The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1874, Page 3

Dhe letter in the HusaLd has had a good effect, ROCHEFORT IN GOTHA How a Great Many Were Disap- pointed on Saturday. A Satirical Sunday Chat on French Politics. LA LANTERNE RALLUME. The Exile’s Letter Among the French of New York. Waiting for Rochefort. Af an early hour on Saturday morning the friends ‘of Rochefort were astir, and long before the usual business hour groups had congregated around the | Meeting places of the various French societies to | Participate in the projected demonstration. At M. Baron’s, No, 132 Prince street, where are the Tooms of the Banquet Committee, and at M. | Ouvier’s, No. 15 Wooster street, the headquarters | ofthe reingees of the Commune, the members of the two committees met for a short consultation, | and, without the formality ofa regular meeting, sub-committees were appointed to proceed at once to the rafiroaa stations to make sure that the Communal chtef should not arrive unhonored. No | precise information was at hand to enable them | te determine at once where to go and how to act, and consequently much had to be leit to chance, Each sub-committee had to act as a kind of | scouting party, and report to headquarters the information it was able to pick up. ‘To these Frenchmen the New York railroad sys- tem was a perfect puzzle. It seemed to them ut- ‘erly inexplicable how a man could come by so Many different lines of railroad from the one place to this city, and the inability of railroad employés to farnish the most simple information about any- taing not immediately connected with their own particular department afforded materials for con- trast between such people in Europe and in America that was anything but favorable to the latter. It was generally expected that Rochefort Would arrive at the Forty-second street depot bout seven o'clock A. M., and a committee com- posed of OLD PARISIAN FRIENDS were on the ground long before that hour, but ‘were doomed to disappointment. When the train arrived a rush was made, and the faces of passen- | gers as they passed out were eagerly scanned; but | gradually they filed out and dispersed, and it was evident that Henri Rochefort was not there, Think- ing that be might have come by the Erie Railroad, it was decided to return at once to M. Baron’s, | im Prince street, and there await his arrtval, but | some becoming impatient, determined to go Straght to the depot of that line, so that they might have a chance of meeting him betore he Went to his hotel. On the way the committee that | had been watching the five minates to eight train | at the Erie depot were met, and they reported | that they had been equally unsuccessful; so it was thought he must certainly have come by’ the halt- past twelve train at Forty-second street. The ‘Whole committee of THE COMMUNAL REFUGEES, Consisting of MM. Kdouard Badureau, Lorin, Gustave May, Sauva, Hanser, P. Olivier and J. A. Olivier, with a few iriends, went to the Grand Cen- tral depot to meet that train. On its arrival the acene of the morning was repeated, and the com- mittee were fairly at their wits’ end. After some hesitation it was decided to go into a neignbor- ing lager beer saloon and hold a consultation. Over a gines of beer and a cigarette the situation was discussed and a hundred explanations of the onon-arrival of the escaped déporté attempted; but none being found satisfactory, it was at last decided to tele- g@rapn toa friend in Rochester and ascertain the Cause of the delay and the probable hour of his arrival. An answer was received shortly after to ‘tne effect that he would be surely in New York by weven o’clock P.M. This settled matters appa- rently to the satisfaction of all, and arrangemehts Were made to receive him at that hour. For some time, however, the committee and their friends remained to have A FRIENDLY CHAT, andas they spoke without the slightest reserve it afforded an excellent opportunity for observing them and judging of their character. Any one who expected to see an assembly of ferocious, bloodthirsty men, wouid be agreeably disappointed. In most cuses they were very intelligent men, some of them being well educated and pos- sessing a considerable amount of information, In manner they were gentlemanly, speaking with that case, mixed with vivacity, so character- istic of the race. The most of them were young men; but all had fought under the Commune and during the German siege of Paris. Several had held high offices unaer the Communal government and all were personally acquainted with Roche- fort. Few of them were workingmen, and those few were skilled artisans, Ihe great majority were engaged in business and all were respectably dressed. NO WILD THEORIES about the distribution of property were given | expression to, and the earnest desire of allseemed | to be for the establishment upon solid foundations of areal republic in France. Aftera while the sitting was broken up, and about half-past six o’clock they returned again, feeling perfectly sure | ‘that this time there would be no disappointment. | ‘Tne train arrived at fve minutes past seven, and | the committee commenced an eager search among the passengers; but it appeared as if he intended to remain in the cars till the crowd should disperse, On inquiry several passengers stated that he was certainly on the train, but how it was that he could not be seen was a puzzle. One by one the passengers went away, but no trace could be found | of the man so much trouble had been taken to meet. Every car was examined, beginning at one end and finishing with the other; and, at last, two dark-bearded, travel-stained men were seen ap. proaching with some luggage. “VOILA OLIVIER PAIN |’ erted one of the committee, who kuew Rochefort’s companion, and instantly a rush was made and a | Perfect shower of congratulations and questions as | to Rochefort’s whereabouts were poured upon him. In an instant the truth was known. Rochefort had gotout above the depot, at Filty-ninth street, taken acarriage and driven, in company with the frtends who had travelled with him, to the Grand Central Hotel. The scene among the newspaper reporters was amusing inthe extremé, and the | looks of bewildered disappointment visible on their faces would make a fine subject for an artist. ‘The disappointed artist of an illustrated paper who was present ought to be able to make a lively sketch of it. On learning where he had gone the reporters rashed after him and endeavored to obtain an in- terview, but he declined to see any of them. Rechefort’s First Day in New York. M. Henri Rochefort, in company with his friends, M. Olivier Pain and M. Georges Benedic, passed the night of Saturday at the Grana Central Hotel. ‘This terrible bugbear, tms sink of iniquity, in spice of his enormons crimes, slept very comforta- bly until one o'clock in the afternoon, as he asia | himeelf, ‘sur ses deux oreities.”” This is not at all | surprising, seeing that he had been up for two | nights, and could scarcely get a wink of sleep in the sleeping cars across the Continent. At one o'clock the HERALD reporter sent up his card, according to appointment, and was invited to his rooms, on the third floor of the hotel. Rochefort was sitting on the side of the bed carefully reading the Heravp, and making running comments as he ‘Went along. ROCHEFORT’S LETTER, “An!” he said, as the reporter entered, “what a Gelicious sleep Ihave had! It reminds me of the days before MacMahon took sleep away from me, | interpreter, that he had a copy ol La Lanierne, | | three Ministers were present, and they ordered | like water. ; Rochefort and his two friends left to dine with | regarded him as morally responsible for that most NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. Dasn’t it? How that poor old fool of MacMahon, that imbecile who pretends to control France, Will squirm when he reads it! He'll stop the ar- ticle getting into France if be can—but ne can’t. And yet be will know when he reads it that I have told nothing but the pure truth; in fact, 1 haven’t made it as bad as it might be. MacMahon’s idea | of statesmanabip was well exemplified by his send- ing a prefect to St. Martin de Ré to order crow- | bars to be pat up in the audience room of the prison so that I could not speak freely with my | children. I suppose he was afraid that I would send letters by them to the papers. But wnat an fatot he was to think that iron bars would stop | me! All the time I was there I was writing two novels, which were published in the Rappel, but | without my signature, par exemple. THE MISTAKE HIS ENEMIES MADE, Rochefort indulged in a hearty laugn over some reminiscence, and added :— “You see it was @ very smart thing on the part of those to send me to New Caledonia; but it was oniy smart on one condition, and that was thatl should never come back, They did all they could to kill me, and even announced my death; but, | you see, I still live, and these peopie in France will soon become aware of It,” H M. Rochefort showed the reporter a parrot which he was taking home to his children. It was a beautiful bird, of a rare species, which he bought | in sydney. “1 long to see my children,’ he said, ‘1 shall meet them in London, ‘Those poor children! how they have suffered for my actions! When the au- thorities couidno’t find me once they actually threatened to arrest my children, knowing I would have to communicate with them, THE CRUELTY OF THE MAOMAHONISTS. “They found out in their low cunning that they conid only reach me in that way. It is like the woman Michel now at the Ducos Peninsula, in New Caledonia, The Versaillists couldn’t arrest her when she commanded a barricade; so they caught her mother, and threatened to shoot her unless she made her daugiter surrender. In that way they got her. You can never bave a real opinion of the atrocities of the first eight days the Ver- Saillists occupied Paris. 1 didn’t mention one in- stance in my letter where @ captain in the Garde Nationale, who was guarding a@ square to see that the plants were not destroyed—not a very crim- inal daty was that—and not only he, but his wile and his four children, ranging from three to ten Bt whole family was wiped out. Indeed, am afraid for my own children. When my letter reaches France [ actually fear that they will do | away with my children in the some way out of spite to myself. It is the om toing which se- riously worries me at present. I wish 1 were with them now.” ROCHEFORT’S MAIL. M., Rochefort went on chatting in this way when @ batch of letters arrived. Among them was a document from some French Communists pro- posing some public reception. “[ inust, see these delegations,” said Rochefort, “though thus tar 1 have been able to see nobody. They seem to feel very kindly to me here andJ don’t wantto make any more enemies than | have at present, Ah! Communists would have a very diferent name had it not been for that stupid mistake o! Killing the Archbishop. ‘Tue trouble Was with the Commune that there was a set of | fouls at its bead—men who knew nothing about statesmanship. That they should have tallen into such a trap as that of mardering the Archbishop! It was just whatthe Versaillists were urging them on secretly to do, knowing well that if they com- mitted this crime and—more than crime—mistake, they would be hanging themselves on their own Tope. As for THE BURNING OF BUILDINGS, that was all nonsense. Three-quarvers of the edi- fices set fire to wee done so by Versailles bombs, Quite near my house, in the Place de la Madeleine, | one of these bomhs had set fre to a building. More | lies have been written about these uniortupate people, of whom 30,000 were shot down, than it | would take six months to contradict.” | M. Rochefort being joined by his two friends, M. | Pain and Benedic, went down stairs with the | HERALD reporter. The party went into the par- | lors, where they were curiously contemplated by | anumber of persons who gavhered around with seeming indifference. Seated on @ sala, M. Roche- | fort went on speaking wondro' witty and bitter things ser nis enemies in France, quite un- translatable, THE FRENCH INCAPABLES. “MacMahon cannot last three months; that is certain, He hasp’t tne least idea avout govern- ment and is simply the most prominent incapable in France. He doesn’t know what todo with his Power, and the incapaoles around him use him, Poor old man. An Arab driver by nature and edu- Cation, what does he know about governing the French? ‘There is only one thing to do—elect a new Assembly. Eigaty departments will elect Tiers, and when the new eet A finds that they will have to make bim President. stil, Thiers 1s old—seventy-seven—and ne is very con- servative. Gambetta hastocome. He is a states- man and would make the reforms that the repub- licans, who are ia such a majority, want. Directly MacMahon goes out there will be an amnesty to | litical offenders, and then J’il return to France. | will not goon & there must be a general amnesty.” ROCHEFORT’S FUTURE COURSE. “What do you expect to do at present in | Europe?” asked the reporter. “I shall remain in New York a few days, and then I'll go to Liverpool. Thence to London, where Tl meet my wite and children. ‘hence | will go immediately to Geneva. It 1s no use my remain- | ing in England, I don’t know the language, and besides, the climate is too cold. In Belgium the | Clerical party is supreme just now, and | might be | subjected to @ great many annoyances, so that | Switzerland is my best resting place for the pres- ent. Ishan’t publish any paper; for what is the | use? 1t would not be admitted in France, and, besides, one must be at the centre ot political | affairs to write avout them. I cuuldn’t in Switzer- | land tell the Paris people about their own affairs, | All I could do with my Lanterne would be to change People’s opinions as to some people’s opinions who had none, ThatIean’t do at a distance. I shall correspond for one or two Paris papers, and | even then my letters will lose much of their force | bee not having my name attached to them; tor, of course, you know I am forbidden to write, I am betore the law in a state of tutelage, and 1 have a guardian appointed over me, having lost all my civil rights.” During lunch Rochefort went on chatting. THE KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. “I never saw such wine drinking as I saw in the Sandwich Islands, The King there sent me word he would be pleased to have me at the Palace. We | went, and were very hospitably entertained. The | King didn’t know French, but he said, through an le which he would not part with, The King and his cbampagne, and, with a couple ot friends more, drank forty bottles of thy: which they poured down Of course, I didn’t attempt to keep up with the King, it was very funny. ‘he otuers addressed the King very familiarly, and the inter- preter only interpreted when he felt like it.”” Alter luneh the party went to Mr. Pelletier's house, 12 Wooster street. Mr. Pelletier, of the French ‘Union Republicaine” of New York, and the gentleman whom it was at first announced Mr. Rochefort would live with during his stay here. | Mr. Rochefort very sensibly has decided to live with NO one, 80 as not to excite jealousies, but will re- main at the hotel, At this place an avalanche of newspaper men were WAITING FOR THE LION of the hour, in the evident belie! that he would call, ‘the meeting between m. Rocheiort and Pain on the one hand and Messrs. Pelletier and Fieau- reau on the other was very cordial, and tor some time the condition of political affa.rs was discussed | by them. It was then debated what should be | done tn the way of a public reception, and Mr. Rochefort said decidedly that he would consent to no banquet, It was spending money uselessiy by those wno could not afford it. He said, however, that he tntended to detiver a tectore in New York, which should be for the benefit of the poor, wretched convicts at the Ducos Peninsula. The Price of tickets will poe be fixed at $2, re; Onable enough for all to go. This will be ROCHEFORT’S ONLY PUBLIC APPEARANOR in New York. alter some further conversation Mr. some friends at Delmonico’s, He aiterwards drove | in Central Park, and at half-past eleven returned to his hotel, To-day the great French refugee will pass quietly and pleasantly, and for the time being will not ao any literary work. Rochefort’s Letter to the Herald Among the French Population, The manifesto of Henri Rochefort published in the HgRALp of yesterday was, 98 might be expect- ed, the chief topic of conversation among the French residents in the various piaces of resort in the “Quartier Francais” during the day, Much difference of opinion has for a long time prevailed among them, just a® among their countrymen at home, regarding Rochefort. On the one hand the ‘moderates’ at- | tributed to him the origin of ail the bloodshed, all the excesses, the massacre of the hostages, the demolition of the monuments—in short, all that was horrible ana tragic in the Communal revolt. Those of them wno were disposed to be lenient with him terrible of all Parisian insurrections. Ii he did not actually direct the movements of the Commu- nists, if ne did not sit in council to pilot and plan the atrocious deeds, they were still & natural and necessary consequence of his teachings. His incendiary appeals to violence in the Lanterne and Marseilatse had vitiated and demoralized the minds of the excitable Parisian Popuiace and gradually familiarized them with the contemplagion of deeds of blood, $0 that in ather | , and thorough refutation of the calumnies levelled | against them by the reactionary party in France ; such an inquiry, and they confidently | Immediately after their escape :— | first, | The reporter cannot speak French, and Rochefort | | held this afternoon to protest against the contract case he was the man at whose door the blame should rest, He was the béte noire of alt sections of this moderate and peace-loving party. On the Other hand no inconsiderable number of the extreme ‘‘reds” looked on him with great dis favor. According to them he was only half in earnest. He did not go farenough. He was too much of an aristocrat and was not imbued with the true revolutionary principles, Others objected to bim that ne wished to arrogate to himself the whole credit of overturning the despotism of Lous Napoleon, whereas his share in that transaction was comparatively small, He was a good writer and had done his part; but he was any- thing «at all but @ man of action. However, the long letter published in yester- | @ay’s HERALD had @ wonderful effect on both | these classes. The Communal refugees were de- lighted, They considered it as the most complete that has ever been published, and believe that hencelorth @ reaction will set in in their favor, and that in time their prineipies and aims will be better understood. Tney claim that ail they want 1s to have light, and plenty of it, thrown on the events of that period, and that the more public attention ia directed to the subject the more robability there is of the real truth being made ‘nown, While admitting many mistakes and de- Ploring the commission of atrocities by some of the more fanatical of their party when driven to despair, they contend that an ety inquiry Would establish the tact that the Versaillists ex- ceeded them a hundredfold in reckless cold- | blooded atrocity, and believe that Kocheiort’s staiements to that effect in the columns of the HERALD will have the effect of bringing about jook jor a | complete vindication of their honesty and devotion to the cause ot true republicanism in the near fu- ture as a consequence of it, All their jault Soding With him is at an end. He has completely satisfied | all sections and is their acknowledged spokesman and representative before the bar Of public opin- tou, ‘The “moderates” are surprised beyond measure | and have come to the conclusion that, even if Rochefort is a devil, he 18 “not more than half as Diack as he is painted.” They looked for a series of reckiess assertions and baseless arguments, for wild appeals lor more violence and bloodshed, whenever he would address the public; but they were totally unprepared for the clear, logical reasoning and imposing array of solid tacts ti were so unexpectedly presented to them in Roche- fort’s letter. Without making up their minds to accept bis statements without due examination and be gd and while still expressing their dissent trom his views on French politics and the ten- dency of bis opinions they are free to admit that he has made out a case for the Communists that will have a telling effect in muderatiog the public prejudice against them. On one point all seem to agree, and thatis the unnecessary and exceptionally harsh treatment of the prisoners, The publication of the letter in the HERALD was to them unaccountable. How, the very morning after his arrivalin New York after a journey across the whole Continent trom ocean to ocean, a statement of such length could be published they could not understand, and the enterprise of the HERALD was the subject of uni- versal commendation among them. To be able to Tead such a@ production in their own graceful and elegant tongue from the pen of a thorough master of it, in an American dally paper, was a treat the more acceptable as it was Wholly unexpected. Congratulations from Fellow Prisoners. The following extracts are taken from corre- spondence sent to Rochefort and Paschal Grousset at Sydney, N.S. W., trom fellow prisoners at Ducos PENINSULA Dvucos, March 28, 1874, Messrs. HENRI ROCHEFORT aud PascHAL GRoUs- SET HAPPY FRIENDS—AN opportunity being pre- sented of writing yon with some certainty that the letter will reach you safely, | address you at syd- Rey, hoping that the event of which we are now pom nicene 48 being bruited abroad in Europe will en. happily, for you, 1 suppose you have already learned with some interest the commotion and excitement caused by your escape, so successfully carried out on Wednesday, alter the departure of Messrs. Joarde, Brailliéu aud Bastien, came to the island on Saturday morning to inform L—— Of the disposition of his vessel, and he went | to your quarters to iniorm you of their escape. | Judge his astonishment to see your hut empty as Well as that of our triends above named. ‘The hews spread tnroughout the place with great rapidity. Immediately the officers were put in motion, and, as a preliminary meas- ure, they arrested your cook. They gained little by this. They, doubtless, expected to draw from him some useful iniormation, but findio, him utterly ignorant of the atfair, he was release again the same afternoon. ‘I'hey then made an in- ventory of the goods and chattels you leit behind. 1 passed aiong the sea shore in front of your laces at the time, and io the distance i could see jow dreadiully in earnest the chief officer searched the stores and boxes in the lower and sleeping apartments of Paschal Grousset. * * * The excitement in the cr # at the first news turned to actual cing subsequently— because of oppression put Spon you, but Pechent and specially, because they Tecognized that liberty would permit you to draw the attention of Versailles towards these little atrocities. The revelations of all Kinds that you May be abie to make will not tend to leave the authdrities here a8 comfortable as their tastes | would, perhaps, dictate. Ina word, your friends are douvly juoilant—first, because you played year role so successivily in escaping, and secondly, ecause Of the terror spre: among the petty | tyrants here. * * * Always yours, G@. A. Another letter is ag follows:— : Ducos, March 27, 1874. M, PasonAL GROUSSET :— Drax FRIEND—Tue news of your escape was Spread throughout the caup on Saturday morning, and joy was pictured on every jace, Not a jealous remark was made concerning your good jortune. Everybody seemed as happy as though the good fortune were his own. So Jar the time has been passed in conjectures, more or less ridiculous, as To the means you employed. You, who know with what iacility rumor fies hereabouts, may imagine the most iantastic hypotheses, and yet you | will not even approach the reality. he | old Garroches could not recover their Parisian equanimity, and it was not pleasant for any officer for the time being who bad the misiortune to show his nose. But our estimable junctionaries are still ina stupor. They began by pillaging your hut; next they arrested your cook, whom they imme- diately took beiore the Commandant. In reply to the questions propounded to him the cook said he Knew nothing about it; that be couid not under- stand what had become o! you; that he went into the hut in order to prepare your dinner, and that he atterwarus waited ior three hours, hoping you would come in. The guuboat La Rapiére started in pursuit of you, bat she subsequently returned, without you, of course. Everybody laughed heartily to see her going out and leaving hex long trail of smoke in the air, * * * The general leeiing is truly gay and unanimous touching your happy Genvaranses A Smoky City “Compliment.” (From the Pittsburg Commercial, May 29.) The reporter of the New YoRK HERALD, who re- ported the details of the Sartoris marriage without being present, is engaged to interview Rochefort. cannot speak English; put the report of the inter- view wiil appear all the Same and be very circum- stantial in all its details, LABOR PROTEST, PHILADELPHIA, May 31, 1874. A large meeting of stevedores and coopers was system which employers are endeavoring to in- troduce. The meeting was very enthusiastic, and those who are on strike at Point Breeze expressed a determination to hold out. Many of the em- loyers make their men sign a contract by which | ir 40 of their wages per week is retained until | $75 are accumulated. gr: sist A DELUSIVE MORTGAGE BOND. St. Louis, Mo., May 31, 1874. C. W. Pool, claiming to live in Northern Texas, was arrested last night on a charge of swindling a Jeweller here out of $5,000 worth of jewelry which he purchased, giving in payment a mortgage bond against a jarm in Union county, New York, which proved to be fraudulent, The jewelry was recov- ered. Pool claims to be a respectable Texas merchant, and claims to have obtained this bond and another one in a business transaction with a Party in Chicago. THE YOUNG LADIES’ OHRISTIAN ASSOCIA. TION, To this the men object, Exarra, N. Y., May 81, 1874. The anniversary of the Young Ladies’ Christian Association of the Eimira Female College was held | in the college chapel this afternoon. Addresses were delivered by General Stewart L, Wooaford, | General A. 8. Diven and others. The annual com- mencement ol the college occurs on June 18, BAILROAD ACOIDENT TO A HORSE AND DRIVER, POUGHKEEPSIE, May 31, 1874, A passing freight train strack a horse and wagon at Sing Sing yesterday, killing the horse and geri- ously injuring the driver, Jolin Carley, FATAL ACOIDENT TO A BRAKEMAN, WORCESTER, Mags., May 31, 1874, Louis Gervais, of this city, a French Canadian, twenty-one years of age, and employed as a brake- man on the Boston and Albany Ratlroad, was in+ stantiy killed by veing thrown irom @ train at Spencer oy Saturday might, ‘to suggest Mr. Motley’s satirical contrast. LITERATURE. Mr. Motley’s Life of John of Barneveld." THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR. Mr. Motley’s countrymen, and the republic of letters to which he 1s sv well known, will meet him with courteous and cordial greetings on bis return to the fleld in which he has won the most brilliant and valuable part of his reputation. It is fortunate | for our national literature, oi which Mr. Motley is | one of the most distinguished living ornaments, that he quarreiled with Secretary Fish and was driven out of the London Mission to take refuge in the historical researches in which he is so ad- mirabiy qualified to shine, grudgingly and angrily, with an unseemly explo- sion, and amid bitter recriminations, from his high dipiomatic post, there is regson to fear that his indignation is not yet soothed, and that he has prosecuted the labors he unwillingly resumed with @ mind deeply tinged with rankling bitterness, We are sorry to perceive that occasional marks of it deface the interesting work he has just published. No intelligent reader on this side of the Atlantic, at least, will aoubt that the following sarcastic passage (vol. 1, p. 167) is a thrast at Secretary Fish:—“His was not one of those easy posts, not unknown in the modern administration of great affairs, where the subor- dinate furnishes the intellect, the industry the experience, while the bland superior, gratilying the world with his sign-manual, appropriates the applause.’ This contemptuous fling is quite un- called for by the exigencies of Mr. Motley’s nar- rative, into which-itis too obviously injected by personal soreness and spite. He had been remark- ing m the context on the tireless industry of Barneveld in the preparation of diplomatic and other oficial papers. There is no instance in the age with which this and Mr. Motley’s two former histories are concerned of a statesman taking credit for documents or negotiations not his own, nor is the proltfic industry which he ascribes to Barneveld without even more conspicuous examples in Mr. Motley’s own pages. William the Silent, the great hero of Mr. Motley’s first work, ‘‘The History of the Dutch Republic,” is praised at greater length, ana with more elaborate pomp of eulogy, for the endless Productions of his indefatigable pen, and Willian.’s bigoted adversary, Philip Il., of Spain, spent the greater part of his waking hours in original writ- ing. The fact that Barneveld wrote the State papers he signed has nothing 1m it so peculiar as and, 1m point of fact, he does not contrast Barneveld with any statesmen of his own period, but with some “not unknown in the modern administra- tion of great affairs,” thus expressly bringing the application of the satire to our own times. Whom, then, does he mean? Not Von Beust, certainly, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs when Mr, Motley represented our government at Vienna; not Mr. Seward, from whose restless pen Le and all our other diplomats received exhaustless com- munications marked by a style which attested their originality; not Earl Russell, not Clarendon, Dot Granville, not Bismarck, nor any contemporary | European statesman who has dealt diplomatically with “great affaires.” By a process of reasoning known as the method of exhaustion, we may safely conclude that this contemptuons shait is aimed } solely at Secretary Fish, in running through the list of contemporary statesmen we find that every one is shielded by his well known reputation for original ability with this single exception. That Posthumous speech of the late Senator Sumner, which was so injudicionsly and unjustifiably pub- lished, proves that Mr. Motley drew his own in- structions to London, which Mr. Fish futhered and | aigned, and it has long been believed in certain | circles that Mr. Bancroft Davis and Mr, Caleb Cushing were the real authors of Mr. Fish’s most important oficial productions. Mr. Motley has evidently taken advantage of that impression to infitet a sting whose application no one will fail to recognize. No matter what the public may be- eve respecting the correctness of this disparag- ing portrait, we think all disinterested people will find that Mr. Motley has committed a grave fault of taste in making the history of a distant age the yehicle of his personal animosity, They will seo in such allustons only @ proof that the author 1s still smarting from the wounds and humiliation of that removal from the London mission to which we are indebted for this earliest fruit of his resumption of literary activity. The passage we have quoted is by no means a solitary ebullition of the vindictive feelings and irrepressible spleen of the historian. The following embittered remark (vol. 1, 378,) stands, for ex- ample, as an unsightly symptom of a mind dis- eased :—“There 1s nothing less surprising nor more sickening for those who observe public life or wisn to retain faith in the human species than the almost infinite power, of the meanest of passions.” A mere literary man, calmly survey- ing past transactions at 4 distance of nearly three centuries, does not naturally express himself with 80 much acerbity. caressed man of letters, but the unappreciated statesman and displaced Minister that speaks. The context in which this misanthropic remark occurs relates to the ‘jealousy’ and tne “envy” by which Barneveld was obstructed. Mr. Mot- ley’s impression of “the almost infinite power” of these “meanest of passions” would seem to have been derived from Mr. Fisu’s determination to transfer the Alabama negotiations from London to Washington, and thereby take away from the en- voy the credit of the treaty and assume It for the Secretary of State. The histury of Mr. Motley’s difcuities with the administration elucidates the | meaning he attaches to the words ‘‘jealuusy” and “envy,” and explains his suggestive innuendoes, He is entirely too astute and intelligent not to have perceived that his countrymen would read between the lines, and as he could have expunged such excresences without any detriment to his narrative, he cannot be acquitted o! this grave fault of coloring history with his exasperated feel- ings and personal grievances, Bating these occasional disfigurements, Mr, Motley has enriched our literature with a work of remarkable spirit and ability and enlightened re- search, In this, a8 well as in his tormer works, bis chief merit consists in the free use he makes of original materials not accessible to, or at least not used by, previous writers, He is not a his- torian of the order of Hame, whose depth of pene- tration causes nis work to be valued in spite of superdcial investigation and frequent errors of fact. Hume had a profounder insight into the bearings of great movements and measures than the actors themselves, and sucb a writer cannot fail to make a valuable history from the most ordinary aud commonplace sources of information. There is another merit, more strictly proper to @ historian, of adding to our precise knowledge of facts by exploring diligence in new flelds of research. This is the merit of Motley and of the most distinguished and valuable his- torians of the present age. Itis this which en- abled Froude to rewrite the annals of Engiand ana make them & fresh story; that enabled our own admirable Prescott to shed so much new light on the Spanish transactions ofa past era, and that has made the oid French history seem iike a new creation in the hands of Thierry, Mr. Motley is in this respect one of the most fortunate of modern historians, His rare culture and scholership, especially in the modern European languages, and the leisure of comfortable circum- stances, happened to match with the period when the Dutch archives, the Spanish archives of the Simancas, and @ vast amount of other original documents were first unlocked and made accessi- ble. These rich materials, of more European than American interest, were examined with greater ajligence and more fruitful results by Mr. Motley than by any European scholar, and nothing has contributed more to the credit and estimation of American literature than his histories and those of Mr. Prescott. Mr. Motley's present work bridges over the inter+ val between the close of his “Hisvory of ihe United But as he retired | | Years’ War, are altogetier the most important | Portion of modern annals, It is a great stroke of | It ts not the appreciated anc | Netheriands,”’ his last preceding work, and the history of the Thirty Years’ War, which he now announces his imtention to write. John of Barneveld was # conspicuous figure in the “His tory of the United Netherlands,” and in these volumes his life is carried on and the complex web of Ruropean history described down to the period of his execution. In that age of great Teligious wars and complications the histories of all the leading nations of Europe were so inter- Woven that no one can be adequately written without a pretty broad survey of the contemporary transactions of the others. As Mr. Motiey aptly says, “the dividing line of nations, or at least of national alliances, was a frontier not of language, but of ‘aith.” The Protestants of ail Christian countries were on one side of the quarrel and the | Catholics of all countries on the «ther, and there was hardly any separate national history which was not intertwined with the general affairs of Eu- | rope. Except the period which followed the great | French Revolution, and not even chat should be | excepted, the eighty years which will be covered by Mr. Motiey’s successive histories, when he has completed his design by writing the Thirty literary good fortune that an American writer has | the acvantage of treating it with newly opened | svurces of information and an equipment of per- j gous) qualifications which all competent European Judges recognize as adequate, | As regards mere diction and style Mr. Motley is | Considerably inferior to the late Mr, Prescott, whose easy elegance and almost faultless taste ; Make bim @ model oj narrative composition, in | spite of Hallam’s criticlam that his language ts | sometimes too colloquial for the gravity of history. | But if colloquialism be a sin Mr, Motley | can have little hope of redemption. He | frequently descends to coarseness, and sometimes to the verge of slang, re- Minding one of the odd saying of some political | Wag that a person he criticized seemed to try how near he could come to treason without actually committing it. Mr. Motley frequently comes as near as he possibly can to slang without actually indulging in it, He calls the Calvinists of Hol- land, ‘those hot Gospellers;” he calls the King of England, “the slobvering James; he speaks of differing Christians “taking each other by the | throat; ne says the Dutch Republic ‘‘was like a | raft loosely strung together; that “poor ex- hausted humanity was essaying a feeble twitter of hope ;’’ that the Spaniards meant to hold out “till the crack of doom;?’ that Villeroy was “a political | hack,” and he constantly indulges in similar coarse vigor and expression. This is, indeed, sometimes forcible and graphic, as, for ex- ample, when he calls Rudolph “a red- | faced, heavy jawed, bald-headed, somewhat goga@le-eyed old gentleman.” Mr. Motley’s style also offends against taste by an excessive use of | figurative language, which sometimes approaches bombastic inflation. His mind has a natural bent towards intensity, and he seems to have been tesqueness, however natural it may be as tlie ex- | pression of his own peculiar genius, is one of the | worst of all models for imitation. But, in spite of his redundancies and excrescences, Mr. Motley is, on the whole, an animated, picturesque, engaging writer, Some of the interesting eptsodes in this work areremarkable examples of lively, graphic story- telling. We note particularly the three chapters | in the first volume, detai!ing the scapaalous chron- | tele of the last famous amour of Henry IV., of France, and its consequences, and the chapter im the second volume in which he describes the amusing adventures of Grotius in his escape from prison. The latter ia interesting as @ romance; and the former related | a8 Dew and more authentic information excels the wildest and most romantic tale of absura and crazy love ever imagined by the most extravagant | writer of fiction. It is superfuous to recommend these fascinating volumes to general perusal, but we render a service in giving readers this edrly notice of their publication. * The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advo- | Cate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes | and Movements of the Thirty Years’ War. By Join | Lothrop Motiey, D. C. L., . In two voinmes. | With illustrations, New York: Harper & Brothers, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. CHARLES KINGSLEY will handle the now popular subject of “Health and Education” in his forth. | coming volume which the Appletons will publish. | List Annual for the United States,” which con- tained the publishing lists and priced catalogue of American publishers, is to be made permanent. Mr. Leypoldt is preparing the next volume, tor 1874-5, AN EXHAUSTIVE INDEX to every word in the poems of Shakespeare, with reference to the poem and line where found, has been prepared by Mrs. H. H. Furness, of Philadelpnia, and published by J. B. Lippincott & Co, Mrs. H. B.Srowg 1s about to commence yet | another story, under the title of “We and Our Neighbors.” Illustrating the temperance agitation. THE APPETITE FOR African books (meaning thereby books about Africa) 1s on the increase in England, Captain Butler, whose two books of North American exploratjgna have had a great success, will soon relate | cal Africa, Dr. G, Rohlf will publish his “Adven- tures in Morocco.” W. Winwood Reade will also print a fresh book about the black continent, and plorations.” By THE Recent Lirg of Mrs. Barbauld it ap- pears that this prim and decorous lady had a | mad Frenchman for a husband, who often threat | ened the life of his wife and finally drowned him- self in the New River. THe AUTHOR OF “The Norman People and Their Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States” declares that out of 30,000 names in the “London Directory” nearly 7,000 are of Nor- man origin. Mr. JOHN PaGet, a London barrister, has pub- lishea @ book which dissects some historical writers in great credit, and Macaulay among them, It is entitled “Paradoxes and Pnzzles—- Historical, Judicial and Literary.”” Mr. Francis H. UNDERWwoop’s new American novel, entitled “Lord of Himself,” is a tale of Ken- tucky twenty years ago. A LEARNED GERMAN, named Dr. R. Benedix, has published a book on “The Shakespeare Manta.” English dramatist. He objects to the style of com- position; he condemns the morality of the plays; | he expresses extreme surprise that the admirers of Shakespeare should extol him as the most im- aginative of poets. For his part, Dr. Benedix finds him very bombastical. There are several Shake- sperian heretics who agree with Dr. Benedix, but they will probably continue to all etermity to be in the minority. ‘Tue Largest BLUE Boor out in London Is a re- available for fuel. Lord Granville instructed the British consuls in America to collect the facts, which are interesting as showing complete tinan- cial failure to make peat acheaper substitute tor coal. Forty-seven companies, with capital vary- ing from $50,000 to $5,000,000, have been organized for the purpose of working and preparing the fuel. A New DAILy OnINReSE Papen has been estab- lished at Hong Kong. The other Chinese journals of the colony have been altered from tri-weeklies to dailies. Mr, Georae Dawson, M. A., intends visiting America in August next on a lecturing tour. A Most INTERESTING BOOK, by F. Le Normant, entitled “Les Premiers Civilisations,” has appeared in Paris, NUREMBERG celebrates, in June, the erection of her monument to Hans Sachs, the celebrated head of the master-singers of Germany. THe JAPANESR GOVERNMENT has issued perem- tory orders for the return within two months of all Japanese students abroad. The number of these students now in Europe and America is about 550, They are recalied on economical grounds, to save the cost of their maintenance to the government, Tue JBNA Gazette has completed the two hun- | dredth year of its existence. It has been during | ol that time the property of one family, seduced by admiration of Carlyle, whose huge gro- | Tuat Bia BuT USEFUL Boor, “The Uniform Trade | experiences in tropt- | J. G, sorbes will issue “African Geographical Ex- | He objects to the popular adoration of the great | port on peat in the United States as an article | Every one haa failed. , 3 LILLIPUTIAN YACHTING, —_—_— [From the New York World of yesterday.) There was & fine contest yesterday in Gowanus Bay between the miniature yachts for » prize of @ silver pitcher, offered by Mr. Kobert Dition, the owner of the Maud The following were THB ENTRIES. Fam America. You | 3G. Jessie | Nonpareil” Idle Hour sessaee 80 ‘The courss was from a point off the Arie basin at | the head of the bay down to & stakeboat of the | Bay Ridge dock, a distance of three miles dead to windward. The tide wason the last quarter of | the ebb and the wind a gentle breeze from south- west, just sufficiens to bring out the best sailing | qualities of the yachts. The allowance of time Was thirty seconas to the inch. The yachts were started at intervais of thirty seconds, 80 as to avoid the probability of fouting with each other, | the larger yacht going off at 11h. 44m. 45s. A. M., and the others joliowing in the order of their aizi | the smallest being started last. All went off at | first upon the port tack, but in a few | minutes the America went round and _ headed for the Long Island snore, tollowed } by the Nonpareil and Young Greek, The others held their reach until well down to the corner of | the dock, and by doing so kept the advantage of | stronger tide. The Nonpareil, findiny taat was not doing so well on the inshore tack, went round and stood down the bay, As the yaehts reaching down began to encounter the rougher water oi shore aii tacked in, except the Bennett, which still held her reach; and the Nonpareti, after passing across the stern of the incoming yaehts, kept ou tue port tack, and followed out | alter the Bennett, The Osceola, leading the Jessie | aud the Idle Hour, kept on upon the starboard | tack until close in shore, and tacking, caught a | breeze off the land, and reaching up along the beach, became the leading yacht. ‘The America bad been doing badly. Having @ large club topsall set, she was two tender, and for a time brought up the rear, but afterwards, naving taken in this extra canvas, she did better and won a good place at the finish, ‘The Osceola did good work until after passing be- low the Chemical dock, when she gotin the dol- drums under the high lana near the Delaplaine House. Meanwhile the Bennett and Nonpareil had been stanaing on till they caught the whole strength of the East River tide, together with breeze, steady and strong, which was more than an offset to the rough water they were forced to encounter. The Bennett still held the lei bat her fying jfb stay parting, the time lost in getting | in the sail gave her competitor the lead, which | from this time she maintained, althouga ‘closely | pursued by the Bennett. The following is the re- nett. Bult:— Elapsed Corvected Start, ish. Tine. ¥me. Name. PMS AMS HS Mg Nonpareil........ 11 47 15 12 63 00 1 5 45 1 5° J. G. Bennett... U 45 45 12 57 30-1 11 45 1 16 4 Ament ll 44 19 0 1 2 15 1 40 1 0 1 17 Moa? 1.33 0) 1 26 15.1 The winning yacht, the Nonpareil, had uever been in the water until yesterday. She is the | most remarkable model yet exhibited, being 2834 inches beam and only 6inches deep, with a keel 12 inches in depth. She may, therefore, be con- sidered a centreboard yacht. She is to all intents and purposes a sloop, for her mainmast is placed | 80 far forward that her foresail is but an apology for a sail, THE PICAYUNFS AT PROSPECT PARK. The number of spectators at the Park lake yesterday afternoon was far greater than on any | previous day tuis season, Club Island was crowded the whole afternoon, and the drive at the | head’of the lake was thronged with carriages, the Sommpanes of which watched the tiny craft with Much interest. Among the yachts present were two English crait, one of four teet, owned by | Captain Brown, of the British ship Canerta, an | the other, called the Pruck, 3 feet 10 inches, owned | by Captain Reed, of the British ship British | Queen. ‘They were of the English model, very dee; and narrow, and sailed well. Alter sever: contests with each other, im which the larger yacht was the victor, she was matched against the Wonder, the fastest of the American yachts, and | which beat her easily. Several other contests | took place between the Wonder, Osceola, Hurri- cane and Emma—the laiter a new yacht, 6 feet | 10 inches—in ail of which the Wonder soon proved | herself still the pride of the lake and worthy of | her name. ROWING AT ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, ne RS SPIES AE The annual barge race between the two crews of the above college came off on the Hudson, in the bay north of Barrytown, on Saturday afternoon, | The boats were six-oared barges, and each carried acoxswain. The following were the crews:— RosaLiz.—F. W. Knight (stroke), A. A. Brock- way, J. H. Titus, W. F. Bielby, P. M. Bleeker, William B, Guion, Wiliam Murphy (coxswain). MIRAMONTE.—Licutenant Rathburn (stroke), J B. Wasson, J. D. Herron, A. T. Randall, F. B. Reazor, F, J. Clayton, R. A. Mearess (coxswain). The colors of the Rosalie were white and those of the Miramonte red. The judges were R, Mevins, of the senior class, and J, Q. Archdeacon. The referee was Professor Striker and the starter was John 8S, Moody. The course was one and @ | quarter miles straightaway. The race was put down for two P. M., but the boats did not get off till three P.M. Long before ; that time the pier about the boat house was filled with spectators. Among them were Professor Ollsen, wife and daughter, Kev. Mrs. Fairbaine and the Misses Fairbaine, Rev. Dr. Clark and his | military school, the Misses Martin, of Barrytown; the Misses Cruger, Mr. Brockaway, from the Gen- eral Theological Seminary of New York; the Aspin- walls, of Barrytown, and the Lortilards, of Rhine- beck. Mr. John Aspinwail’s little steam yacht Skedaddle glided about the bay with a merry party | on board, As quickly a8 possible the boats were got into | Ine at the south end oi the bay, tne finish to occur at the boat nouse. The Rosalie having won the choice of position, was on the inside. They got the word evenly by the firing of a pistol, and both | crews pulled away in fine style. At the start the | crew ol the Rosahe dipped 40 strokes a minute and the Miramonte 39, and for three-quar- ters of @ mile the race was @ ciose one, the boats being side by side all that distance. Suddeniy the crew of the Rosalie made a splendid spurt on Dearing the home boat, and her bow took the ad- vance. The rapidity of stroke iessened soon aiter, tne Rosalie’s being 387 per minute and the Miramonte 36. ‘Tne latter tried hard to regain iost ground, but the Rosalie shot across the line a length and a half ahead, in eight minutes and fifty seconds, amid great cheering. It was a splendid victory. ‘The Rosalie’s crew was a great deal lighter than that of the Miramonte, and for four years in succession the Miramonte has porne off the laurels. Next a scrub race occurred between three heavy working boats—the Ripple, Undine and a boat put in by the Atlanta Club of Dr. Clark's school, The Ripple, being the lightest boat, won easily, Bach | boat contained two oarsmen and a coxswain, and | each oarsman pulled a sweep. Following the scrub race was 8 tub race, the contestants hein; ©. E. Quinn, W. H. Larom, William Cross and B. Finlayson. Quinn came in first, Finlayson second, Cross third and Larom upset, ‘This concluded the day’s sport, and in the evening the crew of the defeated Miramonte gave the crew of the Kosalie # banquet at the college, The contesting crews belong to the Bond Boat Club, which is attached to St. Stephen’s College, at Annandale. Tie ciub having the following of-, ficers:—Captain, GQ. H. Keller; Lieutenant, W. M. Pickslay; Second Lieutenant, S, B. Rathbun; Purser, B. K. Kirkbride; Driil Master, A. McMillan. | After the races the guests were hospitably enter- | tained at diferent residences, Mr. Robert Martin | and family taking especial pains to enhance the | comfort of strangers, THE SARNER SUICIDE, The remains of Mr. Jniius Sarner, who died im the Tombs on Saturday evening, from the effects of aquantity of Paris green, which a few hours | previously he had swallowed with sufcidal intent, | were removed to his late residence, No. 256 West Thirty-elghth street, by permission of Mr. Foal, attached to the Coroners’ OmMce. Mr. Sarner was for many years a merchant in this city, had the misfortune to be arrested on @ charge of perjury in swearing to the amount of stock he had on hand when a fire occurred In his store last win- ter, a report of which appeared in the HgRa! resuiting on Friday morning in big conviction. Up to Friday last Mr. Sarner had been at itberty on possibly in anticipation of an unfavorabii result of the trial he had provided himeelf with ¢! poison for use in case he preferred death to 1i Prisonment and disgrace. Coroner Kessler nas taken charge of the case, and will examine wit- nesses with the view of learning where deceased procured the potson. An autopsy will ve made on the body by Deputy Coroner Leo. Mr. Sarner, W! Was about forty-five years of age, has leit quite & jamily of children. ‘He was considered to be in good circumstances, NORTH AND SOUTH OAROLINA COMPARED, [From the Raleigh Crescent.) We in North Carolina cannot well appreciate our good fortune in having driven the carpet baggers | Out of the State except bya comparison of our situation with that of other communities still | cursed by the sintater prese of those birds of evilomen, In 1868-69 our tax high—more than the pe | since the conservatives apprehend that bo peop! taxation for State purposes than we are. Carolina the public thieves have heid on to the orib with death like pertinacity and the people are irretrievably ruined.