rom a letter recetved | tions ou a plan of the town, J should say that one 4d by the aria, and tins young woman inay be | from a lady now im Loadon, dated Saturday, the Sth | eighth has been knocked to pieces, and f can readiiy paps described’ as the example of her | ingt.: believe aa nbavitant’s BlaLeMeRL that 600 houses pee as have been burned, The destruction 1s not so com- Sue was well formed, of the middie neight, with |, Mr, and Mrs. -—~ escaped from Paris this week. picte as at Bazetiles, put tv is even more appatiing, round eyes ike stars, aud her ripe, red, scariet | Tey were obilged to purchase a carriage and horses, | ‘There are wide tracks, especially near Wie threaded Lips parted lke a divided ruse, Jhere was | foe Which they paid 1,900 francs, and dveve them- | were not one stone is leit standing oc an a ail the fulne’s of @ mavured Woman of the Nurth in | S-)¥es to Rouei—sbout four days’ journey, ‘here There are gaps, Which, except lor the heaps of the fguie of this chili o: the Ktrect, of sim and — Hey disposed of their team for 160 (raucs ‘and took | pricks on the ground, are a3 open and uncovered as suauie, lo Whom tbe Word chastity was even at ber , te ratiroad. hey were oulized to leave all theit q pare veld, tne walis have mautlesiy been gradu- tender years | eects belind, as all tue Americans do who are per | ally dashed to_pieces by repeated blows, bean ‘rom A THING TO BE LAUGHED AT } mitted vo leave Paris. All my baggage, with the eXs | peam, stone irom stone. Ovcusionally tue lower and made @ mockery of. Stained us she was with | ception of one wank, is im that city, Provisions | goor has been saved; sonetimes @ litte room has tie ioulness ul Luts Baxter streel Keauel her voice Were gtowiug alarmingly scarce before we left. TWO | peen untouched; frequeatiy tue Jacies of the shops Was {ull of a musical teuderness, and her bounteous | ANd ove-hail pounds Ol meat, ewice a week, Was the forehead, above Which the slikch Wesses fell, would | Tegular ailotmeat, Soups are made trom horses and | poards wave over a mighty tssure, uve graced @ coronet. Full of grace ii every | Guily distributed among tue poor, Tne cavuiry at} in one or two spots an entire house has been mouon, und undulating like @ ree. in @ summer Meta were obliged to go ou foot because their AOLsEs: | Strangely spared, and sometimes the trou hail wind, the thougui woud strike one, as she danced | had to be used to keep the soldiers from starva- | jag been content to break a lamp-ylass or tn the wild hell-mediey, that Mis hand musy be | Uod ick of & single letter from a name, cursed who first ied her into degradation, ia the midst of one mass of ruin [ saw a Now the young Italian rowdy, With his cigar fre placard siuck Upon @ stick, announciug, as if In burning over tie fair shoulder of the girl, takes lreay, & “changement de domicile pour cause de her Waistin nf arin, acd around and around tuey Theatricals in Paris, The Paris correspondent of the London Post de+ { tate’ ca a agreed oe Aged Thay be called tae | doorplate of a house that was nothing bat door, was ‘a3 is Lhe piace it becoines a beautiful palace in tue | Seee opening of the Théatre Francais, He says:— | notice to the eftect that “aunsieur in fel demeure eyes 01 the young giri, and sapphire columas rise Like all others the theatre has been closed since | provisourement Rue,” &c. The activity we tniabi- bhiore her and. terraces of marvie, crowned with | the Prussian investment became a certauity, and its | tants display in restoring thelr homes 13 wonderiul, the myrue and tiex of her own sunoy jaud, and all | fever has been turned inio aa am oulane some | In the sieiusirasse, the street which has wost suf- ig lost to her put the hardy spirits wave tinidly suggesied that the mere } fered, the WiLD DELIK/UM OF THE MADDENING WALT, Jact of the Prussians being outside the walls con- | lutely Mnisued, alihough a.) uround It 13 utter de.o- which will Just while mankind and womankind have | etivutes no reason why we should be piunged fate | Jauow. Not a month has yet elapsed, reimemoper, hot vlood coursing in their vetns. unredeemed melancholy witutn, aud tie perform- | sluce Unricn capitulated, in Strasbourg there 13 ‘More than ail 1 am astonished when the dance | ance was tue first siep towards admitting the | none of the monotony of ruin seen ab Bazeiiles, closes to see the young girl step across the room, | possibility of @ little recreation. Like all first | There ts, indeed, no limit to the variety brought ad I Ku upon tie face of an old weather-beatea | steps, it wus a Very short oue, and bere an | about by human energy exerted in diferent degrees Madan pase hor Madd por his aria, While she, | absurd air of comp:omuse, iat boring old , auaist common destruction. Several times | saw th reutth, receives a fond caress from him. J thiuk | gentieman, M. Legouve, favored us with a con | a woman at needlework 1a the single habiiable room of the lunes wilea appeal to my sense in this con- | ference, Which means that he sat dowa behind | of @ruined nouse which looked us pe Seid of Reco Whe LOPKAYZ PE Mus wil, o clud 1M years @ wble And pyoke to ue & sSpegch Of the | wind would level jt with the ground, ‘poor bear marks of the enomy’s guns, and a bootmaker’s | | portico, however, representing Tragedy, Comedy, | A young Bostonian, writ.ng home to his friends | photozrapns of the rains, you suddenly look | display tie name of We late proprictor, and sign. | reparations;” and in another case, underacath the | skelewon Of & brand new house 1s apao- ; ne creatnre was doubtless working for dear life, per baps for a iife dearer than her nn sing A German Pen For Bismarck to Sign With, The Pforzhetmer Beodachter states that a presen- tation pen {s being made which will be handed to Count Bismarck for signing the third and new peace at Parts, This chef Wa@uvre—for eo it must be called—is now ready, aud we have jnet had tt handed us for inspection, The penis in the form ol a long, thick, yoose quill, and made of massive guid. The holder is made (uite smooth, 80 as to perinit of tis being readily used, The imitation of the ordinary quill pen is admirable, each individual feather being erfeculy forined, and ornamented with engravings, ¢ hoider is thickly studied with briluants, which decrease in size towards the polntof the pen. On the pen are engraved a count’s corouet and the monogram of Count Bismarek, The Laport: the work of this pen may be judged of whi 3 stated that two skilled goldsmitns were hard at work upon it for more than five weeks, | Bismarck and Countess. The Precurseur @ Anvers of November 1 gives the following in an extract from a letter of the Count von Bismarck to the Countes: ‘he people of Beriin ust net be inpatient, ore the first days of November it 18 tmpossible to attack Paris, see ng that noi beiore that time can ail thatis necessary tn the way ef guus, &€., be on the spot; but aa sovn as they are the attack will begin—they may ve cer- tain ol it,” Commercial Consequences of the War. A statement was given on Saturday of the extent te which our trade with France has been affected Gurug the past month by the war. It was shown ‘that the declare! value of our exportations of cer tain specified articies of British and Irish produca, and manufacture to that country had fallen irouw £696,779, their amount in seplemver, 1804, to £18),82%: or Little more than a fourth of their normal amount.) The annexed figures emorace similar details wi ie regurd to Germany whicn are equaily adverse and likeiy to be more selt because our regular traie with that couniry 18 larger than that with France, Iu Septembe , 1869, the Wwial sent toither of ceriain of our principal articles Was £1,684,958, and (bis year it has been £595,693. Happily the ditference nas been more than neutralized by an increase of stip- ments io.America and the Kast; but, so far as the war 18 concerned, the returns i ychad cael a m relia toa to France and Germany shew fairly the injary it has inflicted on us, Yet both countries are ready to visit us with the reproach that we are iaiteuing upon thelr s.raguzles because We have supped about £10,007 worth more coal and 000 worth more horses to krance during the month, with, perbays, also about £00,000 or £60,000 worth of extra arms and ammaniuon:— EXYORTS TO GERMANY, ———September,-——~ 1889, 1879, Alkali 4 £1,481 Coat 14,425 Couon yart 97,905 Do, manuta 41,970 Eartuerwar 926 Fish—ierri gs... 45,0 2 Hardwares, Horses Linen y Do, manufactures Machinery. dron.. Copper. On seed... Sik vara. Do. manufactures. Wo0l....0.- Wo yarn. Do. manufactures, Totals. «+ 18,902 St £583,633 ITEMS FROM AUSTRALASIA. Our newspaper files from Australasia, dated at Melbourne on the 10th of September, supply the iol- lowing interesting news mail details of our telegram reports to that day:— ‘The Melbourne Argus of the 10th of September pubiisies the following facts:—The imtelilence re- ceived bY the Last mail of the commencement of a war between France and Prussia somewhat startied Victorians irom their habitual propriety, and sce thea very httie has becn e.ther thought of or taiked about save the probability of Great Brivaiu’s veing drawn into the struggle, Not for more than twenty years has such @ wet and loclement season ag the present beea experi- enced in Australia, At the Maimsbury reservoir the outlet works are every day getting into a more dangerous coudivon in Coasequcnes of the Leavy floods, the water pour- ug iM torrents over bot byewasues, and great tears are eate: tained of the safety of the main embauk- ment _ In the nelghboraood of Melbourne comparatively litie aajury has been sustained, bat in the counuy districts tere Nas been no sucn visitation suce 1459, and in some instauces the floods have been un- precedented, while for the tirst ume tue Mount | Alexaader satiway has been rendered teaiporarily | nafit tor trate by tbe inundation of | Ketior and Rochester, The imports to the port of Melbourre from the 1st of January to the 13th August are valued at £1,804,509, the exports trom the port duriug the same period amounting to £7,167,327. Tue imports durmg the same period of last year mounted to £3,805,424, while the exports were £7,757,957, 0 £501,619, walle that in the exports 1s as hizh as 0,610; making mercial operacions of £1, 122,229. ‘The gold exported from the port of Melbourne from (he ist January, 1809, Ul the Week endlag 1s0h August, amounied to 995,199 ounces; while tis year it does not exceed $46,054 Oveces, notwithstanding that the transhipments of New Zealand gold have sensibly increased, while a@ quantity of Tasmuuian goid 1s also inciuded tu the returns fer 18/0. With the exception of Major General Chute and his stat?, ine British forces have takeu their inal de- pariure irom tue coloay, ‘the arraagemenis made Jor the embarkation of the troops stationed in Mel- bourne, as Weil a3 the coniingents trom the other coloules, were carried out successfuliy, aud tue wuole boiy—over 50 in alli—has jeit our shores. A royal commission appvinted to inquire into and report wiih re(ereacs ta the carrying on of noxious trades la the nelghvorhvod of Meibourug paid several rounds of visits vo the tanneries, soap and candice manufactories, piggeries, slaughter houses, &¢., 1n the metropolitan district, and iegud these estav Isumeuts to be in & very unsatisfactory slate as regards cleanliness, Never before have there been so many royal com- missions ln existence in the Australian co.ony at the same time, 187), DUMOered 723,353 persons, One of tne most audacious mining swindles ever atiempted 1a te Coway bas been perpetrated at Baliarat, Two imners froin Casteimaime, vamed worthless reel, and by the clever application of a quanuty of goid ieaf imparted to the stone exposed iu the drives a riculy wuriierous appearance. ‘They succeeded by this device in imposing upon two of the leading brokers of Ballarat, Messrs. Gavin and Forsier, aud Many other mea of experience who in- spected tue mincs were also deceived. General regret was caused by the death of Mr. Claud Farie, Sheruf of Melbourne, who expired on the 224 of August. Mr. Farle, though mot much past the priine vu. life, was an old co.onist having cue oul to \ictora at a very early age. He Was one of asamily of twenty, and was the son of Mr. property uear Giasgow, Scotland, Mr. James Marshall, solicitur, a colonist of sixteen | years’ stuading, died at Meibourne on the 1ith August. He was oue of the oidest meuibers in the coiwuny of the Masonic fraternity, having been Master of the Ancien Lodge oi Edinburg Mary's Chapel as early as 1530, He was subsequently povt- Jaureate of the Canongate Kilwinning Lodge, cnair~ man of the Law Comuuttee of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and a Knight Templar. A shocking case of child murder had taken place at Sandridze. ie Vicum was a boy, avout two years of age, and the murderer his stepiather, bd. ward M in hoteis, ‘Tue child was ine filegitimate son of & young woman named Darbyshire, whom Elion had Trecentiy married. bourn Royal Horse Bazaar was very successiul, Tie draught horses were in magnificent condition. Some of the prices realized at the sale were very | high, particularly those ior Vanquisher aud biack Prince, tWo magniticent specimens of tie Ciydes- dale torse. the former (a recent Importation) bring- lng £375 and the laiter £860, The Rev, Isaac Moore, S, J., who has been prefect of siudies at St. Patrick's College, Melbourne, for four yews, in leaving for Europe by the outgoing sieymer, was presented with a complimentary ad- dress and handsome present in token “of te lig esieem in wien he has been held during lls resi- dei.ce in the colony.” Bailarat is henceforth a city. appears in the Gazutie. Mr. Joseph M. Megson, professor of music, and for mauy years connected with the musical pro- fession in Tasmania, died at Meibourne ou the idl of August. Mr. P. B.G. Barry, late on the staff of the Mol- bourne argus as ‘a reporter, and & writer of abilily, for some time connected with the Tasinania press, was louud dead in his bed at the Melbourne | Club Hotel, Melbourne, An inquest was held, wud | the jury tound that ibe deceased poisched humseli ; Witla arsenic, | Considerable reductions have recently been mace by the soverai colonial governments Of Ausuaiasia Mi their cbarges for Iatercolonlal Leiegraplic mes- | Sages, The German bark Victorta, the first vessel char- tered iu iiaiuburg to convey emigrants to Tastnania, The proclamatiqn alter a protracted passage of 120 days. The unimi- grauts number, inciudiag @ litle stranger wich are | Tived alter ieaving port, i67 persons. | | A letter from Yokohama, Japan, reports as fol- riptioa has been raised by local | pean residents (ur the relief of the suderers Jaie explosion of the steamnsoip City of Yedo. Kev: | firms have already suosertbed $10) each, and others are realy to joi in, 1 by the bngusd aud American Consuls, the hue at | Tae | decrease in the imports during the present year | | amount total falling od in com- | The population of Victoria, on the 30th of June, | Cawson and Hanna, iook possession of an old and | James Fane, we owner of a iarge coal-bearing | ‘ood Elton, lately era) loyed as a walier | ‘The annual show and sale of horses at the Mel- | arrived in the river Derwent ou the 2ist ol Aujusi, | The iad will be adunimistered | MEXICO. Tho Health of President Juarsz—Distinguished Visitors—The Free Zone Di ension—The ="! Tehuantepre Ship Canal—Views of tho President—Affairs in the,,\ State of Gusrrero, 4 MEXICO Crp, Nov. 4 1870, ‘The four apsorbing topics of; the wees are tho health of the President, the Free Zone, Tehuantepea Canal and diticuities In Guerterd, With regard to the former tte’ meticat faculty, 1% is sald, haye agreed upon tho,keat of his disease andi are st) diously administering remedies intended to’ stimulate and reinvigorate the nervous system, Hig. condition is very much improve of late, although, he has occasional days'o¥ extreme lassitude and las borious breathing! yp vo! the present time he has, not been able 46 returh to his duties at the palace, or, in fact, but. recently to leave bis sick chamoer, and, a8 a whole, the public mind ts far from being: salisfed tnat he is'yet out of danzer. Hts tmmedt. ate friends and-cavinct associates represeat that ho 1s entirely ont of danger, but the medical faculty of the-clty, with some of whom yur correspondent has’ conversed, seem to have the tica that a recur refi¢e of the attacks are qulte prodah No greater misfortune could happen to this renublic than the | death of Presiden’ Juarez at this time, especially ag | the revolutionary clements nave been placed at lbs 'ec'y by the amnesty Inw, and as the opposition party are said to be determined that M. Leriods Tejada shall not succeed to the Presidency. General Porfirio Dig Woo is irom ‘he same State as the President, viz., Orxaeu, Was ainong those. who awaited atthe residence of Lue President on the 17th and 82d ult, the resuitof the atacks, and it 1s said that Negrete, who had but just been re- Jeased from prison, called duriag tue day lo express lus sympathy, Wiih reference to the Free Ze the discussion during the week has been quiie exiecaded. Mr, mehe Velusco, of Matamorus, well Kuown at Brownsville ani on the Riv Granite, appears to be the spectat champton of its cuutinuauce, while, the deputies from Nuevo Leon aud Coaiuita are nob oniy aiding, but desirous of its couunuauce and ex tention Into their States, and the oppoieuts of the present administration, With a ‘ew exceptions, are generaily in Sayor of is continusnee. Mr. Velasco, 16 should be said, 18 an admunstcution man, as well as several otiiers Who stroagly oppose ts abolish. ment. One of the city press of yesterday's Issue devotes the greater part of two columns to sustains ing the Zone, on the ground unt, it uot having beow proven that the nauional Freasury is injured thereby, Ns abolishment would depo pul tue Mexican bo der, citing Uie declared fact that before its Exist ence Mexicans along the Kio Grande passed over _into Texas to reside, but oa its establish ment revurned to Mextce aad have made their homes there, On (he other aad, Mr. Romero, Secretary of Treasury, occupied t ter part of two days with bis speech ta tavor of tie avo ishiment of the “Zone” and agquitted niuscli with distines tion and honor, His rep yt of the eifects of its continuance to the nation was couclusive aad eX- | hausiive. He spoke not only for Gunsed, but for | the Executive. | Textract and translate from his specch the follow- Ing:—In the discussion on tie qiwestion of the Frea zone @ year ago, when the bases lor Lie formation of the taruf were approved, it Was g.veu to be adaders stood more or 1e33 directly, aud Ns Vovn So repeated In the present discussion, that the oping of the ) Executive opposing the Free Zone originated etther from tear of the ueighboriag nativu, Wuiel bad ex+ | pressed a desire that said Zone sisal cease, or from | extreme condescensiou towards tit siime uation, Itis 10 be supposed that those Wiio velleve such. @ thing are not acquainted shoe with the disposition of the Executive or tae tendencies of the bumaa heart. Ln order wo proc in this mans ner it would be necessary for bis Uva UO Pes nounce all compliance with ins nos. sacred duties and to abdicate every senthucato! picrlotisim and eveu every seutiunent of persousi digudy, Tu order to sucritice the mmteresis of Lite natioa, bie we.tare and prosperity of a poruion of is iaiwbilaats, the | decorutn and dignity of tae repuviic, by reason ofan | excess of fear aud servilisin, 1 woudl be necessary to presciid, 10i Only every pairs, seusiiueat, bat | even the dignity of freemen, ii ie! Of bie nae | ton, Who Was Ho’ intiinidaccd y ain tite colossal \ power o/ France attempted to subjugate tue republic, S$ uOL the man to be iniiaridied Bocaise a friew ily aud neighboring nation ma: 4a) aud amicable Mauilesiaton. LM tue Executive sivual show bid fear or tue servilism of Whicu ve is accused, or even asign of sactiiicing the biterests of uic uauon to | aforeiga inierest, for whica to be Leviled in tue re. | public, ne woulda be despised by lie same nation in Whose benall ne suould have made suca a sucriiice, The practical knowiedue wuii i have of the United staies, It having been ivy iorbuie to reside engut years in them, makes me cet e ilat uf the pubic tauctionary Of Mexico, Wao by servile defer- ence towards tuat nation suou'd savitiive the legitt- mie iuteresis of nis country, le Would meet with } nothing but contempt aud rebuke. $ ‘There 18 scarcely 4 Mauoa Waich Knows how to Appreciate patriotisin aud the sutuiment of duty beter thin tue United Staves, Waid tuts cuavietion, is there auyone Wi cau believe 1 good iatta taat Ignoole or Lite patriouc senumenis may Have been those Which lead ibe Cubive lu CX press ul Oplaiog: contrary tw ihe ree Zone. in order to coaciude f will 1 the ExXeculve i respect to ti term: Fis —The Free Zone, such as exists which the cyasstation prouivite, wai wiric, @ part of the sume State of Tauwauipas on. | ' it | | roduce the ideas of Sree Zone, un uese e : dba tae Wavle | Seumt—The government of the Un thesfinaiion o- the invabitants of vu: not be ioferior to that of thelr n Which thay be necessary sluail be con. . | Fnara—Io order to obtain tins Ovjock ihe bree Zone is rot absoiniely jndispensanie, ¢ | rgah—tven ta case that Congress sivuld think conve nient'to raticy this {t ought to be ae laa Bach & ma thal Mopmtercsts of the interior e vt tue repuole gt be at the will of the deterus.oativud of the segisig@e Pot & State, f-Pue extension of the Free Zype to other States, and ery Wyaid being’ with ais bound to manago taat it may and privileges ie | tiken. | cap Ww those watch have wo fro ) fe inbaidaiadie eviis, ‘Veeenuantepec Canal bill comes up again ing day op twe, for consideration by bas Cougress of Ue ousegvations of the Lxeculive, Who b suggested the or Tg OUL Of Certala afucies Wiel migut be | Coughiered aimbisuous by capliisis aud tue Inie- es.¢u- public generally, Doli la McXico and Lie | United States. ins avdoa oa tie part of tie Pre- | sidéut Certamiy indicates that ie yet revains fail meiial powers, and that his compreucusive inielli- gence has giasped ihe whole qu oi a Jeluaate- wee Caual, No oue beueves erveutiy tbat. resident Juarez ihat, ti pracucalne aud colupleced, | ab wili be Ap NunoOF and giory LO Medico. Jils evident desire, Ad Loat Of the Caoiaed, ts Giul ite Concession Blali ZO fort trou this goverument (Oo lie Comers cia World Hutamimelied by even |e appcarunce of restrictive or ambiguous Gondiaous, 4.d La such & Jorim and se eVidenuy luberai Gia ao uueut will | be necessary (0 recommend oto Cipitulists the world over, Such is ind Caaracter of (ie Canal cons cession Which the Presidcut aud iis Cabinet wv wa | preseat, Up to Ute moment of wr lag We schuieidt | expedition nas not be wt Vera Cruz, nis geverument has nomiuat appoluted two Commissioners rom the Hepactuicat ob vomento wou of 410 2 day to accom Mexico. ‘The Condition of the Stave of Uierrero is at this | Moment Uucertai., dL 13 ruinored iuat Gcucral Alvarez, Vie oid epemy Of Jims, as accepted the position irom the government oo leat wie iederal troops, ‘The folio Wing has been Pisisusd here, Lab y ag expedition, cy will wave Herve or pair ay not believed us yet ' be gennes— Guhe PRAT OF ib Nation ar. Arwy, G Underatanuing that Un gov-rument or, Geaeial Arse w the purgose of occupying it, 10 ¥ wiiteariog taal dey woe ouly wy exerciamy xome Ww irons tule Cond promote vor the prey se Veugeanee, 2 hue thougit beat bo wits tai, notwithstanding ty pantus Purity, | my'persona: satety. wave the boss this» you inorder that you ma a that Tt Hy part In the success: 8 oO republic, Wo theend of 1 Wag my provestadons of | obedience und resp he Buy) Juverdmagats | “Independence aid Hoerty. JIMINEZ. General Loweza telegraphs (rat ne arrived with | lis lorces ib Bravos on tie Ast oi Noveuber, Wiate out Having met Witu auycuiag y ory oF Bole durig. { the mareh, ‘he roads are Mexico te Acapulco. (ais very unsafe from A NOBLE MISSION OF CHAM Y. The St. Joseph’s Hospital, at Paterson (better known as the Sisters’ Hospital), bas Guting Wie past year admitied 227 persuns, Of taese 102 lave been cured, 56 relicved, 4 Were Incuranic, 20 died, aad 37 remain under treatment. Av oue tine ror summer every room in the pulling was J@teu- | | | i pied and some patients wad to bo placed 1 the stable, Phe Sisters, ansions (oO mest the increasing requirements oF tis institution, eltiny swoseriptious for the erection of a new | wing to the hospiial. Tue Paiersou peupie ace gene } crously respondiug to the | benevolent people whe r | have tunerto tendered the | he p along the good Work, Lue ca, Latin are not focal strigtly, aad 1 mii cous m, or What lis Gre * welcomed aud cared jor, Wil; burl ts oped tat ew York, aud wee, will how nail matier where a he is siwaye

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