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. , before 1 A ROME Papal Hopes of an Early Restoration. MARIE LATASTE’S PROPHECY. September 20, 1870, September 20, 1873, the Limits of the Triumph Over Holy Church. PRAYER AND WORK IN THE VATICAN Ruinous Increase in Italian Taxes- A Document Calculated to In- jare the Government. + UNPOPULAR VICTOR EMMANUEL. Roman Ladies Turn the Cold Shoulder and the Clericals Curse the King. THE POPE RESTORED TO HEALTH, Bismarck, and the Electionofa Successor to His Holiness. The Boman Flea—His Habits, Destiny and Peouliarities, Garibaldi Not Dead—He Endorses Presi- dent Grant’s Opinion as to the Future of Europe. ‘The Persian Shah—His Peculiarities An- noy Kaiser William and Shock the Berlinese. BERLIN, June 16, 1873. Just two months ago your correspondent left Berlin for the Eternal City. It was reported at the time that His Holiness Pope Pius IX. was on the point of death; and he, with many others, went in that direction, anticipating, but not hoping, to hhave the melancholy duty of recording the de- parture trom this life of one Pope and the election and installation of a new one. must be pronounced a failure cannot be denied; nevertheless, he considers it a pleasure to be able to communicate good news, and he heartily wishes that the next special m‘ssion of a special HeraLp emissary to Rome may be to chronicle the testivi- ties in honor of the third completed decade of the pontificate of Pius IX. It is, indeed, possible that we may be called thither sooner, and to chronicle extraordinary events—not the work of death in the Vatican, but of conflict and the restoration of the temporal power to the Pope. This is at least the dream of the party of the Vatican. Shall we term it Utopian? For my partI cannot. 1 admit that 1 cannot see the slightest chance for Papal victory in Italy at present, and yet every adtierent of the Vatican in Rome is confident that before the 20th | ot September, 1873, the present Italian government will be overthrown and the pre-1870 order of things re-established. THE PROPHECY OF THE POPE’S TRIUMPH. So prophesied a French nun some years before the election of the present Pope. Marie Lataste is the name of the prophetess, and her “Life and Works” were first published, | believe, in 1847, and of late years her words have been accredited in Rome as those of an inspired seeress. Though I have not tne book before me I remember the substance of passages read to me by a foreign prelate in -Rome. Though the seeress wrote her prophecies while Gregory XVI. was yet alive, she foretold the year of his death, the twenty-five years’ pontificate of the present occupant of the Papal chair, the persecution and bitterness he ‘would experience and his final triumph alter three years of mortification. So much of what she said bas been verified by subsequent events that the | Roman clerical party confidently believe, as I said, ‘that the rest willin good time be fulfilled. Sep- tember 20, 1870—that, they say, is the date of the entry of Victor Emmanuel’s troops into Rome; September 20, 1873, by this date, they assert, Pope Pius IX. will be the temporal ruler of Rome and the States of the Uhurch. The assertion startled me, yet it was made in deep earnestness. I ventured ‘to say that I could net see how this change, this revolution, could be brought about. No informa- tion was offered to me except the words, “God has not yet forsaken His Church, Popes have been banished from Rome, have been imprisoned by their enemies, but the Church was finally trium- _pnant. And sbe will again triumph.” THE HOPES OF THE CLERICAL PARTY. We are taught to believe that the great weapon sed by the Holy See against its enemies is prayer. If the plans of the clerical party, the Vaticanists, whould be realized, then the worid will be compelled to admit that Jehovah does listen to the plaints of His faithful children on earth. But prayer is only Anindirect weapon. The Vaticanists know this as well as we do, They follow up their prayers with Tabors, carried on quietly, and the end to beob- tained is never lost sight of, Must we consider the recent changes in France, the establishment of an ultramontane Ministry, as a result of the prayers offered up for France in the Vatican’ It is so con. Bideyed in Rome. Great expectations are, or were, based on the MacMahon régime. The clerical party Of Rome still hope that the French government will a@tep in to set up and uphold the Papal temporal government. The Italians themselves are not with- @ut fears of an impending collision with France. This fear ,ia due to several reasons. The Italians, ‘though united, are not possessed of that conscious- mess of the national unity which inspires, for in- stance, the Germans. Their unity was won too easily. They took advantage of the occasions, pushing Austria out of the north during her con- ict with Prussia and seizing Rome when the Freneh were worsted in 1870. * The Italians gained their wnity without hard contest. The blood of Ttalia’s sons did not consecrate that unity, fortwnately. Yet that very costiiness in biood ‘would have served to make the unity gained more atable, a treasure to be cherished in the hearts of the people, never to be relinquished. The Italians fear France's mavements, first, because they are mot satisied with their own strength, and, secondly, because they are conscious of their own ‘weakness. Tbe army is not prepared for war. ‘The Minister of War demands increased subsidies in vain. The Treasurer says the Treasury 1s ex- hausted and that the jand cannot bear Jurther taxation, und therefore the military organization remains incomplete, ONE WEAK POINT OF THE ITALIAN CHARACTER fs a deeply rooted aversion to taxation, The Italian Peasant would choose unconditionally the govern- ment under which he would pay the least amonet of taxes, Patriotism—the love of country in itsell— 8 not taken much into account, The Vatican- ‘sts know this, and on this point, on excessive tax- ation, or increase of taxes as compared with.the pre 1870 period, they build hopes—great hopes, too. Rienzi fell because he attempted to levy taxes om the Bomans, The clericals hope Victor Emmanuel ‘will fail) for the same reason, Only a few days left Bome an infnential clerical ‘That his mission | Peed) ae eee ee Lak OP ee ae ‘eg . NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. genveman piacea in my hands a litho. graphed sheet giving a comparative statement of the taxes paid by an ecclesiastical establishinent im Rome under the Papal and under the present @overnment. The total annual tax under the for- mer on an income of 70,000 trance was 2,194 francs, or 3.135 per cent; under Victor Emmanuel the an- Dual tax amounts to 24,645 francs, or 36.664 per cent! This is an increase of 3234 per cent, or not including the extra tax on wmortiain property, 2834 per cent. As the document showing these figures is destined to create some excitement whenever it gets into the hands of the government I will give a translation. It is at present dis- tributed only to clerical leaders, £ am permitte to make whatever use of it I choose, and betray no confidence tn publishing it in the HERALD :— COMPARATIVE TABLE OF TAXES ON AN ANNUAL IN- OME OF 70,000 LIKY (FRANCS) PAID IN 1869 10 THE PONTIPICAL GOVERNMENT, AND IN 1373 TO THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT. TAXES PAID TO THK PONTIFICAL GOVERNMENT. Prancs. Per Cant, State taxes on property in Rome.. 20 State taxes on property in the country.. 24875 -+ T15.95 or 1.02279 + 864.95 + 613.70 -nLATRGS oF 211236 Total of all tuxes paid under the Pon. tiflcal goverNINENE «ose. cere ces eee ee 2,194.60 or 3.13515 TAXES PAID 70 THM ITALIAN GOVERNMENT, State taxes on property in Rome......... 6,250 Siate taxes on property in the country... Total Commanat taxes oa property in Rome Commu ‘ty in the count: Total "7,190 or 10.62857 4,650 651 301 or 7.57286 Income taxes on 59,497 ira 7.864 or 11.23 Mor main taxes on to.al of mo xg francs. 2,00 or 4.09 Morimain on buildings which give no rent, but are taxed 1,800 or 2.14286 Total of all taxes government. SUMMARY, Increase of Taxes Pontifical Malian Under Govern- Guvern- Italian ment, ment. — Gov't. Per Cent, Par Cent. Per Cent: uz 9.6 Stato tax— Real estate i i 26 ost communal and provi "1 Tncome tet nn PV § thas Mortmain. - 4.00 4.00 2 on buildings ‘not pay- t. 214 2 3.13 Sa43 ‘This schedule refers only to clerical property, VICTOR EMMANUEL’S THRONE, This document is now being industriously used for the purpose of preparing the mind of the Italian peasant and shopkeeper. It remains to be seen what effect it wit have. It must be remembered, however, that this document is only one of the means among a hundred employed by the adherents of the Vatican, In Rome and the old Papal prov- inces Victor Emmanuel cannot count upon the hearty support of the people. The Itallans show ouly a lukewarm enthusiasm and respect for their King. Rome is, indeed, an exceptional city, and the demeanor of the people there does not apply to the whole of Italy. There is, perhaps, no otner King or ruler in Europe to-day who is indirectly subjected to such continued insult from his clerical subjects and w..o is treated with such indifference by his so-called friends, Not one Roman in five ever thinks of such a thing as taking off his hat when the King drives along the streets—an act of courtesy paid by all civilized and law-abiding peoples to their rulers, ‘The Ultramontanes go tJurther than this and wish to show the King that they hate him and his goverament, The King is a gallant gentleman, and, being very fond of the ladies, invariably bows to his feminine sub- jects when he passes along tne streets, The Uitramontane ladies reply to the honor by turning their backs to the morarch, Oh, the Ultramontane ladies are terrible creatures, zealous to the death in hating the King and in their devotion to His Holiness, All this may be excused in regard to the | clerical party of Italy, which has had much to suffer, but the indifference of the great part of Italians for their monarch is a phenomenon boding little good for the kingdom. There is nevertheless @ lingering respect in the Italian heart for Victor Emmanuel because of what he has done, for his | bravery, his constitutional rulership and his plain ways. His son, Crown Prince Umberto, enjoys popularity neither among the liberals nor the Ultramontanes, Princess Marguerite alone enabies him to hoid his place in the respect of the people, It will need a terrible sickness a Ya Prince of Wales to restore popular respect and enthusiasm for Umberto. Ex-King Amadeo has a much better standing among the people, ULTRAMONTANISM V8. REPUBLICANISM, The end for which the clerical party is striving is the destruction oi the present government and the re-establishment of the pre-1870 Italy—the reinstallation of the banished dynasties. The end they would bring about would in ali probability be tue Republic, however; certainly never the dy- nasties banished by the people themselves. Since my duties in Italy did not bring me at aliin con- nection with the republicans of the land I shall not, of course, attempt to give an account of the prospects of republicanism in Italy. 1 can only say that Garibaldi still lives; for it must be known that among the clerical party of Rome there goes the legend that Garibaldi is already dead, but that his adherents conceal the fact in order that the Italian republicans shail not be discouraged. Of all the things 1 heard among my Italian clerical triends this was to me the most amusing. The legend will, nevertheless, find its application twenty years hence. In the mind of the nation the heroes of the people are blessed with immortality. History furnishes us with a hundred instances of leaders and rulers long since committed to. earth who still live in the hearts of the people. The peasants of Lower Austria believe that their great bene/actor, Joseph Il, still lives. The Saxon peasant im- agines that the good King Friedrich Augast LI, was not killed in the Tyrol by being thrown out of his carriage. In Germany the legend has it that the republican leader Robert Blum, wh» was shot in Vienna, still lives, though im continement tn some unknown dungeon. The Italian peasant will never permit Garibaldi to die. Such men, when they are called hence, become transformed into popular heroes, become endowed with the attributes of the primitive gods to guard and watch over their peoples. But Garibaldi still lives, and to assure our Roman clerical friends on this point I wili give @ translation of a letter, written by the veteran General to your correspendent, dated {rom Ca- prera the 13th of May, 1873: Io sono dell’ aviso del General Grant, che I'kuropa finise per addotari il governo repubblicano. Vostro, Carnena, 13 Maggio. 1873 G. GARIBALDI, Tam of the same opinion as General Grant, that rope will finully adopt the republican form of gover: ment. Yours, G. GARIBALDI. Carrena, May 13, 1878. {I enclose the letter itself.) FROM THE VATICAN SIDE of the Tiber I had an interesting item of news on the day I left Rome. The Pope received in audience some eight or nine students of the American Col- lege, who had just been be Se for their cler- ical duties. They were introduced to His Holiness by the excellent rector Dr. Chatard, who very kindly gave me some account of the reception. ‘They found the Pope in good spirits, He conversed with the students quite @ while, and told them of incidents that had occurred as far back as the year 1848, Dr. Chatard, who had not seen His Holiness jor three months, found that the venerable pontiff! is looking paler than when he saw him last, but his face is of a very healthy color, His recent iliness has certainly weakened him, put he has, to all ap. pearaaces, still some years of life. He siys mass every morning, and performs all the functions of that solemnity with ease, A week before this he had been unable, on repeating the certain words, to turn his iace to the people, on account of the pain he experienced; but he now can turn completely round, without any difficulty. Though the doctors are unwilling that he should give many private audiences, he receives many dis- tinguished individuals, gives audiences to all the persons of his Court, receives the foreign ambas- sadors to the Holy See, besides attending to all the duties connected with his ‘igh office. In fine weather he goes into the Vatican garden, where he takes exercise, while in unfavorable weather his promenade is confined to the galleries f the Vatican, In short, he is declared to be re- covered. “In fact,” said an American lady to whom the Vatican is always open, “the recent attack has made the\Holy Father young again.” RUMORS AND COUNTER RUMORS, . The Pope js anid to best present engaged in com- posing an encyclical, in which protest will be raised against the expropriation of the properties belong- ing to the religious orders. Much nas of late been fabled respecting the future conclave. “When the Present Pope dies,” says ® correspondent of the: London T¥mes, “the Cardinals will probably leave Rome, and the successor of Pio Nono will probably fulminate from the northern side of the Alps at Trent. Possibly the change which has taken place in the French government may dispose the Con- clave to think once more of Avignon.” It is need- less to say that the Times’ correspondent knows nothing of what he is talking about, There is no necessity for leaving Rome, and there is no thought of such an event tn che Vatican. A few days ago the luberal Austrian and Italian journals published what purported to be a letter from Count Andrassy to Car- dinal Antonelli, in answer to the latter's request for permission to hoid the future Conclave at Trent. The letter was 80 undiplomatically worded that @ mere perusal sufficed to show that the whole thing was a forgery. A Jew days later the official denial arrived from Austria, The belief in clerical circles in Rome is that the Conclave will be held in that city. There 1s no good reason apparent why it should not. The Vatican ia inviolabie. THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANP THE CHURCH, ‘The language used by Prince Bismarck in @ re- cent debate on the retaining of the post of Ger- mon Ambassador to the Holy See created great excitement in the Vatican. The Prussian Premier feeis confident in his ability, and intends, he says, to examine into the legality of the election and the position of the new Pope whenever he shall be elected. As Prussia does not possess the power of veto in the Conciave, she will, perhaps, delegate her wishes to Austria, From the German side comes, indeed, the wish that the Austrian Cardinal Rauscher should be elected Pope. Such a selection might prove beneficial tor Germany, for no one better than Rauscher could comprehend the nature of the present religious confict in Germany and be able to bring avout a reconciliation of the tem- poral and spiritual powers, Uniortunately the Itahan cardinals and the Vatican itscli know too little of the true state of religious affairs in Germany. They imagine that Catholicism (Ultra- Montanism) 18 firmly rooted in the hearts of the people. They scorn to discuss the subject of Old Catholicism, considering it not worthy of earnest attention. It is only a sect and must soon die a natural death, they say. The Vatican already sees the vengeance of God visited upon heads of the Old Catholics, It will be remembered that on the very day on which Dr. Reinkens was elected in Cologne to be the Old Catholic missionary Bishop for Germany the Jansenist Bishop, Van Loos, of Utrecht, who was to have consecrated the newly elected bishop, died, It was undoubtedly a severe blow for the Oid Catholics, But what said they in Rome? “See! it is the hand of God! He strikes the Bishop down on the very day on which the new one is e.ected!”” An Italian liberal paper replied :— “The philosophy is weak. The Jehovah of the Vati- can takes roundabout ways to accomplish his ends, Why did he not send his thunderbolts in the midst of the assembly at Cologne and strike the heretics dead? The Divine hand would then have been visible.” ITALIAN REPLIES TO BISMARCK. But to return to Prince Bismarck’s words, The Osservatore Romano, the organ of the Vatican, published on the day following the arrival of the telegram an article overflowing with bitterness and insult against the Prussian Premier, The arti- cle in question has raised such an excitement both in liberal circles in Italy and Berlin that I will give it herewith :— “The passage in Bismarck’s speech in which he exceeds the bounds of earnestness and makes him- self supremely ridiculous is that in which he speaks of the election of the Pope, and with grotesque arrogance assumes the right of examining into the jegality of the election and the position of the new Ponti, This is a new sample of the so-called rea- soning frenzy. Such extravagant and churlish assertions, which display at once ignorance and brutality, the rage of a sectarian and the foolhardiness of a savage, can only proceed from an occupant of an insane asylum. Although we are smail, we are able to protest against such brutal pretensions, by whicn right and morality ave set at deflance. We can only despise a person who vilely abuses his power and dares to utter threats against the highest authority on earth. More fearful colossi than the German Empire have been destroyed in the contest with this au- thority. The swaggering challenges of Bismarck awaken, therefore, with rational people only a smile of compassion.” Roman rumor says that the Pope himself wrote the substance of this article, Nevertheless, I doubt whether the Pope himself would utter sucha de- nunciation at all, The editor of the Osservatore Romano is almost too zealous for the Pope even, and it has repeatedly happened that he has been called to the presence of the Pontiff and severely lectured on account of his indiscreet zeal. Both the Poutii? and his advisers are far too sensible to give unnecessary irritation to Germany in such a troublous time as the present. THE LIBERAL PAPERS OF ROME condemn the article of the Osservatore Romano as unwise. Jtalie publishes it as “a curtosity from the pious Osservatore, the vfficial organ of His Ho- liness."’ The Nuovo Roma declares that the clerical journal has evidently lost its good sense and has forgotten in its rage self-respect. The Diritto says:—“Prince Bismarck has said that the German Empire will net interiere in the Papal election, but when the election 1s done ie will examine into its legitimacy and see if the elected Pontiff can exerciee iree and independently the rights belong- ing to the Pope—if he is really the head and the representative of the Catholic Church or merely a puppet used by the Jesuits for their own ends, ‘This 18 a style of language to which, though not new beyond the Alps, we in Italy are not accus- tomed. ihe moment is, indeed, well chosen tor this explanation, and it will be applauded not oniy in Germany but in the whole of Europe by all liberals, and we do not doubt for a moment that Bismarck’s ideas are shared by the whole of Eu- rope. Europe will eventually come to the conclu- sion already arrived at by Germany.” The Nuova Roma is equally we.l pleased at Bis- marck’s language, and says: “As regards the coming Conclave, the declara- tions of Prince Bismarck are quite in keeping with his rights and duties as German Chancellor. Ger- many does not intend to interfere in the Papal election, but will not permit that a Pope be chosen who will not be able to fulfll the duties required of him by Europe. In other words, if the College of Cardinals proposes a name which would signify the prolongation of the war dU'outrance against all ideas of progress, of freedom and civilization, and the continuance of the tyranny over the con- science—in short, if the Cardinals should elect a Pope who would continually jeopardize the peace of Europe—then Germany would interfere and raise her voice against the election, And with this there would be nothing at which the world would be astounded. The history oi the Conclaves proves that the diplomatists have always exer- cised a strong influence on the College of Cardinals at the Papal elections, * * * The College of Cardinals has, indeed, perfect freedom in the matter of election, but the influence of the governments is always very determinative. * * * Prince Bismarck will be silent if the college submit to the demands of the times, If not he will compel it. If the Vatican and its organs are surprised at the biuntness of the Imperial Chancellor, and protest and revile, this is simply a proof that they do not comprehend the state of affairs, since they refuse to do voluntarily what they finally must do, For of this they may rest assured, that Bismarck 1s ready to serve them when they desire it, and to keep his promise when he has made it.’ {Since my arrival in Germany I find that the cor- respondent of the Cologne Zeitung corroborates my surmise that the Pope had nothing at all to do with the article in the Osservatore Romano, He says that the editor was summoned a few days ago to the Vatican, and received a severe rebuke for his in- discreetness from the venerable Pontiff himself.) FAREWELL TO ROME. Adieu, Roma! One utters these words with inner setisfaction when Summer has fairly set in, since the city is deserted by all the foreign resi- dents who can escape the oppressive heat and the intolerable plague of fleas. Home is one of the many cities in Southern Italy where the nature | and effects produced by these tormentors can be freely discussed even at your host’s table without fear of casting any refiecston upon the cleanliness of the household, They are everywhere. They Keep one awake an hour or two every night; they wake you up early when they commence to break their fast; they accompany you on yeur wander- ings, and annoy you to such @ degree that you Praise Jehovan when you can get a chance to— scratch. It is no use disguising the word. Kvery- body scratches in Rome, from His Holiness and Victor Emmanuel down to the newsboys on the Corso. Fiea hunting is @ favorite occupation of foreign residents in Rome. Natives let the tor- mentors have free ruu. They can stand them Visitors suffer severely from thi The most in- teresting memento a visitor could possibly take with him from Italy would be a photograph of @ Roman patriarchal flea, one which has done duty ever since the Coliseum was first built, I would suggest to the Roman photographers, who take everything in the way of scenery and ruins, to turn their attention to this branch of industry, Every visitor would purchase, especially if artistically done, in imitation of the three-bees escutcheon of the family Barberini. To further increase the his- torical interest, the photograpns might be mounted in a border of Italian haif-lira shinplasters and the physiognomies of a few Italian railway oilicials, The shinplasters would remind the traveller of the many annoyances to which he is unnecessarily subjected on Italian international railroads, RAILROAD TRAVELLING IN ITALY. Atthe Florence depot I wished to procure a di- rect ticket for Vienna. I was provided with paper money, yet I found that with it I could not procure my billet. The fare was one hundred and seventy odd francs, one-half of which I then learned must be paid in paper and the other halt in gold, “But,” I said, “I have only na tional paper money; can you not calculate the premium, and allow me to give you the amount in paper?’ No! halfthe amount must be paid in gold. So I had to purchase a ticket for Venice, not having time to return to the city and purchase gold. in Venice the fare to Vienna was ninety- seven liras gold.’ There, too, I had to pay gold, paper not being received for international tickets, Of dourse I can well understand that such fares should be paid in gold; but no one except an Italian can understand why the traveller cannot pay its equivalent in the currency of the land. My baggage cost me twenty-five francs and a few kreuzers. This can be paid in paper. I had, un- fortunately, changed all my money into gold. I had to pay gold, twenty-five Irancs, and the official reiused to recognize the dilference in premium, I hope the four francs he swindled me out of may do him good, From Vienna to Berlin the fare is like- wise calculated on the sliver basis; but you pay its equivalent in paper, and no difficulty 18 expe- rienced. Why cannot the Italian railroads adopt the same plan? The daily fluctuations of gold are 80 slight, and the losses of one day would be bal- anced by the gains onthe next. I mention these facts that travellers may avoid annoyance by pro- viding themselves with gold when travelling from Italy northward. VIENNA. The few hours I spent in Vienna do not enable me to give a comparison of the prices now and as I found them a few weeks before the opening of the Exposition. The hotels are crowded and I had difficulty in finding a room, for which I paid in a third class hotel four guidens per night. It is true that in every room there is a printed schedule giving the price of satd room, of service and other things; the same bears the stamp of the official authorities, I am, nevertheless, inclined to the belief that these stamped schedules of prices are obtained by the hundred, and the hotel keeper can Place them wherever he chooses, Private apart- ments are to be hadin abundance. The Austrian government does all in its power to provide for the accommodation of strangers and to prevent their being imposed upon. The conductors on the road from Trieste to Vienna distribute to the travellers an oficial notice giving the address of the official bureaux for apartments. It reads aa follows: In the interest of strangers visiting the Vienna Exposition the City Council of Vienna has opened bureaux which give information gratis respecting apartments tolet. These bureaux of information are open daily from nine to four, One bureau is established in each district. First District—Innere stadt, Rathhause, Wip- gregh 8. Secona whip bhi hed ta stadt, Bezirkskanzlei, Kleine Sperigasse, 1 Third Westie bantatcaies, Bezirkskanzlei, Ge- meindeplatz, 3. ooh eu frict—Wieden, Bezirkskanziei, Schimr- ergass Buin’ 5 strict—Margarethen, Bezirkskanzlei, Hundsthurmerstrasse 58, Sixth District—Mariahilf, Bezirkskanzlei, Maria- hillerstrasse, 73, Seventh District—Neubau, BezirksKanzlel, Neu- baugasse, 25. wighth District—Josetstadt, Schmidgasse, 18. Ninth bisirict—Alsergrund, Bezirkskanzlei, Wan- Tingerstrasse, The Communal Council of Vienna, May 15, 1873, SHAH AND EMPEROR, What shall I say of Berlin, now that the Shah of Persia has left and the Emperor himself is at Schloss Babelsberg, recuperating from the exertion and uapleasantnesses connected with the visit of the great Persian? I arrive just in time to hear all the Berlin gossip about the event. The general belief here 18 that the Kaiser's sickness was feigned in order to escape the annoy- ances caused and the breaches of etiquette com- mitted by the Shah. ‘it is a curious fact,” says the wise portier of my hotel, “that the Kaiser was better on the very day after the Shah left us.’ “Well, what did the Shahdo then? Has he not left a good impression behind? “Ha! ha!’ he laughed, “good impression! Yes, on the schloss window curtains, the carpets of the royal apart- ments and in the dance halls, What do you think he or his underlings did #” “I don’t know.” “Well he never came up to time. He made the Court wait for him on several occasions. When he went to Potsdam he kept it waiting half an hour while he was driven about the town looking at the sights. Then at dinner, when the dish of strawberries was handed round, he kept the entire dish to himself instead of allowing it to be passed on. When he went away he jumped tnto his carriage without making any adieu. Another time, wnen he was at the opera, the Empress was seated beside him, She arose from her seat to converse with some one, but the Shah, thinking that she was about to leave him, took ber by the arm and pulied her to her seat again, Then that lamb business, The servants had already killed one in the beautiful apartments of the castle before the royal servants stopped them, but not before the fellows had wiped their bloody fingers on the lace curtains of the windows. The Court fe!t greatly relieved when he departed. May His Imperial Majesty never send his dirty warriors to this hotel again. Did not pay as a groschen Trinkgeld, Did not even pay for their harems. Said the Kaiser would foot the bills.”” Bezirkskanzlei, YACHTING NOTES, A match race will be sailed this afternoon, be- tween Tom Taylor's fast jib and mainsail yacht, the Idle Hour, and Frank Bates’ weil known sloop, the Lina S, The match is for $260 a side, and the yachts will start from of the Short Branch House, at the foot of Thirty-seventh steet, South Brook- lyn, at half-past one P. M. The schooner yacht Phantom, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Wil- liam Osgood, is laying off the First landing at Staten Island. The Brooklyn Yacht Club flect rendezvous on the afternoon of the 18th at Gien Cove, and start next day on their annual cruise The schoener yacht Triton, A.Y.C., Mr. Thayer, and the schooner yacht Peerless, A. , Commo- dore Peerless, are both lying off the foot of Court street, South Brooklyn. ‘The annual regatt will be sailed on Wednesday, Jul The alterations to the selwoner yacht Clio, N.Y.Y.C., Messra. Bradhurst and Asten, are now completed, and the boat is said to be fast and sea- wortny. Sam Greenwood, late of the Sappho, 1s the skipper. The annual tta of the Manhattan Yacht Club will be sailed on July 15. The following yachts passed Whitestone yester- 1 — Steam yacht Wave, be A C., Mr. Harley, from “ of the oh chad Yacht Clab New York, on a eruise e: Yacht Dreadnaught, Nr Y.6,, sal A. B. Stock- well, from m Newport ot for ss! Yor! Yacht Fi N,Y.Y.0., ; Mr. Dickerson, ne op recht wae Dr. Thempeon and friends, «Thom, w Hav ‘pr Now Yorke CUBA INTERESTING FACTS FROM THE INTERIOR, Struggles for Freedom in the Manigua. FRENCHMEN =ENTRAPPED. Letter of a Victim to His Parents in France. —— Money Baiting in Madrid—Foreigners Dragged Across the Sea, BATTLES OFFICIALLY REPORTED The War Secretary of Cuba Libre Eneouraging Fair Play. The Killed and Wounded in a Dozen Fights. Burning of Sugar and Other Factories by the Insurgents. Following up the history of the struggle in the isiand of Cuba so graphically pictured by the special correspondents of the HEEALD, we present below the story, in brief, certainly, of the numer- ous contests during the present year between the Spanish soldiers and those fighting for freedom under the flag of Cespedes. The documents bear the stronger impress of truth and impartiality in that they do not hide the reverses suffered by the patriots. The letter of a young Frenchman to his parents, defining how he was lured to Cuba under peculiar representations by the Spanish goverp- ment—or by agents alleged to represent it—will be read with special interest by his concitoyens, DESERTIONS FROM THE SPANISH LINES. H¥ADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF OPERATIONS OF THE EAST AND CENTRE. The desertions to the enemy of the foreign sol- diers who arrived here as volunteers with the latest reinforcement from the Peninsula being fre- quent, Lrecommend you to instruct the captams of corps having charge of these individuals to watch them with especial attention, though I have failed to discover that they were the means of con- veying news to tne other side. BYTON, PUERTO PRINCIPE, Feb, 25, 1873. OUTRAGES ON FRENCH CITIZENS. C. FRANCO HORRUNTINER, Agent of the Cuban Re- public:— RESIDENCE OF THE EXECUTIVE, April 24, 1873. DISTINGUISHED CrTIZEN—Want of time and ab- sence of some of the personnel from the Secretaria has prevented my sending to you the original notes on the latest military movements; much that is in them it would not be convenient to publish, and I have thereiore suppressed all that has not refer- ence to feats of arms. I annex a letter from a Frenchman, together with an authentic copy of the same, in order that you may publish the former and send the latter to its destination for the guid- ance of the French government. On reading this you will learn that the Spaniards are deceiving these Frenchmen to all of whom they are making great promises and under false pretensions con- verting them into soldiers. When they come to understand that they, republicans, have been the unconscious instruments of Spanish tyranny the greater part of them desert and come over to us and remain, quite contented. The publication of this letter in a newspaper having a good circula- tion would be very opportune. With sentimeats of my most respectful consid- eration, country and Mberty For the Secretary or State, MIGUEL BRAVO Y SENTIES, Secretary of War. N. B.—At the moment of closing this despatch I receive notice trom General Modesto Diaz that the forces under his command had reduced the factories of Demayagua to ashes, The Valerino factory, half a league from Manzanillo, was not destroyed, owing to @ mistake and fear on the part of those engaged. Lieutenant Coione! Emilio Noquera has occupied a position near there and nobly sustained himself, and, though he has had no more than twenty-five men at his disposal, the enemy were unable to drive him from hus trenches. We had one wounded. We captured a large keg of honey, pork, galinas, cheese, beef from Monte- video, some rope and other effects, M. B.S. A COMPULSORY TRIP TO CUBA. The following is the letter referred to:— My Deak FATUER AND MoraeR—Happy the day when I can put my hand tothe pen to inform you asto my position and at the same time have the advantaze of seeking for information in return re- garding ;our health, You know that I passed over into Spain on business. On arriving there they made me the following propositions, viz., thatif I | would go to Havana, in America, they would pay my voyage across, give me 250f, on embarking and 21. a day, or 45f. a@ month, and 500f on debarkation. Without reflection I said I would when they should give me the 260f., and imme- diately I was placed on shipboard, and, before I realized it, carried far out on the great ocean. But, instead of being landed at Havana, they made me | get out at Nuevitas, and there, instead of paying me the money, placed firearms in my hands. I scarcely knew what had come to me or what they intended doing. There were about fifteen hundred of us there, and seeing that they did not fulfil the promises they had made, and seeing that we had been seized for soldiers, and especially that we had to fight for keeping up slavery, of cnslaving men a hundred- fold more civilized than those from whom we have | escaped, we revolted and went over to the other side. You should know that the Lieutenant Colonel received us with great joyiulness, and we now de- sire to oust the Spanish governinent on this island, when the land will be divided among those who have fought for it and we shall be recompensed. I have nothing else to tell you for the present, but to tell you that I am pained to be so far distant from you; but with putience all will be well. Adieu, my dear parents. I conclude by mentally embracing you in my arms. ©, LAGNEUS, P. S.—You will see that [ am quite near the United States, and that my health is fourisming. 1 also pray you to ask my father to see the Minis. ter of War, and resent the outrage done me by Spain, and inform him what they have done to me, and that I did not present myself to draw the money. Piease embrace my brother and sisters for me, and I promise you, if God spares me, it will not be long before I return again to the family. I have not mailed this because I was not sure it would ever reach you in that way. You will not senda letter through the post either; if you have anything to say that should be secret address Republica Cubana, Carlos Lagneus, Brigada del Sur, Camu- guey. VERIFICATION. Nora.—This 18 copied with the points and letters from the original orthography. MIGUEL BRAVOY SENTIES, Secretary of War. QUARTERS OF THE LIBRRATING ARMY OF THE East, SAVANILIO, May 13, 1878, | To THE SECRETARY OF Waa:— Sknor—I have the pleasure of forwarding to you the details of the latest operations: — On April 16 @ strong column of the enemy at- tacked Lieutenant Colonel W Saladrigas, while en- camped in La Tatia, about a league from the quar- tere at Spyanillo, who resisted until bis camp was occupied, and then retired towards Naranjo. Sev. eral of his escort were fired upon and chased to Savanillo, the Spaniards attempting to take the quarters at the latter on the 26th. On the 28th two companies went from here, and, attacking the enemy, caused them to disperse, though they had two pieces of cannon, BATTLE OF MAY 2. May 2—The enemy presented himself near the quarters in Naranjo, ‘proceeding to Bayamo, Jiguani and Holguin. I had dug @ small trench whose front defended the First battalion of Jiguant and the hanks of the Second battalions of Holguin and Jiguani, The enemy hastily advanced his cavalry, but the certain aim of our men cansed them to retire in disorder. The enemy then sent forward two pieces of artillery and by means of the cannon endeavored to take the trench, ad- vaneing his iftantry step by step on our front and flanks, For more than fifteen minutes the enemy fought us at not mere than twenty paces from the trench, without being able to advance beyond, and after receiving @ mortifying fire was obliged to re- Ure, leaving his dead and wounded in camp, Collecting my forces in the atdor of the aght? advanced from the trench and followed him, when suddenly the enemy gathered up his reserve, faced about and drove us back into our position, The combat alter this movement was from hand to hand, and finally we HAD TO VACATE OUR GROUND. Being supplied with ammunition my forces ha rassed nim as far as Savanillo, and when he halted to look aiter his wounded he suflered badly from the fire of my guerillas until about three o’ciock tn the afternoon, when he retired by way of Jiguani, Opportunely I had placed in his way Lieutenant José Rodriguez, who attacked him with five pieces of cannon and kept up a lively fight with musketry, Subsequently he was followed by Commandant Ruiz, and was attacked elsewhere by Lieutenant Manuel Torres. These gained on him again at about ten o’clock at night in La Tatia, where he was encamped, and hostilities were kept up all night. ‘The Spaniards had three killed, one appearing to be an officer, and a number wounded, We had two killed and eight wounded. SAVANILLO ENCAMPMENT ATTACKED. May 5.—Commandant Narciso Silva, with part of battalions No. 2, of Holguin, and No. 1, of Jiguani, was ordered to march to Baire Abajo to attack a body of men near htirzolo; but tue enemy passed by way of La Seca, where he was reinforced by a column from Bayamo, and marched against the encampment o! Savanilio, which he attacked on the morning of the 8th, This camp was com- manded by Colonel Leonardo Marmol, who bravely resisted the attack, Notwithstanding the numeri- cal superiority the enemy did not succeed in taking the camp, and, alter an hour’s struggle, continued his march towards Pedregaion, counter- marched the day following by way of La Yaya, and on the 10th by way of Bayamo. Commandant Silva, though too late, perceived the movement of the enemy, and marched in pursuit as far as Yaya, but was unable to overtake him. MEKTING THE ENEMY IN AMBUSCADE, May 12.—A strong force of the enemy arrived from Holguin and intended to attack the camp of Savaniilo, occupied by ColoneiMdrmol. This chief, perceiving the approach of the Spaniards, at once prepared two ambuscades under the command of Silva, the rest of bis force remaining in quar- ters. The fight continued for about a quarter of an hour, when the enemy pressed on to Pedregalon, atier being beaten by the force placed in his path by anticipation, muskets and cannon being used, Colonel! Marmol marched after him, overtaking him in an out-oi-the-way place near Dos Rios. The enemy could be seen carrying numerous litters with their wounded, On our side Augustin Por- tales was wounded, MISCELLANEOUS ENCOUNTERS, Brigadier José de Terno Pener has communi, cated to me in the following manner the operations from January 15 to April 24 of the Brigade of the South under his command :— JANUARY 15.—Lieutenant Colonel Fior Crombe> encountered the enemy ou the road near La Maistra. Two were seriously and three slightly wounded, The same day he again encounteree t nemy, when returning via the road of San Luis, and atter a short engagement compelled him to retire, leaving one man dead, A SLIGHT VICTORY, Manca 7.—Lieutenant Colonel Crombet encoun- tered the enemy between Maniel and Hongele- songo, and drove him from his camp, leaving a | dead officer, one Remington and valuable camp | accoutrements. He specially mentions for merit in this action Captain José Rios, Lieutenants Enrique, Beil and Antonia Sebrece, and Sergeant A. Portuondo, SURPRISING AND ROUTING VOLUNTEERS. MakcH 13.—Lieutenant Colonel José Medina sur. prised the volunteers having charge of the field works at Diamante, obliging them to retreat and leave behind all their effects. During the two hours’ action in the encampment he twice repulsed the enemy, and only leit the ground taken after having exhausted the resources of the “park.” In the fight Captain Pedro Richards and sub-lieu- tenant L. Sanchez, of our side, were seriousiy wounded. BURNING FIELDS OF CANE. MARCH 26.—Colonel Fior Crombet, with the com- mandants of Franco Horrintiner and Juan Vigay and Captain Juan Duany, burned the cane fields of the people of Mariel, Hatillo and Yarabo, only meet- ing with slight resistance towards the last moment* REPULSING THE SPANISH SOLDIERS, APRIL Lieutenant Colonel José Medina at- acked the volunteers having charge of the military works at La Matilde, dispersing them and captur- ing a Remington and other effects, On being rein- | forced the volunteers returned and attacked him, but ne repulsed them again. THREE SOLDIERS ROUGHLY HANDLED. APRIL 15.—The same Chief, Medina, while in am- bush near the encampment of La Demajagua, sur- prised three soldiers, making one prisoner with his | arms, shooting another and followed the other to the foot of the enemy's intrenchment. ATTACK ON THE TEMPIR CAMP, April 19.—A strong colamn of the enemy ate tacked our encampment at Tempir, and was jought by two divisions of tue post, in ambuscade, commanded by Captains Higinto Vazquez, Felive Vigo and Francesco Bravo, causing him to retire to the flelds, with several wounded, DESTROYING SUGAR MILLS AT GUISA, Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Ramirez informs me within the past few days that during Aprii le ordered Captain Cristopel Rodriguez to burn the sugar mills and destroy the vegetation and iences onthe outskirts of Guisa, and that that official reported having done this, without any new fea- ture being presented, A CUBAN CAPTAIN KILLED, MAY 13.~ Colonel Maérmo) engaged with a large column of the enemy in Pedregalon, while he was proceeding from Dos Rios in the direction of Narango, terminating lamentably for us by the death of the fearless Lieutenant Niviano Castro. Beyond having fatigued the enemy we are ignorant of what loss he suffered, I am, sir, with every consideration, CALIXTO J. TRIVONES. LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF A METHO- DIST CHURCH IN HARRISON, W, J. Yesterday was a white-page leaf of history to the Methodists of Harrison, just opposite Newark, N. J., being the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of a new Methodist church there, An assem- biage numbering between four and five hundred persons were present. The venerable and rev- erend Bishop Janes oMiciated, and preached am interesting sermon, in the course of which he said that no greater duty devolved on professing Christians than to aid in spread- ing the influence of the church by erecting temples for the worship of the Most High, The ceremony of jaying a corner stone, he said, was ne less significant than important—significant as the foundation of faith, it being emblematic of the foundation stone of Christianity itself; and tmpor- tant as@ means of disseminating the truth and the Word, He expressed sadness at the number of persons present. The other clergymen present were Rev. J. M. Tuttle, of Watseasing; Rev. James A of Montclair; Reve. Measrs, Nicholas Van- sent y, W. Seran and Thomas = of hei | B. Lockwood, of Rahwi K " maid to be to Aa the Hient Meth iu Harrison, Newark. Bishop Janes is odist prelate Wlo ever preached