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4 BAZAINE. Full Text of His Letter to_ the Herald. | CRITICISMS ON MACMAHON. | “The First Author of Our Disasters.” An Old Soldier and an Ama-) teur General. | to seek HOW ALSACE WAS LOST., } | Logical Argument on His Sentence. The Government of National Defenee from the | Marshal's Point of View, Bois Dk BRECX, NRAR LIRGE, Sept. 6, 1874. Jo Mr. James GORDON BENNETT, Proprietar of the | HERALD:— Sin—The Impartiality your honorable journal has shown in lace of the rude trials which I have | lately undergone, and the strong marks of kindly sympathy which Ihave received from your repre- | sentatives in Europe, induce me to pudlicly thank you. / The English, the Russtan and the American | press in general have not aliowed their judgment | to be bisssed eoncerning the terrible drama in | which, next to the Emperor Napoleon IIL, I have boen the most unfortunate victim, ception of the London Times, whose egotism is well Known and whose German sympathies were roused from the first day of the war, I can only | praise the English journals. | The Russian press, whose views were also very» Bensidie, often afforded me precious consolation. But it was in the American journals that I tound impartial defenders and critics, and, 50 far as I know, none among them have abused me system- | eticaily, a3 nas veen done elsewhere, | AMERICAN SYMPATHIES. } Recently, a8 I was passing through Cologne, several parties of Americans came spontaneously to visit me, and to assure me of their sympathy. Among them were officers of the great civil war who wished to grasp my band, as General Sher- man had already dope when passing through Ver- sailles. 1 Go not like pablic demonstrations; my soldierly character revolts against them; but I must avow on this occasion the act of those Americans touched me deeply. | saw that your countrymen were not like mine, republicans of yesterday, and that American citizens do not, like French dema- gogues, believe they perform an act of patriotism by insulting conquered soldiers, It has been thought good policy to make of me an expiatory victim for the army and the nation; against me have been charged ali the faults, all the Weaknesses commirted, all the sins of Israel; and they have sacrificed me, And I do not wish to complain here of this iniquitous sentence because it is irregular, void in its form, and ren- dered invalid by the composition of the Court which pronounced it. | PRINCELY DELICACY. ‘The law, an old law, whose origin is hid in the night of time, Says that the accused should be tried by his peers. Now, this guarantee was refused to me. The council which tried me was presided over by @ general of division of the royal blood, removed from the army list by the second Repudlic in 15848, and forcedly retired into civil life from that time until 1871, who had never conducted important military Operations 4s commander-in-chiel, and who pos- sessed in my eyes DO other military merit than that of being the son of his father, King Louis Philippe 1., and haviug been—thanks to his birta— @ colonel at the age of twenty-two years. THE TWO SUPPORTS—NAPOLEON ATD THIERS. I have no longer the hope that justice will be promptly doue me, I had bat two supports, whose uigh autvortty and impartiality and inde- pendence assured me during tne contest against all those wno thought right lo tmmotate me or allow me to be immolated in order to appease & certain coterie and the public Sorrow. These two Supports were the aperor, Napoleon IIL, and M. Thiers. The first is dead, and the second has veen removed from power and replaced by Mar- | shal MacMaon, my former comrade, | My two supports failed we too goon. 1 have been forced to enter bodily into the terrible whirl of events which seized me on the fatal day im which the command of the army of the Rhine—a command [ never sought, as is well Known—was imposed upon me, which others were lucky enough to quit or ayoid im ume, bat for whicn, I may re- call it, the universal pubiic opinion, iu accord with the Emperor, pointed me out. Well, all is over now. I have drunk the vitier cup even to the @regs and I ought not even to complain , because tne Emperor, my master, lost both tnrone and life, and France the worth of three depart- ments. This terrible adventure nas only vene- fited the Germans and those who remained tar irom the feids of battle, in foruer the pecter to flatter the passions of the people and profit by their great misiortune. Even the Commune gained nothing by it. The opportunity to arm and organ- | ize in military form was but an ephemeral tri- umph, ending in aunthilation. JUSTICE BUT A NAMB. i I might say, like the ancient Roman, that justice is only a Dame; vut I prefer, like the #mperor, my master, to await the verdict of time and history. I would not even have escaped from my prison had my ancient comrade, MacMahon, whom the caprice of destiny raised to supreme power at the Moment when J was being deprived even of my Tighis as a citizen, cousented to soften the rigor O1 my itaprisonment. IMPEACHMENT OF MACMAHON. During my triai | might bave employed the same Weapons that MacMahon used against me. I might have shown in my defence how MacMahon had al- lowed limseif to be surprised and beaten in Alsace without iniorming Nimself any more than others of the overwheiming forces marcuing against him; that he had retreated without eudeavoring to defend the Vosges, without stopping he march of the enemy even for a day, in their defiles, or destroying the raiiroads, and finally that he evacuated Alsace too precipi- tately, without leaving 1D the fortresses of that province, a8 prescribed by speciai orders, suin- cient garrisons for a long and good defence: that he retires on Chalons, far to my rear, without utilizing the Filth and Seventh corps and the line of delence of the Seilie, 80 leaving my right un- covered and turned, notwithstanding the order sent not to pass beyond Nancy; that by bis igno- rance of the wuumber and movements of the enemy, by his resamption in accepting pattie blindfolded, by bis im- prudence in risking upon the t of & die the reputation of all the old troops of Africa, by bis personai courage, which made him, above all, forget the duties of tne General-in-Chief to un- dertake tbe role of fighting soldier, he might be | looked ou as one of the first autuors of our dis asters, | But one justice will be done me. It is that I _ have imitated tne conduct of the Emperor, and | have accused no une, Nor have | sought to throw | the responsivility om others, Nevertheless I have | Withessed many errors, weaknesses, failings, | Besitations wanderings, and 1! any one nad a right | fo complain, to reproach, it was 1. BROTHERS IN MISFORTUNE. MacMahon at sedan was as unfortunate as I was | at Metz, 4s Trocwa and Ducrot at Paris, as Bour- baki and Clinchant iu the Kast, In becoming Pres- ident of the Repubiic he torgot this. Lam not Te cneray necess: his failare of memory gave me ary W esca completely tree. Py) RNa ROW fae | lenvy ouly one thing to MacMahon—the wound he received at Se !au, and which permitted him to pass the commany to another, or rather to several others, for in that anfortunate pattie of Sedan three generals held in turn the chief com- mand. Yet never were o soldiers in guch need of good direction, since they fought one against two, a the two German ermies were directed vy Field Marshal Vou Moltke. The General who | | of the Women and cattle of the Emir. | fact and that of having passed afew months in NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. signed the capitulation of Sedan desired to throw the responsibilty of it on the Emperor, who gra- ciously accepted tt, PRAYING FOR A PRIENDLY BULLET. An! how | should have blessed the piece of | military forces o! Fran Prussian shell, which at Borny carrie? away @ plece Of MY epwulette, i imstead of contusing it had broken my shoulder! 1 could tuen, also, have handed over the command to another, How mis- taken | was in reiusing to abandon my army and escape With a lew horsemen! General Trochu, have left auother to capitulate in my place. refuge from ancusations? THE CAUSES OF THE FRENCH DISASTERS. T do not know what will happen tn the next war to Vanquished geuerais; but everything induces ie to believe that, after ‘the exagiple of the old Turkish Pactas, they will be obliged to strangle themselves with cords sent for this purpose, or, — like the J ese chiels, open their bowels with sabres. Every one wii noc have, like General Trochu, to be torn away by the chiefs of barricades without @ word of protest. Ob the other hand military Suicide has not yet entered tuto our code, and wounds do uot always come when sought, Marshal Leowal, formerly Minister of War to | tue Emperor, perceiving, too late, our complete inie y, aad believing himself chiefly respon- sible for Our misfortunes, insisted on remaining under my orders. Yen times ie went under fire death where danger most threatened, soliciting It to come, but the projectties which mowed down his staff about him would not even inthet on bim @ scratch, Far trom accusing any one, | believe that each one bas done what he Was able, My countrymen, accustomed to score ortes, believed in guod jaith that they could not conquered, In tas respect tue campaigns of the Crimea, and principaily of italy, had spoiled them. In addition, too much limportance had been attached tn France to tbe victories won in Alrica, Our misfortunes came from our numerical infe- Tiortry and the evils of our organization. If Ma Mahon and myself bad been able to oppose the Germans troops with eaval forces and 4s promptly movilized, notwithstandiog the talents of Fieid Marshal Vou Moltke and the superiority of the Prussian cannon, we could have fought with equal chances. PRINCELY GOOD TASTE. Ihave no spite against any one, not even the Duc d’Aumale, who pronounced my sentence. [ only think he showed want of taste In interfering in this matter and pretending to pass judgment on a Marshal of France such as me. This young | soldier has-pertormed but one feat of arms ta his life; by an adventurous march on one occasion he surprised the camp oi Abd-ei-Kader itt at this Algiers are not sufficient to form @ warrior and | permit him to judge the military actions of a com- | mander-in-cnie! o} the Imperial Guard. It may be objected that the Duke regretted very much not being permitted to take part in our glo- rious campaigns, and that his exile was the cause. his extle and his long inactivity are facts, and tuat besides, tu 1871, be could, like MacMahon, have solicited a command against the Commune. But, careful of nis peavey popularity, ne de- manded nothing. et, @b that moment, his in- terests a8 a soldieT ana Nis duty as a Couservative, should have induced him to fignt against the dema- gogues, He would thus, for the first time, lave seen service in Europe and jessened somewhat the sad souvenirs leit by the conduct of his fathers in our revolutions. Jn place o1 toat he preierred to return to active service by accepting the Presidency of the Councii of War appointed to try me. All { wisn to the Duc d'Aumale is that he may not be forced to take the command-tn-chief of au army destined to fight M, Von Moltke and the German masses, above ail under such deplorabie conditions as those in which I found myseli—that is to Say, With an army in process of formation, not yet under the cuntrol ol tts chieis, whose equipment had not yet been completed, with its right wing routed, and in this state be called upon to tight Germans twice as strong numericaily, | with his flank already turned; or find himself surrounded under @ fortress, in an intrenched camp whose defeaces and armament are incow- plete. And all this while, behind him, the legal government of the country 1s overturowD, the government recognized by Europe, and whica bad invested tim with the command. 1 could then, ike | Why had I not, like Genera! Bour- | | bak, the moral Weakness to seek in suicide a | the lorce of character to allow his tnisgnta | | from constitating a definite government. No one | will ever make me admit that reasonable men | hoped to crush the enemy's armies with the spirit- | leas and incoherent levies Ck composed the only t epoch, Paris, the East, t ine of the’ Leire, and a great number of forts, were naturaliy lost. Deieat succeeded defeat, and when nothing remained to oppose the enemy it was ne to submit. Germany could then impose the conditions that pa know, and France was compelled to accept el, THE PRICE OF NATIONAL HONOR. It has deen said, to Matter unhealthy passions and | tolmsult the army, that resistance to the last saved atleast the national bonor. That is auotuer suc- cessiul Le which bas wn toa prejudice, The Army o! the Rhine bad saved the national honor long before the demagogues bad thought about 1. In one day my army inflicted more loss on the Germans than did all the forces assem- | bled in Paris in four montns, By fire and lead I lost oue-third of my effective force, and I had as Many as 28,000 wounded tn the ambulances of | Metz, ‘The cadres suffered chiefly, and one reg!- | ment of three battalions lost all its superior oMcers and was commanded byacaptain. At Sedan 14,000 of our troops lay on the fleid before | the bactle was declared lost. | , MacMahon and myscif have sometimes been un- | fortunate, but never ridiculous, And | am not aware that any German general laughed much | While tignting Ine. | _ If anytuing could have lost the national honor tt was, on the contrary, the spectacle which Paris and Tours offered. ‘The first, with its riots in presence of the enemy, its assaults on the Lote! | de Ville, its Micning of governments, its demou- } strations Of Noisy and pretentions militia, its bar- | ticades and the bloodshed in tae streets, and its final impoceacy, The second, wita its chance dic- tatorship, its pompous discourses, 1t@ military pre- | tensions, its too comical strategy, its shameful contracts, ita purchases of condemned arts, tis | Waste of pluck and of the resources, hélas! that the country put at the disposition of these dictators, | NOT TO BE CAUGHT WITH CHAFF. | ah am an old soidier, who knows nothing of poli- C8. with high sounding words. So, when a member | of the government of chance to which | allude— M. Jules Favre, | beleve—gave me, on behalf of bis friends, the title of “Our Glorious,” to fatuer | me, no doubt, Lavow tt had little effect. A little | later bis colleague, M. Gambetta, wished to qualify me 10 # different sense. He declared me a “traitor,’? and ordered that I should be considered as tue lowest ofcriminals. These big words of M. Gam- betta no more moved me than the flatteries of his | Colleague anda friend, M. Jules Favre. | Pubic opinion is\ mistaken In its estimate of wales tt Was mistaken aiter the Mexican expedi- jon. | mit tbat I nad evacuated Mexico in obedieuce to tue orders of my government. | MAXIMILIAN'S DRATH, The Emperor had to choose between the evacu: With the ex- | But I can answer without further discussion that tion of Mexico aud the chances of a serious con- flict with the United States, and to avoid the con- sequences of the confict he gave me orders to return. Have I not been accnsed of the death of the Em- peror Maximilian, and sometimes even now am | | not accused of it? In America all this suould be understood. ‘Tne Emperor Maximilian did not wish to rerurn to Austria sor reasous teat I need not discuss here. He refused to abdicate and emvark at the same | time as my troops, He admitted, however, that the Emperor Napoleon could not sustain him | against the United States and against the opinion ot Frauce, which was daily becoming more unla- | Yorabie to the occupation of Mexico, Instead of listening to the counsels of my Old experience he pushed into the interior of the country, and found there, with his best generais, an nonorabie death a few months after the departure o/ the Jast of my soldiers. | This is the trutn and the responsibility that at- | taches to each one. | Lean console myself for many griefa by recalling | that even your own immortal Washington was bot | completely sheltered irom insults of the same kind that have been showered ou me, and that his | friend Lafayette passed through trials still more | terrible than mine. | Lafayette saw his sovereign, Louis XVL, decapi- | tated; his soldiers accused uim and even offered Its because all this has beiallen me that Ido | him insults. To escape trom a judgment similar to Not wish it to happen to. the Duc d’Aumale, this “young soldier,’ who needs to make many Cam- paigns and to command fora long while before exacung that we shall seriously attach import. ance to his grade of amateur general. They accuse me of having dabvied in politics. If I did 1t Was because | could not avoid it, and be- cause the revolutiouists had done so belore me and are now doing s0 daily, \ the one that has iallen om me Lalayette was obhged to take reluge in the enemy’s camp, among the soldiers of the German Emperor. Thanks to God, | have been less unfortunate than the great patriot. CONSOLATIONS IN MISFORTUNE. Iam far from being rich; but, besides my lib- erty, there still remain to me inestimable treas- ures, For companions I have an American lady lhave made campaigns, not speecnes, and | do not aliow myself to ve deceived lke the mass | There was then a general disinciination to ad- | DEVOTION TO THE EMPEROR, | wno gives me the strongest proois of devation; | Tremembered that | had taken an oath to the | have children whom J adore, a brotner and some Emperor, to nis family ana to tue imperial const. tution. if l remembered that the command had peen conierred on me by the Emperor, and not by ine lilegal, dictatorial and insurrectionary governu- ment, elder brotner of the Commune, of which the pamphileteer, Rochefort, was a member; if to be «indignant that alaction snould take advantage of our disasters, the absence of the Em- peror apd of the army, to invade the Corps Legisiatif, drive out the Depaties, seize on power, deck themselves out in gold lace ‘and play at soldters instead of organizing the forces or the country by practical and ratioual measures; if to | be convinced that the Emperor of Russia, the only person who could aid us, would never strike hands — with M, Gambetta and the political Bobemtans | installed at Tours; if to have believed that King Victor Emmanuel would not be in a hurry to cross | the Alpsin order to pay Messrs. Glais-Bizoin and | Crémienx a deot of gratitude he owed to the Em- | peror Napoleon since Magenta and Solferino; ifatter | Ube first Paris insurrection to have foreseen the | Commune; if this be to engage in politics, then | Tdidso. But what 18 strange is tat the men | who make it a crime in me to have engaged tu politics were themselves engazed in politics and no:hing else, while | Was holding oat under the Walls of Meta, | Wha: most astonished me in my trial was * neiwner the comppsiuon of the councti nor tue cir- camstance of seeiuy myself brought belore 1t, but rather the verdict it renaered, rhe court martial found a way to condemn absolve me ut tue same time. {t accused acquitted me the same day. It degraded and | pardoned me, declared me at once guilty and innocent, worthy oi death and of pardon, called me a criminal and a hero, and finally saw dt to leave me my honor, | REVIEWS THE VERDICT. | Fither I was guilty orl was not. [f my judges | thougut me so they ought not to have considered and and the extreme penalty too rigorous @ punishment. | of the interminabie Jogs so prevalent on the coast | But, instead, they hasten to demand pardon tor me irom tue mau who had been my subordinate | during the war. In a letter that has remained | ceicbrated they say:—‘Marshai Bazalne took the Command In the midst of unheard of difficulties.” | speaker, His discourse was highly appreciated by * * * “He was constantly under fire, none he scnolars, as well as a large concourse of spec- | have surpassed bim in courage,” &c., &¢., &¢ tators, who were attracted by the aunouncement fLvidently the judges were puzzied, Their duty Was to apply a Draconian law, made by men who friends who have remained faithful. My position is not hopeless; il need shouid be | would jollow the example of the illustrious General Lee, the van- quisned of Richmond, and demand irom labor com- | fort for my family. 1 do not allow myseil to be de- pressed by the lrowns of jortune, and have not ior- gotten the humbieness of my origin. I have been | a@simple soldier; lcarried my kpapsack and my Tausket; labor ts not repugnaut to me, nor does it humilate me. I do not jook on my military career as ended; I enjoy health and vine! vigor. Some duties remain to be fultiiled, and I shall tuifil them when the time comes; doubtless then, fortune, who has frowned on me so cruelly, will grant me @ last smile, as she olten does to old soldiers, Accept, dear Mr. Bennett, with ail my thanks, renewed assurance of my most distinguished con- siderauon, IARSHAL BAZAINE. THE REV. GEORGE H HEPWORTH AS A SAILOR, The pupils of Grammar School No. 26, in West Thirtieth street, were treated yesterday to a lec- ture, or rather a discourse, from the Rev. George | H. Hepworth, pastor of the Churen ofthe Disciples, | which was as interesting as it was instructive. The reverend gentieman was introduced to the | school, over which Mr. Hugh Carlisle presides, by | Dr. Henry D. Ranney, Chairman of the Bosra of Trustees of the Twentieth ward, and proceeded to give his hearers a graphic dissertation on his late trip in his yacht trom Boston Harbor to the coast of Labrador and Nova Scotia, He fully described the rugged shores of the Maine and Newsound- land coasts; the storm scene, where his vessel came very near being euguipned by the mountainous waves, and the experience of being caught in one pear Nova Scotia, His descripuon of seasickness ‘Was Most amusing as well as grapnically depicted, and the Marine nauseation cuuld almost be expe- | rienced while veing dilated upon by the gifted of Mr. Hepworth’s attendance. Mr. Carlisle re- turned thanks to Mr. Hepworth on behalf of the could never have foreseen my case, 4nd their con- | school. Among the guests present were School Science told them 1 was not guilty. The accusa ‘Trustees Maher, Erastus Littledeld, Dr. Blumen- thon deciared thav I could neither be accused of tnai, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Fisher aod numerous treason nor conspiracy, but pretended 1 had not | otuers, fuitilied my military duties. ‘Thus, turee years aiter toe events, 1nieriors sat im judgment on the conduct o1 the General-in-Calel, Wo, according to the statement of ihe Advocate General, maintained } his troops and prese: ved iis positions until hislast | morsel of bread had been consumed, when the country Was exhausted, according to the official declaration of the army administration. Ihnow ery well that there are lawyers who pretend that aruiles are made to die (words of M. Crémieux at Tours); but the conscience of the general of an army lorbids him to uselessly sacrifice the soldiers iutras' tu Lim by the country, and tiis con. | | scieace is worth more than euipty phrases, WANTED 4 VICTIM, | Peace once declared, all, little and great, sol- diers and generals, royalists and republicans, feit | tue need of ulscharging on some one the anger which animated them. A victim was needed. The Emperor Was uethroned, put he was no longer present, They selected me. Accusations the most unfounded were directed against me, Not alone had [ betrayed France and received Prussian gold; not alone fad | conspired against the Republic, but aiso against the Empire. in this general chorus those Who most distinguished themseives were precisely the Deputies and journalists who, before tbe war, bad demanded the disoandment of the army and universal disarmament, and who would have raised the standard oj revolt throughout France if the Emperor had attempted to apply the Prussian military organization so readily accepted to-day | FRIENDS IN ADVERSITY. | On all sides | found real or pretended hatred, even ig,“ those formeriy surrounding the Emperor. very one calumniated me to the sovereign; his intimate friends, bis servants, his journals counselled him to abandon me to popular vengeance, and to aliow it to be understood that 1 was the cause of all the evil, All Kinds of advantages were promised to him In exchange for this conduct; | but, Lsay it with joy and gratitude, the Emperor, who knew all the circumstances, and who, witn reason, always hed confidence in my joyaity, re- | Jused so abandon me. To M, Tiers, also, Lowe gratitude. He dared to defend me at the risk of nis popularisy | on my return from Mexico. And it 13 cer- tain that had he not been defeated on the 24th of | jass May he would have found some expedient to avoid this iniqattous trial, But my evil fortune | pursued me to the point of maxing the triumph of the monarchists the cause of my misfortune. In | Place of recognizing the true causes of our disasters it Was thought better to impute to me the joss of | Alsace and Mets. The truth is, Alsace was lost from the first days after the battie of Retchshofen ,| and the precipitate retreat of the army charged with its defence, Metz was lost becanse, under the prevext of patriotism and to establish the traditions of the | | Repubiue, madmen and adventurers, who never | risked their persons, insisted on continuing a hopeless struggle and hurling raw levies, badly armed and Worse equipped, with insufficient cadres, against 800,000 Germans, admurably equipped and directed, who overran France, Nor was advantage taken of my presence at Metz to endeavor to treat honorably. Even after my d.saster Metz could tave been saved when M. Thiers, the only person who had preserved his com- mon sense, came to propose peace. Had bis advice been listened to Ajsace only and three imi ards had been lost, In truth, it was a great ritice, Dat impossible to be avoided. e should | have profited by the lesson, and France would to- day have been aiready restored. In place of this the struggle was continued at all risks, in order to preserve the dictatarahiv and to prevent France THE NEW NAVAL OFFICE, Other United States Buildings. Since the lst of last May, the Post buildings, situated on Exchange place, Beaver and Hanover streets, have been under process of alteration, for the purpose of being fitted up as offices for the Naval Officer and his employés, under the superin- tendence of General W. G. Steinmetz, Assistant Supervising Architect of the Treasury. This build- ing 1g now complete, and yesteraay Mr. Laflin and his clerks commenced tbe operation of moving, and took possession of their new quarters. By consent of the Common Coanci!, Exchange place has been bridged over, thus connecting the Custom House and the Naval Office as tf they were one buiiding. ‘The basement of the Naval Office wiil be occupied by the Penston Office, and aiso in part by the boilers and nécessaire, The second floor is jor the ex- clusive use of Naval Officer Addison H. Lafin and his deputy, Colonel Silas W. Burt. The balance of the building will be occupied by the clerical force of the oMice. The place is fitted up plainly, neatly and substantially. About three months’ actual time was consumed in altering the building, which time would have been vastly redaced but tor several changes in the original plans. Besides this building General Steinmetz is super- vising the refitting of the Assay Office, which ts progressing Very favoraoly aud will be finished in about a week. On the new Post Office and Court House the roof 13 all Hoished and workmen are engaged in patung up in position the new hydraulic, telescopic eleva- tors, which are operating very successfally. It is fully expected that by New Years’ Day tne Post Office Department wili be abie w occupy the space Intended for Its use, THE FLOATING HOSPITAL, Destitute Sick Children’s Relief Fund, The following additional contributions have been received by the Rey. Alvan Wiswall, Master of the Guild, and handed to Henry C. De Witt, | Almoner:— THROUGH D APPLETON AXD COMPANY, WILLS Biv cstevcents cose sel ses $5.0 SkNT TO THK GUILD OFFIC. A lady from Sing Sing F 10 00 A, Michel ove 500 Hh 3 Conn » 00 iss Sue Ome, special . 200 Robert Macdounid, . » Wo © y Vesvee 100 20 300 10 25 09 lv 0 hy & Co... Jeremiaa Curt: oer $184 00 98,144 93 Total. ? Amount previously acknowledged. Grand total.. oveve oes Also the following contributions :—L. Wise, boots and shoes; 4, W, Mason & Co., turniture, aud How- Jett Bros., 19,000 paper bags, $42 30, Contributions to the fund are earnestly solicited at once, and May be sent to Mayor Haveuieyer, City Hall; Arnold, Constable & Co., No, 885 Broad- | way; D. Appleton & Co., No. 651 Broadway ; August Belniont-a& Co., No. 10 Nassau street, Ged, Ne Zae briskie, People’s bank, corner Canal and Thomp- son streets, or Rev. Aivah Wiswall, Master of 9t. donn’s Guild. No. 42 Varick aireet, | the display of bats at tracted hundreds of admirers, FALL FASHIONS. Opening Week in the Metropolis. | LATEST STYLES AND MATERIALS. A Bewildering Array of Novelties and Attractions. THE LAY OF THE LAST MILLINER, Opening day in the world of fashion has become | @ Very uncertain date. No two modistes, gener- | aly speaking, can be foand to hoid their exhi- bition on the same day, and many wait until the season is fully inaugurated before they display their treasures of the toilet. Although no par- | ticular day may be considered as monopolizing the | fall openings, yet this particular week has beea | the most brilliant in the month, when the birds of | fashion wing their way back from the country, and | for the last iew days the principal establisnments | have been crowded. Although the styles are more | Rumerous tian ever before, taste and adaptability Tule in the world of fashion. ‘rhe rage for trim | ming is still on the increase, and the actual costof @ dress cannot be sometimes compared wo the value of the trimming and ornaments. A gay carnival of jashion has been in progress for the last lew days at Lord & Tayior’s, commenc- ing on Monday last and extending over the entire | week, The lessons of last year’s panic have been | salutary in all the leading houses, and there may | be found a sensible decrease in prices. Instead of | costumes of more than Orlental magnificence, costing from $500 to $1,500, we find the terms | ranging from $75 to $400, very few being above the latter figure. The variety 1s bewildering in the dress department. Black velvets and stlks | that seemed little less than a mass of glittering | jet; exquisite robes in chestnut and seal brown, mulberry, invisible blue and green, wine and black violet shades, suitable for carriage and visiting wear; fairy like creations in almost every delicate hue known for evening and ball toilets, with the | daintiest things imazinabie for breakfast, | smothered im beautiful laces and fine | ished with coquettisn bows and cheery | tittle bouquets of artificial fowers, daring counter- | Jeits of nature. In head gear the display was no | less remarkable. There were modest cottage bon- | nets of the Virot make, Normandies and Madame Angots, with endless modifications of shapes, In | velvet and felt, relieved by ail sorts of trimming— | ostrich and cocks’ plumes, wide, rich gros grain | | ribbon, double faced ribbons, scarfs, different sorts | of bonnet silks, artificial fowers, imitating nearly every floral creation in the world; jet, bright and blue steel, oxydized ornaments, and such a variety of stuffed birds that Madame Fashion seems to | have exhausted the resources of ornithology. In the department of wraps, polonatses, dol- mans, jackets, manties, talmas and cozlortable, deep, old fashioned-looking cloaks were mavy features of interest. The garments were in vel- vet, velvet and castor beaver, French tricot, drap d’ét6, wool, tissue de Matelassé, sometimes glis- tening with jet and displaying {fringe lace, fine jurs and other handsome garniture. Among the shawls were marvels {rom Cashmere, with almost rainbow hues, and yet soft as i the richest vel- vet, Inthe other departments there existed an equally bewildering variety of styles aud ma- terials. ‘The fall opening at A. T. Stewart’a was more brilliant than ever, In the millinery department The inventive power of the Parisian modiste is | here shown iu its most seductive form. Tne orna- ments, espectally the combinations of blue steel and old filigreed silver, are very quaint and strik- ing. Birds from the wilds of Airica and the jJorests of Brazil are perched on sume of the hats, 80 natural that one might at first fancy that they nad just alighted on the dainty struc- tures, In the dress department were exhibited suits of all Kinds and colors, in puce, dark gray; Byron, prune; bouteille, boutle green; carmelite, reddisn brown; violetta, the same in still darker shades; acajou, mahogany brown, and syleue, a pt te There is aiso a new shade of garpet | calied cinéraire, and tris, @ bew pruue color, A hanasome house costume Was made with trained | skirt, having the back breadths garnitured by @ | deep flounce, while the front breadths were per- fectly plain and presented two wide bands of black | velvet put on in apron style. The dress was com- posed of silk of elegant quality and of a very dark shade of purpie. The “Marguerite” polo- | naige was also richly trimmed witn black velvet | and a heavy silk fringe. The corsage was very stylishly ornamented with perpendicular bands of black velvet, which Were finished witu jet pend- ants, Altogether this was one of the most stylish | designs jor the autumn, aad tt will be likely borne away by some married lady to grace her first tall | reception, | Another in lighter style, intended for a young | and newly married lady who, until recently, has | been a leading belle, was a loveiy combination of pale lavender silk, relieved by one somewhat | darker, while the whole was lightened in effect by | tine white lace, It was intended for evening wear, and served a8 a tasteful model, The skirt was | trainea and trimmed in the back Dreadths witn graduated flounces, between wiich were ruttlings of white lace, Down each side extended two broad rufflings of the lighter shade of silk, between which Was a perpendicuiar puMing of the darker shade, The tront breadth was en tablier, and | trimmed with bands of the aarker silk and lace, | while the corsage, the “Honora” basque, was heart shaped in toe neck and ornamented ina style to match the skirt. Many nove! and becoming features {n bonnets were exhibited by Mme, Sneduen. hey served to remind the beholder by their autumnal char- | Tacier that we had reached the melancnoly days and that the bright giowiug tints Of spring and , summer have Vanished with the seasons. A great , feature of the season are the ieathers; every hue greets the eye, anu it would really puzzle avery astute ornithologist to say from whence came all the many colored piumages for which | apparently the world has been ransacked to furnish a new garniture for our tair ones. Birds will be indispensable this season, as also autumn leaves, and tue Styles are quite becoming to all. A most distingu4 chapeau from Mantel Therésa was a superb shade of dark green velvet, having a | rim of tue flaring character, trimmed with white velvet Marguerites, a luose skirt of green veivet ofthe same shade as the hat sarmounting the crown, the ends being trimmed with wide Chan- | tilly lace, forming a drapery. A Jong green shaded piume is fasiened at the back with a very effec- | tive ornament and droops toward the face, Another is a black velvet bonnet (rom the cele- | brated Virot, it resembles the well known gypsy | shade, the iront rolling back, in which nesties a rare and costly bird of dazzling plumage. From tue back hangs in jal Jolds @ long | veil of jetted tulle, trimmed with Chantilly and | fastened at the side with lemon colored roses. | There were others of Parisian manwacture, cach | presenting a deciued novelty. A chapeau of steel biue—a new color—is one of the chess @auvre of the season, and, although of American make, we must confess that it fully equals, if not surpasses, | some of Parisian design, The shape is the ever veautiful and admired “Trianon.” It is principally composed of the shade of steel biue velvet men- | tones ove, And 18 ornamented with feathers of the same color and @ steel biue butterfly, nestlin, | in lace, which is carried around the side an | droops at tie back, At Mme. Demorest's there was the usual variety | of stylish display of seasonable designs. von- spicuous among the polonaises were those in the “Jacket” styie—that is, so arranged as to have the effect of @ jacket and overskirt. Of this style is the “Lenobia,” which is doubie-breasted and forms @ jacket !n front, over a skirt which is but- toned on one side to match the jacket, This jacket extends ag far back as the side forms, and | the sides of the skirt part are draped in different styles, This design ts elegantly made in biack or dark brown imatelass¢, ornamented with jeather trimming. “ ‘The “Griselda” {3 another exponent of this style, | and has the jacket at the back and sides only, while the front is in one piece and buttoned all the | way down. The drapery is in the middie of tne | back, and @ deep collar adds to the generai stylish | effect. Both these styles are espectaily suited to the handsome woolen goods of the season, | The “Adrienne” differs entirely from these, al- though it ia @ “basque polonaise.”” It has an ex- ) ceedingly long Skirt, the front closed part ot the | way down and draped at the sides s0 that the back bangs longer and square. The basque lorms two deep tabs at the sides of plaiting and the neck 18 finished with @ collar rolled in the back and | forming deep, pointed revers in front. | The “Neilson” is decidedly one of the most dis- | tingué designé yet offered in jackets. ‘This 18 double-breasted diagonaily, and is only half Ottung. | The back has two deep tabs and is opened up the | middie, but lapped 80 a8 to match the iront, Es- | pecially designed to accompany this is the “Ade- | lade” overskirt, Which 1s covered in front in the | same way a6 the jacket, The back is draped in a new ay 4 the sides of the front are shirred, The “Frederica” jacket is somewhat in the “Cui- Tass” style, $0 far a6 a straight around effect is concerned, but it is opened in front on &@ separate vest. In house basanes the “Mathilde” is simple in but very effective, with its platted we ail The “Cushman” is more 1M the coat style, and the “Teresa,” which is much longer than ane te especially ‘suited to the very heavy ‘The “Claxton” overskirt can be rey appropri- ately used with any of these styles. It forms @ deep, pointed apron, reaching nearly to the bot- tom of the underskirt, ind is draped very far back in the latest and most approved style. The “Favorita” 18 extremely long, open at the right ae snd draped high on the left under an sumd- Two new demi-trains—the “Opheita” and the “Aalberta”—are cut in the newest style and have the overskirt in combination with the under one. The “Alberta” has a deep, pointed apron, broad sashes at the sides and the back trimmed with flounces; and the “Ophelia”? has the apron and front side gears outlined with trimming, aud @ full draped overskirt in the back. A charming design, which will recommend itself ‘to all lovers of comfort, 1s the “Leonore” morning dress, It is not a wrapper, although quite as con- venient and comiortabie as one, but 1s arranged with que and skirt, and can be made dressy or at e according to necessities and tastes. Children’s fashions of necessity follow in design those of their elders. For misseg there 1s the {hones polonaise, the ‘Evalue’ and the double- reasted “Alexia,” draped differently at the sides, and some twenty other designs for the same gar- ments. In jackets also there is the same profu- sion, all being much longer than last season. Tue “Bijou” basque is the real “Cuirass” and is es The able both for street and home wear. “Héloise” overskirt corresponds with the “Ade- | laide’’ for ladies, and the ~*lauche” is sure to Le & Maronite ‘ne * acque Blouse” dress will recommend itself to all mothers for their little oues under eight | years, aud the “Bertram’’ is just the thing jor a little boy’s cloth sult, A soft Freuch seit hat, of an indescribable, creamy tint, was the centre of admiration at Mile. ©. M. Olney’s, The trimming was russet brown velvet, from watch drooped two long ostrich plumes, one to match the velvet and the other of the lightest blue. This styiish hat was finished beneath the brim with a spray of autumn foliage. A Diack velvet hat, of. peculiar construction, had a high crown, close, drooping brim, open in front and composed of the finest cut jet; ostrich plumes, Jet ornaments, @ bird of bright plumage and & cluster of shaded roses, A marine biue velvet hat, with a soft crown, wide brim, with many curves, was fastened on one side with shaded creamy roses and blue jet ornaments, {rom which drooped two long plumes, finished with @ scarf of soit silk, knotved very low at the back. A blue velvet hat at Terry’s was much admired. ‘The brim 1s wide, and rolis up both at the back and in the front. There was a projusion of jet and satin faced groi ain riovon and a bunch of ostrich tips, fastened with two scarlet roses setat the side and falling gracefully over the crown. There was also a bonnet of reai brown velvet, faced with ®@ delicate shade of pik, ribbon strings of the same shade and pink tips. Also a blue velvet hat for a miss, trimmed with the same shade of biue | feathers and ribbon, the brim being wide, futing 1 velvet around the crown, Sallor hats for iittle girls and boys, in drab, white, black and blue, were espectaliy admired. Among the leading honses the following have | had fali exhibitions this week:—James McCreery & Co,, Lord & Taylor, A, T. Stewart & Co., Mine. Hartley, Mmes. Porter & Doane, Kinzey, Gaynor, Maison Waiton, Mmes. Leo & Pheian, Matners & 0o., Conkling & Co., Mile, Snedden, 8. {. Taylor, Binns, Mme. Duval, Mrs, Mein, Broadway; R. H. Macy & Co., B. Eisig & Uo., Richard Meares, Mme, Ropinson, Clark & McLaughan, Gay, Mrs. Gal- lagher, Mme. Michel, Sixth avenue; Maison Harris (Mile. Prince), M. 't, Huggins, Mme. Demorest, Mile. C. M. Olney, Fourteenth street; Mlies. Lyons & Mountjoy and J. R. Terry, Union square; Mme, Galoupeau, Tenth street; Mme. Buhimeyer, Ninth street; Mme. Ferrero, Thirtieth street. Other openings wil take place early next mont, CHICAGO AND INSURANCE. The National Board of Fire Underwrit- ers Declare Against New Policies on Chicago Property—Opinions of Promi- nent Underwriters. The National Board of Fire Underwriters yester- day issued a card stating that after the 1st of October next the companies of that organization will cease writing policies in the city of Chicago unless better provisions are made against the de. The “Spontaneous” Finanetal Offer of the People to the fSpaniards—Stern Facts Against Official Statements—General Calixte Garcia Speaks from His Naval Prison. 4 letter trom Havana, dated September 1® says :—The so-called ‘spontaneous offering? of the {nbabitants of Ouba of five per cent of their capk tal for two years requires a great many decrees, circulars, &c., from the Governor General for ts collection.” The Gazette opictai of yesterday published # lengthy article, of which the following 18 an eX- tract:— There ts an foperious necessity for the resources created by this decree and urgency for the vollec- tion of the first and second tri-monthly contribue tions on capttal, tn order that the Treasury ma} meet tts ovligations and cover the deficita whic! monthly result between the ingress and ogress Tn no other manner can the spirit which actuates | the creation of this impost be complied with. | August has eye passed, in which the first tri- monthly payment ought ‘to have been met; | and September 18 going dy, in whlch the second tri-montily payment ought to be made, without even beginning to be paid; and the Treasury 1s in Want of the product of said tri-montaly pay- ments, leaving impaired preferred obligations, tue payment of whitch admits of no delay whatever; aiso leaving disregaded the monthly deficit which was to have been covered by this tax. It becomes, therefore, necessary to realize as soon as possible the collections of the two tri-monthiy payments referred to, and that the hopes founded upon tue immediate ingress of tue sums already belonging to the Treasury may Not be In valn, and that the goverument may comply with and iulfil her per- emptory necessities, &c. ARTICLE 1.—Immeatately upon the receipt of the | circular the gentlemen of vhe commission wil meet, inform and make public that the first tri- monthly payment already pasi due, and the sec ond being almost due, this goverament hopes that the public will set an example o! zeal and patriut- {sm and pay into the Central Treasury aud other places designated lor receiving this tax the sum correspondiug to them. ART. 3 (extract).—And lastly, the situation of the Treasury becoming grave, on account of the delays in the payment of this contributton, the | contributors will be considered dilatory who do | not pay their tri-monthly payments before the end of the montn; and those allowing this month to pass Without paying will be fined two per cent. GENERAL CALIXTO GARCIA WOUNDED AND CAPTIVE, A private letter irom General Calixto Garcia Yuegues, dated Manzanillo, 14th inst., on board of ® Spanish gunboat, says he had the misfortune to be taken prisoner and wounded severely at the same time, The physician declares him out of danger. Garcia states that he has been kindly treated by his eaptors; that they have shown him every consideration, and bave not permitted the | slightest indignity toward him, His letter mentions no particulars of bis cap ture, ENGINXERS AND THEIR PAY. Important Meeting of Locometive Engi- neers of the Various Trunk Lines and Leading Roads in Regard te Wagcs— The Present Rates to Be Maintained. While railway managers are iolding consulta- tions and conventions to adjust rates on the “through”? routes, and the new administration oO the Erie road having commenced @ general on- slaught on the wages of emplcyés, the engincers, acting on the principle that an ounce of preven- tion 1s worth @ pound of cure held a meeting yes. terday, which was largely sttended by delegates | from the leading roads throughout the country, at St. Charles Hall, corner of Eighth avenue and | Forty-second street. struction of property by fire. The officers of the Board claim that, having waited two months for the authorities of Chicago to take such action as No class of workingmea tn the country perhaps | are better organized {or sel!-protection or more | resolute and sel‘-reliant than the locomotive engl- neers, whose organization numbers neatly 11,000 would render it safe and reasonable for Eastern | members, and whict extends throughout ail the capital to engage in the insurance of property 10 | sates and the Canadas, Since the reduction of that seemingly fated city, they now see no mani- | pay on the Pennsylvania Central road and leased festation of a desire to accede to their condivons, | jines 1ast winter, and the strike that ensued there: apd, a8 a result, no way left save to carry out the plan announced in last July. While it is to the interest of every company to continue its Chicago business if an efficient fire department can be secured, yet under the present condition of affairs it is not deemed wise to hazard capital where there is such a wretched system of puting out conflagrations. The jollowing circular velis its own story. It certainly deserves the considera- tion of every man who has business interests or capital in Cuicago. 1t is addressed to the ingur- ance companies of the National Board doing busi- | ness in Chicago, and read: Namionat Boarp or Fine UNDERWHITERS, Nos. 156 anv 153 Broapway, New Yor, Sept, Ltt. GentLemeN—I beg to advise you that at 4 meeting of the Executive Committee held this day the following action was unanimously had,in conformity with the resolution passed at their meeting of July namely :— Kesoived, That the authorities of Chicago, having failed to comply with the suggestions put forth by the National Board of Fire Underwriters on the 24.) day ot July last, this committee now recommend that all com- anies beloncing to the Navional Board discontinue the usinesa of fire insurance in the city of Chicago, either by new policies or renewals, on and after the ist day of October, 1874; and that the general ayent be instructed to communicate this decision at once to all Nauonal Board companies tor immediate action. solved, That the general agent be instructed to notify the Chicago Board of the above action, and also to in- form said Board that this committee is advised thas the Board companies will carry out the above recommenda- tion witb great unanunity. ‘our action on the above, I Asking your advige as ty, am, very respecttully, 168, H. MONTGOMERY, General Agent National Board. THE EVFECT UPON CHICAGO. The result of such a course as the entire insur- ance interests of the country propose to take will very materially affect the business of Cnicago. The Eastern merchants will, as a result, refuse to send goods to that city on three to six months’ credit when they cannot be insared. The enor- | Mnous grain trade o/ the port will at once diverge to some convenient locality where the elevators | can be covered by insurance. The terms on which Chicago will bave to deal with the outside world wul be “net cash.” Strangers will avoid the city because their baggage wil not be sale at the hotels, and weddiug parties irom the West wita extensive wardrobes will go to Niagara by way of some Southern route. indeed, there may be some ground Jor tbe rumor that star actors aud actresses who had made engagewents that city for the next winter have already declared their determination to withdraw trom the contracts unless ample security can be ob- tained for their wardropes, It is believed that Chicago does not realize the situation, or that she Wants to monopolize ail the insurance business in her midst, WHAT THE OFFICERS SAY. The officers of the various companies in this cit; are unanimous in the statement that the unsafe condition of property in Chicago does nov justity | any corporation in tuking risks upon either real or personal estaie in that city, A HSRALD reporter made a very extended tour yesterday among the insurance Offices of the city, and foumd the opin- jons so nearly alike that the statements may be confined to two of the most prominent. Henry A. Oakley, of the Howard, President of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, was jound at nis office and sald, substantially :—‘‘There 18 no disposition among the insurance companies to withdraw irom Chicago if the authorities will, | in some Way or other, improve the facilities for saving property from fire and of preventing the widespread confagrations which have twice swept over that city. The Insurance business is one of dollars and cents. In no other does calcu- lation become such a matter of nicety. The ele- ment of luck or chance does not, a8 is too gener- ally belleved, enter into the calculations of an efficient management of underwriting. Two months ago the Board stated clearly that it recog- nized the dangers to insurance interesta in Chicago and was forceu to ask a better guarantee of co- by Ng than it had trom the authorities of that city, ‘nis for @ better fire department, set forth ta modest, business like way as possible, has pe n ignored utterly by the Chicago autnoriries, and tho Board there(ore merely reattirms its determina- tion to cease doing busineaé {n Chicago uatil some action Is taken. The circular which yon have was telegraphed to Chicago yesterday, Th to be some disposition ainong the prominent busi- nesa Men Who are most terested to urge the re- | modelling of the fire ordinance Pagid passed, [ 01 ‘The Citizens’ Association. on the day before that, passed resolutions declaring it to be the duty of the Fire Department to secure the services of the | ablest man in the Unired States as chief; but nothing further has been done. The Board will not relent, just because it cannot afford, in the in- terest of the stockholders of the several companies which constitute it, to write poiicies iu Cuicago or any city where there ts absolutely little or uo se- curity from tire.” ‘she Secretary of the London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance pe at was found at bis desk. He expressed timself in Very much the same mabuer as Mr, Oakley, bat said in reieréuce to the ipreign comp ante: ‘The iorelgn companies in the Board will certaimly act in perfect harmony with the American companies in this matter. There is absolutely no Other course open to secure a@ reasonable guarantee for our risks, We are loth to leave & business Which some of us have been fliteen or twenty years building up, but it is better that we should do so than that by staying we should lose at one sweep our entire surplus. It is @ clear question of profit and joss, The in- surance companies have cartainiy lost enough in Chicago to salisty the most exacting fire depart- ment’? in | There seemed | | from, an uneasy and suspicious feeling has existed. | Further reductions have been feared and the pre Valliny impression has of late been that cousidel- able pressure has been brought to bear by Westera | companies upon the managers of the Krie road te | make @ reduction Of salaries on that line and thas | pave the way for agenera) reduction oa the las powerlul roads. |" fhe Erie company pay nominally higher wag | shan other lines; vut on account of the tnevitace loss of time, owing to the system of paying by the trip, it ig not considered by the engineers equal te the compensation on other roads where a fixed sum is paid monthly, or less per diem rates, with no lost ume. This state of affairs, together with | the recent action of the new managers of the E road in making, as the men say, ‘‘a {earful siaug! | ter’? of the wages of many of the old Smplore has | excited considerabie alarm, and was the cause of the meeting yesterday, which was Called to order | by Grand Chief Engineer P.M. Arthur, of Cleve- | land, woo, in a few remarks, stated to the Can- | vention the object for which it was assembled— viz., orginization for a bold and vigorous reaBt | ance to any iurtuer reduction in the present reve of wages. | Alter further speeches on the relationship exiit- | Ing between empioyers and empioyés, the follow: | ing resolutions Were unanimously adopted:— | Whereas there seems to be a widespread apprehensim | that certain railway managers contemplate 4 reducton of the Wages of engineers, we, the delegates represeit | ing the engineers emploved on the tollowing named roads, to Wit, the New York Central and Hudson Rive | railroads, Harlem Railroad, New York and New Hava | Railroad, #rte Railroad, Pennsylvania Central and 5 | side lines, New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio Ral Toad, Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. Lake Shot Southern Railroad, Michigan Central | Canada southern, Long island and South Side railroads | New York Southern Kailroad, Delaware, Lackawannt and Western Railroad, Allegheny and Pittsburg and Le high Valley railroad, New York Midland Railroad, New Yors, Boston aud Montreal Railroad; Concord, Glare mont and Coniooe ook Railroad, and Columbus, Chicag, and Indiana Central Railroad, Resolved, That we are determinedly opposed to, ans | deem it out duty at this time, to protest most earnestly and emphatically against any reduction of wages at the Present ume; that, in our cpinion, it would be unius i uncaited for on the part of any railroad company attempt any reduction of present rates. Resolved. ‘hat it is the opinion and desire of the en neers here sssembied that the Pennsylvania Central | Ratiroad Uompany should restore the ven per cent reduc tion made by them on the wages of their engineers Lai January, as promise, by the President of that company; | and that’ we will use al honorable means to accomplish | such restoration. | Atsix P.M. the meeting, which was enthustastia | in the extreme, yet orderly and devorous turoug! out, adjourned sine die, PERKINS AND THE PRINOESS, A Few Good Words for the American | Branch of the Spanish Bourbons. PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 23, 1874. To THE EDITOR ov THE HERALD: At the request of several friends of Mr. C. A. Perkins, late United States Consul at Barcelona | and Secretary of Legation at Lisbon, | have ven. | tured to correct @ wrong impression which was conveyed in an article in the HEeRatp of the 20th | inst, 1m relation to the marriage and public ser. | vices of that gentleman. Mr. Perkins (at the time | Secretary of Legation at Lisbon) was married in Lisbon by G. W. Smith, Chapiain of the United | States frigate Franklin, and in the presence of | Colonel Lewis, Minister to Portugal; Admiral 0, | S. Gltsson, commanding United States European | Squadron, and several oMcers of the American | fleet, to Marie Isabei Garowski, Princess de Bour- von, The ceremony was performed first accord- ing to the rites of the Catholio Church, and imines diately after at the American Legation accord- | ing to the Protestant forms, The Princesa was attended by her mother, and—strange to say— “given away” by Admiral Glisson, United States Navy. An entertainment was given the same day on board the United states trigate Fraukin to | the distinguished ¢ouple vy the Aduoiral. | Of the many officers who at the time were very giad to kuow, and never failed to mention when ; Opportunity ouered, thelr insimacy with Perkins ' and the Princesa, his wile, none wiil be sorry that this communication hag been written. [ had the pleasure oi knuwing Mr. Perkins and his wile we: attended tim at his marriage and was his quest ; St bis home in Cintra, @ few miles from Lisbon, | So far trom making oapital of tne fact of ner close connection to royalty, the Princess said to tno about her, a8 she stepped upon the deck of the Franklin, ‘1 am an American now, and am proud | to be one.” I do not think that £ would do right in not attempting to correct a false tmpression {n | regard to @ man who js now in a foreign prison, | Unable to speak for litmself. Very respectiuiiy, HERBERT G, OOFKIN, “CORONERS! CASES. Yesterday morning Joha Gallagher, a youth ot twenty years, while engaged at Seventy-secon@ street and Fourth avenue in removing Croton main pipe, caught his feet in a rope, and, failing, was crushed to death by the pipe rolling over him. The body Was conveyed to the Morgue, where aa inquest will ve held. Deceased lived um West Kieventh street, near avenue 0, A. Amelia Weigut, M. D., of West Thirty-fourth street, yesterday reported to the Coroner's OMice that the child, twenty days old, of Patrick Lawier, living at 443° West ‘Vhirty-tuird street, had die suddenly, The fair doctress, who formerly at tended the child, not seen it during the last iliness, owing to her absence from the city. Core- ner Woltman pagkobaraa of the pasa, zs