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4 VICTOR EMMANUEL Italy’s Happy King Shaking Hands The Revelations of La Marmora and Ultramontane Re- ception in Vienna. Why Victor Emmanuel Visits Austria and Germany. POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE. 2 AE 2 Minghetti, Andrassy and Bismarck—The Questions of the Conclave, the Papal Election and the French Pilgrimages. Tl Re Galantuomo—The Nobleman-King—The Romance of His Life-How the Austrians Greet an Old Foe—Francis Joseph and Victor Emmanuel Bury 01d Feuds and Embrace—The Reception in Vienna. AN ORSIM WANTED FOR KAISER WILHELM. ViENNA, Sept. 18, 1873, Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, arrived at Vienna on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 17th of September, and was received with an enthu- siasm such as no other potentate visiting this Worild’s Show has had. Vicnna gathered in her thousands all the way from the Imperial Hofburg, down the broad Ringstrasse and the two miles of Toute leading to the Stdbahn station, and the peo- ple cheered lustily and often. PY Tl Ré Galantuomo was seated beside their Kaiser, nd the ladies from every window waved their kerchiefs; and no one forgot that the armies of the two monarchs seated side by side as host and guest bad met on many a bloody battle field. WHAT AUSTRIANS OWE TO ITALY. And Austria has cause to receive Victor Emmanuel well. Driven from Italy, where sie Spent on the one side her force in endeavoring to | quench the national spirit, and from Germany on the other, where she endeavored to rule the tur- bulent Bund—in the proud hope of re-establishing, im the name of Hapsburg, the glory of the Hohen- staufens and German imperial rule from the Ger- man Ocean to the Mediterranean—the defeats of 1866 taught ner the lesson of applying her strength to her own internal development, and since that time Austria has changed trom being the gloomiest, Most despotic empire of Europe, to one enlightened and progressive. LA MARMORA. But never did king journey under such trying circumstances, The ultramontanes of his own land placed a copy of La Marmora’s revelations in his valise before he started from Rome, and sent copies to Vienna and Berlin, while the ultramon- tanes of Vienna and Hungary determined to give him a reception worthy of the wicked, sacrilegious | deeds he had committed against Mother Church of late years. In one of the Vienna comic journals there is a full page picture representing Victor Emmanuel’s departare from Rome. It is an inter- esting study—the stout, burly King, loaded down with baggage, kissing a shoe which the Pope lets flown to him by a string from the walls of the Vati- can garden. The baggage of the King consists of many interesting articles, among which is a large parchment labelled “The Revelations of La Mar- mora.” By his side stands a group of Jesuits, laugning slyly and pointing to the document. The evident intention of La Marmora in publishing “Some More Light on the Political Events of the Year 1866" has, however, been totally thwarted. People who have read the book find in it iittle br nothing more than details of facts already known to the political world, and journals of all shades (except the ultramontanes) condemn a man who thus abuses a confidence placed in him when Prime Minister of his land. That Prussia was carrying On negotiations to form an alliance with Italy before the eventinl year of 1866 was known well enough to Austria. The war between these two Powers jor supremacy in the German Bund commenced many, many years before 1866; ,\t was a question of who should be master in Ger- many; and even Austria has now no idea of reproaching her enemy for seeking the best aid the could in the conflict. So, to use a common- place term, La Marmora’s ‘More Light” falls as | Gat as dishwater on European politics to-day, It has called forth in the Austrian press little else than a condemnation of the author; certainly no ill feeling toward Victor Emmanuel or italy. The plan of publishing the work on the eve of Victor Emmanuel’s departure jor Austria and Berlin, with the evident purpose o! estranging tne three Courts, was cunningly ‘hought out. This all tiessay. Butthe pian failed, No eue givesa jought to them any more. CLERICAL DEMONSTRATION IN AUSTRIA. As I said, the clerical party 01 Austro-Hun, y determmed’ not to allow the Visit of Victor Emmanuel to puss without giving signs 01 lie. ‘The first evidence of uneasiness at the visit here ‘was shown by the Papal Nuncio requesting per- mission irom the Vatican to leave his post im Vienna during the King’s visit. Cardinal Aptonelit replied, however, that it would omy be necessary for this dignitary to plead indisposition, 80 a3 to avoid diplomatic unpleasantnesses. The Brother- hood of st. Micnael, however, took a course reveal- in reat indiscretion. A iew days ago they pub- she in the Vaterland an invitation to the Catholics of Vienna to attend a solemn mass for the souls of the Papal soldiers who teil three years ago on the occasion of the “illegal and violent” occupation of Kome, to be held in the Dominican church at eight o’clock of the morning of the 20th, while the King would still be in the city. It was a dat procedure, and, though largely supported by the clerical press, Was unanimously denounced by right-thinking Catholics as an attempt to dese- crate religion and the Church for the purpose of making a political demonstration, as a public deri- pion of @ guest of the Emperor, and an insult to the sovereign of a State with which Austria is on terms. An attempt was made to stick placards of invitation on the doors of various churches, but ‘the police stepped in and peremptorily forbade the holding of the mass; a fortunate thing, | imagine, tor the said church and brotherhood, since the Vien-” nese entertain a ay personal feeling toward Vic- tor Emmanuel, and old quarreis are apparently bar- fed. But the Vaterland determined to have its say. On the day before the King’s arrival it appeared in deep mourning—black edges—and comer a lengthy account of the occupation of Rome by the Ttaflan troops on the said 20th of September, 1870, ‘The following issue of the paper, on the day o1 Vic- tor Emmanuel’s arrival in Vienna, was coniiscated, whereiore your correspondent knoweth not, IL RE GALANTUOMO. Outside of clerical circles—whose bitterness is easily accounted for—there was in Vienna a great curiosity to see Victor Emmanuel, “Il Ré Galantuo- mo," most romantic of all European monarchs, the consolidator of Italian unity, the great foe of and the mighty Nimrod, who loves the Gress of the hunter and tie free life of the forest more than the purple and the etiquette of courts. NO monarch in Europe has received greater praise and condemnation at the same time and for ite same deeds. The Papal excommunica- tion is still suspended over his head, tor was ‘it not his troops who penetrated on the 20th of Septem- ber, 1870, the Porta at Rome, and took irom the Pope the last vestige of his temporal dominions and created Rome the Capital of united Italy? A strange mixture of cour, and cowardice consti- tutes this burly, honest King, who rides at the head ledetan blood. Once had a wife of this jouse of Hapsburg; ne then he was simply King of Savoy, and iis Queen was Adel- hott daughter of the iner, of Austria (uot the ‘one, by the way, who » by the way, who guar guides the show), who brought Humbert into the world and died in 1855, hen he married again he chose a woman of the people, a kind- hearted person indeed; and she has made him happy, caring for him during sickness, inspiring him when the curse of the Church cpprosend bum sorely; and in return for ber love and dovotion he cane poreese her rie Arak me age on the | woman bean the crown and dignities of royalty. FROM ITALY TO AUSTRIA. The journey of the Ki irom ‘Turin to Vienna Was & continued ovation, @ liberal journals of all of the land published enthusiastic articles, an {phase the sympathy of the lioerals for the populations of Austria and Germany, wich are to be united in the personal Iriendships of the rulers. The Ministers were flooded with telegrams from Italian municipalities and corporations, Sebi | the @ happy voyage. Rome an Turin “ accompanied him to the stations. Crossing the borders into Austria at Comons he was there officially welcomed, and at every suo- ceeding sto} pine place on the way to Vienna great crowds of people had assembled—Italian colonists trom distant parts, Styrian miners from the mountains and valieys, eine dignitaries—but no clergy. A iew stations before Vienna, after passing the Semmering, a toilet room had been promared lor His Majesty, aud exactly at six o'clock the evening the royal train of nearly twenty carriages entered the Sudbahn, There the Em- peror Francis Joseph, the many Archdukes of the louse of Hapsburg, Geuerals and Ministers were present awaiting the august guest. There was the usual embracing of royalty and impertalty, the presentation of Ministers, and then Kaiser Francis — conducted the King to the state carriage waiting to convey him to the impertal palace. The suite of ‘he King was large and bril- liant, and included, besides Count Wimpifen, the Austrian Ambassador at the Italian Court, the Minister- President Minghetti, Count Visconti Benosta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and their respective Chieis of Cabinet, Cavalieri Bianchi and Count Tormelli; Com- mandeur Agleuro, Chief o! the King’s Cabinet, with two secretaries, ‘tromboni and Sirovich, besides a nuwber of general adjutants, staff offl- cers, generals, officers and the frince of Thurn- Taxis and Baron Von Salis-So; lio, and the Em- peror’s Adjutant Major, August Nemtthy, attached by Austria to the King’s suite. The Viennese bowen their guests m an enthusiastic jashion. never heard the people of this city cheer so lus- tily, They are generally very quiet in such mat- ters. They received the poor Shah as if he had no cialms at all to their attention. And no one was more surprised at the enthusiastic reception than Victor Emmanuel himself, who in toe oppressive air of Rome has generally to submit to very cold greetings. His surprise, I think, would be ail the greater il he could read the Vienna journals, FESTIVITIES. The programme gi festivities in Vienna during Victor Emmanuei’s stay is not very rich. To-day he opens, with the Empress, the exhibiuon of horses; to-night he goes to the ballet; to-morrow to the Exposition; the day alter to a review, and then, if he remains till Sunday, to the races. You see it i8a very unassuming festive programme; but, as 1 have before said, much time of King and Ministers will be taken up with the discussion and arrangement oF political affairs. The present visit Will result in rich political developments, Of this there is no doubt. And yetitis probable there will be more done in Berlin than in Vienna, Some journals imagine that the question of disarma- Ment will be discussed both here and at Berlin. If the visit brings this result about then Europe will cry, ‘Hall, Victor Emmanuel!’ But of this I am asraid there is little prospect, so long as the French religionists entertain any hope of re-establishing the pos) power in Rome. What Europe can assume with certainty is, that the Present meetings at Vienna and-Berlin are a demonstrative royal cementing of national friend- ship—as embodied in the persons of the rulers—u virtual alliance of the three Powers against the encroachments of ultramoutanism. The alliance or friendship once iormed, the disarmament may follow, at a later date, but not yet, so jong as France presumes to entertain such an unwarrant- abie and threatening attitude toward the Italian ople. There seems reason to believe that the Emperor William will repay Victor Emmanuel’s visit in October, after his visit to Vienna. If the news be true then the undertaking is a risky one, judging from the tone of the religious press on the subject. A Hungarian aparnal ee organ of the Primate of Hungary, has the following paragraph :— THE PRUSSIAN EAGLE IN ROME. “The report is current that Kaiser William will return Victor Emmanuel's visit; that he will dare to go to Rome to contaminate the classic soll still more than has already been done to sufficiency by his abandoned colleague, Victor Emmanuel. Such visitors will certainly be taken care of by some Orsini or other, or, perhaps, the lightning will find its way into the Quirinal.”” The paragraph has caused great excitement, and we must do the Primate of Hungary the jus- tice to say that he had nothing to do with its authorship, and, immediately commanded the editor who wrote it to retract the statement and ask his readers to consider the paragraph un- written. Victor Emmanuel’s Visit to the Austrian Capitai—Rejoicings in Vienna and in Venice—Departure for Berlin—The Austrian Press on the Meeting—Anto- nelli, Minghetti, Theirs—“The Restora- tion is Wrecked on the Meetings in Vienna and Berlin.” VIENNA, Sept. 22, 1873, It is related that one day the Holy Father and His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli were discussing the wickedness of the sacrilegious, ‘‘puffed-up Piedmont frog.” The Pope used very severe lan- guage, and Antonelli added fuel to the fire of His Holiness’ wrath by a melancholy but, as it turns out to be, a prophetic question. “What,” he said, “shall we say when some fine day or other Fraacis Joseph and Victor Emmanuel meet in the same room?” Well, that event has taken place more | than once during this visit in the Kaiserstadt, on the Danube; and at the soirée given by the Italian Ambassadors on Saturday night, not only did the two monarchs greet one another with accustomed cordiality, but occupied seats on the same sofa, and chatted baif pleasantly, half earnestly together for a good part of an hour, The Kaiser was untiring in his attentions to his guest, and Victor Emmanuel seemed to express to his host, with every movement and expression of his fea- tures, his joy at the reception the Vienna Court and people had given him. MINISTER MINGHETTI. I think every notable person in all the diplomatic corps in Vienna was present at that soirce except- ing Monsignore Faicinelli, the Papal Nuncio, who very naturally avoids a meeting with the King of Italy, “so called,” as he would say. Minister Min- ghetti was there and received great attention. He seems a little older than the King, has magnifi- cent snow-white hair, @ gray mustache and a mil- itary bearing. “Lam rejoiced that such a joyful event as the present has brought Your Excelleacy to Vienna,” said an Austrian diplomatist to Minghetti. “It isa victory which has a deeper significance than many a victory,” Minghetti replied. “The en- thusiastic reception given to the King and to Italy is very pleasing to His Majesty,’ Then he spoke of the past and, thought that Napoleon LI. was in the right when he said that “The freeing of Italy would be completed in five acts— now we are at the third.” This was said in refer- ence to 1866. The fourth act began on the 20th of September, 1876, and the fifth as Victor Emmanuel started on this very journey. So think all the Ital- jan and Austrian liberals. This feeling seems to pervade the Italians far more than the Austrians, if we are to judge from the reports which come to us from various Italian cities. For in Venice the Tejoicings, when the news of Victor Emmanuel’s re- ception in Vienna arrived, became almost demon- strative in character. The City Council ordered St, Mark’s square to be illuminated, and vast crowds Of people gathered to listen to the music. First the King’s Hymn was played, and then the people cried out for the Austrian national hymn, and the joy extended from the big square to the Giardinetto Reale and along the Grand Canal, and in ali the beer houses and cafés vivas were shouted in honor of Austria and Italy. Seven years ago and that hymn was hated and the singers detested with a heartiness more deep than that of the Cuban for his Spanish master, The Austrian music played its ravishing melodies on the square of St. Mark’s to strangers, and (the doves) the natives waited only tor release from bondage. And now “Who would have thought it?” say the Austrian journals, VICTOR EMMANUEL AT LAXENBURG, ‘The imperial Feception of Victor Emmanuel at Laxenburg on Saturday formed such a contrast to the welcome given to the Snah that { cannot for- 61 his troops into battle or leads the fleetest runner in the chase and yet fears the Siootny shadows et Night in the Quirinal; who trembles at the thought Oo! being struck with the vengeance of the Vatican lightning; who never omits to attend mass on Sundays, to say tamily grace at dinner, and calls for his father-confessor whel Tr death seems be approaching, and then cating the property of the this halo of romance attach 4 ire} ln Foapeet fo rhe tatnily aud octal rele } T the family aut Vons; his devotedness to the women he calls wife, and whom he would tain make Queen of Italy, ate Social eniginas of his lite. The Romans and Nea- Dpto) point gor. OUt bis loves by the score, yet, in he same breath, tell you what a kind-hearted Kus. ee ae ete wasn in bis family circle at J urmpanionst taaae wite, the tambout's daughter, uous oe uaa, because is Of Bud not iD tle eucrclone: bear referring to it. Francis Joseph treated tis Majesty the Brother of the Sun simply as a spoiled child. He caused big shows and displays to be made in order to “impress” him as much as Eng- land and France had done, but there was no cor- diality expressed. When accompanied “Light- ning Conductor of Virtue’’ through tne galleries of the Exposition there was just the slightest curl of contempt for his wiliui guest expressed on the imperial lp, He was id, wo, When the Shah kept within the confines of the park at Laxenburg, and so 1eft him to boat on or swim in the waters of the lake, just as suited his Shahship’s . Not so Victor Emmanuel. The Emperor or the archdukes have been continually at his side, and yesterday, at Laxenburg, the King, the Emperor and @ host of archdukes took a row on the sented as the imporial barge, in which sat the Em- peror and his guest and a number of archdukes, lollowed bea Oe train of other barges contain- ing the nobility of Austria and the members of Victor Emmanuel’s suite, sped rapidiy over tne waters the hundreds of gondolas filled with the curious sight-loving ple of Vienna, There was great glee among royal party at watching the pleasures of the scene, and Fran Joseph and Victor Em! laughed heart enough when some intrepid voyageur his cargo, to grief, On the borders of the lake there ig situated a small hermitage which was built by the Emperor Ferdinand to his consort, Victor Emmanuel’s aunt. The imperial gondola stayed here for a@ moment, when out from umong the bushes a barge, filled to the water's edge with young men and women singers, emerged and ssed the royal cortége, and in the ster, holding he helm, stood a blonde Viennese maiden of sur- joaios beauty, wi as she passed, saluted talla’s “chivalrous ? with a quick, im- rtinent nod, to which Victor Emmanuel replied yy doting his képt to the fair helmswoman and smiling, as he likes to do when he meets fair women. Then the gondolas returned to the land- ing place, and King and Emperor entered their carriages and drove away to the big, busy city, cheered at every step by the vast, gathering crowds, " WHAT'S IN A TOAST? So they d their time—Kaiser and Konig, each pleased with the other, burying old enmitics. Then on Sunday they went to the races together, which Victor Emmanuebenjoyed more than ull else. He promised to visit the machinery hail of the EXx- osition ou Sunday, and although he kept Mr. exertie with steam up over two hours after noon, and our Commissioners pacing up aud down unpatiently for an equal length oi time, he iaied to put in an appearance, ex- pressing his sorrow that the shortness of his sojourn prevented him seeing as much ot the Ex- hibition as he had desired. “I noticed that 1m the horse show he had been pretty. busy in making purchases, since several of the animals were ticketed, ‘Purchased by His Majesty the King of Italy.” The Shah did far more purchasing than Victor Emmanuel, but less paying. Speaking of the ruler of Persiareminds me, by the way, of & curiosity in the nature of the Wmperor’s various | uests. When the Ozar of Russia was here Francis joseph lifted ap his glass and sai To the health of our dear guest, my dear friend, Dis Majesty the Emperor or Russia, fe lebe hoch! Then came the Empress of Germany, and Francis Joseph had sweet words for her and Wilheiin :— Since, to my deépest regret, the visit of my dear triend, His Majesty the sunperor Witheluu is for the present post: poned, I dzink to the health of His Majesty the Kmperor ot Germany and King of Prussia, with the expression of heartfelt, thankfulness tor the’ never-to-be-torgotten visit of Your Majesty the Empress Augusta, Then came the Persian, and Francis Joseph drank simply :— The health of His Majesty the Shah. And now to Victor Emmanuel :— To the health of His Maley. the King ot Italy, our Mustrious guest, brother and triead. Which means most, excepting that to the Shah ? The Austrians think the latter the most hearty. It would be mteresting to hunt up the toasts that pent between Napoleon and king William at aris, in 1867. The Germans have a proverb that “In wine 18 truth!” May it he so! LEAVE TAKING AT VIENNA. Last evening, at half-past nine, Vienna saw the last of her royal cuest. In the morning Victor Emmanuel drove out to Schoenbrunu to pay a part- ing visit to the Empress, but this distinguished personage was unwell and could not receive him. A brilliant ered of archdukes and generals and dignitaries had gathered in the depot to see the imperial guest depart, and Francis Joseph himself Was, of course, notabsent. The King shook hands with the archdukes all round, and grasped the hand of the Emperor in a very hearty manner, as if thanking him Jor his hospitality and the enthu- siasm his people had shown him. Then he entered his magnificent carriage, and, as an Austrian mili- tary band played the Italian national hymn an the assembled people cheered, the locomotive moved out into the darkness Berlinwards. So the visit ended at Vienna. Francis Joseph drove home to. Schoenbrunn. “Once,” the Hapsburger bw 4 have said to himselt, “my ancestors, Who Were then Emperors of Ger- many, pilgrimaged with their armies to Rome to beg of the Pope for the crown of Italy ana his con- secration. Now the sunny South, free and united Italy, sends its King to the German North to have | him acknowledged as King of Italy and of Rome!” “Welch? ein’ Wendung durch Gotles Fiigung,” the devotiona! brother Emperor of Berlin would say. OPINIONS OF THE EUROPEAN PRESS. I cannot close this letter better than by quoting some passages from Austrian and German papers to support the opinions I have expressed in this and previous letters as to the significance of this meeting. The Cologne Zeitung thinks that the pres- ent cabevue must be considered as supplement- ary to the three-Kaiser meeting in Berlin. ‘The hopes which French revenge, politictans and fanat- ical ultramontanes had built up in the Austrian Court are destroyed.” The Neues Fremdenbdiatt of Vienna, asensible liberal journal, says that “the reception of Victor Emmanuel has given defeat aiter defeat to the ultramontanes. For Austria the visit signifies the end of u long estrangement bya happy and presumably lasting reconciliation.” ‘The Tag says:—‘‘All must see now that Aus- tria has torn herself from the past. The imperial toast introduces, as it were, the King of Italy formally into the mouarchical society of Europe, thus consolidating the monarchical principies in Europe.” The N Zeitung of Berlin says:— victor Emmanuel’s visit in Vienna ends a long estrangement by a happy reconciliation, and is of the greatest importance for both States. The Hapsburg monarchy thus admits that the Papal temporal wer has ceased, and if France thinks differently she cannot assert that every Catholic Power denies to the Italians the possession of their country and their capital. Austria gives a proof of an indestructible vitality by thus acapting nerself to the new condi- ton of things in Europe and in not uttering useless regrets over what 1s lost nor threats it her neighbors. Tnis meeting in Vienna is the most desirable conclusion with which to terminate the first quarter of a century of Francis Joseph's government.” And if we may believe the Berlin correspondent Of the Breslau Zeitung, who is generally unusually well posted in official political events, ex-President Thiers, in conversing on the position France occu- pies towards Germany, Austria and Italy with a German diplomatist, iourteen days , on the banks of Lake Lucerne, said:—‘‘The restoration is wrecked on the meetings in Vienna and Berlin” (‘Die Restauration scheitert an der Zusammenkunst im Wien und Berlin”). CHOPPED TO DEATH. A Murder in a Sailor Bourding House— The Result of a General Drunk. {From the Atla California, Oct. 17.) A most horrible and brutal murder was com- mitted shortly after one o’clock yesterday after- noon, in John Ryan’s boarding house, No. 409 Drumm street, corner of Clark. The proprietor and nearly all the parties living in the house were on a drunken brawl and could give but little in- formation as to how or by whom the murder was committed, Soon alter the deed was discovered word was sent to the Harbor Police station, and officers Coulter, Longford and Kelly were soon at hand, followed by Chief Crowley, and possession taken ot the premises until the arrival of Coroner Still- man. THR VICTIM is Owen Gillen, a steamboat fireman, who has been here a number of years, and was of a quiet disposi- tion when not under the influence of liquor, His body was found lying on a bench in the dining room near @ door leading to the barroom, lyi half sideways, with his arms tolded. He presen’ 4 ghastly sight to look at. having received a terri- ble blow with an axe in huis neck, almost com- pletely severing the head from the body, and his appearance indicated that he never moved a limb ter having received tue fatal blow. The blood flowed In streams to the floor, running off tor some distance. The officers made a search of the premises, and in the yard found, on a pile of wood, the axe be- smeared with blood and the handle in @ similar condition, the blood being hardly dry, Ryan, the proprietor o1 the place, was found ina state of beastly intoxication asieep in his room, immediately Opposite the dining room in which the murder was committed, In the barroom Loyd bell, a gray-hatred colored map, @ boarder in the house, was jound lying on a settee, also pd under the influence of liquor. These were the only two men who were found on this floor, the upper portion being occupted by the boardera, The i took the two mentioned per- sons Into custo Coroner Stillman, on his arrival, viewed the body, awore in @ jury and decided to hold the inquest to- ay. The only person who was abic to give any mform- ation was John Fillmore, a mariner and ‘longshore- man, Who is also @ boarder in the house, aud Who was perfectly sober, His statement of what he knows about the affair may be briefly sumed up as follows :—Gillen came to the house yesterday morning about nine o'clock. He had been drinking, aud remained about the place most of the time, going out in the yard occasionally, At eleven o'clock he heard Gil- jen say he knew where Bell (the colored man) had bis money. He watched him the night previous going to agrocery store on the corner of Pacific and Davis streets, Bell, who had aiso been drink- ing, was sitting on the settee in the barroom When this remark was made, and his countenance indicated that he was not at ail pleased with tt, A few words passed between the parties, when Fillmore says he went up stairs, leaving Ben lying on the settee in the barroom and Guien lying on the bench in the dining room, more Says he bad been up stairs a shore time when he heard the voices of two men below, and a few min- utes after that he heard the footsteps uf some one in the dining room, but paid no attention to it, He came down stairs about one o'clock, found the front barroom door closed and the two men occupying the positions be had lett them im. He no’ the blood on the Noor in the dining room, which at frat he took vo be water, but on looking closer he ob- served the terrible cut in Giilen’s neck, and at once went to the Harbor police and reported the Matter, Beli was found in the barroom, with blood it charming Laxenburg retreat, and |e a the curious ‘aod eautttal Bpots th the ful park. Musi y pas | iaooa is th foo i and aes, 9a" A ui 4 Gar wa i rt on his hands, shirt and shoes, and the general sup- "he imiicted the iatal, wound. Whi OB Altack Of dolucipm tremens, PLAGUE-STRICKEN MEMPHIS. The Rise and Progress of the Yellow Fever in the “City of the . Dead” A DREADFUL SEWERAQE SYSTEM. Scenes of Suffering in Silence and Solitude. MATTIE STEVENSON. Heroism of a Young Western Girl Among the Dead and Dying. eT, A TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO HER MEMORY, MemPmis, Tenn., Oct, 20, 1873, The impression prevails here now that the acme of the yellow fever epidemic has been reached and passed, and amore cheerful feeling is already be- ginning to obtain asa consequence, This change for the better is probably attributable to natural causes, that is, to an inherent disposition of the disease to run a prescribed course, which it has already accomplished; but it 1s also highly prob- able that the amelioration has been brought about by a stricter enforcement of sanitary precautions, and by a better understanding of the character of the epidemic and the more careful pursuit of the | indicated treatment, And. here, it may not be im- proper to say that, in calamities of this kind, New Orleans, of American cities, furnishes both tbe best physicians and especially the most careful and experienced nurses. The various or- ganizations of Memphis, including the Howards, Masons, Odd Fellows and religions societies, have done, and are doing, a vast amount of good, but they are all candid enough to adit that since the arrival of Colonel! Cooper—an old New Orleans Howard—and his brigade of nurses from the Cres- cent City that the labors of the Memphis charities are much more inteliigently and successfully di- rected than they were in the earlier stages of the pestilence. THE OUTBREAK. The first case of yellow fever this year in Memphis was diagnosed on the 18th of Sep- tember, in a locality known as “Happy Hollow,” an appellation which’ would have fully justi- fled Miss Capulet, had she been familiar with the place, in propounding her cele- brated conundrum, ‘What's in a name?” “Happy Hollow” could not have smelled more disagreeably if it nad been called Buzzard’s Roost. Ivis alow district of “made ground;” that is, a shallow part of the river nas been filled in from the banks, and it extends trom Wolf River down to Exchange street. A great many of the habitations in this space are of the lowest order, some of them indeed being mere boats covered with tarpaulin, and looking as if they had been stranded there at highwater and had been unable to get away. Others are shanties ofa Kind like those few remaining upon the Lighth avenue side of the Central Park, only the Jatter might be called Madison avenue, and the Happy Hollow shanties should be called Five Points. At the southern end of the Hol- low, however, there are some good build- ings, among them the Exchange, which is used as a court house and Mayor's oifice. This locality is the receptacie of all the filth from the higher portions of the city which surround it. Memphis has a worse system of sewerage than any other city in America. Nearly the entire city is foul, and the Happy Hollow portion is just as filthy as filth can make it, which, until it is burnt up or some other heroic purification visited upon it, must continue to be A NEST OF PESTILENCE of the direst kina, The Health Board ts doing ali in its power to disintect and neutralize the filth, but thecity cannot be cleansed until it has a new and thorough system of drainage. One alley has been reported as a nuisance fifty-seven times since last April, and itis said that, even in the health- est times, a person cannot walk along the streets without having his nostrils offended by the foul odors from basements, alleys, and even from some of the best streets. It is true that the city is in debt and cannot now bear much taxation for municipal improvements, but the truth must be known, and itis to be hoped that the time will come when an entire remodelling of the system of vaults, drains, sewers, cisterns and closets will be sought for and acted upon, From Kappy Hollow, where the disease was con- fined for ten or twelve days without producing much alarm, it gradually spread up to Fron‘ street, thence to Second, Main, and other neighboring streets. It now began to rage more wiolently and the proportion of deaths was very large. The cases occurred in widely separated districts, until now the entire city may be said to be, as tar as ‘human aid is concerned, whoily at the mercy of rapacious death, DESOLATION. Some parts of the city are nearly absolutely al doned, You can walk square aiter square, day and night, without finding a soul to talk to— without finding an open door or seeing a light or any other signs of life. Death and fright have carried or driven the people all away. An owner of property in what is called the “infected dis- trict” directed his agent as a matter of charity not to call on his tenants for pay on the usual day, and some time after, when going through the neighborhood, it was iound that all his houses were empty. Those who had not been taken by the plague had been driven off by terror. Business is at a perfect standstill, wnen, had it not been for the epidemic, Memphis would now be in the flush of trade aud commercial activity. A large pro- portion of the private residences are closed, giving those @ iunereal appearance which even have had no such sad occasion of mourning within thetr walls. Most of them, however, are as- sociated in the minds of the citizens with scenes of disease and death. Very few ladies are met on the streets, save those wearing tne badge of some charitable society or the weeds of mourning, The street cars are never crowded, generally having but one or two passengers, and are scarcely more numerous than hearses. ‘iheatres, of course, are all closed, and so, too, are more than two-thirds of the barrooms. -J stopped in one of the open ones this morning to light my clgar—Colonel Cooper hav- ing told mé that smoke was a good disinfectant, and not as a@ general thing disagreeable to the sick—when I found the keeper engaged in writin; on & sheet of note paper with a bros black border. The story was told without the use of words, and, accomplishing my purpose, [left without disturbing him, It may be said here that a temperate use of alcohol is prob- ably in some measure a preventive of the disease, but when it attacks a known drinker it is almost certain death. Woe and desolation are on all sides, and can never be described by pen. Stil there is a bright side. Acts of heroism and charity are many and glorious, Memphis has promised to erect a tall, white shait to the memory ofa wi ge who was yesterday laid in her grave at Elmwood, and the name of MATTIE STEVENSON willbe more deeply graven in the hearts of the citizens of the “stricken city” than it beon the marble column which will mark her resting place. This littie girl, of Bloomington, Ill, aged about eighteen, enjoying asummer vacation with relatives in New England, when, hearing of the death-dealing pestilence here, she resolved to come and do what she could for the sick and dying. Fear- ing that friends and relatives would stay her if they knew her intentions she gave nointima- tion of her purpose till she presented herself to the Howards a8 4 nurse, A doctor applied for an attendant to wait upon a poor, dying woman, who was in the last stage of the fever and was suffering the pangs of parturition. Mattie was sent to hi and, though greatly surprised at seeing this seem- ing child, her words were such that he could not reise her aid. She went to the bedstde of the dying, and the attending bg hen reports that she seemed to know what to do by inspiration, The destroyer, however, had too nearly accom- lished his work. That night, with no one near ut this volunteer nurse, the mother and her saffron-hned babe were added to the list of mor. tality. Reporting the tacts at the headquarters of the llowards, she was sent to the Lehner House to await instructions, Before she had had time to rest she was called upon again. This time there was an old man and woman sick at No. 43}; Main street, That morning they had taken in charge four orp! whose nts had died in the next house. of these children were now down with the fever, and Mise Mattie was asked if she 4, would go to them. “I will,” sho said, and in ® short time her con- uctor showed her’ the sick children. One of the Howards was placed there to assist ier. The sick MAPA ADLY RUCHed BUNA My & LOW Gazs tg, Witt NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘the other two orphans, were placed in comfortable homes. ATTACKED BY FEVER, After this duty was performed, our heroine from Illinois was sent to @ house on Concord street, where ® man by the name of Sullivan was down with the pre malady, and tour others were threatened. Here she gave assiduous attention until Mr, Sullivan died. Prostrated by overwork, she became affected by the contagion and was carried to the Walthall Infirmary, now & patient herself, As uncomplaining in afMliction as she was undinching in the periormance of her self-imposed duties, she became a pet of the doctors and n' who red upon her every attention and uses every effort to save her lie, but all was in vain. Her pure spirit has ascended, and her cousecrated body lies in the grave at Elmwood, I will quot few from her obituary in the wi yrill give some idea ot she esteem tn which she is hed by the citizens of Mempni A TOUCHING TRIBUTE, inisters, nurses, Sisters of Chari ave passed. away fro : tobe a8 W: steady ¢ aces of its ence. Buried and followed to silent tomb, by the targest concourse of citizens that has assembled in’ Memphisin months, but burled her memory never be #0 asone ot the men, women aad children ot I ive to her name. ay. Honors to such a one are be; our powers We may raise, and we will raise, a wie: shait 9 coin: memorate her her 5, but in our hea: irom now hencetorth, she will be with every one of genre co [i= she yal ke to 2 ry ster O1 wi 45 18 aN ever- hol; Lip a gual fan, “90 long as we ‘shall possess it. against ovil and for good. Let the shalt be raised and ct it be the highest, the whitest. the most conspicuous in our beautitul city of the dead, and let the name, “Mattie Stevenson,” be graven deep and deep down, where it will remain to defy the corrosions of time and tell how she laid down her liie for the poor of Memphis, A TOUCHING INCIDENT. The following affecting incident was witnessed souterany at the Howard rooms on Madison street :— It seems that this girl came here without sum- cient clothing, but refusing to acc?pt any intended for the sick, and retusing pay tor her services, she wrote home lor a iew needed articles, and the day before she died the box arrived. Sne was then, of course, too tll to know anything abont it, and yes- terday Mr. Langstaff, President of the Howards, opened tne box to find some trace of the girl’s his- tory. ‘the box contained two neat calico greater. some cuffs and undergarments and several sm: Packages of delicacies suitable ior the sick, and which had evidently been put up for such a pur- pose. ‘They were careiully replaced, while the by- standers turned away with tear-dimmed eyes and silently left the room. THK HEROINE'S GRAVE is ata prominent point not fac trom the gates of the cemetery, whither it had been conducted by the following procession :— Two carriages with pall-bearers; hearse, with remains; pail-bearers, G. W. Gordon, A. D. Lang- staff, J. P. Robertson, J. J, Murphy, Butler Ander- son, W. J. Smith, W, B. Lonsdale, E. J. Mans- lord; carriage containing Rev. W. E, Boggs, oi the Second Presbyterian church, and Dr. Luke Black- burn; members of the Howard Association on foot, Acting Mayor Cicalla, members of the press and citizens, ‘The parable of the Good Samaritan, Irom the tenth chapter of Luke, was read by Mr. Boggs, and he made some remarks which are wor- thy of being reported in ftuil, but which must now bevcondensed. He said:—‘it is a time for action Tather than words. QOur precious time must be given to the humane task of caring fur the living. You of the Howards cannot linger even by a spot so hallowed as the grave of this brave and tender woman, I saw her but once, and under the most trying circumstances in which @ modest girl could be placed. It wasinachamber of a victim of this jeariul scourge who had been hurried by itinto the pangs of motherhood, ‘error had broken the tenderest ties of life; men had nerved themselves to face the danger by strong drink; women, other- wise so ready with their sympathy and aid in that hour of agony whose bitterness only a woman can know, stood alooi with pale faces and parted lips, A slender, shy girl hovered over that panting young mother, Whose pangs were not repaid by hearing the welcome cries of a living child, She knelt with me in prayer to the Great Father to heal the exhausted body, or if such was His higher will to receive her departing spul to Himseli. There was nothing of the seli-conscious heroine about the shy and gentle creature; no traces of the Jeanne d’Arc or Charlotte Corday, as we see them portrayed by the painter’s brush; and, rude man that I was, I had well nigh iorgotten rhe circumstance until recalled by the statement of her noble-hearted physician, Dr. Blackburn, who wept tor her as lor a beluve daughter, The two women now sleep not far from each other in the sree shades of our beautiful Elmwood—one from Illinois, the other irom the more distant hills of bonnie Scotland. Lips like mine cannot fittingly speak the praises of such a life—such g glorious death. May divine power use this example ot unselfish piilentheony to engrave m our hearts the sublime moral which the blessed Son of God draws trom his own wondrous arable of the Good Samaritan—‘Go, thou, and Co ikewise.’ Let us tell her story to our boys and girls. Let the breathing marble and the sculptor’s art do some justice, not to her merit, which man cen never reward, but to ourselves and the grati- tude of our city.” ‘This is the crowning act of charity, and Miss Mattie Stevenson has the approval of Him who said, “Greater love thi hath no man, that he lay down his life for anOther.”” Representing the HERALD here it would be a becoming courtesy to attempt, in some measure, to record the merits of Miss Lulu Wilkinson, of Memphis, whose self-sacriticing devotion to duty has been akin to that of Miss Stevenson’s, and who was stricken about the same time. These two noble women were patients together in the Walthall Infirmary, and, as stated before, were the recip- fents of every attention that kindness ana love could suggest. The one has gone to her reward; the other, having been acclimated, now seems to have some hopes of recovery. Their names are buried in the hearts of the citizens of Memphis, and itis probable that they will long be remem- bered as the heroines of the epidemic of 1873. FAVORABLE WRATHER. Since the i rain of Friday night, which was much needed, the weather has been iavorable jor the suppression of the fever. No doubt it has been rayed for from the depths of many hearts. Not urning suddenly cold, which would have added largely to the mortality, the decline in the tem- porte nas been gradual. To-day, Sunday, has een bright and glorious, and whether the mortu- ary list is increased or diminished, which will be known before my letter is mailed, the weather is undoubtedly of a kindly character. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS, from the outbreak 0: the pestilence to last evening amounts to about 1,200, which, considering that probably fully 25,000 of the residents bave leit the city, makes a large mortality. It would be fair to suppose, If nothing extraordinary happens, that the entire death roll at the close of the epidemic will be about 1,500. There are now about 1,000 sick, of whom notathird are likely to die, and with a continuance of good weather the new cases are not expected to increase the death list to a larger number than that indicated above. THE HEBREWS. It is considered here that the death rate amon; the Israelites has been unusually large, but at eye the exact statistics cannot be obtained. ney have warmly responded to the calls for charity, not only for those of their own faith, bat have added largely to the tunds of the Howards, which is an organization that takes care of all classes of the poor, Nearly every one who has had anything to do with the plague has some interesting incidents to relate, and, now that the treachery of the disease seems to be unmasked and the disease itself on the wane, more time will be given your vee dg fn to gather and relate them. It will especially afford me pleasure to tell more of the deeds of heroism On the fleld and of the gifts of charity which have come in from nearly all points of our great land, A FATHER’S TERRIBLE VENGEANCE, A Daughter Killed Rather Than She Should Cause the Dishonor of Her Family. [From the New Orleans Herald, Oct. 20.) ‘The steamship Louisiana, from Liverpool, arrived at her wharf, in the Third district, at half-past seven o'clock yesterday morning. A large crowd of people assembled to see her discharge her pas- sengers, and scarcely was the ship made fast to her moorings when they began to pour out with the eagerness usually manifested by sea surfelted people. Among the passengers who left the ship Wasa group of four, consisting of one man and three girls. They had walked about thirty yards from the ship when an exeited looking man, about flity years of age, approached them, and, clutch- ing ohe of the girls by the arm, sald something, which he immediately followed up by a plunge of aknife, hiding it for a moment in her breast. With an agonizing shriek she tell backward, when, raising the knife once more, he dealt her a second plunge, this time cutting her in the abdomen to he iy bi of about an inch. ine horror-stricken crowd were 80 petrified und astonished that they shrunk back from the demoniac murderer, ‘and were only recalled to their senses as the latter was endeavoring to make his escape. Then they pursued and captured him, though ‘he threatend to kill unybody who should by his arrest, and he would probably, at this ume, be as cold as his victim, had not the police arrived and saved him from the molestation of the excited crowd by conveying him to the station, where he now lies, There are many versions given as to the cause of the terrible affair, but the prisoner's own state- ment is to the effect that the murdered girl was his own daughter, and that he killed her because she had contracted illicit intimacy with some young man on the voyage thither from France, le had, it is alleged, several times beaten and maltreated heron the way across for this alleged intimacy; but the passengers are unanimous in asserting ‘and testliying to her good conduct while aboard, The young woman was aged about twenty-two prewy, petite form. She died in thirteen r receiving the fatal and was 8 expense, The murderer, whore Hugel, ts a native of Strasburg, and came to this country in 1866. He spent the most of his time in Calitornia, and, having accumulated some money there, re- turned to France @ year ago for the purpose of bringing out his Gnugiter aud eatqyltgl buusell DD NUMA GA, A REO WER AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING. Among the New York Shipyards. a The Prospects and the Hopes for the Future. The Advantages and the Disadvantages of the New Yorkers. Exactly what is to be the future of American shipbuilding cannot be foreshadowed. It is cer- tain that the present prospects would seem to indicate not only a general revival of this art in this country, but also the rise of a permanent in- dustry which shall grow with each year and expand with our national resources, It is a matter of grave doubt whether New York is to be the seat of this great manufacturing interest, The same ob- jections which can be urged against all great cities as the location for great mills and workshops can be uttered with all trath regarding New York. The prices of living, and, ag a consequence, the Wages paid to labor, are much higher than in the smaller towns along our extensive coast line. Te exactly what extent the aggregation of large capti- talists and the most skilled laborers will affect these objections, by furnishing, the means and the ability to execute ; THE MOST PERFECT WORKMANSHIP, cannot be correctly judged by a people who have for 80 long been engaged in pursuits foreign to shipbuilding. Certain it is that the builders of wooden vessels in New York, who employ men at from $4 to $5 per day, cannot compete, in the same classes of work, with the contractors along the shores of the Sound or on the coast of Maine, who pay only $2 to $2 50 per day to their best work- men. In the capacity to construct engines and to equip steamships already afloat the metropolis is not inferior to any other city in the nation. The Morgan, Qvintard and Delamater iron works have the cepacity for furnisning the most approved pat- terns of marine engines, and, a8 a Recognition of this fact, itis worthy of mention that pterge part of the machinery for the goverment vessels has been built, not in the navy yards, but in the ma- chine and boiler shops on Manhattan Island. 18 THE REVIVAL A PERMANENT ONE ? With one exception the shipbuilders whose yards are in the vicinity of New York are not very hope- ful of the permanency of the present encouraging ‘condition of shipbuilding in America, Whether it 18 that they believe that the vessels of the fature will all be of iron, or that there is no valid founda- tion Jor the bright tuture which some experienced men claim to see, are matters upon which they are one and all rather reticent, THE LONG ISLAND YARDS, At the yard of John Englis, in Greenpoint, there is much to be found in the way of encouragement. Mr. Englis is himself exceedingly hopeful and be- lieves that the American nation will eventually become the shipbuilders for the world. Just at this time the work in his yard is not as brisk as it has been during the past summer, but the large number of contracts which are offering not only at his, but ali the yards in the country, confirms him in the belief that the steady growth of shipbuilding is assured. A large force is now employed upon the steamship Niagara, which has passed from the hands of her American owners to the Spaniards for use onthe coast of Cuba. She is being overhauled in the most thorough manner, Her ribs are in most instances new and her machinery has been en- tirely overhauled at the Quintard Iron Works, The paddle boxes, deck houses and interior woodwork have been repaired and repainted. Nothing is doing to her hail, as it isin good condition. The Niagara will be ready to sail in about a month’s time. AMERICAN BUILT STEAMSHIPS, Mr. Englis has during the past season completed three vessels—the steamboat ©. H. Norton, for the New Haven steamboat line, and the Giorla, for Menendez & Oo., of Havana, to be used in the coasting trade on the southern side of Cuba. Both are fine specimens of coastwise passenger steamers. The last addition to the Mexican steamship line, the Uity of New York, was completed only a lew weeks since for F, Alexandre & Sons. She is 270 feet long and is bulit of tue best Florida oak. She sailed on Thursday last on her first reguiar voyage, ote H acquitted herseli remarkably well on her rial trip. READY FOR WORK. This yard 1s in @ condition to anticipate the growing needs of the shipbuilding interest, and the force of regular workmen 1s now largely in ex- cess of what it has been for several years. There are stored for use vast quantities of oak and pine timber which has been thoroughly seasoned and is now ready for immediate use. MESSRS. LAWRENCE & FOLKES, whose yard is immediately adjoming that of Mr. Englis, are preparing for what they anticipate will be a very busy season. ‘heir workmen all seem to be employed in shapmg timbers and in preparing for the future, At present there are no vessels on the stocks in this yard, but several contracts have be ‘am and the keel of one vessel will be laid shortly. THE SHIPYARD OF HENRY STEERS, in Greenpoint, is now confined almost entirely to repairing. Mr, Steers has removed the greater part of all his machinery to Chester, Pa. The ground which is at present occupied by him im Greenpoint will probably be leased alter this year. There has been some extensive work done at this yard nevertheless. A Jarge freight steamer for the Southern New Jersey Railroad has just been com- pleted. The hull 8 entirely finished and only awaits the introduction of the machinery, Three railroad tracks have been laid on the deck, which will attord accommodation for a large ireight train. The cars will be transported from the wharf at New York'to the terminus of the road, thus avoid- ing the expense and trouble attendant upon the transshipment of ireight from steamer to cars. ©. & R. POILLON, of ri ed street, Brooklyn, are as busy as usual, hey only recently launched from their yard the pilot boat Thomas 3. Won the prize in the race and back. They are also the builders of the two new schooner yachts Clio, Captains Asten and Bradhurst. aud Ariel, Captain W. L. Swan. The Pilot boat Hope is being rebuilt. She will come out of the yard practically a new boat. A brig of 200 tons 1s now On the stocks, She is receiving ner planking and will be launched within a month, phe is ordered by Daniel Trowbridge & Co. HIGH HOPES FOR THE FUTURE. The Messrs, Poillon are very much encouraged, and state that more ships are to-day bulldi in this country than there have been at any time since the war; that more have been built in the last twelve months than during several years pre- vious. Everything looks promising for a busy spring. It New York shipbuilders would take con- tracts at the same rates as the contractors up in the provinces they could ail be very busy; but the prices paid for labor here are so much greater that rear Yorkers Mg og sompets. ag wy © The prospect, on the whole, is very encouraging to men who have their capital invested tn saip- yards, as well as to ali who desire the growth of American shipbuilding. THE SOHWABE HOMICIDE. Coroner’s Inquest. Coroner Herrman held an inquest yesterday in the case of Charles Schwabe, a native of Germany, who died at Bellevue Hospital on Sunday morning last, from violence alleged to have been inflicted by his brother-in-law, Philp Becker, at No. 616 Fifth street, on Saturday last, Catharine Becker testifled that she was a sister of deceased, and lived at Laurel Hill, L, L.; de- ceased, who had been out of work for some tit did mo Pay anything for his board; he was muck given to drinking, and once attempted to use @ knife on witness's husband. Charles O'Connor, an officer of the Eleventh pre- cinct, testified that he arrested Becker on Sundays on the way to the station house the prisoner a mitted striking deceased, but said he did it in self- “Charles Dimport, treet, te ‘aries Dimpert, of No, 210 Delancey street, tes- tifled that he worked in the same nop ag ine ac- cused, at No. 816 Fiith street; on Saturday even- ing last Schwabe came to the shop and threatened to lick me; | told Becker and he came down; when he reached the hallway Schwabe sprang at bim and struck him in tne face twice; Becker then struck deceased twice on the head; Sch i wabe walked out of the hall and fell down; shortly aiter- wardg I saw him in avenue D. Dr. Joseph Cushman testified that he made @ post-mortem examination of the body of deceased; death in his opinion was caused \ compression brain from fracture of the skull, due to violence. The {ary alter a few minutes’ absence, rendered © a verdict that Charles Schwabe came to his deatn from fracture of the skull, inflicted with @ piece of wood in the bands of ‘Philip Becker, in Fitth atreot, October 10, 1873, and that Becker acted im self-defence, Becker was, On Motion Of his counsel, admitted to batl 1m $3,000, to awalt the action yf tue Grand eis